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George C Christy
George C Christy - Official YouTube channel for singer Christie George Skip navigation Sign in. This Page is automatically generated based on what Facebook users are interested in, and not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with the topic.. An outlaw, notorious biker and infamous motorcycle club leader, George Christie's lifestyle and experiences along with his gift for storytelling, leadership and human connection make him uniquely suited to help others and develop historical record..
Genealogy profile for George Christy Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Build your family tree online. Philosopher Kings? The Adjudication of Conflicting Human Rights and Social Values, by George C. Christie, examines the attempts by courts to sort out conflicts involving freedom of expression, including religious expression, on the one hand, and rights to privacy and. An outlaw, notorious biker and infamous motorcycle club leader, George Christie's lifestyle and experiences along with his gift for storytelling, leadership and human connection make him uniquely suited to help others and develop historical record..
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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress. An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has received such accolades as an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award..
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Hypnotherapy expert, Dr Peter Marshall, former Principal of the London School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy Ltd. and author of A Handbook of Hypnotherapy, devised the Trance Theory of Mental Illness, which provides that people suffering from depression, or certain other kinds of neurosis, are already living in a trance and so the hypnotherapist does not need to induce them, but rather to make them understand this and help lead them out of it.[24]
Sports psychologists may also pursue voluntary certification. This does not confer the legal right to practice, but does demonstrate expertise in a specialty area. Sports psychology professionals at both the master's and doctoral levels are eligible to become Certified Consultants (CC-AASP) through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (http://www.appliedsportpsych.org/certified-consultants/become-a-certified-consultant).
A recent study by the Stanford Business School found that nearly two-thirds of CEOs don’t receive executive coaching or leadership development. And almost half of senior executives in general aren’t receiving any, either. Paradoxically, nearly 100 percent said they would like coaching to enhance their development, as both Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Forbes reported in recent articles.
It’s a really tough time for athletes. They would go through a period where they are questioning themselves, their work, and their skills. As a psychologist, I’d like to give them time to digest what’s happened, especially at the Olympic games for which they’ve been training for four or eight years. Then they can come to me and reflect on what’s happened. I’d like to be a mirror so that they can talk and open up. To be a sounding board for the athlete, and to start rebuilding if they are ready to do so.
This is the process of helping the members of a group enhance their ability to work cohesively through the improvement of communication, group objectives, trust, and respect. Team building strategies are often used at the beginning of a season to help group members become more familiar and trusting of each other. Common techniques include group introductions of each other, ropes courses, and individual and team goal setting.
Three months today! Woo-hoo! After 12 years of being off cigarettes, I started smoking again. Ugh. Such a bummer. And I didn't think I had another quit in me. I did everything I could to stop on my own and wasn't able to sustain more than a day or two. I finally had enough and found Rita on Yelp. I had one hypnotherapy sessions and left her office a non-smoker. These past 3 months have been relatively easy and calm. Sure, every now and again I think I want "just one," but a) one's too many and a 1000 is not enough, and b) I am a non-smoker!
Leadership isn't a skill you ever finish learning. Rather, it continues to develop over time, with each problem and project adding new reference points and skills to your toolkit. Executive coaches guide leaders through this learning process, supporting them as they discover how to lead even more effectively. If you're interested in executive coaching—or just want to learn practical new leadership strategies—this course can help. Here, join UCLA professor and executive coach John Ullmen, PhD, as he explores the transformational features of executive coaching. John explains how to build a coaching relationship with an executive or leader, establish an informed development plan, take measures to support your leader's progress, and accelerate your growth as a coach.
Depending on the purpose of the hypnotherapy (i.e., smoking cessation, weight loss, improvement in public speaking, or addressing some deep emotional turmoil), follow-up may be advisable. When trying to eradicate unwanted habits, it is good practice to revisit the therapist, based upon a date prearranged between the therapist and the patient, to report progress and, if necessary, to obtain secondary hypnotherapy to reinforce progress made.
The landscape of leading organizations is changing, and more companies are turning to coaches to increase their effectiveness and sustainability. To meet that demand, our Certificate in Executive Coaching takes an innovative approach to developing the skills students need to improve the performance and satisfaction of individuals and teams to achieve organizational goals.
Sports psychology is a relatively young discipline within psychology. In 1920, Carl Diem founded the world’s first sports psychology laboratory at the Deutsche Sporthochschule in Berlin, Germany. In 1925, two more sports psychology labs were established – one by A.Z. Puni at the Institute of Physical Culture in Leningrad and the other by Coleman Griffith at the University of Illinois.
More specifically, the experts say, coaching can be particularly effective in times of change for an executive. That includes promotions, stretch assignments, and other new challenges. While you may be confident in your abilities to take on new tasks, you may feel that an independent sounding board would be beneficial in helping you achieve a new level of performance, especially if close confidants are now reporting to you. More so, you may recognize that succeeding in a new role requires skills that you have not needed to rely on in the past; a coach may help sharpen those skills, particularly when you need to do so on the fly.
After just a few weeks of working with Bernstein, I realized that he had a serious narcissistic personality disorder. His behavior was symptomatic of a sense of entitlement run amok. It is not at all uncommon to find narcissists at the top of workplace hierarchies; before their character flaws prove to be their undoing, they can be very productive. Narcissists are driven to achieve, yet because they are so grandiose, they often end up negating all the good they accomplish. Not only do narcissists devalue those they feel are beneath them, but such self-involved individuals also readily disregard rules they are contemptuous of.
While cardio burns calories as you work out, strength training will help you burn more calories even while you rest. “The beautiful thing about strength training is that not only do you get sculpted and toned muscles, but the more muscle you have, the faster your metabolism is,” says Hoff. A faster metabolism means more calories burned, and in turn faster weight loss. Hoff says incorporating strength training two to three times a week is ideal. “No need for heavy weights; you can build muscle by using your own body weight and exercise bands.”
If coaching fails to cure a problem in six months, it can become very expensive indeed. Take the case of Tom Davis, the coach who worked with Rob Bernstein, the executive VP of sales at an automotive parts distributor. Let’s assume Davis charged a relatively low per diem of $1,500. Over the four years of his engagement—which ultimately did not solve Bernstein’s problems—he would have picked up at least $45,000 in fees. That sum would have purchased 450 hours with a competent therapist—about ten years’ worth of weekly sessions.
I would give Rita 50 stars if I could..... Her prices are fair. Period. Would you rather spend more money on cigarettes and lifetime of unnecessary medical bills or one flat fee and be smoke free for the rest of your life? Smoking is not attractive and has absolutely zero health benefits.... Smoking is a financial burden. I don't have to tell you this though, if you're reading this you already know.
In the UK, up to 5% of the general population is underweight, but more than 10% of those with lung or gastrointestinal diseases and who have recently had surgery.[29] According to data in the UK using the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool ('MUST'), which incorporates unintentional weight loss, more than 10% of the population over the age of 65 is at risk of malnutrition.[29] A high proportion (10-60%) of hospital patients are also at risk, along with a similar proportion in care homes.[29]
Returning to play after an injury can sometimes be difficult for many athletes depending on the nature of the injury. Athletes are often left with “mental scars” long after an injury is physically healed. A sports psychologist can help injured athletes cope better with the pressures associated with returning to a prior level of performance–pre-injury.
At an even more basic level, many executives simply benefit from receiving any feedback at all. "As individuals advance to the executive level, development feedback becomes increasingly important, more infrequent, and more unreliable," notes Anna Maravelas, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based executive coach and founder of TheraRising. As a result, she says, "Many executives plateau in critical interpersonal and leadership skills."
Life skills refer to the mental, emotional, behavioral, and social skills and resources developed through sport participation.[34] Research in this area focuses on how life skills are developed and transferred from sports to other areas in life (e.g., from tennis to school) and on program development and implementation.[35] Burnout in sport is typically characterized as having three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of accomplishment.[36] Athletes who experience burnout may have different contributing factors, but the more frequent reasons include perfectionism, boredom, injuries, excessive pressure, and overtraining.[37] Burnout is studied in many different athletic populations (e.g., coaches), but it is a major problem in youth sports and contributes to withdrawal from sport. Parenting in youth sport is necessary and critical for young athletes. Research on parenting explores behaviors that contribute to or hinder children’s participation. For example, research suggests children want their parents to provide support and become involved, but not give technical advice unless they are well-versed in the sport.[38] Excessive demands from parents may also contribute to burnout.
As an interdisciplinary subject, exercise psychology draws on several different scientific fields, ranging from psychology to physiology to neuroscience. Major topics of study are the relationship between exercise and mental health (e.g., stress, affect, self-esteem), interventions that promote physical activity, exploring exercise patterns in different populations (e.g., the elderly, the obese), theories of behavior change, and problems associated with exercise (e.g., injury, eating disorders, exercise addiction).[76][77]
When we came out of the session, he asked us how we each had felt. Some reported feeling a sense of heaviness, others said they felt as if they were floating away. One woman couldn't remember a word he had said the entire time. An older man in a Red Sox jersey said he could hear him but couldn't make out the words. “Me relaxing to that degree made me realize how much my body is fighting to breathe cleanly,” the elderly man said. Another woman said she felt as if she wanted to cry. I shared her emotion. It felt as if something was being taken from me.
There are many conventional ways to quit smoking, cold turkey, nicotine replacement therapy and various medications. However for people looking a method that is a little outside the box there are also a few alternative therapies that have shown some potential to help people quit. Without doubt of the most popular and well known of these alternative therapies is quitting smoking with hypnotherapy.
The birth of sports psychology in Europe happened largely in Germany. The first sports psychology laboratory was founded by Dr. Carl Diem in Berlin, in the early 1920s.[3] The early years of sport psychology were also highlighted by the formation of the Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen (College of Physical Education)in berlin germany by Robert Werner Schulte in 1920. The lab measured physical abilities and aptitude in sport, and in 1921, Schulte published Body and Mind in Sport. In Russia, sport psychology experiments began as early as 1925 at institutes of physical culture in Moscow and Leningrad, and formal sport psychology departments were formed around 1930.[4] However, it was a bit later during the Cold War period (1946–1989) that numerous sport science programs were formed, due to the military competitiveness between the Soviet Union and the United States, and as a result of attempts to increase the Olympic medal numbers [5] The Americans felt that their sport performances were inadequate and very disappointing compared to the ones of the Soviets, so this led them to invest more in the methods that could ameliorate their athletes performance, and made them have a greater interest on the subject. The advancement of sports psychology was more deliberate in the Soviet Union and the Eastern countries, due to the creation of sports institutes where sports psychologists played an important role.
Mansfield could neither comprehend nor cope with the attention she received once promoted to the role of boss. While most managers would view the schmoozing and lobbying for attention that her reports engaged in as office politics, Mansfield saw these attempts at currying favor as trial balloons that might lead to dating. She was not being sexually harassed; Mansfield was merely experiencing interpersonal advances that threatened the protective fortress she had erected against feelings of intimacy. The better Mansfield managed the men in her division—and the more her constructive feedback improved their work—the more intimate they appeared to become as a natural outcome of their appreciation.
Jump up ^ Mann, T; Tomiyama, AJ; Westling, E; Lew, AM; Samuels, B; Chatman, J (April 2007). "Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer". The American Psychologist. 62 (3): 220–33. doi:10.1037/0003-066x.62.3.220. PMID 17469900. In sum, there is little support for the notion that diets ["severely restricting one’s calorie intake"] lead to lasting weight loss or health benefits.
McGrail believes that the approach Margaret took should work for most people: “It uses the power of the mind to change the behavior, and it is the mind that creates the addiction to smoking 10, 20, or 30 cigarettes a day. In hypnosis, we’re using that same power, much like a computer, to make those changes.” McGrail finds out what he needs to know about the person’s relationship with tobacco: history, triggers, and motivations for stopping. “The suggestions I give while I verbally guide them through their program make them start thinking about smoking as something they don’t want — or have — to do,” he explains. Instead, they can choose appropriate outlets for the energy they once devoted to smoking. For example, Jonathan, a 34-year-old database manager from Atlanta who’d smoked for 16 years when he decided to quit with the help of a $1.99 app on his iPhone, washed his clothes — even when they were clean — instead of lighting up. He also performed breathing exercises when he was tempted. A little silly, sure, but infinitely better for him than a pack of Parliaments.
Physical factors: what type is it? have you suffered something like it before? what’s the cause? Mental factors: what’s your personality? what’s your best coping mechanism? how do you think about yourself? Situational factors: what kind of sport you are in? what level of competition you are at? Social factors: the influence of coach, family, friends, team-mates.
Although hypnotherapy can seem strange, perhaps even implausible, it is regarded as potentially effective in treating a variety of ailments, particularly phobias, addictions, and problematic habits. Hypnosis may also be used to help patients cope with stress, smoking cessation, and chronic pain, and some women even opt to use hypnosis to manage the pain of childbirth. In patients with trauma-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress (PTSD), therapists may attempt to talk to clients about their traumatic memories under hypnosis.
Roughly six months after Bernstein and Davis finished working together, Bernstein’s immediate boss left the business, and he was tapped to fill the position. True to his history, Bernstein was soon embroiled in controversy. This time, rather than alienating subordinates, Bernstein was suspected of embezzlement. When confronted, he asked to work with his coach again. Fortunately for Bernstein, the CEO suspected that something deeper was wrong, and instead of calling Davis, he turned to me for help.
Applied sport and exercise psychology involves extending theory and research into the field to educate coaches, athletes, parents, exercisers, fitness professionals, and athletic trainers about the psychological aspects of their sport or activity. A primary goal of professionals in applied sport and exercise psychology is to facilitate optimal involvement, performance, and enjoyment in sport and exercise.
Performance Consultants pioneered coaching in business over 30 years ago and continues to lead the field globally, providing executive coaching, leadership development, team development and coaching skills training for leaders and managers around the world. Through coaching interventions and our unique evaluation methods we help individuals focus on current and future achievements in a way that builds awareness of strengths, establishes personal responsibility and results in behaviour change that impacts the bottom-line.
The concept of ADHD coaching was first introduced in 1994 by psychiatrists Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey in their book Driven to Distraction.[8] ADHD coaching is a specialized type of life coaching that uses specific techniques designed to assist individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. The goal of ADHD coaching is to mitigate the effects of executive function deficit, which is a typical impairment for people with ADHD.[9] Coaches work with clients to help them better manage time, organize, set goals and complete projects.[10] In addition to helping clients understand the impact ADHD has had on their lives, coaches can help clients develop "work-around" strategies to deal with specific challenges, and determine and use individual strengths. Coaches also help clients get a better grasp of what reasonable expectations are for them as individuals, since people with ADHD "brain wiring" often seem to need external mirrors for accurate self-awareness about their potential despite their impairment.[11]
Some therapists use hypnosis to recover possibly repressed memories they believe are linked to the person's mental disorder. However, the quality and reliability of information recalled by the patient under hypnosis is not always reliable. Additionally, hypnosis can pose a risk of creating false memories -- usually as a result of unintended suggestions or the asking of leading questions by the therapist. For these reasons, hypnosis is no longer considered a common or mainstream part of most forms of psychotherapy. Also, the use of hypnosis for certain mental disorders in which patients may be highly susceptible to suggestion, such as dissociative disorders, remains especially controversial.
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2012: Advent Atmosphere: Younger Dryas
by duckbunny on December 9, 2012
The Younger Dryas event is named after the kind of pollen used as a proxy for the temperature. Dryas octopetala grows at the edge of icy regions. So if you find its pollen at a particular time in a particular place, you know that’s where the edge of the ice was, and you can track how it moved.
The Younger Dryas event is, basically, a brief cold snap at the end of the most recent ice age. Take a look at this graph:
This is the last forty thousand years of temperature data. The present is on the left, and the higher the lines are, the warmer things were. Right now, things are lovely and warm and steady. As you move right, that first sudden dip you come to is the Younger Dryas.
By this point in history, humans are living everywhere in the world. It’s the end of the mesolithic period, 10,800 – 9500 BC. In 500 years, you find the first evidence of human habitation at Jericho. In 1500 years, the Mesopotamians will invent agriculture. 4000 years after the Younger Dryas and the end of the ice age, writing will be invented in Sumeria and history will begin. The people of 10,000 BC were hunter-gatherers, moving north as the ice retreated and opened up new living space.
The dramatic thing about the Younger Dryas is just how suddenly it happened. Look at the red line in that graph. See how sharp the rise is at the end of the cold snap? That’s no longer than a human lifetime. 50 years at most, from ice age to modern climate. Maybe as little as 10 years. By the end, there were people in northern Europe who remembered when it had all been ice fields. And the beginning, the drop from nearly modern temperatures back to ice age, was nearly as fast.
So why? Why did the temperature suddenly change, and why only in that part of the world? It’s a distinctly European event, you don’t see that cold snap elsewhere. Mesolithic people had no way of knowing what was happening, but with hindsight and a global view, we’ve got a pretty good idea nowadays, and we’ll look at it tomorrow.
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Winklevoss Twins Back ‘Facebook’ for Investors with $1 Million
Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Winklevoss twins, made famous by their connection to the Facebook start-up, are back in the Internet game with a $1 million investment in a social media site for investors.
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had agreed to a settlement last year with fellow Harvard alum Mark Zuckerberg over their claim that they were behind the premise of Facebook, reportedly at least $65 million in cash and Facebook stock, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In February, the twins created Winklevoss Capital and their first investment was in SumZero, which describes itself as the “world’s largest community of hedge fund, mutual fund, and private equity professionals.”
Divya Narendra, CEO of Sum Zero and a Harvard classmate who had sided with the Winklevoss twins in the legal suit with Facebook, and another alum, Aalap Mahadevia, founded the company in 2008.
The company revealed this weekend that the twins had invested in the startup.
Narendra said involving Tyler and Cameron is “fantastic purely from an investment perspective” and he has the “utmost confidence in bringing them on-board.”
“But more important: They have tremendous knowledge about the Internet, the media and how to run a top-notch website, which will help SumZero evolve as a business,” he said in a statement. “They are ready, willing and able to get involved in the nitty-gritty of SumZero’s operations.”
The company calls itself a “reciprocity-based platform, meaning that members are required to share certain pieces of information in order to draw from the intellectual product of thousands of SumZero members.”
The site also allows for members to expand their networks and “further professional opportunities within the industry,” according to the company description on its website.
The Winklevoss brothers said SumZero, which is based in New York City, is “precisely the type of business around which Winklevoss Capital will be built.”
“SumZero is making serious inroads in capturing a previously untouched segment of the marketplace (i.e. buyside investment research), Divya has hired a dedicated and talented team around him to accelerate the product, and the sky is the limit in terms of potential,” they said in a statement.
SumZero has about 7,500 members who have to be on the “buy side” of the investment business and whose applications are vetted by Narendra personally. He rejects about 75 percent of them, the Journal reported.
Members use the site for free, but if they do not submit trading ideas for six months, they lose access to the site’s database. Investors who are not members of the site can pay $129 a month for a “small number of investment ideas” that Narendra chooses after getting permission from their authors, the Journal reported.
Being consumed in litigation with Zuckerberg for the past several years, was not the only activity of the brothers.
The two were also competitive rowers who had also tried to compete in the London Olympics, up until late last year when they gave up their attempt.
Almost exactly one year ago, the twins, who had become famous through their depiction in the film, The Social Network, starred in a commercial for Wonderful Pistachios.
Monday, September 17, 2012 at 11:28AM by Christine Hsu Permalink
tagged Cameron Winklevoss, Facebook, Investors, Tyler Winklevoss in Business General
Winklevoss Twins Go Nuts
Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) -- They haven’t gone nuts. But Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- the twin brothers who claimed in court that a certain Harvard classmate stole their idea for a website that came to be known as Facebook -- have now turned up in a commercial for Wonderful Pistachios.
In the spot, the two brothers appear in matching suits and bright green ties. One of them cracks open a pistachio nut and the other says, “Hey, that’s a good idea.”
“What?” says the other.
“Cracking them like that. Could be huge.”
“Think someone will steal it?”
You get the joke. The Winklevosses (or “Winklevii," as Jesse Eisenberg, playing Mark Zuckerberg, calls them in The Social Network) were offered a $65-million settlement by Facebook in 2008 to go away. They wanted more, but in July a federal district judge in Boston dismissed their lawsuit.
In addition to the Winklevoss brothers, Roll Global, the company that also sells Fiji Water and Pom juice, has enlisted a broad assortment of famous characters to promote its pistachio nuts, including Kermit the Frog, Khloe Kardashian Odom and a character from the Angry Birds video game.
Do the Winklevosses really need the money? The 2008 settlement offer included $45 million in Facebook stock, which has not yet gone public. By one estimate, it’s since grown in value to $160 million because of Facebook’s success.
So nuts to you.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7:33PM by Carmen Cox Permalink
tagged Cameron Winklevoss, Commerical, Facebook, TV Ad, Tyler Winklevoss, Wonderful Pistachios in Business General
Winklevoss Twins Drop Appeal of Facebook Settlement
Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have finally decided that a $65 million payout from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is good enough for them.
The brothers, who were briefly business partners with Zuckerberg when they all attended Harvard University, have dropped any further appeals of the 2008 settlement.
Before then, the “Winklevii,” as they became to be known, and fellow business partner Divya Narendra had sued Zuckerberg, claiming he had stolen their idea for a social network for Harvard students. Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004 while the plaintiffs devised a site called ConnecU.
In a filing Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra said they wouldn’t appeal the settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court without explaining why they gave up their legal battle.
The settlement breaks down to $20 million in cash and $45 million in stock, although the shares are now believed to be valued at well over $100 million and could grow substantially when Facebook goes public next year. The company is estimated to be worth $70 billion.
Much of the brothers’ legal battle with Zuckerberg was depicted in the movie, The Social Network, a semi-fictionalized account of the Facebook saga.
Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 4:15AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Cameron Winklevoss, Facebook, Lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg, Settlement, Tyler Winklevoss, U.S. Court of Appeals in Business General
Winklevoss Twins Plan to Take Facebook Lawsuit to Supreme Court
Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Not one, not two, but now three court rulings have ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin Harvard graduates who claim Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea, to stick with the $65 million they were awarded in a 2008 legal settlement with the social networking company.
Still, the so-called "Winklevi" just won't give up.
After a federal appeals court said Monday that it would not reconsider the twins' latest settlement challenge, the brothers announced their intention to take the case to the Supreme Court.
But their tenacity may now be flying in the face of legal reality. Though the twins' lawyers have set the Supreme Court in their sites, legal experts say the chances of the court actually hearing the case are slim to none.
Claiming Facebook defrauded them in the settlement agreement by misleading them about the company's worth, the Winklevosses have attempted to appeal the decision for the past three years. The latest federal appeals decision affirms its own April ruling as well as the previous ruling of a California district court.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 8:51AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Cameron Winklevoss, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Supreme Court, Tyler Winklevoss in Business General
Judge Rejects Twins' Bid to Undo Facebook Settlement with Zuckerberg
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Much to their dismay, the Winklevoss twins didn't get the Facebook deal breaker they were hoping for on Monday.
In 2004, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with Divya Narendra, sued their former Harvard University classmate Mark Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their idea for creating the social networking site Facebook. At the time, Zuckerberg countersued the trio, alleging they stole data and spammed users by hacking into Facebook to enhance their own site, ConnectU.
Four years later, the Winklevoss twins and Narendra agreed to a $65 million settlement in cash and stock from Facebook but then tried to undo the deal, claiming that Zuckerberg misrepresented the stock's value.
After one judge upheld the 2008 decision, federal appeal Judge Alex Kozinski ruled Monday that the allegedly wronged trio must live with the settlement they made with Zuckerberg.
"They made a deal that appears quite favorable in light of recent market activity," wrote Kozinski, who also declared, "The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to
achieve in the marketplace."
The judge also noted in his decision that the twins were "sophisticated parties" who "brought half-a-dozen lawyers to the mediation."
While Facebook hasn't gone public yet, it's expected that the initial public offering that might come next year may be the largest in history. The social networking site is now believed to be worth at least $50 billion, possibly two or three times more.
The Winklevoss twins say they plan to appeal Monday's ruling.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 7:27AM by Jeanette Torres Permalink
tagged Cameron Winklevoss, Facebook, Lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler Winklevoss in Business General
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IA 704.2 Deadly force.
State: Iowa
Iowa Code § 704.2 (2018)
Title XVI Criminal Law and Procedure
Subtitle 1 Crime Control and Criminal Acts
Chapter 704 Force — Reasonable or Deadly — Defenses
704.2 Deadly force.
1. The term “deadly force” means any of the following:
a. Force used for the purpose of causing serious injury.
b. Force which the actor knows or reasonably should know will create a strong probability that serious injury will result.
c. The discharge of a firearm, other than a firearm loaded with less lethal munitions and discharged by a peace officer, corrections officer, or corrections official in the line of duty, in the direction of some person with the knowledge of the person’s presence there, even though no intent to inflict serious physical injury can be shown.
d. The discharge of a firearm, other than a firearm loaded with less lethal munitions and discharged by a peace officer, corrections officer, or corrections official in the line of duty, at a vehicle in which a person is known to be.
2. As used in this section, “less lethal munitions” means projectiles which are designed to stun, temporarily incapacitate, or cause temporary discomfort to a person without penetrating the person’s body.
1A. “Deadly force” does not include a threat to cause serious injury or death, by the production, display, or brandishing of a deadly weapon, as long as the actions of the person are limited to creating an expectation that the person may use deadly force to defend oneself, another, or as otherwise authorized by law.
(NOTE: Paragraph 1A of this statute became effective 7/1/17.)
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The Austin Rugby Club’s Division 1 team has been incredibly successful in recent years. After a poor showing in 2014, the club underwent a series of administrative and coaching changes. The results were swift. Our Division 1 team have been the runners up in the National Championships in recent years losing to NYAC and Mystic River in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Our Division 1 side also makes up the core of our Gold Cup squad who were the winner of the competition’s inaugural season.
The Division 1 team plays home games at Burr Field in Austin.
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Cancer drug and antidepressants provide clues for treating brain-eating amoeba infections
The amoeba Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in warm swimming pools, lakes and rivers. On rare occasions, the amoeba can infect a healthy person and cause severe primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a “brain-eating” disease that is almost always fatal. Other than trial-and-error with general antifungal medications, there are no treatments for the infection.
Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have now identified three new molecular drug targets in N. fowleri and a number of drugs that are able to inhibit the amoeba’s growth in a laboratory dish. Several of these drugs are already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for other uses, such as antifungal agents, the breast cancer drug tamoxifen and antidepressant Prozac.
Their findings are published September 13 in PLoS Pathogens.
“Not many drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier,” said senior author Larissa Podust, PhD, associate professor at Skaggs School of Pharmacy. “Even if a drug can inhibit or kill the amoeba in a dish, it will not work in a host animal if it does not make it into the brain. That’s why we started with drugs known for their brain effects.” Podust led the study with co-first authors Anjan Debnath, PhD, assistant professor at Skaggs School of Pharmacy, and Wenxu Zhou, PhD, of Texas Tech University.
Podust and team began by investigating N. fowleri’s sterol biosynthesis pathway — a series of enzymes that build the amoeba’s outer membrane. They inhibited three of these enzymes to see how it would affect the organism’s viability. The researchers found that all three enzymes might make good drug targets. One of these, a sterol isomerase, is similar to a human receptor known to play a role in human neurological conditions, such as addiction, amnesia, pain and depression.
The researchers then tested a number of drugs already known to inhibit these enzymes for their ability to inhibit N. fowleri growth in the lab. All 13 of the new drugs they tested were more potent than miltefosine, an investigational drug currently recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the treatment of primary amebic meningoencephalitis, in combination with other medications.
For example, while it takes 54.5 micromolar (?M) of miltefosine to arrest the growth of half the amoebae growing in a dish, it only took 5.8 ?M of tamoxifen and 31.8 ?M of Prozac. Tamoxifen and Prozac inhibit two different enzymes in N. fowleri’s sterol biosynthesis pathway. When the researchers combined a lower dose of tamoxifen with drugs that inhibit other enzymes in the sterol biosynthesis pathway, they were able to inhibit the growth of 95 percent of N. fowleri. In other words, combination treatment allowed them to inhibit more of the pathogen using lower drug concentrations.
“Drug repurposing is a relevant strategy for this infection because there is little economic incentive for the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs to treat these rare diseases,” Debnath said. “Already-approved drugs can also lessen the time and expense required to develop a drug from the laboratory to the clinic.”
According to the CDC, only four of 143 people known to be infected with N. fowleri in the U.S. from 1962 to 2017 have survived. However, the number of the university laboratories conducting research on N. fowleri is few, partly due to a liability for laboratory safety risks. The Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego is home to just one of six university-based laboratories worldwide conducting drug discovery research on live N. fowleri, and, based on current publications, the only university in the U.S. with a mouse model of the infection.
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Learning to Live in England, Part 12
There was a festival in the park today. It was billed as 'Park Praise Fun Day in Coronation Park' and was sponsored by all the local churches. There were dozens of pavillions, most of them totally boring, and there was face-painting for the children. There were puppet shows and Christian bands and speakers.
We went with Julia and David. However, apart from their meeting several old friends and our meeting two new ones, the whole thing was of little interest, and quite preachy, too. Plus, I, for one, can only take 'Christian bands' for so long.
So we took David and Julia home for dinner.
Dinner wasn't all that successful, either. The porkchops were overdone. Potatoes were delish. David doesn't like mushrooms. The lemon bars were wonderful. Except that they were intended to be a cheesecake.
Next time! Next time will be much better.
James and Kim were in our area with another young couple with whom they are very good friends, so they all dropped by for a few minutes, just to say hello, which was very kind of them.
So we did enjoy the company, at any rate.
Another scrub, in search of another Orthodox Church. It was misunderstanding upon misunderstanding. The lady Demetrios had telephoned for directions said take the bus to the Preston station, then take a number 111 bus to the Seven Stars Pub ('Everybody knows it!') and the church was visible from there.
What we didn't realize when we decided to splurge and take a cab instead (thereby arriving more nearly on time, so went the theory), is that the church is not actually in Preston. I could have sworn (in fact, I did swear) the computer had said, 'Holy Apostles Church, Preston' but not so.
The cabbie phoned his dispatcher for directions and typed what was thought to be the correct postal code into his GPS sat system, and the voice on the gadget told us where to turn. When we came to the final 'Turn left!', however, there was no street there. No way to turn left. Nobody we asked knew any Seven Stars Pub, except one old drunk who swore it was not in Preston but in Leyland, which was correct as it turns out, but we didn't believe him. (Note to self: Always trust a drunk when it comes to locations of famous pubs.) The church was in Preston! So around 12:30 we gave up because the cab fare was becoming inordinate, and we wandered around downtown Preston.
Presently, we found a bus marked '111,' so we took it and asked the driver to set us down at the Seven Stars Pub, and he nodded. At least we would find the church for future reference.
The driver did set us down at the pub. In Leyland. 'OLD ORIGINAL SEVEN STARS PUB', the sign proclaimed. We stood on the corner of it. We walked around it, looking for a church visible from there.
And that's when we discovered the 'Seven Stars Pub' on the corner diagonally across. So we walked over there and looked around.
So make a very long story a bit shorter, the Church of the Holy Apostles is indeed visible from the (non-original) pub, but only if you know what you're looking for. There's no spire or dome and no obvious anything to let you know, from that distance, it's a church. We arrived around 2 p.m. !!!
Once we got over feeling dispirited, angry, and wishing to blame each other, we actually had a good time, back in Preston. Found a little eatery and sat outside enjoying lunch before heading home, where I collapsed onto the bed and cried a while.
Our enemy doesn't seem to mind a bit if we play Anglican, but seems determined to keep us from any Orthodox church!
Demetrios liked Evensong at the Liverpool Cathedral and wants to go back, but to be frank, I went there as a tourist and I've already been there, done that.
人生是故事的創造與遺忘。............................................................
向著星球長驅直進的人，反比踟躕在峽路上的人，更容易達到目的。............................................................
It takes all kinds to make a world.............................................................
A friend and I joke about the pub names near the Leyland parish. There is indeed the Seven Stars pub, and diagonally opposite is the Old Original Seven Stars. My friend from that parish once joked that he hopes to open his own pub: the One , True, Holy Orthodox Seven Stars.
I've been there a few times and know the readers well, although one is long-term temporarily transplanted to Malaysia. The music there is superb, but then if it will be led by Oxford-trained professional musicians, that will be the result. :-)
Holy Apostles' was a Primitive Methodist church before it was absorbed into the new Methodist Church, and it retained some of those customs, which is why the building is so plain and non-descript from the outside. When I first went, they were worshipping in the adjoining hall still because the church was set out more for preaching than worship. It was a very traditional Methodist preaching house, complete with the sloping floor.
The community has done a marvellous job with it.
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A witness to fear and protest at UC Berkeley
Profilers: Mohammed Albesharah, Michael Shamshoian, Sinziana Velicescu
David Gray: My name’s David Gray, I’m an architect and part time teacher at the University of Southern California, Department of Architecture.
I graduated from the University of Washington School of Architecture with an undergraduate degree and between 1964 and 1966 I traveled Europe with my wife, pretty much all over. I worked in Germany; worked in Italy, as an architect, traveled to Greece, Israel, and the Eastern black countries. And most of Europe; France, England, that was two years then after that period of time in 1966 I went to graduate school at the University of California Berkeley. I achieved a master’s degree in 1967 or 1968, and after that I went to work building houses and restoring historic buildings.
I was in the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1964, most of that time was spent in the Marine Corps Reserves, so I could go to school and attend college for most of that time frame.I was discharged in 1964, the same year I graduated. Buy hytrin Both my roommates were subsequently, one was in law school, the other one was in architecture school with me, joined the army, became rangers, and fought in Vietnam.
US: Did you feel any pressure to join with them even after you were discharged?
David Gray: No, not at all. You have to understand that during that time frame the draft was in place, and the odds were pretty much that 60% to 70% would be drafted. So once you completed your application you sort of felt that you had done your service to your country and that was it.
During that period of time there were double sets of dedications, the people that were dedicated to stopping the war in Vietnam because it was an unnecessary, in all probability, an evil war, based on not very strong premises, and the other side of the coin was that there were those that believed that their patriotic duty was to support your country and that there was a threat to the safety of the United States, and that serving your country, even in combat situations, was showing your dedication and belief in your country. So there were two sets of thought and almost everybody was on both sides.
THE WAR AND EVERYDAY LIFE
US: When did you feel that the war started becoming intense and started to become part of your daily life?
David Gray: When I was in Berkeley in 1967 and 1968 it was huge. Berkeley was the center of everything at that particular time, certainly the protest movement in Vietnam and a kind of anti establishment movement that young people, and you have to remember Haight-Ashbury was right across the bay from Berkeley and all the horse tranquilizers and all the hallucinogens and LSD was all a part of, and Lenny Bruce, who really invented this whole thing anyway, was a comedian who was frequently arrested for using four letter words, which we think nothing of today. But it was a time when freedom of speech and freedom to do the things that you wanted to do was important and having a war that fundamentally nobody saw the real relevance in it.
ROOMMATES IN VIETNAM
But nevertheless it became everything; politically, and socially it dominated the country. People were on either one side or the other. I had my roommate in Vietnam who was a ranger at the time and he was sending me photographs, pictures he took himself of the Vietnam war and I was printing them in a lab at Berkeley. I dint give them to anybody, I kept them. It was interesting to say the least. And then my other roommate who was in some very major action. Both of them fought within the villages in the outside parts of Vietnam. And neither one oft them talked very much about what their experiences were, and I was close to both of them. Charlie was just the first one we built a house together. And in 1968 after he got out after I got out of Berkeley he got out of Vietnam we were together constantly 6 hours a day 70 hrs a week for a year and a half and we never talked about it.
US: Do you think he had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
David Gray: Oh I think there was. I don’t think it was recognizable in that particular point historically, and medically and there was some serious fallout from stuff that he caught inside East Asia, health problems that emerged down there. I don’t think he was wounded in action but I don’t really know.
ANTI WAR MOVEMENT & TEACHING AT BERKELEY
US: Did you ever participate in one of those protests?
David Gray: Sure. I mean I was opposed to the war in Vietnam but I didn’t have to go, A, and B is I couldn’t see the point of it but everybody, I mean most, Americans were torn with this obligation they had to their country as a citizens. And it turned out to be pointless.
US: Did you feel any responsibility with not failing your students?
David Gray: Yeah that was a big problem, some peope come to the edge of the building and look over and say “oh I’m not going to get any closer” and some people have a compulsion to jump. And college was a deferment, if you’re rich enough to go to college, you would go to college and then avoid the draft until you were out. If you failed you weren’t going to be in college so the odds are within 90 days you were going to be in Vietnam. And so there were people that were just standing at the edge of the building and couldn’t help themselves, they just wanted to jump off the edge of the building.
It was a tough time to be young and torn you know between conflicting emotions. My brother asked me that if I was drafted would I have gone, and I said I would of. A lot of people went to Canada to avoid the draft, and you know some people would say they were cowards and others would say they were heros, everybody had a point of view. It was brutal. If you want to stop the war in Afganistan or Iraq its really easy to do you just institute the draft and the war will stop. I don’t understand that the lessons about fighting a war against indigenous people never cemented itself. Standing in front of their houses. It has not proved to be a succesful strategy yet.
The one final thing is that American politicians have this naive belief that they can give democracy to other people. It’s not possible. If you’re a country like Egypt and you want democracy you will make the sacrifice and you will fight for it, then you really don’t deserve it. Every democratic county historically had to go to war to fight for their rights. And it’s a very imperfect, difficult system, full of pitfalls and problems. It’s not fun, but it’s a good system.
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Architect and teacher David Gray served in the Marine Corps for eight years before receiving an honorable discharge in 1964. He was therefore able to avoid the draft, although his two roommates were drafted. He was also a teacher at UC Berkeley during the Vietnam War and was witness to numerous war protests as well as to the stress of failing felt by students in fear of getting drafted if they couldn't get by in school.
Sinziana Velicescu is from Los Angeles and studying comparative literature and film at USC. Michael Shamshoian studies Business at University of Southern California. Mohammed Albesharah is from Kuwait and is getting his architecture degree at USC. He was also in Kuwait during the Gulf War.
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I’m a Mommy Who Became Addicted to Candy Crush
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by Leila – May 24, 2014
It started with my mom. She was in town visiting and looking for a game to play on her new Kindle. She’s in her mid-sixties and her doctor told her that at her age she should play games to keep her mind stimulated. The last time she visited it was crossword puzzles. This time it was Candy Crush.
She stumbled onto the game after first finding Bejeweled. She liked the game enough to play rather consistently, but there were no real sparks. Not like when she discovered Candy Crush. I saw her coming to life when she played, saying things like, “Ooh, this game is fun! You should try it!” She was always excited about the fish, which meant that she was passing on to the next level. “Here they come!” she’d shout to my daughter, who’d run over to see them swim across the screen. It became their little thing.
Then I saw her disconnecting. Sitting in the chair with her Kindle giving half answers. “Hunh?” became common. Then screaming that they had locked her out again. See, they only give you five chances to make it to the next level and when you don’t, they have a system that puts you in time-out. It can last anywhere from a couple to 30 minutes. During that time you cannot play. But as soon as her probation was up she was right back at it, lying in her bed at night, in the early morning, and throughout the day. All the time, really. And most of her conversations revolved around Candy Crush.
It was hard to avoid.
Once I sat down next to her on the couch and she showed me how to get three candies in a row. But she was quick to point out, what you really need is 4. Okay.
The pace was fast. The music, honestly, was a little eerie, but the sound of the candy crushing and the visual of the candy zooming by was mesmerizing. Intoxicating. The colors. And when the special candy came, the kind that comes from getting at least four matches, oh god it was like an orgasm. Forget about 5 matches. It was exhilarating. Imagine taking a ride on a roller coaster without leaving your couch. Or bed. Or toilet. Or subway train. Or just about any place that you could get a connection and play.
Once I took the Path train from New Jersey to New York and played the whole 25 minutes there. It was fantastic, but I had already begun to feel a bit strange. I didn’t want anyone to see me because I held the visual of all the people I had seen playing on trains before. There were so many. Always playing Candy Crush. On buses too. I’d peek over their shoulders and watch for a few seconds, wondering about the allure. I’d see them in offices too. Anytime there was a wait for something they were there. Always there. Always playing with that colorful screen full of colors popping out like popcorn, and that hypnotizing music.
So sweet. So harmless.
Now I was the one sitting on the train, on the bus, in the office, playing. Always playing. And for some reason I didn’t want people to know.
I started having signs that it was becoming more than just a way to veg out when I started neglecting the kids. “Mommy, can I have some milk?” “Wait a minute, baby, just let me finish this game.” I couldn’t wait to get them into the tub so that I could sit on the toilet and get back to my game. “I’m ready to get out, ” my daughter would say. “Okay, just let me finish my game.” I’d put on cartoons to occupy them and would rationalize that they had their thing and I had mine. Right?
But it didn’t feel right. I knew it wasn’t right. But I couldn’t stop. I was already in too deep.
It had only been about a week, but I was in it up to my neck.
My mom was now back home and all my calls to her were about Candy Crush. “Can you believe I’ve been on the same level for two days?!”
“That’s normal. Sometimes I’ve been on the same level for a whole week! That’s when I paid them.”
Paid them? How now brown cow. The fact that my mom would pay money for a game was beyond belief. Mom keeps her money tight. She is the only person I know who lives on a fixed income but always has money saved up. It didn’t make sense.
But I too had contemplated it.
In fact, a few times I had tried to spend the .99 cents to help me move on to the next level, but the only thing that saved me was that I couldn’t remember my apple password. Every time it didn’t work I’d take it as a sign that I didn’t need to pay them the money. They were already making, from what I heard, close to a million dollars a day. I felt like a fool to even consider it. But it was brutal thugging it out, trying to beat the machine with no assistance. When trying to encourage me, my mom would say that the game is set up for the machine to win, so don’t feel too bad when you get stuck on a level. “Hang in there, ” she’d say, tenderly. Candy Crush was bonding us in ways that we hadn’t felt in years.
She was becoming my Candy Crush guru.
Like mom, I too was starting to get edgy about the shut out times. During the longer stints I told myself that it was just a stupid game, and I should get out. But then I’d get the alert on my phone, the same beep that let’s me know that I have a voicemail, telling me that I have more lives, I can play again, and there I was hooked once more.
It was the first thing I did in the morning. I told myself it was just a way to get me up and going. Like coffee. It was the last thing I did at night. Sometimes I’d go to bed around 1:30am, eyes glossed over, brain fried—just let me crush some more candy. I know I can get to the next level.
I dreamed about it in my sleep. Red, yellow and green candy dancing around like rock stars. It was all very pop culture. I even bought some jelly beans and didn’t make the connection. I was losing myself.
It was around this time that I really started thinking about getting out. Now that I was stuck on level 24 it seemed like a good time. I could just walk away. Not look back.
But it kept calling.
One morning when I woke up with my phone already in my hand and started playing almost like a reflex, I knew I wasn’t enjoying it. So I played one game and got on with the day. I actually thought I might be cured.
But less than an hour later it started calling. I was volunteering at my daughter’s school, just for a few hours, but I couldn’t wait to ditch those kids and get back to my beloved Candy Crush. Just let me sit at home on the couch uninterrupted.
I went home and played some more games. Got shut out. Played again. I still couldn’t complete the level. It was time to pick up my daughter.
I called my mom who had just reached level 86. When I congratulated her she played it down. Her friend Keisha was on level 124. This was nothing. Besides, she said, it goes to 400 and something. Maybe even 5. I began to get scared. Where does it end? I was already not in a good place, and yet I was a neophyte on level 24. Just a baby in the Candy Crush world. How would I survive? What about the kids? I pictured them in the kitchen, feeding off of paint chips and stale Kix cereal. My 2 year-old’s diapers would be soiled and sagging while I’d promise, “Hold on, Boo-Boo, just one more level.” My 4 year-old would hate me. Upset that she was now fully responsible for her baby sister.
“Mom, ” I said, “I want out. I can’t keep playing Candy Crush.”
This wasn’t the first time she’d heard this from me in the past few days. I’d called her a few times to vent.
“Yea, well, they just shut me out for 24 hours! I said, f*ck it and I’m playing something else in the meantime. They won’t get any more of my money!”
“Ma, I’m serious. I can’t do it anymore. I think now is a good time to get out. Now that I can’t get off this level. And before I—“
I trip over a crack in the sidewalk and my phone goes flying out of my hand, crashing to the ground. It lands with the screen facing down. The back of it looks fine, but it was a nasty spill. And the crazy thing is I’d been meaning to go buy a case for two weeks. Everyday I tell myself that these iphones are way too fragile to walk around with no cover. In fact, my husband’s phone is a clear example. The screen has been busted for ages. I never wanted mine to end up like that.
I walk over to my phone in slow motion. Afraid to see…
I pick it up, turn it over and it looks like it’s been in an earthquake. I want to cry. I place it to my ear and hear my mom still on the line talking about Candy Crush.
I tell her that I just fell and cracked my phone and I have to go. I’m too upset to talk.
My immediate response is to go into a corner and die. I’m overwhelmed by woe is me because it seems like I’ve been having so many setbacks lately. Just the other day I messed up my laptop by putting it near the heater. It got so hot the corners curled up like one of those quirky mustaches. Two days later it stopped coming on altogether. I took it to my man Chuck who knows everything about computers and as soon as he saw the twisted up corners he put his head down and later confirmed what I already knew. It was done.
So here I am standing on the street, wondering why this is happening to me, and then it hits me. I’d been praying for the strength to leave Candy Crush but I didn’t know how. Sometimes I even wondered if it was possible. The road looked so long and the allure was sometimes greater than me. My desire to quit never seemed enough. And here I was with a screen that was so cracked that if I pushed it I could still play, but why would I want to? This was my way out and I had to seize the opportunity. It was now or never. So I did what was once unthinkable and deleted the app from my phone. Just like that. It’s been three days, 6 hours and 24 mins.
Erickka Sy Savané is a writer, former model and mother of two girls. Her work has appeared in Essence, Clutch, xojane, Heart & Soul and Uptown magazine where she was editor-at-large. You can find her at The Brew.
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Route Two Soccer: Houston and Reign FC fight out a fascinating 1-1 draw
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Charles Olney
Houston and the Reign met this weekend for an enthralling and exciting game, which saw a lot of fast-paced play, some impressive performances on both sides, and more than a few mistakes. For a game that was a joy to watch, the key moments unfortunately often had more to do with errors than with execution. The key drama came at the end, with a penalty earned, and saved, in literally the final minute of the game. But for this article, I want to focus less on the goals and controversies and more on how the teams set themselves up. In each case, there are fascinating lessons to learn about how these two strong teams will play in 2019.
Houston set up very similar to their approach from 2018, in a 4-3-3, with three central midfielders trying to occupy the middle, two wingers trying to cover some significant defensive responsibilities while also getting forward to spread the opposition’s defensive line, and with play often going through Rachel Daly at the tip of the spear.
However, as the first half began to unfold, there was also some crucial differences. First, Houston pressed more aggressively here than they ever had the previous year. For a Reign team hoping to settle into the game by building out slowly, it was a nightmare, with orange shirts constantly interfering and disrupting play.
Second, new additions Sophie Schmidt and Christine Nairn provided precisely the kind of bite and positional awareness that Houston was desperately missing in their previous campaign. Schmidt in particular shined in this game, constantly clogging up passing channels, stepping forward to disrupt play and intercept passes, and making measured forward runs when the situation called for it. Her performance was a perfect example of how installing a solid gyroscope in the holding role can stabilize the entire team’s structure. And while Nairn was slightly less involved, her presence was also crucial. She had a knack for always seeming to be in the right place, receiving short passes and immediately turning to push the ball forward into space.
The result was a Houston team that still played much the same as in previous years–a direct style, focused on quick attacking passes, trying to create space for the wingers to move at speed–but which also managed to control possession, ending up well ahead of the Reign in both passing attempts and completions. For a team that regularly looked helpless trying to keep the ball last year, this is a significant change.
In the first half, this combination was lethal and the Dash were rampant. They closed down the Reign possession high up the pitch, forcing awkward passes, and generally making it impossible for them to play. This is precisely what led to the opening goal. Though the proximate cause was Theresa Nielsen dilly-dallying in her own box and getting stripped of possession by Nichelle Prince, the setup was a high press that forced the ball back into that position in the first place.
However, things did not go quite as well in the second half, which is a good indication of the risks of this new, more aggressive Houston approach. Whereas last year, after the Dash took a lead, they could rely on dropping deep and setting a low block to frustrate the opposition, this team didn’t seem as willing to commit to defending deep. But they also couldn’t maintain the same levels of high pressure. As a result, the Reign found their way back into the game, finding more room to work with, and probing for gaps in between the Houston lines.
That provides a clear indication of where the Dash will need to focus their attention going forward. Watching them use the whole pitch this weekend was a great sign that they see themselves as capable of taking the game to the opposition. The big question is whether they will be able to successfully adapt their tactics from game to game as opponents and conditions change. New head coach James Clarkson certainly defined this as a project going forward, saying “we have to be able to adapt our tactics, our formation, and the way we play. We’ll look at each opponent separately and develop a game plan.”
For a Houston team that played much the same last year no matter who or when they played, that will be a real change.
For the Reign, this was very much a game of two halves. But even more than that, it was a game of two halves in the first half alone. They came out in a 4-2-3-1, with Allie Long and Morgan Andrews in the double pivot, and with Shea Groom as the number 10. This is a setup with a lot of potential. Long is an excellent player in that #6 role, especially when she is paired with another holding player, since it gives her license to step forward when useful. It also puts Groom into her best role, giving her the ability to move in between the lines and to move with the ball at her feet.
However, the Reign struggled mightily to get ahold of the game, and before they really had a chance to even show how this approach would work, Jasmyne Spencer had to come off for a knee injury, forcing a reallocation of players. Elise Kellond-Knight entered, taking one of the holding roles, while Long moved forward and Groom moved out right. Unfortunately for the Reign, none seemed all that comfortable for the rest of the first half. Long has obviously played the #10 role many times before, but she is not really a playmaker. Groom, similarly, has played on the right wing for most of her career, but was isolated for this period, struggling to put herself into positions to receive the ball. Kellond-Knight simply did not look up to the pace of the game. She did very little in possession, nor was she able to exert a calming influence in defense.
To the extent that they found success in the opening half, it came almost entirely from the work of Darian Jenkins and Celia Jiménez Delgado down the left flank. Every attempt to build through the middle faltered, as Andrews and Kellond-Knight were harried in possession.
The Reign also faced real difficulties in defense. This was mostly not down to tactics, but more a matter of execution. In particular, Theresa Nielsen in the right back position seemed well off the pace, and was repeatedly beat by Nichelle Prince, most notably for the goal. It didn’t help that she was given relatively little support from the right wingers–with Spencer doing almost no tracking back, through Groom did put in more of a defensive shift. The center backs were also exposed several times. Rachel Daly is a lot to handle, but they let her wriggle free more than they would have liked. And the situation wasn’t helped when the Reign were forced into a second injury substitution in the 40th minute, with Megan Oyster coming off.
However, after the halftime break, they came out looking far more settled, and were able to exert far more influence on the game. There were no major structural changes, but there was one interesting wrinkle that seemed to make a difference. While Groom continued to play on the right, she regularly pinched in, and also pressed forward. In the deeper role, she added an additional body to the central midfield, giving the Reign extra numbers and helping them stabilize there. In the more advanced positions, she almost functioned like a second striker, allowing them to operate as a sort of lopsided 4-4-2, with Groom back in that playmaking space that the initial setup was supposed to grant her.
4-2-3-1 transitioning into a lopsided 4-4-2
With this change, the Reign found far more success with the ball, and were finally able to get Jodie Taylor regularly involved. It created a number of good chances, like this one here, which shows the potential of players who can move into these key central players with no clear markers to corral them. In those gaps, Groom began to play a more significant role, receiving the ball with space to dribble and playmake. And as Houston struggled to challenge her, it also created more room for Long to do what she does best: float away from her markers, receive the ball, and quickly push play forward. That potential is illustrated in this move:
Groom receiving the ball in a central position
Working with space to quickly progress the ball forward
Putting Taylor through on goal
Of course, there are also dangers to this approach. With Groom pinched in, the Reign often left huge exposed spaces on the right wing. To compensate, Long put in a good shift, often drifting wider to fill that space when needed, and Nielsen got more into the swing of the game. But the Reign were also lucky that Houston did little to capitalize on the opportunities.
Going forward, it will be interesting to see whether this was a mere one-off experiment, or whether the Reign decide to employ Groom in this sort of creative winger role more regularly. It’s certainly a role that the Reign have some familiarity with – as Megan Rapinoe has increasingly played in precisely this sort of creative winger role. At the moment, they seem to lack the personnel to make it truly effective. Having to use Long in the #10 left them with two holding players that looked overmatched for much of the game. But once Jess Fishlock returns, which would free Long to play her best position as a ball-controlling #6, this could be a potentially devastating setup.
With the World Cup coming, the Reign will be losing their key creative spark, Megan Rapinoe. This game went some way to demonstrating that they could well survive that absence. Groom on the right could play much the same creative role, and Jenkins showed clearly that she is more than capable of producing a dominant attacking performance as well. If Long – whose ability to dictate play and keep possession is absolutely critical – goes to France, that may be far more difficult to sustain. But if not, the Reign could be one of the few teams to survive those months relatively unscathed.
Tags: Allie Long Darian Jenkins Houston Dash Rachel Daly Reign FC Route Two Soccer Shea Groom Sophie Schmidt
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The Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics Instructor: Sophie Lewis The course will meet at the Bureau on Wednesdays, July 10, 17, 24, and 31, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM Transfeminine lives are often seen as having, in and of themselves, political [...]
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DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: July Edition!
Sabrina Chap brings you this works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting-edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness.
The July edition of DEADLINE will feature:
Jesse Phillips-Fein – Dance
Melody Jane – Performance Art
Taylor Derwin – Fiction
Kate Brandt - Film
Interested in presenting your work in a future installment of Deadline? Fill out the form!
Artists of any kind are encouraged to submit.
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Check out this article on the August edition of Deadline in Next Magazine: “BGSQD’s Deadline Gives Queer Artists Room To Create And Grow” by Chris Hernandez
Start: July 2, 2015 7:00 PM
End: July 2, 2015 10:00 PM
Venue: Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @ The Center
Phone: 212 620 7310 ext. 300
208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Sharp Edges: Butcher’s Sons & Paris Demands
The Sharp Edges book launch features new novels by Lethe Press’ Scott Alexander Hess (The Butcher’s Sons) and Mike Miksche (Paris Demands). These two authors will face off in a lively interview segment about their provocative books set respectively in the gritty streets of Hell’s Kitchen circa 1930 and in Paris’ glorious underbelly. It’ll be an evening of edgy conversations, live music, book giveaways, and of course French cheeses and Hell’s Kitchen (butchered) meats.
Reception @ 7PM, Interactive Interview @ 8PM
Scott Alexander Hess earned his MFA in creative writing from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post, and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine, The Fix, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote “Tom in America,” a short film starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. The Butcher’s Sons is his third novel. His debut novel Diary of a Sex Addict has been translated into German. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Hess now lives in Manhattan, New York.
Mike Miksche’s work has appeared in Instinct, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, and The Blue Lyra Review. He is the writer of Hole and Corner, a weekly column for Daily Xtra, which explores the profound connections forged through BDSM and public sex (http://www.dailyxtra.com/contributor/Mike%20Miksche). Paris Demands is his first novel.
Then, and Then, and Now: 2 Gay Memoirists from Different Generations Discuss Their Gay Histories
Brad Gooch and David Crabb will read from and discuss their respective memoirs. Brad Gooch’s Smash Cut is a searing memoir of life in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, and Crabb’s Bad Kid is a hilarious, poignant story about a boy growing up gay (and Goth) in San Antonio, Texas at a time and place where it was hard to be one, near impossible to be the other.
Photograph By Henny Garfunkel
Brad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biographies City Poet and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He lives in New York City.
Photograph By Julia Gillard
David Crabb is a performer, writer, teacher & storyteller in New York City. He is a Moth Story Slam host and three-time Moth Slam winner. His solo show “Bad Kid” was met with critical acclaim from The New York Times, MTV, Flavorpill, NY Metro and many others, and named a New York Times Critics’ Pick. The show has been performed in NYC since 2011 & completed a sold-out run in Virginia in 2013. “Bad Kid” will play in Texas and California in 2015.
Start: June 27, 2015 7:00 PM
End: June 27, 2015 10:00 PM
Opening reception: Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson: I-Dea The Goddess Within Gay Pride 1994
Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson
I-Dea The Goddess Within
Gay Pride 1994
June 18 to September 6, 2015
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
@The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street, Room 210
contact@bgsqd.com
Opening Reception on Friday, June 26, 7 to 10 PM
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is pleased to present a selection of iconic photographs from I-DEA, The Goddess Within, a historic collaboration of the performance artist Hunter Reynolds, aka Patina du Prey, and documentary photographer Maxine Henryson. From 1993 to 2000, Henryson and Reynolds traveled to Berlin, Antwerp, Los Angeles, New York and other cities, creating guerrilla-like street performances and interventions. Spinning in a large white dress, Patina existed as a mythical dervish figure that deliberately disrupted gender norms in order to relate to the viewer as a shamanistic transgendered embodiment of fantasy and healing. I-DEA, The Goddess Within challenged notions of queer identity, performance art, and the social landscape of the 1990’s.
For this exhibition, the artists will present a selection of photographs from Gay Pride in New York on the 25th anniversary of Stonewall and the Gay Games in 1994. The years of 1993 and 1994 were two of the most devastating years of the AIDS epidemic. During this anniversary year there was a dispute between the organizers of the Pride Parade (Heritage of Pride), Mayor Giuliani, and the political activists participating in the annual parade, such as ACT UP, the Dykes on Bikes, and the Radical Faeries, who did not want to participate in the commercial marketing of the Gay Games or the changing of the Parade route to pass by the United Nations. The LGBTQ parade, for the first time, split into two parades: the official parade and the Radical Queers parade. The Dykes on Bikes led some 60,000 Radical Queers and Faeries from the Stonewall Inn up 5th Ave to Central Park. Many of the participants were naked and queers jerked off in front of St Patrick’s Cathedral. The community was fractured; the oppression of Giuliani era was beginning, and our parade was split.
Since 1992, Reynolds had been living in Berlin and returned to perform the Memorial Dress for Creative Time’s official Gay Games Art Event. Reynolds recalls that “I wanted to do a healing dervish dance on the steps of the NYPL under the pink triangle of the banner Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall, The New York Public Library’s groundbreaking 1994 exhibition, which was the largest and most extensive display of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. It was spontaneous combustion. The parade stopped and thousands cheered. The naked Radical Faeries spun with me. It was a truly spectacular and moving moment in my life. I was so grateful to be alive and proud to be Queer.”
Hunter Reynolds has been using photography, performance and installation for over thirty years to express his experience as an HIV-positive gay man. He was an early member of ACT UP, and in 1989 co-founded Art Positive, an affinity group of ACT UP, to fight homophobia and censorship in the arts. His work addresses issues of gender, identity, socio-politics, sexual histories, mourning, loss, survival, hope and healing. Hunter Reynolds was born in 1959 in Rochester, Minnesota. Reynolds is an AIDS activist and a Visual AIDS artist member and has been the recipient of grants and residencies, including several Pollock Krasner awards. He has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Iceberg Projects, IL; P.P.O.W Gallery, NY; Participant Inc., NY; Hallwalls, NY; White Columns, NY; Artist Space, NY; Simon Watson Gallery, NY; Creative Time, NY; Momenta, NY; Bernard Toale Gallery, MA; ICA Boston, MA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA; NGBK, Germany; and DOCUMENTA, Kassel, Germany. His work is numerous public and private collections including The Society for Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; the Addison Gallery of American Art, MA and The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, MD. The Fales Library and Special Collections/New York University houses the archives of Hunter Reynolds in its Downtown Collection. Hunter Reynolds is represented by P.P.O.W. For more information about the artist please contact: info@ppowgallery.com
Maxine Henryson is an artist and bookmaker who creates sensual, poetic photographs of the seemingly every day. She explores perceptions of the feminine in the world, examining the differences and similarities between cultures. Her work traces evidence of divinity, rituals, place, memory and history in the West and East.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, she lives and works in New York. She studied sociology at Simmons College (B.S.) and University of London (Masters of Philosophy) and has an M.A.T. from the University of Chicago in studio arts and M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in photography. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and are in numerous public and private collections including the Celanese Photography Collection, the Russian Museum, Norton Museum of Art, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Selected group exhibitions include ARC Gallery, Chicago (The Body in Revue), Gallery Espace, New Delhi (Marvelous Reality/Lo Real Maravilloso), Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (Lives of the Hudson), Unscharf (out of focus), after Gerhard Richter at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Germany and O.K. Harris Gallery, New York (Illuminators). Her most recent solo exhibitions were at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn in 2014 (Ujjayi’s Journey.) and Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs, Wiesbaden, Germany. (Calculated Coincidence). Maxine Henryson taught photography at the International Center of Photography, New York, and Bennington College (1996-2006). Henryson’s artist books are Ujjayai’s Journey (Kehrer, 2012), Red Leaves and Golden Curtains (Kehrer, 2007) and Presence (Artist Publications, 2003). Henryson is represented by A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn.
Rainbow Book Fair Readings: Lammy Winners 2015
Before we say goodbye to June and Pride, let’s take a couple more hours to celebrate the winners of the 2015 Lambda Literary Awards with some of the winners who live right here in New York City. Readers will include Diana Cage, author of Lesbian Sex Bible: The New Guide to Sexual Love for Same-Sex Couples (winner for Lesbian Erotica), as well as Whitney Strub, a contributor to Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (winner for LGBT Anthology) and some still to be determined guests.
Diana Cage was editor of the lesbian magazine On Our Backs and host of The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM Radio. Her work has appeared in Curve, Girlfriends, Quartz, Shewired, The Advocate, Esquire, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Pratt Institute.
Whitney Strub is an associate professor of History and director of the Women’s & Gender Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Columbia, 2011) and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Kansas, 2013).
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By Jenn Rafael on June 27, 2013 Hero of the week
U.S. Artillery (National Archives)
Sixty-three years ago, on June 25, 1950, North Korean forces conducted a brutal surprise attack into South Korea, essentially overrunning the entire country within a few weeks. In about a month South Korean, American and United Nations troops clung to a small toe hold in the Pusan Peninsula at the southern tip of the country.
For the next month and a half the Allied forces held out against multiple attacks. The entire war changed after a daring assault halfway up the coast at Inchon that disrupted supply lines and resulted in the isolation of North Korean forces in the south.
Following the Inchon invasion, Allied forces pushed the invaders back into North Korea. Only the involvement of Chinese and Russian forces saved the North Korean People’s Army from total defeat. The famous battle of the Chosin Reservoir, in which 30,000 United Nations troops were surrounded by twice as many Chinese and North Koreans, took place in December of 1950. The actions of American forces to defend themselves and fight their way back to the coast in the bitter cold of winter are legendary.
As early as 1951, President Truman began peace negotiations, and although fighting continued for two more years, an agreement to cease hostilities was finally agreed to with the signing of an armistice in 1953.
The tension in the Korean Peninsula continues to this day, but those who fought there saved a country from annihilation.
Our Korean War veterans are our heroes of the week.
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Let the audience fill in the gaps
24 hours after being vilified for firing a disabled worker who stole a colleague’s drink bottle, the chief executive of Bunnings went on Newstalk ZB to explain the sacking. The explanation gave enough hints to suggest that there was more than one side to the story.
“These decisions aren’t taken lightly… it’s just not great for anyone.”
“There are [more] details and facts behind it but I’m just not able and I’m not willing to talk about individual situations, but certainly all the facts aren’t listed in the [news] stories.”
“Unfortunately when incidents happen we sometimes have to make tough decisions, and sad decisions as well.”
This was a useful mix of disappointment that sounded genuine, and hints that allowed the audience to guess that there were other reasons for the dismissal.
Bunnings demonstrated that it is possible to rebut opponents and media who try to run with the worst side of a story – even when you feel constrained by “privacy”. The public are smart enough to know there’s two sides, and to detect exaggeration and omission. It’s unfortunate that the original story had 24 hours to do its anger-stirring uncontested.
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NCAR Appoints Roger Wakimoto Director
Roger M. Wakimoto, an associate director and senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, and an elected Fellow of the AMS, has been named NCAR’s new director. He succeeds Eric J. Barron, who left NCAR this month to assume the presidency of Florida State University. Wakimoto will assume his new position on February 1.
Roger Wakimoto. (©UCAR, photo by Carlye Calvin.)
“Roger is a world-class scientist and administrator with broad knowledge of both the atmospheric sciences and the university community that NCAR serves,” says Richard Anthes, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages NCAR for the National Science Foundation (NSF), and a past president of the AMS. “I am are very pleased to have him at the helm of NCAR.”
A geophysicist with expertise in tornadoes, thunderstorms, and other types of severe weather, Wakimoto has served since 2005 as director of NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL), which oversees instrument development and major field projects. He has most recently guided the development of a major workforce management plan for NCAR. Wakimoto came to NCAR after 22 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a professor of atmospheric sciences for more than a decade and also chaired the department.
“I am both excited and honored to take on the challenge of building on the organization’s expertise and leading it in new and potentially exciting directions,” Wakimoto says. “NCAR is in a strong position to help meet the nation’s growing demand for research into weather and climate change.”
At NCAR, Wakimoto oversaw a comprehensive survey of instrumentation to better serve atmospheric scientists, and he collaborated with researchers at other agencies in VORTEX2, the largest tornado field study ever conducted. His ties to the center date back to the late 1970s, when he participated in a field project as a graduate student to study wind shear, a potential threat to aircraft. He has also served on the UCAR Board of Trustees and was chair of the University Relations Committee.
Wakimoto has written or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in meteorology and has taken part in a dozen major field projects in the United States and overseas. He has served on numerous committees, panels, and boards for the NSF, The National Academies, the AMS, and other organizations. He has won numerous awards and honors, including a scientific and technical achievement award from the Environmental Protection Agency for observations of air pollution, and the Meisinger Award from the AMS in recognition of his contributions to understanding mesoscale weather events.
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When I told M we were going to see the murals in Islington Village (since that's the next date idea we pulled out!), he thought there was an actual art show happening. And while there is art, this isn’t a temporary exhibition or photos in a gallery. It’s literally murals, painted onto the walls of businesses along Dundas Street between Kipling and Islington.
Despite M’s initial disappointment, we had a great time strolling down the street, occasionally jaywalking to the other side so that we could see every mural.
Near the beginning of our adventure, close to Kipling and Bloor, we stopped in at AF Home Bakery for breakfast. M and I got the last two bureks, a pastry filled with cheese, and "Cockta", a not-a-knock-off of Coca Cola that actually tastes way better than Coca Cola.
We felt slightly guilty when just moments later, two regulars dropped by and asked for bureks. The bakery had to give them the bad news that they were all out. M and I quickly hid any evidence that we were the guilty eaters of the last bureks by taking larger bites.
Our dessert was also absolutely delicious – M had a custard pie (krempita), and I had a strudel. With full bellies, we set off to see the rest of the murals.
John Kuna is the artist responsible for most of the murals, although a few other artists have pitched in as well. They largely depict historical life in the village of Islington, and if you read the plaques, you'll encounter many interesting stories and learn fun tidbits about the village.
For example, the mural above is a painting of a heritage building that stood in that exact spot. Despite large community support to prevent it from being torn down, it was replaced by strip malls and the industrialization of the area.
Another thing that's changed because of industrialization? Mimico Creek. Above is a representation of what the creek used to look like. Now it's little more than a sad bubbling stream.
The building above is an artifact of the area that hasn't changed or been replaced - the Montgomery Inn. Built in 1832, the inn now operates as a museum and holds a farmer's market on Wednesday nights.
At first glance, Islington Village is strip malls and wide roads and suburbs. But hidden behind (almost) every wall you'll find some beautiful art, and tucked between nail parlours and vacuum repair stores you'll be surprised by home cooked treats and desserts.
A 30 minute subway ride here really isn't that long, especially when you're rewarded with gems like these.
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Roy Speckhardt to Emphasize Empathy & Compassion’s Influence in Modern Day
by Chris Clements on July 11, 2019 add comment 169 views
Roy Speckhardt believes human empathy and compassion can direct the arc of history toward a better place.
“There exists great harm in this world, and people who have bad motivations — they exist,” said Speckhardt, an author and executive director of the American Humanist Association. “We should do what we can to overcome these problems as a world community. We need to address these topics and concerns in ways that can lift everybody up.”
At 2 p.m. today, July 12, in the Hall of Philosophy, Speckhardt will give Chautauqua’s third Interfaith Friday lecture on humanism and the problem of evil. Speckhardt will be in conversation with the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion and senior pastor.
“I’m coming from a humanist perspective,” Speckhardt said. “We’re not theistic, we don’t have God beliefs. That kind of puts a twist on discussing why a loving God would allow evil in the world.”
Speckhardt said he plans on talking about how people of faith and goodwill can work together to make the world a better place.
“In fact, looking at history, there are bigger reasons for optimism than we’re seeing in current politics,” he said.
Speckhardt was raised Catholic in a suburb of New York City, and said he very quickly began to explore other religions.
“I did quite a bit of exploration into Eastern religions and other types of faiths before I decided humanism would be best for me,” he said. “Humanists get their source of knowledge from scientific processes, which basically leads us to the best of modern knowledge. We go to what our experts say is the best information on a given subject. We don’t look for divine revelation or ancient texts.”
Speckhardt has helped lead recent policy initiatives in the AHA, including a few high-profile lawsuits involving Christian symbols that were placed in public areas.
“We see that a government has installed a Christian cross in a way that we think is inappropriate,” he said. “One of (the cases) that we just lost was in the Supreme Court in Maryland. They decided that this memorial from World War I could continue to stand, in what was a fairly narrow decision.”
According to Speckhardt, it’s the AHA’s position that government “shouldn’t be in the religion business — and putting up a Christian cross is getting in the religion business.”
“When we drive past a town that has a giant Christian cross on the outside, it looks like that town is more welcoming to Christians than people of other faiths,” he said. “And when it’s used as a memorial, that compounds the problem from our perspective because not all veterans are Christian. Putting up a memorial and saying that it represents everyone when it only represents the Christian fallen is just not fair.”
Yet the courts aren’t the only avenue for pursuing the AHA’s agenda, according to Speckhardt.
“Our organization does advocacy in the halls of Congress and in the public realm, too,” he said. “We try to get the word out about humanism and about our perspectives to people all across the country.”
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The author Chris Clements
Chris Clements is reporting on the interfaith lecture previews and Sacred Song Services. He is in his second year at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. This is his first summer at the Daily. When he’s not rereading White Noise by Don DeLillo, he’s listening to his favorite jazz vocalist, Cécile McLorin Salvant.
Rabbi Deborah Waxman to Delve into Jewish Perspective on Divine Justice for Interfaith Friday
On 65th Anniversary, Heritage Lecture to Examine Lasting Legacy of ‘Brown v. Board of Education’
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Bill Clinton: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed
By ConservativeFWD Staff 2018-06-11
President Bill Clinton’s new interview with PBS NewsHour, which aired last week, featured some shocking, and strikingly tone-deaf, comments from the former president about sexual harassment and assault, including his opinion that “what you can do to someone against their will” has changed.
The New York Times‘ Alex Burns tweeted an excerpt from a RealClearPolitics article, which quoted Clinton’s PBS interview.
Clinton’s comments seem to suggest that he believes there was a time in which doing anything against someone’s will was acceptable or normal.
Clinton also defended ousted Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who resigned from the U.S. Senate amid sexual harassment allegations. Clinton said, as part of his comments on Franken, that “maybe I’m just an old-fashioned person.”
The #MeToo era has, among many other things, highlighted the fact that there’s nothing ‘normal’ or “old-fashioned” about sexual harassment and assault, whether incidents occurred decades ago or are happening today.
That he would think Franken’s actions, or his own, are defensible is another sign the former Democratic president is shockingly unapologetic about the people he harmed earlier in his career.
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The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books
There's never a shortage of new books about how to be more effective in business. Most of them are forgettable, but here are 25 that changed the way we think about management from the iconic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to groundbreaking tomes like "Guerilla Marketing" and quick reads like the "The One Minute Manager".
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The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
By Andrea SachsTuesday, Aug. 09, 2011
This slim volume, with its simple (critics argued, simple-minded) business homilies, immediately became a worldwide publishing phenomenon, and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestsellers list. In it, would-be effective managers are advised to "catch an employee doing something right," and to reinforce that good behavior with a One Minute Praising. Bad deeds are similarly to be pointed out and punished with a One Minute Reprimand. The authors themselves were accused of a bad deed by the Wall Street Journal plagiarism, to be exact which they denied. But by that time, the tiny tome was ubiquitous, having been distributed by FORTUNE 500 companies everywhere.
Next Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology (8)
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) (8)
Cambridge Companions to Management (1)
40 - A Cross-National View of Personal Responsibility for Work–Life Balance
from Part VIII - Individual Perspectives
By Tammy D. Allen, Eunae Cho, Kristen M. Shockley, Andrew Biga
Edited by Kristen M. Shockley, University of Georgia, Winny Shen, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Ryan C. Johnson, Ohio University
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Global Work–Family Interface
Published online: 16 April 2018
Print publication: 26 April 2018, pp 733-746
22 - A Cultures within Culture Perspective on Work and Family among United States Employees
from Part V - Cultures within Cultures
By Lillian T. Eby, Olivia Vande Griek, Cynthia K. Maupin, Tammy D. Allen, Emily Gilreath, Valerie Martinez
8 - Meta-Analysis as a Tool to Synthesize Global Work–Family Research Findings
from Part III - Methodological Considerations
By Soner Dumani, Kimberly A. French, Tammy D. Allen
A Systems-Based Approach to Fostering Robust Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology
James A. Grand, Steven G. Rogelberg, Tammy D. Allen, Ronald S. Landis, Douglas H. Reynolds, John C. Scott, Scott Tonidandel, Donald M. Truxillo
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 11 / Issue 1 / March 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2017, pp. 4-42
Credibility and trustworthiness are the bedrock upon which any science is built. The strength of these foundations has been increasingly questioned across the sciences as instances of research misconduct and mounting concerns over the prevalence of detrimental research practices have been identified. Consequently, the purpose of this article is to encourage our scientific community to positively and proactively engage in efforts that foster a healthy and robust industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. We begin by advancing six defining principles that we believe reflect the values of robust science and offer criteria for evaluating proposed efforts to change scientific practices. Recognizing that the contemporary scientific enterprise is a complex and diverse network of actors and institutions, we then conclude by identifying 12 stakeholders who play important roles in achieving a culture of robust science in I-O psychology and offer recommendations for actions we can take as members of these groups to strengthen our science.
STRETCH Goals for I-O Psychology
Julie B. Olson-Buchanan, Tammy D. Allen
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / September 2017
Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) present a compelling argument (or rallying call) for there being a “moral imperative for I-O psychology to overrepresent people living in the deepest forms of poverty in both science and practice” (p. 330). We agree. Our research has been dominated by a POSH perspective, and it is incumbent upon us to ensure that our science benefits those who are most affected by poverty. We believe the interest in engaging in humanitarian work psychology is growing among industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists, yet many of us may not feel prepared to conduct such research and/or we may feel that we lack the skills to do so. Further, as Gloss et al. (2017) note, to the extent that we are unprepared to engage in research that benefits those living in poverty, in particular, we run the added risk of harming the very populations we are wanting to help. As such, the interest is there, but we may be daunted by the method. We argue that in order to heed that rallying call, without harm, we need to develop our own capabilities to engage in this important work.
Whither I-O Psychology and Legislative Restrictions?
Tammy D. Allen, Howard M. Weiss
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 10 / Issue 2 / June 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2017, pp. 194-199
Print publication: June 2017
We think that before reading our reactions to the focal article, readers should be aware of the history of the Licensure of Consulting and I-O Psychologists (LCIOP) Joint Task Force. The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) initiated the LCIOP, and the objectives of the task force were developed without input from Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). In June 2013, Don Crowder informed Mark Nagy (SIOP Chair of State Affairs) that the ASPPB approved the establishment of a joint task force related to licensure of consulting and industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists. The membership composition of the task force was determined by ASPPB, and SIOP was allotted one member. By including a member of SIOP, ASPPB can describe the task force as a cooperative effort and SIOP ostensibly has the opportunity to help shape recommendations made with regard to the licensure of I-O psychologists. Don Crowder now serves as the president of ASPPB. In Crowder's October 2016 ASPPB meeting address, he encouraged jurisdictions to review their statutes, and, if permitted, require licensure for both health service providers (HSPs) and general applied psychologists (GAPs).
What Do We Really Know About the Effects of Mindfulness-Based Training in the Workplace?
Tammy D. Allen, Lillian T. Eby, Kate M. Conley, Rachel L. Williamson, Victor S. Mancini, Melissa E. Mitchell
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 8 / Issue 4 / December 2015
In an attempt to distill what we know about the effects of workplace mindfulness-based training, Hyland, Lee, and Mills (2015) cast a wide net with regard to the array of studies included in their review. For example, they include studies that investigate the benefits associated with workplace mindfulness training (e.g., Wolever et al., 2012) as well as training conducted for patients within primary care settings (e.g., Allen, Bromley, Kuyken, & Sonnenberg, 2009). In addition, their review includes studies based on self-reports of individual differences in mindfulness traits/skills (e.g., Hafenbrack, Kinias, & Barsade, 2014). Reviewing a broad cross-section of research is helpful to illustrate the wide-ranging nature of mindfulness research but also has the potential to obfuscate what we know about mindfulness as it pertains to workers and workplaces.
9 - How being mindful impacts individuals' work-family balance, conflict, and enrichment: a review of existing evidence, mechanisms and future directions
from Part II - Research
By Tammy D. Allen, University of South Florida, E. Layne Paddock, Singapore Management University
Edited by Jochen Reb, Singapore Management University, Paul W. B. Atkins, Australian National University, Canberra
Book: Mindfulness in Organizations
Published online: 05 July 2015
Print publication: 30 June 2015, pp 213-238
Growing exponentially over the past several decades, the topic of work and family has fueled a large body of scholarship (see Allen 2012 for a review). Interest in work and family is expansive. The struggle to balance work and family is one that resonates with many adults. It is a topic of concern to organizations (Society for Human Resource Management Workplace Forecast 2008) and to societies across the globe (Poelmans, Greenhaus, and Las Heras Maestro 2013). Indeed, work-family issues have captured the attention of the public at large, frequently appearing as a focal topic in the popular press with titles such as “Why Women Still Can's Have It All” (Slaughter 2012) and “Men Want Work-Family Balance, and Policy Should Help Them Achieve It” (Covert 2013).
To date, the majority of work-family scholarship has focused on situational factors that help or inhibit individuals' abilities to manage multiple role responsibilities. This focus has resulted in a considerable body of work that has demonstrated links between stressors and demands emanating from the work and the family domains with constructs such as work-family conflict (Michel, Kotrba, Mitchelson, Clark, and Baltes 2011). Much of the attention aimed at reducing work-family conflict has centered on organizational practices such as flexible work arrangements and dependent care supports, despite findings that such practices have limited effectiveness in terms of alleviating work-family conflict (Allen et al. 2013; Butts, Casper, and Yang 2013). Work-family intervention research has focused on training supervisors to be more family-supportive (e.g., Hammer et al. 2011) or on flexible work practices (e.g., Perlow and Kelly 2014). Such approaches are based on the notion that experiences such as work-family conflict are primarily provoked by the situation.
There is also a growing body of research that demonstrates that personality variables are associated with work-family experiences, which suggests that individual differences beyond demographic variables also contribute to work-family experiences (Allen et al. 2012).
Industrial–Organizational Psychology's Chicken Little Syndrome
Tammy D. Allen, Lillian T. Eby, Howard M. Weiss, Kimberly A. French
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 7 / Issue 3 / September 2014
Including Science Advocacy in Industrial–Organizational Curriculum
Samuel T. McAbee, Frederick L. Oswald, Eden B. King, Tammy D. Allen, Stephen Stark, Patrick D. Converse, Lillian T. Eby, Lisa M. Leslie, Rustin D. Meyer, Steven G. Rogelberg, Liu-Qin Yang
Journal: Industrial and Organizational Psychology / Volume 7 / Issue 1 / March 2014
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 January 2015, pp. 61-65
Work–Family Research: A Broader View of Impact
Ryan C. Johnson, Kaitlin M. Kiburz, Soner Dumani, Eunae Cho, Tammy D. Allen
Enhancing Our Knowledge of Mentoring With a Person-Centric Approach
Tammy D. Allen, Mark L. Poteet
3 - Integrating career development and work–family policy
from Part I - Describing different work–life policies, policy development, and pitfalls
By Tammy D. Allen, Associate Professor of Psychology University of South Florida, USA
Edited by Steven A. Y. Poelmans, IESE Business School, Barcelona
Paula Caligiuri, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Book: Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life
Published online: 22 September 2009
Print publication: 21 August 2008, pp 78-93
Felice Schwartz made waves in her 1989 Harvard Business Review article that suggested that the costs of employing women in management was greater than the costs of employing men. Schwartz recommended that women be divided into two categories: “career primary” and “career and family.” The article prompted a fierce controversy that included the accusation that Schwartz advocated a separate “mommy track” for women who were willing to give up higher pay and promotion opportunities in exchange for more flexible jobs that allowed them to attend to family needs.
The mommy track controversy was a foreshadowing of things to come. The vast majority of employees, both male and female, want to be able to lead fulfilling career as well as family lives. Indeed a recent Fortune 500 poll of senior male executives found that 84 percent reported that they want job options that allow them to realize their professional aspirations while having more time for things outside of work (Miller, Miller, & Zappone, 2005). Additionally, half of the men had questioned if the sacrifices they made for their careers were worth it. Although organizations have become more cognizant of the needs of employees who wish to balance their work and family lives, and are increasingly implementing policies and benefits designed to help them do so, organizational career development systems are still primarily based on outdated models that presume the career is all-important to all employees.
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Risk-based capital of insurers
Insurance Chile
On May 3 2017 the securities and insurance regulator (SVS) published for comment the fifth version of its methodology for determining the risk-based capital of insurers: "Draft Methodology for the Determination of Risk-Based Capital of Insurance Companies, Exercise No. 5 of RBC Application". The initiative is part of its risk-based supervision scheme.
Risk-based capital is a method of determining the minimum amount of capital required for a reporting entity to support its business operations, taking into account its size and risk profile. It also establishes capital requirements for insurers based on the risks to which they are exposed, thus allowing them to mitigate those risks.
The latest version ‒ as well as the conceptual bases developed by the SVS for analysis, discussion and improvement ‒ includes the following changes from the previous version:
The capital requirement factor associated with the deferred tax asset account has decreased from 100% to 50% and certain requirements for its application have been established.
If the capital requirement causes an increase in deferred tax asset associated with unexpected losses, the insurer may use this to reduce the required capital, provided that it has previously demonstrated that future tax benefits will be available.
A correlation matrix calculated with a confidence level of 97.5% by geographical classification is included to incorporate the diversification effect into the share capital requirement.
In the case of the technical factors of general insurance, it was concluded that for the reserve risk, these factors should be maintained; in the case of the premium factors, for some lines of business these factors will be changed.
As in previous versions, the latest version instructs all insurers to carry out an exercise of application using the new methodology. These results will allow the standard formula and capital factors to be continually calibrated.
The latest version will be subject to public consultation until July 31 2017. The results of the fifth exercise of application of the risk-based capital methodology should be sent to the SVS by this date.
For further information on this topic please contact Santiago Montt Vicuña at Montt y Cia SA by telephone (+56 22 233 8266) or email (smonttv@monttcia.cl). The Montt y Cia SA website can be accessed at www.monttgroup.com.
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Year, Birthplace 1902, Cuba
Year, Place of death 1982, France
The son of a Chinese father and a mixed-race mother, Wifredo spent his childhood amid the luxuriant nature of Sagua la Grande, which had a profound effect on him, before his family settled in Havana in 1916. He attended classes at the Academia San Alejandro, which confirmed his vocation as a painter. Benefiting from a scholarship, he left for Spain in 1923. He was twenty-one and had the intention of moving to Paris. His stay in Spain lasted for fourteen years, a period of training and contact with western art, both ancient and modern, but also a time in which he had to face tragic events: the death of his wife and child in 1931, followed by the Spanish Civil War, in which he fought on the side of the republican forces. His visit to an exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso and conversations with Manuel Hugué – who recommended it – motivated him to move to Paris in 1938. His meeting with Picasso, who was enthusiastic about his work, was decisive. Lam was introduced by Picasso to the world of painters, writers and critics and he met André Breton, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, Paul Éluard, Michel Leiris, Tristan Tzara, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Dora Maar, Óscar Dominguez, Jacques Hérold, Asger Jorn, Pierre Mabille, and Christian Zervos, among others. He also met Pierre Loeb, the owner of the Pierre gallery in Paris, who organised his first solo exhibition in 1939. At the start of the Second World War, Lam left Paris and went to Marseille, where many friends, largely surrealists - Breton, Mabille, René Char, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, Dominguez, André Masson, Hérold and Benjamin Péret - were assembled at the Villa Air-Bel, waiting to leave for the USA thanks to the escape route opened by Varian Fry, a member of the American Committee for Aid to Intellectuals. During this enforced stay, he developed a relationship with Breton, did a lot of drawing, in particular the illustration for Breton’s poem Fata Morgana (éditions du Sagitaire) and participated in the creation of Jeu de Marseille, a card game inspired by tarot. Breton dedicates his important article ‘à la longue nostalgie des poètes…’ (which would be republished in Le Surréalisme et la Peinture) to the artist: ‘Lam, l’étoile de la liane au front et tout ce qu’il touche brûlant de lucioles’ (Lam, the star of the liana on his forehead and everything he touches glowing with fireflies). Wifredo finally embarked in 1941 in the company of Breton, Victor Serge and Claude Lévi-Strauss; he became friends with Aimé Césaire when they docked in Martinique. Back in Cuba, after eighteen years of absence, Lam deepened his research into Afro-Cuban culture, in particular the rituals, which he discovered with a new fervour, initiated by his godmother, a priestess of a traditional Afro-Cuban religion. He attended public santería ceremonies and the ñáñigo initiations. He returned to his origins and asserted their primitive character. In his paintings, he abandoned outlines that were too geometric to paint ‘jungles’ populated by apparitions, a kind of primitive forest whose masked inhabitants with disjointed shapes resemble their surroundings, where the animal and vegetable kingdoms are mixed, emanating feelings of threats, secrets, and latent violence. Despite residing in Cuba during the war, he launched his career in New York, where he exhibited at the Pearl Gallery from 1939 and regularly at the Pierre Matisse gallery from 1942 (with a text by André Breton). He participated in View, the journal of the reconstituted surrealist group, and in group exhibitions such as First Papers of Surrealism (Madison Avenue Gallery, 1942). In 1944, the MoMA bought his 1943 work The Jungle, which would cause a scandal when it was shown at the Pierre Matisse Gallery. At the end of 1945, in Haiti, he re-encountered André Breton, who was there to give a series of lectures. At the lecture on 20 December, the writer invited the audience to discover the exhibition of Lam’s work at the Art Centre, for which he had written the catalogue preface: his text 'La Nuit en Haïti’ [Night in Haiti] would be republished in Le Surréalisme et la Peinture. It was on this occasion that the painter, along with Mabille and Breton, attended the voodoo ceremonies which would leave a profound impression on him. After the war, he divided his time between Europe, New York, Caracas and Havana, and travelled in South America. He developed relationships with Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell in the United States and, in Europe, with the members of the CoBrA group and later with the Phases movement. The Loeb gallery in Paris dedicated a new solo exhibition to him. He took part in the activities of the surrealist group, including the Le Surréalisme exhibition in 1947 at the Maeght gallery, for which he conceived a voodoo altar. His style evolved. The influence of Oceanic art, combined with African art and the presence of esoteric elements, became more dominant: he painted interlaced vegetable forms in which mythical figures appeared, standing out vertically against sombre backgrounds. His notoriety was international from that point on. He spent a long period in Abissola Mare in Italy, turning the village into a centre of artistic experimentation and a meeting place. AC
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Skandies: The "nominees"
Not all that much suspense about who/what remains, so let's answer potential questions about near-misses and no-chances here, as well as give the top picks a little additional airtime. (Sorry it's all text, incidentally—I have virtually no HTML skills and invariably mangle any attempt to combine words and images, except in the most basic just-one-image-up-at-the-top kind of way.)
• Carol
• The Duke of Burgundy
• Inside Out
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Mend
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Mad Max: Fury Road
Just missed: Hard to Be a God (tie for #21), L for Leisure (tie for #21), Mustang (#23), The Look of Silence (#24), Blackhat (#25).
Not so much: The Big Short (#29), The Martian (#32), Bridge of Spies (#37), Room (#56), Spotlight (#65), The Revenant (no votes).
• Todd Haynes, Carol
• Guy Maddin, The Forbidden Room
• George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
• Peter Strickland, The Duke of Burgundy
• Denis Villeneuve, Sicario
Previous "nominations": Only Haynes, who placed 2nd for Far From Heaven (2002) and was one of the five nominees in the inaugural year's Oscar-style survey, for Safe (1995).
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Miller.
Just missed: Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (#21); Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, L for Leisure (#22); Ryan Coogler, Creed (#23); Roy Andersson, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (tie for #24); Andrew Haigh, 45 Years (tie for #24).
Not so much: Ridley Scott, The Martian (#30); Lenny Abrahamson, Room (#62); Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant (tie for #82); Tom McCarthy, Spotlight (tie for #82); Adam McKay, The Big Short (tie for #82).
• Cate Blanchett, Carol
• Nina Hoss, Phoenix
• Rooney Mara, Carol
• Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
• Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
Previous "nominations": Blanchett becomes the first actor in Skandies history to be nominated six times. She won Supporting Actress for The Aviator (2004), which I still consider an embarrassment, and placed 5th in the same category for Coffee and Cigarettes that same year. She's also placed 2nd for Elizabeth (1998), 2nd in Supporting for I'm Not There (2007), and 4th for Blue Jasmine (2013). Two other favorites this year land in the top five for a second time, a decade after their first: Rampling came in 3rd in 2001 for Under the Sand, and Theron finished at #5 for Monster in 2003.
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Blanchett, Rampling. (And see Supporting Actress, below.)
Just missed: Julianne Côté, Tu dors Nicole (#21); Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars (#22); Lola Kirke, Mistress America (#23); Jennifer Lawrence, Joy (#24); Amy Poehler, Inside Out (#25).
Not so much: Nobody. With Lawrence noted above at #24, every notable prizewinner is accounted for. Rare!
• Christopher Abbott, James White
• Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
• Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
• Michael B. Jordan, Creed
• Josh Lucas, The Mend
Previous "nominations": Fassbender has scored four nominations in just seven years, having previously placed 5th for both Hunger (2009) and Shame (2011), plus 3rd in Supporting for 12 Years a Slave (2013). And people are loving Jackson in recent Tarantino films—his sole previous nomination was for Django Unchained, for which he placed 4th in Supporting three years ago. (He arguably belongs in Supporting for this performance as well.) Side note: Joaquin Phoenix, who had been nominated for the past three consecutive years, missed the chance at extending his record to four, despite starring in a Woody Allen film. He placed 55th, thanks to a single vote.
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Fassbender.
Just missed: Leland Orser, Faults (#21); Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant (#22); Guy Pearce, Results (#23); Rory Culkin, Gabriel (#24); Ryan Reynolds, Mississippi Grind (#25).
Not so much: Bryan Cranston, Trumbo (no votes); Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl (no votes).
• Benicio Del Toro, Sicario
• Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina
• Richard Jenkins, Bone Tomahawk
• Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
• Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Previous "nominations": Del Toro previously won this category for Traffic (2000). Isaac nearly won two years in the lead category for Inside Llewyn Davis, finishing 2nd (to DiCaprio, ironically).
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Rylance, Stallone.
Just missed: Ronald Zehrfeld, Phoenix (#21); Taika Waititi, What We Do in the Shadows (#22); Bernard Pruvost, Li'l Quinquin (#23); Samuel L. Jackson, Chi-Raq (#24); Michael Peña, Ant-Man (#25).
Not so much: Michael Shannon, 99 Homes (#27 in the lead category); Christian Bale, The Big Short (#42); Tom Hardy, The Revenant (no votes, though he did get votes in the lead category for both Legend and Mad Max: Fury Road).
Best Supporting Actress
• Rebecca Ferguson, Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
• Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
• Cynthia Nixon, James White
• Lucy Owen, The Mend
• Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
Previous "nominations": Only Leigh, who placed 3rd in this category for Margot at the Wedding (2007) and was one of the five Best Actress nominees in 1995's Oscar-style inaugural year, for Georgia. (And she missed getting two nominations this year by just three points.)
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Also only Leigh...though AMPAS put Rooney Mara here rather than in Actress, where she clearly belongs.
Just missed: Andie MacDowell, Magic Mike XXL (#21); Nina Kunzendorf, Phoenix (#22); Aubrey Plaza, Ned Rifle (#23); Jada Pinkett Smith, Magic Mike XXL (#24); Katherine Waterston, Queen of Earth (#25).
Not so much: Rachel McAdams, Spotlight (#31); Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl (#80).
• Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria
• Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig, Mistress America
• Pete Docter & Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley, Inside Out
• Phyllis Nagy, Carol
Previous "nominations": Baumbach scores his fifth career nomination, tying him for 2nd place with his buddy Wes Anderson (but well behind the Coens, with eight). He won in 2005 for The Squid and the Whale, and his screenplays for Margot at the Wedding (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, written with Anderson), and Frances Ha (2013, written with Gerwig) placed 4th, 5th, and 2nd, respectively. Hence it's also the second nomination for Gerwig.
Overlap with Oscar nominees: Nagy and the Inside Out crew.
Just missed: Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs (#21); Drew Goddard, The Martian (tie for #22); Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement, What We Do in the Shadows (tie for #22); Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz, Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (#24); Noah Baumbach, While We're Young (#25).
Not so much: Alex Garland, Ex Machina (#39); Emma Donoghue, Room (#42); Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton (no votes).
Best Scene
Nah, I gotta save something as a surprise.
Del Toro didn't get an Oscar nom
Oops, quite right. This seemed so inevitable at one point that I thought it had actually happened. Fixed.
Was Beasts of No Nation not eligible or did it not get many votes? After the uproar of #oscarssowhite, it's funny that a critic/expert-based award didn't consider it worthy either.
It was eligible, was only seen by seven voters. (I passed, as the reviews from critics I trust/respect were so-so and I've been generally unimpressed by Fukunaga except on TV.) We do at least have two African-American nominees among the actors.
Where is Victor.
I saw BEASTS a couple weeks after submitting my ballot; I would have given it points in supporting actor, director, and maybe screenplay. Would have just missed picture (along with other worthy contenders like Carol, Room, Son of Saul, Unfriended, and Ricki and the Flash).
right here alex ... as a huge proponent of diversification, i voted for many of the talented african performers, including charlize theron, samuel jackson, jada pinckett, samuel jackson, jason mitchell, michael jordan (and almost gave points to lebron james)
Is that what prompted the query?
i will not be giving points to kobe bryant next year though, because his presence in the michael l jackson documentary is completely pointless
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How Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger
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In Summary: The plan would let people communicate with anyone on the currently separate apps. While all the three will remain stand-alone apps, they will be linked at a much deeper level so messages can travel between the different services. The nascent plan is at the start of a long process expected to end either at the end of this year or early 2020. The plan, believed to be a personal project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, will allow a Facebook user to communicate directly with someone who only has a WhatsApp account. This is currently impossible the integration will turn Facebook's suite of apps into a much tighter, interwoven collection of services that could make the key parts of Facebook's empire more difficult to break up if governments and regulators decide that is necessary.
Facebook Logo. The social media giant plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Menlo Park, California--Facebook has initiated plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The plan would let people communicate with anyone on the currently separate apps while all three will remain stand-alone apps, at a much deeper level they will be linked so messages can travel between the different services. Facebook told the BBC it was at the start of a "long process".
The plan was first reported in the New York Times and is believed to be a personal project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Once complete, the merger would mean that a Facebook user could communicate directly with someone who only has a WhatsApp account. This is currently impossible as the applications have no common core. The work to merge the three elements has already begun, reported the New York Times (NYT), and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019 or early next year.
What is Facebook's plan? According to a BBC technology reporter Chris Fox, Facebook probably didn't want to talk about this in the middle of a privacy scandal, but its hand was forced by insiders talking to the New York Times. Until now, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger have been run as separate and competing products. Integrating the messaging parts might simplify Facebook's work. It wouldn't need to develop competing versions of new features, such as Stories, which all three apps have added with inconsistent results.
Logos for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. The 3 apps are currently run as competitors.
Cross-platform messaging may also lead the way for businesses on one platform to message potential customers on another. And it might make it easier for Facebook to share data across the three platforms, to help its targeted advertising efforts. But bigger still: it makes Facebook's suite of apps a much tighter, interwoven collection of services. That could make the key parts of Facebook's empire more difficult to break up and spin off, if governments and regulators decide that is necessary.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg appearing before a joint Senate committee over its mishandling of users’ data and other privacy issues.
Shared data--Mr. Zuckerberg is reportedly pushing the integration plan to make its trinity of services more useful and increase the amount of time people spend on them. By effectively joining all its users into one massive group Facebook could compete more effectively with Google's messaging services and Apple's iMessage, suggested Makena Kelly on tech news site The Verge. "We want to build the best messaging experiences we can; and people want messaging to be fast, simple, reliable and private," said Facebook in a statement. "We're working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks," it added.
The statement said there was a lot of "discussion and debate" about how the system would eventually work. Linking the three systems marks a significant change at Facebook as before now it has let Instagram and WhatsApp operate as largely independent companies.
Kevin Systrom, the company's CEO, and Mike Krieger, its chief technology officer, who co-founded Instagram in 2010, the world's largest photo and video sharing platform, quit their positions at Facebook last year. The duo joined Facebook when they sold their company to Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion.
The New York Times claimed that Mr. Zuckerberg's championing of the plan to connect the messaging system had caused "internal strife". It was part of the reason that the founders of both Instagram (Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger co-founders of Instagram) and WhatsApp (Jan Koum co-founder of WhatsApp) left last year.
WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum quit Facebook last year amid arguments with the parent company Facebook over data privacy and the messaging app’s business model. Koum, together with his fellow co-founder Brian Acton, sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for an eye-popping sum of $19 billion, $3 billion of which consisted of Facebook stock granted to the co-founders of WhatsApp.
The decision comes as Facebook faces repeated investigations and criticisms over the way it has handled and safeguarded user data.
Comprehensively linking user data at a fundamental level may prompt regulators to take another look at its data handling practices. The UK's Information Commissioner has already conducted investigations into how much data is shared between WhatsApp and Facebook.
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Diane Marie Kloba
Independent avant-pop songwriter and musician.
Reviews in brief
…the restless zeal for experimentation in this artist’s work never allows anything predictable or conventional to settle on it before the music escapes once again, bidding the listener to follow only as a sonic explorer.
— Mark Whitby , Unwashed Territories
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Over the eight albums in her discography, Chicago-area recording artist Diane Marie Kloba has established herself as an innovator through her novel recombinations of recognizable elements from rock, folk, punk and poetic forms.
The eighth and latest release from Diane Marie Kloba is Deep Heart. In some ways, Deep Heart departs from Kloba’s recent earlier work: There was no overarching concept to the album. The lyrical subject matter takes a step away from her previous work: She introduces some enigmatic new characters and situations, and mostly avoids the subject of art itself and its creation.
While some arrangements are more stripped down with a hint of folk-blues, the title track is lush with synthesizers and layered guitar. It is Kloba’s first time working with a new mix engineer, Andrew Diaz.
Also included are remastered versions of the Soundcloud hit “Thunder” (featuring Westfront), and “He Lights Up”, previously available only on the Vanguardista Records Winter Solstice compilation.
Kloba’s previous release, Ghost In The Museum is a multi-layered, rich collection of songs using guitars, synthesizer and organic percussion as the haunting atmospheric backdrop for poems with hidden dual meanings.
The underlying lyrical focus is on the spirit of an individual artist seemingly left behind in their chosen medium. The album was not composed as a concept piece, but this central theme started to emerge during writing and demo recording, so these nine kindred songs were selected from the dozens composed by Kloba since her 2013 release It Is All an Illusion.
The musical elements extend down to the center of the earth while vocals sweep you way back up to the North pole. Layers of melodies make orchestrated entrances and exits to create dimension and space evoking wide, picturesque landscapes of sound: the halls of the museum, the desert, the high plains.
Following on the success of her two most recent previous efforts, production assistance and mixing on Ghost In The Museum were provided by Ryan Albrecht, whose classical background proved well suited to the orchestral textures (Albrecht’s credits include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra). As with previous efforts, Kloba sings and plays most of the parts, but has enlisted members of her former band The Silent Workers for backup vocals and some key instruments.
As a youngster, Kloba listened to pop music, but when she caught a David Bowie TV appearance, she says she literally “fell out of her chair” at the sight of him, and the experience taught her that it’s good to be different.
She didn’t set out to be a musician, but began began with poetry. She learned from two other heroes, Bob Dylan and Ricky Lee Jones, that poetry could be made into song, and took up guitar to do just that. Jones also was an early influence on her singing style.
As a young, developing musician, she was influenced by The Cars who were “happy but intelligent” and Talking Heads, who she loved for their driving, primal beats. More recently she has found inspiration in the more challenging later work of Radiohead, and loves how her “brain has to learn a new formula” with each album. Kid A remains her favorite.
Aside from her solo albums, Diane Marie Kloba participates with vocals and instruments and compositions to collaborations with other local and international artists, including Kloba Kent with UK-based multi-instrumentalist Paul Kent.
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Home » China has already refurbished a former Soviet-era aircraft carrier it purchased from Ukraine. This vessel, shown here, with two J-15 fighter jets sitting on its flight deck, is now known as the Liaoning. (Photo: rhk111)
China has already refurbished a former Soviet-era aircraft carrier it purchased from Ukraine. This vessel, shown here, with two J-15 fighter jets sitting on its flight deck, is now known as the Liaoning. (Photo: rhk111)
The Red Sea — with the Suez Canal at the north end and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at its southern mouth — is one of the most important trade routes from the Middle East and the Persian Gulf to Europe. This U.S. guided-missile destroyer is conducting surface exercises to enhance war-fighting readiness in the Red Sea. (Photo: US NAVy photo by mass communication specialist 3rd class Jonathan clay)
The Red Sea is a major global transit route for petroleum and refined oil products from the Middle East and Persian Gulf as well as manufactured goods from South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia coming to Europe and North America. (Photo: © Rainer Lesniewski | Dreamstime.com)
As more Chinese navy warships complete patrols in the far seas, it may not be long before one of the country’s new aircraft carriers crosses the Indian Ocean (shown on the map above) and anchors in the harbour of Djibouti. (Photo: © Peter Hermes Furian | Dreamstime.com)
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Emerson Drive's Mates featured on GAC show
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 – GAC's "Our Song," the show that goes beyond the artist and delves into the relationships that often inspire the song, will feature Brad Mates of Emerson Drive along with his wife, Jana, on Feb. 12.
The two met briefly while the band was on the road, but that chance meeting led to a long-distance relationship and eventual marriage. This episode of "Our Song" takes viewers inside the Nashville home of these newlyweds to tell the story of their first meeting, engagement, their fall wedding in Maine and how a teacher and musician balance their lives in perfect harmony.
The episode premiers on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 9:30 a.m. eastern and re-airs Feb. 13 at 1:30 a.m. eastern, Feb. 14 at 10:30 a.m. eastern, Feb. 15 at 9 p.m. eastern and Feb. 16 at 1 a.m. eastern.
The video for their current single, Belongs To You, from their upcoming April 7 release, "Believe," was released. The video, shot in Nashville, places Mates back into the role of groom only a couple of weeks after he tied the knot.
More news for Emerson Drive
04/29/10: Emerson Drive expands
03/24/10: Emerson Drive looks to get bigger
04/21/09: Emerson Drive CD gets delayed
11/24/08: Emerson Drive's David Pichette becomes a dad
09/12/08: Emerson Drive completes new disc
04/03/08: Canadian band Emerson Drive sings anthem at two home openers
03/17/08: Emerson Drive records new CD
12/06/07: McGraw, Bentley, Gill, Emerson Drive excited about Grammy nominations
CD reviews for Emerson Drive
Countrified
With Richard Marx having ceded his chair to Nashville producers (including Alabama bassist Teddy Gentry), Canadian sextet Emerson Drive's third release turns to sounds that are indeed more "countrified." There's more fiddle, banjo and tight multipart harmonies, even as the string-lined ballads and electric pop-rockers retain the band's core crossover appeal. The album's opening riff will remind many of The Go-Go's "Head Over Heels." The songs, from a »»»
"What If?" by Emerson Drive is breezy and glossy pop-country, if you like that sort of thing. This second album (like its debut) was produced by Richard Marx who - and you can almost see this one coming - is a breezy and glossy pop singer/songwriter/producer. The result of this pairing is akin to a fluffier sounding Lonestar - assuming, of course, anything even gets any fluffier than that ever-so-feathery Lonestar. But whether these songs were composed-by-committee - it took nearly a full baseball »»»
Emerson Drive
Emerson Drive follows in the footsteps of Highway 101 and Sawyer Brown, bands named after streets - in this case, the Emerson Trail from that hotbed of country and western music Western Alberta. Unfortunately, the nomenclature is the only thing E.D. has in common with those two talented bands. The guys have an undeniably pleasant way of harmonizing, some naive enthusiasm for themselves ("Ours is the Mt. Everest of work ethics" bassist Jeff Loberg avers, even though these guys can't be bothered to »»»
From Another World
Following the passing of the late, great James Brown, there are those that have argued that Jim Lauderdale rightfully deserves to inherit the title of the hardest working man in show business. And for good reason. »»»
Breakdown on 20th Ave. South
"Breakdown on 20th Ave. South is significant in a number of ways. For starters, it marks Julie Miller's return to making music after an absence of 10 years. For another, it finds her collaborating once again with her ever prolific »»»
Time may be an enemy to most, but Willie Nelson seems a bit impervious to its ravages - a fact made evident on "Ride Me Back Home," a relaxed affair that showcases Nelson's still-strong voice and his sharp-as-ever songwriting and interpreting abilities. »»»
Honky-tonker Chuck Mead, former leader of the now-traditionalists BR-549, steps out once again for his fourth solo effort, this one recorded in Memphis under acclaimed and current "go-to" roots producer Matt Ross-Spang. »»»
Hard Lessons
One would think that Chris Shiflett's two decade stint as guitar foil for Dave Grohl in Foo Fighters would keep him so pathologically busy, he'd barely have time for a real life, let alone an adjunct music career. »»»
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BamaJam Music fest stages battle of the bands
Thursday, April 1, 2010 – One lucky band will have a song produced by James Stroud along with performing at the BamaJam Music and Arts Festival in June in Alabama.
The fest is hosting the Jim Beam Battle of the Bands 2010 competition is open to all and will result in six finalists performing a 30-minute set at Verizon BamaJam 2010 in Enterprise, Ala. "To participate in Verizon BamaJam on any level is among the most valuable experiences an artist can have," said Trey Wilson, Vice President of Live Entertainment, Ronnie Gilley Entertainment. "All six qualifiers will have a chance in the spotlight at Verizon BamaJam, and one winner will have the experience of a lifetime with industry icon James Stroud producing a track for them."
Applications for the 2nd annual Jim Beam BamaJam Battle of the Bands may be submitted online at www.bamajammusicfestival.com until Wednesday, April 21. The selection committee will review submissions and announce 6 finalists on Monday, April 26. The winner will be announced live on Saturday, June 5 at the festival.
Since being featured at last year's event, Atlanta-based group, Blackberry Smoke, has signed with BamaJam Records.
With more than 40 top artists anticipated in the festival lineup, Verizon Wireless BamaJam Music and Arts Festival offers 3 days of music.
The fest is being headlined by Kenny Chesney. Others playing include Hank Williams Jr., Zac Brown Band, Gregg Allman, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Disco Biscuits, Train, Travis Tritt, Citizen Cope, Buddy Guy, Gretchen Wilson, Danny Gokey, Rodney Atkins, Chris Young, Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Alexa Carter, LoCash Cowboys, Houston County, Colt Ford, Rio Grand, The Grascals, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, Robert Earl Keen, Matt Kennon, Stoney LaRue, Lucero, Wayne Mills Band, Jake Owen, Blackberry Smoke, Jonathan Tyler and Northern Lights and Edgar Winter.
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Rosemary Verey’s LABURNAM WALK
Information about this and other gardens in Cotswolds Memoirs and More Cotswolds Memoirs. See links to Amazon below.
BARNSLEY HOUSE GARDEN
Rosemary Verey created one of England’s most famous gardens in the grounds of her home Barnsley House, Near Cirencester, Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds. Barnsley House (once a 17th Century Rectory) is now a hotel and not open to the public but the ‘LOST FOOTAGE’ of the garden (see video below) is from the time when Rosemary Verey was still living in Barnsely House. Rosemary Verey wrote a number of terrific books on English gardening – among them The Englishwoman’s Garden (1982).
This footage of Barnsely House Garden from Rosemary Verey’s era is a trip down memory lane. The garden featured a spectacular LABURNUM WALK and a Neo-classical stone TEMPLE with pool. This temple was brought to the garden, stone by stone, from nearby Fairford Park. Also there was the HERBACEOUS BORDER, the ROSE HEDGE, the KNOT GARDEN, delicious VISTAS, the STATUARY and the ORNAMENTAL POTAGER. It is still possible to view this garden by joining the garden club of the hotel that has taken over Barnsely House, for a fee. Sadly, it is not open six days a week to the public as it once was. This is a tribute to Rosemary Verey – one of the most creative of all the English gardeners.
Cotswolds Memoirs and More Cotswolds Memoirs travel humour memoirs available in
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Sorghum downy mildew of maize in karnataka, India
Safeeulla, K.M. (1976) Sorghum downy mildew of maize in karnataka, India. Kasetsart Journal, 10 (2). pp. 128-134.
In 1975 maize (Zea mays L.) was cultivated on more than 5.6 million hectares in India and grain production was about 6.2 million tons, for an average of 10.3 quintals/ha. This is a significant increase over 7 years earlier when the area was about 4.6 million hectares. The state of Karnataka is making repid progress in maize production. The average yield is 300% above the national level. In 1966-67 about 17,000 ha. Of maize was grown in the state; in 1971-71 more than 96,000 ha; and, in 1974-75 it increased to about 120,000 ha. On account of the moderate climate maize is cultivated throughout the year where irrigation is available. The districts where maize is popular are Bangalore, Belgaum, Dharwar, Kolar, Mysore, Tumkur and Bijapur. The hybrids and composites commonly grown in these areas are Deccan, Ganga 5, Ganga Safed 2 and Vijay. Recently, the two experimental hybrids 4207 and 3047 were introduced to the area
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Century of Invention – Your initial Computer
There’s been talking about sunscreen in the computing world when discussing what was the very first computer invented.
For years, the accepted pioneer with the digital age was the ENIAC, short ideas for inventions Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, perhaps because craze associated with the development was one worthy for tabloids and television.
As World War II was creating any close, the Army had run in short supply of mathematicians and were willing to recruit women. Six women were accepted to work on “Project PX” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, under John Mauchly and S. Presper Eckert. The women’s job was to program firing tables and ballistic trajectories using ENIAC. Their work laid the groundwork for advancement. The completed machine was unveiled on Feb. 14, 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. The military had funded certainly almost $500,000. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 a great deal. It is widely considered to emerge as the first computer invented, considering its highly functional status along with the late 1950s.
However, its “first” status was challenged in court when Rand Corp. bought the ENIAC patent and started charging royalties. Honeywell Corporation. refused how to get a patent for an idea pay and challenged the patent in 1968. It was learned that Mauchly, one of the many leaders of the Project PX at the University of Pennsylvania, had seen an early on prototype of a device being built in the Iowa State College called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry began development close to ABC in 1937 and it continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). Eventually, it could solve equations containing 29 variables.
In 1973, InventHelp new inventions Oughout.S. Federal Judge Earl R. Larson released his decision that the ENIAC patent by Mauchly and Eckert was invalid and the ABC was the first computer manufactured. However, the ABC was never fully functional, so the best selling opinion to equipment has the ENIAC as the first electronic computing piece of equipment. The Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History in Washington displays most of the remains of the ENIAC, alongside bits of the ABC.
However, there’s another twist to this tale. The most basic computer is an electronic digital device designed to just accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations and display the results. Germany’s Konrad Zuse created what was fundamentally the first programmable calculator in the mid-1930s in his parent’s living room. Zuse’s Z1 had 64-word memory and a clock speed of 1 Hz. Programming the the Z1 required the user to insert tape create punch tape reader and then receive his results through a punch tape dispenser – making it possibly the first computer invented.
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Central Washington vs College of Idaho (Mar 18, 2008)
Box score (NCAA)
Central Washington at College of Idaho (Game 2)
Mar 18, 2008 at Caldwell, ID (Simplot Stadium)
Central Washington 5 (11-10)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
Nilsen,Jamie ss.......... 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Gosney,A.J. cf........... 4 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2
Rylaarsdam,Nate dh....... 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
Donangelo,Frank 3b....... 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 1 3
Anderson,Hank 1b......... 3 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 0
Sloppy,Sean lf........... 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Riner,Dane ph........... 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Olson,Geno c............. 3 0 0 1 0 0 7 1 2
Tomlinson,Dean ph....... 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
Snowdon,Andrew pr....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Slesk,Jordan 2b.......... 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
Lobbestael,John ph...... 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Miller,Jeremy pr........ 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Scoggin,Tyler rf......... 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0
Walkenhauer,Kevin p...... 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Millbauer,Jake p........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 28 5 7 5 6 7 18 6 9
College of Idaho 9 (10-12)
CHAMP ss................. 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0
CARLSEN 2b............... 1 3 1 0 3 0 1 3 0
MILLER lf................ 4 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0
BRUBAKER cf.............. 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2
LANMAN dh................ 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
MORRISON 1b.............. 3 1 2 5 0 1 9 0 0
GAMBOA c................. 3 0 1 0 0 2 7 1 1
GARSEZ 3b................ 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 1
HARRIS 3b............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
WEAVER rf................ 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
HOWARTH cf.............. 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
MARSH-QUINLA p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BOTTARI p............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
BARRY p................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 27 9 9 9 3 8 21 12 4
Score by Innings R H E
Central Washington.. 001 002 2 - 5 7 0
College of Idaho.... 410 022 X - 9 9 2
E - CHAMP(2); HARRIS(2). LOB - Wildcats 9; Coyotes 4. 2B - Nilsen(10);
Tomlinson(2); MILLER 2(4). 3B - Gosney(2). HR - MORRISON(1). HBP - Nilsen;
BRUBAKER. SB - CARLSEN 2(7); BRUBAKER(3); HOWARTH(7). CS - Donangelo(2).
Central Washington IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
Walkenhauer,Kevin... 4.2 7 7 7 2 7 21 24
Millbauer,Jake...... 1.1 2 2 2 1 1 6 7
College of Idaho IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
MARSH-QUINLA........ 4.0 2 1 0 4 4 14 18
BOTTARI............. 2.0 4 2 2 0 3 10 11
BARRY............... 1.0 1 2 2 2 0 4 6
Win - MARSH-QUINLA (2-1). Loss - Walkenhauer (1-1). Save - None.
WP - BOTTARI(2). HBP - by Walkenhauer (BRUBAKER); by BOTTARI (Nilsen).
Umpires -
Start: 3:19 pm Time: 2:06 Attendance: 75
Game two of doubleheader
Game: CWU21
Central Washington at College of Idaho (Game 2) - Play-by-Play
Central Washington starters: 6/ss Nilsen; 12/cf Gosney; 39/dh Rylaarsdam; 8/3b
Donangelo; 23/1b Anderson; 29/lf Sloppy; 5/c Olson; 20/2b Slesk; 22/rf Scoggin; 26/p
Walkenhauer;
College of Idaho starters: 1/ss CHAMP; 17/2b CARLSEN; 10/lf MILLER; 13/cf BRUBAKER;
2/dh LANMAN; 29/1b MORRISON; 22/c GAMBOA; 8/3b GARSEZ; 18/rf WEAVER; 32/p
MARSH-QUINLA;
Central Washington 1st - Nilsen flied out to cf. Gosney grounded out to 1b
unassisted. Rylaarsdam struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
College of Idaho 1st - CHAMP flied out to cf. CARLSEN walked. CARLSEN stole
second. CARLSEN stole third. MILLER singled to right field, RBI; CARLSEN scored.
BRUBAKER hit by pitch; MILLER advanced to second. LANMAN struck out swinging.
MORRISON homered to left field, 3 RBI; BRUBAKER scored; MILLER scored. GAMBOA
singled to center field. GARSEZ struck out swinging. 4 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1
LOB.
Central Washington 2nd - Donangelo walked. Anderson struck out swinging.
Sloppy flied out to rf. Olson reached on a fielder's choice; Donangelo out at second
3b to 2b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
College of Idaho 2nd - WEAVER out at first 1b to p. CHAMP flied out to lf.
CARLSEN walked. MILLER doubled to right center, RBI; CARLSEN scored. BRUBAKER out at
first 1b to p. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Central Washington 3rd - Slesk struck out swinging. Scoggin grounded out to
ss. Nilsen reached on a throwing error by ss. Gosney tripled to right center, RBI;
Nilsen scored, unearned. Rylaarsdam grounded out to ss. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1
College of Idaho 3rd - LANMAN struck out swinging. MORRISON struck out
swinging. GAMBOA struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Central Washington 4th - Donangelo walked. Anderson singled through the left
side; Donangelo advanced to second. Anderson advanced to second on a fielder's
choice; Donangelo out at second c to 3b to 2b to ss, caught stealing. Sloppy struck
out swinging. Olson lined out to ss. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
College of Idaho 4th - GARSEZ struck out swinging. WEAVER struck out looking.
CHAMP grounded out to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Central Washington 5th - Slesk walked. Scoggin walked; Slesk advanced to
second. BOTTARI to p for MARSH-QUINLA. Nilsen hit by pitch; Scoggin advanced to
second; Slesk advanced to third. Gosney struck out swinging. Rylaarsdam struck out
swinging. Donangelo struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 3 LOB.
College of Idaho 5th - CARLSEN singled to right center. MILLER reached on a
fielder's choice; CARLSEN out at second 2b to rf to ss. BRUBAKER singled up the
middle; MILLER advanced to third. BRUBAKER stole second. LANMAN popped up to 2b.
MORRISON singled to left field, 2 RBI; BRUBAKER scored; MILLER scored. Millbauer to
p for Walkenhauer. GAMBOA struck out, out at first c to 1b. 2 runs, 3 hits, 0
errors, 1 LOB.
Central Washington 6th - BRUBAKER to rf. HARRIS to 3b for GARSEZ. HOWARTH to
cf for WEAVER. Anderson grounded out to ss. Riner pinch hit for Sloppy. Riner
singled to third base, bunt, advanced to second on a throwing error by 3b. Riner
advanced to third on a wild pitch. Olson grounded out to p, RBI; Riner scored.
Lobbestael pinch hit for Slesk. Lobbestael singled through the left side. Miller
pinch ran for Lobbestael. Scoggin singled up the middle; Miller advanced to second.
Nilsen doubled to left center, RBI; Scoggin advanced to third; Miller scored. Gosney
grounded out to 2b. 2 runs, 4 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
College of Idaho 6th - Riner to 2b. Miller to lf. HARRIS flied out to rf.
HOWARTH singled up the middle. CHAMP lined out to rf. HOWARTH stole second. CARLSEN
walked. MILLER doubled to left center, 2 RBI; CARLSEN scored; HOWARTH scored.
BRUBAKER flied out to cf. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Central Washington 7th - BARRY to p for BOTTARI. Rylaarsdam grounded out to
ss. Donangelo walked. Anderson walked; Donangelo advanced to second. Riner grounded
out to 2b; Anderson advanced to second; Donangelo advanced to third. Tomlinson pinch
hit for Olson. Tomlinson doubled to right center, 2 RBI; Anderson scored; Donangelo
scored. Snowdon pinch ran for Olson. Miller grounded out to 3b. 2 runs, 1 hit, 0
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Gov. Brown Signs California Board Gender Requirement Bill Into Law
Amid an increasing focus on the representation of women on public boards, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation that will require publicly held companies whose principal executive offices are in the state to have a minimum number of women on their boards of directors.
As previously reported, Boards must have one woman on their boards by the end of 2019, and at least two female directors by the end of 2021 if the company has five directors. If a company has six or more directors, at least three of them must be women by the end of 2021. Companies who fail to comply will be penalized $100,000 for the first violation and $300,000 for a second or subsequent violation. Companies who fail to comply will be penalized $100,000 for the first violation and $300,000 for a second or subsequent violation.
Fate of Provision Uncertain.“It’s high time” corporate boards include women, Gov. Brown remarked, yet he also acknowledged in his signing statement that “serious legal concerns” have been raised about the bill that “may prove fatal” to its implementation, including a challenge to whether it imposes an unconstitutional discriminatory quota. In addition, many commentators have questioned the scope of the mandate, given that it applies to all companies headquartered in California, even if they are chartered elsewhere.
Board Gender Diversity Is Already Improving. Almost three-fourths (329) of the 446 companies in the Russell 3000 that are headquartered in California already have women on their boards, though 392 have fewer than three women on their boards. Other states have approved nonbinding resolutions with a similar aim, but none have passed a law. Germany, Norway, France, Spain, Iceland, and the Netherlands have imposed similar mandates.
Trends are a potential boost for human resources. Corporate boards are already recognizing the value of CHROs as directors given their deep expertise in the nexus of talent and strategy, employee engagement, and other business- and people-related concerns. Given the particularly strong representation of women among human resource C-suite positions, the recognition of the need for greater Board gender diversity could increase CHRO representation on boards, which would have a positive impact for companies as a whole.
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Hampshire Constabulary 22 mins · . The family of PC Rich Phillips-Schofield, who died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in a cycling accident, have today released a statement in tribute to their son and brother. His parents, Elizabeth and Frederick, brother Eddie and girlfriend Hannah, thanked the community for its support. The statement reads: "We are overwhelmed by the love and...
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The family of PC Rich Phillips-Schofield, who died on Tuesday from injuries sustained in a cycling accident, have today released a statement in tribute to their son and brother.
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Program to Spotlight Plans for LAX ‘People Mover’
Published April 28, 2017 | By fpword
Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) is developing an Automated People Mover (APM) system to connect passengers from a new rent-a-car center to an intermodal transportation facility and then to the LAX Central Terminal Area. The APM system currently is in the planning phases.
Flight Path will present an update on the project as part of the museum’s Speaker Series on Tuesday, June 27. The program will begin at 10 a.m. at Flight Path in the LAX Imperial Terminal, 6661 W. Imperial Highway, Los Angeles. Mark Waier, Communications Director of Los Angeles World Airport, will speak. Admission and parking are free.
“We have basic information about the APM on display in the museum,” said Flight Path President Lynne Adelman. “But many of our visitors are eager to know more. This is why we have scheduled a special presentation as part of our Speaker Series.”
Current plans call for the APM system to be fully automated and grade separated from pedestrians and other vehicles. It will be designed for passengers with luggage. It is intended to provide reliable access to the airport and ensure that passengers can get to their terminals quickly. The anticipated completion date for the project is 2023.
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Found Footage Magazine is an independent and printed film journal distributed worldwide
INTERVIEW WITH VICKI BENNETT
by KENNETH GOLDSMITH
Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been working across the field of audio-visual collage, and is recognised as an influential and pioneering figure in the still growing area of sampling, appropriation and cutting up of found footage and archives. Working under the name People Like Us, Vicki specialises in the manipulation and reworking of original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, The Barbican, Centro de Cultura Digital, V&A, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show DO or DIY on WFMU has had over a million listen again downloads since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.
Kenneth Goldsmith: It’s clear that this project is inspired by Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project (Das Passagen-Werk),1 yet it is commonly thought that his was unfinished, a mess of raw footage, not a finished work. However, there is another school of though—one much less popular—that says that the Arcades was pretty close to being finished, that its fragmentary state was intentional and complete in its incompleteness. Citation City,2 on the other hand, is a perfectly complete work, one which could have been much longer. How did you decide to finish where you did?
Vicki Bennett: Actually I could have done with a couple more years to make this thing, although if I’d had that extra time I think it might have turned into something else. The more I looked the more I saw and the more lengthy and specialised it became. Then reality stepped in by my having a deadline for the premiere performance. When sourcing from 300+ full length movies, trying to reflect upon somewhere like London which is depicted in so many films so often, it is like burrowing first one tunnel, then the tunnel splits off, and you burrow tunnels within those tunnels, and so on, and each turn goes deeper, becomes more specialised. But they are far from dark holes, it’s the opposite. I call these explorations operations because you’re cutting into something; it’s a laboratory for discovery. If the project had gone on as long as I’d have liked, it would have been pretty hard going to experience on the platform that I had initially set it out to be (a performance), it would have been hours long, indeed something else entirely. Its current form is entertainment, it’s a concert. But it doesn’t mean that one day it might not expand into something much bigger, given the opportunity. I’m not sure these large-scale process-led kinds of project are ever over. It’s about a process that takes place that is never ending and any particular outlet is only a caption of time spent that is being reflected upon, in my case what was the year up to January 2015.
K. G.: Can you articulate your relationship to The Arcades Project in relation to the construction of Citation City?
V. B.: When I first saw The Arcades Project it was so inspiring to see Walter Benjamin’s methods as familiar, the extent of his collecting and grouping of information. Lots of people make lists, but I love that he just kept going, on and on and on, this is what I felt in common with him, he was relentless. The spirit of this work is way beyond the words, beyond anything that could be summarized by theory alone. This is a piece of magic… a huge collection of thousands of people, their lives, their stories, the paths they walked in Paris, and in subsequent text they trod some new paths too. The sparks of electricity, the cerebral connections make this thing relevant, we all understand these stories beyond Paris and that time, they are our stories. There are only so many tales to be told and beyond that it is reiteration. This is not a good or bad thing, quality of experience is never about who did what first, rather it’s about how this makes you feel in its presence and how you may yourself respond to experiencing it in your time and place. We do the same things, we say the same things over and over yet it’s always different, simply because it is never the same. When you place the same subject matter side by side on mass from unrelated sources it shows how we make connections, and how indeed we are connected. This is what happens in works of fiction too, in feature films—the same stories are told time and time again, and I wanted to see what the stories of London were. I can’t remember how I got the idea that it would be great to make an excursion through London-based fiction, but it was certainly connected to hearing that you were making a book using New York as subject matter in homage to The Arcades Project. I actually first considered making one of New York, since that is also a film capital, but decided that London was equally good, plus it’s a place where I far more familiar. Although I also think it doesn’t matter if you know the place personally or not since it’s about what you discover through the content you’re discovering, not what you know in from own memory.
K. G.: Did you work according Benjamin’s methodology? Did you go against it? Was it open to interpretation and/or misinterpretation?
V. B.: I made a list of convolutes, that is usually what I do usually, make a list of reoccurring content, and use this as the basis for chapters. But I didn’t use Benjamin’s convolutes or try to stick to any further structure that was used in The Arcades Project. In fact I looked at his convolutes then tried to forget what they were since I was curious as to whether in fictional London they would be similar, and it turned out they were.
Whenever making projects I spend at least half the allotted time collecting and viewing content (in this case around 300 feature films set or based in London). As soon as I think I have found all the source material and taken notes, I print these notes and the project moves out of the computer and onto the floor, where I lay out all the printed notes of paper describing the content—the descriptions are cut into hundreds of snippets of separate information that I start to assemble into clusters to gather my thoughts and make connections.
When searching the footage of London feature films it was great to see which emerging subjects were important/popular and how much they were current in terms of our hopes and fears of today. Citation City tries to define the spirit or mood of a place—that could be found in a number of ways—by actor, movie genre, storyline, stage setting, icon, fashion, music, movie location. This location could be a named place or something more abstract like “the river,” for instance. By placing all these descriptions together like an unmade jigsaw you start to notice the relationship between narratives, what they have in common. You move the paper around, putting subjects then subsequent groups together. These are the subjects that I found:
* Albert Hall & Memorial
* Apocalypse, Floods, Natural Disaster, Plague, Alien Invasion
* Big Ben, Parliament, Time
* Broadcasting, Morse Code, Radio, BBC, Newspapers & Propaganda
* Big Brother, Brainwashing, Hypnosis, Insanity
* Ceremony, Tradition, Ritual, Magic
* Horror, The Occult / Unknown, Satanism, Vampirism
* Imprisonment & Evacuation
* Photography, Voyeurism, Fashion, Art Gallery & Museum
* Pollution, Fog, Smog, Smoke, Heavy industry, Docklands, Noise, Wasteland, Rubbish
* Power Stations (Battersea & Lots Road), Illumination, Power Cut / Surge, Rooftops & Chimneys
* Public Houses, Drinking, Prostitution, Crime & Gangsters, Poverty, Jack the Ripper, East End, St Paul’s
* River Thames, Bridges, Thames Embankment
* Royalty, Grenadier Guards, Tower of London, The Mall
* Shadows & Silhouettes, Mirrors, Being Pursued
* Spying, Conspiracy & Intrigue, Detectives & Secret Agents, MI5/6, (New) Scotland Yard
* Supermarkets, Arcades & Malls, Mass Production & Duplication, Consumerism
* Surveillance, Tapping, Recording Technology & Storage (Domestic & Governmental)
* Tourist Icons: Telephone Boxes, Letter boxes, Routemaster Buses
* Trafalgar Square, Public Space, Pigeons, Nelson’s Column
* Travel, Heathrow (London) Airport, Immigration
* Underground, Subterrain
* War, Cold, 1st & 2nd, Terrorism, Murder
Making long paper-based lists had been constant in my work long before I knew about Walter Benjamin. Even pre-digital—for instance using Roget’s Thesaurus to make new connections by looking up a word to see where it led me to next. I don’t know why I love making such long and exhausting lists and massive projects but I find them beautiful to look at. It’s also partly habitual, partly a humorous exercise in trying to be increasingly extreme or ridiculous, and perhaps partly showing off how hard I can work, often when I could possibly achieve the same effect in a way much quicker and easier for myself. When working with pre-existing information, it’s always been necessary to write down and describe the content of each fragment in order to visualize all the information at once. This may then go onto be another format, but that documentation of process can be quite something in itself too. Citation City is an audiovisual work, but it also exists right now as several hundred scraps of paper sellotaped together and thrown into the back of my cupboard. If subsequently printed out it might be book size.
There was also the issue of how much and where in this project I am (obviously) imprinting my own personality—how much is it about my taste. I have my own style and methods of communicating, and sense of humour, and am making this for a particular platform-performance, it’s for a live audience with short attention span, and this is factored into the output. This will make it different to making something text-based because of the way that time works when experiencing it. The subject matter that I was finding was certainly in abundance for the list above, but if I’d been someone else, who’s to say it wouldn’t have been done completely differently? Probably it would. It was difficult to know how to treat the reoccurring actors in the films, for instance Michael Caine or Oliver Reed, this side of things was completely ignored due to the length of the project, whereas if I’d had more time I would have explored this, it’s actually a project in itself, for instance focussing on one actor through all his movies. I did feel a lot of sympathy for Benjamin in terms of how long it all takes and how you could just keep going, but at the same time it was a wonderful project. There are whole sections that are in The Arcades Project that are not reflected in my project, because of the nature of the output platform. Even though of course we don’t know for sure that The Arcades Project is a book or something else as well or exclusively something else.
K. G.: But you’ve done projects like Radio Boredcast3 where you’ve compiled 744 hours of audio, perhaps the longest radio broadcast on record. Too much is never enough for you. I like the idea of this being entertainment rather than an ongoing installation.
V. B.: I like the time-based urgency of an audience having to pay attention to something while you’re there performing/broadcasting because it gives it a sense of event for the audience and participants. This is lacking sometimes in gallery type environments, making the atmosphere a bit sterile.
K. G.: And watching it, there’s not a dull moment in it; it’s the fastest 40 minutes I’ve ever experienced. So you have two modes: one of entertainment and one of boredcast. What is your relationship to audience?
V. B.: I think with either you have to help them in the door, show them the rooms, the windows, and provide some sort of basic structure for them to navigate, and then shut the door! With entertainment though it’s like you’re constantly giving them tea and cake whereas with boredcasting you can go away for the week and leave them in there.
K. G.: In both cases, you seem like you really consider the audience and their reactions as a primary determining aesthetic. And you’re almost never boring in the boredcast sense of the word—even the most boring bits of what you do are not boring because they’re absurd and humorous.
V. B.: Yes, I want to engage with the audience. Being able to engage makes the difference between success and failure in communication. This doesn’t mean I want to go out of my way but it’s more like having a conversation with a person that you like and connect to, and to provide some sort of intelligent framework where some points of reference help people navigate on their own. Of course it won’t always be a success and when you’re working with non-pop references it is easy to leave some people behind or overload them if you’re working in a deep or dense manner. Had I worked on Citation City for longer it would have been more engaging for less people. I’m not holding my breath on being hugely popular any time soon because I use too many different sources and people like only 2 or 3 elements at once, like in a composition where you have patterns and variations that are predictable. That is where humour sometimes helps though you can be playful and also go to some extremes that seriousness would not allow. However, the downside of humour is a lot of so-called intelligent people think you are not a serious artist. But those same people might well have criticisms of appropriation too.
Another thing about humour is you can elevate people into a more fluid mental state where they are willing to perceive things differently, in a non-straightforward way, particularly with collaged audio composition or radio. The incongruous nature of humour, and also collage, leave space for various levels of interpretation. Sometimes any message or thoughts I might have about something might be completely lost once sent out there, but the same goes for anything you try and do. It occurred to me only recently that you’re in a minority of 1 when it comes to everyone else’s perception of you and what you do, and so the most you can do is try and be clear, and also the most you can do to have any clue what other people might see you as being like.
K. G.: Playing devil’s advocate: doesn’t humor and entertainment go against the grain of traditional avant-garde practices? Isn’t the avant-garde artist supposed to not care or despise her audience, feeling that she has something important to tell them that they need to hear? Of course I know you’ve thought deeply about this, but I think it would be helpful for others to explain your thinking about this.
V. B.: Wow, the amount of avant-garde performers that are full of joy or just hilarious, yet the audience is stone-faced. It’s not a failure if the audience are smiling, it’s because they are feeling sparks of recognition or inspiration, not because they are idiots. Humour in art can be used to break down barriers, and let people in when they might have assumed they did not understand. Humour is a serious business, it is not just comedy, it is complex and skilful; playing out like a composition, with texture, repetition, variation and timing. Because we all have humour in our lives it is not elitist. And maybe that word elitist might pinpoint the underlying problem.
Surely to say that there is a “traditional avant-garde practice” immediately negates what avant-garde actually is? The whole idea of experimentation assumes we partly do not know, i.e. we’re in a process of discovery, examining the fixed and static, including the very notion of genre itself. Giving something a genre name and therefore defining or framing it sometimes signifies the end of/change in something, or at least the public understanding of a thing. Once something gets well-known enough that anyone wants to give it a name it’s often either changed, or had its use and energy sucked out through commodification. Even the very idea of commodification can assume that has been fixed, which it hasn’t… commodified things also decay. And if there is any place in that chain where appropriation might be, it’s at the very end, where everything has been thrown out. Which in turn is the very beginning, since appropriative work can flip that whole world upside down and tear it into pieces.
I’m just trying to say that everything changes all the time, we are all connected, and the people that pose as an authority on experimentation are doing so for their own end, and maybe that is why they might not care about who or what their audience is, and they ought to be careful that the chair that they are standing on doesn’t get swiped from underneath them. And if there is any avant-garde then it’s the person that swiped the chair.
K. G.: There have been rumblings about another version of Citation City, this time set in New York City. If this is true, how do you imagine going about it? And, if the idea is portable, from one city to another, could you imagine doing this for other cities?
V. B.: Yes. It was always a dilemma as to whether I’d do London or NYC. In terms of the amount of movies available, there are more for NYC but both run into thousands. I chose London first because I live there. First, in 2016, I will work on a (separate) new 10-screen/8 speaker audiovisual work—so that term, might take a while, but after that I will pursue making a Capital4 for New York City. It was always in my mind to cover NYC later, but recently perusing the pages of your book Capital I’m inspired about it all over again. I couldn’t imagine spending over a year making something for somewhere other than London or NYC, although San Francisco might be interesting because of the amount of films covering that city too.
It’s different, but if you’re approaching as an artist it works equally well to make something on a place or subject that you don’t know so well, since this is not about what you know, it’s about the impressions of a place, the atmosphere, lots of subtle things, not just a list of facts. There are over 5000 NYC-based movies to choose from, and from that point I will rely upon the same sort of archives, search engines, forums, communities and websites and subsequently my own aesthetics to decide how to narrow it down to the point of using it as material. You don’t have to enter into the work as any kind of authority; you’re never going to find out everything and that’s not the point—you just need a methodology and enthusiasm for these sorts of extensive and immersive explorations.
K. G.: Finally, on this point, Benjamin called Paris the capital of the nineteenth century and I have called New York the capital of the twentieth. My feeling is that the capital of the twenty-first century will be the Internet.
V. B.: That’s interesting—the capital as the place where we go to get information, meet like-minded people, go shopping, discover museums, archives and libraries? I agree about the portability of places of meaning, that we carry it all around in our bodies anyway. It’s also the place where we go to see the past, the old and obsolete, where along the way we might encounter all sorts of unexpected things on each street and avenue, getting side tracked, experiencing love and hate, falling victim to deceit and misadventure, and the zombie-world comments culture district. I also see the place of the twenty-first century as the digital and portable archive, the library, which is housed both privately and publicly. We might see information storage as the past, but if you consider that the past as an accumulation of everything we know until right now then the future is about access to knowledge and networks who might be housing that knowledge. At the moment we use the Internet, but the twenty-first century internet may be unrecognisable even in ten years from now.
K. G.: Where does London fit into this configuration, if you feel that it does at all?
V. B.: There are so many versions of the cities. It depends where you live and what language you speak on how you might translate that content, it is also going to be different if it is in print to if it’s music or moving image. The Arcades Project (and your project) ended up, or at least presently exists in print, whereas mine is moving image and sound. Citation City concentrates on well-known fictional movie narratives rather than documented reality, and in this context NYC and London are the film capitals, because of the way the movie industry works—it is a different capital entirely that dictates, Paris would not even come third.
If I were working in non-fiction, I should imagine the results would reflect London and Paris as important capitals in the nineteenth century for forward thinking and creativity—but all are equally cities of migrants… for economic and political reasons, and also as places of cultural refuge, which is why they are so vibrant, diverse, changing and energetic. But this particular reality is not my area—although of course reality and fiction rely upon and pose as one another. So to answer your question, if focussing on documented reality, on one hand Paris and NYC are capitals of the two past centuries but I think London is also a contender for the nineteenth century. In the fictional film world, purely from the point of view of an English speaking person focussing on the IMDB5 version of the movie world, the rules are different and NYC would be first, London second and San Francisco or Los Angeles might be third as capitals of the twentieth Century.
December 2015.
Vicki Bennett / People Like Us: http://peoplelikeus.org/2014/biography/ | http://peoplelikeus.org/citationcity
Kenneth Goldsmith: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Goldsmith.html | http://ubu.com
1. See: < http://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Benjamin_Walter_The_Arcades_Project.pdf >
2. See: < http://peoplelikeus.org/2014/citationcity/ >
3. See: < https://wfmu.org/playlists/ZZ >
4. In reference to Kenneth Goldsmith´s book: Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century. See: < http://www.versobooks.com/books/2007-capital >
5. The Internet Movie Database (abbreviated IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games, including cast, production crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries, trivia and reviews.
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Mateo Kovacic – Fantasy Football Potential
Chelsea have recently announced the signing of Mateo Kovacic from Real Madrid for a fee believed to be around £40 million. Having spent last season on loan at the London club, Chelsea opted to exercise their option to buy clause. He will be Chelsea’s only signing of the summer as they are currently serving a transfer embargo.
Here’s what Kovacic has had to say about his permanent move to Chelsea this summer:
“I really enjoyed my season on loan with Chelsea, I feel comfortable at the club and like London and the Premier League very much. I am very happy to be able to join permanently. We had a successful year, winning the Europa League and I hope I can make a big contribution in the coming seasons.”
Kovacic started his career at Dinamo Zagreb, where he broke into the first team aged 16. Having won the league with Zagreb twice in a row and playing 43 appearances for the club, the Croatian international was signed by Inter Milan in 2013. Across the course of 2 seasons, Kovacic made 80 appearances for Inter, scoring just 1 goal.
In the summer of 2015, Kovacic signed for Real Madrid. During his time in Madrid he was part of the squad that won the Champions League three times in a row. Real Madrid then sent Kovacic on loan to Chelsea at the beginning of last season, where he is a now a permanent signing – penning a reported 5 year deal.
Internationally Kovacic played for Croation youth levels between under 14’s through to the under-21’s, before making his senior debut in 2013. Notably, Kovacic also played a role in the Croatian national team which beat England en route to coming runners in World Cup 2018.
Mateo Kovacic has the ability to play in any role as a central midfielder – from holding midfield to attacking midfield and anywhere in between. Despite being able to play in more advanced roles Kovacic didn’t score a single goal last season and only picked up 64 fantasy football points.
At present, it is unclear how Chelsea are likely to line-up under new manager Frank Lampard – although it is believed that he will give young players a chance in the first team and fellow central midfielder Mason Mount is one that has history with the new manager. It is unlikely that Lampard would have spent £40 million on a player who is unlikely to be in and around the first 11 regularly. That said, at the time of writing, Chelsea have an abundance of central midfielders in the squad currently to rival Kovacic’s place in the team – Kante, Jorginho, Bakayoko, Loftus-Cheek, Barkley, Mount etc.
At £5.5m, Kovacic represents a fairly cheap way to get a Chelsea midfielder into your fantasy football team this season. Unfortunately, his output in terms of gaining points on fantasy football combined with the level of competition for his place in the team makes him a risky purchase. It is worth monitoring his performances in pre-season as he may play a more advanced role under the new manager, which could increase his value to fantasy league managers!
Written by Will Gosling (@_WG5)
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Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate…
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Country: USA, China
The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he…
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A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials – both in Sweden and in the United States – whom are…
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Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
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A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as “humans” really do exist.
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A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – detailing their passage from childhood to…
The Recce
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal…
TricOTri: Happy Halloween
A family moves back to Miami to take care of its widowed abuela. After moving into a haunted house, the family learns the intentions of the ghosts that inhabit it.
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Future World
A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.
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Little Birds new single gHost
Sebastian Cole 26 April 2019
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fnV6seL0Y3klLT1gR7Qa2
There’s been a lot of talk from critics about the Annapolis-founded, Charleston-stationed indie soul crew Little Bird recently, and when you listen to their brand new single “gHost,” it’s not at all hard to see why. “gHost,” the first of four tracks being cut this year from the band’s upcoming record Proxima, is a throwback to the grooves of The Brothers Johnson spiked with a lusty, MGMT-style indie edge that colors every one of the stoic beats with a textured neon radiance. It’s a song that was born to dominate the college radio airwaves, but to call it anything other than an organically cultivated picture window into the group’s artistry just wouldn’t do it justice.
The rhythm is a force to be reckoned with in “gHost,” and it frames the melodies in the vocal, as well as in the guttural guitar moaning near the end of the track, quite elegantly. There are a couple of moments where it feels like the drums are taking on the form of a swinging pendulum counting down the seconds before the bassline rips us asunder to spiritual worlds unknown, but as entrancing as this single becomes, it never abandons the focused hooks defining its chorus in every instance that they’re presented to us in nearly six minutes of running time.
URL: http://www.thisislittlebird.com/
“gHost” benefits from a very indulgent song structure, but I wouldn’t go as far as to call it over the top in nature. The guitars definitely aren’t of a virtuosic variety, at least in theory; they’re agents of evocation, much like the starry-eyed kays and blistering bass are. There’s no annoying bombastic bells and whistles for us to try and ignore in the mix, and while Little Bird make literally no attempt to rein in their mammoth melodies – particularly at the halfway point in the track – I think that their embracing excess in this scenario actually draws a lot of their otherwise unnoticeable sonic facets to the surface.
I really like the progressive design of the lyrics in this song, as they help for the words to play out more like fragmented statements from a dreamscape than they do bland pop verses. It’s almost as if each strand of poetry that approaches us in “gHost” is bringing a different degree of emotion to the larger narrative in the music, and though they’re wildly interpretive depending on who is listening to them, I don’t think that they’re too abstract for more casual indie fans to relate to alongside more ardent enthusiasts as well.
Fans of smart indie beats would be quite wise to check out the most recent studio material submitted by Little Bird in “gHost,” if for no other reason than to get a glimpse of what is almost certain to come in their future recordings ala Proxima. “gHost” sees this band exploring their sonic parameters with more gusto and zeal than they’ve ever demonstrated in the past, and I for one can’t wait to hear what they do with this evolved sound next. Theirs is a journey that has only just gotten started, and I plan on keeping a close eye and ear on their work as they continue forward.
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thisislittlebird/
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GenEpic
A therapeutic formula to help restore essential nutrients lost due to stress, aging and disease
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Below are the full supplemental facts found in GenEpic™:
Serving Size: One (1) 9.4 gram Packet
Servings Per Box: 30
As a dietary supplement, mix 1 packet with water or juice with breakfast. If instructed by your health professional, take two packets daily, take one packet with breakfast and one packet mid-afternoon. Take only with advice from your healthcare PROVIDER. TAKE WITH FOOD.
Amount Per Packet
%DV
Proprietary Immune Support Blend
Reishi Mushroom (beta glucan), Maitake Mushroom(beta glucan),
Shiitake Mushroom (beta glucan), Royal Jelly (flavanoids), Astragulus (root), Cat’s Claw (stem), L-Taurine, L-tyrosine, L-Glutamine, Omega 3 (concentrated EPA/DHA)
1855 mg *
Proprietary Detoxification Blend
Milk Thistle Sylamarin), Safflower (petal), Psyllium (seed husk), Arabic gum (resin), Aloe Vera Extract (200X), Cranberry (fruit), Althea (root), Dandelion (root), Garlic (root, Allicin), Red Clover (leaf), Burdock (root), Kelp (leaf)
1350mg *
Proprietary Phyto-Nutrient Blend
Graviola ( acetogenins), Chuchuhuasi (maytansinoids), Suma ( saponins), Bitter Melon (fruit), Mutamba (leaf, concentrate), Lutein (tomato concentrate), Zeaxanthin, Inositol, Coenzyme Q10, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Bacognize** (patented Bacopa extract)
(Alpha/Beta Carotene) 5000 IU 100%
(L-Ascorbic acid) 200 mg 333%
Vitamin D3 500 IU 125%
Vitamin E 50 IU 166%
Vitamin K2 11 mcg 14%
Vitamin B1 3 mg 200%
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 3 mg 176%
Vitamin B3 (Niacin) 12.5 mg 62%
Vitamin B6 3.5 mg 175%
Folic Acid 400 mcg 100%
Vitamin B12 25 mcg 416%
Biotan 200 mcg 67%
Vitamin B5 12.5 mg 125%
Calcium (Citrate) 100 mg 10%
Iron (Ferrous Gluconate) 2.5 mg 14%
Magnesium (Citrate) 60 mg 15%
Zinc 7.5 mg 50%
Manganese 2.5 mg 125%
Chromium 75 mcg 63%
Vanadium (AA Chealte) 5 mcg *
Molybdenum (AA Chelate) 50 mcg 67%
Organic Trace Mineral Powder 15 mg *
Xylitol, Natural Fruit Flavors
*Daily Values Not Established
Daily Values based upon 2,000 calorie diet
Manufactured in the USA: Star Valley, WY (307) 220-0005
Active Ingredients Found in GenEpic
Espinheira Santa (Maytansine)- Espinheira Santa (Maytenus ilicifolia) has a much longer and well documented history of use in urban areas and in South American herbal medicine practices than in tribal areas, probably because of the types of illnesses that it treats. It is also one of the few tropical South American medicinal plants that have been the subject of so many clinical studies, fueled by its effectiveness in treating ulcers and even cancer with research beginning as early as the mid-1960′s.(2, 3) research revealed that Espinheira Santa as well as a few other species in the Maytenus family contain anti-biotic compounds which showed potent anti-tumor and anti-leukemic activities at very low dosages.(4 – 8) Two of these compounds, maytansine and mayteine, were tested in cancer patients in the United States and South America in the 1970′s.(9 – 13) Although there were some significant regressions in ovarian carcinoma and some lymphomas with Maytansine, (11) further research was not continued due to the toxicity at the high dosages used.(14) Research with the compound Mayteine, revealed little to no toxicity (6, 9, 10) and validated its uses in traditional and folk medicine for various types of skin cancers (3, 15) and cancer research is still ongoing in South America with this compound. In traditional medicine today, an application of the leaves of Espinheira Santa is employed as an ointment for treating skin cancer and a decoction as a wash for cancers.(16)
Graviola (Acetogenins) – In a 1976 plant screening program by the National Cancer Institute, graviola leaves and stem showed active cytotoxicity against cancer cells and researchers have been following up on these findings since. Much of the cancer research on graviola focuses on a novel set of phyto-chemicals called Annonaceous acetogenins. Graviola produces these natural compounds in its leaf and stem, bark, and fruit seeds. Three separate research groups have isolated these acetogenin compounds in graviola which have demonstrated significant antitumorous and anticancerous properties, and selective toxicity against various types of cancer cells (without harming healthy cells) publishing eight clinical studies on their findings. Many of the acetogenins have demonstrated selective toxicity to tumor cells at very low dosages– as little as 1 part per million. Four studies were published in 1998 which further specify phytochemicals and acetogenins which are demonstrating the strongest anticancerous, antitumorous, and antiviral properties.
Thus far, specific acetogenins in graviola have been reported to be selectively toxic to these types of tumor cells: lung carcinoma cell lines; human breast solid tumor lines; prostate adenocarcinoma; pancreatic carcinoma cell lines; colon adenocarcinoma cell lines; liver cancer cell lines; human lymphoma cell lines; and multi-drug resistant human breast adenocarcinoma. Mode of action studies in three separate laboratories have recently determined that these acetogenins are superb inhibitors of enzyme processes that are only found in the membranes of cancerous tumor cells. Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, has conducted a great deal of the research on the acetogenins, much of which has been funded by The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health (NIH). Thus far Purdue University and it’s staff have filed at least nine U.S. and international patents on their work around the antitumorous and insecticidal properties and uses of these acetogenins.
An interesting in vivo study was published in March of 2002 by researchers in Japan, who were studying various acetogenins found in several species of plants. They inoculated mice with Lewis lung carcinoma cancer cells. One third received nothing, one third received the chemotherapy drug adriamycin, and one third received the main graviola acetogenin, annonacin (at a dosage of 10 mg/kg). At the end of two weeks, five of the six in the untreated control group were still alive and lung tumor sizes were then measured. The adriamycin group showed a 54.6% reduction of tumor mass over the control group–but 50% of the animals had died from toxicity (three of six). The mice receiving annonacin were all still alive, and the tumors were inhibited by 57.9%–slightly better than adriamycin–and without toxicity.
Anon. Unpublished data, National Cancer Institute. Nat Cancer Inst Central Files (1976). From NAPRALERT Files, University of Illinois, 1995.
Wu, F. E., et al. “Two new cytotoxic monotetrahydrofuran Annonaceous acetogenins, annomuricins A and B, from the leaves of Annona muricata.” J. Nat. Prod. 1995; 58(6): 830-36
Jaramillo, M. C., et al. “Cytotoxicity and antileishmanial activity of Annona muricata pericarp.” Fitoterapia 2000; 71(2): 183-6.
Betancur-Galvis, L., et al. “Antitumor and antiviral activity of Colombian medicinal lant extracts.” Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 1999; 94(4): 531-35.
Cats Claw-A 2001 in vitro study that cat’s claw directly inhibited the growth of a human breast cancer cell line by 90%, while another research group reported that it inhibited the binding of estrogens in human breast cancer cells in vitro. Swedish researchers documented it inhibited the growth of lymphoma and leukemia cells in vitro in 1998. Early reports on Keplinger’s observatory trials with cancer patients taking cat’s claw in conjunction with such traditional cancer therapies as chemotherapy and radiation reported fewer side effects to the traditional therapies (such as hair loss, weight loss, nausea, secondary infections, and skin problems). Subsequent researchers have shown how these effects might be possible: they have reported that cat’s claw can aid in DNA cellular repair and prevent cells from mutating; it also can help prevent the loss of white blood cells and immune damage caused by many chemotherapy drugs (a common side effect called leukopenia).
Sheng Y, Induction of apoptosis and inhibition of proliferation in human tumor cells treated with extracts of Uncaria tomentosa. Anticancer Res. 1998 Sep-Oct;18(5A):3363-8.
Sheng Y, Treatment of chemotherapy-induced leukopenia in a rat model with aqueous extract from Uncaria tomentosa. Phytomedicine. 2000 Apr;7(2):137-43.
Maitake (Beta-glucan)-Beta-glucan also responds to tumor cells by stimulating the production of small protein substances within the phagocytic cells called cytokines. Cytokines stimulate the macrophages to inhibit tumor cell replication (cytostatic action) and kill the tumor (cytolytic action). (10)
Because of beta-glucan’s demonstrated ability to activate macrophages and T-cells, researchers have used it as an anti-cancer treatment by itself, or as a non-toxic adjuvant to chemotherapy. In studies of animals injected with tumor cells, researchers found that animals that were also treated with beta-glucan had decreased liver metastases compared with control animals. The beta-glucan-treated mice had a 28 percent increase in survival compared to those without beta-glucan. (11)
Although most research on beta-glucan has been done with animals, there have been a number of human studies. In 1975, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported on the anti-cancer effects of beta-glucan on nine cancer patients, who suffered from skin, breast, or lung cancer. Beta-glucan was injected directly into the tumors. In all cases, beta-glucan reduced the size of the tumor within five days, resulting from infiltration of immune cells into the cancerous area with subsequent destruction of the cancer cells. (12)
A number of clinical studies have been conducted in Japan with lentinan (a beta-1,3-1,6-glucan derived from the shiitake mushroom). Lentinan is considered a drug in Japan, where it is approved for clinical use. Japanese scientists have shown that treatment of advanced-cancer patients with lentinan, by intravenous injection, results in increasednumber and activity of immune killer cells (13) and prolonged survival — sometimes in excess of five or more years. (14)
According to researchers at the National Cancer Center in Japan, complete tumor elimination was experienced in about 80% of cancer-induced animals fed extracts from maitake, shiitake, and reishi mushrooms. Compounds of each of these mushrooms increase the tumor-fighting activity of NK cells [natural killer cells of the immune system] and improve antibody responses, but maitake seems to have the strongest and most consistent effect. … Unlike other mushroom extracts, the maitake extract shows strong anticancer activity even when administered orally.” (Diamond)
Mutamba (procyanidin B-2)-Mutamba is called guasima or guacima in Mexico, where it has a very long history of indigenous use. A phytochemical analysis of mutamba bark shows that it is a rich source of this natural chemical compound and it has been documented with other biological activities as well. Of particular note (in 1990), a Brazilian research group demonstrated that a crude extract of mutamba was cytotoxic to cancer cells in vitro, exhibiting a 97.3% inhibition rate. It later was shown in independent research that procyanidin B-2 also demonstrated antitumorous and anticancerous effects (even against melanoma) as well as hypotensive and kidney protective properties. In a 1995 in vitro study, mutamba also demonstrated antiviral activity against Herpes simplex type 1. These studies could certainly explain why mutamba has been used so effectively in herbal medicine systems for many types of gastrointestinal problems, such venereal diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, and upper respiratory conditions (e.g. pneumonia and bronchitis). Subsequent research focusing on particular chemicals found in mutamba documented their ability to interfere with prostaglandin synthetase, a process by which bacteria and pathogens replicate. Scientists showed that these phytochemicals interacted with a cholera toxin–preventing chloride secretion and the resultant diarrhea.
Suma (Pfaffic Acids)-The root acontains novel phytochemicals including saponins, pfaffic acids, glycosides, and nortriterpenes. The specific saponins found in the roots of suma include a group of novel phytochemicals that scientists have named pfaffosides. These saponins have clinically demonstrated the ability to inhibit cultured tumor cell melanomas (in vitro) and help to regulate blood sugar levels (in vivo). The pfaffosides and pfaffic acid derivatives in suma were patented as antitumor compounds in several Japanese patents in the mid-1980s. In a study described in one of the patents, researchers reported that an oral dosage of 100 mg/kg (of suma saponins) given to rats was active against abdominal cancer. The other patents and Japanese research report that the pfaffic acids found in suma root had a strong in vitro activity against melanoma, liver carcinoma, and lung carcinoma cells at only 4–6 mcg of pfaffic acids.
Burdock Root- The root of this plant is considered a diuretic and can also be used for stomach ailments. It neutralizes and eliminates poisons. It is a detoxifier for the blood, kidneys, and liver. Considered one of the best uric acid eliminators, it relieves congestion in the lymphatic system.
Kelp- Rich source of vitamins, especially B vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. Beneficial to the brain tissue, membranes surrounding the brain, thyroid, sensory nerves, spinal cord, nails, and blood vessels. Helps regulate metabolism. Contains approximately 30 major minerals and trace minerals. Also high in iodine for the skin.
Garlic- Stimulates activity of the digestive organs and relieves problems associated with poor digestion. Can be used as an expectorant to reduce chronic stomach and intestinal catarrh. It regulates the action of the liver and gall bladder. It is helpful for all intestinal infections. It helps to lower blood pressure and reduces arteriosclerosis. Prevents blood platelets from sticking to each other.
Dandelion Root- This plant has two particularly important uses: To promote the formation of bile and to remove excess water from the body in edemous conditions. It acts to remove poisons from the body and can also act as a tonic stimulant. Dandelion is claimed to be effective for liver problems.
Marshmallow- The root of this plant is used primarily for the intestines, kidneys, and the bladder. This combats intestinal disorders, digestive upsets, and fluid retention. Soothes and heals skin and other tissues. Helps to heal inflammatory conditions in bronchitis, coughs and other respiratory conditions.
Acacia Gum- The main effect is to form a protective, soothing, coating over inflammations in the respiratory, alimentary, and urinary tracts. It is helpful for coughs, sore throats, and catarrh.
Milk Thistle- Contains some of the most potent liver protecting substances known. Prevents free radical damage in the liver and kidneys. It stimulates new liver cells and is an excellent immune system builder.
Red Clover- Acts as an antibiotic, appetite suppressant, blood purifier and relaxant. Fights kidney and liver disease.
Safflower Petals- These petals are diuretic and diaphoretic. They are good for the skin, stomach, kidneys, pancreas and nerves. Useful aid for the digestion process. Helps to digest oils and helps to eliminate cholesterol and uric acid.
Psyllium Seed Husk- Assists peristalsis in the intestines and is good for wall and valve cleansing in the colon. Eliminates toxins. Creates bulk and fiber.
Cat’s Claw- The bark and roots of this plant enhances the action of the white blood cells. It acts as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.
Astragalus- This root is an immune system protector. Aids adrenal gland function and digestion. Increases metabolism and provides energy to combat fatigue. Is good for immune deficiencies.
Shitake- This mushroom strengthens the T-cell function. It contains 18 amino acids and is rich in all the B Vitamins. It also contains an effective polysaccharide although different than the Maitake mushroom.
Reishi- This mushroom has been used to prevent high blood pressure and heart disease, promote vitality, control cholesterol and treat fatigue. As with other mushrooms it builds resistance to disease.
Aloe Vera 200X- This Aloe Vera can be ingested to aid in the immune system. It is a pure blend of muccopolysaccharides that not only assist in joint health, skin health, and collagen production but also boosts immunity.
Royal Jelly – This substance created by nurse bees is the sole food of the queen bee that lays approximately 2,000 eggs per day and lives 40 times longer than other bees. It is the only natural source of acetylcholine and contains all of the B complex vitamins. It contains 18 amino acids, minerals, enzymes, hormones, and many vitamins. It is used to strengthen the immune system and treat several types of disorders.
Vitamin A (Alpha and Beta-Carotene)- Best known for its anti-infection and night vision properties. Necessary in bone and teeth development. Helps form connective tissue for a framework of skeletal tissue. It is a precursor to vitamin A and considered to be a powerful free radical scavenger. It is the body’s first line of defense against invading microorganisms and toxins. Beta-Carotene promotes the immune response and the bioflavanoids found in beta-carotene are highly effective in maintaining cell nutrition.
Vitamin B1 (GPM) 25%- Called the Morale Vitamin. Essential for the health of the entire nervous system. Assists the body in utilizing energy from metabolism of carbohydrates. Needed during pregnancy, lactation, and strenuous exercise. Nourishes brain, eyes, ears, hair, heart, liver, and kidneys.
Vitamin B2 (GPM) 10%- Called the Youth Vitamin. Essential for proper enzyme formation, normal growth, and metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and protein. Balances production of red blood cells and hormones and absorption of iron. Provides stamina.
Vitamin B3 (GPM)25%- Essential in energy, metabolism, and for production of male and female hormones. Promotes good physical and mental health. It is involved in production of hydrochloric acid for the digestive system. It lowers cholesterol and improves circulation.
Vitamin B5 (GMP) 25%- Called the Anti Stress Vitamin. Essential for health of adrenal glands and hormones. The formation of antibodies aids in vitamin utilization, and converts fats, carbohydrates, and proteins into energy. It is involved in the production of neurotransmitters. It has also been shown to be an effective healing agent.
Vitamin B6 (GMP) 20%- Called the Vitality Vitamin. It is essential for conversion of protein foods into amino acids and production of antibodies. Provides a balance of minerals, potassium and sodium for the entire nervous system. It participates in more than 60 enzymatic reactions involved in the metabolism of amino and fatty acids. This vitamin is necessary for healthy blood and blood vessels.
Vitamin B9 (GPM) 1 % (Folic Acid)- This water-soluble vitamin is very important during pregnancy, helps prevent birth defects and corrects anemia. It provides nutrients to strengthen hair, skin, and nails. It acts as a coenzyme of DNA and RNA synthesis. It is essential for the absorption of iron and calcium.
Vitamin B12 (yeast concentrate 0.5%)- Effective blood builder needed to prevent anemia. It aids folic acid in regulating the formation of red blood cells and utilization of iron. Essential in food metabolism, especially carbohydrates and fats. Promotes healthy skin, blood cells, mucus membranes, and the nervous system. Among other important features, Vitamin B12 is required for proper digestion, absorption of foods, the synthesis of protein, and the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats. Strict vegetarians are reminded that they require Vitamin B12 supplementation, since it is found almost exclusively in animal tissues.
Vitamin C (GPM) 25%- This water-soluble vitamin is well known for its ability to advance wound healing. Vitamin C supplementation is said to moderate the severity of the common cold and reduce intraocular pressure in glaucoma, the inflammation of periodontal disease and intolerance to heat. Vitamin C helps concentrate vasodilating prostaglandin’s to help relieve chest tightness in asthmatics. It can help reduce serum cholesterol and triglycerides levels, which are risk factors in heart disease and atherosclerosis. Vitamin C is essential in replacing and strengthening connecting tissues of the body. As an antioxidant, it can reduce the effects of pollution, antibiotics, steroids, and oral contraceptives.
Vitamin D-3 (GPM)– A fat-soluble vitamin supports healthy bones and calcium and phosphorus absorption. It is involved in the regulation of the heartbeat and necessary for thyroid function and normal blood clotting. Can be received naturally by sunlight, 15 minutes per day, three (3) times per week. In high-polluted areas, more vitamin D is needed.
Vitamin E (Mixed Tocopherols)- Fat soluble and specially suited to protect the oily portion of the body’s cells. The body needs a combination of oil and water-soluble antioxidants. Essential for health in the adrenal and pituitary glands. It improves circulation and is necessary for tissue healing and repair. Inhibits oxidation of lipids (fats) and the formation of free radicals. It protects other fat-soluble vitamins and retards aging. Mixed Tocopherols are considered the most potent form of all of the Vitamin E molecules.
Coral Calcium (35%)- Main constituent of teeth and bones. Helps regulate blood pressure, excitability of nerves and contractibility of muscles and heart. Helps control blood clotting and required for absorption of B-12. Aids in manufacture of acetylcholine, which helps transmit nerve impulses. Provides energy and structures protein of RNA and DNA.
Magnesium Yeast (20%)- This “anti-stress” mineral has a vast regulating effect on muscle contracting/relaxing and bone strengthening. It is used in nerve function and low magnesium levels are believed to be associated with psychiatric problems. Deficiency plays a key role in all diseases, regulated by constriction of the heart and circulatory system; including heart attacks, strokes, migraine headaches, and kidney stone formation.
Iron Yeast 5%- This “anti-anemia” mineral aids in transporting oxygen to the cells and blood. It is responsible for the production of hemoglobin and myoglobin. Important in protein synthesis.
Biotin (Vitamin H) 0.5%- Essential for the normal growth of all body tissues and cells, utilization of B complex vitamins, maintenance of skin, hair, all secreting glands, nerves, bone marrow, and male sex hormones. It assists in the formation of enzymes.
Zinc Yeast 10%- Zinc is a constituent of the antioxidant enzyme super oxide dismutase (SOD).
Necessary for the action of the B complex vitamins. One of the main healing minerals for healthy hair and proper digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and essential for sugar conversion. A component of more than 60 enzymes including those essential to manufacturing the body’s natural antioxidants. Important for healthy skin and nails, effective wound healing, normal pregnancies, male virility, and sense of taste.
Manganese Yeast 10%- Trace mineral, which helps the body to produce healthy connective tissue. Important in energy, protein, and fat metabolism. Essential for proper function of the nerves, the pituitary gland and other glands.
Selenium Yeast 0.2%- Strengthens the immune system by increasing antibody production in the body. It assists the body in utilizing oxygen and assists growth. Inhibits oxidation of lipids (fats). It works in tandem with Vitamin E very effectively. Prevents free radicals.
Chromium Polynicotinate (GPM) 0.2%- It is the most bio-available source of Chromium current on the market. Essential in converting fats into lean muscle mass. Helps to regulate the production of insulin
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Amylase- Breaks down starches, carbohydrates, and some sugars.
Lipase– Breaks down fats.
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Safe in California
Learning What Happened
"She showed me her number almost immediately."
"I met [my Aunt Yvonne] when she eventually came to California and—came to Los Angeles where we lived—and they moved into an apartment with my grandfather and—basically, her mother and father—my grandfather and grandmother—and she had a separate bedroom in that apartment, and they moved in there. We lived about maybe six blocks away.
She showed me her number almost immediately. She said, that’s where—how they identified her, and her number was A-6161, or something like that, and I have a picture of it, and she said, 'That’s how they identified us.' And she didn’t tell me a whole lot about what happened. I got most of it out of the book that she wrote.
About two years later—my aunt started talking about it herself. She was in Los Angeles, and she was on kind of a lecture tour within L.A.—she would go to Optimus Club and various kinds of social groups and give a presentation and actually get paid for it (just expenses, very little), but she wanted to spread the word, and she kept saying 'If we don’t stop this thing from happening now, there’ll be a Third World War.'"
Postwar ID card belonging to Yvonne Rothschild Klug: Carte d'Identite issued to Edward Francel's Aunt Yvonne after the war. ~ Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ~ Creator: French Government ~ Date: September 14, 1945
Edward Francell, “Safe in California,” Georgia Journeys, accessed July 18, 2019, http://georgiajourneys.kennesaw.edu/items/show/287.
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Shinner, Emily
English violinist; born at Cheltenham. She began the study of the" violin at an early age. In 1874, when she was twelve years of age she went to Berlin to study with Jacobsen, and two years later entered the Berlin High School's music department, becoming a pupil of Joachim. She was the first woman to enjoy the privilege of his instruction. Miss Shinner played in several German cities, returning to England in 1881. The next year she made her debut at a concert in Kensington and also appeared in the English provinces. She appeared successfully in the London Popular concerts and at the Crystal Palace, taking Mme. Neruda's place and became exceedingly popular as a concert violinist. In 1887 she organized a ladies' string quartet, known as the Shinner Quartet, which played frequently in London and the provinces with great success. In 1889 she married Captain A. F. Liddell of the Artillery. Miss Shinner has been called the pioneer among women violinists.
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Smart, Henry, jr.
English organist and composer; born in London. He received his early education at Highgate, and in his boyhood spent much time in Robson's organ factory, where he unconsciously laid the foundation of his profound knowledge of organ construction and mechanics. Declining a commission in the Indian Army, he was apprenticed to a lawyer, but soon abandoned the study of law for music. He studied under his father and W. H. Kearns, but was largely self-educated. In 1831 he was appointed organist of the parish church at Blackburn, Lancashire, where he remained five years, and in 1835 performed an anthem he had composed in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. This was his first important composition. In 1836 he became organist of St. Philip's Church in London, and in 1844 took a similar position at St. Luke's, Old Street, where he played until 1864. In 1864 he became organist at St. Pancras, and continued to play there for fourteen years. In 1864 his eyesight began to fail, and he had to dictate all his compositions from that time forward. In June, 1879, the government granted him a pension of a hundred pounds a year, but he died in July, before he had received any of it. Smart was a notable organist and excelled as accompanist of services and in extemporization. He wrote Cathedral services in F, two in G, and one in B flat, and a large number of pieces for organ. He wrote a Series of Organ Pieces, a Choral Book, and the Presbyterian Hymnal, and just before his death a postlude in E flat. Other church compositions were the two great anthems, Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge, and Sing to the Lord, written especially for the fourth and sixth Annual Festivals of the London Choral Choirs' Association at St. Paul's in 1876 and 1878. He wrote over eighty part-songs, among them being Ave Maria; The Lady of the Sea; The Shepherd's Farewell; Nature's Praise; The Abbess; Estelle; and The Wave's Reproof. Probably his best composition is The Bride of Dunkerron, a cantata. Other cantatas were The Fishermaidens, King Rene's Daughter, and Jacob. Other compositions are the opera, Berta, or the Gnome of the Hartzburg, and two unfinished operas, The Surrender of Calais, and Undine. For the Handel Society he edited two trios and thirteen Italian duets of that master. Smart was a successful designer of organs, those in the town hall of Leeds and the city hall and St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow being examples of his work in this line.
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Governor Abiodun Appoints Senior Aides
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has approved the appointment of seven senior aides.
The new appointees and their portfolios as contained in a statement on Tuesday are Chief Economic Adviser – Dapo Okubadejo; Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs – Hon, Tunji Egbetokun; Special Adviser on Information – Modele Sarafa-Yusuf; Special Adviser, Government House – Hon. Babatunde Olaotan; Special Adviser on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment – Mr Lekan Olude; Special Adviser on Housing Jamiu Akande Omoniyi and Senior Special Assistant on New Media, Emmanuel Ojo.
The Chief Economic Adviser, Dapo Okubadejo, is a Partner & Africa Head of Deal Advisory & Private Equity at KPMG. He is an expert on Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Project Finance, Investments, Private Equity and business transformation. With about 28 years of professional experience, he has acted as Corporate Financial Adviser to many foreign and local investors in Nigeria and across Africa.
Okubadejo started his professional career in Arthur Andersen in 1992 and spent over a decade there, rising to the position of Senior Manager and consulted for more than 40 companies in oil & gas, consumer goods and financial services on many projects in Assurance, Business Strategy & Planning, Financial Restructuring and Business Transformation.
In 2006, he was promoted to the KPMG partnership as an Equity Partner and rose to become the Head of Deal Advisory & Private Equity for West Africa and Africa in 2009 and 2012 respectively. He was elected to the KPMG Nigeria Policy Board in 2017.
Okubadejo is a recognized expert on Africa business and investments landscape and has been invited as a resource person, faculty, panelist and moderator at many international conferences, seminars and fora such as the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School Africa forum, London Business School Africa, among others.
He has written many articles on investment opportunities in Nigeria and Africa, Doing business in Africa and Private Equity in Nigeria and has delivered many lectures on corporate finance, business valuations, IPO and private equity.
The Senior Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Hon. Tunji Egbetokun was a former Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly between 2008 and 2011.
He had also served in the capacity of Senior Special Adviser, Political and Intergovernmental Affairs between 2011 and 2014. Before then, he was Secretary to the Obafemi Owode Local Government.
The new Special Adviser on Information, Modele Sarafa-Yusuf, is an award-winning media practitioner with a cumulative 32 years of experience in journalism and Marketing Communications.
She has varied experience contributing to, and leading, corporate marketing and internal communications.
Sarafa-Yusuf is a respected leader of sponsorships and public relations departments and a Concept developer and coordinator of marketing campaigns which effectively reinforce and build brand image.
In 16 years of journalism with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Modele was not only a sports broadcaster, she was also a columnist for magazines, a guest writer for newspapers, a script writer for television shows and a producer of documentaries and programmes for radio and television: in fields as diverse as business, culinary, current affairs, crime, and education.
Olalekan Adeniyi Olude is Award winning entrepreneur and technocrat with expertise in building and backing enduring companies across African.
The new Special Adviser on Job Creation and Youth Empowerment started his career as a Technology Analyst with Goldman Sachs, arguably the largest investment bank in the world.
Until his appointment, Olude was co-founder and Executive Director at Rovedana Limited, a business process outsourcing company that provides employment to more than 2000 Nigerians across different industries and specializations by up-scaling them and placing them into employment with over 100 companies.
He was also a co-founder of Jobberman Limited, the leading job site in sub-Saharan Africa and was a founding partner of the African Talents Company in South Africa – a pan African Executive Recruitment Company with offices in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania.
The new Special Adviser on Housing is 50-year-old Jamiu Akande Omoniyi whose Estate development arm of his company has delivered homes to 5,000 Nigerian families in Abuja and Lagos.
Hon (Otunba) Babatunde Olaotan, the Special Adviser (Government House) was a former Personal Assistant on Political matters to the Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola.
He has also served as the Personal Assistant to the new Executive Governor Abiodun.
He was the Deputy Director, Contacts and Mobilization for Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization. He served as the Chairman Transport committee for Prince Dapo Abiodun Pre-Inauguration activities.
Emmanuel Adediran Ojo is a New Media expert with specialties in New Media Analytics and Digital Marketing. His extensive experience spans over nine (9) years. He hails from Imeko, in Imeko Afon Local Government area of Ogun state.
Emmanuel Ojo has extensive knowledge of new media trends, tools and analytics platforms and he often deploy same in strategic communication, monitoring, reporting and digital analysis and social media landscape.
This unique skill facilitates his significant ability in tracking, monitoring, and analyzing public and personal reputation in a unique form. In his career so far, he has worked with different online groups.
He is a resourceful and savvy online specialist who is not only able to oversee various social media channels, but is also able to contribute to its daily content offering and audience conversion.
Ojo was the Head of New Media department at Infostrategy Limited. He was also part of the media intervention team for National Identity Management Commission’s, (NIMC) public sensitization on National Identity Number (NIN) project in 2013/2014.
He is a thoroughbred perception manager with proven skills in Public and Political Communication especially in the Ogun state political terrain. He once served as a member of PDP Presidential Online Media team in 2015.
Until his appointment, he was the Assistant Media Director for Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization – DACO and also served as the Secretary, Media and Publicity Sub Committee for the governorship inauguration ceremony.
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1981-1983: US Launches Military PSYOPS Missions Designed to Agitate, Frighten Soviets
The US begins launching what the Pentagon calls “psychological operations,” or PSYOPS, against the USSR. The operations consist in part of military exercises designed to agitate and frighten the USSR into believing the US might be preparing for a military assault. Few outside of the White House and the Pentagon’s top officials—and Soviet officials, of course—know about the series of provocative exercises. Undersecretary of Defense Fred Ikle will later recall: “It was very sensitive. Nothing was written down about it, so there would be no paper trail.” The idea behind the operations is to keep the Soviets off-balance about what, if anything, the US might do. It also is designed to probe for gaps and vulnerabilities in the Soviets’ early warning intelligence system. General Jack Chain, a Strategic Air Command (SAC) commander, will later recall: “Sometimes we would send bombers over the North Pole and their radars would click on. Other times fighter-bombers would probe their Asian or European periphery.” Sometimes the operations send out several probes in a week, coming at irregular intervals to make the effect that much more unsettling. Then the probes stop, only to begin again several weeks later. Undersecretary of State for Military Assistance and Technology Dr. William Schneider will later recall: “It really got to them. They didn’t know what it all meant. A squadron would fly straight at Soviet airspace, and other radars would light up and units would go on alert. Then at the last minute the squadron would peel off and return home.” The operations include naval incursions as well as aerial missions, with US aircraft carrier groups regularly conducting exercises alarmingly close to Soviet military and industrial sites, often without being detected until the groups are already in place. Some exercises simulate surprise attacks on Soviet targets, sometimes simulating air assaults on Soviet fighter units. The naval pressure is particularly intense in the area of the North Atlantic called the “Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap.” [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Entity Tags: William Schneider Jr., Fred C. Ikle, US Department of Defense, Jack Chain
May 1981: Soviet Union Prepares for US First Strike
Yuri Andropov, the head of the Soviet KGB intelligence agency, tells a group of KGB officers that the US is actively preparing for war with the USSR, and warns of “the possibility of a nuclear first strike” by the Americans. The KGB describes the program thusly: “One of the chief directions for the activity of the KGB’s foreign service is to organize detection and assessment of signs of preparation [for a surprise nuclear attack] in all possible areas, i.e., political, economic and military sectors, civil defense and the activity of the special services.” Andropov, who will become the head of the Soviet government in 1982, helps direct the KGB and GRU (the Soviet military intelligence agency) to make preparations for that strike its top priority. The agencies instruct Soviet agents in NATO capitals and Japan to make “close observation[s] of all political, military, and intelligence activities that might indicate preparations for mobilization.” The program, called VRYAN (the Soviet acronym for “Surprise Nuclear Missile Attack”), takes even greater priority once Andropov rises to power. [Fischer, 3/19/2007; Scoblic, 2008, pp. 134] (Others such as CIA researcher Benjamin Fischer will refer to the program in their writings as “Operation RYAN.”) Fischer will write that VRYAN, or RYAN, is based on “genuine fears” among the Soviet military and political leadership. Andropov’s KGB in particular feels that the international situation, or what the Soviets call the “correlation of world forces,” is “turning against the USSR and increasing its vulnerability.” In conjunction with the Reagan’s administration hardline stance towards the Soviet Union, an increase in US-led military exercises and psychological warfare missions conducted close to Soviet borders, and an increase in the US’s ability to thwart Soviet early warning systems, this perception prompts the Soviets to not only voice their concern over the possibility of a US first strike, but to prepare for it. Fischer also notes that in some ways, Operation VRYAN and Moscow’s uneasiness over the US threat is sparked by bitter memories of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 surprise invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nazis. The program, Fischer will write, abandons caution and the usual tradecraft of intelligence-gathering, and instead relies on often-unreliable data supplied by East German intelligence sources. [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Entity Tags: Operation VRYAN, Yuri Andropov, Benjamin Fischer, KGB, Russian Military Intelligence (GRU)
September 1981 through November 1983: Hardliners Block INF Arms Agreement
Reagan officials reopen the stalled Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) arms limitation talks with the Soviet Union, against the advice of President Reagan’s more hardline officials (see January 1981 and After). The talks center on the Soviets’ SS-20 missile, designed to strike European targets. In return, then-President Carter had agreed to deploy US intermediate-range nuclear missiles—Pershing II’s and Tomahawks—in West Germany and Italy by 1983. According to author J. Peter Scoblic, the missiles have little real military value, as American ICBMs, submarine-based nuclear missiles, and long-range bombers could destroy Soviet targets with near-impunity. They do, however, have some political significance, mostly in helping tie European security to US security. Carter had agreed to open talks with the Soviets to get rid of the SS-20s entirely.
Hardliners Sabotage Talks - The more pragmatic Reagan officials succeed in reopening the talks; Reagan hardliners, thwarted in stopping the talks, set about sabotaging them in any way available. When arguments in favor of delays and “further study” finally fail, they pressure Reagan to offer an agreement they know the Soviets will refuse: the so-called “zero option,” which originates with Defense Department official Richard Perle (see Early 1981 and After). Perle says that the Soviets should remove all of the SS-20s, and in return, the US will not deploy its Pershings and Tomahawks—in essence, having the Soviets concede something for essentially nothing. State Department officials suggest a fallback position in case the Soviets reject Perle’s offering; in his turn, Perle appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee and compares anyone who opposes his zero-sum offering to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1938.
'Walk in the Woods' - When the Soviets reject Perle’s option, Reagan hardliners argue that the government should accept no compromise. The head of the INF negotiation team, Paul Nitze—a Cold War figure who has come out against arms control (see January 1976) but is not fully trusted by the hardline ideologues because of his history as an arms negotiator—wants a compromise. In official negotiations, he sticks to the all-or-nothing position of Perle, but opens private, informal negotiations with his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. One afternoon in 1982, Nitze and Kvitsinsky go for what later becomes known as their “walk in the woods.” Sitting together on a log during an afternoon rainstorm, the two hammer out an agreement that greatly favors the US—mandating a 67 percent reduction in Soviet SS-20s and allowing the US to deploy an equal number of Tomahawks. Not only would the Soviets have to reduce their already-deployed contingent of missiles and the US be allowed to deploy missiles, because the Tomahawks carry more independent warheads than the SS-20s, the US would have a significant advantage in firepower. The deal also sets limits on SS-20 deployments in Asia, and forbids the Soviets from developing ground-launched cruise missiles. In return, the US would agree not to deploy its Pershing missiles.
Hardliners Block Agreement - Perle and his hardline allies in the Reagan administration succeed in blocking acceptance of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky agreement. As author J. Peter Scoblic later writes, “Perle’s ideological obstructionism—concisely conveyed in his disparagement of Nitze as ‘an inverterate problem-solver’—reached fantastic heights.” Perle first tried to block Reagan from even learning the details of the agreement, and lied to Reagan, asserting falsely that the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed the agreement. Perle, in conjunction with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, eventually convinces Reagan to stick to the “zero option.” Perle argues against pressure from key US allies such as Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, telling Reagan, “We can’t just do something; we’ve got to stand there—and stand firm.” In 1983, Perle tells Weinberger that it would be better for the US to deploy no missiles at all than to accept the agreement. Scoblic will write: “In other words, he argued that foregoing deployment in return for nothing was better than foregoing deployment in exchange for something. The position made no sense, but the Reagan team held firm to it, once again preventing the adoption of a viable arms control deal.” When the US deploys Pershing missiles in Europe in November 1983, the Soviets walk out of the talks. [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 120-123]
Entity Tags: Richard Perle, Margaret Thatcher, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Peter Scoblic, Caspar Weinberger, Paul Nitze, Ronald Reagan, Reagan administration, Senate Armed Services Committee, US Department of State, Yuli Kvitsinsky
June 8, 1982: Reagan: Democracy Will Leave Communism ‘On the Ash-heap of History’
In another speech excoriating communism, President Reagan promises the British Parliament that “the march of freedom and democracy… will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expressionism of the people.” He promises that the “forces of good [will] ultimately rally and triumph over evil,” and says that the West cannot successfully coexist with communist regimes: “Must freedom wither in a quiet, deadening accomodation with totalitarian evil?” [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 116-117]
Entity Tags: Ronald Reagan
Early 1983: Tensions Mount between US, USSR in ‘Cold War II’
One of five secret, underground ‘control rooms’ built by East German intelligence to help coordinate a Soviet counterattack against a US first strike. [Source: Central Intelligence Agency]By the beginning of 1983, the world seems closer to a nuclear holocaust than it has since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The idea of detente between the US and the Soviet Union has been all but abandoned, and European allies of the US use the term “Cold War II” to describe the new, chilly relations between the two superpowers. French President Francois Mitterrand compares the situation to the 1962 Cuban crisis and the 1948 confrontation over Berlin. American Cold War expert George Kennen says that the confrontation has the “familiar characteristics, the unfailing characteristics, of a march toward war—that and nothing else.” While there is little confrontation between the two in a military sense, the tensions are largely manifested in the rhetoric of the two sides, with President Reagan calling the USSR an “evil empire” (see March 8, 1983) and declaring that American democracy will leave Soviet communism on “the ash-heap of history” (see June 8, 1982). In return, Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov calls Reagan “insane” and “a liar.” The Soviet propaganda machine releases a storm of invective against Reagan and the US in general, comparing Reagan to Adolf Hitler and America to Nazi Germany. CIA analyst Benjamin Fischer will later write, “Such hyperbole was more a consequence than a cause of tension, but it masked real fears” (see May 1981). The Soviets are particularly worried about the US’s intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), the Pershing IIs, to be deployed throughout Europe (see September 1981 through November 1983), as well as the Americans’ new cruise missiles, the Tomahawks. Once those missiles are in place, the US, if it so desired, could destroy most of the Soviets’ own ballistic missile sites with only four to six minutes’ warning. The Soviets’ own plans for pre-emptive strikes against the US have the destruction of the European Pershing and Tomahawk emplacements as a top priority. [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Entity Tags: Francois Mitterrand, Benjamin Fischer, Yuri Andropov, George Kennen, Ronald Reagan
February 17, 1983: USSR Issues ‘High Alert’ for Intelligence Program Monitoring US Plans to Launch Surprise Nuclear Attack
The KGB, the Soviet intelligence directorate, issues a “high alert” for its Operation VRYAN intelligence alert system monitoring the US for signs of a possible military and nuclear assault (see May 1981). Provoked by two years of US military provocations (see 1981-1983), fearing that the rhetorical war between the US and the USSR (see Early 1983) is ready to explode into something far more concrete, and disheartened by worries that the Soviet Union is losing ground in its global contest with the US (see Early 1981), the Kremlin informs all KGB “rezidenturas,” or station chiefs, that VRYAN has “acquired an especial degree of urgency” and is “now of particularly grave importance.” Forty station chiefs receive new orders marked “strictly personal,” instructing them to organize a “continual watch” using their entire operational staff. They are also ordered to redirect existing agents who might have access to VRYAN-related information, to recruit new agents, and to escalate surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations. [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Entity Tags: Operation VRYAN, KGB
March 8, 1983: Reagan Gives ‘Evil Empire’ Speech, Urging Opposition to Nuclear Freeze Movement
President Reagan gives his famous “evil empire” speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. The speech is designed to dissuade Christian evangelicals from supporting a freeze on the production and deployment of nuclear weapons, as the Conference of Catholic Bishops had already done. The speech, written by Anthony Dolan, a follower of hard-line conservative philosopher William F. Buckley, is what author J. Peter Scoblic calls “a model conservative blend of religious traditionalism and anticommunism [that makes] explicit the link between Manicheanism and nuclear war fighting.” The cause is not merely peaceful co-existence, but an apocalyptic battle between good (the West) and evil (the Soviet empire), one that must be won no matter the costs. “We must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man,” Reagan tells his listeners. “We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil or, as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. There is sin and evil in the world, and we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might.” Supporting the nuclear freeze movement would be to commit the sin of moral relativism, Reagan says, putting moral strictures aside for temporal, even political concerns. “I urge you to beware the temptation of pride,” he warns, “the temptation of blithely declaring yourself above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.” [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 117]
Entity Tags: Ronald Reagan, Anthony Dolan, J. Peter Scoblic, Conference of Catholic Bishops
September 1, 1983: Soviets Shoot down Korean Airlines Passenger Plane, Sparks International Crisis
Korean Airlines Flight 007 before takeoff. [Source: Check-Six (.org)]A Soviet Su-15 fighter plane fires two missiles into a Korean Airlines 747 passenger plane, KAL 007. The plane, en route from Alaska to Seoul, South Korea, had strayed into Soviet air space, had not responded to radio communications, and had either ignored or not seen warning shots fired at it. The 747 crashes into the Sea of Japan, killing all 269 passengers, including conservative House Representative Larry McDonald (D-GA) and 62 other Americans. The Soviets insist that the passenger plane was deliberately sent into their airspace to test their military readiness; later investigation shows that a US spy plane had just left the area, agitating Soviet radar units, and, according to their own radio transmissions, the Soviets had honestly believed the 747 was another spy plane, most likely an American RC-135. Though it has definitely strayed into Soviet airspace at least twice, and flown over a sensitive Soviet airbase on the Kamchatka Peninsula, it is most likely shot down in international airspace. [Fischer, 3/19/2007; Scoblic, 2008, pp. 131]
Angry White House Officials Respond - Reagan administration officials are furious. Secretary of State George Shultz, dubbed “The Sphinx” by journalists for his remote demeanor, rails at the Soviets in a press conference called just four hours after the White House learns of the incident. [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 131] Four days later, Reagan will denounce the Soviets in a primetime televised speech (see September 5, 1983).
Massive PR Campaign against USSR - The US will use the shootdown to mount a tremendous public relations campaign against the Soviets, focusing on the Soviet civilian leadership as well as Soviet international business interests; for example, the US will demand a global boycott of the Soviet airline Aeroflot. According to a memo issued to the Politburo by the Defense Ministry and the KGB, the Soviets well understood the political ramifications of the shootdown: “We are dealing with a major, dual-purpose political provocation carefully organized by the US special services. The first purpose was to use the incursion of the intruder aircraft into Soviet airspace to create a favorable situation for the gathering of defense data on our air defense system in the Far East, involving the most diverse systems including the Ferret satellite. Second, they envisaged, if this flight were terminated by us, [the US would use] that fact to mount a global anti-Soviet campaign to discredit the Soviet Union.” In its own counter-propaganda efforts, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov will say that an “outrageous military psychosis” has taken over US foreign policy. He adds, “[T]he Reagan administration, in its imperial ambitions, goes so far that one begins to doubt whether Washington has any brakes at all preventing it from crossing the point at which any sober-minded person must stop.” [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Exacerbating Tensions - After the shootdown and its aftermath, according to the Soviet ambassador to the US, Anatoly Dobrynin, both sides go “a little crazy.” The shootdown gives the US hard evidence of its worst-case assumptions about the Soviets. For the Soviets, the US reaction gives them hard evidence of their own assumptions about the US’s attempts to provoke the USSR into some sort of confrontation (see 1981-1983) and to embarrass the Soviet Union in the eyes of the world. Reagan’s use of the KAL 007 incident to ask Congress for more defense funding is, in the Soviets’ eyes, proof that the entire incident was engineered by the Americans for just such an outcome. [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Alternative Accounts - A number of alternative accounts about the incident spring up, in particular concerning McDonald. [Insight, 4/16/2001]
Entity Tags: Reagan administration, Anatoly Dobrynin, Larry McDonald, Yuri Andropov, Steven Symms, George Shultz
November 2-11, 1983: ’Able Archer’ Almost Starts Nuclear Exchange
Test firing of a US Pershing II IRBM. [Source: US Army / Public domain]The US and its NATO allies carry out a military exercise called “Able Archer,” or “Able Archer 83,” designed to simulate the use of nuclear weapons in an assault against the Soviet Union, and to test command and control procedures. The military exercise comes perilously close to touching off a real nuclear exchange with the USSR. The exercise—not the first of its kind, but the most expansive—is huge, spanning Europe from Turkey to Scandinavia; it involves the heads of state of countries like Great Britain and Germany; and, perhaps most alarmingly for the Soviets, involves NATO forces escalating their military alert levels to DEFCON-1, at which point NATO nuclear weapons have their safeguards disabled and are ready for launch. The Soviet’s VRYAN program to detect a possible assault (see May 1981) is extremely active. On November 8, Moscow sends high-priority telegrams to its KGB stations in Western Europe demanding information about a possible surprise first attack on the USSR. Though little actual evidence exists, some sources erroneously tell Moscow that NATO ground forces are mobilizing. The KGB concludes that “Able Archer” is a cover for a real military assault; Warsaw Pact fighter units armed with nuclear weapons are put on alert in East Germany and Poland. [Scoblic, 2008, pp. 134-135; Cardiff Western News, 11/10/2008]
'Frighteningly Close' to Nuclear War, Says Soviet Intelligence Official - Oleg Gordievsky, the intelligence chief of the Soviet embassy in London and a British double agent, warns the British that the West is entering what he calls a “danger zone.” The Daily Telegraph will later write, “It was on Nov. 8-9 that the Kremlin had pressed what came close to a panic button.” [Washington Post, 10/16/1988] In his memoirs, Gordievsky will write: “In the tense atmosphere generated by the crises and rhetoric of the past few months, the KGB concluded that American forces had been placed on alert—and might even have begun the countdown to war.… [D]uring ABLE ARCHER 83 it had, without realizing it, come frighteningly close—certainly closer than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.” [Fischer, 3/19/2007]
Reagan 'Shocked' at Soviet Reaction - The exercise ends without incident, but National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane will later admit, “The situation was very grave.” Secretary of State George Shultz terms the exercise “a close call” and “quite sobering.” In early 1984, when the CIA reports that the Soviets had been convinced that the US was readying a nuclear strike, President Reagan will be, in author J. Peter Scoblic’s words, “shocked” to realize that he and his administration “had nearly started a nuclear war.” Reagan, in McFarlane’s recollection, will show “genuine anxiety” and begin talking about the concept of Armageddon—the Biblical end times—with his advisers. [Fischer, 3/19/2007; Scoblic, 2008, pp. 134-135]
Entity Tags: Operation VRYAN, Ronald Reagan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, KGB, J. Peter Scoblic, George Shultz, Robert C. McFarlane, ’Able Archer’, Central Intelligence Agency, Oleg Gordievsky
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Can You Say Escalation?
It's the top story on MSNBC.com, but it still bears discussing, I think. We're sending more troops to Iraq. We're also extending the tours of four units--over 10,000 soldiers, of whom 3,500 are being extended a second time. I thought we'd broken the back of the insurgency this time--it would be what, the tenth time or so that we've done this?
Yeah--I'm snarky about what the Bush administration calls progress in that unnecessary hellhole. Bite me if you don't like it.
So here's the deal, according to the above-linked article:
The increase of 12,000 troops, which is to last until March, reflects the strength and resiliency of an insurgency that U.S. military planners did not foresee when Baghdad was toppled in April 2003.
Much of the build-up will be accomplished by extending tours for more than 10,000 soldiers who had been due to leave Iraq in the coming months, Army Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez, deputy operations director of the Joint Staff, told reporters Wednesday. The extension means those troops will now serve an average of 14 months in Iraq, two to four months longer than originally expected, officials said.
The military generally is reluctant to extend soldiers’ combat tours because of the potential negative effect it could have on their families, and thus on their willingness to remain in the service. In this case, Gen. George Casey, the most senior U.S. commander in Iraq, decided it was necessary to keep up pressure on the insurgents while also providing security for the elections, Rodriguez said.
Just how many Bush voters--assuming they even read the article in the first place--will catch the bit that I bolded there? There's no excuse for this--the Bush administration was warned by more than one military person that we were getting into more than they thought they were, but they had to listen to their buddy Chalabi and the fucking neo-cons who were smarter than the rest of us.
As I said right after the election--every soldier and every Iraqi who dies after January 20, their blood is on the heads of not only the Bush administration, but also on the heads of every person who voted for their re-election. Don't like the taste of collective guilt? Tough shit. It's not like you didn't know what these assholes were all about. You'd had four years to figure it out.
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Anti-Trump Judge Suspend
Empty words: why
Ilhan Omar’s legal
Kill the president; this
Texas, a model for less
Loving the illegals, ignoring our own
The state of California, once the Golden State is on a path of economic and moral ruin.
The trend was started a long time back with liberal Governor Jerry Brown that’s now continuing aggressively with the new one, Gavin Newsom, a more liberal.
California is already a heavily taxed state and by accepting hundreds of thousands of illegal ‘refugees’ and giving them ‘a sanctuary city and state’ and also all kinds of facilities the burden on taxpayer is going to increase manifold. Recently the state became more generous to the illegals by deciding to provide them with Medical, that’s denied to a big number of ‘regular’ residents of California.
Who is going to pay for this additional burden? Obviously, those who are the ‘regulars’ and also those who are denied the facility! Wow!
According to Tonya Moreno, a Certified public Accountant (CPA), California taxes are among the highest in the country. They will affect you if you’re buying a home, making money there, or even just shopping in the Golden State.
California's sales tax rate is the highest in the nation at 7.25 percent. Add to it some local sales taxes, the rate reaches a high of 10 percent in some cities, though the average being 8.54 percent.
Then there are additional excise taxes on some products like an extra 33 percent if you buy fruit from a vending machine here.
California also has an additional tax on cigarettes and gasoline. A pack of cigarettes costs $2.87. Gas has added an extra 53.49 cents a gallon. As of 2018, the average California driver pays $3.05 per gallon compared to the national average of $2.26. This year it’s anywhere between $3.95 and $4.19 or more.
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would advise you to stop driving and start walking to save the planet – and your money. Aha! But she hasn’t started doing it herself. Her plan is for others. This ‘charity’ doesn’t start from home, her home.
California State Income Tax is also one of the highest in the country at around 13.3 percent as of 2018. The state's standard deduction, however, is a fairly decent $4,236 per person.
Income taxes are levied on both residents’ incomes and income earned in the state by non-residents. Many states have reciprocity agreements with other states that allow non-residents to work there without paying income tax except to their home state, but California isn't one of them.
The highest rate of 13.3 percent begins at incomes of $1 million or more as of 2018. The lowest 0 percent rate is reserved for earners of less than $8,223 in taxable income.
Many federal deductions are limited or disallowed in California, but other state tax credits are available, including an exemption credit for yourself and your dependents, a credit for renters, a credit for single or divorced parents, and a credit for people who have dependent parents.
Capital Gains Tax in California
California tax law includes no special provisions for capital gains tax so unlike federal tax law, the state doesn't give you a break for long-term gains on assets you hold onto for over a year.
If you sell any property or asset for more than your tax basis or investment in it, you'll pay taxes on your profits at your personal income tax rate regardless of the duration of ownership. This means that if you fall into that 13.3 percent tax bracket, you'll pay that rate on your capital gains, too.
If your sale is such that you must also pay the federal long-term capital gains tax rate of 20 percent, you'll end up paying the second-highest capital gains tax rate in the world—a combined 33.3 percent.
California Inheritance and Estate Taxes
This is one area in which California residents really do get a tax break. When federal estate tax laws changed on January 1, 2005, the legislation eliminated California's estate tax, and the state has no inheritance tax. At least you can die here tax-free.
Many of the facilities are not available to the normal, regular citizens of the state who also pay taxes. The bleeding-heart liberals, leftists and Democrats, without asking the voters and the taxpayers, are bent upon depleting the resources and would certainly impose new taxes in their hypocritical humanitarian zeal to provide for illegals. This is a sure way to invite more and more.
The recent border patrol estimate is over one hundred thousand a month crossing the border illegally and becoming ‘guests’ of the liberal Democratic administration. May arrivals topped 140,000 and the Democratic leadership doesn’t care. They only care about how to get more people who will be enrolled through the motor-voter practice, courtesy the Department of Motor Vehicles.
That process doesn’t need verification and, obviously, DMV is not capable or authorized to verify the status of applicants for a driver license.
Forget the 50 or so lawsuits the California state has launched against President Trump, federal administration and agencies that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars for which the voters have not been consulted or requested for additional funding.
In any case, the state has spread a welcome mat for these illegal thousands every day giving those free health care facilities under the Medicare and Medical programs, affordable housing, and other kind of welfare grants.
According to Fox News, as a part of the state’s new budget plan, low-income illegal immigrants living in California between the ages of 19 and 25 will be eligible for Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program. If passed, the plan – which was proposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom – would make California the first state to offer full health insurance to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, The Hill reports.
This plan is estimated to cost $98 million out of the state’s total $213 billion budget and is set to go into effect in January 2020.
To pay for the medical benefits for illegal immigrants, USA Today reports that California lawmakers have decided that they will tax citizens who do not have health insurance.
Reportedly, Democrats in the state’s Legislature have agreed on the budget plan, but the plan is yet to be passed by the body as a whole.
Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group Health Access, said he sees this plan as a great start. According to the Sacramento Bee, Wright said, “While it’s not all we sought, it will provide a real tangible difference for people, especially for those around and below poverty and for middle-income families who don’t get any help under the federal law.”
He further commented on Twitter writing, "We will continue to pursue steps towards the Governor’s & Legislature’s shared goal of getting to universal coverage in the next few years. #Health4All”
Executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center Cynthia Buiza regarded the policy as helpful but too exclusive. “For California’s immigrant communities, today’s budget deal is bittersweet. The exclusion of undocumented elders from the same health-care their U.S. citizen neighbors are eligible for means beloved community members will suffer and die from treatable conditions. And the exclusion of many immigrants from the Earned Income Tax Credit will perpetuate the crisis of economic inequality in our state.
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Author: Tahir Mahmood
Publisher: Universal Law Publishing
Publication Place: New Delhi
This book offers a comprehensive account of the laws of India relating to religion and religious freedom in general and religious affairs of the country’s various faith traditions and communities in particular. The book deals not only with the laws directly governing religion and religious affairs but also with religion-related provisions scattered over numerous general laws of the country. A glance through the contents reveals its extensive coverage of the entire gamut of laws relevant to or having a bearing on its theme. The book highlights the peculiar concept of secularism which India has developed over the years and under which there is complete equality of and equal respect for all the religious traditions prevailing in the country. Spelling out the various world models of religion-State relations and the international legal norms on religious rights and liberties, it demonstrates the unique nature of India’s legal system in this regard and its complete adherence to the said international norms. The first work of its kind, this book answers a pressing need of India’s pluralist society and aims at promoting compliance with the citizen’s Fundamental Duty under the Constitution “to value and preserve the rich heritage of our composite culture”.
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Religion under International Human Rights Law
Chapter III: Religion under Constitution and related laws
Chapter IV: Religion uneder legislation of general application
Chapter V: Community - specific laws on religious affairs Appendices: Statutory laws on religion calssified texts
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Home » Context of 'June 23, 2005: Vice President Cheney Has ‘Pretty Good Idea’ of Bin Laden’s General Location'
Context of 'June 23, 2005: Vice President Cheney Has ‘Pretty Good Idea’ of Bin Laden’s General Location'
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June 19, 2005: CIA Director Says He Has ‘Excellent Idea’ Where Bin Laden Is Hiding
Asked if he has a good idea where Osama bin Laden is hiding, CIA Director Porter Goss replies: “I have an excellent idea of where he is. What’s the next question?” Although he doesn’t mention the country, Goss implies he is referring to Pakistan. He mentions the “very difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states,” which appears to be a diplomatic way of referring to the tribal region of Pakistan, where many believe bin Laden is located. [BBC, 6/20/2005] Vice President Dick Cheney will make a similar comment several days later (see June 23, 2005).
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Porter J. Goss, Pakistan
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, War in Afghanistan
June 23, 2005: Vice President Cheney Has ‘Pretty Good Idea’ of Bin Laden’s General Location
Vice President Dick Cheney says about Osama bin Laden, “We’ve got a pretty good idea of a general area that he’s in, but I—I don’t have the street address.” [CNN, 6/23/2005] His comments come shortly after CIA Director Porter Goss’s comment that he has an “excellent idea” where bin Laden is (see June 19, 2005).
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Porter J. Goss
December 20, 2005: Cheney: Watergate Eroded Power of President
Vice President Dick Cheney, formerly the chief of staff for President Gerald Ford (see November 4, 1975 and After), says, “Watergate and a lot of the things around Watergate and Vietnam, both during the ‘70s served, I think, to erode the authority… the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area.” Cheney says that he and George W. Bush have restored some of “the legitimate authority of the presidency” that was taken away in the aftermath of Watergate. “I think the vice president ought to reread the Constitution,” retorts Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean comments that Bush and Cheney’s behavior “reminds Americans of the abuse of power during the dark days of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.” [Toronto Star, 12/21/2005; Werth, 2006, pp. 348]
Entity Tags: Richard M. Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Howard Dean, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr, George W. Bush, Democratic National Committee, Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
Timeline Tags: Nixon and Watergate
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Home » Context of 'May 1968: Military, Law Enforcement Officials Participate in First Cable Splicer Seminar'
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Winter 1967-1968: Pentagon Establishes Civil Disturbance Plans Garden Plot and Cable Splicer
In the wake of anti-war demonstrations and urban rioting in several US cities, the Pentagon establishes a set of civil disturbance plans designed to put down political protests and civil unrest. Conducted under the codename Operation Garden Plot, the new program significantly increases the role of the military in training for and intervening in social uprisings. The Pentagon develops contingency plans for every city considered to have potential for uprisings by students, minorities, or labor unions. Each area of the country follows a subplan of Operation Garden Plot. Operation Cable Splicer, for instance, covers the states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona (see May 1968, February 10, 1969, March 1969, and May 1970). Each region will conduct exercises and war games to practice and develop its individual plans. To oversee the operations, the Pentagon establishes the Directorate of Civil Disturbance and Planning Operations. The directorate will operate from the basement of the Pentagon in what becomes known as the “domestic war room” (see April 1968). [New Times, 11/28/1975; Salon, 3/15/2002; U.S Army, 8/18/2009]
Entity Tags: Directorate of Civil Disturbance and Planning Operations, US Department of Defense
April 1968: Military Establishes Civil Disturbance Agency, ‘Domestic War Room’
The government establishes the Directorate of Civil Disturbance and Planning Operations within the Department of Defense. The directorate will oversee civil disturbance operations, such as Garden Plot and Cable Splicer (see Winter 1967-1968), and conduct surveillance on US citizens in search of possible security threats. The directorate is headquartered in the basement of the Pentagon in what will become known as the “domestic war room.” The center utilizes a massive computer system to monitor “all public outbursts and political dissent” within the United States. New Times magazine will describe the war room as follows: “Surrounded by acetate map overlays, a fulltime staff of 180, including around-the-clock ‘watch teams,’ [uses] teletype machines, telephones, and radios to keep in constant communication with every National Guard headquarters and all major military installations in the continental United States.” Seven Army infantry brigades totaling 21,000 troops are at the directorate’s disposal. [New Times, 11/28/1975]
Entity Tags: US Department of Defense, Directorate of Civil Disturbance and Planning Operations
May 1968: Military, Law Enforcement Officials Participate in First Cable Splicer Seminar
Military and law enforcement officials gather at the California National Guard’s training center for a workshop seminar on civil disturbance control. The program, known as Cable Splicer I, is designed to prepare officials for a future exercise, Cable Splicer II, which will be conducted in March 1969 (see February 10, 1969 and March 1969). Operation Cable Splicer is a subplan of Operation Garden Plot, a national program established by the Pentagon to quash political uprisings and social unrest (see Winter 1967-1968). The subplan is designed to cover the states of California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. [New Times, 11/28/1975]
February 10, 1969: Officials Kick off Domestic Disturbance Exercise
California Governor Ronald Reagan, along with a variety of other local, state, and federal officials, kicks off a regional exercise known as Cable Splicer II at the Governor’s Orientation Conference. Operation Cable Splicer is part of Operation Garden Plot, a program established by the Pentagon to monitor and put down civil unrest (see Winter 1967-1968). Cable Splicer is a subplan designed to cover the states of California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Governor Reagan addresses an audience of approximately 500 Army officials and troops, local and state police officers, military intelligence personnel, private executives, and state legislators. “You know,” he says, “there are people in the state who, if they could see this gathering right now and my presence here, would decide that their worst fears and convictions had been realized—I was planning a military takeover.” According to New Times magazine, Chief Deputy Attorney General Charles O’Brien speaks bluntly about constitutional rights, “arguing at one point that if the Constitution prevents the police from gathering political intelligence, then the Constitution goes too far.” O’Brien continues: “This is a revolution, and anything goes. A civil disturbance anywhere in this state is an attack on the state itself.” Deputy Attorney General Buck Compton argues that “free speech, civil rights, [and] rights to assembly” have all become “clichés.” Congressman Clair Burgener attends the conference, but is only vaguely aware of the scope of the upcoming exercise and emergency plans. He is later surprised to learn of the conference’s true nature. He will later tell New Times magazine, “If this was going on in this spirit, they were certainly pulling the wool over the eyes of the invited guests.” After reviewing the plans, he will say: “Well, I’ll be damned! This is what I call subversive.” The Cable Splicer II exercise will be conducted a month later (see March 1969). [New Times, 11/28/1975]
Entity Tags: Charles O’Brien, California National Guard, Ronald Reagan, US Department of Defense, Clair Burgener
March 1969: Civil Disturbance Exercise Conducted in California
A large exercise, codenamed Cable Splicer II, is conducted in California to test and develop the ability of local, state, and federal officials to deal with political protests and urban rioting. Operation Cable Splicer is a regional subplan of the Pentagon’s Operation Garden Plot (see Winter 1967-1968). A month earlier, Governor Ronald Reagan and other officials ceremoniously kicked off the war game (see February 10, 1969). The exercise, which simulates a variety of civil disturbances, is spread across 23 political jurisdictions and includes National Guard officers, Army advisers, senior police and sheriff officers, and private executives. According to New Times magazine, “over 1,200 preplanned intelligence reports on supposedly imaginary events, people, and organizations” are pasted on index cards and handed to the participants to help “generate the make-believe war.” The magazine will later report: “The players listen to a special intelligence summary, learning the background of the civil disturbance that has led to the current ‘emergency.’ At that point, the ‘controllers’—usually senior National Guard officers and their Army advisers—begin play, feeding the IBM-card preplanned intelligence reports of dissident activity to the players. Seated at rows of desks dotted with telephones, facing a ‘situation map’ of their community, the players respond to the unfolding scenario.”
Storyline - In the first phase of the exercise, an arrest and shooting “provoke crowd unrest and threats against public officials.” Fourteen simulated hours later, rioters attack a police car and injure an officer. A member of a minority group is killed and two others are wounded. There are threats of retaliation against police officers. Mock intelligence reports suggest widespread rioting is likely, as dozens of apparent radicals are flown in on a “chartered flight” and picked up at the airport by 20 separate vehicles. The second phase of the exercise begins with “the ambush of several police cars, the attempted assassination of the mayor, the bombing of local armories, the destruction of vehicles and ammunition stocks, and the gathering of thousands of people in the streets.” The exercise participants call in police from outside jurisdictions and cities, but they are unsuccessful at quelling the violence. In the third phase of the exercise, according to New Times, “intelligence reports pouring into the Emergency Operations Center disclose more fire bombings, attempted assassinations of public officials, hoarding of water in certain areas, and sniping of fire trucks. The streets remain filled with thousands of people, and the National Guard is called to active duty.” As the crowd turns increasingly violent, the Army is called upon to take over for the National Guard. The crowd is finally dispersed, although the details of exactly how are unknown. “At their disposal,” New Times reports, “there are heavy artillery, armor, chemical and psychological warfare teams, and tactical air support.” The third phase concludes with a few “loose militants” unable to gain popular influence. [New Times, 11/28/1975]
Entity Tags: California National Guard, US Department of Defense
May 1970: Officials Discuss Civil Disturbance Plans Following Exercise Cable Splicer III
Participants in a California civil disturbance exercise, codenamed Cable Splicer III, hold an “After Action Conference” to discuss the results. The exercise was designed to pracitce Operation Cable Splicer, a regional subplan of the Pentagon’s Operation Garden Plot (see Winter 1967-1968). The participants, which include Army officials, local police officers, and private executives, spend much of the conference pronouncing their disgust for leftists and other activists. According to New Times magazine, speakers at the conference condemn “university administrators who demur at giving the police free rein on the campuses; parents of ‘would-be revolutionaries’ who support their children; and legislators who investigate police actions.” Political demonstrators are referred to as “guerrillas,” “modern day barbarians,” “Brown Shirts,” “kooks,” and “VC.” Los Angeles Police Department Inspector John A. McAllister gives a lecture listing activities that “require police action,” including “loud, boisterous, or obscene” behavior on beaches, “love-in type gatherings in parks where in large numbers they freak out,” disruptions by “noisy and sometimes violent dissidents,” peace marches and rock festivals where “violence is commonplace and sex is unrestrained,” and “campus disruptions—which in fact are nothing more than mini-revolutions.” [New Times, 11/28/1975]
Entity Tags: John A. McAllister, Los Angeles Police Department
1971: California Governor Reagan Establishes Institute for ‘Specialized Training’
California Governor Ronald Reagan establishes the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) to oversee disaster training and exercises for the state. The CSTI, which will serve as a branch of the governor’s Office of Emergency Services, will prepare emergency personnel for a variety of scenarios ranging from terrorist attacks, to environmental hazards, to civil disturbances. The creation of the institute was recommended by participants in the exercises Cable Splicer II and Cable Splicer III (see March 1969 and May 1970). The facility, built with a $425,000 grant from the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is meant to duplicate the functions of the Senior Officers Civil Disturbance Course (SEADOC) in Fort Gordon, Georgia. The CSTI will be criticized for training police officers to use military-style tactics in domestic law enforcement situations. It will teach a controversial program known as the Civil Emergency Management Course (see September 1971). Reagan appoints Louis O. Giuffrida, a US Army colonel, to head the CSTI. A year earlier, Giuffrida wrote a paper advocating martial law and the emergency roundup of 21 million “American Negroes” to “assembly centers or relocation camps” in the event of a militant uprising by African Americans (see 1970). Giuffrida will later be appointed to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during Reagan’s presidency (see May 18, 1981). [New Times, 11/28/1975; California Specialized Training Institute, 11/28/1975 ; Reynolds, 1990]
Entity Tags: Louis Giuffrida, Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Senior Officers Civil Disturbance Course, California Specialized Training Institute, Ronald Reagan
Spring 1992: Military Updates Operation Garden Plot Following Riots in Los Angeles
The Department of Defense updates its civil disturbance response plan, codenamed Operation Garden Plot. The program was originally established in the 1960s (see Winter 1967-1968). The Pentagon utilizes lessons learned from the recent deployment of Marines and Army infantry troops in Los Angeles (see May 1-May 6, 1992). Marines called into Los Angeles had not been trained for domestic disturbances. An Army official reportedly says the military will now “provide standard riot duty training for all combat forces that could be called into the nation’s cities.” National Guard troops will also get “refresher training on riot control as part of their regular weekend training and two weeks of active duty.” [San Antonio Express-News, 5/17/1992]
Entity Tags: US Marine Corps, US Department of Defense
May 1-May 6, 1992: Combat Troops Deployed to Los Angeles in Response to Riots
After two days of widespread rioting in the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Tom Bradley and Governor Pete Wilson ask the White House for military assistance to supplement the California National Guard. President George H. W. Bush deploys 2,500 soldiers of the Army’s 7th Infantry Division from Fort Ord and 1,500 Marines from Camp Pendleton. Bush also federalizes approximately 8,000 National Guard troops. All three groups are placed under the command of Major General Marvin L. Covault as part of a decades-old Pentagon program codenamed Operation Garden Plot (see Winter 1967-1968). Combat troops, equipped with M-16 rifles, flak jackets, helmets, and riot batons, are the first to enter a US city since 1972. Marines take up positions in Compton and Long Beach; Army troops are sent to patrol the streets of Watts; and National Guard soldiers are deployed throughout the area. In a television address, Bush says the military will “use whatever force is necessary to restore order.” Bush announces he is sending into Los Angeles an additional 1,000 federal law enforcement officials, “including FBI SWAT teams and riot control units of the US Marshals Service, the Border Patrol, and other agencies.” According to the Washington Post, a Marine unit is on standby at Camp Pendleton “with light armored vehicles, eight-wheeled, 14-ton armored personnel carriers armed with 25mm cannon.” The troops in Los Angeles are ordered to return fire only when fired upon. Although few conflicts arise between soldiers and rioters, members of the National Guard shoot and kill a motorist that allegedly tries to run them down. Bush’s decision to activate the military will later be criticized for being unnecessary and coming after the majority of the violence had already ended. The riots will lead the military to increase military training for Operation Garden Plot in the coming months (see Spring 1992). [Washington Post, 5/2/1992; New York Times, 5/3/1992; Los Angeles Times, 5/10/1992; Reuters, 5/11/1992; San Antonio Express-News, 5/17/1992]
Entity Tags: George Herbert Walker Bush, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Department of Defense, US Border Patrol, Tom Bradley, Pete Wilson, US Marine Corps, California National Guard
August 2000: Military Ready to Launch Operation Garden Plot during Republican National Convention
A confidential Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) document obtained by Wired news says the US Army is prepared to deploy combat troops in US cities in response to disruptions ranging from civil disobedience to a nuclear attack. The 75-page operations manual, created by FEMA in preparation for the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, stresses the importance of preparing for “nuclear, biological, chemical, and civil disturbance events, as well as potential weather-related disaster events.” The document, according to Wired, “says that the US First Army will, if necessary, execute Operation Garden Plot to quell any serious civil disturbances.” Operation Garden Plot was first developed in the late 1960s to deal with potential protests and urban riots (see Winter 1967-1968). According to Wired, the current terrorism plans for the convention include “flying giant C-5 Galaxy cargo planes loaded with military gear into Willow Grove Naval Air Station, about 25 miles outside the city, and assembling troops at three National Guard armories near the downtown protest areas.” The FEMA document states, “The potential occurrence of an event that would reflect negatively on Philadelphia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or the United States demands that every effort to preclude such an event be taken.” FEMA has a similar plan for the upcoming Democratic National Convention. [Wired News, 8/1/2000]
Entity Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, US First Army, US Department of Defense
After September 11, 2001: Bush Administration Updates Operation Garden Plot
According to columnist and defense expert William M. Arkin, the Bush administration updates the civil disturbance plan known as Operation Garden Plot. This military plan was first established in the late 1960s to deal with anti-war protests and urban riots (see Winter 1967-1968). Arkin reports: “The Army’s ‘Operation Garden Plot,’ a plan formulated in the 1960s for dealing with large civil disturbances, has been dusted off and updated to focus mostly on military intervention in response to a domestic event involving weapons of mass destruction.… Special Operations Command, and more specifically the super-secret Delta Force, now have a role in thwarting and responding to domestic terrorist incidents.” [Los Angeles Times, 5/26/2002]
Entity Tags: US Special Operations Command, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment--Delta, Bush administration (43), US Department of Defense
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Copenhagen will host the Women Deliver 2016 Global Conference
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 18 August 2014 – Today, with 500 days left until the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline, advocacy organization Women Deliver and the Danish Minister for Trade and Development Corporation, Mogens Jensen, announced that the next Women Deliver global conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2016. The announcement was made at the Invest in Girls and Women – Everybody Wins event held at the Danish Parliament, where Denmark’s new Strategic Framework for Gender Equality, Rights and Diversity in Danish Development Cooperation was also launched.
“We are beyond thrilled that the Women Deliver 2016 conference will be in Copenhagen,” said Women Deliver President Jill Sheffield. “The Danish government has played a key role in advancing girls ’ and women ’ s health and rights and, with its support, this conference could catapult these issues to the forefront of the global development agenda and unify advocates from all around the world around one simple ask: Invest in girls and women – I t pays. ”
Women Deliver 2016 – the fourth triennial global conference – will be the largest gathering on girls ’ and women ’ s health and rights in the last decade and the first large global conference following the launch of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The meeting will offer advocates, activists, researchers, policymakers, young people, journalists, private sector leaders and members of civil society an unprecedented opportunity to strategize on how to operationalize these new goals and make sure that investments in girls and women become a priority at the national and global levels. This is of key importance given that the MDG target of reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health is likely to be met last, with some 800 women worldwide still dying from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications every day.
The Women Deliver 2016 conference will build on momentum generated around the previous landmark conferences held in 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was attended by 4,500 participants from 149 countries, and before that, in Washington, D.C. in 2010, and in London in 2007. The conferences have in the past drawn high-level attendance, including by the UN Secretary-General, and have generated action, spurred new ideas, and shared solutions that continue to make a difference for girls and women around the world.
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is active in working to create awareness on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights, global maternal health and child mortality issues and acts as patron of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Maternity Foundation. “I am proud that Denmark will be hosting Women Deliver 2016, and look very much forward to not only welcoming the world’s leading girls’ and women’s health and rights advocates to Copenhagen for this historic conference but, to participating once again in what is an inspirational, powerful and potential game-changing forum ,” said Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, who has also been a committed member of the High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) since its establishment in 2012. “Together, we need to increase investments in women and girls. If we can close the gender gap, it will be a win for the individual, for global development, and for economic growth – everybody wins.”
The Danish Ministry also launched a new Strategic Framework for Gender Equality, Rights and Diversity to guide its efforts to improve the lives of girls and women around the world. The new framework focuses on the potential of gender equality to transform societies, and highlights how Denmark will help girls and women access resources and seize opportunities that will enable them to take control over their own lives.
“Women Deliver and Denmark are united in our dedication to improving the lives of girls and women everywhere,” said Danish Minister for Trade and Development Cooperation Mogens Jensen. “We look forward to collaborating with Women Deliver and others – in line with our new Strategic Framework – to accelerate progress in the final 500 days of the MDGs and to make sure that girls and women remain front and center in the post-2015 world.”
The Invest in Girls and Women – Everybody Wins event featured remarks from International Director, Tania Dethlefsen, from the Danish Family Planning Association and Corporate Vice-president, Charlotte Ersbøll, from Novo Nordisk. All of the panelists called on fellow advocates and partners to work together – across all sectors – to push for progress now, through the MDG deadline in 2015 and beyond the Women Deliver 2016 conference.
“There has never been a better time to raise our voices in support of the health and rights of girls and women,” said Women Deliver CEO Katja Iversen. “Together, we can – and we must – create a future where all girls and women, no matter where they are born, can lead healthy, productive, and happy lives.”
Please visit Women Deliver’s website to learn more about Women Deliver 2016 and the global effort to improve the lives of girls and women. The Danish Ministry’s new Strategic Framework for Gender Equality, Rights and Diversity can be accessed online here.
For further information about Danida's Gender Equality strategi click here [Danish Version]
### ABOUT WOMEN DELIVER: Women Deliver believes that when the world invests in girls and women, everybody wins. We connect diverse voices and interests, and drive political commitment and progress to improve maternal, sexual and reproductive health and rights. As a leading global advocate, we build capacity and forge partnerships, together creating networks and messages that spark political will for investment in the health, rights and well-being of girls and women.
Website: womendeliver.org
Facebook: facebook.com/womendeliver
Twitter: twitter.com/womendeliver
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Elizabeth Kadetsky, Karin Lin-Greenburg & Monica McFawn
Elizabeth Kadetsky is author of a memoir (First There Is a Mountain, Little Brown), a story collection (The Poison that Purifies You, C&R Press) and, forthcoming, a novella (On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, Nouvella Books). Her fiction has been included in the Pushcart Prizes, Best New American Voices, and the Best American Short Stories notable citations, and her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Antioch Review, and elsewhere. She is assistant professor of creative writing at Penn State, and can be found at www.elizabethkadetsky.com
Advance praise for The Poison that Purifies You:
This thought-provoking collection explores the variety of ways that we seek personal and spiritual connections-and the ways that we can poison ourselves and others in our quests. Elizabeth Kadetsky is a writer of keen insight and graceful prose.
-Dan Chaon, Stay Awake
“Elizabeth Kadetsky deftly constructs fully realized places--some foreign, some familiar--and fully realized characters--some of them more like us than we’d like to admit. She tugs gently on these places and people until she finds their loose strings, and begins spooling out quiet strands of damage or dread. Before you know it, the dread is your own. These stories sneak up on you, hijack you, and before you know it, it’s too late. A stunning first collection.
” Brian Evenson, Windeye
KARIN LIN-GREENBERG - Faulty Predictions
“Karin Lin-Greenberg is a conoisseur of screwy family dynamics and outrageous sitatuions. The ten innovative and diverse stories in this debut collection cover a lot of territory, from a pig on a city bus to the special event ‘Things Inside of Other Things’ at the Half and Half Multicultural Club of Sun Meadow High School. Here you will meet the man who smashes loaves of grocery store bread for the good of society, and you’ll witness the Running of the Brides at Filene’s Basement. Lin-Greenberg makes joyful sense of it all. What a pleasure it has been to read these wise and wonderful stories.” —Bonnie Jo Campbell, bestselling author of Once Upon A River
Karin Lin-Greenberg’s story collection, Faulty Predictions, won the 2013 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press. Her short stories have appeared in such literary journals as The Antioch Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Epoch, Five Chapters, Kenyon Review Online, and North American Review. She earned an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA from Temple University, and an AB from Bryn Mawr College. She has taught composition, literature and creative writing courses at Missouri State University, the College of Wooster, and Appalachian State University. Currently, she lives in upstate New York and is an assistant professor in the English Department at Siena College. Visit her website at www.karinlingreenberg.com.
MONICA MC FAWN - Bright Shards of Someplace Else
“Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, McFawn’s debut employs different narrative voices to create something singular. . . . McFawn approaches each story differently, not as an author imposing a single voice on disparate narratives but as an artist listening to her characters and finding the particular voice each one requires. . . . McFawn’s empathy is astounding. . . . The rarest kind of literary debut—unpredictable and moving."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
”Bright Shards of Someplace Else glimmers with emphatic power...is Monica McFawn’s first collection of short stories, and it’s already won [the] Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Perhaps it was her idiosyncratic voice, or her flair for distinctive characters that the judges recognized. Or maybe it was her empathetic power. Either way, McFawn has talent. In these eleven stories she manages to range from fantastic to satiric to poignant.” —Jane Ciabattari, NPR Books
Monica McFawn is a writer and playwright living in Michigan. Her short story collection Bright Shards of Someplace Else, won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of a hybrid chapbook, “A Catalogue of Rare Moments,” and her fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, Gettysburgh Review, Web Conjunctions, Missouri Review, and others. Her plays and screenplays have had readings in Chicago and New York. She teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Visit her website at www.monicamcfawn.com.
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Home » The exclusion of a significant range of ages in a massive star cluster
The exclusion of a significant range of ages in a massive star cluster
Title The exclusion of a significant range of ages in a massive star cluster
Authors Li, C, de Grijs, R, Deng, L
Journal \nat
Pagination 367-369
{Stars spend most of their lifetimes on the main sequence in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. The extended main-sequence turn-off regions–containing stars leaving the main sequence after having spent all of the hydrogen in their cores–found in massive (more than a few tens of thousands of solar masses), intermediate-age (about one to three billion years old) star clusters are usually interpreted as evidence of internal age spreads of more than 300 million years, although young clusters are thought to quickly lose any remaining star-forming fuel following a period of rapid gas expulsion on timescales of order 10⁷ years. Here we report, on the basis of a combination of high-resolution imaging observations and theoretical modelling, that the stars beyond the main sequence in the two-billion-year-old cluster NGC 1651, characterized by a mass of about 1.7 {\times} 10⁵ solar masses, can be explained only by a single-age stellar population, even though the cluster has a clearly extended main-sequence turn-off region. The most plausible explanation for the existence of such extended regions invokes a population of rapidly rotating stars, although the secondary effects of the prolonged stellar lifetimes associated with such a stellar population mixture are as yet poorly understood. From preliminary analysis of previously obtained data, we find that similar morphologies are apparent in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams of at least five additional intermediate-age star clusters, suggesting that an extended main-sequence turn-off region does not necessarily imply the presence of a significant internal age dispersion. }
DOI 10.1038/nature13969
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I fear for my life: Lawyer for Kathua rape victim’s family
Earlier this week, Deepika S Rajawat had alleged that she had been threatened by Jammu Bar Association president BS Slathia
Rajawat, an advocate in Jammu, took up the case of the 8-year-old Bakarwal girl who was raped and murdered in January
NEW DELHI: Deepika S Rajawat, who is the counsel of Kathua rape victim’s family, today alleged a threat to her life and said that she will tell the Supreme Court about the danger to her life.
“I don’t know till when I will be alive. I might be raped, my modesty may be outraged, I may be killed, I might be damaged. I was threatened yesterday that ‘we will not forgive you’. I am going to tell SC tomorrow that I am in danger,” Rajawat said.
I don’t know till when I will be alive. I can be raped, my modesty can be outraged, I can be killed, I can be damaged. I was threatened yesterday that ‘we will not forgive you’. I am going to tell SC tomorrow that I am in danger: Deepika S Rajawat, Counsel, Kathua victim’s family
Earlier this week, Rajawat appeared on a television channel and alleged that she was threatened by Jammu Bar Association president BS Slathia from appearing in the case.
“I am not a member of the Jammu Bar Association. But on Wednesday, Slathia asked me to stay away from the case while I was going to the court. I am not answerable to him, I am only answerable to my client,” she told TV channels.
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“I am not scared, but I am not feeling safe either. Protesters (lawyers) are trying to put pressure on me so that I don’t fight for justice. But I will continue to fight Asifa’s case. I have full faith in the police investigation,” Rajawat added.
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She went on to state that she had filed a complaint with the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as well as the Supreme Court, after which the state High Court directed the security wing to ensure her safety in the court premises.
with such open honesty and courage, and open declaration that her life is in danger, may we know what is the government doing to protect this brave woman?
Bar Council denied the claims made by Rajawat and said since the lawyers are on strike since April 3, she was requested not to appear in any of the cases.
Rajawat, an advocate in Jammu, took up the case of the 8-year-old Bakarwal girl who was raped and murdered in January. She is chairperson and founder of Voice for Rights, an NGO which works among underprivileged women and children.
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LA parent voice: ‘We want to have a voice,’ says a mom who showed up at LAUSD before dawn to make sure her community was represented
View this story in Spanish
Esmeralda Fabián Romero | August 28, 2018
Every week, we sit down with Los Angeles parents to talk about their students, their schools, and what questions or suggestions they have for their school district. (See our previous interviews.)
Sara Martínez, an LA Unified mom living in the southeast boundaries of Board District 5, had to put everything aside for one day so her voice could be heard by the school board as they decided how to elect a new representative for her son’s school and community.
She didn’t have to ask for time off from a job because she cares full time for her 13-year-old son with autism, who takes classes online through LA Unified’s Carlson Home/Hospital School until Martinez is able to find a school placement. But she did have to hire a caregiver so she could go to the Aug. 21 board meeting.
But to ensure she could speak during public comment, Martínez arrived by 6 a.m. to line up outside LA Unified’s headquarters in downtown LA.
Parents or community members who want to address the full school board have to wait for the monthly board meetings and sign up that day to get one of the limited number of speaker slots, which allow the speaker three minutes during public comment. (If the person speaks another language and needs translation, they are allotted more time without a specific limit.) Those slots are secured on a first-come, first-served, in-person basis on the day of the meeting, so people have to line up early, even though the board meeting doesn’t start until 1 p.m.
At the August meeting, there were only seven speaking slots allotted for that particular board discussion on the district 5 seat, which is why some parents slept overnight on the sidewalk to be able to make sure they could speak that day. However, just before the meeting started, the district decided to grant more speaker slots and granted one to a former board member, Jackie Goldberg, who was being considered for an appointed board position. A spokeswoman said in an email that the district has a general policy of allowing public officials to address the board.
(The full district explanation of how speaker slots were allotted last week is at the bottom of this article.)
“Many parents couldn’t be here today,” Martínez said. “I was able to find someone to help me with my son, but other parents cannot just call their employers and say that they need to be at a meeting on Tuesday at 1 p.m. That’s why I am here, to speak on their behalf.”
Martinez said she has been meeting regularly at her home with about eight other parents or calling one another to keep themselves updated on who would be representing them after their board member, Ref Rodríguez, resigned in July after pleading guilty to money-laundering charges related to his 2015 election.
“I am here to say that we, parents of the southeast, want a special election to elect the person we want to represent us.”
LA School Report had a conversation in Spanish with Martínez minutes before she headed into the boardroom to address the school board.
Why did you decide to put everything aside today and make sure you were here in person?
I am here not just for me, but also on behalf of other parents. We don’t want that seat to remain empty. We want someone who can represent our kids well and has a voice and can vote on our behalf at that table. There are so many issues in our community, and we need someone who understands them and will help us solve them.
How difficult was it for you to be here today?
First of all, our kids have minimum days on Tuesday, the day the meetings are held. Sometimes we help each other and take turns so we can be present at the meetings. Like today, I had to ask someone else to help me watch my son so I could be here. In order to be here, you need to find support from other parents because it’s hard, but we need to be here and make sure they see we care about their resolutions and how they implement them.
What options do you have besides coming here in order for you to be heard by the school board?
It’s very difficult, and now that we don’t have a representative, even more so. With him (when Ref Rodriguez was in office), I know that people from his staff went out and met with parents at school sites and he opened an office in South Gate, where it was much easier for parents to be heard without having to come all the way here. So we need our new representative to go out to our neighborhoods to meet with us and hear about the issues we face every day, in hours that are convenient for us. The only reason why I can be here today, and being able to speak, is because I had to leave my job taking care of my special needs son. Otherwise, I would be in the same situation as most parents in my community.
That’s why it matters so much who’s going to be in that seat. It’s important that he gives us voice, but also that it’s someone who really represents us and addresses our needs. I’d like the South Gate office to remain open, so we can still meet there with our new representative in flexible schedules. It will also be very helpful for the new person to speak Spanish because unfortunately most of the parents in my community don’t speak English, and having to come to these meetings and not being fluent in English is difficult, because in my own experience, now that I know more English, I noticed that the translators translate in a certain way but not the way we want our message to come across.That’s unfortunate. I wish to be able to speak to my representative face to face without language barriers.
Which one of the options that are going to be decided on today are you in support of? Do you support a special election, the appointment of Jackie Goldberg, or the opportunity to nominate someone as an interim representative?
Honestly, I had no idea about the third option. I’m just hearing it from you right now. And that’s exactly why I am here, because there are things that we are not aware of and they will vote on.
I’m a very involved parent, because I have to be because of my son’s special needs, and I’m always trying to be informed about everything that has to do with the school district. I try to be updated with the news and calling people who can keep me informed, but not all parents are able to know what’s going on, especially in our communities. We want to have a voice. Our community needs someone who can put our kids first, and that’s why I am here today.
DISTRICT RESPONSE
In an email, a district spokeswoman provided a response from the office of Board Secretariat Jefferson Crain regarding how the speaker slots were allotted last week:
“The Board of Education respects the views of all stakeholders and the importance of ensuring that their perspectives are represented. Included in the Board Rules are guidelines to help provide opportunities for public comment while efficiently conducting the District’s business. Board Rule. 131 covers the public comment portion of the meeting. It says the guidelines can be waived, when necessary, and that elected and appointed officials may be allowed to speak first as a show of courtesy.
“Speakers sign up to speak just prior to the meeting at a table set up near the entrance to the Board Room. The doors open a half-hour before the meeting starts.
“During the Aug. 21 meeting, former School Board Member Jackie Goldberg stopped at the speakers table just as the doors were opened. The Board Secretariat’s staff is aware of the practice of allowing public officials to address the Board, so they added her name on the speaker’s list for Tab 10. They mistakenly signed up the woman who was accompanying Ms. Goldberg; she should have been signed up at the same time as the general public.
“The number of speakers for Tab 10 was increased because of the unusual number of people who wanted to address the Board on the item. Dr. McKenna sent an email to Ms. García on Monday, asking for an exception to the number of speakers. The Board President agreed, and included Board Secretariat Jefferson Crain on her plan for the day.
“Mr. Crain believes that everyone who had waited in line and had wished to speak had been able to do so. Had he learned that additional people still wanted to be heard, he would have brought it to Ms. García’s attention.
“Sometimes, the number of people who would like to address the Board at a meeting may exceed the time available and that is why the Board maintains multiple avenues for individuals to share their concerns, support or opposition to issues. Board Members are also available by phone, fax, email and U.S. Mail. Board Members also appear at multiple community meetings and are always interested in community input.”
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The Summitt Legacy: A Personal Perspective
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By Tasha Mahurin
One can’t properly pen a series about the heritage of the University of Tennessee’s athletics program without paying tribute to Lady Vols basketball Coach Pat Summitt. I began this series with a goal to highlight unsung heroes from the University’s past; however, Summitt’s legacy extends far beyond this journalist’s earnest efforts towards continuity and fairly insists upon acknowledgement.
Her record as head coach includes eight NCAA Championships and 32 combined Southeastern Conference titles. For nearly 40 years, she dominated the basketball court, earning her the title of winningest coach in NCAA basketball history in both the men’s and women’s division. In 2000, she was honored as the Naismith Basketball Coach of the Century. Sporting News ranked her #11 on its list of the “50 Greatest Coaches of All Time” in 2009. Summitt was the only woman to make this list.
In 38 years, she never had a losing season and the accolades continued upon her retirement. In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards.
As a sports enthusiast, I am in awe of her triumph on the court and her status in the record books. As a human being, I believe her accomplishments in the arena are a byproduct of her character, which includes her unwavering commitment to excellence, her dogged determination, and her indomitable spirit.
I attended a fundraiser Summitt hosted at her home on the bank of the Tennessee River in honor of her mother Hazel Head shortly after my second child was born. Mrs. Head told me of her daughter: “She’s consistent and a hard worker- we taught her that. As a child, she didn’t miss a day of school and always attended church.” Admittedly, those words were a bit lost on me at the time. As a young wife and new mother-of-two, I couldn’t recall whether or not I had brushed my teeth that morning and this sweet lady wanted to discuss consistency?
Later that afternoon, Coach Summitt inquired as to whether the month-old baby I held in my arms was yet sleeping through the night. To which I replied: “Not. at. all.”
Without a hint of empathy in her voice, she looked at me with those steely blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: “I know it’s better when they do, but you WILL get through it.”
Without another word, she turned on her heel and walked away.
Anyone else would have offended me at that time, in my ragged, sleep-deprived state, but that brief exchange gave me the courage to persevere through the challenges of early motherhood.
I am but one of thousands whose life has been touched in some way by the powerhouse that is Pat Summitt. While her resume is unparalleled and her winning record the very definition of success, her legacy lies in her innate ability to coach not just the game of basketball on which she has left a profound and indelible mark… but also the game of life.
The Summitt Legacy: A Personal Perspective added by design on January 28, 2013
President Obama honors Summitt
The End of an Era: Pat Summitt Steps Aside
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Speaker spotlight: Josie Daw
Queer Women in Second World War Britain
“My research focuses on queer women in the Second World War in Britain. I have explored the practises, spaces, and discourses surrounding women expressing same-sex desires during the wartime period. My research questions the widely held conception of the war as a unique period of toleration for same-sex desires, instead I argue that toleration was a continuation of the interwar period. However, despite this toleration my research has revealed that knowledge of these practises did not equate to a comprehensive understanding, and in particular the term ‘lesbian’ was ambiguously understood. This is evident within the institutions that both encouraged homosociality but seemed to reject women’s same-sex practises, such as the women’s services.
My research utilises a combination of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to analyse a range of sources, including reports from the WAAF and ATS, literature, films, newspapers, oral testimonies, and Mass Observation diaries.”
Josie Daw
I am a graduate student in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge, and a Prize Research Student of the Centre for History and Economics. I am currently interested in the history of sexuality, particularly in the twentieth century. My undergraduate dissertation was titled, ‘Sapphists and Sodomites: Same-Sex Practises, Spaces and Discourses in Interwar Britain’ and was undertaken at Brunel University in 2013.
Josie will be speaking on day 2 of the conference.
Speakers spotlight: Margit Hauser
Speaker spotlight: Anna Borgos
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Large Size Fed Reserve Bank Notes $20 Fr-822 to Fr-830
Large Size-Federal Reserve Bank Notes
The large-size Federal Reserve Bank Notes (FRBNs) , also known as National Currency, was issued in two series and in denominations of $1 to $50. They are often confused with National Bank notes because they have the inscription "National Currency" across the top. They feature blue seals and blue serial numbers.
The first issue, Series issue 1915 was authorized by Federal Reserve Act of December 23rd, 1913 and consisted of only of $5, $10 and $20 notes. They were issued by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas and San Francisco. They are titled as National Currency and are similar to National Bank Notes. The obligation to pay the bearer falls to the specific Federal Reserve Bank, not the United States Treasury Department. The San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank issued only $5 notes. The obligation to pay the bearer is similar to that on the first charter national bank notes, differing only slightly in wording but not in meaning.
The second issue, Series 1918, consisted of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes issued to all 12 Federal Reserve Banks (though all banks did not necessarily issue all denominations). St Louis was the only district that issued the $50 denomination and is considered a rarity in high grade. The $20 denomination was issued by Atlanta and St Louis only and is also considered a rarity. Although Federal Reserve Bank notes are a rather recent issue, all are quite scarce in high grade.
Treasury Department records show that only slightly more than $2 million is outstanding from a total issue of nearly $762 million.
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Democratic candidates debate at Long Beach forum
Seven Democrats talk taxes, city finances ahead ahead of Tuesday's primary
Seven candidates running for three open seats on the City Council fielded questions at a forum on June 12 as the race heads to the June 25 Democratic primary.
Courtesy Long Beach League of Women Voters
Seven candidates running in the June 25 Democratic primary fielded written questions at the June 12 candidates forum.
Anthony Rifilato/Herald
By Anthony Rifilato
Incumbent council President Anthony Eramo, council Vice President Chumi Diamond and their running mate, Jim Mulvaney, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, answered questions at a packed forum hosted by the local League of Women Voters at the Long Beach Public Library.
Councilwoman Anissa Moore, a Democrat who is also up for re-election this year, is running on the Republican line as part of a coalition ticket in the general election in November.
The candidates fielded questions about taxes, the city’s fiscal crisis, parking and quality-of-life issues, infrastructure and flood protection, and more (watch the video for the entire forum).
Eramo, who was first elected in 2013, and Diamond, who has served since 2017, touted the Democratic administration’s record of accomplishments since Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012.
Eramo, a West End resident and a field technician for Verizon, highlighted a 15 percent flood rebate, the planting of over 3,000 trees, the rebuilding of city parks and playgrounds, the new boardwalk, a record low crime rate, resiliency projects along the beach and bay, and “major” investments in infrastructure. He noted the recent completion of the Army Corps of Engineers’ coastal protection project, which included the reconstruction of dunes and jetties on the beach, as well as projects to shore up the north side of the city with bulkheads and other resiliency measures that are underway.
“We’ve come so far, and there’s more work to do,” Eramo said. “Our city isn’t without tough times ahead, and tough decisions will need to be made. In the past six years we’ve rebuilt our beaches, crime is down 39 percent, we’ve gotten hundreds of guns off the street, we got a 15 percent flood insurance discount for homeowners, developed a community driven plan to prevent overdevelopment, and pushed [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] and NY Rising to pay their fair share.”
Diamond, an attorney, noted her work to continue the city’s recovery after the storm, and defended the city’s record.
Both Diamond and Eramo said they do not support layoffs, and said they would continue to partner with the private sector and state and federal governments to secure new funding sources and expand the tax base.
“You may hear that the incumbents have no record and have done nothing for our city, but nothing could be further from the truth,” Diamond said. “We kept our city open, and continued to provide services that are vital to our community. I voted for a capital plan that provided significant funding for infrastructure improvements, including roadways and drainage upgrades, and the replacement of aging water infrastructure.”
For his part, Mulvaney, a co-founder of the local nonprofit Surf for All, said that he wants to bring civility to City Hall.
“I’ll work to protect the most vulnerable, cut fraud and waste,” he said. “I think my qualifications speak for themselves. I’ve worked in state government and I’m a community organizer. I’ve investigated fraud and sent people to jail. I’ve been in leadership positions . . . with international teams and forced them to work together. Running Long Beach is not an easy job — it’s a very complex job . . . and a job for people with broad experience. I think I have that experience.”
The incumbent slate fought back against criticism from challengers Liz Treston, a community advocate and the chairwoman of the Long Beach Community Organizations Active in Disasters; Karen McInnis, a financial executive; and Ron Paganini, a retired city worker and former union leader, who are running as part of a group called the New Wave Dems LB, and criticized officials for their handling of city finances and other issues they claimed the city has failed to address.
“Let’s cut to the chase: I am running because I want to ensure that every single dollar paid by taxpayers is put to the best use for the long-term benefit of the entire community,” McInnis said. “Residents can’t afford to pay more fees and taxes and not get answers to valid questions at City Council meetings. This administration even stopped the Long Beach Listens program started by other Democrats in 2012.”
Treston said she had many concerns about the “current state of mismanagement.”
“As a resident who is in constant communication with many homeowners in our city,” she said, “I know too well your fears about the taxes that increase, the decrease in services and where do we actually go from here. What we have now is not working.”
Paganini said that the current administration’s record of accomplishments is “just talk.” “Look at our financial condition,” he said. “Taxes, streets, infrastructure, ongoing state audit, downgraded ratings, etc. What is the meaning of all this? Mismanagement — on steroids.”
Tim Kramer, who owns an auto leasing business and is a founder of Waves of Hope, a charitable group that led a relief effort last year for victims of Hurricane Harvey, is seeking election independently as a Democrat. He said he is running because he has “had enough,” and added that the split Democratic factions are nothing more than “people starving for power.”
“I’ve had enough of the high taxes with no end in sight — people are moving because they can’t afford to live here,” Kramer said. “I’ve had enough of the brown water coming from the faucet in the bathtub where I bathe my children at night and being told that the water is drinkable. I’ve had enough of the needless overtime, overemployment, overdevelopment, overspending, tax abatements and bonds, bonds, bonds. I’ve had enough of the poor road conditions and missing bike lanes. I’ve had enough of not being able to move my car in the summer.”
Patients with rare disease will unite at East Meadow event
From Borrelli's to Barstool and back
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Economic sanctions, American -- Haiti
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Continuation of economic sanctions against Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting notification that he shall continue to exercise the powers at his disposal to apply economic sanctions against Haiti as long as these measures are appropriate, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c)
Continuation of national emergency with respect to Haiti : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report on developments since his last report of June 30, 1993, concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c)
Continuation of national emergency with respect to Haiti : communication from the President of the United States transmitting developments since the last report concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703
Continuation of national emergency with respect to Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting a report on developments since his last report, concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c)
Continuation of the national emergency with respect to Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting notification that the Haitian emergency is to continue in effect beyond October 4, 1993, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)
Developments concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting a report on developments since his last report of October 13, 1994, concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1641(c) and 50 U.S.C. 1703(c)
Developments concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting a report on developments since his last report on November 13, 1993, concerning the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c)
Further measures to tighten the embargo against Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting further additional steps to enhance the implementation of the international embargo against Haiti and to conform to United Nations Security Council Resolution 917, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), 50 U.S.C. 1631
Further measures to tighten the embargo against Haiti : message from the President of the United States transmitting further additional steps to enhance the implementation of the international embargo against Haiti and to conform to United Nations Security Council Resolution 917, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c) and 1631
Further measures to tighten the embargo against Haiti : message from the President of the United States, transmitting further additional steps to enhance the implementation of the international embargo against Haiti and to conform to United Nations Security Council resolution 917, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c) and 1601 et seq
Further reporting on United States naval embargo of Haiti : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a further report on the status of the U.S. contribution to the ongoing United Nations embargo enforcement effort of Haiti
Roundtable on Haiti--October 1993 : briefing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 20, 1993
Termination of national emergency with respect to Haiti : communication from the President of the United States transmitting his termination of the national emergency with respect to Haiti, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1622(a)
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South Africa: Latest ANC/police attack on militant miners condemned
SACP's Blade Nzimande leads COSATU members prior to clashes with striking Anglo Platinum miners. October 27, 2012, Rustenburg, North West. Photo by Greg Marinovich, Daily Maverick.
October 29, 2012 -- The Democratic Left Front condemns the police for shooting workers in Rustenburg on October 27. Two workers who work at Amplats were hit by live ammunition, and one, hit in the chest, is in a critical condition in hospital. Eleven other mineworkers were injured by rubber bullets. The DLF also condemns Blade Nzimande, SACP general secretary and minister for higher education, for condoning this shooting by the police. This so-called “Communist” defends the shooting of workers in the interests of the capitalist bosses.
The rally of the Tripartite Alliance of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions was called by COSATU leaders supposedly to “reclaim Rustenburg” from the mineworkers who have been on strike against mining bosses since September with a demand for at least a 12,500 rand living wage. While the workers are opposed to anyone speaking on their behalf, COSATU leaders aimed to try to reinstate the [pro-ANC] National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as the mineworkers’ union in the town. This was an extremely provocative action.
It was well known to the COSATU leadership that the mineworkers had rejected the NUM because of its failure to represent their interests. Through its actions, including shooting workers in Marikana in August and identifying strike leaders to police, the NUM leadership has in fact revealed itself as a union that sides with the bosses against the workers and its own members. The rank and file members of NUM must rescue the union and lead it back to its fighting and anti-capitalist traditions. Otherwise it will be increasingly be seen amongst mineworkers and the broader working class as a bosses’ yellow union. Already at other mines COSATU general secretary Vavi had failed when addressing workers to get them to allow an NUM representative to speak.
Contrary to Nzimande’s lying claims, the mineworkers did not try to disrupt the rally. Some 5000 Amplats workers got to the stadium before COSATU arrived because they wanted to hear Vavi speak, who most still regard as a leader with integrity. They expressed their anger at the government by burning some of the ANC and COSATU banners and posters. When the police asked them to leave the stadium, they complied and waited by an entrance. This was not an “occupation” as reported in the media. Some 600-1000 COSATU members then arrived in a march.
As they entered the stadium through another entrance some broke away and attacked the thousands of mineworkers, who were waiting to return to the stadium to hear Vavi speak. The COSATU members ripped off T-shirts, which had the demand for a R12,500 living wage on them. In the course of this attack one DLF member had his T-shirt and trousers removed by NUM members and was arrested by police. Strikers went to aid those attacked.
It was clear by this time that the attempt by COSATU to “reclaim Rustenburg” had failed dismally. At this point the police attacked the strikers with live ammunition, rubber bullets, birdshot, tear gas, stun grenades, horses and water cannon, but left the COSATU attackers unmolested. In the course of this 13 mineworkers were injured, one critically, hit by a live bullet.
The ANC government and its police once again, as in Marikana on August 16, 2012, has defended the interests of the bosses by shooting workers. Unfortunately COSATU and SACP leaders echo the government. The Tripartite Alliance, as mineworkers say, are all “mealies of the same bag”. Workers say that they are done with the alliance, because “they are no longer singing the same song as us”.
The actions of the police on October 27 go along with a police campaign of harassment of the Marikana community, including the intimidation and arrest of worker witnesses to the commission of enquiry into the events of August 16. All this indicates that another massacre like that in Marikana cannot be ruled out. Only the most massive popular mobilisation can prevent this.
The DLF calls on all members of COSATU to unite with the striking mineworkers to condemn the provocation of the rally and the actions of the police. It is time also for all union members to win back their unions from a labour bureaucracy that stands in alliance with the bosses and the state. What is needed is unity against the bosses and the government to struggle for R12,500 minimum living wage, and against the mass dismissal of workers by the bosses, through the calling of a two or three-day general strike.
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Posted by MichaelVox in 1992, Blu-Ray, DVD, Netflix, Solo Filmschool
Netflix Blu-Ray
131 Minutes — August 7, 1992
Clint Eastwood [Play Misty For Me; The Outlaw Josey Wales; Sudden Impact; Heartbreak Ridge; Bird; White Hunter, Black Heart; The Rookie; The Bridges Of Madison County; Mystic River; Million Dollar Baby; Flags Of Our Fathers; Letters From Iwo Jima; Changeling; Gran Torino; Invictus]
#217 They Shoot Pictures Don’t They Top 1000 Films Of All Time
A former hired killer turned unsuccessful farmer, together with a young would-be gunfighter and an old friend, set out to collect a thousand-dollar reward for killing the cowboys who slashed the face of a prostitute.
“Harsh Western of revenge and needless slaughter that re-invents and revives the genre to spectacular effect.” — **** — Halliwell’s.
“Solo Filmschool” movies are those on the big list of the 1000 best films of all time, which the crew over at TSPDT keeps track of and updates from time to time. The current version is from January 2010. My plan is to work my way down the list, watching all of them on DVD (if available), regardless of how slow-moving, or out of date they might appear at first. If a highly-regarded and serious film class is not available where you live, you could do a lot worse than using this list as a jumping off point.
Clint Eastwood…Bill Munny
Gene Hackman…Little Bill Daggett
Morgan Freeman…Ned Logan
Richard Harris…English Bob
Oscar Wins for Picture, Director, Hackman, and Editing.
Clint Eastwood’s 1992 film, UNFORGIVEN, has a special place in my heart. But not because I liked it. I remember it being the first critically acclaimed film that I ever hated. Ever since I saw PLATOON and realized that movies meant something, I’ve generally agreed with the critical consensus on films large and small. UNFORGIVEN was universally heralded as a monumental piece of film that reinvented the western and made us forget everything we ever knew about gunfighter movies.
Um, no. 19 years ago, I couldn’t understand the big deal at all. It seemed pretty ordinary to me. So obviously the problem was mine, not the general feeling of the movie-going public. So, I’ve wanted to revisit this film for awhile, to see what in the world was wrong with me when I saw it the first time. I popped in the Blu-Ray.
And it turns out, the problem wasn’t with me back in 1992, and it isn’t with me in 2011. This is the most overrated film I’ve probably ever seen. I joke with friends that I can’t get through 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY without falling asleep, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think it has value.
But UNFORGIVEN is simplistic on every level. Our “hero” Bill Munny isn’t just down on his luck, when we first see him, he’s literally being dragged through the mud by one of the pigs he raises. In fact, so afraid is Director Eastwood that we won’t get the point, that he repeats this scene again, just in case we didn’t get it the first time. Eastwood’s character doesn’t just tell us he used to be a bad guy, but he tells us over and over again. He also repeats that “I ain’t that guy anymore” several dozen times. Because his “dear departed wife turned me away from wickedness and drink.”
The character of “The Schofield Kid” is not only a stupid, blind, schoolyard bully braggart, but he’s a ridiculous braggart. “I’ve killed five men.” “I could have killed you right there.” “You ain’t much.” I mean over and over. We get it. The guy hasn’t done anything, can’t shoot anything, is a little boy trying to be tough. But my god, how about some subtlety? This guy made me want to scream. And I semi-blame the actor. I get that Munny needs money (get it?) and will put up with the kid just to get paid, but come on.
On to Morgan Freeman. “We ain’t those guys no more, we’re farmers.” The scene where Munny visits Logan is like that “one last score” scene from every bank robbery movie. First Logan’s against it, then he stands directly beneath his rifle and says “how long you expect to be gone, Bill?” There’s a scene where the kid is shooting at Munny and Logan and Morgan’s eyes are minstrel-show-wide as he crawls around wondering who’s shooting at them.
Hackman’s character is given more to work with and Richard Harris as a foppish English assassin is pretty cool. But what about the fat deputy? “Would you rather be killed in hot or cold weather?” the semi-retarded character says to the (no joke) one-armed fellow deputy.
Munny is shown unable to mount his horse, not once, not twice, but three times, while Freeman is forced to say “Jesus, Bill”. The guy who runs the billiard hall all but twirls his mustache as he calls the hookers “bitches”.
It wasn’t all bad. I get the whole “trying to outrun your past” and “can bad men really change” parts. I like the last 30 minutes or so when talk of killing changes into actual killing. I like that Morgan Freeman’s race is never mentioned and Hackman likes having a writer follow him around to publicize his legend. There are no poetic or beautiful deaths. Some important deaths happen off screen and some simply silence the characters. But these little pieces of insight amounted to about 20 minutes of a long 131-minute film.
I think what may have ruined me for this film (the second time I watched it) is HBO’s DEADWOOD. The canceled too early western epic, where every character was created in shades of grey. The bumbling hotel manager wasn’t a complete idiot. The boss of the town was cruel in ways that Hackman and the pimp in UNFORGIVEN have never thought of. The sheriff wasn’t perfect, the women had personalities and demanded justice. The nuances that DEADWOOD was full of put it head and shoulders above something like UNFORGIVEN.
I can’t believe how disappointed I was a second time. I look forward to comments defending it.
One note on the picture quality of the Blu-Ray: I’m not really one of those guys who checks the bitrate of the DVD data and figures out how clear the picture is and whatnot. However, though I haven’t seen very many Blu-Rays in my life, this one was absolutely crystal clear. Even the stuff in the far away background. It just looked magnificent. But that doesn’t mean I like it.
8.2 Metacritic
8.3 IMDB (Number 96 All Time)
Tags: 8.2, Best Director Oscar, Best Editing Oscar, Best Picture Oscar, Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Clint Eastwood, Drama, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Top 1000, Western
Posted by MichaelVox in 1958, DVD, Netflix, Solo Filmschool
Netflix DVD
129 Minutes — May 28, 1958
Crime / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock [The 39 Steps; The Lady Vanishes; Rebecca; Notorious; Rear Window; To Catch A Thief; North By Northwest; Psycho; The Birds; Frenzy]
#2 They Shoot Pictures Don’t They Top 1000 Films Of All Time
A detective with a fear of heights is drawn into a complex plot in which a girl he loves apparently falls to her death. Then he meets her double.
“Double identity thriller which has many sequences in Hitchcock’s best style. A film as unsettling as the phobia it deals with, keeping its audience dizzy and off balance throughout.” — **** — Halliwell’s.
James Stewart…John Scottie Ferguson
Kim Novack…Madeleine Elster
Barbara Bel Geddes…Midge Wood
The Top 10 films of all time (based on that holy list I love) goes: Kane, this film, Rules Of The Game, 2001, 8 1/2, Godfather, Searchers, Samurai, Singing In The Rain, Potemkin.
One of these things is not like the other. And that thing is VERTIGO. There is no way that VERTIGO is the second best film ever made. No way.
Stewart is his usual charming, natural self. Novack is wooden at best and terrible at worst. Bel Geddes is entirely charming as the BFF of Scottie who has real feelings for him.
–Hitchcock took the most beautiful city in North America and made it look even more beautiful somehow. It makes me want to drive up to The City to find Scottie’s apartment right now.
–The give and take between Scottie and Midge is pretty great.
–The sexual obsession of Stewart is pretty strong for a film made in 1958. He essentially can’t get turned on unless his date is made into another woman for him.
–Novack is pretty hot, especially in either a white coat or a black dress.
–Colors and angles are all superb, as you’d expect from Hitchcock (who apparently never looked through the camera during filmmaking).
–They fell in love too easily.
–How did Scottie get off the ledge in the first scene?
–Way too much following of people.
–Stewart: 50 years old; Novack: 25 years old. Um, of course he’s attracted to her.
Scottie is recuperating from his brush with death after chasing a criminal over the rooftops of San Francisco. An old college friend (though clearly living in England) asks him to follow his wife who is apparently under the spell of or possessed by a woman who died long ago. Scottie follows her and she’s gorgeous and she’s troubled and she jumps into San Francisco Bay and he had to take her wet clothes off and put her in his bed, so naturally he believes he’s in love with her. And we are asked to believe it as well. Her possession and sadness cause her to do herself harm and he spends half an hour seeing her in every other blonde in San Francisco.
And he doesn’t realize that an attractive, artistic, intelligent woman is his for the asking. Plus, she’ll fix him dinner and pour him bourbon.
Fabulous San Francisco locations. Great music.
I mean, it doesn’t suck. It’s pretty good and it was probably a big deal when it came out. But why all the praise?
I was surprisingly disappointed.
Tags: 8.5, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Crime, James Stewart, Kim Novack, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Top 1000
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The Emergence of Stable Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Communities: A Case Study of Neighborhoods in Nine U.S. Cities
June 14, 1996 / Teresa
(6/14/1996 - 6/15/1998)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development worked with the Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) to study the factors central to creating and sustaining viable, inclusive, diverse, stable urban neighborhoods. In each of nine cities presented here: Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown, and Chicago Lawn (Chicago); West Mt. Airy (Philadelphia); Vollintine-Evergreen (Memphis); Park Hill (Denver); Sherman Park (Milwaukee); Jackson Heights, Fort Greene (New York City); Southeast Seattle (Seattle); San Antonio and Fruitvale (Oakland, California); Houston Heights (Houston).
PRAG coordinated a team of researchers and local community-based partners to: interview residents, businesspeople, and community leaders; review key documents; and otherwise assess the basis for diversity and stability within these special neighborhoods. Each team also drew on prior studies and census analyses.
Two distinct models of stable, diverse communities emerge from this study. The first model includes deliberate efforts to maintain a balance of African-American and Caucasian residents in an already self-aware, middle-income neighborhood. The second model is reflected in a multi-ethnic, multiracial neighborhood -- "beyond black and white" -- that focuses on a community identity and on maintaining economic and racial stability as a byproduct of other assets.
An issue titled "Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities" of Cityscape: a Journal of Policy Development and Research was published presenting unique case studies of each stable, racially and ethnically diverse urban community. In addition to this report, co-researcher Michael Maly wrote a more detailed book using much of the findings of this project:Beyond Segregation: Multiracial and Multiethnic Neighborhoods in the United States(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).
P. Nyden, CURL and Sociology
M. Maly, Graduate Fellow, Sociology
B. Peterman, Chicago State University
J. Lukehart, Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities
Multiple researchers from 8 other cities.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities
categories / Race & Ethnicity, Diverse Communities
Impact of Welfare Reform
Bethel New Life: Community Demographic Analysis
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The 12 Types of Bosses
There are 12 types of bosses, each with a different management style, says business journalist Geoffrey James, author of Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know. “Everyone needs a field guide to identify which type of boss they’ve got and how to get the most out of the experience.”
The Visionary
Visionaries are more concerned with the future than with what’s going on here and now. They manage by creating (or trying to create) a reality-distortion field that makes a team believe they can accomplish the impossible. While visionaries can be fun to work for, they can also be intolerant, overly critical, and sometimes throw tantrums when they don’t get their way.
If you’re working for a visionary, drink the Kool-Aid, work the long hours, and learn to repeat this mantra: “This product will change the world.”
The Climber
Climbers are interested in you only insofar as you can help or hinder their ascent to the corner office. They spend most of their time and effort figuring out how to win status, claim credit, and build alliances. Because they’re obsessed with their own career, they see you (and everyone else) only as either a help or a hindrance to achieving their personal goals.
If you’re working for a climber, become the person who “has his back” when his fellow climbers try to stab it.
The Bureaucrat
Bureaucrats want everything run by the book. They are resistant to change because they see their current situation as the best of all possible worlds. Bureaucrats thrive inside “large enterprises” but falter in smaller firms because the lack of a crowd makes it too obvious that they really aren’t doing all that much.
If you’re working for a bureaucrat, document everything you do and limit your activities to what’s been done in the past. Warning: Bureaucrats can grind your creativity into dust.
The Propellerhead
When engineers get into the management chain, they bring a technology-oriented worldview with them. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean you’ll be judged almost entirely on your technical competence. The propellerhead boss prefers employees who are experts in some technical field—the more obscure the better. They consider all nontechnical types (like MBA holders) equally stupid and useless.
If you’re working for a propellerhead, become fluent in nerdy pop culture references. If possible, illustrate business points by quoting lines from specific Star Trek episodes.
The Fogey
Fogeys have been around since the days when “secretaries” (whoever they were) used “typewriters” (whatever they were). They’re wise in the ways of the world but clueless about what’s actually going on. Fogeys who are close to retirement are often quite jovial and easy-going; those who must continue to work because they can’t afford to retire can be meaner than dyspeptic weasels.
If you’re working for a fogey, don’t assume that every duffer is a doofus. Reassure your boss that he’s still relevant and then recruit him as a mentor.
The Whippersnapper
The flip side of the fogey is the barely-out-of-college go-getter who’s assigned to manage a group of seasoned employees. Whippersnappers are energetic, enthusiastic, but secretly afraid that nobody is taking them seriously.
If you’re working for a whippersnapper, respond enthusiastically to the energy they bring to their job and never, ever remind them of their relative inexperience.
The Social Director
Social directors consider the personal interactions that happen in the workplace as important as (and sometimes more important than) the work itself. Social directors manage by consensus. They call a LOT of meetings and spend a LOT of time letting people air their opinions and ideas.
If you’re working for a social director, build alliances and garner supporters before trying to get any decision made. Also, be the one who brings the donuts to the meeting.
While most people find the “my way or the highway” boss irritating, working for a dictator has some advantages. They make decisions quickly, without over-analyzing. On the other hand, dictators are impervious to outside opinion and brittle when it comes to change. When they fail, it’s usually on an epic scale.
If you’re working for a dictator, simply follow orders and hope for the best. But be ready to job hunt before the dictator drives your organization over a cliff.
The Sales Star
Selling is part of every job, and every boss should be able to sell his or her ideas. The problem with sales stars is that’s the only thing they know how to do. Sales star bosses are usually created when top sales professionals are promoted into management, which is stupid because managing people requires a different skill set from selling to customers.
If you’re working for a sales star, encourage them to sell for you! Bring them into situations where a deal must be closed or terms negotiated.
The Hatchet Man
Hatchet men (or women) are brought into an organization to fire people as quickly as possible, usually to make the company more attractive to investors. There are only two roles available for people who work for a hatchet man: henchman or victim. Ultimately the favored role, that of henchman, is temporary: They often get canned too.
The best way to deal with a hatchet man is to be long gone by the time he or she arrives
The Lost Lamb
Sometimes people who have no management talent end up in a position of authority, usually because a manager left and the organization needs somebody to “hold the fort.” Lost lambs continue whatever policies were previously in place and dread doing anything that will be held against them once they’re pushed back into the ranks.
If you’re working for a lost lamb, move your projects forward without forcing your manager to make any difficult decisions.
Heroes prefer to coach others than to do things themselves. They have a knack for figuring out exactly what their employees need in order to do a superlative job and then how to get that for them. Heroes always give their teams credit for the wins but take personal responsibility for the losses. They believe that “the buck stops here” not that “sh*t rolls downhill.”
If you’re working for a hero, enjoy it while it lasts, because chances are the hero will get promoted upward or be recruited to work elsewhere.
“We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.”
– Wayne Calloway
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Meet Jean Mouton, composer
by maestro | J Sep, 2016 | Advertising, Announcements, Concert, General music | 0 comments
Birth: 1459 or earlier in Haut-Wignes (now known as Wirwignes), France.
Death: October 30, 1522 at Saint-Quentin, France.
Jean Mouton was an acclaimed French composer of the Renaissance especially known for his highly varied choral musical compositions. Mouton was also highly influential due to his roles as both a composer, and a teacher. He was famous for his classy and genteel motets.
Many details of Mouton’s early life is quite obscure such as many composers during his period. Many speculate that Jean Mouton has started his career as both a singer and a teacher at a collegiate church school. Mouton was a chorister in Nesle (1477–83) and worked in Amiens and Grenoble from 1500 to 1502 before joining the French royal chapel under Louis XII and Francis I. He apparently studied with Josquin des Prez, and he taught Adrian Willaert. His music leads away from the older style, which falls into clear sections, and instead emphasizes a continuous flow of vocal lines from beginning to end, with pervasive melodic imitation. He was a master of the technique of canon. His output is largely masses and motets, published during his life by printers such as Ottaviano dei Petrucci and Pierre Attaingnant. His music was featured for more than 50 years. Several of his works were included in the choir books of the papal chapel. For the rest of his life he was employed by the French Court to compose for many occasions such as births, funerals, weddings, etc.
Mouton was a dominant individual as he was both a teacher, and a composer! Of all the pieces of music which Jean Mouton composed, 9 Magnificat settings, 15 masses, 20 French chansons, and over 100 motets survived. Jean Mouton’s surviving musical output is quite large. As a court composer for the king, his compositions were widely distributed, copied, and archived all around. Thanks to Josquin des Prez, Jean Mouton was also able to compose music in Italy and eventually became a favourite of the Italians! Mouton’s style of music is very similar to that of Josquin des Prez, using paired imitation, canonic techniques, and equal-voiced polyphonic writing. However, Mouton tends to write rhythmically texturally uniform music compared to Josquin’s style. Mouton was a magnificent composer all throughout his life and was regarded as an outstanding musical craftsmen.
Mouton’s music attracted many composers later in during the 16th century. Two of his motets allowed several composers to have basis for their masses. Posthumously, Mouton was able to influence many such as music theorist Gioseffo Zarlino who was a pupil of Adrian Willaert (Willaert was a former student of Jean Mouton and one of the founders of the Venetian School).
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Alexander Turnbull and New Zealand’s Library (A Short Bibliography)
Turnbull and friends aboard his yacht Iorangi in the Queen Charlotte Sound. Image from Alexander Turnbull Library collection.
We have the man’s library, but what to do with the man himself? Dilettante, cocaine addict, recluse, snob, sailor and bibliophile—Alexander Turnbull is not one of those benefactors to be remembered fondly by history, nor, for that matter, by his contemporaries. When he died in 1918 he left his library to the nation. Had he not done so, it’s unlikely he’d be remembered at all.
But what a library! Readying myself for my return to Wellington I’ve been browsing through old catalogues of Turnbull’s books, discovering what I’ll have access to after giving up the Bodleian. Guiltily, I realised I’d made from a distance that old mistake in assuming that because we’re small we wouldn’t have much of value.
We have a copy of what has been called the most beautiful book ever printed, the Hypnerotomachia poliphili, from Aldus Manutius’ Venice press. Turnbull bought it from Bernard Quaritch, famous London book dealer, in November 1900. There are over 100 other incunabula in the national collection, many but not all from Turnbull’s own collection.
We have one of the finest and most complete collections of Milton books in the world. This was perhaps Turnbull’s most serious collecting interest, and his most costly.
Turnbull collected complete sets of books from famous private printing presses including, most notably, William Morris’ Kelmscott Press. Alongside this, of course—and after Turnbull’s time—we have complete runs of everything printed by New Zealand’s own private presses like Caxton and Pegasus.
There are currently 24 medieval manuscripts in the Turnbull Library, though Turnbull himself only bought one (he did not read Greek or Latin). The earliest is a pre-1150 manuscript of Boethius’ On Music.
And then, most significantly, is the fact that Turnbull aimed for utter comprehensiveness in his collection of NZ-related materials. Neither Sir George Grey or Dr Thomas Hocken, who donated their significant libraries to the public too, had the sheer quantity of NZ books as Turnbull did.
And unlike so many collections in Europe, we don’t need to be members of a university or personal friends with the collector to go and view any of these. They’re a part of our national collection. Just walk in to the National Library building in Wellington.
Turnbull and NZ’s libraries, a short bibliography:
The Fascinating Folly: Dr. Hocken and his Fellow Collectors. E. H. McCormick, University of Otago Press, 1961. (This is a pamphlet with great introductory material to the three contemporaneous book collectors who gifted their libraries to the nation.)
Alexander Turnbull: His Life, His Circle, His Collections. E. H. McCormick, Alexander Turnbull Library, 1974. (The most comprehensive biography written on Turnbull).
This brilliant guide to book history at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
The Turnbull: A Library and its World. Rachel Barrowman, Auckland University Press, 1995. (A great history of the library through time, though with far less about Turnbull himself than McCormick’s biography).
Early Imprints in New Zealand Libraries. Alexander Turnbull Library, 1995. (Subtitled “A finding list of books printed before 1801 held in libraries in the Wellington region”, this is a good primer on what we have in our libraries).
“How millionaire book collector Alexander Turnbull fell from grace“. Redmer Yska in The Listener, January 2019. (A good primer).
The Oldest Manuscripts in New Zealand. David Taylor, NZCER, 1955. (A popular book in its time, this covers the earliest Medieval manuscripts we had in all NZ libraries before 1955).
Account of a cruise in the yacht Iorangi to Queen Charlotte sound, New Zealand. Alexander Turnbull, privately printed, 1902. (The only book Turnbull himself ever wrote. A copy is available, of course, in his own library).
Author mmoorejonesPosted on July 1, 2019 July 1, 2019 Categories Articles, BooksTags Aldus Manutius, Alexander Turnbull, Caxton Press, Manuscripts, New Zealand
The Harsh Clarity of New Zealand Typography
Robin White, Fish and chips, Maketu (1975). Held at Auckland Art Gallery, copyright Robin White.
I’m reminded of an American friend who visited me in New Zealand. We took a road trip down the West Coast, from Wellington to Queenstown, and after a few days of driving through small towns, my friend said something along the lines of: “Typography and signage in this country are fascinating. Everything is so clear, direct and uncluttered.”
Peter was talking specifically about shop signs and billboards—the Tip Top dairy and Fish&Chip shop kind of signs. But his comments stuck with me for some time afterwards.
Comparing some twentieth century NZ and British printing for instance, New Zealand’s is refreshing in its simplicity. Yet it’s a simplicity with strength and directness; it’s not watered-down “minimalism” or any kind of Instagram-age aesthetic (it has obviously existed long before any of that, as Robin White’s painting shows). I almost want to say that printing work like the Caxton Press’ has a “noble simplicity and quiet grandeur”. I’ll stop just short, but it’s nice to think about the signage of your local fish-and-chip shop in the same way as Winckelmann once pondered the Apollo Belvedere.
Maybe, perhaps, possibly the “harsh clarity of New Zealand light” is expressed somehow in our typography, and maybe our book printing? Perhaps the peculiar quality of our direct and un-ozone-mediated light influenced our typographers as it was said to influence the likes of Rita Angus, Christopher Perkins and Colin Mccahon?
I’m not as interested in causes as I am effects. Our signage and our typography is as it is (is as great as it is)—what now? Kris Sowersby’s National typeface is now in use all around the world, from the Huffington Post’s website to a new biography about Mies van der Rohe. (Of all accolades for a modernist-tradition designer, being called upon to help sell Mies’ design must surely be among the highest.) My personal favourites are Sowersby’s “Untitled” typefaces, a kind of distillation of type design to a level where our subconscious barely recognises them as design at all. They have a kind of simplicity to them, even a noble one, but that’s coupled with a—well, screw it, a quiet grandeur. They aspire.
Kris Sowersby and Klim Type Foundry’s Untitled Serif. The choice of sample text is his not mine.
Sowersby is drawing on the “Super Normal” philosophy of Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison, where design is so subtle as to be invisible. He didn’t invent the idea. But again, a New Zealander is at the cutting edge in typography, as, supposedly, one was at the end of the nineteenth century. In the 1890s it was said by a “leading English typefounder” that “‘For the future historian of typefounding of the present generation we shall certainly have to go to New Zealand”—this being a reference to the work of Robert Coupland Harding and his Typo journal.
To belabour the point about Kris Sowersby and his Klim Type Foundry: what I am most enamoured with is the insistence that (as he titled an exhibition last year at Objectspace) “There is no such thing as a New Zealand typeface.” That’s right! This is not a New Zealand typeface. It’s just a typeface, a really good one. One that happens to have been made by a New Zealander. Whether you’re talking about his “National” or his “Untitled”, or even his “Newzald“, they’re just typefaces. They also just happen to be some of the best that designers around the world can get their hands on.
In an interview in 1944 Jackson Pollock said:
“The idea of an isolated American painting, so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of creating a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd… And in another sense, the problem doesn’t exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: an American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by that fact, whether he wills it or not. But the basic problem of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.”
I think that’s what Sowersby and Objectspace were getting at with “There is no such thing as a New Zealand typeface.” It’s also why I don’t really believe in “New Zealand art”, or “New Zealand writing”. If it’s good it’s just “art” or “writing” or “a typeface”, and the New Zealandness problem “solves itself”, because a New Zealander is a New Zealander and his or her work will inevitably be shadowed by that fact.
Peter Robinson was then half right with his 1998 work Strategic Plan, where the challenge was laid down: “Mission statement: First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin.” Well, they’re being taken—but not quite with Robinson’s instructions, like “Always attempt to speak the native’s language”, and “Cash in on fashionable contemporary dialogues such as ethnicity, marginalisation and globalism.” Robinson’s work is still in Auckland, but the typographers are well and truly in Manhattan and Berlin.
I’m being unfair to Robinson. His work is much more nuanced than that, and points out the hollowness of those “instructions” as much as it implies we should follow them. But I raise it because really, the New Zealanders doing some of the most groundbreaking work, in art, writing and typography are doing it in the most New Zealand way possible: so damn modestly that it’s sometimes hard to even see. No emphasising idigeneity, no American-style self-promotion. Just fantastic work. The best seem to have absorbed the lesson of Allen Curnow that somehow or other was forgotten along the postmodern way: “It is not by harping on what is native, indigenous, insular that any of these songs are news: if they are good they cannot but be news of the human condition.”
One more quotation, this one Donald Judd’s: “The importance of art done in the United States since World War II… is most easily explained by saying that a few artists simply decided to do first-rate work.” Granted, it was maybe a little more complex than that; but unless artists know they’re doing first-rate work, what can dealers, curators, publishers and politicians ultimately do? I end with this quotation because people who happen to have passports issued by New Zealand are doing first-rate work.
Can you tell I’m excited?
Peter Robinson, Strategic Plan (1997). Held at Auckland Art Gallery, copyright Peter Robinson.
Author mmoorejonesPosted on February 12, 2019 February 24, 2019 Categories Art, EssaysTags Allen Curnow, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollock, Kris Sowersby, New Zealand, Peter Robinson, printing, typography
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The PIMCO Foundation Awards $2 Million Grant to The Global FoodBanking Network
Monday, 17. June 2019 15:00
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., June 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The PIMCO Foundation, the philanthropic arm of one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers PIMCO, has awarded $2 million to The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN). This grant will support the organization’s Powering Food Banks for Growth and Impact program, which serves more than nine million people around the world facing food insecurity.
PIMCO’s donation will support 70,000 vulnerable people in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and India, facing hunger each year. The grant will also support the expansion of GFN’s program to Southeast Asia, where GFN will seek to provide hunger relief services to 40,000 additional people.
“Tragically, one in nine people around the globe go to bed hungry each night. We have partnered with The Global FoodBanking Network to help address this crisis,” said Emmanuel Roman, Chief Executive Officer of PIMCO and President of the PIMCO Foundation. “PIMCO has made a deep commitment to combatting hunger through our broader corporate responsibility platform, and we are thrilled to support GFN’s valuable work through this grant.”
The food-banking model is a community-based solution to hunger which distributes meals through local charities by recovering wholesome, surplus food. The majority of GFN’s work focuses in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, GFN is present in 30 countries and distributes food and grocery products to more than 55,000 beneficiary organizations through a network of more than 800 food banks globally.
“Our mission is to nourish the world’s hungry through uniting and advancing food banks. We seek to expand the food banking model by supporting our current members and seeding new food banks in communities where they are both needed and can effectively exist”, said Lisa Moon, President and CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network. “We believe that food banking will be one of the many critical solutions to achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 of Zero Hunger by 2030. And with this investment from PIMCO, we are now even closer to hitting that mark.”
Other Hunger Focused Giving
This $2 million investment follows a previous $1 million grant from PIMCO to GFN, made in 2018.
PIMCO recently granted over $350k to Community Action Partnership Orange County, and the Orange County Food Bank, which helped purchase and maintain the Food Bank’s first ever mobile food trolley, Clementine. The trolley, launched in March 2019, stocked with fruits, vegetables, dairy products, diapers and formula, and also a library for children, will support un-seen food deserts across Orange County, enabling communities to access affordable and good-quality fresh food.
PIMCO has invested an additional $150k into food banks around the globe where the firm's offices are located including with New York Common Pantry and the Central Texas Food Bank in Austin, TX.
About PIMCO
PIMCO is one of the world’s premier fixed income investment managers. With its launch in 1971 in Newport Beach, California, PIMCO introduced investors to a total return approach to fixed income investing. In the 45+ years since, the firm continued to bring innovation and expertise to our partnership with clients seeking the best investment solutions. Today PIMCO has offices across the globe and 2,500+ professionals united by a single purpose: creating opportunities for investors in every environment. PIMCO is owned by Allianz SE, a leading global diversified financial services provider.
About the PIMCO Foundation
The PIMCO Foundation is the philanthropic arm of PIMCO, based in Newport Beach, California. PIMCO’s community engagement platform, known as Purpose at PIMCO, focuses on hunger and gender equality with the belief that these are fundamental issues critical to human development and sustainable worldwide economic growth. It carries out its mission by identifying areas of urgent community need and volunteering time and financial resources to support high impact programs and innovative nonprofit organizations.
https://global.pimco.com/en-gbl/our-firm/purpose
Instagram @purposeatpimco
About The Global FoodBanking Network
The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is an international non-profit organization based in Chicago that nourishes the world’s hungry through launching and strengthening food banks in 30 countries. GFN focuses on combating hunger and preventing food waste by providing expertise, directing resources, sharing knowledge and developing connections that increase efficiency, ensure food safety and reach more people facing hunger. Last year, GFN member food banks rescued and redirected food to more than 9 million people facing hunger.
https://www.foodbanking.org/
Instagram/Facebook/Twitter: @foodbanking
Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this news release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including the performance of financial markets, the investment performance of PIMCO's sponsored investment products and separately managed accounts, general economic conditions, future acquisitions, competitive conditions and government regulations, including changes in tax laws. Readers should carefully consider such factors. Further, such forward-looking statements speak only on the date at which such statements are made. PIMCO undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
Laura Batty
PIMCO – Media Relations
Ph. +1 949 720 6374
Laura.batty@pimco.com
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MAPS was initially created in 1999 at the University of Illinois as a companion site to the first edition of the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford UP, 2000). The anthology contains poems by hundreds of different modern and contemporary poets, including several poets—among them women, minorities, and progressives—who previously had not been published in anthology form. Cary Nelson and the original advisory board of notable scholars realized that readers would benefit from having more information readily available and accessible to them than what a book could hold.
Starting with the original Illinois site (http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/index.htm), Bartholomew Brinkman developed the updated site (http://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/dashboard) in the Spring of 2013 to allow more in depth and modern functions through Drupal, an open source content management system that allows for a great deal of modularity and flexibility in presentation and purpose. The new MAPS site features several state-of-the-art features beyond those available on the original site. MAPS, with the help from grants and student interns, has grown over the past decade to more than 30,000 pages of biographies, critical essays, syllabi and images relating to 161 poets. The site still urges you to read the books from which the excerpts were taken; making sure all possible information is gathered and researched.
MAPS is a part of an innovative and intellectual community of students and scholars. It acts as a medium to allow fluid conversation between individuals in which new ideas and criticism combine to help influence readers and learners. It is a learning environment and resource for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry. A user of the site can choose between various approaches to learn and experience poets and poems. With use of biographical information, criticism, and other materials, MAPS involves processes that connect poets in many ways: biographically, geographically, thematically, and historically. The site is not limited to its own information; external links grant users a more wide spread glance at poetry and can help motivate readers to engage with other readers. The site includes audio, other media files, essays, images of poets and book jackets, bibliographies, archives, teaching resources, and more. The convenience of having connections to outside sites aids in ones effort to research and compile facts and criticism. MAPS also encourages its users to submit criticism and or to search for information that MAPS has use for. This ever-growing site is a user’s guide to poetry and history that runs on the collaborative process.
Intern Testimonials
Working with the Modern American Poetry Site (MAPS) has given me an opportunity to learn and discuss poets and their poetry in a way that is new and innovative to me. I have been able to do in depth research on specific poets and their work which has given me a new insight into their writing and personal take on life. I really enjoy how collaborative the site is since, as an English major, I work closely with other students and learn based on enhanced conversation about works of literature and culture. I work best in a team environment where an individual can learn from another freely without their being any hierarchy or judgement. The site has encouraged me to continue to read and explore poetry. I have found that the internship with MAPS teaches more about the professional side of poetry than what someone may expect. Researching grants, historical events, other kinds of awards, and even some of the poet’s biographical information, has given me tools that I can incorporate into my own life as a poet and scholar. I feel very interested to continue learning about MAPS and I hope to keep it in my life as a resource for further reading and learning, since the site is ever growing.
Researching poets allowed me to understand their lives and their style of writing. I learned about their themes and interests and in doing so, gained a different perspective of the life of the poets. After doing direct work with the poets and their work, I explored MAPS to find how one may use MAPS in the classroom and how a student can use MAPS. I liked that, by writing about how one should interact with the site, I learned about the site myself. I was able to look at the site in terms of what lessons a professor may come up with for a course and how a student might interpret the site. I had to learn to adjust my writing to the audience of this site, which as a result, helped me to be flexible and well-rounded in terms of writing styles. I gained a more professional outlook on writing for different audiences. I mainly gained a new appreciation for editing web materials and for poets and their work.
--Leah Steele (Spring '17)
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Aquaman (2018): Review
***some mild spoilers***
I was super excited that I was able to get to see a pre-showing of Aquaman, as I have been looking forward to it and if you know me I love a shiny, big budget blockbuster. I had really enjoyed Jason Mamoa as Aquaman in Justice League (2017) and was hoping for a continuation of his humor and the fun which he brought to a darker and grittier movie universe. Aquaman is definitely a family friendly movie, as even though it has some of the many troupes associated with the DCEU, it keeps it more light hearted and bright. This may be as a lot of it is set underwater and that makes it automatically less relatable than the other DCEU movies that are set in the harsher real world. I would definitely recommend to any one who enjoys these type of big budget blockbusters or the more fun superhero type movie.
Aquaman follows Arthur Curry, played by Jason Mamoa, after the events of the Justice League. Arthur is the illegitimate son of Queen Atlanna of Atlantis, played by Nicole Kidman, and Tom Curry, a human lighthouse keeper, played by Temuera Morrison. When Arthur and Tom lives are threatened, Atlanta returns to sea and her arranged marriage to keep them safe. As they say Atlantians are not know for being forgiving. In present day, Arthur is reluctantly forced to help stop his half-brother King Orm, played by Patrick Wilson, from waging war on the surface world. He is hell bent on taking over and destroying humankind. Arthur must seek out the trident of King Altan in order to assist him in trying to save the world. He is assisted by Mera, played by Amber Heard and Vulku, played by Willem Dafoe. Also staring Manta, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, a man who is focused on hunting down and killing Aquaman.
I really enjoyed this movie and thought that it was a lot of fun. As I was watching it I just really enjoyed all that was going on and there wasn't that many distracting things. There was a lot going on in the story and plot with a big problem being that it tried to do too much and cram too many plot points into the story. It basically could have removed the whole Manta side plot. It doesn't add anything to the movie and without it wouldn't have felt like anything was missing or truly different in the movie. It seemed more about what his plot line set up rather than adding anything special to the movie. Those who are big Aquaman fans may disagree but as I probably didn't even notice or understand half the easter eggs or comic book references, I didn't have any previous emotional connection to the characters, storylines or references.
It was great how Aquaman showed a bit about the backstory of Arthur and technically it is an origin story about how he truly embraces becoming Aquaman but it didn't feel like it was all a set up movie. I enjoyed the quest, the reluctantly helping, and battle against his brother. I have to admit that I didn't realize the King Arthur correlation to Aquaman until it was mentioned to me by one of my friends after the movie and I see many, many parallels between them (I actually feel a bit daft for not putting it together during the movie).
As I mentioned above, I really like Jason Mamoa as Aquaman and find him very appealing and scrumptious. I liked how he played him as the not serious but truly cares outcast and didn't have any problems with the possible dichotomy of his personality and behaviors. The guys I went with, mentioned that they didn't like that at some points he was dopey and then it was expected that he would be this strong, intelligent about history guy. This didn't bother me as I saw the it as more of a trying to put on that he doesn't care characteristic but cant suppress who he truly is but just thought I would share this perspective. The overall cast was fine but no one truly emoted that well, there were lot of black emotions and faces but since it was basically everyone, this may be a directorial decision more than anything else. I liked the connection between Mamoa and Heard, and Morrison was great in every scene he was in.
There was a lot of effort and it is obvious in all the care but into the cinematography and the scope of the sea worlds. It is blatantly different from previous DC movies as it is bright and colorful not completely muted and very dark visuals that are usually associated with DC. It also has a lot of destruction to the world per normal DCEU movies but doesn't feel as destructive as it doesn't fell like its set in the "real world." The underwaterscapes were beautiful to look at and how all the contrasting and multiple colors were amazing to look at. Everything was just stunning. The CGI was done well except for when everything on screen was CGI. It is very difficult to make anything look real when the whole shot is digital. The most obvious thing was how people looked underwater. The floating wasn't done right but OMG was the hair and the way it moved underwater was done poorly and extremely distracting. I liked how they portrayed the swimming fast and Atlantian crafts and other aspects of the deep.
This movie is definitely a watch if you like family friendly, big budget movies. This creates its own world and feels very other worldly with all the powers, the different species, and how almost no one is human. It is not a serious or gritty movie but if you go into it expecting some enjoyable fun, you will enjoy the ride that is Aquaman,
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Home > Charity > Latest News 2018 > WI group helps to boost the funds of the Every Heart Matters appeal
The members of the Great Waldingfield WI have helped to boost the funds of the My WiSH Charity’s Every Heart Matters appeal by raising £500.
It’s come from a series of events including a cake stall on the market in Sudbury which realised £200 and a Soup and Natter event which was attended by other local WI’s.
The appeal is aiming to raise £500,000 for a new cardiac unit at the West Sufolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, and Mary Jackson, the president of the Great Waldingfield WI which celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, said the campaign is one which is close to her heart.
For the 83-year-old, who lives in the village in Bowling Green, has had a history of heart problems which has led to her having five stents inserted following procedures at Papworth Hospital.
She said: “I suggested we raise the money for the appeal as I had a heart attack last year.”
It followed two stents being fitted 11 years ago when she was suffering from angina then, on New Year’s Eve last year, she suffered pains in her chest which resulted in another stent being fitted in January after initially being treated at the West Suffolk Hospital.
The heart attack struck in August which led to another trip to Papworth and two more stents being inserted.
“The staff at the hospital in Bury have been wonderful to me and they will do anything to help me. They are just brilliant and it’s crucial to have this new unit at the West Suffolk to save people having to carry out longer journeys,” she said.
Sally Daniels, appeal manager said “It was a pleasure to come along and meet these wonderful ladies. The community have been just incredible and the WI in particular have been so supportive of, not only our Every Heart Matters appeal, but also of the charity as a whole”.
If you want to support the Every Heart Matters appeal go to the websitewww.mywishcharity.co.uk and if you would like to donate to the appeal you can do so by going to: Justgiving.com/ehma or text EHMA17 £10 to 70070.
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Bellow on Gutsche-Miller (2015)
Gutsche-Miller, Sarah. Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871–1913. U of Rochester P, Eastman Studies in Music, 2015, pp. 384 + 37 b&w, 39 line illustrations, ISBN 9781580464420
Juliet Bellow, American University
If asked to conjure a mental image of ballet in late-nineteenth-century Paris, most readers would imagine a scene at the Opéra. However, as Sarah Gutsche-Miller’s groundbreaking book shows, Parisians of that era would likely have visualized a music-hall stage. Her book traces the period between the end of the Paris Commune and the beginning of the First World War, when the Folies-Bergère, Casino de Paris, and Olympia produced increasingly dazzling, ambitious ballets that rivaled the opulent offerings of the Opéra. Gutsche-Miller’s meticulous research provides a glimpse of these now-lost ballets, created at the impressive rate of four to six new works per year. Enabled by the repeal of Napoleonic laws that restricted the genres that theaters could offer, and driven by the desire of music-hall proprietors to appeal to a bourgeois clientele, what Gutsche-Miller describes is nothing less than a ballet boom on an unprecedented scale. As striking as the phenomenon itself is the near-total absence of these music-hall productions from accounts of dance in the period, hitherto viewed as the “dark age” of French ballet. In her introduction, Gutsche-Miller notes that “nearly all histories of ballet focus on dance in state-funded ‘high art’ institutions, which in France has meant a nearly exclusive concentration on the Paris Opéra” (2). The 1870s marked the beginning of a long decline in the quality and quantity of the Opéra’s ballet offerings. Previous scholarship held that, as a result of its changing fortunes at the Opéra, ballet withered away until the arrival of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe in 1909. In fact, ballet “simply changed venue” (2). Ballet’s apparent disappearance, in other words, stemmed from later scholars’ refusal to acknowledge that popular music-hall performance constituted a form of ballet.
Gutsche-Miller’s revisionist account begins with a detailed overview of the music-halls that, in emulation of English venues such as the Alhambra, began to feature ballet alongside circus acts and other attractions. Central to her story is the Folies-Bergère which, under the directorships of Léon Sari and Édouard Marchand, programmed ballet and symphonic concerts in an effort to elevate the hall’s prestige. At first, these ballets were largely short, plotless divertissements, but when Marchand arrived at the Folies-Bergère in the late 1880s, he began to feature single large-scale narrative ballets as an evening’s main event. Marchand’s model was emulated to varying degrees by the Folies-Bergère’s competitors, the Casino de Paris and the Olympia. Gutsche-Miller provides a nuanced analysis of the three theaters, with particular attention to the subtly different audiences each venue attracted. This she deduces not only by comparing entrance fees, but also tabulating other associated costs of attendance (including coat check, programs, libations, and even a prostitute’s ministrations).
In subsequent sections, Gutsche-Miller delves into the ballets and the librettists, composers, and choreographers who made them. Intriguingly, many of these people crossed over from elite institutions including the Opéra, particularly during the 1890s as music-halls began to trade on the fame of dancers and musicians to promote their ballets. At the same time, music-halls provided opportunities for figures outside established circles—such as “Mme. Mariquita,” a former dancer who became one of the period’s few female choreographers. The extant records for many of these figures, and for the ballets themselves, are frustratingly incomplete. Gutsche-Miller builds her analysis from the extant evidence, primarily titles, synopses, and musical scores. A musicologist by training, she infers a great deal from the latter. As she notes, ballet accompaniment was necessarily formulaic: “It needed to have a steady pulse with rhythms that propelled a dancer forward, an even number of measures, and balanced phrases” (115). However, she refuses to equate such constraints with inconsequentiality, pointing to canny ways that composers used music to evoke place, atmosphere, and character.
Admittedly, the author pays less sustained attention to the more ephemeral components of these pieces—choreography and design. Some readers also may wish for more robust analyses of individual ballets, as well as a more substantive grounding of her account in the political, social, and economic context of turn-of-the-century Paris. For example, the author suggests in passing that music-hall ballets may have served as vehicles for political or social critique, an idea that would have benefited from deeper, more specific elaboration. But we must refrain from asking too much of the first book to grapple in depth with this group of ballets. Arguably, Gutsche-Miller’s greatest contribution lies in her insistence that this popular genre is worthy of serious scholarly inquiry.
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Shopify's (SHOP) "Buy" Rating Reiterated at Piper Jaffray Companies
Октября 10, 2017
Tracking the stock price in relation to moving averages as well as highs and lows for the year might assist with evaluating future stock performance. On Friday, Shares of Shopify Inc . The company's revenue for the quarter was up 75.2% compared to the same quarter past year. On average, analysts anticipate that Shopify will post ($0.04) earnings per share for the current year.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (NYSE:TEVA) Under Analyst Spotlight
The number of shares now owned by investors are 52.07 mln. The stock stands almost $30.17 off versus the 52-week high of $45.85 and $0.46 above the 52-week low of $15.22. The stock of AMETEK, Inc. As per Friday, August 5, the company rating was maintained by Piper Jaffray. Analysts review historical return data when trying to predict future returns or to estimate how a security might react to a particular situation, such as a drop in consumer demand.
Names released of two killed in wrong way crash
Deputies were originally dispatched to a "wrong way driver" on the expressway, Main said. 50-year-old Barbara Kavanaugh was traveling the wrong direction in the Northbound lane on US-127 Frday and struck a vehicle driven by 42-year-old Marvin Patrick from Hudson.
China Forex Reserves Rise for Eighth Straight Month
The yuan ended September weaker against the dollar compared with the start of the month. China's central bank lifted its official yuan midpoint to 6.6273 per dollar on Tuesday, its first firmer fixing since September 22, reflecting spot yuan performance a day earlier.
1.08 is Goldman Sachs Group Inc's (NYSE:GS) Institutional Investor Sentiment
Finally, Atlantic Securities upgraded Goldman Sachs Group from a "neutral" rating to an "overweight" rating and increased their target price for the stock from $214.00 to $254.00 in a research report on Thursday, April 20th. Ibm Retirement Fund has invested 0.41% in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). The stock of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) has "Buy" rating given on Monday, October 12 by Sandler O'Neill.
First Merchants Corp Has $269000 Position in Caterpillar Inc. (CAT)
The stock declined 0.32% or $0.4 reaching $126.53 on the news. The Q4 2017 consensus earnings estimates for the company have stabilized at US$1.25 per share. (NYSE:CAT). Cibc Asset holds 0.04% or 52,860 shares. Wms Ltd Company stated it has 0.76% of its portfolio in Caterpillar Inc. Fundx Ltd Liability stated it has 0.35% in Caterpillar Inc.
Most Recent Analysts Ratings United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL)
Shares of United Continental Holdings, Inc . It has outperformed by 60.49% the S&P500. Analysts await Juniper Networks, Inc. About 598,738 shares traded. Glg Ltd Llc stated it has 0.12% in United Continental Holdings Inc (NYSE: UAL ). Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of United Continental Holdings during the first quarter worth about $122,000.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) Stake Decreased by Baxter Bros Inc
Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB) has risen 0.32% since October 8, 2016 and is uptrending. The insider Mielke Thomas J . sold 20,108 shares worth $2.58M. On Tuesday, March 15 the stock rating was maintained by Argus Research with "Buy". The company was maintained on Tuesday, September 5 by Jefferies. ROIC is a profitability ratio that measures the return that an investment generates for those providing capital.
Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) Institutional Investors Quarterly Sentiment
About 2.60M shares traded. Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) has risen 11.92% since October 9, 2016 and is uptrending. First Personal Svcs reported 9,282 shares. The stock of Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) has "Hold" rating given on Monday, June 5 by Jefferies. Citigroup initiated the stock with "Buy" rating in Tuesday, September 13 report.
What's The Story Behind Energy Transfer Equity, LP (NYSE:ETE)
The stock declined 0.16% or $0.09 reaching $56.12 on the news. About 83,432 shares traded. Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (NYSE:IPG) has risen 3.01% since October 6, 2016 and is uptrending. About 810,213 shares traded. The company's stock is now moving with a -ve distance from the 200 day SMA of approximately -1.3%, and has a solid year to date (YTD) performance of -7.61% which means that the stock is constantly adding to its value from the previous fiscal year end price.
Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) Updated Broker Ratings
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ECB Says Eurozone Banks Well Equipped To Cope With Rate Shocks
He vowed: "we will fight a battle in Europe". Long recovery procedures have been a disadvantage for Italian banks since the new rules require banks to set aside cash at regular intervals against loan losses. Earnings at some banks have lagged due to the current very low interest rate environment that squeezes the margins between rates at which banks borrow and their lending rates.
Equity Research Analyst's Stock Ratings: Allergan plc (AGN), Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS)
Allergan PLC . accounts for about 3.1% of South Street Advisors LLC's investment portfolio, making the stock its 17th largest position. Also, the number of institutional investors holding Allergan Inc in their top 10 positions was flat from 0 to 0 for the same number.
KLCM Advisors Inc. Raises Stake in Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI)
It has underperformed by 23.27% the S&P500. Traders are more bearish on shares of Allegheny Technologies Incorpor at least if you consider the rise in short interest. The consensus rating is 0, indicating analysts in general look favorably on the company's future prospects. Therefore 67% are positive. The stock now has an average rating of "Hold" and a consensus price target of $20.65.
Northside Capital Management LLC Reduces Stake in Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
It has underperformed by 0.80% the S&P500. The stock increased 0.04% or $0.03 during the last trading session, reaching $76. ABT's profit would be $1.13 billion giving it 21.05 P/E if the $0.65 EPS is correct. Its down 0.75, from 1.63 in 2017Q1. Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ABT? Wallace Cap Mgmt holds 0.03% or 4,133 shares in its portfolio.
Stock On Top of Chikou Southcross Energy Partners L (SXE) — Momentum Focus
It has outperformed by 14.18% the S&P500. Among 3 analysts covering Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp ( NASDAQ:BGFV ), 1 have Buy rating , 0 Sell and 2 Hold. 1,800 were reported by Bnp Paribas Arbitrage Sa. Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE:SEP) has an M-Score of -2.443718. Fifth Third Bancshares stated it has 0% in NGL Energy Partners LP (NYSE:NGL).
Trading Spotter: Tracking Shares of Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT)
The stock of Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SRPT) earned "Buy" rating by Roth Capital on Wednesday, August 26. Among 5 analysts covering Independence Realty Trust ( NYSE:IRT ), 3 have Buy rating , 0 Sell and 2 Hold. State Of Alaska Department Of Revenue holds 0.06% or 69,888 shares. Employees Retirement Of Texas invested 0.08% in Education Realty Trust, Inc. Since May 9, 2017, it had 0 insider purchases, and 3 sales for $948,905 activity.
Las Vegas gunman may have planned attack at Lollapalooza
The initial TMZ story said Paddock booked one room for August 1, two days before Lollapalooza kicked off and then booked a second room, both with checkout dates of August 6, when the festival ended. The man behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern USA history may have considered deadly attacks at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago and an earlier festival in Las Vegas , investigators say.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc
The overall volume in the last trading session was 1.31 million shares. About 48 shares traded. It is down 12.28% since October 7, 2016 and is uptrending. had its "hold" rating reiterated by analysts at Zacks . The Gross Margin score lands on a scale from 1 to 100 where a score of 1 would be considered positive, and a score of 100 would be seen as negative.
Nike, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) Broker Price Targets For The Coming Week
Nike (NYSE:NKE) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, September 26th. It has underperformed by 25.94% the S&P500. Hendershot Investments Inc decreased its stake in Baxter Intl Inc (BAX) by 50.81% based on its latest 2017Q2 regulatory filing with the SEC.
SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Broker Price Targets For The Coming Week
The selection universe for the Index includes all the United States common equities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation Global Select Market, NASDAQ Select Market and NASDAQ Capital Market with market capitalizations between $250 million and $1.2 billion.
Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG) Sees Unusual Trading Volume in Its Shares
Can increased its stake in Convergys Corporation by 2.8% during the 1st quarter. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the business. The company's P/E ratio is 18.29 and market cap is 2.42B. Convergys Corporation has a 1-year low of $20.15 and a 1-year high of $30.34. Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG ) soared 5.99% year-to-date.
Southwestern Energy Company (SWN) - Stock Bulletin
The stock ended last trade at $5.93 a share and the price is up more than -45.19% so far this year. In general, companies with the lowest combined rank may be the higher quality picks. Stock price volatility tends to rise when there is new information released in the markets however the extent to which it rises is determined by the relevance of that new information as well as to the degree in which the news surprises investors.
Bbva Compass Bancshares Inc. Sells 2599 Shares of Merck & Company, Inc. (MRK)
Days to cover increased 1.0 to 3.0 and the percentage of shorted shares is 0.01% as of August 31. Institutional investors own 72.91% of the company's stock. (NYSE:MRK) earned "Buy" rating by UBS on Friday, August 19. (NYSE:MRK) has "Market Perform" rating given on Monday, July 18 by BMO Capital Markets. More interesting news about Merck & Co., Inc.
Essex Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESS) Valuation According To Analysts
The stock decreased 0.08% or $0.02 on October 6, reaching $25.71. Also, CEO Michael J. Schall sold 333 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 10th. The firm earned "Underperform" rating on Monday, June 12 by Evercore. The stock has "Hold" rating by Sandler O'Neill on Monday, May 2. The rating was downgraded by Zelman on Wednesday, January 27 to "Sell".
The Case for and Against Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT)
Shares of Applied Materials, Inc . Investors and Traders continue to monitor technical levels of shares of Applied Materials, Inc . (NASDAQ: AMAT ). The firm has "Buy" rating by Morgan Stanley given on Friday, July 7. 09/28/2017 - Applied Materials, Inc . had its "outperform" rating reiterated by analysts at Evercore ISI.
A Deep Dive Into Attraqt Group Plc (ATQT.L)'s Levels
There is no easy answer when attempting to address the tough question of how to best approach the equity market, especially when facing a turbulent investing climate. The Average Directional Index or ADX is a popular technical indicator created to help measure trend strength. The RSI was developed by J. Welles Wilder.
Corning Incorporated (GLW) Holdings Increased by Park National Corp /oh
Engineers Gate Manager LP bought a new position in shares of Corning in the 1st quarter valued at $1,869,000. Park National Corp /oh/ added to its ownership by buying 2,384 shares an increase of 9.2%. They now have a United States dollars 28 price target on the stock. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 65,610 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,808,867.70.
What's The Story Behind First Horizon National Corporation (NYSE:FHN)
Research analysts are predicting that Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE:DOC) will report earnings of $0.28 per share when the firm issues their next quarterly report. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. The rating was upgraded by Bank of America to "Neutral" on Thursday, December 15. As we move into the second half of the year, investors will be watching to see which way the momentum shifts and if stocks are still primed to move higher.
Taking a Fresh Look at International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
In recent action, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has made a move of +2.83% over the past month, which has come on weak relative transaction volume. The firm has "Underperform" rating by Credit Suisse given on Wednesday, October 12. Lee Danner And Bass holds 0.48% in International Business Machines Corp.
Coca-Cola Company (The) (KO) Position Decreased by Marshwinds Advisory Co
J & J now has $357.56 billion valuation. Looking into last 5 trades, the stock observed a return of nearly 1.07%. Company shares have been seen trading -10.73% off of the 52 week high and 14.36% away from the 52 week low. Kbc Grp Nv holds 1.76% in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) or 1.38M shares. It improved, as 49 investors sold KO shares while 618 reduced holdings. Capital World Investors now owns 22,083,787 shares of the company's stock valued at $898,148,000 after acquiring an additional ...
Next Weeks Broker Price Targets For Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ)
Leading up to this report, we have seen a 2.02% rise in the stock price over the last 30 days and a 1.23% increase over the past 3 months. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise during the fourth quarter worth about $372,714,000.
Stock Jumping Abnormally High: 22nd Century Group, Inc. (XXII)
Higher relative volume you will have more liquidity in the stock which will tighten spreads and allow you to trade with more size without a ton of slippage. As a result, shareholders under-react when stock prices approach the 52-week high, and as a result, contrary to most shareholders' expectations, stocks near their 52-week highs tend to be systematically undervalued.
Seagate announces 12TB BarraCuda Pro, IronWolf and IronWolf Pro HDDs
Seagate sees a solution with the Seagate BarraCuda Pro 12TB hard drive - the largest and fastest disk drive on the market now. The 12TB drives are great for creative professionals who require a lot of space to store content such as 4K footage.
Rockefeller Financial Services Inc. Has $1.18 Million Position in Stryker Co. (SYK)
Stryker Corporation accounts for about 1.5% of Destination Wealth Management's holdings, making the stock its 22nd biggest position. Visa Inc Com Cl A now has $244.34B valuation. Its down 0.04, from 0.89 in 2017Q1. It fall, as 38 investors sold SYK shares while 352 reduced holdings. 81 funds opened positions while 307 raised stakes.
Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) Under Analyst Spotlight
Over the last quarter, shares have performed 6.83%. Blackrock Inc. now has $74.57 billion valuation. The stock increased 0.48% or $0.31 during the last trading session, reaching $64.83. Keefe Bruyette & Woods maintained BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) rating on Friday, September 15. (NYSE:APD) rating on Monday, August 28. On Monday, January 11 the stock rating was upgraded by KeyBanc Capital Markets to "Overweight".
AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) Traded Well Above Its 50 Day Moving Average
AbbVie Inc . The stock has a market cap of $144.25 billion, a PE ratio of 22.26 and a beta of 1.51. The stock rose 0.25% or $0.23 reaching $90.72. About 642,233 shares traded. M&R Capital Mgmt holds 0.49% or 28,141 shares in its portfolio. AbbVie Inc. (AbbVie), launched on April 10, 2012, is a research-based biopharmaceutical company.
50% of the content viewing to go mobile by 2020: Ericsson report
Ericsson reports that a consumer's time spent watching TV and video content has hit an all-time high of 30 hours a week, including traditional linear, on-demand, and downloaded or recorded content. As consumers become increasingly used to ad-free services such as Netflix, advertising interruptions will be perceived as more disruptive than ever before, especially for platforms.
Active Stock Momentum: Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI)
The RSI was developed by J. Welles Wilder, and it oscillates between 0 and 100. The stock hit its twelve month high on 08/01/17, and twelve month low on 10/13/16. The return on equity (ROE), also known as return on investment (ROI), is the best measure of the return, since it is the product of the operating performance, asset turnover, and debt-equity management of the firm.
Edward Jones Raises Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) Stock To a "Buy" Rating
The original version of this report can be read at https://www.dispatchtribunal.com/2017/10/09/gsa-capital-partners-llp-boosts-stake-in-marathon-petroleum-corporation-mpc.html. Norinchukin Bankshares The holds 0.04% or 35,998 shares in its portfolio. For the quarter, shares have been noted at 17.62%. Pub Employees Retirement Systems Of Ohio owns 248,448 shares or 0.07% of their USA portfolio.
Amalgamated Bank Increases Stake in Laredo Petroleum, Inc. (LPI)
About 5,335 shares traded. Nielsen N.V. Ordinary Shares (NYSE:NLSN) has declined 23.32% since October 9, 2016 and is downtrending. LPI now has a profit margin of 16.70%. Therefore 36% are positive. Analysts anticipate that Laredo Petroleum, Inc . will post $0.62 EPS for the current year. Cowen and Company restated a "hold" rating and set a $12.00 target price on shares of Laredo Petroleum in a research note on Sunday, September 17th.
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (CY) Consensus Earnings Forecasts
About 427,707 shares traded. The share last price represents uptick move of 0.06% in value from company's 52-Week high price and shows 61.06% above change in value from its 52-Week low price. Its down 0.14, from 1.02 in 2017Q1. Legal & General Group Plc increased its stake in shares of Cypress Semiconductor by 144.8% in the 1st quarter. 56 funds opened positions while 122 raised stakes.
TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (AMTD) PT Raised to $47.00
Brinker Capital reported 0.02% of its portfolio in TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (The) restated a "neutral" rating and issued a $53.00 target price on shares of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation in a report on Tuesday. Also Zacks.com published the news titled: "TD Ameritrade Acquires Scottrade, Moody's Upgrades Ratings" on September 19, 2017. Volume is the basic fuel of the market since stocks move up or down in price only when shares are trading hands.
Gemmer Asset Management LLC Grows Holdings in Pfizer, Inc. (PFE)
About 13,478 shares traded. It has underperformed by 24.55% the S&P500. Altfest L J & Company Inc increased its stake in Pfizer Inc . ( PFE ) by 66.96% based on its latest 2017Q2 regulatory filing with the SEC. Blb&B Advsrs Llc invested in 1.52% or 260,753 shares. Its up 0.33, from 0.91 in 2017Q1. California-based Grassi Investment Management has invested 1.06% in Pfizer Inc .
Hot Stock of the Day: Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX)
It has underperformed by 11.03% the S&P500. The stock has Return on Assets (ROA) of 2.6 percent. Endocyte, Inc . (NYSE: ECYT ) posting a 0.88% after which it closed the day' session at $5.75 and the company has experienced volume of 3,895,460 shares while on average the company has a capacity of trading 2.62M share while its relative trading volume is 1.48.
Zions Bancorporation 6.95% Fixe (NYSE:ZBK) Experiences Lighter than Average Trading Volume
The stock increased 0.46% or $0.22 on October 6, reaching $47.88. Zions Bancorporation (NASDAQ: ZION ) was up +0.46% ($0.22) to $47.88 and showed a volume of 2.32 mln shares. 886 are owned by Mcf Advsrs Ltd Llc. Gulf Comml Bank (Uk) stated it has 0.04% of its portfolio in Zions Bancorp (NASDAQ: ZION ). Another trade for 12,000 shares valued at $480,910 was sold by STEPHENS STEVEN DAN .
Teza Capital Management LLC Takes Position in Molson Coors Brewing Co
Though the acquisition of the Miller global brands has boosted sales in Europe and worldwide regions, volume continued to decline in Canada. The Company offers a portfolio of owned and partner brands, including Carling, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian and Staropramen, as well as craft and specialty beers, such as the Blue Moon Brewing Company brands, the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company brands, Creemore Springs, Cobra and Doom Bar.
Woman leaves 3-year-old child in hot vehicle while visiting inmate
A woman was arrested Sunday, accused of leaving her toddler alone in a vehicle outside of the Orange County Jail for nearly 20 minutes as temperatures reached 91 degrees. Deputies said she was sweating heavily but otherwise uninjured. Etienne reportedly admitted that she left the child alone. Earlier in the day, Etiennne sat in the jail lobby with her back to reporters.
Real Estate Select Sector SPDR (XLRE) Rises 0.44% for Oct 4
Understanding the risk is important and should be considered very carefully. 5,494,921 shares of the stock were exchanged. Although it was originally intended for commodity traders to help identify the start and finish of market trends, it is frequently used to analyze stocks as well.
Thai airlines get safety boost as United Nations lifts 'red flag'
In response, Thailand's aviation authority, the CAAT, made a decision to recertify all Thai-registered carriers operating worldwide flights, a process that began in September 2016. The government sought the ICAO's reassessment on June 30 and its representatives arrived for the task on Sept 20-27, Gen Prayut said - ending with the removal of the red flag.
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What will happen in 25 days? So if dead animals freak out out, fast forward through this first part. He gets an out-of-the-blue call from Gaitonde himself giving him a tip about something destructive that will happen in Mumbai in the next 25 days. Back in the current-day scenario, Singh and Mathur get closer to Bunty by laying a trap through Bunty's girlfriend. One of the scene with Sait involving frontal nudity, was shot in seven takes. Netflix is a registered trademark of Netflix, Inc. All of these plans to possibly start a global war are being executed posthumously, not unlike a better version of Jigsaw.
Where can I get all the episodes of the Netflix series 'Sacred Games' for free?
Production for the movie only began at the beginning of the year and released around the world on July 6th, 2018. He lives with his wife Melanie Abrams, who is also a novelist. Actor Pankaj Tripathi will be reprising his role as Guriji with the actor confirming the news recently. He also felt that a series gives more time for the character to be explored, unlike a film; he said he agreed to do the series as he wanted to explore the format. When Gaitonde first shot himself, did he think that he could come back after death as a sort of god? It looks increasingly like a lost cause.
Netflix’s Sacred Games is a brilliant thriller series from India
Its imagery is propulsive, when divorced from any larger context. Kubra Sait delivers a heart warming breakout performance like never seen before. Essentially, Sacred Games can be reduced to good-versus-evil. On 4 May 2018, the 55 second long teaser video was released. The eight-episode Indian series has been adapted from Vikram Chandra's award-winning 2006 novel of the same name, and revolves around a prickly cop named Sartaj Singh Saif Ali Khan working in Mumbai.
What Is Netflix's Sacred Games About?
Taking the lead is Saif Ali Khan as determined police officer Sartaj Singh, who is racing against time to save Mumbai after receiving a disturbing phone call late one night. At the same time — and in the early episodes, this twisted narrative is tightly controlled — it emerges that Gaitonde has just murdered a woman in the lair he uses to pull strings in the underworld. Post the release, several mashup videos, art works and memes related to Sacred Games were released and circulated on social media. Running parallel is the story of junior Mumbai Police cop Sartaj Singh Saif Ali Khan who is looking for a big case to prove his mettle to the corrupt department he works in. With the death of Ganesh Gaitonde starts a 25-day countdown that carries on throughout the length of the show. He was one of the ancestors of the Pandavas. This should only take a few moments.
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It had individual stills of a blood spattered Singh, a perplexed looking Mathur and kurta pyjama clad Gaitonde. And is Gaitonde really still alive? While still on the phone with the crime lord, he storms in and finds Gaitonde casually sitting in a chair. The development of Sacred Games started after Erik Barmack, the Vice-president of contacted Motwane to create Indian content for the platform in 2014. The show holds a 90% certified fresh rating on the review aggregator website based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 6. Copyright What's on Netflix 2018.
Netflix's Sacred Games: Season 1 Review
The story of betrayal, glamour, and grit comes from the acclaimed Indian cast and directors behind the movie. And when will he wake back up? Her first book, Sholay: The Making of a Classic, won the Swarn Kamal, a national award for the best Indian book on cinema in 1995. The first season is an adaptation of the first quarter of the book set in Bombay, now recognised as Mumbai, India. The central character is a middle-aged man with a lot of baggage. What was on the passport? Sacred Games will be back for Season 2.
Netflix: ‘Sacred Games’ Set as First Original Series In India
This legend is alluded to in many later texts, and Sarama is often associated with Indra. After putting together the final clues left by Gaitonde, he discovers an underground bunker filled with enough gas masks and supplies to survive a major attack. It was shot in a 50 day schedule with Ghaywan filming with Khan. Sacred Games now brings Bollywood to the fold, introducing an up and coming actress who seems to have some connection with Gaitonde; seeing the news of the gangster's death, she threatens someone to get her file from the murdered talent manager otherwise, else she would bring everyone down with her. Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui stars as Ganesh Gaitonde, a notorious criminal who haunts Sartaj, is - although he may be taking more of a backseat in season two. He has an in depth understanding of the release cycles for Netflix and has developed tools to make navigating Netflix easier.
That changes once Sartaj comes in contact with Ganesh Gaitonde Nawazuddin Siddiqui , a crime lord responsible for the deaths of hundreds. But its 2018 equivalent recontextualizes the flashbacks in ways that robs them of their impact. Iranian actress was cast in the role of film star Zoya Mirza. To complete the screen adaption of the novel, fans can expect at least four series. Singh is dubious but follows up on clues that Gaitonde seems to offer.
Despite having links with corrupt senior police officials, the Bollywood actress somehow gets cornered by honest cop Sartaj Singh who extracts names of suspicious individuals who might be involved with the incident expected to hit Mumbai in the next few days. Season one covers the first quarter of the book and sets the scene in the sprawling, gritty world of Mumbai. But the show still plays their narrative like a mystery, one whose answers rarely if ever impact the characters themselves. Watching Gaitonde ascend is a fascinating journey. He might be a criminal with vast connections into so many areas of social and political life that he pulls the strings that no one ever sees. Hence, if you cancel your subscription within the first trial month itself, Netflix will not charge you anything.
Sacred Games Season 2: Renewal Status & Netflix Release Date
Bit by bit, Gaitonde narrates his own story, a tale of violence and self-centered ideology in direct contrast to the morally pure Sartaj, who traces the call before coming face to face with Gaitonde himself. At the start of the crime thriller, Gaitonde calls Singh to inform him of an attack on the city set to take place in 25 days and there in begins the countdown and the cat-and-mouse game between the two. The first look of the main three characters: Singh, Gaitonde and Mathur were released by Netflix on 23 February 2018. When will Sacred Games season 2 be released on Netflix? The first trailer dropped on May 4, and from the looks of things, there's going to be plenty of twists, turns, and drama to keep us entertained. Directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, the gangster thriller stars , Nawazuddin Siddiqui and among others.
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5 Albums Celebrating Milestones in 2016
Posted on February 11, 2016 by Andrew Johns
In our fourth installment of classic albums celebrating milestones this year, we take you back to some iconic firsts (and lasts). Get ready to reminisce on Freddy Mercury’s last piece of work with Queen, or how about the first time we all heard Gorillaz ?! Then there’s Tori Amos. Get ready for a roller coaster ride of music emotion with this week’s coveted list.
Tori Amos/Boys for Pele/20 YO The third album by the singer songwriter, this had many firsts for her. It was the first album she produced herself as well as the first of her albums to reach #2 positions worldwide (from UK album charts to Billboard 100). ‘Boys for Pele’ saw Amos taking a different direction with harpsichords, choirs, orchestral work featured throughout the albums 18 songs. To radio, this album wasn’t single friendly, but critics and fans still cling to this as one of her greatest works.
While on tour promoting her previous album, Under the Pink her relationship with Eric Rosse fell apart. In her attempt to claim her own womanhood, she went in search of energy and experiences with Ayuhauasca. Much of the album was recorded in a church in Ireland, and down south in New Orleans. The theme of the album lyrically is about her relationship with men and what it meant for her to be a woman. The album further exemplifies this with her holding a rifle, her left leg exposed over the chair.
Queen/Innuendo/25 YO The final piece of music Freddie Mercury ever graced us, and the final album for Queen that was composed of new music. Riding the beginning waves of the 90s, ‘Innuendo’ was somewhat of a return to Queen’s rock roots. It would go on to sell 13 million copies, also going to #1 the first few months of its release worldwide.
Having been diagnosed with HIV in 1987, Mercury and the band kept it a secret until a few weeks before his death from AIDS in November of 1991.
Rolling Stone once having called ‘Innuendo’ “cartoon rock music”, it has since held up quite well despite the cheesy keyboards. If anything, it has one of the greatest pieces (other than Bowie) to say goodbye to the world…the iconic track “The Show Must Go On”. Written primarily by guitarist Brian May, it was the perfect way for Freddie to send himself off, a man who worked til the very end of his life. The video featured footage of the band from 1982 on since Freddie was too ill to perform. A live version featuring Elton John on vocals was released on Queen’s Greatest Hits III. EJ has since played it on many of his tours over the years.
Gnarls Barkley/St. Elsewhere/10 YO I remember the day I heard people talking about Gnarls Barkley and their performance at the Grammys. I had no idea who the they were. I thought it was one guy. I missed out on something great from the beginning !! But to know Gnarls and Barkley (aka Cee Lo Green and DangerMouse) we have to go further back into their careers. Cee Lo came from the southern hip hop group Goodie Mob. Danger Mouse had his claim to fame when he matched Jay Z’s vocals from ‘The Black Album’ with the music from The Beatles ‘The White Album’ and titled it ‘The Grey Album’. The two met while Green was on tour and Danger Mouse was the DJ. The two started working on material while on tour.
“St. Elsewhere” contains one of the band’s biggest singles “Crazy”. You could hear the track all over the airwaves, the music video circuit, live MTV performances. The album and track hit big in London before it hit anywhere else. “Crazy” was the first single to top the UK album charts based purely on downloads alone (remember kids, this was 2006).
The band has released one other album titled “The Odd Couple” with a third album slated for the future. Even though both DangerMouse and CeeLo had respectful and legendary careers before Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy” will always be the worlds introduction to both of them in the public eye (like Mark Ronson is to “Uptown Funk”…ugh I hate saying that).
Fugees/The Score/20 YO Based right here in Philadelphia, Ruff House Records (aka Phil and Joe Nicolo, Chris Schwartz) introduced the world to Fugees. “The Score” was their most iconic to date. Combining elements of Caribbean, Soul, and Reggae, the American Hip Hop trio went into the studio to record a masterpiece. Wycleaf Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras Michel were a perfect match put together. While the first album didn’t sell well, they were given an advance by Ruff House to do whatever they wanted in the studio…setting it up in Wycleaf Jean’s basement. The recording process was a “relaxing and calming pace” according to Wycleaf.
“The Score” went 6 times platinum (6 times !!!! That’s more than Taylor Swifts entire catalog sold), making it a huge commercial success. It has since lived on as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time, as well as one of the best albums of the 90s. The single “Ready or Not” could be heard all over the place but it was the single “Killing Me Softly With His Love” that won the group a Grammy for Best R&B Performance. Still, to this day, you cannot get away from it on the radio. And why would you want to ?!
“The Score” is known as being a sonic landscape, and treating it as such gets rewarding at each listen. This lives in most Y and X Generations hearts as one of the most brilliant albums ever created.
Gorillaz/Self-titled/15 YO Gorillaz fans are divided just like the albums themselves. Who are the Gorillaz ? What do they actually play if anything ?!
Gorillaz is Damon Albarn (of Blur) and Jamie Hewlett (the comic book / designer responsible for ‘Tank Girl‘). In a desperate attempt to break away from Brit-pop and to tap into the American mainstream market, Damon started collaborating with many musicians. To this date, he and Jamie are the only constant. They duo crafted fictional characters that would comprise of the “band” (Damon is 2-D, then you have Noodle, Murdoc, Russel). This Gorillaz Universe is released time and time again through the band’s videos and website. Numerous guerrilla and underground marketing tactics were used to promote the music (including stickers sent to the fans with instructions to put over every bathroom stall in town).
It was the iconic single “Clint Eastwood” (produced by Dan The Automator) that put Gorillaz on the map. Without mention of who the actual contributors / members were, speculations were abound. All the press had to go on was the music video:
Their debut “Gorillaz” sold 7 million copies and landed them in Guinness Book of World Records as Most Successful Virtual Band. The album comes from every side of genre imaginable with other iconic singles such as the FIFA known “19-2000” (a sic Soulchild remix that seems to be bigger than the original), the lazy “Tomorrow Comes Today” and the old school hip hop breakbeat “Rock The House”.
While Gorillaz went off to create an ever more epic album (see “Demon Days”), this will always be the first, the most jarring, the most fun, and what shocked the world.
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2015 Music Video Reel
Posted on December 30, 2015 by Andrew Johns
Thanks to several music videos shattering records on Vevo this year (anything Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Major Lazer, and, oh yeah, Adele) and the unstoppable force of You Tube and all things social media, it’s safe to say that the music video is back after MTV killed it all those years ago once they took TRL off the air.
Since our tastes are always so different, Andrew and I both put our year in music videos spectacles on and came up with six of our favorites, with just one of them making our common lists. Mr. Johns is up first for you guys, spilling it all in about “FourFiveSeconds” about his favorite music videos of 2015.
Ready…set…Adele is not on any one of these lists.
There were so many videos this year. Lots I never even got to (I’m looking at you Madonna, Miley, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Chris Cornell, Ade…okay Adele, I did get to you and your now infamous SNL Thanksgiving dinner). For all the ones I did check out, I saw a lot of dancing going on, a lot of animation and guess what? It was every bit refreshing. Sometimes we just want to be entertained on a screen for a few short moments, so from me to you…here are my top six picks for favorite music videos of 2015.
6.Courtney Barnett/”Dead Fox”Animals driving over humans as if they’re road kill…really drives the point home with Courtney Barnett’s lyrics. Clever but also…pretty ridiculously graphic. Saturday morning cartoons gone wrong…
5.Ezra Furman”Restless Year” Watch Ezra hang around the bay area as death follows him and he ends up transforming into a woman…
4.Major Lazer/DJ Snake/MØ/”Lean On” This video is grand and epic and beautiful in its simplicity and family-pact nature. While the lyric video is just as epic, we finally get to hang with Diplo and Mo on this one.
3.De Staat/”Witch Doctor” This video has been making a lot of lists overseas. For a band that sounds just like a Queens Of The Stone Age ripoff (I ain’t mad about it)…this video is as epic as a 300 film.
2.Bjork/”Black Lake” As mentioned in Spin, this YouTube clip doesn’t do this video justice. “Black Lake” was an installment piece at the MoMa in New York City. The audio was in 3D, you (as the audience member) stood with about 30 other people in a black room with two wide screens on either side. Bjork moved from one screen to the other, each one showing where she moved to…at different perspectives. It was the next part that made my experience…being brought to a movie theater full of comfy red couches where you sat and watched every music video Bjork made. We laughed. We cried. We were disgusted. We had differing emotions. An audience…watching music videos…it was quite possibly the most unique communal experience I’ve ever had with art and music together. And that’s why this takes a spot on the list.
1.Rihanna/”Four Five Seconds”
My pick for video of the year. All you need are 3 people who have no idea what they’re doing, a camera that features black and white, and millions of viewers trying to recreate it into Internet memes…myself and roommates included. Kanye’s mannerisms never get old.
Of course, my tastes in videos are a bit different (as is our taste in music, which makes it all werk), with some of my favorite divas (naturally) ruling my 2015 music video roost, and one DJ and diva who rewerked a ’90s classic this year and simply made it their own. Let my favorite music videos of 2015 get you below.
6.Ciara/”Dance Like We’re Making Love” Can someone please explain why CiCi has stayed so underrated these past few years? After watching this sizzling video, you’ll be asking yourself the same question. Love those red Ray Bans, boo.
5.Major Lazer/DJ Snake/MØ”Lean On” Mr. Johns said it best, Major Lazer’s visual offering for their monster offering, “Lean On,” is simply stunning and beautiful.
4.Pia Mia/”Touch” Those dance moves, though…
3.Katharine McPhee/”Lick My Lips”
Ms. McPhee’s cheeky video All wrapped up in handsomely slicked back gentlemen and cherry pie…lots and lots of cherry pie.
2.Krystal Klear/Yasmin/”One Night Only” Demi Lovato/”Cool for the Summer” Both clips are loaded with ’80s neon lyfe and hair whipping for days. Do you really need anything else?
1.Dave Aude/Jessica Sutta/”I’m Gonna Get U” Packed with so much ’90s nostalgia, it’s sort of ridiculous. Vogueing! Sheer backdrops! Fly Girl choreography! Kid N Play haircuts! It’s all here and so much more. Groove on with this one, Mr. Aude and Ms. Sutta.
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Albums of the Year/Andrew’s Picks
This year is considered in some ways the ‘comeback’ year. So many artists from Kendrick to Madonna to Modest Mouse to Blur to Adele to Coldplay’s return to happiness…it certainly seemed as if there was another big named artist rotating the comeback spotlight every other week in 2015.
There were also some “underdog” music artists who came up to claim the throne–and most certainly succeeded–including Mark Ronson (yes, I consider Mark Ronson an underdog) Tame Impala, and Major Lazer, all of whom finally broke into mainstream territory this year and got the credit they most certainly deserve.
While all of these music moments and elements were epic and awesome, 2015 seemed to have a kind of lull in terms of quality life changing records (sorry, ’25’), but I somehow managed to succeed in picking out ten of my favorite albums of the year, and you can dive headphones first them into all of them below.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds/’Chasing Yesterday’ Of all the comeback albums this year (Blur, Fratellis, Decembrists, Modest Mouse, Ezra Furman, Chris Cornell, Chemical Bros, Madonna) this album is the one that everyone kept talking about. It is arguably the most soulful Noel has sounded. The production shines, it feels warm, and it is just cool. We also didn’t know Noel was going to do another album, so that was a nice surprise in itself. It’s better than his debut, and has only put Noel on the map as the most respectable member of such a dysfunctional band…as well as the biggest side project since.
Courtney Barnett/’Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit’This album is a sobering wake up call. I’m sure you’ve heard of her by now but you haven’t actually given her album a spin. Coming up out of the indie forest, Courtney Barnett put reality back into songs. In it’s quirk as well as bare bones instrumentation “Sometimes I sit…” is just so poignant to today’s too-disconnected-to-what’s-in-front-of-us world. Where the production is the same throughout, the songs themselves are not…twisting and turning from lazy ballads into punk rock to country to mid 90s alt. If you pay attention to the lyrics and her whit, you’re sure to love this album.
Daniel Johns/’Talk’ This Aussie came out of left field, having been known for fronting grunge band Silverchair back in the day. 8 years of silence from die hard fans, Dan teased us all with being featured on some hip hop and then BAM…an album of 15 songs. “TALK” is unusual yet genuine, strange yet familiar, dark yet danceable, and every bit of an underdog/shadow to American radio and culture. Having mPhaze on production credits helps as the RnB / Funk grooves don’t disappoint. “TALK” pushes boundaries that a Justin Timberlake album could never (well…okay…maybe it could…which is where a lot of the influence seems to come from). This is one of those albums that get more and more rewarding with each listen. With lots of ear candy to keep you listening, it is sexy, beautiful, and modern. Have a listen.
Adam Lambert/’The Original High’ The adult/mature/heartbroken Adam Lambert I can actually get behind. This album is a tasty combination of folk, country, dance, pop, RnB, and EDM. While focusing on his core audience, it also intensely focuses on the “song’. Each one is perfectly written, with many collaborations, but it’s the theme throughout that keeps me listening. It’s just a great pop album with heartfelt emotion spread throughout.
Mark Ronson/’Uptown Special’ Bruno Mars overshadowed this album entirely. Released at the beginning of winter it really didn’t gain traction till the summer…which really is what I consider it…a seasonal album you put on during the first rainfall in April until the first rainfall in September. It creates a strange distant nostalgia and takes you on a journey throughout the city from the good parts to the bad parts from the beginning of the day to the end of the season. Ronson packed his influences in on every single song, combining lots, even featuring some of them (Stevie Wonder anyone?). This is sure to break in the lists and gain some awards.
Mutemath/’Vitals’Coming in at the tail end of 2015, “Vitals” is a welcome return by a band who not enough people know of. Ditching most of the guitar, soul, and funk found on their last album, “Vitals” brings back the cool soft-synths and feel-good-vibes that made us fall in love with them in the first place. A little more dance, a little happier, this album not only comes out of left field for MuteMath fans but for a year so dominated by EDM and Indie Rock.
Mumford & Sons/’Wilder Mind’ So I think the M&S craze has worn down a bit. Too mainstream to be “groundbreaking” or “cool anymore. Diehard fans hated the direction they took on this album, likening to their arch nemesis Coldplay. But the reality of it is, this album really was overlooked just based on the fact they were Mumford and Sons. More of a melancholy vibe, laden with seas of keyboards and chimes in the background…this is the album the band themselves always wanted to make. I consider it one of the best of the year. This is everything I hoped Coldplay would go back to (that’s a sad reality that won’t happen). Nontheless, Mumford picked up the challenge, picked up their electric guitars, and rocked the fuck out. More introspective, more in the gut, more focused on London, this is country heavy rock band finally showed us their roots…and their dreams.
Modest Mouse/’Strangers to Ourselves’ Arguably everyone has listened to their “The Moon and Antarctica” album or knows a song from it. “Strangers to Ourselves” was a welcome surprise return to how amazing, strange, and otherworldly Modest Mouse is. It grows with repeated listens, is everything we’ve come to know and love about the band. There’s just not a bad song on it. The production makes the band sound heavier…though it could also be the amount of musicians on stage. They are a bit more driven by rock this time around. After a short few year hiatus, Mouse fans weren’t sure what to expect next. This is a welcome come back. Definitely check this album out.
D’Angelo/’Black Messiah’ Coming in at the end of December 2014, this album just didn’t get enough love. A welcome return by D’Angelo, and the album that inspired Kendrick Lamar’s masterpiece “To Pimp A Butterfly”, “Black Messiah” is, at its core, one long piece of music. It is a musical journey that demands repeated listens, genre hopping, at times twisting and turning. And when the album is done, your head goes WTF did I just hear? Classy, nostalgic, and yet unplaceable, ‘Black Messiah’ demands your attention.
Chris Cornell/’Higher Truth‘Every single one of the songs are epic, heartbreaking, beautiful. While I have qualms with the actual production of this album, I still hear the performances shine. With the sheer volume of material packed onto this album, this deserves a spot on this list. Well done, Mr. Cornell.
Sufjan Stevens/’Carrie & Lowell’
A very delicate album full of ballads and stripped down to minimal arrangements. Stevens’ writing is harrowing and heartbreaking as ever through the use of characters and driven by their stories.
Le1f/’Riot Boy’
Coming out at the tail end of 2015, this album was very much anticipated by Le1f fans, having been and up and coming artist for a few years. The second half of this album is pure gold, innovative and interesting for hip hop and EDM. It is a game changer for a new genre that only Le1f is leading currently.
Hot Chip/’Why Make Sense?’
This is such a great album bridging indie electronic funk, deep house, weirdness, nerd rock, everything all in one.
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Home > Essays > If We Get Occupy Right, We Get Everything Right
If We Get Occupy Right, We Get Everything Right
Posted by Ian MacKenzie on Nov 28, 2011
WHEN I FIRST heard the call to Occupy Wall St for a few months, I knew this was big. I knew it would be more than just a “protest.” This felt different than the usual march to voice specific grievances. It was a call for something more profound, and much deeper, than even the original participants realized as they gathered their signs and tents.
I knew because I’d be following the various manifestations of this movement for over a year, working with Velcrow Ripper as he traversed the globe working on his new film: Evolve Love. The premise is complex to capture, but simple to state: humanity is waking up.
On Sept 17, 2011, 2000 people showed up at Zucotti Park. On Nov 26, 2011, they are still there.
The mainstream media, if they aren’t busy denigrating the movement and highlighting its flaws, are still grappling with how to cover it. Who are the leaders? What are your demands? No answer has been given. Instead, they Occupy.
Early on, journalist Naomi Klein recognized the significance as well. She called it “The Most Important Thing In The World Now“:
Yesterday, one of the speakers at the labor rally said: “We found each other.” That sentiment captures the beauty of what is being created here. A wide-open space (as well as an idea so big it can’t be contained by any space) for all the people who want a better world to find each other. We are so grateful.
“Why are they protesting?” ask the baffled pundits on TV. Meanwhile, the rest of the world asks: “What took you so long?” “We’ve been wondering when you were going to show up.” And most of all: “Welcome.”
At its heart, Occupy is not a protest. It’s about creating space. It’s about modeling a new way of being, that requires a fair amount of “unlearning” the way society and human nature has been taught. It’s asking the question: why? Why are things they way they are? Is it, in fact, human nature to be greedy, violent, and cruel? Or is it possible that these are symptoms of a systemic order?
Watch: Right Here All Over a snapshot of the micro-community formed at Zucotti Park (renamed Liberty Plaza).
Occupy Wall St is also about rejecting a system that has, at its core, drifted violently out of balance. It has become life destroying – and no amount of material wealth will stave off the underlying sadness of that realization. Author Charles Eisenstein wrote a brilliant op-ed “No Demand Is Big Enough” that captured this sentiment:
We protest not only at our exclusion from the American Dream; we protest at its bleakness. If it cannot include everyone on earth, every ecosystem and bioregion, every people and culture in its richness; if the wealth of one must be the debt of another; if it entails sweatshops and underclasses and fracking and all the rest of the ugliness our system has created, then we want none of it.
No one deserves to live in a world built upon the degradation of human beings, forests, waters, and the rest of our living planet. Speaking to our brethren on Wall Street, no one deserves to spend their lives playing with numbers while the world burns. Ultimately, we are protesting not only on behalf of the 99% left behind, but on behalf of the 1% as well. We have no enemies. We want everyone to wake up to the beauty of what we can create.
On Oct 15, almost one month after Occupy Wall St. began, global chapters erupted around the world in solidarity.
From London, to San Francisco, to my hometown, Vancouver, thousands took the streets in support. It was a beautiful celebration of a community desiring to create change. And when the day was over, many people packed up their signs, and did what you do after a typical march. You go home and continue with your life.
Except for a core group that stayed to…you know… occupy. And that’s when the trouble started.
Turns out that tenting in a public space, on public land, becomes a problem for the authorities. They’d rather you shuffle on and keep moving. While I was less surprised by the response of the city staff, I was disheartened by fellow progressives that were quick to dismiss Occupy Vancouver for its lack of cohesion and characterization has nothing more than “drugged out hippies.” They joined the ranks of the opposed and demanded the occupation shut down.
Yet not many recognized the true value of holding space. The Art Gallery had become a modern day ‘agora’ – a place where citizens were able to gather, discuss, and debate the challenges of our day. Everyone was fed, sheltered, and respected. And when you commit to include all others, you also invite in the shadow. The encampment becomes a microcosm of the larger shadow of the city.
As the Occupy movement refused to dissolve, they began exposing the systems of power that have long operated in the darkness. In Oakland, riot police tear gassed the crowds and severely injured Iraq war vet Scott Olsen. All Occupations faced ongoing and direct intervention by police. All the while, the media and onlookers continued to ask: what are your demands?
Most humans desire to resolve dilemmas as quickly as possible. We are uncomfortable with uncertainty. And yet it is the uncertainty that gives the Occupy movement its unique resilience.
I found the following passage by author Michael Mead, in his book “The World Behind the World”:
“Choose one side of a dilemma and the other side resurfaces with a vengeance. For picking one side or being “one-sided” about a true dilemma only delays and even intensifies the issue. Choose one side and the conflict will return at a deeper level at some future time. That’s the nature of the genuine dilemmas of life in this left and right, dark and light, abundant and empty world. Only when the tension of opposing forces can be held long enough does a genuine solution appear that can dissolve the tension and renew the flow of life at another level.”
It took almost 55 days before Rolling Stone contributor Matt Taibbi became the first mainstream publication to finally get it. He confessed to having totally mischaracterized the movement in its infancy. In How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests he wrote:
Occupy Wall Street was always about something much bigger than a movement against big banks and modern finance. It’s about providing a forum for people to show how tired they are not just of Wall Street, but everything. This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become.
If there is such a thing as going on strike from one’s own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it’s flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left.
You don’t have to dig deep to realize the global banking system is out of control (watch the divisive but very entertaining ‘The American Dream‘ to give you an idea). A system built on debt begets a Machine that demands infinite growth on a finite planet. What is the answer? Perspectives like those shared by Zeitgeist and Thrive blame a shadowy elite pulling the strings at the top.
Yet again, looking deeper, we realize the elite are simply better at playing the game. To demonize them as the 1% is to enforce the old habits of Separation. As Charles Eisenstein puts it in his book Sacred Economics: “We are all puppets, but there is no puppet master.”
Certainly, we can condemn the decisions and structures that wreak untold havoc on our communities and the natural world. And we must also recognize how we are complicit in perpetuating this very same system, those parts of ourselves that are both the 99% and the 1%.
The Occupy movement has the opportunity to offer a third perspective.
This week, many of the global occupations have been attacked, bullied, harassed, and in some cases destroyed. Some mainstream outlets are tentatively claiming that Occupy Wall St. is finished. And yet, to believe the Occupy Movement is just a few tents in a park is missing the point entirely.
Don Hazen writes in To Change the Country, We Just Might Have to Change Ourselves:
As Eve Ensler, global activist and author of The Vagina Monologues says, “What is happening cannot be defined. It is happening. It is a spontaneous uprising that has been building for years in our collective unconscious. It is a gorgeous, mischievous moment that has arrived and is spreading. It is a speaking out, coming out, dancing out. It is an experiment and a disruption.”
Of course, nothing concrete has changed, yet. But the possibility of change — really, the necessity of change — is now in the middle of our nation’s politics and public discourse. This alone is an incredible achievement because a few short months ago, many millions of us essentially had no hope.
I believe it is now time for the Occupy Movement to come out of beta. We have realized that we suffer from a severe lack of imagination, and are crying out for a potent new vision of the future. I believe I have experienced a taste of this new vision, what Charles Eisenstein calls “the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.” And it is because of this that I can demand nothing less.
Allow me to share a potential vision:
What if the Occupy Movement truly is the latest manifestation of the paradigm shift that is rippling around the planet, what Paul Hawken calls “the blessed unrest”? What if this shift is characterized by a new recognition of the self, one that no longer betrays ourselves as separate beings in an indifferent universe, but realizes we are conditional upon all the relationships we share?
I am because you are.
What if we experimented and perfected this alternative model of being, and deployed it along the vast global information network already encircling the globe? What if this model allowed us to grasp the array of crises plaguing our lives and the planet as actually interconnected – and to truly understand one was to understand and change them all?
What if we called this shift of inter-being by its true name?
– Ian MacKenzie
(co-producer Occupy Love)
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The next 25 years - [...] To this end, and in this spirit, an extremely thought-provoking article can be found in a website launched recently,…
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Insights, New Approaches to Economic Challenges
Economic complexity, institutions and income inequality
César Hidalgo and Dominik Hartmann, Macro Connections, The MIT Media Lab
Is a country’s ability to generate and distribute income determined by its productive structure? Decades ago Simon Kuznets proposed an inverted-u-shaped relationship describing the connection between a country’s average level of income and its level of income inequality. Kuznets’ curve suggested that income inequality would first rise and then fall as countries’ income moved from low to high. Yet, the curve has proven difficult to verify empirically. The inverted-u-shaped relationship fails to hold when several Latin American countries are removed from the sample, and in recent decades, the upward side of the Kuznets curve has vanished as inequality in many low-income countries has increased. Moreover, several East-Asian economies have grown from low to middle incomes while reducing income inequality.
Together, these findings undermine the empirical robustness of Kuznets’ curve, and indicate that GDP per capita is a measure of economic development that is insufficient to explain variations in income inequality. This agrees with recent work arguing that inequality depends not only on a country’s rate or stage of growth, but also on its type of growth and institutions. Hence, we should expect that more nuanced measures of economic development, such as those focused on the types of products a country exports, should provide information on the connection between economic development and inequality that transcends the limitations of aggregate output measures such as GDP.
Scholars have argued that income inequality depends on a variety of factors, from an economy’s factor endowments, geography, and institutions, to its historical trajectories, changes in technology, and returns to capital. The combination of these factors should be expressed in the mix of products that a country makes. For example, colonial economies that specialised in a narrow set of agricultural or mineral products tend to have more unequal distributions of political power, human capital, and wealth. Conversely, sophisticated products, like medical imaging devices or electronic components, are typically produced in diversified economies that require more inclusive institutions. Complex industries and complex economies thrive when workers are able to contribute their creative input to the activities of firms.
This suggests a model of heterogeneous industries in which firms survive only when they are able to adopt or discover the institutions and human capital that work best in that industry. According to this model, the composition of products that a country exports should tell us about a country’s institutions and about the quality of its human capital. This model would also suggest that a country’s mix of products should provide information that explains inequality and that might escape aggregate measures of development such as GDP, average years of schooling, or survey-based measures of formal and informal institutions.
With our colleagues from the MIT Media Lab, we used the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) to capture information about an economy’s level of development which is different from that captured in measures of income. Economic complexity is a measure of the knowledge in a society that gets translated into the products it makes. The most complex products are sophisticated chemicals and machinery, whereas the least complex products are raw materials or simple agricultural products. The economic complexity of a country depends on the complexity of the products it exports. A country is considered complex if it exports not only highly complex products but also a large number of different products. To calculate the economic complexity of a country, we measure the average ubiquity of the products it exports, then the average diversity of the countries that make those products, and so forth.
For example, in 2012, Chile’s average income per capita and years of schooling ($21,044 at PPP in current 2012 US$ and 9.8 mean years of schooling) were comparable to Malaysia’s income per capita and schooling ($22,314 and 9.5), even though Malaysia ranked 24th in the ECI ranking while Chile ranked 72nd. The rankings reflect differences in these countries’ export structure: Chile largely exports natural resources, while Malaysia exports a diverse range of electronics and machinery (see illustration here). Moreover, these differences in the ECI ranking also point more accurately to differences in these countries’ level of income inequality. Chile’s inequality as measured through the Gini coefficient (0.49) is significantly higher than that of Malaysia (0.39)
We separated the correlation between economic complexity and income inequality from the correlation between income inequality and average income, population, human capital (measured by average years of schooling), export concentration, and formal institutions. Our results document a strong and robust correlation between the economic complexity index and income inequality. This relationship is robust even after controlling for measures of income, education, and institutions, and the relationship has remained strong over the last fifty years. Results also show that increases in economic complexity tend to be accompanied by decreases in income inequality.
Our findings do not mean that productive structures solely determine a country’s level of income inequality. On the contrary, a more likely explanation is that productive structures represent a high-resolution expression of a number of factors, from institutions to education, that co-evolve with the mix of products that a country exports and with the inclusiveness of its economy. Still, because of this co-evolution, our findings emphasize that productive structures are not only associated with income and economic growth, but also with how income is distributed.
We advance methods that enable a more fine-grained perspective on the relationship between productive structures and income inequality. The method is based on introducing the Product Gini Index or PGI, which estimates the expected level of inequality for the countries exporting a given product. Overlaying PGI values on the network of related products allows us to create maps that can be used to anticipate how changes in a country’s productive structure will affect its level of income inequality. These maps provide means for researchers and policy-makers to explore and compare the complex co-evolution of productive structures, institutions and income inequality for hundreds of economies.
This article is based on Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality, by D. Hartmann, M.R. Guevara, C. Jara-Figueroa, M. Aristarán, C.A. Hidalgo.
The Atlas of Economic Complexity
The OECD is organising a Workshop on Complexity and Policy, 29-30 September, OECD HQ, Paris, along with the European Commission and INET. Watch the webcast: 29/09 morning; 29/09 afternoon; 30/09 morning
Tags:complexity, exports, inequality, structural adjustment
4 comments to “Economic complexity, institutions and income inequality”
George H. Blackford - 21/09/2016 Reply
I find this to be a very interesting paper. There is, however, one aspect to the problem of income inequality that seems quite obvious to me that is never discussed, namely, the relationship between mass-production technologies, the distribution of income, and the accumulation of debt.
Mass-production technologies require mass markets (large numbers of people with purchasing power) if the mass-produced goods are to be sold. If the system is to be stable in the long run this requires a mass-distribution of domestic income if mass-produced goods are to be sold domestically. Otherwise, they can only be sold domestically through an increase in debt relative to income as those at the top lend the purchasing power to those at the bottom needed to sustain production. This situation is unsustainable in the long run as eventually the increase in debt relative to income must lead to a financial crisis.
A similar situation arises if mass produced goods are to be exported. In the absence of a mass distribution of domestic income to sustain imports, exporting countries must lend the purchasing power to foreign countries needed to sustain their production for export which I believe is also unsustainable in the long run. I have tried to explain how this works in:
http://www.rweconomics.com/htm/Ch_1.htm
http://www.rweconomics.com/htm/WDCh_2.htm
http://www.rweconomics.com/htm/WDCh3e.htm
http://www.rweconomics.com/LTLGAD.htm
There is one other aspect of this problem that I find to be particularly important, namely, what Robertson dubbed “the long-period problem of saving.”
This was the fundamental issue raised by Keynes in the GT with regard to the relationship between the prospective yields on increases in the stocks of capital goods and the existing stocks of capital goods. While Keynes did not examine the relationships between mass-production technologies, the distribution of income, and the accumulation of debt, he did examine, in excruciating detail, the relationships between increases in the stocks of capital goods and the prospective return on additional increases in stocks of capital goods.
According to Keynes, a ceteris paribus increase in existing stocks of capital goods would cause the prospective yields on additional increases in the stocks of capital goods to fall. As I have tried to explain in:
http://www.rweconomics.com/htm/LPLFLPPS.htm ,
I believe the long-period problem of saving, which lies at the core of Keynes general theory, is the primary source of the problem of diminished economic growth we face today.
Viktoria - 27/09/2016 Reply
Hello, did you control for immigration? I wonder if countries could cover at least partly their need for workers with diverse skills and qualifications required to produce complex products with immigrants. Inequality could then still be high or even grow because a proportion of the native population (that might not have the required skills) is still left behind because rather then investing in good education of the local population the countries would import qualified people educated somewhere else. I am thinking here among others about the US or UK case.
I guess there are many other potential factors to consider, like social/welfare policies etc.
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Post-Mortem (2010)
Written by: : Anthony Spadaccini and Jay Cusack
Directed by: Anthony Spadaccini
Starring: Mark Cray, Devin Kates, and Robert Z‘Dar
Reviewed by: Brett G.
“I spread my disease to the damaged.”
Despite what Scream would have you believe, there are precious few planned horror trilogies kicking around out there. So often, horror series live and die with their box office receipts, leaving many to unfold haphazardly before petering out once they aren’t profitable anymore. This isn’t the case with Anthony Spadaccini’s Head Case series, which, from the outset, aimed to be a sadistic triptych chronicling a descent into madness. The first two entries in this series have been the cinematic equivalent of traveling down a dark tunnel with little light at the end; now, the third and final entry, Post-Mortem, arrives to let us know if the entire journey was worthwhile.
We are now following the exploits of Wayne Montgomery’s step-son, John Craven, who was previously introduced in The Ritual. Craven has taken an interest in a depressed, suicidal teen named Seth, whose neglectful parents are perpetually wasted on drugs. Taking a cue from Wayne, he takes Seth under his wing as his new apprentice, and sets him on a path filled with homicide and gruesome self-discovery.
Post-Mortem essentially feels like a retread of the previous film, which dealt with a similar master/apprentice angle. This time around, the story is stronger and more effective due to our leads being much more interesting and well-developed. While Wayne Montgomery was an interesting and unique serial killer with his deadpan, matter-of-fact delivery, John Craven feels a little bit more authentic. He’s wild-eyed, grungy, maniacal, and obviously enjoys his work, as he constantly taunts his victims as they expire. His protégé Seth also feels more believable than his counterpart from the previous film, Jared, whose doe-eyed exuberance quickly grew tired. It helps that we see Seth develop from the outset--he begins as depressed teen who belongs to a suicide cult, but soon comes out of his skin as he sets out on his road to “freedom.” The dynamic between the two characters works well considering the somewhat outlandish concept, as it still manages to feel believable due to the solid performances by the leads.
These two are also joined by most of the characters from the previous film, as the film actually occurs concurrently with the previous two films, before later following up on them. This one sheds some more insight on the “serial killer support group,” which is really more like a demented Brady Bunch, complete with a cannibal patriarch (portrayed by an almost unrecognizable Robert Z’Dar). We’re even taken back directly to some of the events of the previous films, particularly The Ritual, whose sprawling narrative is actually told more efficiently here than it was in the film itself. With so much going on, Post-Mortem feels a lot like its predecessors: there’s not so much a direct, tight plot as there is a loose thread that’s punctuated by a lot of bizarre and disturbing sequences.
This final entry might be the most effective of the trilogy in that respect. At times, Spadaccini weaves a positively haunting tale with some powerful images; Seth’s journey is a dark one, and it’s perhaps more disturbing than anything the previous films had to offer (which is saying something). When the story focuses on this aspect, it works well, and its climax is disturbingly affecting and surprisingly emotional. A lot of the surrounding elements don’t work nearly as well, and it’s a shame the movie just sort of peters out after its high point, but when it wants to be, it can be strangely captivating. To extend the “dark tunnel” analogy, imagine a bright light emerging at the end--only you discover it’s an oncoming train that soon wrecks. The ensuing chaos sprawls out and unfolds aimlessly, but you can't look away. That’s Post-Mortem in a nutshell.
Oddly enough, it doesn’t feel that satisfying as a final entry, precisely because it fails to deliver on the interesting cliffhanger involving Wayne’s daughter from The Ritual. Instead, it leaves the door wide open for another follow-up, which would admittedly interest me. If it were to happen, however, Spadaccini will have to be willing to move forward; the story he’s told so far has been somewhat bloated and a bit redundant at times, but there are still some interesting avenues to be explored here. Post-Mortem itself doesn’t feel like the end to a journey at all, but if it is, it’s been one nihilistic journey that really leaves us no better off than we were at the beginning. That probably reflects some sort of grim reality, so don’t expect to be entertained by these films; however, if you can stomach it, you might be somewhat fascinated by the madness explored therein. Rent it!
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Kentucky Recreation & Park Society Honors Paducah Parks & Recreation Department with Outstanding Department Award
Date of release: November 8, 2018
Pictured (from left to right): KY Recreation & Park Society Executive Director Terri Wilkerson with the following City of Paducah employees: Parks & Recreation Director Mark Thompson; Recreation Superintendent Amie Clark; Recreation Specialist Kelsey Edwards; Recreation Specialist Mallory McVey; Recreation Specialist Taylor Morsching; and Parks Maintenance Superintendent Les Evans
Last night in Cadiz at the Kentucky Recreation & Park Society’s (KRPS) annual conference, the Paducah Parks & Recreation Department was honored with the 2018 Outstanding Department Class IV Award. Class IV is for departments with at least 20 full-time employees. The Outstanding Department award recognizes a recreation department or agency that has demonstrated outstanding contributions in leisure services in the parks and recreation field with innovative programming and outstanding achievements.
Mayor Brandi Harless says, “The Paducah Parks & Recreation Department has a vision that tells the story of what they want to achieve in this community. Every employee in that department is working to create a place with special amenities and programs that build families and relationships while growing the local economy. Each day they strive to improve the mental and physical health of this community by providing amazing parks, programs that provide social opportunities, and recreational amenities to increase fitness.”
City Manager Jim Arndt says, “The Paducah Board of Commissioners has prioritized various aspects of recreation in the City’s Strategic Plan. Plus, we are moving forward with the development of a new Parks & Recreation Master Plan which will involve immense public engagement. We are committed to the continued enrichment of this community through its parks and recreational programming.”
Parks and Recreation Director Mark Thompson says, “This award would not be possible without the long term support of the Paducah Board of Commissioners, the City Manager and Departments, and many community partners. I am grateful to the Kentucky Recreation and Parks Society for recognizing Paducah Parks & Recreation as the Outstanding Class IV Department Award for the fifth time in the last seven years. It’s an honor since we are competing against top-notch and larger departments in the State. Furthermore, I am proud that Paducah’s dedicated employees are setting the standard for parks and recreation programs.”
Some of the City of Paducah parks projects recently completed or in various stages of construction or planning are as follows:
Improvement of the drainage and amenities at the Paducah Dog Park;
Expansion of the fitness area at the Pat & Jim Brockenborough Rotary Health Park with the construction of restrooms and a sprayground scheduled to begin soon;
Opening of the Transient Boat Dock;
Construction of a restroom facility and shelter adjacent to the Noble Park Tennis Courts in addition to the rehabilitation of the surface of the tennis courts;
Extension of the Greenway Trail along the riverfront; and
Planning and design underway to create a nature education area with walkways near the Cairo Road entrance of Noble Park.
Paducah Parks & Recreation is a department of 27 full-time staff and numerous part-time and seasonal employees. The Department maintains more than two dozen parks and facilities and manages the Farmers’ Market. Plus, the Department organizes a variety of classes and sports leagues and hosts numerous events including parades, the RIVERfront Concert Series, Candy Cane Hunt, Easter Egg Dash, Movies in the Park, and the Independence Day Celebration.
For more information about the award-winning Paducah Parks & Recreation Department, visit www.paducahky.gov. For more information about the Kentucky Recreation & Park Society, visit www.kyrps.org.
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Thousands of Ecstasy Pills in the Shape of Trump's Head Seized by German Police
by Deborah Hastings 4:43 PM EDT, August 22, 2017
Thousands of Trump ecstasy tabs were seized by German authorities.
Thousands of ecstasy pills shaped like President Trump’s head have been seized by German police.
The 5,000 tabs have an estimated street value of $45,000, authorities said.
Read: Amid Scourge of Opioid Epidemic, How Addicted Americans Are Struggling to Get Clean
The pills feature the American president’s elaborate comb-over and his pursed lips. The contraband is the color of Cheetos.
The illegal drugs and a large amount of cash were found during a traffic stop in Lower Saxony, police said.
A 51-year-old man and his 17-year-old son were arrested after officers discovered the stash. They remain in custody, police said.
Read: Police Call 11-Year-Old 'Brave' After He Reports His Dad for Allegedly Selling Drugs
This is not the first time Trump ecstasy tablets have surfaced in Europe. Last month, British authorities said the carrot-colored tabs were being sold in the country and were popular at rave parties.
Cartoon characters are a favorite of drug manufacturers. Pills in the shape of Minions, Super Mario and Superman have popped up in several countries, as have tablets shaped like President Obama.
In January, Florida authorities seized more than 5,000 packets of heroin emblazoned with Trump’s face.
Watch: Baltimore Police Body Cam Allegedly Shows Officer Planting Drugs
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Is Blood Moon A Sign Of The End Of Days?
11:08 AM EDT, April 14, 2014
Is the blood moon that will rise on Monday night over America a sign of a world-shaking event in coming days? That's what bestselling author and televangelist pastor John Hagee is claiming.
He said, "Something is about to change and world history is going to change forever."
The phenomenon of a red moon is caused by a total lunar eclipse, says astronomer Jackie Faherty of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
She told INSIDE EDITION, "When the moon goes behind the Earth's shadow and turns dark, and then, because the Earth atmosphere ends up refracting the light, it turns an array of colors, one of which could be a really deep, beautiful red."
Hear What Else Faherty Had To Say About the Blood Moon
Monday night’s blood moon is the first of four over the next 18 months—a rare astronomical event known as a Tetrad.
According to the pastor who wrote the book Four Blood Moons, it's a sign of the end of days. He points to a passage in The Bible: "The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."
He says it's no coincidence that this blood moon begins at 3 a.m. East Coast Time on April 15th, the first full day of Passover.
He said, "The irony of what it takes to get the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon in a perfect alignment to have a blood moon and then for those blood moons to be on this exact date is uncoincidental."
But our expert says there is nothing to worry about, we'll still be here tomorrow. Faherty said, "As a scientist, there is no evidence at all for any correlation between astronomical phenomenon like a lunar eclipse and anything than happens on Earth."
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Sunoco Celebrates Opening of Ethanol Manufacturing Facility
Ribbon cutting ushers in new era of fuel production
Sunoco hosted a ceremonial ribbon cutting Wednesday to celebrate the grand opening of its ethanol manufacturing facility in Volney.
After an investment of approximately $25 million and months of capital work, the 100-million-gallon-per-year ethanol manufacturing facility began operations in late June and sold its first shipment of corn-based ethanol on June 30.
The facility directly employs 60 people and sources as much corn from local growers as possible.
As the largest ethanol manufacturing facility in the Northeastern United States, where much of Sunoco’s retail gasoline network is located, the plant is uniquely situated to serve the company’s ethanol requirements. When running at full capacity, the facility is expected to supply approximately 20 percent of Sunoco’s ethanol needs.
As a provider of transportation fuels, Sunoco views the successful start-up as a first step into the manufacture of alternative fuels, an area of possible growth for the company that it will continue to evaluate. Sunoco has sold ethanol-blended gasoline for more than a decade.
Speaking on the facility’s successful start-up, Sunoco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lynn L. Elsenhans said, “We are pleased to join the Oswego County community and look forward to playing a productive role in the region. Operating this facility and sourcing as much corn as possible from local growers will contribute to the region’s economy and support the creation of ‘green’ jobs.”
Although this is Sunoco’s first entry into the manufacture of alternative fuels, the company has a long history of involvement in the field.
During the 1990s, Sunoco worked with government and private vehicle fleets to evaluate and test the commercial viability of various alternative transportation fuels, including compressed natural gas, methanol and propane.
• Nameplate production capacity of the facility is 100 million gallons of corn-based ethanol production per year. Recent modifications were designed to take plant to 85 million gallons per year.
• At a consistent operating rate of approximately 85 millions gallons per year of ethanol production, it would use approximately 30 million bushels of corn annually.
• There are 56 pounds of corn in a bushel. The typical yield from a bushel of corn is approximately 2.7 gallons of ethanol, 19 pounds of grain, and 17 pounds of carbon dioxide.
• New York state ranks 22nd in the nation in corn yield and roughly 70 million bushels of production, according to 2007 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• There are 24 fermenters at Sunoco’s ethanol plant. They are operated in pairs.
• The facility directly employs 60 people, consisting of 50 hourly workers and 10 salaried employees.
• It plans to maximize use of local corn to make its ethanol and sell distiller’s grain, which is a by-product of ethanol production, to the region’s dairy industry.
• Lansing is the company Sunoco has hired to purchase corn on its behalf. Lansing also handles its grain sales.
• It sells carbon dioxide produced at the plant to Linde, which has a cryogenic facility adjacent to the ethanol facility.
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OyChicago articles
It's in the water
E.leaven owner serves up family recipes and New York-style bagels—voted the "best bagel" in Chicago
They say the key to a top-notch bagel is in the water. And Eben Dorros agrees with them.
When Dorros opened his downtown Chicago eatery E.leaven a year ago, he installed a special water filtration process for boiling the bagels so they would taste as delicious as the famed New York bagels. "No one knew how to make a bagel outside of New York," says Dorros. "If they can make them there, why can't we make them anywhere else? A lot of people just bake them, but we boil them."
It seems Dorros's hard work has paid off. In June, E.leaven was named as having "hands down, the best bagel" in Chicago by DailyCandy Chicago.
Open for breakfast and lunch, E.leaven makes the majority of their menu items in-house, from scratch, including multigrain, sourdough, challah and rye breads, bagels, pastries, cookies and cakes, soups, corned beef, and roast beef. The restaurant's name combines the first initial in owner Eben's name and the word "leaven," indicating the restaurant's fresh breads. As opposed to a fast food concept, where people are often rushed out the door, Dorros likes to think of his restaurant as an inviting and warm environment where customers can break bread with each other and stay for a while.
Gourmet food has always been in Dorros's blood. In fact, his mom is a chef and his brother went to culinary school. "We grew up cooking family meals. When we'd come home, my mom was always testing something new on the stove. If we didn't like it, that was fine, but we couldn't tell her we didn't like it unless we tried it," Dorros says. As a kid, the future chef would cook pastas and meat sauce, pot roast, meatloaf, French toast, and more. Then, as a student at Colby College in Maine, he would cook for his friends there too, throwing big dinner parties.
The restaurant employs some of his mother's and grandmother's traditional Jewish family recipes, including matzoh ball soup with huge New York-style matzoh balls and potato pancakes too.
Now living in Bucktown with his wife and two small children, Dorros grew up in a Conservative Jewish Milwaukee home, where his family would make a big deal out of holidays and Shabbat dinners. "Being Jewish is an integral part of who I am," he says. "It teaches the morals and beliefs that I want to pass down to my children. One of the reasons my family is so close is because of Shabbat family dinners and because we went to services together."
In addition to his passion for food, Dorros is also a filmmaker and orchestral pianist. He pursued filmmaking in Manhattan and Los Angeles, including partnering with the United Nations to create a film series as a teaching tool about world conflicts. After time on the coasts, he relocated to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he launched a film festival. It was during his time in Wyoming that Dorros gave the restaurant biz a try, opening E.leaven in Jackson Hole. He hopes to open 8-10 restaurants around the country, including others in Chicago.
Dorros is also passionate about creating both inside the kitchen and out. "There's a creative aspect to everything I do, whether it's writing, music, or cooking. There's a therapeutic part to [the creative process], a solitude, whether I'm in the kitchen or playing the piano. For me, that's what drives my soul."
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Judith Joseph—artist, teacher, and “lounge lizard”
Prismatic Ketubah by Judith Joseph, New York 2010
Art sometimes has a mind of its own. And in artist Judith Joseph’s case, her art decided to take on a life of its own, as it has evolved and emerged as a 3D, interactive exhibit called The Owing Project.
This exhibit invites art viewers to “become participants in a dialogue about the personal, spiritual and societal issues around debt and owing,” according to Joseph.
“I envisioned the gallery space to be a three-dimensional illuminated manuscript: complete with figures, text and border design,” Joseph says. “The exhibit includes life-sized human figures, a ‘debt confession booth,’ a live mural including portraits of people with their words about owing and debt, paintings, and photos I took at a Tea Party rally anti-tax protest,” she says.
The interactive element also extends beyond the gallery.
“I collected electronic responses from Facebook and hand-written surveys from participants at a synagogue retreat,” Joseph explains. “I painted the Push Back mural at the Chicago Fringe Artists’ Networking Night at Red Tape Theatre in February, 2010, and inscribed it with the words of my portrait subjects as they spoke about what debt means to them.”
Push Back, mural of portraits of CFANN 2010 participants, including quotes from conversations about debt and owing
Joseph began her long and successful career as an artist in her early childhood.
“I've been making art since I was a small child, and I was always pretty serious about it,” Joseph says. This seriousness led her to pursue a degree in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and since graduating from art school in 1978 she has been working as a professional artist.
“I mostly do commissioned work,” Joseph says. “I specialize in ketubot. The urgency I feel to interview people and record their thoughts and narratives [translates to their] ketubah. Most of my work has a narrative element, and involves human relationships.”
Along with ketubot, Joseph also creates other types of commissioned work such as paintings and calligraphy, and she teaches painting and calligraphy classes at the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Art Center, Highland Park, and artists' residencies/workshops in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Joseph also works as an art career consultant helping emerging artists with their portfolios, web presence, promotional materials and career strategies, she conducts art gallery tours and provides lectures about Jewish art (e.g., Jewish artists in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.)
“I pretty much do anything related to art that I can to earn a living,” Joseph says. “I call myself the ‘lounge lizard’ of artists!”
When asked to describe her artistic style, Joseph explained how it originated with “illuminated manuscripts (especially ketubot), which have been [her] first love for many years.”
The Owing Project at ARC Gallery in Chicago, which opened on July 21, with a reception July 23, from 6-9 p.m.
“Combining text with detailed, exquisitely rendered miniature border designs, patterns and illustrations has given rise to my painting style,” Joseph says. “My paintings are often laid out like an illustrated page of a book, with a central image surrounded by a narrative border. Over time, the borders have invaded the ‘main’ image, and pattern and narrative have become intertwined and inextricable.”
You can catch Judith Joseph’s solo exhibit, The Owing Project, at ARC Gallery in Chicago, which opened on July 21, with a reception July 23, from 6-9 p.m.
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Farming the urban landscape
Gan Project founder Jill Zenoff prepares supplies for a pickling workshop. Photo credit: Suzanne Nathan
Jill Zenoff, Suzanne Nathan and Anne LaForti have big plans for a quarter-acre patch of land in West Rogers Park. The land, on the grounds of the Bernard Horwich JCC, will bloom and produce food.
It will be an urban agricultural oasis, with people from the neighborhood working the mini-farm―dirt and all―weeding and harvesting produce. It will teach children and teens about where their food comes from. It will be a space where pre-bar and bat-mitzvah youths can perform mitzvah projects and raise funds.
This idyll is far from realization just yet. Still, as the brains and hands behind the Gan Project (gan means garden in Hebrew), the dynamic trio is undaunted by the numerous tasks to be tackled before their dream space is created.
The garden space at Horwich is just one piece of a puzzle that they hope will foster an environmentally conscious, sustainable Jewish food system and increase access to clean, safe foods.
More than that, urban gardening and food growing will create “a sense of connectedness to the land and to the community,” hopes Zenoff, who spent a summer interning at a downstate Illinois farm last year and picked up other agricultural skills through a stint with the ADAMAH Jewish farming program at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut.
In addition to the JCC, the Gan Project hopes to team up with local families, community organizations and congregations to spread the message to the masses: take back control over your food—in a Jewish way.
They kicked everything off with a series of summer workshops that had participants picking strawberries and making jam; learning pickling techniques; and making Kombuch (a fermented tea often drunk for medicinal purposes). August will bring more learning opportunities, including picking blueberries and making jam; touring an existing Jewish communal garden; making healing salves from left-over summer herbs; and cooking up a batch of sauerkraut. Several of the programs are presented in partnership with Birthright Israel NEXT Chicago, which works with Birthright trip alums throughout the city and suburbs.
A pickling workshop participant finishes loading mason jars of dilly beans. Photo credit: Suzanne Nathan
“There is so much strength in developing new skills whether it’s farming or food preservation. There’s a sense of empowerment and a sense of autonomy,” said Nathan, who holds a master’s in social work from the University of Chicago.
Zenoff and LaForti have been friends since childhood and together presented the idea for the Gan Project to Nathan, also an Isabella Freedman alum, on the way to a Birthright NEXT-sponsored Eco-Shabbaton in Wisconsin in April. They are funding the project themselves and working to get grants from Birthright NEXT, Hazon and other organizations.
Eleven people made 21 jars of strawberry and raspberry jam during a recent Gan Project workshop. Photo credit: Suzanne Nathan
The Horwich JCC gave them office and planting space. Meanwhile, the three founders also are working to develop curricula for elementary, middle and high school students as well as programs for families and older adults.
The idea is to create a network of eco-conscious Jews from generation to generation. But for now, it’s baby steps.
Last Edited by Lindsey_1 at 7/21/2010 9:10 AM
Pandalous.com: A virtual living room
The one place you can talk bacon ice cream, Shakespeare v. Lil Wayne, and Star Trek all at the same time
There are so many social media sites these days you can’t even count them all—Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg—not to mention the never-ending amount of blogs ranging from personal to business to completely random. With all that out there on the internet, it’s pretty easy to get confused and lose sight of why many go online in the first place: to publish opinions, and to make voices heard.
The solution to this modern-day dilemma? Pandalous.com.
According to the website, “Pandalous is a site where people who like to think share their views and deepen their understanding of everything that matters. We're a new, vibrant internet community with a growing membership; we've set out to gather a diverse, thoughtful and articulate crowd to share in the experience of living.” Think of it as a digital gathering place, like a living room of a house, to converse intelligently about any idea or topic you can think of.
According to Assaf Peretz, CEO of Pandalous, the audience started small in early 2009 and has been growing steadily ever since.
“The original group was comprised of Berkeley and Harvard grads but it quickly attracted people from all different places and walks of life, ranging from college students to Tibetan monks,” Peretz says.
Some of these community members include some well-known Israeli artists. Of note is the author Etgar Keret, who has posted a story of his in The Library called “Snot”. Also in The Library, Nir Ratzkovsky, one of the most important translators to Hebrew from French, has posted excerpts from a future book of a translator journal of The Kindly Ones. And in many different rooms, concert pianist Edna Stern, writes about topics ranging from music to literature to even vampires.
But why a living room of all places? To explain, there is conveniently a section on the welcome page labeled “Why Pandalous?”
“We found as we grew up that it was going to be more or less impossible to get all the people we missed talking to in the same room (or even the same country) on a regular basis; Pandalous is the living room we wished we had,” the site says. “Our goal is to create a new kind of internet experience, what we call a ‘Social Wiki,’ somewhere between publishing, blog posts and chat. A place where each member is a unique voice in a novel community, and a building block in a growing encyclopedia for everyday life.”
And as for the name? Well, that’s up for debate…which is exactly what the creators of Pandalous wanted.
In this virtual Living Room, you can discuss all sorts of things. Topics range from the deeply philosophical, like “What if the devil could be killed?” to the completely random, like “Dear CNN, I hate you” . But don’t assume you are limited to only one room. Surrounding the Living Room, in the shape of a house, are 28 different rooms, like the Computer Room, the Garage, the Testimonial Room, etc. Any topic you can think of is there under these 29 different themes, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for? Easy. Just make a new topic, and ignite a brand new debate.
Sound like just a regular old blog? That’s where you’re wrong. Pandalous boasts superior features that beat out normal blogs, the sites creators say. Features like an already existing community allow you to post whatever and whenever you feel like it, without becoming a slave to you own personal blogs. Another benefit of posting to Pandalous is that your posts are read and engaged with for years as topics are constantly and randomly hosted on the homepage, instead of the couple-of-days life expectancy of most other content sites. One of the biggest draws of the site, however, is the ability to have “Conversations” which allows for a deepening of your understanding of the subject matter you are reading or posting about, with just about anyone in the world—provided they have internet access.
So whether you’re in the mood to rant, wondering how to find the right gym for you, or you’re craving to learn the “ethics” of being vegan, pull up a chair and join the Conversation. As the Pandalous motto goes, “the internet doesn’t have to be a waste of time.”
Last Edited by Lindsey_1 at 8/3/2010 12:53 PM
8 Questions for Aleza Alpert, YouTube-watcher, world-traveler, and Anne Hathaway look-alike
You just got back from going on a Birthright trip to Israel. You're excited, exhausted, and feeling major love for Israel. But now comes the sad part: you can't do it again. You can go back to Israel, but not on that same trip. So what do you do now?
That's where Aleza Alpert comes in. As the Birthright Israel NEXT Chicago Campus Coordinator, she works to set up events to help Birthright alumni in the Chicago area keep in touch with not only their own bus mates, but also to meet other alumni in the area. She is the one working to keep that Birthright spirit alive, post-trip.
And if anyone knows how to keep Israeli spirit alive, it's Aleza. She has been to Israel 10 times so far, and five of those times have been to staff a Birthright trip. She also loves hearing stories from other peoples' trips to Israel, so if you're looking to exchange travel stories, search for some funny YouTube clips, or spend a day in the sunshine, Aleza Alpert is a Jew You Should Know:
1. What is your favorite blog or website?
Definitely YouTube! I love watching just random clips, they're always so funny. The animal ones, they're always so cute, or the bloopers. Those are hilarious. This is one of my current favorites. If you ever need suggestions for funny clips let me know. I've got tons!
2. If time and money were limitless, where would you travel?
Clearly, I love to travel. My goal is to live on six continents: visit Antarctica and live on the others. I think that you can't really get to know a place without actually living there—going to the grocery store, taking the bus, hanging out at the local bar. So I definitely need to go to South America, live there for a few months, Asia...yeah, there are a lot of places I would go if time and money were limitless. Can you let me know when that happens?
3. If a movie was made about your life, who would play you?
Well I want to say Anne Hathaway because people tell me I look like her all the time. But I don't want to be that girl that says, "Oh, I look like Anne Hathaway!" So maybe Tina Fey. Her comedy is so quick and clever.
4. If you could have a meal with any two people, living or dead, famous or not, who would they be?
Well my sister passed away two years ago, so I would definitely eat with her. I mean, who wouldn't want to see their sister for a meal? And the second person would have to be Zach Galifinakis. Do you know who he is? Yeah. He's so funny in the movie The Hangover, he's just hilarious. And ever since that movie came outâ€"what was it, a year ago, I've been saying that if anyone asked me this question I'd say him. So I'm saying him. I think the three of us would have the greatest time together, me, my sister, and Zach.
5. What's your idea of the perfect day?
It would involve being outside in the sun, a lot of ice cream, and sleeping in (but not too much because then you're not productive). But yeah, that first day of spring in Chicago is always the greatest because everyone's walking around in skirts, everyone's happier. I just love being outside in the sun. So that would be a perfect day for me.
6. What do you love about what you do?
My favorite part is definitely the fact that I'm helping college-age kids find their own Jewish community, their own little niche. Like for example, I'll never forget when one guy on one of my Birthright trips came up to me and told me that this was the first real Jewish community he had ever really had. And that's why I'm here doing what I do, for that experience.
7. What job would you have had if not the one you have now?
Well when I was younger I wanted to be a dancer in a Disney parade. But I don't think I'd be able to still do that. The other, obvious answer is that I would be teaching.
8. What's your favorite Jewish thing to do in Chicago?
Oh, that's a hard question. I don't really need a structured Jewish night to feel Jewish. I don't know, I love when Shabbat dinner turns into a game night or something. I just love being around other Jewish people.
Last Edited by OyChicago at 7/6/2010 5:20 PM
Nominations now open for the fifth annual Chicago Jewish 36 under 36 list
New play ‘A Splintered Soul’ explores moving forward in America after the Holocaust
Have you been personally inspired by a Holocaust survivor?
‘Nurture the Wow’ focuses on the spirituality of parenting
Third annual JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival opens March 10
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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 28, 2015 -- SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) today announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended June 28, 2015.
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1Information about SunPower's use of non-GAAP financial information, including a reconciliation to U.S. GAAP, is provided under "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below.
"SunPower achieved several extremely significant accomplishments during our second quarter," said Tom Werner, SunPower president and CEO. "First, we launched 8point3 Energy Partners (Nasdaq: CAFD), our joint YieldCo vehicle with First Solar. We believe 8point3 Energy Partners will provide us a significant long-term cost of capital advantage and enhance the scale and predictability of our future cash flows. Second, we increased the size of our North American pipeline by 1.5 gigawatts (GW) through the acquisition of Infigen Energy's U.S. solar project development portfolio. Finally, we signed three new, innovative utility channel partnerships in our distributed generation business, expanding our footprint in key residential markets.
"Our power plant segment remains a key focus for the company and an important contributor to our performance. Our acquisition of the U.S. solar project development pipeline of Infigen Energy, totaling approximately 1.5 GW, includes approximately 35 early to late stage solar projects ranging in size up to 100 megawatts (MW) in key regions with expected project build out through 2020. With our experience of developing and constructing over two gigawatts of solar power plant projects and industry leading technology, we are well positioned to complete these projects. This acquisition also augments our existing portfolio of potential drop down assets for 8point3 Energy Partners. Additionally, we made great progress on projects currently under construction during the quarter. Our 135-MW Quinto solar project, which we sold to 8point3 Energy Partners, remains on plan to achieve commercial operation in the fourth quarter, and our 579-MW (ac) Solar Star projects for Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Southern California Edison are now fully grid-connected. Internationally, we continued to build out our power plant portfolio with projects in South Africa, Japan, China and Chile."
"We also executed well in our commercial segment as demand for our high efficiency solutions remained strong. We exceeded our bookings target for the quarter and our commercial project pipeline now exceeds $1 billion. In the public sector, we were pleased to announce the largest school district solar contract in the United States with Kern High School District, Calif., where SunPower will deploy 22-MW over 27 district sites. With construction scheduled to be completed by the end of 2016, the Kern High School District is expected to save $80 million in electricity costs over the next 25 years using SunPower technology. We also continued to build on our long-term partnership with Macy's where we expect to install an additional 10-MW this year and bring our total footprint to 58 Macy's facilities.
"Our residential segment remains the largest portion of our distributed generation business. Demand remains very strong in North America as overall U.S. residential bookings in the quarter increased more than 120 percent year over year. Internationally, Japan continues to be a key market for us and we expect improvement in our European distributed generation business in the second half of the year due to a strong bookings trend. Globally, we are on track to expand our total installed distributed generation fleet to more than 500,000 customers by the end of 2015.
"We also recently signed residential solar partnerships with three U.S. utilities, including agreements with Dominion and ConEdison Solutions for the New Jersey and New York markets. We expect that these innovative channel partnerships will significantly expand our footprint in key markets in the United States and we are thrilled to be working with electricity industry leaders to accelerate the adoption of SunPower's high performance solar solutions," Werner concluded.
"Our execution, as well as strong demand for our industry leading products, enabled us to post solid financial results for the quarter," said Chuck Boynton, SunPower CFO. "Additionally, we launched 8point3 Energy Partners, which we believe will significantly lower our long-term cost of capital while providing sustainable EBITDA growth for our existing shareholders. Our balance sheet remains strong and we successfully managed our working capital during the quarter while further investing in our global pipeline, developing new products and adding assets per our holdco strategy."
Second quarter fiscal 2015 non-GAAP results include net adjustments that, in the aggregate, increase net income by $20.7 million, including ($4.7) million related to 8point3 Energy Partners, ($4.3) million related to utility and power plant projects, ($7.1) million related to the First Philippine Solar Corporation arbitration ruling, $14.0 million related to stock-based compensation expense, $1.9 million related to our November 2014 Restructuring Plan, $15.2 million related to the 8point3 Energy Partners Initial Public Offering (IPO), $3.9 million related to other adjustments, and $1.8 million related to tax effect.
The company's third quarter fiscal 2015 non-GAAP guidance is as follows: revenue of $400 million to $450 million, gross margin of 10 percent to 12 percent, EBITDA of $0 to $15 million and megawatts deployed in the range of 300-MW to 330-MW. On a GAAP basis, the company expects revenue of $400 million to $450 million, gross margin of 10 percent to 12 percent and net loss per diluted share of $0.60 to $0.50. Third quarter 2015 GAAP guidance includes the impact of the company's holdco strategy and deferrals due to real estate accounting.
For fiscal year 2015, the company's expectations are as follows: non-GAAP revenue of $2.40 billion to $2.60 billion, gross margin of 21 percent to 23 percent, net income per diluted share of $1.50 to $1.80, capital expenditures of $250 million to $300 million and gigawatts deployed in the range of 1.25-GW to 1.30-GW. On a GAAP basis, the company expects 2015 revenue of $1.50 billion to $1.70 billion, gross margin of 10 percent to 12 percent and net loss per diluted share of $2.35 to $2.05. Fiscal year 2015 GAAP guidance includes the impact of the company's holdco strategy and deferrals due to real estate accounting.
The company is also raising its 2015 EBITDA guidance range originally given at its Analyst Day on November 13, 2014 from $400 - $450 million to $425 - $475 million, and the company expects 2016 EBITDA growth of approximately 20 percent from the midpoint of the 2015 range.
The company will host a conference call for investors this afternoon to discuss its second-quarter 2015 performance at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. The call will be webcast and can be accessed from SunPower's website at http://investors.sunpower.com/events.cfm.
This press release contains both GAAP and non-GAAP financial information. Non-GAAP figures are reconciled to the closest GAAP equivalent categories in the financial attachment of this press release. Please note that the company has posted supplemental information and slides related to its second-quarter 2015 performance on the Events and Presentations section of the SunPower Investor Relations page at http://investors.sunpower.com/events.cfm. The capacity of power plants in this release is described in approximate megawatts on a direct current (dc) basis unless otherwise noted.
About SunPower Corp.
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) designs, manufactures and delivers the highest efficiency, highest reliability solar panels and systems available today. Residential, business, government and utility customers rely on SunPower's 30 years of experience and guaranteed performance to provide maximum return on investment throughout the life of the solar system. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., SunPower has offices in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit www.sunpower.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding: (a) expectations concerning the effect that 8point3 Energy Partners will have on our cost of capital, future cash flows and the value we are able to generate for our shareholders; (b) anticipated construction timelines and milestones for certain of our commercial projects and for our major power plant projects, such as the Quinto project; (c) expansion of our footprint in key residential markets including through strategic partnerships; (d) our positioning for development and construction of U.S. solar projects acquired from Infigen; (e) demand in our commercial and residential segments; (f) expected electricity cost savings by commercial customers; (g) expansion of our DG business, including in Europe; (h) expansion of our project pipeline, including our power plant portfolio in South Africa, Japan, China and Chile; (i) our positioning for long-term profitability; (j) strategically managing cash; (k) reducing operating expenses; (l) generating free cash flow; (m) expected benefits of our new residential lease partnership arrangements; (n) the expected adoption of our Smart Energy solutions; (o) third quarter fiscal 2015 non-GAAP guidance, including non-GAAP revenue, gross margin, EBITDA, and MW deployed; and third quarter fiscal 2015 GAAP guidance, including revenue, gross margin, and net loss per diluted share; (p) fiscal year 2015 non-GAAP guidance, including non-GAAP revenue, gross margin, capital expenditures, EBITDA, net income per diluted share, and GW deployed; and fiscal year 2015 GAAP guidance, including GAAP revenue, gross margin, and net loss per diluted share; and (q) fiscal year 2016 non-GAAP EBITDA growth expectations. These forward-looking statements are based on our current assumptions, expectations and beliefs and involve substantial risks and uncertainties that may cause results, performance or achievement to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) competition in the industry and downward pressure on average selling prices; (2) our liquidity, substantial indebtedness, and our ability to obtain additional financing for our projects and our customers; (3) risks relating to our residential lease business, including risks of customer default, challenges securing lease financing, and declining conventional electricity prices; (4) our ability to meet our cost reduction targets; (5) regulatory changes and the availability of economic incentives promoting use of solar energy; (6) challenges inherent in constructing and maintaining certain of our large projects, such as the Quinto project; (7) the success of our ongoing research and development efforts and our ability to commercialize of new products and services, including products and services developed through strategic partnerships; (8) fluctuations in our operating results; (9) maintaining or increasing our manufacturing capacity, containing manufacturing costs, and other manufacturing difficulties that could arise; (10) challenges managing our joint ventures and partnerships; (11) challenges executing on our YieldCo strategy, including the risk that 8point3 Energy Partners may be unsuccessful; and (12) fluctuations or declines in the performance of our solar panels. A detailed discussion of these factors and other risks that affect our business is included in filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from time to time, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading "Risk Factors." Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC or on the SEC Filings section of our Investor Relations website at investors.sunpower.com. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information currently available to us, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events.
SunPower is a registered trademark of SunPower Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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To supplement its consolidated financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures that are adjusted for certain items from the most directly comparable GAAP measures, as described below. Management adjusts for these items because it does not consider such items when evaluating the core operational activities of the company. The specific non-GAAP measures listed below are revenue, gross margin, net income, net income per diluted share, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), and free cash flow. Management believes that each of these non-GAAP measures is useful to investors, enabling them to better assess changes in each of these key elements of the company's results of operations across different reporting periods on a consistent basis, independent of certain items as described below. Thus, each of these non-GAAP financial measures provides investors with another method to assess the company's operating results in a manner that is focused on its ongoing, core operating performance, absent the effects of these items. Management uses these non-GAAP measures internally to assess the business, its financial performance, current and historical results, as well as for strategic decision-making and forecasting future results. Many of the analysts covering the company also use these non-GAAP measures in their analyses. Given management's use of these non-GAAP measures, the company believes these measures are important to investors in understanding the company's operating results as seen through the eyes of management. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with GAAP or intended to be a replacement for GAAP financial data; the non-GAAP measures should be reviewed together with the GAAP measures and are not intended to serve as a substitute for results under GAAP, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
Non-GAAP revenue includes adjustments relating to 8point3 and utility and power plant projects as described below. Non-GAAP gross margin includes adjustments relating to 8point3, utility and power plant projects, FPSC arbitration ruling, stock-based compensation, and other items as described below. In addition to those same adjustments, non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share are adjusted for adjustments relating to the November 2014 Restructuring Plan, IPO-related costs, and the tax effect of these non-GAAP adjustments as described below. In addition to the same adjustments as non-GAAP net income, EBITDA includes adjustments relating to cash interest expense (net of interest income), provision for (benefit from) income taxes, and depreciation. Free cash flow includes adjustments relating to investing cash flows and lease financings as described below.
Non-GAAP Adjustments
8point3. In June 2015, 8point3 Energy Partners LP ("8point3 Energy Partners"), a joint YieldCo vehicle formed by the company and First Solar, Inc. ("First Solar" and, together with the company, the "Sponsors") to own, operate and acquire solar energy generation assets, completed an initial public offering ("IPO") of Class A shares representing limited partner interests in 8point3 Energy Partners. The IPO was consummated on June 24, 2015 whereupon the Class A shares are now listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the trading symbol "CAFD." Immediately after the IPO, the company contributed a portfolio of 170 MW of its solar generation assets (the "SPWR Projects") to 8point3 Operating Company, LLC ("OpCo"), 8point3 Energy Partners' primary operating subsidiary. In exchange for the SPWR Projects, the company received cash proceeds of $371 million as well as equity interests in several 8point3 Energy Partners affiliated entities: primarily common and subordinated units representing a 40.7% stake in OpCo and a 50.0% economic and management stake in 8point3 Holding Company, LLC ("Holdings"), the parent company of the general partner of 8point3 Energy Partners and the owner of incentive distribution rights ("IDRs") in OpCo. Holdings, OpCo, 8point3 Energy Partners and their respective subsidiaries are referred to herein as the "8point3 Group" or "8point3."
The company includes adjustments related to the sales of projects contributed to 8point3 based on the difference between the fair market value of the consideration received and the net carrying value of the projects contributed, of which, a portion is deferred in proportion to the company's retained equity stake in 8point3. The deferred profit is subsequently recognized over time. This treatment is consistent with the accounting rules relating to the sale of such projects under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). Under these rules, with certain exceptions such as for projects already in operations, the company's revenue is equal to the fair market value of the consideration received, and cost of goods sold is equal to the net carrying value plus a partial deferral of profit proportionate with the retained equity stake. Under GAAP, these sales are recognized under either real estate, lease, or consolidation accounting rules depending upon the nature of the individual asset contributed, with outcomes ranging from no profit recognition to full profit recognition. During the second quarter of fiscal 2015, IFRS profit, less the deferral associated with retained equity, was recognized for the sale of the residential lease portfolio. Revenue recognition for other projects sold to 8point3 will be deferred until these projects reach commercial operations consistent with IFRS rules. Management believes that this adjustment for the impact of 8point3 enables investors to better evaluate the company's revenue and profit generation performance.
Utility and power plant projects. The company includes adjustments related to the revenue recognition of utility and power plant projects based on the separately-identifiable components of transactions in order to reflect the substance of the transactions. This treatment is consistent with accounting rules relating to such projects under IFRS. On a GAAP basis, such projects are accounted for under U.S. GAAP real estate accounting guidance. Management calculates separate revenue and cost of revenue amounts each fiscal period in accordance with the two treatments above and the aggregate difference for the company's affected projects is included in the relevant reconciliation tables below. Over the life of each project, cumulative revenue and gross margin will be equivalent under the two treatments; however, revenue and gross margin will generally be recognized earlier under the company's non-GAAP treatment than under the company's GAAP treatment. Among other factors, this is due to the attribution of non-GAAP revenue and margin to the company's project development efforts at the time of initial project sale as required under IFRS accounting rules, whereas no separate attribution to this element occurs under U.S. GAAP real estate accounting guidance. Within each project, the relationship between the adjustments to revenue and gross margins is generally consistent. However, as the company may have multiple utility and power plant projects in progress at any given time, the relationship in the aggregate will occasionally appear otherwise. Management believes that this adjustment for utility and power plant projects enables investors to evaluate the company's revenue generation performance relative to the direct costs of revenue of its core businesses.
FPSC arbitration ruling. On January 28, 2015, an arbitral tribunal of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce declared a binding partial award in the matter of an arbitration between First Philippine Electric Corporation ("FPEC") and First Philippine Solar Corporation ("FPSC") against SunPower Philippines Manufacturing, Ltd. ("SPML"), the company's wholly-owned subsidiary. The tribunal found SPML in breach of its obligations under its supply agreement with FPSC, and in breach of its joint venture agreement with FPEC. A second partial award received on July 17, 2015 reduced the price to be paid to FPEC. As a result, the company recorded its best estimate of probable loss related to this case. As this loss is nonrecurring in nature, excluding this data provides investors with a basis to evaluate the company's performance, including compared with the performance of other companies, without similar impacts.
Stock-based compensation. Stock-based compensation relates primarily to the company's equity incentive awards. Stock-based compensation is a non-cash expense that varies from period to period and is dependent on market forces that are difficult to predict. Due to this unpredictability, management excludes this item from its internal operating forecasts and models. Management believes that this adjustment for stock-based compensation provides investors with a basis to measure the company's core performance, including compared with the performance of other companies, without the period-to-period variability created by stock-based compensation.
November 2014 Restructuring Plan. In November 2014, the company approved a reorganization plan aimed towards realigning resources consistently with the company's global strategy and improving its overall operating efficiency and cost structure. Restructuring charges are excluded from non-GAAP financial measures because they are not considered core operating activities and such costs have historically occurred infrequently. Although SunPower has engaged in restructuring activities in the past, each has been a discrete event based on a unique set of business objectives. As such, management believes that it is appropriate to exclude restructuring charges from the company's non-GAAP financial measures as they are not reflective of ongoing operating results or contribute to a meaningful evaluation of a company's past operating performance.
IPO-related costs. Costs incurred related to the IPO of 8point3 included legal, accounting, advisory, valuation, and other expenses, as well as modifications to or terminations of certain existing financing structures in preparation for the sale to 8point3. As these costs are non-recurring in nature, excluding this data provides investors with a basis to evaluate the company's performance, including compared with the performance of other companies, without similar impacts.
Other. The company combines amounts previously disclosed under separate captions into "Other" when amounts do not have a significant impact on the current fiscal period. Management believes that these adjustments provide investors with a basis to evaluate the company's performance, including compared with the performance of other companies, without similar impacts.
The amounts recorded in "Other" during the second quarter of fiscal 2015 are driven by adjustments which would have previously been disclosed under other non-GAAP adjustment captions, including "Amortization of intangible assets," "Non-cash interest expense," and "Change in European government incentives."
Tax effect. This amount is used to present each of the adjustments described above on an after-tax basis in connection with the presentation of non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP net income per diluted share. The company's non-GAAP tax amount is based on estimated cash tax expense and reserves. The company forecasts its annual cash tax liability and allocates the tax to each quarter in proportion to earnings for that period. This approach is designed to enhance investors' ability to understand the impact of the company's tax expense on its current operations, provide improved modeling accuracy, and substantially reduce fluctuations caused by GAAP to non-GAAP adjustments, which may not reflect actual cash tax expense.
EBITDA adjustments. When calculating EBITDA, in addition to adjustments described above, the company excludes the impact during the period of the following items:
Cash interest expense, net of interest income
Provision for (benefit from) income taxes
Management presents this non-GAAP financial measure to enable investors with a basis to evaluate the company's performance, including compared with the performance of other companies.
Free cash flow adjustments. When calculating free cash flow, the company includes the impact during the period of the following items:
Contributions from noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests
Distributions to noncontrolling interests and redeemable noncontrolling interests
Management presents this non-GAAP financial measure to enable investors to evaluate the company's performance, including compared with the performance of other companies.
For more information about these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the tables captioned "Reconciliations of GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures" set forth at the end of this release, which should be read together with the preceding financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
RECONCILIATIONS OF GAAP MEASURES TO NON-GAAP MEASURES
(In thousands, except percentages and per share data)
Adjustments to Revenue:
Utility and power plant projects
Non-GAAP revenue
Adjustments to Gross margin:
FPSC arbitration ruling
Non-GAAP gross margin
GAAP gross margin (%)
Non-GAAP gross margin (%)
Adjustments to Net income (loss):
GAAP net income (loss) attributable to stockholders
November 2014 Restructuring Plan
IPO-related costs
Tax effect
Non-GAAP net income attributable to stockholders
Adjustments to Net income (loss) per diluted share:
Net income (loss) per diluted share
GAAP net income (loss) available to common stockholders1
Non-GAAP net income available to common stockholders1
GAAP weighted-average shares
RSUs/PSUs
Upfront Warrant
Warrants (under the CSO2015)
0.75% debentures due 2018
0.875% debentures due 2021
Non-GAAP weighted-average shares1
Non-GAAP net income per diluted share
1In accordance with the if-converted method, net income (loss) available to common stockholders excludes interest expense related to the 0.75%, 0.875%, and 4.75% debentures if the debentures are considered converted in the calculation of net income (loss) per diluted share. If the conversion option for a debenture is not in the money for the relevant period, the potential conversion of the debenture under the if-converted method is excluded from the calculation of non-GAAP net income per diluted share.
EBITDA:
Free Cash Flow:
$ (212,033)
Free cash flow
Q3 2015 and FY 2015 GUIDANCE (in thousands except percentages and per share data)
Revenue (GAAP)
Revenue (non-GAAP) (1)
Gross margin (GAAP)
Gross margin (non-GAAP) (2)
Net loss per diluted share (GAAP)
$(0.60)-$(0.50)
Net income per diluted share (non-GAAP) (3)
EBITDA (4)
$0-$15,000
Estimated non-GAAP amounts above for fiscal 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) revenue by approximately $915 million of revenue related to 8point3 and $(15) million related to utility and power plant projects.
Estimated non-GAAP amounts above for Q3 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) gross margin by approximately $(1) million related to utility and power plant projects, $3 million related to stock-based compensation expense, and $1 million related to other items. Estimated non-GAAP amounts above for fiscal 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) gross margin by approximately $400 million related to 8point3, $(15) million related to utility and power plant projects, $14 million related to stock-based compensation expense, and $5 million related to other items.
Estimated non-GAAP amounts above for fiscal 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) net loss by approximately $440 million related to 8point3, $(15) million related to utility and power plant projects, $65 million related to stock-based compensation expense, $25 million related to IPO-related costs, $25 million related to other items, and $15 million related to tax effect.
Estimated EBITDA amounts above for Q3 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) net loss by approximately $10 million related to 8point3, $(1) million related to utility and power plant projects, $17 million related to stock-based compensation expense, $10 million related to other items, $9 million related to interest expense, $11 million related to income taxes and $29 million related to depreciation. Estimated EBITDA amounts above for fiscal 2015 include net adjustments that increase (decrease) net loss by approximately $440 million related to 8point3, $(15) million related to utility and power plant projects, $65 million related to stock-based compensation expense, $25 million related to IPO-related costs, $25 million related to other items, $50 million related to interest expense, $40 million related to income taxes and $120 million related to depreciation.
The following supplemental data represent the adjustments, individual charges and credits that are included or excluded from SunPower's non-GAAP revenue, gross margin, net income and net income per diluted share measures for each period presented in the Consolidated Statements of Operations contained herein.
SOURCE SunPower Corp.
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Tanushree Dutta files plaint against Nana Patekar
TANUSHREE Dutta on Saturday lodged a police complaint against veteran actor Nana Patekar for allegedly sexually harassing her on the sets of a film in 2008, police said.
Dutta, in a recent interview alleged that Patekar had misbehaved with her while filming a song for the 2008 film ‘Horn Ok Pleasss’. She has filed the complaint at the Oshiwara Police Station against Patekar, choreographer Ganesh Acharya, producer Sameer Siddiqui and director Rakesh Sarang.
According to Dutta’s advocate Nitin Satpute, the actor will be giving a statement to the police on Sunday.
“We have filed a police complaint, they are probing the matter and tomorrow (Sunday) they have called her (Dutta) for recording her statement,” Satpute told PTI. He added that a similar complaint had been filed by the actor back in 2008 as well.
In a letter, Dutta said that she lodged her complaint for the registration of FIR under Sections 354, 354 (A), Section 34 and Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
She further said that before shooting the song, which was supposed to be a solo song picturised only on her, she had clearly mentioned that she will not enact or perform any lewd, vulgar or uncomfortable steps.
However, on the forth day of the shoot, Patekar’s behaviour was inappropriate as he was grabbing her by the arms and pushing her around on the pretext of teaching her some steps, the complaint said. “When he was touching me indecently and unnecessary I felt very uncomfortable because of his behaviour, I felt he has outraged my modesty,” the letter read.
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Home → Special Topics → 2 SQN Canberras in Vietnam
No 2 Squadron deployed from Butterworth, Malaysia to Phan Rang air base, 35 kilometres south of Cam Ranh Bay, a large USAF base in the far east of South Vietnam, on 19 April 1967. 2 SQN 'Magpies' were part of the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing and were tasked by HQ 7th Air Force in Saigon, for eight sorties per day for seven days a week, in all areas of South Vietnam from 23 April 1967 until return to Australia in 1971.
The Canberra filled a gap in the USAF inventory as it was the only tactical aircraft in South Vietnam which bombed, visually, from straight and level flight, albeit at 350knots. Often, the Canberra could fly below the cloud while the dive attack aircraft could not see the ground to acquire the target because of the low cloud base. The USN and USMC operated the A6 Intruder in all-weather attack modes, usually straight and level, using radar bombing systems. USAF F-111As operated in similar modes in 1968, undergoing combat evaluation, but were withdrawn after three were lost. The F-111s returned in 1972 and achieved outstanding results.
For the first few months, the Squadron carried out night Combat Skyspot missions where aircraft were guided on the bombing run by ground based precision radar. The first low level day missions started in September 1967, with forward air controllers marking the targets with smoke. Most sorties were in support of the Australian Task Force in the IV Corps area. Flying at about 3000 feet (915 metres) AGL to avoid ground fire, the crews achieved accuracies of about 45 metres. On a number of occasions, aircraft released their bombs from as low as 800 ft (245 metres), followed by a rapid pull-up to a height outside the fragmentation envelope. However, a number of aircraft were damaged by bomb fragments (shrapnel) and some navigators suffered minor injuries as a result.
HQ Seventh Air Force was impressed with the bombing accuracies of the Canberras when operating with FACs in close support of ground troops and by November 1967, were being tasked with four day low level sorties. However, greater accuracy was necessary to achieve the required damage levels on the targets being attacked. Bombing accuracies were improved to 20 metres CEP.
The Canberra achieved the transition over many years from a high level bomber with poor accuracy to a very accurate low level tactical bomber in support of ground troops. Most of the day low level operations in Vietnam were in IV Corps where the low and flat terrain resulted in the Canberra achieving very good bombing accuracy.
Flying about 5% of the Wing's sorties, 2SQN was credited with 16% of the bomb damage assessment.
Bomb Loads
Initially, bombs released were ex-WW2 war stocks. Typical aircraft loads varied from 10 x 500lb bombs to 6 x 1000 lb bombs. All the war stocks were exhausted In 15 months and 2SQN changed over to the USAF M117 bombs; 4 in the bomb bay and two on the wing tips. More reliable fuses in these bombs resulted in few of the problems experienced with the earlier British designed bombs.
2SQN aircraft serviceability was high. Eight aircraft were kept on-line and maintenance personnel worked 2 x 12 hour shifts to meet the daily tasking rate of eight sorties. The Squadron achieved a 97% serviceability rate.
North Vietnamese troops unleashed a heavy mortar, artillery and rocket attack on the Marine base at Khe Sanh on 21 January 1968, before the Tet offensive. Khe Sanh was an important strategic post and its capture would give the North Vietnamese an almost unobstructed invasion route in the northernmost provinces, from where they could outflank American positions south of the DMZ.
Operation Niagara was launched to defend Khe Sanh. On the first day of the attack, nearly 600 tactical sorties (including 49 by the B-52's) were launched against enemy positions.
2SQN Canberras were involved in day and night operations, usually in pairs, and carried out visual bombing (daylight) and Skyspot missions in support of the siege. The most dangerous missions to the Khe Sanh area were flown at night when aircraft were often held in racetrack holding patterns at 20- 25 000 ft with numerous (up to 30 or 40) USAF, USN and Marine Corps aircraft.
2SQN operations continued in all Military Regions (MR), including the DMZ, the Cambodian/Laos border, the A Shau Valley and Khe Sanh from 1969 to 1970. In all operations, the Canberras achieved excellent bombing results.
On 3 November 1970, the first Canberra (A84-231) was lost during a Skyspot mission in the Danang area. The aircraft was not found until February 2009 - see the article on Magpie 91. The cause of the loss has not been determined .
Another aircraft, A84-228, was lost in March 1971 in the Khe Sanh area. The crew, WGDCR John Downing and FLTLT Al Pinches, ejected and following their rescue the next day by a 'dustoff' UH-1H rescue chopper, confirmed they had been hit by a SA-2 missile, which blew the right wing off.
Last Mission
The last Canberra mission in Vietnam was 31 May 1971 and was tasked in support of the US 101st Airborne Division in the A Shau Valley, an area frequented by the squadron many times over the last two years. 2SQN released a total of 76389 bombs in its time in Vietnam.
The squadron departed Phan Rang on 4 June 1971, arriving back in Amberley on 5 June, 13 years since it deployed to Malaya in 1958.
No 2 Squadron air and ground crews performed exceptionally well in the air war in South Vietnam and carried on the fine traditions of strike squadrons in the RAAF.
Article by Lance Halvorson
2SQN November 1964 - November 1967
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Finding The Author’s Voice In Literary Translation (While Silencing Yours)
December 1, 2015 Rafa Lombardino
During the 56th Annual Conference organized November 4-7, 2015 by the American Translators Association (ATA) in Miami, I attended a presentation by the Literary Division entitled “Finding the Author’s Voice in Literary Translation (While Silencing Yours.)” The presenter was Mercedes Guhl, administrator of ATA’s Literary Division and the mind behind Traduzco, luego escribo, a blog about reading, writing, and translating that is written entirely in Spanish.
Mercedes was born in Colombia, started translating children’s books in 1990 while completing her BA in philosophy and literature, and later received her MA in translation studies from the University of Warwick, in the UK. Recently, while talking to her husband―who is also a translator―he asked her whether all books translated by the same translator end up having the same voice.
While pondering the question, she realized that (a) No, books translated by the same translator shouldn’t “sound” the same because translators re-enact or re-create the author’s voice in the target language, and (b) Yes, translated books may seem to have the same voice sometimes if the originals sound the same because they belong to a series, fall in the same genre, or were poorly written in the first place. “Editors don’t understand that sometimes a book could be translated in different ways,” she added, indicating that her husband’s question doesn’t seem to be very unusual after all.
Paraphrasing Umberto Eco, Mercedes said that the best-case scenario for book translators would be to read as the ideal reader, but translate with the common reader in mind. As a general concept, by reading as ideal readers, translators can learn to emulate the author’s voice, since “the original provides a grid” for the target text to be produced.
She also mentioned the contrasts between translators from an earlier age, who translated books to understand and acquire knowledge, and modern book translators, whose work is intended for publication and distribution. Because book translations nowadays serve the purpose of being a product for mass consumption, translators must exercise their writing skills in order to “have the tools and resources required to imitate, innovate, and create when necessary.”
In order to learn more about the work process other book translators follow and how similar or different it might be from her own method, she decided to carry out a study. One of the main questions she added to a questionnaire sent out to fellow book translators was whether they preferred reading the entire book before translating it, as she does herself, or if they would rather read each page as they are translating it.
Mercedes was surprised to find out that many would rather not read in advance, since she believes that some texts “should be understood as a whole” after a thorough reading, for they could contain “landmines that need to be simmered.” One of the opposing views she highlighted was by a translator who, in turn, contended that “reading as you translate yields a more vivid and spontaneous version.”
“Do you read to understand or do you translate to understand?”
Another curiosity Mercedes had was how translators first approach a project, which she calls “the first ten pages struggle.” Because she translates mainly children and young adult books, she says “it’s easier to just turn to the teenager you have inside and go… After the first ten pages, things come together and click. You go with the flow,” she added.
As for quality standards―which is always a hot topic when it comes to book translations, given the exposure that the final material gets―she wondered what her peers considered to be a good or a poor translation.
“I’m a little fearless,” she admits. “I was trained as an editor, so I am always thinking about the poor reader. It’s like a ménage à trois, and you have to be faithful to both the author with the original and the reader with the translation.” The two questions she asks herself to assure the quality of her translations are: “Is it internally coherent?” and “Is it adequate for the market?”
Among other questions she had for her peers were:
Is a book a 100% mind-consuming task? In other words, do translators read or work on more than a book at a time?
When and how do you read? Or, do you read to understand or do you translate to understand?
Do you look up criticism and reviews about the book you’re translating?
Do you talk to editors about your translation choices?
Do you follow a given method, or do you just “go with the flow?” That is, do you compile glossaries and take notes while reading, or just see what happens in the first draft?
How do you deal with dated expressions? Do you research equivalents or just make something up in the target language to make it sound contemporary?
How about loaded words? Do you provide a direct translation, replace it, or coin a new term?
When finding the voice of an author/character who is of the opposite sex, do you usually have any problems with that?
How do you translate dialogues?
What is your view about footnotes? Do you see them as a way you can “manipulate” readers, or would you rather remain silent as a translator?
During the final stages of the project, do you make minor or major changes?
Do you always have a chance to review your translation after it’s edited, so you have the final say?
The conclusions she reached at the end of her study were as follows:
There are no sure methods or tried paths when it comes to translating a book.
Each individual profile, set of skills, and background calls for individual methods.
Likewise, certain projects call for a different approach.
Creativity rules, not only in the general method, but also in the way a given project is undertaken.
RAFA LOMBARDINO is a translator and journalist from Brazil who lives in California. She is the author of "Tools and Technology in Translation ― The Profile of Beginning Language Professionals in the Digital Age," which is based on her UCSD Extension class. Rafa has been working as a translator since 1997 and, in 2011, started to join forces with self-published authors to translate their work into Portuguese and English. She also runs Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators.
In Conferences Tags ATA56, ATA, American Translators Association, ATA Miami, book translators, survey, study, translation method, translation process, book translations, Literary Translation, literary translators, literature, author's voice, Authors and Translators
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Floetry
Doors 8 / Show 9 / 18+
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Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart are the funky divas behind the neo-soul duo Floetry. Ambrosius and Stewart emerged in the mid-’90s as songwriters in demand. They’re behind some of the new millennium’s biggest hits, too. The pair has written tracks for Michael Jackson, Jill Scott, Glenn Lewis, and Bilal. While they’re highly respected behind the scenes, Floetry is their way of moving up front.
Ambrosius is the songstress to Stewart’s spoken word impresario or “floacist” role. The two met due to their love of basketball. Stewart, who hails from London, was a superstar on her court, while Ambrosius wowed fans in her local English neighborhood. They were competitive, but not rivals, so a friendship was formed. Music was also a passion. Ambrosius relished in her reggae roots while Stewart found herself grooving to funk and soul. While attending Brits Performing Arts School, Ambrosius studied business and finance, but made room for courses in voice, performance technique, and recording. Stewart split her time between acting and directing. Later, Ambrosius and Stewart headed to college.
Ambrosius planned to attend Georgia Tech University on a basketball scholarship, but injury forced her to bow out. Stewart headed for Middlesex University, eventually transferring to North London University. Still, they two kept in touch and raved about music. It wouldn’t be until Stewart’s girl group, 3 Plus 1, disbanded that Floetry would actually give music a serious shot.
In 1997, Ambrosius and Stewart began writing songs and playing shows in and around London. Three years later, they moved to America in search of something bigger. A brief stint in Atlanta didn’t pan out, but their time spent in Philadelphia proved golden. Ambrosius and Stewart befriended Julius Erving III, basketball great Julius Erving’s son, in mid-2000. Floetry and Erving clicked instantly. Erving signed on as their manager and hooked the ladies up with Jeff Townes, aka DJ Jazzy Jeff, for some recording. That’s when the deals started trickling in — Floetry were official and living out a dream. In 2002, they inked a deal with DreamWorks and touched up their own work for a debut album. Floetic appeared in October 2002, and its follow-up, Flo’Ology, reached the Top Ten upon release three years later. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, Rovi
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REVIEW | Isle of Dogs (2018)
John Roebuck
9:35 • 16.04.18
"Wes Anderson's creative aesthetic has been his most persuasive asset over his career. "
"Anderson also draws on an impressive understanding of his influences."
Isle of Dogs is a visual masterpiece. It’s one of the finest example of animation, in any form, that I can ever recall. But that mastery is limited to the film’s visuals. Wes Anderson’s creative aesthetic has been his most persuasive asset over his career. He has invoked the styles of other filmmakers and film movements, over the years, to augment his own. But those stylistic inspirations are always bound to the the regulations set by Anderson’s sensibilities. There’s a rigidity to his filmmaking. It’s only a hinderance because there are limitations to that manner in which Anderson has made every single one of his films, and as a result of that rigidity, he has never overcome them.
You could argue that a lot of, perhaps most, masterful filmmakers labour to escape the confines of their own intuition, and you would be right. Consider Bergman or Hitchcock or Altman, who undeniably brought their own distinct characteristics to ever film. Versatility is a rare distinction in filmmaking.
And yet the styles of Bergman, Hitchcock and Altman didn’t have the same inhibitive force on variety that Anderson’s does. Isle of Dogs is a compelling example of this. It is perhaps his most ambitious film in relation to its distance from and difference to his other work and yet it is marked by the decided sense of sameness that has plagued all of Anderson’s recent films.
If I am sounding dismissive of Anderson’s enormous capabilities as a filmmaker, it is not my intent. In many ways, Isle of Dogs is arguably one of his best films. That visual mastery has a lot to do with this. If any of the film’s accomplishments ought to be applauded then it is the manner in which it conveys information. Maybe better put, it is the way in which Anderson has manipulated the potential of the stop motion animation medium to express narrative, character and mood.
Anderson also draws on an impressive understanding of his influences. If Chaplin, Lubitsch and Hitchcock helped dictate Anderson’s last film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, then Isle of Dogs bears the influences of Japanese filmmakers such as Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa. There’s an appreciation of film history and storytelling history in Anderson’s recent films. That enthusiasm for fantastical storytelling has been part of Anderson’s work since his first short film, Bottle Rocket, in 1994. His films are always fantasy, even when they are set somewhere real, like New York.
Twenty years in the future, Isle of Dogs takes place in an imaginary Japan in which the tyrannical rulers of Megasaki City have exiled all dogs to an island off the Japanese coast that is entirely built up of trash. Their excuse is the epidemic of dog disease that has been affecting the widespread canine population but we learn early on that the Megasaki mayor, Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura) has a family history of preferring cats.
Our crucial protagonists are five of the exiled dogs, Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Duke (Jeff Goldblum), Boss (Bill Murray) and Chief (Bryan Cranston), as well as Atari (Koyu Rankin), a young boy who ventures to Trash Island to retrieve his beloved Spots (Liev Schreiber). If there is a film that reminds us of the excellence of dogs more than this then I do not know it. Any emotion that Anderson manages to conjure will largely be indebted to the audience’s own experiences of dog appreciation.
Emotion is a critical failing of Anderson’s, for two reasons. The first is that his fundamentally detached approach to filmmaking is not conducive to generating emotion. The second is that many of the stories with which he engages compel a need for emotion, which he cannot produce. And Anderson’s backdrops may vary from New York to India to Europe to Japan but his mechanical nature remains almost manically similar.
There may be too much of Wes Anderson in Wes Anderson’s films. That won’t be a problem for those who accept and embrace the limitations of his work. For many, those limitations are assets.
For his many qualities, Anderson’s overriding flaw is that he renders every topic void of idiosyncrasy, at least from his own rigid set of idiosyncrasies. The ambiguous acknowledgement of adult anxieties, the compensation of missing emotional necessities through militaristic team spirit, the evolution from childhood dependencies, the delegation of female characters to love interests. Every character isn’t an extension of Wes Anderson, they are Wes Anderson.
Liev Schreiber
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← 7 Points on the *UW* Present Assignment Requirement
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A compulsory policy so messed up, it must be voluntary!
Posted on February 7, 2012 by Gerald Barnett
11. The present assignment is so incompetently constructed it boggles the mind.
In a prior post, I included the above in a list of problems with UW’s implementation of present assignments. I added this one because, well, UW’s “goes to 11“.
The post is a longish one, and not for the weak of heart.
It’s here not for fun reading but to document just how defective the UW present assignment implementation is, and how defective the UW policy statements are behind it. At least things are consistent. If it’s going to be a turkey of a movie, it should have turkey acting in every scene. I didn’t enjoy writing this, and I’m rather pissed that I had to spend so much time documenting how bad things are. And this is just the tip of this big, cold thing.
The short of it is, the present assignment text in the outside work approval form is fatally flawed and inappropriate to the policy requirements for consulting.
The present assignment language is not authorized by policy and in fact violates policy. Since the University claims it can change its IP policy at will, and since the IP policy in its present state appears to claim everything from ideas to expertise, without regard for whether the work is done “outside” or not, it would appear that there is no way to determine what has actually been assigned under this agreement. One wonders if it is even enforceable under Washington state law. If not, then any assignments taking place are, in essence, made voluntarily. Why does a world class university have such rotten policy? Is trying to work against your public mission just too difficult?
The Text
Here is the present assignment text from the UW request for outside work form.
The Statements above are truthful to the best of my knowledge. With this request for outside work, I acknowledge that I am bound by and I agree to comply with the University Patent, Invention, and Copyright Policy (Executive Order 36) (“Policy”), as it may be amended from time to time. In accordance with this Policy, I will disclose all inventions and discoveries I create to the UW Center for Commercialization, including any that I create in connection with any outside work. I agree to assign and I hereby assign to the University all my rights in any intellectual property to which the University has a right of assignment under the Policy, provided I created such intellectual property in the course of my University activities or responsibilities or with more than incidental use of University resources.
Let’s consider this form. First we have an oath. Why? The form itself is a request to consult, not a deposition. If the information is not truthful, then there would be consequences anyway. So why this bit about “truthfulness” and why is it qualified by “to the best of my knowledge.” Does this mean that having less knowledge is, well, a better thing? Ah, ignorance is bliss, and you are off the hook if you don’t think very hard about what you might be doing. No, makes no sense. At best it is a jab at folks, suggesting that the University receives untruthful information on forms and wants to put a stop to that.
Next up is an acknowledgement *and* agreement. The scope and application of the university’s policies for faculty is a matter of employment and governance. The oath here is entirely unnecessary to invoke policy, unless of course the form intends for new policy to be made. There are many policies that might apply, so it is odd that the IP policy is called out, and not, say, the use of facilities policy or conflict of commitment policy.
Agreement to Agree
We see with “as it may be amended from time to time” some of what is going on. A signature here means that the requester has agreed to the amendments up front–an agreement to agree in the future to whatever the University changes the policy to. Not enforceable as contract. More of a threat. But more than that, this phrase introduces huge uncertainty. How can one enter into an outside arrangement if the University can change its policy next month? May as well say, “don’t bother. ” The agreement here would appear to give the University special power over those faculty who request to do outside work. Other faculty, who do not sign this form, would appear to not be under such control.
Essentially, the text here asks the requester to accept a misstated, overreaching, confused interpretation of policy as policy. A little private hell of “as may be amended from time to time” right here in the next sentence. Who would have thought the amendment would comes so soon, and be so bungled?
Policy Acknowledgment or Change?
Consider “In accordance with this Policy, I will disclose all inventions and discoveries….” Consider a different construction: “I will disclose all inventions and discoveries in accordance with this Policy.” These are fundamentally different gestures. The first is an interpretation that rambles on, adding things that don’t belong. The second restates the policy as a reminder. Too bad the policy itself is so terrible.
If we turn to the actual policy, it’s Executive Order 36. Here we have work to do, because EO 36 was thrown together when administrators got the idea that the Faculty Handbook should be replaced by something more dominating, and a set of policies and procedures pertaining to inventions and copyrights and research and equity in startups and hand wringing got plopped together here without even the comfort of an editor who knew what to do with text, let alone understood practice.
When is an Invention?
In EO 36, we encounter a definition of “invention” but not of “discovery.” Both terms get used in the patent law. I guess that means somewhere someone actually read the patent law. But that was long ago. In 35 USC 101 “invention” is defined as “invention or discovery.” The Constitution (Article I, Section 8 ) reserves rights of “inventors” to their “discoveries.” I guess UW folks were unclear whether they were dealing with inventions and discoveries, or with the patent law definition of invention. Bayh-Dole makes the same move, defining invention as “any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under this title….” (meaning 35 USC–the patent laws).
An invention is “made” when there is “a conception and a reduction to practice.” See MPEP 2138.02 for more. Conception requires a “definite and permanent idea” of the “complete and operative invention” in the mind of the inventor MPEP 2138.04. Reduction to practice may be actual or constructive MPEP 2138.05. Either one builds the thing with every element and it operates for its intended purpose (actual), or one files a patent application (constructive).
What this means is that an invention is not an invention until there is both conception and reduction to practice. Since conception (here) takes place in the mind, until an inventor decides something has been so conceived, it hasn’t. The inventor has the choice about it all. There isn’t an invention until an inventor conceives it in all its parts and recognizes that conception as inventive AND the thing gets reduced to practice–either actually or constructively (by written description). Then the invention is *made* as of the earliest documented date of conception. All this will blow away with first to file, but it’s worth the discussion.
Scope of Invention and Claims
This is all important to the UW policy statement. In 1.A. the policy asserts it “covers both patented and nonpatented innovations….” This contrasts with “is or may be patentable.” Clearly we are well outside if “patent” policy in the first sentence alone. The policy adds, “including computer software with commercial value.” This removes any thought “nonpatented” is just a clumsy way of avoiding using “is or may be patentable” but isn’t yet. Nonpatented also appears to mean stuff in the public domain with regard to patent law, outside its scope, but clearly within the scope of the University’s idea of “innovations.”
The problem with scope has to do with a fundamental misunderstanding of the policy as it has been revised. In a review + request policy, the scope is broad–it applies to all, and all sorts of things. But that is only for review. The requests for assignment are narrowly drawn–to what is required in an extramural contract or expressly commissioned or required by law. But if one wants to move to a compulsory policy, and one is conveniently lazy, then one merely changes the statement of scope of application for review into a statement of the scope of ownership claim. Whatever may be reviewed may be owned. This is a huge change, but it is clever (or bumbling) because it is not marked with words actually changing. It is how software code becomes riddled with bugs. The architecture of the program is compromised, and from there no amount of patching will save it.
The issue is not patenting at all, but money, if we take “commercial value” to mean “money from companies” rather than “hey, this stuff really works, thanks!” kind of value. Earlier versions of the policy didn’t use “innovation.” An “innovation” is something that is adopted and considered new. Here, it means more along the lines of “anything we see our employees or students doing that looks new or valuable to us.” It’s not really the opening one would have to a patent and invention policy, or to an innovation policy. It’s more like a greedo policy.
Paragraph B specifies “commercially valuable inventions” as the subject of interest. This meshes with the theme of money, without resolving whether the inventions are intended to be of value because they can be used, because they can be licensed for money, or because the public benefits through their use by companies.
Frankendefinitions
Inventions are to be “promptly reported” to the “Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.” Note, not the “Center for Commercialization.” The policy does not assume all inventions are to be deployed for “commercialization.” “Commercial value” may arise in any number of ways, and technology transfer may be transacted in any number of ways. “Commercialization” is a narrowing of all of this. Even this might work if what was meant was the “making of commercial product from new technology.” But at the University of Washington, I think, the working definition is more along the lines of “anything we can make money on or take credit for involving companies.”
We now come to a definition of “invention.” It’s not quite the definition in patent law. It wouldn’t be too much to simply use the patent law definition, but no. “Invention” means “any invention or discovery which is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable as to ownership.” “As to ownership” is not the same as “under this title” (i.e., patent law). “As to ownership” is a broad claim, potentially taking in any theory of ownership. An invention may be owned as a trade secret. Some elements may be subject to copyright. Just what is meant by “as to ownership” other than as provided by patent law?
This is a problem with drafting policy. One can use the definitions of the law, or one can make new definitions just for the policy. Sloppy drafting means one does neither, and bumbles along with what amounts to an implied definition. The problem is, who gets to do the implying? The University? Then it’s a wild adhesion contract. The employee? Then it might be different for each according to his or her implier. Seems like a mess to create accidental definitions.
It gets worse. In the patent law, as we have seen, an invention is “made” when it is conceived *and* reduced to practice. Here, in EO 36, however, we find “An invention is deemed to be ‘made’ when it is conceived or first actually reduced to practice.” Who does the “deeming”? It’s like who does the “implying” problem. The problem either way is that the definition is simply not the patent law definition, though like Frankenstein’s monster, it is made from available parts. Let’s call it an “abynormal” definition.
EO 36 uses language glopped together from the definition of “subject invention” in Bayh-Dole. That definition is concerned with the *scope* of inventions in which an agency can have an interest in a funding agreement. For this, it is important to recognize that first of all, a subject invention has to be an invention–that is a discovery or invention that is or may be patentable. For an invention to be this way, it has to be conceived AND reduced to practice. Once there are both, then we have “made” an invention. Then we can look at whether either the conception or the actual reduction to practice took place with federal funds. If either did, then the invention is a subject invention.
One can see how EO 36 gets this all wrong, as it *defines* an invention as, essentially something that is not an invention–conception without reduction to practice, OR actual reduction to practice without conception. Anything you make, any thought you take… is “deemed” to be an invention. If the policy really intends this, then it is claiming ideas and anything constructed or practiced, regardless of whether it is or may be patentable. Yet, if it is doing that, it is making a demand far outside of what patent law addresses. It has created its own frankendefinition of “invention.”
The frankendefinitions are not restricted to the Patent and Invention Policy. In the Outside Work policy, Section 6, on “Deeper Invovlement” we get this:
Where an employee…desires to utilize the expertise and/or technology he or she has developed and to assist a business venture…in the commercialization of an idea, the employee and his or her supervisor should first seek the early assistance and counsel of UW TechTransfer to aid the employee in distinguishing those things which may be freely shared (e.g., “general expertise”) from those the sharing of which may be restricted (e.g., “technology” or other “intellectual property”).
This is shocking. Although this is buried in a policy on “deeper involvement” with commercial enterprise, this paragraph does not make that distinction. What it does is to imply that one’s expertise, and ideas, are potentially restricted by the University. There is no authority to do so. One can also see frankendefinitions for “technology” and “intellectual property”–which in quotes as they are must mean something special–could it be that these frankenwords mean whatever the University wants them to mean?
We can now return to our present assignment form, with a much clearer idea of how murky it all is. The form requires disclosure of all “inventions and discoveries” “according to the Policy.” I guess this would mean every idea and every lab prototype whether inventive (patent law style) or not. No one does this. They ignore this. The University apparently doesn’t care. The Policy isn’t enforced. It’s a bungle. Everyone gets that. So the actual practice is something else. Yet this outside work request form makes it appear that everything is pretty darned authoritative.
Note that the Center for Commercialization is interposed, instead of the Policy’s requirement of Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer. Is it just a name change that no one has bothered to update in the Policy, or is it a demand that reports go to a marketing arm of the OIPTT? In any case, the request form does not recite the policy. The point is, no one seems to care that things are skew. The same thing is true of the verbs. In the policy, a great deal is made out of the term “made”–this is what defines an invention. In the form, it is “create.” (Interior dialogue: What does it mean to create an invention? To create a discovery? [implied assertions] No, I don’t know what you mean. I suspect you don’t even care what you mean. [implied denial] Clearly you don’t care how the Policy is constructed, or you are simply incapable of tracking it.)
Disclosure or Reporting Requirements
The next phrase is: “including any I create in connection with any outside work.” The phrase is not in the Patent and Invention Policy. This is an interpretation, and may well be outside a reasonable reading of the Patent and Invention Policy. If we look at Paragraph C of EO 36 we find simply:
University employees shall report all inventions and discoveries to the University’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.
We skip over the EO 36 claim that students who are not employees must assign inventions to the University if they have used any “resources (other than for lecture-based coursework)” as one of those unethical “flavoring particles” that folks like to throw in, just because they can.
If we move to Paragraph J of EO 36, we find guidance on consulting. There, the discussion is restricted to consulting with “commercial enterprises.” The guidance reads, “Invention clauses in consulting agreements must be consistent with the policy of the University and with University commitments under sponsored research agreements.” Well, now, we know how impossible it will be to get anyone in the commercial world to try to be *consistent* with the University’s mess of a policy, but let’s say that the intent here is that the invention clauses must not be in conflict with the requirements of University policy. Still tough, but maybe doable.
The State Law on Invention Claims and Disclosure
In the Patent and Invention Policy, at least, the concern is restricted to commercial enterprises, and to invention clauses in agreements. Despite the claims of UW Patent and Invention Policy and the outside work request form, Washington state actually has a law about all this. It’s at RCW 49.44.150. There we find two things. 1) employees must disclose “all inventions being developed by the employee, for the purpose of determining employer or employee rights.” 2) The employee may disclose to the department of employment security. The University, in requiring disclosure of inventions made by an employee in outside work, would appear to be making a demand that is not entirely consistent with state law.
We may note as well that the University’s Patent and Invention Policy attempts the disclaimer required by RCW 49.44.140. In Paragraph C we get a restatement of it, but not this is not the employment agreement, nor is it, as far as I know, provided when the employment agreement is made. It is also a disturbing restatement, as it takes what is a limitation on the scope of what an employer can require, and it interprets that limitation as what the University will require, without given any evidence that it comprehends the concept of employment with regard to intellectual property. In other words, the Patent and Invention Policy asserts a reading of RCW 49.44.140 that does not appear to be appropriate to the purpose of the law. It’s clever, but the law should be amended to prevent this sort of exploitation.
There is no mandate for a public university to claim to this outer bound, and indeed there are many things that would argue the university cannot and should not. Employment is not payment for everything, but rather payment for what the employer directs. The agreement for employment concerns that. If the employer provides facilities and other resources and directs employees to use those facilities and resources for the benefit of the employer, then we are within the bounds of RCW 49.44.140.
Public Service or Employment?
But if the employer is also providing a “public service” and makes facilities available for extramural research (paid for by sponsors) and for instruction (including laboratory instruction), then those activities are not employment, even if individuals engaged in the activities are also “employed.” In copyright, this was made clear in Reid v CCNV, with a multi-point test for agency. Here, all that is ignored. The analysis would be, since the law is restricted to what an employer can demand of employees, it must not extend to what an employer can demand of non-employees (like students), or employees not working as employees (like faculty doing research in the library, or graduate students working on their dissertation in a lab). The University makes a sham of the law designed to protect employees from exactly this behavior.
But enough of that. The University’s “business” is to make money from everything, and therefore all inventions made by employees are within the scope of its claims, even if the work does not use those “resources.”
Reporting Inventions That Are Inventions
The idea for reporting outside inventions made sense when patent applications were not published, so an employer would not know what might be pending at the Patent Office. Now, however, patent applications are published after 18 months, so an employer can get a disclosure via the USPTO (assuming the application is filed in the US) prior to a patent issuing. A second matter to note is that there is no guidance on timing of any report. The UW policy says only that employees (and students) have to report inventions “promptly” to the OIPTT. The outside work form says only that they are to be “disclosed” (again showing a capacity to throw words around). The state law says the report is to the employer or to the department of employment security.
If we follow federal patent law on inventions, then an invention is not made until it is conceived and reduced to practice. Thus, from this perspective, the earliest an invention could be reported is after it is “made.” And for that, it is up to the inventor to decide if the invention has been conceived. Not the idea of the thing, but the complete and permanent thing. There is no obligation to reduce this thing to practice. There is no obligation to report ideas or insights or lines of development that could become inventions, or are almost inventions, or would be valuable when they are inventions. Thus, the earliest one might consider an invention to be reportable is at the filing of a patent application. Note, further, that state law requires only the disclosure of inventions that the employee is “developing.” I take this to mean, inventions that have been made and are being “developed” for use, not that ideas that one is trying to “develop” into an invention.
The timing of the obligation to disclose inventions may be distinguished from the Bayh-Dole requirement for reporting subject inventions, where there are standards not only for what is to be reported, but also anticipating disclosure before publication or other creation of a patenting bar. The UW Policy does not provide any such obligation or specificity. Yes, the University does have a form for reporting inventions, but that form is not part of the cited policy. We can then look at these terms–“report” and “disclose”–and ask what exactly is meant. The University Patent and Invention Policy uses “report.” That may be a simple as informing the University that a patent application has been filed, and perhaps the general area of art that the invention pertains to. When I’ve had to deal with this stuff, I’ve advised university inventors with outside inventions to disclose only as much as necessary to establish that the invention is outside the claims of policy, and no more. Certainly no inventor should provide any information about possible markets, applications, or areas for further development. For all that, a statement that the invention was made without use of university resources should be sufficient. The rest will become evident in 18 months when the application publishes, and if there are issues, they can be managed then. The motivation to disclose more earlier is entirely with the inventor who desires for an early resolution, if there are going to be problems.
The difference between “report” and “disclose” is important. The Policy says “report.” “Disclosure,” as used in the state law, has a stronger sense of revealing the invention rather than revealing that an invention exists. The same is true of “disclose” in Bayh-Dole usage. When the University outside work form uses “disclose” in the context of following the patent policy, it oversteps the bounds of that policy. If one feels the temptation to argue that by “report” University means “disclose” too, then how is it that this meaning comes about? Is it the employer’s prerogative to decide what it means, regardless of the words? Or do the words of the policy matter, however incoherent they are formed?
The Present Assignment
We then come at last to the present assignment. It is independent of the previous sentence, and indeed it has nothing to do with the request for outside work. It is a present assignment to whatever it is that is the subject of the present assignment. I put it that way because there is no way to give the assignment any scope. It is not merely a present assignment of future inventions–it is a present assignment of everything the University at any later date decides should be the University’s.
I agree to assign and I hereby assign to the University all my rights in any intellectual property to which the University has a right of assignment under the Policy, provided I created such intellectual property in the course of my University activities or responsibilities or with more than incidental use of University resources.
The “Policy Overview” attached to the request form identifies “intellectual property interest” to mean “invention, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, know-how, or other intellectual property right.” This is an expansive definition, not the sign of someone who knows a lot of about intellectual property, but rather one who does not. The list provided contains both intellectual property (invention, patent, copyright, trademark) and non-intellectual property (trade secret, know-how). Thus, there is no way to tell what “other intellectual property right” might mean, as the list of non-intellectual property assets treated here as intellectual property could be extended indefinitely–domain names and email addresses, leases, avatars in RPGs.
Perhaps the limitation to “right of assignment under the Policy” helps to reduce angst. Actually, as I’ve shown, the policy is such a jumble that it is impossible to know what “right of assignment” might exist. Paragraph C of EO 36 says “all inventions in which the University has an interest.”It then goes on to state what the University will not claim an ownership interest in–a restatement with distortions in context of RCW 49.44.140. Again–scope of possible interest = new ownership claim.
The “provided” clause does nothing to limit the scope of the claim. What are “university activities and responsibilities”? The Patent policy has no such limitation. If anything, it makes an expansive claim that does not depend on duties of employment or use of resources–it can be simply in the University’s “actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development.” Here, “activities” are distinguished from “responsibilities.” It would appear “responsibilities” means something like “employment” or in the ethics law “official duties.” What then are “activities”? That would appear to be things like outside work, would it not? So we are back to expecting the University to claim pretty much anything, regardless of the attempt to place a limitation on the scope of the assignment.
It’s So Unenforceable, It’s Voluntary!
Things here are a tangled mess. The problem for the consultant or inventor or adviser is that it is not possible to know what is claimed and assigned. The references to policy are suspect. The policies themselves are a mess. The assignment stipulates that the policy can be changed. Thus, it’s not clear that the policies are enforceable. That’s a big problem for the University. If people are assigning IP to the University of Washington, it is because they choose to, not because the policy requires it, or an employment agreement requires it. In essence, in practice, the University does have a voluntary policy on IP assignment. People who choose to interpret the policy in other reasonable ways simply have nothing to report, disclose, or assign. Those who don’t care or have made commitments to sponsors report and assign anyway, when they choose to.
For dealing with the UW present assignment, it may be best to line out what is not relevant, and don’t answer the questions that are not required by policy and are in any event invasions of privacy. The ethics law (RCW 42.52) and the strange opt-out for universities and “research employees” (see RCW 42.52.220) pertain to one’s official duties and compensation by means of contracts and grants. The opt-out for universities, one would have expected, would have made the rules more liberal, recognizing that sometimes a faculty or staff employee might start a company and want to take a license to what he or she invented. But no, UW has allowed its “technology transfer” unit, the Center for Commercialization, apparently, to make the rules *more restrictive* to force more “know how” to become grist for money-making activities. Thus they force all consulting into a bin that was made for the special case of faculty startups with licenses or research agreements with the University. How ethical is that?
I note that under the Outside Professional Work Policy, the form is required only for common consulting (Section 3) and not for “deeper involvement” consulting (Section 6). Odd. Skip the form by getting into a deeper position than simply one where you help out. Then there’s no form required.
Here’s what I would do, if I were a UW employee and felt the need to use the form. I would line out the stuff that doesn’t apply, and insert the stuff that does, as it reads in the applicable policies, and I would acknowledge its existence. Whether and how it applies is a matter of those policies, not the request to consult form.
Line out the oath. If the statements are not truthful, then it will out.
Line out the agreement to be bound by policy. If you are, then you are without this. And if you are not, then there is no reason for you to be by making a request for outside work.
Line out the bit about amendment of policy. Agreements to agree aren’t enforceable.
Line the restatement of disclosure obligations. The disclosure obligations are in the policy statements, not here.
Line out the inclusion of inventions in outside work. The state law is inventions you are developing, not invented, and disclosure can be to employment security, not the university.
Line out the present assignment. It is not authorized under policy. So by lining it out you are complying with policy. Further, it lacks definition because of problems in policy resulting from overlaying a compulsory set of claims on a review + request architecture. Thus, title under the present assignment will be hopelessly uncertain.
Line out the provided clause seeking to restrict the scope of the present assignment. It does not because activities are outside of responsibilities and therefore the term lacks definition.
Add three statements quoted from the Patent and Invention policy and the Outside Professional Work for Compensation Policy. These are what you acknowledge to show that you are aware of them.
The Statements above are truthful to the best of my knowledge. With this request for outside work, I acknowledge that I am bound by and I agree to comply with the University Patent, Invention, and Copyright Policy (Executive Order 36) and Outside Professional Work Policy (Executive Order 57). (“Policy”), as it may be amended from time to time. In accordance with this Policy, I will disclose to report all inventions and discoveries I create to the UW Center for Commercialization, including any that I create in connection with any outside work. to the University’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer. I agree to assign and I hereby assign to the University all my rights in any intellectual property to which the University has a right of assignment under the Policy, provided I created such intellectual property in the course of my University activities or responsibilities or with more than incidental use of University resources. Invention clauses in my consulting agreements must be consistent with the policy of the University and with University commitments under sponsored research agreements. University employees shall report all inventions and discoveries to the University’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer. Consulting agreements should contain the company’s acknowledgement that to the extent the consulting agreement is inconsistent with any of the University’s employee’s obligations to the University, the employee’s obligations to the University shall prevail.
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Harsha to lead Sri Lanka’s delegation to UN Human Rights periodic review
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Sri Lanka’s delegation to the universal periodic review (UPR) of UN Human Rights Council will be led by the Deputy Minister of National Policies and Economic Affairs, Harsha de Silva.
The delegation will comprise of officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Attorney-General’s Department, the President’s Office, and the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva.
Sri Lanka’s report under this review comes up for consideration by the OHCHR working group on UPR tomorrow, in Geneva and the report covers areas that were part of the recommendations accepted by Sri Lanka following the 2nd UPR in 2012.
Foreign Ministry said the report was drafted, following wide consultations with all stakeholders including public consultations in Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Jaffna, and Kalmunai, online consultations and consultations by post.
Sri Lanka underwent its first UPR cycle in 2008 and the second in 2012. The review that will be conducted tomorrow will be Sri Lanka’s third.
Along with Sri Lanka, Argentina, Benin, Czechia, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Japan, Pakistan, Peru, Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Zambia will also be reviewed under the UPR’s third cycle at the 28th Working Group, during the period 6-17 November.
The universal periodic review was established by the General Assembly of the UN in 2006, as a process through which the human rights record of every UN member state is peer-reviewed.
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Is Babe Ruth’s 1927 Yankees World Series Ring the Most Valuable Championship Ring Ever?
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The 1927 Yankees team is considered the best baseball team ever, going an amazing 110-44. A photo of a ’27 ring belonging to player Joe Dugan, is shown below:
The 1927 Yankee World Series ring is the first championship ring awarded to Yankee players. The last championship they won before 1927, culminated in the presentation of solid gold pocket watches (1923).
Industry experts believe if Ruth’s 1927 ring came up to auction it would sell for over $500,000.
I believe it would go for a lot more money than that, as Julius Ervings’s 1974 ABA championship ring sold at auction for $460,741 in 2011. An honestly, which championship ring would you rather own?
Here’s some more prices realized and information about Ruth’s 1927 ring and those belonging to his teammates:
According to my records, Joe Dugan’s ’27 World Series ring (in amazing condition and shown above) sold in a Leland’s auction in 2002 for $11,205.12.
You can see by the prices below that the market for sports memorabilia and championship rings really started to heat up in the years that followed.
A club house manager’s non player ring, but the same as the players received, sold in a Leland’s auction in 2005 for $21,326.
Miller Huggins’ 1927 championship ring was sold in a Mastro auction for $204,000 in 2007.
Earle Combs ring was sold by Heritage in 2014 for $155,350. Like the World Series ring shown above, it was in great condition too.
Benny Bengough’s 1927 championship ring, in poor-to-fair condition, was sold in a 2015 auction by Heritage for $38,240. A couple of people in the hobby who know about championship rings thought the ring sold very low.
Here’s where details get a little foggy…
In researching Yankee rings, I learned that in 1999, Sotheby’s sold what was believed to be Lou Gehrig’s 1927 ring for $96,000. The World Series ring originated from the famous collection of Barry Halper.
Combining Barry Halper and the words “believed to be….” are not what some collectors want to hear, so I am not sure if the ring was authentic and original.
Barry Halper reportedly owed Ruth’s 1927 ring. That ring is now owned by Charlie Sheen. I have seen pictures of Sheen wearing the 1927 ring and the condition of the ring looks to be excellent and in unworn condition. An 88 year old ring should not be in unworn condition so it makes we wonder if that’s Babe Ruth’s original World Series ring.
The website, Deadspin also raised questions about the origins of that ring. Babe Ruth’s granddaughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, also questioned the ring’s authenticity and whether it was stolen from her family decades ago. (I’m not sure how she can question the authenticity of the ring if she also feels it’s a ring stolen from her family).
A book written by her mother, Dorothy Ruth Pirone, also claimed that Ruth’s World Series rings had mysteriously disappeared at some point after his passing in 1948. Adding to the confusion, were statements made by deceased collecting legend Barry Halper in 1990 that he had purchased Ruth’s 1927 ring directly from Dorothy Ruth Pirone. Pirone’s daughter, Linda, claims that Halper’s story was a “huge lie.”
Please remember I buy World Series rings. If you wish to sell a World Series ring or sell a championship ring, please let me know.
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The World of Vintage Yankee Championship Rings
The Yankees won 20 World Series Rings from 1923 – 1962, and lost an additional 9 World Series between the years 1921 through 1964. That means there are plenty of winning and losing vintage Yankee rings to collect.
(Click picture below for a larger picture)
The Yankees didn’t receive an American League championship rings (awarded when a team loses the World Series) until 1942, and there was one World Series (1923) where they were awarded a solid gold pocket watch, not a championship ring.
With the 1927 ring I just acquired from Heritage Auctions, I have assembled nine authentic vintage Yankee championship rings (shown above).
Shown above (starting with the bottom row and left to right) are World Series winning rings: 1927, 1938, 1939, 1949, 1952, 1953 (the “5″). Above those rings are the 1957 AL Championship ring, 1958 World Series winning ring, and the 1964 AL championship ring.
The American League championship rings are easy to distinguish – they have the top-hat designs.
The earlier rings were made by Dieges & Clust and then Balfour took over and made the rest.
I am slowly building my vintage Yankee collection. I reject many possible rings to acquire due to the fact that some rings are out-right fakes. Also, many of the old-time player rings were remade decades later for players who lost original rings. Those player remade versions contain some not-so-subtle differences from the originals.
About a decade ago, Whitey Ford sold many of his rings at auction and many of them were remade and had differences from the originals. These are the rings I avoid.
As far as fakes go, you can thank Irv Lerner for many of the bogus Yankee World Series rings in the market place. Vintage Yankee rings are easy to “fake and make” as these championship rings are relatively simple designs that did not change much over the years. Please search the search-box on the right for additional information about Irv and his fake rings.
I buy championship rings, so if you want to sell your championship ring, please get in touch with me.
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Lou Gehrig’s World Series Rings
Pictured below are authentic 1927 and 1938 Yankee Player World Series rings. Although not Gehrig’s actual rings, they offer a glimpse of what his rings looked like.
The significance of the World Series rings above is that they are the first and last World Series rings Gehrig won as a player.
Lou Gehrig had an amazing Hall of Fame career – a lifetime .340 batting average, two time AL MVP titles, a Triple Crown in 1934, a three time AL home run champion, and the first Yankee player to have his number retired.
We just don’t know how many World Series rings he was awarded. According to Wikipedia (yea, I know, it’s Wikipedia), he was a 6-time World Series Champion (1927, 1928, 1932, and 1936-1938) but his last major league game was in April of 1939.
It became apparent to Gehrig in April of 1939 that he could no longer play at the level that he was accustomed to, so he retired. The Yankees went on to win the World Series again in 1939 for their fourth consecutive championship. Did they award a World Series ring to Gehrig? If they did, it would have been his seventh World Series Ring.
When the Yankees honored him on July 4th at Yankee Stadium, they officially labeled it as “Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day”. The Yankees surprised him with a magnificent and beautiful, one of a kind trophy made by Dieges & Clust. Dieges & Clust manufactured the early Yankee championship rings, the Heisman Trophy, the Major-League baseball MVP and Cy Young awards.
The trophy made by Dieges & Clust for Gehrig was expensive; we know this thanks to Rob Lifson and his recent auction of the old Dieges & Clust archive records.
In all likelihood, the Yankees probably awarded Gehrig a team 1939 World Series ring that season, but I’m not 100% positive.
It’s a mystery what happened to Gehrig’s World Series rings. Barry Halper claimed to have once owned both Gehrig’s, and Ruth’s 1927 World Series rings. Charlie Sheen was photographed wearing Ruth’s rings a few years back, however no one is sure it’s an original or authentic ring.
Getting back to Lou Gehrig, I don’t believe a Gehrig World Series ring has ever been put in an auction or offered for sale.
I buy World Series rings. If you want to sell your World Series ring, please let me know.
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Boy Was I Wrong About the 2009 Yankees World Series Ring
While thrilled the Yankees won the 2009 World Series, as an obsessed championship ring collector, I worried, how was I going to acquire a 2009 ring?
You’d never know I was a Yankee fan, or a baseball fan, or a hockey fan, judging by all the blogs I write about football championship rings.
Yes, I am a Yankee fan, and in fact, I collect World Series Rings too, specifically, ones from New York Baseball. That would include World Series rings and American and National league championship rings from the Yankees, Mets, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams.
When the Yankees ended their 9 year doubt, and won the 2009 World Series, as a championship ring collector I was very worried. Back in 2000, the last time the Yankees awarded World Series rings, George Steinbrenner was very angry that employees put their championship rings up for sale. As a result he scaled back tremendously on who was given a World Series ring.
The 2000 Yankee World Series rings are very rare. They were only given to players, coaches, a few scouts and a few high level executives. If you research what a 2000 Yankee World Series ring sells for versus a 1996 or 1998 version you will see a huge difference in price.
Luckily I was wrong – The Steinbrenner family (specifically George’s two sons and daughter) were more hands on running the organization and deiced to give the same ring to many employees. In fact, since the player’s rings did not contain their jersey number, the rings are 100% identical to the rings that employees received. That means that each ring contains the same amount of real diamonds, the same engravings, and the same size and weight. The only difference is the players received a special wood and glass presentation box.
I have researched the 30 or so 2009 World Series rings that have hit the market place. They were from sales executives, scouts, front office people, security staff and ball park operations personnel. Executives of the minor league teams and various levels of people within the organization were awarded these rings. Players were also given the option to buy additional rings to give to family and friends.
Want a 2009 Yankee world series ring? It seems there is always one for sale or coming up in auction.
Please remember I buy championship rings. If you would like to sell your championship ring, please let me know.
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More Fake Yankee Championship Rings Show Up at Auction
I was alerted to the two fake Yankee rings currently in the Legendary Auction by someone on the net54baseball.com championship ring forum.
The two World series rings are obvious fakes. The easiest way to tell is to look at the stars in the lower part of the top-hat on both sets of rings. The real rings show the stars in detail, while one fake ring’s stars is terrible quality and the other fake ring has no stars.
When I emailed Legendary about this matter, and included the above two pictures, plus pictures of bad engraving examples that match their rings, I received an email from Doug Allen:
“Hey Michael,
I discussed these rings with the consignor. He has documentation that the 58 was purchased from a Balfour sales rep in May of 1995 and the 1964 was purchased from a sales rep in Sept of 1997. This was added to the site.
Doug Allen, President & CEO”
Auction houses take in consignments and sometimes a fake item will be consigned. Most auction houses, when provided with evidence that an item is no good will do the right thing and take the bad items out of the auction.
In this case, Doug had decided to leave the items in the auction. For those of you not familiar with Doug Allen, and his former associate, Bill Mastro, I suggest you google their names. According to the New York Daily News – Allen has pleaded guilty for his role on sports memorabilia fraud. A grand jury indicted him on 14 counts of fraud in July 2012 and he is facing 12 years of prison time.
Just because the consigner says it was purchased from a Balfour sales rep does not make these rings real.
I have contacted an executive from Balfour who will be looking into this matter, and furthermore, Dennis, a member of net54baseball.com has provided me with contact information for the Northern Illinois DA’s office. I will be reaching out to the DA too.
I will let the readers know how this story unfolds.
Please remember, I buy real World Series Rings, and buy championship rings. If you are looking to sell your championship ring, please let me know.
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Robert Siscoe's article
I have been asked for my opinion of this latest "refutation" of the sedevacantist position. I have now obtained a copy (in Word format) and begun reading it. It seems quite good until one gets to the following, at the bottom of the second page:
However – and this point is important when considering the Sedevacantist position – the loss of faith does not, in and of itself, sever a man from the body of the Church. Let me repeat that: A mortal sin against the faith does not, in and of itself, sever a man from the body of the Church. And if the man who loses the faith happens to be the pope, he does not thereby lose his office. This is a point that is often missed by even the most learned and talented defenders of the sedevacantist position.
Well, we're not ignorant of this, and I for one regard it as a commonplace of theology, not at all controversial. But actually Siscoe's point is purely ad hominem. Siscoe is not, as one might expect, erecting a straw man to demolish. He actually attempts to answer much more serious sedevacantism than this. His point here is purely to discredit most sedevacantists. He is really only mentioning something in passing, which he intends not to address because it's irrelevant, for purely polemical advantage. He would do better to shorten his article considerably, and focus on the points that he really believes to be germane.
Much more egregious than this, however, is his perverse interpretation of the theologian Ballerini, who has this to say:
A peril for the faith so imminent and among all the most grave, as this of a Pontiff who, even only privately, defended heresy, would not be able to be supported for long. Why, then, expect the remedy to come from a General Council, whose convocation is not easy? Is it not true that, confronted with such a danger for the faith, any subjects can by fraternal correction warn their superior, resist him to his face, refute him and, if necessary, summon him and press him to repent? The Cardinals, who are his counsellors, can do this; or the Roman Clergy, or the Roman Synod, if, being met, they judge this opportune. For any person, even a private person, the words of Saint Paul to Titus hold: “Avoid the heretic, after a first and second correction, knowing that such a man is perverted and sins, since he is condemned by his own judgment” (Tit. 3, 10-11).
That is to say, he who has been corrected once or twice and does not change his mind, but is pertinacious in an opinion opposed to a manifest or defined dogma: by this public pertinacity of his, he not only cannot by any means be excused from heresy properly so called, which requires pertinacity; but also openly declares himself a heretic, that is, he declares that he has departed from the Catholic Faith, and from the Church, by his own will, so that no declaration or sentence of anyone is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church. In this matter the argument given by Saint Jerome in connection with the cited words of Saint Paul is very clear: “Therefore it is said that the heretic has condemned himself: for the fornicator, the adulterer, the homicide and the other sinners are expelled from the Church by the priests; but the heretics pronounce sentence against themselves, excluding themselves from the Church spontaneously: this exclusion which is their condemnation by their own conscience."
Therefore the Pontiff who after such a solemn and public warning by the Cardinals, by the Roman Clergy or even by the Synod, maintained himself hardened in heresy and openly turned himself away from the Church, would have to be avoided, according to the precept of Saint Paul. So that he might not cause damage to the rest, he would have to have his heresy and contumacy publicly proclaimed, so that all might be able to be equally on guard in relation to him. Thus, the sentence which he had pronounced against himself would be made known to all the Church, making clear that by his own will be had turned away and separated himself from the body of the Church, and that in a certain way he had abdicated the Pontificate, which no one holds or can hold if he does not belong to the Church”.
Here Ballerini lays out some truths which on this Web site at least are extremely well known.
1. For any person, even a private person, the words of Saint Paul to Titus hold: “Avoid the heretic, after a first and second correction, knowing that such a man is perverted and sins, since he is condemned by his own judgment” (Tit. 3, 10-11).
2. That is to say, he who has been corrected once or twice and does not change his mind ... openly declares himself a heretic
3. [And he] declares that he has departed from the Catholic Faith, and from the Church, by his own will, so that no declaration or sentence of anyone is necessary to cut him off from the body of the Church.
4. [And,] So that he might not cause damage to the rest [of the Church], he would have to have his heresy and contumacy publicly proclaimed, so that all might be able to be equally on guard in relation to him. Thus, the sentence which he had pronounced against himself would be made known to all the Church [i.e. a purely declarative decree, after the fact], making clear that by his own will be had turned away and separated himself from the body of the Church, and that in a certain way he had abdicated the Pontificate [past tense], which no one holds or can hold if he does not belong to the Church.
Siscoe manages to turn this entire doctrinal chain inside out, and claims that according to Ballerini only a warning by the cardinals, by the Roman Clergy or by the Roman Synod would constitute a sufficient warning. Such a view is simply perverse. There's no other word for it.
One final point before I abandon this. Siscoe, almost immediately after he employs, with any attribution at all, the quote from Ballerini which I had sourced from Da Silveira in translation, then obtained the Latin text of, then had James Larrabee re-translate, and finally published in an article ( http://strobertbellarmine.net/Sedevacan ... _Peace.pdf ) adds the following comment:
Robert Siscoe wrote:
If one reads sedevacantist materials (which are usually the same quotations transferred from one website to another)
His own article is replete with quotations cribbed from Da Silveira, especially. That book was made available in the 1990s by Fr. Vaillancourt, at my instigation. It is on this Web site for free download. He has also borrowed freely from original research work done by John S. Daly (which he acknowledges). He has borrowed from James Larrabee's translation of Bellarmine, which he does not acknowledge. None of this really matters, except for the fact that he chooses to throw in a gratuitous ad hominem which actually applies most accurately to his own work.
The more serious point to be drawn out of this is that all traditionalists are open to the ad hominem Siscoe throws our way. The serious scholars - and I mean, really, truly, serious scholars, not just the heretics - don't take traditional Catholics seriously. We're rank amateurs, whereas they have tenure, the Ph. D.'s, the research resources, the training, etc. Trads generally copy and paste the Ottaviani Intervention, Quo Primum, and other such texts, without any academic rigour. The only thing we have is that we're right. We shouldn't be resorting to cheap tactics at all, but especially not cheap shots that apply universally to our fellow traditional Catholics.
Ken Gordon
Location: Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A.
Re: Robert Siscoe's article
Who is Robert Siscoe, and where does he hold forth?
Kenneth G. Gordon
Ken Gordon wrote:
There is a thread about his writings also on the cathifno discussion forum. It appears that many of his points have already been addressed, other than the points which John answered above.
Here is a link to it:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Se ... t-J-Siscoe
Yours in JMJ,
He the latest in a long series of people who enjoy a fleeting moment of prominence because they know less about a subject than those who are truly interested in it, and write an article telling the world how they are not convinced about it. Think Laszlo Szijarto, Richard Cure, Christopher Ferrara*, James Larson, John Salza, etc. I reckon I could add another five names if I spent a little more time sifting through my failing memory!
His article appeared in The Remnant, apparently.
* Ferrara at least is known for other things than merely attacking sedevacantism with bad arguments!
Another I can remember was Stephen Hand. One common theme I see among all of those who taken it upon themselves to attack this position is that when their arguments are shown to be false, they do not retract or correct themselves in any way. They allow their published works to remain out there for public consumption, even though the errors in their thinking, facts, or theology have been shown to be demonstrably false.
I would hate to think that fellow Catholics think it is alright to lack integrity. In addition to that, to willfully allow error to remain in the public knowing that it would confuse Catholics about theology or the state of the Church is in my mind a possibly sinful act. At the very least is a grave disservice to Catholics seeking the truth about the crisis as it further clouds the truth from those trying to make sense of the crisis and how this all could have come about, and answers as to how it can possibly end.
Another point to ponder on is that ordinarily Catholics are not allowed to write on matters of theology and have it published without approval. So, in doing such things, due to the crisis in the Church, one would envision the greatest humility, as one is taking it upon himself, without the benefit of the censors of the Church to screen his writings, to publish things that could either help or harm Catholics. If it is shown to be erroneous by the force of argument, then one has a duty to correct the damage and at the very least retract the portions that are clearly in error.
When I was a child I was taught by my good Catholic mother to live a virtuous Catholic life, and some of these virtues were honesty and integrity. I could not imagine living life without these virtues. If I am wrong about anything I have ever written on this forum, I ask you on all on here to point it out to me. I have nothing to hide, if I am wrong, then I am wrong and I will admit it. I just wish these folks could have the same spirit.
Here is the entire article from The Remnant
Sedevacantism and the Manifest Heretic, Part I
by Robert J. Siscoe
(The following is a slightly edited version of an essay published by the Angelus Press, in their booklet THE PAPACY. It is being republished in three parts with their permission.)
In this three part series, we will consider the question of loss of Papal office due to manifest heresy. We will consider the question in light of distinctions that are often overlooked, but which are critical when considering this question. We will look at some historical examples that have a bearing on the current situation in the Church, such as prelates who taught heresy publicly, and see how the Church and their contemporaries reacted at the time. We’ll consider the opinion of theologians regarding the loss of Papal office due to heresy, and see how such a situation would be dealt with in practice. We will also consider two historical examples of popes who were considered by their contemporaries to have fallen into heresy: one was accused of being an unbeliever who purchased the Papal See through simony, and the other seemed so heretical that he was deposed and replaced by a new pope while still living. We will see what, if anything, these examples tell us about the sedevacantist position.
Internal and External Bonds of the Church
Let us begin by considering the internal and external bonds that unite a man to the Church. The internal spiritual bonds are the theological virtues (faith, hope and charity), sanctifying grace, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost. The external and visible bonds are profession of the true faith, communion in the same sacraments, and union with the hierarchy, especially the pope, the visible head of the Church.
These internal and external bonds correspond to what St. Robert Bellarmine and various catechisms refer to as the body and soul of the Church. Before proceeding, a word of caution should be mentioned regarding the use of these terms. During the first half of the 20th Century, certain theologians of a more liberal bent began using these terms as signifying two separate Churches. They implied that the Roman Catholic Church, the body, was one Church, while the Mystical Body of Christ, the soul, was a separate Church. The late Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton published several articles in The American Ecclesiastical Review in which he strongly resisted this erroneous use of the terms.
Pope Pius XII also reacted to this error in the encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) and then again in Humani Generis (1950), when he taught that “the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing”, and referred to those who were undermining this truth as being “deceived by imprudent zeal for souls”.
The soul and body of the Church should not be understood as two separate beings, or as if the former merely “subsists” in the latter, while at the same time “present and operative” within other religious bodies. Rather, the soul and body are two distinct parts of the one Church of Christ, which is the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Ottaviani expressed it as follows: “There is only one true Church of Jesus Christ… The visible Church and the Mystical Body of Christ are one and the same reality considered from different aspects”. (1)
With this cautionary note in mind, it should also be said that the distinction between the body and soul of the Church, when properly understood, can serve as a useful analogy in understanding the nature and being of the one Church, as well as the various bonds, internal and external, that unite a man to the Church. The Catechism of Pope St. Pius X explains the body and soul of the Church as follows:
“Question: In what does the Soul of the Church consist? Answer: The Soul of the Church consists in her internal and spiritual endowments, that is, faith, hope, charity, the gifts of grace and of the Holy Ghost, together with all the heavenly treasures which are hers through the merits of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, and of the Saints”.
“Question: In what does the Body of the Church consist? Answer. The Body of the Church consists in her external and visible aspect, that is, in the association of her members, in her worship, in her teaching-power and in her external rule and government”.
The internal spiritual bonds unite a man to the soul of the Church, while the visible bonds unite him to the body.
Now, a man can be perfectly or imperfectly united to the body of the Church, and perfectly or imperfectly united to the soul. One is perfectly united to the soul of the Church when he possesses all three theological virtues – faith, hope and charity - and is thereby living the supernatural life of grace. He is imperfectly united to the soul of the Church when he possesses supernatural faith – or faith and hope – but is cut off from the life of grace (e.g. a Catholic in mortal sin). Perfect union with the soul of the Church is absolutely necessary for salvation.
Perfect union with the body of the Church exists when one is a formal member of the Roman Catholic Church. Imperfect union with the body exists when one desires to be joined to the Church (e.g. a Catechumen). The latter is said to be united to the body of the Church in voto (desire), and not in re (in actuality). In certain circumstances, this imperfect union can suffice for salvation. Before proceeding, let us demonstrate this by the following scenario.
Let us imagine a man who was validly baptized in a non-Catholic sect as a child. When he reached adulthood, through prayer and study he arrived at the firm belief that the Roman Catholic Church was the true Church, and immediately began taking instructions from a local Priest. In addition to believing all that the Church taught, during the time of his instruction, but before being formally received into the Church, he received a special grace from God enabling him to make an act of perfect contrition for his past sins, and thereby obtained the state of grace. If the man died in this state before being formally received into the Church, his perfect union with the soul of the Church, combined with his desire and intent to formally enter the body of the Church, would suffice for salvation. Just as the will and intent to sin satisfies the requirement for mortal sin (Mt. 5:28), so too the will and intent to formally join the Church can suffice in place of actual membership in certain circumstances. To conclude this point, in order to be saved, a person must die perfectly united to the soul of the Church (must possess faith, hope and charity), and be united to the body at least in voto.
Matter and Form of Heresy[/b]
Material heresy, or the matter of heresy, is a belief that is contrary to a defined dogma – a belief at variance with what a Catholic must accept with divine and Catholic Faith. The matter of heresy exists in the intellect and can be present with innocent ignorance, or with sinful pertinacity in the will.
The form of heresy – what renders an erroneous belief formally heretical - is pertinacity in the will. When a person knowingly rejects a dogma of the faith, or when he willfully doubts a defined dogma, he is guilty of formal heresy in the internal forum (the realm of conscience). And since heresy is contrary to faith, a person who willfully disbelieves a single article of faith immediately loses all supernatural faith. Just as one mortal sin removes all supernatural charity (grace) from the soul, so too a single heresy removes all supernatural faith.
St. Thomas: “Just as mortal sin is contrary to charity, so is disbelief in one article of faith contrary to faith. Now charity does not remain in a man after one mortal sin. Therefore neither does faith, after a man disbelieves one article… Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article, has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will”. (2)
A man who is guilty of the sin of heresy immediately loses all supernatural faith; and since faith is the foundation of the supernatural life, when faith is lost, so too are the theological virtues of hope and charity, which, along with faith, unite a man to the soul of the Church. Therefore, when one loses the faith – the foundation of the supernatural life - he is completely severed from the soul of the Church.
However – and this point is important when considering the sedevacantist position – the loss of faith does not, in and of itself, sever a man from the body of the Church. Let me repeat that: A mortal sin against faith does not, in and of itself, sever a man from the body of the Church. And if the man who loses the faith happens to be pope, he does not thereby lose his office. This is a crucial point that is often missed by even the most learned defenders of the sedevacantist position.
Formal heresy in the internal forum only severs a man from the soul of the Church. It requires formal heresy in the external forum to sever a man from the body of the Church and, without getting too far ahead of ourselves, formal heresy in the external forum is declared heresy – either declared by the proper authorities, or else “declared” by the individual himself who becomes a notorious and publicly manifest heretic (more on this point later).
In all the discussions this author has had with defenders of the sedevacantist position, only two have been aware of this important point. All others erroneously believe that the sin of heresy (internal forum), and consequent loss of faith, severed a man from the body of the Church, thereby causing a pope who loses the faith to lose his office.
Why is this point significant? It is significant because a false premise results in erroneous reasoning and often leads to a false conclusion. If one believes that a pope who loses the faith thereby loses his office, even if the pope in question has not openly and clearly denied a defined dogma, they could easily reason their way to the conclusion that a pope who was suspect of heresy had thereby lost his office; or that such a man, who they suspect to have been a heretic prior to his election, was not a valid candidate for the Papacy, since a heretic is not eligible to be elected pope. Yet this would be erroneous reasoning since the loss of faith in and of itself (which is not equivalent to formal heresy in the external forum) does not result in the loss of office; nor does it prevent a man from being validly elected pope since de internis ecclesia non judica (the Church does not judge internals).
In the following quote, the great Jesuit Suarez explains that faith is not absolutely necessary for a man to hold office and retain jurisdiction in the Church. He explains that a pope who is a heretic (internal forum) is indeed cut off from the “substance and form” (the soul) of the Church, but nevertheless remains the visible head of the body, and therefore retains charge and action.
Suarez: “[T]he faith is not absolutely necessary in order that a man be capable of spiritual and ecclesiastical jurisdiction and be able to exercise true acts which demand this jurisdiction …. The foregoing is obvious, granted that, as is taught in the treatises on penance and censures, in case of extreme necessity a priest heretic may absolve, which is not possible without jurisdiction. (…) The Pope heretic is not a member of the Church as far as the substance and form [soul] which constitute the members of the Church; but he is the head as far as the charge and action; and this is not surprising, since he is not the primary and principal head who acts by his own power, but is as it were instrumental, he is the vicar of the principal head, who is able to exercise his spiritual action over the members even by means of a head of bronze; analogously, he baptizes at times by means of heretics, at times he absolves, etc., as we have already said”. (3)
The French canonist Bouix (+ 1870) teaches the same:
“Faith is not necessary for a man to be capable of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and that he might exercise true acts which require such jurisdiction. (…) Moreover, the power of orders, which in its way is superior, can remain without faith, that is, with heresy; therefore ecclesiastical jurisdiction can do so too (…) To the argument that, not being a member of the Church [the soul], the heretical Pope is not the head of the Church either [the body] … one can give the following answer: I concede that the Pope heretic is not a member and head of the Church in so far as the supernatural life which commences by faith and is completed by charity [the soul], by which all the members of the Church are united in one body supernaturally alive; but I deny that he might not be a member and head of the Church as far as the governing power [the body] proper to his charge”. (4)
We find the same teaching in the writings of St. Robert Bellarmine who taught that a pope who is an occult (secret) heretic remains pope. Occult heresy is formal heresy – the sin of heresy - in the internal forum, but which has not become manifest in the external forum. In the following quote from Bellarmine, we see that an occult heretic remains externally united to the Church, and if the heretic in question is a Pope, he retains his office.
Bellarmine: "[O]ccult heretics are still of the Church, they are parts and members… therefore the Pope who is an occult heretic is still Pope. This is also the opinion of the other authors whom we cite in book De Ecclesia. …the occult heretics are united and are members although only by external union; on the contrary, the good catechumens belong to the Church only by an internal union, not by the external”. (5)
To be clear, an occult heretic is not a person in material error, but rather a formal heretic in the internal forum – that is, one who is guilty of the sin of heresy and who has thereby lost the faith. Commenting on the above quote from Bellarmine, the great 20th Century Thomist, Fr. Reginald Garrigou Lagrange, wrote the following:
“This condition is quite abnormal, hence no wonder that something abnormal results from it, namely, that the pope becoming secretly a heretic would no longer be an actual member of the Church [the soul], according to the teaching as explained in the body of the article, but would still retain his jurisdiction by which he would influence the Church [the body] in ruling it. Thus he would still be nominally the head of the Church, which he would still rule as head, though he would no longer be a member of Christ, because he would not receive that vital influx of faith from Christ, the invisible and primary head. Thus in quite an abnormal manner he would be in point of jurisdiction the head of the Church, though he would not be a member of it.
“This condition could not apply to the natural head in its relation to the body, but such a condition is not repugnant in the case of the moral and secondary head. The reason is that, whereas the natural head must receive a vital influx from the soul before it can influence the members of its body, the moral head, such as the pope is, can exercise his jurisdiction over the Church, although he receives no influx of interior faith and charity from the soul of the Church. More briefly, as Billuart says, the pope is constituted a member of the Church by his personal faith, which he can lose, and his headship of the visible Church by jurisdiction and power is compatible with private heresy. The Church will always consist in the visible union of its members with its visible head, namely, the pope of Rome, although some, who externally seem to be members of the Church, may be private heretics”. (6)
So, while the loss of faith completely severs a man from the soul of the Church – from the internal bonds that unite him to Christ and the Church - nevertheless, such spiritual shipwreck does not, in and of itself, sever him from the body of the Church. Therefore, a pope who loses the faith does not, for that reason alone, automatically lose his office and jurisdiction.
Now St. Bellarmine is of the opinion that a pope who becomes a manifest heretic does automatically cease to be pope, but let us not equate the sin of heresy and the consequent loss of faith, with manifest heresy. The sin of heresy can be present in the internal forum alone, or it can be manifest in the external form. As long as the heresy does not become publicly notorious the person remains a member of the body of the Church, and if the person in question is a Pope or Bishop, they retain their jurisdiction.
To be continued in Part II
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Sedevacantism and the Manifest Heretic, Part II
Suspicion of Heresy
Before considering what constitutes manifest heresy, or public and notorious heresy - a crime and violation of divine law that some believe results in immediate loss of office for a Pope - let us consider some actions that merely render a man suspect of heresy – which, it should be noted, does not result in the immediate loss of office for a Bishop or Pope.
The 1917 code of canon law teaches that to knowingly and willingly assist in the propagation of heresy (canon 2316), or to actively assist at sacred functions of non-Catholics (ibid.) only renders a man suspect of heresy. The highly respected commentary on the 1917 code of canon law by Wernz-Vidal, teaches that there is merely suspicion of heresy in those who take part in the exercise of magic, of charms or of divination, and of those who become members of sects which, whether openly or secretly, hatch plots against the Church. (7)
To be clear, a man caught in any of these acts is not thereby considered a manifest heretic, but is only considered suspect of heresy. And what is the penalty for such actions?
“Canon 2315 affirms that ‘the suspect of heresy who, once he has been admonished, does not remove the cause of the suspicion is to be prohibited from legitimate actions and, if he be a cleric, when the warning has been once repeated in vain, he will be suspended a divinis; and if the suspect of heresy does not amend himself in the space of six full months, starting from the moment when he incurred the penalty, he will be considered as a heretic, subject to the penalties of heretics’. Let us observe from this how patient and prudent the Church is in respect of such people. In addition to the warning which must be reiterated in the case of a cleric, she gives six months for the retraction or for ultimate clarifications before imposing the penalties proper to heretics. These penalties are not automatic; rather, they must be imposed by the bishop who may ultimately have reasons for not putting them into effect”. (8)
So a man can propagate heresy, practice magic, or be a member of a secret sect that hatches plots against the Church, and he is only considered suspect of heresy, and allowed six months to amend before being considered a heretic. And if the man is a Bishop, he retains his jurisdiction. As the above quotation says, “let us observe from this how patient and prudent the Church is in respect of such people”.
But consider how easily one could reason their way to a false conclusion if they erroneously believed that the sin of heresy, as such, results in the loss of Papal office. How easy would it be for one to conclude that a Pope who was caught “in the exercise of magic”, or “propagating heresy”, or who took “active part in non-Catholic worship” had lost the faith, and thereby lost his office? But as we have seen, the loss of faith in and of itself does not result in the loss of office; neither do the actions which merely render a man suspect of heresy. From this we can see how a false premise results in erroneous reasoning and easily leads to a false conclusion.
Before we discuss the issue of manifest heresy, let’s consider the following hypothetical case. Let’s imagine a Bishop, or perhaps an Archbishop, who publicly preached heresy to a body of important governmental figures. We’ll say that the heresy in question was a public denial of a basic truth of the faith, such as the dogma that the Pope is the head of the universal Church. And let’s say the liberal media gleefully published this throughout the region for all to read, thereby resulting in untold scandal to the faithful. And to take it a bit further, let’s say that this Archbishop was warned by the Pope himself that his belief was heretical (thereby removing any chance of innocent ignorance), yet retracted nothing.
Should such a man be considered a manifest heretic? And if so, would he have immediately lost his office? I venture to say that most, if not all sedevacantist apologists would respond in the affirmative before citing a litany of Saints, Doctors, and canonists to support their position. In fact, many would say that a Catholic who remained in union with such a man should be considered a heretic themselves for remaining in union with a public heretic. Is this not the kind of reasoning sedevacantists often engage in?
Yet this hypothetical scenario of the Archbishop is not hypothetical at all. It is instead the historical case of Msgr. Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, who lived at the time of Pope Pius IX – the Pope in the above story who warned him that his public position was heretical.
The following historical account of the Darboy affair is taken from the article Heresy in History, written by the sedevacantist author, John Daly, who no one can accuse of distorting the facts in order to undermine the position he himself holds. Let us consider what Mr. Daly wrote about the case of Archbishop Darboy.
“In 1865 Mgr Darboy, archbishop of Paris and member of the French senate expressed in an important speech to the senate ideas clearly opposed to the divinely instituted primacy of the Roman Pontiff over the entire Church, which, unlike papal infallibility, already belonged to the corps of Catholic doctrine. The speech was a public defiance of the pope and a refusal to recognize the pope's ordinary and universal jurisdiction in the dioceses of France.
“Pope Pius IX, already aware of the ideas of this wayward bishop, reprimanded him sternly in a private letter in which he reminds him that his stated ideas are comparable to those of Febronius (already condemned) and opposed to the teaching of the IVth Lateran Council. In the same letter the pope complained also of the presence of Mgr Darboy at the funeral of a freemason and other scandals.
“Darboy did not reply to the pope for some months and, when he finally did so, adopted a haughty tone to justify himself and to rebuke the pope! He retracted nothing whatever of the errors which had been reported throughout France with glee by the anti-Catholic press! … Nothing was done and in 1867 he met the pope in Rome, but, contrary to the hope he had given, did not mention the subject of this conflict at all.
“In 1868 a new clash ensued between Mgr Darboy and Rome, when the private letter of the pope dated 1865 was "leaked" and widely published. Still Rome allowed the situation to “ride” and meanwhile the Vatican Council was in preparation. Before and at the council, Darboy, needless to say, opposed the dogma of papal infallibility. For more than five years, despite the rebukes of the pope and of the nuncio, he never withdrew his extremely public errors against the faith. And then when the council proclaimed the dogmas concerning the pope, in 1870, he did not adhere to them. On 2nd March 1871, he at last informed the pope privately of his adherence to these dogmas, and even then he continued to delay before carrying out his duty of promulgating these decrees in his diocese. Only that promulgation at last constituted an implicit withdrawal of the false doctrines he was on public record as holding, despite the rebuke of the pope, since 1865.
“Now was Mgr Darboy during that period a public heretic or not? If one answers "yes", one is in manifest disagreement with Ven. Pope Pius IX. And of course those who not only accuse others lightly of heresy, but even hold that remaining in communion with un-condemned heretics is an act of heresy, schism or at best a grave public sin entailing exclusion from the sacraments must conclude that all the Catholics of Paris, laity and clergy, simultaneously fell from grace by continuing to recognize Darboy as their bishop even when they deplored his behaviour”. (9)
As Mr. Daly asked, was Msgr. Darboy a public heretic or not? After all, aren’t we told by sedevacantist apologists that if someone makes a heretical statement pertinacity is presumed in the external forum until the contrary is proven (10), and that “if the delinquent… be a cleric, his plea for mitigation must be dismissed” due to his “ecclesiastical training in the seminary (11). And don’t they conclude from this that a Bishop who makes a heretical statement has “publicly defected from the faith” (canon 188.4) and thereby lost his office? And further, that we are morally bound to withdraw from communion with the one they declare to be a public heretic lest we share in the heretic’s guilt?
Yet here we have the example of a Bishop who taught heresy in pubic, and “retracted nothing” after being warned by the Pope himself that his teaching was heretical. Yet Pius IX – the pope who gave us the Syllabus of Errors, Quanta Cura, and who ratified the First Vatican Council – remained in union with the man! If the sedevacantists were consistent, should they not conclude that Pius IX was an antipope for remaining in union with a “public heretic”? And what would this say about the First Vatican Council that he presided over and ratified?
Or could it be that the sedevacantist apologists are rash in claiming that a Bishop or pope who says something false, or seeming heretical, qualifies as a public heretic? Could it be that their interpretation and private application of canon law is erroneous?
Let’s consider just one more example from Mr. Daly’s article, which is of additional interest since it involves St. Robert Bellarmine, whom sedevacantists often quote as an authority for their position. Let us see how St. Bellarmine reacted to a professor and celebrated theologian from the university of Louvain who was publicly teaching heresy. And let us compare this example of a Saint and Doctor of the Church to the rashness of the sedevacantist apologists in our day.
“Doctor Michel de Bay (Baius), born in 1513 took part in the council of Trent and became a celebrated theologian at the university of Louvain where he opposed the Protestants, and in particular the Calvinists. ‘He seems to have been activated by a sincere desire to defend the Church, but...like so many of the Church's impulsive and ill-equipped champions he fell into the very errors which he had set out to destroy.’ (Brodrick: Blessed Robert Bellarmine, Vol. II, p. 3) From his youth he had a love of novelty disguised as a return to more ancient traditions. He affected to disdain the scholastics, without being very familiar with them, and to adhere instead to St Augustine.
“A pronounced vice in his character was the ease with which he called heretics all those who failed to agree with his theological ideas, which, of course, he considered to be manifestly the only orthodox ones. From 1551 onwards he spread his errors from his professorial chair. In 1561 Pope Pius IV imposed silence on him, which he did not respect. In 1567 St Pius V drew up a decree condemning 79 of his theses, without promulgating it. De Bay was sent a copy and defended himself; reading his defense determined the pope to give public confirmation to the condemnation, in which several of de Bay's ideas were qualified as heretical. De Bay himself, out of charity, was not named, as it was hoped that his opposition to the doctrines of the Church was not conscious.
“De Bay made himself the model of the future Jansenists… by pretending to submit, without changing his beliefs in the slightest. He continued to spread his errors on the pretext that the decree condemned only false interpretations of his thinking.
“St Robert Bellarmine arrived in Louvain as professor of theology also. From 1570 to 1576 he publicly opposed the errors of de Bay in his lectures, but without ever naming him. In speaking of him he always considered him as a learned Catholic, most worthy of respect, and at this time called him "prudent, pious, humble, erudite".
“Nonetheless St Robert never ceased to hope for a new condemnation of his errors, and this appeared in 1579 (Pope Gregory XIII).
“Bellarmine returned to Rome and later the Venerable Leonard Lessius came to replace him at Louvain. By way of preparatory information, Bellarmine told him that in his opinion the doctrine of de Bay and his disciples on the subject of predestination was heretical.
“Lessius wrote from Louvain to Bellarmine at Rome, informing him that de Bay continued to spread his errors in private, even after the new condemnation, and sometimes even in public, and that his numerous disciples propagated them with great enthusiasm.
“Supported by the advice of Bellarmine, Lessius continued to oppose these errors in his lectures, but without ever naming him or condemning the man who was the source of so much evil, and the precursor of Jansenism.
“Now in the light of this account, one is forced to ask whether some sedevacantists in our days are not very much prompter than St Robert Bellarmine was in identifying pertinacity, and more animated by the bad example of de Bay himself than by the good example of St Robert and of the Ven Leonard Lessius. For in the light of the principles of those who call all SSPX followers heretics or schismatics, and place all traditional priests save one or two in the same bag, how is it possible to deny that de Bay was a heretic? And that granted, how is it possible for them not to condemn St Robert Bellarmine, doctor of the Church, for having remained in communion with (and even praised) one whose heretical doctrines and manifest bad faith he was all too well aware of?
“Once again, if the Church presumes all who go astray in doctrine to be pertinacious, St Robert Bellarmine was clearly not aware of it. And while it can be possible to recognize someone as a pertinacious heretic even before the intervention of the Holy See, the fact remains that St Robert was slower to draw that conclusion, even after several Roman condemnations, than some are today when relying only on their own judgment of what seems evident”. (12)
Here we see St. Robert Bellarmine’s reaction to a man who continued to teach errors that had been formally condemned by the Church, but who himself had not been named in the condemnation. How did St. Bellarmine react to this man? Did he condemn him as a manifest heretic? Did he withdraw from communion with him and declare that all others must follow him, lest they share in the public heretic’s guilt? On the contrary, although the Saint desired that another condemnation of his errors would be forthcoming, in the meantime he treated him with respect and even referred to him as “prudent, pious, humble, erudite”. Neither did he assume pertinacity, even though one could have easily drawn such a conclusion since de Bay continued to promote his errors, which had just been condemned by the Church.
With Mr. Daly we must ask “whether some sedevacantists in our days are not very much prompter than St Robert Bellarmine was in identifying pertinacity, and more animated by the bad example of de Bay himself than by the good example of St Robert and of the Ven Leonard Lessius”. The answer to this rhetorical question is obvious.
We will now consider the issue of publicly manifest heresy.
Public Heretic
Some theologians have held that if a pope became a manifest heretic he would automatically lose his office, thereby rendering the Chair of Peter vacant. The great Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine, was of this opinion. He wrote:
Bellarmine: “[T]the Pope who is manifestly a heretic ceases by himself to be Pope and head, in the same way as he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church; and for this reason he can be judged and punished by the Church”. (13)
The question we must consider is what constitutes manifest heresy in the external or public forum? According to the late Canon Gregory Hesse, who held a Ph.D. in canon law and Thomistic theology, a formal heretic in the external forum is a declared heretic. He explained that a heretic can be declared in one of two ways: either he is declared a heretic by the proper authorities, or he declares himself a heretic. But how would a person declare themself to be a formal heretic?
Since formal heresy requires pertinacity, in order for a statement that is materially false to be considered formally heretical in the external forum, pertinacity would also have to be manifest. Without a formal declaration by the Church, and short of the man in question leaving the Church, or publicly admitting that he rejects a defined dogma, pertinacity would have to be demonstrated another way. The other way, according to St. Robert Bellarmine, would be for the man to remain manifestly obstinate after two warnings. Only then would pertinacity be demonstrated in the external form, thereby rendering him a manifest heretic.
Bellarmine: “The fourth opinion is that of Cajetan, for whom the manifestly heretical Pope is not “ipso facto” deposed, but can and must be deposed by the Church. To my judgment, this opinion cannot be defended. For, in the first place, it is proven with arguments from authority, and from reason, that the manifest heretic is “ipso facto” deposed. The argument from authority is based on Saint Paul, who orders that the heretic be avoided after two warnings, that is, after showing himself to be manifestly obstinate – which means before any excommunication or judicial sentence”. (14)
So according to St. Bellarmine, who bases his opinion on St. Paul, a heretic is considered to be manifestly obstinate after receiving two warnings. But who would be responsible for warning the Pope? The eminent eighteenth-century Italian theologian, Father Pietro Ballerini, discusses this very point.
Fr. Ballerini: “The Cardinals, who are his counselors, can do this; or the Roman Clergy, or the Roman Synod, if, being met, they judge this opportune. For any person, even a private person, the words of Saint Paul to Titus hold: ‘Avoid the heretic, after a first and second correction, knowing that such a man is perverted and sins, since he is condemned by his own judgment’ (Tit. 3, 10-11). For the person, who admonished once or twice, does not repent, but continues pertinacious in an opinion contrary to a manifest or public dogma - not being able, on account of this public pertinacity to be excused, by any means, of heresy properly so called, which requires pertinacity - this person declares himself openly a heretic. He reveals that by his own will he has turned away from the Catholic Faith and the Church, in such form that now no declaration or sentence of any one whatsoever is necessary to cut him from the body of the Church. (…) Therefore the Pontiff who after such a solemn and public warning by the Cardinals, by the Roman Clergy or even by the Synod, maintained himself hardened in heresy and openly turned himself away from the Church, would have to be avoided, according to the precept of Saint Paul. So that he might not cause damage to the rest, he would have to have his heresy and contumacy publicly proclaimed, so that all might be able to be equally on guard in relation to him. Thus, the sentence which he had pronounced against himself would be made known to all the Church, making clear that by his own will be had turned away and separated himself from the body of the Church, and that in a certain way he had abdicated the Pontificate, which no one holds or can hold if he does not belong to the Church”. (15)
In the next quote, the great Jesuit Suarez comments on this same point:
Suarez: “I affirm: if he were a heretic and incorrigible, the Pope would cease to be Pope just when a sentence was passed against him for his crime, by the legitimate jurisdiction of the Church. This is the common opinion among the doctors, and it is gathered from the first epistle of Saint Clement I, in which one reads that Saint Peter taught that a Pope heretic must be deposed. (…) In the first place, who ought to pronounce such a sentence? Some say that it would be the Cardinals; and the Church would be able undoubtedly to attribute to them this faculty, above all if it were thus established by the consent or determination of the Supreme Pontiffs, as was done in regard to the election. But up to today we do not read in any place that such a judgment has been confided to them. For this reason, one must affirm that, as such, it pertains to all the Bishops of the Church, for, being the ordinary pastors and the pillars of the Church, one must consider that such a case concerns them. And since by divine law there is no greater reason to affirm that the matter is of more interest to these bishops than to those, and since by human law nothing has been established in the matter, one must necessarily sustain that the case refers to all, and even to the general council. That is the common opinion among the doctors”. (16)
A pope who merely seems to have lost the Faith, or who has made statements that are erroneous or even heretical, yet who has not openly left the Church or been publicly warned, does not constitute a manifest heretic. And since no such warnings have been given to any of the post-Vatican II popes, either before or after their election, none of them qualify as a manifest heretic.
And it should also be noted that many theologians have held that a manifestly heretical pope does not automatically lose his office. According to Suarez, this was the common opinion in his day.
Suarez: “[I]in no case, even that of heresy, is the Pontiff deprived of his dignity and of his power immediately by God himself, before the judgment and sentence of men. This is the common opinion today”. (ibid.)
If one reads sedevacantist materials (which are usually the same quotations transferred from one website to another), they are left with the impression that virtually all agree that a Pope who becomes a manifest heretic automatically loses his office. Yet as we just saw, it was the common opinion in Suarez’ day that a heretical pope could only be deprived of his office by the judgment and sentence of men.
Below, Suarez explains why a Pope would not lose his office without a judgment and declaration of men, and then list the effects that would result if a declaration was not necessary – “effects” that sound like prophecies today.
Suarez: “[I]f the external but occult heretic (17) can still remain the true Pope, with equal right he can continue to be so in the event that the offense became known, as long as sentence were not passed on him. And this for two reasons: because no one suffers a penalty if it is not “ipso facto” or by sentence, and because in this way would arise even greater evils. In effect, there would arise doubt about the degree of infamy necessary for him to lose his charge; there would rise schisms because of this, and everything would become uncertain, above all if, after being known as a heretic, the Pope should have maintained himself in possession of his charge by force or by other”. (ibid.)
Do these prophetic words not reflect the situation today for those who reject what was, according to Suarez, the common opinion of his day? How many “popes” have been elected by the sedevacantists to date? Well over a dozen. And how many more schisms are there between the various sedevacantist groups who have not gone so far as to elect their own pope?
And it should be noted that others have argued that a Pope could not be deprived of his office, even due to public heresy, because of the harm it would do to the Church. While this is only a minority opinion, the following teaching of the French canonist Bouix is worth citing.
D. Bouix: “There is not sufficient reason to think that Christ had determined that an heretical Pope could be deposed. … We deny absolutely, however, that Christ could have established as a remedy the deposition of the Pope. For … such a remedy would be worse than the evil itself. Indeed, one either supposes that this deposition would be carried out by Christ himself, as soon as the Pope were declared a heretic by a general council according to the doctrine of Suarez, or one supposes that it would be realized by virtue of the authority of the general council itself. Now, in both cases the evil would be aggravated, and not remedied. For the doctrine according to which Christ himself would depose the Pope heretic, as soon as the General council declared him a heretic, is no more than an opinion, rejected by any, and with which it is licit, for anyone whatsoever, to disagree. … Such being the case, even after it were declared by a General Council that a certain Pope were a heretic, it would absolutely not become certain that that Pope would be deposed; and in such a doubt one must rather continue to respect his authority. If another Pope were elected not only would he be of uncertain legitimacy, but he would even have to be branded as an intruder. Therefore, the remedy of a deposition made by Christ in the moment of a conciliar declaration, not only would not remedy the evil, but would create an evil much more grave, that is, a most intricate schism. Consequently, by no means should one think that Christ established such a remedy. But neither should one think that He established as a remedy deposition by the authority of the council itself. For, the deposition of a Pope by a council, besides being impossible, as will be said further on, would be followed by a worse evil if it were possible”. (18)
Although the above citation represents a minority opinion, it shows that whether or not a pope would automatically lose his office through manifest heresy is an open question.
To be concluded in Part III
Essay on Heresy, by Arnaldo Vidigal Xavier da Silveira
8 ) ibid.
9) Heresy in History
10) “The very commission of any act which signifies heresy, e.g., the statement of some doctrine contrary or contradictory to a revealed and defined dogma, gives sufficient ground for juridical presumption of heretical depravity” McKenzie, The Delict of Heresy, CU Canon Law Studies 77
11) ibid.
12) Heresy in History
13) De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2
15) De Potestate Ecclesiastica, pgs.104-105
16) De Fide, disp. X, sect. VI, nn. 3-10, pg. 316-317
17) An external but occult heretic is one who has manifested his heresy to a small group, but not to the general public
18) Tract. de Papa, tom. II, pgs. 670-671
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Sedevacantism and the Manifest Heretic, Part III
Hypothetical vs. Practical
But even if one does hold to the opinion of St. Bellarmine, namely, that a pope who becomes a manifest heretic automatically loses his office - this is only a hypothetical question, and as such is the object of the speculative intellect, which is merely concerned with the consideration of a truth (19). But when faced with the actual situation – not merely the hypothetical question – the difficulty arises of how to apply the principle in practice, including who has the authority to make the necessary judgments and declaration. These are two distinct issues: one hypothetical and the other practical. On the practical level, if faced with a heretical pope, or at least a pope who seems to be a heretic, who would have the authority to determine that he had crossed the line into manifest heresy and thereby lost his office?
In the following quote, taken from Elements of Ecclesiastical Law (1895), Sabastian B. Smith discusses the two-fold opinion with respect to the hypothetical question of a heretical pope, and then explains how it would be dealt with on the practical level.
“Question: Is a Pope who falls into heresy deprived, ipso jure, of the Pontificate? Answer: There are two opinions: one holds that he is by virtue of divine appointment, divested ipso facto, of the Pontificate; the other, that he is, jure divino, only removable. Both opinions agree that he must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals. The question is hypothetical rather than practical”. (20)
As we can see, while there are two common opinions with respect to the hypothetical question, “both opinions agree” when it comes to the practical aspect. And what both opinions agree on is that, on the practical level, it would require a declaration of heresy from the Church in order for the pope to be removed.
Sedevacantist apologists often quote St. Francis de Sales saying: “Now when he [the Pope] is explicitly a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church…”. That quotation usually ends in mid sentence with an ellipsis. But interestingly, if you read the full sentence you see that he is actually alluding to both hypothetical opinions mentioned above, as well as the practical application. This is evident because the Saint immediately says the Church must either depriving him or declaring him to be deprived. This is the entire quote:
"We do not say that the Pope cannot err in his private opinions, as did John XXII; or be altogether a heretic, as perhaps Honorius was. Now when he is explicitly a heretic he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church must either deprive him, or as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See, and must say as St. Peter did: Let another take his bishopric - Acts 1 (St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church). (21)
Notice he says “the Church must deprive him” or “declare him deprived”. Either way, it requires a judgment and declaration by the Church. So whether a person holds to the opinion that a pope automatically loses his office through manifest heresy, or to the opinion that he is only deposable, it does not follow that individual laymen, or even individual priests, have the authority to make such judgment and declaration. Regardless of which opinion one holds, on the practical level a judgment of guilt must be made, and such a judgment belongs to the proper authorities alone.
To confirm this point, St. Thomas teaches that it belongs to one and the same authority to write the law, interpret the law, and apply it to particular cases:
St. Thomas: “Since judgment should be pronounced according to the written law, as stated above, he that pronounces judgment, interprets, in a way, the letter of the law, by applying it to some particular case. Now since it belongs to the same authority to interpret and to make a law, just as a law cannot be made except by public authority, so neither can a judgment be pronounced except by public authority, which extends over those who are subject to the community”. (22)
Individual laymen and individual priests have no authority to interpret and apply canon law or divine law to particular cases, much less to make public declarations. Such judgments and declarations belong to the proper authorities.
Commenting on the words of St. Jerome, who taught that a heretic departs on his own from the body of the Church, John of St. Thomas explains that this does not preclude a judgment from the Church. He then applies this to a heretical pope specifically. He wrote:
"St. Jerome - in saying that a heretic departs on his own from the Body of Christ - does not preclude the Church's judgment, especially in so grave a matter as is the deposition of a pope. He refers instead to the nature of that crime, which is such as to cut someone off from the Church on its own and without other censure in addition to it - yet only so long as it should be declared by the Church... So long as he has not become declared to us juridically as an infidel or heretic, be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment, he remains as far as we are concerned a member of the Church and consequently its head. Judgment is required by the Church. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned". (John of St. Thomas) (23)
Historical Examples
There have been times in the past when scandalous popes have held office; and there have been instances in which men who lived during those times believed the pope was not a true pope. One example is Jerome Savonarola who lived at the time of Pope Alexander VI - a truly scandalous pope. Not only did Savonarola accuse Alexander VI of being an unbeliever, but he also accused him of acquiring the Papacy through simony. This is what he wrote Charles VIII:
“The Church has been invaded from head to foot by ignominy and iniquity… I declare to you in the name of God that this Alexander VI is not the Pope and cannot pass off as such. Beside the infamy he committed in buying the Pontifical See by an act of simony … (and) his other vices which are well-known to everyone, I declare that he is not a Christian, that he does not even believe in the existence of God, which surpasses all the limits of incredulity" (24)
That was the opinion of a man who lived at the time of Pope Alexander VI. Yet in spite of the above testimony from one of his contemporaries, as well as all that history tells us about the scandals of Pope Alexander VI, the Church has never declared that he was not a true pope, or that he lost his office. He may have acquired the Papacy through simony, he may have lost the faith and “surpassed all the limits of incredulity”, yet a sentence was never passed against him by the Church, and as such the Church has never taught that he ceased to be pope.
And it should also be noted that Sovanarola - the very man who attempted to persuade Charles VIII that Alexander VI was “not the Pope” - submitted to the excommunication that he incurred from Alexander VI, and, just before being put to death, knelt at the feet of Bishop Romolino to receive the blessing and indulgence granted to him by the same Pope.
On the other hand, we have the story of Pope Liberius, who, according to the judgment of his contemporaries, fell into the Arian heresy. What was the response of his contemporaries? The Roman clergy – who at the time had the responsibility of electing the Pope – reacted by deposing Pope Liberius, and electing Pope Felix II in his place. Although the move was controversial at the time, St. Bellarmine defended the action taken by the Roman clergy. This is what he wrote:
St. Bellarmine: "Then two years later came the lapse of Liberius, of which we have spoken above. Then indeed the Roman clergy, stripping Liberius of his pontifical dignity, went over to Felix, whom they knew to be a Catholic. From that time, Felix began to be the true Pontiff. For although Liberius was not a heretic, nevertheless he was considered one, on account of the peace he made with the Arians, and by that presumption the pontificate could rightly be taken from him”. (25)
Here we have the case of a validly elected Pope being deposed by a “judgment and sentence” of the proper authorities, and a new Pope being elected in his place. This, however, does not support the sedevacantist position, since the action was taken by those had the authority to do so. This in no way implies that individual laymen have the authority to declare a pope to have lost his office due to heresy. It only shows that such measures are possible for the proper authority.
A future Pope or council may posthumously condemn the last several Popes for heresy, as the Third Council of Constantinople did with Pope Honorious I (26). But such actions are the responsibility of the proper ecclesiastical authorities alone. Before any such action is taken, it is the height of presumption and rashness for a laymen, or an individual priest, to usurp the authority that does not belong to them by making judgments and public “declarations” that they have no authority to make.
St. Thomas mentions three instances in which judgment is unlawful. One of the three is called “judgment by usurpation”, and takes place “when a man judges about matters wherein he has no authority”. (27) It is one thing to have a personal opinion about a matter that one has no authority to judge, and quite another to declare one’s personal opinion to be a fact. Such an unjust action is further aggravated when it is then implied that others have an obligation to accept their “declaration”. Such a usurpation of authority is, as St. Thomas teaches, contrary to justice:
St. Thomas: “Wherefore even as it would be unjust for one man to force another to observe a law that was not approved by public authority, so too it is unjust, if a man compels another to submit to a judgment that is pronounced by other than the public authority”. (28)
Even Savonarola, who personally believed Alexander VI was an unbeliever who purchased the Papal office through simony, sought to have a Council make the declaration. He realized that although he personally believed the Pope was not a real Pope, he had no authority to make such a definitive judgment and formal declaration; nor did he imply that others had an obligation to agree with his personal opinion. Neither did he claim that others must withdraw from communion with Alexander VI, lest they be guilty of remaining in union with a “public heretic”. And, as we saw above, in the end Savonarola acknowledged that Alexander was a true Pope, when he knelt at the feet of Bishop Romolino to receive Alevander VI’s Papal Blessing.
Heretic Cannot Be Elected Pope
The last point we will consider is the teaching that a heretic cannot be elected pope. The sedevacantist apologists provide a number of citations to support this position. The following is one such quote:
“Appointment to the office of the Primacy. What is required by divine law for this appointment: The person appointed must be a man who possesses the use of reason, due to the ordination the Primate must receive to possess the power of Holy Orders. This is required for the validity of the appointment. Also required for validity is that the man appointed be a member of the Church. Heretics and apostates (at least public ones) are therefore excluded”. (29)
Citations such as this are not referring to a member of the Church who has lost the Faith, since de internis ecclesia non judica (the Church does not judge internals). They are referring to a man who is a public heretic. So, for example, Pastor Bob of the First Baptist Church of Rome would not be eligible to be elected Pope, since heretics (at least public ones) are not members of the Church. Electing a public heretic as pope would be contrary to divine law, since one who is not a visible member of the Church cannot be its head. But a Cardinal who enters the conclave in good standing with the Church (at least externally), even if he has internally lost the faith, is certainly eligible to be elected Pope. If not, one would never know for sure if the person elected Pope was a true Pope, since neither man nor the Church can judge the internal forum.
To remove any doubt that a man elected by a conclave becomes the true pope, Pius XII issued the following decree which removes any “excommunications, suspension or interdict” that would prevent a candidate from being validly elected.
Pope Pius XII: “None of the Cardinals may, by pretext or reason of any excommunication, suspension, or interdict whatsoever, or of any other ecclesiastical impediment, be excluded from the active and passive election of the Supreme Pontiff”. (30)
Active election refers to the act of electing a pope; passive election refers to the act of being elected. Since the Church does not judge internals, and since faith is not absolutely necessary for Papal office, this decree of Pius XII, which is similar to previous decrees of Pius X, Clement V (1317), Pius IV (1562) and Gregory XV (1621), removes any doubt that a man who is elected by the conclave becomes the true Pope.
Just before our Lord’s Passion, He said to His disciples: “All you shall be scandalized in me this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed”. (Mt. 26:31) According to tradition, the life of the Church will parallel the life of Christ, and at the end experience a passion similar to that of its head. The Church today is following our Lord through His passion. We can even discern a mystical death taking place, in what seems to be a separation of the body and soul of the Church. At the end of our Lord’s Passion, His human soul separation of His body at once, and as such death was instantaneous. But with the Church, the mystical death – separation of body and soul - is extending over a period of time as more and more of its visible members defect interiorly from the Faith.
In such unusual circumstances as this, it is certainly understandable that Catholics would be confused; and it is equally understandable that they would be scandalized by the action and inaction of the recent Popes, who may indeed have lost the Faith. But as we have seen, the loss of faith, in and of itself, does not result in the loss of Papal office. Neither do actions that render a Pope suspect of heresy. And even if a Pope was a manifest heretic (which requires a public warning) there is a two-fold opinion on whether or not he would automatically lose his office, or only be rendered deposable; yet, as we have seen, on the practical level both opinions require a judgment and declaration from the Church. Since none of the recent popes have been given a public warning, and since none have been declared heretics by the proper authorities, they do not qualify as manifest heretics. Therefore, as bad as one may think they have been, they have retained their office.
Before ending, there is one final point that it would be remiss to pass over when considering the question of Sedevacantism. Since our Lord Himself provided us with a criterion by which we should judge, we should not end without considering the fruits that are almost universal in Sedevacantism. The “judgment by usurpation”, which is contrary to both justice and charity, extends beyond private individuals making public “declarations” that the Pope has lost his office, to the status of other Catholics, including their fellow sedevacantists, whom they rashly accuse of being heretics. Such rash judgments by those who have no authority to make such a declaration has resulted in one division after another, to the point where priests from one sedevacantist group now refuse communion to those affiliated with other sedevacantist groups.
There is probably more division between sedevacantists today than there was within Protestantism fifty years after Luther split from the Church. And interestingly, the root cause of such division is the same, namely, private judgment. Whereas Luther and his followers usurped the authority of the magisterium in teaching the Faith, and substituted it with their private interpretation of the Bible, the sedevacantists usurp the authority of the magisterium in interpreting and applying canon law, and replaced it with their private interpretation - again, not only with respect to the Pope, but with Catholic priests and laymen as well. Often, when someone does not accept their personal “declaration” they treat them with the greatest disrespect, often accusing them of being in schism or heresy. They hand down “binding” declarations on everything from baptism of desire and blood, to which of the new Sacraments are valid and which are not, and woe to the person who does not agree.
Some not only refused to attend a Mass in which Benedict XVI’s name is mentioned, but they also refuse to attend Masses offered by sedevacantist priests, since these lack the necessary jurisdiction. Such men are being strangled by the letter of the law, at a time when “the letter killeth” (2 Cor. 3:6). Interestingly, the Machabees fell into a similar error for a time, but death caused them to re-think their position (1 Mach 2:38-41). The Machabees ended by concluding what St. Thomas would teach fourteen centuries later: In the time of necessity there is no law. (31)
Some sedevacantists “decree” with seeming certitude that the New Rite of Ordination for Bishops is absolutely null and utterly void, as though the form for this Sacrament was given in specie (as is the case with baptism and the double consecration at mass), rather than in genere (32) (thereby explaining the difference from one approved Rite to the other); and as if the Church had no power to change the matter or form (33) required for validity, when such has been established by the will of the Church (34), rather than directly by Christ.
They hand down rash declarations they have no authority to make, and often condemn those who do not share their opinion. Using the same criteria, namely private judgment, some go so far as to declare that Pius IX (d. 1878) was the last true pope, and claim that all popes since Leo XIII have been antipopes! Each believes his personal opinion is correct and must be accepted by all, yet their differing opinions result in continual divisions. And it is worth noting that these rotten fruits are usually not found in the Traditional Orders in union with Rome.
As a parting thought I will end with this: For those Traditional Catholics who have been scandalized by the Passion and near death of the Church, and by the action of the recent popes who seem to be follow the example of St. Peter’s during our Lord’s Passion (Mt. 26:74); for those whose eyes gloss over when reading theological arguments with seemingly endless distinctions and categories, and who are still not sure what to think about Sedevacantistm. To those I offer the following advice: Apply the divinely inspired criterion given by our Lord Himself, and judge the sedevacantist tree by its “thorns” and its “thistles” (Mt. 7:16), and by its rotten and bitter fruits.
May the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, guide us all safely through the present tempest, and may the light of the Holy Ghost lead us along the straight and narrow path, not permitting us to deviate from the truth, either to the left, or to the right. Amen
Postscript: There are other arguments put forth in defense of the sedevacantist position, such as issues related to Papal Infallibility, universal disciplines, the 1983 code of canon law, and the Novus Ordo Missae. Space did not permit a consideration of these points; nor did they necessarily fall within the scope of the present thesis. A future article may appear in which these additional points are addressed.
19) St. Thomas: “For it is the speculative intellect which directs what it apprehends, not to operation, but to the consideration of truth; while the practical intellect is that which directs what it apprehends to operation”.
20) Elements of Ecclesiastical Law, 1895
21) St. Francis de Sales , The Catholic Controversy, pg 306
22) S.T. Pt II-II, Q 60, A 6
23) John of St. Thomas, Disp. II, art III 26
24) Victim of the Borgia Pope: Jerome Savonarola, pg. 106
26) Council of Constantinople: There shall be expelled from the holy Church of God and anathematized: Honorius who was some time Pope of Old Rome, because of what we found written by him to Sergius, that in all respects he followed his view and confirmed his impious doctrines…To Honorius, the heretic, anathema!
27) S.T. Pt. II-II, Q 60, A. 2
28) ibid. A. 6
29) Institutiones Iuris Canonici, 1950
30) Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis, 1945
31) S.T. Pt I-II, Q 96, A.6
33) Catholic Encyclopedia: Granting that Christ immediately instituted all the sacraments, it does not necessarily follow that personally He determined all the details… prescribing minutely every iota relating to the matter and the form to be used. … For some sacraments (e.g. Baptism, the Eucharist) He determined minutely (in specie) the matter and form: for others He determined only in a general way (in genere) that there should be an external ceremony, by which special graces were to be conferred, leaving to the Apostles or to the Church the power to determine whatever He had not determined, e.g. to prescribe the matter and form of the Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders. (…) This … can solve historical difficulties relating, principally, to Confirmation and Holy Orders.
33) “The question immediately arises as to what belongs to the substance of a particular Sacrament, and the answer will depend upon whether Our Lord instituted it generically (in genere) or specifically (in specie). … With regard to the form [given in genere] of a Sacrament, some Catholics have mistakenly identified the form itself with a particular formula employed by the Church to express it, and have concluded that this formula cannot be changed without invalidating the Sacrament. Hence they have fallen into the error of believing that the Church has no power to make changes in the matter and form of any Sacrament, having mistakenly identified the matter and form in current usage with the substance of the Sacraments themselves, which Trent taught could not be changed” (The Order of Melchisedech).
34) Pius XII: “the traditio instrumentorum is not required for the substance and validity of this Sacrament by the will of Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. If it was at one time necessary even for validity by the will and command of the Church, everyone knows that the Church has the power to change and abrogate what she herself has established (Sacramentum Ordinis).
Mike wrote:
Another I can remember was Stephen Hand.
Yes, although he did retract, which was unique. Others I remembered after posting were Richard Caggiano and Art Sippo. Jim Larrabee once asked, rhetorically, if there was a factory somewhere punching these characters out. Very often they don't appear to be real persons. They pop up, perform a drive-by shooting, and disappear, often forever.
RJS,
Thanks for posting that. It appears to be a somewhat refined version of the one I received in Word format.
I really don't think there's anything there which hasn't been thoroughly answered before. One thing which really is striking, however, as I scroll down the page reviewing the materials used to construct this article: The texts and references are mostly from here, and Siscoe has learned our theology (i.e. the theology of St. Robert and Monsignor Fenton). There's something very pleasing about the fact that The Angelus is publishing such materials and such theology. The remaining step is for him, and those at The Angelus, to ponder what it all really means.
The first thing that ought to be exercising their Christian minds is the location of this perfectly visibly united Church which excludes heretics, if Ratzinger is pope.
"Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Why will the gates of hell not prevail? Because the Church is a visible unity of faith and charity, the principle and foundation of which is the Successor of Peter, who preaches the true faith and governs and disciplines the faithful in accord with it. The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church because of the papacy, because the pope is there continually teaching her and correcting her. Since the gates of hell prevail daily against the Conciliar church, it evidently is not founded upon the rock which is Peter. It is precisely that rock which is missing. The effect of dissolution follows because the cause of visible unity is absent, and indeed, a cause of disunity is present.
What does St. Paul predict? Exactly what we're witnessing.
Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now you know what withholdeth [i.e. the pope], that he [Antichrist] may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth [i.e. the pope], do hold, until he be taken out of the way. And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him, Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error [i.e. the addiction to Novus Ordo error and heresy], to believe lying: That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.
Antichrist and the entire revolt cannot come until the pope be taken out of the way, precisely because he holds or stands firm, supporting the rest of the Church. With the pope out of the way now for fifty years, the world is able to be prepared for the coming of the evil one. Look around.
OK. Makes sense. I get so tired of these sorts.
Is he, now?! Many of his arguments against sedevacantism which were printed in the Catholic Family News used arguments which were essentially protestant in origin. For one thing, he used arguments identical to those which were used by the opponents of Papal Infallibility at Vatican Council I (one). I would have thought that he knew better. Apparently, I was wrong. All he is is what we Americans call a "Philadelphia Lawyer". Such folks were never looked upon with much respect in the 19th century. Such an one was only a step or two above "Shyster".
Robert Bastaja
This may or may not shed some light of the mind of RJS:
RJS on CI very recently wrote:
A sedevacantist who detests John Paul II and Benedict XVi, may well end up in hell along side of them if he separates himself from the Church, since outside the Church there is no salvation, and the Church exists today just as it did prior to the council. The difference is the condition, not the being itself.
Just as a man dying of Aids is the same man that existed prior to being infected, so too the Church today is the same Church that existed prior to Vatican II. The difference is that today the Church is in the condition of an Aids victim on his last breath. It is just about dead, but like our Lord, it will rise again.
If you leave the Church, or declare it to have become a false Church, you separate yourself from the mystical body of Christ and will get to spend eternity in hell.
On the other hand, if you realize the sick situation of the Church, avoid the heretics within, and leave it to the proper authorities to sort everything out in God's times, you will not risk eternal damnation for separating yourself from the Church.
Now here he is about 6 years ago when, if I'm not mistaken, he considered joining here to debate his positions. I think the Forum was closed before he had a chance, but anyway, here he is in a discussion I had with him:
RJS in 2007 wrote:
Think about this: Do you or I really think God will be angry with us if we suspend judgment on the situation of the seemingly heretical Popes?
I think prudence would require that we hold them suspect of heresy and be cautious with regard to them, but going further and declaring them to have lost their office through the crime of heresy, when none of the Cardinals have done so, seems presumptuous and potentially dangerous to me. One of the dangers, and this is what I told Gerry Matatics, is that by taking the firm position that the Pope is an anti-Pope and that the Conciliar Church is the Whore of Babylon is that you will not want the Church to improve. In fact, any improvement will be viewed as a trick to draw in the unwary. Therefore, the person will actually be against the Church, and desirous that it falls. That is one psychological effect that Sedevacantism will produce. On the contrary, if you suspend judgment you will not fall into that mentality. You will then be able to appreciate any good (such as Summorum Pontificum), rather than considering every good merely a trick to bring those with the faith into the false fold. I think it is best not to make a firm conclusion with respect to the Pope. Maybe he did lose his office through heresy, but I personally don't think I have enough information to draw that conclusion.
Is he, now?! Many of his arguments against sedevacantism which were printed in the Catholic Family News used arguments which were essentially protestant in origin.
Ken, I agree! His arguments were terrible. I meant that he was not only known for his bad arguments against sedevacantism. He was known for his work with Fr. Gruner and on the history of Fatima, etc. The thing about most of the others is that they are utterly unknown for anything except their production of bad arguments against sedevacantism.
Robert Bastaja wrote:
Strange. One would think that we would be excused on precisely the same grounds that Siscoe excuses the heretics in the Vatican.
I'd just like to repeat my criticism of the following, to ensure it is clear:
This does my head in. It's the learned and the ignorant on the other side who have appeared, for the twenty years I've been discussing this subject actively with fellow traditional Catholics, to be dangerously unaware of the visible unity of the Church. It is quite true that there are many sedevacantists who are unclear on the difference between the internal and external unity of the Church, but their error on this point has no bearing on their sedevacantism. That is, not one of them is a sedevacantist because he thinks that Paul VI was an occult heretic. Merely to express the problem in that way is to recognise its absurdity.
The same ignorance, however, on the part of traditionalist sedeplenists, is most certainly at the root of their sedeplenism. They imagine that the Church can be a visible disunity of faith; that is, that the Church can be composed of men who openly practice a false religion, as well as those who openly practice the true one. In their case theological ignorance provides the soil for a monstrous theory of the crisis. The average sedeplenist trad thinks it does not matter, insofar as membership in the Church goes, what beliefs a man professes, just as long as he hasn't been excommunicated by name and declared to be a non-Catholic. That idea is arguably heretical; it's certainly erroneous.
How weird is it, then, to find this very issue thrown at sedevacantists as something we need to consider?
More importantly, what possible bearing does this point have on the case presented in the article itself? I cannot see that it bears on the issues argued. We freely grant that only public heresy can safely be treated as resulting in the automatic loss of ecclesiastical offices. We've been saying it for many, many, years. Siscoe's difference with us is actually confined to the question of what precisely constitutes "public" heresy. (In fact, he doesn't know, and cites no authorities at all in order to define the term. Right at the point when he ought to define it, he shifts subjects and starts asserting that even public heresy may not result in the automatic loss of offices, contrary to the explicit terms of the Code). However that may be, neither side is in any doubt that occult heresy doesn't result in loss of membership in the Church, and therefore cannot result in the loss of ecclesiastical offices. We differ only over how to define "public" (i.e. sedevacantists quote the Code, and Siscoe doesn't).
So, I repeat, the comment about sedevacantists made by Siscoe in the quote above is absolutely beside the point, not merely of sedevacantism itself, but of his own article.
formal heresy in the external forum is declared heresy – either declared by the proper authorities, or else “declared” by the individual himself who becomes a notorious and publicly manifest heretic
It is quite true that formal external heresy is "declared by the proper authorities, or else 'declared' by the individual himself." But Siscoe is unclear on what these terms mean. The terms "public" and "notorious" are defined in the Code of Canon Law. Why is Siscoe unwilling to use the definitions there provided? Why does he confuse the meaning of the terms by combining them into one expression ("notorious and publicly manifest")? Notorious, public, and manifest are all terms with sufficiently clear definitions. Why not just refer to the relevant authorities and adopt their definitions?
Yet this would be erroneous reasoning since the loss of faith in and of itself (which is not equivalent to formal heresy in the external forum) does not result in the loss of office; nor does it prevent a man from being validly elected pope since de internis ecclesia non judica (the Church does not judge internals).
The bolded point here is wrong. The loss of faith in itself does not render a man incapable of being elected, true. The Church does not judge what remains internal, also true. However, these two truths are unrelated.
The reason is quite a different one - it is simply that an occult heretic remains a member of the Church, and it is the loss of membership which results in the radical incapacity for receiving or maintaining an office in the Church.
Siscoe has, for reasons left unexplained, chosen Suarez to be his guide in questions of ecclesiology.
In the following quote, the great Jesuit Suarez explains...
Suarez is not an authority on these questions, his contemporary - the greater Jesuit Bellarmine is, and he has been declared a Doctor of the Universal Church. Why not follow his doctrine? Why not adopt the doctrine of the man that Pius XII followed in writing his encyclical on ecclesiology, Mystici Corporis Christi?
Can Siscoe give a good reason for his choice of master?
This is pernicious:
The 1917 code of canon law teaches that to knowingly and willingly assist in the propagation of heresy (canon 2316), or to actively assist at sacred functions of non-Catholics (ibid.) only renders a man suspect of heresy.
ONLY? No, the Code lays down that certain actions automatically render a person suspect of heresy. These actions are not in themselves ones which are unambiguous. Each of them is horrible and criminal, but may not indicate actual heresy in the soul of the culprit. Therefore, in perfect reason and justice, the Church legislates that these actions render a man suspect of heresy. So concerned is she to protect God's honour, that she labels EVEN those actions as criminal and resulting automatically in the status "Suspect of heresy".
Siscoe thinks that these actions are equivalent to, oh, let's say, publishing a new rite of mass which informed and faithful Catholics would DIE before assisting at, or publishing a law which permits the Holy Eucharist to be given to notorious non-Catholics. They are not equivalent. Nor are they equivalent to preaching heresy, like, oh, universal salvation, just as a random example. It's one thing to be involved in the promotion of heresy (think, a publisher who agrees to publish a condemned work); it is another thing entirely to invent one's own heresy and preach it urbi et orbi.
Siscoe also has little understanding of what warnings are actually required. He begins by asserting that St. Robert requires two warnings before a heretic can be considered to be truly a manifest heretic. That is not what St. Robert says, and it is not what he thinks.
The other way, according to St. Robert Bellarmine, would be for the man to remain manifestly obstinate after two warnings. Only then would pertinacity be demonstrated in the external form, thereby rendering him a manifest heretic.
Bellarmine: “The fourth opinion is that of Cajetan, for whom the manifestly heretical Pope is not “ipso facto” deposed, but can and must be deposed by the Church. To my judgment, this opinion cannot be defended. For, in the first place, it is proven with arguments from authority, and from reason, that the manifest heretic is “ipso facto” deposed. The argument from authority is based on Saint Paul, who orders that the heretic be avoided after two warnings, that is, after showing himself to be manifestly obstinate – which means before any excommunication or judicial sentence”.
As can be seen, St. Robert merely refers to the text of St. Paul on warnings. He doesn't assert that two are required in every case. Instead, his true view is apparent from what he says immediately after, when he characterises the requirement as "that is, after showing himself to be manifestly obstinate." That's the essential thing, and a warning or two is immensely helpful in reaching that security of judgement - but not always necessary.
Siscoe fails to notice that his next authority, Ballerini, contradicts his own false notion.
For the person, who admonished once or twice, does not repent, but continues pertinacious in an opinion contrary to a manifest or public dogma - not being able, on account of this public pertinacity to be excused, by any means, of heresy properly so called, which requires pertinacity - this person declares himself openly a heretic.
Warned once OR twice?
Ballerini and Bellarmine agree. It's Siscoe who is out on his own. Which is curious, because another authority Siscoe relies upon (also cribbed from the Aquinas Site) Da Silveira, has the following to say, in the very article relied upon by Siscoe:
Is A Warning Necessary In A Case Of Heresy By Actions?
Saint Paul insists that the heretic be rebuked once or twice before being avoided (cf. Titus 3;10). How then can one dare to claim that someone becomes a heretic by the mere fact of practising certain actions. When the canonists affirm that one can fall into the sin of heresy by practising certain actions, they neither say nor suggest that the other conditions required in the case of heresy by word cease to apply. Consequently a warning is necessary as a rule on the one hypothesis, just as much as on the other.
We say "as a rule" because the principle which Saint Paul states admits of an important exception. Commentators teach that the warning insisted on by the Apostle of the Gentiles serves to expose the sinner who denies a truth of the Faith, a truth which cannot, on any pretext, be denied. Yet the Church nevertheless has the prime concern of avoiding all ambiguity when she denounces the Heretical Animus.
Now there are cases in which there can be no such ambiguity. There are cases in which the heretic quite obviously knows that the truth which he denies or doubts is "de fide". There is no possibility, for example, that a doctor of theology might be unaware that Our Lady's Virginity is a dogma.
On the other hand, in a conversation or a lecture, even a doctor of theology can inadvertently let slip an incorrect expression which of itself would constitute heresy. Indeed it can be accepted that even with a book which he has written, and over which he has carefully pondered, a mistake may have slipped in without his noticing. But if the central thesis of the book is manifestly heretical, then it is no longer possible to accept a mistake, or an oversight. A warning would be superfluous.
De Lugo, quoting great writers of his day, unravels this important question as follows - "...Neither is it always demanded in the external forum that there be a warning and a reprimand as described above for somebody to be punished as heretical and pertinacious, and such a requirement is by no means always admitted in practice by the Holy Office. For if it could be established in some other way, given that the doctrine is well known, given the kind of person involved and given the other circumstances, that the accused could not have been unaware that his thesis was opposed to the Church, he would be considered as a heretic from this fact… The reason for this is clear because the exterior warning can serve only to ensure that someone who has erred understands the opposition which exists between his error and the teaching of the Church. If he knew the subject through books and conciliar definitions much better than he could know it by the declarations of someone admonishing him then there would be no reason to insist on a further warning for him to become pertinacious against the Church." (De Lugo, disp.XX, sect.IV,n.l57-158). See also: Diana, resol.36; Vermeersch, pg.245; Noldin, vol.i, "Compl. de Poenis Eccl.", pg.21; Regatillo, pg. 508.
Such a teaching, it might be objected, is found in the textbooks, but it has not been retained by the Code of Canon Law which establishes in canon 2233 n.2 the precise manner in which the accused must be rebuked and warned before any censure may be imposed.
This objection does not stand up, because this canon applies only to "ferendae sententiae" censures, ie. those which are inflicted by the superior or by the ecclesiastical judge. When the censure is "latae sententiae", that is to say when the accused incurs it automatically by the fact of having committed a certain crime, the warning is not necessary. In this case, as a fine old legal maxim has it, "Lex interpellat pro homine", the law calls to account, instead of the man (cf. Palazzini, col. 1298).
The excommunication which falls on the heretic is "latae sententiae" (Canon 2314 n.l). It becomes clear, as a consequence of this, that the Code of Canon Law has also accepted the principle that a warning is not always necessary for pertinacity to be revealed.
This statement, I think, is the absolute crux of the position of men like RJS: to them, the Conciliar Church IS the Catholic Church. He conflates the two repeatedly. I will show this same thinking in another of his statements below.
We who hold that these latest usurpers of the Holy See, the leaders of this Conciliar Church are, in fact, anti-popes, for any number of valid reasons, believe most emphatically that the Conciliar Church, the Novus Ordo, is not and has never been the True Church of Christ, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Spotless Bride of Christ, and further, absolutely cannot be such.
We believe the words of Christ that the gates of Hell will never prevail against Her, yet it is obvious to the most casual observer that the gates of Hell have, most clearly, prevailed against the Novus Ordo, since out of it has come false teachings, aberrations of every kind, most un-Catholic things in both doctrine and worship. Therefore, on that basis alone, the Novus Ordo cannot possibly be the Catholic Church.
Therefore, She must reside elsewhere.
Here is his earlier statement that reinforces my contention:
RJS wrote:
One of the dangers, and this is what I told Gerry Matatics, is that by taking the firm position that the Pope is an anti-Pope and that the Conciliar Church is the Whore of Babylon is that you will not want the Church to improve.
What?!? Can the True Church "improve"? How? Again, he automatically conflates the True Church of Christ with the abomination of the Conciliar Church. This is, clearly, the most egregious flaw in his thinking.
In fact, any improvement will be viewed as a trick to draw in the unwary. Therefore, the person will actually be against the Church,
Again...
It is obvious that folks like RJS cannot see the distinction between the True Church of Christ, and this abomination from Hell, the Novus Ordo/Conciliar Church. They are not, and never will be, the same. Although God can certainly draw good out of even the worst evil, I cannot see, in my wildest imaginings, how this Satanic Victory, the Novus Ordo, could ever become the Catholic Church. The True Church of Christ, the Catholic Church, exists, and always will exist, outside of and distinct from the Novus Ordo, and never the twain shall meet.
This appears to summarise Siscoe's case:
A man who inculcates heresy in countless followers by public statements and actions, has "openly left the Church" - he is openly leading others out of the Church.
Or would Siscoe claim that a man who openly leads countless souls into heresy and out of the Church is himself still in the Church?
Further, all of these men have been "publicly warned." It is true that they have not been warned by an imperfect general council, but let's consider what categories of men have indeed put them on notice in public.
1. Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci told Montini that his new "mass" was unorthodox and dangerous to the faithful. "[T]he Novus Ordo represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent. The 'canons' of the rite definitively fixed at that time provided an insurmountable barrier to any heresy directed against the integrity of the Mystery." The New Mass violates the canons of Trent, erected against heresy.
2. Archbishop Lefebvre and many other senior bishops at Vatican II declared on the floor of the Council that the new doctrines were false and opposed to Christian doctrine, and that if adopted they would destroy the Church. The results bore these predictions out.
3. Priests such as the Abbe de Nantes, who compiled a massive "Book of Accusations Against Paul VI" ensured that if the latter had been in any doubt that he was opposed to the Catholic Church, he would have no excuse from 1973 onwards, when Abbe de Nantes issued his work accusing him of "heresy, schism, and scandal".
4. Laymen such as Tito Cassini in Italy, or Patrick Henry Omlor in the USA, who wrote scathing criticism of the liturgical and doctrinal reforms in public print. There are too many in this category to list, as we all know.
What is the purpose of a warning, canonical or extra-canonical? To test whether the culprit knows that his ideas are incompatible with Christian doctrine. Is it truly possible that Montini, Wojtyla, and Ratzinger, have each been unaware that their heresies are incompatible with the doctrine of the Catholic Church? Is not the question necessarily rhetorical?
This statement, I think, is the absolute crux of the position of men like RJS: to them, the Conciliar Church IS the Catholic Church. He conflates the two repeatedly.
Dear Ken,
I agree, that seems to be behind his determination on this matter. It really does go to the heart of the mysterious nature of what's happened, however, does it not?
Look at it from this perspective: what entity did Paul VI damage? The Catholic Church.
Or this: is a priest who says the New Mass solely because he believes that he is bound to do so by the highest authority within the Catholic Church, still a member of the Church?
So this non-Catholic worship was being offered by countless Catholic priests, daily! And, even more disturbing, the vast bulk of Catholic priests - indeed, there were only a few exceptions - offered false worship instead of true, for years after 1969.
According to Da Silviera, Bouix's opinion was held only by himself. His opinion is therefore properly described as "singular" or "unique." How does Siscoe characterise it?
While this is only a minority opinion, the following teaching of the French canonist Bouix is worth citing.
Although the above citation represents a minority opinion...
Since when does an individual constitute "a minority"?
The best that can be said about Bouix's opinion is that it was not actually condemned by the Church. In all likelihood the reason for this was precisely that since nobody else adopted it, there was no need to condemn it. The error was still-born.
Siscoe seems unaware of the fact that certitude and authority are quite distinct notions. This seems to me to have once been a rampantly popular misconception which has become less so over the years as these matters have been debated and discussed on the Internet and elsewhere. It's surprising to see it pop up in such a blatant form today.
Authority is only required to bind others.
Since none of us has any authority, we cannot bind others. Caminus recently posted the relevant explanation of St. Thomas:
Caminus wrote:
"Since judgment should be pronounced according to the written law, as stated above (Article 5), he that pronounces judgment, interprets, in a way, the letter of the law, by applying it to some particular case. Now since it belongs to the same authority to interpret and to make a law, just as a law cannot be made save by public authority, so neither can a judgment be pronounced except by public authority, which extends over those who are subject to the community. Wherefore even as it would be unjust for one man to force another to observe a law that was not approved by public authority, so too it is unjust, if a man compels another to submit to a judgment that is pronounced by other than the public authority." S.T., II-II, Q. 60, A. 6.
For St. Thomas, there is nothing wrong with a man forming his own judgement. Indeed, the Angelic Doctor gives the rules for making such judgements. The injustice arises from any attempt to impose one's own judgements on others over whom one has no authority.
The possibility of certitude is not confined to those who have authority.
But if the anti-sedevacantist writers are convinced that certitude is confined to those who have authority, then why are they themselves writing articles and publishing them? They have no authority: Are they not unsure about their views? And since they must, on their own principles, be uncertain about their own convictions, why are they not less dogmatic in their expression of them?
Siscoe relies upon uncertain interpretations of his key sources. This renders his case very unstable.
Smith was writing before the Code, which adopted explicitly the principle of Cum ex apostolatus that public heresy results in ipso facto loss of office without the need of any declaration. If the law had become enshrouded in uncertainty in 1895, it was certainly clarified in 1917.
When Smith adds, "the question is hypothetical rather than practical," he may merely be saying what Bellarmine himself said, which is that he holds that no pope can or ever will disappear into heresy, so that the question of what would happen if a pope did disappear into heresy is purely hypothetical.
The real issue is that one simply cannot rely upon brief, catechism-style sound-bite texts in order to build an understanding of such questions. What Smith offers here is not even clear, it's ambiguous. The same problem is apparent with the brief excerpt from St. Francis de Sales. Nothing can be built upon such texts. What is required in order to form proper views is to study ex professo treatments of the relevant points. That is what Bellarmine, Suarez, Torquemada, Ballerini, and others offer. Relying upon Smith's little quote is a mark of desperation.
Siscoe puts quite a bit of effort into proving that sedevacantists cannot bind others to our views.
That is somewhat unclear, but the following is much better:
Even Savonarola, who personally believed Alexander VI was an unbeliever who purchased the Papal office through simony, sought to have a Council make the declaration. He realized that although he personally believed the Pope was not a real Pope, he had no authority to make such a definitive judgment and formal declaration; nor did he imply that others had an obligation to agree with his personal opinion. Neither did he claim that others must withdraw from communion with Alexander VI, lest they be guilty of remaining in union with a “public heretic”.
I happen to agree with Siscoe on all of this, if it is understood correctly. Siscoe is here arguing not against sedevacantism, but against dogmatic sedevacantism. The "follow me or die" folks. In other words, whatever merit his points may have, they are entirely beside the point of whether or not Ratzinger is the pope. This is another entire section of his article which would be better edited out and saved for a different essay. It serves only to suggest that all, or most, sedevacantists are of the dogmatic variety, when this is not factual.
And late in the article, another example of the straw man argument.
“Appointment to the office of the Primacy. What is required by divine law for this appointment: The person appointed must be a man who possesses the use of reason, due to the ordination the Primate must receive to possess the power of Holy Orders. This is required for the validity of the appointment. Also required for validity is that the man appointed be a member of the Church. Heretics and apostates (at least public ones) are therefore excluded”.
That quote, translated from the Latin of Coronata by Fr. Cekada, is indeed a favourite of sedevacantists. Now, given that it explicitly expresses what I have bolded, it is simply stunning to see what Siscoe does with it. He proceeds immediately after this to explain in great detail that occult heretics would not be ineligible for election to the papacy!
But a Cardinal who enters the conclave in good standing with the Church (at least externally), even if he has internally lost the faith, is certainly eligible to be elected Pope.
Against whom is this point meant to be being made? Surely not against those who use the quote from Coronata above?
And a note of warning: Approved writers very often do not qualify "heretics and schismatics" with "public" or "manifest" when discussing these questions. This does not meant that they are confused about the issue. Indeed, the matter was so clear to all that qualifications were omitted as unnecessary. Nobody thought that occult heresy resulted in the incapacity for a man to hold an office.
Siscoe's final point is to assert that sedevacantism produces disunity. I suppose he is contrasting the sedevacantist world (one with which he evidently isn't familiar) with the peace and unity in all essentials that subsists between Ratzinger with his new mass and new religion, his 20 decade rosary, his fifteen station Stations, his praise of the Pentecostal nutters, etc., on the one side, and the traditional Catholic milieu on the other.
My observation (my, ahem, judgement), is that there is no real unity there, merely a verbal expression of unity which is given the lie by every act of religion of all parties.
I'm also convinced that I personally live in very close unity of religion with my fellow non-dogmatic sedevacantists (i.e. most sedevacantists), and with the members of the SSPX, for example. I think it would be not merely impossible, but it would look absurd to try, to show that there is any real disunity in religion between us. We share what the theologians call the same sacrifice, the same sacraments, the same profession of faith, and we obey the same laws. We are united in faith and charity, the two bonds of external unity in the Catholic Church.
The one thing which might rupture that unity to some degree, is works like Siscoe's, the motive for which is absolutely unclear. But whatever the motive, it can do no good except by accident.
So, what has Siscoe proved?
Not much, except that there exists a class of cases which are too unclear for anybody to judge without the intervention of authority, which all knew prior to now, and which has already been better explained and proved by others.
This class of cases may be large or small. That is, it may be that the vast majority of heresy cases cannot be judged by anybody but the culprit's bishop, or the Holy Office. If so, and I have no brief either way, this is irrelevant to the question at issue. Nobody, I repeat, disputes that there exist at least some cases that cannot be judged by an informed layman or a cleric without jurisdiction. The question of the post-Vatican II popes is whether or not their cases fit within that category, or whether they are indeed sufficiently clear for at least some men to form a certain judgement about them.
In other words, is it reasonable and lawful for men to form a judgement that Ratzinger is not pope, today, February 27, 2013, rather than to wait until tomorrow, when presumably all will agree that he isn't pope?
The answer can only be "yes". All of the ink spilled by so many anti-sedevacantists in the attempt to place outside of the realm lawfulness and sound doctrine, the private judgement that these heretics have not truly been popes, has failed to achieve the purpose. Our position is lawful, and reasonable, and Catholic. Archbishop Lefebvre granted all of this, and openly speculated that he might adopt our view himself. All of the senior SSPX figures that I have known, with the sole exception of Fr. Schmidberger, readily grant the same point. But the anti-sedevacantists won't be taught by Archbishop Lefebvre any more than they will be taught by St. Robert Bellarmine or by the Code of Canon Law. They have their own fears to suppress, and writing articles is their therapy.
And that is why I had not read Siscoe's article before being asked to do so a few days ago, and why I wrote it off after reading only the first two pages. It's clear that there's nothing new there, and without something new, we already know that the anti-sedevacantist position is bankrupt. Anti-sedevacantism doesn't exist because scholars have made a careful study of the relevant sources and found that it would be unlawful to do what sedevacantists do. Anti-sedevacantism exists because of emotion. The arguments are scrabbled together after the fact. Having been pressed to provide a refutation, I have now been through the entire essay. There was, as expected, nothing behind the smoke and mirrors. I'm sorry, Mr. Siscoe.
At some point in the not too distant future I expect that the real debate will occur in a rational and cool atmosphere. That is, the debate about whether the sedevacantists are right. Not, I emphasise, whether the sedevacantists are criminals, or idiots, or fools, or liars, but whether these Catholics who love the Church have made a right or a wrong judgement of fact in these specific cases: the cases of Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI. And that's the only legitimate debate on this subject matter. All the rest is obfuscation or confusion.
At the same time, what is really a more fundamental discussion needs to be had, and that is the one that Ken and I touched upon above. That is, what exactly is "the Conciliar Church" and where precisely is the Catholic Church? My essay, Archbishop Lefebvre and the Conciliar Church ( http://strobertbellarmine.net/Archbisho ... Church.pdf ) is an attempt to seed that discussion. I suspect that a significant amount of the heat and fear that the discussion of the sede vacante position currently generates would dissipate if there was greater clarity about the more fundamental questions.
On the positive side, something quite remarkable has occurred, and that is that the theology which underpins the sede vacante position, that is, the doctrinal complex which includes the visible unity of the Church, the nature of membership in the Church, and the related points of theology and law, is now being published by The Angelus. The contrast between the Fr. Boulet booklet, filled as it is with crass theological error, and Siscoe's essay, is stark. Siscoe has actually learned something about what the Church teaches. His attendant errors cannot wipe that reality away. It is certainly a happy day when The Angelus publishes St. Robert Bellarmine's comments about Pope Liberius instead of repeating Gallican lies from before the Vatican Council of 1870!
In my opinion, such an one is absolutely still a member of the Church! He is simply mistaken. As Hutton Gibson so aptly remarked on a DVD we own, "The devil used our virtue of obedience against us..."
Yes. As you say, it is a great mystery. Even so, we must do what, in conscience, we believe to be right.
However, I have one other thing that I must mention: those of us who have, for whatever God's reasons might be, have been given the grace to see and recognize the truth, must, in turn, recognize that we have received such graces from God and thank Him repeatedly for those, and beg Him to never taken them away from us.
Smith’s statement is not difficult to understand. He is giving the two opinions with respect to a pope who falls into public heresy. One opinion holds that he is divested of the office ipso facto (that of St. Bellarmine), and the other holds that he is removable (that of Suraez). As he said, “both opinions agree that he must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals”.
St. Francis De Sales alludes to the same two opinions in the other quote that was cited:
"We do not say that the Pope cannot err in his private opinions, as did John XXII; or be altogether a heretic, as perhaps Honorius was. Now when he is explicitly a heretic he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church must either deprive him, or as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See, and must say as St. Peter did: Let another take his bishopric - Acts 1 (St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church).
Notice he says that “the Church must deprive him (Suarez opinion), or declare him to be deprived (since he lost the office ipso facto)" (not individual laymen), since whichever position one hold, as canon Smith taught, “both opinions agree that he must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals”.
If you disagree with this teaching of the canonist Smith and St. Francis de Sales, please provide an authoritative quote that agrees with your personal opinion, namely, that an individual laymen is permitted to judge the guilt of the man elected pope, and then proclaim publicly that the pope has ceased to be pope.
Here’s my authoritative quote saying that it is not left to the private opinion of an individual laymen, but instead to the judgment of the Church:
John of St. Thomas: “St. Jerome - in saying that a heretic departs on his own from the Body of Christ - does not preclude the Church's judgment, especially in so grave a matter as is the deposition of a pope. He refers instead to the nature of that crime, which is such as to cut someone off from the Church on its own and without other censure in addition to it - yet only so long as it should be declared by the Church... So long as he has not become declared to us juridically as an infidel or heretic, be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment, he remains as far as we are concerned a member of the Church and consequently its head. Judgment is required by the Church. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned".
If you have an authoritative quote saying that an individual layman is permitted to judge for himself that one who has been elected pope by the proper authorities has lost his office due to heresy, and that this individual laymen is then permitted to declare publicly that the man is no longer pope, please provide the quote. And please, not your private interpretation of canon law, since you are not a canon lawyer, but an authoritative quote supporting your private interpretation of canon law. Surely, if your private interpretation is correct, you will be able to find a canonist who will support it.
I believe you are misinterpreting what is being said here: For instance, what does the phrase "...does not preclude..." indicate to you? This says to me that saying an heretic departs on his own from the Body of Christ is absolutely true on its own, and that that very fact does not PREVENT the Church from declaring him excommunicate following this.
Secondly, when you intalicize the following "...yet only so long as it...". In this sentence, I read the "it" as referring to the heresy in question, not to the state of the heretic or the censure. You are obviously reading it otherwise.
Again, John of St. Thomas is obviously referring to so-called "occult heretics", not to public and manifest heretics, as Montini, Woytja, and Ratzinger have repeatedly proven themselves to be.
And if you say that you cannot recognize heresy or an heretic without a formal condemnation by the Church, then why do you call yourself a Catholic?
If the first part of the quote is not clear to you, all you have to do is read the second part, which says this: “So long as he has not become declared to us juridically as an infidel or heretic, be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment, he remains as far as we are concerned a member of the Church and consequently its head. Judgment is required by the Church. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned.
And why would you say he is “obviously referring to an occult heretic”, when he explicitly says “be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment?” His point, as he said, is that a ”judgment is required by the Church”. That is the same point Canon Smith made. Regardless of how “manifestly heretical” an individual laymen thinks a pope is, the judgment must be made by the proper authorities – “it is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned” (John of St. Thomas).
What John of St. Thomas is saying exactly what I have been saying, namely, that a judgment of guilt must be made by the Church in order for the pope to be considered not the pope - even if one holds that the office is lost ipso facto when one falls into heresy.
Sure, I can spot heresy if a statement is clearly heretical. But the fact that I spot a heresy does not mean that the person who made the heretical statement automatically loses his office if he is a Bishop or Pope. If you disagree my position on this point, please explain why Archbishop Darboy (example cited in the in the above article) did not automatically lose his office after making his heretical public statement, but instead was treated as a Bishop in good standing by Pope Pius IX. Would you accuse Pius IX of being unable to spot a heresy? Would you ask Pius IX why he called himself a Catholic? And Pius IX was not a merely laymen like myself; he was the Pope, whose job is was to defend the Faith.
Smith’s statement is not difficult to understand.
Perhaps I misunderstood your original article, which uses various terms which indicate the distinction between a judgement of the speculative intellect (i.e. what is true) and a judgement of the practical intellect (i.e. what is to be done). Here's what I'm referring to:
What did "hypothetical" mean in that passage, if not "speculative" or "theoretical"? "[A] hypothetical question, and as such is the object of the speculative intellect..." surely indicates the distinction known to all educated men, between what is true and what is to be done.
Your case is built upon allusions like this. You need either to admit that you follow Cajetan and co., which is fine, or that you don't have any decent texts to support whatever it is you are saying which differs from Cajetan and co. But you won't convince anybody by building your case on little scraps like this.
Cum ex apostolatus officio is sufficiently explicit, even for you, I would think.
any and all persons who would have been subject to those thus promoted or elevated if they had not previously deviated from the Faith, become heretics, incurred schism or provoked or committed any or all of these, be they members of anysoever of the following categories:
(i) the clergy, secular and religious;
(ii) the laity;
(iii) the Cardinals...
(iv) Castellans, Prefects, Captains and Officials, even of Our Beloved City and of the entire Ecclesiastical State...;
shall be permitted at any time to withdraw with impunity from obedience and devotion to those thus promoted or elevated and to avoid them as warlocks, heathens, publicans, and heresiarchs
But the Code is certainly explicit, and so is Bellarmine, and Wernz-Vidal, and all the rest. You just don't like what the texts say. "Without any declaration" ties you in knots. You think, "Oh my, that would result in chaos! They must mean, WITH a declaration, yes, they must mean that, yes, they DO mean that, ah yes, I see clearly now, that is what they really mean, and here's some pre-Code writers saying that this is how it ought to be." Cue John of St. Thomas et al.
Yes, we're all aware of John of St. Thomas's opinion. He disagreed with Bellarmine. This is not news. We quote Bellarmine, you quote John of St. Thomas and Suarez (borrowing their texts from works published by us), which is fine. As I said above, you really ought to explain why you choose these lesser theologians and their minority opinion, if you wish to gain any credibility with those of us who follow Bellarmine, but that's your choice. I suspect you're happy preaching to the sedeplenist choir, however, and you don't seriously think you'll convince any of us. We're not open to switching opinions from those of the Doctors of the Church and the Code, to the lesser theologians.
And please, not your private interpretation of canon law, since you are not a canon lawyer, but an authoritative quote supporting your private interpretation of canon law. Surely, if your private interpretation is correct, you will be able to find a canonist who will support it.
That's funny! You make up your own doctrine, deny the explicit wording of the Code, and then demand that others find an authority for their position? You are not taking any of this seriously.
The Code says (CIC 188, §4): "By tacit resignation, accepted by the law itself, all offices become vacant ipso facto and without any declaration if a cleric... publicly defects from the Catholic Faith."
Do you accept this law? Do you accept this doctrine? If so, why do you insist on adhering to pre-Code opinions which, even if they were right then (which they certainly were not), have been superseded by the Code?
Why do you deliberately confuse the degree of publicity required for a man to lose his office by heresy? Why write the meaningless (i.e. meaningless after the Code) combination, "notorious and publicly manifest" instead of "manifest" or "public"? It's obvious why - you don't like the doctrine of the Code, you think it will result in chaos in the Church. (You prefer the peace and order that resulted from obedience to Paul VI???).
What does the Code mean by "public"?
CIC 2197: "A crime is... Public, if it is already commonly known or the circumstances are such as to lead to the conclusion that it can and will easily become so."
Woywod teaches, "The Code calls an offense public when knowledge of it has been spread among the people (divulgatum), or when it was committed under circumstances which make it practically impossible to keep the offense secret."
And Ayrinhac teaches the same thing. "A delict is public when it is already known to the people of a community or, considering the circumstances of place and persons, will surely be divulged. The original witnesses may have been few, but if they are talkative, the fact will be made known to many."
So "public" ain't very public. And that's your real beef. For you, there are two classes of cases, the notorious heretic (which for you means, he has officially joined the First Baptist Church down on the corner), and the occult heretic. "Public" as defined in the Code is something you simply don't recognise.
For me, and for most sedevacantists, the entire spectrum exists, because the law says that it does and reason tells us the same thing. There are notorious cases, there are occult cases, and there are a range of cases in between. We are fully aware that it is perfectly possible for a good Catholic to form a different judgement about any case until and unless the Church intervenes. We're comfortable with that. But you're not comfortable with us. You think we are risking our salvation by following Bellarmine and the Code of Canon Law instead of Smith. Can you grasp why that doesn't hit us very hard?
Well, he certainly couldn't have imagined what has actually happened in our era. But Ken, RJS is right - John of St. Thomas famously disagreed with Bellarmine. Which is why he ain't our authority.
But I agree with the teaching cited above; yet you are not simply withdrawing from obedience and devotion, you are claiming the person has lost their office. If your position is that, due to the seemingly heretical teachings and actions of the recent popes, you cannot follow them (recognize and resist?), I would not disagree with you. But that is not what you are doing. You are declaring that they lost their office.
I'm still waiting for you to produce a quote from an approved source saying that an individual laymen has the authority to judge for himself that a pope has lost his office due to heresy, and then is permitted to proclaim it publicly and seek to bring others around to his private opinion. Again, I am not interested in your private interpretation of canon law, since you are not a canon lawyer. I am looking for an authoritative quote from an approved source that agrees with the conclusion you have arrived at based on your private interpretation of canon law.
I cited the authority for my postion, which of course you do not accept since he disagrees with your conclusion. By the way, here is what the Catholic Encyclopedia says about John of St. Thomas:
As professor of philosophy and theology in a monastery at Alcalá, he soon took rank among the most learned men of the time, and was placed successively (1630 and 1640) in charge of the two principal chairs of theology in the university of that city. His renown drew the largest number of scholars that had ever attended its theological faculties
No man enjoyed a greater reputation in Spain, or was more frequently consulted on points of doctrine and ecclesiastical matters. His theological and philosophical writings, which have gone through many editions, are among the best expositions of St. Thomas's doctrine, of which he is acknowledged to be one of the foremost interpreters. Though he took an active part in the scholastic discussions of his times, his courtesy was such that he is said never to have hurt an opponent's feelings. So faithful was he to the traditions of his order and the principles of the Angelic Doctor that in his last illness he could declare that, in all the thirty years he had devoted to teaching and writing, he had not taught or written anything contrary to St. Thomas. His humility and his devotion to education caused him to refuse many dignities offered him by the Church and his order. In 1643 Philip IV offered him the office of royal confessor, a position which only religious obedience could induce him to accept.
Once again, this is what he wrote:
Now, please cite an authoritative source saying that an individual laymen is permitted to judge for himself that a pope is guilty of heresy and has thereby lost his office, and then is permitted to declare it publicly while attempting to bring others around to his position.
If you are unable to do so, simply admit that you cannot find any approved source that agrees with the conclusion you reached based on your private interpretation of canon law, and then we can move on.
But I agree with the teaching cited above; yet you are not simply withdrawing from obedience and devotion, you are claiming the person has lost their office.
Please, this is silly. Cum ex apostolatus first says that a heretic does not possess the office of pope, then it says what I quoted above. We are permitted to withdraw from the putative pope precisely because he isn't truly pope. You need me to quote the entire document? I thought we all knew it by heart.
...if ever at any time it shall appear that any Bishop, even if he be acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch or Primate; or any Cardinal of the aforesaid Roman Church, or, as has already been mentioned, any legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, prior to his promotion or his elevation as Cardinal or Roman Pontiff, has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy:
(i) the promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void and worthless;...
(vi) those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and power.
And, er, Cum ex apostolatus doesn't qualify "heresy" with "public" or any other degree of publicity. Unlike you, Pope Paul IV was more concerned about heretics claiming authority in the Church than he was about whether somebody might judge a mere private heretic to be a public one by mistake. Obviously the possibility of such a mistake is of very great concern to you, however: your prime concern is that Montini's good name be protected. For you, history must record that his apostasy was somehow technically not quite public enough for him to forfeit the papacy.
your private interpretation of canon law.
And I'm not going to accept your private interpretation of Bellarmine, John of St. Thomas, Canon Smith, or even Will Smith. So I guess it's a stand-off.
But you're foxing with this. You're not prepared to discuss Canon Law at all, let alone accept what the canonists say. You will only quote a pre-Code canonist who isn't commenting on the law at all. He isn't commenting on the law as it stands today. He isn't commenting on the law as it stood before 1917. He's commenting on a theological controversy.
If the question is, what was the law prior to 1917, then I have Cum ex apostolatus, which authorises me to judge that Ratzinger isn't the pope and to treat him as a warlock, heathen, heretic, etc. In other words, I don't have to be polite, or quiet about it. If you say that I may withdraw from obedience, but only secretly, like a hypocrite, letting all of my relatives and friends think that I recognise the criminal as pope, then you find an authority for that singular view. There are none, there could be none: such a mode of acting would be immoral.
If the question is, what is the law subsequent to 1917, I have the text of the Code, which incorporates the essential principle of Cum ex apostolatus in canon 188, and the footnotes tell us that Cum ex apostolatus is the source, so if there's any doubt about how to interpret canon 188, we are to use Cum ex apostolatus to settle the matter. That principle's in the Code too, right at the beginning, in the section on interpretation. Look it up.
You, on the other hand, have nothing canonical at all. You have a theological opinion.
Whose theological opinion? An opinion shared by great theologians, but refuted by a Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine.
That's the situation regarding authorities, RJS.
Also, don't bother trying to puff the authority of your sources by quoting The Catholic Encyclopedia. It doesn't help. Cajetan was described by a pope - I think Paul IV, actually - as a Lamp of the Church, and is universally regarded as the greatest of Thomistic commentators. Suarez received his exceptional intelligence by a miracle through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, to whom he prayed when he found that he couldn't pass his exams, since he was too stupid. These were all great men. But they disagreed on some points, with others and with each other.
And I repeat, if you choose to follow the discredited minority opinion because it seems true to you, that's your free choice. I certainly have no problem with that. I think my record is pretty clear that I have no problem with sedeplenism as such. (I detest anti-sedevacantism, however, and that's for two main reasons. One, it sows division. Two, it inevitably relies upon unorthodox arguments, historical lies - especially Gallican ones - and other unworthy tactics.)
In case anybody is wondering why this article is receiving a bath here right now, the answer is, because Robert Siscoe asked me to answer him.
I checked my email this morning and I find that I was first sent the article in September last year. I ignored it, reasoning that if it was of any moment it would convince or at least concern a few people, and I could take notice if and when it did. I only commented now because I was pushed by Robert Siscoe, who wrote and asked me if I intended to answer it. I did not want him to imagine that if I didn't answer it this might indicate that I could not do so.
I wish I had never seen the darn thing. Siscoe's article is a piece of flim-flam. There isn't any substance to it. It doesn't even state what its thesis is, at the beginning or anywhere else. It avoids defining the terms it uses, and it declines to argue in any logical manner from one point to the next. It's just a series of assertions, many true, some false, which appear to be designed collectively to create the impression that somehow Paul VI was really only a secret heretic and we endanger our salvation by mistaking him for a public one.
Ah! OK. Thank you. I am corrected....and still of the same opinion: i.e., that we, as Catholics are required to recognize heresy and heretics and to "avoid" them.
I just noticed something interesting in this text which I had not previously noticed.
Cum ex apostolatus officio is not, as all know, actually dealing with a true pope who falls into personal heresy. It's dealing with one who is already a heretic who claims any ecclesiastical office, including the papacy. Yet, note the language: "those thus promoted or elevated shall be deprived automatically, and without need for any further declaration, of all dignity, position, honour, title, authority, office and power."
This illustrates the point I have made elsewhere, I think many times, that we must be cautious with these terms. Anti-sedevacantists like to point to the term "deprive" and build their case upon it, arguing that if a source uses that term then it implicitly teaches that the office is occupied and that the culprit does need to be deprived of it. This, as we can see in the present case, is entirely unfounded. Cum ex apostolatus explicitly teaches that a heretic who is putatively elevated to an office in the Church does not obtain that office at all, ever. Yet the same document uses the word "deprived" to describe the "loss" of office.
Likewise, Bellarmine speaks of the Roman clergy "depriving" Pope Liberius of his dignity and replacing him with Felix II. And finally, St. Francis de Sales in his apologetics work uses the same term in equally loose a manner.
The same point could be made about the terms "promoted" and "elevated" in this text. In each case they mean "attempted to be promoted" or "attempted to be elevated."
(I detest anti-sedevacantism, however, and that's for two main reasons. One, it sows division. Two, it inevitably relies upon unorthodox arguments, historical lies - especially Gallican ones - and other unworthy tactics.)
Well, I am most certainly on your side on this one, John, despite the fact that, as you know, I do not regard myself as a sedevacantist!
FYI, my Wife and I attended a Mass and a conference offered by Bishop Williamson last night. The conference was very interesting, although in my opinion, a bit too long.
During the conference, one of the last questions addressed sedevacantism. Archbishop Lefebvre was quoted: "I cannot say that the Pope isn't the Pope, but I also cannot say that one cannot say that the Pope isn't the Pope."
Bishop Williamson then attempted to define sedevacantism. His definition was incorrect. After a very mild remonstrance from me, he quoted St. Augustine, "...in all things, Charity." You know the one.
He, obviously, does not view sedevacantists as so many sedeplenists, unfortunately, do.
After a very mild remonstrance from me, he quoted St. Augustine, "...in all things, Charity." You know the one.
Yes, I do, I love it. I have used it many times. I also think, these days, that it's spurious!
Yes, neither he nor Archbishop Lefebvre is anti-sede. The difference is, the Archbishop said he might adopt our view. Williamson never will, and it's because his ecclesiology is not Roman. It's essentially Protestant, or at least Gallican.
Before I respond to the above, let us note for the record that you did not provide a single quote from an approved source saying that an individual laymen is permitted to judge that a pope is a heretic who has thereby lost his office, and is then permitted to declare this as a fact, while trying to persuade others to accept their personal opinion (I'll comment on your quote from Cum ex below).
Now, regarding the teaching of Canon Smith and my remarks regarding the speculative and practical order, you misunderstood what I meant.
Smith begins by asking a question. The question is this: “Is a Pope who falls into heresy deprived, ipso jure, of the Pontificate”. That is a hypothetical question, which is why he said (at the end of the quote): “The question is hypothetical rather than practical.”
Now, he does not directly answer the hypothetical question directly, but instead says there are two opinions. One opinion holds that the pope loses his office ipso facto. The other holds that he is deposable. Both of those opinions are of the speculative order.
He then proceeds to the practical order by saying that a judgment of guilt is required by the Church. Why? Because only the Church has the authority to judge whether or not a man is guilty of the sin of heresy. On the practical level, only the Church can make the necessary judgment – a judgment that either removes the pope (one opinion), or declares that the pope has already lost his office due to heresy (other opinion). Regardless of which of the two opinions one hold, a judgment of guilt by the proper authorities is necessary.
The following is the entire quote again. When reading it, notice that he says “both opinions agree” that a judgment of the Church is required, thereby showing that the necessity of the judgment from the Church is not simply his own opinion that he is putting forward, but is what both opiniond agree on.
“Question: Is a Pope who falls into heresy deprived, ipso jure, of the Pontificate?
Answer: There are two opinions: one holds that he is by virtue of divine appointment, divested ipso facto, of the Pontificate; the other, that he is, jure divino, only removable. Both opinions agree that he must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals. The question is hypothetical rather than practical”.
The reason you have been unable to locate a single quotation from an approved authority saying that an individual laymen has the authority to judge that a pope has fallen into heresy and thereby lost his office, and then is permitted to proclaim this publicly all the while attempting to draw other people to his opinion, is because such a position is contrary to what “both opinions” hold – namely, that the pope “must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals”.
So even if one holds to the position of Bellarmine (who I do not disagree with, by the way), it requires a judgment of guilt, and Joe Layman in the pew (that’s you) does not have the authority to make the call.
From this we can see that the quotation I provided from John of St. Thomas (which, of course, you do not accept), does not disagree with the position of Bellarmine, since even the position of Bellarmine requires a judgment of guilt from the Church. That is why John of St. Thomas was careful to add “according to private judgment”, when he said: “be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment, he remains as far as we are concerned a member of the Church and consequently its head. Judgment is required by the Church. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned".
Regarding your quote from Cum Ex, it does not say what you want it to say. All it says is that an individual is permitted to “withdraw from obedience and devotion” from a heretical pope. I agree with that. I agree that you would be permitted to withdraw from obedience if you are convinced the pope is a heretic and therefore a danger to your faith. Even if you were mistaken that he is a heretic, you still have the moral right to protect yourself from one who you consider to be a danger to your faith. The portion of Cum Ex that speaks of the election of a heretical pope being null, does not preclude a judgment by which the man is “declared guilty of heresy by the church, i.e., by an ecumenical council or the College of Cardinals” to use the words of Canon Smith.
The teaching you provided from Cum Ex fits in with the quote from St. Bellarmine that someone posted on your website recently. Here’s the quote:
Bellarmine: “It is true that people must distinguish a true prophet from a false one, but not by any other rule than this one: by watching carefully to see if the one preaching says the opposite of what his predecessors said, or what is being said by other everyday pastors, and most importantly what is being said by the apostolic See and the first Church; for the people are commanded to listen to their pastors. Lk. 10: "He who hears you hears Me." And Matt. 23: "Do what they tell you." Thus, the faithful must not pass judgment on their pastor unless they hear from him new things and things foreign to the teaching of other pastors.
“We must point out, besides, that the faithful can certainly distinguish a true prophet from a false one, by the rule that we have laid down, but for all that, if he is a bishop, they cannot depose such a pastor and put another person in his place. For Our Lord and the Apostles only lay down that false prophets are not to be listened to by the people, and not that they depose them. And it is certain that the practice of the Church has always been that heretical bishops be deposed by bishop's councils, or by the Sovereign Pontiff.”
Your favorite authority just made my point. As a layman you can certainly resist a false prophet – one who is teaching contrary to what the Church teaches. That means, you can withdraw from obedience and devotion to him); but you do not have the authority to depose them, or, what amounts to the same thing, to declare that they have deposed themselves by teaching heresy (especially when they have not openly left the Church, but remained in their office), since that requires a judgment and declaration from the proper authorities.
If you disagree, simply provide a quote saying that an individual laymen has the authority to judge that a pope has defected from the Faith and thereby lost his office, and is permitted to declare this publicly.
Even if you were mistaken that he is a heretic, you still have the moral right to protect yourself from one who you consider a danger to your faith.
Here is yet another place where we disagree most strongly with you: we do not have a only "right" to protect ourselves against those we regard as heretics, or anything or anyone that is positive danger to our faith: we are required to avoid such.
I.e., it is a duty, not to fulfill which constitutes, at least objectively, a sin.
Does not the 1st commandment of the decalogue to worship only God tell you that we must not join with false religions in any way? Does not this provide you with the other unnecessary "documented proof" you are speciously requiring in this instance?
It is patently obvious, at least to me, that you are requiring more and more "proof" to bolster our arguments simply because you cannot, or will not, see nor accept the truth.
Benny is an heretic, possibly of the worst sort that has ever afflicted the Church. There is simply no doubt about that at all. All you have to do is to read his constant writings, both those from before his spurious election and after, and you will find a plethora of proof.
It is our duty to make this plain to anyone who will listen...and even to those who won't. The truth must be told by everyone.
You've been defeated on the point about what laymen may or may not do. Cum ex apostolatus is very clear, and it's a papal bull.
I don't think you've thought this through, and neither has Smith - but he doesn't pretend that he has thought it through, he is giving it very brief treatment, the barest of summaries. Smith has actually issued an ipse dixit. He has provided no evidence whatsoever that Bellarmine and his school "agreed" with Smith's personal opinion, which happens to be that of Cajetan and John of St. Thomas. Nor is such a possibility likely, given that Bellarmine expends considerable effort wrecking Cajetan's thesis, showing that any position which involves a judgement over a pope is heretical.
If you had the motivation to do any real research, and you honestly believed Smith's assertion, you'd go to the books as Da Silveira did, and find the evidence that Smith assures you is there in spades. They all agree? Well, if they all agree, it won't be hard to cobble together two or three examples, will it?
Well, yes it will. The evidence doesn't exist. But you'll never know that, because your evidence is only what can be found on this Web site. We haven't hidden the evidence, Robert. It doesn't exist.
Smith perhaps alleges that both sides agree that a pope who disappears into heresy must be regarded as pope until and unless "the Church" (which Smith defines as some authorities which are not, actually, the Church at all) issues a judgement. One of the authorities that Smith describes as "the Church" is "an ecumenical council". But no ecumenical council can exist without the sanction of the pope. Any other body can at most be an imperfect general council - that is, a fallible synod of bishops. So Smith's terminology is inaccurate. Only a fully ecumenical council (or a pope on his own) can truly speak for, and bind, the whole Church.
But as I said above, Smith may well not be asserting what you understand him to be. His text isn't clear. I think he's a partisan of Cajetan and John of St. Thomas, but it's quite possible that when he writes what must happen in practice, he means only that it ought to be done (which I agree with, of course). He may well not mean to imply that if it isn't done, then the heretic remains pope. After all, he merely mentions the two opinions without explicitly choosing either as his own view, just as St. Francis de Sales did.
Smith deals in this text with the question of a true pope who, hypothetically, falls into heresy. What about the case of a heretic cardinal who claims the papacy? Are we just to accept his claim, any claim, until and unless "an ecumenical council [without a pope]" or "the College of Cardinals" declares that we should not adopt this new claimant as pope? What madness, and it's directly contrary to a papal bull.
Cum ex apostolatus tells us what would the case in such a circumstance (and it's what happened in 1978, twice, and again in 2005). 1. The heretic will not be pope, even if he receives the obedience of all Catholics. 2. Any layman can reject him, even those who initially fall for his lying claim - i.e. all are permitted to withdraw from obedience and treat him as a warlock, heathen, etc.
If Muller or Mahoney emerges as "pope" from the next conclave, will you,
a) Accept his claim?
b) Wait to see what Bishop Fellay does, just in case "sedevacantism" is suddenly not evil after all, or
c) Reject either of them as heathens, warlocks, publicans, etc., since they are both manifestly not Catholics today, and participating in a conclave is not one of the means by which one enters the Catholic Church?
There is no dissagreement between your point and mine.
Out rights correspond with, and proceed from, our duties. Parents have a duty to raise their children, to educate them in the Faith, and to teach them right from wrong. Therefore, because of this duty, they have a moral right to raise their children, to educate them, etc." Our rights flow from our duties.
So, when I said a person has a right to protect themselves from one who is a danger to their faith, it presuposes a higher duty - namely, the duty they have to preserve their faith.
Your entire position has been destroyed with this single point. You need to realize that you are a simple laymen. You are not a pope; you are not a Bishop; you are not a Priest. You aren’t even a married Novus Ordo Deacon. All you are is a simply laymen in the pew who has read just enough to be dangerous. Yet you have no scruple in completely disregarding the teaching of a real Canonist who adds a distinction that you never considered. And please note that Canon Smith is not disagreeing with Bellarmine; he is simply saying the exact same thing that John of St. Thomas said – namely, that “be he ever so manifestly heretical according to private judgment, he remains as far as we are concerned a member of the Church and consequently its head. Judgment is required by the Church. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned”.
So even if a pope loses his office automatically due to heresy, “judgment is required by the Church” to determine that the guilt, just as Canon Smith said.
You have provided a grand total of zero citations from an approved source to support your position. All you have brought forward is a quote from Cum Ex Apostolatus which I accept. The teaching of Cum Ex is identical with that of many other theologians, who have maintained that we are not required to follow a Prelate who errs – even if this prelate happens to be the Pope. But that doesn’t mean that we are then permitted to depose the man; or, what amounts to the same thing, declare that he has deposed himself and then proclaim this to the world as a fact. That is why Bellarmine said this:
Bellarmine: “We must point out, besides, that the faithful can certainly distinguish a true prophet from a false one, by the rule that we have laid down, but for all that, if he is a bishop, they cannot depose such a pastor and put another person in his place. For Our Lord and the Apostles only lay down that false prophets are not to be listened to by the people, and not that they depose them. And it is certain that the practice of the Church has always been that heretical bishops be deposed by bishop's councils, or by the Sovereign Pontiff.”
Keep searching in vain for a quote from an approved source that contradicts what Canon Smith, John of St. Thomas, and Bellarmine taught, and which agrees with your position. And to be clear, your position is this: That a laymen is permitted to judge for himself that a pope (who has remained visibly in his office and is recognized by 99.999% of the world to be Pope) has fallen into heresy and thereby lost his office; and that this laymen is then permitted to declare this publicly, and seek to persuade others that they should accept his opinion.
That is the quote you need to produce, but you will never be able to do so because even if one holds that a pope heretic automatically loses his office due to heresy, a judgment of guilt must be made, and only the Church has the authority to do so.
Your entire position has been destroyed with this single point. You need to realize that you are a simple laymen.
Well, I am quite sure that I know that I am a simple layman. But your censorious tone suggests that you are far from convinced that the same is true of you.
You're not going to disturb any sedes with this argument, but it does appear you can settle your own concerns, and that is evidently all that this is about.
Let us know when you decide to take any of this seriously.
Your entire position has been destroyed with this single point. You need to realize that you are a simple laymen. You are not a pope; you are not a Bishop; you are not a Priest. You aren’t even a married Novus Ordo Deacon. All you are is a simply laymen in the pew who has read just enough to be dangerous.
RJS, don't you think it a bit strange that you've learned much of what you know from the website of "a layman who has just read enough to be dangerous?" I don't see how that makes you anything but even more dangerous.
Anyway, by your own words here, isn't it true that you shouldn't be writing and publishing articles without the permission of your Ordinary? You are just a simple layman, right?
Recusant
You put a BIG smile on my face with that one!
Cristian Jacobo
Judgment is required by the Church[/u]. It is only then that he ceases to be pope as far as we are concerned”
Robert, if he is Pope you cannot judge him (canon 1556), therefore that jugment is necessarily upon someone who is not Pope. This is not hard to grasp.
"Il n`y a qu`une tristesse, c`est de n`etre pas des Saints"
Leon Bloy
RJS ... by your own words here, isn't it true that you shouldn't be writing and publishing articles without the permission of your Ordinary? You are just a simple layman, right?
The difference is, I am not making a public declaration that a man who was elected by the college of Cardinals as pope is a public heretic and therefore not a true pope. I've never criticized John or anyone else from publishing articles without the permission of the local Ordinary. Only for publishing articles making judgments and declarations he has no authority to make, and attempting to persuade people to accept his private judment.
John claims that my arguing against the Sedevacantist position is "divisive". He seems completely oblivious to the fact that it is his private judgment and public "declarations" that is the cause of the division.
Cristian Jacobo wrote:
Hello Cristian,
I am going to see if you or John or anyone else can answer the point you raised. The answer is so glaringly obvious that I will be surprised if no one here can answer it.
I'm asking you why you seem willing to write about these issues, which clearly are in forbidden territory. I know why John has written about them, I just can't figure out why you are unwilling to seek the approval of your local Ordinary.
Also, I have made no "public declaration" on this issue. Is your postion that it can't be discussed at all? If so, then why are you discussing it let alone publishing unauthorized articles about it in unauthorized periodicals?
RJS: I am being constantly amazed at how you can interpret practically everything presented to you in a sense which is, to everyone but you, opposite to its true meaning.
Cristian said: "Robert, if he is Pope you cannot judge him (canon 1556), therefore that judgment is necessarily upon someone who is not Pope. This is not hard to grasp."
I will try to explain this to you in a manner you may understand. Let's see if I am correct. First of all, you are conflating the more than one meaning of the word "judge". There are at least two vastly different meanings of the word used in this discussion.
1) No one may judge the pope. This is from Canon 1556. By the word "pope" here, everyone (except you, apparently) understands a True Pope, not a usurper or an anti-pope. And we all agree that no one may judge a True Pope. Period. However, the word "judge" in the sense as used in this Canon, means "in an ecclesiastical court of law" by his peers.
2) In the case of any Catholic layman, we are "judging" in the sense that we "have decided", or "arrived at a conclusion" that the man who purports to hold the See of Peter, is, in fact, a public and notorious heretic, and we insist that we have ample proof of his heresy.
Then, from what the Church has taught from at least the time of St. Paul, we know that anyone who is such an heretic is AUTOMATICALLY excommunicated, by his own actions, as declared in Canon 188ff, no declaration of the hierarchy being needed as stated in that Canon, and such an one is no longer a member of the Church.
It is then purely logical that one who is not a member of the Church cannot possibly be Her head.
Therefore, such an one is not only not the True Pope, but simply cannot be the True Pope, and therefore he can be "judged" as any normal man, even in an ecclesiastical court, if it came to that.
Why is this so hard for you to understand? Or do you understand these things, but refuse to accept them? You have been arguing in circles since you joined this particular discussion. I will repeat: you have, as far as I can see, refused to accept the truth. Possibly it is too painful for you. If that is true, then all I can say is, "Join the club." If you think for one minute that all of us have not been through our own personal hell before arriving at our only possible and logical conclusion, then you do us a terrible injustice.
And as Catholic laymen, we are required not only to "judge" such an heretic, but also to avoid him, and to warn our fellow Catholics against him when opportunity arises. This is required by God. I believe it is called "Christian Charity".
No, let's be accurate and precise. It's the wickedness of the heretics which has sown the division. Those who seek to defend them are only accessories after the fact.
And as I have pointed out already, your position has nothing in common with that of Archbishop Lefebvre, so it's understandable that The Remnant would publish your article, but frankly very sad that The Angelus would do so also.
John: I must remind you that the definition of "sedevacantism" accepted by many in the SSPX does not correspond to reality, despite your valiant efforts to make that definition clear.
That was brought home very clearly to me and my wife at the recent conference given by Bishop Williamson which we attended.
He gave a definition of it which was so far from reality that it was plain why he disagreed with it. I think all of us, even those of us here (...ahem...) who claim that we are not sedevacantists would disagree with his definition. I know I sure do.
Yet this is one of those definitions with which many (should I say "most"?) of those in the SSPX agree. No wonder The Angelus printed Siscoe's flawed and specious article.
Ken, I'm referring to the views expressed by Archbishop Lefebvre, not any of the various lesser SSPX figures who have commented on these questions over the years.
Lefebvre said that maybe Paul VI (and later, JP2) was not pope. He said that the reason he didn't finally form the judgement that Paul VI wasn't pope was because perhaps Paul VI was merely a Catholic liberal, and not a manifest heretic. Lefebvre wasn't sure. What he was sure about, as he made clear in his lengthy 1986 conference, was that if a man is a manifest heretic, then he is not pope and it is right to make such a judgement and to express it openly. In other words, Lefebvre's position was that of Bellarmine.
Btw, this discussion will probably remind various older members here of another debate from back in the 1990s. Can anybody else recall a fellow called "J. Lawrence Case" and his novel little position built almost entirely on that quote from St. Francis de Sales? Well, I certainly can, and I recall how it exasperated and then amused Jim Larrabee too.
"Case" was actually a Guerardian, or at least, he thought he was, but he had is own take on it, and his take relied totally on a couple of snippets of texts...
So anyway, I did some searches, and look what I found. He isn't arguing with me, or Jim, on this occasion, but rather against a non-sede (Case would argue for automatic deposition against non-sedes, and against total automatic deposition against sedes. As I said, he had his own position, "sede impedita", which he thought was subtle and precise!)
J Lawrence Case wrote:
You wrote,
Rev. S.B. Smith, also quoted in defense of this opinion, does not even treat the question seriously. After answering that two opinions exist on the matter (one that a pope is ipso facto deprived of the pontificate, the other that he is only removable,) Smith goes on to say: "The question is hypothetical rather than practical. For although according to the more probable opinion, a pope may fall into heresy and err in matters of faith, as a private person, yet it is also universally admitted that no pope ever did fall into heresy, even as a private doctor," ("Elements of Ecclesiastical Law," Vol. I).
This book was scrutinized by the Holy Office for months before its Fifth Edition, and approved. Rev. Smith most certainly treats the question seriously. He mentions the fact that there are only two opinions and that they both agree that a declaration of fact is necessary. Here is the quote:
466. Q. Is a Pope who falls into heresy deprived, ipso facto, of the Pontificate?
A. - 1. There are two opinions: one holds that he is, by virtue of divine appointment, divested, ipso facto, of the Pontificate; the other, that he is, jure divino, only removable. Both opinions agree that he must at least be declared guilty of heresy by the Church - i.e., by an oecumenical council of the College of Cardinals.
Also take note of another Catholic truth first - "a pope cannot be judged". This means that the TWO opinions mentioned above both believe that at the time of declaration, the man is already not a true pope, otherwise one of the opinions would be "judging the pope". The idea of "jure divino, only removable" does not entail believing he is still a true pope. It pertains to the material aspects of the office (Pontificate) that need to be dealt with canonically, for possession can exist without ownership. We all know a man can possess something without owning it.
Further reason - If you read this text book, it makes a clear distinction between a "condemnatory" judgment and a "declaratory" judgment in Canon Law, saying the latter is a merely declaring a fact that already occurred. The two opinions above agree that a "declaration" is what is needed, signifying they both believe the fact already occurred.
As I said before, the See is "impeded" until that declaration is made.
The concept of "hypothetical" means that it is possible in the future. Rev. Smith merely mentioned that it never happened in the past. It would not be in such a book if it were not serious. I own the 3 Volume set. Quite a thorough and serious work. They didn't make "Canon Law for Dummies" in the 19th century.
"J Lawrence Case" was, of course, an alias. Maybe "RJS" is merely the latest alias??? Robbie, is that you again? Are you pushing your old "sede impedita" barrow still?
It's spooky how similar these two arguments are, right down to the puffing of the authority of the source.
It's also interesting that we have our answer to the question, what did Smith mean by "hypothetical"?
Smith goes on to say: "The question is hypothetical rather than practical. For although according to the more probable opinion, a pope may fall into heresy and err in matters of faith, as a private person, yet it is also universally admitted that no pope ever did fall into heresy, even as a private doctor,"
So that's all he meant. All that rubbish above by RJS notwithstanding. Wow, that is so like J. Lawrence Case too!
RJS, you do not appear to know when you have been defeated on a point. Is it that words don't have the same meaning for you that they have for others? I had written, "Cum ex apostolatus officio is sufficiently explicit, even for you, I would think." I was mistaken. But it's sufficiently clear for everybody else.
shall be permitted at any time to withdraw with impunity from obedience and devotion to those thus promoted or elevated and to avoid them as warlocks, heathens, publicans, and heresiarchs...
One is "subject" to the pope. That is, he has jurisdiction over his "subjects". If one is not subject to him, he isn't pope. There's no third option, this is a question in which there are only two possibilities.
You appear to be saying that one may be "subject" to a man who is not really pope, but one cannot say that he's not really pope, until and unless some authority makes a declaration; yet one must not obey said non-pope-whom-one-is-pretending-is-pope because he represents a danger to the faith. At least, that appears to be your position, and it's certainly in violent conflict with Cum ex apostolatus officio which says "would have been subject" and therefore are not subject.
I was not subject to Benedict XVI. (Neither were you, but you said that you were. But that's another subject...)
"J Lawrence Case" was, of course, an alias. Maybe "RJS" is merely the latest alias??? Robbie, is that you again? Are you pushing your old "sede impedita" barrow sill?
I'm pretty sure RJS isn't JLC or any of the other manifestations of Robbie S, but I could be wrong. I remember Robert Siscoe from 6 or 7 years ago and he wasn't nearly as sure of himself as he is today, but that was before he perused this forum's sources.
Also, I actually found that same source (Samuel B. Smith, Elements of Ecclesiastical Law) just this past year (it's a free google book) and quoted that same section in the Cum Ex Apostolatus thread.
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Signals Students Making Connections
Signals of Spring students have always done amazing workusing Earth imagery to track the movements of animals. Here, a few students share some of their findings.
At Evanston High School in Evanston, Wyoming, Dr. Clarissa Cole's students Niki, Brandon, and Kate made some startling discoveries about the Polar Bear! After learning how to analyze NASA Earth imagery through Signals of Spring, the students made some incredible findings.
The students explain, "One of the victims of global warming is the Polar Bear. Our teacher, Dr. Cole, showed us an article by National Geographic that pointed out that because of melting ice, the Polar Bear is having to hunt farther and farther away from land. As the ice closer to shore melts, they are traveling closer to danger. We then got onto the Signals of Spring site and looked at the maps. Sure enough, the bears are traveling farther north and farther from land in order to keep hunting. If you will look on the site maps, this fact is provable and very clear. Our program backs up the assertions being made."
Click here to see the Polar Bear Temperature Map.
(Note: you must be logged in)
Dr. Cole's students think that programs such as Signals of Spring are the answer. They said, "It is being predicted that Polar Bears may disappear completely in the next 50 years as a result of melting ice. Many are falling through the ice as they continue to hunt farther from the safety of land. Ice is thinning and they fall through."
"Perhaps the work of Signals of Spring can actually help scientists at USGS to track the Polar Bear and in some way help to prevent their extinction. They are now listed as a 'threatened' species as a result of thinning ice and declining numbers. We can provide a means of letting people know what is happening so that we can change their future and our own."
Click here to see the Northern Goshawk maps.
In New Jersey, Mrs. Sior's students at Sussex County Charter School have studied land and marine animals. James, a species expert studying the Northern Goshawk, learned that these birds prefer coniferous forests but they may also be found in other areas, including urban parks. He found out that these birds tend to prey on smaller birds and mammals, and that they themselves may become prey to larger birds such as eagles. Julia, another of Mrs. Sior's students, studied Marc, the Harbor Seal's movements in relation to Sea Surface Temperature. Julia wrote,
The Marc Seal's Location
March 22, 2006 - April 18, 2006
When we first started tracking Marc the harbor seal, we saw no great movement from his location. Now, since the water is warming up, we have noted that he had been going more to the East, away from shore. Then, about two weeks later, he came back to where he was originally. I think his migration is like the narwhales, because they travel only a few hundred miles away from where they usually subside. He also had been noted on the tracker that he had been on the land for a little while. While I know this is common for seals but it seemed odd at first to see this huge cluster in the water and then, one marker on the land far from the others.
Justification:
I believe that the harbor seal may have migrated out southeast to the Gulf Stream current for it is warmer there. He had started migrating further away when it was winter, when we had a long cold snap. I think that he had gone out there because the Gulf Stream current is from tropical waters and the water here in NJ and up in Maine where the seal is, in the winter, is pretty cold. This led our group to believe that he went there either because of his food source went there or because he wanted to go to warmer waters.
Click here for Harbor Seal Map
Follow the link above and zoom in on Maine, and it shows what I am talking about.
Signals of Spring allows students to integrate the concepts they learn in class, those that are covered in science textbooks. The process by which a teacher can bring the issues that animals face is an exciting process, and students excel in their science investigations as a result.
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James Faure Walker
Faure Walker, James (2009) James Faure Walker. [Show/Exhibition]
Solo show.
James Faure Walker (born 1948, London) studied painting and aesthetics at St Martins (1966-70) and the Royal College of Art (1970-72). He began writing criticism in the mid 1970s, and in 1976 he co-founded Artscribe - a journal for contemporary arts which he edited until 1983. His writings have been published in Studio International, Modern Painters, Mute, Computer Generated Imaging, Wired, Art Review, and he has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues. A long-standing contributor to Siggraph, the annual conference on computer graphics, he has participated in numerous international computer arts festivals and exhibited widely in Austria, Germany, Holland, Japan, Russia, Spain and the USA. In 1998, he won the Golden Plotter first prize at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at DAM Gallery, Berlin, Digital Salon, New York and Bloomberg Space, London. He was awarded a three year AHRB Fellowship for research into painting and the digital studio in 2002, and is the author of 'Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer', published by Prentice Hall (USA) in 2006.
Having recently completed 'Painting the Digital River' I want to continue searching for ways of mixing and blending paint software with painting. I remain fascinated, too, by the shifting attitudes towards the use of technology in drawing and painting. In the latter stages of researching some illustrations for this book I became fascinated with the depiction of water. I have been photographing rock pools and water patterns left in sand. I also have developed a renewed interest in medieval and early renaissance painting.
In broader terms, and thinking forward to a further publication, or conference, I have been exploring the way the 'other worlds' in science - such as the immense spaces of astrophysics, the nano worlds of micro biology - could find some reflection in visual art. It is the question of how artists can make connections in their work beyond what is immediately visible, beyond the conventional subjects. In one sense our knowledge has reached out further than ever before, yet at the same time we speak of art having its own 'art world', its own local habitat, its comfort zone.
I am interested in raising the 'art' awareness in the development of software; also in the shape of new fine art courses incorporating digital expertise; in the future of digital painting; in redefining drawing; in producing a 'project manual' for visual thinking using computer graphics concepts. I am particularly interested in Walter Crane and Lewis Day's publications of the early 1900s, and how they anticipate these thoughts. Though I am suspicious of any instant remedies for the problem of integrating digital tools with traditional methods, I wonder whether a future generation will look back and wonder why painting, drawing, photography and digital media were studied separately.
Canary Wharf 28 March 2009 25 April 2009
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Jacinta
"For me Mary, Our Lady, is a mother and like someone that you can turn to and she's gentle, she's loving, she's kind. And, yeh, she's my mother and someone I can turn to when I'm in an hour of need."
"To me Mary means love, especially love in my own heart and she gives me strength to love other people."
"Mary helps me feel how universal the Church is; she helps to bond the faithful together."
"I love Mary's faith and the way she opened herself to God and to God's will."
"Coming to know Mary in my life has been a grace… Mary is someone who I'm able to go to and just receive that understanding of where my life should be heading - directly to Jesus."
"If you've never been to World Youth Day before, I'd really recommend it, it's a fantastic experience. It's really an opportunity to deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ, and to meet other young Catholics and really firm yourself up in the faith and learn more about the Catholic faith."
"I came to know Our Lady more deeply through Youth 2000, at the age of 30, where I increased my devotion to her through praying the rosary. She has drawn me closer to the Lord and shown me how necessary it is for me to go to Mass each day and to be drawn ever closer to God. So I would just like to thank Our Lady for her loving plan in my life, and for the many graces that she has bestowed on me from Our Lord. Amen."
James has been a pilgrim to Medjugorje on numerous occasions
"As soon as we got to Medjugorje, within no time at all, the fears and anxiety evaporated and I just found myself full of a lot of joy and peace and love, and I found that there was a real tangible love amongst the group. It was a miracle. I think it was a real anointing that Our Lady gave us, we were just like this one family. Some of us didn't even know each other before but there was just such a closeness, a bond."
"Mary is like a mother to me because she is the mother of Jesus who we all look up to and I feel I can be honest with her in prayer and when I'm praying to God."
TOP CHAT about playing the part of Jesus over the last 12 years, particularly in the Wintershall Life of Christ, his relationship with the cast and the audience and how, as an actor, this role is so very different to all others.
"Anyone who has played Christ would know this; it sets you apart from every other role.. By trying to portray Christ, you get to understand something really of the potential of an actor, it stretches you in places you just can't imagine, even in the most demanding of roles in Shakespeare or any of the greats. It always leaves you shredded and transformed, but you welcome it because that is what theatre should be - it should be a transformation and it should be an opportunity for everyone to transform."
James Burke-Dunsmore reads the Stations of the Cross here.
"The reason why Mary is important is because she’s the great example of the Church; she is what the Fathers of the Church called the ‘type’ of the Church, which means she is the example of what we should all be."
Father James
"Our Lady of Walsingham has always made a big impression, since my mother took me to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham when I was about 14 (& now I’m 64). I've always asked her prayers and the mother figure is very important to me, the divine motherhood is very important to me."
Father James Leachman OSB is a Benedictine monk at Ealing Abbey in London.
"To me Mary is the ultimate mother of mothers and she is someone who, as we bring our own child into the world, we will look to more and more for guidance."
"I feel like I have a very personal relationship with Our Lady and that she is just so very beautiful. She looks after me, I feel, as a mother does, and sort of encompasses me and holds me and takes care of me through all difficulties I've ever encountered, and makes things fresh and beautiful in my life."
"Mary to me is a model of faith .. She is the ark of the new covenant and she brings Jesus into the world."
"Saint Augustine of Canterbury had a wonderful role to play and I'm very grateful to having been enlightened as to the heritage and roots of the Catholic faith in England."
"The things Our Lady has done for me as a mother are just unbelievable, she brought me through every day of my life ... I just love praying to Our Lady because she's the mother you don't see but she's the mother that truly is there for you and truly listens and truly intervenes to her son Jesus for us."
"When people talk about Medjugorje, they talk about Our Lady but for me it is the most Christ centred place on this earth. I was drenched in daily adoration, daily Mass, my prayer life has just gone through the roof. It really is something and Scriptures come alive."
"I sympathise with what Our Lady went through as I pray to her every day and every night. Amen."
"For me adoration is very much heaven on earth. If we could only truly appreciate that moment when we are kneeling, sitting or standing before the presence of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is truly heaven on earth and there can be no other place on earth better than in the presence of Jesus."
"Mary to me means mother and I think of comfort."
"I love Mary."
Sister Jenefer
"Mary is a great example and a sister to me, I think. I think that's what she is: a big elder sister, a kind elder sister, and an inspiration, yes, and a friend."
Jenefer is an Ursuline Sister.
"The thing that I’m pondering at the moment about Mary is how at the passion and the crucifixion of Jesus she didn’t shy away, she stayed and she was with him, even in the depth of his suffering, and all the suffering and pain that that would cause her to witness. And yet she journeyed with him through his life and through his death and then into the resurrection. For me, that's a model to follow, that I can journey with Jesus through his suffering into the resurrection and into eternal life with him."
"Thanks to Our Lady and to her yes, I am saying yes to Our Lord and hopefully from now on and for ever."
"Mary to me is my guide through the whole of my life from when I was born and really, really young. I've always known about Jesus and Mary, being brought up a Catholic and she's always been somebody that I can close my eyes and I can always see her. She is always there in my heart. As I get older, she's been a mother figure to me, she's been my safety and my security. As I've grown up, she's become more and more of a role model: if I'm in a difficult moral situation, you can always close your eyes and think what would Our Lady do in this situation."
"Our Lady is really the perfect role model …there's nothing more perfect than the fiat Our Lady gives in the Hail Mary, when she greets Elizabeth as well and when she is there with the angel. Just that yes, that unconditional yes that she gave Our Lord, is something I aspire to be like her .. looking up to her, learning from the way she was gently loving and adoring Christ."
"Our Lady - I love her! … I'd crawl on my knees and my feet and my hands just to be there with her."
"Our Lady is special and she is kind and she is beautiful."
"Our Lady to me is first of all my mother and the perfect example of how to be a woman and how to receive Christ and God into our lives, and the perfect example of humility and she gives me peace. I just feel peace when I speak to her."
"I love Our Lady so much. I still feel like the disobedient teenager that doesn't pay her enough attention, but she is always there for me."
"Our Lady for me is very mysterious and a real example of faith. I think she is mysterious because she is so close to God it seems amazing to be able to be that close to God but at the same time she feels like an example that is possible for all of us."
"To me Mary is the woman who shows me the way, who makes sense of my Christian faith, a woman like me but not like me; I just find that so awesome."
"To me Mother Mary is the mother of the world and all the young people."
"For a long time I struggled to understand how the Eucharist could be Christ, but one evening in adoration I just let the Lord guide me to a passage in the Bible and it was John 6, the discourse on the Eucharist, where I read 'This is my flesh.' I then looked up at the Eucharist in adoration and I saw the face of Christ for a second at the monstrance, and I knew ... I knew I was in the presence of God."
"My favourite saint is Saint Stephen because he is the patron saint of altar servers and I'm an altar server; so after Mass, I pray to him. He's also my favourite saint because he was the first martyr."
"For me Our Lady is the ultimate example of humility."
"Our Lady always said yes to God. She said yes when the angel Gabriel came to her and although she asked an intelligent question (it's good to ask questions, it's good to know exactly what God wants), she asked an intelligent question to know God's will. The minute she understood, she said a decisive yes and that yes took her all the way to Calvary, to the Cross; it wasn't the yes of a moment, it was the yes that was a lifelong yes."
Father Joe Evans is a priest of Opus Dei and university chaplain at King's College, London.
"I find that going to Mass and receiving the Eucharist is probably the clearest expression I have in my life of God's love and the way that He works. I'm a student .. I can take time out and come to Mass and spend some quiet time with God, know the reality of His presence in my life. It's something concrete, it's something that's not ever going to go away. I find that a tremendously inspiring experience and it's something I don't think I could ever live without really."
Word on the Street - Psalm 90
He who dwells in the shelter of the most High and abides in the shade of the Almighty says to the Lord 'My refuge, my stronghold, my God in whom I trust.' - "I first heard that when I stayed at a monastery and they sang it for night prayer and it has just stayed with me since. The idea of God in whom I can trust who is with me, my refuge in times that are troubled is something I try to remember .. It is something that gives me strength."
Joella
"Mary is like my second mother and I just go to her whenever I have problems."
Bishop John Wilson
"The first priest that I was sent to as a newly ordained priest was and continues to be a great inspiration to me. The first night I arrived in the parish, he took me in the car and drove me round the boundaries of the parish and he said to me: "To be a priest is to be an extension of the love of Christ, in service of his Church and in love of his people." And for me that sums up what it is to be a priest. "
Bishop John Wilson, from the diocese of Leeds, was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, 25 January 2016.
"Mary is a witness to me of loving Christ deeply, loving him more and more. Through that love for Him, I can become a better missionary, I can share Him more effectively, I can be a better instrument, I can allow myself to be used more in the spreading the Good News."
"I think the thing that strikes me most about the Eucharist is the way it shows that God, in spite of being so powerful, is so humble. That not only is He so humble that He becomes a human being but he's so humble that He actually becomes food for us and that that's how he loves us, both by becoming one of us and becoming something that we can eat. That's just how humble our powerful God is."
"What Our Lady means to me is the mother of Jesus who is my Lord and my God, the centre of my life and everything. He loves her infinitely and amazingly shares her with all of us - so she is my mother too and yours. We can pray through her to Jesus and, if we ask her in humility, she will ask her Son for us. 'Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.'"
Monsignor John Armitage
"The most important thing that you realise is that life has to be lived for others and the only way you can really understand yourself is by the way that you are a service to others. I thank God that I realised that when I was young. I realised it because I was taught it at school, I realised it because I saw it lived out by my parents and my community, I saw it every day, and so when it came to my turn to respond and respond to people, that's exactly how I managed to grow. So it then became a natural question for me about the priesthood: should I become a priest? And I entered the seminary when I was 18."
Father John Armitage was a parish priest in the diocese of Brentwood before being made rector in 2014 of the National Shrine to Our Lady in Walsingham.
"I pray to Our Lady night and day, and I prayed to her a lot when I lost my son three years ago with cancer. And things when I pray to her seem to always come right. I believe in her with a prayer in the morning and a prayer at night."
"For me, Mary is first of all the first Christian, she's the first person to evangelise (her cousin Elizabeth), and perhaps most importantly she is the woman who made Jesus the man that he was, and I'm hoping she'll do the same thing for me."
Father John Edwards SJ
"What does Our Lady mean to me? There are two obvious things. The first is that she was the mother not of a very good man, but of Almighty God - the second person of the Trinity became man in her body. Now He could have redeemed us in any way He chose; actually, He chose to depend on this young Jewish girl saying yes. Now she was not the cause of our redemption - the precious blood of Jesus is the cause - she is the condition and Jesus chose to use her as a condition... So, that continually amazes me and means that we should be so grateful to her and see that in everything her Son does, there is somehow a touch of her as well; the humility of God. Second thing about Our Lady that always moves me is this: for the last 400 years or so, God seems to have used her as a sort of prophet to teach. And one extraordinary teaching she gave in Portugal in 1917, at a place called Fatima."
Father John on his vocation to the priesthood which began when he heard about Fatima
"Then it dawned on me that to be able to forgive sins would be more wonderful and I thought of the priesthood. To be able to forgive one serious sin, just once in one's life, to be the instrument God used to bring that person back into union with Himself, to turn that person's life into a thing of beauty, and that is what happens when a Catholic gets his sins forgiven, I thought that would be worth everything .. Then, more and more, it dawned on me what the Mass was - I haven't got used to it yet! That I'm used by God to bring the moment of the Passion of Jesus, actually present in that church, and to bring the moment of the Resurrection, actually present in that church. And that the Lamb of God that I hold between my fingers, is present in that church, that heaven has transfixed earth there. Now if that is the case, and it is, what a privilege!"
Father John Edwards was a Jesuit priest based at Farm St in London. He spent most of his life giving missions in parishes around the world - some of his talks are featured on the Totus2us podcast Mission Jesus. He died on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12 December 2012. He was a HUGE source of inspiration to many and gave real help and encouragement with Totus2us. He is greatly missed ... but we're hoping he's helping Totus2us from heaven.
"I regard Our Lady as our real mother because once we get to heaven there won't be no, as they say, giving in marriage and families and things like that, so we'll have a real mother in Mary."
"My birthday is on 15th August, Assumption Day, and I pray the rosary every morning and every evening."
"For me, Mary is my mother who looks after us as her children and does her best like to help us in any way she can. She's always there for us whenever we need her."
"Mary means to me everything. I would say that she is the person who brought me to the love of Jesus. She is the person who is there when I feel alone or afraid."
John chose Thomas More as his Incredible Saint
"I chose St Thomas More as my confirmation name and this was because I had watched the film, Man for All Seasons, and I was very inspired by his honesty and his openness to God, and where he was willing to give his life for the truth. I love the scene where his best friend, the Duke of Norfolk, comes to him and asks him to sign the Act of Succession, which would save his life, for friendship's sake. And he says to the Duke of Norfolk, 'When we get to heaven and you're allowed to stay because you've done your conscience and I'm going to hell because I haven't done my conscience, would you take my hand and come to hell with me for friendship's sake?' I really felt that was where someone was willing to stand up, against even his friends, for truth and for Christ."
TOP CHAT with Frankie
"For me, the first thing is to understand that God is in the suffering with us, in our pain. I think a lot of people close their heart to God if they've suffered a lot, maybe they've lost a loved one, maybe they were abused as a child, maybe there was some other tragedy, and they really believe where was this loving God in my pain, in my hurt. This was one of the questions I had, but then I realised that he was me, he was being crucified because I was being crucified, he was mourning because I was mourning.. No matter whatever we've suffered, Christ has always suffered it with us. So I think that's the first thing to understand that you've got a friend who has suffered with you. The second thing is that sometimes sin can build up a wall between us and the unconditional love of God; and we need to knock down that wall, we need to go to confession and we need to be completely honest and get rid of our sins and really have them redeemed, and in that way we can let that light, that love, that grace come pouring back into our hearts and we can be free again."
John Pridmore is a member of Saint Patrick's Community. They are based in Ireland but John travels the world as a lay evangelist, giving talks particularly in schools and prisons. He has written 3 books: From Gangland to Promised Land, A Gangster's Guide to God & Journey to Freedom. John reads his monthly newsletter on Totus2us's podcast, Journey to Freedom. For much more, visit John's website.
"For me Our Lady is the mediatrix of all graces, she is our mother and she is the intercessor for us with her son, our Lord Jesus Christ."
John chose Saint Joseph as his Incredible Saint
"Saint Joseph, in my experience, takes us to the wire. He likes to teach us the virtues of patience and humility. He never strove for the front place. St Joseph is ones of those classic behind-the-scenes people, who gets things done, and he gets things done in a marvellous way. There are countless examples of St Joseph in many, many lives, changing things for the better, bringing people closer to God, bringing people closer to themselves, to help them to be the person God wants them to be."
"One of the main messages that struck me was, finishing in Santiago, a priest telling me at Santiago Cathedral they switch round the alpha and omega to the opposite way because they say the end is the beginning. So the end of the pilgrimage is the beginning of a new start. I think the two lessons that I took away from the Camino were, one, it was an opportunity for me to have a regular prayer life and that's what I've tried to take into life since finishing the Camino. The second thing is on the Camino it's very easy to live the Christian life in a very simple way. So sharing your food, carrying very little with you, having no possessions, and everyone's on a similar playing field so it's very easy to interact and people are very open. So those are the two things I've taken from the Camino. The third other thing that I didn't realise until the end was that the Hail, Holy Queen, which is probably my favourite prayer, was written by a Bishop from the Cathedral in Santiago where the pilgrim finishes. So that prayer whenever I say it now reminds me of the Camino."
"Anyone honours their own mother, so we should honour the Mother of Christ. She is a great intercessor who we turn to for prayer and for intercession with her glorious son."
"I learnt about Mary from my own my mother and since then and through Medjugorje my love for her has grown."
"When I think of Mary, one of the first things that come to mind is the rosary, and recently I find it one of the best tools of growing in my spiritual life. One of the great things I've learned from the rosary is, through meditating on the rosaries, growing in my understanding of Jesus' life which has helped me grow in my relationship with Jesus."
"Today is the feast of Our Lady of Humility and it’s very appropriate that such a feast day should be because it is chiefly because of her humility that she merited to receive all the graces and glory and grandeur that she received."
"Mary is one of the most important things in life because she's Jesus's mother and Jesus is God. And every night I say a prayer to her."
"I see Mary as a mother I can rely on, a heavenly mother who will always lead me closer to her son Jesus."
John was at World Youth Day Madrid in 2011
"The highlight for me, as well as seeing the Pope which was great, was the vigil leading a Holy Hour of praise and worship from 2-3 am in an open tent. So there was Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, above us was just the moon and the stars, it was wonderful, just wonderful."
"Mary is the mother of Jesus and was with Him all the time through His life. When He died on the Cross she had great sorrow but she bore that sorrow with great dignity."
"What Mary means to me is obviously the mother of God, but somebody who was very down to earth, not aristocracy just a normal girl who answered God's call."
John's reflection on the Eucharist
"The Eucharist is just the most beautiful thing in the world. I think whenever you gaze at the Blessed Sacrament exposed on the altar, for all the wonderful architecture examples or the art works around the world, there’s nothing more beautiful than looking at the Blessed Sacrament. It might appear to be just a white disc but actually you’re looking into eternity, you’re looking at the Creator, you’re looking at Jesus made man and resurrected and there is nothing that can surpass that."
Father John
Mgr John Walsh describes the parish priest who was the crucial influence on him when he was a child.
"He himself was the greatest influence on me because he was a priest through and through. He was very priestly in his behaviour, he was caring, he was good and he was a man of prayer."
Brother John Bosco CFR
"Isn't Mary wonderful! When I think back on my life, every single time I have been in deep trouble, I go to Mary… For me, our mother Mary has always been there in times of trouble and distress… I thank our blessed mother for her incredible motherly concern for us and the fact that she is always there to hear our prayers."
Brother John Bosco is a Franciscan Friar of Renewal.
Brother John Mary Jesus CSJ
"Mary is the one whom the Lord gives to us as a mother. I think a mother is really someone who leads the way through what she lives. That's really Mary because she lives so close to Jesus."
His Men for Others are the priests who inspired him as a boy
"I really give thanks for these priests who are humbly and with great poverty living their life of total service, total gift to other people, treating other people as their sons and daughters in Christ, but above as God's sons and daughters and giving themselves so that we might be holy, so that we might become sons and daughters of God."
Br John Mary Jesus is a brother of the Community of St John.
"I’d just like to say a few words about Our Blessed Lady - I call her blessed because all generations will call her blessed. To me Our Lady is the Queen of Heaven, but also a mother. Often in my past I felt far from Jesus but I'd always feel close to Mary."
Johnny's Incredible Saint: Theresa of Lisieux
"I've prayed to the Little Flower, St Theresa of Lisieux, all my life. I venerated her relics in Ireland (I went especially to Ireland) and in England. I'm married, we had two boys and we wanted a little girl. So we went to Aylesford Priory, and me and my wife prayed at the white statue of St Therese in the garden at the same time. Twelve months later we had our little girl, and I say to my little girl 'Are you Daddy's little flower?' and she says yes and she picks me little flowers from the garden."
John Paul
"Mary to me is Mother of the Church, Mother of God, Mother of us all. I came closer to Our Lady through reading about John Paul II’s devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the total consecration that St Louis de Montfort talks about. So I was enrolled in the brown scapular on 13th May and I'm half through the consecration to Our Lady to finish on that day. So in a sense renew my commitment to Our Lady - completely to her, Totus Tuus - give myself completely to her to come so close to Christ our Lord."
Father Jon Bielawski
"There is a line in the psalms 'As a child has rest in its mother's arms, even so my soul.' And maybe that is a good starting point for Mary in my life, in my life as a human being and as a priest, of a sense of comfort, thinking of Mary, a sense of knowing that she is there, interceding for me, praying for me, caring for me in incredible ways as a spiritual mother who has been given to me. It's one of those thoughts which kind of can lodge deep in your heart and you can't intellectualize too much on it, it's just there and you know that it's there, it's speaks for itself in your heart."
Father Jon reflects upon two driving forces that keep him inspired in his priesthood: a sense of fatherhood, which is lived out in priesthood, and a great sense of hope in all that he does.
"The sense of fatherhood dawned on me more powerfully when I was first given my parish after 5 years of ordination. After the first week-end of Sunday Masses the thought came to me very clearly and simply that I was able to feed these people with Jesus in the Eucharist. Just like a father would feed his family .. as a spiritual father I have done much the same thing in a spiritual way feeding them with Christ Himself to build them up and strengthen them for the week ahead. .. We are called to be messengers of hope .. everybody needs a sense of hope .. the hope we're talking about is a hope rooted in Jesus, in his kingdom, in eternal life; it's a hope that is based on Jesus' death and resurrection. It's the surest, greatest, deepest hope we're going to ever come across and that should always inspire us and be part of the message we're passing on. I think that's vital as a priest."
Jonathan was a pilgrim on Il Camino from Le Puy-en-Velay to Santiago de Compostela
1st ½ of pilgrimage: Le Puy-en-Velay to Pamplona
2nd ½ of pilgrimage: Pamplona to Santiago
"Coming to the end of a long pilgrimage is a very rewarding sensation but it's not accompanied in a sense by lots of fireworks or excitements, it just has a general contentment that you have walked this great distance, and done lots of praying on the way and been to lots of Masses on the way and had lots of lovely conversations with all sorts of people on the way, but there was no particular sense of rejoicing because it had come to an end, which in itself was rather sad. So we spent 3 quiet days in Compostela; the weather was lovely and we got to know Santiago a bit and then we left in a bus early one morning and that was the end of it all."
"If we embrace Mary, she will take us by the hand and lead us to the very heart of the Church and in turn into heaven."
"For me Mary shows an example of by how giving herself totally to God she receives totally God's promise for us in the next life. So for me she's an inspiration to encourage me to continually try and give more of myself, in that she gives me the courage that by doing that I can trust in God to receive what He has promised for us."
"Mary is simply my mother. She’s the woman who holds me. She’s the woman who cuddles me when I’m down and out and I'm lost. She is the woman who brought me to God. I couldn't relate to the Father at the beginning of my journey and she brought me."
"From that day on I've looked at Mary as a very living being rather than just as an icon or a way into praying. So for me, Mary is certainly a very living person and always will be."
Sister Josephine
"Our Lady, she's my mama, I call her 'Mama'. .. To me she's just wonderful. I speak to her ALL the time. .. She brings me to her son any time, especially when I'm doubting things or wondering what's going on."
"Our Lady just teaches you about her son. She wants you to see how merciful and kind and beautiful He is, and how much He loves us. And she is the greatest teacher of Jesus, because she is his mother. She is the daughter of the Father, the bride of the Holy Spirit and the mother of the Son, and who else knows the Trinity better than Our Lady. And you just ask her if she will ask a relationship with you, and you will learn to participate and learn to pray, and she gives you joy. She gives such abundant joy. Even in your darkest moments, you have this depth of knowledge that everything is fine."
"I love Our Lady: she is the Queen of Heaven and at the same time she has the most complete humility, she never pushes herself forward. In fact I think some women in our day have trouble with this because they've been taught that if women aren't up there shouting with everybody else, they're not doing anything, and Our Lady is the perfect refutation of that. She did everything she did quietly, she noticed everything, she looked at everything and she pondered in her heart. We can only thank God for the grace of having Mary as our mother."
"I really love music and to me Our Lady is God’s music, all beautiful, pure and holy."
"I pray to Our Lady every day to thank her for telling us she loves us all unconditionally."
"Mary is a great help to speak to at certain times, at special times."
"Whenever we come to Our Lady her with our problems, she is always there to show us to Our Lord, to Jesus. As a human being that gave her life to the Lord in perfection, she is an example to us of what we as simple human beings can do in service to God. In her closeness to Our Lord, she is also an example within the Holy Family of how to be close to Our Lord in his humanity and in his divinity."
"Our Lady means a lot to me. I have discovered the powerful effect of praying a novena to Our Lady, untier of knots."
"Our Lady touched my heart in a way I have never forgotten and I never will, because I now know for real that she is my mother. I came across this beautiful statue of Our Lady in the Cathedral of St Matthew in Washington. And as I turned the corner, there was this huge, huge statue of Our Lady, and instead of the usual one with her hands clasped or rosary beads in her hand, she was bending forward with her right hand, offering it to me, and her left hand was pointing up to the sky, as if to say 'Hold my hand and I'll take you to Jesus.'"
"Mary means a great deal to me as she’s the mother of Jesus."
"In certain ways Mary means everything to me. Through her we receive Jesus so she is pivotal to our faith and our life."
Sister Juliana PCC
"Sister Elizabeth looked at the statue and said 'Our Lady is one of us.' And suddenly it came home to me that Our Lady was one of us, like us, that she lived an ordinary life full of love, and my whole attitude, my whole life changed in that what Mary had once done, I too could do."
Sister Juliana is a Poor Clare Sister in enclosed community at Ty Mam Duw in North Wales.
"I love Our Lady and I say prayers to her."
"Walsingham is where we belong, the travelers, altogether, with Our Lady. She's our mother, she's everyone's mother here in the field and she looks after all of us."
"Mary is, was, a woman of courage, great courage and boldness, and that is because she said yes to God."
"Mary is a strong lady ... For all the pain that Jesus went through, she had to endure it in her own way."
"At school I had a large picture of Our Lady as my mother and I always looked up to it, even at that age, and she was always there as a comfort to me, that's the Immaculate Conception. It's stayed with me, that peaceful feeling, for all these years."
"What Mother Mary does for me? She keeps me together as a woman, as a mother. She's my guidance."
"Our Lady reached out to me and my wife when we lost our second child at birth. She watches over my family still and is helping us turn our lives around, for which we are eternally grateful."
"I always think of the Annunciation .. Mary's humility, her obedience and her devotion to Our Lord is something that as well as to try to make it an example, no matter how far I fall short, to try to follow myself, is something that really touches the heart."
"Mary touches me, she touches my life, she touches my heart. She touches other lives. I see her touching other lives. She's all around me."
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