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Tag: the wild hunt
Ancestor Cult is Not Saint Cult (And Other Stories)
I talk about the dead a lot. Not because I’m a morbid fucker, but because death, dying, and what happens next are important topics to grapple with. After all, we’re all going to die someday, it’s one thing (along with shitting) that all humans have in common. So we may as well get to grips with it all now.
“Tweet tweet, motherfucker! I’m a new series of posts!”
(This is the sound of a new series of posts being born.)
But we’re not all that great with this stuff. Talking about death is still somewhat taboo, and ancestor veneration among European-descended Pagans and Heathens suffers from poor modeling. There are also a lot of misconceptions that don’t seem to exist among people who follow traditions that still include ancestor veneration.
So what’s going on? Why do we mostly suck when it comes to ancestors?
And that kids, is going to be the topic of this post. So grab yourselves a snack and buckle in, because I’m going to learn you some shit.
European-Descended Pagans and Ancestors
But let’s start at the beginning, shall we? Why do we get it so wrong?
Well once upon a time (or more accurately the 6th century), Pope Gregory I wrote a letter to the Abbot Mellitus about his mission to spread Jesus like Herpes among the Heathen Anglo-Saxons. Instead of the usual message of “burn it down like a latrine full of spiders” though, pope Greg advocated repurposing holy sites and co-opting rituals for Christian worship. I mean, they were even
“I really liked those English lads, so don’t go burning their shit down. I really want them to be on ‘Team Jesus’.”
cool with cow sacrifices at first, as long as they were cow sacrifices for Jesus (bet you never learned that at school, right?). This and similar policy is probably why you see so many Christian sites on former Pagan sites all over Europe.
(Fun fact, but there’s an anecdote that pope Greg’s eye was quite taken by a couple of fair-haired English boys at a slave market in Rome…and if that’s not the most Catholic story ever…wow.)
Unfortunately, this also meant that the church took control of any and all rituals pertaining to the dead (something the Vatican is still flexing its muscles on in modern times), making themselves the (weirdly conical) intercessors between the living and our dead kin (Lee 105-106).
Is it any wonder we don’t really understand the ancestors or what to do anymore? We let a middle man take over and change our ancestor traditions, then got rid of the middle man!
When it comes to ancestor veneration, we lack the basics, and it shows in how we think of and interact with the dead. If anything, what we have is like a strange mishmash of Hero Cult, Cult of Saints, and what scholars refer to as “memoria”.
So what are the top three basics of ancestor veneration that we’re probably missing?
1. Individualism vs. Collective
The most important concept we need to get to grips with is this idea that the ancestors are probably best thought of as a collective (with individuals that pop out from time to time to give messages and such). This is pretty much how it is in the vast majority of cultures that still have living ancestor veneration traditions.
It’s also the most practical view of ancestor veneration. Because when ancestors are a collective, a big, burgeoning mass of power, then a few shitty dead are no longer a barrier to practice. Moreover, it also allows for a belief in rebirth (ask Olaf Geirstad-Alf about that). Because when your ancestors are a collective, then what matter if some in the line are being reborn and others are staying dead?
However when you think about it, it also makes sense within a European historical context. (Well okay, I’m going to be focusing on Northwestern Europe here because that’s my jam, you Classical kids can sort yourselves out).
I mean, could you ever imagine worshipping only one of the Matronae? Or thinking of the Wild Hunt as a bunch of individuals? It sounds strange, doesn’t it? And yet these are ostensibly ancestral or at least associated with the world of the dead. The same goes for elves too, albeit within certain contexts.
So where did the idea of focusing on individual dead come from?
Truth be told, we’ve always worshipped some individual members of the dead. But these aren’t ordinary dead people. These are big or greater in some way. These are the dead who were possessed of some intangible quality that made them an ælf/álf. These were the dead who were worshipped in the mound and thought to be able to bless the people and land around them.
Guess what people were probably reminded of when the cult of the Saints came around?
Like elves in their mounds, martyrs/saints (because what even was the difference back then?) inhabited their tombs and were considered able to essentially bless the land and people. And as with elves, people would feast
their tombs in the Pagan fashion – except more Roman-like. Because they were actually in Rome, and it was the 4th century, and it was all cool until Augustine of fucking Hippo went all ‘ixnay on the sacrificial mortuorum’ (Lee
E L V E S
116).
And yes, I realize that I just conflated saints with elves, deal with it.
Elves.
Fucking Augustine.
When the church began to take over burial rites and rites for the dead in Northwestern Europe though, something that scholars refer to as memoria came into being as an alternative to feasting the dead at the grave. This term referred to every kind of rite in honor of/for the care of the dead created by the church. There are no parallels in Jewish ritual, and so the likelihood is that the concept was in some way descended from or inspired by Pagan rites – only with the Paganisms removed as much as possible.
“Coming soon to a church near you – our new and improved, porta-Elf! (Now with added Jesus)”
For a long period of time, these memoria – or rather individual memoria – and the Cult of the saints were closely associated (Lee 116). It’s not hard to see how we came to view ancestors as individuals from whom we expect the highest ideals. It was after all, a very slow separation between the individual memoria and the Cult of the Saints.
But for all of the individual memoria, a prayer referred to as Pro Anima Kari in the 8th century Bobbio Missal suggests that the ‘dead-as-collective’ thing wasn’t entirely…dead. Designed as a prayer to aid the dying, the Pro Anima Kari called upon all of the descendants of Adam who were deceased – basically all human ancestors – and if that isn’t a collectivist view of the dead, then I’ve got some hang glider engines I’d be happy to sell you ( Lee 109-110).
2. The Cult of the Dead vs The Cult of the Ancestors
The next thing to be aware of is that the Cult of the Dead and the Cult of the Ancestors are not the same thing. Okay, so they both pertain to the dead. But when you look at ancestor veneration around the world, it’s like you have different grades of “dead” (that go beyond “fresh” and “not fresh”). In some cultures, the dead are guided through ritual processes that formally install them or acknowledge them as part of the collective ancestors of the group. In other cultures (such as Japanese Shinto), the dead are thought to gradually merge with the generalized group of family dead. The newly dead (shirei), take on characteristics of new buddhas, then buddhas, then ancestors (senszo), then kami (gods) over the course of 35 to 50 years (Klass 63-64). Regardless of how it takes place though, there is the sentiment that the recent dead are not the same as ancestors, and that some form of elevation takes place.
However, what would that process look like in a Northwestern European context?
Well, as far as I know, we don’t know. However, older traditions such as feasting the dead at the gravesite (a practice known as Dadsisas) are suggestive of a Cult of the Dead that took place at the graves of the more recently deceased (Lee 113-114). We may perhaps also infer from the collective terms mentioned above (such as the “Wild Hunt”, “Matronae” etc.) that some form of elevation also took place for at least some of the dead (although the picture provided to us by source materials is far from clear).
Regardless of how much we don’t know though, the concept of elevation provides us with a useful model for beginning to understand the different kinds of dead we may find ourselves dealing with, and the ritual remedies required as part of our cultic revivals.
The Unwell or Angry Dead Can Fuck With The Living
There are reasons why the dead are generally feared, but mostly it’s because
Haunted outhouse, the worst. Will literally scare the crap out of you.
when the dead are unwell or angry, then that’s generally bad news for the living too (Oesterdieckhoff 585) . Because I mean, if the big dead are able to influence the land and people for good, then why wouldn’t the angry or unwell dead also have this capability – especially en masse? So for many humans around the world, it’s considered to be kind of in our interest to care for and remedy the matter of bad dead via ritual. (And no, I’m not talking about magical murderhobo-dom here.)
Ancestor veneration is something that many of us of European ancestry find difficult to get our heads around, or find our rooting in. However, as we have seen above, there are some excellent reasons for that disconnect, and a general lack of understanding. This is a real shame, because research has shown that even just thinking about our ancestors can have positive effects. I truly believe that healthy ancestor veneration can be one of the keys to happier, more rooted, more connected, and more compassionate lives.
In the next blog, I’m going to ramble some more about the dead – possibly about some of our issues with ancestor veneration.
But just for today, pick a dead family member or older ancestor who you know went through some shit, and take a few moments to think about them. Think about what they endured or overcame, and reflect on that badassery. You’re here because of that badassery, and shades of that badassery are in you. How does that make you feel? Now try to imagine how much badassery your ancestors collectively have.
That’s one hell of a deep well, isn’t it?
Christina Lee – Feasting the Dead: Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals
Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven Nickman – Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief
Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff – Why Premodern Humans Believed in the Divine Status of their Parents and Ancestors
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Tag: paul heussenstamm
Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy
Let’s face it: no one would ever confuse Shred Sledz with real journalism. The upside is that we don’t have to pretend to be objective. Case in point: Shawn Stussy is a blog favorite, and until he says something nasty about us, that’s not likely to change. Stussy got his start shaping surfboards in Southern California. He printed up t-shirts for his fledgling brand, and soon his namesake company ended up becoming a streetwear juggernaut. And while Stussy’s best-known and most coveted surfboards are from the eighties, Stussy began his shaping career at a different Southern California brand: Russell Surfboards. For all you fellow Stussy-philes, there’s currently a Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy board for sale on Craigslist. You can find a link to the board here. I have reproduced some of the pictures below.
Hand drawn Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy logo
The poster claims the board was shaped in 1973. It’s not surprising to hear that date given the outline and the dimensions of the board: 7’5″ x 19″. The coolest part of the board is the hand drawn Stussy logo, which you can see at the top of the page. Stussy’s boards are difficult to find as is, much less a clearly marked example of a Russell board. Rarer still is the logo: this is the only example I have seen of a hand-drawn Stussy logo on a Russell board.
According to Russell Surfboards’ website, Stussy, along with Jeff Timpone, handled the bulk of shaping duties for the brand from the mid- to late-1970s. Stussy’s run ostensibly ended in 1980, when he struck out on his own. I was able to find a picture from his Russell days. If you look closely, you can see the Russell Surfboards logo on his t-shirt.
Stussy shaping a board. Note the Russell Surfboards t-shirt. Photographer / source are unknown.
Russell Surfboards has its roots in Newport Beach, where it was founded in 1967. During the seventies the brand was also referred to as “The Brotherhood” in reference to a tight-knit group of locals that surfed Newport’s best breaks. The Brotherhood included surfers like Junior Beck, Lenny Foster, Billy Pells, Paul Heussenstamm, and Jack Briggs. You’ll see The Brotherhood branding on a number of Russell boards from this era:
Example of a Russell Surfboards / The Brotherhood logo. Pic via Craigslist
There’s an excellent blog post from a site called The Central Shaft that details one of The Brotherhood’s early trips down to Puerto Escondido during the mid-seventies. There are some incredible pictures of some Newport locals surfing Stussy’s boards in the pounding beachbreak for which Puerto Escondido has become infamous.
Paul Heussenstamm on a Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy-shaped sled, about to pull in to a Puerto Escondido cavern. Apparently this was taken from the first published article about Puerto Escondido in Surfing Magazine (Nov 1976, Vol. 12 issue 5). Pic via Tim Bernardy, and taken from the awesome writeup found on The Central Shaft.
And if you’re into quiver porn, the article features a shot of a quiver Stussy shaped during his Russell days. The Central Shaft suggests this quiver was shaped for the Puerto Escondido trips, but a recent article in The Surfer’s Journal indicates that this is actually Stussy’s quiver for the 1974 winter, which he spent in Kauai.
Stussy isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think seventies single fins, but that is a killer quiver! Love the Rainbow fins, too. Pic via The Central Shaft
In The Central Shaft blog post, Stussy goes on to describe the boards he shaped for the Puerto Escondido trip.
These boards were usually between seven six and eight six, nose and tail blocks from scraps of fin panel that the glass on fin was made from, also the leash mound when that started to happen, yellow tint with full gloss and polish, double and triple touching resin pinlines Russell would lay down, shit was awesome… we were so committed to making what we called “Cadillacs” at the time… a full sixties vibe was alive and well at the brotherhood in that period… love these pictures and this part of my shaping life…
I was also able to find an example of another Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy creation. This one comes courtesy of Board Collector / Damion Fuller. I have added two of the pictures below. It’s a classic twin fin shape, and according to Damion, the board was shaped in the late 1970s. You can see a Stussy signature on the stringer in the second picture; it’s also signed Greg, and I’m not sure who this is. If you have tips, let me know! The Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy twin fin also has a Larry Bertlemann-inspired spray job, which is a beautiful touch. See the original post here. Stussy crafted some pretty fantastic twin fins in the eighties under his own brand, and Damion’s site has some great pictures as well.
Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy twin fin, shaped in the late seventies. Pic via Board Collector.
Sadly, Robert Russell Brown, who founded Russell Surfboard, passed away in 2011. Stussy wrote a tribute to the man on his personal blog. It’s clear that Stussy remains very much influenced by his time at Russell Surfboards.
You can find the Craigslist link to the Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy shape at the top of the page here. The seller is asking $750. The board needs some repairs, particularly on the bottom, but I don’t think this is an outrageous price. Stussy maybe known for his eighties design, with their bright colors and intricate logos, but the Russell single fin is a rare artifact from his earlier shaping days.
Corrections / Updates July 9 2017
Updated the photo credit for the featured photo, which was taken by Craig Fineman. In addition, the quiver shot was originally credited as having been created for a Brotherhood trip to Puerto Escondido; an article in The Surfer’s Journal claims the quiver was made for a Kauai winter in 1974.
Author Henry KnappPosted on June 30, 2017 July 9, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags jeff timpone, paul heussenstamm, russell surfboards, shawn stussy, stussy surfboards, the brotherhood, vintage surfboard, vintage surfboards2 Comments on Russell Surfboards Shawn Stussy
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Everything is in Macedonian citizens’ Hands, says Commissioner Hahn
The EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, is adamant that everything is in the Macedonian citizens’ hands – whether they want to bring back the country to the isolation it exited difficultly or see it become part of the Euro-Atlantic structures. In his view, there is no plan B. “I think all of us worked hard in the past several years to bring back your country on the right path. This was achieved. The open bilateral issues were resolved or approached the appropriate way,” he said on Friday, adding that it was now up to citizens to resolve them. Hahn made the statements on the sidelines of the informal meeting of Western Balkan PMs in Durres, Albania. According to the Albanian, Kosovan and Montenegrin PMs, Edi Rama, Ramush Haradinaj and Dusko Markovic, respectively, there is serious progress in the relations. Political dialogue and trust exists, which is reflected through the signed Macedonia-Greece name deal. In their view, increasing economic cooperation is never enough because that makes the region’s power grow. There is potential, especially when it comes to the energy sector, they agreed. PM Zoran Zaev, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Zvizdic, and Serbia’s PM, Ana Brnabic, didn’t attend the informal meeting. Macedonia’s government said Zaev hadn’t gone because of the bad meteorological conditions and the carried out security assessment. Despite that, he expressed support for such meetings, saying that that’s how cooperation in the region was strengthened.
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10 Years Ago: Eagles Return to Studio on ‘Long Road Out of Eden’
Jed Gottlieb
On Oct. 30, 2007, Eagles fans got an early Halloween treat: the band’s first new studio album in almost three decades. The group’s sizable fan base was justifiably thrilled with the news that, after a 28-year dry spell, a new LP, Long Road Out of Eden, would include 20 songs in a two-CD set. But it came with a catch. The album would be released as a Walmart exclusive. (Since then, it's shown up at iTunes and other places.)
The idea that the ’70s superstars, including outspoken environmental advocate Don Henley, would partner with the world’s largest retailer was an odd one. Many conservation groups criticized Walmart for its ecological ignorance, and free-speech advocates called out the chain for censoring or outright banning music it deemed controversial. Even Henley, in a 2004 editorial, attacked what was then the country's biggest music retailer.
“Independent music stores are closing at an unprecedented pace,” he wrote in the Washington Post. “Today, the three largest music retailers are Best Buy, Walmart and Target. In those stores, shelf space is limited, making it harder for new artists to emerge.”
Besides the obvious conflict between the band's values and the box-store behemoth, people wondered if the exclusive deal would hurt sales. But Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, orchestrated a crafty contract: They would receive a larger portion of the profits than one offered by a standard record deal, basically cutting out the record-company middle man.
“I am in the business of selling records, and I want to be in a place where we have the opportunity to sell the most records,” Frey told Billboard in 2007. “It's also nice that Walmart pays us a very lucrative royalty, a royalty that no record company could come close to matching. But that's because we are not a loss leader at Walmart. If the Eagles put out a record at Warner or any other major record label, part of the reason they can't pay up is we've got to pay for all of the bad acts they sign and release.”
The band also thought the deal as its best alternative in a landscape where millions of fans were getting their music free from the internet and brick-and-mortar stores were shuttering by the score. After announcing the Walmart deal, Henley changed his opinion of the store.
“You would have thought we made a deal with the devil,” he told Billboard around the release. “Walmart is getting their environmental and labor act together. ... They can’t be any more evil than a major record label, that's the way I look at it.”
While the Walmart deal was one of the first of its kind, it was part of a series of unorthodox releases that took place during the late '00s. Around the time of Long Road Out of Eden, Radiohead asked fans to “pay what they want” for In Rainbows, Madonna inked a record deal with concert promoter Live Nation and both Prince and Ray Davies gave away CDs in a London newspaper.
On Nov. 5, 2007, Walmart proudly announced that Long Road Out of Eden had sold more than 700,000 copies in its first week of release. The impressive number represented the largest first week sales of any music product at Walmart in the past two years.
“We were confident that Eagles fans would embrace Long Road Out of Eden, but it has exceeded our first-week projections,” said Gary Severson, Walmart’s senior vice president of entertainment. “With the holiday season approaching, we are confident that the double-CD package will be one of the biggest sellers in Walmart history. … We’ve notified the RIAA of the sales to quickly certify Long Road Out of Eden’s multi-platinum status.”
Severson’s confidence wasn’t misplaced. Maybe thanks to the long drought of Eagles tunes, maybe due to the price of the two-disc set ($11.88 or $10.88 as a downloadable MP3 online), the release became a blockbuster. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the group's sixth chart-topping album, and became the bestselling release of 2007. Since then, it’s been certified seven-times platinum.
Critics weren’t as thrilled. Many thought the Eagles' first studio album since 1979’s The Long Run traded country twang and cool Southern California grooves for the slick Top 40 Henley and Frey championed during their solo work in the ’80s. For many writers, the album’s only great song was the country rocker “How Long,” a J.D. Souther tune the Eagles played as early as 1974.
Nevertheless, Frey considered the release a milestone in the Eagles catalog. “I think it's going to stand up,” he told Billboard. “I think it's going to be right up there, if you want to know the truth. If you look back on our previous albums of the '70s, those albums are four or five songs deep, and you can just about name them off of each album. You can name the three smash hit singles and then one or two album cuts that were essential to the record. This record is like 15 songs deep, and the other thing that I am really heartened by is that the quality of the recording is so much better now. I think the production level is far superior.”
As Long Road Out of Eden expanded throughout the rest of the world, its success continued: It hit No. 1 in at least 13 countries. The album scored five Grammy nominations and walked away with two. And the tour became a global sensation. Even for the Eagles, a band known for raking in the cash on the road, the Long Road Out of Eden Tour proved to be huge.It kicked off on March 20, 2008, at London’s O2 Arena, the trek unfolded over seven legs and 161 concerts until it wrapped at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Still, in 2007, Henley was skeptical they’d follow up their 28-year absence with another album, telling CNN "This is probably the last Eagles album that we'll ever make." Frey’s death in 2016 seemingly ended any possibility for a new Eagles record. Then again, Henley announced the band's breakup following his longtime musical partner's death, but the band was back on the road not long after.
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Tag Archives: H.R. 5141
AIPAC’s agenda
America and Israel flags
AIPAC — America’s Pro-Israel lobby — is as powerful (if not more powerful) in the halls of Congress as the NRA. A 2016 article in the Foreign Policy Journal noted:
The AIPAC-led pro-Israel lobby is probably the strongest, best organized and most effective lobby network in Washington DC. For the 2015-2016 election cycle, the pro-Israel network has already dispensed $4,255,136 in contributions. The largest single amount ($259,688) went to Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
Among interest groups that lobby on behalf of a foreign government, none ranks higher in contributions to members of Congress than the pro-Israel lobby.
So it should come to no one’s surprise that most members of Congress on both sides of the aisle carry water for AIPAC. We can find AIPAC’s fingerprints on many pieces of legislation.
Opposition to Iran – Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Economic Exclusion Act (H.R. 5132)—authored by Reps. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Eliot Engel (D-NY).
The Taylor Force Act (S. 1697 and H.R. 1164) cuts funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a result of the PA’s practice of paying families of Palestinian fighters who have died or been imprisoned.
The United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5141 and S. 2497)—authored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Chris Coons (D-DE) and Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Ted Deutch (D-FL). Includes $3.3 billion in military assistance to Israel and an additional $500 million in missile defense funding.
The House of Representatives and Senate both introduced bipartisan resolutions — H. Res. 11 and S. Res. 6, respectively — reaffirming this principle and opposing efforts at the United Nations to impose a solution on the conflict. The House overwhelmingly adopted H. Res. 11 on Jan. 5.
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.720 and H.R.1697) and the Combating BDS Act of 2017 (S.170 and H.R. 2856).
The Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017 (S.1595 and H.R. 3329)—that would impose additional sanctions on the terrorist organization and those that support it.
U.S. politicians are proud of confirming their support for Israel and boasting that there’s no daylight between Israel’s interests and America’s interests.
I’d feel a whole lot more confident of our “special relationship” with Israel if I knew that my elected officials were putting U.S. interests ahead of their allegiance to Israel.
Unfortunately, this is a good example of the tail (Israel) wagging the dog (U.S.) — with AIPAC establishing U.S. foreign policy by very clever messaging and lobbying tactics that sometimes borders on bullying.
If Congress was not tied to AIPAC at the hip, the 6 legislative priorities above might be recast as follows:
Iran is a growing power in the region with which diplomacy and negotiation is in our (the U.S.) best interest. Preventing a new nuclear power in the region is good for the community of nations and the U.S. There needs to be transparency and honesty in addressing Israel’s nuclear weapons too.
Payment to the families of soldiers in uniform is standard practice in the U.S. and Israel, there’s no reason why payment to Palestinian fighters should be treated any differently. Consistent treatment in our foreign policy enhances U.S. credibility.
Is it in the best interests of the U.S. to pay $3.3 billion+ annually to Israel? This represents by far the largest contribution to a foreign government at a time when the U.S. is running the largest deficit in its history and Congress is considering cut backs to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. At a minimum, there should be a public discussion about the pros and cons of U.S. financial support to Israel.
Resolutions are non-binding and some may think these resolutions condemning the United Nations are unimportant. However, Americans need to know that the U.S. (and particularly the U.S. Congress) stands apart from the vast majority of nations vis-à-vis criticism of Israel and its violations of international law. To rectify this criticism, the U.S. should be using carrots and sticks to convince Israel to comply with international law, not throwing its weight around with AIPAC-written resolutions.
AIPAC wants Congress to criminalize political speech that targets Israel. I’ve written about it here and here. While the NRA focuses on the Second Amendment, it appears AIPAC has set its target on the First Amendment. It will be interesting to see how members of Congress on both sides of the aisle justify this blatant attempt to undermine Americans’ right to express their political beliefs peacefully and nonviolently.
AIPAC wants Congress to sanction Hizballah in Lebanon. Yes, Hizballah may be a military mini-threat to Israel (“mini” — considering the disparity in the weapons between Israel and Hizballah) but the real threat to peace in the Middle East is the precarious situation Lebanon finds itself today. “The problem for Lebanon, the world’s third most-indebted country, is that it’s starting to look more like Greece financially. And if Greece’s survival as part of the euro was crucial to the European project, Lebanon is key to keeping what’s left of peace in the Middle East.” So the U.S. Congress should be discussing ways to support Lebanon, not jumping on AIPAC’s wagon which will likely destablize Lebanon even further.
Is AIPAC’s agenda consistent with our best interests at home and abroad? I don’t think so, but at least Americans deserve an open and transparent discussion on the floor of the House and Senate before our elected members of Congress vote on these AIPAC-sponsored bills. They need to hear from intelligent, opposing viewpoints instead of marching lockstep down AIPAC’s misbegotten path.
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Estonian MP in Kiev: Ukraine's aspirations to EU, NATO must be supported
2019-04-12BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN - Marko Mihkelson, head of the Estonian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA), said at a high-level security forum in Kiev that without Ukraine's strong aspirations of independence, Estonia nor several other countries in Eastern Europe would not currently be members of NATO and added that Ukraine's aspirations in the direction of the European Union and NATO must be supported.
In his statement on Thursday, Mihkelson emphasized that Ukraine's peaceful, democratic and at the same politically resolute decision to leave the composition of the Russian empire in 1991 and the consequent voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapons opened the road for several European nations for securing their freedom and security through NATO membership.
"The restoration of the statehood of Ukraine in 1991 is comparable with the fall of the Berlin Wall in terms of its impact. It made possible the final collapse of the Soviet empire and the self-determination of the people of Eastern Europe in terms of security," the head of the NATO PA delegation said.
"Now it is our responsibility to do everything possible to protect Ukraine's aspirations towards becoming a member of the European Union and NATO. This is a marathon, but even the longest marathon has a finish line. Estonia along with allies must show Ukraine where exactly that finish line is located," Mihkelson said.
In addition to Mihkelson, other participants of the security forum's panel titled "Joining Powers for the Fight for Freedom" included secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukrainian Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak and Lithuanian Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis.
The patron of the high-level security forum is former prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Speakers included Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov, Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, recent presidential candidate Anatoliy Hrytsenko and many other. The forum has been organized since 2007.
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Lipoprotein Deficiency Syndromes
Lipoprotein Deficiency Syndromes pp 29-35 | Cite as
Speciation of HDL
John P. Kane
Part of the Advances in Experimetal Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 201)
There is considerable inferential evidence that the high density lipoproteins (HDL) of mammalian plasma should have greater structural and functional heterogeneity than has been so far established. It is likely that at least transitory progenitors of HDL originating from hepatic and intestinal cells will differ from one another, perhaps forming discrete series of particles. The diverse metabolic processes in which HDL participate in plasma are likely to require still further determinative speciation. Some speciation will no doubt reflect low free energy combination states determined by the interactive energetics and stereochemistry of their constitutive elements. However, kinetic speciation is likely to account for accumulation of some particle species, that is, in concatenated processes, intermediaries with the lowest rate constants of removal tend to accumulate. An accurate assessment of particle populations in plasma must take into account the fact that chemical processes will tend to move toward thermodynamic equilibrium after sampling, thus altering the distribution of species. Approaches to the study of lipoprotein speciation must therefore include the use of techniques which allow for the isolation of transitory or thermodynamically unstable particles and which do not introduce perturbations of structure. In the following we will discuss the plurality of roles for HDL and evidence that these lipoproteins comprise a number of discrete subpopulations.
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Achai cow conservation project
By Tahir Ali | From InpaperMagzine | 7th January, 2013
http://dawn.com/2013/01/07/achai-cow-conservation-project/
The government, impressed with the Achai cow breed’s ability to adapt to extreme weather conditions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and return on investment, is promoting setting up of dozens of Achai cow associations in selected districts in the province.
These associations are being formed in villages in Charsadda, Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Malakand and Chitral, where at least 25 households own Achai cows.
“We initially planned to form 48 bodies. However, we have enlisted 102 Achai associations in the project area so far, and continue to enlist more of them. These organisations will later be combined into a district Achai Cattle Owners Association,” said the project’s director, Dr Wahid Mir. He added that cattle associations will also be formed at the divisional level.
Talking about the benefit of these bodies, Dr Mir said that registered farmers will get insemination services, as well as vaccination, diagnosis, treatment, medicines and advisory services for their animals for free.
Some farmers have also been trained at the cattle farm in Hari Chand in Charsadda, and will be taken to modern public and private cattle farms in KP and Punjab, where they will be acquainted with modern ways of rearing livestock animals, as well as proper method for feeding and milking the animals. They will also be taught about preparing by-products from milk.
However, Kohistan, Shangla and Buner districts, which are also home to a sizable Achai population, have been left out of the project. Dr Mir said that the programme will be launched in Buner and Swabi in the near future.
Apart from helping cattle farmers, these associations have trained veterinary assistants, who are supposed to regularly vaccinate the animals and treat them if they contract any disease.
Improving the quality of the livestock breed is yet another goal of the project. Dr Mir said that better animals will help farmers through increased milk and meat production. Achai breeds that give the best milk and meat production ratios will be selected for reproductive purposes, and then disseminated to local farmers.
“As the project started, the price of an Achai cow increased to Rs40,000 from around Rs20,000,” observed the project director.
A survey of 400 Achai cows found that 45 per cent of them yielded an average of one to 1.5 litres of milk a day. Another 20 per cent of the animals yielded 2-4 litres a day, while some groups managed to yield as high as nine litres of milk in a day.
The respective yields of these groups can be easily increased with concerted efforts for disseminating the best breeds, as well as provision of hygienic fodder and efficient healthcare services.
However, Achai is not the only cow breed that is present in the province. Several indigenous cattle breeds, like the Lohani in Kohat, and Gabrali in Swat, can also do with some help.
However, Dr Mir explained that the government selected the Achai breed for its ability to adapt to changes in the weather, as well as its docility, high fertility and overall suitability for the area
“The cow is suitable for area terrain and weather. It can resist cold as well as warm climate (it can reportedly withstand temperatures that range between the freezing point up to 200 Celsius). It has a small body and thus it needs little food.
However, it gives more milk for its size and food intake,” said Dr Mir.
The project director added that milking the Achai cow is a fairly easy job, as, “even children can do it. Its conception rate is double that of other national breeds. And while other breeds take up to three years to reproduce after giving birth, the Achai cow does it after one-and-a-shalf year. It may give birth to three calves, compared to one or two given by other breeds,” he said.
Only 500,000 Achai cows are present in the province, according to a livestock census conducted in 2006, added Dr Mir.
To help farmers realise full well what the cow can offer, a model Achai Cow Conservation Farm has been built in Munda in Lower Dir, at a cost of Rs222 million. Dr Mir said that 20 canals of land had been purchased for the farm, with another 22 to 24 canals will be bought for the production of fodder for the animals.
“Nearly 98 per cent of the construction of the Achai farm has been completed. The site will be handed over to the directorate of livestock within a fortnight, after the work is completed,” said a senior official.
“There will be a small laboratory that will be used for diagnosing animal diseases. The best Achai cows will be ascertained and later used for reproductive purposes, through artificial insemination and embryo transplantation.”
However, after having paid due attention to the livestock and animal rearing activities, authorities now need to turn their attention to the human capital they have available. The project directorate has only 56 personnel at its disposal. This includes five doctors, 12 veterinary assistants, and other staff members. Each district has been assigned a doctor and two veterinary assistants.
Mir conceded that more staff was needed at the Tehsil and locality levels so that the entire project area could be covered.
“Veterinary assistants are expected to keep records of conception, birth, sex of the calves, their weight, milking duration and growth. They also have to do field duties, like conducting inspections as well as vaccinating and treating animals. They are supposed to offer counselling services to the farmers as well,” said Dr Mir.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has around six million cows of different breeds, but none of them have been utilised to produce genetically superior and high yielding species. It is expected that this project will change the fate of at least one of these breeds.
Filed under Agriculture, Economy, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa economy Tagged with Achai cow, achai cow model farm, Dir, livestock, Malakand
One Response to Achai-cow-conservation-project in Lower Dir
M.k.khan says:
I want to establish goat and cow farm in my locality but due to financial constrain I am unable to do it.i have infraststucture and also man power and can be utilized properly.A party financially sound is needed to help me to start this venture jointly.
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Last summer Historic Denver learned of plans to demolish the building on the southwest corner of Colfax and Downing Street. The 1930s building is best known for having been the long-time home of Smiley’s Laundromat, a staple for Capitol Hill residents for more than 30 years. During the city’s efforts to create Main Street zoning, city planners identified the building as the type of building most appropriate for Colfax, with a strong street wall, ground-floor transparency, and parking in the rear, not the front. The building’s Art Deco detailing is also admired, earning it a spot in Historic Denver’s guidebook on Colfax Avenue. The Smiley’s Building is among the ranks of quiet, simple, and important “background buildings” that we so often take for granted, but which offer a sense of identity, quality, and continuity on our local main streets.
The City of Denver found the building had the potential for local landmark status, having historical, architectural, and geographical significance, while the State Historic Preservation Office identified it as eligible for the State Register of Historic Places. After strong response from neighborhood residents in favor of preservation or reuse, Historic Denver approached the owner, Consolidated Investment Group, to discuss alternatives to demolition. Fortunately, CIG agreed to slow their planning and consider options for retaining the 90 year-old building, while still redeveloping the large parking lot on the west side of the site.
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This Brooklyn Townhouse Blends Modern Design with Historic Architecture
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Having an interior designer as a friend can come in handy. Case in point: after Colin Winkelman purchased his 1,600-square-foot townhouse in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 2010, he knew exactly where to look for help decorating the historic space: Lindsay Key, a childhood friend who just so happens to be co-owner of Key + Shade Interior Design.
There's something satisfyingly indulgent about getting to look behind the normally closed doors of someone else's home. That's why, with the help of Dyson and its commitment to design and technology, we created this series of guided tours of some of New York's artfully articulated apartments and the people who live there.
Winkelman and Key worked together closely, finding inspiration in the extensive art collection Winkelman has amassed over the years. As a freelance producer, designer, and art consultant, he lent his creative eye through all stages of the design process.
Tapping into Winkelman's childhood spent in New York City's Greenwich Village, the pair teamed up with local artist coalition UR New York to commission custom paintings of colorful street scenes in the Village and Winkelman's new home in Brooklyn. One of the paintings sits at the base of the stairwell leading up to the main floor, and the other hangs on the wall overlooking the landing. Splashy graffiti connect the two unique pieces.
"It's an interpretation of my journey from the Village to where I live now," he says.
That journey continues into the living room, painted a slate grey to allow the furnishings—like the candy-apple red lamp in the corner—to really pop. A collection of pillows with cheeky sayings like "Stud" and "Damn Good Friends" are propped on a pair of white swivel chairs and a low-back sofa. A collection of vintage toys—also a nod to Winkelman's youth—including a Rubik's Cube and Slinky perch atop the fireplace mantel.
"This room was originally the parlor room, an area of the home that's often thought of as stuck-up," he says. "I wanted to inject some fun, and I always wanted a big kids' playroom."
Playing off the room's original crown molding and hardwood floors, Key chose pieces from Winkelman's art collection that add a modern touch to the space. A large piece, made of rattan and burlap, by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich, is one work that immediately captures and holds one's attention.
"It was all about finding balance," Key says of her collaboration with Winkelman. "He's very open-minded and had an idea, so we went with it."
The balance between the home's original architecture and modern updates from the renovation continues in the open kitchen and dining room. Before the renovation, this area contained a bathroom, which is common in buildings constructed in the 1890s. Removing that enclosed space opened up the room, increasing the flow of light. In a nod to the home's past, Winkelman and Key chose black-on-black patterned wallpaper from Timorous Beasties that mimics street scenes from the late 19th century. The eccentric wallpaper serves as a backdrop for the high-top dining room table, which is equipped with six bright red chairs.
When it came time to decorate the bedroom, Winkelman and Key added another member to their design team: his wife, Samantha. The three worked together to design a space that is serene and zen. A focus on muted woods embraces a stark contrast to the bright décor in the rest of the home.
"When I moved in back in 2012, the bedroom was unfinished and didn't reflect the rest of the house," Samantha says. "I wanted to bring some of my own style in, and make the room a relaxing, neutral environment."
Working with a neutral color palette of whites and greys, Key commissioned a local carpenter to create a headboard made of whitewashed maple that runs the length of the wall and showcases the wood's natural grain. Trinkets from Samantha's travels in Cape Cod rest on a geometric wooden bookshelf. Several candles made out of old Hendricks liquor bottles, which Winkelman repurposed using a glass cutter, line the shelves.
Although the couple's design aesthetic may differ, they definitely agree on cleanliness.
"We're both very overly organized," Winkelman says. "We keep everything in its place, which helps keep the space clean."
And it shows. A thread of organized creativity runs through their home, a space that reflects their distinct but clearly compatible personalities.
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Just north of Duma Key
Julie & Julia (2009)
Quite entertaining. Meryl Streep’s performance as Julia Child was quite good.
That was a good movie.
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Avengers: Endgame. Finally.
We liked it. If you're "into" the characters and story, and we pretty much are, it was a satisfying rollercoaster ride with a nice conclusion. Later on, you might ponder the mile-wide plot holes, but who says it's all about reality anyway? It's a visual comic book, for Pete's sake. Just enjoy it.
Because we saw it late, we're told that we were treated to the literal "signoff" of some of the players, along with a deleted scene. Okay. Great. Actually, the signoff was quite a nice and cool thing to do.
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I watched the 2006 unrated directors cut of Mysterious Skin starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (he of the 3rd Rock From The Sun show), Brady Corbett, Michelle Trachtenberg and Elizabeth Shue. Directed by Gregg Araki. Set in the 80's, this is the story of two 8 year old boys in a small town who were both molested by their softball coach (there are no explicit scenes showing this) and how this event shaped the two of them. It's 10 years later now. One has become a male hustler and the other thinks he was abducted by aliens because he can't explain the missing time from back then. This movie is not for the weak at heart. There is drug use. There is nudity. There is a very graphic rape scene that left me shaking. Joseph Gordon-Levitt owns this movie and he gives a stunning performance. I can't believe that he wasn't singled out for an Oscar on this one. He deserved one. Levitt was very brave in taking on this role early in his career after 3rd Rock which went largely ignored. If you want to watch a film that has excellant acting with a strong message then I suggest you see this one.
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I also watched 10 Cloverfield Lane starring John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Man, this was intense! Goodman once again turns in a fantastic performance. This movie keeps you guessing up until the very last few minutes. You just don't know if Goodman's character is crazy or if he's telling the truth. There's a couple of twists which is always good.
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Django Unchained (2013): Really enjoyed this one, although the last 30 minutes felt really unnecessary and that the movie could've resolved itself within the span of the big final shootout scene. But asides from that, I don’t have any real complaints about it. 8/10
Spiderman Far From Home (2019) Don’t really have much to say about this one, decent superhero movie with the comedy to be expected from Marvel. The most interesting thing about it is seeing the events of Endgame from the average civilian’s point of view. The plot twist in this one is super obvious if you are even remotely familiar with the character of Mysterio, but it’s still a decent film that Marvel fans will enjoy. 7/10
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I saw this one and thought of this movie when I as watching the Michael Jackson doc. The two guys in the MJ doc reminded me of the characters in this movie and how differently each one handled what happened to them as they grew older. One of them (JGL character) tried to not think about the incidents and the other was consumed by them. But no matter, each one of the lives was forever altered. The scene at the end where JGL explained to other what had happened was an incredible scene.
This movie is really difficult to watch and is one of the best movie that I never want to see again.
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I liked this one a lot. Same thoughts, I had no idea if John Goodman was crazy or just prepared...lol
A person can be both.
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My take on the JGL character is that he never forgot what had happened to him and that he actually enjoyed what his 'mentor' did to him. He says in one scene that this guy was the only person that ever made him feel special. That said, I think he spent the rest of his childhood and young adulthood trying to find another man that would make him feel the same way. Tragically, he doesn't.
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I have actually found a copy of the book Mysterious Skin and ordered it.
Victory -- Michael Caine
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Michael Caine has been in a lot of movies.
I heard a comedian say that him and his wife were watching their wedding video and they saw Michael Caine in it.
I adore Michael Caine. My favorite actor.
The thing about him, even if he is in a total crap movie (and he has said he knew he was in a total crap movie while making the total crap movie) he gives 150% of himself as an actor. He is committed to the role and he does his job.
I've read that he hated his movie, The Hand. (I own it). While The Hand might not be an Academy Award winning Smithsonian display, if you watch his performance in it -- absolutely brilliant. He is so damn good.
While on a trans-Pacific flight.
Aquaman. So many of my women friends within 20 years of my age enjoyed this. Grandma's had no interest, so I thought since I was on a plane, I'd give it a shot. That shot lasted 50 minutes, at which point my "I don't care anymore" factor kicked in, and I gave up. Sorry, women friends. With the exception of Wonder Woman, I don't believe the DC universe is our cup of tea. I'm going to tell Grandma she's right.
From the Marvel universe, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse. A number of my friends liked this, and I wanted to see it but Grandma not so much, so again, I thought I'd try. It was okay. Too fantastical for my tastes, which as you're about to see aren't consistent. Good writing, interesting approach, but just didn't get there for me. However, it did keep my interest until the end. Then I switched to Deadpool 2, which I won't review here because it's not fair. I'll watch this and its predecessor anytime. Anyway, I'm going to tell Granda she was right. Again.
Finally settled on the goofiness of Alita: Battle Angel, and doggone if this blend of video game, anime, CG, and live action in one more dystopia didn't keep me going. It's no award-winning masterpiece, but it was entertaining. It set itself up for a sequel. If that happens, maybe I'll catch it on another plane ride.
I love his movies, if you haven't seen them I recommend you keep an eye out for Silver Bears, Without A Clue and Too Late The Hero.
Notaro said:
He's great. And I have not seen any of those, so I will check them out.
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Bought the Criterion Collection of David Lynch's Blue Velvet. The restoration on this is great. Colors 'pop' and sound is awesome. Stephen King even has a cameo in it- well, somewhat anyway. In the extra's there is a segment that shows behind the scenes footage while the film was being shot on location in Wilmington, North Carolina, which is where King was filming Maximum Overdrive and there's a quick shot of Steve's personal parking space and a sign with his name on it.
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CoriSCapnSkip
Blake said:
How's the painting going?
Which painting?
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How did you like it? I'm going to try and see it in the next couple of days.
LOVED! Saw it with my friend, dragged my sister to the theater, she raved about it so much our other sister told her to shut up already, would see it a third time in a heartbeat!
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About Stinko’s
Stinko's Stage and Screen
What is Stinko’s Las Vegas?
Stinko, aka Steven Stewart-Clark, is an artist based in floral event work and mixed media art. His passion for entertainment, events, and supporting local artists has brought him to Las Vegas to make his and many others’ dreams come true.
By sharing in the wealth of a successful floral and event decor business, Stinko’s Las Vegas plans to become a pillar of the Las Vegas community in promoting fellow artists, musicians, and performers alike.
Plans for the 4000 sq.ft. “Stinko’s Las Vegas” includes a fully equipped stage, art gallery, open indoor/outdoor garden space, multi-purpose area, glass ”atrium” cooler, and fully functional floral design center.
The community will be able to gather, share, perform, and most importantly, allow Stinko’s Las Vegas to showcase and promote the many individual talents that a metropolitan community such as Las Vegas has to offer!
As a child, owner and designer Steven Stewart-Clark grew up in rural Massachusetts where he always had ample supply of fields and forests to play in. He found himself always pillaging and collecting odd twigs, branches, greenery, and anything else that caught his eye. Each day, after returning home with a piece of natural art that he had made from his findings, his parents would always call him “Stinko” because he would be filthy dirty, yet holding something strangely beautiful. The nickname stuck with him for life and as he began to hone his skills, he took on the artistic name of Stinko.
Copyright © 2019 Stinko’s Las Vegas - All Rights Reserved.
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Guía de las Colecciones del Museo de Arte de Filadelfia - Spanish Language Guide
Price: $10.95 Member Price: $9.86
This comprehensive handbook is the essential guide to the encyclopedic collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, translated into Spanish. Divided into four sections-Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Contemporary-the handbook features more than 500 masterpieces from the museum's world-renowned holdings, each handsomely illustrated in color and accompanied by a brief text written by the museum's curators. Each section integrates a wide variety of media, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, decorative arts, costumes and textiles, arms and armor, and photography. Expanded entries provide in-depth information on some of the most historically significant and beloved objects, such as a 16th-century Indian temple hall, Grace Kelly's wedding dress, and Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés. Other passages discuss the contributions of several of the museum's most important donors, exploring the idea of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as "a collection of collections."
453 illustrations, 445 in color
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002
ISBN-10: 0-87633-158-4
Rodin Museum Catalog
Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
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Book Talk and Signing: The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, 606 W. 115 St., New York, NY 10025 Rennert Hall
Henry Fountain, a former engineering reporter for the New York Times and currently an environmental reporter for the newspaper, will talk about his true science thriller. The book: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, “The Great Quake is a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history -- the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega -- and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.” Sponsored by: the Masters of Science in Sustainability Management Program of Columbia University's Earth Institute and Professor Claudia Dreifus' course, "Writing About Global Science for the International Media."
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2016, Fall of Gods, Francois Jolin, Lakeshore Records, Review, Score, She is Gone, Soundtrack
Fall of Gods (Francois Jolin)
FALL OF GODS: SHE IS GONE
François Jolin, 2016, Lakeshore Records
Forget movies. Books are the future! François Jolin presents a score based on an illustrated book based on Norse mythology. And by Thor’s hammer… it’s good!
“Fall of Gods” is an illustrated book inspired by Norse mythology, following Vali, a warrior haunted by his past, but who has found peace in the arms of a woman. For years he has lived far from society, tending to his farm and trying to forget the battles he fought…and the crimes he committed. But one day his love disappears, and he must set out to find her. He will once again have to face the creatures of Jotunheim and the powerful Aesir. Suddenly, the man he thought he had buried deep down inside has risen to the surface once more…and he comes seeking vengeance. “Fall of Gods” was created by “Mood” concept designer Rasmus Berggreen and “Hitman” video-game writer Michael Vogt. The book will be turned into a feature film by director Wes Ball (“The Maze Runner”).
Composer François Jolin has provided soundtracks to local and international clients such as Le Cirque du Soleil, Funcom, Digital Dimension, Mood Visuals, Bell Media, Procedural Reality and many more. Some of his recent and upcoming projects include “The Genex”, “Winnetou”, “Hard Right”, as well as the VR video game “Limit Theory”.
“For score references, I was instructed to look towards films like “Apocalypto”, “Braveheart” and “Noah”“, Jolin says. “This helped a lot to establish an initial sound palette. One key part of the sound palette was getting in all these textures so that it never sounded too clean. Using synths and off-played strings helped give a real sense of grit while maintaining a modern approach.“
This approach is evident from the get-go, as the album opens to the sound of piano and harp over a bed of dissonant strings. There’s some rattling percussion as the violins continue to scrape. During the second half of the opening track, “Hunt”, the strings straighten out and begin to form a melody. Jolin continues to combine a dulcimer-like sound with electric guitar notes (more like ambient pads), growling brass (think Goldenthal) and terrifying wind instruments (think Silvestri’s “Predator 2”).
“Panic” contains some melodic elements, but largely relies on musical effects. There are plucked strings, dissonant strings, something that sounds like laboured breathing… and then percussion, ostinato strings and a ‘braaaam’-type sound enter the fray. I know it doesn’t read particularly interesting, but it sounds really good. It reminds me of Goldenthal, not least because of a faint organ that can just be heard in background. The chaos does die down and make way for melancholy strings, with guitar and cello only just taking the lead.
“Drangavik” sees the score move towards Horner’s “Apocalypto” as dense strings are accompanied by guttural vocal pads, chants and exotic (but unnerving) wind instruments. This continues in cues like “Forest”, “Trap” and “Duel”. They really sound like a combination of Horner’s exotic experimentations, Mansell’s curious orchestrations and some slightly more straight-forward ostinatos. The result is harsh, uneasy, but absolutely fascinating. Jolin does a great job at keeping it sounding natural, in spite of the many sound manipulations. Any description won’t do it justice. There are so many layers to the music; so much to explore.
In contrast “I Need Alcohol” is an upbeat and fast-paced cue which sounds like an ancient, if somewhat off-kilter, folk song with light percussion and a pleasant melody. The pleasantries don’t last too long as “Ambush” sees the return of strings ostinatos and lively percussion; and it took me a while to fully realise that Jolin’s put a big fat synth pad on top of it… it mixes so well, I think I thought it was brass for a little while. What I like about the percussion is how light but energetic it is. Rather than apply tons of thundering drums (there are some, but not much), Jolin predominantly relies on light, stick-like sounds.
Jolin says of the score: “I see “Fall of Gods” as being more than a huge monsters, Norse action piece. It contains many elements that have a strong meaning, affliction, duality, hope amidst chaos, whilst remaining viable and true to its epic stage. It’s not the same sort of Norse inspired story that we’ve all come to know, there are no superheroes with red capes, and washboard abs. It has a gritty naturalistic approach that brings something new to the mythos.“
“Wolf’s Lair” combines a deliberately paced percussive rhythm with strings and female vocal. The result is a cue that feels determined, yet melancholy. A bit like a sacrifice. “Pyre” is largely musical sound design, but again is strangely fascinating. And again, once the ‘noise’ settles down, deep strings come to the fore. A breathy flute perform a Horner-like melody, accompanied by soft guitar plucks and what sounds like a child’s voice. Again, Jolin’s sound design is very engaging. It draws you into the story and won’t let you go.
The album concludes with a song, yup an actual song with lyrics and stuff, called “The Call” performed by Delhia de France (and written by Jolin and De France). It’s amazing how well it works with the score, considering is much more modern in nature. But it seems to many of the sounds (percussion, guitar, synths) that were used in the score. It’s a great song. I really love the warm, fat sound of it.
François Jolin’s “Fall of Gods” makes for a dark and guttural listening experience. It’s not the easiest thing to sit through, but I find it (surprisingly) rewarding. When Jolin says he took his inspiration from scores like “Apocalypto” and “Noah” he wasn’t kidding. It relies heavily on dissonant sounds, throaty vocal effects and forest-inspired percussion. At times the music borders on sound design, though elsewhere melodies and harmonies are allowed to materialise to great effect. If you enjoy the aforementioned scores, you are likely to enjoy “Fall of Gods” and appreciate its many layers and complex sound palette. Others may be declined to dismiss most of it as noisy, or even plain noise. There’s something utterly intriguing about “Fall of Gods”. I think it’s partly due to the mixing, as it sounds really warm and deceptively inviting; and partly due to the orchestrations which sound really natural despite the presence of synths, electric guitars and plenty of electronic tinkering. It’s absolutely fascinating; and I love it a lot.
01. Hunt (5.20)
02. Panic (4.54)
03. Drangavik (4.34)
04. I Need Alcohol (2.50)
05. Ambush (3.57)
06. Troll (3.02)
07. Forest (2.14)
08. Walking In Circles (3.41)
09. Trap (2.45)
10. Duel (1.57)
11. Wolf’s Lair (4.00)
12. Pyre (4.04)
13. The Call – Featuring Delhia de France (4.03)
Review (C) 2016 Synchrotones
From → 4/5, Adventure, Concept Album, Drama, Fantasy, Francois Jolin, Lakeshore Records
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Speaking Truth to Power: A Rebuttal to House Speaker Richard Corcoran
by H. on April 29, 2018 April 30, 2018
House Speaker Richard Corcoran brings the hammer down on the status quo, or so he claims…
Long before Richard Corcoran became Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, he claimed that what was “destroying this country and this state” was “the status quo and the protectors of it.” He again recently harped on his favorite phrase–this time in relation to “institutionalized school boards”–when he penned a column that appeared in the Tampa Bay Times just over one week ago.
What follows herein, then, is a direct rebuttal to many of the points addressed within the Speaker’s column. As an independent voter who has never had a party affiliation, I am one of many citizens who feels disenfranchised by a two-party system that has been largely hijacked by extremists on both sides of the aisle. The entire Sunshine State needs collaboration and compromise between its lawmakers; our citizens have received very little of either in the two decades I have lived in Florida, however, and this is especially true during the last two contentious legislative sessions overseen by Speaker Corcoran.
The Speaker’s column begins with a bombastic claim that Floridians will have the opportunity “to vote on the best slate of constitutional amendments ever.” Much of what follows from there is largely opinion with few facts to corroborate his assertions, so let’s examine his claims individually to see how they stack up against reality during Governor Scott’s tenure in office as well as Representative Corcoran’s time as Speaker of the House.
Speaker Corcoran initiates his column by proudly stating he and Governor Scott have cut taxes 80 times totaling over $10 billion dollars since 2010. As someone who is personally fiscally conservative, this would be welcome news if my perspective weren’t already tempered by the realization that all Floridians have an obligation to the future, which requires investment in public institutions and services, something our state cannot afford to do by constantly curtailing revenue streams for no other reason beyond pandering to an ultra-conservative political base.
As opinion editor of the Sarasota Herald Tribune, Tom Tryon, noted last year during the 2017 legislative session, Florida ranks 49th in per-capita revenue generation despite the fact that we are the third most populous state in the U.S. This lack of revenue ultimately leads to frequent actions such as raiding trust funds to cover rising costs while politically saving face with the GOP’s core constituency. Tampa Bay Times columnist, John Romano, noted similar concerns in a recent piece that called these “anti-tax laws…ticking political time bombs that could blow up our future.”
All it will really take is the next economic recession–something that Speaker Corcoran surely knows is coming considering how much he touts his love of free markets as a panacea for every economic ill–and the boom and bust cycle will ensure that our consumption based revenue will collapse in on itself much like it did during the housing crisis a decade ago.
Instead, however, the Speaker is pushing for yet another homestead exemption that will further reduce revenue by $637 million dollars at a time when we desperately need funding for Medicare and Medicaid expansion, infrastructure, and public education. And what do Floridians stand to receive if this amendment passes? $250. Annually.
Taken another way: this is 68 cents per day, which will not buy anything of value in today’s day and age. To the Speaker’s credit, though, it should be noted that 68 cents per day is much better than the 47 cent per-pupil increase school districts will receive in 2018-19 for the entire school year, a move that has left nearly all 67 counties financially hamstrung.
And while discussing per-pupil funding, let’s acknowledge how abysmal it has been for the last decade despite constant claims by Governor Scott, Speaker Corcoran, and Senate President Joe Negron that this year’s “record-level” $7,408 per-pupil amount is “unprecendented” and “historic”; adjusted for inflation, the $7,126 from 2007-2008 would need to be $8,415 to have the equivalent purchasing power, a fact anyone can check with the U.S. Department of Labor’s CPI Inflation Calculator. $8,415 is clearly far more than the $7,221 our schools received this past school year, meaning we are at least $1,200 behind and lag the national average by approximately $4,000.
Remember, Joe: “Historic”, “Unprecedented”, and “Record-Level”. If we just keep repeating these words perhaps everybody will believe us about public education spending here in Florida.
This point is perhaps best summed up in another John Romano column when he states the following: “The Legislature likes to brag about education funding being at record-high levels, but it’s a disingenuous argument. It does not take into account inflation. It does not take into account new state mandates that force schools to spend more money. It does not take into account that Florida’s K-12 spending is woefully inadequate when compared to the rest of the nation. In short, that argument is a load of bull.”
At a bare minimum, the students, parents, and education professionals deserve a special session so that the Florida Legislature can actually provide the $400 million it pledged for school safety, rather than shuffle all the money around in the education budget and still claim to have increased funding. Far more importantly, it also begs the question of why education spending did not increase by $1.5 billion when the entire budget climbed by over $6 billion. Public education is already one quarter of the state’s budget after all; shouldn’t it deserve an equitable increase as a total proportion of the new budget?
It’s not just education that needs the funding, either. Two other areas that sorely need attention are healthcare and infrastructure. Despite being a donor state that sends more money to the federal government than it receives, Governor Scott famously rejected federal dollars for both Medicaid expansion that would have meant coverage for over one million Floridians in poverty, as well as a high speed rail that would have connected Tampa to Orlando and eventually Miami. In a recent column written by Sue Carlton of the Tampa Bay Times after she slogged through hours of traffic on I-4, she reminds us all that “in the name of politics, Scott turned his back on what would have been an important step toward the kind of modern transportation this state will need. Make that: already needs.”
Speaker Corcoran then points out the 1.5 million jobs that were created during his and Governor Scott’s tenure, yet without noting that “much of the job growth during Scott’s tenure has come in low-paying corners of the economy” or that “45 percent of households across the state…still find it practically impossible to obtain even the most everyday necessities – lacking what it takes to pay bills, afford health care, housing and transportation, regardless of regular employment.” When one adds these two facts together, it is no wonder why Florida has an affordable housing crisis.
At this point it is worth noting the about face of Speaker Corcoran, who, lest we all forget, was chief antagonist of Governor Scott for much of the 2017 legislative session, fuming over “corporate welfare” and wanting to eviscerate the funding of both Visit Florida and Enterprise Florida, two of the governor’s beloved pet projects. This animosity evaporated almost immediately at the end of the session after a closed-door horse-dealing session that every public education advocate knows all too well.
Psst! I’ll sign HB7069 if you give me an $85 million dollar jobs slush fund.
After detailing how he–along with Governor Scott, Senate President Joe Negron, and Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga–appointed the 37 members of the Florida Constitutional Revision Commision, a group that has set out to attempt to install its politically conservative agenda into our state’s most precious civil document rather than listening to what the Sunshine State’s citizenry wants, Speaker Corcoran segues into hollow words about ending corruption in Tallahassee because of his “ethics reform package.”
For someone who constantly preens himself over his record on challenging special interests and ending “corporate welfare”–a point upon which he and I philosophically agree, interestingly enough–Speaker Corcoran’s words run diametrically opposed to his actions when it serves his own interests and agenda.
Case in point: HB7069 and HB7055, both of which go out of their way to steer our public taxpayer dollars to the for-profit charter management industry. Rep. Manny Diaz, for instance, who sits on both the Education Committee and K-12 Appropriations subcommittee, is paid a six figure salary for a job he supposedly holds at Doral College, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of Academica, the largest of the for-profit charter management companies. Along with Charter Schools USA and Charter School Associates, Academica heavily donates to the GOP coffers and must not be regulars on what Speaker Corcoran dubs the “capital [sic] cocktail circuit”. As Fabiola Santiago notes in her excellent Miami Herald piece, Florida’s ethics laws “are a joke” and further states “it’s a clear conflict of interest for members of the Florida Legislature who have a stake in charter schools to vote to fund and expand them.”
Speaker Corcoran also goes on to boast of his and Governor Scott’s education priorities, noting–quite incorrectly, one might add–that “Florida is one of the only states in the nation to significantly improve math and reading scores.” He is referring to the NAEP, which is small sampling of random students and schools that deals with proficiency not growth. Truth be told, all the NAEP report demonstrates is that some random students did better than other random students from several years ago.
It is noteworthy, however, that Polk School Board member, Billy Townsend, keeps pointing toward an exhaustive report done by Stanford University that clearly tracks all students across multiple grades to build a robust picture of student growth (or lack thereof) on standardized tests, which, as anyone in public education knows, is the only metric deemed worthy of consideration by the Florida Legislature. This report, oddly enough, has been routinely ignored by every single person in Tallahassee. Why? This map speaks for the entire study:
All one needs to know is that purple is bad and represents a lack of test score growth.
With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the “bundled” amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel “public” school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.
Finally, as an insult to all Social Studies teachers across the entire Sunshine State, Speaker Corcoran tells us that the Florida Legislature and the CRC have set out to enshrine civics education in our Constitution in an effort to ensure “a student should not be able to graduate without understanding what makes America great. Our founding documents and the values of our free society should not just be taught, but understood by every student who comes out of a Florida school.” This is already happening here in Hillsborough where Civics in a mandatory course that all students take in 7th grade, and undoubtedly everywhere else throughout the state. How else could Parkland students so quickly organize the “March For Our Lives” events and eloquently share their views if we had no robust civics education in Florida schools?
At the end of his tenure as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Richard Corcoran has clearly failed at what he set out to do when he took the gavel and stated he would disrupt the status quo. What he failed to realize was the paradoxical nature of his quest that did not acknowledge a single fact of paramount importance:
That Speaker Corcoran–and by extension the entire ideologically-driven, GOP-dominated Florida Legislature of the last two decades–is the status quo.
Teacher Voice – Episode 18
by H. on March 18, 2018 March 18, 2018
Pat Hall (second from left), the Education Committee Chair for the League of Women Voters, Hillsborough County Chapter
This episode of the Teacher Voice podcast focuses on one of the most critical issues facing the Sunshine State: the citizens and taxpayers of Florida being defrauded by the for-profit charter management corporations.
The guest on the podcast is Pat Hall, a retired public educator now turned public education advocate. Pat, along with other key players in the League of Women Voters, is on a mission to expose the fraudulent ways that these for-profit management companies keep nearly HALF of the money that is meant for students in the classrooms. Our discussion covers how these companies bilk the taxpayers while peddling influence at the state and local levels. Please listen and be sure to share with other concerned citizens and public education advocates!
https://teachervoicecom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/pat-hall-interview.m4a
If you’d like to learn more about this situation, Like or Follow the League of Women Voters of Hillsborough County on Facebook, and be sure to click any of the linked articles below the LWV logo:
2014 investigative piece by Noah Pransky of Channel 10 News about how Charter Schools USA were charging exorbitant rents and nearly had their charters pulled by Superintendent Elia
The League of Women Voters Education Blog curated by Dr. Sue Legg from the University of Florida (this link will open up to a post about for-profit charters)
An interim report written for the LWV by Pat Hall and Dr. Sue Legg about the business practices of Charter Schools USA
“Charter School Explosion” – A 7 part series written by Pat Hall and published exclusively in La Gaceta. All of these pieces are highly informative, but if you only have time for one, be sure to read part 5, “Following the Money,” which was featured by Diane Ravitch on her own education blog.
Charter School Explosion – Are They Fulfilling the Promise? (Part 1)
Charter School Explosion – Doing It Better
Charter School Explosion – Following the Money (MUST READ!)
Charter School Explosion – Accountable to Whom?
Charter School Explosion – On the Fringe of Legal?
Publisher’s note/two minor corrections: 1) SLAM stands for “Sports Leadership and Management”; 2) Hillsborough County School Board member for District 1, Susan Valdes, received $12,000 total (not as in a single day) from for-profit charter management companies or people during the last election cycle. $6,000 came on a single day (5/25/16), and the three individual checks I reference from John Hage (CEO of CSUSA), Charter Schools USA, and Red Apple Development were all donated on 12/17/15. You can find campaign contribution records for her or any elected official in Hillsborough County by clicking this link here.
In Defense of the HCPS Whistleblower
by H. on January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018
Whistleblowers serve an important function in a free and democratic society. They serve as a bulwark against corruption and unethical behavior, and are a voice for the masses who feel powerless to fight back. And, more often than not, they carry on this important work anonymously.
Governments recognize and respect the work that these people do, which is why we have legislation at both the state and federal levels to protect those who have the courage to stand up and speak out against those who unscrupulously wield their power. These people should be commended for taking on the injustices found in both the private and public sectors.
It was alarming, then, to witness the unfolding of events at last night’s school board meeting here in Hillsborough County. For those reading beyond our borders, a popular local Facebook page, the Hillsborough County School Board Whistleblower, sprouted up shortly after our previous superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, was unceremoniously removed from her post without cause in January of 2015. Over the last three years, the page has grown a large following while being critical of several of the board members on a wide range of issues.
During the meeting, a concerned citizen named Jason Ferger addressed the board about several issues, specifically the lack of transparency in their dealings with one another, which should happen “in the sunshine” according to state law. It was at the end of his address that one of our school board members, April Griffin, outed him as being the administrator of the Whistleblower page while simultaneously dragging another school board member, Melissa Snively, into the fray, despite the fact that she was absent from the dais. It was both shocking and unprofessional to say the least.
To be honest, Mr. Ferger may or may not be the person I interviewed a couple of months ago over the phone. The more important point is that, based on what I gleaned from our discussion, the Whistleblower is more than any one person at this point–it is a movement. And this movement is comprised of any and all stakeholders who are concerned about the surfeit of challenges facing our school district here in Hillsborough County. From what he described, the page routinely receives dozens of tips in any given week, and anyone who has sent along tips or helped dig through records requests to put together the facts may as well be the Whistleblower him/herself.
Which makes me the Whistleblower, too.
Over a year ago, I received a tip from a friend who told me that the district was purchasing 8,000 laptops. We apparently were about to significantly overpay for them because one of our other school board members, Susan Valdes, questioned the item and had it pulled from the agenda before a vote. Summation: the contract went to a local company whose CEO donated $1000 to her most recent election campaign. So I passed along the tip and then got an email back asking if I could help.
Attached to this email were pages upon pages of emails, purchase orders, bidding sheets; it was mind-boggling to behold at first. Relishing the opportunity to do some investigative work, I dug in, sifted through all the information, organized it onto a spreadsheet, and then sent it back. After a few more email exchanges, we were able to create a timeline, and then the page took the information public.
It has since been accepted by the Florida Commission on Ethics, and the investigation is one of two that are currently on-going (as far as I know).
My point is this: whoever you are, dear reader, you are powerful. We all are. As I said to someone last night, anyone who is helping to provide greater transparency by holding democratically elected officials accountable to their citizens is the very definition of what it means to be a good American. We have a right and responsibility as citizens of the United States to be informed, engaged, and acting on our civic duty. As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
I am the Whistleblower.
And if you have ever helped that page and the cause, then so are you.
We are all the Whistleblower.
Teacher Voice – Friday Five – Episode 15
by H. on December 8, 2017 December 8, 2017
#TimeToResign
While I highly doubt School Board Member Valdes will take this second call for her resignation seriously due to her megalomania, I hope you will listen to this very brief (4 minute) podcast as to why she needs to be removed from her District 1 seat.
Please share with others and use #TimeToResign
https://teachervoicecom.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/friday-five-12-81.m4a
Oh, and if you’re interested in reading through the recall statute yourself, you can find it by clicking this link: Recall Statute
Thanks again for listening, everyone; have an awesome weekend!
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What Is 21.co Really Building? An Excerpt From Digital Gold
Contributor 4 years
Today we’re thrilled to offer an exclusive excerpt from Nathaniel Popper’s Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, the definitive book about bitcoin. In this chapter we learn, in detail, the secrets behind the mysterious 21.co. Originally called 21e6, the company grew in secrecy to become one of the highest capitalized bitcoin ventures in the world.
For much of the past two years, the Bitcoin company with the most money and high profile backers was one that almost no one knew existed.
With the arcane-sounding name 21e6, the company raised $70 million in 2013, with the initial investment coming in personal contributions from the elite of Silicon Valley, including Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz .
Founded by the Stanford wunderkind, Balaji Srinivasan and four co-founders, 21e6 proceeded to roll out thousands of computers that were built to do nothing but generate new Bitcoins – an energy intensive computational process referred to as mining.
The machines were loaded with custom-designed chips that had names like Yoda and Gandalf, and were submerged in a mineral oil solution that dispersed the incredible heat generated by the mining process.
The company ended up running up against the difficulty of making money in the cut-throat business of Bitcoin mining, which became much more difficult as the price of Bitcoin dropped over the last year.
This year, the company has renamed itself 21 Inc. and recently went public with a new fundraising round, that brought in another $56 million on top of the $70 million the company had already raised.
While the company has remained tight lipped about its intentions, it is shifting away from mining Bitcoins for itself and focusing more on distributing mining hardware to consumers with the aim of supporting broader adoption of the technology. But the company’s creation played an important role in Silicon Valley’s embrace of Bitcoin.
The startup began to form in early 2013, not long after Srinivasan had stepped away from the genetics startup, Counsyl, which he had founded in his Stanford dorm room and turned him into a local star.
Srinivasan had been tracking Bitcoin for some time, but with more time on his hands he began talking about how to create a company with Matt Pauker, a cryptographer who did a guest lecture in an engineering course that Srinivasan was teaching at Stanford.
They quickly saw the opportunity in Bitcoin mining. From the time Bitcoin was released in early 2009, computers trying to generate Bitcoins took part in a kind of computational lottery. The faster a computer could run numbers through a complex equation, known as a hash function, the more chances it had to win the lottery, and with it, a bundle of new Bitcoins.
By the end of 2012, Bitcoin enthusiasts at home had already found faster and faster ways to do the computations and win more Bitcoins with their existing computer hardware, generally using GPU computer chips made for processing graphics.
A few particularly ambitious engineers set out to build so-called ASIC computer chips that could be even more efficient – and designed specifically for Bitcoin mining. In early 2013 the first of these were deployed. Together, the joint computing power of all the machines connected to the Bitcoin network was equivalent to several super computers. It was these computers that were, in essence, securing the network.
But the people creating these early ASIC chips were relative amateurs, and Srinivasan thought he could do much better by harnessing some of the top minds in Silicon Valley. In addition to Pauker, he brought on as co-founders the experienced engineers Nigel Drego, who trained at M.I.T., Veerbhan Kheterpal, a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, and Daniel Firu, who had previously been at PDF Solutions. They took their corporate name from the number of Bitcoins that will ultimately be created: 21 million.
At that point, in spring of 2013, Srinivasan also began selling the company to the elite investors of Silicon Valley, who were still generally skeptical of Bitcoin. No venture capital firms had made any significant public investments in the virtual currency technology. But Srinivasan had the benefit of a rising Bitcoin price to help his pitch.
From the beginning, 21e6 was sold as a top secret project, allowing people to invest without needing to come out as public supporters of Bitcoin. The company was also structured as an limited liability company, rather than the C Corp typical of startups, so that people could invest with their own money.
The gallery of 30 or so people who put money in was a who’s who that – in addition to the original PayPal team and Andreessen Horowitz co-founders — included AngelList’s Naval Ravikant and the Winklevoss twins. Together the group put in $5 million for 21e6’s series A round, which closed shortly after Coinbase, another Bitcoin company, won major press coverage for a similar sized fundraising round.
21e6 was sold as a top secret project, allowing people to invest without needing to come out as public supporters of Bitcoin
For Srinivasan, part of the goal in approaching individual investors was to sell tech leaders on Bitcoin, and get them personally invested in the technology — and he would later say that it worked.
“We were pretty influential in getting many of the smart people in Silicon Valley to take Bitcoin seriously,” he told me.
It was five months after its series A that the company plugged in its first machines and started mining Bitcoins, and the company soon commanded 3 to 4 percent of all of the mining power worldwide, they told investors. At the normal rate of mining, that would have yielded about 150 Bitcoins a day.
This activity coincided with the next big run up in price – as people bought Bitcoins for over $1000 — and again 21e6 struck with investors while they were hot. In December, the company raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz, the firm, rather than the firm’s partners. Another $10 million was raised from 21e6’s original investors and another $30 million came in venture debt.
At the time, Coinbase, which had recently raised its own $25 million round from Andreessen Horowitz, was heralded as the best-funded Bitcoin company in the world, despite the fact that it had less than less than half as much money as 21e6.
The 21e6 investment was attractive in part because venture capital firms generally felt that they couldn’t buy Bitcoins directly. 21e6, on the other hand, offered to pay its investors back with Bitcoin dividends, allowing the firm to get Bitcoins without buying them outright. Andreessen Horowitz was also recruiting Srinivasan to join as a partner, which he did at almost the same time as the investment.
In early 2014, a growing army of 21e6 machines was rolled out, first filling up 24 racks in a data center, and then 124 racks – soon in centers that were dedicated to the mission. The company also spent lots of time figuring out a way to submerge the machines in mineral oil, as a way to cool them and cut down on the cost of air conditioning and fans.
By the middle of 2014, though, it was clear that a lot of people had invested a lot of money in designing new mining chips back when the price of a Bitcoin had been near $1000. After the collapse of the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, the price had fallen to half that. Many ambitious companies like Hashfast and Cointerra, which were started by high level engineers, neared bankruptcy.
This didn’t stop 21e6, which rolled out its second generation chip, known as Gandalf, and was already working on a third generation chip, Yoda. One data center could hold nearly 10,000 machines with these chips. But the epicenter of mining was increasingly moving toward China, where the chips were nearly free and the cost of electricity – often the most expensive cost for Bitcoin miners – could be close to zero if the miner was close with a local authority of someone at a power plant.
Nowadays, most mining experts assume that over half of all Bitcoins are mined in China. Srinivasan’s company has not stopped mining – and he says that the company has paid back all of its investors. But when the company’s latest fundraising round was announced, no mention was made of the massive data centers or mineral oil immersion.
From Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper. Copyright © 2015 by Nathaniel Popper. Reprinted courtesy of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Nathaniel Popper is a reporter at The New York Times.
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Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with Dance Place (Washington, DC)
The Cycle: Management of Successful Arts and Cultural Organizations
What makes a successful arts and cultural organization? Led by DeVos Institute Chairman Michael M. Kaiser and President Brett Egan, this course will introduce you to a management theory called the Cycle which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations. Learning from our work with managers from over 80 countries around the world, the DeVos Institute developed the Cycle as a simple, but powerful tool to assist managers in their effort to respond to an increasingly complex environment and propel their institutions to excellence. The Cycle explains how great art and strong marketing can create a family of supporters, who in turn help the organization produce the revenue required to support even more great art the next year. The Institute has seen the Cycle work in performing and presenting organizations, as well as museums, arts schools, and other nonprofit endeavors like service organizations, historical societies, public libraries, university programs, advocacy organizations, botanical gardens, and zoos. By taking this course, you will learn: • the importance of bold, exciting, and mission-driven programming in an organization; • how long-term artistic planning can help an organization produce this work; • how an organization can aggressively market that programming and the institution behind it to develop a family of supporters - including ticket buyers, board members, donors, trustees and volunteers; • how an organization can cultivate and steward this family to build a healthy base of earned and contributed income; and • how an organization can reinvest that income into increasingly ambitious programming year after year. All course material is available upon enrollment for self-paced learners. New scheduled sessions begin each month. For more information about the DeVos Institute's work, visit www.DeVosInstitute.umd.edu.
Fundraising, Management, Marketing, Planning
I really enjoyed the setup of this course. From the short videos to the the reading and assignments. Everything felt as though it was setup with the success of the student in mind.
Really helpful and practical materials. An incredible course, that can save a lot of Arts Organizations! Easy, helpful, deep and useful learning and knowledge!
Introduction to the Cycle
Welcome! This first week you will be introduced to the course structure and learn the key principles of the Cycle, a management theory which supports thriving arts and cultural organizations and which serves as the framework for the course. The Cycle proposes that: When bold art is marketed aggressively, an organization attracts a family of energized ticket-buyers and patrons. The income produced by this family is reinvested in more art that, when marketed well, builds a larger, even more diverse family. When this cycle repeats year after year, the organization incrementally and sustainably builds capacity, presence, and health. Following the introductory lectures, you will learn more about the Cycle by reading the executive summary, reviewing answers to frequently asked questions, and completing an introductory quiz. As a reminder, if you are taking this course as a student or enthusiast not affiliated with a specific organization, we recommend you select an organization of your choosing to reference as you make your way through the course!
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with Dance Place (Washington, DC)3:25
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle: MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (San Jose, California)5:03
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle at Pregones (New York, New York)10:57
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (Morelia, Mexico)2:18
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with Anna Lindh Foundation (Alexandria, Egypt)7:30
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (Tallinn, Estonia)2:41
Watch: Case Study: Introduction to the Cycle with AS220 (Providence, Rhode Island)4:50
Watch: Review of The Cycle and Preparing for Next Week2:16
Michael M. Kaiser
Founder and Chairman
Brett Egan
I'm Deborah Riley.
I'm the director at Dance Place which is located in Washington DC.
>> I'm Carla Perlo and I'm founding director of Dance Place.
Dance Place is a lot of things to a lot of different people.
But we've worked very hard to hone that down to just a few words.
We're a presenter of the performing arts and,
as our name suggests, primarily dance.
We're a provider of youth programs, and we serve children ages three into adulthood.
We're a partner for community revitalization, and we're a very active
school of dance for both avocational dancers as well as professional dancers.
>> We've been working with the DeVos Institute for about seven years.
And in addition to so many details of specifics that have been helpful to us,
I think one of the major impactful things that have come
out of our partnership, the impact that we've received,
is having the overall framework of the cycle as an organizing principle.
Not only for us to organize our staff as better team members,
but to bring to our board, to bring to the whole organization,
so that we have this way forward as a path that's very comprehensive.
And even more specifically it's offered an opportunity
through the whole DeVos Institute teachings,
to be very disciplined about that framework, and
about how we plan, how we strategize,
how we keep our focus on the cycle as an organization.
And how all the team members participate in that, staff and board,
and it's brought us to a new level of infrastructure and
successfulness in who we are as an organization.
We've had some really wonderful results from the work.
>> So when we look at the cycle and we say, okay, let's start with great art,
and we're going to have great art, and then we're going to market that great art.
And then people are going to come and see that great art and we're going to invite
them into our family and to participate more wholly in our organization.
Whether it be as patrons or board members or
volunteers, bring them in, keep bringing them in.
And then eventually they become patrons and
the circle continues and the cycle continues.
And looking at that was very helpful for us in many instances, but specifically,
as we faced the greatest challenge that the organization has had to date,
and we've been in business for 35 years.
And that was to raise $4.5 million for pre-development and
construction of our building, and at the same time, to enhance programming.
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"Beat The Chefs" Review
Posted by Dexter Johnson on August 27, 2012 June 15, 2017
Play-Along Factor- 1
Premise- A team of three contestants compete against three professional chefs. Both teams will have two hours to prepare an entrée of the civilian teams choosing. Both teams will also be provided with the same ingredients needed to prepare their meals. At the end of the two-hour time period, both teams will present their entrées to the judges. If the judges prefer the civilians chefs’ meal over the professionals, the contestants will win $25,000. Otherwise, they will leave with a consolation prize of $1,000 in cookware.
And now, for the review…
GSN is taking a big risk with this show and I don’t think it’s going to pay off. There’s nothing unique about this show that sets it apart from watching any other competitive cooking show on Food Network aside from civilian contestants competing against professional chefs (which I believe has been done before). Beat The Chefs has more of a reality show feel to it and will only appeal to those who truly enjoy cooking or want to get some recipe tips, and I highly doubt they will turn to GSN to get their fix. If GSN really wanted to push this cooking game show, it should have been formatted similar to the Food Network game show, Taste Test. The show should include cooking trivia and quick five-minute recipe challenges instead of just two two-hour cooking challenges.
As a host, Matt Rogers serves as more of a distraction instead of a host by talking to the contenders and trying to stir up “conflict” and “drama” while they are preparing their meal. I’m a little surprised that the show didn’t opt to use a couple of commentators announcing the play-by-play action, rather than the host intruding on the chefs’ performance.
Overall, Beat the Chefs is simply Iron Chef combined with Pros vs. Joes. The only bright spots in the show are watching the civilian chefs take pride and excitement in their cooking and the contrasting professional and generic household kitchen sets on the stage. Other than that, watching people cook for an hour makes the show often difficult to watch without being tempted to change the channel. Furthermore, not announcing the winners of both culinary challenges until the end of the episode does not do the show much justice either. Withholding the winner of the first half competition is simply a gimmick to keep the viewers tuned in for the remainder of the hour-long show. If you are a fan of Beat The Chefs, enjoy it while it’s here because I highly doubt this show will be renewed for a second season.
Watch new episodes of Beat The Chefs Thursdays at 9:00pm on GSN!
**All screenshots have been taken from the actual episodes of Beat The Chefs. No ownership is implied.**
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The Road to Revan
Super exciting news today, guys. The cat is out of the bag, I'm going to be a contributing writer on Star Wars: Revan: Rogue Jedi!
You may ask "What is that, and why should I be excited?"
Allow me to explain:
Back in 2003, Bioware developed a Star Wars video game called Knights of the Old Republic. It's set some four thousand years before a simple farm boy from Tatooine blew up the Death Star. The game was a role-playing action adventure designed to put you in the center of the story. You're able to customize your character's appearance, give them a name of your choosing, and it also allowed you to dictate how you responded to any number of situations. YOU are the star of the game and your fate is in your own hands. It was a massive hit spawning sequels, comics, novels, and introduced the much-beloved character of Revan to the Star Wars canon (well, before Disney obliterated all that...but that's a topic best saved for another time...).
Over the years, intrepid fans of the original Knights of the Old Republic game (abbreviated to KOTOR) figured out how to crack into the game's programming and further customize it, crafting new characters and new landscapes--all still using the game's engine.
That's where Kevin Smets comes in. Kevin's a professional video editor and filmmaker--and also a huge fan of KOTOR. A number of years ago, he began "filming" a series of movies based on the game. Meaning, he recorded his playthrough, dubbed in his own voice as the main character's--that he named Logan Starr--added new music, and customized it to the point that it tells the story Kevin was interested in telling, sometimes veering away from the game's storyline. I saw his movies and I was totally smitten by the creativity and ingenuity that he utilized in putting together this "fan film".
But then! Then I heard that he had partnered with some phenomenally talented computer whiz kids to create BRAND NEW movies based on Logan Starr's backstory. Things never seen in the original game--or any game. This is all new content, built from scratch, using the original game's engine. It looks like KOTOR, it "feels" like KOTOR, but this is no game. It's pretty incredible that they were able to do this. And this movie? It is called Star Wars: Revan: Rogue Jedi.
This is the first part of a trilogy of new films, chronicling the backstory of Kevin's character Logan Starr. It will have all-new storylines, characters, locations, voice actors, new sound design, effects, etc. I have no doubt it will be a sight to see when it is finished. I have been in talks with Kevin for a while now, and he knows of my love for Star Wars and his particular take on KOTOR (as well as my writing background), and he has graciously invited me to come on board his team and help bring the Revan Trilogy to your computer screen. Kevin is handling the lion's share of the writing chores, as this is his baby, but he's also a busy guy and has recognized he can't do it all on his own. I'm more than happy to help shoulder the burden, because I believe in the project that much.
While this is totally unofficial, it's still an opportunity to write Star Wars, a dream of mine for so long now. I am grateful for the chance and can't wait for you guys to see the final product. In the meantime, you've got plenty of time to get caught up on the other Logan Starr movies. There are a total of seven so far. The first trilogy centers on Logan Starr, while the second quartet focuses on Logan's friend and apprentice, Meetra Surik. Her journey is chronicled in the movies of YouTube user Darth Ycey.
Hit this link to check out the first Logan Starr adventure, and tune in here for future updates as they come in!
Labels: fanfiction, kevin smets, kotor, revan, rogue jedi, Star Wars
Worlds Collide!
First, allow me the annual dusting-off of cobwebs on this here blog...
Now with the housework out of the way--Welcome! The leaves are changing, the wind is turning crisper, and my favorite season is upon us. Halloween is here, and I have returned to the interwebs with a treat to offer you.
Over the course of the last year and a half--among the other projects I've been tinkering on--my friend and fellow author Bob Freeman and I have been putting together our first storytelling collaboration. As you may or may not recall, Bob has already lent his incredible artistic talents to my HITMEN novel, providing the cover. But, this time, we agreed to tackle a novella together, trading off writing chores on rotating chapters, and making it a point to surprise the other. It was a lot of fun and, today, we present to you the fruits of our labors...Hallowe'en House!
This tale was especially thrilling for me as it involves the character Bob named after me, and it also marks the first time I've ever written in Bob's sprawling occult detective mythology. I've been a huge fan of his mega-myth for a number of years now, but actually contributing to it filled me with equal parts eagerness and caution. I think we've crafted a wile ride through the darkest corners of the cosmos and we hope you agree.
Also of note, readers of my own mythology (particularly my Rift Jump duology) might find some interesting connections inside the Hallowe'en House...
The book is available now in print and Kindle. Get your copy today--just in time for Halloween! A perfect little story to read by the soft flicker of Jack O'Lantern light.
Demonologist Greg Mitchell has discovered a secret from his father's past, a secret that not only sheds light on their strained relationship but on the path he has found himself upon, caught between Heaven, Hell, and all points between.
Turning to his former mentor, Dr. Landon Connors, Mitchell and the infamous occult detective seek out Hallowe'en House, a legendary transdimensional nexus that bristles with unfathomable eldritch energies.
But they're not the only ones who have come seeking out Hallowe'en House.
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Labels: Bob Freeman, Halloween, hitmen, multiverse, occult detective, Rift Jump, writing
Hangin' Out with Bob Freeman, Author of "First Born"!
Well, hello there! It's been quite awhile since I've been 'round these parts, but today I've returned to the Internet for a special occasion. My buddy Bob Freeman has got a new book out--First Born: Tales of the Liber Monstrorum--and you should know about it! To celebrate, I've invited Bob back to the blog for another palaver about his latest publication, inspirations, future projects, and anything else we have a mind to discuss. So, on with it!
Greg Mitchell: It's Bob! He's back! What have you been up to recently?
Bob Freeman: Thanks for having me, Greg. It's good to be back. I'm still hard at work being the best husband and father I can be, all the while indulging in my various and sundry eccentricities.
GM: You've got your priorities in the right place, there. Let's talk about the new Landon Connors book, First Born. This is the first book in your massive Liber Monstrorum opus, yes? What's the skinny?
BF: First Born was a chance to put most all the Landon Connors/Wolfe & Crowe stories that I've written so far under one roof. I say most because I only included those stories that take place before Descendant, which will be the second volume in Liber Monstrorum.
GM: I have to say that, though I know you've published most of these stories in other sources, reading them all in a single volume--with the stories arranged in chronological order--really brings it to new life. You can see the sprawling occult epic like never before, and I made so many more connections between the various stories than I did when I was reading them scatter shot across various sources.
I know you're never supposed to ask a writer this, but is there any particular story that sticks out in this collection as your favorite? Or, when putting them together, did something previously unknown to you about your story world jump out?
BF: Wyrdtails, in a lot of ways, because I think it has an interesting twist and there's a lot of truth I put down on paper. My best friend passed away less than a month after writing that story, and in some ways, I think it was prophetic. In fact, it's only now that you ask that question that I'm somewhat staggered by that revelation.
GM: I recall Wyrdtails as having a heavy feel to it. What's next for Landon Connors?
BF: Well, there's his role in the collaboration you and I are putting together, but I suppose that's as much of a tease as we should give your readers.
GM: Too true! Yeah, Bob and I are at work on something that's proving to be an exciting exercise. But that will remain secret...for now.
BF: He has a minor role in Descendant, though his influence is ever-present. He's there between the lines, in the spaces between words. His role is far more prominent in Liber Monstrorum's third volume, Born Again, and then, I will look to wrap up the series in the fourth and final book, Afterbirth.
GM: I'm so ready for those. I've read an earlier incarnation of Descendant, but I believe Born Again and Afterbirth will be fresh territory for me to explore as a reader--and I'm happy to do so!
Of course, Landon isn't the only focal point in your mythos. How are the Wolves of Cairnwood these days? You've got one final book to complete that trilogy, right? Any update on that?
BF: I have been dropping hints, here and there. A lot of questions regarding the Cairnwood Legacy will be answered in Born Again, strangely enough. If sales warrant it, Shadow of the Wolf will come along after. If not, I think Born Again could satisfy that itch.
GM: Yeah, it's only been recently after some of the stories you've published online on your site (occultdetective.com, shameless plug) and conversations we've had that I've started to figure out how the two mythologies connect--and once I hit on it, it was incredibly exciting, but also very mysterious. I'm anxious to see how it all comes together.
Okay, books on hold for a second, though: Recently you (finally) watched Stranger Things. To say I love that show is a sad, sad understatement. This is the point in the interview where I give you the mic and let you expound your love for the wonder of Stranger Things.
BF: Look, I was born and raised in rural Indiana. I was 17 years old in November of 1983. I was an avid player of Dungeons & Dragons with a insane curiosity about all things "paranormal" and considered myself a student of the occult. Stranger Things was like holding up a mirror to my childhood in a lot of ways. It really hit home. Couple that with the obvious homages to Carpenter, Spielberg, and other milestones from the era, and well, it was tailor-made for someone like me. It was me...
GM: No doubt. It tugs at me. I switch it on, and I'm transported back in time. It takes me back to when I first saw the Monster Squad and subsequently rode my bike up and down the street, hoping to find a monster to hunt. I mean, it hits on all the right notes for me, and I can't gush enough about it.
But beyond that, what other movies/comics/books/TV has got you buzzing these days? What's inspiring you lately? How are you feeling about the X-Files revival take two?
BF: The latest X-Files has seemed a little stiff, but I'm still a fan. That being said, I have always liked the idea behind the X-Files far better than the execution.
GM: I can see that, though I have enjoyed this season considerably more than the last one.
BF: Millennium was a better show, as far as I'm concerned, and Fringe out X-Filed the X-Files by being more consistent and Twin Peaks sort of outshined it a far as revivals go by being far more edgy and, well, weird.
GM: I will admit, I ONLY RECENTLY watched the first season of Twin Peaks. Haven't made it to the second season yet. Hm...
BF: As for being buzzed, I'm a bit of a YouTube junkie and a real gaming nerd, so I spend a fair amount of time watching "actual plays" and tutorials. I think, if backed into a corner my three favorite "shows" right now are Critical Role (professional voice actors playing Dungeons & Dragons), Schola Gladiatoria (Historical European Martial Arts enthusiast Matt Easton's Sword channel), and Curse of Oak Island on History Channel.
GM: Having said that, I feel I should point folks to your own YouTube channel where you talk about tabletop gaming and RPGs!
BF: At home we've been binge watching a lot. It's been a great chance to share things I loved with the two most important people in my life. We plowed through Star Trek (all flavors), Babylon 5, Highlander, Twin Peaks, and Stranger Things, to name just a few. We're currently waist deep into Fringe (which I mentioned earlier) and it's been a real bonding experience for us as a family. I just wish I could get them to watch Veronica Mars :)
GM: With all these muses in your head, do you ever have trouble keeping them straight? I know that, in my own mythology, it sometimes gets so big and detail-orientated that I find myself having to re-read the various books to remind myself of how it all fits together.
BF: I think I have some sort of weird mutant ability to keep all that stuff straight in my head. Sometimes, if I've been away from it for a handful of months, I'll need a refresher, but mostly it all comes rather naturally. It seems like the stories have all already happened and I'm just the guy who drew the short straw and get to write them down.
GM: I can understand that. In my own experience, there is an almost instinctive quality to it, like you're just uncovering what's already there. What's your son, Connor, up to these days? I enjoyed his first book, Jonny Spencer and the Black Lich of Ashrock Earth (what a sweet name!) and understand he's working on other projects?
BF: Thanks for asking. I am more than passingly proud of that kid. I've just finished editing his first urban fantasy novel, Word Hollow, and I'll tackle editing its follow-up in a couple of weeks. That will make three books in four years for him. Not bad for a fourteen year old.
GM: No doubt! Thank you, as always, for stopping by to hang.
BF: Thanks for having me, my friend. It's always a pleasure. I have, for as long as I can remember, been obsessed with telling stories. The medium didn't and doesn't matter, whether it was playing with action figures, writing short stories, novels, or comic books, slinging dice from behind a DM Screen, or even sitting around a campfire spinning yarns. It is what I was born to do and I feel infinitely blessed to be able to do so.
GM: Well I, for one, have enjoyed your stories and love exploring the worlds you've created. Alright, everybody, that's your cue to go buy Bob's latest book: First Born!
ABOUT THE BOOK: From the arcane sorceries of the "Wickedest Man in the World" to the supernatural exploits of Occult Detective Landon Connors and the harrowing investigations of Agents Wolfe and Crowe, this collection of macabre tales of the black arts treads the dangerous landscape between this world and that populated by angels and demons, gods and devils, ghosts and spirits, and the legendary creatures of our darkest imaginings.
First Born is the beginning of the journey into the Liber Monstrorum, the Chronicles of those Occult Detectives who are the last line of defense against those preternatural forces that threaten to destroy a world that refuses to believe that such things exist...
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Anti-Paedocommunion
I am confused is Paedo-Communion right or wrong?
In Reformed circles there are different positions on peadocommunion. There is the "pro" (P-PC) and the "anti" (A-PC) positions. Ra McLaughlin, a trusted and scholarly theologian at IIIM, endorses the "Pro" position (see link below) and I personally endorse the "Anti" position (Third Millennium Ministries' official position). Why do I endorse the A-PC position?
1. 1 Corinthians 11:28-29.
A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.
The first reason I endorse A-PC is Paul's reasoning above. Infants and smaller children, not instructed in the Lord, cannot "examine themselves" or properly "recognize the body of the Lord." In the specific context of 1 Corinthians 11, the "unworthiness" Paul had in mind was participating in the Lord's Supper in a way that failed to exhibit "the unity" of the Church in Christ (1 Cor. 11:33-34). Infants and young children cannot properly discern the Lord's body in the is fashion, and thus are forbidden from taking of the meal itself. Though this qualification was not specifically mentioned by the Lord "verbally" at his institution of the Supper, it was by "example" as the Bible holds that only thirteen adults were present (Matt. 26:20; Mark 14:17). Moreover, though this requirement was not mentioned by Christ himself it is given to us by Paul who was taught by the revelation of Christ (Gal. 1:12).
The P-PC position states in numerous ways that 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 was written "only" to adults and "only" to the Corinthians. However, church history records that the church letters were read from church to church (F.F. Bruce, The Canon of the New Testament, etc.) and the reasoning that 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 was "only" meant for adults does not stand up under the further scrutiny of Paul's letters. Least we forget, infants and children are to obey their parents (Eph. 6:1) and they are to be raised with the training and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4) - part of this training and instruction would be 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 and thus Paul's argument is for the entire visible church (including infants and children) and not just the Corinthians or only adults.
2. Commands and Infants
While this is related to #1 above, a different argument may be made concerning "understand commands." Infants do not understand and cannot by obey the "command" of Christ to "take eat" (Matt. 26:26) and "drink of it" (Matt. 26:27). While the meal is more than just a memorial, it is yet a memorial (1 Cor. 11:23-26) that the partakers are to recall certain facts; "do this in remembrance of me" (which differentiates it from the command to baptize infants). Infants have no understanding of the significance of the meal and therefore should not partake of it.
The intent of Matthew 26:26-27 is not to force-feed the elements to infants without any understanding; but for the partakers to understand the significance of Christ and his Cross - our Cross "in him." Communion is worship; intimate worship meant for those who discern the Lord's body (1 Cor. 11:29). Communion is more than a covenantal sign, it is also an acknowledging sign - conscious remembering of Christ and the discernment of what his sacrifice means individually so one may more completely commune with all.
As Thomas Watson says concerning 1 Corinthians 11:28, "It is not enough that others think we are fit to come, but we must examine ourselves before we come to the Lord's table, we are to make a curious and critical trial of ourselves by the word" (The Lord's Supper, p. 41).
3. Covenant Inclusion, Element Exclusion.
The third reason I endorse the A-PC position is that there would not biblically be any in drunken diapers present at the Meal (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 10:7; 11:21; Gal. 5:21; 1 Thess. 5:7). In other words, drunkenness by infants, young children, and adults would not be tolerated by the Lord or Paul at the Meal (or any other time)!
The Lord's Supper is based upon the Passover Meal. During Passover, each Jew is obligated to drink four cups of wine at specific times during each Seder (i.e. order): the first at the start of the Seder, following Kiddush; the second before the meal, after reciting the Haggadah story; the third following the Grace after the Meal; and the last after completing Psalms of Praise (Hallel). The Four Cups represent the four expressions of deliverance promised by God (Ex. 6:6-7), "I will bring out," "I will deliver," "I will redeem," and "I will take." At times a fifth cup was added symbolizing Elijah the Prophet.
How would "infants" and "children" react under such a volume of wine? Historically, The Babylonian Talmud states concerning the Passover Meal,
....Nor shall a person have less than four cups of wine.
....Rabhina, however, said: "At all events, the four cups cannot be conjoined, for each one represents a different duty."
This also corresponds to what happened during Christ's institution of the Meal. In the New Testament synoptics, we find reference to the First Cup, also known as the Cup of Blessing (Luke 22:17); to the breaking of the matzoh (Luke 22:19); to the Third Cup, the Cup of Redemption (Luke 22:20): to reclining (Luke 22:14): to the charoseth or the maror (Matt. 26:23f), and to the Hallel (Matt. 26:30).
Moreover, The Babylonian Talmud makes some more significant statements concerning our understanding of the Meal and children,
R. Jehudah, said: "What benefit would children derive from wine? They should rather be given nuts, parched corn, etc., on the eve of Passover, so as to keep them awake at night, and that may make them inquire into the reason of the festivity."
It was said of R. Aqiba, that he would deal out nuts and parched corn on the eve of Passover to the children, in order to keep them awake and have them ask for reasons.
Boraitha, R. Eliezer said: On the night of the Passover the unleavened bread is snatched out of the children's hand in order to keep them awake and have them ask for the reason.
This is momentous. Above, we see "covenant inclusion," but "element exclusion" (just as we should have today). Since infants and children are part of the covenant they should "participate" in the Meal (by asking questions, etc.), however they should not "partake" of the elements. The children's participation (covenant inclusion) in the Passover Meal was to ask questions [though not the topic of this question, the wife's inclusion could be seen in the prepartion of the meal]. For instance the youngest child would ask, "Why is this night different from all other nights?" After the asking of a specific question, the main portion of the Seder, Magid, would give the answers in the form of a historical review. At different points in the Seder, the leader of the Seder will cover the matzot and lift his cup of wine; then put down the cup of wine and uncover the matzot all to elicit questions from the children. [information gathered from The Shalom Center]. This is also consistent with the teaching in the New Testament that children should be raised with the training and instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4).
Since drunkenness is a sin at the Meal (1 Cor. 11:21), the children, even according to Jewish Passover custom, would not have "partaken" of the elements, though they would have "participated" in the meal in another way!
While I believe that many churches should reconsider how to structure their communion meal to include instruction for children I do not believe they should be restructured to the point of allowing children to partake of the meal. Covenant participation in the meal does not absolutely mean partaking of the elements.
4. Census of Men and Lambs.
Yet another reason I prefer the A-PC position is seen in the way Israelites prepared for the Passover Meal as a nation. Though Passover began as a family celebration it developed into a national celebration. In this national celebration adult males went to Jerusalem, children were what we call catechized, (Deut. 16:2), and the numbering of Israel was taking place (Ex. 12:26-27, 21).
Only the Israelite males were commanded to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The census included males 20 years of age (Num. 20:1) and those that had been properly catechized (Prov. 22:6) and were at least 12 years of age (Luke 2:40-41). Though there is not an actual record of Jesus' participation at twelve years of age in the Passover Meal (Luke 2:40 ff) the text does say that he, "waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him" (Luke 2:40) and thus he was eligible for the Passover and thus the reason he would have accompanied his parents on this particular pilgrimage (please note the text says that his parents went to the feast "every year," but only records Christ coming in his 12th year). Please also note the detail John goes into in John 6 in Jews traveling for the Passover (John 6:4) and the fact he specifically mentioned a "lad"(John 6:9) that by definition (paidarion Friberg, Thayer, and BDAG, etc.) would have been eligible for the Passover as well.
Did Israelite woman and children participate in the Passover? Exodus 12, the original Passover narrative, does not openly spell out that women, underage girls, underage males, and infants participated in the meal. Morton Smith states the PCA report on the matter of children partaking of the elements saying,
Children participating in the first Passover would need further maturation beyond the nursing stage. The Passover meal consisted not simply of liquids and semiliquids, but of roast meat, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. It is highly unlikely that an Israelite father would feel constrained to force such a diet on an infant that was newly weaned. The same would apply to the meat of the sacrificial meals such as the peaceofferings.
The point is simple enough. The Passover differed from circumcision in that children had to be older to participate in it. The nursing child, drinking milk rather than eating meat, could not at that state participate in the Passover. The point of the distinction is clearly expressed by the author of Hebrews: '[you] are become such as have need of milk, not of solid food. Everyone that partaketh of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil' (Heb. 5:1214).
Morton H. Smith, Systematic Theology, Volume One: Prolegomena, Theology, Anthropology, Christology, Index created by Christian Classics Foundation.; Published in electronic form by Christian Classics Foundation, 1996., electronic ed., 525 (Greenville SC: Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Press, 1996, c1994).
The Paedocommunion view has been implied from the term "household" (Ex. 12:4) that this included "infants and children" and simply "assumed" this to be a fact. But, did they partake of the Passover? If the children didn't this would explain the catechism, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' (Ex. 12:26) immediately following the command for the Passover (Ex. 12:1ff). Again, as Morton Smith states,
Exodus 12:26 does not give evidence that the child himself partook of the Passover. The question, "What mean ye by this service?" would seem to indicate that the child was not one of the partakers. He does not know what the service was intended for, and so the father is to instruct the child. (Page 687).
The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible parallels Joshua 4:6 and Exodus 12:26-27 (including, Deut. 6:20-25) supporting this view. Compare,
Exodus 12:26 And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'
Joshua 4:6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?'
Above we observe nearly the identical language to describe children inquiring about an act in which they did not participate!
Thus, according to Jewish history only Jewish boys normally thought to be 12 yoa, or older and adult men partook of Passover meal [in feminist Judaic circles today Miriam's Cup has been added so the women may participate. They even have woman Seders today!]. Moreover, we might add that if wives and children normally partook of the Passover meal where were Peter's (Matt. 8:14-15) in Luke 22:1f?
(It should be noted that adult women today should be included in the Lord's Table as the John the Baptist baptized women as well as men (Luke 3:21), the great commission of Matthew 28:19-20 includes men and women, Acts 8:12 states men and woman were baptized (cf. Acts 16:33), and of course Paul's inclusion that "all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:27-28). Please note that Paul's inclusion did not go as far as saying, "there is neither child nor adult").
Lastly, I will end with a quote which I believe sums up the A-PC position nicely. Calvin stated,
At length they object, that there is not greater reason for admitting infants to baptism than to the Lord's Supper, to which, however, they are never admitted: as if Scripture did not in every way draw a wide distinction between them. In the early Church indeed, the Lord's Supper was frequently given to infants, as appears from Cyprian and Augustine (August. ad Bonif. Lib. 1); but the practice justly became obsolete. For if we attend to the peculiar nature of baptism, it is a kind of entrance, and as it were initiation into the Church, by which we are ranked among the people of God, a sign of our spiritual regeneration, by which we are again born to be children of God; whereas, on the contrary, the Supper is intended for those of riper years, who, having passed the tender period of infancy, are fit to bear solid food. This distinction is very clearly pointed out in Scripture. For there, as far as regards baptism, the Lord makes no selection of age, whereas he does not admit all to partake of the Supper, but confines it to those who are fit to discern the body and blood of the Lord, to examine their own conscience, to show forth the Lord's death, and understand its power. Can we wish anything clearer than what the apostle says, when he thus exhorts, "Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup"? (1 Cor. 11:28.) Examination, therefore, must precede, and this it were vain to expect from infants. Again, "He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." If they cannot partake worthily without being able duly to discern the sanctity of the Lord's body, why should we stretch out poison to our young children instead of vivifying food? Then what is our Lord's injunction? "Do this in remembrance of me." And what the inference which the apostle draws from this? "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come." How, pray, can we require infants to commemorate any event of which they have no understanding; how require them "to show forth the Lord's death," of the nature and benefit of which they have no idea? Nothing of the kind is prescribed by baptism. Wherefore, there is the greatest difference between the two signs. This also we observe in similar signs under the old dispensation. Circumcision, which, as is well known, corresponds to our baptism, was intended for infants, but the passover, for which the Supper is substituted, did not admit all kinds of guests promiscuously, but was duly eaten only by those who were of an age sufficient to ask the meaning of it (Exod. 12:26). Had these men the least particle of soundness in their brain, would they be thus blind as to a matter so very clear and obvious? (Institutes IV: xvi: 30).
Richard Pratt, General Editor. Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 2003.
Answer by Dr. Joseph R. Nally, Jr.
Dr. Joseph R. Nally, Jr., D.D., M.Div. is the Theological Editor at Third Millennium Ministries (Thirdmill).
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Posted: December 10, 2013 | Author: fra30774 | Filed under: Digital, Promotion, Social, USA, Viral | Tags: 1963, days of future, JFK, Magneto, nov. 22, the bent bullet, Viral, x-men | Leave a comment
Marvel has created a site called The Bent Bullet, a promotional website and video that weaves X-Men mutants in with a JFK conspiracy theory, blending the real and fictional in a quasi sort of alternative history genre getup.
A new viral site promoting the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past has hit the web: The Bent Bullet, which explores President John F. Kennedy’s assassination — with an unfamiliar twist.
According to The Bent Bullet site, which went up last night, Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald — with the help of Magneto (played in his young incarnation by Michael Fassbender in the movie), who allegedly used his powers on Oswald’s wild shots to ensure the president’s death. This, it seems, will be the incident that splits the X-Men timeline, triggering the dystopian Days of Future Pastuniverse, in which mutants have been rounded up in internment camps and systematically exterminated with the aid of robotic Sentinels.
But has Magneto been falsely accused? Fictional journalist Harper Simmons seems to think so — and both Magneto’s own testimony and circumstantial evidence point to Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) committing the assassination while disguised as Oswald, then slipping away and leaving the real Oswald to take the blame. However, it’s unclear whether she did so on Magneto’s orders, or acted autonomously following a schism in the Brotherhood of Mutants.
Like the rest of what we’ve seen of Days of Future Past, the movie’s take on the trigger event is based very directly on the comic, with some major modifications. In the original story, the assassin was Mystique, leading an autonomous brotherhood — but her targets were Charles Xavier, Moira McTaggart, and hardline anti-mutant senator Robert Kelly, whose cinematic counterpart died in 2000′sX-Men and was later impersonated by Mystique.
To find out just how closely the rest of Days of Future Past adheres to the comic, will have to wait until flick hits theaters May 23, 2014 — or they’ll have to hope more of these teaser sites are on the way.
http://www.TheBentBullet.com
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What Jackie Robinson means to this country
Baseball History, Baseball Nostalgia
by Jake Mastroianni
Major League Baseball players throughout the league celebrated Jackie Robinson day by wearing number 42. The Dodgers celebrated, too, with a walk-off win. (Keith Birmingham/Zuma Press)
On Sunday, the entire league celebrated the life of one of the greatest men to ever walk on this beautiful Earth. It just happened to be that he was a gifted athlete who became one of the greatest MLB players of all time.
Jackie Robinson led the way for African American men and created a sense of togetherness in this country that had never been seen before.
In 1945, Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey made one of the best decisions of his career by signing Robinson to a contract. He hired a man that could not only make his team tremendously better, but a man who was able to stand up to the harsh criticism that would follow.
It was important that Robinson was the first African American to break into the major leagues, because he was a man who wouldn’t fight back to torment and could keep enough cool to play the game at an exceptional level. Had anyone else filled this role they may not have succeeded, and the color barrier may have continued.
Let’s remember that Martin Luther King, Jr. was 16 when Robinson’s contract was signed, which was well before King led the civil rights movement. What Robinson was doing was considered outrageous at the time, and he was basically doing it alone. I truly believe Robinson was the leader of the rights movement and set the stage for vocal leaders like King and others.
Whether on the field or off, Robinson endured things that many of us will never understand and hopefully will never have to go through. And despite all that, he kept his mouth shut and put together an impressive career for the Dodgers.
He was voted Rookie of the Year in ’47 after batting .297, scoring 125 runs and swiping 29 bags. He won his only MVP two years later when he hit .342 and stole 37 bases. He played in six straight All-Star games from 1949 to 1954. He also helped the Dodgers win their first ever World Series in 1955.
This ultimately gained him the respect of fans and the country. White Americans started to jump on board, and instead of coming to games to boo him, they started showing up to watch an incredible athlete do amazing things.
Not long after Robinson made his splash in the big leagues, the door was opened for other African Americans like Larry Doby, Monte Irvin and Ernie Banks. The game had changed, and American culture was shifted by the game of baseball and this courageous man.
Not only should baseball fans celebrate Robinson, but the entire nation should take a moment to recognize what he did for his race and the country as a whole. We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for him.
Jake Mastroianni says:
Very true. I would also recommend The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn. A great book that gives excellent insight to that entire team and some of the struggles Robinson and others went through.
Robinson is a true inspiration to this sport, African Americans and the country as a whole.
Rob Harris says:
Well said. Jackie Robinson did accomplish a very important thing. I would recommend Jonathan Eig’s Opening Day if you want to read more about what Robinson went through.
Branch Rickey, it should be pointed out, never compensated the KC Monarchs for signing Robinson. So he wasn’t all goodness and light in this. But he did take a chance, and was rewarded when the Dodgers had success with Robinson, Campanella, and the others.
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October 29, 2018 / 12:52 AM / 9 months ago
Hamilton feels 'humbled' by winning a fifth title
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton said he felt humbled to become a five times Formula One world champion on Sunday, and the enormity of his achievement had yet to sink in.
Formula One F1 - Mexican Grand Prix - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico - October 28, 2018 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning the World Championship REUTERS/Henry Romero
The Mercedes driver joined the late Argentine great Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher as the only men to win at least five titles after finishing fourth in Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix.
More people have walked on the moon than have won five crowns in a championship that started in 1950. Only Schumacher has won more than the man who could one day surpass even the German.
“Let me just try and realise that I’ve won this one,” commented Hamilton when asked about Schumacher’s seven.
“It’s very, very weird. I remember when I won a championship in Formula Three, and even then it didn’t register. I hope this kicks in soon, I definitely feel more excitement coming as I think about it more.”
Hamilton has won 71 races, 20 fewer than Schumacher, and four titles for Mercedes in the past five years. The first was with McLaren in 2008.
Despite coming to Mexico with a 70-point advantage and needing only to finish seventh to wrap things up, he expressed amazement at where he now found himself.
“Right now I feel very, very humbled by the whole experience,” he said.
“It’s hard to realise it at the moment. It’s something that of course I dreamed of, but I never in a million years thought that I would be standing here today as a five-time world champion.”
Thanking everyone on his team, his family and father for their faith and sacrifices, Hamilton said it had definitely been his best season yet.
“It was a goal,” he explained.
“When I won the championship last year I was, like, ‘how can I improve, how can I be fitter, more focused, manage my time better, just be a better all-round driver not just in the car but also with my team in the garage, with the engineers, back at the factory?’
“I think this year I’ve been able to lift them all up.
“I don’t know if that’s something that comes with age, maybe experience helps, but I honestly feel I’ve performed my best this year. I’m very happy with how it’s gone.”
Formula One F1 - Mexican Grand Prix - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico - October 28, 2018 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton during the race REUTERS/Andres Stapff
Hamilton thanked the team also for their belief and hard work.
“For me, I feel like I can drive anything and I feel like I can take the car to places that nobody else can,” he said.
“But to do that you have to get the car in the right place, and ultimately you’ve got to work with the team to help unleash what’s great within them and unleash the greatness in yourself.”
Writing by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ian Chadband
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Connecticut - History, Facts and Quotes
Connecticut is small, but a very historically rich state in the United States. It is located in the Northeast region of the country called New England. Connecticut is home to several large and historic universities, including Yale University, and was part of the American Revolution as one of the thirteen colonies rebelling against British rule. Although Connecticut is small, it is densely populated, has lots of interesting sites and attractions, and is home to some of America’s most important and influential companies, colleges, and historical personages.
Connecticut Facts
Connecticut was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker, a Puritan minister who moved from Boston to what is now Hartford, Connecticut. New Haven, a city south of Hartford, was founded in 1637. This makes Connecticut one of the oldest colonies and states. Connecticut is densely populated, and in 2010 had a population of over 3.5 million, making it the 6th most densely populated state in the country. Also, Connecticut is known as the Nutmeg state, and people from Connecticut are sometimes referred to as “Nutmeggers.”
USHistory.org: Reaching for Connecticut
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History of Connecticut
Connecticut was founded very early in United States history and was one of the original thirteen colonies who rebelled against Great Britain in the American Revolution. Connecticut was given a royal charter to become a colony in 1662 under Governor John Winthrop, Jr., and Yale was founded in 1701 in New Haven. Connecticut had a troubled relationship with the British crown for much of its history, with James II threatening to revoke the charter and forcing its safekeeping in an oak tree, but its path to statehood was also influenced by the Great Awakening other colonial concerns. The Charter Oak died in the nineteenth century, but there are many large oak trees in Connecticut that are highly valued and have become tourist destinations in their own right.
ConnecticutHistory.org: The legend of the charter oak
Society of the Cincinnati: Connecticut in the American Revolution
A Quote About Connecticut
Connecticut has been the subject of many famous quotes throughout its history. The original charter states that:
“Now Know YE, That in consideration thereof, and in Regard the said Colony is remote from other the English Plantations in the places aforesaid, and to the End the Affairs and Business which shall from Time to Time happen or arise concerning the same, may be duly Ordered and Managed, we have thought fit, and at the humble Petition of the Persons aforesaid, and are graciously Pleased to create and make them a Body Politicly and Corporate, with the Powers and Privileges herein after mentioned.”
Note the reference to Connecticut being on the edge of the colonies which, in 1662, it definitely was.
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Connecticut Genealogy Sites
Genealogy can be very interesting in Connecticut. As it has such a long history, many of its founding families can trace their ancestral family trees back to pre-colonial times, and there is great interest in tracing that history. There are many resources and special projects devoted to genealogy in Connecticut. The state is also close to resources in New York and Rhode Island, which both have extensive genealogy libraries and strong genealogy societies.
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Museums and Historical Sites
There are numerous museums and historical sites in Connecticut. Yale alone has dozens of museums and sites; there are museums devoted to natural history, Connecticut history, art history, and more. Also, towns like Mystic, Connecticut serve as historical artifacts in and of themselves, with well-preserved historical areas and cohesive historical management plans. Exciting for historians, Connecticut also has a wealth of archives and historical resources for research.
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Connecticut History for Kids
Connecticut history can also be fun for kids! Connecticut is a great place for kids to visit, the Mystic Seaport, endless miles of forest, and the bustling cities of New Haven and Hartford are great places for kids to explore and learn. Dinosaur State Park, aquariums, and more are kid-friendly, as are hiking trails and other outdoor activities. Kids can also have fun at Yale or any of the other colleges in Connecticut, many of which have museums and programs for children. There are also exceptional schools, both residential and day, in Connecticut, as well as the house of lexicographer (dictionary writer) Noah Webster, a great educational resource and fun experience for children located in Farmington, Connecticut.
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Connecticut, probably due to its long history, has a large number of historical societies and antiquarian groups. These societies are important in keeping the long history of Connecticut alive and present in today’s society. These historical societies serve as an important resource for researchers and residents alike. The societies also put on events and lectures to educate the general public and keep Connecticut history in the public’s thoughts.
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Regional Connecticut Resources
Connecticut has a wealth of regional resources. Although it has a long history, it is also a bustling, thriving state with a huge population. It is close to New York City and is home to several major companies and corporations including General Electric and Xerox. Regional resources for Connecticut are crucial for both the historical sites and resources as well as the day to day lives of Connecticut residents. They are also essential for visitors to Connecticut who are looking for interesting aspects of the state.
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12 Best Islands in Maryland
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Not more than an hour drive from the large urban centers of Washington D.C. and Baltimore, visitors can immerse themselves in the tranquil world of small islands. Today connected by bridges and ferries, the Maryland Islands serve as an escape for urban dwellers. Visitors can bring their boats, take children to hike mile-long beaches, observe egrets and ospreys, watch the spectacular sunsets over Chesapeake Bay, and feast on fresh fish.
1. Assateague Island
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Assateague Island is a protected 37-mile long barrier island near Ocean City in Maryland and Chincoteague Island in Virginia. Actually, two thirds of the island belong to Maryland and one third to Virginia. The island declared Assateague Island National Seashore as a national park in 1965 to protect the birds’ nesting areas along with over 300 wild horses. The island has more than 37 miles of beautiful sandy beaches, dense pine forests, and vast salt marshes, and it is tantamount to paradise for bird watchers and nature lovers. The best way to explore this pristine area is by kayak or hiking. There are organized wildlife tours, and visitors can see not only wild ponies roaming freely but also egrets, peregrine falcons, osprey, waterfowl, and many other birds.
2. Cobb Island
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Cobb Island is a small secluded island about 45 miles from Washington, D.C. where the Wicomico and Potomac rivers meet. It is connected to the mainland by a 0.11-mile-long bridge on Maryland Route 254. The island is divided from the mainland by Neale Sound. The sleepy island’s population has a small post office, a volunteer fire department, a Baptist church, a small playground for children, and a large community green space known as Fisherman's Field. Local restaurants have a marina attached, so those who visit by boat can dock right in front of establishments overlooking the water. The island has a small art gallery that is also a local bakery.
3. Deal Island
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Deal Island is a three-mile long island on Tangier Sound in Somerset County, Maryland. The island is connected to the mainland via a bridge, but you’ll feel like you’re in another world entirely. There are three small communities on the island – Chance, Deal Island, and Wenona. Visitors to the island can spend their time in the Deal Island Harbor on the north end of the island and watch the fishermen as they unload the catch of the day, work in the oyster hatchery, and pick crabs. Nearby is the island public beach. The best time to visit the island is during the lively two-day island festival for Labor Day when they have traditional Deal Island Skipjack Races. Skipjacks are traditional sailing oyster boats.
4.Hart-Miller Island
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Hart-Miller Island is an uninhabited 1,100-acre island on Chesapeake Bay close to the Middle River mouth. It can only be reached by boat, and there is a safe mooring on the western coast where you will also find the island’s beautiful 3,000-foot long fine sandy beach. The island is part of the Hart-Miller Island State Park, which also includes Pleasure Island and Hawk Cove. The park offers a campsite, eight miles of hiking trails around a large pond, and breathtaking views of Chesapeake Bay from every corner. The popular 1.8 mile Long Trail Loop has interpretive signs with information about the wildlife and ecosystems on the island.
5. Hooper's Island
Hooper’s Island is actually a chain of three islands between Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River. The islands are fairly remote and are known for rich wildlife, great sport fishing, and crabbing. It is one of Maryland’s oldest settled areas. The main community, Fishing Creek, has about 400 people on Upper Hooper’s Island. Lower Hooper’s Island is uninhabited. The islands are a popular destination for hiking and enjoying the views of Chesapeake Bay, especially at sunset. The 1901 Hooper's Island Lighthouse is the island’s most visible feature and is one of America’s rare pneumatic caisson lighthouses. Local company Sawyer Charters & Tours offers fishing charters and cruises around the island.
6. Jane's Island
Jane's Island is located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, near Crisfield. It includes more than 2,900 acres of saltmarsh, about 30 miles of water trails and large tracts of isolated, magnificent beaches. The island is wild and looks untouched by human hands – it is a haven for birds, crabs, fish, and other dwellers of the large saltmarsh. James Island is a great place for those who want to observe the wildlife of Chesapeake Bay, do some crabbing or fishing, or take a kayak around the island. The island is part of the James Island State Park, which also has a mainland portion with a campground, picnic areas, a marina, and a boat ramp.
7. Kent Island
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Historic Kent Island is separated from the Delmarva Peninsula by Kent Narrows and from Sandy Point near Annapolis by four miles of water. Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects the island with the mainland at this point. Kent Island is the largest island in Chesapeake Bay. The Chester River runs through the island until it spills into the sea at Love Point. The island is a popular tourist destination for visitors from Baltimore, Washington, and Annapolis.
Kent Island was once a trading post for the Maryland’s first permanent English settlement. It later developed into an important seafood processing and packing area. Stevensville, the island’s largest town, is home to the historic Stevensville Train Depot and Maryland’s oldest congregation Christ Church, founded in 1631.
The Chesapeake Exploration Center on the Kent Narrows waterfront is home to the Queen Anne’s County Office of Tourism with a range of interpretive displays about Chesapeake Bay. The island’s best beach, Matapeake Beach, is located on the western shore and is surrounded by a small park with nice views of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It also has a public swimming beach, an outdoor amphitheater, a picnic area, and woodland trails.
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8. Smith Island
Located in Chesapeake Bay, Smith Island is separated from the Crisfield on the mainland by about 12 miles. Visitors coming to Smith Island have to come to Crisfield to board a ferry or boats going to the island. There are a few boat slips at Smith Island Marina, so you can also come in your own boat. Smith Island is the only inhabited island in Chesapeake Bay that is not connected to the mainland by a causeway or a bridge. There are only about 200 permanent residents and three distinct communities: Tylerton, Ewell, and Rhodes Point. Ewell, the largest, is the place where tourists land. It has a visitors’ center and a few restaurants. The island has more than 4,000 acres of marshland, protected in the Martin National Wildlife Refuge.
9.Solomons Island
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Located about an hour and a half from Washington DC at the mouth of the Patuxent River, Solomons Island is a popular destination for boaters cruising Chesapeake Bay. You can also reach the island by crossing the impressive 135-feet long Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge. The view of the island from the bridge is spectacular. Calvert Marine Museum is a great place to learn about life on the Bay. The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and the Annemarie Garden Sculpture Park are also interesting places to visit. Get the feel of the island spirit by taking a stroll along the River Walk Boardwalk on the banks of the Patuxent River. You can also grab something to eat or just enjoy the view.
10. St. Clement's Island
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Saint Clement’s Island is part of the St. Clement's Island State Park, which also includes an uninhabited Potomac River island about half a mile from Colton's Point on the mainland. The park’s most visible feature is a 40-foot stone cross built to commemorate the beginnings of religious freedom in the States and a reconstruction of the Blakistone Island Light. The light and the cross are part of the St. Clement's Island Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The island is the site of the 1634 landing of Maryland's first colonists, who came from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England. The island can be reached by private boat or by water taxi from the St. Clement's Island Museum in Colton's Point. The island is fun for hiking, fishing, hunting, and picnicking.
11. St. George's Island
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Saint George Island is located in the Potomac River in southern Maryland. The island has a long and turbulent history that dates back to 1634. During the Revolutionary War in 1776, the island was a site of the battle between the British forces that attempted to land in Maryland and Maryland’s Flying Camp militia. In 1812, the British occupied the island and made it their headquarters, cutting down the trees on the island for their ship masts and raiding the local shipyard and river plantations. Today, the island is a popular tourist destination offering excellent fishing, boating, crabbing, and camping. There is a bridge that connects the island with Piney Point on the mainland.
12. Tilghman Island
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Tilghman Island is a three-mile long sandy stretch of lowland between Chesapeake Bay and the Choptank River, just a short drive from Washington D.C. Located at the tip of Talbot County, the island was settled in 1707. Throughout its history it was a watermen’s land, with rugged clam boats, skipjacks, and buyboats that are still bobbing in the water in Dogwood Harbor. Today, they will take you fishing, sailing, or hunting, and they can also show you the lighthouses around the island. The island’s pristine nature is great for those who love solitude. You can go hiking, kayaking, or join one of the guided eco-tours. To learn more about this unique place, visit Phillips Wharf Environmental Center or the Tilghman Waterman’s Museum. Local restaurants will delight you with fresh seafood on their decks overlooking the water.
Assateague Island, Photo: Courtesy of Andrea Izzotti - Fotolia.com
Cobb Island, Photo: Courtesy of Double Image Studio - Fotolia.com
Deal Island, Photo: Courtesy of ArenaCreative - Fotolia.com
Hart-Miller Island, Photo: Courtesy of Jeramey Lende - Fotolia.com
Hooper's Island, Photo: Courtesy of Double Image Studio - Fotolia.com
Jane's Island, Photo: Courtesy of Double Image Studio - Fotolia.com
Kent Island, Photo: Courtesy of jonbilous - Fotolia.com
Smith Island, Photo: Courtesy of Double Image Studio - Fotolia.com
Solomons Island, Photo: Courtesy of DSL - Fotolia.com
St. Clement's Island, Photo: Courtesy of flownaksala - Fotolia.com
St. George's Island, Photo: Courtesy of Oleksii Astanin - Fotolia.com
Tilghman Island, Photo: Courtesy of Chris - Fotolia.com
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The Impact of Self-Driving Cars on Roadway Safety a Hot Topic at Velodyne Lidar’s Inaugural World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology
Former FAA deputy director and NTSB chairman, Christopher A. Hart, among the speakers sharing expertise and lessons learned from aviation and other industries committed to embracing the evolution of automation
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Velodyne Lidar, Inc., the inventor and leader of the lidar sensor industry for autonomous vehicles (AV), recently convened a host of business, government, public safety and community leaders to explore the use of AV technology in a global effort to advance roadway safety. The inaugural World Safety Summit on Autonomous Technology, conducted last week at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, provided a unique forum for frank and open discussions regarding the ways in which autonomous technology can be responsibly deployed to significantly increase safety on roadways.
Former MythBusters host and executive producer, Jamie Hyneman, emceed the summit. As a lifelong inventor and scientist himself, Hyneman challenged industry leaders and officials to prioritize the autonomous revolution and realize its tremendous potential to save lives.
Christopher A. Hart, former deputy director with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), drew on his experience overseeing public safety in transportation systems. He addressed the myriad challenges—and opportunities—autonomous vehicles face as they are introduced on public roads. Recounting the aviation industry’s history of safety improvements, he advised that many of the same lessons should be applied to the development and implementation of vehicles that are becoming increasingly automated.
“The aviation industry experienced early setbacks. Then, airline leaders began to realize that they needed to come together, share information and make important steps toward improving public safety,” he said. “Collaboration was key for the airlines’ success. That same collaboration among the leaders in autonomy is also the key for its success. Autonomy needs to be human-centric.” Hart’s message combined a prudent sense of caution with an enthusiasm for reducing the 40,000 U.S. roadway deaths that occur annually.
Oliver Cameron, co-founder and CEO of Voyage, described his AV philosophy as being centered on sharing. Voyage’s autonomous shuttles currently provide mobility at senior communities. He also credits Velodyne Lidar for the company’s success and innovation.
“We believe lidar is the backbone of self-driving cars, especially in the way it shows depth,” he said. “No other sensor exists that can accomplish this.”
Marta Hall, Velodyne Lidar president, called for the use of clear language when discussing autonomy. “Would you drive across a bridge that was ‘almost built?’” she questioned. Additionally, while “Driver Assist” systems are being marketed as “almost autonomous,” Hall believes that greater transparency must be instilled now to clear up public confusion.
Mircea Gradu, president of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International) and Velodyne Lidar senior vice president of validation, supports that call for transparency. For example, he said, companies could provide test results through a neutral third party. One option is to explore ways to generate reports through SAE and consumer organizations to provide consumers fact-based AV information.
The summit’s second keynote, from MADD CEO, Vicki Knox, focused on the need to leverage AV in efforts to lessen the number of roadway deaths. The organization sees the advanced safety opportunities provided by autonomous technology as a breakthrough that will help save lives. Knox asked government regulators to encourage advancements in the technology and cooperate with industry innovators to move it forward.
“At MADD, we represent the ‘WHY’ when it comes to the need for safer transportation,” she said. “Technology developers and autonomous car companies are creating the HOW.”
MADD, in partnership with Velodyne Lidar, recently launched a co-branded website to educate the public about the benefits of fully autonomous vehicle technology, particularly in preventing impaired driving. “Jane, a Velodyne Story” was also created to highlight the benefits that safe autonomy can provide families. In the story, Jane celebrates her 21st birthday by attending a concert with friends—only to fall asleep behind the wheel after it’s over. Thankfully, lidar technology—which isn’t reliant on Jane to navigate safely—ensures her safe return home to her parents. Additional content modules on the site include “Lidar 101,” a video explaining how lidar sensor technology is an essential component of self-driving vehicles.
The summit included two panel discussions, addressing “Responsible Autonomous Deployment” and “Defining Full Autonomy and its Necessary Technologies.” Speakers included:
Anne S. Ferro, President and CEO of the American Association of Motor Vehicles
Alex Epstein, Director, Transportation Safety, National Safety Council
Vicki Knox, CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Mircea Gradu, President of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International)
Paul Konasewich, Director of Business Development, Paccar Trucking
Oliver Cameron, CEO, Voyage Motors
Dr. Myra Blanco, Director, Center for Public Policy at VA Tech Transportation Institute
Bobby Hambrick, CEO, Autonomous Stuff
Anand Gopalan, CTO, Velodyne Lidar
Frank Mancheca, Chief Product Officer, SAE International
Yaoming Shen, Sr. Optical Engineer, Baidu
Steve Levine, Editor, Future and Axios
Christoph Sapet, CEO, NAVYA
Faye Francy, Executive Director, Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Ceto Ortiz, Commander, San Jose California Highway Patrol
David Strickland, Partner, Venable LLP and former NHTSA administrator
Ray Mandli, Founder and President, Mandli Communications, Inc.
AV companies NAVYA and Autonomous Stuff offered rides in fully autonomous vehicles to attendees in the Levi’s Stadium parking lot. Both NAVYA and Voyage are currently operating autonomous public transportation in California, Florida and Paris, France.
Also present at the summit were university students participating in the AutoDrive Challenge sponsored by SAE International, General Motors and Velodyne Lidar, Inc. AutoDrive tasks teams from eight universities to develop a Level 4 autonomous vehicle in three years. The competition is entering its second year. Adam El-Masri and Robert Adragna, members of the University of Toronto AutoDrive team, presented to the summit audience their passion for the project and their vision of the social implications of increasingly autonomous transportation.
MEDIA PLEASE NOTE: For more information about Velodyne Lidar, the World Safety Summit or to request an interview with a Velodyne executive, please contact David Cumpston at velodyne@landispr.com / (415) 359-2316.
About Velodyne Lidar, Inc.
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Velodyne is a technology company known worldwide for its real-time 3D lidar computing and software platforms. The company evolved after founder David Hall invented the HDL-64 Solid-State Hybrid lidar sensor in 2005. Since then, Velodyne Lidar, Inc. emerged as the unmatched market leader of real-time 3D vision systems used in a variety of commercial applications including autonomous vehicles, vehicle safety systems, mobile mapping, aerial mapping, and security. Its products range from the high-performance, surround view Ultra-Puck™ VLP-32, classic HDL-32/64 and cost-effective VLP-16, the new VLS-128, to the upcoming, hidden Velarray™. Velodyne’s rich suite of perception software and algorithms are the key enablers of its perception systems. Velodyne supports customers from offices in San Jose, Detroit, Frankfurt, and Beijing. For more information, visit http://www.velodynelidar.com.
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Why Brian Fargo thinks blockchain is key to an alternative PC game store
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GamesBeat: The other thing generally was that chicken-and-egg situation. Nobody wants to give 30 percent to Apple or Google, but they have the traffic. How do you change that equation?
Fargo: We’re going to have to be very clever about customer acquisition. That’s why you’ll be able to mine, why you’ll be able to resell. We’re going to have strategic alliances with people who have a lot of traffic sending that our way. Also, as part of the token sale, we’re going to use a lot of money on customer acquisition. We’ll be handing out tokens, spending marketing money, getting exclusive content on the site, that sort of thing.
It’s not as if we’re going to be a force on day one. But there’s a compelling story there for everybody to keep supporting it and for users to come over. There are all these sites. You’ve heard of Itch? They have huge traffic. It’s like a Humble Bundle indie store site where people tip the store, pay whatever they want. You look at the traffic there, and it’s massive. There are stores other than Steam that do quite reasonable revenue. Even a 10 percent market share is a big deal.
GamesBeat: Can you share proceeds with someone like that if they produce a sale for you?
Caldwell: Like an affiliate? It’s possible. There’s no reason we couldn’t do that. It’s not something that’s in the plan right now.
Fargo: We’re looking to strike deals with some of the hardware manufacturers. As an example, if you’re mining with an AMD card, we know that. Maybe we can give you some extra perks if you’re mining with an AMD. They want to sell hardware, and we want to find customers. There’s a lot of great symbiotic relationships we can build.
GamesBeat: Is there a name for the coin?
Fargo: Iron, like the Iron Bank.
Caldwell: Brian said to me once, “You drag a magnet through the sand, and you produce iron.” That’s our mining mentality, right there.
Fargo: It’s interesting. The response to the concept has been really strong. I’m talking to a guy at Nvidia. He says, “I work at Nvidia, and I don’t even mine.” You figure, something like 0.03 percent of people own crypto? The people that mine, it’s even smaller than that. The idea that I can just opt in, leave my machine on, and I come back in the morning. We’ll show you a little ticker in real time. Our little robot will be mining away. It’s compelling. You just come to our site and buy a game.
GamesBeat: The sense of scale is good to know. How much money do you have to have in order to do this, to attract the audience? Are you targeting PC games, console games, mobile games?
Fargo: It’s all PC, yeah. You can’t do console this way. Those are closed, walled systems. We couldn’t do it if we wanted to. We’d like to get to 10 percent market share pretty quick. We’re giving guarantees to people, to publishers. We’re doing a lot of things to get content that have never been done before. Usually, people just set up the store and say, “I’m the Steam reseller. Please give me your game.” That’s not a new pitch. This is something where the publishers can make more. There’s more margin to play with. There’s a lot of little clever things we can do in terms of exclusive content, paying people to sign up, using the currency to get them on board.
GamesBeat: How many [stores] are out there doing this? Do you call this a store?
Fargo: Yeah, it’s a digital store. All of the stores, for the most part, are Steam digital key resellers, except for GOG. GOG does a great business. If we did GOG numbers, we’d be in great shape. Think of how many people buy GOG just because they don’t like DRM. What if we get a similar number of people that want to buy games and resell them when they’re done?
GamesBeat: Where do you need to get your backing from? Is it the publishers and then you can go to investors?
Fargo: To raise the money for it, do you mean?
Above: Steam is the big gorilla of PC game stores.
Image Credit: Steam
GamesBeat: And get the momentum. Do you need someone like Take-Two to say yes? Or do you just need a lot of small guys?
Fargo: I think it’s going to be a combination of some of the bigger ones, which we’re getting, and some of the important indie developers, who are also coming aboard. Usually, when you go out and pitch, there’s a funnel, right? X percent of the people you talk to say yes. But there’s almost not been a “no” for us. Some people have technical reasons. But everyone would love to see a switch up in the status quo of how this works and get a bigger piece of the pie.
GamesBeat: How much does Steam actually get?
Fargo: They take 30 percent. You’re getting 95 versus 70.
GamesBeat: Google+, when they started out against Facebook, they were saying, “We’ll take 10 percent.” And then, when they actually launched, it was 30. Why does everyone settle on that as the cost you incur running the store, marketing games, and otherwise doing what a store owner has to do? I never quite understood why everyone does 30, other than that’s what the market will bear.
Caldwell: That’s what the publishers are willing to spend to get the traffic.
GamesBeat: It seems like Steam could run their store far more efficiently on just five percent. They have so much momentum that 30 percent — it’s like they’re not earning it, right? Anyway, that number always bugged me. Google was theoretically going to come in and fix things, and they never did.
Caldwell: And Google+ lost.
GamesBeat: Did they learn something? “We’re going to incur so many costs that we have to take a higher percentage.”
Caldwell: We’ll never know because they never tried, and Google+ never took off.
GamesBeat: Do you guys face some risk that you’re maybe taking too small a percentage?
Fargo: We believe we’ll also be making money on the mining side and doing some other things. It isn’t just that. But our numbers don’t show that it takes that much to run a store. The good thing is we’ll be raising enough money to give us some landing room, some room to experiment and try different things.
Caldwell: Plus, some of the stuff we’re doing is decentralized. Some of the services and things we’re doing, we don’t have to run servers and maintain things for them because the world is doing it for us. That’s a lot of the infrastructure costs that we don’t have to spend. That helps our numbers line up with five percent. Volume is where we’ll make it, obviously. If we only have one or two people, five percent doesn’t cut it. But if we have the volume of games we expect to get, the volume makes it work.
Fargo: If, for example, we launch and, over time, we have every major publisher with all the new releases — that’s what you strive to get, and they’re going to like getting 95 percent. Then, we’re right there with everyone else. Plus, we’re trying different things. And then, we’ll have all the consumers saying, “Hey, I get free games by going to Robot Cache, and I can sell them when I’m done.” That word of mouth will bring a lot of people in. At least that’s the goal. It’s compelling.
Above: Bitcoin is a volatile cryptocurrency. Brian Fargo will create his own, dubbed Iron.
Image Credit: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
GamesBeat: One worry could be that Steam might outspend you on marketing by, whatever, six to one?
Fargo: They could drop their fees, too.
Caldwell: It’s not just a marketing game, though. We can do deals with [publishers] where we get one month of selling a new product before Steam does. There’s lots of ways to fight back. Steam is the gorilla without a doubt.
Fargo: I’m not going to say we’re taking out Steam. And guess what, I’m super appreciative of Steam, too. Trust me, I have nothing bad to say about those guys. But why not have another guy who’s in there with 10 percent? To do that, you need to come up with something unique if you’re going to get some market share. We think this is unique.
Caldwell: How many Steam players want to sell back their digital games that they … can’t use anymore? Almost everybody on Steam wants to do that.
GamesBeat: If you bought a $50 game, as a consumer, what are you selling it back for?
Caldwell: $50. Again, the consumer doesn’t realize….
GamesBeat: So, you get a quarter of that; $12.50 goes into your pocket….
Caldwell: Right. The publisher, at the worst, gets the same they’re getting now. At best, they get another 25 percent.
Fargo: We think it’ll spur some extra sales for two reasons. One, you’ll call your friend up and say, “Hey, you wanted this game. Buy it from me.” And then, once you get the tokens, what do you do with them? You buy another game. We think there will be extra sales on both sides. It spurs the economy. The feedback has been — I’m used to pitching products. Some people like them, and some people don’t. The way this has been, at the end of the conversation, they want to invest. We have a few more things we have to get together. This is the most complex thing I’ve ever worked on before, from SEC money transmission laws to international treaties.
GamesBeat: I’ve talked to some other serious people about blockchain ideas. It sounds like a big opportunity. Tim Sweeney is talking about the open metaverse. Phil Rosedale is talking about connecting virtual worlds, taking avatars across platforms.
Fargo: As long as people support it. You have to have all these different people supporting it. One of these things for us about blockchain is that — the indisputable thing about it is it’s a great piece of security. It’s nearly unhackable. That gives publishers the comfort that their game cannot exist in two places at once. Now, games can be hacked, and you can remove the checks, things like that, but the minute you go to our store and try to resell that, we’ll pull it right out of our library. That’s the big advantage over a central server. That can be hacked, and all of a sudden, people are reselling their games like wildfire all over the internet with a DRM-free version. This is unhackable in that way. It’s a unique money-raising event, too. We can start doing some different things.
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Mike Smith’s March Resurgence
By The Hockey Writers April 1st, 2015
When the Arizona Coyotes traded goaltender Devan Dubnyk to the Minnesota Wild, it was a deal that provided the Coyotes with two opportunities: firstly, an additional shot in the third round of this summer’s entry draft and, more importantly, a chance for highly-paid starter Mike Smith to rediscover his game.
“At the end of the day, Mike Smith is our guy. We’re working to get his game back on track,” Don Maloney, general manager of the Coyotes, told The Arizona Republic at the time of the trade. “We know how good he can be and this puts the emphasis on getting Mike back in the net.”
Historically, Smith has thrived with a heavy workload, as evidenced once again in the month of March. Through 12 games, Smith posted a 2.42 goals-against average alongside an impressive .934 save percentage. That’s a further improvement on his previous best month of the season – a .910 save percentage and 2.94 GAA through 12 games in February.
As Arizona’s heralded goalie coach Sean Burke recently told the Republic, “Mike’s game is every bit as good today as it was three years ago in the playoffs against Chicago, and he’s got that in him to continue to play like that.”
Uphill Climb
Both the Coyotes and the Wild have witnessed the benefits of the deal. In Minnesota, Dubnyk has seen a revival of his own, sporting a 26-6-1 record through 34 games. Meanwhile, in the desert, Smith has seized the opportunity, appearing all but four games since Dubnyk was shipped north.
In 31 games, while Smith has compiled a 6-22-3 record, his individual statistics offer a more accurate reflection of his strong play. Since reclaiming the net, Smith has posted a .918 save percentage and 2.82 goals-against average. Both numbers are significant improvements on the .885 save percentage and 3.52 GAA Smith posted in his 27 appearances when Dubnyk was still sporting Sedona Red.
Since signing with the Coyotes in the summer of 2012, Smith has dominated in crease time, appearing in 67 games that year, plus another 16 playoff games en route to the franchise’s first appearance in the Western Conference Finals. The following year, in the lockout-shortened season, Smith appears in 34 games, and then another 62 games last season. This year, Smith is now on pace to play 62 games. That bodes well with Arizona head coach Dave Tippett, who as former coach of the Dallas Stars regularly relied on starter Marty Turco, averaging 67 games over six seasons.
Looking ahead to next season, the Coyotes stand a good chance of icing a roster that includes one of Connor McDavid or Jack Eichel, both franchise centres, and a calibre of player that the Coyotes have not had since the days of Jeremy Roenick and Keith Tkachuk. No doubt either centre, surrounded by exciting prospects like Max Domi and Anthony Duclair and solid veterans like Shane Doan and Oliver Ekman-Larsson, will play a big role in an improved team performance next season. But most importantly, no team can win without solid goaltending, and a revitalized Smith remains Arizona’s biggest key to success going forward.
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Asus Fonepad review
7.8/10 AVG.
Informr score
The Asus Fonepad currently has an Informr score of 7.8 out of 10. This score is based on our evaluation of 13 sources including reviews from users and the web's most trusted critics.
Excellent battery life
Display offers crisp details and good viewing angles
Connects to 3G network without tethering
Good day-to-day performance
What's bad
Slight lag when opening and using apps
Mediocre call quality
Bad bright light legibility
Not to be confused with the Asus Padfone, the Asus Fonepad offers a hybrid phone and tablet experience. At 7", the device is fairly unwieldy for critics to use as a regular phone without the aid of a headset. Most experts agree that it won't replace a standard smartphone, especially when taking its mediocre call quality into account. Still, a major perk of the Fonepad's phone aspect is its ability to connect to the 3G network without tethering. This gives users the ability to connect online anywhere, even if there is no WiFi available.
As a tablet, the Fonepad didn't wow reviewers. The 7" screen offers a decent resolution of 1280x800 pixels, which equates to 216ppi. According to experts, the display delivers wide viewing angles due to its IPS technology and crisp image details. Unfortunately, Wired says, "The brightness settings don't allow it to get particularly vivid…" and critics mention that the tablet is very difficult to read under bright light situations.
With a 1.2GHz single-core Intel processor and 1GB of RAM, the Fonepad consistently scored low in system benchmark tests. After test driving, however, most critics were surprised by its good day-to-day performance. Of course, they also point out that there are issues with lag and stutter, but nothing bad enough to ruin the overall experience. In addition to the processor and memory, the tablet also comes equipped with 16GB of onboard storage and an expandable microSD slot.
The one area where the Fonepad excels is battery life. When put through battery tests, it lasted 8 hours of intense usage and 20 hours of moderate use. According to Ubergizmo, the battery also charges "crazy-fast," going from 0 to full in less than two hours.
Although this product doesn't offer top-of-the-line features, most experts were happy with the budget tablet. Phone Arena says, "The Fonepad…stands out with being a good-looking, 3G-capable slate…" but they go on to say, "Nevertheless, we would definitely recommend you to consider trying the Nexus 7 tablet…it packs more processing power…at a similar price."
What the Critics Are Saying...
The Asus Fonepad 7 is available for as little as Rs. 7,299 on e-commerce platforms, which is a really good price for a tablet that performs so well. Yes, the software was slightly iffy in the beginning, but that could have been a problem with our review unit. The screen is not too great and the came...
- Ershad Kaleebullah, NDTV
I really want to like the Fonepad, and in some respects I do. For the price, this is a very competitive device with fantastic battery life, Jelly Bean and the ability to make calls. Sadly, the internals let it down, and I fear that its low price point price may have led to the decision to use the In...
- Richard Devine, Android Central
The Asus Fonepad will be a brilliant Android tablet for many business and home users. In most areas it matches the Google Nexus 7 and in some key areas – like battery life and expandability – the Fonepad outperforms it. This device’s real ace, however, is its built-in mobile connec...
- Stuart Andrews, ITProPortal
The Asus Fonepad comes as a really good choice. Unlike other devices it has an Intel processor. Though just a single core processor, it offers very fluid performance thanks to its Hyper Threading technology. We would recommend this product over its rivals for its good battery back up, connectivity o...
- Anil Satapathy, The Mobile Indian
So, can you live with a 7-inch, 340g smartphone? Yes. Naturally there are compromises to be made. I wouldn't want to take a FonePad with me to my local pub for the evening or to a gig, and the absence of a suitable camera is going to become an issue at some point down the line. But the cash savings...
- Alun Taylor, The Register
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Asus Fonepad Manual (PDF)
The Asus Fonepad's screen size is 7 inches with 800 x 1280 pixels resolution.
There is a Intel Atom Z2420 Single core 1.2 GHz processor (CPU).
The tablet runs on the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system (OS).
You can take photos or capture video with the tablet's onboard 3+ megapixel camera. There is also a secondary front facing camera with 1+ megapixels resolution.
8/16 GB
Internal memory is 8/16 GB. An external, MicroSD, MicroSDHC (up to 32 GB) expansion slot is available for increased storage capacity.
The tablet is powered by a Lithium Polymer (Li-Pol), 16 WHr battery. Asus's performance ratings are 31.3 days standby time.
Asus Fonepad Specs
850/900/1800/1900 MHz
UMTS:
GPRS, EDGE, HSUPA, HSPA+
Intel Atom Z2420 Single core 1.2 GHz
GPS Type
AC Charger, Data Cable, Manual, Standard Battery
Up to: 31.3 days
Champagne Gold, Titanium Gray
LCD (IPS)
Ambient Light, Proximity, Motion / Accelerometer
Depends on system memory
Email address, Other fields
SMS, MMS, Google Talk
A2DP, AVRCP, OPP/FTP, HFP, HSP
Auto focus, Effects, White balance, Exposure value
3GP / 3GPP, H.264 / AVC, MPEG-4, WMV
MIDI, MP3, eAAC+, AAC+, AAC, AMR-WB, WMA Pro, WMA, WAV, OGG, AMR-NB
Other Names (AKA): Asus ME371MG
Up to 9 hours of Talk Time
Other models don't have rear camera
Manual (PDF)
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Affordable and capable
Ershad Kaleebullah from NDTV ( 01 Oct 2014 00:00 )
The Asus Fonepad 7 is available for as little as Rs. 7,299 on e-commerce platforms, which is a really good price for a tablet that performs so well. Yes, the software was slightly iffy in the beginning, but that could have been a problem with our review unit. The screen is not too great and the c...More
The Asus Fonepad 7 is available for as little as Rs. 7,299 on e-commerce platforms, which is a really good price for a tablet that performs so well. Yes, the software was slightly iffy in the beginning, but that could have been a problem with our review unit. The screen is not too great and the camera is a joke, but the cost had to be managed somehow.
An all in one that is both a proper tablet and a full featured smartphone
Richard Devine from Android Central ( 09 Jul 2013 04:00 )
I really want to like the Fonepad, and in some respects I do. For the price, this is a very competitive device with fantastic battery life, Jelly Bean and the ability to make calls. Sadly, the internals let it down, and I fear that its low price point price may have led to the decision to use the Intel Z2420. It just doesn't feel nearly as smooth and snappy as the Nexus 7, which is similarly priced and a full year old. It hampers the overall experience, which is otherwise typically good from ASUS....
I really want to like the Fonepad, and in some respects I do. For the price, this is a very competitive device with fantastic battery life, Jelly Bean and the ability to make calls. Sadly, the internals let it down, and I fear that its low price point price may have led to the decision to use the Intel Z2420. It just doesn't feel nearly as smooth and snappy as the Nexus 7, which is similarly priced and a full year old. It hampers the overall experience, which is otherwise typically good from ASUS.
The biggest issue is the way it's marketed by ASUS, almost more as a phone than a tablet. Holding this to my head in public was awkward to say the least. With headphones, it's a great idea — an all in one that is both a proper tablet and a full featured smartphone. But please, don't hold it to your head
The Asus Fonepad packs in so much for so little
Stuart Andrews from ITProPortal ( 21 Jun 2013 04:00 )
The Asus Fonepad will be a brilliant Android tablet for many business and home users. In most areas it matches the Google Nexus 7 and in some key areas – like battery life and expandability – the Fonepad outperforms it. This device’s real ace, however, is its built-in mobile con...More
The Asus Fonepad will be a brilliant Android tablet for many business and home users. In most areas it matches the Google Nexus 7 and in some key areas – like battery life and expandability – the Fonepad outperforms it. This device’s real ace, however, is its built-in mobile connectivity. Get yourself a cheap data deal, and you have a tablet that can handle email and Internet on the move at a much lower price than the equivalent Nexus 7 3G, Galaxy Note 8.0 or iPad mini. It’s a shame that the mediocre performance levels put a slight dent in the proceedings, but if you’re looking for a tablet for work or staying in touch, then this is one of the most practical 7in devices money can buy.
It offers very fluid performance thanks to its Hyper Threading technology
Anil Satapathy from The Mobile Indian ( 17 Jun 2013 04:00 )
The Asus Fonepad comes as a really good choice. Unlike other devices it has an Intel processor. Though just a single core processor, it offers very fluid performance thanks to its Hyper Threading technology. We would recommend this product over its rivals for its good battery back up, connectivity options and great display....
The Asus Fonepad comes as a really good choice. Unlike other devices it has an Intel processor. Though just a single core processor, it offers very fluid performance thanks to its Hyper Threading technology. We would recommend this product over its rivals for its good battery back up, connectivity options and great display.
It has also a very good user interface. If you are a big gaming enthusiast, then you may not like its overall output. Also, it is a bit slippery in the hands. But the most important point that works in Asus's favour is that none of its competitors (7 inch tablets in the price range of Rs 15,000) offer better features than this.
The smartphone that thinks it’s a tablet
Alun Taylor from The Register ( 12 Jun 2013 04:00 )
So, can you live with a 7-inch, 340g smartphone? Yes. Naturally there are compromises to be made. I wouldn't want to take a FonePad with me to my local pub for the evening or to a gig, and the absence of a suitable camera is going to become an issue at some point down the line. But the cash savin...More
So, can you live with a 7-inch, 340g smartphone? Yes. Naturally there are compromises to be made. I wouldn't want to take a FonePad with me to my local pub for the evening or to a gig, and the absence of a suitable camera is going to become an issue at some point down the line. But the cash savings and the sheer convenience of having one device rather than two to carry and charge does have its attractions.
Quite good tablet with phone features, audio and display impress
James A. from Tablet News ( 08 Jun 2013 04:00 )
Overall, this is a very good tablet for its price and we give it a 9.2 out of 10 for design, 9.3 for hardware and a 9 for OS and UI. The final grade is 9.16 out of 10 and this is quite a solid purchase, if you don’t feel like buying a Galaxy Tab because of the laggy TouchWiz.
Way too large to be used as a primary phone
Clinton Jeff from UnleashThePhones ( 04 Jun 2013 04:00 )
While I still maintain that the Fonepad is way too large to be used as a primary phone and wont fit into your pockets very easily, I am a big fan of the 7 inch form factor for tablets.
It’s size makes the Fonepad a lot more portable than 10 inch tablets, and the 3G connectivity allows you to stay connected to the interwebs wherever you go....
It’s size makes the Fonepad a lot more portable than 10 inch tablets, and the 3G connectivity allows you to stay connected to the interwebs wherever you go.
But while it’s a perfectly good 7 inch tablet, it’s main competitor is Asus’s own Nexus 7 which boasts almost exactly the same battery life (if not better), a slightly better screen and better performance, for a cheaper price tag.
The Fonepad stands out with being a good-looking, 3G-capable slate with a quality screen and enough battery power
Nick T. from PhoneArena ( 31 May 2013 04:00 )
Although it can make calls and send text messages, the Asus Fonepad is clearly not an ideal smartphone replacement, although you can totally use it as one. Just bear in mind that the tablet isn't made to be carried in a pocket, obviously, and its call quality leaves a lot to be desired. The Fonep...More
Although it can make calls and send text messages, the Asus Fonepad is clearly not an ideal smartphone replacement, although you can totally use it as one. Just bear in mind that the tablet isn't made to be carried in a pocket, obviously, and its call quality leaves a lot to be desired. The Fonepad, however, stands out with being a good-looking, 3G-capable slate with a quality screen and enough battery power to get you through the day. But most importantly, it can be owned for as low as $250, which is a very reasonable price considering what you get
It does the job of two devices for a budget price
Chris Martin from Tech Advisor ( 31 May 2013 04:00 )
For those genuinely interested in a phablet, the Asus Fonepad is a bit of a bargain. It does the job of two devices for a budget price. However, you'll need to be prepared to make sacrifices including practicality and, in this case, no rear camera and slower performance issues. Not to mention the...More
For those genuinely interested in a phablet, the Asus Fonepad is a bit of a bargain. It does the job of two devices for a budget price. However, you'll need to be prepared to make sacrifices including practicality and, in this case, no rear camera and slower performance issues. Not to mention the inevitable Dom Jolly impression, should you decide to use as a phone without a separate earpiece.
Offers everything you need and a little bit more at a competitive price tag
Srivatsan from Fone Arena ( 11 May 2013 04:00 )
The Asus Fonepad offers everything you need and a little bit more at a competitive price tag. It has good build, offers 3G with voice calling and also comes with a micro SD expansion slot that is not present in the Nexus 7. If you don’t want to hold a large table to your ear, you can always get a earphone or a Bluetooth headset.
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Former Neo-Nazi speaks to students
By thekeystonenews on March 14, 2013
Frank Meeink, formerly one of the most sought-after skinhead leaders, came to Kutztown on Thursday, Feb. 28.
Meeink changed his perspective of life when he was in prison. He is now a speaker, author and foundation leader.
Even before Meeink gave his presentation, many of the students were eager to hear what he had to say.
“I’m expecting him to have some interesting outlooks on life now that he is empty of hate,” Alec Berzinsky said.
Meeink grew up in South Philadelphia in a broken home. He did not know his father, and his step father abused him. Meeink’s mother was also addicted to drugs and alcohol.
He came from a very different background−Irish and Italian−so he got picked on a lot in school because of his ethnicity. At 13 years old, Meeink discovered the skinhead movement when he was visiting his cousin in Lancaster, Pa.
Meeink was drawn to the lifestyle of the skinheads because he felt that he had a voice and had people who would listen to him. At his home, he didn’t have that; his mom and his stepfather ignored him and he felt like he didn’t fit in there. With the skinheads, he actually felt like he fit in.
At 14 years old, Meeink shaved his head and was initiated to the skinheads. A shaved head is a symbol of commitment to the Neo-Nazi Movement.
At age 18 he was a well-respected Neo-Nazi leader and recruiter. Meeink was then arrested because he nearly killed a man from a rival skinhead gang and kidnapped another man. For this crime, and many other small crimes he committed in Philadelphia, Meeink was then sentenced to three years in prison in Illinois.
While he was in prison, Meeink’s view on life changed drastically. He befriended men that he used to think he hated−men of different races. While playing football and basketball in prison with the other inmates, Meeink gained the respect of the African American inmates. The African American inmates he had befriended had supported him more than the Skinheads in prison did.
Shortly after being paroled, Meeink tried to join the white supremacy movement again. The Oklahoma City bombing inspired him to try to stop the hatred he had once felt towards groups of other races.
He began speaking on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League and appeared on MTV and other national networks in his efforts to help stop the hate. Meeink eventually partnered with the Philadelphia Flyers to launch a hate-prevention program called Harmony through Hockey (HTH).
“HTH focuses on inner-city youth and exposes them to a sport that they may not have been able to participate in because of the intense financial commitment it requires,” Meeink said. “Beyond the ice, HTH makes sure that children are taught discipline, leadership and teamwork−skills they can use in life.”
To learn more information about Frank Meeink and his mission, visit http://www.frankmeeink.com.
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We are the bees of the Invisible. Passionately, we plunder the honey of the visible, in order to gather it in the great golden hive of the Invisible.
These are the words of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to his friend Witold Hulewicz, 1925.
It has been a life dream of mine to write a book. And in August of last year, I had achieved this dream…almost. I had composed, collected, and refined a book that addressed what I take to be the most timely and most timeless question: what does it mean to be a human being? But my own lofty estimation of this book’s content would not allow me to name it “Untitled,” or “Anonymous.” As the Alaskan summer began to end and as I began to pack up for my return to San Francisco to begin my last year in the PCC Master’s program, I found myself at just such an impasse: I had written a book but I had nothing to call it. It was in this moment of crisis that these words of Rilke descended on my infertile mind, like one of those very gold-stripéd priestesses of Demeter itself alighting on a sunflower:
Transformed? Yes, for our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully, so truly, that its being may rise again, invisibly, in us, as spirit. We are the bees of the Invisible. Passionately, we plunder the honey of the visible, in order to gather it in the great golden hive of the Invisible.
It struck me that Rilke’s words contained the germ of my entire project. Obviously, as human beings, we have a part to play in the Earth community. But we cannot possibly know what that part is before we know what the human being is.
The challenges that we face today—climate change, war in Syria, poverty in the Tenderloin district outside the front door of his building in downtown San Francisco—emerge precisely as symptoms that we have forgotten our role as human beings. When we know how to listen, we can hear in these symptoms the stern voice of angels, admonishing us to remember ourselves—to “know ourselves;” crises speak with the tongues of angels to relay inconvenient truths. One could safely conclude that today, the world is kindly sending choirs of messengers for our edification.
How can human beings re-establish integration in a world whose balance we have disrupted? The chorus of primeval wisdom intones the answer with a clarity undiminished by the ages:
Gnothi Seauton
“O human, Know Thyself”
This injunction from the Oracle at Delphi is as ancient as history, and never before has it been valued less and needed more. HONEYBEES OF THE INVISIBLE is foremost an attempt to understand this injunction and its meaning for our time. Rilke writes that “We are the Bees of the Invisible.” What is our honey? What is our original gift as human beings? I hope, by the end of this talk, that together we may have lived into the answer.
The honeybee gathers seasonal nectar, reciprocally plundering and pollinating the lily, the apple-blossom, the dandelion. These buzzing alchemists of Nature then transmute this seasonal nectar into imperishable liquid gold—the temporary becomes timeless. As Rilke indicates, in this task, human beings can be their disciples. What the honeybee accomplishes in Nature, the human being is to accomplish in Spirit. For the human being, the Great Work consists in the sacred distillation of our worldly experience into its imperishable tincture, which is to say, its spirit, its meaning, its quintessence. The doorway through which fleeting phenomena reënter eternity is in the human soul.
Consider the rose-bush in winter: to my outer eye, the rose-bush reveals only a bleak and thorny exterior. In this sense, the rose-bush, and all of Nature, hides its entire past and future in phenomenal enchantment—enchantment in plain sight. But when I know it as a rose-bush, a cluster of grey-brown knotted thorns becomes pregnant with invisible sleeping beauty, a secret promise waiting only for the proper season to unfold its hidden mystery. In this way, the human mind is like a spiritual mirror, in whose reflection a rose-bush becomes the Rose, appearance becomes essence. The outer world provides occasion only for what is fleeting. Nature depends on the theatre of the human soul to provide venue for her eternal aspect. Indeed, it is in this reflection that a transient phenomenon may become a thing of beauty and “a joy forever.” One cannot expect honey from a milking cow, and neither is it to be recommended that one try to milk a honeybee. All creatures perform an irreplaceable task in Nature and no other creature besides the human being provides the outer rose-bush with a sanctuary to reveal its inner aspect—as a symbol of immortal Beauty.
The human being is to be the collector of spiritual nectar and the alchemist of invisible honey. Our nectar is outer experience and our honey is inner meaning. Only the human being can behold Nature as a work of art, or as a marvel of incarnate wisdom. This act is to gather the dew of Truth and the nectar of Beauty from the sense-world to return it to the great golden hive of the Invisible. In passing, one may notice that a sip from the cup of this spiritual nectar does not empty the cup, but fills it: “Love multiplies, not divides,” as an old saw expresses this fact. In this way, “extraction of spiritual resources” really has nothing in common with the suggestive associations that this phrase might invite today. Obviously, a survey of the Earth from cosmic space—a view of the oil rigs, skyscrapers, and highway traffic that cover the entire planet— would reveal the trappings of a species more akin to mosquitoes or termites than the honeybees of the Invisible that Rilke describes.
Thus the human being, with the highest potential, often falls the lowest and exploits Nature for his own insatiable craving. Other creatures are blameless in this regard. A honeybee does not see in the sunrise the moving image of eternal Truth and Beauty, but neither does it pillage the Earth for meaningless satisfaction of a rapacious instinct for unbridled consumerism.
One might object that, if the honeybee were to be granted dominion over all creatures of the Earth, that it might actually prove more ruthlessly materialistic than the human being. This is unlikely, though one must concede that it is not logically impossible. Nevertheless, one must also concede that this question conveniently evades our grasp of moral responsibility by sending us in chimerical pursuit of a counterfactual decoy. In this way it defers our attention from the true heart of the issue. The most important point is the Freedom of the human being. Human beings are free to do otherwise—to counteract basic instincts for consumerism, tribalism, and self-preservation. This spiritual Freedom is probably the most sacred possession of the human soul because in Freedom is the latent possibility for spiritual Love—Agapē. Freedom is the esoteric meaning of Prometheus’ fire, and Love is like the rose blossom that, once called forth by the heat and light, appears with the return of Spring. “Midwinter spring is its own season,” writes T. S. Eliot to begin the last of his Four Quartets, and he ends the work with the lines:
Now, when the tongues of flame are folded
This is really the heart of our challenge today: like the fire of physics, and fire of the sun, the secret fire of Freedom can wreak manifold destruction. Indeed this aspect of fire is precisely what burned our bridge from the Eden of Nature in the first place (and placed at the gates “the Cherubim with a flaming sword”). “The tree,” wrote St. Augustine, “which had brought about the Fall and the loss of Paradise, shall be the instrument of redemption.” Augustine is of course referring to the Genesis Creation story, and tasting from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Severance from Nature is also Freedom from Nature, and Freedom from Nature means that we could love Nature, but also injure her. My finger does not love my hand, but neither can it engineer any injury against it. In this way, it would be meaningless to speak of spiritual Love so long as the human being remained in the state of pre-reflective original participation in the womb of Nature. “The tree which had brought about the Fall and the loss of Paradise, shall be the instrument of redemption.”
What is this redemption? The Chorus Mysticus declares the following lines at the end of Goethe’s Faust:
Everything transient
Is but a metaphor.
Actually the word in German is Gleichnis, which literally means “likeness.” It is not uncommon to find this word translated in English not as “metaphor,” but as “parable.” Until now, we have considered transient experience as a metaphor, as when we imagined the appearance of the rose and contrasted this to the being of the rose. So while we have first considered how everything transient may become a metaphor for eternal Truth and Beauty, here we can consider everything transient as a parable to teach us Goodness. Everything in the world is fleeting, and the soil to sustain new life is provided only by the continual dying of the old. Everything offers itself to be trodden under foot, and we live only by the grace of Nature’s loving sacrifice. In this way, all of life becomes a parable to teach us Goodness, selflessness, Love.
With this point I have transitioned into subject-matter so full of meaning that my cup runneth over into a second book. If Honeybees of the Invisible sought to establish that human beings are Honeybees of meaning, BUT NOW FACE TO FACE explores the highest meaning of all: Love. I am indebted to Rilke for the title of the first book, and for the second I am indebted to Saint Paul. In particular, the title comes from his famous letter to the Church of Corinth:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)
Love in Saint Paul’s meaning is a question of relationship, and it is a question of a specific quality of relationship: namely, relating to another on his or her own terms rather than through the glass of our own self-concern. Love is the one thing that cannot be possessed; love is gained only in the giving it away. In this way it is the only antidote to materialism. To meet one another “face-to-face” is, perhaps, a distant ideal, but it strikes me that it may be the most important ideal in the world today. I wrote most of the content of this book in the months leading up to the Presidential Election in November. During that time, it became more obvious every day that we never meet one another face to face, but only through the reflection of labels, prejudices, and preconceptions, which is to say, “through a glass, darkly.” This book was an attempt to understand and to overcome this fragmentation.
Let us again invite the image of the rose-bush into our mind’s eye and then inquire: Where is the flower in January?
It’s nowhere in manifest space—this is precisely the point. Instead, the rose in full flower hovers outside of space, as an idea, a potential waiting to be born. This incarnation into space and time depends on the necessary conditions of spring rains and summer sun, the marriage of water and fire. If the rose should bloom, the sun and the rain did not cause the rose to bloom. They were, however, necessary conditions for its appearance. The true and final cause was the spiritual germ, the Lógos, the Invisible Idea, only waiting for the proper season to be made manifest.
So likewise, But Now Face to Face affirms Love as the sublime potential waiting to incarnate in the heart of humankind. It is like the Invisible rose in winter: imminent, eminent, immanent,…It is there, but unmanifest, invisible, hiding behind space in a firmament of simultaneous time. Indeed Love awaits only that we, as human beings, fulfill the conditions for its birth. This is an alchemical wedding, a marriage of fire and water,
pater eius est Sol, mater eius est Luna—
the wedding of Will and Wisdom,
The Outer and the Inner,
Osiris and Isis,
the sunlight of Freedom with the rain of understanding.
My inspiration behind these books and behind this talk today is to offer my small contribution towards this Great Work of humankind on the Earth.
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Another Obama Parting Gift
So Chelsea Manning gets out of prison today 28 years before 'her' sentence was to end. Serving only 7+ years of a 35 year sentence for 'her' traitorous actions that put our national security at risk, this is all due to our former muslim-in-chief commuting 'her' sentence to time served, and doing so right before he left office. Yet another parting gift left to say 'screw you America, anyone who helps the brethren comes first.'
Gowdy Suggests There Were More Entanglements Between DOJ and Clintons Than People Realize
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet
Rep. Trey Gowdy suggested Tuesday that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and the Department of Justice than the average person realizes.
“I think history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were,” Gowdy told Fox News host Martha MacCallum.
“I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information—although God knows everybody else is … so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac,” he explained.
“Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice than to make the decision he made in July,” he added.
Trying to understand what Gowdy was cryptically suggesting, MacCallum asked if he was saying there was pressure on Comey to avoid prosecuting Clinton.
“No, no, no. I think he had access to information and he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, and the integrity of the process, and I probably ought to just leave it right there,” Gowdy replied.
US form used to screen immigrants doesn’t ask about ties to groups such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic State
“Form N-400 asks various questions, including whether the applicant supports the Constitution or if they’ve ever been members of the Communist or World War II-era German Nazi parties, which are included by law. It also asks if the immigrant is in any way associated with any terrorist organizations but doesn’t list specific groups’ names, such […]
Europol: Global Cyber Attack “Beyond Anything” Ever Seen
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In comments to Sky News in the UK, Steven Wilson of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre said the “ransomware” attack that was still infecting thousands of new computers by Monday was “beyond anything we have seen before.” While insisting that the attack was not “massively sophisticated,” Wilson said it was nonetheless unprecedented in both its scope and its effectiveness.
“What is new,” he said, “is the use of a worm to propagate through systems.”
The attack, which started Friday, is being called the most expansive online extortion threat of all time. As of Monday, the virus was believed to have spread to more than 100,000 organizations around the world. That number was expected to grow exponentially as people returned to work this week and logged onto their computers for the first time since the attack began. Hospitals, transportation systems, government agencies, and personal computers in more than 150 countries have been infected thus far. According to the BBC, some $38,000 has already been paid to the extortionists, who will not unlock the victim’s computer until they have received their $300 Bitcoin ransom.
Icelandic Leftist POISONS Robert Spencer
The left is evil. Evil. And they will stop at nothing. First it was character assassination. Now it is outright attempted assassination.
A report from my colleague Robert Spencer:
“Icelandic Leftist poisons Robert Spencer,” by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, May 16, 2017:
Last Thursday, I gave a lecture on the jihad threat at the Grand Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland. Shortly thereafter, a young Icelandic Leftist registered his disapproval of what I said by poisoning me.
It happened after the event, when my security chief, the organizers of the event, and Jihad Watch writer Christine Williams, who had also been invited to speak, went with me to a local restaurant to celebrate the success of the evening.
At this crowded Reykjavik establishment, I was quickly recognized. A young Icelander called me by name, shook my hand, and said he was a big fan. Shortly after that, another citizen of that famously genteel and courteous land also called me by name, shook my hand, and said “F**k you.”
We took that marvelous Icelandic greeting as a cue to leave. But the damage had already been done. About fifteen minutes later, when I got back in my hotel room, I began to feel numbness in my face, hands, and feet. I began trembling and vomiting. My heart was racing dangerously. I spent the night in a Reykjavik hospital.
Read the entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/05/iceland-poisons-spencer.html/
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Patrick McNeese
Patrick is a Kentucky-based visual artist, singer-songwriter and documentary filmmaker. Perhaps best known for his highly expressionist artwork, Patricks also writes and performs his original songs on piano and guitar. Prior to the "Hallelu" CD with the Patrick McNeese Band, Patrick has produced three original, independent albums: “The Singing Bridge” 1989; “Me, My Wolf and I” 1993; and “Any Day Now” 2005. He has also composed original music for several film and video projects.
Jesse Peña
Born in the Panama Canal Zone to a military family, Bassist Jesse is a musician/teacher/composer living in Lexington, KY. Growing up, Jesse played different styles including Blues, R & B, Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, Classical and Latin. He traveled extensively before moving to Tennessee to play guitar and mandolin for various country, rock, blues, and gospel artists. Based in Nashville from 1988 – 2001 he has performed on the Grand Ole Opry. Jesse also worked as a studio musician/music arranger on demo and custom recordings. A passionate teacher, Jesse has taught guitar, bass, mandolin and for the last 29 years.
Tripp Bratton
Percussionist Tripp Bratton is a Lexington based performer, composer, producer, and educator who in addition to his current position as lecturer of percussion and director of the AfricanLatin Percussion and Contemporary Percussion (Fusion) ensembles at Berea College, serves as director, composer, and arranger for the award winning March Madness Marching Band, music director for the Rakadu Gypsy Dance and Sabi Diri sib multicultural dance troupes, and is founder and director of One Circle Productions, a company that includes recording studio and live-event productions, along with services to facilitate artistic collaboration between musicians, dancers, theatrical producers, and videographers.
Notable highlights of Tripp’s performing, producing and recording career spans a vast discography of over 50 CDs/Albums, numerous TV, radio and concert appearances, and includes percussion work for legendary rock producer Chris Kimsey (Rolling Stones, Jimmy Cliff etc.); co-producing, recording and performing with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Bernie Worrell (P Funk, Funkadelic, Talking Heads etc.); recording with Grammy Award winner Bela Fleck; numerous performances with Ghanaian master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie and his Afrikania Cultural Troupe including a special 1993 Chicago performance for Nelson Mandela; national touring, festival appearances, and recordings with Catawampus Universe, a group that featured several of Tripp’s original compositions; performances with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra; performances and studies abroad in Ghana and Suriname.
Other notable musical studies include private studies with master marimbist and vibraphonist Dave Samuels (Spyro Gyra) and jazz drumming greats Grady Tate and Bob Rummage (Mose Allison, Glen Miller Big Band).
Fred Hanchett
Fred Hanchett dwells in the low-end of the sound spectrum. An accomplished bassist, Fred played clarinet through public school and then in the 74th Army Band, where he started playing bass guitar in their jazz band. He went on to major in double bass at UK, playing in Vince DiMartino's jazz ensemble, playing with various guest artists, most notably Mel Torme. Played electric bass in numerous local Lexington bands. Studied music composition privately with Dr. Joe Baber at UK from 2001-2003.
Keyboardist Tom Martin has played in bands since 1963. They include the Students of Soul and SuperBand in the Lexington of the late sixties, the New York blues band Juke Joint Johnny in the 1980s, and since returning to Kentucky, The Knott Brothers, The City, The Patrick McNeese Band and The Printers.
Maggie Lander
Maggie is a busy Lexington singer, fiddler, songwriter and studio musician working in and around town on various projects. She lends fiddle and vocals to the Patrick McNeese Band, as well as leading her own band, The Landers.
L-R: Tripp Bratton, Maggie Lander, Tom Martin, Patrick McNeese and Jesse Peña
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Steve Clarke Named As Liverpool’s First-team Coach – Liverpool have chosen Steve Clarke as their first-team coach. Since new manager Kenny Dalglish took over from former boss Roy Hodgson on Saturday, Clarke represents Liverpool’s first major change.
After retiring as a player he moved into coaching and has worked as an assistant manager for Newcastle United. Then, after a stint in charge of the youth teams at Chelsea, Clarke was promoted to the position of assistant manager when Jose Mourinho was appointed manager in summer of 2004.
He then move to West Ham after a deal was agreed between the clubs, Clarke became West Ham’s first-team coach on 15 September.
Clarke has played over 500 senior games for St Mirren and Chelsea. He left West Ham by mutual consent in June 2010 after Gianfranco Zola was sacked as manager the previous month.
Dalglish said: “Steve is a great addition to our team and I’m delighted we’ve been able to bring him in. I am looking forward to working with Steve alongside Sammy Lee, assistant manager, and our other staff.”
It was during the Clarke’s time at Chelsea where he achieved most of his success. Alongside with former boss Jose Mourinho, the Scot was part of a coaching team which helped the Blues win two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two Carling Cups over three seasons.
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"Gaslight" Is Released
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play Angel Street.
It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in Great Britain, had been made a mere four years earlier. This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and nineteen-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. This remake had a larger scale and budget and lends a different feel to the material.
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a late 19th century English singer studying music in Italy. However, Paula abandons her studies because she's fallen in love with dapper, handsome Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The couple marries and returns to the U.K. and a home inherited by Paula from her aunt, herself a famous singer, who was mysteriously murdered in the house ten years before. Once they have moved in, Gregory, who is in reality a jewel thief and the murderer of Paula's aunt, launches a campaign of terror designed to drive his new bride insane. Though Paula is certain that she sees the house's gaslights dim every evening and that there are strange noises coming from the attic, Gregory convinces Paula that she's imagining things. Gregory's efforts to make Paula unstable are aided by an impertinent maid, Nancy (teenager Angela Lansbury in her feature film debut). Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard inspector, Brian Cameron (Joseph Cotten), becomes suspicious of Gregory and sympathetic to Paula's plight. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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17 August 2012 4:47 PM
For 50 years, Keith Bennett's mother has planned his funeral. It's time for one final effort to find his body
Some murders are so shocking, so seismic in their impact on society – not to mention on the victim's grieving family and friends – that police should set aside normal budget considerations in their quest to unravel the truth.
Scotland Yard spent tens of millions of pounds pursuing the race-hate killers of Stephen Lawrence, succeeding earlier this year in nailing two of the five men who lynched the A Level student in Eltham, South East London in 1993.
The Moors murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley fall into the same bracket of truly disgusting crimes which police must not close the book on until they have achieved complete justice for all the victims.
In the case of missing schoolboy Keith Bennett - abducted, tortured and murdered by Brady and Hindley back in 1964 but whose body has never been discovered on Saddleworth Moor - this means allowing him to have a dignified funeral in Manchester.
For nearly five decades, that has been the dream of Keith's extraordinarily brave, cancer-striken mother Winnie Johnson – one of the most remarkable people I have ever met.
I first met Mrs Johnson, now 78, at her modest home in a Manchester suburb six years ago and I am certain that the news that Brady may have told a visitor at Ashworth special hospital on Merseyside where her son's body is buried will not be a cause for celebration for her.
Her marathon quest for justice has been an emotional roller coaster requiring unprecedented courage and determination. She knows more than anyone else the mind games played by psychopath Brady, his sadistic pleasure in keeping the location of Keith's remains a secret.
Mrs Johnson is gravely ill, but if her health permits her, the only time she will rejoice is if the police finally find his grave.
This is why I hope that whatever the outcome of the latest developments involving Brady, and his alleged revelations about where Keith's body is located, Greater Manchester Police will make one last effort to find his remains.
The detectives in Manchester are among the finest in the country, and I know full well how hard they have worked to grant Mrs Johnson her dying wish.
Four years ago, I revealed in the Mail how a U.S. spy satellite had been used as part of a top secret police operation to find Keith, the last missing victim of the Moors Murderers.
And how, in the same operation, a specialist Army team - normally involved in finding the graves of terror victims in Northern Ireland - scoured an area of Saddleworth Moor where detectives believe he was buried.
It is thought Brady buried Keith in a shallow grave on the Moors and carbon vapours, believed by scientists to have been emitted from a corpse, were found at a location of 'great interest' to the police on the hills high above Oldham.
Preparations for the search, codenamed Operation Maida, began seven years ago after officers analysed pictures of Brady and Hindley on the hills during their reign of terror in the 1960s.
Using satellite photographs, computer imagery and state-of-the-art geological tests they believed then they had identified the area of the grave.
It was launched after detectives re-examined old statements from Hindley and Brady.
Critically, they re-examined several pictures taken by Brady of Hindley on the Moors.
These, they believe, were effectively a 'route map' marking the way to Keith's grave.
It has long been the opinion of police that the evil pair took pictures of the murder scenes as 'souvenirs'.
Police used computer imagery to compare the current landscape to the scenery in the pictures from 1964.
They also got geologists to look at the movement of soil and peat over the past 40 years to work out where a body would be had it been dumped at a particular site.
Astonishingly, they had the free assistance of a U.S. spy satellite.
With the permission of the Pentagon, the satellite looked for evidence of soil disturbance and images of the area were passed on to investigators.
Then officers identified a 20 yard peat ridge near Shiny Brook - a particularly remote area - as the most likely location of Keith's remains.
Specialist sniffer dogs went 'wild with excitement' after apparently detecting body vapours there.
Geo-chemists found abnormally high traces of carbon 13 in soil and water in the area - another indication that a body was likely to be nearby.
But because the area was so remote, police were unable to get a mechanical digger there.
More than 10 people, including detectives, Army experts, geologists and specialist search officers, were involved in one prolonged search in April 2007.
Army experts were flown in from Ulster to take part in the operation, which was witnessed by the late, inspirational chief constable of Greater Manchester, Michael Todd, who according to senior colleagues was determined to give Mrs Johnson the opportunity to give Keith a 'proper Manchester funeral'.
But sadly, the most concerted effort in more than two decades to find Keith's body ultimately failed and the searched was abandoned, largely for cost reasons after Mr Todd's tragic death in 2008. Police could not justify further expense.
The decision to end the search was yet another bitter disappointment for Mrs Johnson. But I was not surprised when she vowed not to give up her campaign.
In an interview with the Mail in 2007, she told me she had made several thousand trips to the Moors in search of her son, since he vanished off the streets aged 12 in June 1964. She also revealed how she had written to every Prime Minister since her son disappeared, begging for help.
When we spoke, she had, in her mind, already made meticulous plans for Keith's funeral. 'I want a coach and four horses, a chance for Manchester to say goodbye to one of their own,' she said.
Outside the church where his funeral will be held she wants there to be loudspeakers, via which she can thank the hundreds of people who have supported her all these years.
'I want to thank everybody for looking after me and helping me rescue Keith,' she said.
'He is my son but he's a stepson of Manchester as well. Everybody thinks of him and everybody wants him to be found. And not just here, all over the world.
'When he's found, I'll know I've done my duty as a mother. I'll be at ease then.'
Because of her ailing health, police must act quickly to make one final effort to find Keith's remains – even if it involves spending vast sums. I am certain the police could count on the support of hundreds of volunteers if there was to be one last mass search of the Moors.
It's a race against time, and one can only hope that Mrs Johnson's prayers are finally about to be answered.
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A copper's copper who's the antithesis of Scotland Yard's 'discrimination' militants
At the Association of Chief Police Officers’ annual conference in Liverpool in the summer of 2008, I attended a fringe meeting on security for the 2012 London Olympics.
The key speaker was Met Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, then in charge of Scotland Yard’s Olympics security command, who told dozens of chief officers packed in a side room of the extensive work already being done to ensure the Games passed off peacefully.
To the best of my recollection, I was the only journalist present as Mr Ghaffur began to spell out his vision for Olympics security.
But just as he was drawing proceedings to a close, several rival reporters arrived and sneaked into the back row to hear his final remarks.
Why the sudden interest?
Unbeknown to me, the BBC had just reported the sensational news that Ugandan-born Mr Ghaffur – the most senior Asian officer in the country - was preparing to sue the Metropolitan Police and its beleaguered head Sir Ian Blair for racial discrimination.
After emerging from the meeting, Mr Ghaffur struggled to keep the grin off his face as he batted off questions from journalists seeking confirmation that he was considering suing his employers. He clearly enjoyed the attention.
That night his close friend Commander Ali Dizaei, president of the National Black Police Association, went on BBC2’s Newsnight to explain why the £180,000-a-year officer was on the brink of suing the Met. In the following weeks, Mr Ghaffur’s rent-a-quote lawyer Shahrokh Mireskandari went on Radio 4’s Today programme to claim racism was rife in the police service.
But within months, the legal proceedings had backfired spectacularly, with Mr Ghaffur settling his claim for a relatively small pay-off. Critics accused him of betraying the very people who had helped him achieve so much in his career.
By then Dizaei had been suspended over corruption allegations (he was later convicted and jailed for three years), while fellow race militant Mireskandari had been exposed as a convicted conman with bogus legal qualifications. His firm was closed down and he was recently declared bankrupt.
I recalled Mr Ghaffur’s disruptive race claim against the Met as London 2012 finished on Sunday night.
Within minutes of the closing ceremony ending, Mr Ghaffur’s successor, Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison – the National Olympic Security Coordinator - put out a statement praising his officers’ work.
‘This has been an absolutely fantastic Olympic Games, with the focus entirely on the sport which is exactly how we wanted it,’ he said.
‘I am exceptionally proud of the way that the police service has stepped up to the mark and been a part of delivering an Olympic Games that has caught the imagination of the public.’
Mr Allison is the antithesis of Mr Ghaffur: a ‘coppers’ copper’ who puts his force, not his ego, first. No newspaper column for him.
Known at the Yard by his nickname ‘Fluff’, Mr Allison never sought headlines as he prepared for the biggest peacetime security operation since World War 2.
Even the G4S security guards fiasco on the eve of the Games could not deter him from his mission.
More than 400 people were arrested during London 2012 for offences ranging from assault to impersonating police, theft and a bomb hoax.
But apart from a silly decision by officers in Surrey constabulary to detain a man suffering from Parkinson’s Disease for not smiling while watching the men’s cycling road race (they thought this was suspicious), none attracted any controversy.
A lot of people in the upper echelons of the police believe Mr Allison should receive a knighthood for his achievements in helping to deliver a safe Games.
I for one would not begrudge him if it happened. Assuming there are no security foul-ups during the Paralympics, he would be a worthy recipient.
Too many honours in the police service are handed out to sycophants and strategists whose jobs don’t involve real operational risk.
How refreshing it would be if a senior officer is rewarded for good work – and good behaviour.
Had he not lost the plot back in the summer of 2008, it could, quite possibly, have been Sir Tarique.
Arise Sir Fluff.
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Could this man be the first Asian Director of Public Prosecutions?
As was demonstrated last month, when he said detectives were preparing to arrest some ‘very high profile’ figures over alleged child sex abuse, he is not averse to making headlines.
Nazir Afzal, currently Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North-West of England, said that in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal, investigations into celebrity paedophiles are a ‘growing industry’ and more arrests were planned for the coming weeks.
‘They are people whose names have come forward because of the high profile of child abuse in recent months. There are people you will be interested in,’ he added during a seminar on child abuse inquiries.
Mr Afzal’s statement certainly raised his profile, securing him front page headlines in the London Evening Standard.
But could he now be about to make history by becoming the first Asian Director of Public Prosecutions?
The race to become head of the Crown Prosecution Service started last week when the current DPP, Keir Starmer QC, announced he was stepping down after five years in the post.
According to well-placed sources, Mr Afzal is giving serious consideration to the idea of applying for the £200,000 a year job.
Should he land the post, it would cap a remarkable rise to the top for a man who has already broken through a series of barriers to land one of the most coveted jobs in the CPS.
He qualified as a solicitor after studying law in Birmingham and worked in private practice until he joined the CPS in 1991.
Initially the 50-year-old worked in central London and, according to the CPS website, prosecuted and advised on many high-profile cases.
Before moving to the North West two years ago, he had a national role as CPS ‘Director for Communities’.
He has pioneered work to tackle honour-based violence and forced marriage, initially bringing this issue to the top of the public agenda through a CPS conference.
The three times married, father of four, was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year’s Honours List in 2005.
Last year, he acknowledged his cultural heritage played a part in getting nine men convicted of running a child exploitation ring in Rochdale.
He reopened the case against the gang of Asian men that groomed young girls for sex, shortly after his appointment in the North-West.
‘My Pakistani heritage helped cut through barriers within the black and minority ethnic communities,’ he said. ‘And white professionals' oversensitivity to political correctness and fear of appearing racist may well have contributed to justice being stalled.’
Privately, a number of senior police and legal figures were stunned that Mr Afzal had chosen to publicise the planned arrests of yet more celebrities for alleged child sex abuse.
But child protection campaigners said his intervention was brave – and reflected widespread concern about how police failed to protect young girls from Savile and other predatory celebrities suspected of decades of offending.
In the post-Leveson era, too many senior police officers and prosecution lawyers are scared of their own shadow.
I have never met or talked to Mr Azfal, but he sounds like a breath of fresh air compared to some of the risk adverse, anti-media types who currently hold high office in the police and other law enforcement bodies.
Whoever gets the DPP’s job will have big shoes to fill after Mr Starmer, who inherited a well-run organisation from Sir Ken (now Lord) Macdonald - but who has had to implement major budget cuts.
A couple of weeks ago, Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told me during an interview that he believes Scotland Yard will have its first black or Asian commissioner in the next ten years.
How long before someone from the ethnic minorities reaches the very top of the CPS?
This time around may be too early for Mr Afzal, with some other strong internal candidates expected to apply for the job.
But do not discount him in the long term.
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There are racial gang rapes going on up and down Britain today, 2013, and the CPS know this. But they've never had an appetite for prosecuting them and refused to do so for many years. But folks that we've heard of? Different thing entirely. Folks that don't spread the socialist message deserve everything coming to them. Don't they? Equality? Don't make me laugh.
Posted by: Trudi | 04/30/2013 at 02:16 AM
'Mr' Starmer is a human rights lawyer who has (allegedly) continually put the interests of the criminal above those of the victim; his shoes will not be hard to fill.
Posted by: Steve | 04/30/2013 at 08:43 PM
Deflecting from the disgracefully ignored wave of Muslim paedophile activity?
The police blanked that for ten years yet seem almost overjoyed when prosecuting celebrities for activity alleged to have occurred in some cases 45 years ago.
Priorities or business as usual?
Posted by: logdon | 05/01/2013 at 12:46 PM
sorry what are 'the barriers ' in ' the series of barriers ' ?
The fact he studied law ? or that he studied law in Birmingham? The fact is a solictor ? or the fact that he worked in private practice ? The fact that he moved to the North West ? or the fact that he has been married three times ? The fact that he has 4 children ? or the fact he was awarded a gong by the queen ?
Posted by: Rotait | 05/02/2013 at 11:07 AM
And what does he have to say about the paedophiles exposed by this very newspaper who happen to share his religion?
A quick google search will reveal that this is vastly more widespread than a bunch of dirty old celebs perversions from decades ago.
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Category: Train Accidents
Can Caffeine Replace Sleep for Drivers?
On June 10, 2017 September 12, 2017 By Jeffery RobinetteIn Car Accidents, Train Accidents, Truck Accidents, Wrongful DeathLeave a comment
Coffee Cannot Replace the Rest Required for Safe Driving
By Elisabeth Campbell
It’s Monday morning at 6:15 a.m. The alarm is going off for the fourth time this morning after you’ve hit the snooze three times already. You know it’s time to get up and face the world, whether you are ready or not. You stumble through the morning routine of getting ready for work, pour the coffee from your pre-programmed coffee pot into your thermos, and you are out the door. The drive to work is hazardous, as is any trip down the road, but here in just a few minutes, the caffeine from that first sip of coffee will begin to take effect, and you will be wide awake and alert as you drive. Maybe you will feel alert, but can caffeine really replace a good night’s sleep for drivers?
The Science and Effect of Caffeine
Caffeine, commonly found in coffee and tea, is the world’s most popular stimulant. When consumed, caffeine blocks the body’s A1 receptors, which makes the person feel more awake and alert, and caffeine blocks the body’s A2A receptors, increasing dopamine, and causing a stimulating effect. Simply, caffeine makes the consumer feel more awake and alert, and helps them accomplish tasks more quickly and efficiently.
However, the effects change when caffeine is consumed regularly. If caffeine is consumed more than about twice per week, the consumer can become addicted and the effects will be lessened. The effect of feeling more awake and alert does not seem to change over time. If someone drinks coffee every morning, it will help him feel more alert every morning. However, the stimulant property of caffeine lessens with tolerance. The consumer may feel able to accomplish tasks more efficiently, but in reality, he is prone to make more mistakes and possibly cause a collision.
How Caffeine Affects Rested Drivers
An interesting study was done by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, which tested the effects of caffeine on well-rested drivers. In the study, 24 well-rested people drove on a monotonous highway for two hours, then had a 15-minute break in which they drank coffee. One group had regular caffeinated coffee, and the other group had decaffeinated coffee. Then, they drove for another two hours down the monotonous highway.
The results were clear that the group that had the caffeinated coffee objectively drove more steadily than the group with decaffeinated coffee, and the caffeinated group subjectively reported feeling more alert and in control of the vehicle than the group with decaffeinated coffee. Certainly, the caffeine had a positive stimulating effect. However, as is seen in the next section, the findings are different for people who are sleep deprived.
How Caffeine Affects Sleep-Deprived People
Another study was done to see how people’s performance compared with caffeine, with a nap, or with neither. All three groups were trained in an exercise to perform a task during the morning. In the early afternoon, one group took a 90-minute nap, while the others were doing a relaxing activity (but not allowed to sleep). After 90 minutes, the nap group was awakened, and the other two groups were given a pill. One group was given a caffeine pill, and the other group was given a placebo. Then, the groups were tested on the tasks they had learned in the morning.
As you may have expected, those who took naps did much better than those who used caffeine. This could be attributed to the finding that sleep increases memory and motor skill function. However, the very interesting finding in this study was that those who had the placebo outperformed their caffeinated counterparts in the given tasks. Clearly, the stimulant effect of caffeine was not beneficial to the consumers when they began to feel fatigued in the afternoon.
How Caffeine Affects Sleep-deprived Drivers
It can be deduced from the above study that caffeine is not likely to be helpful for sleep-deprived drivers. In fact, driving without caffeine at all is probably safer, even if the driver feels sleepier. The study that follows brings some alarming findings regarding caffeine consumption before driving.
The Institute of Advanced Motorists has said that a study showed that caffeine consumption is dangerous for sleep-deprived drivers. The positive effects of caffeine on their alertness while driving is very temporary, and when the caffeine begins to wear off, the safety of the motorists’ driving plummets. Actually, it was said to affect their driving in a way similar to alcohol.
Typically, when consumers begin to feel the effect of caffeine waning, their response is to consume more caffeine. However, this is not effective. As was discussed earlier, when caffeine is overconsumed, the consumer feels more alert, but the stimulant property cannot be repeated indefinitely. In fact, this study showed that using caffeine for only the second time within a few hours did not provide a stimulant effect.
In short, that thermos of coffee in the car on Monday morning is not a good substitute for simply going to bed earlier on Sunday night. While caffeine has a positive effect on safe driving for rested motorists, it has a significantly negative effect on sleep-deprived drivers. The true danger in caffeine consumption in conjunction with driving is that drivers think they are more alert and able to drive more safely when they are less equipped to drive safely.
The best remedy for this safety concern is to simply get more sleep. However, that can be difficult with the busy schedules that so many people have, so it becomes more critical to get the best sleep possible during the few hours that can be devoted to sleep. A few tips that WebMD gives for making the most of your sleep are:
Putting away electronic devices and turning off screens an hour before bed
Making the bed as comfortable as possible
Keeping the room temperature between 68 and 72 degrees
Get regular exercise at least three hours before bed
Following tips like these will make you feel better the next morning, and make your drive to work safer with or without caffeine.
Drowsy Driving Guide: Risks and Preventions
NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22315048
Autocar https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/coffee-can-badly-affect-driving
Bulletproof Musician http://www.bulletproofmusician.com/naps-vs-coffee-which-is-a-better-choice-for-the-sleep-deprived-musician/
Examine.com https://examine.com/nutrition/science-behind-caffeine/
WebMD http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/discomfort-15/better-sleep/slideshow-sleep-tips
Logging Truck Crash Derails Fall Foliage Passenger Train in WV
On October 14, 2013 December 30, 2013 By Jeffery RobinetteIn Train Accidents, Truck AccidentsLeave a comment
Cheat Mountain WV — What could be safer than a pleasant day out with children and grandparents traveling on a scenic passenger railroad train through the mountains at ten miles an hour to admire the fall colors? You just never know what a day can bring. On this day in October, a logging truck failed to stop at a railroad crossing at the U.S. Route 250 crossing at Cheat Bridge on Cheat Mountain near the Randolph and Pocahontas County line. The truck collided with a fall foliage sight-seeing passenger train, the Cheat Mountain Salamander, and caused two of the passenger cars to derail and overturn on their sides.
As bad as this collision was, it could have been far, far worse. According to WVMetroNews, there were four cars on the train, and the truck hit the third car that was being used as a dining car and the logs from the truck went into the second car which was being used as storage and did not contain passengers.
The cars were reinforced with crash posts which is why the cars didn’t crumple when they were hit by this tremendous force and why metal didn’t shear and glass didn’t shatter. Instead, they just got knocked off their track. A second’s difference could have made all the difference for the passengers of this train.
The conditions for viewing the outstanding Cheat Mountain Sugar Maple display were not optimum on Friday, October 11th, 2013, which was a day plagued with drizzle, rain, and persistent fog. The train carrying 63 sightseers and four crew members was traveling about ten miles per hour.
There was no immediate evidence that the truck driver had attempted to brake before his truck carrying logs ran through flashing railroad caution signals and crashed into two passenger cars of the Cheat Mountain Salamander, said a Randolph County Sheriff. A complete brake failure, combination of thick fog and rain, or medical condition could have precipitated the accident.
The train’s engineer had to run a third of a mile to get assistance after the crash. The site of the logging truck-train collision is in the no radio, no cell phone area near the Greenbriar Radio Telescope. Injuries ranged from minor to serious — all 67 people on the train were transported for medical evaluation — some by school bus and some by ambulance. HealthNet helicopters were not available because of the weather. Over twenty people were treated for injuries.
The driver of the truck was declared dead at the scene and the truck was a total loss. The Sheriff identified the log truck as belonging to H & H Fisher LLC of Pocahontas County. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of the truck driver.
Investigators are working with the Public Service Commission rather than the National Safety Board which is not operating due to the partial government shutdown.
Unique Aspects of Logging Truck Accidents
Accidents involving commercial trucks are different than any other kind of motor vehicle accidents. In the first place, logging trucks and mining trucks on West Virginia roads are often fully loaded. Their sheer size and mass puts everything else on the road in danger. In addition, the companies that own and operate freight and cargo trucks are subject to federal safety standards. They know the level of liability they are under and will do everything possible to deny responsibility when one of their drivers is at fault.
Truck companies are under regulations by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act (FMCSA) to keep detailed records of maintenance and driver activities. After a serious collision, these records could be altered or even disappear. But as experienced trial lawyers with defense experience, we know how to guard against such actions. We hold the opposition to the highest standards of the regulations.
West Virginia Trucking Accident Lawyers
If you or a member of your family has been involved in an accident with a commercial truck of any size or weight class, talk to us. We provide a free consultation to discuss your case. If we are a good fit with each other, and you decide to retain our services, we will represent you on a contingency basis. You will not pay attorneys’ fees unless we help you recover money.
Time is an important factor in truck accident claims. Contact the Robinette Legal Group, PLLC today at 304-594-1800 or after hours 304-216-6695.
For more information: WV MetroNews, “Several still recovering from train accident; investigation continues” by Shauna Johnson, October 14, 2013: http://wvmetronews.com/2013/10/14/several-still-recovering-from-train-accident-investigation-continues/
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Health Worker Spotlight: Nana Kofi Akorlegah, HealthKeepers Network
Nana Akorlegah educating his male colleagues in his community on the use of condoms
Despite the largely invisible role played by men in terms of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Nana Kofi Akorlegah, a Health Keeper based in Ohiamadwen, a suburb of the Shama district in the Western Region, says he was determined to succeed and has no regrets joining the program.
Nana Akorlegah has worked as a Health Worker for about two years and is proud to be recognized as a Health Representative in his community. “When people need health advice and health products, it is me they look for,” said Akorlegah. “I am working hard to make positive impacts in my community”.
Akorlegah was informed by a friend about the HealthKeepers Network program. He was interested and got recruited and trained a few weeks later with others from various communities in Shama. He initially thought it was a monthly paid job, until he realized it was up to him to determine how much he would make by selling the products.
”After the three day training, we were given some baskets containing health products,” said Akorlegah. “Some of the products included Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS), Aqua Tabs, and both the male and the female condoms, amongst other health products. The motive was not just to sell and make profits, but to help educate the community folks on the proper use of the products. I saw it as an opportunity to educate the youth on how to prevent teenage and unwanted pregnancies, as it is a problem in my area.”
The training went well and is greatly benefiting Akorlegah’s community.
“When most of the people in my community have diarrhea or they need condoms or any form of health advise, it is me they rush to,” said Akorlegah. “I have been educating people on how to use condoms, oral contraceptive pills, and Aqua Tabs. I am doing well too in terms of sales.”
"When people need health advice and health products, it is me they look for," said Akorlegah. "I am working hard to make positive impacts in my community".
Speaking on difficulties confronting him in his line of work, Nana said he has to walk long distances to reach his clients. “You can walk all the way from Ohiamadwen to Anto,” said Akorlegah, “and when you get there people are not receptive and don’t want to listen to you.”
He also highlighted that, despite the difficulties, his active involvement in the selling of family planning products has influenced his fellow men in the area to openly buy condoms from him. According to the ‘condom man’, as he is affectionately called, “because I am a young guy just like most of my colleagues here, they easily come to me to buy condoms without any shyness.”
“Most of my mates in the area who used to fancy unprotected sex have gradually come to understand the implications of the act,” Akorlegah said, “and through my constant education, most of them have become wiser. I am the main supplier of condoms in the area and I feel very proud about it.”
Akorlegah also affirmed that his work as a Health Keeper has taught him to be patient and determined. “This is the kind of job that, if you are not committed, you may not be able to pursue further, especially when you start,” said Akorlegah. “Normally the amount of money realized from the sales is nothing to write home about, but if you do it well, you will always smile in the end.”
Akorlegah believes he has not only positively impacted his customers, but that he has also benefited from some of his clients. One woman in particular always buys Aqua Tabs in bulk from him, which has boosted his profit margin.
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Moshe Y. Vardi - Biography#
Moshe Y. Vardi is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. He chaired the Computer Science Department at Rice University from January 1994 till June 2002. Prior to joining Rice in 1993, he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he managed the Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department.
His research interests include database systems, computational-complexity theory, multi-agent systems, and design specification and verification. Vardi received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1981. He is the author and co-author of about 400 articles, as well as two books, "Reasoning about Knowledge" and "Finite Model Theory and Its Applications", and the editor of several collections.
Vardi is the recipient of numerous awards, including three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, the 2000 Goedel Prize, the 2005 ACM Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice, the 2006 LICS Test-of-Time Award, the 2008 ACM PODS Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, the 2008 ACM SIGMOD Codd Innovations Award, the 2008 Blaise pascal Medal for Computer Science by the European Academy of Sciences, the 2008 ACM Presidential Award, the 2010 CRA Distinguished Service Award, and the 2010 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Saarland, Germany, and the University of Orleans, France.
Vardi is an editor of several international journals, and Editor-in-Chief of the Communication of ACM. He is Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He was designated Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information, and was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Academia Europaea.
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About Aedes
Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés, Paris
4 May - 13 June 2019
Friday, 3. May 2019, 6.30pm
Aedes Architekturforum
Christinenstr. 18-19
Tue-Fri 11am-6.30pm
Sun-Mon 1-5pm and
Sat, 4 May 2019, 1-5pm
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss Aedes, Berlin
Martha Thorne Executive Director The Pritzker Architecture Prize, Madrid
Jean Paul Viguier Architect, Paris
INTENCITY Dialogue
Date: Friday, 3 May 2019, 5.30-6.15pm
Venue: ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin
According to the 2018 Revision of the ‘World Urbanization Prospects’, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities in 2050. With his ‘IntenCity’ manifesto, architect and urban planner Jean Paul Viguier, stimulates the current debate about the working methods of urban design: How can an increasing population and the resulting density and intensity be conducted responsibly by city planners and architects? Jean Paul Viguier and Martha Thorne will discuss recent challenges and resourceful proposals to provoke a rethinking of today’s urban agglomeration development policies.
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss Aedes Berlin
Martha Thorne Executive Director, The Pritzker Architecture Prize, Madrid
Jean-Paul Viguier Architect, Paris
Admission is free. Please register for the symposium at reply@ancb.de
Aedes Cooperation Partners
Exhibition Opening | Martha Thorne Executive Director, The Pritzker Architecture Prize, Madrid
Exhibition Opening | Jean-Paul Viguier Architect, Paris
Exhibition Opening
Espace Claude Monet/Rouen © Takuji Shimmura
Jean-Paul Viguier & Associés is an internationally operating practice founded in 1992 and based in Paris. The practice designs and develops projects following a global approach that spans architecture, urban planning, landscaping and interior design. In this exhibition Jean-Paul Viguier presents his manifesto on ‘IntenCity’: How can a growing population and the resulting density and intensity be conducted responsibly by city planners and architects? The ‘IntenCity’ manifesto will be illustrated using four key frames of reference: ‘Historical-Urban Intensity’, ‘Architectural Intensity’, ‘Landscape Intensity’ and ‘Demographic Intensity’. It will be demonstrated and elucidated through four selected projects on display in the playful installation: the Espace Claude Monet in Rouen (2012), the Confluence Leisure and Shopping Center in Lyon (2012), the MUSE District in Metz (2018) and the NEO-Europea District in Brussels (2025).
Viguier's key challenge is how to deal with the increasing population as well as the resulting density and intensity responsibly, once the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University forecast for the year 2050 has become reality and 70% of the world’s population lives in cities. The exhibition installation begins with the manifesto written by Jean-Paul Viguier presenting the concept of “IntenCity” as well as the main principles governing the work of the practice.
'IntenCity' by Jean Paul Viguier
Etymologically, depending on the context in which it is used, the term “intensity” refers to notions of measurement and quantity as well as strength and power. The notion of “intensity” becomes the scale that is applied to architecture and refers to its context with specific historical, geographical, urban or program-related features. Viguier states: ‘The IntenCity concept can be applied on different scales, from a multi-functional building to an urban district with the full array of central functions of a town, or to a “fragment” of a town. It comprises the regenerative capacity of an entire area of a city on the basis of the same principles: economy of land space, project multifunctionality and resulting agglomerated urban form in a landscape project, with simultaneous construction of all elements of the project’.
MUSE/Metz © left: Fabrice Fouillet right: Takuji Shimmura
Viguier selected the following four projects of his office to elucidate the manifesto:
Espace Claude Monet in Rouen (Completion 2012)
This mixed-use development is a modern piece of architecture in close proximity to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Rouen Cathedral. The new building includes urban apartments, shops, a gallery, offices and a belvedere that is open to the public. The project has been widely acclaimed for its contextual architectural approach using local stone for the main architectural volume. The thickness of walls is crowned by a two-level space in black zinc that allows the public a view of the Cathedral and the city.
Confluence Leisure and Shopping Center in Lyon (Completion 2012)
The site was a former industrial site in the district of Confluence, where the Saône flows into the Rhône. The newly created gigantic roof spans the mixed-use project, which comprises a car park, shops, a cinema, restaurants and a hotel. The main railway line passes through the building as a way to integrate urban constraints into urban design and thus to include train movement in the scenery of the city. The resulting hub demonstrates its capacity to act as an urban generator as well as an iconic piece of architecture, giving this area an identity related to Lyon.
MUSE–Amphitheatre District in Metz (Completion 2018)
MUSE is the beating heart of the new district around the Centre Pompidou Metz: a project that presents a mix of functions where housing meets businesses, shops, leisure and art. The design comprises of a group of urban blocks with various functions; on the street commercial facades are alternate with entrances to apartment blocks. Above the shops is a carefully landscaped garden, which is visible from the ground and used by apartment tenants as a terrace. The proximity of the Centre Pompidou Metz encourages the presence of art within MUSE, for example with Julio Le Parc’s monumental piece hanging above the entrance rotunda.
NEO-Europea District in Brussels (Completion 2025)
NEO-Europea is an urban re-invention: a landscaped district as well as a residential space and tourist destination comprising housing, leisure shopping, education, art and sports around the iconic Brussels Atomium. The building height is moderated, altough an 80-metre tall residential tower on the edge of the site allows a view over buildings and sports fields. All materials have been harmonized, so that they remain gently shaded. The landscape design has been developed by the landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson (Gustafson Porter+Bowman’s, London) and consists of large public spaces as well as a series of water features, offering rest areas, promenades and playgrounds for children.
Neo-Europea/Brussels ©Jean-Paul Viguier et Associes/Golem Images
Jean-Paul Viguier & Associés is an internationally acclaimed architecture and urban planning company, founded in 1992 and based in Paris. Fostering inter-generational relations, the practice employs 160 people from 17 countries led by Jean-Paul Viguier and 12 partners.
His iconic works have gained international recognition, including for: the French pavilion at the Seville World Fair (1992), the France Télévisions headquarters (1998) and the Parc André-Citroën (2000) in Paris; the Coeur-Défense twin towers (2001); the Sofitel Magnificent Mile in Chicago (2002); the McNay Museum of Modern Art in San Antonio; TX (2008) – the first ever American modern art museum built by a French architect; the Maroc Telecom tower in Rabat (2012; the SFR campus in Saint-Denis (2013); the Majunga Tower in La Défense (2014); the Oncopole and the Institut Universitaire du Cancer in Toulouse (2014) and many more.
Recent and forthcoming works include: Jo&Joe (2019), the first wooden open house in France; Hypérion, one of the tallest residential towers constructed in wood (57 metres) in Bordeaux (2020); the Europea quarter in Brussels (2025) – the remodeled site of the 1958 World Fair around the Atomium; the Vinci headquarters in Nanterre (2021) and the Orange headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux (2020); the fiduciary hub of Banque de France in La Courneuve (2018); an office tower in Casablanca (2022), and the IoT Valley in Toulouse (2020).
Placing the architect in constant contextual movement, many of the works of Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés form part of a reflection on the connection between heritage and contemporary architecture, such as: the archeological museum of Pont du Gard (2000); the Natural History Museum in Toulouse (2008) and more recently in Paris the Canadian Embassy and Cultural Center (2018) as well as the architectural remodeling of Chanel (2019).
Jean-Paul Viguier was awarded the Cities Monitor grand prize for Parc André-Citroën, received a mention for the Prix de l’équerre d’Argent of Architecture for his industrial hotel activity building at Rue d’Aubervilliers in the 19th district of Paris, and won the Architectural Record-Business Week Award in New York for the Astra Pharmaceutical Headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison. The Sofitel Chicago Water Tower received “the decade´s best building award” in 2003 from the AIA Chicago; this building is listed " by the American Institute of Architects as one of the "150 favorite buildings of America” and received the MIPIM Award in 2005.
Pont du Gard holds the designation ‘Grand site de France’. Viguier was elected as a member of the Academy of Architecture in 1993, and held the office of president from 1999 to 2002. He is also a founding member of AFEX (French Architects for export). He was appointed ‘Honorary Fellow’ of the AIA (American Institute of Architects) in 2001 and Honorary Professor of Tongji University in Shanghai, China.
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FRESH POUR: Noah (2014) / Sabotage (2014)
April 1, 2014 April 15, 2017 Clint Worthington Leave a comment
Clint takes a look at one or two new releases that come out each week –just a short look at what’s being released in theaters, along with some drinking rules for your own perusal.
Dir. Darren Aronofsky
Biblical epics are often a mixed bag; for every Last Temptation of Christ, there’s a Greatest Story Ever Told. Even spottier are the track records of non-Jesus Biblical epics, particularly those of Old Testament stories; we’re usually a little more receptive to the nicer, forgiving God of the NT rather than his fire-and-brimstone OG OT version. To that end, Darren Aronofsky is taking quite a few chances with Noah; it’s a big-budget epic of the Old Testament story of Noah and the Great Flood, and the film gives it a uniquely fantastical approach more in tune with Lord of the Rings and Waterworld than The Bible…In the Beginning (the last time Noah was really featured prominently on screen). In fact, this film in particular has had quite a sordid history, with test screenings after test screenings, Christian/Jewish outrage at the changes Aronofsky made to the story of Noah and more. Now that all the controversy has passed and the film has opened, I can safely say that one should have faith in Darren Aronofsky (see what I did there?), since this is a phenomenal film.
The story of Noah is told as almost an apocalyptic sci-fi tale, including a world full of fallen angels (called Watchers) who linger on Earth in the form of rock monsters, magic minerals that glow and provide magical energy to create fire and explosives, and so on. Noah (Russell Crowe, playing the role not unlike his Kal-El) and his family (including wife Jennifer Connolly and children Logan Lerman, Emily Watson and others) lives on the outskirts of society, as civilization has basically become a combination of Mad Max and Waterworld – influences which are clear in the film’s costuming, especially. However, with the help of prophetic dreams and advice from his grandfather Methuselah (a charmingly dark cameo by Anthony Hopkins), Noah learns that “the Creator” has called upon him to build an Ark, in order to save the “innocent” animals from the Great Flood so they may start again. Plot-wise, the film moves straightforwardly from there, as the Watchers help him build the Ark and fend off the hordes of Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), a descendant of Cain who wants on the Ark for himself so he may survive.
In addition to the spectacle scenes of godly battle, horrifying massacres and Biblical miracles, the film revels in throwing in uncomfortable questions of the nature of martyrhood and prophecy. Noah’s chief conflict throughout the film is what to do about humanity – he is reasonably sure that, since God is starting over because of Man’s horrors, mankind itself is meant to go extinct, including he and his family. This creates a number of moral quandaries among his children, notably Ham (Lerman), who wants a wife but is forbidden by Noah, and the sudden pregnancy of the heretofore barren Ila (Watson), which promises a future for mankind. Over the course of the film, Noah must decide how far his martyrdom must go, and if it includes his family as well, which provides some meaty material to fill out the otherwise-boilerplate section of the film after the Ark has launched.
Perhaps the film’s biggest asset is its cinematography – the film is absolutely gorgeous, with tremendous nature photography capturing the beauty of mountains, rocks, trees, rivers and more. Biblical events like the story of creation and the growing of Noah’s forest with which to build the Ark are told through a combination of time-lapse photography and shadow puppetry that is completely breathtaking to behold. Even if the other elements of the film were to fail, this would still stand as an early contender for one of the prettiest films of the year. Clint Mansell’s score is also wonderfully stark and epic, as it tends to be when he scores Aronofsky’s works.
This is definitely Darren Aronofsky’s biggest film to date, and it seems as though he wanted to use this sense of scale to tell what is, at its heart, a tale of family. Noah is the main character, but his family also gets their own unique conflicts (especially Lerman’s torn loyalty between his strict father Noah and the gratification of Winstone’s Tubal-Cain), turning the story of the Flood into a trial by fire for a family’s sense of loyalty. Add to that some not-so-subtle subtexts about global warming, the oil industry, etc., and you have a highly thematic film with a lot to say. If you can get over the fact that it takes liberties with the story of the Bible and makes its messages much more universal and fantastic, you will not regret seeing Noah.
Clint’s Verdict: Loved It!
Noah Drinking Game:
1) Drink whenever someone refers to “The Creator”
2) Drink anytime characters are shown in silhouette
3) Drink every time you see glowy yellow light (whether from the Watchers or the zohar or elsewhere)
Noah (Russell Crowe) starts getting wine-wasted on a beach.
Dir. David Ayer
2012’s End of Watch was one of my favorite films of that year – Training Day screenwriter David Ayer turned his eye to directing, using a combination of found footage and electrifying performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena to create a gritty and affecting tale of brotherhood. The fact that that movie is so good makes me so much more disappointed in Ayers’ followup, Sabotage. Ayer doing another cop movie, but this time with Arnold, Sawyer from LOST, and the teacher from Rushmore? It should have been great; instead, it’s a big, ugly mess.
Playing every macho meathead stereotype to the max, Sabotage tells the tale of a gung-ho DEA undercover squad led by Arnold’s “Breacher” (everyone gets cute nicknames that aren’t fully explained but are supposed to be totally rad, like “Tripod” and “Neck”), who unsuccessfully tries to smuggle $10 million from a huge cartel bust. After six months of DEA internal investigation, they get off the hook – only to find out that someone is killing them one by one. With the help of DEA investigator Caroline Brentwood (Williams), Arnold and crew have to find out who is taking them out and why (Spoiler alert: it’s about the money).
The premise alone makes it sound like COPS meets Watchmen, and that’s certainly fair; however, there are so many pacing and characterization issues that the whole film just feels regressive and conservative. First off, everyone in the film (including the non-meatheads) talks like a meathead. When you have noted British actress Olivia Williams putting on a muddled American accent and spouting off raunchy locker-room banter, it’s jarring to say the least. I will give Williams credit for committing, but she’s definitely miscast (or just plain miswritten); she doesn’t feel like enough of a contrast to Arnold’s team to sell the ‘outsider’ role she’s meant to be.
The rest of the cast is just as poorly drawn; at least ¾ of Arnold’s squad is the exact same character – a loudmouthed redneck with tattoos and odd facial hair and/or dreadlocks, who likes talking about pussy and playing Call of Duty. They’re also completely unsympathetic, spending their entire runtime acting like obnoxious, annoying barflies who are just ready to beat everyone up. They all feel like personifications of that “Marine punches out a pansy college professor for trashing the military” meme; just grunting, posturing animals. I know this is intentional, and Ayer is never shy to paint cops or the world they live in with a dark brush, but it really does not work in these instances. (What’s more, the late-act reveal of “maybe it’s one of us” falls apart because it turns out to be the characters that have basically received the least development out of anyone, leaving me wondering why I should care.)
Sabotage is entirely tone-deaf, and tries unsuccessfully to mix the gritty cop drama with a post-millenial Arnold action movie, leading to a world in which cartoon characters in TapOut shirts get in each others’ faces and yell. Arnold, bless his heart, does his best to elevate the material as best he can by playing the world-weary cop like in last year’s The Last Stand, but the end of the film does him a disservice by slapping on a lazy coda that feels twenty years behind its time.
There are a few minor pluses to the film’s favor; for one, the action is reasonably well-directed and exciting, if a little too dependent on TWIST! It’s a flashback reveals and that weird gun-cam effect where we look straight down the barrel. Unfortunately, the film puts its stock in a completely juvenile idea of what cool is, leading to a cast of characters who are ripped straight out of an “occupational redneck” TLC reality show pretending they’re in a cop drama. Whatever pathos we’re meant to wring out of Arnie’s dead family or the dissolution of Worthington and Mereille Enos’ marriage just dissipates, leaving a limp cop thriller that tries too many things at one time. I hope for better from Ayer, since he’s capable of it, but maybe he needs to step out of his cop-movie comfort zone and try something new.
Clint’s Verdict: Skip It
Sabotage Drinking Game:
1) Drink for headshots
2) Drink anytime you see flashforwards or flashbacks
3) Drink whenever a character drinks
“Breacher” (Arnold Schwarzenegger) says his first line in Spanish.
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About Clint Worthington
Clint Worthington is a Chicago-based film/TV critic and podcaster. A member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, you can find his other film work at Consequence of Sound (where he is a Senior Staff Writer), Crooked Marquee, IndieWire and UPROXX. He is also the co-host of Nathan Rabin's Happy Cast.
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Aug 10 22 Percent of Council Board Appointees are Campaign Donors
Over twenty-two percent of individuals appointed to their first terms on municipal boards by the Amarillo City Council in 2017 have donated to the campaigns of councilmembers.
According to information from campaign finance reports, six of twenty-seven individuals appointed to municipal boards for their first term in 2017 were donors to the campaign of at least one councilmember's warchest. Of the members of the City Council who voted for the appointments, Councilmember Elaine Hays received contributions from three of the six individuals. An individual who was appointed to a board was also recorded as donating between $500 and $1,000 to each member of the City Council.
The appointments were made during November 28, 2017 and December 5, 2017 meetings of the City Council. During these meeting, Councilmembers also voted to reappoint seven individuals to municipal boards who supported a councilmember's campaign with a contribution. For the most part, reappointments made likely extended the terms of individuals appointed by one of the two prior City Councils.
As of July 2017, there were about 400 pending applications for individuals seeking spots on municipal boards in Amarillo.
While the appointments to municipal boards by Councilmembers has been ongoing among various Councils, appointments of campaign donors have also take place in Austin.
According to the Texas Tribune, of Governor Greg Abbott's eight hundred board appointees through 2017, around seventy-one appointees had contributed to the Governor's campaign. One individual had contributed over $1 million to Governor Abbott's campaign through May of 2017.
In the City of Amarillo, advisory boards are typically made up of individuals who submit applications requesting a position to serve their community. While some boards do have jurisdiction to make decisions for entities, most boards serve as an information board which reports back to the City Council on issues dealing with its entity. Occasionally, boards will also feature City staff, serving in non-voting roles.
If you would like to be considered for appointment to a municipal board, please visit this link.
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Shearing the Sheep at Portnalong
Portnalong
INVERNESS: Bracadale
1920s; 1930s
This postcard shows a crofter in Portnalong on Skye shearing a sheep with hand shears.
The picturesque settlement of Portnalong, meaning port of boats, is situated on the western shore of Loch Harport on the west coast of Skye. After the World War I the Department of Agriculture moved a number of families from the overcrowded islands of Lewis, Harris and Scalpay to the more fertile land on the shore of Loch Harport. Each family was given 15 - 20 acres of land, 3 cows and a share in a common sheep pasture of 4,000 acres. By combining crofting, fishing and weaving the people were able to have a much better standard of living than had been possible in their homeland
Every year until 1939 a Feill or Gathering was held in Portnalong where the weaving was sold. After the World War II the industry was revived and products sold in particular to the United States and Japan. Unfortunately this became uneconomic and business ceased in 1968.
postcards; crofting; textiles; First World War; Second World War
This postcard shows a crofter in Portnalong on Skye shearing a sheep with hand shears.<br /> <br /> The picturesque settlement of Portnalong, meaning port of boats, is situated on the western shore of Loch Harport on the west coast of Skye. After the World War I the Department of Agriculture moved a number of families from the overcrowded islands of Lewis, Harris and Scalpay to the more fertile land on the shore of Loch Harport. Each family was given 15 - 20 acres of land, 3 cows and a share in a common sheep pasture of 4,000 acres. By combining crofting, fishing and weaving the people were able to have a much better standard of living than had been possible in their homeland<br /> <br /> Every year until 1939 a Feill or Gathering was held in Portnalong where the weaving was sold. After the World War II the industry was revived and products sold in particular to the United States and Japan. Unfortunately this became uneconomic and business ceased in 1968.
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Crane to replace Woakes in..
Crane to replace Woakes in fifth Ashes Test
MRN CRICKET
CricketCricket Featured
England leg-spinner Mason Crane will make his Test debut in Sydney, replacing injured paceman Chris Woakes.
Crane, who has played two Twenty20s for England, will take on Australia in the fifth Ashes Test starting at the SCG on Thursday.
England captain Joe Root backed the leg-spinner, 20, to shine in place of Woakes, who will miss due to a side injury.
“I think the way he [Crane] has conducted himself throughout this whole trip and since he’s been involved in our squads, he’s been outstanding,” Root told a news conference on Wednesday.
“For a young man to apply himself and absorb himself in the environment as he has is exactly what you’re after and I think you can see a big progression in his game since he’s been involved in this tour and before.
“The way he went about those Twenty20s he played in an English shirt shows that he’s right up for international cricket and that he’s not someone that’s going to back down from any challenge.
“He’s performed very well when he’s had his opportunities on this trip and in and around the games, he’s been there or thereabouts.
“It’s a really good chance for him to show everyone what he’s capable of but I think on this surface he’s going to be a very good option.”
Woakes’ injury means the under-fire Moeen Ali is set to retain his spot for the tourists, who trail the series 3-0.
Root said England were unwilling to risk Woakes after the 28-year-old pulled up sore from the drawn Melbourne Test.
“It’s obviously quite an important area for any fast bowler so it’s important that we look after that and make sure he’s 100 per cent and ready to go for when he’s fit,” he said.
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All In Blog
The Downs offers chance to spin wheels, win up to $1,000
By Rozanna M. Martinez / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, May 18th, 2018 at 12:02am
The Downs Racetrack & Casino is giving away $120,000 in cash this May. (SOURCE: The Downs Racetrack & Casino)
Spinning your wheels pays off this May at The Downs Racetrack & Casino.
The Downs is holding its “$120,000 Winning Wheels” promotion Mondays through Fridays this month. Three winners will be selected in each drawing, at noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m. Drawing winners will get their chance to win up to $1,000 cash by spinning wheels.
Triple Crown Players Club members ages 50 and older will earn one point on Fridays and receive a virtual game to win between $5 and $25 in free play. Also, seniors can win cash or free play every two hours between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m.
On Saturdays and Sundays, patrons can be part of the “Weekend Progressive” promotion. There will be four daily progressives, which are about $500 each, amounting to a total prize payout of about $2,000. Player’s Club members become eligible for the promotion when they earn 250 base points during the qualifying time on Saturday and Sunday.
Amp up your points on Wednesdays at The Downs. Guests earn five times the points on Wednesdays and have the chance to earn up to 10 times the points. Players Club members who have birthdays in May earn three times the points on their actual birthdays and two times the points every Tuesday in May. Players also can accrue five times the points on Memorial Day, May 28.
The Downs continues its “Instant Hit” promotion on Wednesdays. Players qualify when they earn 25 base points within 30 minutes before each drawing. All prizes are free play and must be used within 48 hours. There will be 60 winners each promotion day. The “Early Bird” promotion is also still happening each Thursday. Patrons qualify when they earn 50 base points. A bonus wheel will then appear on their game, and that guest will have a chance to win between $5 and $500 in free play. The promotion ends when a total of $500 is awarded.
Shake off the week’s stress starting Thursdays at the First Turn Lounge. Enjoy drink specials and live music during Ladies’ Night each Thursday. Severo y Grupo Fuego perform Thursday, May 24. Tonight and Saturday, May 19, dance the night away to the sounds of Gonzalo, and next week to the grooves of Blu Sol on May 25 and 26.
Get your tickets now for the New Mexico Music Festival, on June 17. The Father’s Day fiesta begins at 2 p.m. at The Downs’ Grandstand and features Darren Cordova, Gonzalo, Cuarenta y Cinco, and the reunited Bandalero. All ages are welcome. Tickets are $5 for ages 21 and older at holdmyticket.com.
You can also wager, watch and win on simulcast racing at the Grandstand or First Turn Lounge. Soon guests will get to enjoy live racing at The Downs beginning on June 29. Live racing will continue through Sept. 23. Post time is 6:05 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 1:30 p.m. Sundays.
For more information on The Downs, call 767-7171 or visit abqdowns.com.
Got a tip on your favorite casino? Contact Rozanna M. Martinez at martinez@abqjournal.com or follow her on Twitter @RozannaABQ.
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3.5oz tin
For new moms currently or planning on breastfeeding, our herbal Mamma Mia tisane contains ingredients that may help with both physical discomfort and milk production for nursing mothers.
This tea contains no caffeine | Steep at 212° for 5-10 minutes.
blended with fennel, aniseed, coriander, lemon verbena, chamomile flowers, peppermint leaves & fenugreek
Historically, the use of fennel and its seeds dates back to the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was then that it was used in traditional rituals and celebrations as a symbol of nature. Greek doctors were also known to have prescribed fennel tea to nursing mothers in order to help increase the production of breast milk.
Native to the Mediterranean, fennel has been long used for everything from strengthening eyesight, regulating hormones to improving digestion. It has been reported to be antimicrobial as well as antiviral, which may help in fighting off pathogens when you are feeling sick. Fennel has also been used as a sleep aid as it was a main ingredient in many ancient remedies for insomnia.
The greenish seeds of the Pimpinella anisum have been a sought-after commodity throughout history.
Aniseed is an excellent source of iron, manganese, magnesium, calcium, zinc, potassium and copper. These minerals are essential to cardiac, bone and blood health.
The seeds have also been used to improve digestion and reduce nausea and aid in insomnia.
A popular ingredient for cooking, the seed of the coriander plant is also packed with nutrients, including high levels of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins B and C, potassium, copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron and calcium. These little seeds have been used to help regulate blood sugar levels, improve digestion as well as skin and hair care.
Native to South America, Lemon Verbena or bee brush, has become a widely popular herb due to it's medicinal properties. It is thought to have the ability to reduce inflammation, boost the immune system and calm the stomach.
Additionally it is used to reduce fevers, combat congestion as well as aid in weight loss.
Dating back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, chamomile has long been sort after as a remedy for numerous ailments. Most notably, the small daisy-like flower has been used as a mild, relaxing sleep aid. Though it has also been used to treat fevers, colds, stomach discomfort and as an anti-inflammatory.
Fenugreek has a long history of being used for women's health, including increasing the production of milk in nursing mothers as well as reducing menstrual and menopausal discomfort. It contains a variety of nutrients including iron, magnesium, manganese, copper, protein and fiber. Most of the reported health benefits of fenugreek are due to the presence of saponins and fiber.
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Pilgrimage for Cardinal-Designate O’Brien’s Elevation to the College of Cardinals
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Draper, Richard (1727-1774), Massachusetts Loyalist, printer, and publisher
David E. Maas
Draper, Richard (24 February 1727–05 June 1774), Massachusetts Loyalist, printer, and publisher, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Draper, the publisher of the Boston News-Letter, and Deborah Green. His mother came from a family of official printers in Connecticut going back six generations to ...
Goddard, Mary Katherine (1738-1816), printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster
Carol Sue Humphrey
Goddard, Mary Katherine (16 June 1738–12 August 1816), printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster, was born in Groton, Connecticut, the daughter of Giles Goddard, a physician, and Sarah Updike Goddard, a printer. Growing up in New London, Connecticut, Goddard received an exceptional education for a woman in the 1700s, most of it from her mother, who had been taught by a French tutor. Little else is known about her early life....
Maxwell, William (1766 or 1767?–10 September 1809), pioneer printer, newspaper editor, and office holder
Manon Théroux
Maxwell, William (1766 or 1767?–10 September 1809), pioneer printer, newspaper editor, and office holder, was long thought, based on statements made by his descendants, to have been born about 1755 in New York or New Jersey, the son of William Maxwell, an immigrant from Scotland. Current scholarship infers a probable birth date of 1766 or 1767 from a contemporary newspaper obituary and suggests several additional mid-Atlantic states (Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland) as possible places of origin. Little is known of Maxwell’s early life, including his mother’s identity. Although he is reputed to have served as a revolutionary war soldier, his participation has not been confirmed by extant military records....
McFarland, J. Horace (1859-1948), printer, civic reformer, and rosarian
McFarland, J. Horace (24 September 1859–02 October 1948), printer, civic reformer, and rosarian, was born John Horace McFarland in McAlisterville, Pennsylvania, the son of George Fisher McFarland, a schoolteacher, and Adeline Dellicher Griesemer. Following the Civil War, the family moved to Harrisburg, where Horace’s father bought and operated the Riverside Nurseries, a large property along the Susquehanna River. When he was sixteen, McFarland started setting type for the ...
Mein, John (1732-1810), bookseller, printer, and Loyalist publisher
William Pencak
Mein, John (1732–1810), bookseller, printer, and Loyalist publisher, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of John Mein, a burgess and guildsman of Edinburgh and a slater by trade. His mother’s name is unknown. John, Jr., was also enrolled as a burgess and guildsman in December 1760. Little is known about Mein apart from his role in supporting British policy during the revolutionary crisis. He emigrated to Boston in November 1764 and set up the first of his three shops in company with ...
Revere, Paul (1734-1818), craftsman, patriot, and businessman
Nina Zannieri
Revere, Paul ( December 1734–10 May 1818), craftsman, patriot, and businessman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Paul Revere, a goldsmith, and Deborah Hichborn (or Hitchborn). Revere’s father, born Apollos Rivoire, emigrated from France to Boston in 1715 at the age of thirteen and apprenticed with John Coney, a prominent local gold/silversmith. Shortly before his marriage he changed his name, first to Paul Rivoire and then to Paul Revere. The son’s birth date has long been the source of confusion since only his baptismal date, 22 December 1734 OS and 1 January 1735 NS, is recorded. Revere’s early life, fairly typical of boys of his day and economic status, included basic schooling at the North Writing School. During his teens he entered into a formal agreement with fellow North End youths to ring the bells at Christ Church for a fee. Revere’s own words, “My Father was a Goldsmith. … I learned the trade of him,” confirm that as the eldest surviving son, he apprenticed with his father, thus beginning his most enduring occupation. Though overshadowed by the fame of his son, the elder Revere’s skill as a gold/silversmith may actually have equaled that of his son. The younger Revere noted that his father died “in the year 1754, he left no estate, but he left a good name.” Just nineteen years old, Revere ran the shop with the help of his mother. In 1756 he received a commission as a second lieutenant of artillery and spent the better part of a year on an unsuccessful expedition to capture the French fort at Crown Point on Lake Champlain....
Revere, Paul (1734-1818)
Maker: Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin
Paul Revere. Drawing by Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-7407).
Robertson, James (1747-1816), Loyalist printer and journalist
Robertson, James (1747–24 April 1816), Loyalist printer and journalist, was born in Stonehaven, Scotland, the son of Alexander Robertson, a printer, and possibly Elizabeth Anderson. (Records show that she was at some point married to his father but not whether she was the mother of his children.) James learned the trade of printing in his father’s shop in Edinburgh, but he did not remain in Scotland. In 1766 he sailed for America, seeking better opportunities for economic success. Robertson became a journeyman printer in the shop of ...
Russell, Benjamin (1761-1845), printer, newspaper editor, and politician
Dwight L. Teeter
Russell, Benjamin (13 September 1761–04 January 1845), printer, newspaper editor, and politician, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Russell, a mason. By his fourteenth year he had learned the rudiments of typesetting by working around Isaiah Thomas’s Boston printing house. Benjamin’s career as a newspaperman was determined, in part, by his boyish curiosity when he followed British troops marching toward what turned out to be the battle of Concord on 19 April 1775. But British forces closed off travel between Boston and the outlying areas, preventing him from returning home....
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Corbyn and Sanders: turning left
Bernie Sanders / Jeremy Corbyn
The Hindu, one of India's leading daily newspapers, published yesterday a piece I wrote about the Corbyn/Sanders phenomenon, and what it says about social democracy both sides of the Atlantic. Here's the text as I submitted it:
Jeremy Corbyn has been whipping up the sort of fervour that gives him the aura of a latter-day Godman. In a British (or more strictly English) political landscape largely devoid of excitement, he is generating levels of enthusiasm way beyond anything seen in the UK's general election earlier this year.
The Labour party MP recently addressed a rally in central London. The main hall was fully booked well in advance. Two overflow rooms were filled to capacity. So Corbyn resorted to climbing on top of a fire engine to address the hundreds milling around on the street, unable to get inside.
It's not the fiery oratory that's attracting the crowds - Corbyn's a staid, low-key speaker. He's not a political rock star - he's 66, bearded, vegetarian, teetotal, with a dress sense that hasn't changed for decades. There's no new message - Corbyn's hard left political views have barely shifted since he was elected to the British Parliament in 1983.
He's about as far to the left as it is possible to be as a Labour MP: anti-war, anti-austerity, anti-nuclear, and a supporter of such unfashionable causes as higher taxes, renationalisation of key industries and greater powers for trades unions.
And if the bookmakers are to be believed, he's on course to be the party's new leader.
The comprehensive Conservative party victory in May's election led to despair in the ranks of the opposition Labour party. They hadn't seen the result coming. Within hours, Ed Miliband resigned as party leader. A gaggle of contenders to succeed him argued that Labour needed to learn the lesson of its defeat - it had to win the trust of middle England, develop more business-friendly policies and edge towards the centre ground. But the groundswell of support for Corbyn suggests that party members are heading in the other direction and determined to push Labour further to the left.
When Jeremy Corbyn announced his intention to stand for the party leadership, he was seen as a 100-1 outsider. He was well short of the number of Labour MPs required to endorse his nomination, and is now a candidate only because he persuaded colleagues who didn't support him to sign his papers.
If Labour MPs alone elected the party leader, Corbyn wouldn't have the ghost of a chance. He's likeable and hardworking - but a serial rebel against the party line and leadership.
But the ballot extends to all party members, and to registered party supporters - and it costs just £3 (Rs 300) to register. Tens of thousands have been signing up. A few are supporters of other parties who want to make mischief. Most are genuinely enthused by the prospect of an old-style socialist leading the Labour party.
There are similar stirrings in the US. Senator Bernie Sanders - in his seventies, also an avowed socialist and even more of a maverick than Corbyn - has got more traction than expected for his campaign for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. He too has won support mainly from the young, many of whom see the frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, as too much part of the system to be able to challenge and transform it.
Across the English-speaking world, a decade of hardship and economic recession has failed to produce the sort of progressive, left-wing political tide often evident in troubled times. The Occupy movement, which promised so much, has delivered little enduring political legacy. A financial crisis for which the bankers and big business are widely seen as being to blame has led not to greater emphasis on social justice, but an ever more glaring inequality.
In a few countries profoundly affected by economic collapse - think of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain - new left-wing forces have emerged. In Britain and the United States, it's the old-time leftists, Corbyn and Sanders, who have been beneficiaries of a soul-searching within social democratic parties which feel as if they have lost their way. The hard-line socialists, with their unchanging message and evident sincerity, offer hope - a commodity in short supply in progressive politics.
Sanders won't gain his party's nomination; Corbyn could well win his party's leadership, though the race has some way to run - we'll get the result in mid-September. As yet, the chorus of voices - within Labour and beyond - insisting that a party led by such a committed left-winger will be unelectable appears not have eroded his support.
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, mocked those Labour party members whose hearts were with Corbyn; his message to them. "get a transplant!" Blair is by far the most electorally successful leader Labour has ever had - but his stock is now so low within the party, any barbs he delivers boomerang to the benefit of those he's criticising.
Some of Corbyn's rivals - there are three other candidates, none of whom have impressed - have already said that if he wins, they won't serve as a shadow minister. There have been mutterings that Labour might split. That's unlikely. The party's last big split in the early 1980s saw a swathe of right-wing MPs form the Social Democratic Party, which won a series of by-election victories but quickly faded. Left-wing breakaways have been of still less significance.
Corbyn's supporters contend that the danger is not schism, but a Labour party that fades into irrelevance because it has lost its radical vision. They argue that new forces such as environmentalism and Scottish nationalism have managed to engage with young idealists, and Labour also needs to have a clear, principled political message.
Yet when the established market-based economic system is facing such profound difficulties, when the big corporations and the banks are so distrusted and when the digital revolution demands new ways of working and thinking, it is troubling that radicalism's most vibrant manifestation is a reworking of a tired ideology and style of politics. New times require new thinking - and there's not much sign of that on the left.
The photo at the top of this piece is taken from the Cleveland Leader, which published an article way back in June about the parallels between the two socialists.
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If the Twilight "saga" demonstrates how to screw up a book-to-film adaptation, then Winter’s Bone is the epitome of how to get it right.
Instead of leaving the viewer confused by not sharing enough details from Daniel Woodrell’s brilliantly specific novel, director Debra Granik leaves everything in, while managing to crank out a brisk 100 minute movie.
The plot is simple, yet meticulous. Ree, an impoverished 17-year-old living in the barren Ozark Mountains, provides for her young brother and sister while her mother sits mentally vacant in their living room. Void of any pleasure and excitement, Ree, as remarkably played by newcomer Jennifer Lawrence, is an angry young girl. She’s full of resentment, hatred and fear; symptoms having an absent, meth-dealing father.
When the Sheriff tells Ree that her father has skipped bail and is nowhere to be found, Ree is completely indifferent. But when she learns that he put their house up as bond, and if he doesn’t surface in a week, Ree and her family are out on their ass, she puts herself in charge of tracking him down.
Fans of this blog know that, for me, the plot of a film is the boring part. I enjoy films for their overall story and how that story is displayed. Trying to figure out why the director chose that shot or that location. Why the actor decided to play that scene that particular way, and so on. With that criteria in mind, Winter’s Bone is easily one of the best experiences I've had in a film so far this year.
When I said barren earlier, I wasn’t lying. As Ree walks to the various homes occupied by her filthy relatives, she walks in a land that is reminiscent of the place Cormac McCarthy described in "The Road." Ree’s house, like all of her relatives’, looks abandoned. Moldy couches and rusty lawn chairs litter the front yard, doors are nearly off their hinges, etc. Inside is even worse. The homes are filled with endless amounts of clutter and grime. I mention this because this is what a movie is about. All those tiny details make a movie because they convince you, even for 100 minutes, that everything you’re seeing is real. If cinematographer Michael McDonough and production designer Mark White aren’t considered for Oscars, something is seriously wrong.
Same goes for select cast players.
The 19-year-old Lawrence carries this movie through and through. She’s in every scene of Winter’s Bone, but it initially seems that she does very little, which, of course, is not the case. If an actor, let alone a teenage one, can tell you everything she’s thinking and feeling with a single grimace, then she’s doing her job beyond what’s expected. Keep Jennifer Lawrence’s name in your mind, she’s the Gabourey Sidibe of 2010.
If Lawrence is the emotional anchor of the film then John Hawkes is the force of nature. You’ve seen Hawkes before. He’s popped up in great character parts for the past two decades. Roles like the rambling liquor store owner in From Dusk Till Dawn, the comic relief in The Perfect Storm, the hotel clerk in Identity, the anguished con in Miami Vice, and so on. In short, I’m aware of John Hawkes’ career.
So why didn’t I recognize him in his first scenes of Winter’s Bone? Maybe it was the spotty grey beard, or the long, greasy hair he was sporting. Maybe it was the utterly convincing thick country accent he was vocalizing. Maybe it was the fact that you fear him in every scene he is in.
I call it the Col. Jessep complex. As Col. Jessep in A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson is immediately feared within seconds of his first scene. He hasn’t done anything expect speak, but you know you can’t mess with this guy. Hawkes pulls that off here. As Ree’s aggressively vengeful uncle, Hawkes is a serious force to be reckoned with. Christ I hope he’s remembered come awards season.
Winter’s Bone is directed by Debra Granik, whose last film was the fantastic Down to the Bone, which remains one of the most convincing films I’ve ever seen about drug addiction. Granik has a serious eye for detail, which, even if the audience doesn’t notice, they subconsciously appreciate. Down to the Bone was made seven years ago, I sure hope we don’t have to wait that long for her next film. I’m going to say this for every worthy film this year until 2010 starts to pick up, but Winter’s Bone is by long and far up there for the best film of the year. Scout it out. It’s worth it. A
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What is Body on Frame?
By Autolist Staff | April 10, 2019
Modern sport-utility vehicles come in a wide variety of sizes, styles and trims. Underneath all those different models is one of two kinds of frames. Many newer SUVs are unibody vehicles. Most of these are based on passenger car designs. Traditional SUVs, as well as a few prominent current models, feature body-on-frame construction, as the first SUVs were closely related to pickup trucks of the time. This article discusses the differences between body on frame and unibody SUVs. It also highlights the benefits of body-on-frame SUVs for uses such as off-road driving and pulling heavy loads. Lastly, it looks at the benefits of unibody frames and why these frames have come to dominate the market.
What is Body-on-Frame Construction?
Body-on-frame design means the vehicle frame and body are two different pieces. Typically an existing pickup ladder frame is used as the base, with the body designed to fit the frame. Originally all vehicles were made using body-on-frame construction. From the 1930s onward it became primarily used on trucks. From their origins as military vehicles, SUVs were traditionally built using truck frames. That remained true until the late 1970s. From the 1980s onward manufactures shifted away from body-on-frame designs for passenger cars.
The number of body-on-frame SUVs is only a fraction of the total SUV market, with only about 15 model lines available. Most of these are larger SUVs, such as the American made vehicles from Ford and General Motors. GM makes the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Suburban, Tahoe and GMC Yukon using the Silverado pickup truck frame. Ford produces the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator using the F-150 frame. The upcoming 2021 Bronco is based on the Ford Ranger frame design, as are the internationally sold Everest and older Ford Explorers. The Jeep Wrangler features body-on-frame construction.
Toyota is a major automaker outside the United States that has body-on-frame designs. Here, it offers models such as the Toyota 4Runner, Sequoia and Land Cruiser, as well as Lexus GX and LX models. Mercedes G-Class SUVs are body-on-frame, as is the Nissan Armada and its companion Infiniti QX80.
What is Unibody Construction?
As the name suggests, unibody frames, are made with the frame and body combined into one piece. Unibody design SUVs are typically modified forms of passenger car unibody frames. Unibody frames were first used on a large scale in passenger cars starting in the 1930s and, by the 1970s, increasingly became the standard for refinement, quality and safety standards.
The first SUVs with unibody construction appeared in the 1980s, with the 1984 Jeep Cherokee is a notable example. The 1996 Toyota RAV4 was a first in that it was built off of a platform used for a sedan. By 2006 more than half of the SUVs manufactured had unibody construction. Today's SUVs, whether they have off-road pretentions or not, are predominantly constructed with unibody designs, including models from Jeep and Land Rover, as well as Acura and Volkswagen. Even the Honda Ridgeline pickup uses a unibody structure from the Pilot SUV.
Fuel economy and a smoother ride have been the dominant reasons why unibody SUVs have overtaken body-on-frame designs. The first unibody models appeared after the fuel shortages of the 1970s. SUVs as an entire class became a prominent vehicle in North America through the 1990s and 2000s. This rise coincided with regulations requiring better fuel economy in vehicles, which favors the lighter unibody frames.
Additionally, driver use of SUVs changed as the vehicles dominated the market. For many drivers, the ability to load the cargo area with groceries, pets or kids' gear—not off-roading capabilities or hauling capacity—was the primary reason for buying an SUV. That helped smoother handling and greater fuel economy become higher priorities in the SUV market.
##What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Body-on-Frame Construction?##
The primary benefit of this type of construction is resistance to torque and twisting compared to unibody vehicles. That makes these vehicles well suited for off-roading and transporting heavy loads. Off-roaders typically can drive over rougher terrain in a body-on-frame vehicle.
Body-on-frame vehicles are also typically less expensive to manufacture. This is in part because manufacturers can mount different bodies on the same frames. Body-on-frame vehicles can also be cheaper to repair after collisions. The separate body and frame can allow mechanics greater access to damaged parts. Alternately, a severely damaged structure or body can be replaced in its entirety if one or the other remains intact.
The main disadvantage of body-on-frame construction is that it increases the weight of vehicles. That leads to reduced fuel economy. Body-on-frame vehicles also tend to have poorer handling and cornering than unibody vehicles. In general, the ride in body-on-frame SUVs is not as smooth as passenger cars or crossover SUVs.
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Unibody Construction?
Unibody construction gives SUVs greater handling and cornering for a smoother ride and allows them to be tuned to drive more like passenger cars. These SUVs are also lighter in weight, which results in better fuel economy. Additionally, as a majority of models are built on unibody frames, there are more choices for SUV buyers.
The primary drawbacks of unibody design are reduced off-roading ability. That is because the single frame does not handle twisting forces as well. Likewise, unibody vehicles may have less hauling and towing capacity than body-on-frame SUVs. Lastly, unibody SUVs can be more expensive to produce and repair.
SUVs come in both body-on-frame and unibody frame designs. Body-on-frame models feature a separate frame and body. The frame is typically used as the base for pickup trucks as well as SUVs. Unibody frame models combine the body and frame into one piece. This design mimics passenger cars.
Body-on-frame construction is better at resisting twisting forces. It is better for off-road driving and hauling heavy loads. Unibody frame construction results in a lighter vehicle, usually resulting in better fuel economy, handling, and cornering.
In general body-on-frame SUVs are best for buyers planning to drive off-road or frequently haul loads. Otherwise, the smoother driving and better gas mileage of unibody SUVs typically outweigh the benefits of body-on-frame construction. Drivers that use their SUV for a mix of activities must weigh better on-road handling and fuel economy versus better off-road handling and hauling ability.
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Why visit Lima?
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Fall in Love With Lima and its Cultural Mixture
Located on the shores of the Pacific, Lima sure does know how to welcome. It has opened its doors to Japanese and Chinese immigrants since the 19th century, and to its oriental traditions that have been combined with the Spanish and the Inca heritage. Lima is a mixed race city that seduces visitors from multiple origins.
In 2017 alone, Lima had 2,860,000 tourists; it currently is the fifth most visited destination in Latin America and the eighth city in the region with the highest tourist growth per year (according to the 2018 Global Destination Cities Index).
Founded on January 18th, 1535, it is one of the oldest capitals in the continent. The colonial period is a protagonist in its historic center, declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1991. It preserves centuries-old buildings such as the stone bridge of the Rímac River (1610), the Alameda de los Descalzos (1611), the Palacio de Torre Tagle (1735) and the House of Osambela (1807).
In modern neighborhoods, pre-Columbian constructions known as huacas are common: 431 sacred sites for the Lima, Ychsma, Wari and Inca civilizations that were declared cultural patrimony of the nation.
Choose your plan:
Gastronomic Circuit
Route of the Huacas
Cycling Through San Isidro
Colonial Lima in Five Temples
For seven consecutive years, Peru has received the award for Best World Culinary Destination at the World Travel Awards, popularly known as the 'Tourism Oscars'. Furthermore, the city brings together unique gastronomic styles.
Specialty: nikkei food.
The fusion of Japanese culinary traditions with Peruvian flavors and ingredients gave way to Nikkei food (which can be translated as 'migrant food').
Some of the most representative dishes of the place are the salmon belly with garlic sauce and lemon butter, and the moriawase sashimi (dish with several cuts of fish and shrimp, such as tuna, salmon, horse-mackerel and shrimp).
ÁmaZ
Specialty: amazonian food.
Pedro Miguel Schiaffino, head chef, is quite familiar with the Amazonian city of Iquitos. The exuberance of its rivers (where he discovered paiche and riverine snails) and the diversity of native fruits and vegetables motivated him to create ámaZ in 2012.
ámaZ seeks to investigate and spread Amazonian flavors, as well as boosting the culinary knowledge of the indigenous communities that live there. Among the dishes in the menu, the shrimp pacomoto (shrimp tail ceviche, charcoaled with cocona and tomato) and the churos pishpirones (riverine snails stewed with turmeric, spicy chorizo and tapioca) stand out
La Picantería
Specialty: traditional Peruvian food
The motto of the place is 'Burn your tongue and have a laugh'. It condenses the spirit of the restaurant: meat, fish and shrimp dishes bathed in chili hot sauces, which are served by the kilo and designed to be shared. To live up to this goal, the tables are long, inspired by big Peruvian family tables.
Specialty: seafood cuisine.
The place is famous for its ceviche (Peru’s flagship dish). The arequipa rice (mixed with shrimp and a shrimp coral sauce), the ceviche (made with sea urchins), and the corvina cheek (grilled fish with chimichurri, served with capers and crispy garlic) are among its most emblematic preparations.
Specialty: chifa food.
Chifa food is a mix between Peruvian ingredients and the food made by Chinese immigrants.
Titi is the result of this cultural exchange and, seventy years after it first opened, continues to be a family business with three generations of chefs who have inherited dishes such as hacao (wheat starch dough stuffed with prawns), kaylan con carne (Chinese broccoli with meat to the wok in oyster sauce) and the sillao duck (baked duck with crispy skin in soy sauce.
Before the Spanish arrived, the territory of Lima was dominated by diverse pre-Columbian civilizations that governed the valley of Rímac, including the Incas, the most important of all.
These towns had sacred buildings, called huacas, in which they made offerings and sacrifices to win the favor of the gods. Today, 431 monuments of this type are conserved in Lima. This is a tour around five of them.
In 1941 and in 1950 its demolition was ordered to give way to urban projects, but the plan was never carried out. Instead, in 1960 the archaeological site was restored. From the year 200 a. C., this temple was occupied by the Lima, Huaura, Sicán, Chincha and Ychsma cultures.
Huaca Santa Cruz
Two mummies, buried centuries apart, mark the history of this place. The first one dates from about 400 years ago. The second is from the late 19th century and belongs to a Chinese plantation worker who was buried here. The era of splendor of this huaca was between the years 1000 and 1470.
Huaca Pucllana
Three pre-Inca civilizations occupied this ceremonial complex between the years 200 and 1570: the first was the Lima civilization, which built the 25-meter-high pyramid; the second was the Wari, that used it as a sacred cemetery. Finally, there was the Ychsma, that offered clay pots filled with beans, corn and cotton. This is the most visited huaca in Lima and has a museum and a restaurant.
Huaca Pachacámac
The temple was built in honor of the pre-Inca deity whose name in the Quechua language means 'Creator' or 'Soul of the Earth'. The architectural complex includes the old temple (the oldest structure dating from the 3rd century), the temples of the moon and the sun (the first vestiges were found in 1897), the Tauri Chumpi palace, the pilgrims' square and the painted temple.
The financial center of the city (where some of the largest companies have their headquarters) also has theaters, cultural centers, museums, parks and libraries. One way to explore its attractions is through the public bicycle system, which has 50 stations.
PUCP Cultural Center
Open 25 years ago, this place has a bookstore, a cinema and exhibition halls. Here, works by Fernando Botero, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Joan Miró have been exhibited.
Bosque El Olivar
In this 23-hectare forest there are 1674 olive trees and approximately 200 different tree species. Birds such as turtupilines, violinists, goldfinches and ducks can be sighted here. In the vicinity of the forest you can find the Chamber Theater, the Municipal Library and the Children's Library.
Marina Núñez del Prado Museum
This was the residence of the Bolivian sculptor Marina Núñez del Prado, considered one of the most important artists in her country. In the house (of neocolonial style, built in 1926), her works in alabaster, onyx and granite are displayed, as well as 137 pieces of popular art, among which the handicrafts of the Peruvian ceramist Mamerto Sánchez stand out.
Casa Hacienda Moreyra
It was built at the end of the 17th century as the residence of Isidoro de Cortázar y Abarca, the first count of San Isidro and one of the promoters of Peruvian independence. In 1972, the hacienda was declared a historic monument. It currently houses the restaurant Astrid y Gastón, the eighth best in Latin America.
Virgen del Pilar Church
Its altar is decorated with an 18th century Baroque altarpiece, made of carved wood and measuring 15 meters high by 9.5 wide. This temple was originally built in 1937 by the Passionist Missionaries and completely remodeled in 1948 with a neocolonial style.
The Peruvian capital has a deep religious tradition and is the home of some of the oldest temples in Latin America.
Cathedral Basilica of Lima and Primate Cathedral of Perú
Known as the Cathedral of Lima, the building is located at Plaza de Armas. It was built by orders of Francisco Pizarro, founder of the capital, whose remains rest in the church.
The Cathedral is located on the ruins of the Puma Inti Inca shrine and a Cuzco royal palace. Since 1991, the Cathedral is considered a Cultural Heritage of Humanity, as part of the Historical Center of Lima.
San Francisco Church
Located a few blocks from Plaza de Armas, it is a relic of colonial architecture. This religious complex is conformed by the Basilica and the Convent of San Francisco de Asís, and the chapels del Milagro and la Soledad, also constructed in 1535, shortly after the foundation of the city.
Inside, visitors will find catacombs that have been considered the most important cemetery in Lima during the Viceroyalty. Today, visitors can take thematic tours of these passages.
La Merced Church
Originally built in wood, the church hosted Lima's first official mass in 1534, a year before the city was founded.
Its façade carved in stone is a great example of the 'churrigueresque' baroque style from Lima: a variation of this artistic style that is much more overloaded, with finishings including fruits, animals and faces.
Convent of Santo Domingo
As well as the majority of temples in the city, it was greatly affected by the 1678 earthquake. However, it retains its original bell tower.
This church was built in 1578 and has the oldest choir balconies in Lima, as well as the statue of the Virgin of the Rosary. There, San Martín de Porres, the first mulatto saint of America, was imprisoned. Today, the place keeps the remains of Santa Rosa de Lima, patron saint and protector of the city.
Church and Convent of San Pedro
Built by the Jesuits in the 17th century, its interior represents the purchasing power and social influence that this community had in Lima.
With a relatively austere façade—contrasting with the richness of the interior—the place keeps an important collection of colonial art. In addition, it's striking arches and altars are covered in sheets of pure gold.
Typical dishes
A chef
A Recipe
Specialty: fusion cuisine.
Central offers its guests a trip through the coastal, Amazonian and Andean regions of Peru thanks to Virgilio Martínez, its head chef.
Some of Central's most emblematic dishes have been the purple root with mashua (bitter potato), with duck and chijchipa leaves, the Amazonian waters with piranha, arazá and yucca, and the green mountain range with cocoa, chaco and coca.
In nine years, Central has positioned itself as the second best Latin American restaurant, according to the list of Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2018, and the sixth best in the world in the recent selection of The World's Best Restaurants.
Maido
Lima-born chef Mitsuharu Tsumura studied culinary arts at Johnson & Wales University (Rhode Island, United States); yet, he found in Osaka, the land of his ancestors, the key to Japanese flavors.
This background inspired him to open a Nikkei food restaurant called Maido (which is a Japanese word to welcome) in 2009. Its culinary bet has turned Maido into the best Latin American restaurant (according to the Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants ranking), for the past two years.
Maido's star dish are the short ribs, which are prepared for 50 hours. There is also the tuna salad with quinoa and coriander sauce, and the limpet ceviche with yellow pepper ice powder, corn and avocado.
Astrid y Gastón
Astrid Gutsche and Gastón Acurio studied at the famous school Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Upon returning to Lima they opened a restaurant inspired by the most traditional Peruvian recipes, which are deconstructed, mixed and transformed with global influences.
The menu is influenced by the agricultural seasons and the menu changes constantly. Its 2018 spring menu, for example, is inspired by the cultural and ethnic diversity of Peru: it features paracas shells with lucuma gnocchi and amazon sauce, pea-day fishing and suckling pig.
The restaurant (considered the eighth best in Latin America and 39th in the world) works in a house built three centuries ago, declared by the Peruvian Government as a national monument.
Causa limeña
Cold starter of mashed yellow potatoes with mayonnaise and yellow pepper, a layer of avocado and a general layer of shredded chicken or tuna.
Typical Peruvian Creole dish prepared with shredded chicken, yellow pepper, black olives, boiled egg and white potato.
Lomo saltado
Veal loin sauteed with purple onion julienne, red pepper and soy sauce.
Gastón Acurio
Gastón’s name represents Peruvian cuisine, as he is the most important exponent of the country’s traditional food. Acurio dedicates his work to rescuing dishes, products and traditions; as a result, he has turned Perú into a gastronomical destination worldwide. When you try one of his creations, you can taste both craftsmanship and passion, and you can sense the history behind each flavor. Acurio’s culinary bet can be enjoyed in restaurants such as Astrid y Gastón, La Mar, Panchita or Madam Tusam.
Peruvian Ceviche
It could be considered the national dish. Unlike other types of ceviche, this one is prepared with pieces of white fish, purple onion, lemon juice and yellow pepper.
For one serving:
1 Red Onion.
1 Yellow Pepper.
2 Fillets of white fish (sole, halibut or hake).
Fresh chopped cilantro.
1 lemon.
Cut the onion into julienne strips and soak them in cold water to soften their flavor.
Clean the chili, remove the veins and seeds and cut it into thin strips.
Cut the fish fillets into cubes of approximately 1.5 centimeters.
In a deep dish mix the fish, onion, cilantro and a pinch of salt.
Add the lemon juice.
Let stand for 8 minutes and serve.
Aniversario de la Fundación de Lima
January 18.
Diferentes ubicaciones.
Concierto de Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Domos Art, San Miguel.
Lima Ultra Maratón 2019
Parque Costa Verde, distrito San Miguel.
Play Fest
From february 15 to march 3.
Jockey Club.
Concierto Arctic Monkeys
March 26.
Jorge Chávez International Airport, 12.6 kilometers from the city center.
Spanish.
Nuevo Sol (PEN).
21 °C (69.8 °F)
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LUKE FULHAM
Club Atletika Weightlifting Gender M
Coach Ricky Gulyamov
U15-U17-Jnr-U23 and Snr Championships 93.04 110 152 262 8/04/2017 298.832 E
Australian Junior & Senior Championships 92.78 (+16) 126 (+3) 155 (+19) 281 4/06/2017 320.877 D
NSW Junior Senior Championships 93.04 (+1) 127 (+-5) 150 277 21/07/2018 315.941 D
AWF Junior & Senior Championships 94.25 127 160 (+6) 287 9/09/2018 325.616 D
Memorial Day Open Competition 94.85 115 145 260 24/11/2018 294.226 E
Zubin Weightlifting Open Competition 95.70 123 158 281 22/12/2018 316.861 D
Arafura Games 95.60 122 153 275 29/04/2019 310.225 E
U15-U17-Jnr-U23 and Snr Championships 93.04 110 117 120 146 146 152 110 152 262 8/04/2017
Australian Junior & Senior Championships 92.78 117 121 126 148 155 160 126 155 281 4/06/2017
NSW Junior Senior Championships 93.04 120 122 127 150 155 160 127 150 277 21/07/2018
AWF Junior & Senior Championships 94.25 122 127 127 155 160 160 127 160 287 9/09/2018
Memorial Day Open Competition 94.85 105 115 145 115 145 260 24/11/2018
Zubin Weightlifting Open Competition 95.70 118 123 127 152 158 164 123 158 281 22/12/2018
Arafura Games 95.60 122 126 126 153 153 159 122 153 275 29/04/2019
CJ 160 M96 NSW Senior 09/Sep/2018 Broken by Samuel Kennedy
SNATCH 127 M96 NSW Senior 09/Sep/2018 Broken by Ridge Barredo
TOTAL 287 M96 NSW Senior 09/Sep/2018 Broken by Samuel Kennedy
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Earthly Paradise
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
French, 1867–1947
Following a period spent producing Parisian scenes in the style of Édouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard virtually reinvented his art around 1905. The artist’s new emphasis on large-scale compositions, bold forms, and brilliant colors shows his awareness of the work of his contemporaries Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, as does his focus on Arcadian landscapes, a theme he had not previously explored. Part of a series of four canvases painted for his dealers, Josse and Gaston Bernheim, between 1916 and 1920, Earthly Paradise demonstrates Bonnard’s new, daring investigations of light, color, and space. Here the artist used foliage to create a proscenium-like arch for a drama involving a brooding Adam and recumbent Eve. The contrast Bonnard established between the figures seems to follow a tradition in which the female, presented as essentially sexual, is connected with nature, while the male, essentially intellectual, is able to transcend the earthly. Heightening the image’s ambiguity is an array of animals, including birds, a monkey, rabbits, and a serpent (here reduced to a garden snake). This less-than-Edenic paradise may reflect the artist’s response to the destruction of Europe during World War I, which was still raging when he began the painting.
Modern Art, Gallery 393
Signed, l.l.: "Bonnard"
130 × 160 cm (51 1/4 × 63 in. )
Estate of Joanne Toor Cummings; Bette and Neison Harris and Searle Family Trust endowments; through prior gifts of Mrs. Henry C. Woods
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Bonnard, exh. cat. (Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1921), n.p., cat. 4, as Paradis.
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture francaise, exh. cat. (Paris: XXX, 1925), XXX.
Coquiot, Gustave, Bonnard (Paris: Les Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1922), n.p. (ill.), as Le Paradis, 1916-1920. [no collection listed]
Terrasse, Charles, Bonnard (Paris: Floury, 1927), pp. 141, 146, opp. 148 (ill.), 150, opp. 150 (detail), as le Paradis, 1916-19.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition retrospective: Bonnard, exh. cat. (Paris: J. & H. Bernheim-Jeune, 1950), n.p., cat. 25, as Le Paradis Terrestre, 1917.
Passel, Howard, “The Paintings of Pierre Bonnard” M.A. thesis, New York University, 1950, pp. 72, 130, cat. B28, as Le paradis, 1918-20.
Natanson, Thadée, Le Bonnard que je propose, 1867-1947; tentatives (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1951), n.p., pl. 44, p. 140, as Le Paradis terrestre, 1915.
Besson, George, Bonnard, 1867-1947 (Paris: Les Êditions Braun & Cie, 1955), n.p., pl. 28 (ill.), as Le Paradis, 1918-20. [photo Bernheim-Jeune]
Francastel, Pierre, Du classicisme au cubisme. Vol. 2 of Histoire de la peinture francaise, la peinture de chevalet du XIVe au Xxe siècle (Paris: Elsevier, 1955), p. 180, as Paradis, 1920. [no collection]
Musée des Ponchettes, Bonnard, exh. cat. (Nice: Presses de Pierotti, 1955), n.p. (ill.), cat. 23, p. 29, as Paradis Terrestre, 1916-20. [no collection]
Raynal, Maurice, Peinture Moderne (Geneva: Skira, 1960).
Dauberville, Jean and Henry, Bonnard, catalog raisonne de l’oeuvre peint, 1906-1919, vol. 2 (Paris: Éditions J. et. H. Bernheim-Jeune, 1965), pp. opp 383 (ill), 383 (ill.), no. 867a, photo 3771, as Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
Galeries Bernheim-Jeune, Coup de chapeau a Bonnard, exh. cat. (Paris: XXX, 1967).
Réunion des Musées nationaux, Pierre Bonnard, Centenaire de sa naissance, exh. cat. (Paris: Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1967), n.p., as Paradis, 1916-20. [no collection]
Terrasse, Antoine, Bonnard (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1967), pp. 104 (ill.), 107, as Le paradis, 1916-1920.
Newman, Sasha M. (ed.), Bonnard: The Late Paintings, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1984), p. 130 (ill.), as Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-1920. [no collection]
Cogeval, Guy, Bonnard (Paris: Hazan, 1993), pp. 98, no. 28, opp. 98 (ill.), as Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
Bell, Julian, Bonnard (London: Phaidon Press, 1994), pp. 76, opp. 76 (ill.), pl. 23, as The Earthly Paradise.
Hagen, Monika von, Bonnard, exh. cat. (Munich: Hirmer, 1994), n.p., cat. 72, as Das irdische Paradies/Le paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
Lévêque, Alain, Bonnard, la main légère (Paris: Deyrolle, 1994), p. 48, as Paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
Watkins, Nicholas, Bonnard (London: Phaidon Press, 1994), pp. 128, 130, 131 (ill.), pl. 101, 151, 164, as Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-20. [private collection]
Artner, Alan G., “Museum acquires ‘Earthly Paradise’,” Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1996, as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
Frey, Mary Cameron, “Double Delight at Art Institute,” Chicago Sun-Times, April 3, 1996, p. 54 (ill.), as Earthly Paradise, 1917.
Kurita, Hidenori et al., Pierre Bonnard, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, 1997), p. 76 (ill.), as Earthly Paradise, 1916-1920.
James, Merlin, “Review: Bonnard. London and New York,” The Burlington Magazine 140, 1141 (April 1998), p. 278, as Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-20.
Kozloff, Max, “A Vertigo of the Senses,” Art in America 86, 7 (July 1998), p. 55 (ill.), as The Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
Hyman, Timothy, Bonnard (London: Thames and Hudson, 1998), p. 105, as Le Paradis terrestre (The Earthly Paradise).
Elderfield, John, “Bonnard’s Disguises” (1998), pp. 3-7, 10-15, sl. L2, L4, L11-L13, R2-R6, R10, as Le Paradis terrestre (The Earthly Paradise), 1916-20.
Watkins, Nicholas, Bonnard: Colour and Light (London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998), p. 33 (ill.), fig. 17, as The Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
Whitfield, Sarah and John Elderfield, Bonnard, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery Publishing, 1998), pp. 17, 22, 28, 124, cat. 36, 125 (ill.), as The Earthly Paradise/Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
Prat, Jean-Louis, Bonnard, exh. cat. (Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1999), n.p., as Le Paradis terrestre.
Groom, Gloria, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, exh. cat. (Chicago and New Haven: Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2001), pp. 186, cat. 52, 187 (ill.), 188-190, as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
Zutter, Jörg, “Pierre Bonnard: Early and late,” in Apollo 158, 500 (New Series), (November 2003), p. 48-49, as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
D’Alessandro, Stephanie, “Earthly Paradise,” in Museum Studies, Notable Acquistions at The Art Institute of Chicago 29, 2 (2002), p. 72 (ill.), 73 (detail), as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Phillip Wilson Publishers, 2003), pp. 37, 39 (ill.), fig. 28, 169 (ill.), pl. 80, 170 (detail), as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20.
La Chapelle, Philippe de, Paradis retrouvés: un itinéraire artistique (Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art, 2005), pp. 156, 159, 162, 163, cover ill., as Paradis terrestre.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Bonnard, May 24–June 11, 1921, n.p., cat. 4, as Paradis.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture française, March 28–July 2, 1925.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition retrospective: Bonnard, May–July 1950, p. 22, cat. 25, as Le Paradis Terrestre, 1917.
Nice, Musée des Ponchettes, Bonnard, August–September 1955, n.p. (ill.), cat. 23, p. 29, as Paradis terrestre, 1916-20.
Paris, Galeries Bernheim-Jeune, Coup de chapeau à Bonnard, March 3–April 8, 1967, no. 72.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Bonnard, summer 1994, n.p., cat. 72, as Das irdische Paradies/Le paradis terrestre, 1916-1920.
London, Tate Gallery, Bonnard, February 12–May 17, 1998, pp. 17, 22, 28, 124, cat. 36, 125 (ill.), as The Earthly Paradise/Le Paradis terrestre, 1916-20; traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, June 17–October 13, 1998.
Chicago, Art Institute, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, February 25–May 16, 2001, pp. 186, cat. 52, 187 (ill.), 188-190, as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 26–September 9, 2001.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Pierre Bonnard: early and late, September 22, 2002–January 19, 2003, pp. 37, 39 (ill.), fig. 28, 169 (ill.), pl. 80, 170 (detail), as Earthly Paradise, 1916-20; traveled to Denver Art Museum, March 1–May 25, 2003.
Commissioned by Gaston (1870-1953) and Josse (1870-1941) Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [Dauberville 1965]; Gaston Bernheim de Villers (formerly Bernheim-Jeune), Villers [Dauberville 1965]; by descent to his wife, Madame Bernheim de Villers (1883-1961), Villers [Nice 1955]; by descent to their grandson, Philippe Boby de la Chapelle, Villefranche-sur-Mer [letter from Philippe Boby de la Chapelle to James N. Wood, March 21, 1996, copy in curatorial file]; consigned to Galerie Cazeau-Beraudiere, Paris [letter cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.
Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930
Apples, 1916
Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana), 1893
At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/95
Still Life with Fruit, 1890
Émile Bernard
Woman on Rose Divan, 1921
Mahana no atua (Day of the God), 1894
Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle (La berceuse), 1889
Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre, early 1887
The Bedroom, 1889
The Two Disciples at the Tomb, c. 1906
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Wine Cistern
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Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance
Francesco Durantino
Italian, active 1543-after 1553
Elaborately fashioned platters, vessels, and containers, often with decorative embellishments that indicated their specialized function or their owner’s social status, were displayed on the banquet tables of Renaissance Italy. Cisterns such as this were filled with cold water and used to cool wine bottles at feasts. Skillfully decorated by the Italian ceramic painter Francesco Durantino, this work typifies the Renaissance interest in both Christian imagery and scenes from pagan antiquity. It is covered with depictions of two famous battle scenes, one on land and one at sea. Although the exterior, adapted from frescoes by Raphael’s followers, represents a land battle culminating in the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine I to Christianity, the cistern’s interior depicts a legendary naval disaster: the sinking of the Trojan hero Aeneas’s ships by the jealous goddess Hera. At the cistern’s center, the ships disappear beneath the waves, a playful conceit that was no doubt even more effective when the cistern was filled with water. The generously sized vessel displays all the characteristics that made maiolica, a tin-glazed earthenware, popular: brilliant colors, lively painting, and riveting narratives mixed with fanciful design. The term maiolica probably comes from Majorca, the port through which pottery from Moorish Spain was first exported to Italy.
Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance, Gallery 238
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
53.3 × 26.7 cm (21 × 10 1/2 in.)
Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment
Albert Jacquemart, History of the Ceramic Art (London, 1877), p. 294.
C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica (New York, 1877), p. 151.
William Chaffers, Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain (London, 1886), pp. 84, 87.
C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica, A Historical Treatise (Oxford, 1896), p. 235.
M. L. Solon, Italian Maiolica (London, 1907), p. 104.
Emil Hannover, Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 1 (New York, 1925), p. 130.
Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria and Albert Museum, vol. 1 (London, 1940), p. 284.
Joseph Chompret, Majolique Italienne, vol. 1 (Paris, 1949), p. 150.
Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica: Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection (London, 1959), pp. 131-32, no. 448, pl. 200B, 201B.
Giuseppe Liverani, Five Centuries of Italian Majolica (New York, 1960), p. 49.
Vivian J. Scheidemantel, “An Italian Majolica Wine Cooler,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 42-62 (ill.).
John Fleming and Hugh Honour, Dictionary of the Decorative Arts (New York, 1977), p. 305, and dust jacket image.
Andrew Moore, “Documents for the History of Collecting: 5, The Fountaine Collection of maiolica,” Burlington Magazine 130 (1988), p. 447.
Ian Wardropper and Lynn Springer Roberts, European Decorative Arts in The Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago, 1991), pp. 18, 20, 24 (ill.).
Rudolf Distelberger, et al, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics (Washington, 1993), pp. 223-24.
Timothy Wilson, “The Maiolica-Painter Francesco Durantino: Mobility and Collaboration in Urbino ‘isoriato’” in Italienische Fayencen der Renaissance: Ihre Spuren in internationalen Museumssammlungen, ed. Silvia Glaser. Wissenschaftliche Beibände zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 22 (Nuremberg, 2004), pp. 128-129, 131, 134, figs. 32-34.
Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a catalogue of the British Museum collection , vol. 2 (London, 2009), pp. 422, under no. 247.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 – June 14, 1987.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July 11 - September 20, 2009, no catalogue.
Possibly acquired by Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) in Italy in the early eighteenth century and passed to his heirs by descent [Scheidemantel, 1968, p. 52]. Andrew Fontaine (d. 1873), Narford Hall, Norfolk; by descent to heirs [according to C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica (Oxford,1896), p. 77]; sold, London, Christie’s, 1884, no. 389, to Galerie Stettiner, Paris, for £336 {according to annotated copy of sales catalogue in the British Museum, referenced by Scheidemantel, 1968, p. 58]. Baron Eugen Miller von Aichholz (b. 1835 - d. 1919), Palast Aichholz, Vienna, before 1900 (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 18-22, 1900, no. 101). Fernand Adda (d. 1964), Alexandria and later Paris and Rome; his sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, November 29-December 3, 1965, no. 601; sold to Edward R. Lubin Gallery, New York [according to letter in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1966 [according to receipt in Registrar’s files].
Miniature Jar with Textile Pattern or Abstract Fish Motifs, A.D. 1450/1532
Miniature Ceremonial Vessel (Aryballos), A.D. 1450/1532
Plate with a Seated Woman, 1425/1475
Dish with Rampant Lion, 1500/1600
Tigerware Jug with Silver Mounts, 1562/63
Hispano-Moresque Plate, 16th century
Plate with Unidentified Coat of Arms, 1500/25
Tile, 16th/17th century
Earflare with Flower-like Modeled Relief, A.D. 1450/1521
Aztec (Mexica)
Ear Ornament or Spindle Whorl with Modeled Frog Motifs, A.D. 1450/1521
Ear Ornament or Spindle Whorl with Modeled Design, A.D. 1450/1521
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Just Dessert
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Jean-Joseph Carriès
William Michael Harnett
American, born Ireland, 1848–1892
One of only three works William Michael Harnett painted in the year before his death, Just Dessert offers the viewer a display of foodstuffs sumptuously arranged on a marble surface. The traditional tabletop composition is one that Harnett often employed in his still lifes. In Just Dessert, the exotic clashes with the quotidian—Maraschino liqueur, half a coconut, and Smyrna figs rest alongside a copper
pitcher, pewter tankard, and ginger jar. Small crumbs of cork are visible on the grapes and fig seeds are smashed on the side of the wooden box, indicating that the dessert has been eaten, as well as highlighting Harnett’s skillful renderings in trompe l’oeil (fool-the-eye) painting.
American Art, Gallery 173
Signed, lower right: "Harnett / 1891"
56.6 × 68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 3/4 in.)
Friends of American Art Collection
Wolfgang Born, Still Life Painting in America (Oxford University Press, 1947), fig. 80.
Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Hillison and Etten Co., 1952).
Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt, William Harnett and other American Still Life Painters, 1870–1900 (University of California Press, 1953), 67, 92, 173–74, cat. 124.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 210 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), 216, 386 (ill.).
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Abrams, 1970), 107 (ill.).
David Hanks, “American Paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago, Part II, The Nineteenth Century,” Magazine Antiques 104, 5 (Nov. 1973), 895–905 (ill.).
Doreen Bolger, Marc Simpson, and John Wilmerding, William M. Harnett (Abrams, 1992), 82, 166, 187, 189, 219, pl. 47.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 256–59, no. 125.
Julie L’Enfant, “Other Realities: The Art of Paul S. Kramer” (Afton Press, 2013), (ill.).
Milwaukeee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb 20–Mar 28, 1948, no. 22, no cat.
New York, Downtown Gallery, Harnett Centennial Exhibition, Apr 13–May 1, 1948, cat. 18.
Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, Ill., A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, Jun 10–16, 1957, cat. 11.
New York, M. Knoedler and Company, Apr–May 1958.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Still–Life Paintings of William M. Harnett, Mar 16–Jun 14, 1992; traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Jul 17– Oct 18, 1992, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Nov 14, 1992–Feb 14, 1993, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Mar 14–Jun 13, 1993.
Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr 20–Mar 29, 1994, cat. 49; traveled to Nagoya, Japan, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Jun 10–Jul 24, 1994, Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug 6–Sep 25, 1994.
Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov 10, 2013–Jan 27, 2014; traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb 22–May 18, 2014.
Private collection, Philadelphia; Downtown Gallery, New York City, by 1942; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.
For Sunday’s Dinner, 1888
A Friendly Warning, 1881/90
Thomas Hicks
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams, 1899
Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, 1876
Eastman Johnson
Bird’s Nest and Ferns, 1863
Fidelia Bridges
One Dollar Silver Certificate, 1898/1900
Victor Dubreuil
Riter Fitzgerald, 1895
J. Frank Currier (1843–1909), 1876
Frank Duveneck
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, 1865
Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?), c. 1867
Alfred Stevens
Beggar with Oysters (Philosopher), 1865/67
Seventeenth-Century Interior, 1877
Charles Gifford Dyer
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Offset lithograph (1)
Cubism (70)
On the Beach, I (Two Nude Women), from Quatre Lithographies, March 8, 1921, published April 1923
The Sleeping Woman, March 23, 1947
Two Nude Women, February 12, 1946
Composition with Vase of Flowers, March 10, 1947
Figure in a Striped Blouse, April 3, 1949
David and Bathsheba, March 30, 1947
The Black Bull, April 20, 1947
Dove in Flight, July 9, 1950
Françoise, June 14, 1946
Paloma and Her Doll on a Black Background, December 14, 1952
Centaur and Bacchante with Faun, February 2, 1947
Pierreuse, Her Hand on Her Shoulder, or Waiting (Margot), published 1966, after a painting of 1901
Portrait of Paul Valery, from La Jeune Parque, June 12, 1921
Venus and Cupid, May 25, 1949
Faun Musician No. 5, March 10, 1948
The Family of Saltimbanques, February 16, 1954
Modern Style Bust, March 8, 1949
Portrait of Jacqueline, December 4, 1956
Head of Young Girl, February 19, 1946
Face of Marie-Therese, 1928
Portrait of D. H. Kahnweiler III, June 3, 1957
Young Girl with Full Hair, November 24, 1945
Games and Reading, January 23–24, 1953
The Painter and His Model, March 25, 1954
Couverture pour Dessins d’un Demi-Siecle, April 1956
Woman’s Head, November 2, 1945
Bullfight, January 7, 1946
The Owl with White Background, January 20, 1947
Bust with Star Background, March 7, 1949, dated by artist April 7, 1949
The Dove, January 9, 1949
Head of Young Girl, December 17, 1945
Seated Woman and Sleeping Woman, May 11, 1947
Shells and Birds, February 19, 1946
Dancers, February 13, 1954
Woman’s Head on Black Background, November 2, 1945
Smiling Faun, March 10, 1948
Jacqueline in Profile to the Right, December 27, 1958
Figure, November 21, 1948
The Bull, January 17, 1946
Head of a Woman, Three-Quarter-Face, January 4, 1953
Plate 9 from Poèmes et Lithographies, 1949, published December 1954
Young Girl Inspired by Cranach, March 26–27, 1949
Reading, 1925–26
The Cavalier, from Quatre Lithographies, March 7, 1921, published April 1923
The Lobster, January 9, 1949
Woman in Armchair, No. 1, January 16, 1949
Head of Rams, December 7, 1945
Page of Sketches (Heads of Children and Horses), December 4, 1945
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Interview: Leopoldo López on Venezuela's Political Alternative
“We are an alternative in terms of presenting solutions for poverty and for public safety, which are the main issues that Venezuelans need to have addressed by their government.”
Leopoldo López Mendoza, mayor of the Chacao municipality of Caracas, was a frontrunner in the race for the mayoralty of the Venezuelan capital until he, along with hundreds of other opposition candidates, was banned from running in November municipal elections. In an exclusive interview with AS/COA Online’s Carin Zissis, López talks about the questionable legality of the ban and the threat it poses to democracy in Venezuela. López, who won 81 percent of votes when he ran for reelection for his current post in 2004, says inequality and public security serve as Venezuela’s main challenges. He joined AS/COA Miami for a private event on October 1.
AS/COA: Venezuela’s electoral council barred hundreds of mostly opposition candidates from running in the November municipal election on the basis of unproven corruption charges. You’ve been prohibited from running for the mayoral post of Caracas. Given the current block against your candidacy, what are your short-term political goals?
López: The first goal is to help promote the candidates that can run and to promote possible victories in municipalities and governorships in this upcoming elections.
The government decided to take the most competitive candidates out of the running. I was winning [in polls] by over 60 percent of the vote in the city of Caracas, which is the capital of Venezuela and accounts for the second most important political post in Venezuela after the president. There was no doubt that we were going to win.
The decision by the government was to remove us from the electoral competition and try to win elections by taking away competitive candidates. This also happened in the state of Anzoátegui, in the state of Miranda, and in the state of Táchira—all the important states that we were winning in and candidates were taken away by an unconstitutional, illegal decision. The charges were administrative charges and the constitution is very clear in terms of the conditions that can take somebody away from the possibility of running for office. In order to be disqualified to run for office, one has to be sentenced by a criminal court. I was not tried or sentenced by any type of court. Therefore, there was no constitutional or legal way of excluding me from running for office.
AS/COA: I understand that you have a court case related to this with the OAS human rights court.
López: It was accepted in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington and it also been accepted in the human rights committee of Mercosur. And we will take our case to any national or international authority that can make an evaluation of the way that the powers in Venezuela—the electoral, the Supreme Court, and the government—are discriminating against the candidates for the electoral process, which is a violation of basic human rights and basic democratic rules, which the people decide. Let the people decide who will be their representatives. That basic law of democracy is being violated with these decisions in Venezuela.
AS/COA: So given the high likelihood that you’re not going to be able to be a candidate in November, what sort of role are you playing in this election over the next couple of months?
López: We have six or seven more weeks before the elections, so I am working with the candidates in Caracas and outside of Caracas to promote their candidacies, to promote the vote, and to organize ourselves to defend the vote. The only way that we can ensure that we can win elections is if we are overseeing every detail of the electoral process. We are putting together thousands of volunteers to oversee the electoral process.
AS/COA: What has been the public’s reaction to this banning of candidates and what are some activities you’re seeing as you go out with campaigns in and around Caracas?
López: I can tell you opinion polls show that between 70 and 80 percent of Venezuelans are against this decision. That high figure includes people that support the president, so this was a very unpopular measure. It was very clear for Venezuelans that it was political discrimination and that the action was taken in order for the government to win elections by removing the competitive candidates. What are we seeing from the people? We are seeing a lot of support in terms of overcoming this obstacle and continuing with the hope of building a democratic alternative for Venezuelans.
AS/COA: I’ve noticed in reading interviews and in other articles about you that you use this word “alternative” as opposed to “opposition.” Could you talk a little bit about that and what the distinction is in your eyes.
López: The distinction is in the words themselves, and words matter. The word “opposition” is basically defined by conflict, it is defined by opposing, it is defined by the other, and it is not defined by what is proposed. If we define ourselves as opposition, we are defining ourselves as something different than what the other is presenting and I think that limits the scope and the buildup of a new majority, which is our goal.
What we are presenting is an alternative, and if we are an alternative to this government we are an alternative in the way we conceive social policy, economic policies, and political understanding. We are an alternative in terms of bringing Venezuelans together with a tolerant and an inclusive way of understanding democracy. We are an alternative in terms of presenting solutions for poverty and for public safety, which are the main issues that Venezuelans need to have addressed by their government.
That’s why we use the concept of “alternative” because for many years, the Venezuelan opposition has been only that, opposition, and that of course limits the potential that we can have of building the new majority that I was talking about.
AS/COA: You touched a little bit on what you see some of the main issues facing Venezuelans. What are some of the alternative policies that are being proposed by candidates?
López: The main issues that need to be addressed for Venezuelans are inequality, poverty, and public safety. Just to give you an idea, Venezuela is going through an immense oil boom and, even though the oil income for Venezuela has increased immensely, it has not helped Venezuelans. We have a rich state and a poor society. We have a very rich government that gives away the funds of Venezuelans all around the world but it has not been able to alleviate poverty and inequality. The rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer in Venezuela. Even though, as I said, we are going through an oil boom.
The other issue is public safety. Venezuela has become the most violent country in the American continent, and Caracas has become one of the most violent cities, maybe one of the top two or three most violent cities in the world. The rate of homicides is above 100 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Colombia, which used to be the most violent country in Latin America, has below 30 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
So that gives you an idea of what has happened in Venezuela in terms of public safety, which is an issue that concerns all Venezuelans but the government. The government does not address this issue, it is not a concern, it is not in its discourse, and our proposal for the city of Caracas was based on this issue. We were proposing Caracas para la Vida—Caracas for Life. Caracas has become the capital of murder, the capital of death, the capital of conflict, the capital of fear. Our proposal was to overcome fear with hope, to overcome death with life, to overcome conflict with tolerance. That was our proposal for the city of Caracas and it will continue to be our proposal for Caracas and for Venezuela.
AS/COA: What are some of the core ways that you can see for turning back that crime rate in Caracas?
López: I‘ve been mayor for eight years now. I’m mayor of one of the municipalities in Caracas, and we have been able to decrease crime over 60 percent at the same period of time when Caracas as a whole saw its crime rate double. So we have been able to put together successful policies in terms of prevention, focusing on the young men between 14 and 24 years old, especially those that live in poor sectors of the city, giving them an alternative to crime, giving an alternative in terms of education, jobs, sports, and culture.
The other thing that we’ve done is that we put together and modernized our police force, not just by incorporating new technology and new managerial ways of understanding the fight against crime, but also by incorporating respect for human rights as the most important value of our police force. Our view of fighting crime is linked with respect for human rights. We put as our main reason for fighting crime the respect for human rights. We actually are the only police force in Venezuela that has certified 100 percent of the police officers in terms of human rights.
AS/COA: The Venezuelan municipal elections follow U.S. presidential elections by a few weeks. What advice would you give to the next U.S. administration in terms of relations with Venezuela?
López: I think that the changing scope of the policy between the United States and Venezuela needs to be put into a perspective of a change of U.S.-Latin American relations, and then we can look at U.S.-Venezuelan relations. With regards to the U.S.-Latin American relations, I believe we need a radical change in the motivations and in the way that U.S. foreign policy has been channeled towards Latin America.
So far, over the past 15 years, U.S. policy has been focused on terrorism, drugs, and trade. Those have been the three issues that have become a priority for U.S. policy. However, those issues are not a priority for Latin Americans. I am not talking only about governments. I am talking about people. I believe that a change in foreign policy should focus more on the people in terms of human rights; promoting democracy at all levels; and in promoting a buildup of better relationships between cities, municipalities, and governorships.
I think there needs to be a focus similar to what happened during the Kennedy administration, which was the Alliance for Progress. I am not saying that should be the name, but the concept should be a hemispheric alliance to fight poverty, promote prosperity, promote justice, promote human rights, and that will promote democracy and the improvement of the entire region.
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February 01, 2019 • Playbook
Weekly Commentary – February 4, 2019
Alfred Lam, MBA, CFA
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Date Release Period Consensus Previous
February 4 Markit Services PMI Final January 19 54.2 54.4
February 6 JOLTs Job Openings December 18 5.800 M 6.888M
February 7 Consumer Credit Change December 18 $15.0B $22.2B
February 5 Exports December 18 $52.10B $48.33B
February 8 Unemployment Rate January 19 5.80% 5.60%
Key Earnings:
February 4: Alphabet Inc., Clorox Co., Saia Inc., Sysco Corp.
February 5: Estee Lauder Companies Inc., Spirit Airlines Inc., Walt Disney Co.
February 6: Boston Scientific Corp., Brinks Co., Ceridian HCM Holding Inc.
February 7: Expedia Group Inc., Knowles Corp., News Corp., PG&E Corp.
February 8: Arconic Inc., GrafTech International Ltd., Hasbro Inc., Ventas Inc.
Source: Trading Economics, Yahoo Finance
Market Focus
Canadian economy cools
Updated figures from Statistics Canada revealed a 0.1% contraction in GDP by industry in November. The decline was the second in three months and left year-over-year economic growth at a modest 1.7%, the weakest figure since January 2017. The service sector contracted during the month, but by less than 0.1% while goods production fell by 0.3%. Underlying activity was decidedly mixed, as 13 of the 21 major subgroups reported an advance. Nevertheless, baring a significant rebound in December, the fourth quarter is likely to reveal the weakest growth figure since the second quarter of 2016. This was the last time an outright decline in quarterly GDP was reported and came a full year before the Bank of Canada began its tightening of monetary policy.
U.S. Fed takes a less hawkish stance
The U.S. Federal Reserve met market expectations by holding interest rates steady at their first monetary policy meeting of 2019. However, changes to the text of the press release that accompanied the announcement suggest that there may be less tightening on the horizon than previously believed. Importantly, text that explicitly referred to “further gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy” was dropped. The release now states that “the Committee will be patient as it determines what future adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate may be appropriate.” The recently-ended partial closure of the U.S. government, reduced the release of key economic data to a trickle. Until the backlog is cleared, market participants will have to interpret the Fed’s likely course of action against an incomplete backdrop.
Fed shift helps fuel old school January effect
U.S. markets experienced a sea change in January as investors appeared eager to shake off December’s equity debacle. The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 7.2% gain was its best January performance since 1989. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 Index’s 7.9% advance marked its best start to a calendar year since 1987. January’s resurgence came on the heels of December’s rout, with the S&P having turned in its worst December performance since 1931. Chairman Jerome Powell's decision to take the Fed’s balance sheet off “autopilot” provided support to investors who have long been braced for a downturn in U.S. economic growth, amid erratic geopolitical conditions. Further, the Fed’s apparent willingness to break from expectations of raising short-term interest rates in the coming months, allowed a far more optimistic tone to fuel the January surge.
Longer View
It will likely take some time for central banks to normalize interest rates and unwind the quantitative easing that has added trillions of dollars to central banks’ balance sheets. Growth rates for loans will slow significantly because of the unwind likely causing economies to grow at below-average rates. Valuations for stocks are fair and expected returns are positive although overall markets are unlikely to deliver double-digit returns over the next decade. Companies that have solid balance sheets will likely outperform. Recent volatility and general noise in the market can represent a material distraction and may discourage investors. Working with a financial advisor will ensure your portfolio is optimized and continues to meet your needs.
▼ Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reported the European Commission’s Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) fell 1.2 points to 106.2 (seasonally adjusted) in January, following a marginally upwardly revised 107.4 level in December. The reading fell well below market consensus and was at its lowest level since November 2016. The ESI has now declined in twelve of the last thirteen months. The deterioration of euro-area sentiment resulted from lower confidence in industry (-1.8 points), services (-0.12 points) and retail trade (-1.8 points). However, although overall confidence in industry and services declined on a month-over-month basis, both sub-sectors’ figures remained in positive sentiment territory. Moreover, confidence in construction (+0.9 points) was the strongest contributor to the ESI. Consumer confidence indicators (CCI), such as the ESI, were revised by combining survey questions about personal finances with consumers’ expectations with respect to macroeconomic developments which outperform the current CCI. As a result, “the ‘Micro-and-Expectations-Mix Indicator’ is therefore chosen as the European Commission’s new, official CCI, replacing the current CCI as of January 2019.”
▲ The Australian Bureau of Statistics announced that consumer prices rose by 1.8% (annual basis) in the three months to December, following a 1.9% increase in the three months to September. The figure was above expectations of 1.7% and the lowest inflation rate since Q3 2017. The marginal decline in the year-over-year figure was driven primarily by a weaker increase in transportation costs (2.8%) from the previous period. On a quarterly basis, the consumer price index (CPI) edged up 0.1 percentage points to 0.5%, after a 0.4% rise in the three months to September and just above market expectations of 0.4%. This marks the highest quarterly figure since December 2017. The annual figure was only 0.1 percentage points below the 2.0% forecast made by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in November. The RBA intends to hold CPI in the 2.0%-3.0% range over the medium-term and expects CPI to increase to around 2.25% in the years ending December 2019 and 2020.
▼ According to a preliminary report released by Destatis, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, consumer prices eased to 1.4% (annual basis) in January, following a 1.7% increase in December. This reading was only a couple of ticks below market expectations and equalled its lowest outturn since November 2016. On a month-over-month basis, the CPI dropped steeply to -0.8%, from a 0.1% level in December and was marginally below expectations. The report comes just hours after the German government slashed its 2019 growth forecast to 1.0%, nearly half the 1.8% pace projected as recently as October. The preliminary figures are likely citing a deteriorating global trading environment.
■ The U.S. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged following its latest two-day policy meeting. The target range for the federal funds was left at 2.25% to 2.50%. The Fed last raised interest rates by 0.25% on December 19. The press release that accompanied the announcement highlighted the continued strengthening of both the labour market and household spending. The Fed also referred to recent declines in “market-based measures of inflation compensation” but indicated that longer-term inflation expectations were largely unchanged. The announcement of no change to interest rates at today’s meeting is in line with expectations. Monetary policy, as decided by the Fed, has significant influence on both the U.S. and global economy. Its lead is often followed by policymakers in other countries.
▲ The U.S. Department of Labor announced that initial jobless claims totalled 253,000 (seasonally adjusted) in the week ending January 26, an increase of 53,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the highest level for initial claims since September 30, 2017 when it was 254,000. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 to 200,000. The four-week moving average was 220,250, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 250 to 215,250. These results are weaker than consensus estimates.
▼ Statistics Canada announced that, monthly, real GDP by industry declined 0.1% in November, after rising 0.3% in October. Decreases in wholesale trade, finance and insurance, manufacturing and construction more than offset gains in 13 of 20 industrial sectors. Goods-producing industries were down 0.3%, the third decline in four months, while services-producing industries were essentially unchanged. On a year-over-year basis, GDP growth stands at 1.7%. These results are somewhat stronger than market expectations. GDP is the broadest measure of aggregate economic activity and encompasses every sector of the economy.
▲ China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that its manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) reversed slightly, edging up to 49.5 in January, following a 49.4 result in December 2018. It was the first increase following four consecutive declines. However, the reading remained near a three-year low and, with the below-50.0 figure, still points to contraction in the sector. This result was marginally stronger than expectations. Meanwhile, the non-manufacturing PMI increased to a four-month high of 54.7 in January from 53.8 in December. This was likely boosted by pre-holiday factors. Overall, the findings suggest the Chinese economy got off to a rough start in the new year.
▼ Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reported that the number of unemployed workers fell by a substantial 75,000 to 12.3 million in December. Accordingly, the unemployment rate in the 19-country euro area remained stable at 7.9% (monthly basis, seasonally adjusted) in December and down from 8.6% a year ago. These results were in line with market expectations and joblessness remained at its lowest rate since October 2008. Despite the jobs market being a lagging indicator, the collective data from this report may likely suggest that business activity across the euro area is still expanding at a fast-enough rate to make further inroads into the current unemployment problem.
▲ According to Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union, real GDP in the euro area expanded 0.2% (flash estimate - seasonally adjusted) in the fourth quarter of 2018. The growth figure was in line with market expectations. Year-over-year growth in the euro area declined 0.4 percentage points to 1.2% in December, its weakest print since the fourth quarter of 2013. Moreover, calendar year 2018 growth in the euro area stood at 1.8%. The data confirm the euro area’s subdued economic activity in 2018 and may provide justification for the European Central Bank (ECB) to consider greater downside risks in its economic projections. This could open the door for the ECB to reinstate the quantitative easing program which was halted in December 2018.
▲ The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate edged up by 0.1 percentage points to 4.0% in January, and non-farm payroll employment rose by 304,000. The nominal increase in the unemployment rate came despite a modest 11,000 drop in the labour force. Job gains occurred in several industries, including leisure and hospitality, construction, health care, and transportation and warehousing. The payrolls figure is dramatically stronger than consensus expectations while the change in the unemployment rate still leaves it near the cyclical low. This is the most closely followed set of U.S. statistics as it indicates the relative health of the various sectors of the economy and is suggestive of consumer spending.
▼ Markit Economics reported that Germany’s Manufacturing PMI fell to 49.7 in January from 51.5 in the prior month. The decline was led by the steepest drop in new orders in over six years. The overall reading (below the key 50.0 level) revealed the first contraction in Germany’s manufacturing sector since November 2014. This report is weaker than both the earlier flash reading of 49.9 and consensus estimates. The results reflect the negative impact of the looming Brexit, coupled with trade friction between the U.S and China and uncertainty over the outlook for the domestic economy, as Europe’s largest economy reported the worst year of GDP growth in five years.
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Congress Causing Immigration Courts System to Fail
There are many immigrants in the United States today who are due to face the courts for any number of reasons – those seeking asylum and those facing deportation are just a few – but they are likely to have a lengthy wait ahead of them.
Over the last decade, it’s been reported that the federal immigration court system has been under a 146% increased workload, and the number of active cases that were being handled at the end of July 2015 sat at an incredible 453,948. On average, those cases have been pending 627 days – almost two years. For those immigrations looking for asylum or refugee status, it has meant a long and uncertain wait with no security in the meantime.
And why is there such a backlog of cases? When compared to the uptick in border security officers, which has almost doubled to 21,000 in the last ten years, it seems anomalous that there hasn’t been a comparative increase in judges and officials who are responsible for hearing immigration cases in the courts. The United States government has put a lot of money into security – a recent report, in fact, says that between 2002 and 2013, the budget for immigration enforcement and security rose 300% – but the same hasn’t been done for immigration courts. The report revealed that unlike border security, the court budget for immigration cases only rose by 70% between 2002 and 2013.
Immigration judges attend to, on average, 1400 cases a year, and with current circumstances they face a lot of stress and a high risk of burning out. With the system being so overwhelmed, giving cases their due is tough – judges have said that researching the complex legal points in immigration laws is stressful enough without the increased workload – but on the other hand, letting cases become lengthy means that others continue to stay on hold. This is not only to the detriment of the courts, but also the people potentially serving time, being deported, or looking to gain asylum in the US and escape persecution in their home countries.
The caseload faced by immigration judges is twice that of both Veterans Affairs and Social Security courts, and Judge Dana Leigh Marks, who is the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, estimates it would take at least 100 more judges to clear the current backlog. That’s almost double the number proposed by President Obama in the upcoming budget for the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review.
If you or someone you know is involved in this backlog of cases and would like to talk to an immigration lawyer about the options available, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with Lyttle Law Firm, either through the website or by calling 215-512-5225.
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Reading Symphony Orchestra Opens 2018-19 Season with Scheherazade, 9/22
Aug 10, 2018 • by Reading Symphony Orchestra
RSO Presents 'Scheherazade'
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Book on Blue Marsh Area Before Dam Updated and Expanded
Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain Also Included on Program
READING, Pennsylvania – The Reading Symphony Orchestra celebrates the opening night of its 2018-19 season with Scheherazade, a program featuring works by legendary Russian composers on Saturday, September 22, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. at the Santander Performing Arts Center. British violinist Matthew Trusler joins the orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Andrew Constantine, in Prokofiev’s second Violin Concerto. The evening also features Rimsky-Korsakov’s iconic piece,
Scheherazade, which tells the musical tale of the 1,001 nights as Scheherazade, the character, mesmerizes the King in order to save her life, ultimately having the King fall in love with her. Also on the program is Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain.
Tickets for the September 22nd concert can be purchased through Ticketmaster, by calling the RSO office at 610-373-7557 or emailing [email protected].
Additional performances in the 2018-19 season include Scandinavian Dreams with the RSO String Quartet on October 20; beloved classical works from Debussy’s Clair de Lune to Bernstein’s Candide Overture in Orchestral Masterpieces on December 1; a celebration of 2019 with New Years Eve: The Music of James Taylor & Carole King on December 31; a performance featuring acclaimed pianist Julio Elizalde in Beethoven Piano Concerto on January 26; Lincoln Portrait: Images of Freedom, Aaron Copland’s tribute to the nation’s sixteenth president with photochoreography by Westwater Arts on March 9; the magic of cirque with aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, dancers, and more, in Cirque De La Symphonie on April 13; and Puccini’s Tosca in collaboration with Berks Opera Company, the Reading Choral Society and Berks Youth Chorus on May 4.
About Matthew Trusler
Matthew Trusler has developed a reputation as one of Britain’s leading violinists, performing with many of the world’s great orchestras, and receiving huge critical acclaim for his diverse recordings. He has also founded the record label Orchid Classics on which some of the most important artists of today are recording, and the Lenny Trusler Children’s Foundation, which raises money for ill babies. Trusler was instrumental in forming the Malmo International String Festival, and was in 2012 was appointed a director of Delange Artists Management, based in Amsterdam.
Performing on a bow once owned by Heifetz, given to him by Herbert Axelrod (who himself received it from Heifetz), Trusler has received particular acclaim for his performances of works from the 20th century, including concertos by Walton, Berg, Britten and Lindberg. His recording of concertos by Korngold and Rozsa with the Dusseldorf Symphony received 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine, and the headline “Hotter than Heifetz?”
Trusler has been invited to perform as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout Europe, Australia, the United States, Japan, and South Africa. In the UK, he has performed with major orchestras including the BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish and BBC Welsh orchestras, the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, City of Birmingham, Halle and Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Further afield, he has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra, NDR Hanover, Helsinki Philharmonic, Deutsche Symphony Berlin, Malaysian Philharmonic, Dusseldorf Tonhalle, Flanders Symfonieorkest and Johannesburg Philharmonic. Some of his personal highlights include his debut at the BBC Proms where he performed the Mathias Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, tours with the Australian orchestras (including appearances in Perth, Queensland and Tasmania), a tour of Germany with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Sir Neville Marriner, and a tour of Mexico with Martyn Brabbins and the Philharmonia.
About Andrew Constantine
Andrew Constantine was appointed Music Director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra in April 2007 following a two year search involving nearly three hundred conductors and was named Music Director of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in July 2009. Previously, Constantine served as Associate Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for three years following an appointment by Yuri Temirkanov in 2004. Constantine works regularly with nearly all of the top British orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as having strong relationships with a number of European and Scandinavian orchestras including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In the United States, Constantine has developed a reputation for imaginative and compelling programming as well as a profound commitment to music education. In 2003, he was awarded the degree of Honorary Doctor of Music by the University of Leicester for his “contribution to music” and was also awarded a highly prestigious British NESTA Fellowship.
About the Reading Symphony Orchestra
Since 1913, the Reading Symphony Orchestra has been providing uninterrupted access to exceptional classical music to the citizens of Berks County and beyond. Throughout the past 105 years as one of the nation’s continuously operating symphonies, the RSO has performed masterworks from Bach to Beethoven, and many more, and has been joined by illustrious guest soloists including pianists Yuja Wang and Fabio Bidini, violinist Midori, and guitarist Jason Vieaux.
The RSO has blossomed under the artistic leadership of Maestros Harry Fahrbach, Walter Pfeiffer, Hans Kindler, Alexander Hilsberg, Louis Vyner, Sidney Rothstein, and its current music director Andrew Constantine. The orchestra currently performs six concerts annually on its Classics series with additional Pops performances, and collaborations with other community performing arts organizations.
The RSO’s numerous educational and outreach programs continue to benefit the community. Among others, the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings program gives talented area music students the opportunity to perform advanced orchestral repertoire with like-minded peers under the guidance of high-caliber artistic staff; the Orchestra Zone program provides free private instrumental music lessons to underserved students in the Reading School District; and the Masterclass series gives community members an opportunity to learn from visiting soloists.
For more information, please visit www.readingsymphony.org or call 610-373-7557.
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The effective source approach to self-force calculations relies on an analytically computed approximation to the Detweiler-Whiting singular field. These approximations are typically implemented as series expansions in the distance of the field point from the point particle. On this page, I will provide a collection of codes and Mathematica scripts for computing these expansions.
Scalar self-force
Circular orbits in Kerr spacetime
The effective source approach was first applied to orbits in Kerr spacetime in Phys. Rev. D 84, 084001 (2011), which considered the case of an equatorial, circular geodesic orbit. This made use of an approximation to the singular field which is accurate to fourth order. The expressions for this are given in Appendix A of the paper. However, as they are quite long, I am providing them in a more convenient electronic form as a Mathematica notebook.
Generic orbits in Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes
The paper Phys. Rev. D 85, 104044 (2012) gives a detailed description of the effective source approach, and derives expressions for the effective source for generic orbits in Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetime. As most of the expressions were too long to be included in the paper, we provide them instead as a Mathematica notebook. We have also developed a C code which may be used as a black box for computing the effective source.
Gravitational self-force
Circular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime (frequency-domain)
The effective source approach was first applied to compute the gravitational self-force in the frequency-domain in arXiv:1505.07841, which considered the case of an circular geodesic orbit in Schwarzschild spacetime. This made use of an effective source derived from spherical-harmonic mode puncture functions. The expressions for these puncture functions are given in Appendix C of the paper. However, as they are quite long, I am providing them in a more convenient electronic form as a Mathematica notebook, along with the higher-order versions referred to in the paper.
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BT expands super-fast broadband network
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10111724
Image caption The fibre rollout can begin in earnest says Ofcom
BT has announced that it will expand its roll-out of next-generation broadband to bring super-fast services to two-thirds of the UK.
Originally its fibre services, offering speeds of up to 40 megabits per second (Mbps), were due to reach around 40% of the population by 2012.
A £1bn investment will see the project roll out to a further 20% of the population by 2015.
The first four million people will be connected by the end of the year.
"It's an exciting situation," said Liv Garfield of the firm.
The firm has also announced a deal with the Onlive video games service to offer streaming games to BT Vision customers.
"You'll have many games from many different providers and you'll be able to play them wherever you are," said Ms Garfield.
Long climb
The expansion of fibre services has been enabled by the firm's return to profit.
Image caption The service will be available later in the year and charge a monthly fee
Streaming games service launched
BT announced a profit of just over £1bn ($1.49bn) in the year to 31 March, compared with a loss of £244m during the previous 12 months.
The telco had previously committed to spend £1.5bn on its fibre network by 2012 but is now able to invest a further £1bn, said Ms Garfield.
She said of the 66% of the population who will have access to the fibre network, one quarter will have fibre to the home.
"That will have download speeds of 100 Mbps and uploads of 30 Mbps," she told BBC News.
The rest will have "fibre to the cabinet", meaning that the fast cables will reach street side cabinets. This will offer download speeds of 40Mbps, said Ms Garfield.
The roll out will be "evenly distributed" across England, Scotland and Wales, she said.
Adrian Wooster at the Independent Networks Cooperative Association, which co-ordinates community broadband efforts, said it was only the start of the journey towards faster broadband for all.
It seems BT is not interested in delivering a rural solution but at the same time is trying to stop anyone else from doing so
Dr David Lewis, Managing director, Rutland Telecom
"This announcement to deliver up to 40 Mbps to much of the population provides the UK with an opportunity to re-camp and seriously consider how we as nation will be able to invest on the levels required to match the broadband programmes seen in other countries," he said.
"We have left base camp and are making good progress but mustn't lose sight of the summit," he added.
The Conservatives have made it clear that they do not support immediate government intervention in the broadband market.
Before the election it said that if commercial firms have not provided super-fast broadband to everyone by 2012, it will consider offering some financial help.
Many communities have become frustrated by the slow roll-out of fibre services and have begun to offer their own.
Midlands village Lyddington broke away from BT after the telco said it was too expensive to offer fibre services.
Image caption Lyddington is one of many rural areas with slow broadband
Village launches DIY broadband
After successfully "unbundling" the Lyddington telephone cabinet, locally-based Rutland Telecom has had enquiries from 200 other villages keen to do the same thing.
But, in order to establish how much it would cost each village to break away from BT it needs access to some crucial information about how homes are connected to its network.
"BT has consistently refused to release the data Rutland Telecom needs to tell which premises are connected to which green cabinet," said Dr David Lewis.
"It seems BT is not interested in delivering a rural solution but at the same time is trying to stop anyone else from doing so," he added.
Ms Garfield said that she was unaware of any problems.
"It's news to me I'm afraid. I thought we had provided everything we were required to provide."
BT swings back into full-year profit
Green light for faster broadband
Manchester to gain fibre network
Village raises £25k for broadband
Calls for BT to 'light my fibre'
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Bishop's Stortford tea party for Epping's specialist breast cancer unit raises £1,500
By Cat Barkley
cat.barkley@iliffemedia.co.uk
Tea Party, Bishops Stortford Baptist Church, PICTURED: Guests enjoying the party, 29-06-19, Pictures by Alison Jenkins.. (13195293)
A woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago has raised £1,500 for the specialist unit where she received life-saving treatment.
Almost 100 supporters attended Lynda Courtman’s English country garden-themed tea party at the Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church Centre in Twyford Road on Saturday (June 29).
Lynda, 55, organised it to raise money for the breast cancer unit at St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping – part of the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust – which was established in 1980 and has progressed to a centre of excellence treating about 300 patients a year.
In June 2016, following a routine mammogram, Lynda was told she had a small but vigorous tumour. It was 16mm at the time of diagnosis; four weeks later, when she was booked in to have it surgically removed, it had grown to 25mm.
The cancerous growth, along with a corresponding quantity of material from the other breast, was removed by Veronica Grassi, a consultant surgeon, and fellow surgeon Ashraf Patel then removed a string of 24 lymph nodes that had been compromised by the cancer. After six hours under the knife, Lynda emerged from hospital the following day.
Lynda, a grandmother of three, then endured chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy to battle the illness. She suffered from a number of painful side effects, including multiple blood clots in her lungs and arteries, but doctors have found no evidence of the tumour having regrown.
Lynda’s husband, Nigel, 62, said: “Recovery from cancer is no walk in the park, and the treatment itself is necessarily extreme and often painful and debilitating. Yet, in the long run, the rewards have been self-evident. Lynda is alive and well and able to continue to pursue a very active, if slightly reduced, mode of living.”
As well as tasty food and drink, party guests, who included Mr Patel, enjoyed music provided by the Bishop’s Stortford Town Band.
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May 13, 2013 @ 7:05:00 pm
The National Theater in London is turning Katherine Boo’s prize-winning account of life in a Mumbai slum, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, into a stage production. For more on the book, read Jonathan Shainin’s review in Bookforum.
Joe Muto, the so-called “Fox Mole” who blogged anonymously for Gawker about his time working as a producer on the O’Reilly Factor, pled guilty last weekend on charges of unlawful duplication of computer-related material and attempted criminal possession of computer-related material. Muto was fined $6,000, and ordered to serve ten days in jail and work 200 hours of community service.
Since its publication in Japan last month, Murakami’s latest novel, Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and the Year of His Pilgrimage, has been selling more than a million copies a week.
The Oxford English Dictionary is appealing to the public to help them track down “a mysterious, possibly pornographic” 1852 book that is the source of more than fifty words in the OED. So far, they haven’t had any luck. The words “extemporize,” “fringy,” and “revirginize” are cited as originating in Meanderings of Memory.
The Great Catsby: an adaptation of Fitzgerald’s classic novel, with cats.
The Telegraph skewers Dan Brown’s writing and sensitivity to critics: “Renowned author Dan Brown smiled, the ends of his mouth curving upwards in a physical expression of pleasure. He felt much better. If your books brought innocent delight to millions of readers, what did it matter whether you knew the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb?”
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Mexican Ambassador to U.S.: Some in Migrant Caravan ‘Very Violent’
FILE: AP Photo/Oliver de Ros
Penny Starr
The leftist media are pushing the narrative that the thousands of migrants from Central America and elsewhere are just people fleeing violence in their homeland, but during an interview with National Public Radio on Monday, Geronimo Gutierrez, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., described some of them as “very violent.”
“I want to begin with the facts here,” Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep said. “Seven thousand or so people, which is a lot of people – looks like a lot on TV.”
“But I do know it’s part of this much larger, somewhat ordinary flow of migrants,” Inskeep said. “So how serious a situation is this in the view of your government?”
Gutierrez called it a “humanitarian crisis” and said the Mexican government is “urging people” to enter the country in accordance with its immigration law and that migrants can seek refugee status in Mexico.
“There was an effort to stop them at the border with Guatemala,” Inskeep said. “And in the end, the government more or less let them in. Is that right?”
“We have been trying to avoid, at all costs, violence in the border,” Gutierrez said. “Unfortunately, some of the people in the caravan have been very violent against authority, even though that they have offered the possibility of entering in compliance with immigration law and refugee status.”
“So police there is simply to uphold our laws,” Gutierrez said. “There is presence of the human rights commission of Mexico and also of several NGOs that can testify to the fact that the police has acted appropriately.”
“But nevertheless, we want to make sure that our laws are enforced,” Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez told NPR that the number of migrants in Mexico at the time of the interview was around 3,500.
“Out of those, we have 1,895 people that have requested – presented a request for refugee status – 1,435 of them are being processed, and about 422 have actually been repatriated to the states,” Gutierrez said, adding that some migrants “clearly intend to get to the U.S.”
“We have close cooperation with U.S. authorities to handle this in the best possible way,” he said.
As Breitbart Texas reported on Tuesday, some of the migrants are, indeed, reportedly violent:
Mexico’s immigration authorities issued a warning about individuals in Guatemala who are building Molotov cocktails and other makeshift incendiary devices to be used against federal police officers guarding their southern border. The alert follows an incident where a group of migrants in what’s being dubbed the second caravan threw rocks at officials at the Guatemala-Mexico Border and tried to break through international barriers. Mexican law enforcement confirmed that some of the protesters in the clash carried firearms.
The warning was issued by Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM). The agency claimed it learned of various individuals in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, were building Molotov cocktails with the intent of using them against Mexican border authorities. In a public statement, INM asked the Guatemalan government to intervene, adding the violent actions were those of “criminals and not of a vulnerable migrant population.”
The Trump administration announced it is deploying 5,200 members of the U.S. military to the border to deal with the potential migrant invasion.
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Beer Industry Partnerships And Value Of Independent Three-Tier System Highlighted at NBWA’s 75th Annual Convention
SAN DIEGO, CA – Today, Bob Archer of Blue Ridge Beverage Company, Inc. in Salem, Virginia, assumed the position of 2012-2013 chairman of the Board for the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) at the association’s 75th Annual Convention at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. As chair, Archer will help guide the Association as it advocates for licensed, independent beer distributors and educates elected officials, regulators, media and the public about the value of beer distributors and America’s effective system of state-based alcohol regulation.
Archer outlined three primary goals for the association in addressing current and future challenges and the beer industry’s rapidly changing environment: to build the association’s resources, build its capability to advocate and build relationships. He articulated NBWA’s mission of putting beer distributors first, but also the desire to work with industry partners whenever possible. “I believe we can agree that the American beer industry is the very best in the world.
“Some of the efforts to dismantle or deregulate the three-tier system have the potential to take us back in time to a place that creates winners and losers at all levels of the system — with the ultimate loser being the public,” Archer said. He described the strengths of the American three-tier distribution system — such as the ability to efficiently address quality issues, citing a recent example of Heineken USA’s voluntary recall of specific bottles and the way distributors helped to quickly and efficiently pull potentially effected bottles out of the marketplace. “In addition to providing traceability and accountability, the American system sets the standard for delivering variety and choice for the consumer like no other system in the world,” he said.
Attendees also heard from the leaders of some of the nation’s most prominent brewers and importers, who came together on one stage for a discussion moderated by James Hellman, NBWA treasurer and owner of Preferred Distributors LLC in Sparta, Wisconsin. The discussion included Sam Calagione, president of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Brewers Association chair; Luiz Edmond, president North America for Anheuser-Busch; Bill Hackett, president of Crown Imports LLC; Tom Long, president of MillerCoors LLC and Beer Institute chair; and Dolf van den Brink, president and CEO of HEINEKEN USA. The leaders had a candid exchange about the success of America’s three-tier distribution system, challenges and opportunities for the beer industry and the importance of “brand beer,” especially in competing with other alcohol beverages.
The suppliers discussed the extensive choice and variety available in the American beer market and the three-tier system’s role in its success. They also emphasized camaraderie, the strength of their distributor partnerships and the industry’s collective goal of continuing to build brands, innovate, improve marketing, better relate to female customers and reach new consumers.
General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan, offered attendees his insights on leadership and how change requires new ways of thinking, new partners and a different type of leadership. He emphasized the importance of shared consciousness and unity of purpose and how relationships and partnerships are critical to achieving strategic objectives.
NBWA President & CEO Craig Purser concluded the general session by noting that the association’s 75th anniversary is a special milestone many organizations don’t reach. He pointed to the evolution of the beer distribution industry, referencing General McChrystal’s statements on the importance of both discipline and flexibility for a fighting force and for an effective organization.
Purser noted that — with more than 2,000 brewers and at least 13,000 labels of beer for consumers to enjoy — it’s clear that today’s regulatory system works so well for so many. It balances competing interests within an orderly market with robust inter-brand competition and balances consumer interest in competition with the public’s interest in effective alcohol control. “While our system can always be improved, I believe that much of the beer industry’s growth is because of the independent distribution system and a state-based regulatory system, not in spite of it.”
NBWA’s 75th Annual Convention will conclude with a 75th anniversary celebration aboard the U.S.S. Midway with entertainment by award-winning country music artist Phil Vassar.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) represents the interests of America’s 3,300 licensed, independent beer distributor operations in every state, congressional district and media market across the country. Beer distributors are committed to ensuring alcohol is provided safely and responsibly to consumers of legal drinking age through the three-tier, state-based system of alcohol regulation and distribution. To learn more about America’s beer distributors, visit www.AmericasBeerDistributors.com. For additional updates from NBWA, follow @MrBeerGuy on Twitter and visit www.facebook.com/Mr.BeerGuy.
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Episode 111 - Discussing God with Mormons
Today, we're going to talk about how to discuss God with Mormons.
It's common to hear confusion about the differences in Mormonism and Christianity. Some of this confusion even comes from Christians and Mormons. What you already may have noticed is that I'm making a distinction between Christianity and Mormonism, which is often part of the confusion. Is there actually a difference? Yes, there is,o and here's why.
When Mormons claim to be Christians, or even when Christians claim that Mormons are Christians, they're mistaking a fundamental fact, which is the very reason Joseph Smith started Mormonism. He was trying to find which religion was the true one, which denomination was the right one. What God the Father and Jesus Christ (Note: This is a correction. Originally, I had incorrectly said that “an angel from God” had appeared to Smith.) appeared and told him they were all an abomination. There are Christian denominations today with the same beliefs that also existed in the 1800s, when Joseph Smith started Mormonism. The same beliefs and the same Gospel and the same scriptures. It's disingenuous for someone to claim that Mormons and Christians are the same, because supposedly, we're an abomination. We hold beliefs that are corrupted fundamentally, such that Joseph Smith needed to start a new church. You can't have it both ways. It can’t be fundamentally corrupted and an abomination and also be the same thing. So I just wanted to address that at the beginning.
One of the major points of confusion when we talk about Christianity and Mormonism is that the two religions use the same terms. We'll use the term God and Trinity and God-head and Jesus, but all of these terms actually find rather different definitions in their two respective religions in how they're used. The one I want to talk about today is simply God.
Mormonism believes that there is more than one God. There is not just one being that is God and that's it. There are actually multiple Gods. In fact, there's this phrase that's kind of common as a summary of Mormon belief, from Mormons, in fact. It goes like this,
”As man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may be."
That's kind of catchy, but let's run through it.
“As man now is, God once was,” so man is man now. He's human. That means, on their belief, that God used to be human. In fact, they think God the Father has a body of flesh and bones, not that he's just pure spirit like Christians do. So that's the first part. “As man now is, God once was,” so God used to be like us, which is very different from what we see in scripture, as we'll look at in a minute. Then, “as God now is, man may be.” So God is divine and exalted and glorified and deified and all of those things, and they're saying we may be able to be like that. Now, they would say that happens, in part, through the atonement of Jesus, who they actually believe is a separate being, not one being with God the Father. We'll get to that in a minute also. Nevertheless, do you see a difference here? That God, on their view, used to be a man, and man could become God, which implies that there's the possibility of multiple Gods.
But what does scripture say about that? Well, let's look at Isaiah 43:10, where Yahweh, the Lord, says to his people,
”Before Me, no god was formed, nor shall there be any after Me."
I think that's pretty straightforward. No god before Yahweh, no god after Yahweh. It's a done deal. But practically, in conversation, it's not going to end here, and there are a few ways this conversation might go. If you're talking with a Mormon and you say, "Hey, do you believe, like the Mormon church, that there are multiple Gods, that, in fact, you might become a God one day?" They'll most likely say yes, if they're being honest and if they've been educated in this. You can ask them, "Well, what about Isaiah 43:10? Yahweh says that, 'Before Me, there was no god formed, and there'll be none after me.'"
The conversation might take a couple forks here. One might be that they might pull out 1 Corinthians 8. A more educated Mormon might go to 1 Corinthians 8, and this is where Paul says,
”If, after all, there are so-called gods, whether in Heaven or in Earth (as there are many gods and many lords) yet, for us, there is one God."
It seems like, at least on a Mormon reading of this passage, that Paul was saying, “there are many gods, but for us, there is one,” but that's not what he's saying at all, in fact. In this context, he's talking about people who believe there to be other gods, who were actually worshiping idols. In fact, in verse five, he even says that they're “so-called gods”. In other words, not gods. They call them that, but that's not what they are.
He actually goes on to say something that I think directly contradicts the Mormons' point, which is, "Yet, for us, there is one God, the Father, from Whom are all things and for Whom we live, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things and through Whom we live." Paul has this really common habit of using certain prepositions, and he's not necessarily picky about what they are, for the Father and other prepositions for the Son to describe the same things. So, here, he says everything came from the Father, and he says everything came through the Son. Well, in Mormonism, Jesus is a created being. How did everything come through him if he's a thing? That doesn't work either.
What's interesting here is Paul is making the point that you can't separate the work of the Father and the Son. Everything came from the Father through the Son, and he's basically affirming what we would call “inseparable operations,” that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are all involved in a mutual work. They may have different roles, but you can't separate their actions from the action of God.
On Paul's view, there is one being of God, which is where we get our doctrine of the Trinity, which stands in contrast to the Mormon doctrine of the Trinity, which says that “there is God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Though distinct beings, they are unified in purpose and doctrine.” Well, that's very different from a Christian definition of the Trinity. That's another reason why that Mormonism and Christianity are different religions. We conceive of God fundamentally differently. We don't think the Son, the Father, and the Spirit are distinct beings that are only unified in purpose. We think there is one God, in fact. Not three Gods, one God. Exactly as Isaiah 43:10 says, "No God before Him, no God after Him." Same God.
John tells us that when Isaiah sees the Lord high and lifted up, he actually saw Jesus. So Yahweh is the one that he saw. It's the same one that is speaking here in Isaiah 43:10, the same one who is Jesus, who is one with the Father. There is one God. None before, none after. This verse is very helpful in talking with Mormons.
Now, I mentioned that this conversation could take different tracks. One might be to go to 1 Corinthians 8, like we just did, where we actually see Paul is describing that you can't separate the Father and the Son. It's not like the Son is created and the Father isn't or that they came into being at different times. Everything came into existence by and through and from both of them. He's talking about so-called Gods. So that's the first track this conversation can take.
The second is for a Mormon to say, "Well, I mean, the Bible has been corrupted. It's been translated after translated after translated. We can't trust it." Well, we can demonstrate that that claim is false. First, it's a little interesting that the Mormons include the Bible along with their other books of scripture. Besides just the Bible, which Christians affirm is the sole source of God's inerrant, authoritative, inspired word, Mormons have the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and then also the Bible. So, four sacred books, not just one.
When the Mormon says, "You can't trust the Bible. It's been corrupted. It's been translated after translated after translated,” the first question to ask is, "Well, which parts don't you read? Which parts are corrupted? When you're reading the Bible, what parts do you skip?" Well, they don't know. There isn't an answer to that question. It's a claim they've been taught, but it's not a claim they can demonstrate, at least in my experience. I could be wrong on this. But I've never heard anyone have a good response to that, listening to interviews, and in personal conversations. They don't know. If you can't trust any of it, why do you point to part of it? If they're going to go to 1 Corinthians 8 in response to Isaiah 43, well, how do we know that's translated correctly? There's not a good answer to that question if they're consistent in their view. So that's the first question: “what parts don't you read? Which parts do you skip?” That type of thing.
The second point is when they say the Bible is a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation, that's actually wrong. No one, when they endeavor to make a new Bible translation today, at least not any respectable publisher or scholarly group, goes to the previous English translation and says, "Let me translate based on that." Your current NIV is not a translation of the previous NIV, which is not a translation of the NASB, which is not a translation of the KJV, which is not a translation of the ASV. It doesn't work like that. At every point, we go back to the earliest and best manuscripts in the original language and translate from that, so the Bible is not a translation of a translation of a translation.
Their official documents, their official doctrine in Mormon belief is that the Bible is correct in as much as it is translated correctly, but when they describe it to you, what they're actually talking about is transmission of the text—how did manuscripts get copied—but that's not translation, that's transmission. That's another problem, which maybe we'll talk more about in the future.
The fact of the matter is that we always go back to the earliest and best manuscripts, and we've talked about this before. The manuscript evidence for the New Testament is excellent. We have over 5,800 partial Greek manuscripts for the New Testament, and if you include Latin and Coptic and Syriac, we have tens of thousands more, and many of them are written very close to the events they describe. More than that, the time from the writing of the manuscript to the copies we have is very short compared to any other ancient work in the ancient world. So the manuscript evidence for the New Testament is second to none.
More than that, I think it's interesting, because when they say it's been corrupted, they disagree with Jesus, who said not even a jot or tittle would be lost, that His words would not pass away. So in order to say the Bible has been corrupted, and if the Bible's the word of God, we have to say Jesus was wrong. His words have been corrupted. They have passed away in some part. That puts the Mormon at odds with Jesus. It also undercuts any claim the Mormon makes based on any Bible verse, which I think is important. If they can't trust it, why do they get to choose which verses they trust and which ones they don't? What's their consistent standard? Well, there isn't one.
So, to briefly recap how we can address the concern about the reliability of scripture, the first point is to ask, "Well, which parts don't you read?" What we're driving at here is you need a consistent standard. I don't think you have one. The second thing to point out is the Bible isn't translated after translated after translated. It's one step from the original language to our language. More than that, what they're describing is transmission, not translation, which would be another incorrect belief. The third and best point is simply that Jesus said His words would not pass away, so we can't disagree with Jesus on that. We can't claim to be on His side and disagree with His view on scripture. Why do I believe the Bible is the word of God? Why do I believe it's still correct today? Because Jesus believed that. It's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. Are there other supporting evidences? Yes, most certainly, and I don't think that should surprise us, either. Fundamentally, it's a claim based on what Jesus believed. That's how we can talk with Mormons about this.
How do we talk with Mormons about the fact that there's one God? Scripture says there's one God. There was none before him; there was none after him. This takes Mormon belief out at the knees, because it's based on this idea that “as man now is, God once was,” so God used to be a man. “As God now is, you may become,” which is a very unbiblical concept.
We've talked about Mormonism a little in the past and how its idea of with the Gospel is is not actually good news, that you're “saved after all you can do,” only then is Christ's sacrifice enough for you. Well, I can't do enough. Besides that, the Bible says that we're justified by faith, not in addition to works, but faith alone. We're justified by faith not of works, so that no man can boast.
So why do we talk about this stuff? Well, because the true Gospel, accurately presented, accurately understood, should be a breath of fresh air to Mormons. Does God need to open their eyes to His truth? Does He need to regenerate their heart, just like He does for anyone and everyone? Yes. Nevertheless, the correct Gospel, correctly described, is a breath of fresh air to them, as it should be to anyone. I think that's important. That's why we have these conversations. That's why we talk about beliefs of other religions and ideologies and worldviews, because as Paul said, we need to tear down ideologies and philosophies and everything that is raised up against the knowledge of Christ—The accurate, Biblically based knowledge of Christ.
So I hope this has been helpful in talking with your Mormon friends and neighbors about Christianity or the differences between it and Mormonism and how we can contend for the truthfulness of a Biblically-based view of God and of scripture in those conversations. I look forward to talking with you next week on unapologetic.
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Video - Stunning start to season sees Ben Coad earn faith of Yorkshire with extended deal
Phil Harrison
UNNECESSARY though it may seem – given the mesmerising start he has enjoyed to the 2017 season – Ben Coad says his new extended contract with Yorkshire has handed him a further confidence boost.
The 23-year-old pace bowler had only played one County Championship match prior to this campaign but, thrown in at the deep end due to injuries that have ravaged the Yorkshire bowling attack, he has taken the four-day game by storm.
After picking up eight wickets in the opening game defeat at home to Hampshire – including his first five-wicket haul – Coad’s stock rose even further last week when he spearheaded the White Rose attack to victory over Warwickshire at Edgbaston with his maiden 10-wicket match haul. Whether it was already in the pipeline or as a direct result of his stunning start to the season, Yorkshire have decided to extend Coad’s current deal until the end of next year.
Boasting 18 wickets in two games at an average of just 11.77 each, Coad will once again be relied upon when Yorkshire head to Hampshire for a swift rematch this Friday, with Ryan Sidebottom, Jack Brooks and Liam Plunkett all still ruled out through injury.
And while his confidence may rightly already be sky high, Coad admits the faith Yorkshire have placed in him by offering the extended deal, has only fuelled his self-belief further.
“It gives me that freedom to go out there and play knowing that I’ll be here for another year after this,” said Coad. “It takes a little bit of pressure off my shoulders.
“If it’s possible to gain any more confidence at the moment, there is a little more as a result of this. It’s a little bit surreal but it’s been a great start for me. I just hope that momentum keeps going with me. I feel like I can’t put a foot wrong at the moment.”
Yorkshire’s director of cricket, Martyn Moxon added: “Everyone at the club is delighted for Ben, he’s a great team man. He deserves his success and has worked extremely hard during his career and especially over the winter on skills.”
Yorkshire's 'Ben Coad. Picture: Tony Johnson.
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Neither a grimace nor a grin: Werder Bremen coach Robin Dutt felt a huge weight had been lifted after his side's win at Braunschweig, although there is a lot of work still to be done
Summer thaws Bremen's winless run
Braunschweig - The relief among the players and staff of SV Werder Bremen after the 1-0 win in Braunschweig was palpable. Zlatko Junuzovic’s goal eight minutes from time ended a seven-month drought with Bremen winning for the first time in 13 Bundesliga games.
”Every point is important”
“There was snow on the ground back then,” said the goalscorer to bundesliga.com. True enough, that last win, a 4-1 triumph at VfB Stuttgart, came way back in the middle of winter on 9 February. “It has tested our nerves and I wasn’t even able to enjoy my holidays,” added the 25-year-old, who refused "to get drawn in" by talk of relegation.
The Austrian, born in the former Yugoslavia, was nevertheless keeping his feet on the ground. “We know that we’ve got a tough season ahead, which is why every point is important.” No doubt a perspective instilled amongst the squad by coach Robin Dutt. “Of course winning the first Bundesliga game with my new club delights me, and this result makes my work a lot easier,” said the former SC Freiburg and Bayer 04 Leverkusen head coach.
“But we have a long, hard season ahead of us and we’re going to have to fight for every single point.” The 48-year-old could not say exactly how tough the past six months have been, considering he's only been in charge for a couple of them. “The players would be better judges of how much it hurts not to have won since February,” he said.
"A dirty win"
Sporting director Thomas Eichin was not in office back on that wintry afternoon either. “I don’t care that this was only my first win,” he said. “What matters is that we’ve finally won again.” The importance of the result can be measured by how little the actual performance of Bremen was discussed post-match. For much of the 90 minutes, Bremen were on the back foot against the Bundesliga newcomers.
“It was a dirty win,” admitted the goalscorer. “It’s going to take a few games before we find ourselves as a team, but we’re heading in the right direction.” The win on the road has teed them up nicely for a morale-boosting start to the season, considering their next opponents are FC Augsburg at the Weser Stadion next weekend.
“But we’re not going to be disrespectful,” added the Austrian, who refused to see Augsburg as easy opponents, in spite of their 4-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund on Saturday. Aaron Hunt added: “We’re still lacking a bit, but it will come. Right now, I’m just a little bit happy.”
Jürgen Blöhs reporting from Braunschweig / Ben Gladwell
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Open Phones on Net Neutrality
2017-12-14T21:16:56-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/059/20171214211814001_hd.jpgTelephone lines were open for viewer comments on net neutrality and whether viewers supported or opposed it. Earlier in the day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to repeal net neutrality.
Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on net neutrality and whether viewers supported or opposed it. Earlier in the day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to repeal net neutrality.
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Geoffrey Fowler on FCC and Net Neutrality
Geoffrey Fowler spoke about the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to repeal net neutrality rules.
Democratic Senators on Net Neutrality
Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell (WA), Ed Markey (MA), Gary Peters (MI), Patrick Leahy (D), and Amy Klobuchar (MN) talked about…
Senate Democrats on Net Neutrality
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA), Ron Wyden (OR), Al Franken (MN), and Jeff Merkley (OR) talked about net neutrality as…
Open Phones, Part 1
Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer comments on the question “Do you support or oppose the FCC’s repeal of…
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Nuit Blanche – Where Art and Awareness Converge
October 25, 2017 CanCulture Magazine
By Julianna Perkins
Sometimes, art can be boring. It hangs on walls in people’s homes, rusts away in city squares, or sits in imposing galleries. We’ve been told that “good art” lives only in expensive institutions, that “good art” is only for looking, not interacting and most devastatingly, we’ve been led to believe that “good art” is usually old, unrelatable and often white.
But the art world is changing, and for the past 11 years downtown Toronto has been shaken up by the chaotic and diverse contemporary art event that is Nuit Blanche.
Nuit Blanche is one of Toronto’s most popular annual art festivals. The free event features the works of hundreds of national and international artists, taking over downtown Toronto. By embedding art into the structure of the city, Nuit Blanche offers citizens the opportunity to explore art on their own terms in a less conventional setting.
According to the City of Paris’ website, the first ever Nuit Blanche took place in Paris, France in 2002, with the intent to “reclaim the city” and allow people to “discover, by night, at a bend in a street, in an unusual place or in a prestigious building, art.” Nuit Blanche events now take place in about 31 cities all over the world, with Toronto hosting its first in 2006.
Fall asleep and you might miss it though, as this unusual celebration runs all night long, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., once a year. Nuit Blanche features everything from installation pieces to video projections to performance artwork and aims to change the way we interact with art.
The event’s message seems to have connected with the city. An Ipsos Reid survey found that last year’s festival saw an estimated attendance of over one million people, with 205,000 people coming to Toronto from out of town just for the event.
Since then, the event has done nothing but grow. It focuses on remaining accessible to all, and most importantly, representing a diverse array of art and artists.
Maria Hupfield, 42, is a curating artist currently working out of Brooklyn, N.Y. She was born in Parry Sound and is a member of the Anishinaabe Nation from Wasauksing First Nation, Ont. As one of this year’s four Nuit Blanche curators, she has commissioned five artists from all over Canada to create an exhibition titled Life on Neebahgeezis; A Luminous Engagement.
“I was so ready when they asked me to put together a proposal, because there are so many fantastic artists who are ready to do something like this and haven’t had the opportunity,” said Hupfield. There’s always a new exhibition to see in New York City where she works, she said, and this was an opportunity to get things rolling back home.
Many of the artists Hupfield commissioned are Indigenous, and she believes Nuit Blanche to be a perfect platform for their work because just as there are many different nations comprised of different experiences, so will Nuit Blanche’s audience have different experiences of the event depending on where they are and what they see.
Hupfield’s exhibition will take over the financial district and will include pieces that Hupfield said are meant to challenge the “power dynamic,” like video projections by Marianne Nicolson on the Old City Hall clock tower and a performance piece/live intervention by Cherish Violet Blood at the Campbell House Museum. Even though she is the curator, Hupfield said that in the end, “the artists decide how much they want to share.”
While some Nuit Blanche exhibitions like Life on Neebahgeezis; A Luminous Engagement may be huge, taking up whole districts of the city, they can also be very, very tiny.
Glory Hole Gallery, located in the basement of Glad Day Bookshop, a prominent Toronto book store focusing on LGBTQ+ titles, will run the exhibit X, Y, & Zed, a miniature gallery comprised of eight 12 inch by 12 inch by 8 inch boxes showcasing the miniature works of different artists.
Emily Peltier and Sean MacPherson, co-curators and co-owners of Glory Hole Gallery, said they challenged the artists to “present to audiences their thoughts on what gender expression means today, and what it looks like for them in the future.” X, Y, & Zed is all about exploring topics like visibility, aesthetics, expression, and freedom in relation to gender. They say the exhibit will “showcase works by LGBTQ2S+ artists, and also make visible the experiences and lives of those within this community.”
Nuit Blanche breaks away from the traditional art experience, not only through its dedication to being a platform for diverse artists, but also by focusing on connecting people with their city and creating new dialogue between art, artists and audience.
The festival works well to “activate and animate an otherwise neglected space,” said Mark Francis, an installation artist-architect whose pieces focus on the very same principal.
Francis’ work Laneway Canopy: Public Living Space was featured in last year’s Nuit Blanche. He said the experience worked as a good personal launchpad to bigger things and that he appreciated the event’s “accessibility and lack of pretension surrounding art, making it a truly communal and festive experience rather than an intimidating gallery experience.”
The community vibe is definitely echoed in the event’s sheer turn-out. But with so many people comes certain issues, like overcrowding, transportation and drunkenness. Is it always a problem though? Zahra Saleki, an Iranian-Canadian photographer and visual artist, says no.
Saleki, whose installation Girl Talk was shown in last year’s event in the warehouse space at 401 Richmond, said that it is that type of energy that differentiates Nuit Blanche from other art events.
“When people come see the art at Nuit Blanche, they’re not quiet. A lot of them are drunk, they’re crazy, they’re young, they’re teenagers, and they really experience the art,” said Saleki. “They want to touch it. I never tell people not to touch it.”
Saleki believes that the festival’s atmosphere allows people to be more comfortable with themselves and therefore more open to fully experiencing the art, even if it does mean that many pieces have to be watched throughout the night.
The works featured at this year’s Nuit Blanche will follow the theme of "Many Possible Futures,” a theme some are saying is a nod to the vulnerability of our time, with many international crises surrounding war, race, migration, diplomacy, equality and government taking place all over the world.
“We’re at such a heightened moment of consciousness where so much is going on,” said Hupfield. “Things are really in your face, there’s no hiding.”
Nuit Blanche Toronto will take place on Sept. 30, 2017 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. with major exhibitions displayed at Queen’s Park, Nathan Phillips Square and 401 Richmond, however pieces will be spread throughout the city.
Nuit Blanche gives Torontonians the opportunity to experience art in an inclusive, judgement-free and accessible environment. Whether your goal is to track down as many pieces as possible or just explore and find new works as you go, this free festival is worth your time. Maybe you’ll discover a new favourite artist, or maybe you’ll just have a nice night out of the house.
There will be partial road closures downtown on Queen Street West, Bay Street and Queen's Park Crescent for the event to make access easier for pedestrians. Additionally, the subway’s Line 1 (Yonge-University) will operate all night from Downsview to Finch stations and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) will operate all night from Kipling to Kennedy stations.
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A good movie, the Grammys, a travel tidbit
Random stuff today.
I recently watched a charming movie that is somewhat music related: “Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.” It was made in Spain in 2013 and as you can tell from the title there is a Beatle connection. The story revolves around a middle-aged public school teacher in Spain in 1966 who is a genuinely nice and unremarkable guy with one obsession: the music of the Beatles. He hears that John Lennon is filming “How I Won the War” on the coast of Spain (true) and decides he really wants to meet him. He embarks on a road trip and soon picks up two young hitch hikers, a boy and girl (who do not know each other). Their adventure ensues. I wish there was a bit more music in the film but a highlight is a tape recording of Lennon doing an acoustic version of Strawberry Fields at the end of the film. I never considered that tune for single acoustic guitar but I am definitely going to learn it after hearing this version. As I said, it is a wonderful “little” movie with no gratuitous violence or sex, just relationships between the principle subjects and people they meet along the way. Check it out, you won’t be sorry. Assuming you don’t mind reading subtitles if you don’t speak Spanish!
My experiment with humidity levels in my studio that I spoke about in a recent entry seems to be working fine. I still use Planet Waves sound hole humidifiers when the gauge in the studio reads in the low 30% range but not when the humidity is above 35%. The pay off of this gamble is that my present line up of guitars I play regularly (Martin 000-18, Martin D-16RGT, Taylor 516 FLTD) all sound great – none of the thunky dead sound that seems to develop when I keep the room at recommended levels of 45% - 50%. I absolutely believe that drier guitars sound better than well-humidified ones but I still acknowledge that I’m risking cracks, sharp fret edges as the fretboard shrinks or even lifting bridges and pick guards. None of those things have happened, thankfully. The experiment will continue.
I couldn’t bear to watch much of the Grammys. I guess the tribute to Glenn Frey was well done, as was the tribute to BB King. But I’ve never cared for the self-congratulatory nature of award shows in general (I amuse myself when I do watch one by counting how many times I hear “amazing” and “incredible”) and I have even less tolerance these days. Plus the vast majority of pop music leaves me cold. But hey, I will admit once again that I am a dinosaur!
Still looking for a stand-up bass player to perform with around here who has knowledge of swing jazz, country, blues, bossa nova and singer-songwriter type music. I’m not holding out much hope, which has a lot to do with living where I do. There are plenty of guitarists around here but any bass player who can play beyond the roots of the I – IV – V progression is most likely already playing out. It would probably be another story if I lived closer to Boston or Providence. Oh well.
With that in mind I recently bought a cool little pedal called the Trio, which “listens” to your playing and generates various styles of bass lines and also drums. It seems to be pretty neat but I need to spend more time experimenting with the settings. But the couple times I’ve used it have been fun. More on this in an upcoming post as I learn more about it.
I recently became Facebook “friends” with one of my early and on-going guitar heroes, the great Duke Robillaird. He plays absolutely wonderful blues and swing jazz guitar and lives in Providence, RI. He post frequently and always has links to great videos of many of the great of blues and jazz. He also does on-line lessons (more like tips), some of which are free. Check him out. There are none better. He combines both classy and passionate playing better than anyone I’ve ever heard. He has a new acoustic blues recording out now and I will purchase it soon; it has received rave reviews. It was Duke and his original jump blues band Roomful of Blues that inspired me to learn lead guitar.
One final tidbit. That Hiscox case I mentioned in a previous post arrived and both my Taylor 516 and Martin D-16RGT fit in it perfectly. It seems to be as advertised: light but heavily reinforced, with plenty of shock absorbing padding. I even did an experiment and stood on it (without a guitar in it of course!) and the case did not flex at all. I will feel a lot better about handing it over to the airline when I head down to the Keys in a month of so. But I’m also hedging my bet. On one of the guitar forums a person recommended a certain sticker for the case. Rather than going with the usual “Fragile! Handle with Care!” sticker that most of us use on our cases when we travel, which may inspire an unscrupulous or angry worker to do just the opposite, I found what I was looking for on Amazon. My new case is now adorned with a couple stickers in strategic locations. They say: “I (heart) Baggage Handlers!”
The Best. Ever.
Like millions of others, I am an unabashed Beatles nut. I sincerely believe that a hundred or more years from now, assuming our species survives itself, people will still be listening to, analyzing and loving that music from the boys from Liverpool. Long after Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Adele and untold numbers of other “stars” are but a footnote in the history of popular music, both music lovers and music makers will be drawn to what the Beatles created.
How much of a nut am I? I would gladly challenge almost anyone to a Beatles trivia contest and I’m proud to say I can do a reasonable job of playing most of their songs. Not all though – some of that I will chalk up to not being blessed with the wonderful tenor voices they displayed in their prime and I like to play songs in their original keys whenever possible. That usually doesn’t stop me from trying though!
Two bits of Beatles lore caught my fancy in the past week. One of the big nationally known auction houses is having an entertainment memorabilia auction very soon and there are quite a few Beatles items for sale. Most of us know the recent stories of guitars and drums belonging to members of the group selling for six figures last year. This auction features mostly things like photos, ticket stubs, letters and such. Their premier piece is a 8x10 black and white promo photo in complete Ed Sullivan Show garb, clearly autographed by all four members with a starting bid of $20,000. It is expected to go for much more. A letter from John Lennon’s barber with a lock of Lennon’s hair has a starting bid in the mid four-figures. Don’t think I’d care to own that one but the photo would look nice in my studio (!).
What fascinates me much more are stories of the group and the individuals in it. I’ve read quite a few books about the Beatles, one of them being “It Was Twenty Years Ago Today,” published in 1987 (duh!) that gives an almost moment to moment overview of the creation of Sgt. Pepper, which many (myself included) consider the greatest pop album ever made.
My fantasy is to sit down with Ringo or Paul, or better yet, Sir George Martin and ask questions about the process of the creation of their music. Many others have done this of course and written about it but that’s not the same as human contact. Alas, I have about as much chance of that happening as winning Powerball but I still hold onto the fantasy.
But the other bit from this week could be the next best thing. I happened to stumble upon a relatively recent movie called “Good Ol’ Freda.” It is a documentary about a very modest and special lady. Here is some text from the intro page of the website about the movie:
“Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was asked to work for a local band hoping to make it big. Though she had no concept of how far they would go, Freda had faith in The Beatles from the beginning, and The Beatles had faith in her.
“History notes that The Beatles were together for 10 years, but Freda worked for them for 11. Many people came in and out of the band's circle as they grew to international stardom, but Freda remained a staple because of her unfaltering loyalty and dedication. As the Beatles' devoted secretary and friend, Freda was there as history unfolded; she was witness to the evolution – advances and setbacks, breakthroughs and challenges – of the greatest band in history.
“In Good Ol' Freda, Freda tells her stories for the first time in 50 years. One of few documentaries with the support of the living Beatles and featuring original Beatles music, the film offers an insider perspective on the beloved band that changed the world of music.”
If you are like me and can’t help singing “I Saw Her Standing There” or “Twist and Shout” or “Get Back” or any other Beatles tune at the top of your lungs when you’re driving your car and one of those tunes comes on the radio, do yourself a favor and see this movie!
At the risk of sounding like the old fart that I probably am, I feel oh so fortunate to have spent my teenage years at a time when so much unbelievably great music was emerging not only from England but also Detroit, Memphis, Nashville, Los Angeles, New York – and many places in between. But on top of it all were the Beatles. In the almost fifty years I’ve been playing, performing and teaching guitar one of the coolest things I’ve witnessed is fully three generations discovering how amazing their catalog is. Why? I’ve wondered about that for a long time.
I have to conclude that Beatles music combines youthful innocence with daring, innovation (thanks in no small part to aforementioned Sir George Martin) and honesty with pure joy. Yes, the Beatles wrote some sad songs too, but you knew there was no contrivance, no carefully sculpted pop McMusic designed to appeal to a certain demographic that categorizes much of what we hear today.
And that is why, my friends, I am sure my great, great, great grandchildren will smile and start moving when that D7sus/G chord rings out at the beginning of “A Hard Day’s Night.”
Peace and good (Beatles!) music,
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Home Financial News What if Fred Thompson had become President?
What if Fred Thompson had become President?
Mark Whittington
Fred Thompson, the tall, folksy actor, lawyer, and former politician, recently died at the age of 73 due to the reoccurrence of lymphoma. Americans best know Thompson for his roles in such movies as “Hunt for Red October” and “In the Line of Fire” as well as his run as District Attorney Arthur Branch in “Law and Order.” Some remember that he was a United States senator from his beloved Tennessee, having been swept into office in 1994 by the Gingrich Revolution. Fewer still recall that as minority counsel during the Watergate hearings, Thompson’s questioning led to the discovery of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system, a revelation that eventually led to the premature end of the Nixon presidency.
Not many know that Thompson was briefly a candidate for president of the United States, having announced relatively late in September 2007 and then withdrawing from the race in January 2008. His campaign never caught traction, and his efforts seemed to be lackluster at best. Clearly his heart was not in the effort. That was too bad, since of the candidates who ran that election cycle, he was the best qualified.
Thompson could best be described as a Reaganite conservative. He was pro free trade, pro low taxes, pro-life, pro-gun, and hostile to government regulations. He supported the war in Iraq but later acknowledged that mistakes had been made during the prosecution of that war. He believed that the threat from Iran should be taken seriously.
One may have to stretch things a little bit to imagine Thompson winning the presidency in 2008, even if he had campaigned more vigorously and effectively. The weariness with the war in Iraq and the economic meltdown had prepared the battlefield for a Democrat – any Democrat – to win that election.
But let us just suppose that Thompson had been the nominee rather than his friend John McCain in 2008. Let us further suppose that he had beaten Barack Obama. Maybe southern folksiness could have beaten young, African American cool. Maybe Thompson could have convinced enough people that he rather than the senator from Illinois would be best able to clean up after President George W. Bush. What would a Thompson presidency have been like?
On the domestic front, it would be a safe bet that the economy would be much stronger than it is in the universe we now occupy. President Thompson would have held the line on taxes and spending. Obamacare would not have even been imagined, not to mention considered. The onerous environmental regulations that the Obama administration has pushed would not exist in a Thompson presidency. The 2009 $900 billion stimulus package would not have passed.
In foreign policy, Thompson would have built on the success of the Bush-era surge to stabilize Iraq. President Thompson would have executed a status of forces agreement that would have left a 10,000-person force in Iraq; therefore, no rise of ISIS.
President Thompson would have dealt with Iran, Russia, and China with a firmer hand. He would not have made a mess of Libya and would have made common cause with the Syrian rebels far earlier, perhaps seeing Bashir Assad off to an early retirement. Thus, as a bonus, the migrant crisis that is shaking Europe to its foundations would not have occurred.
The upshot is that the seventh year of a Thompson presidency would be a far happier one than the seventh year of the Obama presidency. But it would also be a sadder one, because Americans, for the first time since 1963, would be mourning the death of an American president while still in office.
In short, Fred Thompson was one of the finest politicians and best men never to have become president.
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Mark R. Whittington writes about world politics for Capitalist Review. He is the author of Why Is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? a study of the politics of lunar exploration.
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Credit: Paul (2015)
Animation: Satellite images of ‘surging’ glaciers in Asia
Robert McSweeney
GlaciersAnimation: Satellite images of ‘surging’ glaciers in Asia
A new study has created a series of animations that capture ‘surging’ glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range in Asia over 25 years, from 1990 to 2015.
Glaciers are huge rivers of ice formed from snow compacted over many years. Powered by the sheer weight of ice they contain, they gradually slide down mountain sides and along valleys.
Karakoram’s glaciers are well-known for ‘surging’. A surging glacier varies between long dormant periods of little change – lasting tens to hundreds of years – and short surging phases, where accumulated ice at higher elevations flows rapidly down to its front.
Surging isn’t the glacier melting, but rather it’s a glacier’s way of evening itself out when it gets top-heavy.
Active surging phases typically last a few months or several years, with flows up to a thousand times faster than usual. The transfer of ice means the top of the glacier thins while the front gets thicker – perhaps by as much as 200 metres.
You can see surging glaciers in action in the animation below of the Panmah glacier, which is flowing from top to bottom down the middle of the image. On the right-hand side, there are five tributaries feeding into the Panmah glacier that suddenly shoot forwards – this is surging.
The still image below the animation can help you spot what to look out for. The surging glaciers are marked with an orange “SG”.
Animation of the Panmah glacier (flowing down the centre of the image), the Choktoi glacier (flowing from the left-hand side) and their surrounding tributaries. Glaciers are shown in blue, snow cover in bright blue, clouds in white, water in dark blue, vegetation in green and bare terrain in brown. Source: Paul (2015)
Still image of the Panmah glacier and their surrounding tributaries. Shows glacier names in orange, actively surging glaciers (orange “SG”) and advancing glaciers (white “A”). Source: Paul (2015)
The study, just published in The Cryosphere, focuses on four regions in the central Karakoram mountain range, which runs along China’s border with India and Pakistan – as the map below shows. The range is most famous for K2, the second highest mountain in the world, but it also home to more glaciers than anywhere outside of the polar regions.
Map of central Karakoram. Yellow rectangles show the four regions that animations were made for: 1) Baltoro, 2) Panmah and Choktoi, 3) Skamri–Sarpo Laggo, and 4) Shaksgam. The black square in the inset shows the location of the study region in the Karakoram mountain range. Sources: Paul (2015), USGS/NASA, and Google Earth.
You can see another of these mesmerizing animations below, which compresses 25 years of satellite images of the Baltoro glacier into just a few seconds.
The Baltoro glacier flows from right to left across the middle of the image, with smaller tributary glaciers feeding into it from above and below like streams into a river. The pulsing, bright blue shading shows the fluctuating snow cover on the mountains. Bare terrain is shown in brown, and – if you look really closely – you can see dark blue specs on the glacier, which are lakes of water that form on its surface. Again, the still image below the image should make the features easier to identify.
Animation of the Baltoro glacier and its surrounding tributaries. Glaciers are shown in blue, snow cover in bright blue, clouds in white, water in dark blue, vegetation in green and bare terrain in brown. Source: Paul (2015).
Still image of the Baltoro glacier and their surrounding tributaries. Shows glacier names in orange, actively surging glaciers (orange “SG”) and advancing glaciers (white “A”). Source: Paul (2015)
The study’s author Dr Frank Paul, a senior researcher at the University of Zurich, says turning the static images into an animation makes it easier for the human eye to follow how glaciers flow and notice any changes. He tells Carbon Brief:
We can now see for the first time a large number of surging glaciers in interaction, clearly revealing that there are different types of surges – from fast and short pulses to slow and long-lasting advances – in a small region for glaciers with similar characteristics.
Paul hopes his work will help improve understanding of what triggers these surges and how glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range are changing.
The region’s glaciers are something of an outlier, says Paul, as most are stable or advancing, rather than retreating and shrinking like many around the world. Using animations will help scientists distinguish between a normal glacier melting and a surging glacier surging, he adds.
Credit: Images from Paul (2015) and the USGS, video by Rosamund Pearce for Carbon Brief
Main image: Baltoro glacier and its surrounding tributaries. Credit: Paul (2015).
Paul, F. (2015) Revealing glacier flow and surge dynamics from animated satellite image sequences: examples from the Karakoram, The Cryosphere, doi: 10.5194/tc-9-1-2015
A new study has created a series of animations that capture “surging” glaciers in the Karakoram mountain range in Asia over 25 years, from 1990 to 2015.
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Administration of Justice (Theories of Punishment)
3. Reformative theory.
A crime is committed as a result of the conflict between the character and the motive of the criminal. One may commit a crime either because the temptation of the motive is stronger or because the restrain imposed by character is weaker.
The deterrent theory by showing that crime never pays separate the motive., while the reformative theory seems to strengthen the character of the man so that he may not become victim of his own temptation. This theory would consider punishment to be curative or to perform the function of medicine.
According to this theory crime is like a disease. . This theory maintains that you can cure by killing.
The ultimate aim of reformists is to try to bring about a change in the personality and character of the offender, so as to make him a useful member of society.
4. Retributive theory-
retributive punishment, in the only sense in which it is admissible in any rational system of administering justice, is that which serves for the satisfaction of that emotion of retributive indignation which in all healthy communities is strived up by injustice. This was formerly based on theory of revenge.-"tooth for tooth" and "eye for eye".
Today, on the other hand, this theory is based on the idea that punishment is the necessary alkali to neutralize the evil effects of crime. The idea behind the retributive punishment is that of the restoration of the moral character, the appraisement of the disturbed conscience of society itself and the maintenance of the sovereign power of the state which becomes aggrieved when a crime is committed and inflicts punishment to set matters of right. Though the system of private revenge has been suppressed, the instincts and emotion that lay at the root of these feelings are yet present in human nature. Therefore, according to this moral satisfaction that the society obtains from punishment can not be ignored.
On the other hand, if the criminal is treated very leniently or even in the midst of luxury, as the reformative theory would have it, the spirit of vengeance would not be satisfied and it might find its way through private vengeance. According to this theory eye for eye and tooth for tooth is deemed to be a complete and really sufficient rule of natural justice.
In the last, we can easily say that the only logical inference from the reformative theory, if taken itself, is that they should be abandoned in despairs as no fit subject for penal discipline. The deterrent and disabling theories on the other hand, regard such offenders as being pre-eminently those with whom the criminal law is called upon to deal.
The application of purely reformative theory, therefore would lead to astonishing and inadmissible results. The perfect idea of criminal justice is based on neither reformative nor the deterrent principle exclusively, but the result of comprise between them.
In this it is the deterrent principal which possesses predominant influence. It will not be out of place to mention here that Gandhi ji "hate the sin and not the sinner", is merely a philosophical assertion and can not furnish a practical guide in the administration of justice.
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Sheetmusic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV1 464
Quartet for Strings No. 18 in A major
String quartet in A major. 1785. Time: 33'30.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 18 in A major K. 464, the fifth of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn, was completed in 1785[1] Mozart's autograph catalogue states as the date of composition "1785. / the 10th January".[2] It is in four movements:
Menuetto and Trio
Allegro non troppo
The whole piece is characterized by the use of several different contrapuntal devices.[3] In England "this quartet is known as the Drum because the cello part in variation six [of the Andante] maintains a staccato drum-like motion."[4]
This quartet was the model for Beethoven's String Quartet in A major, Opus 18 No. 5.[5]
In his biography of Mozart entitled Mozart: A Life, musicologist Maynard Solomon quotes Beethoven as telling his pupil Carl Czerny that this work with its complex contrapuntal techniques, was Mozart's way of saying to the world, "Look what I could produce, if only you were ready for it."
Even though it is one of Mozart's longest quartets, there is a great economy to the writing. The finale is as monothematic as anything Haydn ever wrote, with all the development deriving from the opening two phrases, and the other movements use of a very small amount of melodic material for their development sections as well. The minuet for example, builds primarily on just two small motifs.
^ John Irving, Mozart: The 'Haydn' Quartets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998): 13. "K. 464 and K. 465 were entered ... into Mozart's own handwritten thematic catalogue ... on 10 and 14 January [1785], respectively."
^ Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Finscher, Ludwig (preface); Anderson, Kinloch (transl.) (2007). The Ten Celebrated String Quartets. Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag. pp. p. XI. ISMN M-006-20118-1
^ Reginald Barrett-Ayres, Joseph Haydn and the String Quartet. London: Barrie & Jenkins (1974): 197. "Every form of contrapuntal device is used here."
^ Barrett-Ayres (1974): 198
^ Nicholas Marston, "Chamber music for strings alone" The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven's Life and Music ed. Barry Cooper. Ann Arbor: Borders Press (1991): 233
Quartett in A KV 464: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
String Quartet No. 18: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
Performance of String Quartet No. 18 by the Borromeo String Quartet from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
Six Quartets dedicated to Haydn by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Case Name EEOC v. WAL-MART STORES, INC. EE-MD-0125
Docket / Court 1:06-CV-02514-AMD ( D. Md. )
State/Territory Maryland
Case Type(s) Disability Rights-Pub. Accom.
Equal Employment
In September 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Philadelphia District Office filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores. According to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Wal-Mart violated the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ... read more >
In September 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Philadelphia District Office filed suit against Wal-Mart Stores. According to the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Wal-Mart violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide reasonable accommodations for, and ultimately terminating, a pharmacy technician who suffered from permanent physical disabilities resulting from a gunshot wound. Judge Andre Davis was assigned to this case.
After the complainant intervened in the suit, both Wal-Mart and the EEOC moved for summary judgment. Both motions were denied (with the exception of a single, narrow issue: the EEOC's motion regarding the unavailability of an "undue hardship" defense was granted).
Settlement discussion began on April 22, 2008. Sometime later, on June 9, 2008, the court approved the parties' consent decree. The court retained jurisdiction for three years to ensure compliance. This decree included monetary relief, attorney’s fee and costs, training, notice and postings, reporting requirements, and prohibiting the defendant from ADA violations. More specifically, this consent decree required:
1.The defendant to pay $200,000.00 in monetary relief and $50,000.00 in attorney’s fees to the intervenor-plaintiff.
2.The defendant to provide ADA training to employees in manager and supervisor positions.
3.The defendant to post notices of this agreement and a revised ADA policy for its business. These notices were to be displayed in locations visible to all employees.
4.The defendant to provide regular reports to the EEOC on compliance with the ADA.
5.The defendant to engage in acts or practices that promote compliance with the ADA.
This consent decree was amended, on May 8, 2009. This amendment listed the Wal-Mart stores that would be affected by the consent decree. The duration of the consent decree has lapsed and the docket shows no further activity. Therefore, this case is closed.
Jason Chester - 05/27/2008
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Defendant(s) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Crown Princess Mary of Denmark Reveals a Tarot Card Reader Predicted Her Royal Future
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We always knew Crown Princess Mary of Denmark’s royal romance with Prince Frederik was a modern-day fairytale — and it turns out this story also happens to be a little magical, or as the Aussie-born royal recently shared, it was written in her cards! The future Queen of Denmark revealed that someone predicted her now famous relationship, wait for it, before she even met her now-husband, Fred. This week, Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad shared an excerpt from Prince Frederik’s new official biography, Under the Bar, and the royal couple has shed new light on that fateful first meeting in Sydney back in 2000. The mom-of-four spoke to the author Jens Andersen about her life when she Mary Donaldson.
Mary, now 45, was a 28-year-old Aussie advertising executive casually roaming around a local flea market in Sydney when she stumbled across a tarot card reader. Young Mary decided to give the fortune teller a go and the soothsayer placed a series of tarot cards in front of her on the table. From Mary’s accounts, the cards looked rather traditional and seemed to date back to mid-15th century Europe. Turning them over, the wise woman dropped truth bomb after truth bomb. The fortune teller then told Mary that she’d leave her dream job that she’d recently landed for a man, the man would be worldly and from abroad, and Mary would become famous and move to Europe.
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Mary confessed in her husband’s autobiography, “So I left there and thought, ‘Well yes, that was a lot of fun, but nothing more. But I’ve always been interested in the spiritual… In mystery and fate.” Not long after this event, Mary, a believer in fate, got rewarded! The year was 2000 and Mary Donaldson was enjoying the best of Sydney during the Olympics. She happened to meet a guy, Fred, at a local pub. They got on swimmingly, chatting all night, and Fred seemed like a decent down-to-earth bloke, with (we’re taking a tiny leap) a very hot European accent. “The first time we met, we shook hands,” she recalled. “I didn’t know he was the prince of Denmark. Half an hour later, someone came up to me and said, ‘Do you know who these people are?’” They danced all night long before Fred dropped her home and asked for her phone number.
For months, their long-distance romance played out over the phone and Mary admits she’d wander the streets of Sydney listening to Dido’s “Here With Me” on her Discman when she really missed her royal beau. The pair obviously fell deeply and madly in love, and four years later in 2004, they got hitched in an epic fairytale royal wedding. Becoming Princess Mary, she had to quit her job and move, for her man, to Europe’s Denmark. It’s been nearly 14 years of wedded bliss. Together, the pair has four children, 12-year-old Prince Christian, 10-year-old Princess Isabella, and six-year-old twins Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine. For Prince Frederik’s part, he may respect fate but the heir to the Danish throne is a firm believer in carving your own destiny.
“I believe in fate,” he said in his new book. “Then I look back on all the exciting things that have happened to me, it’s not random. But I don’t try to look ahead and say, ‘Can I predict my destiny for the next two years?’ I don’t want to talk to anyone who claims they can. No one should read anything about me and my future.” So Fred and Mary are opposites… And you what Paula Abdul has to say about that!
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HP's Moonshot Project For Cloud, Big Data, Mobile Computing, To Revive HP Fortunes
By David Roe | Apr 9, 2013
CHANNEL: Information Management
The market has been waiting for quite some time for a sign from HP that there is more to it than squabbling over the Autonomy. The launch of Project Moonshot and a new line of ultra low-power servers may just be that sign.
The new servers are due to go on general release later this year and with them enterprises, data centers or anyone else that has a high dependency on large server banks will reduce the amount of power needed to drive them by as much as 89%.
But it's not just an energy thing. They will also require 80% less physical space than current systems, are significantly less complex, and will cut costs by over 70%. It also says it can fit 1,800 Moonshot servers in a rack. So how much energy are we talking about.
Testing results show that with Moonshot servers we can expect to run hp.com, with the energy equivalency of a dozen 60-watt light bulbs, which is a game change…We also plan to deploy Moonshot for additional applications to lead the next wave of transformation in the data center,” said John Hinshaw, Technology and Operations VP at HP.
See the video below for description of Moonshot.
HP, Innovation
With Moonshot, HP may finally be able to shrug off its current corporate troubles and re-invent itself as the innovative technology giant that it once was.
Indeed, if you go back to the early days of Meg Whitman, she insisted that HP’s recovery would be built on innovation as much as it would be on traditional computing products.
So what is Moonshot and why is HP so excited about it? Moonshot has been in the works for a long time and dates back to the days before the Autonomy mess and the subsequent bickering.
While Whitman may not be able to claim credit for its inception, the fact that it has been released at all given recent HP form is encouraging, especially as if it works, HP will be able to sell it into just about any IT space you can think of.
HP’s Moonshot
In this respect, think big data, think cloud computing, think mobile and behind them all you have massive data centers that are literally gobbling up energy.
It was originally announced in late 2011 at which time HP said it would was working with Calexda to build, develop and exploit new servers that would be powered by ARM-designed chips and would ultimately be able to run Internet workloads in massive data centers.
It's now some 18-months later and the problems surrounding data centers is even more pronounced that it was then.
Over the past two years we have highlighted the massive data explosion that is currently underway, and while we have looked at one aspect in particular -- the ability to manage this massive amount of information -- the hardware issues involved are often overlooked.
Enter Moonshot. Moonshot is not just a single server that aims to deal with this problem, but a whole line of servers that will over time drastically reduce the amount of energy required to run these centers.
HP Server Strategy
HP is, needless to say, extremely excited about this and in the webcasts around the launch has been talking up the servers not just as a new product, but as a new way of thinking about computing power.
Moonshot, Whitman says, is as important to the server space as the shift away from mainframes to Unix was, or even more important than the release of x86 servers.
With them, users will be able to invest in servers that are designed for particular workloads -- and these are really big workloads like cloud computing -- and then will be able to customize according to their needs.
Initial releases will come with Intel's Atom S1200 Centerton chip later in the year, but HP says it will be developing Moonshot with other partners too, like Calxeda, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices.
Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager of HP's Enterprise Group, has described the new servers as the industry's first "software-defined servers", or servers that have been built specifically for the software workloads they run.
Currently, there are 50 companies in the beta program for the new system with a starting price of US$ 6,1875 in the US and Canada, but they will be generally available worldwide in May. If you’re interested in more, you can check out a recording of yesterday’s webcast below.
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Senior US Official Brushes Off Rant of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Says Americans Do It, Too
By Patrick Goodenough | November 22, 2013 | 4:15 AM EST
Members of Iran's Basij militia react during supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speech in Tehran on Wednesday, November 20, 2013. (Photo: Office of the supreme leader)
(CNSNews.com) – A senior Obama administration official reacted mildly to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s vitriolic speech this week, comparing the harsh rhetoric coming from Iran’s supreme leader to anti-Iranian views expressed by some Americans.
“There are decades of mistrust between the United States and Iran, and we certainly have had many people in our society say difficult things about Iran and Iranians,” said the official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity on the sidelines of talks in Geneva, where six world powers are hoping to secure a deal over Iran’s nuclear program.
The official had been asked about Khamenei’s inflammatory remarks, in a speech to militiamen on Wednesday, in which he called Israel a “sinister, unclean rabid dog,” said it was “doomed to fall,” and accused the U.S. of crimes against humanity. Among the latter charges: Two months after Japan had indicated a readiness to surrender during World War II the U.S. had gone ahead and dropped atom bombs anyway, he said, because it wanted to test them “in a real situation.”
“Of course, I don’t ever like it when people use rhetoric that in any way talks about the U.S. in ways that I find very uncomfortable and not warranted whatsoever,” the administration official said. “It is, of course, of concern.”
“I would hope that neither in the U.S. nor in Iran would leaders use rhetoric that may work well in a domestic constituency, but add to the decades of mistrust on both sides,” the official added.
Earlier, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Khamenei’s comments were “not helpful, but we still believe that both sides are negotiating in good faith.”
When Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday on an unrelated matter, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked him to respond to Khamenei’s “rabid dog” comment and his World War II atomic bomb accusation.
“Obviously we disagree with it profoundly – you’re asking the obvious,” he replied. “It’s inflammatory and it’s unnecessary and I think at this moment when we are trying to negotiate and to figure out what can and can’t be achieved, the last thing we need are names back and forth.
“I don’t want to exacerbate it now, sitting here, but our good friends in Israel know full well that we defend their concerns,” Kerry said.
He did not directly condemn the comments.
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) called on the administration to condemn Khamenei’s attack.
“The supreme leader has the final say in Iran’s affairs. His anti-Western broadside must be taken seriously and thoroughly condemned,” he said. “His despicable words sure don’t build confidence. I remain deeply concerned that the Obama administration is close to taking a bad deal with a bad regime.”
The mild response to the supreme leader’s speech also raised eyebrows in Israel, which is already deeply suspicious of Iran’s motives in pursuing the talks in Geneva and worried that the negotiators will settle for a deal that doesn’t conclusively end the threat.
An Israeli lawmaker, Hilik Bar, wrote a letter to Kerry and European Union officials including foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton, the convener of the Geneva talks, expressing disappointment at their reaction to what he called “the dark, racist statements and incitement” from Iran.
“I was disappointed to hear no strong condemnation nor any official censure whatsoever by the United States, the European countries, nor the E.U. itself,” he wrote in the letter, a copy of which was provided by his office late Thursday.
“These comments from Khamenei, in the middle of talks with the world’s powers, allow the world to understand with what kind of regime we are dealing, and with whose leaders the world has been trying to reach a reasonable compromise in recent days,” Bar said. “But reasonable compromises are made with reasonable people, not with inciting, racist, bloodthirsty leaders who intend to annihilate a democratic state – a U.N. member – and who are not ashamed to say it out loud.”
Bar, the deputy speaker of the Knesset, is a member of the Labor party and chairs a caucus that advocates a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
“It is not easy to promote the idea of peace among the Israeli public when Israelis feel attacked and vulnerable, and when they do not have the verbal and moral support of our closest allies, countries that share with us the same moral values of peace, democracy and freedom,” he said.
‘Making progress’
On Wednesday evening the U.S. delegation to the talks in Geneva, led by undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman, held what the State Department said was a “brief bilateral discussion” with the Iranian delegation.
The talks, which also involve Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany, continued Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Psaki said in Washington.
“Our negotiators are making progress, but as we all know, these issues are complicated and require time to hash out.”
Psaki said the six powers remain “entirely united in our proposal, and we are focused on doing everything we can to conclude a first step agreement with Iran.”
The administration has – successfully thus far – urged the Senate to hold off on moving ahead with new Iran sanctions legislation that passed in the House with overwhelming support last summer, to give time for the diplomacy to proceed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate would delay the move until next month, but that “we need to leave our legislative options open to act on a new, bipartisan sanctions bill in December, shortly after we return” from a two-week recess.
Many lawmakers argue that now is the time to keep the pressure on, rather than begin to ease it. Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) introduced separate new legislation on Thursday with that stated goal.
The Iran Nuclear Compliance Act of 2013 would “restrict sanctions relief until Iran agrees to eliminate the threat of its nuclear program,” and would immediately restore all sanctions if Iran violated the terms of any interim agreement negotiated with the six powers.
A key element of the bill is the requirement that Iran complies with obligations including the terms of six U.N. Security Council resolutions passed between 2006 and 2010, all of which demand that Iran suspend “all” uranium enrichment activity.
Asked whether Corker’s bill was unhelpful right now, Psaki said, “Given how sensitive and difficult these [talks] are, certainly any piece – any indication that the United States isn’t serious about the diplomatic track is unhelpful.”
She added that the administration was “appreciative” of Reid’s announcement of a delay in moving ahead with the additional sanctions legislation.
Patrick Goodenough
Spencer Journalism Fellow
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Benjamin Franklin Thirteen Virtues
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Mar 26, 2018 · Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Virtues Benjamin Franklin was a man of many virtues. One of the key members of the group we call the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant statesman with a mind fixated on improvement on every front.
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In order to accomplish his goal he defined 13 virtues which he strived to live up to. In other words: His goal was to become a better man by living up to 13 desirable character traits. How Did Benjamin Franklin Improve Himself and Develop the 13 Virtues?
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Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790. At the top of each chart was one of the virtues. The charts had a column for each day of the week and thirteen rows marked with the first letter of each of the 13 virtues. Every evening he would review the day and put a mark (dot) next to each virtue for each fault committed with respect to that virtue for that day.
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Sep 18, 2014. In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin inventoried his thirteen virtues: 1. TEMPERANCE Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE.
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I know a lot of people get a great benefit from these, but it’s never been anything that sat well with me, so I’ve never done it for an extended period, until I heard about Benjamin. on in his life.
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Even Benjamin Franklin seemed a little uncertain of its importance. the greatest shortcoming of all for the applicability of Franklin’s list of thirteen virtues to the modern world. He treats.
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When he retired from the printing business at the age of 42, Benjamin Franklin set his sights on becoming what. He consulted the advice of a wide variety of authors until he finally derived 13.
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Mar 01, 2018 · Ben Franklin considered various virtues that, if mastered, would lead him to perfection After 10 years of following Franklin’s example, I am more industrious, patient, mindful and healthy
Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790. You probably know him as one. His "Plan" was made up of 13 virtues, each with short descriptions: 1. Temperance: Eat not to.
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Franklin’s list of 13 virtues: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness. Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” — Benjamin Franklin Under virtue number three of order,
You know who didn’t “wing it?” Benjamin Franklin. At only 20 years old, a young Ben scribbled down a list of rules to live by and goals to accomplish. He called it his list of 13 Virtues, and stuck.
Jun 30, 2012. An Excerpt from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith; edited by Frank Woodworth Pine, 1916.
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Nov 15, 2017 · Lessons In Manliness: Benjamin Franklin’s Pursuit of the Virtuous Life. They included justice, prudence, courage, and temperance. In order to have honor, a Roman man had to live each of the four virtues. When Aristotle encouraged men in the ancient world to live “the virtuous life,” it.
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Jan 1, 2019. This New Year's Resolution List is inspired by Ben Franklin's 13 Virtues, a list of personality traits he embraced. 200-year-old advice FTW!
Jan 6, 2017. Ben Franklin had a very famous approach to his own personal development. When he was 20 years old he listed a set of 13 virtues that he.
Continually obsessed with self-betterment, Franklin consents "to the bold and arduous project of arriving at Moral Perfection." He creates a list of 13 virtues that.
By now, you’ve probably gathered that I’m talking about Benjamin Franklin. In an effort to cultivate himself into the best person he could be, Franklin concocted a list of 13 virtues that he.
Jul 21, 2016. Having studied the ancient philosophers and their ideas of the virtues required to be an ideal man, Benjamin Franklin created his own list of.
Benjamin Franklin was probably a bit of a hypocrite. Many of us are in some way or another. But this example of not living up to his own personal declaration of virtues at all times does not make him a hypocrite. If he went around claiming he was perfect and that he followed this code of virtues at all times, then he would be a hypocrite.
13 Virtues Thirteen Virtues. Temperance – Control is the key to improvement. Keep your words, actions, and temper in control. (April) Silence – There is a time and place to speak up and a time to listen. You learn more by listening than speaking. (September) Order – All things have their place. Keep your work area in order; keep your day in order.
Mar 12, 2012. In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin devised a list of 13 virtues to live by for as long as possible, in an attempt to "live without committing.
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Joe Biden says he "wasn't prepared" for attacks from Kamala Harris at debate
By Grace Segers
Former Vice President Joe Biden said that he "wasn't prepared" for Sen. Kamala Harris to attack him on his record on busing in the first Democratic debate last week. Biden said he wasn't prepared for "the way she came at me" in an interview with "New Day" on CNN Friday morning.
"I was prepared for them to come after me but I wasn't prepared for the person who came at me the way she came at me," Biden said. "She knows Beau, she knows me."
Biden's son Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, served as Delaware's attorney general at the same time that Harris was serving as California's attorney general.
In the debate last Thursday, Harris confronted Biden over his relationship with segregationists during his time in the Senate, and his opposition to federally-imposed busing in the 1970s. Biden has had to defend that position, saying that he supported busing in response to de jure segregation -- that is, segregation imposed by law.
"If the court ruled or there was a law passed or a circumstance that a county a city or a state did that prevented black folks from being somewhere, then that is wrong and you should bus," Biden told CNN. "I even went so far, in the middle of that busing controversy, as saying use helicopters if that was necessary to make the point."
Biden noted that the Obama administration provided funds for voluntary busing to individual cities. He also argued that he did not have enough time on the debate stage to fully explain his position on busing.
In an interview with "CBS This Morning" last Friday, Harris responded to criticism from Biden's camp that the contentious moment was a "low blow."
"It was about just speaking truth and as I've said many times, I have a great deal of respect for Joe Biden...but he and I disagree on that," Harris said.
She added, "My purpose was to really just make sure that in this conversation we are appreciating the impact on real people of policies that have been pushed in the history of our country."
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Grace Segers is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital.
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Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/teachers-cast-votes-cps-wants-access-ballots/)
As teachers cast votes, CPS wants access to ballots
By Rebecca Harris and Sarah Karp | June 6, 2012
As Wednesday’s strike authorization vote began, a battle began brewing between the district and the Chicago Teachers Union over the voting process itself.
CEO Jean- Claude Brizard’s team asked the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board to issue an emergency order to have the union secure election material and provide the IELRB and the district access to them. The district wants 20 different pieces of material from a copy of the ballot to the “educational flyer provided to each member explaining the reasons for the strike authorization vote” to information on the messenger services retained to deliver ballot boxes.
In a letter to the IELRB, district lawyers argue that because Senate Bill 7 sets out a process for how a strike should occur, the labor relations board has the power to monitor it.
“We want to make sure there is integrity in the process,” Brizard said.
CTU President Karen Lewis countered that CPS has no right to the material. Union officials already said they planned to have local clergy observe the vote-counting and will preserve the ballots.
“They are fishing, and we don’t participate in fishing expeditions,” said Lewis. She and other union officials made high-profile appearances at their former schools to cast their ballots.
A spokeswoman for the labor board said both the Chicago Teachers Union and CPS had filed documents with the board in recent days, but she declined to make them available without a Freedom of Information Act request. Law firms for the parties involved did not respond to requests to release additional documents.
The conflict underscores the importance of the strike authorization vote and the high stakes of the outcome. Brizard walked a fine line on Wednesday, saying that on one hand, regardless of the results, CPS and CTU will continue negotiating toward the goal of reaching an agreement before school starts in the fall.
But Brizard also emphatically argued that teachers should delay the vote and allow an independent fact-finder to issue a report on July 16.
“Teachers are being asked to vote on inaccurate information,” he said. “This is a serious process.”
He added that teachers only get one vote. Once teachers authorize to strike, they can’t reverse that decision, added spokeswoman Becky Carroll. (The vote, however, does not require the union to call a strike.)
Lewis and other union officials countered that the new process for calling a strike and requiring 75 percent approval makes it critical that the vote take place before school lets out for the summer. Once teachers disperse for the vacation, it would be difficult to get enough members to participate, union officials said.
Lewis said Wednesday morning she was confident that she can get enough members to authorize the strike. Showing the union can reach that threshold and that a strike threat is real will speed up the negotiation process, not thwart it as Brizard has maintained, she said.
“We want to get there [and reach a contract settlement] before August 27. We don’t want to wait till then,” she said.
Out in schools
Early Wednesday morning, Lewis went to King High School to cast her ballot. Lewis, who taught at King before taking the helm of the CTU, was greeted with hugs from students, teachers and even the police officer stationed at the school.
Throughout the morning, King’s teachers unceremoniously picked up their ballots in the main office, filled them out, stuffed them in envelopes and went back to their classes. Students were taking finals on Wednesday.
Many of the teachers wore red shirts to show their support for the union. Social studies teacher Andrew Lambert had donned a blue shirt, but said he did vote to authorize a strike. “I am young and didn’t do the laundry,” he said. “I think that this vote is more important for young teachers because we have to live with the consequences for our entire career.”
Still, it was unclear whether King would get 100 percent participation or approval this first day. David Robbins, one of the union delegates, said that 59 of 70 members of the staff participated in a survey last month that was meant to be a dry run for the vote: 56 of 59 responded that they thought the union should reject the existing CPS contract offer.
Robbins said there’s a mix of reasons why people might sit out a vote, which essentially will mean they are casting a “No” vote.
But at other schools, delegates expected 100 percent of union members to vote in favor of the strike. CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey appeared at Senn High School at 7:30 a.m. to cast his vote and talk with teachers. “People said, ‘What are you doing here? This building’s 100 percent (in favor). Go somewhere they need your help,’ ” he said.
At Ray School in Hyde Park, teachers were eager to cast their ballots. By 8:30, all but 15 of 60 teachers had already done so. Teachers also contributed to a pot-luck breakfast, and a table nearby was heavy with donuts, coffee and other treats.
Union delegate John Cusiack said he expects everyone will authorize the strike.
Like other teachers interviewed on Wednesday, he said that the overall direction of CPS, and education reform generally, is what teachers are voting against. He said he is against efforts such as firing tenured teachers and replacing them with new staff, which happens in turnaround schools.
“In some schools they have done that several times and it is still no different,” he said.
Therese Wasik, who is retiring from Ray this year, said she was glad she got a chance to vote. Her first year in the district, she worked one day and then went on strike. She said she remembers being nervous that her job wasn’t safe. Because she’s retiring, she has no such concerns.
“I have been in the union for more than 30 years and I know what I would want if I were here,” she said.
At Gale Elementary in Rogers Park, Head Start teacher Maxine Gladney – who has been with the district since 1968 – said that CPS’ treatment of veteran teachers had persuaded her to vote for the strike authorization.
“It’s something we should be doing, or we’re going to end up like Wisconsin, like a lot of other places, and we’re going to have nobody to protect us,” Gladney said. “We are blamed for things we are not responsible for, decisions [CPS] makes that are not up to us.”
Joseph Hill, a special education teacher, said that he supports the vote as well. “We are the only city employees that are asked to work longer for free,” he said.
He is not optimistic that a vote will pressure CPS to cave in to the union’s demands. “They’re not going to give us a pay raise. We’re just going to need to go on strike,” he added.
But parent volunteer Tameka Leonard, who has three children at Gale, said she was unhappy about the vote. “I think it’s too early to be talking about a strike. It’s summer break. You’ve still got time to negotiate,” she said.
And, she noted, she’s pleased with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s initiative to extend the school day because of the number of kids she sees running around the neighborhood with nothing to do after school.
[Photos by Marc Monaghan]
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Next Bishop of Norwich announced
Downing Street has today announced that Her Majesty the Queen has approved the nomination of the Rt Rev Graham Usher as the next Bishop of Norwich.
Bishop Graham is currently the Bishop of Dudley. Before taking up this post he was Rector of Hexham in Northumberland, after working in Middlesbrough in the Diocese of York, first as curate at St Mary the Virgin, Nunthorpe, and then as Vicar of Holy Trinity, North Ormesby. He succeeds the Rt Rev Graham James, who retired earlier this year after 19 years as Bishop of Norwich.
For full details, see the Diocese of Norwich website.
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Dow Sets Record On Fed’s QE
Posted By Mike Whitney On March 12, 2013 @ 4:42 am In article,articles 2014 onward,FrontPageArticle | Comments Disabled
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) roared to an all-time high on Friday wrapping up a 4-day winning streak and shrugging off grim reports of government budget cuts that are expected to slow growth. The Dow rose 67 points on the day to close at 14,397 passing the previous record set in October 2007. While Wall Street’s bulls claim that stocks are still underpriced and have further to go, wary traders are watching for any sign that the Fed is planning to end its easing operations (QE) which have flooded financial markets with $2 trillion of extra liquidity triggering an unprecedented 4-year stock rally. The markets are so addicted to the Fed’s $85 billion per month liquidity injections, that even grumbling from dissenting members of the FOMC could spark a panic and send stocks into freefall. Here’s more background from an article in the Wall Street Journal:
“Many give the Federal Reserve, and its latest asset-purchase program, much of the credit for the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s rally to record highs. But some strategists feel that, as long as the economy continues to improve, the Dow’s upward trend will continue, even if the Fed starts taking its foot off the liquidity pedal.
The Fed has been creating liquidity via outright purchases of longer-term Treasury and mortgage-backed securities since the end of 2012. These purchases, known as quantitative easing, are aimed at stimulating economic activity by lowering longer-term Treasury yields and borrowing costs. Treasury yields move inversely to Treasury note prices…
Stock-price valuation is unlikely to be derailed by changes in Fed policy despite fears,” said Tobias Levkovich, chief U.S. equity strategist at Citigroup…
The unemployment rate was at 9.9% in March 2010 … versus 7.9% as of January 2013. …In addition, new home sales were at seasonally adjusted annualized rates of 381,000 and 305,000 in March 2011 and June 2011, respectively, but have climbed to a 4 1/2-year high of 437,000 as of January 2013. Meanwhile, data released Thursday showed that the four-week average of initial claims for jobless benefits fell to a five-year low.” (“More to Dow’s Rally Than Just the Fed”, WSJ)
Levkovich knows that what he’s saying is nonsense. As soon as Bernanke removes the punchbowl, stocks will start circling the plughole. There’s no doubt about it. $85 billion per month is serious money, and withdrawal of that support is enough to send markets into a nosedive. That’s why Bernanke is so hesitant to explain his exit strategy or whether he plans to slow his purchases of US Treasuries (USTs) and mortgage backed securities (MBS) when the recovery finally strengthens. He knows he’s backed himself into a corner where even the slightest pause in stimulus will roil the markets. Here’s a clip from Trimtabs explaining “Why Stocks are Rising Even as Economy Slumps”:
“Stocks are approaching all-time highs. At the same wages and salaries, after taxes and inflation, are declining year over year. How can stocks keep going up without the economy leading the way or even following behind? Simple. It is a case of supply and demand in the stock market.
Ever since July 2011 when QE 2 ended, companies have been using some of the record amounts of cash on their balance sheets to reduce the total number of shares outstanding by about $1 billion each and every day. Why? All that cash was earning virtually nothing because of low interest rates…
Then there’s the fact that this year, the Fed for the first time since the end of QE2, has resumed directly adding $4 billion each and every trading day into the bond and stock markets.
Therefore, we have more money chasing fewer shares. That is the only reason stocks are going up. So what if the economy is on its ass? What difference does that make in a drugged stock market? Isn’t it obvious that stock prices most likely will keep going up as long as the narcotic of free money keeps the investing public all doped up?
But the real problem with a drugged market is what will happen when the drugs are either withdrawn or no longer work. Can you imagine what this stock market will look like on cold turkey?” (“Why Stocks are Rising Even as Economy Slumps”, Trimtabs)
So, when the Fed buys $85 billion of financial assets per month, stocks go up. And when the Fed stops buying $85 billion per month, stocks will go down. Only they’re going to go down considerably further then anyone expects because of the vast amount of money that has followed Bernanke into the market. For example, businesses with a lot of cash have been buying back their own shares to pump up the prices. Check out this out from Slate:
Cardiff Garcia offers this chart from Birinyi Associates showing that one reason stock markets are touching record highs this month is that share buybacks reached a record high back in February….. When stocks are cheap, firms buy shares. When stocks are expensive, they buy capital goods.” (“February Stock Buybacks Set a Record“, Slate)
And then there’s margin debt which has recently ballooned to record highs which means that investors are borrowing a lot of money to buy stocks because they think the Fed will keep printing. This is from Orcan Investment via Pragmatic Capitalism in a post titled “NYSE Margin Debt Stalks All-Time Highs“:
Then, of course, there’s a pick up in mergers and acquisitions which is back to 2008 levels. M&As are going great-guns because everyone thinks the zero rates and free funny money will go on forever. And, now, there are bubbles popping up everywhere. For example, the yields on junk bonds are at historic lows. Why? Because there’s so much liquidity floating around that people are piling into junk to nab a few extra farthings on their investment. It’s called “chasing yield” and it explains why leveraged loans, CLOs and even residential real estate are headed for the moon, because Bernanke has opened the liquidity floodgates pushing money into every corner of the system except the one place where it would do some good, in the pockets of working people who would spend it at the grocery store, the malls, the dry cleaners, the department store, the daycare or the gas station. Any consumer spending would help to boost the recovery and strengthen growth. But while there’s plenty of money for bankers, fund managers and the other chiselers who blew up the financial system, there’s nary a dime for the people who work for a living.
It’s also worth noting that Bernanke’s monetary monkey business poses serious risks for the financial system and thus the broader economy. Check this out from Washington’s Blog:
“An influential group of leading world banks warned Thursday that central banks are pumping out too much easy money and markets risk becoming dangerously addicted to ultra-low interest rates.
The Institute of International Finance, which groups 450 banks, said that if central banks continue to flood money into the global economy, then any future bid to get it under control could itself destabilize the financial system.
“These conditions — quantitative easing, very low interest rates — cannot last forever, but the risk is that financial markets have become addicted to them,” it warned.
“The longer central bank liquidity is relied on to hold things together, the more excesses and distortions are being accumulated in the financial system. An eventual unwinding of these excesses will become a destabilizing risk event.” (“Top Bankers: Too Much Central Bank Easing Is Becoming Dangerous,” Washingtons Blog)
The risks of QE have been pointed out by Bernanke’s own lieutenants like Fed governor Jeremy Stein who was thrust into the national spotlight when he voiced his concerns about emerging bubbles in certain kinds of securities, including junk bonds and REITs (real estate investment trusts) Stein argued that these bubbles could endanger the economy if they get big enough, leaving the Fed with no choice except to raise rates and wait for the fallout. Here’s more on Stein from economist Brad Delong:
“It is Stein’s judgment that right now whatever benefits are being provided to employment and production by the Federal Reserve’s super-sub-normal interest rate policy and aggressive quantitative easing are outweighed by the risks being run by banks that are reaching for yield… Stein’s arguments are one more reason that we ought to have a much more aggressive and expansionary fiscal policy…”(“Jeremy Stein, The risks of QE and zirp” Bradford DeLong, Grasping Reality with Both Hands)
Bernanke’s response to Stein: “Premature rate increases would carry a high risk of short-circuiting the recovery, possibly leading to an even longer period of low long-term rates”. In other words, “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!”
Four years after the Fed launched its first round of QE, unemployment is still above 7 percent, GDP is under 2 percent, wages are either stagnant or dropping, 47 million people are on food stamps, another milion and a half homeowners will face foreclosure this year, median household income has dropped 7.2 percent in the last 6 years, while–according to a report from the Fed which was released in June— middle class families have seen a 40 percent decline in their net worth between 2007 to 2010. Working class America has been walloped by the policies of the Central Bank and the Obama administration. Still, stocks are at record highs, profits are bigger than ever, and more of the nation’s wealth is being transferred to the 1 percent than any time since the Gilded Age.
There’s something very wrong with this picture.
MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
URL to article: https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/12/dow-sets-record-on-feds-qe/
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The World Oceans Day
By Jodie Lauren Smith On Jun 8, 2015 253
The world’s oceans are a place of serene beauty, teeming with life in some areas and masked with darkness in others, they manage to seem full and yet empty, beautiful, and yet feral. The oceans generate most of the oxygen we breathe, they help feed us, they regulate our climate, give us new and exciting potential medicines, and cover 71% of the earth in their vastness.
In truth we owe a lot to the oceans of the world, and that is why on the 8th of June every year, we celebrate World Oceans Day, to honor all that is great about the oceans and our appreciation of their continued involvement in our lives. However, the world’s oceans are in trouble. Pollution, overfishing, and global warming are threatening the lives of marine creatures globally and their habitats. We rely on the oceans for food and for our livelihood, so unless our attitude towards them changes, we could be looking at a very different world. In light of World Oceans Day, we hope to address the major challenges that our oceans are facing and what steps are being taken to replenish and restore the world’s oceans.
Put simply, overfishing is overexploitation of the world’s fish stocks, where they become depleted to extremely low levels, creating a ripple effect through entire marine ecosystems. Probably the most well known example of overfishing is the overfishing of sharks for fins used in fin soup. Sharks are captured, their fins cut off at sea and the shark put back into the water. Sharks cannot survive without their fins and so die shortly after. This is not only very wasteful as only the fin is taken, but has had a seemingly inexorable effect on marine life. It’s estimated that between 26 and 73 million sharks are killed annually, however in 2012, that number rose to 100 million, that’s 190 sharks a minute, and could lead to mass shark species extinction within the next few decades if rates continue to rise. Shark fins may seem like a strange product to be in demand, after all they’re tasteless, and have to be boiled in stock to obtain flavor, but it has long been a delicacy in China to eat shark fin soup. This is mainly an option only for the rich, as 1 pound of shark fin costs around $330. Sharks are apex predators, meaning they have few to no predators of their own, and their numbers largely affect the numbers of other marine life populations. Because of the huge decline in shark populations, populations at the lower end of the food chain such as species of rays have boomed, consequently causing populations of shellfish to plummet, causing many fisheries to close. For example, a fishery in North Carolina that had to close in 2004, after being successful for several decades.
Furthermore, overfishing generally is increasingly becoming a pressing issue; Science magazine commented that world fish stocks may run out by 2048. The United Nations of Food and Agriculture Organisation estimated that over 70% of the world’s fish stocks are either fully exploited or depleted. In only 55 years humans have wiped out over 90% of the worlds apex predators, such as sharks, king mackerel, swordfish and Bluefin tuna. Bycatch is also a problem stemming from overfishing, where fish that aren’t targeted also get killed and have to be thrown back into the ocean, dead. For example there are fewer than 100 Maui’s Dolphins left in New Zealand because of high entanglement rates in nets.
The Slavery Behind The Seafood You Eat
There are ports on the western coast of Thailand where Burmese workers are smuggled to, with the promise that they will be able to have a well paid job in a factory, but once they arrive, they discover they have been sold into slavery. This is a familiar story for many Burmese men smuggled over the border into Thailand, but Myint Thein gives his story; “When I realised what had happened, I told them I wanted to go back,” he says hurriedly. “But they wouldn’t let me go. When I tried to escape, they beat me and smashed all my teeth.” The workers on these trawlers caught fish such as tuna and squid, and even “trash fish” bycatch, which is later used to feed the prawns in Thailand’s multibillion dollar farmed prawn industry. The fruits of these men’s penniless labour has, in all likelihood, landed on your dinner plate at some point or another.
The pH of the oceans has been decreasing in recent years, causing them to become more acidic and less habitable to the life they support. This is because around 30-40% of the carbon dioxide released by humans, in one way or another, is then absorbed by the oceans. This has a whole host of negative effects from depressed immune response in some organisms such as blue mussels, to coral bleaching. The rate of ocean acidification is rising as the amount of CO2 we pump into the atmosphere is rising due to global warming.
Disappearing Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are fragile and very complex marine structures that are very easily affected by small changes in the oceans. It’s estimated that around 25% of coral reefs around the world have already disappeared and another 67% could be heading that way in coming years. Overfishing and generally destructive, and unsustainable fishing practices account for the biggest decline in coral reefs. For example island nations such as Samoa and The Philippines have seen a dramatic decrease in fish stock numbers which many of the local islanders rely on, so in response they started fishing using cyanide and dynamite fishing, which further degrades the coral systems. Global warming also has a huge affect on coral reefs, with bleaching either killing or at the very least weakening coral reefs.
Mercury Pollution
The negative effect of mercury pollution to human health has been known for decades; in high enough doses it can cause damage to the brain, kidneys and lungs. Mercury is often a pollutant released from industrial emissions, and finds it’s way into the world’s oceans. Fish at the top of the food chain contain more mercury because they also store the mercury from the fish lower down on the food chain that they have consumed. These fish include some of our favorites such as tuna and swordfish. Because of the negative effects of mercury poisoning, pregnant women are discouraged from eating fish thought to be high in mercury, and young children are also discouraged from eating it due to the chance of delayed neurological development. Mercury levels are expected to rise in coming years mainly due to the coal-burning plants in India and China sending toxic fumes over the ocean, which are then released into the water through rainclouds.
Ocean Dead Zones
Ocean dead zones are areas of the ocean with little to no life because of extremely low oxygen levels. This is mainly due to pollution from humans and natural causes that result in the depletion of nutrients. There are 146 dead zones in the world’s oceans that are unable to support life. The size of these dead zones varies from as little as one square mile, to the largest one, which is 70,000 square miles of lifeless ocean. The main cause behind ocean dead zones is industrial pollutants in fertilizer used for farming. Phosphorus and nitrogen are the main pollutants at play here; when these elements get into the coastal waters, they over-fertilize the phytoplankton and algae, causing their populations to rocket an alarming rate. When these populations subsequently die, the process of decomposition depletes the oxygen supply leaving it then unsuitable to sustain life. With global meat consumption expected to rise by up to 50% within the next 25 years, agricultural industry is set to raise even higher, placing increasing pressure on coastal areas and contributing to the growing number of dead zones.
Everything Oil
The most notorious effect oil has on the oceans, as we’re sure you’re all aware of, is oil spills. When oil coats the fur of certain mammals such as sea otters, it destroys their insulating ability, a similar thing also occurs with birds if their feathers are exposed to oil. Having this insulating ability destroyed means these creatures have little to no protection against water and the cold, and will frequently die of hypothermia. For the birds and mammals unfortunate enough to ingest the oil, it’s also poisonous to them, also leading to a painful death. Fish are not affected in the same way as birds and mammals; the effect on fish and shellfish is often delayed because it requires oil making it’s way into the water columns. The main consequences on fish exposed to oil are; reduced growth, unusual and enlarged livers, significant change in heart or respiration rate, and a drastically slows or disturbs reproduction. Hundreds of millions of gallons of oil end up in the oceans each year, and most of this alarmingly high figure doesn’t account for large oil spills, but small, regular dumping of oil. For example bilge cleaning of ships releases 137 million gallons of oil into the oceans, annually and this is only a small part of the problem.
Lastly on our list of problems is tourism and development. Coastal areas are characterized by high biodiversity; they contain some of the most rich and diverse ecosystems and habitats existing on this planet. Unfortunately for these ecosystems, coastal areas are a much-loved place by humans, whether that’s to live or to vacation to. Around 220 million tourists visit the Mediterranean annually, 100 million of which will visit the beaches. This number is said to rise to 350 million in less than 20 years. The infrastructure that is required to maintain these levels of tourism and the pressure it puts on local resources means some habitats are destroyed beyond repair. Around half of the Mediterranean’s coastline is now urbanized, and with the increasing pressure applied in coming years, the area of non-urbanized land will most likely shrink.
Detailing all the stressors for the world’s oceans would leave us with an almost unending report, so here we’ll summarize some of the other problems our oceans are facing. Rising temperatures are causing not only ocean acidification but also a plethora of other problems such as affecting ocean currents. Ocean currents are important in transporting nutrients necessary to support life into lower latitudes, these currents are slowing down due to global warming, we could see this having a massive ripple affect on the food chain in coming years. Another noticeable issue facing our oceans is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is an area in the North Pacific Ocean with high concentrations of plastics, other synthetic materials, chemical sludge and various other kinds of debris that have been caught up in surface currents. Many of these chemical and synthetic materials are toxic to marine life and contribute to plummeting numbers.
What is Being Done?
If you’re not depressed by now, then I haven’t been doing my job properly! But on a serious note, what is being done about these issues? Could we be looking at a brighter, more sustainable future for the world’s oceans? World Oceans Day is helping tremendously to raise awareness for ocean issues; in 2013 around 600 events were held in 70 countries, and while the official numbers aren’t yet available for 2014, the number is thought to be even higher. Sadly not much is being done in terms of ocean conservation thus far, many coral reefs are becoming protected areas, and the list of possible protected areas continues to grow as they look to be officially protected. A number of shark species are now considered endangered and are being protected, and proposals for more aggressive management of fisheries and reducing bycatch could see rejuvenation in fish stocks. If this is something that concerns you greatly, there are small things you can do to make a small impact, however it may seem like a drop in the ocean. The small things you can do include; reducing your carbon footprint, recycling plastics, finding where your shellfish are sourced from to avoid ones caught by slavery.
There’s something blissfully ironic in the concept that the oceans that first brought life on this planet into existence, are threatened with death by one of it’s own creations, us. These problems our oceans face are similar in a sense to the way most problems created by humans seem to go; ignore the seriousness of the problem, carry on exploiting until it’s almost too late, then find a solution. The world’s oceans are already changing in a way where much of the damage may be irreversible at this point, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to conserve what we have and hopefully, over time, bring the oceans back to a more healthy state. Unfortunately, this is going to be a long road, it’s a very complex vortex of issues, with a lot of people involved at every step along the way and creating a conservation consensus across a range of disciplines will be a difficult task, but one that needs to be done. In an ideal world; humans will move to endorsing local small fisheries in greater numbers, rather than the huge commercial fishing companies, practices like line fishing that accumulate high amounts of bycatch will be banned, several areas of ocean will be protected, and even the unprotected areas will be protected from any human waste chemical runoffs from farming, and sharks will cease to be slaughtered in their millions for a tiny, tasteless part of their anatomy.
About Jodie Lauren Smith
Jodie is a 25 year old British woman, who loves journalism and non-fiction writing in general. She wants to be a voice for unreported issues, elevating them in to the public arena in the hopes we can make a difference.
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MOH requests review of S$100,000 fine on orthopaedic surgeon
The Ministry of Health has asked the Singapore Medical Council to review a maximum fine its disciplinary tribunal had imposed on a doctor. Nisha Abdul Rahim reports.
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20 Feb 2019 05:54PM (Updated: 20 Feb 2019 10:36PM )
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has asked the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) to review a maximum fine its disciplinary tribunal had imposed on a doctor.
Dr Lim Lian Arn, an orthopaedic surgeon, was fined S$100,000 for failing to obtain informed consent from a patient before giving her an injection.
More than 4,000 doctors had signed a petition over SMC's disciplinary ruling last month, asking the health minister to examine SMC's decision and clarify its stand on the need for doctors to obtain informed consent for minor procedures such as routine injections.
In a statement on Wednesday (Feb 20), MOH said that this decision could lead to the practice of "defensive medicine". It noted questions that have been raised about the liability imposed in the case.
MOH has asked SMC to apply to court to have its decision reviewed, it said in the statement. SMC has already made the application even though the time for appeal has passed.
“Whilst both Dr Lim and the SMC may have accepted the sentence, the decision in this case carries with it much wider professional practice implications and also has an impact on future cases," MOH said.
"MOH is of the view that this decision should be reviewed,” it added.
MOH also said that it will continue to engage with healthcare professionals for greater clarity and balance in medical practice and processes.
READ: Doctors do not need to inform patients of every possible side effect: Lam Pin Min
Senior Minister of State for Health Lam Pin Min had said in Parliament on Feb 11 that doctors do not need to lay out and get consent from a patient for every side effect or complication of a drug or treatment.
He was addressing questions raised by Members of Parliament regarding Dr Lim's case.
Dr Lam said: “It is wrong to infer that the decision (of the disciplinary tribunal) makes it mandatory for a doctor to lay out and get the consent of a patient for every possible side effect and potential complications of a drug or treatment."
"What a doctor needs to inform a patient about prior to a treatment or procedure continues to depend on the specific facts of the case, including the particular circumstances of the patient," he added.
Dr Lam also revealed that in determining the sentence, the disciplinary tribunal had considered cases submitted by both counsels involving similar conduct, where the sentences had involved fines from S$5,000 to S$10,000 and suspension orders from three to 12 months.
The maximum penalty for such misconduct had been S$10,000 before it was increased to S$100,000 when the Medical Registration Act was last amended in 2010, he said.
Dr Lam acknowledged that many "fair-minded" doctors would think that the penalty imposed on Dr Lim was harsh.
"The concerns are understandable, when considering the facts and circumstances of this case,” he said.
Source: CNA/na(hm)
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Degree 53 celebrates growth in a new office in Steam Packet House
07 November 2017 | Andy
We're pleased to announce that we have taken 6,500sq ft of two floors within the historic Steam Packet House on Cross Street in the heart of Manchester city centre. The office move follows our continued growth to better accommodate our expanding team.
Earlier in February, we announced a significant recruitment initiative to support the newly formed gaming division and growing project portfolio. During the year, the team made over 30 new hires, focusing on recruiting skilled developers, designers and technology specialists. This rapid expansion meant that we needed a much larger office to fit 75+ team members.
The new offices have been refurbished to provide a collaborative, modern space for the teams, with larger breakout and kitchen areas across the two floors. As a celebration of our core skills, the decor in meeting rooms is inspired by Las Vegas casinos.
It’s been an exciting year for us in terms of growth and expanding our team with talented individuals. The gaming division has been evolving rapidly and we’ve recruited more people than we’d originally planned for. We’ve created brand new positions to bring more structure and additional expertise to support our projects.
The new office in Steam Packet House is fantastic and will no doubt inspire more creativity in our team members. There’s enough space for additional hires, as we’re looking to fill a number of positions over the next six months. We work with clients and partners from all over the world and being located in the centre of Manchester will make their visits much more convenient. We look forward to welcoming them in the new office.
We'd also like to thank the Sharp Project for being such a wonderful home for us for 4 years and providing support to our team!
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Located at La Brea in southwest Trinidad, the Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world. Known to many as the 8th wonder of the world, the lake is the major supplier of asphalt to the international market.
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Fondly called the “Eight Wonder of the World” by villagers is located on Trinidad’s south-western coast, the La Brea Pitch Lake, is still a source of amazement and mystery.
It is the largest commercial deposit of natural asphalt in the world – one of only three in known existence – and holds approximately 10 million tonnes of asphalt. A recent study connected to the European Space Agency, discovered there are living microbes beneath the asphalt’s surface, which may one day help answer the question whether or not life exists on other planets! Spanning some 109 acres, the lake appears like a huge oval-shaped car park, but on closer inspection, it looks like very dark clay, with rough undulating patches. Its asphalt has been used to pave roads and airport runways around the world, including the roadway in front of Buckingham Palace in England, La Guardia Airport in New York, the Lincoln Tunnel which connects New York to New Jersey, as well as numerous roads in several countries.
Visitors can walk on the surface and you might feel it is alive – with its hissing and burping sounds. Small pools of water form on it during the rainy season and you can bathe in them. They contain high levels of sulfur and villagers claim they are the fountains of life, good for curing anything from skin conditions to joint pain. British adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh claimed he ‘discovered’ the pitch lake in 1595 on his search for El Dorado. However, it was the Spanish who started to refine the pitch in 1792 and called it ’Tierra de Brea’, meaning land of pitch – the name eventually became La Brea.
First called ’piche’, the Amerindians believed it was created by the Gods as punishment. Legend has it the lake swallowed an entire tribe after they ate humming birds which were believed were the souls of their departed ancestors. To date, numerous Amerindian artifacts have been unearthed onsite, including a bench carved in the shape of an animal (with the carver’s name still clearly visible). Some of these can be viewed at the onsite museum. Indications of prehistoric life in Trinidad and Tobago have also been found – the rib and thigh of a giant sloth, along with a tooth identified as belonging to a mastodon. You can also enjoy the flora and fauna around such as water rose, nymph lilies, and bird of paradise. Bird watchers can enjoy glimpses of Herron, hummingbirds, kingfishers and sandpipers fluttering by. It’s best not to take on the pitch lake on your own – go to the Visitor Centre and ask for a tour guide – the experience will be worth it!
The most visited destinations in T&T in 2017
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In the early 20th Century, not long after X-rays were discovered, medical professionals recognized their value as diagnostic tools: They could clearly reveal structures hidden inside the body without the need for risky surgery. At the dawn of the 21st century, a revolutionary new technology has entered the diagnostic arena. Today, Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) promises to change the way many dental problems are diagnosed and treated.
Cone Beam CT has some similarities with conventional X-rays, and also with the standard CT scans you would get in a hospital setting. But it's a quantum leap forward in technology and diagnostic precision. For the dentist, it offers the ability to visualize intricate structures inside the mouth, such as root canals, nerves and sinuses (air-filled spaces) in the jaw — in three dimensions — without surgery. For the patient, it can reduce the need for invasive procedures, shorten treatment time and offer the chance for a better outcome.
The detailed diagnostic images that CBCT provides have made it an essential tool in many dental specialties. But, as with any diagnostic tool that uses radiation, the medical benefits offered must be weighed against the (small) potential risks of the procedure.
How Cone Beam CT Works
X-rays, like visible light, are a form of energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. Just as light makes an image on photographic film (or a digital camera sensor), X-rays can also form an image. The difference is that energetic X-rays can penetrate bone and soft tissue, and reveal its hidden structure by their varying degrees of absorption; in other words, they form a grayscale picture of what's underneath the surface. But conventional X-rays are limited: Like a still-life picture, they show only one perspective on the scene.
Now imagine a “flip book” — the kind of small book made up of a series of pictures, each slightly different. When you rapidly page through it, you may see (for example) an animated cartoon or a still subject from different perspectives. If you could put together a flip book made from a series of X-ray “slices” of the same subject, taken at slightly different angles, you would be able to create an “animation” of the X-rays. And from there, it's only one more step to making a 3-D model.
That's exactly what CBCT scanners do. Using a rotating imaging device that moves around the patient's head, the scanner records between 150 and 600 different X-ray views in under a minute. Then, a powerful computer processes the information and creates a virtual model of the area under study. When it's done, the model appears as a three-dimensional image on a computer screen: It can be rotated from side to side or up and down, examined in greater or less detail, and manipulated in any number of ways — all without the patient feeling any discomfort... or even being present.
Where Cone Beam CT Is Used
The ability to see fine anatomical structures in 3-D has proven invaluable in treating conditions in many areas of dentistry.
Orthodontics: Having accurate information on the position of teeth and jaws helps determine exactly how and where teeth should be moved.
Dental implants: Detailed CBCT images are used to determine the optimum location for the titanium implants while avoiding nerves, sinuses and areas of low bone density.
Orthognathic Jaw Surgery and Temporo-mandibular Joint (TMJ) Disease: Patients benefit when the specialists who treat these conditions can evaluate their anatomy with the three-dimensional perspective that cone beam CT provides.
Oral Surgery: Treatment for tumors or impacted teeth is aided by the level of fine detail shown in these scans.
Endodontics: Dentists performing intricate procedures (like complex root canals, for example) can benefit from a clearer visualization of the tooth's anatomy.
Sleep Apnea: Imaging the tissues and structures of the nose, mouth and throat can aid in diagnosis and treatment of this dangerous condition.
Could Cone Beam CT Benefit You?
Each patient's situation is different, and must be carefully considered by a clinical professional before any test or procedure is performed. While CBCT delivers a smaller dose of radiation (X-rays) than many other diagnostic tests, it still carries a small risk — particularly for younger patients, or those with other health problems. As is the case for any medical procedure, all risks, benefits and alternatives are taken into account before the procedure is recommended.
Getting The Full Picture With Cone Beam Dental Scans Dental imaging took a major leap forward at the beginning of the new millennium with a three-dimensional technology known as cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The name comes from the cone-shaped beam of x-rays the CBCT machine projects as it rotates around a person's head, taking multiple images that are compiled into a 3-D picture by a computer. Find out what CBCT can reveal and how it helps a doctor to make a highly informed diagnosis and choice of treatment... Read Article
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Infamia No.1
Before Rome was an empire, it was a city and a people born from legend. The Roman kings began a legacy of triumph and conquest that would last for centuries. However, as they grew in power, the priests of the city realized the danger of their tyranny. Members of the secretive Cult of Angerona dedicated their lives to serve as the city's protectors. Men and women from the underbelly of Roman society were enlisted to be their agents. The best of them formed an elite team that could go where soldiers could not and citizens dared not. These Infamia were the very people that society had turned its back on: actors, gladiators, prostitutes, and gamblers. They would operate, unseen and unthanked, to fend off the forces which threatened Rome. The first Infamia predate the Republic. With each new threat, a team emerges from the shadows to do what the great and the good cannot. THIS ISSUE: "The Ides of March" -- Following the Roman Civil War, Julius Caesar emerged triumphant. Appointed dictator perpetuo, or dictator for life, his populist reforms made him a favorite of the people, but hated by the elites of Rome. Fearing that Caesar planned to bring back the time of kings, a group of senators led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus assassinated Caesar, throwing the Republic into chaos. Dark times have fallen upon the Eternal City once again. With the murder of Caesar another civil war looms. The Infamia are called to action to protect Rome from its greatest threat: itself.
Daniel Angusson
Anthony Falcone
Santiago Espina
Drame Histoire
Shadows Over Venice
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