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Killbot – Dead Zone Game Review
Today, we just got an email from keymailer that the game publisher approved our core request to review a game and that game is the Killbot Dead Zone. It is a third person shooter zombie game where you have to kill the zombie in a wave. You can also play the game with your friends in co-op mode up to 12 players, or you play solo, the game has different kind of zombies from doctor, lady, dogs or the skeletons. In the game, you can also change or upgrade your weapon and characters.
The concept of a zombie wave and able to play the game with your buddy is one of the great features of Killbot. Honestly, I enjoyed playing this game in solo and some players online, although the game graphics and AI are poorly executed. The camera in the game is also too shaky, and there are some instances that when you go near a post, it wobbles. The recoil of the gun are also uncontrollable that sometimes it’s hard to aim the zombie and the game difficulty is also too easy, actually – I haven’t died playing the game.
The game also has a lack of background music, the sounds of the zombie are also repeatedly used in all types of zombies that you cannot recognize which zombie is going to attack you. It’s also hard to predict where the enemy is or how far they are because the sounds volume is the same, sounds for the guns are just fine. If they put the background music from the game trailer to the game, it would be better.
For now, the game has a lot of bugs and if the developer will continue to improved this game – it has a good chance and potential of being a good shooter game, the game was fun and quite addicting. Our score for this game is 2.5 out of 5.
The game is available in Steam for $1.99, you can check it at http://store.steampowered.com/app/473810/.
Today, we just got an email from keymailer that the game publisher approved our core request to review a game and that game is the Killbot Dead Zone. It is a third person shooter zombie game where you have to kill the zombie in a wave. You can also play the game with your friends in co-op mode up to 12 players, or you play solo, the game has different kind of zombies from doctor, lady, dogs or the skeletons. In the game, you can also change or upgrade your weapon and characters. The concept of a zombie wave and able to play the game with your buddy is one of the great features of Killbot. Honestly, I enjoyed playing this game in solo and some players online, although the game graphics and AI are poorly executed. The camera in the game is also too shaky, and there are some instances that when you go near a post, it wobbles. The recoil of the gun are also uncontrollable that sometimes it's hard to aim the zombie and the game difficulty is also too easy, actually - I haven't died playing the game. The game also has a lack of background music, the sounds of the zombie are also repeatedly used in all types of zombies that you cannot recognize which zombie is going to attack you. It's also hard to predict where the enemy is or how far they are because the sounds volume is the same, sounds for the guns are just fine. If they put the background music from the game trailer to the game, it would be better. For now, the game has a lot of bugs and if the developer will continue to improved this game - it has a good chance and potential of being a good shooter game, the game was fun and quite addicting. Our score for this game is 2.5 out of 5. The game is available in Steam for $1.99, you can check it at http://store.steampowered.com/app/473810/.
The game was fun and quite addicting though it needs a lot of improvement
Story - 18%
Graphics - 62%
Sounds - 36%
Controls - 21%
PROS: Entertaining game concept and somehow addicting. Support online multiplayer and low latency. Large selection of weapons. Game is affordable for everyone and deserved support. CONS: Full of bugs like broken graphics. Sound effect use are repeatitive and no way to estimate zombie position. Recoil of the guns is uncontrollable.
Killbot
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Collection: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program Title: Crowder City Guardian Day: 2nd Clear All Filters
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 7, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1912
Description: Weekly newspaper from Crowder, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Creator: Barrow, A. E.
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Indianola, and Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 11, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1916
Description: Weekly newspaper from Crowder, Indianola, and Canadian, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Creator: Jenkins, O. D.
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 5, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1910
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 2, 1914
Creator: Henderson, J. B.
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Description: Weekly newspaper from Crowder, Indian Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1908
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 4, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1909
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Indianola, and Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1915
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The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914
Creator: Morrow, E. G.
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 6, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1910
The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Oklahoma), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1911
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all the money in the world movie
Movie review: All the Money in the World
Famous for its subject matter (the real-life events it depicts) and the behind-the-scenes story (Spacey out, Plummer in just months before the release date), can this movie stand on its own? This is All The Money In The World.
IMDb summary: The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
All the Money in the World was written by David Scarpa (he wrote some actions films before), based on the book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty by John Pearson. I found the writing for the film to be really good. I loved that the movie managed to be both a biography of J.P. Getty’s and a crime drama about the investigation of his grandson’s disappearance. The biography part was fascinating because its subject – Getty himself – was fascinating. His relationship with money – him being both rich and frugal – was really interesting. The fact that he found safety in materialism (and, in contrast, a high risk of failure in human relationships) also made him into somewhat understandable if not relatable (unless you are a 1-percenter) character.
Getty wasn’t the only character portrayed as being in the morally grey zone. Getty’s advisor was very vocal about his flaws, while the mother character wasn’t completely untouchable either. This morally grey type of portrayal made the characters seem real – as real as their real-life counterparts. The writing for the investigation portion of the film was great too – the investigation itself had so many layers and unexpected turns (I didn’t know the story beforehand). The picture also employed a lot of flashbacks to explain the backstories of characters and managed to make all the temporally different parts seem cohesive.
Ridley Scott (The Martian) directed All the Money in the World and made me want to see more of his dramas – he should start making them instead of Alien films (give that franchise to Neill Blomkamp, please). This film was impeccably shot and well edited. The world of the 1-percenters, as well as the 1970s time period, were well realized. The pacing was excellent too – the film was intense and engaging all throughout its 2h+ runtime. Lastly, the reshoot situation was handled just seamlessly. I couldn’t spot any inconsistencies in the story or the visuals (if only Justice League would have handled its reshoot that well).
The three leads of All the Money in the World did a magnificent job. To my mind, the acting was the best part of the film.
Michelle Williams (The Greatest Showman) was amazing. I feel like she was even better than in Manchester by the Sea, for which she was nominated plenty of times during the last awards season. Mark Wahlberg (Ted, Deepwater Horizon, Patriot’s Day, Daddy’s Home 2) was great too – this is not the type of role we are used to seeing him in, but, after this movie, I wish he would do more dramas and less Transformers-type of films cause he posses the acting talents of a dramatic actor and not just an action star. Christopher Plummer (The Man Who Invented Christmas) was brilliant as J. Paul Getty too – his performance becomes even more amazing when you realize that it was a super late addition (he was cast instead of Spacey (after the allegations against him were made public) and all Getty’s scenes had to be reshot months before the release date).
On the supporting front, Charlie Plummer (no relation to the other C. Plummer on the cast) was quite good as John Paul Getty III (the grandson), while a French actor Romain Duris played one of the kidnappers – his character was also morally grey – not a full on ‘villain’ to accompany the not really ‘heroes’ of the story.
In short, All the Money in the World is a well-directed drama with great writing and even better acting. A solid awards nominee if not a sure winner.
Trailer: All the Money in the World trailer
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In Tokyo at least 33 workers are feared to be dead after a mass arson attempt on the well-known Kyoto animation studio. It was an unexpected appearance of a man running into the building that led to the deaths. He was apparently screaming “You die!” as he poured and ignited flammable liquid in the building. […]
Second Moderate Earthquake Strikes Takanabe, Japan in the Last 24 Hours
By DiMarkco Chandler on March 27, 2019 Breaking News!, earthquake, Japan, World
Japan has been hit with its second moderate earthquake in the last 24 hours. This most recent quake struck at 9:11 a.m. local time. The earthquake had a magnitude of 5.3 and hit just 30 miles from Takanabe on Wednesday. Specifically, the quake had a depth of 24 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. […]
5.4 Moderate Earthquake Strikes 30 Miles E of Takanabe, Japan
By DiMarkco Chandler on March 26, 2019 Breaking News!, earthquake, Japan
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake has struck approximately 30 miles east of Takanabe, Japan. The quake hit at a depth of A shallow earthquake of magnitude 5.4 struck 30 miles east of Takanabe, Japan, at a depth of 9.4 miles, according to the United States Geological Survey. An earthquake of this magnitude is considered moderate, which […]
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What is hypothyroidism?
What causes hypothyroidism?
Who gets hypothyroidism?
How does hypothyroidism cause disease?
What are the common findings?
How is hypothyroidism diagnosed?
How is hypothyroidism treated?
What are the complications?
How can hypothyroidism be prevented?
What research is being done?
Links to other information
Thomas P. Foley, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Hypothyroidism is a deficiency in thyroid hormone secretion and a reduction of action of its hormones on the cells of the body. In children, there are two forms: (1) congenital hypothyroidism, present at birth; and (2) acquired hypothyroidism, a disease with an onset at any time after birth, usually after six months of age. In each of these two forms, there are two categories: (1) primary hypothyroidism, a failure of secretion by a damaged, defective, or absent thyroid gland; and (2) hypothalamic/pituitary hypothyroidism, a failure of the mechanism that stimulates the thyroid gland from the base of the brain, called the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.
The thyroid hormones are called thyroxine, or T4, and triiodothyronine, or T3. The pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland is called thyroid stimulating hormone, or TSH.
In most cases, the cause of congenital hypothyroidism is not known. A few cases of inherited hypothyroidism are caused by mutations in the genes producing specific proteins (known as enzymes) that are required to make thyroid hormones. These mutations are inherited as autosomal recessive traits, i.e., the parents are unaffected, and the child is affected because the child receives a mutation from each parent. The parents have a one-in-four chance of having an affected child. Occasionally, a maternal disease or a medication can interfere with the thyroid gland of the unborn child. In certain areas of the world, a dietary lack of iodine causes hypothyroidism.
Most cases of acquired hypothyroidism are caused by autoimmune thyroiditis, a self-inflicted destruction of the thyroid by the body's immune system. The processes that cause this condition are poorly understood. An inappropriate immune response is directed against the thyroid; the body does not recognize its own thyroid gland and generates an immune response against the normal thyroid cells to cause inflammation, irritation, or damage. Infrequently, surgical removal of the thyroid, certain medications or chemicals, or damage by radiation treatment for cancer may cause hypothyroidism.
In most cases, congenital hypothyroidism is sporadic. It occurs worldwide, once in every 4,000 newborn infants, and affects girls twice as often as boys. In the inherited forms, an equal number of males and females are affected. An infant born to a mother with iodine deficiency, or an infant receiving, or exposed to a mother given, excessive amounts of iodine for antiseptic reasons may have hypothyroidism. The problem will continue until exposure to deficient or excessive iodine is corrected.
The majority of cases of acquired hypothyroidism occur in females with autoimmune diseases. It may occur: (1) as autoimmune thyroid disease only; (2) in association with other autoimmune diseases, such as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, alopecia (hair loss), rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus erythematous; or (3) in association with other diseases, such as Down syndrome and Turner's syndrome.
Thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, i.e., the amount of energy that is available for body functions. The production of proteins, especially those called enzymes, is controlled by thyroid hormones. They regulate how much sugar is converted to energy, how much protein is converted into muscle, and how much fat is stored and available for energy. From early in fetal life through two to three years of age, thyroid hormones acquired from the mother and those produced by the unborn child in the second and third trimesters of pregnancy are essential for normal brain development.
The common findings of hypothyroidism are summarized in the table. The appearance of a specific symptom and sign depends upon the age when hypothyroidism develops and its severity. Often, the findings in a child may not be obvious to the parents or the physician.
Table. Common findings of hypothyroidism.
Congenital hypothyroidism
Acquired hypothyroidism
Findings during first two weeks of life - Prolonged yellow jaundice - Swelling of the eyelids, hands, and feet - Gestation more than 42 weeks - Birth weight more than 4 kg - Poor feeding - Low body temperature - An enlarged, swollen abdomen - Large midline fontanelles
Findings beyond age one month - Darkening and mottling of the skin - Stressful, frequent, and labored breathing - Failure to gain weight; poor sucking ability - Decreased stool frequency - Decreased activity and lethargy
Findings after age three months - Swollen and protuberant umbilicus - Infrequent and hard stools - Dry skin with yellow coloration - Large tongue - Generalized swelling - Hoarse cry
Findings between six months and three years - Deceleration of linear growth - Coarse facial features - Dry skin with yellow coloration - Hoarse cry and large tongue - Swollen and protuberant umbilicus - Enlargement of the arm and leg muscles
Findings during childhood - Slow growth and short stature - Delay in eruption of teeth and in shedding primary teeth - Muscle weakness; enlargement of the arm and leg muscles - Infrequent and hard stools - Dry skin with yellow coloration - Generalized swelling - Early sexual development
Findings during adolescence - Late onset of puberty - Slow growth and short stature - Delay in eruption of teeth and in shedding primary teeth - Infrequent and hard stools - Dry skin with yellow coloration - Discharge from the breasts (in girls) - Generalized swelling
For newborns in many areas of the world, there are routine, mandated screening programs for congenital hypothyroidism. An elevated TSH on the newborn screening test requires that a repeat TSH test be performed. Other tests are performed to define the cause (inherited or sporadic) and the severity of hypothyroidism. In older infants and children, hypothyroidism is suspected by: (1) the presence of a large thyroid gland, or goiter, on examination of the neck; (2) a failure to maintain a normal rate of growth in height; (3) the symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism (see table); (4) a suspicion of it because members of the family have thyroid diseases; or (5) a routine screening for TSH in children at increased risk for hypothyroidism.
Hypothyroidism is diagnosed by blood tests for TSH and free T4. An elevated TSH is the most sensitive test for thyroid gland failure. A low free T4 is the diagnostic test for hypothalamic/pituitary hypothyroidism, and, usually, it is low in primary hypothyroidism, except in mild cases. Typically, the cause of thyroid gland failure is autoimmune thyroiditis, which is diagnosed by finding thyroid antibodies from a blood test. When the TSH value is increased and the T4 value is decreased, treatment with thyroxine is started. Thyroxine treatment usually is started when the TSH value is increased, yet the T4 value still is normal, as long as the cause of hypothyroidism is known.
In patients with hypothalamic/pituitary hypothyroidism, there usually are other pituitary hormone deficiencies, such as low levels of growth hormone (when the patient is subjected to growth hormone secretion tests); low levels of the sex hormones at the pubertal ages; and, less often, low levels of hydrocortisone and high levels of prolactin, which is the pituitary hormone that stimulates the secretion of milk in the mother after delivery.
Treatment for hypothyroidism is easy and inexpensive. Typically, levothyroxine (L-thyroxine) is prescribed, and the tablets should be given at least 30 minutes before a meal or infant feeding. The daily dose per body weight steadily decreases from early infancy to childhood to an adult dose in adolescence. Treatment must be individualized; the amount that is absorbed and handled by the body differs among individuals. Careful monitoring of blood tests (TSH and free T4 or T4) until the values are normal, and then annually after three years of age once the tests become normal, is essential for optimal management.
There are no complications from L-thyroxine treatment when the proper dose is taken and the blood tests are monitored on a regular basis. There are complications associated with unrecognized or inadequately treated hypothyroidism, and the worst outcome occurs if treatment is delayed in early infancy. Severe hypothyroidism before birth, and a delay of treatment after birth, is associated with an impaired intellect (as determined by IQ tests) and other neuropsychological abnormalities. After two or three years of age, there are adverse effects of untreated hypothyroidism; however, in most cases, they are reversible with adequate treatment.
Usually, if hypothyroidism is not adequately treated within approximately the first 6 to 12 months after its onset, a decrease in the rate of growth and, in many instances, shortness of stature occur. If prolonged into the adolescent years, the final adult height may be less than expected despite appropriate treatment. Prolonged hypothyroidism also is associated with high levels of cholesterol, slowing of mental function and school performance, an occasional episode of hip or knee pain from a slippage of the growth center of the hips (usually requires surgical intervention), and chronic constipation. Except for the normalization in growth, these abnormalities should disappear with appropriate treatment.
Hypothyroidism cannot be prevented unless it is caused by a nutritional deficiency of iodine; excessive iodine intake; certain drugs, like lithium, that block the ability of the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones; or drugs that impair the absorption of thyroxine in those individuals who are taking it for hypothyroidism. If taken with thyroxine, iron medications and high fiber in food will prevent the absorption of thyroxine. Calcium tablets also may interfere with its absorption.
In congenital hypothyroidism, research is being focused on the mutations that cause the familial thyroid disorders, the cause(s) of the sporadic disease, and the effects of maternal hypothyroidism on the unborn child. There is considerable interest in discovering the mechanisms that cause autoimmune diseases, with a focus on autoimmune thyroid diseases, the occurrence of diabetes mellitus in specific families with autoimmune thyroid diseases, and an understanding of those antibodies that injure thyroid cells and other antibodies that bind to and block the TSH receptor.
American Thyroid Association www.thyroid.org
Complete textbook available entitled "The Thyroid and Its Diseases" www.thyroidmanager.org
Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society www.lwpes.org
Familial Thyroid Diseases Including Hypothyroidism
Vassart G, Dumont JE, Refetoff S. Thyroid disorders. In: Scriver CR, Beaudet AL, Sly WS, Valle D, eds. The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995:2883-2928.
Fisher DA. Management of congenital hypothyroidism. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1991;72:523.
Foley TP Jr. Congenital hypothyroidism. In: Braverman LE, Utiger RD, eds. Werner and Ingbar's The Thyroid. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 2000:chap 82, part B, 977-983.
Foley TP Jr. Acquired hypothyroidism in infants, children and adolescents. In: Braverman LE, Utiger RD, eds. Werner and Ingbar's The Thyroid. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 2000:chap 82, part C, 983-988.
Foley TP Jr. Hypothyroidism. In: Hoekelman RA, Friedman SB, Nelson NM, Seidel HM, Weitzman M, eds. Primary Pediatric Care. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, Inc., 2000:chap 218. In press.
LaFranchi S, Dussault JH, Fisher DA, Foley TP Jr, Mitchell ML. Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism: recommended guidelines. Pediatrics 1993;91:1203-1209.
Thomas P. Foley, Jr. MD is Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the Medical Staff of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since 1971. Areas of scientific interest include (1) pediatric thyroidology with specific interests in congenital hypothyroidism, acquired hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer; (2) auxology; and (3) international pediatrics with specific interests in radiation-induced thyroid cancer associated with the Chernobyl accident, autoimmune thyroid diseases, iodine deficiency disorders, newborn screening, toxicology and the effects of maternal hypothyroidism on fetal development. My personal interests are my family (wife, son and step-children), music (opera, classical music and traditional bluegrass music as lead vocal and guitar for The Allegheny River Boys, Revonah RS-506, 1978), sports (spectator and participant) and humanitarian assistance for children and child health through Child Health International.
Copyright 2012 Thomas P. Foley, Jr., M.D., All Rights Reserved
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John Mahler at the 2013 pig roast.
Why a pig roast?
In 2009, the Men’s Group of Grace Episcopal Church was reinvented under John Mahler. He was our unofficial leader and inspiration — someone who always wanted to DO something and HELP someone, and not just talk about things. He wanted the group to have a mission and a purpose, and his first big idea was holding a summer pig roast.
We asked, “How do you cook a pig?” “Where do you get a pig?” He told us not to worry — he had done this before and would lead us along the way. The first pig roast was a huge success and became an annual tradition that has allowed Grace to bring together adults, children, teens, and local families who have no connection with our church for a fun, family-oriented summer event.
Following the success of the pig roast, the Men’s Group took on other projects — a Mother’s Day brunch, spaghetti dinners to raise money for the youth group, periodic game nights, and preparing and selling food for the church bazaar held each December. John even recruited many of the men to help in the community garden he started at the elementary school where he taught.
John and the entire Mahler family were and continue to be special members of the Grace family. Sadly, the 2013 pig roast was John’s last. The Men’s Group continues this tradition in his memory.
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By HIDI
ANDREW HIDI
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Andrew Hidi is the Founder and CEO of The HIDI Group. His career spans over six decades working in various sectors including commercial, institutional, mixed use, residential, retail and hospitality. Andrew has had the pleasure of working on many prestigious projects, including The Exchange Tower, Toronto Dominion Centre Building 5 and The Manulife Centre. He was previously Partner-in-Charge of Canada’s tallest and largest office building, First Canadian Place. This building is recognized as the first “safe” office building. Many of the systems that Andrew designed, such as the introduction of outdoor air for pressurization and smoke evacuation, and sprinkler protection in office buildings, have since been included in the National Building Code. Some of the more notable projects Andrew has led include Toronto’s Manulife Centre, Hudson’s Bay Centre, and First Canadian Place, in addition to Budapest’s West End Multi-Use Development and Gresham Palace Four Seasons Hotel.
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Frank Mentzer: The True Master of Dungeons and Dragons
K David Ladage
The Mentzer Rules
The Basic Set: character creation; basic game-play; basic spells, combat, and task resolution; character advancement from levels 1 to 3.
The Expert Set: expert game-play; more advanced spells, combat, and task resolution; character advancement from levels 4 to 14.
The Companion Set: narrative-based game-play and character options; character advancement from levels 15 to 25.
The Master's Set: master-level game play; master-level spells, combat, and task resolution; character advancement from levels 26 to 36.
Wrath of the Immortals: becoming a demi-god; playing with the mortals as pawns; narrative-based immortal role playing.
Basic, Expert, Companion
Dungeons and Dragons has a long and proud history. The one most people are familiar with is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (or AD&D). If asked, most fans of the game would list the history of the game as:
Chainmail: a set of combat rules; proto-role-playing. Primarily a war game.
Original Dungeons and Dragons (OD&D): the original true role-playing game. Heavily rooted in its war-gaming past.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D): E. Gary Gygax's magnum opus. The three books which make up this version of the game are the points to which all other games point.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition (AD&D 2e): this is the version of the game designed by the people at E. Gary Gygax's company after they kicked E. Gary Gygax out of it.
Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition (D&D 3e or the d20 System): after Tactical Simulations Rules (TSR) folded and was purchased by Wizards of the Coast, this was the version of the game that resulted. The d20 System was the core of those rules presented in a way that could be used by other companies to make compatible material.
Dungeons and Dragons version 3.5 (D&D 3.5 or the d20 System 3.5): it was not long after that a revised version was released. I am still confused as to why this was a point-five release, as opposed to a point-one, or a revised edition.
Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition (D&D 4e): the final version (thus far) of the Dungeons and Dragons line. A new edition -- called Next Edition currently -- is slated to be released sometime soon.
But there is another. When Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was released, there was also a set of rules edited and revised by Frank Mentzer. This set of rules was not released in a series of hard-cover volumes; instead, it was a series of boxed sets, each building on the previous set. This version of Dungeons and Dragons, sometimes called B/X, or BECMI, remains the most beautiful set of rules for the Dungeons and Dragons line ever produced.
Frank Mentzer took rules core as written by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and created the Dungeons and Dragons Basic Set. This box included a Player's Manual, a Dungeon Master's Rulebook, and some additional material to get the new gamer started down the road to a lifelong hobby of the imagination. But, this basic set was nothing more than an appetizer. The rules would work for your game group for a few months at the most! Character creation was described, and the earliest levels of advancement were handled. Once your character reached 3rd level -- someone who starts to show some real promise -- you have reached the limit. You cannot go any further.
The Dungeons and Dragons Expert Set takes over from there. This box set had rules covering characters from 4th level to 14th level (arguably, the meat of the adventuring career). More monsters, more spells, more weapons and equipment... this set contained things that the players may not have considered prior such as adventuring in the wilderness as opposed to the dungeon settings prescribed in the Basic Set, or mapping that same wilderness.
Where Advanced Dungeons and Dragons throws the whole of the world in your face and expects you to trim it down to the relevant sections for your group, Basic introduced role playing as a concept, then expands upon it in the Expert set to include new forms of adventure. But the Basic-Expert -- or B/X -- rules did not stop here! There is a lot that ca still be done... and for that we reach the Companion rules!
The Dungeons and Dragons Companion Set covers levels 15 to 25; it introduces new forms of adventure, new forms of combat, and gives advice to the players and the Dungeon Master on how to create and rule your own lands. The character paths diverge from those that remain landed to those that choose to roam the lands, continuing to seek adventure and the unknown.
Are you a cleric? Clergy can settle down to establish a church and rise within the theocratic hierarchy... or they can leave the administration of the church to others as they wander the lands spreading the word to the multitudes.
Are you a fighter? Fighters can settle down to establish a dominion and rise within the noble ranks... or they can forsake such duties and become a Paladin, a Knight, or an Avenger.
Are you a magic-user? Magic-users can settle down as a wizard or maga to establish a tower attracting young pupils seeking arcane knowledge... or they can wander the lands as a magus gathering information and rumor as they go.
I cannot stress this enough:
E. Gary Gygax (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) focused almost entirely on the game mechanics of high level characters: when you reach level 'X', you get access to special ability 'Y' and can cast spells from list 'Z'.
Frank Mentzer (Basic + Expert + Companion) gave you rules for advancement, but spent the bulk of the text on the role playing ramifications of high level characters: when you reach level 'X', the possibilities of establishing yourself as a hero of type 'A', 'B', or 'C' (as discussed below) are open to you...
This is what made Frank Mentzer and his almost forgotten line of Dungeons and Dragons history so beautiful: simple organization, staggered implementation, continued advice. Nothing like what is seen in the Companion Set existed in AD&D. Sure, AD&D gave costs for strongholds and the like; but these rules were given no more consideration than any other rule. The mechanics were described, but word on implication was left devoid. The rules were packed into the opaque density of the Dungeon Master's Guide without fanfare, and left unmarked to be discovered whenever a Dungeon Master had the fortune to see them.
Frank Mentzer's approach was organic. You start here. Once you have those concepts mastered, we will move on to these concepts.Ad astra.
The Basic Set gave you the core rules. The Expert Set expanded upon these rules.The Companion Set expanded upon the concepts and implications of high level characters. The Master's Set was the culmination of everything. In this boxed set we found:
master combat options
high-level spells
extremely-high level monsters
a multitude of character options
character advancement from level 26 to 36
Once you had things like character roles and responsibilities established -- the sorts of things that do not require rules, but need a steady hand at adjudication while playing the game -- as they were in the Companion Set, the Master's Set returns to the realm of rules to look at highly advanced and specialized combat options; spell options; an so on.
In the Master's set, weapons cease being a one-or-two handed weapon dealing 'X' damage. they take on a role in-and-of themselves, with options indicating how that weapon is used in combat when fighting an unarmed foe or when fighting an armed foe. The options were seemingly limitless!
One can ask why these rules did not exist in the Basic, Expert, or Companion sets. And this is a valid question. There is nothing inherent about the rules which prevent them from being used in lower level-games. IN fact, once you have the Master's Set, the rules for weapon training and specialization are certainly usable by characters just starting out in the Basic levels or advancing through the Expert or Companion levels.
But there is something about them that requires that you -- the player and the Dungeon Master -- have a firm grasp of the core rules before you attempt to use them. Combat, as presented in the earlier box sets, was quick and deadly. One or two dice rolls each round was all that was needed. A fighter need only decide whom his target would be.
With the combat options presented in the Master's Set... the fighter needs to decide who his allotted number of parries would be assigned to, who would get the benefits of his potential knock-out blows, and so on. The battlefield becomes rife with dramatic descriptions and potential combat flair!
Again... nothing like this existed in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Nothing at all.
The final chapter in the BECMI (Basic + Expert + Companion + Masters + Immortals) saga, is Wrath of the Immortals. This was a set that transcended epic-fantasy and went for the ultimate prize: immortal power.
The books in this set offered you the opportunity to cease playing in the petty wars and squabbles of mortal kingdoms, and instead start playing with mortals as so many pawns on the celestial chessboard. You were to rise and become a demi-god, a being of such frightful power that the ideas of attributes and character level started to become blurry and unimportant.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons gave us the book Deities and Demigods which reduced most gods, goddesses, and god-like beings to the stat-block used for monsters in the Monster Manual. Zeus became a 400-hit point monster. A powerful monster, sure... but nothing more. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons had missed the mark and was far less advanced in its approach than BECMI.
Immortal beings in BECMI were awe-inspiring powerful. And thanks to the Frank Mentzer and his team, manageable. You could play as an immortal, even gain power as an immortal, all while having stories and adventures that challenged you on the level at which you were playing the game. From political intrigue to combat -- these books had the ability to show the Dungeon Master how to run those games without them devolving.
The key was advice. You can hand a Dungeon Master a set of rules, and expect them to follow them. But you cannot set rules for everything a creative player can come up with. So, the game -- at all levels -- focused on the game play as a concept and gave guidelines for how to use, stretch, apply, and modify those rules to suit the situation.
It was, and will ever remain, the best Dungeons and Dragons has ever had to offer.
Rules Cyclopedia
In 1991, TSR released a hard-cover edition of the BECMI system. This book, called The Rules Cyclopedia, took all of the material from Basic, Expert, Companion, Masters and Immortals and re-organized them into a cohesive whole.
All of the combat rules -- basic combat, advanced combat options, weapon training and specialization -- put into a single, comprehensive whole.
All of the spells -- low, mid, and high-level -- placed into one chapter and ordered properly.
All of the monsters -- one chapter, organized alphabetically.
High Level campaigns... dungeon and wilderness mapping... advanced character options... immortals rules.... all of it.
This book was compiled and developed by Aaron Allston, one of the guys most responsible for the Immortals books. This book has its flaws, but overall, it is an amazing feat. This book has more relevant material for a player or Dungeon Master packed into 300 pages than the entire Advanced Dungeons and Dragons line. And I really do not care which edition you are discussing.
Limited Edition?
Should the BECMI rules get a Limited Edition treatment?
Yes -- a limited edition mega-box of the original saddle-stitched books should be produced.
Yes -- a limited edition Rule Cyclopedia should be produced.
Yes -- a limited edition mega-box, and a limited edition Rule Cyclopedia should be produced.
No -- a limited edition of the BECMI rules should not be produced.
What is the point to all of this?
Other than shining a light into a dark corner of the Dungeons and Dragons historical timeline, why did I write this? Why should you care? The point is simple:
Wizards of the Coast, the company that currently owns Dungeons and Dragons and is in development for Dungeons and Dragons Next Edition, has (in the mean time) produced special high-quality reprints for...
Original Dungeons and Dragons -- a beautiful wooden box with the digest-sized volumes that made up the old rules that launched a revolutionary new hobby.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons -- with faux-leather covers and beautiful gold-leaf paper, the original Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide have been reproduced. These were later followed up with Unearthed Arcana (a book that expanded the number of spells and such, but offered little else of use), and even a group of adventure modules in the format. All books included all known errata.
Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition -- again, gorgeous in their reproduction, these books cover the core three books. They did not get faux-leather covers, but were masterfully produced. All books included all known errata.
Dungeons and Dragons version 3.5 -- using the artistic style that defined the 3.x editions, these reproductions of the core books (as er AD&D and AD&D 2e, above). A few other volumes were include such as the Spell Compendium and the Magic Item Compendium. All books included all known errata.
There appears to be no plan to give the BECMI editions a limited edition treatment. And I find this not only sad, but incredibly disrespectful to the game's history, Frank Mentzer, and the Dungeons and Dragons brand.
While I think doing a mega-boxed set of the original saddle-stitched books would be great, the more practical approach would be to do a special limited edition of The Rules Cyclopedia. Several websites have collected all of the known errata -- so production of this volume would not be particularly difficult.
What appears to be lacking is the will. What appears to be lacking is the respect.
For years, the people who played and enjoyed BECMI were seen as playing an inferior game. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, it was claimed, was the Basic set with the training wheels removed. Advanced was the better game, they would claim.
I am here to tell you that they were wrong. BECMI was a different approach to fantasy role-playing. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was different, it was not better. I even hope I have made a cast that, perhaps, in some ways, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was inferior. Regardless, it deserves the same respect given to the other versions of the game.
It's time Wizards of the Coast made a masterfully produced, limited edition copy of The Rules Cyclopedia. In fact, it is overdue.
© 2014 K David Ladage
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BECMI was, is, and always will be the best version of the Dungeons and Dragons game. I can still read the manuals with interest and they still fire up my imagination. The last few editions of D&D completely fail to capture my attention. The complexity of BECMI D&D emerged from a seemingly simple concept. Begin by killing the minions of evil in the dungeons, adventure out into the wilderness, build and empire, encounter gods on the outer planes, then ascend to immortality. The Immortals Set even contained rules for WINNING the game. Although, in order to win, you had to go through all of existence twice (which would have taken at least ten years of regular play). To this day, Mentzer himself has never heard of anyone doing this. I'd love it if a BECMI 2nd edition was published. It wouldn't even have to be dungeons and dragons, it would just have to follow the same campaign progression, culminating in the politics of the immortals. I'd create and publish this game system myself if I had time!
Cassandra Kuthy
4 years ago from Ohio
So would it be safe to say that he almost created his own game but in the same world. I have respect for all RPG's as they all have their ups and downs. If it is playable and makes sense I am always willing to try it out.
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100 Songs That Didn’t Make the Top 40 – Part 6
By Peter Lee On 30 July 2018 In Lists
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Two Beatles wannabees and rare misses by the Boss and U2 headline Part 6 of our 100 songs that didn’t make the top 40.
“Add Some Music to Your Day” – Beach Boys – #64 (1970). A rare jewel after Brian Wilson’s creative peak with Pet Sounds and Smile, this song was written by Wilson with some (probably very little) help by Mike Love and Joe Knott. It has a fantastic melody and proves that even at his worst, Wilson could still churn them out when asked. Unfortunately, the public saw the Beach Boys as a surfing group; their last top 10 hit had been 1966′ “Good Vibrations,” and they wouldn’t have another until 1976 with a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music.”
“Secret Garden” – Bruce Springsteen – #63 (1995). One of Springsteen’s most heartfelt and beautiful ballads, “Secret Garden” found success everywhere but the Hot 100: #1 in Ireland, #17 in the UK, #5 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart, and #12 on the U.S. Adult Top 40. I guess the kids didn’t get into it, even though it was featured in the movie “Jerry Maguire.”
“I Want Candy” – Bow Wow Wow – #62 (1982). This one shocked me the most. Everybody has heard this song at some point. The memorable guitar solo at the beginning, the Bo-Diddly tom-toms playing throughout the song, and Anabella’s forbidden sexiness (she was 16 when “I Want Candy” came out, but the video still showed provocative scenes of her coming out of the ocean in a long stringy T-shirt.). This is a classic, and there’s no reason why this shouldn’t have hit the Top 10. (It did in the UK – Damn you, you Brits!)
“Crazy on You” – Heart – #62 (1977). One of Heart’s lesser-known singles, it’s still a mainstay on classic rock stations. It begins with an intricate acoustic guitar solo by Nancy Wilson, and sister Ann’s powerful vocals make it unforgettable. The classic 70s Heart had only two Top 10 hits; the group really wouldn’t find true chart success until their overhaul in 1985, when they had four top 10 hits from one album. (EDIT: Reader JB noted that this was a re-release, and that the original release did indeed hit the Top 40 in 1976, although it peaked at only #35. Hmmm..Songs that hit the Top 40 but should have gone higher…)
“Baby’s Coming Back” – Jellyfish – #62 (1991). What is puzzling is not that this single didn’t make the Top 40 – it was one of their weaker songs – but why Jellyfish failed in general. Possibly the greatest power pop band ever, they released two albums and disbanded, with success never fully in their grasp. They were ahead of their time – or perhaps, behind the times.
“Calling Occupants” – Klaatu – #62 (1976). Considering the rumor that was going around that Klaatu was really the Beatles reunited, I’m surprised that “Calling Occupants” reached only #62. The song is a bit psychedelic, with some Beatles-sounding chord progressions and vocals that sound somewhat like Lennon and McCartney. Klaatu’s label did little to combat the rumor, naturally. It didn’t help, at least as far as the single was concerned.
“Through The Fire” – Chaka Khan – #60 (1985). “Chaka, Chaka, Chaka, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan…” She was a one-hit wonder had only one hit from her album I Feel for You because her quiet storm ballad “Through the Fire” failed to chart. It was a staple on “Jazz Flavors” on 94-Q when I was in high school, and I always thought it was a pleasant departure from the title track to her album. It seems I was the only one.
“The Fly” – U2 – #61 (1991). What was arguably the best song on Achtung Baby flopped on the charts. It sounded like a futuristic version of The Joshua Tree. However, it wasn’t until the ghastly, radio-friendly “Mysterious Ways” was released and hit #9 that Achtung Baby really took off, and it would be a while before we saw the old U2 again.
“Mint Car” – The Cure – #58 (1996). “Mint Car” makes “Just Like Heaven” and “Friday I’m In Love” sound downright depressing. Full of happiness, energy and optimism (“The sun is up, I’m so happy I could scream”; “I really don’t think it gets any better than this”), the song was radio accessible and a far cry from their morose Goth music. DJs and the buying public had now heard of the Cure, thanks to Disintegration and Wish. So why didn’t it…ah, I can’t explain it.
“Turn It On Again” – Genesis – #58 (1980). The first single from the album Duke failed to capture listeners, but it was just the beginning of the metamorphosis Genesis would take from prog-rock band to Top 40 pop group. Their next single from the album, “Misunderstanding,” would hit #14, and they would hit the top 40 with 10 out of their next 14 singles.
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Jeff Banks July 31, 2018
How is Chaka Khan a one-hit wonder? Does her work with Rufus not count, or are you forgetting “I’m Every Woman”?
Peter Lee July 31, 2018
Good point. I counted her work solely as a solo artist for the one-hit wonder; as it stands, “I’m Every Woman” failed to hit the top 20. It’s hard to figure out where the line is between one “hit” and another, but my point was that most people know her only as the singer of “I Feel for You.”
Charlie August 7, 2018
To me a true one hit wonder is an artist who had a hit than disappeared. Chaka Khan does not count under my set of rules. Norman Greenbaum does. Your rules may vary.
jb August 9, 2018
Not sure I agree with your police work there, Lou. “Crazy on You” missed the Top 40 when it was reissued in 1977, but it was the same song that had made #35 in the summer of ’76. After Heart had changed labels from Mushroom to Portrait for . Mushroom was trying to cash in with the stuff they still had the rights to.
Peter Lee August 9, 2018
Yep – totally missed the original release of the song. Good work.
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Taipei’s Agora Garden Tower is a Twisting Greenhouse, Guised as a Luxury Hotel
By:Lindsey Heale
An extraordinary architectural feat, Taiwan’s Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower or ‘Agora Garden Tower’ is a smog-consuming powerhouse under the guise of a luxury hotel. Its double-helix-esque shape captures the eye, and the well cared for 23,000+ plants on property, from trees to vegetables gardens to flowering shrubs, entices with the sweet smell of fresh air. Since production recently came to an end, we all eagerly await its grand debut this coming fall.
The “Tao Zhu Yin Yuan” or Agora Garden Tower. Photograph courtesy of Vincent Callebaut Architectures.
The lead designer, Vincent Callebaut, revealed that Agora Garden Tower will absorb approximately 130 tons of carbon dioxide per year. On a small island nation like Taiwan, which endeavors toward industrial pursuits, takes in China’s own pollution problems and is surrounded by mountains, bad air quality is a major health issue. In that regard, Agora Garden Tower is a positive sign for Taiwan’s impact on global warming.
With its own vegetables gardens, flower gardens and orchards, Agora Garden Tower produces a large portion of its own fresh, organic ingredients. It will recycle the organic waste and the water that’s used on property (including rainwater). Rooftop solar panels and natural lighting are also wholly taken advantage of. In an interview with CNN, Callebaut noted that Agora Garden Tower came to fruition with sustainability in mind: not only is it “a big leap toward global warming,” but it “…presents a pioneer concept of sustainable residential eco-construction that aims at limiting the ecological footprint of its inhabitants.”
Agora Garden Tower hosts 40 luxury suites, which come with a number of entertainment outlets. Besides the lovely gardens, there’s a fitness center, a swimming pool, evening shows with dinner and more. Dining is expected to be exquisite and top-of-the-line. Agora Garden Tower also rises to 20 floors, reaching to the clouds and providing picturesque sights.
Agora Garden Tower, in the heart of Taipei, twists and gives guests a clear view of the Taipei 101 tower, the Taipei World Trade Center and the local park in the Xinyi District. The Xinyi District’s large-scale shopping area is also within walking distance.
For more information on Agora Garden Tower and Vincent Callebaut’s other projects, visit Callebaut’s website.
All photographs were provided with permission from Vincent Callebaut Architectures. They are protected under copyright law, and are not to be distributed without express permission from Vincent Callebaut Architectures.
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Daily’s Place Amphitheater and Flex Field
Home Fabric Structures Tensile Structures, 600 – 2300 square meters (6,458 – 24,756 square feet)
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Daily’s Place is a two-pronged project that consists of an amphitheater and an indoor football practice field, both connected to EverBank Field football stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.
The first phase is the Daily’s Place “flex field,” a 94,000 square feet indoor practice area for the Jacksonville Jaguars football team. The roof surface area exceeds 100,000 square feet. The 'Flex Field' includes a regulation-sized football field, five cameras to film practices, and a conditioned enclosure maintaining a temperature of 75 degrees that will all make it possible for the Jaguars to practice on the field year-round. The flex field can be opened up with the aircraft hanger style doors on the north and south side to provide a clear view from the Flex Field into the Amphitheater. Sharing a roof with the amphitheater, Daily’s Place is truly a one-of-a-kind sports facility. The Flex Field facade is the first use in the United States of a silver laminated PTFE fiberglass panels; material produced by Verseidag. This waterproof membrane provides an abundance of daylight into the facility due to the clear lamination. The second phase, Daily’s Place Amphitheater, features a main floor that can seat up to 5,000 and a mezzanine and balcony, which can each seat up to 1,000. The exterior structure is formed from 70,000 square feet of PTFE fiberglass fabric panels tensioned to structural vertical mullions.
There was a need for the Jaguars to have a flexible practice facility that allowed for natural lighting, comfort during times of high heat and privacy from prying eyes of competitors. Additionally, the once popular, nearby amphitheater owned by the City of Jacksonville had fallen into great disrepair to the extent it was eventually shut down and dismantled. The waterfront area of Jacksonville has long been a focal point for concerts and cultural events in the city. Combining the two venues was a sensible solution. The existing stadium has sufficient back-of-house facilities for food preparation, beverages, restroom facilities, et al. Additionally, for the professional athletes, their practice facility is now adjacent to the stadium where game-day locker rooms are located. The ample parking for a 65,000 stadium easily accommodates the 6000 or so concert-goers. Both City of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Jaguars had needs for new facilities. Because the City owns the stadium and the Jaguars are the only tenant, the tensile structure was a very sensible solution. It has also become an architectural icon for the city.
This was a very complicated design, requiring extensive engineering analysis and development. The roof’s structure creates a ceiling that reaches 70 feet at the apex of the amphitheater, and at night LED colored lights create a dramatic effect. The PTFE fabric panels can also withstand winds up to 135 mph. The roof structure has no right angles, no symmetry and all PTFE membrane panels and structural members are unique. Without repetition, the design, detailing, patterning, interface of membrane to structure required over five months of extensive coordination amongst all disciplines and trades - architect, engineer, specialty contractor for the membrane, structural steel fabrication, structural steel detailer, steel erector, electrical and lighting contractors, general contractor, et al. The project was an 'all hands on deck' effort from early. The highly aggressive schedule put extreme demands on all involved. Materials were being fabricated within days of being finally detailed. Air freight from international locations was paramount. Supply chain, consultants, installation labor reached out to some 12 different countries around the globe. From start of fabrication until substantial completion was just six months.
The results are stunning. It truly is a one of a kind facility that will likely become a trend in combining year-round entertainment with a facility that already has all of the necessary ancillary facilities. The practice field and concert venue were not only desperately needed for the Jaguars and City of Jacksonville, but was also provided a very necessary boost to Jacksonville as a whole. Just on the edge of Downtown Jacksonville, the stadium is accessible from all parts of the City making it a highly attractive venue for locals and out-of-towners alike. Adding in an intimate concert venue was very important as it becomes a consistent revenue draw to downtown. Jaguars ownership is the organizer and promoter for the concert venue while also being a tenant to a City owned property. Both parties win with such a venue. Truly a trendsetting facility.
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Vaccines don’t just save lives. They fight poverty too, new research shows
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate.
For years, parents worldwide have slowly been grappling with the decision to vaccinate their children. Some parents sight a plethora of personal reasons why they choose not to vaccinate – even suggesting conspiracy theories.
Despite the fact that vaccines are easily available and proven scientifically-safe and virtually harmless, many parents continue to opt out of it.
And now, it the world is suffering the deadly consequence.
A measles outbreak is devastating America, infecting children in several states including Washington and Oregon. Thousands more are suffering around the world.
The Philippines is also fighting its own battle. The country is facing an outbreak, with more than 150 children reportedly killed by the measles virus.
Why are vaccines important?
Vaccines have helped save billions of lives. It has prevented children from dying on a massive scale.
Still don’t believe it?
Let’s take smallpox for example. In what was labeled as “the scourge of the world,” smallpox has killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century alone.
But now, thanks to routine childhood vaccinations, what used to be one of the most terrible diseases in the world, no longer exists outside of a laboratory dish tray.
Vaccinations help prevent a host of deadly diseases that used to ravage their way around the world. Some of which are:
diptheria (whooping cough)
rubella (German measles)
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
Imagine a world where these diseases are dominant again. The effect would be more than devastating. Even scientists, health experts, and doctors agree that vaccines work.
Johns Hopkins public health expert Daniel Salmon explains the ramifications if fewer children become vaccinated.
He says:
“Unvaccinated children are at increased risk of acquiring disease and transmitting these diseases to other children. Drops in vaccine coverage have resulted in outbreaks and resurgence of diseases.
“Vaccine refusal has been associated with outbreaks of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, varicella, pneumococcal disease, measles, and pertussis in the United States and other countries.
“For example, parts of Europe have seen large outbreaks of measles as some parents are refusing measles vaccines for their children amid safety concerns. In the 1970s and 1980s, many countries—Japan, the U.K., Sweden—saw a major resurgence of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, as safety concerns led to substantial drops in pertussis vaccine coverage.
But now, new research shows that vaccines fight poverty, too.
In a groundbreaking study, Dr. Angela Chang, PhD and fellow at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, shows how vaccines don’t just serve as disease-prevention, they fight poverty too.
Dr. Chang studied dozens of vaccines and vaccination campaigns in developing countries worldwide. She used analysis and statistical modeling to observe the correlation between vaccine coverage and medical impoverishment.
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What she discovered, is that vaccines prevent individuals from developing countries from having low income and slipping into poverty.
In an interview with UN Dispatch, Dr. Chang discussed exactly how:
“At a national level, we know that vaccines are impact in terms of saving lives and reducing morbidity and mortality. That’s clear. What was new in this study is the impact on different income groups.
“We found that the poorest households would likely receive the most benefit from increased access to vaccines. It’s because of the underlying risks that they have are much higher than other people’s.
How do vaccines prevent people from developing parts of the world into slipping down even deeper into the poverty ladder?
For this, Dr. Chang cites an example:
“For example – HPVs. HPV vaccines are considered highly effective in preventing cervical cancer. HPV virus is, I think, the biggest and the only factor that determines whether the person gets cervical cancer later in life or not. And cervical cancer, like most cancers, are fairly expensive to treat.
“If a girl or boy receives the vaccine early on, they are much less likely, if at all, to get cervical cancer. And therefore, prevent that cost that the household may have had to pay.
“And that money could be used for other things that are important for the household.”
Vaccines work. They are routinely available. And they don’t even cost you all that much.
But they don’t just help humans from deadly diseases. Vaccines don’t just save our children.
They save the world from poverty, too.
Because when people go through vaccination, they are safe from diseases that are very costly to treat. In turn, this saves already-impoverished households thousands of dollars of medical expenses.
Vaccines help save people in the developing countries, and even in America, from being medically-impoverished.
What do you think? What is your stand on vaccination?
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(Un)Covered: Mr. Brightside
The Killers vs Undercast By Sam Devotta | November 29, 2017 at 1:00 PM
“Mr Brightside”
Writers: Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci, Jr.
Original Release Date: September 29, 2003
At this point, I’m pretty sure people are actually born knowing the words to “Mr. Brightside” because I don’t know a single person who can’t sing along to The Killers.
Does this song even need an introduction? Whether you first heard it fourteen years ago or fourteen minutes ago on the radio, you know that this is the very definition of a jam. It was The Killers’ debut single and they probably could have stopped making music then, because it’s now one the most recognizable alternative rock songs ever. Remember that time Cameron Diaz danced around to it in the amazing Christmas movie, The Holiday?.
For a song that’s so upbeat, it’s actually quite negative: One listen to that memorable chorus—“Jealousy, turning saints into the sea/Swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your alibis”—and it’s pretty obvious that Brandon Flowers is talking about an unhappy experience. Maybe it’s those relatable feelings that make it so easy to scream into a microphone.
There’s no shortage of bands taking a shot at covering the beloved song, but I recently discovered Undercast’s version and I’m really into it. It’s faster, the drums are heavier, and their pop-punk vibes take “Mr. Brightside” from a dancing-in-your-living-room number to a moshpit-ready tune. The Australian band kept the upbeat-yet-angsty spirit of the song though, and it’s just as easy to sing as the original…if you can sing and headbang at the same time, that is.
The Killers will go down in history as making one of the most successful and enduring earworms of all time…but next time I wanna shout the words “I’m coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine”, I might have to go with the more hardcore Undercast.
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Sleep in early childhood: The role of bedtime routines
Sleep changes rapidly from several shorter periods over 24 hours in the first weeks of life to one nap and one long period of sleep at night by age three.
Angela D. Staples, Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
Leah LaLonde, Doctoral Fellow, Eastern Michigan University
Sleep changes rapidly from several shorter periods over 24 hours in the first weeks of life to one nap and one long period of sleep at night by age three. This review covers typical sleep patterns from birth through age three and discusses how parents’ attitudes and behaviors change during this period. In addition to parent education about child sleep, we review two behavioral interventions that have been shown to be effective for addressing parent concerns about bedtime resistance and reducing nighttime awakenings. These interventions—beginning about 6 months of age—aim to help parents reduce over-involvement prior to bedtime and in response to night awakenings, to promote their child’s ability to self-soothe to sleep. Importantly, establishment of a consistent bedtime routine of 15 to 30 minutes may reduce or prevent both resistance at bedtime and frequent nighttime awakenings.
The first three years of a child’s life is a period of rapid growth in all areas from physical movement to changes in emotional expression to increasingly child-initiated and child-directed social interaction. During this time, sleep also changes dramatically from short periods of sleep throughout the day and night in the first weeks of life to a single period of sleep during the night and, for about half of all children, one nap during the day. In addition to consolidating sleep so that most of it occurs at night, children also develop the ability to self-soothe back to sleep should they wake during the night. Difficulty self-soothing back to sleep without parental assistance is a common sleep-related concern that parents of young children raise with their pediatrician (Honaker & Meltzer, 2016). Unfortunately, the number of physicians specially trained in childhood sleep problems and sleep disorders is far fewer than what is needed. For example, in the U.S., pediatric sleep specialists represent less than one-tenth of medical providers (Honaker & Meltzer, 2016). Thus, parents and physicians alike are challenged to find workable solutions for both sleep problems (e.g., bedtime resistance) and sleep disorders (e.g., obstructive sleep apnea). An important caveat is that not all parents view the same sleep behavior as problematic (e.g., Owens, 2008). Thus, the present paper defines a sleep problem as those behaviors that parents identify as problematic while keeping in mind this definition likely differs across individuals, families, and cultures. This contrasts with sleep disorders, which have clearly defined medical criteria.
This review does not address sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, in part, because treatment is primarily the domain of physicians. Additionally, this review does not address specific sociocultural factors such as co-sleeping, feeding practices, or environmental factors (e.g., tobacco use, neighborhood noise, type of bedding)—all of which can impact both parent and child sleep. Instead, this paper provides a selective overview of four interrelated topics regarding sleep in early childhood with a specific emphasis on behavioral interventions for sleep problems. First, we briefly review the typical changes in sleep from birth through age three. Second, we highlight parenting practices in relation to child development and cultural context. Third, we summarize effective sleep interventions for young children. Finally, we emphasize the role of the bedtime routine as a relatively straight forward practice that, when implemented early, may prevent the development of sleep problems.
Typical development of sleep
Newborn infants sleep an average of 14-15 hours per 24-hour period, which drops to an average of 12 hours around two to three years of age (Galland et al., 2012). In the first two months, infants sleep approximately nine hours at night and six hours during the day (Sadeh et al., 2009). However, there is considerable variability in nighttime sleep such that sleeping as few as six hours at night (with more daytime hours) or as many as 11 hours could both be viewed as typical or not problematic. From birth to age three, the number of hours children sleep at night increases, while the number of hours spent sleeping during the day declines (Sadeh et al., 2009).
While the timing, number, and duration of sleep episodes during daytime varies greatly in early infancy, between 8 to 12 months, daytime sleep consolidates into two nap periods, one in the morning and one in the afternoon (Mindell et al., 2016). Around 18 months, children sleep once per day for 1 to 2 hours in the afternoon. By age three, children decrease both the number of naps per week as well as their average duration (Staples et al., 2015) with roughly half of children no longer napping (Iglowstein et al., 2003). There are several factors that contribute to the age at which children stop napping including both internal (e.g., brain development) and external factors (e.g., childcare) (Kurdziel Duclos & Spencer, 2013). While we know that the majority of two-year-old children nap and five-year-old children do not nap, there remain questions about whether there is an optimal or recommended age at which children could or should be encouraged to stop napping (Spencer et al., 2016). One consistent difference between three-year-old children who do versus those who do not nap is that children who nap sleep less at night (Spencer et al., 2016; Ward et al., 2007). However, the total amount of sleep per 24-hour period is similar for children who are and those who are not napping (Ward et al., 2007). One implication is that by age three, some children sleep less at night because they are getting the recommended number of hours of sleep when considered over a 24-hour period. Thus, when determining if a child is getting sufficient sleep, parents and physicians should consider sleep over 24-hours and not just the amount of nightly sleep.
There is no recommended age at which children should be encouraged to stop napping
In addition to changes in the amount of daytime and nighttime sleep, children also develop the ability to self-soothe back to sleep beginning around three months of age with roughly 80% of children sleeping through the night by nine months (Owens, 2008). Yet, waking once each night every night of the week is common for children ages 6 to 11 months (Sadeh et al., 2009). By age three, waking once during the night declines to approximately three nights each week. The length of time children are awake at night also declines from more than one hour in newborns, to less than 20 minutes by age three (Sadeh et al., 2009), though it should be noted that, like hours of nighttime sleep, there is wide variability in both the number and duration of night wakings. It should also be noted that brief periods of arousal happen several times per night, but children do not always signal (e.g., cry) that they are awake (Tikotzky & Sadeh, 2009). Thus, the majority of sleep research on awakenings, which use parent report, provide information about signaled awakenings as opposed to the total number of nighttime arousals (Goodlin-Jones et al., 2001).
Parenting practices and sleep
With changes in when and how long children sleep in early childhood, it probably appears self-evident that parenting behaviors surrounding sleep also change. For example, the majority of parents either nurse or bottle feed their infant before putting to bed for the first nine months of life (Sadeh et al., 2009). In contrast, the percentage of children who are nursed or bottle fed after waking during the night declines rapidly from birth to 4 months and then continues to decline through age three (Sadeh et al., 2009). As infants develop, their need for nourishment during the night decreases rapidly, which is typically matched by a decline in parents offering nourishment. In addition to changes in nourishment, attitudes or beliefs about why their infant is waking during the night are another reason for changes in parental response.
A longitudinal study of first-time mothers, who were followed from pregnancy through their child’s first birthday, found changes in why mothers thought their infants were waking and how they viewed their own role in responding to the awakening (Tikotzky & Sadeh, 2009). During pregnancy, mothers indicated that infants should learn to self-soothe back to sleep and, thus, parents should work to minimize interactions with their child during the night. However, when their infants were one and six months of age, these same mothers reported greater concern about their infants’ distress upon awakening and reported more intervention during the night than they had anticipated during pregnancy. When the infants were 12 months old, mothers’ beliefs about the importance of minimal interaction in response to an awakening had returned to what they had reported during pregnancy. Thus, maternal perceptions about the reason for nighttime awakenings are related to how and if they respond to their infant. Additionally, these maternal perceptions change over the first year of life.
Mothers’ perceptions of why their babies wake at night change over the first year of life
Furthermore, mothers—likely fathers, too—who continue to attribute infant distress as the reason for waking, irrespective of the child’s age, tend to increase their involvement (e.g., holding, rocking) in an effort to help their child fall asleep. It is precisely this over-involvement beyond when it is needed that has been shown to contribute to the persistence of sleep problems for young children. One implication is that educating parents on the difference between times when their child needs their presence at night (true distress) from times when they do not (brief arousals) may help reduce over-involvement at night.
Along with developmental stage, cultural norms and values also impact parent perceptions of and response to sleep problems. Frequent night wakings, for example, were more likely to be regarded as problematic among parents from primarily-Caucasian (PC) countries compared to parents from primarily-Asian (PA) countries, whereas the number of naps was more likely to be perceived as problematic from parents in PA countries (Sadeh Mindell & Rivera, 2011). There are also differences in parental practices across cultures. For example, fewer than 5% of children from PA countries fall asleep independently compared to about 50% of children from PC countries (Mindell Sadeh Kohyama et al., 2010). Children from PA countries are also more likely to go to bed later and share a room with parents than children from PC countries (Mindell Sadeh Wiegand et al., 2010). While these findings demonstrate large scale cultural differences, there are also likely to be more nuanced differences between parenting practices surrounding children’s sleep. One implication is that cultural norms and beliefs may not only play a role in when and why parents seek advice about their child’s sleep, but they may also impact whether parents are willing to change their parenting practices, particularly if these changes run counter to their cultural beliefs.
Interventions for sleep problems
Sleep problems for children are classified into two categories: night waking and bedtime resistance (Mindell et al., 2006). At this time, there are no standards for determining when a sleep problem has reached a clinical level as opposed to a behavior that, while problematic, is likely to be temporary (Morgenthaler et al., 2006). For example, awakenings increase around the time infants learn to crawl and then return to pre-crawling levels within two weeks (Scher & Cohen, 2015). Bedtime resistance, such as stalling or refusing to stay in bed, also tends to increase from 12 to 36 months (Jenni et al., 2005), which parallels increasing independence during the day. Thus, parents and practitioners alike are challenged to separate typical age-related changes in children’s sleep from those that are frequent, persistent sleep problems. A key factor in determining whether a sleep behavior is temporary, or a sign of a more serious problem, is the extent to which parents view the behavior as problematic.
Behavioral treatments are effective in reducing the two most common types of sleep problems in early childhood—bedtime resistance and frequent night waking (Meltzer & Mindell, 2014; Mindell et al., 2006). In general, these interventions aim to reduce excessive involvement by parents at sleep onset and in response to a night waking. Broadly speaking, treatments fall into three categories: extinction, routines, and preventative education (Morgenthaler et al., 2006). At its core, extinction involves a consistent bedtime routine and requires that parents ignore problematic bedtime behaviors (e.g., whining, fussing, and crying). Graduated extinction, a modified version of the treatment that parents tend to be more comfortable enforcing, involves gradually lengthening the time to respond to a child’s stalling at bedtime or in response to nighttime awakening. Notably, it is suggested that gradual non-responding should begin around six months of age as a method of preventing the development of sleep problems, though more research is needed to determine whether this approach plays a causal role in preventing sleep problems (Morgenthaler et al., 2006). Routines involve setting a consistent time for getting ready for bed, time to be in bed, and a consistent set of activities prior to bedtime (Meltzer, 2010). Parent over-involvement during the bedtime routine (e.g., putting the child to bed after they fall asleep) tends to result in frequent awakenings where the child is unable to soothe themselves back to sleep without parental intervention (Ribeiro et al., 2015). Therefore, the bedtime routine should end with the child being drowsy, but not asleep, so that they learn to fall asleep without the presence of a parent. The same principle applies to nighttime awakenings. For children who are already exhibiting sleep problems—bedtime resistance or frequent awakenings—establishment of a nightly routine is recommended along with gradual (or abrupt) non-responding (Meltzer, 2010). Finally, preventative education covers a variety of topics and methods that includes information about typical sleep development as well as methods for responding to problematic behaviors without inadvertently reinforcing them.
Benefits of a bedtime routine
Of the recommended treatments for sleep problems, two are also recommended practices that are likely to reduce the likelihood of the development of future sleep problems: education and bedtime routines. Notably, education includes information about bedtime routines; specifically, how to set a nighttime schedule that supports the development of a child’s independence from their parent in falling asleep as well as returning to sleep upon waking at night. There are several aspects of a bedtime routine including parental warmth, consistency of schedule, and consistency of activities. Parental warmth includes expressing positive emotions, setting appropriate limits, being responsive to child cues, and not expressing frustration or anger. Greater observed parental warmth prior to bedtime was associated with fewer awakenings in a community sample of children from one to 24 months of age (Teti et al., 2010). There is also preliminary evidence that increasing parental warmth prior to bedtime for children who had a sleep problem was effective in reducing both bedtime resistance and the number of awakenings (Burke et al., 2004).
Bedtime routines include consistency of schedule and activities and parental warmth
Greater consistency in the timing and steps of a bedtime routine in a community sample was associated with fewer signaled awakenings and a greater percentage of sleep while in bed (Staples et al., 2015). Importantly, studies have found that it was not the number of steps involved in the bedtime routine, rather it was the consistency of the bedtime routine that was predictive of better sleep (Mindell et al., 2015; Staples et al., 2015). Furthermore, there was a dose-dependent response such that as consistency in routine increased, so did the improvement in the child’s sleep (Mindell et al., 2015). Establishing a bedtime routine for children who have already developed sleep problems has also been effective in correcting the problematic behavior within just three nights (Mindell et al., 2017). A separate study found that the benefits of improved sleep following the establishment of a bedtime routine persisted a year following the intervention (Mindell et al., 2011). Of particular interest for parents and practitioners was that the bedtime routine intervention consisted of three steps—bath, massage, quiet activity—that lasted between 15 to 30 minutes. This suggests that to be effective, the bedtime routine need not be elaborate in activities, steps, or time to complete. Finally, establishment of a consistent bedtime routine not only reduces frequent nighttime awakenings, but it also has been linked to improvement in daytime behavior, regulation of negative emotions, and improved parent-child interaction (for a complete review see Mindell & Williamson, 2018).
A consistent bedtime routine is linked to improved daytime behavior
For parents of children with sleep problems, particularly when children are resisting going to bed and/or need their parent to return to sleep after a nighttime awakening, establishment of a bedtime routine is strongly recommended. The specific steps in the routine are not as important as the overall tone (calming and positive) and consistency. Specifically, the entirety of the routine should be consistent including the type of activities, the ordering of activities, and the time at which the routine begins and ends. Finally, the bedtime routine should be repeated as many nights as possible, with every night being best practice. For those working with parents of young children, educating parents early on appears to be the most effective and economical method of reducing or preventing sleep problems. Specific recommendations for parents should also take into consideration individual preferences (e.g., sleep location), family dynamics (e.g., number of children, parent work schedule), and cultural values (e.g., co-sleeping, room sharing) surrounding sleep practices.
Key elements of a bedtime routine
• Establishment of a consistent bedtime routine is recommended for the two most common sleep problems in early childhood: bedtime resistance and frequent nighttime awakenings.
• Begin establishing a consistent nighttime routine when the child is six-months-old.
• The bedtime routine should happen at the same time each night (+/- 30 minutes).
• The steps, or activities, of the bedtime routine should be the same each night and in the same order.
• Suggested bedtime activities are those that convey a sense of calm, warmth, security, and safety such as snuggling while reading a book, rocking while singing a lullaby, or a brief (3-5 minute) massage.
• Bedtime activities to avoid include watching TV or using portable electronic devices.
• A bedtime routine—consisting of two to four steps—that lasts between 15 and 30 minutes seems sufficient for promoting good sleep and reducing sleep problems.
• The child should be drowsy at the end of the bedtime routine, but not asleep.
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Bruce Springsteen Releases New Video for 'Western Stars'
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 05: Bruce Springsteen performs on stage at The New York Comedy Festival and The Bob Woodruff Foundation present the 12th Annual Stand Up For Heroes event at The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 5, 2018 in New York City.
Bruce Springsteen Releases New Video for ‘Western Stars’
Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter June 14th
Bruce Springsteen‘s new solo album, Western Stars, comes out today (June 14), and The Boss has dropped the video for the album’s title track.
The track, itself, tells the story of a western film actor who once “was shot by John Wayne” and how “that one scene’s bought me a thousand drinks.” The track definitely drives home Springsteen’s original statement on the album about being a return to character-driven songs. The video shows Springsteen in the role of that actor, but also as the story’s narrator performing on stage at a saloon. The shot of Patti Scialfa watching on from a table in the bar is a nice touch, for sure.
Western Stars is now available on multiple streaming platforms here. Exclusive merch bundles and vinyl pressings can be found at BruceSpringsteenStore.com.
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Japan’s top egg producer keen to invest $275 million in Odisha
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ISE Foods Inc, Japan’s leading egg producer, is in talks with the Odisha government officials to invest $275 million (approximately Rs 18 billion) on a slew of projects.
Odisha’s food processing sector, one of the six focus sectors listed in its industrial policy statement of 2015, has got a major boost with a Japanese investment in the offing.
With an annual turnover of Rs 30 billion, the Tokyo-based firm is keen to develop a complete, integrated ecosystem for egg production, including a poultry farm, post harvest management, feed mill factory and facility for training & skill development. All the projects need about 100 acres of land.
ISE Foods Inc had already signed a pact with the Union government prior to evincing its interest in Odisha. The company aims to work on supply chain integration including areas such as backward linkages with farmers, cold storage, solar and biomass-based renewable energy.
A delegation led by the company’s founder is slated to meet the heads of relevant departments in Odisha on April 30, said a source in the know.
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Record 2,500 register for International Yoga Day event at Washington monumenthttps://indianexpress.com/article/world/record-2500-register-for-international-yoga-day-event-at-washington-monument-5771664/
Record 2,500 register for International Yoga Day event at Washington monument
For the third time, the Washington Monument – that faces the National Mall overlooking the US Congress – would host the International Yoga Day celebrations.
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Following a proposal moved by India on December 11, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga. (Representational/PTI)
The iconic Washington Monument is set to witness a record of sorts on Sunday when more than 2,500 people will gather in the US capital to meditate and celebrate the fifth International Day of Yoga by flexing their body in multiple complex postures.
For the third time, the Washington Monument – that faces the National Mall overlooking the US Congress – would host the International Yoga Day celebrations. This would be possibly the largest gathering of a free yoga event in Washington, given the enthusiasm of health-conscious people.
So far, more than 2,500 people have registered for the event on June 16.
Following a proposal moved by India on December 11, 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga. “We are seeing a robust response to our call for participation at the fifth International Day of Yoga at the iconic Washington Monument on Sunday, June 16. The event has already received over 2,500 registrations,” the Indian Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, told PTI.
The event is being organised by the Indian Embassy in association with more than 20 organisations. And as an added incentive, Shringla said, the embassy has scheduled a vegetarian food festival immediately after the yoga event as part the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi.
Since his arrival in January 2019, Shringla has been spearheading efforts for successfully organising the yoga day, which in five years has become a sought-after event in Washington. He has chaired a preparatory meeting of embassy officers and representatives of the partner organisations.
All ambassadors and representatives of UN organisations have been invited to the event.
Representatives from various wings of the US government and the Congress are also likely to attend it. “Over the last few years, the popularity of yoga has increased manifold in the US. I am told there are now about 36 million yoga practitioners in the country. And this is good news!” Shringla said.
To quote Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “Yoga has evolved as a way to achieve healthy living and combines physical, mental and spiritual pursuits to achieve harmony of the body and mind. Its appeal today has truly transcended cultural and linguistic boundaries and it has become a global phenomenon,” he said.
The proposal to declare the International Day of Yoga was first moved by Modi in his maiden address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014. Then permanent representative of India to the UN Ashok Mukherji introduced the draft resolution in the UNGA on December 11, 2014. It was co-sponsored by a record 177 countries.
For the event this year, the Indian embassy has mounted an active promotion campaign through its social media channels and website. It has been running a Facebook ad campaign targeting individuals within 25 miles of DC, and individuals with interest in meditation, LuLulemon, yoga and yoga-related activities. The advertisement is expected to reach around a million people by June 15.
In the run-up to the event, more than 12 curtain raiser events have been organised at various locations across the US, including Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia. Several other promotional programmes have also been held. The Indian embassy reached out to yoga studio owners and teachers to ensure participation from American yoga enthusiasts.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall, built to commemorate George Washington, the first US president.
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Dominating Charles Cecil’s second floor studio, just south of the river Arno, is a huge unfinished religious painting.
“That painting has haunted that wall for twenty odd years,” he notes.
The studio itself is dark, save for the morning light hitting the canvas from a single row of north-facing windows.
All the figures are painted exclusively from life, with models posing as biblical figures, using an age old technique called sight-size, which his former master R. H. Ives Gammel passed down to him.
“There is no modernism here!” he declared.
A student at The Florence Academy of Art, paints a portrait from life
But look a little closer and the painting is so laden with layers of oil paint and medium that it strikes me as a never-ending monumental ode to the process of painting. And that, I think is apt, because if Cecil and his peers had not made the pilgrimage to Florence during the height of modernism – doggedly pursuing a form of art that the rest of the world had discarded – then the ancient techniques and traditions of figurative painting may have been lost forever.
“Brexit means that the ability of British people being able to come here and partake in this tradition might be seriously curtailed.”
Charles Cecil and his contemporaries, Daniel Graves and John Angel, can legitimately trace their respective school’s lineages all the way back to the height of French Academicism, giving their schools a real sense of authenticity. It is the lineage, or “pedigree” of these art schools in Florence that makes them unique, and that in the wake of hard Brexit is at stake.
Although he is American, the vast majority of Cecil’s students are British, and are a mainstay at the BP portrait awards. Recent finalists have included Jamie Routley, Isabella Wattling and this year, Daisy Sims-Hilditch.
It is because of this that I addressed the elephant in the room: Britain’s impending departure from the European Union.
Tactfully, he replied that, “it is my personal opinion that the ability for British people to come here, either as practicing artists or as students, who wish to study in Italy and partake in this tradition, might be seriously curtailed.”
Daniel Graves, Founder and Director of The Florence Academy of Art, paints in his private studio in Florence
Learning the craft of figurative painting is a long and arduous process, with artists reaching their potential at different points in their lives. Charles notes that, “no one talks about how the time limit of the right to stay, if you are from a country from outside the EU, would affect artists. Six months or a year isn’t enough, and some students choose to study here for much longer than the standard three years.”
The history of learning
Up until the 19th century, painters and sculptors were trained in ateliers, workshops and academies in Europe, where they would learn the skills needed to create paintings, drawings and sculptures based on closely observing life. This method of training, passed down from teacher to student, focused on the technical aspects of figurative art, was almost completely abandoned in the twentieth century as the art establishment moved away from figuration.
“Access to culture is what it is all about.”
Unlike contemporary art schools in the West, Charles Cecil Studios, The Florence Academy and The Angel Academy focus almost exclusively on the skill of drawing, painting and sculpting from life under natural light. Students progress through a series of exercises designed to train their eye and improve their technical skills, under the watchful eye of a master.
The quality of work their students achieve – working exclusively from life and observing the subject from a medium distance – is almost impossible to achieve when working from a photograph. All three schools employ the “sight size” method, passed down by R. H. Ives Gammel, Cecil’s former mentor, whereby the canvas (or sculpture) is placed directly next to the subject and then observed from a distance so that the artists can see both the subject and canvas in their entirety.
The Florence Academy teaches the skill of drawing in natural light (Photo credit: Getty Images)
“He [R. H. Ives Gammel] revived the technique (of sight size) – he’s the one who trained artists in this method. Our great good fortune is that John Singer Sargent spent so much time in Boston, met painters like Gammel and influenced his teachings. This is why the Boston painters worked in the way Sargent worked, more or less. It’s Sargent’s impact on Boston, and then Gammels own research, that created the very small atelier that I trained at.”
The founder of The Florence Academy, Daniel Graves – a former colleague of Charles Cecil and yet another American responsible for reviving traditional figurative art – also has a direct link back to French Academicism. Graves studied alongside the Italian painter Nirima Simi, who in turn had learned from her father, Filadelfo Simi – a former student of the great French painter, Jean-Léon Gérôme, widely considered to be one of the most important figures of the academic period.
“There is a huge tradition of British people coming to Florence. It was an important part of the British cultural experience. You see it in the movies and you read it in the novels of the late nineteenth century.”
For Graves the problem presented by Brexit is about access to education and culture.
“Access to culture is what it is all about. It’s something the Brits really appreciate and really understand: the depth of knowledge from the Italian renaissance and how important is is to them culturally to participate, not just to read it in books. I’ve always been impressed by the importance that Italian culture has had and played an important role in their lives. They feel that it is something of value to them today, not just something from the past. That is why they come here.”
His upbeat attitude is understandable when one looks at the diversity of The Florence Academy. I attended a lecture at the brand new campus, late on a Friday evening for a lecture about the revered renaissance painter Fra Angelico, and was shocked to see the huge hall packed to the brim with students from across the world this late in the day. Back in my university days, we’d be in the pub already.
More and more British people attending the school
“We are seeing that more and more British people are coming to Florence to study,” Graves remarks. “When I started the school, my student body was maybe seventy to eighty per cent American, and now it’s less than twenty, so we’re seeing a huge change in where our students come from.”
This internationalist approach has been instrumental in bringing painting back into the mainstream and spreading the skills that Graves and his colleagues have acquired, across the world.
“We have thirty six nationalities represented here. People come from all over the world: India China, South America, you name it, we have a student from there. That melting pot oddly enough, really is what gives us cohesion. People really feel that they are mixing with people who are like-minded and who are from all over the world, and what brings them together is the desire to get better, to become really good realist painters.”
These schools have already had an impact on painting in the UK and across the world, with former students opening reputable institutions such as The London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) and London Fine Arts Studios. What’s more, The Florence Academy now has campuses in Sweden and the US.
Echoing his former colleague, he said that “of course Britain will never be cut off from Europe. It’s not going to be be some immense tragedy when Britain leaves the EU, but it is going to make it more difficult. I think that if this goes through, which it looks like it will, then England is going going to be faced with the same predicament as Americans, who require visas and can only stay for a limited time.”
“It would be a huge shame if this kind of painting disappeared from the UK,” Graves concludes. “We would be left with dull, soulless photographic copies.”
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Maserati To Introduce Its First Plug-In Hybrid By 2020
Maserati To Introduce Its First Plug-In Hybrid By 2020 product 2016-02-02 20:30:08 https://insideevs.com/news/327747/maserati-to-introduce-its-first-plug-in-hybrid-by-2020/ Maserati General, maserati
Feb 02, 2016 at 4:30pm
Maserati CEO Harald Wester said in 2013 that electic cars were "nonsense", but there are more and more signs that the Italian company will introduce plug-in hybrids.
The reason for that is the average emissions targets for 2020.
Maserati needs to hybridize its cars with unwanted electricity, and probably we are now only a few years from seeing the first plug-in hybrid Maserati.
"However, Maserati is now set to introduce plug-in hybrid variants of the Quattroporte, GranTurismo, GranCabrio and Ghibli, in order to meet average emissions targets by 2020.
It's already known that the upcoming Levante SUV will be offered with plug-in hybrid powertrain options."
It seems that in five years there will be almost no Maserati's without at least a plug-in option.
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Bio Architecture Lab Turns Seaweed into Fuel
by C.S. Magor January 30, 2012 4 min read
Bio Architecture Lab claims to have developed a novel technology whereby seaweed can be turned into a biofuel.
Biofuels derived from land-based food sources such as corn have been around for a long time. They are increasingly being criticized because creating the biofuel involves turning a crop that has value as a food into ethanol. People need to eat more than they need to drive. Furthermore, processing the feedstock is expensive, and biofuel production is highly subsidized in order to keep costs at an affordable level.
The Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) technology allows seaweed to be used in much the same way. It involves using an engineered enzyme that is able to draw out and metabolize polysaccharides from the seaweed. To put its capability into perspective consider this:
According to BAL, less than three percent of the coastal waters globally is all that’s required to produce enough seaweed capable of replacing over 60 billion gallons (227 billion liters) of fossil fuel annually.
Daniel Trunfio, Chief Executive Officer at Bio Architecture Lab, explained:
About 60 percent of the dry biomass of seaweed are fermentable carbohydrates, and approximately half of those are locked in a single carbohydrate – alginate. Our scientists have engineered an enzyme to degrade and a pathway to metabolize the alginate, allowing us to utilize all the major sugars in seaweed, which therefore makes the biomass an economical feedstock for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Jonathan Burbaum, program director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, would seem to be impressed:
BAL’s technology to ferment a seaweed feedstock to renewable fuels and chemicals has suggested an entirely new pathway for biofuels development, one that is no longer constrained to terrestrial sources. When fully developed and deployed, large scale seaweed cultivation combined with BAL’s technology promises to produce renewable fuels and chemicals without forcing a tradeoff with conventional food crops such as corn or sugarcane.
BAL believes that through this technology, seaweed from less than three percent of the world’s oceans would have the potential to replace more than 60 billion gallons of fossil fuel. That amounts to a small fraction of what is needed in terms of being able to power all of the cars on the planet but as engines become more fuel efficient, it would be enough to make a significant dent.
The downside, at this point, is the cost. According to Ben Graziano, technology commercialization manager at the Carbon Trust, the cost of production is around five times what it would need to be in order to create an affordable fuel:
From what I know of the use of seaweed in general, the costs are still five times higher than they need to be to get to a reasonable fuel price. The use of genetically modified microbes could be a concern in Europe – where the perception of negative impacts can be quite harmful – but less so in the US and elsewhere. But the potential is certainly there, not least because most of the Earth is covered in water. If they can get the scale up and the costs down, it has huge potential.
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121 NEW SOUTH INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $3,612.00 $4,265.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
122 OMNI INDEMNITY COMPANY 0.14% $197,361.00 $132,874.00 $168,099.00 $452,727.00 340.72%
123 OWNERS INSURANCE COMPANY 1.04% $1,413,516.00 $1,243,566.00 $300,600.00 $1,318,511.00 106.03%
124 PACIFIC SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $764.00 $714.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
125 PERMANENT GENERAL ASSURANCE CORPORATION 0.38% $518,938.00 $479,330.00 $692,137.00 $1,235,920.00 257.84%
126 PHARMACISTS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 0.01% $16,200.00 $16,165.00 $0.00 $-679.00 -4.20%
127 PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $4,381.00 $4,134.00 $0.00 $6,380.00 154.33%
128 PROGRESSIVE ADVANCED INSURANCE COMPANY 2.74% $3,732,317.00 $3,521,918.00 $2,103,211.00 $2,347,567.00 66.66%
129 PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 4.84% $6,586,720.00 $6,172,130.00 $3,857,942.00 $4,739,738.00 76.79%
130 PROGRESSIVE CLASSIC INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 $3,775.00 $-7,011.00 N/A
131 PROGRESSIVE DIRECT INSURANCE COMPANY 0.33% $454,524.00 $454,696.00 $181,646.00 $201,460.00 44.31%
132 PROGRESSIVE MAX INSURANCE COMPANY 0.88% $1,195,035.00 $1,161,271.00 $627,649.00 $815,421.00 70.22%
133 PROGRESSIVE NORTHWESTERN INSURANCE COMPANY 1.24% $1,689,790.00 $1,694,535.00 $737,827.00 $526,109.00 31.05%
134 PROGRESSIVE PREFERRED INSURANCE COMPANY 0.39% $534,354.00 $544,685.00 $237,525.00 $37,326.00 6.85%
135 PROGRESSIVE SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 $451.00 $-838.00 N/A
136 PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD 0.11% $147,987.00 $158,233.00 $31,407.00 $54,140.00 34.22%
137 RESPONSE INSURANCE COMPANY 0.02% $25,774.00 $23,721.00 $6,863.00 $8,537.00 35.99%
138 RIVERPORT INSURANCE COMPANY 0.01% $7,278.00 $2,525.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
139 RLI INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $468.00 $632.00 $0.00 $-213.00 -33.70%
140 SAFE AUTO INSURANCE COMPANY 0.63% $858,768.00 $863,710.00 $678,458.00 $664,989.00 76.99%
141 SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA 0.00% $669.00 $705.00 $0.00 $329.00 46.67%
142 SAFECO INSURANCE COMPANY OF ILLINOIS 5.15% $7,004,052.00 $6,623,216.00 $3,967,035.00 $5,193,998.00 78.42%
143 SAGAMORE INSURANCE COMPANY -0.00% $-2,186.00 $11,611.00 $58,188.00 $23,311.00 200.77%
144 SECURA INSURANCE A MUTUAL COMPANY 0.00% $2,624.00 $2,564.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
145 SECURA SUPREME INSURANCE COMPANY 0.19% $265,090.00 $261,770.00 $98,850.00 $304,476.00 116.31%
146 SENTINEL INSURANCE COMPANY LTD 0.06% $76,509.00 $81,032.00 $0.00 $0.00 0.00%
147 SENTRY INSURANCE A MUTUAL COMPANY 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 $12,518.00 $550.00 N/A
148 SHELTER GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY -0.00% $-313.00 $23.00 $44,546.00 $12,837.00 55,813.04%
149 SHELTER MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY 4.89% $6,660,049.00 $6,631,732.00 $3,435,912.00 $3,546,826.00 53.48%
150 STANDARD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 3.73% $5,075,150.00 $4,283,207.00 $1,020,168.00 $1,049,564.00 24.50%
151 STATE AUTO PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.02% $24,517.00 $25,947.00 $20,036.00 $-18,903.00 -72.85%
152 STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY 2.55% $3,475,893.00 $3,276,054.00 $4,013,817.00 $5,230,213.00 159.65%
153 STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY 20.00% $27,227,225.00 $26,790,929.00 $17,754,270.00 $22,735,812.00 84.86%
154 STILLWATER INSURANCE COMPANY 0.03% $43,759.00 $47,103.00 $412,864.00 $288,863.00 613.26%
155 TEACHERS INSURANCE COMPANY 0.08% $104,129.00 $79,188.00 $59,894.00 $124,567.00 157.31%
156 TOPA INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $-403.00 N/A
157 TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY 1.57% $2,142,036.00 $2,009,297.00 $1,497,221.00 $1,861,296.00 92.63%
158 TRAVELERS HOME AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY THE 0.77% $1,041,790.00 $1,143,806.00 $303,170.00 $143,129.00 12.51%
159 TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.04% $60,438.00 $66,777.00 $2,418.00 $2,418.00 3.62%
160 TREXIS INSURANCE CORPORATION 0.49% $671,418.00 $684,208.00 $678,687.00 $682,487.00 99.75%
161 TREXIS ONE INSURANCE CORPORATION 0.25% $346,725.00 $327,579.00 $232,310.00 $286,367.00 87.42%
162 TRIUMPHE CASUALTY COMPANY 0.00% $233.00 $242.00 $-150.00 $-113.00 -46.69%
163 TRUMBULL INSURANCE COMPANY 0.43% $590,145.00 $646,336.00 $219,870.00 $214,906.00 33.25%
164 TWIN CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 1.45% $1,972,087.00 $1,963,596.00 $1,080,496.00 $745,989.00 37.99%
165 UNITED FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY 0.06% $76,092.00 $73,592.00 $600.00 $-4,483.00 -6.09%
166 UNITED HOME INSURANCE COMPANY 0.08% $107,879.00 $118,758.00 $17,502.00 $15,885.00 13.38%
167 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION 1.06% $1,446,507.00 $1,440,928.00 $561,250.00 $1,568,081.00 108.82%
168 UNITRIN DIRECT PROPERTY & CASUALTY COMPANY 0.01% $10,258.00 $11,289.00 $48,022.00 $18,196.00 161.18%
169 USAA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 0.73% $987,363.00 $952,487.00 $352,277.00 $720,162.00 75.61%
170 USAA GENERAL INDEMNITY COMPANY 1.18% $1,605,678.00 $1,551,024.00 $1,289,062.00 $3,063,642.00 197.52%
171 VICTORIA AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY 0.44% $602,746.00 $544,904.00 $479,767.00 $718,783.00 131.91%
172 VICTORIA FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY 0.00% $80.00 $119.00 $0.00 $-23.00 -19.33%
173 VIKING INSURANCE COMPANY OF WISCONSIN 0.46% $624,864.00 $692,050.00 $557,130.00 $344,716.00 49.81%
174 WARNER INSURANCE COMPANY 0.00% $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $48,766.00 N/A
175 YOUNG AMERICA INSURANCE COMPANY 0.83% $1,130,947.00 $1,118,038.00 $1,399,461.00 $1,548,949.00 138.54%
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Roger Edge Clapp Papers, 1942-1991
Inventor Name
Clapp, Roger Edge
Niels Bohr Library
One Physics Ellipse
http://www.aip.org/history/
8.75 ft.
Correspondence; lecture notes; patents; proposals; reports; research notebooks and notes; unpublished articles; drafts of proposed publications; a diary. This collection provides a record of Clapp's wide ranging career. While employed at the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1942-1946) Clapp worked on microwave scanning linear ray antennas, and made pioneering contributions to the theoretical and experimental understanding of radar reflections from the terrain. The material reflecting this work comprises correspondence, patents (describing microwave antenna inventions), and a report. Clapp was a doctoral student at Harvard University (1946-1949) under professor Julian Schwinger; he held an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical physics at MIT (1949-1950); and was a research associate at the MIT Lab for the Nuclear Sciences and Engineering (1951). This period (1949-1951) is documented primarily by research and lecture notes, thesis material, and a report to the AEC (both on a variational solution to the nuclear three body problem). The lecture notes are from lectures given at Harvard and MIT by Percy Williams Bridgman (thermodynamics), David H. Frisch (scattering elementary particles), Bruno Rossi (cosmic ray phenomena), Julian Schwinger (nuclear physics, wave fields, and quantum electrodynamics), and Victor Frederick Weisskopf (nuclear reactors). Between 1951 and 1978 Clapp followed a relatively unconventional career path, as a consulting physicist not located in academia. From 1978 he was on the staff of the MITRE corporation, while continuing a personal program of research in gravitation, elementary particle theory, and biophysics. Notebooks on gravitation, proposals, peer reviews, correspondence, and unpublished articles extensively document Clapp's research and theories, which were often controversial and inter-disciplinary. Topics covered in the collection include gravitation, elementary particle theory, biophysics, cell wall molecular operation, nerve cell electrical communication, mobius theory of electron excitation, non-impact printing-electrophoresis, electron orbits, philosophy, and plant growth. Correspondents include: John A. Behnke (as editor of BioScience), Albert Einstein, Richard P. Feynman, David Finkelstein (as editor of International Journal of Theoretical Physics), Thomas Kuhn, Elihu Lubkin, and John A. Wheeler. Physicist (theoretical physics, biophysics). Radiation Lab, MIT (1942-1946), AEC fellow (1949-1950); senior physicst, Snow & Schule, Inc. (1950-1952); Ultrasonic Corp. (1952-1957); Adv. Industries, Inc. (1957-1961); Air Tech Corp. (1961-1967); Basic Research Assoc.,Inc. (1970-); Mitre Corp., (1978-).
Physics (Relevance: 25%)
Power generation, motors, and engines (Relevance: 35%)
Radar and sonar (Relevance: 3%)
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Meet Judge Neubauer
AP: Neubauer says she’s raised $350,000 for Supreme Court race
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In an early sign of strength, the new Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer says she’s already raised more than $358,000.
Neubauer publicly started her candidacy last week, but a campaign finance report filed Monday shows she had been quietly raising money for the effort for weeks. The report shows she has nearly $358,000 worth of cash on hand.
Read more at the Wisconsin Law Journal here.
Paid for by Re-elect Judge Lisa Neubauer, 1145 Main Street, Racine, WI 53403
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Toddler dies, python found coiled around her
The snakes are not native to Florida, but many people keep them as pets
OXFORD, Fla. – A 2-year-old girl apparently was strangled Wednesday by her family’s 12-foot-long pet Burmese python, officials said.
Shaunia Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said.
Charles Jason Darnell, the snake’s owner and the boyfriend of Shaunia’s mother, said he discovered the snake missing from its aquarium and went to the girl’s room, where he found it on the girl and bite marks on her head, Caruthers said.
Darnell, 32, said he stabbed the snake until he was able to pry the child away, and then called 911.
Authorities remained outside the small, tan home, bordered by cow pastures Wednesday afternoon, awaiting a search warrant to remove the snake from the home. It was unclear if it was still alive.
Darnell did not have a permit for the snake, which would be a second-degree misdemeanor, said Joy Hill, a spokeswoman with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He has not been charged, but Caruthers said investigators were looking into whether there was child neglect or if any other laws were broken.
NBC affiliate WESH reported that Darnell told deputies he left the snake in an aquarium in a bag when the family went to sleep.
The python was one of two snakes in the home — the other is a 6-foot-long boa constrictor. Both snakes are alive, Carruthers said.
Two other children also lived there, WESH reported.
The Humane Society of the United States said including Wednesday’s death, at least 12 people have been killed in the U.S. by pet pythons since 1980, including five children.
Pythons are not native to Florida, but some residents keep them as pets, especially Burmese pythons, which can grow to more than 15 feet and weigh more than 150 pounds.
When the snakes become too large, some owners release them into the Everglades and other wild areas, Florida officials say.
The fast-growing population of snakes has been invading southern Florida’s ecosystem since 1992, when scientists speculate a bevy of Burmese pythons was released into the wild after Hurricane Andrew shattered many pet shop terrariums.
Scientists don’t have an accurate estimate of how many pythons are in Florida, but estimates range from thousands to hundreds of thousands.
This is just another example of the epidemic of the loss of personal responsibility and the loss of common sense that has swept the United States. These situations come from a lack of thinking things through, a loss of self-responsibility for our actions and a lack of concern for others… people and animals. Was this the snake’s fault?? Heck no! It was the owner’s fault – the parents’ fault.
Florida’s python problem may be spreading
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Billy Vera, an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, and music historian. He has been a singer and songwriter since the 1960s, his most successful song the 1987 #1 hit, “At This Moment.”
Michael Campion, teen actor and model, found his breakthrough acting role as Jackson Fuller in the Netflix series “Fuller House.” He has also starred in the film “Robo-Dog,” as Tyler Austin, and in “Finding Eden,” as Sam.
Valentina Yazykova is an actress and model and currently Miss Globe Europe 2018, a title she won in China.
Sandra Taylor, an American actress and model,is best known for her work on “The Princess Diaries” (2001), “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory” (1995) and “Valentine’s Day” (2010).
Liz Stewart is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. Liz began her career in Houston, where she studied playwriting under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Edward Albee.
Leslie Zemeckis, actress and producer, best known for Beowulf (2007), A Christmas Carol (2009) and Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer (2018).
Milt Larsen is a writer, actor, performer, lyricist, magician, entrepreneur, speaker, and the creator of The Magic Castle, a private club for magicians and enthusiasts.
Ashley Bell is an American actress best known for her role as Nell Sweetzer in the films “The Last Exorcism” and “The Last Exorcism Part II.”
Donna Pescow is an American film and television actress and director, most known for her co-starring roles as Annette in the 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever” and Eileen Stevens in the Disney Channel sitcom “Even Stevens.”
Allison Gustafson is the dance director of Gustafson Dance School in Santa Barbara.
Melanie Marden is a model and an actress from the series “Friends and Lovers.”
Kate Linder is an American actress, best known for her role as Esther Valentine on “The Young and the Restless,” which she has played since 1982.
Donna Loren is an American singer and actress. Donna Loren is an American singer and actress. A prolific performer in the 1960s, she was the “Dr Pepper Girl” from 1963 to 1968, featured female vocalist on ABC-TV’s Shindig, and a cast member of the American International Pictures Beach Party movie franchise.
Joanna Cassidy is an American actress best known for her roles as the replicant Zhora Salome in Ridley Scott’s film “Blade Runner” (1982) and Dolores in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988). She has won a Golden Globe Award, was nominated for three Emmy Awards and also was nominated for a Saturn Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Pamela Des Barres, aka Miss Pamela, is a former rock and roll groupie, author, and magazine writer. Her list of groupie sexual exploits reads like a veritable “who’s who” of the 1960’s rock and acting scene.
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Fred Willard is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy. Among many other awards and honors, he received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series “Everybody Loves Raymond,” as Robert Barone’s father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.
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Sybil Danning, an Austrian actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her frequent appearances in B movies during the 1970s and 1980s.
Paul Petersen, Best Remembered as Jeff Stone on the 1950s The Donna Reed Show.
Anson Williams, Played Potsie on the television series Happy Days.
Martin Kove, actor, best known as karate teacher John Kreese in “The Karate Kid.”
Judy Norton, actress and director, best known for her role as “Mary Ellen Walton” on The Waltons television series.
Dee Wallace is an American actress best known for her starring role as Elliott’s mother, Mary, in the Steven Spielberg film E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
Alonzo Bodden is a comedian, actor, and “Last Comic Standing” Grand Prize Winner.
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Keith Coogan, grandson of actor Jackie Coogan, is an American actor.
Gregory Harrison, actor, known for roles in the movie Chandler and television series Trapper John.
Jamaal Wilkes is an American retired basketball player who played the small forward position and won four NBA championships with the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers.
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Cherie Currie (musician, singer, actress), lead vocalist of The Runaways
Frank Stallone—Actor, Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist
Lee Purcell—American Actress
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Season 3-A (Jan 2015 – Jul 2015)
Rafer Johnson, Two-Time Olympic Gold and Silver Decathlon Medalist
Tony Dow, Played Wally Cleaver on “Leave it to Beaver from ’57 through ’63
Brandon Cruz, Played Eddie Corbett on “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”
Paul Carafotes (from television series ‘Knots Landing’)
Denise Nicholas from “Room 222”
Rex Smith, “You Take My Breath Away,” TV series “Street Hawk.”
Alan Parsons, Rock Legend (also engineered The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”)
Peter Noone (lead singer of Sixties pop group, Herman’s Hermits)
Dawn Wells (played Mary Ann on television sitcom ‘Gilligan’s Island.’)
Ken Caillat (best known for engineering Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’)
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Ted Lange, played Issac the bartender in television series “The Love Boat.”
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Richard Hatch–Actor, Writer, and Producer
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Rebecca Metz
Our upcoming Ken Boxer Live guest is the actress and comedian Rebecca Metz.
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“She is best known for her roles as Tressa on the FX television comedy series Better Things; Melinda on the Showtime television comedy-drama series Shameless; and Jenna Wrather on the Disney Channel comedy series Coop & Cami Ask the World.
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“Metz was born and raised in Freehold Township, New Jersey and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.[5] In 1998, she had her first television appearance on the ABC series Politically Incorrect. Later, Rebecca won other roles on a variety of TV shows like Nip/Tuck, Boston Legal, The Mentalist, Californication, The Mindy Project, Shameless and more.
“In 2016, she was cast in a recurring role as Tressa in the FX television comedy series Better Things.[6] She is also a voice-over and stage stage actor whose theater credits include Sheila Callaghan’s Kate Crackernuts and Burglars of Hamm’s, The Behavior of Broadus.
“In 2018, she was cast as Jenna Wrather on Disney Channel’s new live-action comedy Coop and Cami Ask the World which premiered on October 12, 2018.”
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One Day Soon, We'll Have A Real Video Game Musical
Kirk Hamilton
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Dominique pamplemousse
Jim dooley
Kotaku melodic
Sure, we've got musical video games. But we've yet to have a real video game musical, a game that brings the goofy, earnest energy of musical theater onto a console or PC and lets us play our part.
For a long time, it's felt like an inevitability—people love musicals! They love video games! Who wouldn't want a musical game? And yet one hasn't yet emerged—the Glee karaoke game for Wii felt like the closest thing we had. (Needless to say, that wasn't quite what I was looking for.)
Two upcoming games, both of which may well be video game musicals, have caught my attention, albeit in very different ways. One comes from a source you might expect, and the other codrames from the wide world of independent video game development. Both seek to tell a story through puzzles, exploration, and glorious song.
It's no surprise that Disney is working on a game that's more or less a video game musical. After all, Disney has given us some of the great animated film musicals, and they've got an incomparably rich musical history. So when I first saw the super enjoyable opening cinematic to Epic Mickey 2: The Power Of Two, I couldn't help but wonder: Is Disney finally making a full-on musical game?
The Musical Intro To Disney Epic Mickey 2 Is Absolutely Amazing
This is the intro to Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, slated for a November 18 release on…
Last week I spoke with Jim Dooley, the composer behind the music of Epic Mickey 2 as well as its predecessor, Epic Mickey. I put the question to him: Is Epic Mickey 2 a video game musical?
"Yes," Dooley said, "in that the actual songs drive the plot forward. That's essentially what a musical is, it's like, I think the saying is, 'When you can't say it, sing it, when you can't sing it, dance it.' That's kind of the idea, because there's subtext in songs, and it's hard to get that in dialogue only."
In the case of the introductory sequence (embedded a bit down), Dooley said that this is the classic "Charlatan Song," like those sung by Jafar or Scar in Disney films past. "The Mad Doctor is… well, the opening song is that he's conning Mickey and the town of Wasteland. The way music can do that, it's a charlatan song, but the words are sincere, and that's where the subtext comes out."
Dooley knows a thing or two about telling a story using music—he's the man behind the lovely soundtrack to the far-too-often-overlooked TV gem Pushing Daisies, among many other credits, and worked with Hans Zimmer on a ton of films. Given the fact that Dooley studied with Disney music legend Buddy Baker (and the fact that Pushing Daisies not-so-stealthily transformed into a Kristin Chenoweth musical vehicle), it seemed like only a matter of time before Dooley made a proper musical.
Dooley says that he'd love to do more straight-up musical stuff—following in the footseps of legends like Alan Menken (who wrote the bulk of the music for Disney's musicals, from The Little Mermaid to Tangled) and legendary film composer Marvin Hamlisch, to write musical scores and also write songs.
But then, not all of the characters in Epic Mickey 2 will be singing, and it doesn't sound like the game will feature musical gameplay specifically, or at least not much of it—it'll very much be a video game that's a musical, not a music game, and it sounds like all if not most of the musical stuff will take place in cutscenes. In that sense, it's much more traditional than a video game musical could be—a game that involved the player actually performing music along with the story, and building an interactive score that adapts to the player's input, could be very cool as well.
That's something independent game developer Deirdra Kiai (who recently made the adventure game Life Flashes By) is also tackling with her own unique angle and personal touch. Kiai's game, Dominique Pamplemousse in "It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!" is a work-in-progress (which you can help fund on indiegogo) that looks to become an adventure game take on the video game musical.
In Pamplemousse, players take on the role of Dominique, a down and out private investigator who needs to solve a big case in order to make the rent. The game has a demo that can be played for free online, and if you're anything like me, you'll likely find it as charming as heck.
That's for two reasons. First of all is the music, a whacky blend of sounds all created by Kiai. This is far from the sweeping orchestras and jazz bands of most musicals—Kiai is a brass player, and so most of the soundtrack consists of euphonium, tuba, and muted cornet notes. Kiai sings the part of Dominique with a charming style that matches with the main character's general bummed nature. Kiai mentions the famous "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be" segment of Monkey Island 3, in which Guybrush Threepwood involuntarily engages in a musical segment, as an inspiration for the game.
The second reason the game is so charming is that the whole thing is stop-motion animated, featuring characters made of clay. As you can see from the video here, the whole thing is very winning. As players go through the demo, pick up objects, and look at the world, Dominique will start to sing. The characters will pause to line the words up with the backing music, but it's cool how well it al works. "I divide each piece of music into a looping main section and corresponding verses that can be played in any order," Kiai told me in an email. "I have the game engine set up so that it keeps track of the current beat & measure, and only plays queued-up verses on-beat at the start of a measure."
The challenge, of course, will be keeping a balance between musical segments and non-musical segments. Kiai agrees, saying that the biggest challenge going forward will be giving the player enough to do. "Adventure games as a whole are already a much slower-paced kind of game than most other genres, so when you include music and precise timing issues into the mix, it's really important to avoid becoming repetitive and tedious. Splitting singing parts into smaller chunks and writing verses that can be assembled non-linearly is one way I'm already trying to deal with this."
That kind of writing is certainly quite a bit different than the more traditional way a musical is written, and opens the door to all kinds of other weird new musical gameplay types. "I'd love to see a musical RPG," Kiai told me, "with Rock Band-esque rhythm gameplay instead of combat. Playing in a band, I sometimes feel like I'm in an MMO and that the band is my guild and our gigs are quests. I don't have the resources right now to get such a game developed, but if I were to have the opportunity to work on such a game in the future, I'd be thrilled."
You know what, I'd love to see that too! And actually, given the absolute embarrassment of riches music gamers have been seeing lately, it feels like it's only a matter of time before we get something like that. While we wait, I'd be happy to play either Epic Mickey 2 or Dominique Pamplemousse.
Dominique Pamplemousse [Indiegogo]
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The Eagles Begin Their First Major Tour Without Glenn Frey: Set List + Video
The Eagles kicked off the latest phase of their career on Monday (March 12) in Indianapolis when their Evening With the Eagles 2018 tour -- their first prolonged set of dates since Glenn Frey's 2016 death -- began at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse. You can check out the set list from the evening and watch video from the show below.
As they've done since last year's Classic West festival and the handful of shows that followed, they were joined by Frey's son Deacon and Vince Gill to handle Glenn's vocal and guitar duties. Opening with "Seven Bridges Road," they performed a 28-song set that included all the hits one would expect, but also offered a few surprises. They played their version of Tom Waits' "Ol' 55," with Gill on lead vocals, for the first time since 1999, according to Setlist.fm. Joe Walsh had five turns in the spotlight, on "In the City," "Walk Away," "Life's Been Good," "Funk #49" and "Rocky Mountain Way." They also played "Next Big Thing," a Top 20 Country hit for Gill in 2003, for the first time ever, and a cover of J.D. Souther's "How Long," which they've played often since it was released on 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.
Last month, the Eagles added five more shows to their calendar, bringing their total to 52 concerts in 45 cities between now and the final date at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena on Oct. 20. You can see all the dates here.
Eagles, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, March 12, 2018 Setlist
1. "Seven Bridges Road"
2. "Take It Easy"
3. "One of These Nights"
4. "Take It to the Limit"
5. "Tequila Sunrise"
6. "Witchy Woman"
7. "In the City"
8. "I Can't Tell You Why"
9. "How Long"
10. "Ol' '55"
11. "Peaceful Easy Feeling"
12. "The Best of My Love"
13. "New Kid in Town"
14. "Love Will Keep Us Alive"
15. "Lyin' Eyes"
16. "Next Big Thing"
17. "I Don't Want to Hear Anymore"
18. "Those Shoes"
19. "Already Gone"
20. "Victim of Love"
21. "Walk Away"
22. "Heartache Tonight"
23. "Life's Been Good"
24. "Funk #49"
25. "Life in the Fast Lane"
26. "Hotel California"
27. "Rocky Mountain Way"
28. "Desperado"
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A radical thought how to turn Greece around
The present Greek government has an absolute majority in parliament. Suppose the three party leaders made the following joint public announcement:
“We recognize that we cannot make the changes necessary to turn the Greek economy around through the political process. We have, therefore, unanimously decided to delegate the responsibility for new economic policies to an autonomous, politically independent institution. That institution will be staffed with experts of national economic management with no consideration to party affiliation.
The selection criteria for those experts will be their conviction that free market policies, under clearly established rules and regulations, are the most effective way to achieve economic well-being for our society.
We are taking a bet, if you will. We are taking the bet that such experts – if given the time and if protected from political interference – will achieve what we all want to achieve — to turn the Greek economy around from a corrupt, crony-driven economy towards a value-generating economy based on market principles.
Our commitment to that economic team is that we, as the parties with absolute majority in parliament, give them unconditional aircover for the remaining legislative period”.
A ray of hope would browse through the corridors of Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin. If that is really to believed, they would say, then we owe it to them to support them.
That new economic team would probably signal the EU-authorities that, in order to achieve results over time, they can’t waste their time fiddling over budget deficits every couple of months or so. They would argue that “If our government had the guts to give us aircover for the remainder of the legislative period, then you better follow suit! Either you trust us, or you don’t”.
Given their qualifications, that new economic team would in all likelihood know from the start what needs to be done. If they didn’t, they would only have to read up on other countries which have accomplished similar feats before.
This could never work?
Well, it worked in Chile in the late 1970s. The then authoritarian regime knew it needed economic success but didn’t have the know-how for it. They put their bets on the Chicago-Boys and gave them aircover for about 5 years. The Chicago-Boys, out of their intellectual purity, made many mistakes which ultimately caused significant set-back’s (like not paying attention to how the private sector was wasting foreign loans on consumption) but Greece has already learned that lesson.
Here is my own bet: within less than one year, if the new economic team acted credibly, the rest of Europe would start paying positive attention to Greece. They would realize that Greece was on to something new. On to something which offered new business opportunities for foreigners. At the end of the day, foreign capital would, again, flow to Greece voluntarily because private capital never wants to miss out on new, good opportunities.
I bet you everything I own that this would work!
12 Responses to A radical thought how to turn Greece around
ΣΤΕΛΙΟΣ ΜΑΥΡΟΜΟΥΣΤΑΚΗΣ says:
Your interesting proposal supposes that the political class responsible for the social and financial crisis of the country would recognize its responsibility and incapacity to reform and let the keys in this international institition. I doubt strongly if they even have such an intention. This political decision would mean a clear suicide for themStelios Mavromoustakis, Salonica
You are assuming that the driving motivation of these economic team, CHicago boys or not would be the interest of Greece. I do not think the interest of the Chicago boys in Chile was the welfare of the chilean people -rather the welfare of US companies there. Which is what democracy is about: the people being smart enough to realize their own good and act accordingly.
I can understand your prejudice against the Chicago-Boys. It is shared by many people who judge the Chilean situation from the distance.I have LIVED IN CHILE during the time of the Chicago Boys. Due to my job, I knew the leadersship from the Finance Minister down very well.I can assure you that the Chicago Boys had only one overriding objective — to improve the lot of the Chilean people. When they started with their new policies, 21% of Chileans lived in extreme poverty (and extreme poverty in Chile was really extreme poverty!). The Chicago Boys recognized one most important point: to improve the lot of the Chilean people, they would have to have growth. Since Chile did not have enough financial resources to finance that, they knew they needed to get foreign investment. And they got it!The Foreign Investment Law was designed in such a way that, on one hand, the foreign investors would find a marvellous place to do business but, on the other hand, they could not "milk" the country. The American bank which I organized there in 1980 was capitalized with 10 MUSD. That was 10 MUSD which came into the country as new foreign funding. Much of the capital was invested in the restoration of a previously run-down building in the center of Santiago. When we opened for business, we had a staff of about 30 Chileans who were excited to have the opportunity to work for an international bank. Virtually all of our customers were Chilean companies. Since our bank had more USD than Chilean banks, we were a desirable business partner for every Chilean company which wanted to benefit from international trade and needed the foreign currency to do that. One of our focuses was to finance the export of Chilean agricultural and forestry products all over the world.Mind you, Chile then experienced something very similar to Greece and the Euro. They didn't give up their local currency but they fixed it to the USD "forever". Result like in Greece: new foreign loans entered the country like there was no tomorrow. A consumption-hungry people used the long-term loans to finance short-term consumption. The bubble had to break (it was exclusively a private sector bubble; the state had its house in perfect order).The Chicago Boys blew that one. In purist ideology, they looked at the massive foreign borrowing by the private sector as something which was none of their business. Those were loans between private sector parties, they said, and if they went sour, the private sector would have to take the losses. The Chicago Boys lacked the experience of knowing (or they refused to accept it) that, when push comes to shove, private sector problems become problems of the state. The profits went to the private sector, the losses had to be taken over by the state. Like Ireland or Spain today.The successors of the Chicago Boys learned from that. They kept the good policies and changed the bad ones. The result of all of this can be visited in Chile today. Instead of being the Cuba which Allende/Castro had had in mind, it is one of the most solid economies in the emerging world. Absolutely no reason why Greece couldn't accomplish something similar!
Interesting take. Of course the late 70s were Pinochet's times and the general feeling was that the US was quite active in the coup that overthrew Allende to protect the interests of US companies(who were in danger of being nationalized or else lose some profitability) and not so much to save poor chileans. But I would be very interested to learn exactly what were the good policies by the Chicago boys other than opening a bank that got Chile going. Of course with Pinochet in power we understand there is a total ban on anything resembling a strike, but other than that what exactly did turn things around? I should ask that in Greece if you ask some Golden Dawn supporters they will also glorify the economic miracle of the junta, but thatstory does not always hold water.
1 of 3I know this is going to be a long response…I did NOT say that the US involvement in Chilean affairs during the 1970s had as its goal to save poor Chileans, nor would I think so. That kind of a dreamer I am not. Of course, the US involvement in Chile had geopolitical objectives — Allende/Castro were on their way towards turning Chile into a second Cuba (that was their publicly stated objective) and the US, for understandable reasons, had no interest at all to have more than one Cuba in the Western Hemishphere. Protecting US investments in Chile was not a principal objective because the US had no major investments there at the time.I know I am moving onto thin ice when I say the following, but bear with me.Pinochet’s bad luck was that of all the zillions of coups in Latin America in the last couple of centuries, his coup was the one which kicked out the world’s first democratically elected Marxist President. With that handicap, the Chilean coup will forever go down into ivory towers as the most brutal coup in the world.Any coup is one coup too many and any person killed in a coup is one person too many. Having said that, I was almost amazed how Argentina – where I lived after Chile – could practically at the same time have a bunch of butchers slaughter off tens of thousands of people while the whole world focused on Chile. And those butchers left a mess behind and not a well-functioning economy!Mind you, Chile – if I recall correctly – has the most constitutional history of all Latin countries. I believe they had had only one coup before and that had been many decades before. Against that historical background, the idea of a coup was a nightmare, even to the military itself.What is generally not publicized is that, according to the Constitution, there had actually been the obligation to remove Allende from office. Allende had been in fights with the Supreme Court for some time. The latter eventually ruled that Allende had violated the Constitution and Allende ignored that judgement. According to the Constitution, the President had to be removed from office. The only thing is: after removal, a new election should have been called and the military, as militaries tend to do, forgot about that part. That was the crime of the coup (and the civil rights violations), not Allende’s removal from office!Now to give you even more of a feeling. Pinochet had been appointed by Allende himself to his post about a year before the coup. The story was that Allende chose Pinochet because he was considered as a weakling. At home, he was under the rule of his tough wife (correct!) and in the military the Head of the Air Force was the power guy. I had met both and I could subscribe to that view.Chileans had run out of food (except for those close to the Communist Party). It is well documented how housewives would populate the streets of downtown Santiago drumming on empty pans. “Do something!” they shouted (meaning the military). The story goes that Pinochet did not have the guts to do anything because, as I said above, a coup was so much against Chilean tradition. It was said that the Head of the Air Force finally gave Pinochet an ultimatum to either do it or to be gone. Within weeks after the coup, Chileans had food again.
2 of 3Am I supporting the coup? Of course not, but life is full of choices and I can imagine what the choice would have been (in fact, I had talked about this with many Allende followers and they essentially saw it the same way. The owner of the house we rented, a former ambassador of Allende and someone who was pursued by the junta for some time, told me a lot about that). Chile was indeed on its way to become a second Cuba. The political process had lost the self-corrective power. So, if there hadn’t been a coup, Chile today would probably have many similarities with Cuba today (and Allende would probably be glorified for that like Castro still is). Everyone is invited to judge what his/her preference might have been. There was no “third way”.In the economic area, THE masterstroke of Pinochet & Co. was that they recognized that they didn’t know anything about economic affairs, and that they shouldn’t mess with it. The Chicago-Boys were Chileans who – since the 1950s – had formed a following, principally at the Universidad Catolica, of the Austrian National School of Economy (Hayek, Schumpeter, Mises, etc.). Later, several of them went to study at the University of Chicago where they become favorite students of Milton Friedman. The Chicago Boys were brilliantly intelligent people, like many brilliantly intelligent Greeks today. Unfortunately, they based everything on theory and lacked practical experience.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_BoysPinochet delegated ALL economic affairs to the Chicago Boys and promised them, so it was said, air cover for 5 years. They needed that because the radical reforms they introduced would not have been possible in a democracy (I fear).In short, there is no question that neither the military nor the US were driven by boy scouts motives. The military, of course, wanted Chile to become the kind of country they wanted it to be and the US didn’t want to have another Cuba. But that is not the issue which I raised. The issue I raised was that the Chicago Boys had at their core the objective to improve the lot of ALL Chileans.What did they do?They opened up the economy so that Chile could make use of its competitive advantages. First, they defined what they saw as Chile’s competitive advantages and then they made plans to make use of them. Chile, formerly an exporter of only copper and an importer of just about everything else, became an important exporter (which generated foreign currency). Foreign investors brought capital to the country because they considered Chile to be a great place for doing business. They freed the economy of excessive rules and regulations but made sure that there was an overall regulatory structure in place. Milton Friedman would have called that: “They established the rules of the game within which the private sector could operate competitively and fairly”. They privatized a lot, not primarily for financial gain but for acquiring private sector know-how.Their major blunder was fixing the exchange rate which lead to a massive inflow of cheap foreign funding which was misspent by the private sector on consumption and which caused a crash around 1982. The way they handled that crash was a text book case (that was already the successors of the Chicago Boys). Probably the best bank rescue program I have ever seen! Shareholders and institutional investors lost but not the tax payers!In short, the Chicago Boys gave Chileans the opportunity to develop their own creative powers and talents with very little restraint from government. The new business start-up’s were at a phenomenal rate. Here is how Milton Friedman later described it: "The Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society. So the really important thing about the Chilean business is that free markets did work their way in bringing about a free society." I subscribe to that 100%!
3 of 3One of the most eloquent spokesmen of the Chicago Boys was the then still very young José Pinera (a brother of today’s President). In debates about whether or not Chile should exploit its natural resources, he often stated a phrase which, to this day, makes my heart feel warm: “We will use our natural resources. Not to waste or to spend them. Instead, we will use them so that we can invest in the only resource which has eternal value — our human capital!” That’s what they did. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if Greece had a similar economic team in place, with the necessary powers, the same results would happen in Greece. Chileans are characterized by an extreme love, if not passion for their country; so are Greeks. Chile then had a whole generation of extremely well-educated people who were eager to accomplish something; so does Greece. At the same time, Chile had a large part of the population which was “underdeveloped”, so to speak. Not all that educated; not all that familiar with modern times; in short: ideal targets for populists and demagogues. Greece does too (in my opinion). The trick was that the Chicago Boys could ignore the populists and demagogues and focus on the job at hand instead. No doubt about it: the original Chicago Boys failed in 1982 and they were replaced with more down-to-earth economic leaders. But they had instilled into the Chileans a sense of self-determination; a conviction that – regardless how small a country was, how remote and how seemingly short of competitive advantages – the conviction that even such a country could succeed internationally if it only put its mind to it.Compared to Chile then, Greece today is in much better shape. Chile did not have an extremely rich oligarchy. Greece’s oligarchy belongs to the richest in the world. Much of Chile’s entrepreneurial talent had left for Spain during the Allende years and they led great lives there. One of them (Jorge Cauas) once told me: “We were having the greatest life in Spain but we were all scared of one thing: that Pinochet would call us and appeal to our loyalty and our responsibility to the ‘patria’. We knew that if he called, we couldn’t say no. But we also knew that we would be leaving a great life and return to a life of uncertainty and to a public servant’s salary with little purchasing power, as well as the risk of immediate termination of contract if we failed”.Jorge Cauas and many others of his kind received the call and accepted the responsibility (Cauas became Pinochet’s first Finance Minister). Not to their disadvantage in the end, I might add. So ask yourself the following question: what would it take for a Greek leader to appeal to the country’s economic oligarchy, to their loyalty and their responsibility to the Greek ‘patria’? To make their talents and resources (if only a few billion of the many, many billions they have expatriated from Greece…) available for the turn-around of their home country? If you have an answer to this, you have half the problem’s solution.
It would take the leader/political elite to have been more honest with its own citizens. Right now you have people who worked abroad, made some money and invested in government bonds only to lose 80% in the haircut. You also have people who, encouraged by the government (both the ND and PASOK governments) invested in solar power, including some that borrowed to do so. They thought with a guaranteed contract they were safe. Well, think again: The great minister now (I might add with the troikas blessings) decides that we will pass an act to unilaterally change that contract. That will teach them. As one of those people (who even bothered to check with supreme court people who considered such an act very hard to pass) I should say I might accept a loss if that's for the good of the country, especially if accompanied with a 'we're truly sorry the prices in the contract are not sustainable and we'll try to figure out some way out'. But for me to unilaterally take a loss while the great ministers who set this framework and the MPs who voted for this 'unsustainable' prices to be untouchable, that's calling you a sucker in your face.[Some will also add the question who profited from all this? Answer: German companies]Another issue is who is one doing this for?In order to support the pay of the Supreme courts who only deal with disecting hair? The prosecutor who rules (untouchably again) that a caught fugitive is not suspect of fleeing, so he is released and flees again? The furlough commitee members who rule that a convicted multiple murderer serving a life sentence who did not return from his first furlough deserved a second furlough(and of course he never returned again)[Shades of Dukakis-Bush-Willie Horton]? Various people with connections who get a job in the public sector blatantly violating the new recruitment laws? MPs who vote to give 15mil plus government land to build a mosque and pay a mufti for eternity?Last, I have left out the private sector cancer: CEOs and other managers who work on the principle "nobody was fired for buying IBM". Lots of smart people have ideas and implement them. Say a greek guy makes a Google competitor, call it Groogle and it's 10 times better than Google. Leave aside the fact that the american Google will find a guy to invest, so they can hire some good programmers to fix the initial flaws and further develop it so as to grab a market share, while Groogle will have a problem with that. The main obstacle is that greek managers and CEOs will not even bother checking whether Groogle can help them do their job better and cheaper. Why? Because innovation is something that only foreign companies do. And because no greek can possibly be worth rising to their level(let's not say how they got to that level) or god-forbid, above it! So the groogle guy has no chance if he stays in Greece. Similar like your Arnie example, only with lots of brains this time.
Pinochet's 'patriotism' is quite transparent among other things from the size of his bank accounts….
I admit that I was totally floored when I read about Pinochet's foreign accounts. That didn't fit with the times then at all. There was no corruption in Chile during my time. And believe me, when you represent a foreign bank in an emerging country, you quickly find out whether or not there is corruption! The private sector oligarchs did all sorts of "creative things" during the time of the Chicago Boys but certainly not the government and public administration.
is there any dictator out there, that has no foreign account in switzerland, cayman island etc.?
There is a difference in how good one is in hiding that. I hear similar things about the greek junta from Golden Dawn supporters: That they were clean, that they died poor etc. Among other things Papadopoulos aquired a villa by the beach(according to international law the beach is common to all) while being dirt poor. So it's an issue of how good one is in doing these thing silently and keeping a clean profile.
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AC/DC Postpone Tour As Brian Johnson Faces ‘Total Hearing Loss’
Nick DeRiso
AC/DC have postponed their 10 remaining U.S. dates, citing a scary medical issue for frontman Brian Johnson. He has apparently been "advised by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss," according to a news release. The band was set to bring their "Rock or Bust" tour to Atlanta on Tuesday (March 8).
The same release says that dates through early April, when AC/DC was set to play Madison Square Garden in New York City, "will be made up later in the year, likely with a guest vocalist." More information on these rescheduled shows is forthcoming. Current tickets will be honored for these postponed dates; ticket prices will be also be refunded at the point of purchase. A complete list of postponed dates is below.
Johnson's health issue continues a run of very bad luck for AC/DC that includes the retirement of founding member Malcolm Young, who was diagnosed with dementia, and a protracted legal battle that sidelined long-time drummer Phil Rudd. AC/DC replaced Malcolm with nephew Stevie Young, and then brought back former member Chris Slade.
AC/DC's Postponed 2016 U.S. Dates:
3/08 — Atlanta, Ga. — Philips Arena
3/11 — Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. — BB&T Center
3/14 — Greensboro, N.C. — Greensboro Coliseum
3/17 — Washington, D.C. — Verizon Center
3/20 — Detroit, Mich. — The Palace
3/23 — Columbus, Ohio — Nationwide Arena
3/26 — Cleveland, Ohio — Quicken Loans Arena
3/29 — Buffalo, N.Y. — First Niagara Center
4/01 — Philadelphia, Pa. — Wells Fargo Center
4/04 — New York, N.Y. — Madison Square Garden
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You might find a nice piece of art for cheap or a mirror but the furniture isn't so great. We bought a living room set only to later find out the seat cushions are not moveable (i've never seen that before!) For the price we paid, this couldve been useful info. Do you know how hard it is to wash couch cushions that do not zip off or come off the couch structure?
Van Gogh returned to Etten in April 1881 for an extended stay with his parents.[54] He continued to draw, often using his neighbours as subjects. In August 1881, his recently widowed cousin, Cornelia "Kee" Vos-Stricker, daughter of his mother's older sister Willemina and Johannes Stricker, arrived for a visit. He was thrilled and took long walks with her. Kee was seven years older than he was, and had an eight-year-old son. Van Gogh surprised everyone by declaring his love to her and proposing marriage.[55] She refused with the words "No, nay, never" ("nooit, neen, nimmer").[56] After Kee returned to Amsterdam, Van Gogh went to The Hague to try to sell paintings and to meet with his second cousin, Anton Mauve. Mauve was the successful artist Van Gogh longed to be.[57] Mauve invited him to return in a few months, and suggested he spend the intervening time working in charcoal and pastels; Van Gogh went back to Etten and followed this advice.[57]
Van Gogh's mother came from a prosperous family in The Hague,[19] and his father was the youngest son of a minister.[20] The two met when Anna's younger sister, Cornelia, married Theodorus's older brother Vincent (Cent). Van Gogh's parents married in May 1851 and moved to Zundert.[21] His brother Theo was born on 1 May 1857. There was another brother, Cor, and three sisters: Elisabeth, Anna, and Willemina (known as "Wil"). In later life Van Gogh remained in touch only with Willemina and Theo.[22] Van Gogh's mother was a rigid and religious woman who emphasised the importance of family to the point of claustrophobia for those around her.[23] Theodorus's salary was modest, but the Church supplied the family with a house, a maid, two cooks, a gardener, a carriage and horse, and Anna instilled in the children a duty to uphold the family's high social position.[24]
To support his religious conviction and his desire to become a pastor, in 1877 the family sent him to live with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian, in Amsterdam.[42] Van Gogh prepared for the University of Amsterdam theology entrance examination;[43] he failed the exam, and left his uncle's house in July 1878. He undertook, but also failed, a three-month course at a Protestant missionary school in Laken, near Brussels.[44]
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On 27 July 1890, aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm Lefaucheux à broche revolver.[186][187] There were no witnesses and he died 30 hours after the incident.[160] The shooting may have taken place in the wheat field in which he had been painting, or a local barn.[188] The bullet was deflected by a rib and passed through his chest without doing apparent damage to internal organs – probably stopped by his spine. He was able to walk back to the Auberge Ravoux, where he was attended to by two doctors, but without a surgeon present the bullet could not be removed. The doctors tended to him as best they could, then left him alone in his room, smoking his pipe. The following morning Theo rushed to his brother's side, finding him in good spirits. But within hours Vincent began to fail, suffering from an untreated infection resulting from the wound. He died in the early hours of 29 July. According to Theo, Vincent's last words were: "The sadness will last forever".[189][190][191][192]
Van Gogh was a serious and thoughtful child.[25] He was taught at home by his mother and a governess, and in 1860 was sent to the village school. In 1864 he was placed in a boarding school at Zevenbergen,[26] where he felt abandoned, and campaigned to come home. Instead, in 1866 his parents sent him to the middle school in Tilburg, where he was deeply unhappy.[27] His interest in art began at a young age. He was encouraged to draw as a child by his mother,[28] and his early drawings are expressive,[26] but do not approach the intensity of his later work.[29] Constant Cornelis Huijsmans, who had been a successful artist in Paris, taught the students at Tilburg. His philosophy was to reject technique in favour of capturing the impressions of things, particularly nature or common objects. Van Gogh's profound unhappiness seems to have overshadowed the lessons, which had little effect.[30] In March 1868 he abruptly returned home. He later wrote that his youth was "austere and cold, and sterile".[31]
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Van Gogh painted several landscapes with flowers, including roses, lilacs, irises, and sunflowers. Some reflect his interests in the language of colour, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e.[240] There are two series of dying sunflowers. The first was painted in Paris in 1887 and shows flowers lying on the ground. The second set was completed a year later in Arles, and is of bouquets in a vase positioned in early morning light.[241] Both are built from thickly layered paintwork, which, according to the London National Gallery, evoke the "texture of the seed-heads".[242]
Van Gogh worked for Goupil in London from 1873 to May 1875 and in Paris from that date until April 1876. Daily contact with works of art aroused his artistic sensibility, and he soon formed a taste for Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and other Dutch masters, although his preference was for two contemporary French painters, Jean-François Millet and Camille Corot, whose influence was to last throughout his life. Van Gogh disliked art dealing. Moreover, his approach to life darkened when his love was rejected by a London girl in 1874. His burning desire for human affection thwarted, he became increasingly solitary. He worked as a language teacher and lay preacher in England and, in 1877, worked for a bookseller in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Impelled by a longing to serve humanity, he envisaged entering the ministry and took up theology; however, he abandoned this project in 1878 for short-term training as an evangelist in Brussels. A conflict with authority ensued when he disputed the orthodox doctrinal approach. Failing to get an appointment after three months, he left to do missionary work among the impoverished population of the Borinage, a coal-mining region in southwestern Belgium. There, in the winter of 1879–80, he experienced the first great spiritual crisis of his life. Living among the poor, he gave away all his worldly goods in an impassioned moment; he was thereupon dismissed by church authorities for a too-literal interpretation of Christian teaching.
He incorporated his children and grandchildren into his TV endeavors. Son Barry Van Dyke, grandsons Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke along with other Van Dyke grandchildren and relatives appeared in various episodes of the long-running series Diagnosis: Murder. Although Stacy Van Dyke was not well known in show business, she made an appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder Christmas episode "Murder in the Family" (season 4) as Carol Sloan Hilton, the estranged daughter of Dr. Mark Sloan.
In his younger years, Van Dyke considered becoming a minister. He abandoned this ambition, however, after joining high high school's drama club, and developing his singing and dancing skills in school musicals. His classmates included actor Donald O'Connor and entertainer Bobby Short. Around this time, Van Dyke landed his first professional job, working part-time at a local radio station.
^ Theo and his wife, Gachet and his son, and Signac, who all saw Van Gogh after the bandages were removed, maintained that only the earlobe had been removed.[142] According to Doiteau and Leroy, the diagonal cut removed the lobe and probably a little more.[143] The policeman and Rey both claimed Van Gogh severed the entire outer ear;[142] Rey repeated his account in 1930, writing a note for novelist Irving Stone and including a sketch of the line of the incision.[144]
By March 1882, Mauve appears to have gone cold towards Van Gogh, and stopped replying to his letters.[72] He had learned of Van Gogh's new domestic arrangement with an alcoholic prostitute, Clasina Maria "Sien" Hoornik (1850–1904), and her young daughter.[73] Van Gogh had met Sien towards the end of January 1882, when she had a five-year-old daughter and was pregnant. She had previously borne two children who died, but Van Gogh was unaware of this;[74] on 2 July, she gave birth to a baby boy, Willem.[75] When Van Gogh's father discovered the details of their relationship, he put pressure on his son to abandon Sien and her two children. Vincent at first defied him,[76] and considered moving the family out of the city, but in late 1883, he left Sien and the children.[77]
During the last six or seven months of the year 1889, he has also created at least fifteen paintings of olive trees, a subject which he considered as demanding and compelling.[251] Among these works are Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background (1889), about which in a letter to his brother Van Gogh wrote, "At last I have a landscape with olives".[250]While in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh spent time outside the asylum, where he painted trees in the olive groves. In these works natural life is rendered as gnarled and arthritic as if a personification of the natural world, which are, according to Hughes, filled with "a continuous field of energy of which nature is a manifestation".[214]
Largely on the basis of the works of the last three years of his life, van Gogh is generally considered one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. His work exerted a powerful influence on the development of much modern painting, in particular on the works of the Fauve painters, Chaim Soutine, and the German Expressionists. Yet of the more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings that constitute his life’s work, he sold only one in his lifetime. Always desperately poor, he was sustained by his faith in the urgency of what he had to communicate and by the generosity of Theo, who believed in him implicitly. The letters that he wrote to Theo from 1872 onward, and to other friends, give such a vivid account of his aims and beliefs, his hopes and disappointments, and his fluctuating physical and mental state that they form a unique and touching biographical record that is also a great human document.
In 1957 Francis Bacon based a series of paintings on reproductions of Van Gogh's The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, the original of which was destroyed during the Second World War. Bacon was inspired by an image he described as "haunting", and regarded Van Gogh as an alienated outsider, a position which resonated with him. Bacon identified with Van Gogh's theories of art and quoted lines written to Theo: "[R]eal painters do not paint things as they are ... [T]hey paint them as they themselves feel them to be."[285]
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Born in Missouri, entertainer Dick Van Dyke was raised in Danville, Illinois, where repeated viewings of Laurel & Hardy comedies at his local movie palace inspired him to go into show business. Active in high school and community plays in his teens, Van Dyke briefly put his theatrical aspirations aside upon reaching college age. He toyed with the idea of becoming a Presbyterian minister; then, after serving in the Air Force during World War II, opened up a Danville advertising agency. When this venture failed, it was back to show biz, first as a radio announcer for local station WDAN, and later as half of a record-pantomime act called The Merry Mutes (the other half was a fellow named Philip Erickson). While hosting a TV morning show in New Orleans, Van Dyke was signed to a contract by the CBS network. He spent most of his time subbing for other CBS personalities and emceeing such forgotten endeavors as Cartoon Theatre. After making his acting debut as a hayseed baseball player on The Phil Silvers Show, Van Dyke left CBS to free-lance. He hosted a few TV game shows before his career breakthrough as co-star of the 1959 Broadway review The Girls Against the Boys. The following year, he starred in the musical comedy Bye Bye Birdie, winning a Tony Award for his portrayal of mother-dominated songwriter Albert Peterson (it would be his last Broadway show until the short-lived 1980 revival of The Music Man). In 1961, he was cast as comedy writer Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which after a shaky start lasted five seasons and earned its star three Emmies.He made his movie bow in the 1963 filmization of Bye Bye Birdie, then entered into a flexible arrangement with Walt Disney Studios. His best known films from that era include Mary Poppins (1964), Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN and The Comic, in which he played an amalgam of several self-destructive silent movie comedians. His TV specials remained popular in the ratings, and it was this fact that led to the debut of The New Dick Van Dyke Show in 1971. Despite the creative input of the earlier Dick Van Dyke Show's maven Carl Reiner, the later series never caught on, and petered out after three seasons. A chronic "people pleaser," Van Dyke was loath to display anger or frustration around his co-workers or fans, so he began taking solace in liquor; by 1972, he had become a full-fledged alcoholic. Rather than lie to his admirers or himself any longer, he underwent treatment and publicly admitted his alcoholism -- one of the first major TV stars ever to do so. Van Dyke's public confession did little to hurt his "nice guy" public image, and, now fully and permanently sober, he continued to be sought out for guest-star assignments and talk shows. In 1974, he starred in the TV movie The Morning After, playing an ad executive who destroys his reputation, his marriage and his life thanks to booze. After that Van Dyke, further proved his versatility when he began accepting villainous roles, ranging from a cold-blooded wife murderer in a 1975 Columbo episode to the corrupt district attorney in the 1990 film Dick Tracy. He also made several stabs at returning to weekly television, none of which panned out--until 1993, when he starred as Dr. Mark Sloan in the popular mystery series Diagnosis Murder. He made a few more movie appearances after Diagnosis Murder came to an end, most notably as a retired security guard in the hit family film Night at the Museum. As gifted at writing and illustrating as he is at singing, dancing and clowning, Van Dyke has penned two books, Faith, Hope and Hilarity and Those Funny Kids. From 1992 to 1994, he served as chairman of the Nickelodeon cable service, which was then sweeping the ratings by running Dick Van Dyke Show reruns in prime time. Van Dyke is the brother of award-winning TV personality Jerry Van Dyke, and the father of actor Barry Van Dyke.
He moved to Antwerp that November, and rented a room above a paint dealer's shop in the rue des Images (Lange Beeldekensstraat).[91] He lived in poverty and ate poorly, preferring to spend the money Theo sent on painting materials and models. Bread, coffee and tobacco became his staple diet. In February 1886 he wrote to Theo that he could only remember eating six hot meals since the previous May. His teeth became loose and painful.[92] In Antwerp he applied himself to the study of colour theory and spent time in museums—particularly studying the work of Peter Paul Rubens—and broadened his palette to include carmine, cobalt blue and emerald green. Van Gogh bought Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts in the docklands, later incorporating elements of their style into the background of some of his paintings.[93] He was drinking heavily again,[94] and was hospitalised between February and March 1886,[95] when he was possibly also treated for syphilis.[96][note 6]
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After his recovery, and despite his antipathy towards academic teaching, he took the higher-level admission exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and in January 1886 matriculated in painting and drawing. He became ill and run down by overwork, poor diet and excessive smoking.[99] He started to attend drawing classes after plaster models at the Antwerp Academy on 18 January 1886. He quickly got into trouble with Charles Verlat, the director of the Academy and teacher of a painting class, because of his unconventional painting style. Van Gogh had also clashed with the instructor of the drawing class Franz Vinck. Van Gogh finally started to attend the drawing classes after antique plaster models given by Eugène Siberdt. Soon Siberdt and Van Gogh came into conflict when the latter did not comply with Siberdt's requirement that drawings express the contour and concentrate on the line. When Van Gogh was required to draw the Venus of Milo during a drawing class, he produced the limbless, naked torso of a Flemish peasant woman. Siberdt regarded this as defiance against his artistic guidance and made corrections to Van Gogh's drawing with his crayon so vigorously that he tore the paper. Van Gogh then flew into a violent rage and shouted at Siberdt: 'You clearly do not know what a young woman is like, God damn it! A woman must have hips, buttocks, a pelvis in which she can carry a baby!' According to some accounts this was the last time Van Gogh attended classes at the Academy and he left later for Paris.[100] On 31 March 1886, which was about a month after the confrontation with Siberdt, the teachers of the Academy decided that 17 students, including Van Gogh, had to repeat a year. The story that Van Gogh was expelled from the Academy by Siberdt is therefore unfounded.[101]
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 into a Dutch Reformed family in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.[16] He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather, and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth.[note 2] Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent (1789–1874), who received a degree in theology at the University of Leiden in 1811, had six sons, three of whom became art dealers. This Vincent may have been named after his own great-uncle, a sculptor (1729–1802).[18]
In 1969, Van Dyke appeared in the comedy-drama The Comic, written and directed by Carl Reiner. Van Dyke portrayed a self-destructive silent film era comedian who struggles with alcoholism, depression, and his own rampant ego. Reiner wrote the film especially for Van Dyke, who often spoke of his admiration for silent film era comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and his hero Stan Laurel.[38] On Larry King Live, Van Dyke mentioned he turned down the lead role in The Omen which was played by Gregory Peck. He also mentioned his dream role would have been the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. Twenty-one years later in 1990, Van Dyke, whose usual role had been the amiable hero, took a small but villainous turn as the crooked DA Fletcher in Warren Beatty's film Dick Tracy. Van Dyke returned to motion pictures in 2006 with Curious George as Mr. Bloomsberry and as villain Cecil Fredericks in the Ben Stiller film Night at the Museum.[39] He reprised the role in a cameo for the sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), but it was cut from the film. It can be found in the special features on the DVD release. He also played the character again in the third film, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014).
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge".[6] His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist. Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold at auction, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
The exact sequence of events which led to Van Gogh's mutilation of his ear is not known. Gauguin stated, fifteen years later, that the night followed several instances of physically threatening behaviour.[138] Their relationship was complex, and Theo may have owed money to Gauguin, who was suspicious that the brothers were exploiting him financially.[139] It seems likely that Van Gogh had realised that Gauguin was planning to leave.[139] The following days saw heavy rain, leading to the two men being shut in the Yellow House.[140] Gauguin reported that Van Gogh followed when Gauguin left the house for a walk, and "rushed towards me, an open razor in his hand".[140] This account is uncorroborated;[141] Gauguin was almost certainly absent from the Yellow House that night, most likely in a hotel.[140]
Theo kept all of Vincent's letters to him;[10] Vincent kept few of the letters he received. After both had died, Theo's widow Johanna arranged for the publication of some of their letters. A few appeared in 1906 and 1913; the majority were published in 1914.[11][12] Vincent's letters are eloquent and expressive and have been described as having a "diary-like intimacy",[8] and read in parts like autobiography.[8] The translator Arnold Pomerans wrote that their publication adds a "fresh dimension to the understanding of Van Gogh's artistic achievement, an understanding granted us by virtually no other painter".[13]
Many of the comedy films Van Dyke starred in throughout the 1960s were relatively unsuccessful at the box office, including What a Way to Go! with Shirley MacLaine, Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., Fitzwilly, The Art of Love with James Garner and Elke Sommer, Some Kind of a Nut, Never a Dull Moment with Edward G. Robinson, and Divorce American Style with Debbie Reynolds and Jean Simmons. But he also starred as Caractacus Pott (with his native accent, at his own insistence, despite the English setting) in the successful musical version of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), which co-starred Sally Ann Howes and featured the same songwriters (The Sherman Brothers) and choreographers (Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood) as Mary Poppins.
After much pleading from Van Gogh, Gauguin arrived in Arles on 23 October, and in November the two painted together. Gauguin depicted Van Gogh in his The Painter of Sunflowers; Van Gogh painted pictures from memory, following Gauguin's suggestion. Among these "imaginative" paintings is Memory of the Garden at Etten.[132][note 8] Their first joint outdoor venture was at the Alyscamps, when they produced the pendants Les Alyscamps.[133] The single painting Gauguin completed during his visit was Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers.[134]
Nevertheless, the twelve customers selected the colors and styles they desired, and were asked to return later in the afternoon to pick up their purchases. Paul Van Doren and Lee then rushed to the factory to manufacture the selected shoes. When the customers returned that afternoon to pick up their shoes, Paul Van Doren and Gordon C. Lee realized that they had forgotten to maintain a cash reserve to provide change to customers. The customers were therefore given the shoes and asked to return the following day with their payments. All twelve of the customers returned the following day to pay for their items.[6]
Van Gogh returned home a fortnight later and resumed painting, producing a mirror-image Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, several still lifes, and La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930). Several weeks later, he again showed symptoms of mental disturbance severe enough to cause him to be sent back to the hospital. At the end of April 1889, fearful of losing his renewed capacity for work, which he regarded as a guarantee of his sanity, he asked to be temporarily shut up in the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in order to be under medical supervision.
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^ The pronunciation of "Van Gogh" varies in both English and Dutch. Especially in British English it is /ˌvæn ˈɡɒx/[2] or sometimes /ˌvæn ˈɡɒf/.[3] American dictionaries list /ˌvæn ˈɡoʊ/, with a silent gh, as the most common pronunciation.[4] In the dialect of Holland, it is [ˈvɪnsɛnt fɑŋˈxɔx] (listen), with a voiceless V. He grew up in Brabant, and used Brabant dialect in his writing; if he pronounced his name with a Brabant accent it would be [vɑɲˈʝɔç], with a voiced V and palatalised G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is [vɑ̃ ɡɔɡᶱ].[5]
Alongside Angela Lansbury, Norman Lloyd, William Daniels, Christopher Lee, Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Betty White, Edward Asner, Adam West, Marla Gibbs, William Shatner, Larry Hagman, Florence Henderson, Shirley Jones, Hal Linden and Alan Alda, Van Dyke is one of the few actors in Hollywood who lives into their 80s and/or 90s without ever either retiring from acting or having stopped getting work.
He wrote that they represented his "sadness and extreme loneliness", and that the "canvases will tell you what I cannot say in words, that is, how healthy and invigorating I find the countryside".[183] Wheatfield with Crows, although not his last oil work, is from July 1890 and Hulsker discusses it as being associated with "melancholy and extreme loneliness".[184] Hulsker identifies seven oil paintings from Auvers that follow the completion of Wheatfield with Crows.[185]
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Let One Voice Emerge
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Quinton Aaron (“The Blind Side”), Amy Brenneman (“Private Practice”), Sophia Bush (actress), Rachel Leigh Cook (actress), Sheila E (musician/actress), Fergie (Black Eye Peas), Seth Green (actor), Lalah Hathaway (R&B artist), Judith Hill (singer/songwriter), Josh Hopkins (“Cougar Town”), Cody Horn (actress), Joe Johnson (Brooklyn Nets), Michael B. Jordan (“The Wire”), Regina King (actress), Sharon Lawrence (actress), Alyssa Milano (actress), Patrick Muldoon (actor/singer), Chris Olsen (actor), Keke Palmer (actress/recording artist), Danielle Panabaker (actress), Harold Perrineau (“Lost”), Reborn (Christian rap artist), Brenda Russell (songwriter), Julie Silver (folk musician), Amy Smart (actress), Jessica Szohr (“CSI: Miami”), Jenna Ushkowitz (“Glee”), Alexa Vega (“Spy Kids”), and Kate Walsh (“Private Practice”).
About the L.O.V.E. Campaign
“L.O.V.E – Let One Voice Emerge” is a non-partisan campaign to reach out to the largest group of non-voters in America – nearly 20 million unmarried women – and to support the important work of The Voter Participation Center and their partners. The Voter Participation Center’s mission on behalf of the Rising American Electorate (unmarried women, persons of color and young people) is to register and encourage these groups to the polls, which aligns with the goal of our campaign. Built around L.O.V.E, a powerful new song written by some of America’s most beloved singer/songwriters, this effort works to acknowledge that women, especially unmarried women, will be the voters who decide this election.
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How to Train your Dragon 2 Review
In the world of sequels, this is a pretty impressive one. The animation is gorgeous and if you spring for 3D there’s a whole added depth. John Powell once again does an amazing job with the soundtrack, though it didn’t quite have the same magic as in the first one and that is something I’ll say about the entire movie.
The movie is very good and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Where the first movie was a story about friendship and finding your place in your world, this is a coming of age story. It’s five years later and a lot has changed in our favorite viking village of Berk, dragons have became a part of the culture. Things seem perfect, everyone is happy and content–everyone except Hiccup that is. He’s a free spirit and flies far from home, creating maps and searching for dragons. But his father believes it’s time to retire and for Hiccup to take over as leader, this is an honor Hiccup is not thrilled about. The story goes on from there, it’s solid, but not terribly imaginative.
SPOILERS ahead! I found it interesting to discover Hiccup’s mother was actually still alive, but it’s definitely not the most original move. Part of me was happy that Hiccup and Stoick were so understanding as to why Valka has been gone for 20 years. It warmed my heart, but my brain had some trouble with it. I feel like there would have been some anger or hurt going on, it didn’t need to be extreme, but I didn’t feel her explanation as to why she left and stayed away was very convincing. But I will say it was very sweet, especially the scenes with Stoick and Valka, which of course was put in to twist the knife later on.
The idea of the dragon army being amassed by any angry, scarred man, with a grudge against dragons, was rather typical. They went from a heart warming story about a boy who befriends a dragon to a typical action adventure story about fighting an ultimate foe. I liked that Hiccup had to grow up, learn, and take responsibility, but killing Stoick to do it felt like another cliche. I don’t think these things would have bothered me with most kids movies, but after the magic of the first one I had such high hopes. I will not say that those hopes were dashed, because I did truly enjoy the movie, but I did leave feeling disappointed.
I think my final point and perhaps the one that annoyed me the most was that Astrid didn’t play a larger role in the story. I wanted to see her and Hiccup working together more. They’ve been dating for 5 years and are apparently going to get married one day, but aside from the promising beginning there wasn’t much of them working together as a team. It’s not that Astrid wasn’t present throughout the movie, but her scenes weren’t important for the most part and we didn’t get to see much of the relationship between Hiccup and Astrid. I was also disappointed that Astrid and Valka never had a scene together. I would think that Hiccup’s mother would want to get to know the girl who is likely to become her daughter-in-law. It could have been a great scene but it appears they were too caught up in their giant dragon battles to fit that in.
I know this is all rather negative and it is by no means a bad movie, it’s beautiful and has some great moments in it, but after the simple magic of the first, I feel like this one could have been so much more than the big action film it turned out to be.
~~Lady of the Pen~~
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Desiree B says:
I have to agree with you…I didn’t like the way they killed Stoic either. But I think they were still playing on the “heart warming” aspect of the story. Since Stoic gave his life for his son (I’m a family person so this was big for me) but it was pretty typical.
Btw, I nominated you for “Most Inspiring Blogger”
ladyofthepen says:
Yeah it was still a good movie and I did enjoy it, but I was hoping for more. The first one was so good and I loved how it took the most unlikely characters a failing viking boy and a dragon who can’t fly and made them friends.
Aw! Thank you 😀
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Molly Eichten Recognized Among World's Leading Trademark Professionals
Molly Eichten was recognized as one of “The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals” for 2017 by World Trademark Review, a news service dedicated to international trademark issues. She was recognized in the WTR 1000 for her work in prosecution and strategy.
The news service stated, “Molly Eichten of Larkin Hoffman earns effusive praise for her expertise, pragmatism and timeliness. She specializes in web-related matters, in particular software development, e-commerce and social media.”
Since 2011, the WTR 1000 has provided an annual list of the world’s leading trademark legal services providers in 70 global jurisdictions. World Trademark Review published the list after conducting months of research, including interviews with hundreds of attorneys and their clients.
Molly focuses her practice on the areas of trademark and copyright law as well as technology transactions including licensing, outsourcing, and software development and distribution. She has legal and technical experience in web-related issues, such as software development, e-commerce, domain names and social media.
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Home Music Alternative Song of the Day: “Fight Test”
Song of the Day: “Fight Test”
Happy hump-day internet. Even though April Fool’s Day was Monday, here at Lemonwire, we’re celebrating it all week long. Instead of grouping our songs this week by genre, they’ll all be connected by the holiday keyword, “fool”. And there are so many different ways that artists write songs about them.
So far, we’ve looked at The Strokes’ “Taken for a Fool”, a message to a loved one regarding how foolish they can be, as well as “The Fool On The Hill”, by The Beatles, which looks at the fool as a misunderstood wise one.
Now, we’ll take a look at our first song this week that doesn’t actually have “fool” in the title. That was never a prerequisite, by the way. Our song of the day today comes from one of my favorite bands, The Flaming Lips.
“Fight Test”
“Fight Test” is a single from The Flaming Lips’ 2003 album, “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots”. After its release, The Flaming Lips were forced to turn over publishing royalties to Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) as part of a settlement for the melody resembling Stevens’ “Father and Son”.
In an interview with The Guardian in 2003, lead singer and frontman Wayne Coyne went on record and apologized for the unintended plagiarism.
“There was a time during the recording when we said, this has a similarity to “Father And Son”. Then we purposefully changed those bits. But I do regret not contacting his record company and asking their opinion. Maybe we could have gone 50-50. As it is, Cat Stevens is now getting 75 per cent of royalties from ‘Fight Test'”.
So while we can’t necessarily give The Flaming Lips full credit for the music and melody of “Fight Test”, we can still take a look at their lyrics.
“Fight Test” may at first come off as a silly song full of the kind of toxic masculinity that encourages fighting, but there’s a sensitivity to it that warrants second and third listens. It contains themes of existentialism, regret, and the power of choice.
In the first verse, the narrator reflects on how he used to be.
“I thought I was smart, I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight, I thought there was a
Virtue in always being cool, so when it came time to
Fight I thought I’ll just step aside and that the time would
Prove you wrong and that you would be the fool”
And there’s our keyword. While “Fight Test” isn’t blatantly about fools, it’s motivation still comes from trying to prove someone else as a fool. Well, turns out this strategy doesn’t work out so well for our narrator, who ends up surrendering and failing to “be a man”. “I just wept and regretted this moment, oh that I, I / Was the fool”.
The chorus provides a look at the narrator’s existential crisis, paralyzed with no clear answer available.
“I don’t know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it’s all a mystery
And I don’t know how a man decides what right for his
Own life, it’s all a mystery”
Considering the lawsuit that “Fight Test” incensed, you might say that The Flaming Lips were foreshadowing their own, foolish fall by unintentionally plagiarizing the melody. They weren’t the first band to do it, and I’m sure they won’t be the last. And, in no way does learning this fact make me love their music any less. I think it’s good when people own up to their own foolishness, because we all have our moments.
So listen to “Fight Test”, and then listen to “Father and Son”, and see if you can hear the similarities. Personally, I still love both songs, and consider them different experiences, but that’s just me.
wayne coyne
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Hybrid VRF Named Air Conditioning Product of the Year
Mitsubishi Electric is celebrating further industry success after its innovative Hybrid VRF (HVRF) solution was named Air Conditioning Product of the Year at the ACR News Awards 2017.
The awards reward excellence and innovation in the air conditioning and refrigeration sector and have been running for over 20 years.
Organised by Datateam Business Media and hosted by comedian Ed Byrne, this year’s event at Chelsea Harbour Hotel attracted over 240 guests from around the air conditioning and refrigeration industry.
Mitsubishi Electric’s Hybrid VRF system scooped the Air Conditioning Product of the Year award after an independent panel of industry judges recognised its unique ability to reduce running costs and maximise efficiency in a wide range of applications and environments.
The Hybrid VRF solution is capable of simultaneous heating and cooling and because it uses water in a simplified two pipe design, there is no need to install refrigerant leak detection in occupied spaces.
Russell Jones, PR and Communications Manager at Mitsubishi Electric, and Graham Temple, Marketing Manager, were on hand to receive the award from host Ed Byrne and Federation of Environmental Trade Associations (FETA) President Russell Beattie.
Jones commented: “Our Hybrid air conditioning solution has enjoyed an incredibly successful first year and continues to go from strength to strength. The industry has recognised the Hybrid VRF’s groundbreaking performance benefits, as well as its flexibility and ease of installation and this is reflected in the recent spate of awards it has claimed.”
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Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
July 2005 , Volume 36, Issue 7, pp 1653–1660 | Cite as
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The ductility of particle-reinforced metal matrix composites (PR MMCs) is reduced by the localization of stress and strain, which is exacerbated by microstructural heterogeneity, especially particle clustering. Herein, the effect of particle distribution on the macroscopic and microscopic response has been studied using three distinct types of three-dimensional (3D) finite-element model: a repeating unit cell, a multiparticle model, and a clustered particle model. While the repeating unit cell model represents a cubic periodic array of particles, the multiparticle model represents a random distribution of particles contained in a cube of matrix material, and the clustered particle model represents an artificially clustered distribution of particles. These models were used to study the macroscopic tensile stress-strain response as well as the underlying stress and strain fields. The results indicate that a clustered microstructure leads to a stiffer response with more hardening than that of random and periodic microstructures. Plastic flow and hydrostatic stress localization in the matrix and maximum principal stress localization in the particles are significantly higher in the clustered microstructure. Damage is expected to initiate in the cluster regions leading to low ductility.
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Here Comes Britbox
By Gabe Weisert • March 6, 2019
Having conquered America, Britbox is now coming for the Brits.
Britbox, a new streaming media (or OTT) service, is launching in the UK later this year. The service comes courtesy of the BBC, which is funded by a licence fee paid by all TV-watching Britons, as well as ITV, an independent British television network. Britbox will feature hits like Bodyguard, Killing Eve and Fleabag, as well as classics like Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous and Blackadder. The service will cost around £5 per month.
This is the SVOD equivalent of a reverse British Invasion. As it turns out, Britbox has already been quite successful in North America, where it has well over 500,000 subscribers. For many North Americans who are profoundly frustrated that they can’t access the BBC iPlayer service (and who are even willing to pay for it!), it’s considered the next best thing.
So is this a direct response to Netflix? The team behind the service doesn’t think so. “We have never said that this is the British equivalent of Netflix. Netflix is global, it commissions globally,” said ITV CEO Carolyn McCall. “It is complementary to Netflix … We are not a substitute for Netflix.”
Regardless, the Netflix question misses a broader point — this move is an acknowledgment that today, streaming media (or SVOD) is increasingly the preferred standard format for television watchers. What started as a novelty is now the norm. ITV and the BBC note that more than 12 million households in Britain have at least one SVOD service, with 4 million homes paying for multiple subscriptions.
Our own research confirms these trends. In ‘A Nation Subscribed,’ a UK-wide study of 2,002 consumers conducted by YouGov with Zuora, we found that more than a quarter of the UK population (27%) now subscribes to video streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Sky Go. And a significant percentage of that group would be willing to pay for more SVOD services.
So best of luck to Britbox. It has the makings of a true trans-Atlantic success story.
Download “A Nation Subscribed: State of the UK Subscription Economy”
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Taking back the waste
In Business and Environment, Environment, Ethical and Eco Agriculture by Martin Oliver July 2, 2006 Leave a Comment
Piles of large unwanted items await collection on the footpaths of Byron Shire in Northern NSW. Most heaps contain at least one computer, monitor or TV set, and some in perfect working order but discarded as garbage due to age or technological obsolescence. Others require no more than a small repair, and all are recyclable.
New-looking objects that would be picked up by passers-by in many other countries are dismissively treated as rubbish once they enter such a pile, and consequently the ‘respectable’ majority walks past products that they would otherwise pay to purchase in a store.
Across the world, the laissez-faire approach to waste that had been taken for granted in earlier decades is now widely seen as dysfunctional. Over the past few years, it has been receiving an overhaul under the banner of what is termed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).
The shift towards EPR is being driven by such factors as proliferating quantities of garbage, rising disposal costs, and the difficulties in establishing further landfill sites (including local opposition). Essentially, it indicates the responsibility of a producer for an item throughout its lifecycle, often involving take-back requirements leading to recycling or reuse. In addition to consumer products, it can equally apply to the packaging they arrive in.
Up until now, corporations have profited from ‘externalising’ the costs of waste disposal by passing them onto the local government sector. With EPR, these waste costs are ‘internalised’ into the product itself, from which they are often passed onto the consumer. Many perceive this to be a more equitable approach than requiring all ratepayers to pay for the disposal of items discarded by some.
Through an elegant economic logic, EPR creates a strong financial incentive to re-think product design and materials with end-of-life considerations in mind. In particular, toxic materials that will later boomerang back to the manufacturer are likely to be swiftly phased out.
As an alternative to purchase, EPR encourages leasing in such areas as office equipment, computers, carpeting and cleaning equipment, coupled with upgrade or remanufacture. Servicising is the new buzzword for such instances where a function rather than a product is being sold.
Although a transnationals corporation may operate from a jurisdiction without EPR legislation, as further countries opt for EPR it becomes increasingly practical for such a company to adopt EPR in its worldwide operations. This avoids the extra cost and complexity of pursuing different sets of practices across various countries with differing regulatory regimes.
The genesis of a model
Prompted by a landfill shortage, in 1991 Germany introduced a law (known as the ‘green dot’ system) that makes producers responsible for collecting, sorting and recycling packaging. This extends to transport-related packaging such as pallets and crates. To meet this challenge, 600 German companies paid for the creation of a consortium known as Duales System Deutschland (DSD), to organise collection and recycling. Depending on the material, government-recycling goals were set at ambitious levels ranging from 64% to 75%. A green dot on packaging guarantees that it will later be recycled.
Today, EPR in some form has spread to many industrialised countries, including most of Europe, parts of North America, and Taiwan, Japan and Korea. The most obvious exception is the US, where a lack of federal-level action is probably due to the influence of the corporate sector.
However, some American states have bucked the trend, pioneering EPR laws such as the e-waste (defunct computer equipment) take-back requirements now operating in Maine and Massachusetts. In the case of nickel-cadmium batteries, a handful of state recycling laws led the battery industry to implement a national take-back program. Some US companies, including Xerox, have adopted voluntary EPR practices for profit-driven motives. Member countries of the European Union have tended to pursue EPR most strongly, following the EU’s adoption of producer responsibility in its 1994 packaging waste directives. Today most EU nations have implemented EPR at some level, and the most advanced policies are found in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Austria.
In 2002, the EU’s End of Life Vehicle directive came into effect, partly motivated by the toxicity of some scrap car components. From that year onwards car manufacturers were required to pay the recycling costs of all vehicles entering the market. E-waste, one of the fastest growing waste areas, is covered in the EU’s 2003 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. Last year, electronics firms became responsible for the recycling, reuse or disposal of products entering the market. The WEEE directive also includes an e-waste landfill ban, as a means of tackling the hazardous chemicals from electronics entering landfill or being incinerated. New products must be labelled accordingly to inform consumers.
Slow progress in Australia
Recently Australia was found by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to have the least regulated economy in the Western world. This is reflected in the strong preference for voluntary codes in place of regulatory regimes with penalty provisions. As is often the case, Australia has been lagging behind the rest of the world in its adoption of EPR, but there have been some successes.
In a broad sense, the most significant example of EPR is the Container Deposit Legislation (CDL) running in South Australia, where the payment of five cents per recyclable item at collection depots has curbed both litter and waste. Once collected, manufacturers have a responsibility to refill, recycle or dispose of these returned containers.
To date, other states have bowed to strong opposition from the drinks industry and its peak body, the Beverage Industry Environment Council. Although an independent report commissioned in 2002 by the NSW Government recommended the introduction of CDL, this advice was not followed. At around the same time, moves towards CDL were also scrapped in the Northern Territory. NSW is currently targeting 17 ‘wastes of concern’, including computers, mobile phones and plastic bags. Negotiations are underway between the state’s Department of Environment and Conservation and industry bodies: voluntary programs underpinned by regulatory measures are the most likely outcome. The states are working cooperatively towards the same goal: developing a national agreement that could operate either with the support of, or in the absence of, federal endorsement.
Problem wastes and disposal solutions
While many toxic or otherwise undesirable items of junk can be diverted from landfill, information on how to go about this is often maddeningly hard to track down, and may require some research. Below is an attempt to bring some of it together in one place.
Most smoke alarms are the ionisation variety and contain a minute quantity of radioactive material. A non-radioactive alternative works using photoelectric technology. Purchasers are asked to drop off defunct ionisation alarms with the supplier for safe disposal, and in some states this is mandatory.
These fast-multiplying waste stream components contain arsenic, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals. Last year, the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association launched its Mobile Muster take-back program, where defunct mobiles and batteries are returned to retailers. The Mobile Muster site (see below) has a searchable geographic database of drop-off points. A second option is to call Clean Up Australia on 1800 282 329 for a postage-paid mobile phone envelope.
The nasties here include lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants. Facilities for recycling computer junk are limited, and one important strategy is the upgrading and repairing of old machines for future use by community groups and the disadvantaged. Two national computer-recycling programs are running; and as both operate on a pay-to-recycle basis they are therefore likely to appeal only to an environmentally committed minority. One is run by computer giant Dell, and covers both its own and competitors’ machines: the other is the Collex/Sims Electronics Recycling Alliance (details on both are given below). As computer recycling is set to take off in the future, temporarily storing defunct equipment in the garage defers the e-waste dilemma. Where e-waste is dropped of for recycling, try to confirm that it will not be exported to developing countries such as China, India and Pakistan where circuit boards are recycled using very primitive techniques, polluting the surrounding environment. Although such toxic e-waste exports violate Australia’s commitment to the Basel Convention, there is no harm in taking a precautionary approach.
Despite the fact that these may contain lead, cadmium and mercury, the disposal of most household batteries has been left in the ‘too hard’ basket by the powers that be; hopefully Australia will soon join most of the developed world by launching a national recycling program.
Two obvious solutions are to use rechargeables or non-toxic Nickel Metal Hydrides (NiMH). Disposables can be recharged a limited number of times using specialist chargers, or stored safely in a solid container to prevent leakage.
Laptop, camcorder and mobile phone batteries can be repacked, and mobile phone batteries can alternatively be dropped off at Mobile Muster collection points. Take a dead car battery to your nearest waste management centre; these are also accepted by some garages and battery retailers.
As these contain various toxic heavy metals, ensure that tyre purchases are made from a retailer that sends off its discarded tyres for shredding and recycling.
NSW Department of Environment and Conservation www.environment.nsw.gov.au (go to Education Resources, Recycling and Waste and then follow the Product Stewardship/EPR link)
Mobile Muster www.mobilemuster.com.au
Dell computer recycling www.dell.com.au/recycle
Collex/Sims electronics recycling www.sims-group.com
Martin Oliver
Martin Oliver is based in Lismore, and writes on a range of environmental, health and social issues. He takes the view that sustainability is about personal involvement, whether this involves making our lives greener, lobbying for change at a political level, or setting up local eco-initiatives.
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It’s Not Wrong, It’s Illegal: Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response
It’s Not Wrong, It’s Illegal: Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response – Noura Erakat
11 UCLA J. Islamic & Near E. L. 37 (available online for free download).
Living in Gaza for 8 months and sitting helplessly while Israeli bombs were falling all around us for 8 days in November 2012, I had a unique opportunity to experience “war” close-up and personal in a way that most Americans will never understand.
The experience stunned me and filled me with questions.
How could anyone call this a “war”? It certainly was not a war of equals. Has the definition of “war” been so obscured (war on drugs, war on terrorism) that any act of aggression might constitute an act of war?
Listening to President Obama on the radio say that “Israel has a right to defend herself” made me yell “Don’t the Palestinians in Gaza have the right of self-defense too?”
Why wasn’t anyone talking about the OCCUPATION when they reported about Hamas and others firing rockets into Israel, the growing death toll in Gaza, and the ceasefire negotiated with the help of Egypt’s new President Morsi? All of the news reports from the West that I saw online conveniently omitted the OCCUPATION. Why?
It seemed like I was living in an alternate universe while I was in Gaza, and I was very confused. Now, however, Noura Erakat’s law review article has cleared up a lot of my confusion. Thank goodness, there’s no alternate universe, just an impotent United Nations and a deliberate, ongoing campaign by Israel and the United States to blur the distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello.
War is governed by two different branches of international law. As an attorney, you would think I should have known this, but I didn’t. So it’s reasonable to assume that most journalists don’t know it either, but Obama and Netanyahu should.
Jus ad bellum is the branch of law that defines the legitimate reasons a state may engage in war and focuses on certain criteria that render a war just. The principal modern legal source of jus ad bellum derives from the Charter of the United Nations, which declares in Article 2: “All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations”; and in Article 51: “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.”
Jus in bello, by contrast, is the set of laws that come into effect once a war has begun. Its purpose is to regulate how wars are fought, without prejudice to the reasons of how or why they had begun. So a party engaged in a war that could easily be defined as unjust (for example, Iraq’s aggressive invasion of Kuwait in 1990) would still have to adhere to certain rules during the prosecution of the war, as would the side committed to righting the initial injustice. This branch of law relies on customary law, based on recognized practices of war, as well as treaty laws (such as the Hague Regulations of 1899 and 1907), which set out the rules for conduct of hostilities.
The easy way to remember the difference between the two is to remember that jus ad bellum refers to the laws governing when a state may START a war, and jus in bello refers to the laws governing how a state must CONDUCT the war.
Erakat says that Israel is trying deliberately to change the law, blurring the distinction between the two and challenging the existing legal order: (a) by changing what is the permissible use of force that is allowed during an occupation, and (b) by changing the legal definition of “self-defense”.
My confusion has cleared considerably after reading Erakat’s article. I encourage everyone (lawyers and non-lawyers alike) to read it, available here.
Much of her argument hinges on whether Israel occupies the Gaza Strip. Israel says it evacuated the Gaza Strip in 2005 when it removed its settlements and soldiers, but Erakat notes that Israel maintains “effective control” over Gaza’s air space, seaports, telecommunications networks, electromagnetic sphere, tax revenue distribution, and population registry. Israel maintains control over movement across 5 border crossings, and I will add that Egypt appears to be doing Israel’s bidding as far as controlling the Rafah border crossing.
Israel has also made the argument that there is no OCCUPATION in the West Bank because there was no State of Palestine in 1948 when it seized the land. Instead, Israel says it’s merely “administering the territories” despite the fact that the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, the UN General Assembly and the Israeli Supreme Court all reject that argument.
If there is no OCCUPATION, then Israel has no legal obligation as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention, but if there is an OCCUPATION, her responsibilities to the Palestinians are greater and she cannot invoke the right to self-defense in the same way. The permissible use of force and the right to self-defense are treated differently under jus in bello and jus ad bellum.
Under jus in bello, the permissible use of force is expansive. The principles of distinction and proportionality apply but Israel can probably use greater firepower than would be allowed under OCCUPATION, where the permissible use of force is limited to law enforcement and policing. That is why it’s very important to understand the distinction between the two and why Israel is working so hard to control the messaging about the OCCUPATION.
Israel is trying to avoid the constraints of international humanitarian law when it invokes “self defense.” The right of self defense, Noura Erakat writes, has been under debate since the US attacked Iraq in the early 1990s. Should the legal definition be subject to the broad framework of customary international law? Or considered within the narrow constraints of the UN Charter? Can self-defense be invoked against non-state actors?
Israel cites two UN Security Council Resolutions adopted in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks (Res. 1368 and Res. 1373) which give states the right to defend against terrorist attacks. Israel frames all acts of Palestinian violence as terrorism triggering these resolutions. It appears Obama has adopted that same strategy, but Erakat makes a good argument that these resolutions do not apply to the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
Israel has rendered Gaza into a legal black hole where the only applicable law is its own.
Noura Erakat has some strong words about the U.N. Security Council’s failure to uphold the rule of law, in the way it has handled Israel’s actions vis a vis Palestinians.
The blockade on Gaza imposed in June 2007 and ongoing to this day, Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), the assault against the Mavi Marmara in international waters in 2010, and the most recent assault last November which I witnessed in Gaza, are examples of the Security Council’s failure to hold Israel accountable under international law, failed to explicitly condemn the illegal blockade, and politicized international humanitarian law.
The United States has been complicit in this failure. Between 1972-1997, the US used its veto power on the UN Security Council 32 times to shield Israel from rebuke, nearly 1/2 of its vetoes since the founding of the United Nations. (That fact alone bolsters my belief that nothing will change in Israel and Palestine until Americans change our government’s subservience to Israel. We must educate our Congress and President.)
Noura Erakat ends her law review article with some very clear recommendations for the United Nations, including reforming how the veto process works on the Security Council. I wonder if anyone at the UN has read her piece. They should.
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Remembering Louis Jacobs
In December 2005, Rabbi Louis Jacobs was voted ‘the greatest British Jew of all time’ in a poll run by the Jewish Chronicle, the communal weekly of UK Jewry. He easily beat such prominent figures of British Jewish history as Sir Moses Montefiore and Benjamin Disraeli. Who was Rabbi Jacobs, and what was the controversy that is always mentioned in connection to his name?
His Life (1920-2006)
Louis Jacobs was born in 1920 in Manchester where he went to high school and talmudical college. One of the brightest students at the yeshiva, he went on to undertake advanced rabbinical studies at the kollel of Gateshead. Having completed a PhD at University College London, he was appointed rabbi at Manchester Central Synagogue in 1948. A few years later, in 1954, he accepted the rabbinic pulpit offered to him by the New West End Synagogue in London.
As William Frankel, former editor of the Jewish Chronicle put it, Louis Jacobs ‘became the darling of Anglo-Jewish Orthodoxy and greatness was predicted for him. His rabbinic scholarship, wide reading, retentive memory and clarity of expression made him, while still in the very early years of his rabbinical career, talked about as a future Chief Rabbi.’
He published his book ‘We Have Reason to Believe’ in 1957 and this was the work that a few years later became the source of a major controversy within the central organization of British Jewry, the United Synagogue, of which Louis Jacobs was a rabbi.
In 1959 Rabbi Jacobs was offered a senior academic position at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America but he eventually accepted an appointment at Jews’ College, London’s Orthodox rabbinical seminary, and resigning his rabbinical post at the New West End Synagogue, he became moral tutor at Jews’ college in 1960. When the principal of the institution retired a year later, many thought Rabbi Jacobs would be the obvious candidate for the position but Chief Rabbi Brodie did not give his approval, naming Jacobs’ above-mentioned book and the views presented therein as his reason. Rabbi Jacobs decided to resign his post at the college and went back to his former community who at that time had a vacancy for a rabbi.
However, he was barred from the synagogue in 1962 by the officials of the United Synagogue; this led to the defection of some of the leading members of New West End who decided to buy a synagogue in Abbey Road, St John’s Wood. There they founded an independent congregation, known as the New London Synagogue, with Louis Jacobs as its rabbi. Over the following decades, a small movement called Masorti [traditional] grew around him, almost in spite of himself, regarding him as its “spiritual leader”.
Apart from his pastoral, teaching and preaching duties at the New London Synagogue, Rabbi Jacobs mainly focused on his writing and lecturing. He was a visiting professor at the University of Lancaster from l987 and at Harvard Divinity School during the academic year l985-86.
A prolific author, Rabbi Jacobs wrote on a vast range of subjects relating to Jewish religious history, philosophy and theology. To get a glimpse of some of the topics he touched on, please visit our Articles page. He was a great Talmudic expert and his weekly Talmud lecture, to quote his obituary in the Times, ‘became a cult event and attracted devotees from all over London. They were spiced with quotations not only from Jewish religious but also from English literature, running through Shakespeare, Shaw and Shelley, for he had an encyclopaedic command of general as well as theological culture.’
Rabbi Jacobs passed away in July 2006, at the age of 85. The Masorti movement continues with a few thousand members and ten communities in and around London.
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Who Killed the Kennedys? Ronald Reagan’s Answer…
Nov 22nd, 2013 @ 11:22 am › Paul G. Kengor
Via WesternJournalism.Com
This year marks not only the 50th anniversary of the shooting of John F. Kennedy but also the 45th anniversary of the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy, which occurred in June 1968. Was there a common source motivating the assassins of both Kennedys—that is, Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan?
That renowned political philosopher Mick Jagger speculated on a source. “I shouted out ‘Who killed the Kennedys?’” asks the lyrics in the 1968 song by The Rolling Stones. “When, after all, it was you and me.” The song was titled, “Sympathy for the Devil.” It was, The Rolling Stones suggested, the Devil who had killed the Kennedys, along with his accomplices.
I must say I can’t disagree with that one—a rare area of agreement between me and Mick Jagger.
There is, however, a more earthly answer. And it was provided, surprisingly, by a rising political star in the immediate hours after the shooting of Bobby Kennedy. That star was the new governor of California, Ronald Reagan.
RFK was shot in Governor Reagan’s state. Reagan was no stranger to Bobby Kennedy. He had debated him a year earlier on national television, which didn’t go well for RFK, with Reagan clearly outshining him. Kennedy told his handlers to never again put him on the same stage with “that son-of-a-b—-.”
That debate occurred five years after Bobby Kennedy had intervened to get Reagan fired from his long stint as host of the top-rated GE Theatre on CBS—a fact unknown until it was revealed by Michael Reagan in his excellent book, The New Reagan Revolution. Typical of Reagan, he harbored no bitterness toward RFK. That was quite unlike Bobby Kennedy, a man who personally knew how to hold a grudge.
On June 5, 1968, Reagan was full of nothing but sympathy for RFK. He appeared on the popular television show of Joey Bishop, one of the extended members of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack. Bishop and Reagan were old Hollywood friends, and Bishop extended the governor a platform to address the shooting. A transcript of Reagan’s appearance on that show was grabbed by his young chief of staff, Bill Clark, who died just a few months ago. Clark shoved it in a box that ended up in the tack barn at his ranch in central California. It lay there until I, as Clark’s biographer, dug it out three decades later.
That rare surviving transcript reveals a Reagan who spoke movingly about RFK and the entire Kennedy family. Condemning the “savage act,” Reagan pleaded: “I am sure that all of us are praying not only for him but for his family and for those others who were so senselessly struck down also in the fusillade of bullets…. I believe we should go on praying, to the best of our ability.”
But particularly interesting was how Reagan unflinchingly pointed a finger of blame in the direction of Moscow. Reagan noted that Kennedy’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian Arab and also a communist, had shot Kennedy because of his support of Israel during the Six Day War that had occurred exactly one year earlier. On that, we now know beyond dispute what Reagan knew then: That war had been shamelessly provoked by the Kremlin.
Looking to exploit divisions in the Middle East and further exacerbate America’s foreign-policy problems at the time (we were mired in Vietnam), Soviet officials cooked up false intelligence reports claiming that Israeli troops had been moved into the Golan Heights and were readying to invade Syria. They peddled the malicious, phony information to Egypt and other Arab states for the explicit purpose of creating a military confrontation with Israel. The Israeli leader, Levi Eshkol, immediately denounced the accusation, telling the Soviet ambassador to his face that there were no Israeli troops there whatsoever, and offering to personally drive him to the Golan at once. Acting on orders, the ambassador flatly refused, shouting “Nyet!” at Eshkol and storming out of the prime minister’s residence. The Egyptians, too, checked their intelligence sources and found no evidence of Israeli troops in the Golan. Nonetheless, the pieces were in motion, and one thing dangerously led to another until everything spiraled out of control. Within mere weeks, the Six Day War was on—precipitated by the Kremlin. The egregious depths of Soviet disinformation spawned a major Middle East war.
RFK supported Israel in that war. Sirhan Sirhan never forgave him for that. He killed him for that.
Again, Ronald Reagan knew about the Soviet role in instigating the conflict, which he apparently pieced together via various reports at the time. As a result, he linked Bobby Kennedy’s assassination to the USSR’s mischief in the Middle East. “The enemy sits in Moscow,” Reagan told Joey Bishop. “I call him an enemy because I believe he has proven this, by deed, in the Middle East. The actions of the enemy led to and precipitated the tragedy of last night.”
Moscow had precipitated the Six Day War in June 1967, which, in turn, had prompted RFK’s assassin in June 1968.
But Reagan wasn’t finished positioning blame where it deserved to be placed. Eight days later, on July 13, 1968, Reagan delivered a forgotten speech in Indianapolis. Both the Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star reported on Reagan’s remarks, but the only full transcript I’ve seen was likewise located in Bill Clark’s private papers. In that speech, Reagan leveled this charge at international communism, with an earlier Kennedy assassination in mind: “Five years ago, a president was murdered by one who renounced his American citizenship to embrace the godless philosophy of communism, and it was communist violence he brought to our land. The shattering sound of his shots were still ringing in our ears when a policy decision was made to play down his communist attachment lest we provoke the Soviet Union.”
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/killed-kennedys-ronald-reagans-answer/#madsgyDcyl7eIrXv.99
Who Killed the Kennedys? Ronald Reagan’s Answer….
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Michael Reagan, son of Ronald, talks with CBS 13 (wgme.com)
Sirhan Sirhan, RFK’s assassin, moved to San Diego County prison (fox5sandiego.com)
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Dad Arrested for Picking Kids Up at School
By Onan Coca / 22 November 2013 / 266 Comments via EagleRising.Com
In another display of the overwhelming power of the public school system, a Tennessee father was arrested for trying to pick his child up from school at the end of the day. The dad arrived by foot to pick his son up from school at 2:00pm, the school’s dismissal time. However, he was told that he could not walk his son out due to a new school policy of only dismissing car riders at 2:00pm. Any student walking has to wait until 2:35pm to leave. The father pointed out that the new policy was likely intended for kids walking home alone – not for children whose parents are there to walk them out.
Unfortunately for everyone, the school resource officer was in the office at the same time and decided that the father was being belligerent and rude. He warned the dad that he would be arrested if he didn’t stop agitating for his son’s release.
When the father insisted that he did not need a reason to take his son out of school and that the school has no legal grounds to keep his son until 2:35, the officer pressed forward.
“I’m going to call some help down here and we’re going to take you up to the jail right now… I’m not putting up with this today. You’re being childish and it’s uncalled for.”
In the end, the father does not back down from his argument. The school has no right to hold his son against his parents’ will – which is when the officer arrests him for being “disorderly.” Fortunately for us, it was all caught on video, and we can see just how long the arms of the law can be – even unjust law.
Read more at http://eaglerising.com/3071/dad-arrested-picking-kids-school/#7sI6GiXK1QTPmMXE.99
Dad Arrested for Picking Kids Up at School.
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Dad Arrested For Picking His Kids Up At School (forum.prisonplanet.com)
‘School Is Out – My Kids Are to Be Given to Me’: Dad Arrested After Objecting When School Says He Must Wait to Take His Children Home (theblaze.com)
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New Surfaces at Lewis S. Mills?
One of the many “repaired” cracks that now stretch across the entire track..
Filed under News, Showcase, Sports, Uncategorized
The well worn track of Lewis S. Mills, considered “garbage” by cross country runners like captain Nathan Virovoy, will be remodeled during the summer recess of 2016.
The Athletic Director Dave Francalangia is working with both Dave Fortin, the Building and Grounds Supervisor and Alan Beitman, the Superintendent of Region 10, in order to determine what is the best way of replacing the track since simple repairs are no longer working.
This “usable” track, said Francalangia, “needs to be replaced … (and) can’t go another year in its current state.” He explained: “Lane number 1 is unusable” for runners since parts of the lane are severely deteriorated.
The Lewis S. Mills track is used by all, from the middle school and high school sports in the spring and fall to the citizens from the town during the summer. With constant usage year round, including the damage of the ice-cold temperatures in the winter, the track has become littered with holes, divots, and cracks.
With these conditions, several seasoned runners feel as though the gaps and cracks as well as the peeling surface of the track affect their performances at meets and also see it as an embarrassment to the school.
Nicole Crockett, a runner for track and cross country called it “awful.” She added how the lines are now fading away and the surface is just simply falling apart.
Virovoy worried about tripping and face planting during an event if his track spikes get stuck in one of the many gaps that scatter the track.
The surface has been through a lot over the years from practices to meets, and its age is unknown off hand by coaches, the athletic director and grounds and building supervisor.
When Joshua Krampitz, the track and cross country coach of Lewis S. Mills was asked the age of the track, he said, “I have no idea…I know it’s been a long time.”
The much needed track resurfacing in 2016 has sparked ideas about other possible ways to improve the track area.
Teacher and golf coach Jay Pelchar said it’s “time for turf” for the center of the track. He believes with the field usage issue the school faces, having a turf field would help minimize the space constraints for sports. As long as it is “affordable and high quality” he added.
Crockett wishes see some “pizazz” on the track to show the Spartan pride at Lewis S. Mills. She possibly wants ‘Lewis S. Mills’ printed at the start of the 100 meter dash to give student athletes a sense of pride in their school.
The much needed resurfacing is most likely going to be in the “school budget under capital improvement fund” said Francalangia, “just like the tennis courts were last summer.” He added that it “must fit in the $200,000 to $250,000 budget limit in this fund.”
All that is certain is that this old, awful, worn track will be graduating this year, and replaced come summer 2016.
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Review – The Black Keys
Posted in Concert review, tagged Black Keys, Blakroc, blues, Dan Auerbach, Fat Possum, Gossip Girl, Grand Theft Auto, indie rock, Patrick Carney, The OC, White Stripes on June 9, 2010| 2 Comments »
(Above: Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach lays down some serious blues during “I Got Mine” at the band’s June 4, performance at Crossroads.)
When the Black Keys last stopped in the area, they played a converted movie theater packed – but not quite full – with music geeks and underground music fans. Two albums and more than three years later, the Akron, Ohio drums-and-guitar duo returned to Kansas City Friday night before a sold-out throng of both hardcore and casual music lovers at Crossroads.
The crowds were different, but the set-up and arrangements for both shows were basically the same. With drummer Patrick Carney set up at mid-stage right, and guitarist Dan Auerbach at mid-stage left the pair delivered deep Delta blues filtered through several generations of garage rock. It’s Son House via the Stooges.
The pair kicked off with “Thickfreakness,” the title track to their second album, a thick slab of blues originally recorded in Carney’s basement back in 2002. The four songs that followed helped to explain the Keys’ boost in popularity. Although they’ve had no hit singles, several songs have been prominently placed in commercials, TV shows and movies. Ten years ago this was called selling out. Today it’s known as earning a living.
Whether or not fans recognized “10 A.M. Automatic” from “The OC,” saw “Set You Free” in “School of Rock” or learned “Strange Times” from playing “Grand Theft Auto” or watching “Gossip Girl,” nearly all of them sang along and weren’t timid with their whoops and hollers of approval. The band responded by egging them on, like when Auerbach teased a little bit of “Stairway to Heaven” in the intro to “Everywhere I Go.”
About 10 songs into the set, a bass player and keyboardist set up shop on a riser behind Auerbach. Although the number of musicians had doubled, the sound didn’t change too much. As expected, the songs were fuller, but the adding more players was really a testament to how much noise Carney and Auerbach make on their own.
Carney beats drums like they insulted him, but still coaxes subtlety from his kit. Auerbach can switch from bone-dry tone to sounding like an army of guitars with the simple stomp of a pedal. The auxiliary players were rarely able to penetrate this noise, but added nice nuances of texture when they did, like the keyboard part on “Too Afraid To Love You” that sounded like something from the Doors.
The sonic expansion also signaled the introduction of new material. Ostensibly in town to promote “Brothers,” the Keys’ sixth full-length album and best in some time, the quartet peel off nearly half of its tracks in succession. “Brothers” is less than a month old, but the crowd treated its songs with the same gusto they gave “I Got Mine,” a song played incessantly during last year’s baseball playoffs.
The Keys’ 2006 performance tapped out at 75 minutes, which felt like plenty. This time, though, they gave an hour and a half, and left the crowd wanting more. The expansion of their sonic palette delivered by Danger Mouse, who produced their previous album, and their foray into hip hop under the sobriquet Blakroc, tell part of the story. Auerbach told the rest in the lyrics of “Till I Get My Way,” the night’s final song: “don’t you know I will be calling on you every day/till I get my way.” The perseverance paid off.
Setist: Thickfreakness; Girl Is On My Mind; 10 A.M. Automatic; Set You Free; The Breaks; Stack Shot Billy; Busted; Everywhere I Go; Strange Times; Same Old Thing; Tighten Up; Howlin’ For You; Too Afraid To Love You; Next Girl; She’s Long Gone; Ten Cent Pistol; Your Touch; I’ll Be Your Man; No Trust; I Got Mine. Encore: Everlasting Light; Till I Get My Way.
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Review: B.B. King and Buddy Guy
Posted in Concert review, Kansas City Star, tagged B.B. King, blues, blues music, Buddy Guy, Chicago blues, guitar heroes, Lucille, music legends, the blues, The Thrill Is Gone on February 22, 2010| 2 Comments »
(Above: B.B. King and Buddy Guy jam on “Rock Me Baby” with Eric Clapton and Jimmie Vaughan at a recent Crossroads Festival.)
The Kansas City Star
Few in the sold-out crowd that greeted B.B. King, the 84-year-old King of the Blues, at the Midland theater on Friday night expected the energy and vitality of King’s essential “Live at the Regal” album, released 45 years ago. It is also likely few expected the extensive banter that filled King’s 90 minutes onstage.
King’s set opened with a 10-minute vamp that allowed everyone in his eight-piece backing band the chance to solo. Once King took the stage, he proved he still had the chops and voice fans love. His excellent reading of the blues warhorse “Key to the Highway” melded nicely into King’s own “Blues Man.”
Another classic, “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” was driven by a military cadence on the snare drum. When coupled with King’s four-piece horn arrangement, the song recalled a New Orleans funeral march. The band followed that number with a song King recorded with U2 back in the ‘80s. In their most upbeat performance of the night, the King and his band lit into “When Love Comes To Town” with surprising energy. Sadly, it was not to last.
From there King’s set was as much a monologue as it was a musical dialogue. Here are some of his best one-liners:
• “You can look at me and tell I ain’t no Michael Phelps. I don’t smoke.”
• After hitting a bum note on Lucille, his guitar: “I know I shouldn’t have let her go to the liquor store.”
• After the audience response didn’t meet expectations: “I think you’re teasing me. You sound like Tiger Woods.”
As King’s chitchat neared the 20-minute mark, fans started to grow restless. Some shouted song requests; others just yelled “play something.” King apologized for not being able to play one of the requests, then continued rambling about Viagra and instructing men how to set the mood by playing Willie Nelson’s “Always On My Mind.”
After a bizarre musical riff on ED medications, King finally gave the crowd another song in the form of “Rock Me Baby.” The aborted performance led into King’s signature number, “The Thrill Is Gone.” Even then, King littered the song with asides and shout-outs to the sound men and lighting crew. When the throng realized they weren’t going to get another full performance, they started leaving en masse.
No one can fault King for growing old. He’s lived a rich life and brought joy to millions of people around the globe. Perhaps King feels he needs to stay onstage for so long to justify his high ticket price. If this is the case, he may be better off knocking a couple bucks off the ticket and cutting half of his horn section. (The quartet was only onstage half the time anyway.) While King’s onstage generosity is commendable, fans might be more appreciative of a shorter set loaded with music than the current drawn-out arrangement.
It would be unfair to label Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy the evening’s “opening act.” Guy just happened to go onstage first.
Listening to Guy is like hearing the history of electric blues on shuffle. Backed by a tight four-piece band, the 73-year-old guitarist tore through a 65-minute tribute to his heroes and contemporaries.
Guy teased out an abstract solo over the familiar opening chords of “Hoochie Coochie Man” in a setting that was more Thelonious Monk than Muddy Waters, and took particular delight in delivering the song’s more racy lyrics. Guy’s tribute to his late friend and collaborator Junior Wells on “Hoodoo Man” was another high point.
The night’s signature moment started with Guy playing so quietly one could hear his amp buzzing over the P.A. As “Drowning on Dry Land” progressed, Guy eased his way off-stage and into the crowd. He nailed a long solo while walking nearly two-thirds of the way up the floor, and finished it plopped down in a surprised fan’s seat.
Before leaving the stage, Guy paid tribute to his friend and inspiration, B.B. King. Growing up in Louisiana, Guy said, there were no music shops, just stores that happened to have instruments in one corner. Before King’s records came out, inventory was priced to move. But after “Three O’Clock Blues,” guitars were suddenly harder to come by.
B.B. King setlist: I Need You So, Let the Good Times Roll, Key to the Highway>Blues Man, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, When Love Comes To Town, You Are My Sunshine, “ED Medication Blues,” Rock Me Baby, The Thrill Is Gone.
Buddy Guy setlist: Nobody Understands Me But My Guitar, Muddy Waters medley: Hoochie Coochie Man/She’s 19 Years Old/Love Her With A Feeling, Hoodoo Man, Slippin’ Out, Slippin’ In, Drowning On Dry Land, Close to You, Boom Boom, Strange Brew, Voodoo Chile, Sunshine of Your Love.
Review: Buddy Guy (2008)
Review: Buddy and Bettye at Roots N Blues N BBQ Fest 2008
The True Story of Cadillac Records
Little Arkansas Rocks
Posted in Music history, tagged Al Green, Ardent, Aretha Franklin, Arkansas, B.B. King, Big Star, Bill Clinton, blues, blues music, bluesmen, Brooks & Dunn, Charlie Rich, Conway Twitty, Delta Blues, Dixie Flyers, Elmore James, Evanescence, Flamin' Groovies, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Glen Campbell, Jim Dickinson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Bishop, John Hughes, Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Louis Jordan, Luther Allison, Luther Dickinson, Mudhoney, musicians from Arkansas, Ne-Yo, North Mississippi Allstars, Pharoah Sanders, Replacements, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Rolling Stones, Roosevelt Sykes, Rufus Thomas, Shawn Camp, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Smokie Norfull, Son Seals, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Rollins, Stax, The Band, Tommy Cash, West Memphis, Willie Big Eyes Smith, Woodchopper's Ball on April 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
(Above: Al Hibbler, who wrote “Unchained Melody,” attended school for the blind in Little Rock, Ark.)
At a recent concert in Fayetteville, Ark., jazz legend Sonny Rollins remarked at how happy he was to be playing Louis Jordan’s home state for the first time.
Arkansas has never been known as either cutting-edge or influential. Not even Bill Clinton could save Arkansas from being a backwoods punchline – it’s the West Virginia of the Midwest, for readers who are mystified by what lies west of Virginia – but it’s spawned an amazing number of influential musicians. There’s Johnny Cash, who was born in Kingsland and raised in Dyess, and his brother Tommy, of course. Legendary Band drummer Levon Helm, who hails from Marvell. Those are the ones everybody knows.
Incredibly, soul legend Al Green was born in Forrest City. One of Green’s influences, gospel/rock and roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, was born in Cotton Plant. Contemporary gospel star Smokie Norfull was originally from Pine Bluff. Delight brought us Glen Campbell, Colt was Charlie Rich’s first home and Conway Twitty was born Harold Jenkins in Helena. John Hughes, a pedal steel player who worked Twitty and numerous others, came from Elaine.
Louis Jordan (Brinkley) aside, the Natural State has also produced jazzman Joe Bishop from Monticello, who wrote the staple “Woodchopper’s Ball” and free jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (Little Rock).
The state’s greatest legacy might be the amount of blues it birthed, including Luther Allison (Widener), Willie “Big Eyes” Smith (Helena), Son Seals (Osceola), Jimmy Witherspoon (Gurdon), Roosevelt Sykes (Elmar) and Robert Jr. Lockwood (Helena). West Memphis was the first stop north for many blues players. Sonny Boy Williamson II, Howlin’ Wolf, Elmore James, Big Boy Crudup and B.B. King all stopped there for a while. Stax pillar Rufus Thomas was a longtime West Memphis radio host.
The name Jim Dickinson (Little Rock) may not be familiar, but his work with the Dixie Flyers, Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Big Star, the Flamin’ Groovies, the Replacements, Mudhoney and the North Mississippi Allstars – which features his sons Luther and Cody – has been heard the world over.
On the pop side, founding Evanescence duo Amy Lee and Ben Moody are also both Little Rock Natives; R&B slickster Ne-Yo was born in Camden and Perryville begat Shawn Camp, who has written songs for Garth Brooks, George Strait and Brooks and Dunn.
Arkansas may be a forgotten state that ranks in 32nd in population and 29th in area, but if you can’t experience its Ozark Mountains in person, it’s at least worth a musical road trip.
Folkways gets trampled underfoot at renovated Smithsonian
Posted in review, tagged Afrika Bambaataa, American history, Americana, Big Bill Broonzy, blues, folk music, Folkways recordings, Kool Herc, Leadbelly, Moses Asch, National Museum of History, roots music, Smithsonian, Washington DC, Woody Guthrie on November 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Above: Smithsonian patrons deserve a space to discover and learn more about American musicians like Big Bill Broonzy.
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s two-year, $85 million facelift is a lot like the plastic surgery aging stars get – it attracts a lot of interest at first and does a good job of hiding the wrinkles, but ultimately accentuates all the other flaws.
A visit to the renovated Washington, D.C. museum in the week after it re-opened to the public revealed Kool Herc’s turntable and Afrika Bambaataa’s pendant as the most prominent exhibits of 20th Century American music. There was no acknowledgement to the richness of the museum’s own music archives and label, Smithsonian Folkways.
The National Museum of American History needs a showcase dedicated to the legacy of Smithsonian Folkways recordings. A place for visitors to learn about its artists – not only better-known names like Pete Seeger, Guthrie and Leadbelly, but the anonymous rural musicians label founder Moses Asch sought to document.
Asch founded Folkways Records and Service Co. in 1948 to “suppor(t) cultural diversity and increase understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound,” Much like his contemporary and fellow musicologist Alan Lomax, Asch captured songs from primitive villages to New York City’s avant-garde, ancient Greek literature to Russian poetry.
The permanent space should include an interactive map where visitors can hear and learn about indigenous music styles in a given area, and see how those forms migrate and influence each other. They should also house several kiosks where listeners can listen to recordings while learning about the performers. Rotating exhibits of instruments, lyrics and other memorabilia would also enhance the space.
When the Smithsonian acquired Asch’s library after his death in 1987, they adopted his mission of document “the people’s music” as their own. They also guaranteed that all the label’s 2,000 releases would forever remain in print. One wouldn’t know this promise has been kept by visiting the museum’s gift stores.
In the old configuration, the main retail store on the bottom floor was a clearinghouse for the Smithsonian Folkways catalog. Nearly every title and artist was at the shopper’s fingertips. All that remains today is a few compilations of blues, bluegrass, train and labor songs and the essential Woody Guthrie box set. Patrons deserve better than this. They deserve a place to flip over the rocks of American roots music and discover what lies underneath.
Addressing this need would not correct all the problems of the renovated museum. The public would have been better served had the curators waited until all their exhibit space was completed before re-opening. More than a third of the building is still under construction and closed to the public. But the tapestry of American music the Smithsonian has preserved is too rich to be swept under the rug.
Posted in review, tagged Bettye LaVette, blues, Buddy Guy, Columbia Mo., Doyle Bramhall, guitar, music, Roots N Blues N BBQ, Stevie Ray Vaughan on October 6, 2008| 4 Comments »
Buddy Guy is to the electric guitar what a match is to kerosene.
The 68-year-old blues legend lit into opening number “Best Damn Fool” like a house afire and closed out the Roots ‘n Blues ‘n BBQ Festival Saturday night in Columbia, Mo. with 90 minutes of barn-burning blues that skimmed through the encyclopedia of the genre.
After starting with a cut from his new album, “Skin Deep,” Guy tore through his classic “Hoodoo Man.” The song culminated with a guitar duel between Guy and his backing guitarist, who was more than capable of holding his own. After whipping the song into a frenzy, Guy put a finger to his lips and hushed both the crowd and his band. In whisper silence he noodled into “Love Her With a Feeling,” which merged with “She’s Nineteen Years Old.”
Guy’s mind is as frenetic as his fingers. He rarely plays a song all the way through, opting to mine the most joyous parts, then skip along to the next number that races through is brain. He treated the audience to a nearly two full minutes of his signature number “Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues,” before remembering he played Peggy Lee’s “Fever” at his last gig in Columbia 15 years ago and gave them all of that instead. No one seemed to mind.
“Boom Boom,” a tribute to John Lee Hooker, suddenly inspired “Strange Brew” and a shout-out to Eric Clapton and Cream. Guy hopped offstage and wandered through a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd a block deep and half a block wide to deliver “Drowning on Dry Land” and B.B. King’s “Rock Me Baby.”
Like a woman plied with one drink too many, Guy was able to coax things from his guitar beyond its natural limits. Armed with a cream-colored Fender Stratocaster instead of his trademark polka dot model, Guy hopped on a wah wah peddle to riff over the intro of Jimi Hendrix’ “Voodoo Child” before launching into Muddy Water’s “I Just Want To Make Love To You.”
The night ended with “Out in the Woods,” a boast about taming wild beasts. It was a great closing number, but also slightly redundant – at this point, Guy no longer had to prove how bad he was.
In a perfect world, Bettye LaVette would be enjoying the same kind of success Tina Turner receives today.
After 47 years in the business and five years into her renaissance, LaVette’s raspy voice – no doubt enhanced by years of working smoky dives – is informed and enhanced by the pain and frustration of her wilderness years.
Her performance of early songs like “My Man – He’s A Lovin’ Man,” “Let Me Down Easy” and “Right in the Middle (Of Falling in Love)” hint at the career that could have been. But Lavette is not bitter. She can deliver a line like “I’ve been bruised, hurt and cheated on/ but still they couldn’t break me” (from “Close As I’ll Get to Heaven”) with both honesty and a smile.
Clad in a sleeveless black shirt and tight black pants, LaVette swayed and strutted across the stage channeling every note from her band, completely invested in every lyric. She added a swagger to her reading of “Joy” that songwriter Lucinda Williams could only dream of. Likewise, she added a level of sensuality to Leonard Cohen’s “You Don’t Know Me At All” unheard in the original. The sashay of her hips to a sizzling guitar solo said more than any of the verses.
Two years ago, LaVette put on a breathtaking performance at the Folly Theater in Kansas City. She was even better in the open air in Columbia and her band was the difference. For the earlier date, LaVette was backed by musicians who, like her, had been catapulted from juke joints to concert halls. Unlike her, they were not ready for the spotlight. Her new, four-piece band was tighter, funkier and able to keep up. They added a wash of psychedelic soul to “Sleep to Dream” and a superb gospel feel to “Choices.”
LaVette closed her 75-minute set with a riveting a cappella performance of a Sinead O’Connor song that summed up her life today: “I have all that I requested/And I do not want what I haven’t got.”
Doyle Bramhall
Drummer Doyle Bramhall grew up playing with the Vaughan brothers, so it makes sense that his Texas blues oscillate between the smooth strut of Jimmie and the rough and rocky bluster of Stevie Ray. Unfortunately, there’s not much in between.
His five-piece band could turn it up when needed, like on a spirited cover of “Keep A Knockin’,” but for the most part they were content to keep the meat in the smoker instead of taking it out and slathering on the sauce.
Bramhall’s hour-plus set ran through songs from his solo catalog like “Top Rank Boxing” and “Cryin'” and a couple numbers he wrote with Stevie Ray. Predictably, “Change It” and “The House Is A Rockin’,” which closed the set, drew the greatest cheers.
Review: Taj Mahal at Crossroads
Posted in Concert review, Kansas City Star, tagged Back To Rockville, blues, Crossroads KC, music, Taj Mahal on September 8, 2007| 4 Comments »
Blues for Tourists and Purists
Blues legend Taj Mahal put on a performance as grand as his namesake Friday night at Crossroads KC.
The Taj Mahal Trio opened with an instrumental that showcased Mahal’s tasty fretwork. Mahal may not win a notes-per-minute competition, but few musicians are as articulate on their instruments.
From there the trio delivered 90 minutes of great blues that was firmly rooted in the genre’s sharecropping/plantation origins, but wasn’t afraid to detour into world music and pop melodies. The result was an evening that pleased both the tourists and the purists.
The set started strongly with “Done Changed My Way of Thinking,” and “Checkin’ Up on My Baby,” which featured Mahal on a hollow body electric guitar. “Blues With a Feeling” found Mahal seated behind a keyboard and delivering part of the song in French. Mahal’s instrument of choice often played the dual role of both the seducer and the seduced, and he wasn’t afraid to sprinkle dirty old man jokes between numbers or moan in a rasp that recalled Howlin Wolf to make his point.
The highlights came when Mahal strapped on an acoustic guitar and performed, in succession, “Fishin’ Blues,” “Queen Bee” and “Corrina.” He said good night, but within a few minutes he started strumming “M’Banjo” and then led his rhythm section through a spirited “You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond” and “Lovin’ In My Baby’s Eyes,” a beautiful pop ballad that in an alternate world would have been a big hit.
The biggest disappointment of the evening was the turnout. Crossroads was only a third full — about 700 people — and most of the crowd resembled the lot that used to turn up at the old Grand Emporium. Mahal deserved a wider audience, but those who were there knew they were lucky to be hearing a legend, still in his prime, do what he does best.
Buckwheat Brings It Back Home
Posted in band feature, Kansas City Star, tagged blues, Buckwheat Zydeco, music, zydeco on July 28, 2005| Leave a Comment »
After a 20-year estrangement, Stanley Dural Jr. is returning to his first love: the Hammond B-3 organ.
But fans of the man otherwise known as Buckwheat Zydeco needn’t worry. He has found a way to reconcile the differences between his main squeeze, the accordion, and the B3.
“When I was playing the accordion originally I had the organ onstage with me,” Dural said. “I had the tendency to run from the accordion to the organ, but it was cutting into my time with the accordion, so I took it off the stage.”
Dural will bring a road-size version of the B3 with him at Knucklehead’s Saloon on Wednesday, continuing a reunion that began when he used it on some tracks for his first studio album in eight years, “Jackpot!”
“If I was going to use it in the studio, it wouldn’t be fair to if people didn’t hear it on stage,” Dural said. “I’ve always had a keyboard but it was a simple one. I couldn’t fully express myself on it. Now I Can, and the fans are loving it.”
Dural’s B3 playing is featured on the album’s 18-minute trilogy, “Encore: Featuring Organic Buckwheat,” which includes a slow blues and a jazz tribute to Jimmy Smith. This might seem like a stretch from zydeco’s traditional territory, but from a man who has stretched the genre to include country, gospel, children’s music and rock, it’s just bringing it back home.
“I’m taking it to another level,” said Dural, who counts Eric Clapton, Mavis Staples, Willie Nelson and members of Los Lobos among his recorded collaborators. “I love rasta and Bob Marley so there’s a song called ‘Love and Happiness’ that’s all about unity that has a Jamaican reggae feel.”
Listeners may have to wait awhile to hear that song at home, though – it’s one of dozens of Dural’s new tracks that didn’t make it on the album.
“We cut near 30 songs, and I caught the blues trying to figure out what to put on and what to leave off (the album),” Dural said. “It was my worst nightmare.”
No one will have to wait 8 years for the next Buckwheat Zydeco studio album, though.
“I’m going to give this one a chance,” Dural said, “but please believe me there’s another one coming right behind it.”
Dural’s re-embrace of the B3 is a sort of homecoming. It’s the instrument he played as the founder of Buckwheat and the Hitchhikers, a 15-piece funk band that backed artists like Joe Tex, Solomon Burke and Bobby Bland in the early ‘70s and also precipitated his friendship with Eric Clapton in the mid-‘80s.
A jam session broke out after Buckwheat Zydeco’s set at the 25th anniversary party ofr Island Records, Dural’s label at the time. Spying a vacant B3, Dural’s manager asked if he wanted to play.
“I said not ‘yeah,’ but ‘hell yeah,’” Dural said. “There was an army of guitars and Eric was at the front of the stage, but somehow we got to trading licks. We kept going back and forth, and when we got done he walked to the back of the stage, put out his hand and said, ‘I’m Eric, who are you?’ I took his hand and said, ‘I’m Buckwheat.’ We hit it off.”
Clapton played the guitar solo on Buckwheat Zydeco’s 1987 remake of “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad” and invited the band to open his 12-night stand at Royal Albert Hall in 1988.
“That was like a dream come true,” Dural said. “It was frightening, but it went over big time.”
If the concept of a zydeco band opening for a rock legend in one of London’s most hallowed music halls seems incongruous, consider Buckwheat Zydeco opening for U2 around the same time.
“If you think about U2 and Buckwheat, they don’t match. That’s a different audience,” Dural said. “But it worked.”
The major-label shakeups 10 years ago led Dural to start his own label, Tomorrow Recordings, which also handles younger talents. If he misses rubbing shoulders with other legends and playing large venues, Dural isn’t letting on.
“I feel like I’m in a place now where I’m opening a lot of doors,” Dural said. “It doesn’t matter where I perform as long as I see a smile on people’s faces.”
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Giants Win War of Attrition 3-Games-to-1
So in their recently completed Division Series the Giants hit .222 as a team, with a sum total of six extra-base hits. They were thrown out stealing more times than they were successful. They scored nine runs in the entire four-game series. And yet they beat the powerful Washington Nationals three games to one. How they did it was that the Nats were even more pathetic offensively than the Giants, hitting .164 as a team. I’m not even sure if the Giants’ pitching was so great (a 1.60 team ERA ain’t bad) or that offense just disappeared for both teams—other than Bryce Harper and his three moonshot home runs.
The Giants won every game by a single run, and other than Brandon Belt’s 18th-inning blast in game 2, many of the runs they did score were gifts: bases-loaded walks, wild pitches, fielder’s choices… They won passive-aggressively! What a strange series. Which matches the Giants’ strange season: dominance in April & May, June & July swoon, and enough resurgence in August & September to squeeze into the 2nd wildcard slot.
But, hey, I’ll take it! On to the N.L. Championship Series and the St. Louis Cardinals (who dispatched the favored Dodgers in four games as well). My big trepidation, moving forward, though, is the absence of leadoff hitter Angel Pagan. You wouldn’t know it from his stats, but he is the Giants’ catalyst. Their record the last two years is directly related to his presence in the lineup: a winning team when’s he in there, and a losing one when he isn’t. And he’s out for the rest of the year after back surgery. But… enough pessimism. Bring on the Redbirds!
And this IS an even-numbered year: 2010, 2012…
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Physical and Mental Comorbidity, Disability, and Suicidal Behavior Associated With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Large Community Sample
Sareen, Jitender BSc, MD, FRCPC; Cox, Brian J. PhD; Stein, Murray B. MD, FRCPC, MPH; Afifi, Tracie O. MSc; Fleet, Claire BA(Hons); Asmundson, Gordon J. G. PhD
Psychosomatic Medicine: April 2007 - Volume 69 - Issue 3 - p 242-248
doi: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31803146d8
Objective: To assess if posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), recognized as a common mental disorder in the general population and veteran samples, has a unique impact on comorbidity, disability, and suicidal behavior (after adjusting for other mental disorders, especially depression).
Methods: Data came from the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.2 (n = 36,984; age ≥15 years; response rate 77%). All respondents were asked if they had been given a diagnosis of PTSD by a healthcare professional. A select number of mental disorders were assessed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Chronic physical health conditions, measures of quality of life, disability, and suicidal behavior were also assessed.
Results: The prevalence of PTSD as diagnosed by health professionals was 1.0% (95% CI = 0.90–1.15). After adjusting for sociodemographic factors and other mental disorders, PTSD remained significantly associated with several physical health problems including cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, chronic pain conditions, gastrointestinal illnesses, and cancer. After adjusting for sociodemographic factors, mental disorders, and severity of physical disorders, PTSD was associated with suicide attempts, poor quality of life, and short- and long-term disability.
Conclusions: PTSD was uniquely associated with several physical disorders, disability, and suicidal behavior. Increased early recognition and treatment of PTSD are warranted.
PTSD = posttraumatic stress disorder; CCHS 1.2 = Canadian Community Health Survey cycle 1.2; CI = confidence interval; WBMMS = Psychological Well-Being Manifestation Scale.
From the Department of Psychiatry (J.S., B.J.C., C.F.), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Departments of Psychiatry, Family and Preventive Medicine (M.B.S.), University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California; Department of Community Health Sciences (J.S., B.J.C., T.O.A.), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory (G.J.G.A.), University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Jitender Sareen, PZ430-771 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E 3N4. E-mail: sareen@cc.umanitoba.ca
This study was supported by New Emerging Team Grant PTS-63186 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; grant from the Health Sciences Centre Foundation; Establishment Grant from Manitoba Research Council (J.S.); Career Development (K24) Award (MH64122) from the National Institutes of Health (M.B.S.); CIHR Investigator Award (Dr. Asmundson); and Canada Research Chair (B.J.C.).
Received for publication April 7, 2006; revision received October 31, 2006.
Copyright © 2007 by American Psychosomatic Society
Psychosomatic Medicine69(3):242-248, April 2007.
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BIOHITECH GLOBAL, INC. (OTCMKTS:BHTG) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Commencing December 28, 2016, BioHiTech Global, Inc. (the “Registrant”) entered into a series of Securities Purchase Agreements (individually, the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain accredited investors (the “Investors”), to which the Registrant agreed to sell and the Investors agreed to purchase, in a private placement offering (the “Offering”), an aggregate of 200,000 shares of the Registrant’s newly created Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series B Shares”) at the price of $5.00 per Series B Shares and warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase 111,111 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) at an exercise price of $5.00 per share, for an aggregate offering amount of $1,000,000. The proceeds of the Offering were held in escrow until the minimum offering amount of $450,000 was sold by the Registrant (the “Initial Closing”). Following the Initial Closing, the escrow agent released and will continue to release the proceeds directly to the Registrant.
The Series B Shares are convertible at any time by the Investors, into shares of Common Stock at the rate of one share of Common Stock for $4.50 of stated value of Series B Shares converted. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment for stock splits, reclassification and issuance of certain Securities at a purchase price per share below the conversion price. The Series B Shares automatically convert into Common Stock on the earliest of the date (i) the Common Stock is listed on a National Securities Exchange; (ii) a fundamental transaction, which is defined as effectively a change in control of the voting capital stock or transfer of substantially all of the assets of the Registrant; (iii) of an underwritten public offering in an amount not less than $3,000,000, or (iv) December 1, 2018. The Series B Shares are entitled to receive dividends, at the rate of six percent (6%) until their conversion into Common Stock. The Series B Shares rank senior to the Registrant’s Common Stock with respect to dividends, distributions and payments on liquidation but junior to all existing and future indebtedness and any class of preferred stock.
The Registrant also granted the Investors certain piggy-back registration rights with respect to the shares of Common Stock underlying the conversion of the Series B Shares and the exercise of the Warrants and anti-dilution rights with respect to the conversion price of the Series B Shares.
The Registrant engaged a placement agent in connection with the Offering who received cash in the amount of 7% of the Offering Amount and warrants to purchase 3% of the Shares of Common Stock underlying the shares of Series B Shares sold, at an exercise price of $5.50 per share.
The foregoing description of the terms and conditions of the Agreement, the Warrants and the Certificate of Designation is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Agreement, the Warrants and the Certificate of Designation. For an understanding of their terms and provisions, reference should be made to the Certificate of Designation, the Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant and the Securities Purchase Agreement attached this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2 and 10.1, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The risks and uncertainties involved include the dilution to current stockholders as a result of the potential purchase price discount offered to the Investor, and the market overhang of shares available for sale that may develop as a result of the subsequent sale by the Investor of the shares of Common Stock underlying the Series B Shares and the Warrants, as well as other risks detailed from time to time in the Registrant’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The Series B Shares and Warrants were offered and sold without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as provided in Rule 506(b) of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. Each of the offerings was made to an “accredited investor” (as defined by Rule 501 under the Securities Act). In addition, the sale of securities did not involve a public offering; the Registrant made no solicitation in connection with the sale other than communications with the investor; the Registrant obtained representations from the Investors regarding their investment intent, experience and sophistication; and the Investor either received or had access to adequate information about the Registrant in order to make an informed investment decision. The Series B Shares, Warrants and the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Shares and exercise of the Warrants, have not been registered under the Securities Act or any other applicable securities laws, and unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
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March 15, 2013 – Viva il Papa Francesco!
Well, kind of a ho-hum week. Not a lot going on. Let’s see… The St. Louis Cardinals are still deciding on their 5th starting pitcher. Steven Jackson signed with the Falcons. Very nice day today. What else, what else … oh yes, HABEMUS PAPAM! We have a Pope! If your initial reaction was similar to mine, then you were probably a bit surprised at the choice, thinking that they would go with someone a little younger. However, as more details emerged about the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, it became clearer and clearer as to what the College of Cardinals saw in this man. A headline I read today I think put it best: “Pope Francis humble but direct.” Clearly this is a man of simple means who has a special attachment to the poor and disadvantaged. He displayed this in Argentina by giving up lavish things such as chauffeured cars and a plush residence in favor of public transportation and a modest apartment. He humbled himself to wash the feet of AIDS patients and those in hospice care. In the midst of talking about the scandals of the church such as clerical sexual abuse, Vatileaks, etc., a fact that has been lost is that the Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization in the world. We do tremendous work with those in need, and I think the example of Pope Francis can help put the spotlight back on this fact.
Another quality that is evident is his prayerfulness. This may be a trait that makes you say “well, duh.” But I think the moment when he asked the crowd in St. Peter’s Square to pray for him, then yesterday when he visited the Basilica of St. Mary Major and knelt at the image of the Virgin of Snows for 10 minutes, showed that he will give true witness to the importance of prayer. I am also impressed by the fact that he appears unafraid to go “off the cuff” when speaking. The director of media relations for the USCCB says this about the Pope’s public speaking nature: “Pope Francis’ style will make work harder for journalists. He ad libs or even rejects entirely speeches written for him. That means the Vatican cannot always distribute speeches ahead of time under embargo. Today in his meeting with the cardinals he ad libbed so much the Vatican had to do some hurry up work. The press office got the Italian text out a while after he delivered his address but the text in other languages were slated to come later.” I think this is a wonderful trait that will draw people to him. God Bless Pope Emeritus Benedict for his contributions, especially his collection of wonderful writings. But he was a reserved and soft-spoken individual, and not necessarily someone who could mesmerize a crowd (though admittedly he had a very tough act to follow in Blessed John Paul II). I think Francis may have the ability to do that. I am anxious to see the reaction to him at the upcoming World Youth Day in July in his home continent at Rio de Janeiro. I hope it is inspirational for many young people.
When possible, I tried to watch EWTN for coverage of Francis’ first moments as Pope, because I knew the major network types such as Piers Morgan, Chris Matthews, etc. would ultimately ask the question of whether this Pontiff will introduce reforms to the church such as allowing priests to marry, to allow women to be priests, to accept same-sex marriage, to favor abortions, etc. What these people do not understand is that we are guided by this thing called a Bible that tells us how God wishes us to live. And it is not just the duty of the Pope, Bishops, and Priests, but the duty of all Catholics to spread this message. Thankfully Francis has shown that he will stay true to Catholic social teaching. For example, as Cardinal, speaking on same-sex marriage when it was legalized in Argentina in 2010, said that “This is no mere legislative bill. It is a move by the father of lies to confuse and deceive the children of God.” Hopefully the humble but direct nature if Francis that I spoke of earlier will allow him to communicate the teachings of the church in a more effective way.
So we now have our first American Pope and our first Jesuit Pope. My hope is that in breaking of some of the patterns of the past, that indifferent Catholics will take another look at the church. We celebrate a new Pope as a study shows that the strength of U.S. Catholic identity is at a low point. According to a Pew Research Center analysis, about a quarter (27%) of American Catholics called themselves “strong” Catholics last year, down more than 15 points since the mid-1980s and among the lowest levels seen in the 38 years since strength of religious identity was first measured. The share of all Catholics who say they attend Mass at least once a week has dropped from 47% in 1974 to 24% in 2012; among “strong” Catholics, it has fallen more than 30 points, from 85% in 1974 to 53% last year. And I’m sure that this is not just a U.S. issue, but an issue in many other parts of the world.
So our Francis faces many challenges, and certainly needs our prayers. But judging him over the last few days, I would say he has the demeanor and the faith to tackle the task ahead.
A couple of things to wrap up. I had the privilege of attending this evening’s volleyball game which saw our St. Mary’s Hawks win the regional championship! They will now move on to the state level tournament on March 23 in Herrin. Congratulations to the coaches and players! Here is a photo of the proud group:
Finally, it is of course still the season of Lent. I came across this brief 2-minute Youtube video from the Archiocese of Santa Fe which is a wonderful reflection on the Stations of the Cross. I thought you may want to make it part of your Lenten reflection:
Have a great week. Peace.
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Kakadu plums
Australia has lost its identity
The Australian cultural mindset has been eroded and is becoming predominately American. The size of the American population and its dominance in movies, television and music meant that influence was inevitable and it’s reflected in our fashion and in language with words such as “like”, “bro” and phrases along the lines of “you go girl”. American cultural imperialism has only exacerbated since Australia signed the American free-trade-agreement (AUSFTA) in 2004. Australia is losing its cultural identity. The Indigenous Australian culture actually has more in common with Australian culture than many may realise. The love and affection for Australian land is evident when so many Australians spend their time off from work and on holidays to do such things as swimming, sun baking, surfing, yoga, meditating, mountain climbing and hiking.
Australia’s history with Indigenous Australians is also not what many may realise with slave labour, stolen wages and stolen federally paid maternity allowances and child endowments from their trusts. Indigenous Australians not only built the pastoral industry for Australia but they also helped build it in other ways with wage, labour, allowance and endowment theft. They also worked in a wide range of occupations: interpreters, concubines, trackers, troopers, servants, nursemaids, labourers, stock workers and pearl divers. What is also overlooked is that they are the oldest living culture on earth with many achievements starting to come to light such as, superfoods knowledge, being the world’s first bakers and perhaps even being responsible for the world’s oldest astronomical map.
Australian television in the eighties and nineties is markedly different today with the likes of comedy shows such as The Comedy Company, Fast Forward and Full Frontal now fond memories. The reality television show Big Brother, began on Australian screens in 2001, along with a plethora of American shows such as Sex in the City, Law and Order and CSI. Many Australians including Indigenous have been raised subconsciously or subliminally with an American belief or values system. Calls get made to the American emergency number 911 rather than our own national emergency number 000 and “product dumping” is the norm with American businesses selling their television shows in the Australian market for below local cost or production prices. With an American population of around 325 million, it’s a lot easier to recoup your production and overall costs and it means that sales to other countries are essentially pure profit for America. This makes it harder for local industry to compete and it takes away any incentive to innovate or foster local production and talent. It also creates a deficit in our creative knowledge economy preventing innovation at a local level. More funding and tax breaks are needed to bolster confidence and to transition our creative knowledge economy for the future.
Between 1996 and 2000 Australia’s royalty trade deficit (including Information and technology) with America, increased by 84 per cent. In the book How to Kill a Country by Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews, they suggest an Intellectual Property Right (IPR) tax. They argue that governments have always taxed property as a principal source of avenue, so why not tax royalty flows? This book was written twelve years ago so it would be even easier for the government to look at royalty flows data and to put even a modest tax on it. For example, if Australian businesses paid royalties of AU$1 billion, the government could collect say 10 per cent or AU$100 million and use the revenue to reinvest locally.
Forced control over Indigenous Australian’s wages and savings (bank books) only ended in 1972 and they didn’t receive equal wages until 1986. Despite stolen wages, slave labour and stolen benefits they have fought wars for Australia without recognition and thanked only with discrimination when they got home. They have been portrayed as nomadic, hunter-gatherers but evidence shows that they were actually Australia’s first farmers.
Grindstones that are 36,000-years-old have been discovered in New South Wales (NSW), they were used to turn seeds into flours for baking. The Gurandgi Munjie collective is made up of a number other Indigenous Australians living along the NSW south coast and in east Gippsland in Victoria. They’ve been trialling native millet, kangaroo grass and murnong crops to increase harvests and begin selling bread soon. “One of our aims is to make sure our people earn a living out of it, as well as helping Australia learn about a natural Australian diet.” Murnong – is also known as yam daisy and is a tuber that can be eaten like a vegetable, the seeds of millet and kangaroo grass make up the healthy, gluten-free flours. Pascoe of Gurandgi Munjie’s baking experiments, says: “Kangaroo grass flour has got a really beautiful smell and a nutty flavour. We love making the breads simply because it tastes so good, but also because it makes the kitchen smell good as well.” And that “Environmentally it’s a pretty good deal,” says Pascoe. “They’re perennials, so once you get your crop established you don’t have to plough the land again or add fertiliser or pesticide. Your CO2 emission levels are going to drop dramatically because you’re not turning the soil over and releasing carbon into the atmosphere.”
Marnybi, Gugbinge, Kakadu plum, bush or billygoat plums have the highest natural vitamin C content in the world and can be found in abundance in Wadeye, the Northern Territory (NT). For Indigenous Australians it’s known as traditional Indigenous medicine. A local Wadeye woman explains: “It’s good for your headache. If we have headache at bush, we eat plum and it makes us feel good.” It is considered as a gift from the Dreamtime. It has taken off commercially as a powder for smoothies and to be sprinkled on to breakfasts as well as a good source of folic acid, iron and may even protect against Alzheimer’s disease. With this success comes bio piracy which locks up intellectual property around bush foods. Bush foods’ intellectual property is already being largely exploited by companies and individuals that are patenting intellectual property of native plant knowledge. Multinationals can come in and patent the use of products with little consideration for knowledge or history. The Northern Land Council is calling for a blanket moratorium on all patents over native foods and plants until a legal framework protecting Indigenous interests can be enforced. Andrew Forrest has been making noise again recently about a “premium” Australian brand to woo China, wouldn’t it be prudent for Indigenous Australians to have their own?
Australia may be home to an ancient astronomical stone formation that could be older than Stonehenge. The Wurdi Youang stone arrangement 45km west of Melbourne was formed using 90 blocks of basalt and clearly depicts the equinox, the winter solstice and the summer solstice. The Wathaurong people are the traditional owners. Geologists and experts have estimated it to be around 10,000 years-old, or 3,000 years older than the 7,000 year-old Stonehenge. They used the sky to help them work out weather patterns too and shared this knowledge with one another through song and dance, for example, if stars are twinkling rapidly it’s because of high-altitude trade winds. Another example is if the stars are twinkling fast and are bright blue, storms are on the way. They use dreaming and songlines as memory techniques to retain vast amounts of knowledge.
Indigenous are being included and recognised as such a lot more with Acknowledgement of Country becoming the norm as well as “Welcome to Country” ceremonies. Just about daily more stories and discoveries like the ones above can be found if you look, you won’t find them often in main-stream-media, but you will find cartoonists like Bill Leak. The social media campaign that followed with #IndigenousDads to counteract the latter’s cartoon was heart warming and shows that there is good will out there for each other. The ABC television show Cleverman also helped to educate and give insight into Indigenous Australian’s culture. Personally, I still can’t get Jesse William’s speech at the Black Entertainment Awards about racism in America out of my mind. In particular the last paragraph: “We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.”
So much of the Australia that many grew up with and know is gone, owning your own home and endless summers at the beach have been replaced with longer working hours. That is if you can get work and aren’t dealing with underemployment. Now that America and other multinationals are snapping up Indigenous bush foods and medicine patents, I think it’s time that we united and fought for our countries independence from America Inc, it’s a corporation not a country. Call out the main-stream-media misinformation, ignorance and racism when we see it and hear it. Acknowledge the ugly side of Australian history as well as all that we have in common and share this knowledge with others.
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Kenneth R. Kooiker,
Appellant,
City of Coon Rapids,
Respondent.
Filed February 3, 1998
Crippen, Judge
Anoka County District Court
File No. CX-94-14462
Timothy R. Duncan, Marcia B. Haffmans, Coleman, Hull & van Vliet, P.L.L.P., 8500 Normandale Lake Boulevard, Suite 2110, Minneapolis, MN 55437 (for appellant)
Mark A. Myhra, Greene Espel, P.L.L.P., 333 South Seventh Street, Suite 1700, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Tammi A. Fredrickson, Assistant City Attorney, City of Coon Rapids, 11155 Robinson Drive, Coon Rapids, MN 55433-5397 (for respondent)
Considered and decided by Toussaint, Chief Judge, Crippen, Judge, and Forsberg, Judge.[*]
In the inverse condemnation suit of appellant Kenneth Kooiker, the trial court employed an erroneous standard of law by not considering the reasonableness of the city's use of its sewer and street easement. However, because the record does not demonstrate a lack of reasonableness in the city's use, we affirm.
In 1965, respondent City of Coon Rapids acquired a permanent public easement along Mississippi Drive for "sanitary sewer and street purposes." In 1974, appellant purchased a vacant 300-foot parcel between Mississippi Drive and the Mississippi River; the parcel was later divided into three 100-foot parcels. In 1993, the city installed a seven-foot-high, five-foot-wide electrical panel box on Mississippi Drive directly adjacent to Kooiker's property. The control box is used to handle the city's sewage system.
In 1995, appellant initiated an inverse condemnation action, arguing that the city, through its placement of the control box, had infringed on his implied easement for view. The trial court granted the city's motion for summary judgment, holding that there were no factual issues regarding the city's proper use of its public easement. The court reasoned that the legal barrier of proper use did not entail consideration of whether the use reasonably impaired property owner's easements of access, light, and air.
In reviewing a summary judgment, this court must ask whether there are any genuine issues of material fact and whether the lower court erred in its application of the law. State by Cooper v. French, 460 N.W.2d 2, 4 (Minn. 1990). We must view the evidence "in the light most favorable to the party against whom judgment was granted." Fabio v. Bellomo, 504 N.W.2d 758, 761 (Minn. 1993).
An owner of property abutting a public street has implied easements of light, air, and view over the street. Haeussler v. Braun, 314 N.W.2d 4, 7 (Minn. 1981). These easements are "property" within the meaning of the Minnesota Constitution. Castor v. City of Minneapolis, 429 N.W.2d 244, 245 (Minn. 1988). But an owner's property interest is subservient to the public easement in the street. Haeussler, 314 N.W.2d at 7. When a property owner's implied easement is obstructed by an improper use of the public easement, a taking can be found. Id. at 8.
Kooiker argues that the trial court erred in its application of a proper use standard for the city's easement; Kooiker asserts that the correct standard for examining a use of a public easement is whether the use was proper and reasonable. To support this argument, Kooiker relies particularly on two inverse condemnation cases that included analysis of reasonableness or practicality. See Castor, 429 N.W.2d 245; Cater v. Northwestern Tel. Exch. Co., 60 Minn. 539, 63 N.W. 111 (1895). In Cater, a property owner argued that construction of a telephone line on the highway abutting his property interfered with his property rights. The court found for the telephone company, which was using the public easement for the highway, stating that uses such as the transmission of intelligence are included in the easement,
provided they are not inconsistent with the reasonably safe and practical use of the highway in other and usual and necessary modes, and provided they do not unreasonably impair the special easements of abutting owners in the street for purposes of access, light, and air.
Id. at 545, 63 N.W. at 113. Cater is resurrected in Castor, in which abutting property owners claimed that a skyway infringed on their implied easements of air, light, and view. The Castor court recited the language of Cater, emphasizing that innovative uses are lawful "provided" that they involve no "unreasonable" impairment of abutting owners' easement rights. Castor, 429 N.W.2d at 245-46. The supreme court added:
The skyway in this case undoubtedly fulfills a legitimate public purpose. But to say the public benefits is not to say this unusual structure constitutes a proper street use. The block-long skyway runs the entire length of petitioners' building rather than simply across the alley. It stands four to five feet from the building and entirely obliterates the space above the alley, adjacent to petitioners' second-story windows. This is not, as telephone lines were in 1895, simply "a newly discovered method of using the old public easement." Cater, 60 Minn. at 548, 63 N.W. at 114. We find something closer to appropriation of the alley, at petitioners' expense.
Castor, 429 N.W.2d at 246.
Looking at the spectrum of Minnesota caselaw on takings, we observe:
a. Castor. This significant recent opinion did more than recite the reasonableness standard; it applied it. By examining not only the propriety of the public easement in question, but also determining that the skyway "entirely obliterates the space above the alley," the court incorporated an analysis of reasonableness into the proper use standard. Id.
b. Cater. This case likewise announced the concept of reasonableness of the easement. While the court concluded that the public use did not impair the rights of abutting owner, it discussed the effects of improvements on owners, noting that the same improvements might be objectionable in an urban environment. Cater, 60 Minn. at 546, 63 N.W. at 113.
c. Adams v. Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railway, 39 Minn. 286, 39 N.W. 629 (1888). The opinion in this railroad case did not directly discuss reasonableness, but the court's holding precludes rejection of the principle; the court analyzed the propriety of use by assessing its effect of use on the abutting property owners' right to light, air, and view.
d. Haessler. Here, the supreme court found that the construction of sound barriers was a proper use of the highway easement. The dissent, noting that compensation must be paid for a use that "unreasonably impairs" rights of abutting property rights, takes issue with the majority's application of Cater and other takings holdings. Speaking on the fact that the sound barriers were constructed with good intentions, the dissenting justice wrote:
Unfortunately, they have created a far greater detriment to the interests of these abutting landowners. Just as we found a commercial railroad which was not a benefit to the general public to be an improper street use, Adams v. Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad, 39 Minn. 286, 39 N.W.2d 629 (1888), here too the purpose of the sound barriers does not serve to benefit the general public and thus does not constitute a proper street use.
Haeussler, 314 N.W.2d at 11-12. The dissent is premised on a different application of law, not a different standard: the majority determined that the use in question was "proper" after fully evaluating the effect of the use on the easement rights of abutting landowners. Id. at 8-9.
In sum, as a fundamental part of takings law in Minnesota, there are some unusual cases, such as Castor and Adams, where the degree of impairment makes a use improper. And all pertinent cases are consistent with the concept that propriety of use cannot be determined without consideration of the degree of the use's interference with the abutting property owner's implied easement of light, air, and view (i.e., the reasonableness of the use).
The trial court's decision is not problematic for its failure to find the public use unreasonable, but for eliminating consideration of landowner's rights. While appellant is correct in asserting that a decision of propriety of use must include a consideration of reasonableness, we conclude that this is not one of the unique cases in which the use represents an unreasonable impairment of the property owner's enjoyment of implied easements. The impairment for appellant involves the unsightliness of a five-foot by seven-foot mechanical structure that is clearly a part of a municipal sewer improvement. It is not disputed that there are means available to minimize the unsightliness of the structure with landscaping improvements. As a matter of law, this does not resemble the extraordinary circumstances of Adams ("injurious consequences" of the proximity of the rail line[1]) or Castor (a block-long skyway running the length of the building). See Haeussler, 314 N.W.2d at 9-11 (announcing like cause for rejecting a takings claim under the principle of law that compensation is due only for a "substantial" invasion of a property right that results in a "definite and measurable" diminution of market value; citing Alevizos v. Metropolitan Airports Commission, 298 Minn. 471, 487, 216 N.W.2d 651, 662 (1974)).
Appellant contends that the takings test, including the consideration of reasonableness, is a fact question and not one to be determined by law. To the contrary, "[w]hether a taking has occurred is a question of law." Fitger Brewing Co. v. State, 416 N.W.2d 200, 205 (Minn. App. 1987), review denied (Minn. Feb. 23, 1988). The trial court incorrectly identified the unreasonable impairment element as an "unfortunate" or "inadvertent" point in Minnesota takings law. We conclude that the concept of reasonable impairment is a settled aspect of Minnesota takings law, but we affirm the trial court because the instant case does not present circumstances of unreasonable impairment of the implied easement of view.
[*] Retired judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, serving by appointment pursuant to Minn. Const. art. VI, § 10.
[ ]1 [T]he engines and trains passing day and night, and throwing steam, smoke, dust, and cinders upon the plaintiff's premises, and into his house; polluting the air with offensive smells, and interfering with the free circulation of light and pure air into and upon his premises, and jarring the ground so as to cause the house and furniture to vibrate; causing physical discomforts and annoyances to plaintiff and his family, and whereby the rental value of his premises is diminished.
Adams, 39 Minn. at 287-88, 39 N.W. at 630
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Here's Who Evangeline Lilly Wants as Wasp Mom Janet in ‘Ant-Man 2’
Here's Who Evangeline Lilly Wants as Wasp Mom Janet in Ant-Man 2
Movieweb Contributor
— December 7th, 2015
After the success of this summer's Ant-Man, which earned over $180 million at the domestic box office and $518 million worldwide, Marvel announced the follow-up Ant-Man and the Wasp, which will be released on July 6, 2018. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly will be back to reprise their roles as Scott Lang/Ant-Man and Hope Van Dyne/The Wasp in this sequel, but no story details have been divulged so far. Evangeline Lilly recently made an appearance at the Comic Con Experience in Brazil over the weekend, where she revealed a casting suggestion she has for the sequel
"I do not know anything about Ant-Man and Wasp. Marvel didn't tell me anything, but wouldn't it be cool if Hope was behind her mother and if she was played by Michelle Pfeiffer."
Earlier this year, while doing press for Ant-Man, Evangeline Lilly revealed in an interview that she wants Hope to meet her mother, Janet Van Dyne, and that she wants Michelle Pfeiffer to play the role. In Ant-Man, we learned that Janet Van Dyne disappeared into the Quantum Realm several years ago. One of the Ant-Man end credits scene featured Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) showing his daughter Hope the Wasp suit that both he and his mother were working on for her, at the time of her disappearance.
Evangeline Lilly revealed this summer that Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as Catwoman in 1992's Batman Returns was one of her favorite performances of all time, which is why she wants the actress to come aboard and play Janet Van Dyne. As of now, the sequel doesn't have a screenwriter attached to write the script yet, but Peyton Reed is coming back to direct. It isn't known how far along in development Ant-Man 2 is at this point, or if the producers are considering using Janet Van Dyne for this sequel.
It also isn't known if Ant-Man stars such as Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian and T.I. will reprise their roles for Ant-Man and the Wasp. Do you think Michelle Pfeiffer is a good choice to play Janet Van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp? Chime in with your thoughts and stay tuned for more developments on this upcoming sequel.
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Lucy Hale and ABC Family to Team for ‘Pretty Little Liars’
Lucy Hale and ABC Family to Team for Pretty Little Liars
Cat Parker
— October 20th, 2009
ABC Family is in talks for a pilot order to the drama Pretty Little Liars, with Privileged star Lucy Hale inking a deal to star in the project based on Alloy Entertainment's series of young-adult novels by Sara Shepard.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show is adapted for TV by Marlene King, and is set three years after the disappearance of the manipulative and vindictive "Queen Bee" Alison. It revolves around her four 16-year-old girlfriends, Aria (Hale), Emily, Spencer and Hanna, who have lost touch with one another until each of them begins to receive mysterious messages suggesting that Alison is watching them and knows every secret they're desperate to keep. The messages don't stop even after Alison's body finally is discovered.
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New Line To Re-Make ‘Battle Royale’
New Line To Re-Make Battle Royale
— June 8th, 2006
New Line has bought the rights to the remake of the violent Japanese film, Battle Royale.
The film was a bit controversial because of concerns about its violence. It's set in an apocalyptic future in which schools are overrun by uncontrolled violence; Variety adds the government responds by organizing an annual Battle Royale, in which a school class is picked at random and students are pitted against each other on an abandoned island in a game of survival.
Production has not yet been set for the remake of Battle Royale.
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Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota
Amedeo Modigliani met Paul Guillaume through the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) in 1914. Paul Guillaume was then just starting out as an art dealer, and he rented a studio for Modigliani in Montmartre. In 1915 and 1916 Modigliani produced four portraits of his patron. The portrait in the Musée de l’Orangerie was painted at the home of the artist’s mistress, the British poet, Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943), who also lived in Montmartre.
Paul Guillaume, aged just 23, is shown as an elegant young man, sure of himself, looking directly at the viewer. His figure stands out against the red background. His dark suit and hat contrast with his face and his white shirt. The planar rendering of the face and his well-defined features attract the eye, while his left hand is barely sketched.
In this portrait Modigliani pays tribute to the young art dealer who was already regarded as the "new helmsman", like a sailor or one of the wise men guided by a star, a patron and visionary supporter of modern art in the years after 1910.
Provenance: Paul Guillaume, Domenica Walter
Amedeo Modigliani18841920
Huile sur carton collé sur contre-plaqué parqueté
RF 1960-44
Signed and dated, upper lower left, in black: MODIGLIANI 1915.
Inscription, upper left, on two lines: PAUL GUILLAUME; top right, a star of David and below: STELLA MARIS, highlighted with two intertwined curved lines, on two lines in green paint mixed with white: NOVO PILOTA, lower right, a drawing of a swastika between the signature and date.
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée de l'Orangerie) / Hervé Lewandowski
Red-Haired Girl
In 1915, having given up sculpture, Modigliani returned to painting, although not without...
Only the first name of the model in this portrait is known: Antonia. It is traditionally dated to...
Woman with Velvet Ribbon
This portrait stands out for the purity and stylisation of the facial features. The figure, with...
The Young Apprentice
Modigliani greatly admired the works of Cézanne and this portrait reproduces the pose of certain...
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EPA moving forward with review of standard for ozone
CHICAGO — The Environmental Protection Agency will move forward Tuesday with a review of its limit on ground-level ozone, asking the public for input on whether the current standard protects public health — and if it hurts the economy.
The Obama administration tightened the ozone standard in 2015, citing health concerns. Industry has said the new limit is too strict.
The EPA routinely re-evaluates its standards on a five-year schedule, though it often misses its deadlines. Administrator Scott Pruitt said the ozone review will be conducted by October 2020 even though it’s just getting underway. The public now has 60 days to comment on the standard.
Pruitt told the outside advisory panel that makes recommendations to consider “economic or energy effects” as well as health.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit challenging the 2015 standard, saying the “EPA set an unattainable mandate … that will slow economic growth opportunities,” noting that many areas of the country still don’t meet the more lenient 2008 standard.
States had to begin meeting the new standard last October. Pruitt originally said he would delay implementation by one year but backtracked after being sued by 15 states.
Ground-level ozone, the main ingredient in smog, is an unstable gas created when pollution from cars, power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and other sources react in the atmosphere to sunlight. It can cause serious breathing problems for some people, and contributes to thousands of premature deaths each year.
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AP source: forward Channing Frye returning to Cavaliers
Tom Withers
PMN Basketball
CLEVELAND — Channing Frye was a dependable player, locker-room presence and fan favourite for parts of three seasons with the Cavaliers.
He can be again.
Frye has agreed to re-sign for next season with Cleveland, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Saturday, adding that the 35-year-old will get the $2.4 million veteran’s minimum contract. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been signed.
Yahoo Sports first reported the move.
Frye won a championship in his first season with Cleveland, but the club traded him in February to the Los Angeles Lakers as part of a massive roster overhaul that helped the Cavs get back to the Finals.
Frye posted a photo of himself on his Instagram account wearing a Cavs uniform with the caption: “Well I guess this is hello again.”
Frye is the Cavs’ first off-season signing since superstar LeBron James left as a free agent for the Lakers. But Cleveland may make some other moves as the four-time defending Eastern Conference champions begin to rebuild without James.
The 13-year veteran has averaged 9.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in a career that began with the New York Knicks in 2005.
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Critical thinking skills and competitive fun
Seniors Devon Lauffer and Sophia Asta working on a project (Jerry Asta/Special to the Seraphim
By Samantha Torre, Staff Writer
In 2011, freshman Austin Hertago approached Deacon Carbone at an Notre Dame Preparatory ice cream social, asking if he’d help create a school robotics team. Carbone agreed, but only if Hertago managed the team, while Carbone served as the moderator. Thus, NDP robotics team #3577 competed in its first season with seven students on the roster.
Since then, the program has grown significantly and has traveled to several competitions, including trips to Flagstaff and Las Vegas.
Senior Sophia Asta, a team member since freshman year, remembers her first year.
“When we started there were eight boys and me,” she said.
Last year, there were 21 students, including four girls.
“[Now] there are bigger goals as well,” Asta remarked.
In the beginning, the team focused on building the robot, according to Asta. Now, the team is working on becoming involved in the community, as evidenced through their team service projects.
The club has become a melting pot of athletes, gamers, and honors students alike who have come together because they want to learn about building robots and concepts such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, aka STEM.
Junior Sarah Ferenczi and volunteer engineer Gerry Katafaisz work on a robot (Sophia Asta/Special to the Seraphim).
Collaboration is an essential part of robotics, so to help foster team bonding, Carbone stopped appointing a club president after noticing that there was occasional tension between the “leaders” and students.
“Students don’t take orders from students very well,” he stated.
As a remedy, he took away the “president model” and replaced it by putting his seniors in charge for the upcoming season. Another reason for this change was his observation that the presidents didn’t enjoy the associated administrative tasks because it took them away from helping build the robot.
“The fact is a lot of these kids join robotics because they want to have their hands on the machine,” Carbone explained.
The robotics season launches into full gear (pun intended) every January with NDP’s participation in an organization called For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” (aka FIRST), which hosts international robotics competitions. FIRST holds a reveal event, where the “game” is announced and supplementary materials are passed out to the competing teams. The “game” is a competition in which robots must complete a task, while also competing against each other to determine who can best execute the task. For example, the 2016 medieval-themed season had robots “storm a castle” by throwing balls at fake towers to score “goals.”
Next, students spend six weeks building a robot weighing approximately 100 pounds that can participate in multiple competitions; students must also write a computer code that will control the robot. It’s a bustling time of the year, as there is only so much time to brainstorm ideas, buy materials, prototype, test the robot’s abilities, and rebuild if necessary.
An NDP robot rests in Room 901 after its competition days are over (Samantha Torre/The Seraphim).
Senior Matthew Griffin described this period as “six weeks of absolute chaos.”
However, he also noted that amidst the chaos there is productivity.
“Everyone always plays a helping hand in putting everything together,” he noted.
One of the best aspects about the building process is that it is student-led, and the robot is student-built. According to Carbone, the students brainstorm to determine what they want to do, and along with two parent assistants, he helps the team figure out logistics, while allowing the students to take the reigns.
As he put it, “They have to own it.”
After exactly six weeks, the team must put the robot, complete or not, into a plastic bag so that no one can secretly work on it. An outside source signs it with the date and time it was put into the bag. Then, it is time for the competitions.
All competitions follow a theme that’s created by FIRST. To get teams excited for the new season, FIRST will publish a “teaser” to hint at what activity the robots will have to complete. The teaser for this year hinted at gaming. At the competitions themselves, the “game” that was announced at the reveal event is played out, and points are given to the teams who do the best job. At the end of competition season, teams who perform well are invited to a state championship. Next is a national competition, and eventually, a world championship.
Even after the season ends, robotics team members reap benefits that can aid them beyond high school. One of the main benefits is continuing their interest in STEM. Griffin joined the team his sophomore year because it catered to his current interest in robotics and engineering, as well as his future goals.
“I knew it was something I want to do later in life and I knew it was something that was definitely growing in the world,” he explained.
Griffin, who wants to be an entrepreneur, reasoned that since robotics is a growing field, it would be helpful to know what technologies and fields are currently popular.
Asta, who wants to major in engineering in college, joined robotics because she heard positive feedback about it from an NDP alumni, and because she enjoys building.
Another benefit are the life skills gained from working in a team environment that focuses on “hands-on” activity. For instance, Asta recognized that being organized and planning for disasters are essential because machines can break, and team members must have back-up plans or must be able to think outside the box. Also, robotics teaches students to be open to learning new things. Carbone recognized that some students tend to be afraid of STEM, even those who do join the team.
“People are intimidated by a science-technology formation,” he observed.
However, Carbone noticed that eventually those who were intimidated became comfortable. That being said, he hopes that the robotics team allows students to be more encouraged to learn.
“If you have an interest to learn, you can learn to do anything,” he said.
Since 2011, the NDP robotics team has been building robots and diving deeper into what a STEM career could be like. However, students gain other benefits as well, such as a feeling of community and helpful life skills. In a world where STEM jobs will play a vital part in society, team #3577 is well on its way to successful robots and successful futures.
In the competition in Flagstaff, the team ranked 39th out of 62 teams, and in Las Vegas they placed 29th out of 44 teams. The NDP robot was the only one in Las Vegas that consistently climbed the end game, according to Carbone, and it was able to “buddy climb” with Team #256 in round 80 in Flagstaff. The team learned to react quickly to adversity when the robot fell off the climb bar and crashed to the floor. By quickly redeploying the climbing mechanism, the team lifted the robot to its feet.
Chess: Battle of the Boards
Senior Thomas Meeks practices his chess strategy (Samantha Torre/The Seraphim).
For those who prefer a more peaceful but still competitive workout, look no further than the chess team, which started in 2006.
Each school year a new season runs from September to the end of October, with twice-a-week practices in room 901. There are chess boards strewn about the room, and students can choose who they want to play. Sophomore Zabinia Arvizu noted, however, that it’s better to play against someone who is more skilled at chess, so that she can learn better defense strategies. Usually, teammates play one to two games each practice. Meanwhile, the team coach, Rich DesMarais, walks around the room giving tips on strategies to all players, including savvy seniors Thomas Meeks and Katie Olson and junior Tim Ryan.
Tournaments hosted by the Arizona Interscholastic Association can last as long as seven hours. During tournaments, players compete in three games. The winner of the games receives a “higher rating.” Even though the games are competitive, players will still politely point out mistakes, so that their opponents can improve in the future. Because chess tournaments are hosted by the AIA, students can receive a varsity letter for being on the team.
DesMarais, parent of Lindsay ‘18 and Nick ‘15, has been the head coach since 2016. During Nick’s junior and senior year, DesMarais began his involvement with the team. According to Carbone, DesMarais realized that he enjoyed working with the students, and he even conducted workshops and lessons with the team, since he was experienced in chess. As Carbone became increasingly busy working with the robotics team, he asked DesMarais if he would be interested in being the head coach. Since becoming head coach, DesMarais has played a huge role in aiding both experienced and new players.
“It has been a huge success,” said Carbone, who serves as school moderator. “He has … taught and mentored the students well beyond any level that I could have. We have players that had never moved a chess piece in their life, and by the end of their senior year, they’re beating very, very good players.”
DesMarais enjoys seeing how students improve over the years and how happy newcomers are when they win a game. One memorable moment was when a new chess player made a comeback and won her game after remembering advice he gave her.
“You realize that something you told them really sunk in, and that it helped them win the game,” he shared.
Like other extracurricular activities, chess has many benefits.
For example, Arvizu noticed that since she started playing chess, she can think better and faster.
“Those are really good skills to have, especially when you’re going into AP or Honors classes, ” she said.
Multiple studies reveal that chess has the capacity to enhance cognitive skills. One study from the Islamic Azad University in Kurdistan, Iran, done in 2011 tested how learning chess can enhance students’ methods of thinking. For the study, 180 primary and junior high students in Sanandaj, Iran, were tested; 86 were taught chess for six months, while the other 94 students did not receive instruction.
The researchers found that teaching chess to students “improved significantly their mathematical problem-solving ability.”
A second study conducted by professors at Lebanese University in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2014 showed that playing chess can improve concentration in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Fourteen students diagnosed with ADHD were taught to play chess twice a week for four months for a span of two years.
“[ The results] revealed an improvement in the concentration tasks,” the study concluded.
While these are exciting discoveries, professors would still like to conduct more research. A third study by Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet of the University of Liverpool discussed how more research needs to be confirmed.
“Even if chess, under specific circumstances, seems to positively affect children’s skills, there still are serious doubts about the real effectiveness of its practice,” the study referenced in 2015.
Like robotics, chess can also teach important life skills.
For example, Arvizu noticed that playing chess requires patience: “to play chess … takes a lot of patience and that’s something I have to work on.”
Junior Andrew Erickson also mentioned how patience is especially important for new players, because it can take time to understand the sport.
“It was really important that I was really patient when I kept losing,” he explained.
Erickson observed that he is now winning more often, due to practicing new strategies, something he was able to achieve because of patience.
Another life skill that is gained through chess is confidence. According to DesMarais, confidence from improving in chess transfers to other areas of life.
“They can do other things that they didn’t know they could do if they put their mind to it,” he said.
Even though chess is mainly an individual sport, that doesn’t prevent the 13-member team from bonding with each other.
“They’re all very supportive … I really like to be around them,” Arvizu said.
In addition, Carbone believes that chess helps shape the mind, something that NDP values, as shown through the school motto: “strengthening minds, bodies, and souls.”
“If you’re forming the mind, you’re forming the body, the physical, the spirit …” said Carbone, who believes that by shaping the mind, one is improving all other aspects of themselves.
For 11 years, NDP’s chess team has been a place for new and experienced players alike. With the help of DesMarais and Carbone, the team has learned skills that will help them on and off the chess board.
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Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Faculty Committee
Student Organization
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Email David.j.hess@vanderbilt.edu to be added to the undergraduate list and learn about additional events.
All talks are open to members of the campus community.
Tuesday, October 2. “Computational Modeling, Archaeology, and the Anthropocene,” Lecture by Isaac Ullah, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State University. 3:10, Center for Digital Humanities, Butrick. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Tuesday, Nov. 27. “Sustainable Table: A Mindful Food Production and Agriculture Fair,” that will focus on conscious consumption and sustainable practices within food and agriculture. 6-8pm
Friday, Nov. 30. Green Poetry–readings and performances by finalists. 6:30-8:30, Buttrick 101. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Best poem award to Kelly Morgan for “Sermon.” Finalists: Colton Cronin, Dylan Kistler, Elizabeth Kroger, Samuel Ray, Mailin Struck, Miquela Thornton, and Hannah Zipper.
Jan. 18. 3:10 pm, Buttrick 102. The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Process, Findings, and Implications for the Southeast. Dr. Joe Casola is the former Deputy Director of the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington, and has worked in the public and private sectors to develop plans for climate change adaptation and resilience. Dr. Dave Reidmiller is the Chair of the US Global Change Research Program that just released the Fourth National Climate Assessment in November 2018 (https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/). He received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington and has worked in the US State Department and USGS on the negotiation of global climate change policy and agreements. The lecture is cosponsored by the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Jan. 28. SPEAR campus environmental awareness day.
Feb. 5. 6-7:30. Sunrise Movement event and panel. Rand Lounge.
Fri., Feb 15, 12:00-1:30pm. Matt Buckley, Campus Waste and Recycling Manager (Plant Operations), Vanderbilt University. Sponsored by the Science, Technology and Society Seminar of the Warren Center for the Humanities. Lunch served. At the Warren Center for Humanities. *Please RSVP to Prof. Tasha Rijke-Epstein if interested, as space is limited.
Feb. 28-March 1. Environmental law workshop.
March 15, Friday. 3-4:30. Environmental Justice Panel Discussion. Buttrick 101. During the day there will be a workshop for faculty, graduate students, and interested undergraduates. Guest speakers Kerry Ard (Ohio State), Shannon Bell (Virginia Tech), Stephanie Malin (Colorado State), and Julius McGee (Portland State). 12 noon: Max Liboirin, Buttrick 102, Memorial University of Newfoundland. These events are cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Wed., March 27, 12:00-1:30pm: Stephan Miescher (History, Univ. California-Santa Barbara) and R. Lane Clark (independent filmmaker). Selected work from Miescher’s forthcoming book, A Dam for Africa: The Volta River Project and Modernization in Postcolonial Ghana. Lunch served. At the Warren Center for Humanities. *Please RSVP to Prof. Tasha Rijke-Epstein if interested, as space is limited. This seminar will be coupled with an evening film screening of their documentary, Ghana’s Electric Dreams (evening of Wed., March 27th). Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Thurs. April 11, 12-1pm. Garland 209. Camille Dungy, Visiting Poet, “Black Environmental Poetry in a Time of Crisis.” Sponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Fri., April 12, 12:00-1:30pm. Rosalind Fredericks (NYU Gallatin), “Infrastructures of Discard in the Anthropocene: Precarious Bodies, Ontological Insecurity, and the New Commons.” Lunch served. Robert Penn Warren Center.
Monday, January 22, 3:30-5:00pm. “Technologies and Policies for a Sustainable Energy Future in the U.S. and Southeast,” by Prof. Marilyn A. Brown. Moore Room Vanderbilt Law School. Professor Brown is a Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she created and directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab.
Friday, February 9, 11:45a.m.- 1:10p.m., Sharon Krause, Professor, Political Science, Brown University“Political Respect for Nature.” Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Friday, Jan. 19th, at 12:10pm in Garland Hall 121. “The End in Sight: Life Below Shrinking Glaciers in Three Continents.’ Benjamin S. Orlove, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Feb. 20, 7:30 pm. NATIVe, VAISES, and Warren and Moore College Halls will be hosting a guest speaker, Rebecca Jim. Rebecca is a Native American environmental advocate and activist. She has worked for the last two decades with tribal leaders and the EPA to improve the quality of life for those living near the Tar Creek Superfund Site. We hope to see you at our event in the Kissam MPR, where there will be GME credit, Chik-fil-a, and incredible discussion!
March 20, 7pm. Lecture by Professor Michael Mann, climate scientist, Pennsylvania State University. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
April 12, 6:10pm. Buttrick 102. Yoram Bauman, economic and environmental comedian. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
September 15, 2017. Danny Reible, Donovan Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair, Texas Tech. “Sustaining Water Availability in Rural Communities: Expanding Use of Poor Quality Waters.” Buttrick 102, 3-4pm. This is the 2017 Distinguished Kappe Lecture of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists. The event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
October 3, 2017. Panel discussion on green jobs. Buttrick 101, 6pm. Would you like your career to be part of the solution, not the problem? Are you wondering what kinds of jobs you could get in the environmental area after graduation? Meet recent Vanderbilt grads and find out about their green jobs and career plans: Brenna Garmon, Advantage Environmental Consultants, Brentwood; Chelsea Hamilton, SustainVU, Nashville; Carson Hedberg, Urban Green Lab, Nashville; Audrey Jackson, Tennessee Department of Environmental Conservation, Knoxville; Dawei Li, faith-based solar initiative with Onward, India; Meaghan McArdle, Wilmot Inc. (sustainability services and consulting), Nashville; and Alisha Newton, Tennessee Department of Environmental Conservation, Nashville. Sponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and by SPEAR (Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility).
January 24, 2017. Nikki Detraz, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Memphis. “Gender and Climate Change Connections: Narratives of Vulnerability and Resilience.” Cohen 203, Tuesday 11-12:15. She is the author of Environmental Security and Gender (Routledge, 2014) and Gender and the Environment (Polity, 2016). Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
January 13, 2017. 12:10, Renaissance Room, Law School. Benjamin Sovacool, “Conceptual Frameworks and New Frontiers in Energy Justice.” Is our global energy system fair? Who will suffer the most from climate change? In what ways are current energy technologies infringing upon the capabilities of future generations? This presentation explores how concepts from justice and ethics can inform energy decision-making and highlight the futurity, fairness, and equity dimensions of energy production and use. Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool is Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, part of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. There he serves as Director of the Sussex Energy Group and Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Feb. 3, 2017. Keven Meehan, Professor of English and Director, Haitian Studies Project, University of Central Florida. Buttrick 123, 12:10. “Provisions: Popularizing Hydroponics as Climate Change Adaptation in the Caribbean.” This presentation profiled the Provisions Project, a multi-year collaboration on hydroponic farming conducted by faculty and students at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College in St. Kitts and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. “Provisions” evokes the history of provision grounds on which slaves and later freedmen and women grew daily subsistence food at the margins of Caribbean plantations. Building on these historical roots, this multi-national, multi-sector initiative seeks to revive the capacity of Caribbean smallholders to once again provide local food supplies, cutting food import bills while boosting livelihoods, improving diets, and reducing the environmental impact of food production.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Before the Flood, screening of the movie in Sarratt Cinema, 6:30pm.
April 5, 2017. Gil Gulickson, Crops Technology Editor for Successful Farming magazine/Agriculture.com, will give the annual SPEAR lecture 6-8pm Alumni 206. More details to follow. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. He will also be speaking April 6, 10am, in Buttrick 204 in the capstone seminar of Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Both events are open to the campus communiyy.
Sept. 23, 2016. Noon. Buttrick 123. Alex Nading, University of Edinburgh. “Mosquitoes, Microbes, and Toxic Chemicals in Global Health: The View from Medical Anthropology.” He will give an open lecture in the Department of Human and Organizational Development on the topic of food, health, and bureaucracy in Nicaragua. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Oct. 4, 2016. 2:35 pm, 301F Garland. Sarra Tlili, Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Florida, will speak on “Nonhuman Creation’s Devotion to God in the Islamic Tradition: Significance and Ecological Impact.” The lecture builds on her book Animals in the Quran (Cambridge University Press 2012). Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Nov. 3, 2016. Shaul Cohen, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon. 6pm, Garland 101. “Can there be common ground? Environment, identity and community in Palestine-Israel.” Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
November 18, 2016. Mater and Matrix: Water in Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspective, 4:10 pm, Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 308. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. A brainstorming session featuring scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern water management and culture, comparing approaches, evidence, successes, and pitfalls. Humanists and scientists, we are united by research interests in how water bodies and hydrological processes are affected by human activity and, in turn, how changing conditions impact society. We shall explore the power and possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration across time, around the world, and in diverse fields, from archaeology and art history to sociology and engineering. We are delighted to welcome Professor Sophie Bouffier from Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France: Sophie Bouffier is Professeur d’histoire grecque occidentale, Directrice de la Maison méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Directrice, Project HYDRΩΜED: La gestion des ressources hydrauliques en Méditerranée au 1er millénaire avant notre ère (Water Management in the Mediterranean during the 1st Millennium BC). See http://ccj.cnrs.fr/?article1057; http://hydromed.hypotheses.org/
March 29, 2016. Climate Connections. This event is sponsored by the student organization SPEAR with cosponsorship from the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. The event will begin at 6 PM in Wilson 103. The guest speaker is Jacqui Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. Her talk is titled “Black Lives Matter & Saving the Planet: How the Movements for Racial Justice and the Environment Converge.” Free Chipotle burritos will be served as well (all vegetarian!).
March 30, 2016. Jon Shefner, Chair of Sociology and the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of Social Science, University of Tennessee. At 8am as part of the VIEE regular meeting in Buttrick 162, he will speak on the Green Jobs project that he directs for Eastern Tennessee. At 12:30 in Kissam 312C, he will speak on “The Seeming Inevitability of Austerity.” This talk examines how economic policy set the stage for austerity policies to be seen as inevitable, and it draws on other cases to suggest some potential responses. Both events are open to the Vanderbilt community and cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and the Sociology Department.
April 12, 2016 Environmental Humanities Seminar. Amanda Little (English, Vanderbilt), speaking on her book-in-progress about the future of food. 4:10pm, Robert Penn Warren Center’s seminar room.
April 27, 2016. David Pellow, Sociology Department, U.C. Santa Barbara, will speak on “Race, Gender, Nation, and Species: New Directions in Environmental Justice Studies” at 12 noon TBA. The event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and the Sociology Department. In this talk I explore some of the central themes linking research across various sites of environmental justice conflicts, from the toxic shop floors of global electronics firms to the outdoor enthusiasts’ haven of Aspen, Colorado. Both of those sites reveal critical intersections of immigration and environmental politics and suggest productive methods for approaching environmental justice studies through the categories of race, gender, and nation. Going a step further, I draw from more recent work on radical ecology movements and political ecology to consider what environmental justice studies looks like when scholars place greater emphasis on integrating the category of species into methods, theory, and practice.
March 15, 2016, 4pm, Buttrick 206. Kim Wasserman-Neto will speak on the environmental justice movement as part of Seeking New Metaphors: Mobilizing Culture to Confront Environmental Crises, a series of films and talks that asks: How do we collectively move from recognition of environmental problems to the moral commitment to adequately address these problems? This event is cosponsored by the EOS Project and the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. She was inspired to campaign against the Crawford and Fisk coal plants when her three-year-old son contracted asthma. She led community activists to shut down two of the country’s dirtiest coal plants and works to transform formerly industrial space in Chicago into parks and multi-use spaces. In 2013, Wasserman was the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for North America.
March 15, 2016 Environmental Humanities Seminar. Joyce Chaplin (History, Harvard), Robert Penn Warren Center. 4:10pm, Robert Penn Warren Center’s seminar room.
March 15, 2016, 3:00pm, Wilson 103: Irene Klaver (UT Denton) on “Water Issues.” Dr Klaver is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy of Water Project at UT Denton. She co-directed (with Melinda Levin) The New Frontier: Sustainable Ranching in the American West, a documentary film that explores cattle ranching and rangeland management in the American West. This event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
March 3, 2016, 12:20-1:30, Rand 308. Richard Keller (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will speak on “Anecdotal Life: Isolation, Vulnerability, and Social Marginalization during the 2003 Heat Wave in Paris.” Professor Keller is a historian of science and medicine with an expertise in modern France and French colonial Africa. Keller’s recent book, Fatal Isolation, was based on research sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and examined how natural disasters reveal the social and political underpinnings of race and income inequality. Keller showed how the natural disaster exacerbated social inequalities that stemmed from historical choices in urban planning, public policy, and cultural expression. At University of Wisconsin, Professor Keller offers course on topics such as science, technology and medicine; history of psychiatry; international health; and medicine in the modern era. This event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, The EOS Environmental Project, and the RPW Center.
February 29, 2016, 4:10pm (Buttrick 201): Thomas Andrews will speak on his book Coyote Valley: Deep History in the Rockies. In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change. This event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
February 24, 2016, 3:15-4:15, Hyatt 144. A panel discussion addressing climate change and the recently proposed utility rate design by the Southern Environmental Law Center with Professors William Boyd, Ann Carlson and Jim Rossi, and Amanda Garcia of the SELC.
February 25, 2016, 3-4:30, Buttrick 101: Nancy Tuana (Penn State) on “Being Affected by Climate Change: The Anthropocene and the Body of Ethics.” Dr. Tuana is a philosopher of science who specializes in issues of ethics and science. She is the founding director of Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute and Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies. She is part of an NSF sponsored research network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management that links a transdisciplinary team of scholars at 24 universities and research institutions across six countries. She is also doing research on feminist philosophical approaches to climate change. This event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
February 18, 2016. Ben Lowe, Wilson 115, 4pm. Ben Lowe will speak on evangelical Christianity and the environment as part of Seeking New Metaphors: Mobilizing Culture to Confront Environmental Crises, a series of films and talks that asks: How do we collectively move from recognition of environmental problems to the moral commitment to adequately address these problems? Cosponsored by the EOS Project and the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
February 16, 2016 Environmental Humanities Seminar. Jason W. Moore (Sociology, Binghamton), speaking on his new book, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. 4:10pm, Robert Penn Warren Center’s seminar room.
February 4, 2016. Norman Wirzba, PhD, Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Agrarian studies at Duke University in the Divinity School and the Nicholas School of the Environment, will present a public lecture at 4 p.m. on February 4, 2016 in Light Hall, Room 214 entitled “Why Sustainable Agriculture Matters.” Professor Wirzba will address the way that sustainable agriculture can transform our approach to health as part of a vision of population health bringing together commitments to ecology and public health. This lecture is part of initiatives within the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at VUMC to highlight ecological ethics as part of the work of biomedical ethics in service to health and human flourishing of patients, staff, and the broader community.
January 28, 2016, 9:30-10:50, Buttrick 102. “Gender, environmental security, and climate change.” Nicole Detraz, University of Memphis, author of Environmental Security and Gender (Routledge 2014, available through web access from the Vanderbilt library) and International Security and Gender (Polity 2012). The lecture is part of Ethics and Public Policy (PSCI3253) and is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
January 21, 2016, 3:00pm, Buttrick 101: Barbara Muraca (Oregon State) on “Degrowth” & “The Papal Encyclical.” Dr. Muraca is an Italian philosopher, with a process theory background, who has spent many years community organizing in Germany and working with the European degrowth (“decroissance”) movement. She is Co-Director of the IAEP (International Association of Environmental Philosophy). This event is cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
January 12, 2016 Environmental Humanities Seminar. Ed Rubin (Law, Vanderbilt), speaking on his new climate novel, The Heatstroke Line. 4:10pm, Robert Penn Warren Center’s seminar room
December 1, 2015, 4:10pm. Warren Center, Environmental Humanities Group. Jennifer Fay, Cinema Studies, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Hospitality at the End of the World”
November 10, 2015, 9:30 am, Garland 209. Sociology Department Green Jobs Seminar (open to campus community). Diane Scher, Manager of Environmental Affairs, Bridgestone Americas, “Zero Waste Business Practices.” Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
November 10, 2015,4:10 pm. Warren Center. Environmental Humanities Group.. Readings on Political Ecology
November 3, 2015, 10:45 am, Garland 209. Sociology Department Green Jobs Seminar (open to campus community) Jennifer Smith, Nashville Public Metro Works-Landscape Coordination Program, “Urban Ecosystem in Nashville.” Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
October 27, 2015, 10:45 am, Garland 209. Sociology Department Green Jobs Seminar (open to campus community) Scott Potter and Ron Taylor, Nashville Water Services, will talk about “Clean Water Nashville.” Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
October 20, 2015. 10:45am, Garland 209. Sociology Department Green Jobs Seminar (open to campus community) Rick Crume “Green Social Services Buildings, Community Support, and Client Self-Image in Japan.” Richard Crume recently retired from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he directed program planning and execution for the nation’s air quality program. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
October 6, 2015. Warren Humanities Center, 4pm. Nathaniel Rich, author of the climate science fiction novel Odds Against Tomorrow, will speak about his work and the emerging genre of “cli-fi.” Additional events for his visit will be announced. Students are also invited to attend “A Conversation about Climate Fiction” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 1:10 in Buttrick 202. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
September 22, 2015. 9:30 am, Garland 209. David Hess, Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt, will talk about his book Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy.
March 20-22, 2015. Conference on Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Ethics. Speakers include Karen Barad, Claire Colebrooke, Michael Marder, Dawne McCance, Cary Wolfe, Vicki Kirby, Kelly Oliver, David Wood, Matthias Fritsch, Michael Peterson, Phil Lynes. Cosponsored by the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, organized by Prof. David Wood. For more details, including registration and hotel booking information (available shortly) go to www.ecodeconstruction.squarespace.com.
For other local inquiries, contact
David Wood (Philosophy) david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu
Terry Boyd (Philosophy) terryboyd2626@gmail.com
January 26, 28, and 30. Guest Lectures by Tiffany Wilmot. Stevenson 1210, 10:10-11am. These are open to all students and are part of the seminar on Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Wilmot will lead a discussion on green buildings and certification on Jan. 26, on green urban design on Jan. 28, and on green careers on Jan. 30. Wilmot is the president of Wilmot, Inc., a sustainability and green building consulting firm that provides clients with innovative, high-performance approaches to improve health, protect the environment, and save money. Under her leadership, Wilmot has manaed a wide variety of large-scale public and private-sector projects for clients such as Nashville Music City Center, Ft. Campbell, and Vice President Al Gore.
January 12, 2015. 4-6pm (Monday). Buttrick 123. (Located on the main floor inside the Women’s Studies area.) Two local environmental leaders, Tiffany Wilmot (a green buildings expert who has led the design of several major buildings in Nashville) and Chris Lunghino (attorney and Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign organizer), will speak about their own careers and give pointers on how you can develop a green career. Pizza will be served.
April 29, 2014 (Tuesday), noon, Buttrick 123. Lori Hunter, associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado and editor of Population and Environment, will speak on “Migration, Natural Resources and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa.” The results of several research papers are summarized — demonstrating intriguing associations between environmental factors and outmigration. In general, households with higher levels of local natural resources are more likely to engage in temporary migration although this association is highly localized, varying from strongly positive in some villages to strongly negative in others. The socio-demographic factors underlying this “geographic scale sensitivity” are explored.
February 3, 2014 (Monday), 3pm, The Commons. Tiffany Wilmot gave a tour of The Commons to talk about special features for energy efficiency. The tour is part of the ENVS 99 class but is open to all students. It will meet in The Commons near the dining hall entrance a little after 3pm. Ms. Wilmot is the president of Wilmot, Inc., and is a nationally recognized expert on green buildings and energy efficiency. Among her many achievements is working on LEED certification features for Al and Tipper Gore’s home and for the Nashville Convention Center.
January 24, 2014 (Friday), 10 am, Stevenson 1210. Dodd Galbreath, Assistant Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Sustainable Practice, Lipscomb University: “Graduate Program Options in Sustainability Studies.”
Nov. 9, 2012 David Hess, “Green Jobs, the Developmentalist State, and American Politics,” based on his newly published book Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy (MIT Press). Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium
Nov. 28, 2012 Charles Redman, Arizona State, ‘Transforming the Silos: Creating a School of Sustainability’-
Jan. 18, 2013. Scott Frickel, Washington State, “Do Disasters Change Scientific Fields? Wetlands Ecology Before and After Katrina.”
Jan. 23, 2013. Chris Ann Lunghino, “Careers in Environmental and Sustainability Studies: Law, Government, and Nonprofit Work.”
Jan. 30, 2013 “Careers in Environmental and Sustainability Studies: Business and Social Entrepreneurship.” Billy Parish.
Feb. 8, 2013, Workshop on Climate Change, Anti-Environmentalism, and American Politics. 12-1pm Bill Ruddiman, University of Virginia: “Climate Science and Climate Skeptics.” 1:15-5:30pm Workshop. Presentations by Anthony Leiserowitz (Yale), Aaron McCright (Michigan State), and Timmons Roberts (Brown).
February 11, 2013 Beth Conklin, Chair of Anthropology, “Constricting the ‘Lungs of the World’: Water, Energy and Climate Change in the Amazon.” Feathinghill Hall Room 138, 4:10pm.
March 12, 2013– Campus lecture by geographer Brent Millikan, Director of the Amazonia Program for the International Rivers organization, on water, energy, forest and climate change issues in Brazil. 4pm. Calhoun 109.
September 6, 2013 (Friday), at 2:00 pm. Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography, Syracuse Unviersity, “Climate Change as Hydro-social Change: Rethinking Water Crises in the Global South.”
August 30, 2013. The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, symposium on “Sacred Ecology: Landscape Transformations and Ritual Practice” on August 30, 2013.
October 2, 2013 (Wednesday), at 7pm, Wilson 126. David Padgett, Associate Professor of Geography, and Director of the Geographic Information Sciences (GISc) Laboratory at Tennessee State University: “Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Related Technologies in Community-Based Environmental Justice Research.” This will be a general introduction to GIS oriented toward undergraduate students in the Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Check the News & Events page for upcoming events.
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World illumined by light of bicentenary celebrations
Indigenous music and dance were part of a celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Baha’u’llah in Vancouver, Canada.
BAHA'I WORLD CENTRE — Two hundred years after the birth of Baha’u’llah, countless communities in every corner of the globe are honoring His compelling vision of a better world.
In Iran, the land where Baha’u’llah was born and where His Faith has suffered endless waves of persecution, one of the many simple gestures of unity came from a Muslim family, who offered a beautifully decorated cake as a gift to their Baha’i neighbors in honor of the bicentenary. Particularly poignant was the fact that some members of that family only a generation before had been antagonistic towards the Faith and had even refused to touch Baha’is, believing them to be unclean.
Throughout Europe, gatherings both large and small have attracted many participants today. In Paris, at an apartment that was once graced by the presence of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, a small group of dignitaries and other prominent officials met this morning to say prayers together. This intimate event followed a set of round table discussions held by the Baha’i community on social cohesion and inclusion in France.
Princess Soamsawali watches a dance performance at a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Baha’u’llah’s birth in Bangkok.
Another significant aspect of the bicentenary period in France unfolded in Corsica. For the first time, a selection of Baha’i prayers and writings has been translated into the Corsican language and published in a bilingual Corsican and French book. A musical composition in Corsican can be heard here.
In Thailand, the Royal Family was represented by Princess Soamsawali at the bicentenary celebration held at the Baha’i Centre in Bangkok. The evening’s program featured music, prayers, and traditional Thai dances. The gathering was attended by nearly 250 participants and was one of many commemorations held in the country today.
At the Aboriginal Friendship Centre in Vancouver, Canada, over 200 participants gathered to commemorate the bicentenary with traditional indigenous dance and music. A dignitary from a local First Nations community welcomed everyone with a prayer in his native language.
“I prayed that you would all recognize the truth in Baha’u’llah’s words,” he told the audience afterwards.
Baha’is have at times been astounded by the number of their friends and neighbors who wish to participate in celebrations. A community of just ten Baha’is in Ohio received 150 guests at a formal dinner that they hosted yesterday.
Across the continent of Africa, communities have been celebrating in every setting, gathering in homes for prayers, meeting in the streets for parades, and holding commemorations that reach thousands of people. These festivities are animated by a spirit of joy—some including singing, drumming, or dancing.
The film Light to the World has continued to be screened throughout the weekend in living rooms, cinemas, stadiums, and tents.
At Baha’i Houses of Worship across the world, thousands have gathered throughout the weekend for celebrations. A broadcast of the most recent devotional program at the Temple in Wilmette will start at 20:30 GMT and can be live streamed on the official bicentenary website.
As the earth turns on its axis, torch is passed on to Europe, Americas
Sunset brings light over Oceania, Asia, Africa
Bicentenary website shifts to focus on 72 hours of celebration
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Comedies of Fair U$e
A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars: symposium at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, April 28-30, 2006.
Full Program Audio on Archive.org
The entire Comedies conference (audio) is now available at Archive.org for listening and for free download, thanks to Fred Benenson who had the time and energy, not to mention the know-how, to clean-up all of these mp3s and get them up online. Note: they are licensed with a Creative Commons deed: Attribution-ShareAlike
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, in association with the NYU Humanities Council presented a weekend long symposium
A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars
Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30, 2006
Friday April 28, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Saturday 9:30-6:30 p.m. and Sunday 9:30-1:00 p.m.
Hemmerdinger Hall
100 Washington Sq. East
7:30pm-7:45pm Introductory remarks : Robert Boynton
7:45pm-9:30pm Lawrence Lessig on The Current State of Fair Use with responses by Allan Adler and Hugh Hansen
Siva Vaidhyanathan (moderator)
9:30am -10:00am Introductory remarks: Lawrence Weschler
(Note: Lawrence Lessig and Judge Kozinski will comment as the day progresses)
10:00am-11:30am Art
Joy Garnett, Susan Mieselas, Lebbeus Woods,
Art Spiegelman, Carrie McLaren, Joel Wachs
Lawrence Weschler (moderator)
11:45am-1:15pm The Permissions Maze
Geoff Dyer, Susan Bielstein, Allan Adler
James Boyle(moderator)
2:30pm-3:15pm Screening of short films: films from the 826 NYC kids
and the Free Culture remix contest. Comments on the
issues they raise by Leon Friedman and Charles Sims.
3:30pm-4:45pm Documentary Film
Amy Sewell, Pat Aufderheide, Hugh Hansen,
Errol Morris, Charles Sims
Robert Boynton(moderator)
5:00pm-6:30pm Music
Lawrence Ferrara, Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky),
Hank Shocklee, Claudia Gonson
Kembrew McLeod (moderator)
9:30am-9:45am Introductory remarks: Siva Vaidhyanathan
9:45am-11:15am Now Where Are We?
Lewis Hyde, Jonathan Lethem, James Boyle
Siva Vaidhyanathan(moderator)
11:30am-1:00pm W hat Is To Be Done?
Judge Kozinski, Pat Aufderhide, Carrie McLaren
Posted by NEWSgrist on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 05:07 PM in audio archive | Permalink
Introduction to the conference on NPR
via NPR:
Listen to an introduction to the COMEDIES conference on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show: "Property Values", Thursday, April 27, 2006, with Art Spiegelman, Siva Vaidhyanathan and Jonathan Lethem.
more about the conference, via NYIH:
Panelists, in addition to organisers Lawrence Lessig , Robert Boynton and Institute director Lawrence Weschler will include:
Photographer Susan Meiselas
Painter Joy Garnett
Novelist Jonathan Lethem
Comix artist Art Spiegelman
Essayist Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage, The Ongoing Moment)
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris
Joel Wachs, head of the Andy Warhol Foundation
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit
NYU's Siva Vaidhyanathan (Copyrights and Copywrongs)
Essayist Lewis Hyde (The Gift, Trickster Makes This World)
NYU's Lawrence Ferrara, expert on musical issues
Carrie McLaren of Stay Free
James Boyle, of digital environmentalist movement (Shaman, Software, and Spleens) and others
Some of the most contentious issues bedeviling cultural life today are increasingly coming to revolve around the question of what proper deference ought to be paid to the notion of intellectual property. Just what is copyright, what is its point, who is it designed to protect (individual creators and their legatees, be they individual or corporate, and necessarily to the same extent?) and what is it designed to foster (the most thrivingly fertile intellectual community and intercourse possible?)? How might such objectives, thus stated, be internally at odds, and how might such tensions in turn be resolved? What sorts of product ought to be copyrightable and for how long? To what (increasing?) extent is the cultural/intellectual commons being divied up, fenced off into ever more diminutive swaths of barbed and monetarized terrain? And what exceptions ought to be made to this tendency? What is "fair use" and how ought it to be extended (and perhaps expanded)? How do all these issues play out across different media-textual (books and magazines), visual (photos, paintings, films), and aural (musical)? And to what extent are rampaging developments on the cyberfront expanding or constricting all possibilities in this regard?
The last weekend of this coming April (April 28, 29, and 30), the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU will be bringing together practioners and artists (many from among the ranks of its own distinguished fellowship), along with lawyers, judges, historians, theorists and philosophers, in order to explore various aspects of these questions. Robert Boynton of the NYU Journalism faculty, one of the principal chroniclers of developments in this field, and Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University, arguably the field's most dynamic activist, are collaborating in helping to convene and steer the conference.
Posted by NEWSgrist on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 05:00 AM in Current Affairs, Opening Remarks, Radio | Permalink
Keynote: Lawrence Lessig
Here's a marked-up transcript from IPTAblog by Andrew Raff.
Also, notes from the second session: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Allan Adler (Assoc. of American Publishers) and Hugh Hansen (Fordham Law), with Lessig responding.
Posted by NEWSgrist on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 06:00 AM in Current Affairs, Lessig, Opening Remarks | Permalink
Introduction, Saturday morning: Lawrence Weschler
click to hear audio:
Posted by NEWSgrist on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 07:00 AM in Current Affairs, Opening Remarks | Permalink
Art Panel [1]: Joy Garnett
LISTEN TO THE TALK, Joy Garnett Art Panel [1]:
Hi-res slide images for this talk are available at Flickr:
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Lecture, NYIH Conference: Comedies of Fair U$e (2006). Make your own badge here.
HARPER'S, February 2007
"On The Rights of Molotov Man: Appropriation and the art of context" [PDF]
By Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas
{...This portfolio is drawn from their conversation at the New York Institute for the Humanities' "Comedies of Fair U$e" symposium...}
"The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism"
By Jonathan Lethem {Listen to interview on WNYC}
{Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and You Don't love Me Yet, which will be published in March.}
Ruminations on the Harper's piece from Christopher Reiger, "Hungry Hyaena" blog:
Creative Restraint and Responsibility: Artists, Documentarians and Copyright
{excerpt}
The subtitle of "On the Rights of Molotov Man," the piece preceding Lethem's essay, is "Appropriation and the art of context." Indeed, the latter half of this subtitle is central to the dispute between Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas. The details of the situation, in a nutshell, are as follows. Garnett trolled the web for "images of figures in extreme emotional or physical states." One of the many .jpegs she saved showed a man hurling a Molotov cocktail. Garnett was interested in the act pictured, not the provenance. In fact, the .jpeg was a cropped section of a Meiselas photograph, originally published in the photographer's 1981 book, "Nicaragua." Garnett produced an oil painting based on the detail she had downloaded and, after the painting was displayed in a New York art gallery (and was featured on the exhibition's announcement), Garnett received a letter from Meiselas's lawyer informing the painter that she was "sailing under the flag of piracy." Taken aback and a little shaken up, Garnett turned to an online "new media" community, Rhizome.org, for advice. Aware of the legal cloud, however, she was careful not to "name names or post a link to Susan's photograph." Her situation drew a lot of attention, eventually leading to an international agitprop campaign dubbed Joywar. (The details are very interesting, but, in the interest of space, I'll simply recommend the following links: the full Harper's article; a relevant video lecture; an archive of all things JoyWar; a related photo set). Suffice it to say, although no lawsuit was brought, Garnett and Meiselas have different perspectives on the matter.
Reading Meiselas's half of "On the Rights of Molotov Man," however, one realizes that copyright is less important to her than context. In other words, Garnett's unsanctioned use of the image is less troublesome to the photographer than the generalization of the image's content. There is an important distinction to be made here. The artist - Garnett, in this case - speaks the language of the universal. Hers is "a project born of frustration and anger" and the .jpeg of the anonymous rebel was "emblematic of the series." This is true of all the works that comprise Garnett's "Riot" series. Her inspiration was specific - the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 - but her paintings of "shouting demonstrators, angry skinheads, an Air Force pilot and his girl in an emotional embrace, frat boys jumping over bonfires, screaming punk rockers" are archetypes of the anxiety and anger we feel when powers outside our sphere of influence affect us adversely, especially when they steer the region (or world) toward further conflict. These misgivings are essentially equivalent, irrespective of culture, place or time.
By contrast, the photographs Susan Meiselas shot in Nicaragua are intended as documents of a particular place, during a particular conflict, in this case, the fighting between the Sandinistas and the ruling Somoza family. Although this conflict continues today in a different incarnation, the photograph in question represents the final hours before the Somoza family fled the country in July of 1979. Meiselas's interest is specific and historical; she is a documentarian. Not all photographers are documentarians, but Meiselas makes clear her goals in the Harper's article. "Indeed, it seems to me that if history is working against context, then we must, as artists, work all the harder to reclaim that context." The Enlightenment thinker in me is inclined to agree with her, but most contemporary artists are not interested in reclaiming specificity. Rather, we are in the business of erasing it, sanding the hard edges of "fact" to reduce friction. Lethem, cribbing from David Foster Wallace's essay, "E Unibus Pluram":
"Today, when we can eat Tex-Mex with chopsticks while listening to reggae and watching a YouTube rebroadcast of the Berlin Wall's fall - i.e., when damn near everything presents itself as familiar - it's not a surprise that some of today's most ambitious art is going about trying to make the familiar strange....[by] paradoxically trying to restore what's taken for 'real' to three whole dimensions, to reconstruct a univocally round world out of disparate streams of flat sights."
In other words, we're learning to cope with the constant stream of information by boiling it down to an essential skeleton, be it celebrity gossip, dispatches from Iraq, undergraduate lectures on aesthetics or what have you. This process is entropic, but is more easily described than done. We've recognized for centuries that the historical record is ever growing, but recently the number of pages in our encyclopedias (and wikis) grows exponentially. As a result, our circuitry is overloaded. [...]
Garnett asks, "Does the author of a documentary photograph - a document whose mission is, in part, to provide the public with a record of events of social and historical value - have the right to control the content of this document for all time?" Of course not. But we are all responsible, as citizens of the world, for the commons, be it that of language, ecosystems, or the historical canon. Lethem writes, "Honoring the commons is not a matter of moral exhortation. It is a practical necessity." We have to decipher the signs with care and the reading mustn't stop at approximation. As important as our attempts to frame events in comprehensible terms are, we must not plead ignorance to create a happy fiction of distressing reality.
"Who owns the rights to this man's struggle?," a blogger named nmazca asked, referring to the Sandinista rebel photographed by Meiselas and, in turn, painted by Garnett. We all do. I see no reason why he can not be both Pablo Arauz, a one time rebel photographed by Meiselas in 1979, who now has a family and "a pretty good job delivering lumber," and the anonymous, existential Molotov Man. It is, however, our responsibility to honor both incarnations. As it exists now, copyright law is a "gag order," as Garnett puts it, to global conversation, but as it erodes (and erode it will, like language and history), we will become responsible for the context. Are we ready to be vigilant in an open source world?
more from edward_winklman blogspot, 1/23/07:
Appropriate Appropriation
{check out the comments section...}
more from David Bollier's OnTheCommons.org, 1/25/07:
Authorship as a Collective Endeavor {excerpt}
[...]The core question for Garnett is "Who owns the rights to this man's struggle?" She writes:
Does the author of a documentary photograph – a document whose mission is, in part, to provide the public with a record of events of social and historical value – have the right to control the content of this document for all time. Should artists be allowed to decide who can comment on their work and how? Can copyright law, as it stands, function in any way except as a gag order?
Meiselas takes issue with Garnett, however, claiming that Garnett’s "practice of decontextualizing an image as a painter is precisely the opposite of my own hope as a photographer to contextualize an image…." Meiselas:
There is no denying in this digital age that images are increasingly dislocated and far more easily decontextualized. Technology allows us to do many things, but that does not mean we must do them. Indeed, it seems to me that if history is working against context, then we must, as artists, work all the harder to reclaim that context. We owe this debt of specificity not just to one another but to our subjects, with whom we have an implicit contract.
It's a fair enough response, as far as it goes. But really – isn't a photograph, any photograph, itself a radical de-contextualization of its subject matter? Can a photographer really believe that the context of his or her work can be preserved? Doesn't the act of introducing something to the culture require a certain loss of control, and thus an acceptance of re-contextualizations?
It sounds to me as if Meiselas is belatedly trying to scramble to the moral high ground after her litigation gambit proved too incendiary. Her copyright claims were trumped by the spontaneous acts of artists and revolutionaries everywhere.
Posted by NEWSgrist on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 08:00 AM in Art | Permalink
Art Panel [2]: Susan Meiselas
SHOOTING THE REVOLUTION
Photojournalist Susan Meiselas' riveting scenes from Nicaragua, El Salvador on display at UC Berkeley
Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer
The rebel rises from the sandbags, wearing a Che Guevara beret and beard, crucifix and a face of revolutionary rage. As he lifts his rifle in left hand, Molotov cocktail in right, Susan Meiselas raises her camera.
That instant marks the beginning of an image that would become a wall mural, poster, matchbox cover and symbol of the 1979 Sandinista insurrection in Nicaragua.
Susan Meiselas' picture of a Sandinista rebel in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolt became a symbol of the insurrection. She made notes in the margins years later when she returned to track down the subject....
Twenty years later, Meiselas is still studying the construction and deconstruction of a documentary picture. Both ends are represented in "Central America Documentation/Mediation,'' which opened Thursday at the Center for Photography Gallery at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
The Sandinista series, published in Meiselas' book "Nicaragua,'' is complemented by pictures from subsequent books, moving up the Central American isthmus to conflict in El Salvador and the struggle at the U.S.- Mexico border.
The vintage prints from Nicaragua are enhanced by spectacular color. Some of the street fighters, far from wearing camouflage, have on bright red masks, and the poor people Meiselas follows like to wear bold colors to offset the bleak taupe of the rubble and the florid green of the countryside. In con trast, the Salvador work is traditional black- and-white war photography. The border images are panoramic and wide like the fence.
The photograph, and her series, were made into a book, "Nicaragua," which includes a cover shot from the revolution. Susan Meiselas photography
Viewed together, the works span a decade of "going places where I don't belong,'' says Meiselas, who has been rewarded for her bravery and eye with a MacArthur "genius'' grant, Capa Gold Medal and about every other award for valor in photojournalism.
"We as Americans know very little about the people of the world,'' she says. "So what I do is go out there to find out the best I can what's happening, who these people are, and make some sense of it and bring it back.''
A veteran free-lancer with the international cooperative Magnum Photos, Meiselas is based in New York. She has had solo shows in New York, Chicago, London, Stockholm, Paris. But this is the first time that her prints have been given context through outtakes, layouts in the major newsmagazines and images from her book.
The full evolution describes the "trafficking of images,'' says Meiselas, who is here for a week working on a domestic violence project. Five years ago she worked with the San Francisco police and district attorney's office to make a series of collages about battered women. The collages appeared in bus shelters.
"I'm going to find the people and talk about, in the intervening time, what has happened in their lives,'' says Meiselas, who followed the same hunch to Nicaragua 10 years after the Sandinista revolt. A film of that journey, "Pictures From a Revolution'' (1991), was screened last night at the Berkeley journalism school.
"I'm trying to bring the material together and create a home for it so that someone from this world can experience that world,'' says Meiselas, 50, who knew nothing of that world herself when she was intrigued by a New York Times story in January 1978 about the assassination of newspaper editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. His son, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, is the first person she met on arrival. He is now a fellow at the Berkeley journalism school. Meiselas didn't know any of the subjects, or even their names, and over the years became curious about meeting them.
Susan Meiselas says, "We as Americans know very little about the people of the world." Chronicle Photo by Frederic Larson
"What I didn't know was how people in Nicaragua experienced those images -- when they knew of them and what had happened in their lives, in relation to the act that the photograph happens to capture,'' she says, "so I was very interested in that process for the protagonists of those photographs.''
To find them, in 1989 she went back to the same street corners, carrying "Nicaragua'' like a yearbook under her arm. She would show pictures and in Spanish inquire about the people, marking names and clues to their whereabouts in the margins. Some of her subjects were still in the same place, their routine no different after the revolution than before. For others, someone would recognize a face in a crowd. She'd circle it, get a name, jump in her car and follow the hint down a pock-marked dirt road. "Sometimes I had to go halfway across the country, crisscrossing.''
In search of the Molotov man, she marked up her book with directions and finally found him quietly hauling wood in a beat-up truck. His material life hadn't improved, but he told Meiselas something she wouldn't forget.
"The revolutionary spirit,'' he said, "is in my blood.''
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In 1987, artist Lebbeus Woods took a graphite pencil and created his vision of a chair. The chair is shown inside a large chamber with a high ceiling, mounted on a wall in front of a suspended sphere, and with a visibly jointed grid forming the floor and wall. Hence the self-descriptive title "Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber".
Universal Studios released the artful film 12 Monkeys in December of 1995. Bruce Willis plays the distraught time traveler, Joe. In the beginning of the movie, Joe is brought into the interrogation room and told to sit in a chair which is attached to a vertical rail on the wall. As Joe sits in the chair, it slides up the rail, suspending Joe helplessly several yards above the floor. A sphere supported by a metal armature is suspended directly in front of Joe, probing for weaknesses as the inquisitors interrogate him. Joe is unlucky enough to return to the chair three more times throughout the movie.
Lebbeus' chair was originally published in Germany in 1987 in a catalog entitled Lebbeus Woods/Centricity. A colorized version of the chair was later published in the US in 1992 in a collection entitled Lebbeus Woods/The New City. On January 18, 1996, Lebbeus Woods went to the theater to see 12 Monkeys. Apparently he was not amused; a week later he notified Universal Studios that he considered the interrogation room to be an unauthorized reproduction of his work.
The director, Terry Gilliam, admitted that he reviewed a copy of the book that contained the drawing "Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber", and that he discussed it with both the producer, Charles Roven, and the production designer, Jeffrey Beecroft.
The court found that a comparison of "Neomechanical Tower (Upper) Chamber" and the footage of the interrogation room in 12 Monkeys demonstrated that "the movie had copied Woods' drawing in striking detail." The court cited the fact that the wall and floor were composed of a visibly jointed grid, the walls had the same worn texture, and a horizontal shelf and apron near the top of the vertical rail. The chairs themselves consist of four rectangular planes, arm-rests with diagonal supports, etching on the chair back. The court also noted the both spheres were suspended in front of the chair from a metal framework with similar surface designs.
This case is similar in ways to the Batman case, which involved a sculpture which was actually filmed as part of the Gotham City ambience, and was also reproduced in the scale models of Gotham City used for special effects.
The judge ruled for Woods, a result that would require Universal Studios pull all copies of the movie from world-wide circulation after only a month's run. Universal would be able to subsequently release film after the scenes in containing the offending chair had been excised to the cutting room floor, a fate that had befallen the Devil's Advocate. Showing that he had a sense of humor after all, Lebbeus Woods allowed Universal to continue distribution of the movie, chair and all, for a high six-figure cash settlement.
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Fair Use Follies
Simply put, "fair use" is a legal principle that allows copyrighted material to be used without permission from or payment to the owner. But a recent symposium on the subject at New York University demonstrated just how difficult it is to know what constitutes fair. And in the meantime, many creative types are left in the lurch. Amy Sewell, producer of the documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom", shares some war stories with Brooke.
Cloudy and Fair
Fordham University law professor Hugh Hansen is an advocate of strong copyright laws. But even he concedes that for low-budget filmmakers, copyright can be more of a burden than a blessing. Brooke speaks with him and with Duke law professor James Boyle, who thinks copyright holders have ushered in a "permission culture" that ignores the laws governing fair use.
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Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control, by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles.
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The Adelaide River Railway Siding and Railway Bridge were constructed as part of the first leg of the North Australia Railway (NAR) which operated from 1888 until 1976.
The bridge was one of the first to be constructed on the Palmerston to Pine Creek line and was one of the largest along this section of work. Constructed in 1887-88 the bridge was first crossed on 3 December 1888 by the Silverton. In 1941-42 the bridge was fitted with timber decking to allow single lane vehicular access during Wet Season floodiing. It was further upgraded in 1952. The last train crossed the bridge on 30 June 1976, but it was used for road traffic until the Edwin Verburg Bridge was opened on 27 March 1980.
The Railway Siding was the first main station complex on the North Australia Railway from Darwin to Pine Creek and had the only refreshment room on the line. During World War II it was of major significance because Adelaide River was a major military centre with the main hospital situated north of the township along with a number of Australian and Allied bases in the area.
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NYC developments get a second chance at sales success
By Heidi Mitchell
March 4, 2015 | 6:07pm
Architect Nancy Ruddy designed 12 E. 13th St., which, after a marketing revamp, got a new sales pitch and lower prices. Redundant Pixel/Handout
In Manhattan’s crowded real estate bazaar — some 6,000 apartments are estimated to come on line in 2015 — competition is steep.
A developer’s first stab at this shape-shifting marketplace may result in mediocre to no sales. To boost interest and dazzle buyers, sometimes what a building requires isn’t just a new price tag. It needs a new approach, a new team of brokers and a whole lot of buzz.
Such is the case with the upmarket buildings in this story. Their initial offerings fizzled out fast, but they’re back with a vengeance, selling at breakneck speed. Call them Comeback Kids.
Architect Alta Indelman designed newly hot 61 Fifth Ave.Sarah Muehlbauer
The third time is a charm for 61 Fifth Ave., a boutique building with just four residences, ranging from 4,300-square-foot duplexes to a nearly 6,000-square-foot penthouse. The project commenced in late 2013, but Sotheby’s had a hard time offloading the properties, which were priced at a hefty $12.975 million to $28.5 million.
The developer switched to rock-star broker Fredrik Eklund at Douglas Elliman once the Alta Indelman-designed building was nearly finished, but still no takers. As of two weeks ago, the Carrie Chiang Team at Corcoran has repositioned the project and reduced its prices by more more than 20 percent.
They’ve also crafted a new sales pitch, positioning the building as “living in a townhouse but with a doorman and security,” says Richard Phan, who works with Chiang. Now 61 Fifth Ave. is seeing more traffic than ever.
“Within the last week alone, we’ve had eight showings, and we have people who want to come a second and third time,” Phan says.
Prices were slashed by 20 percent at 61 Fifth Ave. after its late 2013 debut. Sarah Muehlbauer
And with prices lowered — the duplexes now start at $9.95 million — piqued interest isn’t surprising. “I don’t have insider info on 61 Fifth,” says Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers, “but when you have marketing agents replaced every year, that is a function of pricing.”
Another small project nearby, DHA Capital and Continental Properties’ 12 E. 13th St., is also back on the market after going dark last October — and pricing is only part of the equation. The eight-unit former Hertz garage began selling out of a showroom around the corner last spring, but the mock kitchen and bathroom setup wasn’t enough to entice buyers to throw $7.5 million at 2,800-square-foot three-bedrooms (or at the $30 million glassy triplex penthouse).
“The initial sales center was a teaser,” says broker Richard Cantor, a principal of Cantor Pecorella, the exclusive sales and marketing agent for the building. “It gave a taste without representing the building as beautifully as a model apartment could.”
In the interim, a model apartment was constructed on the Cetra/Ruddy-designed site. “Now I am seeing more traffic there than in my other projects,” says Cantor. Dropping prices — units now start at $6.95 million — likely also helped. Owners can expect to move in this summer.
Full-floor units at Village Green West are now sparking buyer interest. Alfa Development
At Village Green West, an eco-conscious, 27-unit building at 245 W. 14th St., one-bedrooms sold steadily as soon as the property hit the market in February 2014. But the full-floor, three- and four-bedrooms weren’t moving because they weren’t being separately marketed, says Michael Namer, CEO and founder of Alfa Development. So he decided to hold off prospective buyers in the fall and reposition the remaining units as The Tower at Village Green West.
“It was very hard to help buyers understand what the remaining full-floor, $7.25 to $9.5 million apartments were in a building that also had some one- and two-bedrooms,” explains Namer. Since the showroom at 130 W. 18th St. opened last month, Namer has seen at least a 50 percent increase in viewings of the larger apartments compared to last year.
Uptown, the Naftali Group’s Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed 210 W. 77th St. came on the market in September 2014, but failed to move any of its 25 units. Developers had set the prices high to recoup some of the value of the property, for which they paid a reported $55.5 million. Sales are now on hold and the project will be re-marketed soon, according to the building’s website.
Just one unit remains at 56 Leonard after a relaunch.VUW
Big developments have also had to pull listings and re-introduce themselves. Developer Izak Senbahar, president of Alexico Group, started construction of the Jenga-like 56 Leonard, courtesy of Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, in the summer of 2007. The sales office cut the ribbon in fall of 2008 — and we all know what happened after that.
“I think we opened our sales office the day Lehman Brothers collapsed. Talk about bad timing,” jokes Senbahar. Still, the building managed to sell about a dozen apartments off paper before shelving the 145-unit project until brighter days.
Fortunately, Alexico had the cash — and the stomach — to wait out a dismal market: 56 Leonard re-opened its sales office in spring 2013 and now there’s just one apartment remaining. “We sold over $1 billion in 10 months. I think that is a world record,” Senbahar says. More surprising, the building enticed almost exclusively current TriBeCa residents.
“We were ready for a three-year marketing program that was going to be international, but the international people didn’t even have time to react,” he says. Units this round averaged $3,300 a square foot (up slightly from the initial pricing), with two-bedrooms going for $3.6 million — a veritable steal for a starchitect stunner in this coveted neighborhood.
After a massive reboot, One Madison is selling.Scott Frances
The economy also played a major role in the turnaround story of One Madison, on Madison Square Park. The original developers had imagined a skinny tower designed by Cetra/Ruddy looming over the south side of the park. Lawsuits and foreclosures forced their hand, and in 2012, a partnership between the Related Company, CIM Group and HFZ Capital Group took control of the 60-story building, and redid the 22nd-street entrance (BKSK Architects designed it) and the remaining interiors (now by Yabu Pushelberg).
Some floor-through apartments had sold for as low as $5.1 million in the first round; this time, the lowest point for full floors, clocking in at 3,300 square feet, is hovering around $10 million. Only a few units remain, including one of the two “townhouses,” accessed on 22nd Street, and a full-floor residence with a wraparound terrace that’s just 2,723 square feet, but is listed for $12.5 million.
15 William has a new name, new prices and is now kid-friendly.Evan Joseph Images
Miller notes that comebacks are rather rare, and tend to be a function of poor pricing, bad timing or miscalculated positioning. The latter two were the case at 15 William, formerly the William Beaver House.
Marketed as a bachelor pad with a cheeky martini-sipping beaver as its mascot, the 320-unit condo, designed by hotelier Andre Balazs, “came sort of late to the party, in 2009,” says Miller. CIM Group purchased the building in 2010 after the original developer, the Sapir Organization, foreclosed; to absorb the cost of the 209 remaining apartments, CIM rented out the apartments and worked to rebrand the entire building for an eventual sales relaunch.
That happened in fall of 2014. The beaver is gone, as is the handball court. In their place are a private playground and another 30,000 square feet of refreshed amenities. One bedrooms that measure 800 square feet are listed for around $1.1 million — the building is averaging $1,600 per square foot, compared to $1,370 a square foot back in 2009.
“With the arrival of restaurants, hotels, cultural institutions and schools, combined with major tech and advertising companies, a new vitality has been established in the Financial District,” says Marc Palermo, SVP of new development at Douglas Elliman, who is handling sales and marketing. “And 15 William reflects that Renaissance.”
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The Conversation is Ballooning In Maplewood
The OhNo60 project began as an engineering study to help the general public visualize the scale and massing of the proposed redevelopment of the Post Office site in Maplewood Village. Planning for the redevelopment had been underway for a many years, but there had been no visual images available to assess the permitted structure(s) from multiple vantage points in and around Maplewood Village.
The study used 36″ helium balloons, raised to precise elevations, to demarcate the key proportions (“bulk”, “massing”, and “scale”) that are allowed by the newly enacted zoning regulations. This approach provides one means of visualizing a new structure within its proposed environment, and allows overlays to be accurately done using photographs from various angles around the structure.
The study was prompted by an ordinance introduced by the Maplewood Township Committee to increase the building height by 18%, increase the size of upper floors, and introduce new architectural features. The changes were requested by JMF Properties, even before their proposal had been submitted for public review. The Township Committee was originally scheduled to vote on the ordinance Tuesday, January 2o, 2015 but eventually withdrew the intended changes in the face of public and Planning Board concerns.
The OhNo60 engineering study continued through 2015 as design changes were made to the proposal. The team extended their efforts to studies of the existing structure, marketing and real estate information, Township studies including the defective sewer system, tax ratables and other topics. By Spring 2015 it became clear to team members that the proposed structure and financial terms were not favorable to the Township or the Village. At that point the team began sharing this detailed information and advocating that the project goals be re-evaluated.
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OhNo60 is sponsored by Engage Maplewood. Further links t0 the early efforts of Engage Maplewood can be found in the planning section of our project timeline.
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The Western Hockey League announced Thursday that Todd Scott of the Edmonton Oil Kings has been named the WHL Vaughn Goaltender of the Month for January, 2019.
In 245 minutes of action during the month of January, Scott sported a perfect 4-0-0-0 record, 1.47 goals-against-average, and stopped 103 of 109 shots for a 0.945 save percentage. Scott’s strong play was part of a 7-3-0-1 record for the Oil Kings in January that saw them build a three-point lead atop the crowded Central Division standings.
Scott’s month began with back-to-back wins against the Lethbridge Hurricanes on January 11 and January 13, stopping 55 of 57 shots sent his way in the two contests combined. He then made 27 of 28 saves in a win against the Prince George Cougars and closed out his month Tuesday with a come-from-behind victory in the shootout against the Brandon Wheat Kings.
Overall, Scott was recognized twice as the second star of the game and once as the third star of the game during January. Dating back to December 30, 2018, Scott has won five-straight starts for Edmonton.
The 6-foot-1, 200-pound product of Albertville, Minn. has performed well in 10 games with the Oil Kings this season, sporting a 6-1-2-0 record, 3.14 GAA, and a 0.892 SV% in 573 minutes of action. Originally selected in the tenth round, 203rd overall, of the 2015 WHL Bantam Draft, by the Vancouver Giants, the 18-year-old Scott has appeared in 43 WHL regular season games, sporting a 18-13-5-1 record, 3.82 GAA, and 0.878 SV%.
The Oil Kings begin a two-game road trip in the province of Saskatchewan Friday, February 1 (7:00 p.m. CT) at the Art Hauser Centre against the Prince Albert Raiders.
WHL Vaughn Goaltender of the Month
January: Todd Scott, Edmonton Oil Kings
December: Dustin Wolf, Everett Silvertips
November: Ian Scott, Prince Albert Raiders
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Vatican Panel Will Address Backlog of Clergy-Abuse Cases
by Joan Frawley Desmond
VATICAN | NOV. 25, 2014
VATICAN — Pope Francis has created a new panel of cardinals and bishops who will work within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) to help address the backlog of clergy-abuse cases awaiting appeals.
“Because of the number of appeals and the need to guarantee a more rapid examination of them,” Pope Francis has established a “college” within the CDF that will help streamline the process, explained a note from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, which was disclosed when the Vatican confirmed the news at a Nov. 11 press conference. The panel will also address other serious cases, including those dealing with the violation of the seal of confession.
According to the papal order, or “rescript,” that directed the creation of the new panel, the Pope will name “seven cardinals or bishops” to the body.
The Vatican has not yet clarified whether the Pope will choose appointees who possess expertise in canon law or have other in-depth experience dealing with such cases.
The news about the CDF panel underscored Pope Francis’ continued focus on pastoral and canonical policies designed to address the scourge of clergy sexual abuse.
Experts welcomed the Pope’s new effort to streamline the appeals process, while affirming the “competence” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to handle such cases. But there were also expressions of concern that the goal of reducing the backlog of cases should not be achieved at the cost of justice.
“This is a good sign Pope Francis is giving: He is basically saying that the CDF remains competent and gives them an extra instrument to promptly deal with a specific type of appeal against decisions, namely recourses against administrative decrees,” Kurt Martens, a professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America, told the Register.
“That is very good, since the CDF has built up competence in these cases and is very much aware of the problem of sexual abuse and takes that very seriously.”
Justice Is Essential
Martens also emphasized that the panel members should not only be concerned with expediting such appeals, but also make sure that justice is served.
“We have to be extremely careful when talking about simplifying procedures,” he noted.
“Procedures create a certain distance between facts and players and also provide a path to finding the truth. Simplifying procedures [may be] popular, but justice and the truth are not always well served by such simplification.”
“It is important to instruct cases properly, so that the rest of the procedure can be done smoothly,” Martens added.
Since his election, Francis has created a commission that advises him on the pastoral issues linked to clergy abuse. The commission is led by Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston. The Holy Father has also expressed his intention to hold bishops accountable for abusing children or for failing to effectively respond to allegations against priests under their supervision.
Earlier this year, a former nuncio to the Dominican Republic was tried by a Vatican tribunal, found guilty of sexually abusing minors and laicized.
And during a November interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, Cardinal O’Malley said the Vatican commission on clergy abuse was “looking at how the Church could have protocols of how to respond when a bishop has not been responsible for the protection of the children in his diocese.”
But as Pope Francis presses ahead with his campaign to establish a zero-tolerance policy beyond the U.S. and restore the moral credibility of Church leaders, the backlog of clergy-abuse cases has remained a stubborn concern.
The Current Process
At present, once an accusation of sexual abuse involving a minor is leveled against a priest, his bishop and others conduct a preliminary investigation to establish whether the allegation has “the semblance of truth.” If it does, the case is immediately referred to the CDF, which decides whether the CDF will handle it or send it back to the bishop. The CDF also decides whether there will be trial or an administrative procedure, which usually involves less complex cases.
Once a ruling has been issued, the accused can appeal the decision within 30 days. If there is an appeal, the CDF must decide whether the congregation will hear it in Rome or forward it to an appeals court in the U.S.
Occasionally, a case will be sent directly to the Pope, who will rule on whether the accused should be dismissed from the priesthood. And if he takes that step, the decision cannot be appealed.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2002 clergy-abuse crisis, the CDF office responsible for prosecuting such cases was overwhelmed with a flood of litigation. But within six years, then-Msgr. Charles Scicluna, the Maltese priest who led the prosecution of such cases, said his office had effectively addressed the burgeoning caseload.
Still, the news that Pope Francis has created a new “college” within the CDF to help streamline its caseload underscores the need to shorten the timeline for appeals, so that accused clerics, who are suspended from ministry until their cases are decided, need not endure lengthy waits.
Joe Maher, who leads the priests’ support group Opus Bono Sacerdotii, approved of the Pope’s effort to step up the appeals process. But he echoed Kurt Martens’ concern that a streamlined process be tailored to the requirements of justice.
“If setting up the ‘college’ means they are going to hire other competent canon lawyers to help with the process, that is a good thing,” Maher told the Register.
“But if they are trying to find a way to streamline the process with the current staff at CDF, my concern is that they will be looking at these cases quickly but won’t take time to really understand them.”
Fairness for Priests
Opus Bono Sacerdotii was founded in 2002, the year the U.S. bishops approved the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, which instituted a zero-tolerance policy for all priests credibly accused of the sexual abuse of minors.
Maher estimated that thousands of priests have sought help from his organization, with legal cases fighting allegations of abuse, though few, perhaps 100, have been exonerated.
Said Maher, “We want priests to get a fair shake.”
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Drøbak is the only all-year christmas town in Norway, and every year they recive about 20 000 letters to the Norwegian "Julenisse" from all around the world.
Drøbak is a town and the centre of the municipality of Frogn, in Akershus county, Norway. The city is located along the Oslofjord, and has 13,409 inhabitants.
Drøbak and Frogn was established as a parish on its own through a royal decree Sept. 8, 1823. It had been a part of Ås parish.
Drøbak was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). It was merged with Frogn January 1, 1962.
The old bakery in Drøbak
Traditionally, Drøbak was the winter harbour of Norway's capital, Oslo, since in severe winters the fjord will freeze from outside Drøbak all the way up to Oslo. It had a city status between 1842 and 1962, upon which point the municipality was merged into the rural municipality Frogn and lost its city status. The city status was regained by the municipality council on 13 February 2006. It was also decided that adjacent villages such as Heer would be included within the city.
A notable event in Drøbak's history is the World War II sinking of the German cruiser Blücher in the Drøbak narrows (only 1 mile (1.5 km) wide), on the early morning of 9 April 1940. The cruiser was transporting German soldiers and bureaucrats for the planned swift occupation of Oslo, but the Battle of Drøbak Sound resulting in the sinking by the Oscarsborg fortress delayed this, and thus allowed for the evacuation of the Norwegian Royal Family, parliament, and cabinet, and for the nation's gold reserves to be denied the occupiers
Early Drøbak had ferries that crossed the fjord, in modern times they have largely been replaced by an underwater tunnel. However, some of the old ferries are still used as "floating restaurants" during the summer.
In summertime, cruise ships visit Oslo almost every day. Often, as many as four or five cruise ships visit each day, in addition to all the regular traffic, it has made Drøbak a popular sea-side tourist spot. However, the numerous restaurants, art galleries and mild summers are probably more important factors for visiting tourists.[3]
Drøbak is also known for its many art galleries. The town has a Christmas shop called Julehuset (the Christmas house), and letters often end up in Drøbak from Europe similarly to how they end up in Santa Claus, Indiana in the United States.[4]
During the summer months, there are tourist buses going from Oslo to Drøbak on day trips for tourists. Visitors can experience a traditional Norwegian fjord town. It is also a popular Oslo suburb for citizens to live as public transportation is well connected between Drøbak and Oslo, both by bus and boat.
At the marina at the approach to Drøbak is a sculpture, made by Reidar Finsrud, cast in bronze of three mermaids sitting on a rock. The sculpture was unveiled in 1999.[5]
The three mermaids in Drøbak
Drøbak Church
Square in Drøbak
lfish is open to the public and shows live video footage of the sea life in the fjord where fish, lobster and crab are often visible for the aquarium visitors. [6] Norsk Luftambulanse is headquartered in Drøbak.[7]
The Norse form of the name was Drjúgbakki. The first element is drjúgr 'hard; long', the last element is bakki m '(up)hill'. This is related to the very steep roads winding down into the city center of Drøbak.
Drøbak Church (Drøbak Kirke) is located in Drøbak parish in the Søndre Follo deanery within the Diocese of Borg. The church was opened on October 29, 1776. The church was a gift from timber merchant, landowner and shipowner Niels Carlsen (1734-1809) and his wife Martha Zachariassen (1743–1821). Significant repairs were made to the church in the 1820s. Domenico Erdmann (1879–1940) led the restoration in conjunction with the 150th anniversary in 1926. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Drøbak is divided into eight notable areas. These places include:
Gyltåsen, which mainly consists of cabins and "season-housing".
Husvik, where most of the year-around boats are being kept. This area was also significant in the sinking of the German cruiser Blücher in 1940, as the location of the Husvik Battery of Oscarsborg Fortress. The guns of the battery are still in place in these hills as tourist attractions.
Sentrum (city centre), here lies "Julehuset" and most of the local stores. Most of the City Centre is being protected by local laws as "Verneverdig" which in short terms means that it has a significant cultural value and cannot be changed or rebuilt. Therefore, much of the city centre looks like it did 100 years ago.
Skiphelle and Elleflaten, an area consisting of suburban housing and a tiny hotel called "Drøbak Fjordhotel".
Sogsti, consisting of much of Drøbak's suburban housing.
Odalen and Haveråsen is the "outer banks" of Drøbak, where the housing and population consists more of agricultural purpose.
Belsjø and Heer, the suburban housing around the large golf course surrounding most of northern Drøbak.
Ullerud and Dyrløkke, a large hill of suburban housing. Here are also the local mall and a large school up to high school level.[12]
Drøbak Sound
Battle of Drøbak Sound
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Oscarsborg Fortress(in English)
•Drange, Erling: Drøbak fra nord til syd : husene forteller historie (2001), (in Norwegian) ISBN 82-996109-0-7
Julehuset (The Christmas house) Archived December 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. (in English)
Three mermaids in Drøbak, Norway mermaidsofearth.com (in English)
Drøbak Akvarium (in Norwegian)
Norsk Luftambulanse, Headquarters in Drøbak (in Norwegian)
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Sigrid Marie Christie, Håkon Christie. "Drøbak kirke". Norges Kirker. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
Bernhard Magnussen. "Niels Carlsen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
Dag Myklebust. "Domenico Erdmann". Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
Svein Askheim. Drøbak at Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian)
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Drøbak.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Drøbak.
Visit Drøbak (in English)
Introduction to Drøbak (in English)
A taste of Drøbak VIDEO (in English)
Drøbak travel guide from Wikivoyage
Drøbak is a town of historical interest; this is where the German ship Blücher was sunk during the German attack on Norway on the morning of April 9, 1940. The ship transported German soldiers passing Oscarsborg Fortress, and the sinking of the ship delayed the German invasion and allowed the government, parliament, and royal family to evacuate to England. The fortress is located five minutes by ferry from Santa’s post office, with hotels, spas, and even an opera each year.
Oslo Airport Gardermoen, Norway’s Main Airport. Travelling time by car to Drøbak is approximately 1 hour (50% more during busy day hours through Oslo Ring Road).
For more information on facilities at and around Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, see the Oslo Airport, Gardermoen article.
By boat
Good moorings if you have your own boat.
In the period April 15 to September 30 you may travel to Drøbak by ferry. The ferryboat leaves every day from Aker Brygge in Oslo, landing at Sjøtorget in Drøbak. This ferry stops at Oscarsborg Fortress and Håøya.
Bus routes 541 and 542 from Oslo, about 40 minutes away. The fare is 74kr.
European Route E6 is going through Frogn municipality in the north-south direction (from Oslo and the Swedish border). Follow signs to Drøbak from the motorway. There is a sub sea tunnel at Norwegian National Road 23 under the Oslofjord from the west side of the fjord. (Hurum and Drammen where connected to the European Road E18)
By motorcycle
The mentioned routes for bicycles are tempting drives for MC-enthusiasts who want to avoid the motorway and enjoy curvy country roads.
A taxi from Oslo will cost you about 500-600kr in the daytime, and about 1000kr in the evening or at night. On longer taxi rides, it's OK to bargain with the driver for a fair price.
Map of Drøbak
The town of Drøbak is small, and most can be reached on foot. For tours in the wider area Follo, the bus is the best option, both north towards the capital, Oslo and south towards Østfold county.
Drøbak has good ports for small boats. The surroundings around Drøbak provide excellent opportunities to use a bicycle or motorcycle. If you drive a car, you should be aware of the many toll booths in the area. Taxi is a rather expensive alternative.
1 Ferry to Oscarsborg Fortress. edit
The three murmaids in Drøbak
1 Oscarsborg Fortress. (Ferry timetable). with a museum. Learn about the sinking of the German warship Blücher that was sunk just outside Drøbak on April 9, 1940 during the invasion of Norway. Ferry from Drøbak to the island of Oscarsborg Oscarsborg Fortress on Wikipedia Oscarsborg Fortress (Q2033069) on Wikidata edit
2 Fredrik Stabel & Avistegnernes Hus, Lindtruppbakken 1. A museum for newspaper cartoons. edit
3 Drøbak Church, Kirkegata 18. is a very beautiful 18th-century church edit
4 Drøbak Aquarium, Havnegata 4. study local fish and marine animals close up. edit
Lutefisk Museum - This museum is unique - being the world's only. It has a rather humouristic exhibition of one of Norway’s most special and traditional fish dishes, next door to the Aquarium
5 A sculpture of three murmaids. is placed in the at the approach to Drøbak, created by Reidar Finsrud and unveiled in 1999. edit
Several art galleries.
Go for a walk in the city centre, with the many art galleries. Take a look at the picturesque buildings everywhere.
Go for a sea bath in Badeparken or one of the many beaches in the summer.
1 Drøbak Golf Club, Belsjøveien 50, ☎ +47 64 98 96 50. Drøbak Golf Club has one of the most popular golf courses in Norway! Green fee: Adults NOK 400,
junior NOK 250. edit
The post office of Santa Claus - in Drøbak
1 Tregaardens Julehus (The Christmas House), Havnebakken 6. Drøbak is hometown to Santa Claus, or Julenissen in Norwegian, and he has of course an office open to public where you can buy his stuff all year long edit
1 Skipperstuen (Captain's lodge), Havnebakken 11, ☎ +47 64 93 07 03. Just up from the harbour provides good food and a splendid view to the fiord. edit
2 Kumlegaarden, Niels Carlsens gt. 11, ☎ +47 64 93 89 90. Traditional food in one of the oldest houses in Drøbak. edit
3 Miramar, Jørnsebakken 7, ☎ +47 64 93 00 68. A place to eat while looking out on the Oslofjord from the panorama windows. edit
4 Peppes Pizza, Torget 1 (on the square, in the middle of town), ☎ +47 2222 5555. 1PM -10PM, Saturdays 1PM - 11PM. American style pizza. (Also home delivery, take-away service) Peppes Pizza on Wikipedia Peppes Pizza (Q911973) on Wikidata edit
Telegrafen (To be reconstructed after fire). Lunch and dinner place, which also serves as a nightclub. edit
5 Havnekroa (in the guest harbor of Oscarsborg). varied menu at the fortress edit
1 Bageriet, Havnebakken 1. A very very very small and cosy pub. edit
Telegrafen and Reenskaug hotel (generally a bit younger crowd)
Note: The local authorities closed all food sale after midnight because they did not want people in the streets at night time. So no burgers, etc., on the streets of Drøbak.
1 Reenskaug Hotel, ☎ +47 64 98 92 00, e-mail: mail@renskaug.no. Cozy hotel in the centre of town. Fridays and Saturdays a disco on the ground floor. edit
2 Oscarsborg Hotel & Resort (Boat from the town centre), ☎ +47 64 90 40 00, e-mail: booking@oscarsborghotel.no. The hotel & resort at the historical site of Oscarsborg Fortress. edit
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Hvitsten (to the south) - an idyllic little port where the famous painter Edvard Munch had his summer residence.
Son (a few miles to the south) is a cozy, traditional village and port in Vestby municipality, even smaller than Drøbak that consists of small, picturesque houses and reputable restaurants near the seafront. A popular location for different artists.
Tusenfryd Amusementpark is a necessary stop for children, on your way northwards towards Oslo.
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Tagged: Blücher, Oscarsborg, Drøbak, Oslo fjord
Destination, Holiday in Norway, NORWAY, Travel to Norway, Akershus
HVITSTEN
Hvitsten is the Norwegian "equivalent" to Positano, Italy, where brick houses are virtually stacked on top of each other on the hillside seemingly diving into the ocean. The difference is that the houses "stacked upon each other" here are white wooden houses.
Hvitsen is located midway between Drøbak and Son. The village has two popular beaches, Hvitsten beach located in the Hvitsten's harbor bay, and Emmerstadbukta a couple of kilometers south of the village center.
Around the early 1900s Hvitsten and Emmerstad were popular among the Christiania Bohemians in the capital Oslo. Today the village has a mixture of locals and holiday home owners.
Source: https://www.oslo-fjord.com/hvitsten/
Tagged: Hvitsten, Fred Olsen, Ramme Gaard, Oslo fjord
Destination, Holiday in Norway, Travel to Norway, Østfold
Moss is a coastal town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Moss. The city of Moss was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Jeløy was merged with the city on 1 July 1943.
Its administrative district covers areas east of the town, such as the island of Dillingøy in the lake Vansjø. Parts of the town are located on the peninsula of Jeløy. Moss city has 30,723 inhabitants (2012).
The Old Norse form of the name was Mors. It may be derived from an old root mer- which means to "divide" or "split".
The adjacent topography shares similar etymology:
Mosse-elva. Mosse -"marsh-river-border"+ Elva -"see Elbe, Elver Old Norse for river" The name is thought to be very old and the meaning of it is not clear.
Mosse-sundet. Mosse-"marsh-river-border"+ Sundet (Moss channel).
Mosse-herred. Mosse-"marsh-river-border"+ Herred -"Court" akin to hort(us,en), "garden," from PIE *ghr-ti-, from base *gher- "to grasp, enclose" (see yard) Actually "Moss county".
Archeological finds suggest that there were settlements in the area more than 7,000 years ago and continuously through the Iron Age, Viking Age, through to modern times. During the Viking era, the place was known as Varna (forne, vorne, front-protection?) and was the site of a cooperative for battleships held by local warlords on behalf of the king.
Moss Ironworks, the signingplace of Convention of Moss
Moss in 1885
The first literary reference to the name Mo(u)ſs(ß) is from Bishop Eystein Aslaksson's Red book (NRA AM fol. 328) from 1396, and by then the town had become a commercial center with craftsmen and mills. By the 16th century, the town's port was significant enough to warrant its own customs official. Liquor distilleries became one of the dominant industries, and it was not until 1607, after the Reformation, that the town got its own church.
By 1700, Moss had become a hub for both ship and land traffic between Copenhagen and Christiania, and in 1704 Moss Jernverk (Moss Ironworks) was established just north of the city center. By 1720 it received its charter as a merchant town, with its own official. This may have had background in an important battle in 1716 that was fought in the town square in Moss in which Norwegian troops commanded by Vincent Budde prevailed over invading Swedish forces, sent by Charles XII to capture Akershus Fortress. In 1767 a local resident built a "pleasure pavilion" near the town, which survives as the Hotel Refsnes Gods.[3]
In 1814, Moss became the site for the signing of the Convention of Moss, which effectively put an end to the Dano-Norwegian kingdom. This set the stage for economic development that has persisted to this day.
On the morning of 14 July 2006, a bolide exploded above the nearby town of Rygge - moments later, several stony meteorites fell over Moss. A number of meteorites were recovered by local residents and visiting meteorite hunters, which after analysis and classification, were found to be a rare type of carbonaceous chondrite.
Coat-of-arms
The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted on 2 April 1954. Moss became a separate city in 1786 and received its first seal in the same year. The seal showed a church under some clouds, the whole thing placed within a circle. Above the circle there were some fasces, the freedom symbol of the late 19th century. A later seal, dating from around 1829, shows the same composition, but now also with six birds flying around the church.
When in the 1930s the city wanted to adopt a coat-of-arms and the birds were chosen as a possible symbol. The original birds probably were doves, symbol of peace. In 1934, the idea of the crow was launched, since the nickname of the inhabitants was 'crows'. The arms were finally granted in 1954 and show a yellow crow on a red background. It was designed by Christian Stenersen.[4][5]
There is a tale being told in Moss about the Church fire: The city of Moss always had a lot of crows, most likely because of the corn being harvested in the region. The fire disturbed the crows that started to make a lot of noise and the inhabitants rescued the church from total destruction. After this episode the idea of crow as arms was launched.
Norwegian lady statues
Moss and Virginia Beach, Virginia in the United States are sister cities. On Good Friday, 27 March 1891, the Norwegian bark Dictator, whose home port was Moss, was lost in the treacherous waters of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The ship had been en route to England from Pensacola, Florida with a cargo of Georgia Pine lumber. After being caught and disabled in a storm, she was headed for port at Hampton Roads, Virginia to make repairs when she encountered another storm just off Virginia Beach.
Working in the high winds and seas, lifesaving crews from shore were able to save some of the 17 persons aboard. However, the pregnant wife of Captain J.M. Jorgensen, Johanne, and their 4-year-old son Carl were among the 7 persons who drowned.[6]
The ship's wooden female figurehead had washed ashore. It was placed in a vertical position facing the ocean near the boardwalk as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the shipwreck. It was a landmark there for more than 60 years, but gradually became weathered and eroded.
In 1962, Norwegian sculptor Ørnulf Bast was commissioned to create two nine-foot bronze replicas of the original figurehead by the City of Moss. The Norwegian Lady Statues were unveiled on 22 September 1962. One was presented as a gift to Virginia Beach, and an exact duplicate was erected in Moss to unite the two sister cities. Each statue gives the appearance of facing the other across the Atlantic Ocean.
On 13 October 1995, Queen Sonja of Norway visited the Norwegian Lady statue in Virginia Beach, and placed memorial flowers.
The town is known for paper mills, as well as metalworks and other factories. Dillingøy is known as a place for alternative non-military civil service. Moss is mentioned since the Renaissance and was the site of the signing of the Convention of Moss in 1814, which solidified the union with Sweden. The headquarters of textile producer Helly Hansen were located in Moss until 2009. The maker of international hotel keycards, Trio Ving, also has their headquarters here.
Moss is served by Moss Airport, Rygge, which is located in the neighboring municipality of Rygge. It opened as a civilian airport in 2007 and is served predominantly by low-cost airlines, particularly Ryanair. The railway Østfold Line runs through Moss, stopping at Moss Station, which is the southern terminus of one service of the Oslo Commuter Rail and an intermediate stop for regional trains. Moss connects across the Oslofjord to Horten via the Moss–Horten Ferry. There are also bus-lines to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Oslo in addition to local bus lines. Moss port is one of the top 3 busiest container ports in Norway (messured in TEUs) Virginia Beach, Virginia
Moss FK are the Town's football club. They play in the Second Division, and have played in the Norwegian Premier League as recently as 1990.
Notable residents
Main category: People from Moss, Norway
Ludvig Rakeng Mpagi - footballer
Marte Helene Fosse - Writer
A traditional expression, [the hay scale at Moss] høyvekta på Moss, means "something that you can not trust".[9]
Moss is known throughout Norway for the local "dish" "Pølse i Vaffel" - sausage in waffle. The dish consists of a Vienna Sausage served in a Scandinavian style waffle with ketchup and mustard. The dish was most likely created in the 1960s, but this is widely discussed. Eyvind Hellstrøm - who later became a Michelin-star chef - and his brother Jan is often referred to as the creators. Eyvind Hellstrøm has not denied this in interviews
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"Kråke som byvåpen" (in Norwegian). Moss Kommune. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
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"Vennskapsbyer" (in Norwegian). Moss Kommune. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
Sylfest Lomheim (2015-08-05). "Dølar på Dalen". Klassekampen. p. 10.
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http://www.moss-avis.no/nyheter/polse-i-vaffel-har-lang-og-rik-historie-i-moss/s/2-2.2643-1.3946261
Moss travel guide from Wikivoyage
Municipal website (in Norwegian)
Municipal website
Moss meteorites
Foto-Moss.com (in Norwegian)
Mossby.no (in Norwegian)
"Moss Avis" local newspaper (in Norwegian)
Short historical summary of Moss (in Norwegian)
Norwegian Lady statue
"Mofs Avis", parodic local newspaper (in Norwegian)
Moss is a typical industrial town, with 250 firms of various sizes within municipal boundaries. TrioVing, Peterson and Helly Hansen are well-known examples of local businesses, Helly Hansen head office moved to Oslo. The ferry connections to Frederikshavn in Denmark and Horten make Moss a communications crossroads, thanks also to European Highway 6 runnlng right outside the town and the railway through it. Moss large and modern port handles over 2.000 calls a year. In 2007 the military airport called Rygge just outside Moss was converted into a civil airport - Moss Airport. A ferry line (the Bastø Ferry) across the Oslofjord runs between Moss and Horten.
The county Governor of Østfold works out of the brand-new and dominating Government Offices in Moss. The Moss Crow is a well-known symbol of the town. Its arms used to show a church with birds flying round the tower, standing for the pigeons that once alerted the townsmen to fire in the church. In popular parlance the pigeons became crows, and in 1953 the new town arms adopted the crow as emblem. For a description of sights, bathing beaches etc.
Moss and the surrounding district has most of what a summer tourist could wish. A unique location in the most accessible part of Norway - a crossroads by land and sea. The Moss District can offer a variety of experiences and attractions. Bathing beaches, for example - there are more than 40 of them, including the Lido (Sjøbadet) in the very centre of the town. lf you want to stay in a hotel or motel there are many options, either in the centre of the town or in more rural surroundings - or beside trunk routes. Campsites are numerous.
Moss has a full and varied commercial centre, with a mixture of specialist sbops and larger shopping malls, and a wide spectrum of restaurants and pubs. If you are interested in art, you have come to the right place. Moss is now known as "Gallery Town" - for the sake of its fleet of art galleries large and small, with Gallery F 15 on Jeløy island as the flagship.
The district can offer unique countryside such as Mossemarka, Jeløy and above all Vansjø. Several festivals are organised in the summer months, as well as shows, concerts and other cultural events. Stay with us a few days, therefore, and absorb some of what summer in Moss and District can offer. We will do our best to make you feel at home!
THE CANAL
The Canal in Moss is an idyllic and lively commercial centre, with a beautiful sheltered guest marina and numerous fine shops close at hand, the Canal is "THE" place to go in Moss. The guest marina is a popular place all summer long, and many visitors even come by car. A growing number of caravans and motorhome tourists are also discovering the area. Lured by the temptations of the nearby beach, many take the opportunity to enjoy an invigorating swim. On the north side of the bridge is the Sjøhuset and Fiskebasaren both offer refreshments and evening entertainment.
JELØYA
Jeløya was actually a peninsula in the Oslofjord, but was divided from the mainland in 1855 by the Moss canal (Mossekanalen) a 20 meter broad canal that was built through the low isthmus. The Canal Bridge (Kanalbrua) is the link between Jeløya and the mainland at Moss. This was at first a low, sliding bridge, and since 1957 a simple-leaf Bascule bridge, but dating from the early 1990s has been locked and unable to open. Part of the city of Moss lies on the south-eastern part of Jeløya.
THE GALLERY DISTRICT
Twenty-five years ago Gallery F15 took form in the venerable main building of Alby Manor, South Jeløy Conservation Area. Thanks to a large number of important exhibitions the gallery's fame has reached far beyond the borders of Norway. In time other galleries have grown up beside it, and all together they make up what has been called "the Moss Gallery District". Moss is a town and a district with a multicoloured gallery flora and a rich artistic community, especially in Son. Moss itself has more than 70 sculptures within the municipal boundaries, and this also serves to emphasize the position culture enjoys in Moss and District.
REFNES GODS
Refsnes Gods is a hotel on the island of Jeløy, clopse to the Oslofjord just outside the mansion. The building was originally constructed in 1767 as a pleasure pavilion. It contains a notable art collection. "Gods" means mansion in Norwegian. Since the new owners took over, a large number of unique pieces of art have found a new home at Refsnes Gods. Every guest room and all the common areas have works of a dedicated artist displayed. More than 400 pieces from 90 well-known artists are represented. The list of the artists include names like Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch, and Jacob Weidemann. Three works by Munch were stolen from the hotel in March 2005; they were shortly recovered, although one of the works was damaged during the robbery. The resort is also known for its wine cellar.
Moss is one of Norway´s oldest and most versatile industrial centers. Mill city (Møllebyen), which is located by Mossefossen waterfalls was the central point for the city´s first industrial epoch and held this status until approximately 1970. Møllebyen now prevails as a unique historical city environment, where new ventures are established in the old houses and new buildings. Today you find serveral restaurants and cafeés, a large moderc cinema and Moss City and Industry Museum in this area.
Møllebyen is the former city center in Moss. Among other things, the historical King´s Road to Copenhagen passed through the area. Most of the buildings in Møllebyen which have been used for milling are known as Lerke Mølle, Kloster and Galle Møller (named after the owners), Central Warehouse (Central Pakkhus), Kvernhuset (The Mill) and so on. However other activities were also carried out. Among other things, we find the cities first waterworks, which were established in 1876.
The assembly of buildings in Møllebyen are of great historical value. They represent an entire building environment with high architectural quality. The buildings were basically built with a solid foundation and the construction between floors is of wood. The outer walls are of brick. Typical of the architectural features are large roof areas, clearly defined cornices, pillars of brick, cast iron windows, eloquent gables and richly detailed masonry.
TORDERØD FARM
The Torderød estate was cleared alredy during the Viking era, while the current estate, the Torderød mansion was built as a summer residence by David Chrystie d.e. in 1758-60. The building is listed, and the Torderød park is the district´s only purely baroque garden. The beautiful premises are hired out to parties. Torderød Gårds Venner (Friends of Torderød Gård) conduct an interesting tour of the main building and the park.
EKEBY FARM
Ekeby Farm is a farm with many goats. The farm is situated by the two natural reserves, Telemarkslunden and Gunnarsbybekken. At Ekeby, taking care of our boer goats is our main priority. Goats are not made to be indoors. They need to have lots of space to move around in all year round. That is why we at Ekeby feed the goats outside. The boer goats don´t like rain and wind, that´s why they have small isolated cabins. Here they can seek shelter when the weather is not good. When it´s cold, the goats keep warm in the cabins by their own body heat.
Lake Vansjø unites the municipalities of Moss, Rygge, Råde, Våler and Vestby. With its countless coves, sounds, bends and islands, Lake Vansjø is a rare gem. The lake´s close proximity to urban areas makes it perfect for recreational activities like swimming, fishing, walking, paddling or camping out. Enjoy a day on the fjord with the gentle wash of the waves, the insistent cry of a seagull and the leisurely pace of a boat. Treat your family to an outing with activities like fishing, playing, cycling and a picnic under the open sky.
Moss & Rygge Golfclub is a golf course with 18 holes and a variation of difficulties. The course lies at Larkollen, approximately 8 km from Moss Center.
Source: Wikipedia.no, Lokalhistoriewiki.no
Tagged: Moss, Norway, Scandinavia, Gallei F 15
Destination, Holiday in Norway, NORWAY, Travel to Norway, Østfold
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Son is the
OSLO FJORD
Son is called Norway's "northernmost southern town". It is easy to understand. Small white wooden houses along twisting streets is a characteristic feature of this coastal gem located along the sunny side of the Oslo fjord. In addition to its idyll, Son is also offering much history and exciting coastal culture. Did you know that the entire Oslo fjord was once named after little Son?
Visit Son – stay at Larkollen during your visit in Norway
Son is a densely populated place (6,000 inhabitants) by the Oslo fjord in the southern part of Vestby municipality in Akershus county. It is especially known for its old buildings from the Dutch period, with wooden houses and narrow alleys that give a distinctive look that one might associate with towns along the coast of southern Norway. It is therefore only natural that holiday makers multiplies the population in the summertime. And the numbers of visitors will probably not be any less in the years to come. The hotel Son Spa, which last winter was named 'Best Quality Resort 2010 in Scandinavia', has atrracted lots of tourists and other visitors to Son since its opening in 2008. The new spa facility is situated where Jack M. Iversen built his famous sailboats in the period between the two world wars.
Paradoxically bad economy was the reason why Son is one of the Oslo fjord's best preserved towns. Earlier they simply could not afford to demolish the old wooden houses. Today 200 houses are registered as preservable.
Three old trading houses are situated along the harbor. One of them is Thornegården from 1640. It is the second oldest building in the Oslo fjord and has an architecture characterized by both Renaissance and Barocque. If you go into the backyard you can see that it is a half-timbered house, clearly influenced by the Dutch style. Strolling along the Strandgaten you will find eccentric artists' houses and Little Skaugum. The latter house is rumoured to be a miniature copy of Skaugum before the fire. Spinnerigården, Stoltenberggården and Wollegården, all from the 1700s, are other listed buildings bearing witness of prosperity in Son's heyday. You can also admire imaginative reconstruction of old outhouses and barns.
Son Coastal Culture Center
Down by the harbor is Son Coastal Culture Center scattered in several buildings. Here you can visit an old fisherman's house and learn about faith and superstition among fishermen. The Center also has a forge house, seaside cottage, a museum pier for old wooden boats and a boat yard. The Coastal Culture Center also owns a fishing net dryer, one of the very few remaning ones in the fjord.
Son is a favored port and natural stopover for boaters. There are almost half a million recreational boats in Norway, and no country in the world has more boats per capita. In Son's harbor are more than 1,000 boats of different types and sizes, and there are also particularly many guest spots here. In other words, the port represents a large part of Son.
Son Seilforening (Son Sailing Association) has asserted itself for a long time as one of the Oslo fjord's most active sailing associations. It became famous after one of its members, Siren Sundby, won the gold medal in the Summer Olympics in 2004. Son Marina was also used as location for the TV series “Båtliv (Boat Life), which aired on NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corp.) in 2003. An important feature of the port in Son being one of the most attractive harbors in the Oslo fjord, is that it is relatively deep. This makes it easy to dock large sailboats at the pier in Son center.
On the town in Son
If you're going out to eat, Son is definitely the place. Son has several restaurants and eateries, art galleries and shops. From my stay in Son last summer in connection with collecting background material for this article, I still remember, 10 months later, that I should remind myself to recommend Son Kro in this article. When a restaurant offers the very best of service and food experiences, it is only proper to salute Son Kro. It is especially nice when food and service are top-notch, which is exactly what it was on this warm summer evening at Son Kro's terrace.
In Gallery Son's magnificent garden you can enjoy good drinks with a view to the throng of people on the beach promenade below. In the evenings a DJ often ensures a relaxed atmosphere by playing songs in the "chill out" category.
Artists love Son
Early in the 20th century Son became an artists' town. Celebrities like Nils Kjær, Ludvig Karsten, Herman Wildenwey, Ronald Fangen and the eccentric painter Karl Dørnberger were among those who settled here. Even today a number of famous artists live in Son, and there are several galleries here.
Beach lovers’ paradise
Son is a paradise for those who love the beach life. Son Beach is 200 meters from the town square and has rocks, a diving board, swimming ladders and a kiosk.
The Brevik bay is located in a particularly wonderful recreational area south of the spa hotel. Here are polished rocks facing south and west, excellent for sunbathing, a beach volleyall court, parking and toilets. Nordre Sauholmen is an excursion islet (located in the sound outside the spa hotel) with child-friendly sandy beaches. Nordre Sauholmen has many fine rocks with great fishing opportunities. If you throw out the line here, you run the "risk" of catching a fjord mackerel or a whiting. On the islet are several well-preserved sea sheds and old tan equipment for the preparation of fish nets. Here are good anchoring opportunities (no public pier) with mooring possibilities on the west and east sides of the islet.
Large area around Son is open for public recreation.
Trips in Son
With a rented horse and carriage, or a with a rowing boat, you can take a trip to the old lading site at Hølen. This trip is called a truly exotic experience. Or you could try the coastal culture trail to Hølen and Vardeåsen with a view of the fjord from Oscarsborg fortress to Færder lighthouse and four counties.
The hike to Kjøvangen is alone worth the experience of this vigorous avenue. Come visit when it is at its most beautiful in late May or early June.
North of Son is the public area Kjøvangen with a small pebble beach, rocks, grass areas and a pier with fishing opportunities. Widely used by locals. A Bronze Age burial mound is also in the area. Kjøvangen is a great hiking area; go past the ice dam Stamnestjernet and all the way to the top of Vardeåsen. From here you can see everything from Drøbak in the north to Bolærne (Sweden) in the south. After you have passed the golf course on your way to Kjøvangen, you'll be walking along one of the most beautiful avenues in the region. The hike to Kjøvangen is alone worth the experience of this vigorous avenue. Come visit when it is at its most beautiful in late May or early June.
The Angel Town
Drøbak has Santa Claus, Son has the angels. Its not just in the summer that Son buzzes with people and activity. The Lucia procession on December 13 is one of the biggest events in Son during the exciting Advent packed with activities. The summer town of Son offers lots of enjoyment for the whole family around the harbor area - even in winter: Cafes and restaurants have Christmas and angel menus. How about doing your Christmas shopping in Son? Angels in all shapes and sizes adorn the streets, square, shops, and restaurants.
The name Angel Town has its basis in Gallery Son's annual angel exhibition, which the gallery's owner, Marianne Helle, started 12 years ago. It is an exhibition with angels in all varieties; sweet, small, large, and angels full of character. When you arrive at Son in the winter you will now be greeted by angels with candles and with live lanterns outside shops and cafes. Amazingly evocative!
Zoon, Zoen, Soon or Son?
Did you know that the entire Oslo fjord was once named after little Son? The first maps of Norwegian coastal waters are of Dutch origin. There were several reasons for it. Firstly, the Dutch were skilled cartographers. Moreover, they imported large quantities of timber from Norway with their own ships.
One of the maps that has been preserved from this time is drawn by Lucas Janszon Waghenaer from Enkhuizen. It is reproduced in "Spiegel der Zeevaerdt", a sea atlas published in 1583. The map is small scale and covers the coast from Merdø via "Zoen Water" to Uddevalla (Sweden). Zoen Water was the Dutch name for the Oslo fjord. It was probably named after Son, which was an important lumber port. Lucas Janszon's map provides a rough simplified picture of the waters and only includes the largest islands and fjords.
The name Son is not verifiably explained by official place name research.
A prevailing view is that it has a river affiliation. The name is assumed to come from the river Saanen which runs through the neighboring parish Saaner, then to Hølen, further on to Son before it empties into Sonskilen with the name Hølenselva. The name has also been linked to the verb (to) sow, used for fish spawning and in this case meaning "spawning river". It has also been attached to the verb svona - svinne inn, minke (shrink, dwindle), so that the meaning becomes "the river that dwindles greatly when drought". In earlier times Son was also written Soon, Zoen, Zoon and Sogn. The latter spelling is considered to be based on a misunderstanding that the name stemmed from the word "sogn" (parish); it doesn't seem to have been used locally. "Son" became official spelling in 1891. Earlier "Soon" seems to have been used most often. Several businesses in Son use the spelling Soon if it is part of their company name.
Son is an ancient seaport by the Oslo fjord, between Hvitsten and Moss. The town had 586 inhabitants in 1920. Son was used as a harbor for Christiania (today Oslo) when the inner parts of the fjord was covered by ice. Son's heyday as a commerce center and shipping harbor started around 1550. First through the export of lumber, and until 1900 large quantities of wood materials were exported from Son, especially to England, the Netherlands and Denmark. Zoon Water is used as the name of the Oslo fjord on old Dutch maps. Shipowners opened business in Son. Many other businesses were established at the same time; lumber trading, tobacco spinnery, and licquor distillery. They all contributed to Son's prosperity in the late 1700s.
The town was an important lumber harbor already during the Dutch period from the end of the 1500s until well into the 1700s. The town received its customs rights in 1604. Customs revenues were large, and Tønsberg, Fredrikstad and later Moss tried to incorporate Son. In the 1670s Son had twice as much customs revenues as Moss. The population naturally grew in line with the prosperity growth. Several of the buildings in the city are from the glory days that followed, including the brick building Thornegården from 1641 and the timber buildings Stoltenberggården and Spinnerigården. The latter was named after Ove Meyer's Tobaksspinderi. Ove Meyer lived here from 1750. Son's growth stagnated after 1720, when Moss became a town. One could float timber to Moss from a far wider area around Vannsjø and Moss were thus able to offer somewhat better conditions.
During the last half of the 1800s the export of ice was also an important commodity for Son. Son got its own fleet of schooners in the 1800s, and 23 ships were domiciled there in the 1890s. However, by 1905 Son was no longer home for proud sailing ships. The fact that Son Sailing Association is one of the most active in the Oslo fjord today, is kind of a maritime continuation of history.
Early in the morning of April 9, 1940, after the German fleet heading for Oslo had been forced by Oscarsborg fortress to turn back, the ferry "Oscarsborg", also known as "Borgen", which shuttled between Son and Oslo, was hijacked by the cruiser "Lützow". Around 300 soldiers and officers boarded the ferry which docked at Son. Thus, the town square in Son was the first place where German soldiers set foot on Norwegian soil during the invasion, with the exception of those who had swum ashore from "Blücher". A total of about one thousand German troops were put ashore in Son during the day. On April 28, 1940 the Royal Air Force tried to bomb the fuel stockpiles at Laksa with phosporus bombs. They missed their target and no buildings were damaged, either. The town center was evacuated during the attack.
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Tagged: Oslo fjord, Norway, Son, Akershus
LARKOLLEN
AN IDYLLIC
Larkollen – an idyllic place under development
Visit Fredrikstad and Hvaler – stay at Larkollen during your visit in Norway
45 minutes from downtown Oslo you’ll Larkollen in Rygge municipality. Larkollen, with its grand wooden villas and tightly packed beaches, is a favorite destination not only for tourists, but also for those who come here just for the day. With is combination of rocks, several recreational areas and shallow beaches, is this a typical summer resort.
Restaurant "Losen"
Just a few years ago, Larkollen was a village where not a lot happened. The “Losen” very quickly became a meeting place where both locals and vacationers thrived. Støtvig Hotel opened in November 2013 with much to offer for both overnight guests and those who make use of the offerings on a day's visit.
Larkollen is a small village with about 1,500 residents, but during a few hectic summer months this number doubles. Larkollen is a nice and popular place to live, but perhaps even better to spend the vacation, whether it is in a caravan, tent or own cabin.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Larkollen, 23th of june, 11.30PM
The name Larkollen does not appear until around 1650. The port of Larkollen is well suited for sailing ships, and was at that time the most popular port on the eastern side of the Oslo fjord. It was safe for large ships to anchor here, sheltered by the Kollen and Eløya islands. Larkollen was an important harbor for sailing ships in the 1700s, and pilots, captains, innkeepers and craftsmen happily settled here.
Images in the slideshow: Boydell's picturesque scenery of Larkollen - John William Edy.
John William Edy (1760 – 1820) was an English painter. He worked for the publisher John Boydell in London, often anonymously. In the summer of 1800 Edy visited Norway on an assignment for Boydell together with the landscape painter William Fearnside. They were in Norway from July 31 and until the end of September the same year. Edy made numerous drawings from the trip, among them drawings of Ny-Hellesund which was the place the two artists arrived at in Norway. In Norway he is also known for his drawings of Christiania (Oslo), Larkollen and Moss. Boydells Picturesque Scenerey of Norway was published in London in 1820.
Støtvig
It is easy to understand why this wonderful place began to attract vacationers in the late 1800s. In 1879, the railway between Christiania (Oslo) and Halden opened, with a stopover at Dilling, located 7 kilometers from Larkollen. Larkollen thus became an attractive and available area for bathers in the summertime. In the 1900s, holiday makers continued to visit the place in large numbers, and many rented rooms with permanent residents. Eventually cabins were built, too. Additionally, Larkollen got a steamship wharf, where fjord boats called en route from the capital and made it easy for even more people to spend their vacation here. In the summertime the Larkoll sound is heavily trafficked by boats, even today.
"Denmark beach" - Night in August
There are many places to visit around Larkollen, and the town itself is also nice for families on day trips. Here you can walk dryshod to Danmark! By this we don't mean the country Denmark, but the small peninsula located south of Larkollen. Via a several hundred meters long naturally built stone dam you can walk on dry land to the peninsula at low tide. Here you can relax, fish sea trout, enjoy the view and swim.
There is a pine forest with red and white wild roses on the peninsula. An ideal place for a picnic. If you get surprised by the high hide while you are here, we are happy to inform you that the water is only knee-deep.
Via a several hundred meters long naturally built stone dam you can walk on dry land to the "Denmark" peninsula at low tide.
Blomsterveien (The Flower Path)
Blomsterveien runs between Halmstad, Larkollen and Ekholt/Øreåsen. Blomsterveien is the name of a number of trails criss-crossing throughout the region. This system of various paths is aiming to pave the way for biking and hiking in Rygge municipality. There are several types of landscapes, sights and monuments around Blomsterveien. The route is marked with signs and markers decorated with a flower.
Kollen and Eldøya
The Kollen and Eldøya islands are located on the other side of the narrow strait across from Larkollen. The islands are situated within the Eldøya-Sletter conservation area. The most of this area consists of sea. On Kollen you'll find woods and thickets, while Eldøya offers a varied landscape with meadows, woods, thickets and a pond. Eldøya is no lonher inhabited. It is nice to go here for a day's visit, and there are several good tenting spots for those who wish to stay here overnight. It is easy to dock a boat on the beach, which is located on the northeast side of the island. As many as 380 plant species are registered on Eldøya. The vegetation is protected, but it is allowed to pick berries and collect mushrooms. Nice trails run to Eldøytjernet (pond) and Vardeberget in the southwest, where you can see burial mounds from the Bronze Age.
Balke gård (Balke Farm)
Visit Balke gård this summer. The farm is located a few hundred meters after the exit from Larkollveien road against Rygge church. The farm has horses, ponies, rabbits, pigs, goats and birds. Balke gård also has a café, and local artists often have art exhibitions here.
You can discover Larkollens´s world just a short drive (45 min) from Oslo.
Kilometers of beaches
Larkollen has many shallow and sandy beaches where children can play and you can wade. With high reeds and dog roses around the swimming area, steep slopes where you can dive right into deep water, and rocks where you can sunbathe. Larkollen is often, and with good reason, associated with the joy of swimming. You'll find several of the county's best beaches in the Larkollen archipelago. Here are some for you to check out this summer:
Botnerbaugen is located northernmost in Larkollen near the Evjesund area. The popular beach area consists of both two sandy beaches and rocks. There is a lot of seaweeds and rocks in the water. The beach is therefore best suited for small children who don't go far out. A large bench is placed on the beach. A little further south are great rocks with diving board and swim ladder. The area has a good supply of water from the bay. An outdoor latrine is placed at the large car park, which is 400 meters from the beach.
Driving onto Tollbuveien road you'll arrive at Tollerstranda beach, a little south of Botnerbaugen. Tollerstranda is a small recreational area, secured by Oslofjordens Friluftsråd as early as 1935. Today Tollerhuset is a resort for employees of the Customs Service. Customs officers were stationed in Larkollen until 1960. The beach consists of a west-facing slope with rocks in the water and lots of seaweed, but a swim ladder provides easy access to the water. But be careful, the water is very deep. Best access to the water is from a small pier. There are toilets and a few benches at the site, as well as a large car park. The site is not very child friendly and therefore best suited for sunbathing.
Billmannsbakken beach is perhaps the finest and most child friendly beach at Larkollen. A lovely curved sandy beach and a long pier, which is nice to dive from. You can find the beach south of Tollerstranda. Drive onto Billmannsbakken and you'll see the beach, eventually.
Billmannsbakken Beach
Støtvig is a south-facing flat bay with a nice sandy beach suorrounded by jetties and breakwaters. Here is a floating dock and diving opportunities from a height of 1.5-2 meters from the pier. Here is a lot of traffic both at sea and on land. New Støtvig Hotel is next door to the beach.
Støtvig is a south-facing flat bay with a nice sandy beach suorrounded by jetties and breakwaters. Here is a floating dock and diving opportunities from a height of 1.5-2 meters from the pier. Here is a lot of traffic both at sea and on land. Støtvig Hotel is next door to the beach.
Engholmstranda and Langstranda are two beaches to the west in the innermost part of Larkollneset in the area locally called "Paradise Bay". You’ll get here by turning off the road at the sign at Larkollveien, then drive approx. 1 km south through the forest. The parking is located on the right hand side inside an old gravel pit. The northern beach is named Engholmstranda and is a nice sandy beach of nearly 200 meters with a flat spacious level behind it. There are toilets on the west side of the level. Lanstranda is located south of Engholmstranda, and is separated from it by 4-5 cabins. The sandy beachis facing northeast, wide and nice with some pebbles and not very child friendly.There is a floating swim platform and kiosk at Larkollen Camping. Two car parks, a small one near the water and a large one approx. 500 meters from the beach.
The southwest facing Danmarksstranda at Larkollen Camping is considered by many to be the area’s finest sandy beach. There are also some rocks here, and a beach volleyball court. A large car park approx. 200 meters from the beach.
Islands that need to be explored and experienced
The three Sletter islands (Store Sletter, Midtre Sletter and Søndre Sletter) located southwest of Larkollneset, confirm their kinship with the other islands along the Østfold coast. A reddish, sharp and gnarled conglomerate of rhomb porphyry is sticking up in the day.
The islands are a collection of flat, grassy islands off Larkollen. They can only be reached by boat, but docking is easy on all islands. Store Sletter has an especially nice sandy beach. The islands got their names because of their appearance. There are not many traces of people on the islands, apart from tourists during the summer season. Store Sletter was inhabitated in the late 1800s. They grew potatoes and minded the livestock, own by the Tomb manor and placed here for grazing in the summer. On top of Store Sletter are three major Bronze Age cairns, bearing witness of ancient habitation. If you decide to visit here, your main purpose should be the experience. To perceive the special un-Norwegian landscape - in a positive sense.
The three Sletter islands (Store Sletter, Midtre Sletter and Søndre Sletter) located southwest of Larkollneset, confirm their kinship with the other islands along the Østfold coast. A reddish, sharp and gnarled conglomerate of rhomb porphyry is sticking up in the day. The islands are a collection of flat, grassy islands off Larkollen. They can only be reached by boat, but docking is easy on all islands. Store Sletter has an especially nice sandy beach.
Norway's biggest instance of the beautiful spring flowering Pasqueflower, Pulsatilla pratensis, can be seen on Store Sletter and Midtre Sletter. We must otherwise go to Eastern Europe's steppes to find a similar terrain with much Pasqueflower. May is the best month to observe these flowers. The flower is bell shaped and nodding with a brown-violet exterior and a dark blue violet inside. The northernmost growing place in the world for this plant is Hovedøya near Oslo.
The Swedish frigate "Venus" with a crew of 300 was borded outside Søndre Sletter by five ships from the Russian Baltic fleet after a short battle. "Venus" was taken as war booty and sailed in the tsar's service for many years after the crew were taken prisoners of war. Several shipwrecks have happened near the Sletter islands. The schooner "Waldemar" of 200 gross tons went down in 1880. Another schooner, "Vigil" of 120 gross tons and loaded with coke, decreased at Sletter in 1990 and the brig "Lina" was loaded with ice when she sank in 1906.
The islands have a total area of approx. 16 acres. There is a sea bird sanctuary on Store Sletter and Søndre Sletter, and both islands with adjoining sea areas are included in the Eldøya-Sletter conservation area. Store Sletter has a gangway pier, information board and toilet on the eastern side. The island is well suited for camping.
Cycling the Coastal Trail. Early autumn is a perfect time for cycling. Slanting sunlight and warm wind make the experience pleasant and rewarding.
Larkollen Coastal Track
Larkollen Week
The Larkollen Week takes place in Mid-July each year, with activities for the whole family. This is a popular event among both residents and holiday makers. Over the years the week has included activities like Olakjerre (homemade "cars" by kids) races, sandcastle building competitions, concerts and local theatrical performances.
Larkollen Week - Activities for the whole family
Typical Larkollen
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Tagged: Larkollen, Oslo fjord, Losen, Støtvig
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JELØY
Picturesque location
BY THE FJORD
After only a 10 minutes’ walk from the street in Moss city, you’ll find yourself on Jeløy Island, which many call "Oslofjorden’s pearl." The island is known for its rich cultural and farm landscapes, but the island should really just as known for its geologic wonders. Did you know that there is a time gap of more than 500 million years between the ancient bedrock on Jeløy and the younger on mainland Moss?
Hotel Refsnes Gods – A hotel in a class of its own
Jeløy brings out all of the best emotions in you. The beautiful scenery of lush farmland and the blissful views of the Oslofjord are breathtaking. The vibrant culture history takes you back to yesteryear with stately homes and landscape which are characterized by alleys, stone walls and gardens. There are large green spaces in the form of forests, as well as countless excursions to choose from. There are a number of really great beaches on the island, both child-friendly sandy as well as pebble beaches. Some of the beaches are very crowded, while others are great beaches you can have all to yourself, even on sunny days.
AUTUMN SUN OVER JELØY IN MOSS. CHECK OUT THE LONG AVENUE LEADING TO ALBY FARM AND GALLERY F15.
When you arrive in Jeløya, it’s not difficult to understand why this is the artists' island. The lighthouse and its views of the scenic cultural landscape and the sea are unique and inspirational. The island's cozy art galleries and studios are well worth a visit. Here you’ll find, among other things, a glass house that specializes in handmade glass art, crafts, interior and design shops, pottery, photo artists, a silversmith, florists, photographers, shoemakers, a guitar maker, a wallpaper shop, and clothing designers.
Cycling is definitely the ideal way to travel when on Jeløya. There are many narrow roads and paths that crisscross the whole island.
See Jeløy from the Coastal Trail
On the way out to Jeløya, you’ll easily be able to take the coastal path that starts at the canal bridge in the center of Moss. Jeløya offers such diverse experiences and has one of the country's finest stretches of coastal path. We recommend that you take your bike to Jeløya, simply to reach several of the attractions of one of Oslofjord’s largest and most intriguing islands.
JELØYA HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S RICHEST FLORAS, INCLUDING HEPATICA AND MISTLETOE. ON THE ISLAND, THERE ARE MORE LANDSCAPE AND NATURE RESERVES AS A RESULT OF THE UNIQUE NATURE. THE ISLAND HAS GREAT HIKING WITHIN ITS ALLEYS AND BUILD STI-SYSTEMS, INCLUDING THE COASTAL PATH.
The first part of the path on Jeløya is Southern Jeløy, an outstanding natural landscape. The path to the Southern Jeløy goes over the channel bridge - through Channel Park, past Sjøbadet, the town’s swimming beach in the heart of Moss. The trail goes along the roads and walkways. By Fiske Beach, we follow the trail along the streets to Vårli, while those who wish can walk along Fiske Beach and to the forest trail over the hill to Vårli. The coastal trail continues to Framnes where it runs into Southern Jeløy landscape, with meadows and mixed forests at Reiertangen.
A beautiful alley with stone walls leads up to Jeløy Radio.
The coastal path continues through a varied landscape between the manors with fields, stone walls, and a stunning archipelago nature and, at times, the path winds its way down to the water's edge. This lush and open landscape, the moraine that formed in Østfold for 10,000 years ago, created a completely different exuberance than in the rest of the country. The good earth is easily accessible and central location of the Oslo fjord trading route was probably the main reason why so many mansions were built in the region. The area of Jeløy and south was once a Manor County more than anything else. 25 percent of all the mansions in the country lay in this county, which at that time included Båhuslen. Beyond here the road went to the rest of continent. People spoke French and had great cultural exchange with foreign countries. Manors were great gathering places for political meetings and when Christiania Bohemians would have a festive party with the "beautiful people" and the high society. When you see the great manor houses today with the lush gardens, you’ll see how lively they were and how people danced and conversed.
Gallery F15
Gallery F 15 is one of the oldest and most traditional institutions for contemporary art in Norway.
A long and wonderful impressive alley with stone walls on both sides leads up to Alby Gård (Alby farm) that also houses the Gallery F 15. Gallery F 15 is one of the oldest and most traditional institutions for contemporary art in Norway. The institution was established in 1966 as the first gallery of its kind, and the name comes from the address Fossen 15 in Moss, the gallery's first location. There is also a cafe attached to the gallery. There you can buy the famous Alby cringle. Outside Gallery F 15 is a large garden / park where you can enjoy the amazing view over the fjord. The park is actually nice and cool on hot summer days. The gardens in front of the main building at Alby are quite unique among the traditional gardens. The conscious shaping of the terrain and the retaining wall in the south of the garden makes it so that the ground beneath becomes erased from view. At first glance, you might think the fjord reaches all the way up to the farm. This intentional illusion is a well-known tool in the traditional English garden art and of French baroque gardens. In the same retaining wall, a cave was used as a gazebo. In the old storehouse at Alby Gård is also the Nature House, the country's first nature center. The center was founded in 1985 and tells of Jeløy’s natural conditions.
A long and wonderful impressive alley with stone walls on both sides leads up to Alby farm that also houses the Gallery F 15.
Next door to Alby Gård, Røed Gård (Røed Farm) is not only of great interest in terms of architecture and styles. The couple Ruth and Knut Mamen has painstakingly restored the nearly 300 year old main building and developed the property into a diverse cultural workshop for various artisans and visual artists. Behind the main house is a landscaped park with a trout pond. It has both a bridge and a romantic gazebo. In the spring, the park is a beautiful sight with cherry blossoms and sheep grazing. Around the estate, you’ll find activities like a gallery, farm shop and a courtyard café. The farm is a major cultural center with art exhibitions, concerts and lectures. Summer concerts in the lush garden are described as magical. Many famous artists perform here every summer.
THE STUNNING ROSE GARDEN ON RØED GÅRD
Traces of antiquity
From Alby, the coastal path to Albybukt Bay is in close contact with the sea until it reaches Bredebukt Bay. All of the latter stretch is surrounded by forest, and this stretch includes three good beaches along the trail. From Bredebukt, the path changes character to a more challenging and rugged, twisting, narrow path. At the same time, the scenery around you changes dramatically to more rugged terrain with rough and rugged rocks and mountains. In addition, there are a lot of mixed forests interspersed with some spooky thickets. The nature just becomes wilder and it's wonderful to find such a change from the more romantic start of the coastal path on Jeløy.
This more challenging route runs from Bredebukt via Stalsberget on the footpath on exciting rugged terrain. After you have hiked down the path to Stalsberget, it opens up a great pebble beach for you. The entire pebble beach is surrounded by steep landscape. Especially in this area at and around Stalsberget, you can find traces of the half billion year old bedrock.
The bedrock on Jeloy is of volcanic origin.
Jeløya, which is part of Moss Municipality, is approximately 20 square kilometers. 10 kilometers long and 4 kilometers at its widest. Geologically, the island is a sunken area in relation to the mountain on the mainland to the east.
The bedrock on Jeloy is of volcanic origin. Jeløy bedrock is from the Permian Period. There is a time gap of more than 500 million years between the ancient bedrock on Jeløya and the younger on the mainland in Moss. The large moraine covers the southern part of Jeløya and the isthmus canal.
When the ice retreated about 10,000 years ago, the land began to rise. This elevation is still ongoing. Both Rødsåsen and Reieråsen have sloping east side and steep slopes on the west side. This is a result of the ice and sea work. Along Stalsberget waves have created bowl-shaped depressions in the rock, known as jettegryter" or “potholes.”
Gullholmsundet
Rich fauna
Forests dominated by herbaceous, coniferous forest, but there are also several stands of deciduous forest. Albyskog (the Alby forest) is behind many of the old beach fortifications damp depressions with alder woods. Otherwise, the area has buffer zones and sandy, pebble, and rocky beaches; each with its own distinctive vegetation communities. The great diversity of habitats and vegetation provide the corresponding variation in wildlife. In particular, insect fauna and many rare species are found here. Among butterfly enthusiasts, Jeløya is well known. Mammal species in this area are mostly come from other places: hedgehogs, foxes, badgers and deer. Bird life is prolific with a total of 185 identified species. Jeløya is conveniently located for bird migration in Outer Oslofjord. A long and continuous shoreline is an attractive feeding ground for migratory birds.
The island is known for its rich cultural and farm landscapes, but the island should really just as known for its geologic wonders.
Hotel Refsnes Gods
A short distance north of Stalsberget, the coastal trail follows along the lake until Tronvik. This distance is no longer challenging after you’ve gone on a wide dirt road. At the water's edge on Tronvik stands the lofty and special building, The Tronvik Torpedo Station. Tronvik Torpedo Station was established in 1916 and closed in 1980. The defense used the torpedo station for testing torpedoes. From Tronvik, there is a route to Lonin along the waterfront until Svaleveien where Hotel Refsnes Gods is. Refsnes Gods is known for its excellent cuisine and a well-stocked wine cellar - not to mention the unique art collection.
Discover the unknown part of Jeløya
Tronvik Torpedo Station
By Tronvik, the path ends, but that does not mean the fantastic hiking ends with the coastal path, quite on the contrary. Until now, the article has been describing just the southern part of Jeløya. Most of Jeløy landscape remains to be explored. Indeed, when the southern part of Jeloy is out of the way, there is still two-thirds of this beautiful and fertile island. Most of Jeløy northern areas consisting of more rugged terrain than in the south, and there is little settlement, but an incredibly great landscape. Lots of forest, but also open lots of meadows and fields.
The shore is undeveloped around most of the island, making it possible to freely walk around much of the island, where there are not too many hills. There are a number of easily accessible beaches all over the island, so there is almost always a beach that is sheltered from today's weather. Jeløya has one of the richest floras, including black eyes and mistletoe. On the island are several conservation areas and nature reserves as a result of the unprecedented nature.
Vestre Nes is a popular recreational area located northwest of the island. Vestre Nes Recreation Area is approximately 300 acres and was acquired for recreation area in 1974. The area is forested and has cliff, pebble, and sandy beaches. You’ll notice it by open the pine forest on shallow and dry ground. A very popular campground is located at the bathing bay Nesbukta, north of Nes.
From the top of Bjørnåsen, there are fantastic views of Oslofjord and the middle parts of Jeløy.
North of Nes, the landscape becomes quite powerful, and from Nes, you can see up to Jeløy’s highest peak, Bjørnåsen. The walk up to Bjørnåsen is highly recommended. You can get up to Bjørnåsen by following the road along the campground to Nesveien and follow this a little further north to a turn. Here you’ll find an excellent path into the woods, which comes with steep terrain through the forest including spruce, pine, linden, hazel and birch. From the top, there are fantastic views of Oslofjord and the northern and middle parts of Jeløy. Have a good trip!
Source: https://www.oslo-fjord.com/jeloy-moss-norway
Tagged: Jeløy, Moss, Norge, Munch
NORWAY, Holiday in Norway, Destination, Travel to Norway
HANKØ
Book a beautiful room Hankø Fjordhotel & Spa
This hotel is located on Hankø island, just a 3-minute ferry ride from the mainland and 16 km from Frederikstad. Guests have free use of the hot tub, pool, gym and sauna.Since 1877, Hankø Fjordhotell & Spa has provided accommodation in a peaceful, natural setting on the Oslo fjord.
Fredrikstad's coastline consists of a large and considerable archipelago with more than 1,000 islands and reefs. There are two lighthouses, Struten and Strømtangen, where it is possible for tourists to stay. Among the best known islands is Hankø, which is a popular hiking area with a lush flora. Hankø is also known as the Mecca of sailing and the most fashionable holiday resort in the Oslo fjord.
Hankø is a relatively large island west of Fredrikstad. It is divided by a north-eastern running valley. The northern part is scarcely populated and for a large part covered by forest, while the southern part has many cabins and a few local inhabitants.
Hankø's history goes way back and to before the sailing sport was invented. Hankø's highest point is currently 55 meters above sea level, i.e. when the ice cap retracted (about 10-12,000 years ago). At that time all of Hankø was below water. About 5,000 years BC, this point emerged from the water. At the end of the Stone Age, approx. 2,000 years BC, the sea level was 20 meters higher than today. Hankø consisted of 10-15 small islands and reefs. It is from this time we find the first traces of human inhabitation on the island. Both north on the island and in two locations along the eastern side, there are ancient burial mounds dating back to the Bronze Age. It is, however, unclear whether the island was inhabitated or used as a hunting place in the Middle Ages. There are no signs of human activities from this period. The first permanent residents on the island came about the mid-1700's. Earlier Hankø belonged to the Elingaard Manor and was mostly used as a summer grazing place for the animals from Elingaard and underlying farms in Onsøy.
Long before holidaymakers and sailors started coming to Hankø, it was known from the 1870's as a health and bath island, where one could enjoy mud baths with massage or hot baths with pine needle soap. During activities at a brickworks nearby in 1873, a healing sulphurous mud was discovered in the Hankø sound. This mud was believed to have a healing effect on a plethora of diseases. A Bath Hotel & Coastal Sanatorium was therefore established on Hankø. Hankø thus became one of the most famous spas in the country during the last decades of the 1800's.
Swimming and sunbathing was no common amusement in earlier times. Until the late 1800's swimming was regarded by most as a health building alternative and as a palliative treatment. In the late 1800's people in the cities and towns started going to the countryside during the warm summer weeks, especially when cities and towns started to grow bigger and tighter. This period from late June until the middle of August was called "Swimming Time", and those who had friends or family in the countryside, or money to rent a place near the coast, were called "Landliggere". Farmers and fishermen moved with their families into the wash house, while townspeople took over the farm house. Many of them also brought their own furniture for their summer stay, and some even their servants. People from Fredrikstad started building summer houses on the island, especially people in the lumber business. Everything Hankø is associated with today - stately summer houses, sailing and regattas, as well as being a holiday for society's elite - was developed in the same period in the end of the 1800's. In connection with the building of Hankø Bath & Coastal Sanatorium, about 20 villas in the Swiss style was also built for the "plank nobility" of Fredrikstad. They also had sailing boats. The earliest regatta we know of, took place as early as 1882, starting from the later well known starting point of Garnholmen. A few years later a national regatta was arranged here, and it was not long before Hankø had achieved the same status as Holmenkollen has among ski jumpers. Hankø is still synonymous with King Olav for lots of people. Olympic Champion of sailing, King Olav, was a returning sailing guest at Hankø with his beloved "Bloksberg", and contributed to Hankø's fame. Noone in the history of Nowegian sailing can show such a track record of regattas and starts as King
Olav. From his debut in 1918 until the Vestfjorden Spring Regatta in 1990, which was his last, the King participated in an unimaginable number of regattas. He owned a total of 19 boats. His last was 5.5 is "Norna XII", which was contracted in 1986 when King Olav was 83 years old!
The Summer paradise of sport sailing. Hankø is famous for its regattas, where among others the royal family have been annual participants.
Today Hankø is the center of sailing in Norway. Numerous regattas have been arranged here since 1882, when the Fredikstad Sailing Association (Fredrikstad Seilforening) was founded. On July 29 of the same year they staged the very first regatta at Hankø. The hotel had 300 guests staying at least one week this year. The original sanatorium house between the men's and women's baths was demolished in 1883 and a new and "modern" hot bath house was built at a more central location at the sound. This "hot bath" is known as Seilerkroa today.
It is nice to watch the regattas from soild ground if you're not participating yourself. The highest foothills at Vikane on the mainland, and the open landscape at Hankø's south-western side, are perfect places to watch the regattas. Fill a picnic basket and enjoy the maginificent view. The ocean is sparkling, the sail boats with their colorful sails cleave the waves and salty drops cloud your sunglasses.
The hotel's guest lists prove that lots of foreigners have been attracted by the environment and the beautiful nature, especially at the outer side of the island. There are a few nice sandy beaches on the north of the island, which are protected nature reserves. Hankø has many nice hiking routes and paths and they are highly recommended. You will see deer often. There is a lot of them on the island, and they have become so accustomed to people that they are not afraid of being looked at. The deer are descendants of the first ones that were put on the island in the late 1800's.
Hankø has a lot of nice skerries. Shiny rocks are facing the ocean, inland are enormous oak trees. Together they show how the archipelago once was along the coast of Skagerrak and the outer Oslo fjord, before almost everything was chopped down.
Pit Stop in Hankøsundet. Refueling is necessary on long Summer days.
Ice cream and fuel are the main ingredients on the mainland side of Hankø – Terje Andersen’s convenience store and kiosk in Vikane is a favourite destination to enjoy ice cream in the sun here. The Summer paradise, Vikane, has a petrol station, kiosk and convenience store, all thanks to Terje and his wife serving the boat people and tourists during the Summer. Ever since 1888 there has been a shop in this house.
On the mainland side is the kiosk with a marina. Here you will also find a general store where you can get good food, drinks etc. If you want to shop for groceries here during the regattas, you need to be patient. The queues are long with lots of shoppers. A passenger boat runs continuously between the mainland and the Seilerkroa and the Yacht Club on Hankø.
Source: https://www.oslo-fjord.com/visit-fredrikstad-hvaler-hanko-turist/
Tagged: Hankø, Sailing, Yacht, Summer House
Destination, Holiday in Norway, NORWAY, Travel to Norway, Uthavn
ENGELSVIKEN
The archipelago of Fredrikstad stretches along the coast like a string of pearls. You don't have to travel far from the city to find charming fishing villages, Engelsviken is one of them. Engelsviken is famous for its fish soup, Summer Show, and with good places for swimming.
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This page is under construction. We are working hard to launch a new page about Engelsviken with new features. Stay tuned!
Source: https://www.visithvaler.com/engelsviken
Tagged: Engelsviken, Norway, Oslo fjord, Oslo
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Small Steps… Giant Leaps
There was a special ceremony at The Ottawa Mission recently honoring 30 men who have reached significant milestones in their personal journeys towards recovery from addiction.
Some had attended our daily drop in Day Program with perfect attendance for several months as a start on the path to recovery. Others had completed stays of anywhere from two weeks to three months in our Stabilization unit preparing for long term addiction treatment. And six of those in attendance had graduated from our 5-month residential treatment program called LifeHouse.
At the end of the formal proceedings people are invited to come forward to share their thoughts and experiences. Without fail, the stories that emerge from this portion of the ceremony are heartfelt in their praise of the staff and programming available at The Mission. But beyond this, the stories are all inspirational and deeply moving.
The final speaker was a former graduate of LifeHouse who has not only succeeded in maintaining his sobriety after years of addiction, but who has also taken his life in a direction he never dreamed possible. He has completed his first semester of university and had just received his marks – straight A’s!
Every man who spoke that day felt a great sense of accomplishment – regardless of the stage they are at along their road to recovery. And every man who spoke that day has finally arrived at a place where there is hope for the future – where there had once been none.
For all of these people, many small steps have amounted to giant leaps. Congratulations to all!
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Carmignac photojournalism Award
Website: http://www.fondation-carmignac.com/photojournalism-award/call-for-candidates/
Four years since the fall of the Gaddafi regime in October 2011, Libya is experiencing an unprecedented political, military and humanitarian crisis. While negotiations for a national unity agreement have taken place since early 2015 between the various political entities claiming power, heavy fighting between rival militias and factions continues to break out in the country on a daily basis. The surge of hope that followed the revolution has now given way to chaos.
Representing the dramatic and complex reality in the region has become an increasingly challenging task. The Carmignac Photojournalism Award has resolved to support a photojournalist in the implementation, production and dissemination of an in-depth project on this country from which we now receive little to no images.
A key aim of the Award is to support the winning photojournalist by providing a global platform for their work to be seen and collected. The Carmignac Foundation collaborates with the winner throughout the entire project by offering the laureate to go into the field, financing a monograph and developing and staging an international touring exhibition upon their return. The Carmignac Foundation also commits to purchasing four photographs from the winner’s portfolio, which then enter Carmignac’s prestigious art collection.
Open to photojournalist woldwide.
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Latvala and Pirelli fly to Finland glory
Finland’s high-speed gravel stages, with their huge jumps and blind crests, are renowned as some of the most daunting in world rallying. They take years to master and only a select few drivers have triumphed on the event. Pirelli, the official tyre supplier to the World Rally Championship under a three-year agreement with motorsport’s world governing body, the FIA, has enjoyed its fair share of success on the breathtaking roads around host town Jyvaskyla and celebrated its 14th outright win in Finland at WRC level when Jari-Matti Latvala swept to victory over Sebastien Ogier in a tense finish. “This is something I’ve been dreaming of since I was a small boy and to win my home event is a fantastic feeling, really amazing,” said Latvala. “The Pirelli tyres have been perfect and my Ford team has done really hard work so this victory is for them.” Markku Alen, who won in Finland on five occasions using Pirelli tyres, was quick to praise the flying Latvala following his second win of the 2010 season in his factory Focus World Rally Car. “For us Finns this is the Finnish Grand Prix and maybe it is difficult to understand how important it is to win it unless you are Finnish,” said the former Lancia legend. “It will be a very special feeling for Jari-Matti because my wins in Finland were always special. He drove very well.” Hannu Mikkola secured Pirelli’s first Finland success when he won in 1975 at the wheel of a Toyota Corolla. He said: “We’ve seen a very good fight and I know for me this was the rally I always wanted to win. Jari-Matti has really grown up with this win and I am also very pleased to see Ford winning again.” Paul Hembery, Pirelli’s Motorsport Director, praised Latvala’s performance. He said: “Along with Monte Carlo this is the one rally every driver wants to win when they’re growing up. He’s had to deal with a lot of pressure and always kept a level head. The stages require an all or nothing approach and Latvala has shown he has the speed and the temperament.” Rally Finland marked the first time this season that Pirelli has supplied its soft compound Scorpion tyre to the WRC field. It is designed to provide optimum grip in cooler and damp conditions. Although the ambient temperature rose to 37 degrees in the build up to the rally (the highest recorded in Finland since 1914) it began to dip with rain falling on Thursday and Friday night. “We have been very pleased with the performance of our soft compound Scorpion tyre here,” said Matteo Braga, Pirelli’s senior WRC tyre engineer. “We’ve had no issues whatsoever and the tyres have remained consistent even though we had different conditions with wet and dry weather.” There was more success for Pirelli in the Production Car World Rally Championship when Ott Tanak claimed his maiden win in the class for turbocharged production cars. The 22-year-old from Estonia was one of five Pirelli Star Drivers competing in Finland after being selected to contest six rounds of this year’s WRC in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X. “It is a really, really good result for me,” said Tanak. “I was very happy for a clean run to the finish.” Pirelli also supplied its soft compound Scorpion tyre to the competitors in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship, where Juho Hanninen, another rising Finnish star, led home Swedes P-G Andersson and Patrik Sandell in a Skoda Fabia one-two-three. Rally Finland celebrated its 60th anniversary this year by running a condensed two-day format, which effectively meant the 19 stages, covering 310 competitive kilometres, were squeezed into two days of high-speed competition. “It’s more like the old days and the drivers had to be much more full attack all of the time,” added Alen. “The tyres were very good here as they’ve always been in Finland. There has been no punctures and congratulations to Pirelli because this is always a difficult rally.” The World Rally Championship resumes with the all-asphalt ADAC Rallye Deutschland from August 19-22 when Pirelli will provide its PZero tyre in soft and hard compounds. Pirelli’s Rally Finland victories 1975: Hannu Mikkola/Asto Aho (Toyota Corolla) 1976: Markku Alen/Ilkka Kivimaki (Fiat 131 Abarth) 1978: Markku Alen/Ilkka Kivimaki (Fiat 131 Abarth) 1979: Markku Alen/Ilkka Kivimaki (Fiat 131 Abarth) 1980: Markku Alen/Ilkka Kivimaki (Fiat 131 Abarth) 1981: Ari Vatanen/David Richards (Ford Escort RS1800) 1982: Hannu Mikkola/Arne Hertz (Audi Quattro) 1987: Markku Alen/Ilkka Kivimaki (Lancia Delta HF 4WD) 1990: Carlos Sainz/Luis Moya (Toyota Celica GT-Four) 1999: Juha Kankkunen/Juha Repo (Subaru Impreza WRC) 2005: Marcus Gronholm/Timo Rautiainen (Peugeot 307 WRC) 2008: Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Elena (Citroen C4 WRC) 2009: Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Focus RS WRC 09) 2010: Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (Ford Focus RS WRC 09)
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Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Posted by Gabriella on December 25, 2013 December 22, 2013
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Title: The Fault in Our Stars
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Realistic Fiction
Publisher: Dutton Books
Page Amount: 318 pages
Blurb from Goodreads: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Why Read: After refusing to read this book for over 5 months, I sat down to find out what was so special about this book that everyone I know was raving about. I am not the largest of fans when it comes to romance novels, especially when the two lovers are under the age of 25. But I found myself feeling teary-eyed at the ending of The Fault in Our Stars (No Spoilers though promise). I mean, in finishing the book, I was sad to let the characters retreat to the page of the novel.
Review: I have so many words about this book. The first being – I’m sorry for doubting you, John Green. John Green outdid himself, and it’s hard to imagine a more realistic book when it comes to cancer, disease and death. I understand many of the emotions that run through the veins of the story, given a family history of cancer- and the way that John Green wrote, I felt as though he understood every word.
Hazel Grace, Isaac, and Augustus are all characters I empathize with, and truly feel as though I can connect to how they are feeling and why. The ages of 17 gave my initial impression of the book a lower score, as I’m normally not in the business of reading teen novels- but I think there wasn’t a better time for the story in The Fault In Out Stars to be set, because it gives the background a sort of edgy growing up characteristic tempered by the hovering cloud of death that follows the characters like a stalker.
Augustus and Hazel Grace’s relationship was the cornerstone of the story for me. John Green must have made sure that of all the terrible and unfair things that happen in the book – love triumphed. So I place the cancer-ridden character of Hazel Grace and the stubbornly normal Augustus as people of importance. How can two characters of a young age be such studies into what always happens when the word ‘terminal’ comes into play? I don’t know… but the relatable-ness is unmistakeable. Anyone could be Augustus and Hazel Grace.
Plotwise: Gosh, I can barely think of it without crying at the unfairness of it all. But maybe that’s what makes The Fault In Our Stars so special. It recognizes multiple times throughout the novel that life isn’t fair. And the only way to handle it is to carry on. There’s no way to ignore it or combat it, but instead focusing on what’s good in life – a picnic or playing a game. It’s the small things that count.
There is not doubt in my mind as I give The Fault In Our Stars, 5 Stars. It felt with the book, my heart ached and the characters were as real as anyone I knew. So yes. I’m giving in to the popular view – this book was amazing, absolutely incredible, and anyone who wants a good book to comfort them, or to not will find a place to hold in its pages.
Review Coming Soon: Inferno
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Mother Shipton
An engraving depicting the imagined appearance of Mother Shipton
Gather 'round the campfire
Computing woo
Alligators in the sewers
Legend tripping
Mel's Hole
Polymeric falcighol derivation
Rabbit's foot
Mother Shipton was an English prophetess reputedly active in the early 16th century, although her prophecies weren't published until 1641, with the most well-known version appearing in 1684, and later editions adding more predictions. She predicted the deaths of various people who had died before the date of publication, but there is no evidence of her predictions until after the events she predicted, and her existence is not recorded at all during her lifetime.[1]
She was particularly popular in the Victorian period, when people added fake prophecies of the steam train and Crimean War to her works. A famous prediction of hers about the world ending in 1881 was added by a Victorian writer in the 1860s,[2] which ended in the same abject failure as all doomsday predictions do.
The cave where she lived has reputedly been a tourist attraction since 1630, and with books of fake prophecies published from 1641 to 1862 and beyond, she must be one of the longest-lasting hoaxes in English history.
3 Historical site
Evidence about her life depends on the various 17th century editions of her prophecies, the first of which was published 80 years after her death. This is what they say, for what it's worth.
Her dates were c. 1488-1561. Her real name is given as Ursula Southeil with a considerable range of spellings. Born out of wedlock, she was allegedly so ugly her mother had trouble finding a nurse. She married a carpenter called Toby Shipton in 1512 and lived in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, UK, in a cave, which is now open as a tourist attraction.[2] She may have been a village wise-woman who offered spells and fortune-telling to her fellow villagers.[3]
There are various stories about supernatural happenings associated with her from early childhood. Objects moved mysteriously, even her crib with her inside. Imps and other supernatural beings attacked people around her.[3]
Prophecies[edit]
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.
This is her most famous prediction. It was first published in 1862, and made up by Charles Hindley, who later confessed to his deception.[2] Hindley also made up other predictions:
A Carriage without a horse shall go;
Disaster fill the world with woe…
In water iron then shall float,
As easy as a wooden boat.[2]
This is an uncannily accurate prediction of the steam train and iron ship, but less impressive if made in the 1860s than in the early 16th century. Likewise, the following couplets from 1862 which "predict" the Crystal Palace (1851) and Crimean War (1853-1856)
A house of glass shall come to pass
In England, but alas!
War will follow with the work
In the land of the pagan and the Turk.[3]
The first edition of her prophecies was The Propheceyes of Mother Shipton (1641). This predicted the deaths of various of her contemporaries including Cardinal Wolsey (died 1530). The problem is obvious.[1]
Historical site[edit]
The entrance to the entrance to the tourist trap[4][5] cave
You can visit her cave and the petrifying well.[6] Their website claims this is "England's oldest tourist attraction" on the basis that it has been open since 1630.[6] That does depend on your definition of a tourist attraction: Canterbury Cathedral and many other places of pilgrimage are older, and people probably went for a look at Stonehenge in earlier days. Perhaps it's the oldest place with a gift shop or ticket booth.
The well does petrify things: due to its high mineral content objects placed in the water will become covered in mineral deposits.[7]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Mother Shipton, Museum of Hoaxes
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 See the Wikipedia article on Mother Shipton.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mother Shipton, Mysterious Britain
↑ Trip Advisor: A very disappointing attraction and complete tourist trap
↑ Trip Advisor: Terrible, avoid. Tourist trap
↑ 6.0 6.1 Website of Mother Shipton's Cave
↑ Petrifying Well, Website of Mother Shipton's Cave
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www.orionbooks.co.uk
Gollancz Science Fiction Hb / ETPb January £18.99 / £13.99 352pp 978 1 473 20509 3 / 978 1 473 20510 9 ebook: £9.99 / 978 1 473 20512 3 Audio: £19.99 / 978 1 4091 6626 9 / 20 hours
The authorised sequel to War of the Worlds, written by one of the world’s greatest SF authors.
STEPHEN bAxTER The Massacre of Mankind
Fourteen years after the events of The War of the Worlds, the aliens are back. and no cold virus is going to stop them this time.
H.G. Wells’s SF classic The War of the Worlds, first published 1897, has never been out of print and has spawned numerous films, Tv series, radio drama series, a record album and numerous comic book adaptations. The Massacre of Mankind is the authorised sequel, written by one of the world’s greatest SF authors.
It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared.
So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter Jenkins, the narrator of Wells’ book. He is sure that the Martians have learned, adapted, understood their defeat.
He is right.
The massacre of mankind has begun stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent science fiction writer of his generation, and wrote The Time Ships, the official sequel to The Time Machine. Published around the world, he has also won major awards in the Uk, US, Germany and Japan including the Philip k. Dick Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and several bSFA Awards.
Location: Northumberland Available for interview www.stephen-baxter.com T: @sbxr
Gollancz Science Fiction & Fantasy • January 2017
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Delingpole mania hits Perth
Philippa Martyr
This means war – and you’re the Viet Cong
James Delingpole began his tour of Australia in Perth last night, launching his book Killing The Earth to Save It (known in the UK as Watermelons, e.g. green on the outside, red on the inside; Connor Court are publishing it here). For those of you not familiar with Delingpole and his oeuvre, he is the man who launched ‘Climategate’ onto the blogosphere – even though he didn’t think of the term himself; the man who did that was sitting in the back row of the room at the Royal Perth Yacht Club, and introduced himself by his handle of ‘Bulldust’, which went down a treat. (That’s the nice thing about book launches; you don’t just get to see the man you’ve been reading in the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph, but you get to see other people as well, who you knew only as ‘Bulldust’.)
Delingpole is small but perfectly formed; he is droll, quirky, deadpan – and deadly serious. He spoke briefly about the book, kicking off with the infamous exploding-child videos in the 10:10 campaign launched in the UK around a year ago (made by Richard Curtis and featuring a cast of green luvvies a mile long.) But it was when he opened the floor up to questions that we really saw him in his element. Delingpole is excellent on the spot and on his feet; we covered a huge range of concerns, from Agenda 21 and the increasing loss of private property rights to government regulation, to the massively-subsidised ‘eco-crucifixes’ known as wind farms, which destroy natural wildlife to an extent that Evil Big Oil can only dream about.
How is the Green movement ‘watermelonish’? Because it uses tactics of social engineering that were pioneered by socialism over a hundred years ago and refined throughout a century of totalitarianism. You take an innocuous term like ‘sustainability’ and make sure that what you mean by ‘sustainable’ is completely different from everyone else’s idea, and you thus happily recruit people who would in fact be diametrically opposed to you if they had the faintest idea what you were really talking about. You infiltrate and eventually control what Delingpole calls the ‘heavy weaponry’ of the cultural wars: the schools, the universities, the media, the publishing companies. Eventually, as one of his questioners put it, you oversee the pathologising of ‘denialism’, so that those who disagree with the prevailing wisdom are marginalised and branded as mentally unstable.
Delingpole has been on the receiving end of this personally, including the invocation of the loathed UK Press Complaints Commission against him – but unlike Andrew Bolt, Delingpole actually won his case. As he said himself, when the flak hits you, it means you’re over the target. He sees the use of the internet as one of the few really powerful weapons in the hands of the people he calls the ‘Viet Cong’ That would be people like me, and probably you, if you’ve read this far. The greening of politics is now intersecting ever more powerfully with the issue of freedom of speech and the right to private property, and it is a war in which we are all involved.
Nor does Delingpole have any naive ideas that an incoming Liberal government will roll back all of the crippling regulatory agencies and bogus legislation that is threatening these basic freedoms. In the UK, he sees David Cameron making a ‘pig’s ear’ of Conservatism; he counsels a cautious approach to conservative political parties, as they have not recently proven themselves real champions of small government. The advance of big government by stealth is one of the real problems he sees at work, but on the bright side, he also sees a small but significant paradigm shift in the UK. Whereas some years ago he was the sole freak at dinner parties, Delingpole now finds that he is less alone. May his supporters and readers increase and multiply, subduing the earth.
PS: Declaration of conflict of interest: I told him l liked his Spectator television column, and he grinned and said, ‘Ah, in that case, you get your book signed "with love"’. And he did, too.
James Delingpole tour details are in What’s On
Buy James Delingpole’s Killing the Earth to Save It (post free) here…
See Quadrant on Bulldust (in 2010)
On suffering fools
Michael Kile
Climategate in the Twilight Zone
DIY ocean heating
Mark Imisides
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Rachel Stevens Quotes
Rachel Stevens — English Musician born on April 09, 1978,
Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter, model and businesswoman. She was a member of the pop group S Club between 1999 and 2003. She released her solo debut studio album Funky Dory in September 2003. The album reached number nine on the UK album chart and the British Phonographic Industry awarded it with a gold certification in October 2003. Two singles, "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" and "Funky Dory", were initially released from the album: "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" peaked at number two in the UK and received a silver certification from the BPI. In July 2004, Stevens released the single "Some Girls" as a charity record for Sport Relief, and the single's success prompted Polydor to re-issue Funky Dory with three new songs.Come and Get It, her second studio album, was released in October 2005. It peaked at #28 in the UK, and two of its three singles reached the Top 10... (wikipedia)
I think having children is the most amazing thing.
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.
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A Fate Worse than Death? Being Transgender in Long-term Care
October 26, 2017 October 26, 2017 Administrator
By Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD (Senior Research Scientist, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging)
“I would kill myself.” This is what a 70 year-old transgender woman told me recently when I asked what she would do if she needed long-term care. While this sounds dramatic, it is a common sentiment among older transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) adults (Witten, 2014). Many TGNC older adults do not have family caregivers available to meet their needs for assistance in later life, having been rejected and ostracized by their families of origin according to a study by Grant and colleagues (2011), and long-term care services may be their only option.
Plans for concealing gender identities, suicide and euthanasia are one way for older TGNC adults to cope with the fears of entering long-term care (Bockting & Coleman, 2007; Ippolito & Witten, 2014). The National Senior Citizens Law Center (2011) reports that TGNC older adults, regardless of the degree of gender transitioning, are at risk for abuse, mistreatment, or violence in institutionalized settings, especially those needing assistance with activities of daily living such as showering, dressing, and toileting.
Accessing medically competent care may also be a problem for older TGNC adults in long-term care. Geriatric care for TGNC older adults requires special considerations. Due to potential drug interactions, contraindications, and polypharmacy, TGNC older adults using hormone therapy concurrent with other medications may require close monitoring (Grant et al., 2011; SAGE & NCTE, 2012; Witten & Eyler, 2015). Sometimes these problems may require stopping hormone therapy, which may be especially traumatic for those who have transitioned later in life and not yet achieved their goals for masculinizing or feminizing their appearance.
Since private rooms in long-term care facilities are not covered by insurance, older TGNC adults may be assigned shared rooms based on their birth sex instead of their gender identities, which is problematic for the TGNC person as well as their roommate. The Department of Veterans Affairs (2013) has issued a directive that rooms for TGNC veterans are assigned based upon self-identified gender without regard to physical presentation or surgical history. This policy should be a requirement in all long-term care facilities.
The Nursing Home Reform Act and the Fair Housing Act prohibit TGNC discrimination and mistreatment in long-term care. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) also prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity by health care organizations (NCTE, 2015), but this legal protection is at risk following the 2016 election with promises by those in power to repeal the ACA. If ACA repeal is successful, older TGNC people will lose safeguards around denial of services, access to facilities like restrooms that conform to their gender identities, isolation, deprivation, and harassment by staff.
For long-term care providers, there are a number of resources available for continuing education to better serve their TGNC clients. These include the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging, which offers a variety of in-person and on-line training options (http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org/training/index.cfm). Providers working with veterans can review training and education options in the VA system at http://www.patientcare.va.gov/LGBT/index.asp . And TRANSLINE provides on-line consultation for medical providers (http://project-health.org/transline/ ).
Sadly, we may soon witness a rollback of protections for TGNC individuals in long-term care. Therefore it is imperative that the TGNC community and their allies work harder than ever to insure that policies, legislation, and training programs are in place to guarantee that older TGNC people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve in long-term care and other clinical settings.
Portions of this blog were drawn from “Providing competent and affirming services for transgender and gender nonconforming older adults” (Porter, Brennan-Ing et al., 2016), and “Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people (American Psychological Association, 2015).
American Psychological Association (2015). Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. American Psychologist, 70(9), 832-864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039906 .
Bockting, W. O., & Coleman, E. (2007). Developmental stages of the transgender coming‐out process. In R. Ettner, S. Monstrey, & A. Eyler (Eds.), Principles of transgender medicine and surgery (pp. 185‐208). New York, NY: Haworth.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA; 2013). Providing health care for transgender and intersex veterans (VHA Directive 2013–003). Retrieved from http://www.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=2863
Grant, J. M., Mottet, L. A., Tanis, J., Harrison, J., Herman, J. L., & Kiesling, M. (2011). Injustice at every turn: A report of the national transgender discrimination survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality & National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Retrieved from http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/NTDS_Report.pdf
Ippolito, J., & Witten, T. M. (2014). Aging. In L. Erickson-Schroth (Ed.), Trans bodies, trans selves: A resource for the transgender community (pp. 476-497). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
National Center for Transgender Equality (2015). Know your rights: Healthcare. Retrieved from http://www.transequality.org/know-your-rights/healthcare
National Senior Citizens Law Center (2011). LGBT Older Adults in Long-Term Care Facilities: Stories from the Field. Washington, DC: National Senior Citizens Law Center.
Porter, K. E., Brennan-Ing, M., Chang, S. C., dickey, l. m., Singh, A. A., Bower, K. L., & Witten, T. M. (2016). Providing competent and affirming services for transgender and gender nonconforming older adults. Clinical Gerontologist. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2016.1203383
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) & National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE; 2012). Improving the lives of transgender older adults. New York, NY: Authors. Retrieved from http://transequality.org/Resources/TransAgingPolicyReportFull.pdf
Witten, T.M. (2014). End of life, chronic illness and trans-identities. J. Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, 10(1), 1-26. doi:10.1080/15524256.2013.988864
Witten, T.M. & Eyler, A.E. (2015). Care of aging transgender and gender non-conforming patients. In. R. Ettner, S. Monstrey and A.E. Eyler (Eds.), Principles of transgender medicine and surgery. New York, NY: Routledge Press.
Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD is the Senior Research Scientist, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was the 2016 Chair of the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
Categories: Aging, Health Disparities, LGBT IssuesTags: health disparities, health equity, LGBT, long-term care, older adults, transgender
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So basically, even after all these laws and rights creationists – there are still no workers that have some sensitivity towards trans-folks. That no entrepreneurs have opened assisted-living homes.
well, the other bothersome thought is that somehow when a person becomes labelled as trans – they become a strange non-human or mutant which requires extra special treatments. why? All the same physical items which create a human do exist – heart, lungs, veins, stomach, etc.
What is needed differently to perform open-heart surgery or diabetic treatment? – for example.
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Best things to do in Cidade do México
1, Museu Nacional de Antropologia
“This world-class museum stands in an extension of the Bosque de Chapultepec. Its long, rectangular courtyard is surrounded on three sides by two-level display halls. The 12 ground-floor salas (halls) are dedicated to pre-Hispanic Mexico, while upper-level salas show how Mexico’s indigenous descendants live today, with the contemporary cultures located directly above their ancestral civilizations. The vast museum offers more than most people can absorb in a single visit.”
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2, Chapultepec Castle
“The National Museum of History, located in the highest part of Bosque de Chapultepec, occupies the historic Castillo de Chapultepec. This property was built between 1785 and 1787, designed as a resting place by order of Viceroy Bernardo de Gálvez. Over time its uses have been diverse: from the headquarters of the Military College, the scene of battles during the US invasion, the imperial residence of Maximilian and Carlota, to the presidential residence.”
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3, Museu Frida Kahlo
“****VERY IMPORTANT WARNING****. YOU SHOULD BUY ONLINE TICKETS AND WITH A LOT OF ANTICIPATION TO AVOID LOSING TIME IN LONG ROWS”
4, Bosque de Chapultepec
“The park is very large, stretching over 1,600 acres (4 square km), it is separated into three distinct sections. First section: You'll find the zoo, Chapultepec Castle (which houses the National History Museum), the National Anthropology Museum, Modern Art Museum, Tamayo Museum, and an artificial lake with boats for rent among other attractions in the first section. Second section: Has an amusement park called La Feria de Chapultepec Mágico, as well as several museums including the Papalote children's museum and Natural History Museum, a few lakeside restaurants, and Mexico's national cemetery and several impressive fountains and public art. Third section: Made up mostly of natural areas with wooded areas and wildlife.”
5, Parque México
“Parque México, also known by its official name Parque General San Martín, is a park in Mexico City, located in the Hipódromo Condesa neighborhood, in the Cuauhtémoc district. It is known for its proximity to Mexico Avenue. It is distinguished by its architecture and art deco decoration. It was built in 1927 on the layout of the horse racing track of the Jockey Club of Mexico as the central site of the new colony. It works as a meeting, meeting and entertainment place within the Condesa neighborhood, especially for walking dogs.”
Monumento / ponto turístico
6, El Ángel de la Independencia
“Walk down Avenida Reforma to see all the famous monuments, have access to lots of bar, restaurants and cafes and end at Bosque de Chapultepec - the city's biggest park. There are lots of museums and the Chapultepec Castle within its grounds so we recommend taking a day to explore. (Closed Mondays) ”
7, Museu Soumaya
“Enorme colección privada de arte Europeo y Mexicano, desde arte virreinal hasta Dalí, Picasso, Tamayo. Abre todos los días, y lo mejor de todo es gratis. El exterior es muy atractivo. Huge private collection of european and mexican art, from antique art to Dali, Picasso, Tamayo among many other famous artists around the world. Best of all, it opnes every day and if free. The exterior reflects the light in beautiful ways, especially sunsets.”
8, Palacio de Bellas Artes
“The Palace of Fine Arts of Mexico is the most important cultural center of the country and has been declared an artistic monument by UNESCO. It is, therefore, a building of great importance that has seen artists from the likes of Luciano Pavarotti pass through its stage. INSIDE THE DIEGO RIVERA MURALS ARE LOCATED”
9, Antara Fashion Hall
“Antara Fashion Mall is a gorgeous open air shopping mall that drips in glamour, with a selection of designer stores and some elegant boutiques. Open daily from 11 am to 23 pm.”
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10, Bosque de Chapultepec I Sección
“This National park is famous for gathering around museums, restaurants and historical buildings, a place you'd love to be in touch with nature! in the city.”
11, Bellas Artes
“Impressive almost 100 years old opera house with a very cool art déco style”
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12, Alameda Central
“One of the most iconic parks in Mexico City, right next to the Palacio de Bellas Artes. ”
13, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo
“Great contemporary arts museum! The cafeteria has a wonderful view of the Chapultepec Park... great fro breakfast at the park and then visiting the museum.”
14, Monument to the Revolution
“A Downtown's classic. There are some cafes, restaurants, bar and a museum underneath the Monumento a la Revolución. ”
Atletismo e esportes
15, Viveros de Coyoacán
“Coyoacan tree nursery is a perfect spot for start your day, either running or walking its 2 kilometer track”
History Museum
16, Templo Mayor Museum
“Son ruinas mexicas en el centro histórico junto a la Catedral de México, vale la pena entrar y conocer la cultura asi como caminar en los alrededores del Zocalo. Del metro Juanacatlan, trasbordan en la linea azul y bajan en estación Zócalo”
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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Pc Game Free Download
By PcGamesCenter.com · On January 4, 2018
One upcoming RPG video game that is being created by Level-5 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment is the sequel to the first game in the Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Pc. The game would be released on both PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows on the 19th of January 2018.The players get to control Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, who is the king but was overthrown and has set out to get his throne back.
The game has been designed to be played from a third person POV and is a roleplaying game. Players are required to complete the quests given to them in order to progress in the story. If they aren’t doing quests, players can roam freely around the world where they have they have the chance to explore dungeons, towns and villages and all the other dangerous places that have been scattered around the world.
As soon as the player leaves a certain location, they are presented with a world map. This map can be used to select a certain destination. The characters can be seen in the form of chibi-like designs, whereas the overworld would be represented in the form of a diorama.
When players get to fight the enemies, they get into a battle system. This battle happens in an open field so that characters can roam around the field easily. During a battle, instead of commanding a hoard of characters, the player is in charge of a single character. The rest of the characters are managed by the system.
In order to fight the enemies, players get to use magical abilities, melee attacks and “Higgledies” which are the “spirit of hearts” which can exist in numerous forms and can represent elements. These Higgledies can be used to reach faraway places and for exploring and clearing dungeons.
In Ni No Kuni II: the Revenant Kingdom, the players get to build their own kingdom and manage it too. They can even focus on the arrangement of workforces in the town.
System Requirements of Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD FX-6300 is the minimum requirement of the game, but Intel Core 17-3770 or AMD FX-8350 would be a better choice for the players.
A 4 GB RAM is a must for the game, but having an 8 GB RAM would make the game run more smoothly.
The operating system for the game should be Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.
At least 40 GB space on the hard disk should be free for the installation of the game.
AMD Radeon R7 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti is the minimum video card requirement. Having ATI Radeon R9 series or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 would work better for the game.
DirectX 11 sound card should be in use for the game.
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A statement of reaffirmation for this policy was published at
This policy is a revision of the policy in
107(1):195
From the American Academy of Pediatrics
The Pediatrician's Role in Family Support and Family Support Programs
Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care
Children's social, emotional, and physical health; their developmental trajectory; and the neurocircuits that are being created and reinforced in their developing brains are all directly influenced by their relationships during early childhood. The stresses associated with contemporary American life can challenge families' abilities to promote successful developmental outcomes and emotional health for their children. Pediatricians are positioned to serve as partners with families and other community providers in supporting the well-being of children and their families. The structure and support of families involve forces that are often outside the agenda of the usual pediatric health supervision visits. Pediatricians must ensure that their medical home efforts promote a holistically healthy family environment for all children. This statement recommends opportunities for pediatricians to develop their expertise in assessing the strengths and stresses in families, in counseling families about strategies and resources, and in collaborating with others in their communities to support family relationships.
The health and welfare of children depend on the ability of their families, supported by systems in their communities, to foster positive emotional and physical development. Recent scientific research confirms that brain growth and neurophysiologic development during the first years of life respond directly to the environmental influences of early emotional relationships. The neurologic pathways produced then have profound effects on the behaviors of children and adolescents and affect their interactions within their families and extended society across the life course. The enormous effect the family has on this developmental process led the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to make the “promotion of nurturing families for all children” a priority among AAP resolutions in 1993 and 1994 and, subsequently, to develop the AAP Task Force on the Family. The task force published a thorough and extensive report in 2003 that informs pediatricians and guides policy-makers regarding the effect that family has on children's functioning and the expectations for pediatricians to promote optimal family functioning for their patients.1 Pediatricians play a unique role as family health advisors during the formative period of a child's development and during crucial developmental stages throughout childhood and adolescence. Pediatricians need expertise in working with families to identify strengths, stresses, and needs and to identify priorities and goals with families. They also need to develop expertise in counseling skills and knowledge regarding community-based resources to offer strategies and resources to families. The structure and support of families involve forces that are often outside the agenda of the usual pediatric health supervision visits. Pediatricians must ensure that their medical home efforts promote a holistically healthy family environment for all children.2
CHANGES IN FAMILIES
Stresses accompanying contemporary American life can challenge families' efforts to promote successful developmental and emotional outcomes for their children. The structure of families and patterns of family life in the United States have changed profoundly in the past quarter century. Five percent of all births in 1960 were to unmarried women; this figure increased to almost 37% by 2005.3 Since 1960, the divorce rate has more than doubled4; 40% to 50% of all first-time marriages end in divorce.5 Divorce rates seem to have leveled overall since the 1980s, but factors exist that increase the risk for some couples (eg, lower educational level or younger age at the time of marriage).6 Although remarriage rates are high, more than one-third of remarried couples divorce again.7 As a consequence, approximately 14% more children are now living in 1-parent households than approximately 40 years ago (25.8% in 2007 versus 11.8% in 1968).8
Another change in family life is that, by 2005, approximately 63% of all mothers with preschool-aged children were in the labor force, which reflects a twofold increase since 1970.9 Three-fourths of the mothers of school-aged children work.10 In 2-parent households, this means a marked increase in homes in which both parents work. Despite the majority of American mothers being in the workforce, half of female-led single-parent households lived below the poverty level in 2004.9 A decline in the purchasing power of family income and the lack of comparable wages for women have added to the stress on families. Social disparities have also contributed to the growing percentage of children who live in poverty, and poverty is the strongest predictor of poorer health and well-being for children.1,11 Residential mobility has separated many families from the natural support systems provided by their extended families, which may leave parents feeling socially isolated and prevents the intergenerational transmission of cultural and community-specific advice and support. Economic and social inequalities have led to increasingly impoverished neighborhoods, more working families living in or near poverty, and weakening of community ties. Longer hours away from their children, disconnection from close extended family support, and disintegration of traditional community interdependence all reduce the time, energy, and external supports available for rearing healthy children. The stress and speed of social change has weakened the support systems for many American families.12
RESILIENCE IN FAMILIES
Despite these enormous pressures working against families, intact and successful families do exist. Although it is evident that the risk of poorer outcomes for children is lowest among 2-parent households,13 there is not a specific family constellation that makes poor outcomes inevitable. How a family influences children's outcomes is embedded within the interactions among its members. Table 1 lists characteristics that positively contribute to a family's success in raising children and, ultimately, to communities and society.14
Characteristics of Successful Families14
SUPPORT PROGRAMS: WHAT PEDIATRICIANS NEED TO KNOW
Social institutions have begun to offer various family support services to help parents carry out essential functions on behalf of their children. Many pediatricians have perinatal exposure to families who need community-based support for a variety of reasons, and all community pediatricians begin providing comprehensive health services for children as soon as they are discharged from the newborn nursery. Many pediatricians are already familiar with some types of family support programs. Examples of successful programs include prenatal and infant home visitor programs, comprehensive early childhood education programs (eg, Early Head Start, Head Start), early screening and referral programs, crisis care programs, parent support and/or education groups, early reading and parental literacy, and early intervention programs for children with special needs (eg, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Part C).1,10,15,–,18 Because of significant variability regarding the effectiveness of available support programs, pediatricians should be aware of the evidence base for different types of programs and, specifically, the programs available in their communities. Home visitation programs, for example, can lead to improvements for families (eg, detecting postpartum depression, reducing the frequency of unintentional injury, improving parenting skills), but the relative effect depends on the qualities of the program; for example, programs that use professionals (ie, nurses) rather than paraprofessionals19 and programs targeted at specific populations (eg, infants born prematurely) have more measurable effects on child outcomes.20
Many comprehensive, community-based family support programs have been established around the country. These programs aim to support family relationships and promote parental competencies and behaviors that contribute to parental and infant/child/adolescent health and development. The best programs offer a spectrum of services that involve informal and structured groups. Topics may include information on child development, personal growth, family relationships, parenting education, peer support groups, parent-child activities, early developmental screening, community referral and follow-up, job skills training, and/or adult education, especially language and literacy education.21,22 Services should be available to all families regardless of economic or ethnic background. The programs operate on the premise that no family is entirely self-sufficient and that most can benefit from some external support.23 Pediatricians should search for, become familiar with, and refer families to high-quality family support services in their communities.
Some schools are providing after-school programs for children whose parents cannot be at home when classes end; others are providing school-based or associated health services to ensure that children receive timely health care and counseling. School curricula have expanded to include topics such as conflict resolution, sex education, and community service. Some employers offer family-oriented benefits such as flexible work hours, shared jobs, and child care. Religious congregations in some communities have developed a full array of social services and supports. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is an example of government acting in support of families, as are more established programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS
High-quality programs operate on the following principles1,24,25:
The primary responsibility for the development and well-being of children lies within the family.
Families are part of a community, and support should be provided in the context of community life and through collaborative links with community resources.
The kinds of support provided should be determined by individual and community needs. Although participation should be voluntary, it should be encouraged for at-risk families such as those led by single and/or socially isolated parents and those living in poverty.
Support offered by friends, neighbors, and community-based resources is as vital as access to professional support services. Families are resources for themselves, for other families, and for communities and programs.
The support given should enhance the strengths found within the family unit and among family members and empower families to use those strengths. The aim of support is to strengthen the family unit and the community while preventing alienation and family dysfunction.
Support is available for all families and provided with an awareness of and sensitivity toward the culture, race, and native language of families and communities.
Family support programs play an important and, in some instances, essential role in promoting the positive functioning of families and ensuring the well-being of children. Their effectiveness, at least with certain populations (eg, low-income families, young single mothers, low birth weight infants, children with behavioral problems, children with special health care needs) is well documented.17,20,26 All families need knowledge, skills, and support to raise their children and to foster normal growth, development, and learning. The AAP encourages public policies, professional practices, and personal behavior that support the caregiving role of families, advocate comprehensive approaches to child health and encourage prevention and early intervention strategies oriented toward the family.
Pediatricians should be aware of the increasing number of families experiencing stress and should learn to recognize situations (eg, maternal depression) that interfere with successful child rearing. The AAP Bright Futures guidelines recommend using open-ended questions to screen for and assess family stress during health supervision visits, with sample questions provided to probe for stressors such as parental depression, domestic violence, separation/divorce, and substance abuse. In addition, Bright Futures has a chapter titled “Promoting Family Support,” which outlines the importance of family development to a child's overall growth and development.27
As medical homes, pediatric practices should collaborate with patients and their caregivers and provide family-centered care with an awareness of cultural diversity. By having open and ongoing relationships with parents, pediatricians can facilitate discussions; monitor and guide developmental progress; address parental concerns; and support parental care, capacities, and needs. Focus should be on fostering those characteristics (Table 1) known to be associated with successful family functioning.
Pediatricians should interview families with a real awareness of the significant influence that family factors (socioeconomic status, discipline style, cultural beliefs, parental health and mental health, etc) have on children's development and behavior.28 Continuing medical education programs on pediatric family interviewing and psychosocial issues in pediatric practice can enhance the pediatrician's skills and opportunities for counseling families. As recommended by the Task Force on the Family, the AAP advocates for pediatricians to have “adequate time, resources, billing options, and reimbursement to provide family-oriented care.”1
Pediatricians can provide family support by engaging in a relationship with parents based on collaboration and shared decision-making so that parents feel and become more competent. The AAP provides pediatricians with guidance for supporting families in the prevention of violence and injury and the enhancement of parent-child communication on the basis of individual families' needs in the Connected Kids program (www.aap.org/ConnectedKids/ClinicalGuide.pdf). This collaboration with parents might also be in the form of parent councils and other partnerships that allow parents to provide input to practices and programs.
Pediatrician counseling of parents should include considering the needs and resources of the family and helping them benefit from the support of members of extended family and the community.
Pediatricians should work to identify, develop, refer to, and participate in community-based family support programs to help parents secure the knowledge, skills, support and strategies they need to raise their children. Having information easily available for families within the pediatric office that includes information and schedules of parenting classes, volunteer and community organizations incorporating family participation, and child care resources is also extremely helpful. The Maternal and Child Health Library provides an online directory to assist families and health providers to locate services within their own communities (www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_community.html).
Pediatricians should actively participate in sustaining the social capacity of their communities through their personal participation in local recreational, social, educational, civic, or philanthropic activities and associations. By participating in community-based family support programs, pediatricians can provide technical advice on health and safety aspects of services, serve as a source of professional information for families, and learn from these programs how best to contribute to the healthy development of children, families, and communities.
Pediatricians need to work within their communities to develop plans for identifying and coordinating care for families in need of more extensive social support services. An opportunity the AAP provides that might support pediatricians in this endeavor is the Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) program. CATCH provides pediatricians funding, training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities to ensure that all children have access to needed health care services within their communities.29
Lead Author
Jill J. Fussell, MD
Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care, 2010–2011
Pamela C. High, MD, Chairperson
Elaine Donoghue, MD
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD
Paula K. Jaudes, MD
Veronnie F. Jones, MD
David M. Rubin, MD
Elaine E. Schulte, MD, MPH
Chet D. Johnson, MD
Claire Lerner, LCSW
Jennifer Sharma, MA
Child Welfare League of America
Mary Crane, PhD, LSW
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All policy statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics automatically expire 5 years after publication unless reaffirmed, revised, or retired at or before that time.
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Rehabilitating Roe 8
Remediation Works Update, 16 March 2018
March 16, 2018 rehabilitatingroe8
It’s gone to the Minister
A giant step forward in the rehabilitation of the Corridor occurred this week when the draft rehabilitation plan was presented to the Transport Minister Rita Saffioti, accompanied by the letter below. Congratulations to all involved in working towards this goal.
Dear Minister
It is with pleasure that I forward you the draft Rehabilitation Management Plan for the Roe 8 Corridor for your consideration and approval.
The Rehabilitating Roe 8 Working Group, formed in May 2017, has worked with environmental and community engagement consultants to prepare the plan to rehabilitate the 18 hectares of land, which stretches from the Kwinana Freeway, past Bibra Lake to Stock Road.
‘Rehabilitating Roe 8’ project arose out of the community capacity stimulated during opposition to the construction of Roe 8 and the newly elected State Labor Government’s commitment to rehabilitation of the cleared areas. Essentially, Rehabilitating Roe 8 aims to restore local native vegetation and fauna habitat to the cleared areas along the proposed Roe 8 alignment. However, Rehabilitating Roe 8 is not a typical restoration project. Due to the publicity and controversy surrounding the construction of Roe 8, the restoration of the cleared areas is a uniquely high profile endeavour for Perth and Western Australia, with a correspondingly high level of community and stakeholder engagement.
We now invite you to approve the plan and release it publicly.
This will allow it to be implemented by the appropriate land use manager and shared with the hundreds of people who contributed to its formulation.
Importantly, this 10-year plan gives equal weight to the ecological and community needs of the Corridor.
It has been drafted with input from the general community, the scientific community, various levels of government and community groups, making it a unique collaboration for a once-in-Australia opportunity to rehabilitate cleared land.
It is based on the principles and guidance provided in The National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration in Australia (Standards Reference Group SERA 2017), with input from the Perth Urban Restoration Scientific Advisory Committee.
Thank you for the opportunity to chair the Working Group with such a unique interaction of people on such a complex project.
Lisa O’Malley MLA
State Member for Bicton
Chair of Rehabilitating Roe 8 Working Group
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Vincent’s Story – Surviving Priest Rape
If you, or someone you love and care about has been, as a child, sexually abused, raped, sodomized or molested, there’s one thing you’d have learned or know intimately and that is; you lose your ability to chose. Your world gets smaller and the ability to choose shrinks and narrows to the point where all you can decide on is which option best allows you to survive. No matter your intelligence or education these traumas beset upon you before you can even identify what the hell it is that was done to you – yet still knowing it was all wrong – these feelings and chaos and hell that pedophile rape, molestation and sodomy force you to experience are way beyond most peoples’ ability to process – yet alone having it done to you at 3 years old! What this does – oh and most of these sick fucks also give the child booze and drugs (as in my case) – what happens is akin to… the best image I’ve come up with… you ever see a tree that’s grown around a fence or power line? It looks painful but also like the tree has done the only thing it knows to do and that is to keep going. To keep on growing, grow past the trauma and incorporate it into its foundation, into the core of it’s being. The main problem here though is that trauma weakens the tree and in a storm, it will certainly snap at that weak point. A tree, although it’s alive, it’s not sentient and doesn’t think and can’t fear and plan or anticipate (lucky tree) because those feelings are at the very root of the problem of losing the ability to chose. You begin to operate – at the time the events occurs – in survivor mode. These pedophile rapist fucks destroy a young boys mind with the trauma of rape, sodomy and molestation because – as bizarre as this may sound – when it stops, when they stop being your friend and raping you and paying all this attention to you and giving you drugs and alcohol and toys, when it stops, you’re hurt and scared and worried and at 3 or 5 or 7 years old, you try to figure out what you did wrong? Why don’t they like you anymore? Are they going to kill your parents now? What’s wrong with you? Are they going to get you in trouble? Many times they threaten to kill your parents (that’s what Uncle Al told me he’d do if I told) or your pets or break your toys because they say you’ve done something that made them angry or as a way to show you what they’d do if you told but – with any of it and all of it – you don’t know why or understand what’s really happening but one thing is certain, the child’s outlook on life becomes skewed, twisted and very rudimental. Stay alive. Keep your parents alive. Make the abusing rapist happy and when they stop and/or go away, try and make them come back because you’re 3 or 5 or 7 and don’t understand any of it. If an adult tells you you’ve been bad, you believe them. That’s what you’re told to do. What else can a child and almost toddler do? In my case repeat this abuse scenario 20 to 30 more times from ages 3 to 11 (family friend / Biz partner “Uncle Al”, babysitting hippy couple, Priest, Janitor, and a few I don’t want to mention). With this childhood as my foundation – the core of my reasoning and thought process – how my brain is hardwired, when I reached the age of a teenager and later I’d find myself making choices and decisions that left me baffled and up to my chin in shit. Ten years of therapy in my 30’s has – at best – gotten it down to realizing I’m hurting myself (or my loved one) when just up to my knees in shit – knowing that I need to stop and get out of it – whatever it is – at that point, is real growth and progress. I’ve learned that you don’t get cured, it can get better (and then go right back to being worse – up to your chin – without warning or being able to figure out why) but all in all it takes a lot of work and a near constant vigilance. Until I read some books, attended a ‘survivor of rape and incest’ group and shared and learned that many others share the same childhood trauma and think and process things as an adult the same way I do, that I wasn’t alone – I thought there was something really really wrong with me (not that there’s not but I know I’m not as messed up as I thought – but am pretty broken.
I write all of this for a few reasons; One is I was recently accused of making my life turn out the way it did because I chose it to be this way and two, in hopes that someone else who is as hurt and confused as I was because of the trauma realizes that it’s not all their fault, they’re not alone, that there’s hope and someone cares.
The worst thing I can say to someone with children is that “I wish my childhood on them” and the worst thing I can say to my asshole family is “not only do I wish my childhood on your kids but that you treat them exactly the same way you treated me.” They treated me like shit for most of my life – when most families would lament the burden a troubled loved one brings to them ending most conversations with “but they’re family, what can you do?” there was no such talk in mine. I was thrown out of the house at 14. When an option for a state run reform school or private school was presented my father said something like “he’s your problem – educate him till he’s 18” when he could have easily afforded to send his gifted child (superior to genius on the tests) to a boarding school. Later, I was tried, convicted and kicked out – literally – the moment I turned 18 (with nowhere to go and no degree or no real ability to care for myself).
The ability to recall and talk about the still very foggy memories of the abuse and telling them what I remembered when these repressed memories surfaced at 26 years old DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO CHANGE THE HORRIBLE WAY THEY TREATED ME. Things were exactly the same as before – actually worse – because now we all knew what had happened to me yet for the next 24 years these right wing republican humps blamed me, the victim and although their types are the first to call psychology and therapy b.s. – suddenly they’ll put 100% faith in the idea that one can be cured and would be if “they only pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, do a little work, stop their whining and put a little skin in the game.”
OMG!!! I wanna puke.
I’ve had little choice in my life and have suffered because of many of the choices I’ve made only knowing I needed to make the ones that allowed me to feel better than the all encompassing 24 hour soul crushing despair that occupied my every waking moment. Not wanting to die is a huge relief and anything, be it a beer or a joint (or prayer and meditation – which is what I know now) bestowed that sweet relief from a near constant suicidal tendency, well hell, anyone – especially a 13 year old who knows nothing from nothing but the very basics of survival – would do (and I did) anything to make the hell stop. The rapist pedophile Priest saw to it that I had no faith or trust in God or the Church and my right-wing, beating the life out of me with a strap or yard stick until the child abuse board was in our living room parents – who didn’t do the most basic of basic parenting responsibilities, which is to keep me safe – made sure I had no ability to trust in anyone else (btw: my father got out of it because he was a law enforcement officer and called it a corporal punishment spanking – even though I was 13 and had black and blues all over my legs and body to the point that my gym teacher called the police). I had it coming at me from all angles. Sorry but if a little beer or weed did for you what nothing or anyone else was supposed to – make you feel safe and not wanting to die and gave you a little hope to continue on for a little while longer you’d be making the exact same choices I did. Actually, maybe not. Statistically, out of 10 abused men (9 + me), most of them would have become child rapists and be in prison for it. Statistically most abusers were abused themselves. Women, on the other hand, go into sex work to become empowered over the memories. Perpetrating is something I didn’t do. There was an incident when I was 12 and baby sitting for a 10 year old neighbor girl but that was it. Although mostly at a loss, I credit this to my heightened sense of empathy and morality. I did my fair share of stupid crap but when I became old enough to become a predator I knew the difference between right and wrong, knew the 10 commandments and knew how being hurt by others felt and had no desire to make another feel that way.
Being told that I chose this life was the most hurtful, ignorant thing I’ve ever heard from a family member. It not only showed me how little they care but that they’ve also never done any research into what I went through as well as never learning anything about what happened to me or someone who is sexually abused as a child. I should have expected it. Whenever they say and do incredibly insensitive shit I’m still hurt and surprised. I should know better, especially about this, being that I’ve never been asked about or shown sympathy over what happened to me as a child, by any of them. Not once, ever.
This entry was posted in Catholic Abuse Stories and tagged Rape Victim of the Catholic Church, Religious Abuse, sexual abuse, Vincent's Story- Surviving Priest Rape on May 19, 2014 by admin.
Rape, Incest and Sexual Abuse
This article is a prime example of a male-dominated religious environment. Whenever there is inequality of the sexes, rape, incest and sexual abuse are rampant. Religious denominations, no matter the sect, should not have autonomy from the law like this Mennonite community has. The law needs to intervene to protect the women and young girls from this abuse. Those that have been raped, have been denied counseling AND have not been protected from further abuse.
PERPETRATORS WERE CAUGHT, BUT THE CRIMES CONTINUE
By Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
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All photos by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky. Noah Friedman-Rudovsky also contributed reporting to this article.
For a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the town’s women. There was no other explanation. No way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains smeared across her sheets and no memory of the previous night. No way of explaining how another went to sleep clothed, only to wake up naked and covered by dirty fingerprints all over her body. No way to understand how another could dream of a man forcing himself onto her in a field—and then wake up the next morning with grass in her hair.
For Sara Guenter, the mystery was the rope. She would sometimes wake up in her bed with small pieces of it tied tightly to her wrists or ankles, the skin beneath an aching blue. Earlier this year, I visited Sara at her home, simple concrete painted to look like brick, in Manitoba Colony, Bolivia. Mennonites are similar to the Amish in their rejection of modernity and technology, and Manitoba Colony, like all ultraconservative Mennonite communities, is a collective attempt to retreat as far as possible from the nonbelieving world. A slight breeze of soy and sorghum came off the nearby fields as Sara told me how, in addition to the eerie rope, on those mornings after she’d been raped she would also wake to stained sheets, thunderous headaches, and paralyzing lethargy.
Her two daughters, 17 and 18 years old, squatted silently along a wall behind her and shot me fierce blue-eyed stares. The evil had penetrated the household, Sara said. Five years ago, her daughters also began waking up with dirty sheets and complaints of pain “down below.”
The family tried locking the door; some nights, Sara did everything she could to keep herself awake. On a few occasions, a loyal Bolivian worker from the neighboring city of Santa Cruz would stay the night to stand guard. But inevitably, when their one-story home—set back and isolated from the dirt road—was not being watched, the rapes continued. (Manitobans aren’t connected to the power grid, so at night the community is submerged in total darkness.) “It happened so many times, I lost count,” Sara said in her native Low German, the only language she speaks, like most women in the community.
Mennonite children attend school in Manitoba Colony, Bolivia.
In the beginning, the family had no idea that they weren’t the only ones being attacked, and so they kept it to themselves. Then Sara started telling her sisters. When rumors spread, “no one believed her,” said Peter Fehr, Sara’s neighbor at the time of the incidents. “We thought she was making it up to hide an affair.” The family’s pleas for help to the council of church ministers, the group of men who govern the 2,500-member colony, were fruitless—even as the tales multiplied. Throughout the community, people were waking to the same telltale morning signs: ripped pajamas, blood and semen on the bed, head-thumping stupor. Some women remembered brief moments of terror: for an instant they would wake to a man or men on top of them but couldn’t summon the strength to yell or fight back. Then, fade to black.
Some called it “wild female imagination.” Others said it was a plague from God. “We only knew that something strange was happening in the night,” Abraham Wall Enns, Manitoba Colony’s civic leader at the time, said. “But we didn’t know who was doing it, so how could we stop it?”
No one knew what to do, and so no one did anything at all. After a while, Sara just accepted those nights as a horrific fact of life. On the following mornings, her family would rise despite the head pain, strip the beds, and get on with their days.
Then, one night in June 2009, two men were caught trying to enter a neighbor’s home. The two ratted out a few friends and, falling like a house of cards, a group of nine Manitoba men, ages 19 to 43, eventually confessed that they had been raping Colony families since 2005. To incapacitate their victims and any possible witnesses, the men used a spray created by a veterinarian from a neighboring Mennonite community that he had adapted from a chemical used to anesthetize cows. According to their initial confessions (which they later recanted), the rapists admitted to—sometimes in groups, sometimes alone—hiding outside bedroom windows at night, spraying the substance through the screens to drug entire families, and then crawling inside.
But it wasn’t until their trial, which took place almost two years later, in 2011, that the full scope of their crimes came to light. The transcripts read like a horror movie script: Victims ranged in age from three to 65 (the youngest had a broken hymen, purportedly from finger penetration). The girls and women were married, single, residents, visitors, the mentally infirm. Though it’s never discussed and was not part of the legal case, residents privately told me that men and boys were raped, too.
In August 2011, the veterinarian who’d supplied the anesthetic spray was sentenced to 12 years in prison, and the rapists were each sentenced to 25 years (five years shy of Bolivia’s maximum penalty). Officially, there were 130 victims—at least one person from more than half of all Manitoba Colony households. But not all those raped were included in the legal case, and it’s believed the true number of victims is much, much higher.
In the wake of the crimes, women were not offered therapy or counseling. There was little attempt to dig deeper into the incidents beyond the confessions. And in the years since the men were nabbed, there has never been a colony-wide discussion about the events. Rather, a code of silence descended following the guilty verdict.
“That’s all behind us now,” Civic Leader Wall told me on my recent trip there. “We’d rather forget than have it be at the forefront of our minds.” Aside from interactions with the occasional visiting journalist, no one talks about it anymore.
But over the course of a nine-month investigation, including an 11-day stay in Manitoba, I discovered that the crimes are far from over. In addition to lingering psychological trauma, there’s evidence of widespread and ongoing sexual abuse, including rampant molestation and incest. There’s also evidence that—despite the fact that the initial perpetrators are in jail—the rapes by drugging continue to happen.
The demons, it turns out, are still out there.
Eight Mennonite men are serving sentences in prison for the rapes of more than 130 women in Manitoba Colony. One of the alleged rapists escaped and now resides in Paraguay.
At first glance, life for Manitoba’s residents seems an idyllic existence, enviable by new-age off-the-gridders: families live off the land, solar panels light homes, windmills power potable water wells. When one family suffers a death, the rest take turns cooking meals for the grieving. The richer families subsidize schoolhouse maintenance and teachers’ salaries. Mornings begin with homemade bread, marmalade, and milk still warm from the cows outside. At dusk, children play tag in the yard as their parents sway in rockers and watch the sunset.
Not all Mennonites live in sheltered worlds. There are 1.7 million of them in 83 different countries. From community to community, their relationships to the modern world vary considerably. Some eschew modernity entirely; others live in insular worlds but allow cars, TVs, cell phones, and varied dress. Many live among, and are virtually indistinguishable from, the rest of society.
The religion was formed as an offshoot of the Protestant Reformation in 1520s Europe, by a Catholic priest named Menno Simons. Church leaders lashed out against Simons’s encouragement of adult baptism, pacifism, and his belief that only by leading a simple life could one get to heaven. Threatened by the new doctrine, the Protestant and Catholic churches began persecuting his followers throughout Central and Western Europe. Most Mennonites—as Simons’s followers came to be known—refused to fight because of their vow of nonviolence, and so they fled to Russia where they were given settlements to live unbothered by the rest of society.
But by the 1870s, persecution began in Russia, too, so the group next sought refuge in Canada, welcomed by a government in need of pioneer settlers. On arrival, many Mennonites began adopting modern dress, language, and other aspects of contemporary life. A small group, however, continued to believe that they would only be allowed into heaven if they lived in the ways of their forefathers, and they were appalled to see their fellow followers so easily seduced by the new world. This group, known as the “Old Colonists,” abandoned Canada in the 1920s, in part because the government demanded school lessons be taught in English, and hinted at standardizing a country-wide curriculum. (Even today, Old Colony schooling is taught in German, is strictly Bible-based, and ends at 13 for boys and 12 for girls.)
The Old Colonists migrated to Paraguay and Mexico, where there was ample farmland, little technology, and most importantly, promises by the respective national governments to let them live as they wished. But in the 1960s, when Mexico introduced its own educational reform that threatened to limit Mennonite autonomy, another migration began. Old Colonies subsequently sprouted up in more remote parts of the Americas, with a heavy concentration in Bolivia and Belize.
Today, there are about 350,000 Old Colonists worldwide, and Bolivia is home to more than 60,000 of them. Manitoba Colony, which was formed in 1991, looks like a relic of the old world dropped in the middle of the new: a pale-skinned, blue-eyed island of order amid the sea of chaos that is South America’s most impoverished and indigenous country. The colony thrives economically off its members’ supreme work ethic, ample fertile fields, and collective milk factory.
Manitoba has emerged as the ultimate safe haven for Old Colony true believers. Other colonies in Bolivia have loosened their codes, but Manitobans fervently reject cars, and all of their tractors have steel tires, as owning any mechanized vehicle with rubber tires is seen as a cardinal sin because it enables easy contact with the outside world. Men are forbidden from growing facial hair and don denim overalls except in church, where they wear slacks. Girls and women wear identically tied intricate braids, and you’d be hard pressed to find a dress with a length or sleeve that varies more than a few millimeters from the preordained design. For Manitoba residents, these aren’t arbitrary rules: they form the one path to salvation and colonists obey because, they believe, their souls depend on it.
As all Old Colonists desire, Manitoba has been left to its own devices. Except in the case of murder, the Bolivian government does not obligate community leaders to report any crime. Police have virtually no jurisdiction inside the community, nor do state or municipal authorities. The colonists maintain law and order through a de facto government of nine ministers and a ruling bishop, all of whom are elected for life. Beyond being mandated by the Bolivian government to ensure that all residents have a state identity card, Manitoba functions almost as its own sovereign nation.
Abraham Wall Enns (center) with his family. Abraham was the chief civic leader of Manitoba Colony, Bolivia, during the time of the rapes.
I covered the Manitoba rape trial in 2011 for Time. Haunted ever since my first visits to the Colony, I wanted to know how the victims were faring. I also wondered if the heinous crimes perpetrated on its residents were an anomaly, or if they had exposed deeper cracks in the community. Is it possible that the insular world of the Old Colonies, rather than fostering peaceful coexistence unmoored by the trappings of modern society, is perhaps fomenting its own demise? I was compelled to go back and find out.
I arrived late on a moonlit Friday night in January. I was greeted by the warm smiles of Abraham and Margarita Wall Enns who were standing on the porch of their small home, set back from the road by a manicured and tree-lined driveway. Though notoriously reclusive, Old Colonists are kind to outsiders who don’t seem to threaten their way of life, and that’s how I’d arrived there: I had met Abraham, a freckled, six-foot-tall leader in the community, in 2011, and he said that I should stay with him and his family if I ever came back. Now I was here, hoping to see Old Colony life up close while interviewing residents about the rapes and their aftermath.
Inside the spotless house, Margarita showed me to my bedroom, next to the two other rooms in which her nine children were already sleeping. “We had this installed for security,” she said, grabbing a three-inch-thick steel door at the bottom of the stairs. There had apparently been some robberies (blamed on Bolivians) recently. “Sleep well,” she told me before bolting shut the door that separated me and her family from the rest of the world.
The next morning, I rose before dawn with the rest of the household. On any given day, the two eldest daughters—Liz, 22, and Gertrude, 18—spend the majority of their time washing dishes and clothes, preparing meals, milking the cows, and keeping a spotless home. I did my best not to screw up as I helped with the chores. I was exhausted by lunchtime.
Housework is outside the domain of Abraham and the six Wall boys; it’s possible they’ll go through their entire lives without ever clearing their own plates. They work the fields, but since this was the farming off-season, the older ones assembled tractor equipment their father imports from China, while the youngest pair climbed the barn posts and played with pet parakeets. Abraham allows the boys to kick around a soccer ball and practice Spanish by reading the occasional newspaper delivered weekly from Santa Cruz; however, any other organized activity, be it competitive sport, dance, or music, could jeopardize their eternal salvation and is strictly forbidden.
The Walls told me that luckily no one within their family fell victim to the rapists, but like everyone else in the community they knew all about it. One day, Liz agreed to accompany me on my interviews with rape victims in the community. A curious and quick young woman who learned Spanish from the family’s Bolivian cook, she was happy for an excuse to get out of the house and socialize.
We set out in a horse-drawn buggy along dirt roads. During the ride, Liz told me about her memories during the time of the scandal. As far as she knows, the perpetrators never entered her home. When I asked her if she was ever scared, she said no. “I didn’t believe it,” she told me. “So I only got scared once they confessed. Then it became real.”
When I asked Liz whether she thought the rapes could have been stopped earlier if these women had been taken seriously, she just wrinkled her eyebrows. Hadn’t the Colony given the rapists liberty to attack for four years, in part, because people had blamed the crimes on “wild female imagination”? She didn’t reply, but seemed lost in thought as she steered us along the dirt road.
We pulled into the pebbled courtyard of a large house, and I went inside for an interview while Liz waited outside in the buggy. In a dark living room, I spoke with Helena Martens, a middle-aged mother of 11 children, and her husband. She sat on a couch and they kept the window shades drawn as we talked about what had happened to her nearly five years ago.
Sometime in 2008, Helena told me, she had heard a hissing sound as she settled into bed. She smelled a strange odor too, but after her husband made sure the gas canister in the kitchen wasn’t leaking, they fell asleep. She vividly recalls waking up in the middle of the night to “a man on top of me and others in the room, but I couldn’t raise my arms in defense.” She quickly slipped back into a dead sleep and then the next morning her head throbbed and her sheets were soiled.
The rapists attacked her several more times over the next few years. Helena suffered from various medical complications during this period, including an operation related to her uterus. (Sex and reproductive health is such a taboo for conservative Mennonites that most women are never taught the correct names for intimate body parts, which inhibited certain descriptions of what took place during the attacks and in their aftermath.) One morning she woke in such pain that “I thought I was going to die,” she said.
Helena, like the other rape victims in Manitoba, was never offered the chance to speak with a professional therapist, even though she said she would if given the opportunity. “Why would they need counseling if they weren’t even awake when it happened?” Manitoba Colony Bishop Johan Neurdorf, the community’s highest authority, had told a visitor back in 2009 after the perpetrators were caught.
Other victims I interviewed—those who awoke during the rapes, as well as those with no memory of the night—said that they would also have liked to speak with a therapist about their experiences but that doing so would be nearly impossible because there are no Low German-speaking sexual-trauma recovery experts in Bolivia.
All of the women I spoke with were unaware that the greater Mennonite world, particularly progressive groups in Canada and the US, had offered to send Low German counselors to Manitoba. Of course, this meant that they also had no clue that it was the men in the colony who had rejected these offers. After centuries of tension with their less-traditional brethren, Old Colonist leadership regularly block any attempts at direct contact with their members initiated by these groups. They saw the offer for psychological support from afar as yet another thinly veiled attempt to encourage the abandonment of their old ways.
The leadership’s refusal likely had other underlying reasons, too, such as not wanting these women’s emotional trauma to stir things up or draw too much attention to the community. I had already been told that a woman’s role in an Old Colony was to obey and submit to her husband’s command. A local minister explained to me that girls are schooled a year less than boys because females have no need to learn math or bookkeeping, which is taught during the extra boys-only term. Women can neither be ministers nor vote to elect them. They also can’t legally represent themselves, as the rape case made painfully apparent. Even the plaintiffs in the trial were five men—a selected group of victims’ husbands or fathers—rather than the women themselves.
But while it was tempting to accept the black-and-white gender roles in Manitoba, my visit also revealed shades of gray. I saw men and women share decision-making in their homes. At extended family gatherings on Sundays, the women-only kitchens felt full with big personalities and loud laughter, while men sat solemnly outside discussing the drought. And I spent long afternoons with confident and engaged young women such as Liz and her friends, who, like their peers anywhere, see each other when they can to vent about the annoying things their parents do and get updates on who broke whose heart last week.
When it came to the rapes, these times of strong female bonding—and the safe space provided by such a segregated daily routine—offered comfort. Victims told me they leaned on their sisters or cousins, especially as they tried to adjust back to regular life in the wake of the trial.
Those under the age of 18 named in the lawsuit were brought in for psychological assessment as mandated by Bolivian law, and court documents note that every one of these young girls showed signs of posttraumatic stress and was recommended for long-term counseling—but not one has received any form of therapy since their evaluations. Unlike adult women who found at least some solace with their sisters or cousins, many young girls may not have even had a chance to speak with anyone about their experiences after their government-mandated assessments.
In Helena’s living room, she told me how her daughter was also raped, but the two have never spoken about it, and the girl, now 18, doesn’t even know that her mom is also a rape survivor. In Old Colonies, rapes bring shame upon the victim; survivors are stained, and throughout the community other parents of the youngest victims told me that it was all better left unspoken.
“She was too young” to talk about it, the father of another victim, who was 11 when she was raped, told me. He and his wife never explained to the girl why she woke with pain one morning, bleeding so much she had to be taken to the hospital. She was whisked through subsequent medical visits with nurses who didn’t speak her language and was never once told that she had been raped. “It was better she just not know,” her father said.
All the victims I interviewed said the rapes crossed their minds almost daily. In addition to confiding in friends, they have coped by falling back on faith. Helena, for example—though her clutched arms and pained swaying seemed to belie it—told me she’d found peace and insisted, “I have forgiven the men who raped me.”
She wasn’t alone. I heard the same thing from victims, parents, sisters, brothers. Some even said that if the convicted rapists would only admit their crimes—as they did initially—and ask penance from God, the colony would request that the judge dismiss their sentences.
I was perplexed. How could there be unanimous acceptance of such flagrant and premeditated crimes?
It wasn’t until I spoke with Minister Juan Fehr, dressed as all ministers in the community do, entirely in black with high black boots, that I understood. “God chooses His people with tests of fire,” he told me. “In order to go to heaven you must forgive those who have wronged you.” The minister said that he trusts that most of the victims came to forgiveness on their own. But if one woman didn’t want to forgive, he said, she would have been visited by Bishop Neurdorf, Manitoba’s highest authority, and “he would have simply explained to her that if she didn’t forgive, then God wouldn’t forgive her.”
One of the youngest victims to speak with prosecutors was as young as 11 during the time of the rapes. Most of the victims have had almost no psychological counseling, and according to experts, are probably suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Manitoba’s leaders encourage residents to forgive incest, too. It’s a lesson that Agnes Klassen learned in a painful way. On a muggy Tuesday, the mother of two met me outside her two-room house off a highway in eastern Bolivia, approximately 40 miles from her former home in Manitoba Colony that she left in 2009. She wore her hair in a ponytail and was sweating in jeans and a T-shirt.
I wasn’t there to talk with her about the rapes, but once inside her house, the subject inevitably came up. “One morning I woke up with headaches and there was dirt in our bed,” she said, referring to when she lived in Manitoba, as if remembering an item she had left off a shopping list. She had never thought much about that morning since and wasn’t included in the lawsuit because she saw no reason to come forward after the perpetrators were nabbed.
Instead, I had come to talk to Agnes about other painful parts of her past—namely incest—the origins of which aren’t even clear. “They kind of mesh together,” she said of her earliest childhood memories, which include being fondled by several of her eight older brothers. “I don’t know when [the incest] started.”
One of 15 children, growing up in the Old Colony of Riva Palacios (her family moved to neighboring Manitoba Colony when she was eight), Agnes said the abuse would happen in the barn, in the fields, or in the siblings’ shared bedroom. She didn’t realize it was inappropriate behavior until the age of ten, when she was given a stern beating after her father found her brother fondling her. “My mother could never find the words to tell me that I was being wronged or that it was not my fault,” she recalled.
After that, the molestation continued but Agnes was too scared to go to anyone for help. When she was 13 and one of her brothers tried to rape her, Agnes warily notified her mom. She wasn’t beaten this time, and for a while her mom did her best to keep the two apart. But the brother eventually found her alone and raped her.
The sibling assaults became increasingly commonplace, but there was nowhere for Agnes to turn. Old Colonies have no police force. Ministers deal with wrongdoing directly but because youth are not technically members of the church until they are baptized (often in their early 20s), bad behavior is handled inside the home.
Seeking help outside the colony would have never entered Agnes’s mind: from her first day on earth, she, like all Old Colony children, was taught that the outside world holds evil. And even if someone managed to reach out, there is virtually no way for a child or woman to contact or communicate with the surrounding non–Low German world.
“I just learned to live with it,” Agnes said haltingly. She apologized for her stops and starts, for her tears. It was the first time she had ever fully told her story. She said the incest stopped when boys began courting Agnes, and she filed it away in her mind as a thing of the past.
But when she got married, moved into her own house in Manitoba, and gave birth to two daughters, family members began molesting her children during visits. “It was starting to happen to them, too,” she told me, her eyes following the movements of her two young platinum-blond girls darting past the windows as they played outside. One day, her eldest daughter, not yet four at the time, told Agnes that the girls’ grandpa had asked her to put her hands down his pants. Agnes said that her father never molested her or her sisters, but that he allegedly routinely abused his grandchildren until Agnes fled Manitoba with her daughters (and still allegedly abuses her nieces, who remain in the Colony). Another day, she caught her nephew fondling her youngest daughter. “It happens all the time,” she said. “It’s not just my family.”
Indeed, for a long time now there has been a muffled yet heated discussion in the international Mennonite community about whether Old Colonies have a rampant incest problem. Some defend the Old Colonists, insisting that sexual abuse happens everywhere and that its occurrence in places like Manitoba only proves that any society, no matter how upright, is susceptible to social ills.
But others, like Erna Friessen, a Canadian-Mennonite woman who introduced me to Agnes, insist, “The scope of sexual violence within Old Colonies is really huge.” Erna and her husband helped found Casa Mariposa(Butterfly House), a shelter for abused Old Colony women and girls. Located near the town of Pailon in the heart of Bolivian Old Colony territory, they have a continuous influx of Low German-speaking missionaries ready to help, but the number of women who have made it there are few. Aside from the challenges of making women aware of this space and convincing them that it’s in their best interest to seek help, Erna told me that “coming to Casa Mariposa often means leaving their families and the only world they’ve ever known.”
While Erna admits that exact figures are impossible to calculate due to the insular nature of these communities, she is adamant that rates of sexual abuse are higher in the Old Colonies than in the US, for example, where one in four women will be sexually abused before the age of 18. Erna’s whole life has been among these groups—she was born on a Mennonite Colony in Paraguay, raised in Canada, and has spent the past eight years in Bolivia. Of all the Old Colony women she has met over the years, she says, “more have been victims of abuse than not.” She considers the Colonies “a breeding ground for sexual abuse,” in part because most Old Colony women grow up believing they must accept it. “The first step is always to get them to recognize that they have been wronged. It happened to them, it happened to their mom and their grandmother, so they’ve always been told [to] just deal with it.”
Others who work on the issue of abuse in the Old Colonies are hesitant to pinpoint incidence rates, but say that the way abuse is experienced within an Old Colony makes it a more acute problem than in other places in the world. “These girls or women have no way out,” said Eve Isaak, a mental health clinician and addictions and bereavement counselor who caters to Old Colony Mennonite communities in Canada, US, Bolivia, and Mexico. “In any other society, by elementary school a child knows that if they are being abused they can, at least in theory, go to the police or a teacher or some other authority. But who can these girls go to?”
Though it wasn’t by design, Old Colony churches have become the de facto state. “Old Colonists’ migration can be understood not just as a movement away from society’s ills, but also toward countries that allow the Colonists to live as they choose,” said Helmut Isaak, Eve’s husband who is a pastor and Anabaptist history and theology professor at CEMTA, a seminary in Asuncion, Paraguay. He explains that before Old Colonists migrate to a new country, they send delegations to negotiate terms with the governments to allow them virtual autonomy, particularly in the area of religious law enforcement.
In fact, the serial rapes stand as one of the only times that a Bolivian Old Colony has sought outside intervention regarding an internal matter. Manitoba residents told me that they handed the gang over to the cops in 2009 because victims’ husbands and fathers were so enraged, it’s likely the accused would have been lynched. (One man who was believed to be involved and caught on a neighboring colony, was lynched and later died from his wounds.)
The Old Colony leaders I spoke with denied that their communities have an ongoing sexual abuse problem and insisted that incidents are dealt with internally when they arise. “[Incest] almost never happens here,” Minister Jacob Fehr told me one evening as we chatted on his porch at dusk. He said that in his 19 years as a minister, Manitoba had only one case of incestuous rape (father to daughter). Another minister denied that even this episode had happened.
“They forgive a ton of gross stuff that happens in families all the time,” said Abraham Peters, father of the youngest convicted rapist, Abraham Peters Dyck, who is currently in Palmasola Prison, just outside Santa Cruz. “Brothers with sisters, fathers with daughters.” He told me that he believes his son and the entire gang were framed to cover up widespread incest in Manitoba Colony. Abraham senior still lives in Manitoba; he considered leaving in the period immediately following his son’s arrest because of hostility from the rest of the community. But uprooting his family of 12 proved too difficult, so he stayed put and says that over the years and despite his perspective on his son’s incarceration, he has been accepted back into the fold of Colony life.
Agnes thinks the two crimes are flipsides of the same coin. “The rapes, the abuse, it’s all intertwined,” she said. “What made the rapes different is that they didn’t come from within the family and that’s why the Ministers took the actions they did.”
Of course, leaders do attempt to correct bad behavior. Take the case of Agnes’s father: at some point, his fondling of his granddaughters was called out by church leaders. As procedure dictates, he went before the ministers and bishop, who asked him to confess. He did, and was “excommunicated,” or temporarily expelled from the church for a week, after which he was offered a chance to return based on a promise that he would never do it again.
“Of course it continued after that,” Agnes said of her father. “He just learned to hide it better.” She told me she doesn’t have faith “in anyone who after one week says they have turned their life around,” before adding, “I have no faith in a system that permits that.”
Younger perpetrators have it even easier; according to Agnes, the brother who raped her admitted his sins when he was baptized and was immediately expunged in the eyes of God. He now lives in the neighboring Old Colony, Riva Palacios, with young daughters of his own.
Once an abuser has been excommunicated and readmitted, church leadership assumes the matter has been put to rest. If an abuser flagrantly continues his behavior and refuses to repent, he is once again excommunicated and this time permanently shunned. Leaders instruct the rest of the colony to isolate the family; the general store will refuse to sell to anyone in the household, kids will be banned from school. Eventually the family has no choice but to leave. This, of course, also means that the victims leave with their abusers.
Yet it wasn’t sexual abuse that finally prompted Agnes and her family to abandon Manitoba, which they did in 2009. Instead, her husband had bought a motorcycle, after which he was excommunicated and the family shunned. When the couple’s toddler drowned to death in a cow trough, the community leaders wouldn’t even let her husband attend his own son’s funeral. That’s when they left Manitoba for good. In the end, driving a motorcycle was apparently a larger affront to the Colony’s leadership than anything Agnes, her daughters, or the rest of the women in the community had suffered.
Keeping a colony like Manitoba together is getting harder and harder in modern times. Agnes and her family aren’t the only ones who’ve fled. In fact, the nearby city of Santa Cruz is populated by Mennonite families who have become fed up with the Old Colony way of life—and the situation may be reaching a crisis point.
Johan Weiber, leaning on his pickup truck, is the de facto leader of a dissident group of Mennonites in Manitoba.
“We no longer want to be a part of this,” a young father named Johan Weiber told me one day when I visited him at his home in Manitoba. Johan and his family were one of 13 others still living in the colony but who had officially left the Old Colony’s church. For months, they’d been saying they wanted to leave—they even owned vehicles—but Manitoba Colony leaders refused to compensate them for the land they wanted to abandon. Now, instead, they’d decided to build their own dissident church inside Manitoba.
“We are [leaving the Old Colony church and starting our own] because we have read the truth,” Johan said. By “truth,” he meant the Bible. “They tell us not to read the Bible because if we do, we realize things like, in no place does it say a women’s hair has to be braided like that,” he told me, leaning on his white pickup truck as his ponytailed daughter played in the yard.
Curious about the specifics of religious instruction at Manitoba, one Sunday I attended a service at one of the colony’s three nondescript brick churches. I soon realized that the solemn 90-minute ceremony is not a priority. Heads of households might go two or three times a month, but many go even less frequently.
For children, the core school curriculum is based on selected Bible readings, but aside from a silent 20-second prayer before and after meals, there is no specified time or requirement for prayer or Bible studies in the adult Old Colony world.
“Many [people have] lost their biblical literacy,” said Helmut Isaak, the Mennonite historian. He explained that over time, as Mennonites stopped having to constantly defend their faith against persecutors, other more practical concerns took precedent. “In order to survive, they needed to spend their time working.”
This has created a crucial power disparity: the small cadre of church leaders have became the sole interpreters of the Bible on Old Colonies, and because the Bible is seen as the law, leaders use this control over the scripture to instill order and obedience.
Ministers deny this charge: “We encourage all our members to know what is written in the holy book,” Minister Jacob Fehr told me one evening. But residents admit in quiet that Bible-study classes are discouraged and Bibles are written in High German, a language that most adults barely remember after their limited schooling, while Low German versions are sometimes banned. On some Old Colonies, members face excommunication for delving too deeply into the scripture.
This is why Johan Weiber was such a threatening presence—he terrified the leadership and community at large. He also reminded them of the troubled past of the Old Colonies. “This is exactly what happened in Mexico and that’s why we came [to Bolivia],” said Peter Knelsen, a 60-year-old Manitoba resident who arrived from Mexico as a teenager with his parents. It wasn’t just the Mexican government that was threatening Old Colonies with reform, but also an evangelical movement from within that sought to “change our way of life,” said Peter, who explained that in his colony in Mexico dissenters tried to build their own church, too.
For more than 40 years, Bolivian Old Colonists had escaped such an internal rift. But with Johan Weiber’s attempt to build his own church—he also wanted land in Manitoba on which to farm and build his own independent school—Peter and others spoke of an impending “apocalypse.” Tensions nearly exploded in June, after my visit, when Johan’s group actually broke ground on their church. Soon after construction commenced, over 100 Manitoba men descended on the site and took it apart, piece-by-piece. “I think it’s going to be really hard to maintain the colony intact,” Peter told me.
If this rift continues to widen and the crisis comes to a head, Manitobans already know what to do. Centuries ago, the original Mennonites in Europe, faced with persecution, had a choice: fight or flight. Given their vow of pacifism, they fled—and they have been doing so ever since.
Manitoba leaders say they hope it doesn’t come to that. In part, this is probably because Bolivia is one of the last countries left that will let them live on their own terms. So for now, Minister Jacob Fehr says he prays. “We just want [Weiber’s group] to leave the colony,” he said. “We just want to be left alone.”
Heinrich Knelsen Kalssen, one of the rapists, is led out of the courtroom by police in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
On my last day in Manitoba, I got a shock.
“You know that it’s still happening, right?” a woman said to me, as we drank ice water alongside her home. There were no men around. I hoped something was lost in translation, but my Low German translator assured me it wasn’t. “The rapes with the spray—they are still going on,” she said.
I peppered her with questions: Had it happened to her? Did she know who was doing it? Did everyone know it was going on?
No, she said, they hadn’t returned to her house, but to a cousin’s—recently. She said she had a good guess about who was doing it but wouldn’t give me any names. And she believed that, yes, most people in Manitoba Colony knew that the imprisonment of the original rapists hadn’t put an end to the serial crimes.
As if in a strange time warp, after dozens of interviews with people telling me everything was fine now, I didn’t know if this was gossip, rumor, lies, or—worse—the truth. I spent the rest of the day frantically trying to get confirmation. I revisited many families who I had previously interviewed, and the majority admitted, a bit sheepishly, that yes, they had heard the rumors and that, yes, they assumed they were probably true.
“It’s definitely not as frequent,” said one young man later that day whose wife had been raped during the first series of incidents before 2009. “[The rapists] are being much more careful than before, but it still goes on.” He told me he had his suspicions about the perpetrators’ identities as well, but didn’t want to give any more details.
On a subsequent reporting trip by Noah Friedman-Rudovsky, the photographer for this article, five people went on record—including three Manitobans as well as a local prosecutor and a journalist—and confirmed that they had heard the rapes are continuing.
Those I spoke with said they have no way to stop the alleged attacks. There is still no police force in the area, and there never will be any proactive element or investigatory force that can look into accusations of crimes. Anyone is free in the colonies to report somebody else to the Ministers, but crimes are addressed on the honor system: if a perpetrator is not ready to admit his sins, the question is whether the victim or accuser will be believed… and women in Manitoba already know how that goes.
The only defense, residents told me, is to install better locks or bars on the windows, or big steel doors like the one I slept behind each night during my trip. “We can’t put in streetlights or video cameras,” the husband of a victim of the rapes told me—two technologies not allowed. For it to stop, they believe they must, as before, catch someone in the act. “So we will just have to wait,” he said.
That last day, before leaving Manitoba, I returned to visit Sara, the woman who woke up with rope around her wrists nearly five years ago. She said she’d also heard the rumors of ongoing rapes, and breathed a heavy sigh. She and her family had moved to a new house after the gang of nine was captured in 2009. The old house held too many demon-filled memories. She said she felt badly if others were now living her past horrors, but she didn’t know what could be done. After all, her time on earth, like that of all her fellow Mennonites, was meant for suffering. Before I left, she offered what she considered words of solace: “Maybe this is God’s plan.”
Editor’s Note: Abuse and rape victims’ names have been changed at their request.
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Reiko Souma’s Story
Reiko was born deaf. At the age of fifteen, on May 28, 2004, she prayed to God to restore her hearing and, as a result of her faith, God answered her prayer. However, at the age of nine, she began attending an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. By the age of fifteen, when she regained her hearing, she was a teenage girl who was lost in the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult and its abusive teachings and rules. The “rules” affected every area of Reiko’s life at church and at home. In my book, Religion’s Cell: Doctrines of the Church that Lead to Bondage and Abuse, I talk about the effects the teachings and rules of the IFB have on the children. This is why I feel Reiko’s story needs to be heard. Here’s Reiko’s story:
Extreme Loneliness
“What is one thing I wish I could change about my life? → Not being so lonely. Hasn’t anyone ever stopped and thought about the real reason why I’m always sitting at my laptop? It’s because I have nothing else to do aside from typing away or playing the piano. The world outside of my isolated world is in a different galaxy from mine, and it seems as if everyone has decided to make me unapproachable. I understand that I’m not as good-looking or attractive as the rest of the world is, but that’s absolutely no excuse to leave me out in the cold like a stray cat. My family and the church people don’t know how much they’ve hurt me, and I’m through with holding back on it. Do I need counseling? NO. I’m just telling how I feel, and what I want to change about my life. Loneliness. No one knows what it’s like to spend almost your entire childhood without the ability to communicate with everyone else the same way, to always be shunned to your bedroom, to not have any true friends with the exception of the God who created you. At least I know that He listens to me and sees the tears that I’m letting go of right now. Far more than anybody else ever will. To understand what I’m feeling right now, one would have to have been through the same exact experience as me.
Some of the Rules:
No hanging out with certain people because you can’t even hear the words that are coming out of their mouths, and your lip-reading isn’t good enough anymore.
No going to certain places just because you don’t have a sense of direction.
No going to that Bible Study across the street because you’ve got your church that you go to on Sunday mornings.
No staying up later than usual because you’ve got school in the morning, yet your brother can stay up as late as he wants.
No bedroom with a real door. You have no right to privacy, but your brother can have a door with a lock because he’s a boy, and he needs his privacy.
No extra privileges because you’re doing a writing assignment for something that you’ve never even done wrong. That means you’re handcuffed to your room the entire summer.
…No doing this. No doing that. No meeting new people because we don’t know what they’re really like. No going anywhere, even if you’re with somebody. Why don’t you just say that I’m not allowed to have a life? It’s bad enough, I never really had one as it was. Like Jesus, I was rejected by so many people. Like Jesus, I’m still being rejected by so many people.”
Reiko’s story is one of knowing the pain of loneliness and isolation. It was common in this cult to isolate the children from each other for fear of “influence.” It was also common to isolate the entire family from those outside the church. Religious Rules always lead to isolation and abuse. What Reiko experienced as a deaf child and a hearing teenager is emotional abuse. But her story does not end there. . .
“During my time in the Independent Fundamental Baptist cult, they took advantage of me by filling my mind with all of their opinions, attitudes and strange doctrines. They had a way of inserting opinion into the message in such a way that it came across as being truth! They were masters at twisting scripture to make it say what they wanted in order to enforce their many “rules.” My personal Bible-reading would often contradict what I was being told and it wasn’t long before I had problems with differentiating the truth from error when it came to doctrine. I eventually found myself interpreting scripture based on what I was TOLD instead of what I was reading. Because of this, it became very difficult for me to digest the messages being preached. The doctrines they taught have hindered my spiritual growth by causing confusion in my mind. This confusion makes it difficult to function beyond their isolated world of fundamentalism and treat those outside the cult with the grace and respect and love they deserve. When I finally found my voice and courage to speak out, I found myself questioning everything that was preached! I openly asked the preacher questions that put him in the position publicly to provide an answer. As a result, I was shunned, gossiped about and slandered. I learned quickly and the hard way, that NO ONE was allowed to question the preacher.
The abuse wasn’t just in the fundamentalism. My Atheist father (who has disowned me about five years ago) specialized in psychological abuse. My mother, a Pentecostal, was and is still an enabler of abusive behavior. While she didn’t turn a blind eye to my being bullied in public school, she did turn a blind eye to my father abusing one of my brothers and me.
The IFB has completely destroyed all traces of any relationship that my brother and I once had with each other. What I had thought to be “God’s Will” instead turned out to be the IFB manipulating to single out the strong-willed from the so-called “weak-minded” (which I strongly disagree with passionately) and removing the “weak-minded” from their congregation through psychological manipulation or just shunning them. Gossip and slander are what destroyed my brother’s positive outlook on life, changed the way he views and treats women, and ultimately led him to disown me. With my brother no longer in the church due to what I’d been told was him “refusing to follow the rules of the church,” I was the only one in my family who was in the IFB. I was alone, and I forcefully pushed away all feelings of feeling trapped. But I couldn’t leave. Why?
My mother has had a long-standing sympathy and support for the IFB, in spite of her being a Pentecost and despising the same group of people she agrees with. That is, I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere on Sundays and Thursday nights except for church. During the week, it was school and home to do homework. I’m surprised that I was allowed to own a television and video games (which I still own and play on my free time), what with my immediate family being the way they were. Punishments for the stupidest things included spankings from my mother, writing assignments with Bible verses from my father, and my bedroom cleaned out of everything except for my clothes, my furniture, my lamp, and my Bible. Other punishments involved having to watch every boot camp show on those talk shows like Oprah, Maury, Jerry Springer, Sally Jessy Raphael, etc., with my father while my mother worked during the day. My only source of freedom was at night, when I would climb out the window just to escape from every reminder of the IFB and my parents’ abuse.
My temporary freedom from the IFB didn’t come in the best way possible. We had to move, and I had been kicked out at thirteen for the first time in my life by my father. Having nowhere to go, I had to stay with a family friend who received multiple visits from the IFB and Mormon churches (soul-winning for the IFB, food deliveries for the Mormons). My aunt didn’t make me go to church unless my mother called and told her that I had to go. Unfortunately, my mind had already been so heavily indoctrinated with that of the IFB church that I felt I couldn’t avoid going to church. I made myself go just because I still had it in my mind that the church was a safe haven from all of those who bullied me everywhere else. Thankfully, my “vacation” from the IFB finally came when I was thrown out of my aunt’s house at the age of fourteen for “arguing too much” (which I felt then was me standing up for myself).
Still considered to be homeless, I ended up having to stay with one of my uncles. He’s now retired from the Pentecostal ministry after being a pastor for several years (due to health), but the apartment was already overcrowded. It was either sleep in crowded quarters, or I sleep on the streets and keep my stuff in storage. Not wanting anything to do with church or God at the time, I sucked it up and switched between sleeping inside and sleeping on the streets. It was a low point in my life for the several months that I was away from my hometown, but then a (temporary) house was bought in my hometown. Sadly, my moving back to town got me sucked right back into the same IFB church that had manipulated with my brother’s life and reprogrammed my mind. If only I knew then what I’d have been getting into…
…I was kept under very close supervision upon my return and expected to “shine” brighter than everyone else. It wasn’t long after my being sucked back in that I started to hear for the first time in my life, solely when I prayed for my hearing whilst on a road trip. I was in Baltimore and enjoying two days out of school when my ears opened with a loud POP before I could even finish praying. A doctor’s visit immediately followed upon my telling my family, and why not? I’ve wanted to hear all my life, and now I was able to hear. No more did I have to rely on placing my hand over a keyboard speaker just to differentiate each note that I played with a finger while reading the notes. I could now start playing the piano without what I only call a limitation. Of course, the IFB would have none of this. They welcomed my ability to play the piano, but believed that my being deaf was a hoax. Looking back, I can only laugh now. But I digress.
From 2004 until December of 2010, my mind has pretty much all of the memories blocked out. The snippets that I can remember, however, aren’t pretty. One in particular, which I’m finally starting to open up to my therapist about, was literally the time that I almost died from making myself sick. In short, it was the last time of my being homeless and having to stay with an IFB family…it only lasted for all of two weeks before it was decided that my mother HAD to make room for me at the place where I live now. This memory still haunts me to this day, but the lesser memories of having to sneak food just to avoid passing out and seeing the pastor shirtless…those aren’t so haunting. In the fuzzy areas of my mind, I remember being introduced to several pastors all over the region. The Chricton brothers, one of which is currently at Crown College and the other having the audacity to step into the church I currently attend to “visit,” are just two of them. Evangelists such as Dan Souza, Wendell Calder, the CLA, and the newly-built New England Baptist College/Central Baptist Church, are a few others.
Before you finish reading, I wish to insert some encouraging news here. I hate leaving anything on a negative note, so I want you to know that I’m looking back and seeing how far I’ve come from where I started. I’m amazed that, in the eleven years of abuse that I’ve been through, I’ve made more progress in healing in only a third of that time. My life has had a more positive outlook on it since leaving and, in spite of the darkest moments that I’ve experienced, I believe that there is hope. Not just for me, but for each victim of the IFB’s abuse.”
Reiko’s story about questioning leadership and the results of doing so, is common in an abusive church. Many have found themselves on the receiving end of not just shunning, gossip and slander, but public humiliation. Again, this is abuse. It is emotional abuse and spiritual abuse.
The abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents just adds to the trauma she has already had to deal with. This heaps abuse upon abuse. For a child, this is too much to bare.
This entry was posted in Baptist Abuse Stories and tagged cult, emotional abuse, Reiko Souma's Story, sexual abuse on February 28, 2013 by admin.
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Category Archives: 2008 Olympics
Biking to the Great Wall
On our last full day in China, Will and I took a 50-mile bike ride — and again saw the Great Wall. It was a spectacularly beautiful day — clear, sunny, about 80 degrees. Will was a good sport about it, indulging my biking habit, and we really had fun. We saw a lot of the countryside — farms and small villages.
Our trip to China has been wonderful. It has taught us a lot about this huge country, which is so old, and so new, at the same time. UNC is already doing a lot in China, in global health and other areas. The potential is for much, much more.
And the Beijing Olympics were just fabulous!
Will and me having just biked to the Great Wall, 50 miles round trip!
This entry was posted in 2008 Olympics, Roper in China on August 16, 2008 by roperhealth.
We have just been to the most amazing sporting event I have ever seen (with the exception of the Men’s Basketball National Championship in St. Louis in 2005).
This morning we went to swimming finals. We saw lots of great events, and a number of new world records were set.
The high point, though, was seeing Michael Phelps. He won the gold in the 200 fly, and the U.S. team, of which he was the first leg, won the gold in the 4×200 free. It was wonderful getting to stand and sing the “Star Spangled Banner” twice!
As of right now, Phelps has won five gold medals in the Beijing Olympics, which, when added to his six from Sydney, means that he has won more gold medals than anyone else in history! And he is not done yet. He is predicted to win three more while here.
It turns out that his mother was sitting just a few rows away from us, and we got to see her reaction to all of this, and see him throw his bouquets of roses up to her in the stands.
The USA men’s 4×200 free relay team with their gold medals.
Visit with PKU leadership and then gymnastics final
This morning we met with Professor Min Weifang, the chairman of the University Council of Peking University. Under the Chinese system of university governance, he is the party chairman, and, as such, he is the highest ranking official at PKU. Even the university president reports to him.
Prof. Min has his doctorate from Stanford, and he is an urbane, polished leader. He has been involved with UNC for some time — and he visited Chapel Hill about a year ago. Chancellor Moeser and he met several times.
He talked about PKU and their vision for the future, especially as it relates to international partnerships with other universities.
I was impressed with many things about him, but especially about the depth of his knowledge of U.S. higher education. For example, he talked about the role of “the three universities” in the development of Research Triangle Park and the wider economic development of the Triangle. Then he enumerated them, “UNC, North Carolina State University, and …” When he paused, I filled in the blank with “that other university nearby.” He said he has recently met with Duke President Richard Broadhead.
We talked about the health sciences at UNC and at PKU, and their plans for the future. I had met with Prof. Ke, the EVP for health sciences a few days ago, and Prof. Min said he knows that heads of medical schools are very powerful and always get their way within a university. I laughed and said that is not always true at UNC, but maybe it is often true.
There will be a joint UNC-PKU conference in Beijing in November, which will feature a number of senior UNC leaders. It will offer additional opportunities to explore partnerships with PKU, the top ranked Chinese institution of higher education.
Meeting with Prof. Min Weifang, the chairman of the University Council of PKU.
Following our meeting, we headed off to the Olympics.
Today we saw the finals of men’s team gymnastics.
It was the first time I have ever seen gymnastics in person. I’ve watched it on TV often but it was really great to be there. It is amazing the feats of strength, balance, and coordination!
We saw a vigorous competition — and ultimately the medal ceremony. China won the gold, Japan the silver, and the USA the bronze medal.
This entry was posted in 2008 Olympics, Global Health, Roper in China, UNC Health Care on August 12, 2008 by roperhealth.
Beach volleyball and swimming
Today was a fun day — just Olympics.
In the morning we went to beach volleyball and saw several matches.
The best was between the Chinese and Belgian women. The China team won but it was a closely fought game (19-21, 21-18, 15-13).
Tonight we went to the “Water Cube” (the natatorium) and saw great swimming. We saw a new world’s record set in the women’s 200 freestyle, and Michael Phelps set a new Olympic record in the men’s 200 fly.
The facilities for the Olympics here are just magnificent — and the hospitality we are receiving from the Chinese people is really heart-warming. I often have noticed people looking intently at me on the street — staring really — and I have taken to waving and smiling at them — and they just beam back at me. Tom has taught me to say — “knee how,” which means hello — and they love it when I try to say it to them.
This trip is really a joy — and an opportunity to learn and build relationships for UNC.
Will holding a real Olympic torch.
This entry was posted in 2008 Olympics, Roper in China, UNC Health Care on August 11, 2008 by roperhealth.
FDA, Women’s Basketball, Church and UNC Alumni
Yesterday Peter Coclanis, Tom Martineau and I had lunch with Dr. Yan Jiangying (or Jenny Yan, to use her “English name”).
She is a senior official of the State Food and Drug Administration for China. She is a pediatrician and she was a Fogarty Fellow at UNC with Dr. Gail Henderson in 2005.
We went to a very nice restaurant which has recreated the elegant old style of entertaining. It was a very pleasant meal, made all the more so by Dr. Yan’s recounting of her very positive memories of her year in Chapel Hill.
We discussed future possibilities for partnerships between the SFDA and UNC.
Dr. Jenny Yan from the SFDA.
Last evening we went to see the USA women’s basketball team play the Czech Republic. In addition to Peter, Tom and Will, Mark Little joined us. He is Provost Bernadette Gray-Little’s son. Mark has spent the past year in Beijing as a Luce Fellow, teaching environmental science at PKU.
The USA team was slow to get started, but after Candace Parker went in they caught up and really blew the other team away. The final score was 97-57. At the end I was yelling “we want biscuits,” but I am not sure the local crowd got the point.
This morning I went to church at the Beijing International Christian Fellowship. It is a large congregation, planted in 1980. It began with British and American Embassy expatriates. They have grown to be now several congregations — meeting in multiple locations with services in several languages in addition to English and Chinese.
I went to the main location and the 9:30 a.m. service had perhaps 1000 people — seated in a modern theatre-style auditorium located in an office building.
The 90-minute service contained both English and Chinese songs, with the words projected on an overhead screen. The sermon was in English, with simultaneous translation available in Chinese. The relatively informal service reminded me of the Chapel Hill Bible Church.
Current government regulations mean that BCIF (and other churches like it) are open to foreign photo ID holders only. I had to show my passport to get in.
By the way, last Sunday I went to church in Shanghai at a Chinese church. The service I attended was entirely in Chinese. I was able to sing the hymns, though, as they were familiar tunes — including “Blessed Assurance.” My English blended right in with the hundreds of Chinese-singing worshipers.
We had a very nice luncheon today with several UNC alums who live here in Beijing. Elyse Ribbons, ’03, organized it. We ate at a great French restaurant and had a very good brunch. I confess that after a week and a half of wonderful Chinese food, I really enjoyed bacon, eggs, rolls, and crepes for dessert.
Tonight we are going to men’s basketball — USA vs. China. It should be a real show! Everyone here is excited about the game. It is like UNC vs. Duke back home. Only here I am cheering for the team led by Coach K!
President Bush at the USA-China men’s basketball game.
Quintiles, Tsinghua University and the Opening Ceremony
We had an amazing day on Friday, August 8 —
It began with an early morning meeting at the office and lab of Quintiles here in Beijing.
Quintiles was founded by Dennis Gillings when he was a UNC School of Public Health faculty member. It is now the largest contract research organization in the world, with people and facilities around the globe, and is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Dennis and his wife, Joan, have also endowed the UNC School of Public Health and dramatically enhanced the School's capabilities — especially in global health.
Peter Coclanis, associate provost for international affairs, Tom Martineau and I met with Lai-Lee Tan, the head of the China office; Claire Tan, director of biostatistics; and Susan Sun, the lab manager.
We learned about their extensive clinical trials work in China and other countries of this region. What they showed us was really impressive — and we surely appreciated their coming into the office to host us on this day, August 8, 2008, which was a national holiday in China and the opening day for the Olympic Games.
Then we went to Tsinghua University, which is located right next to the campus of Peking University where we are staying. Tsinghua has a long tradition of excellence in science and engineering, and is sometimes described as the MIT of China. It and PKU are rivals for being seen as the top ranked university in the country — and the parallels to the MIT – Harvard relationship are evident.
Tsinghua now has a business school, law school and medical school. We met with Professor Chen Jining, the executive vice president of TU. With him were Xia Guangzhi, the deputy director of the office of international cooperation and exchange, and Dr. Fang-Lin Sun, head of research for their medical school.
We had wide ranging conversations about the opportunities for partnership and exchange between UNC and Tsinghua University. They already have relationships with several U.S. universities and seemed quite interested in exploring faculty and student interactions with us. We will be organizing a follow-up meeting right away.
Topics of interest include information science, nanoscience, environmental science and many areas of medicine.
Then last evening we went to the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Will and I were guests of Lenovo, the Beijing-based computer and information technology company.
Will and me at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
Lenovo has its U.S. operations headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. They bought the IBM personal computer operations there a few years ago. I met the Chairman of Lenovo with Chancellor Moeser several months ago.
It would take me hours to write an adequate description of what we saw. But I have a few observations:
The Olympic Stadium and other facilities are magnificent.
The artistic performance in the Opening Ceremony was like the grandest Super Bowl halftime show — times ten!
The athletes — all 10,000 of them — were fun and lively, but there were so many of them!!!
The Chinese people are hugely proud to be hosting the Games.
A runner bringing the flame in to light the big torch at the end of the Opening Ceremony.
Opening Ceremony performance — a large globe that came up from the floor of the stadium.
We got back to our lodging at around 2 a.m. — a very full and rewarding day!
This entry was posted in 2008 Olympics, Global Health, Roper in China, UNC Health Care on August 9, 2008 by roperhealth.
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The Quest to Understand Human Affairs
Essays on Collective, Constitutional, and Epistemic Choice, Volume 2
Vincent Ostrom - Edited by Barbara Allen
The second volume of The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents thirty-six previously unpublished manuscripts written by Vincent Ostrom, cofounder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. The essays are divided among three parts: Constitutional Choice, Epistemic Choice, and The Quest for Understanding and the Future of Democratic Self-Governance. Part I, Constitutional Choice, includes studies on public sector performance and the constitutional dilemmas facing the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the North American “New World” of US constitutionalism, and the United States of Mexico. In the essays of Part II, Ostrom turns to the foundational ideas on which the institutions of a particular culture rest. He raises questions about the methodologies of the social sciences and insists that we return to “basic questions” in our search for institutional forms that will liberate human communities. Part III offers the reader a colloquy on self-governance in which Ostrom’s speeches and presentations on a variety of twenty-first-century issues are supplemented with letters and memos between Ostrom and visiting scholars and students.
These remarkable works not only offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, policy and administration—during the second half of the twentieth century and first decade of the new millennium—but also speak to general readers about worldwide transformations in democracies and human and environment relations as well as the enduring challenge of sustaining just, productive political orders. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs is introduced with a foreword by Nobel Laureate and co-founder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Elinor Ostrom, with a preface by the editor of the volume, political theorist Barbara Allen. « less more »
978-0-7391-6805-9 • Hardback • February 2012 • $170.00 • (£110.00)
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Subjects: Political Science / American Government / General, History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / Constitutions, Political Science / Essays, Political Science / History & Theory
Vincent Ostrom is the founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Barbara Allen is professor of political science at Carleton College.
Foreword by Elinor Ostrom
PART I: CONSTITUTIONAL CHOICE
David Hume as a Political Analyst
The Individual and the Constitutional Order in the American Federal Republic
Constitutional Choice in Postcolonial Polities: The Federal Republic of Nigeria
The Challenge of Federalism
Guidance, Control, and Performance in the Public Sector
Some Conjectures about the Shape of the Political Science to Come
Buchanan’s Opening to Constitutional Choice and Meta Levels of Analysis
Constitutional Choice in the Spanish New World
Federalism in the Affairs of Everyday Life
The Challenge Facing the Mexican Revolution in Its Third Century
PART II: EPISTEMIC CHOICE
Political Characteristics of the Pacific Northwest:
A Challenge to Research—The Problem of Method
Freedom and Organization
Implications of Epistemic Choice for Political Science Methodologies
Federalism and Consociationalism: Competing or Complementary Approaches?
Conceptualizing the Nature and Magnitude of the Task of Institutional Analysis and Development
Culture, Liberation Movements, and Human Development
Some Ontological and Epistemological Puzzles in Policy Analysis
Interpreting Social Experiments: An Agenda for Critical Reflections and Inquiry about a Research
Program in Comparative Institutional Analysis and Development
Great Experiments and the Welfare State: Basic Paradigmatic Challenges
To the Readers of the Chinese Translation [of The Meaning of American Federalism]
PART III THE QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC SELF-GOVERNANCE
A Continuing Colloquy on Self-Governance
Democracy and Self-Governance
The Inevitability of Democracy
Some Requisites for Understanding Viable
Constitutional Designs
Memos to Colleagues and Students
Workshop Analytics and Tocquevillian Analytics
Experiments in Constitutional Choice
The Use of Theory to Study Problems of Institutional Analysis and Design
Studying Democracy in America: Learning to be Self-Governing by Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen
Democratic Transformations: From the Struggle for Democracy to Self-Governance? by Michael McGinnis and Vincent Ostrom
Federalism and the Exercise of Self-Governing Capabilities
Rethinking Federalism
The Spirit of Federalism
What is Federalism? A Search for Meaning
Self-Government and Federalism
Revisiting Public Administration and Democratic Governance
Political Theory and Public Administration
Syracuse Notes: How Do We Conceptualize the Meaning of the American Experiment?
Some Developments in the Study of Market Choice, Public Choice, and Institutional Choice
The Continuing Challenge of Constitutional Choice
Why Were There So Many Constitutional Failures in the Twentieth Century?
An Assessment of Failure and the Challenge Ahead
Citizen-Sovereigns: The Implications of Hamilton’s Query and Tocqueville’s Conjecture about the Democratic
Volume II builds magnificently on the themes of the first volume. Once again Barbara Allen has expertly edited Vincent Ostrom's writings. In this collection readers will find a reflective Ostrom applying his keen understanding of decentralized systems to problems philosophical, practical, and pedagogical. It is impossible to read these essays and not be inspired to think differently about one's own research.
— Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan
Vincent Ostrom made many significant and profound contributions to political theory and public policy. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs presents Ostrom's work in collective, constitutional, and epistemic choice. His project is a radical one exploring the foundation of self-governance, and the self-governing capacity of the citizenry. And, nobody has done more than Vincent Ostrom in understanding the burdens of the democratic way of life, and the political structures consistent with that way of life.
— Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Thirty-six previously unpublished papers explore Vincent Ostrom's work in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, public policy, and public administration.
— Journal of Economic Literature
These remarkable works not only offer specialists insight into developments in the fields of institutional analysis, resource governance, policy and administration—during the second half of the twentieth century and first decade of the new millennium—but also speak to general readers about worldwide transformations in democracies and human and environment relations as well as the enduring challenge of sustaining just, productive political orders. The Quest to Understand Human Affairs is introduced with a foreword by Nobel Laureate and co-founder of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Elinor Ostrom, with a preface by the editor of the volume, political theorist Barbara Allen.
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Home News Delivering on the promise of family planning in hard to reach places
Delivering on the promise of family planning in hard to reach places
Nsengimana Jean de Dieu and his wife Mukabutera Seraphine share their FP testimony
Over the month of July, Rwanda went beyond one-day event to partner with communities in a week-long outreach campaigns in rural remote areas of Karongi District to promote access to family planning information and services as part of national celebrations of this year’s World Population Day.
During 6 day’s campaign in the district, 3,495 people received family planning methods, with 49.6 per cent chose to use long-term contraception including two men who opted for a vasectomy. The contraceptive prevalence rate for married women in Karongi district stands at 37.7 per cent – one of the lowest in the country.
In the spirit of leaving no one behind, with a theme “Family Planning is a human right” this year’s national commemoration considered the rural Rwankuba Sector to bring FP services closer to the rural people and support those affected by heavy rainfall and landslides.
As FP is a human right and a choice for all, not only left for women but also men, Nsengimana Jean de Dieu and his wife Mukabutera Seraphine residents of Rwankuba Sector share a testimony how family planning is a key factor to their improved well-being and a living example in their village.
Nsengimana underwent vasectomy as his choice of family planning to help his wife who had previously used family planning methods but got undesirable side effects. Since the couple didn’t want to have more children, he accepted to go for vasectomy as sensitized by health providers that there were no health risks associated to the method.
“When you have a particular number of children and well-spaced, you plan for their needs responsibly. This leaves you with enough resources to plan for the future leading to the development of the household and the country in general,” Nsengimana says.
The couple have three children and had an incredible spacing with an interval of five years in between. Nsengimana says this was only possible because of the use of family planning that he personally took as his responsibility to support his wife.
“My children have never gone hungry or failed to attend school or failed to have appropriate clothing. With the little money we earn with my wife, I have managed to give my family a decent living,” he narrates.
Nsengimana, therefore calls onto other parents to embrace family planning because the benefits stretch right back to society in general.
In his remarks, Mark Bryan Schreiner, the UNFPA Rwanda Representative, said this year’s theme coincides with the period where the demographic dividend profile for Rwanda has determined family planning as a best buy to achieve sustainable development. It also coincides with the period where the country has published its first ever integrated national Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) policy and evidence of existing family planning barriers in Rwanda that impede the uptake of contraceptive methods has been identified.
CaptiPhoto: Mr. Mark Bryan Schreiner (R), UNFPA Rwanda Representative, 2nd (R) Mr. Ndayisaba Francois, Mayor Karongi District, (C)
Hon. De Bonheur Jeanne d’Arc, Minister in charge of Disaster and Refugee Affairs, 2nd (L) Hon. Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi,
Minister of State in charge of Public and Primary Health Care during WPD celebration.
Schreiner reiterated the importance of family planning to the development of the country, promoting the rights of children, young people, men and women as well as improving the living conditions of the families.
“The impacts of FP are not just for one lifetime: but across generations, thus, “Investing for a Lifetime of Returns” which has been chosen as the theme for the 5th International Conference on Family Planning to be hosted by the Government of Rwanda in November” Schreiner says.
Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi, the Minister of State in charge of Public and Primary Health Care in the Ministry of Health while addressing the crowd said that the government of Rwanda has made various investments in family planning services including training health providers, equipping health facilities, procurement of FP methods and put in place favorable policies for the well-being of the citizens.
“The country has made tremendous progress in family planning which has contributed positively related indicators such as maternal and infant health and the number of child-bearing per family. I encourage both men and women to embrace FP services because it improves the well-being of families and impacts the economic growth of the country” Dr. Patrick calls upon residents.
In spite of achievements moving ahead, some efforts are still needed in order to attain the country’s and global targets. Both the Minister of State and UNFPA Representative call upon government and partners to work together to deliver what is required to transform the lives of men, women, girls and boys, and contribute to a healthier and more prosperous Rwanda for all.
Photo: Residents of Rwankuba Sector listening to FP messages during WPD celebrations
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The Lesson of South Africa For The West – new Black government fail to stop the murders of whites
WE’VE SPOKEN SEVERAL times about the situation in South Africa — in particular, about the systematic murder of White farmers there by Blacks and the failure of the new Black government to stop the murders.
The slaughter continues. Since I spoke with you about this in June, another 67 White farmers or members of White farm families have been murdered in South Africa. Many of the murders have been accompanied by torture, rape, and mutilation. Altogether nearly six hundred White farmers have been murdered by Blacks in South Africa since the Whites agreed in 1993 to let the Blacks run the country. That’s one per cent of South Africa’s 58,000 White farmers. Imagine the uproar in America if one percent of any occupational group — say, White school teachers or White policemen — were brutally murdered, with racial motivations, by Blacks in a four-year period. Of course, South Africa’s White farmers are in an uproar too, but they’re receiving virtually no help from South Africa’s Black government in dealing with the problem. The government says it has too many other problems to deal with.
And indeed it does. The per capita murder rate in South Africa is now more than ten times the rate in the United States. The HIV infection rate has continued to climb, and now one in every five Black women of child-bearing age in South Africa is infected with the AIDS-causing virus. Car-jackings are up sharply. Burglaries are up. Rapes have sky rocketed. It’s a mess.
And of course, the controlled mass media in America, the mass media which were beating the drums for an end to apartheid a few years ago, the news and entertainment media here which were pushing so hard for Black rule in South Africa and telling everyone that we must bring the injustice of White rule in South Africa to an end — these media which were telling us every day before 1993 how bad things in South Africa under White rule were — these controlled mass media in America are now strangely silent about South Africa. Now they have other fish to fry.
Last week I spoke at an international conference of nationalists in Thessaloniki, Greece. One of the other speakers at the conference was the foreign secretary of the most important White nationalist group in South Africa, the Herstigte National Party. I spoke with this man, Leon Strydom, about the killing of South African farmers, and the soaring crime rate in South Africa’s cities, and the many other problems which are overwhelming White South Africans. I asked him, “What do the White South Africans who voted in 1993 to turn their country over to Black rule think about their suicidal foolishness now?”
His reply was, “But we never voted for Black rule! We never even voted to permit the Blacks to participate in elections. We only voted to continue the process of reform in which the government of F W. De Klerk already was engaged, the process of modernization and relaxation of some of the stricter apartheid practices. We believed that this would help our relations with the rest of the world and still allow us to remain masters in our own country.”
I responded to this explanation by asking him, “But surely the voters must have understood that if they gave De Klerk the OK to continue along his path of appeasement of the Blacks and the New World Order crowd, that would lead very soon to Black rule. They understood that, didn’t they?” And he told me that most of the voters didn’t understand that. They had believed their politicians’ promise to maintain White rule. They had not expected De Klerk and the others to betray them.
I was at first incredulous. How could White people be so foolish? But after I had thought about it for a few minutes, I realized that the average White person, whether in South Africa or the United States, is indeed that foolish. I believe that I tend to idealize White people in other countries, I tend to give them a little more credit for intelligence and moral rectitude than I give to Americans, and that’s a mistake. The fact is that the majority of White Americans are quite capable of unwittingly voting for their own destruction, and so I should not be surprised that the Whites of South Africa did exactly that. The majority of White Americans believe the lies of their politicians and preachers, and so it shouldn’t surprise us that the Whites of South Africa did the same thing.
In South Africa there were of course the nutcase liberals and the trendy airheads who were happy to see Black rule come and who now can’t quite figure out what went wrong when the earthly paradise of equality and interracial brotherhood didn’t arrive as promised. But we have exactly the same types in the United States. They’re the ones who applaud Clinton when he gives his speech about how it will be a good thing when there is no longer a White majority in the United States in another 30 years or so, and then we can have real “diversity” and real “brotherhood.” Our job, of course, is to do whatever it takes to ensure that our airheads never have to ask themselves what went wrong here. Our job is to disempower the trendies and the liberals before they have a chance to take us beyond the point of no return and say, “oops, we made a mistake.”
As for the great mass of the people here who are unwittingly headed in the direction of White minority status, the great mass of Americans who don’t really want America to become a non-White country but who trust their politicians and their preachers and therefore are headed toward extinction anyway — as for the great mass of our people, education is the only course for us at this time. Our task is to give our people knowledge, to give them truth, and help at least some of them gather their wits and understand what is happening.
And you know, there is no more illuminating example, no better lesson for White Americans than what has happened and is happening in South Africa. That, of course, is exactly why the controlled mass media here remain silent when White South African farmers are slaughtered, when White South African women are gang-raped, and when many other very educational things happen in South Africa. So today let’s briefly talk about some more of these South African things which it would be good for White Americans to know about, to think about, to ponder.
Perhaps the most instructive aspect of the South African tragedy is the betrayal of the people by those in whom they had placed their trust: principally their church leaders and their business/military/political establishment. Let’s talk about the church first.
For the Anglo element in South Africa, the church — that would be primarily the Episcopal Church — wasn’t of fundamental importance. Most of the English-speaking population didn’t take their church very seriously, and everyone already understood that the Episcopal Church establishment was thoroughly rotten, was completely sold out. But for the Boer element, the Dutch-speaking element of the population, it was different. They really believed in their church: that’s the Dutch Reformed Church. There was what might be called a compact, a covenant, between the Dutch Reformed Church and the Boer people, and the Boers took their religion very seriously. Like most other Protestant sects, it was based heavily on the Old Testament. The Boers saw many parallels between the Old Testament pseudo-history of the Jews and their own history. They saw themselves as a Chosen People in the Promised Land and the Dutch Reformed Church as their protector and guide. And the Church to a certain degree did fill that role. The Church gave the Boers a scriptural basis for their lives, for their institutions — including the institution of apartheid — at least, up until the early 1980s.
I, of course, always have been very leery of churches in general, and I could see, as an outsider, some things in the teachings of the Dutch Reformed Church in particular which worried me: their tendency to identify with the Jews, for example. But whenever I would try to talk about my worries with South African visitors, I would be told that their church was absolutely solid. They had complete faith in their church. And of course, I didn’t want to attack their faith, so I would drop the subject.
Well of course, when the crucial time came the Dutch Reformed Church did betray the Boers. Their church sold them out. Their church held them back from putting up any real resistance to the theft of their country. Why was that?
I don’t believe that the Dutch Reformed Church in its earlier days was anything but what it pretended to be, and that was a Boer institution. I don’t believe there was any long-running conspiracy in the Church to betray the Boers. But as the Boers prospered, so did the Church. The Church’s leaders became prominent men, wealthy men. Many of the Boers’ political leaders were ordained ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church. They were comfortable men, soft around the waist. They ate well and dressed well and lived well. And when the time came to make a hard choice: a choice between their people or their own comfortable positions . . . well, they made the kind of choice that comfortable people tend to make.
The situation in South Africa at the beginning of this decade was one in which White South Africans were still quite well off, despite the efforts of the New World Order crowd everywhere else to starve them into submission with a trade embargo. The country was big enough and rich enough and with a strong enough farming and industrial base so that it was able to take care of its own needs fairly well. There was no danger at all of the African National Congress or any other Black terrorist group causing any really major problems. Dealing with Black terrorists was hardly more than an ongoing training exercise for the South African military and counter-terrorist forces. What the White South Africans should have done at that time was simply expel all Blacks, terrorists or not, from South Africa — or otherwise get rid of them — reorganize themselves as an all-White country, and tell the New World Order crowd in the United States to go to hell.
They didn’t do that, for several reasons. One reason was that South Africans had let themselves become dependent on Black labor. Urban Whites couldn’t imagine life without their Black gardeners and cooks and housemaids and their Black garbage collectors and so on. They weren’t willing to do their own dirty work. On top of that, White businessmen weren’t willing to give up their cheap Black laborers and pay White wages to White workers instead. In many cases it would have meant shutting down mines or factories, at least temporarily.
And the Dutch Reformed Church had sapped the moral strength of the Boers to the point that they just couldn’t bring themselves to do what needed to be done. For at least 11 years before 1993 the Church had been back-pedaling on its racial doctrine. The Church would have made the Boers feel guilty if they had taken the hard measures against the Blacks that were called for to ensure the future of their own people. It was easy for the Blacks to contemplate massacring the Whites — the African National Congress had the slogan “one settler, one bullet” — but the Whites could no longer contemplate massacring the Blacks without feeling guilty.
The Jews, of course, were pumping their own spiritual poison into the White population through the mass media, urging them in a thousand subtle ways to surrender rather than fight. But it was betrayal by the Boer establishment — the Boer politicians and Church leaders and big businessmen — which sealed the fate of South Africa. The comfortable people wanted to stay comfortable. They didn’t want to remain cut off from the rest of the world. They didn’t want to have to tighten their belts and give up their profits and face a prolonged lean period as the New World Order tightened its sanctions on South Africa even more.
Many of them believed the lies of the Jews that things actually would get better in South Africa if the Blacks ruled and the sanctions were lifted. And so they lied to their own people and told them that if they would just go along with De Klerk’s plan of moderating apartheid, of reforming apartheid, then White rule would be maintained in South Africa. The Boer establishment — including the Boers’ church — put its own short-term interests above the welfare, even the survival, of the Boer people. Greed prevailed over racial loyalty and racial responsibility.
In this regard it’s interesting to note what the Dutch Reformed Church has been up to since 1993. If the Church’s leaders expected South Africa’s new Black rulers to be grateful to them for pushing their Boer constituents toward surrender, they badly miscalculated. So the Church has continued to try to accommodate itself to its new situation and somehow hold onto whatever it can. Actually, even before 1993 the Church had reversed its former doctrine and had told Boers that apartheid was a sin. The Boers at least had the gumption in 1994 to shoot the preacher, to shoot the former leader of their church, who was responsible for that change, but shooting just one traitor wasn’t enough, and the Church kept back-pedaling anyway. Last month, the Dutch Reformed Church tried to merge with a Black and mixed-race church in South Africa and open its membership to all races. The opposition of one of its provincial branches stopped the merger temporarily, but next month, or next year it will happen. And then the Dutch Reformed Church will have Black deacons and Black elders, just the way the Episcopal Church has Black bishops today.
And what about the other traitors? Well, F.W. De Klerk was rewarded with a Nobel Peace Prize and joined the illustrious ranks of such Peace Prize winners as Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, and Yitzhak Rabin. Other Boer politicians also received their 30 pieces of silver and are holding down sinecures in the new government.
For the big businessmen things haven’t gone so well. The horrific crime rate, together with the government’s increasingly obvious corruption and growing inefficiency, has taken a toll. White urban professionals, no longer confident that they can protect their families, have been leaving the country in droves. This brain drain has created a critical shortage of management and other key personnel in many businesses and persuaded business owners to look for opportunities elsewhere. South Africa’s Jews, in particular, after playing a key role in scuttling the country, are clearing out. Not all of them, of course. There still are some business opportunities in South Africa. Jewish organized crime groups from the former Soviet Union have been moving part of their White slave trade to South Africa. They first bring their White slaves from eastern Europe to South Africa, and then ship them off to brothels in other countries. The new South African government looks the other way.
But in general, businessmen are leaving, and last month the largest business in South Africa, the Anglo American Corporation, announced its plans to move from Johannesburg to London early next year. The Anglo American Corporation, which used to be run by Harry Oppenheimer and is still very much under the influence of the Oppenheimer family and other wealthy Jews, was the company which more than any other pushed South Africa toward Black rule. Even the Boer businessmen in the Anglo American Corporation were in favor of Black rule. All they could think about was getting the trade sanctions against South Africa lifted so they could improve their profits. They pushed other businesses into working to dismantle apartheid also. The bosses of the Anglo American Corporation told the Boer people that apartheid was old-fashioned and unprofitable and that it had to go, that everything would be much better for the Boer people without apartheid.
And now that it hasn’t worked out that way, the Anglo American Corporation is pulling out, moving to London, where the big businessmen can remain comfortable and safe, where there is no danger of their suffering the fate of the Boer farmers whom they betrayed.
So that’s what has happened in South Africa. In America the rich and the comfortable, those who are part of the religious establishment or the business establishment or the political establishment, also have shown their false colors. The politicians in America, of course, always have been the rottenest of the rotten — at least, they have been that way since the mass media fell into the hands of the Jews.
And the Christian churches here, which even 60 or 70 years ago were still bulwarks of White American society, have fallen over each other since the Second World War in their scramble to adapt their doctrines and their practices to the Jewish party line. In the 1970s and the 1980s the churches in America were at the forefront of the institutions here pushing for Black rule in South Africa.
And, although they were a little slower than the rest to come around, America’s big businessmen — and I’m talking about White businessmen, not Jews — clearly have decided that it will be more profitable for them — at least in the short run — to join the Jews instead of fighting them. There is hardly a major corporation in America which has not decided to base its business plans on a future non-White majority in America and to adjust all of its policies accordingly. The corporate bosses may vote Republican, and they may not personally relish the idea of their grandchildren living in a non-White America — but when it comes to choosing between profits now by going with the flow, or fighting for principles in the long run, the principles come second.
So what’s the lesson for White Americans in all of this? Well, the lesson is that those who prosper from treason, or who believe that they will prosper from treason, will be traitors. There will be occasional exceptions to this rule, rare exceptions, but we’d better keep the rule itself in mind and not place our hope on the rare exceptions. If we want to survive as a people, as a race, then we must make treason unprofitable. We must make the preachers and the politicians and the corporate bosses believe that there will be no profit for them in treason. There is no other way.
Well, I’ll not carry that thought any further at this time, but you think about it — and thanks for being with me again today.
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In Memoriam: Donald L. Reisig, 54th SBM President
The State Bar of Michigan mourns the loss of its 54th president, Donald L. Reisig, who died Oct. 21 at the age of 81.
A 1958 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Reisig was elected president of the State Bar of Michigan from 1988-89. He had a long and distinguished legal career in the Lansing area. He started as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Ingham County, then became Ingham County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Lansing City Attorney, Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney and a 30th Circuit Court judge. He was commonly referred to as the "boy wonder" of Ingham County politics. He also served as a visiting professor and lecturer at the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice and Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
In 1976, Reisig entered private practice with the firm Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Boughton, McIntyre and Reisig. In 1989, Governor James Blanchard asked him to serve as Michigan Director of Drug Agencies. In 1995, at the request of the American Bar Association, he served as legal liaison to the former Soviet countries Ukraine and Georgia to assist them in converting their legal systems as independent states. In 1996, he was named Director of Legal Affairs for the Central Michigan Legal Services Agency, helping indigent people obtain legal services. And finally, he served as administrator of the 30th Circuit Court's Juvenile Division, until he retired in 2007.
Reisig is survived by his wife, Carol Ann Keyes Reisig; three children, Chris Ward Reisig (Rory) of Williamston, Deborah Engstrom (Mark) of Okemos, and Charles Reisig of Tuscon, Ariz.; four grandchildren, Daniel Viaches (Laura) of Indianapolis, Ind., Matthew Viaches (Lisa) of Carmel, Ind., Kristi Viaches of New York City and Dalton Reisig of Tucson, Ariz.; stepchildren Gretchen Whitmer of East Lansing, Elizabeth Geraghty of New York, Richard Whitmer Jr. of Lansing, Kristin M. Pierce of Mason, and Kimberly M. Patterson (Joseph Titlebaum) of Port Aransas, Texas; and step-granddaughter, Lauren Pierce. Also surviving are three great-grandchildren, James, Adam and Ava.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26 at Estes Leadley Funeral Home's Greater Lansing Chapel, located at 325 W. Washtenaw St. in Lansing. His family will receive friends starting at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Eaton Community Palliative Care or the National Parkinson Foundation.
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Analysis of Curved Weathering Steel Box Girder Bridges in Fire
Bridge fires can present a severe hazard to the transportation infrastructure system. In fact, a nationwide survey by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has shown that fires have collapsed approximately three times as many bridges as earthquakes. Bridge fires are often intense as they may be fueled by gasoline from vehicles that have crashed in the vicinity of the bridge. Additionally, code recommendations and guidelines for fire protection of bridges are lax. Large fuel loads and a lack of code requirements for fire protection of bridges have left bridges quite vulnerable to fire, particularly unprotected steel bridges, which was established in recent research. The research focus has mainly been on traditional carbon steels at elevated temperatures and bridges of simple geometry such as plate girders. It is therefore necessary to expand on this research to include additional materials such as weathering steel and additional bridge geometries such as curved box girders. Weathering steel has been widely used by State DOTs for construction of steel bridges because of the maintenance cost savings. New York State DOT's preferred structural steel for bridge girders is weathering steel, and it was reported that they owned more than 1200 weathering steel bridges in 2000. 2 Weathering steel forms a protective layer of rust (patina) to prevent corrosion of the steel and only recently have the mechanical properties of weathering steel at elevated temperatures been determined. The determination of these properties allows for discussion of the behavior of weathering steels in fire. Additionally, curved box girders are often used in large highway bridge interchanges. The special geometry and loading conditions of curved box girders adds to the complexity of the bridge fire problem. The work described in this proposal is part of a larger testing program to investigate the behavior of curved weathering steel box girder bridges subject to fire loading. Phase I (to be completed as part of the proposed work) will begin with an investigation into the behavior of curved traditional (non-weathering) steel box girders subject to fire loading and Phase II (to be completed later) will expand on.
http://www.utrc2.org/research/projects/analysis-curved-weathering-steel-box
Funding: $40751.00
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TRT Terms: Box girders; Fire; Highway bridges; Mechanical properties; Steel bridges; Temperature; Weathering steel
Identifier Terms: New York State Department of Transportation
Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
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Can You File A Lawsuit For Robocalls In Arkansas?
Can You File A Lawsuit For Robocalls In Arkansas? Robocall Lawsuit 2018-11-26T16:12:20-04:00
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Just about everyone has dealt with unwanted phone calls from solicitors, debt collectors, scammers, political campaigns, and other groups. Disdain for telemarketers has been prevalent for decades, but in the computer age, these annoying calls have become worse with the use of robocalls, or automated dialing systems.
While we may be used to these harassing calls, many people may not realize that most robocalls are illegal. In fact, in the state of Arkansas and across the US, you may be eligible for either $500 or $1500 in compensation per call, depending on the circumstances.
Robocalls Are Prohibited By Federal Law
Most robocalls are prohibited by a federal law called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Under this law, automated calls from telemarketers, credit card companies, debt collectors, call centers, and other parties are illegal unless the person being called has given express written consent to receive the calls. So, if you haven't explicitly told these companies in writing that it's okay for them to call you using automated dialers, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
Congress enacted this law because they determined that unwanted robocalls are a "nuisance and invasion of privacy, regardless of the type of call." The TCPA makes it illegal for any person in the United States to make any type of phone call using an automatic dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice unless they've received express consent from the person being called.
The TCPA also prohibits telemarketers from calling residences before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., regardless of whether they're using an autodialer or not.
Arkansas State Law On Robocalls
Like many other states, there is a specific Arkansas state law regarding automated telephone calls. According to § 5-63-204:
It is unlawful for any person to use a telephone for the purpose of offering any goods or services for sale, or for conveying information regarding any goods or services for the purpose of soliciting the sale or purchase of the goods or services, or for soliciting information, gathering data, or for any other purpose in connection with a political campaign when the use involves an automated system for the selection and dialing of telephone numbers and the playing of recorded messages when a message is completed to the called number.
While state laws on robocalls may vary, citizens of all 50 states are entitled to compensation for illegal robocalls under the federal TPCA law.
Are Text Messages Illegal Too?
Yes, text messages are considered calls under the TCPA. The same rules apply - you're entitled to $500 to $1500 per unwanted text message.
How Much Money Can I Receive?
You're entitled to either $500 or $1500 in statutory per call or text message. If the court finds that the party who illegally contacted you did so in a willful or knowing manner, then this amount will be $1500 per call. Otherwise, the amount will be $500. Determining how much you may qualify for usually requires assistance from an experienced Arkansas robocall lawyer who understands how these cases work.
What If I'm On The "Do Not Call" List?
If you're on the Do Not Call list, then any call from a telemarketer or solicitor is prohibited from calling you, regardless of whether they're using an automated dialer or prerecorded message. These restrictions only apply to commercial calls. So for example, a volunteer for a political campaign is not required to check the Do Not Call list before making calls to check your voter registration status.
Taking Legal Action For Unwanted Robocalls
While you may be entitled to financial compensation for unwanted robocalls, receiving this compensation can be complicated. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) take complaints about these calls. You can report the calls to them and wait for a response, but there's no guarantee that these agencies will follow up on your complaints in a timely manner.
Filing a civil lawsuit on your own is often a much more efficient option. In order to do so, it's important to document as much as possible in relation to the calls you've received. This includes:
The dates and times that you were called
The number that called you
The phone you were called on
Details about the nature of the call (pre-recorded message, computer-generated voice, autodialer, text message, did you speak to a live person?)
The company that called you
The more information you provide, the easier it will be to build a strong case for a lawsuit.
Class Action Lawsuits For Robocalls
Robocall class action lawsuits are another option for securing financial compensation. These lawsuits have spread across the country as unwanted robocalls have spun out of control.
In one example, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was the subject of a class action lawsuit for robocalls in which his voice was used to promote a film. A federal judge levied a $32 million award to the victims of these calls.
Another example is a lawsuit over robocalls made by companies the Resort Marketing Group, Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line after unwanted calls were made telling consumers that they "qualify for a free cruise." People who received these calls from between 2009 and 2014 could make claims for up to $900.
Our Arkansas Robocall Lawyers Can Help
If you're looking to get justice after being harassed by unwanted robocalls, our Arkansas robocall lawyers can help. Get in touch with us today and learn more about your legal options in a free consultation.
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Partial Enforcement of Non-Compete Still a Risky Proposition
June 12, 2015 9:40 am / Leave a comment
Earlier this week, I wrote an article on our firm’s website about some recent developments regarding partial enforcement of restrictive covenants: New York Employers Could Soon Have More Difficulty Enforcing Restrictive Covenants. The article was primarily based upon a Fourth Department case of Brown & Brown, Inc. v. Johnson, a case that was recently argued at the New York Court of Appeals. Yesterday, the Court of Appeals decided the case. You can read the decision here.
This weekend, I will write a more extensive update about the case on our firms’ website, but there are still a few interesting takeaways to note.
Although partial enforcement under New York law was one of the issues under review, the threshold issue addressed by the Court of Appeals was whether or not to apply a Florida choice-of-law provision. The Appellate Division held that New York law should apply, and the Court of Appeals affirmed that part of the ruling. After an extensive review, comparing the laws of the two states on this issue, the Court held:
Considering Florida’s nearly-exclusive focus on the employer’s interests, prohibition against narrowly construing restrictive covenants, and refusal to consider the harm to the employee–in contrast with New York’s requirements that courts strictly construe restrictive covenants and balance the interests of the employer, employee and general public–defendants met their “‘heavy burden’ of proving that application of Florida law [to the non-solicitation provision of the parties’ agreement] would be offensive to a fundamental public policy of this State.”
There have been a number of occasions where I have reviewed non-compete agreements containing choice-of-law provisions from Florida or other more “employer-friendly” states. From now on, it seems very unlikely that such a provision would be enforced absent some significant distinguishing set of circumstances. Employers wishing to enforce restrictive covenants in New York should narrowly tailor them to meet the requirements for enforceability under New York law.
On the issue of partial enforcement, the Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Appellate Division. But, the Court did so because it believed there were issues of fact that raised questions about whether the employer engaged in overreaching or used coercive dominant bargaining power to obtain the restrictive covenant at issue. That issue was remanded back to the lower courts for further proceedings. Partial enforcement is not assured, and employers should be concerned about the apparent trend by courts to decline to partially enforce over-broad restrictive covenants.
Capicola Confidential: Secrets of the Sandwich-Maker
June 9, 2015 3:38 pm / Leave a comment
I’ve never eaten at Jimmy John’s, but they must have some incredible sandwiches, made with either top secret ingredients or through a confidential process (or both!). It turns out that this sandwich chain requires its hourly workers to sign non-compete agreements, prohibiting its employees from working for a competitor for two years(!) after leaving Jimmy John’s. I don’t know how I missed that, but it was apparently widely reported back in October, in Business Insider and the New York Times, among other publications.
According to the New York Times article, this isn’t really all that uncommon, as more and more employers are requiring low- and moderate-wage workers to sign these agreements. But, it seems to me very unlikely that these agreements would be enforceable in New York. Plus, given the expense of enforcement, it is doubtful that any employer would truly think it worth the cost of litigating these agreements. But, a low-wage under threat of litigation and unable to afford a lawyer to defend them in such an action may not know that, and feel trapped in their current job.
In New York, these agreements are more common among professionals, executives, and higher-paid salespersons with access to confidential business-related information. And, even in those situations enforcement is not a sure thing. Restrictive covenants in employment—also referred to as non-compete clauses—are generally not favored, and will be enforced by the courts only to the extent they are reasonable and necessary to protect legitimate business interests, such as the protection of an employer’s trade secrets or confidential customer lists, or protection from an employee whose services are unique or extraordinary. Courts have also held that employers have a legitimate interest in preventing former employees from exploiting the goodwill of a client or customer, which had been created and maintained at the employer’s expense, to the employer’s competitive detriment. What legitimate interest would a sandwich chain have to justify preventing one of its sandwich-makers from leaving and working for a competitor?
This may all be moot if Congress passes the Mobility and Opportunity for Vulnerable Employees (MOVE) Act (not to be confused with the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act). According to the press release issued by one of the sponsors, the legislation:
will enable low-wage workers to seek higher-paying jobs without fearing legal action from their current employer. The MOVE Act will ban the use of non-compete agreements for employees making less than $15 an hour, $31,200 per year, or the minimum wage in the employee’s municipality, and will require employers to notify prospective employees that they may be asked to sign a non-compete agreement.
According to the press release, it is estimated that 8-15% of low-wage workers are asked to sign non-compete agreements in an effort to dissuade those workers from seeking better, higher-paying jobs within the same industry. Although such agreements in these contexts may ultimately prove to be unenforceable in many jurisdictions, passage of the MOVE Act would remove any doubt with respect to these employees.
For more information about restrictive covenants and some recent developments in New York law, I invite you to read the latest posting on our firm’s website: New York Employers Could Soon Have More Difficulty Enforcing Restrictive Covenants.
© Peter J. Weishaar and Rochester Law Review, 2013-2018.
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All you need to know about Disinvestment
By divesting and making listing will also improve the corporate governance as it increases the pressure on the employees to scrutiny by investors.
Last Thursday, government announced its intention to put the disinvestment reform train back on track to unlock values of unlisted public sector units. This very reform process of UPA-II has been put on the back burner last time because of strict opposition from the Left parties, who are not in the government presently. This strategic sale is one of the largest ever plan in the disinvestment arena to unlock the value of public sector units for investors, especially retail.
By divesting and making listing will also improve the corporate governance as it increases the pressure on the employees to scrutiny by investors. Listing is proving to be a major beneficial for the companies as it gets the responsibility to be answerable to the new board after getting listed.
The government has decided to unlock value in more than 100 unlisted public sector units. By this, the government is expected to garner about Rs.250 billion annually through this process and it has instructed other listed public sector companies to come with FPO (follow on Public Offer). It has been advised to the public sector units to maintain a minimum of 10% of its holding by the public. This policy structure is the brain child of Dr. Manmohan Singh, when he was the then Finance Minister way back in 1990’s.
The government wants to divest in companies which are running profitably for the past three years with a positive net worth and no accumulated loss. A minimum of 10% of the stake of these companies will be issued in the IPO. On this announcement by the government, the Prime Minister’s EAC chairman, Mr. Rangarajan had welcomed this move as a positive step in the right direction to support capital expenditure at a time when the financial market is in a tight spot. By deploying this proceedings in the right projects currently under review by the government will be a major booster for the economy and will create asset and employment.
Through this stake sale, the government is expecting to reduce the current huge fiscal deficit which is not seen in for many generations to get reduced to an extent and relieves itself from further market borrowing. The huge fiscal deficit of almost over 10% to the GDP is putting strain on the government balance sheet. By getting such huge cash through stake sale the government can maintain its major financial measures announced in the budget.
Case study of recent listing: National Hydro Power Corporation Ltd., (NHPC)
Mr. SK Garg, the Chairman & Managing Director, of NHPC Ltd, has lauded the efforts of the government in diluting the companies share in the market which has changed the public perception on the company. It has instilled fresh enthusiasm on the employees to perform better has they are now answerable to the new board of Directors and shareholders. This has improved corporate governance. Stake holders like bankers and suppliers are taking a much improved interest in the company after listing, as it make the company to work more efficiently under public view.
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Eric Smith, Program Scientist for James Webb Telescope Program
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Dr. Eric Smith is the Program Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. He also serves as the Astrophysics Division Chief Scientist.
Previously, Dr. Smith served as the James Webb Telescope Program Director. Prior to becoming the Program Director in 2010, he was both the Webb and Hubble Program Scientist. In that role he was the senior NASA scientist responsible for the Webb science content and was also responsible for monitoring and managing the science program for both the Webb Telescope and Hubble, ensuring their missions remain viable and true to NASA strategic objectives. As Program Scientist for Webb Smith was responsible for the definition and safeguarding of the "Level 1" science requirements for Webb. These delineate the essential capabilities the observatory must possess such as primary mirror size, instrument complement, and mission lifetime.
He works with the Webb Project during the observatory’s development to keep NASA Headquarters management and external partners, both international and intergovernmental, apprised of how the developing hardware measures up against costs, schedules, and science requirements.
Before coming to NASA Headquarters he worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center on the science team for the Space Shuttle borne Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, and on the data archiving and distribution system for Hubble. He was also the Webb Deputy Project Scientist from 1996-2001.
Eric holds a B.A. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Virginia and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Targets Record Box Office With IMAX Takeover
Posted August 28th, 2015 by Ben Silverio
George Bluth used to say that there’s always money in the banana stand, but these days it seems like there’s always money in massive movie franchises with multi-generational appeal. We saw it earlier this summer with ‘Jurassic World,’ which set a record by scoring a $524.4 million global opening and $1 billion in just 13 days. However, with a return to a galaxy far, far away on the horizon, experts say that another highly anticipated sequel in a beloved film series would surpass those numbers faster than the Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run.
According to Deadline, experts predict that ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ will clock in a new record with a $615 million worldwide opening when the long-awaited follow-up to ‘Return of the Jedi’ hits theaters this winter. It may even surpass the record time set by ‘Jurassic World’ as the fastest film to reach $1 billion. But the estimated $300 million domestic and $315 million international box office numbers should come easily thanks to a surprising deal with IMAX.
The Hollywood Reporter shared that J.J. Abrams’ upcoming blockbuster will play on all of IMAX’s large-format screens in North America and most of its foreign screens for a whole month starting on December 18th. That means that ‘Episode VII’ is expected to open on 375 to 400 screens domestically and more than 400 abroad in chains like Regal, AMC, and Cinemark, as well as museums and other non-theater screens that have previously played other major Hollywood features like ‘Gravity’ and ‘Interstellar’.
Though this may be an unusual move, it isn’t an unprecedented one. All three movies in ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy had similar runs, but it’s not exactly a common practice to keep a film on IMAX screens for such a long period of time. And of course this will affect other releases coming out around that time as well. Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ starring Chris Hemsworth will only be given a one-week IMAX run. Then, Alejandro González Iñárritu is set to follow up the award-winning ‘Birdman’ with ‘The Revenant’ featuring Leonardo DiCaprio on January 8th. However, it shouldn’t suffer too much since it premieres towards the end of third of four weeks of ‘The Force Awakens’.
What do you think about the extended IMAX run for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’? Do you think that those sales will propel the film’s box office earnings to $600 million and beyond in record time? Let us know in the comments.
Ben Silverio
Ben F. Silverio received a degree from Drexel University in the Screenwriting and Playwriting Program with a minor in Television Production. While at Drexel, Ben co-founded and co-hosted a film review show called The Pretentious Film Majors, which has evolved into a multi-format form of entertainment including blogs, podcasts on iTunes, articles in the school paper, and a potential tv show. Now armed with an extremely expensive piece of paper, Ben can begin climbing the treacherous ladder of the entertainment industry, which he hopes to do while streaming WWE wrestling matches, reading Marvel comics, and blogging about the excessive amount of movies and tv shows that he watches, all on the iPhone that is permanently attached to his hand.
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June 12, 2017 by Scott William Foley
The Mummy – A Movie Review
I’m a sucker for the old Universal movie monsters. I love them all. When I heard Universal wanted to get into the shared universe game with their classic horror characters, I howled in delight. They’re calling it Dark Universe and plan to release new, connected films featuring the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Van Helsing, Wolf Man, Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Dracula, the Invisible Man, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the Phantom of the Opera.
Their first outing? The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise.
I had very serious concerns walking into The Mummy because it was not doing well at all on Rotten Tomatoes. I tend not to put too much stock in reviews if I want to see the movie badly enough, but my concern regarded the future of my other Dark Universe movies. I worried that if The Mummy floundered, Universal would abandon the Dark Universe initiative and I wouldn’t get to see my Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Bride of Frankenstein. After all, this is exactly what happened with King Arthur: Legend Of the Sword. (Yes, I’m still made about that.)
So here’s the thing, I saw it with three other guys, and we all liked it for various reasons. Is it the greatest movie ever made? No, not by a long shot. But, it seemed like they put a lot of effort into it, Tom Cruise delivered a likable character, the special effects were cool, the action was great, and the movie generally entertained. Yeah, there were a few plot holes. Sure, parts of it we’ve seen before. It even got a little confused at times as to whether it wanted to be a horror movie, a buddy action comedy, or a romance. And the ending, well, somehow the ending came off both clichéd and vague.
But, like I said, it entertained throughout. There were all kinds of visual hints and references to the other Universal monsters, and it actually had us chuckling more than we expected. I would definitely consider it far more of an action thriller than a horror movie. Cruise had great chemistry with his wingman in the film, Jake Johnson.
Tom Cruise played a man who is mostly a decent guy, but he’s also a little egocentric, a little bit of a thief, a little blockheaded, and, for quite a bit of the movie, very confused. But, Cruise pulls all of this off with his usual charm and charisma. And while there’s plenty of action, I wouldn’t call Cruise an action hero in this one. He’s more often than not the victim of action and just trying to survive.
It was also a lot of fun to see Russell Crowe hamming it up as Dr. Jekyll. He will supposedly be the connecting link between all Dark Universe films, and, like Cruise, he is a generally magnetic actor. If you’re hoping for a Mr. Hyde appearance, by the way, you won’t be disappointed. Of course, the transformation didn’t make a whole lot of sense. We cracked a few jokes after the film about how he really needs to get one of the timers a lot of older folks use with their medicine, but that’s okay.
Actually, that’s my mantra for The Mummy — “That’s okay.” I wasn’t expecting much, and it lived up to my expectations. Were the female roles a little bland and shallow? Yes. Did the story itself never quite come together organically? Yep. Did parts of the movie look like they had been snatched right out of other films? Absolutely. Did the ending leave us generally confused? Definitely.
But, even having said all of that, we had a great time. We had fun. Fun. Let’s not disregard the importance of that word. Sometimes we want to just go see a monster movie and have some fun. That’s okay.
This entry was posted in Movie Reviews and tagged arts, dark universe, entertainment, film, jake johnson, movie, movie monsters, movie review, Russell Crowe, the mummy, tom cruise, universal.
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The Shannara Chronicles: Every Druid Needs a Successor
by David Griffin
in TV Reviews, TV News
[This is a review of The Shannara Chronicles season 1, episode 8. There will be SPOILERS.]
The Shannara Chronicles proves that not all places are as they seem in this week's adventure, entitled 'Utopia'. Eretria finally embraces her destiny when Wil and Amberle show up in the nick of time.
'Utopia' may be the best episode since the series premiere almost two months ago. It's difficult to say if Shannara has matured as a series since its conception, but the episodes do have a more stable rhythm, making them easily digestible. Perhaps guilty pleasure is the right word to use when describing this drama since it lacks the subtlety and ambiguity of its more "prestigious" piers, like Fargo and Better Call Saul.
That was not meant to dig at Shannara, since MTV and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville) are clearly trying to reach a different demographic. This is still a series that's a lot of fun even if everything is on the surface. Eretria's encounter with the charismatic leader of Utopia made for some interesting drama, as the young rover had a difficult decision ahead of her. The question Tye brought to her attention made sense. Both paths in front of her were a kind of slavery. One meant being a slave to Tye and the other to destiny. Deciding which of these paths to follow on her own would truly make her free.
Ivana Baquero gave her best performance yet, as she had to make us believe that she might actually leave the quest, or die in the process. Going back to everything being surface level on this show, there was little doubt that Eretria would end up joining Wil and Amberle, but Baquero sold the dilemma as best she could with the material given. The young Spanish-born actress has come a long way since playing little Ophelia in Pan's Labyrinth, so let's hope that this is a sign of better things to come.
Tye was a solid villain, possessing both the charm and craziness factor that made him watchable. In a world where Trolls, Gnomes and Elf Hunters can kill you at anytime, doesn't watching old Star Trek episodes and dancing the night away sound like a better alternative? It sure does, well if you're into sacrificing innocent lives to a Troll every now and again it's all good. It was also nice seeing old human technology being used. Eretria is a good shot and it will be interesting to see what other "ancient" contraptions the group will come across in the future.
Back in the elven kingdom, Ander finally accepts his role as king. With two dead brothers you can't blame the young prince for getting a little depressed and turning to drink. Thankfully, Allanon was there to provide Ander with a little wisdom before he threw it all away. After overcoming so much adversity, Ander should make a good ruler - but what his role will be in the larger scheme of things is still unclear.
There are only two more episodes left this season. What do you think of the journey so far? Keep watching to see what happens next.
The Shannara Chronicles continue with 'Safehold' next Tuesday @10pm on MTV. Check out a preview below:
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Legends of Tomorrow season 3 release date
Are you waiting fof Legends of Tomorrow season 3? The CW renewed the show for a third season. What about the release date in 2017?
Looking for Legends of Tomorrow season 3 release date? Season 3 of the series will be happening (The CW has confirmed).
True fans of the series Legends of Tomorrow have already known that in the fall 2017 on The CW will be premiere of new episodes. For everyone else, we inform that the show is renewed for a third season, and again has received a place in the television broadcast.
Also note that the new episodes are created for projects such as Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl, so superheroes on The CW in the 2017/18 season will be a lot. Currently, the series has a high rating and more than 2 million viewers who watch the new episodes weekly. These figures simply do not give the right the creators to stop the development, say experts.
Seeing the future, which necessarily should be avoided, the time traveler Rip Hunter gets together a team of heroes and villains to confront a deadly threat. At stake there is not only our planet, but all the time in general.
Legends of Tomorrow season 3 release date – [October 10, 2017] (9 pm)
Can this team win the immortal evil, absolutely dissimilar to what they have seen before?
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GREAT SERIES! Thanks The CW for renewal
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LASG unveils cyber security toolkit for small businesses
The Lagos State Government have announced the introduction of a cyber security toolkit for small business, a free online resource that small businesses can use to significantly reduce their cyber risk and curtail incidences of cybercrime.
The toolkit which is a joint effort between the State Ministry of Justice and the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), is an international, cross-sector effort dedicated to eradicating cyber risk and improving the connected world, while the toolkit also provides real-world tools and clear directions for taking immediate action for reducing cyber risk at a time when the need for such resources has never been greater.
Speaking at the launch of the toolkit, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem (SAN) described the toolkit as a great asset to small businesses, saying that the development would go a long way to tackle the menace of cybercrimes.
According to him, “The major driving force for the deployment of the cyber security toolkit for small businesses in Lagos State is its apparent potential to reduce cybercrime which in-turn has a significant impact on our collective gains as a Ministry that focuses on creating a crime free society.
“The nature of cybercrime goes beyond national boundaries; hence, there is need for international initiative and concerted trans-border joint actions in fighting cybercrime and also providing bulwarks against its perpetration.
“To further its cyber security efforts, the Lagos State Ministry of Justice joined GCA as a partner in support of its mission to eradicate global cyber risk. Small businesses are the lifeblood of a community and provide all manner of essential services and support to individuals, enterprise businesses and government. Even though a business may be small, when it comes to cybercrime the risks are great.”
Kazeem added that the toolkit, which would be regularly updated with input from users, industry experts and public and private partners across the globe, was developed in partnership with Mastercard, while the Global Cyber Alliance also partnered with several additional organizations to create the GCA cyber security toolkit, including the Center for Internet Security, the Cyber Readiness Institute, the City of London and the City of New York.
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He said as a thriving State, which encourages inward investment and also supports indigenous Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which are vulnerable to cybercrime, the initiative was appropriate and timely to the State, assuring that government would further collaborate with relevant stakeholders to make deepen access to the toolkit.
“The Lagos State Government will encourage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the business community and regulatory bodies to embrace this cybercrime toolkit for small business as a formidable initiative in fighting cybercrimes and related offences.
“To access the GCA Cybersecurity Toolkit, visithttps://gcatoolkit.org/smallbusiness or the website of Lagos State Ministry of Justicewww.lagosministryofjustice.org for a redirection to the GCA Website. The Lagos State Ministry of Justice and the GCA will also be conducting a series of webinars on how to protect your business from cybercrime,” Kazeem said.
At the earlier launch of the toolkit, which took place in New York and London on the 19th February 2019, in reiterating the importance of cybersecurity, City of London Police Commissioner Ian Dyson had said: “As the national lead force for fraud and a founding member of the Global Cyber Alliance, we are always pleased to see new initiatives that will assist businesses in improving their cyber security.
“Businesses lost £6.7 million as a result of social media and email accounts being compromised between April and September 2018.
It’s therefore essential that we, as a force, continue to work closely with businesses as well as the organisations that serve to protect them.”
According to Cyrus Vance, Jr., Manhattan District Attorney, “When we launched the Global Cyber Alliance, we set out to empower organizations of all sizes with the tools they need to prevent cybercrime.
“The Global Cyber Alliance’s free Cybersecurity Toolkit provides small- and medium-sized businesses with immediate, concrete steps to protect their companies and customers against crippling cyberattacks, and I thank each of the public and private partners who contributed their world-class expertise.”
On his part, President and CEO of Global Cyber Alliance, Philip Reitinger, said the significant difference between the firm’s Cybersecurity Toolkit and those of others was the fact that it is an action kit, adding that the focus was on protecting small businesses.
“Our focus is on producing a dynamic clearinghouse of operational tools that help small and medium businesses address risk and improve their cyber security posture, leveraging the deep expertise of our network of global partners, such as Mastercard, and the experiences of actual GCA toolkit users,” Reitinger said.
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow – Ronnie & the Prophets (Gerry Goffin, 1939-2014)
Gerry Goffin, lyricist, died on Thursday. He was 75. With his first wife, Carole King, Goffin co-wrote some of the finest popular songs of all time: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Natural Woman, Up on the Roof, Wasn’t Born to Follow, and many more. As such, he was one of the key architects of pre-Beatles pop.
Plenty of people have sung Will You Love Me Tomorrow, and the song has proven adaptable to any number of treatments: the Shirelles’ original paired Shirley Owens’s vulnerable vocal with a perky backing track; Carole King’s own version pared it down to piano and vocal; Dave Mason from Traffic layered phased acoustic guitars and organ over a half-time feel; the Four Seasons’ take on the song is quite, quite mad (diminished chords, incredibly ornate harmonies, electric sitar, verses consisting of single bass notes/bass drum, with a cavernous echo); Laura Branigan’s went for melodrama, taking it even more slowly than King did on Tapestry and underpinning her skyscraping vocal with 1980s synth pad and slightly ersatz gospel piano. I could go on
All of these recordings have their merits. The song is damn near indestructible, after all, and contains maybe the best lyric Gerry Goffin ever wrote. But none of them have what I think of as the song’s ideal arrangement. Shirley Owens’s vocal is certainly one of the best, but the emotion of her performance is undercut by the sha-la-las and the bouncy piano and drums. King sang her own song already knowing it was a classic, and it shows; the tempo is on the draggy side of stately and, being blunt, her voice was never up to the task. Mason is somewhat oleaginous, although his arrangement (half-time verse, double-time bridge) was definitely on to something.
So whose version to listen to, if you only have room in your life for one?
Maybe Ronnie James Dio’s?
Don’t laugh.
Ronnie James Dio, heavy-metal vocalist known for popularising the devil-horns hand gesture, lead singer of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, began his career in music in the 1950s as a trumpeter, then a doo-wop singer with a buttery tenor. One of the best-known yarlers in the business, Dio was capable of singing beautifully if the mood took him, and when he sang Will You Love Me Tomorrow in 1962 with his band Ronnie & the Prophets, he sang it about it as well as anyone ever has. It’s a simple recording, not much more than a demo, but stripping down the arrangement of the Shirelles’ original gave the vocal more space (without having to slow the tempo) and allowed the words to resonate. In response, Dio delivered a quite lovely performance. I would really love to have a high-quality version of it, as the one I have sounds like it’s been taken straight from an acetate, or at best a much-played 7-inch. Just don’t think of the Holy Diver video while listening to it, or it’ll spoil the effect somewhat.
Ronnie James Dio and his Prophets
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Focus on ... karate
Team GB star Amy Connell on the role models who inspire her
European bronze medallist Amy Connell has made history by becoming Scotland's first karate player to be selected to Team GB for a major multi-sport event.
Amy is preparing to compete at the 2019 European Games in Minsk three months after winning her first senior European medal in the -55kg category in Guadalajara, Spain.
This could lead to qualification to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where karate is on the programme for the first time.
Amy, 25, tells Sport First about her lifelong journey in sport, her role models and her ambitions.
How and when did you get started in karate?
I have been doing karate since I was about three years old. My dad, Terry, teaches karate that is how I got into the sport and it has been a growing passion ever since.
How have you been able to balance your sport with education and work commitments?
Finding a good balance between training and studies and a work/life balance is challenging but I believe when you love what you do, you will find a way to make it work for you.
I fitted my training schedule alongside my sport science degree at Strathclyde University for four years and I started my own online business, which now allows me to travel and support my training and competing around the world.
Who are your role models in sport and in life?
One of my biggest role models throughout both my sporting career and my life has been my big sister Stephanie. She was part of the Scotland national team when I was growing up and has played a huge role in inspiring me to become the person I am today.
My biggest sporting role model is Serena Williams. I love everything she stands for, she is such a strong influence for woman in sport.
How does it feel to be seen as a role model to young karate players?
It is such a privilege. Sport karate is starting to become a lot more popular and it’s great to be seen as one of the top females paving the way for so many young people.
I have had the pleasure of going into schools and sharing my story with children across Scotland and I hope my sporting journey will inspire the younger generation to follow their own goals and dreams. The support provided by sportscotland to the Scottish Karate Governing Body (SKGB) is invaluable in the development of our sport across the country.
What are your goals for the 2019 European Games?
My goal for the European Games is to go out and perform at my best, bringing home a gold medal for Team GB.
What are your goals for the future?
My current goals are to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020 and to win the World Championships next year in Dubai.
What do you see as the main benefits of sport and physical exercise?
I think sport and physical exercise have so many benefits. Physical exercise in general helps people build all-round strength, flexibility and power leading them to a healthier life and it also has huge mental benefits of decreasing anxiety and depression.
When it comes to sport in particular there is the added benefit of the social environment it creates, which is great for meeting people. It teaches you about success and failure, goal setting and overall bettering your own mindset and positive mental attitude.
How do you feel about representing your country on the world stage?
It is a huge honour to be representing my country at such a big multi-sport event. As a little girl it was always a dream that I had and to be where we are today in this position I am so proud. I know this is just the beginning.
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The Vieux-Port Steakhouse, well-known for its pepper steak, lobster, and other fresh seafood, is an ideal venue for meetings, cocktail parties and corporate banquets. Situated in the heart of Old Montréal in a historical building, the restaurant offers dining rooms with a classic, warm and welcoming atmosphere, along with high-speed wireless Internet access and projection screens. The Vieux-Port Steakhouse can accommodate up to 1,000 people. The outdoor patio, a charming refuge featuring stone walls adorned with beautiful ivy, is intimate yet spacious, and can accommodate up to 250 people.
Romain Vignal
Title: Director, Corporate Events Sales
Email: rvignal@experienceoldmontreal.com
Sale email: rvignal@experienceoldmontreal.com
Sale phone number: 514-788-4085
Capacity of the largest private room: 1000
Group capacity: 600
Fri, Sat, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sun, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Lunch Table d’hôte served until 3 p.m. during weekdays. Brunch: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
39 Saint-Paul Street East
Montréal, QC H2Y 1G2
info@vpsteak.com
© Groupe Antonopoulos
Near Vieux-Port Steakhouse
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