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The Amusements Act
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C.C.S.M. c. A70
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
1 In this Act,
"amusement" means any contest, dance, entertainment, exhibition, game, performance, program, or show; (« divertissement »)
"amusement park" means a tract of land used as a temporary or permanent location for amusement rides; (« parc de divertissement »)
"amusement ride" means a device or combination of devices designed or intended to entertain or amuse people by physically moving them; (« manège »)
"board" means The Manitoba Film Classification Board appointed under this Act; (« Commission »)
"distribute" includes distribution to the public for home use, and to other distributors; (« distribution »)
"film" means a cinematographic film, a pre-recorded videotape, a pre-recorded digital video disc, a video game and any other medium specified in the regulations from which moving visual images may be produced; (« film »)
"film exchange" means any premises, room, place, house, hall, tent, building or structure of any kind where films or slides are stored, distributed, sold, leased, supplied, displayed, advertised, exhibited or presented; (« centre d'approvisionnement en films »)
"licence" means a licence issued pursuant to and for the purposes of this Act, and "licensee" means the holder of such a licence; (« permis »)
"minister" means
(a) under Part II, the member of the Executive Council charged by the Lieutenant Governor in Council with the administration of Part II, and
(b) under Parts III to X, the member of the Executive Council charged by the Lieutenant Governor in Council with the administration of those Parts; (« ministre »)
"owner" means any person operating, conducting or managing an amusement, place of amusement or film exchange, and includes the employee, manager, lessee, transferee or partner of an owner; (« propriétaire »)
"person" includes a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, trustee, joint venture, film exchange, and any association of persons whatsoever; (« personne »)
"place of amusement" means any building, place, premises, room or tent where an amusement is given, held, played or takes place for which a price of admission is charged or collected, whether within the premises or elsewhere, in cash or by means of tickets, by voluntary contribution or otherwise for all or any of the persons admitted thereto; and without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes
(a) a theatre, opera house, moving picture theatre, travelling picture show, open air theatre, amusement hall, music hall, or concert hall,
(b) a dance hall, dance pavilion or hotel, restaurant, or cafe in which facilities are supplied and used for public dancing,
(c) a circus, menagerie, midway, carnival show, grand stand, race track, race course, or pari-mutuel machine,
(d) a hockey rink, toboggan slide, roller coaster, or other riding device, or the park, field, or grounds used for athletics, baseball, football, or other outdoor games,
(e) a hall or grounds used for a combative sports contest, including a boxing or wrestling contest,
but does not include
(f) a school, college, or church, or
(g) a building owned or leased by, and operated by, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, or Young Men's Hebrew Association, or
(h) a building or hall operated or used for public concerts, plays, shows, dances, social gatherings, and athletic or sporting exercises, exhibitions, or contests, and other forms of amusement, and owned
(i) by a municipality, or
(ii) by the board of trustees of a school division, school district, or a school area, or
(iii) by a neighbourhood or local community organization or association;
unless, at the time the amusement is given, held, played, or takes place, the school, college, church, building, or hall, is leased or rented to any other person, corporation, association, society, or organization and occupied or used, at that time, by the lessee or tenant for the purpose of the giving, holding, playing, or taking place of the amusement; (« lieu de divertissement »)
"proprietary right" includes an interest or right acquired by virtue of a lease or co-partnership agreement, or any agreement of any kind, including an agreement authorizing the right to use or show any film; (« droit de propriété »)
"slide" means any stationary picture, slide, or other similar device for use in conjunction with a cinematograph and includes an advertising slide; (« diapositive »)
"theatre" means any theatre, opera house, concert hall, or any premises, room, place, house, hall, tent, building or structure of any kind, kept or used for public performance of tragedy, drama, comedy, farce, opera, burlesque, pantomime, vaudeville or any entertainment of the stage whatsoever, and includes any premises, room, place, house, hall, tent, building or structure of any kind to which the public is admitted where any cinematograph moving picture machine or other similar apparatus is operated. (« théâtre »)
"video game" means an object or device that
(a) stores recorded data or instructions,
(b) receives data or instructions generated by a user, and
(c) by processing the data or instructions, creates an interactive game capable of being played, viewed or experienced on or through a computer, gaming system, console or other technology,
but does not include any class of video games specified in the regulations. (« jeu vidéo »)
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 2; S.M. 1992, c. 17, s. 2; S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 2; S.M. 2015, c. 32, s. 16.
2 to 6 [Repealed]
S.M. 1992, c. 17, s. 4.
Amusement ride to be safe
7(1) No person shall, either by himself or herself or by an agent, operate or cause to be operated for profit or reward, an amusement ride unless
(a) he or she notifies the Minister of Family Services and Labour in writing, not less than three days prior to the date on which he or she intends to operate the amusement ride, of the date, place and duration of the ride; and
(b) the amusement ride is reasonably safe for participation therein by the public.
Inspection of amusement ride
7(2) Any inspector from the Department of Family Services and Labour may enter an amusement park where an amusement ride is being operated and carry out such examinations of the ride as in his or her opinion is necessary to ascertain whether or not the amusement ride is safe within the meaning of subsection (1).
Issuance of certificate of safety
7(3) Where after an inspection under subsection (2) an inspector finds that the amusement ride is reasonably safe for participation therein by the public, he or she may issue a certificate to that effect to the owner or operator of the amusement ride.
Certain powers of inspector
7(4) Where after an inspection under subsection (2) an inspector finds or is of the opinion that the amusement ride is unsafe for participation therein by the public, the inspector
(a) may require the operator thereof to take such measures or do such things as the inspector considers necessary to make the amusement ride safe; or
(b) shall, where he or she is of the opinion that the amusement ride cannot be rendered safe by reasonable repairs or alterations thereto, order the operator to cease to operate that amusement ride.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 3; S.M. 2001, c. 43, s. 32; S.M. 2012, c. 40, s. 49.
Inspection fee
8 Every person who operates an amusement ride, shall pay to the inspector who carries out the inspection of the amusement ride under section 7 such fees as may be prescribed by regulations.
9(1) Any person
(a) who continues to operate an amusement ride after it is found to be unsafe by an inspector under subsection 7(2); or
(b) who fails to notify the Minister of Family Services and Labour in accordance with clause 7(1)(a); or
(c) refuses, fails or neglects to comply with an order, directive or requirement of an inspector under subsection 7(4); or
(d) obstructs, hinders or prevents an inspector from carrying out an inspection under subsection 7(2); or
(e) fails or refuses to pay an inspection fee as required under section 8;
is guilty of an offence, and subject to subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500.
Continuing offence
9(2) Where a person is found guilty of an offence under clause (1)(a), (b) or (c), the person is guilty of a separate offence for every day that the offence continues.
Exemption from civil liability
10 Where a person suffers any injury resulting from the participation by that person in an amusement ride that has been certified as being safe under subsection 7(3), neither the inspector nor the Crown in right of Manitoba is liable to that person for the injury suffered unless the inspector was negligent in his or her inspection of the amusement ride.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 5.
11 The purposes of this Part and the following Parts of this Act are
(a) to provide a comprehensive procedure for the classification and regulation of films; and
(b) to provide for the dissemination of information to residents of the province concerning the nature and content of films.
Conflict between Act and other instruments
12 Where there is a conflict between the provisions of this Act and any licence, permit, agreement or other instrument or document, whenever made or executed, the provisions of this Act shall prevail.
Contracts void
13 Any contract made or containing a provision in contravention of this Act is void.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MANITOBA FILM CLASSIFICATION BOARD
Establishment of board
14 There is hereby established a board to be known as "The Manitoba Film Classification Board" composed of not fewer than 16 members to be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
Full or part-time
15 A member may be appointed to the board on a full or part-time basis.
Term of office
16 Unless a member sooner dies, resigns, or is removed from office, each member shall serve for such period as is specified in the order by which the member is appointed and thereafter until a successor is appointed.
Presiding and deputy presiding member
17 The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall designate one of the members of the board as the presiding member of the board and another member as the deputy presiding member of the board.
Remuneration and expenses
18 The presiding member, deputy presiding member and each other member of the board shall be paid such remuneration as may be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council and in addition each member may be paid such reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the member in the performance of duties as a member of the board, as may be approved by the minister.
Validity of acts where a vacancy exists
19 Any vacancy in the membership of the board does not affect the validity of any act or thing done by or in the name of the board.
Appointment of employees
20 Such employees, as may be necessary to enable the board to perform its duties and functions and to exercise its powers, may be appointed as provided in The Civil Service Act; and the minister may designate employees and such other persons as he or she deems proper as inspectors under this Part, who shall enforce this Act, other than Part II, and the regulations other than those under that Part.
Liability of members
21 Members of the board and its employees and persons acting under the instructions of the board or under the authority of this Act or the regulations, are not personally liable for any loss or damage suffered by any person by reason of anything in good faith done, caused, permitted or authorized to be done, or omitted to be done, by them, pursuant to, or in exercise of, or supposed exercise of, the powers given by this Act or the regulations.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD
General powers and duties
22 The board shall perform the duties and functions, and may exercise the powers, imposed upon or granted to it under this Act, or any other Act of the Legislature, and it shall discharge, perform and carry out such other duties and functions as may from time to time be assigned to it by the Lieutenant Governor in Council or by the minister.
Specific powers and duties
23 Without restricting the generality of section 22, the board may, for the purposes of this Act
(a) administer and enforce this Act and the regulations;
(b) carry out surveys and research programs, and obtain statistics for the purposes of the board;
(c) make regulations respecting forms and the contents thereof for use under this Act;
(d) take such measures, provide such services, disseminate such information, undertake such projects and programs and do all such like things as it may deem advisable in the attainment of the purposes of this Act;
(e) upon application made to it, furnish an applicant therefor with a ruling as to whether or not a proposed or existing action or circumstance would be or is contrary to this Act;
(f) except for the purposes of subsections 25(1) and 31(6) and section 35 extend the time limited for the doing of any act or thing;
(g) in accordance with any regulations made under clause 53(a), classify film by doing one or more of the following:
(i) viewing the film,
(ii) reviewing documentation or other information describing the content of the film,
(iii) adopting a classification of a film or a class of films established by another person or body;
(g.1) if the board has adopted a classification established by another person or body, review that classification at any time and either
(i) confirm the classification, or
(ii) rescind the classification and classify the film in accordance with the regulations without reference to the classification established by the other person or body;
(h) receive and expeditiously investigate, or refer to an appropriate body for investigation, complaints made to it with respect to films, licensees, or the enforcement or operation of this Act, and forthwith report its findings and recommendations to such persons as the board may deem advisable including the complainant and the respondent;
(i) govern, by regulation, the advertising of film;
(j) [repealed] S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 3.
(k) issue, suspend, revoke and otherwise deal with licences in accordance with the regulations; and
(l) govern by regulation the distribution, exhibition and presentation of film.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 7; S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 3.
Exemptions from Act
24 Where the board is of the opinion that the public interest will not be injuriously affected thereby, the board may on application or on its own initiative and subject to such terms and conditions as it may impose, by regulation exempt a person, class of persons, film or class of films from all or any part of this Act and from all or any part of the regulations made by the board pursuant to this Act.
25(1) The board shall transmit in each year to the minister a report on its operations for the fiscal year ending March 31 of that year.
Report to legislature
25(2) The minister shall forthwith table the report in the Legislature if it is then in session, and if it is not in session, within 15 days after the opening of the next ensuing session of the Legislature.
26 Subject to the provisions of The Archives and Recordkeeping Act, the board shall
(a) keep or cause to be kept a record of all applications and proceedings filed with or heard and determined by the board or a member or panel thereof;
(b) keep or cause to be kept and issue upon request and payment of such fees as may be fixed by the board, certified copies of any order or rule made by the board;
(c) have the custody and care of all records and documents filed with the board.
S.M. 2001, c. 35, s. 32.
Obtaining copy of record of classification
27 Upon payment of the fee prescribed by the regulations, any person may obtain a copy of the record of classification of a film which has been classified by the board pursuant to this Act.
28 The board may constitute from its members such panels or committees, and may assign to each panel or committee such duties and functions, as the board may find necessary for the purposes of this Act, and each such panel or committee, when so constituted, has all the powers of the board necessary to carry out those duties and functions.
29 Any document required to be served upon the board shall be served upon the presiding member, or the deputy presiding member, or as the board may by regulation otherwise provide.
30 Subject to the provisions of this Part and the regulations, the board may make rules respecting the practice and procedure and the business of the board.
General principles with respect to licences
31(1) In this section "party" means, with respect to a licence only
(a) a person who has applied for or requested the exercise of a power or the doing of any act or thing in connection with the exercise of a power;
(b) a person who has made known to the board an intention to oppose or object to the exercise of a power or the doing of any act or thing in connection with the exercise of a power;
(c) a person who has made known to the board an intention to support an application or request for the exercise of a power or the doing of any act or thing in connection with the exercise of a power.
31(2) Where an application is made to the board, or where the board on its own initiative proposes to exercise a power, the board shall give notice to all parties indicating when and where evidence and submissions relative to the application or the proposed exercise of the power may be submitted.
Right to submit evidence
31(3) Before the board refuses an application of a party or exercises a power in a manner that adversely affects a party
(a) it shall give the party an opportunity to submit evidence or submissions relative to the application or the exercise of the power and to cross-examine any witness whose evidence has been submitted by any other party;
(b) where the board has received any evidence, submission or allegation relative to the application or the exercise of the power and contrary to the interest of the party, other than at a hearing of which the party had notice and at which the party was entitled to attend, it shall, subject to the regulations, inform the party of that evidence, submission or allegation in sufficient detail to permit an understanding of it and afford an opportunity of contradicting, answering or explaining it; and
(c) it shall give the party an adequate opportunity of making representations by way of argument to the board.
Right to counsel
31(4) A party to any proceeding before the board may be represented by counsel at the proceeding; and the counsel has the same rights to submit evidence and submissions and to cross-examine witnesses as the party represented.
Request for statement
31(5) Where the board exercises a power so as to affect a party adversely, that party may
(a) within two weeks from the date of the publication of the order or decision by which the power was exercised; or
(b) within two weeks from the date on which the party was notified of the order or decision by which the power was exercised;
whichever date is the earlier, request the board in writing to furnish a written statement of its order or decision setting out the finding of fact upon which it based its order or decision and the reasons for the order or decision.
Reply within four weeks
31(6) Where the board receives a request under subsection (5), it shall furnish the party with the written statement requested within four weeks from the date on which it receives the request.
Extension of time for appeal
31(7) Where, within the time for appeal prescribed by subsection 39(2), a request for a statement is made under subsection (5), the time for appeal is extended by a period equal in length to the period commencing on the date on which the board received the request and ending seven days after the date on which the statement is furnished to the party making the request.
Right to cross-examine
31(8) Where a person has submitted evidence or a submission in any proceeding before the board, any party to the proceeding adversely affected by that evidence or submision may request that person to submit to cross-examination.
Failure to submit to cross-examination
31(9) Where a person fails to comply with a request for cross-examination the board may ignore any evidence or submission submitted by such person in the proceeding in respect of which the request for cross-examination was made.
Application of section
31(10) This section applies only to
(a) the refusal of an application for a licence; or
(b) the refusal of an application for the renewal of a licence; or
(c) the exercise of a power by the board that adversely affects a party.
Rules of evidence
32 The board is not bound by the technical rules of evidence but nothing is admissible in evidence at a hearing relating to the issuance, cancellation or suspension of a licence
(a) that would be inadmissible in the Court of Queen's Bench by reason of any privilege under the law of evidence; or
(b) that is inadmissible by reason of any provision of this or any other Act.
33 The board may take notice of a general, technical or scientific fact lying within its specialized knowledge and upon which it intends to rely, provided however that it shall first have provided the parties before it with a reasonable opportunity to contest it.
S.M. 1989-90, c. 91, s. 1.
34 The board shall, prior to any hearing, disclose to the parties all material evidence in its possession.
Notice of decision
35 The board shall, within four weeks of receipt of any application for classification of film, give notice of its decision to the applicant, stating the reasons for such decision.
36 The board may, upon application based upon facts not previously known to the board, or of its own initiative, review, rescind, or vary any decision or order made by it.
37 For the purposes of this Part, except in section 38, "board" includes any person to whom a delegation of powers or duties has been made pursuant to the regulations.
Appeals from inspector
38 Any person affected by an act or decision of an inspector may appeal to the board in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.
Appeal to Queen's Bench
39(1) Any person affected by a decision or order of the board, other than a decision or order with respect to the classification of a film, may appeal such decision or order to the Court of Queen's Bench upon the ground that the board
(a) failed to observe a principle of natural justice or otherwise acted beyond or refused to exercise its jurisdiction; or
(b) erred in law in making its decision or order, whether or not the error appears on the face of the record.
Time for appeal
39(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection 31(7), an appeal of a decision or order of the board, shall be made within 30 days from the date on which the decision or order is made, or within such further time, not exceeding 30 days, as a judge of the court may on application, allow.
Stay of operation
39(3) The taking of an appeal under subsection (1) does not stay the operation of the decision or order appealed against, but a judge of the court may
(a) stay the operation thereof;
(b) prescribe terms and conditions to which the stay may be subject; and
(c) make such interim order as may be necessary to give effect to the purposes of this Act and as to the judge seems just.
Decision final
39(4) The decision of the court is final and binding and there is no appeal therefrom.
40 The costs of the appeal are in the discretion of the court, and the court may make an order respecting costs in favour of or against the board.
Appeal of classification
41(1) An appeal lies from any decision or order of the board classifying a film, and for that purpose the minister may appoint an appeal board consisting of not less than five persons, who are not members of the board, and who shall act upon and decide the appeal in accordance with the provisions of the regulations.
Time for appeal of classification
41(2) An appeal shall be made within 30 days from the date upon which the party appealing receives notice of the decision or order, or within such further time, not exceeding 30 days, as the appeal board may allow.
42(1) Except where otherwise provided by this Act or the regulations, no person shall possess, store, distribute, sell, lease, supply, display, advertise, exhibit or present any film unless
(a) the film has been classified pursuant to the provisions of this Act;
(b) the person is the holder of a licence issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act;
(c) the classification and licence are in good standing and have not been suspended or revoked; and
(d) all fees have been paid as required by the regulations.
Application for classification and licence
42(2) Except where otherwise provided by this Act or the regulations, every person who intends to possess, store, distribute, sell, lease, supply, display, advertise, exhibit or present any film shall first apply to the board for, and obtain, a licence or classification therefor, as provided by the regulations.
42(3) and (4) [Repealed] S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 4.
R.S.M. 1987 Supp., c. 31, s. 2; S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 8; S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 4.
Obstruction of inspector
42.1 No person shall obstruct or furnish false information to an inspector in the performance of his or her duties.
Falsification or alteration of documents
43 No person shall falsify or unlawfully remove, alter, conceal, destroy or obliterate any licence, form or other document made, issued or employed for the purposes of this Act.
44 Every person who
(a) contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations; or
(b) hinders or misleads a person authorized to carry out an investigation or inspection under this Act; or
(c) furnishes false information to a person referred to in clause (b); or
(d) withholds, conceals or destroys anything relevant to the subject matter of an investigation under this Act; or
(e) hinders or prevents the board from effectively carrying out its duties and powers under this Act; or
(f) fails, refuses or neglects to comply with a decision or order of the board;
is guilty of an offence, and in addition to any other penalty provided by this Act, is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding $5,000. and to such costs as may be awarded by the court.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 10; S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 5.
Aiding or abetting
(a) does or omits to do anything for the purpose of aiding or abetting another person; or
(b) advises another person;
to commit an offence under this Act, is guilty of an offence and is liable, on summary conviction, to the penalty set out under section 44.
Offence by an officer, etc. of corporation
46 Where a corporation is convicted of an offence under this Act, any officer, director or agent of the corporation who directed, authorized, participated in, or acquiesced in the commission of the offence, is party to and is also guilty of an offence and is liable, on summary conviction, to the penalty set out under section 44.
47 [Repealed]
S.M. 2013, c. 47, Sch. A, s. 119.
48 A person shall be deemed to be in possession of film where the film or documents of title thereto are in the actual custody of that person or are held by another person subject to the control of that person or for or on behalf of that person.
Time for prosecutions
49 Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act of the Legislature, a prosecution for an offence under this Act may be commenced at any time within two years after the date of the alleged offence and a prosecution for an offence under this Act which relates to or arises out of any misrepresentation or fraud on the part of the accused, may be commenced at any time before the expiration of two years after the date on which the misrepresentation or the fraud became known to the board.
Failure to comply with Act or licence
50(1) Where a person fails to comply with this Act or with the provisions of any licence, the board may apply to a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for an order requiring the person to comply with this Act or the provisions of the licence or both; and the judge may also make such further order, including an order enjoining any person from doing any act or thing, as may be necessary to give effect to the purposes of this Act or the provisions of the licence, or both, and as to the judge seems just.
Ex parte order
50(2) An application for an order under subsection (1) may be made ex parte where the judge is satisfied that such is just and necessary under the circumstances, in which event any order made shall be of an interim nature.
Identification of inspectors
51 Every inspector, while exercising any powers or performing any duties under this Act or the regulations shall, upon request therefor, produce a certificate of appointment containing a photograph of the inspector.
Powers of inspectors
51.1 For the purpose of enforcing and administering this Act, an inspector appointed under section 20 has the power
(a) subject to the limitations set out in section 51.2 (dwellings), to inspect, at any reasonable time, any theatre, film exchange or other premises where a film is or is to be exhibited, distributed, sold, leased or offered;
(b) subject to the limitations set out in section 51.2 (dwellings), to enter, at any reasonable time, without a warrant, any theatre, film exchange or other premises where a film is or is to be exhibited, distributed, sold, leased or offered;
(c) to require the production of a film, advertising associated with a film, or other documents that the inspector considers necessary;
(d) to require that an owner give the inspector reasonable assistance with respect to an inspection;
(e) upon giving a receipt, to remove a film, advertising associated with a film, or any document the inspector considers necessary, for the purpose of reviewing and making copies;
(f) to seize any film that is not classified in accordance with the Act or regulations; and
(g) to remove and hold any film or advertising that the inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, was or will be exhibited, distributed, sold, leased or offered for distribution contrary to this Act or the regulations.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 7, s. 11.
Inspection of part of dwelling licensed for business or film
51.2 For the purpose of enforcing and administering this Act, an inspector appointed under section 20 has the power to enter a dwelling, at any reasonable time, without a warrant, only where it is a dwelling
(a) in or from which a person is licensed under this Act or the regulations to distribute film; or
(b) in which a film is being, or is to be, exhibited under a licence issued under this Act or the regulations;
and the inspector may inspect only the part of the dwelling in which the business is carried on or the film is being, or is to be, exhibited.
Order to turn over film
51.3 Where, on reasonable grounds, an inspector believes that a film or advertising was or will be exhibited, distributed, sold, leased or offered contrary to the Act or the regulations, the inspector may by written order direct that the film or advertising, or both, be turned over to the inspector.
Order to retain film
51.4 Where an order under section 51.3 is not complied with immediately, the inspector may by written order direct that the subject matter referred to in the order not be removed from the premises, or destroyed or altered in any manner.
Limitation on powers of inspectors
51.5 The powers set out in sections 51.1 and 51.2 do not permit an inspector to use force in the exercise of any power, except under the authority of a warrant.
Warrant to enter building or premises
51.6 Subject to section 51.7 (dwellings), where a justice is satisfied by information obtained under oath that
(a) there are reasonable grounds to believe that it is necessary to enter a building or premises for the enforcement of this Act or the regulations, and that
(i) a reasonable, unsuccessful effort to enter without the use of force has been made, or
(ii) there are reasonable grounds to believe that entry would be denied without a warrant; or
(b) an order issued under section 51.3 has not been complied with;
the justice may, on a motion without notice, issue a warrant authorizing an inspector and any other person named by the justice in the warrant, with such peace officers as are required to assist, to enter the building or premises and take any action that an inspector may take under this Act and to use such force as may be necessary.
Warrant respecting dwelling
51.7 A justice shall not issue a warrant under section 51.6 to enter a dwelling unless, in addition to the requirements set out in section 51.6, the justice is satisfied on information obtained under oath that an inspector has reasonable grounds to believe that
(a) a person is licensed under this Act or the regulations to distribute film in or from the dwelling; or
(b) a film is being exhibited, or is to be exhibited, in the dwelling under a licence issued under this Act or the regulations.
Entry under warrant
51.8 An entry under a warrant may be made only between sunrise and sunset unless the warrant specifies otherwise.
Destruction of film
51.81 A film or advertising removed by an inspector, may be destroyed by the board if
(a) no appeal is made to the board under section 38; or
(b) the board finds on an appeal under section 38 that the film or advertising was exhibited, distributed, sold, leased or used in contravention of the Act or the regulations.
Return of film
51.9 A film or advertising removed by an inspector shall be returned by the board within a reasonable period of time to the owner or the person from whom it is removed, if
(a) the board finds that the Act and regulations have not been contravened; or
(b) no prosecution is commenced under the Act within the time periods specified under section 49.
Board regulations
52 Subject to section 54, the board may make regulations
(a) governing applications for licences and renewals thereof, and prescribing the requirements to be met by applicants therefor;
(b) providing for the recording of proceedings of the board;
(c) providing for service of documents upon the board for the purposes of section 29;
(d) respecting forms and the contents thereof for use under this Act;
(e) exempting persons, classes of persons, and films for the purposes of section 24;
(f) governing the advertising of film;
(g) governing the distribution, exhibition and presentation of film;
(h) generally, for the purpose of giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
Lieutenant Governor in Council regulations
53 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) establishing a classification scheme for film, including
(i) establishing different classification schemes for different classes of film,
(ii) adopting, by reference, a classification scheme established by another person or body, subject to any changes the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers appropriate,
(iii) establishing criteria for classification;
(a.1) respecting the terms and conditions under which film or any class of film may be distributed, sold, leased, supplied, displayed, advertised, exhibited or presented to persons or any class of persons;
(a.2) governing and prohibiting the distribution, sale, lease, supply, display, advertisement, exhibition or presentation of film or any class of film to minors or any class of minors;
(b) respecting the licensing of persons or classes of persons who distribute film or classes of film, and the terms and conditions of licences;
(b.1) further defining "distribute" for the purposes of a regulation;
(b.2) respecting the physical and visual segregation of film or any class of film in a film exchange;
(c) exempting a person, class of persons, film or class of films from all or any part of this Act or any regulation made thereunder;
(d) defining any word or expression used in this Act but not defined herein;
(e) prescribing fees;
(f) establishing rules of practice and procedure for the purposes of Parts VI and VII;
(g) [repealed] S.M. 2004, c. 20, s. 8;
(h) respecting the publication by the board of regulatory agenda;
(i) determining and fixing the amount to be levied annually against each class of licensee;
(j) prescribing matters to be considered by the board in the consideration of any application;
(k) providing for appeals from an act or decision of an inspector for the purposes of section 38;
(l) providing for the delegation to any person of any of the powers or duties of the board;
(l.1) for the purpose of the definition "film" in section 1, specifying any medium from which moving visual images may be produced;
(l.2) for the purpose of the definition "video game" in section 1, prescribing classes of video games not included in the definition;
(m) generally, for the purpose of giving effect to the purposes of this Act.
54 Where there is a conflict between a provision of a regulation made under section 52 and a provision of a regulation made under section 53, the provision of the regulation made under section 53 prevails.
Application of regulation to part of province
55 A regulation made under this Act may be made to apply only to a specified area of the province.
Own use permitted
56 Nothing in this Act prevents a natural person from producing or possessing film for the personal, private and non-commercial use of that person.
Application of Act
57 Nothing in this Act applies to contracts for or possession of film solely for delivery through, or beyond the boundaries of, the province.
Ombudsman and The Manitoba Human Rights Commission
58 The Ombudsman and The Manitoba Human Rights Commission, or any person employed thereby and so instructed, has free access at any time to records of the board, and may require such records, together with such statistics, statements and reports as appear reasonable and necessary, to be furnished from time to time.
59 Information obtained by or furnished to the board or any member, employee or agent of the board, shall not be communicated by the board or member, employee or agent other than for the purposes of or in connection with this Act or as required by law.
60 No person shall sell, barter or exchange for anything any ticket of admission to a place of amusement for a price or consideration greater than that paid or given therefor to the owner of the place of amusement to which it is an admission.
Provisions of Act severable
61 The provisions of this Act shall be deemed severable each from the others, and if any provision is found to be beyond the powers of the Legislature, the remaining provisions shall not solely by reason thereof also be deemed to be beyond its powers.
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"The Blue Grotto in Capri"
"August Kopisch: Painter, Poet, Discoverer, Inventor" on view at Alte Nationalgalerie
August Kopisch, The Pontine Marshes at Sunset, 1848. Oil on canvas, 62 x 111 cm, National Museums in Berlin - National Gallery | Photo: Andres Kilger BERLIN.- In this exhibition on the work of August Kopisch (1799–1853), Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie focuses on one of the most versatile nineteenth century artists. Like nobody else, the Breslau-born artist combined painting, poetry, and the spirit of discovery and invention. He first made a name for himself as the discoverer of the Blue Grotto on the island... [Lire la suite]
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Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase Paku-Paku, which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.
To be effective, an officer must have unclouded vision about what is ahead. Such vision demands that the officer deal with all his priorities, but not necessarily in sequential order. Indeed, an officer must develop the ability to see all ramifications of his action, or inaction, at once.
Encouragement should be as important as the wages. People need money to live, and motivation to build a life. There is one step further that must not be forgotten, and that concerns the recognition of your worth. If there is true devotion, then make sure the member of your team knows that you, the boss, have noticed.
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East River Road
Chesterfield County partnered with Branscome on this project as part of a movement to revitalize the area called Ettrick. Branscome’s primary job was to widen the section of East River Road right in front of Virginia State University from two to four lanes to provide access to the University’s new Convocation Center where they will play basketball, hold concerts, and do all sorts of other things. Branscome also constructed a storm water management pond and installed new traffic signals and site lighting. Prior to widening the road, houses sat on either side of it. The city removed the houses on the south side, and the two new lanes now run through where they sat. However, because of this situation, we had to work with and around old foundations, unsuitable soil, and utility relocation. Dominion Power, Comcast, and Columbia Gas relocated their existing lines outside the work area while Branscome crews worked. Widening East River Road is a difficult and daunting task, but Branscome is proud to help revitalize the Ettrick area.
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Home Climate Change & Environment Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
Two degrees no longer seen as global warming guardrail
PARIS, April 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday.
A world that heats up by 2C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) — long regarded as the temperature ceiling for a climate-safe planet — could see mass displacement due to rising seas, a drop in per capita income, regional shortages of food and fresh water, and the loss of animal and plant species at an accelerated speed.
Poor and emerging countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America will get hit hardest, according to the studies in the British Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A.
“We are detecting large changes in climate impacts for a 2C world, and so should take steps to avoid this,” said lead editor Dann Mitchell, an assistant professor at the University of Bristol.
The 197-nation Paris climate treaty, inked in 2015, vows to halt warming at “well under” 2C compared to mid-19th century levels, and “pursue efforts” to cap the rise at 1.5C.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said climate change was “the most systemic threat to humankind”.
– Time to adapt –
With only one degree of warming so far, Earth has seen a crescendo of droughts, heatwaves, and storms ramped up by rising seas.
Voluntary national pledges made under the Paris pact to cut CO2 emissions, if fulfilled, would yield a 3C world at best.
The treaty also requires that — by the end of the century — humanity stop adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than oceans and forests can absorb, a threshold known as “net zero emissions”.
“How fast we get to a 2C world” is critical, Mitchell told AFP.
“If it only takes a couple of decades, we will be in trouble because we won’t have time to adapt to the climate.”
Among the conclusions found in the new studies:
– Economic growth –
Researchers led by Felix Pretis, an economist at the University of Oxford, predict that two degrees of global warming will see GDP per person drop, on average, 13 percent by 2100, once costly climate change impacts are factored in.
A 2C world will also “show significant negative impact on the rates of economic growth,” Pretis told AFP. Under a 1.5C scenario, he added, growth projections “are near indistinguishable from current conditions.”
– Rising seas –
Under a 2C scenario, oceans rise about half a metre over the course of the 21th century, but well over a metre by 2300, another study found.
“When the planet warms, it takes the ocean hundreds, if not thousands, of years to fully respond,” lead author Rober Nicholls, a professor of coastal engineering at the University of Southampton, told AFP.
That’s bad news for 500 million people living in “highly vulnerable” low-lying deltas, mainly in Asia, along with some 400 million people in coastal cities, many of which are already sinking due over-construction or collapsing water tables.
Even in a 2C world, the number of people affected year by flooding could approach 200 million by 2300, the study calculated.
– Food, water stress –
Two degrees of warming would spare humanity much misery compared to our current trajectory, but would still lead to increased drought, flooding, heatwaves and the disruption of weather patterns.
Some regions will be hit worse than others, as will countries with rainfall-dependent agriculture, a team by Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the University of Exeter found.
The countries that show “the greatest increase in vulnerability to food insecurity when moving from the present-day climate to 2C global warming are Oman, India, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Brazil,” he told AFP.
– 1.5C vs. 2C –
A draft “special report” by the UN climate science panel to be unveiled in October, obtained by AFP, concludes that “holding warming at 1.5C by the end of the 21st century (is) extremely unlikely.”
At current rates, the greenhouse gas emissions putting that goal out of reach will have been released within 10 to 15 years.
Meanwhile, CO2 emissions — after remaining stable for three years, raising hopes that they had peaked — rose by 1.4 percent in 2017, the International Energy Agency said this week.
But every tenth-of-a-degree counts, said Mitchell.
“Even if we can’t limit global temperature increase to 1.5C, but can limit it to 1.7C or 1.8C, this is still hugely more beneficial than just giving up,” he told AFP.
“We can still keep temperatures well below 2 degrees,” said Myles Allen, a professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford a co-author on several of the studies.
But doing so requires that “we start now and reduce emissions steadily to zero in the second have of the century,” he told AFP.
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10 REASONS TO VISIT BUENOS AIRES
1. FOOD: Asado, meat, empanadas, locro and many more
Buenos Aires not only has all the traditional dishes of the country, but also is turning in a gastronomic center in south America. The activity is growing month after month, and by the end of the year it would be inaugurated the The Market of Carriages, a gastronomic oasis in the heart of the city. The old building, built in 1900, will have 40 commercial premises, of which 70 percent will go to gastronomy, 20 percent to fresh and domestic and imported food products and 10 percent to articles and services linked to the market. It will have a gastronomic gallery with craft brewery, Argentine and international wine cellar, restaurants, typical food of countries of the region, artisan burger, bubble bar, restaurant, sushi, desserts, juices, coffee shop, ice cream shop, among others.
2. TANGO: milonga, passion, love, lessons, show!
If you like Tang or if you don't know what it is, you should come to Buenos Aires and find out! See it, listen it, dance it and love it: this is more than a folkloristic music, it's a small universe in a big city, full of secret places where your sense would be revolutionized.
3. ARCHITECTURE: contrasts, colors, story and vanguard
This is the only city in the world where you can feel that you are in south America and Europe, at the same time. Walking trough Buenos Aires streets can be a unique experience: you will see colonial houses, mansions, modern mall and huge skycrapers in the same neighborhood. From the colorful La Boca, passing by the historic San Telmo, to the modern Puerto Madero and the dynamic Palermo, Buenos Aires is a city full of beautiful diversity.
4. NIGHTLIFE: bars, afters & discos
If you have a young spirit, this is your city. In Buenos Aires you don't have to wait for the weekend to go out, every day you have a place to drink, dance and have fun with friend. As soon as porteños finish working until the sunrise, you can choose a place to have a beer, a sophisticated drink and move your body with the music you want. Tematic bars (a subway, a forest, a pharmacy for example) and infinity clubs with different types of music wouldn't let you go to splee for hours.
5. GREEN SPOTS: parks, parks and more parks!
Palermo is not only the the center of the nightlife, it's also the greenest neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Los Bosques de Palermo (Palermo's woods) dominate this area of the city, with a lot of activities, decorations and variations. You can play golf, go for a walk around its lakes, go onboard of pedalos in the waters, go biking, see free shows, relax of the grass, eat a choripan (sausage sandwich), visit its museums and the Rosedal, an iconic spot full of roses.
6. LIBRARIES
Buenos Aires is the city with the most bookstores by inhabitants in the world. The strawberry of the dessert is the Libreria Ateneo Grand Splid (Av. Santa Fe 1860), considered one of the most beautiful worldwide.
7. AVENIDA CORRIENTES: El Broadway porteño
The billboards of Corrientes Street Theater are first level. Right now they took the concept of Times Square and are widening the sidewalks and restricting traffic at night so that you can still enjoy more.
8. FUTBOL
This is a national passion you have to experience. There is perhaps no city in the world where football is seen and played as much as in Buenos Aires. The metropolis, which with 13 million inhabitants is the third most populated in Latin America, is the one that has more stadiums with capacity for more than 10,000 spectators, about 36.
Also, you can play soccer in Palermo Wood or rent futbol field per hour, there are plenty of options in every neighborhood.
9. FREE ATRACTIONS
Walking arround Buenos Aires you can find a lot of free atraction to enjoy. From the Cabildo, to free entrance Musseum, to street shows, art galeries, la Casa Rosada, Florida Street and many more. Just go out, start walking and let the city guides you.
10. THE PLEOPLE: el porteño (citizen of Buenos Aires), the Argentinean and the visitors
The porteño is a character from every angle. Friendly, screaming, believing, super host, to much friendly?. We are very receptive with tourists and nothing cold. One reason why many feel comfortable to come to study or spend their vacations. And the rest of Argentineans you will find will always be friendly with you. Once you arrive to Buenos Aires, you will feel this good vibe and the energy will take every visitor and let them feel like you are also a porteño!
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July 2018 Box Office Recap
By Steven Slater
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Movies are doomed. I have seen the signs, reviewed the almanacs, studied the tea leaves, questioned the psychics (who knew I was coming), and prostrated myself before the wisest of sages. That, and I suddenly found I was unable to use MoviePass earlier this July when I wanted to see Mission: Impossible - Fallout on preview night. Since then they have also raised prices, cut back on what movies can be seen, lowered prices, and just recently reduced the number of movies able to be seen to three a month. Once MoviePass falls, the theatrical motion picture industry will inevitably be the next Roman Empire. (Full Disclosure, Steven Slater has a majority stake in MoviePass and is on the Board of Directors, and has a vested interest in believing MoviePass is the greatest company in the world and that without it destitution is the least of our problems).
Actually, July was a damn good cup of coffee month, even though it was missing a huge marque title. Last year we had the reboot of the reboot of Spider-Man, while this year’s Ant-Man sequel (I hate these hyphens) is inevitably a rung down the ladder. There were plenty of middle-tier films that bolstered the ranks, however, including a further return to form for Tom Cruise and the third adventure of Adam Sandler doing the one thing that will not further alienate his audience. There was also an odd abundance of sequels, such that one weekend in July had more sequels in the top ten than any other weekend on record, and some of those from the unlikeliest of franchises. As we wind down the summer movie season of 2018, let us see who won the race for the almighty dollar.
1) Ant-Man and the Wasp
Opening Weekend: $75.8 M
Monthly Total: $186.7 M
As of the end of July, Disney has had the number one film for every month except January, a trend that continues with Ant-Man and the Wasp. This includes two repeat winners, Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as The Incredibles 2. This has given them five of the top ten grossing films of the year so far, with Ant-Man becoming the eighth highest. The sequel to a lesser property, perhaps *ahem* the least property Marvel has attempted so far, yet still the comic book juggernaut spins even the worst of thread into movie gold. Ant-Man numero dos was able to open almost $20 million higher, and will finish around $30 million higher than its origin, with both finishing just above half a billion worldwide. This means every superhero that has had a standalone film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will have had a $200 million dollar film. Kind of shocking to think Ant-man has the box office prowess of Han Solo, but, uh, there it is.
2) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Total Box Office: $399.8 M (through July 31st)
Speaking of Ian Malcolm, the character makes a return of sorts for the first time in over twenty years, and he’s basically the man who cried wolf at this point. If dinosaurs have not been put on the Do Not Fly list at this point, it has to be a lost cause. Because June had some massive films open in the second half of the month, and July was full of middle-tier hits, there was a lot of room left for holdovers. Jurassic World 2 fell back to earth after the massive t-rex roar of an opening the first one had, but still has the fourth largest opening and domestic total of the year. The weekend declines have also been steeper, meaning this film has earned a multiplier of about 2.7, whereas the first earned a 3.1. Still, this franchise has become nearly review-proof, and with over $1.25 billion worldwide and counting this is a huge success.
3) Incredibles 2
Total Box Office: $575.7 M
One day when Disney decides on a whim to buy Universal, maybe Pixar can make an Incredibles sequel where they have to stop the dinosaurs from escaping The Island once again. I mean really, how many times can they destroy the Death Sta-I mean stop greedy people from stealing dinosaurs. Then again I am sure the Incredibles are hiding the fact that Jack-Jack has inevitably killed dozens of people at this point (those laser eyes shoot for quite a distance), so they might have enough on their plate. Over $575 million, to be exact! The sequel to one of the more beloved Pixar properties has become the highest grossing animated film of all time on the domestic front, and time will tell if it can dethrone Frozen worldwide. Just as Disney pulled a few tricks to get A Wrinkle in Time over $100 million and Black Panther over $700 million, I am betting Incredibles 2 will be able to limp over $600 million, becoming the ninth film to do so, the sixth for Disney, and the third for Disney this year!
4) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Sony Animation has found a winning formula, as every three years they release a Hotel Transylvania film that opens in the 40’s and finishes around $150 million. Number 3 will fall smack in the middle of the previous two entries, with an open and ultimate finish ahead of number 1, and behind number 2. I guarantee that another entry is coming in 2021, if Sony is still around at that point. Animated films seem to last for about three entries at most, so I am actually surprised HT3 is performing this well, especially considering the alternate kids movie in theaters this month, which really must have sucked the air of the room in June, but left enough room in July for HT3. But I suppose it is kind of like Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible; once you find your schtick, you just do it over and over again, trying to make it better. Give the people what they want.
5) Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Monthly Total: $77.5 M
Color me shocked that the relatively moderate opening weekend for the sixth Mission: Impossible film is Tom Cruise’s largest opening weekend after War of the Worlds. I suppose his career was really at its zenith when opening weekends rarely cracked $50 million, but it is still interesting to think he was (is?) a massive star, and yet big success is defined as about 12 hours of an Avengers film’s opening weekend. Mr. Cruise has apparently made some kind of peace after years of awful headlines, as people love what he delivers in these films, rewarding them with slightly higher opening weekends and grosses with just about every installment. You can quite literally say he carries these movies on his back, which at 56 must require a dump truck of Icy-Hot. Production budgets for the M:I films have been creeping up, but luckily Cruise still has international appeal, as the last couple films have finished close to $700 million worldwide. After giving the smack-down to Winnie-the-Pooh this past weekend, I see MIF becoming the top grossing opener in July, just beating Ant-Man by a few million. Cruise and McQuarrie may be back yet again, just like Hotel Transylvania, in three more years.
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No one expected the sixteen-year-old Chilean girl to recover. At the hospital her family prayed, but she had sustained massive head wounds in a car accident and remained in a deep coma. Doctors asked her parents about the possibility of donating her organs.
At her school, classmates prayed for her recovery to Blessed Alberto Hurtado, a Chilean Jesuit who had spent his life caring for the abandoned, young and old. Ten days after the accident she emerged from the coma. A day later she was home. Her recovery was hailed by many as a miracle.
Her story made its way to the Jesuit Curia, a stout yellow stone building on Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome, and landed on the desk of Fr. Paolo Molinari, SJ, the Jesuits’ postulator general since 1957.
As postulator general, Molinari prepares and oversees the presentation of various causes for sainthood. Many refer to him as the saint maker, but he bristles at the mere mention of the term.
Not a saint maker
Bl. Alberto Hurtado, SJ, born in Chile in 1901 to an impoverished family, earned a scholarship to the Jesuit college in Santiago and joined the Society of Jesus in 1923. This retreat director, teacher, author, and labor organizer is best known for founding “El Hogar de Cristo,” a home, not just housing, for homeless children in Santiago (he once visited Boys Town in Omaha to study its operations). The project expanded to include hospices for men and women, rehab centers, trade schools, and homes for the aged, and is still a major social service in Chile. Fr. Hurtado, now the namesake of a Jesuit Chilean university, died in 1952 and was beatified in 1994.
I’m not making the saints,” he says emphatically, departing from his usual gentle manner of speaking. “The pope isn’t making saints. It’s God who makes saints. And we have to be very attentive to this point, to what God is doing in the lives of the saints.”
Molinari has spent most of his Jesuit career documenting and presenting the lives of extraordinary Christians, many of them Jesuits, for consideration for beatification. He started in this work in 1957, asked by the then–superior general of the Jesuits Fr. Johann Janssens. The assignment surprised Molinari, who was expecting to work in missions in Japan or Africa with other Jesuits from his home province of Turin.
“When I came here,” he recalls, “the general said, ‘Father, remember this is a job for life.’ I bowed my head and said, ‘Let it be done to me according to your will.’ Then I pulled up my sleeves and started to learn the specific task of this office.”
Aware that that “specific task” might not be well known to the general public, Molinari offers an outline: “After a person has died,” he says, “there must be a widely spread reputation of holiness, a spontaneous recognition by the people of outstanding goodness. The people must instinctively know that the individual conformed his or her life to Christ.”
If this prerequisite exists, Molinari contacts the bishop of the diocese where the individual died and suggests the local Church inquire further into the person’s life. If the bishop convenes a tribunal, Molinari gathers and presents a list of witnesses, all of whom have firsthand knowledge of the person. The bishop appoints experts in historical research to search archives for documents dealing with the potential saint. When the tribunal and research are complete, Molinari writes a positio, a presentation of the individual’s documented life.
“In the positio,” he explains, “is the proof that he or she lived according to the gospel in an outstanding manner.” The positio is next examined by historians and theologians appointed by the Congregation of the Causes of Saints. If it wins their approval, the positio then goes to a group of bishops and cardinals. If they approve as well, the pope can then determine to move the individual toward beatification.
It takes a miracle
The Jesuits’ postulator general, Fr. Paolo Molinari, SJ, researches the lives of candidates for beatification and sainthood, Jesuits and others. Watching over him at the Curia in Rome are Jesuit saints Jogues, Borgia, Ignatius, and Xavier.
Once beatified, the only thing standing in the way of sainthood is a miracle. That’s right, a miracle.
Molinari explains. “In this process, judgment is passed by human beings, and human beings can make mistakes. The pope wants a miracle as a confirmation of God’s will, a confirmation that the judgment of humans is correct.” But what constitutes a miracle? Molinari again explains.
“A miracle is said to happen when people praying to one of the blessed receive an extraordinary favor.” He points to the young Chilean woman as an example. In 1996, at the time of her accident, Hurtado had been beatified but could not be canonized without a miracle. When Molinari learned of her story, he began researching medical reports and soliciting statements from doctors. One after another said that there was no medical, scientific explanation for the teen’s recovery. Her head had been severely wounded, brain activity reduced to almost nothing. Then, miraculously, she awoke.
Her case was presented to the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints and considered by other medical experts and theologians. They examined the story carefully, looking for other plausible explanations. In the end they determined that Bl. Alberto Hurtado must have interceded on her behalf. The miracle’s approval in 2004 means that Hurtado will be canonized in 2005.
Hurtado’s cause is just one of many Jesuit causes Molinari has prepared. He’s recently worked on the causes for Jesuits Tomas Sitjar, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War; Irishman John Sullivan, an Anglican convert who spent most of his priestly life at Clongowes College; and Hyacint Alegre, a Spaniard devoted to the poor who founded a hospice in Barcelona.
Not just for Jesuits
Molinari’s work is not limited to the lives of Jesuits, however. Postulators of most religious orders tend to focus on their own congregations, but the three Jesuit generals under whom Molinari has served encouraged him to support the causes of non-Jesuits, he says.
“The generals and I have always felt we could do more,” he explains. “We take care of members of the Society, of course, but the Society of Jesus is for other people, not for the Jesuits. So we have worked for the causes of laypeople or other religious who had great messages for the faithful but may not have had someone taking up their causes.”
George Kearney, director of public relations and publications for the Jesuits’ Chicago Province, is writing a book about Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago.
Molinari has worked on the causes of Juan Diego of Mexico; Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian ambassador to Berlin in the 1920s called “the man of the Beatitudes”; Andrew de Phu-Yen, a Vietnamese martyr; Niels Stensen, a Danish convert to Cath-olicism and later an apostolic vicar in Germany; Catherine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament who helped African-Americans gain access to higher education; and Pierre Toussaint, a Haitian slave who worked as a hairdresser in New York, spending all he earned to support other Haitians in the country.
Molinari’s work often goes unnoticed, unrecognized. That’s fine with him. What’s important, he says, is that the lives of the saints inspire others to live better lives.
“Think of Mother Theresa,” he says. “Why are people so taken up with her? Because she was transformed into a very successful image of Christ. Because of the outstanding way in which she lived. She drew the attention of Christians, Muslims, Jews, even atheists—people changed their lives because of her. God talked to them through her life and said, ‘Why don’t you act the same way?’
“There is a lot of activity, a lot of stories that we can present to the faithful so God can stir them up and begin to work in their lives. That’s why we work on the lives of the saints, why we present them. That’s why the pope canonizes them. It’s a beautiful mission.”
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Returns to Good Causes pass £35 billion as Camelot delivers another record year for The National Lottery...
...As Camelot delivers another record year for The National Lottery
Best-ever performance driven by digital innovation and growth
Camelot UK Lotteries Limited (‘Camelot’) today announced that National Lottery players have now raised over £35 billion for Good Causes since the lottery’s launch in 1994. The total has been reached after Camelot delivered another record-breaking year for The National Lottery in 2015/16, with impressive digital growth driving annual sales to an all-time high of £7,595 million, an increase of £317 million on the previous year.
Announcing the landmark figures, Camelot CEO Andy Duncan said:“It’s amazing that National Lottery players have now raised over £35 billion for Good Causes – which breaks down as over 150 lottery grants in every neighbourhood. That’s a measure of the huge, life-changing good that The National Lottery does for the UK.
“I’m delighted by the fantastic year we’ve had – especially across our digital channels. With our own world-leading mobile platform and over eight million registered online players, Camelot leads the field of digital lottery innovation. To build on the year’s outstanding performance, we’ve got some really exciting plans lined up – starting with Rio, where The National Lottery is supporting our elite athletes in their quest for gold.”
Camelot’s performance during the year saw Good Causes and players share a record £6 billion – underlining how The National Lottery is continuing to transform the lives of individuals and communities across the UK. Combined with the Lottery Duty it pays to the Government and the commission earned by its retail partners, Camelot returns 95% of all revenue back to society.
In the year to 31 March 2016, Camelot raised £1,901 million for Good Causes (excluding investment returns) – more than £36 million every week – to take the total delivered to date to over £35 billion. Over the same period, Camelot awarded a record £4,198 million in prizes to players and created almost one new millionaire a day. The National Lottery has now awarded over £59 billion in prizes and created more than 4,250 millionaires or multi-millionaires since its launch.
Camelot’s success in achieving record sales in 2015/16 was driven by strong growth across The National Lottery’s digital channels, with sales through mobile (smartphones and tablets) soaring by 53%. Of this, smartphone growth was particularly strong – with sales through these devices increasing by 71% year-on-year. Boosted by a range of exciting new instant win games, innovative app enhancements and the launch of the first-ever mobile payment option through Barclays Pingit, mobile sales now account for almost half of all interactive National Lottery sales – with mobile players alone raising over £175 million for Good Causes last year.
Sales over the year were also buoyed by impressive growth across The National Lottery’s GameStore range of online and in-store instant play games, following the launch of over 70 innovative new games and the introduction of second chance draws to give players more chances to win prizes. Sales of Lotto increased in 2015/16 too, following the changes Camelot introduced last autumn to give players more chances than ever to become a millionaire. In six months after the changes, Lotto created over 100 millionaires – more than double the number of millionaires than in the preceding six months – and awarded more in prizes to players.
Today’s announcement by Camelot coincides with the half-way point of its current licence to operate The National Lottery – and its performance over this seven-year period reinforces its position as one of the world’s leading lottery operators, with an unrivalled track record in innovation and long-term, responsible growth.
In just seven years, Camelot has succeeded in growing total sales by almost 50%. This has enabled it to raise more for Good Causes in the first half of this licence period – £12.4 billion – than it did in each of the first two full National Lottery licence periods. This far exceeds the additional £60-£100 million a year for Good Causes that Camelot was expected to raise during this licence period – and means that the company is now delivering £11 million a week more for Good Causes than it was at the start of the licence in 2009. On top of that, The National Lottery has created almost as many millionaires in the first seven years of this licence period (2,050) as it did over the first 15 years of The National Lottery (2,200).
Total ticket sales and all related financial results figures for 2015/16 are subject to final audit.
Camelot UK Lotteries Limited is the licensed operator of The National Lottery® and is committed to raising money for National Lottery Good Causes designated by Parliament. Camelot is not responsible for distributing or awarding these funds.
Each week, Camelot generates over £36 million for National Lottery-funded projects – in total, over £35 billion has now been raised and more than 490,000 individual grants have been made across the UK, the biggest programme of civic and social regeneration since the 19th Century.
The National Lottery has so far awarded over £59 billion in prizes and created more than 4,250 millionaires or multi-millionaires since its launch in 1994.
Camelot runs the most cost-efficient major lottery in Europe, with around 4% of total revenue spent on operating costs.
The UK National Lottery is ranked at just 52nd in the world in terms of per capita spend, despite being the fifth largest lottery in the world by sales – clear evidence of Camelot’s longstanding commitment to being a responsible operator (Source: La Fleur’s 2016 World Lottery Almanac).
Total sales in 2015/16 were a record £7,595.2 million, an increase of £317.4 million on 2014/15.
Total returns to National Lottery Good Causes in 2015/16 were £1,900.9 million, an increase of £104.1 million on 2014/15.
The National Lottery created 353 millionaires and awarded a record amount of prize money in 2015/16 of £4,198.9 million, an increase of £155.9 million on 2014/15.
Total sales of draw-based games in 2015/16 were £4,642.8 million, a slight decrease of £6.2 million on 2014/15.
Total sales of GameStore games in 2015/16 were a record £2,952.4 million, an increase of £323.6 million on 2014/15.
Total retail sales in 2015/16 were a record £6,010 million, an increase of £72.6 million on 2014/15. Accounting for around 80% of all sales, retail remains the largest National Lottery sales channel.
Total digital (interactive and subscription) sales in 2015/16 were a record £1,585.2 million, an increase of £244.8 million on 2014/15. Mobile sales were a record £595.5 million, an increase of £206.1 million on 2014/15. With over eight million registered players, national-lottery.co.uk is Europe’s largest online lottery in terms of sales and one of the top 10 e-commerce sites in the UK.
For further information on Camelot, The National Lottery and its games, please visit: www.camelotgroup.co.uk and www.national-lottery.co.uk
Players of all National Lottery games must be aged 16 or over.
Camelot UK Lotteries Limited: Half-year financial results (2014-15)
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IBM Offers Specialized Software Solutions for Three Industries
IBM has announced three new software solutions that are specifically designed to meet the needs of businesses in the automotive, government, and life science sectors. The new industry-based solutions, which include IBM software and pre-tested applications, are intended to allow customers to create a Web-based environment that helps streamline business processes and improves integration. The solutions are based on IBM WebSphere and Lotus software, giving businesses an open, standards-based platform that can work with a variety of operating environments, including Linux and Microsoft Windows, for added flexibility.
The Automotive Dealer Collaboration offering is designed to help automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), enhance and expand the relationships they have with dealers, fleets, and independent repair shops. With this solution, dealers have access to applications that provide sales, service, and customer information and they can interact with sales, parts, warranty, and quality applications over the Web. The IBM Automotive Dealer Collaboration solution is designed to help consolidate information into a collaborative environment. The new system allows OEMs to select a solution from pre-tested IBM software and industry applications. The solution can be set up to allow dealers to see a two-dimensional diagram of a car and allows them to enlarge a segment of the car on screen. The image shows the various parts, with corresponding part numbers. After identifying the part, a dealer can click on the part to see all of the corresponding service updates and warranty information. The dealer can then check to see if the part is in stock and place the order online.
The WebSphere Portal for e-Government Access offering is designed to assist governments in integrating applications, processes, management, and delivery channels that link their internal agencies with outside stakeholders with Web-based technologies. The e-government portal is intended to better enable government agencies to respond quickly to challenges, such as answering a citizen's questions or providing more convenient services online. By providing government agencies with a solution that can serve as a single point of access to services and information, IBM plans to help governments streamline access to resources and information, integrate existing systems, reduce paperwork by providing online self-service, and increase efficiency while maintaining security and protecting citizen privacy.
The WebSphere Portal for Life Science Syndicated Content is designed to respond to the collaborative information access and personalization needs of pharmaceutical, life science research, and health care companies. Through the life sciences portal, IBM is offering a content delivery method in a portal environment to bring subscription-based external research, internal content, and collaborative applications together for users to access, share, discuss, and take necessary action. The IBM life sciences portal offering provides customers with a method of receiving content in a single Web-based portal environment. Using IBM WebSphere Portal with Lotus collaborative capabilities and syndicated content from other vendors, IBM intends to provide a team workspace where information can be located and shared. This solution is also designed to allow groups of users to react to information received in their portal applications and, through the use of Web conferencing, document sharing, instant messaging, and application sharing the information can be made actionable as soon as it is received. Additionally, the portal can be personalized through rules and preferences to provide users with the most relevant content.
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Founder, Voice
Dana Vachharajani (formerly Dana Bhatnagar) holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (BFA’97) and The Juilliard School (MM ’01). She has had a career defined by singing at top venues, public education, and creating and running a private music school. In her performance career, she had the honor of performing as a soloist in Alice Tully Hall (Mira Bai Songs). (more…)
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Chelsea Kyle, a native of a small farm town in Illinois called Stillman Valley, holds a B.A. in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago. After living in the bustling downtown area of Chicago for over 4 years, and living in Illinois her whole life, she decided to make the move to the beautiful state of Colorado to continue to pursue a career in the music industry. (more…)
Alex Vittal
Theory, Viola, Violin
Alex Vittal grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and began studying viola in third grade. He earned his B.M. in Viola Performance, graduating summa cum laude from Arizona State University where he studied under Nancy Buck, and his M.M. in Viola Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado – Boulder, where he studied under Erika Eckert, Matthew Dane, and Geraldine Walther. (more…)
Andrew Giordano
Viola, Violin
A native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Andrew Giordano began playing the violin at the age of five. He is currently a violinist and founding member of the award-winning Altius Quartet. As a member of the quartet, Andrew has won awards and toured internationally in Europe, Asia, and Australia. (more…)
Audrey Kaltenbach
Audrey Kaltenbach is an Oregon native and has been playing the piano for over 15 years. She graduated from Willamette University receiving her Bachelor of Music with honors in Piano Performance in 2015. She specializes in classical and contemporary music and her favorite part about piano is collaborating with friends. (more…)
Bjorn Arvidsson
Bjorn Arvidsson has been a professional singer/stage performer for over 25 years, performing all over Europe and the United States. He has sung over 65 roles in almost as many operas, operettas, oratorios and musicals. A native of Sweden, he is fluent in Swedish, English and German and has sung in all the major, and several of the minor languages of the classical repertoire. (more…)
Brad Haag
Brad Haag is a teacher, collaborative pianist, soloist, and lecturer with a lifelong mission to create outstanding musical experiences for listeners, students, and colleagues. His academic career includes teaching positions on the faculties of Benedictine University (Lisle, IL), Santa Monica College (Santa Monica, CA), and Los Angeles City College, as well as years of experience maintaining a private lesson studio. (more…)
Christine Honein
Lebanese-American soprano, Christine Honein has been performing in operas, musicals, and concerts throughout the United States and the Middle East. A graduate from Florida State University, and soon to be graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Christine has enjoyed performing a wide variety of roles ranging from the baroque to contemporary repertoire, including Maria (West Side Story), Dalinda (Ariodante), and Drusilla (L’incoronazione di Poppea). (more…)
David Goodheim
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David Goodheim is an American performer, composer, recording artist, and improvisor. His performances and recordings have been heard all over the world live (US and Europe), on radio, and on recordings for record labels from the US, Europe, and Australia.
John Boggs
John Boggs is a pianist, composer and vocalist based currently in Lafayette, Colorado. He holds an M.M. in Composition from the University of Michigan and a B.F.A. from Bard College. Previous piano instructors include German Diez and MaryAnn Griebling. He taught students of all ages and talent levels during his undergraduate and graduate studies. (more…)
Katie McClave
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Keirsten Schwanbeck
Born in Williamsport, PA, Keirsten Schwanbeck began studying the cello at the age of eight. She attended Hope College in Holland, MI on full scholarship, graduating Magna cum laude in 2006 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance. Keirsten went on to study at the Pennsylvania State University and graduated with a Master of Music degree in Cello Performance in 2008. (more…)
Kellan Toohey
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Luisa Rodriguez
Luisa Marie Rodriguez is a performer, a teacher, a conductor, and a very passionate vocal pedagogue. Always interested in growing and refining her teaching skills, Luisa has recently attended the Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy Workshop at New England Conservatory, Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Summer Institute at Shenandoah University, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Summer Workshop, all after graduating with her Masters degree from CU-Boulder in 2014. (more…)
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Fiddler, composer, and storyteller Max Wolpert conjures up monsters and myth where the traditional, classical, and theatrical meet. Drawing from tradition both musical and mythological, Max Wolpert makes music inspired by stories from around the world. (more…)
Maestro Miguel Espinoza is an award-winning virtuoso flamenco guitarist/composer described by Guitar Player magazine as “mesmerizing.” Gracefully balancing tradition and innovation, he blends flamenco with Northern Indian percussion, Latin jazz and classical flavors to create an exotic, intoxicating musical elixir–one that is as sonically exciting as it is emotionally moving. (more…)
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HomePatriot News NetworkElectionsElection 2010AnnouncementsAnnouncementsAuthor Stanley Monteith dies at 85!
Author Stanley Monteith dies at 85!
OAKLAND, Kalifornia (PNN) - September 29, 2014 - Dr. Stanley Monteith, whose well-known book, Brotherhood of Darkness, exposed a grand conspiracy of secret societies, the Council of Foreign Relations, and the Bilderbergers, has died at the age of 85.
A researcher, author and talk show host, Monteith spent more than 40 years studying the movement to create a world government.
During his 35-year career as an orthopedic surgeon he traveled to Europe, lived in South Africa, and spent time researching the records of the men and organizations he believed are working to bring the Fascist Police States of Amerika under the control of a corporate elite.
His radio talk show, Radio Liberty, was aired on dozens of radio stations across the FPSA.
He ran for Congress in 1988, challenging incumbent Leon Panetta, who was re-elected and later became part of the illegitimate Obama regime.
He was known for his activism regarding fluoride and was a member of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition.
In his book on secret societies he said that when a viewer feels like he or she has only gotten part of the story from the establishment media, it’s probably because they’re right.
Monteith revealed “the identity of the mysterious forces behind the men who rule the world, and why some of our leaders have dedicated their lives to destroying our nation,” a reviewer once said.
Radio show host Alex Jones said, “He was one of those people who was always at the epicenter of good change, defending liberty and battling tyranny.”
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Death of Stephen Hawking: His 20 Most Memorable Quotes!
Wheelchair-bound and largely unable to speak, yet it didn't stop him.
Renowned scientist, Stephen Hawking is the true definition of inspiration.
Here are some of the professor's precious words of wisdom, most of them delivered through his famous voice synthesizer:
1. On the reason why the universe exists:
"If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."
2. On God:
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
3. On humanity:
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
4. On commercial success:
"I want my books sold on airport bookstalls."
5. On life:
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
6. On fame:
"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
7. On living with a disability:
"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you from doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically."
8. On an imperfect world:
"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”
9. On staying cheerful:
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
10. On euthanasia:
"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
11. On artificial intelligence:
"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate...Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded."
12. On the possibility of contact between humans and aliens:
"I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low."
13. On space colonies:
"I don't think the human race will survive the next 1,000 years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
14. On the end of the universe:
"It will take about a thousand million million million million years for the Earth to run into the sun, so there's no immediate cause for worry!"
15. On being diagnosed with motor neurone disease:
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus!"
16. On death:
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."
17. On knowledge and intelligence:
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
18. On belief:
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
19. On anger:
"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
20. On personality:
"Quiet people have the loudest minds!"
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Portnoy Gets a Wee Bit Upset
Thread starter Bruce M. Thomson
Bruce M. Thomson
He is upset and with good reason but for some reason it doesn't seem to affect the show all that much; didn't seem to bother the band. Is he know for anger issues?
http://youtu.be/JjP4CV3SL2k
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Don't know but if he learned to set his own stuff it wouldn't happen. That way he'd know there was problems before he sat behind it. Countless pro drummers don't set their own stuff up.
Lunar Satellite Brian
So wait, he was mad because his set wasn't setup right during soundcheck?
Isn't that one of the reason sound check exists?
To be honest I can't blame him that much, he's probably been under a lot of stress lately considering he's constantly doing things with more bands than I can possibly keep track of, but calling out the road crew by saying "I hate these ****** ******* messing with my drums" is taking it way too far.
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The snare mic fell. Rather than replace it, the stage hand removed it.
aydee
His version:
" Not to excuse my actions, but at least to explain the situation:
This PSMS tour has been VERY difficult on all of us in terms of gear and production. The only way we have been able to make it to such far away places such as Manila, Russia, Israel, Indonesia, etc (where it is normally VERY expensive to tour unless you are a "name" band that has been around for many years) is we've have had to make concessions by using supplied gear and local techs at each show.
Granted, WE agreed to these terms and are willing to make it work - however, on at least a half dozen occasions on this tour we have been incredibly frustrated to arrive at the venue only to find the band's gear requirements were simply blatantly ignored (wrong keyboards, wrong amps, Zildjian cymbals, etc) AND were not setup and ready for us as was supposed to be the case and what the promoters had promised.
We have been as patient and understanding as we possibly can be...but when you get 4 guys who haven't slept more than a couple of hours every night in order to fly to these shows without sleep...sometimes our patience can wear thin.
In the case of the Manila show, we arrived hours before the show to find out the drums weren't setup, cymbals were missing, Billy's amp was wrong (again) and Tony had a buzz on his gear that would not go away...but we forged ahead because we were VERY excited to play for the fans!
At the start of Stratus (where the video on youtube is from) - my snare drum mic fell off and I motioned for the tech to come put it back on the stand/drum...and instead, he comes up to the drum kit and takes the mic away...leaving me playing with NO snare mic!!! (you'll hear I begin playing the high tom instead of the snare)...realizing he had no idea what was going on or how to fix the situation, I stopped playing and did my little "rap" while they fixed the situation and we wouldn't have to play the whole song with no snare in the mix.
In the video, you can see I was at least making a joke out of it and wasn't maliciously trying to hurt anybody or storming off in anger.
Moral of the story: WE ARE HUMAN! And sometimes frustrating circumstances create frustrated behavior. I'm not saying I was right in stopping the song...but if you see a video from later in the show, you'll see I explain to the audience that I've been waiting my whole career to play in Manila and I wasn't going to let ANYTHING ruin my night or their show!!
And we carried on and everybody had a great night...
And I look forward to returning...
(although this may be the last time I tour without my own kit and my own drum tech...hahahaha!!!) "
Probably doesn't help that he told Dream Theater he quit to be A7X's permanent drummer and then A7X told him no and kicked him out. So he lost two major bands.
dmacc
I'll say it... He's a Moron....
And he was kickin some mad rhymes yo!
gaz farrimond
Excrutiating to watch and completely inexcusable, irrespective of the circumstances.
If you're doing a tour on the cheap and using loan equipment and local labour there are always going to be problems. Instead of playing the song out the best way he could, then rectifying the situation, he launches into a tirade at people who probably have little grasp of English in the first place.
Thats the kind of thing I'd expect to see with a teenage band at the local pub, not a professional musician.
Some times the daily grind just gets to you - even if your job is as cool as playing drums with great musicians all over the world...
I was in a meeting today were a client just didn't get what we do (we're architects). In this case we were trying make he's wishes work (and he just doesn't have a clue - unless you do this for a living chances are neither do you). Long story short, my colleague lost it. He just couldn't stand it anymore - day after day of the same disrespect. It's kind of like the club owner telling you how you're supposed to play the song.
My buddy lost it, MP lost it, we sometimes lose it in the car, etc. that's life...
bigiainw
aydee said:
Lost in showbiz..........................
gaz farrimond said:
I'm a teenager and I even agree with you
Sounds very reasonable to me; I actually liked his impromtu rap.
rogue_drummer
What a primadona! My respect for him just tanked. Instead of acting like a spoiled brat whose ass has been kissed repeatedly, he should have sucked it up and made due. Thought that is the reason for sound checks.....
Sure, most everyone gets frustrated, mad, and blows up now and then, usually in front of one or more persons. It's true, we're only human.
The difference is, people in the spotlight - celebrities, politicians, even some musicians - are held to a higher standard. They're expected to be cool at all times, to always have the right thing to say, and be diplomatic. The past 10 years or so has put a new slant on such public (or private) mis-steps: someone with a smartphone will catch it on video for the world to see. For anyone at this point to not know they're probabllity being recorded while performing or speaking, and not be a little more careful with what they do or say, is naive and careless. They deserve whatever backlash they get.
I've been in situations where I've felt Portnoy's frustration and anger at something gone wrong, but I would never compromise a song or a show by stepping away from the drums. I mean, think about that! It's just incredible. It doesn't matter that he tried to make it funny... it wasn't. He ends up looking bad, not the crew guys.
Anthony Amodeo
what a complete and utter jackass
the comic relief didn't translate Mike......grow up
mikeyhanson
What is it with guys having meltdowns on stage these days? And the "lemme explain" rant....that guy is the classic example of someone who needs a publicist.
You're going to all these places in the world where you're getting questionable gear and have to rely on local tech and you're not checking your own stuff? Total rookie move. And then to act like a 4 year old on stage....wow.
People today.
Throwing cymbals and stands around is bad enough, but when he starts flipping microphones around, that's blasphemy. I haven't had an outburst like that in weeks, lol.
I practice this stuff at home, and one day I dream I can be as good as him so I can do it on stage.
opentune
I heard the Atari's are looking for a drummer. Does Mike know?
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Xin Hui
Xin Hui is a professional copywriter, radio specialist as well as a socio-political and cultural commentator for several digital and print channels including MediaCorp Radio, MediaCorp Publishing, and Singapore Press Holdings. Xin Hui was born and raised (and now based) in Singapore where she grew up on a steady diet of soya bean milk and fried carrot cake – just two of the many things that keep her here.After getting a B.A. in political science, she began her career in radio copywriting and was a nominee at the New York Festivals for a radio commercial she wrote and produced for The SPCA.Her writing style is passionate, progressive, and explorative, often with a humorous and creative flair for going against the grain. On FSAAM, she contributes wide-ranging content and editorials, some light-hearted, some tongue-in-cheek and some so combative that it stirs the defenses of social ideals and calls for an examination of the underlying dynamics of the written and unwritten laws that govern society.
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Founded by Bishop John J. Russell of the Diocese of Richmond in response to the growth of Fairfax County in the early 1960′s, Good Shepherd celebrated its first Mass on Sunday, May 30, 1965, with 900 families gathered in Walt Whitman High School (now Mount Vernon High School).
On June 17, 1967, Bishop Russell dedicated a low-cost, multi-purpose building, complete with an altar setting and 980 green folding chairs. This single building was the center of our worship and parish activity for nineteen years, until the church was built and dedicated by Bishop John R. Keating on October 21, 1984.
In January 1991, a new Community Center was dedicated, incorporating the original multi-purpose building and new offices, a kitchen, nursery, youth center and classrooms. This has been the hub of the parish’s ministries ever since.
Since its inception, Good Shepherd has grown from 900 families to more than 3,000 active families!
We offer 8 Sunday Masses in English and Spanish. We have 155 active ministries, encompassing liturgy, music, faith formation, social justice, and more. Our facilities see approximately 10,000 hours of use each year. The intense level of activity for parishioners of all ages and backgrounds makes Good Shepherd a special, vibrant community of faith!
Today we face a challenge. Our spiritual home has not been expanded or renovated in over 20 years. With constant use, our facilities need repair and upgrades in order to nurture our existing ministries, expand our traditions, and fulfill our crucial needs for the future. Like the dedicated parishioners who came before us, we stand poised to preserve and share the legacy of Good Shepherd.
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Tributes have been paid to the well-known Galway estate agent Oisin Allman, who passed away following a car accident on Saturday.
Mr Allman, who is in his early 40s and ran a business in the City, died following a single vehicle collision westbound on the M6 near Athlone between Monksland and Ballinasloe East at 3.20pm on Saturday. A female passenger was also removed to Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe with non-life threatening injuries.
Mr Allman operated the Allman Reynolds estate agency on Merchants Road in the City.
The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) has paid tribute to Mr Allman. A spokesperson for the Society said it was deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of one its members over the weekend.
“Mr Oisin Allman has been an active and committed member of the Society for many years and a well-known and well-regarded property professional in the Galway area.
“His untimely passing is mourned by his many friends and colleagues within the SCSI and the estate agency profession.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family at this very difficult time.”
Tribute to Oisin Allman by the team at Allman Reynolds
Oisin Allman started off life in Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. He was a boarder at Garbally College, and he later graduated from DIT in Property Economics. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and as a RICS Registered Valuer.
He was Big 4 trained, and worked in the Commercial & Residential divisions of Lisney & Douglas Newman Good, Dublin, before later moving to work in Estate Agents in Galway City at Partner & Director level.
He also worked in the international property group, Prestige, before setting up his successful business, Allman Reynolds Estate Agents with his business partner and wife Caroline.
Allman Reynolds Estate Agents will continue in business under the management of Caroline Allman Reynolds and family. We will continue building business relationships with our present clients and the people of Galway.
Oisin was an excellent business man and friend to all who knew him. He was a very hard working, entrepreneurial, witty and intelligent man who was completing his final year in an MBA in Michael Smurfit Business School at the time of his untimely death.
He was very liked among the business community in Galway. He spent many happy years in Salthill with his loving wife Caroline Allman Reynolds.
He is predeceased by his father Dermot and more recently his sister Maureen from Moycullen, who died of cancer only a short three months ago.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his mother, Teresa Allman from Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon, his wife Caroline, all the Reynolds family from Roosky, Co. Roscommon, and his niece Sinead Allman Grant from Moycullen, who is a garda in Clifden and her family.
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Mission & Strategies
Your Involvement
People We brought vision, expertise and resources together
Sujatha Jesudason, PhD Executive Director
Sujatha Jesudason, Ph.D. As founder and Executive Director, Sujatha brings her expertise in social justice, community organizing and historically marginalized groups to all of Generations Ahead’s efforts. From examining the fault lines in efforts to curtail sex selection to exposing attempts to pit reproductive rights against disability rights, Sujatha works to forge unlikely collaborations and look past forced simplifications. With over 20 years as an advocate for women’s rights, Sujatha has worked at Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, 9to5 National Association of Working Women and the Center for Genetics and Society. As Board Chair of National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and having served on the Management Circle of SisterSong, Sujatha is a key leader in the field of reproductive justice. She works at the intersection of issues too often considered separately: economic inequality, domestic violence, cultural norms, discrimination, and gender roles. In this, Sujatha merges not only topics but methods, from rigorous academic research to on the ground movement building, and from legislative education to media advocacy. A leading voice on the ethics of genetic innovations, women’s rights and racial justice, Sujatha holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Marina Ortega Managing Director
Marina joined Generations Ahead in 2008 and brings a strong background in business management, particularly project management, critical thinking and systems analysis, and strategic management. She has worked with various nonprofit organizations focused on Latino issues including homelessness, computer training, and economic security. Prior to working in the nonprofit sector, Marina worked in the Silicon Valley’s high tech industry, focused on semiconductor life-cycle management.
Susannah Baruch, JD Policy Director and Consultant
Susannah directs the organization’s policy work in Washington, DC. She brings more than 15 years of experience in federal policy and advocacy, specializing in women’s health and reproductive genetics. Most recently she served as Law and Policy Director at the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she advocated for genetic non-discrimination and women’s reproductive health at the National Partnership for Women and Families, and worked on Capitol Hill for Nita Lowey (D-NY).
Purvi Shah Consultant
Purvi Shah is a content expert in issues related to violence against women, language access, policy advocacy, and media including non-profit film and website communications. For nearly eight years, Purvi served as the Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic violence organization. She has been a board member for the New York Women’s Foundation as well as an instructor on South Asian and American literature university courses. Her debut book of poetry, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press 2006), garnered the Many Voices Project prize.
Crystal Plati (chair) - Formerly with ChoiceUSA
Firmly committed since the beginning of her career to social justice, grassroots movements, and progressive politics, Crystal is a dynamic national leader who has helped give voice to thousands of young people, progressives, and women through her experience as an executive and leadership consultant. Before joining 21st Century Democrats as Executive Director, Crystal ran her own consulting business where she supported clients with leadership development and capacity building programs, executive coaching, and organizational planning. She built her considerable experience at Choice USA where, as Executive Director, she helped transform the group into the vibrant, inter-generational, sustainable, effective organization it is today. She also has extensive experience building partnerships and networks.
Alison Kafer Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies - Southwestern University
Alison Kafer is Associate Professor and Chair of Feminist Studies at Southwestern University. She has served on the board of the Society for Disability Studies and is co-editor, with Susan Burch, of Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Gallaudet, 2010). Her work on gender, sexuality, and disability has been published in several journals and anthologies, and she is currently working on a manuscript on feminist queer crip futures.
Le'a Malia Kanehe, JD Attorney - Indigenous People's Council of Biocolonialism
Le’a is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) attorney from Honolulu, Hawai’i, who is currently a lecturer in Hawaiian Studies at University of Hawai’i-Leeward Community College. Her background includes advocacy at the international level for the rights of Indigenous peoples at the UN human rights Working Group on Indigenous Populations, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Intellectual Property Organization. She worked for five years as a legal analyst for the Indigenous Peoples’ Council on Biocolonialism, a Native American non-profit organization, evaluating international environmental, intellectual property, and human rights law for Indigenous peoples facing impacts from genetic research and technologies.
Jackie Payne Principal - The Raben Group
Jackie is a Principal at the Raben Group, bringing over a decade of experience in law and public policy gained at the state, national, and international level. Jackie possesses a wealth of knowledge on matters related to gender equality, civil rights, and social justice. She has held positions at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, teaching classes on Gender, Equality, and the Law.
Dorothy Roberts Professor - Northwestern University
Dorothy has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002). She serves as a member of the board of directors of the Black Women’s Health Imperative and the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform.
Silvia Yee Attorney - Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Silvia is the staff attorney working on national litigation and policy at DREDF. She has worked in private commercial practice, and with the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada, where she published on the topics of Canadian Health Care Standards and the extent of the nursing profession’s legal authority. She received her LL.B. from the University of Alberta, and clerked with the Honorable Justice William Stevenson at the Alberta Court of Appeal. She is particularly interested in issues raised by the comparison of different models of equality and justice underlying disability anti-discrimination laws, and in the applicability to disability discrimination of historically evolving social-psychological theories of prejudice.
Miriam W. Yeung, MPA Executive Director - NAPAWF
Miriam is the Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). NAPAWF is a national grassroots organization with a mission to forge a progressive movement for the social and economic justice and political empowerment of APA women and girls. Prior to this position, Miriam had a ten year career at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City where she was the Director of Public Policy Government Relations and responsible for the advocacy, community education, and government relations work of the Center including Promote the Vote and Causes in Common, building working alliances between the reproductive rights and LGBT liberation movements.
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"86 Goodmans lawyers across 39 practice areas ranked as among the best lawyers in Canada." - Best Lawyers in Canada
Procurement, Public/Private Partnerships and Alternative Finance
Howard Wise
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Bay Adelaide Centre - West Tower
Toronto, ON M5H 2S7
Howard Wise is a partner at Goodmans. He specializes in the areas of construction law and commercial litigation.
Howard is retained as counsel by owners, general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and lenders in large construction disputes, including construction liens, contract claims and negligence claims. Howard’s litigation practice includes trial and appellate work, as well as mediation and arbitration of construction disputes. He has also acted for owners and contractors in negotiating complex construction contracts including design build agreements and EPC contracts. He is regularly retained to act in large multi-partied disputes, including acting for owners, general contractors, subcontractors, financiers and design professionals.
Howard is recognized as a leading practitioner of construction law by Chambers Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Law Business Research’s International Who’s Who of Construction Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada and has been listed as one of the top 500 lawyers by Lexpert/American Lawyer Media’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He has also been recognized as a leading infrastructure lawyer by the Lexpert Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Infrastructure Lawyers in the Globe & Mail’s Report on Business Magazine.
Howard is the author of the Manual of Construction Law published by Carswell and co-author of Bristow, Glaholt, Reynolds and Wise on Construction, Builders’ and Mechanics’ Liens in Canada (7th edition), the leading text in the area of construction lien law. He is a contributing author to a textbook entitled Construction Disputes: Representing the Contractor, published by Aspen Publications, New York. Howard is also the contributing editor of Canadian Forms & Precedents: Construction Liens, published by Butterworths.
He is a frequent lecturer to both legal and industry-based associations on various topics relating to construction law including design build contracts, bidding and tendering, and construction liens.
Education Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., 1983)
Past Chair of the Construction Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association
Past Chair of the Construction Law Subsection of the Ontario Bar Association
Past President and Fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers
Advocates' Society
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
ABA Forum on the Construction Industry
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Year of Call
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Kemer to become center of underwater archeology
ANTALYA – Demirören News Agency
An underwater archaeology museum will be established in the southern province of Antalya’s Kemer district in collaboration with the Culture and Tourism Ministry and Antalya Governors’ Office.
The Underwater Research Center’s instructor, Associate Professor Hakan Öniz, said the museum, where the materials removed from the world’s oldest 3,600-year-old shipwreck will be exhibited, will make Kemer the center of underwater archeology.
The world’s oldest shipwreck was found by Öniz and his team in the western part of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, paving the way for Kemer’s tourism landscape to change. Works have been initiated for the establishment of the Mediterranean Underwater Research Archaeology Museum in Kemer.
“The museum project was made three months ago and a special place has been determined in the third degree site of Idyros ancient city, which is still undergoing excavations in the center of Kemer. The museum will be established on an area of 3,000 square meters. The museum will display the world’s oldest commercial wreck, which was discovered in recent months and recently revealed. The ship was probably caught in a storm on the way to Cyprus, Crete, or another place in the Aegean and sank. Now an international team, including international experts such as Professor Cemal Pula, will start excavations in the shipwreck,” said Öniz.
World’s oldest shipwreck found in Mediterranean, say officials
Findings from a shipwreck pass through two stages, Öniz said. “First is conservation, which is desalination. The second is the restoration, which means if they can be repaired, they will be repaired with scientific methods. These stages will be passed in the laboratory of the Antalya Museum the Bodrum Underwater Museum and then continue in the new underwater museum in Kemer. Finally, they will be displayed in the Mediterranean Underwater Museum which will be finished possibly in two years.”
Öniz said that these artifacts are very important because an article published last week confirmed that it was the world’s oldest.
“At present, there are 74 pillow-type copper ingots in the shipwreck. Maybe there will be more. The New York Metropolitan Museum has one ingot and the Athens National Museum of Archaeology has four. In other words, while there are five ingots on display all over the world, at least 73-74 ingots will be exhibited in the Museum of Underwater Archeology in Kemer. This will probably be with the revival of the wreck,” he said.
‘Magnificent display area’
Öniz said that there is also an Ottoman shipwreck off Alanya’s coasts, of which an important part will be displayed in the new museum. He said the museum will be located in the ancient city of Idyros.
“Within the scope of the museum project, the ancient city that is home to an early period church and a bridge with many different beautiful structures and Roman-era road will be transformed into an archaeology park. The stream there is already in a little bad condition. The renewal and revision of this stream is also in the project. Fishermen will have an accommodation opportunity there and this place will become a tourism hotspot. A part of this archaeology park will be the Mediterranean Archaeology Museum. The Culture and Tourism Ministry is working on it. I can say in advance that there will be a huge exhibition area,” he said.
He added that the museum will also be an extension of Kemer’s tourism vicinity.
“Because, as we all know, there are not enough reasons for tourists to go out in areas such as Kemer, Alanya and Side. Now we expect that holidaymakers in Kemer will want to see the oldest shipwreck in the world. And we only know that people from all over the world will come to see this wreck. The shipwreck, which is the Göbeklitepe of underwater archeology, will make Kemer an underwater archaeology center. This Bronze Age shipwreck was a trending topic on Twitter last week when only the scientific article was announced,” Öniz said.
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The Five Ps of Management
When I was a designer on the Xbox game Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, I was asked to manage a small team of contract designers as we staffed up – this was going to be my first management role. They had already hired the first contractor who they believed showed promise and was scheduled to show up the following week. He did, and it didn't take long for him to display questionable game and level design sensibilities.
It got worse. He laughingly shared a story in which he had once impersonated a security guard in order to get access to the dressing room of a famous pop musician he was obsessed with; he was found before she showed up, so he didn't get to meet her. And during lunch one day he seemed oblivious as he said derogatory, racist comments about "A-rabs" in the context of a video game to some members of the team. In less than two weeks into my management career, I fired my first and only employee.
This was an inauspicious start.
Five Ps
I've had the full range of great, good, mediocre, and bad managers – the ones on either end of the spectrum taught me the most about management. Over the years I've synthesized my own management practice into the following five Ps:
Principles - the fundamental values & beliefs that guide behaviors & decisions
People - the members of the team that embody those Principles
Priorities - what's important for the People to pursue
Process - just enough structure to enable the pursuit of those Priorities
Product - the outcome of all the above, evaluated against the Principles
Using an alliterative mnemonic device enables me to more easily remember and convey them. The order is deliberate, since the previous step guides subsequent ones.
These are the fundamental values & beliefs that guide behaviors & decisions that an organization makes. These may manifest as design principles, organizational principles, or corporate culture.
On Xbox 360, we had an explicitly communicated set of design values that we called OCCAM: Open, Clear, Consistent, Athletic, Mirai, and Occam's Razor (as the acronym alluded to). You can read more about them in a previous blog post here.
At Mercedes-Benz, designers were all following the design philosophy of Sensual Purity as defined and led by our Chief Designer. It was our job to define how it manifested across exterior design, interior design, and the digital user experience. We had to be able to internalize these principles in order to design against them. It's a hell of a challenge to do this for such a respected brand with its deep history. How many times do you get the opportunity to make a 19th century brand who made its mark in the 20th continue its leadership position in the 21st?
Netflix has one of the most well-known examples of corporate culture that explicitly states a set of values and skills that we hire and promote for: Judgment, Communication, Impact, Curiosity, Innovation, Courage, Passion, Honesty, and Selflessness. We call our culture one of Freedom & Responsibility, and it is an accurate representation of how we actually behave. When I interviewed, I asked every person if the culture deck was aspirational or operational. The average was 80-90% operational, and after two-plus years working there, I agree. They aren't represented by inspirational posters on the wall that may look nice but are ultimately empty. We hold ourselves accountable to them. They guide how we behave and how we make decisions.
It's important to have the right people, but in this case, the right people are those who embody the principles of your culture.
When we were designing and building Xbox 360, we felt like we were doing it despite Microsoft's corporate culture. We were a couple hundred people, led by a charismatic leader, who felt like we were on a mission. We were also in a run-down set of buildings at the edge of MIcrosoft's campus, next to a massive gravel pit.
This counter-culture, hardcore gamer mindset also got us into trouble. While I was still working in the game studios in the early 2000s, we had an on-campus celebration with women in "sexy nurse" outfits handing out green jello shots to employees; I remember standing around uncomfortably with a group of friends asking each other if this was really happening. About 15 years later, Xbox got into trouble again by hosting a party at the 2016 Games Developer Conference with "sexy schoolgirls" dancing on tabletops, prompting a swift mea culpa. Facepalm. Progress indeed.
At Netflix we specifically make the culture deck public so that we can give people the option to self-select – is this the kind of company they want to work for? Most of the people I work with are there greatly because of the unique corporate culture and believe it's one of our competitive advantages.
I like that we specifically call out our intolerance for the "brilliant jerk" because the cost to effective teamwork is too high. I've worked with and for many brilliant jerks in the past. Having one on or leading a team means that, as a unit, that group isn't meeting its potential. Brilliant jerks may be high performing individuals but they sap the energy and contributions of everyone else around them.
As a manager, you set the tone for acceptable behavior, and you are ultimately responsible for hiring the right people and letting them go when it's no longer the right fit.
I have also identified a list of traits that I believe are important for User Experience practitioners (which I've briefly written about in a previous blog post). I use the acronym of CICEROS as another mnemonic device: Curiosity, Imagination, Communication, Empathy, Rhetoric, Open-Mindedness, and Synthesis. I believe these represent the set of traits that all good UX professionals should develop throughout their careers.
This is about giving guidance on what the team should and shouldn't be spending their time and attention on. In some companies, this is handed down by managers as a simple prioritized list of tasks. This was the most straightforward and common way I learned to do it. Often this results in people knowing what they have to do, not necessarily why they're doing it.
Three particular aspects of the Netflix culture enables us to do this somewhat differently. First, we only seek out experienced professionals who have the self-awareness and maturity to be able to work well independently with minimal direct guidance. New college graduates without professional experience would require too much management overhead, so we generally avoid doing that. Context, Not Control is about giving people the insight and understanding to enable sound decisions. Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled depends on high performance people who have good context so that they can be fast & flexible. These exhort managers to provide the right context such that people know why they should be doing something, not just what they should be working on.
I spend some of my time with each individual on my team checking in on their short-to-long-term priorities and to help make adjustments if necessary. We are currently trying a new framework to help provide just enough structure without getting too prescriptive on super tactical project tasks, and the feedback from my team and partners at work has been positive. Good priorities enable people to focus on doing fewer things better, they are more productive and do better work, and they're happier and healthier.
I believe that organizations need to employ some process in order to function. There is clearly a wide range of what enough process means.
I partly attribute the recent United Airlines fiasco to a culture that puts process above all else; their priority seemed to be process before people. What astounded me was that before the now infamous encounter (caught on video) where police officers hauled Dr. David Dao out of his seat, there must have been dozens of people along the way who could have chosen the path to avoid escalation. They could have offered more money to entice more volunteers. They didn't. They could have booked the United employees on another carrier's flight. Nuh-uh. They could have moved down the list to find another volunteer. Nope. The police could have chosen not to escalate it to a physical altercation. That's a negative.
Instead, they each chose what they thought they were supposed to do based on the process, leading to one of the worst customer service stories in recent corporate history. United Airlines has now changed their process in response, but the people involved at every step along the way could have exercised better judgment. There are those that blame the episode on the victim, Dr. Dao; if he had simply complied with the requests, we wouldn't be here talking about it. I find that assertion ridiculous, blaming the customer who was sitting in his paid-for seat for the result of a series of bad decisions stemming from a non-customer-centric process followed mindlessly by dozens of people.
Large, bureaucratic organizations tend to have deeply entrenched processes that guide almost everything they do. Manufacturers also tend to have well-established processes in order for them to run efficiently. These organizations tend to see the lack of process as chaotic, inefficient, and unsafe.
I really learned to appreciate this point of view when I worked for Mercedes-Benz. I visited factories in Sindelfingen (Daimler HQ; Germany), Rastatt (Germany), Vance (AL, USA), and Portland (Daimler Trucks NA; OR, USA). Seeing tens of thousands of parts being put together by robots and people was awe-inspiring. I could greatly appreciate how process enables a factory to create these complex machines reliably and safely. When designing safety and driver assistance systems, process helped us avoid issues that might cause accidents or even death.
On the other side, process can be an inhibitor to creativity, flexibility, and speed. This leads many companies to have processes for everything: access, vacations, travel, expenses, and communications. I don't know how much time I have spent submitting and fixing expense reports or buying cheap, inefficient plane tickets that wasted half a day and my productivity due to these types of processes.
At Netflix we consider our work to be mostly creative-inventive as opposed to safety-critical, so we try to avoid putting processes in place that are meant to prevent errors. We try to enable high performing people with the proper context to be creative and self-disciplined, and we trust them to behave accordingly. We optimize for flexibility and speed so we can respond quickly to changes in the marketplace as well as issues in the workplace. We started the industry's "no vacation policy" practice as well as the "unlimited parental leave." Our policy for expenses & travel is five words: "Act in Netflix's best interest." We also say that we don't have a clothing policy, and yet nobody comes to work naked.
I believe some process is good as long as it's meant to enable people, not hinder them. When process starts to get in the way (of providing a great customer experience or employee productivity), then it has ceased to serve its function.
Last, but not least, is Product: the outcome of the Process to achieve the Priorities as pursued by the People behaving according to their Principles. In short, is the Product good? As a manager and leader, you help define what "good" means and enable the organization to achieve it.
For Xbox 360, we had an aspirational goal of going for magic, not perfection. This enabled us to deliver some innovations that have become standard in the game industry, like wireless controllers that can turn the console on and off, in-game notifications for achievements, a system-level user interface easily accessible in-game (without quitting), and personalized profiles.
The silver Xbox button in the middle of the controller was designed to turn the Xbox console on, but for some reason it wasn't initially designed to also turn the console off. This was something that I discovered near the end of the hardware product development, and this just felt completely wrong. I was told that it was too late – the firmware was frozen, meaning we were past the point of making any changes at the hardware level. I found a willing engineering partner who was willing to see if we could do something about it, and we spent a couple days finding a way to make it happen from a software design and engineering point of view.
When we had it working, we asked the head of Xbox and a couple other folks to join us. We handed him a wireless controller and pointed him to the inert development Xbox unit sitting on the desk. "Turn it on."
He pressed the Xbox button, turning on the console, lights animating, the TV showing the video output from the box as expected. They looked at us, expecting something cool. "Okay, now turn it off," I said.
He stepped towards the console on the desk with his finger pointed at the power button. "No, try turning it off with the controller."
He paused, thought for half a second, and held down the Xbox button on the controller. After a couple seconds, a confirmation interface slid into view asking if he wanted the console to power off. He selected Yes, and the console and controller powered down. After the cursing and high-fiving died down, they tried it again a few times. We proved that we could get it done without firmware changes in a way that was viable both from a user experience and engineering point of view, so now you could turn the Xbox 360 console on and off with the wireless controller. And that's how that simple symmetrical experience came to be.
At Netflix we try to be very customer-focused by validating every user-facing change with A/B testing. If the innovation truly is better, we should see that reflected in the metrics at a statistically significant level. We are expected to exercise a lot of creativity & judgment at every step, and user behavior informs our decisions. For example, at the end of 2016 we rolled out video previews in our user interface.
Netlfix’s user interface is run by scary dumb morons who make “upgrades” that are the dictionary definition of one step forward and two steps back.
— Dan S.
This was the culmination of a lot of work across many parts of product development, but we didn't roll it out purely because of that nor because we simply wanted to ship something (despite what some of the commenters on YouTube have to say). We "productized" this feature because we saw that users browsed less, meaning they spent less time looking for something to watch, and they watched more.
Fast Company did a comprehensive writeup on this feature rollout if you're interested to read more about that process. At the very least, you might get to see what some of these "scary dumb morons" look like (you can get my picture in the About section). Just for the record, Chris and Stephen are both very smart Product Managers who I enjoy working with and who can teach many of us a thing or two about managing and leading teams. You'll have to look for real, genuine morons elsewhere.
This blog post has gotten waaay longer than I expected. It reminds me of a memorable quote from another famous thinker (with all due respect to Dan S.):
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
— Blaise Pascal
I have been managing people for over fifteen years, and I try to do it better every year. These five Ps are the latest incarnation of my own personal approach to management, imperfect it may be.
I take my responsibility as a manager seriously as it merits thoughtfulness and reflection, with the ultimate goal of enabling others to do their best work in the service of an organization serving real human needs. I don't propose that my approach be adopted wholesale, but I hope that readers use it as an opportunity to reflect on the best management practices they have either experienced or seen in order to become better managers themselves.
Thanks to all my managers, all twenty-five of them (I just counted) since 1995. I have learned from each of you (the good as well as the bad), and hope that I have distilled those lessons well.
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The Jonas Brothers Drop Their Brand New Music Video
The Jonas Brothers are feeling so cool in the music video for their new song.
Last night saw the midnight premiere of the band's latest single "Cool." The track, produced by Zach Skelton and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, was announced earlier this week and given an '80s oceanside video treatment starring brothers Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas.
The vibrant visual begins with the boys performing for a crowd of senior citizens looking dapper in old school blue threads before the members take their coolness to the seashore for an all-out beach bash.
"Lately, I've been feelin' so cool/ Top to the bottom, just cool/ Every little thing that I do/ Dammit, I'm feelin' so cool," Nick belts confidently in the chorus, as Joe enters the feel-good record with a playful shout-out to Post Malone (who showed the JoBros love on his song "Better Now") and being in love with Game of Thrones actress and soon-to-be wife Sophie Turner.
"Cool" is the second single from the Jonas Brothers this year after comeback with "Sucker," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when it arrived last month. Both tracks are expected to appear on the Jonas Brothers' fifth studio album — their first LP in a decade after 2009's Lines, Vines And Trying Times — out (hopefully) this year.
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The Meaning of Evolution
Jean-Michel Maldamé
We provide here an excerpt of a paper given by Jean-Michel Maldamé at a conference celebrating Darwin’s anniversary at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2009. The text offers a wise perspective to let science, philosophy and theology fruitfully dialogue about the evolutionary view. The notions of creation, finality, realization, and salvation get central stage, along with the human being understood as the recapitulation of life history and diversity.
The opposition to the theory of evolution illustrated by certain believers bears on this point: do we have to renounce continuity, in the name of the theology of creation? For unbelievers, it is symmetrically the opposite: is it possible to believe in creation, when one sees the continuity which exists in the tree of life? In order to be able to give an adequate answer, we must consider the concept of creation, which, unfortunately, is ambiguous: it is a source of misunderstandings, which originate in the vision of the world of those who use it.
The mechanistic vision of creation
Today, the usual meaning of the creation refers to the beginning of the world. For ordinary people, the creative act consists in the production of the various elements which constitute the world and their arrangement into an optimal, well ordered system, like a well conceived and well regulated machine. God has given an initial impulse to this mechanism and set it in motion, and ever since, everything happens according to the laws of nature. The act of creation proper is limited to this single first instant. It is in this sense that the first words of Genesis are understood, when translated by “In the beginning”, whereas the Hebrew term berechit and the Greek term archè have a richer metaphysical dimension.
Such a conception of creation seems to me to be at the root of all the present difficulties, either to base materialism, or to motivate the rejection of the theory of evolution by certain believers. In order to find a way out, we must try to draw a line between “beginning” and “origin”.
Beginning and origin
1. The term: “beginning” designates the very first instant in the duration of a phenomenon, contrary to the word “origin”, which refers to ontological or metaphysical realities. The origin deals with the constituent condition of all that appears in the course of an event. It refers to an act which cannot be isolated inside the series of events which form the web of transformations. It is not objectively verifiable through a measuring system or through a physical-chemical representation.
To speak about the origin, is to speak about an act which is not limited to one specific moment in time. The origin must not be mistaken for the beginning. To speak about the beginning is to acknowledge something new and therefore to distinguish between what was before and what is now. It means establishing a difference in time, conceived as an ongoing, continuous experience. The origin does not confine us to one single instant in time. It is not one occurrence among others, but it is the constituting condition of all that is, at every moment, in the course of events which have happened in the time-space continuum. The origin cannot be adequately circumscribed to a scientific theory.
This distinction between origin and beginning is quite clear, on the conceptual level. Unfortunately, such is not the case for many people, because everyday language confuses the two terms. There is a reason for this: the origin seems to be clearer in the beginning, since it is the moment when “being” begins. The use of the word is ambiguous, and therefore one should be very careful, and aware of the fact that people often use one word for the other.
2. The search for the origin is beyond the scope of the scientific method. It rather pertains to the philosopher’s field. The philosopher wonders about new occurrences in a different framework of thought. Science only takes into consideration the transformations of energy. The philosopher wonders about the reason why such transformations exist. He asks questions about the very existence of life and the universe. His approach is of a different order than that of the scientist.
a. Is such a question legitimate? It could be said that it reaches beyond the limits of the human mind and therefore is unable to access a reliable form of knowledge. One could also consider that it does make sense, and that trying to find an answer to it is legitimate.
b. In such a case, the interrogation can go on: what is the reason for the existence of living objects? Not such or such a one — but the sheer reason for just being there? One takes then a metaphysical road.
Such a question could be answered by saying that life is self-sufficient and that it is its own raison d’être. It exists by itself, is in itself its own justification. The universe then becomes an absolute and words like Life and Nature are written with capital initial letters. One could observe, on the other hand, that the course of the history of life is of such a nature, that its subject cannot be made into an absolute: it must therefore be referred to something other than itself, which alone is an absolute, which lies beyond and outside the space-time continuum and is transcendent. Philosophers call him God, using a language common to the philosophical heritage as illustrated by Plato and Aristotle, and to monotheistic religions.
c. In such a perspective, one acknowledges that the existence of the universe is due to the action of God. Philosophers also use the term “creation” to designate the act through which God calls into being the universe, which is other than himself: such a gift is coextensive to the duration of the course of ages, as experienced by us in the present time.
d. The word “intervention” seems inappropriate. Its use is responsible for the current difficulties, which are three in number. First, the awkwardness of the discourse held by many Christians (among whom many priests) who use this word without explaining it; secondly, the agnostic or materialistic rejection of all references to a causality which unbelievers place at the same ontological level; lastly, the deficiencies of apologetic, which resorts to ignorance in order to appeal to a special action of God.
To get round those ambiguities, one should now try to clarify the way in which the orders of action assemble themselves in a process which implies several actors. This point is essential to show not only that creation and evolution can be reconciled, but that it is imperative to conciliate them.
Cooperation and synergy
The distinction I have introduced between beginning and origin enables us to understand why science and metaphysics, here complying with monotheistic theology, can allow for their differences and, at the same time, not ignore each other.
1. Creation lies at a different level of causality than the act of transformation. It is therefore important to link up the orders of causality. The reference to the action of God during the process should not be understood as an interaction. In an interaction in physics, chemistry or biology, the active elements are of the same order and work together, for just as in classical mechanics, forces combine with one another. Only the action of God is able to join some other action without modifying it and, a fortiori, without altering it.
The classical image which makes it possible to understand this is that of music. In a piece of music, everything is produced by the instrument and everything is produced by the musician who plays that instrument. All that is heard, is the result of both the instrument and the musician, without it being possible to separate what belongs to one or the other. Such a union, which in no way alters the principles of action (the musician and his instrument), is made possible because there is a difference of nature between those who act as musicians, and the instruments. This image enables us to understand what takes place in life, which is, at the same time, the result of the action of factors studied by the sciences of nature and anthropology, and of a transcendent principle. Because this principle is of a different order, and because it does not intervene as an element of the world, one must acknowledge that everything is of God, and everything is of nature. By reason of his transcendence, God can act without distorting the laws of nature. The usual difficulties that arise on the subject are caused by the fact that we think of God as an architect who transforms a given reality. God’s action consists in giving to beings the ability to be what they are.
2. The notion of creation then appears in its metaphysical dimension, as a reply to the question of the origin. It is in no way a means of getting round the inadequacies of scientific knowledge. On the contrary, it receives support from that knowledge. It witnesses the temporal development of an action carried by a being who is distinct from others. Thus supported by the theory of evolution, by a judgment which has to do with philosophy, the human mind acknowledges in the course of life the action of a principle which addresses the question of the origin. The notion of creation, thus analyzed, does not come under the heading of the search for a beginning, but is a matter for appraisal for the present. Creation is not an act of the past; it is the current relation between the Creator with all that exists. Natural theology had fostered a conception of God as one factor among others — the first one.
To say that everything is of nature, and everything is of God, is a liberating experience, since the two species of causality are not exclusive one of the other. The action of God consists in giving to beings the ability of being what they are. By bestowing being upon them, God gives them the ability to act according to their own nature — let us remember that the word nature is not static.
3. The assertion of God’s action in the course of evolution no longer looks like it may have looked in the positivistic age. It was looked upon as a violence, or as a trick played by the Almighty, apparently bent on the realization of some purpose outside nature. What has been said shows, on the contrary, that the action of God is the realization of nature’s wishes. The creating action takes everything to its culminating point. The theory of evolution shows in what area the creative action develops. It opens on the question of meaning.
The question of finality is at the heart of the debates between the theology of creation and the theory of evolution. Is it possible to address it? In order to do so, one must draw a clear line between teleonomy and teleology. As a matter of fact, ever since mathematics has been used in science, the Aristotelian notion of finality has needed to be made more accurate by differentiating between “finality” in the full sense of the word, i.e. “teleology”, and “finality” used in a restricted sense, i.e. “teleonomy”.
The levels of being
The term “teleonomy” is used in biology; it refers to the construction of life in its autonomy and its unity. For clarity’s sake, it is important to specify that the use of this word does not have the same scope, depending on how scientists look at their work. In order to make things easier to understand, one should underline the difference that exists between various conceptions of life — starting with what is privileged in scientific studies: the gene, the individual, the group or life considered as a whole.
1. The first option consists in laying stress on the gene — it is the thesis defended by Richard Dawkins. Since the individual who reproduces himself is de- fined and characterized by his genes, that author considers genes as the main actors in the history of life. It follows that organisms are there in order to allow genes to carry on their journey through time, by passing from one generation to another. The aim of each generation is to optimize the abilities of genes which gather together, in order to have the best chances to deal with the difficulties and constraints caused by the environment. The organism is the instrument of this struggle for life, whose subject is the gene.
2. Another option, diametrically opposite, considers a group, or a population. In which case, the behavior of the individual is subservient to the group. He takes advantage of his aptitudes for the benefit of the group. As a matter of fact, closely-knit societies, or those which are best integrated, are more likely to resist aggressions, more likely to adapt and therefore evolve through ages. It may happen that the individual does not develop all his possibilities, abdicating them for the advantage of the group. This can be observed in the behavior of animals which live in collectivities, like the colonies of bees, where the workers curb their potential activities.
3. Between these extreme positions, others favor the individual, considered as a strong unit integrating elements which are the constituents of life at all levels, starting with the biochemical elements, down to behavioral dispositions. Selection deals with individuals, not their genes or the group to which they belong. This diversity of views originates in an option which is philosophical in nature: if science places itself in the perspective of a study of functions, and if it is legitimate to favor such or such function, it is important to acknowledge that such a choice is linked to a philosophical approach, therefore to political, social, or moral options. The Christian notion of “person” can then legitimately come into the debate.
A transcendent Creator
Within the scope of the metaphysical option, which acknowledges the existence of a transcendent creative principle, the use of the concept of “teleology” is welcome. The notion of creation is in harmony with the results of science to suggest a divine design. Such an expression has the merit of acknowledging the importance of evolution in the history of life on planet Earth, and opens up other perspectives, like extra-terrestrial life, biogenesis coextensive to cosmogenesis, etc.
It is important to observe that acknowledging the transcendence of the creative principle implies two assertions: in the first place, because this principle is transcendent, it does not distort the laws of nature which it posits. In the second place, the acknowledgement of the action of the Creator is conveyed in a philosophical language, which transposes what is understood by human action. This conceptualization when it occurs does not leave the concepts in the same register of language. The use of terms coming from human experience needs to be amended. The words are legitimate, but their use must not lead to ignore the fact that language must host moments of negation. To say that God is the Creator implies that one leans on the human experience of production, but at the same time one admits that such a production is of a different order: the “starting from nothing” (ex nihilo) of the traditional formula is that negative moment. Similarly, to speak of a divine design, according to the image of an architect’s work, needs to be corrected by negations bearing on the modalities of the action. The meaning of transcendence necessarily implies the reference to a negation, which is present at the very heart of the assertion. The apologetics which uses terms describing a divine intervention to make up for the inadequacies of the scientific theory, and the intense religious considerations share in the same misconception: they misjudge the status of the theological language.
The design of God
At the end of this critical survey, we have reached a crucial point: the road to reason is adventurous, because the field of human knowledge is endlessly progressing.
The starting point for reflection
Experiencing the world through the senses does not simply consist in an immediate capture of the world. It opens up to a comprehensive perception of events and individual facts, which are part of a global vision. The observation of life does not consist in just storing up curiosities, it encourages the observer to build up the image of the great tree of life where branches, orders, families, species and varieties spread out, according to the structural order of their aptitudes. A history then appears, where mankind occupies a singular place. Thus life appears like a successful combination, arousing a feeling of admiration, perhaps even of wonder. This is the point where our reflection takes its root.
Each individual endeavors to reach perfection by giving to his potential an optimum actualization. This could be called “first love”. Or one could more simply use the word “dynamism”, in accordance with an analogy borrowed from the world of physics, but also present at every ontological level. For a scientific observer, life is a tension towards the best realization of each and every one. The tree of evolution illustrates the ascent towards a greater internal unity, and its widening out emphasizes the spreading display of varied forms. Such a dynamism is uppermost in the minds of human beings. It then takes on a new name, and is called “desire”. The word has been used by medical doctors and psychologists, bent on the study of the physical and psychological reality of human beings. The roots of desire reach far beyond the level of clear consciousness. Such a desire opens up and flourishes in language, which is a structuring element of the human species, since it is at the same time the reflection, and the engine of the process of humanization. Language is a reflection, because it establishes the irreducible difference from other animals; it is an engine, because it produces the culture where human nature reaches its full realization. Language is then the engine of thought, where what is expressed becomes ideas.
Mankind thus belongs to a long history. Its apparition is not, as traditionalists believe, the infusion of an immortal soul into a pre-human body, but rather a global development, since the ancestors of mankind — whose history is told through an extension of the customs of the populations close to homo sapiens — also have their own cultural elements. Mankind is thus placed inside a long history which encompasses it and, by comparison, its specific nature reveals itself as what should strictly be described as “the emergence of the soul”. Evolution, therefore, is also a “history of the soul”, it does not deal only with matter — as the spiritual dualism used by the apologetic unfortunately claims.
The history of salvation and evolution
Theologians illustrate these views by resorting to two essential categories. The first category lies at the heart of the Gospel, it deals with the concept of realization; the second one is right at the center of the theological renewal consecrated by the Second Vatican Council, the history of salvation.
1. One can speak of “realization”, when what was latent and concealed, in a rough state or in a state of great dispersion, becomes unified. It is, in the full meaning of the word, a recapitulation. The word, as a matter of fact, comes from the art of rhetoric. There, the orator, after having set out the various elements of the case, or of the issue, he is addressing, proceeds with giving a synthesis of his talk. The audience have in mind the elements, they have followed the rigour of the presentation. Recapitulation consists in repeating the argument in a global formula, which is all the clearer as it is brief. It can therefore be said that the human being, positioned as he is on the great tree of life, recapitulates it; which means that all that is found among other living objects is found in him, but that these elements have all changed, because they are part of his unity. The human being is not only at the top of the tree of life, as was claimed in Darwin’s days; he is not only the ultimate point, as Bergson or Teilhard de Chardin believed; we see him as the recapitulation of all that can be found in the diversity of living objects. Such a recapitulation is not only a juxtaposition: it is an accomplishment, in the sense that all that is taken up has a dimension which verges on infinity.
2. The theological notion of “history of salvation” can be useful here. It takes root in the Biblical Texts. In the elaboration of such a vast corpus, one can see how the history of a kingdom centered around Jerusalem has widened to include first the cultural journey from Egypt to Mesopotamia revolving on the Law, then the history of a large crowd of people obsessed with the figures of the patriarchs Abraham or Jacob, and also the destiny of mankind as a whole, captured in its patriarchs or emblematic figures, like Adam, Cain, Noah, thus laying the foundations of a universal history of mankind. This unity operates through the acknowledgement of an action of God, the unique, transcendent master of time and worlds. Can this notion of “history of salvation” — which is not, in any way, a sacred history, but the history of mankind falling the prey to every possible distress as the reverse side of its grandeur — can this notion be used in the perspective of science enlightened by the theory of evolution? Yes, it can! Because every beginning is linked to what has come before, to what has conditioned or caused it to happen. So that, the millions of years of the history of life can be seen in the eyes of faith, and be made into a history led by God, realizing His design.
3. In this perspective, it is possible to consider the place occupied by human beings as eminent, a place which can be described as pivotal. It is not static, as in the spiritual tradition, which locates the spirit outside time, but dynamic. The word “pivotal” refers to a direction, the determination of which depends on intellectual choices. If one favors such or such other principle, the direction of the axis will vary. The Christian faith leads one to opt for the pivotal direction of mankind. The presence of mankind has in times past been shown in biblical texts written some three thousand years ago, in a context completely different from today’s context; it is obviously linked to the justification of Neolithic culture which arose in the Near East. It is impossible to adopt it in a literal sense as the fundamentalists insist on doing. But it can be revisited. On the one hand, it is quite clear that human beings are the most complex creatures among all others; on the other hand, they are capable of reflection and their nature is a cultural nature. Thus, scientific knowledge is not denied; on the contrary, it is made legitimate, since it is a decisive instrument in answering the questions emblematically inscribed by Gauguin at the end of his quest for absolute happiness: “Who are we? Whence do we come? Whither are we going?” or, in philosophical terms, what are the origin, and the end.
The grandeur of man
This global perspective invites us to re-examine our understanding of God’s de- sign. By placing the human being at the center of language and communication in human societies, speech has become the unquestionable objective criterion to state what the essence of man is. Speech is then given to be heard in its full rich- ness. It is not only an instrument to convey or transfer information — like animal languages: it establishes a relationship with the other, it is a call, an act of listening, which structures the subject. A specific dimension opens up. The human being is not only a force in the process of evolution according to its own dynamism. He is a responding being. He is a responsible being, not only in the moral or legal sense of the word, but, more radically, at the ontological level.
It then appears, for the believer, that being human means answering the call of the other. The “other” can be him who manifests himself through the Alliance, ac- cording to the famous expression used by Pascal in his Memorial, “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not the God of the philosophers and scientists”, the God who calls and to whom the believer answers. To enter this perspective is not substantiating a fixed vision of nature, but on the contrary realizing that it is better understood when inscribed in a relation where the call is the decisive moment. The action of God is not seen as that of a dominating master sitting at the top of his eternity, seeing and foreseeing everything in an absolute, infallible manner, but on the contrary as that of one who respects the order he has created and which establishes a nature. God is not one who uses cunning in order to reign over the world without the world knowing. God is the one who calls. He attracts us, appeals to us and his appeal creates an area of liberty. The better we reply to his appeal, the larger the area of liberty becomes. To be human, is to answer the call: the call of mankind, where solidarity, communication, responsibility are concerned. But also, the call of the Creator conveyed by human mediations in the course of history, therefore in a temporality which has a founding quality. All this enables us to acknowledge the reference to “a special action of God” (as Pope Benedict XVI recalled, in his address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, November 1st, 2008) without using the word “intervention”, in order to respect the wisdom of God, who uses the laws of nature to do his work.
The notion of revelation is not thought of, as it is in the fixist theology, as an opposition, or exception, to the natural processes discovered by scientific reasoning, but as the realization of the fundamental urge for truth inscribed in human nature. The call of God is not part of a series of other calls, but the root of all calls. Fanaticism, sectarianism and dogmatism are the consequences of our forgetting this dimension.
Theological conclusion: The Holy Ghost as Creator
The notion of creation conveys those riches in the theological tradition, which asks questions about the whys and wherefores of the world. It is not enough for the believer to say that the world was created by God: he must know why God has created the world. The traditional answer runs against a tradition according to which creation is a necessity. The monotheistic tradition challenges this perspective, which implies an ontological poverty of the divine being inscribed in the necessity of its evolution. The reason for the creating act is not the result of a need, but the product of his generosity. God does not need to create: He does so out of love. The verb to love is here understood as meaning to wish other people’s welfare. Love is then the key word which illuminates life. It designates the energy which lies at the root of the great tree of life. With an even stronger energy, the Christian tradition challenges the gnostic, or Manichaean temptation, which sees in the material world the result of a fall.
The God of the Christian faith is not that of deism, not even that of theism. The traditional reading of the Bible has been able to find these words in the first verse of Genesis, where God acts through His word, and creates a world over which hovers His Spirit. The verb which conveys the action of the Spirit (the breath of God) designates the movement of a bird fluttering about (merahephet) over its nest (root: rhp): it is a protecting presence, not weighing heavily over it; it brings nourishment and is an incitement to flight. Thus, our vision of the tree of life is not one where we would try to introduce divine interventions, but on the contrary to look for its trace in the dynamism of life. The Spirit of God, who is God himself, is at work in a spiritual manner. He animates, stimulates, educates, protects, guards, vivifies.
The attention paid to the experience of the Spirit by Christians since Pentecost is usually reserved for mystical studies. But the personal action of the Spirit is not limited to mystics. I think it can be extended to the whole creation, and more particularly to the living. It is thus appropriate to develop an important element of Christian theology: the personal role played by the Holy Ghost in creation, and in leading the history of salvation towards its full realization.
J.-M. Maldamé, “The various meanings of the word evolution in science, philosophy and theology”, in G. Auletta, M. Leclerc, R.A. Martínez, Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories. A Critical Appraisal 150 Years after “The Origin of Species” (Rome: G&B Press, 2011), pp. 557-71.
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IRSA at the 100th Annual CAA Conference in Los Angeles, 22-25 February 2012
IRSA Institute took a part in the 100th Annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference and Book Fair in Los Angeles, 22-25 February 2012.
More than 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, and gallerists gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center, February 22–25, 2012, for four days of presentations and panel discussions on art history and visual culture; career-development workshops, mentoring programs, and job interviews; a Book and Trade Fair of academic and trade publishers and artist-materials distributers; and a variety of special events throughout southern California. Members of the IRSA Institute, dr. Klementyna Suchanow and dr. Jakub Adamski presented our scholarly journal Artibus et Historiae and other publications of the IRSA Publishing House.
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Jamie Cullum collaborates with UK's Queen of Soul Beverley Knight
I for one am extremely excited about Soulsville, the upcoming release from the incredibly talented Beverley Knight on June 10th! Her eighth studio album, it was recorded in one week in Memphis, at the famous Royal Studios.
I was fortunate enough to get a preview of the new album which Beverley showcased for the first time with her amazing band recently at Cheltenham Jazz Festival on April 30th. Already a massive longtime BK fan, I was honestly blown by the new material. More than ever, Beverley's vocal ability is undeniably outstanding, her stage presence warm and authentic and the way she digs so deep into her soul just makes you love her even more! I must admit I shed many tears at that show, the emotion was so raw.
Credit: Beverley Knight [Instagram]
Another reason to be very excited about the new record is that Beverley has collaborated with Jamie! They duet on the classic William Bell and Judy Clay’s Private Number. Pre-order the album now.
www.beverleyknight.com/
Beverley is currently touring the UK and then will return to the role of Rachel Marron in the West End production of The Bodyguard in July.
Labels: Beverley Knight, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Jamie Cullum, Judy Clay, Memphis, Private Number, soul, Soulsville, The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston, William Bell
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David Weber – In Enemy Hands
After a break of almost a year I have continued with the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. As the series is military science fiction and having read six novels in a row attrition had crept in. Weber had managed to improve the stories and the general plot development up until Flag In Exile, the fifth book, but here the sequence ended somewhat, with the sixth, Honor Among Enemies, being a drop in quality and a break of the flow of the general narrative. There were few sparks and a reading the novels so close after each other had generated a feeling of repetition. That is the risk of the subgenre, especially regarding military novels which often provide a lack of variation to the general setup of the novel.
To be honest, it was a good thing to take a break. If I had continued with the seventh novel, In Enemy Hands (1997), that feeling would have been even stronger with the risk of a much longer period not continuing the series. This is because the novels suffers from a few weaknesses.
The first and alas most obvious weakness is that the title gives away the theme of the plot away. The earlier titles were generic enough only to provide a hint. Even worse was the description on the backcover of the novel. As I did not need to read it to get me to read the novel I was very fortunate because, as I read it after I finished the book, it gave away pretty much all of the plot. Of course some details were missing, but not much.
One might ask how they could give that much away of the plot on the backcover also provides the second weakness. The plot itself is rather simple and straightforward. That is not a problem normally, but there was pretty much only one storyline. Weber added a few secondary characters that he followed around the storyline. This was mainly done to provide some insights into the behavior of the characters in the course of the events.
Actually, the plot itself is so shallow that more than before Weber spent a lot of time inside the heads of a number of characters, letting them drift in extensive sequences of inner thoughts. It is okay to do so occasionally, in my opinion, as it provides some moments of retrospection and breaks from action scenes and the like. One should avoid however to make them too long. In my view there was a lot of filler. Besides that a good author should not require that many words to express the emotions and thoughts of a character.
The aforementioned sequences take up most of the first half of the novel, in which virtually nothing of consequence happens. It is more of a buildup of the situation in different places. The second half holds pretty much all of the actual plot of the novel and even that feels like an extended play to give the book more body.
Although the novel ends in a good and entertaining way it is rather clear that the whole novel is written to provide the setup for the next stage in the series. As the first five novels provided a sort of cycle of a greater plot, the sixth and this seventh novel look to be part of a second cycle. The titles are a bit of a giveaway, at least for the initial stage. The sixth book provided a kind of transition while In Enemy Hands provides the setup. It may seem that Weber could not cut the plot of the cycle in usable chunks. In Enemy Hands thus looks more like an extended prologue that has been expanded to the size of a regular novel. It has me excited for the next novel and the conclusion was good enough to satisfy me to hide the earlier feelings towards the long and mildly less interesting first half.
Compared to the other novels of the series In Enemy Hands is somewhat poor. It has it qualities as Weber knows how to handle his characters and his prose makes it an easy read. There are still some of elements of lazy writing, especially in the dialogues and inner thoughts, where there is also less to distinguish the different characters. He does know his military science fiction so that remains of good quality. The singlesided plot which is several ways is predictable besides being a giveaway. It is only in the details where one finds most to enjoy. Of the series this novel will not be one of the memorable ones.
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Thinking and ranting out loud - my own thoughts and comments written whenever the mood takes me. Nothing is safe, Chop Chop!
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Exploring Northern Ireland's Causeway and Mourne Coastal Routes - Ballycastle to Larne (65kms)
After visiting Ballycastle on the North Antrim coast it was time to turn southwards. The Causeway Route, which started in Derry, continues on to Belfast around the brilliant coastline of Co Antrim.
The first part of today's journey was inland for a while. There is a second road around Tor Head, but I choose the more inland route to see the Vanishing Lake at Loughareema. This is not a tidal lake - it is a freshwater lake that disappears when a "plug-hole" that often gets blocked with peat (thus filling the lake) clears, and all the water flows away. The "lake" was empty when I passed. Apparently when the water does drain away it does so very rapidly. There is also a lot of forest in this region which gives the bleak landscape a lusher feel.
Back at the coast I reached the village of Cushendun which lies at the end of one of the nine Glens of Antrim (Glendun). There is an interesting story of a goat here. The last animal culled during the 2001 Foot & Moot Disease outbreak in Northern Ireland, was a local goat. The sculpture of a goat, by Deborah Brown, was presented to the people of Cushendun in 2002 in memory of the goat. Cushendun is a small village in a beautiful location and is well worth a short stop.
Further along the coast is the larger town of Cushendall, well known in the South of Ireland as the centre of hurling in Co Antrim. They are obviously very prod of their local hurling team as there is a huge mural in the town marking 100 years of GAA activity in the two. Also of interest here is the Curfew Tower located in the centre of the town which was built in 1817.
The next part of my journey was on the road which runs right along the coast all the way to Larne. This has to be one of the best bike rides in Ireland though the road is quite narrow and there are not that many places to stop and check out the scenery.
My next stop was at Carnlough where there is a picturesque harbour. This was built using stone from local quarries which was carried across a bridge which still stands. Carnlough is also where the current Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, is from! The town lies at the foot of Glencoy - another of the nine Glens of Antrim.
Very close to Carnlough is the village of Glenarm. There is a large castle here which is not visible from the road, but you can see the so called "Conjuror's Tower" which is named after one of the Earls of Antrim who was known as The Conjuror. Glenarm is located at the foot of Glen Arm which I decided to take a trip around. It is not the most interesting bike ride but you do get a super view (in the distance) of Glenarm Castle.
Also note-worthy on this detour is that you get to see Slemish Mountain where it is reputed that St Patrick tended sheep and where he also found God. The mountain is part of an extinct volcano and dominates the surrounding landscape for miles. It is also a popular place of pilgrimage on St Patrick's Day.
The road from Glenarm to Larne is literally on the edge of the coast, with only a small wall to separate the road from the Irish Sea/North Channel. This was of course part of the 2014 Giro d'Italia cycle race and there are several old bicycles painted in pink along the route, including the statue of a fisherman and his bike near Cushendall. The Giro really showcased Northern Ireland's scenery to the world and it is clear that the locals along the route welcomed the riders with open arms and pink paint.
The last stop on this part of my trip was at the port town of Larne. I had been here once before to get a ferry to Scotland, but had never explored the town. The most interesting part for me was the Chaine Memorial Tower which sticks out into the sea. It was built in memory of James Chaine MP. He was responsible for developing the sea route from Larne to Scotland and died at the young age of 44 in 1885. The tower, a replica of an Irish Round Tower, was built by public subscription in his memory.
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Can Afterschool with a Foundation in SEL Help Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline?
By Sam Piha
In a recent Forum For Thought on the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) website, AYPF Policy and Research Intern, Olivia Thomas, raised the concern about the school-to-prison pipeline and cited afterschool as a contributing solution. (See original post here.)
She began by sharing a number of facts:
Olivia Thomas
- “In the 2009-2010 school year, 96,000 students were arrested at their schools, and an additional 242,000 were referred to law enforcement by a school administrator.
- Black and Hispanic students made up more than 70 percent of those students.
- LGBTQ students and disabled students are also disproportionately punished under punitive policies as compared to their peers.
- Black youth in particular make up about 16% of students in public schools, but approximately 40% of the students being arrested and committed to the juvenile justice system. This translates to black students being more than four times as likely as their white peers to be arrested at school despite the fact that both groups commit disciplinary offenses at similar rates.”
She then made a case why afterschool can be part of the solution:
"Social and emotional learning (SEL) has long been a central point of afterschool programming. In learning skills such as self-awareness and responsible decision making, youth can learn to better manage their emotions and experiences, and navigate potentially hostile classroom environments in a way that is considered more acceptable by school administrators."
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"Afterschool and OST programs provide a safe, supportive place for young people to spend their time. The activities offered by specific programs provide a positive focus for their energy and keep them engaged between the critical hours of 3:00-7:00 pm – the time frame in which juveniles are most frequently victims or perpetrators of violent crimes.
Another longtime focus of afterschool has been on culturally relevant teaching. This practice ensures that different narratives and cultures are represented truthfully and equitably in lessons and activities. As a result, students from disadvantaged backgrounds feel seen and heard in their learning experience, and can play an active, productive role in it.
Afterschool can connect students to various opportunities and resources that allow them to explore postsecondary career and education options that they would not have access to otherwise. Career exploration, college visits, and internships are the types of experiences that can help keep students engaged in their learning by challenging and motivating them to think about their future path.
Wraparound services exist to holistically serve the needs of youth. Afterschool programs can integrate these services to further provide students with the tools and support they need, from access to healthy food to connections to social services. Wraparound supports in OST settings can ensure young people have the resources and support they need so they can better function and thrive in a school environment.”
To learn more about the school-to-prison pipeline, check out these two videos:
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10 New Schools for More Than 6,400 Children in Badakhshan & Project Launch: New Flood Protection Wall for Feyzabad District
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Today, two important projects have been launched by the Afghan-German Cooperation and the Afghan authorities
Ten new schools will be built in eight rural districts of Badakhshan and in its provincial capital Feyzabad. In addition, the contracts for building flood protection walls in Badakhshan have been signed.
The Afghan engineer and director of Kokcha River Sub-Basin Agency of Badakhshan, Rafi Bahman, highlighted the importance of this project and emphasised the fact that this will strongly improve the socio-economic develop-ment of all citizens in the affected area.
Dr Petra Seidler, Head of the German funded programme RIDF, added: “By the implementation of these projects together with Afghan provincial authorities and companies, government employees will be gaining practical ex-perience in managing complex projects”. Besides providing constructions works to the province, these projects also aim at enhancing the provincial department’s ability to conduct similar projects in the future. Therefore, experts from RIDF will offer technical trainings and will provide support throughout the duration of the projects.
The programme RIDF is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through KfW Development Bank and contracted to the joint venture of Sweco-GOPA‐INTEGRATION for rolling out the programme.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Ahmad Faisal Begzad, Badakhshan Provincial Governor, mentioned: “The Afghan-German friendship has been lasting over a century. We are thankful for the German government’s great support to the people of Badakhshan. It will always be remembered and appreciated”. “The Afghan-German Cooperation opens a perspective for a modern Afghanistan where people and families can live peacefully together and develop their own future. By signing the contracts to construct the schools and the flood protection walls today, we are already on the right track to such a future”, the Consul-General of Germany in Masar-e Sharif, Dr Robert Klinke, added. The ceremony was held at the provincial governor meeting hall.
The districts receiving new schools are: Argo, Darayem, Kishem, Tagab, Teshkan, Shahr-e-Bozorg and Yaftal-e-Payan. In total, these will allow more than 6,400 children to attend classes in proper school buildings instead of being taught in tents or under open sky. The school designs have been introduced by German experts and developed in close coordination with the Infrastructure Service Department of the Afghan Ministry of Education, in order to match the very specific Badakhshan mountainous conditions. Each building is designed to be earthquake resistant and energy efficient. In about one year, all schools will be ready to provide education for pupils from 1st to 12th grade at an expected total cost of AFN 200 million, funded by the German government. Each school will consist of new or renovated fully furnished classrooms and administrative rooms. Furthermore, boundary walls that encircle each school will ensure the safety of all pupils and teachers. New toilets and guardhouses as well as drinking water access points will be provided.
Dr Frank Pohl, a representative of the Afghan-German Cooperation from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, highlighted: “An investment in education and the young generation is probably the best and the most sustainable investment that one can make”. Mr Abdul Hay Entizami, Director of Education of Badakhshan province, as well as the districts education representatives vividly described how crucially these schools will improve the education standard in their respective districts.
Furthermore, Afghan and German representatives signed a contract for the construction of four flood protection walls with a total length of 1.8 kilometres in Feyzabad district, Badakhshan. Around 50,000 people will benefit from the flood protection walls which will be built along the Kokcha river at four different locations. The German government funded the construction via the programme “Regional Infrastructure Development Fund” (RIDF) at a total cost of AFN 71,3 million.
In recent years, heavy floods in 2009, 2010 and 2011 have severely damaged the livelihood of the population around the Kokcha river. For instance, flooding near the Agriculture Garden in Absity, Badakhshan affected more than 22,000 people as well as 1,500 residential houses and 6,000 hectare agricultural land. Therefore, the con-struction of a protection wall became increasingly necessary. The new flood protection walls will safeguard im-portant infrastructure such as main roads, agricultural areas, residential houses as well as irrigation canals and siphons.
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Context of 'July 14, 1970: Nixon Approves ‘Huston Plan’ for Domestic Surveillance'
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June 5, 1970: Nixon Focuses on Domestic Intelligence Gathering
President Nixon meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA Director Richard Helms, and the heads of the NSA and DIA to discuss a proposed new domestic intelligence system. His presentation is prepared by young White House aide Tom Charles Huston (derisively called “Secret Agent X-5” behind his back by some White House officials). The plan is based on the assumption that, as Nixon says, “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans—mostly under 30—are determined to destroy our society.” Nixon complains that the various US intelligence agencies spend as much time battling with one another over turf and influence as they do working to locate threats to national security both inside and outside of the country. The agencies need to prove the assumed connections between the antiwar demonstrators and Communists. The group in Nixon’s office will now be called the “Interagency Committee on Intelligence,” Nixon orders, with Hoover chairing the new ad hoc group, and demands an immediate “threat assessment” about domestic enemies to his administration. Huston will be the White House liaison. Historian Richard Reeves will later write: “The elevation of Huston, a fourth-level White House aide, into the company of Hoover and Helms was a calculated insult. Nixon was convinced that both the FBI and the CIA had failed to find the links he was sure bound domestic troubles and foreign communism. But bringing them to the White House was also part of a larger Nixon plan. He was determined to exert presidential control over the parts of the government he cared most about—the agencies dealing with foreign policy, military matters, intelligence, law, criminal justice, and general order.” [Reeves, 2001, pp. 229-230]
Entity Tags: Richard Reeves, Tom Charles Huston, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Richard Helms, National Security Agency
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties, Nixon and Watergate
July 14, 1970: Nixon Approves ‘Huston Plan’ for Domestic Surveillance
President Nixon approves the “Huston Plan” for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. Four days later he rescinds his approval. [Washington Post, 2008] Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston comes up with the plan, which involves authorizing the CIA, FBI, NSA, and military intelligence agencies to escalate their electronic surveillance of “domestic security threats” in the face of supposed threats from Communist-led youth agitators and antiwar groups (see June 5, 1970). The plan would also authorize the surreptitious reading of private mail, lift restrictions against surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather information, plant informants on college campuses, and create a new, White House-based “Interagency Group on Domestic Intelligence and Internal Security.” Huston’s Top Secret memo warns that parts of the plan are “clearly illegal.” Nixon approves the plan, but rejects one element—that he personally authorize any break-ins. Nixon orders that all information and operations to be undertaken under the new plan be channeled through his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, with Nixon deliberately being left out of the loop. The first operations to be undertaken are using the Internal Revenue Service to harass left-wing think tanks and charitable organizations such as the Brookings Institution and the Ford Foundation. Huston writes that “[m]aking sensitive political inquiries at the IRS is about as safe a procedure as trusting a whore,” since the administration has no “reliable political friends at IRS.” He adds, “We won’t be in control of the government and in a position of effective leverage until such time as we have complete and total control of the top three slots of the IRS.” Huston suggests breaking into the Brookings Institute to find “the classified material which they have stashed over there,” adding: “There are a number of ways we could handle this. There are risks in all of them, of course; but there are also risks in allowing a government-in-exile to grow increasingly arrogant and powerful as each day goes by.” [Reeves, 2001, pp. 235-236] In 2007, author James Reston Jr. will call the Huston plan “arguably the most anti-democratic document in American history… a blueprint to undermine the fundamental right of dissent and free speech in America.” [Reston, 2007, pp. 102]
Entity Tags: US Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Richard M. Nixon, Brookings Institution, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ford Foundation, Internal Revenue Service, Tom Charles Huston, James Reston, Jr
July 26-27, 1970: Nixon Rejects Huston Plan
After President Nixon approves of the so-called “Huston Plan” to implement a sweeping new domestic intelligence and internal security apparatus (see July 14, 1970), FBI director J. Edgar Hoover brings the plan’s author, White House aide Tom Charles Huston (see June 5, 1970), into his office and vents his disapproval. The “old ways” of unfettered wiretaps, political infiltration, and calculated break-ins and burglaries are “too dangerous,” he tells Huston. When, not if, the operations are revealed to the public, they will open up scrutiny of US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and possibly reveal other, past illegal domestic surveillance operations that would embarrass the government. Hoover says he will not share FBI intelligence with other agencies, and will not authorize any illegal activities without President Nixon’s personal, written approval. The next day, Nixon orders all copies of the decision memo collected, and withdraws his support for the plan. [Reeves, 2001, pp. 236-237] W. Mark Felt, the deputy director of the FBI, later calls Huston “a kind of White House gauleiter over the intelligence community.” Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward will note that the definition of “gauleiter” is, according to Webster’s Dictionary, “the leader or chief officoal of a political district under Nazi control.” [Woodward, 2005, pp. 33-34]
Entity Tags: W. Mark Felt, Tom Charles Huston, J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard M. Nixon
September 9, 1971: ’Plumbers’ Burglarize Psychiatrist Office
Eugenio Martinez. [Source: public domain]President Nixon’s “Plumbers” unit, tasked to plug media leaks from administration officials and outsiders to the media, burglarizes the Los Angeles office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to find damaging information on Daniel Ellsberg, the former defense analyst and patient of Fielding who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” to the media. [Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum, 7/3/2007] Ellsberg is a former Marine captain in Vietnam and protege of Henry Kissinger who had a change of heart over the war; he then leaked a secret set of Pentagon documents to the New York Times detailing how the Kennedy and Johnson administrations had secretly escalated the war in Vietnam (see June 13, 1971).
Watergate Connection - One of the burglars is Eugenio Martinez, who later is arrested as one of the five Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972). Martinez and two others—Felipe de Diego and the mission leader, E. Howard Hunt, who will supervise the Watergate burglary—are all old “CIA hands” heavily involved in anti-Castro activities. Martinez is still active in the CIA, as is Hunt, whom he often refers to by his old CIA code name of “Eduardo.” Another Watergate burglar, CIA agent Bernard Barker, is also involved in the Ellsberg burglary.
Martinez: Burglary a Near-Disaster - Hunt tells Martinez and Diego that they are to burglarize the offices of a “traitor” who is spying for the Soviet Union, and that the mission was ordered by the White House, where Hunt is now an aide. Barker tells the Cubans, “We have to find some papers of a great traitor to the United States, who is a son of a b_tch .” The men will become a unit outside the normal law enforcement and intelligence channels, operating within but not part of the CIA, FBI, and “all the agencies,” Martinez will later recall. They buy photographic equipment at Sears, and Hunt and Diego use disguises—wigs, fake glasses, false identification, and voice-altering devices. “Barker recognized the name on Hunt’s false identification—Edward J. Hamilton—as the same cover name Eduardo had used during the Bay of Pigs,” Martinez will recall. The planning, Martinez will recall, is far looser and less meticulous than “anything I was used to in the [CIA].” A disguised Hunt and Diego, masquerading as delivery men, deliver the photographic equipment to the office; later that night, they and Martinez break in and rifle the office. Martinez will write that Hunt and de Diego looked “kind of queerish” in their disguises, with their “Peter Lorre-type glasses, and the funny Dita Beard wigs” (see February 22, 1972). Before the break-in, Barker, who does not enter, whispers to Martinez, “Hey, remember this name—Ellsberg.” Martinez does not recognize the name. [Harper's, 10/1974; Reeves, 2001, pp. 369]
Comedy of Errors - The burglars wait for hours until the cleaning lady leaves for the night, and find the door to the building locked. At that point, a fifth man, “George,” whom Martinez learns is G. Gordon Liddy, another of the Watergate burglars also involved in the Ellsberg planning, appears and tells them to break in through a window. [Harper's, 10/1974] Three burglars—Bernard Barker, Felipe de Diego, and Eugenio Martinez—perform the actual break-in, while Hunt and Liddy act as lookouts. [Reeves, 2001, pp. 369] The burglary is quickly turning into a comedy of errors, Martinez will recall. “This was nothing new. It’s what the Company did in the Bay of Pigs when they gave us old ships, old planes, old weapons. They explained that if you were caught in one of those operations with commercial weapons that you could buy anywhere, you could be said to be on your own. They teach you that they are going to disavow you. The Company teaches you to accept those things as the efficient way to work. And we were grateful. Otherwise we wouldn’t have had any help at all. In this operation it seemed obvious—they didn’t want it to be traced back to the White House. Eduardo told us that if we were caught, we should say we were addicts looking for drugs.” Martinez finds nothing concerning Ellsberg in the office except for Fielding’s telephone book, which Martinez photographs. Before leaving, Martinez spills some pills from Fielding’s briefcase—“vitamin C, I think”—over the floor to make it seem as if the burglars had broken in looking for drugs. As they leave the office, Martinez spots a police car trailing them, but they are not stopped. “I thought to myself that the police car was protecting us. That is the feeling you have when you are doing operations for the government. You think that every step has been taken to protect you.”
Failure; Training for Bigger Mission? - Martinez feels that the burglary is a failure, but Hunt insists that they celebrate anyway. Martinez tells Diego that the break-in must either be a training exercise for a more important mission to come, or it was a cover operation for something else. “I thought to myself that maybe these people already had the papers of Ellsberg. Maybe Dr. Fielding had given them out and for ethical reasons he needed to be covered. It seemed that these people already had what we were looking for because no one invites you to have champagne and is happy when you fail,” he will write. Martinez’s CIA supervisor is strangely uninterested in the incident. “I was certain then that the Company knew about his activities,” Martinez will write. “But once again my CO did not pursue the subject.” [Harper's, 10/1974] Hunt telephones Plumbers supervisor Egil Krogh at 4 a.m. to report that the burglary was a success but they found no files on Ellsberg. [Reeves, 2001, pp. 369]
Entity Tags: ’Plumbers’, Dita Beard, Central Intelligence Agency, E. Howard Hunt, Daniel Ellsberg, Richard M. Nixon, Egil Krogh, Henry A. Kissinger, Eugenio Martinez, Lewis Fielding, Felipe de Diego, Federal Bureau of Investigation, G. Gordon Liddy, Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
March-April 1972: CREEP Raises $20 Million in Unreported Cash, Launders It through Foreign Banks
President Nixon’s personal lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, delivers over $900,000 in secret campaign contributions to the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). He has collected the money on Nixon’s orders, passing along Nixon’s instructions to donors, one of which is “Anybody who wants to be an ambassador must give at least $250,000.” In total, CREEP collects nearly $20 million, $2 million in cash. CREEP reports none of this money—and because the new campaign finance laws do not go into effect until April 7, the organization is not legally bound to declare it until that time. Some of the contributors are executives and corporations in trouble with the IRS or the Justice Department. Some are Democrats openly contributing to Democratic candidates and hedging their bets with contributions to Nixon and other Republicans. Much of the money is “laundered” through Mexican and Venezuelan banks. “Plumber” G. Gordon Liddy moves $114,000 through fellow “Plumber” Bernard Barker’s Miami bank accounts (see April-June 1972 and June 21, 1972). More money resides in safety deposit boxes in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and Miami. “Plumber” E. Howard Hunt uses money from the campaign fund to recruit dozens of young men and women to spy on Democratic campaigns and report back to CREEP. [Reeves, 2001, pp. 462-463]
Entity Tags: Committee to Re-elect the President, Bernard Barker, Richard M. Nixon, Herbert Kalmbach, G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt
June 19, 1972: Supreme Court Holds Warrantless Wiretapping of US Citizens Unconstitutional
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that strikes down warrantless surveillance of domestic groups for national security purposes. The Department of Justice had wiretapped, without court warrants, several defendants charged with destruction of government property; those wiretaps provided key evidence against the defendants. Attorney General John Mitchell refused to disclose the source of the evidence pursuant to the “national security” exception to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. The courts disagreed, and the government appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which upheld the lower courts’ rulings against the government in a unanimous verdict. The Court held that the wiretaps were an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment, establishing the judicial precedent that warrants must be obtained before the government can wiretap a US citizen. [US Supreme Court, 6/19/1972; Bernstein and Woodward, 1974, pp. 258-259] Critics of the Nixon administration have long argued that its so-called “Mitchell Doctrine” of warrantlessly wiretapping “subversives” has been misused to spy on anyone whom Nixon officials believe may be political enemies. [Bernstein and Woodward, 1974, pp. 258-259] As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, Congress passes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [John Conyers, 5/14/2003]
Opinion of Justice Powell - Writing for the Court, Justice Lewis Powell observes: “History abundantly documents the tendency of Government—however benevolent and benign its motives—to view with suspicion those who most fervently dispute its policies. Fourth Amendment protections become the more necessary when the targets of official surveillance may be those suspected of unorthodoxy in their political beliefs. The danger to political dissent is acute where the government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect ‘domestic security.’ Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent.” [US Supreme Court, 6/19/1972]
Justice Department Wiretapped Reporters, Government Officials - In February 1973, the media will report that, under the policy, the Justice Department had wiretapped both reporters and Nixon officials themselves who were suspected of leaking information to the press (see May 1969 and July 26-27, 1970), and that some of the information gleaned from those wiretaps was given to “Plumbers” E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy for their own political espionage operations. [Bernstein and Woodward, 1974, pp. 258-259]
Conyers Hails Decision 30 Years Later - In 2003, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) will say on the floor of the House: “Prior to 1970, every modern president had claimed ‘inherent Executive power’ to conduct electronic surveillance in ‘national security’ cases without the judicial warrant required in criminal cases by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. Then Attorney General John Mitchell, on behalf of President Richard Nixon sought to wiretap several alleged ‘domestic’ terrorists without warrants, on the ground that it was a national security matter. Judge [Damon] Keith rejected this claim of the Sovereign’s inherent power to avoid the safeguard of the Fourth Amendment. He ordered the government to produce the wiretap transcripts. When the Attorney General appealed to the US Supreme Court, the Court unanimously affirmed Judge Keith. The Keith decision not only marked a watershed in civil liberties protection for Americans. It also led directly to the current statutory restriction on the government’s electronic snooping in national security cases.” [John Conyers, 5/14/2003]
Entity Tags: Lewis Powell, US Supreme Court, John Mitchell, E. Howard Hunt, US Department of Justice, G. Gordon Liddy, ’Plumbers’, Damon Keith, Richard M. Nixon
June 21, 1972: Liddy Should Take Fall for Watergate, Nixon Aides Suggest; Nixon Says Most Americans Believe Bugging of Other Party ‘Routine’
President Nixon and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman discuss a suggestion by Nixon campaign chief John Mitchell regarding the Watergate burglary and bugging (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972). Mitchell believes that burglar G. Gordon Liddy should take the entire blame for the burglary, and confess to being the operation’s “mastermind.” “You mean you’d have Liddy confess and say he did it unauthorized?” Nixon asks. Haldeman affirms the question. After further discussion, Nixon says: “The reaction is going to be primarily Washington and not the country, because I think the country doesn’t give much of a sh_t about it other than the ones we’ve already bugged.… Everybody around here is all mortified by it. It’s a horrible thing to rebut [whereas] most people around the country think this is routine, that everybody’s trying to bug everybody else, it’s politics.” Nixon is struck with a new idea during the conversation—use every accusation of the Watergate bugging to claim that it only proves the Democrats were bugging the Nixon campaign. Maybe they should plant a bug on themselves and claim the Democrats planted it, Nixon suggests. Haldeman circles the conversation back to Liddy, and Nixon asks, “Is Liddy willing?” Haldeman replies: “He says he is. Apparently he is a little bit nuts… apparently he’s sort of a Tom Huston-type guy (see June 5, 1970).… He sort of likes the dramatic. He’s said, ‘If you want to put me before a firing squad and shoot me, that’s fine. I’d kind of like to be like Nathan Hale.’” [Reeves, 2001, pp. 505-506]
Entity Tags: Tom Charles Huston, G. Gordon Liddy, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Richard M. Nixon
1973: CIA Internal Review Finds ‘Dozens’ of Illegal Domestic Surveillance Operations
CIA Counterintelligence Director James Angleton. [Source: CI Centre.com]CIA Director James Schlesinger orders an internal review of CIA surveillance operations against US citizens. The review finds dozens of instances of illegal CIA surveillance operations against US citizens dating back to the 1950s, including break-ins, wiretaps, and the surreptitious opening of personal mail. The earlier surveillance operations were not directly targeted at US citizens, but against “suspected foreign intelligence agents operating in the United States.” Schlesinger is disturbed to find that the CIA is currently mounting illegal surveillance operations against antiwar protesters, civil rights organizations, and political “enemies” of the Nixon administration. In the 1960s and early 1970s, CIA agents photographed participants in antiwar rallies and other demonstrations. The CIA also created a network of informants who were tasked to penetrate antiwar and civil rights groups and report back on their findings. At least one antiwar Congressman was placed under surveillance, and other members of Congress were included in the agency’s dossier of “dissident Americans.” As yet, neither Schlesinger nor his successor, current CIA Director William Colby, will be able to learn whether or not Schlesinger’s predecessor, Richard Helms, was asked by Nixon officials to perform such illegal surveillance, though both Schlesinger and Colby disapproved of the operations once they learned of them. Colby will privately inform the heads of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of the domestic spying engaged in by his agency. The domestic spying program was headed by James Angleton, who is still serving as the CIA’s head of counterintelligence operations, one of the most powerful and secretive bureaus inside the agency. It is Angleton’s job to maintain the CIA’s “sources and methods of intelligence,” including the prevention of foreign “moles” from penetrating the CIA. But to use counterintelligence as a justification for the domestic spying program is wrong, several sources with first-hand knowledge of the program will say in 1974. “Look, that’s how it started,” says one. “They were looking for evidence of foreign involvement in the antiwar movement. But that’s not how it ended up. This just grew and mushroomed internally.” The source continues, speaking hypothetically: “Maybe they began with a check on [Jane] Fonda. They began to check on her friends. They’d see her at an antiwar rally and take photographs. I think this was going on even before the Huston plan” (see July 26-27, 1970 and December 21, 1974). “This wasn’t a series of isolated events. It was highly coordinated. People were targeted, information was collected on them, and it was all put on [computer] tape, just like the agency does with information about KGB agents. Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal.” Schlesinger begins a round of reforms in the CIA, a program continued by Colby. [New York Times, 12/22/1974 ]
Entity Tags: William Colby, Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Helms, James Angleton, Jane Fonda, Nixon administration, Central Intelligence Agency, James R. Schlesinger, House Intelligence Committee
June 27, 1973: Dean Provides ‘Enemies List’ to Watergate Committee
Comedian Bill Cosby, one of many on Nixon’s enemies list. [Source: Quixoticals]Former White House counsel John Dean, continuing his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee (see June 25-29, 1973), provides a sheaf of documents to the committee. Among those is the “Opponents List and Political Enemies Project,” informally called President Nixon’s “enemies list.” The list is actually a set of documents “several inches thick” of names and information about Nixon’s political enemies. It was compiled by a number of administration officials, including Dean, White House aides Charles Colson, Gordon Strachan, and Lyn Nofziger, beginning in 1971. One of the documents from August 16, 1971, has Dean suggesting ways in which “we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.” Methods proposed included administration manipulation of “grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.” The Dean memo was given to then-chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and top White House aide John Ehrlichman for approval. Though Dean testifies that he does not know if the plan was set into motion, subsequent documents submitted to the committee indicate that it was indeed implemented. A condensed list of 20 “White House enemies” was produced by Colson’s office; a larger list included ten Democratic senators, all 12 black House members, over 50 news and television reporters, prominent businessmen, labor leaders, and entertainers, and contributors to the 1972 presidential campaign of Democratic senator Edmund Muskie. The condensed list includes, in priority order:
“1. Arnold M. Picker, United Artists Corp., NY. Top Muskie fund raiser. Success here could be both debilitating and very embarrassing to the Muskie machine. If effort looks promising, both Ruth and David Picker should be programmed and then a follow through with United Artists.”
“2. Alexander E. Barkan, national director of AFL-CIO’s committee on Political Education, Washington D.C.: Without a doubt the most powerful political force programmed against us in 1968 ($10 million, 4.6 million votes, 115 million pamphlets, 176,000 workers—all programmed by Barkan’s COPE—so says Teddy White in The Making of the President 1968). We can expect the same effort this time.”
“3. Ed Guthman, managing editor, Los Angeles Times: Guthman, former Kennedy aide, was a highly sophisticated hatchetman against us in ‘68. It is obvious he is the prime mover behind the current Key Biscayne effort. It is time to give him the message.”
“4. Maxwell Dane, Doyle, Dane and Bernbach, NY: The top Democratic advertising firm—they destroyed Goldwater in ‘64. They should be hit hard starting with Dane.”
“5. Charles Dyson, Dyson-Kissner Corp., NY: Dyson and [Democratic National Committee chairman] Larry O’Brien were close business associates after ‘68. Dyson has huge business holdings and is presently deeply involved in the Businessmen’s Educational Fund which bankrolls a national radio network of five-minute programs—anti-Nixon in character.”
“6. Howard Stein, Dreyfus Corp., NY: Heaviest contributor to [Democratic presidential candidate Eugene] McCarthy in ‘68. If McCarthy goes, will do the same in ‘72. If not, Lindsay or McGovern will receive the funds.”
“7. [US Representative] Allard Lowenstein, Long Island, NY: Guiding force behind the 18-year-old ‘Dump Nixon’ vote campaign.”
“8. Morton Halperin, leading executive at Common Cause: A scandal would be most helpful here.”
“9. Leonard Woodcock, UAW, Detroit, Mich.: No comments necessary.”
“10. S. Sterling Munro Jr., Sen. [Henry Jackson’s aide, Silver Spring, Md: We should give him a try. Positive results would stick a pin in Jackson’s white hat.”
“11. Bernard T. Feld, president, Council for a Livable World: Heavy far left funding. They will program an ‘all court press’ against us in ‘72.”
“12. Sidney Davidoff, New York City, [New York City Mayor John V.] Lindsay’s top personal aide: a first class SOB, wheeler-dealer and suspected bagman. Positive results would really shake the Lindsay camp and Lindsay’s plans to capture youth vote. Davidoff in charge.”
“13. John Conyers, congressman, Detroit: Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman. Has known weakness for white females.”
“14. Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association: Has taken us on vis-a-vis federal aid to parochial schools—a ‘72 issue.” [Facts on File, 6/2003] Committee chairman Sam Ervin (D-NC) is clearly outraged by the list, and particularly by Lambert’s inclusion. He says, “Here is a man listed among the opponents whose only offense is that he believed in the First Amendment and shared Thomas Jefferson’s conviction, as expressed in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, that to compel a man to make contributions of money for the dissemination of religious opinions he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. Isn’t that true?” Dean replies, “I cannot disagree with the chairman at all.” [Time, 7/9/1973]
“15. Stewart Rawlings Mott, Mott Associates, NY: Nothing but big money for radic-lib candidates.”
“16. Ronald Dellums, congressman, Calif: Had extensive [Edward M. Kennedy] EMK-Tunney support in his election bid. Success might help in California next year.”
“17. Daniel Schorr, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington: A real media enemy.”
“18. S. Harrison Dogole, Philadelphia, Pa: President of Globe Security Systems—fourth largest private detective agency in US. Heavy Humphrey [former presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey] contributor. Could program his agency against us.”
“19. [Actor] Paul Newman, Calif: Radic-lib causes. Heavy McCarthy involvement ‘68. Used effectively in nation wide TV commercials. ‘72 involvement certain.”
“20. Mary McGrory, Washington columnist: Daily hate Nixon articles.”
Another “master list” of political enemies prepared by Colson’s office includes Democratic senators Birch Bayh, J. W. Fulbright, Fred R. Harris, Harold Hughes, Edward M. Kennedy, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, Gaylord Nelson, and William Proxmire; House representatives Bella Abzug, William R. Anderson, John Brademas, Father Robert F. Drinan, Robert Kastenmeier, Wright Patman; African-American representatives Shirley Chisholm, William Clay, George Collins, John Conyers, Ronald Dellums, Charles Diggs, Augustus Hawkins, Ralph Metcalfe, Robert N.C. Nix, Parren Mitchell, Charles Rangel, Louis Stokes; and several other politicians, including Lindsay, McCarthy, and George Wallace, the governor of Alabama (see May 15, 1972). The list also includes an array of liberal, civil rights and antiwar organizations, including the Black Panthers, the Brookings Institution, Common Cause, the Farmers Union, the National Economic Council, the National Education Association, the National Welfare Rights Organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Convention; a variety of labor organizations; many reporters, columnists, and other news figures; a short list of celebrities including Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, Steve McQueen, Joe Namath, Gregory Peck, Tony Randall, and Barbra Streisand; and a huge list of businessmen and academics. The documents provide suggestions for avenues of attack against individual listees, including using “income tax discrepancies,” allegations of Communist connections, and other information. [Facts on File, 6/2003] In 1999, Schorr will joke that being on Nixon’s enemies list “changed my life a great deal. It increased my lecture fee, got me invited to lots of very nice dinners. It was so wonderful that one of my colleagues that I will not mention, but a very important man at CBS, said, ‘Why you, Schorr? Why couldn’t it have been me on the enemies list?’” [CNN, 3/27/1999] Schorr does not mention that he was the subject of an FBI investigation because of his listing. [Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007]
Entity Tags: Paul Newman, National Welfare Rights Organization, Ralph Metcalfe, Parren Mitchell, Robert F Drinan, National Economic Council, Richard M. Nixon, Morton H. Halperin, Louis Stokes, Mary McGrory, John V. Lindsay, Lawrence O’Brien, Maxwell Dane, Leonard Woodcock, Robert Kastenmeier, Lyn Nofziger, Los Angeles Times, Robert N.C. Nix, Sam Ervin, S. Harrison Dogole, United Auto Workers, Walter Mondale, Tony Randall, William Clay, William R. Anderson, Wright Patman, William Proxmire, Ron Dellums, Stewart Rawlings Mott, Southern Christian Leadership Convention, S. Sterling Munro Jr, John Ehrlichman, Steve McQueen, Samuel M Lambert, Shirley Chisholm, Sidney Davidoff, Senate Watergate Investigative Committee, John Dean, National Education Association, John Brademas, CBS News, Charles Colson, Charles Diggs, Charles Dyson, Charles Rangel, Brookings Institution, Council for a Livable World, Common Cause, Black Panthers, Birch Bayh, Bill Cosby, Allard Lowenstein, Alexander E. Barkan, AFL-CIO, Daniel Schorr, Arnold M. Picker, John Conyers, Augustus Hawkins, Bernard T. Feld, Bella Abzug, Dick Gregory, Barbra Streisand, Edmund Muskie, H.R. Haldeman, Harold Hughes, Gregory Peck, Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson, Jane Fonda, J. William Fulbright, Howard Stein, Gordon Strachan, George S. McGovern, Joe Namath, Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Fred R Harris, Gaylord Nelson, George C. Wallace, Hubert H. Humphrey, George Collins, Ed Guthman
Late 1973: Author of ‘Huston Plan’ Tells Audience that Presidential Grab for Power Was a ‘Mistake’
Former White House aide Tom Charles Huston, the author of the infamous “Huston Plan” (see July 14, 1970), talks about Watergate and civil liberties with a small audience, the Philadelphia chapter of the conservative organization Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).
Plan for Surveillance - His topic is “Government Surveillance of Private Citizens: Necessary or Ominous?” Huston discusses at some length the discussions and issues surrounding his plan, which would have allowed for draconian police and surveillance powers to be used against the populace and particularly against anyone identifying themselves with antiwar protesters and organizations. According to Huston, the country was reeling from bombings and bomb threats, closed-down schools, National Guard alerts, university ROTC buildings being burned, police officers injured and killed, civilians killed, snipers firing from rooftops. Huston paints a picture of a country on the brink of armed insurrection.
Overreaction - But Huston isn’t ready to draw such a conclusion. “Looking back, it is easy to understand why people now think the administration overreacted,” he says. “And had I known at the time that if we had done nothing, the problem would just go away, I would have recommended that we do nothing. But we did not understand that, and I don’t think that any reasonable person could have known this. Something had to be done. In the last analysis, I suppose this is an example of the dangers of letting down your guard against increased executive powers—no matter what the circumstances. Not that the danger was not real, but in this case the risk of the remedy was as great as the disease. There was a willingness to accept without challenge the Executive’s claim to increased power. That’s why we acted as we did, and it was a mistake.”
"Hooray for Watergate" - During the question-and-answer session, a middle-aged woman tells a story of how her son was being beat up by neighborhood bullies, and how, after trying in vain to get authorities to step in, gave her son a baseball bat and told him to defend himself. By this point the crowd is chanting and cheering in sympathy with the increasingly agitated mother, and some begin yelling: “Hooray for Watergate! Hooray for Watergate!” Huston is clearly nonplussed by the audience’s reaction, and, when the chanting and cheering dies down, says, “I’d like to say that this really goes to the heart of the problem. Back in 1970, one thing that bothered me the most was that it seemed as though the only way to solve the problem was to hand out baseball bats. In fact, it was already beginning to happen…. Something had to be done. And out of it came the Plumbers and then a progression to Watergate. Well, I think that it’s the best thing that ever happened to this country that it got stopped when it did. We faced up to it…. [We] made mistakes.” [Harper's, 10/1974]
Entity Tags: Young Americans for Freedom, Tom Charles Huston
August 8, 1974: Nixon Resigns Presidency
Richard Nixon announcing his resignation to the country. [Source: American Rhetoric.com]President Richard Nixon, forced to resign because of the Watergate scandal, begins his last day in office. The morning is marked by “burn sessions” in several rooms of the White House, where aides burn what author Barry Werth calls “potentially troublesome documents” in fireplaces. Nixon’s chief of staff, Alexander Haig, is preparing for the transition in his office, which is overflowing with plastic bags full of shredded documents. Haig says all of the documents are duplicates. Haig presents Nixon with a one-line letter of resignation—“I hereby resign the office of president of the United States”—and Nixon signs it without comment. Haig later describes Nixon as “haggard and ashen,” and recalls, “Nothing of a personal nature was said… By now, there was not much that could be said that we did not already understand.” Nixon gives his resignation speech at 9 p.m. [White House, 8/8/1974; White House, 8/8/1974; American Rhetoric, 2001; Werth, 2006, pp. 3-8] On August 7, Haig told Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski that Congress would certainly pass a resolution halting any legal actions against Nixon. But, watching Nixon’s televised resignation speech, Jaworski thinks, “Not after that speech, Al.” Nixon refuses to accept any responsibility for any of the myriad crimes and illicit actions surrounding Watergate, and merely admits to some “wrong” judgments. Without some expression of remorse and acceptance of responsibility, Jaworski doubts that Congress will do anything to halt any criminal actions against Nixon. [Werth, 2006, pp. 30-31] Instead of accepting responsibility, Nixon tells the nation that he must resign because he no longer has enough support in Congress to remain in office. To leave office before the end of his term “is abhorrent to every instinct in my body,” he says, but “as president, I must put the interests of America first.” Jaworski makes a statement after the resignation speech, declaring that “there has been no agreement or understanding of any sort between the president or his representatives and the special prosecutor relating in any way to the president’s resignation.” Jaworski says that his office “was not asked for any such agreement or understanding and offered none.” [Washington Post, 8/9/1974]
Entity Tags: Nixon administration, Leon Jaworski, Richard M. Nixon, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Barry Werth
December 21, 1974: New York Times Reveals CIA Spied on US Citizens for Decades
1974 New York Times headline. [Source: New York Times]The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has repeatedly, and illegally, spied on US citizens for years, reveals investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in a landmark report for the New York Times. Such operations are direct violations of the CIA’s charter and the law, both of which prohibit the CIA from operating inside the United States. Apparently operating under orders from Nixon officials, the CIA has conducted electronic and personal surveillance on over 10,000 US citizens, as part of an operation reporting directly to then-CIA Director Richard Helms. In an internal review in 1973, Helms’s successor, James Schlesinger, also found dozens of instances of illegal CIA surveillance operations against US citizens both past and present (see 1973). Many Washington insiders wonder if the revelation of the CIA surveillance operations tie in to the June 17, 1972 break-in of Democratic headquarters at Washington’s Watergate Hotel by five burglars with CIA ties. Those speculations were given credence by Helms’s protests during the Congressional Watergate hearings that the CIA had been “duped” into taking part in the Watergate break-in by White House officials.
Program Beginnings In Dispute - One official believes that the program, a successor to the routine domestic spying operations during the 1950s and 1960s, was sparked by what he calls “Nixon’s antiwar hysteria.” Helms himself indirectly confirmed the involvement of the Nixon White House, during his August 1973 testimony before the Senate Watergate investigative committee (see August 1973).
Special Operations Carried Out Surveillance - The domestic spying was carried out, sources say, by one of the most secretive units in CI, the special operations branch, whose employees carry out wiretaps, break-ins, and burglaries as authorized by their superiors. “That’s really the deep-snow section,” says one high-level intelligence expert. The liaison between the special operations unit and Helms was Richard Ober, a longtime CI official. “Ober had unique and very confidential access to Helms,” says a former CIA official. “I always assumed he was mucking about with Americans who were abroad and then would come back, people like the Black Panthers.” After the program was revealed in 1973 by Schlesinger, Ober was abruptly transferred to the National Security Council. He wasn’t fired because, says one source, he was “too embarrassing, too hot.” Angleton denies any wrongdoing.
Supposition That Civil Rights Movement 'Riddled' With Foreign Spies - Moscow, who relayed information about violent underground protesters during the height of the antiwar movement, says that black militants in the US were trained by North Koreans, and says that both Yasser Arafat, of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the KGB were involved to some extent in the antiwar movement, a characterization disputed by former FBI officials as based on worthless intelligence from overseas. For Angleton to make such rash accusations is, according to one member of Congress, “even a better story than the domestic spying.” A former CIA official involved in the 1969-70 studies by the agency on foreign involvement in the antiwar movement says that Angleton believes foreign agents are indeed involved in antiwar and civil rights organizations, “but he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
'Cesspool' of Illegality Distressed Schlesinger - According to one of Schlesinger’s former CIA associates, Schlesinger was distressed at the operations. “He found himself in a cesspool,” says the associate. “He was having a grenade blowing up in his face every time he turned around.” Schlesinger, who stayed at the helm of the CIA for only six months before becoming secretary of defense, informed the Department of Justice (DOJ) about the Watergate break-in, as well as another operation by the so-called “plumbers,” their burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office after Ellsberg released the “Pentagon Papers” to the press. Schlesinger began a round of reforms of the CIA, reforms that have been continued to a lesser degree by Colby. (Some reports suggest that CIA officials shredded potentially incriminating documents after Schlesinger began his reform efforts, but this is not known for sure.) Intelligence officials confirm that the spying did take place, but, as one official says, “Anything that we did was in the context of foreign counterintelligence and it was focused at foreign intelligence and foreign intelligence problems.”
'Huston Plan' - But the official also confirms that part of the illegal surveillance was carried out as part of the so-called “Huston plan,” an operation named for former White House aide Tom Charles Huston (see July 26-27, 1970) that used electronic and physical surveillance, along with break-ins and burglaries, to counter antiwar and civil rights protests, “fomented,” as Nixon believed, by so-called black extremists. Nixon and other White House officials have long denied that the Huston plan was ever implemented. “[O]bviously,” says one government intelligence official, the CIA’s decision to create and maintain dossiers on US citizens “got a push at that time.…The problem was that it was handled in a very spooky way. If you’re an agent in Paris and you’re asked to find out whether Jane Fonda is being manipulated by foreign intelligence services, you’ve got to ask yourself who is the real target. Is it the foreign intelligence services or Jane Fonda?” Huston himself denies that the program was ever intended to operate within the United States, and implies that the CIA was operating independently of the White House. Government officials try to justify the surveillance program by citing the “gray areas” in the law that allows US intelligence agencies to encroach on what, by law, is the FBI’s bailiwick—domestic surveillance of criminal activities—when a US citizen may have been approached by foreign intelligence agents. And at least one senior CIA official says that the CIA has the right to engage in such activities because of the need to protect intelligence sources and keep secrets from being revealed.
Surveillance Program Blatant Violation of Law - But many experts on national security law say the CIA program is a violation of the 1947 law prohibiting domestic surveillance by the CIA and other intelligence agencies. Vanderbilt University professor Henry Howe Ransom, a leading expert on the CIA, says the 1947 statute is a “clear prohibition against any internal security functions under any circumstances.” Ransom says that when Congress enacted the law, it intended to avoid any possibility of police-state tactics by US intelligence agencies; Ransom quotes one Congressman as saying, “We don’t want a Gestapo.” Interestingly, during his 1973 confirmation hearings, CIA Director Colby said he believed the same thing, that the CIA has no business conducting domestic surveillance for any purpose at any time: “I really see less of a gray area [than Helms] in that regard. I believe that there is really no authority under that act that can be used.” Even high-level government officials were not aware of the CIA’s domestic spying program until very recently. “Counterintelligence!” exclaimed one Justice Department official upon learning some details of the program. “They’re not supposed to have any counterintelligence in this country. Oh my God. Oh my God.” A former FBI counterterrorism official says he was angry upon learning of the program. “[The FBI] had an agreement with them that they weren’t to do anything unless they checked with us. They double-crossed me all along.” Many feel that the program stems, in some regards, from the long-standing mistrust between the CIA and the FBI. How many unsolved burglaries and other crimes can be laid at the feet of the CIA and its domestic spying operation is unclear. In 1974, Rolling Stone magazine listed a number of unsolved burglaries that its editors felt might be connected with the CIA. And Senator Howard Baker (R-TN), the vice chairman of the Senate Watergate investigative committee, has alluded to mysterious links between the CIA and the Nixon White House. On June 23, 1972, Nixon told his aide, H.R. Haldeman, “Well, we protected Helms from a hell of a lot of things.” [New York Times, 12/22/1974 ]
Entity Tags: US Department of Justice, William Colby, Seymour Hersh, Rolling Stone, Richard Ober, Tom Charles Huston, Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Richard Helms, Central Intelligence Agency, Black Panthers, Howard Baker, James Angleton, New York Times, H.R. Haldeman, KGB, James R. Schlesinger, Jane Fonda, Henry Howe Ransom
Early 1976: Nixon Agrees to Multiple Interviews with British Entertainer David Frost
Publicity photo for the Frost/Nixon interviews. [Source: London Times]British interviewer and entertainer David Frost makes a deal with former President Richard Nixon to undertake 24 hours of interviews on a wide range of topics, with six hours each on foreign policy, domestic affairs, Watergate, and a loosely defined “Nixon the Man” interview. Frost intends that the centerpiece of the interviews to be the Watergate session. Nixon agrees to a free, unfettered set of interviews in return for over a million dollars in appearance fees. [Reston, 2007, pp. 13-17] (Other sources say that Nixon will be paid $600,000 plus 20% of the profits from the broadcast, which are expected to top $2 million.)
Frost Seen as Unlikely Interviewer - There is also considerable skepticism about the choice of Frost as an interviewer; he is better known as a high-living entertainer who likes to hobnob with celebrities rather than as a tough interrogator. His primary experience with politics is his hosting of the BBC’s celebrated 1960s satirical show That Was the Week That Was. Frost outbid NBC for the rights to interview Nixon, and after all three American television networks refuse to air the shows, Frost has to cobble together an ad hoc group of about 140 television stations to broadcast the interviews. Frost will recall in 2007, “We were told, ‘Half the companies you’re approaching would never have anything to do with Nixon when he was president, and the other half are trying to make people forget that they did.’” [Time, 5/9/1977; Washington Post, 4/30/2007] Interestingly, when the Nixon team began negotiating for the interviews in July 1975, they made a point of not wanting any “real” investigative journalists to conduct the interviews—in fact, they considered offering the interviews to American television talk show host Merv Griffin. [Time, 5/9/1977] The interviews are to be done in segments, three sessions a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, for two weeks in the spring of 1977. [National Public Radio, 6/17/2002]
Nixon Team Wants Focus Away from Watergate - While Nixon agrees that six hours of interviews will be on the topic of Watergate, his team wants to define “Watergate” as almost anything and everything negative about the Nixon presidency—not just the burglary and the cover-up, but abuses of power at the IRS, CIA, and FBI, Nixon’s tax problems, the Ellsberg break-in (see September 9, 1971), disputed real estate sales, the sale of ambassadorships (see March-April 1972), the enemies list (see June 27, 1973), and the Huston Plan (see July 14, 1970). The hope is that Frost’s focus will become diluted and fail to focus on the Watergate conspiracy itself. The hope will not be fulfilled (see April 13-15, 1977).
Frost's Investigative Team - Frost begins hiring a team of investigators and experts to prepare him for the interviews, including author and journalist James Reston Jr. [Time, 5/9/1977] , a self-described “radical” who had worked to win amnesty for US citizens who had avoided the draft, and views Nixon as a contemptible figure who, despite his resignation (see August 8, 1974), remains “uncontrite and unconvicted.” [Chicago Sun-Times, 7/22/2007] Other members of Frost’s research team are Washington journalist and lawyer Robert Zelnick, freelance writer Phil Stanford, and London TV news executive John Birt, who will produce the interviews. Zelnick will play Nixon in the briefing sessions, going so far as mimicking Nixon’s mannerisms and hand gestures. For his part, Nixon had almost completed his own meticulous research of his presidency for his upcoming memoirs, and is quite conversant with his facts and defense strategies. Nixon’s team of aides includes his former White House military aide Colonel Jack Brennan, chief researcher Ken Khachigian, former speechwriter Ray Price, former press assistant (and future television reporter) Diane Sawyer, and former aide Richard Moore. [Time, 5/9/1977]
Nixon's Perceived 'Sweetheart Deal' - In his 2007 book on the interviews, The Conviction of Richard Nixon (written largely in 1977 but unpublished for thirty years), Reston will write that Nixon surely “saw the enterprise as a sweetheart deal. He stood to make a lot of money and to rehabilitate his reputation.” Nixon harbors hopes that he can make a political comeback of one sort or another, and apparently intends to use Frost—best known for conducting “softball” interviews with celebrities and world leaders alike—as his “springboard” to re-enter public service. But, as Reston later observes, Nixon will underestimate the researchers’ efforts, and Frost’s own skill as a television interviewer. [Reston, 2007, pp. 13-17, 84] Time will describe Nixon in the interviews as “painful and poignant, sometimes illuminating, usually self-serving.” [Time, 5/9/1977]
Entity Tags: NBC, Phil Stanford, Merv Griffin, Richard Moore, Ray Price, Ken Khachigian, James Reston, Jr, Richard M. Nixon, John Birt, David Frost, Jack Brennan, Robert Zelnick, Diane Sawyer
April 7-12, 1976: Frost Research Team Prepares for Watergate Interviews with Nixon
The research team for David Frost, in the midst of marathon interviews with former President Richard Nixon (see Early 1976), has a week to prepare for the upcoming four-hour interview sessions on Watergate (see April 6, 1977).
Countering the 'Other Presidents Did It, Too' Defense - Researcher James Reston Jr. tackles Frost’s possible response to what Reston feels will be Nixon’s last line of defense: that what he did was simply another instance in a long line of presidential misconduct. “Nixon nearly persuaded the American people that political crime was normal,” investigative reporter Jack Anderson had told Nixon biographer Fawn Brodie, a line that haunts Reston. Brodie gives Reston a study commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee (see February 6, 1974) and authored primarily by eminent Yale historian C. Vann Woodward, a study examining the history of presidential misdeeds from George Washington through Nixon. The study was never used. Brodie says that Frost should quote the following from Woodward’s introduction to Nixon: “Heretofore, no president has been proved to be the chief coordinator of the crime and misdemeanor charged against his own administration as a deliberate course of conduct or plan. Heretofore, no president has been held to be the chief personal beneficiary of misconduct in his administration or of measures taken to destroy or cover up evidence of it. Heretofore, the malfeasance and misdemeanor have had no confessed ideological purposes, no constitutionally subversive ends. Heretofore, no president has been accused of extensively subverting and secretly using established government agencies to defame or discredit political opponents and critics, to obstruct justice, to conceal misconduct and protect criminals, or to deprive citizens of their rights and liberties. Heretofore, no president had been accused of creating secret investigative units to engage in covert and unlawful activities against private citizens and their rights.” Frost will ultimately not use the quote, but the quote helps Reston and the other researchers steer their course in preparing Frost’s line of questioning.
Frost Better Prepared - As for Frost, he is much more prepared for his interrogation of Nixon than he has been in earlier sessions, prepped for discussing the details of legalities such as obstruction of justice, corrupt endeavor, and foreseeable consequence. Nixon undoubtedly thwarted justice from being served, and Frost intends to confront him with that charge. Reston worries that the interview will become mired in legalities to the point where only lawyers will gain any substantive information from the session. [Reston, 2007, pp. 112-114]
Entity Tags: James Reston, Jr, Richard M. Nixon, Jack Anderson, Fawn Brodie, C. Vann Woodward, David Frost, House Judiciary Committee
Early Fall, 1976: Frost-Nixon Interviews Postponed, Allowing More Focus on Watergate
The scheduled interviews between former President Richard Nixon and British interviewer David Frost (see Early 1976) are postponed until March 1977, due to Nixon’s wife, Pat, being hospitalized with a stroke. In return for the delay, Nixon agrees to five programs devoted to the interviews instead of the originally agreed-upon four. Further, Nixon agrees to talk frankly about Watergate; previously, he had balked at discussing it because of ongoing prosecutions related to the conspiracy. Frost wants the shows to air in the spring of 1977 rather than the summer, when audiences will be smaller; Nixon jokes in reply, “Well, we got one hell of an audience on August 9, 1974” (see August 8, 1974). Nixon welcomes the extra time needed to prepare for the interviews. [Reston, 2007, pp. 53]
Entity Tags: David Frost, Richard M. Nixon, Pat Nixon
Late Fall, 1976: Frost Researchers Procure Documents Indicating Government’s Line of Inquiry in Prospective Nixon Prosecution
The research staff for British interviewer David Frost, preparing for his upcoming interviews with former President Richard Nixon (see Early 1976), receive two key documents from Leon Jaworski’s special prosecutor files (see November 1, 1973) that are, in essence, the government’s plan for questioning Nixon if he were to ever take the stand as a criminal defendant in federal court. One document is entitled “RMN [Richard Milhous Nixon] and the Money,” and concentrates on the March 21, 1973, conversation with then-White House counsel John Dean concerning Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt’s demand for “hush money” (see Mid-November, 1972) and the attempts in the following weeks to explain away the payments to Hunt. The document is divided into five parts: Nixon’s statements about the money; Nixon’s knowledge of the payouts before March 21; the nature of the payment itself; the cover-up of Nixon’s role in the payout; and Nixon’s role in developing a defense against possible obstruction of justice charges. The second document cites excerpts from the June 20, 1972, conversations between Nixon and his then-senior aide Charles Colson (see June 20, 1972 and June 20, 1972). [Reston, 2007, pp. 45-47]
Entity Tags: David Frost, Charles Colson, E. Howard Hunt, John Dean, Richard M. Nixon, Leon Jaworski
March 23, 1977: Nixon’s Initial Interview with Frost Full of ‘Bitterness and Schmaltz’
Time magazine cover from May 9, 1977 touting the Frost/Nixon interviews. [Source: Time]Former President Richard Nixon meets with his interviewer, David Frost, for the first of several lengthy interviews (see Early 1976). The interviews take place in a private residence in Monarch Bay, California, close to Nixon’s home in San Clemente. One of Frost’s researchers, author James Reston Jr., is worried that Frost is not prepared enough for the interview. The interview is, in Reston’s words, a rather “free-form exercise in bitterness and schmaltz.”
Blaming Associates, Justifying Actions, Telling Lies - Nixon blames then-chief of staff H. R. Haldeman for not destroying the infamous White House tapes (see July 13-16, 1973), recalls weeping with then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger over his resignation, and blames his defense counsel for letting him down during his impeachment hearings (see February 6, 1974). His famously crude language is no worse than the barracks-room speech of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he asserts. Frost shows a film of Nixon’s farewell address to the nation (see August 8, 1974), and observes that Nixon must have seen this film many times. Never, Nixon says, and goes on to claim that he has never listened to or watched any of his speeches, and furthermore had never even practiced any of his speeches before delivering them. It is an astonishing claim from a modern politician, one of what Nixon biographer Fawn Brodie calls “Unnecessary Nixon Lies.” [Reston, 2007, pp. 81-91] (In a 1974 article for Harper’s, Geoffrey Stokes wrote that, according to analysis of transcripts of Nixon’s infamous Watergate tape recordings by a Cornell University professor, Nixon spent nearly a third of his time practicing both private and public statements, speeches, and even casual conversations.) [Harper's, 10/1974]
Nixon Too Slippery for Frost? - During the viewing of the tape, Nixon’s commentary reveals what Reston calls Nixon’s “vanity and insecurity, the preoccupation with appearance within a denial of it.” After the viewing, Nixon artfully dodges Frost’s attempt to pin him down on how history will remember him, listing a raft of foreign and domestic achievements and barely mentioning the crimes committed by his administration. “What history will say about this administration will depend on who writes the history,” he says, and recalls British prime minister Winston Churchill’s assertion that history would “treat him well… [b]ecause I intend to write it.”
Reactions - The reactions of the Frost team to the first interview are mixed. Reston is pleased, feeling that Nixon made some telling personal observations and recollections, but others worried that Frost’s soft questioning had allowed Nixon to dominate the session and either evade or filibuster the tougher questions. Frost must assert control of the interviews, team members assert, must learn to cut Nixon off before he can waste time with a pointless anecdote. Frost must rein in Nixon when he goes off on a tangent. As Reston writes, “The solution was to keep the subject close to the nub of fact, leaving him no room for diversion or maneuver.” [Reston, 2007, pp. 81-91]
Entity Tags: Geoffrey Stokes, David Frost, Fawn Brodie, Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, James Reston, Jr, Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Nixon, H.R. Haldeman
April 6, 1977: Nixon Presents Huston Plan as Rational Counter to Nation Engulfed in Insurrection
Advertisement for Nixon/Frost interviews. [Source: Bamboo Trading (.com)]Former President Richard Nixon, generally acknowledged as having bested his interviewer David Frost in the first rounds of interviews (see April 6, 1977), now defends his support for the infamous Huston Plan, admitted by the plan’s author himself to be illegal in its breathtaking contempt for civil liberties and the rule of Constitutional law. Former Watergate prosecutor Philip Lacovara had told Frost’s aide James Reston Jr. that it was surprising Huston was not taken out and shot. Reston will write acidly: “Not only was Tom Charles Huston not taken out and shot, the plan was calmly considered and signed by Nixon, and was in force for a week, until J. Edgar Hoover objected on territorial rather than philosophical grounds (see July 26-27, 1970). Only then was approval rescinded (although many felt it remained in effect under the code name COINTELPRO).” Reston will write that, during this interview, Nixon paints a picture of an America engulfed in armed insurrection, a portrait so convincing that the Huston Plan actually seems a rational response. Frost fails to press the point that the antiwar protests were largely nonviolent and not a threat to national security. [Reston, 2007, pp. 102-105] Frost does ask that if this was indeed so vital to national security, why not ask Congress to make such acts legal? “In theory,” Nixon replies, “this would be perfect, but in practice, it won’t work.” It would merely alert the targeted dissenters and raise a public outcry. [Time, 5/30/1977] This part of the interview sessions will be aired on May 19, 1977. [Landmark Cases, 8/28/2007]
Entity Tags: David Frost, Philip Lacovara, J. Edgar Hoover, Tom Charles Huston, Richard M. Nixon, James Reston, Jr
April 13-15, 1977: Frost, Nixon Spar over Watergate
David Frost, the British interviewer conducting a series of interviews with former President Richard Nixon (see Early 1976), spends four hours over three days hammering at Nixon over his involvement in the Watergate conspiracy (see April 13, 1977. April 13, 1977, April 13, 1977, April 15, 1977, and April 15, 1977). His first question is, “With the perspective of three years now, do you feel that you ever obstructed justice or were part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice?”
Wrestling with Proteus - James Reston, Jr., part of Frost’s research team, later notes that the four hours of interviews as edited for later broadcast becomes what “has been called a television epic. It had all the elements of high drama (and occasional high comedy). The tension started high and built towards an almost unbearable, climactic breaking point. It pitted a feisty, beautifully informed inquisitor (see April 7-12, 1976), playing his surprise cards and rehearsed lines masterfully, aware, finally, of his duty as a surrogate prosecutor, aware of the imperative to prove the guilt that all assumed, creatively using the ploys of judicious contempt and reverse patronizing and deadly humor to reduce his intimidating adversary to apology and mawkishness.” Reston finally comes to believe what he has been saying for weeks, that Frost is “the best man in the world for this ultimate task, far better than any American journalist on the scene.” Frost wrestles with Nixon, the “virtuoso of deception” whom he compares to the shape-changing Greek god Proteus, and ultimately pins him down. [Encyclopedia Mythica, 4/10/2001; Reston, 2007, pp. 116-118]
Opening Arguments - Nixon dodges the opening question and tries to redefine “Watergate” as just about every illegal, immoral, or questionable action he had performed as president. “Watergate means all of the charges that were thrown at me during the period before I left the presidency,” Nixon says. But instead of accepting Nixon’s definition and spending four hours touching on the surface of each allegation—mentioning it, letting Nixon deny or evade the charges, then moving on, as most American journalists might well have done—Frost homes in on the Watergate conspiracy itself. When Frost begins listing the crimes and unethical actions committed by Nixon’s underlings, Nixon turns to obfuscation: “You have lumped together a number of charges, and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of them.” (Reston later writes, “So facts became charges” in Nixon’s characterization of events.) Nixon asks for Frost’s sources for each charge, but Frost refuses to respond to the question. [Reston, 2007, pp. 116-118]
Entity Tags: David Frost, James Reston, Jr, Richard M. Nixon
February 1978: Haldeman’s New Book Says CIA, Democrats Involved in Watergate; Blames Nixon, Colson for Conspiracy
H. R. Haldeman’s “The Ends of Power.” [Source: Amazon (.com)]Former Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman, in his autobiography The Ends of Power, advances his own insider theory of the genesis of the Watergate burglaries (see July 26-27, 1970). Haldeman, currently serving a one-year prison sentence for perjuring himself during his testimony about the Watergate cover-up, became so angered while watching David Frost interview former President Nixon, and particularly Nixon’s attempts to pin the blame for Watergate on Haldeman and fellow aide John Ehrlichman (see April 15, 1977), that he decided to write the book to tell his version of events. Some of his assertions:
Nixon, Colson Behind 'Plumbers;' Watergate Burglary 'Deliberately Sabotaged' - He writes that he believes then-President Nixon ordered the operation that resulted in the burglaries and surveillance of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters because he and Charles Colson, the aide who supervised the so-called “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), were both “infuriated with [DNC chairman Lawrence] O’Brien’s success in using the ITT case against them” (see February 22, 1972). Colson, whom Haldeman paints as Nixon’s “hit man” who was the guiding spirit behind the “Plumbers,” then recruited another White House aide, E. Howard Hunt, who brought in yet another aide, G. Gordon Liddy. Haldeman goes into a more interesting level of speculation: “I believe the Democratic high command knew the break-in was going to take place, and let it happen. They may even have planted the plainclothesman who arrested the burglars. I believe that the CIA monitored the Watergate burglars throughout. And that the overwhelming evidence leads to the conclusion that the break-in was deliberately sabotaged.” O’Brien calls Haldeman’s version of events “a crock.” As for Haldeman’s insinuations that the CIA might have been involved with the burglaries, former CIA director Richard Helms says, “The agency had nothing to do with the Watergate break-in.” Time magazine’s review of the book says that Haldeman is more believable when he moves from unverifiable speculation into provable fact. One such example is his delineation of the conspiracy to cover up the burglaries and the related actions and incidents. Haldeman writes that the cover-up was not a “conspiracy” in the legal sense, but was “organic,” growing “one step at a time” to limit political damage to the president.
Story of Kennedy Ordering Vietnamese Assassination Actually True - He suggests that the evidence Hunt falsified that tried to blame former president John F. Kennedy of having then-South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem assassination (see Mid-September 1971) may have pointed to the actual truth of that incident, hinting that Kennedy may have ordered the assassination after all.
US Headed Off Two Potentially Catastrophic Nuclear Incidents with USSR, China - He also writes of a previously unsuspected incident where Nixon and other US officials convinced the Soviets not to attack Chinese nuclear sites. And Haldeman tells of a September 1970 incident where the US managed to head off a second Cuban Missile Crisis. Both stories of US intervention with the Soviets are strongly denied by both of Nixon’s Secretaries of State, Henry Kissinger, and William Rogers.
Duality of Nixon's Nature - Haldeman says that while Nixon carried “greatness in him,” and showed strong “intelligence, analytical ability, judgment, shrewdness, courage, decisiveness and strength,” he was plagued by equally powerful flaws. Haldeman writes that Nixon had a “dirty, mean, base side” and “a terrible temper,” and describes him as “coldly calculating, devious, craftily manipulative… the weirdest man ever to live in the White House.” For himself, Haldeman claims to have always tried to give “active encouragement” to the “good” side of Nixon and treat the “bad” side with “benign neglect.” He often ignored Nixon’s “petty, vindictive” orders, such as giving mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks. He writes that while he regrets not challenging Nixon more “frontally” to counter the president’s darker impulses, he notes that other Nixon aides who had done so quickly lost influence in the Oval Office. Colson, on the other hand, rose to a high level of influence by appealing to Nixon’s darker nature. Between the two, Haldeman writes, the criminal conspiracy of Watergate was created. (Colson disputes Haldeman’s depiction of his character as well as the events of the conspiracy.) Haldeman himself never intended to do anything illegal, denies any knowledge of the “Gemstone” conspiracy proposal (see January 29, 1972), and denies ordering his aide Gordon Strachan to destroy evidence (see June 18-19, 1972).
Reconstructing the 18 1/2 Minute Gap - Haldeman also reconstructs the conversation between himself and Nixon that was erased from the White House tapes (see June 23, 1972 and July 13-16, 1973). Time notes that Haldeman reconstructs the conversation seemingly to legally camouflage his own actions and knowledge, “possibly to preclude further legal charges against him…” According to Haldeman’s reconstruction, Nixon said, “I know one thing. I can’t stand an FBI interrogation of Colson… Colson can talk about the president, if he cracks. You know I was on Colson’s tail for months to nail Larry O’Brien on the [Howard] Hughes deal (see April 30 - May 1, 1973; O’Brien had worked for Hughes, and Nixon was sure O’Brien had been involved in illegalities). Colson told me he was going to get the information I wanted one way or the other. And that was O’Brien’s office they were bugging, wasn’t it? And who’s behind it? Colson’s boy Hunt. Christ. Colson called [deputy campaign chief Jeb Magruder] and got the whole operation started. Right from the g_ddamn White House… I just hope the FBI doesn’t check the office log and put it together with that Hunt and Liddy meeting in Colson’s office.” Time writes, “If the quotes are accurate, Nixon is not only divulging his own culpability in initiating the bugging but is also expressing a clear intent to keep the FBI from learning about it. Thus the seeds of an obstruction of justice have been planted even before the celebrated June 23 ‘smoking gun’ conversation, which ultimately triggered Nixon’s resignation from office.” Haldeman says he isn’t sure who erased the tape, but he believes it was Nixon himself. Nixon intended to erase all the damning evidence from the recordings, but since he was, Haldeman writes, “the least dexterous man I have ever known,” he quickly realized that “it would take him ten years” to erase everything.
'Smoking Gun' Allegations - Haldeman also makes what Time calls “spectacular… but unverified” allegations concerning the June 23, 1972 “smoking gun” conversations (see June 23, 1972). The focus of that day’s discussion was how the White House could persuade the CIA to head off the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate burglary. The tape proved that Nixon had indeed attempted to block the criminal investigation into Watergate, and feared that the money found on the burglars would be traced back to his own re-election campaign committee. Haldeman writes that he was confused when Nixon told him to tell the CIA, “Look, the problem is that this will open up the whole Bay of Pigs thing again.” When Haldeman asked Helms to intercede with the FBI, and passed along Nixon’s warning that “the Bay of Pigs may be blown,” Helms’s reaction, Haldeman writes, was electric. “Turmoil in the room, Helms gripping the arms of his chair, leaning forward and shouting, ‘The Bay of Pigs had nothing to do with this. I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.’” Haldeman writes, “I was absolutely shocked by Helms‘[s] violent reaction. Again I wondered, what was such dynamite in the Bay of Pigs story?” Haldeman comes to believe that the term “Bay of Pigs” was a reference to the CIA’s secret attempts to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The CIA had withheld this info from the Warren Commission, the body that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy, and Haldeman implies that Nixon was using the “Bay of Pigs thing” as some sort of blackmail threat over the CIA. Haldeman also hints, very vaguely, that Nixon, when he was vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a chief instigator of the actual Bay of Pigs invasion. (Time notes that while Vice President Nixon probably knew about the plans, “he certainly had not been their author.”)
Other Tidbits - Haldeman writes that Nixon’s taping system was created to ensure that anyone who misrepresented what Nixon and others said in the Oval Office could be proven wrong, and that Nixon had Kissinger particularly in mind. Nixon kept the tapes because at first he didn’t believe he could be forced to give them up, and later thought he could use them to discredit former White House counsel John Dean. He says Nixon was wrong in asserting that he ordered Haldeman to get rid of the tapes. Haldeman believes the notorious “deep background” source for Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward was actually Fred Fielding, Dean’s White House deputy. Interestingly, Haldeman apparently discovered the real identity of “Deep Throat” in 1972 to be senior FBI official W. Mark Felt (see October 19, 1972). It is unclear why Haldeman now writes that Fielding, not Felt, was the Post source.
Not a Reliable Source - Time notes that Haldeman’s book is far from being a reliable source of information, characterizing it as “badly flawed, frustratingly vague and curiously defensive,” and notes that “[m]any key sections were promptly denied; others are clearly erroneous.” Time concludes, “Despite the claim that his aim was finally to ‘tell the truth’ about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that.” And it is clear that Haldeman, though he writes how the cover-up was “morally and legally the wrong thing to do—so it should have failed,” has little problem being part of such a criminal conspiracy. The biggest problem with Watergate was not that it was illegal, he writes, but that it was handled badly. He writes, “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join up, even knowing what the ultimate outcome would be, I would unhesitatingly do it.” [Time, 2/27/1978; Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007]
Entity Tags: Fred F. Fielding, William P. Rogers, E. Howard Hunt, Democratic National Committee, David Frost, Charles Colson, W. Mark Felt, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, US Department of State, Lawrence O’Brien, Richard Helms, John Dean, Jeb S. Magruder, Howard Hughes, Henry A. Kissinger, Gordon Strachan, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John F. Kennedy
June 2007: Author Finds Parallels Between Watergate and Post-9/11 Eras
James Reston Jr. [Source: James Reston, Jr]James Reston Jr., a member of David Frost’s research team for the famous Nixon-Frost interviews (see Early 1976), publishes his book, The Conviction of Richard Nixon, about those debates and their echoes in the actions of the Bush administration. Reston writes that “it might be argued that the post-September 11 domestic abuses find their origin in Watergate. In 1977 the commentators were shocked when Nixon said about his burglaries and wiretaps, ‘If the president does it, that means it’s not illegal’ (see April 6, 1977).… These brazen words… come eerily down to us through the tunnel of the last thirty years.”
Presidential Immunity - Reston writes: “In the area of criminal activity, Nixon argues, the president is immune. He can eavesdrop; he can cover up; he can approve burglaries; he can bend government agencies like the CIA and the FBI to his own political purposes. He can do so in the name of ‘national security’ and ‘executive privilege.’ And when these acts are exposed, he can call them ‘mistakes’ or ‘stupid things’ or ‘pipsqueak’ matters. In the 21st century, Nixon’s principle has been extended to authorizing torture, setting up secret prisons around the world, and ignoring the requirement for search warrants. A president can scrap the Geneva Convention and misuse the Defense Department and lie about the intelligence analyses. He is above the law. This is especially so when the nation is mired in an unpopular war, when the country is divided, when mass protests are in the streets of America, and an American president is pilloried around the world. If Nixon’s words resonate today, so also does the word Watergate.”
Echoes of Nixon and Watergate - Reston continues: “Again the nation is in a failing, elective war. A Nixon successor is again charged with abuse of power in covering up and distorting crucial facts as he dragged the country, under false pretenses, into war. Again secrecy reigns in the White House, and the argument is made that national security trumps all.… In 2007 the issue has returned with a vengeance. And one can become almost wistful in realizing that the period after Watergate brought an era of reform. A campaign finance law was passed; Congress reasserted its control over intelligence activities; and moral codes were enunciated for public officials. National security, the New York Times editorialized after the interviews, was no longer ‘the magic incantation’ that automatically paralyzed inquiry. After September 11, the incantation became magic again. And so, people have asked, after the Bush presidency, who will be his David Frost? It is hard to imagine that there will be one.” [Reston, 2007, pp. 9-10, 180]
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1950: Nixon Accepts Mob Money for House Campaign
Murray Chotiner. [Source: Spartacus Educational]During Richard Nixon’s campaign to represent his California district in the US House, his campaign manager, Murray Chotiner, arranges to have the Mafia raise money for Nixon. Los Angeles mob boss Mickey Cohen raises $75,000 for Nixon in return for unspecified political favors. Cohen will later claim that he raised the money on orders from one of his own bosses, Meyer Lansky. Cohen will sign a confession to the money raising while in Alcatraz Prison in 1962. Chotiner, embarrassed by the revelation, will drop out of politics until 1968, when he rejoins Nixon in his campaign for president (see November 5, 1968). After Nixon’s victory, Chotiner will be named a special counsel for Nixon, joining Nixon’s White House staff. [Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007]
Entity Tags: Richard M. Nixon, Mafia, Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, Murray Chotiner
November 5, 1968: Nixon Wins Narrow Presidential Victory
New York Times headline for Nixon election victory. [Source: New York University]Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon defeats Democratic challenger Hubert H. Humphrey in one of the closest elections in modern history. The election is too close to call for hours, until Illinois’s 26 electoral votes finally go to Nixon. The Illinois decision prevents third-party contender George C. Wallace from using his 15 electoral votes to determine the winner; the contest could well have ended up being determined in the House of Representatives. Instead, Nixon wins with 290 electoral votes, 20 more than he needs. Humphrey wins 203. Democrats retain control of both the House and Senate. [Washington Post, 11/5/1968]
Entity Tags: Hubert H. Humphrey, Richard M. Nixon
Timeline Tags: Nixon and Watergate, Elections Before 2000
1969-1976: US Anti-Ballistic Missile Program Scaled Back, Eventually Terminated
After Richard Nixon wins the presidency (see November 5, 1968), he orders a review of the Sentinel anti-ballistic missile program (see September 18, 1967). It is suspended and later reintroduced in a more modest form under the moniker “Safeguard.” Nixon says the program will protect “our land-based retaliatory forces against a direct attack by the Soviet Union.” Safeguard has serious conception and design flaws, and is never completely deployed; when the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed with the Soviet Union (see May 26, 1972), the program is scaled back and eventually terminated by Congress. Author Stephen Schwartz will later write that the Sentinel/Safeguard program is “the only time that Congress has successfully voted down a major strategic nuclear weapons program supported by the executive branch.” [Schwartz, 1998, pp. 286-288; Federation of American Scientists, 1/15/2008]
Entity Tags: Richard M. Nixon, Sentinel, Stephen Schwartz, Safeguard
April 2, 1969: Nixon Begins Secret Political Intelligence Operations
Former New York Police Department detective Jack Caulfield begins his new job as a White House aide. Caulfield was added to the White House by Nixon aide John Ehrlichman after President Nixon’s decision to use private, secretly held funds for political intelligence operations (see January 30, 1969). Caulfield is to conduct various political intelligence operations without being noticed by the CIA, the FBI, or the Republican National Committee. Originally, the idea was to pay Caulfield out of unspent campaign funds from the 1968 elections (see November 5, 1968), but Caufield insisted on being given a White House position. [Reeves, 2001, pp. 67]
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard M. Nixon, John Ehrlichman, John J. ‘Jack’ Caulfield
March 20, 1971: Nixon Campaign Decides to Bug Democrats
Frederick LaRue. [Source: Spartacus Educational]Two White House aides, Frederick LaRue and G. Gordon Liddy, attend a meeting of the Nixon presidential campaign, the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), where it is agreed that the organization will spend $250,000 to conduct an “intelligence gathering” operation against the Democratic Party for the upcoming elections. [Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007] The members decide, among other things, to plant electronic surveillance devices in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters (see April-June 1972). LaRue is a veteran of the 1968 Nixon campaign (see November 5, 1968), as is Liddy, a former FBI agent. [Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007; Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007] LaRue decides to pay the proposed “Special Investigations Unit,” later informally called the “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), large amounts of “hush money” to keep them quiet. He tasks former New York City policeman Tony Ulasewicz with arranging the payments. LaRue later informs another Nixon aide, Hugh Sloan, that LaRue is prepared to commit perjury if necessary to protect the operation. A 1973 New York Times article will call LaRue “an elusive, anonymous, secret operator at the highest levels of the shattered Nixon power structure.” [Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007] The FBI will later determine that this decision took place between March 20 and 30, 1972, not 1971 (see March 20-30, 1972). In this case, the FBI timeline is almost certainly in error, since the “Plumbers” break-in of the offices of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist came well before this date (see September 9, 1971).
Entity Tags: Hugh Sloan, Tony Ulasewicz, Frederick LaRue, ’Plumbers’, Committee to Re-elect the President, Democratic National Committee, G. Gordon Liddy
Timeline Tags: Civil Liberties, Nixon and Watergate, Elections Before 2000
Fall 1971: Nixon Aides Develop ‘Operation Sandwedge’
Jack Caulfield’s White House ID card. [Source: Watergate.com]A staff aide to President Nixon, former New York City police detective Jack Caulfield, develops a broad plan for launching an intelligence operation against the Democrats for the 1972 re-election campaign, “Operation Sandwedge.” The original proposal, as Caulfield will later recall, is a 12-page document detailing what would be required to create an “accurate, intelligence-assessment capability” against not just the Democrats but “also to ensure that the then powerful anti-war movement did not destroy Nixon’s public campaign, as had been done to Hubert Humphrey in 1968” (see November 5, 1968). Sandwedge is created in anticipation of the Democrats mounting their own political espionage efforts, which Caulfield and other Nixon aides believe will use a private investigations firm, Intertel, headed by former Justice Department officials loyal to former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Caulfield will later recall, “Intertel represented, in my opinion, the potential for both formidable and sophisticated intelligence opposition tactics in that upcoming election campaign.” Sandwedge is turned down by senior White House aides in favor of the “Special Investigation Unit” (see March 20, 1971 and September 29, 1972) headed by G. Gordon Liddy. Caulfield resigns from the White House shortly thereafter. He will later call the decision not to implement “Sandwedge” a “monumental” error that “rapidly created the catastrophic path leading directly to the Watergate complex—and the president’s eventual resignation.” Caulfield has little faith in Liddy, considering him an amateurish blowhard with no real experience in intelligence or security matters; when White House counsel John Dean asks him for his assessment of Liddy’s ability to run such an operation, he snaps, “John, you g_ddamn well better have him closely supervised” and walks out of Dean’s office. Caulfield later writes, “I, therefore, unequivocally contend that had there been ‘Sandwedge’ there would have been no Liddy, no Hunt, no McCord, no Cubans (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) and, critically, since I had personally decided to negate, while still on the White House staff, a developing intelligence interest by Dean in the Watergate’s Democratic National Committee offices, seven months prior to the break-in! NO WATERGATE!” [John J. 'Jack' Caulfield, 2006; Spartacus Schoolnet, 8/2007]
Entity Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, John J. ‘Jack’ Caulfield, Hubert H. Humphrey, John Dean, G. Gordon Liddy, Richard M. Nixon
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Profile: Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) was a participant or observer in the following events:
April 1979: Neoconservative Dodges Espionage Charges
Dr. Stephen Bryen, a neoconservative staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is accused of espionage against the US. An affidavit written by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keuch recommends a grand jury convene to hear evidence that Bryen had offered classified information to an Israeli Embassy official, Zvi Rafiah, the Mossad station chief in Washington (see March 1978). Bryen made the offer in the presence of the director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Bryen refused to take an FBI lie detector test, but the AIPAC director agreed, and passed the test. One of Bryen’s Senate committee colleagues also tells FBI investigators that she later saw Bryen offering a pile of documents to Rafiah from an open safe in Bryen’s Senate office. Bryen’s fingerprints were found on classified documents which he denied ever handling—the same documents he allegedly offered to Rafiah. The investigation is derailed when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee refuses to grant the FBI access to files key to the probe. Bryen will resign his position with the committee at the insistence of Philip Heymann, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s criminal division, and under strong pressure from senators Clifford Case (R-NJ), who is Bryen’s boss, and Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA). Heymann happens to be a close personal friend and associate of Bryen’s attorney. Soon after his resignation, Bryen will take a post as the executive director of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). In 1981, neoconservative Richard Perle, an assistant secretary of defense and then-aide to Jackson, will secure Bryen top-secret security clearance. Bryen will become Perle’s deputy, and will continue to provide Israel with classified information and materials (see May 1988 and After). [Nation, 6/29/1985; Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 7/4/1986; CounterPunch, 2/28/2004]
Entity Tags: Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Henry (“Scoop”) Jackson, Clifford Case, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Robert Keuch, Philip Heymann, Zvi Rafiah, Richard Perle, Stephen Bryen
Timeline Tags: Neoconservative Influence
After August 2, 1989: Chalabi Forges Strong Ties with US Neocons
Ahmed Chalabi, the charismatic, MIT-educated head of Jordan’s Petra Bank, flees to London before charges can be filed against him in regards to the collapse of his bank (see August 2, 1989 and April 9, 1992). Unworried about the Jordanian charges, Chalabi, whose formerly wealthy family fled Iraq in 1958, establishes a loose grouping of Iraqi exiles called the Iraqi National Congress, with the aim of overthrowing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Chalabi has already forged ties with some US neoconservatives like Albert Wohlstetter and Richard Perle. Now he begins cultivating ties with other influential neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Douglas Feith, and Perle’s protege, David Wurmser. Chalabi makes the rounds of the symposia and conferences, and wins new allies in pro-Israeli think tanks such as the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Chalabi’s appeal to the neoconservatives is directly linked to his support for Israel as a regional power. The new Iraq he will build, he promises, will have strong relations with Israel. He even declares his intention to rebuild the oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa, which has been inoperative since the 1940s. The neoconservatives ignore his close ties with the Iranian Shi’ite theocracy, as well as the Petra Bank’s funding of the Lebanese Shi’ite militia Amal. Instead, the neoconservatives view Chalabi as a potential savior of the Middle East. Patrick Clawson of WINEP says, “He could be Iraq’s national leader.” [Unger, 2007, pp. 123-125]
Entity Tags: Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Albert Wohlstetter, Ahmed Chalabi, David Wurmser, Douglas Feith, Iraqi National Congress, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woolsey, Saddam Hussein, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Patrick Clawson
February 9, 2003: Washington Post: Bush Administration in Near-Perfect Accord with Likud-Run Israeli Government
The governments of Israel and the United States are in almost-perfect accord on most issues, according to a Washington Post analysis. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has talked repeatedly of the “special closeness” he has to the Bush administration, and of the “deep understanding” that President Bush and his officials have for Israel’s security and foreign policy needs. He has thanked Bush for providing what he calls “the required leeway in our ongoing war on terrorism” and lauded the Bush administration’s efforts to promote a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Palestinian people. Thomas Neumann, who heads the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), agrees. “This is the best administration for Israel since Harry Truman,” says Neumann, equating Bush with the first American president to recognize the independent state of Israel. A senior official in the first Bush administration says that Sharon used the 9/11 attacks to cement the bond between his government and the Bush administration. One senior administration official says: “Sharon played the president like a violin: ‘I’m fighting your war, terrorism is terrorism,’ and so on. Sharon did a masterful job.”
Accord with Likud - But the US is not just in accord with Israel; it is in accord with Likud, the hardline conservative political party currently in charge of the Israeli government. The Post writes: “For the first time, a US administration and a Likud government in Israel are pursuing nearly identical policies. Earlier US administrations, from Jimmy Carter’s through Bill Clinton’s, held Likud and Sharon at arm’s length, distancing the United States from Likud’s traditionally tough approach to the Palestinians. But today, as Neumann noted, Israel and the United States share a common view on terrorism, peace with the Palestinians, war with Iraq and more. Neumann and others said this change was made possible by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and their aftermath.” Bush supporters, particularly evangelical Christians, are “delight[ed]” with the administration’s overt support of Likud policies.
Abandoning Peace Talks between Israel and Palestinians - The downside, the Post notes, is that diplomacy with Israel’s Arab neighbors has come to a virtual standstill, and the Middle East “peace process” praised by Sharon is considered by many past and current US officials as a failure. Clinton administration National Security Adviser Sandy Berger says: “Every president since at least Nixon has seen the Arab-Israeli conflict as the central strategic issue in the Middle East. But this administration sees Iraq as the central challenge, and… has disengaged from any serious effort to confront the Arab-Israeli problem.” Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, the administration’s special envoy to the region, calls the peace process “quiescent,” and adds, “I’ve kind of gone dormant.”
'Likudniks Really in Charge Now' - Bush has appointed neoconservative Elliott Abrams, a vociferous critic of any peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, the head of Mideast affairs for the National Security Council, signaling his administration’s near-total alignment with Israel in the process. Abrams’s hardline views are supported by, among others, Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, Abrams’s mentor, who in 1996 recommended to Israel’s then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he abandon the Oslo peace accords and refuse to accede to Palestinian demands of “land for peace” (see September 13, 1993). A senior administration official says wryly, “The Likudniks are really in charge now,” using a Yiddish term for supporters of Sharon’s political party. “It’s a strong lineup,” says Neumann. Fellow neoconservative Meyrav Wurmser of the Hudson Institute says of Abrams: “Elliott’s appointment is a signal that the hard-liners in the administration are playing a more central role in shaping policy.… [T]he hard-liners are a very unique group. The hawks in the administration are in fact people who are the biggest advocates of democracy and freedom in the Middle East.” The Post explains that in Abrams’s and Wurmser’s view, promoting democracy in the Middle East is the best way to assure Israel’s security. Like other neoconservatives, they see the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of a “democratic Palestine” as necessary for peace in the region. Others who disagree with the neoconservatives call them a “cabal.” The Post writes, “Members of the group do not hide their friendships and connections, or their loyalty to strong positions in support of Israel and Likud.” [Washington Post, 2/9/2003]
Entity Tags: Elliott Abrams, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush administration (43), Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, Anthony Zinni, Thomas Neumann, Sandy Berger, Likud, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Richard Perle, Meyrav Wurmser, National Security Council
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Ancaster Square, Llanrwst
Ancaster Square in its current guise dates from the 16th century, when Llanrwst entered a new era of prosperity after the turmoil of Owain Glyndŵr’s uprising and the Wars of the Roses. The square is named after the Duke of Ancaster, who married into the major local landowning Wynn family in 1678. This was when when Mary Wynn married Robert ‘Bertie’ of Grimsthorpe Castle. Many of the buildings around the square date from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Bys a Bawd bookshop,
Maps, and books on Welsh and local history
29 Denbigh Street,
LL26 0LL
Fairs and markets have been held in Llanrwst since 1282. From the late 14th century, the area now occupied by the square was the market place, which until the time of King James I was designed around a large mound of earth known as Bryn y Boten, which means “Pudding Hill” (think of an old-fashioned one, like a Christmas pudding). Nothing of the natural mound exists today except for small inclines when entering the square from Station Road, Bridge Street and Church Street and, more noticeably, the slightly elevated position of the Pen y Bryn Hotel.
A market hall was placed on the mound in 1470. The Wynns rebuilt it in 1661. After being burnt down, this was rebuilt in the 18th century as a two-storey stone structure with a large clock set into the wall above an arched entrance. A bell-cote housing the market bell was surmounted by a weathervane and a large gilt eagle. This crude and yet stately structure was built when the mound was flattened out. It stood until 1964, when it was demolished by the local town council to enable road widening.
Parts of the clock were returned to Llanrwst in 2002, housed in a new tower in the square built by Conwy County Borough Council. The tower is 10 metres tall, to accommodate the clock’s pendulum.
One Friday night in April 1914, a local resident ran through Ancaster Square, chasing a large bird of prey which he had spotted in Denbigh Street. The bird flew on down Bridge Street and out of town. On the following morning the bird – which was thought to be an eagle – was seen to swoop down and grab a Dachshund puppy from the grounds of the Geirionydd Hotel in Trefriw. A man who was sitting nearby threw a stick at the bird, which dropped the pup. The pup was badly injured.
From the south-west corner of Ancaster Square, Church Street leads to the almshouses – built in 1610 – and to St Grwst’s Church.
With thanks to Pat Rowley of Llanrwst & District Historical Society, and to the Crafty Kitten shop and Trysorau Bach for displaying the QR codes
Postcode: LL26 0LB View Location Map
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Next Week in Tickets: Films playing Boston 9 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Weird set of stuff opening this weekend. Let's see what!
The big opening this week is John Carter, Disney's big-budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, with the name changed because marketing people decided boys wouldn't go see something with "Princess" in its name and girls would run screaming from "Mars". Silly, because a hundred-year-old story about a Civil War veteran who is somehow transported to a habitable Mars where he gets involved in the wars between various native races is going to sink or swim no matter what words are in the title. The Arlington Capitol and Fresh Pond split single screens between 2D and 3D (so check times); Boston Common and Fenway each have 2D and 3D screens; Harvard Square has it in 3D only; and it plays the premium screens at Jordan's Furniture, Fenway, and Boston Common.
Stars on the way up and down take the other mainstream screens. Elizabeth Olsen follows up Martha Marcy May Marlene with Silent House; it's a real-time horror movie about a girl trapped in her family home (edited to look like a single take) from the directors of Open Water, working from an original from Uruguay. It plalys Fresh Pond, Boston Common, and Fenway. The same screens have the latest from Eddie Murphy, A Thousand Words, in which he plays an insincere talent agent who will die when he speaks the thousand words of the title.
The Coolidge opens Friends with Kids, with Kissing Jessica Stein's Jennifer Westfeldt writing, directing, and starring in a movie about two platonic friends who decide to have a baby together. It also plays Boston Common and the Kendall.
In special programs, the Boston Underground Film Festival gears up for the main event later this month by presenting the infamous Cannibal Holocaust at midnight on Friday and Saturday; it's one of the first found-footage horror movies, originally banned in many places for being thought authentic. Sunday morning is the latest Goethe-Institut presentation, Cracks in the Shell, in which a meek young actress is cast completely against type in her first role.
Kendall Square is also finally opening We Need to Talk About Kevin in Boston, just two or three months after it hit New York and L.A. Tilda Swinton is one of several actresses criminally overlooked by the Oscar nominators, because her performance as the mother of a teenaged monster is fantastic. They also open The Forgiveness of Blood, an Albanian film from an American director (Joshua Marston, who also went abroad to make Maria Full of Grace) about a murder that turns into a blood feud.
Aside from Friends with Kids, they've got a couple other movies with more mainstream appeal. Being Flynn also opens at Boston Common; it features Paul Dano as a man whose father (Robert De Niro) unexpectedly re-enters his live. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, in which Ewan MacGregor and Emily Blunt fall in love while trying to introduce a sport (and species) to a country whose environment rahter inhospitable, will almost certainly play in the multiplexes considering how many times the trailer has played everywhere over the last few months, but for now is just at Kendall Square and their sister cinema in Waltham's Embassy Square.
Speaking of the Embassy, they are the only theater in the area playing Ralph Fienne's adaptation of Coriolanus, a modernized take with a screenplay by John Logan and a cast that includes Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, and Brian Cox. There's a poster or two up elsewhere, but if you want to see this movie, you may want to take the 70 bus out there.
The Brattle has Battle Royale back this week, playing one more week of late shows in advance of it finally hitting legitimate US video and the American remake coming out. (Wait, you say The Hunger Games isn't a remake? Huh.)
The things playing earlier that 9:30 are sort of mixed and matched, starting with a Film Noir Weekend: Sunset Boulevard and In a Lonely Place play as a double feature on Friday and Saturday; The Lady from Shanghai and The Postman Always Rings Twice are the twin bill on Sunday and Monday. The Balagan show on Tuesday is A Visit from Bruce Bickford, with the stop-motion animator presenting a 90-minute program of his clay work in person. The week is finished out with two French-language films as part of Francophone Week - Switzerland's La Petite Chambre on Wednesday and Quebec's Starbuck on Thursday.
ArtsEmerson wraps up "Portraits of New Orleans" with three screenings of Trouble the Water (Friday and Saturday), a documentary on Hurricane Katrina constructed from the home movies of someone who started shooting herself just before the storm began. The "Gotta Dance" screening on Saturday and Sunday afternoons is Kid Millions, an Eddie Cantor-starrer in which a young Brooklynite has misadventures claiming an inherited fortune; it's notable for switching from black and white to Technicolor for the big finale. And the "Crazie Cult Classics" screening on Saturday night is The Intruder, with Professor Eric Schaefer introducing a 1962 Roger Corman film that stars William Shatner as a provocateur looking to whip up unrest about school integration.
The MFA kicks off their "Friday Night Films" series on the 9th with Such Hawks, Such Hounds, a documentary on "the American hard rock underground". It starts at 7:45, but folks who arrive at the museum by 7pm will be treated to a set by Zozobra beforehand. The other documentary playing that weekend is also musical, with A Drummer's Dream playing at various times on Friday through Sunday. The Saturday afternoon screening will also feature live performance afterward, along with a Q&A and a raffle for a cymbal set.
Sunday afternoon features the full four-hour-plus Cleopatra, and when they start showing films again on Wednesday, it's a New Latin American Cinema program, with Argentina's The Prize on Wednesday and Colombia's animated Fat, Bald, Short Man on Thursday.
The Harvard Film Archive begins The Melancholy Worlds of Béla Tarr this weekend; it will run through the 25th. The series opens with Tarr's latest (and, allegedly, last), The Turin Horse running at 7pm on Friday and Sunday evenings; also featured will be Damnation (Saturday at 7pm), The Outsider (Saturday at 9:15pm), The Prefab People (Sunday at 4:30pm), and Family Nest (Monday at 7pm).
The Hindi movie opening at Fresh Pond this weekend is Kahaani, a thriller starring Vidya Balan as a pregnant woman from Londan searching Kolkata for her missing husband - who may or may not exist.
And in second-run-shuffling action, the Somerville Theatre picks up both The Secret World of Arietty and A Dangerous Method as they leave Kendall Square, with The Iron Lady and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy both making their way to the Arlington Capitol.
My plans? Maybe some of the Brattle noirs, The Intruder, and Silent House. Maybe try to make it to the furniture store to see Mars on the giant screen. And if I wind up working from home, maybe catch Coriolanus (the Embassy used to be on my way home, but now I haven't been there in at least a year). Maybe Starbuck, as I tend to get unnaturally curious about movies when I see posters for them all over Montreal during my annual Fantasia visit.
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German Pennsylvanians
First offering the study of German in 1754, the University of Pennsylvania hosts one of oldest German programs in the United States. By the turn of the twentieth century, Penn was considered to have the premier department of German in the nation. At a time when fully one-third of the Pennsylvania population was of German heritage, Penn scholars forged the way for the study of German-Americans, particularly the Germans of Pennsylvania. Among the most notable were Marion Dexter Learned, renowned dialectologist who established the first graduate program in German at Penn, Oswald Seidensticker, the first professor of German Language and Literature at Penn, and Otto Springer, former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Vice-Provost. Other noteworthy Penn faculty and affiliates who researched the history, language and culture of the Pennsylvania Germans included Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Henry Chapman Mercer, Joseph George Rosengarten and Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker.
The Penn Libraries collected a substantial number of materials on the history and language of the German emigrants to Pennsylvania to support the research of these esteemed faculty. Works by each of the scholars named above are represented in Penn's collection digitized by the Lyrasis collaborative with support in part from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Wherever possible, materials on the Pennsylvania German dialect listed in Otto Springer's 16-page mimeographed bibliography were digitized, as well as the bibliography itself. Of note in the collection is Marion Dexter Learned's 1911 ethnographical survey of Germans in Pennsylvania. Also digitized are the original 25 questions asked in the survey, published in Americana Germanica (vol.1, no.4), a monographic series for which Learned served as editor. The Pennsylvania German Society's publication series, 1891 to 1923, examining and preserving various aspects of the Pennsylvania German dialect and culture, is included as well.
[est. 171 vols.]
Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaborative
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Historic Preservation Theses, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, 1987-2003
Researchers will find in the Internet Archive a fascinating array of expert studies of historic structures (including many in the Philadelphia region), cultural landscapes, building materials, and theories of preservation in the digitized theses written by students in Penn Design's Historic Preservation program from 1987 to 2003. At a time when society increasingly realizes the historical and cultural value of the inherited environment and what has been lost through the destruction of buildings, landscapes, and communities, the field of historic preservation has become central to the design, adaptive use, planning, and management of buildings, cities, and regions. Historic Preservation theses from 2004 to present are available in the ScholarlyCommons. [est. 309 vols.]
Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia
The Act of June 21, 1839 gave Philadelphia residents the right to directly elect the mayor. The structure of municipal government in Philadelphia as of1839, with its bicameral representative legislative branch and separately elected executive branch, continued with some variation until the Act of June 25, 1919 created the unicameral City Council that exists today.
Through the Lyrasis Mass Digitization Collaboration, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are contributing virtually complete runs of the Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia, 1835-1916, and the Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia, 1850-1920.
The Journal of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia contains minutes of the proceedings of the Common Council as well as the text of petitions, reports, resolutions, messages and ordinances that were presented to or created by the Council. The Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia contains ordinances passed by the Common and Select Councils. Ordinances include appropriations, directives to begin public works and construction, city planning decisions, and regulations. It was the decisions recorded in municipal documents such as these that helped shape the city during this vital eighty year period.
Penn's Rare Judaica Pennsylvaniana
The Penn Libraries' collections of rare Judaica rank among the most important in the world. Among Penn Judaica's most significant components are the remarkably rich holdings of Judaica Americana published before 1900. The provenance of Penn's Judaica Americana stems in large part from two private libraries built in 19th-century America: those of Isaac Leeser, the foremost Jewish publisher and translator in antebellum America and of Joshua I. Cohen, a Baltimore physician who was another extraordinary nineteenth-century collector. Both now form part of the Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn. The Penn Libraries' Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Judaica Americana imprints are now freely available online to the public as part of Penn's Internet Archive collection. Selections are based, in large part, on Robert Singerman's Judaica Americana: bibliography of publications to 1900 . [est. 120 vols.]
Pennsylvania Farm Journal, vols. 1-5 (1851/52-1855)
The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil, vols. 1-12 (1848-1858)
Published by the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Agriculture, The Pennsylvania Farm Journal is "devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and rural economy"
The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil, is "An American farmers' magazine and mechanics' guide."
[est. 17 vols.]
Philadelphia T Square Club Annual Exhibition Catalogs
With the digitizing of the illustrated exhibition catalogs published by Philadelphia's T Square Club in its most consequential years, researchers now will find in the Internet Archive a valuable record of contemporary architectural thought at the beginning of the twentieth century. The annual exhibitions between 1894 and 1922, the period documented by this project, chronicle the development of a cohort of architects responsible for creating much of Philadelphia in the new century. A powerful center of commerce and manufacturing, Philadelphia offered an exceptional field of play for architects: by publication in the T Square Club's annual exhibition catalogs, Philadelphia architects showcased the products of their studios to the nation and the world. Together with presentation of design work, the published catalogs include essays and valuable advertisements, documents of the physical fabric of architectural practice. [est. 24 vols.]
Selections from the Fairman Rogers Historic Equine Book Collection
A selection of volumes from the personal library of Fairman Rogers (1833-1900), a Penn alumnus (A.B. 1853, A.M. 1856), co-founder of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Professor of Civil Engineering (1855-1871), and internationally recognized horseman. The materials, primarily published in the 19th century, bring together Rogers' interest in horses and their relationship to engineering, veterinary medicine, science, and history of industrialization, specifically related to agriculture, transportation, hauling, and construction. Comprised of medical guides, stud books, books on shoeing, harnessing, training, riding, driving, racing, keeping a proper stable, and breeds and breeding, the collection serves as a foundation for scholarly study of the role of the horse in the technical, scientific, and social evolution of 19th-century European and North American history. Selections from the collection are available at the Internet Archive and the full collection can be seen at the Print at Penn site.
In January 2010, Penn Libraries announced a gift of $300,000 from the Laurie Landeau Foundation, LLC, to support the digitization of the complete collection. The Foundation's president, Laurie Landeau (V'84, WG'84), is a University Trustee, former Chair and current Member of the Board of Overseers of School of Veterinary Medicine, and a generous and loyal supporter of Penn.
The Library Chronicle , vols. 1-45 (1933-1981)
Published by the Friends of the Library, University of Pennsylvania, this journal covers the provenance and history of important collections, news of recent acquisitions and purchases, and articles about the book trade and book history in Philadelphia and around the world.
World War I Pamphlet Collection
The World War I Pamphlet Collection at the University of Pennsylvania consists of just over 400 titles drawn from the general stacks at Van Pelt library. These pamphlets, many of them brittle and no longer fit for circulation, all deal with the First World War, its origins or aftermath. Out of this collection, more than 200 have been digitized and are made available here in Print at Penn. The remaining titles can be accessed digitally through the Hathi Trust. Published in nine languages, the selection of pamphlets includes political tracts, government publications, fund-raising brochures, and periodicals. Many of these items were given to the University of Pennsylvania Library by the Philadelphia attorney and politician James Montgomery Beck (1861-1936) who wrote and spoke often about the conflict. Given their rarity and ephemeral nature, the majority of items available in facsimile here are not available online in any other venue.
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Topics in Chronicling America - The Presidential Election of 1908: Taft vs. Bryan
Despite widespread popular support for Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt decides not to seek a third term and instead encourages the Republican Party to nominate his Secretary of War and friend, William H. Taft. Taft goes on to face off against the familiar Democrat William Jennings Bryan in Bryan’s third and final attempt to win the presidency. Read more about it!
The information and sample article links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in the Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers digital collection (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). Use the Suggested Search Terms and Dates to explore this topic further in Chronicling America.
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June 16-19, 1908: The Republican National Convention, held in Chicago, nominates William Howard Taft.
July 7-10, 1908: The Democratic National Convention held in Denver, nominates William Jennings Bryan.
November 3, 1908: Taft defeats Bryan in the general election.
Suggested Search Strategies:
[Try the following terms in combination, proximity, or as phrases using Search Pages in Chronicling America.] William Taft, James Sherman, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention.
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results.
Sample Articles from Chronicling America:
"Call to Order of Republicans in Convention," The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL), June 16, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Wild Outburst for Roosevelt!," The Seattle Star (Seattle, WA), June 17, 1908, Extra!, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Roosevelt Day at Chicago," New York Tribune (New York, NY), June 18, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"Taft Nominated for President First Ballot," Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, CA), June 19, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Taft and Sherman Republican Ticket," Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), June 20, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Opening of Democratic Convention," Daily Capital Journal (Salem, OR), July 7, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Democrats in Convention," New York Tribune (New York, NY), July 8, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 5.
"The Democratic Convention," The National Tribune (Washington, DC), July 9, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 4.
"William J. Bryan Nominated for the Presidency on the First Ballot by the Denver Convention," The Marion Daily Mirror (Marion, OH), July 10, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Bryan Was Nominated Today by National Democratic Convention at Denver," The Paducah Evening Sun (Paducah, KY), July 10, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 6.
"Taft and Sherman Sweep Country," New York Tribune (New York, NY), November 4, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 4.
"William H. Taft is Elected President of United States," Daily Arizona Silver Belt (Globe, AZ), November 4, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
"Taft and Sherman Have Triumphed," The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, FL), November 4, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 2.
"Taft Defeats Bryan by 1,000,000 Majority," University Missourian (Columbia, MO), November 4, 1908, Page 1, Image 1, col. 1.
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Interest Rates & the Economy
The yield curve is a graph with the rates of U.S. Treasury bonds plotted by maturity. The slope of the curve is the difference between short-dated bonds and long-dated bonds. Normally, it curves upward as investors demand higher yields to compensate for the risk of lending money over a longer period. The curve flattens, however, when the rates converge.
Investors pay attention to the yield curve to identify buying opportunities in the bond market and because it has a history of forecasting economic growth. A flat yield curve suggests that inflation and interest rates are expected to stay low for an extended period of time, signaling economic weakness. A steep curve indicates stronger growth ahead.
In the first week of December 2018, the difference between 10-year and two-year Treasury yields — an indicator that tends to be closely watched by investors — was the narrowest since 2007, though still positive. The flattening yield curve was partly to blame for a year-end spike in stock market volatility, because some economists and investors took it as a warning that the odds of an economic downturn were increasing.1
Curve Confusion
Short-term Treasury yields are tied to the Fed’s interest rate policy, and the benchmark federal funds rate rose to a range between 2.25% and 2.5% in December 2018. Although the committee initially projected two more rate increases in 2019, projections released in March 2019 suggested the Fed might not resume raising rates until 2020.2
Yields at the long end of the curve are determined by supply and demand in the bond market and tend to reflect a broader range of factors, including the economic outlook and investor sentiment. Longer-term yields dropped over the last two months of 2018, partly due to investor concerns that tighter Fed policies could slow U.S. growth more than expected.3
Signs of a weakening global economy also appeared, while some export-driven economies were hit especially hard by trade disputes. China, the world’s second largest economy after the United States, is growing at its slowest rate in nearly a decade.4 In addition, uncertainty surrounding the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union — or Brexit — has restrained growth in the region.5
Recession Worries
When short-term rates actually rise above long-term rates, the yield curve becomes inverted, signaling that a recession may be coming in about a year. In fact, the last seven U.S. recessions were preceded by an inverted yield curve. There have also been two notable false positives when recession did not follow an inversion.6
It’s possible that the bond market has been distorted by the central bank’s bond-buying program (quantitative easing), which was implemented to boost liquidity and help the economy recover from the Great Recession. If so, the yield curve might be a less-reliable leading indicator than it was in the past.
Only time will tell whether the yield curve’s gloomy economic forecast will come true, or whether the market-based indicator has been thrown off by monetary policy and/or global events. Either way, investors and economists (including policymakers at the Federal Reserve) would likely view a steeper yield curve as a step in the right direction.
U.S. Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government as to the timely payment of principal and interest. The principal value of bonds fluctuates with market conditions. If not held to maturity, bonds could be worth more or less than the original amount paid.
1) Bloomberg.com, December 3, 2018
2) The Wall Street Journal, January 10 and May 9, 2019
3) The Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2019
4) The New York Times, December 9, 2018
5) The Guardian, October 30, 2018
6) Federal Reserve, 2018
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The Secrets of the Federal Reserve Bank Revealed
Politics / Central Banks May 13, 2009 - 04:59 PM GMT
By: Global_Research
Bob Chapman writes: The Federal Reserve Act was legislated in 1913 to end recessions, panics and depression. Over that almost 100-year period they have been eminently no more successful then their predecessors. The Fed is a private corporation, which guides US monetary policy. Its staff is from Wall Street, banking, and transnational conglomerates and occasionally from academia. Of the 12 Federal Reserve banks the New York bank is the most powerful. The staffing of the Fed at the least is incestuous, because the member banks take part in the staffing, as they filter to the Fed what actions they should take.
That is done by the FOMC, The Federal Open Market Committee. As a further example the recent stress test done by the Fed was done on many of their owners. Sadly the public is unaware of this and even business majors and those with business masters degrees do not know that the Fed is privately owned or what they actually do. For those of you who would like to get a better understanding read G. Edward Griffith’s, “Creature from Jekyll Island” and the secrets of the Federal Reserve” by Eustace Mullins.
Recently we discovered that $101.4 billion was originally secretly funneled through AIG to AIG counterparties - parties that were owed these sums by AIG, which had not collateralized derivative contracts. That is like writing insurance and having no collateral reserves set aside for losing events. The Federal Reserve in their wisdom paid off AIG’s debt with what eventually will be taxpayer debt. This is wrong and it should not have been done secretly. When demanded by a Federal Judge to reveal to whom these monies were paid and under what circumstances, the Fed said it would harm their reputations and it was a “state secret.”
The biggest gun in the Fed arsenal is the New York Fed. The recently appointed Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner was the NY Fed’s previous governor. Mr. Geithner had worked in government previously and was in part responsible for the Asian financial disaster in 1997-1998. He is also a Goldman Sachs alumnus. He is part of a never-ending exchange of the denizens of Wall Street and banking being appointed to government positions. In fact Wall Street and banking have been running our government for a long time. Many say for too long.
This kind of relationship makes government a tool of major financial interests and it breeds corruption, as we just witnessed in the case of Stephen Friedman, formerly of Goldman Sachs, and until he resigned last week, for having purchased some Goldman Sachs stock, was Chairman of the NY federal Reserve, the position Mr. Geithner had held before him. This raises the fundamental question of appointment and corruption. Never mind the other issues the Fed is involved in. this is America’s most powerful financial institution and it is run by corrupt and perhaps incompetent people. The NY fed has a very special position, because it is actively running markets every day via the 21 dealers it uses to manipulate and uses these markets. This is part of the program never spoken of that exists to assist the “Working Group on Financial Markets, which manipulates markets 24/7, under an Executive Order signed in August 1988 by then President Ronald Reagan.
This was executed to protect against market failures such that had taken place the previous October. The order was for emergencies. The Treasury, the Fed, Wall Street and banking have distorted its original intent. The Fed also sets interest rates and regulates the issuance of money and credit. Thus the Fed holds a pivotal role in our financial well-being. They also are to insure the soundness and stability of the banking system. If our banking system breaks down it is the fault of the Fed. When that happens it should not be the province of the Fed to commit trillions of dollars of taxpayer money to bail out its own owners.
You can get an idea of the incestuous nature of the Fed and Wall Street in looking at the select committee that not that long ago picked Timothy Geithner to head the NY Fed. Hank Greenberg defrocked former Chairman of AIG, who for some reason was never criminally prosecuted in the scandal; John Whitehead a former Chairman of Goldman Sachs; Peter Peterson, a former Chairman of Lehman Bros.; and Walter Shipley, a former Chairman of Chase Manhattan, now with JP Morgan Chase. We wonder why the media never questions these kinds of connections all of which are tied together by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Then there is the composition of the NY Fed board on which six board members are public representatives. We do not see any common business people on this board. They are all very wealthy New Yorkers, who are all connected to one another. There have been occasionally members of labor and academia, but they can only be considered tokens. It is very definitely an insiders club.
This means the Fed’s real consideration is the maximizing of profits for banking, Wall Street, insurance and real estate. This goal of almost 100 years has made these individuals and their families’ mega-rich. Competent or incompetent they always win. They have information and intelligence no one else has and you can be sure their inner circle has the same privileged information. As usual they are essentially unregulated, which gives the Fed an additional advantage. The lack of banking oversight of recent years has brought our entire financial system into insolvency. We do not know how you could call it anything else when most major banks, brokerage houses, some insurance companies and other lenders are simply broke.
The Fed, and particularly the NY Fed, has been complicit in banks and brokerage houses using leverage of more than 50 times assets. In some cases such as JP Morgan Chase the figures are much higher. In fractional banking 8 to 10 times is considered appropriate. This is the biggest bailout of poorly managed corrupt banks in history. This failure is far greater than the failure of the Lombard System in Venice in 1348, the year of the great bubonic plague that swept Europe and killed 50% of its inhabitants. These elitists have brought the world economy to its knees. It is ironic, but true to insider dealing, that not one CEO or senior executive has been fired, as trillions of dollars have been lost.
That said this is the perfect segway to bring to your attention a bill calling for the Comptroller General of the US to audit the private Federal Reserve. At last report 124 members of the House have joined Rep. Ron Paul’s bill HR 1207, as co-sponsors, to his Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009. Both the Fed’s Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve Banks would be required to report to Congress before the end of 2010. This could be the most important bill in modern American history and could lead to our financial and economic recovery. When the Congress sees what the Fed has done they might just abolish it, which is really the solution. As Rep. Paul says, “Congress should reassert its constitutional authority over monetary policy.” The Constitution gives Congress, not the private Federal Reserve, “the Authority to coin money and regulate the value of the currency.” “The Fed has presided over the near-complete destruction of the US dollar,” says Rep. Paul. “Since 1913 the dollar has lost over 95% of its purchasing power, aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve’s loose money policy.” “How long will we as a Congress stand idly by while hard-working Americans see their savings eaten away by inflation?” Only big-spending politicians and politically favored bankers benefit from inflation,” he said. “Since its inception, the Fed has always operated in the shadows, without sufficient scrutiny or oversight of its operations.”
The Fed can enter into agreements with foreign central banks and foreign governments, and the GAO’s prohibited from auditing or even seeing these agreements. There are no enforcement powers over the Fed. The Fed’s funding facilities including the Dealer Credit Facility, Term Securities Lending Facility, and the Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility should be subject to congressional oversight.
Every problem we have had in our economy from the Fed’s conception and passage can be directly traced to Federal Reserve policy.
Legislation should be passed to abolish the Fed and that the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget liquidate Fed assets to insure a quick transfer of their functions to the Treasury.
HR 1207 is now in the House Committee of Financial Reserves and has been there for 3 months.
This could be the most important legislation ever submitted due to the financial conditions in America at this time.
In the Senate, Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) has submitted a similar bill, which has been in the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee for 2 months.
As Rep. Paul says, “auditing the Fed is only the first step towards exposing this antiquated insider-run creature to the powerful forces of free-market competition. Once there are viable alternatives to the monopolistic fiat dollar, the Federal Reserve will have to become honest and transparent if it wants to remain in business.
Contact everyone in Congress and let him or her know how you feel about this issue as soon as possible.
As Joseph Schummpeter argues that monetary measures do not allow policymakers to eliminate economic depression, only to delay it under penalty of more severity in the future. In a market economy, economic depressions are painful but unavoidably recurring. Counter cyclical monetary measures to provide more money and credit to keep ill-timed investment on a high level in a depression are not creative destruction, but positive destruction, and such measures will ultimately be detrimental to the general welfare. This is what we’ve been preaching for some time.
Unemployment is a natural extension for stabilizing production and consumption, and its solution cannot be implemented by holding up asset prices in a depressed market economy. Unemployment is usually reduced by deficit-financing and high wages. Today that is not easy with a $2 trillion deficit, rising interest rates, monetization and the insane creation of money and credit. Plus, how can you maintain wages, or raise them, with an army of illegal aliens working for next to nothing and offshoring and outsourcing still going at full tilt? Monetarist measures cannot hold up asset prices with today’s problems, which are the worst since the early 1870s.
Looking back Herbert Hoover was wrong in starting off the Socialist-Fascist era that began the 1930’s Great Depression. Franklin Delano Roosevelt carried out that program and it was a failure. America was saved by war at a terrible price. Andrew Mellon was right in advocating that government must keep its hands off and let the slump liquidate itself. Purge the rottenness out of the system. Mr. Mellon said liquidate labor, stocks, farmers and real estate. No more high living, people will work harder and lead a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.
The economics of monetarism are nothing more than a formula promulgated to save the financial sector and not the country, by using an elitist trickle down theory, which as recent as the 1980s had been proven unworkable. Bail out the rich on Wall Street, the bankers and insurance companies and let the poor and working poor fend for themselves. This is class economics and this is what turns the masses toward socialism. Bankers, who caused the problem, are bailed out by the masses, and the public is left to drown on their own. We are told the bankers and Wall Street must be saved or we’ll have no economy. We call this the myth of saving the criminals.
Under a Federal Reserve System the Fed has in private hands unlimited state power to create money and credit backed by the full faith and credit of the American people, which denies those people the rights of sovereignty.
Via the Fed and via Executive Order and the “Working Group on Financial Markets” we allow the Fed and the Treasury to manipulate our markets. Thus our financial elite grow richer and richer, and worse yet even professionals do not know what is going on, never mind the public. The creation of money and credit is effected in such a way that the financial sector is protected and the burden of loss of purchasing power is cast upon American workers. The capitalists do business as usual. Such pursuits have often ended in revolution. The fruits of low wages in America, a result of free trade, globalization, offshoring and outsourcing, have taken their toll. The result is more than two years of recession and now more than three months of depression. The working poor cannot afford to buy what they produce and they cannot pay the debt cast upon them by Wall Street and the banking establishment. There are no free markets. The markets are what these people want them to be. Today they feed their own debt bubble hoping, hope against hope they can bail out the system again.
These miscreatants, in what is called a shadow banking system securitized mortgages and other debt by fraud via a corrupt rating system worldwide monetizing their liabilities and buried thousands of professionals worldwide. This unpayable debt, now lost, along with derivatives present problems that are really just beginning to be addressed. All this is done with little transparency in order for these institutions, guided by the Fed, to dump their financial risks.
There you have it. A manmade disaster created by the Federal Reserve, banking and Wall Street, and these are the same corrupt group who our government has chosen to rectify the problem. Their answer is to take the funds from the public to cover their losses, be it by inflation or taxes. The answer is get rid of the Fed and purge the system once and for all.
The internationalforecaster.com/radio
Global Research Articles by Bob Chapman
© Copyright Bob Chapman , Global Research, 2009
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CAPTAIN SWEDEN
Identity/Class: Unrevealed, possible mutant, mutate or gifted athelete
Occupation: Superhero, unrevealed
Affiliations: Unrevealed
Enemies: Unrevealed
Aliases: Kapten Sverige (Swedish name)
Base of Operations: Sweden, possibly mobile
First Appearance: Fun and Games#4 (December, 1979)
Powers/Abilities: Unrevealed
(Fun and Games#4) - Captain Sweden's history is unknown. He was introduced by Captain Britain as a fellow hero whose name also began with "Captain" as one of many international heroes belonging to a non-team he called the World Federation of Superheroes.
Comments: Created by Owen McCarron (writer & pencils)
Captain Sweden was a character from a puzzle that featured nine superheroes from around the world dressed in costumes based on flags from different countries. All the characters that appeared had names with Captain and you had to figure out what country they belonged with as the second part of the name.
Here is a little insight on what the comic series "Fun and Games" was about. In the 1970's Marvel published a series of crossword and other types of puzzle and fitness books featuring characters from their comics such as Spider Man and the fantastic Four. In 1977 a black and white paper back series ( I believe 5 were produced) with the name Stan Lee Presents: The Mighty Marvel Superheroes Fun Book was published and on the front cover it had a caption saying "all you need is a pencil" This book was 128 pages long and contained games, riddles ,puzzles, mazes and surprises and proved to be a moderate success. Skipping ahead a few years to 1979, Stan Lee was approached by his long time friend and comic book artist Owen McCarron who sold him the idea of doing an ongoing series featuring puzzles and other activities geared towards children and young adults and featured characters from the "Marvel Universe". Owen McCarron had experience creating puzzles since and had a weekly fun page printed in his local newspaper the Halifax Herald Limited. This too was called "Fun and Games" and was a success having been produced for three decades. Owen McCarron had also worked in the comic book industry and was considered Stan Lee's go to guy for quickly getting art projects that needed to be finished completed in an emergency. This full color monthly series lasted for 13 issues until it was canceled.
Captain Sweden has no known connection to:
Magma, Swedish member of Super Heroes of Europe @ Sentry I#4
any other character with a similar name
Fun and Games#4, p26, pan1 (main image)
Fun and Games#4 (December, 1979) - Owen McCarron (writer/pencils/editor)
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Next To None - "A Light In The Dark" (CD)
"A Light In The Dark" track listing:
1. The Edge Of Sanity
2. You Are Not Me
4. A Lonely Walk
7. Social Anxiety
8. Legacy
9. Blood On My Hands
Reviewed by xFiruath on September 25, 2015
"An overall mixed bag, “A Light In The Dark” shows a band with a solid grasp of the core principles that is still getting its footing."
It's always a pleasure to catch a new progressive metal band in its earliest stages of development to watch where it goes in the future. Add in the fact that Next To None consists of teenagers already playing at a high level and the hype of a Portnoy being involved and you've got a recipe for something very interesting here with “A Light In The Dark.” In the long run that hype may end up hurting the band, but for now the only question that really matters is whether the music on this debut stacks up against other prog metal acts and will be worth your time.
Frankly, the answer varies from track to track. The near 10 minute opening song “Edge Of Sanity,” for instance, is a bit scatterbrained, with a horde of elements introduced and not all of them mesh together properly as the band strives to be progressive and avant-garde by mixing opposing musical forces. Some of the odd sound effects on this track in particular don't seem to really add anything, and are there more to fit an archetype than because they need to be there. The backing keyboards will bring to mind both Dream Theater and later Opeth however, so if that's where your tastes lie there's still some appeal to be found.
The album's shorter tracks following the opening monster are much more unified and keep more to a central theme, with a few changes here and there but with less major, abrupt shifts. “Runaway,” for instance, has a fun energetic riff running throughout its play time, while “A Lonely Walk” focuses on piano, strings, and more emotive smooth singing. Although probably the least heavy of the tracks (with the exception of the darkly melancholy “Legacy,” which also focuses strongly on piano), “A Lonely Walk” might actually be the best constructed song on the disc.
Ron Bumblefoot also makes a guitar guest spot on “A Lonely Walk,” and because this is prog, there is a of course mellotron. Where Next To None breaks from those prog metal conventions is in the mix of harsh and clean vocals, and the overall feel of groove/nu metal to the guitar tones. For the most part the musicianship doesn't reveal the young age of the band members (except for perhaps in the ending track, which has more of an amateurish feel in the opening minutes) although the lyrical content does. While perhaps I wouldn't go so far as to call it “angsty,” its worth noting every song does deal with feeling invisible, misunderstood, wondering what it all means, running away, etc.
An overall mixed bag, “A Light In The Dark” shows a band with a solid grasp of the core principles that is still getting its footing. You can hear the talent, although there are plenty of times where it sounds as though the band is playing at a level it hasn't quite actually reached yet. It'll be interesting to see whether Next To None remains together and continues improving on this sound or if the members end up going their separate ways for other projects in the future.
Highs: Prog metal gets a groove facelift with a mix of harsh and clean vocals.
Lows: The varying musical elements don't always come together well and the vocals could use some polishing.
Bottom line: A teen prodigy band enters the scene to contend with the prog metal big dogs.
Get more info including news, reviews, interviews, links, etc. on our Next To None band page.
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Three Things I Learned from Moonlight
February 28, 2017 • By Tiffani Knowles
I see everything as modern lessons in theology. Even the things that many view as insignificant or trivial. God is in all things and there is no such thing as coincidence. So, when my student decided to write a clever review about the Miami-produced Moonlight for the Arts & Entertainment section of our newspaper at Barry University, I didn’t know that this would be the start of a prophetic word to me.
A word of caution: I still have not seen the film and I’m not sure about its content due to values expressed in the film that don’t gel with my own. The lessons do not relate to its content, however.
Here are the 3 things that Moonlight taught me.
1. Local doesn’t mean lame
I take great pride in being from Miami, Florida. Born and raised, I took dance classes for years in Liberty City and it was there that I learned to be proud of my chocolate skin and broad nose. Moonlight is directed and written by two Liberty City natives, Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney. It’s a community that is poverty-stricken with crime rates above the national average.
Some have been of the opinion that in order to “make it” in the entertainment industry, one has to move to Hollywood and check your rough edges and regionalism at the door. Not so for Tyler Perry, who made a name for himself and a mega production studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Not so for Oprah Winfrey, who built her media empire from Chicago, Illinois. And, apparently, not so for Barry Jenkins. He shot, directed and cast many of the actors in Miami. It beat out screenplays for “Fences,” “Hidden Figures,” “Lion” and “Arrival.”
If you’re called to be great, you may not have to beg for Hollywood’s acceptance or even move to the United States to do it. You can stay in Miami or Boise or Kolkata and watch God do the rest.
2. A Turnaround in the Midnight Hour
We were all poised to switch the channel. The fans who came to screen the awards show at the African Cultural Center in Liberty City headed toward their cars in the parking lot. Some even turned off their TV sets as the Oscars had run past midnight.
That wasn’t the end.
In the most jaw-dropping moment in an awards show since Steve Harvey announced the wrong pageant winner, LalaLand had to abdicate their 2-minute Best Picture throne. The real winner was actually Moonlight! Producers of both films and audiences were confused, stunned and gracious!
This was one of the biggest lessons for me. It doesn’t matter who counts you out, who starts packing it up and in, who thinks they have it in the bag and who feels they couldn’t compete.
If God wants you in position. He’ll move Heaven and Earth to put you there. Judgments can be reversed. Verdicts torn asunder. Announcements modified. Even in the midnight hour.
3. Large Institutions are error-prone
I am constantly amazed at how much faith we place in man-made institutions. They are erroneous, people. From the U.S. Department of Justice to the International Monetary Fund to the United Nations to the accounting firm who tallies the scores for the Academy Awards, these institutions are ALL prone to making errors. And they do.
Apparently, an accountant who had been tweeting backstage photos of stars ruined the meticulous procedure for announcing the award for best picture when he handed the wrong envelopes to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers said on Monday.
Lesson: don’t put your trust in a man-made institution! Call them out on their crap. Resist their legislation. Write letters. Protest. Scream until justice prevails.
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Facebook updates S-1, adds Q1 earnings, revenue up 45% over last year
Facebook just filed an amended S-1 (that all important document that officially announces its public offering plans) with some new financial info. Now included in the charts and graphs is everything you wanted to know about Q1 of 2012 at Facebook (but were afraid to ask). The new SEC filing reveals that revenues are way up at the social network over last year (a whopping 45 percent higher than Q1 of 2011), but down slightly from last quarter (six percent), settling at a more than respectable $1.058 billion. Of the cash it took in, $872 million of it was ad revenue, which is down from Q4 of 2011 ($943 million) but up significantly from Q1 of last year ($731 million). Facebook was even able to slap a per-user amount on its 900 million active monthly members -- $1.21 -- that's the average revenue for each person with an account at the site. Of course, membership has continued to grow, with 532 million stopping by daily, up from 372 million just a year ago. As for that Instagram purchase, it looks like the widely reported $1 billion figure wasn't entirely accurate -- at least not when talking cold, hard cash. Only $300 million was turned over in immediately spendable currency, the rest of the deal involved 23 million shares of common stock. If you're a sucker for financials hit up the source link.
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We operate in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, surrounded by the age-old marble deposits of the Apuan Alps which are renowned worldwide. They have always been the source of inspiration that has driven our passion for natural stone and its multiple applications in architecture and design.
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Ordine Toscano was born from the collective expertise of four professionals, who, for over 30 years have been involved in the design, planning and consultancy of internal and external marble projects. Our rich range of skills and abilities has developed over the years, first individually and then as a team, specializing in the different fields of natural stone applications. In each of our careers, we have worked with leading architectural firms, developing and executing many different projects in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world.
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PDOIS aims to facilitate the building of a Secular , Democratic, Sovereign Republic with each citizen serving in equal measure as a depository of the sovereignty of the Republic and, in concert with others, demonstrates equal ownership of public authority which is exerted in an informed manner to create a community of sovereign citizens who are equal in rights and freedoms irrespective ethno-linguistic origin, gender, religion ,philosophy, physical and other features, and further brings about a self- reliant and self- determined development by harnessing mineral and extractable resources to become architects of a self- reliant and self- determined destiny of liberty , dignity and prosperity, thus earning them an equal station with all other peoples in the world.
Objectives, Policy and Institutions for Cultural Transformation
Strategic Objective: Promote and preserve cultural heritages that enhance human dignity, self- worth, liberty and prosperity and thus fuse identities and values originating from diverse…
Institutions for Social Transformation
The Health Ministry will formulate strategic plans, programmes and projects to ensure that the four components of health, that is, its preventive, curative, rehabilitative and…
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PDOIS Solidarity with UDP
SUBJECT: IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UDP LEADERSHIP
FREE OUSAINOU DARBOE AND UDP MEMBERS CAMPAIGN
Dear Compatriots,
Today, at this very hour, minute and second, our hearts beat in unison with the heartbeats of your leaders and members who are incarcerated at the Central Prisons in Mile two.
Their crime is associated with holding a procession but the court has confirmed without any shadow of doubt that they were not guilty of any incitement of violence.
Despite this salient point, they were charged with 7 counts and convicted of 6 counts. They were sentenced to several terms of imprisonment which are to be served concurrently, thus earning them a 3 year jail sentence, partly because of the existence of a law which was enacted since 31st October 1961. This Act imposed mandatory jail sentence of 1 year for holding a procession without a permit. This law was allowed to continue as enacted by the colonial administration until 2009 when the penalty for holding procession without a permit was increased to 3 years by the National Assembly members. Hence the law made by Gambian members of Parliament in collaboration with the executive imposes a 3- year mandatory jail sentence, without any option of a fine to first time offenders.
This retributive style of law making binds the hands of courts and compels judges to send first time offenders to jail without regard to their circumstances, which should be given due consideration in any manner of sentencing that is rooted in substantive justice.
In actual fact, there is need to amend such a law which came into being before Gambia became a Republic. In his book Kairaba the former head of state did give a narration of developments in 1961 which provided the genesis of the Act. He explained how M E Jallow of the Gambia Workers Union turned his back at the Joint Industrial Council and demanded a 90 percent increase in wages. On 20th January his application for a permit to hold a procession was rejected. The defiance of the Union against the refusal to grant permit by going on strike and confronting the security forces led to the arrest and charging of Jallow Jallow for incitement of violence. According to Ex President Jawara Police reinforcement had to be brought from Sierra Leone to provide more security. It is important to mention that when the Colonial administration decided to hold a Constitutional Conference in May 1961 ME Jallow was invited to be a delegate.
Political protests are mere manifestations of concerns, especially when they are not linked to any incitement of violence. Permits are just instruments for the regulation of public order. Hence omission in obtaining them could be handled by dialogue and conciliation if the extenuating circumstances which gave rise to the omission are given fair assessment.
The point at issue is that Ousainou Darboe and UDP members spent over two months in detention and are now sentenced. Ebrima Solo Sandeng’s whereabouts is now known. He is dead. It is his whereabouts that the UDP leadership sought to ascertain.
Where is his body? Every body would ask: When is he confirmed dead and why did it take this long for his family and party leadership to know the truth? If the law of the land was complied with in the first place, would it have been necessary for any one to take any action to find out whether he was dead or alive?
The Coroner’s Act is clear. It states that “when a person dies while in the custody of the police or of a prison officer or in prison or when detained in any place under the provision of the lunatics detention Act, or of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Police Officer or the Prison Officer or other person having the custody or charge of the detained person at the time of his or her death shall immediately give notice of the death to the nearest Coroner……….” The Coroner shall hold an inquiry into the cause of death in the manner provided in the Act.
The Coroner in Banjul and KMC is a Magistrate of the first class.
Hence Ebrima Solo Sandeng’s death should have been immediately reported to such a Magistrate who, sitting as Coroner, has powers to hold an inquiry into the cause of death and direct a medical officer or other duly qualified medical practitioner to hold a post mortem examination of the deceased person and may prohibit the burial or order the exhumation of a body to conduct enquiry.
If such procedure was adhered to with consistency there would not have been any need for anyone to protest to find out Ebrima Solo Sandeng’s whereabouts. What had happened would not have happened.
Ebrima Solo Sandeng is the key to the case which led to the incarceration of your leaders and members.
Substantive justice demanded for the state to sort out his whereabouts and give the true picture to address the legitimate concerns of his family members and the UDP leadership.
The state should now have the moral duty to review the plight of those who were driven to action to inquire into Ebrima Solo Sandeng’s whereabouts because of the omission to abide by the letter and spirit of the Coroner’s Act which demands immediate action in making death in detention a public matter that should not be shrouded in any form of secrecy. This is what is reasonable and justifiable in any society which claims to value human life.
We had anticipated that your party leader would say after judgment, if he was allowed to address the court before his sentence was delivered as required by Section 244 of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the wailings of Ebrima Solo Sandeng’s children and loved ones at his residence, with the threat that they would march to demand for their father’s body whatever the peril or the cost, would have moved any leader of conscience to march in their place and suffer the fate that would have been the consequences of their action.
This is why we have repeatedly said that when conscience dictates reaction to a life or death challenge, criminality should not be alleged. Consequently, we have spared no effort in calling on the State to take this case as a political conflict which requires dialogue and resolution rather than a criminal case requiring prosecution and retribution. Our stance remains the same.
Your leader had no intention to overthrow a government, kill a person or cause any violence. The court has confirmed this by striking out Count No. 3. There was no incitement to violence; hence there was no criminal intent. Your leader is not a criminal. He has been a member of the legal fraternity for 43 years. He chose to exercise his right to form a political party and participate as a candidate in election.
As a leader, he has an obligation to stand up for those he leads. This is a virtue and not a vice and should be recognised as such by any authority that has any regard for duty, justice and fair play.
His incarceration for standing up for his members is not an ordinary event. Today, the members of his party, the people who voted for him in the 2011 Presidential election, the hundreds of thousands of Gambians who want justice not only to be done but to be seen to be done, and the millions of people in the world, who see the issuing of permits in the exercise of freedom of assembly and association as mere formalities aimed at protecting those demonstrating or engaging in processions, would not go to sleep with ease knowing that the fate of the UDP leader and its members is hanging in the balance of uncertainty ,waiting for those in authority to act without conditionality in good faith in the public interest .
The reverberation of the tune of the National Anthem as wailing supporters displayed their shock and disbelief should drive home the message that the proper action that is required to handle the April 14 and 16 incidents and others connected to them, especially when loss of life is confirmed, is political dialogue and diligent investigation into the loss of life and not legal retribution.
In our view, every just Gambian must bear the very words of the National Anthem in mind as sang by the UDP leadership and members: ‘let justice guide our actions towards our common good’; ‘and join our diverse peoples to prove man’s brotherhood’ (meaning our common humanity). It is therefore absolutely essential for everyone whose conscience is pricked to launch a ‘Free Ousainou Darboe and UDP Members Campaign’. We will propagate this spirit among the PDOIS membership and among all those we could influence until Mr. Darboe and all UDP members rejoin their families and party members and continue to play their part in shaping the political will of the Gambian people.
This is the task before us and we wish to assure you that we will not be found wanting in working assiduously, individually and collectively to achieve the goal.
While giving assurance that we are with you in heart and spirit in your time of need, please accept dear compatriots the assurances of our highest consideration and esteem.
Yours in the Service of the People,
Halifa Sallah
For the Central Committee
Dear Compatriot
On behalf of the Peoples Democratic Orgnisation for Independence and Socialism (PDOIS), the Central Committee would like to thank you for your donations.
PDOIS relies on the generosity of Gambian donors such as yourself and is grateful for your support.
International Relations and Regional Integration
PDOIS aims to give concrete expression to the aspiration to transform the world into a universal home for human kind, where each nation, big or small, will cooperate, and sub regions and continents will establish Communities of states, and even federations, that will co-exist with similar entities, in the spirit of good neighbourliness, equality and mutual interest, and provide to each sovereign person enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social, cultural and ecological rights.
Regional and Sub-regional Integratoin
Promote Sub-regional Integration, African Unity and International Cooperation with the Commonwealth and UN member states through adoption and harmonisation of Republican and Democratic values, instruments, institutions and culture at all levels, so that sovereign Communities of free and dignified persons, rooted in social justice, will thrive everywhere to ensure enjoyment of a life of liberty in prosperity and thus guarantee world peace and security.
Enter into a cooperation agreement with our neighbour Senegal, to establish a joint commission of jurists to review constitutional and legal instruments regarding governance with a view to harmonising, standardising and adopting them to promote regional integration and African Unity on a democratic foundation that will serve as a pillar to uphold the fundamental rights of our peoples.
A Cultural Revolution in Diversity and Gambianism
Uphold and Promote Our Progressive Cultural Values
Promote and preserve cultural heritages that enhance human dignity, self-worth, liberty and prosperity and thus fuse identities and values originating from diverse cultural backgrounds into identity and values of Sovereign Community of Sovereign Gambian citizens in a Republic.
Promote a National Cultural Identity
Combat vestiges of prejudices emanating from ethno-linguistic origins, monarchical and caste systems, religious prejudices, gender stereotypes and other practices which undermine the integrity of a sovereign person in particular and diverse groups in general,
Cultural Preservation and Artistic Development at Village, National Level
Establish a house of culture in each village, district, region and urban centre for artistic and other cultural expressions, in order to promote appreciation of each other’s origins and ensure respect for the upholding of republican and democratic values and ways of life of a Sovereign people.
A Third Republic for a New Beginning
Guarantee the Liberty, Dignity and Prosperity of All
Ensure that all instruments, institutions and normative practices associated with governance, are designed to affirm and consolidate the sovereignty of the citizen, protect and enlarge the liberty, dignity and prosperity of all.
A New Constitution for a New Republic and Beginning
A commission of Gambian jurists will be constituted to conduct a review of the Constitution and laws that different stakeholders deem to be unreasonable and unjustifiable in a democratic society, in consultation with the wider public and propose reforms that will be followed by a referendum.
One Term Transitional Presidency for a New Beginning
Combat monarchical and self-perpetuating rule of the Presidency by promoting a national consensus on a one term mandate after transfer of power from the current administration, followed by a constitutional amendment to introduce a two four-year term limit.
Gender Parity, Security of Tenure and Proportional Representation
Introduce Gender parity for two thirds of Cabinet posts and subject appointments and dismissal of Ministers to National Assembly approval. Introduce proportional representation for two thirds of the seats in Parliament, so that one third of the membership will ensure gender parity and institutionalise it in preparing a selection list for the would-be occupants of those seats.
Eliminate the post of nominated members and replace it with a policy of proportional representation and ensure the security of tenure of parliamentarians by subjecting them to removal only through the exercise of the right to recall by the electorates.
Special Service Commission for the Appointment of Judges
A Special Service Commission will appoint the Chief Justice subject to approval by the president and the National Assembly. It will appoint judges and magistrates in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission.
Judges and magistrates will be subject to removal only for misconduct or infirmity after a hearing before a tribunal, and the removal of judges will require impeachment proceedings by the legislature.
Decentralisation and the Separation of Party and State
Legislate the separation between party, business and state by requiring Presidents to surrender party leadership positions, entrust their businesses to trustees and concentrate on being every body’s President at all times.
Implement decentralisation and devolution of power by replacing Governors with Regional Permanent Secretaries representing the Ministry for Regional Administration.
Establish elected councils to administer villages, districts and regions.
Customary Law and Administration
The Chiefs who now preside over district tribunals will not be appointed or removed by the executive and will have no executive function. Instead they will be appointed by the Judicial Service Commission based on competency in the administration of codified customary law, to serve as presidents of district tribunals. They could be removable only through impeachment proceedings for reasons of misconduct or infirmity ascertained by a tribunal.
Human Rights, Civic Awareness and Prison Reform
A Protected Right to Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
Enact a Freedom of Information Act to remove secrecy from public administration and make administrators accountable to the public they serve, and responsive to enquiries of the media that are supposed to keep people informed. Establish a National Council of Media Practitioners as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism and a means to promote professionalism in media practice.
Eradicate laws, institutions and law enforcement practices that hinder freedom of expression and undermine the security of a Sovereign person, or do not protect and enlarge liberties, rights, security, safety and freedom of a sovereign people.
Repeal Bad Laws and Decriminalise Dissent
Enact laws, establish institutions and law enforcement practices that enlarge and protect rights and freedoms. We will ensure that conventions on fundamental rights and freedoms that are ratified by parliament will automatically be domesticated by promulgating relevant provisions in the Constitution.
Review of the Criminal Code to decriminalise provisions that are not reasonable or justifiable in a Republic or Democratic society, and rationalise penalties to be equivalent to crime committed.
Human Rights and Civic Awareness
Establish a National Human Rights Commission to monitor and ensure protection against violations of Human Rights.
Launch a nationwide literacy and Civic Education Program to educate people on their fundamental rights and freedoms to promote democratic and Republican values and consolidate social justice.
Police and Prison Reform
Conduct a reform of prisons and prison administration. Introduce community service as alternative to imprisonment to eradicate retributive justice. Establish a National Police Service Commission and a National Prison Service Commission to appoint police and prison staff.
Establish a National Prison Supervisory Committee and subcommittees to replace the current prison visiting committees to monitor prison conditions and ensure proper administration of prison services. Imams of major mosques and Priests of major churches, union leaders and leaders of registered civil societies or associations, will be honorary human rights commissioners and social auditors who will visit police cells, prisons and other places of detention to check conditions and make representation for compliance with laws, or propose improvement or reforms in the administration of such public institutions.
Quality Education for All and Civil Society Involvement
Universal Quality Education for All
Provide high quality education for all Gambians from kindergarten through College or University in the quest to build a community of sovereign citizens, whose sense of belonging to a community of Gambian nationals will be put above other identities; And who take it as a duty to give to the community what it requires to safeguard the liberty, dignity and prosperity of all.
Civil Society Scrutiny of Governance and Public Administration
Construct a Governance environment involving people organised into civil associations to serve as social auditors who will scrutinise, criticise and restrain tendency towards misrepresentation, bad governance, mismanagement and impunity on one hand, and on the other, serve as the ears, eyes and mouths of the people who will speak truth to the authorities in defence of legitimate individual and public interest.
Promote Good Neighbourliness and Sense of Community
Promote strong community relations as a means of preventing alienation and its attendant problem of crime and harmful social behaviour. Ensure every member of the community, young and old is fully informed to contribute their quota to nation building.
Jobs, Entrepreneurship and Economic Prosperity for All
Jobs and Economic Development
To eradicate an economy with a narrow capital, investment, production and taxation base, by focusing on prospecting and harnessing minerals, oil and other resources which are sources of Sovereign National Wealth for public sector use in promoting infrastructural development, sustainable and timely loan repayment scheme, and the provision of social services, thus enabling the government to rationalise taxation by making it affordable and sustainable, while promoting capital formation from all sectors of the economy, public, private, cooperative and informal, to ensure a balanced and proportionate growth of the productive base of the economy to eradicate poverty and promote prosperity.
A Vibrant, Innovative Private Sector for Jobs and Cooperate Responsibility
Encourage the Private sector to be an engine for mobilising capital and foreign direct investment for productive private sector investment, so that it would complement the aim of promoting poverty eradication and the enhancement of general welfare through the creation of employment and discharge of corporate responsibility.
A Coorperative Sector for Grassroots Economic Development
The cooperative sector will be an engine for accumulating Cooperative finances to support family farms, create small scale processing of grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables and milk products with appropriate technology for grassroots development.
Micro Finance Support for Entrepreneurship
A micro finance system to assist entrepreneurs and producers in the informal sector with finance and production inputs at sustainable and low cost rates.
Contract with the Gambia:- Our Pledge to Serve the Interest of the People
To ensure that the state exists for the people and not the people for the state, and further underscore that Government is not an end in itself but a means to promote liberty, dignity and prosperity, PDOIS aims to pursue and achieve the following goals:
Liberty for all, equal eustice for all, equal Representation for all, adequate income for all, education for all, health for all, housing for all, food for all, safe environment for all, access to information and media for all, recreation for all, protection at old age or in case of any infirmity for all, and Freedom from Discrimination for all.
Economic Prosperity & Job Security
Quality Education for all children and students
Free Health Care for all at the point of delivery
Free Healthcare at the point of service - For all Gambians
3rd Republic - Gambia and Gambians deserve better
Human Rights - a basic right for all Gambians
Culture - an ecosystem for all cultures to florish
Institutions and Action Plan for Regional Integration
Establish a Ministry for Regional Integration, African Unity and International Cooperation. Create joint Commissions of Experts to prepare programmatic policy documents and templates for Regional Integration, African Unity and International Cooperation. Promote Establishment of a Regional and continental Central Bank, Currency, Monetary Fund, Stock Markets, Trading Organisation and Investment Bank to pioneer inter African trade , and world trade, on a more equitable footing that will be backed by stable continental currencies, continental central bank and continental Monetary fund and Development Banks.
Action Plan:
Hold bilateral, regional, continental and international negotiations to come up with a programmatic policy document that will create a template on how bi-lateral, regional, continental and international cooperation could be fostered to make the sovereignty of people and the accumulation of sovereign national wealth to eradicate poverty and ensure prosperity, a reality.
Give special priority to facilitate a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Casamance, by calling for the transformation of the Senegalese Army in Casamance into a Republican Army which protects the people, render health services, and enhance infrastructural development. A Sovereign national Conference with mandate to come up with an Economic, political, civil, social, cultural and ecological agenda for the region will be recommended. It will enable combatants to become entrepreneurs, retrain people in all fields of endeavour and academia to enable them occupy their rightful place in Casamance as teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers and technicians of all sorts. Donor conferences will aim to give the territory a new start through massive investment in infrastructural development and social uplifting programmes.
Programme for Regional and African Integration
Objective and Policy for Regional and African Integration
PDOIS' Vision on Sub Regional and African Integration
International Relations: - Towards a World of Cooperation and Partnership
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The Danger in Demonizing Male Sexuality - I hate Strong Female Characters. I hate Strong Female Characters.
As someone spends a fair amount of time complaining on the internet that there aren’t enough female heroes out there, this may seem a strange and out of character thing to say. And of course, I love all sorts of female characters who exhibit great resilience and courage. I love it when Angel asks Buffy what’s left when he takes away her weapons and her friends and she grabs his sword between her palms and says “Me”. 10 Struggles Of Being Not Fat, But Not Skinny Either. Okay, so I want to start this post off by clarifying that I don’t think I’m fat.
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23-Year-Old Woman Grows Beard to Get More in Touch With Femininity. Made To Penetrate: Female-on-Male Rape. Charlie woke up to a blank-faced girl straddling him.
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The concept of a woman forcing a man into a sex act can seem paradoxical, if not physiologically impossible. According to the Center for Disease Control’s national survey on sexual violence, more than 5 million men in the United States have been “made to penetrate” someone else in their lifetime, whether by coercion, intimidation, or because they were incapacitated. In 1927 the U.S. Here's What Happened When One Queer Woman Dressed More Feminine For Her Job. All it took was one versatile haircut, and voila.
The seeds for "Warpaint," a nuanced art project addressing the subtleties of gender expression, were planted. The photography series is the brainchild of artist Coco Layne, who, after buzzing the sides of her head, realized that simple changes in the way she styled her hair could impact her own gender representation. She thought particularly about her experiences applying for jobs last year, and how presenting herself as a "more conservative, feminine candidate" helped her land a position at a women's retailer. "I'm a relatively feminine person most days, but I had both sides of my head shaved at the time," Layne recounted in an email interview with The Huffington Post. To The Women Who Choose Not To Have Kids. To the women who choose not to have kids, I have one thing to say: thank you.
You probably don’t hear it enough. In fact, you probably don’t hear it at all. What you do hear is an array of pro-childbearing responses, such as, “You’ll change your mind someday,” or, “Doesn’t your mother want grandkids?” Or, “You’ll never find a husband if you never want to have kids.” All things considered, “thank you” is probably on the opposite end of what you hear. 13 Myths and Misconceptions About Trans Women: Part One. Debunking myths is one of those things that us skeptics are supposed to do, right?
Okay then… (my triskaidekaphilia isn’t showing, is it?) 1. Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers. Brooklyn oil painter Tatyana Fazlalizadeh got fed up with dudes invading her space.
So she started telling them so—very publicly. —Nina Liss-Schultz on Wed. November 27, 2013 4:00 AM PDT Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's self-portrait.All photos courtesy of the artist. Update (2/18/2014): Fazllizadeh is taking her project to the Bay Area this week—its first West Coast stop. On Labeling Women 'Crazy' I've had to quit telling stories about crazy exes or women I've dated.
The problem was that I started realizing that when my friends and I would talk about our crazy exes or what-have-you, more often than not, we weren't talking about ex-girlfriends or random dates who exhibited signs of genuine mental health issues. Now I did have a few where I would qualify my story with, "No, I don't mean 'we broke up and I can't be bothered to figure out where things went wrong, I mean that she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and was starting to show signs of genuine paranoia," but for the most part, crazy meant "acting in a way I didn't like. " And I didn't realize just how damaging this attitude was in the way I related to women.
Little surprise here: women expected to do more at home – and at work. No matter what profession a woman works in, she's actually in the service profession.
That's the upshot of an illuminating (and to many, enraging) new Columbia Business School study highlighted this week, showing that co-workers and bosses feel entitled to favors from women – or, in fact, that almost everything a woman does at work is considered "a favor" that is off the clock. To put it another way, when a woman takes on a project no one else will, or does something helpful or thoughtful, it's seen as something she does for fun.
When a man does it, it seen as real work. The revelation of this structural ingratitude explains a lot. It's a pivotal point in understanding a key issue in workplaces: why can't women form lasting alliances, even though they spend more time contributing to their organizations by mentoring? Watch A Student Totally Nail Something About Women That I've Been Trying To Articulate For 37 Years. Lily Myers: Across from me at the kitchen table, my mother smiles over red wine that she drinks out of a measuring glass. Extraordinary Photos Of Drag Queens In Half Drag. Don’t be that dude: Handy tips for the male academic. There is a plethora of research on the causes of hostile environments for women in academia, and on why we have an underrepresentation of women in many fields. There are support groups for women, societies entirely devoted to women academics (broadly and field-specific), workshops for women in academia, and countless articles and blogs devoted to the topic.
These initiatives are important, but here’s the thing: gender equality has to be a collaborative venture. If men make up the majority of many departments, editorial boards, search committees, labs and conferences, then men have to be allies in the broader cause of equality, simply because they have more boots on the ground. And, as much as I wish it weren’t so, guys often tend to listen more readily to their fellow guys when it comes to issues like sexism. I’ve also found that there are a lot of guys out there that are supportive, but don’t realize that many of their everyday actions (big and small) perpetuate inequality. 1. 2. 3.
Male Affection: A Photographic History Tour. Gender contamination: when women buy a product, men flee. Courtesy of Dr Pepper Snapple Group Libby Copeland is a writer in New York and a regular Slate contributor. She was previously a Washington Post reporter and editor for 11 years. She can be reached at libbycopeland@gmail.com. Follow. Men Must Be Needed Because We Can’t Be Wanted.
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[Livemint] CSR mandate to boost social start-ups
“The likes of Samhita Social Ventures, GiveIndia, Enterprise Nube’s Gudville and Rang De are likely to inspire more social entrepreneurs and ventures hoping to tap into the opportunity.
The law, which for the first time, has laid down the ground rules for CSR and is likely to boost corporate charitable activity, would mean that the top 100 companies by annual net sales in 2012 will spend Rs.5,611 crore on such activities, compared with the Rs.1,765 crore they are spending now, according to a March report in Forbes India magazine.”
““It (the law) changes our business completely,” said Priya Naik, founder and joint managing director at Samhita Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd. “So far, it was only the enlightened companies, so to speak, who would come to us. The reality now is that every company needs to do it… It’s great to see this in place as it will force companies to do CSR in an organized manner.”
“It’s a tremendous opportunity (for entrepreneurs),” added Naik. “A lot of expertise, a lot of money is coming in…and it will provide them plenty of access to networks, access to business, etc.”
Samhita, set up in 2010, works with charitable foundations across the country and acts as a CSR consultant and adviser to large corporations such as Vodafone, Johnson and Johnson and the Piramal Group.”
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Free News»State News»State bills allowing same-day voter registration, local redistricting to empower minorities move ahead
State bills allowing same-day voter registration, local redistricting to empower minorities move ahead
Published by admin on Thu, 01/25/2018 - 4:29pm
Josh Kelety WNPA Olympia News Bureau
The state Senate passed several bills aimed at expanding access to voting and promoting minority representation in local governments through redistricting.
On the evening of Jan. 17, in a reconvened Senate floor vote session, the body passed SB 6021, which would allow voters to register for elections in-person up until 8 p.m. on the day of an election and eight days before if registering online or by mail. The bill passed 29-20 and now goes to the House.
The Senate also passed the 2018 Voting Rights Act: a bill which allows local governments to restructure electoral districts to avoid gerrymandering that disenfranchises minority groups. The legislation also allows for for lawsuits to be filed against governments that refuse to restructure their electoral districts if disenfranchisement is identified.
Versions of the bill have passed the House five times over the past few years, but have always died in the then Republican-controlled Senate and have never made it to the floor for a vote.
“I’m really tickled that we’ve been able to get this long reworked bill to the floor for a vote,” said Sen. Bob Hasegawa, D–Seattle, prior to the Jan. 19 vote.
“We’re doing something that has not been done anywhere else in the country,” said Sen. Rebecca Saldana, D–Seattle, the primary sponsor of the bill. “We are creating a process where communities can give notice and work together with jurisdictions to find a solution that works for their city and district without a long drawn out process that causes division and bitterness.”
While the bill was passed on Jan. 19, it was originally brought up for a floor vote two days before. Senate Republicans attempted to add several amendments, which were all voted down, before they blocked an attempted early vote on the bill.
On the Senate floor, Senate Republicans argued that the bill, as written, will result in a torrent of lawsuits against local governments claiming that their electoral districting disenfranchise minority groups.
“This bill is actually the gerrymandering and litigation act,” said Sen. Doug Ericksen, R–Ferndale.
Sen. Mike Padden, R–Spokane Valley, said that the legislation is unnecessary due to longstanding federal law: “Where there is allegations of real discrimination, there is the Federal Voting Rights Act which was passed in 1965 and we have 50 years of interpretations.”
Senate Democrats countered that the bill designates legal action as a measure of last resort, and that the bill gives local governments the option to voluntarily redesign their districts.
“The primary purpose is to provide local decisions to local leaders and governments without ever having to go to court,” said Sen. Sam Hunt, D–Olympia. “There will be no court case unless a local government refuses to act and unless there has been a pattern proven of discrimination.”
“What you have before you, I believe, strikes a good balance,” said Sen. Saldana. “Good process and dialogue can prevent litigation.”
On Jan. 17, Sen. Sam Hunt, D–Olympia, was impatient with his Republican colleagues’ attempts to amend the bill at the last minute before passage. “We have been working on this bill for six years now. It is all worked out. It is a good solution.”
The bill passed with a wide margin of 29 to 19 with one excused absence.
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Two New Members Appointed to Board of Directors
Edmonton, Ab- Rural Alberta Development Fund’s Board of Directors has filled two vacancies on the Board of Directors with the appointment of two new members: David Bodnarchuk of Edmonton and Doug Gardner of High River.
“We are pleased to welcome Mr. Bodnarchuk and Mr. Gardner to our board,” said Jann Beeston, Chair of the Board of Directors. “Their expertise and experience will make important contributions to our overall board competencies and help guide us forward.”
David Bodnarchuk is a Chartered Accountant, who spent his weekends and summers of his youth helping on the family farm near Gibbons. He currently resides in Edmonton and is Founder and President of eventIQ inc., an online event software company. With his solid business background, David knows how valuable building partnerships, creating effective management teams, producing community leaders and helping small and growing businesses are for the success and sustainability of our province’s rural communities.
Doug Gardner from High River is a retired teacher, now focused on real estate. Doug knows what it takes to help shape and guide the future success and sustainability of Alberta’s unique and diverse rural communities. As a community leader and engaged citizen, Doug has been a Public School Board Trustee for the Foothills School Division No. 38 since 2000 and has served on the board of directors on the Provincial Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA), as well as many other community boards and committees.
Rural Alberta Development Fund is a not-for-profit company that inspires innovation, collaboration and growth across rural Alberta. In 2007, it was capitalized with $100 million by the Government of Alberta as part of its Rural Development Strategy. So far, $77.5 million has been committed to 71 projects. Applications are now being accepted for the remaining $22.5 million, which must be committed by March 31, 2012
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Cameron: ‘Secular Totalitarianism’ is ‘The Greatest Threat We Face Today’
By Brian Tashman | March 28, 2012 2:55 pm
Kirk Cameron’s new film Monumental used dubious history to plead with Americans to return to the era of the Pilgrims and therefore restore faith, liberty and freedom. Cameron didn’t approach the project with much critical thinking, which should surprise no one based on his last, failed attempt at American history, but history wasn’t the point of Monumental. The point of the film was to present a Religious Right view of history that will encourage current conservative activists and make converts of new ones.
The overriding theme of Monumental is that America’s problems are a result of secularism, which leads to the loss of freedom and a dependence on government rather than God, and while promoting the film Cameron warned that secular humanists are “importing their secular humanist faith and religion and morality and imposing it on everybody else” as part of their “anti-Christian agenda.” He used his interview with Piers Morgan, where he was roundly criticized for his remark that homosexuality is “destructive,” to claim that his rights are literally being taken away, which he says confirms the point of his movie. Cameron, who earlier on the 700 Club compared criticism of him to a public stoning, told WORLD Magazine that “secular totalitarianism” is intent extinguishing freedom and the Founders’ “principles of freedom they found in the Bible”:
While Cameron acknowledges that many teachers and professors may simply be repeating what they were taught when it comes to the pilgrims and the founders that followed them, he maintains that others are intentionally mischaracterizing them. “They are contending for a different worldview, they’re contending for a politically correct, secular-humanist worldview where it’s necessary to erase and rewrite history,” he argues, adding, “The greatest threat we face today is the secular totalitarianism of our current system.”
Cameron defines secularism as a form of religion where the highest authority is man himself, and insists that the modern convention of a government and culture scrubbed free of all Christian influence is the opposite of the original American dream. “[The founders] wanted a system that allowed individuals to live out the principles of freedom they found in the Bible. They believed if they could govern themselves according to God’s ways, to raise their families to love God and others, it would produce the sweet fruit of liberty and blessing and freedom, and other people would be attracted to their success and want to come join them,” he says. “So their idea was to build the country from the ground up, not the top down, and build it from the inside out.”
Like the subjects of his film, Cameron is adamant that he’s willing to bear whatever personal and professional hardship he must in order to uphold the integrity of biblical doctrine on all matters, including sexuality. “One of these things I noticed when I went on Piers Morgan is how few people are willing to answer clearly on some of the questions that I was asked. … It’s been a great life lesson that Jesus was right,” he laughs. “He said the world will hate you because of Me, and don’t be surprised because they hated Me first. So it just confirms my confidence in God and in His goodness. I continue to want to love people and speak the truth and trust God for good results.”
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About Havoc
In Havoc Nick Hunter and his TIFAT team confront Swedish born Charles Gustav, a multi-millionaire drugs dealer and crazed white supremacist. After a successful operation in South America, where a massive drugs shipment belonging to Gustav was destroyed, the TIFAT team follow him to Europe. Gustav’s aim is to create a ‘White Europe’ by orchestrating violence and killings to worsen racial tensions. His final plan is to cause massive loss of life by the release of deadly nerve gas in London and Paris. In the desperate fight to prevent Gustav from achieving his aims, the TIFAT team do not escape unscathed. Havoc is a gripping story from start to finish.
Havoc is the sixth book in the Nick Hunter / TIFAT adventure series.
Paul Henke
The son of a Polish immigrant who came to Britain during the Second World War, Paul Henke was born and raised in the mining valleys of South Wales. Educated at Pontypridd Boys’ Grammar Paul Henke had a burning desire to be a Royal Naval officer from an early age. He trained at Dartmouth Royal Naval College and qualified as a bomb and mine disposal expert, specialising in diving and handling explosives. He led a team of underwater bomb disposal specialists and was Commanding Officer of a number of minesweeping and minehunting ships. Having survived a machine gun attack by IRA gun runners in Ireland in 1976, he was later responsible for securely detonating a number of Second World War mines located off the coast of Britain. Henke lived in Nigeria for fifteen months where he was in charge of a saturation diving system and then later moved to the American Midwest. Paul Henke has travelled extensively, researching material for his work and now lives with his family near Loch Lomond in Scotland where he writes full time. Other works by Paul Henke include A Million Tears, Tears of War & Peace, Silent Tears, Tears until Dawn, The Seventh Circle, Debacle, Phoenix Rising, Mayhem, Chaos and Havoc.
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ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
As a young artist and sculptor, Tony was influenced by the varied work of Picasso, Matisse, Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi and others. He moved to New York in the mid-1980s and became an assistant to well-known sculptor Mark di Suvero shortly after he had opened Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. Tony was able to work on his own sculptures which he later exhibited in museums and galleries in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Since 2005, Tony has returned to his art with a fresh vision, vigor and new tools. Tony now considers himself a “sculptor of pixels”. He uses the most basic digital tools to manipulate and layer pixels as if he were working with clay or stone. His secret goes back to the elemental style of his early sculptures, using the simplest of tools – this time the technology was what he used regularly for his business presentations – Powerpoint! In Tony’s hands this tool worked a new kind of magic, as he integrated the Japanese aesthetic of multiple panels or “byōbu” in a single piece.
Traveling often to Japan for Silicon Graphics, Tony began to notice and admire the work of an emerging young artist Mayako Nakamura who shared her work with him through Flickr’s global online community of artists. Mayako is a painter, living and working in Tokyo. She has been exhibiting her work in both domestic and foreign venues since 2009. After exchanging a few pieces, the two decided to work on a complementary series that would engage each of their unique styles. While both were influenced by abstract expressionism, Tony merged high resolution images of both Mayako’s paintings and his photomontages. With this he opened up a path toward creating compelling iterations, with over 5,000 miles of ocean between the the two artists.
While in Japan, Tony used his photography to do what he called “gathering pixels”. He would later ‘sculpt’ these textures, colors and landscapes into a digital image combining pixels, paint and nature though this unique approach. He would print this final piece on his large-scale printer and send it back to Mayako, who would then paint directly onto the printed piece. She explains her working method: "I trace the shapes of space and boundaries in everyday, as my body feels. When numerous senses woven together with the impressions of the reality that my mind has already known, and with the universal shapes that my kokoro longs for, another day appears on my canvas. I'm attempting to create another everyday, which seems more essential than the actual living, by painting atmospheres; emotions and actions that can't be expressed by words; nothing special, but surely existing."
After Mayako created the newly painted artwork on top of Tony’s original print, she would ship the piece to Tony in Santa Cruz, CA who would then capture a digital high-res image of the work and then re-engage the pixels to expose lost tones, colors and mood from the first iteration.
Finally, what emerged was a beautiful symphony of three pieces that complemented each other and told a story of ebb and flow. This process was replicated four times creating three iterations each of Pearl Matrix, Bright Morning, Elated Flight, and Dance of Leaves each scaling between 20" x 40" to 20" x 48". Realizing the elegant partnership of these pieces, it became clear that the iterations must stay together in full appreciation of their individual stories.
Tony and Mayako continued working on a slightly smaller scale (10" x 20") with two more pieces, Found Treasure and Nature’s Paint each having only two iterations, the original digital print from Tony, and Mayako’s brushed versions.
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John Lennon concert brings out Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Aimee Mann for 30th year at Beacon Theater
JIM FARBER / November 15, 2010
John Lennon would have turned 70 last month and, if pressed, one might imagine just as many ways to interpret each one of his songs. It's doubtful, however, that before this weekend anyone thought to perform one of his pieces aided by a juggler.
That unforeseen twist — which featured ball-tossing YouTube sensation Chris Bliss on "Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds" -- gave the 30th annual John Lennon Tribute concert, its most novel moment, if nothing else. The rest, which took place at the Beacon Theater Friday night, mere blocks from where Lennon was murdered three decades ago, featured a solid, if common, line up of star/devotees, including Jackson Browne, Cyndi Lauper, Patti Smith, Joan Osborne, Aimee Mann, Taj Mahal and Shelby Lynne.
The Lennon concert series began back in 1981 under the care of the modest drama group The Theater Within. Aided by the round number of Lennon's birthday this year, and the significant anniversary of his murder (arriving December 8th), the Beacon show sold out.
That's a nice turn for the cause it benefits: the "Playing For Change" foundation, which promotes peace, education, and general good vibes, through the building of music schools around the world.
Perhaps inspired by the mission to teach, Friday's show featured a little too much lecturing. No fewer than five different speakers broke up the music, about three too many. Thankfully, the actual music struck a respectable balance between the rote and the inventive.
Alejandro Escovedo offered a fascinating inversion of "Help," turning it from a manic statement of youthful desire to a desperate plea for intervention. Unannounced guest Bettye LaVette did equal wonders with "The Word." Looking bad-ass and smashing at 64, she made the song a gripping rock-soul rave-up.
Joan Osborne brought her own eros and soul to a roiling take on "Hey, Bulldog."
Meshell Ndegeocello went for something more radical with "God." Using just her bass and her voice, she mutated the song into a jazzy meditation, ending up with something more pretty than Lennon's original. On the other hand, Shelby Lynne took the icon's original intention with "Mother" to the tenth power. Lynne has the pipes to turn Lennon's primal scream piece literal. Her version gained even more power through its subtext. Lynne's father murdered her mother when she was just a child.
Context also lent depth to Patti Smith's take on "Oh Yoko." She said she chose it because seeing how Ono dealt with the loss of John showed her how to live as a widow. Smith lost her own husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith, in 1994.
The show's top liners had more trouble finding their footing. Jackson Browne seemed an odd choice for "Revolution," given the inward nature of his voice and character. And though Cyndi Lauper brought a hymnal resonance to "Across The Universe," she lost her way during an under-rehearsed "A Day In The Life." It didn't help that she made a wildly unlikely partner on the song with Browne.
Then again, that pairing proved no stranger than the appearance of the juggler. To top that, maybe next year they should try a ventriloquist.
Aimee Mann & Alejandro Escovedo "#9 Dream"
Rich Pagnano "Gimme Some Truth"
The Kennedys "And Your Bird Can Sing"
Meshell Ndegeocello "God"
Wendy Osserman Dance Company "Free As A Bird"
Alejandro Escovedo "Help"
Vusi Mahlasela & Taj Mahal "Watching The Wheels"
Shelby Lynne "Mother"
Joan Osborne "Hey Bulldog"
Chris Bliss & Joan Osborne "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Keb Mo' "In My Life"
Taj Mahal & Diva Mahal "Come Together"
Taj Mahal & Keb Mo' "You Can't Do That"
Bettye Lavette "The Word"
Aimee Mann "Jealous Guy"
Martin Sexton "Working Class Hero"
Patti Smith "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Oh Yoko"
Jackson Browne "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
Jackson Browne & Playing For Change "Revolution"
Playing For Change "Instant Karma," "All You Need Is Love"
Cyndi Lauper "Across The Universe"
Cyndi Lauper & Jackson Browne "A Day In The Life"
Whole Cast "Power To The People," "Give Peace A Chance"
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What is the SBU Supporters Club?
What is South Bronx United?
Supporters Club Board
Annual Benefit
South Bronx United Annual Benefit: Nov 8, 2018
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2019 TCS Marathon: Run for South Bronx United
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Letter from the President of the Supporters Club:
Dear Supporters,
The SBU Supporters Club is made up of a diverse group of coaches, tutors, career mentors, and full-time staff who are dedicated to SBU’s mission of social change through our shared love of soccer.
The Supporters Club Board’s mission is to extend the reach of the organization by recruiting passionate volunteers and developing a community between those volunteers that is fun and welcoming.
If you would like to become a part of the Supporters Club as a coach, tutor, or mentor please reach out to info@southbronxunited.org.
If you are interested in learning more about the Board, please reach out to one of our membership chairs, David Strider (david.m.strider@gmail.com) or Justina Rothenberg (justina.rothenberg@gmail.com), or myself (foxmichaelf@gmail.com).
Thank you for your interest in and enthusiasm for the great work that SBU does. We look forward to hearing from you.
Michael Fox
SBU SUPPORTERS CLUB BOARD
Michael Fox, Board Chair
Harbor Picture Company
Johnathan Lo, Vice Chair
Bregal Partners
Jacinto Shy, Treasurer
Nick Mulford, Secretary
Alex Brashear
Channon Greenfield
New York City Dept. of Mental Health
Etienne Lussiez
Sushaan Modi
PJT Partners
Mike Peña
Jason Pyke
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Justina Rothenberg
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
David Strider
Sterling Investment Partners
Leda Strong
Abhishek Swain
George Vermenton
IAC’s Dotdash
Our Founding Supporters
Nicole Barnhart
FC Kansas City
U.S. Women's National Team
South Bronx United Advisory Board
Bouna Coundoul
Achna FC (Cyprus)
Senegal National Team
Former NY Red Bulls GK
Shep Messing
New York Red Bulls Announcer
Former NY Cosmos GK
Michael Fox has tutored in the Sophomores Skills, SAT Prep, and College Prep programs at South Bronx United since the fall of 2014 and also co-coaches in the U-10 SBU rec program. He joined the Supporters Club board in 2015. He is the Assistant Finance Director at Harbor Picture Company, a post production studio for feature, episodic, and commercial film. Michael graduated from Boston College in 2009, and in his free time you can find him gasping for air on the intramural soccer fields or screaming at Liverpool FC on TV.
Jonathan Lo joined the SBU Supporters Club Board in 2017. He currently is an Analyst at Bregal Partners, a middle-market private equity firm investing across Consumer, Food and Retail, Healthcare, and Energy Services sectors. Jonathan graduated from Northwestern University where he received a B.A. in Economics. In his free time, Jonathan can be found be playing pick-up soccer in the East Village, supporting Jeremy Lin/Brooklyn Nets, or reading a book at various coffee shops across the city.
Jacinto Shy joined the SBU Supporters Club Board in 2017. He is currently a Director of Engineering at Group Nine Media, where he works in Technology and Digital Media. Jacinto received his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Cleveland State University.
Nick Mulford grew up playing soccer and basketball in a town of 2,000 in the Finger Lakes of Western New York. From there, I went to the University of Rochester to study Physics and Financial Economics. Upon graduating, he moved to New York City to work for an economic consulting firm. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball or soccer outdoors (when it's not too cold), reading non-fiction books on a myriad of topics, and trying to find the best cup of coffee in Manhattan.
Alex Brashear began volunteering with SBU as a U-8 girls rec coach in the Spring of 2018, and now coaches the U-10 and U-13 boys rec teams and helps SBU’s high schoolers prepare for the SAT. Playing soccer his entire life and teaching in some capacity for the last decade, Alex found coaching to be the perfect combination of these two passions. He is currently a Product Manager for the New York Times focusing on their mobile apps. Alex earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Channon Greenfield is a Project Coordinator for the New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene conducting behavioral surveillance and monitoring of infectious diseases in New York City after working on several HIV/AIDS research studies. Channon is responsible for coordinating formative research including key informant interviews, focus group discussions and other qualitative research methods as well as implementing respondent-driven sampling to assess risk behavior, HIV prevalence and other HIV-related outcomes in order to guide future prevention methods in New York City. Channon earned his B.A. in Sociology from the University at Albany. In his free time, Channon enjoys reading, running and playing soccer for Metro Soccer NY.
Ben Levin is a Strategy Consultant with Ernst & Young. Originally from Baltimore, Ben started kicking balls around the house as soon as he was old enough to walk. An avid USMNT and Tottenham Hotspur supporter, Ben loves the game of soccer for the way it not only instilled valuable life lessons in him but how it has allowed him to connect with people all over the world. During the summer of 2018, Ben worked with SBU as a Summer Soccer Scholars coach where he ran soccer training sessions for the oldest group of campers. On the side, he also worked with Andrew So on a strategy initiative focused on planning for the future of the organization. Ben became so enamored with the kids, the SBU team, and the SBU mission that he sought more ways to get involved with the organization and was elected to the SBU Supporter's Club Board in January 2019.
Etienne Lussiez joined the SBU Supporters Club Board in 2017 and is a member of the events committee. He is currently an Assistant Vice President at Barclays, working in the equity derivatives trading division since July 2013. Etienne earned dual degrees at the University of Michigan, completing both Mechanical Engeering and Industrial and Operations Engineering degrees while being a member of the Michigan Men's Varsity Soccer team for his junior and senior years.
Sushaan Modi began volunteering with SBU in the Fall of 2014 after moving to New York City. He has and continues to coach a U-10 boys rec teams and has also been involved in SBU as a tutor. He is currently an Associate in the Strategic Advisory group at PJT Partners (formerly Blackstone Advisory Partners) where he primarily works in Technology, Media and Telecom and Sports. Sushaan was a member of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.A. from the College of Arts and Sciences and a B.S. from the Wharton School.
Mike Peña is an Analyst in Macro Credit Trading at Goldman Sachs where he focuses on opportunistic bond trading and portfolio management. Previously, Mike worked in the Institutional Lending Group at Goldman Sachs doing structured credit investing and at New Heights Capital doing middle market private equity investing. Mike joined South Bronx United as part of the travel team in 2010, since then he has been actively involved with supporting the organization. Mike is a SBU College Scholar. Mike earned a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance and a Double Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics with Minors in Finance and Management & Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2017.
Jason Pyke is an Associate in the Investment Funds group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he advises private investment fund sponsors, institutional investors and other market participants in the alternative investment fund space. Prior to this, Jason was an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he served in various corporate transactional roles in the Investment Management, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets groups. Jason received his J.D. with Harlan Fiske Stone honors from Columbia Law School, where he was an Essays and Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Howard University. Jason was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago and is a lifelong Madridista.
Justina Rothenberg joined the SBU Supporters Club Board in 2018. She is a Capital Budget Analyst at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, an economic development nonprofit owned by the City of New York. Justina earned her B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University and is currently pursuing her Master of Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins University. In her free time she can be found playing (and beating) her nieces and nephews in soccer, training for the NYC marathon, and trying every taco in the tri state area.
David Strider joined the SBU Supporters Club Board in 2016 and serves as Secretary. He is currently an Associate at Sterling Investment Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, and is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investment activities. David earned his B.S. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a strong believer in the unifying power of soccer and enjoys playing the beautiful game with his friends every Saturday morning in Manhattan.
Leda Strong is a proud native New Yorker and longtime advocate for educational opportunity, especially for urban youth. Her years teaching furthered Leda’s love of working with children and re-awakened her to the need for universal access to quality education, regardless of a student’s zip code. However, she recognized a need to address this issue in the educational landscape on a policy level. Working now as an Outreach Director at Educators for Excellence (E4E,) she is inspired by E4E’s mission to address the problems facing education with the spirit of collaboration and teacher empowerment.
George Vermenton is currently an Advertising Operations Associate at IAC's Dotdash. Prior to this, he worked at The New York Times as a Campaign Manager and he was volunteering as the "Business partner" with Pencil Org. During his time volunteering with Pencil he was able to spearhead many educational events for public school students such as having the P.S. 111 8th graders create a newspaper of their own with the help and supervision of New York Times staff. He moved to New York ten years ago and graduated from Queens College with an Economics degree. During his free time, he loves to play soccer, travel and participate in other volunteering activities.
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So what is a protein anyway? In the context of a meal, protein is often a piece of meat, typically muscle from an animal or fish. Other foodstuffs can also be high in protein, too. In the context of a cell, a protein is a macromolecule composed mainly of a chain of amino acids and each cell has a vast number of different proteins; there are approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes that code for proteins in the human genome and many of these genes can make slightly different forms of the same protein (splice variants). Proteins make up the primary machinery that allows a cell to perform its functions.
In a cell, a protein is a single molecule made up of a long string of amino acids. Each amino acid has two ends and a tail (side chain) that hangs between the two ends. One of the ends is a nitrogen atom – the amino end or amino terminus , and the other end is a carbon atom – the carboxy end or carboxy terminus. Proteins start from the amino terminus of an amino acid; additional amino acids are added (polymerized) onto the carboxy terminus by joining the next amino acid’s amino terminus to the first amino acid’s carboxy terminus. In human and other eukaryotic cells, the average protein length is about 450 amino acids long but some proteins can be much longer, such as the giant Titin protein that can weigh in at between 27,000 to over 33,000 amino acids1. Some proteins are composed of multiple individual subunit proteins.
Remember that side chain hanging off the middle of an amino acid? Each amino acid has a different side chain and it is its shape and properties and the order in which they are strung together that will ultimately dictate the overall shape and function of the protein that they make up.
Figure 1 Lysine
Figure 1 Lysine: What’s Going On?
The figure on the left is the Fischer projection of the amino acid lysine made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen atoms. The figure on the right is a space-filling model for lysine. The grey ball between the two red balls on the top right ball represents the carbon atom of the carboxy terminal and the blue ball to the left and slightly behind that is the nitrogen atom of the amino terminal. The blue ball on the bottom of the picture is the terminal nitrogen atom of the side chain.
In eukaryotes, which human cells belong, there are 21 common proteinogenic (makes proteins) amino acids. 9 of these are considered “essential” amino acids; they can only be obtained through dietary sources. These are phenylalanine, valine, threonine, methionine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine, and histidine. There are six amino acids that are considered conditionally essential; only in some situation, such as in premature infants or individuals with chronic amino acid deficiency, are dietary sources of these amino acids required. These six are arginine, cysteine, glycine, gluatmine, proline, and tyrosine. The remaining dispensable amino acids are alanine, aspartic acid, asparagine, glutamic acid, and serine. Alanine, for example, can be manufactured by our cells from valine, leucine, or isoleucine. Aspartic acid and asparagine, on the other hand, are generated as a byproduct of by our cells’ metabolism and glutamate. Likewise, glutamine and serine is also made from metabolic byproducts in eukaryotic cells.
Severe amino acid deficiency leads to kwashiorkor, a common disease in regions of pronounced food insecurity. Mild amino acid deficiency can result in more subtle symptoms such as poor immune response, chronic fatigue, slow recovery from injuries and exercise, and swelling of the hands, feet, or abdomen. A varied diet, even a vegetarian or vegan one, is the most simple way to avoid amino acid deficiency. Conversely, very high protein diets pose potential risks for significant harm in individuals with chronic kidney disease2. However in healthy individuals, high protein diets are relatively benign although these diets are associated with increased risk of developing kidney stones.
There are other amino acids, such as GABA, that are typically not incorporated into proteins. GABA, in particular, serves as a neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Likewise, D-serine (right-handed, or D-stereoisomer, serine) acts as a co-activating neurotransmitter in the brain. Normal proteinogenic L-serine and is converted into the non-proteinogenic right-handed form by enzymes in the brain. Most eukaryotic proteinogenic amino acids are L-stereoisomer (levorotatory; a pure solution of a levorotatory molecule rotates plane polarized light counterclockwise, or to the left; a pure solution of a dextrorotatory molecule rotates plane polarized light clockwise, or the the right). A number of other amino acids are also converted into neurotransmitters such as tryptophan (precursor for serotonin), tyrosine (precursor for dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrin), and arginine (precursor for nitric oxide).
The first amino acid that was discovered was purified from asparagus juice in 1806 and was named asparagine. Asparagine has a relatively simple side chain consisting a chain of two carbon atoms ending with an oxygen and a nitrogen atom, in contrast with lysine’s long floppy side chain. It is primarily the length and composition of the side chain that gives amino acids both their general and their specific functions.
In the cell, proteins are made in ribosomes: messenger RNA, the recipe for a protein, is threaded through a ribosome and specific amino acids are strung together in the order that the messenger RNA dictates. The newly synthesized protein is progressively extruded from the ribosome as additional amino acids are added to it. As it exits the ribosome, the side chains interact with the water molecules, salts, and parts of itself that had previously been extruded. Based on the nature and order of the amino acid string being extruded, the linear protein begins to fold in on itself into a three dimensional structure.
This three dimensional structure is what gives proteins the properties that they possess so they can fulfill their function in keeping a cell in operation. Many proteins must even combine with other proteins (subunits) in order to create a functional multi-subunit protein. Proteins serve many different functions within a cell. For example, actin are strings or filaments of individual actin proteins that crisscrosses throughout every cell and helps determine the shape of the cell and act as highways for moving vesicles (small sacs made up of lipids) that move material around to different parts of the cell. In “Art of the Cell” (YouTube) by John Liebler; starting at about 1:15 into the video, is a fantastic animation of a myosin motor dragging a vesicle along an actin filament.
Link: What’s Going On?
The video starting around 1:15 depicts a myosin motor protein attached to a vesicle (the large sac) and an actin filament (composed of many actin molecules strung together). The myosin motor “walks” down the actin filament by transferring energy from ATP (adenosine triphosphate) molecules to change its own shape. Each ‘step’ uses energy from an ATP molecule.
The little studs sticking out of the vesicle are proteins; these can serve various functions. Vesicles have proteins studded on their outside that serve as a “delivery address,” other proteins may serve as a “contents label,” and if a vesicle is for transporting proteins to the surface of the cell, the intracellular parts of these surface proteins will stick out of transport vesicles.
What is not clearly shown, in the interest of clarity, are ubiquitous water molecules and salt ions that permeate all of the open spaces. Also, the density of proteins in a cell is typically much higher.
Figure 2 Vesicle
Figure 2 Vesicle: What’s Going On?
For a sense of scale, the vesicle featured in “Art of the Cell” is roughly of a similar size to a synaptic vesicle; a vesicle that holds neurotransmitter to be released into a synaptic cleft between two neurons in the brain.
– drawing of half (sagittal section) of a human brain; the human brain is about 1200 mL (1.2 quarts) and about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb). There are about 100 billion neurons and upwards of a trillion glial cells in a typical brain. Fun fact; part of Albert Einstein’s brain had a much higher glia to neuron ratio than the average person3.
– drawing by Ramon y Cajal of the hippocampus after Golgi staining. To this day, it is unknown why only a very few neurons are stained using that method, but it allowed the first visualization of individual neurons within the brain. An average human hippocampus is approximately 7 cm (2.75 inches) long and 2 cm ( 0.75 inches) wide.
– scanning transmission electron micrograph (picture) of a synaptic junction, the point of interface between two neurons. There are approximately 150 trillion synapses in the human brain. That is about 500 times the number of stars in the milky way galaxy. The bottom left is a tiny part of a “post-synaptic” neuron with receptors to detect neurotransmitters released into the synaptic cleft. The middle portion shows a tiny part of a “pre-synaptic” neuron with reserves of neurotransmitter-containing synaptic vesicles waiting to dock at the terminal and release neurotransmitter into the cleft. The entire width of the picture is approximately 2 μm (micrometer), about 1/50th of the width of a human hair.
– space-filling model of a synaptic vesicle by Takamori et al 2006 (Cell)4 and the proteins that can be located on the outside surface of a synaptic vesicle. The average diameter of a vesicle is approximately 40 nm (nanometer). 2,500 vesicles placed end to end are about the width of a human hair.
Proteins fulfill many diverse functions within a living cell. Like actin, there are many proteins that fulfill structural roles such as histones that determine which parts of the genome are accessible for transcription. In other words, it acts as a gatekeeper or librarian who makes sure that only the genes that particular cell type requires is available to be made. Other structural proteins include the PSD-95 family of proteins that form scaffolds that determine what kinds of receptors and how many of them are allowed to reside in each specific synapse in each neuron. Yet other structural proteins reside on the cell surface and adheres that cell to other cells in a very specific manner. Interestingly, a specific subgroup of this class of extracellular adhesion protein in neurons can specify what kind- and where- a new synapse will be formed.
Muscles are very rich in actin and myosin; these proteins are arranged in repeating units and mediate muscle contractions as they crawl along one another. The very high density of these two proteins contributes to the high protein content of dietary meat. Although plants don’t have muscles, plant cells still contain protein, albeit less than in animal muscle cells. Additionally, different plants have different abundances of different amino acids and is typically different than the abundances of different amino acids in animal cells.
Almost all metabolic processes in a cell rely on enzymes. Enzymes accelerate, or catalyze, complex chemical reactions and allows them to occur at pressures, temperatures, and speed necessary for life. Enzymes are typically proteins although aptamers made from RNA molecules can also have catalytic effects. Enzymes work based on their shape; they can bring two different molecules together so they can join or change the shape of a molecule so it can be broken into smaller pieces. Some enzymatic processes occur based solely on shape but many enzymes use energy, typically ATP, in order to mediate a chemical reaction. ATP is the abbreviation for adenosine triphosphate, a nucleic acid with three phosphates attached to it linearly. Enzymes can cleave off the phosphates to release the potential energy and uses that energy change the shape of the enzyme or to transfer that energy to itself or another protein.
For example salivary amylase, a protein enzyme secreted with saliva, catalyzes the breakdown of starches into simple sugar. When you chew a plain saltine cracker, it initially has little taste. However, as you continue to chew the cracker it can start tasting a little bit sweet. It is the salivary amylase progressively breaking down the starches into simple sugars.
There are tens of thousands of different discrete chemical reactions that must occur in a very highly controlled manner to support the function of a cell. Many of these reactions occur in a step-wise manner and each step may require a separate enzyme. The metabolic pathways required for the proper function of a cell is beautifully complex (Roche).
Another important role that proteins play is in signal transduction. Signal transduction, also known as cell signaling, is the transmission of signals from one part of the cell to another. The transmission of signals from the exterior of the cell to its interior is a major route for signal transduction. The signal is typically passed on from one protein to another via mechanisms very similar to how enzymes catalyze chemical reactions. Many signal transduction events require energy in the form of ATP or other molecules to change the shape of the downstream (next) protein down the line.
Signals from outside of the cell are detected by cell surface receptors; specialized proteins that can detect the presence of something, resulting in a change of the shape of the receptor (receptor conformation), and relay that change to downstream signaling proteins. There are also receptors inside of the cell (intracellular) that can detect the presence or abundance of particular molecules. For example, there are receptors on the surface of neurons in the brain that detect the presence of neurotransmitters and then relays that signal to the inside of the cell. Other receptors, such as taste receptors on cells on the tongue, detect the presence of specific molecules. For example, a sugar molecule freed from starch by salivary amylase “fits” into a pocket of receptors that detects sugar. This causes a change in the shape of the receptor and the signal is relayed to inside of the cell. Yet other receptors such as the Toll-like receptors, that are present in a wide range of cells but are most prominent in immune cells, can detect “pathogen associated molecular patterns” (PAMPs) that are shed by microorganisms that can be harmful or pathogenic to humans. Upon detection of these microbial molecules the receptor signals for an immune response.
Many of these signals, like passing a relay baton from one runner to another, eventually ends up in the nucleus of a cell. The nucleus is where the genome is stored in the form of coiled up DNA, and is the source of all instructions that a cell can perform. In addition to structural proteins that determine which parts of the genome are accessible, other proteins called transcription factors can be activated through signal transduction to bind to very specific parts of the genome. Depending on the transcription factor and the gene in question, the transcription factor can either promote or prevent the expression of that gene or dictate which version of that gene will be made.
Finally, another major class of proteins are pores and pumps. The main feature of this class of proteins are that they can form a channel within the central part of the protein and that they span membranes; either the outer membrane of the cell or interior membrane compartments within the cell including the nuclear membrane, the endoplasmic reticulum, the golgi apparatus, the membranes of mitochondria, and others including all of the various –somes (lysosome, endosome, etc.) and vesicles.
Most pore proteins can typically be opened or closed by changing shape much like enzymes. Many pores, especially in the central nervous system, are also receptors that open and close depending on the presence or absence of neurotransmitters, allowing or preventing ions from crossing into or out of a cell. This flow of ions follows osmotic pressure gradients, which must be maintained by pump proteins that use energy, also typically in the form of ATP, to change shape and force ions through cell membranes across the osmotic gradient (pushing ions “uphill”). Although of utmost importance in neurons of the central nervous system, all cells have pumps to maintain the proper ion concentrations inside the cell.
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2. Friedman, AN. High-protein diets: potential effect on the kidney in renal health and disease. Am. J. Kidney Dis. 2004; 44(6): 950-62
3. Diamond, MC, Scheibel, AB., Murphy, GM. Jr., & Harvey, T. On the brain of a scientist: Albert Einstein. Exp. Neurol. 1985; 88(1): 198-204
4. Takamori, S., Holt, M., Stenius, K., Lemke, EA., Gronborg, M., Riedel, D., Urlaub, H., Schenck, S., Brugger, B., Ringler, P., Muller, SA>, Rammer, B., Grater, F., Hub, JS., De Groot, BL., Mieskes, G., Moriyama, Y., Klingauf, J., Grubmuller, H., Heuser, J., Wieldand, F., & Jahn, R. Molecular anatomy of a trafficking organelle. Cell. 2006; 127(4): 831-46
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Patricia Wolf, Felisha Ledesma, Chloe Alexandra — Live
Sounds et al and Holocene Portland present a night of live electronic music with performances from Patricia Wolf, Felisha Ledesma and Chloe Alexandra.
All three artists are currently Portland-based, and represent (in the opinion of Sounds et al) the best of the city’s electronic music scene. Aside from their own performative practice, all three contribute significantly to the community — perhaps most obviously through Patricia’s co-curation of Varifom, Chloe with her role at Open Signal and Felisha’s passionate work at S1 — but also through their continuing work elsewhere.
Come along for the best sounding Wednesday night of the summer…
$8- adv/ $10- door
Each sound artist will also be accompanied by live visuals —
Patricia Wolf will perform alongside video work by CM Wolf, mostly focused on their recent trip to Sichuan province, China. The video pieces deal with time distention. In this audiovisual expression, they hope to impart an immersive and poetic impression.
Felisha Ledesma will be collaborating with mixed-media artist Mel Carter.
Chloe Alexandra will be working with artist and musician Arjan Miranda on visuals throughout her performance.
Patricia Wolf is an electronic musician and singer currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Her work spans across many disciplines of music ranging from abstract techno, to immersive sound collage, to melodic compositions that defy genre. She was 1/2 of the now inactive synth pop duo, Soft Metals.
Felisha Ledesma is the director of S1, a non-profit, artist run project space and contemporary art center in Portland, and the co-founder of the associated Synth Library.
Chloe Alexandra Thompson (b. 1990, Canada), is a Cree, artist and curator, living in Portland, Oregon. Thompson works in new media and poetry, using aesthetics as a means to seduce the viewer into a stream of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the rush of daily events. Using Pure Data and voice, Thompson creates unique sonic experiences through the spatialization of isolated frequencies.
Mel Carter (b. 1992) grew up in the Bay Area and now lives and works in Seattle. She graduated with a BFA in Photomedia from the University of Washington School of Art & Art History & Design in 2014. She explores relationships between humor, the grotesque, whimsy, and intimacy through mixed media. She uses materials she’s comforted by in her practice; food, assortments from dollar stores, and given objects, to illustrate a wanting to care for others. Her heritage and childhood greatly influences her work, as much of it is created from memories or dreams she remembers from when she was young.
Arjan Miranda is a musician and artist living in Portland OR with two cats. He cut his chops in progressive thrash metal, but had a realization that it couldn’t answer his deeper questions. His current obsessions are classic songwriting, self help, poetry and video feedback. His punk band is called ‘Peace Sign’ his solo project is under his name and he is playing bass for Black Mountain. He sincerely wishes you good fortune in overcoming the obstacles of your life.
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Stenson fires a 64 to grab lead, Woods disappoints
AFP, ATLANTA, Georgia
Sweden’s Henrik Stenson hits out of a sand trap by the 14th green in the first round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday.
Photo: EPA
Henrik Stenson fired a six-under 64 to grab the lead at the Tour Championship in an opening round in which world No. 1 Tiger Woods finished a disappointing second to last.
Sweden’s Stenson, who played in the final group with Woods, birdied the last hole on Thursday in a round that included seven birdies and one bogey at the East Lake Golf Club.
Stenson started quickly with five birdies in a six-hole stretch from the second to grab the lead in the final tournament of the PGA Tour’s playoff series.
His hot streak consisted of just two putts from outside five feet as he stuck the majority of his iron shots close to the pin.
“That stretch between one and seven I guess is as good as I’ve ever hit it in a round of golf,” said Stenson, who tied his career low nine-hole score with a 30.
Stenson, who won the Deutsche Bank Championship earlier this month, can capture the FedEx Cup if he can hang on to his lead for the rest of the tournament.
Stenson’s playing partner Woods was the only golfer not to post a birdie in the first round. The American struggled to a three-over 73 which put him 29th out of 30 players. The only player to shoot a worse score was PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner, who carded a 74.
Australia’s Adam Scott is in sole possession of second place following his five-under 65, while Steve Stricker and Billy Horschel of the US share third at four-under 66.
Roberto Castro shot a 67 to sit alone in fifth.
Reigning FedEx Cup winner Brandt Snedeker had a one-under 69 and is in a tie for 14th place.
Horschel parred his final four holes to hold the clubhouse lead for a while.
“It all comes down to putting the ball in the fairway. I think if you’re in the rough it’s hard to judge whether it’s going to come out flying or it’s going to come out dead and you can’t control the spin,” Horschel said. “I did a good job putting the ball in the fairway, which gave me an opportunity to attack the flag.”
Playing in the penultimate group ahead of Stenson, Scott stormed up the leaderboard with a sizzling back nine.
The Masters champion countered bogeys at the third and eighth with a birdie at the sixth to make the turn at one-over, then poured in six birdies over a seven-hole stretch from the 10th to grab a share of the lead.
“This is always a tricky course,” Scott said. “If you’re playing well, there’s a good chance to score and if you’re playing bad it’s really tough to score out there.”
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Sun, Mar 04, 2018 - Page 10 News List
T20 leaves sport facing testing times
AFP, LONDON
“In this ultra-modern age counter attractions have multiplied many times since my youthful days,” a former England batsman wrote, as he questioned whether teenagers had the time to “devote to cricket.”
That the former international was Herbert Sutcliffe and he was writing in a pamphlet following England’s defeat in the 1950-1951 Ashes series.
It shows that worrying about the future of cricket, and English cricket in particular, is nothing new.
However, whereas Sutcliffe was concerned by ice skating and greyhound racing taking people away from cricket, the worry now is about how one type of cricket — Twenty20 (T20) franchise leagues — could spell the end of another in five-day Tests.
The recent decisions of England internationals Adil Rashid and Alex Hales to sign “white-ball” only county contracts — a red ball is used in traditional first-class matches — this season, thereby opting out of Test contention, heightened these concerns.
Rashid and Hales have not played a Test since 2016, but the worry for some is that, without a major alteration to cricket’s congested schedule and a change in spectator habits — Tests outside of England and Australia often draw paltry crowds — their example might be followed by that of more high-profile cricketers.
Jonny Bairstow, a Yorkshire and England teammate of Rashid, is alive to the danger, although the wicketkeeper remains committed to continuing his Test career.
“If we’re not careful, there are going to be more and more people [giving up red-ball cricket],” said Bairstow, who is on tour with England in New Zealand.
“You’ve got lucrative tournaments ... [to] go off for five weeks and earn a heck of a lot of money ... [with] the strain and stress on the body of bowling [only] four overs compared to 24 in a day in Test cricket,” he said.
Bairstow’s thoughts were echoed by Test colleague James Anderson, with England’s all-time leading Test bowler adding: “I just hope and pray there is enough love for Test cricket out there, not just the players that are playing at the moment, but players coming through still having the ambition and drive to play Test cricket in the future.”
Bairstow and Anderson grew up in an environment where the most reliable way for cricketers to maximize their income was to become an established Test player, as this would lead to a larger wage packet and enhanced opportunities for sponsorship deals.
To gain Test selection, players would have to take part in domestic first-class competitions such as England’s County Championship or Australia’s Sheffield Shield.
However, the advent of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and other T20 franchise events has created an environment where it is now possible to make major money, in cricket terms, without playing Tests.
For example, England all-rounder Ben Stokes was bought for ￡1.37 million (US$1.89 million) by the Rajasthan Royals during January’s IPL auction.
By offering specialist “white-ball,” as well as Test, central contracts in a bid to improve England’s woeful record at major global limited-overs tournaments, the England and Wales Cricket Board might have inadvertently made it easier for players to turn their backs on the first-class game.
“You always want your best players playing as much high-quality cricket as you can,” England selector Angus Fraser said on Friday.
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A selection of the shows made by Topical Television.
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The £1 Houses:
Britain's Cheapest Street
Close Calls On Camera
The One Show
Real Rescues
Brits in Bangkok
City Hospital
Behind Bars Live
The King Of Stonehenge
Tell It To Me Straight
On Stage:
Tale Of Two Theatres
Topical Television is one of Britain's longest established independent production companies. Since its inception, Topical's award-winning team has produced nearly 2000 hours of network television programming, including many long-running series ranging from 20-600 episodes. They’ve been described as a 'large company masquerading as a small one- - and have been listed by Broadcast Magazine as one of the 'top ten biggest airtime providers to the BBC'.
Topical has produced television programmes for all the major channels and across all genres – including live OB, documentary, factual, game show and entertainment. The company has worked with an array of the best-known and most popular talent on television. They’ve won Royal Television Awards in Features and Factual Entertainment categories and for Innovation.
The company formed in 1992. It has built a reputation as a live television specialist and for access programmes. The company has pioneered the use of presented live documentary, including the award-winning daily BBC television series City Hospital, which ran weekdays for 9 years. And Topical’s BBC series Behind Bars - a week of daily OB programmes presented live from inside a prison, was a world first. Other unusual projects include a live spacebridge on both sides of the Atlantic with an American talk shows for July 4th, a discussion of nudity with a naked audience live from Brighton beach, Britain’s first live birth on TV, and a studio event series with Carol Vorderman which, uniquely, was transmitted by both BBC One and ITV in the same quarter.
Current productions include the two highly successful returning BBC series Caught Red Handed and Close Calls On Camera, following on from the one hundred episodes of the emergency series Real Rescues, for BBC One daytime and peak, presented by Nick Knowles. Topical is also one of the main suppliers of strands, involving hundreds of film features, for the BBC’s flagship series The One Show.
In 2009, Topical became part of Avalon Entertainment Ltd.
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Dominic Littlewood presents this popular BBC show looking at how the Police and the public are taking the fight to the criminals - using CCTV evidence and undercover operations to catch crooks red-handed.
Series 1 - 10 x 30 min (BBC1) TX Mar 2013
Series 2 - 20 x 30 min (BBC1) TX Dec 2013/Mar 2014
Series 3 - 20 x30 min (BBC1) TX Sept 2014/Jan 2015
Series 4 - 20 x 30 min (BBC1) for TX Oct 2015
Series 5 - 20 x 30 min (BBC1) TX 2016
The £1 Houses: Britain’s Cheapest Street
Liverpool City Council are selling off derelict houses – for just £1 each. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime for struggling first-time buyers who might otherwise never get an opportunity to own their own home – and a clever way for Liverpool City Council to rebuild a rundown neighbourhood, at little cost to themselves. This series, filmed over two years, captures the highs and the lows of the people taking on the challenge. People must invest their own money to do up the houses within 12 months – or the Council could take the houses back. And they must commit to living in the houses for five years – in an area known for crime and anti-social behaviour. But nightmare houses are transformed into dream homes – much to the delight of the buyers who have got themselves a mortgage-free house, for less than the price of a sandwich...
Every day, people survive moments of real danger, where life hangs in the balance and the outcome can go either way. Popular One Show host Alex Jones presents dramatic tales and original footage of people who have had a close call that was caught on camera.
Series 1 - 15 x 30 min (BBC1) TX Oct/Nov 2014
Series 2 - 20 x 30 min (BBC1) TX July 2015
Series 3 - 20 x 30 mins (BBC1) TX Jan 2016
Topical is one of the principal suppliers of film features for this hugely successful series, which regularly attracts 5m viewers daily. We have produced hundreds of factual, factual entertainment and historical films for the programme and won 5 Royal Television Society awards for our original strand features.
Real Rescues goes behind the scenes of the Emergency Services - the Fire, Police and Ambulance Services - together with the Coastguard, The RNLI, Mountain Rescue etc. The long-running series has won two Royal Television Society awards for the quality of its features. Presented by Nick Knowles, Chris Hollins and Louise Minchin.
For tourists, Bangkok is an overwhelming city, filled with sky scrapers, shrines, titty bars and temples. But beyond the tourist trail is another world that has made Bangkok Asia’s hottest city – the new Dubai - and the destination for go getting Brits. This amusing ob doc entertainment series follows a group of ex pats who swapped Britain for Bangkok, in search of a better life...
3 x 60 mins – Channel 5
Gethin Jones and Louise Minchin present dramatic real-life insights from the world of the police and prisons. With Gethin behind bars at historic Bristol Prison and Louise on the beat with West Midlands Police Force, together they chart the changes in crime and punishment over the last sixty years in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year. The end of the death penalty for murder, the first use of DNA profiling to solve crime, the effects of illegal drugs and guns all feature, plus the revolution in the way convicted criminals live in jail.
10 x 45 mins – BBC1
A ground-breaking format broadcast live from three major hospitals – Southampton General and Guys and St Thomas’ in London, sharing the experiences of both staff and patients. The 18 series highlighted the latest medical science, live operations - and many TV firsts including the first and first live Caesarian and first live natural birth. A wide range of celebrities and well known public figures hosted in 660 programmes over eight years, including Nick Knowles, Kate Humble, Gaby Roslin, Nadia Sawalha, Philip Schofield, Anton du Beke, Paul O Grady and Eamonn Holmes. The series won an RTS award for Innovation.
18 series - 660 x 60 mins
For five days, Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha present a live show from behind bars with the staff and the inmates of two city prisons - Cardiff Men’s Prison and Drake Hall Women’s Prison near Stafford. A unique look at day today life inside prison - as it actually happens.
5 x 45 mins
Successful BBC City Hospital spin-off series, taking a more indepth look at the more serious and unusual medical cases through the doors at Southampton General Hospital.
Topical cameras were there to witness one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of recent years – the Amesbury Archer.
What do your friends say about you when they don’t know you’re listening? And what schemes can they come up with to correct your little faults...
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On Stage: Tale Of Two Theatres
On Stage celebrates the diversity of theatre production in England. It takes TV audiences backstage at England’s regional theatres and tells their stories, from traditional playhouses to innovative projects.
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Best Buy plans to double sales by 2013
President and Chief Operating Officer Brian Dunn predicted that the retailer will double sales in the next five years to $80 billion in fiscal year 2013.
June 25, 2008 — 11:26pm
Pledging that Best Buy intends to make it through the current economic slump as strong as ever, President and Chief Operating Officer Brian Dunn predicted Wednesday that the retailer will double sales in the next five years to $80 billion in fiscal year 2013.
It's a goal that's both ambitious and doable, Dunn told an audience who had gathered at the company's Richfield headquarters for the annual shareholder's meeting.
Best Buy, the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer, historically has averaged an annual growth rate of about 20 percent. Dunn presented a slide showing that the company already has doubled in size from $20 billion in fiscal year 2003 to $40 billion in fiscal 2008.
Dunn's comments wrapped up an upbeat management presentation that focused heavily on the company's international growth aspirations, as well as a pledge from CEO Brad Anderson to make the stock price reflect the company's own view of its bright future. Shares closed Wednesday at $41.65, but they have been trending downward since a high of $53.90 in December, as consumers cut back on discretionary spending.
Best Buy controls about 20 percent of the U.S. consumer electronics market and about 30 percent of computer sales, according to just-released first-quarter results.
Its $2.1 billion joint venture with London-based mobile phone retailing giant Carphone Warehouse is expected to be sealed next week. The deal will bring the company another step forward in Best Buy's strategy to "own the home," said Best Buy International's CEO Bob Willett.
"Own the home" covers such things as the GPS navigation system in the car, the home theater system in the living room, the computer in the home office, the iPod in the bedroom, the appliances in the kitchen and the Geek Squad service when things go awry.
JACKIE CROSBY
Chewy rides on post-IPO high
Chewy, the online seller of pet food and squeaky toys, is continuing its post-IPO sales streak.
With historic designation, makeover of downtown Dayton's gets financial and nostalgic boost
The building was 'not a slam dunk' to make the National Register of Historic Places, a consultant says.
The federal, North Carolina and Virginia governments asked a court Thursday to declare the country's largest electricity company liable for environmental damage from a leak five years ago that left miles of a river shared by the two states coated in hazardous coal ash.
Boeing says it will take a $4.9 billion charge to cover possible compensation to airlines whose Max jets remain grounded after two deadly accidents.
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Citizens' Committee
Jeremy Rifkin:
“Anti-vivisection societies and animal rights organizations have been making this argument for a long time, only to be scorned by scientific bodies, medical associations, and industry lobbies who accuse them of being anti-progress and caring more about animals than people. Now, it is the scientific establishment that has come to the very same conclusions. Toxicity testing in animals is bad science.”
Nature 10/11/05:
“Scientists at the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) in northern Italy — which was set up by the European Commission to develop alternatives to animal testing — argue that animal tests are badly flawed. They say the new drive for alternative methods will improve the science of toxicity testing. And public safety demands that the new tests are shown to be better predictors of toxicity than the existing methods.”
Lancet 04/06/2011:
“"A fundamental problem is that a rat is not a human. They are different sizes, have different metabolisms and have different diets so using animals to predict effects on humans is difficult. Fifty percent of compounds that prove to be safe in rats prove not to be safe in humans so it really is the toss of a coin," Dexter told Sky News.”
“It is increasingly clear that an important factor contributing to these problems is the over-reliance of the pharmaceutical industry on the use of animals to predict drug behaviour in man. The stark differences, not only in the diseases of different animal species, but also the ways that they respond to drugs, are now well known. Many studies have shown that animal tests frequently fail to translate to the clinic, with estimates of their ability to predict effects on people as low as 37—50%, or no better than the toss of a coin.”
Thomas Hartung:
“But the toxicology tests on which regulators rely to gather this information are stuck in a time warp, and are largely based on wasteful and often poorly predictive animal experiments”
The toxicity tests that have been used for decades are “simply bad science”, he explains. “We now have an opportunity to start with a clean slate and develop evidencebased tests that have true predictive value.”
“To test a chemical for its potential to cause cancer takes five years and involves 400 rats. More than 50% of the results are positive, of which 90% are false positives.”
David Biello in Scientific American (13.10.2011):
"We are screening 10,000 chemicals using these rapid tests to characterize the bioactivity of the chemicals to predict their hazard and to use that information to prioritize for further screening and testing," says biologist David Dix, deputy director of EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. "We can test a lot of chemicals with a lot of repetitions at a lot of different concentrations."
The program, initially started at EPA as ToxCast to assess 1,000 chemicals (and known as Tox21 in its expanded form), employs a robot to speed chemical screening. On plastic plates filled with 1,536 tiny wells, the robot drops varying amounts of different chemicals onto human cells and human proteins. Essentially, each plate has 1,536 experiments underway at the same time. "In a stack of 100, we have 150,000 combinations of chemicals and targets," Dix says.
The robot arm and its numerous five- to 10-microliter wells replace the old standby of toxicology—animal testing. In addition to being slow and controversial, animal tests do not reveal how a chemical might impact humans, nor do they deliver any insight into the mechanisms by which a given chemical produced toxic outcomes. Simply by running the robotic tests, the EPA and its partner agencies will generate more information on chemical toxicity in the next few years than has been created in the past century. The effort has already screened more than 2,500 chemicals, including the dispersants employed to clean up BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new information may allow toxicology to evolve from a reactive science to a predictive one; models of liver toxicity based on chemical testing, for example, could predict how new chemicals would interact with the liver, based on molecular structure and other information. Already, ToxCast scientists have made such a predictive model for liver toxicity: It forecast accurately tumor formation in rats and mice that had been exposed for two years to certain chemicals. A similar effort proved accurate for reproductive toxicity, including vascular development and endocrine disruption—an area of keen interest for human exposure to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA).
In addition, the high-speed robotic testing will allow toxicologists to better understand mixture and low-dose effects by testing both combinations of chemicals for additive damage as well as how, for example, 15 different concentrations of a given chemical impact human cells. "We suspect that when we look at 10,000 chemicals we'll see a lot of activity that we didn't know about," Dix says of the two-year effort, in which the EPA has partnered with a handful of federal health agencies.
"For a lot of chemicals, there's no requirement for animal toxicity testing or any other type of testing," Dix notes. "Tox21 is going to provide information where there is no information."
Vittorio Prodi:
“Toxicity testing is not delivering what safety of products demands nor is it sufficiently relying upon the most advanced technologies. It typically involves studying adverse health outcomes in animals subjected to high doses of toxicants with subsequent extrapolation to expected human responses at lower doses. But we are not 70kg rats feeding largely on chemicals. The system is expensive, time-consuming, low-throughput and often provides results of limited predictive value for human health. The toxicity testing methods are largely the same for industrial chemicals, pesticides and drugs, and have led to a backlog of more than 80,000 chemicals to which humans are potentially exposed but whose potential toxicity remains largely unknown.
In the US, a new toxicity testing plan has been launched which includes the use of predictive, high-throughput cell-based assays (of human origin) to evaluate perturbations in key pathways of toxicity, and to conduct targeted testing against those pathways. Mapping the entirety of these pathways (hence the 'Human Toxome Project') could be a large-scale effort, perhaps on the order of the Human Genome Project. It could develop tremendous opportunities for REACH, the testing ban for cosmetics, the pesticide regulation, and the endocrine disruptor screening, while reducing animal suffering. How can Europe contribute to this goal?”
Francis Collins, director, NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, 2008:
“Animal experimentation is “expensive, time-consuming, uses animals in large numbers, and it doesn’t always work.””
Samuel Wilson, acting director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and NTP:
“The new research model would allow scientists to test 100,000 compounds in 1,500 different concentrations in about two days compared with years if the testing was done on animals.”
Francis Collins in The Scientist:
“With earlier and more rigorous target validation in human tissues, it may be justifiable to skip the animal model assessment of efficacy altogether.”
Science 15-02-2008
Francis S. Collins, George M. Gray and John R. Bucher
“We propose a shift from primarily in vivo animal studies to in vitro assays, in vivo assays with lower organisms, and computational modeling for toxicity assessments.”
Allison Abbott in Nature 10/11/2005:
“Most animal tests overor underestimate toxicity, or simply don’t mirror toxicity in humans very well.”
“Commercial and political pressures are pushing for a halt to the use of animals in toxicology tests in Europe. This change will also mean a move towards better science, says Alison Abbott.”
Horst Spielmann:
“Animal embryotoxicity tests are not reliably predictive for humans,” says Horst Spielmann, a toxicologist at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin. “When we find that cortisone is embryotoxic in all species tested except human, what are we supposed to make of them?”
Pandora Pound in British Medical Journal:
“Ideally, new animal studies should not be conducted until the best use has been made of existing animal studies and until their validity and generalisability to clinical medicine has been assessed.”
John Prineas and Michael Barnett in New Scientist:
“Their findings back the view that the reason for the lack of progress in this field is that most Multiple Sclerosis research is done on mice with a disease that is actually quite different”
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences:
“A second argument against selection bias is that knowledge to predict carcinogenicity in rodent tests is highly imperfect, even now, after decades of testing results have become available on which to base prediction.”
Robert Sharpe:
“Most adverse reactions which can occur in patients cannot be demonstrated, anticipated or avoided by the routine subacute and chronic toxicity experiment” (Zbinden 1966).
Honess et al 2004:
“More long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) than any other primate are imported into the UK for research, and journey times may be of up to 58 h.”
Erwin, Drake and Deni – 1979:
“The subjects were housed individually 1-m3 wire cages. All were kept in the same colony room and were exposed to identical environmental conditions.”
X.S. Puente 2006:
“Despite the high conservation of cancer genes between both species, we identified 20 genes containing several codon insertions or deletions in their protein coding regions, although the functional significance of these differences, including their putative association with cancer, will require further studies.”
Yasuhiro 2009:
“Animals captured and bred in Vietnam for instance may respond differently in toxicological or immunological studies to those originating in the Philippines or in Mauritius”
7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in Life Sciences (Conclusive Press Release):
“Participants agreed that current knowledge of the human genome and the genomes of many animal species have resulted in such a level of scientific progress in the area of gene mapping and expression (genomics) that it will make it possible in the near future to apply these tools, together with current computational technologies (linking and analysing massive data bases) and sophisticated second generation in vitro test systems, to assess the hazards and risks of chemical and microbiological substances without the use of experimental animals.”
Robert Matthews 2008:
“It is crucial to know how and why such tests fail to predict what happens in humans.
That can happen in two ways: firstly, where animals fail to warn of real toxic effects in humans - as in thalidomide - and secondly, where they give false alarms, with the animals falling victim to drugs that would be fine in humans.”
“Toxicity testing in the 21st century: a vision and a strategy” National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.) 2007:
"Using the results of animal tests to predict human health effects involves a number of assumptions and extrapolations that remain controversial. Test animals are often exposed to higher doses than would be expected for typical human exposures, requiring assumptions about effects at lower doses or exposures. Test animals are typically observed for overt signs of adverse health effects, which provide little information about biological changes leading to such health effects."
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Usain Bolt tells Gatlin he will find things more difficult
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Kingston, Jamaica- Usain Bolt has warned American sprinter Justin Gatlin not to expect anything easy on his pending return to the track.
Bolt, who dominated both sprints over the last two years, said Gatlin, who is serving a four-year doping ban, might just have something waiting for him on his return.
Earlier this week, Gatlin, who is expected back on the track July 25, said he is targeting Bolt, Gay and Asafa Powell, the world’s three fastest men, by saying “Times don’t scare me”.
“I think he will find it a little more difficult from the last time he was here, because I think the game has stepped up a lot,” warned Bolt.
“I think he is going to have his hands full, not just by me and Asafa and Tyson, but a lot of other upcoming sprinters, but it should be good,” added Bolt, who said he welcomes Gatlin back when the time is right.
“It’s more competition and better for the sports, so I am looking forward to it,” said Bolt, who said he would be ready to race Gatlin anywhere.
Since Gatlin’s absence from the track, Bolt has dominated with electrifying runs, first at the Beijing Olympics with times of 9.69 and 19.30, but lowered those world record marks to 9.58 and 19.19 respectively at last summer’s World Championships in Berlin.
Source:trackalert.com
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Rendville, OH
Rendville is located in southeast Ohio. Rendville is between the Perry, Morgan county. Rendville has 0.31 square miles of land area and 0.00 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total Rendville population is 96, which has grown 108.70% since 2000. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 1.83% and is much higher than the national average rate of 11.61%. Rendville median household income is $20,000 in 2010-2014 and has has shrunk by 48.39% since 2000. The income growth rate is much lower than the state average rate of 19.27% and is much lower than the national average rate of 27.36%. Rendville median house value is $30,000 in 2010-2014 and has shrunk by -39.53% since 2000. The house value growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 24.98% and is lower than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers Rendville is worse than the state average in quality.
Population 96 (2010-2014), rank #1180
Population Growth 108.70% since 2000, rank #13
Population Density: 306.47/sq mi, rank #1108
Median Household Income: $20,000 at 2010-2014—-48.39% increase since 2000, rank #1185
Median House Price: $30,000 at 2010-2014—39.53% increase since 2000, rank #1186
Time Zone: Eastern GMT -5:00 with Daylight Saving in the Summer
Counties: Perry County, Morgan County
Accommodations: Rendville Hotels
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E-Sharps
The E-sharps represented Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia Talent Competition and won the right to represent the province at the nationals which were held in Halifax. They were unique in that they were strictly an instrumental band and all lead parts were performed on either saxophone or trombone. They did not use a guitar. There were typically six musicians/instruments; sax, trombone, trumpet, electric bass, keyboard and drums.
The band played variations of rock and pop tunes from the sixties and seventies, big band numbers and some original content. This was unusual since all members of the band were under 16 years old when the band started in the late nineties. They were the first musical act to play at the Mariner's Centre when it first opened.
Once the members graduated high school in 2002 and moved on to university, the band broke-up. (thanks Gordie Thompson )
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Taiwan Ecotourism
Taiwan lies off the southeast coast of the Asian Continent, where the tropical and subtropical zones come together. Surrounded by the sea and dominated by high mountains created by tectonic action over the eons, the country features a full range of climates and terrains from the tropical to the frigid. The variations in weather, geology, and elevation give Taiwan an unparalleled richness of flora and fauna, including many endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world. Taiwan is, in fact, a northern-hemisphere microcosm and natural treasure house that, truly, must be seen to be believed.
If you want to know how beautiful Taiwan really is, you have to come and see for yourself. You will be amazed at the diversity of ancient species this beautiful and relatively young island has to offer. Come and explore its numerous mountains, forests, wetlands and oceans, and find an incredible collection of natural ecosystems.
Taiwan harbors a great diversity of organic life, and some variations are rarely found elsewhere in the world. An example is the black forest similar to that in Germany, with vegetation going back 30 to 60 million years, such as Taxus sumatrana, mangrove, Taiwan isoetes, and the rare high-altitude grass plains. The world's oldest amphibian, the Formosan salamander, can also be found here, as well as the Formosan black bear, the Mikado pheasant and the land-locked salmon. The beautiful azalea, cherry blossom and maple leaf are also subjects of admiration. If you want to experience this diverse animal and plant life, consider a visit to one of Taiwan's national scenic areas, national parks or forests, or nature reserves, as these form the most ideal outdoor natural resource learning opportunities in Taiwan.
Taiwan's national parks, including Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan), Taroko, Yu Mountain (Yushan), Shei-Pa, Kending (Kenting), Kinmen, Dongsha Atoll, and Taijiang, form the back garden of Taiwan and in themselves are natural treasure-houses. Next to beautiful sceneries, they provide the shelter to unique animal and plant life, including insects, fish, and birds. The natural reserves actually form miniature ecosystems that not only provide a protected environment but also offer a great alternative for recreational activities, environmental education and academic research. Here, visitors can get away from their hectic lives in the city and enjoy the serene environment.
Taiwan is surrounded by oceans and therefore has a long coastline, which offers different sceneries wherever you go. The West Coast mainly consists of sand dunes, sand beaches, sand bars and lagoons, and its straight coastline is rather monotonous. The East Coast on the contrary presents a dramatic coastline of towering cliffs that almost directly descend into the deep sea. The coastal plains here are very narrow. The rock formations at the North Coast alternate with beautiful bays and offer the most varied coastal landscape of Taiwan, while the South Coast mainly consists of coral reefs. The offshore islands of Taiwan also offer a great variety of geographical landscapes that are characteristic for the region, such as the basaltic rocks of the Penghu islands, the granite rocks of Kinmen, and the marine erosions of Matzu.
Watching numerous species of butterflies and birds in Taiwan
Butterflies: Some 17,000 different species of butterflies are known around the world; almost 400 can be seen in Taiwan, 50 of which are endemic to the island. There are many different sites where you can go to watch them dance in the air, including Doll Valley in Wulai near Taipei, Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan) National Park, Mt. Jiaoban, and Mt.Lala along the Northern Cross-Island Highway, Qilan near Taipingshan (Ta-ping Mountain) , Guguan, Li Mountain (Lishan) , and Cuifeng along the Central Cross-Island Highway, Nanshan River and Huisun Forest near Puli, Shanlin River (Sunlinksea) in Nantou County, Butterfly Valley in Maolin near Kaohsiung County, Sheding Park and Nanren Mountain (Nanrenshan) in Kending (Kenting) , and Butterfly Valley in Taitung.
Birds: Because of its warm and humid climate, Taiwan has extremely rich vegetation which attracts many birds. Located at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, it is also a favorite resting area for migrating birds. Resident and migrating birds total some 440 species, and endemic birds such as the black-faced spoonbill and the Sterna leucoptera can be seen here. Sites for watching these migrating birds include the Guandu swamplands in the northern Taiwan, Yilan swamplands, mouth of the Exit Dadu River in the central Taiwan and Gaopin River in the southern Taiwan. Other bird-watching sites are the Penghu islands, Matzu, Wulai, Mt. Hehuan, Xitou, Ali Mountain (Alishan), Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan) National Park, Yu Mountain (Yushan) National Park, Shei-Pa National Park, Taroko National Park, Kending (Kenting) National Park, Kinmen National Park, Taijiang National Park, Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, and East Coast and the East Rift Valley National Scenic Areas.
Marine Life: As Taiwan is surrounded by oceans, marine life and other oceanic resources are abundant and diverse. The clear waters and warm climate of Kending (Kenting) and Lu Island (Green Island), for example, provide the ideal environment for colorful and peculiarly shaped coral reefs. These not only form the architecture of the undersea world, but also provide the shelter for all kinds of tropical fish. On Wang-an Island in Penghu, as well as Lanyu in Taitung County, you can even see the green sea turtles coming to the shore to lay its eggs. Along Taiwan's East Coast, particularly off the coast of Yilan, Hualien, and Taitung, more than 60% of all whale and dolphin species that are found in Taiwan can be spotted. You can choose to take one of the boat trips that are organized in this area. While listening to the introduction by professional whale spotters, the chance of seeing these extraordinary creatures is as high as 90%.
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Cure International and Diana Diaz
CURE International
CURE International is a non-profit organization that operates hospitals and programs in 29 countries worldwide where patients experience the life-changing message of God’s love for them, receiving surgical treatment regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, or ability to pay. Since the first hospital opened in Kenya in 1998, they have seen over 2.1 million patients, provided over 150,000 life-changing surgeries, and trained over 6,600 medical professionals.
Diana Diaz, Director of the World Culture Club (retired)
Diana Carel-Diaz as a co-chairwoman and publicist of the World Culture Club, was there at its beginning and has observed the club’s transformation over the last decade. The World Culture Club began with Nkuchia Mikanatha and David Welliver’s vision of a group that would create a place where people from other countries and cultures would feel comfortable and welcome, and adjust more easily to a new environment. Under Diana Diaz’s leadership it has evolved into a platform for educational programs that help people understand and learn about other cultures as well as an environment that aids people regardless of religion, nationality or race.
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2019 ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREE
Celebrated individuals are recognized each year at WCOPA for their outstanding contributions to the performing arts industry and to WCOPA, and memorialized in the coveted Performing Arts Hall of Fame.
Producer, Director and Choreographer
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Anita Mann spent her youth in a dance studio, perfecting every movement and step. This lifelong drive led to a career as a dancer, producer, director, actress and award-winning choreographer that has spanned more than five decades.
This passion serves her well as the owner of Anita Mann Productions, a company specializing in stage, television and theatrical performances. Mann has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as one of America’s top five contemporary choreographers. She is the recipient of five Emmy nominations including one Emmy Award win. Her choreography credits include “The Muppets Go Hollywood,” for which she earned her first Emmy nomination, and five seasons on “Solid Gold,” which earned her two Emmy nominations. Mann also earned an Emmy nomination for her work with “The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.” Her first Emmy win occurred for choreographing “The Miss America Pageant,” an honor which she holds close to her heart. Other vast choreography credits include “The Cher Show,” “The Jacksons,” “The Academy Awards,” “The Golden Globe Awards,” “The Academy of Country Music Awards,” “The People’s Choice Awards,” “The Grammy Hall of Fame,” “The Emmys,” “The Great Muppet Caper,” “Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Live,” “Sesame Street Live,” “The Mighty Morphin Power Ranger Tour,” “Snoopy’s World of Magic,” “Arthur” as well as countless other live, film and television shows. Now in its 19th year, Mann is the Producer and Director of FANTASY at the Luxor, and has created, choreographed, and directed revues for casinos and luxury cruise lines. She was the coordinating producer for the television series, “Dirty Dancing,” producer of the musical “Imagine This” at the New London Theatre in London’s West End, produced and directed a show starring NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback, Terry Bradshaw, honored by the Vegas and Hollywood F. A. M. E. Awards as Lifetime Achievement for Live Producer, and most recently appeared with Miley Cyrus on the Video Music Awards.
She is passionate about supporting the arts through dance and health programs. In her limited free time, Mann enjoys spending time with her family, her dog “George” and golfing.
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From Ink & Paint Girls to Oscar Award Winners: The Women of Disney Animation
Kelly Craig / Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Tags: Disney History / Mary Blair / Walt Disney Animation
I can vividly remember the first time I watched “The Reluctant Dragon.” My family and I were on our way to Walt Disney World and my Dad had hooked up a small television in the back of our car so we could watch movies. My Mom turned around and handed us the VHS of “The Reluctant Dragon” and my brother, sister, and I were so excited. It said “Walt Disney’s”, so we knew we were in for a treat! Turning on the movie, we were transported to the Walt Disney Studios in the 1940’s. We walked through the studios and got to see the process of how films were made and watched a few animated shorts in between. The part that I found the most interesting was the Ink & Paint Studio. I loved getting to see the brush filled with paint touch the paper and bring characters to life. I recently re-watched “The Reluctant Dragon” and something seemed to stick out to me. The Ink & Paint Department was filled with women, but there were no female animators.
From the 1920’s to the 1960’s the animation industry was segregated by gender. Only men held the coveted spot of an animator, while women were placed in the Ink & Paint Department to act in a support role. There is data showing that women who applied for animator positions were turned away because it was a position meant for a man. Of course, the work of the “Ink and Paint Girls” should not be discredited. They played a vital part in the production of such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi, and many more in which they would trace a pencil drawing with ink and then paint it with color that had been selected by the Color Key Artist. There was an average of 100 women working in the Ink & Paint Department and each could complete eight to ten cels an hour. These women were paid the lowest wages, but as Claudia Hubley Thompson, an artist, stated in a 2010 Vanity Fair, “The idea of working at Disney’s was just the end, the very end.”
During this time there were a select few women who obtained positions in male dominated fields in the Walt Disney Studios. Mary Blair seemed to breakdown any gender barriers of the time, by working alongside her husband, Lee Blair, at the Studios and later being named Art Supervisor on “Saludos Amigos” and “The Three Caballeros” by Walt Disney himself. Some historians have stated that Blair was Disney’s favorite animator because of her whimsical, bold, and naïve art, bringing something unique to the Studios. Blair’s work shaped much of the art of Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, and still today is noted as being the inspiration for the art of films such as Up and Tangled. If that were not enough, Blair’s work can be experienced in person at Disney’s Contemporary Resort where a seven-story high mural created by Blair is on display as well as in “it’s a small world”, as Blair worked on the original concept art. (PS… If you look closely in the French scene you can see a doll that was modeled after Blair hanging out under the Eiffel Tower).
Just as the process of making animated films has changed, the segregation of gender has made progress and there are areas in which both women and men work together. It is reported that there is still an imbalance in terms of gender in creative sector jobs, with men holding more professional positions than women, but with the continued success of women in the industry (i.e. Jennifer Lee, writer and co-director of Frozen becoming the first female director of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film) it is hoped that the disparity between genders will continue to decrease and one day really be a “thing of the past.”
As March is Women’s History Month, it only seemed right to pay respect to some of the incredible women that have helped to shape the Disney Company. Is there a woman from Disney history who you think should be honored? Comment below! Happy Women’s History Month!
(Photo ©Disney)
Kelly Craig is currently obtaining her Masters of Arts in Arts Administration from Savannah College of Art and Design. She was born into a Disney loving family and has visited Walt Disney World over fifty times, Disneyland once, and cruised on the Disney Magic. During the moments she is not dreaming about her next Disney trip, Kelly is an artist and creative mind with great ambition and spirit. To connect with Kelly please visit www.karmaandkismet.weebly.com.
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celebrity + charity + global relief:
U2's Bono Receives Liberty Medal For Groundbreaking Humanitarian Efforts
Bono (U2 lead singer) and activist, and DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa)the advocacy organization he co-founded to combat poverty and disease in Africa, were presented with the National Constitution Center's 2007 Liberty Medal last night for their groundbreaking work in raising awareness about and spurring a global response to the crisis of AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa.
Bono and DATA accepted the prestigious Medal and its accompanying $100,000 prize in a public ceremony at 7:00 p.m. at the National Constitution Center in Historic Philadelphia. All of the prize money will be donated to DATA.
Established in 2002 by Bono, Bobby Shriver and Jamie Drummond, along with other activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign, DATA 's mission is to eradicate extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa. DATA works with the world's wealthiest nations - the United States, U.K., Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan - to adopt new aid and trade policies that will help Africans put themselves on the path to long-term prosperity and stability. DATA also works with African leaders to support strengthened democracy, accountability and transparency in government so that Africa's citizens can ensure this assistance is being effectively deployed.
In 2005, DATA and campaigners around the world helped persuade the G8 to reach an unprecedented agreement that included $25 billion in additional development assistance for Africa by 2010, broad debt cancellation, universal access to education, near universal access to AIDS and malaria treatment and prevention. DATA is monitoring the G8's progress on keeping these commitments and holding government leaders to public account. If kept, these promises will save millions of lives and mark a turning point in the West's relationship with Africa.
Past Recipients of the Liberty Medal
-- 2006 - George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton, former U.S.
Presidents (joint prize)
-- 2005 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
-- 2004 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
-- 2003 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
-- 2002 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
-- 2001 - Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General*
-- 2000 - Dr. James Watson / Dr. Francis Crick, co-discoverers of the
structure of DNA (joint prize)
-- 1999 - Kim Dae Jung, President of South Korea*
-- 1998 - Senator George J. Mitchell, Irish Peace Negotiator
-- 1997 - CNN International
-- 1996 - King Hussein I of Jordan / Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister
of Israel (joint prize)*
-- 1995 - Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees
-- 1994 - Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
-- 1993 - F.W. de Klerk, President of South Africa / Nelson Mandela,
President of the African National Congress (joint prize)*
-- 1992 - Thurgood Marshall, former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
-- 1991 - Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica / Medecins sans Frontieres
(Doctors without Borders) (joint prize)*
-- 1990 - Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President*
-- 1989 - Lech Walesa, founder of Solidarity, Poland
* Nobel Peace Prize winners
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King of Scots James I of Scotland
1394 - 1437 (~ 42 years)
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Name James I of Scotland
Title King of Scots
Born Jul 1394 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Name James Stewart
Reference Number 37157
Died 21 Feb 1437
Person ID I37157 Thompson-Milligan
Father Robert III of Scotland, b. Abt 1337, d. Apr 1406, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland (Age ~ 69 years)
Mother Anabella Drummond, b. Abt 1350, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland , d. Oct 1401, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland (Age ~ 51 years)
Family Joan Beaufort, b. Abt 1404, d. 15 Jul 1445 (Age ~ 41 years)
1. James Stewart, II, b. 16 Oct 1430, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland , d. 3 Aug 1460, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland (Age 29 years) [natural]
James Stewart I of Scotland
James I, King of Scots (reign: 1406 - 37) was the youngest son of Robert III and Annabella Drummond. He was probably born in late July 1394 in Dunfermline and was the youngest of three sons. By the time he was eight years of age both of his elder brothers were dead-Robert had died in infancy, but David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay died in Falkland Castle while being detained by his uncle Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany. Although parliament exonerated Albany of involvement in Rothesay's death, fears for James's safety grew during the winter of 1405-6 and plans were made to send him to France. In February 1406 James in the company of nobles loyal to Robert III clashed with those of the Earl of Douglas forcing the prince to take temporary refuge on the Bass Rock in the Forth estuary. He remained there until mid-March when a vessel bound for France was found but English pirates captured the ship on 22 March and delivered James to Henry IV of England. A few days later on 4 April Robert III died and the 12 year-old uncrowned king of Scots began his 18 year detention.
James was given a good education at the English court where he developed respect for English methods of governance and for Henry V to the extent that he served in the English army against the French during 1420-1. Albany's son, Murdoch, held a prisoner in England following his capture in 1402 was traded for Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland in 1416. By the time James was ransomed in 1424, Murdoch had succeeded his father to the dukedom and the governorship of Scotland. In April 1424 James accompanied by his wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, returned to Scotland but it was not altogether a popular re-entry to Scottish affairs having fought on behalf of Henry V and at times against Scottish forces in France. Additionally his £40,000 ransom meant increased taxes to cover the repayments and the detention of Scottish nobles as collateral. Despite this, James also held qualities that were admired. The contemporary Scotichronicon by Walter Bower described James as excelling at sport, in literature and music. Unlike his father and grandfather he did not take mistresses but had many children by his consort, Queen Joan. The king had a strong desire to impose law and order among his subjects but applied it selectively at times.
To bolster his authority and to secure the position of the crown, James launched pre-emptive attacks on some of his nobles beginning in 1425 with his close relatives, the Albany Stewarts which resulted in Duke Murdoch's execution. In 1428 James detained Alexander, Lord of the Isles while attending a parliament in Inverness. Archibald, Earl of Douglas was arrested in 1431 followed by George, Earl of March in 1434. The plight of the ransom hostages held in England was ignored and the repayment money was diverted into the construction of his Linlithgow Palace and other grandiose schemes.
In August 1436, James failed humiliatingly in his siege of Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council. James was murdered at Perth on the night of 20-1 February 1437 in a failed coup by his kinsman and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl. Queen Joan, although wounded, escaped to the safety of Edinburgh Castle where she was reunited with her son James II.
Prince and Steward of Scotland:
James was born in Dunfermline probably in late July 1394, 27 years after the marriage of his parents Robert III and Annabella Drummond. It was at Dunfermline and also Scone that James would have spent most of his early childhood in his mother's household. The prince was seven years old when his mother died in 1401 and a year later his elder brother David, Duke of Rothesay was probably murdered by their uncle Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany after being held at Albany's Falkland Castle. Prince James was now heir to the throne and the only impediment to the transfer of the royal line to the Albany Stewarts. In 1402 Albany and his close ally Archibald, Earl of Douglas were absolved from any involvement in Rothesay's death and Albany was once again appointed king's lieutenant. Albany rewarded Douglas for his support by allowing him to resume hostilities with England. The Albany and Douglas affinity received a severe set-back in September 1402 when their large army was defeated by the English at Homildon and numerous prominent nobles and adherents were captured including Douglas himself, Albany's son Murdoch, and the earls of Moray, Angus and Orkney (Orkney was quickly ransomed). That same year, as well as the death of Rothesay, Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross and Malcolm Drummond, lord of Mar had also died.[6] These events created an enormous political void in both the north and south of the country. In the years between 1402 and 1406 Albany's numerous interests in the north were exposed and reluctantly forced the duke into an alliance with his brother Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan and Buchan's son, Alexander. In the south Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, took advantage of Douglas's absence from his Lothian and border power base to become the principal force in the politics of the Scotto-English border.
In December 1404 the king granted the royal Stewart lands in the west, in Ayrshire and around the Firth of Clyde, to James in regality protecting them from outside interference and providing the prince with a territorial base should the need arise. Despite this in 1405 James was under the protection and tutelage of Bishop Henry Wardlaw of St Andrews on the country's east coast. Black Douglas resentment was building at the activities of Orkney and Fleming, the prince's advisers, who continued to build up their involvement in border politics and foreign relations with England. A decision to send the young prince to France and out of Albany's reach was taken in the winter of 1405-6 yet James's departure from Scotland was unplanned. In February 1406 Bishop Wardlaw released James into the care of Orkney and Fleming who with their large mounted force proceeded from St Andrews through Fife and ultimately into hostile Douglas east Lothian. James's custodians may have been giving a demonstration of royal approval to further their influence in Douglas country. This provoked a fierce response from James Douglas of Balvenie who overtook and killed Fleming while Orkney and James escaped to the comparative safety of the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. They remained on the rock for more than a month before boarding the France bound Maryenknyght, a ship from Danzig. On 22 March 1406 the ship was taken by English pirates off Flamborough Head and James became the captive of King Henry IV of England. Robert III was at Rothesay Castle when he learned of his son's capture and died soon after on 4 April 1406 and was buried in the Stewart foundation abbey of Paisley.
King in captivity:
James, now the uncrowned king of Scotland, began his 18 years of confinement while Albany moved uninterruptedly from his position as lieutenant to that of governor. Albany took James's lands under his own control depriving the king of income and any of the regalia of his position and was referred to in records as 'the son of the late king'. The king did have a small household of Scots paid for by the English-these included Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming's nephew, Alexander Seton and Orkney's brother John Sinclair following the earl's return to Scotland. James maintained some contact with his subjects during his captivity including his cousin Murdoch Stewart, Albany's son, who was also a prisoner since his capture in 1402-initially they were held apart but from 1413 until Murdoch's release in 1415 they were together in the Tower of London and at Windsor Castle.
From 1419 Henry V's treatment of James changed from regarding the Scottish king as a hostage to one more of a guest at his court. James's value to Henry became apparent in 1420 when he accompanied the English king to France where his presence was used against the Scots fighting on the Dauphinist side. Following the English success at the siege of Melun, a town southeast of Paris, the contingent of Scots were hanged for treason against their king. After his return to England, James attended Queen Catherine's coronation on 23 February 1421 receiving an honoured position of sitting immediately on the queen's left at the coronation banquet. In March, Henry began a circuit of the important towns in England as a show of strength during which James was knighted on St Georges day. By July, the two kings were back campaigning in France where James, who clearly approved of Henry's methods of kingship, seemed content to endorse the English king's desire for the French crown. Henry appointed the Duke of Bedford and James as the joint commanders of the siege of Dreux on 18 July 1421 and on 20 August they received the surrender of the garrison. Henry died of dysentery on 31 August 1422 and James escorted the funeral retinue back to England in September.
The infant Henry VI's ruling council was inclined to have James released as soon as possible. In the spring and summer of 1423 their attempts to resolve the issue met with little response from the Scots, clearly influenced by the Albany Stewarts and adherents. From 1421, Archibald, Earl of Douglas had been in regular contact with James and they formed an alliance that was to prove pivotal in 1423. Douglas was the most powerful of the Scottish magnates but his position in the borders and Lothians was threatened-not only did he have to forcibly retake Edinburgh Castle from his own appointed deputy but was probably under pressure from the earls of Angus and March. In return for James's endorsement of Douglas's position in the kingdom, the earl was able to deliver his affinity in the cause of the king's home-coming. Also the relationship between Murdoch-now Duke of Albany following his father's death in 1420-and his own appointee Bishop William Lauder seemed to be under strain perhaps indicating an influential grouping at odds with Murdoch's stance. Pressure from these advocates for the king almost certainly compelled Murdoch to agree to a general council in August 1423 when it was agreed that an embassy should be sent to England to negotiate James's release. James's relationship with the House of Lancaster changed in February 1423 when he married Joan Beaufort, a cousin of Henry VI and the niece of Thomas, Duke of Exeter and Henry, Bishop of Winchester. A ransom treaty of 60,000 marks (less a dowery remittance of 10,000 marks) was agreed at Durham on 28 March 1424 to which James attached his own seal. The king and his queen accompanied by an escort of English and Scottish nobles then proceeded to Melrose Abbey arriving on 5 April where he met Albany to receive the governor's seal of office.
James returned to a Scotland whose economy was in deep recession and where nobles such as James Douglas of Balvenie, owed emoluments for their national appointments, were allowed to receive income from customs revenue-by 1422 Albany's fees for his governorship had also been in arrears. It was against this backdrop that James's coronation took place at Scone on 21 May 1424. At his coronation parliament the king-probably with the intent of building loyalty to the crown among the political community-knighted 18 prominent nobles including Albany's son Alexander Stewart. Called primarily to discuss issues surrounding the finance of the ransom payments, the parliament heard James underline his position and authority as monarch. He ensured the passing of legislation designed to substantially improve crown income by revoking the patronage of royal predecessors and guardians- principally, the grants from the customs to the earls of Douglas and Mar who were each removing large sums. Despite this, James was still dependent on the nobility, especially Douglas, for their support and initially adopted a non-confrontational stance. The early exception to this was Walter Stewart, Albany's son. Walter was the heir to the earldom of Lennox and had been in open revolt against his father during 1423 for not giving way to his younger brother Alexander for this title and also disagreed with his father's acquiescence to the return of James to Scotland. With Duke Murdoch's seeming approval, James had Walter arrested on 13 May 1424 and imprisoned on the Bass Rock. At this stage, it is probable that the king felt unable to move against the rest of the Albany Stewarts while Murdoch's brother, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Douglas were fighting the English on the Dauphinist cause in France. Buchan, a leader with an international reputation, commanded the large Scottish army but both he and Douglas fell at the Battle of Verneuil in August 1424 and the Scottish host routed-the loss of these Albany allies with their fighting force left Murdoch politically exposed.
Ruthless and acquisitive:
Douglas's death at Verneuill was to weaken the position of his son Archibald, the 5th earl. On 12 October 1424, the king and Archibald met at Melrose Abbey ostensibly to agree the appointment of John Fogo, a monk of Melrose, to the abbacy. The meeting may also have been intended as an official acceptance of Douglas but it signalled a change in the Black Douglas predominance vis-a-vis the crown and other nobles. Important Douglas allies died in France and some of their heirs realigned with rival nobles through blood ties while at the same time Douglas experienced a loosening of allegiances in the Lothians and the loss of his power base of Edinburgh Castle all served to improve James's position. Despite this, James continued to retain Black Douglas support allowing him to begin a campaign of political alienation of Albany and his family. The king's rancor directed at Duke Murdoch had its roots in the past-Duke Robert was responsible for his brother David's death and neither Robert nor Murdoch exerted themselves in negotiating James's release and must have left the king with the suspicion that they held aspirations for the throne itself. Buchan's lands did not fall to the Albany Stewarts but were forfeited by the crown, Albany's father-in-law, Duncan, Earl of Lennox was imprisoned and in December the duke's main ally Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar settled his differences with the king. An acrimonious sitting of parliament in March 1425 precipitated the arrest of Murdoch, Isabella, his wife, and his son Alexander-of Albany's other sons Walter was already in prison and James, his youngest, also known as James the Fat, escaped into the Lennox.
James the Fat led the men of Lennox and Argyll in open rebellion against the crown and this may have been what the king needed to bring a charge of treason against the Albany Stewarts. Murdoch, his sons Walter and Alexander and Duncan, Earl of Lennox were in Stirling Castle for their trial on 18 May at a specially convened parliament. An assize of seven earls and fourteen lesser nobles heard the evidence that linked the prisoners to the rebellion in the Lennox-the four men were condemned, Walter on 24 May and the others on 25 May and immediately beheaded in 'front of the castle'. James demonstrated a ruthless and avaricious side to his nature in the destruction of his close family, the Albany Stewarts, that yielded the three forfeited earldoms of Fife, Menteith and Lennox. An enquiry set up by James in 1424 into the dispersal of crown estates since the reign of Robert I exposed legal defects in a number of transactions where the earldoms of Mar, March and Strathearn together with the Black Douglas lordships of Selkirk and Wigtown were found to be problematic-Strathearn and March were forfeited in 1427 and 1435 respectively. Mar was forfeited in 1435 on the earl's death without heir which also meant that the lordships of Garioch and Badenoch reverted to the crown. James sought to boost his income further through taxation and succeeded in getting parliament to pass legislation in 1424 for a tax to go towards paying off the ransom-£26,000 was raised but James sent only £12,000 to England. By 1429, James stopped the ransom payments completely and used the remainder of the taxation on buying canons and luxury goods from Flanders. Following a fire in the castle of Linlithgow in 1425, funds were also diverted to the building of Linlithgow Palace which continued until James's death in 1437. This absorbed an estimated one tenth of royal income.
Relations with the church:
In July 1428, the king convened a general council at Perth aimed at obtaining finance for an expedition to the Highlands against the semi-autonomous Lord of the Isles. The council initially resisted granting the funds but with the powerful Earls of Mar and Atholl supporting James it eventually acquiesced to the king’s wishes. Although it seemed that the king did not intend an all-out attack on the northern Gaels, he did intend to use some force to bring them under royal authority.He told the assembly:
"I shall go and see whether they have fulfilled the required service; I shall go I say and I will not return while they default. I will chain them so that they are unable to stand and lie beneath my feet."
The leaders of the Gaelic kindreds in the north and west were summoned by James ostensibly to a sitting of parliament in Inverness. Of those assembled the king arrested around 50 of them including Alexander, the third Lord of the Isles and his mother, Mary, Countess of Ross around 24 August. A few were executed but the remainder, with the exception of Alexander and his mother, quickly released. During Alexander’s captivity James attempted to split Clan Donald-Alexander's uncle John Mór was approached by an agent of the king to take the clan leadership but his refusal to have any dealings with the king while his nephew was held prisoner led to John Mór's attempted arrest and and death. The king's need for strong and friendly leadership in the west and north led him to pursue a policy of rapprochement with Alexander and, hoping that he would now become a loyal servant of the crown, James released him. Alexander, probably under pressure from his close kinsmen Donald Balloch, John Mór's son, and Alasdair Carrach of Lochaber, led a rebellion attacking the castle and burgh of Inverness in spring 1429. The crisis deepened when a fleet from the Lordship was dispatched to bring James the Fat back from Ulster 'to convey him home that he might be king'. With James’s intention to form an alliance with the Ulster O'Donnells of Tyreconnell against the MacDonalds, the English became distrustful of the Scottish king’s motives and themselves tried to bring James the Fat to England. Before he could become an active player, James the Fat died suddenly releasing James to prepare for decisive action against the Lordship. The armies met on 21 June in Lochaber and Alexander, suffering the defection of Clan Chattan (the MacKintoshes) and Clan Cameron, was heavily defeated. Alexander escaped probably to Islay but James continued his assault on the Lordship by taking the strongholds of Dingwall and Urquharts castles in July. The king pushed home his advantage when an army reinforced with artillery was dispatched to the isles. Alexander probably realised that his position was hopeless when he tried to negotiate his terms of surrender but James demanded and received his total submission. From August 1429 the king delegated royal authority for the keeping of the peace in the north and west to Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. The Islesmen rose again in September 1431 and inflicted two important defeats on the king's men-Mar's army was beaten at Inverlochy and Angus Moray’s in a fierce battle near Tongue in Caithness. This was a serious setback for James and his credibility was seriously damaged. In 1431, before the September uprising, the king had arrested two of his nephews, John Kennedy of Carrick and Archibald, Earl of Douglas possibly as a result of a conflict between John and his uncle, Thomas Kennedy in which Douglas may have become involved. Tensions in the country had been raised further following Douglas's arrest and it was against this background that James called for parliament to sit at Perth on 15 October to seek funding for further conflict with the Lordship. Before that, on 29 September, James acted to reduce the unrest by freeing Douglas and likely made his release conditional on his support at the resumption of the Perth parliament. Parliament was in no mood to allow James unconditional backing-he was allowed a tax for his Highland campaign but parliament retained full control over the levy. The rules parliament attached to the taxation indicated a robust stand against further conflict in the north and probably led to the turnaround that took place on 22 October when the king 'forgave the offence of each earl, namely Douglas and Ross [i.e. Alexander]'. For Douglas this was a formal acknowledgement of his having been freed three weeks earlier but for Alexander this was a total reversal of crown policy towards the Lordship. Four summer campaigns against the Lordship were now officially at an end and James's wishes had effectively been blocked by parliament.
Foreign policy:
In 1424 when Henry VI's ruling council released James it expected the Scottish king to be compliant, to keep the peace between the kingdoms and to stop Scottish support for France but by 1430 he would emerge as a confident and independent minded European prince. The only real points of issue between the two countries were the ransom payments and the renewal of the truce due to expire in 1430. In 1428 after setbacks on the battlefield Charles VII of France sent a distinguished embassy led by Renault of Chartres, Archbishop of Rheims to Scotland to persuade James to renew the alliance-the terms were to include the marriage of the princess Margaret to Louis the Dauphin of France and a gift of the county of Saintonge to James. The ratification of the treaty by Charles took place in October 1428 and James, now with the intended marriage of his daughter into the French royal family and the possession of French lands, had his political importance in Europe boosted.
The effectiveness of the Auld Alliance with France had virtually ceased after Verneuil and its renewal in 1428 did not alter that-James adopted a much more non-aligned position with England, France and Burgandy while at the same time opening up diplomatic contacts with Aragon, Austria, Castile, Denmark, Milan, Naples and the Vatican. Generally, Scotto-English relations were relatively amiable and an extension of the truce until 1436 helped the English cause in France and the promises made in 1428 of a Scottish army to help Charles VII and the marriage of James's eldest daughter to the French king's son Louis were unrealised. The truce with England expired in May 1436 but James's perception of the Anglo-French conflict changed following a realignment of the combatants. The breakdown of the talks between England and France in 1435 precipitated an alliance between Burgundy and France and a request from France for Scottish involvement in the war and for the fulfillment of the promised marriage of Princess Margaret to the Dauphin. In the spring of 1436 Princess Margaret sailed to France and in August Scotland entered the war with James leading a large army to lay siege to the English enclave of Roxburgh Castle. The campaign was to prove pivotal for James. The Book of Pluscarden describes ' a detestable split and most unworthy difference arising from jealosy ' within the Scottish camp and the historian Michael Brown explains that a contemporary source has James appointing his young and inexperienced cousin Robert Stewart of Atholl as the constable of the host ahead of the experienced march wardens the earls of Douglas and Angus. Brown informs that both earls possessed considerable local interests and that the effects of such a large army living off the land may have created considerable resentment and hostility in the area. When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated-a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots 'had fled wretchedly and ignominiously'-but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.
Assassination:
... Yitte dowte I nott but theat yee schulle see the daye and tyme that ye schulle pray for my sowle, for the grete good that I have done to yow, and to all this reume of Scotteland, that I have thus slayne and deliverde yow of so crewell a tyrant...
... Yet I do not doubt but that you shall see the day and time that you shall pray for my soul, for the great good that I have done to you, and to all in this realm of Scotland, that I have thus slain and delivered you of so cruel a tyrant...
- Sir Robert Graham
The retreat from Roxburgh exposed the king to questions regarding his control over his subjects, his military competence and his diplomatic abilities yet he remained determined to continue with the war against England. Just two months after the Roxburgh debacle, James called a general council in October 1436 to finance further hostilities through more taxation. The estates firmly resisted this and their opposition was articulated by their speaker Sir Robert Graham, a former Albany attendant and a servant of the king's uncle, Walter Stewart earl of Atholl. The council then witnessed an unsuccessful attempt by Graham to arrest the king resulting in the knight's imprisonment followed by banishment but James did not see Graham's actions as part of an extended threat. In February 1437 James lodged at the Blackfriars monastery on the outskirts of Perth accompanied by the queen but separated from most of their servants. The king's cousin Sir Robert Stewart, heir to his grandfather Walter, Earl of Atholl, was chamberlain of the royal household and used his privileged position to allow a small band of former Albany adherents led by Robert Graham to enter the building. James was alerted to the men's presence after servants discovered their approach giving the king time to hide in a sewer tunnel but with its exit recently blocked off James was trapped and killed. Although wounded, the queen managed to escape and sent a directive ahead to Edinburgh for the now James II to be shielded from any widening of the conspiracy and had the boy king's custodian, the pro-Atholl John Spens, removed from his post and replaced by the trusted John Balfour. The regicide of James I came so unexpectedly that a period of disorder took hold before James II was crowned at Holyrood Abbey on 25 March 1437 but it was not until early May that the main conspirators, Walter of Atholl, his grandson Robert Stewart and Robert Graham were gruesomely executed.
Historiography:
Early:
The king, was of medium height, a little on the short side, with a well-proportioned body and large bones, strong limbed and unbelievably active, so that he . . . would challenge any one of his magnates of any size to wrestle with him.
- Walter Bower, Abbot of Inchcolm (written c.1424)
... [the king was] stocky and weighed down with fat [with] clear and piercing eyes
- future Pope Pius II, Eneas Silvius Piccolomini (written 1435)
Michael Brown provides an insight into what contemporaries thought of James I. Walter Bower abbot of Inchcolm lists James's accomplishments as a musician-'not just as an enthusiastic amateur' but a master, 'another Orpheus.' His mastery included the organ, drum, flute and lyre. James's sporting abilities such as wrestling, hammer throwing, archery and jousting are also listed by Bower. He described James as possessing an 'eagerness' in 'literary composition and writing', the best known of which is his love poem, The Kingis Quair. Bower characterised the king as 'a tower, a lion, a light, a jewel, a pillar and a leader' and was 'our law giver king' who ended the 'thieving, dishonest conduct and plundering'. Brown also writes of how Bower described the king as capable of stabbing a near relative through the hand for creating a disturbance at court. He describes how the abbot was generally supportive of James but that he and others' regretted the demise of the Albany Stewarts and that he was confounded by James's greed for territory and wealth. Although Bower didn't dwell at length on the negative aspects of James's character he alluded to the dismay of even those close to the king at his harsh regime. Brown also provides a contemporary contrasting view to Bower's when he gives John Shirley's translated account of the events leading up to James's murder in the work The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis. This chronicle provided an accurate narrative of politics in Scotland and which must have depended upon knowledgeable witnesses. The Dethe describes James as 'tyrannous' and whose actions were motivated by revenge and 'covetise . . . than for anny laweful cawse'. Brown describes how Shirley agrees with Bower when discussing the Albany Stewarts when he wrote that the Albanys 'whos dethe the people of the land sore grutched and mowrned'. Writing nearly a century later both the chroniclers John Mair and Hector Boece relied extensively on Bower for their own narratives. They described James as the embodiment of good monarchy with Mair's eulogy that James '...indeed excelled by far in virtue his father, grandfather and his great-grandfather nor will I give precedence over the first James to any of the Stewarts' while Boece in similar vein calls James the 'maist vertuous Prince that evir was afoir his days'. According to Brown, late in the 16th century the early historians George Buchanan and Bishop John Lesley from opposite ends of the religious spectrum both looked favourably on James's reign but were uneasily mindful of an enduring aggressive history regarding the king.
Modern:
The first 20th century history of James I was written by E.W.M. Balfour-Melville in 1936 and continued the theme of James as the strong upholder of law and order and when describing Albany's trial and execution he writes 'the King had proved that high rank was no defence for lawlessness; the crown was enriched by the revenues of Fife, Menteith and Lennox'. Balfour-Melville views James as a lawmaker and a 'reformer' whose legislation was aimed at not only increasing the position of the king but of parliament. Michael Lynch describes how James's positive reputation began immediately after his death when the Bishop of Urbino kissed James's wounds and declared him to be a martyr. He suggests that the praise of the pro-James Scottish chroniclers and also of some modern historians to 'find strong king's to applaud' should not diminish the extent of parliament's ability to restrain the king nor minimise the confrontation that took place between James and a more self-assured parliament. Alexander Grant repudiates James's reputation as the 'law giver' and explains that nearly all of the king's legislation were reconstructs of laws laid down by previous monarchs and concludes that the notion of James's return to Scotland in 1424 was a sea change in the development of Scots law is 'an exaggeration'. Stephen Boardman takes the view that by the time of his death James had succeeded in breaking down the constraints on the exercise of royal authority which were rooted in the 'settlement of the kingdom' by Robert II. Christine McGladdery describes how opposing views were the result of 'competing propaganda after the murder'. To those who were glad to see the king dead, James was a tyrant who without reason aggressively assailed the nobility imposing forfeiture on their estates and who 'failed to deliver justice to his people'. The opposite viewpoint was that the king was seen as providing 'strong leadership against magnate excesses' and that his demise 'was a disaster' that left the people to put up with the years 'of consequent faction fighting'. She writes that James was the example for the Stewart kings to follow by putting Scotland securely into a European setting. Michael Brown describes James as an 'able, aggressive and opportunistic politician' whose chief aim was to establish a monarchy that had stature and was free from the confrontations that had beset his father's reign. He characterises James as 'capable of highly effective short-term interventions' yet had failed to have had enduring political domination and never achieved a position of unqualified authority. Brown writes that James had come to power after 'fifty years when kings looked like magnates and magnates acted like kings' and succeeded in completely changing both the aims and outlook of the monarchy but at the cost of his own life-his policy of reducing the power and influence of the magnates, continued by his son James II, led to a more subordinate nobility.
Fictional portrayals:
James I has been depicted in historical novels and short stories. They include:
The Caged Lion (1870) by Charlotte Mary Yonge. The novel depicts the captivity of James I in the Kingdom of England, with the main events taking place in 1421-1422. A friendly relationship with Henry V of England is prominently featured. Catherine of Valois and Richard Whittington are the most prominent among the secondary characters.
A King's Tragedy (1905) by May Wynne. The novel depicts events of the years 1436-1437. The action leads to the assassination of James I. Catherine Douglas is among the characters featured.
Lion Let Loose (1967) by Nigel Tranter. Covers the life of James I from c. 1405 to his death in 1437.
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Nick Herbert – 2012 Speech on Police Transformation
Below is the text of the speech made by Nick Herbert, the then Minister for Policing, Fire and Criminal Justice and Victims, on 26 January 2012.
Thank you for inviting me to speak once again at a CityForum event.
A year ago at CityForum, I set out why the challenge of maintaining and improving policing as budgets fall was manageable – provided that we did not treat this as ‘business as usual’. I argued that with transformational change in the way police forces work, savings of over £2 billion a year were possible – exceeding the reductions in police funding. I said that we could make the police service stronger even at it becomes leaner.
The strategy I set out was threefold: to improve frontline services, spend the minimum on other functions, and from the start think about re-shaping service through long-term change rather than tactical salami-slicing.
Today I want to to set out the ways in which the service is responding to that challenge: how we, at a national level, are working hard to support the service in delivering that transformation, through an ambitious and long overdue package of reforms that we need a continued and concerted drive to deliver further transformation in policing, focusing not simply on doing the same for less, but working towards improved outcomes, reducing crime and keeping the public safe
Dealing with the deficit
The context remains the same. We need to deal with the deficit and that means reducing public spending. I am not going to rehearse the arguments why. But I will observe that there is a cross-party consensus that police spending must be reduced. The only argument is by how much – but even the official opposition accepts that there need to be savings of over £1 billion a year. In any case, police forces will be smaller, with fewer officers and staff.
In asking police forces to accept their share of the burden, we are driven by a determination to deal with the deficit and maintain market confidence in our economy. We are not taking tough decisions because we want to cut police budgets, but because we believe we have to.
Pay reform and restraint
Our aim has been to do everything that we can to support forces to drive out cost. Since pay accounts for the large majority of police spending, the pay bill is a key issue.
We have always said that pay reform and restraint must form part of the package. We are not, as some have suggested, singling the police out – we are having to make difficult decisions about pay right across the public sector.
We recognise that police officers carry out difficult and sometimes dangerous work, and that they should be rewarded fairly for what they do. We also believe it is necessary to ensure modern pay and conditions that reflect the demands of policing today.
Police officers and staff are, understandably, concerned about the proposed changes, but let me say here that we absolutely want to ensure that any changes are fair. That is why we are giving very careful consideration to the recommendations made by the police arbitration tribunal earlier this month.
Non-pay savings
Government also has a role in helping forces to reduce their non-pay bill, which still amounts to some £3.5 billion, or around one quarter of total revenue and capital spend. So we have also been focusing on how the police can secure better IT and procurement. I will outline significant changes in these areas later in my speech.
But the bulk of the work is for forces themselves to do – changing how they operate to become as efficient and effective across the board as the best of their peers, in frontline services, and in the back and middle office services that support them.
HMIC’s adapting to austerity report last summer showed that forces had begun work on seriously and carefully making or exceeding the required savings. But the report also showed that there was more to do. The budget gap of unidentified savings in each force is closing, but as it does so and changes are implemented, the focus must be on ensuring that levels of public services are maintained.
The role of government
So if forces themselves are in the lead in driving the necessary savings, what is the role of government?
Well, first of all, we need to get the structures right to ensure that policing is organised to meet the challenges. Our agenda across government is to return power to people and communities, driving up standards in the public sector through greater accountability and a focus on outcomes rather than central direction and bureaucratic micromanagement.
So in November, we will see the election of the first police and crime commissioners. A strong link from the police organisation as a whole to the public is essential if transformational change in policing is to be seen through. And I believe that, far from being parochial or opposed to radical change in how services are delivered, police and crime commissioners will be strongly motivated to drive better value for money because they will want to protect frontline services.
We also want to see greater focus and accountability in the national bodies that support policing, where possible with ownership being taken by the profession. So this year the National Policing Improvement Agency will give way to a new IT company and a new police professional body. These will each play key, though very different, roles in supporting forces to improve value for money.
HMIC is becoming more independent, with a sharp focus on value for money as it shines a light on performance, acting in the public interest and telling the truth about what forces are doing – as it did in its crime report yesterday.
What of the Home Office?
The days of performance management and Whitehall intervention are gone. But that doesn’t mean that we are standing idly by.
Last year we had a healthy discussion with service leaders about the role of the centre – by which I mean the Home Office, government more widely, and the national policing bodies – in supporting forces to meet this challenge.
As a result we put in place a policing value for money unit in the Home Office to work with the service in taking forward a national strategy.
We agreed that the priorities should be: * First, to help enable forces to put in place better, more cost effective, IT arrangements * Second, on procurement, to use the national buying power of the police service – indeed the whole public sector – to do things cheaper and better * Third, to explore with the service – and enable – changes to how support services are delivered * Fourth, to support forces develop and implement transformational change in their businesses
Fundamentally, this is about defining a relationship between the national and local levels where the right balance is struck between convergence, interoperability and maximising economies of scale – on the one hand – and enabling local innovation, local decision-making and local flexibility, on the other.
The paradox of policing policy under the last government was that it interfered far too much in how local policing should be conducted, but didn’t focus on the national issues where a stronger grip or collaboration was required. To use the business expression, we need ‘tight-loose’ leadership – allowing new discretion and freedom for professional and local decision-making, and focusing the role of the centre on the proper issues.
So, while we are sweeping away central targets, returning discretion to police professionals, and giving newly elected police and crime commissioners the power to set local strategic priorities, we have also introduced new powers under the police reform & social responsibility act to ensure that forces work effectively together.
Next year the new national crime agency will strengthen the fight against serious and organised crime, and we have introduced, initially in shadow form, a new strategic policing requirement to ensure that forces work together to meet national threats.
We are working with suppliers and across the police service to ensure that policing is treated as a single client – with the clear benefits of better service at reduced cost.
And we have put new duties on forces to collaborate – duties which we will back up with mandatory arrangements if we have to.
National Police Air Service
Last year at CityForum I pointed out that the proposed national police air service was a good example of collaboration, saving £15 million a year and resulting in a better co-ordinated and more consistently available service.
Led by chief constable Alex Marshall, the plan has the full support of ACPO and will give all forces access to helicopter support 24 hours a day, 365 days year – in contrast to the current system which sees some force helicopters grounded for days a time while they are being repaired.
I said that if the police service’s operational leaders had concluded that this was the way forward, I hoped and expected that police authorities would rapidly endorse the proposals.
Chief officers of all forces in England and Wales have given their support to the proposal, as have the overwhelming majority of police authorities in principle.
But to get the full benefits, the commitment of the whole of the police service in England and Wales is needed.
As I said to the CityForum, the time for talking about collaboration, and the era of police fiefdoms, is over.
I am, in exceptional cases of last resort, prepared to mandate where a small minority of authorities or forces create a barrier to significant savings.
I am therefore announcing today that I intend to make an order requiring the police service to collaborate in the provision of air support. This order will be made using the new powers brought in by the police reform & social responsibility act. It will require all authorities and forces to collaborate in the provision of air support through a single collaboration agreement for England and Wales.
Improving police IT
The national police air service hasn’t been a top-down, directed government project. It’s been led by chief constables with support from the centre. We are helping to secure the end, but we aren’t directing the means.
The same should apply to police IT.
It is critical to the success of the service in meeting the spending challenge that we take the right approach.
Forces need to get better and more seamless services for their officers and staff, for example avoiding time-wasting re-keying of the same data into different systems.
And police IT should also enable closer and more effective working with other criminal justice agencies. At present, the progression of cases relies too heavily on paper and physical media being passed between agencies, building unnecessary cost, duplication and delay into the system.
Progress has been made
Criminal justice agencies have been working in close partnership at a national level to deliver digital working across the CJS by April 2012, and real change is being delivered at pace, but there is more to do.
Forces have already made substantial savings in IT. We’ve seen police spend fall by some £73 million last year compared with 2009/10, but there are opportunities for further savings to be made.
We are seeing a deepening of voluntary collaboration on IT – through wide partnerships of forces as exemplified by the athena project, and through bilateral collaboration, for example in South Yorkshire and Humberside.
But we have to ask ourselves why, despite the grand plans and record levels of spending, police IT has, in the main, remained so stubbornly disjointed, with 2,000 systems across the 43 forces.
We need a new approach, driven by forces themselves, with greater accountability. The best and quickest approach to improving police IT does not involve us specifying exactly the IT systems all forces should buy. We can take that approach successfully for some IT commodities, but not for complex systems and services, where dealing with the spider web of legacy systems in one fell swoop simply is not feasible.
This is why the government last year announced the intention to help the police create a new company which would provide forces with support relating to procurement, implementation and contract management for ICT, related business change and outsourcing services.
While it is not envisaged that the company should direct force IT spend, it would have the capability to assist forces by negotiating better prices for IT services, providing technical knowledge and insight and, over time, reducing the number of procurement specialists and IT professionals employed by forces.
The objective of the new company would be to enable a more commercial and efficient approach to police IT provision, using economies of scale and market forces to ensure more efficient management of IT expenditure and to save the public money.
This will be mirrored by a re-calibration of the police service’s information systems improvement strategy, which will remain as an enabler of voluntary collaboration between forces, and which will be owned directly by the service rather than by the IT company.
By contrast, when it comes to non-IT procurement and the procurement of IT commodities, the service needs to use its buying power together – and government leadership can assist in this.
The work started by the NPIA in creating national purchasing frameworks has been of vital importance in leveraging better purchasing power by the police service acting collectively.
Last year, we put in place the first mandatory frameworks, covering some key services – police cars, body armour and a wider range of commodity IT hardware and software. This will ensure that all forces use the specified frameworks and so the full potential for savings in these categories – £27m – can be achieved by 2014/15.
We will now consult on further regulations to specify frameworks to be used by the service when buying further equipment – vehicle light bars and digital interviewing equipment. The consultation will also cover regulations on frameworks for some services, particularly translation and interpretation – where there is the opportunity to join up with the procurement of these services for the courts – mobile telephony, some consultancy, e-learning and a police procurement hub to support more effective procurement.
We are already seeing tangible success, with savings of £34m so far, reported through the Collaborative Police Procurement Programme – a total projected to rise to £70m by the end of this financial year. These savings include spending volume reductions as well as price savings and we are on track to see this figure rise to savings of at least £200m per year by 2014/15.
I also said that we would encourage the service to behave as a single client, and we’ve brought together industry and the service in March last year to reinforce this message and to understand what the service needs in order to be a more intelligent customer. Since then, there has been work with a range of suppliers, gathering management information about activity across the service.
This has been useful work and as one example, helped us to identify a supplier who holds over 1,500 individual contracts with the 43 forces, and where prices charged are significantly higher than those received in other areas of the public sector. We’ve since worked with this supplier to rationalise the service and pricing across the police service and where possible, give money back to forces.
The fourth area we identified for savings was in support services.
Forces shouldn’t be constrained by the way things have been done in the past. In seeking better service at reduced cost, they should look across the range of possibilities, including collaboration with other forces or public services, partnering with private sector providers and establishing mutuals, and work out what best fits their local circumstances.
I made clear last year that, from the government’s point of view, there is no ideological barrier to the engagement of the private sector in delivering improved policing services.
New thinking and design should not be limited to the back and middle office functions. It should also focus on how frontline services could be reconfigured.
Greater Manchester police, for example, have carried out a thorough review of their support functions and been able to deliver £62m in year-on-year savings, and importantly, release 348 police officer posts from these roles.
This review has additionally seen the introduction of significant innovations that have led to improvements in service delivery in areas such as the investigation of fraud and the policing of major events.
In many areas public services are jointly looking at the public asset base as a way of making significant savings. Savings of around a fifth are possible by public sector partners working across an area and treating all the buildings as if they have a single owner.
In Worcestershire, for example, the blue light services are coming together in a single centre. Sussex police are leading the partnership approach in East Sussex, chairing the joint management board of partners and identifying significant savings for the whole public sector in the County.
The government has been supporting Surrey and West Midlands forces and authorities in a joint programme to explore the value of business partnering. The procurement notice was published on the official journal of the European Union on Tuesday this week which should lead to a contract in Spring next year.
The areas of service which could be included is wide, including a range of activities in or supporting frontline policing, including dealing with incidents, supporting victims, protecting individuals at risk and providing specialist services.
This is not about traditional outsourcing, but about building a new strategic relationship between forces and the private sector. By harnessing private sector innovation, specialist skills and economies of scale, forces can transform the way they deliver services and improve outcomes for the public. Every police authority in England and Wales bar one is named on the procurement notice, allowing other forces to join in should they choose to do so.
And, under their own steam, Lincolnshire are about to sign a £200m contract over ten years with G4S. This contract for support services is available to those other forces named on the procurement notice.
These are highly significant developments, opening up the possibility of new savings across policing. The published potential value of the Surrey/West Midlands contract is between £300m and £3.5bn. Other forces need not be unnecessary pioneers of support service delivery models. Creating scale and volume within arrangements with the private sector will mean better prices. And that means better value for the taxpayer.
Protecting the frontline
Collaboration, shared services, improved IT, collective procurement and business partnering are not ends in themselves. They are the means by which police forces can reconfigure their organisations to drive savings, improve service delivery and protect the frontline.
The forces making these transformational changes are showing that budget reductions, while challenging, are also a spur to new thinking and innovation.
And they are disproving the weary claim that reductions in spending will inevitably harm public services.
The latest official statistics on police numbers are published today. We already know that the police workforce has been reducing from its peak.
But as HMIC revealed, a third of the police workforce – including some 25,000 police officers, or just under a fifth of the total – were employed in back or middle offices. There is plenty of scope to make savings while protecting the frontline.
And this is what is happening. HMIC’s most recent data is showing that the proportion of the policing workforce in the frontline is expected to rise significantly over the spending review period.
But, as I constantly repeat, the strength and quality of frontline policing cannot, and should not, be measured simply in terms of officer numbers.
What matters is not the total number of officers employed, but how officers are deployed.
HMIC found that, on average, police forces had more officers visible and available on a Monday morning than on a Friday night.
The best forces had twice the visibility and availability of those at the bottom of the table.
So spending isn’t the sole issue. By changing shift patterns, targeting resources better, reducing time-wasting bureaucracy, and using initiatives such as hotspots or problem-oriented policing, forces can not only continue to deliver within reduced budgets – they can continue to cut crime.
And this isn’t conjecture.
The latest official crime figures showed no statistical correlation between force strengths and local crime rates. Some forces had larger than average falls in officer numbers and larger than average falls in crime.
Claims that crime is bound to rise because overall police numbers are falling are simplistic and unfounded.
The home affairs select committee said last February: ‘We accept that there is no simple relationship between numbers of police officers and levels of crime.’
The idea that only higher spending and more inputs will deliver better policing is discredited.
Examples of transformation
Hampshire, for example, has delivered significant reductions in crime in recent years, whilst also achieving considerable savings – reaching £20m in 2011 alone, while having a public commitment to retain May 2010 levels of local visible policing. Their work in rooting out unnecessary bureaucracy has made much use of mobile data terminals, liberating officers from their desks.
In Thames Valley, the force’s productivity strategy has reduced business support costs such as HR by amalgamating all the small units into one shared service and encouraging self-service. They have removed a layer of management and worked hard at collaboration with other forces. Together this has meant that in the current financial year, not only have they made over £15m of savings, they have also been able to redeploy 35 officers to frontline roles in neighbourhoods or patrol. And I know they have ambitions to redeploy a further 100 officers to the frontline over the next two years.
The force and authority work closely together and have applied a considered, thoughtful and evidence-based approach to the development of a new operational policing model, which is designed to prioritise neighbourhood policing.
The Metropolitan Police’s commitment to single patrolling where possible has meant that, in the past year, they have carried out, on average, more than 350 extra patrols every day across the Capital.
Kent police have led a comprehensive review of the public’s demand for policing services, with a view to matching staffing levels with that demand and increasing police officer availability at key times.
They have re-structured the way in which they provide policing services and, together with savings from collaboration with Essex Police, streamlining and rationalising support services and re-aligning some of their specialist policing functions, they have been able to deploy more officers onto uniformed street patrols.
This has increased police visibility with the public, the headcount of neighbourhood officers and staff has increased by 50 per cent since last November, and public satisfaction levels have increased.
Leadership and culture in a time of transformation
The same story is being repeated across the country. Police leaders at all ranks are displaying the ‘can-do’ attitude which marks the service, and is such a credit to it.
No-one is saying that the challenge is straightforward, or that change is easy.
We must remember that police staff have been losing their jobs and some officers with more than 30 years’ service have been retired.
When budgets are tight, hard working officers and staff are being asked to make big changes and sometimes to do more. But whenever I visit a force or talk to officers, I am constantly impressed by their determination to deliver.
For all the focus on structures and processes, people are at the heart of our public services, and people will effect the successful transformation of policing. And how the service leads its people to work in new ways will be critical to success in the years ahead.
That is why I believe the new professional body for policing will be so important. It will help to identify and equip the police leaders of the future. But it will also foster the professionalism which will underpin an important cultural change, enabling time-wasting bureaucracy to be replaced by the exercise of discretion and judgment by officers.
A year ago, I concluded my speech by saying that I didn’t underestimate the challenge facing forces to deliver savings and a better service through transformational change, but I was absolutely confident that forces could rise to it.
I believe they can, and they have. The service is well on its way to delivering the savings of over £2 billion which are required. But, equally importantly, it has also begun the process of transformation that will ensure that forces can improve services while lowering cost.
The government is playing its part with support through pay reform, collective procurement, collaboration and business partnering. We are backing the drive against bureaucracy and leading a new approach to delivering better IT.
But, in the end, the necessary change will come from forces.
I commend the chief constables and teams who are showing leadership and rising to this challenge.
There is more to do and further to go.
But I am confident that with transformational change, we are beginning to build a modern, flexible and responsive police service, delivering value for money for the taxpayer, and fighting crime.
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Awatef El Idrissi Boukhris
Awatef El Idrissi Boukhris is a Moroccan poet and novelist. She was born in Salé, a city in North-western Morocco, on the right bank of the Bouregreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat. She studied in an Interpreter’s school in Mons, Belgium and is now working as a teacher of English. She writes in both French and English. She has to her credit two poetry collections; one in English and another in French and a novel written in French too. She also writes stories for the youth in both French and English. In addition to that, she has been a cultural correspondent for the cultural paper ‘Firihab Aljamiaa’ for six years where she had her poems and articles published. She is a member of ‘The Bouregreg Association’ as well as a founding member and the ex-treasurer of ‘The League of Moroccan Women Writers’. She is also a founding member of ‘Le Regroupement des Poètes Francophone Engagés pour La liberté et la Paix’ a virtual group that promotes freedom and peace through poetry in French. She has taken part in four anthologies in French with le R.P.F.E.L.P and another one with Moroccan writers about the Maghreb Union. She took part in many cultural meetings; the last one was in Tetuan North of Morocco during the International Encounter of Women Writers (EIDE) where she presented her novel and read her poetry. She got two poetry prizes one in 2010 by the Delegation of Salé and another one in 2011 at the third National Poetry Festival organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2015 she got homage from the Sala Almoustaqbal Association as one of the creative women in her hometown.
Elizabeta Pavlovska
Elizabeta Pavlovska was born in 15 June , 1972 in Kumanovo, Macedonia., she is considered as one of the most original young voices of modern Macedonian poetry, is a member of various welfare association at her native. She is as a gift of God those who is writing from the duration of her elementary school period. She participates in many competitions and literary readings, but talent doesn't take it seriously and she is giving preference to other priorities in her life. After years in 2016 she is continued on her first collection of poems in Macedonian language named ,,Love Trembles". She Participates in international competitions and her poems are a part of many common collections of anthologies worldwide. She is a member of the writers' association Culture Dreams Zagreb,Association of Writers Zenit, Montenegro and the Kumanovo club on the poets. She is also a representative of "Lets the Join with Poetry", in Macedonia too. Elizabeta is a multilingual poet, a translator, essayist and researcher in the areas of Macedonia and. Croat Literature. By profession , she is an economist , had graduated from the school of Goce Delchev Kumanovo, Macedonia. She is married and has two children. She loves nature and animals very much. Participates and supports the organization of humanitarian actions.
Hongying Lin
Hongying Lin was born in Taichung City, Taiwan. She has graduated from Soochow University, Taiwan, department of Japanese language and culture in 1995. She bestowed with doctorate degree in Linguistics by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo, Japan on June 2007. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer of Kanda University of International Studies and a freelance translator among Taiwanese, Mandarin and Japanese. She enjoys her class always. Helping students to find their own style to learn a new language is a very inspiring and inspired experience. From 2017, she has been elected as the Vice President of Japanese and Taiwanese Languages and Cultures Association as well as the Vice President of Soochow University Alumini Association of Japan.She devotes herself to the international public welfare activities well these years. Hongying Lin is considered as one of the most original voices of modern Taiwanese literature for extraordinary quality translation. She is known as a poet of multilingual and her poems in Taiwanese Han character and Latin spelling, Mandarin, Japanese and English. She loves nature and often blends the observations into the poems. She also translates poems and publishes in literature or poetry magazines worldwide.
Nesibe Elder Velaj
Nesibe Elder Velaj was born in Konispol of Albania on 12 April 1952 .She has graduated from the University of Luigj Gurakuqi, one of the famous and top ranked university in Albania. Faculty of Law Juridical branch and have defended her title as a lawyer. Nezi worked in the Ministry of Labor for Social Affairs for many years also worked in the General Directorate of Customs of Albania . She is now in retirement. Her activities in the field of literature is only few years that she started, for reasons of engagement at work and family and published a book with poems titled "You are also love". Nezi have two other books in hand During this period her explosion in poetry was overwhelming In the "grandparents" competition , participated in poem "Sleeping honey honey" her poem was ranked in the top ten poems (ranked seventh) At the European Poetry Championship she took part with two poems are "You're one of my love" . Her poetry have attracted the attention of literary critics. she writes on social topics mostly her own land crisis . she has been published in many newspapers, national and international literary journals, and has been included in world anthologies. He has been an active part of Civil Society in Albania. She received training for management, projects and leadership from many international foundations .
Slavka Božović
Slavka Božović was born in 1965 in Nikšić, Montenegro, where she graduated from the School of Economics and lived and worked in her town. She is a great fan of a written poetry and known as a voice of modern Montenegroian literature. From childhood she enjoyed beautiful works of cultural activities and act as a member of recitation poetic sections. Peoples have long been an avid reader and admirer of Slavka Božović s poetry as well as a great admirer of his poetic genius. Slavka is an internationally known poet who publishes her poetry online on such wonderful sites usually . She has a unique way of speaking to his reader when she writes. Slavka is a wizard with words and uses them always to inspire, uplift and enlighten her reader. Her poetry is thought provoking also and gives her readers much to think about, sometimes with regard to life, other times with regard to love, in the quieter moments of their day. She is a member of the Literary Community Vladimir Mijušković - Nikšić, Association of Free Artists of Australia, Association of Writers Zenit . Montenegro etc. She is also a member of the Gold Team of the World Foundation, Munir Mezyed. The works are represented in common collections and anthologies at the regional, both at the European and the world level. She has received several important recognitions: Charter, Plaque, Thank You, Thank You ...At the International Competition in Poetry in 2018 and 2019 in Sinai, Romania won twice the Special Jury Prize, as well as the Certificate , Medal and Diploma, and thus showed that her poetry occupies a highly concentrated place in World Poetry. From an early age she writes from her heart, for her soul. So far, she has published a book "The Case of the Soul" and plans some more as soon. Slavka is a mother of three grown children of Academic Citizens. Her family is the main driving force, strength and support both in the past, and for the future engagement in the field of poetry.
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Workplace WireUncategorizedHuman Rights Tribunal Decision Highlights Difficulties with Adult…
Human Rights Tribunal Decision Highlights Difficulties with Adult ADHD and Accommodation Requests
By: Shane D. Todd and Kevin MacNeill
A recent decision of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (the “Tribunal”) highlights the difficulties that employers may face when dealing with employees claiming accommodation needs based on Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (“ADHD”). At the same time, the decision provides some guidance as to when an employer will or will not be on constructive notice of an employee’s accommodation needs due to mental disabilities. The decision also provides an occasion for employers to reflect on controversy in the psychiatric community over the validity of certain ADHD diagnoses, and how employers may take steps to critically approach doubtful cases in compliance with legal obligations under human rights laws.
The Human Rights Tribunal’s Decision
In Stewart v. Ontario (Government Services), the Applicant was dismissed from employment as a project manager with the Government of Ontario based on her poor performance. After her dismissal, she filed an application with the Tribunal alleging that she was discriminated against on the basis of disability, family status, marital status, age, and association with a person identified by a protected ground. Specifically, she alleged that she was:
harassed because of her age, her spouse’s disability, her own disabilities, and her children’s disabilities;
discriminated against in decisions about vacation timing that adversely and negatively affected her due to her spouse’s disability;
not accommodated with respect to her “processing learning disorder” and ADHD; and,
terminated contrary to the Ontario Human Rights Code (“Code”) because her dismissal was the result of the failure to accommodate her disabilities, or was the culmination of the course of harassment she suffered.
The employer asked the Tribunal to dismiss the application on a preliminary basis, arguing that the Applicant could not prove a link between protected grounds under the Code, and the employer’s alleged actions.
Following a summary hearing, the Tribunal found a sufficient nexus between the employer’s treatment of the Applicant and her disability, marital status, family status and association with a person identified by a protected ground to warrant a full hearing. This was because the Applicant provided some evidence that her manager’s treatment of her changed after she disclosed the fact that her husband and daughters were disabled, and after her manager became aware, or ought to have become aware of the fact that the Applicant was suffering from situational depression. On this latter point, there was evidence that managers referred the Applicant to an employee assistance program after seeing her crying at work.
However, the Tribunal also found that there was no reasonable prospect of success in relation to the Applicant’s allegations that she was discriminated against on the basis of her processing learning disorder and ADHD. The Applicant admitted that she did not disclose the existence of these disorders to her employer, but argued that the employer ought to have known about them because of her behavior at work. Specifically, her expressed preference for visual learning aids, difficulties with pronunciations and acronyms, her statements that her children had learning disabilities, and her performance problems, such as not being organized, being forgetful, failing to stay on task, and displaying poor time management skills. The Applicant noted that these performance issues were documented by the employer in her performance evaluation, and a performance improvement plan. The Applicant argued that the employer’s clear knowledge of these workplace behaviors was sufficient to trigger the duty to inquire about her accommodation needs, as part of the procedural branch of the duty to accommodate.
The Tribunal disagreed. It found that without clearer information connecting the Applicant’s behavior to her disabilities, it was reasonable for the employer to conclude that she was struggling with her job, and that her performance problems were skills-based. This was particularly true in the employer’s workplace where the Applicant’s own assertions established that staff was aware of human rights obligations, and accommodations based on Code protected grounds were routinely requested and granted.
Accordingly, the Tribunal dismissed the allegation that the employer failed to accommodate the Applicant’s processing learning disorder and ADHD. The Tribunal also dismissed the allegations that the termination was the direct result of the failure to accommodate the Applicant’s disability. The Tribunal noted that in the absence of the duty to accommodate, the employer had no obligation under the Code to offer support to help the Applicant improve her performance and thereby avoid termination.
The remainder of the application was ordered to proceed through the Tribunal’s process in the normal course.
The Difficulty with Adult ADHD
The decision is notable because it reaffirms the principle that evidence of performance problems will not necessarily trigger the duty to accommodate, notably when it is not clear that there is a connection between a Code protected ground and the performance problems.
It is also notable because the Applicant relied on adult ADHD as a disability under the Code. Some prominent psychiatrists have suggested that we may be on the cusp of seeing an increase in cases involving adult ADHD based on loosened diagnostic criteria under the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (“DSM-5”), which is used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders.
In his recent book, Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life, psychiatrist Dr. Allen Frances argues that DSM-5 has, without sound scientific basis, loosened diagnostic criteria to an inappropriate degree for a number of disorders, including ADHD. Dr. Frances’ views are significant not only because of his professional qualifications, but also because he was the chair of the task force that developed the fourth edition of the DSM. Dr. Frances writes:
“The easy path to adult ADHD suggested by DSM-5 will mislabel many normal people who are dissatisfied with their ability to concentrate and get their work done, especially when they feel bored and don’t like the work they’re doing.”
Dr. Frances’ comments raise the possibility that some individuals, suffering from everyday loss of concentration and difficulties at work, may be misclassified as having adult ADHD. They also raise the possibility that some people may fake symptoms for an ADHD diagnosis to obtain a perceived advantage from accommodation, or access to stimulant medications for misuse. It is not as farfetched as it sounds. According to recent studies, the symptoms of ADHD can be believably faked, and as many as 1 in 4 adult Americans claiming to have ADHD may be faking it.
What Can an Employer Do When Faced with a Questionable Accommodation Request or Diagnosis?
Employers are generally required to accept a request for accommodation in good faith. This is usually not problematic because most accommodation requests are bona fide and relate to legitimate Code-related needs of employees. However, in some cases, there may be legitimate and non-discriminatory reasons to suspect that a request for accommodation was made in bad faith, that the employee is not actually disabled, or that the medical diagnoses is questionable.
In response to a request for accommodation, employers can and should request information from the employee’s physician to confirm that the employee is suffering from a medical condition or other disability, and to confirm the nature, extent and duration of any functional restrictions. In many cases, employers are not entitled to and should not request a specific diagnosis. However, especially in the case of claimed actual mental disabilities, a statement of an employee’s symptoms alone will generally not amount to proof of a Code-protected disability and employers may require, as stated in Crowley v. Liquor Control Board of Ontario:
“[...] a diagnosis of some recognized mental disability, or at least a working diagnosis or articulation of clinically-significant symptoms, from a health professional in a report or other source of evidence that has specificity and substance”
This exploratory step will resolve most legitimate and non-discriminatory suspicions about the alleged disability or the request for accommodation.
Where the information provided by the treating physician does not allay concerns about the accommodation request—for example, it is vague, based on incorrect assumptions or is outright medico-legal advocacy —employers can and should ask for further clarification. Repeated follow up is appropriate until the employer has sufficient information about the nature, extent and duration of any functional restrictions or limitations to discharge the duty to accommodate, or until it becomes clear that the employee and his or her physician is not acting reasonably in the accommodation process so as to bring that process to an end.
In exceptional cases, the clarification process, outlined above, may confirm the employer’s suspicions that the request for accommodation was not made in good faith, or in relation to a sound medical diagnosis. In these limited and exceptional circumstances, an employer may be justified in requesting additional information about the disability from the physician, or asking the employee to submit to an independent medical examination. In most cases, employers cannot require an employee to submit to an independent medical examination, but when there are serious, well-founded, and well-documented concerns about a diagnosis or a request for accommodation, the refusal to submit to a reasonable request for a second opinion may lead to the conclusion that the employee has not fulfilled his or her obligation to participate in the accommodation process.
Through this process of active management of accommodation requests, employers can resolve issues related to questionable requests or medical diagnosis in a non-discriminatory manner that respects the rights of the employee and the employer.
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James Hetfield Wanted to Sing Like Chris Isaak on Metallica’s Black Album
Jeff Giles
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Many Metallica fans were surprised by the sonic overhaul the band gave itself for 1991's self-titled Black Album, but according to the record's producer, Bob Rock, in some ways, the end result only hinted at some surprising influences.
Rock looked back on his first stint behind the boards for Metallica during a recent visit to Talk Is Jericho, revealing that when singer and guitarist James Hetfield brought him reference points for what he wanted his vocals to sound like, the stack included albums by pop crooner Chris Isaak.
"He said, 'Bob, I've never really sang before — I've just kind yelled,'" Rock recalled. "He played me a Chris Isaak record, and he said, 'On 'Nothing Else Matters' and 'The Unforgiven,' I want to sing. How do you sing like this?'"
That's easier said than done, which is why Isaak's been making a career of it for decades, but Rock had a few ideas. "I said, 'I'll get you a great vocal sound, so you don't have to double your vocals. What you hear in Chris Isaak's voice is the nuances when he sings — he isn't doubled. He's actually performing. You perform.' We set it up so he was comfortable and had a great vocal sound, and then he sang. Every day he got better, and he got comfortable with it. He became a great singer."
Rock also looked back on how he helped Jason Newsted's bass emerge from the sonic margins, pointing out that up until then, Newsted had played his instrument more like a regular guitar. Saying he encouraged Newsted to try a different bass model and amp, Rock noted, "Before, he was just playing what James played, and it kind of sounded like a guitar, so it wasn't really bottom."
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Theology Alumnus Strives for Social Justice
Author: Jordan Gamble
During his time at Notre Dame, Tom Hampson ’71, ’73 M.A., thought he would become a photographer, a mathematician, or a marine biologist. He never expected to be able to turn his passion for social justice—or his two College of Arts and Letters degrees in theology—into a career.
But that is exactly what he has done during nearly 30 years at Church World Service (CWS), a career that has taken the Elkhart, Ind., resident to more than two dozen countries around the world. In his current role as director of constituent engagement, Hampson spreads the word about the agency’s mission to eradicate hunger and poverty and to promote peace and justice around the world.
CWS operates on behalf of 37 member “communions,” which include national church bodies such as the Presbyterian Church (USA), African Methodist Episcopal Church, United Methodist Church, and Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
“It’s an ecumenical expression of compassion for people in need around the world,” Hampson says.
Investing in Communities
With a global network of offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, CWS generates support for its work through hundreds of annual CROP Hunger Walks across the United States, which also support local soup kitchens and food banks.
Grassroots problem-solving, Hampson says, is a key focus for the organization. “What Church World Service really does is support people’s native capacity to find solutions that work for them.”
Those solutions include developing sustainable agricultural practices in Central America, providing reliable safe water in Kenya, funding an eco-friendly sanitation system for a rural school in Moldova last fall, and showing New Orleans churches how to coordinate their efforts with FEMA after Hurricane Katrina.
“To see what a difference a little bit of assistance can make is really remarkable,” Hampson says, although heartbreak is sometimes unavoidable.
“You work in the wounded places in the world, but because of that, you also see what extraordinary capacities people have for courage and ingenuity,” he says. “You wouldn’t do this work if you weren’t willing to expose yourself to that pain. The reality is, by doing this kind of work, you’re helping to make it better.”
Becoming a Peacebuilder
Hampson says his studies in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters shared many dimensions of his present work with CWS, including cross-cultural communication, creative problem-solving, and a commitment to peace and social justice.
“That is one of the things I have been amazed by,” he says. “While I never thought that I would do the kind of work that I do, Notre Dame did a great job of preparing me for it.”
After spending his sophomore year abroad in Japan, Hampson says he couldn’t shake the need to know more about the ethical dimensions of international affairs—particularly the Vietnam War. He switched majors from math to theology and also joined a nonviolence studies program created by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. The program encompassed ethics, international politics, and the Gospel’s call to nonviolence.
“The theology program featured a remarkably ecumenical faculty,” Hampson says, “and was a great preparation for my career in ecumenical work.”
At the time, neither he nor his fellow nonviolence students looked at their studies as job preparation, he recalls. “It was outwardly focused in terms of social activism—really confronting a particular policy in this country we saw as misguided—but it wasn’t career focused.”
Back then, no one went to school to become a peacebuilder, he says. But now, the College offers a supplementary major and a minor in peace studies, and students can also participate in a wide variety of programs through the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Center for Social Concerns.
“They are preparing people to really make a significant difference in the world, to take Jesus’ call to be peacemakers.” Today’s students, Hampson says, have all the resources they need to turn their own passion for social justice into a lifelong vocation.
“Where the world’s need and your passion intersect, that’s the sweet spot.”
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I guess by now you've figured out what my name is.
Welcome to my website.
Here are some songs I've written and recorded.
Although I've done plenty of recordings, these three are all written, recorded and performed entirely by myself.
For a good while now I haven't written anything new, mostly because I get totally involved with the production and then everything else takes a back seat.
A long time ago I got quite enthusiastic when I realized I could have a free website.
All fired up and with no knowledge whatsoever of how to design a website, I started making what can best be described as a public embarrassment.
I think this new version fixes all that.
Most of this website deals with my recordings, electric guitars and music related topics.
Although I started learning to play guitar at the age of 12, it was only when my enthusiasm for music and playing guitar really got the better of me and I began a band at the age of 14, that I developed sufficiently as a musician to call myself a lead guitarist.
Not so much when I started with the band but by playing guitar and soloing to various songs, working with other musicians, practicing AND performing, one trains one's ear to recognize and play what works with the music as well as how to successfully incorporate into your own playing the styles of other guitarists.
Round about the year 1991 I was involved in a band called Deriga.
Most of the songs where written by Doctor Chris Wright.
The band was renamed "The Work Dept" in my absence.
This song was written in two stages. I had the chorus for about two years before the verses fell into place.
This song is totally fictional. I was trying to write something else but it seems this song was waiting to come out instead.
My attempt at writing a pop song. There's only a very vague possible mental connection to an ex girlfriend of mine.
Room for two - The Motel song - Afraid of the dark.
This song has had a variety of names assigned to it, The motel song, Room for two and of course Afraid of the dark.
I personally think it should be called "Just a breath away" but who knows if it'll stick.
Apart from Marinda Gouws and Sebastian Van Niekerk having passed on, Doctor Chris Wright as well as the most excellent sound engineer Richard Austin are also no longer with us.
I like to think, and I know this personally to be the truth of our existence, that they are just on the other side of a thin veil.
In case video doesn't play, you can watch it on youtube here: Afraid of the dark.
Custom electric guitar
My electric guitars
Afrikaans karaoke
Afrikaanse backtracks
Guitar lessons on DVD
Beginner electric guitars
My Callaghan Shark fin guitar
What other music activities am I involved in?
Well, I guess you know by now that I play guitar.
A long time ago while doing the gig circuit, when these little music machines called sequencers came out, I became intrigued by the possibility of putting my original songs into the program.
So I went out and bought myself a keyboard, the Roland U20 and a sequencer Kawai Q80. The Kawai wasn't compatible with anything else but the manual taught me all about midi. It taught me very well.
Ever since then I've been making backings for everyone else, so that's what I do now.
I make backing tracks!
Actually, I remake entire recordings minus the vocals, with live guitars and anything else that I can to make it as realistic and close to the original as possible.
It could've been such a lovely day
It's too late now
The guitar I used on the Deriga recordings was an electric guitar I had custom built for me by a good friend and luthier, Kerry Callaghan.
You can check out his guitars here: Callaghan guitars
Ironically, the guitar is also no longer with us but at least I have pictures. Best sounding rock guitar ever.
Andrew Webber: Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter, Music Arranger and Recording Engineer.
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▸Criminal Rules-Juvenile Court
JuCR 9.2: ADDITIONAL RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION BY LAWYER
(a) Retained Lawyer.
Any party may be represented by a retained lawyer in any proceedings before the juvenile court.
(b) Child in Need of Services Proceedings.
The court shall appoint a lawyer for indigent parents of a juvenile in a child in need of services proceeding.
(c) Dependency and Termination Proceedings.
The court shall provide a lawyer at public expense in a dependency or termination proceeding as follows:
(1) Upon request of a party or on the court's own initiative, the court shall appoint a lawyer for a juvenile who has no guardian ad litem and who is financially unable to obtain a lawyer without causing substantial hardship to himself or herself or the juvenile's family. The ability to pay part of the cost of a lawyer shall not preclude assignment. A juvenile shall not be deprived of a lawyer because a parent, guardian, or custodian refuses to pay for a lawyer for the juvenile. If the court has appointed a guardian ad litem for the juvenile, the court may, but need not, appoint a lawyer for the juvenile.
(2) Upon request of the parent or parents, the court shall appoint a lawyer for a parent who is unable to obtain a lawyer without causing substantial hardship to himself or herself or the juvenile's family. The ability to pay part of the cost of a lawyer shall not preclude assignment.
(d) Juvenile Offense Proceedings.
The court shall provide a lawyer at public expense in a juvenile offense proceeding when required by RCW 13.40.080(10), RCW 13.40.140(2) or rule 6.2. (1) Before appointing a lawyer for an indigent person or at the first appearance of the lawyer in the case, the court shall require the lawyer to certify to the court that he or she complies with the applicable Standards for Indigent Defense Services to be approved by the Supreme Court.
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Reince Priebus
Priebus: Chaos reigned in early days of Trump White House
FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. President Trump's first chief of staff says all those reports about chaos in the early days of the Trump White House were true - and then some. Priebus' recollections come in author Chris Whipple's book "The Gatekeepers" to be published in March 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s first chief of staff says all those reports about chaos in the early days of the Trump White House were true — and then some.
“Take everything you’ve heard and multiply it by 50,” Reince Priebus said, according to an updated book to be published next month about White House chiefs of staff.
In an adaptation from the next edition of the book, “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency,” Chris Whipple writes in Vanity Fair about a dramatic showdown that nearly led to the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions last May after the president berated him for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
Whipple recounts Priebus’ tale of getting a panicked visit from White House counsel Don McGahn.
As Priebus told it: “Don McGahn came in my office pretty hot, red, out of breath, and said, ‘We’ve got a problem.’ I responded, ‘What?’ And he said, ‘Well, we just got a special counsel, and (Attorney General Jeff) Sessions just resigned.’ I said, ‘What!? What the hell are you talking about?’?”
Priebus said he dashed out to the White House parking lot to coax Sessions back into the White House.
Priebus continued: “I said, ‘You cannot resign. It’s not possible. We are going to talk about this right now.’ So I dragged him back up to my office from the car. (Vice President Mike) Pence and (presidential adviser Steve) Bannon came in, and we started talking to him to the point where he decided that he would not resign right then and he would instead think about it.”
Whipple writes that Sessions did later deliver a resignation letter to the Oval Office, but Priebus persuaded Trump to give it back.
The episode is one of many chaotic scenes recounted in the latest book to chronicle the inner workings of the Trump White House.
Priebus also is quoted about his unsuccessful campaign to rein in Trump’s tweets, including an early effort by staff to write tweets for him.
“The team would give the president five or six tweets every day to choose from,” said Priebus, “and some of them would really push the envelope. The idea would be at least they would be tweets that we could see and understand and control. But that didn’t allow the president to be fully in control of his own voice. Everybody tried at different times to cool down the Twitter habit — but no one could do it.”
Whipple writes that Priebus got a call from a livid Trump just after 6 on the morning after the inauguration complaining about news reports that showed his inaugural crowds didn’t measure up to those of his predecessor. Priebus said Trump insisted, “There’s more people there. There are people who couldn’t get in the gates. ... There’s all kind of things that were going on that made it impossible for these people to get there.”
Whipple writes that Priebus thought arguing about crowd size was not a good fight to pick on the day after the inauguration, but the chief of staff knew he had to decide: “Am I going to go to war over this with the president of the United States?”
Priebus was ousted by Trump last July and replaced by retired Gen. John Kelly, whose own job security is now in doubt as Trump complains about Kelly’s handling of allegations of domestic abuse by top aide Rob Porter. Porter resigned last week.
For all of the drama and tumult of his days with Trump, Priebus told Whipple, “I still love the guy.”
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Analysts provide manpower and brainpower to football powers
By RALPH D. RUSSOJanuary 7, 2017
Alabama head coach Nick Saban arrives at media day for the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Clemson Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — They are the coaches behind the coaches, pouring over hours of video and logging plays. They spot trends and make suggestions. Their work produces the building blocks of a game plan.
They have duties similar to graduate assistants, but without having to juggle all that school work. They have titles such as quality control coach, administrative assistant and analyst. Analyst was Steve Sarkisian’s job at Alabama until a week before the biggest game of the season when he was promoted to offensive coordinator .
The former Southern California coach will be calling plays for the Crimson Tide, replacing Lane Kiffin when No. 1 Alabama (14-0) faces Clemson (13-1) on Monday in the College Football Playoff national championship game.
“We’d still watch a lot of tape, still try to game plan, then offer up as much advice as I could to the game plan, then to the coaches,” Sarkisian said Saturday. “Then it was more sit back and analyze how we were performing.”
The NCAA allows just nine coaches to directly instruct players on the field during practice and games. Four graduate assistant coaches are also permitted. Those spots are generally held by aspiring coaches and they must be working on a graduate degree. They are allowed to work with players at practice and be on the field during games, but the bulk of their work is in the film room.
At powerhouse schools such as Alabama and Clemson support staffs have grown in recent years to include coaches who don’t carry whistles. Sarkisian, who was fired by USC during the 2015 season, was hired by Alabama coach Nick Saban as an analyst earlier this year.
Former New Mexico coach Mike Locksley, who was most recently the offensive coordinator at Maryland, is also an offensive analyst for Alabama. As is Charlie Weis Jr., the son of the former Notre Dame and Kansas coach, and former Crimson Tide offensive lineman William Vlachos. Dean Altobelli, a former Michigan attorney who played for Saban at Michigan State, has been a defensive analyst at Alabama since 2010.
They generally make about $45,000 per year, at least at the start. Clemson’s senior analysts make up to $90,000.
“You want to talk about the lifeblood of the operational football part, the X and Os part?” Alabama offensive line coach Mario Cristobal said. “They are essential and critical.”
Alabama has nine analysts on staff. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has five analysts, including senior offensive analyst Mickey Conn and defensive analyst Kyle Richardson.
Derrick Ansley was a graduate assistant for Saban in 2010 and ’11 and rejoined the staff this season as defensive backs coach. He said many of the duties of a graduate assistant are similar to what analysts do. The analysts just have more time to do them.
“When I was a GA I had to break down the entire offensive opponent,” Ansley said. “The details that we put into it is kind of what separates us a little bit.”
What does an opponent run on third-and-4 or more? Against a four-man front? Against a three-man front? How about on third-and-3 or less? In the red zone? In their own end? All that type of information is gathered and given to position coaches, coordinators and the head coach.
“He’s watching it all, but you come in and give him a little something he may have missed because you’re studying that,” Ansley said.
Alabama wide receiver Gehrig Dieter is a graduate transfer from Bowling Green. After spending two seasons at the Mid-American Conference school and one at SMU before that, Dieter could see the benefit of all the additional input.
“There’s so many people on our staff any time you have a question it kind of gets answered,” Dieter said. “Not that it doesn’t at Bowling Green, but you just have so many eyes on you at all times so you kind of get the most accurate answers possible.”
The other benefit comes when it is time to hit the recruiting trail. Only the nine full-time assistants can recruit.
“We get done playing Florida in the SEC championship game, immediately we’re on the road recruiting,” Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt said. “Well, somebody’s got to be breaking down Washington, Ohio State, Clemson. Those guys do a job from a breakdown standpoint so when you walk in they can hand it to it you and say, ‘Hey, this is kind of what these guys do.’”
Clemson co-offensive coordinator Tony Elliott said the Tigers’ analysts are as involved in the game plans as any staffer and their input during games can be vital.
“The great thing about it is they’re just an extension of your eyes,” Elliott said. “They understand what the game plan is. They understand what the adjustments are. They understand the things that cause us problems.”
Ultimately, all these extra staffers give programs such as Alabama and Clemson more people to do more tasks more efficiently.
“Manpower,” Ansley said.
And brainpower.
Follow Ralph D. Russo at www.Twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP
More college football coverage: http://collegefootball.ap.org/ and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Preston Tucker
Johan Camargo
Brian Snitker
Tucker, Freeman hit 3-run HRs as Braves stop Nationals 13-6
By CHARLES ODUMApril 4, 2018
Atlanta Braves' Freddie Freeman (5) follows through on a three-run home run in the second inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have reason to be encouraged about their offense, even with two starters on the disabled list and top prospect Ronald Acuna’s debut probably at least two weeks away.
Freddie Freeman and Preston Tucker each hit a three-run homer , and Atlanta handed Washington its first loss with a 13-6 victory over Bryce Harper and the Nationals on Tuesday night.
Third baseman Johan Camargo and catcher Tyler Flowers are on the disabled list, but the Braves’ 41 runs through five games is the team’s best offensive start since 2006. The Braves’ 56 hits are tied with the 2008 team for the Atlanta record through five games.
“It’s early but I kind of like how we’re going about it right now,” manager Brian Snitker said.
The 20-year-old Acuna will open the season at Triple-A Gwinnett after hitting .432 in spring training. Tucker, expected to be a short-term starter in left field, is hitting .421.
Freeman and Tucker each delivered a big blow as Atlanta scored four times in each of the first two innings. Tucker’s drive in the first against A.J. Cole reached the restaurant behind the right-field seats, and Freeman cleared the wall in right-center in the second.
Washington’s three-run first inning marked the fifth straight game the Nationals handed a lead to their starting pitcher. But Cole (0-1) allowed 10 runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings, perhaps endangering his hold on the No. 5 spot in the rotation.
“I’m trying to go out there and show them I can compete ... and I’m trying to help our bullpen as well,” Cole said.
Manager Dave Martinez said he told Cole “to keep his head up — and nice home run.”
Ryan Zimmerman hit a two-run homer in the first for Washington, and Cole added his first career homer in the second. Leading off the third, Harper continued his hot streak with his fourth homer in the last three games.
Atlanta ace Julio Teheran was charged with five runs in 2 1/3 innings, ending his streak of 19 consecutive scoreless innings against Washington. The right-hander threw 89-mph fastballs on the homers hit by Zimmerman and Cole.
Shane Carle (1-1) allowed only one hit in 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Teheran.
Ozzie Albies had three hits and scored three times for Atlanta, which lost 8-1 in the series opener Monday. Freeman added a run-scoring single off Enny Romero in the fifth.
Braves: Camargo (right oblique strain) is expected to play for Advanced Class A Florida on Thursday. He is eligible to come off the 10-day DL as soon as Wednesday, but the Braves would like to see him play a full nine-inning game before he is activated. ... C Kurt Suzuki (bruised right hand) hit and threw before the game but likely won’t play before Friday.
Freeman had two walks, giving him 10 through five games. It’s the high five-game total for any major league player since Gary Sheffield had 10 in 1997.
“Believe me, I want to swing, I do,” Freeman said, adding pitchers “have kind of been nibbling but the guys behind me have been driving me in. So I’ve been taking my walks and putting pressure on them on the bases and we keep scoring runs.”
L.A. BOUND
The Braves traded right-hander Akeel Morris to the Los Angeles Angels for a player to be named later or cash. Morris was designated for assignment on Saturday when Atlanta acquired catcher Carlos Perez from the Angels for infielder Ryan Schimpf.
The start of the game was delayed 12 minutes by a partial malfunction on one bank of outfield lights.
Nationals: RHP Max Scherzer (1-0) is 7-5 with a 3.94 ERA in 17 career games, including 15 starts, against Atlanta entering Wednesday’s final game of the series. He was 2-2 with a 4.41 ERA against the Braves in 2017.
Braves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz (0-0) was 1-2 with a 6.64 ERA in four starts against the Nationals in 2017. He allowed three runs, two earned, against Philadelphia on Friday night.
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KSA: Director Discuses The Filming Of Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Interview by Frontline on PBS, Published (March 28, 2016). With James Jones.
In January of 2015, a man named Raif Badawi was lashed in public in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah. His crime? Blogging critically about the role of religion in Saudi life in 2012 — an act that Saudi courts said insulted Islam. In addition to 1,000 lashes, Badawi, a secular activist with three young children, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Director James Jones working on his film “Saudi Arabia Uncovered”, for FRONTLINE on PBS. (Photo: PBS).
The documentary — Saudi Arabia Uncovered — is a rare window into the Saudi kingdom, with stunning undercover footage as its backbone. In the run-up to the documentary’s premiere, FRONTLINE sat down with Jones to discuss his motivations for making the film, how he amassed footage from inside Saudi Arabia, and what surprised him the most along the way.
Watch the full film Saudi Arabia Uncovered in our Documentaries section.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Why did you decide to make a documentary about Saudi Arabia?
The case of Raif Badawi is what first got me interested. I saw the cell phone footage of his public lashing in January 2015. The fact that someone took the risk of secretly filming and leaking it got me thinking about making a film applying the same approach we did for Secret State of North Korea — finding people on the inside of a tightly-controlled country who were willing to take video that wasn’t state-sanctioned, to show the outside world what was happening.
How did you find people inside Saudi Arabia who were willing to secretly film?
There is a network of young activists inside Saudi Arabia who are quite engaged online and with the outside world, who question their rulers and are frustrated they can’t fully express themselves. They want to show the world what’s going on, but they’re very aware of the risks of criticizing the regime or doing anything to embarrass the regime — you know, people in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to years in prison for a tweet. Through Saudi dissidents in London, we tapped into this network, and found a young man, Yasser, who was willing to film for us. We met him outside Saudi Arabia, showed him the camera, taught him how to use it, and set up safety protocols before he went back inside the country.
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What were the risks for the activists who filmed for you?
It’s hard to know exactly what the consequences would have been, but there’s a Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, who was sentenced, (Learn more about Ashraf’s case in our Documentaries section), to death for apostasy, and part of the charge, reportedly, was posting a clip of Saudi Arabia’s religious police in action.
[Fayadh’s sentence was ultimately reduced to eight years in prison.] So the moment in the documentary when Yasser tangled with the religious police while secretly filming was a very frightening one when it happened. But as it turned out, he was fine — they didn’t know he was filming. They just didn’t want him playing music!
The good thing about Saudi Arabia is that people are allowed to have mobile phones, and we could stay in touch with Yasser, though I can’t say exactly how. We had an Arabic-speaking assistant producer who was crucial in managing the relationship with him.
Is the documentary primarily rooted in Yasser’s footage?
It’s a combination of footage filmed by Yasser, and clips from other activists who are filming and posting things on their own, like public executions and women being harassed. It’s clear that the information barrier with the outside world is breaking down.
There’s this strange irony — in the past, the government has held punishments in public because they want the people to know what the potential consequences of crime are. Yet they don’t want the outside world to see it — they care about how they’re perceived. So it seems like they’re increasingly carrying out these punishments behind closed doors — like this past January, when they executed 47 terror suspects in one day.
Did the Saudi government share its perspective with you directly?
We were hoping to interview government officials, but it didn’t work out. It’s a shame.
One of those cases is that of Ali Nimr, (Learn more about Ali’s case in our Documentaries section), who was arrested for his alleged role in anti-government protests as a 17-year-old, and is now twenty-one and on death row. His uncle, the prominent and controversial Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, was among the 47 people executed in January of 2016.
Why did Ali’s family decide to speak out?
They’re desperate. Their son has been in prison now for four years, and I think it’s a constant worry for them that his death could happen at any moment. Ali’s mom finds it very hard to cope. His dad is more stoic. They’re very aware that talking to the media angers the government, and the dad had been arrested in the past — he thinks for speaking out about the case about Ali. But they don’t have many other tools at their disposal for trying to get their son out, and they think that international attention will have some effect.
What were some of the unique challenges you faced, as a filmmaker, in getting this story told?
Any project where you can’t just go and film freely yourself is always going to be inherently frustrating. In this particular case, what made it so hard were the very real risks for the people doing the filming. Some people who were filming for us would just disappear and have to go on the run for a month, for fear of being detected by the regime.
“There’s this strange irony — in the past, the government has held punishments in public because they want the people to know what the potential consequences of crime are. Yet they don’t want the outside world to see it — they care about how they’re perceived.”
What surprised you the most in making this film?
The bravery of people like Yasser who felt so strongly about bringing change to their country that they took the risk of secretly filming what the regime didn’t want the outside world to see.
Also, I hadn’t realized before starting work on the film just how many problems are piling up for the Saudi regime. It’s not just a matter of young people being unhappy, or Shia people in the East feeling oppressed and rising up, or pressure from strict religious conservatives. The oil price crash had a huge impact. Fighting these wars in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere has, too. And then there’s the Iran factor. Quite a lot of our interviewees described this confluence as the perfect storm.
It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out, and to see where things stand five years down the line — especially since it’s a country with so many young people: Something like 70 percent of people in Saudi Arabia right now are under 30.
Frontline Article: How James Jones Uncovered a Rarely Seen Side of Saudi Arabia.
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Statement Announcing Commission on Unalienable Rights
delivered 8 July 2019, Washington, D.C.
Audio AR-XE mp3 of Address
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]
Good morning, everyone.
In my address at the Claremont Institute back in May, called "A Foreign Policy from the Founding," I made clear that the Trump Administration has embarked on a foreign policy that takes seriously the Founders’ ideas of individual liberty and constitutional government. Those principles have long played a prominent role in our country’s foreign policy, and rightly so.
But as that great admirer of the American experiment, Alex[is] de Tocqueville noted, democracies have a tendency to lose sight of the big picture in the hurly-burly of everyday affairs. Every once in a while, we need to step back and reflect seriously on where we are, where we’ve been, and whether we’re headed in the right direction. And that’s why I’m pleased to announce today the formation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights.
The commission is composed of human rights experts, philosophers, and activists, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents of varied background and beliefs, who will provide me with advice on human rights grounded in our nation’s founding principles and the principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. An American commitment to uphold human rights played a major role in transforming the moral landscape of the international relations after World War II, something all Americans can rightly be proud of. Under the leadership of Eleanor Roosevelt, the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights ended forever the notion that nations could abuse their citizens without attracting notice or repercussions.
With the indispensable support of President Ronald Reagan, a human rights revolution toppled the totalitarian regimes of the former Soviet Union. Today the language of human rights has become the common vernacular for discussions of human freedom and dignity all around the world, and these are truly great achievements.
But we should never lose sight of the warnings of Vaclav Havel, a hero of the late 20th-century human rights movement, that words like "rights" can be used for good or evil: "They [are capable of being] rays of light in a realm of darkness...[but] they [are equally capable of being] be lethal arrows."1 And as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has observed, the evils of any time and place will be justified in whatever is the dominant discourse of that time and of that place. We must, therefore, be vigilant that human rights discourse not be corrupted or hijacked or used for dubious or malignant purposes.
It’s a sad commentary on our times that more than 70 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, gross violations continue throughout the world, sometimes even in the name of human rights. International institutions designed and built to protect human rights have drifted from their original mission. As human rights claims have proliferated, some claims have come into tension with one another, provoking questions and clashes about which rights are entitled to gain respect. Nation-states and international institutions remain confused about their respective responsibilities concerning human rights.
With that as background and with all of this in mind, the time is right for an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy. And I’m pleased to introduce to you today the chair of the commission, Professor Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Mary Ann is a world-renowned author, beloved professor, an expert in the field of human rights, comparative law, and political theory. She’s the perfect person to chair this effort.
I’m also proud to announce today the other members of the commission. They include Russell Berman, Peter Berkowitz, Paolo Carozza, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Jacqueline Rivers, Meir Soloveichik, Katrina Lantos Swett, Christopher Tollefsen, and David Tse-Chien Pan.
These individuals will provide the intellectual grist for what I hope will be one of the most profound reexaminations of the unalienable rights in the world since the 1948 Universal Declaration. Our own Kiron Skinner will serve as the head of the executive secretary of the committee, and Cartright Weiland will serve as Rapporteur.
I hope that the commission will revisit the most basic of questions:
What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right?
How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim, that this or that, is a human right?
Is it true, and therefore, ought it to be honored? How can there be human rights, rights we possess not as privileges we are granted or even earn, but simply by virtue of our humanity belong to us?
Is it, in fact, true, as our Declaration of Independence asserts, that as human beings, we -- all of us, every member of our human family -- are "endowed by [their] Creator with certain unalienable Rights?"
Each of these is an important question, and the mission of the commission is to provide advice on them and others, not as purely abstract academic matters, but in a manner deeply informed by the timeless truths embedded in the American Founding with a view to guiding our nation’s foreign policy.
Or to put it another way, the commission’s charge is to point the way toward that more perfect fidelity to our nation’s founding principles to which President Lincoln called us at Gettysburg and to which Dr. King called us while standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C., not so very far from where we are here today.
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1 Strictly, Havel's quotation concerns an ontology -- disposition and function -- of words per se: "The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They are capable of being rays of light in a realm of darkness, as Belinsky once described Ostrovsky’s Storm. They are equally capable of being lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be the one and the other. And even both at once!" [Source: https://www.vhlf.org/havel-archives/words-on-words/]
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Home News Latest News Listen To New Song From Supergroup Future Lives
Listen To New Song From Supergroup Future Lives
Written By Brittney McKenna // May 19, 2017
Photo by Kristen Hydeck
The word “supergroup” can be something of a catch-all for musical collaborations, but new band Future Lives truly embody the word. While they have six members at their core, the band — made up of players from King of Prussia, Drive-By Truckers, and Japancakes, as well as several solo artists — pulled together 14 musicians for their forthcoming debut album Mansions.
New song “The Knowing,” though, is a fairly stripped-down affair, a lush, slow-rolling folk tune that reflects the ease with which the artists play and write with one another. The band recorded the tune at Athens, Georgia studio the Glow with engineer Jesse Mangum.
“Some songs seem to call for a lot of revising and fine-tuning — taking your time to find the right words to say to exactly what you want to say,” the band’s Brandon Taj Hanick says. “Other songs, like ‘The Knowing,’ seem like they’ve been rolling around in your head for ages, just waiting for the right time to spring forth into the world. ‘The Knowing’ speaks of coming home, even if ‘home’ turns out to be an entirely new place that you weren’t even consciously looking to find. But you know it when you get there.”
Mansions is out June 27. Listen to “The Knowing” below.
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Travels From: New York
Alix Strauss
A media savvy social satirist, Alix is a frequent contributor and columnist at the New York Times, where her work focuses on trends, relationships, marriage and weddings. She's been a featured pop culture and lifestyle journalist for more than 20 years, and has appeared as a travel and trend writer on national morning and talk shows including ABC, CBS, CNN, and most recently, The Today Show. Her articles, which have appeared in the Times, The Financial Times, Crain’s New York, Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, T&L, Conde Nast Traveler, and Departures (among others), cover a range of topics from trends in beauty, travel, and food to celebrity interviews. She is an award winning, four-time published author whose work includes: The Joy of Funerals (St. Martin's Press),Based Upon Availability (Harper Collins), and Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious (Harper Collins). She is also the editor of Have I Got a Guy for You (Simon & Schuster), an anthology of mother coordinated dating horror stories.
The Joy of Funerals won the Ingram Award, and was named Best Debut Novel by The New York Resident. Alixʼs essays have been anthologized - most recently in Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection. Her short story, “Shrinking Away”, won the David Dornstein Creative Writing Award. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships from programs such as the Wesleyan Writers Conference, the Skidmore College Writerʼs Institute, the Sarah Lawrence Summer Program, and the Squaw Valleyʼs Screenwritersʼ Summer Program.
Alix lectures extensively, having spoken at over 100 events and symposiums. She was chosen to speak at the National Jewish Book Festival, and is on the National Speakers Bureau for Israeli Bonds. In addition, she has spoken at numerous conferences and panels including: The Southern Festival of Books, The Northwest Bookfest, The New England's Writer's Conference, Wesleyan Writer's conference, The 92nd Street Y, NYU, Center For Communications, Mediabistro, Columbia University, among others. She hosted a monthly event at Makor called Word of Mouth Thursdays, featuring readings of personal essays, works in-progress, and novel excerpts.
Based Upon Availability is like a beautifully-wrapped gift box, full of unexpected pleasures. Alix Strauss proves herself to be an astute and deeply feeling observer of human nature.
— Dan Shapiro, author of Devotion, Slow Motion and Black & White
Talks and Topics
Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious Presentation
Relationships, Marriage and Love
Weddings and Wedding Trends
Mother and Daughter Relationships
Suicide Prevention and Anti-Bullying
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
Freelance Writing in a Social Media World - Is Print Really Dead?
Reading at Borders, Time Warner Center NYC
Suicide Prevention Event at the U of Connecticut
Bodies Exhibit Keynote - NYC
Liberty Hotel Reading - Boston, MA
Alix & Christina Baker Kline
East Hampton Bookstore - NY
Living the high life at the Ivy Hotel - Baltimore, MD
Alix with Sir John, Kristin Chenoweth, and Cheryl Kramer Kaye
Country Club Keynote
Death Becomes Them Event - NYC
The Joy of Funerals
Alix and her mom - Kiel's Event NYC
Check Alix's Availability
Dates Requested
Thank you! We'll be in touch momentarily to explore options.
"A Merger for the Rabbi and the Labor Leader" - New York Times (Mar 2018)
"Always the Reporter, Never the Bride" - New York Times (Mar 2018)
"Women, Art and the Houses They Built" - New York Times (Mar 2018)
"She Knows His Crazy, and He Knows Hers" - New York Times i(Feb 2018)
"A Conventional Marriage for a 'Counterculture' Couple" - New York Times (Feb 2018)
"The Force is Within Them" - New York Times (Dec 2017)
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DORETH, BASTIAN
Artland Dragons Quakenbrueck 10 Guard
Height: 1.82 Born: 8 June, 1989 Nationality: Germany
Totals 10 1 181:03 37 9/21 4/14 7/8 3 11 14 33 3 19 0 1 16 9 37
Averages 10 1 18:06 3.7 42.9% 28.6% 87.5% 0.3 1.1 1.4 3.3 0.3 1.9 0 0.1 1.6 0.9 3.7
1 at FoxTown Cantu 21:58 7 0/2 2/3 1/2 1 2 3 4 2 1 1 8
2 vs Telenet Ostend 9:07 4 1/1 0/2 2/2 1 1 1 2 1 3
3 at Cibona Zagreb 13:14 6 2/2 1 1 4 1 1 2 11
4 vs Le Mans Sarthe Basket 21:39 2 1/2 0/1 2 2 8 2 2 6
5 at CEZ Basketball Nymburk 14:01 6 2/3 0/2 2/2 1 1 2 2 1 5
6 vs FoxTown Cantu 17:04 2 1/2 2 2 4 2 1 1 1 8
7 at Telenet Ostend 23:02 3 1 2 2
8 vs Cibona Zagreb 10:13 2 1/1 0/1 2 2 3 -2
9 at Le Mans Sarthe Basket 22:07 0/2 0/1 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 -2
10 * vs CEZ Basketball Nymburk 28:38 8 3/8 0/2 2/2 2 2 3 5 1 3 1 -2
10 Totals 181:03 37 9/21 4/14 7/8 3 11 14 33 3 19 0 1 16 9 37
Average 18:06 3.7 42.9% 28.6% 87.5% 0.3 1.1 1.4 3.3 0.3 1.9 0 0.1 1.6 0.9 3.7
Index rating 11 Cibona Zagreb vs. Artland Dragons 10/30/2013
Points 11 Artland Dragons vs. JDA Dijon 11/12/2014
Offensive rebounds 1 Pallacanestro Cantu vs. Artland Dragons 10/22/2014
Defensive rebounds 5 JDA Dijon vs. Artland Dragons 12/17/2014
Total rebounds 5 JDA Dijon vs. Artland Dragons 12/17/2014
Assists 8 Artland Dragons vs. Le Mans Sarthe Basket 11/5/2013
Steals 2 Artland Dragons vs. Pallacanestro Cantu 11/25/2014
Blocks 0 JDA Dijon vs. Artland Dragons 12/17/2014
Minutes 28 Artland Dragons vs. CEZ Basketball Nymburk 12/18/2013
Made his debut with Franken Hexer (Germany), in the Regionalliga.
Signed for the 2007-08 season by Baskets Nuernberg.
Signed for the 2008-09 season by Franken Hexer, ProB.
Signed for the 2009-10 season by Brose Baskets Bamberg, also played with Nuernberger Basketball, Pro-B.
Signed for the 2010-11 season by FC Bayern Munich.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by TBB Trier.
Signed for the 2013-14 season by Artland Dragons Quakenbrueck.
He's still playing there.
Member of the German National Team.
Played at the 2013 European Championship.
Has been member of the German U-20 and University National Team National Team.
Played at the 2011 World University Games.
2009-10 Brose Baskets 1 0 0 0/0 0 0/1 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
2013-14 Artland Dragons Quakenbrueck 10 37 3.7 9/21 42.9 4/14 28.6 7/8 87.5 14 3 33 0
2014-15 Artland Dragons Quakenbrueck 10 45 4.5 5/14 35.7 11/25 44 2/2 100 18 3 21 0
Totals 21 82 3.9 14/35 40 15/40 37.5 9/10 90 32 6 54 0
Averages 21 82 3.9 14/35 40 15/40 37.5 9/10 90 1.5 0.3 2.6 0
2006/07 F. Hexer 14 168 12 38/80 47.5 20/59 33.9 32/42 76.2 67 34 44 1
2007/08 Nurnberg 27 146 5.4 36/89 40.4 18/59 30.5 20/35 57.1 56 10 52 0
F. Hexer 9 158 17.6 40/68 58.8 16/52 30.8 30/40 75 67 12 42 0
2008/09 F. Hexer 28 319 11.4 49/124 39.5 56/148 37.8 53/67 79.1 112 28 111 1
2009/10 Nuernberger 28 321 11.5 53/115 46.1 59/141 41.8 38/51 74.5 91 39 161 0
2010/11 Bayern 30 223 7.4 23/48 56.0 51/114 44.7 24/27 88.9 101 23 89 0
2011/12 Bayern 20 37 1.9 6/10 60.0 6/15 40.0 5/6 83.3 14 2 10 0
2012/13 Trier 32 141 4.4 24/79 30.4 25/68 36.8 18/28 64.3 39 11 56 2
2013/14 Artland Dragons 37 151 4.1 22/61 36.1 29/69 42.0 20/23 87.0 52 7 72 0
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Region 5: Great Lakes
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AVG (Min 10 AB)
J Kostka .615
M Money .500
C Cook .500
D Lindow .500
B Widder .462
C Cook 1
N Cline 1
T Grim 1
N Salyer 1
R Venne 1
J Kostka 6
N Dardas 4
M Money 4
A Littleton 4
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G Willis 9
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E Newman 7
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S Parra 0.00
G Romack 0.66
L Lancaster 1.00
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Circleville, OH Post 134
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Midland, MI Post 165
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Napoleon, OH Post 300
Sheboygan, WI Post 83
Terre Haute, IN Post 346
Wed 08/08/2018 Thu 08/09/2018 Fri 08/10/2018 Sat 08/11/2018 Sun 08/12/2018
Circleville, OH Post 134 Danville, IL Post 210 Eau Claire, WI Post 53 Midland, MI Post 165 Mt. Prospect, IL Post 525 Napoleon, OH Post 300 Sheboygan, WI Post 83 Terre Haute, IN Post 346
Wed 08/08/18
11:00 AM Mercy Field Eau Claire, WI Post 53
0 4 Midland, MI Post 165
Athlete Pos AB H R 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB
1 Stange, Zac SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
2 Halvorson, Tanner LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Venne, Ryan 3B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kjellberg, Ethan 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Kostka, Jaxon CF 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
6 Kapanke, Cooper 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Froelich, Mitch 2B 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Palzkill, Kas RF 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Lekvin, Colin C 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Schaller, Levi P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marcoux, Draeson P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Williams, Jaelin 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Zachow, Joel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Selz, Austin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rasmussen, Logan P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salonek, Jacob 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brown, Jack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Feck, Joseph 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 24 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
Athlete W/L IP H R ER BB Ks ERA
Schaller, Levi L 2 2/3 4 3 3 3 3 7.88
Marcoux, Draeson 2 1/3 2 1 1 1 2 3.00
Rasmussen, Logan 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00
Totals 6 7 4 4 4 5 4.67
1 Dardas, Nick C 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
2 David, Tyler 3B 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
3 Money, Martin SS 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
4 Gower, Seth LF 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
5 LaCourse, Logan CF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Smith, Brandon 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
7 Nelson, Zach 2B 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
8 Allen, Jeff 1B 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Randall, Adam RF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Willis, Garrett P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harris, James 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kozerski, Andrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Erickson, Michael 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schlatter, Evan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beougher, Derek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cooley, Carson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stone, Jacob 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moe, Connor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Willis, Garrett W 7 3 0 0 2 9 0.00
1:00 PM Mercy Field Mt. Prospect, IL Post 525
1 5 Terre Haute, IN Post 346
1 Caffalio, AJ CF 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Raymond, Matt 2B 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Haffey, Tyler C 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
4 Verbancic, Jason 3B 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
5 Denten, James SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 Composto, Tony LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Adamski, Will 1B 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
8 Kubsik, Daniel RF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackburn, Liam 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
10 McKermitt, P.J. P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Knauss, Blake 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steifbold, Will 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coen, Joe P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rodriquez, Cristian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Czeslawski, John 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
McKermitt, P.J. L 5 6 4 1 1 5 1.40
Coen, Joe 2 2 1 1 0 0 3.50
1 Mumdell, Jason CF 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
2 Newman, Evan 2B 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brown, Ryan 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
4 Booe, Brigham SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Bray, Parker LF 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
6 Cook, Cameron RF 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
7 Downs, Benji 1B 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Brown, Conner C 3 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0
9 Morris, Austin 3B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
10 Lancaster, Luke P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pittman, Blade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salyers, Collin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gonser, Caleb 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Zimmerman, Jacob 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Riley, Kendal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kelly, William 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lancaster, Luke W 7 6 1 1 2 3 1.00
4:30 PM Mercy Field Sheboygan, WI Post 83
7 6 Circleville, OH Post 134
1 Feinberg, Harry CF 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1
2 Lindow, Dylan 2B 4 4 1 0 1 0 3 0 1
3 Widder, Brent SS 5 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
4 Akstulewicz, Nick P 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
5 Parra, Sal RF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
6 Souik, Ben 1B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Krugel, Lars LF 4 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
8 Johnson, Erik 3B 4 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
9 Call-Alvarez, Anthony C 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Klessig, Trey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scherg, Ethan 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hendrikse, Nathan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Presutti, Bailey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Forton, Brendan 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scherer, James 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 15 7 2 1 0 7 1 6
Akstulewicz, Nick 4 1/3 6 6 6 3 0 9.69
Parra, Sal 2 2/3 2 0 0 0 0 0.00
1 Barnhart, Andrew SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Larson, Lane C 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Carson, Brett CF 4 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
4 Cline, Noah 1B 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Conrad, Chris LF 3 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 1
6 Salyer, Nick 3B 3 2 2 0 0 1 3 0 1
7 Grim, Travis RF 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 1
8 Anderson, Cody 2B 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Nunemaker, Austin 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Corzatt, Eric 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bennett, Tanner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Farley, Cam 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lockard, Seth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wingo, Kyle P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schwartz, Ryan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Younkin, Jared 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Salyer, Nick 2 2/3 8 5 5 2 2 13.13
Wingo, Kyle 4 1/3 7 2 1 4 5 1.62
Totals 7 15 7 6 6 7 6.00
6:30 PM Mercy Field Danville, IL Post 210
7 3 Napoleon, OH Post 300
1 Hicks, Devonte 3B 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
2 Littleton, Austin SS 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1
3 Plummer, Ernest LF 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
4 Nelson, Noah 1B 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2
5 Bolton, Skylar C 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
6 Vinson, Chase P 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Romack, Gage RF 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
8 West, Keegan CF 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
9 Bunton, Andy 2B 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1
Jordan, Noah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Boyer, Wyatt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ruch, Noah 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dalbey, Dalton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arford, Colten 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vinson, Chase W 5 1/3 4 3 3 5 5 3.94
Romack, Gage 1 2/3 1 0 0 0 2 0.00
Hicks, Devonte 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 Thiel, Parker SS 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
2 Giesige, Spencer LF 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Willeman, Landon 3B 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
4 Beverly, Jason CF 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
5 Brown, Caden C 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bostater, Hunter 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Horner, Evan 1B 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Gerken, Alex 2B 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
9 Brenininger, Luke RF 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
10 Rhodes, Quincy P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Radabaugh, Ian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mohr, Ryan P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rettig, J.J 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Imthurn, Andrew 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vold, Nathan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greer, Jacob 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Taylor, Bryson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Petersen, Christian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rhodes, Quincy L 3 7 7 7 7 2 16.33
Mohr, Ryan 3 2 0 0 1 1 0.00
Thu 08/09/18
12 4 Circleville, OH Post 134
9 Feck, Joseph C 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
10 Selz, Austin P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marcoux, Draeson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schaller, Levi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Williams, Jaelin RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Zachow, Joel 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lekvin, Colin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 14 12 4 1 1 11 0 5
Selz, Austin W 5 1/3 9 4 4 3 2 5.25
Rasmussen, Logan 1 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
2 Farley, Cam LF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Conrad, Chris C 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Lockard, Seth 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kennedy, Cody 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Corzatt, Eric 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anderson, Cody P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Larson, Lane C 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gray, George C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wingo, Kyle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Younkin, Jared P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cline, Noah L 1 6 6 6 2 0 42.00
Anderson, Cody 4 1/3 7 6 6 3 0 9.69
Younkin, Jared 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
Totals 6 14 12 12 5 1 14.00
2 Raymond, Matt SS 4 3 2 0 0 0 2 1 0
5 Denten, James P 4 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
9 Coen, Joe 2B 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
McKermitt, P.J. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blackburn, Liam 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Denten, James 5 4 5 5 7 4 7.00
Composto, Tony 1 2 3 2 2 1 14.00
Blackburn, Liam L 0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals 6 8 9 8 10 5 9.33
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Sierra Leone News: Orange connects to MainOne submarine cable
Orange Mobile Company has signed an agreement with MainOne Cable Company in France to allow for a major investment by Orange in the West Africa submarine cable system. The partnership between Orange and MainOne Company will provide for the construction and installation of two new branches and stations. MainOne will also offer an alternative route that guarantees the protection of voice and data traffic passing through the other cables in the area – SAT3 WASC SAFE and ACE. The submarine cable system stretches 17,000 kilometres from France to South Africa, helping to provide Internet connection to 22 countries along Africa’s west coast. Main One Company has a cable submarine system running 7,000 km that was launched in 2010 and has landing stations in Nigeria, Ghana and Portugal. The partnership upon completion is expected to connect the cable to Dakar in Senegal and Abidjan by mid 2019 hence, Orange will be the owner of the cable station in Dakar. “Orange’s ambition on international networks is both to meet the needs of our affiliates in their interconnection with the Internet world and to increase our leadership on the international data services wholesale market. This partnership with MainOne will allow us to strengthen our presence, with new significant assets in West Africa,” said Jérome Barré, Chief Executive Officer of Wholesale and International Networks. The news about Orange Mobile investing in the west Africa submarine cable was received with mixed feelings, especially after odd experiences from the past internet blackout that was perceived to be sabotage. The government deliberately failed to inform the people prior to the blackout nor did they come out with tangible reasons that may have led to payment of benefits for the damages. Sahr Sam Ansumana, the acting Executive Director of Citizens Budget Watch, described the two days internet and mobile services blackout, between 30 March – 1 April 2018, as very “unfortunate” situation with huge negative impacts pointing that it was a violation on the rights of people that ought to use the facilities they had paid for. Ansumana outrightly condemned the decision by the then government and the service providers for disconnecting the country from other parts of the world for two days stressing that if ever such decisions were to be made government should have earlier communicated with the people rather than engage in the opposite which according to him had impacted negatively on local businesses. Aminata Turay is an International businesswoman that supplies stationeries and building materials. She described the move by Orange as timely because being offline for 2 days by the government and internet service provider was wrong and that it created a negative impact on her business. Orange said on their website, “The Group is investing heavily in building infrastructure and providing access to communication services over the long-term.” Chief Executive Officer of Orange Middle East and Africa, Alioune Ndiaye said, “The development of new digital services in Africa has fostered huge social and economic developments over the past few years. As barriers to access continue to fall with improved networks and more affordable equipment, Orange, as part of its multi-service strategy, is seeking to position itself as an important partner in the continent’s digital transformation Through this new partnership, Orange can provide direct access to high-speed broadband services in two of its most important countries, Senegal and the Côte d’Ivoire.”
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Charles Drowne, Director, 1860-1875
Charles Drowne, A.M., C.E., was born July 5, 1824. He graduated from Rensselaer in 1847, the same year he was appointed repeater of mathematics and physics at Rensselaer. In 1849, he was adjunct professor of theoretical and practical mathematics. In 1851, he received the appointment of professor of mathematics, astronomy and geodesy, which he held until 1855. In 1859 he was appointed senior professor, and professor of civil engineering, and in 1860 was made director and professor of theoretical and practical mechanics.
During Drowne’s service as director, many important changes took place at the Institute. The Institute building, having been located in downtown Troy, was destroyed by the great fire of 1862. A new large building, Winslow located on 8th Street was erected, and then in 1866 The Main building was built. The school grew moderately during Drowne’s direction. The courses of study were broadened, and examinations made more rigorous. Drowne remained director until 1875; on account of impaired health, he resigned his position, and was made emeritus professor by the unanimous vote of the trustees.
After leaving the Institute, Drowne spent a couple years traveling abroad, regaining his health, and studying. He established headquarters in Hanover, Germany. His health during this time greatly improved so he then returned to his hometown in Canaan, New York. Drowne died on August 25, 1888.
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UK lawmakers now look to delay withdrawal from EU
LONDON, UK - The British Parliament on Wednesday voted to reject a no-deal Brexit, which allows the United Kingdom to leave the European Union without any agreement.
Amid uncertainty over the UK's status of leaving the EU, British lawmakers voted to rule out a no-deal Brexit by 321 votes to 278.
A vote is slated to take place on Thursday evening on whether to delay the withdrawal process beyond the March 29 deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed.
The British parliamentarians also rejected an amendment which sought to delay Brexit until May 22 for further preparations to take place with an aim to alleviate the impact of a possible no-deal Brexit if no agreement was reached, CNN reported.
May warned that if the British Parliament cannot reach an agreement, the prospects of the UK leaving the EU will be longer and urged the lawmakers to support a deal "in the coming days," so that her government can allow the withdrawal process to be delayed for a short period of time.
"Such an extension would undoubtedly require the UK to hold European Parliament elections in May 2019. I do not think that would be the right outcome. But the House needs to face up to the consequences of the decisions it has taken," she was quoted by CNN as saying.
The British Parliament on Tuesday rejected May's Brexit deal for a second time, tossing the UK into the unknown, 16 days before it is due to split from the EU.
Even after May secured further guarantees from Brussels over its most controversial elements the House of Commons voted by 391 to 242 to reject the deal.
Earlier, May had managed to secure "legally binding changes" to "strengthen and improve" Britain's Withdrawal Agreement from the EU, according to Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington.
The British Prime Minister, who dismissed the prospects of a second Brexit referendum, has been pushing for the Brexit deal to be accepted by the UK Parliament. She has repeatedly stated that "this is a Brexit that delivers."
"The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, has time and again labelled it as a "botched deal," having previously announced his Labour Party's intent of holding a public vote to avoid a "damaging Tory Brexit." (ANI)
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Gunaysu: Exhibition of Bitlis Armenians Held in Tatvan
March 27, 2014 at 12:21 pm Ayse Gunaysu 23
Special for the Armenian Weekly
March 1, 2014. We are at the municipality’s Cultural Center of Tatvan, a district of Bitlis, close to the city center. There is a poster in the entrance of the building announcing the exhibition: “Bitlis Armenians, March 1-2, Gomidas Institute (GI).”
A scene from the exhibit
Groups of people have gathered in the exhibition hall and are looking at three huge maps showing former Armenian towns and villages in the Bitlis area, with figures indicating population. One is based on Ottoman records, and is dated 1905. The second was compiled with data from the Bitlis Prelacy (Arachnortaran), dated circa 1912-13, and shows the churches and monasteries. The third illustrates the ethnic composition of the settlements in Bitlis province through colored graphics, and is dated circa 1900. Some of the villages were clearly inhabited by Armenians only, and some together with Kurds, with varying proportions. The map legend also accounts for the Assyrians/Syriacs, Jews, Ezidis, and Circassians in the region.
The photographs on the walls show the vital Armenian presence in Bitlis before 1915. We walk around, looking at pictures of women, daily life, monasteries, houses. The largest group examining the maps is made up mostly of young people; they’ve gathered around Historian Ara Sarafian, the founder and director of the Gomidas Institute, and are engaged in an intense exchange. Some are asking questions, someone is pointing to a certain village, saying what he knows about it, perhaps giving some information about his ancestors. Sarafian is busy trying to answer all of them. Among the visitors is a young woman carrying her five-year-old daughter, who points to one of the towns, but her mother tells her things I cannot hear.
This is the first time the Kurds of Bitlis and Tatvan are encountering the Armenian history of their hometown in such a fashion.
During dinner, our warm and generous hosts and hostesses from Tatvan and Bitlis ask Sarafian about the conversations at the exhibition. “The people who came to the exhibition were both curious and receptive,” he answers. “They asked questions about the information we presented. Typically, they began discussing all sorts of issues amongst themselves about what they were looking at. In many cases, they had prior knowledge and the exhibition clarified matters for them. They were very lively and I found the discussions interesting, but not when they were talking Kurdish. One guy wanted to know what Armenian letters looked like, some wanted to know the name of their local churches, others stared at pictures of Armenians in amazement. Many of the visitors had some blood ties to Armenians. All expressed positive views of Armenians as industrious people who had brought prosperity to the region. Some asked questions about the Armenian Genocide.”
Armenians of Bitlis: Since antiquity
The Gomidas Institute’s press release gave a short description of Armenian history and life in Bitlis: “Armenians trace their presence in Bitlis since antiquity. Bitlis was one of the Armenian principalities of the ancient world and continued to be a major Armenian center until recent times. On the eve of World War I, it was a thriving part of the Ottoman Empire with a significant Armenian population with its many schools, churches, and monasteries.”
The press release also pointed out the social and political setting against which the exhibition would take place: “In recent years, with the Kurdish opening, it has become possible to talk about Armenians again. The Turkish state has even made a somewhat cynical gesture in the east by renovating the ancient church of Sourp Khatch on the island of Aghtamar and turning it into a museum—while hundreds of comparable sites have continued to be neglected and destroyed. However, Kurdish politicians have been more honest and forthright. They have condemned the persecution of Armenians, apologized for the role played by Kurds in those persecutions, and sought reconciliation by speaking the truth. In Diyarbekir, the local authorities have supported the renovation of the church of Sourp Giragos, returned it to Armenians as their place of worship, and offered their hand of friendship. It is against such a background that the Gomidas Institute and its friends in Turkey have organized a public exhibition about the Armenians of Bitlis before 1915. This exhibition, displaying original maps of the Armenian presence in the region and photographs, will take place in Tatvan, on the shores of Lake Van, on 1-2 March and travel to different communities in the Armenian Diaspora.”
Me, Meral, and Renan—three women from the Human Rights Association (HRA), Istanbul Branch, the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination—proud of our close cooperation with the Gomidas Institute since 2005, didn’t hesitate to support this initiative, and accompanied Ara Sarafian on his trip first to Diyarbakir (where the exhibition materials were printed and prepared) and then to Tatvan.
Hishyar Barzan Sherefhanoglu, the great-grandson of the very old and aristocratic family “Sherefhanogullari,” was waiting for us at the hotel in Tatvan. He was Sarafian’s contact person in Bitlis, and had arranged the exhibition hall and made all of the preparations. With him was a father and young daughter from Bitlis. The father, Shahin Choban, was the former head of the Bitlis organization of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and is still a member of the executive committee. The daughter, Betul Choban, a young girl with an Islamic-style headscarf, greeted us warmly; she is a young Kurdish academic teaching Kurdish language and culture to the members of the Diyarbakir and Bitlis bar associations.
The father and daughter were very upset that we had chosen to stay in a hotel and not with them at their home (a typical local sensitivity and generosity towards guests). In the lobby, despite being tired after a long day in Diyarbakir (and then a three-and-a-half-hour drive along a narrow, winding road between high rugged mountains and through a harsh snow storm), a warm talk started amongst us.
Shahin Choban’s paternal grandmother was Armenian; she survived the genocide by sheer chance. His daughter Betul told the story: She was from a nearby village. A stream crossed the village dividing it into two, the upper and lower villages. She was visiting somebody at the other side of the stream when her own neighbourhood was forcefully evacuated. She found her door sealed with no word from her two small kids and husband thereafter. She never heard of them and never knew what happened to them until the end of her life. A Muslim man took her for a wife and changed her name to Fatma.
“What was her Armenian name?” we asked. Betul’s dark eyes looked at us sadly: “She never told us. ‘Nene’ never spoke. She turned her back to everything in life. I only remember her softly singing a lullaby under her breath and then, when it was over, she would take a deep breath and sound a painful ‘Ahhhhhh’ from deep inside.” Ah… It is an exclamation of sorrow shared by Muslim and non-Muslim peoples of Asia Minor alike.
Members of the Choban family were all engaged in the Kurdish political movement. All four children were well educated and had a deep national and political awareness. All were also very much interested in the Armenian history of their hometown—curious, willing to learn more, and supportive of activities against genocide denial.
Betul never left Sarafian’s side even for a moment the day during the exhibition, translating Kurdish comments into Turkish for him.
‘Ez Qurbana te bim’: I could die for you
On March 1, the first day of the exhibition, two new BDP local election offices were opened, and a rally was organized with the “Peace Mothers,” as they call them—the mothers of Kurdish guerillas, some killed, some lost; their families do not know of their whereabouts. It was easy to identify them from a distance, because all of the Peace Mothers wore large and long white shawls to cover their heads and shoulders, made of very thin cotton. The highpoint of the day—a day full of warm reception and stories of Islamized Armenian grandmas and grandpas—was when one of the Peace Mothers came, almost stormed in, went up to Sarafian, hugged him tightly, and with tears in her eyes said, “Ez Qurbana te bim” in Kurdish, which literally means, “I would die for you,” a powerful expression of affection. The word Qurban/Kurban is a common word in Turkish, Kurdish, and the local Armenian dialect and signifies “sacrifice.” While still holding him, she continued to speak in Kurdish, with Betul trying to catch up with her words to translate them to Sarafian. “Welcome my dear son. Thank you for bringing this to us. How happy I am to see you here. Your people are my people… My grandfather was Armenian… You look so much like my uncle. He was dark-skinned just like you with dark eyebrows and eyes.”
The woman was crying and Sarafian, no matter how hard he tried (it was quite apparent) couldn’t stop the flow of his tears, either. And at that moment I looked around and saw many people around them crying as well. It was as if a bright spotlight had illuminated these two persons, one an old Kurdish mother and the other an Armenian historian. Later in the hotel, Sarafian told me not to write about the woman’s Armenian ancestry, “because what made us cry was not our shared Armenian ancestry, it had nothing to do with blood, it had to do with our ability to feel each other’s injuries and a humanly encounter of two sad stories.”
After the exhibition, we sat with a group of visitors and talked about Armenians, Kurds, and responsibilities. A young Kurd asked Sarafian what he thought about the properties that once belonged to Armenians, which now after many generations are inhabited by Kurds, and how, in his view, this could be settled justly. “Some powerful Kurdish families got rich in 1915 because they took an active role on the side of the governent to plunder and murder Armenians,” answered Sarafian. “After the departure of the Armenians, many ordinary Kurds were also settled in former Armenian homes and given land by the Turkish state—even decades later. Over the years, former Armenian homes were also bought and sold as a matter of course. So, the ‘land question,’ as some Armenians raise it, is a complicated issue. I personally am not sure what ‘giving back’ land to Armenians actually means, especially as Kurds are generally poor peasants, who have suffered greatly in the Turkish Republic, while Armenians have become an urbanized people who no longer work on land.”
He added, “As for Bitlis Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, it is recorded that unlike some other places, the local authorities appointed by the Committee of Union and Progress didn’t even pretend to deport them, the Bitlis Armenians were massacred right on the spot, so that no one was left alive. It was for this reason the descendants of the Bitlis Armenians were usually the grandchildren of those who left Bitlis for foreign countries before 1915 for a better life.”
Sarafian: ‘Justice for all’
Another curious visitor wanted to know what Sarafian thought of the recent apologies made by Kurdish individuals. “Kurdish politicians and opinion makers have been repeatedly apologizing for Kurds’ role in the genocide, but some say apology is not enough, and Kurds should give Armenians back their lands,” he said. The young man seemed quite sincere, without any note of hostility in his tone. Sarafian didn’t hesitate: “I find that there is something insensitive when an Armenian activist talks about ‘giving back’ lands to Armenians. Such statements rightfully frighten otherwise sympathetic Kurds and Turks, who fear that Armenians want to hurt them, to drive them out of their homes, and throw them off their lands—the source of their meagre living. And such fears are readily manipulated by Turkish nationalists and other Armenian haters. I can say from my own experience that whenever I have had a serious discussion of such issues with Armenians, most Armenians have expressed sensitivity to ordinary Kurds and Turks, as well as sentiments for lasting peace and compromise. Any solution to the Armenian issue should be just to all the parties involved, including Turks and Kurds. I think we should seek the truth as well as justice for all. However, we need to create a consensus amongst such people, based on truth, mutual respect and empathy, to carry the issue forward. That is why we need to create ‘peace activists’ to set the course despite opposition from different quarters.”
A young girl seemed excited as she tried to formulate her question: “They say it was not the Turks but Kurds who massacred Armenians. But my grandmother used to tell us how their tribe accepted a whole caravan of Armenian deportees and didn’t give them to the Ottoman army, helping them to escape.”
Sarafian nodded. “The Turkish nationalist narrative has changed over the years,” he said. “For decades, official Turkey maintained that nothing happened in 1915 and that the genocide issue was fabricated by Armenian terrorists. Then they stated that Armenians were a rebellious people who were only resettled away from the eastern war zones as a security measure. Recently they chose to admit that some people were killed during deportations, not by Turks, but by Kurds and Arabs. Of course, this is all nonsense, because the Ottoman state, the Committee of Union and Progress, the predecessors to modern Turkey, organized the killings through various agencies, including some Kurdish tribes, local leaders, and other irregular forces. One good example is the murder of the first caravan of Armenian merchants, notables, and intellectuals who were sent off by Governor Reshit Bey of Diyarbakir. He personally organized the caravan to be sent off under government escort, handed over to a Kurdish brigand leader, and murdered. Most Kurds were probably bystanders, and many Kurds also saved Armenians. Not all Kurds participated in the mass murder of Armenians. In some cases, entire tribes were ordered by their leaders to actively save Armenians in places like Beshiri (near Diyarbakir) and Mutki (near Bitlis).”
‘Khatchkars’ of the village Bor
It was Betul who took us to the village of Por (officially, Degirmenalti) on the second day, very close to the Bitlis city center. There, she said, was the Armenian Church, Sourp Anania, which dates back to the 6th or 7th century, renovated in the 15th century. The poverty in the village was heart wrenching. Betül explained that those villages that had refused to be “village guards” (meaning state-appointed militia to fight the PKK) were punished by the state, which deprived them of all kinds of services, roads, electricity, water, employment, etc. Bor was one of these villages. The youngsters greeted us with curious eyes, and helped us get inside the church, where we saw the altar, the arches, and tombed roof. The villagers store their hays stacked in bales, which gave a very fresh, clean smell of grass. There were fascinating khatchkars around the church, about three meters high with beautifully carved decorations. The website http://virtualani.org/por/index.htm has a great deal of information about these khatchkars alongside with the church. It is noted that “Except for the khatchkars at Aprank, Degirmenalti village contains the most important collection of Armenian khatchkars now surviving in Turkey. They seem to mostly date from the 14th and early 15th centuries, from the period of the site’s use as a monastery.”
It was a relief that the villagers were quite willing to speak about Armenians, saying that it was an Armenian village before and they had all been deported.
Armenian heritage and the ‘Kurdish freedom movement’
Before Tatvan we flew into Diyarbakir. The first place we visited was the Sourp Giragos Church, which I had seen and photographed before its restoration—and after, with my colleagues from the HRA, during its opening ceremony and the first religious service since the genocide. In the courtyard now were many visitors, students from the university, and inmates learning more about Armenian masonry to practice in their workshop in prison.
We met people, grandsons of Armenians converted to Islam during and after the genocide, who had returned to Christianity and their ancestors’ Armenian identity. One of them told us how a Muslim family had saved his grandfather’s and his grandaunt’s lives and raised them as their own children, until the head of the family got them married (when they reached their 20s) and built them each a house in their ancestors’ village. Of course, their names were changed to Muslim names. Forced assimilation is an integral part of genocide, but preserving one’s Armenian identity would have meant death for the individual and for the ones who took him/her into their family. The man who had regained his Armenian identity said, “Me and all my family, my relatives, owe our lives, everything we have now, to that Muslim family.”
One of us asked another man, a Kurd, middle-aged, solemn, and apparently knowing a lot about the local state of affairs, if any incidents of harassment had taken place against the church. He smiled. “No, never.” “But,” we insisted, “there may be unidentified persons, even some state-sponsored attempts to upset those in charge of the church.” Now he decided to speak more clearly: “The party would not let. They announced that they prohibited any act against the church.” I said, “Party? You mean the BDP?” “No,” he said. “The Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan,” as in the Kurdistan Workers Party—the PKK. That was the end of my questioning.
I remembered what Sarafian had said when we first met in Diyarbakir: “Leading Kurdish circles, including the BDP, seem to have a better understanding of these issues and have come a long way in putting their cards down and reaching out to Armenians for a just settlement of past injustices. Here in Diyarbakir, they have ensured that Sourp Giragos Church is renovated and returned to Armenians. Where Sourp Giragos had endowed properties in the city, the city of Diyarbekir has compensated them with land of equal value outside of the city—not by throwing Kurdish families on the street.”
Another episode that was quite moving was our talk in the exhibition hall with a beautiful young girl with a black headscarf loosely covering her hair. She told us about a village called Chapkis (which I had seen in Sarafian’s maps) near Norshin, an Armenian village before 1915. She said there was an Armenian cemetery near the village and that gravestones were still standing with engravings on them. “Several times the government wanted to destroy the cemetery and the gravestones. And guess what the villagers did! Each time they came, the villagers gathered and stood against heavy-duty vehicles, bulldozers, and cranes. This was due to the Kurdish freedom movement (a general term covering the civil and armed branches of the Kurdish movement), which raised the Kurdish people’s awareness of the Armenian heritage in the region.
‘We recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide’
Telling, too, was the book in which visitors to the exhibition could write their impressions. A Kurdish lawyer, in fact the chairman of the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (union of Kurdish lawyers) and the HDP (the sister party of the BDP in the western provinces of Turkey), and co-chair candidate for the Bagcilar district of Istanbul, Firat Epozdemir, wrote: “We [as Kurds] recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide. But the genocide should not be [an] obstacle to the cooperation between the Kurdish and Armenian peoples. We hope that together we will reveal the truths in the history and stand side by side in a land full of freedom and fraternity.”
In the plane flying back to Istanbul, I close my eyes and leave myself floating in a kaleidoscope of generous faces, bright eyes, mostly of women, voices in my ears repeating their commitment to seek justice. And at the same time I see the lonely khatchkars with all their beauty resisting time and human destruction, silent, yet telling so much about a lost world.
Ayse Gunaysu
Ayse Gunaysu is a professional translator, human rights advocate, and feminist. She has been a member of the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (Istanbul branch) since 1995, and is a columnist for Ozgur Gundem. Since 2008, she writes a column titled "Letters from Istanbul," for the Armenian Weekly.
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ALBERT MELKONIAN says:
You are a great human being!
Harry Milian says:
As a descendant of survivors who fled from Bitlis to Adar Pazar/Ismidt
it’s great to believe that a revival is possible.
movses movsesian says:
I would greatly appreciate a detailed map of Kharpert(preferably in English) showing cities, towns and villages such that I could make a copy to study, especially the village of Khouloo, my parant’s former home.Thank you in advance. (734) 455-4828
Wonderful article that gives one hope of justice for all that inhabit this land. I especially appreciate the mention that returning of properties and land should be done in a way that benefits all. As an Armenian, I welcome the idea of reparations for what was lost in the Armenian Genocide, but done in such a way that is considerate of those Turks and Kurds that live on that land now. Yes, it may not be pure justice, i.e. as these properties and lands were stolen from Armenians through genocide, but I personally would not want to benefit at the expense of people now that really had nothing to do with the Genocide. Rather, I would hope that arrangements can be accommodated such that all people involved can benefit from the exchange. Not saying this will be easy, but it is the way that in the long run I believe will be best.
Ohannes Avedikyan says:
Excellent.Thank you.
Bedros Zerdelian says:
Thank you. God bless all of you.
It’s very touchy and impressive subject.
My ancestors are from Mounjousoun, near Talas and Siirt south west of Bitlis.
Bedros Zerdelian
Ayse Gunaysu says:
Dear Bedros, I was greatly moved to see the name of the village your ancestors were from: Mounjousoun. In Turkish/Kurdish they call Mancısın. I was moved because the mother of Maritsa Kucuk, the old Armenian lady killed in her home brutally in Samatya, Istanbul, on 28th December 2012, was from Mancısın. The mother was first made to marry to a Muslim man, but after his death (whereafter the family of her Muslim husband stole from her two children) she married to another genocide survivor, Khatchig and had four children. One of them was Maritsa Kucuk who fell victim of a hate crime – continuation of the Genocide. I thank all others who commented on the article for their appreciation I hope I deserve. Ayse
Zeki says:
“One of them was Maritsa Kucuk who fell victim of a hate crime – continuation of the Genocide.”
A big call Ms Gunaysu! Particularly in light of media reports that Murat Nazaryan (a Turkish/Armenian) was identified by one of the victims and physical evidence was found in his home. Has any other hard evidence surfaced that should be brought to public attention with respect to this case?
There is absolutely no independent corroboration of evidence that Murat Nazaryan is the one responsible.
The announcement by Turkish police that there a blood match is a lie, unless independently verified.
All we have is the word of the perennially lying Denialist Turkish State.
All eyewitness accounts indicate multiple individuals involved in the attacks: at least one perpetrator and one ‘lookout’ guy.
At best, Murat Nazaryan is a mentally unstable patsy used by whoever organized these hate-crime murders of Armenians.
Also, Murat Nazaryan has retracted his ‘confession’, which he states was obtained under duress.
The purported motive for the attack, robbery, does not match the viciousness of the attacks on these frail, elderly women, who could not possibly offer any resistance to a robber.
Why would the Turkish court seal the results of the investigation into these murders if it is an open-and-shut case ?
The whole Turkish denialist system is corrupt: the courts, the cops, everybody.
How is it that the real organizers of the Hrant Dink conspiracy murder have not been identified ?
You denialist Turks actually believe the idiot Ogün Samast did it on his own ?
Despite all the evidence and eyewitness testimony that Sevag Balıkçı’s murder was premeditated, the corrupt Turkish court ruled that Sevag’s death was accidental.
When it comes to Armenians and Armenian issues, every action by the corrupt Denialist Turkish State is suspect, unless proved otherwise.
From article @TZ:
[Was Nazaryan alone in the attacks against elderly Armenian women?]
(ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ 28 November 2013)
{However, as soon as families of the victims started to get involved in the case, some suspicious elements started to emerge once again. The prosecutor, for example, declared the file confidential and barred victims from accessing the file.}
{. … Nazaryan remained silent [during] the first two hearings. The only thing he said was, ‘I didn’t kill anyone.’ At the hearing on Nov. 4, 2013, the truth began to slowly emerge. Maritsa Küçük was killed by three people who had taken Nazaryan along by force. They had guns. … [Nazaryan] mentioned gangs. He said he had kept silent because he was bullied and frightened}
Your being rather hysterical and nonsensical Avery. There is no such thing as a reverse onus of proof – “unless otherwise proved”. Criminal law simply doesn’t work that way.
Secondly, you state:
“Murat Nazaryan is a mentally unstable patsy”
then go onto say:
So logically disconnected it defies comprehension. Mentally unstable people have been known to commit vicious crimes. We simply do not know in this instance. How is it that you have become so definitive?
The TZ article raises questions that should be investigated. It may be serious or it may be the ramblings of a mental patient. But by itself it says nothing about implicating the state or particularly about continuation of a genocide as unequivocally stated by Ms. Gunaysu. Furthermore, active criminal files are often confidential including from the victims families. Nothing controversial with that.
Nevertheless, I asked a question of Ms. Gunaysu about a how she arrived at her conclusion in the absence of a proven premise. Hopefully she will enlighten us.
G. Nishan Gerjekian says:
Ms. Gunaysu, I have been wanting to thank you for your contributions to the Armenian Weekly for quite some time now. This article has moved so much that that time is now. I always look forward to your articles and commend you on your assistance in the acquisiton of Justice for the Armenian Genocide. God Bless and keep you. Achked Louys!!
I would like to thank Mr. Ara Sarafian.
This exhibition is such vital work in educating those who now live on our ancestral homelands. It shows how the Armenians were such an integral part of this landscape from the beginning of time.
Keep up the good work. Vartsked Gadar!!
{“ Your being rather hysterical and nonsensical Avery. There is no such thing as a reverse onus of proof – “unless otherwise proved”. Criminal law simply doesn’t work that way.”}
The one being hysterical and nonsensical is you, Zeki.
Re-read your own posts, and mine.
{“ How is it that you have become so definitive?”}
{“…in light of media reports that Murat Nazaryan (a Turkish/Armenian) was identified by one of the victims and physical evidence was found in his home.”}( Zeki // March 30, 2014 at 9:57 pm //)
How is it that you yourself have become so definitive ?
Based on what ?
Based on what the corrupt Anti-Armenian Turkish cops leaked to the press ?
How is your ‘media reports’ reference any more definitive than this: {“… At the hearing on Nov. 4, 2013, the truth began to slowly emerge. Maritsa Küçük was killed by three people who had taken Nazaryan along by force.”}? (OKC @TZ)
I gave you two other definitive examples of murders committed against Turkish-Armenians that were covered up by the habitually lying Turkish State.
When an entity consistently lies, one must assume it lies in this case as well, unless there is incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
Not only there is no evidence to the contrary, but there is ample reason for well founded disbelief in anything the Turkish law enforcement bodies present as evidence implicating Murat Nazaryan.
Your Denialitus addled brain is incapable of understanding a simple logical preposition: {“ There is no such thing as a reverse onus of proof – “unless otherwise proved”. Criminal law simply doesn’t work that way.}( Zeki // March 31, 2014 at 9:39 am //)
In a normal society, that would be true.
Not for the Denialist State of Turkey, its employees, and the super-majority denialist society therein: it is not a normal society.
The entire country is based on lies.
The Denialist State of Turkey is based on lies: the State and its employees are assumed to be lying when it concerns crimes against Armenians.
You want enlightenment from Ms. Gunaysu ?
Here, enlighten yourself.
[Gunaysu: The Reign of Lies in Turkey]
https://armenianweekly.com/2012/05/11/gunaysu-the-reign-of-lies-in-turkey/
You want more enlightenment ?
Read OKC’s article @TZ: he answered your desperate attempt to whitewash hate-crimes against Armenians 6 months ago.
Anything bad that happens to Armenians in Turkey _has_ to be assumed to be an Anti-Armenian hate crime, by definition.
Here is why:
1895: 300,000 Armenian civilians murdered by Turks; hate crime.
1909: 30,000 Armenian civilians murdered by Turks; hate crime.
1915-1923: 1,500,000 Armenian civilians subjected to Genocide; the Mother of all Hate Crimes.
Here’s my answer to Zeki:
I and my friends are personally with the victim’s family from the first day. We are following closely the investigation and the legal process. Küçük family’s lawyer Eren Keskin has been asking the court at every hearing why the public prosecutor didn’t included the 3 other attacks on elderly Armenian ladies and why didn’t the police started any investigation on the cases. These happened within one and a half month. The common characteristic of attacks were that they were old, they were women and they were Armenian. We personally talked to the families of other victims. They all told us that (including Maritsa Kucuk’s family) although they (the perpetrators) had enough time in the victim’s flat they didn’t search anything, they didn’t even take the banknotes on the table. The police from the first date asked the Kucuk family to keep silent and not to talk anyone. THey didn’t. During our visit two days after the killing and the funeral in the church we repeatedly offered help, but they avoided us for two months, listening to the police. But when Nazaryan was caught, they themselves called me (I had given them my phone number) because it was clear that the whole thing would be covered up – catching a helpless, homeless, jobless, drug addict Armenian to shut our mouths. I repeat: The police didn’t even opened any formal investigation for Turfanda Aşık, who stayed in the intensive care unit for weeks, and lost one eye as a result of severe beating going on for many minutes, punching on the head. Her granddaughter said: “My yaya is an Anatolian woman, so tidy, not even a drawer was opened”. The person thought she was dead, so he escaped. Turfanda Aşık was beaten for minutes, kicked and dragged she had her purse in her hand but the person didn’t even attempt to take the purse. The attacks were not that of a robbery. The families are sure of that. You, Zeki, I will not answer your questions any further. But what did you done when you heard the brutal killing of Maritsa Kucuk, a granddaughter of a genocide survivor. What have you done for her and for her family. Her children are living on pills. Have you seen them, have you talked to them, have you asked them what police said for weeks – to keep silent and not talk to anyone? Have you given one minute of your life to look into the case closer?
Your acts in helping the families affected are certainly commendable Ms Gunaysu. The problem is that you appear to have relied on anecdotal evidence sufficient to support your position. At best you have exposed sloppy police work but not much more. So suggesting that these criminal cases are “continuation of the Genocide” is drawing an extremely long bow and one that you simply cannot substantiate with anything other than anecdotal evidence.
To answer your question, which is a poorly veiled attempt at ad hominem by the way. No, I haven’t done anything for the families. But so what, does that change the legitimacy of the question I posed to you? Surely you can’t expect unsubstantiated comments to go unchallenged.
The entire non-anecdotal ‘evidence’ the denialist Zeki has relied on is this:
{“….Particularly in light of media reports…”}
As is to be expected from the Delialitis addled mind of a barrister who received his law degree from Turkish Hysterical University, Halaçoğlu School of Law, Ms. Gunaysu’s close, personal involvement with the case, including the victims, the kin of the victims, the attorneys, the police, etc carries less weight than this non-anecdotal ‘evidence’:
Oh yeah, “media reports” is definitely non-anecdotal ‘evidence’.
Of course it is.
Surely you can’t expect denialist shills to go unchallenged on the Comment pages of ArmenianWekkly, can you, Zeki ?
Zeki, you talk like tne Turkish History Authority (TTK) who continuously ask for a document proving the Genocide. Or the Turkish government asking for a document evidencing the bribery. Or the French insurance company (I forgot the name)back in 1915 asking for death certificates to pay the compensation of the Armenians massacred in valleys, rivers, during the death march. I am talking about the big picture. Armenian Genocide survivors in Anatolia were step by step subjected to deportations sometimes by official orders, sometimes by threats by some kind of gangs threatening people, burning their houses, so that a considerable number of Armenian households from Kayseri, Tokat, Adana, Antep, Diyarbakır etc. (Read Talin Suciyan’s doctoral thesis, it will be published soon in English) They mainly came to Istanbul and mainly settled in Samatya. They are concentrated so that they can be an easy target and easily controlled, monitored, recorded. They have been living there feeling unsafe, feeling always under pressure to prove their loyalty, careful not to be nvolved in politics in any way, under an overwhelming official and also civil denialist world – denialism firmly established as a way of living in Turkey (but of course you are not aware at all). THis is continuation of genocide. A series of deadly attacks on Armenian old women without a proper investigation by the police and by the security authorities is part of this big picture. And big picture is denialism – continuation of genocide. Don’t ask me proof, evidence, papers proving it, I don’t have them. But I have mental capacity, sensitivity to observe, to discover the connections and to draw conclusions. One see what one wants to see. You don’t want to see. That’s the point.
My granfather’s family perished in Bitlis in 1916, their lives ending brutally. Nothing left behind, not even a memory. I do not ever expect Ayse hanim to ever think of making a mention of such trivial issues in an article like this.
Yervant Dikran Turpanciyan (Topoyan) says:
Dear Ayse Gunaysu:
Thank you for the Work you do for Humanity. May GOD give you the Wisdom and Energy to continue your Valuable Work! As for Me? Hear me out for the First time, I’m writing on this topic:I belong to both of the Worlds; the Old & the New!! I was born in LICE/Diyarbakir. Grew up with Kurdish Kids, Age of Ten moved to Diyarbakir, age of twelve brought to Istanbul/Sisli, Karagozyan yetimhanesi, at age of Forteen went to Surp Hac Tibrevank (Ermeni Ruhban okulu)in Uskudar/Istanbul. Graduaded in 1962 and came to America. Been here since…. Did not know anything about Armenian Genocide when I Arrived At U.S.A. Subsequently and very fast I learned: My father from Palu/Elazig had lost six brothers; All killed during GENOCIDE of 1915.In Palu, they had Farms, Homes, Animals,Vineyards. They were Big Family. All was confiscated, taken away from them, besides their lives, and they were left with nothing……. They were scared to Death, that’s why they never mentioned to us Kids, now that I relies it.My Dad and Mom were able to hide in a Kurdish Family Barn to Save their Lives!Life is so Precious!! Ayse,If you come across on any Information, Historical nature or Trip on Either; Lice/Diyarbakir or Palu/ Elazig, Please Keep me Posted. I’m very interested especially in my father’s Birth Place of Palu. Thank you in advance. Y.D.T.
Barev Yervant! Your story sounds a lot like my father’s. He was born south of Diyarbakir and spoke Kurdish growing up, our forefathers are also from Palu but they left before the genocide and went south. It always give me great joy to meet other Palu Armenians! I wish you all the best.
husayn says:
hello i am living on the bitlist.in the past, the armenians and the Kurds have experienced great genocide.and i think it is important that you and us are talking about the genocide
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Purim: Seeking Unity Toward Positive Reversals
Woodcut carved by Johann von Armssheim (1483). Portays a disputation between Christian and Jewish scholars (Soncino Blaetter, Berlin, 1929. Jerusalem, B. M. Ansbacher Collection).
by Baila Olidort - New York
“Said Rabbi Judah the Prince, ‘[G-d says:] So great is the virtue of peace among the Jews, that even when they are idolatrous, if peace reigns among them, I cannot hurt them.’” (Midrash Rabbah)
When, back in the middle ages, a Jewish convert to Christianity brought his grievances against the Jews to Pope Gregory IX, his complaints led to the famous Disputations of 1240. Four rabbis were forced to stand trial in defense of the Talmud against Nicholas Donin’s accusations.
The rabbis roundly won the dispute, but the repercussions were disastrous: The Talmud was condemned, and on June 17, 1244, twenty-four wagons loaded with manuscripts of the Torah and the Talmud were thrown into the fire, burnt in the streets of Paris.
Betrayal of this sort ranks at the very bottom of human vices. The idea that a member of the “tribe” would fuel the flames of anti-Semitism which gave the Jews—always at the mercy of the church—no peace, is, arguably, an irredeemable offense.
Nowadays, such activity often takes place under the guise of politically correct pretenses. Possibly those who make common cause with Israel’s enemies believe that we are secure enough to sustain this kind of internal rupture. Perhaps they think that fidelity to family is an irrelevant value in these progressive times. Or maybe they don’t even feel themselves part of the family.
But this chilling insouciance toward the fate and future of the Jewish people bespeaks a failure on the part of the community as well. For if we are responsible for one another, then we are responsible for our kin who stand apart from the community, disconnected from and indifferent to the wellbeing of the Jewish state and the Jewish people. We are responsible for this failing that exposes us and endangers our security.
The Megillah does not tell us this explicitly, but some commentators derive from Haman’s words to King Ahasueros a climate of disunity among the Jewish people: “There is a certain people scattered and divided among the nations. . . .”—a condition, say the sages, that put the Jewish people at a constitutional disadvantage, making them susceptible to Haman’s scheme of Jewish annihilation.
We don’t know the nature of the disunity among the Jews during that period of Jewish history, but to be sure, it was not about the community’s unwillingness, as some complain, to entertain disagreement. The Jewish people have a long tradition of fierce polemics. The Talmud itself is a rarefied repository of contentious debate and theoretical wrangling between Israel’s great sages. Two Jews, three opinions, and hair-splitting is a thriving Jewish pastime. But only when we argue with one another for the sake of Heaven.
Whatever may have divided the Jews during the Purim saga, Esther, the Megillah indicates, assessed the situation and quickly discerned her people’s weakest link that Haman hoped to exploit. In her response to Mordechai upon learning of Haman’s plot, she says: “Gather the Jews and fast for three days . . .” Fasting would not be enough. The Jewish people, she told Mordechai, must come together and repair the fissures that weaken us against our enemies.
When we are motivated by a love for the transcendent values of G-d, Torah and the Jewish people, our differences bolster us in the face of assault. But there is no such love among Jewish activists who work to punish and demonize Israel on the world stage as our enemies look on gleefully. When stabbing Jews has become a free sport that no longer makes headlines, and questions about Israel’s right to exist are bandied about as a legitimate issue for debate, we are right to feel outrage.
We are right to be ashamed that there are Jews who choose to remain silent, right to be appalled that some would go so far as to lend a hand to our enemies. Our disquietude is not without cause. Still, Mordechai’s promise to Esther echoes with comforting resonance: were she to remain silent at this time of crisis, he promised, “deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place.” We believe this to be true today as well, but we cannot ignore the disunity that diminishes us as a nation. We must reach even those on the far periphery who have lost their sense of place and belonging within the family of Israel. This may be our greatest challenge today.
Today, we need to support Jewish leaders who nurture Jewish unity and pride wherever Jews feel threatened or alone. Especially on college campuses where anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism now run rampant, these efforts are critical, and because of them, many Jewish students have chosen to identify proudly, and speak out fearlessly. With dedication and commitment, we can achieve, as Esther did in her day, a positive reversal in the life of our people.
Happy Purim!
Raanan
The Anti-Semitism runs rampant because its fueled by Arab groups who are affiliated with Israel's push for peace.
They hope to put pressure on Jews worldwide in order that those Jews should pressure Israel to give more land.
If you notice, Israel is completely quiet on the BDS issue. BDS works in their best interest, as it makes Israel appear as if they have no choice and must give land.
The problem with this thought process as the Lubavitcher Rebbe points out, is that each signing of gifts of land to the terrorists only encourages more acts of terror.
Hence, the answer according the Lubavitcher Rebbe is for Israel to back out of peace talks. To end Camp David and Oslo.
When this happens, then the terror against Jews will cease, as they stopped getting rewarded.
This is the mantra Shluchim need to voice. The Rebbe's voice: That Israel end its romance with giving land in exchange for terror, missiles and death.
Raanan Isserof
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Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency (Lexington Books, 2016)
“Is there an ecological style of engaging with things that aren’t me, yet share and even overlap with my being in some sense? The paradoxes and absurdities of existence have only become heightened as we have entered an ecological age, and it’s about time a writer committed to existentialism took up the challenge of working with those paradoxes. This book is up to speed with the ethical implications of our growing understanding of the symbiotic real and with what the author, quoting Björk, calls its necessary sense of ’emergency.’ In trenchant and engaging prose, not to mention deep engagements with philosophy, Sam Mickey lays it out for you.”
— Timothy Morton, Rice University
“With refreshing style and intellectual forcefulness, Sam Mickey widens the scope of existentialism and shows how it offers important resources to address our urgent ecological situation. Here existentialism becomes coexistentialism, and through it we glimpse a chance to strengthen our existence together on a fragile planet. Make this book part of your coexistence!”
— Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
The Variety of Integral Ecologies:
Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era
Edited by Sam Mickey, Sean Kelly, and Adam Robbert (SUNY Press, 2017)
In the current era of increasing planetary interconnectedness, ecological theories and practices are called to become more inclusive, complex, and comprehensive. The diverse contributions to this book offer a range of integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities and sciences and help us understand and respond to today’s ecological challenges. The contributors provide detailed analyses of assorted integral ecologies, drawing on such founding figures and precursors as Thomas Berry, Leonardo Boff, Holmes Rolston III, Ken Wilber, and Edgar Morin. Also included is research across the social sciences, biophysical sciences, and humanities discussing multiple worldviews and perspectives related to integral ecologies. The Variety of Integral Ecologies is both an accessible guide and an advanced supplement to the growing research for a more comprehensive understanding of ecological issues and the development of a peaceful, just, and sustainable planetary civilization.
Whole Earth Thinking and Planetary Coexistence: Ecological Wisdom at the Intersection of Religion, Ecology, and Philosophy (Routledge, 2015).
“Sam Mickey has produced an insightful study of the intersection of religion, ecology, and philosophy. Drawing on such seminal thinkers as Thomas Berry, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, the author weaves an engaging narrative of a way toward Whole Earth thinking.”
–Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University
“Philosophically precise, ethically capacious, and accessibly written, Whole Earth Thinking and Planetary Coexistence is a wonderful addition to discourses on religion, philosophy, and ecology. Sam Mickey’s careful and generous depictions of geophilosophy (informed by Deleuze and Guattari) and earth community (informed by Thomas Berry and others) serve as helpful guides to some of the vexing environmental issues facing different parts of the planet in the present day. His treatments of various religious and philosophical traditions demonstrate the vitality of multiple ways of human knowing and relating in an era of ecological change. Both erudite and accessible, this text is a wonderful guide for students and will also serve as a useful resource for interdisciplinary scholars of environmental philosophy and religion and ecology.”
–Christiana Peppard, Fordham University
On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014).
“This book is much needed. The book skilfully and articulately brings together difficult concepts from the philosophies of event-oriented ontology, object-oriented ontology, and speculative realism to bear on our contemporary ecological crises. Furthermore, the book does not merely think about ecology, but begins to ask how ecological thinking changes our ways of thinking, doing ethics, and philosophizing in general.”
— Whitney Bauman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Florida International University
“The ongoing reinvention of our thought tradition is soaring into the task of developing a new philosophy of Earth, a philosophy of Gaia, a philosophy powerful enough to effect a fundamental transformation of humanity’s functioning within the enveloping community of life. For anyone interested in joining this historic venture, there is no better pathway in than Sam Mickey’s book.”
— Brian Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies.
“Reading major postmodern theorists in the light of integral theory, Sam Mickey’s path-breaking book points the way to environmentalism of the future. He has made an important contribution toward our understanding of the emergent, subtle, and complex entwining of humankind and nature. Highly recommended for those who want to understand the cutting edge of contemporary environmental theory.”
— Michael E. Zimmerman, professor of philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey (Routledge, 2017).
“This innovative and engaging anthology on women and nature reveals the ongoing relevance of ecofeminism in today’s global world by emphasizing postcolonialism, ecocriticism, queer ecology, animality, and feminist materialism. Anyone interested in the nuances and complexities of the women-nature connection across histories, belief-systems, and regions will want to buy this book.”
— Carolyn Merchant, University of California at Berkeley
“The myriad ways that Earthly bodies – both human and nonhuman – continue to be bound by structures of patriarchy and domination requires sustained analysis. This transnational, transdisciplinary volume brings the lens of ecofeminism to bear on timely topics, including transgender studies, animal studies, and the new materialism.”
— Elizabeth Allison, California Institute of Integral Studies
“This fresh and exciting collection identifies privileges and invisibilities overlooked in earlier ecofeminist thinking. Authors call for ethical self-reflexivity and deep questioning of heteronormative assumptions reflecting a wide range of interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and cross-cultural perspectives. From ecosickness narratives to borderlands ecofeminism, this set of papers provides a rich and timely offering by deeply thoughtful scholars across the globe.”
― Stephanie Kaza, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont
Ecofeminism in Dialogue, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey (Lexington, 2017).
There are countless ways of thinking, feeling, and acting like an ecofeminist. Ecofeminism includes a plurality of perspectives, thriving in dialogue between diverse theories and practices involving ecological and feminist matters of concern. Deepening the dialogue, the contributors in this anthology explore critical and complementary interactions between ecofeminism and other areas of inquiry, including ecocriticism, postcolonialism, geography, environmental law, religion, geoengineering, systems thinking, family therapy, and more. This volume aims to further the cultural and literary theories of ecofeminism by situating them in conversation with other interpretations and analyses of intersections between environment, gender, and culture. This anthology is a unique combination of contemporary, interdisciplinary, and global perspectives in dialogue with ecofeminism, supporting academic and activist efforts to resist oppression and domination and cultivate care and justice.
Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey (Routledge, 2018).
“Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices is a narrative symbiosis of literary and scholarly voices converging on ecofeminist thought. Dealing with various themes, issues, and concerns of ecofeminism, the 13 chapters weave truly compelling connections across different literary voices. The international scholars who make up this collection bring forward the ecofeminist voices of Native American, African American, English, Scottish, American, Taiwanese, Caribbean, Spanish, Indian, and South African writers in powerful and dynamic ways. The topics are diverse and refreshing, covering Shakespeare’s Ophelia, 18th century British critic Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Austin, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Pancake, Peter Matthiessen, Linda Hogan, Jade Chen, and, surprisingly, T.S. Eliot. They all help expand the repertoire of ecofeminism in this skillfully prepared collection.”
— Serpil Oppermann, Professor of English, Hacettepe University and President of EASLCE
“Ever since its origins, ecofeminism has advocated for the dismantling of all the interweaved forms of oppression that encapsulate women, nonhuman animals, marginal humans, and whatever subject has been marked as “other” by dominants systems of power, including the earth. Merging with literary studies, these emancipatory stances have found their narratives and new critical landscapes. With its rich plurality of angles and visions, Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices continues to enrich this seminal conversation, demonstrating the key role of feminist ecocriticism in shaping creative epistemologies of liberation that are essential to the imagination of our time.”
— Serenella Iovino, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Turin
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Category Archives: 20th century music
September 30, 2018 1940s, 20th century music, Music, Popular music, Popular singerstalkinghistory2013
There are some problems for the 1944 chart details in that very few are available. However, we do have the top five very clearly recorded. These are:
At number 5 we have Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots with ‘I’m Making Believe’ that entered the charts in November 1944 and for 2 weeks in December were at number 1.
Number 4 had Bing Crosby telling someone that ‘I Love You’. It came into the charts in April 1944 and was 5 weeks at number 1 in May’.
Number 3 was also Bing – this time saying ‘I’ll be Seeing You’. This hit the lists in May 1944 and was number 1 for 4 weeks in July
Number 2 has a slight change in that Bing here was accompanied with the Andrew Sisters who was asking Bing to ‘Don’t Fence Me In’. This hit the charts in November and was number 1 for 8 weeks.
Number 1 had – surprise surperise – was Mr Bing Crosby ‘Swinging on a Star’. That came to the charts in June 1944 and for 9 weeks in August 1944 and beyond was top of the list.
There was a link here. ‘Going My Way’ was a 1944 movie that starred Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald and revolved around a young Priest played by Bing who comes, secretly, to the aid of an older priest who is about to lose his parish. The older Priest – Father Fitzgibbon – was played by Barry Fitzgerald and both asked “Would You Like To Swing On A Star?”. That and “Too – Ra – Loo – Ra – Loo – Ra”, were both part of this motion picture that was not a musical as much as a film that involved music.
The story of “Would You Like To Swing On A Star?” became the key to getting money to save the parish and the song has an interesting history. Jimmy Van Heusen, a song writer who was working on the film was at Crosby’s house for dinner one evening. One of the Crosby’s sons complained of not wanting to go to the school the next day. Crosby looked at his son and said to him, “If you don’t go to school, you might grow up to be a mule. Do you wanna do that?” The rebuke became the inspiration that would inspire an Academy Award Winning song!
In 1941 people were asking ‘How About You’.
September 18, 2018 1940s, 20th century music, Musictalkinghistory2013
“How About You?“ was a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Ralph Freed that was introduced in the 1941 film ‘Babes on Broadway’ by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Now the lyrics of the song are often changed depending on the recording artist but in its original form it was a humorous romantic duet, though rarely has it been recorded that way!
Certain lyrics, especially those with topical references, are often changed based on the time of the performance’s release. For example, the line “Frank Roosevelt’s looks give me a thrill” was changed to “James Durante’s looks” in a 1950s recording by Sinatra, though he did sing it in its original form with Dorsey back in the 1940s.
Burton Lane is said to have approached song writing ‘the way a carpenter approaches cabinet making’! In doing some digging on the matter I find that he had dropped out of school at the age of 15 and was found playing the piano in an Atlantic City hotel where he was heard by George Gershwin’s mother Rose. The tune that he was playing at the time was ‘S’wonderful’ by George Gershwin. Rose allegedly said to him, ‘Not only do you play like George, you look like him’. Lane idolized Gershwin, so that was praised indeed. Burton Lane later claimed that it was George who had encouraged him to start writing popular songs. They certainly remained close friends for the rest of George’s short life – he died on 11th July 1937 just 39 years old.
A 1941 song that asked the question ‘How About You?’
September 18, 2018 1940s, 20th century music, Music, Popular musictalkinghistory2013
1942 sees two ‘new’ singers on the scene
August 29, 2018 1940s, 20th century music, history, People, World War 2talkinghistory2013
The war was now across the whole world but the music of the US in 1942 brought a top five tracks that would last long after the conflict had ended. These were:
At number 5 was ‘A String of Pearls’ by Glenn Miller while, at number 4, Jimmy Dorsey was telling the story of ‘Tangerine’ with Vaughn Monroe’s version very close behind.
Glenn Miller was also at number 3 – this time with ‘Moonlight Cocktail’ – with Paul Whiteman ‘Traveling Light’ at number 2.
At number 1 was Alvino Rey – or Bing Crosby – or Horace Heidt – or the Merry Macs – but, which ever we chose, all will tell us the same story – the story that was ‘Deep in the Heart of Texas’!
Meanwhile in Britain, without any question, the most popular vocalist of the time and place was Vera Lynn – “the forces’ sweetheart”. She sang just about every well-known wartime song in her concerts and in her travels to the troops. I remember my Dad sending a message back to mum and me at home saying they had enjoyed ‘Vera Lynn singing and talking to everyone out in the desert one afternoon – but he could not say where it had happened’. I know he also had two or three more ‘shows’ from Ms Lynn – but he never did say where they were!
There was, however, more than one side to all of this – and that came to the fore in February 1942 when bandleader Tommy Dorsey said of an singer: ‘He’s a great singer, but ya know, you can’t make it without a band. Every singer has got to have a band behind him’. Tommy was talking about a twenty-six-year-old singer who was riding the crest of phenomenal popularity. Wherever this singer appeared with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra he would be greeted with screams, sighs, and fainting spells from a faithful contingent of over-stimulated female bobby-soxers greeting his every phrase, motion, and intonation with loud and rapturous delight.
Having spent the previous seven years paying his musical dues – a tour with a Major Bowes’ amateur unit; a stint as a singing waiter, a year as vocalist with the struggling Harry James orchestra – one Frank Sinatra now felt he was ready for a solo career, even if his boss Tommy Dorsey said he was ‘a damn fool’ for considering it!
Francis Albert Sinatra was born on 12th December 1915 – an American singer, actor, and producer who would become one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He became one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide and would find success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the “bobby soxers” when he released his debut album, ‘The Voice of Frank Sinatra’ in 1946.
Noel Coward and London Pride
August 22, 2018 1940s, 20th century, 20th century music, Music, Radio music, World War 2talkinghistory2013
Noel Coward wrote “London Pride” in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station’s roof damaged by the previous night’s bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he suddenly recalled an old English folk song which had been apparently appropriated by the Germans for their national anthem, and it occurred to him that he could reclaim the melody in a new song. The song started in his head there and then and was finished in a few days.
The song has six verses. The opening lines, repeated three times within the song, are:
London Pride has been handed down to us, London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us, and our pride it forever will be.
The flower mentioned is Saxifraga x urbium, a perennial garden flowering plant historically known as ‘London Pride’. The song was intended to raise Londoners’ spirits during the Blitz. It was also circulated after the July 2005 bombings.
Coward acknowledged one of the traditional cries of London – “Won’t You Buy My Sweet-Smelling Lavender” as the starting-point for the tune, but he also pointed out the similarity with “Deutschland uber alles”, which he claimed was based on the same tune. It contrasts with many of the major-key, grandiose melodies used to celebrate patriotism, including God Save the King and Land of Hope and Glory. Its orchestration also contrasts with those anthems, employing muted strings and a celeste, rather than a pipe organ and a choir.
The words above – the story above – are an introduction to today’s story line. In an hour or so time the full words for London Pride will appear for you – just as it would had done so many years ago!
Here are the lyrics for London Pride as promised a short time ago:
August 21, 2018 1940s, 20th century, 20th century music, Wartime memories, World War 2talkinghistory2013
London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us, and our pride it for ever will be.
Woa, Liza, see the coster barrows, vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high.
Woa, Liza, little London sparrows, Covent Garden Market where the costers cry.
Cockney feet mark the beat of history. Every street pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace The Grace of London Town.
There’s a little city flower every spring unfailing
Growing in the Growing in the crevices by some London railing,
Though it has a Latin name, in town and country-side
We in England call it London Pride.
London Pride has been handed down to us.
London Pride is a flower that’s free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it for ever will be.
Hey lady, when the day is dawning, see the policeman yawning on his lonely beat.
Gay lady, Mayfair in the morning, hear your footsteps echo in the empty street.
Early rain and the pavement’s glistening; all Park Lane in a shimmering gown.
Nothing ever could break or harm the charm of London Town.
In our city darkened now, street and square and crescent,
We can feel our living past in our shadowed present,
Ghosts beside our starlit Thames Who lived and loved and died
Keep throughout the ages London Pride.
Grey city, Stubbornly implanted, Taken so for granted For a thousand years.
Stay, city, Smokily enchanted, Cradle of our memories and hopes and fears.
Every Blitz Your resistance Toughening, From the Ritz To the Anchor and Crown,
Nothing ever could override The pride of London Town.
Songwriters: Noel Coward / Noel Pierce Coward London Pride lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
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BelarusDigest > All > Poland Improves Links with Minsk at the Expence of the Opposition?
Poland Improves Links with Minsk at the Expence of the Opposition?
Ryhor Astapenia Пераклад на ostro.by 18 July 2016
According to Polish MP Robert Winnicki, Poland should stop funding the Belsat TV channel and improve relations with Lukashenka. Although Winnicki remains a marginal figure in Polish politics, his statement is indicative of a new...
According to Polish MP Robert Winnicki, Poland should stop funding the Belsat TV channel and improve relations with Lukashenka. Although Winnicki remains a marginal figure in Polish politics, his statement is indicative of a new political climate in Poland.
Many Belarusian NGOs hoped that the new Polish Government, run by the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), would return to its policy of 2005-2007, when it last had control of the government.
At that time, Poland invested heavily in support for Belarusian democracy by creating the Kalinowski Scholarship programme for students experiencing political repression, and Belsat TV, the only independent channel broadcasting for Belarusians.
However, Poland has recently been reducing its level of support for pro-democracy groups and is trying to improve relations with the Belarusian authorities. Currently, the Polish Parliament has two separate groups on Belarus, one of which frequently lobbies to curry favour with Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
The changes in Polish policy cannot be explained only by attempts to improve relations with Belarusian authorities. The lack of chances for democratic changes as well as brutal repression reduces interest in Belarus among many donors, including Polish ones.
Polish support for Belarusian democracy
The change in policy towards Belarus after PiS's victory in the 2015 parliamentary elections took many by surprise.
Belarusian civil activists expected that the new conservative government would return to its previous policy of 2005-2007, when PiS ruled in Poland and played a crucial role in promoting Belarusian democracy. Poland supported Alexander Milinkevich during the 2006 presidential elections and continued to invest heavily in Belarusian democratic projects.
Belsat probably has the largest budget of any project directed at Belarus Read more
A few days after the dissolution of the mass protests of 2006 in Belarus, Poland announced the creation of the Kalinowski scholarship. The program granted Belarusian democratic activists an opportunity to study in Polish universities with monthly scholarships of about $400 – a considerable sum in Poland at the time. A total of 244 students took advantage of this opportunity in 2006, when the scholarship first came in to effect.
A year later, Poland launched the satellite television station Belsat, with probably the largest budget of any project directed at Belarus. In 2007, the channel received about $6m for launch.
The government of the liberal Civic Platform (PO), which began to rule in Poland in late 2007, continued supporting these projects but gradually decreased their size. On the other hand, the liberal Polish government also increased spending on support of democracy in Belarus in 2010-2011, in connexion with the presidential election and the wave of repression which followed.
According to some sources, Poland then became a mega-donor for the presidential campaign of democratic candidate Uladzimir Niakliajeu, making it perhaps the most well-funded political campaign in Belarus so far.
Poland changes its priorities
Despite expectations, PiS has not returned to its old policy and the budgets of projects aimed at democratising Belarus have started to decrease.
Polish authorities have discontinued the Kalinowski Scholarship programme, creating in its place a smaller programme to support researchers without a political focus. Belsat remains uncertain about its long-term funding. In June, Agnieszka Romaszewska, director of Belsat TV, said that she is worried about the financial stability of the channel "due to the "warming of relations” with Belarus as well as a lack of vision for the prospects of such projects as Belsat TV."
Less is known about political groups which previously received money from the Polish authorities. However, according to rumours, the Polish authorities have decreased support for the Belarusian House in Warsaw, which unites Belarusian émigré politicians holding oppositional views.
These changes are taking place as the Polish government tries to improve relations with the Belarusian government. In March, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski visited Belarus and met with Lukashenka. Later, a delegation of the Belarusian parliament came to Warsaw; this was a real achievement for the Belarusian authorities.
The Polish Parliament currently has two groups focused on relations with Belarus. One of them lobbies in support of more democracy projects, while the second supports more cooperation with Belarusian authorities.
A member of the latter group, nationalist MP Robert Winnicki, recently stated that Poland should stop funding Belsat TV and interfering in Belarusian politics. Although Winnicki is a marginal figure, up to this point such views were absent in the public space.
What is behind the policy change
The Polish authorities make no secret of their desire to improve relations with Lukashenka. Unlike other Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, Lithuania and Russia, Poland has no painful historical disputes with Belarus and would like to restore trade. According to official Belarusian data, imports from Poland in 2015 decreased to $ 1.1bn compared to $ 1.5bn in 2014.
At the same time, Polish authorities value Lukashenka’s role in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. On 8 July, during the NATO summit, the Polish Foreign Minister said that "his country would like to be a mediator in rapprochement between Belarus and NATO."
Trade between Belarus and Poland is perhaps currently based on mutual concessions. Among the possible issues which can be worked on, the most realistic and interesting for the parties may be the Polish minority in Belarus, which remains repressed by Lukashenka’s regime.
However, an attempt to improve relations with Lukashenka is not the only explanation behind the change in policy. The lack of prospects for political change as well as a decrease in repression makes Belarus less interesting for many donors. For example, in the last year Belsat lost a quarter of its funding. The money was mainly coming from Western European countries, which redirected the funds to help refugees from the Middle East.
Thus, Poland remained the only donor to Belsat and is now re-assessing whether or not to fund such projects. The conservative government, even if it wanted to, remains unlikely to shut down a project as large as Belsat in which Poland has invested so heavily. But funding smaller and more politicised initiatives are less likely to be perceived as being in Poland's interests.
However, despite the lack of severe repression or significant progress, Poland should continue supporting Belsat and the Kalinowski programme, as they can change the climate of ideas inside Belarus. It remains difficult to assess the impact of these projects, but they have certainly done much to cultivate a Belarusian identity separate from Russia. And even Lukashenka's soft belarusization may not bear fruit if Belarusian civil society has not first strengthened its own national identity with the help of Poland.
https://belarusdigest.com/story/poland-improves-links-with-minsk-at-the-expence-of-the-opposition/
Ryhor Astapenia
Ryhor Astapenia is the founder of the Centre for New Ideas and an associate analyst at the Ostrogorski Centre.
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Disgrace or Promotion? Kiryl Rudy Goes to China
In July 2016, president Alexander Lukashenka appointed two new ambassadors – to China and to Georgia.
A few days earlier, several sources had reported that the president’s aide on economic issues – Dr. Kiryl Rudy – was to become the Belarusian ambassador in Beijing.
This information became fodder for significant speculation concerning Belarus's economic policy in the future. Many experts considered Kiryl Rudy to be a supporter of semi-liberal (or any) economic reform in Belarus. Such expectations were generally based on Kiryl Rudy’s biography, as well as his bold statements and publications regarding the current economic situation in Belarus.
Rapid career growth
At the age of 23, Kiryl Rudy completed his Ph.D. in Economics, at the age of 26 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent four months interning in the USA, at the age of 33 he completed his post-doctoral research and at the age of 35 – in June 2013 – he became the president’s aide on economic issues.
Thanks to his earlier post as an economic counsellor at the Belarusian embassy in Beijing and as deputy General Director at Bel Huavyei Technologies (a China-Belarus joint company), Kiryl Rudy is well acquainted with the peculiarities of working in China. Moreover, some experts believe that he remains one of the main lobbyists for China’s interest in Belarus even after his appointment with the Presidential Administration. There are also rumours that he maintains business interests in China and in joint Chinese-Belarusian projects.
A new boost for relations with China?
During his appointment speech, Alexander Lukashenka criticised the work of previous ambassadors to China for their implementation of joint projects. Numerous researches have expressed significant doubts concerning the benefits of existing projects for the development of the Belarusian economy. The China-Belarus Industrial Park “Great Stone” is the most significant example.
In his comprehensive research, Stanislav Ivashkevich argues that Great Stone has failed to attract real manufacturing, build reliable infrastructure, or secure financing besides tied loans from China and subsidies from the Belarusian budget. Moreover, Great Stone risks becoming a competitor for the Belarusian logistics business. Kiryl Rudy has been very involved with this initiative among other examples of dubious cooperation with China.
officials do not perceive ambassadorships as particularly prestigious Read more
In the Belarusian public administration system, officials do not perceive ambassadorships as particularly prestigious compared with positions in the highest echelons of power, especially in the Presidential Administration. However, when it comes to appointments in major foreign partner countries, including China, the situation may be different.
For former ambassadors Anatoly Kharlap (2004-2006) and presumably Pavel Burya (2011-2016), this office signalled the end of their public administration career. However, for Vladymir Rusakevich (2000-2003) and Anatoly Tozik (2006-2010), ambassadorship in Beijing became a platform for further promotion: to the positions of Minister of Information and Deputy Prime-Minister respectively.
Kiryl Rudy belongs to the younger generation of Belarusian officials and still has ample opportunities to further his career. One can hardly call this appointment a form of disgrace or a sign of the president’s displeasure with Rudy’s statements or positions. Moreover, Alexander Lukashenka tends to react immediately to failures of his closest subordinates and would not have tolerated Rudy’s ‘liberal’ ideas for any amount of time without solid reasons.
Pseudo-liberalism and a throwback to the year 2011
Almost all experts believe that Rudy’s appointment in June 2013 was intended to demonstrate the president’s ability and willingness to reform the failed Belarusian model of development. Kiryl Rudy was an outspoken advocate of reducing budget allocations and achieving a more balanced monetary policy, supporting private property rights, and general liberalisation of the Belarusian economy.
the president rejects even the idea of significant reforms in Belarus Read more
However, his appointment means that he is unlikely to be able to implement these ideas. It is also difficult to ascertain to what extent they influenced Alexander Lukashenka. Moreover, some experts believe that despite any economic crisis, regardless of its gravity, the president rejects even the idea of significant reforms in Belarus.
The confrontation between ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ in the Belarusian public administration predates Kiryl Rudy – occurring in 2011 during the first serious economic crisis after the ten ‘rich’ years. The ‘conflict’ started between then Deputy Prime-Minister Siarhey Rumas and the president’s aide on economic issues Siarhey Tkachou.
In spite of Lukashenka’s public support of the ‘conservative’ faction, he replaced Siarhey Tkachou with Piotr Prokopovich and eventually with Kiryl Rudy. However, Rumas did not fall from grace, becoming the Head of the Belarusian Development Bank.
It seems that this ‘confrontation’ was of a largely artificial character. The Presidential Administration initiated this ‘conflict’ in order to prepare the ground for a number of unpopular measures, most importantly a reduction in social transfers. It is possible that this is the only form of 'reform' that Alexander Lukashenka is willing to accept.
Appeal to the IMF
However, in 2013 new negotiations with the International Monetary Fund complicated the situation. Following its Stand-By program in 2009-2010, the IMF started Post-Program Monitoring Discussions. The Fund demanded structural reforms and actual deconstruction of the Belarusian economic model. The discussions became particularly strained in 2013, when Belarus failed to complete almost all of its obligations on reforming the economy.
It seems that Rudy’s appointment as a presidential aide was meant to demonstrate the authorities’, and in particular Lukashenka’s, personal willingness to conduct at least limited economic reforms according to the IMF’s recommendations. However, during the years 2015-2016 the authorities became strongly disappointed with the IMF and in its readiness to start a new program with Belarus.
parliamentary elections will be organised in the traditional way with no opposition representatives elected Read more
Besides vague economic perspectives, such disappointment also threatens the light liberalisation process in the country; it suggests that parliamentary elections will be organised in the traditional way with no opposition representatives elected.
China’s loans an alternative to reform?
However, the personality of Kiryl Rudy has little to do with this. He has ceased to be a source of hope for foreign agents promoting the idea of market reforms in Belarus. Meanwhile, in June 2016 China agreed to allocate a $1.4 bln loan to Belarus. In spite of the presumably very unfavourable conditions of this loan, it looks like a better option than endless and fruitless negotiations with the IMF.
At the moment, the skills and abilities of Kiryl Rudy seem more needed in China than in the Administration of the President. However, the very fact of this personnel rotation may be a signal of renewed de-liberalization of Belarusian policy.
This does not mean that Belarus will stop attempting to secure financial support from the West, including from the IMF, but changes in economic policy or in parliamentary election processes remain unlikely.
Aliaksandr Filipau
Aliaksandr is Dean of the Faculty of Extended Education at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, and expert of NGO "The Liberal Club".
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Emmanuela Alimlim (left)
Emmanuela Alimlim was one of 67 students who were able to come to Canada and study at U of T through a Mastercard Foundation scholarship.
After completing high school in Kenya, Emmanuela Alimlim worked as a bank cashier while applying to attend university abroad. Acceptances from the American colleges to which she had applied started to come in, but they might as well have been inviting her to fly to the moon. “There was no way I could even afford a bus ticket to Nairobi,” she says with a laugh.
And then one day she got an e-mail from the University of Toronto. You‘ve been accepted, it said, with full funding from the Mastercard Foundation, covering tuition, the cost of books, living expenses and airfare. “I screamed—I literally scared every person in the bank,” she recalls.
And that’s how this young woman, who’d been born to teenage parents in a tiny village in northern Kenya, came to study at U of T, and graduate in 2018 with a degree in commerce and environmental studies.
I think young people have the power to transform their communities and their countries
Alimlim had benefited from the Mastercard Foundation’s donation of US$22.5 million to U of T to fund a program bringing 67 disadvantaged students from sub-Saharan Africa for undergraduate study—a “full ride” at one of the world’s top-ranked universities.
It’s part of a broad effort by the foundation to support youth across the African continent, beginning with educating young leaders and now focusing on providing employment. Alimlim says she was the first woman in her village to go abroad to study—an accomplishment she hopes will inspire others to work hard. “For them to have somebody who has broken the cycle of poverty, who has gone outside to study and embrace education, they see that as something they should also aspire to,” she says.
At U of T, Alimlim initially struggled but quickly became a leader. After going through a period of depression and anxiety, she became an advocate for mental health, and made a documentary about students living with mental illness called Invisible Despair. She also co-founded the Eastern Africa Students Association, which quickly grew from three members to 250.
Today, Alimlim is still in Toronto, working for the Mastercard Foundation on youth engagement in sub-Saharan Africa. “My aim is to support young men and women, to bring their voices to the work we do,” she says. Nonetheless, she hopes to return home and make her mark in Kenya. “I think young people have the power to transform their communities and their countries. For me, it will be an honour to be a part of that.”
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