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1913: Seeds of Conflict
Discuss the Film
Author: Ben Loeterman Date: March 30, 2015 at 9:00 am 14 Comments
As the director of SEEDS, I can’t help but wonder about the effect my film has on its audience. What insights did the film provide for you? What were your takeaways? Do you have a comment you’d like to share? A discussion you’d like to spark?
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Author: John Stodel Date: October 1, 2015 at 8:20 pm
As a recent South African (SA) – secular Jewish immigrant to the US and being hypersensitive to the issues of Race & Colonialism – I congratulate you and your team for demystifying many myths and clearing away the “fog” of past and current public hysteria that has continued to obscure the core of the Israel – Palestinian issue.
In my view one of the the mindsets of Zionists from the get-go was strongly influenced by the 19th and early 20th Century European concept of Colonialism and bringing “Civilization” and economic “Development & “Progress” to the rest of the world, at the expense of indigenous populations, who at best, due to racial, cultural and religious differences were to be regarded as “untermenchen”. It is unfortunate that this Colonial mindset and attitude has over time transformed itself into the modern, cancerous mindset of Apartheid.
In the post Nelson Mandela era in South Africa, there is no more ethnic cleansing, no more forced removals, no more detention without trial. There is the Freedom Charter based on the fundamentals of the US Bill Of rights. and a Constitution. It’s not Utopia by any means, but rather, hard work in progress.
Until Israeli society summons up the courage to deal deeply & meaningfully with its own internal Colonial past and present , I fear there will be no end to this terrible conflict.
Author: Paul Russell Date: July 3, 2015 at 5:47 am
Hi, Im writing a thesis on barriers to education for Palestinian youth in the West Bank. Researching the historical context of Palestinian education currently. I would love to view the film but its blocked by PBS here in Australia. Any other viewing option?
Author: Ben Loeterman Date: July 4, 2015 at 11:07 am
1913: Seeds of Conflict can be purchased at ShopPBS.org
Author: Art Black Date: July 2, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Since becoming an Evangelical Christian and seriously studying the Bible for many years, I am a strong supporter of Israel and the Jews returning to their historical homeland.
“Seeds of Conflict” was an eye-opening experience as I watched the program on PBS. While I knew that the Jews has purchased the land they settled, I did not know that by-and-large they purchased it from apparently uncaring and uninvolved absentee Ottoman/Arab land owners. This seems to have been a critical foundation-piece of what was to become the “conflict”.
The arrival of the Russian Jews (Ashkenazim) fleeing the pogroms of that country seems to have played a major role in the political orientation of Israel (a strong bent to socialism exemplified by the establishment of communal living in Kibbutz).
The harsh attitude toward and treatment of the locals instigated by the early Paid Paramilitary Guards composed of Russian Jews was also a significant “planting of the seeds”.
It’s encouraging that there were Jewish voices warning that ill treatment of the native Arabs could/would led to conflict but its disappointing that they were not heeded. They were, it turns out, voices “crying in the wilderness”.
Thank you for this fine production. I’ve already begun referring many of my friends, most all very strong supporters of Israel, to this website and the film.
Author: Robert LaBrie Date: July 2, 2015 at 8:54 am
A great piece of research that enables everyone to really understand:
— the reasons, the importance of integration between societies looking for a place to live,
— land acquisitions goals of so many groups which havelong histories across the region of what is now called the Middle East ( why is this called the idle East) countries, and the people who now confuse the past with the future.
This piece of research provides a base for Jews, Arabs, Christians , everyone who immigrates to lands faraway, to clearly see the need to search out gateways to peace amongst all groups who perceive this region as a checker board on which war and peace are paws in the greater game of living.
Who has the right to take over land – something that we are so short of – and the importance of determining a livable peace between mankind, not simply in the targeted region but across this multi-cultural world? This 1913 Seeds of Conflict clearly defines the flow of how we people of this land have descended into confusion when peace is so clear. This piece of research documents clearly the reasons why we need a table where we can secure a win-win result to the present uneasiness and prolonged death cycle of the Palestine issue.
Why can we not get this 1913 Seeds of Conflict circulated to all people who are looking for a gateway to a solution to peace? I am a Canadian born in Quebec, now living in Alberta and who has worked in this region and who fell in love with the region which is discussed . God/Ala has stopped making land therefore the conflict needs a resolution and this research documentary is the base for the solution. I thank the producers for having done such a great research document. Muslim, Jews and Christians (all) must find a pathway to peace and this documentary clearly shows that we are one people and we MUST trust each other as we move forward in our lives. This film / documentary is the guiding light towards this pathway. Many thanks.
In sincere appreciation for this great research into the past and shining the light!,
Author: Ran Kohn Date: July 1, 2015 at 6:37 pm
The Jews of Jerusalem of 1913 were steeped in European Talmudic scholarship and had no connection with the local Arab community anymore than they have with Israel today. They accepted their dhimmi (2nd class citizenship) status. The newcomer Jews from Europe who came to frankly retake the land, a land they thought was empty and frankly considering that there were less than a half a million people in a the land now being occupied by 10 million people, that was a reasonable feeling a the time. And to just focus on one early episode, where the Jew angrily chastises the poor Arab who does not understand how his land became Jewish land. That vignette focuses on the disenfranchised Arab. It neglects to explain, that the Arab did not own the land he farmed. The land was leased to the Arab but was in turn sold to the Jew. And the seller was an Arab. That is how the Jews got much of the land. They bought it. And in fact much of what they bought early was no-man’s land. Tel Aviv is the best example of that. Tel Aviv was built from empty uninhabited sand beaches that the former owners thought were worthless–why else would they sell it.
Author: John Hagar Date: July 1, 2015 at 9:10 am
I was astonished to find out that the Jews did not forcefully take over the land but instead purchased it.
I was also amazed to see how the Arab leaders acknowledged that the Jews were coming back to their ancestral land.
I was always told the Jews were conquerors and now I feel duped.
Author: Steve B Date: June 30, 2015 at 8:31 am
Overall, my wife and I thought this was an informative and well-presented and well-documented film. The points of view were balanced. The main surprise I got was the early description of the Arab (Bedouins?) view of the land compared to the Jews’ views. Arabs: “we’ve always been on this land.” Jews: “We paid for it under the laws of the land.” It sounded just like the divergent viewpoints of American Indians and early American settlers.
Author: Sam Bahour Date: June 29, 2015 at 3:22 pm
Anywhere to see/buy/rent film in Palestine?
Author: Adam Kadmon Date: June 28, 2015 at 3:30 pm
THAT JEWS & ARABS LIVED IN jERUSALEM IN HARMONY IS ONLY BECAUSE jEWS WERE SMALL IN NUMBER AND NO THREAT TO ARABS ESPECIALLY RELIGIOUS AND HASSIDIC JEWS WERE NOT CONSIDERED THREATS. THE YOUNG HALUTZIM FROM RUSSIA & RUMANIA WHO CAME AND BOUGHT LAND AND BUILT KIBBUTZIM WERE BIG THREATS TO ARAB TENANT FARMERS WHO WERE THROWN OFF JEWISH-OWNED LAND, NOW FARMED BY JEWISH LABOR. ARABS & JEWS CAN NEVER LIVE TOGETHER. DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, RELIGION, CULTURE, MENTALITY… WE HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON WITH ARABS.
Author: Sue Peterson Date: March 14, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I took 3 High School Exchange students from Bosnia-Herzegovenia, Montenegro, and Lithuania, to a showing of this film. Discussion afterwards included comments by a Rabbi, an Imam, and a Christian Pastor. Two of my students are familiar with the Ottoman Empire–and are Muslim. I personally was very moved by the film and the implications it has for all immigrant groups seeking a new life–and also by the observation that most of the Jews who arrived in Palestine before WWI and then again after WWII, were traumatized by severe persecution–This continues today–How does a government, a culture, assist immigrants such as these to make a transition into another culture–how do people build trust and come to understand that a healthy, non-violent future can only be achieved by dialogue, by slow assimilation, by leadership that builds bridges rather than defend settlements. How in fact, does any civilization live with and learn to love diversity? Those are the answers we must seek–because domination leads to violence and then a discounting of the “other”–so that all “others” are seen as enemy. What has been done to us, we then do to others–a terrible misinterpretation of the Golden Rule!
Author: Bob Horner Date: March 11, 2015 at 7:50 pm
I recently watch 1913: Seeds of Conflict and thought the movie did an outstanding job taking the viewer through the history of this region. I have to say the more I learn the more sympathetic I have become to the Palestinians. I think what it would be like if the Canadians created settlements in the US, forcing Americans further and further South, bulldozing our homes along the way until we were all forced into the State of Florida. How would be feel? As I see it, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have become nothing but concentration camps for the Palestinians. Another way to look at it it’s pretty much what Putin is now doing to the Ukrainian people. A land grab.
Every other county in the world, other than the US, objects to what the Israelis are doing in this region. There have be as many as 40 resolutions in the UN to deplore the Israeli actions and to bring peace to this region, all have been block by the US. Israel has no incentive to make peace. They’re proven they can do pretty much whatever they want to do to the Palestinians knowing that our military will bail them out.
Author: Joseph Siry Date: March 4, 2015 at 9:57 am
The film is remarkable, yet the audience asked the usual, off the mark questions and no one who understood history could redirect the conversation to what the Director clearly understands; that unscrupulous politicians will always use the divisions of the past to fuel hatred in the present. Thank you for making this seriously revealing and thus important film. You feel a bit less of a prisoner of the past watching this extraordinary footage and hearing the dialogue.
Author: Andrew Goldstein Date: January 30, 2015 at 7:48 am
Thank you for directing a wonderful film, I saw it last night, January 29th, at Hebrew College. I thought the film really exploded some Zionist myths and also painted the Zionists in a poor light. The Zionists came to Palestine to build a state that excluded the local inhabitants, which, to me, is the root cause of the conflict. The film touches on this.
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ALFRED EAKER VS. THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS: WONDER WOMAN (2017)
June 12, 2017 Alfred Eaker 3 Comments
Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman (2017) is reaping critical praise, and opened with an astounding one hundred million dollar weekend box office. It’s being hailed as the best movie in the DCEU—i.e., D.C. comics extended universe—although I’m not sure how exactly that’s different than the DC movies that preexisted that label.
Regardless, this is the first big screen standalone treatment of the character, which originally debuted during the Second World War, created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman was always a kind of female variation on Superman. Paradoxically, she was both a symbol of female empowerment and a pinup bondage fantasy. Initially, under the original artists, she was more feminist than titillating. Predictably, it was the pinup quality that drove the bulk of her fan base and informed most of her subsequent incarnations, the notable exception being the series helmed by George Perez’ silvery pencils. Even then, “Wonder Woman” comics never equaled the sales of her male counterparts. When it was announced that Israeli actress Gal Gadot was being cast as the big screen Wonder Woman, a lot of fanboys harped, comparing her unfavorably to 1970s TV Wonder Woman Lynda Carter—because, frankly, Carter has more robust cleavage. In 2011, an updated TV movie was planned, but once publicity stills were released of actress Adrianne Palicki wearing a long pants version of the red, yellow, and blue suit, the DC fundamentalists were up in arms. They wanted legs, dammit, and went the politically correct route of whining about political correctness. The movie, which apparently was a pilot for a series, was purportedly wretched anyway, and seems to have vanished from memory. Five years later, when Gadot’s cameo proved the only bright spot in the execrable Batman vs. Superman, the fanatics were finally appeased, and thankfully silenced.
Wonder Woman is well-crafted, entertaining, and has a charismatic lead, which says a hell of a lot more than the recent crap fests Man of Steel, the aforementioned BvS, and Suicide Squad. It gets right what all those films missed—it remembers that simplicity, primary colors, and ethical nostalgia, all wrapped up in a lasso of fun, are the attraction of the DC characters, who are really more appealing than their angst-ridden Marvel competitors. With a few exceptions, the multiple DC based TV series (live action and animated) get that right (i.e., “The Flash,” “Supergirl,” and the recent “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders,” which could as easily have been dubbed “The Return of Adam West, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar”).
One of the main positives here is the direction of Jenkins, who is far better suited to the material than the dullard boys have proven to be. Predictably, right-wing fan boys, while giving faint praise and Continue reading ALFRED EAKER VS. THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS: WONDER WOMAN (2017) →
2017ActionDavid ThewlisHollywoodPatty JenkinsSummer blockbusterSuperhero
CAPSULE: ANOMALISA (2015)
December 16, 2015 Alex Kittle 1 Comment
DIRECTED BY: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
FEATURING: Voices of David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
PLOT: A motivational speaker attending a business conference is dissatisfied with his humdrum existence, until he meets a seemingly average woman who, to him, is different than everyone else in his life.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: While many of Charlie Kaufman’s films are shoo-ins for any list of weird movies, Anomalisa is comparatively straightforward. The weird factor is there, but limited, with most of the film focusing on small details of human interaction.
COMMENTS: Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) is a renowned expert in customer service, middle-aged and settled in, married with a young son, but his apparent career and familial success have not brought him happiness. He feels isolated from those around him, exemplified by their voices, which all sound the same. He reconnects with an old flame who lives in the city where he’s staying for a conference, but their meeting only leads to further estrangement. Michael’s hopelessness is finally lifted when he hears Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy, self-conscious sales representative attending the conference. Her voice is distinct, and thus she is distinct, and he immediately falls for her simply for her difference. They spend the night together and Michael hopes to begin a new life with her, but their connection is not as solid as he thinks.
Animated in an incredibly detailed stop-motion style with 3D-printed figures, Anomalisa is a film that opens itself up gradually, reveling in small tics and awkward moments and everything left unsaid. Whether intentionally or inadvertently, Michael has cut himself off emotionally from everyone around him, keeping his headphones in as he walks through the airport, unwillingly engaging in small talk with his cab driver, and acting uncertain around the polite staff of his hotel. His few attempts at connection are somewhat awkward and ill-conceived, most noticeable in how he sputters his way through a drink with a former girlfriend, whom he left for no stated reason, who is still getting over the loss of him, and still questioning herself because of it. Though he seems rueful, Michael is unable to explain himself, and they leave one another disappointed. Later, he finds a “toy” store that’s open late, looking for a gift for his son but eventually realizing this shop has more adult fare. He ends up purchasing a mechanical Japanese doll shaped like a geisha, perhaps an unconscious stand-in for the multiple women he no longer loves, preferring a robotic replacement for their human inadequacies. That Michael’s professional life is centered around customer service expertise is a blatant irony, but that knowledge allows viewers to see how he must put on an act when he is with other people, much like the sales representatives he advises. He must play at being a warm, sociable human being, despite hating the sound of every voice he hears, even with his wife and son. With Lisa, he can stop acting, and Continue reading CAPSULE: ANOMALISA (2015) →
2015AnimationCharlie KaufmanComedyDavid ThewlisDramaDuke JohnsonExistentialJennifer Jason LeighPsychologicalRecommendedStop motion animation
CAPSULE: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996)
February 23, 2015 Scott Sentinella 3 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Henry Selick
FEATURING: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margoyles, Pete Postlethwaite, Steven Culp, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, David Thewlis, Simon Callow
PLOT: A boy rides a giant peach across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: It’s a light-hearted fantasy film for children, and fantasy isn’t necessarily weird just because it’s fantastical. Also, the movie tones down some of the darker elements of the original 1961 source novel by the delightfully mean-spirited Roald Dahl.
COMMENTS: Orphaned James (Paul Terry, in his only film) is mistreated, Cinderella-style, by his cruel aunts, the angular Spiker (Joanna Lumley) and the portly Sponge (Miriam Margoyles). When a mystery man (Pete Postlethwaite) gives James a jar of magical crocodile tongues–which are supposed to solve all of James’ problems, although he doesn’t understand why–James loses them in the grass near the roots of a dead tree. The next day, a peach that was in the grass has grown to the size of a house, and the insects inside the fruit—a centipede (voiced by Richard Dreyfuss), a Russian spider (Susan Sarandon), a ladybug (Jane Leeves), an earthworm (David Thewlis), a grasshopper (Simon Callow) and a glowworm (Margoyles again)—are now taller than James, who takes off with the bugs inside the now-rolling peach to New York City.
This somewhat obscure Disney production is a masterpiece of beautiful and stunning stop-motion animation, directed by Henry Selick, who helmed the equally dazzling 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas (contrary to popular belief, Tim Burton did not direct Nightmare, although he did co-produce and co-write the film, as well as design its distinctive look.) This one is not, however, a masterpiece of storytelling. Even at a mere 79 minutes, James and the Giant Peach feels like a rather thin—although marvelous—children’s book stretched out to feature-length. The filmmakers added episodes not in the novel, such as an encounter with ghostly pirates (including one that’s a dead ringer for Nightmare protagonist Jack Skellington) to flesh out the plot.
Also threaded throughout the proceedings are a number of songs by Randy “Short People” Newman, although they sound more like conventional showtunes than the low-key ditties he penned for many Pixar films. The all-star voice cast is not known for their singing, and this film does nothing to change that. Richard Dreyfuss is at his most abrasive as the cigar-chomping centipede (the only American character in the story), but casting the glamorous Jane Leeves (“Frasier”) as the ladybug—a jolly old British matron—is a nice change of pace. The film’s most memorable performances come courtesy of Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and Miriam Margoyles, who are made up to look especially ghoulish in the film’s opening and closing live-action sequences, although their monstrous Aunt characters are spared the dire fates they had in the book. (Aunts Spiker and Sponge seem to be a clear influence on Harry Potter’s horrible Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia.) There’s plenty of visual razzmatazz on display here, but ultimately the film is less memorable than either Nightmare or Selick’s superb later effort Coraline.
Since James and the Giant Peach is a relatively little-known film, Disney gives its Blu-ray release short shrift (by their standards) in the extras department. There’s a game, a music video, a “making of” featurette that runs a whopping four-and-a-half minutes, the movie’s trailer, and a gallery of fifty-nine “Behind the Scenes” still photographs.
“…shines with weird, whimsical invention.”–Stephen Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer (contemporaneous)
1996Children's FilmDavid ThewlisHenry SelickRichard DreyfussRoald DahlStop motion animationSusan Sarandon
CAPSULE: THE ZERO THEOREM (2013)
August 18, 2014 James Phillips 2 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam
FEATURING: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Tilda Swinton, Matt Damon
PLOT: Qohen Leth (Waltz) is a gifted but troubled programmer (or “cruncher” as they are referred to in the film) who is assigned a seemingly impossible task: to calculate the “Zero Theorem” and thus prove the lack of meaning in anything. The only problem is, Qohen is convinced that there is meaning to everything, and that it’s just a matter of time before he finds out what it is.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Gilliam alleges that The Zero Theorem is a tragedy and that has fared poorly with critics due to assumptions that it is supposed to be a comedy. But the honest-to-God tragedy is Gilliam’s decision to essentially rehash one of his finest films (Brazil) with a more contemporary slant regarding technology and our current sense of isolation. This is a film that has plenty of fine moments, and it’s something of a must see for all the weird fans out there, but it’s a footnote in Gilliam’s cinematic career that puts more pressure on the now 73 year-old auteur to complete the long gestating “Don Quixote” project that has dragged him through Hell (and Spain) and back over the last two decades.
COMMENTS: For all the Gilliam aficionados out there, please don’t despair! The Zero Theorem is lots of fun, and demonstrates just what a criminally overlooked talent Gilliam is behind the camera. The movie looks superb, especially given its extremely modest budget, and many of its imaginative flourishes are a joy to behold. A film needs to be more than just the sum of its parts in order to truly succeed, however, and The Zero Theorem cannot escape the shadow of its far superior filmic sibling Brazil in terms of quality and vision.
The two movies are simply too thematically similar in terms of subject and presentation, and particularly in terms of David Thewlis’ performance which directly channels Michael Palin‘s turn as the terrifying Jack Lint. The update of modern society is viewed through Gilliam’s eye: the blaring in-your-face nature of technology and the personal detachment it encourages. All this is all well and good, but this is all ground that is well-trod, and in better boots, by the earlier and superior film. Zero Theorem is simply too derivative of his past work to have any lasting merit.
Perhaps the biggest saving grace of the film is the performances of the main cast. Mélanie Thierry’s eccentric allure is charming and garish at the same time, and Lucas Hedges gives a star turn as the teenage genius Bob, a role he leaps into with such abandon that he is surely an actor to watch out for in the future. Let’s just hope that Gilliam pulls one last truly great masterwork out of his thoughtbox before he dies, as this minor film would be an unworthy epitaph for such a great director.
“There’s weird and there’s Terry Gilliam weird, and his latest exploration into the fleeting nature of humanity, The Zero Theorem, may as well have been watermarked with his name… weirdly enjoyable”–Blake Howard, Graffiti with Punctuation (contemporaneous)
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The windwheel of Hero of Alexandria (10 AD – 70 AD) marks one of the first recorded instances of wind powering a machine in history.[2][3] However, the first known practical wind power plants were built in Sistan, an Eastern province of Persia (now Iran), from the 7th century. These "Panemone" were vertical axle windmills, which had long vertical drive shafts with rectangular blades.[4] Made of six to twelve sails covered in reed matting or cloth material, these windmills were used to grind grain or draw up water, and were used in the gristmilling and sugarcane industries.[5]
United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity.[14] In October 2011, he "announced the creation of a high-level group to drum up support for energy access, energy efficiency and greater use of renewable energy. The group is to be co-chaired by Kandeh Yumkella, the chair of UN Energy and director general of the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and Charles Holliday, chairman of Bank of America".[147]
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In 2014 global wind power capacity expanded 16% to 369,553 MW.[83] Yearly wind energy production is also growing rapidly and has reached around 4% of worldwide electricity usage,[84] 11.4% in the EU,[85] and it is widely used in Asia, and the United States. In 2015, worldwide installed photovoltaics capacity increased to 227 gigawatts (GW), sufficient to supply 1 percent of global electricity demands.[86] Solar thermal energy stations operate in the United States and Spain, and as of 2016, the largest of these is the 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California.[87][88] The world's largest geothermal power installation is The Geysers in California, with a rated capacity of 750 MW. Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18% of the country's automotive fuel. Ethanol fuel is also widely available in the United States.
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Since 2013 the world's highest-situated wind turbine was made and installed by WindAid and is located at the base of the Pastoruri Glacier in Peru at 4,877 meters (16,001 ft) above sea level.[94] The site uses the WindAid 2.5 kW wind generator to supply power to a small rural community of micro entrepreneurs who cater to the tourists who come to the Pastoruri glacier.[95]
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FT50: Songs of 2009
December 4, 2009 nathan.lankford 8 comments
We have to start this list off with a disclaimer. We have three writers, all with different tastes, so the list should reflect that a little bit. Also, these are our opinions, and by no means, are they meant to be seen as an “end all be all” to the question of what were the best songs of 2009. That being said, we like our list quite a bit. Sure, it’s got some expected numbers at the top, but the rest of the list is genius. We’ve got some of the songs streaming for you, and the rest take you straight to youtube. Follow the jump for full list.
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New Thao And The Get Down Stay Down
September 17, 2009 RayRay Leave a comment
After the critical and blogger success of their 2008 album We Brave Bee Stings and All San Fran band Thao and The Get Down Stay Down are back with new material for 2009. Their new album will be release on October 13th via Kill Rock Stars and will be named Know Better, Learn Faster. Here’s a first taste of that new album with title track “Know Better Learn Faster”. Your thoughts?
[audio: http://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Thao-With-The-Get-Down-Stay-Down-Know-Better-Learn-Faster.mp3]
Download: Thao With The Get Down Stay Down – Know Better Learn Faster [MP3]
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Of an unjust imprisonment and a shocking legacy
June 23, 2012 Anne M Powers 2 Comments
By Thomas Hudon, engraved by Johan Faber (The National Maritime Museum), via Wikimedia Commons
Many who are new to tales of Jamaican slavery are deeply shocked when they discover that freed slaves and mixed Jamaicans often themselves owned slaves. I think this is understandable (which is not to say justifiable), if you accept that for most people in the eighteenth century slavery was a fact of life and one which they generally did not question. Since owning slaves reflected your economic and social status it is unsurprising that freed slaves and mixed race Jamaicans would want to reinforce their new status, in much the same way as aspiring middle class Victorians in England would employ a live-in maid or a cook. A key difference of course being that the latter were free to leave for other employment.
However, I did find it particularly shocking when I read the Will of Francis Delap to discover, that in freeing and educating his little six year-old mulatto son Arthur, he was requiring his executors to provide Arthur with ‘three new Negro Boys nearly of his Age to be bought for him by my Executors immediately after my death to be marked AD and to be bred to the same Trade with himself’. Not only were three little African boys straight off the boat to be branded with Arthur’s initials, but they were to be the slaves of another child of their own age.
Since they were all to be bred up in the same trade I presume Francis was trying to provide Arthur with the ultimate means of setting himself up in business. And of course this is not the only case of a child being given his own slaves. But shocking nevertheless.
Francis Delap has however gone down in history for quite another reason. He was at the centre of the great Jamaican controversy in the mid 1750s surrounding the location of the island capital.
When the British arrived in Jamaica in 1655 St Jago de la Vega was the Spanish capital, situated inland for easier defence against seaborn raiders. After the 1692 earthquake and a later fire largely destroyed Port Royal, Kingston rapidly grew to be the centre of mercantile activity. By the mid- eighteenth century a schism had grown up between the planter and administrative classes who favoured Spanish Town, where the Assembly met and legal cases were heard, and the merchants who wanted to move the capital to Kingston. Apart from the disruption this would have caused, planter social life centred on the times of year when they arrived from their estates to enjoy the Spanish Town entertainments and attend the races, to get married and to baptise their children. Any move of the capital would also have had a depressive effect on property values in Spanish Town which had just been ascertained in the 1754 Census.
When Sir Charles Knowles arrived in Jamaica as Governor he sided with the Kingston lobby in favour of the move, falling out with the Spanish Town inhabitants and choosing to move to Kingston rather than as was traditional living in Spanish Town. He also insisted on the supremacy of the English parliament over the Jamaican Assembly. This direct confrontation with the Assembly came to a head when the Governor dissolved the Assembly and elections were called. There was not of course any universal franchise, only free white men who were freeholders could vote.
It appeared that the votes for the three members for Port Royal were going to be critical and the pro-Kingston lobby wanted to ensure that the vote was not supervised by the Provost Marshall Francis Delap, who was thought to favour the Spanish Town cause. Uncertain what to do for the best when told to hand over the Writs, Delap had the Writs and all his papers locked in two chests and deposited them with Charles Price and Dr William Wynter.
The Governor had Delap arrested and ordered him to surrender the Writs for the election so that new ones could be issued, putting a Mr Johnston who he had appointed as the new Provost Marshall in charge of the election. Delap had serious doubts about the legality of this, but was unable to act beyond securing all his papers, as Governor Knowles had him committed to the Kingston jail where he was clapped in irons, deprived of the use of pen and ink and prevented from communicating with anyone.
Knowles intended to have him shipped out to England as a prisoner, but the Island Council decided instead to prosecute him for a misdemeanour and he was at last able to apply for a writ of Habeas Corpus and to obtain bail. Following a court appearance in June 1755 Delap was fined £500 and once again imprisoned.
One of Delap’s friends and supporters was Rose Fuller, who had earlier clashed with Knowles as a result of which he had resigned as Chief Justice. In the Spring of 1755 he heard that his brother John had died in England and so after two decades in Jamaica Rose Fuller returned to England, arriving in August of 1755. His presence there enabled him to coordinate support for Delap’s case in London and eventually Delap was freed. Papers held at the East Sussex Record Office at Lewes show that Fuller had raised a letter of credit on Arnold, Albert and Alexander Nesbitt of London for £6000 for Delap’s legal support, based on a valuation of Delap’s Jamaican estate which ‘recently stocked with a great strength of able negroes and mules, is good security for £30,000’ (ESRO SAS-RF/21/42).
The Board of Trade eventually decided in favour of Spanish Town on a technicality and Governor Knowles left Jamaica. A huge procession of carts brought the island papers back to Spanish Town and the celebrations included two huge bonfires, one topped with an effigy of Governor Knowles and the other one of his ship[1].
When Delap died over twenty years later most of his wealth was left to his siblings in Ireland, but he also made provision for the care of four mixed race children, whose mother was Mary Shippen, and for little Arthur, now the master of his own slaves.
[1] You can read a fuller account of the Spanish Town versus Kingston controversy in Gone is the Ancient Glory, Spanish Town, Jamaica 1534-2000 by James Robertson, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston 2005; and a contemporary account of the trial of Francis Delap in An account of the trial of Francis Delap Esq upon an information for a misdemeanour: at the Supreme Court of Judicature, held in the town of Kingston, in Jamaica, on June 18, 1755. Ecco Print Editions (print on demand).
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The Maroon War settlement of 1739
November 27, 2011 Anne M Powers 1 Comment
Cudjoe and Colonel Guthrie under Cudjoe’s cotton tree
The escaped slaves of Jamaica had one big advantage over slaves in many other places, that the geography of the island provided them with areas where they could hide and live with much less fear of discovery. The original Maroons were freed or runaway Spanish slaves, whose name is thought to come from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning wild or untamed. Over time two main areas of Maroon settlement developed, the Trelawney Maroons lived in an area around Maroon Town and Accompong in the Cockpit country, and the Windward Maroons lived on the northern slopes of the Blue Mountains.
The territory occupied by the Maroons was ideally suited to guerrilla warfare, although that name for the technique would not be used until the time of the Peninsular War at the end of the 18th century. Led by an extremely able commander called Cudjoe, with his brothers Accompong and Johnny in the West, and sub-chiefs Quao and Cuffee in the East, the Maroons avoided open fights preferring ambush. Camouflaged from head to foot in leaves, surprise and their accurate shooting often brought them quick victory after which they would melt back into the woods to prepare another attack.
Various armed attempts to subdue them were made by British troops and in 1734 a Captain Stoddart led a party that attacked and destroyed Nanny Town in the Blue Mountains. The town was never resettled and even now is believed to be haunted by the ghosts of those who died. Nanny the Maroon chieftainess after whom the place was named is now a National Hero of Jamaica. Although the Maroons had suffered severely under this attack many escaped, some to build a new village further inland and others removed to the Cockpit area of Trelawney.
Maroon raids increased and so did the fear of the colonists that they would encourage a mass uprising of slaves on the plantations, where they now outnumbered white settlers by about 14 to 1. The Jamaican Assembly voted money for a large-scale campaign and the Maroons found themselves in a desperate situation, however the government did not realise this and, eager to end the fighting, they sent Colonel James Guthrie with a detachment of militia, and Lieutenant Francis Sadler with a party of soldiers, to seek out Cudjoe and offer him favourable terms for a peace.`
The negotiators exchanged hats as a sign of friendship, as depicted above, and the treaty was agreed on 1 March 1739 beneath a large cotton tree, afterwards known as Cudjoe’s Tree. Under the settlement Cudjoe and his followers were all to be free, and any slaves who had joined them were given the choice of remaining with the Maroons or returning to their masters. It would be interesting to know if any did, somehow I doubt it! A land grant was made to the Maroons of 1500 acres in Trelawney, where they would have hunting rights and it was agreed “That they shall have liberty to plant the said lands with coffee, cocoa, ginger, tobacco, and cotton, and to breed cattle, hogs, goats, or any other flock, and dispose of the produce or increase of the said commodities to the inhabitants of this island”.
In addition Cudjoe and his followers were to assist the British in pursuing any remaining rebels and in the case of foreign invasion they would assist the British against the invader and in return would receive their protection. The Maroons agreed not to harbour runaway slaves but to return them for a reward of ten shillings per slave. Cudjoe himself was given the right to dispense justice within his community and the succession was assured, naming Accompong, Johnny, Quao and Cuffee, and after their deaths such leaders as might be appointed by the Governor. The Maroons were required to build and maintain a road to Trelawney Town, and four white persons were to be nominated to live with the Maroons in order to facilitate communication with the government.
Following the agreement with the Maroons the Jamaican assembly rewarded several negroes who had assisted the authorities to bring about the peace. Three men named Cuffee, Sambo, and Quashey were manumised and their owners were compensated to the value of £40 per man; and two women called Venus and Affiba were also freed with their owners being paid £30 for each.
One further consequence of the events leading to the peace was the award of £1500 to Guthrie (who however died in June 1739) and £600 to Francis Sadler who subsequently received land grants totalling 1200 acres which formed the basis of the Montpelier estate. When Francis Sadler married Colonel Guthrie’s widowed daughter Janet Hynes in 1742 he extended the Montpelier estate still further. This Francis Sadler, who took the name Francis Sadler Hals when he inherited Halse Hall from his half brother, was the son of Mary Rose whose life in Jamaica has already been described on this website.
So successful was the peace agreement of 1739 that it lasted for more than fifty years.
The full text of the agreement and the subsequent Act of the Jamaican Assembly can be found here.
A note about the picture: When I first saw the picture of Colonel Guthrie and Cudjoe I thought it an attempt to belittle the latter with a caricature. However he was described at the time as being very short and squat with a large lump of flesh on his back, and a strange wild manner. He dressed in a tattered old blue coat, white knee breeches, a head tie and a small round hat. His gun was an old Spanish musket with powder and shot, and he carried a machete worn in a leather holster.
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The Great Jamaican Earthquake of 1692
September 3, 2011 Anne M Powers Comment
The terrible earthquake that struck Jamaica just before noon on the 7th June 1692 changed the geography of the island for ever and set its progress back by many years. The timing of the earthquake was recorded by survivors but confirmed by the discovery of an early pocketwatch, made about 1686 by Frenchman Paul Blondel, during an underwater excavation. The watch had stopped at 11:43 am.
Looking at this 1670 map and comparing it with one drawn nearly a century later, you can see that a huge area around Port Royal, notorious it is true for its pirates and brothels but nonetheless the centre for a lively trade with the outside world, simply ceased to exist. Port Royal was described as the wickedest city on earth, but mostly after its destruction when people were looking for an explanation and seeing it as God delivering a just punishment on a sinful people.
Port Royal in 1670
About two thirds of the town of Port Royal disappeared in the quake, much of it because of liquefaction of the sandy soil on which the town was built. Brick buildings and wooden warehouses collapsed and slid into the sea. According to Robert Renny in his An History of Jamaica of 1807, “All the wharves sunk at once, and in the space of two minutes, nine-tenths of the city were covered with water, which was raised to such a height, that it entered the uppermost rooms of the few houses which were left standing. The tops of the highest houses, were visible in the water, and surrounded by the masts of vessels, which had been sunk along with them”.
In the triple shocks of the quake the liquefied soil flowed in waves, fissures opened up and then closed again trapping victims as the sand solidified, some horrifically left with just their heads visible. In the tsunami that followed most of the twenty or so ships in the harbour were sunk or carried right over the town, and many who had survived the initial quake were drowned.
The horror of the survivors at the huge number of corpses floating in the harbour was increased when they realised that many of these bodies had been washed out of the town’s graveyard. Looting began almost at once with the looters even hacking fingers off the dead in order to obtain their rings, and goods were stolen from the wharves and warehouses.
The earthquake, which modern estimates suggest was about 7.5 in magnitude, was not of course confined to Port Royal. A huge landslip occurred at Judgement Hill. At Liguanea, the site of modern Kingston, the sea was observed to retreat 300 yards before a six-foot high wave rushed inland. Most of the buildings in Spanish Town were destroyed and serious damage occurred all across Jamaica.
Worse was yet to come, for the survivors then had to endure a series of epidemics particularly of Yellow Fever. Perhaps 2000 of the 6500 inhabitants of Port Royal perished in the quake, many more died across Jamaica in the following few years. The island was over dependent on imported food and goods from England, and the disruption to its main harbour, loss of ships and warehousing brought about shortages of essential goods and reduced the ability to export.
The Jamaican Assembly removed from Port Royal to Spanish Town and rebuilding began almost at once, but it has been suggested that the progress of the colony was set back by 20 years as a result of the devastation. Port Royal itself was so much reduced in area and further devastated by fire in 1704 that it never recovered. Two years after the quake Dr Fulke Rose, one of the early colonists who had been in Jamaica since at least 1670, returned to London with his family in order better to plead the cause of the island. He died there in March 1694 and you can read a transcript of his Will here.
During the 1980s and 1990s underwater excavations took place at Port Royal which revealed much about life there before the quake struck. You can read about that project here.
Jamaica suffers up to 200 earthquakes every year, most of which are quite minor, but the Earthquake Unit of the University of the West Indies at Mona describes the quake of 1692 as ‘perhaps our largest and most damaging natural disaster’.
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Impact Assessment on the Enterprise Culture Component, ILO Sri Lanka, 2008
Mr. Roel Hakemulder
The Enterprise for Pro-poor Growth project supports the Government of Sri Lanka's strategy for poverty reduction and generation of quality employment for women and men through an integrated micro and small enterprise development programme. It targets four districts with a high incidence of poverty, Kurunegala, Polonnaruwa, Anuradhapura and Puttalam. The project also addresses enterprise-related issues at the national level that will enhance impact in the provinces and transfers lessons learnt to the national policy level.
Under the enterprise culture component of the project, an in-depth assessment of values, norms and attitudes in relation to business was carried out in all four districts at inception. The results of this socio-cultural assessment were used in the design of the social marketing campaign based on the "forum theatre" concept and in supporting the revision of secondary school curricula in collaboration with the National Institute of Education in Sri Lank.
The overall objective of the impact assessment on enterprise culture was to find out qualitatively whether the Enter-Growth project has been able to change norms, values and attitudes towards enterprise in the four districts that it was implemented. For practical reasons, the assessment was confined to two districts, Polonnaruwa and Puttalam. It has to be kept in mind at the outset that changing cultural norms and values, which attitudes and behaviour are based on, is a long-term process and what can be assessed qualitatively, immediately at project completion will be somewhat limited. The main focus of the assessment was on these specific objectives:
- Assess the impact of the social marketing campaign (Palama theatre performances) and the Entrepreneurial Studies course on the norms, values and attitudes of the target population and those who affect their decision-making as they relate to enterprise.
- Identify cases where enterprises have been started (behavioural change) or improved as a result of Palama, as qualitative evidence that such impact is being achieved.
Associated Activities and Documents
» Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth Socio-Cultural Assessment, ILO, Sri Lanka 2006
» Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth, ILO, Sri Lanka 2005-8
» Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth Progress Reports, ILO, Sri Lanka 2005-8
» Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth Baseline Reports, ILO, Sri Lanka 2006
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» Enterprise for Pro-Poor Growth Case Studies, ILO, Sri Lanka 2005-9
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In this piece, Dr Helen B. McCartney reflects on her involvement in the BBC World War One at Home project and the broadcasting, public engagement and learning opportunities that came from it.
The BBC World War One at Home project began with an ambitious aim – to produce over 1400 local stories that illustrated the diversity of experience on the British home front during the First World War. The BBC English Regions and Nations were tasked with each providing 100 stories that had a strong sense of locality, and explained how different individuals and places influenced and were affected by the British war effort from 1914.
The first stories were broadcast across radio, television, and online in February 2014 with further stories released in June and August. The final tranche of stories have been released this week, with a few kept in reserve to be broadcast later in 2015.
The project was a collaborative initiative between the BBC, the Imperial War Museums, and researchers funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Supporting World War One at Home is one of the key ways in which the AHRC is marking the centenary of the First World War. Through funding researchers to work with broadcasters, they aimed to facilitate the input of new historical ideas and broader national and international contexts into the project.
As one of the researchers on the project, working alongside Professor Ian Beckett and the broadcast journalists of BBC South, I want to offer a few reflections on what academics were able to contribute and what I, in particular, have taken away from the experience.
It is important to remember that this was an experimental project. Collaboration between AHRC academic researchers and broadcasters had not previously been attempted on this scale and this necessarily meant that roles had to be defined and refined as the project took shape. A key player in this was our broadcast controller, Joanne Babbage, who expertly managed the interface between the journalists researching the stories and academics providing advice.
We all had to recognize that journalism and academic cultures are different. I had to learn the hard lesson that although one of my primary functions was to add context, there was a limit to the amount of context that can be provided in a 5 -10 minute story. Inserting context concisely is, indeed, an art form. However, the broad selection of stories, presented collectively, also helped in the quest to highlight a wider view of the war experience. Charles Booth, one of the researchers in the South West, has pointed out how many of the stories illustrated the global dimensions of the conflict. Across the UK, there were stories about the interaction between local people and those of other nationalities – troops from undivided India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, as well as Yemeni sailors and men of the Chinese Labour Corps. All these stories helped to emphasize the international character of the war. Nor were the darker stories of wartime glossed over. For example, while Belgian refugees were welcomed by many British people at the start of the war, there were clearly tensions between some refugees and their communities by its end and stories detailing anti-German riots featured in a number of regions.
There is also the journalistic imperative to find the unique, out-of–the ordinary stories that engage audiences. These stories were crucial to the project, but so were the stories that looked at everyday life and experience. For example, we were able to cover not only the experience of conscientious objectors but also the experience of the many men who faced military service tribunals seeking exemption from military service for more mundane but no less fascinating reasons.
Finally, I was impressed with the way in which the journalists with whom I worked were prepared to discuss and amend parts of their programming to accommodate alternative views or tighten up terminology. The fact that there was room for ongoing discussion before the final production of the stories was a very positive part of the relationship and added greater depth and complexity to some of the stories presented.
The overall result has been, I hope, a rich variety of stories that reflect the experience of different regions and nations with different characteristics, different economic outlooks and different populations with different skills. The United Kingdom in 1914 was decentralized, both administratively and culturally. Most people lived their entire lives at the local level with their expectations and connections tied to their local communities and the project admirably reflects these realities. It does more than this, however. One of its real strengths is the way in which the stories have been archived both by locality and by theme. The thematic approach is significant because it also allows for people to engage with the stories more broadly, permitting comparison of how the war was experienced across the UK.
The other key strength of the project was that it was not simply about the production of stories but also about engaging with the public through a series of roadshows held around the country. These roadshows provided academics with an opportunity to highlight some of their own recent research to more diverse audiences than traditionally encountered. Talking to audiences in a BBC roadshow tent at Weymouth carnival was a new experience for me. It made me think carefully about what was essential to my argument as well as what might hold the attention of an audience with a wide demographic against the backdrop of potentially more interesting attractions. This was an audience that could vote with its feet.
BBC World War One at Home ‘Battle Bus’ at the Weymouth roadshow, 20 August 2014. © Robert T. Foley
The whole experience of working on the World War One at Home project has been incredibly valuable to my own research project that looks at the British soldier in the First World War and how different public narratives have become prominent in the UK over the last century. It has provided insight into how to engage a wide range of people from disparate backgrounds, allowed me to study the construction of narratives within a media organization, and afforded me the opportunity to influence those narratives by suggesting alternative perspectives from which to view the First World War. I hope that the collective experience of this collaborative project will be viewed as positively and will help to shape engagement between academics and the BBC in the future.
This piece was originally posted at defenceindepth.co
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Poetry, protest and ‘pukka’: World War One at Home in Scotland
October 23, 2014 ahrcww1 Leave a comment
The Scottish experience of the First World War and its aftermath was different, in many ways, from that of the rest of Britain. Among other things, it was in Scotland that Britain probably came closest to having its own version of the Russian Revolution.
Red Clydeside
Billy Kenefick is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee. As he points out, ‘Scotland in many ways was highly patriotic in the First World War: some 63% of eligible men in Dundee were in uniform, for example – that’s a very high proportion. And the “tank campaign” to raise money for the war effort in 1917/18, which involved battle-scarred tanks touring towns and cities to drum up sales of War Bonds and Savings Certificates, saw several Scottish cities vying to outdo each other. Dundee raised £4.5 million in one week.’
Yet several Scottish cities were also leading centres of the anti-war movement, with many of them having anti-conscription fellowships. Scottish cities also saw significant industrial and civil unrest, during and immediately after the war. The Independent Labour Party in Scotland grew from 3,000 members to 10,000 by war’s end – a rate of growth that wasn’t replicated elsewhere in Britain. And ironically perhaps it was Glasgow, seen by many as the second city of the British Empire, which became the focus of political radicalism, and effectively found itself under martial law during what became known as the Red Clydeside era.
Glasgow and the surrounding area was home to a significant amount of heavy industry, but many factory and shipyard workers lived in conditions of extreme poverty. During the war, the government introduced a number of laws that were met with hostility by the trade unions, while at the same time, living and working conditions became worse. This led to a campaign for a 40-hour week, and other improvements in working conditions.
Then on 31 January 1919, a huge rally was held in George Square in the centre of Glasgow, organised by the trade unions. The gathering turned into a riot, and the Red Flag was raised by the crowd. Barely a year after the Russian Revolution, the government in Westminster panicked: fearing a Bolshevik-style insurrection on the streets of Britain, they sent troops and tanks into the city to quell the unrest, making sure that the troops weren’t Glaswegian (the local regiment was locked inside its barracks), and that few of them were veterans of the war, lest they prove too sympathetic to the aims of the protestors.
Poetry and rare finds
Another Scottish location that is famously associated with the First World War is the Craiglockhart Military Hospital in Edinburgh, where officers suffering from shell shock were treated with ‘talking cures’ and other newly developed therapies (enlisted men were subjected to altogether less enlightened regimes, in other locations), and where the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first met, inspiring each other to write some of the poetry that continues to shape the view of the war that so many of us have.
Staff and patients at Craiglockhart War Hospital (courtesy of Edinburgh Napier University)
Alistair McCleery is Professor of Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, which now includes the old Craiglockhart buildings, as well as housing the specialist archive of materials relating to Owen, Sassoon and others – the War Poets’ Collection. The Craiglockhart site is still home to a rare form of moss, found in Northern France, which presumably arrived on soldiers’ boots.
‘With the War Poets being an important part of the school curriculum,’ says Alistair McCleery, ‘we get a lot of school groups making visits to the campus. World War One at Home has led to the creation of learning resource packs that we can give to them: it’s a lasting legacy of the project.’
And according to Alistair McCleery, the summer roadshows that have been organised as part of the World War One at Home project, including one in Dundee, have been ‘like the TV programmes Cash in the Attic, or the Antiques Roadshow.’ Among the original material that has come to light, as members of the public have brought it in, has been a concert programme from Craiglockhart during the war: the evening’s festivities described in the programme, and put on by the patients, began with the national anthems of the Allies, including Russia’s old Tsarist anthem. Another person at the roadshow came forward with rare copies of The Hydra, the magazine produced by patients at Craiglockhart, which Wilfred Owen edited, and which features the first appearance of his poetry in print.
The real Miss Jean Brodies
According to Alistair McCleery, the World War One at Home project has helped draw attention to some Scottish writers who should be better-known, including the Dundee poet Joseph Lee, and Christine Orr, whose novel, The Glorious Thing, describes ‘ordinary lives during an extraordinary time.’ But then, ‘this was an experience that engulfed everyone. The First World War wasn’t a remote conflict, like the Boer War – no-one could escape its effects.’
The Morningside area of Edinburgh, for example, used to be famous for its spinsters – real-life Miss Jean Brodies. ‘But behind the type is a sad reality – so many women were forced to turn to the teaching profession after their fiancés were killed. You need an empathetic imagination, to picture what life must have been like for them, in the Twenties. The life that was mapped out for them, all gone.’
A diaspora in reverse
Other distinctive elements of the Scottish experience of the First World War include the sense of martial tradition. ‘The kilted soldier really was the poster boy of Empire,’ says Derek Patrick, Lecturer in History at the University of Dundee. The exploits of Scottish regiments in conflicts like the Peninsular, Crimea and Boer Wars, had cemented the place of the Scottish soldier in Britain’s consciousness. ‘National, religious and military traditions all came together. It says something about Scotland as a nation. Military achievements helped Scots identify with the imperial project – the Scots saw themselves as Empire-builders, and as defenders of the Empire in adversity.
There was also what amounted to a ‘diaspora in reverse’ during the First World War, with first or second-generation Scots returning from Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, to fight in Europe, either with Scottish divisions, or in kilted South African or Canadian regiments.
And this story of the movement of Scottish soldiers around the world led to some interesting cases of cultural cross-over. The famous Scottish regiment the Black Watch, for example, had a long association with the Indian subcontinent, and its second and fourth battalions served with Indian divisions during the War. Several Indian regiments incorporated pipe bands and tartans, while long periods stationed in India rubbed off on Scottish soldiers, affecting their language (military slang of the period is full of words of Indian origin, including ‘pukka,’ ‘cushy’ and ‘doolally’, which blended with the Franglais slang popularised by men of the New Army) and their taste in food – curry was offered by army cooks from influence of the Indian army, and introduced more widely as a result of the War. The newspapers in Dundee, a city whose jute trade was closely linked with India, used to delight in showing photos of Scottish soldiers rubbing shoulders with troops of many different nationalities, knowing that their readers would find them interesting.
Commemoration in Scotland
The Great War Dundee Commemorative Project aims to co-ordinate a city-wide approach to the centenary commemoration of the First World War, bringing the local community together with Dundee’s museums, archives, libraries, universities, schools and businesses, through a programme of activities that encourage the broadest possible public participation and collective reminiscence. These activities include the opening of a hundred-year-old time capsule, located in Royal Mail’s Dundee East Delivery Office, which is thought to contain a large number of letters from soldiers on various First World War battle fronts, and photographs of Dundee men and women, as well as stamps and coins from the time. The aim is for events in Dundee to serve as a focus for a specifically Scottish commemoration of the war.
Scotland has a particular culture of remembrance, too. According to Billy Kenefick, that can be seen in the cathedral-like Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh: ‘there was a sense that the Cenotaph in Whitehall wasn’t good enough – there was a national desire to commemorate Scottish soldiers in their own way, to see them as fighting the war for Scotland as well as for Britain. But then, Robert the Bruce had been used on recruiting posters, while others used to say “we cannot allow the sons of the rose, the leek and the shamrock to get ahead of the sons of the thistle”.’
Find out more about what research reveals about WW1 and its legacy in the AHRC’s Beyond the Trenches publication. Read it online or order a free copy here.
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Connected Communities Festival: World War One ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Event
A number of sessions at the recent Connected Communities Festival in Cardiff reflected on the nature of community at this time of commemoration and during the First World War.
Three academic experts from Welsh universities were on hand in a special ‘Antiques Roadshow’-style event to look at First World War memorabilia brought in by members of the public. Some 40,000 Welshmen died during the War and its impact reached into every aspect of Welsh life. Its legacy lives on in countless ways and not least in the memories, objects and artefacts handed down through the generations and still treasured today. You can find out more about the roadshow in the video below, or read about the experiences of members of the public who attended on the BBC News website.
You can revisit all the sessions which were live streamed in a YouTube playlist.
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Premiere of new films on North East WW1 experiences
There will be a unique premiere at Tyneside cinema this July, as two short films about North East experiences of the First World War are aired.
The films were created by Newcastle and Durham University postgraduates and sixth formers from Heworth Grange and Ponteland High School. Postgraduates visited the Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn to gather private diaries, letters and photographs. These personal accounts and current sixth formers’ responses to them are at the heart of both films.
These films show the war through the eyes of the generation that experienced it and explore what it means for modern students to read those experiences.
The film-showing will take place in the Roxy at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle on 28th July at 6.30pm. The event is free and all guests will receive a glass of wine on arrival. Once the films have been shown there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers, the sixth-formers who took part and archivists from the Northumberland Archives at Woodhorn. This will be chaired by the Project Co-Ordinator, Dr Katherine Cooper.
To attend please email Faye Keegan on faye.keegan@ncl.ac.uk by 20th July 2014.
This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Collaborative Skills Development programme.
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Launch of Gateways to the First World War, Friday 30th May 2014
June 6, 2014 ahrcww1 Leave a comment
Last week saw the launch of Gateways to the First World War, one of five AHRC-funded centres designed to mark the centenary of the conflict, and to enhance public engagement with it. Gateways is based at the University of Kent and brings together a team of researchers from the Universities of Portsmouth, Brighton, Greenwich, Leeds and Queen Mary, London. The launch was part of a First World War Study day organised by the University of Kent’s German Department. The event was opened by Professor John Baldock, the University of Kent’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, who expressed the university’s pleasure in hosting the Centre and introduced an afternoon of debate and discussion on the First World War and its commemoration.
Dominieck Dendoveen, Dr Suzanne Bardgett, His Excellency Dr Emil Brix and Dr Deborah Holmes discuss how and why we should commemorate the First World War
One of the highlights of the event was a panel discussion on the commemoration of the First World War chaired by the event’s organiser, Dr Deborah Holmes of the German Department, and featuring Dr Emil Brix, Austria’s Ambassador to the UK, Dr Suzanne Bardgett, the Imperial War Museum’s Director of Research, and Dominiek Dendooven of In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium. The panel led a fascinating discussion of both the problems and benefits of commemorating an event often complicated by ‘contested memories’. Dr Brix expressed his belief in the importance of European collaboration in the commemoration of the war, and Mr Dendooven discussed the ways in which the Flanders Field Museum is attempting to overcome national boundaries through exhibitions focused on individual war experiences. Dr Bardgett outlined some of the exciting centenary projects supported by the Imperial War Museum, including Lives of the First World War, the First World War Partnership, and Whose Remembrance?, the IWM’s project to investigate the role of colonial troops in the conflict. The discussion reinforced one of the key aims of the Gateways project: to encourage academics and the wider public to work together to discover connections between the local and the global during the First World War. As Gateways’ Director Professor Mark Connelly stated, the conflict was, for Kent and the South East in particular, a ‘global event with global repercussions’ which took place ‘on the doorstep’.
Gateways Director Professor Mark Connelly with His Excellency Dr Emil Brix,
Dr Deborah Holmes and Dr Heide Kunzelmann
The panel discussion was followed by an illustrated lecture by Professor Connelly and Dr Heide Kunzelmann of the German Department, presenting photographs taken of troop mobilisation and prisoners of war in 1914 by Dr Kunzelmann’s great-grandfather, a medical officer in the Habsburg Army. Comparing these newly discovered sources to photographs taken by British officers in 1914, the pair talked about the connections between the personal and the public, and the similarities between artefacts of the First World War from different sides of the conflict. Through their discussion of the photographs – which focused on the themes of mobilization, violence, vulnerability and reconstruction – they emphasised the importance of revisiting accepted and established approaches to the conflict.
Photographs taken by Dr Friedrich Kunzelmann in 1914
The event ended with a drinks reception and official launch of the Gateways to the First World War centre. Professor Connelly and Dr Will Butler outlined some of the centenary projects already underway, including a collaboration with Step Short of Folkestone on an app tour highlighting the town’s connections to the conflict, and guests were shown the newly-launched Gateways website. After a successful opening event, the Gateways team is now looking forward to developing its work with local groups and organisations on a range of First World War projects across the UK. The Centre aims to encourage and support public interest in the conflict through a range of events and activities such as open days and study days, providing access to materials and expertise, and signposting for other resources and forms of support. Forthcoming events include:
19th July 2014 – 25th January 2015 – ‘Lest We Forget’, an exhibition in conjunction with Portsmouth City Council
13th September 2014 – A Family History Day at Brighton Museum in conjunction with Brighton Museums and Pavilion
28th September 2014 – Gateways to the First World War Public Open Day, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
12th December 2014 – ‘Representations of the Christmas Truce’, a one day symposium at the University of Kent
More details of these and many other projects can be found on the Gateways website. The Gateways team can be contacted at gateways@kent.ac.uk and via Twitter and Facebook.
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Public Meeting in Georgia to Discuss NEPA Requirements for Oil and Gas Projects
Posted on November 25th, 2015 by Jessica Wentz
Associate Director and Fellow
Earlier this month, I visited Savannah, Georgia to talk with concerned citizens about the environmental review process for oil and gas infrastructure in their state. My presentation focused on how the public can use the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to ensure that agencies evaluate the full scope of environmental impacts associated with major projects, such as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals, pipelines, and offshore drilling. The event was hosted by the Center for a Sustainable Coast, an environmental NGO in Georgia.
One of the key points of discussion was that NEPA requires agencies to evaluate the “indirect impacts” of projects, including any indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the expansion of oil and gas infrastructure. The U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently issued draft guidance clarifying that the indirect impact analysis should encompass:
“[E]missions from activities that have a reasonably close causal relationship to the Federal action, such as those that may occur as a predicate for the agency action (often referred to as upstream emissions) and as a consequence of agency action (often referred to as downstream emissions).”
But despite this guidance, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) routinely overlook downstream and upstream emissions in their NEPA analysis for proposed pipelines, LNG export terminals, and offshore drilling plans.
There are two ways that citizens can get involved in the NEPA process to advocate for disclosure of upstream and downstream emissions. First, citizens can submit comments to the lead agency highlighting certain environmental issues that should be considered in the environmental review process. For example, the Sabin Center recently used the NEPA process to submit comments on a proposed LNG export terminal in Alaska, urging FERC to consider both indirect emissions and the impacts of climate change on the project. The Savannah residents were excited to learn about how they, too, could use the NEPA process to comment on proposed projects, such as the Sabal Trail Pipeline, the Elba Island LNG Export Terminal, and the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
Second, citizens can file a lawsuit when an agency fails to comply with NEPA—for example, by refusing to prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a project that will have significant impacts, or by publishing a final EIS that does not adequately analyze the environmental consequences of the project. The courts play an important role in enforcing NEPA, and there is now a growing body of case law requiring agencies to consider upstream and downstream GHG emissions from fossil fuel projects (summaries are available on our U.S. Climate Change Litigation Chart).
The participants at the Savannah event were also interested in the prospect of litigation, in part because they felt that FERC, BOEM, and other agencies have not been responsive to public input. FERC, for example, has consistently maintained that it need not consider upstream or downstream emissions in its review of pipelines and LNG terminals, despite many public comments urging it to do so. This issue is currently being reviewed in court—the Sierra Club has filed several lawsuits in the D.C. Circuit challenging FERC’s failure to consider indirect effects for natural gas pipelines, liquefaction facilities, and export terminals (the cases are listed here).
The participants also raised some specific concerns about the environmental reviews of key projects in their state. These included:
Concern about FERC’s decision to conduct an Environmental Assessment for the Elba Island facility, rather than proceeding with the preparation of a full EIS. FERC may conclude that the project—which involves transforming an LNG import terminal into an LNG export terminal—will have no significant impacts and approve the project without conducting a full review of potential environmental impacts, including upstream and downstream emissions.
Concern that a large amount of information about the Elba Island project is being withheld from the public on the grounds that this is Critical Energy Infrastructure Information (CEII) which need not be disclosed in a NEPA review. CEII information includes engineering, vulnerability, or detailed design information” that relates details about the production, generation, transmission or distribution of energy and could be useful to a person planning an attack on critical infrastructure. CEII information is except from disclosure under NEPA and the Freedom of Information Act.
More generally, the participants expressed frustration about the inconsistency between executive policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions and the ongoing approvals from executive agencies for projects that will increase fossil fuel production on federal lands and waters. We highlighted this inconsistency in comments on the proposed OCS oil and gas leasing plan submitted earlier this year.
Relevant Publications and Resources
For more on this topic, please take a look at our publications on environmental impact assessment and climate change.
In addition, Executive Director Michael Burger and I are currently drafting a white paper on the scope of indirect emissions that must be analyzed under NEPA. Keep an eye on our blog and website for that paper and other contributions from the Sabin Center.
Posted in Energy, Environmental Impact Review, NEPA, Uncategorized Article tags: BOEM, FERC, indirect impacts, NEPA, oil and gas
Unlockninja, on November 27th, 2015 at 6:13 am Said:
Great Blog and thanks for sharing this great post…
David Kyler, on December 1st, 2015 at 9:49 am Said:
As executive director of the Center for a Sustainable Coast I want to thank Jessica Wentz and the Sabin Center for their expert advice on these critically important issues. We are very thankful for the guidance provided and hope it will empower us to use the law more effectively to protect public interest.
A point I would like to underscore is the ongoing confusion and disarray being caused by national policies that are deeply conflicted. While the U.S. has adopted policies to reduce domestic generation of greenhouse gases, our nation continues to subsidize fossil fuels – and at much higher levels than clean energy. Moreover, U.S. policies encourage the export of processed fossil fuels, which only adds to global climate disruption, while sending mixed signals to both consumers and the leaders whose cooperation is essential to preventing climate catastrophe. Yet the fossil-fuels industry continues to claim the false moral justification of America’s ‘energy independence’ while avidly exporting millions of barrels of petro-products daily from our shores.
It is time we insist on coherent and consistent policies that serve national public interest, unfettered by obsolete ties to vested influence wielded by those who profit at the public’s expense.
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An Old Order in a New World: Norbertine Tradition in America
Posted on July 9, 2013 by Dr. Michael A. Marinelli, Ed.D, '76
One of my favorite summer activities is to catch up on reading that I put aside during the school year. The most recent book in my stack that I just finished is Dr. Jean van Stratum’s biography of Abbot Bernard H. Pennings, O.Praem., founder of the Norbertine Order in the United States.
Dr. Jean van Stratum
(Rick Evans | The Compass)
Before reading the biography, I knew the historical outline of the Norbertine missionaries’ arrival in the United States in 1893, and the subsequent founding of Saint Norbert Abbey and Saint Norbert College on the Fox River in De Pere, Wisconsin. But van Stratum’s work adds dimension and color to the outline of dates and accomplishments. He assembles stories of people with sometimes common, and sometimes different, visions about the role of the Norbertine community in the New World – stories of collaboration between religious and lay, stories of tension between religious tradition and interpretation of that tradition in Abbey religious life “in ministry” to early 20th century America. I could not help but think how these fundamental issues of “how we should live” are a part of our current thinking.
According to van Stratum, Abbot Pennings addressed a letter to Abbot General Crets in August 1932, asking his support of “two great enterprises.” One of those “enterprises” was the takeover of the Dutch parish of Saint Willebrord in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The other was the purchase of John J. Raskob’s Archmere estate to create Archmere Academy, a boarding and day school for boys. Van Stratum suggests that Abbot Crets felt positive about these Norbertine developments in America.
John J. Raskob Estate, 1927
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As headmaster of Archmere today, I found it particularly interesting, helpful, and humbling to try to gain insight into Abbot Pennings’ vision and style of leadership. On one hand, he accomplished extraordinary projects in administering parishes and establishing schools, thereby rooting the foundation of Norbertine communities in the United States. On the other hand, some of his confreres criticized his non-collaborative leadership style, and what they considered to be his lack of attention to the spiritual life of the Abbey.
Abbot Bernard H. Pennings, O.Praem.
A vibrant and well-respected figure in the Church and community, Abbot Pennings enjoyed a long life, singularly leading the Norbertine community until age 86. At that time in 1947, Abbot General Noots recommended that the community elect a Coadjutor Abbot to assist with the duties and responsibilities of the office and assure a smooth transition once Abbot Pennings could no longer serve as Abbot. The transition to a collaborative form of leadership was difficult for Abbot Pennings after so many years of being “in charge.” It was equally difficult for the Coadjutor, 42-year-old Abbot Sylvester Killeen.
I am sure that these were difficult conversations, just as they would be today. However, by reading and studying the dynamics between Abbot Pennings and his colleagues, we can learn about how to be more effective in similar present-day circumstances.
Abbot Sylvester Killeen, O.Praem.
A significant issue that kept surfacing throughout Abbot Pennings’ term was the balance between communicating transparently while maintaining appropriate confidentiality. Managing these two opposite forces, at times, seems impossible – even for effective leaders today. What communities believe they need to know, should know, and want to know can be very different.
Consider that several members of Saint Norbert Abbey that were most critical of Abbot Pennings’ authoritative leadership style were raised and educated in a country with democratic ideals – concepts antithetical to the hierarchical models of the Church and European society. Certainly, Abbot Pennings’ charismatic leadership continued to be effective, but attentiveness to the voice of the growing community seemed to be an issue, particularly as its members became more informed through formal education, religious training, and work experience.
Did Abbot Pennings fail to adapt his communication and leadership styles to adequately address the concerns of the younger community members?
Perhaps he was aware of the need for change, but he simply did not know how to implement such a transition in leadership style. Van Stratum points to a 1949 letter from Abbot Pennings to confrere Alphonse Diedrich:
Reflection on what to do in the case that a new abbey would somewhere be established, he [Abbot Pennings] said that this should occur ‘always where people are, in or near a city.’ In the old times, as he continued, an abbey would be built in the country side ‘ but they had none or little active work – only to sing the office, but that was 700 to 800 years ago: no colleges, only some parish work. It is different today because Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.’ (Times are changing and we have to change with them). It sounded like the genuine if not lifelong conviction of the 88-year-old-man. (p. 369)
This duality of mission – monastic and ministerial – is something very Norbertine, and it is subject to varying degrees of interpretation. That interpretation depends on the vision of the Abbot elected by the independent Abbey communities, each influenced by its particular local, national, and international history and circumstances.
I experienced this on our 2012 Heritage Tour of Norbertine Abbeys in Belgium and France. While each community had uniqueness and felt “more” or “less” monastic, there was a common bond of confraternity and hospitality rooted in the Rule of Augustine as interpreted and lived by Saint Norbert nearly 1,000 years ago.
Similarly, Archmere Academy – founded by Norbertine Fathers, more specifically Abbot Pennings – has evolved over its more than 80-year history in its understanding of mission, governance, commitment to academic excellence, and Norbertine spirituality. With many lessons learned from the past, I am excited and hopeful that the members of the Archmere community are in contemporary dialog about these fundamental questions of purpose and relevancy that seem to be in constant evolution and change.
Perhaps Saint Norbert designed it to be that way.
In Norbertine History and Spirituality, Fr. Bernard Ardura, O.Praem., claims that Norbert’s intention in establishing abbey communities after Premontre was not to build a hierarchical network of houses, which were tightly linked and managed by the founder. Rather, Norbert, with Hugh of Fosse, created a confederation of linked, but independent abbeys with the hope that their communities would grow and respond to the needs of their individual locales. Uniquely, members of the Abbey, in addition to their vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, took an additional “vow of place” – a vow to be a member of that particular abbey community for life. This Vita Communis underscored the intentional uniqueness of each abbeys’ work that was to respond to the needs of the larger community, in which it was founded.
A missionary and pioneer, Abbot Pennings was raised in a 19th century, lower-middle class household in an under-industrialized Netherlands where every penny mattered. He was asked to found, grow, and lead a religious community in a New World where adaptation and amalgamation were critical for success. Drawing from his humble upbringing and life experience, Abbot Pennings proved to have the right mix of skills to make a lasting foothold in the then underdeveloped United States frontier. He founded and led a Norbertine community, enduring harsh Wisconsin winters, economic recession, religious schism, and language and cultural barriers.
Can we, as leaders of today’s Norbertine legacy, be as effective as Abbot Pennings in advancing the missions of our institutions? Can we be of the world and not in it, address the needs of our communities and “place,” demonstrate value and importance to exist within the larger international community?
I believe we can.
With the advantage of studying nearly a millenium’s worth of Norbertine successes and failures, we can extract the best lessons that our contemporary culture has to offer and effectively relate them to the unchanged, fundamental beliefs of our Catholic faith. By remaining open to the Holy Spirit, which directs and guides us in the present, we allow ourselves to be filled with God’s will rather than our own.
The Patio at Archmere Academy
Last month, during the week-long Saint Norbert Leadership Corps Program, my wife and I were able to visit with two of my former Archmere teachers – Fathers Sal Cuccia and Steve Rossey, who now live at Saint Norbert Abbey. Father Sal works at the College in Campus Ministry. Annually, he brings his students to visit Archmere as part of their community service trip in working with the Daylesford Abbey initiative Bethesda Project for homeless men in Philadelphia. Father Rossey continues to be my aesthetic inspiration for the revitalization of The Patio.
As my first art teacher and founder of the visual arts program at Archmere, Father Steve is a wealth of knowledge, and he is an important resource for the development of a 21st century Patio that works effectively with the school’s future plans while also respecting the tremendous artistic and historic place it has in our national history.
Throughout the week, we made connections, fortifying relationships between Archmere, Saint Norbert College and Saint Norbert Abbey – Archmere’s founding Abbey. I think Abbot Pennings would have been pleased to see Archmere students being instructed by the faculty of Saint Norbert College.
A highlight of the tour was the students’ visit to the crypt under the Abbey Church where Abbot Pennings and Abbot Killeen are buried. Father Cuccia, in his wonderfully nostalgic teaching style, recounted stories about the history of the communities from Premontre and Berne Abbeys. The students were attentive, respectful, and I think, aware, that they were in a special place and part of a special history. It felt like an afternoon of family story-telling.
As lay men and women who have been entrusted with this wonderfully rich legacy of a millennial religious tradition, we need to work in collaboration with one another and with the ordained members of the Norbertine communities, both in the United States and abroad. As counter-cultural institutions, it is important that we support one another as school and abbey communities, sharing key strategies that are effective in sustaining and fulfilling our missions.
We can learn a lot from successful leaders such as Abbot Pennings while continually “re-learning” how to be in the world rather than of the world. Abbot Penning’s confreres criticized his strategy for balancing these opposing sentiments, but would we be the Norbertine presence in America that we are today without him?
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Gothic Cathedrals to Gourmet Kitchens
Posted on June 18, 2013 by Dr. Michael A. Marinelli, Ed.D, '76
Having just returned from a week-long immersion into the Nobertine Midwest culture of Saint Norbert Abbey and College in De Pere, Wisconsin, many ideas and images are circulating in my head. A short stop in Chicago on the return trip to engage Archmere alumni living in the area in an informal reunion added to the experience. It leads me to the question, “What is it about ‘Archmere’ that attracts so many to support the ‘idea’ in so many ways?”
Traveling from the airport to the city center of Chicago, my wife and I noticed so many steeples of churches, closely knit together in neighborhoods, each one so different in architectural style. Similarly, on a tour of Saint Norbert’s campus with Vice President for Academics Dr. Jeff Frick we saw two former Catholic churches. One was being transformed into a Womens’ Studies center, while the other church, completely renovated, was a concert hall. Formerly Catholic churches for specific ethnic immigrant groups, these beautiful buildings were repurposed with great care to provide new services to the 21st century community of Saint Norbert College.
As I thought about these images, I saw a tangible effect of our contemporary cultural transition from a church-centered, other-worldy, higher-order-thinking culture to a popular culture of immediate gratification. Along the ride into and out of Chicago, there were a number of homes that were being refurbished. I could not help but think of the HGTV show that highlights “miraculous” makeovers for couples and families moving into or remodeling existing homes. It always strikes me when newly married couples are looking for homes with granite counter-top kitchens, stainless steel appliances, and real hardwood floors. The kitchen and the home, in some ways, has become the “church of today,” with a focus on family life as the secret to happiness.
But what about the experience my wife and I had walking the Magnificent Mile? At practically every street corner, we encountered someone, usually a woman and her children, who was begging for help – money for a meal or a place to stay for the night. Walking in and out of the high-end stores with price tags we only laughed about, we wondered, “How do you spend $1,395 for a pair of shoes and simply walk by a beggar who is sitting on the sidewalk?”
I am not sure of the answer; I am sure that many people who shop in these high-end locales are also generous to philanthropic causes. At the same time, are we not asked the question, “And so what do you do in proportion to your own means?”
I often think of the comment that Jesus made to Judas when Mary Magdalene washed the feet of Jesus with perfumed oils:
For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me. (John 12:8)
Judas comments that the funds for the oils could have been used for the poor, but Jesus responds that what Mary had done was an act of faith and devotion.
I suppose we all struggle with this fine line of what is practical and what is over-the-top. Maybe the lesson learned is to not be so judgmental form the perspective that only we see. At the very least, we take from Jesus’ teaching that, as we express ourselves and our questions, we should do so in a manner that is non-accusatory and authentic. In this way, we may engage in good conversation that may transform a process, policy, or approach that previously had been considered the “best” method. We do not intend to put down another, rather build upon each other’s ideas and thoughts. My impression of Jesus in his dealings with the people around him is that he tried very hard to get various factions to communicate on common terms – the same thing that effective leaders are trying to accomplish today.
The Saint Norbert Leadership Corps program at Saint Norbert College was developed collaboratively between Archmere Academy and the College with the purpose of infusing our students with the leadership skills, rooted in the spiritual context of Norbertine Charism, to be successful in school and career. The program involved 39 students – rising Sophomores, Juniors and one Senior – and eight teacher chaperones. Students were presented with servant-leadership models that provided contexts for ethics and faith-based discussion. The goal was not for the students to leave the week-long experience with all the answers, but instead equipped with the tools to become mindful Catholic Christian leaders of the new century.
Personally, I was overwhelmed by the whole experience. My wife Diane and I stayed at Saint Norbert Abbey, while the students and chaperones lived in a residence hall on the College’s campus. Diane and I immersed ourselves in the daily rhythm of the Abbey with morning prayer at 7:30 a.m. and evening prayer at 5 p.m. We were fortunate to be able to attend the viewing of Father Gilbert, O.Praem., who taught at Archmere from 1955 to 1965. It was a most impressive event, and family and community were warmly welcomed at the Abbey.
On the heels of the recent sudden loss of Father Thomas Hagendorf, O.Praem., my Freshman religion teacher at Archmere, the experience reminded me how much like a family experience my Archmere years felt – both those as a student from 1972 to 1976 and as a staff member from 1984 to 1996. I said in my opening letter to the school community when I returned as Headmaster that Archmere is a “place that never leaves you.” I believe that even more after this past week. It is as if we have been tattooed on the heart with the Archmere charism. Once you have it, it is there until you intentionally burn it away.
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Home News Crime & Legal Making a Murderer attorney primed for Limerick event
Making a Murderer attorney primed for Limerick event
Dean Strang
Attorney Dean Strang, who featured in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, will discuss implications of the Steven Avery case at an event in Limerick later this month.
An Evening with Dean Strang, will take place at the University Concert Hall on September 26, and is organised by the University of Limerick Law Society. It will be chaired by Professor Shane Kilcommins, head of UL’s School of Law and will be followed by a question and answer session.
Mr Strang, along with Jerry Buting, represented Steven Avery in his trial for the 2005 murder of photographer, Teresa Halbach. Mr Avery had previously served 18 years in prison for sexual assault and attempted murder before being exonerated in 2003. Making a Murderer covers his 2007 trial and his subsequent conviction for the murder of Ms Halbach.
Amy Dermody, second-year law student at UL and conference convener with the UL Law Society, explained why the group decided to invite Mr Strang to the campus.
“Most law students have seen Making a Murderer and it really highlights potential inadequacies in the American legal system, and how important it is to correctly frame legislation to prevent miscarriages of justice. We contacted Mr Strang’s office earlier this year and they mentioned that Mr Strang would be in Ireland in September, and while initially he had no plans to visit Limerick, we were told he would be delighted to accept our invitation,” she said.
“We are thrilled to have such a well-known and highly respected attorney coming to speak to us. One of the things I really liked about Making a Murderer was the way it highlighted the commitment and dedication to the law of a down-to-earth, working attorney rather than a celebrity lawyer,” she continued.
Professor Shane Kilcommins commended the students and said he was looking forward to chairing the event.
“Attracting Dean Strang here is an outstanding coup and it is part of UL School of Law’s broader engagement with community and is an excellent example of law in action. It fulfils part of UL’s mission in engaging with practitioners and the community,” he said.
“It is fantastic that the UL School of Law has such a positive relationship with the student law society. This type of event is part of the wider curriculum – that students should learn in their modules but also should be involved in societies that promote broader learning,” Professor Kilcommins added.
“As well as promising to be an enjoyable and interesting evening for students and members of the public, this event offers excellent pedagogical outcomes for students who will have the opportunity to listen to a practitioner and to tease out some compelling issues around the justice system. In chairing this, I will be asking questions about issues of policing, integrity in the criminal justice process, miscarriages of justice, the evidential process and the consequences of decision making”.
Dean Strang currently works as an attorney in Wisconsin with Strang Bradley Trial Lawyers and has taught in the University of Wisconsin since 2008.
An Evening with Dean Strang will take place at University Concert Hall, Limerick on Monday, September 26, 2016 at 8pm. Tickets are available from UCH, by telephone on 061 331549 or online at www.uch.ie. Student tickets are priced at €12 and general admission is €20 with proceeds going to the UL Law Society.
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John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament
So long as God gives Him access to the people, He continues His labour of love. Nevertheless, He was conscious of the iniquity that governed the people, although He did not seek His own glory. Having exhorted His disciples to pray that labourers might be sent into the harvest, He begins (chap. 10) to act in accordance with that desire. He calls His twelve disciples, He gives them power to cast out devils and to heal the sick, and He sends them to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. We see, in this mission, how much the ways of God with Israel form the subject of this Gospel. They were to announce to that people, and to them exclusively, the nearness of the kingdom, exercising at the same time the power they had received: a striking testimony to Him who was come, and who could not only work miracles Himself, but confer power on others to do so likewise. He gave them authority over evil spirits for this purpose. It is this which characterises the kingdom-man healed of all sickness and the devil cast out Accordingly, in Hebrews 6, miracles are called "the powers of the world to come." [See Footnote #27]
They were also, with respect to their need, to depend entirely on Him who sent them. Emmanuel was there. If miracles were a proof to the world of their Master's power, the fact that they lacked nothing should be so to their own hearts The ordinance was abrogated during that period of their ministry which followed the departure of Jesus from this world (Luke 22:35-37). That which He here (Matthew 10) commands His disciples appertains to His presence as Messiah, as Jehovah Himself, on the earth. Therefore the reception of His messengers, or their rejection, decided the fate of those to whom they were sent. In rejecting them they rejected the Lord Emmanuel, God with His people. [See Footnote #28] But, in fact, He sent them forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. They would need the wisdom of serpents, and were to exhibit the harmlessness of doves (rare union of virtues, found only in those who, by the Spirit of the Lord, are wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil).
If they did not beware of men (sad testimony as to these), they would but suffer; but when scourged and brought before councils and governors and kings, all this should become a testimony unto them-a divine means of presenting the gospel of the kingdom to kings and princes, without altering its character or accommodating it to the world, or mixing up the Lord's people with its usages and its false greatness. Moreover circumstances like these made their testimony much more conspicuous than association with the great ones of the earth would have done.
And, to accomplish this, they should receive such power and guidance from the Spirit of their Father as would cause the words they spoke to be not their own words, but His who inspired them. Here, again, their relation with their Father, which so distinctly characterises the sermon on the Mount, is made the basis of their capacity for the service they had to perform. We must remember that this testimony was addressed to Israel only; only that, Israel being under the yoke of the Gentiles since the time of Nebuchadnezzar, the testimony would reach their rulers.
But this testimony would excite an opposition that should break all family ties, and awaken a hatred that would not spare the life of those who had been the most beloved. He who in spite of all this should endure to the end should be saved. Nevertheless the case was urgent. They were not to resist, but if the opposition took the form of persecution, they were to flee and preach the Gospel elsewhere, for before they had gone over the cities of Israel the Son of man should come. [See Footnote #29] They were to proclaim the kingdom. Jehovah, Emmanuel, was there, in the midst of His people, and the heads of the people had called the master of the house Beelzebub. This had not stopped His testimony, but it very strongly characterised the circumstances in which this testimony was to be rendered He sent them forth, warning them of this state of things, to maintain this final testimony among His beloved people as long as possible. This took place at that time, and it is possible, if circumstances permit, to carry it on until the Son of man comes to execute judgment. Then the master of the house will nave risen up to shut the door. The "to-day" of Psalms 95 will be over. Israel in possession of their cities being the object of this testimony, it is necessarily suspended when they are no longer in their land. The testimony to the future kingdom given in Israel by the apostles after the Lord's death, is an accomplishment of this mission, so far as this testimony was rendered in the land of Israel; for the kingdom might be proclaimed as to be established while Emmanuel was on the earth; or this might be by Christ's returning from heaven as announced by Peter in Acts 3. And this might take place if Israel were in the land, even until Christ should return. Thus the testimony may be resumed in Israel, whenever they are again in their land and the requisite spiritual power is sent forth by God.
Meanwhile, the disciples were to share in Christ's own position. If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, much more they of His household. But they were not to fear It was the necessary portion of those who were for God in the midst of the people. But there was nothing hid that should not be revealed. They themselves were to hold nothing back, but were to proclaim on the housetops all that they had been taught; for everything should be brought into the light; their faithfulness to God in this respect, as well as all other things. This, while it met the secret plottings of their enemies, was itself to characterise the ways of the disciples. God, who is light, and sees in darkness as in light, would bring all out into the light, but they were to do this morally now. Therefore were they to fear nothing while performing this work, unless it were God Himself, the righteous Judge at the last day. Moreover the hairs of their heads were numbered. They were precious to their Father, who took notice of even a sparrow's death. This could not happen without Him who was their Father.
Finally, they were to be thoroughly imbued with the conviction that the Lord was not come to send peace on the earth; no, it should be division, even in the bosom of families. But Christ was to be more precious than father or mother, and even than a man's own life. He who would save his life at the expense of his testimony to Christ should lose it; he who would lose it for the sake of Christ should gain it. He also who should receive this testimony, in the person of the disciples, received Christ, and, in Christ, Him that sent Him. God, therefore, being thus acknowledged in the person of His witnesses on earth, would bestow, on whoever received the latter, a reward according to the testimony rendered. In thus acknowledging the testimony of the rejected Lord, were it only by a cup of cold water, he who gave it should not lose his reward. In an opposing world, he who believes the testimony of God, and receives (in spite of the world) the man who bears this testimony, really confesses God, as well as His servant. It is all that we can do. The rejection of Christ made Him a test, a touchstone.
Footnotes for Matthew 10
27: For then Satan will be bound and man delivered by the power of Christ. And there were partial deliverances of the kind.
28: There is a division of the Lord's discourse at verse 15. Up to that it is the then present mission. From verse 16 we have more general reflections on their mission, looked at as a whole in the midst of Israel on to the end. Evidently it goes beyond their then present mission and supposes the coming of the Holy Ghost. The mission by which the church is called as such is a distinct thing. This applies only to Israel they were forbidden to go to Gentiles. This necessarily closed with the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jewish nation, but it is to be renewed at the end, till the Son of man be come. There was a testimony to the Gentiles only, as brought before them as judges, as Paul was, and that part of his history even on to Rome in Acts, was amidst Jews. The latter part, from verse 16, has less to do with the gospel of the kingdom.
29: Observe here the expression "Son of man." This is the character in which (according to Dan. 7) the Lord will come, in a power and glory much greater than that of His manifestation as Messiah, the Son of David, and which will be displayed in a much wider sphere. As the Son of man, He is the heir of all that God destines for man (see Heb. 2: 6-8, and 1 Cor. 15:27). He must, in consequence, seeing what man's condition is, suffer in order to possess this inheritance. He was there as the Messiah, but He must be received in His true character, Emmanuel; and the Jews must thus be tested morally. He will not have the kingdom on carnal principles. Rejected as Messiah, as Emmanuel, He postpones the period of those events which will close the ministry of His disciples with respect to Israel, unto His coming as the Son of man. Meantime God has brought out other things that had been hidden from the foundation of the world, the true glory of Jesus the Son of God, His heavenly glory as man and the church united to Him in heaven. The Judgment of Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the nation, have suspended the ministry which had begun at the moment of which the evangelist here speaks. That which has filled up the interval since then is not the subject here of the Lord's discourse, which refers solely to the ministry that had the Jews for its object. The counsels of God with respect to the church, in connection with the glory of Jesus at the right hand of God, we shall find spoken of elsewhere. Luke will give us in more detail that which concerns the Son of man In Matthew the Holy Ghost occupies us with the rejection of Emmanuel.
These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. These files were made available by Mr. Doug Nicolet.
Darby, John. "Commentary on Matthew 10". "John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament". <http://classic.studylight.org/com/dsn/view.cgi?book=mt&chapter=010>.
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Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
By Overstreet, October 30, 2012 in Film
3 hours ago, Attica said:
Buckeye Jones said:
I very much appreciated the final wide shot of that sequence which held for just a beat. Very good stuff.
You mean when a certain character fell? Yeah that was well done.
Actually, there's a very wide shot after that fall, with the remaining character dwarfed in the shadows. That's what caught me this time.
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Oh. Okay. I don't remember that at the moment.
Ren stands alone, his lightsaber pointed down. It only lasted a second. Then Chewie shot him.
Peter T Chattaway said:
Rod Dreher disparagingly compared BB-8 to the Ewoks for his "Pixar cuteness" (I quote from memory) the other day. It'll be interesting to see if anyone else picks up that vibe.
I thought BB-8 was cute, but not "Pixar cuteness." He sat fine with me, but mind you I've never had much of a problem with the Ewoks, so my sensibilities are possibly out of step with a lot of critics in these regards.
Ren also came across as a powerful yet confused child in further scenes.
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4 hours ago, Peter T Chattaway said:
Hmmm. There's no evidence that Shmi (Vader's mother) was Force-sensitive, so I don't know why any other branch of that family would be. But if Snoke *is* Darth Plagueis, i.e. the one who created Anakin and put him in Shmi's womb, then who knows what he may have done with other members of her family.
Whoa. I never knew this (having almost no knowledge of anything outside the movies). Does that mean Anakin wasn't really "conceived by the midichlorians"?
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Yeah, apparently that was a red herring. Anakin's origins as the result of Darth P's meddling was heavily implied in the opera scene in ROTS and was apparently even clearer at one point (and was canon in the EU-that-was, it seems). Unfortunately, not enough makes it into the film to draw many conclusions about its broader significance (though it would significantly complicate the franchise's Oedipal themes).
Edited December 31, 2015 by NBooth
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Ryan H. wrote:
: But I've said that this film is only meant to function as a mash-up of reunion special and a pilot for a new series, and on that level, I think it mostly succeeds.
It hits what it was aiming for, I suppose. But I think it was a big mistake to aim for that. (There's a video making the rounds, on why The Force Awakens is worse than the prequels, and I was amused when the narrator complained that The Force Awakens was just a TV pilot like the first episode of Lost. What sounds like praise (or at least appreciation) to some is criticism to others...)
: We already know that Johnson asked Abrams to make changes to The Force Awakens to allow him to take certain narrative elements in different directions. The Force Awakens was meant to have more closure than it offers, but Johnson asked that certain narrative reveals be withheld for later in the trilogy.
Oh, this is the first I've heard of that. Weird. So Abrams had *that* to work around, too.
Attica wrote:
: I mean maybe there is actually hope for future films as good as Empire, or even, dare I say, better.
Empire had the advantage of having to follow up just one film. It didn't need to ignore the existence of any others, the way that e.g. Star Trek Beyond is reportedly ignoring Star Trek into Darkness (or the way that The Force Awakens mostly, but not completely, ignores the prequels).
: Could Snoke have always been behind the scenes pulling strings when it comes to the Skywalker family . . .
I don't know about always pulling strings, but apparently in the novelization Snoke tells Kylo that he watched the Galactic Empire rise and fall, so he's certainly been behind the scenes somewhere...
Rushmore wrote:
: Does that mean Anakin wasn't really "conceived by the midichlorians"?
Practically from the moment The Phantom Menace first came out in 1999, fans were speculating that it was no coincidence that the film introduced both <a> an objective material connection to the Force that can be measured (and, therefore, manipulated), and <b> the apparently miraculous conception of Anakin Skywalker. One person I knew at the time said it was obvious that Anakin's conception wasn't *really* miraculous -- that it was more akin to a feat of genetic engineering -- and that someone had created Anakin specifically to create the *appearance* of fulfilling the prophecy, or to manipulate the prophecy, or something like that.
Six years later, in Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine came verrrry close to confirming these speculations, when he told Anakin the story of Darth Plagueis (who happened to be Palpatine's mentor, until Palpatine killed him). According to Palpatine, Darth Plagueis was unique among all Jedi/Sith because he had the ability to create life -- and when Palpatine says the words "create life", he looks at Anakin in a way that indicates he's dropping a huge, huge hint here.
(And keep in mind that the Jedi first discovered Anakin on Tatooine, which is practically next door to Palpatine's home planet Naboo. When Palpatine says at the end of Episode I that he'll be watching Anakin's career with great interest, I think he knows *exactly* where Anakin came from, in a way that nobody else in that scene does.)
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10 hours ago, Peter T Chattaway said:
Let's hope Johnson knows what he's doing, because he's the one who is really determining the shape of this trilogy (having written VIII and outlined IX, with potentially more involvement to come).
I suspect they chose Trevorrow for IX because he'll be safe and can follow the established trajectory. They don't want someone who will come in and rock the boat.
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Business columnist for LA Times has a take on SW VII: Admit It: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Stinks and Here's Why
A foreign movie can't be stupid.
-from the film
Lucas forgets it isn't the 19th Century, says he sold the franchise to "white slavers."
“They looked at the stories, and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,’” Lucas said. “They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing. … They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway — but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up. And so I said, ‘OK, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way.’”
He says that the new movie is too "retro." And, in spite of the fact that he uses a retro[grade] vocabulary, himself, to discuss the issue, I think he's probably right.
The man was born during World War II; he's technically not even a Baby Boomer, he's from the generation before that. I'd cut his vocabulary some slack.
And yeah, I agree with him about the "retro" thing.
Side note: a friend referred me to Terry Teachout's basically dismissive blog post about the film the other day. What surprised me was that Teachout begins by saying that he hadn't seen a Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980. After deciding Star Wars movies were beneath him for 35 years, *this* was the movie he made an exception for? Oy.
1 hour ago, Peter T Chattaway said:
At any rate, Lucas himself has said it was a “very inappropriate analogy.”
“I have been working with Disney for 40 years and chose them as the custodians of Star Wars because of my great respect for the company and Bob Iger’s leadership,” Lucas said in his statement, issued Thursday afternoon by Disney. “Disney is doing an incredible job of taking care of and expanding the franchise. I rarely go out with statements to clarify my feelings but I feel it is important to make it clear that I am thrilled that Disney has the franchise and is moving it in such exciting directions in film, television and the parks.”
Variety wrote:
: . . . issued Thursday afternoon by Disney.
If you watch the interview, it's pretty clear that Lucas was joking when he made the comment; he laughs and everything. I can see why people took the comment so very very seriously when they saw it in print, but in context it wasn't so bad.
The more concerning bit here is that Lucas *also* seems to be walking back his "retro" comments ("such exciting directions"?).
This guy did a nice job of editing Kylo Ren's theme music into a suite (alas, only Rey and the Resistance are given concert versions of their theme music on the OST):
https://youtu.be/mp433n4KzDA
Justin Hanvey
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My review and argument that Abrams was the perfect choice to play gatekeeper to a new trilogy. I'll stand by that.
"The truth is you're the weak, and I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin Ringo, I'm tryin real hard to be the shepherd." Pulp Fiction
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Being led on an illegal suicide mission by a selfish maniac.
5 hours ago, Justin Hanvey said:
Nice review, Justin! And it's good to see you back here as well. I've missed your input the past year.
"Anyway, in general I love tragic artists, especially classical ones."
"Even the forms for expressing truth can be multiform, and this is indeed necessary for the transmission of the Gospel in its timeless meaning."
- Pope Francis, August 2013 interview with Antonio Spadaro
Thanks Evan Sorta just needed a break for a while and to focus on other things, but glad to be back.
I've been gone a while too, but wanted to share my take on the gender role conversation that's been going on with regards to the movie.
http://www.breakpoint.org/features-columns/articles/entry/12/28682
(Funny how a blockbuster can bring us all out of the woodwork. :-) )
57 minutes ago, Gina said:
I noticed on my second viewing of the film that they also made a point of putting a female pilot into one of the X-Wings.
Welcome back to both of you.
25 minutes ago, Attica said:
: I noticed on my second viewing of the film that they also made a point of putting a female pilot into one of the X-Wings.
That's not new, surely, is it? There were female pilots in the space battle in Return of the Jedi, no?
Gina wrote:
: He knows the story of that famous tyrant (though he seems to have slept through the part where Vader finally turned away from darkness) . . .
For what it's worth, in the novelization (and thus, perhaps, in at least one version of the screenplay), Snoke talks to Kylo about Vader's turn away from darkness (and how does *Snoke* know about that!?), and Snoke blames Vader's "sentiment" for the fall of the Empire. So when Kylo fights against the "light", he is explicitly fighting against giving in to "sentiment" the way his grandfather did.
Nope no female pilots in Return of the Jedi. It was mentioned that women were filmed as xwing pilots but cut in the final cuts
John Drew
A vast sponge of movie minutiae... - Jason Bortz
I don't think there female pilots in RotJ, but there were definitely female pilots in The Phantom Menace attack on the Trade Federation command ship.
Anyway, I don't have time to make a longer post, so I'm only going to touch on one particular aspect about The Force Awakens that I came away with. I was visiting family and friends in Sacramento this weekend, and had a game night scheduled for Saturday night. Since I knew the topic of the evening was going to be The Force Awakens, I got around to seeing it Saturday afternoon. Count me among those who weren't very impressed. I'd only rank Attack of the Clones lower. When it ended, I turned to my sister and said that the first thing they need to go back and change is the opening title card. It shouldn't read, "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...", rather, it should read, "A long time ago, in a solar system far, far away..." I'm not sure how he managed it, but JJ Abrams has succeeded in turning what has felt (until now) to be a large universe, into a small neighborhood.
edit - BTW, saw this a day after seeing Creed. Creed definitely is the 7th Movie in a Series winner for 2015.
Edited January 4, 2016 by John Drew
Formerly Baal_T'shuvah
"Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much." - Maude Harold and Maude
Interesting point. I wonder why they didn't keep it in the script. Maybe it was simply cut for time, but it seems rather important.
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According to Area Health Resource Files (AHRF) data available from the Health Resources and Services Administration, there are 839 registered nurses employed for every 100,000 people here in the United States . Among all health professions, that is the largest number of practitioners per 100,000 population in the U.S., which is not really surprising given the essential role registered nurses (RNs) play in quality healthcare delivery. What may be more surprising is how much disparity exists in registered nurse employment from State to State. As this map of registered nurse employment per 100,000 population reveals, some areas of the country are much better served by RNs than are others:
There are 31 States in all that have registered nurse employment that exceeds the 839 per 100,000 population national average. And within this group there are a dozen States, mainly in the Northeast and Great Plains regions, that are particularly well served by registered nurses with employment greater than 1,000 registered nurses per 100,000 population. But while some States are well served by RNs, there are 19 States, predominantly in the South and West, where registered nurse employment lags behind the national average. Some of these laggards, like California and Texas, actually have RN employment numbers among the highest in the nation in absolute terms. But even in these two big States, RN employment is proportionately weak given their size. With 719 RNs employed per 100,000 population, only 9 States are more under-served by registered nurses than Texas. And the situation in California is poorer still, where just 657 RNs employed per 100,000 population makes the State more under-served by registered nurses than all but three States. The State most under-served by registered nurses is Nevada, which has just 609 RNs employed per 100,000 people. Unfortunately, for Nevada and other States that lag behind the national average, the situation could easily get worse in coming years. The job outlook for RNs indicates a growing need for registered nurses due to a variety of demographic and technological factors. This trend will will only exert more pressure on States already struggling to attract RNs. Besides Nevada, California and Texas, here are the Ten States Most Under-Served by Registered Nurses based on current HRSA data:
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” Chinese methods and Western methods are different, and I was determined to return to Chinese methods. Chinese methods revere spontaneity, but also stress regularity. You must observe closely and imprint things in your memory, but when you start, you can’t be a stickler; you must simply let loose.
I think that sculpture should be focused on people and the depiction of people, because people are social beings and creators of art. When we lose people and the human spirit, art loses its soul.”
Central Academy of Fine Arts
“Chinese Methods: A Liu Shiming Sculpture Exhibition”
Global Traveling Exhibition
To commemorate and promote Chinese sculptor Liu Shiming and his distinctive and important contributions to the development of modern Chinese sculpture, the Central Academy of Fine Arts established the Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts on December 24, 2018.
As the first museum named after a sculptor in the hundred-year history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, this museum will continue to research and investigate Liu’s artworks and their art historical meaning. An annual academic exhibition centered around one aspect of Liu’s sculpture will be planned, in addition to a global traveling exhibition. The Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum is a platform for studying, presenting, publishing, transmitting, and promoting Liu’s sculpture. This exhibition has become an important academic brand for the Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum, providing a model for the deep study of a specific artist within the context of the development of Chinese modern sculpture and the enrichment of research perspectives on this period in sculpture.
Performer Backstage
Liu Shiming was part of the first generation of sculptors in the People’s Republic of China. He was distinctive in his time for consciously choosing to root himself in Chinese traditional art and maintain a clear distance from the ideas and forms of Western sculpture, which held a commanding position at the time. Instead, he persistently grounded himself in a Chinese local context, uncovering various kinds of folk art within the Chinese tradition, and perpetuating ancient Chinese modeling methods. In
particular, he advocated for drawing nourishment from the Han-dynasty folk clay sculpture tradition and Chinese painted pottery culture, making them contemporary. When Liu activated these resources, he used what he called
“Chinese methods”—a love and respect for clay, a material that bears the wisdom and qualities of the Chinese and Eastern aesthetic, and a reverence for “kneading,” the modelling language that is intimately linked to Chinese
folk art. He recorded and presented myriad facets of daily life among the average people of his times, and with nearly half a century of practice and research under his belt, he found a distinctively Chinese path that is markedly different from the concepts and forms of Western sculpture, one that is underpinned by Eastern aesthetic principles. His work enriched and broadened Chinese modern sculpture, continued the contemporary transformation in Chinese traditional folk culture, and provided the development of Chinese culture and art today with rich experiences and practical explorations from which to learn.
Standing in the twenty-first century, when we look back on Liu Shiming’s half-century of sculptural explorations, we must marvel at his foresight and self-awareness. He was a rare intellectual of his time who always maintained clear understandings and preferences with regard to Eastern and Western culture. He was an intellectual who always retained pride and respect for his own culture. He was always faithful to his own cultural conscience and aesthetic tastes, and he set his own course, keeping his distance from trends and intellectual talking points. He persisted in his lonely, solitary exploration of Chinese sculpture using his own “Chinese methods.” Liu once said, “Perhaps after another two or three hundred years, people will think that my sculptures are pretty good.”
On its hundredth anniversary, the Central Academy of Fine Arts has launched a global traveling exhibition for “Chinese Methods: A Liu Shiming Sculpture Exhibition.” This exhibition offers the world more of China’s unique wisdom and provides more possibilities for us to understand the world, ourselves, and human nature, thereby enriching both the depth and breadth of our knowledge.
Boatman on the Yellow River
“Chinese Methods: A Liu Shiming Sculpture Exhibition” Global Traveling Exhibition Plan 2019-2020
(1) The Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing will open and hold its first exhibition in early October 2019. In the second half of October 2019, the touring exhibition will launch, with its first stop in New York and its second stop in Washington, DC. This exhibition at the second stop on the tour will likely close at the end of 2019, and beginning in 2020, the exhibition will make its third stop in Boston and its fourth stop in Los Angeles. The show in Los Angeles will be the opening exhibition for that institution. The planned traveling exhibition will feature approximately 150 works (adjusted based on the conditions at the exhibition site). The exhibition will last about one month at every stop, with installation and deinstallation periods in between stops. This part of the tour is scheduled to conclude at the end of March 2020.
(2) 2020 will mark the tenth anniversary of Liu Shiming’s death. On this occasion the museum will launch a ten-stop global traveling exhibition entitled “Chinese Methods: A Liu Shiming Sculpture Exhibition,” with Sydney, Australia, as its first stop. This tour is immensely meaningful, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the Liu Shiming Sculpture Museum will hold a press conference in early September 2019 to announce the global tour schedule.
About Liu Shiming
Liu Shiming (1926-2010) was an important Chinese sculptor. He was a member of the China Artists Association and one of the first members of the Chinese Sculptors Society. He also received an Honorary Subsidy for Special Contributions from the State Council.
Liu was born in Tianjin to a family of intellectuals. His father, Liu Baoshan, studied mechanics
at the University of Detroit Mercy from 1926 to 1931. His mother, Guo Suyu, graduated from the Tianjin Women’s High School. Liu Shiming was educated in traditional culture from an early age. As a child, he studied Han seals with master seal carver Wang Kuizhang in Tianjin and the Northern School of landscape with Ji Guanzhi at the Xuelu Painting Society in Beijing.
Liu enrolled in the Beiping Fine Arts School (now the Central Academy of Fine Arts), where
he studied with Wang Linyi and Hua Tianyou. In 1950, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. His graduation work, Measuring Land, won first prize in the “Red May” exhibition at CAFA and attracted the attention of president Xu Beihong. The work was selected
by the Central Academy of Fine Arts for an overseas exhibition and was later collected by the National Museum of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech National Museum).
Measuring Land
Liu enrolled in the graduate program for sculpture at CAFA. When he graduated that same
year, he proposed staying at the academy to teach under the auspices of Xu Beihong.
Liu participated in sculpting the reliefs on the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tian’anmen Square, a major national project. He served as an assistant to Liu Kaiqu and Wang Bingzhao and participated in the creation of Jintian Uprising and other reliefs.
Liu was transferred to the China Sculpture Factory (later the Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Research Institute), and he participated in many national sculpture projects, including
sculptures for the Chinese People’s Revolution Military Museum square, the main sculptures for the People’s Gymnasium in Beijing, and the Underwater Work sculpture group on the
Hanyang Bridgehead of the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan.
Liu created Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water, which became a classic of 1950s
Chinese art and made him a household name. The work was very positively received and widely publicized. On July 1, 1958, a 7.1-meter-high version of the work was placed by the Safeguarding Peace Archway at Beijing’s Zhongshan Park. The People’s Daily and many other
major domestic news outlets reported on the work. In 1959, he made a 2.26-meter-high version, which was sent to “The Plastic Arts from Socialist Nations” in Moscow. After the work returned to China, it was placed in front of the Baoding Train Station before being moved to Baoding’s Dongfeng Park.
Workers from the China Sculpture Factory with Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water in front of the Safeguarding Peace Archway.
Workers from the China Sculpture Factory with Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water in front of the Safeguarding Peace Archway
Liu left the China Sculpture Factory and subsequently worked in Henan and Hebei. He
experienced life for ordinary people in those areas, and he also investigated and studied cultural artifacts from those two places. He trained and developed talented sculptors in Henan and Hebei and participated in exhibitions and research at the Henan Museum.
Liu spent nearly seven years working in artifact restoration at the National Museum of Chinese
History (now the National Museum of China).
Liu returned to the Central Academy of Fine Arts to teach, and he reached another creative
peak. He created many important works during this time. His works were included annually in the Sixth through Ninth National Art Exhibitions. Liu was featured twice on the CCTV-1
program “Sons of the East.”
1998 “An Exhibition of Liu Shiming’s Sculpture,” Central Academy of Fine Arts Corridor Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 “Local: Liu Shiming’s Sculptures,” Central Academy of Fine Arts Sculpture Research Institute, Beijing, China
2006 “Free Daisies: An Exhibition of Liu Shiming’s Sculpture,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2008 “Returning Home in a Dream: A Liu Shiming Sculpture Retrospective,” Henan Art Museum, Zhengzhou, China
“Free Daisies: An Exhibition of Liu Shiming’s Sculpture”
1950 “The First World Student Gathering Art Exhibition,” Prague, Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia)
1959 “The Plastic Arts from Socialist Nations,” Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia (then Soviet Union)
1982 “Qian Shaowu, Liu Xiaocen, Wang Peng, and Liu Shiming: Calligraphy and Sculpture,” Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1984 “The Sixth National Art Exhibition,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1984 “National Sculpture Design Proposal Exhibition,” Beijing, China
1986 “July 1st Painting Exhibition,” Beijing, China
“Works by Instructors at the Central Academy of Fine Arts,” Beijing, China
1988 “Gansu Provincial Urban Sculpture Planning Exhibition,” Lanzhou, China
1989 “The Seventh National Art Exhibition,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1990 “The Eleventh Asian Games Sports Art Exhibition,” Beijing, China.
Eastward Flows the Yangtze
1992 “An Art Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of Mao Zedong Publishing Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1993 “The Eighth National Art Exhibition,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1996 “A Nation of Ceramics: A European Touring Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ceramics,” various European countries
1997 “National and European Ceramics Traveling Exhibition,” Beijing, China
1999 “The Ninth National Art Exhibition,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2000 “Masters Celebrating Tsinghua: A Large-Scale Calligraphy Exhibition for the 90th Anniversary of Tsinghua University,” Beijing, China
2001 “A Selection of Contemporary Artists’ Works,” National Museum of Chinese History, Beijing, China
2001 “The Fifth National Sports Art Exhibition,” Beijing, China
2002 “2002 International Urban Sculpture Exhibition,” Beijing, China
2009 “Cornerstone: 60 Years of Oil Painting, Sculpture, and Prints,” Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 “Painting the China Dream: Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China,” National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Looking at Each Other Through the Cage
Sculptures in Major Collections
1950 Measuring Land, National Museum of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech National Museum)
1952 Leaving the Hospital, National Art Museum of China
1955 Bust of Zeng Yihang and Bust of Zu Chongzhi, National Museum of Chinese History
1959 Solidarity Between Officers and Soldiers and The Jiyuan People’s Militia Crossing the River, Chinese People’s Revolution Military Museum
1959 Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water, Baoding Municipal Government 1985 Archer, Shijingshan Sculpture Park
1997 Boatman on the Yellow River, Ministry of Culture of China
1999 Ansai Waist Drummer, Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water, and Tiger and
Woman, National Museum of Chinese History (now the National Museum of China) 2008 Boatman on the Yellow River and Performer Backstage, Henan Art Museum
2012 Performer Backstage, National Center for the Performing Arts
2014 Cutting Through Mountains to Bring in Water, National Art Museum of China
Small Shop by the Road.
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Canadian Center of Science and Education is an organization that supports research efforts around the world. From donating funds to specific initiatives to contributing books to research-based libraries, the work that the CCSE does creates a lasting impression on those who benefit from it. This organization is bent on working to create a better world for future generations. To achieve this goal, it has enacted several programs that uphold scientific discovery and equity in the workplace.
CCSE: A Quick History
Canadian Center of Science and Education was founded in 2006. Located in Toronto, Ontario, it is an independent organization that provides its services and resources to researchers around the globe. The CCSE is founded on scientific integrity, excellence, and respect in the professional world. As such, it has created partnerships with many like-minded organizations to better achieve its goals. Through these partnerships, it has created numerous programs that support the work of students, researchers, international endeavors, and publications.
In fact, Canadian Center of Science and Education produces many journals on its own. With over 40 of these publications to its credit, the organization certainly provides valuable information to people in multiple fields. These journals are highly regarded and respected indexes have integrated their articles into their databases.
Ultimately, Canadian Center of Science and Education provides assistance to researchers, students, and teachers in many subject areas. Some of the most prevalent include:
To support these academic areas, CCSE provides the development of networks for international educational and research initiatives. Additionally, it offers scholarships to both educational institutions and individual research endeavors. As such, the organization lends its support to initiatives of varying sizes.
Research: Facilitating Innovative Discoveries
The support of research projects is one of the most important activities that CCSE carries out. The research efforts that the organization contributes to vary in topic, but they are all dedicated to uncovering new information about their field. Some of the areas in which CCSE is particularly interested include:
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Through the support of these subject areas, CCSE has helped numerous researchers shed light on important new findings. The CCSE Fund, which is the official part of the organization that offers financial support to such initiatives, is currently assisting many new research and other endeavors. These include cancer research, library collection preservation, The Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, and multiple digital projects at the library of the University of Toronto.
The work that is conducted in the field of research is integral to the forward motion of the human race. From the humanities to the sciences, virtually every academic field relies upon research efforts to discover more about the past and build upon the future. The great potential that the research efforts of today’s world hold is incalculable. CCSE is excited to play a role in the development and execution of such initiatives, as they will change the future of the world.
Canadian Center of Science and Education Publishes Journals, Supports Sharing of Information
Sharing information is the only way for academics to continue to grow in their work. From the textbooks that students tote to class to the cutting edge articles that are published by leading professionals, information is shared in numerous ways. The distribution of scholarly journals is the best way for many academics to announce their discoveries and allow others to understand their work. As such, they are a primary resource for many individuals who are working on new research projects or are looking to improve initiatives that are already under way.
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In addition to providing the latest discoveries to the academic community, these journals are recognized for their dedication to the peer-review process. By having experts from corresponding fields go over each article, the journals have achieved a high degree of credibility. In fact, many professionals have donated their time to assist in peer review procedures.
The journals that CCSE has created number 43 and are all respected. In fact, they have all found themselves indexed by highly regarded databases. This is a wonderful accomplishment, as these databases serve as integral resources for researchers who are looking for new information. CrossRef, LOCKSS, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Gale’s Academic Databases, DOAJ, Ulrich’s, Scopus, and MLA International Bibliography are just some of the reputable databases that have indexed CCSE journals.
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