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Symphony Orchestra of India
with Zakir Hussain, tabla
Wednesday 20 February 2019, 19:30
Symphony Orchestra of India Past Event
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Zakir Hussain Peshkar (Concerto for Tabla & Orchestra)
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Zane Dalal conductor
Zakir Hussain tabla
The Symphony Orchestra of India, based at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, is India’s first and only professional orchestra, founded in 2006. Cadogan Hall is excited to be hosting its London (and UK) debut.
This young, energetic orchestra with a growing reputation currently includes members from more than 20 countries who reside in Mumbai and it consistently attracts the best conductors and soloists from around the world.
Free pre-concert talk | Tabla and Symphony | 6.30pm
Pre-concert talk with Zakir Hussain and two musicians from the Orchestra, hosted by Edward Smith (former Chief Executive of City of Birmingham, Toronto and Gothenburg Symphony Orchestras).
Concert ticket holders only
£45 (premium seats), £42, £35, £28, £22, £18
ENCORE Membership Discount
ENCORE Members: premium seats for £42, £42 seats for £35
Series Discount
Series discounts of up to 25% available – see series page for details
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, exc. 1
Future events in this series
Welcome to Cadogan Hall’s 12th Zurich International Orchestra Series, in association with IMG Artists.
Our series is regarded as the largest and most comprehensive series of international orchestras in the country and this year we’re delighted to welcome ten of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, along with outstanding conductors and soloists.
Series and group discounts available.
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London Chamber Orchestra
Mozart & Sibelius
‘After hearing my Third Symphony Rimsky-Korsakov shook his head and said, “Why don’t you do it the usual way?” And now I am certain that my symphonies are played more than his.’ So wrote Sibelius is 1940, 33 years after his Third Symphony p...
English Chamber Orchestra
Friday 24 January 2020, 19:30
The ECO and star soloists Ana de la Vega (flute) and Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe) bring to life some of Haydn’s very late works – commissions by King Ferdinand of Naples – and forgotten gems by Karl Stamitz which have remained in manuscript for o...
Hamza Namira
Saturday 25 January 2020, 19:00
Described as the ‘new Sayed Darwish’, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Hamza Namira has become one of the leading figures in Egypt and the Middle East’s music scene. A luminous expression of resilience and ambition, Namira uses his...
French Landscapes
A programme packed with luscious French textures and melodies from the very best of the French composers: Ravel and Debussy. Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, performed by Eric Lu, 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition Winner, completes the pr...
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Forget the Apple Watch. Apple’s Next Big Thing Isn’t for Sale
By Garret Murai, May 11, 2015
Apple released its much anticipated Apple Watch this past month.
The Apple Watch is significant for Apple, not only because its profit and loss statement has a lot riding on it, but because it’s the company’s first foray into consumer “wearables.”
This isn’t the first time the Cupertino company has ventured into new areas, through. Since its first consumer product, the Apple I, was released in 1976, Apple has gone from personal computers – and its iterations, including, desktops, laptops and tablets – to music players, cell phones and now watches.
Today, Apple is less a computer company than a consumer electronics company, and even that doesn’t quite seem to go far enough, as it has become a lifestyle brand for many. Comparisons can be drawn to Sony during the mid-1980s when everyone aspired to a home filled with Sony televisions, Sony receivers and Sony Walkmans.
Part of Apple’s success is that it sells a lifestyle that transcends its products, in which a glossy, sophisticated minimalism and simplicity, are among its most recognizable characteristics. It goes beyond their products, and is embodied in their advertising, their online and retail stores, and their packaging. And while the Apple Watch may be Apple’s latest “big” thing, I think something even bigger is underfoot at Apple, and it’s something you can’t buy.
Apple’s bottom line, of course, is tied to the number of iMacs, iPads, iPhones and now Apple Watches it sells. But Apple doesn’t want to just sell you an iMac here and an iPad there. They want to sell you a lifestyle. And what better way to “walk the walk” than just “talk the talk” than to showcase that lifestyle – filled, of course, with Apple innovations – than to incorporate it into the way they work, through Apple’s Campus 2.
Apple’s Campus 2 project was first announced by the late Steve Jobs in 2006, but it took nearly 8 years before the project broke ground in 2014, and is expected to be completed sometime in 2016:
Project Name: Apple’s Campus 2. Although some say that the project may be renamed after it is completed in honor of Steve Jobs.
Location: Cupertino, California. The project, located on a 176 acre site, is the largest private construction project ever undertaken in Silicon Valley, and will be comprised of approximately 2.8 million square feet of space housing over 13,000 employees.
Cost: A staggering $5 billion (U.S.)
Architect: Foster +Partners. Notable projects of the London-based international design firm include Wembley Stadium in London and Hearst Tower in New York.
Contractor: DPR Construction/Skanska USA. Although it was revealed this past week that Rudolph & Sletten was brought on board to complete the interior build out, raising questions of whether this was planned all along or whether it indicates problems the DPR/Skanska joint venture.
Some other interesting facts about Apple’s Campus 2 project:
Landscaping: One thing that stands out from conceptual drawings is the amount of greenery. Steve Jobs wanted the campus to be in a natural setting replicating the California landscape and orchards he remembered growing up. Much of the campus is located on a site formerly owned by Hewlett-Packard which had a built-up area to landscaping ratio of 80:20. When the campus is completed that ratio of build-up area to landscaping will be reversed to 20:80. When the project is completed there will be over 7,000 trees including apples, apricots, plum and other fruit trees.
Space Planning: The distance around the four-story “ring” is approximately 1 mile. Because of the size and shape of the building, and numerous different disciplines working there from software programmers to designers, careful attention had to be given to the vertical and horizontal locations of the various departments. The ring shaped design of the campus had drawn criticism from some in the design community as being inefficient, with comparisons to the Pentagon.
Luxurious Materials: Apple’s products are know for their materials and meticulous construction. Apple’s Campus 2 is no exception. Nearly 4 miles of 40 foot curved glass will sheath the outer and inner perimeter of the ring. Interior wood will be harvested from specific species of maple and only the finer “heartwood” at the center of those trees will be used. And, reflecting his fanatical attention to detail, Jobs found the industry-standard 1/8 inch breaks between surfaces too unsightly and required that gaps be no greater than 1/32 inch across.
Energy Efficiency: For 75% of the year the campus will not use air-conditioning or heating and will use only natural ventilation. The top of the building will feature one of the largest solar arrays in the world. And, the facility will run on 100% renewable energy. Indeed, Apple entered into a $850 million deal in February to purchase 130 MW of solar power, enough to power 60,000 homes. Running trails and 1,000s of bicycles will also be made available to employees.
Perhaps soon we’ll be living in Apple houses and driving Apple cars.
Tagged: Apple, Apple Watch, Campus 2, Steve Jobs
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One Response to “Forget the Apple Watch. Apple’s Next Big Thing Isn’t for Sale”
Evan Adams (@evan_adams) May 11, 2015
The NDA’s for this project are significant.
Foster + Parnters has a new SF office that I think is managing it.
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Queens in the Art and Political Imaginary of Early Modern France
Nicola Courtright
Annual Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Nov 1, 2018, 5 PM
Collins Cinema
In early modern Europe, despite the deeply ingrained distrust of women as rulers, queens began to gain political authority that was increasingly made visible in the art and architecture of royal residences. While Queen Elizabeth I had famously reigned for decades in England, in France during this era queens were denied participation in the royal succession and the right to reign directly. Notwithstanding this apparent constraint, French queens came to occupy an important place in French governance, one promoted greatly by Henri IV for his consort Marie de’ Medici, inflected by Elizabeth I’s example, and disseminated through the arts. French royal imagery in portraits, gardens, and galleries subsequently portrayed the novel notion of the king and queen as complementary partners, thereby depicting, for a time, a new ideal of monarchy.
Nicola Courtright teaches at Amherst College, where she is William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History of Art. Former Editor-in-Chief of Grove Art Online, she now serves on the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies. This year she is a featured speaker in the Visiting Scholar Program of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa.
Generous support provided by Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program and the Art Department.
Wellesley Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Feb 27, 4:30–6 PM
The Cornille Lecture: The Book as Lens: Making Books as a Mode of Inquiry
Cornille Professor Ken Botnick explores the material authorship of the artist book, achieved through the combination of concept, design, material, and production.
Thursday, February 27, 2020 -
Mar 11, 4:30 PM
Diasporic Tradition as Curatorial Practice
Newhouse Fellow Nazan Bedirhanoglu reflects on the use of symbols and narratives as building blocks of the Kurdish diasporic identity and share insights about her field research on the Kurdish diaspora in the United States.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 4:30pm
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California State University, Northridge > Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs > Church group, Los Angeles, 1963
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Title: Church group, Los Angeles, 1963 Date: 1963-04 Collection: Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs Owning Institution: California State University, Northridge Source: Calisphere Date of access: January 21 2020 14:05 Permalink: https://calisphere.org/item/f9c4bf2d713a79114300dfb6e646d033/
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Church group, Los Angeles, 1963
Adams, Harry, 1918-1988
Tom & Ethel Bradley Center
Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs
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A group of people stand on the stairs outside of Westminster Presbyterian Church.
4 x5 in.
09.01.HA.N45.B17.224
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Harry Adams Collection
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Howard Chandler 1873-1952 Christy
BiblioBazaar, 25.08.2016 г. - 164 страници
The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems
The Courtship of Miles Standish: And Other Poems
Информация за автора (2016)
During his lifetime, Longfellow enjoyed a popularity that few poets have ever known. This has made a purely literary assessment of his achievement difficult, since his verse has had an effect on so many levels of American culture and society. Certainly, some of his most popular poems are, when considered merely as artistic compositions, found wanting in serious ways: the confused imagery and sentimentality of "A Psalm of Life" (1839), the excessive didacticism of "Excelsior" (1841), the sentimentality of "The Village Blacksmith" (1839). Yet, when judged in terms of popular culture, these works are probably no worse and, in some respects, much better than their counterparts in our time. Longfellow was very successful in responding to the need felt by Americans of his time for a literature of their own, a retelling in verse of the stories and legends of these United States, especially New England. His three most popular narrative poems are thoroughly rooted in American soil. "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" (1847), an American idyll; "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855), the first genuinely native epic in American poetry; and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858), a Puritan romance of Longfellow's own ancestors, John Alden and Priscilla Mullens. "Paul Revere's Ride," the best known of the "Tales of a Wayside Inn"(1863), is also intensely national. Then, there is a handful of intensely personal, melancholy poems that deal in very successful ways with those themes not commonly thought of as Longfellow's: sorrow, death, frustration, the pathetic drift of humanity's existence. Chief among these are "My Lost Youth" (1855), "Mezzo Cammin" (1842), "The Ropewalk" (1854), "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" (1852), and, most remarkable in its artistic success, "The Cross of Snow," a heartfelt sonnet so personal in its expression of the poet's grief for his dead wife that it remained unpublished until after Longfellow's death. A professor of modern literature at Harvard College, Longfellow did much to educate the general reading public in the literatures of Europe by means of his many anthologies and translations, the most important of which was his masterful rendition in English of Dante's Divine Comedy (1865-67).
Заглавие The Courtship of Miles Standish
Автори Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Howard Chandler 1873-1952 Christy
Издание илюстрирано, ново
Издател BiblioBazaar, 2016
Брой страници 164 страници
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
By (author): Hillenbrand, Laura
Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
HISTORY / Military / World War II
HISTORY / United States / General
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Book-hardcover
From The Publisher* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
Praise for Unbroken
"Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."-The Wall Street Journal
"[A] one-in-a-billion story . . . designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring."-New York
"Staggering . . . mesmerizing . . . Hillenbrand's writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don't dare take your eyes off the page."-People
"A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life."-The Washington Post
"Ambitious and powerful . . . a startling narrative and an inspirational book."-The New York Times Book Review
"Marvelous . . . Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way it's told. . . . It manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety."-Newsweek
"Moving and, yes, inspirational . . . [Laura] Hillenbrand's unforgettable book . . . deserve[s] pride of place alongside the best works of literature that chart the complications and the hard-won triumphs of so-called ordinary Americans and their extraordinary time."-Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
"Hillenbrand . . . tells [this] story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter's pace."-Time
"Unbroken is too much book to hope for: a hellride of a story in the grip of the one writer who can handle it."-Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
Review Quote* "Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic."-The Wall Street Journal
"Unbroken is too much book to hope for: a hellride of a story in the grip of the one writer who can handle it. . . . When it comes to courage, charisma, and impossible adventure, few will ever match ‘the boy terror of Torrance,' and few but the author of Seabiscuit could tell his tale with such humanity and dexterity. Hillenbrand has given us a new national treasure."-Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run
"Riveting . . . an exceptional portrait . . . So haunting and so beautifully written, those who fall under its spell will never again feel the same way about World War II and one of its previously unsung heroes."-The Columbus Dispatch
"Magnificent . . . incredible . . . [Hillenbrand] has crafted another masterful blend of sports, history and overcoming terrific odds; this is biography taken to the nth degree, a chronicle of a remarkable life lived through extraordinary times."-The Dallas Morning News
"No other author of narrative nonfiction chooses her subjects with greater discrimination or renders them with more discipline and commitment. If storytelling were an Olympic event, [Hillenbrand would] medal for sure."-Salon
"A celebration of gargantuan fortitude . . . full of unforgettable characters, multi-hanky moments and wild turns . . . Hillenbrand is a muscular, dynamic storyteller."-The New York Times
"[A] masterfully told true story . . . nothing less than a marvel."-Washingtonian
"Zamperini's story is certainly one of the most remarkable survival tales ever recorded. What happened after that is equally remarkable."-Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair
"Irresistible . . . Hillenbrand demonstrates a dazzling ability-one Seabiscuit only hinted at-to make the tale leap off the page."-Elle
"A tale of triumph and redemption . . . astonishingly detailed."-O: The Oprah Magazine
"An astonishing testament to the superhuman power of tenacity."-Entertainment Weekly
"Intense . . . You better hold onto the reins."-The Boston Globe
"Incredible . . . Zamperini's life is one of courage, heroism, humility and unflagging endurance."-St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Hillenbrand has once again brought to life the true story of a forgotten hero, and reminded us how lucky we are to have her, one of our best writers of narrative history. You don't have to be a sports fan or a war-history buff to devour this book-you just have to love great storytelling."-Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Biographical Note Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit: An American Legend, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, landed on more than fifteen best-of-the-year lists, and inspired the film Seabiscuit, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Hillenbrand's New Yorker article, "A Sudden Illness," won the 2004 National Magazine Award, and she is a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award, the highest journalistic honor in Thoroughbred racing. She and actor Gary Sinise are the co-founders of Operation International Children, a charity that provides school supplies to children through American troops. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Tag Archives: west of zanzibar
The Inconsequentials 2: Inconsequentialier
You may recall an article I wrote earlier called The Inconsequentials wherein I attempted to circumvent the ubiquitous essentials trope. Rather than plug great films everybody should see because of their power, depth, craftsmanship, and iconic status I chose instead to highlight some pulpier films that might not get as much attention as say It’s a Wonderful Life or Chinatown. I confess that I felt somewhat disingenuous with my previous selections of The Shanghai Express, West of Zanzibar, and White Zombie. Perhaps these films were not obscure enough for the discerning Alternative Chronicle audience, I thought. Hence, I decided to extend my affections once more to the so-called “inconsequential” films of the past. This time, I tried to find movies that might be even less well-known, but still deserving of remembrance for different reasons.
They can’t all be classics, but that does not mean they cannot all entertain.
This time around we will venture into the dense forests of India with Elephant Boy (1937) then take a steamship to a deadly jungle island where they hunt The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and finally we’ll wash up on the suspicious shores of Japan to experience The Wrath of the Gods (1914). So you should know the drill by now. These are movies that might not exactly be considered “essential” viewing, but I challenge you to enjoy them nevertheless. A common theme of interesting race relations lurks in all three of these films and I think it makes them even more worthy of study.
As a huge fan of iconic Indian actor, Sabu (The Thief of the Bagdad, Jungle Book, Black Narcissus) how could I resist plugging his very first movie, Elephant Boy (1937)? Nope, it’s not a prequel to David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. Sabu was one of those special rare cases of a non-white performer who gained notoriety in America and the United Kingdom during the 1930s and 40s. He had a naturally engaging persona and exuberance that was immensely enjoyable to watch. He’s still my favorite Mowgli. Before he played Mowgli in Zoltan Korda’s 1942 adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic story, however, he played Toomai of the Elephants. Toomai was another Rudyard Kipling character and the movie was directed by Zoltan Korda and documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the North). The Flaherty wildlife photography has been praised and it is pretty wonderful—as when the film takes the time to lollygag around a watering hole just observing a playful baby elephant run laps around its reclining mother—but the rest of the movie is just as fun. Toomai (Sabu) is a young elephant driver (Sabu’s father was one himself) and he has a special kinship with his elephant, Kala Nag. He talks to it, scolds it, scrubs it, and climbs all over it like Kala Nag is a giant puppy dog. When Toomai and Kala Nag join a party led by a British gentleman, they journey into the jungle to find wild elephants. Toomai wants to be a great hunter, but the older Indian elephant drivers tease him and say he will never be a great hunter until he sees the elephants dance. Tragedies strike and eventually Toomai must save Kala Nag’s life before it is too late. If he succeeds, Kala Nag will most assuredly repay Toomai with the secrets of the elephants.
Elephant Boy features a great debut performance for Sabu (whose life ended far too soon) and some nice jungle photography. The animal performances are pretty good too. Say what you like about Kipling’s “white man’s burden” form of racism, I still enjoy his writing. I like how in touch he tries to be with the jungle. Elephants are not just elephants for this British author and resident of India. Elephants are “the wise ones.” He captures mystery and wonder in the jungles and beasts and this film attempts the same. Another interesting thing about this movie is that Sabu is the only Indian actor. He is virtually surrounded by white actors in makeup and beards. The other odd thing to note is that the Kala Nag character is essentially selling out his untamed elephant brothers and even after he is antagonized by human captors. Maybe the wild elephants screwed him over and he’s just settling the score. Who knows? Elephant Boy could be the pachyderm equivalent to Get Carter if taken from the animal’s point of view. So why don’t people celebrate this film more? Because Jungle Book was better. The film’s story is only adequate and some might say it hasn’t aged very well, but for Sabu’s charming performance and the great elephant footage, I’d hesitate not to recommend it.
If you like King Kong (1933) then names like Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Ernest B. Schoedsack ought to be familiar to you. Schoedsack (Mighty Joe Young, Dr. Cyclops) co-directed this next project with Irving Pichel. Based on the famous short story by Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game (1932) starts with a horrific shipwreck complete with leaks, explosions, sharks, the works. Suck it, Titanic. The last survivor, Bob (Joel McCrea), swims to shore only to discover a jungle island with a castle on it. Upon investigation of said castle he meets the eccentric Russian, Zaroff (a particularly hammy Leslie Banks), and a cadre of mute cossacks acting as butlers. Zaroff introduces Bob to his guests, two former shipwreck survivors, Eve (Fay Wray) and her incessantly inebriated brother Martin (Armstrong). Honestly, Bob seems to be taking the grisly death of all his friends on the ship pretty well, and he doesn’t even seem to be a little perturbed by Zaroff’s odd insistence on ominous secrecy. He likes Eve though. Bob does finally get riled up when Zaroff’s plans are revealed: he’s a manhunter! Tired of the lack of challenge with hunting wild beasts, Zaroff craves a foe who can outsmart him. He has human heads mounted on the wall in his trophy room from his games of “outdoor chess.” Soon the hunt is on and Bob and Eve are set loose in the forest. They set traps for Zaroff, but Zaroff upgrades from bow and arrow to rifle and then he sets the dogs on his prey. The Most Dangerous Game is extremely melodramatic and silly, but the jungle settings are great (it even has the infamous log from King Kong) and the fights are fun. I really liked the castle too.
Yes, it’s hammy and the villain is oh-so-obvious and over-the-top, but I really liked this movie. It’s quick, breezy, pulpy, and fun. No one is going to confuse The Most Dangerous Game with a “great movie” but it does everything it needs to do and it’s entertaining from start to finish. So what’s the weird racial thing in this one? Here it is. It’s Americans vs. disgruntled Russians, right? Well, the head butler-cossack, Ivan, is played by African American actor, Noble Johnson (he’s the chief in King Kong), in white-face and a funny beard. As a big fan of the movies of the 1920s and 1930s, I’m used to seeing white actors in black-face, yellow-face, red-face, etc., but it’s not often you get to see a black guy in a supporting role in white-face. It’s kinda cool in a weird way. This movie obviously gets overlooked living in the shadow of the far superior and grander King Kong, but this more modest film has a lot of the seeds that would grow into Kong and it’s a fun little adventure to boot.
When you hear The Wrath of God what do you think of? Wener Herzog? Carl Theodor Dreyer? Robert Mitchum and Frank Langella? Skip them for now. How about Sessue Hayakawa? The Wrath of the Gods (1914) is a silent film that takes place near the pounding surf of a doomed Japanese shore. Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge On the River Kwai, Swiss Family Robinson) is a poor fisherman named Yamaki. His daughter, Toya San, is cursed because of an ancestor’s murderous desecration of a temple and so she cannot find love lest the gods unleash their wrath on the village. Toya San (played by Hayakawa’s wife in real life, Tsuru Aoki) renounces her Buddhist faith exclaiming, “I refuse to acknowledge a god who would so unjustly curse the innocent.” This is a huge religious and philosophical statement. One that I’m not sure even the film fully comprehends. When a shipwreck lands an American sailor, Tom Wilson (Frank Borzage), at their doors they take care of him, but soon he and Toya San fall in love. Here’s where things get interesting. Toya San cannot accept his marriage proposal for fear of the curse, but Tom assures her that Jesus Christ will protect them and that his god is stronger than all their Japanese gods. It was at this point I realized that guys will say anything to get sex but his motives are purer than that, I think. He genuinely loves her and so he evangelizes to her so he can marry her. Seeing that they can be happy together, Yamaki accepts Christianity and builds a wooden cross to replace the figure of Buddha. Naturally, the small village community is furious when they get wind of this idiot American staining their way of life. They murder Toya San’s father and torch their house and then the whole island erupts and rocks and flames poor down on everyone. The old Japanese seer gets killed in a volcanic avalanche and the island burns and the entire town is wiped out, but Tom and Toya San escape. As the Japanese villagers die in the distance, Tom says, “Your gods may be powerful, Toya San, but mine has proved his omnipotence. You are saved to perpetuate your race.” Wow. Culturally insensitive much?
The implications in this film are reason enough to watch this! Seriously! This is crazy, crazy stuff! It was based on an actual disaster that struck Sakura-Jima in 1914, the biggest Japanese eruption in the century. The dramatic elements were based on an old Japanese legend, but the implications here… This is not a love story, this is the gods at war. Each god has a very different nature and personality it seems, yet they appear to both wield authority despite their seemingly distant and abstract portrayal. The American guy has no idea how serious his infringement on their culture is. He just wants the girl and he has a simple faith in Christianity. He says Christ will protect them if she believes. Which he does and they are saved. The seer says that the Japanese gods will destroy the island if Toya-San marries. Which they do and everyone is killed. Not to say there isn’t a clear pro-American/pro-Christian agenda here, but I think there is plenty more to unpack in this story. It presents two very different world views. The ignorant, meddling, naive, and optimistic Christian American all in favor of New World ideals and individualism is in stark contrast to the traditionalist, isolationist, and superstitious mob mentality of the Japanese fishing village who live in fear and follow strict ritual. Both are caricatures, but both make Toya San’s choice that much easier to go with the flat white guy. He’s nice to her and says she won’t be cursed. Who would you go with?
Another really cool thing about this movie is that the Asian people are PLAYED BY ASIAN PEOPLE. The Wrath of the Gods was made early enough (1914) that there was still some diversity in American films. No yellow-face in this film. Another really fascinating thing is that, unlike Madame Butterfly copies, the Japanese girl gets the white guy in the end and doesn’t die. Actor Frank Borzage and actress Tsuru Aoki even share an onscreen kiss. Miscegenation laws be damned! This sort of interracial romantic representation would be banned later on in Hollywood and hurt the careers of people like Anna May Wong. No one remembers this movie today because it is a silent movie with no big, famous names in it. Hayakawa was a fine actor and he made dozens of films in both the sound era and the silent, but he is not as famous as Valentino, Pickford, Chaney, or Fairbanks. This is a strange little movie, particularly in its representation of foreign relations, but it’s only good and not great and so it gets swept under the carpet.
So why do I keep doing this? Watching these films that are good but not great and recommend them? It is because I’d hate to think of some of these fine movies being forgotten or missed by people who might enjoy them. Like The Shanghai Express, West of Zanzibar, and White Zombie which I loved and featured folks like Marlene Dietrich, Lon Chaney, Sr., and Bela Lugosi; Elephant Boy, The Most Dangerous Game, and The Wrath of Gods are not so off the beaten path that even the most nominal of film buff couldn’t enjoy them. Sabu, Fay Wray, and Sessue Hayakawa are still pretty big. Next time maybe I’ll try to find even smaller movies. Until then enjoy these titles.
http://www.moviemartyr.com/1932/mostdangerousgame.htm
http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/Elephant-Boy/
http://www.listal.com/list/filmography-robert-j-flaherty
http://www.filmfan.com/pages/memorial_wray.html
http://furuhonjoe.blog137.fc2.com/blog-entry-5.html
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The Inconsequentials
Somewhere there’s in immense list of all the movies you should see before you die. They are powerful, iconic, historic, influential, quotable. We call these movies “The Essentials.” Most of them you’ve seen or at least heard of; anything from Star Wars to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. How many people know The Pink Panther (1963) with Peter Sellers? Now, how many people know Topkapi (1964) with Peter Ustinov? In an effort to preserve all of the iconic, unmitigated masterpieces from film history (which is a very good thing), we can sometimes forget the smaller, old films that might not exactly be considered “essential” viewing.
Personal feelings: I think Topkapi is a far superior heist comedy to The Pink Panther.
I use the term “inconsequentials” as a sort of joke, but I think it’s a shame more people are not clamoring for copies of West of Zanzibar (1928), Shanghai Express (1932), and White Zombie (1932). These are three movies that I personally love and I will tell you what makes them special and why nobody cares today. Join me as we travel from the deepest African jungle to dangerous Chinese railways and then into Haitian voodoo country on our tour of some of the “inconsequentials.”
Lon Chaney, Sr. is a gateway drug into the world of silent cinema. Chaney, Chaplin, Fairbanks, Sr., the whole lot. They pull you in. West of Zanzibar is one of those strange silent jungle melodramas, and if you have ever heard of this one it was because you are a die-hard Lon Chaney fan. It also has the added cult appeal of being directed by the great Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks, The Unholy Three). Chaney is most famous for his roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His uncanny ability to utilize makeup and physically painful-looking bodily distortions are what made him a legend of the silver screen. This film is a little different. Chaney wears no disguises. No clown makeup, no monster deformity, no Fu Manchu getup, no drag. Nothing. Chaney plays a stage magician of great prominence named Phroso. He is betrayed when his wife, Anna, cheats on him with his arch rival, Mr. Crane (played by Lionel Barrymore of Key Largo and It’s a Wonderful Life). When Crane announces that he is taking Anna away with him to Africa, Phroso attempts to stop him, but is thrown off the balcony and becomes paralyzed from the waist down. Later Phroso, now a paraplegic, discovers that Anna has died and so he vows revenge. Phroso moves to Africa to get Crane. Eighteen years have passed and Phroso is now the grimy “Dead Legs,” a strange witch doctor type guy to a primitive jungle tribe. He uses his magic tricks to frighten the natives of a nearby tribe…who happen to be under the watch of who else but Crane. “Dead Legs” kidnaps Crane’s daughter and tortures her to make Crane feel the pain he felt. *SPOILER ALERT* Well into the plot, “Dead Legs” learns that the girl he captured is actually his own daughter and that Crane has been taking care of her all these years, but it is too late to fix the damage he has done. He has killed Crane and his real daughter sees him as an evil murderer. To reveal his true identity at this point would destroy the girl, so he sacrifices himself to the natives to buy her time to escape into the night with her main squeeze.
The movie is dark, demented, and perfect for fans of Lon Chaney. He’s great at playing these deranged patriarchs, vengeful creeps, sympathetic deformed characters, and the subject of impossible tragedy and in West of Zanzibar he gets to play them all at once. The story is very pulpy and silly, but it’s a lot of fun and it has a wonderful exotic feel. The reason West of Zanzibar gets overlooked is because of the more popular films like The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula. The average person gets a sense of who Chaney and Browning are and moves on, never discovering their smaller films. Like I said, you’d have to be a real Lon Chaney geek or silent film nerd to seek this one out, but for my money it is well worth it even if you’re not.
Shanghai Express is an exorbitantly pulpy flick about women of sin, how much faith it takes to love someone, and a train on an exotic track with a rendezvous with the Chinese civil war. Marlene Dietrich (Witness for the Prosecution, Destry Rides Again) stars as Shanghai Lily, the most famous and successful prostitute in the orient (don’t worry, she’s not in yellow-face). When she boards the Shanghai Express with her friend and fellow woman-of-ill-repute, Hui Fei (played by the always fascinating Anna May Wong), everyone is perturbed by their presence. Several colorful and leisured characters are on board the train including a very outspoken missionary, an officer, a fickle woman, an opium dealer, an exceedingly gregarious gambler (Eugene Pallette, who always seems to be playing priests, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro), the shady half-Chinese Henry Chang (Charlie Chan himself, Warner Oland), and Lily’s old flame, the stoic British Captain Harvey (Clive Brook). Lily still has feelings for Captain Harvey, but Harvey is displeased with the life she now leads (although we sense he still fancies her greatly despite their 5 year separation). Can these two lost souls rekindle their dwindling romance? Moreover, will everyone get out alive after the train is stopped and they are taken hostage by Henry Chang who turns out to be a powerful warlord and rebel in the civil war? What makes this film work is the fun cast of characters, the steamy locations, the feelings of entrapment, the themes of faith and love…and revenge. I was only nominally with this film until the train got stopped. Then I was fully invested. The stakes are raised and the plot thickens. Murder, torture, sex, betrayal, the works. It’s amazing how much they got away with in those pre-code days.
Shanghai Express is pulpy fun. Most of the characters are fairly broad or rigid. I honestly don’t know how Captain Harvey and Shanghai Lily ever got together to begin with. The film also throws in random spiritual elements that don’t exactly seem to mesh, but it’s a good trip on a mysterious train that collides with danger and intrigue. Shanghai Express is filmed well and Eugene Pallette really livens things up and Anna May Wong delivers another dark and subtle performance that steals every scene she’s in. I love this movie for its simple but interesting story and rich atmosphere. The reason why this movie gets overlooked? Because Casablanca was a better movie. Plain and simple. Brooks can’t compete with Bogart, but Shanghai Express is still a great little movie on its own and should be celebrated more these days.
The last two films I talked about had a few things in common. They were pulpy, exotic, and atmospheric “inconsequentials” and my last pick is no exception. White Zombie might be a little more well-known for two very important reasons: a.) it stars Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and b.) it’s the first zombie movie. Many people regard George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) as the first zombie movie, but White Zombie has it beat by a good 36 years. Romero’s film changed the rules for zombie flicks and added social commentary, but White Zombie is all just for fun. Bela Lugosi plays Murder Legendre, an insidious voodoo master and owner of a Haitian sugar plantation. As you might have guessed, his Haitian slaves working the spooky sugar cane mill are actually zombies! Here’s the plot in a nutshell: Charles (a plantation owner) loves Madeleine, but Madeleine is in love with and getting married to Neil, so Charles goes to Murder for help. Simple. But!…the only way for Murder to make Madeleine love Charles is to make her into a zombie. So that’s exactly what they do, but Neil discovers his dead fiancee’s tomb to be empty and recruits the knowledgeable missionary, Bruner, and meanwhile Charles is regretting his decision for a zombie romance and Murder is actually slowly turning Charles into a zombie too! It all builds up to an exciting climax in Murder’s cliff-side castle. Zombies attack and spells are broken and there’s voodoo and people die and stuff and bad guy’s name is Murder! It’s fun.
Despite the relative cheapness of the production, White Zombie boasts some fantastic atmosphere and one of Bela Lugosi’s best performances. The scenes in the zombie sugar mill are spooky and deliciously atmospheric. The castle is great and the shots of the zombies assembling in the hillside cemetery are fun and a lurking Lugosi practicing voodoo in the shadows is just great. It’s a slight movie (some might call it “inconsequential”), but I really love it. The reason you don’t see this one on a lot of lists is because of legendary movies like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, and others that overshadow it. White Zombie has a fairly insignificant villain as far as supernatural antagonists go and it doesn’t seem to have been made with as much care…or money. All that being said, it’s a great bit of cheap horror and much better than The Creature From the Black Lagoon. It also makes for a delightfully inconsequential double-feature with The Vampire Bat (1933) starring Fay Wray (Doctor X, King Kong), Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, Captain Blood), Melvyn Douglas (The Tenant, Being There), and the always wide-eyed Dwight Frye (Frankenstein, Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein). (Incidentally the guy who directed the extremely “inconsequential” Doctor X just so happens to be Michael Curtiz, the guy who directed Casablanca. It all comes full circle).
One more film I must mention as I recently revisited it after several years and I am pleased to say it still holds up is Bluebeard (1944). Fans of John Carradine are probably quite familiar with it. Carradine plays Bluebeard, a puppeteer/painter/serial-strangler in 19th century Paris. It’s a delightfully low-budget yarn of the macabre.
As a lover of old movies it takes more than just the undeniable classics to appease me. Sometimes I like the smaller films just as much as the great ones. Don’t let the greats cast too long a shadow that they blot out the smaller film achievements. Use them as a reference point to find more movies from those eras. West of Zanzibar, Shanghai Express, and White Zombie may not be on anybody’s “essentials” list, but I’d say make room for these “inconsequentials.” You might be surprised by what you find.
picture references:
mubi.com
doctormacro.com
Originally published for “The Alternative Chronicle” Feb. 9, 2011.
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Archive for August 23rd, 2013
Book Reviews,Marines,Vietnam War
On Nicholas Warr, Phase Line Green and Hue City
Tags: 1968, Armed Forces Radio, Bravo! Common Men Uncommon Valor, documentary films, Fifth Marine Regiment, Hue City, Marines, memoir, Nicholas Warr, Phase Line Green, Tet, the citadel, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Phase Line Green The Battle for Hue, 1968 by Nicholas Warr
A Review by Ken Rodgers
The Siege of Khe Sanh had already been going on for over a week by the time the Tet Offensive began. Some historians believe that the North Vietnamese commander-in-chief, General Vo Nguyen Giap, planned the Siege of Khe Sanh as a ploy to draw off firepower so that when Tet arrived on January 30, 1968, the NVA and Viet Cong onslaught on South Vietnam would swamp the American and South Vietnamese militaries.
I recall sitting in my fighting hole, shivering in the trench, hiding in my bunker as news flashed out of my old transistor radio about the all-out assault on South Vietnamese and American forces during the annual Vietnamese New Year which almost all Vietnam vets just call “Tet.” All around South Vietnam, North Vietnamese troops were attacking cities, towns, villes and outposts, some of them falling as we sat inside the Khe Sanh fire base and listened to the battles…our battle, as well as the ones described over Armed Forces Radio. The assault on Khe Sanh was frightening, and the news reports from AFR piled on the panic. Saigon, Danang, Kon Tum, Dong Ha, were just a few of the names that blared out from the speakers of our transistor radios.
Most frightening of all to me was the fall of Hue City, the old Imperial Capital and the symbol of Vietnam’s regal past and a symbol, too, of what we were fighting to preserve. A way of life based on a blending of east and west, or so we thought. So when Hue fell it seemed like a portent of what eventually came to us in Vietnam, defeat. But at the time that portent wasn’t nearly as potent as the thought of a general butt-whipping to all of the American forces in Vietnam in early 1968, and something deeper, the fear of my own death. Yes, my death was paramount, or to put it another way, my life. Nevertheless, the thought of defeat, that the awesome and unbeatable American juggernaut might be defeated bothered me a lot. It still does…this notion of defeat.
I digress. Day and night, when we weren’t dodging incoming or sneaking outside the wire to set up ambushes and listening posts, to charge out on perilous patrols, we listened to the radio accounts of the battle to take back Hue.
I had very little training in house-to-house combat. What I had experienced at Camp Pendleton prior to my trip across the pond to the Republic of South Vietnam made me think at the time: I hope I never have to do that. Going in on the bottom floor, up stairs, in closets, down halls, with the enemy hiding in there, well ensconced, well armed, dropping grenades on our heads, spraying us with AK-47s.
At Khe Sanh we took tremendous amounts of incoming and when we went outside the wire, the ensuing fights were brutal, savage, with bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat. Hue was a different type of battle. Not in terms of courage and fear, cowardice and death, but in how it was fought.
In Nicholas Warr’s memoir Phase Line Green, The Battle for Hue, 1968, the events surrounding the fall of Hue and its eventual recapture are played out in intensely personal, vivid images. The war is intimate, not something alluded to in wall charts and maps by intellectuals and staff command officers. This is war shouted from the throat of the fighting man.
Nicholas Warr was a second lieutenant and platoon commander with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. His story begins when Tet begins, and Charlie Company is out in the bush between Hue and Danang. As the initial fighting begins, Charlie Company sits in eerie quiet as they listen to the war going on around them. This quiet allows us to meet Lieutenant Warr and the men in his command, men who will not survive much longer.
The 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment was ordered to proceed to Hue and retake the citadel, the old imperial headquarters surrounded by thick walls; a city of tree-lined streets with substantial houses, all held by crack troops of the North Vietnamese army. This war would be house-to-house. The men of Charlie Company had never fought house-to-house.
They entered the old citadel and assembled on one side of a residential street, a place named by the Americans, “Phase Line Green.”
I will not let slip the details of what happens to Warr and the men of Charlie Company, 1/5, but I will tell you that this story rages, begs, pleads, screams, cries, hates, commands and exults on a visceral, intimately personal level. As a young enlisted man, I never imagined that officers thought and feared and hated like us, the snuffies who fought the war, but Warr shows us that officers and gentlemen react and act just the same as enlisted men.
This is war through the eyes of the grunt, on the ground, in the spine-rattling chaos that is combat:
“Doc looked over at me with despair in his eyes and said, ‘We gotta do an emergency tracheotomy; his windpipe’s crushed. I need a tube, something to stick into the opening when I cut into his windpipe.
“I was stunned, stupid, unable to think or move. None of the Marines was any more help. Estes was dying on my lap, making feeble convulsive motions, and I couldn’t move.
“’Break down your .45, Lieutenant, goddammit. I can use the barrel as a temporary airway.'”
This story is fast-paced and compelling. You fall and stumble, hide and crawl with the men of Charlie Company, 1/5. Once I started this book, I couldn’t put it down. In some ways the combat was the same…the fear, the need to overcome fear, the need to not be a coward, the shaking and the tears…as what I had seen at Khe Sanh. Yet in other ways the combat at the battle of Hue City was foreign to me, like Fallujah in Iraq or cobblestoned European streets in WWII.
This story is about how it feels to see your comrades dead in the street thirty or forty feet away, and the inability to help them, retrieve them, grieve in the old honored ceremonial ways that allow us to put death in its proper slot. This story is about how it feels to assault across a frontier out of relative safety into the unknown region of death and mayhem.
Nicholas Warr tells us about rage, and not just about rage at the enemy, but the political machines that manage battle, and not to the benefit of the snuffies slugging it out. And of course, the rage against generals and presidents and senators is a focused rage, it seems to me, but also aimed at us, the American public, for our lack of commitment and patience, as we sat (and sit now in the current conflicts) in our houses while the few died and the rest enjoyed largesse at the warriors’ expense.
And related to this lurks the memory of the thirty year period after Vietnam when the warriors who carried the battle to the enemy were shunned. I was once told, “You guys couldn’t whip anybody.” This in reference to the men who fought in Vietnam, to me and my Marine brothers, both at Khe Sanh and Hue City. What made, and still makes, that phrase like a bitter lump of burning shrapnel trapped in my gullet is the fact that in a huge majority of the battles fought in Vietnam, American forces came out the victors. Yet our country lost the war. And it lost other things, too, like innocence and optimism. And we are only now beginning to hear the multitude of stories out of the Vietnam experience; decades later, when the Vietnam vet is suddenly popular, when he is thanked belatedly for his service to his country. Fifty years on.
You can find out more about Nicholas Warr, Phase Line Green and Warr’s other books here.
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History of Cambria County, V.1
CHAPTER V.
PIONEER SETTLERS--ADAMS FAMILY---PRINCE GALLITZIN--CAPTAIN MICHAEL M'GUIRE
--JOSEPH JOHNS--HE LAYS OUT THE VILLAGE OF CONEMAUGH.
The best proof that is now obtainable leads to the conclusion that Samuel, Solomon, and Rachel Adams were the first white people to locate, improve and till the soil on land within the limits of Cambria county. It seems that the Adams family came from Berks county some time prior to 1774, and improved the Peter Snyder tract of land, which later became the Horner estate in the Seventh ward. The exact date cannot be fixed, but it was not prior to April 3, 1769, as, by the act of the provincial authorities, no white man was permitted to locate on land which had been reserved by treaty with the Indians for their exclusive use; however, it was prior to 1771.
It will be observed that Charles Campbell took out a warrant on April 3, 1769. It is probable that the Adamses did the same then, or soon thereafter; at least, the deeds show that in 1774 Peter Snider took out a warrant for the "Solomon Adams Improvement" on "both side, of Solomon's Run" (in the Seventh ward). The records do not show that Solomon Adams took out a warrant; but that, he occupied it and made improvements on it there is no doubt.
During this period (1769-1774) the white man and the red man were in a war, which had practically been circumscribed to the territory between Bedford and Pittsburg, and especially in and around Bedford, Ligonier, and points between them. The near-by forts were at Bedford and Ligonier, and one was at Fort Palmer, a few miles south of Lockport and near Covodesville. When danger from the warlike Indian was apprehended the Adamses would flee to one of these points.
In 1777 the Tull family, who resided on the mountains six miles west of Bedford, consisting of father, mother, nine daughters, and a son, were massacred, excepting the son, who was absent. The hill is yet known as the Tull Hill on account of the terrible vengeance of the Indians on this occasion.
Sherman Day gives an account of the courageous action and death of Samuel Adams as follows:
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Family Disavows Fox Searchlight Biopic, Says ‘It Does Not Approve’ of Film
J.R.R. Tolkien’s family and the Tolkien Estate have come forward to disavow the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic that stars “X-Men” actor Nicholas Hoult as the iconic “Lord of the Rings” author. The film, titled “Tolkien,” is set for release next month. A statement released by both parties says they want to “make clear that they did not approve of, authorize, or participate in the making” of the film and “they do not endorse it or its content in any way.” Tolkien’s family and the Tolkien Estate have not seen the movie but have long turned down agreeing to any official biopics.
“Tolkien” is directed by Dome Karukoski, the Finnish filmmaker behind “The Grump” and “Tom of Finland,” and features a script written by David Gleeson (“Cowboys and Aliens”) and Stephen Beresford (“Pride”). Hoult stars in the title role, while Lily Collins plays Tolkien’s lifelong love and wife Edith Bratt. The supporting cast includes Tom Glynn-Carney, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Albie Marber, Colm Meaney, and Genevieve O’Reilly. The release is Hoult’s second Searchlight effort in a row following “The Favourite,” and the actor also has his latest “X-Men” movie, “Dark Phoenix,” opening in theaters in June.
The official “Tolkien” synopsis from Fox Searchlight reads: “‘Tolkien’ explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the ‘fellowship’ apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.”
“Tolkien” is being positioned by Fox Searchlight to be counter-programming at the box office to giant summer tentpoles such as “Avengers: Endgame” and “Detective Pikachu.” “Tolkien” will be the first movie Searchlight releases under new parent, The Walt Disney Company. Based on the film’s trailer, “Tolkien” looks similar to “Finding Neverland” in the way it tackles a classic piece of literature and the author who wrote it with a slightly fantastical touch. IndieWire has reached out to Searchlight for further comment.
Fox Searchlight will open “Tolkien” in select theaters beginning May 10.
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Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula
Eckert Woertz, Thomas Lippman, Oliver Wilcox, Christopher Boucek
Summary: Food security is fast becoming a critical issue for Persian Gulf countries as they face three converging factors: tighter global food markets with strained export surpluses, a decline in domestic production, and continuous population growth.
Food security is fast becoming a critical issue for countries in the Persian Gulf, many of whom face tighter global food markets because of trading partners’ strained export surpluses, a decline in domestic food production, and population growth. Wealthier countries on the Arabian Peninsula, fearing that some day they might not be able to secure enough food for their populations, have increased government subsidies, built up strategic storage, and invested in agriculture overseas.
Eckert Woertz, of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, discussed the Gulf food security predicament and evaluated the current initiatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He was joined by the Council on Foreign Relations’ Thomas Lippman, who commented on Saudi Arabia’s controversial "food security initiative," which aims to produce food in underdeveloped countries for consumption by the fast-growing population of Saudi Arabia. Carnegie’s Christopher Boucek moderated.
The Problems
According to Woertz, food security in the Gulf increased in importance in 2009, as the world saw a big commodity boom and food cost hikes, coupled with an increase in export restrictions by trading partners. Even as the cost of food supply from outside the region rose, local supply has been falling and regional demand has been rising.
Demand: 60 percent of food is already being imported in the Gulf. Meanwhile, the population of the Gulf is increasing; between 2000 and 2030, it is expected to double.
Local Supply: Water used for irrigation comes from ancient aquifers and is non-renewable. Saudi Arabia, for example, was a net wheat exporter in the 1980s and 1990s, but it cannot sustain its irrigation. By 2060, the desert will have reclaimed the farmland where wheat was once grown.
Costs of Imports: There has been a rise in export restrictions on food by major trade partners, who are concerned about their own food security.
The Solutions
Gulf nations have sought to stimulate food production in countries that have sufficient water and irrigable land, to support the growing Gulf population. Countries hosting Gulf investments range from Sudan, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, to the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Thailand, and Tanzania. In these nations, Gulf countries have generally purchased land and provided the capital to increase food production using the host countries natural resources.
The Gulf countries now depend on four main sources for food production:
The new initiatives in developing countries, where Gulf nations can use their investment abilities more aggressively. Woertz referred to these sources as having the classical colonial agro-export and food import dependencies.
Emerging developing countries, such as Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Argentina, who cannot afford to subsidize their national agriculture and are therefore at a disadvantage when selling to global markets.
Large suppliers that subsidize food production within their own borders, such as the United States and the European Union.
Production within their own borders.
The available water sources in the Gulf are limited. Woertz pointed to an article in Foreign Policy that suggested that the initiatives to buy land in underdeveloped countries are in fact attempts to purchase water resources, not land resources. He warned that what is happening on the ground is not clear; the full motives of the Gulf investors cannot yet be determined.
Lippman assessed the agricultural sector in Saudi Arabia, as well as the Saudi perspective on the drive for agro production in other countries. He described how the socio-political problem of inflation, coupled with food shortages and drought, has spooked the Saudi government and led to changes in their agricultural policies.
One significant new policy has been a food security initiative, where Saudi industries would use their capital to bring resources and technology to countries that can’t afford them. The Saudi government argues that the relationship benefits both parties; if Saudi investors quintuple the food output of these countries, the host country would have more agriculture revenue and food for itself and they could increase exports to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government compares the venture to the West’s investment in oil. Lippman explained that the initiatives are actually joint ventures between the host governments and private sector Saudi Arabian organizations.
Potential Issues with Food Security Initiatives
Woertz pointed out that there has been some opposition to these initiatives within potential host countries. Thailand has declared that there would be no land sales to the Gulf countries, and farmers in Kenya and Pakistan have voiced opposition to the proposed deals with Gulf countries.
Lippman described the potential for conflict over scarce resources outside the Gulf. International tension might occur, for example, if Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or the UAE sought to build large agro-projects in Sudan, which shares its water source, the Nile, with Egypt.
Tensions might also occur between agricultural producers within the Gulf and their own governments. Saudi Arabia, which has long been proud of its food production self-sufficiency, is a prime example of this potential area for conflict. Agriculture is a big business in Saudi Arabia. There are huge agricultural projects in the deserts, where the Saudis grow alfalfa and vegetables and maintain dairy farms. In 2000, 5 percent of Saudi Arabia’s GDP and 12 percent of its labor went towards agriculture. Strong elements within Saudi Arabia oppose the new food security initiatives. These elements are either agro-business entrepreneurs who believe that the country should significantly increase its local investment, or others who worry about the risk, wondering who would ensure the ensuing contracts with other governments.
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<center> John R. Carpenter <br> La Mesa, CA USA <br> Guild of One-Name Studies, Member No. 8001 <br> Carpenter (Carpentier & Charpentier) Registered ONS <br> [mailto:john.carpenter@one-name.org '''john.carpenter@one-name.org'''] <br><br/></center> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Carpenter</strong></span> is a surname. Its use as a forename or middle name is rare. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 189th-most common surname. (1)(2)(6)</p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Origin</strong></span><br /> Common use of the Carpenter surname in the English language is seen circa 1275-1325 in Middle English. Its use prior to this time as a surname has roots in the Anglo-Norman French introduced into England about the time of the Norman conquest of England of 1066. The earliest attested use as a surname in English is from 1121, though its use as a secondary name or description in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 might have precedence.(3)</p> <p>In Old French, the surname was commonly written as "Carpentier" and its earlier form as "Charpentier". Its use as a surname may have derived as a nickname or description of one's occupation circa 900-1000.(2)</p> <p>All of these variations come from the Late Latin ''carpentārĭus'', denoting use as an ''artifex''. This related to Artificer - a wagon or carriage-maker equal to a wainwright. The roots of ''carpentārĭus'' come from the Latin ''carpentum'', meaning a two-wheeled carriage or a form of chariot not used directly for warfare in the community by women and others, plus ''arius'' - used in the masculine form as a noun denoting an agent of use from other nouns. It may be related to the Old Irish ''carpat'' and the Gaulish language ''carbad'' for carriage or cart, and is probably related to the Gaulish ''karros''.(2)</p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Carpenter Cousins Project</strong></span></p> <p>The [http://carpentercousins.com Carpenter Cousins Project] is primarily a North American genealogical project whose ancestors are primarily from Europe. One goal is the collection of documented genealogies and family histories. Other goals support immigrant research, Y-DNA research (see next section) and general support for its members. This project is open to all Carpenter Cousins and those with related surnames who are willing to submit their documented ancestry. It also uses two email support forums for general discussions. See more on the web page.</p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Y-DNA Surname Project</strong></span></p> <p>A human Y-chromosome (Y-DNA) surname project exists for both [http://carpentercousins.com/carpdna.htm Carpenter] and its related variants, and the related names in German (Zimmerman(n)), French (Carpentier & Charpentier), and other languages with their name variants within a single project.(4)</p> <p>Y-DNA is passed from father to son virtually unchanged over the generations. Y-DNA has documented that Carpenter, Zimmerman, Charpentier and other related surnames do ''not'' have a single common root. While grouping does exist, it seems by parent or native country rather than regional via the most common ancestor.(4)</p> <p>As of June 2018, the Y-DNA Project is active with 35 organized groups, one semi-organized group of genetic near matches based on Haplogroup R-M269, called Group 98. There is one random results group called Group 99. There appears to be about 440 tested members with the majority (415) from tested at Family Tree DNA and the others from different DNA testing companies for genetic genealogy.(4)</p> <p>Sub-grouping within the group is done in two ways. 1) By Genealogy paper trails or the lack thereof resulting in connections genealogically and genetically related then genetically related but not connected genealogically. 2) By Y-DNA markers representing genetic mutations or a genetic distance or variance from the group norm. These mutations within the group can form genetic sub-grouping if confirmed by genealogical material. The possibility of a random mutation occurring in different lines must always be considered in DNA testing and is called a random match. Project administrators have paid special attention to these mutations for group association.(4)</p> <p>Two groups in particular (Groups 2 and 3) have 24 out of 25 markers in common. In many Y-DNA surname projects these two groups would have been listed as one group. However, each group has a distinct immigrant ancestor who came to the Americas in 1635 and 1638. Further testing to 111 Y-DNA markers, including specialized testing on individual Y-STR markers, have provided a clearer separation of based on DNA values.(4)</p> <p>Summary of discriminants between Groups 2 and 3: <br /> DYS464d (13 to 25 FTDNA Y-DNA marker set) <br /> Group 2 = 16 <br /> Group 3 = 17 <br /> <br /> DYS413a (38 to 67 set) <br /> Group 2 = 21 <br /> Group 3 = 22 </p> <p>DYS635 (68 to 111 set) <br /> Group 2 = 23 <br /> Group 3 = 24</p> <p>Groups 2 and 3 combined represent the largest group of tested members of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project. A section entitled "Carpenter Sketches" documents the immediate extended families of these two Carpenter immigrant families.(4)</p> <p>Haplogrouping is consistent within the organized groups, but is not focused on by this genetic-genealogy surname project. Haplogroups and their haplotypes help reveal deep ancestry based on mathematical probability and tries to relate to old world prehistoric cultures, groups or climes. The most common western European Haplogroup R1b (Y-DNA), also known as the Haplogroup R1b is cited as the Western Atlantic Modal Haplogroup (WAMH), shows up in the majority of the groups. This is not unexpected with the majority of tested members claiming Western Europe as a possible location for their ancestors. Those who have this more common haplogroup should test 37 or more Y-STR markers, while others can start at a 25 markers Y-DNA test. When in doubt start at 37 markers.(4)</p> <p>All groups have made an effort to provide a basic paternal lineage that is listed on a separate page and can be accessed via ID numbers on [http://carpentercousins.com/carpdna.htm#table1 Table 1] or via the <q>[http://carpentercousins.com/generallineage.htm Lineage]</q> page. Only one paternal lineage claims descent more than 600 years. This is consistent with common genealogy trends and results. While Y-DNA testing will never replace proper genealogical efforts, it is valuable in confirming genetic relationships and non-relationships.(4)</p> <p>To request joining this Y-DNA Surname Project with testing via [https://www.familytreedna.com/ Family Tree DNA] (FTDNA) [https://www.familytreedna.com/project-join-request.aspx?group=Carpenter please click here]. Those who test via [https://isogg.org/wiki/Y-DNA_STR_testing_comparison_chart other Y-DNA testing companies] are also welcome by contacting the project administrator, [mailto:carpenter@one-name.org John R. Carpenter]. (4)</p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Carpenter name variants</strong></span><br /> Carpenter name variants include:<br /> * Wright - Woodwright in old England Such as a "wood wright" (wood worker). See also "wainwright", from "wain wright" (a wooden wagon maker).<br /> * Carpentier and Charpentier - From the French Norman Carpentier (le Carpentier, le Charpentier), a worker of wood, derived from the late Latin "carpentarius", a maker of wooden carriages. French Surnames > CARPENTIER ++, Forme norm.-picarde de Charpentier; var. du Sud-Ouest et roussillonnase Carpentier. Avecart. Le Carpentier. <br /> * Carpender' - An English phonetic name variant of Carpenter. Also seen as Carpendar.</p> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Carpenter in other languages</strong></span></p> <pre>* Mac an tSaoir - Irish for "son of the descendants of the workman", anglicized as MacIntyre or Macintyre, Carpenter (particularly in and around Dublin), and other related names, sometimes incorrectly as Freeman.(5) * Ács - Carpenter in Hungarian. * Agaççy - Carpenter in Turkey. * Carpentiere - Carpenter in Italian, a worker of wood, from the Latin "carpentarius". * Carpintero & Carpenteiro - Carpenter in Spanish. A worker in wood, from the Latin "carpentarius". * Chippie - An United Kingdom and Australian slang for a carpenter. Can be used for either the occupation or surname. * Dailidė - Carpenter in Lithuanian. * De Carpenter or De Carpentier - Dutch for "the carpenter", a worker of wood, from the French Carpentier. * Plotnikov - Carpenter in Russian. * Puusepp - Carpenter in Estonian. * Cieśla and Cymerman - Carpenter in Polish. * Simmerman - alternate of Timmerman, both seen in Western Europe. * Tâmplaru - Carpenter in Romanian. * Tesař & Teslyar - Carpenter in Czech. * Timmerman - Carpenter in Dutch, a worker of wood, from the German Zimmerman. * Tischler and Schreiner, which are also surnames, are German names for woodworking names/professions related to the English language word Carpenter. * Tømmermann - Carpenter in Norwegian. * Zimmerman(n) - German for a worker in wood. The double n may or may not have religious implication.</pre> <p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>References</strong></span><br /> (1) U.S. Census Bureau; <q>[http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census]</q>, (Table) Name Files dist.all.last"; published May 9, 1995.</p> <p>(2) The English meaning of ''carpenter'' is from the occupation of one who makes wooden objects and structures by shaping wood. Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and ''Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition'' by Oxford University Press.</p> <p>(3) [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=carpenter&searchmode=none Online Etymology Dictionary] by Douglas Harper, 2001-2010, accessed April 13, 2010.</p> <p>(4) [http://carpentercousins.com/carpdna.htm Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project], accessed June 2018.</p> <p>(5) Thomas O'Connor: Carpenter, John (1729-86). In: ''[http://eprints.nuim.ie/379/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]'', Oxford University Press, 2004,, [http://eprints.nuim.ie/379/1/Carpenter.pdf PDF version], accessed 7 Jan 2012.</p> <p>See: also: Rev. Patrick Woulfe: ''Irish Names and Surnames, Collected and Edited with Explanatory and Historical Notes'', originally published in Dublin, 1923, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1967; p. 318.</p> <p>See also: John O'Hart: ''Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'', 1892, reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1989, p. 307fn.</p> <p>NOTE: Carpenter is not an Irish name in origin, but may have been adopted as a result of a 1465 law enacting that "every Irishman that dwells betwixt or amongst Englishmen in the County of Dublin, Myeth, Vriell, and Kildare ... shall take to him an English Surname of ... arte or science, as ... carpenter." This per Sir Robert E. Matheson: ''Special Report on Surnames in Ireland with Notes as to Numerical Strength, Derivation, Ethnology, and Distribution; Based on Information Extracted from the Indexes of the General Register Office'', Alex. Thom & Co. (Ltd.), Dublin, 1909, p. 15.</p> <p>NOTE2: The Carpenter surname was recorded in Ireland as early as 1636. See: Sir Arthur Vicars: ''Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810'', 1897, reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1989, p. 77. See also: Sir Robert E. Matheson, LL.D.: ''Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland'', 1909, reprinted as ''Special Report on Surnames in Ireland, with Notes as to Numerical Strength, Derivation, Ethnology, and Distribution'' by the Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Md., 1982, p. 41.</p> <p>NOTE3: In County Kerry, the surname is said to be that of an English family who settled on estates near Tralee as a result of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. See: Michael C. O'Laughlin: ''Families of County Kerry, Ireland'', Irish Genealogical Foundation, Kansas City, Mo., 1994, p. 19.</ref> After the Restoration in 1660, John Carpenter, Philip Carpenter, Capt. Phillip Carpenter, and Lt. Thomas Carpenter were among the "Forty-Nine (i.e, 1649) Officers" who supported the Royalist cause in the Irish Confederate Wars rewarded with grants of land in Ireland. See: John O'Hart: ''The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry When Cromwell Came to Ireland; A Supplement to Irish Pedigrees'', M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1884, p. 377.</p> <p>NOTE4: The 1659 census of County Limerick listed Carpenter as a family surname in Balliea townland, Small County Barony, and among the tituladoes (principal residents) in the barony of Cosmay in Limerick.See: Michael C. O'Laughlin: ''Families of Co. Limerick Ireland from the Earliest Times to the 20th Century...Including English, Scots, & Anglo Norman Settlers and Settlements'', Irish Genealogical Foundation, Kansas City, Mo., 1997, p. 41.</p> <p>NOTE5: Many of the MacIntyres of Northern Ireland are believed to be descended from the Scottish Clan MacIntyre whose ancient seat was in Lorne, Scotland. A documented instance of the surname Carpenter being adopted by an Irish McIntyre in America is that of Ireland-born brothers Owen Patrick McIntyre of Placer County, California and Michael Carpenter of Ottawa County, Michigan as shown in McIntyre's last will & testament dated August 25, 1875 and filed September 11, 1875 naming his brother Michael to direct the education of his nephew and namesake Michael's son Owen Patrick Carpenter. See: California State Society, DAR: ''Wills and Abstracts of Wills from California Counties, Volume I'', California DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, Series 1, Volume 91, 1957, p. 66.</p> <p>(6) Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_(surname) Carpenter (surname)]</p>
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Kornhauser v. United States
Kornhauserv.United States
U.S.Feb 20, 1928
Rassenfoss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In fact, in some of the cases it appears to have been drawn on an arbitrary rather than on a basis of reason…
Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Standing
As we have pointed out, the decedent derived substantially all of his income from real estate rentals. In our…
holding that "where [an expense] against a taxpayer is directly connected with or proximately resulted from, his business, the expense incurred is a business expense within the meaning of the act."
Summary of this case from Margraves v. State
In Kornhauser v. United States, 276 U.S. 145, this Court considered the deductibility of legal expenses incurred by a taxpayer in defending against a claim by a former business partner that fees paid to the taxpayer were for services rendered during the existence of the partnership.
Summary of this case from United States v. Gilmore
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CLAIMS.
Submitted January 12, 1928. Decided February 20, 1928.
Claimant successfully defended an accounting suit brought by his former law partner respecting shares of stock which claimant had received for professional services, performed by him, as the partner alleged, during the existence of the partnership, or, as claimant maintained, after its termination. Held that, in computing claimant's net income under the Revenue Act of 1918, the attorney's fees paid by him in defense of the suit were deductible from gross income, not as a loss under § 214(a)(4), but as an "ordinary and necessary expense" incurred in carrying on a business, under § 214(a) (1); that it was not within § 215, forbidding deduction of "personal, living, or family expenses." P. 152. 62 Ct. Cls. 647, reversed.
CERTIORARI, 273 U.S. 692, to review a judgment of the Court of Claims denying a claim for an amount paid under an increased income tax assessment.
Mr. L.L. Hamby was on the brief for petitioner.
"The test is whether an expense is incurred primarily because of business as the immediate cause of incurring the expenditure." T.D. No. 451, C.B. No. 2, p. 157. See also C.B. No. 5, p. 121.
What is a loss arising from business? The petitioner did not voluntarily make this expenditure as an investment for the purpose of acquiring any property, but involuntarily in defense of a spurious claim for an accounting. The amount so expended was a total loss, the antithesis of an investment, and it cannot be recovered, nor was the petitioner compensated therefor by insurance or otherwise.
All expenditures made by an individual are in a sense personal, because they are made by the individual and no one else. We interpret the meaning of §§ 214 and 215 of the statute to be that, if the expenditure by an individual, which must of necessity be personal, arose in connection with, or as the direct result of, engaging in trade or business, not involving the making of an investment resulting in the acquisition of property, it is deductible; but if it bore no relation to his business or trade it is not deductible.
The doctrine noscitur a sociis is peculiarly applicable in interpreting what was meant by "personal, family or living expenses." "Personal" means an expenditure relating to the person himself, and not the business in which he is engaged, and contemplates expenditures for clothing, recreation and amusement, and the innumerable other expenses in which a person may indulge voluntarily for pleasure or because of a duty. A family expense is one which a person incurs on behalf of his family unrelated to his business. It may be for the support of his family in the purchase of food and clothing, or be for amusement or recreation of his family, or medical attendance or any other expense relating to the person. A living expense we interpret to mean one which is incurred in defraying the cost of subsistence of the person or the subsistence of the person's family.
Clause (b) of § 215 seems to be in the nature of a limitation or exception to the provisions of § 214, and therefore to be strictly construed.
Laemmle v. Eisner, 275 F. 504; and Lewellyn v. Electric Reduction Co., 275 U.S. 243, distinguished.
Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Sewall Key, Attorney in the Department of Justice, for the United States, submitted a brief prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue which is printed in condensed form below, and also the following expression of their own views concerning the question at issue:
All expenses to be deductible must come clearly within the provisions of § 214. The fee paid was not a loss under subsections (4) or (5).
The serious question in this case arises when it is sought to place this transaction on one side or other of the line drawn by the statute between "ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred in carrying on any trade or business," on the one hand, and "personal, living, or family expenses," on the other. This line is shadowy, for many transactions partake of the nature of both classes of expenses. Some accurate and unvarying standard is undoubtedly intended. That standard, it is submitted, is the implications of words in the common understanding. The common understanding of the phrase "business expense" is very aptly described in the regulations (1921 ed.), promulgated by the Commissioner. Art. 101, Reg. 45; Art. 101, Reg. 62; and Art. 101, Reg. 69. See also 1 C.B. 101.
The statute requires that expenses to be deductible, must be both "ordinary" and "necessary." By implication, extraordinary and unnecessary expenditures in the maintenance and operation of a business, are excluded. Chapin v. Irwin, 3 Am. Fed. Tax Rep. 3429; Laemmle v. Eisner, 275 F. 504.
The defense of this suit for an accounting must be attributable to a purpose to protect property, or to vindicate reputation. The latter Page 148 is by its expression clearly a personal expense, and the former is not only a personal expense, but also a capital expense, the deduction of both of which is expressly forbidden by § 215(a), (b) and (c) of the Revenue Act of 1918. Appeal of Hewes, 2 B.T.A. 1279; Appeal of Cons. Mut. Oil, 2 B.T.A. 1067; Appeal of Palmer, 3 B.T.A. 403.
The statute moreover provides that to be deductible, the expense must be incurred in carrying on a business. Defending the action against him was a single isolated transaction, and a loss incurred in such transaction is not deductible. See Mente v. Eisner, 266 F. 161. Here the most that can be said for the taxpayer is that he was put to an expense in winding up or closing out the business. The alleged misappropriation of moneys was not said to have been in the course of his business, but in the course of his previously existing partnership business. Whether he won or lost the suit for an accounting would not affect his present business or its profit, as is demonstrated by assuming that at the dissolution of the old partnership a new one had been formed between the taxpayer and persons other than his former partner. Clearly the new partners would not have benefited or suffered from the outcome of the suit for an accounting or been called upon to pay any part of the attorney's fee expended in defending said action.
We are not in accord with the reasoning of the brief prepared by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, nor with the conclusion reached by the Court of Claims, but feel bound to submit the case to this Court for decision. A judgment based on a confession of error would not bind the Court of Claims in other like cases. The Bureau of Internal Revenue believes that the decision of the Court of Claims is right. There does not seem to be any third class of expenditures between ordinary business expenditures on the one hand and personal expenditures on the other. The expenditure in this case does not seem like a personal expense in any proper sense. It was an individual expense as distinguished from a firm expense, but that is a different matter. We infer that the shares of stock received by petitioner in 1918 were received as compensation for some services performed, and that the question between him and his former partner was whether the services were performed during the existence of the partnership or afterwards, or disconnected with it. If that be so, the value of the shares constituted taxable income and the expenditure of attorney's fees in defending the right to receive and retain that income would have been to enlarge the taxpayer's income subject to income taxes. An expenditure for the purpose of obtaining or retaining taxable income does not seem like a personal expenditure.
We agree with the Court of Claims that the expenditure did not constitute a loss.
If the expense was a business rather than a personal expense, it can hardly be treated as a capital expenditure. While the petition in the Court of Claims is not clear, it may be that the shares of stock received were as compensation for legal or other services. Money expended to obtain or retain taxable income should be treated as a deduction from income and not as a capital expenditure.
We refer to the regulations of the Treasury Department and illustrations as to the rulings heretofore made in the Bureau of Internal Revenue on this subject. Personal and Family Expenses, Art. 291, Reg. 45; Capital Expenditures, Art. 293, Reg. 45.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ruled the following to be personal expenses: (1) Amounts paid as damages for breach of promise to marry, C.B. 2, p. 157; (2) attorney's fees and costs in such an action, C.B. II-2, p. 61; (3) amounts expended in defending a suit for damages alleged to have been caused by the negligent operation of an automobile owned and operated for personal convenience, C.B. 4, p. 159; (4) attorney's fees paid by retail druggist in connection with a prosecution for illegal sale of narcotics, C.B. 4, p. 209; (5) trial expenses and attorney's fees in defending a member of a partnership against criminal charges for violation of the Alien Property Act, C.B. IV-1, p. 170.
The Board of Tax Appeals has held the following to be personal expenses: (1) Expense of defending an indictment for perjury growing out of taxpayer's business, Appeal of Sara Backer et al., 1 B.T.A. 214; (2) expense of defense in proceedings for violation of criminal provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Appeal of Norvin R. Lindheim, 2 B.T.A. 229.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has held attorney's fees and legal costs in the following cases to be business expenses: (1) Defending title to a patent, C.B. 2, p. 105; (2) defending suit for damages by a tenant working on the taxpayer's farm, C.B. 5, p. 121; (3) defending a suit against doctor for malpractice, C.B. V-1, p. 227; (4) defending disbarment proceedings against an attorney, C.B. V-1, p. 227, reversing C.B. IV-1, p. 140.
The Board of Tax Appeals has held to be business expense the cost of an accounting required by court order to be made at the expense of the taxpayer to ascertain damages resulting from his infringement of a patent. Appeal of Meyer Bro. Co., 4 B.T.A. 481.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has held to be capital expenditures: (1) Attorney's fees paid by a nonresident alien in securing return of property and income from the Alien Property Custodian, C.B. 5, p. 127; (2) Cost of perfecting or defending title to property or reducing an assessment for a local benefit against it, C.B. 3, p. 192; see C.B. I-2, p. 146; (3) Cost of contesting a will, whereby title and possession of property were obtained, C.B. II-1, p. 122.
The Board of Tax Appeals has held that attorney's fees or other legal expenses are capital expenditures in Appeal of Charles P. Hewes, 2 B.T.A. 1279; Appeal of Cons. Mut. Oil Co., 2 B.T.A. 1067; Appeal of Earl M. Palmer, 3 B.T.A. 403.
The only court decision bearing on the question here under consideration is Laemmle v. Eisner, 275 F. 504, which held that attorney's fees paid in litigation for control of certain stock, resulting in practically the ownership or control thereof and the consequent management of the company, constituted a capital investment rather than a business expense.
The petitioner sued in the Court of Claims to recover $1,126.15, the amount by which his income tax for the year 1918 was increased by reason of the refusal of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to allow a deduction from the petitioner's gross income of the sum of $10,000 claimed as a business expense for that year. The petition alleges that the latter sum was paid by petitioner for attorney's fees incurred in the defense of a suit against him for an accounting instituted by his former co-partner, said suit growing directly out of the conduct of the partnership business, it being alleged by the co-partner that petitioner had collected fees or compensation for professional services performed during the existence of the partnership to a division of which the co-partner was entitled; that the alleged fees in fact consisted of stock in a corporation acquired subsequently to the dissolution of the partnership and not for services performed during its existence; that the defense to the suit was successful and the amount paid was a necessary expense incurred in connection with petitioner's business within the meaning of § 214(a), subd. (1), of the Revenue Act of 1918, or a loss within the meaning of subd. (4) of the same section; that a claim for refund of the excessive tax was duly made to the Commissioner and by him rejected. To this petition a demurrer was interposed and by the court below sustained and the petition dismissed on the ground that the expenditure was not an allowable deduction under either provision of the statute, but was a personal expense under § 215(a) of the Revenue Act of 1918. 62 C. Cls. 647.
We think it is obvious that the expenditure is not a loss; and the only provisions of the Revenue Act (c. 18, 40 Stat. 1057, 1066, 1069) which need be considered are § 214(a), subd. (1), which reads:
"Sec. 214. (a) That in computing net income there shall be allowed as deductions:
"(1) All the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business, . ..
and § 215(a) which provides:
"Sec. 215. That in computing net income no deduction shall in any case be allowed in respect of —
"(a) Personal, living, or family expenses."
On the case made by the petition the expenditure in question was either a personal expense or a business expense: — it was not a living or family expense. And it was an "ordinary and necessary" expense, since a suit ordinarily and, as a general thing at least, necessarily requires the employment of counsel and payment of his charges. The petition is not as definite as it might have been, but from its allegations, interpreted as the Solicitor General concedes they may be, it appears that the accounting suit presented the question whether the compensation in respect of which the co-partner sought an accounting was for professional services performed by petitioner during the existence of the partnership or after its termination, the defense to that suit being based upon the latter alternative. In either view, the compensation constituted business earnings.
The Solicitor of Internal Revenue in a recent opinion has held that legal expenses incurred by a doctor of medicine in defending a suit for malpractice were business expenses within the meaning of the statute. In the course of the opinion it was said that such expenditures were as much ordinary and necessary business expenses as they would be if made by a merchant in defending an action for personal injuries caused by one of his delivery automobiles, and that in the latter case the deduction would be allowed without question. C.B.V.-1, p. 226.
Another departmental ruling is to the effect that legal expenses incurred in defending an action for damages by a tenant injured while at work on the taxpayer's farm are deductible as a business expense. C.B. 5, p. 121.
In the Appeal of F. Meyer Brother Co., 4 B.T.A. 481, the Board of Tax Appeals held that a legal expenditure made in defending a suit for an accounting and damages resulting from an alleged patent infringement was deductible as a business expense.
The basis of these holdings seems to be that where a suit or action against a taxpayer is directly connected with, or, as otherwise stated ( Appeal of Backer, 1 B.T.A. 214, 216), proximately resulted from, his business, the expense incurred is a business expense within the meaning of § 214(a), subd. (1), of the act. These rulings seem to us to be sound and the principle upon which they rest covers the present case. If the expense had been incurred in an action to recover a fee from a client who refused to pay it, the character of the expenditure as a business expense would not be doubted. In the application of the act we are unable to perceive any real distinction between an expenditure for attorney's fees made to secure payment of the earnings of the business and a like expenditure to retain such earnings after their receipt. One is as directly connected with the business as the other.
Judgment reversed.
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Monday 21st October 2013
An irresistible challenge
Opening on Friday, Nottingham Playhouse and York Theatre Royal are delighted to present the first major production of Shakespeare’s Richard III since the skeleton of the last English king to die on the battlefield was discovered.
See the trailer
Playing Richard is Ian Bartholomew. Ian last performed here in the critically acclaimed production of Bertolt Brecht’s gripping morality tale, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Arturo Ui achieved four star reviews in The Guardian, The Times and The Independent. The Stage hailed it ‘as close to theatrical perfection as anybody has a right to expect’.
Ian’s theatre credits include performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Old Vic and many more. His television work includes: Spooks, South Riding, The Accused, Thieves Like Us, New Tricks, Minder and Bergerac.
On playing Richard, Ian comments: “The discovery of the bones of Richard III has made the prospect of playing the Machiavellian king even more exciting as it means the public are more aware of his life now than ever. Richard III is an irresistible challenge to any actor as he was such a fascinating character with his combination of ambition, cruelty and anger and sheer twisted sense of humour”.
Dig deeper with Richard III
Find out more about the real Richard III and the Grey Friars Dig which led to the discovery of his remains in this series of pre-show talks which are FREE to ticket holders.
As places are limited please book in advance by calling the Box Office on 0115 941 9419.
On Friday 8 November, our FREE monthly Page to Stage event will focus on Richard III.
Keep up-to-date with rehearsals
Cast member Jim Creighton (Rivers/Brackenbury/Oxford) has been keeping a daily photo blog of the rehearsal process. You can see his photos on our website, Twitter and Facebook pages. Alternatively, you can follow him directly on Twitter @CreightonJim
This production of Richard III explores the parallels between the devious Richard, who is full of paranoia, humour and irresistible charm, and our modern world of political monsters.
#mykingdomforahorse
Richard III plays at Nottingham Playhouse 25 Oct – 16 Nov and then at York Theatre Royal 19 – 30 Nov.
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The Fallacy of Drug Prohibition
General, Politics, Reading, Theory
A periodical take on philosophical dilemmas
When people talk about the ‘war on drugs’ they commonly refer to the campaign of prohibition and foreign financial and military intervention, by the United States Government, arguably starting in the late 1960’s under President Nixon and continuing to the present day. Here I will instead use this term to refer to the prohibition of some recreational drugs throughout not only the UK and US, but the majority of the world. I emphasise the word ‘some’, for it is fundamentally important to remember that governments have only chosen to control a select list of drugs for recreational use; and not every substance that has the ability to effect the mind has been classified. Therefore, it is not so much a ‘war on drugs’ per se, but a prohibition of those drugs that governments deem it is unacceptable – for one reason or another – for the consenting individual to consume…
Interesting Article on LSD
General, Reading
The War [on drugs] Failed
“I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody’s going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they’re about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they’re missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It’s just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, ‘Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.’ The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.”
-Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool
Of all the drugs I’ll discuss, none of the them are as misunderstood as lysergic acid diethylamide…
What is Cognitive Liberty & Why Must We Defend It?
Activism, Current Affairs, General, Politics, Reading, Theory
Drug laws attempt to control what you can do with your mind and what experiences you are allowed access to. Drug laws are, quite literally, attempts at mind control.
Cognitive libery is much more than freedom of thought. To believe in cognitive liberty is to believe that the individual is absolute sovereign over their own consciousness. It is an extension of the concepts of freedom of thought and self-ownership. It is a reaction against the prevailing assumption that other people have the right to tell you what you can do with your mind and body in situations that carry only a personal-risk.
Terence McKenna writes:
“We’re playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It’s a preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue…
Drug Law Petition Started by Lib Dem MP Caroline Lucas
Activism, Current Affairs, General, Politics
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 – Impact Assessment
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/45969
Responsible department: Home Office
Drug related harms and the costs to society remain high in Britain, with a growing consensus that the current enforcement led approach is not working. In recent months the independent UK Drugs Policy Commission has highlighted the fact that Government is spending around £3 billion a year on a policy that is often self-defeating; and the Home Affairs Select Committee has concluded Government action is needed “now, more than ever” to consider all the alternatives to our failing drug laws and learn from countries that have adopted a more evidence based approach. We are concerned that, in this age of austerity, nobody is checking whether Britain’s current approach is value for money – or money wasted. We therefore call on the Government to commission an authoritative and independent cost-benefit analysis and impact assessment of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 within the next 12 months, in order to provide the evidence for Parliament to pursue a more effective drugs policy in the future.
Literary Review: ‘Animals and Psychedelics’ by Giorgio Samorini
Originally published in Italy in 2000 under the title ‘Animali che si Drogano’, this English Translation of Giorgio Samorini’s ‘Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness’ was published by Park Street Press in 2002. The author is an ethnobotonist, ethnomycologist and the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal ‘Eleusis, Plants and Psychoactive Compounds’.
In the introduction the author tells us that the connection between animals and inebriation is a hugely under-researched field. Samorini cites Ronald K. Siegal’s Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise (1989) as being an important precursor because Siegal observed and researched the connection in both the laboratory and the field. According to Samorini: “[W]hat I am try to draw attention to here—natural and intentional behaviour interpretable as drug use in the animal world—is something that is, even now, underestimated, for the most part accorded little value or at the least interpreted…
Psychedelic Philosophical Research
Psychedelic substances help to expand your perceived views on reality. When you are experiencing the effects of these chemicals your reality becomes something very different. You don’t perceive the world the way you always do. Your point of view changes to something that feels above being a normal human, this is because it is something different than one has ever felt.
During this feeling and altered state of reality one believes that they are experiencing something beyond themselves, because it is something completely different than someone could ever describe in words. It literally is, not metaphorically. No one could successfully describe the exact feeling and state of being someone is experiencing LSD or DMT in words. They feel that they have achieved some sort of higher state of consciousness. Which is true, being it an indescribable experience above something normally experienced by a human.
The same chemical reactions and brain…
Why you Shouldn’t Talk to FRANK about LSD, but to EROWID instead…
Academia / Conferences, Current Affairs, General, Media, Politics, Reading, Science, Spirituality & Religion, Theory
It doesn’t take a Home Office funded research team to learn that an ever increasingly well-informed public is starting to spot the biases and interests behind FRANK:
Although it takes no stretch of investigative journalism to discover that FRANK is funded by the government (via the Department of Health and The Home Office). Those unsuspecting marks, lured to the ‘Talk to Frank website’ by its multi-million pound advertising campaigns, would have no idea about it’s government connections from the website itself.
Nowhere on the website is it made clear that the charade is funded by the Home Office. Those visiting the site may wrongly assume that it is somehow independent, objective and fair.
This article hopes to highlight the intentional misrepresentations of psychedelics on the part of the organisation FRANK. In particular, this article analyses the misrepresentation of LSD to those who visit the FRANK website looking for objective information.
A Home Office report states that:
In March 2010
• 86% of 11 –18 year olds were aware of the FRANK service;
• of those, 80% trusted FRANK to give them reliable information about drugs;
• around 40% of young people would contact the FRANK website compared to 22% who would contact their friends for information about drugs.
The service offers “excellent value for money”, costing tax-payers a nominal £1-1.5 million per year.
Drugs education will always be a conflicted matter. On the one hand, educators and officials want to see a decrease in drug use; on the other hand, there’s the truth.
Now, nowhere on the FRANK website did we find any lies. As with so many things, it is just as important to spot what has >not been said< as to see what a given text makes explicit.
So here’s the first thing an individual research LSD would see. It starts off with a cursory mention about positive effects: positive effects that are down-played and misrepresented. What the FRANK website isn’t so frank about is the widespread personality, emotional, and spiritual transformations that research shows are fairly likely to occur. It dedicates ONE SENTENCE to the positives, within which it refers to them with a metaphysically loaded (and dismissive) term “hallucinations”.
The rest of this neutral and unbiased introduction is dedicated to the negatives, it is dedicated to fear-mongering.
Note that FRANK doesn’t provide much in the way of numbers: it doesn’t say what percentage of experiences are good or bad, it uses words like “depressed” to insinuate mental health issues, whilst being a little sparse on any evidence.
Now let’s look at ‘The Risks’ section, note: there isn’t a section for benefits, clinical uses, or any research indicating that LSD can make a positive contribution to one’s life.
Now, we think it’s a great credit to FRANK that midst it’s highly biased representation of LSD, it does state “There’s no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to the body or directly causes long-term psychological damage.”
It is also honest about LSD being non-addictive, and that impurities with LSD are rare. This does raise the question, why such matters have their own sub-headings?
Here’s the sneaky bit though. The ‘experience reports’. Now, there doesn’t seem to be a mechanism which allows for people who have used LSD to submit their own reports, that’s a little strange isn’t it?
One would think that, when designing a website which provides unbiased information, which offers “first hand accounts” of drug experiences, that it might be an idea to provide a function that allows drug users to submit their accounts? If LSD is so bad, why not just let people who have used it write their feedback? The truth about LSD can go no further than the experiences of those involved with it.
FRANK has a page here: http://www.talktofrank.com/story/add
Which allows users to submit their accounts. As we are about to see, there is sufficient evidence to indicate a very heavy bias in their selection process. I invite any qualified readers to try and submit a positive LSD experience to the FRANK website and see how far it gets!
Let’s just compare the headings for FRANK’s LSD reports to those contained on Erowid.
Erowid is, in fact, the website that FRANK ought to be: it offers truly unbiased information, and allows drug users to upload their uncensored experiences of ANY drugs, and ANY combinations. Erowid does not censor “negative” experience-reports, nor does it censor “positive” ones:
In fact: it has over 1000 reports (on LSD alone), categorised in various useful ways. It has amassed a huge collection of experience-reports which are the result of hundreds of different drugs, in myriad combinations, being described by thousands of individuals.
FRANK offers only five experience reports, most of which feature LSD being abused, misused, and mixed with other drugs, perhaps you can identify the selection bias?
The implication of these reports, for a reader who is looking for some cursory information about the effects of LSD, is that the experience will be nightmarish, will “destroy your family” and “cost you good friends” and probably land you in a psychiatric unit.
Now let’s not be naïve here: as Erowid’s comprehensive collection of trip reports indicate, bad trips happen, train-wrecks and disasters occur, and LSD can become an unhelpful habit for some individuals. What Erowid shows, however, is that:
1) LSD is far more likely to produce positive experiences than negative.
2) That the nature of those positive experiences is often described as profound by it’s users.
If FRANK wants to be frank about LSD, it needs to be a little more FRANK about what motivates people to use it, how MOST people find the LSD experience. If it wants to avoid the inherent biases of subjective reports, perhaps it could refer to more scientific information. If it wants to provide a truly neutral resource, it ought to avoid generalisations and selection biases.
Perhaps most important of all, FRANK ought to be honest and explicit about it’s connections to the government. It is a political website pretending (by omission) to be non-political. It is a service built to serve the interests of the state, pretending to serve the interests of the individual: the harmony of those interests is a matter of great controversy.
TLDR: Don’t talk to FRANK, talk to erowid.
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Sons of Anarchy #1
Writer: Christopher Golden Artist: Damian Coueciro Publisher: Boom! Studios Release Date: September 11, 2013 Cover Price: $3.99 Critic Reviews: 14
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WHY WE LOVE IT: Sons of Anarchy has captivated the attention of the entire BOOM! team with its smart plotting, compelling characters, and modern vision of the outlaw genre. We love the show so much we couldn't wait to help expand the world of SAMCRO.
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Comic Booked - Aaron Clutter Sep 14, 2013
Multiple covers always make things interesting, and this book is no different. There are 18 different covers, including retailer exclusives, in case you are that extreme collector who needs to have them all. I thought the main cover was pretty nice and illustrated the feel of this book and the series. All around, a great book. Read Full Review
Geeks Unleashed - Stephen Hardman Sep 12, 2013
If you're a fan of the TV show I'm sure you'll enjoy this comic. If you're not, then it is a perfect introduction to the world of the Sons of Anarchy and well worth picking up. Read Full Review
Graphic Policy - Brett Schenker Sep 11, 2013
Sons of Anarchy does exactly as promised and delivers gun-smuggling outlaw bikers with complex pasts and gripping personalities. If you love guys with guns like we do, this is that genre at its most elevated. And a series, and setting, you just can't find anywhere else in comics. Read Full Review
Bloody Disgusting - BigJ Sep 13, 2013
If you are a fan of “Sons of Anarchy” TV series then this series is simply a must read. Rather than create a book just to cash in on the popularity of the series, Boom Studios have taken the time to find the proper creative team in Golden and Coueciro, and have harvested Season 5 of the television show to come up with another chapter in the ongoing narrative of SAMCRO. Read Full Review
Barron Network - Robber Barron Sep 11, 2013
There were some panels in which the characters emotions felt a bit flat. In particular there is a panel in which Tig is supposed to be completely pissed but instead he looks only slightly mad. I am also not a fan of the eye designs for some of the characters. It almost looked like some characters just had slits for eyes. Read Full Review
Comic Addicts - Anirudh Singh Sep 17, 2013
Issue one wraps things up at a good point. The plot is not unraveled completely and things are set to explode. A good introduction to what looks like a superb series. If you like motorcycles and gangs on motorcycles or Sons of Anarchy then this is the series for you. Read Full Review
One Quest - Chris Cobb Sep 13, 2013
The art itself really fits the book, and the characters are easily identified, but something about the colors just doesn't work. That's a minor drawback to a comic that in it's first issue, captures a lot of what makes the show so much fun to watch, lets hope they can keep it up. Read Full Review
ComicBuzz - Ollie Sep 13, 2013
The book is an extremely quick read and is a nice extra for fans of the show. If you aren't a fan of the show you can still read this and enjoy it. I don't think I have ever come across the artist Couceiro before but he seems to have done quite a bit of work for Boom. He seems to be a promising artist although I think the Likenesses of the characters from the TV show could have been a bit better although that's probably the biggest downside for an artist when doing a TV or movie project. The writing by Golden is top notch which is to be expected from a writer of his talent. The story fits perfectly into the SOA mythos and is still accessible to readers who are not fans of the show. Read Full Review
Comic Spectrum - Sep 28, 2013
Next issue will likely get us into some more action as SAMCRO and Griggs move into (or closer to) opposition with one another. This is a good series for people who really dig the Sons of Anarchy series. If you've never watched it, don't dip your toe into the franchise with this comic, go watch the series starting with Season One on Netflix or Amazon Prime. Read Full Review
The MacGuffin - Matt LeMaire Sep 13, 2013
Overall, SONS OF ANARCHY #1 is a good start to a series that has a lot of promise. While some problems crop up in the first issue, it's nothing that likely won't be addressed as the story moves forward. What is impressive, though, is the way that Golden manages to work the story so seamlessly into the world we've come to enjoy so much, while Couciero's art captures the SAMCRO folks really well, adding all the little nuances that have made them compelling for 5-plus seasons. I'll definitely be back for issue #2, and you should too. Read Full Review
IGN - Melissa Grey Sep 11, 2013
While it's only the first issue and much is yet to be revealed, Sons of Anarchy #1 doesn't quite hit the Shakespearean high notes that the show embodies. That being said, I'm intrigued enough to stick around to find out what happens in next month's issue. Read Full Review
All-Comic - Joey Caswell Sep 11, 2013
Although the artwork was fantastic, full of rich detail and well-executed lighting effects, the actual story in this first installment was a little disappointing. True, this is only the opening of the story, but it wouldve made more sense to have this series take place during the time of the current season of the show. As it stands, there is no indication that this is the case and some aspects of the book clash with what is currently happening on TV. Overall, the characterizations were well-done and felt consistent with the popular series. There are some interesting things happening in issue #1, but future issues will decide how closely this book sticks to the source material and whether or not this story will directly tie-in to the TV show. Whether or not this ends up being the case, the creative team seem to be setting up an intriguing tale of crime and revenge. Read Full Review
Comic Bastards - Kevin Beckham Sep 19, 2013
Regardless, the Sons of Anarchy comic isn't bad by any means it just doesn't work for me. But believe me I'm the expectation to the rule. Writer, Christopher Golden does a fine job in capturing the voice of the characters and together with Damian Couceiro art; the reader should have no trouble being immersed into the dangerous world of SAMCRO. So if you're a fan of the series then this book will do its job in bringing you more SAMCRO goodness. Or if you're a little bit curious then be prepared to enjoy a very decent television adaptation. Read Full Review
Flip Geeks - Nicolo Parungo Sep 19, 2013
Sons if Anarchy is the type of comic I expressed weariness off in my first paragraph. Inaccessible to new readers and is entirely skippable for fans of the show. If you're a diehard fan of the TV show you may like this, and it has some solid art but I can't recommend it to anyone else. Read Full Review
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Bolivia’s ‘Forgotten’: Operation Condor Era Familiar History For Oscar Voters
Related: “Operation Condor, Developed in the North to Silence the South“
“I couldn’t make this film nine years ago,” exclaimed Carla Ortiz, the producer and star of Forgotten (Olvidados), Bolivia’s Oscar entry for foreign film at the Awardsline screening last night, “We had an extreme right government (for quite some time) and I would have been killed or kidnapped.”
Set during the 1970s, Forgotten tells the story of a group of middle-class, anti-dictatorship individuals who are kidnapped and tortured during Operation Condor in Bolivia, an era in the southern cone of South America when right wing dictatorships, in cahoots with the U.S. government, weeded out any Communist or Socialist groups. It’s a topic that has been dramatic fodder for a number of Oscar-winning and nominated foreign films from the continent, including 1985’s best foreign film from Argentina, The Official Story, and the country’s 2009 best foreign film winner The Secret in Their Eyes.
Official Story centers around an upper-middle class family, who learn that their adopted child was kidnapped during The Dirty War, a period during Operation Condor when many subversives disappeared. The Secret in Their Eyes deals with a modern day couple, a retired judiciary employee and a judge, who worked together on an unsolved 1974 rape and murder case that occurred during The Dirty War.
Given Bolivia’s recent liberal-leaning tendencies, Ortiz finally had the inspiration and confidence to make Forgotten, which she also co-wrote with Elia Petridis and Mauricio D’Avis. The film was directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Bolado.
“Suddenly, we are seeing the light, we’re seeing democracy, not the perfect democracy, but now we’re feeling a sense of brotherhood,” Ortiz told Deadline’s Dominic Patten. In the film, Ortiz plays Lucia, a pregnant woman who is a member of a young radical group. While her character is tortured severely in the film, Ortiz said the reality was worse, and that oppressors of the time would unleash rats on pregnant women in a luscious way.
“There are debates going on right now (after the film’s release in Bolivia). In the film we show people being tortured with electrodes attached to their ears, but in real life, many say they were attached to men’s testicles,” Ortiz said.
The actress, who has appeared stateside in such TV shows as Without a Trace, CSI: Miami and The Closer, said that in gettingForgotten off the ground, even in a more liberal Bolivia, was still an uphill battle. “We still live in a very misogynistic industry. As a soap opera star and a model, they would not respect me for my brain. I had to prove myself, and to fend off (accusations) that I wasn’t sleeping with someone who was producing the movie.”
While I was shooting the film, I received so many threats and was labeled a Communist and even a Facist,” said Ortiz.
The actress received support from the Bolivian consulate in Los Angeles, in terms of moving ahead with the production. Many other South American countries related to the atrocities of Operation Condor, hence such nations as Chile and Argentina assisted with shooting permits and made locations — otherwise not easily accessible — accessible. In addition, the Bolivian military was forthcoming with the use of tanks and arms. “My country was ready to tell this story,” asserts Ortiz. As such, Ortiz sees Forgotten as a film that “could unite us all (in South America) and build bridges” in the wake of the apathy that resides between borderlines (“Bolivia lost its sea to Chile,” cites the actress).
Still there are many in Bolivia, who wish to sweep the pain of Operation Condor under the rug. “To hear my parents’ friend say ‘It wasn’t so bad’ back then,” shurgged Ortiz. After coming back from Egypt in 2011, Ortiz realized, that despite improvements in her home country, there’s still a similar pain that pervades around the world, between a powerful nation and the freedoms of its masses.
Says Ortiz, “People need to know that such events are still happening today, in Iran, in Mexico. If Venezuela bleeds today, we feel it here. We need to awaken our humanity.”
Below is the Spanish trailer for Forgotten:
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Charley says ARTIST! Glenn Claes (Winner Of The Voice Van Vlaanderen)
Meet Glenn Claes, the very first winner of The Voice Van Vlaanderen.
Flanders fell in love with the singing plumber from the moment he poked his head out of his camper’s door. Worried about being late to his audition, he’d decided to drive to the studio the day before, parked his camper van on the parking lot and spent the night there.
For his much hyped audition he sang “I Shot The Sheriff”. Before he’d even properly sung the first two lines all four chairs had turned. Under the guidance of his coach, Arid lead singer Jasper Steverlinck, Glenn sailed through the battles and secured his spot as one of the red hot favourites for the live shows.
Glenn Claes – The Sound Of Silence
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In those live shows Glenn impressed even more with renditions of “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man“, “Have A Nice Day“, “Big Jet Plane“, “Message In A Bottle” and “Naive“.
However, it was his take on Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence” that really captured the nation and even shot to number 2 in the official charts. An emotional Glenn wore a Pukkelpop t-shirt for his heartfelt performance. He dedicated the song to the victims of the 2011 festival drama, one of which was his friend.
In the final Glenn beat runner-up Silke to the title with 52% of the votes. His winner’s single “Knight In Shining Armour” was written by coach Jasper Steverlinck, because they didn’t like the proposed song he was handed. Not a bad move, considering the lovely acoustic-y song got him straight into the Flemish top 5. With a physical single now in stores as well, that number 1 seems within reaching distance!
“Knight In Shining Armour” by Glenn Claes is available in stores and online at Spotify and iTunes.
Studio versions of “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man”, “Naive” and “The Sound Of Silence” by Glenn Claes are available on Spotify and iTunes.
See also: Charley says LIST! The Voice Van Vlaanderen: The Aftermath
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The Success of Netflix’s Stranger Things Marketing Campaign — Ithaca College PRSSA
November 1, 2017 November 1, 2017 / chasingchelseae / Leave a comment
REPOST via The Success of Netflix’s Stranger Things Marketing Campaign — Ithaca College PRSSA
After much PR and marketing buzz leading up to the release of season two of Stranger Things, the show finally became available for Netflix users to watch on October 27th. Fans were unusually eager to find out what would happen next in the Upside Down – and for good reason. Netflix managed to heighten the anticipation for the show’s next season with creative guerilla marketing tactics and unique brand partnerships. As we reflect on how successful the campaigns were, here are three lessons to learn from the show’s marketing tactics.
1. Make it interactive.
On the countdown page for the release of the second season, Netflix hid an easter egg which when clicked, flipped the screen into Upside Down mode. In this mode, everything turns dark with creepy music and eerie vines – much like it is in the show. The cursor acts as a flickering flashlight and every couple of seconds, the demogorgon pops out. Ad agency Doner L.A. also created a 1-800 number for the show. It functioned as a real corporate one would with a hold ringtone, menu directions and automated responses, allowing users to report outages or suspicious activity occurring in Hawkins. These tactics are simple yet effective. It doesn’t require much on the marketers end, but it’s a big step in the right direction for peaking consumer interest.
Netflix also partnered with Lyft shortly before the release to give fans an unforgettable ride-share experience. On October 26th and 27th, Lyft users were given the option to switch their app into ‘Stranger Things’ mode which turned the cars on the screen into waffles, string lights, trucker hats and even the logo of the show. On October 27th and 28th, users in certain cities were able to take a ride that included malfunctioning seats, flickering lights, a warped ceiling, an acting driver and an Eggo waffle. While Netflix was able to reap the rewards of giving fans something new and different to talk about, Lyft benefited as well. This leads into our next tip.
2. Get the help of other brands.
Not only did Netflix choose to partner with Lyft, but they also decided to hone in on the show’s connection to the frozen waffle brand, Eggos. Because Netflix doesn’t offer paid placements, the Kellog Company wasn’t aware that their product would even be used in the show. But after the first season’s success, Eggo was able to use social media to their advantage by posting about the show’s waffle references.
The clothing store, Topshelf, also took to redecorating its London Oxford flagship store for one day in honor of Stranger Things. Spotify, the music streaming platform, used a subtler approach by creating playlists for each of the characters in the show, including ‘Eleven’s Breakfast Jams’ and ‘DemoGorgons Upside Downers’. When a campaign uses other brands to help out its own, it engages a much wider audience than what it would normally reach. With that being said, it is important to only use brands that make sense. The audience of that brand shouldn’t be drastically different and it helps if the tone of the brand is similar to the one being promoted as well.
3. Use what you have.
As a retailer for the show, Target was able to dedicate an entire section of their website to promoting the new season. The page starts off with 80’s inspired, vintage looking Stranger Things swag, ranging from toys to t-shirts, but as you navigate deeper into the site, regular products such as pudding snack packs and trap keepers start popping up. It’s Target’s way of bringing back 80’s era products that connect to the show. With the help of Target, Netflix was able to give fans of all ages something to talk about by combining the nostalgia of another generation with one of this generation’s most popular TV shows.
As Stranger Things progresses through new seasons, Netflix continues to encourage those inside the field of communications to think outside the box. By turning simple ideas into well-thought out campaigns, the show has managed to set the standard for the way marketing should be utilized in the future.
https://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/23469.aspx
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/10/26/how-netflix-turned-marketing-upside-down-the-return-stranger-things
via The Success of Netflix’s Stranger Things Marketing Campaign — Ithaca College PRSSA
Refuse Comfort and Stick to the Plan
July 30, 2017 August 29, 2017 / chasingchelseae / 9 Comments
It’s Sunday, the day before Monday, and I have chosen to spend my time writing this post not only to help guide myself– but to guide other young professionals as well. Actually, I have chosen to start this whole blog for this reason. It can be hard to start a path people around you haven’t traveled. I have little to no guidance or support from elders, teachers or friends. I am attempting to follow a road I have envisioned for myself since college, led only by the pursuit of tasks and positions that satisfy a gut feeling I follow.
It’s important for you to set a unique goal for yourself. It’s also important not to get distracted by those who try to turn you onto a path they prefer you be on. If a supervisor or family member is guiding you down a road that doesn’t help serve your vision, then why are you continuing to walk down it? What is that little voice in your head telling you to do and why aren’t you doing it?
– COMFORT. I believe comfort hinders many from achieving great things in their professional careers.
Great things never come from comfort zones.
It’s also fear of the unknown. Fear of untapped potential, unlimited possibilities and financial insecurities.
Isn’t it always easier to follow the guidance of someone else than to refuse their directions entirely and dive head first into the unknown and unfamiliar– which may result in failures or even temporary chaos?
Yet, outside of comfort zones is where all the magic happens. That’s what life is all about anyway, right?
When is the last time you listened to your gut feeling and actually obeyed it?
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2000 prison census: 81 journalists jailed
EIGHTY-ONE JOURNALISTS WERE IN PRISON AROUND THE WORLD at the end of 2000, jailed for practicing their profession. The number is down slightly from the previous year, when 87 were in jail, and represents a significant decline from 1998, when 118 journalists were imprisoned.
While jailing journalists can be an effective means of stifling bad press at home, it is very costly in terms of a country's international image. Particularly in Eastern Europe and Latin America, many countries use more subtle methods to control the press--punitive tax laws, expensive libel suits, and advertising boycotts. States that routinely jail journalists, on the other hand, are often impervious to international criticism.
China, for example, had 22 journalists in jail at year's end, more than any other country in the world. CPJ added four Chinese journalists to the list this year based on new information, and documented one new China case in 2000. As documented in CPJ's special report, The Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have taken extraordinary measures, including the jailing of seven Internet journalists, to suppress critical journalism on the World Wide Web.
In previous years, the Chinese government made concessions to international public opinion by carefully stage-managing the release of prominent dissidents, including journalists, at critical moments. Authorities took a harder line in 2000, when not a single journalist was released.
Three other perennial jailers are Burma, which held at least eight journalists at year's end (the actual number is thought to be much higher), Ethiopia, which held seven journalists, and Uzbekistan, which held three. Some of the jailed Burmese journalists have been held for more than a decade, and there was little new information about their cases in 2000. In Ethiopia, meanwhile, authorities piled additional charges on journalists who were already in jail, lengthening their sentences.
Three journalists were released from jail in Turkey, either provisionally, on appeal, or after completing their sentences. A fourth, Erhan Il, who was jailed in 1996, was no longer in prison, according to reliable sources in Turkey. While Turkey continues to hold 14 journalists--an unconscionably high number--the number has dropped significantly in recent years and is expected to continue to decline as the remaining jailed journalists complete their sentences. Meanwhile, new prosecutions were rare compared with previous years.
Cuba, the only country in the Americas that regularly jails journalists, held three at the end of 2000. One of them, Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández, was released on January 17, 2001, after completing two years of a four-year sentence on the uniquely Cuban charge of "dangerousness."
One important newcomer to the list is Iran, where six journalists were imprisoned at year's end. The jailings were just one element in a systematic campaign by Iran's clerical establishment to stamp out the reformist press, which has persistently criticized conservative elements within the government and called for change. Some 30 reformist newspapers were shut down in 2000, wiping out a vital source of alternative news and information.
In an interview at the beginning of 2001, jailed Iranian investigative reporter Akbar Ganji said, "It is a great honor for a man to defend his ideas against dictators." Ganji warned of an "explosion" if the crackdown continued.
Our census of imprisoned journalists represents a snapshot of all the journalists who were incarcerated when the clock struck midnight on December 31. It does not include the dozens of journalists who were imprisoned and released during the year; accounts of those cases can be found in the regional sections of this book. In Egypt, for example, the authorities have jailed many journalists for libel under the punitive Press Law, but the three journalists jailed in 2000 were all released before the end of the year (a fourth Egyptian journalist, Hussein al-Mataani, was jailed in 1999; he remains on our list because CPJ was unable to confirm whether or not he had been released). Meanwhile, the four journalists jailed in the Democratic Republic of Congo were all released in an amnesty on January 4, 2001, just weeks before President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was murdered by one of his bodyguards.
There was scattered good news in 2000. Syria released five journalists, some of whom had completed their sentences. Two more were amnestied by President Bashar al-Asad, who has allowed local journalists to voice occasional, mild criticisms of the government since he succeeded his late father in June. At the same time, Syrian journalist and human-rights activist Nizar Nayyouf remained in prison at year's end. Nayyouf has been jailed for nine years and reportedly suffers from Hodgkin's disease and other ailments.
A word about how this list is compiled: In totalitarian societies where independent journalism is forbidden, CPJ often defends persecuted writers whose governments would view them as political dissidents rather than journalists. This category would embrace the samizdat publishers of the former Soviet Union and the wall-poster essayists of the pre-Tiananmen period in China. We also include political analysts, human-rights activists, and others who were prosecuted over their written or broadcast work. Because such prosecutions threaten all working journalists, we defend these imprisoned writers as colleagues.
CPJ also uses a broad definition of the term "imprisoned." We consider all journalists held forcibly against their will by governments, guerrillas, or kidnappers to be imprisoned. For example, we include two Algerian journalists, Djamel Eddine Fahassi and Aziz Bouabdallah, who were apparently abducted by government agents in 1995 and 1997, respectively. While there is no information about their whereabouts, CPJ continues to hold the Algerian government responsible for their fate.
At the end of the year, CPJ wrote to every head of state on the following list, requesting information about jailed journalists in each country. While CPJ does not include "missing" journalists on this list, we monitor all such cases. For example, we continue to demand that Belarus account for the disappearance of TV news cameraman Dimitry Zavadsky, who vanished in July 2000.
ALGERIA: 2
Please send appeals to:
His Excellency Abdel Aziz Bouteflika
President of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
c/o His Excellency Ambassador
Driss Djazairi
Embassy of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria
2118 Kalorama Road N.W.
Djamel Eddine Fahassi, Alger Chaïne III
IMPRISONED: May 6, 1995
Fahassi, at the time a 41-year-old reporter for the state-run radio station Alger Chaïne III and a contributor to several Algerian newspapers, including the now-banned weekly organ of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Al-Forqane, was abducted near his home in the al-Harrache suburb of Algiers by four well-dressed men carrying walkie-talkies. According to eyewitnesses who later spoke with his wife, the men called out Fahassi's name and then pushed him into a waiting car. He has not been seen since, and Algerian authorities have denied any knowledge of his arrest.
Prior to his "disappearance," Fahassi was targeted by Algerian authorities on at least two occasions in response to his published criticisms of the government. In late 1991, he was arrested following the publication of an article in Al-Forqane criticizing a raid conducted by security forces on an Algiers neighborhood. On January 1, 1992, the Blida Military Court convicted him of disseminating false information, attacking a state institution, and disseminating information that could harm national unity. He received a one-year suspended sentence and was released after five months. On February 17, 1992, he was arrested a second time for allegedly attacking state institutions and spreading false information. He was transferred to the Ain Salah detention center in southern Algeria, where hundreds of Islamist suspects were interned in the months following the cancellation of elections in January 1992.
Aziz Bouabdallah, Al-Alam al-Siyassi
IMPRISONED: April 12, 1997
Three armed men abducted Bouabdallah, a 22-year-old reporter for the daily Al-Alam al-Siyassi, from his home in the Chevalier section of Algiers. According to Bouabdallah's family, the men stormed into their home and, after identifying Bouabdallah, grabbed him, put his hands behind his back, and pushed him out the door into a waiting car. An article published in the daily El-Watan a few days after his abduction reported that Bouabdallah was in police custody and was expected to be released imminently. In July 1997, CPJ received credible information that Bouabdallah was being held at the Châteauneuf detention facility in Algiers, where he had been subjected to torture. Bouabdallah's whereabouts are currently unknown. As in the case of Bouabdallah's colleague Djamel Eddine Fahassi, authorities have denied any knowledge of his abduction.
BURMA: 8
Senior General Than Shwe
c/o The Embassy of the Union of Myanmar,
2300 S Street, NW
U Win Tin
IMPRISONED: July 4, 1989
U Win Tin, former editor of the daily Hanthawati and vice chairman of Burma's Writers Association, was arrested and sentenced to three years of hard labor. In 1992, the sentence was extended by 10 years. U Win Tin was active in establishing independent publications during the 1988 student democracy movement. He also worked closely with National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and was one of her closest advisers. On March 28, 1996, prison authorities extended U Win Tin's sentence by another seven years, after they convicted him of smuggling letters describing the horrific living conditions of inmates at Rangoon's Insein Prison to Yozo Yokota, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Burma.
U Win Tin is said to be in extremely poor health after years of maltreatment in Burma's prisons--including a period when he was kept in solitary confinement in one of Insein Prison's notorious "dog cells," formerly used as a kennel for the facility's guard dogs. He has told international observers that he is suffering from spondylitis, a degenerative spine disease.
Maung Maung Lay Ngwe, Pe-Tin-Than
IMPRISONED: September 1990
Maung Maung Lay Ngwe was arrested and charged with writing and distributing publications that "make people lose respect for the government." The publications were entitled, collectively, Pe-Tin-Than ("Echoes").
Myo Myint Nyein and Sein Hlaing, What's Happening?
Myo Myint Nyein and Sein Hlaing were arrested for contributing to the preparation, planning, and publication of the satirical news magazine What's Happening, which the Burmese government claimed was anti-government propaganda. They were sentenced to seven years in prison. On March 28, 1996, they were among 21 prisoners tried inside Insein Prison and given an additional seven-year sentence, under the Emergency Provisions Act, for smuggling letters describing prison conditions to Yozo Yokota, the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Burma.
Daw San San Nwe and U Sein Hla Oo, free-lancers
IMPRISONED: August 5, 1994
Dissident writer Daw San San Nwe and journalist U Sein Hla Oo were arrested on charges of contacting anti-government groups and spreading information damaging to the state. On October 6, 1994, they were sentenced to 10 years and seven years in prison, respectively. Three other dissidents, including a former UNICEF worker, received sentences of seven to 15 years in prison on similar charges. Officials said the five had "fabricated and sent anti-government reports" to diplomats in foreign embassies, foreign radio stations, and foreign journalists. San San Nwe allegedly met two French reporters visiting Burma in April 1993 and appeared in a video they produced about the Burmese government. Both Daw San San Nwe and U Sein Hla Oo were previously imprisoned for their involvement in the National League for Democracy, Burma's main pro-democracy party.
Ma Myat Mo Mo Tun, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: August 1994
Ma Myat Mo Mo Tun, the daughter of imprisoned writer Daw San San Nwe, was arrested in August 1994 and sentenced to seven years in prison for spreading information injurious to the state. She was alleged to have recorded "defamatory letters and documents," made contact with "illegal" groups, and sent anti-government articles to a journal published by a Burmese expatriate group.
Ye Htut, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: September 27, 1995
Ye Htut was arrested on charges of sending fabricated news to Burmese dissidents and opposition media abroad and sentenced to seven years in prison. Among the organizations to which Ye Htut allegedly confessed sending reports was the Thailand-based Burma Information Group (BIG), which publishes The Irrawaddy, a news magazine focusing on Burmese human-rights issues. Burma's official media claimed that The Irrawaddy had presented a false picture of the country to foreign governments and human-rights organizations.
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: 1
His Excellency Ange Felix Patasse
President of the Central African Republic
Palais de la Presidence
Bangui, Central African Republic
Fax: 263-616-779
Raphaél Kopessoua, Vouma la Mouche
IMPRISONED: December 19, 2000
Managing editor Koupessoua of the private, pro-opposition weekly Vouma La Mouche, has been in government custody on unspecified charges since his arrest on December 19, 2000. The journalist was arrested while covering a banned meeting of a dozen opposition parties at a stadium in the capital, Bangui. More than 70 demonstrators were also arrested. Opposition parties had called for a civil-disobedience movement starting December 19 to protest overdue salary payment in the public administration, including the state media.
In addition to his journalistic activities, Kopessoua is a union activist and the local representative for the African Workers Union.
Kopessoua was released on January 8, 2001.
CHINA: 22
His Excellency Jiang Zemin
President, People's Republic of China
Fax: 86-10-6512-5810
Hu Liping, The Beijing Daily
IMPRISONED: April 7, 1990
Hu, a staff member of The Beijing Daily, was arrested and charged with "counterrevolutionary incitement and propaganda" and "trafficking in state secrets," according to a rare release of information on his case from the Chinese Ministry of Justice in 1998. The Beijing Intermediate People's Court sentenced him to a term of 10 years in prison on August 15, 1990.
Zhang Yafei, Tieliu
Zhang, a former student at Beifang Communications University, was arrested and charged with dissemination of counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement. In March 1991, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison and two years without political rights after his release. Zhang edited Tieliu, an underground publication about the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square.
Chen Yanbin, Tieliu
Chen, a former university student, was arrested in September 1990 and sentenced in March 1991 to 15 years in prison and four years without political rights after his release. He and Zhang Yafei ran Tieliu, an underground publication about the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square. Several hundred mimeographed copies of Tieliu were distributed. The government termed the publication "reactionary" and charged Chen with disseminating counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement. In September 2000, the Justice Ministry announced that Chen's sentence was reduced by three months for good behavior.
Liu Jingsheng, Tansuo
IMPRISONED: May 1992
Liu, a former writer and co-editor of the pro-democracy journal Tansuo, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "counterrevolutionary" activities after being tried secretly in July 1994. Liu was arrested in May 1992, and charged with being a member of labor and pro-democracy groups, including the Liberal Democratic Party of China, the Free Labor Union of China, and the Chinese Progressive Alliance. Court documents stated that Liu was involved in organizing and leading anti-government and pro-democracy activities. Prosecutors also accused him and other dissidents who were tried on similar charges of writing and printing political leaflets that were distributed in June 1992, during the third anniversary of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
Kang Yuchun, Freedom Forum
Kang disappeared on May 6, 1992, and was presumed arrested, according to the New Yorkbased organization Human Rights Watch. In October 1993, in response to an inquiry from the United Nations Working Group on Disappearances, Chinese authorities said Kang was arrested on May 27, 1992. On July 14, 1994, he was one of 16 individuals tried in a Chinese court for their alleged involvement with underground pro-democracy groups. Among the accusations against Kang were that he had launched Freedom Forum, the magazine of the Chinese Progressive Alliance, and commissioned people to write articles for the magazine. On December 16, 1994, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for "disseminating counterrevolutionary propaganda" and for "organizing and leading a counterrevolutionary group."
Wu Shishen, Xinhua
Ma Tao, China Health Education News
IMPRISONED: November 6, 1992
Wu, an editor for China's state news agency Xinhua, was arrested for allegedly leaking an advance copy of President Jiang Zemin's 14th Party Congress address to a journalist from the Hong Kong newspaper Express. His wife, Ma, editor of China Health Education News, was also arrested on November 6, 1992, and accused of acting as Wu's accomplice. The Beijing Municipal Intermediate People's Court held a closed trial, and on August 30, 1993, sentenced Wu to life imprisonment for "illegally supplying state secrets to foreigners." Ma was sentenced to six years in prison. According to the term of her original sentence, Ma should have been released in November 1998, but CPJ has been unable to obtain information on her legal status.
Hua Di, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: January 5, 1998
Hua, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested while on a visit to China and charged with revealing state secrets. The charge is believed to stem from articles that Hua, a scientist at Stanford University, had written about China's missile defense system.
On November 25, 1999, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court tried Hua behind closed doors, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, according to the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. In March 2000, the Beijing High People's Court nullified Hua's conviction by the lower court and ordered the case to be retried. This judicial reversal was extraordinary, particularly for a high-profile political case. Nevertheless, in April, the Beijing State Security Bureau rejected a request for Hua to be released on medical parole. Hua suffers from a rare form of male breast cancer.On November 23, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court issued a slightly modified verdict, sentencing Hua to 10 years in prison. An appeal was filed on November 28, according to The New York Times. News of Hua's sentencing broke in February 2001, when a relative gave the i nformation to foreign correspondents based in Beijing.
Gao Qinrong, Xinhua
IMPRISONED: December 4, 1998
Gao, a reporter for the state news agency Xinhua, was jailed for reporting on a corrupt irrigation scheme in drought-plagued Yuncheng, Shanxi Province. Xinhua never carried Gao's article, which was finally published on May 27, 1998, in an internal reference edition of the official People's Daily that is distributed only among a select group of Party leaders. But by fall 1998, the irrigation scandal had become national news, with reports appearing in the Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend ("Nanfang Zhoumo") and on China Central Television (CCTV). Gao's wife, Duan Maoying, said that local officials blamed Gao for the flurry of media interest, and arranged for his prosecution on false charges. Gao was arrested on December 4, 1998, and eventually charged with crimes including bribery, embezzlement, and pimping, according to Duan. On April 28, 1999, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison after a closed, one-day trial. He is being held in a prison in Qixian, Shanxi Province, according to CPJ sources.
Yue Tianxiang, Guo Xinmin, China Workers' Monitor
IMPRISONED: January 1999
The Tianshui People's Intermediate Court in Gansu Province sentenced Yue to 10 years in prison and Guo to two-years on July 5, 1999. The two journalists were charged with "subverting state power," according to the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy. A third colleague, Wang Fengshan, was also sentenced to two years imprisonment but was released in August 2000, CPJ learned.
According to the South China Morning Post, Yue, Guo, and Wang were arrested in January for publishing China Workers' Monitor, a journal that campaigned for workers' rights.
With help from Wang, Yue and Guo started the journal after they were unable to get compensation from the Tianshui City Transport agency following their dismissal from the company in 1995. All three men were reportedly members of the outlawed China Democracy Party, a dissident group, and were forming an organization to protect the rights of laid-off workers.
The first issue of China Workers' Monitor exposed extensive corruption among officials at the Tianshui City Transport agency. Only two issues were reportedly ever published.
Wang Yingzheng, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: February 26, 1999
Police arrested Wang in the city of Xuzhou, in eastern Jiangsu Province, as he was photocopying an article he had written about political reform. The article was based on an open letter that the 19-year-old Wang had addressed to China's President Jiang Zemin. In the letter, Wang wrote--as translated in a report published by Agence France-Presse--"Many Chinese are discontented with the government's inability to squash corruption. This is largely due to a lack of opposition parties and a lack of press freedom."
Wang was reportedly imprisoned for two weeks in September 1998 and questioned about his association with Qin Yongmin, a key leader of the China Democracy Party, who received a 12-year prison sentence in December 1998.
On December 10, 1999, Wang was convicted of subversion and sentenced to three years in prison. His trial was closed to the public, but his family was notified by letter of the verdict, according to the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Liu Xianli, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: May 11, 1999
The Beijing Intermediate Court found writer Liu Xianli guilty of subversion and sentenced him to four years in prison, according to a report by the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Liu's putative "crime" was his attempting to publish a book on Chinese dissidents, including Xu Wenli, one of China's most prominent political prisoners and a leading figure in the China Democracy Party. In December 1998, Xu was himself convicted of subversion and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Jiang Qisheng, free-lancer
Police arrested Jiang late on the night of May 18, 1999, and searched his home, seizing his computer, several documents, and articles he had written for Beijing Spring, a New Yorkbased pro-democracy publication. The arrest followed Jiang's publication of a series of essays and open letters related to the 10th anniversary of the government's violent suppression of student-led demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. One called for a candlelight vigil on June 4, 1999, another urged the government to conduct a full investigation into the massacre, and a third protested the police's brutal treatment of Cao Jiahe, an editor of Orient magazine who was detained on May 10, 1999, and tortured while in police custody. Cao was detained for allegedly circulating a petition to remember the hundreds killed by government troops during the Tiananmen crackdown.
Jiang, who had been a leader of the student demonstrations, spent 18 months in jail following the 1989 crackdown, but continued to be outspoken on political issues after his release. He wrote several articles for foreign publications, such as Beijing Spring, and also issued open letters that were circulated both within China and abroad.
During Jiang's two-and-a-half-hour-long trial, held on November 1, 1999, prosecutors cited an April essay calling for a protest vigil, "Light a Thousand Candles," as evidence of his anti-state activities. Prosecutors also accused him of circulating an article by Li Xiaoping on political reform, though Jiang said he showed the piece to only three friends.
On December 27, 2000, 13 months after his trial, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Jiang to four years in prison. Jiang's lawyer told journalists that the 13-month delay between the court's conviction and sentencing "violated the legal process." In an open letter circulated on January 6, 2001, by the New Yorkbased organization Human Rights in China, four witnesses to the subversion trial said that testimony attributed to them in the official verdict was fabricated.
Wu Yilong, Mao Qingxiang, Zhu Yufu, and Xu Guang, Opposition Party
IMPRISONED: November 1999
Wu, an organizer for the banned China Democracy Party (CDP), was detained by police in Guangzhou on April 26, 1999, according to the New Yorkbased organization Human Rights Watch. Mao, Zhu, and Xu, also leading CDP activists, were reportedly detained sometime around June 4, the 10th anniversary of the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. The four were later charged with subversion for, among other things, establishing a magazine called Opposition Party ("Zai Yedang") and circulating pro-democracy articles and essays over the Internet.
On October 25, 1999, the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court, in Zhejiang Province, conducted what The New York Times described as a "sham trial." Only two of the defendants were represented by a lawyer, whom they shared. None of the accused were allowed to complete their testimony, according to news reports.
The verdicts were not announced immediately. On November 9, 1999, the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reported that all four journalists had been convicted of subversion. Wu Yilong was sentenced to 11 years in prison, one of the most severe sentences imposed on a political prisoner in recent years. Mao Qingxiang was sentenced to eight years in prison; Zhu Yufu, to seven years; and Xu Guang, to five years.
News reports in December 2000 indicated that Wu had been held in solitary confinement for the past seven months at No. 4 prison in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, ever since protesting prison conditions in May.
An Jun, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: July 1999
Arrested in July 1999, An, an anticorruption campaigner, was sentenced to four years in prison on subversion charges. The Intermediate People's Court in Xinyang, Henan Province, announced the verdict on April 19, 2000, citing An's essays and articles on corruption as evidence of his anti-state activities.
A former manager of an export trading company, An founded the China Corruption Monitor in 1998. The group reportedly exposed more than 100 cases of corruption. During his November 1999 trial, An "said he was only trying to help the government end rampant corruption," according to the news agency Agence France-Presse.
Qi Yanchen, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: September 2, 1999
Police arrested Qi at his home in Cangzhou, in Hebei Province. His wife told reporters that police had confiscated his computer, his printer, his fax machine, and a number of documents.
Qi had published many articles in intellectual journals and was associated with the online magazine Consultations, a publication linked to the banned China Development Union (CDU). He also subscribed to the pro-democracy electronic newsletter VIP Reference, which is published by political dissidents based in the United States. Qi also worked as an economist with the local Agricultural Development Bank of China.
Qi's arrest came after he posted online excerpts of his unpublished book The Collapse of China. The book discussed various aspects of China's social instability and suggested a number of possible reforms, according to Richard Long, editor of VIP Reference. Long said Qi was arrested for "spreading anti-government messages via the Internet."
On May 30, 2000, Qi was prosecuted for subversion before the Cangzhou People's Court. The half-day trial was closed to the public. On September 19, he was sentenced to four years in prison.
Zhang Ji, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: October, 1999
Zhang Ji, a student at Qiqihar University in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, was charged on November 8, 1999, with "disseminating reactionary documents via the Internet," according to the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
Zhang had allegedly been distributing news and information about the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong. He was arrested sometime in October as part of the Chinese government's crackdown on the sect.
Using the Internet, Zhang reportedly transmitted news of the crackdown to Falun Gong members in the United States and Canada and also received reports from abroad, which he then circulated among practitioners in China. Before Zhang's arrest, Chinese authorities had been stepping up their surveillance of the Internet as part of their effort to crush Falun Gong.
Huang Qi, Tianwang Web site
IMPRISONED: June 3, 2000
Huang, owner of the dissident Web site Tianwang (www.6-4tianwang.com), was imprisoned in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, along with his wife, Zeng Li. The arrest happened one day before the 11th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
At 5:00 p.m., four officers from the local Public Security Bureau (PSB) visited Huang's office to deliver an oral summons for his interrogation. They left after Huang requested a written summons, according to his own account, which he immediately posted on his Web site. Huang continued to post updates until 5:20 p.m., when around a dozen PSB officers arrived at the office. They raided the premises, confiscating notebooks, photographs, and computers. Both Huang and his wife Zeng were taken into custody. Just before the raid, Huang posted a final bulletin to the site:
"Thanks to everybody devoted to democracy in China. They are here now (the policemen). So long."
Zeng was released on June 6. Later that day, PSB officers informed her that Huang was being charged with subversion, according to the Hong Kongbased Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
The Tianwang Web site was established in June 1999 to publicize information about missing persons in China. Gradually, it also began to feature commentary and news articles on topics not normally covered by the state-controlled media. The site published stories about human-rights abuses, government corruption, and--just days before Huang was taken into custody--several pieces about the Tiananmen Square massacre.
After Huang's arrest, a message posted on Tianwang condemned the "political persecution" of Huang Qi, and noted that authorities had shut down the Web site at the end of February because it "posted a lot of internal news that upset the leaders."
COMOROS: 1
His Excellency Col. Azali Assoumani
Mission of the Federal and Islamic
Republic of the Comoros to the United Nations
Cheick Ali Cassim, Tropik FM,
IMPRISONED: August 15, 2000
Cheick Ali Cassim, director of the private Tropik FM, was in government (military) custody for "undermining state security through the illegal [possession] of firearms." His house was searched, but no weapons were found. Cassim is also a local political leader, and his private radio station Tropik FM is a relentless critic of the Comoros' military government.
CUBA: 3
His Excellency Fidel Castro Ruz
c/o Cuban Mission to the United Nations
Bernardo Rogelio Arévalo Padrón, Línea Sur Press
IMPRISONED: November 18, 1997
Arévalo Padrón, founder of the Línea Sur Press news agency in the province of Cienfuegos, remains jailed despite being eligible for parole, and his health has suffered as a result of his prolonged imprisonment.
Since April 6, 2000, the journalist has been held in the overcrowded and unsanitary San Marcos labor camp, in the municipality of Lajas, Cienfuegos, where he works cutting weeds with a machete in sugar cane fields. He is being fed an extremely poor diet of rice and watered-down broth. According to the independent news agency CubaPress, prison authorities keep a constant watch on Arévalo Padrón, censor his incoming and outgoing mail, and threaten to send him to a maximum-security prison if he does not meet his production quota.
On October 31, 1997, the Provincial Chamber of the Court of Aguada de Pasajeros, a town in Cienfuegos, sentenced Arévalo Padrón to six years imprisonment for showing "lack of respect" for President Fidel Castro Ruz and for Cuban State Council member Carlos Lage. The charges stemmed from a series of interviews Arévalo Padrón gave in late 1997 to Miami-based radio stations. In the interviews, the journalist alleged that, while Cuban farmers went hungry, helicopters were being used to transport fresh meat from the countryside to the dinner tables of Castro, Lage, and other Communist Party officials in Havana.
On November 18, 1997, state security officers detained Arévalo Padrón and sent him to jail. The journalist served the early part of his sentence in maximum-security Ariza prison in Cienfuegos, where he shared a filthy cell with criminals. On April 11, 1998, state security officers beat up Arévalo Padrón after accusing him of writing anti-government posters in prison. He was subsequently placed in solitary confinement. Later, another prisoner was identified as having written the posters.
While at Ariza, Arévalo Padrón faced constant harassment, according to local colleagues. Fellow inmates who managed to make contact with him were transferred or subjected to reprisals. In addition, Arévalo Padrón suffered bouts of bronchitis and was reportedly treated twice for high blood pressure in the prison infirmary. On January 8, 2000, the journalist was transferred to labor camp No. 20, in the municipality of Abréu, Cienfuegos, where he served four months.
Because of the strenuous work at several labor camps, Arévalo Padrón has developed lower back pain (sacrolumbagia) and coronary blockage. After ignoring Arévalo Padrón's pain for weeks, in September prison authorities allowed him to undergo a medical examination, CubaPress reported. A doctor determined that Arévalo Padrón's health conditions make him unable to do physical work and that he should permanently wear an orthopedic bandage. Prison authorities have neglected to provide Arévalo Padrón with the orthopedic bandage, claiming that they lack fuel or transportation to take Arévalo Padrón to a shop where bandages are made, in order to take his measurements.
In mid-October, prison authorities informed Arévalo Padrón that his release on parole had been approved. However, when Libertad Acosta, Arévalo Padrón's wife, hired a lawyer to press for his release, the lawyer told her that the Aguada de Pasajeros court had not met to discuss Arévalo Padrón's case and had not requested that prison authorities send a report on his behavior. In violation of Cuban law, Arévalo Padrón remains held in the San Marcos labor camp.
On July 25, 2000, CPJ wrote a protest letter urging President Fidel Castro to ensure that imprisoned journalists Manuel Antonio González Castellanos, Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández, and Arévalo Padrón be immediately released from prison, and that their unjust convictions be reversed.
Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández, Cooperativa Avileña de Periodistas Independientes, IMPRISONED: January 18, 1999
Díaz Hernández, executive director of the independent news service Cooperativa Avileña de Periodistas Independientes (CAPI), was imprisoned during all of 2000 at the Canaleta prison, but was released on January 17, 2001.
On January 18, 1999, the journalist was arrested at his home in the town of Morón, in the central province of Ciego de &AACUTE;vila, by officers of the Revolutionary National Police (PNR). The next day he was convicted of "dangerousness" and sentenced to four years in prison by the Morón Municipal Court. Díaz Hernández subsequently started a hunger strike and refused to drink water after his detention to appeal the conviction.
After a summary session on January 22, 1999, the Provincial Court in Ciego de &AACUTE;vila confirmed Díaz Hernández's sentence even though he was not permitted to have his attorney present (he was represented by a state-appointed lawyer). He ended his hunger strike on January 28 and began drinking liquids.
In July of the same year, Díaz Hernández started another hunger strike, this one lasting 17 days. In September, after spending eight months in solitary confinement, the journalist was transferred to a section of the prison where other inmates convicted of "dangerousness" were held.
CPJ's local sources reported that on November 11, 1999, just before the Ninth Ibero-American Summit held in Havana, Díaz Hernández went on a third hunger strike to call for a general amnesty for political prisoners in Cuba. He was again placed in solitary confinement, even though his sentence calls for correctional work in a labor camp.
On November 23, 1999, CPJ honored Díaz Hernández with an International Press Freedom Award. Guests at the awards ceremony in New York City signed 312 postcards urging President Fidel Castro Ruz to release the journalist immediately. The postcards were delivered via Federal Express to the Cuba Interests Section in Washington D.C. on February 4, 2000.
In July 2000, Díaz Hernández's colleagues reported that the journalist was suffering from hepatitis and was not receiving proper medical treatment. Díaz Hernández's condition was diagnosed only after his family took a urine sample without the prison guards' knowledge. The same month, prison guards took Díaz Hernández's books away from him, and forbade his relatives to bring any books to the journalist.
Last October, Díaz Hernández was placed in a cell with nine other inmates convicted of "dangerousness," according to CAPI. Because his family gave him medicines and vitamins, he appeared to have recovered from hepatitis. Although Díaz Hernández was allowed to have books again in his cell, prison guards at Canaleta continued to withhold some of his books and letters that they had confiscated in July.
On January 17, 2001, without explanation, prison authorities summoned the journalist's parents to Canaleta prison. Once they arrived, Díaz Hernández was released, bearing a document stating that his sentence had been suspended. Having served two years, Díaz Hernández was at the midpoint of his sentence.
Manuel Antonio González Castellanos, CubaPress
IMPRISONED: October 1, 1998
González Castellanos, the imprisoned correspondent for the independent news agency CubaPress in the eastern province of Holguín, has been denied medical assistance and legal benefits.
In mid-November 2000, González Castellanos, who is eligible for parole but has been denied this benefit, was told to gather his personal belongings, because he was one of 60 prisoners to be transferred to a labor camp, where conditions would be less harsh. When the day of the transfer arrived, González Castellanos was called and told that he would stay at the Holguín Provisional Prison. To protest this arbitrary treatment, the journalist refused to accept the two-month sentence reduction that prison authorities had granted him.
In a prison visit on November 18, 2000, González Castellanos's "reeducation" officer told the journalist's relatives that only the state security agency had jurisdiction in his case.
The journalist was arrested on October 1, 1998, for making critical statements about President Fidel Castro Ruz to state security agents who had stopped and insulted him as he was walking home from a friend's house. González Castellanos was detained in the Holguín Provisional Prison, where he spent seven months awaiting trial. On May 6, 1999, the San Germán Municipal Court convicted him of "disrespect" and sentenced him to two years and seven months' imprisonment.
While the sedition charges against González Castellanos did not arise directly from his journalistic work, local journalists suspect that González Castellanos was deliberately provoked by state security agents in retaliation for his reporting on the activities of political dissidents.
In July 1998, González Castellanos was contacted by a man claiming to have information for him sent by a Cuban exile in Miami. When they met, this man questioned González Castellanos about his journalistic work and told him that a Cuban exile group wanted to recruit him for subversive activities. González Castellanos declined the offer and later determined that the man with whom he had met had never been in touch with the Miami exiles that he claimed to represent. González Castellanos believed the man was a state security agent attempting to entrap him.
On June 30, 1999, González Castellanos was transferred to Holguín's maximum-security prison, Cuba Sí, where he was routinely harassed by guards. When he complained about poor hygienic conditions, the guards threatened to suspend his visiting rights. In late 1999, local independent journalists reported that state security officers had promised to grant other inmates special privileges if they would harass González Castellanos and pass on information about the journalist.
On March 3, 2000, González Castellanos was transferred back to Holguín Provisional Prison. On June 26, he was confined in a punishment cell for 10 days, after being assaulted and punched in the head by the prison's "reeducation" officer and a guard for protesting against the confiscation of his handwritten notes.
Upon release from the punishment cell, González Castellanos was placed in a labor unit. He had a severe cold for two months and lost considerable weight, but was denied proper medical attention. The journalist's condition improved only after his family managed to provide him with medication.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 4
His Excellency Joseph Kabila
President of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ngaliema, Kinshasa
Fax: 011-234-88-02120/1-202-234-2609
Freddy Loseke Lisumbu La Yayenga, La Libre Afrique
Loseke, editor of the independent weekly La Libre Afrique, was arrested at his Kinshasa home and held in solitary confinement at the Kokolo military base. He was stripped of all his clothes, flogged, and left to spend the night in a dingy, windowless cell.
Loseke's arrest resulted from two articles that he published in the December 29 and December 31, 1999 issues of La Libre Afrique, which has since ceased publication. Both reports alleged an imminent army-sponsored plot to overthrow President Kabila.
Loseke was initially charged with "betrayal of the state in times of war," a crime punishable by death.
Loseke's trial opened on January 11, 2000, at the Court of Military Order (COM) in Kinshasa. Despite the DRC's constitutional due process guarantees, he was denied legal representation. During the hearing, he was forced to reveal confidential sources. He identified General Hilaire Muland Kapend as the chief conspirator, outlined the coup plot, and named the plotters' meeting spot. As a result of Loseke's forced testimony, police arrested several suspects, including General Kapend (who was later released, according to international news reports).
On April 14, a physically exhausted Loseke once again appeared before the COM, this time with legal representation. In their closing argument, Loseke's lawyers pleaded for his temporary release from detention on health grounds (Loseke suffers from kidney failure, sources in Kinshasa reported). The presiding military judge quickly dismissed the motion, however.
Without any explanation, and over the objections of Loseke's lawyers, the charge was later changed to "insulting the army." Without further deliberation, the journalist was found guilty of this second charge on May 19, 2000, and sentenced to three years in prison. (COM decisions cannot be appealed.)
CPJ protested Loseke's detention in four separate letters to President Kabila, sent on January 20, March 13, May 3, and June 26. Kabila ordered Loseke's release from prison on January 4, 2001, after 369 days in detention. According to the DRC press-freedom organization Journaliste en Danger, this was one of several recent amnesties granted under Kabila's "policy of national reconciliation."
Aime Kakese Vinalu, Le Carrousel
IMPRISONED: June 24, 2000
Jean-Pierre Ekanga Mukuna, La Tribune de la Nation
Police arrested Vinalu on June 24, 2000, in connection with two articles that he wrote in the June 20 edition of Le Carrousel. One article lamented the lack of cooperation among various DRC opposition movements and charged that free speech was impossible in the DRC because "to dare speak one's mind is a sure guarantee that one will be accused of endangering state security." The other piece speculated on possible reasons behind a recent public confrontation between President Kabila and Minister for Mineral Resources Victor M'Poyo (who was subsequently removed from his post).
On July 26, the military prosecutor told local reporters that Vinalu's articles had had the effect of "demoralizing the Army," describing them as "veiled calls to opposition leaders and sympathizers to rebel against the powers that be." The military prosecutor further announced that Vinalu would be tried in a court martial because his alleged offenses amounted to "high treason," an offense punishable by death.
Mukuna was arrested on June 23, 2000, reportedly for refusing to reveal Vinalu's home address. He was released on July 10, but then re-arrested on August 17, when he appeared in court to testify on Vinalu's behalf. He was also charged with high treason and jailed at Kinshasa's Penitentiary and Reeducation Centre.
Both journalists were sentenced to two years in jail without parole on September 12, 2000. They were released on January 4, 2001 by presidential amnesty.
Pierre-Sosthene Kambidi, Le Phare
Kambidi, the Kinshasa daily Le Phare's permanent correspondent in Tshikapa (West Kasaï Province), was arrested and remained in custody of the local branch of the National Information Agency (ANR). The order to arrest the journalist allegedly came from Tshikapa's administrator, Kalemba Tshibuabua, according to the local press-freedom group Journaliste en Danger (JED). Kalemba blames the journalist for his critical articles in Le Phare and his alleged links with the opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). JED also quoted Kabimdi's family members as saying that the journalist was arrested because of his "intention to publish an article on the illegal nature of [the administrator's] appointment to Tshikapa."
Kambidi was reportedly released on January 2, 2001.
EGYPT: 1
His Excellency Hosni Mubarak
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
c/o His Excellency Ambassador Nabil Fahmy
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
3521 International Court N.W.
Hussein al-Mataani, Sahebat al Gallala
Al-Mataani was arrested on a number of charges stemming from his attempts to form an independent journalists' union to compete with the government-recognized Journalists' Syndicate. Al-Mataani was charged with forming a syndicate without approval, collecting money from members, and misrepresenting himself as a journalist. On June 19, he was sentenced to serve three and a half years in prison. It was unclear whether al-Mataani was also convicted on the separate charge of publishing the union's weekly newspaper, Sahebat al Gallala, without a license By the end of December 2000, CPJ was unable to confirm if al-Mataani was still in prison.
ETHIOPIA: 7
His Excellency Meles Zenawi
Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Garuma Bekele, Solomon Nemera, and Tesfaye Deressa, Urji
IMPRISONED: October 16, 1997
Garuma, publisher of the weekly newspaper Urji, and the paper's editor Deressa were arrested in Addis Ababa a few days after the publication of a report on the killing by government forces of three alleged members of the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The Urji article contradicted the official version of the incident by stating that the three were indeed of the Oromo ethnic group but were not involved with the OLF.
Three weeks later, police arrested Nemera, a journalist with Urji, who had just been appointed the paper's editor to replace Deressa. It remains unclear what motivated Nemera's arrest.
In October 1999, Garuma and Deressa were tried and sentenced to a year in jail each for publishing "false information." Nemera also received the same sentence in February 2000, presumably on the same charge. In addition, the three men were charged with terrorist activities, along with three dozen other members of the Oromo ethnic group, under Article 252 of Ethiopia's Penal Code. The Article provides that court hearings in such cases be held in secrecy and that convicted terrorists are jailed for at least 15 years. No bail is allowed.
Tamrat Gemeda, Seife Nebelbal
IMPRISONED: October 1997
Gemeda, a journalist with the private Amharic weekly Seife Nebelbal, completed his initial jail term but must remain in detention, unable to afford bail, while trials for numerous other charges are pending. He is now being held on charges of involvement with a guerrilla organization, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). Arrested in October 1997 for "inciting the public to violence" in an article about the armed conflict between the government and the OLF, Gemeda was sentenced to three years in jail under various provisions of the Penal Code and Press Proclamation 34/1992. In March 2000, he was given an additional one-year jail term for publishing "false information" in connection with the same article. Court officials on numerous occasions declined to accept bail from him on the grounds that in 1997 he had gone into hiding when he was supposed to appear in court. In fact, the journalist was being held in an Addis Ababa jail. He has since then been trying to obtain confirmation of his detention from the prison authorities.
Tewodros Kassa, Ethiop
IMPRISONED: June 2000
The Federal High Court convicted Kassa, editor of the private Amharic weekly Ethiop, of disseminating false information that could incite people to political violence, under Articles 10(1) and 20(21) of Press Proclamation 34/1992 and Article 48(6) of the Penal Code. The charges stemmed from an Ethiop article, whose contents remain unclear. Some local sources have told CPJ that Kassa's article was about the murder by poisoning of a commander of the Ethiopian Army by a female spy of the armed separatist Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
Kassa was given a choice between serving one year in prison or paying a fine of 15,000 birr (US$1850), according to the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association (EFJA).
On November 13, the jailed Kassa was called to court to face the new charge of "defaming the good reputation of Duki Feyssa by disseminating false information through the newspaper." According to the EFJA, this charge resulted from an Ethiop article titled "Businessman Killed by Unidentified Force," which speculated that local businessman Duki Feyssa, a suspected OLF member, may have been killed by state security forces. When Kassa finishes his current jail term, he will be forced to fight this new charge.
Bizunish Debebe, Zegabi
IMPRISONED: July 31, 2000
Debebe, editor in chief of the private Amharic weekly, Zegabi, was sentenced to six months imprisonment for violating the Press Law by publishing an article entitled, "OLF launches attack in Bale." CPJ was unable to confirm the exact charge or other details in the case, but journalists who covered the separatist Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were often jailed for "distribution of false news likely to incite violence" or "membership in a terrorist organization."
Debebe, a veteran of Ethiopia's very small community of women journalists, has been a regular target of the regime. Most recently, in August 1999, she was charged with violating the press law by failing to publish the name of her newspaper's deputy editor, and sentenced to a year behind bars. She posted bail at the start of 2000 and was released on February 2. She was again arrested on July 31.
Melese Shine, Ethiop
Shine, editor of the intermittently distributed private Amharic weekly Ethiop, was charged with disseminating false information that endangers national security, under Article 10/20/1 of Press Proclamation 34/1992 and Article 480(b) of the Penal Code.
The charge resulted from an article published in Ethiop in September 2000 entitled, "Eritrean Opposition Forces Being Trained in Areas of Rama and Assayita." Shine's arrest seems to have been triggered by the claim that Ethiopia was organizing Eritrean opposition forces as a retaliatory measure.
The Federal High Court had recently reduced bail requirements for violations of the Press Law. In Shine's case, however, the court demanded bail of 10,000 birr (US$1200), an exorbitant sum for an independent journalist in Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the trial was postponed until October 2001.
With the help of international press-freedom groups, the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists Association was able to raise enough money to pay Shine's bail, and complete all other necessary formalities to secure the journalist's release. On January 6, 2001, the Federal High Court ordered Shine's release; he was freed the next day.
IRAN: 6
His Excellency Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran
c/o The Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations
Abdullah Nouri, Khordad
In a trial that gripped the nation, the Special Court for Clergy convicted Nouri, publisher of the reformist daily Khordad and a former vice president and interior minister, of religious dissent on November 27, 1999. The conviction was widely viewed as an attempt by conservative forces within the regime to sideline Nouri, an influential ally of reformist president Muhammad Khatami, in advance of the country's February 2000 election. Nouri was believed to be a frontrunner for the important position of speaker of Iran's Majlis (Parliament).
The charges against him, which included defaming "the system," insulting religious leaders, and disseminating false information and propaganda against the state, were based on news articles published in Khordad. During the trial, Nouri transfixed the nation with a poignant self-defense in which he sharply criticized the clerical establishment and called for more freedom in Iranian society.
He was sentenced to five years in prison and barred from practicing journalism for five years. Khordad was ordered to close. At year's end, Nouri was serving his sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Akbar Ganji, Sobh-e-Emrooz, Fat'h
Ganji, a leading investigative reporter for the reformist daily Sobh-e-Emrooz and a member of the editorial board of the pro-reform daily Fath, was arrested because of his writings and for participating in a conference about the Iranian reform movement that took place in Germany. He faced prosecution in both the Press Court and the Revolutionary Court.
The Press Court case stemmed from Ganji's investigative articles about the alleged involvement of senior intelligence officials and other regime hardliners in the 1998 killings of several Iranian dissidents and intellectuals. In the Revolutionary Court case, he was accused of propaganda against the Islamic regime and threatening national security in comments at a Berlin conference on the future of the Iranian reform movement.
During a dramatic court appearance on November 9, Ganji charged that he had been hung upside down and beaten by guards at Tehran's Evin Prison, where he was being held in solitary confinement.
Latif Safari, Neshat
Safari, director of the banned daily Neshat, which was closed by court order in September, 1999, was imprisoned after an appellate court upheld a 30-month jail sentence that the court had imposed on September 20, 1999. Safari was convicted on several charges, including defamation, inciting unrest, and "insulting the sanctity and tenets of Islam." These charges stemmed from articles published in Neshat during Safari's tenure as director, including an opinion piece that challenged the use of capital punishment in Iran.
He is serving his sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Emadeddin Baghi, Fat'h, Neshat
Baghi, who had written for the banned daily Neshat and was a member of the editorial board of another outlawed daily, Fat'h, was detained during the middle of a closed-door trial on charges related to his work as a journalist. On July 17, Tehran's Press Court sentenced him to five and a half years in prison.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Baghi had been charged with publishing articles that "questioned the validity of...Islamic law," with "threatening national security, and...for spreading unsubstantiated news stories" about the role of "agents of the Intelligence Ministry in the serial murder of intellectuals and dissidents in 1998." The charges were based on complaints lodged by a number of government agencies, including the Intelligence Ministry, the conservative controlled Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, and former security officials.
The charges also included mention of a 1999 piece Baghi published in Neshat in response to another article criticizing the death penalty that had itself landed Neshat editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin in jail. The closed-door trial began on May 1. In late October, an appeals court reduced the sentence to three years. He remains in Tehran's Evin Prison.
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, Asr-e-Azadegan, Neshat
An appellate court sentenced Shamsolvaezin, editor of the daily Asr-e-Azadegan, to 30 months in prison for allegedly insulting Islamic principles in a 1999 article that criticized capital punishment in Iran. Shamsolvaezin was taken to Tehran's Evin Prison shortly after the verdict.
The article was published in the now-defunct daily Neshat, which Shamsolvaezin edited until judicial authorities closed the paper in September 1999. On November 27, 1999, a Tehran court sentenced Shamsolvaezin to three years in prison. The appeals court reduced the sentence to 30 months after acquitting him of allegedly forging the article, which was written by a London-based activist, Hossein Baqerzadeh.
On November 23, 2000, CPJ honored Shamsolvaezin with an International Press Freedom Award.
Ahmed Zeid-Abadi, Hamshahri
Zeid-Abadi, a journalist with the moderate daily Hamshahri, was arrested by order of Tehran's Press Court. The court announced that Zeid-Abadi had been arrested after ignoring a summons to appear before the court.
Police searched the journalist's home and confiscated books and other materials. Zeid-Abadi was still imprisoned at year's end; the motive for his arrest was unclear.
KUWAIT: 2
His Highness Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah
Emir of Kuwait
Al-Diwan al-Amiri
Al-Safat
Ibtisam Berto Sulaiman al-Dakhil and Fawwaz Muhammad al-Awadi Bessisso, Al-Nida'
Along with three other journalists, Bessisso and al-Dakhil were sentenced to life in prison for their work with Al-Nida', a newspaper launched by Iraqi authorities during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990. As of December 2000, they were the last remaining journalists in prison in Kuwait, which jailed 17 reporters and editors following the Gulf War for their work with Al-Nida'.
Kuwaiti authorities arrested Bessisso and al-Dakhil after the liberation of Kuwait and charged them with collaboration. The defendants were reportedly tortured during their interrogations. The trial, which began on May 19, 1991, in a martial-law court, failed to meet international standards of justice. In particular, prosecutors did not rebut the journalists' defense that they had been forced to work for the Iraqi newspaper.
On June 16, 1991, the journalists were sentenced to death. Ten days later, following international protests, all martial-law death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The 15 other journalists jailed for their work with Al-Nida' were freed piecemeal starting in 1996, most on the occasion of the emir's annual amnesty in February.
NEPAL: 1
His Excellency Girija Prasad Koirala
Prime Minister, The Kingdom of Nepal
Singh Durbar
Fax: 977-1-227-286
Krishna Sen, Janadesh
Police arrested Sen, editor of the Nepali-language weekly Janadesh, and seized thousands of copies of the newspaper.
According to CPJ's sources, Sen was arrested in connection with a recent issue of Janadesh that featured an interview with Baburam Bhattarai, one of the leaders of Nepal's Maoist insurgency. Police reportedly confiscated 20,000 copies of the edition in order to prevent the interview from being widely read.
While Janadesh is considered a pro-Maoist paper, journalists in Nepal told CPJ that it is a vital source of information regarding the guerrilla movement. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists protested Sen's imprisonment.
Sen was still in custody at the end of December 2000, despite a Supreme Court ruling in August 1999 that his arrest was illegal under the habeas corpus guarantees of Nepal's constitution. According to Sen's lawyer, police and district officials then conspired to keep Sen in detention by forging release papers and re-arresting him on trumped-up charges. Sen's next court appearance was scheduled for February 2001.
NIGER: 1
His Excellency Mamadou Tandja
President of the Republic
Niamey, Niger
Fax: 227-72-2245
Soumaina Maiga, L'Enquêteur
On November 16, a Niamey court sentenced Maiga, publisher of the private weekly L'Enquêteur, to eight months in prison and a fine of US$685. The paper's managing editor Dahirou Gouro and a reporter, Salif Dago, also received six-month suspended sentences and a fine of US$410 each.
The three journalists were convicted of "disturbing the public order" and of "spreading false information." Niger's Defense Ministry filed a complaint against L'Enquêteur after the weekly ran an article about a protracted dispute between Benin and Niger concerning Tete Island, a small landmass in the Niger River that both countries claim. L'Enquêteur reported that Benin had deployed troops on Tete Island to evict residents with Niger citizenship, and alleged that Benin was planning to cut diplomatic relations with Niger. The three journalists were first arrested between October 23 and 25 and were held for a week before they were released on bail pending their trial. L'Enquêteur, meanwhile, has ceased publishing.
Maiga was released on January 19, 2001.
SYRIA: 1
His Excellency Bashar al-Assad
President of the Syrian Arab Republic
c/o His Excellency Ambassador Walid al-Moualem
Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic
2215 Wyoming Avenue N.W.
Nizar Nayyouf, Sawt al-Democratiyya
Nayyouf, a former free-lance journalist, leading member of the independent Committees for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (CDF), and editor of its monthly publication Sawt al-Democratiyya, was arrested in January 1992 and later convicted by the Supreme State Security Court of membership in an unauthorized organization and of disseminating false information. He was severely tortured during his interrogation.
Nayyouf is serving a 10-year sentence and reportedly suffers from Hodgkin's disease and several other serious ailments, including partial paralysis of his lower extremities as a result of torture. He is also said to suffer from kidney failure and deteriorating eyesight.
TUNISIA: 2
M. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President of the Republic of Tunisia
Hamadi Jebali, Al-Fajr
On August 28, 1992, the military court in Bouchoucha sentenced Jebali, editor of Al-Fajr, the weekly newspaper of the banned Islamist Al-Nahda Party, to 16 years in prison. He was tried along with 279 other individuals accused of membership in Al-Nahda. Jebali was convicted of "aggression with the intention of changing the nature of the state" and "membership in an illegal organization."
During his testimony, Jebali denied the charges against him and displayed evidence that he had been tortured while in custody. Jebali has been in jail since January 1991, when he was sentenced to one year in prison after Al-Fajr published an article calling for the abolition of military courts in Tunisia. International human-rights groups monitoring the mass trial concluded that the proceedings fell far below international standards of justice.
Abdellah Zouari, Al-Fajr
IMPRISONED: February 1991
On August 28, 1992, the military court in Bouchoucha sentenced Zouari, a contributor to Al-Fajr, the weekly newspaper of the banned Islamist Al-Nahda Party, to 11 years in prison. Zouari was tried along with 279 other individuals accused of belonging to Al-Nahda.
He has been in jail since February 1991, when he was charged with "association with an unrecognized organization." International human-rights groups monitoring the trial concluded it fell far short of meeting international standards of justice.
TURKEY: 14
His Excellency Bulent Ecevit
Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
c/o His Excellency Baki Ilkin
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey
2525 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Sinan Yavuz, Yoksul Halkin Gucu
Yavuz, editor of the left-wing weekly Yoksul Halkin Gucu, was arrested during a police raid on an Istanbul fabric shop. Police reportedly had been told that the shop served as a front and arms-trafficking station for Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol), an outlawed leftist organization responsible for numerous armed terrorist operations in Turkey. The charges against Yavuz show that he was alleged to be a member of Dev Sol, apparently on the basis of his affiliation with Yoksul Halkin Gucu, which the government asserts is Dev Sol's publishing arm. The evidence against Yavuz consisted of unspecified "documents" relating to Dev Sol and two copies of the far-left magazine Kurtulus, which were allegedly discovered during a search of the fabric shop. Yavuz was alleged to have resisted arrest after attempting to flee during the raid.
Yavuz had been detained on previous occasions but released for lack of evidence. He confessed to nothing in police custody, but the prosecution claimed that other members of Dev Sol who were detained in the same roundup stated that Yavuz was a member of their group. According to court documents, Yavuz waved a Dev Sol banner in the courtroom during his trial, an act that led to his conviction. On December 29, 1994, he was sentenced to 12 years and six months in jail and sent to Canakkale Prison. He is currently in a prison in Sincan, a district just outside Ankara.
Huseyin Solak, Mucadele
Solak, the Gaziantep bureau chief of the socialist magazine Mucadele, was arrested and charged under Article 168 of the Penal Code with membership in Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol), an outlawed underground leftist organization responsible for numerous terrorist operations in Turkey. Solak was convicted on the strength of statements from a witness who said he had seen the journalist distributing copies of Mucadele.
According to the transcript of Solak's trial, the prosecution witness also testified that Solak had hung unspecified banners in public and served as a lookout while members of Dev Sol threw a Molotov cocktail at a bank in the town of Gaziantep. The prosecution also cited "illegal" documents found after searches of Solak's home and office. Solak confessed to the charges while in police custody but recanted in court.
On November 24, 1994, Solak was sentenced to serve 12 years and six months in prison. As of December 2000 he was being held in a prison in the town of Cankiri.
Hasan Ozgun, Ozgur Gundem
Ozgun, a Diyarbakir correspondent for the now-defunct pro-Kurdish daily Ozgur Gundem, was arrested during a December 9, 1993, police raid on the paper's Diyarbakir bureau. He was charged with being a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), under Article 168 of the Penal Code.
Transcripts of Ozgun's trial show that the prosecution based its case on what it described as Ozgur Gundem's pro-PKK slant, following a Turkish-government pattern of harassing journalists affiliated with the publication. The prosecution also submitted copies of the banned PKK publications Serkhabun and Berxehun, found in Ozgun's possession, as well as photographs and biographical sketches of PKK members from the newspaper's archive. The state also cited Ozgun's possession of an unauthorized handgun as evidence of his membership in the PKK.
In his defense, Ozgun maintained that the PKK publications were used as sources of information for newspaper articles and that the photos of PKK members were in the archive because of interviews the newspaper had conducted in the past. Ozgun admitted to having purchased the gun on the black market but denied all other charges.
As of December 2000, Ozgun was believed to be in Aydin Prison.
Serdar Gelir, Mucadele
Gelir, Ankara bureau chief for the weekly socialist magazine Mucadele, was detained on April 16, 1994. He was formally arrested and imprisoned 10 days later, on the charge of membership in an illegal organization.
The Ministry of Justice informed CPJ that Gelir was charged and convicted under Article 168 of the Penal Code and Article 5 of the Anti-Terror Law 3713 and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Ankara State Security court for being a member of an armed, illegal leftist organization (Devrimci Sol, also known as Dev Sol). Court records, however, indicate that he was sentenced to 12 years and six months. As of December 2000, Gelir was being held in a prison in the town of Sincan, outside Ankara.
Utku Deniz Sirkeci, Tavir
Sirkeci, the Ankara bureau chief of the leftist cultural magazine Tavir, was arrested and charged with membership in the outlawed organization Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol), under Article 168 of the Penal Code.
Court records from Sirkeci's trial show that the state accused him of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a bank in Ankara, but the documents do not state what evidence was introduced to support the allegation. Prosecutors also cited Sirkeci's attendance at the funeral of a Dev Sol activist to support the charge that he was a member of the organization.
In his defense, Sirkeci said he had attended the funeral in his capacity as a journalist. He provided detailed testimony of his torture at the hands of police, who, he alleged, coerced him to confess.
He was convicted and sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison. At year's end, he was being held in a prison in the town of Sincan, outside Ankara.
Aysel Bolucek, Mucadele
Bolucek, an Ankara correspondent for the weekly socialist magazine Mucadele, was arrested at her home and charged with membership in an outlawed organization under Article 168 of the Penal Code, partly on the basis of a handwritten document that allegedly linked her to the banned leftist group Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol). She has been in prison since her arrest.
Court documents from her trial show that the state also cited the October 8, 1994, issue of Mucadele to support its argument that the magazine was a Dev Sol publication. The prosecutor claimed that the October 8 issue contained material that insulted security forces and state officials and praised Dev Sol guerrillas who had been killed in clashes with security forces.
The defense argued that it was illegal for the defendant to be tried twice for the same crime. (Earlier in 1994, Bolucek had been acquitted on a charge of membership in Dev Sol for which the primary evidence was the same handwritten document.) The defense accepted the prosecution's claim that Bolucek had written the document but said that the police forced her to write it under torture while she was in custody.
The defense also argued that a legal publication could not be used as evidence and that the individuals who made incriminating statements about Bolucek to the police had done so under torture and subsequently recanted. But on December 23, 1994, Bolucek was convicted of membership in an outlawed organization and sentenced to 12 years and six months in jail.
As of December 2000, she was being held in Kutahya Prison.
Ozlem Turk, Mucadele
IMPRISONED: January 17, 1995
Turk, a reporter in the town of Samsun for the weekly socialist magazine Mucadele, was arrested at a relative's home and charged with membership in the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, under Article 169 of the Penal Code. Court documents from her trial state that the prosecution's evidence included the fact that Turk collected money for Mucadele, along with a handwritten autobiography allegedly found in the home of a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front. Two people testified that she was a member of the group.
Turk maintained that the money she had collected came from sales of copies of Mucadele. Turk also claimed that she was forced to confess to the charges under torture. The only material evidence presented at the trial was copies of legal publications--Mucadele, Tavir, and Devrimci Genclik--found at her home and copies of her alleged autobiography. Police provided expert testimony to authenticate the incriminating documents.
According to court documents, Turk was convicted under Article 168 of the Penal Code and sentenced to 15 years in prison. As of December 2000 she was being held in Kutahya Prison.
Burhan Gardas, Mucadele
IMPRISONED: March 23, 1995
Gardas, the Ankara bureau chief for the weekly socialist magazine Mucadele, has been the target of several prosecutions since 1994, all related to his work as a journalist. Court records state that Gardas was arrested on January 12, 1994, at his office and charged with violating Article 168 of the Penal Code.
During a search of the premises, the police reportedly found four copies of "news bulletins" of the outlawed organization Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol). In the course of the trial, the prosecution claimed that police also found banners with left-wing slogans, along with photographs of Dev Sol militants who had been killed in clashes with security forces. The prosecution also claimed that Gardas shouted anti-state slogans during his arrest and that he was using Mucadele's office for Dev Sol activities.
Gardas denied all charges. His attorney argued that the illegal publications were part of the magazine's archive and that Gardas had been tortured in prison. (The lawyer submitted a medical report to document the alleged torture.) On May 14, 1994, Gardas was released pending the outcome of his trial.
While awaiting the verdict in the 1994 prosecution, Gardas was arrested on March 23, 1995, when police raided the office of the weekly socialist magazine Kurtulus, the successor to Mucadele, where he was also the Ankara bureau chief. The new charge was that he had violated Article 168 of the Penal Code, again relating to his alleged membership in the banned organization Dev Sol. During the raid, police seized three copies of Kurtulus "news bulletins" and six Kurtulus articles in which illegal rallies were discussed.
Court documents from his second trial, which was held at the No. 2 State Security Court of Ankara, reveal that the prosecution's evidence against Gardas consisted of his refusal to talk during a police interrogation--allegedly part of a Dev Sol policy--and his possession of publications that the prosecution contended were the mouthpieces of outlawed organizations, including Mucadele and Kurtulus. The state also introduced the testimony of Ali Han, an employee at Kurtulus' Ankara bureau, that Gardas was a Dev Sol member. Gardas denied the claim, and his lawyer argued that his silence during police interrogation was a constitutional right and proved nothing.
On July 4, 1995, the No. 1 State Security Court of Ankara sentenced Gardas to 15 years in prison on the 1994 charge. In 1996, he was convicted and sentenced to an additional 15 years on the second set of charges. He has thus been convicted twice of membership in Dev Sol, each time because of his work as a journalist. As of December 2000, Gardas was serving his term at a prison in Sincan, a district just outside of Ankara.
Ozgur Gudenoglu, Mucadele
Gudenoglu, Konya bureau chief of the socialist weekly magazine Mucadele, was arrested, charged, tried, and convicted under Article 168 of the Penal Code (belonging to an illegal organization). He was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for alleged membership in the outlawed leftist organization Devrimci Sol (also known as Dev Sol). His prosecution is part of the state's long-standing pattern of harassment of Mucadele and its employees.
Gudenoglu was reportedly confined in Nigde Prison at year's end.
Bulent Oner, Atilim
Oner, a reporter for the now-defunct weekly socialist newspaper Atilim, was taken into custody during a June 15, 1995, police raid on the newspaper's Mersin bureau. On June 24, according to court documents, he was charged with membership in the outlawed Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) under Article 168 of the Penal Code.
Investigators reportedly found numerous unspecified "documents" linking Oner to the MLKP. At his trial, two witnesses testified for the state, which asserted that Atilim was published by the MLKP and further accused Oner of writing and distributing unspecified MKLP "declarations." According to the court documents, the prosecutor also claimed that banners depicting a "disappeared" political activist had been found in Oner's office.
Oner was convicted, sentenced to 12 years and six months in jail, and sent to Erzurum Prison. As of December 2000, it was unclear where he was being held.
Fatma Harman, Atilim
Harman, a reporter for the now-defunct weekly socialist newspaper Atilim, was taken into custody during a June 15, 1995, police raid on the newspaper's Mersin bureau. Her colleague Bulent Oner was also detained.
On June 24, 1995, Harman was formally arrested and charged under Article 168 of the Penal Code for her alleged membership in the outlawed Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). Atilim's lawyer reports that the prosecution based its case on the argument that Atilim was published by the MKLP. The prosecution introduced copies of Atilim found in Harman's possession as evidence of her affiliation with the MLKP and claimed that several unspecified "banners" were found in the Atilim office. The prosecution also alleged that Harman and Oner both lived in a house belonging to the MLKP. On January 26, 1996, Harman was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison and confined to Adana Prison.
Erdal Dogan, Alinteri
Dogan, an Ankara reporter for the now-defunct socialist weekly Alinteri, was arrested on July 10, 1995. He was charged under Article 168 of the Penal Code for his alleged membership in the outlawed Turkish Revolutionary Communist Union (TIKB).
According to the court transcript from Dogan's trial, the prosecution argued that Alinteri was published by the TIKB. The case against Dogan was based on the following evidence: (1) a photograph of Dogan, taken at a 1992 May Day parade, allegedly showing him standing underneath a United Revolutionary Trade Union banner; (2) a photograph of Dogan taken on the anniversary of a TIKB militant's death; (3) a photograph alleged to show Dogan attending an illegal demonstration in Ankara; (4) a statement of an alleged member of the TIKB, who claimed that Dogan belonged to the organization.
The defense argued that the allegedly incriminating statement was invalid, because it had been extracted under torture. Dogan's lawyer told CPJ that the photograph from the militant's memorial was blurry, and Dogan testified in court that he had attended the May Day parade as a journalist. He was convicted, sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison, and confined to Bursa Prison. As of December 2000 he was being held in a prison in the town of Sincan, outside Ankara.
Sadik Celik, Kurtulus
Although Celik, Zonguldak bureau chief for the leftist weekly Kurtulus, was detained and charged with violating Article 168 of the Penal Code for alleged membership in the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the state's case rested almost exclusively on his work as a journalist.
The prosecution claimed that Kurtulus was the publication of the DHKP-C and that Celik's position with the magazine proved he was a member of the group. Celik was accused of conducting "seminars" for the DHKP-C at the magazine's office, propagandizing for the organization, transporting copies of the magazine from Istanbul to Zonguldak by bus, and organizing the magazine's distribution in Zonguldak. The prosecution also stated that Celik's name appeared in a document written by a leader of the DHKP-C (it is not clear whether the document was introduced as material evidence).
The prosecution claimed that Celik's refusal to testify in police custody proved his guilt. The defense argued that the prosecution could not substantiate any of its claims. Celik acknowledged having distributed the magazine in his capacity as Kurtulus' bureau chief. He said that he held meetings in the office to discuss the magazine's affairs. The defense presented the statements of two Kurtulus reporters to corroborate Celik's statements.
On October 17, 1996, Celik was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison. As of December 2000 he was being held in Edirne Prison.
Nabi Kimran, Iscinin Yolu
Kimran was editor of the leftist weekly Iscinin Yolu, which was subject to repeated government harassment during his tenure.
According to court documents, police apprehended Kimran on a bus during a police operation in advance of the anniversary of the outlawed Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). He was charged under Article 168 of the Penal Code for his alleged membership in the MLKP. During his trial, the prosecution charged that Kimran was a leader of the MLKP. The charge was based on the statement of an alleged MLKP sympathizer, who said that Kimran had ordered the bombing of a city bus. Kimran was also caught with a counterfeit I.D., which he claimed to carry because of his fear of being detained in the course of his journalistic work.
The prosecution stated that police who searched Kimran's apartment found documents in his handwriting that demonstrated his affiliation with the MLKP.
Kimran's lawyer told CPJ that the journalist was also charged under articles 7 (engaging in propaganda for an outlawed organization) and 8 (disseminating separatist propaganda) of the Anti-Terror Law.
Staffers from the socialist weekly Atilim said these charges were based on news articles that appeared in Iscinin Yolu during Kimran's tenure. The Penal Code case was prosecuted, but the Anti-Terror Law cases were eventually suspended following the government's so-called amnesty for jailed editors, on August 14, 1997.
As of December 2000, Kimran was being held in Kandira Prison.
UZBEKISTAN: 3
His Excellency Islam Karimov
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
43 Uzbekistanskaya Street
Tashkent, Uzbekistan 700163
Fax 998-71-139-55-25 or 988-71-139-5510
Shodi Mardiev, Samarkand Radio
Shodi Mardiev, a reporter with the state-run Samarkand radio station, was in failing health as he served an 11-year prison term for defamation and extortion.
Mardiev was originally sentenced on June 11, 1998. Though his sentence was later cut in half under President Islam Karimov's decrees of April 30, 1999, and August 28, 2000, Mardiev still has approximately three years left to serve. Given his age (60-plus) and increasingly poor health, he may die in prison if he is forced to serve his remaining sentence.
Mardiev is being held in Penal Colony 64/47 in the town of Kizil-tepa in the Navoi region. Local human-rights groups say many political prisoners are sent to this particular correctional facility. Prisoners are allowed only one visit every three months, and may receive only one package every four months from outside the prison. The prison is also notorious for its poor-quality medical facilities and food services.
Mardiev's physical and mental health have suffered as a result of these poor conditions. Shortly after his arrest in November 1997, the journalist suffered two cerebral hemorrhages while in a pre-trial detention center. He was hospitalized twice last year for a heart condition, and is not receiving proper medical attention.
Mardiev is known for his criticism of government officials and for his satirical writings in the journal Mushtum. His imprisonment stemmed from charges by Samarkand deputy prosecutor Talat Abdulkhalikzada that Mardiev had defamed him in a June 19, 1997, broadcast that the journalist produced for state radio in Samarkand. Abdulkhalikzada also alleged that Mardiev had used the threat of the impending broadcast in an attempt to extort money from him, although he provided the court with little evidence to support this allegation.
On January 12 and November 20, 2000, CPJ wrote to President Karimov, urging that Mardiev be released on humanitarian grounds and that the charges against him be dropped.
Muhammad Bekjanov and Iusuf Ruzimuradov, Erk
Muhammad Bekjanov and Iusuf Ruzimuradov had been involved in the production and distribution of the opposition newspaper Erk and were imprisoned for 14 years and 15 years, respectively, at trial in Tashkent in August 1999. They were convicted on charges of distributing a banned newspaper containing slanderous criticism of President Islam Karimov, participating in a banned political protest, and attempting to overthrow the regime. In addition, the court found them guilty of illegally leaving the country and damaging their Uzbek passports.
The condition of Bekjanov and Ruzimuradov's pre-trail detention and the prison camp in which they are being held are shocking. Both men were tortured during their six-month pre-trial detention in the Tashkent city prison. Today they are suffering appalling conditions in "strict regime" penal colonies and their health is deteriorating.
According to human-rights activists in Tashkent, Bekjanov was transferred on November 27 to 'strict-regime' Penal Colony 64/46 in the city of Navoi in central Uzbekistan. His health is reportedly poor and he has been suffering from dysentery. He has lost considerable weight, and like many prisoners in Uzbek camps is suffering from malnutrition. Local sources have informed CPJ that Ruzimuradov is being held in strict regime Penal Colony 64/33 in the village of Shakhali near the town of Karshi.
VIETNAM: 2
His Excellency Tran Duc Luong, President,
Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Thanh Giang, free-lancer
IMPRISONED: March 4, 1999
Giang, a prominent writer and geophysicist, was arrested by police in Hanoi for allegedly possessing "anti-socialist propaganda."
Vietnamese authorities had frequently harassed Giang for his published writings about corruption within the Communist Party. Giang's political essays--which dealt with such issues as peaceful reform, multiparty democracy, and human rights--regularly appeared on Internet sites and in newspapers published by Vietnamese living in exile. His arrest followed a series of articles in the government-controlled press arguing that dissidents posed a threat to the state.
On May 10, 1999, Giang was released on bail after an international campaign on his behalf. However, he remained under house arrest, and his activities were closely monitored.
Ha Sy Phu, free-lancer
Dr. Nguyen Xuan Tu, a scientist and political essayist better known by his pen name, Ha Sy Phu, was placed under house arrest and charged with treason. The arrest came after an April 28 raid on Ha's home in Dalat, Lam Dong Province, during which police confiscated a computer, a printer, and several diskettes. They returned on May 12, with orders for his arrest signed by Col. Nguyen Van Do, police chief of Lam Dong Province.
The case had its origins in official suspicion that Ha helped draft a pro-democracy declaration, according to CPJ sources, and it followed on long-standing harassment of the writer by the government. Ha was held under Administrative Detention Directive 31/CP, which provides for indefinite house arrest without due process, and was required to report daily to the Dalat police for interrogation. Treason is punishable with the death penalty.
Though the treason charge was not withdrawn, official harassment of Ha Sy Phu had eased slightly by year's end. However, he remained under house arrest.
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2018: 251
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The official founding of St. Adalbert as the ninth Catholic parish in Dayton occurred on January 5, 1903 when Archbishop Elder authorized Father Strzelczok in writing, “to act as pastor of the Polish Catholics in Dayton and vicinity.†The chapel of the old church building with a capacity of 300 persons was located on the second floor directly above the classrooms for the parish school. The basement was designed as an assembly hall. The residence for the pastor was located in the rear of the building. St. Adalbert Church was dedicated by Archbishop Henry Moeller of Cincinnati on Sunday, April 30, 1905. The new rectory and the grotto shrine were built in 1954. Around 1961, parishioners began to seriously consider the building of a new church. Services in the new church were held for the first time on Holy Thursday, March 23, 1967 and it was dedicated on the Feast of St. Adalbert, April 23, 1967.
The Early History
The growth of the industrial revolution in the United States with expansion towards the western part of the country created a pressing need for manpower. To provide this manpower America opened its gates to vast numbers of European emigrants who came with expectations for improving their living conditions. Thus, did many Poles, at the close of the 19th Century, find themselves employed in the factories and foundries of Dayton. It was natural and necessary for them to cling together to better cope with the various aspects and demands of daily living. This is how the struggle began to worship in a church of their own. At first the difficulties of language caused them to travel to Polish churches in Cincinnati and Toledo. One of these helpful priests was Father Ladislas Lipski, pastor of St. Stanislaus Church, a Polish parish in Cincinnati. Through his visits to Dayton Father Lipski was instrumental in establishing St. Adalbert by the following actions: First, he motivated the Polish men to organize a society under the patronage of Our Lady of Czestochowa on September 16, 1902. This was done to better channel their aspirations and efforts towards a parish of their own. Second, he gained the support and assistance of Father Carl J. Hahne, pastor of Emmanuel Church, who so magnanimously made available without any remuneration the school chapel where the Poles were able to worship together from the time Father Boleslaus Strzelczok came in October 1902 until St. Adalbert Church was constructed and dedicated in 1905. The Polish people were very appreciative of Father Hahne for his friendship and great help to them. Third, he knew Father Strzelczok, a young Polish priest in Pittsburgh, and recommended him to Archbishop William Henry Elder of Cincinnati as a pastor for the Polish people of Dayton.
Founding the Parish
On October 17, 1902 Archbishop Elder requested Father Boleslaus Strzelczok in writing to go to Dayton, visit the Polish families, celebrate Mass with them at Emmanuel School Chapel, and report his findings to the Archbishop. On October 19, 1902 Father Strzelczok came to Dayton with Father Lipski and was introduced to Father Carl J. Hahne and the Polish people at Emmanuel. During his stay of two weeks Father Strzelczok lived at St. Elizabeth Hospital and offered Masses in the Emmanuel School Chapel. At the end of this period Father Strzelczok reported that there were about forty Polish families and about sixty single men with an additional number of Lithuanians who knew the Polish language. Father was authorized to continue administering to Dayton’s Polish people and zealously set to work planning and raising funds. The official founding of St. Adalbert as the ninth Catholic parish in Dayton occurred on January 5, 1903 when Archbishop Elder authorized Father Strzelczok in writing, “to act as pastor of the Polish Catholics in Dayton and vicinity.†Following receipt of that letter, operations moved with great vigor. House collections were made, and on March 1, 1903 a Society for the Poor Souls in Purgatory was organized for women. This and a men’s society functioned as centers of activity to spur the gathering of funds needed for church and school construction. A one and one-half acre parcel of land in the vicinity of Troy and Leo Streets in North Dayton was offered by Mrs. Catherine E. Allhoff as a site for the Polish church. The Poles in jubilation raised $600 and offered it as a gift for the land. However, the pastor and many members of the nearby Our Lady of the Rosary Parish became fearful of the closeness of a Polish church on this site and complained to Archbishop Elder who acquiesced to the complaints and on September 18, 1903, withdrew Father Strzelczok from Dayton. The Polish people were very unhappy with this action and sent a delegation to the Archbishop to express their dissatisfaction at losing their pastor. The Archbishop was so impressed that on November 9, 1903 he requested Father Strzelczok, who was then serving in Marche, Arkansas, to return to his Polish flock in Dayton and resume his duties. Compassion for his struggling compatriots and his ardor to establish a new parish brought Father Strzelczok back to Dayton.
Building of the Church
The congregation’s search for a more distant church site culminated with the purchase of an .8-acre of land on Valley Pike in North Dayton from Martin and Hattie Wolf for $2,000. Title was transferred on January 26, 1904 and shortly after plans were drawn up by the pastor and approved by the Trustees and Building Committee for a combination chapel-school-residence building with Mr. Frank Sutter engaged as architect. Archdiocesan approval was obtained on March 28, 1904. The initial estimate for construction was $12,000 but the lowest bid turned out to be $15,800. However, the final cost of the new brick building together with equipment and furnishings was about $40,000. The style of construction was Romanesque for the exterior with Gothic for the interior workmanship and decoration. The chapel with a capacity of 300 persons was located on the second floor directly above the classrooms for the parish school. The basement was designed as an assembly hall. The residence for the pastor was located in the rear of the building. Three separate solemn ceremonies in which the Archbishop of Cincinnati officiated were conducted during the construction of St. Adalbert Church.
Laying of the Cornerstone
This took place on Sunday, September 4, 1904. Forming at Holy Trinity Church in East Dayton, a long procession of groups marched two and one-half miles to St. Adalbert Church. They were led by three commanderies of Knights of St. John from Piqua, Versailles and Dayton; Knights of St. George; the German Catholic fraternal organization, Geselien Verein; the Slovak Society and the Polish societies. Riding in horse drawn carriages were Archbishop Henry Moeller of Cincinnati, the clergy of Dayton, the visiting priests from Pittsburgh, and various local dignitaries. Archbishop Moeller officiated at the blessing of the cornerstone and preached a wonderful sermon. Other addresses were made by Father C. Tomaszewski of Pittsburgh who spoke in Polish, Father Charles H. Hahne of Holy Trinity who spoke in German, and Father J. Wilms C.S.Sp of the Holy Childhood of Pittsburgh who spoke in English.
Blessing of the Church Bells
Located in the twin towers of St. Adalbert were three bells weighing a total of 1,700 pounds. These were donated by the John Kosater family. This gift to St. Adalbert was blessed on Sunday, December 11, 1904 by Archbishop Henry Moeller. The largest bell was christened “John Adalbert,†the medium one, “Pauline Mary,†and the smallest one, “Jesus.†Thereafter these bells rang out daily summoning Polish families to worship for more than sixty years. Other large gifts to the new parish were the original pipe organ and Stations of the Cross, which were donated by Chrintina and Josephine Schwind. The Gothic altar was donated by Adam and Crescentia Zengel. The painting of St. Adalbert above the altar was the gift of the Young Men’s Society. The six-foot statues of the Sacred Heart and the Crowned Madonna, hand carved by the father of Sister Raymunda, was the gift of Sister while Superior of St. Elizabeth Hospital.
Dedication of the Church
St. Adalbert Church was dedicated by Archbishop Henry Moeller of Cincinnati on Sunday, April 30, 1905 with many of Dayton’s clergy in attendance. The day was warm and pleasant for the great procession, which took place around the church. German, Lithuanian, Slovak and other Catholic nationality groups marched along with the various Polish societies. In his sermon Archbishop Moeller gave credit to the Poles for their determination and singleness of purpose in building their church. He related how their efforts had increased his appreciation of their intense faith. Great was the joy of the pastor, Father Strzelczok, the Polish people and their good friends throughout the city who rejoiced with them in the completion of the gigantic task the congregation had undertaken. Thus, did St. Adalbert join the ranks of the eight other Catholic churches serving Dayton. These were Emmanuel, Sacred Heart, St. Joseph, Holy Trinity. St. Mary, St. John, Our Lady of the Rosary and Holy Angels.
St. Adalbert School
Once the new building was completed, classes were scheduled for the 1905-1906 school year. Beginning with a handful of pupils, the enrollment increased to 33 (17 boys and 16 girls) by 1909. The two large classrooms were doubled into four by converting the adjoining social room into two additional equal size classrooms. Since that time the number of students grew steadily to extend beyond the capacity of the four rooms available, and additional classrooms were necessary in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Mr. Vincent Chalecki was the first teacher and organist. Lay teachers were employed from 1905 until the coming of the Polish Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help from St. Louis, Missouri in 1915. These Franciscan Sisters played a key role in the primary education and religious training of the sons and daughters of St. Adalbert. The school maintained a high scholastic record among all of Dayton’s schools, both parochial and public. The people of St. Adalbert owe the Sisters their deepest gratitude for a job well done. Without their guidance the parish would not possess the wonderful spirit of community, which has been enjoyed in the parish over the years. More than fifty Franciscan sisters have devotedly taught our children during more than sixty years at St. Adalbert. Furthermore, they so inspired some of our daughters that sixteen of them joined this religious group to better serve their God. It was learned, with deep regret in December 1977, that the Sisters would not return to St. Adalbert after the current school year ending in June 1978. When the Franciscan Sisters agreed to provide teachers in 1915, a residence for them was needed. A substantial rectory of red brick containing eight rooms was constructed by August 15, 1915 across the street from the church at a cost was $7,500. As soon as the second pastor, Father Rufin A. Baranski, moved to the new rectory, the residence at the rear of the church was prepared for the use of the Sisters. It was more conveniently located and served as the Sisters’ convent for the next 63 years. There were now 58 boys and 60 girls in a congregation of 206 families. For the benefit of the school children, Father Baranski had a sturdy heated lavatory building constructed in 1925 at a cost of $4,300 from bricks recovered from Dayton streets. This period was a trying one for both pastor and parishioners. It was a difficult period that included the Dayton Flood (1913) and World War I (1914-1918). It was a period in which the parish staggered under a large church debt, witnessed an influenza epidemic, and saw struggle and uncertain working conditions. But, undaunted priest and people persevered through it all, making no spectacular history, but moderately living their lives with confidence in God.
Golden Age of the Parish
Under the guidance of the third pastor, Father Paul B. Frydrych, beginning April 16, 1926, in spite of the misfortunes and hardships of World War II, the people met their obligations paying off the remaining debt of the church. Also, in 1926 a prefabricated frame building of two classrooms was erected at a cost of $3,100 to meet the needs of the expanding school enrollment. Peak enrollment was reached in 1927 when 283 pupils attended. After about five years of use as classrooms, the temporary building continued to be used until 1949 as Boy Scout meeting rooms and as the janitor’s workshop. In 1927 Father Frydrych acquired twelve adjoining lots for St. Adalbert at a cost of $2,700 extending the parish land westward on the side of St. Adalbert Avenue. This land became the site for the new church in 1966. Many repairs and improvements on the church-school-residence building were made since it began to show the wear and tear from years of use. Besides remodeling the church-school entrance with a matching brick canopy, more modern facilities were installed such as a new organ, new boiler, and a garage. Father Frydrych was an ardent baseball promoter and bird lover. As a result, many of the parish youths soon were organized into baseball and football teams, bringing to St. Adalbert much glory and many trophies. These rewards came from spirited play and competitions in Dayton’s athletics. Through his deep interests Father “Paul†came to be widely known in the Dayton area not only among religious but also the sports and business communities. After working devotedly and energetically for more than twenty-one years in the service of his beloved parishioners. Father Frydrych was stricken with a heart attack and died on November 5, 1947. With the lifting of World War II restrictions on the economy, a program of repairs and improvements was initiated. In 1949 the prefabricated school building was razed and replaced with a cement block janitor’s residence and utility building. This was constructed through the cooperative labor of parishioners and friends. In addition, the church grounds received a face lifting by cutting down the old trees, replacing them with young maples near the street, extending the length of the property, and by having the schoolyard blacktopped to also serve as a parking area.
St. Adalbert’s Golden Jubilee
In 1953 St. Adalbert celebrated its Golden Jubilee. This was commemorated with a Clergy Day on April 23, 1953 and a Social Day on April 26, 1963. The Golden Jubilee Banquet was held in the Polish-American Democratic Club Hall. Special tribute was paid to nine living members of St. Adalbert who participated in the dedication of the church in 1905. These were: Mr. Frank Tarczynski, (Trustee, 1909) Victoria Dziadula, Sigmund Ksiezopolski, Alice Kunka, Adelia Piekutowski, Joseph Piekutowski, Sr., Apolonis Piekutowski, Helen Sobieski, and Valentine Szymczak.
New Rectory
In December 1953 Father Sulkowski was given an opportunity to purchase for St. Adalbert the 5.35 acres of land adjoining the church on the north. This was accomplished in April 1954 for $25,000. About the same time the old rectory was sought for conversion to a funeral home. Hence, plans were quickly drafted to construct a more suitable new rectory on the acquired land. A new brick rectory and garage were constructed for $31,000 within the next four months. The old rectory was sold for $24,000 on September 20, 1954.
Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes
The year 1954 brought yet another proud addition to St. Adalbert. Parishioners, Mary and Joseph Piekutowski, recognized in the acquisition of the five acres of ground an excellent opportunity to see their dream of a Lourdes Grotto materialize. They approached Father Sulkowski who obtained chancery approval and work began in the summer with all cost borne by the donors so that a beautiful grotto was erected and dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes in October. 1954. Consequently, the Poles possess an inspiring shrine for not only the devotions to Our Blessed Mother in May and October but during all times of the year.
Parish Dancers in Traditional Dress 1960 (See picture to right.)
St. Adalbert’s 60th Anniversary
The parish celebrated its 60th Anniversary on April 28, 1963. The Solemn High Mass was held in the morning and in the evening three living charter members of the parish, Frank Tarczynski, Apolonia Piekutowski and Helen Sobieski, were honored at the Anniversary Dinner held in the Polish-American Democratic Club Hall.
Planning for a New Church Building
With continued good management, a surplus began to accumulate and by 1961 this totaled $57,000. Around this time parishioners began to seriously consider the building of a new church. Discussion arose and Archdiocesan approval was sought. However, the dwindling parish count, location and other aspects weighed against approval. Instead the Archbishop proposed a territorial parish about three miles distance from St. Adalbert. In the meantime, the parish savings had risen to $88,000 by 1964. The hopes of parishioners grew stronger.
Millennium Celebration of Poland’s Christianity
Father Ernest A.J. Lucas became pastor June 17, 1964 and busied himself with his parishioners in organizing for the Millennium of Poland’s Christianity (966-1966). This religious and cultural program lasted two days. Dayton’s Mayor Frank R. Somers proclaimed May 23, 1965 as Millennium Sunday and urged persons of all faiths to join in the celebration. On May 22 and 23 an extensive exhibit of Polish artistic, cultural and historic items furnished through the courtesy of the Polish Museum of America and others, was held in the Polish-American Democratic Club Hall.
More than 4,000 persons viewed the exhibit. The presence of Bishop Kowalski at St. Adalbert’s celebration of the millennium together with the heartwarming attendance and devotion of the Poles of Dayton apparently had considerable impact and influence on Auxiliary Bishop Leibold for he became convinced that such strong expressions of faith should be cultivated and, evidently, he so recommended this to Archbishop Karl J. Alter of Cincinnati.
Faith of Poles Leads to Construction of New Church
It was in this fashion that the climate for a new church was established. Seeing this change, Father Lucas continued throughout the summer to advance the cause of a new church for Americans of Polish descent in the Dayton area. By September 1965 the Archbishop approved the construction of a new church building.
With $100,000 already on hand, more than $110,000 was pledged and collected in the following two years for the new church. Blessing and groundbreaking ceremonies were conducted in the afternoon of May 8, 1967. The cornerstone laying ceremonies occurred on February 23, 1967. Services in the new church were held for the first time on Holy Thursday, March 23, 1967. Solemn dedication of the new St. Adalbert Church took place on the Feast of St. Adalbert, April 23, 1967.
The new church is of red brick construction with a seating capacity of 300. The sanctuary is fan shaped with the altar located in the small end of the fan and facing the congregation in accordance with the new liturgical requirements. The congregation is located on both sides of the sanctuary and obliquely facing each other. Mr. W. W. Wurst was the architect. The painting of the Black Madonna exhibited in the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa installed at the side altar was originally done by Miss Mary Ann Wurst. The cost of the entire structure and furnishings was about $200,000. Later the church was air-conditioned and electronic bells were installed in the bell tower. The stained glass windows in the front doors of the church were designed and executed by the Botti Art Glass Company of Chicago, Illinois. They were installed in 1981. There are four panels. The center two doors show male and female figures in native Polish dress against a background of red and white, the Polish colors. The greeting on these windows follows: NIECH BEDZIE POCHWALONY JESU CHRISTUS (Praised be Jesus Christ). NA WIEKI WIEKOW, AMEN (Forever and ever, Amen). The left door panel as you face the building represents the feast of Christmas. The greeting WESOTYCH SWIAT translates loosely as Merry Christmas. The right door panel as you face the building represents the feast of Easter and the words WESOTEGO ALLELUJA loosely translates as Happy Easter.
Some of the old and beautiful customs and traditions of the Poles are still practiced and perpetuated: The Christmas Eve Supper (Wilia); the exchange of the unleavened bread (Oplatek); Midnight Mass with the Kolendy; the annual house blessing following Epiphany; the Lamentations during Lent (Gorzkie Zale); the blessing of food on Holy Saturday (Swiencone). The term Polska derives from the Polish word for field: pole. It was originally associated with the Polanie (field-dwellers), a West Slavic tribe that inhabited the central reaches of the River Warts, or what is now the Great Poland region, an area of fields and flat plains. The name Poland was first used to designate the Polish state in the 11th Century and the Polish nation in the 25th Century.
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Papa John's scorches Papa John in 800-word response
Papa John's has issued a scorching condemnation of its founder.A special committee of the company's b...
Posted: Aug 30, 2018 8:02 AM
Updated: Aug 30, 2018 8:02 AM
Posted By: CNN Wire
Papa John's has issued a scorching condemnation of its founder.
A special committee of the company's board of directors accused founder John Schnatter of disobeying the board and undermining CEO Steve Ritchie, including by going off script during a conference call last fall when he blamed the NFL for poor pizza sales.
"The Board specifically directed John Schnatter not to talk about the NFL controversy related to the National Anthem on the 2017 third quarter earnings call," the committee wrote in an 806-word letter addressed to the Papa John's community on Wednesday. "In direct defiance of these instructions, John Schnatter made unscripted comments."
Last year, some NFL players knelt during the National Anthem in a controversial protest over the treatment of black Americans, particularly by police.
Schnatter's words spurred a backlash on social media, made the company the butt of jokes on late night shows and forced it to distance itself from neo-Nazi groups. Papa John's apologized, saying it hadn't meant to be divisive. Sales fell in the following quarter, and the company ended its NFL sponsorship in the wake of the controversy.
"Schnatter has demonstrated a continued pattern of ignoring decisions of the Board, both in his role as CEO and as non-executive Chairman of the Board," the committee wrote.
The directors said they would defend the company against Schnatter's actions and "continue to do what is right for Papa John's and our stakeholders."
Schnatter declined to comment for this story through a representative.
Wednesday's letter is the latest salvo in an increasingly heated exchange between Schnatter and Papa John's current leadership. Schnatter stepped down from his role as CEO soon after the NFL scandal. Ritchie took over in January.
The committee also said that Schnatter produced commercials in which he starred after "independent market research showed that a change in spokesperson and advertising strategy was warranted," and that he reportedly met with management and staff behind Ritchie's back.
Schnatter stepped down from his role as chairman in July, after he admitted to using the N-word on a conference call.
Since then, the company has tried to distance itself from Schnatter by stripping his image from its marketing materials. It has also taken the unusual step of approving a provision that would prevent him from gaining more control of the company. Schnatter is still the largest shareholder and owns almost a third of the company.
And he's not backing away.
Though Schnatter says he doesn't want to get his job back as CEO, he's called Ritchie a poor leader and accused him of creating a toxic environment for workers. He also thinks that Papa John's has allowed his comments about the NFL and on the conference call to be misrepresented in the press.
Earlier this week, Schnatter posted a letter to franchisees on his website.
"This June, I told the Board that Steve needed to go," he wrote. "At the time, the Board agreed — and asked me to become Executive Chairman."
In response, the company said that Schnatter was making "untrue and disparaging statements in a self-serving attempt to distract from the damaging impact his own words and actions have had on the Company and our stakeholders."
The company added that "at no time has the Board asked John Schnatter to become Executive Chairman."
Schnatter's lawyer fired back, saying that a board member had suggested bringing Schnatter on as executive chairman on a call with the rest of the board, and that there were no objections to the offer.
In Wednesday's letter, the company responded. "It's simply not true that the Board asked John Schnatter to become Executive Chairman," the committee reiterated, adding that "John Schnatter's assertion that the Board agreed with him that Steve Ritchie 'needed to go' is not true."
The company is trying to move forward by a mandating bias training for all employees, promising to increase diversity among staff and commissioning an investigation into its diversity and inclusion practices.
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Candace T. Lamdhadmin2020-01-10T16:20:59+00:00
CTLam@daleyheft.com
Santa Clara University, School of Law, J.D., 2003
University of New Hampshire, B.A., Cum Laude, 1996
Best Oral Advocate Award – Moot Court
CALI Excellence for the Future Award – Constitutional Law
Witkin Award for Highest Average – Constitutional Law
“How Much Does a Seller’s Realtor Have to Disclose?” San Francisco Apartment Magazine, February 2006
“DeCSS Computer Code as Free Speech: Does First Amendment Protection Differ From Coast to Coast?” Santa Clara Law Review, January 2002
Candace T. Lam graduated cum laude from the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in Communications and minor in Environmental Conservation. After college, she lived abroad and traveled extensively, ultimately landing in California. Ms. Lam first gained civil litigation experience as a legal assistant in a busy downtown Los Angeles law firm. She then went on to earn a J.D. from Santa Clara University, School of Law.
In law school, Ms. Lam was named Best Oral Advocate in Moot Court and served as Technical Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review. She earned the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Constitutional Law and led the Environmental Law Society as its President. She served as a summer extern in the Los Angeles Superior Court, where she attained firsthand experience ruling on law and motion. She also earned a High Technology Certificate for her study of intellectual property law and was chosen by Sun Microsystems to work as an intern in their Trademark Department. After law school and upon passing the Bar Examination, Ms. Lam was selected by the State Bar of California to grade the essay portion of applicant exams.
Ms. Lam began her attorney career practicing labor law and also litigating real estate and corporate matters. At Daley & Heft, Ms. Lam continues to handle a variety of cases, including wrongful death, premises liability, personal injury, sexual misconduct, and property damage. Her detail-oriented approach to each case has resulted in success for her clients at all stages of litigation.
In her free time, Ms. Lam likes to perform as a singer, hike in the beautiful outdoors, and play at the beach with her family. She also enjoys marathon and triathlon races, and appeared in Triathlete magazine.
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MiG-31BM and Su-27 fighters redeployed at operational airfields in the south of Russia
More than 15 MiG-31BM and Su-27 fighter jets redeployed from home stations in the Tver region to operational airfields in the Astrakhan region in the south of Russia within the combat readiness inspection, the country’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.
During the execution of combat missions, the crews of high-altitude fighters completed the accelerated preparation of combat vehicles for take-off and made pair synchronous take-offs. All this took them no more than 20 minutes.
The flight personnel have received their flight tasks and started navigational calculations which are then put into the flight computers of aircraft.
More:Russia to deploy combat aircraft on disputed Kuril Islands
The primary objective of the exercise is to check the readiness of the flight crew to perform combat and special tasks for the intended purpose, as well as practical training of new tactical methods and methods of actions with full use of the combat capabilities of aviation equipment.
The exercise involved more than 15 military fighter and special aircraft.
Tags: Russia
The U.S. Navy announced that Patrol Squadron (VP) 4 recently concluded maritime operations in the Arctic and North Atlantic...
Lockheed won a DARPA contract for new ground-launched hypersonic missile
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"a different sort of book" -- 12/27/19
Today's encore selection -- from The Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Introductions by Theodore Roosevelt and A.A. Milne. We recently reread The Wind in the Willows and thought you would enjoy these wonderful introductions, one by President Theodore Roosevelt, and the second by A.A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh, one of our favorite children's books:
"To the moderately well-read person Kenneth Grahame is known as the author of two books written in the 1890s: The Golden Age and Dream Days. In his spare time he was Secretary of the Bank of England. Reading these delicately lovely visions of childhood, you might have wondered that he could be mixed up with anything so unlovely as a bank; and it may be presumed that at the bank an equal surprise was felt that such a responsible official could be mixed up with beauty.
"In 1908 he wrote The Wind in the Willows. The first two books had been about children such as only the grown-up could understand; this one was about animals such as could be loved equally by young and old. It was natural that those critics who had saluted the earlier books as masterpieces should be upset by the author's temerity in writing a different sort of book; natural that they should resent their inability to place the new book as more or less of a 'children's book' than those which had actually had children in them. For this reason (or some other) The Wind in the Willows was not immediately the success which it should have been.Two people, however, became almost offensively its champions. One of them was no less important a person than the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote:
The White House, Washington,
'My Dear Mr GRAHAME -- My mind moves in ruts, as I suppose most minds do, and at first I could not reconcile myself to the change from the ever-delightful Harold and his associates, and so for some time I could not accept the toad, the mole, the water-rat and the badger as substitutes. But after a while Mrs Roosevelt and two of the boys, Kermit and Ted, all quite independently, got hold of The Wind Among the Willows and took such a delight in it that I began to feel that I might have to revise my judgement. Then Mrs Roosevelt read it aloud to the younger children, and I listened now and then. Now I have read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends; and I am almost more fond of it than of your previous books. Indeed, I feel about going to Africa very much as the seafaring rat did when he almost made the water rat wish to forsake everything and start wandering!
"I felt I must give myself the pleasure of telling you how much we had all enjoyed your book.
"With all good wishes,
"Sincerely yours,
Original pencil sketch for The Wind in the Willows
"The other was no more important than the writer of this essay.
'For years I have been talking about this book, quoting it, recommending it. In one of my early panegyrics I said: "I feel sometimes that it was I who wrote it and recommended it to Kenneth Grahame." This is even truer now than it seemed to be at the time. A few years ago I turned it into a play called Toad of Toad Hall, which ran for many Christmas seasons in London; and constant attendance at rehearsals made me so familiar with the spoken dialogue that I became more and more uncertain as to which lines of it were taken direct from the book, which lines were adapted, and which lines were entirely my own invention. It has been a great disappointment at times to see some pleasant quotation after the words: 'As Kenneth Grahame so delightfully said,' and to realise that he actually did say it .. . and an equal disappointment at times to realise that he didn't.
'When he and Mrs Grahame first came to see the play, they were charming enough to ask me to share their box. I was terrified, for had I been the writer of the book, and he the dramatist, I should have resented every altered word of mine and every interpolated word of his.
'He was not like that. He sat there, an old man now, as eager as any child in the audience, and on the occasions (fortunately not too rare) when he could recognise his own words, his eye caught his wife's, and they smiled at each other, and seemed to be saying: "I wrote that" -- "Yes, dear, you wrote that," and they nodded happily at each other, and turned their eyes again to the stage. It was almost as if he were thanking me in his royally courteous manner for letting him into the play at all, whereas, of course, it was his play entirely, and all I had hoped to do was not to spoil it. For, when characters have been created as solidly as those of Rat and Mole, Toad and Badger, they speak ever after in their own voices, and the dramatist has merely to listen and record.
'One can argue over the merits of most books, and in arguing understand the point of view of one's opponent. One may even come to the conclusion that possibly he is right after all. One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticise it, because it is criticising us. It is a Household Book; a book which everybody in the household loves, and quotes continually; a book which is read aloud to every new guest and is regarded as the touchstone of his worth. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgement on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are merely sitting in judgement on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know. But it is you who are on trial.
A.A. MILNE'"
Collector's Library 2014
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A Closer Look: New Guest Rooms at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
As you may have seen in an earlier post, Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa at the Disneyland Resort is currently undergoing an exciting hotel-wide renovation.
As the first phase of hotel rooms are completed and guests are starting to experience some of the new magic, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to share the details found in our newly reimagined guest rooms.
The headboards are made of quarter-sawn oak, a hallmark of Craftsman design, which frame a blossoming orange tree mural overhead—with mischievous Chip n’ Dale playing in the branches. When guests open the sleeper bed (available in select rooms), artwork of Bambi, along with other woodland creatures, bid them goodnight.
California-inspired artwork dot the room walls, including original designs of orange crate labels paying homage to Disney history. For example, Dominguez Grove Oranges is named for the family of Ron Dominguez, the owners of the property that Disneyland would be built on. Also, Silver Lake Brand Citrus is named for the Los Angeles neighborhood that was home to Walt Disney’s Hyperion Street Animation Studio.
Countertops of the room’s desk, dresser and coffee station incorporate pieces of green glass from wine bottles, creating a beautiful, unique surface. Above the coffee bar, textured copper detailing adds depth to the aesthetic of the room while enforcing the Craftsman story. Copper was one of the most common metals used during early Arts and Crafts designs, especially in Pasadena homes by Greene and Greene.
Lastly, all rooms are powered with the latest technological features and premium amenities, including 55-inch smart TVs, Keurig coffee makers and built-in USB chargers.
When is your next visit to Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa?
Share A Closer Look: New Guest Rooms at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
Destinations: Disneyland Resort
Topics: Hotels & Resorts
The rooms look very nice with the updates. The only thing I would change are the lights on the bed posts. They look more like a style used in Victorian architecture. I like the mini wet bar and hope the refrigerators in the new rooms work better than the previous ones did.
Linda on June 7, 2017 at 11:36 pm
We stayed in one of the new rooms for Dapper Day. They are beautiful. I was worried that they would too modern but the decor is in keeping with theme. My only complaint is that they got rid of the bath tubs. Being able to soak my back and feet after a day at the park made a big difference in my ability to get to sleep and keep going on subsequent days.
Michele on June 7, 2017 at 1:20 am
We will be there May 31st for my 50th birthday. I hope we get one of the new rooms! It will be our first time staying and I’m really excited!!
Samantha on May 10, 2017 at 11:56 pm
Can’t wait to be there starting May 21st for my son’s 21st birthday!! We are so looking forward to being at the Grand once again!
Lori on May 10, 2017 at 9:19 pm
Have all the rooms been refurbished now?
Vicky on April 29, 2017 at 12:59 am
I’m so glad Disney refreshed the GC rooms without drifting away from it’s glorious theming. I was so scared they would be “too modern” looking, but they are gorgeous. Well done!
Camille on April 28, 2017 at 7:42 pm
I stayed in one of the remodeled rooms in April, and it was delightful. Very bright and cheery. I enjoyed it tremendously
Rayelene on April 27, 2017 at 4:13 pm
We will be there next week! Would love to be in a refurbished room! See you soon!
Robin on April 27, 2017 at 2:52 pm
We will be there next month, we are looking forward to the renovations. We last stayed there in 2005, the contrast between the two styles should be interesting. °?° up the ears!
CounterBlast on April 27, 2017 at 11:50 am
Already booked for Mickey’s Halloween Party and Gay Days in October!
Paul on April 27, 2017 at 11:35 am
This looks really pretty and bright. Well done!
Jen on April 21, 2017 at 3:29 pm
Will there still be a room option with bunk beds? My kids were looking forward to that in September.
Jennifer on April 20, 2017 at 7:04 pm
Stayed there a year ago and loved it as it was. Like that the new rooms look much brighter, however.
Barbara on April 20, 2017 at 1:30 pm
We were there 3 weeks ago & our room was nice, even though it wasn’t refurbished yet. However, this new design looks beautiful too. You have very creative & talented decorators!
Jodi on April 20, 2017 at 5:39 am
Stayed in a refurbed room last month. One of the nicest features for us was the raised bed. There is enough room to store luggage under the bed. The rooms are the same size as before. Look for the Hidden Mickey’s and even Hidden Chip and Dale’s in the rooms plus in the hallway carpet. Nice touch! My daughter is obsessed with finding them.
Bob on April 19, 2017 at 1:17 pm
How large were the rooms prior to the remodel (square footage) versus how much square feet are in the rooms after the remodel? I ask because they look a tad smaller.
Steffannie on April 19, 2017 at 12:41 pm
With the refurb does that mean staying at the Grand Californian will be even more expensive?
Mike on April 19, 2017 at 11:37 am
I love that it’s elegant but Chip n’ Dale are among the branches – very fun!
Shannon on April 19, 2017 at 11:06 am
Michael they look beautiful! We weren’t sure a refurb was necessary but seeing this makes us very confidant it was time for something new. Thanks for sharing.
Elizabeth on April 18, 2017 at 11:17 pm
2 weeks!!! Our 1st stay at the Grand Californian…Usually Disneyland Hotel groupies.
Terra on April 18, 2017 at 10:40 pm
Lovely. Are the 1, 2, and 3 bedroom suites the same floor plans? Any photos of those rooms? Planning our next visit, no date set yet.
Tammy on April 18, 2017 at 10:40 pm
I’ll be staying there starting July 4, through Disney vacation club. Will the two bedroom suites be finished by then? When is the pool scheduled to be finished?
Nicole on April 18, 2017 at 9:00 pm
We will be there in September for the half marathon!
Matt on April 18, 2017 at 8:16 pm
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Reimagining Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa at the Disneyland Resort
Mon, August 29, 2016
Moms Panel Monday: Planning a Trip to Disneyland Resort?
by Lisa Mendillo, Communications Manager, Walt Disney World Resort
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ABOUT FRANK MCKENNA
Frank McKenna is the founder and chief executive of Downtown in Business. Before establishing the Downtown brand Frank was a full time politician, serving as the leader of the North West Regional Assembly, deputy leader of Lancashire County Council and a Parliamentary Assistant. He was also the chairman of economic development company Lancashire Enterprises, and at the time Insider magazine described him as ‘the most powerful politician in the North West.’ The Financial Times said he was ‘New Labour’s man in the North.’
Since entering the world of business, Frank has served on the Merseyside Entrepreneurship Commission; Liverpool Vision’s Strategic Planning board; and advisory boards on both the Lancashire and Liverpool Local Enterprise Partnership’s. From 2008-2013 he was a Non Executive Director of a hospital trust board.
With an impressive list of connections in both the public and private sector Frank is now acknowledged as one of the most influential business voices in the region. A regular public speaker, contributor to television news programmes and to business and political publications.
He spends his spare time at the gym, Goodison Park and with his family.
"THE BITTERNESS OF POOR QUALITY REMAINS LONG AFTER THE SWEETNESS OF LOW PRICE IS FORGOTTEN"
LATEST NEWS FROM FRANK
Labour’s last chance saloon
This week Frank McKenna suggests that the election of Rebecca Long-Bailey as leader will kill the Labour Party.
Here’s to the next 10 years
In his first blog of the new decade, Downtown boss Frank McKenna glances back at a tumultuous ten years and attempts some tentative crystal ball gazing for the next ten years.
Labour’s Decade of Decline
This week Frank McKenna reflects on the Labour Party’s decade of decline – and warns that only a change of direction can save it from oblivion over the next ten years.
Landslide for Boris – and he has Labour to thank
Frank McKenna pays tribute to the Labour Party’s huge contribution to Boris Johnson’s landslide General Election victory in his post-election blog.
Visit the 'Totally Frank' archive
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EC M&A Professionals
Senior-level attention and industry expertise
Hans C. HornbostelFounder and Managing DirectorEvan S. YellinFounder and Managing DirectorAlan K. GranbergManaging DirectorTeresa WatsonManaging DirectorRichard KromkaManaging DirectorGerard E. TooheyManaging DirectorPim KraaijeveldManaging DirectorVolker SeekampManaging DirectorPhilippe SchmittManaging DirectorMalte RichterManaging DirectorVictoria W. LeungManaging DirectorRobert SulmaManaging DirectorSally ShaManaging DirectorMonika BansalManaging DirectorEwoma OteriDirectorHelmut LanerDirectorMatthew NicastroVice PresidentCory J. KennyVice PresidentRichard HaleBusiness Development DirectorDavid MorrisBusiness Development Director
We work together as a team to provide clients tangible, value-enhancing strategic advice, creative business development ideas, and expert transaction execution services. With extensive experience at leading global investment banks, industry, accounting and consulting firms, our seasoned, multicultural team has particular expertise in successfully completing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and company sale transactions.
Hans C. Hornbostel
hans.hornbostel@ec-ma.com
A co-founder and Managing Director of EC M&A, Hans is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm's activities including originating, managing and closing transactions and overseeing client relationships. Before co-founding EC M&A, he helped to establish Deutsche Bank's Mergers & Acquisitions group, advising leading global companies on cross-border and domestic transactions in Europe and the United States. Mr. Hornbostel, who is fluent in both English and German, holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University 's Graduate School of Business and a BS, also in Finance, from Syracuse University.
Evan S. Yellin
evan.yellin@ec-ma.com
A co-founder and Managing Director of EC M&A, Evan is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm’s activities including originating, managing and closing transactions and overseeing client relationships. He has led over 75 completed M&A transactions in test, measurement, and control instrumentation, helping to establish EC M&A as the #1 advisor in this sector. Before founding EC M&A, he helped to establish Deutsche Bank’s Mergers & Acquisitions group, advising leading global companies on cross-border and domestic transactions in Europe and the United States. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he was an investment analyst at MONY Group (now AXA), a leading financial services firm. Evan earned his MBA degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business and Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University. He is a Registered Securities Principal and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 FINRA licenses
Alan K. Granberg
alan.granberg@ec-ma.com
Based in London, Mr. Granberg is responsible for all aspects of the firm's M&A and strategic advisory activities, including transaction origination, project management, client relationship management and financial analysis and valuations. Mr. Granberg worked at Standard & Poor's Corporation in New York for five years, where he analyzed, established and changed the credit ratings on debt issuers. Mr. Granberg then served as an investment banker for eight years at a major U.S. regional investment bank specializing in the structuring and issuance of fixed-income debt issues. Immediately before joining EC M&A, Mr. Granberg served as Chief Financial Officer at a U.S. publicly traded company. Mr. Granberg graduated Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a BA in Finance and obtained his MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business. Mr. Granberg is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and also is a Registered Securities Principal holding Series 7, 24, 27, and 63 FINRA licenses.
Teresa Watson
teresa.watson@ec-ma.com
Teresa joined EC M&A in 2008 and, since then, has devoted the majority of her time assisting and advising clients within the industrials sector on numerous acquisitions, divestitures and advisory transactions. She provides M&A origination and execution services on small-to-middle market cross-border deals across Europe, North America and Latin America. Teresa also runs the day-to-day operations of the New York office, overseeing junior staff. Prior to EC M&A, Teresa worked previously as an Associate in the Industrials & Transportation investment banking coverage group at JPMorgan where she focused on advisory and capital raising transactions. Teresa graduated from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a BS and received her MBA from the Anderson School at University of California Los Angeles. She is a Registered Representative and holds Series 24, 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Richard Kromka
richard.kromka@ec-ma.com
Richard is based in Beijing and is responsible for managing the firm's activities in Asia. Prior to joining EC M&A, Richard was a Board member of xG Technology (AIM:XGT:L) a developer of a mobile VoIP platform and a senior manager with their infrastructure partner, Treco International. He was the Founding Partner and Managing Director of Deutsche Bank’s Angel Fund L.P., a $200 Million early-stage Private Equity Fund. The fund’s most notable investment was PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) which has since been purchased by eBay. On behalf of Deutsche Bank, he served on the boards of Q-Trade, 3 TEX, Farechase, Execution Ltd., and Univits. Preceding Deutsche Bank, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Grupo TACA Airlines. With the management team, he bought and merged the national airlines of El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua into one unified profitable airline and collaborated with LAN and TAM airlines to jointly purchase 100 new Airbus A-319 and A-320 aircrafts. Before the airline business, he was at JP Morgan Chase (formerly Chemical Bank) where he spent eleven years as a banker. In his free time, Richard founded Guerrilla Entertainment, a music and film company focused on rights management to create and own entertainment content. He sold this business in 2005. Richard holds an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and he earned his BS in Business Administration from the University of Richmond, in Virginia.
Gerard E. Toohey
gerard.toohey@ec-ma.com
Gerard joined EC M&A in February of 2014 after spending more than 15 years working as a general manager, strategist and buyside corporate development specialist for diversified industrial conglomerates Parker Hannifin, IDEX Corporation and ThyssenKrupp. As an adviser, Gerard brings a unique perspective. Having worked for two acquired companies, and participating in or leading the acquisition or divestiture of more than 30 other companies on behalf of large industrial technology concerns, he understands the needs of both private sellers and sophisticated acquirers. Gerard is focused on identifying key strategic growth and value realization opportunities for clients in the Midwest region. He received his MS in Business Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, his JD from The College of William & Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law and his BS from the University of Scranton where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is a Registered Representative and holds Series 79 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Pim Kraaijeveld
pim.kraaijeveld@ec-ma.com
Based in New York, Pim is responsible for all aspects of EC M&A’s advisory activities including origination, execution and client relationship management.
Prior to EC M&A, Pim worked with Atlas Advisors on cross-border public and private M&A transactions in a variety of industries, and with J.P. Morgan’s investment bank in London and New York, where he worked on advisory and capital raise assignments.
Pim holds a postgraduate degree in Japanese Studies from Leiden University, the Netherlands and graduated with honors from the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands with an M.Sc. in Business Administration. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Montessori School in Manhattan. Pim is a Registered Representative and holds Series 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Volker Seekamp
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Volker joined EC M&A's Frankfurt office in May 2014 and focuses on new business development, M&A transaction origination and execution, project management and client relationship management. Volker is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with corporate and Private Equity clients with a focus on the German speaking countries and across Europe. Prior to joining EC M&A, Volker worked for a small M&A boutique specializing on small to mid-size German companies and cross border transactions. Volker has also worked for four years as Investment director for the Private Equity arm of DZ Bank AG, Germanys central cooperative bank, focusing on Buy-out as well as Mezzanine financing transactions. He started his career in the Corporate Finance department at KPMG, Hamburg and Frankfurt, where he was a Manager in the Consumer Markets team. Volker graduated as Diplomkaufmann (MBA) from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has done an apprenticeship as banker with Commerzbank AG.
Philippe Schmitt
philippe.schmitt@ec-ma.com
Philippe joined EC M&A in 2018 from Natureo Finance, an environmental and cleantech corporate finance boutique he co-founded in 2008. Philippe is based in Paris and brings over 32 years of experience in industry, technology and financial transactions. Before co-founding Natureo Finance, Philippe headed the alternative energy sector at Landsbanki Kepler where he contributed to the development of corporate finance practices in Europe, headed BNP Paribas’ Technology & Industrials research team, and Lehman Brothers’ European Telecoms Equipment team in London. He started his financial career at ABN Amro France in 1996. From 1986 to 1996, Philippe occupied a number of operational positions at Groupe Sagem. In particular he supervised the collaboration with the UK telecoms group STC Plc, set up joint ventures in Hungary and in Poland, put in place commercial partnerships in South East Asia, and headed the Access Network Division. Philippe holds an engineering degree in French telecoms high school (ENSTb), a MSC in Microelectronics (Grenoble University), a Masters in Physics (Aix-Marseille University) and a full time MBA (Cranfield School of Management, UK).
Malte Richter
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Based in London, Malte is responsible for all aspects of EC M&A’s advisory activities including origination, execution and client relationship management. Prior to EC M&A, Malte was a Partner at Smith Square Partners in London responsible for cross-border public and private M&A transactions in a variety of industries and financial services. Prior to Smith Square, Malte worked with Credit Suisse First Boston, Citigroup, Lazard, Deutsche Bank and Evercore (formerly Lexicon Partners). He has over 19 years of domestic and cross border M&A experience in a variety of industries and specifically financial services in EMEA, the United States and Asia. Malte holds a Lic. Oec. (MBA) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Victoria W. Leung
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Ms. Leung, a Managing Director based in EC M&A's London office, is responsible for all aspects of the firm's M&A and strategic advisory activities, including transaction origination, project management, client relationship management and financial analysis and valuations. Prior to joining EC M&A, she worked in the Investment Banking and M&A department of Dresdner Bank AG (now Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), both in New York and in Frankfurt. A native of Hong Kong, Ms. Leung has lived and worked in the UK, Germany, Sweden and the US and is fluent in English, German and Chinese. Ms. Leung graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University and completed her MBA, with a concentration in Finance, at New York University's Stern School of Business. She is also a Registered Securities Principal and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 FINRA licenses.
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Prior to joining EC M&A, Robert was founder and Managing Director of EuroCorporateFinance, a Prague-based M&A advisory boutique. Robert is responsible for managing the firm's activities in Eastern as well as Western Europe. Prior to founding EuroCorporateFinance, he was employed as a Managing Director with the Corporate Finance and M&A group of MeesPierson, the investment banking division of Fortis, one of Europe's largest financial services groups. Before that, he held similar positions with Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance and in the M&A department of Deutsche Bank. A native of the Czech Republic, Mr. Sulma speaks Dutch, German, English and Spanish as well as Czech and has a degree in business administration from Switzerland's Universität St. Gallen. Mr. Sulma resides in Prague.
Sally Sha
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Sally Sha has over 12 years of experience in client strategic advisory. Ms. Sha joined EC M&A's New York office in 2012 and is responsible for all aspects of client M&A advisory activities including business development, M&A transaction origination and execution, and client relationship management.
Prior to joining EC M&A, Sally worked in the Investment Banking Group of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. Sally previously worked as a strategy consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (current IBM BCS Strategy & Change) providing management consulting services to multinational clients across all industries. Before joining consulting, Sally was the Investor Relations Manager of Bank of China (Hong Kong) based in Hong Kong.
Sally graduated from Peking University in China with a M.S. and B.S. of Economics and obtained her MBA from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She is a Registered Representative and holds Series 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Monika Bansal
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Monika joined EC M&A in 2012 and focuses on providing M&A and strategic advisory services to clients within the industrials and life sciences sectors. She provides M&A origination and execution services on small-to-middle market cross-border deals across Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to joining EC M&A, Monika worked for Nomura’s Investing Banking group in New York where she focused on the Oil and Gas sector. Monika has also worked in a corporate development role with Dresser-Rand in Houston where she focused on buyside acquisitions for the company. Monika received her MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She is a Registered Representative and holds Series 79 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Ewoma Oteri
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Ewoma joined EC M&A in 2010 and focuses on M&A transaction origination and execution, project management, and client relationship management. He assists and advises clients within the industrial sector on mergers, acquisitions, company sales and corporate divestitures, and is involved in every stage of the deal process from sourcing through to transaction evaluation/analysis and execution. Prior to EC M&A, Ewoma worked as a management consultant for Accenture’s London office, where he focused on the Oil & Gas sector. He worked as a process engineer for Nalco Energy Services prior to that. Ewoma graduated from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh with a BEng in Chemical Engineering, and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. He is a Registered Representative and holds Series 63 and 79 FINRA licenses.
Helmut Laner
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Helmut joined EC M&A's London office in 2012 and focuses on new business development, M&A transaction origination and execution, project management, and client relationship management. Helmut is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with corporate and Private Equity clients. He also advises clients in the Industrial Technology space on mid-market, cross-border deals across Europe, North America, and Asia. Helmut joined EC M&A's New York office in 2007, where he advised clients on acquisitions, divestitures, and buy-and-build strategies, including origination of proprietary acquisition opportunities, financial analysis and valuation, due diligence, and project management. Helmut graduated with a BA in Economics from University of Innsbruck and received his MPA from Cornell University. A native of Italy, Helmut is fluent in German, Italian, English, and Spanish. He is a Registered Representative and holds Series 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Matthew Nicastro
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Matt joined EC M&A's New York office in 2012 and focuses on M&A transaction origination and execution, project management and client relationship management for small-to-middle market cross border transactions across North America, Europe and Asia. He advises clients on acquisitions, divestitures, and buy-and-build strategies, including origination of proprietary acquisition opportunities, financial analysis and valuation, due diligence, and project management. Prior to joining EC M&A, Matt worked for a boutique investment bank in New York specializing in financial markets advisory services for structured credit and complex asset valuation. Matt holds an MBA from Fordham University in New York and a BS and BA in Business Administration and Economics from Stony Brook University. He is a Registered Representative and holds Series 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Cory J. Kenny
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Cory joined EC M&A's London office in 2018 after spending five years in the New York office. Cory focuses on M&A transaction origination and execution, project management and client relationship management for middle-market cross border transactions across Europe, North America, and Asia. He advises clients on acquisitions, divestitures, and buy-and-build strategies, including financial analysis and valuation, due diligence, and overall project management. Prior to joining EC M&A, Cory held various roles across finance, services and construction. Cory holds BA with honours in International Business & Management from Dickinson College. He is a Registered Representative and holds Series 7 and 63 FINRA licenses.
Richard Hale
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Richard joined EC M&A London in 2019 to spearhead new business development, M&A transaction origination, and client relationship management. Richard is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with corporate, entrepreneur-led, and private equity clients, and advisory partners. Prior to joining EC M&A, Richard held various senior positions in the financial services sector, building out investment services businesses for global banks including JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Canada, HSBC and Citibank. He has an extensive network of contacts and intermediaries built over his 25 years of sales and relationship management. Richard graduated with BA Honours in Business Studies from North London Metropolitan Business school.
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David joined EC M&A’s New York office in 2016 and is responsible for leading the company’s business development initiatives for buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions. This includes identifying, developing, and maintaining client and target company relationships with CEO’s, business owners, corporate development & private equity teams, and other senior management. David has over 8 years of business development experience within the financial services industry. Prior to joining EC M&A, David was Controller at a multi-billion dollar private equity firm and began his career within the Investment Management Assurance group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. David holds a BS in Accounting with a minor in Economics from Fordham University.
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Why aren't the Edmonton Oilers icing their best possible lineup against Arizona?
Three games into the NHL season, the Edmonton Oilers inhabit a familiar place: 30th in the league. With a single point through three games, the Oilers are tied with the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes for the honour, but thanks to a minus-nine goal differential win the tie-breaker.
This is worth noting not because it’s terribly meaningful (a win over the Arizona Coyotes tonight and the Oilers would be in the middle of the NHL standings) but simply because it’s a good reminder of the stakes here. Edmonton’s been a bad team for a long time, and thus they aren’t starting from a blank slate; this group needs to prove that it has changed. A slow start shouldn’t be tolerable, and the coach and many players should be at risk of losing their jobs if the team finds itself unimproved through 10 or 20 games.
One wouldn’t know that looking at the roster, though. Based on the decisions he’s made, head coach Dallas Eakins doesn’t appear to be icing the best possible lineup at his disposal, and that’s just baffling. The forward corps is to-be-determined (the Oilers’ official Twitter feed notes that Jordan Eberle is a game-time decision) but the defensive group is known and we can take a stab at what the forwards might look like if Eberle isn’t good-to-go:
Let’s focus on that defence. The top pairing of Darnell Nurse and Justin Schultz is in fact likely to be the top even-strength pairing; Schultz is averaging a team-high 18:50 per game at evens and Nurse’s 17:39 last night is higher than anyone else on the club. Nurse is a 19-year-old rookie; Schultz was demonstrably an inferior player to Jeff Petry last year and hasn’t been better early in 2014-15, either.
There’s also a curious lack of Martin Marincin, who was inexplicably demoted to the minors out of training camp. The Oilers’ left side defence currently consists of a Russian veteran who battled injury in training camp and looks like he’s still fighting something, a team captain who proved conclusively last year that he shouldn’t be playing above the third pairing, the aforementioned 19-year-old rookie and a power play specialist. I’d have thought that a guy who did an ice job in tough minutes for half of last season (alongside a partner who the Oilers regard lightly enough to healthy scratch) would deserve an everyday job given the context of the group, but bafflingly the coaching staff doesn’t see it that way.
The responsibility for other decisions falls higher up the food chain. That the Oilers’ centre depth chart was weak entering the year was no mystery; it was practically the only topic of offseason conversation for Edmonton fans. With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins hurt, the group is beyond weak; it has one player who was a full-time NHL’er a year ago on it. Any team looks bad down its No. 1 centre; few teams look as bad as Edmonton. There are NHL’ers who would help ease the pain a little rumoured to be available; general manager Craig MacTavish’s willingness to pull the trigger on a deal early could prove pivotal to the team’s fortunes.
Regardless, this is the group that the team’s management and coaches have opted to deploy. Arizona isn’t a great team, but they’ve been consistently competitive over the years, they’re well-coached and the Oilers played last night, so this contest is going to be a challenge. It’s too early to call this a must-win game, but a win here would go a long way toward buying the Oilers a little bit of breathing space.
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FSU funding helps researchers bring ideas to marketplace
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Projects to improve genetic testing, a replacement for rare-earth magnets and an app that will help treat ADHD all earned funding through a Florida State University program to support researchers adapting their work to the marketplace.
FSU’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded a pot of $130,650 as part of the Fall 2019 Grant Assistance Program. The event, organized by the Office of Commercialization, is held twice per year.
The program helps promising academic work transition to possible commercial ventures. FSU researchers pitch their proposals to a panel of university and business leaders, who select the funding recipients.
“The GAP program funds projects that show promise in adapting research results into a publicly available new product or service,” said Vice President for Research Gary K. Ostrander. “Based on our past success in bringing ideas to market, we are excited about the possibilities to continue that trend.”
The winning proposals were:
A faster, cheaper way to sequence genomes: Alan Lemmon, an associate professor of scientific computing, and Emily Moriarty Lemmon, an associate professor of biological science, have developed a way to assess variation in genetic sequences that could be 90 percent cheaper and faster than currently used methods. It has applications for a variety of industries, including agriculture, medicine, DNA fingerprinting and more. They will use the funding to improve their protocol to handle more samples and reduce costs.
A new way to make magnets: Ke Han, a research faculty member at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, developed a new processing method for making cobalt-platinum alloys that can be used in place of rare earths in permanent magnets. Certain rare earth metals are essential to making magnets in things like cellphones or medical devices, but companies in the U.S. mostly depend on China for these materials. Han’s method will offer an alternative that has the added benefit of increased corrosion resistance compared to many other magnetic materials. He will use the funding to scale up production and do quality control tests.
An app to treat ADHD: Michael Kofler, an associate professor of psychology, plans to use the funding to make an ADHD treatment option more widely available. Kofler has developed an evidence-based treatment known as central executive training, which provides long-term benefits in executive function and reduces symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Because many parents refuse ADHD medication for their children, treatments that don’t use medication are in demand. The training program is already available online, and Kofler will use the funding to make it available on smartphones or on platforms like PlayStation and Xbox.
Funding was provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research. For more information about the GAP competition, visit the FSU Office of Commercialization.
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EEAS > オーストラリア > Speech by Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament plenary debate on the situation in Israel and Palestine, including the settlements
Speech by Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament plenary debate on the situation in Israel and Palestine, including the settlements
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Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament plenary debate on the situation in Israel and Palestine, including the settlements
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Let me start by sharing with you a personal memory, maybe an anecdote. When I took office five years and a couple of weeks ago, I paid my first visit outside the European Union to Israel and Palestine, including visiting Gaza, and I said at that time that I believed that a two-state solution could be achieved during my mandate.
This was the goal that I kept in my mind and in my actions all of these years. And at some point I have to say this goal seemed to be getting closer. But we all know what the situation looks like today. This does not mean that the perspective is not there and is not valid anymore. I think it is a matter of political will and political conditions and I will get back to that. But clearly, if I would pay the same visit today, I would probably not say that I believe that this solution could be achieved in the coming months or years. Today, the very idea of two States has come under attack from many sides as never before.
Yet we should all know that the two-state solution remains – I am profoundly convinced of this – the best and the only realistic chance for peace and also for security in the Holy Places.
This is at the same time a principled and pragmatic position. Nobody has presented a credible alternative to two States so far. Many have argued against but nobody has expressed any clear view that can substitute that objective realistically. And any plan that is not firmly anchored in international law and, let me add, also in the profound aspirations and interests of the people – not only of Palestine and Israel but also of the region – would ultimately fail.
Our support to the two States is a matter of international law, a matter of justice and democracy and also a matter of realism.
In these years we have worked full-time to avoid the dissolution of the two-state perspective. And the work continues to date – even in such difficult circumstances, let me say especially in such difficult circumstances. Because sometimes we have the impression, us, some of our friends in the UN system, in the Arab world but also a little bit further away in Africa and Asia, that especially in this moment where it is so difficult to keep the perspective alive, the voices of wisdom and realism need to be heard and need to speak up.
This is why, as the objective was fading away, we kept this position and continued the work at full speed and with all our strength.
This explains our position on all recent developments.
First, on settlements. We have always believed that border changes can only be decided through direct negotiations between the parties, based on the pre-1967 borders. Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law; they constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two-state solution impossible.
In addition, settlement activity in East Jerusalem seriously jeopardizes the possibility of Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both States.
We have never shied away from restating this position – including just a week ago – and with a united European position. I hear many times many inviting us to speak with one voice. In difficult times, in difficult years this has remained and remains a strong united European Union position.
Our position is clear and unchanged also regarding the security of the State of Israel. Firing rockets on Israel's civilian population is simply unacceptable. I am grateful to Egypt for their diplomatic efforts which helped to stop the recent escalation. I will repeat once again: Israel and Israelis have the right to security. But we are also convinced that security will only be sustainable and real if it is built on peace and on the two-state solution.
As you know, in these years we have worked constantly to alleviate the suffering of the people of Gaza. With the Gaza desalination plant we are providing concrete and long-lasting support, which will benefit hospitals, schools, companies and every citizen of Gaza.
Yet the crisis in Gaza is inherently political in nature, and requires a political solution. The closure must end and crossings must be fully opened. At the same time, it is also clear that Gaza is part of the future State of Palestine, and that Palestinians themselves must find unity beyond their divisions.
We know that the current political outlook is uncertain, both in Palestine and in Israel. Discussions among Palestinian factions have not yet led to a substantial reconciliation, and President Abbas has announced his intention to set a date for elections. On the Israeli side, the political stalemate continues and might lead to an unprecedented situation with the third election in just one year.
It is my firm conviction that with courageous leadership a return to negotiations is still possible. I am still convinced today, five years after my first visit as High Representative in Palestine and Israel, that this is the goal and this is realistically achievable. This is the only achievable, sustainable, realistic solution to this conflict. I am also deeply convinced that out of all the crises and conflicts of the region, of the Middle East, this is probably the easiest to settle in concrete terms, provided – and this is the most difficult thing to achieve – there is political will among the parties and among the international players to accompany this process.
There will not be peace without a strong political commitment by both sides and by the international community. On the European Union side, we have always been and we will continue to be ready to support, to encourage, to accompany all efforts to build peace and security and a negotiated two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
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Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the recent deterioration of the situation in north-west SyriaRecent attacks on a camp of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the bombing of a critical life-saving health facility close to the Turkish border are yet another deplorable escalation in the deteriorating situation in north-west Syria.
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EEAS > Iceland > #TheRealChallenge: empowering millions of children to speak up for their rights
Well into the 21st century, getting to live a normal, easy life is just a dream for millions of children in the world. Despite the progress made since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1989 —the most widely ratified human rights treaty, with 196 signatory states—, children continue to become refugees, to be recruited as soldiers, forced into child labour or torn apart from their families against their will. How to raise awareness of these terrible realities? On Universal Children’s Day, when we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UNCRC, the EU and UNICEF have given voice to today´s real protagonists. And they’ve talked. For the past month, millions of children have spoken up for their rights while creatively engaging into #TheRealChallenge, a joint global social media campaign that is ending today. Now it is time to listen to them.
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Launched on 25 October on TikTok -the fastest-growing social media in the world, already hugely popular in countries such as India and China-, #TheRealChallenge campaign released four video challenges where a child acts out a simple choreography to a pop-music soundtrack. However, these seemingly innocent movements hide a final twist linked to violations of children’s rights, which confronts the viewer with the real challenges that many children still face nowadays.
So far, the videos have received 230 million views across 41 countries and generated 51 million replicas, meaning spontaneous user-generated content replicating the original challenges. Today, at the High-Level Conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the UNCRC, the EU and UNICEF will show a case-movie on this pioneering experience.
One of the keys for the campaign to go viral has been the support of young influencers with thousands of followers in TikTok, and who are real celebrities in the TikTok ‘universe’.
However, #TheRealChallenge has gone beyond TikTok to be picked up by real-world stars who have promoted the initiative on their personal Instagram accounts. It is the case of the 14-year-old French singer and teen idol Erza and the Spanish singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Bisbal, who will be singing the opening song at today’s conference. Nereah Amondi Oketch, the winner of Ms. President, a hugely popular Kenyan TV reality show supporting women empowerment in politics, has also expressed her will to support a campaign that has achieved a remarkable goal: engaging the youngest in a fun and playful way to speak up for their rights.
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Girls speak out: EU strives to leave no one behindEach year 12 million girls under 18 are married; 130 million girls worldwide are still out of school; and approximately 15 million adolescent girls aged 15-19 have experienced forced sexual activity. The EU is committed to continue its full support to see progress and not regress, for girls and
EU and Member States safeguard UN annual budget for 2020, including human rights financing and accountability mechanisms In the last days of December 2019 the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Regular Budget for 2020, the result of intense negotiations between the 193 member states of the organisation. The final approved budget of $3.07 billion is in line with the Secretary-General's proposals and priorities
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Electoral Assistance for Parliamentray Elections in Lebanon
The project provided material and technical support to the Supervisory Commission on the Election Campaign, international standard electoral equipment along with the training on its use, and electronic systems of results processing and announcement.
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Encouraging human rights among high school students in Lebanon
"One World in Schools" educates high school students through the use of international human rights documentary films in class along with related interactive class activities and modern teaching methods.
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Humanitarian Mine Clearance in South Lebanon
Agricultural land in south Lebanon was significantly damaged by the bombings of the 2006 war. A mine clearance program has allowed farmers to slowly return to their fields and has contributed to the development of the region after this recovery phase
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After the assassination of PM Rafic Hariri, there was a common understanding of the necessity to improve the level of criminal investigations in Lebanon. Trainings from crime scene investigation to high-level officials contributed towards that goal.
Following the civil war and ongoing regional tensions in Lebanon, AFKAR works for the establishment of a rule of law in which democracy and dialogue prevail, allowing for moves towards reconciliation and the protection of fundamental rights.
Improving the economic and social conditions of low-income groups in Lebanon
Due to its turbulent past and ongoing regional tensions Lebanon needs support in rising above its economic and social problems. This project aims to cushion the impact of trade liberalization and improve conditions for low-income groups in Lebanon.
City Hill bloc 61-10, Zokak El Blat, Barbir Street, Facing Mouawad Museum, Beirut
P.O.Box. 11-4008 - Riad El Solh Beirut 1107 2150 Lebanon
Telephone: 00961 1 956 900
Fax: 00961 1 987 780
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EEAS > Штаб-квартира > Women in peace operations and peace processes: EU and UN together to promote women’s meaningful participation
Women in peace operations and peace processes: EU and UN together to promote women’s meaningful participation
The EU and the UN are increasing cooperation to promote women's meaningful participation in all roles and areas of expertise (civilian, military, police) at all levels in UN peacekeeping and EU crisis management missions and operations, as well as in peace processes.
The EU and the UN are increasing cooperation to promote women's meaningful participation in all roles and areas of expertise, at all levels, in UN peacekeeping and EU crisis management missions and operations (both civilian and military), as well as in peace processes. This work follows a set of priorities that have been identified to reinforce the UN-EU strategic partnership on peace operations and crisis management.
Against this background, close to a hundred experts and practitioners from all over the world gathered in Brussels on 21 November for a joint EU-UN workshop to exchange lessons learned and good practices on how to increase the number of women in peacekeeping and crisis management, and how to advance women's meaningful participation in peace operations and peace processes.
Gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union and flows through all of the EU’s actions and policies, both internally and externally. Gender equality and women’s meaningful participation are also essential factors to prevent, manage and resolve conflict and crises. "There is no lasting peace if half of society is excluded from it", as EU High Representative Mogherini said.
Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), which affirms women’s key role in the prevention and resolution of conflicts.
Building on the European Union’s work to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and its follow up resolutions on WPS, Council Conclusions welcomed the new EU Strategic Approach to WPS in December 2018 containing commitments and clear guidelines to achieve peace and security by engaging, empowering, protecting and supporting women and girls.
Its aim is to ensure that women and girls from all backgrounds can participate and shape all matters related to peace and security from conflict prevention to conflict resolution, as well as to prevent and protect from conflict-related violence – including sexual and gender-based violence.
Among the speakers of the EU-UN workshop were current and former women mission leaders; senior gender advisers both from missions and the Office of the Special Envoys of the UN Secretary-General, and women peacekeepers from across the world: South Africa, Namibia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vietnam, and Australia, the CPCC Deputy Civilian Operations Commander/Chief of Staff, a member of the Swedish Women's Mediation Network, the African Union and Canadian colleagues.
Academics and civil society also took part in the discussions that mainly approached challenges to gender parity and equality in peace operations and peace processes; the necessity of deploying more women in missions and operations and how to make them more inclusive.
By identifying the main barriers for this purpose and how to remove them, the workshop brought to the fore the need to work on both, the more technical aspects (infrastructure, recruitment policies, equipment, family benefits) to create a more enabling environment for women in what remains mainly male dominated areas; while also addressing the need for an organisational cultural shift (norms, attitudes and behavior) in order to ensure an inclusive environment.
While the former will help to recruit more women, the latter is about retaining talent and ensuring that women are allowed to contribute to making a real difference in achieving peace and security. This requires strong leadership, as well as good stories and role models – and the workshop showed multiple examples of all these three components that are required to substantially increase women's participation in peace operations and peace processes.
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What We Can Do About Trump’s Escalating Lies
July 10, 2018 By Robert Reich 1 Comment
As the political season heats up, Trump is ramping up his lies through his three amplifiers: Fox News, rallies, and Twitter.
According to The Fact Checker’s database, the average daily rate of Trump’s false or misleading claims is climbing.
The problem isn’t just the number or flagrancy of the lies – for example, that Putin and the Russians didn’t intervene in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump, or that the Mueller investigation is part of a Democratic plot to remove him.
And it’s not just that the lies are about big, important public issues – for example, that immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans, or trade wars are harmless.
The biggest problem is his lies aren’t subject to the filters traditionally applied to presidential statements – a skeptical press, experts who debunk falsehoods, and respected politicians who publicly disagree.
The word “media” comes from the term “intermediate” – that is, to come between someone who makes the news and the public who receives it.
But Trump doesn’t hold press conferences. He doesn’t meet in public with anyone who disagrees with him. He denigrates the mainstream press. And he shuns experts.
Instead, his lies go out to tens of millions of Americans every day unmediated.
TV and radio networks simply rebroadcast his rallies, or portions of them.
At his most recent rally in Great Falls, Montana, Trump made 98 factual statements. According to the Washington Post’s fact checkers, 76 percent of them were false, misleading or unsupported by evidence.
For example, Trump claimed that “winning the Electoral College is very tough for a Republican, much tougher than the so-called ‘popular vote,’ where people vote four times, you know.”
The claim ricocheted across the country even though countless studies have shown that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud and abuse are simply not borne out by the facts.
Meanwhile, over 50 million Americans receive his daily tweets, which are also brimming with lies.
Recently, for example, Trump tweeted that Democrats were responsible for his administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the border (they weren’t), and that “crime in Germany is way up” because of migration (in fact, it’s down).
Around 6 million Americans watch Fox News each day and relate what they see and hear to their friends and relations.
Fox News is no longer intermediating between the public and Trump. Fox News is Trump. Many of his lies originate with Fox News; Fox News amplifies the ones that originate with Trump.
Fox News’s Sean Hannity is one of Trump’s de facto top advisers. Trump has just appointed Bill Shine, the former number two at Fox News, as his deputy chief of staff for communications.
No democracy can function under a continuous bombardment of unmediated lies.
So what are we to do, other than vote November 6 to constrain Trump?
First, boycott Fox News’s major sponsors, listed here. Vote with your wallet and starve the beast. Get others to join you.
Second, attend Trump’s rallies, as distasteful as this may be. You’re entitled to attend. He is, after all, the president of the entire country.
Organize and mobilize large groups to attend with you. Once there, let your views about his lies be heard and seen by the press. You can find out when and where his rallies will occur here or here.
Third, sign up for his tweets, and respond to his lies with the simple: “b.s.” You can sign up here.
Fourth, write to Twitter and tell its executives to stop enabling Trump’s lies. Its contact information is here.
In addition, as the Times’ Farhad Manjoo suggested recently, Twitter’s employees should be encouraged to make a ruckus – as did Amazon workers who pushed the firm to stop selling facial recognition services to law enforcement agencies, and Google employees who pressured Google not to renew a Pentagon contract for artificial intelligence.
Twitter defines its mission as providing a “healthy public conversation.” Let them know that demagoguery isn’t healthy.
Your vote on November 6 is the key, of course.
But as the political season heats up, Trump’s lies are heating up, too. And they will sway unwary voters.
So you need to be active now, before Election Day – on behalf of the truth.
Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Donald Trump, Lie, Lies, Robert Reich, Trump
About Robert Reich
Robert Reich, one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Time Magazine has named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written thirteen books, including his latest best-seller, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future; The Work of Nations; Locked in the Cabinet; Supercapitalism; Beyond Outrage; and Saving Capitalism. His syndicated columns, television appearances, and public radio commentaries reach millions of people each week. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, and Chairman of the citizen’s group Common Cause. His widely-read blog can be found at www.robertreich.org.
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We have Trumpspeak. He has branded his own rhetoric by his own doublespeak. It is Trumpspeak. Let’s call it for what it is. Trumpspeak.
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Under the Constitution adopted in 1997, Poland grants women and men the same rights in all areas of their lives. Article 33(2) of the Constitution states that ‘Men and women shall have equal rights, in particular regarding education, employment and promotion, and shall have the right to equal compensation for work of similar value, to social security, to hold office and to receive public honours and decorations’.
Poland’s accession to the European Union (EU) and subsequent compliance with EU principles contributed to a general improvement of the legal framework for equality, including significant changes in the Labour Code. Both the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) take precedence over national law.
The EU has had a significant influence on gender mainstreaming in Poland due to the need to implement requirements for EU funding. For instance, all projects co-financed within the European Social Fund (ESF) framework must have a gender impact assessment. Gender mainstreaming has itself been the focus of a number of projects funded by the ESF, demonstrating its importance as a source of funding for activities aimed to improve gender equality and equal opportunities for women and men in Poland.
In 2014, the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reiterated its concerns in relation to the institutional mechanisms for gender mainstreaming in Poland [1]. The Committee noted that there is no government authority responsible exclusively for gender equality policies, there is a lack of resources, and the budget of the Plenipotentiary is not distinct from the total budget.
The first government commitment to gender mainstreaming was in the National Action Plan for Women (NAP) 1997–2000. However, due to a political shift in the 1997 election, this NAP was never implemented. With the support of the government’s Plenipotentiary for the Equal Status of Men and Women (established in 2001), the second NAP 2003–2005 was successfully launched, with the aim of mainstreaming gender equality into government policy at all levels. This positive development was interrupted in 2005, however, when the Plenipotentiary was dissolved after parliamentary elections and no new national gender equality programme was put in place.
After the dissolution of the Plenipotentiary in 2005, its competences were taken over by the Department of Women, Family and Counteracting Discrimination within the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy. The Department was responsible for coordinating the implementation of the gender mainstreaming perspective but was dissolved in January 2010. However, to implement the task of providing equal opportunities to women and men in the labour market, the Division for Gender Equality in the Labour Market was created in the Department of Economic Analyses and Forecasts. In 2008, a new institution was established – the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, which drew up a new NAP 2013–2016, including a firm commitment to gender mainstreaming.
The Act on the Implementation of the Regulations of the European Union in the Field of Equal Treatment, adopted in 2010, requires the development of an NAP for Equal Treatment by the government’s gender equality body [2]. The NAP is a horizontal, strategic document that gathers and ranks key equality activities carried out by government departments and agencies. In 2013, the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment published the NAP for 2013-2016. As of late 2019, no subsequent Plan has been developed, nor has an evaluation of the previous NAP been published.
Poland has no legal provisions to enforce gender mainstreaming and thus there are no actions coordinated at national level. The NAP 2013-2016 designated the ministries responsible for implementing individual objectives listed in the Plan. As it is not being continued at present, however, this designation is no longer in effect.
In 2010, the Polish parliament adopted the Act on the Implementation of the Regulations of the European Union in the Field of Equal Treatment [3]. The Act implements several EU directives, including: Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006, on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of women and men in matters of employment and occupation; and Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000, establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation. The Act sets general framework conditions for equal treatment policy in Poland and specifies the competent bodies in equal treatment issues, i.e. the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment as the government body and the Commissioner for Human Rights as the independent equality body.
The Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment (Pełnomocnik Rządu ds. Równego Traktowania) is responsible for the implementation of government policy on equal treatment, including gender equality.
The Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment was established in 2010 under the Act on the Implementation of the Regulations of the European Union in the Field of Equal Treatment. It implements government policy on equal treatment, including gender equality, and is appointed and dismissed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. The Plenipotentiary does not have a separate budget and has limited human resources, as it sits within the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
The tasks of the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment include:
Implementing government policy on the principle of equal treatment, including combating discrimination, in particular on grounds of sex, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, and sexual orientation;
Preparing and reviewing draft legal acts in the field of equal treatment;
Conducting analyses and evaluations of legal solutions in terms of respecting the principle of equal treatment;
Applying to the competent authorities for issuing or amending legal acts in the field of matters belonging to the Plenipotentiary;
Taking action to eliminate or limit the consequences of infringements of the principle of equal treatment;
Analysing and assessing the legal and social situation in the field of equal treatment;
Initiating, implementing, coordinating or monitoring measures to ensure equal treatment and protect against discrimination and initiate actions to limit the impact of violations of the principle of equal treatment.
The Plenipotentiary should cooperate with national social organisations, including trade unions and employers' organisations, as well as with other countries, organisations, and international and foreign institutions in matters related to equal treatment and anti-discrimination. With the consent of the Prime Minister, the Plenipotentiary may submit draft government documents within its scope of operation.
After the change of government in January 2016, an additional post of Plenipotentiary for Civil Society was established. Since then, the same person holds both offices - Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and Plenipotentiary for Civil Society. The significance and influence of the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment decreased substantially following this change, in both its scope of its activity and public visibility. The lack of a new NAP is the most important example of this decrease.
The Act on the Implementation of the Regulations of the European Union in the Field of Equal Treatment designates the Commissioner for Human Rights as the second central institution responsible for implementing equality policy. The Commissioner is responsible for the implementation of the principle of equal treatment under the conditions and in the modes set out in the Act of 15 July 1987 to the Commissioner for Human Rights.
One of the Commissioner’s key tasks is to act an independent body providing assistance to those filing complaints related to discrimination. It also conducts independent research on discrimination and publishes reports that include recommendations on legal changes required. In implementing the principle of equal treatment, the Commissioner may draw on a wide range of procedural rights, including the opportunity to demand the initiation of proceedings in civil cases, as well as taking part in any pending court proceedings or applying to the Constitutional Tribunal for examination of the compliance of legal provisions with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and ratified international agreements.
The Commissioner is appointed by the lower house - with the consent of the upper house - for five years. It is independent in its operations, distinct from other state bodies and accountable only to the parliament, under the terms set out in the Act. The office of the Commissioner is obliged to submit an annual report on its actions to the parliament, which is then made public. However, the independence of the Commissioner’s activities has certain limits. The budget of the Commissioner for Human Rights is approved by the parliament and has seen incremental reductions since the change of government in 2015.
Article 22 of the Act on the Implementation of the Regulations of the European Union in the Field of Equal Treatment obliges the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment to prepare and submit annual reports to the Council of Ministers, providing information on activities, conclusions and recommendations related to compliance with the principle of equal treatment, together with a report on the implementation of the NAP on Equal Treatment (Article 23 of the Act). Both reports are publicly available on the website of the Plenipotentiary. The last report on the NAP implementation covers the year 2016 and no evaluation has yet been carried out.
The Act does not provide any explicit obligation to conduct comprehensive monitoring or evaluation of the Act’s application, nor any sanctions to be imposed on competent authorities failing to achieve these goals.
Regional structures
Plenipotentiaries for Equal Treatment were appointed to improve the implementation of the principle of equal treatment in all voivodeships in Poland [4]. They were appointed based on Article 18(11) of the Act of 23 January 2009 on the voivode and government administration in the voivodeship [5], in connection with the NAP 2013-2016.
These regional Plenipotentiaries cooperate with the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, as well as with NGOs working on equal treatment and anti-discrimination. They are responsible for undertaking activities to promote the principle of equal treatment in the voivodeship and in the office servicing the voivode. At the request of the Government Plenipotentiary, they provide information on compliance with the principle of equal treatment in the voivodeship and the office servicing the voivode. The scope of their responsibility is the same in every voivodeship in Poland.
After the 2018 local elections and the completion of the NAP 2013-2016, most Plenipotentiaries continue to play a role in voivodeships, although experts note that their importance has diminished [6]. Many local governments appoint their own Plenipotentiaries for Equal Treatment, independently of the central government and administration (especially in the western part of Poland). These authorities operate under the rules set by local governments.
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Note: the methods and tools listed under this section were the focus of EIGE’s 2018-2019 assessment. If certain methods and tools are not mentioned in this section, this does not necessarily mean that they are not used at all by Poland.
The application of the so-called ‘minimum standard’ (a set of questions and points that define the minimum conditions a project submitted for ESF funding should meet in terms of gender equality) has had a substantial influence on the implementation of the gender equality horizontal principle within activities undertaken in the framework of the ESF. It is assumed that the conclusions from the evaluation of gender equality principle implementation (planned to be carried out at least once during the programming period for operational programmes co-financed by the ESF) will be used to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the gender equality principle within the programmes [7].
Training and awareness-raising
The Ministry of Investment and Economic Development is the public authority responsible for managing EU funds in Poland. It has undertaken a number of initiatives, such as: training sessions in the field of equality between women and men; using EU funds (not compulsory) addressed to the civil servants from Intermediate Bodies and Managing Authorities in Poland; and the preparation of an e-learning activity on the rules of implementation of the ESF in Poland. Part of the e-learning concerns accessibility for people with disabilities and equality between women and men. Since 2016, this training has been mandatory for all employees working for Intermediate Bodies with responsibility for projects within the ESF framework. The Ministry also prepared specific guidelines on ‘How to implement equality between men and women in the projects co-financed by EU funds’. The guidelines target all actors involved in implementing EU funds, such as Managing Authorities, Intermediate Bodies, or potential beneficiaries. The document shows how to implement equality between women and men at the different stages of the EU funds, including programming, monitoring, and evaluation (among others).
The only training and awareness-raising actions on gender equality undertaken in Poland form part of EU fund implementation. ‘Action Agenda for equal opportunities and non-discrimination within the framework of EU funds’ serves as the legal basis for such undertakings. An evaluation of the implementation of the gender equality principle within the EU-fund framework is planned for 2019. Its results will provide a more comprehensive picture of how Polish authorities meet the European obligations in that respect.
There is no comprehensive monitoring or systematic evaluation of the level of implementation of anti-discrimination legislation in Poland [8]. The issue of sex-disaggregated data would allow for more effective monitoring but is not yet regulated by law. The Central Statistical Office in Poland collects data gathered during the population survey, data obtained through reporting forms from private entities, and administrative data from public entities. However, only the population data are sex-disaggregated.
The Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment raised this issue with the Central Statistical Office in 2017. Such a change would require the cooperation of all government administration bodies, however, and there is little political commitment to introduce such a system at present.
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Act of 15 July 1987 on the Ombudsman (Ustawa z dnia 15 lipca 1987 r. o Rzeczniku Praw Obywatelskich). (Journal of Laws 1987 No. 21 item 123) (Dz.U. 1987 nr 21 poz. 123).
Act of 23 January 2009 on the voivode and government administration in the voivodship (Ustawa z dnia 23 stycznia 2009 r. o wojewodzie i administracji rządowej w województwie). Journal of Laws of 2009 No. 31 item 206 (Dz.U. 2009 nr 31 poz. 206).
Act of 3 December 2010 on the implementation of some regulations of European Union regarding equal treatment (Ustawa z dnia 3 grudnia 2010 r. o wdrożeniu niektórych przepisów Unii Europejskiej w zakresie równego traktowania). Journal of Laws 2010 No. 254 item 1700 (Dz.U. 2010 nr 254 poz. 1700).
Action Agenda for equal opportunities and non-discrimination within the framework of EU funds 2014 – 2020 (Agenda działań na rzecz równości szans i niedyskryminacji w ramach funduszy unijnych 2014-2020).
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (2014). Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Poland. CEDAW/C/POL/7-8).
Druciarek, M. and Przybysz, I. (2017). The use of EU funds for gender equality in Poland. In-depth analysis for the FEMM Committee.
Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment (2013). National Action Plan for Equal Treatment for 2013-2016 (Krajowy Program działań na rzecz równego traktowania na lata 2013-2016; Pełnomocnik Rząd ds Równego Traktowania). Warsaw.
Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, Chancellery of the Prime Minister (2018). Report on the activities of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment for the period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Sprawozdanie z działalności Pełnomocnika Rządu do spraw Równego Traktowania za okres od 1 stycznia 2017 r. Do 31 grudnia 2017 r).
Ministry of Investment and Economic Development (2018). Guidelines on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and non-discrimination, including accessibility for people with disabilities, and the principle of equal opportunities for women and men under EU funds for 2014-2020 (Wytyczne w zakresie realizacji zasady równości szans i niedyskryminacji, w tym dostępności dla osób z niepełnosprawnościami oraz zasady równości szans kobiet i mężczyzn w ramach funduszy unijnych na lata 2014-2020).
Samek Lodovici, M., Drufuca, S.M., Ferrari, E., Patrizio, M., Pesce, F., De Silvis, E. and Moja, C. (2018). Gender Dimension of the EU Cohesion Policy. Research for REGI Committee. Brussels: European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies.
[1] Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (2014). Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Poland. CEDAW/C/POL/7-8.
[2] Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment (2013). National Action Plan for Equal Treatment for 2013-2016 (Krajowy Program działań na rzecz równego traktowania na lata 2013-2016; Pełnomocnik Rząd ds Równego Traktowania). Warsaw.
[3] Act of 3 December 2010 on the implementation of some regulations of European Union regarding equal treatment (Ustawa z dnia 3 grudnia 2010 r. o wdrożeniu niektórych przepisów Unii Europejskiej w zakresie równego traktowania). Journal of Laws 2010 No. 254 item 1700 (Dz.U. 2010 nr 254 poz. 1700).
[4] A voivodeship is the highest-level administrative subdivision in Poland; a voivode is a government-appointed governor of the voivodeship.
[5] Journal of Laws of 2015, item 525, as amended.
[6] Based on the interview with the local Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment.
[7] Druciarek M. and Przybysz I. (2017). The use of EU funds for gender equality in Poland. In-depth analysis for the FEMM Committee.
[8] The lack of a comprehensive monitoring and systematic evaluation of the level of implementation of the anti-discrimination legislation in Poland was mentioned in the NAP 2013-2016. According to the interview with the Head of the Department of Civil Society in the Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment, creation of such a system is planned within an EU-funded project.
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October 19, 2012 October 26, 2014 Ekphrasis Studio
Water in the City – Berat and Gjirokastra
Water in the City
Heritage & Management
Gjirokastra and Berat
Water as a symbol can be found in cultural and historical aspects in the cities of Gjirokastra and Berat. Geographically, both have a river, Drino & Osum, running below cities that are largely set on the side of mountains. Artistically represented as source of life in “The life-giving spring”, an early 19th century icon from the church of Illia in the “Përrua” quarter of Berat, dated 1812-1814, around the same time that Ali Pasha Tepelene had a 12 km aqueduct built from the Sopoti mountains, increasing Gjirokastra’ s drinking water supply to 28,000 gallons a day.
There is also a legend of Berat in which the mountains Tomor and Shpirag fought over a woman, who’s tears made the Osumi River. Water is deeply entrenched not only with the history, but to the survival and also the development and identity of the two cities.
Berat, June 2012
Today, thanks to the geographical position of Berat and Gjirokastra, one can look over the city from the castles and easily view a modern evolution that has been incorporated into the landscape – the roof top water tanks and satellite dishes.
In what other ways do these private receptors of water affect the way we live our lives?
On June 1, 2012 Prof. Dr. Sotir Sotiri of Seismiology wrote an article about the danger of earthquakes or any ground tremblings in Albania and the safety issues with the roof top water tanks throughout the country. In 2011, a workshop and report was prepared for UNESCO on Disaster Risk Preparedness and Management in Berat and Gjirokastra, which outlined other risks from fires, landslides, falling rocks and also earthquakes – any of which could potentially destabilize a roof top water deposit.
Keeping this, and other factors in mind, we would like to consider the issue of water management in these two cities under the following headlines:
a) Water as a necessity and its management
Since 1991, local municipalities have struggled to manage the water supply and distribution due to deterioration of and illegal interference with the pipes, lack of funds, unqualified staff, corruption and many other reasons they believe will be fixed very soon. Being realistic, regular water (and power) supply still seems as a long term goal, and private elevated water deposits have until now been the main solution.
The efficiency of elevating water tanks is in storing gravity-fed water for later use. If the water deposit is located at ground level, a pump is needed and uses additional power, which is still not consistently guaranteed 24/7. The view of countless individual water tanks is very clear from the current landscape of the roofs of Berat and Gjirokastra.
An apartment in Gjirokastra has 15 separate tanks lined up on the top 2 floors of the building – an individual owner’s choice as solution to the lack of water supply, which started after 1991. Not only these two cities, but all cities in the country have the same landscape.
Casually perched on some old bricks in Tirana
Estimates from the IPA National Programme 2010 for Albania give two interesting figures: 1) Only 78% of the population is connected to water (56% rural, 88% urban); 2) 60% of water resources are “unaccounted for“.
In 1670, the Ottoman traveller Evliya Chelebi visited Berat and Gjirokastra praising the quality and availability of water resources in both cities, and stated that inhabitants had private water cisterns, public cisterns and fountains. More recent texts such as the 2011 UNESCO report on Disaster Risk Preparedness and Management and other architectural reports outline that many traditional Ottoman houses in these cities do in fact have internal cisterns, however they are generally not in use.
He also warned that of five public fountains in Gjirokaster “the water supply is not sufficient for the whole town.” Evidently this was understood in the efforts of Ali Pasha to have the aqueduct constructed in 1811 (destroyed in 1932 as part of King Zogs plans to turn the castle into a new prison construction).
Water tanks surrounding Skenduli House in Gjirokastra, 2012
Chelebi brought attention to Albania’s water resources over 340 years ago, and that interest continued. The Chinese were actively engaged in building water infrastructure in Albania from the 1950s to 70s. The World Bank has been an active player for many years, and since 1988 Germany alone has contributed 271 million euros to the water and sewerage sector in Albania, including 71.7 million euros in financing and loan agreements from Switzerland, EU and Germany, announced in March 2012. Also under way is a 26 million euro investment by the EU plus an additional 20 million euro loan from the German government for servicing fresh and waste water to Velipoje, Lushnje, Berat, Fier, Saranda and Elbasan. This is far from the complete list of water-related investments.
It is indeed significant that in these cities with historically elaborate and praised water supplies, in a country with among the most fresh water resources in Europe, plus the addition of over 300 million euros in the last 24 years to the water systems, and still the water tanks reign supreme.
b) Water & safety
As mentioned before, any ground movements such as earthquakes, or as fires, falling rocks or landslides, as suggested to UNESCO, would cause serious additional damage and injuries to inhabitants whose water tanks are on roof tops, and a potential danger to bystanders and neighbours. A full 250 litre water tank weighs close to 270kg, and one can easily imagine the damage that could be done by a falling tank. Are there zoning laws that address the use of water deposits? Checks for proper installation? What do insurance companies say?
Another concern with water deposits is water quality. How often are they cleaned and are filters or chemicals used? What is the municipal by-law on deposits? Do they offer services and information related to storing water safely? Do they have any responsibility over private water deposits?
New York City in 2009 imposed a local law requiring building owners to inspect drinking water tanks at least once a year and keep the results on file for at least five years, with inspection records given to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The law also created civil liability for non-compliance. The reason they said was to be sure the structural integrity of the tank is intact, and there are no openings for birds, rodents or other contaminants including sediment, algae and salmonella. Buildings unable to produce proof of inspection may be fined between $200 and $2,000 per violation.
What about Albanian water tanks? Do we just ignore health and safety, because `this is Albania`?
c) Water as architecture landscape (display & presentation)
In 2005, Gjirokastra and in 2008 Berat, were inscribed by UNESCO as “…as rare examples of an architectural character typical of the Ottoman period”.
It is interesting to note that the original architecture that has made these cities famous, did in many cases and still does have water storage cisterns on the lower levels, yet the roof top deposit has triumphed in the late 20th century and well into the 21st century, despite being placed directly on top of what has been recognized as outstanding world heritage. It is easy at first to ignore the sight of the deposits, however once they have been noticed, it is just as easy to ignore the architecture below and behind them.
In his book on the aesthetics and architecture of wind turbines, Frode Birk Neilson states that a priority must be “to establish beautiful and narrative composition in relation to water or land surfaces, a visual balance between elements in the landscape created by man and nature, (as) a whole.”
Substituting turbines for tanks, one does not feel a narrative has been established in these cities, as the balance is lost between the highly valued 18th century heritage and the haphazard display of 21st century Albanian survival and reality. Surely there are creative ways to re-establish the balance in these cities while combining the elements of life and modern living.
At some UKT water company offices in Tirana, corroded old hydro materials are presented as sculptures and there are small photos on the walls, of equipment we generally ignore. This indicates that there is some level of heritage and art being created and preserved in this sector, and an effort is being made to interact creatively with customers and workers. Pieces may be an old pump or pipe, and are shyly displayed as a ‘museum object’ of value.
The priceless ‘museum cities’ of Berat and Gjirokastra, however, are blooming with water tanks that offer no additional value other than having running water when there is no power. The local inhabitants’ priority is saving water for when there is no power, and although it might be possible that displaying a water tank is a status symbol or is seen as beautiful by the citizens, it is more likely that no thought or care for aesthetics, balance, or a narrative were even considered.
The legacy of these cities, if we remove titles like “Museum City” and status like “Outstanding World Heritage”, and see the cities for what is really visible, we find that the defining feature IS the water tanks. Will they one day be in a museum too, or have they already secured their place as a part of the “Museum Cities” of Albania?
d) Water as heritage, or future UNESCO heritage?
While water tanks might be impressive to someone, they are the daily bread of inhabitants who have gradually become accustomed to setting water deposits and watching them grow one by one. While we continue the discussion on water as heritage, it should be kept in mind that for the newest generation in these cities, roof-top water deposits are a fact of life, and are the de-facto life-giver.
If we have already used these water tanks for 20 years, for how many more years will these objects be part of our water culture? When does it reach the point where water tanks should be protected as heritage?
Water deposit elevated on a cracked tomb.
Martyrs Cemetery, Tirana, November 2010
Are roof top water deposits reflective 18th century Ottoman towns? What about 21st century European towns? If water deposits in Albania have been in use as a necessity and have established a new image and landscape in these cities, would they by default be considered objects of heritage, in a transition period? Does the UNESCO declaration for these cities mention the anything about Ottoman plumbing and water storage? Do these objects define the progress and maybe future recognition as a UNESCO artefact if this movement continues? It has already been over 20 years that the deposits have been there. (The EU has had a single market for 20 years, Paris has had Disneyland for 20, and the Pyramid of Giza is said to have been built in under 20 years.)
In 2012, we still see water deposits more prevalent than ever. We are in the midst of the 2008-2013 phase VII of UNESCO`s International Hydrological Programme (IHP) devoted to water research, water resources management, and education and capacity building. Meanwhile, UNESCO is also undertaking a project to train institutions involved in the governance of Albanian water resources. Does this programme discuss water deposits? And is there a relationship between designating Berat, water tanks and all, as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2008-2012 on water supply?
Relief sculpture commemorating the Bogove Aqueduct to Berat in 1988. Berat centre, in front of a fountain that doesn’t work in 2012.
Despite all the projects, programmes, workers, investments and loans, the continued use of the deposits is not disappearing, and we now have to consider answering the question – Should roof-top water deposits be classified as national symbol of Albanian cultural heritage? And if we are to look at them every day, ever where in the country, shouldn’t we do something about it?
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It was the district track meet - the one we had been training for all season. My foot still hadn't healed from an earlier injury. As a matter of fact, I had debated whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, preparing for the 3,200-meter run.
"Ready...set..." The gun popped and we were off. The other girls darted ahead of me. I realized I was limping and felt humiliated as I fell farther and farther behind.
The first-place runner was two laps ahead of me when she crossed the finish line. "Hooray!" shouted the crowd. It was the loudest cheer I had ever heard at a meet.
"Maybe I should quit," I thought as I limped on.
"Those people don't want to wait for me to finish this race." Somehow, though, I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran in pain and decided not to compete in track next year. It wouldn't be worth it, even if my foot did heal. I could never beat the girl who lapped me twice.
When I finished, I heard a cheer - just as enthusiastic as the one I'd heard when the first girl passed the finish line. "What was that all about?" I asked myself. I turned around and sure enough, the boys were preparing for their race. "That must be it; they're cheering for the boys."
I went straight to the bathroom where a girl bumped into me. "Wow, you've got courage!" she told me.
I thought, "Courage? She must be mistaking me for someone else. I just lost a race!"
"I would have never been able to finish those two miles if I were you. I would have quit on the first lap. What happened to your foot? We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?"
I couldn't believe it. A complete stranger had been cheering for me - not because she wanted me to win, but because she wanted me to keep going and not give up. Suddenly I regained hope. I decided to stick with track next year. One girl saved my dream.
That day I learned two things:
First, a little kindness and confidence in people can make a great difference to them.
And second, strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles we overcome. The strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.
I only dream that someday - perhaps as a senior - I will be able to win the race with a cheer as big as the one I got when I lost the race as a freshman.
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Bronx Community Board 8
Bronx Community Board 8 is a local representative government unit of the city of New York. This area of 3.4 square miles, encompasses the neighborhoods of Fieldston, Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Marble Hill, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil and Van Cortlandt Village. The boundaries are: on the north the Bronx-Westchester County Line; on the east the western and southern boundary of Van Cortlandt Park, Mosholu Parkway, Goulden Avenue and Reservoir Avenue, on the west by the Hudson River, and on the south by the Harlem River, West 225th Street, and West Kingsbridge Road and Broadway.
Its current chairman is Damian McShane, and its district manager is Nicole M. Stent, Esq.
The Community Board represents the interests and concerns of the local community on issues ranging from land use, education, housing, parks, public safety, libraries, the elderly, youth, environment and sanitation, traffic, and economic development. Some of the major issues that Board 8 has addressed in recent years include: the creation of a comprehensive vision for the community through a 197-a Plan; the rezoning of various areas to prevent development that is out of character with a local area; amendments to the Greenbelt or Special Natural Area District provisions; and the economic revitalization of West 230th Street and Broadway.
The 1975 New York City Charter revisions allocated greater responsibility to Community Boards, especially in relation to municipal service delivery, the City budget, and land use, and the 1989 Charter revisions affirmed their role in those processes.
There is one Community Board for each of the Bronx's 12 Community Districts. Each Board consists of up to 50 voting unsalaried members who serve for staggered terms of two years; one half of the membership is appointed each year. the members are appointed by the Bronx Borough President, with half nominated by the City Council Members who represent the community district. All City Council Members whose districts form part of the Community District are non-voting Board members. Board members are selected by the Borough Presidents from among active, involved people of each community, with an effort made to assure that every neighborhood is represented. Board members must be New York City residents who live in or have a business, professional or other significant interest in the district. No more than 25 percent of the members may be City employees. The monthly meetings are open to the public.
Bronx Community Board No 8 meets once each month - the second Tuesday of every month except July and august. At these meetings,committee chairs report on committee meetings; and members address items of concern to the community. Board meetings are open to the public, and a portion of each meeting is reserved for the Board to hear from members of the public. In addition, the Board regularly conduct public hearings - on the City's budget, on land use matters, and other major issues - to give the people of the community the opportunity to express their opinions.
The Board committees do most of the planning and work on the issues that are acted on at Board meetings. Each Board establishes the committee structure and procedures it feels will best meet the needs of its district. The Charter permits community residents who are not Board members to serve on Board committees. Bronx Community Board No. 8 has fourteen (14) committees that meet regularly. The committees are: Aging, Budget, Economic Development, Education, Environment & Sanitation, Health, Hospitals & Social Services, Housing, Land Use, Law, Rules & Ethics, Libraries & Cultural Affairs, Parks & Recreation, Public Safety, Traffic & Transportation and Youth
Community Board Responsibilities
Boards have an important advisory role in dealing with land use and zoning matters, the City budget, municipal service delivery, and many other matters relating to their communities' welfare.
Community Boards must be consulted on placement of most municipal facilities in the community and on other land use issues. They may also initiate their own plans for the growth and well being of their communities. Also, any application for a change in or variance from the zoning resolution must come before the Board for review, and the Board's position is considered in the final determination of these applications.
Community Boards assess the needs of their own neighborhoods, meet with City agencies, and make recommendations in the City's budget process to address them.
Other Community Concerns
Any problem which affects part or all of the community, from a traffic problem to deteriorating housing, is a proper concern of a Community Board.
The Community Board, its District Manager, and its office staff serve as advocates and service coordinators for the community and its residents. They cannot order any City agency or official to perform any task, but Boards are usually successful in resolving the problems they address.
The District Manager
Each Community Board has its own office, District Manager, and staff. The District Manager and the Board staff are hired by a Community Board and serve at the Board's pleasure. The District Manager establishes an office, hires staff, and implements procedures to improve the delivery of City services to the district. District Managers play many different roles. They are complaint takers, municipal managers, information sources, community organizers, mediators, advocates, and much more. The main responsibility of the District office is to receive and resolve complaints from community residents. Many Board offices have assumed the responsibility of providing additional services. These might include assisting with Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption Forms, and processing permits for block parties, street fairs, etc. In addition, some offices may handle special projects, including organizing tenants and merchants associations, coordinating neighborhood cleanup programs, publicizing special events, and more, depending on community needs.
CB 8 Bronx Address:Bronx Community Board 8,5676 Riverdale Avenue,Suite 100,Bronx, NY 10471Phone: 718.884.3959Fax: 718.796.2763
As of the United States 2000 Census, the Community Board has a population of 101,332, up from 97,030 in 1990 and 98,274 in 1980.Of them, 36,940 (36.5%) are of Hispanic origin, 12,163 (12%) are Black, non-Hispanic, 44,609 (44%) are White, non-Hispanic, 5,027 (5%) are Asian or Pacific Islander, 154 (0.2%) American Indian or Alaska Native, 401 (0.4%) are some other race (non-Hispanic), and 2,038 (2%) of two or more races (non-Hispanic).
* [http://www.bronxmall.com/commboards/cd8.html Official site of the Community Board]
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John Pickard (composer)
John Pickard (born 11 September, 1963), is a British classical composer.
Pickard was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England. He studied music and composition at the University of Wales, under Welsh composer William Mathias, and later in The Netherlands under Louis Andriessen and in 1989 was awarded a PhD in composition. Since 1993 he has been Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Bristol. John Pickard is also conductor of the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra and Choral Society.
Pickard has composed a number of critically well-received orchestral and instrumental works, among them four symphonies and a number of symphonic works, including perhaps his best-known piece, "The Flight of Icarus", which San Francisco Chronicle called "a translucent and achingly lovely memorial to the fallen Icarus… a serious contender for the most exciting musical premiere of 2006." [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/06/DDGDTGHK7C1.DTL&hw=john+pickard&sn=004&sc=134 'Flight of Icarus' soars in bravura U.S. premiere ] ] His orchestral writing has been highly praised: in March 2008 The Times commented that "his orchestral mastery is total." [ [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/cd_reviews/article3592345.ece John Pickard: The Flight of Icarus ] ] while, in April 2008 The Guardian described his music as "at its best virtuosically effective, in a style that never seems either self-consciously conservative or too stubbornly middle-of-the-road." [ [http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/andrewclements/story/0,,2276083,00.html John Pickard: The Flight of Icarus ] ] He has also composed a Piano Concerto, a Trombone Concerto "The Spindle of Necessity", recorded by Christian Lindberg and four string quartets. The Strad stated that the fourth quartet was "one of the best pieces of British chamber music to be heard for years", while Tempo, reviewing a recording of all four quartets offered the opinion that “ if Pickard were never to write another quartet in his life, his place among the greats is secure”. [Tempo No.57 (223) January 2003 pp.68-75 ]
John Pickard is also the General Editor of the Elgar Complete Edition.
elected Works
*"Symphony No. 2" (1989);
*"Sea-Change" (1989),
*"The Flight of Icarus" (1990)
* "String Quartet No. 1" (1991)
*"Channel Firing" (1992-93)
*"Symphony No. 3" (1997)
*"The Spindle of Necessity (Trombone Concerto)" (1997)
* "Piano Concerto" (2000)
*"The Borders of Sleep": song cycle for baritone and piano (2001)
*"Gaia Symphony" (1991-2003) for brass band
* "Sonata for Violin and Piano" (2004)
*"Eden" (2005) for brass band
*"Agamemnon's Tomb" (2007) for three vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra
* [http://www.johnpickard.co.uk Official Website]
* [http://www.bis.se/index.php?sokTyp=namn&sokText=pickard&Skicka=Search! Recordings of works by John Pickard at BIS]
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Misbah finalises playing Xl for first Sri Lanka ODI
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By Inam Ur Rehman On Sep 24, 2019 98 0
Openers Fakhar Zaman and Imamul Haq will continue their partnership at the top of Pakistan’s batting order.
Pakistan’s head coach-cum-chief selector, Misbahul Haq, has finalised the team combination for the first One-day International (ODI) between Pakistan and Sri Lanka which will be played on Friday at the National Stadium in Karachi.
Openers Fakhar Zaman and Imamul Haq will continue their partnership at the top of Pakistan’s batting order in Sri Lanka’s upcoming tour of Pakistan. Batsman Abid Ali is the third opener in the squad and is expected to be given an opportunity later in the series.
Zaman will be given an extended run with the side in order to allow the flamboyant opener to retrieve his lost form.
It should be noted that Zaman was successful in scoring a half-century in only one of his eight innings in the 2019 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup. He scored 186 runs at an average of 23.25.
On the other hand, the performance of his partner Imam was also not extraordinary during the mega event. Barring a century against Bangladesh, the opener scored 205 runs in seven innings with just one half-century.
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Gerry Ehman
For the American astronomer, see Jerry R. Ehman.
Gerald Joseph Ehman (November 3, 1932 – March 21, 2006) was a NHL player and scout.
(1932-11-03)November 3, 1932
Cudworth, Saskatchewan, Canada
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175 lb (79 kg; 12 st 7 lb)
Played for
Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals
Ehman played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals. He played 429 regular season games in the NHL, scoring 96 goals and 118 assists for 214 points. He also played for various teams in the American Hockey League, Western Hockey League and the Quebec Hockey League. He died on March 21, 2006 of lung cancer.[1]
Awards and achievementsEdit
1964 John B. Sollenberger Trophy winner (Rochester).[1]
1964 NHL All Star.
1963-64 Stanley Cup Champion with Toronto (as a Player)
1979-80 Stanley Cup Champion with New York Islanders (Scout)
1981-82 Stanley Cup Champion with New York Islanders (Head Scout)
1982-83 Stanley Cup Champion with New York Islanders (Assistant General Manager/Director of Scouting)
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Muslims in Asia celebrate Eid, pray for peace
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12:38 PM, 25 Jun, 2017
Jakarta (Reuters): Muslims in Asia celebrated the Eid-al-Fitr religious holiday on Sunday with prayers for peace as they marked the end of Islam's holy month of Ramadan.
As at the start of Ramadan, during which believers abstain from eating and drinking during daylight hours, Eid-al-Fitr depends on the sighting of the moon and its celebration varies in different countries.
The day begins with early morning prayers and then family visits and feasts.
In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, residents said they hoped the spirit of Eid would overcome fears about rising militancy in the country with the largest number of Muslims.
A police officer was killed on Sunday in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in the city of Medan.
Islamic State sympathizers have carried out a series of mostly low-level attacks in Indonesia over the past few years.
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"I think we need to go back to the basis of Islam which is to give peace to all mankind," Samsul Arifin told Reuters Television.
In the Philippines, fighting between government forces and Islamist rebels in the southern town of Marawi eased on Sunday as the military sought to enforce a temporary truce to mark the Eid holiday.
Small skirmishes took place early in the day in parts of Marawi, where fighters loyal to Islamic State were clinging on for a fifth week.
Muslims attended prayers at a Marawi mosque in an emotional gathering. The fighting has displaced some 246,000 people, and killed more than 350 people, most of them rebels, and about 69 members of the security forces.
"This is the most painful, the most sorrowful occasion, Eid al-Fitr, that we have experienced for the last hundreds of years," said Zia Alonto Adiong, a spokesman for the provincial crisis committee.
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In Malaysia, the civil war in Yemen was on the minds of two refugees who prayed at the main mosque in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
Sisters Sumayah and Nabila Ali said they sought refuge in Malaysia after fleeing Yemen where more than 10,000 people have died in two years of conflict.
"When we say poor people, children who are not safe, are always in danger, we hope that one day it will be safe again and people will be happy again. Inshallah," said 28-year-old Sumayah.
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US Discloses Documents on Papua Independence Struggle
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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The United States has disclosed documents on Papua independence struggle. The documents say that Papuans asked for U.S. funding and armed them to fight Indonesian military in mid-1960.
The documents also recorded Papuan grievances about clashes with Indonesian security forces. Papuan nationalists have caught the attention of the United Nations (UN).
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Researchers are currently trying to serve the documents online. AP reported that the dossier contains thousands of diplomatic telegrams between the U.S. State Department and Embassy in Jakarta. The documents recorded history from 1960 and were declassified early this year. Thirty-seven boxes of telegrams are stored at the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland.
The documents say that around 1,000 Papuans were cheated out of their rights as citizens to vote to strengthen Indonesia’s foothold in 1969. Before the annexation, the Netherlands had said that it would allow Papuans to prepare for their own government. In 1967, the U.S. government assisted mining company Freeport to exploit rich mining and gold deposit in Papua.
In April 1966, the documents transmitted by telegraph cable between the State Department and the U.S. Embassy recorded the “eloquence and intensity” of Markus Kaisiepo, an exiled Papuan leader. Kaisiepo talked with U.S. senior official on the plight of Papuans under the Indonesian rule.
Kaisiepo said that Papuans were striving for independence, but they lack financial resources and military equipment to fight the Indonesian government. He asked whether the U.S. government could lend a hand.
The request was rejected just like a similar request from another Papuan leader Nicolaas Jouwe. His request for funding and firearms to the U.S. and Australia was denied.
The documents also show how Indonesian government officials looted Papua after Indonesia seized the region in 1962. It has left the region with a collapse in living standards, sparking anger that boiled over into outright rebellion.
But the most notable issue to the international community is the Indonesian government’s reluctance to uphold a settlement signed with the Netherlands brokered by the U.S. and the UN. The settlement holds that West Papuan holds the right to self-determination.
Read: Papua Police Secure Timika from Armed Criminals
Victor Yeimo, leader of pro-independence West Papua National Committee, said that the documents are ‘very important’ because they provide evidence of crimes against Papuans by Indonesian military and the United States’ role in denying their rights to self-determination.
Victor said that the U.S. economic and political interests played a major role in West Papua colonization. Information gained from these documents shows the world and today's generation that the U.S. and Indonesia have been hand-in-hand in hiding the truth all along,” Yeimo was quoted as saying by AP.
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Space Shuttle Discovery as photographed from space. source: NASA
Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, on board the International Space Station (ISS), caught a candid shot of the Shuttle craft Discovery on its way to launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center.
Chiao used a digital camera from an altitude of 220 statute miles to photograph Discovery during its roll out in preparation for the first launch of a shuttle in the two years since the Columbia disaster. The shot was made at 4:35 Eastern Daylight Time when the ISS flew over the launch site.
Two pads at Launch Complex 39 are visible in the image. Discovery's launch pad, 39-B, is on the left. Inset points to Discovery.
"Space Shuttle Discovery resumes rollout to launch pad" — Wikinews, April 6, 2005
"Kennedy Space Center Multimedia Gallery" — NASA, April 6, 2005
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Where Does Music Really Come From? Part 2 →
Where Does Music Really Come From? More on Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown at work on the mazurka in D flat
The music of Rosemary Brown is the subject that has brought people to my blog more than any other. My writing about her has put me in touch with some fascinating people in faraway places, and just recently that has led to my being given another album of Brown pieces as .mp3s, plus a collection of Brown sheet music I hadn’t seen before.
Through a series of e-mails begun with, if I remember correctly, a reprint of my original article on Mrs. Brown in The Ground of Faith, I’ve had the good fortune to become acquainted with a Brazilian musician and composer, Guilherme Tavares, who has supplied me with a lot of these materials, and also did me a tremendous favor by editing my own recording of “Grübelei.” A circular sort of Web process brought some of the recordings to Guilherme, involving other people with strong interests in the Brown phenomenon: Ademir Xavier left a comment on my blog about Érico Bomfim, who is trying to record all of Mrs. Brown’s work, then Guilherme contacted Érico, who sent recordings to him, which he passed on to me, and I am now making available to you.
Guilherme also found a BBC radio program about musical mediumship, from three years ago, and recorded the section about Mrs. Brown. He asked me to transcribe it, and I am posting it here. It includes the moment when “Grübelei” came into the world– a fascinating moment in which the most hardened skeptic would be hard pressed to believe Mrs. Brown was faking. I’m going to save further comments on the new material and on Mrs. Brown in general for the next post, but for now, I’ll say that I’m especially intrigued by what she said about all composers perhaps getting music from a central source beyond themselves, possibly transmitted to them by intermediaries, just as the composers themselves were transmitting music to her. This has been my meta-question about Mrs. Brown’s work all along– where does music really come from? If Liszt or Beethoven or whoever give music to Mrs. Brown, where are they getting it?
I remember one of my piano teachers, Jane Viemeister, who’s a competent composer herself, saying that music is like an endless waterfall; all you have to do is take your bucket and scoop some up, and there’s always more where that came from. Arlo Guthrie once said that music was like a stream going by, and it was his job to dip out the good stuff before Bob Dylan could get it! Many composers have reported feeling that they were simply writing down music that was being dictated to them by some higher Source, perhaps even God. Yet, every composer has a recognizable, individual style. I still find this all mysterious– especially when a poem pops unbidden and fully formed into my head. I can’t write music, but my best work does tend to happen in much the way those composers describe.
The conclusions, or rather non-conclusions, reached during this radio program are pretty close to my view of the subject. Except that, having lived with a spirit close by much of the time, getting mixed up in my daily life, I don’t have any problem believing that Liszt could advise Mrs. Brown on the price of bananas in the supermarket.
“Music from Beyond the Veil,” hosted by Professor Paul Robertson on BBC Radio 4, first aired July 14, 2009.
[A rather rough recording of “Grübelei” plays in the background.]
Mrs. Brown: It really began when I was a child. I had a vision of Liszt, but at that time I was not aware that this was Liszt, because I was too young to have seen pictures or photographs of him. And he told me that when he was on the earth, he was a famous composer and pianist, and that when I grew up he would give me music. After Liszt had established a link with me, he first brought Chopin, but then he began to bring others, and there is now quite a group communicating fairly regularly.
Robertson: A group which included many of the greats, Brahms, Debussy, Schumann, Schubert, even Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. This piece of music, recorded in 1969, is attributed to Franz Liszt, yet it was recorded nearly 80 years after his death. He chose as his musical intermediary, if we are to believe her account, a quietly-spoken, unassuming housewife from Balham. Her name was Rosemary Brown, and she created a stir in the late ‘60s, when her musical mediumship added dozens, and eventually hundreds, of new compositions to the musical canon of Liszt and his group of famous friends from beyond this earthly veil. As a musician myself, a violinist who spent most of his career leading a string quartet, you could say that I too am a medium, but when I aim to express some long-dead composer’s intentions and emotions, I believe I’m working from a musical score. Yet, I’m fascinated by the mysterious connection between music and our spiritual lives, not least the question of where seemingly transcendent musical inspiration comes from.
In 1969, BBC Radio 3 broadcast “Music From the Dead Composers,” an hour-long program which took a close look at Rosemary Brown’s claims. During the program, Rosemary described how she received new compositions from beyond the grave.
Mrs. Brown: Liszt, who was the first one to give music to me, has a way of controlling my hands. I think quite a few people will have heard of something called automatic writing, where a spirit controls the hand of a person here, and writes through them. Well, in this case, Liszt somehow contrives to control both my hands, so that he can make them play the music, and he plays the same phrases over several times, while I watch and try to memorize the notes, and then I’ll write it out afterwards to the best of my ability.
Robertson: In May 1969, during the making of “Music From the Dead Composers,” presenter Geoffrey Skelton and his producer Daniel Snowman visited Rosemary’s home, a small end-of-terrace house in Lakewood Road, Balham, to record with her as she received her music. Forty years later, Daniel Snowman can still remember how Rosemary sat at the piano waiting for inspiration to strike.
Snowman: It was a very emotionally low-beat occasion; there was no sense of a séance or of magic or tables moving or all those things. We simply turned the machine on and sat there, with her obvious agreement– she gave us a cup of tea and all that– and we sat. And she would, every now and then, mumble various things– not sure whether they were to us or for us, or to somebody [chuckles] from the dead.
Mrs. Brown: I’m becoming aware of their… they’re present. At least they’re here, see. They’re going to transmit. I can see Liszt quite clearly.
Snowman: And then she said, “Oh, yes, Liszt, Liszt is here now.” And Liszt apparently dictated to her a difficult piece called “Grübelei.” And she was mumbling back and forth with him, in English, “What? Five-four in the right… and a different… and the key signature, how many sharps? And three-two in the left?” You know, kind of, “If you say so, Maestro.”
Mrs. Brown: [slowly picking out notes, scratching on paper] I don’t know what I’ve left out. What have I left out… left out… left out? Oh, yes, you said repeat that, that goes there, yeah. No….
Snowman: And then gradually the thing seemed to come together. She tried to play it, couldn’t, Geoffrey had a go, and it came together as an interesting piece.
The most extraordinary thing to me about that piece she produced in our presence, “Grübelei” by Liszt (supposedly), was that somebody of the ability and authority of Humphrey Searle, a great Liszt expert at the time, you know, looked at this piece and said, “Yeah, it’s very much like the kind of piece he was experimenting with towards the end of his life.” It’s an extraordinary piece for somebody to simply do a pastiche of Liszt, to come up with something like that.
Willin: Well, I had quite a lot of correspondence with Rosemary when she was alive, um, and I’ve looked at a lot of her music and I’ve done a lot of tests on it, and I’ve discussed it with possibly thousands and certainly hundreds of people.
Robertson: Dr. Melvyn Willin describes himself as being a paramusicologist. As well as being a music teacher and performer, he researches cases where music apparently meets the paranormal.
Willin: And what do I have to say? Um, I think that she was genuine, I think she was tapping into something.
Robertson: So when you say genuine….
Willin: She wasn’t fraudulent.
Robertson: She was sincere.
Willin: Sincere, yes.
Robertson: OK. But do you think she was, in your terms, a genuine medium for something she couldn’t otherwise have achieved?
Willin: I think she believed that she was genuinely in touch with the composers that she said she was in touch with. Um, and hey, perhaps she was. I would be happier to think that she was in touch perhaps with something that was within her, that she was perhaps getting some help from externally. But I don’t believe that Beethoven or Liszt was telling her the price of bananas in the supermarket, etc.
As to her music, it’s always come across to me, and to others, as a rather good pastiche of the actual composers. But having said that, I wouldn’t say always, and that’s the frustrating thing, because I can’t say that no, I think all her pieces were pastiche. I have to say that I think an awful lot were, but there was the odd one or two, that I just think, I don’t know how she did that.
Robertson: So where does that leave us with the intriguing case of Rosemary Brown? Not even her most ardent critics accused her of being fraudulent, or of somehow deceiving the public, and she was clearly sincere in her belief about where her talents came from. It’s interesting, though, to hear her in an interview of 1967, describing her composer friends from the other side as themselves intermediaries for something greater.
Mrs. Brown: Well, it seems to me to come from a central source of inspiration, as if there were spheres of music, and I think it is channeled down to me, as perhaps it is channeled down to other composers, by various intermediary beings, spirits, whatever you like to call them. And in this instance, I think there are people who have been composers upon the earth, trying to channel the music to me.
[Background music: a tenor singing “O Sole Mio.”]
Robertson: I’ll leave the last word to Leo May, who is as certain in his conviction as Rosemary Brown was in hers that he’s channeling the spirits of dead musicians, in his case, those of Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza.
[An interview begins] So in a way, it’s not a million miles different to having a talent and then having a duty to serve that talent.
May: I’m a servant, yes.
Robertson: And is that quite important, to feel that?
May: It is indeed important, yes. Indeed it is, to serve it. I want to serve the spirit world, which I know, if anybody says to me, “do you believe in the spirit world?” I say, “No. I know it.” And there’s the difference between knowing it and surmising that it might be there. I know it. Without a doubt.
http://www.arends-musikverlag.de/rosemary-brown/
Where you can buy Rosemary Brown sheet music and recordings.
https://app.box.com/s/isl0e5ybqgm84ljdusvi
My own recording of Liszt’s “Grubelei,” with some engineering help from Guilherme Tavares.
http://www.youtube.com/user/xavnet2
Ademir Xavier’s YouTube Channel, where you will find Érico Bomfim playing some Brown works, as well as a couple of interviews with Mrs. Brown. Xavier has a blog, Era do Espírito, at http://eradoespirito.blogspot.com.
https://elenedom.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-music-of-rosemary-brown-from-a-pianists-perspective/
My earlier post, “The Music of Rosemary Brown from a Pianist’s Perspective.”
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Tagged as channeling, Franz Liszt, life after death, mediumship, musical mediumship, Rosemary Brown, spirit communication, spirit entities, spirits, universal mind
15 responses to “Where Does Music Really Come From? More on Rosemary Brown”
Elene, very interesting. Thanks for refreshing my memory of Rosemary Brown. I do believe that some mediums can tap into the higher realms.
Here is a little something from my article about D. D. Home that appears in the soon-to-be released issue of “Atlantis Rising” magazine.
“Well before Adare began recording his sittings with Home, Robert Bell, a journalist, reported on his experiences with Home in the August 1860 edition of Cornhill magazine. He wrote of seeing a large hand floating before him. “Somewhat too eager to satisfy my curiosity, I seized it, felt it very sensibly, but it went out, like air, in my grasp,” Bell wrote, going on to report on a floating accordion playing music. “We listened with suspended breath,” he continued. “The air was wild, and full of strange transitions, with a wall of the most pathetic sweetness running through it. The execution was no less remarkable for its delicacy than its power. When the notes swelled in some of the bold passages the sound rolled through the room with an astounding reverberation; then, gently subsiding, sank into a strain of divine tenderness…Our ears, that heard it, had never before been visited by ‘a sound so fine.’ It continued diminishing and diminishing and diminishing, and stretching far away into distance and darkness, until the attenuated thread of sound became so exquisite that it was impossible at last to fix the moment when it ceased.”
Thanks, Mike. Despite all that I’ve experienced, I don’t know what I would do if a disembodied instrument suddenly started playing right in front of me!
Thank you Elene, for providing all this material. I first heard Grubelei on U Tube, and your recording of this piece makes me tingle again all over: the authentic resonance of the contact – self-tuning between different frequencies, or worlds – Maestro and pupil (or mediator, as Rosemary was) … it always deeply moves towards; how the notes and time signatures merge. I get a very strong feeling of Liszt’s presence. In this dimension it is actually immaterial whether the composers as individuals are at hand; as you observe, and as Rosemary said, it comes from a source beyond and transcending their figures and lives. But the music comes through. It approximates to their actual personalities and signatures in an intimate way. This in itself is a miracle – or a mystery; for everything when we actually look at it, is miraculous.
I was just about to ask your correspondent to email to me some of the sheet music, and … lo and behold, here today on your post, it is. A lot to explore. The “contact” within these pieces is of vital interest also in the art of exchange, which is healing. It is philosophical and creative. The composers told Rosemary they wanted to wake us up a little.
The truth in principle transcends academic versions. Thanks again.
Jane, thanks for these erudite and poetic comments. It is immaterial in a way, for the purposes of transmitting the music, whether the composers are present as individuals, as you say. But when Chopin is away for a long time, I do miss him terribly!
Guilherme Tavares
Great post, Elene, very glad to read it. On two occasions when I was a teenager I received two complete instrumental songs without any effort (some arranging details had to be worked out, but the main line from the beginning to end and the overall mood were perfectly clear). I always think it came from God itself. Another composition that “I made” grew up by a process of mentally singing the initial part and then the continuation simply CAME OUT. It all occurred when I was lying on my bed, at night, ready to sleep. I stood up, played the new part and recorded it on a tape recorder. The same process occurred again and again. Next morning I listened to the tape and surprisingly the music had grown to approximately 10 minutes. Initially I had only a simple guitar riff and the goal to invent something that would last about 15 minutes.
Elene, So glad to find your copies of Rosemary Brown’smusic–I heard about her yrs. ago-and a friend a few weeks ago brought her name up-I went to google and put in Rosemary Brown’s name and came up with your website–and have been able to print out alot of the music, and play it as well-It is very fascinating-all the music she was able to channel–But what happened to alot of it? Wish it could be found– I know very well Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu-Did you know that the person that composed i’m Always Chasing Rainbows took the middle part of Chopin’s Fantasie impromptu and made it into I’m Always Chasing Rainbows? Dont think its right that Chopin’s music should be stolen–I am a pianist of many yrs. and enjoy playing RosemaryBrown’s channeled music-In fact I will be playing the Eight Pieces for Children tomorrow–Just printed it all –sight reading it, but that is fun to do–If you ever hear of any more of her music that is printed , could you let me know–Have enjoyed reading your articles. Rosemary Fletcher
Glad it was helpful, Rosemary. I think you’ll find a good deal to enjoy in the Brown repertoire, as well as some pieces that may leave you feeling puzzled and/or unsatisfied. I have to again thank Jane Ellen and Guilherme Tavares for making it all available to me.
I particularly recommend the last of the second set of mazurkas, the one in G# minor.
Yes, I certainly did know about “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” as well as other pop tunes “stolen” from classical pieces during that era. No comment!
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Sherif Fayek
I was browsing the net for some rare or unknown music pieces for Chopin, my favorite ever composer, that I possibly didnt know about or didnt hear, and came though your article, and all this story of Rosemary Brown. What a story ! ..unbelievable !!.. I have actually never experienced or witnessed any of these paranormal phenomena, and to tell truth, was never very interested about it , yet what strikes me in this story is actually the material, the music itself .. I heard what you shared in box.com, and was happily surprised to find some real gem pieces , that – indeed – have strong touches with the composers style Mrs Brown claims to be inspired by.. Despite some clear repetitions and clones (like many of the Mazurkas, that have almost same repetitive themes but in different tonalities..), there are nevertheless some superb pieces (last Mazurka in the Leslie Howard recording being one) . It is really a pity that no famous professional pianists where at least curious to play the full repertoire??
It is in fact a huge difference listening to this music by some piano students or amateurs in you tube (including the recordings of Rosemary herself, that sound – in my opinion – very amateurish, harsh and unconvincing ), and listening to it played by experienced pianists (interpretations of Leslie Howard and Peter Katin manage at least to capture some of the soul of these pieces) .. Frankly, if I were Chopin or Liszt, I would have rather communicated with a Horowitz, a Cortot, a Samson Francois, rather than anonymous persons, unfit to convey the message, since they need in the first place decades to get technically to the level and depth of these great composers..
Anyway, whoever composed this music, some of it is really enjoyable. I thank you very much for sharing this material and am wondering if there exist any other dissent recordings available out there (beside Howard’s and Katin’s), for other scores of Rosemary Browns (it seems she wrote hundreds ??)
Sherif.
Sherif, I don’t know of any other professional pianists who have recorded this repertoire. There’s a young man who’s a friend of a friend in Brazil who was recording some of the pieces and plays well, but I can’t recall his name just now– will have to try and find the info.
But I definitely know some good reasons why these pianist-composers of the past would want to use someone like Mrs. Brown rather than someone at the Horowitz level. Most importantly, someone with great musical ability would simply be accused of faking and writing the music him- or herself. But it’s also likely that when the musicians in spirit wish to work with fine players, they have difficulty finding people who both play extremely well and can perceive their contacts.
Poor Chopin does not have the best material to work with when he tries to help me at the piano… but I do try…
Sherif
hi Elene. I know it’s an old post, but just wondering if you got any further info/ contacts/ updates regarding above issue?
Did any pianist venture yet into recording this repertoire anywhere in the world ?
Would appreciate any hints if you happen to have updates..
Thanks! Sherif.
Hi, Sherif– I haven’t heard of anything new coming along in terms of recordings, etc., and I haven’t received any more information on my own, but just now I was looking on YouTube and it looks like people have posted some recordings of themselves playing Brown pieces. Just search on “Rosemary Brown” on YouTube and you may find something you haven’t seen before.
Sonja Arends of the Arends music publishing company has been in touch with me, and they have recordings and sheet music:
hi Elene, ..still thinking of some of these beautiful little pieces, particularly of those attributed to Chopin .. tried to contact Arends music by email but no respond. Wondering if there been any other good recorded performances of Brown’s music recently , that you would be aware of ? was looking for the Howard Shelley CD or other ,,? Heard in a radio program recently that Rosemary Brown left more than 800 pieces.. why nobody has recorded this music, at least for curiosity …?
Hi, Sherif–
I don’t know of any recordings other than the ones by Erico Bomfim listed above. I just checked, and his YouTube channel is still active. I don’t know about the Howard Shelley CD.
I don’t know what’s going on with Arends. I will try to contact them too. Thanks for letting me know. Good to hear from you.
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Paper - The collection of human embryos at the Johns Hopkins University
Mall FP. The collection of human embryos at the Johns Hopkins University. (1907) Anat. Rec.
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Franklin Mall (1911)
The Collection Of Human Embryos At The Johns Hopkins University
by Franklin Mall
During recent years many human ova and embryos have been sent to the Anatomical Laboratory and those which are especially valuable have been preserved and catalogued. This record of 379 numbers includes nearly all of the specimens less than three months old and the older ones which are accompanied with a history. Short notes which are of use in determining the age of the specimen or the cause of their abortion, together with many photographs and drawings, fill five large volumes and add much to the scientific value of the collection.
Ovor half of the embryos (230) were presented by physicians residing in Maryland; 34 specimens came from ISTew York; 25 from the District of Columbia; 23 from Massachusetts; 22 from Ohio; 13 from Pennsylvania; 8 from Iowa; 7 from Illinois; 5 each from Michigan, Maine, California, New Jersey, Tennessee and Missouri; and the rest from twelve other States and countries. A large number of embryos which were first sent were injured, through careless methods of preservation, but recently, since the ten per cent solution of formalin is used as a fixative, nearly all specimens arrive in excellent condition.
In the collection there are 96 normal specimens which are accompanied with the necessary data to determine their age. Such data are difficult to obtain, and it was often necessary to write a number of letters for them. If physicians would take greater pains to add the date of the last menstrual period as well as that of the abortion, to the embryos they send, a satisfactory time curve of growth, which is still wanting, could be constructed.
Among 407 specimens collected there are 156 which are pathological, that is 38 per cent. Of these there are 267 specimens less than three months old, among which there are 130 pathological (48 per cent). The percentage of those of the second month is exactly that of the whole niunber (38 per cent), while in the first month (108 specimens) it rises to 66 per cent.
All of the pathological embryos have been cut into serial sections and in many instances sections have been cut from the membranes. A study of them, which is in progress, indicates that in many instances the malformed embryos are caused by inflammatory and hemorrhagic changes in the chorion following uterine disease.
Unexpectedly, therefore, we have found that nature has made for us an experiment in human embryology, which may contribute much to the casual study of teratogenesis, a subject which has always been very perplexing.
Eighty-six normal embryos have been cut into serial sections, about half being in the transverse, and the rest in the sagittal and coronal planes. Most of the series are good and some are excellent. Arranged according to their age they number as follows :
Age in weeks
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Number of embryos
1, 15, 14, 7, 12, 14, 6, 5, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1.
They have been stored and catalogued carefully and are constantly used here by students of human embryology. They are also being loaned to investigators in other laboratories.
Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2020, January 21) Embryology Paper - The collection of human embryos at the Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Paper_-_The_collection_of_human_embryos_at_the_Johns_Hopkins_University
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January 21, 2013 by The Phage
Everyone has their favourites. Whether it’s their favourite actor, director or brand of cereal. Life’s eclectic like that. Me? Well, I’d struggle to pick out a single actor; I’ve got way too many favourites. Cereal? Well, I’m not really a cereal fan, but I’d go with something containing almonds and is crunchy enough to break at least five teeth per serving. As for director? Well, that’s quite easy: Quentin Tarantino. The guy has had his hand in some of my all time favourite movies and has also propelled certain actors into the ranks of my favourites too, owing to his screenplays. So when a new Tarantino movie rolls into town, I sit up and take notice, as they nearly always guarantee a slice of cinematic gold. Can Django Unchained continue the trend?
Bad Boys… Texan style.
Before I get down to brass tacks, let’s discuss the premise of this particular movie… as if you don’t already know! The film follows the life of the titular Django (Jamie Foxx) – a slave who is liberated by a dentist-come-bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), in order to track down three targets. But what does Django want to do when the task is accomplished? Well, he wants to go off and find his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) – a fellow slave of the pre-Civil War United States. It just happens to be that Broomhilda is the property of a Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio): owner of the appropriately named Candie-Land plantation. Can the dynamic duo rescue her from his clutches? Or will Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) the loyal house slave, figure out their game?
Quite simply, Django Unchained is a formidable work of cinema. It won’t be to everyone’s tastes, but I loved every last moment of it. It had the perfect storm of great plot and fantastic casting, complete with Tarantino‘s brilliant scripting flourishes. So let’s kick off with the acting skills on show here. Much was made of the casting of Django himself, with Will Smith apparently in the running for the part in the early days. This made a lot of people sit up and take notice; owing to Smith‘s established fan base and ability to make massive returns at the box office. But for whatever reason, he never tried out for the part. This led to the hiring of Jamie Foxx for the role. Whilst Foxx isn’t the brightest star in the film, he fits the role perfectly. He’s just “right” for the part – he’s a fit, both physically and vocally. For me, his portrayal of Django was spot on. But as I say, he’s not the eclipsing star here. That accolade in fact belongs to three supporting actors: Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson. Waltz is bankable. He was sublime in Inglorious Basterds and put on a great show in Carnage. He’s a talent to be reckoned with. Whilst I found the role of King Schultz to be compelling, I never felt the same “wow” as I did with Inglorious Basterds‘ Hans Lander. Still, you can’t fault his performance here.
I think I was most impressed with Leonardo DiCaprio, though I’m not surprised. For too long this guy was seen as a flash in the pan – only famous because of Titanic and how much the ladies loved him. But nothing could be further from the truth. He’s shown us countless times how he can step up to any role, so it was great to see him as a detestable character. Candie is sinister, intelligent and at the same time, incredibly naive. DiCaprio pulls it all off with aplomb. Finally, it’s brilliant to see Samuel L. Jackson in another defining role. As I’ve mentioned previously, it seems the guy picks films out of a hat, as opposed to scrutinising a script, as some of his films have been less than palatable. But Tarantino again brings the best out of Jackson. Just like Joss Whedon has his favourite rotating cast, I’m glad that Tarantino has the same. It’s familiar, but it’s always different… if you understand me.
Plot / script-wise… it’s Tarantino. Come on – you know what you’re getting here. Ultra-violence, a heap of beautifully crafted dialogue and some great music choices. Some have derided the choice to include Rick Ross‘ 1000 Black Coffins (a modern hip hop song) in the middle of a film smattered with oldie-worldie sounding tunes. But it works! Come on, you can’t say you weren’t surprised to hear “Stuck in the Middle With You” during Reservoir Dogs can you? It was a massive juxtaposition – a guy’s ear being cut off with a cut throat razor with such a jolly song over the top. The same is true here, I’d argue.
The one thing that is definitely very “un-Tarantino” is the fact that he opts for a chronological story. We’re all well accustomed to his flair for Chapters in his films – ones that switch back and forth in time. They’re oddly absent here – something that must have been a deliberate choice on his behalf, of that I’m certain.
Oh, and anyone spot the massive tie in to the rest of the Tarantino universe? You know – where he makes a nod to a certain character / event in another of his films? No? Yes? It’s three points for a correct answer… OK, here’s a clue: King Schultz. Now go back and watch Kill Bill Vol. 2 with that in mind. All should become apparent.
Now, my verdict was never going to be an obvious choice based solely on the fact that Tarantino is the man writing the script, but it certainly raises expectations. Expectations can either be met, exceeded or never met. But Django Unchained never wanes and never bores over its lengthy run time. If anything, I’d have loved more time with those characters in their world. As I say, it’ll have its detractors, but what film doesn’t?
Thankfully, the Tarantino brand is still a mark of quality. Django Unchained is one of the best movies he’s ever put his name to. I’m not going to declare it “the” best, because his catalogue is too strong and it’s ultimately like picking between your favourite children… But we all do have a favourite don’t we? Cute little P. Fiction is mine…
This entry was posted in Review and tagged Award nominated, Christoph Waltz, Django, Inglorious Basterds, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Kill Bill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Schultz, slavery, Tarantino, Will Smith. Bookmark the permalink.
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Shrubs says: January 21, 2013 at 2:25 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed Django….the script I felt was razor sharp and delivered wonderfully by all the cast. The KKK scene with them moaning about the eye holes was comic genius!
Hoping to go see it again tomorrow (Tuesday) as I enjoyed it that much 🙂
The Phage says: January 21, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Totally agreed – I’m pretty sure I’ll be heading out to see it again at some point too. Sterling film. Completely forgot to mention the humour in the review, but that part was fantastic. Slightly strange cameo from Jonah Hill, but a great scene nevertheless!
jeffro517 says: January 22, 2013 at 7:04 am
I’m a huge fan of Tarantino also. I’ve got a page on my site devoted to his work. I also think this is great from start to finish. In some ways I think it’s a great sign that he’s inching closer towards the hearts of the casual film lovers. Nice review!
Nice! You definitely need some Reservoir Dogs up there though. Great film! I guess you might have spotted the tie in between Django and the rest of the Tarantino universe then?
Of course. I am planning on reviewing Reservoir Gods soon. I love that movie, but I don’t review a film unless it’s fresh in my mind.
Mark Walker says: January 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
Great write-up man. Such a good film and shows that QT still has it. Waltz, DiCaprio and Jackson were outstanding.
I’ve never doubted the big T. I even enjoyed Death Proof. Sure, it slowed down massively after the initial “accident”, but it’s still a great bit of film. It’s just that it pales in comparison to everything else he’s done. I really can’t wait to see what he tackles next. He’s talked about an Inglorious Basterds sister film and a Kill Bill Vol. 3 when the little girl hits 18. We’ll see! I’d love to see him on sci-fi, but he’s just so damn good at contemporary film.
Mark Walker says: January 22, 2013 at 1:41 pm
I also enjoyed Death Proof and he’s yet to make a poor film. I do think he’s running out of ideas though but sci-fi or horror would be welcome.
Horror would be interesting. I can’t help but feel he’d have done something like Cabin in the Woods if he’d attempted it. An attempt to shake things up. He had his experience in Hostel I guess, but it’d be nice to see one that he’s actually written. Production credits mean ziltch.
sanclementejedi says: February 2, 2013 at 7:34 pm
Can’t go wrong with selecting QT as your favorite director IMO. Really dug this film one of the more fun trips to the theater last year. I wanted to buy a crushed velvet suit and start whipping red necks.
The Phage says: February 4, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Oh me too. It’s probably the first time since Austin Powers that crushed velvet has been a hot topic on the lips of cinema-goers! It’s definitely standing head and shoulders above the other films I’ve seen in recent memory. It won’t win Best Picture, but I’ll be shocked if Waltz doesn’t pick up something.
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Ameris Bancorp Completes Acquisition Of Fidelity Southern Corporation and Announces Appointment Of New CEO
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameris Bancorp (ABCB) (the "Company") announced today that it completed the acquisition of Fidelity Southern Corporation (LION) ("Fidelity") as of July 1, 2019. Immediately following the acquisition, Fidelity's banking subsidiary, Fidelity Bank, was merged with and into the Company's banking subsidiary, Ameris Bank, with Ameris Bank surviving the merger. Fidelity Bank previously operated 62 branches, 46 of which were located in Georgia and 16 of which were located in Florida. Based on March 31, 2019, financial data and excluding purchase accounting adjustments, the combined bank has assets of $16.4 billion, deposits of $13.8 billion and total loans of $12.5 billion.
Ameris Bancorp logo. (PRNewsFoto/Ameris Bancorp)
Under the terms of the merger agreement between Fidelity and the Company, Fidelity's shareholders are entitled to receive for each share of Fidelity common stock outstanding 0.80 shares of the Company's common stock.
The Company also announced today that Dennis J. Zember Jr. has resigned from his positions as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company, and as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Ameris Bank, citing a need to attend to family and personal matters. In connection with the consummation of the merger, H. Palmer Proctor, Jr., formerly President of Fidelity and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Ameris Bank.
Additionally, five former Fidelity directors – James B. Miller, Jr., H. Palmer Proctor, Jr., Gloria A. O'Neal, Rodney D. Bullard and Wm. Millard Choate – have been appointed to the board of directors of the Company and Ameris Bank.
James B. Miller, Jr., who was appointed Executive Chairman in connection with the consummation of the merger, said, "We are delighted to complete this outstanding combination to create an even stronger bank that will be better positioned to serve our combined customer base and build value for our shareholders. We appreciate Dennis Zember's many contributions to bringing our two organizations together and are confident that Palmer Proctor is more than ready to step into his new role as CEO of the combined entity."
Daniel B. Jeter, the Company's Lead Independent Director, said, "I look forward to working with Jim and Palmer in the years ahead as we seek to deliver on the promise of this combination of two excellent institutions. Dennis has contributed enormously to Ameris over the years and was an important architect of this merger. We are grateful and wish him and his family well in his next chapter."
H. Palmer Proctor, Jr., added, "As I said when we announced the combination, our two franchises are very similar in culture with complementary, well positioned businesses. I look forward to working with my existing and new colleagues to build on what is now one of the strongest banking platforms in the Southeast."
To better represent the strength and size of the merged financial institution within the industry, as well as among existing and prospective customers, Ameris Bank has begun planning a refresh of its brand. The brand enhancement process, to be completed by the end of the year, will create a sharper, stronger and more recognizable brand, with elements from both Ameris Bank's and Fidelity Bank's current brand identities.
Stephens Inc. served as financial advisor and Rogers & Hardin LLP provided legal counsel to the Company. Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. served as financial advisor and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz provided legal counsel to Fidelity. FIG Partners, LLC, in addition to Sandler O'Neill, provided a fairness opinion to Fidelity.
About Ameris Bancorp
Ameris Bancorp is a bank holding company headquartered in Moultrie, Georgia. The Company's banking subsidiary, Ameris Bank, had 176 locations in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina at July 1, 2019, including the 62 locations acquired in the Fidelity acquisition.
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Posted on July 31, 2019 by Justin
The future of materials handling is in good hands with the introduction of young, tech-savvy professionals like Justin Beckerman. This week, Flexcon Container of Berkley Heights, New Jersey officially tapped the 3rd generation Flexcon’er for a design and marketing role with the family-owned creator of plastic containers, pallets, bins and boxes.
No stranger to the family business, Justin has been a fixture around Flexcon since his toddling days. For over 20 years he’s sat at the knee of his product designer grandfather, Stephen Beckerman, and sales-leader father, Ken Beckerman. Over the years, Justin has had the opportunity to contribute to everything from design projects to Flexcon’s IT systems—he even single-handedly re-upped company communications following Superstorm Sandy.
Beckerman has been drawn toward invention and innovation from an early age. He once built his own blender and he created a functioning submarine at the age of 18—a feat that led to 27 dives and countless news features.
Most recently, he graduated from the renowned Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey where he studied business science. His move to full time role was a natural, according to Flexcon President and CMO, Ken Beckerman. “He brings with him an extensive knowledge of engineering and marketing and will add his innovation, outreach and design talents to our organization,” he says.
On Flexcon’s business side, Justin will initially focus on improving Flexcon’s marketing capabilities and speeding up quoting for clients.
On the product design side, he will be working on adding the ability for Flexcon to design and make rapid prototypes in-house for a faster turnaround on samples and models. Part of that endeavor involves building Flexcon’s 3D printer. With 18 cubic feet of build space, the large format printer is custom-built to quickly and easily make conceptual container and divider models for clients.
The man who builds printers, submarines and a never-ending stream of solar-powered and remote-controlled gadgets has ambitions that extend beyond invention to innovations that build on Flexcon’s business success. His years immersed in the company culture made him keenly aware of Flexcon’s devotion to meeting clients’ needs—in particular those of facilities managers and directors of distribution and logistics. “The goal is to make the container the easiest part of their job. So when they’re running a factory, warehouse or distribution center, they don’t have to worry too much about what containers they’re going to get and how the quality may be,” Justin says.
In addition to seeing his role in Flexcon’s proud history of innovative product design and customer care, Justin is cognizant of the significant behind-the-scenes role of container manufacturers like Flexcon. “Every industry relies on containers to play some essential role. Whether the trays for bakeries, mail totes for the U.S. Postal Service or containers for automation and ASRS systems,” he explains. “They’re a necessary part of every single industry from agriculture to biomedical.”
With his new position, Justin looks forward to applying his inventiveness and insights to the challenges of modern customers. “We want to be able to help people move and store and take care of their products in the most efficient way possible,” Justin explains. ”Not only making it easier for each person who’s buying from us, but make it easy for every person that touches one of these containers—whether that means making a handle that’s ergonomic, a container that’s aesthetically-pleasing or an automated tote that’s 25% quieter.”
In doing that, he has the support of generations past. “We are excited to have Justin with us full time as our Client Design & Solutions Specialist and look forward to seeing how he can make our customer-based focus even better,” Ken says.
3 generations of family-owned business: Justin, Stephen, and Ken Beckerman
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Cher: Here We Go Again Tour with Nile Rodgers & CHIC
March 26, 2020, 7:30 pm at Amalie Arena, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa, FL 33602
Price: Tickets start at $39.95
Due to overwhelming demand, Cher has extended her phenomenally successful Here We Go Again Tour, announcing additional dates in 2020. On the North American run alone Cher has already sold an astounding 540,000 tickets.
Nile Rodgers & CHIC will continue as the special guest for the North American outing. Produced by Live Nation, the newly announced dates kick off March 6 in El Paso and will visit cities across the country including a stop at Tampa’s AMALIE Arena on March 26, 2020 at 7:30 PM.
Simultaneous to the announcement of additional tour dates, Cher has just released a new fragrance Eau de Couture which she has been working on for the last four years. It is available exclusively on ScentBeauty.com. “I made it for people who love perfume, want to smell good who feel that it’s part of who they are," commented Cher.
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Following the completion of 82 shows by the end of this year, the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, Billboard Icon Award recipient and Kennedy Center Honoree shows no signs of slowing down. The Here We Go Again Tour began September 2018 in conjunction with the release of her Warner Bros. “Dancing Queen” album which landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Charts. Cher recently performed in Europe for the first time in 15 years and received many standing ovations nightly, several five-star reviews along with the unanimous raves for her previous U.S. Tour dates.
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107. Ricky Valance – Tell Laura I Love Her (1960)
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Ricky Valance became the first Welsh male artist to hit the number 1 spot, with one of the more famous teenage tragedy songs of the early 60s, Tell Laura I Love Her.
This genre had been growing in popularity from the mid-to-late 50s, melding rock’n’roll with the stories normally told in folk ballads. The first notable example of these songs was Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller’s Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots, sang by The Cheers. This song grew in popularity following James Dean’s death in a car accident in 1955.
However, the first teenage tragedy song to hit number 1 in the UK came much later, in March 1960. Johnny Preston’s Running Bear had been an unusual track, telling the tale of the doomed romance of two Indians, complete with politically incorrect Indian chanting from George Jones and JP ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson (who had written the track before his untimely death in 1959). Tell Laura I Love Her had been written by Jeff Barry and Ben Raleigh. Barry went on to write or co-write some of the biggest songs of the 60s, including Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Be My Baby, River Deep – Mountain High and Sugar Sugar.
Tell Laura I Love Her had been a big hit in the US for Ray Peterson, but Decca Records refused to release it in the UK, considering it ‘tasteless and vulgar’. 20,000 copies that had already been made were destroyed. An over-the-top reaction, no doubt, but for many, the permissive 60s were yet to actually happen. The BBC were also loathe to play these ‘death discs’, but the Beeb had banned songs before, and it hadn’t stopped them reaching number 1 (see David Whitfield and Frankie Laine‘s versions of Answer Me). Not that this song was particularly vulgar, anyway. So when EMI Columbia offered the track to their new signing, Ricky Valance, he seized the opportunity, and with hit-making producer Norrie Paramore involved, the number 1 spot became his.
Valance had been born David Spencer on 10 April 1939 in Ynysddu, Monmouthshire, Wales. He had joined the RAF aged 17, before going on to perform in clubs, and subsequently getting noticed by an A&R representative for EMI. With his sweet voice and good looks, Valance was a great choice for the label.
Tell Laura I Love Her tells the tragic tale of teenagers Tommy and Laura. Tommy wants to marry Laura, and decides to enter a stock car race, with the hope of using the prize money to buy her a wedding ring. However, the race goes horribly wrong, and Tommy is killed when his car overturns and sets alight. Lyricist Barry was a big fan of cowboy culture and originally Tommy entered a rodeo, but RCA had insisted it became a stock car to make it more in keeping with the present fashions, which was probably a wise move.
The song doesn’t get off to a great start, as the verses are rather functional and dull, and the ‘bom-bom-bom-bom’ backing vocal really ruins the mood. The chorus is great, though. Memorable and sad, it lifts an otherwise average song, and Valance’s tender voice fits it like a glove. The lyrics might seem hokey now, but that’s par for the course with this sub-genre. It pales in comparison to recent classics such as Shakin’ All Over and Apache, though.
Tell Laura I Love Her sold over a million in 1960. Although it was his only UK number 1, Movin’ Away went to the top in Australia and Scandinavia. A year later, Valance entered A Song for Europe, but only made it to third place. His name soon slipped from the public eye, but he continued to perform on the cabaret and nostalgia circuit. Following severe depression and a nervous breakdown he became a born-again Christian, and still continues to release music.
Written by: Jeff Barry & Ben Raleigh
Producer: Norrie Paramor
Weeks at number 1: 3 (29 September-19 October)
1 October: Nigeria was the latest country to gain its independence from the UK.
7 October: As the summer of 1960 turned to Autumn, heavy rainfall caused severe flooding in the valley of the River Exe and surrounding areas of Devon. On this date, flooding took place in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. To this day (26 March 2018), it still holds the UK record for the highest 180-min total rainfall at 178mm.
8 October: The Sheffield Tramway closed, leaving Blackpool as the only place in England using electric trams.
17 October The daily News Chronicle stopped publishing, becoming absorbed into the Daily Mail.
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Multicultural Calligraphy Exhibit 多元文化書法展
Presented by Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society
Hosted by Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver
“I AM NEITHER OF THE EAST NOR OF THE WEST, NO BOUNDARIES EXIST WITHIN MY BREAST.” – RUMI
This year’s Opening of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month featured the calligraphy of China, India, Japan, Korea, and Persia along with translations in both English and French. The scrolls will be on view in the foyer of the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver for the month of May.
Museum hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11am-5pm. Closed on Mondays and statutory holidays.
Admission: Free on Tuesdays. Wed – Sunday $3/adult, $2/senior, students. Free for CCC members and children under six.
“Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent. With 9 % of the earth’s surface, Asia has more kinds of people, more kinds of land, and more kinds of climates than any other continent. It also contains some of the oldest civilizations of the world.
For Canada, Asia does not exist “over there.” It is, has been, and will continue to be, right here, contributing to and shaping our country. Embracing Asia in Canada is a calligraphic portrait of the beauty that multiculturalism brings to a country. Seven calligraphers from different backgrounds were invited to produce a special exhibition to celebrate Asian Heritage Month. The message was simple and clear, to show the beauty of Asian culture through written language. The exhibit shows the power of belonging either here, or there. It is about being humane; it is expressing the universal value of freedom through a code that others may understand. Seven cultures, seven scrolls with a quote that embraces multiculturalism. “I am neither from the East nor the West; no boundaries exist between my breasts” Rumi
Katharine Scarfe Beckett, Joanne Frewer (English and French), Kazuko Ikegawa (Japanese), Massoud Karimaei (Persian), Angela Leung (Chinese), Sarbjit Kaur Randhawa (Punjabi), Chyung Kun Seo (Korean). These talented artists teamed up to translate a valuable quote from Rumi that expresses the ideal of being one with the world, and to produce artistic scrolls showing the beauty of each calligraphic system.” – Leticia Sanchez, Curator
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MOFA voices regret after China puts pressure on Taiwan again
Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Monday expressed regret after the Papua New Guinea government ordered Taiwan's representative office in the country to remove the title "Republic of China" from its name under Chinese pressure.
"China's continuous oppression of Taiwan in the international arena when Taiwan is still embroiled in the aftermath of the Hualien earthquake will only hurt the feelings of the Taiwanese people and give them a negative impression of Beijing," said MOFA spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章).
The news was made public by China's Foreign Ministry on Sunday when spokesman Geng Shuang (耿爽) applauded the move, saying it showed the Oceanian country's "staunch support" for the "one-China" principle that sees Taiwan as part of the People's Republic of China.
According to China's Foreign Ministry, aside from forcing Taiwan's trade mission to remove R.O.C. from its title, the Papua New Guinea government also forcefully removed the sign hanging outside the office as well as the diplomatic plates it originally issued to the mission.
The MOFA's Lee said the office has been operating under the name of "The Trade Mission of the Republic of China (on Taiwan) in Papua New Guinea" since its establishment in 1990, and promotes bilateral trade, investment, education, culture, science and technology exchanges and interactions.
"We are deeply dissatisfied and feel regret over the Papua New Guinea government's move," he noted.
Taiwan has protested the move to the Foreign Ministry of the Oceanian country and the country's trade mission in Taiwan, according to Lee.
"We will continue to fight for the rights we are entitled to," he said.
A similar incident happened last year when Nigeria's government ordered Taiwan in January 2017 to move its trade office from the capital, change the name of the office to remove the title "Republic of China (Taiwan)," and cut office staff, also under Chinese pressure.
(By Joseph Yeh)
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WHAT IS GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth. Thermal energy is the energy that determines the temperature of matter. The Geothermal energy of the Earth's crust originates from the original formation of the planet (20%) and from radioactive decay of minerals (80%). The geothermal gradient, which is the difference in temperature between the core of the planet and its surface, drives a continuous conduction of thermal energy in the form of heat from the core to the surface. The adjective geothermal originates from the Greek roots (ge), meaning earth, and (thermos), meaning hot. At the core of the Earth, thermal energy is created by radioactive decay and temperatures may reach over 5000 degrees Celsius (9,000 degrees Fahrenheit). Heat conducts from the core to surrounding cooler rock. The high temperature and pressure cause some rock to melt, creating magma convection upward since it is lighter than the solid rock. The magma heats rock and water in the crust, sometimes up to 370 degrees Celsius (700 degrees Fahrenheit).
From hotsprings, geothermal energy has been used for bathing since Paleolithic times and for space heating since ancient Roman times, but it is now better known for electricity generation. Worldwide, about 10,715 megawatts (MW) of geothermal power is online in 24 countries. An additional 28 gigawatts of direct geothermal heating capacity is installed for district heating, space heating, spas, industrial processes, desalination and agricultural applications. Geothermal power is cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly, but has historically been limited to areas near tectonic plate boundaries. Recent technological advances have dramatically expanded the range and size of viable resources, especially for applications such as home heating, opening a potential for widespread exploitation. Geothermal wells release greenhouse gases trapped deep within the earth, but these emissions are much lower per energy unit than those of fossil fuels. As a result, geothermal power has the potential to help mitigate global warming if widely deployed in place of fossil fuels. The Earth's geothermal resources are theoretically more than adequate to supply humanity's energy needs, but only a very small fraction may be profitably exploited. Drilling and exploration for deep resources is very expensive. Forecasts for the future of geothermal power depend on assumptions about technology, energy prices, subsidies, and interest rates. Polls show that customers would be willing to pay a little more for a renewable energy source like geothermal. But as a result of government assisted research and industry experience, the cost of generating geothermal power has decreased by 25% over the past two decades. In 2001, geothermal energy cost between two and ten cents per kwh.
CHAPTER 2. HISTORY OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
History says that the first use of geothermal energy occurred more than 10,000 years ago in North America by American Paleo-Indians. People used water from hot springs for cooking, bathing and cleaning. The first industrial use of geothermal energy began near Pisa, Italy in late 18th century. Steam coming from natural vents (and from drilled holes) was used to extract boric acid from the hot pools that are now known as the Larderello fields. In 1904, Italian scientist Piero Ginori Conti invented the first geothermal electric power plant in which steam was used to generate the power. With the above experiment, the first geothermal plant in USA started in 1922 with a capacity of 250 kilowatts. It produced little output and due to technical glitch had to be shut down. However, in 1946 first ground-source geothermal heat pump installed at Commonwealth Building in Portland, Oregon. During the 1960's, pacific gas and electric began operation of first large scale geothermal power plant in San Francisco, producing 11 megawatts. Today there are more than 60 geothermal power plants operating in USA at 18 sites across the country. In 1973, when oil crisis began many countries began looking for renewable energy sources and by 1980's geothermal heat pumps (GHP) started gaining popularity in order to reduce heating and cooling costs.
As effect of climate change started showing results, governments of various countries joined hands to fight against it, for which Kyoto Protocol was signed in Japan in 1997, laid out emission targets for rich countries and required that they transfer funds and technology to developing countries, 184 countries have ratified it. Geothermal power today supplies less than 1% of the world's energy in 2009 needs but it is expected to supply 10-20% of world's energy requirement by 2050. Geothermal power plants today are operating in about 20 countries which are actively visited by earthquakes and volcanoes.
A geothermal power plant at The Geysers. First geothermal power plant, 1904, Lardarello, Italy
CHAPTER 3. FINDING GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
What are the characteristics of geothermal resources? Some visible features of geothermal energy are volcanoes, hot springs, geysers, and fumaroles. But you cannot see most geothermal resources. They are deep underground. There may be no clues above ground that a geothermal reservoir is present below. Geologists use different methods to find geothermal reservoirs. The only way to be sure there is a reservoir is to drill a well and test the temperature deep underground. The most active geothermal resources are usually found along major plate boundaries where earthquakes and volcanoes are concentrated. Most of the geothermal activity in the world occurs in an area called the Ring of Fire. This area borders the Pacific Ocean.
CHAPTER 4. GEOTHERMAL ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION
Most power plants need steam to generate electricity. The steam rotates a turbine that activates a generator, which produces electricity. Many power plants still use fossil fuels to boil water for steam. Geothermal power plants, however, use steam produced from reservoirs of hot water found a couple of miles or more below the Earth's surface. There are three types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash steam, and binary cycle. Dry steam power plants draw from underground resources of steam. The steam is piped directly from underground wells to the power plant, where it is directed into a turbine/generator unit. There are only two known underground resources of steam in the United States: The Geysers in northern California and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, where there's a well-known geyser called Old Faithful. Since Yellowstone is protected from development, the only dry steam plants in the country are at The Geysers.
This geothermal power plant generates electricity for the Imperial Valley in California. Flash steam power plants are the most common. They use geothermal reservoirs of water with temperatures greater than 360F (182C). This very hot water flows up through wells in the ground under its own pressure. As it flows upward, the pressure decreases and some of the hot water boils into steam. The steam is then separated from the water and used to power a turbine/generator. Any leftover water and condensed steam are injected back into the reservoir, making this a sustainable resource. Binary cycle power plants operate on water at lower temperatures of about 225-360F (107182C). These plants use the heat from the hot water to boil a working fluid, usually an organic compound with a low boiling point. The working fluid is vaporized in a heat exchanger and used to turn a turbine. The water is then injected back into the ground to be reheated. The water and the working fluid are kept separated during the whole process, so there are little or no air emissions. Small-scale geothermal power plants (under 5 megawatts) have the potential for widespread application in rural areas, possibly even as distributed energy resources. Distributed energy resources refer to a variety of small, modular power-generating technologies that can be combined to improve the operation of the electricity delivery system. In the United States, most geothermal reservoirs are located in the western states, Alaska and Hawaii.
CHAPTER 5. DIRECT APPLICATION
In the geothermal industry, low temperature means temperatures of 300 F (149 C) or less. Low-temperature geothermal resources are typically used in direct-use applications, such as district heating, greenhouses, fisheries, mineral recovery, and industrial process heating. However, some low-temperature resources can generate electricity using binary cycle electricity generating technology. Approximately 70 countries made direct use of 270 petajoules (PJ) of geothermal heating in 2004. More than half went for space heating, and another third for heated pools. The remainder supported industrial and agricultural applications. Global installed capacity was 28 GW, but capacity factors tend to be low (30% on average) since heat is mostly needed in winter. The above figures are dominated by 88 PJ of space heating extracted by an estimated 1.3 million geothermal heat pumps with a total capacity of 15 GW. Heat pumps for home heating are the fastest-growing means of exploiting geothermal energy, with a global annual growth rate of 30% in energy production.
Direct heating is far more efficient than electricity generation and places less demanding temperature requirements on the heat resource. Heat may come from co-generation via a geothermal electrical plant or from smaller wells or heat exchangers buried in shallow ground. As a result, geothermal heating is economic at many more sites than geothermal electricity generation. Where natural hot springs or geysers are available, the heated water can be piped directly into radiators. If the ground is hot but dry, earth tubes or downhole heat exchangers can collect the heat. But even in areas where the ground is colder than room temperature, heat can still be extracted with a geothermal heat pump more cost-effectively and cleanly than by conventional furnaces. These devices draw on much shallower and colder resources than traditional geothermal techniques, and they frequently combine a variety of functions, including air conditioning, seasonal energy storage, solar energy collection and electric heating. Geothermal heat pumps can be used for space heating essentially anywhere. Geothermal heat supports many applications. District heating applications use networks of piped hot water to heat many buildings across entire communities. More than 72 countries have reported direct use of geothermal energy, Iceland being the world leader. 93% of its homes are heated with geothermal energy, saving Iceland over $100 million annually in avoided oil imports.Reykjavik, Iceland has the biggest district heating system on the globe. Once known as the most polluted city in the world, it is now one of the cleanest due to geothermal energy.
CHAPTER 6. ECONOMICS
Some of the best places to build a geothermal energy plant is in the Western United States, specifically California, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. However, the use of geothermal energy is not limited to generating electricity. There are now mini geothermal heat pumps, which can be installed for a single building and are designed to heat, cool and provide hot water for a single structure. On a small scale, the well into the ground does not have to be very deep, which means it is a lot less expensive to install, and it can cut heating costs 30-70% and cooling costs 20-50% a year. As little as 200 ft. into the ground the temperature is a stable 55 degrees year round, so in the winter it is a reliable heat source for water and general heating.
Drilling sites for commercial sized plants are not cheap. Fortunately most of the costs are up front and compared to oil, which has low up front costs but more maintenance costs, the costs over time for geothermal energy are minimal. All in all it costs between $5-10 million dollars or $100-200/ kWh to build an industrial geothermal plant. Because the exploration and drilling costs are so steep, scientists are looking to expand already made wells instead of creating new ones and some are even experimenting with turning oil wells into geothermal heat sources. One company named "Potter Drilling" uses hot water heated to 1,472 degrees Fahrenheit that can blast through the hard rock, which surrounds geothermal reservoirs. This would not only decrease the need for costly drill bits but would prevent the risk of the drill bit breaking inside the well. With the plants that we have now in the United States, we have the capacity to produce 2 GWh of electricity and experts say we can develop commercial size production plants within the next 10-15 years. "EGS [Enhanced Geothermal systems] could provide 100 GWe or more of costcompetitive generating capacity in the next 50 years. Jefferson Tester, Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University estimates the figure for the whole world [of usable geothermal energy] is on the order of over 27 trillion GWh . We now use worldwide just over one 111 million GWh's per year .
Not only is this a viable energy resource, but geothermal power plants can bring substantial revenue to rural, and mostly minority populated areas. It is estimated that for every $1 spent on geothermal energy $2.50 is created and kept in the local community, either through taxes, company contributions or worker's wages. Geothermal energy plants create long-term stable employment to mostly low-income, rural communities. Geothermal plants in the U.S. alone are estimated to provide 23,949 direct, indirect and induced jobs within the next thirty years. They are not only stable, quality, long term jobs but they pay higher wages and create more jobs per KW than natural gas production. Geothermal plants also bring in a modest income as a tourist attraction from entrepreneurs, students and businesses interested in studying geothermal energy.
Because geothermal is a stable energy source and can operate 365 days a year, it is a viable alternative to coal and nuclear energy, which currently provides our most continuous energy supply. Solar and wind power are good, renewable energy sources but are not consistent and their energy must be stored when there is no sun or wind. However, geothermal reservoirs do not produce their premium energy supply forever. Over the years, many plants produce less steam, operate at lower temperatures and overall become less efficient with time. The life of most geothermal plants is about 30 years. However with regular maintenance and repair, they can last many times that. With the Government giving oil subsidies to the tune of $18 billion dollars a year and Obama's goal to be independent of foreign fossil fuels, geothermal presents an attractive alternative for fuel subsidies. Already there are grants available for renewable energy sources, geothermal among them, by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) which can help offset the upfront cost of a geothermal plant. Geothermal is quickly becoming a more attractive alternative, and could be one of the lights at the end of the energy crisis tunnel. As the market for alternative energies increases, so will the demand for this kind of clean, renewable energy and its attractiveness as a large and small-scale energy source will make it appealing to both businesses and individuals alike.
CHAPTER 7. RESOURCES
The Earth's internal thermal energy flows to the surface by conduction at a rate of 44.2 terawatts (TW), and is replenished by radioactive decay of minerals at a rate of 30 TW. These power rates are more than double humanitys current energy consumption from all primary sources, but most of this energy flow is not recoverable. In addition to the internal heat flows, the top layer of the surface to a depth of 10 meters (33 ft) is heated by solar energy during the summer, and releases that energy and cools during the winter. Outside of the seasonal variations, the geothermal gradient of temperatures through the crust is 2530 C (4554 F) per kilometer of depth in most of the world. The conductive heat flux averages 0.1 MW/km2. These values are much higher near tectonic plate boundaries where the crust is thinner. They may be further augmented by fluid circulation, either through magma conduits, hot springs, hydrothermal circulation or a combination of these.
A geothermal heat pump can extract enough heat from shallow ground anywhere in the world to provide home heating, but industrial applications need the higher temperatures of deep resources. The thermal efficiency and profitability of electricity generation is particularly sensitive to temperature. The more demanding applications receive the greatest benefit from a high natural heat flux, ideally from using a hot spring. The next best option is to drill a well into a hot aquifer. If no adequate aquifer is available, an artificial one may be built by injecting water to hydraulically fracture the bedrock. This last approach is called hot dry rock geothermal energy in Europe, or enhanced geothermal systems in North America.
CHAPTER 8. RENEWABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Geothermal power is considered to be renewable because any projected heat extraction is small compared to the Earth's heat content. The Earth has an internal heat content of 1031 joules(31015 TWhr). About 20% of this is residual heat from planetary accretion, and the remainder is attributed to higher radioactive decay rates that existed in the past. Natural heat flows are not in equilibrium, and the planet is slowly cooling down on geologic timescales. Human extraction taps a minute fraction of the natural outflow, often without accelerating it. Geothermal power is also considered to be sustainable thanks to its power to sustain the Earths intricate ecosystems. By using geothermal sources of energy present generations of humans will not endanger the capability of future generations to use their own resources to the same amount that those energy sources are presently used. Further, due to its low emissions geothermal energy is considered to have excellent potential for mitigation of global warming.
Even though geothermal power is globally sustainable, extraction must still be monitored to avoid local depletion. Over the course of decades, individual wells draw down local temperatures and water levels until a new equilibrium is reached with natural flows. The three oldest sites, at Larderello, Wairakei, and the Geysers have experienced reduced output because of local depletion. Heat and water, in uncertain proportions, were extracted faster than they were replenished. If production is reduced and water is reinjected, these wells could theoretically recover their full potential. Such mitigation strategies have already been implemented at some sites. The long-term sustainability of geothermal energy has been demonstrated at the Lardarello field in Italy since 1913, at the Wairakei field in New Zealand since 1958, and at The Geysers field in California since 1960. Falling electricity production may be boosted through drilling additional supply boreholes, as at Poihipi and Ohaaki. The Wairakei power station has been running much longer, with its first unit commissioned in November 1958, and it attained its peak generation of 173MW in 1965, but already the supply of high-pressure steam was faltering, in 1982 being derated to intermediate pressure and the station managing 157MW. Around the start of the 20th century it was managing about 150MW, then in 2005 two 8MW isopentane systems were added, boosting the station's output by about 14MW. Detailed data are unavailable, being lost due to reorganisations. One such re-organisation in 1996 causes the absence of early data for Poihipi (started 1996), and the gap in 1996/7 for Wairakei and Ohaaki; half-hourly data for Ohaaki's first few months of operation are also missing, as well as for most of Wairakei's history.
CHAPTER 9. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
Geothermal energy is a renewable energy source that can be used to offset the use of fossil fuels as well as the emission ofgreenhouse gases. Geothermal energy was created by the formation of the Earth and is replenished through the radioactive decay of core minerals and the shifting of tectonic plates. The solar rays that constantly strike the earths surface also add to the amount of geothermal energy found within the planet. Geothermal energy is already used by approximately 70 countries across the globe and is capable of supplying 75% to 100% of the commercial energy needed. This would significantly lower the amount of pollution generated. However despite all these benefits, geothermal energy is not completely pollutant free. The energy plants themselves are capable of releasing pollutants. While the geothermal energy is being extracted, noxious gases and elements are released, such as carbon dioxide, mercury, and sulphur. When released into the atmosphere, these things contribute to acid rain and global warming, things that renewable energy is generally used to lessen. Greenhouse gases are also emitted.
There is a case to be made against geothermal energy because of these extraction emissions. However while there are pollutants involved with geothermal energy, fewer emissions are released than when fossil fuels are used for energy. If geothermal energy was used in full in place of fossil fuels, it would have a much smaller impact upon the environment. These emissions can be offset by injecting any fluids brought to the surface through geothermal energy back into the earth. This is referred to as carbon capture and storage. Hot water from geothermal sources may contain trace amounts of dangerous elements such as mercury, arsenic, and antimony. If this water is released into rivers or other bodies of water it can be extremely dangerous to humans and animals who may consume the contaminated liquid. Any program to utilize geothermal energy needs to allow for the capture of these elements.
Another aspect to consider is the influence of the geothermal power plants upon the site. Geothermal activity can cause foundational problems with surrounding land, especially if water is used in correlation with hot dry rock. If the site is overused, or if a plant is larger than the geothermal sites capacity, it is possible to deplete the area of its geothermal energy. This has a hard impact upon the environment, and excess pollution from the remainder of the plant can also cause problems. Geothermal power plants have minimal land and fresh water requirements compared to other energy sources. Current geothermal plants use 1-8 acres per megawatt (MW) versus 5-10 acres per MW for nuclear operations and 19 acres per MW for coal power plants. They use 20 liters of fresh water per MWh versus over 1,000 liters per MWh for nuclear, coal, or oil. Geothermal energy has environmental implications to consider. However when compared tofossil fuels, the impact of geothermal energy on the environment is much smaller relative to its benefits.
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Full Media Blackout: Bill de Blasio’s Wife Can’t Account For $850 Million Collected From Taxpayers
Dean Garrison June 3, 2019
The mainstream media in America cannot be trusted, period.
I noticed an article from The Daily Mail (UK) trending on Voat this evening and was shocked to learn that the story is actually months old, and not shocked to find that only a handful of conservative sites covered the story. It seems that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife (Chirlane McCray) headed a taxpayer-funded project called ThriveNYC and now she can not, or will not, account for $850 million in taxpayer money.
From The Daily Mail (published in early March):
Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray cannot explain where $850million given to the mental health program she champions has gone, according to reports.
In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s achievements – and data that has been collected shows it lagging well behind targets.
Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1billion over five years.
What is ThriveNYC?
According to Red State:
Chirlane McCray, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, was entrusted in 2015 with running a new initiative in the city called ThriveNYC, a program that attempted to address issues of homelessness, substance use, depression and suicide, all centered around mental health and with a price tag of $250 million per year in tax payer dollars.
Now, four years later, there are serious concerns and calls for official inquiries into the program because no one can determine if it’s actually been successful. What’s more, due to a general opaqueness when it comes to the program’s budget, ThriveNYC has apparently left that nearly $900 million unaccounted for.
A report from Politico back in February gently sounded the alarm — the piece almost apologetically mentioned that Thrive NYC was headed for a “reset” — but calls for transparency have increased in the last week after Thrive was unable in late February to tell City Council members how the money was being spent.
Seriously? $850 million taxpayer dollars and no one is able to give the taxpayers an account of how their money is being spent. That sounds a bit suspicious to me.
According to David J Harris Jr.’s website,
“POLITICO spoke to more than 16 people, including elected officials, advocates, representatives of community organizations, researchers and consultants who said that although it is crucial for the city to invest in mental health resources, they did not know whether Thrive was successful and said the city has an obligation to publicize its numbers and how it compares to the goals it set out to accomplish. Some requested anonymity for fear of retaliation while others were more vocal in their critiques.
Run by the mayor’s wife and closest adviser, Chirlane McCray, ThriveNYC sought to tackle issues like substance use, depression and suicide. It is meant to target low-income individuals who are often priced out of mental health care because those services are typically not covered by insurance. Thrive also is meant to focus on communities — African Americans, Latinos, military veterans — who are less likely to seek care for mental health problems…
The City Hall budget shows $594 million in spending since ThriveNYC’s inception. The IBO budget shows $816 million. Both City Hall and IBO suspect the Office of Management and Budget included fewer programs in the City Hall version, accounting for the difference. But the budget discrepancies illustrate the difficulty in tracking Thrive.”
Would anyone put it past de Blasio and McCray to find a way to misdirect some of that money?
If you would disbelieve something like that could happen with a program like ThriveNYC, think again.
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Wake up America, this stuff is happening often and everywhere.
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Article posted with permission from Dean Garrison
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Home > Animals and the Law > Banning Animal Tattooing While Eating Animals for Pleasure?
By Sherry Colb | February 12, 2015 | Categories Animals and the Law
Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill that will generally prohibit the tattooing and piercing of one’s companion animals, through an amendment to New York’s Agriculture & Markets Law. According to the governor, the bill, which will go into effect in a few months, is “common sense legislation” intended to address “animal abuse, plain and simple” and “end these cruel and unacceptable practices in New York once and for all.” In this column, I will examine the impetus behind the law and what we can learn from what the law does and does not do.
What Motivated the Law?
The sponsor of the tattoo bill, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, said that what first drew her attention to this issue and led her to introduce the bill was the case of a Pennsylvania dog groomer who was discovered selling kittens online. The groomer had pierced the ears and down the spines of the kittens he was selling to make them look “goth.” Another story that drew public attention to the practice of tattooing companion animals a few years later was a photo that a Brooklyn tattoo artist posted of his dog bearing a heart-shaped tattoo that included an arrow and a ribbon.
The tattoo artist asserted in his posting that his dog was “cooler” than other people’s dogs, in part because of the tattoo in question, which read “Alex” and “Mel.” Assemblywoman Rosenthal thought that instances like these highlighted the need for a law to protect animals from being harmed by the aesthetic and otherwise trivial whims of their human owners.
A potential reaction that one might have to this law is to wonder whether the tattooing of one’s companion animals is sufficiently common to merit a special law addressed to eradicating the practice. In more vernacular terms, one might ask, “Is this [the tattooing or piercing of one’s companion animals] really a thing?” To the extent that it is relatively rare, it might appear unnecessary to pass a law to prohibit and punish it (with a fine of up to $250 and a jail term of up to 15 days).
It may, however, be the very rarity of the practice targeted by the law that allows us to learn so much about people’s conflicting motivations. Let us consider what the law tells us about people’s inclinations toward nonhuman animals.
Not a Controversial Law
First, because so few people consider the tattooing (or piercing) of companion animals an important or valued entitlement, it was probably not difficult to garner enough support for the law to pass. There are not huge numbers of wealthy or powerful constituents likely to threaten to withhold campaign funding or otherwise create obstacles to the reelection of any politician, on the grounds that the “nanny state” has interfered with “pet owners’” right to tattoo messages onto their dogs and cats. Instead, most people who have any reaction to the practice of tattooing an animal are likely to view it as bizarre and deviant and, accordingly, an unjustified harm against a living being in someone’s care.
The law, then, is a “warm and fuzzy” measure that helps people to feel good about their sensitivity to nonhuman animals and their willingness to stand up to the gratuitous cruelty that some peculiar individuals choose, for reasons of vanity or other foolishness, to inflict on helpless animals.
As important, however, as the relative ease with which one might introduce and pass such legislation is the impossibility of passing legislation that applies the logic of the tattoo law to practices that involve more than just a small and uninfluential sector of the population (i.e., the few people who want the “right” to tattoo or pierce their companion animals). Consider one example of the law I have in mind.
A Proposed Law Prohibiting the Consumption of Animal Flesh and Hormonal Secretions
It would be impossible to pass a law prohibiting the consumption of flesh (what most people call “meat,” “poultry,” and “fish”) and hormonal secretions (what most call “milk,” “yogurt,” “cheese,” and “eggs”). Why is that? The reason is that about 98 percent of the population regularly consumes animal-derived products like these.
To introduce an anti-flesh and anti-secretions bill into the Assembly (or indeed into the legislature of any state or Congress) would represent a complete non-starter. It would mark the assemblywoman or representative sponsoring it as an enemy not only of the huge industries that supply animal products to people’s grocery stores and restaurants but also of the other enormous industries that supply “feed” for the “livestock”—that is, living and sentient property—which makes up most of the grains grown in this country and takes up most of the land used to grow crops here. A law prohibiting the consumption of animal flesh and hormonal secretions would have no chance of success in today’s climate because it would run up against the habitual, profitable, and unexamined practices of both lawmakers and their constituents.
It might be tempting to try to add another reason for the certain failure of a law of the sort that I describe above. Some might say that such a law would be confronting benevolent or justifiable behavior, by contrast to the law against companion animal tattooing, which confronts pointless cruelty. But it is useful to resist the temptation to draw this distinction and instead to take a look at how similar in logic such a law would really be to the tattoo law (and to animal cruelty laws more generally).
Pointless Cruelty
Most people consume animal-derived products, including the flesh of slaughtered pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, and fishes, along with the lacteal secretions of baby calves, goats, and lambs (the dairy that grieving mother mammals produce after forcible insemination and the removal of their infants after birth) and the ovulatory secretions of hens (whose male chicks have all been killed at a day old). People who eat in this way get calories from these so-called “foods,” and it is true, as consumers might assert, that people need calories to live. It may thus seem to them (and to some readers) that consuming the flesh and secretions of animals has a beneficial purpose, while the tattooing of companion animals does not.
Consider, however, the fact that this argument (i.e., that supplying calories is good, because people need calories) would apply as effectively to the consumption of human flesh and human lacteal secretions (the latter of which, fascinatingly, seems to disgust people who regularly consume bovine lacteal secretions). Just because some food source, whether human or nonhuman in origin, provides calories, does not make it “necessary” or even beneficial in any sense, so long as other, non-violent and healthful food sources exist, which they do in this case. Millions of people all over the world, including infants and children, pregnant and nursing mothers, and male and female adults, live well and thrive on a vegan diet, without having to consume any animal-derived foods.
The preference for animal-based foods is therefore exactly that, a culinary preference, rather than a need that could logically and morally trump the profound interest of every living, feeling being in avoiding the violence of confinement, mutilation, separation from one’s children, and slaughter by those to whom consumers of animal products daily delegate the cruel and bloody violence inflicted on animals in the name of food. To quote from the justification memo for the tattoo legislation, animals — including those billions living on our animal-death-rows called “farms” — are “a vulnerable population, as they have no means of expression and must live on the whim of their owners.”
As someone who used to both care about animals and simultaneously and obliviously consume the products of animal slaughter, in the form of meat, fish, dairy, and eggs, I can relate to the desire to distinguish between tattooing a companion animal and biting into a slice of dairy cheese pizza. An earlier me would have said “tattooing your pet is just stupid, but eating is necessary.” But everyone who inflicts cruelty on an animal has some reason for it, no less elevated (and no less “necessary”) than culinary habit.
For the “pet owner,” the tattoo undoubtedly has meaning and may even reflect the owner’s affection for his companion animal. One of the events highlighted in discussions of the New York bill involved the tattoo artist who thought his dog was “cool.” He tattooed a seemingly loving message on the dog while she was undergoing a medically indicated surgery, so the dog was not even conscious of the tattooing.
If the dog owner in that case were a dietary vegan, he could have convincingly argued that unlike people who — utterly unnecessarily — consume the products of animal torture and slaughter because of habit and taste preference, his act of tattooing was specifically oriented around his warm feelings for his dog, did not cause the dog any pain, and certainly did not take his dog’s life. And he would be right in making this argument, though critics of animal tattooing and piercing would be right nonetheless to regard the tattooing of animals as wrongful and unjustified.
Laws Against “Animal Cruelty”
Most laws regarding animal cruelty are somewhat more general than the tattoo law, but they all share the trait that our hypothetical dietary-vegan-tattoo-artist implicitly criticized above. They all identify some particular cruelty against animals to prohibit, because there is perhaps less of a constituency for that particular form of cruelty than for others, and they then prohibit that cruelty while not only permitting but positively endorsing the vast majority of gratuitous daily animal cruelty that supplies the consumption items that most of the population regards as “food.” At the same time, the “individual right to eat what I like” sort of claim that some people make to support their animal consumption practices would readily extend not only to the behavior of the dog tattooer or kitten piercer but to any other violent practice that people in a moral society would see fit to stop. Violence is regularly experienced by the perpetrator as an expression of his freedom; that perspective is hardly unique to the consumption of animals and their secretions.
It is when we have no personal investment of habit to defend that we are best able to see the true cruelty and violence involved in a practice in which others are still participating. That is unquestionably why so many people do support anti-animal-cruelty legislation and why so many are outraged by images of needless animal suffering in a variety of contexts. But the more challenging and more important step is realizing that there is no principled difference between the behavior that we protest and oppose, on the one hand, and the behavior in which we regularly engage, on the other.
It is all essentially pointless violence against vulnerable and innocent animals who are entitled to protection from that violence. Realizing this is what led me to become vegan just under nine years ago. And the violence can stop, if each person who findsany anti-cruelty law well founded embraces the truth, that there is cruelty in every animal-derived ingredient that people consume, and that there is no justification for any of us to be funding it through our consumption habits anymore.
About Sherry Colb
Sherry F. Colb earned an A.B. from Columbia College (Valedictorian) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court. She was a member of the Rutgers University School of Law faculty in Newark when she joined the Cornell faculty and has also held the position of Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Columbia Law School.
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The n-word, the g-word and the hidden perils of travel
Living in Spain, I get a lot of questions about the United States. One of the most common, and certainly the most disturbing, is if it’s OK to use the N-word.
Let me just say from the outset that I think the term “N-word” is silly. By using it you immediately think of the word I’m trying not to say so, in a sense, I’ve actually said it. On the other hand, if I actually used the word n—–, Gadling would fire my ass, and they’d be right to.
N—– is getting more and more common on American TV shows that get broadcast here. The Wire uses it in almost every scene. Most Spaniards realize it’s a bad word, but are confused to hear it used on TV by whites and blacks alike. I’ve had to explain on more than one occasion that it hasn’t become OK. At least it isn’t OK with this white boy. I don’t think it’s OK for black people to use either, but they’re probably not interested in my opinion.
Now anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows TV isn’t reality, but if you’ve never been to a country before, TV is probably the main way you know about it. The average European has spent far more time watching American TV than talking to actual Americans. Like the guy I met in a bar who was about to go to the U.S. for the first time and used n—— during our conversation. He wasn’t a racist, he just thought the word was OK now. I’m glad I got to talk to him before he got his butt kicked.
I had a similar experience when I spent two months living in Harar, Ethiopia. I was researching a book on Ethiopian history and kept coming across a name for a tribe called the G—-. This word appears in many English-language books about Ethiopia, including many modern ones. One day I was chewing qat with my friend Mohammed Jami Guleid (harartourguide @gmail.com) a local guide and historian, in a small village near Harar. Casually I asked him, “Who are the G—-?”
Mohammed gave me a look like I had just farted in a mosque.”Where did you hear that word?” he asked in a low voice.
“It’s in a lot of books. Some mentioned that the G—- live around Harar.”
“We’re in an Oromo village!” he said, eyes wide.
“So?” I said, confused.
Mohammed shook his head and explained, “It’s an old term for Oromo given to them by the Emperor Menelik. Don’t use it. It’s very insulting. It’s the most insulting thing you can say.”
So insulting, in fact, that I’m not writing it here. Of course, Gadling wouldn’t fire me for using the G-word because the Oromo don’t have any political power in the United States, but respect is respect.
Menelik conquered Harar in 1887 and proceeded to starve the surrounding Oromo clans into submission. About half the population died. Needless to say, the Oromo don’t think very highly of Menelik, even though he’s a hero to many other Ethiopians because he smashed the Italian army at the Battle of Adowa in 1896. Different people see history differently because they experienced it differently. Something to remember the next time Black History Month rolls by.
So when preparing for a trip, it’s important to do your homework and understand the different ethnic groups in that country, otherwise you may inadvertently cause offense by saying something you heard on television, or in my case read in a bunch of history books written by people who should have known better!
If you’re going to Ethiopia and are worried about the G-word, drop me a line privately and I’ll fill you in on the word you can’t say. And if you write out the full word for n—– or G—- in the comments section, I’ll delete it as soon as I see it.
[Photo of Ice-T, who uses the n-word waaaaay too much, is courtesy Steve Rapport]
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Ringo Starr’s Boyhood Home In Restoration ‘Limbo’
Back in 2010, we reported that the birthplace of Ringo Starr was threatened with demolition. The rowhouse, located at 9 Madryn Street in Liverpool, England, has fallen into disrepair. As you can see from this photo, it hasn’t been lived in for some time and is all boarded up.
It’s not alone. The BBC reports that many of the homes in the neighborhood are abandoned and crumbling. The city government approved a £15 million ($24.4 million) plan to rework the neighborhood, building 150 new homes, knocking down 280 others, and restoring 37, including Ringo Starr’s. There have been calls to preserve the home as a bit of music history. While John and Paul’s childhood homes are now preserved by the National Trust, Ringo’s place doesn’t even have an historic plaque.
Now the city’s plan has been put on hold by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, who has called for a full review. That’s bad news for the few people still living in the area. They don’t know whether they should move, or pay their own money to restore their homes, or do nothing. It all depends what happens with the government funding, and nobody can answer that at the moment.
So will the homes be knocked down or will Ringo’s birthplace become yet another of England’s historic homes? We’ll just have to wait and see.
It may be a long wait.
Archaeologists Looking At Stonehenge In A New Light
by Sean McLachlan on Sep 3, 2013
Stonehenge is the world’s most iconic prehistoric monument. Scientists have argued about its significance for generations, but few have been allowed to excavate there. Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson is one of those lucky few, and he’s documented his finds in a new book.
Stonehenge: A New Understanding chronicles a seven-year excavation of Stonehenge and the surrounding countryside.
Pearson and his team took an innovative approach and came up with some innovative interpretations. Instead of looking at Stonehenge as an isolated monument, they studied the landscape and other prehistoric monuments around it. This led them to determine that Stonehenge was part of a ritualistic network of monuments and natural features.
But what was it all for? Pearson believes that despite the astronomical alignments and the regular meetings of people at Stonehenge, it was not a monument to nature or the seasons or fertility as many archaeologists have concluded, but rather a monument to the dead, similar to other enclosed cremations burial grounds in the British Isles. Other constructions nearby were symbols of life and were intimately connected to Stonehenge just as the concepts of life and death are intimately connected with each other.
The main connection is with a site called Durrington Walls, two miles away from Stonehenge. Both had avenues leading to a nearby river. Durrington Walls, however, had a settlement while Stonehenge only had burials. Natural features in the landscape aligned with important astronomical events, making the location of Stonehenge perfect for any monument concerned with the heavens.
Weighing in at 350 dense pages, this is not for the casually interested reader. Luckily Pearson has a clear writing style, avoids getting overly technical, and the book is richly illustrated with maps and photographs that help the reader follow the text. I would suggest this to anyone with a serious interest in archaeology and science.
I had the good fortune to hear Dr. Pearson talk a few years ago to a packed auditorium at Oxford University. Once he was done, Oxford professors gathered around in their self-important way to talk with this leading scientist. Before they could start posturing, a twelve-year-old girl came up to him and chirped, “I want to be an archaeologist!”
Dr. Pearson could have patted her on the head, replied, “That’s nice darling” and gone on to speak with the professors, but he didn’t. Instead he sat her down and spoke with her for a good five minutes about what she needed to do to become an archaeologist and all the fun she could have in that career.
The professors looked ruffled and impatient. The girl left glowing with enthusiasm.
That’s my kind of scientist.
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The Battle For Richard III’s Bones
by Sean McLachlan on Aug 20, 2013
King Richard III just can’t rest in peace. He was the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, and after being killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the rival Tudor dynasty, his body was mutilated, stabbed in the ass and buried in a hastily dug grave in the local friary in Leicester. The friary was later destroyed and his grave lost. For a while there was an outhouse right next to it. Eventually his burial site was paved over and became a parking lot.
His luck was looking better when he was rediscovered by archaeologists and his bones became a television sensation. With great fanfare Leicester Cathedral announced that it would spend £1 million ($1.6 million) on a new tomb and a museum about his life and death.
But now it looks like poor Richard won’t rest in peace quite yet. The Daily Telegraph reports that a group called the Plantagenet Alliance, which includes 15 of the king’s descendants, is challenging the decision to bury him in Leicester. The king, they say, had a long relationship with the city of York and had stated that he wanted to be buried in York Minster with the rest of his family.
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester who dug up the king had already received a court’s permission to decide where he should be reinterred and chose Leicester Cathedral. Another judge has decided to allow the Plantagenet Alliance’s complaint to go to court, however, because of the unprecedented nature of the case.
The judge, Mr. Justice Haddon-Cave, has warned both sides to keep the dispute from descending into a “War of the Roses Part Two…It would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains.”
Of course, the court’s decision will determine where millions of pounds in potential tourism revenue will go. There’s more than a medieval political rivalry at stake in this case.
Will Fatberg Hunting Be The New Glamping?
by Sean McLachlan on Aug 7, 2013
It’s always good to learn a new word every day, and today’s word is fatberg. A fatberg is exactly what it sounds like–a giant mass of fat. In this case, a giant mound of fat blocking up one of the world’s largest sewer systems. So what does a fatberg look like? Watch this video to find out, but don’t blame me if you can’t ever bring yourself to eat a kebab again.
The fatberg in question was discovered in Kingston, southwest London. A congealed slab of oil, fat, food and other trash such as cleaning wipes, the 15-ton monstrosity was the size of a double-decker bus and had reduced the main sewer line to only 5 percent capacity, preventing locals from flushing their toilets.
They should be grateful. Thames Water officials say if they hadn’t caught it in time, the toilets would have started backing up and raw sewage would have spewed out, a bit like that barbershop scene in the remake of The Blob.
The brave workers at Thames Water have slain the fatberg with high-pressure hoses, but more fatbergs may be lying in wait to attack innocent toilet sitters. Now’s your chance to help. Many cities offer sewer tours. Brighton has one, as do Paris and Vienna. The closest thing you can get in London is tracing the underground Fleet River, which was used as a sewer for much of its history.
What the world really needs are overnight sewer camping tours where each person is equipped with a high-powered hose. Brave adventure travelers could venture forth into the Stygian darkness, ready to do battle with malevolent fatbergs. Forget glamping, you overpaid bank executives, and give something back to society for a change. Go hunting fatbergs!
Giant Blue Rooster In Trafalgar Square Leaves Londoners Bemused And Befuddled
Trafalgar Square in London has a new statue — a giant blue cockerel. It’s the latest work of art to adorn the Fourth Plinth, a nineteenth-century base flanking Nelson’s Column. The other three plinths all have statues but the Fourth Plinth never got one, and so in recent years it’s become home to a series of temporary sculptures.
The giant blue cock, as the British media can’t resist calling it, has caused a bit of a stir. The cockerel and the color blue are both symbols of France, and this is a square dedicated to one of the British Empire’s greatest victories over Napoleon. German artist Katharina Fritsch, who created the sculpture, said she wasn’t aware of the symbolism. As London Mayor Boris Johnson says (he’s the blond guy with the awful haircut in this video) it could mean a lot of things, such as the British victory in the Tour de France. At the very least, the royal blue hue ties into London’s recent baby boy mania.
The Huffington Post has more photos of the giant rooster.
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Born in Cagnano Amiterno (L’Aquila) in 1954, Nunzio lives and works between Rome and Turin. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating in Scenography at Toti Scialoja courses. His debut on the art scene took place in 1980 with the creation of plasters painted by immersion, consisting of two or more elements placed in relation to each other and mounted directly to the wall as paintings. In the mid-80s he abandoned the plaster in favor of blowtorch-burned wood, lead and metal sheets. The blackened surfaces after the combustion as well as the folded metal plates absorb the light creating a strong dialogue between matter and space. Since the 90s Nunzio also approached pastel and mixed technique drawing, elaborating evocative abstract forms that often prelude to his sculptural production in which he also experiments the use of bronze.
In 1984 the exhibition “Ateliers”, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva at the former Cerere bakery in via Degli Ausoni in Rome, marked the founding of the group “La Nuova Scuola Romana” counting as members Marco Tirelli, Nunzio, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Bruno Ceccobelli and Giuseppe Gallo. Nunzio has ben exhibiting his works in personal shows in prestigious institutions such as: Museo Riso, Palermo and Pinacoteca d’Arte Contemporanea, Teora, Avellino (2016), Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen (2012), Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (2006), MACRO, Rome (2005), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1995), Galleria Civica, Modena (1987).
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Transformational adaptation – when business as usual no longer works
This is the first in a series of blog posts about transformational adaptation by Garama’s Director, Nick Brooks. The series is inspired by a conference on transformational adaptation and agriculture in East and Southern Africa that Garama organised with the DFID-funded Vuna programme in South Africa in January 2017. It follows a discussion paper on this topic prepared for Vuna by Nick Brooks. Download the pdf of the paper here, and read a related Vuna blog article here. This article was first published on the main Garama website at http://www.garama.co.uk.
1. A lesson from the past
Deep in the central Sahara, a crumbling mud-brick town sits at the edge of a dry lake bed. This is the medieval town of Germa, in southwestern Libya, one of a string of settlements along the Wadi al-Ajal, a valley defined by the towering dunes of the Ubari Sand Sea to the north, and the black cliffs of the Messak Settafet plateau to the south. Germa is romantic and impressive, but a more interesting settlement lies beneath it.
Under medieval Germa, the remains of large stone buildings represent the town of Garama (yes, we stole the name), the ancient capital of the Garamantian Tribal Confederation, a powerful political force in the central Sahara between about 500 BCE and 500 AD that challenged Roman hegemony in inland North Africa, before being incorporated into the periphery of the Roman empire (Mattingly et al. 2003).
The mud-brick walls of medieval Germa, built on the ruins of ancient Garama, the capital of the Garamantes, the central Sahara’s first indigenous civilisation. Photo by Nick Brooks.
The Garamantes, who made their capital here, are a fascinating study in adaptation to severe climatic and environmental change. Emerging from the cattle herding cultures of the central Sahara, the Garamantes developed urban centres supported by irrigated agriculture and trade, and controlled or influenced a vast area.
The first evidence of permanent settlement and farming in the Wadi al-Ajal dates to around 1000 BCE, and is from the vicinity of Germa. What is remarkable about this evidence, and the subsequent development of the Garamantian civilisation, is that it coincides with the final desiccation of this part of the Sahara, when rainfall in the adjacent upland areas effectively ceased and the remaining lakes (in the Wadi al-Ajal and the interdune depressions of the nearby sand seas) dried up.
As a result of decades of archaeological work by British and Italian teams (e.g. di Lernia and Manzi 2002; Mattingly et al. 2003), we now have a very clear picture of how the Garamantian civilisation emerged through a long process of adaptation to increasing aridity, and ultimately the effective disappearance of surface water (this happened much later than in most of the rest of the Sahara, which prior to around 3000 BCE was mostly semi-arid savannah, due to the peculiar topography and geology of the Wadi al-Ajal and the adjacent areas). Unable to practice mobile cattle pastoralism in the lowland areas once certain thresholds of aridity were crossed, the inhabitants of this region moved first to transhumance and then to more sedentary cattle husbandry in oasis areas such as the Wadi al-Ajal, complemented by mobile sheep and goat herding in the adjacent highlands. When the surface water finally disappeared, rather than abandon the area or die out, the people who became the Garamantes chased the water underground, tapping the elevated water table under the plateau of the Messak Settafet using underground channels known as foggara, to irrigate the valley floor (Wilson 2006).
Cattle engravings in Wadi Mathandoush, an ancient watercourse on the Messak Settafet, south of Germa. Photo by Nick Brooks.
The above process took some three millennia, but it was neither smooth nor gradual. Palaeo-environmental and archaeological evidence point to multiple periods of rapid climatic and environmental change, coinciding with shifts in livelihood strategies, population distributions, and landscape use. The links between climatic and cultural change in this part of North Africa, and in the Sahara at large, are well established and uncontroversial (unlike in many other parts of the world, where suggestions that climatic and environmental change have shaped human societies are often treated with suspicion or hostility). The study of Saharan prehistory is an object lesson in how global climate change can result in profound changes in local environments and the availability and distribution of resources, which in turn precipitate step changes in how people make their livings and organise their societies.
2. From the Garamantes to the IPCC
The trajectory that led prehistoric Saharan pastoralists to develop the region’s first urban civilisation involves what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2014: 1758) refers to as ‘transformational adaptation’, or:
“Adaptation that changes the fundamental attributes of a system in response to climate and its effects”
This is in contrast to “incremental adaptation” consisting of “actions where the central aim is to maintain the essence and integrity of a system or process at a given site.” Incremental adaptation generally involves the deployment of already familiar measures, perhaps to a greater extent or at a higher intensity than previously, in order to sustain existing systems or practices in the face of intensifying climate hazards, i.e. stresses and shocks such as drought, heavy rainfall or sea-level rise (Kates et al. 2012; Chung Tiam Fook 2015). Put simply, incremental adaptation is about protecting ‘business as usual’ in the face of climate change.
Calcium carbonate crust in an interdune depression in the Ubari Sand Sea north of Germa, indicting the presence of a freshwater lake prior to the desiccation of the region some 3-5 millennia ago. Photo by Nick Brooks.
In contrast, transformational adaptation occurs when changes in climatic or environmental conditions are so severe, or occur so rapidly, that existing systems and practices cannot be sustained, and need to be replaced by alternatives or addressed through processes such as migration. In the prehistoric central Sahara, transformational adaptation involved first the adoption of mobile cattle pastoralism as the environment became more variable and unpredictable in the 5th millennium BCE, and then its abandonment as the region became hyper-arid after about 3000 BCE and people adopted more sedentary livelihoods or shifted to sheep and goats (di Lernia 2002). A further transformation occurred when the surface water disappeared and the population of the Wadi al-Ajal adopted intensive agriculture linked with the development of a more complex and urban organised society in the first half of the 1st millennium BCE (Mattingly et al. 2003; Drake et al. 2004).
3. Transformational adaptation in the 21st century
Most of today’s adaptation interventions involve incremental rather than transformational approaches (Chung Tiam Fook 2015). Indeed, many do not even go as far as incremental adaptation, instead addressing the so-called ‘adaptation deficit’, or the gap between current practice and what is sustainable under existing conditions (Burton and May 2004). A key question for adaptation in the 21st century is where, and when, the limits to incremental approaches might be encountered, meaning that transformational approaches will be necessary. This might occur as a result of the local manifestations of climate change being so severe and/or rapid that societies simply cannot adapt, or of relatively small changes meaning that systems or activities that are already marginal are no longer viable (Kates et al. 2012).
Our prehistoric Saharan analogue suggests one type of change that might require transformational adaptation, namely a transition to hyper-aridity. Such a transition might already be underway in the US Southwest, and is suggested – at least as a possibility – by climate projections for parts of North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, and parts of southern Africa. According to the United Nations Statistics Division(1), Tunisia, Israel and Jordan already use 69.7%, 79.7% and 92.4% of their annual total renewable surface water resources every year, through runoff capture and abstraction from non-renewable aquifers. Projected changes in temperature and rainfall mean that total renewable surface water availability may decline below current usage in the latter half of the 21st century. Clearly, current water management regimes and agricultural systems would not work under such a scenario, and different economic and production models would be required in the event of such an eventuality. In southern Africa, climate projections indicate severe drying in the far southwest, while a 2005 study by Thomas et al. raises the possibility of a shift to hyper-aridity in the Greater Kalahari region, as fossil dunes that are currently stable become mobile due to changes in rainfall and wind regimes and the disappearance of vegetation. Such a transition would place the viability of existing agricultural and livestock systems in doubt, potentially requiring a shift to new activities and/or the abandonment of certain areas. Aridity is likely to intensify in many other parts of the world, including parts of southern Europe, Australia and Central Asia.
Increases in aridity will be driven as much by changes in temperature and evapotranspiration as by changes in rainfall. However, aridity is not the only impact of higher temperatures. A recent paper by Pal and Eltahir (2015) concluded that the combination of temperature and humidity in the region around the Arabian/Persian Gulf is likely to approach or exceed the limits of human survivability within the 21st century, making it physically impossible for people to live there in the hottest months.
The other obvious context in which transformational adaptation might be required is sea-level rise, which will increase disaster risk, potentially to the point at which the costs of defences or reconstruction become unfeasible, leading to the abandonment of coastal areas. Ultimately, sea-level rise will simply wipe out some coastal areas, as they disappear under rising waters. The intrusion of salt water into coastal aquifers due to sea-level rise and subsidence resulting from the abstraction of groundwater will lead to changes in coastal ecosystems and challenge coastal agriculture.
A combination of rising temperatures and declining rainfall may make certain crops unviable. A modelling study by Rippke et al. (2016) identified areas in which nine existing sub-Saharan Africa crops, under current management regimes, might become unviable due to climate change, starting in the 2020s for the most at-risk crops. This study suggested replacing existing crops with alternative crops as a ‘transformational adaptation’ measure that was feasible in most (but not all) contexts.
The above examples suggest the existence of thresholds of change beyond which existing systems and practices are existentially challenged. Climate vulnerability and risk assessments (VRAs) need to start considering what these thresholds might be, and where and when they might be breached. However, such thresholds are not fixed, and might be ‘pushed back’ by incremental adaptation measures, meaning that transformational adaptation can be delayed or avoided. Modelling studies might also be overly simplistic in their representations of what is viable and what is not, particularly when it comes to agriculture. For example, smallholders deploy a host of measures to produce crops in highly marginal environments that might be technically ‘unviable’ by the criteria used in modelling studies.
Transformational adaptation as defined above (i.e. abandoning or replacing existing systems on the grounds that they are not viable under climate change) is not a panacea, and should not be proposed as a universal solution. Nonetheless, it should be on the radar of planners and decision-makers, and should be explicitly considered in VRAs and the design of adaptation strategies. Climate projections suggest a warming of around 4°C by the end of the century, relative to the pre-industrial average. This warming is very similar in magnitude to the warming that occurred between the end of the last ice age, some 21,000 years ago, and the beginning of the current interglacial period around 10,000 years ago. But it is happening some hundred times faster. The world of the past 10,000 years has looked very different to that of the last glacial period. It is inconceivable that a similar warming, over a much (indeed, ridiculously) shorter period, will not reshape the face of the Earth in ways that we have only begun to comprehend. Transformational adaptation may not be needed everywhere, but in some places it will be absolutely essential to our survival.
Subsequent articles in this series will discuss, among other things, examples of transformational adaptation, the relationship between transformational adaptation and transformational change (e.g. in institutions and governance), the timescales associated with transformational adaptation.
(1) https://unstats.un.org/UNSD/MDG/SeriesDetail.aspx?srid=768
Transformational adaptation is one of the many topics covered on our 5-day Adapting to Climate Change training course, held annually in Norwich, UK.
Download Nick Brooks’ Vuna discussion paper on “Transformational Adaptation: Concepts, Examples, and their Relevance to Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa.”
For more information on the Garamantes, see di Lernia and Manzi (2002) and Mattingly et al. (2003), referenced in full below, or the following (easier to access) articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/05/gaddafi-sahara-lost-civilisation-garamantes
https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/garamantes-libya.htm
http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200403/libya.s.forgotten.desert.kingdom.htm
Burton, I. and May, E. 2004. The Adaptation Deficit in Water Resource Management. IDS Bulletin 35.3, Climate Change and Development.Chung Tiam Fook, T. 2015. Transformational processes for community-focused adaptation and social change: a synthesis. Climate and Development. DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2015.1086294.
di Lernia, S. 2002. Dry climatic events and cultural trajec- tories: Adjusting Middle Holocene pastoral economy of the Libyan Sahara. In F.A. Hassan (Ed.), Droughts, food and culture: Ecological change and food security in Afri- ca’s Later Prehistory (pp. 225–250). New York, NY: Kluwer.
di Lernia, S. and Manzi, G. (eds.) 2002. Sand, Stones and Bones: The Archaeology of Death in the Wadi Tannezzuft Valley (5000–2000 BP). Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per le Civilta` e l’Ambiente del Sahara Antico e Delle Zone Aride, Universita` Degli Studi di Roma and Department of Antiquities, Libya, pp. 281–302.
Drake, N., Wilson, A., Pelling, R., White, K., Mattingly, D., Black, S., 2004. Water table decline, springline desiccation, and the early development of irrigated agriculture in the Wadi al-Ajal, Libyan Fezzan. Libyan Studies 34, 95–112.
IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Barros, V.R., C.B. Field, D.J. Dokken, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L.White (eds.)]. Cambridge.
Kates, R. W., Travis, W. R. and Wilbanks, T. J. 2012. Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: 7156-7161.
Mattingly, D.J., Reynolds, T., Dore, J. 2003. The Archaeology of Fazzan: vol. 1, Synthesis. Department of Antiquities, Tripoli and Society for Libyan Studies, London, pp. 327–373.
Pal., J. S. and Eltahir, E. A. B. 2015. Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability. Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2833
Rippke, U., Remirez-Villegas, J., Jarvis, A., Vermeulen, S. J., Parker, L., Mer, F., Diekkrüger, B., Challinor, A. and Howden, M. 2016. Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2947.
Thomas, D. S. G., Knight, M. and Wiggs, G. F. S. 2005. Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature 435: 1218-1221.
Wilson, A.I. 2006. The spread of foggara-based irrigation in the ancient Sahara. In Mattingly, D.J., McLaren, S., Savage, E., al-Fasatwi, Y. and Gadgood, K. (eds.), The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage, pp 205-16, London: Society for Libyan Studies.
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Stands for: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The medical condition in which the body’s immune system is severely weakened and unable to fight certain infections that are usually rare or mild among healthy people. AIDS is also classified as a set of illnesses which affect people with advanced HIV. Someone can only get AIDS if they are HIV positive. Check out the WA AIDS Council’s website [www.waaids.com] for more info.
Restraint from some or all aspects of sexual activity.
The period in human life between puberty and adulthood.
The area around the breast nipple which is usually pinkish or brownish.
The ability to express one’s needs and rights, positive and negative thoughts and emotions, while still remaining respectful of the rights of others. Assertiveness is the skill required in preventing and managing conflict, negotiating, decision-making and taking action, using protective behaviours, collaborating and cooperating, and responding to teasing, anger and bullying.
BBV
A blood-borne virus. BBVs can be passed from person to person by the interchange of blood.
Bartholin's glands
Mucous glands located on the membrane between the urethral and vaginal openings.
Refers to a person who has sexual and romantic feelings for more than one gender and who identify with these feelings.
A way of using the human body as a way of artistic expression. Body art includes piercing, tattooing, painting or scarring.
The perception that a person has of their physical and emotional self, which includes the thoughts and feelings that result from this perception.
The neck of the uterus, forming a passage between a woman’s vagina and her uterus.
Surgical removal of the foreskin of the penis.
A small, sensitive erectile part of the female’s genitals.
The process of becoming pregnant involving the fertilisation of a female’s ovum with a male sperm.
A condom is a form of contraception. A male condom is a thin sheath made from latex or polyurethane that covers the erect penis and works by stopping sexual fluids passing between two people during sexual activity. A female condom is a plastic pouch that fits inside a woman's vagina to stop sexual fluids passing between two people during sexual activity.
Giving consent means that everyone involved can clearly and freely agree to the sexual activities that are or will occur. If everyone is not willing or not able to give consent (such as if someone is asleep or under the influence of drugs or alcohol) then the sexual activity would be assault and would be against the law. A person must be over the age of 16 to provide consent to engage in any sexual activities.
A way to prevent pregnancy. There are different methods of contraception for both men and women.
A form of contraception that contains either the hormone progesterone or a combination of progesterone and oestrogen. 'The Pill' works to avoid a pregnancy by temporarily preventing ovulation, thinning the lining of the womb and thickening cervical discharge to prevent sperm from entering the womb.
The strategies that people use to manage and reduce stress during difficult situations. The ways in which people cope vary from person to person and may include writing down your feelings, spending time alone or talking to someone you trust.
Cowper’s glands
Small glands that secrete drops of alkalising fluid into the urethra.
Cyberbullying is the use of technology to bully a person or group. Bullying is repeated behaviour with the intent to harm others. Cyberbullying may include sending abusive text messages or emails, posting unkind or threatening messages, excluding others online or inappropriate image tagging.
The repeated use of a means of electronic communication such as email or instant message, to frighten or harass someone.
Digital footprint/ digital reputation
The body of data that exists as a result of actions and communications online that can be traced back to an individual.
The practice of unfairly treating a person or group differently from other people and groups. Discrimination can occur on the grounds of gender, race, age, sexuality, etc.
Recognition that each individual is different and unique. Diversity can apply to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, physical traits and abilities, and socioeconomic status, among other things.
Any substance (excluding food, water and oxygen) that, when taken into the body, alters its function physically or psychologically.
The expulsion of semen from the urethra.
The developing infant during the first two months of conception.
Refers to methods of contraception that can be used to prevent unwanted pregnancy in the first few days after intercourse. It is intended for emergency use after unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure.
The ability to recognise, understand and effectively manage emotions and use this knowledge when thinking, feeling and acting.
The inside layer of the uterus composed of mucous-like tissue.
Epididymis
A coiled tube lying over the testes in which sperm mature.
The developing infant during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
How a person, thinks, acts, dresses and speaks which distinguishes them as masculine or feminine. A person’s gender can be masculine, feminine and/or androgynous. Gender refers to 'the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female in a particular social setting at a particular point in time' (World Health Organization. Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health. A Training Curriculum for Health Programme Managers. Geneva, 2001).
Gender diverse
Used to describe people who fall outside the typical range of femininity and masculinity with regard to gender identity and/or physical sex characteristics and don't conform to gender expectations. This includes transgender, transsexual, gender-queer, cross-dressing, drag-performing, and androgynous people.
The self-awareness of being male or female. Our sense of ourself in regards to our gender, gender role, masculinity and/or femininity. The most common gender identities are male and female, however there are many others in the gender diverse community such as genderqueer, trans man, trans woman, transgender, trans*, boi, sistergirl, brotherboy, FTM / F2M (female to male), MTF / M2F (male to female) etc.
Gender role
The way we behave under the expectations society has for a person’s self expression, behaviour and appearance based on their biological sex. 'The social expectations arising from conceptions surrounding gender and the behavioural expression of these, including forms of speech, mannerisms, demeanour, dress and gesture. Masculine and feminine ideas are often deemed to be mutually exclusive, and in some societies the role behaviours may be polarized.' Jary, D. and J. Jary. Collins Dictionary of Sociology. 3rd Ed. Glasgow: Harper-Collins Publishers, 2000.
The external sexual reproductive organs; the penis and vulva.
A set of 'rules' established by the class at the outset of sexual health and relationships education to promote a safe and respectful environment in the classroom.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus which causes AIDS.
A strategy that aims to lower the risks and harmful consequences associated with drug use and other high-risk behaviours, rather than simple promoting abstinence.
Having the knowledge to find, understand and use the information about our own health and health care from sources such as websites to make healthier and safer decisions.
An inflammation of the liver. There are a number of hepatitis viruses which all cause inflammation and damage to the liver. Hepatitis A, B and C are the most common.
Sometimes called 'being straight', this refers to people whose sexual and romantic feelings are primarily for the opposite sex, and who identify with these feelings.
Pertains to a single individual's or society's misunderstanding, fear, ignorance of or prejudice against gay, lesbian and/or bisexual people. Homophobia is also used as an umbrella term to include any form of discrimination or prejudice against LGBTIQQ people.
People who's sexual and romantic feelings are primarily for the same sex, and who identify with these feelings. People who feel this way will often identify as being Gay or Lesbian.
Internally produced chemicals that regulate many different bodily functions and behaviours.
A mucous membrane that may partly cover the entrance to the vagina.
A small plastic rod that is inserted under the skin of a females arm which releases the hormone progesterone to prevent pregnancy
A disease in a part of a person's body that is caused by a bacteria or a virus.
A term relating to a range of physical traits or variations that lie between ideals of male and female. Intersex people are born with physical, hormonal or genetic features that are neither wholly female or wholly male or a combination of male and female or neither male or female. Historically the term 'hermaphrodite' was used.
LGBTIQQ
Stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, Otherwise diverse in their sexuality and/or gender or Questioning their sexuality and/or gender.
Labia majora
Two folds of skin, covered with hair and forming a pad of fatty tissues on the pubic bone.
Labia minora
Two folds of skin, within the labia majora.
Refers to Men who have Sex with Men. This is an inclusive term that includes gay and bisexual men, but most importantly, includes men who do not identify as being gay, bisexual or homosexual, but who have homosexual sex.
The self sexual stimulation of ones genitals to gain sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm.
The monthly vaginal discharge of blood and the lining of the uterus.
Monoculture
A single, homogenous culture without diversity.
Nocturnal emission
Ejaculation of semen during sleep; a wet dream.
A female reproductive organ in which ova or eggs are produced. The ovaries are located in the pelvis, one on each side of the uterus.
The release of an egg from the ovaries for fertilisation.
A method for testing for cervical cancer.
Influence from a person's peer group.
The organ of the male reproductive system through which semen passes out of the body during sexual intercourse. The penis is also an organ of urination.
A term commonly used instead of menstruation. Its origins arise from the days of the menstrual flow.
Organ through which the foetus in the uterus receives nourishment and rids itself of waste.
Pornography is any material (either pictures, text or video or a combination) that is sexually explicit and is primarily designed to produce sexual arousal among viewers.
Gland at the base of the bladder providing seminal fluid.
The development of personal safety skills that can be used by children, young people and adults to keep them safe and work towards reducing violence and abuse in the community.
Protective interruption
A strategy to prevent a child disclosing in front of other students and providing them with the opportunity to disclose in a safe and confidential manner.
The period in early adolescence when a child becomes sexually mature.
Puberty kit
A collection of products used to educate students about puberty and personal hygiene. The products may include deodorant, menstruation supplies, soap, razors.
A method used in sexual health education for students to ask questions in an anonymous manner which they would not otherwise ask in an open classroom environment. Students write their questions on a piece of paper and put them in a box/hat/pillowcase or other object which can then be answered by the teacher during the next class.
A state of physical, mental and social wellbeing in all matters relating to the reproductive system, at any stage of life.
Respectful relationships
Refers to the condition of all people in a particular relationship being able to feel safe, have the ability to make their own choices, being able to say no or change their mind without any negative consequences, feeling valued and accepted, and having the ability to compromise and communicate effectively.
A sexually transmitted infection.
The sac behind the penis that contains the testicles.
The whitish, cream ejaculate fluid containing sperm.
(1) The biological/physiological body formation of a person which determines people as male and female. (2) Can refer to sexual activity or sexual intercourse, but may also be used to describe some other form of sexual activity and behaviour.
Sexting is the digital recording of nude or sexually suggestive or explicit images and their distribution by mobile phone messaging or through social networking.
A term used to describe crimes of a sexual nature relating to the lack of consent on the part of the victim.
A term used to describe all aspects of human sexuality. This includes all sexual attraction, behaviour, identity, expression, orientation and relationships and the diversity and differences that exist between these.
Unwanted attention of a sexual nature that creates embarrassment or stress.
A state of physical, emotional, mental and social wellbeing in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmary.
The label or name that a person uses to define and identify their sexuality.
The direction of one’s sexual and romantic attractions and interests towards members of the same, opposite or both sexes, or all genders.
Sexuality is an integral part of our personality. It influences, thoughts, feelings, actions and interactions, and thereby our mental and physical health.
Sexuality and Relationships Education (SRE)
SRE is the term frequently used to describe education, teaching and learning about sex, sexuality, emotions, relationships, and sexual health in all settings including home, care, community, school and other educational settings.
A medium or way of people communicating online. Users of social media will engage with (and around) it in a social context which can include conversations, commentary, and other user generated annotation and engagement interactions. Some examples of social media include Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The male reproductive cells made in the epididymis and found within semen ejaculate fluid.
Consists of the testes (two oval glands) and epididymis located within the scrotum. The primary male reproductive organ in which sperm and male sex hormones are produced.
An umbrella term used to describe a broad range of non-conforming gender identities and/or expressions. Usually includes all trans people, but some transsexual people and members of the gender diverse populations prefer not to use this term.
A person who identifies as the sex opposite to the one assigned at birth and who may choose to undergo sex affirmation/reassignment surgery.
Cord connecting the foetus with the placenta.
Urethra
The tube connecting the bladder and urethral opening through which urine is expelled both in males and females.
The pear-shaped organ in the female abdomen in which the fertilised egg implants and develops into a foetus during pregnancy.
The passage or canal in females leading from the internal cervix/uterus to the external genitals (opening of the vulva).
Vas deferens
The duct in the male scrotum that transports the sperm from the epididymis to join the seminal fluid in the urethra within the penis to exit during ejaculation.
Male sterilisation performed by cutting the vas deferens.
The space at the outermost portion of the vagina.
External female genitals, including the inner and outer lips (labia majora and minora), the mons, the clitoris and vaginal opening.
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WA Department of Health. Growing and developing healthy relationships: Curriculum Support Materials. 2002.
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Digital Humanities | Data Visualization | Open Access
The Religious Landscape of New Orleans: Exploring the WPA’s Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations (1941)
Web Scraping: The New Deal in New Orleans
Attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2019
Women’s Network of MoMA Artist
Cultural and Mardi Gras Maps of New Orleans
Ego Network of British Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
Gender and Nationality at MoMA
New Orleans—a city located in the Deep South nestled in a crescent bend in the Mississippi River—has a rich cultural history. Despite sub-tropical climate, and the guarantee of biblical weather, it remains a place of resiliency, love, and hope. Indeed, New Orleans is my hometown and, although a New Yorker now, I am forever shaped by my upbringing in the “Crescent City.” Growing up, I was fortunate enough to live in the French Quarter, first in the historic Pontabla Building on Jackson Square and later above my parent’s restaurant on Conti Street. Because of my proximity to the city’s center, I developed a keen familiarity with food, hospitality, and service and felt the rhythms and beats of New Orleans on a daily basis. I was habitually and freely exposed to wide array of people, ideas, and, most importantly, the rituals of New Orleans. Well into adulthood, for example, I witnessed the cultural importance of the Carnival season, or Mardi Gras, and over time was able to fully grasp its cyclical and liturgical (if not Bakhtinian) necessity. Unknown to many tourists, the carnivalesque festivities that take place across the city are often planned through community-based organizations—parade Krewes and Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs—that spend their year (and their money) preparing for the Carnival season. My first map, a map of Mardi Gras, illuminates some of the spatial aspect of parade routes and, perhaps more importantly, connect parades routes with Social Aid and Pleasure Club routes and locations, historic districts, and neighborhoods. New Orleans, of course, is more than just Mardi Gras. It is also home to a rich and vibrant cultural scene all its own. Books (new, used, and antiquarian), art galleries, gardens that teach the virtues of healthy food and composting, and its spaces of memory and community (cemeteries) provide places for New Orleanians to meet, share, and enjoy the city. To highlight this aspect of the city, I have created a cultural map of New Orleans, which locates local bookstores, urban gardens, art galleries, and (best of all) the city’s historic cemeteries.
My inspiration for my maps comes from Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (2013), a book I recently pickup up at Octavia Books, an independent bookstore in uptown New Orleans. The book features 22 maps accompanied by essays written by “geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city’s remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors’ compelling contributions.” The maps and essays included are inventive and often present the nuances and contradictions of New Orleans, a city both culturally rich and mired by crime, corruption, and environmental tragedies, including Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.
I began my research with a data & statistics LibGuide from Tulane University. The LibGuide helped me find Louisiana State and local data, which led me to DataDriven, a catalog of public datasets produced by the City of New Orleans. In this catalog, I was able to find many open datasets on both cultural and municipal topics. I then started to collect datasets that made sense together (i.e. parade routes, Mardi Gras first aid and recycling stations, portable public toilet locations) for each of my maps. I then used the City of New Orleans GIS website to find shapefiles of the Historic Districts and Cultural Products Districts of New Orleans and the Arc GIS website to find shapefiles of all the waterways in Louisiana, including the Mississippi River. I needed to refine some of the data because it often included two variables in one cell, which I separated or deleted. I then layered these datasets in Carto and refined as necessary.
My New Orleans cultural map uses a base-map of the city’s Historic Districts (light brown layer) and overlays it with the Cultural Products Districts (dark brown), which plots bookstores, galleries, museums, and urban gardens. Quite clearly, most of the mapped locations fall within a historic district and there is a high density of dots in the Vieux Carré or French Quarter (a.k.a. “the Quarter”) and the Central Business District (CBD) near the Convention Center. The urban gardens, located in charter schools or community plots where children and community members learn about food, waste, and pollinators, are scattered in the neighborhood and residential areas outside the city’s center. Bookstores, such as Blue Cyprus Books, Beckham’s Book Shop, and Octavia Books, are located in the Quarter as well as Uptown near Magazine and the Garden District. In my Mardi Gras Map, the parade routes all fall within the historic districts. It is notable that many of the Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs routes fall outside it. The Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs are some of the oldest and most prestigious participants in Mardi Gras. Their routes fall outside the historic districts and, instead, stay within the home districts of the clubs. Further, many of these clubs do not conform to the normal Mardi Gras parade schedule, which means that it is predominately only the immediate community who is their intended audience (though others can, and do, attend). These districts are in predominately poor areas, including the Lower Ninth Ward, many of which were the hardest hit areas during Hurricane Katrina. The location of these routes outside the historic, predominately white, districts along with their idiosyncratic schedules allows poor communities to assert their own autonomy and identity within the larger social frame of Mardi Gras.
Although not nearly as robust as New York, I was surprised how much publicly available data the City of New Orleans has available. I enjoyed working with data from Louisiana and would like to explore more of it, including aspects of education and crime in Orleans Parish. I though Carto was intuitive and easy-to-use. Since many shapefiles come “ready” I would like to explore what exactly everything does in the zip files, how it is created, etc.
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O’Neill Legacy Memorialized
By Kim Reyes
Mural and plaque honor the original Santa Cruz O’Neill surf shop
When Jack O’Neill opened his first surf shop in Santa Cruz, in 1959, he had no idea just how famous his brand would eventually become.
The shop, which originally opened in San Francisco in 1952, relocated to near Cowell Beach where it had a profound impact on the surfing culture in Santa Cruz County.
O’Neill invented neoprene wetsuits, which allowed surfers to brave the icy cold waters of Santa Cruz. Wetsuits revolutionized the sport of surfing, as well as the Santa Cruz economy.
“A global industry grew from that small family-run storefront,” says Crystal Birns, the city arts program manager for economic development in Santa Cruz. “The business grew steadily, earning global recognition as a pioneer and leader in the world of surfing.”
Today, there are three O’Neill stores in Santa Cruz, with several locations all across the United States.
In May 2012, the original site of Jack O’Neill’s shop was given the honor of State of California Point of Historical Interest, thanks to the efforts of Councilmember David Terrazas, with support from Don Lauritson, the staff liaison for Historic Preservation.
On Monday, March 25 at 5 p.m., an interpretive mural will be unveiled to celebrate O’Neill’s legacy here in Santa Cruz.
The mural, although temporary, was the result of the collaboration between The Economic Development Department and Studio Holladay, a local brand communications agency.
Local designer Mariah Roberts was project manager for the paper mural, and she, along with several Sunrise Rotary Club volunteers, installed it on Sunday, March 17. A permanent bronze plaque will also be unveiled on Monday, and Terrazas notes that those who are interested in helping erect a permanent mural should contact him at [email protected]
“We’ve been working on creating a permanent mural to recognize Jack O’Neill and his family for establishing the surf shop in 1959,” says Terrazas. “We’re taking submissions for designs, and getting feedback from the public on what they’d like to see.”
Visit facebook.com/scsurfshop for project updates.
Kim Reyes
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New study reveals links between alcoholic liver disease and the circadian clock
Author: William G. Gilroy
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine have revealed a putative role for the circadian clock in the liver in the development of alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis, or fatty liver disease.
Hepatic steatosis is the abnormal accumulation of fats in the cells of the liver, and is linked to disturbed control of fat metabolism. Alcohol-induced liver steatosis is produced by excessive alcohol consumption and is linked to hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver. It can be a precursor to an even more serious illness, liver cirrhosis, which includes scarring of the liver. Ten percent to 35 percent of chronic heavy drinkers develop alcoholic hepatitis, and it is the main cause of liver disease in Western countries.
The team, led by associate professors Giles Duffield, from Notre Dame’s Department of Biological Sciences and Eck Institute for Global Health, and Suthat Liangpunsakul from the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is interested in the molecular genetic basis for the molecular clock and liver steatosis.
The study, using molecular biological approaches and long-term alcohol feeding of experimental mice, reveals that the development of liver steatosis produced by alcohol abuse is intertwined with disturbances of the normal operation of the 24-hour clock system located in the cells of the liver. Importantly, this change in the liver clock seems to occur independently from the master clock system located in the brain.
The circadian clock regulates 24-hour rhythms in biochemistry, physiology and behavior, and its normal operation and appropriate synchronization to the external world, especially the alternating cycle of day and night, is critical to maintaining a normal healthy state. Disturbances of the clock have been linked to mental health disorders, to metabolic disease including obesity and diabetes, and to the development of cancer.
The liver plays many roles in the body, and includes control of metabolism, storage and release of energy molecules, and detoxification.
“Liver function changes daily in a rhythmic manner and is coordinated with cycles of feeding-fasting and to the energy demands of the body, such as activity and rest,” Duffield said. “These daily rhythms are regulated by the circadian clock within those liver cells, and disturbances to the molecular clock mechanism or poor temporal coordination of the clock with the timing of eating, or the sleep-wake and rest-activity cycle, can lead to illness.”
The study suggests that either the circadian clock is important in the actual development of the liver disease or that the development of steatosis disrupts the normal pattern of the clock mechanism. The researchers’ findings also offer novel insights into how the disease might be manipulated for clinical purposes.
Interestingly, the mechanism by which chronic alcohol intake is thought to alter the control of fat metabolism in the liver is also a shared signal to the circadian clock mechanism, this being the ratio of production of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NADH, to NAD+. The authors suggest that this may be a key to the shared disturbance to the two biological mechanisms of lipid metabolism and the circadian clock.
The study, Zhou et al., was published this week in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports.
The work was a collaborative effort between the Duffield and Liangpunsakul laboratories, involving lead author and doctoral candidate Peng Zhou, undergraduate student Cameron Pywell and research technician Roth Ross. The work was supported from grants from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the American Heart Association, the Veterans Association and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Contact: Giles Duffield, 574-631-1834, Giles.E.Duffield.2@nd.edu
Originally published by William G. Gilroy at news.nd.edu on January 16, 2014.
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Syria: State Brutality Human Agony
19th Oct 2012 ~ Graham Peebles
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From peaceful demonstrations in March 2011 inspired by the atmosphere of hope that swept through northern Africa, to bitter, brutal conflict, war, the human disease is rampaging through Syria. Destroying the lives of innocent men women and children upon their homeland, reducing men to murderers and enemies, a country to rubble. Decades of resentment and separation fuel the internal conflict, which muddied by foreign involvement and intensified by recent incidents with Turkey threatens to escalate into a proxy war, further destabilizing the region.
A diverse humanitarian disaster is devastating the lives of millions of civilians, helpless in the face of the death and destruction that stalks the country. Tens of thousands have been killed, millions displaced made homeless and destitute, and with sanctions, supposedly targeting President Bashar al Assad’s regime, crushing civilians. The UN secretary General Ban Ki Moon has repeatedly stated “the ongoing militarization of the conflict in Syria is leading to tragic results for the Syrian people.”
Civilian deaths
On the streets where they live, in their homes, walking to the shops, playing with friends, relentless indiscriminate bombing by Government forces is killing men women and children, in the cities and villages of Syria, conditioning a generation of youngsters into violence. A new activity has replaced football in school playgrounds; war games, with opposing groups taking up the banner of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) or Government troops. Shooting is the name of the game with model guns and troops flying off the shelves of toyshops. ‘Don’t steal the smile from children’s lip’ reads the slogan on the regimes leaflets dropped from helicopters over villages in Jabal al-Zawiya. Hollow propaganda, the people know well the murderous reality of the brutal Assad regime
Collecting accurate figures on civilian or military deaths is extremely difficult, to the extent that The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, who had been providing figures, in December 2011, stopped. Syria Tracker who verify and confirm their data state that 31,034 civilians have been killed since the conflict began 18 months ago. The UN however say that “18,000 people, mostly civilians, have died.” A factor that may to some extent account for the discrepancies in data is the inclusion or not of missing persons presumed dead, and those found with no means of identification.
Officially branded a civil war by The International Committee of the Red Cross, the conflict is subject to International Law in the form of the fourth Geneva Convention, establishing the humane treatment of victims of war. Enshrined codes of conduct that according to OHCHR far-reaching Commission of Inquiry on Syria (CIS) are being violated by both pro and anti government forces. The commission found “Government forces and the Government backed militia known as Shabbiha have committed ……war crimes and gross human rights violations…murder, summary execution, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual violence, violations of children’s rights, pillaging and destruction of civilian objects- including hospitals and schools. Anti-Government armed groups have also committed war crimes mainly directed at Government soldiers, informers and alleged members of Shabbiha, including murder, extrajudicial executions and torture.” War eliciting all that is ugly, destructive and primal within the human being.
Killing their countrymen
There is growing evidence that the Syrian Government is deliberately targeting civilians. Human Rights Watch (HRW) research from inside Syria has found the government is using internationally banned cluster bombs on it’s own people. They claim the Assad regimes air campaign “now apparently includes dropping (these) deadly cluster bombs into populated areas.” If true this constitutes war crimes and the more serious violation, crimes against humanity. Cluster bombs are inaccurate munitions that fire thousands of ‘sub munitions’ randomly over a wide area. They are a threat to civilians for years as many mini bombs fail to explode upon impact and lie buried where they fall. The Syrian government must, as HRW demand, “immediately stop all use of these indiscriminate weapons.”
The use of cluster bombs is a worrying expansion of the arbitrary bombing that Amnesty International in its briefing paper ‘Syria: Indiscriminate attacks terrorize and displace civilians’, highlights. Stating “indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes by the Syrian army are killing maiming and terrorizing the residents of Jabal al-Zawiya and other parts of the north Hama region. Every day civilians are killed or injured in their homes, in the street, while running for cover… many of them children.”
In addition to bombing areas where fighting is taking place with the FSA, government forces are indiscriminately shelling lost territory. Using imprecise battlefield weapons and munitions, knowing full well, Amnesty reveal “that the victims of such attacks are almost always civilians.” Such attacks are the main cause of the huge increase in civilian casualties in recent months, in August 4,933 deaths were recorded, ominously making it the highest monthly toll since the war began. Innocent civilians caught up in a war many do not want, that they feel is being dictated by foreign players pulling the warring strings.
Homeless at home and abroad
Fighting in urban areas, the capital Damascus, Aleppo Syria’s most populated city and Homs has caused large numbers of terrified civilians trapped in areas of conflict, to seek refuge either elsewhere in the city, in a safer part of Syria or in neighbouring countries.
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) “a total of 311,500 Syrians are currently registered or awaiting registration as refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.” Many refugees are housed in tents, completely inadequate for the winter, when between November and March average low temperatures are two degrees Centigrade.
Should the present exodus rate continue UNHCR estimate the total is set to reach 700,000 by the end of the year, Turkey alone, which has 13 camps, could be hosting “as many as 280,000 refugees”, mostly Syrians, but also people from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, affected by “the crisis in Syria.”
In addition to the refugee crisis outside the country, there are huge numbers displaced within Syria. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) reports, “1.5 million people [8% of the population] in Syria have lost their homes and livelihood.” The heart of the Syrian society is being torn out. People from all over the country having left their homes and communities to seek safety, are housed in temporary shelters, derelict or partially constructed buildings and face manifold risks. “For hundreds of thousands of men, women and children …… hunger and dehydration is as much of a threat as the bombs and the bullets.” (Ibid)
In Damascus and other cities tens of thousands caught up in the fighting are camped out in schools, hotels and houses, and with winter approaching and food and other basic necessities become increasingly scarce, they face a stark choice between the cold and the gun. Speaking for the many, Abu Fidel in The Financial Times (28/09/12) laments “I just want my life back,” He fled the
south Damascus conflict zone of Sayyeda Zeinab two months ago and now lives in a three-roomed apartment with 13 other family members. “I want to go back to my home – the home I spent my whole life building.”
Syrian’s who can afford to leave the country, have gone abroad, those left face extreme hardship and uncertainty. Many lives have been lost, families broken up and homes destroyed; Life-shattering experiences that will inevitably impact on the integration and future well being of the country. Jonathon Steele in The Guardian (20/8/12) conveys the words of Abu Mohammed a father of three “The country is almost destroyed. We have no idea what’s going to happen,” his family were bombed out of Homs and bombed again in Damascus. “I never thought this could happen in Syria.”
Sanctions attack the people
For over a year economic sanctions have been imposed on Syria by the European Union, who previously took 95% of all oil exports – amounting to 25% of state revenue, the USA and the league of Arab actions. They claim sanctions are aimed at the government, however the devastating effects are being felt by the people of the country (as is invariably the case) not the regime. Unemployment, a problem before the war, particularly in rural areas and a major factor in the initial demonstrations is at 15% and escalating and inflation in July hit 50%. The cost of food staples, such as eggs, rice and milk has rocketed, heating oil, desperately needed as winter approaches has increased threefold and the Syrian pound has crashed. Robert Fisk makes the point in The Independent 5/10/12 that “This catastrophe will hurt the poor and the middle classes rather than the regime’s supporters and the very wealthy who have always had access to dollar accounts.”
Sanctions are also affecting medical supplies and health care, as The Lancet report, “With thousands of job losses, the ability of people to afford basic essentials and medicines for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, children, and older people has become nigh on impossible. Sanctions have also affected the ability to maintain clean water supplies, with increased concerns for waterborne infections and diarrhea diseases, especially in children.” Doctors, short of the drugs needed to treat common complaints and conditions such as asthma and diabetes are warning of epidemics of bronchitis and pneumonia among the cold the hungry and the young.
The European Central Bank (ECB) confirms the negative impact of sanctions, “supply and distribution of medicine, medical supplies and equipment is disrupted due to limited access and the effect of sanctions on international procurement.” Economic sanctions are crude and indiscriminate, akin to punishing a class of children to penalize one delinquent teenager. They are causing additional pain to the suffering people of Syria, and should be lifted, for as the Lancet puts it, “should economic and political sanctions be allowed to punish whole populations.
Negotiate, compromise facilitate peace
Violence instills fear, bringing nothing but pain suffering and further violence, fuelling divisions and separation. Peaceful negotiations, as Noam Chomsky has said “is the only way” to end the conflict in Syria. Discussions to encourage reconciliation and facilitate the process of rebuilding, offering the leaders of the defunct regime an exit, without which, one fears they will continue the killing. The ‘Six Point Plan’ devised by Kofi Annan offers the strongest foundation for a negotiated settlement, mediated by the U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.
The first and elementary step is for the fighting to stop and those (foreign parties) supporting the violence to suspend their activities. This is what Syrians throughout the country long for, as Rima Dali made clear in her powerful solo protest on 8 April, when as The Guardian (20/08/12) report “she stood in the street in a red dress and poured white paint on herself. She held aloft a banner, saying: “Stop the Killing. We want to build a homeland for all Syrians.” Non-violent peaceful protest, the enemy of brutality and totalitarian regimes throughout the world, is what Dali is seeking to encourage.
She is not alone in seeking a peaceful way forward. Opposition members and activists under the auspice of the Catholic peace-building organisation the Community of Sant’Egidio in Rome last month signed a declaration urging the FSA to abandon violence. “While recognising the right of citizens to legitimate defence, we repeat: weapons are not the solution…We must reject violence and the slide into civil war because that places at risk the state, and our national identity and sovereignty.” It is such peaceful efforts that need and deserve to receive the full unconditional backing of the international community and not the continued arming of warring groups.
The guiding principle of all efforts in Syria should be peace. Peace is the number one priority for humanity. We must end the scourge of war for once and for all and work tirelessly to build a world based on cooperation, justice and trust. Such are the qualities that will naturally facilitate peace. Such are the values that are now desperately needed in Syria and indeed throughout our beautiful world.
http://www.redressonline.com/2012/10/syria-state-brutality-and-human-agony/
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The Rise And Fall Of Horror Comics
Posted on June 29, 2015 by Alex K Cossa
Horror comics have had it rough.
For a few years they were at the forefront of the comic book industry, pushing the envelope with the stories they told, and influencing some of the most recognizable names in horror over the past five decades. From the late 40’s to the mid 50’s, horror comics essentially printed money for their publishers.
It would not, it could not, last.
There is some debate as to the first horror comic; Prize Comics #7 began an eight page feature adapting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, causing some to label it as the first true horror series. There were other adaptations during the early to mid 40’s, one of which was Gilberton Publications Classic Comics #13. Printing a full adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Classic Comics #13 is the earliest known comic book dedicated purely to horror.
However the first horror comic with original content is widely recognized as Eerie Comics #1, by Avon Publications cover dated January of 1947 (but the comic was actually published at the tail end of 1946). This volume of Eerie Comics never had a second issue, but it was relaunched in 1951.
Horror comics enjoyed some popularity on the newsstands, but it wasn’t until 1950 when EC Comics came on the scene that the genre really exploded with EC’s “trifecta of terror”: The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, and Crypt of Terror – which later became Tales from the Crypt.
The stories in the above comics, and the others that would follow, are bloody, gory, gruesome, macabre, sinister, and, at times, silly. They were truly horrific comics, but for some they were absolutely wonderful, and their influence on game-changing artists and writers can’t be overstated. Stephen King and George Romero, both hugely influential men on their own, created the film Creepshow as a love letter to the comics that influenced them as children. Alan Moore, one of the most acclaimed comic book writers of the past few decades, has a character reading an EC Comics-like story at a newsstand throughout the main story of Watchmen. Years later, HBO would develop a very successful anthology television show that ran from 1989 to 1996 based on the content of many EC stories published in during the 50’s, turning the Cryptkeeper into a household name.
But the golden age of horror comics of the early to mid 50’s would not last.
With the fallout from Fredric Wertham‘s book Seduction of the Innocent, and the Comics Code Authority (CCA) that resulted, horror comics, hit hard than any other genre, were virtually wiped out over night. Jobs were lost, publishers nearly went out of business, and the face of comics changed forever. Horror comics were everywhere, until suddenly they weren’t.
To say horror comics vanished over night isn’t strictly accurate. The essence of the comics stayed alive despite the CCA’s best efforts. James Warren of Warren Publishing would produce black and white horror comics, but published as a magazine, they were exempt from the CCA’s rules. By publishing these stories in a magazine format, Warren paved the way for other publishers to produce horror comics magazines.
Horror comics, like any good villain, wouldn’t stay down forever.
Although the Comics Code Authority spelled the end of horror comics for many years, we are currently experiencing a resurgence in horror comics – in a large part, perhaps, because the CCA has been entirely abandoned by publishers. The old EC Comics, those classically macabre stories that are finally making their way into reprinted volumes that for fans of the genre are an unparalleled look into the past. Modern comic books like The Walking Dead, American Vampire, and 30 Days of Night are only a handful of the titles that are carrying the torch of influence that can traced back to the golden age of horror of the early 50’s.
While perhaps not as popular as they were 60 years ago, when they accounted for almost a quarter of all comics published, horror comics have been making a steady return to prominence in the comic book world.
That’s not a bad thing.
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James Moran on Government Reform
Democratic Representative (VA-8)
Voted YES on Senate pay raise.
Makes appropriations to the Senate for FY2010 for:
expense allowances;
representation allowances for the Majority and Minority Leaders;
salaries of specified officers, employees, and committees (including the Committee on Appropriations);
agency contributions for employee benefits;
inquiries and investigations;
the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control;
the Offices of the Secretary and of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate;
miscellaneous items;
the Senators' Official Personnel and Office Expense Account; and
official mail costs.
Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act of 1968 to increase by $50,000 the gross compensation paid all employees in the office of a Senator. Increases by $96,000 per year the aggregate amount authorized for the offices of the Majority and Minority Whip.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D, FL-20): We, as Members of Congress, have responsibility not just for the institution, but for the staff that work for this institution, and to preserve the facilities that help support this institution. We have endeavored to do that responsibly, and I believe we have accomplished that goal.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. SCALISE (R, LA-1): It's a sad day when someone attempts to cut spending in a bill that grows government by the size of 7%, and it's not allowed to be debated on this House floor. Some of their Members actually used the term "nonsense" and "foolishness" when describing our amendments to cut spending; they call that a delaying tactic. Well, I think Americans all across this country want more of those types of delaying tactics to slow down this runaway train of massive Federal spending. Every dollar we spend from today all the way through the end of this year is borrowed money. We don't have that money. We need to control what we're spending. Reference: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act; Bill HR2918&S1294 ; vote number 2009-H413 on Jun 19, 2009
Voted YES on requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations.
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require a registered lobbyist who bundles contributions totaling over $5,000 to one covered recipient in one quarter to:
file a quarterly report with Congress; and
notify the recipient.
"Covered recipient" includes federal candidates, political party committees, or leadership PACs [but not regular PACs].
Proponents support voting YES because:
This measure will more effectively regulate, but does not ban, the practice of registered lobbyists bundling together large numbers of campaign contributions. This is a practice that has already taken root in Presidential campaigns. "Bundling" contributions which the lobbyist physically receives and forwards to the candidate, or which are credited to the lobbyist through a specific tracking system put in place by the candidate. This bill requires quarterly reporting on bundled contributions.
We ultimately need to move to assist the public financing of campaigns, as soon as we can. But until we do, the legislation today represents an extremely important step forward.
Opponents support voting NO because:
This legislation does not require that bundled contributions to political action committees, often referred to as PACs, be disclosed. Why are PACs omitted from the disclosure requirements in this legislation?
If we are requiring the disclosure of bundled contributions to political party committees, those same disclosure rules should also apply to contributions to PACs. Party committees represent all members of that party affiliation. PACs, on the other hand, represent more narrow, special interests. Why should the former be exposed to more sunshine, but not the latter?
The fact that PACs give more money to Democrats is not the only answer. Time and again the majority party picks favorites, when what the American people want is more honesty and more accountability. Reference: Honest Leadership and Open Government Act; Bill H R 2316 ; vote number 2007-423 on May 24, 2007
Voted YES on granting Washington DC an Electoral vote & vote in Congress.
Bill to provide for the treatment of the District of Columbia as a Congressional district for representation in the House of Representatives, and in the Electoral College. Increases membership of the House from 435 to 437 Members beginning with the 110th Congress. [Political note: D.C. currently has a non-voting delegate to the US House. Residents of D.C. overwhelmingly vote Democratic, so the result of this bill would be an additional Democratic vote in the House and for President].
This bill corrects a 200-year-old oversight by restoring to the citizens of the District of Columbia the right to elect a Member of the House of Representatives who has the same voting rights as all other Members.
Residents of D.C. serve in the military. They pay Federal taxes each year. Yet they are denied the basic right of full representation in the House of Representatives.
The District of Columbia was created to prevent any State from unduly influencing the operations of the Federal Government. However, there is simply no evidence that the Framers of the Constitution thought it was necessary to keep D.C. residents from being represented in the House by a voting Member.
The proponents of this bill in 1978 believed that the way to allow D.C. representation was to ratify a constitutional amendment. The Founders of the country had the debate at that time: Should we give D.C. a Representative? They said no. So if you want to fix it, you do it by making a constitutional amendment.
Alternatively, we simply could have solved the D.C. representation problem by retroceding, by giving back part of D.C. to Maryland. There is precedent for this. In 1846, Congress took that perfectly legal step of returning present-day Arlington to the State of Virginia. Reference: District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act; Bill H R 1905 ; vote number 2007-231 on Apr 19, 2007
Voted YES on protecting whistleblowers from employer recrimination.
Expands the types of whistleblower disclosures protected from personnel reprisals for federal employees, particularly on national security issues.
This bill would strengthen one of our most important weapons against waste, fraud and abuse, and that is Federal whistleblower protections. Federal employees are on the inside and offer accountability. They can see where there is waste going on or if there is corruption going on.
One of the most important provisions protects national security whistleblowers. There are a lot of Federal officials who knew the intelligence on Iraq was wrong. But none of these officials could come forward. If they did, they could have been stripped of their security clearances, or they could have been fired. Nobody blew the whistle on the phony intelligence that got us into the Iraq war.
It is important that personnel within the intelligence community have appropriate opportunities to bring matters to Congress so long as the mechanisms to do so safeguard highly sensitive classified information and programs. The bill before us suffers from a number of problems:
The bill would conflict with the provisions of the existing Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998, which protecting sensitive national security information from unauthorized disclosure to persons not entitled to receive it.
The bill violates the rules of the House by encouraging intelligence community personnel to report highly sensitive intelligence matters to committees other than the Intelligence Committees. The real issue is one of protecting highly classified intelligence programs and ensuring that any oversight is conducted by Members with the appropriate experiences, expertise, and clearances.
This bill would make every claim of a self-described whistleblower, whether meritorious or not, subject to extended and protracted litigation.
Reference: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act; Bill H R 985 ; vote number 2007-153 on Mar 14, 2007
Voted NO on requiring photo ID for voting in federal elections.
Requires that to vote in federal elections, an individual present a government-issued, current, and valid photo identification. After 2010, that ID must require providing proof of US citizenship as a condition for issuance. An individual who does not present such an ID is permitted to cast a provisional ballot, and then present the required ID within 48 hours. Exempts from this requirement the absentee ballot of any eligible overseas military voter on active duty overseas.
The election system is the bedrock that our Republic is built on and its security and oversight is of paramount concern. Only US citizens have the right to vote in Federal elections, but our current system does not give State election officials the tools they need to ensure that this requirement is being met.
This bill is designed to increase participation by ensuring that each legitimate vote will be counted and not be diluted by fraud. There are many elections in this country every cycle that are decided by just a handful of votes. How can we be certain that these elections, without measures to certify the identity of voters, are not being decided by fraudulent votes?
There is something we can all agree on: only Americans get to vote, and they only get to vote once. But what we are talking about in this bill is disenfranchising many of those Americans. It is already a felony for a non-American to vote. We had hearings and what we found out was that the issue of illegal aliens voting basically does not occur.
The impact of this will disproportionately affect poor people and African Americans, because many are too poor to have a car and they do not have a license. We have no evidence there is a problem. We have ample evidence that this will disenfranchise many Americans. This is the measure to disenfranchise African Americans, Native Americans. It is wrong and we will not stand for it. Reference: Federal Election Integrity Act; Bill H R 4844 ; vote number 2006-459 on Sep 20, 2006
Voted NO on restricting independent grassroots political committees.
A "527 organization" is a political committee which spends money raised independently of any candidate's campaign committee, in support or opposition of a candidate or in support or opposition of an issue. Well-known examples include MoveOn.org (anti-Bush) and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (anti-Kerry). Voting YES would regulate 527s as normal political committees, which would greatly restrict their funding, and hence would shift power to candidate committees and party committees. The bill's opponents say:
This legislation singles out 527 organizations in an effort to undermine their fundraising and is a direct assault on free speech.
This bill would obstruct the efforts of grassroots organizations while doing nothing to address the culture of corruption in Congress.
H.R. 513 is an unbalanced measure that favors corporate trade associations over independent advocates. Corporate interests could continue spending unlimited and undisclosed dollars for political purposes while independent organizations would be subject to contribution limits and source restrictions.
H.R. 513 also removes all limits on national and state party spending for Congressional candidates in primary or general elections--an unmasked attack on the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and clear evidence that the true intention in advancing H.R. 513 is not reform, but partisan advantage in political fundraising.
The bill's proponents say:
527s' primary purpose is to influence the election or defeat of a Federal candidate. They have to file with the FEC because after Watergate in 1974 this Congress passed a law that said if you are going to have a political committee whose primary purpose is to influence an election, then they have to register with the FEC.
The FEC ignored 30 years of congressional actions and Supreme Court jurisprudence in allowing 527s to evade the law. In short, the FEC failed to do its job and regulate 527s as required under the Watergate statute.
Reference: Federal Election Campaign Act amendment "527 Reform Act"; Bill H.R.513 ; vote number 2006-088 on Apr 5, 2006
Voted YES on prohibiting lawsuits about obesity against food providers.
The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act ("The Cheesburger Bill") would prevent civil liability actions against food manufacturers, marketers, distributors, advertisers, sellers, and trade associations for claims relating to a person's weight gain, obesity, or any health condition associated with weight gain or obesity. A YES vote would:
Prohibit such lawsuits in this act in federal or state courts
Dismiss any pending lawsuits upon this bill's enactment
Maintain an individual's right to bring a lawsuit to court for false marketing, advertising or labeling of food when such information led to injury, obesity or weight gain
Reference: The Cheesburger Bill; Bill HR 554 ; vote number 2005-533 on Oct 19, 2005
Voted YES on limiting attorney's fees in class action lawsuits.
Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Amends the Federal judicial code to specify the calculation of contingent and other attorney's fees in proposed class action settlements that provide for the award of coupons to class members. Allows class members to refuse compliance with settlement agreements or consent decrees absent notice. Prohibits a Federal district court from approving:
a proposed coupon settlement absent a finding that the settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate;
a proposed settlement involving payments to class counsel that would result in a net monetary loss to class members, absent a finding that the loss is substantially outweighed by nonmonetary benefits; or
a proposed settlement that provides greater sums to some class members solely because they are closer geographically to the court.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley [R, IA]; Bill S.5 ; vote number 2005-038 on Feb 17, 2005
Voted YES on restricting frivolous lawsuits.
Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act of 2004: Amends the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to:
require courts to impose sanctions on attorneys, law firms, or parties who file frivolous lawsuits (currently, sanctions are discretionary);
disallow the withdrawal or correction of pleadings to avoid sanctions;
require courts to award parties prevailing on motions reasonable expenses and attorney's fees, if warranted;
authorize courts to impose sanctions that include reimbursement of a party's reasonable litigation costs in connection with frivolous lawsuits; and
make the discovery phase of litigation subject to sanctions.
Reference: Bill sponsored by Rep Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]; Bill H.R.4571 ; vote number 2004-450 on Sep 14, 2004
Voted YES on campaign finance reform banning soft-money contributions.
Shays-Meehan Campaign Finance Overhaul: Vote to pass a bill that would ban soft money contributions to national political parties but permit up to $10,000 in soft money contributions to state and local parties to help with voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives. The bill would stop issue ads from targeting specific candidates within 30 days of the primary or 60 days of the general election. Additionally, the bill would raise the individual contribution limit from $1,000 to $2,000 per election for House and Senate candidates, both of which would be indexed for inflation. Reference: Bill sponsored by Shays, R-CT, and Meehan D-MA; Bill HR 2356 ; vote number 2002-34 on Feb 14, 2002
Voted NO on banning soft money donations to national political parties.
Support a ban on soft money donations to national political parties but allow up to $10,000 in soft-money donations to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the vote activity. Bill HR 2356 ; vote number 2001-228 on Jul 12, 2001
Voted YES on banning soft money and issue ads.
Campaign Finance Reform Act to ban "soft money" and impose restrictions on issue advocacy campaigning. Reference: Bill sponsored by Shays, R-CT; Bill HR 417 ; vote number 1999-422 on Sep 14, 1999
Voluntary public financing for all general elections.
Moran signed the manifesto, "A New Agenda for the New Decade":
Return Politics to the People
At a time when much of the world is emulating American values and institutions, too many Americans have lost confidence in their political system. They are turned off by a partisan debate that often seems to revolve not around opposing philosophies but around contending sets of interest groups. They believe that our current system for financing campaigns gives disproportionate power to wealthy individuals and groups and exerts too much influence over legislative and regulatory outcomes.
The time for piecemeal reform is past. As campaign costs soar at every level, we need to move toward voluntary public financing of all general elections and press broadcasters to donate television time to candidates.
The Internet holds tremendous potential for making campaigns less expensive and more edifying and for engaging Americans directly in electoral politics. We should promote the Internet as a new vehicle for political communication and champion online voting.
Introduce voluntary public financing for all general elections.
Allow properly regulated voter registration and voting online.
Implement civic education courses in every public school.
Source: The Hyde Park Declaration 00-DLC9 on Aug 1, 2000
Establish the United States Public Service Academy.
Moran sponsored establishing the United States Public Service Academy
Sen. CLINTON: I rise today to introduce legislation that will create an undergraduate institution designed to cultivate a generation of young leaders dedicated to public service. The US Public Service Academy Act (The PSA Act) will form a national academy to serve as an extraordinary example of effective, national public education.
The tragic events of September 11 and the devastation of natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita underscore how much our Nation depends on strong public institutions and competent civilian leadership at all levels of society. Congress must take a step forward to ensure competent civilian leadership and improve our Nation's ability to respond to future emergencies and to confront daily challenges.
This legislation will create the US Public Service Academy to groom future public servants and build a corps of capable civilian leaders. Modeled after the military service academies, this academy will provide a four-year, federally-subsidized college education for more than 5,000 students a year in exchange for a five year commitment to public service.
The PSA Act will meet critical national needs as the baby-boomer generation approaches retirement. Already, studies show looming shortages in the Federal civil service, public education, law enforcement, the non-profit sector and other essential areas.
Unfortunately our young people are priced out of public service careers all too often. By providing a service-oriented education at no cost to the student, the PSA Act will tap into the strong desire to serve that already exists among college students while erasing the burden of enormous college debt.
The establishment of a United States Public Service Academy is an innovative way to strengthen and protect America by creating a corps of well-trained, highly-qualified civilian leaders. I am hopeful that my Senate colleagues from both sides of the aisle will join me today. Source: United States Public Service Academy Act (S.960 & HR.1671) 07-HR1671 on Mar 23, 2007
Prohibit voter intimidation in federal elections.
Moran co-sponsored prohibiting voter intimidation in federal elections
Makes it unlawful for anyone before or during a federal election to knowingly communicate false election-related information about that election, with the intent to prevent another person from exercising the right to vote. Increases from one year to five years' imprisonment the criminal penalty for intimidation of voters.
Sen. OBAMA: This bill seeks to address the all-too-common efforts to deceive voters in order to keep them away from the polls. It's hard to imagine that we even need a bill like this. But, unfortunately, there are people who will stop at nothing to try to deceive voters and keep them away from the polls. What's worse, these practices often target and exploit vulnerable populations, such as minorities, the disabled, or the poor. We saw countless examples in this past election.
Some of us remember the thousands of Latino voters in Orange County, California, who received letters warning them in Spanish that, "if you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that can result in incarceration."
Or the voters in Virginia who received calls from a so-called "Virginia Elections Commission" informing them--falsely--that they were ineligible to vote.
Or the voters who were told that they couldn't vote if they had family members who had been convicted of a crime.
Of course, these so-called warnings have no basis in fact, and are made with only one goal in mind--to keep Americans away from the polls. We see these problems election after election, and my hope is that this bill will finally stop these practices. This bill makes voter intimidation & deception punishable by law, and it contains strong penalties. The bill also seeks to address the real harm of these crimes--people who are prevented from voting by misinformation--by establishing a process for reaching out to these misinformed voters with accurate information so they can cast their votes in time. Source: Voter Intimidation Prevention Act (H.R.1281 & S.453) 07-S453 on Mar 1, 2007
Ban stock trading based on Congressional insider knowledge.
Moran co-sponsored STOCK Act
Congressional Summary:Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act): Amends the Securities Exchange Act and the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit purchase or sale of either securities or commodities by a person in possession of material nonpublic information regarding pending or prospective legislative action.
Amends the Ethics in Government Act to require formal disclosure of certain securities and commodities futures transactions.
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act to subject to its registration, reporting, and disclosure requirements all political intelligence activities, contacts, firms, and consultants.
Bill explanation (ProCon.org, "Insider Trading by Congress", Feb. 3, 2012):
On Mar. 17, 2011, Tim Walz (D-MN) introduced the STOCK Act where it gained nine co-sponsors by Nov. 4, 2011.
On Nov. 13, 2011, the TV show "60 Minutes" reported that several members of Congress allegedly used insider information for personal gain. The STOCK Act received 84 additional House co-sponsors in the five days following the report, and Scott Brown (R-MA) filed the STOCK Act in the Senate on Nov. 15, 2011. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) also filed a variation of the STOCK Act in the Senate on Nov. 17, 2011.
On Jan. 24, 2012, in his State of the Union Address, President Obama said "Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress, and I will sign it tomorrow."
Immediately after the speech, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told reporters, "I think people should have enough sense not to do it [insider trading] without legislation, but I will support legislation."
On Feb. 2, 2012, a revised version of the STOCK Act passed in the Senate by a vote of 96-3 with Senators Richard Burr (R-NC), Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) dissenting.
Source: H1148/S1871 11-S1871 on Nov 15, 2011
Require full disclosure of independent campaign expenditures.
Moran co-sponsored DISCLOSE Act
Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2012 or DISCLOSE Act:
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) to add to the definition of "independent expenditure" an expenditure by a person that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or takes a position on a candidates, qualifications, or fitness for office.
Expands the period during which certain communications are treated as electioneering communications.
Prescribes disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and certain other entities, including a political committee with an account established for the purpose of accepting donations or contributions that do not comply with the contribution limits or source prohibitions under FECA (but only with respect to such accounts).
Repeals the prohibition against political contributions by individuals age 17 or younger.
Wikipedia & OnTheIssue Summary:
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, ruled that prohibiting corporations and unions from making independent expenditures in political campaigns was unconstitutional. This ruling is frequently described as permitting corporations and unions to donate to political campaigns, but these claims are incorrect. The ruling did remove the previous ban on corporations and organizations using their funds for direct advocacy, including endorsing for or against specific candidates, actions that were previously prohibited.
The result of Citizens United was that "Super PACs" spent millions on TV ads in the 2012 election, advocating both issues and candidates. The DISCLOSE Act attempts to reduce the negative effect of Citizens United by requiring disclosure of independent expenditures made by advocacy groups. Source: S3369/HR4010 12-HR4010 on Feb 9, 2012
Establish 15 days of early voting in all states.
Moran co-sponsored SIMPLE Voting Act
A BILL to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to establish a minimum period of 15 days for early voting prior to the date of an election for Federal office and to ensure that no individual will be required to wait for longer than one hour to cast a ballot at a polling place in an election for Federal office.
This Act may be cited as the 'Streamlined and Improved Methods at Polling Locations and Early Voting Act' or the 'SIMPLE Voting Act'.
Each State shall allow individuals to vote in an election for Federal office on each day occurring during the 15-day period which ends 2 days before the date of the election, in the same manner as voting is allowed on such day.
Minimum Early Voting Requirements: Each polling place shall allow such voting for not less than 10 hours on each day; and have uniform hours each day for which such voting occurs.
Location of Polling Places Near Public Transportation: To the greatest extent practicable, a State shall ensure that each polling place is located within reasonable walking distance of a stop on a public transportation route.
A Commission shall issue standards for the administration of early voting, including the nondiscriminatory geographic placement of polling places at which such voting occurs.
The standards shall permit States to deviate from any requirement in the case of unforeseen circumstances such as a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or a change in voter turnout.
Each State shall provide a sufficient number of voting systems, poll workers, and other election resources (including physical resources) at each polling place to ensure that no individual will be required to wait longer than one hour to cast a ballot.
Source: H.R.6591 12-HR6591 on Nov 15, 2012
Full disclosure of campaign spending.
Moran co-sponsored DISCLOSE 2013 Act
Disclosure of Information on Spending on Campaigns Leads to Open and Secure Elections Act of 2013 or DISCLOSE 2013 Act:
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to redefine the term "independent expenditure" as an expenditure that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or is the functional equivalent of express advocacy because it can be interpreted only as advocating the election or defeat of a candidate, taking into account whether the communication involved mentions a candidacy, a political party, or a challenger to a candidate, or takes a position on a candidates, qualifications, or fitness for office.
Prescribes disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, and campaign-related disbursements.
Requires any communication transmitted through radio or television to include an individual or organizational disclosure statement, together with:
the Top Two Funders List of the persons providing the largest and second largest aggregate payments of $10,000 or more for a radio communication, and
the Top Five Funders List of the five persons providing the largest aggregate payments of $10,000 or more for a television communication.
Requires a covered organization which submits regular, periodic reports to its shareholders, members, or donors on its finances or activities to include in each report, in a clear and conspicuous manner, the information included in the statements it has filed about campaign-related disbursements the organization has made during the period covered by the report.
Requires semiannual reports on election campaign contributions by registered lobbyists for any independent expenditure of $1,000 or more, including electioneering communication.
Source: H.R.148 13-HR0148 on Jan 3, 2013
Matching fund for small donors, with debate requirements.
Moran signed Fair Elections Now Act
Congressional Summary:Fair Elections Now Act--Amends 1971 FECA with respect to:
500% matching payments to candidates for certain small dollar contributions;
a public debate requirement;
establishment of the Fair Elections Fund and of a Fair Elections Oversight Board;
remission to the Fair Elections Fund of unspent funds after an election civil penalties for violation of contribution and expenditure requirements;
Requires all designations, statements, and reports required to be filed under FECA to be filed directly with the FEC in electronic form accessible by computers.
Statement of support for corresponding Senate bill: (Sunlight Foundation) Now we bring you the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, a bill that should probably be the least controversial of all. S. 375 would simply require senators and Senate candidates to file their public campaign finance disclosure reports electronically with the Federal Election Commission, the way House candidates and presidential candidates have been filing for over a decade. A version of the bill has been introduced during every congress starting in 2003 (!) yet it has been blocked repeatedly, a victim of political football.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has introduced the most recent version, which would ensure that paper Senate campaign finance reports are a thing of the past. But even with 50 bipartisan cosponsors, the bill faces an uphill battle. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, has repeatedly prevented the bill from coming to the Senate floor. We won't be deterred--as long as McConnell continues to block the bill, we'll continue to highlight that his intransigence results in delayed disclosure of vital, public campaign finance information, not to mention wasting $500,000 in taxpayer money annually. Eventually, we'll win. Source: S.375/H.R.269 14_H269 on Jan 15, 2013
No photo IDs to vote; they suppress the vote.
Moran signed Voting Rights Amendment Act
Congressional Summary:Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with respect to the requirement that a federal court retain jurisdiction for an appropriate period to prevent commencement of new devices to deny or abridge the right to vote. Expands the types of violations triggering the authority of a court to retain such jurisdiction to include certain violations of the Act as well as violations of any federal voting rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. [This bill would ban requiring photo IDs in order to vote].
Opponents recommend voting NO because:Sen. Bob Dole (on related bill from 2007, whether to add an amendment allowing photo ID): I am proposing a commonsense measure to uphold the integrity of Federal elections. My amendment to require voters to show photo identification at the polls would go a long way in minimizing potential for voter fraud. When a fraudulent vote is cast and counted, the vote of a legitimate voter is cancelled. This is wrong, and my amendment would help ensure that one of the hallmarks of our democracy, our free and fair elections, is protected. Opinion polls repeatedly confirm that Americans overwhelmingly support this initiative.Proponents support voting YES because:Sen. Dianne Feinstein (on related bill from 2007): If one would want to suppress the vote in the 2008 election, one would vote [for Dole's amendment] this because this measure goes into effect January 1, 2008. It provides that everybody who votes essentially would have to have a photo ID. If you want to suppress the minority vote, the elderly vote, the poor vote, this is exactly the way to do it. Many of these people do not have driver's licenses. This amendment would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to actually carry out. It goes into effect--surprise--January 1, 2008 [to affect the presidential election]. Source: H.R.3899/S.1945 14_H3899 on Jan 16, 2014
Establish "My Voice Voucher" small campaign contributions.
Moran co-sponsored Government By the People Act
A refundable tax credit of 50% of congressional House campaign contributions, to be known as "My Voice Federal" contributions.
Establishes the Government by the People Oversight Commission, which will launch a pilot program and select 3 eligible states to operate a voucher pilot program.
Provide each qualified individual during the election cycle, upon his or her request, with a "My Voice Voucher" worth $50 (in either paper or electronic form).
Authorizes the individual to submit the My Voice Voucher to qualified federal election candidates, allocating a portion of its value in $5 increments.
Prohibits a certified participating candidate from establishing or controlling a leadership PAC (political action committee).
Proponent's argument in favor (by Reps. Nancy Pelosi & John Sarbanes): Citizens United shook the foundation of our democracy: the principle that it is the voices of the people, not the bank accounts of the privileged few, that determine the outcome of our elections and the policies of our government. Most members of Congress would leap at the chance to fund their campaigns without having to turn to a familiar cast of big donors and entrenched interests. Today, that's virtually impossible. But we can and must break the grip of special interests on our politics: rally around H.R. 20.
Opponent's argument against (The Examiner): The proposed legislation seeks to undo the Citizens United v. FEC ruling which has been a thorn in the side of progressives ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that political spending was "a form of protected speech under the First Amendment." Although the "Government by the People Act" innocently claims to want to get big money out of politics, the real goal is to smash the Tea Party. The fear that conservative groups would have access to funds typically granted to progressive groups and unions was too much to bear. Source: H.R.20 14-H0020 on Feb 5, 2014
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Hospital Recognized for Outstanding Rating in Patient Safety
Hospital Recognized for Outstanding...
Research Medical Center October 28, 2015
Research Medical Center—part of HCA Midwest Health, Kansas City’s leading healthcare provider—was honored with an “A” grade in the Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score, which rates how well hospitals prevent medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital. The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading experts on patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group (Leapfrog), an independent industry watchdog. The first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety, the Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to inform themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay.
This is the third consecutive time Research Medical Center has earned an A grade.
“The Hospital Safety Score and our ‘A’ grade are a reflection of the work we have collectively done to provide safe, quality and affordable healthcare for our patients,” says Dr. James S. Bower, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Research Medical Center. “Patients and their families choose us because our nurses and doctors are at the top of their professions. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Score is one measure of performance and to earn the highest quality grades among all hospitals is truly an honor.”
“Patient safety needs to be a 24-7 priority for hospitals,” says Leah Binder, president and Chief Executive Officer of The Leapfrog Group, which administers the Hospital Safety Score. “We commend the ‘A’ hospitals, including Research Medical Center, for helping us to raise the standards of healthcare nationwide, and demonstrating that they’ve made the well-being of patients a top priority.”
Developed under the guidance of Leapfrog’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from preventable harm. The Hospital Safety Score is fully transparent, with a full analysis of the data and methodology used in determining grades available online.
To see how Research Medical Center’s score compares locally and nationally and to access consumer-friendly tips for patients and their loved ones, visit the newly updated Hospital Safety Score website at hospitalsafetyscore.org. Consumers can also go to hospitalsafetyscore.org for a free download of the Hospital Safety Score mobile app.
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Millions More People Now Have High Blood Pressure. Why That’s a Good Thing
New standards for diagnosing hypertension help to encourage heart-healthy behavior. Learn what it means to have high blood pressure — and how to lower it.
You may have read about the new blood pressure guidelines, which were designed to boost awareness about the condition and promote healthy habits.
But you might also be wondering: Am I now at risk?
In November, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology lowered the threshold of diagnosis to 130/80 from 140/90.
Using the new benchmark, 100 million Americans — that’s nearly 1 in 2 adults — have high blood pressure, or hypertension. This triples incidence of the condition in men and doubles it for women younger than 45.
Previously, 1 in 3 adult Americans were thought to have high blood pressure.
It’s a move that might seem odd, but it could help the health of millions long term.
“These guidelines are not the rule of law,” says Susan Steigerwalt, M.D., a clinical hypertension specialist at Michigan Medicine, “but we know that cardiovascular events begin to increase when a patient’s blood pressure is above 115/70.”
The guidelines also aren’t intended to put many more people on blood pressure-lowering medication.
“The first thing we recommend is adoption of a healthy lifestyle,” says Steigerwalt. “It’s really important not to feel powerless. There is a lot that can be done.”
With the new guidelines in mind, Steigerwalt answers common questions about hypertension:
What is blood pressure, and why should I care about it?
Blood pressure is the measure of how hard the blood pushes against the walls of your arteries as it moves through the body. Damage to the blood vessels, heart and kidneys can result when pressure is too high.
SEE ALSO: 8 Easy Ways to Lower Your Blood Pressure
Left untreated, hypertension can have devastating long-term effects. “There are four big risks: heart attacks, heart failure, stroke and dementia,” says Steigerwalt.
High blood pressure, which typically has no symptoms or warning signs, is referred to as a silent killer. Keeping track of your readings at annual checkups and other appointments is key.
How is my blood pressure reading taken?
A doctor will use an inflatable rubber cuff known as a sphygmomanometer to get a reading from an attached gauge that measures systolic and diastolic blood pressure.
The top number, systolic, is the pressure when your heart beats. The bottom number is diastolic, the pressure of the rest period between beats.
A reading of 120/80 or below is considered normal.
It’s normal for blood pressure to go up and down throughout the day. Which is why the new hypertension guidelines advise taking two to three readings (after a patient has rested for at least five minutes) on at least two occasions.
Other measurements could follow: “We would ideally look at blood pressure readings taken outside of the office before making a diagnosis of hypertension,” says Steigerwalt. That approach, she says, could require at-home tests or an ambulatory reading with a small monitor that conducts measurements automatically on the user over 24 hours.
What causes high blood pressure?
Two big contributors are a sedentary lifestyle and a high-salt, high-sugar diet. Both cause the body to work harder in different ways, which can put added stress on the blood vessels.
But in about 90 percent of diagnoses, the source of hypertension is a mystery. “We don’t know why you’ve got it, but you’ve got it,” Steigerwalt says. In the majority of these cases, the diagnosis is then called primary hypertension.
When blood pressure is abnormally high, however, there’s a greater likelihood it stems from a secondary cause such as an oversecretion of hormones from the adrenal gland. Some medications, including certain decongestants, stimulants (like Adderall) and birth control, also are associated with high blood pressure.
What can I do to lower my blood pressure?
The new guidelines don’t mean a lot more people will need medication — at least not at first.
Lifestyle changes are the first recommended step for everyone, to lower a patient’s elevated blood pressure. These continue to be important even if medication is added.
“There is so much you can do: 30 minutes of walking every day, standing up or moving around at work and sleeping at least seven hours a night,” says Steigerwalt.
One of her biggest directives is to follow the DASH diet, a regimen designed to control hypertension with a focus on fruits, vegetables, grains and low- or fat-free dairy, as well as less meat and sugar.
Those who are overweight can benefit from losing 10 percent of their body weight, she notes. Limiting alcohol intake (one drink daily for women and two for men) can also help lower blood pressure. And, Steigerwalt adds with emphasis, “Everybody needs to stop smoking.”
Do I need hypertension medication?
Some patients may need more than diet and exercise to control their blood pressure.
“We try, if possible, to remove the (triggering) medications and modify lifestyle first,” says Steigerwalt.
SEE ALSO: Why Does Pulmonary Hypertension Cause Shortness of Breath?
Still, medication is recommended for those who score 10 percent or greater on a test designed to gauge their risk of certain cardiovascular diseases, even if their systolic blood pressure is between 130 and 139.
If further intervention is necessary, a comprehensive exam and discussion can help your doctor determine the best — and safest — route of pharmaceutical care.
That’s especially important for those facing other health issues such as heart failure, coronary artery disease and diabetes.
“People who already have medical conditions have to be careful to keep blood pressure very well controlled,” Steigerwalt says. “And you need follow up with a physician and to perform regular measurements at home to confirm the blood pressure has come down and is staying down.”
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Saved By The Bowl: How Marijuana is Bringing Life Back to This Town
This small desert town has always been known as a poor man’s land. In addition to being home to a high-security state prison for men, this small town has been carrying a bad reputation on its back for years.
Written by Abbi Magder
The small desert town of Adelanto in Southern California has always been known as a poor man’s land. In addition to being home to a high-security state prison for men, this small town has been carrying a bad reputation on its back for years.
Now that things have changed in California, with the acceptance of cannabis only growing stronger, Adelanto is getting on board with the marijuana industry in an effort to reestablish itself and its community.
Adelanto in despair
Adelanto is a fairly poor community with a mere population of about 31,000. While it has always been known as a low-income town, it also suffered tremendously from the housing collapse that occurred back in 2008.
After becoming a town filled with newly built houses that people couldn’t really afford, Adelanto, along with other desert communities in Southern California began to look and feel more like a ghost town and less like a city built for progress.
In order to move away from this, the city of Adelanto would have to reestablish itself in order to rebuild its community and attract newcomers. With this in mind, Adelanto moved toward becoming a city that could be saved by embracing the future of cannabis and the inevitable success of the industry as a whole.
Saying no to dispensaries
When California eased up on its marijuana laws and allowed citizens to use cannabis for medical purposes, many communities were hesitant, and a handful of those communities prohibited marijuana dispensaries from being built in their neighborhoods.
Because many of these desert communities, including Adelanto, experienced drug addiction in their towns directly, the notion that they could benefit economically from pot dispensaries didn’t really faze them. For most of these communities, dispensaries were nothing but bad news.
But soon, things would change.
Saved by the bowl
Now that the cannabis industry has been shown to improve economic conditions in legal states, it only makes sense that cities with dispensaries are also benefiting tremendously. With these numbers in mind, the city of Adelanto had a change of heart.
With a small population and a lot of land, Adelanto decided to open up for legal, commercial cannabis cultivation. Now seeing a major land rush, people are flocking to Adelanto and are spending millions of dollars on properties to grow marijuana legally, with the hopes that recreational marijuana will soon be legal as well.
By being the second city in Southern California with a permit to allow citizens to grow medical marijuana, Adelanto hopes that by being one step ahead of the game they will be able to improve their economy at a much faster rate.
Granted the housing market remains stable and everything goes as planned, Adelanto’s reputation for being a dead zone as well as one of Southern California’s poorest communities will soon be a thing of the past.
Do you think Adelanto and other communities like itself would benefit from the cannabis industry? Let us know on social media or in the comments below.
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BOUDINOT, Elias
Continental Congress, Representative
Pro-Administration
Continental, 1st (1789–1791), 2nd (1791–1793), 3rd (1793–1795)
Bibliography/Further Reading
BOUDINOT, Elias, a Delegate and a Representative from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1740; received a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1760 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, N.J.; member of the board of trustees of Princeton College 1772-1821; member of the committee of safety in 1775; commissary general of prisoners in the Revolutionary Army 1776-1779; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778, 1781, 1782 and 1783, serving as President in 1782 and 1783, and signing the treaty of peace with England; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the First, Second, and Third Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); was not a candidate for renomination in 1794 to the Fourth Congress; Director of the Mint from October 1795 to July 1805, when he resigned; elected first president of the American Bible Society, in 1816; died in Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 24, 1821; interment in St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Papers: 1716-1828, approximately 500 items. The papers include correspondence and documents pertaining to his duties as commissary general of prisoners during the Revolution. There are also some personal and family papers containing notes on social and political affairs.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Papers: 1783, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to John Hanson written on April 10, 1783. Elias Boudinot expresses his pleasure that the rumor that John Hanson had died is not true, and that the American Revolution has ended successfully.
Microfilm: ca. 1714-1852, 1 reel. The papers include letters relating to the establishment of the American Bible Society; resolution and addresses.
American Jewish Historical Society
Papers: 1821, 0.25 linear foot. A typewritten copy from 1931 of an extract from Elias Boudinot's will, in which he makes provision for the settling of European Jews on his property in Pennsylvania.
The Adelman Collection
Papers: In the John Ricketts Papers, 1818, 1 item. A letter from John Ricketts to Elias Boudinot written on August 10, 1818. John Ricketts writes that he is concerned that his letters of the last few months have not reached Elias Boudinot, as he has not heard from him in several months. John Ricketts also asks Elias Boudinot for a loan of $300.
Manuscript Division
Microfilm: 1773-1812, 0.6 linear foot. The papers include correspondence, reports, and other papers relating to Elias Boudinot's work as commissary general of prisoners during the Revolution and as president and secretary for foreign affairs of the Continental Congress.
The Morgan Library
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
Papers: 1779, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Colonel Palfrey written on May 18, 1779.
Papers: 1783, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Mr. Pintard written on April 16, 1783. Elias Boudinot writes concerning Major Peirce, paymaster general.
Papers: 1787, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Messrs. Le Roy and Bayard written on July 28, 1787.
Papers: 1793, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Mrs. Tazeman written on March 27, 1793.
Papers: 1793, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Aaron Ogden, Esq., written on December 26, 1793.
Papers: 1796, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Mr. Casenove written on May 13, 1796.
Papers: 1814, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to his brother, Elisha Boudinot, written on January 8, 1814.
Papers: 1815, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Jonathan Smith, Esq., written on March 10, 1815.
Papers: 1818, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to John Instreet, Esq., written on January 19, 1818.
New Jersey State Library
Papers: 1821, 1 item. This document is the last will and testament of Elias Boudinot.
Manuscripts Division
Papers: In the Thomas Addis Emmet Collection, 1783, 0.15 linear foot.. An account book of household expenses of President Elias Boudinot as furnished by the agent of Congress. The account book is also available on microfilm.
New York State Library
Papers: A letter from Elias Boudinot to his brother, Elisha Boudinot, written on September 2, 1789, Elias Boudinot discusses developments in Congress, a vote on "the election," and political maneuvering by the New York State delegation in regards to the election vote.
Princeton University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Papers: 1757-1950, 0.45 cubic foot. These papers include letters and documents of Elias Boudinot, many of which concern his land dealings. A letter from Elias Boudinot to New Jersey governor William Livingston includes congressional discussion concerning the admission of Vermont as the 14th state in the Union. There are also drawings and a description by Elias Boudinot of the Boudinot coat of arms. A finding aid is available in the repository and online.
Papers: In the Boudinot Family Collection, 1772-1852, 0.9 cubic foot. Most of the correspondence is related to Elias Boudinot and his borther, Elisha. A finding aid is available in the repository and online.
Papers: In the Francis Stimson Collection of Elias Boudinot, 1809, 1 volume. A travel journal kept by Elias Boudinot during a pleasure trip made with his daughter and her friend from New Jersey to Maine from June to October 1809. The journal contains descriptions of the physical appearance of places visited and of travel facilities. Also included are accounts of Elias Boudinot's impressions of the men on whom he called, comments on their reputations, and information and gossip related by the inhabitants. A finding aid is available in the repository and online.
Papers: ca. 1780-1810, 1 volume. The volume consists of a commonplace book of memoranda, clippings, and recipes containing notes, digests, and extracts made from readings of Elias Boudinot. The book is divided into several subjects and the source of the reference is noted in the margin.
Papers: In the Francis Stimson Collection of Elias Boudinot, ca. 1758-1898, 1 cubic foot. The collection consists of papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the Boudinot family, particularly the brothers Elias and Elisha, from the Revolutionary War period and several decades thereafter. Among the family correspondence are 43 letters from Elias Boudinot to his wife, Hannah and 14 letters to his daughter, Susan. There are also letters to Elias Boudinot in his official capacity as commissary of prisoners, with receipts, lists of stores delivered to ships, one copy of release, and an examination of three deserters. Elias Boudinot's journal from 1809 documents a journey he made with his daughter and her friend from New Jersey to Maine.
Papers: In the Francis Stimson Collection of Elias Boudinot, 1775-1790, 1 volume. The book consists of letters concerning prisoners of war. Included are letters and other materials received by Elias Boudinot while serving as commissary general of prisoners for the Continental Army, 1775-1790.
Papers: In the Francis Stimson Collection of Elias Boudinot, 1809, 2 volumes. The volumes consist of commonplace books of scriptural and historical notes of Elias Boudinot. The books contain notes, digests, and extracts made from readings. The volumes are also divided into several subjects and the source of the reference is noted in the margin.
Papers: In the Langdon Thorne Collection of Elias Boudinot, ca. 1734-1924, 1.35 cubic feet. The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and printed material relating to Elias Boudinot and the Boudinot family collected by Langdon K. Thorne. Much of Elias Boudinot's correspondence is addressed to his wife, Hannah, while he is traveling with the Continental Army as commissary general of prisoners. Other letters deal more directly with his prisoners-of-war work, and there are many to his brother Elisha, covering the whole range of Elias Boudinot's public service. There are also Elias Boudinot's personal copy of a broadside of resolutions relating to the Commissary of Prisoners Department, and a copy of his proclamation as President of Congress moving it to Princeton.
Presbyterian Historical Society
Papers: 1777-1821, approximately 250 items. The papers include correspondence and legal documents relating to land ownership, Elias Boudinot's work as commissary general of prisoners involving the trading and releasing of prisoners, and legal and professional affairs. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Papers: 1810, 1 page. A letter from Elias Boudinot to an unidentified recipient asking the price "of a quantity of Cyder or Rye Spirits."
Papers: In the First Presbyterian Church Records, 1716-1913, 3 cubic feet. Other authors include Elias Boudinot. A finding aid is available in the repository.
Rosenbach Museum and Library
Papers: n.d., 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to James Miller. Elias Boudinot writes concerning the payment of a note.
Papers: 1780, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to the Board of Treasury written on May 20, 1780. Elias Boudinot requests to recompense for personal money expended as Commissary General of Prisoners.
Papers: ca. 1777, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to a prisoner of war re;lying to a complaint about cruel treatment. Elias Boudinot writes that Congress's policy toward prisoners is one of humanity, and anyone found guilty of inhumane treatment will be punished. A second paragraph, about conditions of parole, has been struck out.
Papers: 1783, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Guy Carleton written on October 2, 1783. Elias Boudinot requests that Guy Carleton help his sister recover the papers of her late husband, Richard Stockton, which had been seized by British troops.
Papers: 1785, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to the Marquis de Lafayette written on July 26, 1785. Elias Boudinot thanks the Lafayette for his care for the orphan son of their friend, Reverend James Caldwell, and also writes that the Europeans have difficulty understanding the nature of American democracy and explains how this political system has affected foreign trade. The last half of the letter concerns an unnamed herb used by Indian women during pregnancy and its increasing use in the white community and that the late Dr. Hugh Martin's powder for the cure of cancer has been passed to another practitioner.
Papers: 1793, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson written on June 4, 1793. Elias Boudinot writes concerning the reign of terror in France and plans for the publication of Elizabeth Fergusson's translation of Fenelon's Telemaque.
Papers: 1797, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Samuel Bayard written in August and September 1797. Elias Boudinot writes concerning the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, incuding illnesses and deaths in Elias Boudinot's family, evacuation of the city, and the success of and opposition to Benjamin Rush's treatment.
Papers: 1807, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Reverend Dr. Samuel Miller written on January 30, 1807. Elias Boudinot introduces a friend, Mr. John Griscom, who is a neighbor of Elias Boudinot and proprietor of a Quaker school in Burlington.
Papers: 1807, 1 item. A letter from Elias Boudinot to George Sampson written on July 13, 1807. Elias Boudinot states that he is authorized to sell some certificates. Elias Boudinot also designates George Sampson as his substitute and requests that he retain the letter as proof until the proper authorization arrives.
Alexander Library Department of Special Collections and Archives
Papers: In the New Jersey Correspondence, 1773-1954, 39 items. Persons represented include Elias Boudinot.
Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library
Papers: 1787, 2 items. Correspondence from Elias Boudinot to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture regarding the methods of controlling the Hessian fly, and regarding cultivating Indian corn.
Special Collections Department, Alderman Library
Papers: In the Jefferson Randolph Kean Papers, 1765-1938, approximately 50 items. Correspondents include Elias Boudinot. An annotated list for the papers is available in the repository.
Papers: In the George Green Shackelford Collection, 1714-1835, 6 items. Other authors include Elias Boudinot.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Papers: 1777-1778, 0.2 cubic foot. A letter book in which Elias Boudinot made copies of his official letters written mainly from Morristown, New Jersey, and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, while serving as commissary general of prisoners during the Revolution. The book is also available on microfilm.
Papers: 1797, 0.1 cubic foot. A letter from Elias Boudinot to Jedidiah Morse, introducing Mr. And Mrs. Henry Rigel of Bavaria.
Bibliography / Further Reading
Boudinot, Elias. Orders and Directions for Conducting the Mint of the United States.: Established by Elias Boudinot, Director of Said Mint. Philadelphia, PA: John Fenno, 1796.
___. The Age of Revelation, or, The Age of Reason Shewn To Be An Age of Infidelity. Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins, Opposite Christ-church. Hugh Maxwell, printer, Columbia-House, 1801.
___. The Second Advent. Trenton, N. J.: D. Fenton & S. Hutchinson, 1815.
___. A Memoir of the Rev. William Tennent, Minister or Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J. Springfield, N. J.: G. W. Callender, 1822.
___. Documents in Relation to the Validity of the Cherokee Treaty... Letters and Other Papers Relating to Cherokee Affairs: Being a Reply to Sundry Publications Authorized by John Ross. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1838].
___. Exchange of Major-General Charles Lee. From a Manuscript of Elias Boudinot. With notes by William S. Baker. Philadelphia: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1891.
___. Journal of Events in the Revolution. [New York]: New York Times, [1968].
___. Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events During the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia: F. Bourquin, 1894.
___. Life of the Rev. William Tennent, Formerly Pastor of the presbyterian Church at Freehold in New Jersey - In Which is Contained... An Account of His Being Three Days in a Trance, and Apparently Lifeless. Hartford, Conn.: S. Andrus and Son, 1845.
___. A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Preparatory to Their Return to Their Beloved City, Jerusalem. 1816. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970].
Boudinot, Elias, and J. J. Boudinot, ed. The Life, Public Services, Addresses, and Letters of Elias Boudinot. 1896. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
Boudinot, Elias, and Milton Halsey Thomas, ed. Journey to Boston in 1809. Princeton, N.J.: University Library, 1955.
Boyd, George Adams. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, 1740-1821. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.
Boyle, Joseph Lee. Their Distress is Almost Intolerable: The Elias Boudinot Letterbook, 1777-1778. 1952. Reprint, Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002.
Clark, Barbara Louise. E.B.: The Story of Elias Boudinot IV, His Family, His Friends, and His Country. Ardmore, PA: Dorrance, 1977.
Egbert, Donald Drew, and Lee Diane Martindell. Princeton Portraits, pp. 181-3. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947.
McCormick, Richard P. "New Jersey's First Congressional Election, 1789: a Case Study in Political Skulduggery." William and Mary Quarterly 3S.6 (April 1949): 237-50.
Perdue, Theda, ed. Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot. 1983. Reprint, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Whisenhunt, Donald W. Elias Boudinot. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “BOUDINOT, Elias,” https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/B/BOUDINOT,-Elias-(B000661)/ (January 21, 2020)
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How to Make Sassafras Cuttings
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is an attractive tree, growing 30 to 60 feet tall and 25 to 40 feet wide. Its main identifying feature is its large, lobed leaves that turn brilliant shades of yellow, red and purple in autumn. This tree grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 9a. It spreads mostly through extensive suckering, but can be manually propagated by seeds or root cuttings. Take root cuttings in the winter or early spring, before the trees leaf out for the year.
Dig a 1-foot-diameter hole near the base of a sassafras tree with a spade, taking care not to disturb the roots too much. Sassafras has relatively shallow roots, so you shouldn't have to dig more than 20 inches deep.
Locate two or three roots with diameters between 1/4 and 1/2 inch. Check to make sure they are a healthy brown color, and not dead and black. Look for roots with an active sprout coming from one of the root buds.
Cut 3- to 6-inch sections of the roots with sharp pruning shears, making a straight cut at the end closest to the tree and a slanted cut at the end farthest from the tree.
Plant the root cuttings individually in pots filled with a mix of sand, perlite and peat. Position the cuttings vertically and almost totally submerged in the soil, with the slanted end pointing down and the flat end at soil level. Keep them moist and in a warm area.
If you take cuttings early in the winter, you can store them in constantly moist sand at 40 degrees Fahrenheit until planting later in the winter or early spring.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service: Rooting Sassafras Cuttings
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service: Sassafras
Arnoldia: Roots from Shoots -- A Horticultural Review
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service: Sassafras Albidum
Sarah Morse has been a writer since 2009, covering environmental topics, gardening and technology. She holds a bachelor's degree in English language and literature, a master's degree in English and a master's degree in information science.
Morse, Sarah. "How to Make Sassafras Cuttings." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-sassafras-cuttings-67058.html. Accessed 20 January 2020.
Morse, Sarah. (n.d.). How to Make Sassafras Cuttings. Home Guides | SF Gate. Retrieved from http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-sassafras-cuttings-67058.html
Morse, Sarah. "How to Make Sassafras Cuttings" accessed January 20, 2020. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-sassafras-cuttings-67058.html
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Irish Legal Heritage: A deathly premonition and the Felons Apprehension Act 1878
By Róise ConnollyPublished 6 December 2019
The Stringybark Creek attack
(Samuel Calvert, 1878)
Edward “Ned” Kelly was a famous Irish-Australian bushranger and outlaw who was executed in November 1880. Part I and Part II of this series were published last month.
After the Fitzpatrick affair, Ned and Dan were in hiding along with Joe Byrne and Steve Hart.
Upon receiving information about where the men were hiding out, two police parties went to look for them. On 25 October 1878, four policemen set off from Mansfield – Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Constables Thomas Lonigan, Thomas McIntyre and Michael Scanlan.
While the Mansfield policemen were hiding out in the bush waiting for the police from Greta to arrive, McIntyre went out hunting and inadvertently alerted the Kelly gang to their presence. At about 5pm on 26 October 1878, the Kelly gang arrived at the camp and killed Constable Thomas Lonigan almost instantly. The year before, Ned as spent one night in prison after a drunken tussle with Constable Lonigan, and it is said that Kelly had threatened him at that time, saying “Well, Lonigan, I never shot a man yet. But if I ever do, so help me God, you’ll be the first”.
Kennedy and Scanlan weren’t at the camp at the time, and Kelly was said to have promised McIntyre that he wouldn’t shoot them if they came with their hands held up. Soon after, Kennedy and Scanlan arrived back at the camp and were killed by the gang. McIntyre was able to escape and report the murders.
In the days after the police murders at Stringybark Creek, the Felons Apprehension Act 1878 was passed, outlawing the Kelly gang. The Felons Apprehension Act 1878 was “…to facilitate the taking or apprehending of persons charged with certain felonies and the punishment of those by whom they are harbored”.
The Preamble to the Felons Apprehension Act 1878 stated:
“Whereas of late divers persons charged with murder and other capital felonies availing themselves unduly of the protection afforded by law to accused persons before conviction and being harbored by evil-minded persons remain at large notwithstanding all available attempts to apprehend them and some of them being mounted armed and associated together have committed murders and have resisted and killed officers of justice whereby the lives and property of Her Majesty’s subjects are in jeopardy and need better protection by law”
One Ned Kelly commentator who explained the effect of the legislation states:
“Normal rights under the law, including ‘assumption of innocence’, were revoked for those persons named by a Supreme Court warrant under the Act. The offenders were legally considered guilty without the usual pre-requisite of a trial, and in 1878 the crime of murder was punishable by execution. Therefore the lives of an ‘outlaw’ were considered forfeited, and so once the Act was in force against an individual, killing that person became a ‘legal’ action” (N Cowie, Ned Kelly Bushranger – History in Detail).
Cowie goes on to say that one of the most significant parts of the act was Clause 5, which stated that anyone found guilty of “voluntarily and knowingly” harbouring or providing any form of assistance would be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for up to fifteen years. A number of people were allegedly held without charge for up to three months on suspicion of assisting the Kelly gang, which “caused a groundswell of support for the gang and resentment of the government’s misuse of power” (N Cowie, Ned Kelly Bushranger – History in Detail).
Despite committing relatively large-scale bank robberies in Euroa and Jerilderie, rewards of up to £8,000 (equivalent to over €1 million today) offered for their capture, and the 1878 Act making it legal for them to be shot on sight by both the police and the civilian population – the gang evaded the authorities until June 1880. The last stand for the Kelly gang was the Glenrowan Siege.
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Biography of Frédéric Bazille
Frédéric Bazille
Born on 6th December, 1841, Frédéric Bazille was a benefactor of the Impressionist movement and a promising artist himself.
As a painter, he played with Impressionist techniques in their infancy, experimenting with creating his own distinct style. However, he did not have the time to develop these ideas further as he died tragically young, at the age of just 28. He was killed during the Franco-Prussian war, fighting as a soldier in the French army.
Prior to becoming a painter, Bazille studied medicine, albeit half-heartedly. Growing up in a Protestant upper-middle-class family in southern France, medicine was the career given to him by his parents, who wished for him to be financially independent. However, he quickly neglected his studies in favour of painting, finding like minds amongst Monet, Renoir and Sisley.
Though many of his paintings are Realist, Bazille experimented heavily with painting ‘en plein air’ as the Impressionists sought to. In doing so, he became known for his masterly paintings of figures in landscapes, setting the example for other Impressionist artists to follow. This stylistic feature became a key motif in Impressionist artworks and is one of his most notable artistic legacies today.
Bazille's early years
1863 to 1870: Bazille’s painting style
Enroling in the army and Bazille’s legacy
1. Bazille’s early years
Records suggest that Bazille was determined to be a painter from a young age. By 1859 he was studying drawing and painting at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier and taking drawing classes with a local sculptor.
He also had the opportunity to study the masterpieces of Eugene Delacroix and Gustave Courbet at a private museum, located in the Bruyas town house conveniently close to his family home.
The Bazille family lived in the area of Méric in the South of France, where their ancestors had lived from as early as the 13th century. The legacy of the Bazille’s was craftsmanship, in particular goldsmithing and producing luxury goods, including weaponry. Goldsmithing was the trade that first made the family wealthy.
Frédéric’s father, Gaston, worked as a wine merchant and agronomist and was an important figure in the wine-producing circles of Languedoc. His mother, Camille, was a talented pianist. Gaston expressed a desire that his son find a profession that would allow him to support himself, keeping his artistic interests solely as a hobby. As a result, young Frédéric obediently began pursuing a career in medicine.
He moved to Paris in 1862 with the intention of studying medicine but at the same time he also enrolled as a painting student.
Whilst studying at the studio of Charles Gleyre, Bazille met Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. The four students became close, sharing the belief that they should create artworks based on immediacy and everyday life rather than the statuesque and stale images favoured by the French art establishment.
In 1864, Bazille failed his medical exam and his father freed him from his obligation, agreeing to fund his painting career instead. By this time Bazille had a solid group of friends, including some of the greatest artistic and literary minds of the French avant-garde.
He began painting scenes inspired by ordinary subjects and became a key source of financial support for the other Impressionist artists, providing them with studio space and materials, as well as purchasing their work.
2. Bazille’s painting style
With this promising start to his artistic career, Bazille began painting prolifically between 1863 to 1870. He established a studio in Paris, funded by his substantial allowance from his parents.
His first was on the rue de Furstenberg, which he shared with Monet from 1864. The next studio he moved to in 1867 he shared with Renoir. Sisley and Monet often joined as well. The interplay and influence between these artists was vital for spurring the Impressionist movement and forming the base for what it would become.
Bazille admired Monet and Renoir’s paintings made ‘en plain air’ and Monet encouraged him to paint his own. He favoured the light in the South of France, where he was born and where his family still lived, and he visited home often, going back to paint.
The setting had a strong effect on his works, particularly in the way in which he captured natural light. Thanks to this influence, many of Bazille’s works feature his family in fresh, bounteous summer settings where he uses colour in a generous, saturated palette. The light in many of his works is characterised by summer rays of sunshine and dappled shade.
Despite the group’s apparent rejection of conventional French art, Bazille went on to exhibit his work at the Paris Salon in1866 and 1868. His painting, ‘Family Reunion’, from 1867, was well received after several re-works of the original composition. When it was accepted, Bazille expressed his surprise, writing "I don't know how, probably by mistake.”
The work was painted during a summer holiday at his family’s estate near Montpellier. Figures are arranged in the scene in a formal, frozen manner with the majority looking directly out of the canvas at the viewer. He included himself in the composition of ten family members, appearing on the far left hand side.
What makes this work stand out is Bazille’s use of colour. The contrast afforded by the bright sunlight and the shade of a leafy tree gives Bazille the freedom to play with bright shades of blues and green, whilst also adding depth to the dark accents of the sitters’ clothing.
It seemed that Bazille worked best in the South of France, staying there over the winter to produce the works he intended to submit to the Salon the following year. The well-known critic, Louis Edmond Duranty described in 1870 how “Every spring Monsieur Bazille returns from the South with summer paintings […] full of greenery, sunshine and simple assurance”.
Generally Bazille is considered to have been an innovator in the early Impressionist style, learning from the artists around him more than from formal education. He sought to produce unique works and this is clear from the ambitious way in which he approached his subjects.
His nude paintings in particular set him apart from other artists, ’Fisherman with a Net’ from 1869 and ‘Bathers’ or ‘Summer Scene’ from 1869. Both works are set on the banks of the Lez River. The first was rejected by the Salon but the second was accepted.
Male nudes were uncommon in French art at the time and the way in which Bazille captured the male form in statuesque, romantic poses set them apart from other nude works.
Indeed, the men in ‘Bathers’ hold poses that are typical of female nudes. Similarly, ‘Bathers’ was painted on a square canvas, bridging the gap between the classically horizontal landscape genre and the inverse portrait genre. This work had a mixed reception at the Salon but it demonstrates Bazille’s rebellious and inventive edge, which is partly what makes him such an intriguing artist.
Furthermore, he experimented with a range of different subjects and compositions, including still life, flower portraits, landscapes and even history portraits. This flitting between genres is characteristic of his youth as he learned how to paint before he began to develop his own distinct style. Unfortunately, the enthusiasm for Bazille’s work is somewhat muted as we are unable to see what would have followed.
3. Bazille’s legacy
The artistic legacy of Bazille was cut short by the Franco-Prussian war and his untimely death.
He enlisted in the army on 10th August 1870 and requested to join the 3rd Zouaves light infantry regiment. Some art historians have suggested his decision was part of a wider personal crisis, prompted by his two unusual paintings ‘Landscape on the Banks of the Lez’ and ‘Ruth and Boaz’, depicting a scene from the Bible and a poem by Victor Hugo respectively. His friends expressed surprise and disappointment at his decision to enlist, evident in letters from the time.
Sadly, the young man was killed in fighting against the Prussian army on 28th November 1870. This was his first attack. His father travelled to the site of the battle, in Beaune-la-Rolande in the Val-de-Loir, to retrieve Frédéric’s body and take it home to the south.
When he died, Bazille left behind the small number of paintings that he had been able to create during his short lifetime. At the end of Franco-Prussian war, the other Impressionists returned to Paris and resumed their work.
This was when the movement truly began to take off, culminating in the First Impressionist exhibition of 1874. Bazille’s work was not shown in the exhibition or any of the following eight Impressionist exhibitions. As a result of his death, his artistic legacy was never fully realised.
From his early career, Bazille looks to have been set for a prominent position in the Impressionist movement had he lived. His works were praised by his contemporaries and critics of the day.
He balanced sensitive paintings of nature with experimentations with colour and figures, lending his artworks a majestic quality. The stylistic achievements of this young artist are limited to his earliest works, however, and we are left to wonder what might have been.
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Guy Adami Biography, Family, Wife, Children, Age and Net Worth
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Guy Adami Biography
Guy Adami is an American trader, TV personality, and professional investor, born on 18, December 1963 in North Tarrytown, New York , currently Sleepy Hollow to Nancy C. and the deceased Guy M. Adami. He is the eldest of five children, and is a 1982 graduate of Croton-Harmon High School, where he captained both the varsity football and basketball teams. He was named All-League in both sports. His 104-yard interception return against Hastings High School is still one of the longest recorded in high school football. In November 2010, Adami was inducted into the Croton Harmon High School Hall of Distinguished Graduates. Adami is a 1986 graduate of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University. On April 16, 2009 he was interviewed as part of Georgetown University’s Witness to History.
Guy Adami Age
Adami was born on 18th December 1963.
Guy Adami Height
Guy’s height is estimated to be around 5 feet 11 inches (1.83 meters).
Guy Adami Wife
Adami was married to Linda Adani.
Guy Adami Children
Adami has three children.
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Guy Adami Career
Adami is an American trader, TV personality, and professional investor. Adami began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in June 1986, where he worked on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. He joined Goldman Sachs’ commodity group, J. Aron in 1996, as a vice president. In 2003, he left Goldman Sachs to become an executive director at CIBC World Markets.
Adami frequently speaks at colleges and universities. That list includes: Quinnipiac University, Adelphi University, University of Richmond, Fordham University and Georgetown University. Adami has also given talks at his son’s high school, Delbarton School, in Morristown, NJ. In 2012, Adami joined the ranks of Keppler Speakers.
Guy Adami Net worth
He has a net worth of of $30 million.
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Guy is an original member of CNBC’s Fast Money. He is currently the Director of Advisor Advocacy at Private Advisor Group in Morristown, New Jersey. Private Advisor Group is comprised of a network of nearly 600 advisors with assets approaching $17B.He has over the years held numerous key leadership roles in the financial services industry .
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Hunter Pence Biography, Age, Wife, Career, Awards And Net Worth.
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Hunter Pence Biography
Hunter Pence is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He initially played for the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, and San Francisco Giants.
Pence was a member of the 2012 World Series and 2014 World Series championship teams with the San Francisco Giants.
The Milwaukee Brewers drafted pence in the 40th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign. In the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft, he was drafted in the second round by the Houston Astros out of the University of Texas at Arlington. He played the 2004 season with the single-A Tri-City ValleyCats in Troy, New York.
Pence made his major league debut as the Houston Astros center fielder on April 28, 2007, versus the Milwaukee Brewers and got his first major league hit and scored his first run.
After Michael Bourn was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Astros before the 2008 season, Pence moved to right field while Bourn took over in center.
On July 29, 2011, the Houston Astros traded Pence to the Philadelphia Phillies for four minor-league players: first baseman Jonathan Singleton, right-handers Jarred Cosart and Josh Zeid, and a player to be named later, determined to be outfielder Domingo Santana.
On July 31, 2012, the Phillies sent Pence in a deadline deal to the San Francisco Giants. In return, the Phillies received Nate Schierholtz, Tommy Joseph, and Seth Rosin.
On September 27, Pence won the Willie Mac Award. The next day, Pence agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Giants through the 2018 season. Hunter Pence Age
He was born on April 13, 1983. He is 36 years old as of 2019.
Hunter Pence Education
He attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Texas. For College, he attended Texarkana College for a year and was a designated hitter on the baseball team. He transferred to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) where he returned to the outfield.
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On December 3, 2015, Pence announced his engagement to Alexis Cozombolidis, to whom he proposed at Walt Disney World. They married on November 26, 2016.
Hunter Pence Professional Career
Pence was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 40th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign. In the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft he was drafted in the second round (64th pick overall) by the Houston Astros out of the University of Texas at Arlington.
He played the 2004 season with the single-A Tri-City Valley Cats in Troy, New York. During that year, Pence, along with current major leaguer Ben Zobrist helped lead the ‘Cats to a 50 win season in the New York–Penn League, the second-most in Valley Cats history. That year, the ‘Cats defeated the Brooklyn Cyclones in the first round but lost to the Mahoning Valley Scrappers in the league championship.
In 2006 with the AA Corpus Christi Hooks, Pence batted .283 and hit 28 home runs, with 95 RBIs. He had 17 stolen bases while being caught stealing only 4 times. In 2006, he was one of three outfielders named to the Baseball America Minor League All-Star Team. Pence began the 2007 season as the AAA Round Rock Express’ center fielder, though he made a serious run to make the big league club out of spring training.
Houston Astros (2007-2011)
Pence made his major league debut as the Houston Astros center fielder on April 28, 2007, versus the Milwaukee Brewers and got his first major league hit and scored his first run. Pence’s first home run in the majors was a grand slam, against the St. Louis Cardinals on May 5.
Pence hit a dramatic walk-off home run against José Mesa of the Philadelphia Phillies in the bottom of the 13th inning at Minute Maid Park on July 3 in a 5–4 win. It was Mesa’s only pitch of the game. Pence was named National League co-Player of the Week for May 14–20, after recording a 1.091 slugging percentage and .625 on-base percentage with 2 home runs and 5 RBIs.
On July 23, general manager Tim Purpura announced that Pence would be out with a small chipped bone fracture in his right wrist. On August 21, Pence was activated from the disabled list. At that point, despite having missed a month he was 4th among NL rookies in at-bats.[citation needed] Pence led NL rookies in triples (9) and was 2nd to Ryan Braun in batting average (.322), on-base percentage (.360), slugging percentage (.539), and OPS (.899).
Pence was a unanimous selection to the 2007 Topps Major League Rookie All-Star Team. The selection was the result of the 49th annual Topps balloting of Major League managers. Pence (15 points) came in third, and lost out to Braun (128 points) in the vote for the 2007 NL Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award by 488 major league players and 30 managers.
He also lost out to Braun in the competition for the 2007 Baseball America Rookie of the Year Award, in the vote for the 2007 Players Choice NL Most Outstanding Rookie by their fellow major league players, and in the Baseball Prospectus 2007 Internet Baseball NL Rookie of the Year Award, with 16 first place votes, versus 666 for Braun.
After Michael Bourn was traded from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Astros before the 2008 season, Pence moved to right field while Bourn took over in center. In his sophomore season, Pence set new personal single-season records in home runs (25), runs batted in (83), doubles (25), hits (160), and at-bats (595).
However, his batting average dipped to .269, his on-base percentage fell to .318, and his slugging percentage also fell to .466. Pence led the league in outfield assists with 16, committed 1 error, and had a fielding percentage of .997. In his third season (2009), Pence was named an All-Star for the first time.
In his fourth season (2010), Pence batted .282 with 25 home runs, drove in 91 RBIS and played 156 games. For the week of August 30–September 5, 2010, Pence was named National League Player of the Week for the second time in his career after batting .500 (11-for-22) and slugging .909 with two home runs.
Pence was named a 2011 All-Star as a reserve, the second time he made the All-Star team. He was brought into the middle of the game, threw out José Bautista from the outfield, and scored the National League’s 5th run of the game. At the All-Star break, Pence was batting .321 with 10 home runs and 59 RBIs.
Philadelphia Phillies (2011-2012)
On July 29, 2011, the Houston Astros traded Pence to the Philadelphia Phillies for four minor-league players: first baseman Jonathan Singleton, right-handers Jarred Cosart and Josh Zeid, and a player to be named later, determined to be outfielder Domingo Santana. On August 4, Pence hit his first home run as a Phillie, against Madison Bumgarner.
Pence finished fourth in the NL in batting average (.314; behind Jose Reyes, Ryan Braun, and Matt Kemp) and eighth in RBI, with 97. Pence made the playoffs for the first time in his career; however, the Phillies lost the 2011 National League Division Series to the eventual World Series-champion St. Louis Cardinals in 5 games.
San Francisco Giants (2012-present)
On July 31, 2012, the Phillies sent Pence in a deadline deal to the San Francisco Giants. In return, the Phillies received Nate Schierholtz, Tommy Joseph, and Seth Rosin. On August 12, Pence hit his first home run as a Giant off Rockies’ relief pitcher Rafael Betancourt. On August 21, despite Pence no longer being on the team, the Phillies went ahead with a previously-planned Hunter Pence bobblehead promotion.
Before Game 3 of the 2012 NLDS, with the Giants down 2–0 and facing elimination against the Cincinnati Reds, Pence gave his teammates a passionate pregame speech in the dugout shortly before the first pitch. The Giants ended up beating the Reds in 3 straight games to advance to the NLCS.
His inspirational speeches have been credited by his teammates as helping them rally together during the Giants’ postseason and to eventually win the 2012 World Series. His speeches have also become the source of good-natured ribbing between Giants teammates.
On July 13, 2013, Pence had a five-RBI game in a 9–0 Giants win over the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. With two outs in the bottom of the 8th inning, Pence robbed Jedd Gyorko of a hit by making a diving catch to preserve Tim Lincecum’s no-hitter.
On August 27, 2013, Hunter Pence hit what at the time was the longest home run of the season to date. The ball hit a wall above the left field bleacher seats at Coors Field. According to ESPN Tracking, the ball traveled an estimated 476 feet.
Pence was named NL Player of the Month for September, hitting .293 with a .393 on-base percentage and 11 home runs and 32 RBIs. On September 10, Pence hit his 20th home run in the 1st inning and became the 7th San Francisco Giants player to hit 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in the same season and the first since Barry Bonds in 1998. (Bobby Bonds, Willie Mays, Jeffrey Leonard, Orlando Cepeda, and Glenallen Hill are the others.)
On September 14, Pence lifted his first career Giants grand slam over the center-field wall at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles off of Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Stephen Fife and drove in a career-high 7 RBIs, helping propel the Giants to a historic 19–3 out of their longtime rival the Dodgers.
With the help of Brandon Belt’s first career five-hit game, they scored the most runs in the history of Dodger Stadium. On September 16, Pence was named National League Player of the Week for the third time in his career, after hitting .448 with 6 home runs and 19 RBI.
On September 27, Pence won the Willie Mac Award. The next day, Pence agreed to a 5-year, $90 million contract extension with the Giants through the 2018 season. Pence started all 162 games during the 2013 season, becoming the first Giants player to do so since Alvin Dark in 1954 when the season was 154 games long.
On July 6, Pence was elected to his third All-Star Game. On the second-to-last game of the season, Pence was held out of the starting lineup, ending his streak of consecutive starts at 331. Pence pinch-hit in the seventh inning to continue his games-played streak.
On October 7, in Game 4 of the 2014 NLDS against the favored Washington Nationals, Pence made a leaping catch against the right-field wall in the 6th inning to deny Jayson Werth an extra-base hit. This dramatic play held the Giants’ 2–1 lead, helping the Giants to secure an eventual 3–2 victory.
In Game 4 of the 2014 World Series, Pence went 3–5 with a double, scored two runs, had three RBIs including one by beating out a double play in the first leading to a run, scored on a fly caught by Jarrod Dyson in shallow center field, and made a nice sliding catch of a bloop hit by Lorenzo Cain in the ninth.
His performance helped lead the Giants to their third World Series title in five years, as San Francisco went on to beat the Royals 3–2 in Game 7. Pence finished the series batting .444 with 5 RBIs and 7 runs scored. He had 12 hits in the series and, along with teammate Brandon Belt, had at least one hit in every game of the 7 game series. Pence’s performance drew some media comparisons to Barry Bonds, in terms of unusual statistical production.
On March 5, 2015, Pence suffered a fractured left forearm after being hit by a pitch during a spring training game against the Chicago Cubs. He started the regular season on the disabled list, ending his league-leading iron man streak of consecutive games played at 383.
Pence started a rehab assignment with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats on May 8 and was activated from the disabled list on May 16. Pence batted .282 with two home runs and 13 RBIs in 18 games before returning to the disabled list on June 11 with left wrist tendinitis.
Pence was re-activated on July 7 and drove in two runs and started a double play after making a diving catch in a 3–0 victory over the New York Mets. On July 10, Pence hit an opposite-field grand slam off former teammate Cole Hamels, part of a 15–2 out of the Philadelphia Phillies. Pence returned to the disabled list on August 20 with a left oblique strain and missed the rest of the season.
Pence was named National League Player of the Week for the fourth time in his career after batting .421 (8-for-19) with 2 home runs and 10 RBIs during April 25–May 1, 2016. On May 14, Pence hit his 200th career home run in a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
On June 1, Pence suffered a torn hamstring tendon of the right leg while running to first base and was expected to miss at least eight weeks.
On May 15, Pence was placed on the 10-day disabled list due to a troubling left hamstring.
Hunter Pence Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $45 million.
Hunter Pence Awards
2003 – Summer League First-Team All-American DH
2003 – Southland Conference All-Star OF
2004 – Southland Conference Player of the Year
2004 – Southland Conference Hitter of the Year
2005 – Low A All-Star OF
2005 – Houston Astros Minor League Player of the Year
2005 – South Atlantic League All-Star OF
2005 – South Atlantic League Most Outstanding Prospect
2006 – Future Games selection
2006 – Baseball America Minor League All-Star
2006 – Arizona Fall League All-Prospect Team
2007 – National League Player of the Week (May 14–20, 2007), along with José Valverde of the Arizona Diamondbacks
2007 – National League Rookie of the Month- for the month of May
2009 – National League All-Star
2010 – National League Player of the Week (August 29–September 5, 2010)
2012 – World Series Champion
2013 – National League Player of the Week (September 9–15, 2013)
2013 – National League Player of the Month (September)
2013 – Willie Mac Award
2016 – National League Player of the Week (April 25–May 1, 2016)
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UCR Theatre Announces the Production of The Rover
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RIVERSIDE, CA – The Department of Theatre at the University of California, Riverside, is pleased to present The Rover (1677), a play by Aphra Behn.
This play is based on Thomaso, or The Wanderer by Thomas Killigrew, written in 1664. The Rover deals with the passionate adventures of Englishmen attending The Carnival in Naples. Willmore, a dashing naval captain, falls in love with Hellena. Hellena is desperate to know love before her brother delivers her to the convent. Trouble arises when Angelica Bianca, a renowned courtesan, falls in love with Willmore and vows to get revenge on him for betraying her. Meanwhile, Florinda, Hellena’s sister, wants nothing more than to marry her true love, Colonel Belvile. However, her brother has other plans. Finally, this play tells the story of the parochial Blunt, who is convinced that a young girl has fallen in love with him, only to be shamed when he learns that she is a prostitute and a thief.
The Rover (1677), a play by Aphra Behn
Set in the topsy-turvy world of Carnival, this restoration comedy explores the dangerous game of “the chase” within the social-sexual boundaries of the libertine realm.
November 14, Thursday, 8:00 pm
November 15, Friday, 8:00 pm
November 16, Saturday, 8:00 pm
November 23, Saturday, 2:30 pm Matinee
ARTS Building – Studio Theatre, ARTS 113
Tickets: (951) 827-4331
$14 General admission. $12 students, UCR alumni cardholders, senior citizens & children.
Parking: $5.00 in Lot 1 (No fee with UC permit)
Photos: Available after November 1
APHRA BEHN (playwright) – remains one of the most significant dramatists of the late seventeenth century. She was also a notable poet and novelist. Her contemporary reputation developed out of her “appalling” plays, which she declared would never have been censured had they been written by a man.
She once quipped “Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.”
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2017 test scores now available online
By Pamela Wheaton
If your child took the English (ELA) and math state exams in 2017, you may now find the scores online on your personal school account at my.student.nyc. If you haven’t set up an account yet, or have forgotten how to log on, ask the parent coordinator at your school for help.
Citywide, scores on the annual exams for students in grades 3-8 inched up slightly on both the math and ELA exam this year, according to data released today by the state and city, yet some 60 percent of the city’s students are still scoring below grade level on both.
Gains were higher in reading than in math: 40.6 percent of students met the English standards, up 2.6 percent from 2016. In math, only 37.8 percent met the standards, up slightly from 36.4 percent last year. English scores went up in each of the city’s school districts.
The disparity in scores among ethnic groups narrowed slightly but remains large throughout the city and state. "Troubling gaps really persist,” in the scores posted by bBlack and Hispanic students, said State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia in a conference call with reporters. ”Our work is clearly not done.”
Similar to last year, about 60 percent of Wwhite and Asian students in the city scored 3 or 4 (at or above grade level) on the English test, compared to only about 29 percent of black and Hispanic students who make up about 70 percent of the test-takers. In math, 67 percent of Asians passed, compared to 59 percent of whites, 25 percent of Hispanics and 20 percent of black students. [See the chart above].
City initiatives, such as offering free pre-kindergarten to all four-year-olds, and an emphasis on literacy, will help narrow the gap long term, Mayor Bill deBlasio said today in a press conference.
State tests are just one measure of how well a child—or a school—is doing academically and test scores are just one of the factors that a school may look at when considering a student’s application to middle or high school. Over the past few years, some public school parents opposed to what they consider the pressure of high stakes testing have “opted out” of state tests. This year about 4 percent of students opted out of taking either the math or English exam, the city said. That's slightly higher than last year but significantly less than the 19 percent of students who didn't take the tests statewide (down from 21 percent last year, according to state officials.)
State tests do give a rough approximation of which schools manage to bring their children up to a high level. If you’re concerned about your child’s performance, talk to his teacher when the school year opens about how you can work together to help him improve.
See our InsideTool on State Tests for more information and tips. Also check out our Free Programs for ways to support your child’s education outside of school.
Our school profile pages now show the 2017 scores. Look for them under SchoolStats, Academics.
See the full breakdown of 2017 statewide test results here; New York City test results are here.
You can find your school and district results on the Department of Education data page.
Updated Aug. 23 to reflect that the percentage of NYC students opting out of the state exams in 2017 is actually slightly higher than in 2016.
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Was Rupert Murdoch involved in the Jeffrey Epstein paedophile scandal given his details were in Epstein’s black book?
By Shane Dowling on August 13, 2019 • ( 7 Comments )
Rupert Murdoch, who has a long history of paying $millions to cover-up the sexual abuse and harassment of women at Fox News, is pictured with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell below which points to them possibly being friends. But what is more interesting is that Jeffrey Epstein had Rupert Murdoch’s private contact details in his black book which was revealed in 2015 court proceedings.
With Jeffrey Epstein dead, the focus will now turn to his alleged co-conspirators such as Ghislaine Maxwell and you have to wonder what Rupert knows & was he involved in any way?
Jeffrey Epstein was a well-known paedophile who was friends with both US President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Both Trump and Clinton have a long list of women who have accused them of sexual assault and rape.
Epstein was jailed in 2008 for “soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an underage girl for prostitution.” He served 13 months in custody with work release as part of a plea deal. Federal officials had identified 36 girls as young as 14 years old who had been molested by Epstein but he was never charged for those crimes at the time and it was blatantly a cover-up that wasn’t exposed until 2018 by investigative journalist Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald.
The prosecutor who negotiated the plea deal in 2008 was Alexander Acosta. “President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on February 16, 2017, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 2017.”
After Julie K Brown ran her stories in 2018 the FBI reopened their investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and his paedophile trafficking. Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on the 6th of July 2019 and charged with sex trafficking minors.
Not long after Epstein was arrested Alexander Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary on the 19th of July as media reported his role in the 2008 plea deal done with Epstein. So why did Donald Trump appoint Acosta as Labor Secretary and was it linked to the Epstein plea deal in some way?
Jeffrey Epstein’s black book
The New York Magazine reported on the 22nd July 2019:
If you watch Fox News, you will believe Bill Clinton was Epstein’s No. 1 pal and enabler. If you watch MSNBC, this scandal is usually all about Donald Trump. In fact, both presidents are guilty (at the very least) of giving Epstein cover and credibility. There are so many unanswered questions about Epstein, but one that looms over all of them is whether the bipartisan crowd who cleared a path for him will cover its tracks before we can get answers.
In 2015, Gawker published Epstein’s “little black book,” which had surfaced in court proceedings after a former employee took it from Epstein’s home around 2005 and later tried to sell it. He said that the book had been created by people who worked for Epstein and that it contained the names and phone numbers of more than 100 victims, plus hundreds of social contacts. Along with the logs of Epstein’s private plane, released in 2015, the book paints a picture of a man deeply enmeshed in the highest social circles. (Click here to read more and for the full list of people of Epstein’s Blackbook)
The “black book” of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier and now-accused child sex trafficker, is a smorgasbord of high-profile, powerful people, including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and convicted sex assailant and comedian Bill Cosby, Epstein’s former neighbor.
Also in Epstein’s address book is supermarket mogul Ron Burkle, Clinton’s daughter Chelsea Clinton, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and John Kerry, late Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and media titan Rupert Murdoch, New York magazine noted in a new article. (Click here to read more)
Murdoch has two numbers — one New York, one California — listed in the address book.
If the FBI has been doing their job properly they would have contacted everyone in the black book and asked them about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein which means they would have also contacted Rupert Murdoch.
I wonder what Rupert Murdoch told the FBI about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and why hasn’t it been reported in the media like everyone else’s relationship with Epstein has?
Murder or suicide?
Anyone with experience of how jails work will tell you that Jeffrey Epstein was either murdered or prison guards assisted his suicide. There are no ifs, buts or maybes, that’s what happened. Assisted suicide could and should also be regarded as murder as well.
It’s being reported that former prisoners say it is impossible to hang yourself at the jail Epstein was held:
“Jeffrey Epstein Death: Suicide Is ‘Impossible’, Says Former Inmate” (Click here to read more) and “Suicide supposedly nearly impossible at ulta-secure Jeffrey Epstein lockup” (Click here to read more)
The bottom line is that Epstein was meant to have a cellmate which he didn’t because his cellmate was moved a few hours before Epstein hung himself which any prisoner or former prisoner will tell you that wouldn’t happen unless it was a deliberate set-up. Because if there was no one to replace Epstein’s cellmate then they would have put Epstein into a cell with at least 2 others and not leave him by himself given his recent suicide attempt.
Epstein was also meant to be checked every 30 minutes which he wasn’t and he was off suicide watch about 8 days after he allegedly attempted suicide, which if true, would almost be a record for going off suicide watch after an attempted suicide.
There are at least 2 inquiries into Epstein’s “suicide” which might shed more light on it but I would expect someone will at least be sacked if not charged.
Rupert Murdoch’s cover-up of sexual assault and harassment of women at News Corp / Fox News
The picture below of Rupert Murdoch and Jeffery Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was taken in September 2010 which is a month after Epstein finished his house arrest. “Epstein served almost 13 months before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.” (Click here to read more)
In 2016 the then News Corp owned Fox News forced their CEO Roger Ailes to resign after numerous sexual harassment allegations. They paid Ailes $40 million to go quietly which suggests a cover-up of a much bigger problem.
Gretchen Carlson who was one of the complainants against Roger Ailes was paid $20 million. “After Carlson came forward, six more women spoke to Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine, alleging that Ailes had sexually harassed them and that Ailes had “spoke openly of expecting women to perform sexual favors in exchange for job opportunities. (Click here to read more)
In January 2017 Fox News host Bill O’Reilly personally settled a lawsuit by Lis Wiehl for a “nonconsensual sexual relationship,” for $32 million. Despite this in February 2017 Fox gave O’Reilly a 4-year contract extension worth $25 per year.
In April 2017, The New York Times exposed that O’Reilly and Fox News had settled another unreported five lawsuits against O’Reilly dating back to 2002, totaling $13 million in compensation paid, so Murdoch and Fox fired Bill O’Reilly to cover themselves. (Click here to read more)
What the total amount was that Rupert Murdoch signed off for Fox to pay victims of sexual harassment/assault at Fox News has never been revealed but if you add the $40 million Roger Ailes was paid to go quietly, the $20 million Gretchen Carlson was paid and the $13 million a few of Bill O’Rielly’s victims were paid you get $73 million. Then add the rest and I doubt you would get any change out of $100 million.
The point about the $millions paid by Murdoch to cover-up the sexual abuse and harassment of women is that it is powerful circumstantial evidence to suggest that Murdoch would not care about Jeffrey Epstein abusing teenage girls. Murdoch possibly turned a blind eye to Epstein’s abuse of girls given Murdoch’s cover-up of the conduct of sexual predators like Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly. In fact, Rupert Murdoch has a long history of making $millions from exploiting girls by putting topless teenagers on page 3 of his UK papers for years.
This brings us back to the question of what did Rupert Murdoch know about Jeffrey Epstein abusing girls and was Rupert Murdoch involved. The FBI should know by now and hopefully they will reveal the answer sometime soon. There is also nothing stopping other media from asking Rupert Murdoch questions about the matter but at this point, they seem too scared to.
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Tagged as: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Rupert Murdoch
Is the Victorian government silencing prisoners such as paedophile George Pell and murderer Craig Minogue to cover-up the Lawyer X scandal?
Convicted paedophile George Pell loses appeal but certain to appeal to the High Court of Australia
Charles Ellem says:
I refer to the paragraph in which the author links Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein. I do not know Trump, Clinton or Epstein, but I consider the author is blindly following the Democratic Party and the American MSM talking points in an attempt to smear Trump’s reputation approaching the 2020 election. I follow American politics from a distance, and my understanding of the situation is this. In the 1980’s Donald Trump purchased the Mar-a-Lago estate (previously known as the Winter White House). He subsequently converted it into a luxury club and resort. Many wealthy people became members; one was Jeffrey Epstein, who Trump later barred because of his alleged behaviour towards women. Other than being present at the some Palm Beach social events, Trump had little or no contact with Epstein. The author should correct me if he has additional evidence that Trump was socialising with Epstein for immoral purposes. It is reported that Pilot logs record Bill Clinton was a guest on Epstein’s aircraft known as the Lolita Express on more than 20 occasions. As previously mentioned, I do not personally know any of the people mentioned in this article, but consider it unjust to smear a person’s reputation merely because they have a business or social connections.
So many Cohencidences….
@PB. Any reasonable person requires prima facie evidence of criminal or immoral behaviour before attempting to smear an individuals reputation. Apparently, for some, this understandable and reasonable requirement does not apply.
grumpyoldman22 says:
There appears to be a concerted push to demonise sex and sexual drives. Surely in today’s world of legalised homosexuality and enlightenment there should be no place for those who criticise how gratification is obtained provided it is not at the expense of the defenceless or under duress. The gay and lesbian Geni is out of the bottle and I suspect will never be recontained. Normal this year was unacceptable and abhorrent last year.
Provided our dull witted politicians steer clear of making some of the modern behaviours complulsory, who among us can with clear conscience criticise others for what they do in private? The media are consummate voyeurs that serve to gratify the paying public need to watch anything of a sexual nature.
This article is total conjecture and may tell some truth but it would never stand up in court.
It is implausible to conflate homosexuality and the sexual abuse of children. Homosexuality is not a new thing nor has it always been hidden in Western society. It was virtually mandatory in ancient Sparta. Most adults don’t have a problem with gay people and never have, but religion has dominated our political and legal system for so long that homosexuality has been suppressed.
Sex with children is considered wrong because adults realize that children cannot consent to sex even if the child doesn’t show obvious signs of duress because children/teenagers’ brains and bodies are not fully developed. In societies where sex with children was openly tolerated by the powerful, such as ancient Greece, sex with children was still considered wrong due to the emotional and physical discrepancy between children and adults. It is telling that in ancient Greece and ancient Rome where sexual abuse of children was conducted, including by the very powerful in society, the societies soon fell apart.
The comments above that imply that Kangaroo Court is making the error of “guilt by association” are inaccurate. The rich and powerful regularly use people with less social and financial power as a means to an end. They care nothing for the truth or the effect of their actions on individual victims and the broader society. People as powerful as Epstein only get away with their crimes and abuse of power through the help of others. Not trying to stop his crimes or failing to report his crimes to the police and also the original “sweetheart deal” he was given in Florida is also an offence, which is why many in Epstein’s circle are now being investigated for conspiracy.
There is video footage of Trump saying that Epstein is a “great guy” in the same breath as saying that he likes women “a little on the young side.” One of the original people to oppose Trump when he first became nominated for President was a woman that said she had been raped by Epstein when she was 13 and that Trump was present. That particular news story was reported by Fairfax (now Nine) which is a mainstream news site. It doesn’t make the news reports automatically true, but there is enough information in the public domain to raise serious questions about these people’s associations with one another.
stuarterrolanderson says:
What are the true depths of Rupert Murdoch? He received a papal knighthood in January 1998. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/catholic-anger-at-murdochs-papal-knighthood-1145252.html
He received the knighthood at the recommendation of Roger Mahony then Cardinal and Archbishop of Los Angeles. Six months later Mahony was being grilled on the witness stand for his cover up and protection of paedophile priest O’Grady In 1980, shortly after Mahony became Bishop of Stockton, California, a parent wrote to the diocese accusing Father Oliver O’Grady, a priest of the diocese, of molesting his two sons. Mahony had O’Grady transferred to another parish in 1982, where more abuse accusations followed. In 1984, a police investigation into accusations against O’Grady was closed after a diocesan lawyer promised that O’Grady would be kept away from children. In December of that year Mahony had O’Grady transferred to another parish. Mahony was promoted to Archbishop of Los Angeles the following year. In 1998, six months after awarding Rupert Murdoch a pal knighthood, Mahony testified in a civil trial against the Diocese of Stockton, in which a jury awarded $30 million to two of O’Grady’s victims. O’Grady later was featured as the subject of the 2006 documentary film, Deliver Us from Evil.
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Dreams of Venice Repeated in Sacred Rituals…and No Cheat Codes: Edward Muir’s Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Academic Books, History, mythology
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I promise it’s not because of Blue this time, or at least not entirely. It was because I got to shoot the Doge, during Carnival, on his own boat, while he was giving a speech, while wearing a gold mask. Assassin’s Creed II was the shit dude.
My regular reader may have observed (assuming they actually care about my intellectual movements, or at least enough to give the first few paragraphs a glance) that lately I’ve been reading more and more history. Part of this largely because, as ever, I’ve been watching more and more of Overly Sarcastic Productions as well as Shadiversity and Suibhne. These channels have been not just a joy to discover, they’ve been a great personal solace as I think more and more about my future and what I want to do with my life and my time. This is, namely, that I want to spend what time I’ve got enjoying my actual passions and one of my unending passions has been history. That…and the Assassin’s Creed franchise. I was about eighteen or nineteen when the series came out, and oddly enough I wasn’t even that interested when the trailers for it first appeared. I was far more interested in, and I admit this to my great shame, Modern Warfare 3.
Mistakes were made. I see that now.
My sister received Assassin’s Creed II for Christmas that year and started playing the game once I was done fighting Uber-nationalists in a Russian Gulag or some shit. In no time I started to notice that killing Brazilians with automatic rifles wasn’t anywhere near as cool as scaling the Santa Maria del Fiore, meeting Lorenzo de Medici and Leonardo da Vinci, killing people with hidden blades and brooms, collecting every Renaissance painting ever made, hunting down the Pazzi one by one and murdering the shit out of them, fighting the goddamn pope Alexander VI (Roderigo Borgia, a.k.a. the Spaniard) in an underground bunker beneath the Sistine Chapel that was built by gods, and then, of course, there was Venice.
I could spend hours talking about Assassin’s Creed II (and Brotherhood, and Revelations, and Odyssey which I got from Christmas this year care of my wife who I will love until the day I die) and trying to explain why the game left such a philosophical and intellectual impact upon my life, but honestly the only reason that mattered was that it was just a damn good game. And in between the assassination contracts I managed to ingest a great amount of actual history. It was in Venice though that most of the game took place, and after watching OSP’s four-part series on the Republic of Venice(for the tenth time I think), and rekindling my love of history, and reflecting on the Assassin’s Creed game which helped further solidify my love of history, it made sense that my sister gave me one of the books she read in graduate school which just happened to be about Venice.
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir is a book that, honestly, I didn’t think I was going to review while I was reading it. The book is academic to a level that is almost painful, and there are numerous instances throughout where almost half of a page is dedicated to footnotes alone. If the reader is not fluent in English, French, Italian, and Latin they’re sure to be stumped by the neat constant use of all of these languages with, conveniently, no footnotes to explain what words or expressions he’s attempting to communicate. And finally, if the reader has absolutely no knowledge of the history of La Serenissima de Republica de Venetzia, or, The Most Serene Republic of Venice then the near constant references to doges, oligarchs, merchants, and notable individuals is sure to leave you either annoyed or stumped.
With all that said, this book was a fucking blast and I enjoyed it till the end.
Part of what makes Muir’s book so enjoyable to read is his observation of the Ritual in Venetian society and how rituals helped create a sense of identity. In his Introduction as he sets up his argument he lays out the seven parts of his book and explores each of the aims:
In numerous medieval and Renaissance examples, legal and “constitutional” precepts and precedents found expression in ceremony long before they were written down in formal codes; and Venice, it seems, was indeed no stranger to the habit of ceremonial law. Sixth, the historian of civic ritual investigates how ceremonies may reveal the citizen’s own sense of their city’s relations with the outside world, relations that the Venetians saw by and large in imperial terms. […]. In Venice, one finds that the legally defined social classes, the patrimonial family, age groups, and women all shared varying degrees of ritual recognition that marked their place in the political and social organization of the city. (6-7).
Yeah, just a forewarning, most of these quotes are going to be painfully academic. This quote alone demonstrates Muir to be concerned more with the construction of an argument than a narrative and that in itself implies that he’s writing mostly for a handful of academics. And while I will admit freely that I’ve grown to despise academic writing, especially after finishing graduate school, Muir’s book was still enjoyable to read because of the way he made Rituals seem like something important and relevant.
Being a citizen of the United States I recognize this. Growing up in East Texas the Fourth of July was always an obligatory event, rather than a passive one. It was required that you go out and blow shit up or watch people blowing shit up regardless if you suffered from allergies like I did. Watching fireworks, listening to people singing the Star Spangled Banner, or watching War movies on TV were events which were supposed to create a sense of American identity, or else national Pride. And while I found far more patriotism in the act of living my life the way I wanted to , as well as my freedom of expression (David Bowie Electric Tiger pimp surprises) for a great number of people the ritual is the means of finding a sense of one’s self politically, emotionally, and for some, religiously.
Muir’s book then tackles some of the rituals of Venice such as the Marriage the Sea, The Feast of Mary’s, and the Coronation of the Doge in order to understand how politics and religion helped establish the notion of La Serrenissima, or the “serenty” of the Republic of Venice. Venice as a city, and as a government, still stands as the longest running single government in human history spanning from 697 CE to 1797 CE, a time of almost 1100 years surpassing any civilization in human history. What’s inspiring, or at least fascinating is that part of this lasting success was the merging of religious and political ritual to create this sense of identity as the “serene” republic.”
Muir notes:
According to fifteenth-century Venice humanist, Giovanni Caldiera, the cardinal virtues—Faith, Hope, and Charity—underlay the republican virtues; so obedience to the state was metaphorically obedience to the will of God. Thus, in Venice patriotism equaled piety. The Venetians conception of themselves as a chosen people in consequence, was always revealed in their attachment to certain sacred institutions. (16).
He continued this point later down the page noting:
Belief in Venice-as-the-chosen-city and adherence to the historical institutions of the republic enabled the Venetians to withstand the tremendous forces for changes, including the temptations of millenarian enthusiasm, that ravaged the rest of Italy during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. (16).
And finally he adds more more point on the following page:
For the Venetians, “liberty” was a matter not of personal freedom, but rather of political independence from other powers. (17).
The history of Italy during the Renaissance, is quite possibly one of the most fascinating topics to cover in history because there was simply so much chaos, warfare, political manipulations, and internal strife coupled with an explosion of academic, technological, and cultural innovation. Legions of mercenaries were scattered across the peninsula hired and fired freely as they for or against any city state that might hire them, and while the blood flowed men like Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci created paintings that would infer in society’s collected consciousness for centuries. And in the midst of all this turmoil, Venice somehow managed to stay above the fray, or at least, managed to maintain some level of, wait for it, serenity that the rest of the country could only aspire to. Muir tries to show then that it was because of the rituals, and their underlying rhetoric that Venetians were somehow ordained by divine grace that they were able to channel their efforts and psychology into maintaining a republic.
The Marriage of the Sea best represents this idea. Without taking too much time, the ceremony would involve the Doge of Venice, the political and spiritual leader of the Republic, sailing out to the opening of the Adriatic on a massive and ornate sailing barge. There would be music and prayers and pomp and circumstance, but the main event would involve the Doge reaching the spot where the lagoon of Venice met the Adriatic and, after uttering psalms and prayers, the Doge would drop a gold ring into the sea signifying that Venice was “married” to the seas. This ritual, which for the record still continues to this day almost three centuries after the republic ended (meanwhile I can’t even find ten minutes to do a few push-ups), was supposed to imply Venice’s “mastery” of the sea, which in turn would explain their economic and political prosperity.
Muir dedicates a significant portion of his book to this ritual, largely because it was so psychologically significant to the Venetians. He says in one passage:
The marriage of the sea was a Venetian version of a spring fertility festival. The usual goals of agrarian fertility rites—safegaurding the fecundity of women and crops—were transformed by the Venetian rites to serve maritime and Mercantile needs: the rites ensured the safety of sailors at sea, expressed political and commercial hegemony, established fair trade for the crowds, and invoked through a mystical marriage, continued prosperity. At the moment of their occurrence such fertility rites characteristically contribute to social cohesion and unanimity within the community. (131).
By “marrying” the sea Venice in effect created a narrative where they were effectively in control of it, and therefore if they had any sort of success it was because of this ritual. Though on the note of control the feminist in me immediately demands I provide the next quote which Muir provides on the next page:
The Sensa also deprived the sea of its frightening demeanor by feminizing it. The men who said abroad could most easily imagine the sea as a female archetype: unpredictable, fickle, sometimes violent, other times passive; but assuredly she could mastered by the resolute male. (132-33).
Muir completes this charming metaphor by providing the following analysis:
The Sensa revealed two profound psychological habits of belief: that natural forces could be comprehended by personifying them, and that through understanding these forces one could better control them, or at least predict their influences. And in symbolizing sexual conquest the processional movement took full advantage the female metaphor. Through the marriage each year at the beginning of the sailing season and through the subsequent voyages that consummated the union the sea was deprived of her mystery; men now “knew” her. (133).
Misogyny is always fascinating to read about largely because one gets a sense to what limits men were, and still are, willing to go to in order to perpetuate bullshit. The implied misogyny of this ritual aside however, Muir is able to demonstrate that this ritual helped complete a sense of Venetian identity. For centuries Venice was a maritime power-house and no-one could actually dispute that fact. Using a thalassocracy, a system of government and rule mostly executed through naval power rather than territorial claims, Venice was able to establish a powerful military and economic system which kept them rich and prosperous. Whatever opinion the reader might have about Venice they have to acknowledge that this ritual helped the citizens of the Republic believe that they were exceptional which in turn helped them execute this vision.
But at this point my contester feels compelled to speak up. So what? So what about Muir’s book? It’s a long, dry, academic book about a bunch of rituals that are irrelevant. Venice isn’t a republic anymore, in fact they’ve become nothing but a tourist attraction. What relevance does a bunch of old rituals have to my life.
Well, if I may correct my contester, the book isn’t long, it’s only 305 pages. To put it in perspective, while I’m writing this review I’m also reading Grant by Ron Chernow, a book which is 940 pages, and 48 hours long in terms of the audiobook.
As for the relevance this is a fair point. Like I said before, Muir is writing Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice for academics. He’s writing for people who study Venice, and study the time period of the Renaissance. This book is clearly designed for a small audience, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t relevant. While the topic may seem specific to a set of conditions, Muir’s book is largely about a larger theme: the practice of rituals in human history. While he centers his study in Venice he’s able to demonstrate that rituals are just a part of human behavior and then tries to show how these rituals translated into political, religious, and civic success.
Human beings like symbols, and we craft rhetoric and narratives from those symbols. Whether it’s the various religions human beings practice, the modes of politics that we participate in, or simply the millions of stories that we create and read and watch every year, human beings like stories that make us feel connected to one another because the can inform us about what the purpose of meaning of our existence is. Muir’s book tries top understand the narratives the Venetians of La Serrenissima told themselves through these religious and political rituals, and how that translated into a success that lasted for, literally, a thousand years.
It’s an incredible testament to the fact that human beings like rituals, because even if they may seem ridiculous or offensive in hindsight, their power over those who participated in them allowed said individuals to feel connected to a larger idea. Venice as a government, as an idea, and as an institution are due entirely because of the narratives Venetians crafted for themselves, and so as I look to Muir’s book I do recognize that, while it may not be entirely approachable as a book, as a history it’s incredibly relevant. Good history should be about observing trends in behavior, and so the history of Venice is about recognizing the potential of the self, and the capacity for human beings to work together and create something incredible.
It’s nowhere near as enjoyable as shooting the Doge on his own boat during Carnival, but it is its own joy to read a book, find the name Marco Babarigo, and remark to yourself, “Hey I killed that guy.”
Though I might recommend you say that internally as you co-workers are likely to look up from their lunches at you and begin to wonder if it was such a good idea to invite you out for a drink later after work.
All quotes from Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice were cited from the paperback Princeton University Press edition.
I’m gonna leave the soundtrack to Assassin’s Creed II here, because, well, because you just deserve it. I really haven’t experienced a game with such an incredible soundtrack before. Hope you enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iriiZOeInDg
I’m going to leave a few links to articles and encyclopedia entires and videos about La Serenissima in case the reader is interested. Enjoy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Republic_of_Venice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktq3iK2r_Ek
And, because I’m a man obsessed, I’ve included links to all the videos Blue of Overly Sarcastic Productions has done over the Republic of Venice. If you decide to watch, maybe you’ll understand or appreciate them as much as I do…Appreciate them I said! Ahem. Please enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86PybilU7k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byMleAJ5kRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4da1S6moF2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph9bM56g_a0
Operation Odysseus video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cHK4xzAhzE
****Writer’s Note****
I’m going to remind my reader that, since this writing I’ve begun a podcast series entitled “Jammer Talks About” and Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice just happened to be the fourth book I discussed. You can find a link to the podcast in the “Jammer’s Podcasts” link at the top of the page, or you can follow the link below. Hope you enjoy:
*****Writer’s Note*****
Finally I want to give a little bit more street crew to Dr. Edward Muir, who’s the real focus of this essay anyway. I’ve found his Professor page for Northeastern University and I’ve posted it below. It includes his credentials, awards, publication history, Circulum Vitae, etc. Definitely look him up because the man is a great writer, a wonderful scholar, and, if it hasn’t been made apperent, his book is definitely worth your time.
https://www.history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/edward-muir.html
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Posted by Joshua Ryan "Jammer" Smith in Academic Books, Art, History, mythology, Still Life
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Events In African American History For April 17
1. In 1863, A Black woman was forcibly removed from a horse-drawn streetcar in San Francisco. Charlotte L. Brown, the daughter of James E. and Charlotte Brown was the victim. Her father, who ran a livery stable in San Francisco, brought suit on her behalf against the Omnibus Railroad Company. The successful suit resulted in $5,000 in damages awarded as well as the right of blacks to ride the street cars. The Charlotte Brown case was one of a few civil rights cases brought by prominent free blacks in California to protest discrimination on public transportation.
2. In 1890, The founding of Harris-Stowe State College (HSSC) is celebrated on this date. It is one of over 100 historical Black Colleges and Universities in America.
3. In 1900, J. W. Smith Received Patent for Improvement in games
4. In 1990, Playwright August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize for drama with the play “The Piano Lesson.”
5. In 2006, T.I.’s “King” Tops Jet Magazine’s top 20 album list.
6. in 2011, Cheyenne Woods, Tiger Wood’s Niece, a 20-year-old Wake Forest student, won the ACC Women’s Golf Championship with a closing round of 3-under 68. She played a bogey-free round, and won the ACC golf title by 7 shots!
Black Colleges, Black Inventors, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Activist, Civil Rights Cases, Civil Rights Legislation, For Your Information, FYI, Historical Black College and Universities, Know Your Stuff, You better hurry up and know
Birthdays Of Famous African Americans For this date April 17
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Boergers, R. J., Bowman, T. G., Sgherza, N., Montjoy, M., Lu, M., & O’Brien, C. W. (2019). An Investigation of Athletic Trainers’ Emergency Management Practices for Equipment-Intensive Sports, International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training, 24(6), 235-242. Retrieved Jan 21, 2020, from https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijatt/24/6/article-p235.xml
Boergers, Richard J., Thomas G. Bowman, Nicole Sgherza, Marguerite Montjoy, Melanie Lu, and Christopher W. O’Brien. "An Investigation of Athletic Trainers’ Emergency Management Practices for Equipment-Intensive Sports". International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training 24.6: 235-242. < https://doi.org/10.1123/ijatt.2018-0025>. Web. 21 Jan. 2020.
Boergers, Richard J., Thomas G. Bowman, Nicole Sgherza, Marguerite Montjoy, Melanie Lu, and Christopher W. O’Brien. "An Investigation of Athletic Trainers’ Emergency Management Practices for Equipment-Intensive Sports", International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training 24, 6: 235-242, accessed Jan 21, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1123/ijatt.2018-0025
Boergers, R. J., Bowman, T. G., Sgherza, N., Montjoy, M., Lu, M., and O’Brien, C. W. (2019). An Investigation of Athletic Trainers’ Emergency Management Practices for Equipment-Intensive Sports. International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training 24, 6, 235-242, available from: < https://doi.org/10.1123/ijatt.2018-0025> [Accessed 21 January 2020]
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The Men or Women Behind Nevi: Alfred Guido Miescher
Fabrizio Vaira, MD1; Gianluca Nazzaro, MD1; Carlo Crosti, MD1; et al Stefano Veraldi, MD1
Author Affiliations Article Information
1Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy
JAMA Dermatol. 2014;150(4):411. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.9675
The man behind Miescher nevus is Alfred Guido Miescher. He was born on November 4, 1887, in Naples, Italy. His mother was Marietta Berner, and his father, Max Eduard Miescher, was a businessman. He was the nephew of Johannes Friedrich Miescher (1844-1895), professor of pathophysiology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and discoverer of nucleic acids. After the father’s death, he followed his mother to Basel, her hometown, where Guido completed his school.
He started his studies in engineering at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, and then switched to medicine, studying in Basel, Zurich, and Munich, Germany.1 Working as an assistant of the dermatologist Bruno Bloch, he wrote his thesis on a case of mycetoma. In 1933, after the death of his mentor, Miescher become professor and director of the University Dermatology Clinic in Zurich. Miescher was an excellent clinician, and he was passionate about clinical dermatology and Dermatopathology. Indeed, he said that “Dermatology is more than morphology.”1
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Vaira F, Nazzaro G, Crosti C, Veraldi S. The Men or Women Behind Nevi: Alfred Guido Miescher. JAMA Dermatol. 2014;150(4):411. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.9675
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‘THE GRAND OLD FOOTBALL WARRIOR……’
On September 26, 2019 September 26, 2019 By KB HillIn Uncategorized
Pat Flynn’s mind occasionally drifts back to those early childhood holidays at his grandparents’ farm…..
…….Being perched beside his old ‘Pa’, who’s negotiating the horse and gig along a dusty, pot-holed road, on the way to collect the groceries and mail at the Wilby store.
…….Or wandering around the paddocks, with him – and a couple of dogs for company – as they search for a few rabbits…..
Great old fellah, he recalls…Thought the world of his grandkids.
But heck, thinks Pat, who’s as nostalgic as they come……Why didn’t I pick his brain and get him to expand on his footy career ?……..
In this Grand Final Week, when Journos delve into the past to flush out romantic tales of premiership heroes of yesteryear, they’ll be struggling to find one to rival that of Pat’s illustrious grandad……..
James Edward Flynn was born in 1872, a year after his parents had sailed across the seas from Ireland, in search of a new life.
His football journey was eventful, to say the least. He started with Devenish, also stripped with Canterbury, had 5 games with Richmond (VFA) in 1895 and 1 with Collingwood (1896).
Jim found his way to Geelong, partly because of his close friendship with Henry ‘Tracker’ Young, a champion of the ‘Pivotians’, who was also an outstanding cyclist, boxer and rower.
‘Tracker’s’ fitness was renowned. It was said that, on a match day, he would run 30 kilometres along the beach to the ground, ruck non-stop for four quarters, then run the 30km return trip home.
Flynn became part of his rucking brigade once he gained inclusion in the senior side for the third round, in the VFL’s inaugural season of 1897.
But he was slow to mature. Despite showing obvious skill, his first five seasons with Geelong yielded 70 uneventful games. After appearing in another two – the opening rounds of 1902 – he faded into obscurity.
His arrival at Carlton was principally due to the recruiting prowess of the entrepreneurial, controversial, Jack Worrall, who had been installed as the Club’s Secretary/Manager in 1903.
Worrall appeals as an early-20th century version of Norm Smith-Ron Barassi-Alistair Clarkson rolled into one. He became Aussie Rules’ first true coach. As an integral part of his role, he had stipulated he must be handed full responsibility for all aspects of the team’s performance.
Thus, his determination to lift the flagging fortunes of the Blues saw him scouring the country for football talent……..
To digress on the fascinating Worrall, it’s worth retracing his remarkable sporting background. A nuggety rover who captained Fitzroy in its early and pre-VFL days, he was ‘Champion of the Colony’ on three occasions and was regarded as one of the three best footballers in the nation. In summer he turned his hand to cricket.
He made 11 Test appearances for Australia and played 65 games for Victoria, as a right-hand opening batsman ‘whose belligerent driving could tear an attack apart.’ In one District match for Carlton, he belted 412 not out.
Having been a key figure in forming the Victorian Football League, his appointment at Carlton promised to revitalise the staid old Navy Blues, who had finished no higher than second bottom in the previous five years.
As coach, he pulled out his old footy gear and worked as hard as his players, demanding unflinching courage, and imposing stern disciplinary measures. His message to them summed it up: “Boys: Booze and Linament don’t mix.”
Despite his recruitment of an exciting mix of young players, he’d been particularly eager to gain the services of the 32 year-old Jim Flynn, feeling he could tap into the veteran’s hidden potential .
Decades later, in his role as a journalist with the ‘Australasian’ Worrall discussed the greatest captains who had played the game. He said of Flynn:
“Carlton was finding its feet when Flynn joined the ranks. It was the Club’s salvation. He was the ideal captain. He fitted into the team like a glove, and had the confidence of everybody – players, Committee and supporters alike.”
“He did not prove a great captain straight away. Yet when he did come into his own, he was unsurpassed. His judgement was remarkable, he could play anywhere and he helped everybody.”
“He was a natural centre half back, a splendid centreman with a 50-yard kick on either foot, was a good runner, a great follower and a dangerous forward, as he could both mark and kick. He was an inspiration to the men under him and had the knack of pulling the side together when required…….”
Carlton jumped from sixth to third in Jim’s first season, their maiden finals appearance. Their steady improvement continued in 1904, when they reached the Grand Final, only to be outpointed by arch rivals, Fitzroy.
Jim had made such an impression that he’d been appointed vice-captain to his old Geelong team-mate Joe McShane. Then, when McShane stepped down at the end of the season, Flynn was his popular successor.
Although he stood only 179cm, he and Fred ‘Pompey’ Elliott led the ruck division and were supreme. Despite Flynn always yielding height in the ruck, he usually found a way to counter opponents. With a good spring and sure hands, he was said to be able to shark the tap by feigning to jump for the ball and then intercepting.
Carlton had by now gathered what coach Worrall regarded as his ‘Dream Team’ and finished minor premiers in 1906, to set up a semi-Final contest against Collingwood. They prevailed by 12 points, with Flynn outstanding in a best-afield performance.
Then they went on to boot 15.4 to Fitzroy’s 6.9 to take out their first-ever premiership.
The Blues continued their strong form in 1907 but, after a convincing 29-point win Round 8 win over St.Kilda at the Junction Oval, they were rocked when Flynn announced that he was retiring to take over the running of the Hotel at St.James.
He was loudly cheered, however, when he offered his services if the club happened to need him for the Finals.
True to his word, he returned to the fray, and performed with distinction. The ‘Argus’ scribe noted of the team that had just earned the right to play off for another pennant: ‘It is a great gain to them to have Flynn leading and playing for them in the finals.’
The Grand Final proved an enthralling contest. The Blues emerged with a five-point victory over South Melbourne. George Topping kicked three match-winning goals, Flynn was imperious at centre half back and George Bruce was a will o’ the wisp on a wing.
Flynn was justifiably proud of his team’s efforts, and said after the game: “Yes, we won, but there wasn’t much in it. They kept us going right to the end, didn’t they ? The real secret of our success is our manager, Jack Worrall. He’s a grand judge of a game and the youngsters worship him; they’d do anything for him……..”
Carlton’s Annual Meeting paid tribute to their dual premiership skipper: “The Club will suffer a great loss in the retirement from the game, of Mr.J.Flynn. His position will be most difficult to fill. It is not too much to say that his exceptional skill as a leader, combined with his rare ability as a footballer, was a great factor in the success of the side…..”
So the curtain finally appeared to have been drawn on the career of the old warrior. He returned to operating his Hotel and prepared to spend the rest of his playing days with St.James.
But Worrall was keen to have him ‘up his sleeve’, and asked if Jim would remain on standby in case an emergency occurred later in the season..
Sure enough, that situation arose on the eve of the Finals. Carlton were well-entrenched in top spot – three games clear of Essendon, when Worrall announced that Flynn would be slotted into Carlton’s Round 18 line-up.
He showed no signs of rustiness in that game – against University- and starred on a back flank in the Semi-Final win over St.Kilda. His vast experience was a telling asset in the nail-biting Grand Final, in which the Blues triumphed by nine points.
A capacity crowd packs into the MCG to watch the 1908 Grand Final. Officials stand guard, as the fence is broken down by eager fans.
Again, the old champ was farewelled with much pomp, as he ‘rode off into the sunset’ to his life in the bush. He’d been one of 11 players who had shared in the hat-trick of Carlton flags……..
Alas, two years later (1910) the distress signal was again sent out from Princes Park. On the eve of their first Final, three players – Alex (Bongo) Lang, Douglas Fraser and Doug Gillespie, were left out of the side. Accusations swirled that the trio had taken bribes to play ‘dead’ in the loss to bottom side St.Kilda the previous week.
So, in a sensational development, Carlton captain-coach ‘Pompey’ Elliott, his old rucking co-hort, prevailed upon Flynn to return in this time of crisis.
He was rising 40 years of age, and did his best, but poor kicking cost the Blues dearly. South Melbourne won 10.5 (65) to 6.17 (53) in Jim Flynn’s 77th – and final – game for Carlton………
His parting gesture to the Blues was to take a 20 year-old St.James team-mate, Gordon Green, down to the Club. “This lad will make it,” Jim assured officials.
Green proved him correct. He went on to play in Carlton’s 1914 and ‘15 premiership teams, represented Victoria and captained the Club on his return from the Great War.
Jim, his wife Ellen and their kids, Edward, Mary, Jim, Alicia, Jack and Anastasia, moved onto a farming property ‘Glenview’, near Wilby. He continued to play locally, then in retirement, took up a favourite spot on the fence at home games, where he would offer encouragement and advice to the Wilby players………
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“AUSSIE ‘IMPORT’ SHARES IN LONG DITTON GLORY…..’
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Elmer S. Nelson and Mabel R. Nelson, Appellants, v. Thomas Brames and Marilyn C. Brames, Appellees, 253 F.2d 381 (10th Cir. 1958)
US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit - 253 F.2d 381 (10th Cir. 1958) February 19, 1958
Albert E. Nelson, Rock Springs, Wyo., and A. G. McClintock, Cheyenne, Wyo., for appellants.
Glenn A. Williams, Cheyenne, Wyo. (A. Joseph Williams, Cheyenne, Wyo., on the brief), for appellees.
Before MURRAH, LEWIS and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.
MURRAH, Circuit Judge.
This is the second appeal from a judgment for the defendant on a jury verdict in this damage suit, arising out of a two-car highway collision in Wyoming. The head-on collision which caused the damage occurred after the defendant-appellee's car "skidded" or "bounced" over into the plaintiff-appellant's traffic lane. See Id., 10 Cir., 241 F.2d 256. The appellant was without fault. And, the question here is whether the trial court erroneously refused to direct a verdict of liability on the ground that the undisputed testimony concerning the cause of the skid convicted appellee of negligence as a matter of law.
When the case was here on the former appeal, we stated, following Wyoming law, that "there is no actionable negligence where without fault on the part of the driver an automobile skids across the center line of the highway to the left side thereof and collides with another motor vehicle, but that the burden rests upon such driver to show that he was there without any act of commission or omission which constituted fault on his part." In other words, the presence of the defendant's car in the plaintiff's traffic lane at the time of the collision was prima facie negligence, and it was incumbent upon him to show that he was there from causes or things beyond his control; that his skidding was not due to any negligent act on his part. See Wallis v. Nauman, 61 Wyo. 231, 157 P.2d 285; Larkins v. Kohlmeyer, 229 Ind. 391, 98 N.E.2d 896; Satterlee v. Orange Glenn School District, 29 Cal. 2d 581, 177 P.2d 279, 283. No complaint is made of the refusal or failure of the trial court to so instruct the jury. Indeed, the instructions have not been brought here for review. Nor is the basic testimony disputed. Only the permissible inferences to be drawn therefrom are challenged.
The defendant testified that on the date of the accident, he was traveling westerly about thirty miles an hour upon a snow and ice covered highway near Rock Springs, Wyoming; that the thirty-foot roadway was rough, corrugated, rutted, but straight, unobscured and slightly inclined; that when he was about 150 feet from the oncoming plaintiff's car, his car hit something like a "rut" a "block of ice", a "hole in the road", "something like hitting a curb", causing the rear end of his car to "skid or bounce * * * violently" about 10 feet over into the plaintiff's traffic lane. He immediately turned his front wheels with the skid and toward the left lane. When the skid stopped, the front end of the car was slightly in its lane and the rear end was in the left or plaintiff's lane. Before the defendant could move back into his traffic lane, the plaintiff's car struck his about one or two feet forward the front door.
Whether judged by the Wyoming or Federal rule, a peremptory instruction directing a verdict is proper only when but one inference or conclusion can be drawn from the evidence. Blackstone v. First National Bank of Cody, 64 Wyo. 318, 192 P.2d 411; Hawkins v. L. C. Jones Trucking Co., 68 Wyo. 275, 232 P.2d 1014. When fair minded persons may form different opinions and draw different conclusions and inferences from facts, the question of negligence is for the jury. Globe Cereal Mills v. Scrivener, 10 Cir., 240 F.2d 330; Dunn v. Kansas Gas & Electric Co., 10 Cir., 227 F.2d 939. And, the rule applies with equal force to an affirmative defense by the defendant, as well as in other cases. Blackstone v. First National Bank of Cody, supra.
Emphasizing the crucial point whether the defendant was exercising due care when his car went into the skid, appellant suggests the absence of any evidence showing the circumstances which would have prevented the defendant from having seen and avoided striking whatever object caused him to bounce or skid out of control. The evidence is said to explain what he did after the skid, not what he did to prevent the chain of events which resulted in the collision. In other words, the jury, says the appellant, were left to surmise that he was exercising due care to prevent the skid.
But, the defendant testified without objection that when he hit the object which threw his car out of control, he was traveling about thirty miles an hour, watching the road ahead closely, and he could not see any difference in the condition of the highway immediately ahead and that over which he had been traveling for the past seven or eight miles. In these circumstances, we think the jury was properly permitted to infer that the collision was unavoidable. The judgment is affirmed.
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Colin Grey
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Colin Grey joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 2019. Professor Grey teaches and writes about immigration law, refugee law, and administrative law. In the past he has taught courses in legal theory, international migration law, and an interdisciplinary methods course for doctoral students. At Queen’s he will be developing three online courses for the new Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law.
Prior to joining Queen’s Law, Professor Grey taught for four years at the Université du Québec à Montréal and worked, also for four years, as legal counsel at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. He clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Professor Grey received his LLB from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he graduated as Silver Medallist and was awarded the Dean’s Key. He received his LLM and JSD at New York University, where he was an Arthur T Vanderbilt Scholar.
Professor Grey’s scholarship explores issues of public law theory in the domain of migration law and governance. His publications include Justice and Authority in Immigration Law (Hart Publishing, 2015), as well as articles in Philosophy & Social Criticism, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, and Legal Theory. He is co-editor, with Professor Sharry Aiken, of the only casebook on Canadian immigration and refugee law, as well as co-author with Professor Aiken, Donald Galloway, and Audrey Macklin of Migration Law in Canada, 2d ed (Kluwer Law International, International Encyclopedia of Laws, 2015).
Recent Professional Achievements
Co-editor of special issue of the Dalhousie Law Journal on Canadian Immigration Law, 2019
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Russell Cooper
Written by Kathryn Carlson on 26th September 2018 . Posted in Academic news, New professors
Professor Russell Cooper rejoins EUI as Professor of Economics after five years away in the US teaching at Pennsylvania State University. Over coffee at a streetside cafe in San Domenico, we discuss his work at EUI, the ideal curriculum, and how an academic’s work is never done.
For Professor Cooper, his new post is a welcome return: “I was here as a faculty member five years ago for three years, from 2009 to 2012, and then I went back to the States for five years. I loved being here – I loved the setup of the university, the camaraderie with faculty members, that was just great. I’m as happy as could be to be back here. I think as a student, this is paradise. There’s no dead wood in this institution, and that’s so important. It makes it so vital and so interesting. Everybody here is doing research all the time.”
Professor Russell Cooper
Neither is the professor immune to Florence’s charms: “I live in a farmhouse near to the Badia. To live on a farm, almost, and walk to work – it’s just perfect. I love everything about being back in Florence except for two things: I think there are more mosquitos, and they moved the Le Cure market “temporarily” to the football stadium.”
Professor Cooper will be teaching the same core PhD programme that he was previously teaching: “[The programme] has three branches: macroeconomics, microeconomics and econometrics. I generally teach one of the parts of macroeconomics and then I usually teach a topics course to the more advanced researchers.”
Discussing the teaching style of EUI compared to institutions in the US, the professor, who received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, praises EUI’s mixture of flexibility and structure: “We have a responsibility to provide the students a structure of courses on topics which we think are actually important for them, and I think that’s how we design the core material. But then after the first year, their tastes and their needs should dictate what we offer, so we have to moderate between those views. And when the students do independent research, I believe that should be based on their interests. However difficult it might be, we should provide a supervision for their research.”
As for his area of research, Professor Cooper says: “I have an endless supply of research interests – the problem is harnessing them! But that’s another nice thing about being here, that there are so many students to work with and consider ideas. There’s only 12 of us and 100 students who are working on a number of different things – it’s so alive, it’s beautiful. I often get stimulated by conversations with students and just work on something with them or on my own.
“I’m currently working on a few topics, all of which have European content. There’s a set of papers I’m working on and a course I’m teaching under the heading of ‘Household Finance’, and one of the central questions there is why some households participate in various markets like stock markets, and why the remainder don’t. Those rates of participation vary pretty widely across the world, even across Europe. When the ECB undertakes monetary policy it matters what markets people are involved in, in terms of the impact of monetary policy for them as individuals, and of their economies overall.
“And since around 2007, even before I came here the first time, I was interested in monetary union, and the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy. The structure here is very odd – there’s a lack of fiscal integration compared to monetary integration. It’s always been a sore spot in the design of the European monetary union, and I’ve written extensively on those sore spots and what issues might arise.”
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It Takes All Kinds at New York’s Pizza Loves Emily
In New York City, Matt and Emily Hyland of the Pizza Loves Emily Group draw inspiration from community and their collective past to pay homage to different kinds of pizza.
Mar. 29, 2019 Words by Stef Ferrari Photography by Noah Fecks
From the Pizza Issue
The old adage, “Kill ‘em with kindness,” is all about how to handle your enemies. But at Pizza Loves Emily, a hospitality group with six restaurants varying in concept, kindness is not a weapon; it’s a foundational throughline of their businesses, and a way of life.
Fortunately for the pizza-loving masses, pies happen to come in all kinds, and patrons and fans of the original shop in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, named simply Emily, found a different sort of New York pizza place. Emily specializes in New Haven-style pies, charred and thin and covered in tangy red sauce, buried under a blizzard of salty pecorino cheese. It’s not the kind people might imagine coming from New York City. It’s not the kind that automatically comes covered in mozzarella, and it may not even resemble the cartoonish images the word “pizza” conjures. It’s the kind that leaves your fingers blackened and your paradigm of New York pizza culture in question.
That spot was only their first foray into pizza that isn’t “New York-style.” The question that Matt Hyland, chef/co-founder at the Pizza Loves Emily Group, asks when we sit down a few feet from his wood-fired oven, peacefully dormant during the off-service daytime—“What is New York pizza?”—is one that comes up often for the city’s pizza lovers. Especially as we find “New York Pizza” restaurants all over the country and the world, it has become a ubiquitous catch-all term, and much of it is ubiquitously bad. “I don’t even know what that term means,” he continues. “There are so many styles of pizza here.”
At Emily, Emmy Squared, and the recently opened Violet, Matt and co-founder Emily Hyland highlight a number of pizza styles, all of which they attribute to regions outside the city (New Haven, Detroit and Rhode Island, respectively). Each is a distinctly different kind of pizza. But maybe that’s because each is coming from a different kind of restaurant group.
Emily Hyland, Co-founder of Pizza Loves Emily Group
Matt Hyland, Chef/Co-founder of Pizza Loves Emily Group
It’s the Kind of Food…
Matt and I quickly jump into conversation about being from Connecticut and the pizza culture there. While he grew up enjoying some of the same pies that graced my family’s table, Matt’s experience in the food business didn’t begin until after graduating college. It was then that he attended culinary school, and he was very intentional about how he would put that education to use.
Making pizza is a very specific discipline within an already specified industry, but as a chef, Matt was ready to take a deep dive. “I wanted to specialize in something,” he says. “I have a computer science degree as well,” he says, but there is a balance between the scientific and the romantic that appeals to Matt. “There’s something really beautiful about … cooking in a wood-fired oven. It’s so inconsistent, just trying to manipulate and figure out something completely wild and try to tame it.” He appreciated the challenge of constantly adjusting and recalibrating. “In a minute you can lose or gain one hundred degrees.” He refers to the variables that might be maddening to another cook (micromanaging temperature, humidity) as “a nice little puzzle”—one that was attractive to him.
Although there seems to have been plenty within that constantly evolving calibration to keep him from becoming complacent with pizza making, Matt sought to further diversify within the pizza canon. While Clinton Hill specializes in the wood-fired New Haven inspired round pies, the Emmy Squared offshoot is billed as “Detroit-style.” The fact that there are now three Emmy Squared locations—two in New York and one in Nashville, Tennessee (where Matt has a familial connection, and where the group’s strategic partners, Howard Greenstone and Ken Levitan are also associated with Nashville favorites like Adele’s and Bajos Sexto) speaks to the success of that particular interpretation.
“We wanted to do an homage to Detroit pizza,” Matt says. After obsessively tasting, observing and reverse engineering, they opened the second concept to a similarly enthusiastic audience, and it became clear the Emmy Squared Detroit-style pan pizza could be efficiently replicated as they considered growth. “The Detroit style is made in a convection oven so that’s a lot easier to bake, and thankfully people have been really receptive to it,” he says, whereas the training, implementation and control from a quality standpoint would be considerably more challenging with the wood-fired oven integral at Emily.
With their latest effort, Violet in the East Village, the group is again tapping into an underrepresented regional style of pizza, which they’ve tagged as Rhode Island since it draws inspiration from Providence institution Al Forno. And once again, a new kind of cooking technique was applied to the pizza: grilling.
There, a surprisingly chewy, pliable foundation of dough is grilled, the bassline upon which a melody of sauces like broccoli and pistachio pesto or hoisin, and the harmony of ingredients like duck prosciutto and clams, or spring onions and Sichuan oil can play out. A pair of kitchen shears is handed over, with which guests can go at it, cutting their own portions—or hell, setting them aside and folding the whole thing in half.
These pies are another example of Matt’s trial-and-error, study-and-observe style of culinary development. “I had been watching videos online,” he says of other grilled pizza makers, many of whom he tells me pre-bake their crust. Theirs, by contrast, is made to order. “The dough gets stretched out and goes right on the grill; there’s no stack of pre-grilled doughs,” he says. “We’re just going to try to find out the best way to do it for our kitchen and what makes sense for us.” What makes sense for them seems to be working, as Violet was recently awarded a coveted New York Times star by Pete Wells.
Matt has made a mission of mastering various pizzas, but Violet also expands into housemade pastas and grilled seafood, showcasing a wider breadth of New England inspired specialties. “[Matt’s] been slightly pigeonholed into this chef who makes pizza and burgers, when actually he’s this incredibly talented chef who has a lot more to offer,” Emily says.
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Their menus celebrate—and even maybe cement—regional identities, by paying homage to places that have inspired and been meaningful to them, and creating new memories for their guests. It’s pizza that may be made in New York, but is a tribute to the Naples-descended New Haven style, or to a city in Michigan, paying homage first in Brooklyn and then transporting to Tennessee. Or to a restaurant in Rhode Island, where they’ve shared their own impressionable meals over the years.
But in reality, regionality is secondary to quality, flavor and satisfaction, and Matt’s culinary choices may challenge expectations. Pizza restaurants are often known for Italian influence, but he tells me there are very few truly Italian ingredients in their kitchen.
Instead, American and even southeast Asian touches are more common in his toolbelt. “Adding fish sauce is always a great way to add umami; [it] can add a little saltiness and funk, but it doesn’t necessarily make it an Asian dish. Our vodka sauce is full of soy sauce and it just adds this body to it instead of adding meat to it, and we only use rice wine vinegar here,” he says. But the menu doesn’t always make a point of calling these items out; these ingredients are about function, not philosophy, per se.
But regardless of how it combines influences and ingredients, their food, their restaurants, and their personal philosophies unquestionably bring people together.
It’s the Kind of Culture…
When I meet with Emily separately, she and I fall into a similarly easy rapport. But we’re very quickly discussing a whole host of things that are not pizza. Yes, Emily confirms she still loves pizza as much as it evidently loves her. But she is the kind of entrepreneur who needs more to life than her business. In fact, operating the eponymous restaurant is only one facet of her professional world; she’s also a yoga instructor and a teacher of English composition at City College of Technology (part of CUNY) in Downtown Brooklyn. “It’s funny how life draws you down a certain path,” she says. She’s refilling my water glass like an old hospitality pro, but immediately prior to opening their first location, Emily was actually studying to become a school principal. “I have a lot of experience in systems-management and operational management in helping to found a public school,” she says.
Maybe they seem like disparate pursuits, but there is a common cornerstone in all Emily’s efforts, whether in the yoga studio, the classroom, or the dining room. “Community is big for me,” she says.
And as the namesake of the restaurant, she had good reason to be firm about its values. “That was a huge imperative for the core values and building culture—that it didn’t feel like a restaurant that was just a churn and burn of team members, or treated people poorly. It was meant to be a place of kindness and constructive feedback.”
The food world is notoriously male-dominated, the slice of it that is specific to pizza is even further female-deficient, and that’s a fact not lost on Emily. “It is a patriarchal world; that conditioning is strong and deeply rooted,” she says. She recalls scenarios that emphasized that sensibility. “Early on, I was distinctly struggling as a leader because Matt and I would sit down as owners—equals—to have a conversation where we needed to reprimand someone, and my tone would be just as even as his, and that person would identify me as a bitch and him as a boss.”
It’s not an uncommon sentiment among female leaders in any industry, but Emily believes femininity shouldn’t be a fault. “That general feminine sense of being sensitive is not something that’s accepted in the patriarchal structures of our society, let alone an industry like this where every word is terse,” she says. “My skin thickened and I’ve become less reactive, but that was definitely a challenge because it felt disingenuous, because that femininity felt so important to me.”
Today, she sees her position as an opportunity to help lift up fellow women in the food industry. “It’s been nice to bolster some of those women.” She tells me that of a four-person pizza team at Emily, two are women: Samantha Pathe and Chelsea Amber Ramos Mckensie.
Both Matt and Emily express a hope to provide an encouraging environment for their team. Matt and I discuss the culture being forged and fostered by two leaders who do not come from a long background in the food business, which he says is a simple one: “Don’t be an asshole,” he laughs. “Try to talk to people with respect. Of course, I can get frustrated; [it’s about] trying to check myself too and be a good role model, which doesn’t always work. But I try when possible.”
The pair’s academic, empathetic and pedagogic sensibilities extend to management style. Pathe, Emily’s Head Pizza Chef, describes the working environment with respect to its founders: “They’re both nurturing people.” And Ramos Mckensie, Pizza Chef at Emily, agrees: “Emily always asks me, how I’m doing, how I’m feeling, how things are running at the restaurant.”
Ramos Mckensie makes a note of comments she’s received from guests who are surprised to find a woman at the oven, and where the work can be especially demanding. “The wood-fire oven takes a lot of control,” she says, but gender aside, feels she’s been well-prepared for the role. “They trained me all the way from making dough to making sure you have the perfect char around the edge.”
Now, there is a clear coaching tree in bloom at PLE; since her own hiring, Pathe has subsequently trained Ramos Mckensie and others. “Usually in the food industry, if you don’t know much, they don’t really want you. I went in not knowing how to make pizzas and Sam is the one who trained me,” Ramos Mckensie says, explaining the significance of speed and efficiency in such a high pressure, high heat environment. “She taught me how to handle it,” she says of Pathe.
Building a culture that allows guests to enjoy well-made, intentional food and hospitality is as foundational as offering their team a supportive environment—especially in an industry notorious for intensity and pressure. Ramos Mckensie continues, “At Emily, we understand that and try to take that out. We are able to communicate with each other. And communication is key.” That communication, internal conscientiousness, and the idea that future opportunities exist are all part of the appeal for team members. “They’re growing really fast,” she continues. “Emily always tells me, ‘As we grow, you will grow as well.’”
Bolstered by the partnership with Greenstone and Levitan, both Matt and Emily have recently reclaimed some breathing room. “We have structure and more qualified people doing the roles they should be doing, and we’re not wearing a million hats,” Emily says, adding that it’s afforded her more time to instruct and practice yoga, and get back to the academic world as a teacher. “It’s allowed Matt to be able to create in this new culinary space of a new restaurant; he’d been spending a lot of time just on quality control and consistency,” she says of their expansion.
It’s the Kind of Community…
As PLE looks forward, the group is careful now to keep an eye on scalability, sustainability as a business, and growth opportunities both for the organization and its staff. Emily continues, “I feel blessed to have our strategic partners because they took this from a mom-and-pop with two nacient business people—two creative people who were just trying to make something happen—and turned it into a proper company; with that comes the systemization and ability to use people for the skills they really have.” The result is an ability to foster that growth, and look beyond the idea of what that mom-and-pop could be.
“Neither of us in our wildest dreams could ever have imagined what’s happened here,” she returns to the importance of the internal community of their restaurants, as well as the external. “One of the biggest contributors to that growth has been our neighborhood and the guests who are part of this family. We have pizzas named after children who’ve dined here, and locals who are now friends.”
Whether diners arrive from down the block, or make pizza night a proper destination experience, this is the kind of food that takes you back. “Pizza is really nostalgic,” Emily muses. “It is ingrained in our collective unconscious—those warm memories of sleepovers or pizza parties after basketball games or Friday night with the family, and I think that’s what makes it something that is accessible and really nice for everybody.”
The fact that PLE has become known for those American classics is something that comes straight from Matt’s own history. “My cooking style is very personal,” he tells me. “It’s things I love from my childhood—take-out and Japanese and Chinese and Indian food and pizza; it’s what every person in the suburbs of New York grew up eating. My comfort food is not home cooking comfort food, it’s take-out food because that’s what I ate a lot of. I incorporate those flavors into my cooking because that’s what’s comforting to me.”
Turns out, comfort food commands attention. And while memories may be inspired by each meal, the staying power of a restaurant is attributed to more than food. “Kindness is the forefront of how I try to interact with community members and staff members,” Emily says. “What really makes [the restaurants] successful is not purporting that you’re invested in someone’s nice experience, but genuinely being interested and making that connection.” She explains to me that at their restaurants, there is a mantra: “Pizza is fun, and there’s no judgement. At the end of the day, it’s just dinner and it’s simple ingredients, so we just try to put forth quality food … that is really delicious and meant to be shared with a group of friends.”
And that is the kind of thing we can all appreciate, no matter where we’re coming from.
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Johns Island, South Carolina Personal Injury Lawyers
Sam Clawson, Jr.
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Attorney with 12 years experience
(843) 970-2700 474 King Street
Personal Injury and Maritime
University of South Carolina School of Law
A native of Charleston, Sam graduated from Porter Gaud School and matriculated to the University of South Carolina, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, as a history major and political science minor. He remained at the University of South Carolina for law school, where he received the CALI award for academic excellence in Products Liability and obtained a Juris Doctorate. Sam moved to New York City following law school to continue his education at New York Maritime College, where he graduated with honors with a Master of Science in International Transportation Management and Merchant Marine deck officer’s license.
Sam...
Christy Fargnoli
(843) 970-2700 474 King Street, Suite D
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury
Charleston School of Law
Clawson Fargnoli, LLC is a litigation firm that focuses on handling serious personal injury matters, wrongful death, premises liability, medical malpractice, dram shop (liquor liability), insurance bad faith, nursing home abuse, Title IX litigation, wrongful arrest, defamation, and maritime (boating accidents).
W. Trey Merck
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 21 years experience
(843) 708-7191 2090 Executive Hall Road
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Social Security Disability
University of South Carolina - Columbia
I am from South Carolina, and I have always lived in this state. I have practiced in the 3 main areas of the state (upstate, midlands, and now in the low country).
Michael DeTreville
(843) 571-0537 306 Gamecock Ave
Personal Injury, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Family
DeTreville Law & Mediation is a Charleston, SC law firm focused on the litigation and resolution of Family Court matters, including separation and divorce; child custody, visitation, and support; equitable division of marital property; and alimony. We also practice in the fields of criminal defense, DUI defense, and assist those who have been seriously injured by the negligence of others. Please call us, email us, or visit our website if we can provide you with assistance in resolving any of your legal matters.
Robert William "Trey" Harrell
Charleton, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 7 years experience
(843) 608-0605 2000 Sam Rittenberg Blvd
Charleton, SC 29407
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Prior to forming the Law Office of Robert W. Harrell, III L.L.C., Trey Harrell was an associate at a prominent law firm, where his practiced focused on Criminal Defense and Personal Injury. Additionally, Trey has courtroom experience as an assistant solicitor for the First Judicial Circuit and a former Law Clerk to the Honorable JC Nicholson, Jr.
Evan Guthrie
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 9 years experience
(843) 926-3813 164 Market Street Suite 362
Personal Injury, Animal, Estate Planning and Medical Malpractice
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Patrick Aulton Chisum
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Attorney with 7 years experience
(843) 577-0027 67 Moultrie
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Patrick Aulton Chisum is a junior partner who handles many different kinds of cases including personal injury, criminal defense, magistrate & probate court matters. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2007 and the Charleston School of Law in 2012. During law school, Patrick worked for the Georgetown County Public Defenders office, SCDHEC Ocean Coastal Resource Management and was a volunteer Guardian ad Litem. Prior to law school, he worked as an Estate Clerk for the Honorable Judge Amy McCulloch in the Richland County Probate Court. Patrick has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine...
(843) 547-0240 562 Savannah Highway
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice and Products Liability
With Board Certifications in Medical Malpractice, Civil Trial and Civil Pre-Trial Advocacy, Attorney Justin S. Khan is expertly qualified to counsel his clients. He brings more than two decades of legal experience to his clients’ cases and has a proven track record of success. Attorney Kahn is dedicated to representing injury victims, and will readily take on insurance companies, hospitals, and government agencies on behalf of his clients. As a South Carolina Supreme Court Certified Mediator, he is able to find skillful resolutions to even the most complex cases. Contact his firm at (843) 547-0240 to book a case evaluation.
Taylor Anderson
(843) 277-1176 507 Savannah Hwy
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Construction and Nursing Home
University System of Georgia - University of Georgia
Taylor is an experienced South Carolina and Georgia Attorney. He is dedicated to providing personalized and passionate legal advocacy for his clients. His practice areas include Personal Injury, Automobile Accidents, Construction Defects, Termite Damage Cases, Boating Accidents, and Business Disputes. Taylor has litigated a vast array of cases such as personal injury, construction defects, termite damage, business disputes, class actions, maritime accidents, insurance coverage, and nursing home neglect. Taylor does not shy away from a challenge. He is committed to providing aggressive and skilled legal representation, and fighting for the best possible outcomes.
In 2000, Taylor earned his B.A. magna...
Joshua P. Cantwell
(843) 801-4104 63 Broad Street
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Insurance Claims and Products Liability
Jerry Andrew Meehan Jr.
(843) 376-4030 50 Folly Road
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Consumer, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
David P Traywick
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Lawyer
(843) 343-5092 38 Romney Street Suite 104
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Workers' Comp
Attorney David P. Traywick is a Charleston personal injury and consumer law attorney. Mr. Traywick has a background in finance and marketing, which affords him a unique perspective on the cases he handles. With a focus on the big picture, he utilizes a strategic approach to his cases in pursuit of optimal results. Mr. Traywick earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina. While in school, he did extensive research and reporting on the South Carolina Coastal Zone Management Act. The paper he wrote on this topic during this time has proven invaluable to instructing and guiding...
Stefan B Feidler
(843) 614-8888 32 Ann Street, Unit B
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Products Liability
William C Crantford
(843) 376-4030 50 Folly Road Blvd.
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Michele Patrao Forsythe
(843) 795-9500 147 Wappoo Creek Dr
Personal Injury, Business, Criminal Defense and Family
Gary Heisterkamp
Apt. 3202
Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Attorney Gary Heisterkamp received his both his A.A. and B.S. degrees in Criminal Justice from Clayton State University in 1994 and 2010, respectively. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Gary relocated to South Carolina to complete his Juris Doctorate from the Charleston School of Law, where he graduated in 2014 with honors. While in law school, Attorney Heisterkamp was an active member of the Student Bar Association, where he served as senator and President Pro Tempore, and also maintained membership in international legal society Phi Delta Phi. Additionally, Gary has worked as an Academic Success Fellow and a Teaching Fellow. He has...
Richard Neal Buchanan
(843) 852-5255 1664-C Old Towne Road
Trip Riesen
North Charleston, SC Personal Injury Lawyer
(843) 760-2450 3660 West Montague Ave
www.RiesenLaw.com
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Insurance Claims and Nursing Home
Trip was born and raised in Charleston, SC. He graduated from the College of Charleston (B.A., 1992) and from Golden Gate University School of Law in California (J.D., 1999). In 1998, Trip was selected into the Honors Program with the Department of Justice as a third year law student where he worked for the U.S. Attorneyâs Office in San Francisco and had the unique opportunity to prosecute cases in the drugs, guns and explosives unit. After graduation and upon passing the California Bar, Trip worked in the legal department of Siebel Systems, Inc. in Silicon Valley where he negotiated and managed...
North Charleston, SC Personal Injury Attorney
(843) 300-1047 2130 Dorchester Road
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Family and Landlord Tenant
Cameron Lee Marshall
(800) 245-3712 7 Gamecock Ave.
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense and Medical Malpractice
Dennis Robert Toney
1 Carriage Ln
Personal Injury, Bankruptcy and Workers' Comp
Eliza H. Cantwell
Charleston, SC Personal Injury Attorney
Personal Injury, Elder and Nursing Home
George Sink
North Charleston, SC Personal Injury Attorney with 46 years experience
(843) 628-0100 7011 Rivers Ave
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury and Workers' Comp
I am attorney George Sink, South Carolina Injury Lawyer, and a former Marine Corps Captain who served two tours in Viet Nam. Born and raised in Detroit, I taught school in downtown Detroit in 1965 and 1966 prior to leaving my draft exempt job and volunteering for service in the Marine Corps. After Viet Nam, I returned to school and received my MBA and Masters Degree in History. I moved South when all the Southern friends I made in the service promised me that everyone was as friendly as they were, and it did not snow. In Atlanta I...
Michael Charles Sahn
(843) 856-2222 225 Seven Farms Drive
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Sahn Law Firm, located in Charleston, South Carolina, provides clients with aggressive and skilled representation in some of the most difficult legal situations they will face. From serious criminal charges to life-altering personal injury cases that have turned your world upside down, Sahn Law Firm vigilantly represents your interests from the start to finish of your case. We work diligently to achieve the best possible results for our clients.
Catherine D. Meehan
(843) 720-2800 61 Broad St
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Social Security Disability
Catherine Dunn is the newest associate to join The Steinberg Law Firm. Born in Chevy Chase, MD, Catie enjoys living in Charleston. Dunn graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Charleston School of Law in May of 2013. Dunn received her B.A. in Psychology from Notre Dame, she then headed to the Medical University of South Carolina to earn a B.S. in nursing. Dunn worked as a pediatric nurse for three years at MUSC before pursuing a degree in law. Upon completing two internship/clerkship appointments, Catie knew she wanted her legal career to focus on helping people, not corporations. Her...
Ryan D Templeton
Summerville, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 5 years experience
(843) 285-5090 133 E. 1st North St.
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
Ryan Templeton helps people that have been charged with crimes, people going through a divorce or child custody case, and people that have been injured.
He can help you navigate the legal minefield that you have found yourself in to get you the best possible result in your case. You will receive quality representation when you need it the most, in the areas of Family Law, Criminal Defense, and Personal Injury.
Ryan Templeton graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law, and began his legal career as a Law Clerk to Circuit Court Judge Diane S. Goodstein. Upon...
Steven E. Goldberg
Charleston , SC Personal Injury Attorney with 27 years experience
Charleston , SC 29401
Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Medical Malpractice and Workers' Comp
Steven E. Goldberg joined the Steinberg Law Firm in 1993, following his father into a career of law. Steven explains, “Growing up, I was impressed to see my father working hard and the clients being truly thankful for that hard work.” Steven earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
While practicing law for over 25 years, Steven has represented clients with on the job injuries and automobile wrecks. He has had successful trial appearances as well as settlements totaling over several million dollars. Over the past...
Richard Wern
(843) 553-0007 2185 Ashley Phosphate Road?
Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Products Liability
In the aftermath of a serious personal injury, many find that they are dealing with more than just physical pain. With mounting medical bills, lost wages and stresses associated with insurance, one’s quality of life can be diminished greatly. Perhaps even more devastating is when an injury is due to another’s negligence or wrongdoing.
For 35+ years, the team at Wern Lawyers in North Charleston has dedicated their professional lives to representing personal injury victims throughout the Lowcountry and the coast of South Carolina. With aggressive advocacy for those experiencing a life-altering injury, we work to make things right again.
For peace...
Frederick Elliotte Quinn
Summerville, SC Personal Injury Attorney with 8 years experience
(843) 871-6522 103 Grandview Drive
Suite A.
Personal Injury, Construction, Insurance Claims and Products Liability
Elliotte is from Charleston and graduated with honors from the College of Charleston. He received his law degree with high honors from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. While at Emory, he was on the Emory Law Journal and served as its Executive Articles Editor. He received several honors and awards while at Emory including the Pro Bono Medal for his work providing legal services to those in need, the Order of the Coif, the Paul Bryan Prize, and the International Association of Defense Counsel’s legal writing prize.
Following law school, Elliotte served as a law clerk for...
Charles Alan Kennington
Alan Kennington is an essential member of the George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers team, where he manages the day to day operations at the firm. With nearly 20 years of experience helping injured victims and families, Alan is an asset to the firm’s personal injury clients, including those harmed in car wrecks, by defective products, and in other preventable accidents. He is committed to helping all injured victims and their loved ones secure the compensation they deserve - and he draws from this passion when working with both the firm’s attorneys and clients. Alan was the first in his family...
(843) 720-2800 61 Broad St.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, Medical Malpractice and Workers' Comp
Florida Coastal School of Law
Michael J. Jordan joined the Steinberg Law Firm in 2006. Michael grew up in Columbia then attended college at the University of South Carolina where he earned his B.A. Degree. He received his law degree from the Florida Coastal School of Law. Immediately after graduating from law school, Michael joined The Steinberg Law Firm.
Michael was drawn to the Steinberg Law Firm because of its long history, dedication to helping injured workers and strong reputation in personal injury trials. He especially recognized the importance of the firm’s reputation for delivering proven results for the injured people of South Carolina.
For three...
Kevin Holmes
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Kevin Holmes earned a bachelor’s degree from American University in Washington, DC and a law degree from Rutgers University School of Law. He joined The Steinberg Law Firm in 1979. Holmes has over 35 years of civil and criminal trial experience at The Steinberg Law Firm. Holmes also handles disability and Social Security cases and has extensive experience in appellate law experience. He has won numerous significant Supreme Court cases expanding and defending the rights of injured workers. Holmes has been a partner at The Steinberg Law Firm since 1985, and has served several terms on the Board of Governors...
James C. Sproat Esq.
Mt Pleasant, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 8 years experience
(888) 429-5529 884 Johnnie Dodds Blvd
Mt Pleasant, SC 29464
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Mr. Sproat received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of South Carolina in 2008 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2011. While at the University of Cincinnati, Mr. Sproat served as both the Student Bar Association president and the Managing editor of the Immigration and Nationality Law Review. He was admitted to practice law in South Carolina in 2011, after working with both the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the South Carolina Court of Appeals during school.
Malcolm Crosland
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
Malcolm Crosland grew up in Charleston in a family of attorneys. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1987 and immediately joined the Steinberg Law Firm. Malcolm was drawn to the firm’s reputation for representing working people and championing causes to promote fairness and equality for injured people and their families. His office is in our downtown location, but Malcolm travels throughout the state to meet with clients and help them fight for their rights. Three times named to Best Lawyers in America and a 2011 SuperLawyer, Malcolm holds an A/V (the highest...
Charlie Condon
Mt Pleasant, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 42 years experience
(843) 884-8146 880 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. Suite 1
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Charlie Condon, a top rated attorney, is a former Attorney General of South Carolina and a former Ninth Circuit Solicitor (District Attorney) for Charleston and Berkeley Counties. He is a top rated attorney in Martindale Hubbell (AV Rating) and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Charlie is a sole practitioner so you can rest assured that your case will be handled by him and will receive his individual attention. Client satisfaction is the number one goal.
David Pearlman
Charleston , SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 44 years experience
University of South Carolina School of Law and The George Washington University Law School
Born and having lived in Charleston all his life, David Pearlman has spent his entire life observing the dignity and respect of the law. David’s father, the Honorable Gus H. Pearlman, was Probate Judge for Charleston County for 35 years. “He taught me that everybody deserves respect, dignity, and equal justice no matter their background.” David Pearlman has spent his entire career trying to ensure that “justice for all” means just that.
While in college at University of Georgia and George Washington University, David marched for civil and workers’ rights. After obtaining his law degree from the University Of South Carolina...
Dale Martin Savage
Mt. Pleasant, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 13 years experience
(843) 530-7813 260 W. Coleman Blvd.
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
My practice focusses on Criminal Defense and Civil Litigation. I am a trial lawyer that has taken both major and minor cases to trial. I handle criminal cases in both state and federal court, DUI defense, drug and gun crimes, Divorce and Personal Injury cases.
Patrick Scarlett
(888) 612-7001 7011 Rivers Avenue
Attorney Patrick Scarlett’s passion for people has been the center of his dedication for practicing law. Through his life, he has encountered people from many walks of life. As a result, Scarlett saw it as his personal mission to represent and stand beside those who might need a helping hand. This is what led Scarlett to becoming a personal injury lawyer at George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers. Scarlett makes it his responsibility to teach every client every aspect regarding their individual case, as well as explain the legal process that is involved. By doing this, Scarlett does everything in his...
Angela Jones Johnson
With over 15 years of experience in the areas of workers’ compensation and personal injury cases, Attorney Angela Johnson has become a great contribution to George Sink, PA Injury Lawyers. After passing the South Carolina Bar Exam, Johnson worked as an Assistant Public Defender, joining a larger personal injury firm in 2000 and transitioning to George Sink, P.A. Injury Lawyers not too long after. Since transitioning into the firm, Johnson has familiarized herself with a broader range of personal injury cases so that she can be a part of helping clients through their hardships, representing each one until she sees...
Sheila Mims
Summerville, SC Personal Injury Lawyer with 21 years experience
Free ConsultationPersonal Injury, Criminal Defense and Family
Sheila Mims graduated from the Gonzaga University School of Law in 1998, and since has pursued her passion representing individuals and their needs in the courtroom. She has been a trial attorney for over 20 years both prosecuting and defending clients in circuit and magistrate court. She began her practice in the Richland County Public Defenders office representing clients in all criminal matters. She has also served as an Assistant Solicitor in both Richland and Dorchester Counties before entering private practice. Sheila is bringing her extensive experience to Templeton Mims & Ward where she will be practicing in the...
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Ten Overlooked R.E.M. Songs
I’ve spent the past day trying to figure out how to pay tribute to R.E.M., who all things considered are probably my all-time favorite band. So I decided to create a list of “Ten Overlooked Songs”. They’re not necessarily my favorite R.E.M. songs, but these songs add a lot to the myth of the band and deserve another look.
“Lightnin’ Hopkins” – Document, 1987
Document is the first album where R.E.M. decided that they actually wanted to “rock” and this song might be the rockiest of them all. Bill Berry pounds the drums into submission, Peter Buck trades in his signature ringing style for some fiery licks, and Michael Stipe gives one of his fiercest vocals as he shouts out “Lightning one! Lightning One!” The closest thing the song has to a chorus is an eerie chanting of the word “crow”.
“Letter Never Sent” Reckoning, 1984
Another R.E.M. song that doesn’t contain a proper chorus – just Michael Stipe singing “oooh” repeatedly in its place. A great version of this song can be found on the 2008 live album Live at the Olympia. “You love my clothes?” Stipe asks an audience member mishearing her adoration for the “oooohs”. “That was just go “oooh and ahh” and let Mike and Bill do their thing,” Stipe explains after the mishap.
“I Remember California” Green, 1989
I used to hate this song as a kid. It seemed to go on forever and never do anything. I came around to this song several years ago in part because of Peter Buck’s ringing guitar that floats it way out of the song. It’s the same riff played over and over again – and it perfectly suits the melancholy and nostalgic view of the song. “I Remember California” is one of those songs that conjures up the ending of an era, whether it’s summer turning into fall or moving to a new destination and looking back.
“Texarkana” Out of Time, 1991
Mike Mills has always been one of rock’s most under-appecriated bassists, and on “Texarkana” he completely dominates the song, taking over lead vocals and also showing his impressive bass breaks though out. “I would give my life to find it, I would give it all,” He declares. “Catch me if I fall.” “Texarkana” was always a song that I should have been one of the singles off of Out of Time.
“Ages of You” – Dead Letter Office, 1987
“Ages of You” off of the b-sides collection of Dead Letter Office takes the murky sounds of Murmur and gives it a Reckoning-style punch. Even though this song never appeared on any proper albums, it’s got all the hallmarks of a classic R.E.M. song – Stipe’s indecipherable lyrics, Buck’s guitar lines chiming after each line Stipe delivers, and of course the tight-knit rhythm section of Berry and Mills.
“Just a Touch” Lifes Rich Pagaent, 1986
“Just a Touch” is one of R.E.M.’s most infectious songs. R.E.M. are many things, but the word “fun” hardly ever comes to mind when you think about them. The song had been around since Murmur before the band finally recorded it for Pageant. The version found there is pure glee. The band sounds like they’re having a blast as they tear through this rocker. Stipe lets out a rare and unexpected “wooooo!” in the middle of the song. The song ends with Stipe’s tribute to his hero Patti Smith as he yells out her immortal line: “I’m so goddamn young”.
“The Aiportman” Up, 1998
I really wanted to like Up when it came out in 1998. Whatever grievances I had about the album, I found it hard to forgive this noise of a song. Where was Michael Stipe? There were no guitars. The song seemed to be the very antithesis of everything R.E.M. sounded and stood for. I’ve since come around and think it’s a very bold move for the band to start out their first post-Berry album with this song. I’d also like to point out that in retrospect, it seems very likely that Radiohead probably spent hours listening to this song when making Kid A.
“West of the Fields” Murmur, 1983
“West of the Fields” is the probably closest track on Murmur to jump out of the murk in an attempts to gain some energy. Like many early R.E.M. songs, “West of the Fields” makes use of Mill’s “lead bass”. The vocal interplay between Stipe and Mills is fantastic, and hints at the heights these two would reach over the years. A scorching live version can be found on the iTunes Live from London EP.
“Wendell Gee” Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985
Fables of the Reconstrucion was R.E.M.’s attempt at digging up the ghosts of the American South. Ironically, it was recorded in England. The poignant ballad “Wendell Gee” closes out the album. It’s almost a lullaby. Stipe notes that “there wasn’t even time to say goodbye to Wendell Gee”. Even though the song might have been inspired by the death of an old man, the song now feels like a good bye to the band itself.
“It Happened Today” Collapse Into Now, 2011
Collapse Into Now is a pretty decent album, but this song is the definite highlight of the album. For such a catchy song, it is damn weird. There’s no chorus and the entire last two minutes of the song consist of wordless harmonies. If there were ever a song that showed how well Stipe and Mills sing together, I’d put this one on the top of the list. Eddie Vedder also appears in the background as well, providing a deep compliment to the higher register of the other two.
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In Defense of R.E.M.’s “Monster”
As I mentioned yesterday, Popmatters wrote a piece on “10 Albums That Supposedly Suck But Don’t”. I was surprised to see that R.E.M.’s Monster made it to number two on that list. I had no idea that the album was considered to be that bad. That being said, the loud and noisy Monster probably came as a shock to fans who discovered the band a few years earlier with their acoustic-based Out of Time and Automatic for the People.
A bit of history and perspective, then. R.E.M. had spent most of the 1980s building up an impressive body of work – the run of albums from Murmur to Document is among the best in rock and roll. They came along at time when rock and roll seemed stagnant, and all but invented alternative rock on the college radio circuit. Peter Buck’s ringing guitar chords sounded were influenced by The Byrds, but Michael Stipe’s vocal delivery and lyrics were refreshing as they were confusing. They were more fragments than a cohesive thought. On the first few albums, his vocals were virtually impossible to understand. Every single album from the 80s sounded completely different. Their debut, Murmur was murky and understated. 1985’s Fables of the Reconstruction was an exploration of the myths of the old South. Document turned up the volume a bit but still retained their core qualities. 1998’s Green was their version of Led Zeppelin III – rockers counter-balanced by acoustic ballads.
With Out of Time and Automatic for the People, R.E.M. achieved global super-star status, but no one could accuse them on selling out. In the hey-day of grunge, the band went the exact opposite route – soft and introspective. The band was proving that you could achieve a high level of success, while still maintaing critical acclaim. So it seems inevitable, that Monster would receive a back-lash. Though I have to ask because I was 13 at the time of its release, what is so poorly received then?
Certainly, Monster is the strangest of all the R.E.M. albums cut with original drummer Bill Berry. Its full of distortion, feedback, cackles and hisses, echoed vocals, and Prince-style falsettos. It’s also the first album where Michael Stipe focuses on sex, a subject he seemed to avoid for a long time. Monster is the band’s attempt to try something different after delivering two subdued albums in a row.
The main problem with this is that even though R.E.M. could occasionally rock, they’re not rockers. They’re a bit of our of their element and songs such as the noise-laden “Circus Envy” and the electronic-vocal enhanced “King of Comedy” have not aged well. Michael Stipe’s falsetto on “Tongue” while laughable upon release, sounds embarrassing now. When Stipe name-checks Iggy Pop on “I Took Your Name” it sounds hollow.
Yet, the album has plenty of merits. (Unfortunately, the awful cover isn’t one of them.) “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?”, perhaps the album’s best known song – shows they could match rock with melody. Peter Buck offers one of his best riffs, pushing the song along with a menace and crunch. Mike Mills and Michael Stipe give a fantastic vocal interplay, which has always been one of R.E.M’s secret weapons. Elsewhere, “Bang an Blame” has a unique echo guitar riff which blasts out of the speaker only to fade into the background before coming back again. The highlight of the album is the guitar-only fury of “Let Me In”, an ode to Stipe’s friend Kurt Cobain. It’s one of the best R.E.M. ballads only with the amps turned up to 12.
Some of the criticism of Monster might be just. I’m not so sure the sell-out label applies, especially if you listen to the album as a whole. While not as brutal as Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy (which came out the same year) Monster may seem like it was written as an attempt to get rid of the some of the casual fans. Although if this is the case, it’s odd considering that they launched a massive world tour to promote the album.
Still, Monster is not an unlistenable album and in the history of R.E.M. its not one of their worst detours into weirdness.
Tagged as Fables of the Reconstruction, Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppelin III, Lifes Rich Pageant, michaelstipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M.
Preview of R.E.M.’s “Collapse Into Now”
I’m getting pretty excited about R.E.M.’s upcoming album Collapse Into Now. 2008’s Accelerate was a return to form, after about 10 years of three abysmal albums (1998’s Up, 2001’s Reveal, and 2004’s virtually unlistenable Around The Sun). While I loved Accelerate when it came out, its break-neck speed which was refreshing at the time has proved to be its achilles heel. R.E.M. is at their best when their songs are moody and reflective even in their rockers. Accelerate in its urgency left little room for the listener to enter into the songs.
But the songs off of Collapse Into Now that have been leaked or officially find R.E.M. entering a territory both familiar and new. “It Happened Today” sounds like something off of Out Of Time – except better than almost all of the songs combined with the exception of “Losing My Religion”. Peter Buck’s ringing guitar chords sing through while Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, and guest vocalist Eddie Vedder spend almost two minutes in a wordless harmonizing chant that never ceases to be boring. “Mine Smell Like Honey” sounds like an Accelerate out-take, with its blasting guitars. Yet it’s more accessible in its melody, and a reminder than the interchange between Mike Mills and Michael Stipe is a force to be reckoned with. The psychedelic “Discoverer” might be the weakest of the three tracks I’ve heard, but it’s still very good. Stipe’s chant of “Discoverer!” in the chorus might of course be a live-highlight.
If these three tracks are any indication, Collapse Into Now might be a latter-day R.E.M. classic, as opposed to just a very good R.E.M. album like Accelerate.
“It Happened Today”
Tagged as Accelerate (R.E.M. album), Around The Sun, Corona (satellite), Eddie Vedder, michaelstipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck, R.E.M., r.e.m. collapse into now
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Russell County is considered “The Heart of Southwest Virginia,” positioned between Virginia’s coal-producing counties and the dynamic Tri-Cities region, which includes the twin cities of Bristol, VA/TN, and Kingsport and Johnson City, both in Northeast Tennessee.
The county is just a 45-minute drive from Tri-Cities Regional Airport (Blountville, Tenn.); 150 miles west of Roanoke and 290 miles west of Richmond, the state capital. U.S. Routes 19 and 58 are four-lane highways that provide easy access to Interstates 81 and 77. Norfolk Southern and CSX offer rail transportation to the county.
Geared for business growth, the area is known for delivering skilled workers and aptly negotiating business-friendly incentives for companies. Businesses considering coming to Russell County may be eligible for assistance from the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority and/or Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.
The county also has an excellent fiber-optic broadband infrastructure that has redundancy through BVU Authority and Verizon. The county also has redundant electricity through Appalachian Power.
The Southwest Virginia Technology Development Center (in Lebanon) provides opportunities for employee training, and a new governmental center offers more than 8,000 square feet of space for training, meetings and social events.
Nature enthusiasts will particularly enjoy visiting or living in Russell County. Going eastward, there’s the Clinch Mountain Wildlife Area, which provides ample opportunities for hunting and trout fishing. There’s also the 90-acre Pinnacle Natural Area, which offers picnicking, a suspension footbridge over Big Cedar Creek, and four miles of hiking trails. Fishing is allowed within the preserve along Big Cedar Creek and the Clinch River.
Seasonal cultural activities include the Russell County Fair and Horse Show, Honaker Redbud Festival and Fall Festival at Southwest Virginia Community College. Within a short drive, there’s also the world-famous Barter Theatre (Abingdon, Va.) and Bristol Motor Speedway (Bristol, Tenn.).
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