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Effie Case Study: McDonald's & Coca-Cola
By Institute staff - 06/01/2017
Program: McDonald's & Coca-Cola
Manufacturer: Coca-Cola Co.
Lead Agency: Leo Burnett/Arc
Award: Single-Retailer Program: Mass Merchants (Bronze)
Most foodservice shopper marketing campaigns focus on the in-store or in-restaurant experience, but Coca-Cola brought some attention to the drive-thru experience with its “Sip, Share and Win” promotion that aimed to get more Coca-Cola soft drinks into the hands of consumers on the go during a pivotal summer time period.
More than three-fourths of McDonald’s business is done at the drive-thru, and the summer months tend to carry that load with consumers taking vacations, going to the beach or spending more time in their cars on the move. McDonald’s had been experiencing a negative growth in soft drink sales, so “Sip, Share and Win” changed the drive-thru into a shareable and fun experience to increase sales.
Coca-Cola fed off the immensely popular “Carpool Karaoke” segment on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.” (A segment with Adele has more than 155 million views on YouTube, for example.) The program asked consumers to order a Coke in the drive-thru and then share a selfie or video performing with a microphone-printed McDonald’s cup. Consumers could win a chance for a VIP experience at “The Late Late Show.”
As part of the effort, singer and actress Selena Gomez appeared on a sponsored segment during which she and James Corden went through a McDonald’s drive-thru, engaging with the cups and the drive-thru experience. The video has more than 60 million views on YouTube, exceeding a goal of 25 million. In addition, the campaign rolled out a YouTube pre-roll spot highlighting the segment on the show and how consumers can win an experience. Social influencers were tapped to share excitement digitally and drum up entries.
In McDonald’s restaurants, P-O-P celebrated the contest and worked alongside the special cups. In addition to the printed microphone, the cups had song lyrics from one of 10 songs that were in the “Share a Coke and a Song” program. A Coca-Cola microsite housed the Gomez video as well as consumer-submitted photos and videos. Additionally, local radio, digital and social ads ran during the length of the six-week program.
McDonald’s saw an increase in soft drink sales as the program drove sales beyond the trend of flat growth. The YouTube pre-roll video had more than 3 million views, and there were more than 30,000 social mentions of the program and 708 million media impressions. The sweepstakes saw more than 25,000 entries (the goal was 13,000).
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People to Watch 2019: Matt Johnson
By Erika Flynn - 09/01/2019
Company: Duracell
Title: North America Supply Chain Planning Manager
Education: The George Washington University (bachelor’s, finance and international business)
Matt Johnson has always been a numbers guy. He went to high school at the American School of Paris because his dad was an executive at Carrefour at the time, but he came back to the U.S. for college and earned a degree in finance and international business. “My lifelong interest in numbers ties in well with general business understanding, being able to understand a P&L and the benefit of an initiative in terms of its ROI,” he says, “all the good things that come with a financial background. There’s something about having a passion with understanding and using numbers to make a case or a point.”
Johnson started his career in demand planning at Sears Holdings, then took a role in merchandising and buying to understand another side of the business. “That was a little bit more of the art side of the business versus the science side,” he says. Next came work in inventory before he took on two positions in strategy and operations, which is where he says he gained a deeper understanding of how the retailer could improve its working capital position while improving the final mile of delivery to its customers.
“I was getting a much more end-customer focus to what I was doing, which then led me to a broader strategy position.” In his last year at Sears, he had the opportunity to develop a strategic initiative for all home appliances, which tied into great opportunities to meet with senior leadership and present on new initiatives, whether how to leverage targeted interactions with customers, new store openings or other changes.
As the North America supply chain planning manager for Duracell, Johnson’s responsibilities include all central planning for North America. “Our central demand planning team works closely with commercial teams on their SKU sales forecast,” he says. “We teach and train the demand planners on how to develop solid forecasts to help justify them.” From there, the team develops production forecasts and works both internally and with third-party packaging providers to deliver the product on time to meet customer needs while balancing its working capital position.
Johnson’s father, Bruce, has served as a mentor in life and work. Dad taught him to always strive to progress, to never compromise his beliefs or morals in a decision and to understand that nothing would be handed to him throughout his career. Jackson Jones, who brought Johnson to Duracell without a direct CPG background, has also been influential on Johnson’s career. “I quickly gained the understanding of Duracell and the CPG background,” he says. “Without him, I really wouldn’t be where I am today.” Under his direction, Johnson put together a team that now serves as the company’s planning organization.
“I have a team of 15, so we’ve increased our ability to leverage analytics and our overall ability and scope to meet our commercial teams’ needs,” he says. “It’s the development of that team that I’m most proud of in terms of recent wins at Duracell.”
That team was instrumental in the release of Optimum, the company’s largest innovation in decades, he says, offering AA and AAA alkaline batteries with better performance and longer life.
From where he sits, Johnson says one of his team’s biggest challenges is the never-ending balance of protecting customer service and managing the inventory position and working capital. “There’s always that pressure,” he says. “It’s important to manage inventory closely because that helps bring to light different supply chain inefficiencies that, if you are able to solve, will make you stronger in the long run – not only from improved working capital but also in different ways to ensure you’re servicing the customer in the correct way,” he says, adding that speed to market – or to the end consumer – is another.
“We have to balance the financial implications along with the need to remain competitive in an increasingly competitive landscape,” he notes.
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CIO of the Year 2019: Sandeep Dadlani, Mars Incorporated
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People to Watch 2019: Sarah Morphis
CMO of the Year 2019: Amit Shah, 1-800-Flowers.com
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JUSTICE | SOCIAL JUSTICE
Court: Death-row inmate should get new chance to show lawyer failed him
By Kailey Broussard, Cronkite News | Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019
An Arizona death-row inmate convicted of a 1989 double murder should get another chance to show that his attorney – who had never handled a capital case before – did not adequately represent him at trial, a federal appeals court said. (Photo by Tim Evanson/Creative Commons)
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that an Arizona death-row inmate should have another chance to prove his attorney did not fully investigate evidence of his intellectual disabilities in his trial for a 1989 Phoenix double-murder.
A three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there is a “reasonable probability” that David Ramirez’s sentencing would have been different if his attorney at the time had presented evidence of the defendant’s low IQ and a history of abuse, sexual assault, neglect and developmental issues.
“The (sentencing) judge did find several mitigating factors, and only three aggravating factors,” Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote in his opinion. “Had the evidence of a mental impairment been introduced, as well as the evidence of the level of abuse Ramirez suffered, there is a substantial claim that the judge ‘would have struck a different balance.'”
The U.S. Attorney’s office for Arizona did not respond to request for comment on the case Wednesday. But Tim Gabrielsen, an assistant federal public defender for Arizona, said that while he welcomed the decision, “it’s regrettable that it took this long” to reach this point.
Ramirez has spent nearly 30 years on death row for the stabbing deaths of his girlfriend, Mary Gortarez, and her 15-year-old daughter, Candie, in Gortarez’s Phoenix apartment on May 25, 1989.
Advocates: High court's ruling in Arizona death-row case could affect 19 others
Police were called to the apartment that morning by neighbors who reported hearing thuds and sounds of struggle for around half an hour. When they arrived, police found what appeared to be the scene of a violent struggle with Ramirez “apparently intoxicated” and covered in blood, which was splattered throughout the apartment.
Gortarez was found on the living room floor, stabbed 18 times in the neck, back, stomach and left eye. Candie’s naked body was found in a bedroom, stabbed 15 times around her neck. Neither victim died immediately and records say Ramirez sexually assaulted Candie before she died.
A jury convicted Ramirez guilty on two counts of first-degree murder in December 1990.
At sentencing, Ramirez presented a sentencing report that talked about his chaotic childhood, a history of sexual and substance abuse, a poor school record and the fact that his state of mind was muddled at time of the murders by drugs and alcohol. Three family members testified to varying levels of maternal support for Ramirez, and two prison guards said he was a good worker in prison.
The sentencing judge agreed there were several mitigating factors for Ramirez, but also found three aggravating factors: two previous felony convictions, multiple murders and the “especially cruel, heinous or depraved manner” of the killings. He sentenced Ramirez to death.
In his most recent appeals, however, Ramirez has argued that the public defender who represented him at trial – who had never handled a capital case before – failed to investigate and present evidence that would have weighed in his favor.
The attorney agreed, saying in later court filings that she was unprepared to represent “someone as mentally disturbed as David Ramirez, especially in a capital case.” She relied on the psychologist’s finding that Ramirez was “well within the average range of intelligence.”
But they psychologist said he would not have reached the findings he did if the attorney had presented him with fuller records on Ramirez’s background. Those would have led to different tests that showed Ramirez with an IQ in the 70 to 77 range.
David Ramirez has been on Arizona’s death for almost 30 years for the 1989 stabbing deaths of Mary Gortarez and her daughter, Candie, 15, in their Phoenix apartment. (Photo courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections)
The appeals court said the evidence presented at Ramirez’s sentencing painted a “relatively innocuous” picture compared to what later emerged.
Family members who were subsequently contacted said Ramirez had little relationship with his mother, who routinely beat him with “anything she could get her hands on, including electrical cords and shoes.” She reportedly drank while pregnant with Ramirez and told family members she would put beer in Ramirez’s bottle when he was young.
He was often left in charge of younger siblings, one of whom died of exposure after their mother left them at home without heat one night while she went out partying. Family members noted developmental delays in the young Ramirez, who did not know how to comb his hair or use utensils, for example.
The appeals court ordered the case back to district court to more fully investigate Ramirez’s claim of an ineffective attorney. It turned down his other appeals, including a claim that courts improperly rejected his mitigating circumstances, and refused to grant permission for other issues.
In a partial dissent, however, Judge Marsha Berzon wrote that Ramirez should be allowed to pursue his claim that he should not receive the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled.
Gabrielsen agreed, saying Berzon’s dissent could be the basis of a future appeal.
“I think she hit it right on the head,” he said. “I think she was absolutely on the money.”
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'I know who I am': Seattle's urban Natives tell the story of the city's first Indigenous landmark
On Oct. 16, Seattle approved Duwamish sacred site Licton Springs as an official landmark. Advocates reflect on what that recognition means to their community.
Manola Secaira
From left, Snoqualmie Chief Andy de los Angeles, Lakota activist Matt Remle, Snoqualmie Tribe communications assistant Sabeqwa de los Angeles and Duwamish elder Tom Speer are all key players in helping get Licton Springs in Seattle recognized as a Native landmark. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
On the surface, Seattle seems rooted in its Native past. Its very name is derived from Chief Sealth, a Duwamish and Suquamish leader memorialized in high school names and bronze statues. But when it comes to officially commemorating and preserving the actual places sacred to past and present Native peoples, the city’s follow-through breaks down — especially when it comes to landmarks.
Seattle’s approach to designating landmarks follows a national pattern of communities of color often being vastly underrepresented. According to a 2016 Beyond Integrity report, 72% of the landmark nominations and designations in Seattle contain no mention of cultural significance to underrepresented communities. There are currently no Native landmarks in Seattle, and in the past potential sites with cultural significance to communities of color have struggled to get approved (as was the case for Liberty Bank, whose website notes that it was the first black-owned bank in the Pacific Northwest "founded as a community response to redlining and disinvestment in Central Seattle,” which failed to gain approval and now is an affordable housing site).
But on Oct. 16, the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board approved what will soon become the city’s first Native addition: Licton Springs, the site of a spring historically used for medicinal and cultural purposes by the Duwamish, located within its namesake park in North Seattle.
Before settlers arrived, what would become Seattle’s north end was a marshland. Dozens of springs spouting mineral water welled up throughout. The iron oxide spring located in Licton Springs was one. David Denny arrived at the Duwamish River in 1851, purchasing land in 1870 that included the spring. Development paved over many of the springs as time passed, but Licton Springs, also known by its Duwamish name líq’tәd, survived — although the story of its existence was disrupted for both Natives and non-Natives for decades.
For a time in the ’30s, it was used as part of a spa. Practicing cultural traditions among Native people was prohibited by law until 1978's American Indian Religious Freedom Act, but by then the spring’s story and other histories in may ways had already been pushed aside.
The movement to make the site of the spring into a landmark began almost five years ago, when Lakota activist Matt Remle first discussed it with Native elders in the city. This is the story of how it happened, in the words of some of its principal players.
Duwamish elder Tom Speer says that for many generations of Native people, education systems like residential and boarding schools broke the “intergenerational transmission of knowledge of the culture from the elders to the youths.” He says he was fortunate enough to have learned about the springs from an elder, Joe Hillaire.
Tom Speer, Duwamish elder: [Lummi sculptor] Joe Hillaire was carving a story pole — not a totem pole, a story pole — at the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. A friend of mine and I were just teenagers, around 13 or 14 years old. We went to a part of the fair that was called the “Indian Village,” and it was a jumble of different cultures that somehow all fit under the umbrella of “Indians.” The original intention was that the pole would be raised on the fairgrounds, which is now Seattle Center. He would talk to us when we’d come and visit.
He talked to us about color. He’d talk about where we used to get our blue-green paint, where our yellow came from, where our red came from, and the different colors of the Indigenous palette. He told us that the red we used to have was almost like a brown. It’s from iron, and there’s a place in North Seattle called Licton Springs, and that’s where people would get that pigment. So I remembered that.
I didn’t visit Licton Springs until decades later. That memory got me curious about the condition of the place, so I eventually went to go see it. There was animal and human waste, the signs were gang-tagged, there were syringe needles in the grass and debris, and that was very upsetting. It didn’t seem right. So that was the beginning of a concern about protecting that place since it seemed to be neglected or forgotten or overlooked.
“ It’s high time that we have at least one Native landmark in the city. It’s embarrassing that we don’t have it — even though Seattle sort of appropriates Native imagery, a lot of it at the surface, but it’s time to take some action.”
— Manish Chalana, Seattle Landmarks Board Member
Liz Kearns, Licton Springs Community Council member: I've lived in my house for 45 years. I live a block away from the park. I once had a man call and ask me, because my name was on the park website — he wanted to know if the springs at the park were hot springs. And I was just like, "Ah, well you would've heard of us if they were."
Janice Lichtenwaldt, Licton Springs Community Council president: As just a resident who uses the park, I didn't really know the history. I knew about the Denny family a bit, but I didn't know much about the Indigenous history.
Kearns: I lead a work party in the park, and our goal is to remove nonnative invasive plants and to replant with native plants. The first thing we do at every work party is introduce ourselves and then I give a little history of the park site, starting with the Native American history and going on to the Denny family and the spa that was onsite, and then the fact that the park land was purchased by the city and made into a park.
Matt Remle, Lakota activist: My kids attended school in the Licton Springs neighborhood when they were elementary age, before it was torn down. So that park was right there and it was a place that we would frequent often. We saw this very old sign that's on their bathroom; it was kind of beat up and stuff. It said something like, "Native American Youth would come to this spring to collect red mud." But, then, the rest of the little blurb was about when the Denny Party purchased it until now. I thought, “Oh, that's weird. There's no information on it.”
I was curious. We started going back there and checking it out, started asking more questions about it from people who are Coast Salish or Duwamish, and other local tribe. ... That led me to folks like Tom and a few others who gave me that history about the site, which made it even more special and unique.
Jordan Kiel, Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board member: In my four years on the Landmarks Preservation Board, I can’t recall any [Native landmark applications other than this one]. Communities of color tend to be very underrepresented in the preservation world. Most landmarks are structures like buildings. There are definitely some landmarks out there that are parks — Volunteer Park is a really good example. But in terms of actively seeing the stream of nominations coming through the board, they’re generally structures.
Remle: When I got the application, I gave it my best shot, putting together all the historical information from tribes about traditional use. It got sent back to me with a really nice letter basically saying, "Here is a checklist of things that you need to include in the application." I won't lie — I didn't even know what the points in the checklist meant.
Speer: The average citizen, even with a college education, would really struggle with that application for preservation status.
Remle: So, honestly, I kind of put the whole project on the shelf for close to a year — which ended up being the best decision.
Last year, The Urban Native Education Alliance (UNEA) began to involve students to give the landmark effort more attention. Word about Licton Springs and its story spread, and so did an interest in helping boost the attempt. One story was that of Dr. James “Jim” Zackuse, a Native doctor who healed David Denny’s daughter with mineral water from Licton Springs. Through the landmark process, descendants of Dr. Zackuse living near Licton Springs realized their relationship to him and the springs for the first time.
Cullen Zackuse, Tulalip tribe member and direct descendant of Dr. Zackuse: Tom Speer was always talking about an ancestor of mine being a part of history in Seattle. I felt like I should’ve known more, but I didn’t. Tom was the one who showed me where the spring was and how the iron oxide comes out of it, and as I’m working for Clear Sky [a Native youth program of UNEA], I started going there on trips and started doing things to make it a landmark.
Andy de los Angeles, chief of the Snoqualmie Tribe: I was around 12 years old and I ran across our Zackuse name in Emily Denny’s book Blazing the Way. Dr. Zackuse was an Indian doctor, and he did ceremonies around the 1840s, and he gathered red paint from Licton Springs. It was Emily Denny who originally wrote about the Zackuse family and a few paragraphs about Dr. Jim, describing him in the book.
It opened up my eyes about our family history — it was a book about my life, because a lot of Indians don’t know, like me, about their exact family histories. My mom didn’t know about her history either.
Sabeqwa de los Angeles, Snoqualmie Tribe communications assistant: It was last summer right after a canoe journey that my father and I had first gone out to the spring. I think Tom Speer had reached out to my dad, and then my dad said, “Hey, can you drive me to this thing?”
I didn't really know what I was walking into. I kind of grew up knowing that I had a lineage connection to [Dr. Jim Zackuse]. And I've heard stories here and there, and I've been able to piece it, too, not just from my dad, but from other tribal members who take the time to really learn that knowledge.
Sabeqwa de los Angeles: But it wasn't really until doing this project with Licton Springs that I really felt connected to him in a place.
I felt like a lot of that history that I had an attachment to was all about him being pushed out. Or him being a part of this colonial system. And so for me to learn about Licton Springs last year, I was just really excited because it was a piece of him that wasn't a part of some sort of historical oppression or anything like that. It was a part of him that was truly him, and truly a part of our culture.
On Oct 16, the landmark was approved by the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board. It officially includes the entire site of Licton Springs Park, “excluding the existing shelter and play equipment on the west side,” according to Sam Read, spokesperson for the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. The final steps before the site achieves official landmark status include a controls and incentives agreement, as well as an ordinance that needs approval from the Seattle City Council. But most agree that the site soon will achieve official landmark status as the hardest part — deciding whether or not the site qualifies — is done.
Remle: The protection of our sacred places is — regardless of what tribe, what geography, or wherever in the entire world — the protection of land is very core to who we are, you know?
At the same time that this was happening, our tribal fight with the Dakota Access Pipeline was happening [beginning in 2016]. Even though we identified where burial sites were and sacred sites were, that oil company came in and just desecrated all of that.
So I understand what that sense of potential loss is or the loss can be — just hearing the story from the local tribal folks that this was literally the last mineral spring or sacred site left because the rest are all paved over. They're underneath the Northgate Mall, and underneath apartments, and the college, and stuff like that. That’s even more reason to act. Those are the things we need to protect.
Seattle Clear Sky Native Youth Council and facilitators at Licton Springs in Seattle. (Che Sehyun)
*Cante Remle, UNEA student: I learned how to respect other people’s sacred sites and honestly how to fight to make them sacred — I’m glad I’ve learned how to write resolutions. It’s important [to come together for sacred sites] because one tribe by itself might not have a strong enough voice to really stand up for themselves, so if other tribes came in to help that tribe, maybe their voice could get stronger.
*Akichita Takenalive, UNEA student: We can’t do this by ourselves — it would be a really big help if everyone got together.
Lichtenwaldt: At any rate, one of the things that comes up a lot when we're asking ourselves when we're sitting as a council is this: "What identifies us?"
Well, I think that question is now going to be answered. It's the springs. It's not Aurora, it's not North Seattle College, which has a huge footprint in this neighborhood. It is the spring, and it will be the spring.
Sabeqwa de los Angeles: I didn't know [before] that Seattle didn't have a landmark that was Native American. It is kind of crazy to think that there's nothing.
It was really interesting to see my father’s presence in the room during the final landmarks meeting — all he needed to say was I know who I am. I know who my ancestors are. And I know the stories. I know the history.
For me, this whole process isn't about proving. I mean, in a way it is kind of about proving that we know who we are and that we know what we're talking about when it comes to historical sites and sites used by our ancestors. But it was really nice to see him bring that together in a way that was like, “No, I don't need to prove myself to you. I know who I am.”
*These quotes are from an Oct. 26 public panel discussion at the Seattle Public Library on the effort to achieve landmark status to Licton Springs.
Quotes have been lightly edited for clarity.
Manola Secaira is a reporter at Crosscut focused on urban growth and the impacts of changes in our region. Find her on Twitter @mmsecaira or email at manola.secaira@crosscut.com.
Newcomers fleeing expensive housing are finding it again in Spokane. Now they want protections
A slate of measures intended to support low-income residents and reduce homelessness awaits a vote by the city council.
Carl Segerstrom
High Country News
Regional approach to homelessness may require Seattle to give up some control
The Seattle City Council may pass the new agreement Thursday with an ordinance setting ‘expectations’ going forward.
/ December 12, 2019 /
Updated Dec. 12 at 12:35 pm
Amazon tried to buy our elections. A new law will stop that
When politics as usual looks this much like corruption, we have a problem.
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New Lieutenant Governors Appointed
Neha Verma October 26, 2019 Appointments & Resigns
Current context: The government has appointed the Lieutenant Governors of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh and Governor of Mizoram on 26th October 2019.
1985-batch Gujarat cadre IAS officer Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Jammu-Kashmir who is currently serving as the Expenditure Secretary in the Union Finance Ministry.
1977-batch IAS officer R K Mathur has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Ladakh. He has served as the Defence Secretary and is a former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC).
P.S. Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed the new Governor of Mizoram.
The incumbent Governor of the Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik has been moved to Goa.
Dineshwar Sharma, former interlocutor to Jammu and Kashmir has been appointed as the the administrator of Lakshadweep.
The Union territories of Ladakh and Jammu-Kashmir will come into existence on 31st October 2019.
Q.1 Who has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the recently formed Union Territory, Ladakh?
a. R K Mathur
b. Girish Chandra Murmu
c. Satya Pal Malik
d. P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
New Lieutenant Governors Appointed Reviewed by Neha Verma on October 26, 2019 Rating: 5
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Walter Currie
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Walter Currie and his family, circa 1908
Walter Currie (22 August 1868 - March 1954) was a Scottish-Canadian-American who worked in the wool industry and had six daughters.
He spent his first 14 years in Scotland, lived in Canada until age 36, and lived the rest of his life in America until his death at age 85.
3 Marriage and children
4 Move to America
5 Relationship with extended family
7 Attestation
In the Scottish census of 1851, a 13-year-old Walter Currie appears with his 5-year-old brother John Currie as living in a house headed by a 38-year-old Christina Currie. That would put this elder Walter as having been born in 1838. Therefore it appears that Walter Currie 1868, the subject of this article, was named after his uncle.
Currie was born 22 August 1868 in Scotland, to John Currie and Mary Riddell.
At 14, he, his parents, his brother and two sisters boarded the S.S. Corea in June 1883 to emigrate to Canada.
Marriage and children
The Almonte Gazette, 3 February 1893
On 3 Feb 1893 a Walter Currie appears in the Almonte Gazette as treasurer of the masonic lodge #79. He was 24 at the time.
Marriage certificate, 1893
At age 25, on 27 September 1893, he married 23-year-old Louisa Ward, who was born in England in 1869 or 1870 to parents Heneretta Berry and John Ward.
With Louisa he had six daughters:
Henriette Berry "Etta" Javery (1895 - 1967), moved to Florida
Mary Riddell Currie (10 February 1898 - 24 March 1976)
Ethel Louise Currie (11 October 1901 - 12 August 1974)
Grace Josephine McDonald (19 June 1907 - 10 February 1981)
Jean Dorothy Currie (1910 - 1 July 1993)
Ruth Leona Reeves (8 June 1912 - 12 January 1981), moved to Orlando, Orange, Florida, also, and died there.
It's likely their first two daughters were named after their maternal and paternal grandmothers, respectively.
According to the Canadian census of 1901 he was still living in Almonte, with a religion of Presbyterian, and his occupation as Warper Wheit.
Move to America
He emigrated to Worcester, Massechussetts, USA in 1905 with his wife and children, likely to take a job at a mill there.
By the time of the 1910 census he is an "overseer" in a woolen mill in Worcester. His 81-year-old father-in-law was living with them, and listed as blind and deaf/dumb.
He's listed in the 1920 American census his occupation is listed as Dressentinder, in the Woolen Mill industry, with a rented home, he had just moved into in 1920, on Colton Street, in Worcester Ward 5, Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1930, he's living on Southbridge Street, Worcester, with his wife and Grace, Gene, and Ruth. He, his wife, and Gene are unemployed, but his daughter Grace is an assembler at a machine shop, and his daughter Ruth is a clerk at a telephone company. The woolen industry was evidently in severe decline by this point.
His wife died 28 September 1930, according to the Worchseter Directory, page 634.
On 17 July 1931, the Almonte Gazette reported that he returned to Almonte to visit his sisters Christena and Grace:
Mr. Walter Currie of Worcester, Mass., is visiting with his sisters, Mrs. Edward LeMaistre and Miss Grace Currie at present.
Relationship with extended family
My dad (Jack Currie) did refer to him as “Uncle Wattie” although I never did ask if he (Dad) had ever met him (Walter).
— Bill Currie, 29 May 2018
He died in Worcester in March 1954.
He appears in the Canadian census in 1901, and the American censuses of 1910, 1920, and 1930.
Almonte Gazette, 3 Feb 1893, Page 1 [1]
Almonte Gazette, 11 March 1954, Page 2 [2]
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Department of Public Health, Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. Massachusetts Vital Records Index to Deaths [1916–1970]. Volumes 66–145. Facsimile edition. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928
Year: 1920; Census Place: Worcester Ward 5, Worcester, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_750; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 263 Source: Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).
Year: 1930; Census Place: Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 0069 Source: Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
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15 Simple Habits to Boost Your Emotional Health
Our emotional health can be defined in many ways, and because it is subjective and specific to each person, one simple definition doesn't always cut it. However, we can begin to understand emotional health as it relates to our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and how we're able to best control these when they no longer serve us efficiently. According to Dan Eisenberg, sports psychologist at OffshoreSportsbooks.com, nearly 18% of the US population experiences an emotional health issue.((OffshoreSportsbooks: Boosting your mental health like an athlete)) Emotional health, when left unchecked, manifests in the physical body in the forms of muscle tension, fatigue, and dis-ease. When we're facing stress, sadness, or anger, embracing habits that teach us how to cope with these emotions and the thoughts that accompany them can be powerfully effective in keeping our entire being strong, happy, and healthy.
1. Talk It Out
One of the quickest ways of releasing pent-up emotions is to talk it out, whether that's with a friend, family member, or someone neutral, like a therapist or counselor. Fixing the problem during these conversations is not necessarily the goal; instead, venting or releasing words that surround the problem is one healthy way of expressing how you feel. Usually, solutions arise on their own out of this release, but the sole act of giving a voice to your emotions is a good start.
2. Write It Down
If speaking to someone makes you uncomfortable, writing down your thoughts and emotions as they arise is another healthy habit. This practice of journaling helps you put your words down on paper in a way that is safe, secure, and personal. It also gives your feelings and thoughts an outlet that you may or may not decide to share with others; but the act of providing that outlet is healthier than keeping feelings bottled up.
3. Meditate
Meditation has long been proven to help reduce stress and tension. In a 2016 study, 76% of people questioned about their meditation practice claimed that it helped their general wellness tremendously, with 60% reporting that it increased their energy, and 50% reporting that it helped their memory and focus.((The Good Body: Meditation Statistics)) Sitting down in a meditation practice allows you to observe the feelings and thoughts that come up, and then detach from letting them fester into growing problems. The practice teaches you how to distance yourself from the emotional chaos we tend to find ourselves in, long enough to create space in which to simply be. Here's a video to guide you through meditation: Or you can also take a look at these guides on meditation:
The 5-minute Guide to Meditation: Anywhere, Anytime
Meditation for Beginners: How to Meditate Deeply and Quickly
4. Move Your Body
Whether this is in a yoga practice or a gym exercise routine, moving the body has tremendous ties in how that affects our emotional response, and in turn, health. Depending on what you may be feeling or going through at the time, stepping into a mindful movement with the body can pull you out of that thinking loop, and back into a physical connection. As long as you're mindful and aware of the movements you're doing, you're giving your mind something to focus on. Likewise, you're giving your emotional health a dose of serotonin, the feel-good chemical that contributes to feelings of wellness and general happiness.((Medical News Today: What is serotonin and what does it do?)) You can try this gentle somatic yoga for emotional release:
5. Go Outside
Nature has such a powerful effect on the body, mind, and soul. We spend so much time indoors, because of our jobs, families, responsibilities, and so forth, that we don't take the time to really tap into the simple idea of being outside. Whether you make a routine of taking a brief walk outside during your lunch break, or just stepping out to enjoy some fresh air for a few minutes on a park bench nearby, these simple habits, over time, can truly refresh and reset you for prime emotional health.
6. Try Forest Bathing
While we're on the topic of being outside in nature, forest bathing is an incredible practice to implement. Called Shinrin in Japanese, forest bathing has made its way westward to pull people into the simple union with nature and its many benefits.((Time: "Forest Bathing is great for your health. Here's how to do it")) Simply find a forest or nearby location where you can get away from the noise of the city - a park, wooded trail, etc. Unplug and leave your phone, camera, and any other technology in the car. As you're walking, be all there! Listen to the sounds around you, feel your feet on the ground, and become deeply aware of the sensations around you and within you. This practice is meant to disconnect you from constantly chasing down the future, and put you back into the present moment - the only one that truly matters. You can learn more about forest bathing in the video below:
7. Start a Gratitude Journal
It's so easy to get sucked into the thought loop that we're not doing enough, or that we have so many items to yet tick off of our to-do list before the day is done. However, this thought loop breeds a thought reality that keeps us chained to anxiety, depression, and a slew of other negative nasties. In order to tap into all that you have done and accomplished in a single day, begin a gratitude journal. Before you go to sleep at night, write down a list of things and people for which and whom you're grateful. Be specific and as lengthy as you'd like, and then look over the list to truly embrace all that you do have in your life. Take a look at this article and find out how to start a gratitude journal: How a Gratitude Journal and Positive Affirmations Can Change Your Life
8. Make Time for Fun and Fun People
We work too hard, and no play really makes for unsteady and unbalanced emotional health. We're active and social creatures who need to be around others, enjoying the many perks that life has to offer. Make it a point to schedule fun time with friends, at least once per month. If you schedule it ahead of time and get it on everyone's calendar, chances are that you won't get bogged down with other priorities. After all, fun should still be a priority, even in adulthood!
9. Practice Self-Forgiveness with EFT
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a form of psychological acupressure, or also known as Tapping.((Healthline: EFT Tapping)) It has been used to alleviate physical and emotional pain, and works wonders on self-forgiveness. We're often too hard on ourselves. In a deadline-demand-driven society, we subconsciously load ourselves up on expectations that lead to failure, disappointment, and then suffering. EFT allows you to tap into the physical meridians where we hold this emotionally manifested pain, in order to release and forgive. Check out this video on how to do EFT tapping therapy:
10. Set Daily Priorities
When we're overwhelmed with work, we tend to dive deep into stress. This may result in stressful eating, poor exercise regimens, and an overall lack of motivation and energy. All of this quickly leads back to that same emotional loop of thinking we're not good enough, not disciplined enough, etc. In order to keep this mental loop from spiraling out of control, setting daily priorities is key. This could mean writing down a list of things to get done throughout the day, and then dividing what is a top project for the day, and what can wait. This type of breakdown also motivates you to keep going, since you'll be getting the biggest task out of the way first. Don't forget to celebrate little milestones along the way! Inbox all cleared out? Awesome! Play your favorite energizing song and take a 5-minute break before the next task.
11. Treat Yourself
We easily treat other people, but when it comes to ourselves, that tends to be a harder point to sell. Maintaining health - whether emotional, physical, or otherwise - is a lifelong journey. Who says you can't reward yourself for all of the hard work you're putting in? A treat may look like a weekend getaway to a spa, or simply a nice bubble bath at home, in the peace and quiet of your own home. These rewards need not be expensive or elaborate; but do keep them a priority. Celebrating yourself every chance you get leads to inspiration and motivation to keep on your health path.
12. Travel
Most of us think of travel as something exotic and expensive, and therefore unattainable; but it doesn't have to be so! Travel can be anything that takes you out of your current usual routine or comfort zone. Maybe taking a new route to work, or checking out that park on the other side of town one weekend that you've always wanted to visit - travel is everywhere! Give yourself permission (and a treat!) to see and experience something new. Oftentimes, these types of experiences shift our perspective, and give us that much-needed connection with ourselves and the world at large.
13. Take a Class, or Learn Something New
Emotional health is all about changing up the routines we're used to relying on for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The human mind is at its best when it's being stimulated, and in what better way to do that than to learn something new. Think about a class you've always been interested in, or a skill you'd like to develop. Check out your local colleges, libraries, or social media for opportunities, classes, or workshops. When we take on a new subject area to learn about, we create new neuropathways in the brain. These, in turn, not only help us refresh our creativity and problem-solving skills, but they also change our brain chemistry and allow us to better respond to life's many changes.((CCSU Continuing Education: The top 7 benefits of learning a new skill))
14. Get Enough Sleep
Ensuring that you're getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep at night is vital for your physical, emotional, and mental health. In order to be productive and energized to take on your day stems from the type of quality sleep you're getting at night. Are you tossing and turning? Perhaps look at your environment and make necessary changes, like new sheets, better pillow, or arrangement of bed that you have in your room. Do you wake up throughout the night? Keep a journal nearby and document what happens that wakes you, and what you do right after you're up. This can help you better observe patterns of wakefulness and what you can do about it. Remember to also put away your phones and tablets before bedtime, to give the body the necessary "down time" in preparation for sleep. And consider building a night time routine to help put you to sleep: The Ultimate Night Routine Guide: Sleep Better and Wake Up Productive
15. Build Resilience for When Things Change
There is one constant in life, and that is that it will constantly change. As humans, we tend to attach ourselves to the control we have over life, but when it changes unexpectedly (in loss of a person or job), we have a hard time grappling with the reality of it all. Building resilience for these changes ensures that we can bounce back from anything that life throws at us. In Buddhism, one precept sits above all that is focused on this idea of change, and that is impermanence. This doctrine teaches us that everything is temporary - loss, sadness, grief, happiness, anger, etc. Because life ebbs and flows, so does change along with it. We're just there to enjoy and witness the ride, and this means practicing detachment from the idea that we have any real control to begin with! This surrender truly becomes our resilience, and enables us to roll with the punches and embrace all that life has to offer, even when it's hard. If you want some practical tips to build resilience, take a look at this article: How to Build Resilience to Face What Life Throws at You
Emotional health is just as important as mental and physical health. It is, after all, one and the same. How we react to the many changes in life can be very telling of how healthy we are, emotionally. Thankfully, there are a plethora of simple habits that we can implement today to help us regain footing on the journey that is our whole-self wellness.
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Case archive
Barclays PLC and Qatar Holding LLC
The SFO has been conducting a criminal investigation into Barclays and its capital raising arrangements with Qatar Holding LLC and Challenger Universal Ltd in June and October 2008.
Criminal proceedings against Barclays PLC and four individuals were initiated on 3 July 2017, when they appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court. They were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and unlawful financial assistance contrary to s151 of the Companies Act 1985.
On 14 February, criminal proceedings were initiated against Barclays Bank Plc, which was also charged with unlawful financial assistance contrary to s151 of the Companies Act 1985.
On 21 May 2018 the charges against Barclays Plc and Barclays Bank Plc were dismissed by the Crown Court.
On 23 July 2018, the SFO made an application to the High Court to re-instate against Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC all of the charges dismissed by the Crown Court in May 2018.
On 26 October 2018, the High Court ruled against the SFO’s application seeking to reinstate the charges previously dismissed in the Crown Court.
On 23 January 2019, the trial of John Varley, Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath began at Southwark Crown Court.
On 8 April 2019, the jury was discharged by the presiding Judge.
Following an application on behalf of John Varley at the close of the prosecution case, the trial Judge ruled that the evidence against him on each count was insufficient for the case to proceed. That ruling was appealed by the prosecution.
On 21 June 2019 that appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Accordingly, Mr Varley has been acquitted on both counts.
The trial of Mr Jenkins, Mr Kalaris and Mr Boath began on 8 October at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey).
Reporting Restrictions are in place and the strict liability rule of the Contempt of Court Act applies.
Roger Jenkins – former Executive Chairman of Investment Banking and Investment Management in the Middle East and North Africa, Barclays Capital.
Thomas Kalaris – former Chief Executive of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management (a division of Barclays Plc).
Richard Boath – former European Head of Financial Institutions Group, Barclays Capital.
Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath
Conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, in relation to the June 2008 capital raising,
Fraud by false representation, contrary to section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006, in relation to the June 2008 capital raising.
Roger Jenkins
Conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, in relation to the October 2008 capital raising.
Fraud by false representation, contrary to section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006, in relation to the October 2008 capital raising.
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Before the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey)
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Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC
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Further SFO charges in Barclays Qatar capital raising case
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SFO charges in Barclays Qatar capital raising case
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Nancy Pollak
npollak@hinsdale86.org
Elected: 2017 - 4 years (first term)
Term Expires: April 2021
Nancy Pollak worked in marketing and advertising for several major companies, including Burger King Corporation and DraftWorldWide. She serves on the Chicago board of the Anti-Defamation League, is a national trustee of the Foundation Fighting Blindness and is the chair of the Indiana University Kelley Family Leadership Council. She has also been actively involved in the District 86 community for many years. This involvement has included helping to found the Community Speaker Series and the Nite at the Net fundraiser, and chairing events for a variety of charities.
Pollak holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Indiana University and a master’s degree in education from DePaul University. She currently lives in Hinsdale with her husband Dale and three children—Samson, Alex and Austin.
Kevin Camden
kcamden@hinsdale86.org
Committee Participation: Facilities Committee Co-Chair, Finance Committee Chair, Insurance Committee member, Negotiations Committee member
Kevin P. Camden is the owner of Camden Law Office, LLC in Willowbrook. Prior to founding the firm, he served as general counsel for union members in the public sector. He has also represented police officers in disciplinary matters and collective bargaining.
In his role as adjunct faculty at Northwestern University, Camden teaches for the School of Police Staff and Command around the country and online. He also taught at Valparaiso Law School and Benedictine University.
Camden is a member of the Darien Lions Club, is active in Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish and volunteers as general counsel for the Fraternity of Alpha Kappa Lambda, where he also served as president and a board member at the national level. In addition, Camden was a board member on the Cass 63 Foundation prior to serving on the District 86 Board of Education.
A 1990 alum of Brother Rice High School, Camden graduated with honors from Northern Illinois University in 1994 and John Marshall Law School in 1997.
Camden’s wife Shelly is the board president for Cass School District 63, where she has served in various elected positions for more than 12 years. Two of his children graduated from Cass School District 63 and now attend Hinsdale South High School. His youngest child will be a student at South next year.
Kathleen Hirsman
khirsman@hinsdale86.org
Elected: 2019 – 4 years (second term)
Committee Participation: Policy Committee Chair, Negotiations Committee Chair, Closed Session Minutes Committee Chair; Human Resources Committee member
Kathleen Hirsman is a senior lecturer in residence at the Education Law and Policy Institute at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. At Loyola, Hirsman teaches courses in fundamentals of school law, special education law and advocacy, legal issues in school discipline, and labor and employment law in the education workplace. Hirsman also served as adjunct faculty at Concordia University Chicago, where she taught in the masters and doctoral programs in graduate and innovative programs. She has served on the District 86 Board of Education since 2015.
Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, Hirsman practiced school law for 25 years. She represented and counseled school districts in board governance issues, student issues, special education, labor and personnel matters, collective bargaining, general litigation and in a general corporate advisory capacity.
Hirsman holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Kalamazoo College, a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Hirsman is a member of the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys and the Illinois Association of School Boards Council of School Attorneys. She and her husband have lived in Clarendon Hills since 1985.
Keith Chval
kchval@hinsdale86.org
Committee Participation: Facilities Committee Co-Chair, Human Resources Committee Chair
Keith Chval is a co-founding owner of Protek International, Inc., which is a consultancy specializing in cyber-related investigations and security and electronic information management and litigation discovery services. Prior to co-founding Protek International in 2005, Chval was an assistant attorney general in the Illinois Attorney General’s office, where he formed and led one of the first specialized high tech crimes bureaus in the country. He also was an assistant state’s attorney in the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Throughout his professional career, Chval has published several articles, and taught and presented extensively on topics for leading professional organizations across the country. He also served as an adjunct professor of law at the John Marshall Law School, where he designed and taught classes on cyber prosecutions and investigations, cyber espionage, computer forensics, information management and electronic discovery.
Over the years, Chval served in various capacities for the Clarendon Hills Lions Club, coached youth baseball, soccer and basketball, was the chair of the District 86 Caucus and its nominating committee, and served in church-related volunteer positions in youth and men’s discipleship and congregational leadership.
Chval grew up in Clarendon Hills and earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Indiana University and a juris doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. He and his five children all graduated from Hinsdale Central High School.
Cynthia Hanson
chanson@hinsdale86.org
Elected: 2019 – 4 years (first term)
Committee Participation: Human Resources Committee member, Policy Committee member, Parent-Teacher Advisory Committee Chair
Cynthia Hanson is a longtime District 86 resident and an alumna of Hinsdale South High School. Committed to education and the student experience, Hanson held positions at a number of local institutions including the University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, Aurora University and Moraine Valley Community College.
Throughout her career, Hanson counseled and advised students on academic issues related to college success, managed a team of student tutors to support under-represented populations as they made their transition into higher education and taught as adjunct faculty. Hanson is a member of the Illinois Counselor Association and previously served on the Gower School District 62 Board of Education.
An Illinois licensed professional counselor, Hanson holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in higher education and school counseling from Loyola University.
Hanson grew up in Willowbrook and currently lives in Burr Ridge with her husband and four children, who attended Community Consolidated School District 181, Gower School District 62 and Hinsdale South High School.
Erik Held
eheld@hinsdale86.org
Committee Participation: Insurance Committee Chair, Finance Committee member, Negotiations Committee member
Erik M. Held has worked at UBS Financial Services, Inc. for 14 years, and currently serves as a first vice president of wealth management and corporate stock benefit consultant for the company. His career is centered on goals-based wealth planning, advising on investments and risk for individuals, endowments, foundations and executive compensation. Throughout his career, Held has advised corporations and executives on long-term strategies for equity awards and navigating complex governmental compliance and regulations. In 2017 and 2018, Forbes recognized him as one of America’s next-gen wealth advisors.
For the past four years, Held has been the lead educator for a seminar series centered on understanding corporate benefits, taxes and financial literacy. He is currently serving his first term on the District 86 Board of Education, and is a member of the Maercker Educational Foundation.
After graduating from Hinsdale Central in 1999, Held earned his bachelor's degree in English - creative writing from Miami University.
Held has lived in District 86 for more than two decades, and his family has lived in the district for over 60 years. He currently lives in Westmont with his wife, three children, two dogs and a cat.
Marty Turek
mturek@hinsdale86.org
Committee Participation: Special Committee Chair, Facilities Committee member, Closed Session Minutes Committee member
Marty Turek is a technology executive and currently works as a director at FireEye, a publicly traded cyber security company. Turek has worked in the technology field for more 20 years, during which he has held a variety of sales and marketing roles for both large and small companies. Prior to serving on the District 86 Board of Education, Turek was a member of the Community Consolidated School District 181 Board of Education for eight years, which included two years as board president.
Turek was born and raised in Hinsdale. He graduated from Hinsdale Central, where he was a four-year varsity athlete and won the state diving championship in 1988. He went on to become a four-year Division I athlete.
Turek earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MBA from the Gies School of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Turek currently lives in Clarendon Hills with his wife Susan and three children.
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On The Set: ‘The Good Doctor’s Freddie Highmore Offers A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Season 2
By Joe Utichi
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The path of Emmy history is littered with many injustices. Take, for example, Steve Carell’s failure, despite five nominations, to earn a trophy for playing Michael Scott on The Office. Or how about The Wire, which somehow, despite becoming one of the definitive exemplars of peak television, only ever mustered a measly pair of writing nominations over its five seasons on the air?
So perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a shock, given that rocky history, that Freddie Highmore walked away from last year’s Emmy season without so much as a nod for his work on The Good Doctor. But, at the risk of over-editorializing, a shock is how it felt. After all, David Shore’s series had become one of ABC’s biggest hits almost instantly, and had drawn endless praise for Highmore’s turn as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a brilliant surgical resident with autism, which struck a particularly touching chord with a scarcely represented community. As Shaun struggled to find acceptance with his colleagues at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, the show not only shone a light on the challenges faced by people with autism, but also felt like a rare moment of validation for anybody who had ever felt unseen or other.
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Highmore did come away from Season 1 with a Golden Globe nomination for the role, though, and if the Emmy snub hit him at all, he isn’t letting it show, and neither does it appear to have dulled his work ethic.
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At Vancouver’s Bridge Studios in February, Highmore is days away from wrapping The Good Doctor’s second season. Season 2 has provided its own suite of new challenges. He started the year in the writers’ room for the first time, penning the season debut, and this week will mark the broadcast of the first episode he has directed, “Risk and Reward”, which will introduce a new Chief of Surgery, Dr. Jackson Han. The character is played by Daniel Dae Kim, who had been instrumental in finding the original Korean show on which the ABC version is based. “It has been really nice getting to introduce Daniel’s character as a director of the episode,” Highmore says.
For Highmore—also a producer on the show since its inception—the reaction from viewers to The Good Doctor’s first season was enough to inspire a doubling down on his commitment. “You’re encouraged to continue building on what you’ve done,” he tells me. He has heard much positive feedback from people on the spectrum since the show debuted. “And it’s been a constant learning experience for all of us working on the show. You’re constantly learning about Shaun, and the way he would react in certain situations.”
No stranger to episodic television—Highmore, of course, also took the lead as Norman Bates over five seasons of A&E’s Bates Motel—he also feels increasingly more comfortable in his character’s skin. “You become so close to the character that you know them so well, and so intimately. People often wonder if it gets a bit dull to play the same character for so long, but I feel like there’s more and more nuance to bring out as you get to know that character better. So many possibilities, or tiny things to try, or new sides to his personality that maybe you haven’t dug out before.”
Before cameras roll on his first scene of the day, Highmore takes me on a tour of the expansive set. He revels in pointing out the little details of the interior of the hospital (the exterior is played by the modernist city hall building in Surrey, British Columbia) and marvels at how new and high-tech this TV hospital is. “If you were sick you’d want to get better here, wouldn’t you?” he laughs.
The Good Doctor takes up several soundstages at the studios, and has even knocked through the walls adjoining two of the stages to create a large, continuous shooting space. Highmore is used to this sort of scale. He was once, after all, the Charlie of Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (“That was sort of like a theme park inside,” he recalls. “We had a real 40-foot chocolate waterfall, with a hydraulic boat on the river. It was incredible.”) But, he says, “Even though the set’s fairly big, and you could, in quotation marks, call The Good Doctor a ‘big show’, it doesn’t feel that way because the stories are so intimate. We don’t have a lot of special effects and explosions. It’s a show that’s at its best when it’s a couple of people in a room telling these emotional stories.”
He tries, anyway, not to think of the scale of the operation he’s working on. “I don’t think it’s a conscious thing, but shutting everything out is probably what acting is about,” he explains. “You can’t think about how many crew are standing around you, or what the dolly’s doing, or how many lights are on you. Ultimately, your job is to shut it all out and just focus on being as truthful as you can to your character and the moment.”
And yet he had to think of all of those things when he stepped up to direct. “I guess that’s different,” he laughs. “You do have to have that other side of you. You switch between two sides of your brain. In the scene, you’re trying to stay in character as best you can. And it got complicated here, because Shaun doesn’t really maintain eye contact with people. It makes it a bit of a struggle to work out what the other actors are doing in a scene in order to offer suggestions from a director’s point of view. You find yourself trying to take a sneaky look over at them.”
Despite the contrasting approaches, Highmore does feel that acting and directing go hand-in-hand. “Especially on a television show, you feel a greater responsibility as an actor to help maintain the tone. Directors come and go, and sometimes maybe you’re working with someone who has never worked on the show before. So it requires a greater sense of leadership, not just in terms of maintaining character arcs, and continuity, but also in the sense of welcoming people who are new to the set. Especially on television, the actors’ relationship with the director becomes incredibly collaborative.”
Bates Motel shot in Vancouver also. Returning to the city for this show—after only one hiatus away—meant largely reuniting with the team he’d spent five years with. “It feels like a family,” he says. And that family dynamic presents itself when Highmore gets called to set. Costumed in a hospital gown, he points to an empty windowsill for me to perch on to watch the crew block the next scene. For the season finale, Shore himself is directing.
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Highmore introduces me to the camera team—pals he worked with on Bates Motel—old-school crew with Grateful Dead haircuts and a fondness for the kind of acerbic humor Brits and Canadians do better than anyone. Season 2 DP Chris Faloona, and the A-camera duo of operator Mike Wrinch and focus puller Dean Friss. “You’re about to witness the full range of Freddie’s acting skills,” one of them tells me, with a sly wink.
And indeed, I do. The scene demands that Highmore lay absolutely still—unconscious—in a hospital gurney as his worried colleagues discuss his prognosis—the result of an attack on Shaun in a barroom fight. Aside from a little struggle with a breathing tube he has to keep in place, “Yeah, it’s not exactly the most complex scene I’ve had to shoot this year,” Highmore laughs. “You picked a bad day to visit.”
Still, the drunken fight that led to Shaun’s current predicament came after one of the season’s standout moments, as Shaun confronted Dr. Han for keeping him out of the operating room, and he lost his job at the hospital. We had seen Shaun struggle to keep his cool in the past, but this moment was him at his most frustrated and upset. Tears welled in his eyes as he beseeched Han, “I’m a surgeon. I am a surgeon.”
“Those are the scenes that feel the most momentous, or satisfying,” Highmore recalls. “When you’re doing this many episodes a season, you can’t tell a story that is nothing but those moments. You have to build to that. It only really works because you have that buildup of pressure over many episodes in order to have the breakdown.”
Season 2 ended on a conciliatory note for Shaun, restoring his position at the hospital and dangling the possibility—forever elusive over its first two years—that the young surgeon might be able to find love. “I don’t really know yet where it’ll go,” Highmore tells me a few months into his offseason, when we speak again. “I was in the writers’ room this time last year, writing the first episode of Season 2, but this year I’ve been shooting a film. Hopefully I’ll write an episode later in the year. I’m definitely directing again.”
Still, he suspects, “that idea of Shaun dating will be explored. One of the things David Shore is so brilliant at with the show, and which seems to give it such longevity, is that the small wins for Shaun can feel so momentous. It’s a show that focuses on tiny little nuances, and the emotional beats in life that everyone knows and feels but that sometimes get lost in a quest for a bit of high-concept drama. The idea of finishing a whole season with a character simply asking someone out, and then being happy to have gotten a positive answer, is just so beautiful.”
For now, though, Highmore is robbing a bank. He’s in Madrid, shooting Way Down alongside Sam Riley and Liam Cunningham. Directed by Jaume Balagueró, the film tells the story of “this English guy, who is a recent university graduate, and he’s roped into this international group that is robbing the Bank of Spain,” Highmore says.
It’s the first time he has acted in Spain. As befitting a multi-hyphenate, though, he’s fluent in the language (plus French, and a little Arabic too), and familiar with the city, having spent a year interning at a Madrid law firm when he was younger. The set, he says, feels “very European”. He remembers some time spent making films in France, “where there was a union rule not only that you had to serve wine at lunchtime, but that it had to actually be served, too, with waiters coming around to pour it.”
He has enjoyed having the full run of Madrid on this shoot. “The film, by dint of the way we’re shooting it, feels kind of independent, even though it’s not a small budget,” he says. “We shut down the Spanish equivalent of Piccadilly Circus—the Plaza de Cibeles—the other day, but it still feels like it’s just a few of us making this film.”
He’ll be straight back into production on Season 3 of The Good Doctor once he wraps. For now, though, the pace of shooting a feature film (on which he’s only acting and producing) has felt like a nice summer holiday. “It feels much more luxurious doing a film in general,” he explains. “When you’re used to 18 episodes a year, shooting for eight or nine days each, there’s a lot more pressure to get things done.”
Highmore aspires to one day direct a feature. For now, television is proving the perfect training ground. “Because you’re under a greater amount of time pressure, it stops you from going into self-indulgent artist territory,” he says. “The practical quality of television production gives you a sense of discipline, because if you want to do something ambitious in television, you really have to plan it quite well. There’s no room for, ‘Let’s just get on set and figure it out there.’ You’ve got to think ahead.”
David Shore
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Josephine Cameron, photo by Maggie Adolf
Josephine Cameron is the author of Maybe a Mermaid, a new novel for kids. She teaches music and songwriting, and she lives in Maine.
Q: How did you come up with the idea for Maybe a Mermaid, and for your character Anthoni Gillis?
In all honesty, with a lot of trial and error. I started knowing that I wanted it to be set on a lake in Northern Wisconsin (where I grew up), and that I wanted it to be about friendship. Specifically, I wanted to build an interesting multi-generational friendship. But it took a lot of brainstorming to find Anthoni’s story.
At first, I was going to have her be a local kid who takes a summer job at an antiques store. And at that point in my mind, she was a boy (Anthony). Ha! I guess I’m a lot like Anthoni’s mom (who says “Gillis Girls Always Stick to the Plan”)—even though I left that storyline far behind before I started writing the first draft, I still loved the name Anthony Gillis. So I put an “i” on the end and stuck to the plan!
Q: The novel is set at a lake. How important is setting to you in your writing?
A: I often get the idea for where I want a story to take place before I even know what the story is going to be!
For Maybe a Mermaid, I knew the setting well—the lake, water-skiing, summer relationships between townies and tourists, even the mosquitos—and all of these specific, place-related things helped shape the story and the characters in my mind.
I grew up near a once-famous resort with a boat-shaped building called Marty’s Showboat where ex-vaudeville acts used to perform. Once I decided to bring that place into the book, the character of Charlotte Boulay started to form. She was the piece I was missing, and I wouldn’t have found her in another setting.
Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing it, or did you make many changes along the way?
A: I do a lot of pre-writing. Like, months of figuring out the story and characters before I start writing scenes. So I had a general sense of where I was going before I began drafting.
I knew the climax and resolution I wanted to build towards, but lots of the details changed along the way. And how Anthoni got to those final moments definitely went through many revisions. Luckily, I love revising almost more than I love pre-writing.
Q: What do you hope readers take away from the story?
A: A sense of wonder. Hope. The knowledge that you can find True Blue Friends even in the most unlikely places…if you remain open to the possibilities.
A: I’m currently working on another book for the same age group that has a LOT of dogs, and a LOT of silliness. I’m having a ridiculous amount of fun with this one, and often burst out laughing while I type. Either that’s a good sign, or I need to start getting out of the house more!
A: It’s incredible to me how many people are involved in getting a book into the world. I am so grateful to everyone who has read, edited, designed, marketed, publicized, and otherwise helped shaped this manuscript into a real, live book. My agent, John Cusick, is a rock star, and my editor, Grace Kendall, is a creative genius. There are whole days where I feel completely overwhelmed with gratitude.
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Dead Spitter
1999 Darwin Award Winner Unconfirmed by Darwin
(15 July 1999, Alabama) A 25-year-old soldier died of injuries sustained from a 3-story fall, precipitated by his attempt to win a high-altitude spitting contest. The "former" military specialist had a blood alcohol level of 0.14%, paving the way for a well-earned Darwin Award.
He was so intent on victory - and so drunk - that he attempted to employ a dangerous and hitherto-untested technique to add momentum to his saliva. The contender backed away from the window, then hurled himself towards the metal balcony rail while expectorating.
In a tragic miscalculation, his momentum carried him right over the railing, which he grasped fleetingly before plummeting 24' to the concrete below.
There is no report on the status of the payload expelled into the night sky.
Submitted by: Curtis Salisbury
Reference: Fort Hood Sentinel
Ethan Vessels says, "The story of the spitter is true. However, it was not Fort Rucker but Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1998. The deceased was atteng a Basic Training course. You can call the military police station and ask them to confirm it. The brass tried to keep it quiet so as not to ruin his funeral."
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Healer Idealist
December 1, 2013 June 21, 2016 Keirsey8 Comments
“I like you — Just the way you are.”
Yes Fred, you have got it. It’s called Temperament.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right — for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences. — David Keirsey [Different Drummers, Please Understand Me II]
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
Fred Rogers would say it in some way, “I like you just the way your are” every day of the week on his children’s TV show.
“He was basically a very shy man. He wasn’t the sort of fellow who got up and made bold statements about what we should be doing for children’s television. He did it in his own way and did it very effectively.”
—Bob “Captain Kangaroo” Keeshan
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood began airing in 1968 and ran for 895 episodes; the last set of new episodes was taped in December 2000 and began airing in August 2001. At its peak, in 1985, 8% of U.S households tuned into the show.
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I Am I Said..
April 23, 2013 June 21, 2016 Keirsey13 Comments
“He once said that nowhere felt like home and that he didn’t have many friends. It’s been a lifelong struggle to fit in.”
He grew up in Forties working-class Brooklyn, the son of Polish-Russian Jews. He says of that, “a childhood shapes you and you’re like soft clay when you’re a child, in every respect. If fans are familiar with my music they are familiar with me, because the music is a direct reflection of who I am as a person.”
” I got an emptiness deep inside
And I’ve tried but it won’t let me go..”
He would ride the subway every day to college where he was studying to become a doctor. Having received a guitar for his 15th birthday from his parents, he wrote songs on the train ride.
“The subway was the only time I had privacy and quiet.”
His family were forever moving house in search of better business opportunities, which resulted in him having attended nine different schools at age sixteen. This lifestyle was forced on him by circumstances and it was instrumental in forming his internal, fiercely self-reliant personality. He says it was there, in his childhood that he developed a pathological resistance to any kind of uniformity. Along with that and his singing talent he became somewhat of an enigma to those close to him and he was, without exception, excluded from every circle of friends he encountered. He became a loner, “I don’t fit in” and a necessary condition for his survival. This forced him to create an imaginary friend, as he tells us in ‘Shilo’:
Papa says he’d love to be with you
If he had the time
So you turn to the only friend you can find
There in your mind
Shilo, when I was young
I used to call your name
When no one else
Would come
Shilo, you always came
And we’d play….
Even in adulthood, he has retained the ability to withdraw into a protective world of his own, and at the end of 1976, he said: “I still live in a fantasy world sometimes, because it’s safe. It’s a cushion, a protective thing you build, and nothing can hurt me, at least in my own mind.”
He also developed an interest in writing lyrics and realised that music facilitates social interaction and that it helped him to overcome his innate shyness. He would later write ‘Longfellow serenade’ a song of which he was especially fond of, because it took him back to those school days when he was too shy to ask a girl on a date, so he would write her a poem. He would tell us:
“I imagined the poet who writes the words he cannot speak to the woman he wants to woo and win.”
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011, his songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres. With the exception of the period between 1972 and 1976 when he temporarily bade the stage farewell so as to ‘find himself’ (and spend more time with his family), he has, since the late 1960s, drawn millions of people from all over the world to his concerts. In a 2008 performance in Glastonbury, England alone, the audience totalled more than 170,000 people.
“I have to know myself and I have spent my life trying to know myself.”
He is an American singer-songwriter with a career that has spanned five decades, he has sold over 125 million records worldwide including 48 million in the United States alone. Considered the third most successful adult contemporary artist ever on the Billboard chart behind Barbra Streisand and Elton John.
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Queen of People’s Hearts
January 24, 2013 June 21, 2016 Keirsey4 Comments
“I do things differently, because I don’t go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that’s got me into trouble in my work, I understand that. But someone’s got to go out there, love people and show it.
I am a free spirit – unfortunately for some.”
“This is me, this is me!” exclaimed Princess Diana when she was read Dr. David Keirsey‘s portrait of an Healer Idealist, (INFP).
Famous personality, Idealistalienation, British Royals, character, Diana Spencer, Healer Idealist, healing, INFP, keirsey, Keirsey Temperament, love, marriage, personality, please understand me, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, Reconciler Idealist, reconciling, royalty, UK
The Search and the Re-search
December 15, 2011 June 21, 2016 Keirsey12 Comments
“I didn’t have a sense of purpose.”
“You might as well live a lot, really hard, and not give a shit, because you can always walk through that door. So I started to live as if I could die any day.” [Our emphasis, not hers]
But she couldn’t.
She couldn’t live as if she had no purpose. It wasn’t in her nature.
So she had started her search, not knowing why or how, or even where. She didn’t even know that she was searching.
Entertainment, Famous personality, Idealistactress, Angelina, Healer, Healer Idealist, idealist, INFP, Jolie, keirsey, movies, personality, temperament, Voight
November 17, 2011 June 21, 2016 Keirsey6 Comments
As a Viking traveler of books and people, I have occasioned to meet a person from a different place, a different time, and a different world, through the labyrinth of books.
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
Presumably, this is what Henry Stanley said to Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary who had gone into the “wilds of Africa,” and Stanley was paid to find him which took about six months, a difficult and tortuous expedition.
Famous personality, Idealist, Leadershipa reverence for life, Albert Schweitzer, Healer Idealist, keirsey, personality, temperament
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National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology in England: New Wachter Report (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary The National Advisory Group on Health Information Technology in England, chaired by US clinician / digital expert Professor Robert Wachter, has produced a report on achieving “digital excellence” in the NHS. New / extended digital services for patients have … Continue reading →
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Funding Available to NHS Hospitals for Digital Excellence (NHS England / Nuffield Trust)
Posted on August 6, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary NHS England is offering NHS hospital Trusts over £100 million funding to create centres of global digital excellence and explore better use of digital technology in health. Twenty-six selected trusts are invited to bid for up to £10 million … Continue reading →
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Hotly Debated Weekend Effect May Have Been A Statistical Mirage? (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy / BBC News / Lancet / BMJ)
Posted on May 7, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary Research does not take place in a socio-political vacuum. The ongoing junior doctors’ dispute has supplied fertile ground for allegations of “spin” and politically-motivated distortion in the interpretation of the so-called “weekend effect”, and raises questions concerning the planned … Continue reading →
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Return to Shangri La
Norma Messmer
My hand groped over the weather beaten pine door for the rusty lock which would unfold our "Shangri La." Meeting no resistence from the tiny device, I proceeded blindly to feel for the light switch which would show the way for the rest of our crew. As my searching hand passed over fuses, wires, switches, and knobs, I was conscious of the "special" cabin aroma, a composition of ant' killer, mouse poison, ashes from last and the "springy" exhilarating Lake week's wiener roast, scent of the fresh, Hollybrook air.
Messmer, Norma (1944) "Return to Shangri La," Manuscripts: Vol. 12 : Iss. 1 , Article 23.
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11.1105 History History: 2015 a. 117.
11.1106 11.1106 Conduit contributions.
11.1106(1)(1) For purposes of this chapter, a contribution released by a conduit to a committee is to be reported by the committee as a contribution from the individual who made the contribution and not as a contribution from the conduit.
11.1106(2) (2) A contribution of money received from a conduit, accompanied by the information required under s. 11.0704 (1), is considered to be a contribution from the original contributor.
11.1106(3) (3) Each filing officer shall place a copy of any report received under s. 11.0704 in the file of the conduit and the file of the recipient.
11.1107 11.1107 Limitation on cash contributions. Every contribution of money exceeding $100 shall be made by negotiable instrument or evidenced by an itemized credit card receipt bearing on the face the name of the remitter. No committee required to report under this chapter may accept a contribution made in violation of this section. The committee shall promptly return the contribution, or donate it to the common school fund or to a charitable organization in the event that the donor cannot be identified.
11.1108 11.1108 Anonymous contributions. No committee may accept an anonymous contribution exceeding $10. If an anonymous contribution exceeds $10, the committee shall donate the contribution to the common school fund or to a charitable organization and report the donation as required under this chapter.
11.1109 11.1109 In-kind contributions. Before making a contribution, as defined under s. 11.0101 (8) (a) 2., to a committee, the prospective contributor shall notify the candidate or candidate's agent or the administrator or treasurer of the committee and obtain that individuals oral or written consent to the contribution.
11.1110 11.1110 Return of contributions.
11.1110(1)(1) A committee required to report under this chapter may return a contribution at any time before or after it has been deposited.
11.1110(2) (2)
11.1110(2)(a)(a) Except as provided in par. (b), the subsequent return of a contribution deposited contrary to law does not constitute a defense to a violation.
11.1110(2)(b) (b) A committee that accepts a contribution contrary to law, reports that contribution, and returns that contribution within 15 days after the filing date for the reporting period in which the contribution is received does not violate the contribution or source limits under this subchapter.
11.1111 11.1111 Valuation of opinion poll results.
11.1111(1)(1) In this section:
11.1111(1)(a) (a) “Election period" means any of the following:
11.1111(1)(a)1. 1. The period beginning on December 1 and ending on the date of the spring election.
11.1111(1)(a)2. 2. The period beginning on May 1 and ending on the date of the general election.
11.1111(1)(a)3. 3. The period beginning on the first day for circulating nomination papers and ending on the date of a special election.
11.1111(1)(b) (b) “Initial recipient" means the individual who or committee which commissions a public opinion poll or voter survey.
11.1111(1)(c) (c) “Results" means computer output or a written or verbal analysis.
11.1111(1)(d) (d) “Voter survey" includes acquiring information that identifies voter attitudes concerning candidates or issues.
11.1111(2) (2) If a committee receives opinion poll or voter survey results during the first 15 days after the initial recipient receives the results, and the committee received the results during an election period, the committee shall report the results as a contribution. The committee shall report the contribution's value as 100 percent of the cost incurred by the initial recipient to commission the poll or survey, except that if more than one committee receives the results, the committees shall report the contribution's value as 100 percent of the amount allocated to the committee under sub. (5).
11.1111(3) (3) If the committee receives the opinion poll or voter survey results 16 to 60 days following the day on which the initial recipient received the results, and the committee received the results during an election period, the committee shall report the results as a contribution valued at 50 percent of the cost incurred by the initial recipient to commission the poll or survey, except that if more than one committee receives the results, the committees shall report the contribution's value as 50 percent of the amount allocated to the committee under sub. (5).
11.1111(4) (4) If the committee receives the opinion poll or voter survey results more than 60 days after the initial recipient received the results, the committee is not required to report the results as a contribution.
11.1111(5) (5) If a person contributes opinion poll or voter survey results to more than one committee, the person shall apportion the value of the poll or survey to each committee receiving the results by one of the following methods and shall provide the apportioned values to the committees:
11.1111(5)(a) (a) Determine the share of the cost of the opinion poll or voter survey that is allocable to each recipient based on the allocation formula used by the person that conducted the poll or survey.
11.1111(5)(b) (b) Determine the share of the cost of the opinion poll or voter survey that is allocable to each recipient by dividing the cost of the poll or survey equally among all the committees receiving the results.
11.1111(5)(c) (c) Determine the share of the cost of the opinion poll or voter survey that is allocable to each recipient as follows:
11.1111(5)(c)1. 1. Divide the number of question results received by each recipient by the total number of question results received by all recipients.
11.1111(5)(c)2. 2. Multiple the total cost of the poll or survey by the number determined under subd. 1.
11.1111(6) (6) If a person makes a contribution of opinion poll or voter survey results to a committee after the person has apportioned the value of the results to previous recipients under sub. (5), the person shall make a good faith effort to apportion the value to the committee, considering the value apportioned to other recipients under sub. (5), and shall report that value to the committee. For purposes of this subsection, the total value of the contributor's aggregate contributions may exceed the original cost of the poll or survey.
11.1111(7) (7) A person who contributes opinion poll or voter survey results shall maintain records sufficient to support the contribution's value and shall provide the contribution's value to the recipient.
11.1112 11.1112 Corporations, cooperatives, and tribes. No foreign or domestic corporation, no association organized under ch. 185 or 193, no labor organization, and no federally recognized American Indian Tribe may make a contribution to a committee, other than an independent expenditure committee or referendum committee, but may make a contribution to a segregated fund as provided under s. 11.1104 (6) in amounts not to exceed $12,000 in the aggregate in a calendar year.
11.1112 Annotation The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether. Federal law prohibiting corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for speech defined as an “electioneering communication" or for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate is unconstitutional. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 130 S. Ct. 876, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753 (2010).
11.1113 11.1113 Sole proprietors, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
11.1113(1)(1) Sole proprietorships. A contribution made to a committee by a sole proprietorship is considered a contribution made by the individual who is the sole proprietor and subject to the limits under this subchapter.
11.1113(2) (2) Partnerships. A contribution made to a committee by a partnership is considered a contribution made by each of the contributing partners and subject to the limits under this subchapter. A partnership that makes a contribution to a committee shall provide to the committee the names of the contributing partners and the amount of the individual contribution made by each partner. For purposes of determining the individual contribution amounts made by each partner, the partnership shall attribute the individual contributions according to each partner's share of the partnership's profits, unless the partners agree to apportion the contribution in a different manner.
11.1113(3) (3) Limited liability companies.
11.1113(3)(a) (a) A contribution made to a committee by a limited liability company treated as a partnership by the federal internal revenue service pursuant to 26 CFR 301.7701-3 is considered a contribution made by each of the contributing members and subject to the limits under this subchapter. A limited liability company that makes a contribution under this paragraph shall affirm to the candidate committee that it is treated as a partnership for federal tax purposes and eligible to make the contribution. The company shall provide to the committee the names of the contributing members and the amount of the individual contribution made by each member. For purposes of determining the individual contribution amounts made by each member, the company shall attribute the individual contributions according to each member's share of the company's profits, unless the members agree to apportion the contribution in a different manner.
11.1113(3)(b) (b) A contribution made to a candidate committee by a single-member limited liability company in which the sole member is an individual is considered a contribution made by that individual and subject to the individual limits under s. 11.1101 (1). A limited liability company that makes a contribution under this paragraph shall affirm to the candidate committee that it is a single-member limited liability company in which the sole member is an individual and eligible to make the contribution.
11.1113 History History: 2015 a. 117; 2017 a. 366.
11.1114 11.1114 Two candidate committees.
11.1114(1)(1) If a candidate establishes a 2nd candidate committee under s. 11.0202 (2) to pursue a state or local office for which the contribution limit under this subchapter is higher than the contribution limit for the office that the candidate originally sought, the 2nd candidate committee may accept contributions up to the higher limit, but shall take into account the amount of any contributions transferred from the first candidate committee to the 2nd candidate committee to determine whether the 2nd candidate committee has reached or exceeded the higher limits.
11.1114(2) (2) If a candidate establishes a 2nd candidate committee under s. 11.0202 (2) to pursue a state or local office for which the contribution limit under this subchapter is lower than the contribution limit for the office that the candidate originally sought, the first candidate committee may transfer its contributions to the 2nd candidate committee in an amount not to exceed the contribution limits applicable to the 2nd candidate committee.
11.1114(3) (3) Upon termination of a 2nd candidate committee, the 2nd candidate committee may transfer any of its remaining funds to the first candidate committee in amounts not to exceed the contribution limits applicable to the persons who contributed to the first candidate committee.
subch. XII of ch. 11 SUBCHAPTER XII
PROHIBITED PRACTICES
11.1201 11.1201 False reports and statements. No person may prepare or submit a false report or statement to a filing officer under this chapter.
11.1202 11.1202 Earmarking.
11.1202(1)(1) The treasurer of a candidate committee may agree with a prospective contributor that a contribution is received to be used for a specific purpose not prohibited by law. That purpose may not include a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.
11.1202(2) (2) When a contribution is made to a committee other than a candidate committee, the contributor may not direct the committee to make a disbursement to a committee to support or oppose another candidate.
11.1202(3) (3) Except for transfers of membership-related moneys between committees of the same political party, no committee may transfer to another committee the earmarked contributions of others. Transfers of membership-related moneys between political parties shall be treated in the same manner as other transfers.
11.1203 11.1203 Coordination.
11.1203(1)(1) No political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person required to report under s. 11.1001, or individual may make an expenditure for express advocacy for the benefit of a candidate that is coordinated with that candidate, candidate's committee, or candidate's agent, nor with any legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or a political party, in violation of the contribution limits under s. 11.1101 or the source restrictions under s. 11.1112.
11.1203(2)(a)(a) For purposes of this section, an expenditure for express advocacy is coordinated if any of the following applies:
11.1203(2)(a)1. 1. The candidate, candidate's agent, legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or the candidate's political party communicates directly with the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual making the expenditure to specifically request that the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual make the expenditure that benefits the candidate and the political action committee, independent expenditure committee, other person, or individual explicitly assents to the request before making the expenditure.
11.1203(2)(a)2. 2. The candidate, candidate's agent, legislative campaign committee of the candidate's political party, or the candidate's political party exercises control over the expenditure or the content, timing, location, form, intended audience, number, or frequency of the communication.
11.1203(2)(b) (b) If an expenditure for express advocacy is coordinated, but not in violation of the coordination prohibitions under sub. (1), all of the following apply:
11.1203(2)(b)1. 1. The political action committee or independent expenditure committee making the expenditure shall report the expenditure as required under this chapter.
11.1203(2)(b)2. 2. The candidate committee shall report the expenditure as a contribution.
11.1203(3) (3) None of the following are considered coordinated communications prohibited under this section:
11.1203(3)(a) (a) Candidates endorsing and soliciting contributions for other candidates.
11.1203(3)(b) (b) Candidates, candidate committees, legislative campaign committees, and political parties responding to inquiries about a candidate's or political party's position on legislative or policy issues.
11.1203(3)(c) (c) Using publicly available information to create, produce, or distribute a communication if sub. (2) does not apply to such use.
11.1204 11.1204 Unlawful political contributions.
11.1204(1)(1) Subject to sub. (2), no person may, directly or indirectly, make any contribution other than from funds or property belonging to the person. No person may, directly or indirectly, give funds or property to another person for the purpose of making a contribution in other than the first person's name.
11.1204(2) (2) A conduit releasing a contribution of money in the manner prescribed in s. 11.0704 does not violate sub. (1).
11.1204(3) (3) No person may intentionally receive or accept any contribution made in violation of this chapter.
11.1204 Annotation The unit of prosecution under s. 11.24 (1), 1977 stats., is every transfer of funds to another person accompanied by the false listing of any single contributor. An individual illegally furnishing funds from a corporate account may be convicted under s. 11.24 (1), 1977 stats. State v. Dreske, 88 Wis. 2d 60, 276 N.W.2d 324 (Ct. App. 1979).
11.1205 11.1205 Use of government materials by candidates.
11.1205(1)(1)
11.1205(1)(a) (a) Except as provided in sub. (2), no person elected to state or local office who becomes a candidate for national, state, or local office may use public funds for the cost of materials or distribution for 50 or more pieces of substantially identical material distributed after:
11.1205(1)(a)1. 1. In the case of a candidate who is nominated by nomination papers, the first day authorized by law for circulation of nomination papers as a candidate.
11.1205(1)(a)2. 2. In the case of a candidate who is nominated at a primary election by write-in votes, the day the board of canvassers issues its determination that the person is nominated.
11.1205(1)(a)3. 3. In the case of a candidate who is nominated at a caucus, the date of the caucus.
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HomeSportSoccerDelap and Derry ready to face Cockhill
Delap and Derry ready to face Cockhill
Posted: 10:30 am April 28, 2017
Peter Doherty, Cockhill Celtic, and Adrian Delap (Right), Derry City Reserves will square off at the Dry Arch today
DERRY City Reserves star Adrian Delap has a busy football schedule at the moment, but that’s just the way he likes it.
The 18-year-old joined Derry at the start of 2016, after excelling for Letterkenny Rovers’ youth team.
He has been making steady progress, and as well as starring for the club’s Under 19 and Ulster Senior League teams, he has also been linking up with Kenny Shiels’ senior squad.
A first year student at LYIT, it’s a hectic time for Delap, as he has exams on the horizon, but his main focus this weekend is on the Donegal News League Cup Final today (Sunday) at 2pm.
“Everything is going well,” said the Ray native.
“We got our first win in the Under 19 League down in Athlone last week.
“The Ulster Senior League team has also done ok. We’re not going to win the league, but we’re not near the bottom either.
“We have this Cup Final to look forward to as well, so it’s been a good enough season.”
Delap developed a fine reputation at youth level, as an exciting, creative prospect, and it was no surprise that Derry took an interest in his talents.
Along with Ramelton men – Connor Gormley and Shane McNamee – he travels into Derry a couple of times a week to train at St Columb’s College, and he is very happy with the football education he is receiving.
“This is my second year in and I’m enjoying it. The three of us usually go in together.
“It makes it easier when there’s people you know in there as well and it didn’t take us long to get settled.
“The set-up is very good. We’re training two times a week on the pitch, and we’re in the gym twice a week as well.
“I can’t see too many other teams in the country doing that, so it’s great.
“Derry have always produced quality players, and they have a very good player development path.
“I maybe took a gamble going into Derry when all my friends were going to other teams, but it’s working out ok so far.”
Derry are renowned for giving young players a chance, and Delap has been given a taste of what it’s like to be a senior player this season.
He didn’t make the bench on Tuesday night for Derry’s clash with Limerick, but was involved with the squad in the lead-up to the game, and is picking up valuable tips from full-time footballers.
“I’ve been on the bench a couple of times over the last couple of weeks and it’s been a very good experience.
“It’s great for my development especially at this age. You see the experienced players, and they’re always switched on.
“They know what to expect from certain games, and they know the players to watch out for.
“I’m fond of Kenny (Shiels). He’s a good man and a good manager.”
Delap says he enjoys playing in the Ulster Senior League and challenging himself against more physical players.
He played a key role in helping the Candystripes reach the Donegal News League Cup final, by downing Rovers in the semi-final.
“We were 2-0 down, but we came back. I scored one and won a penalty, and then I got injured.
“It was a good result for us, and we were delighted to get through to the final, and we’re all excited about Sunday now.
“We have no Under 19 game this week, so our full concentration is all on the final.”
Delap is under no illusions about the task that his side face this week against Cockhill, but he is looking forward to testing himself against the reigning champions.
“They’ve ruled the roost for the last four or five years. They’re a top, top team, and they have quality players.
“It will be a good experience for us to come up against them in a final.”
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Eat My Shorts: Sinatra’s THE HOUSE I LIVE IN plus Trailer Gallery
Posted on August 21, 2015 by Kenn Fong
Last week we featured Pam Grady’s look at the movies screening at this weekend’s Ring-a-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra at San Francisco’s Vogue Theater. That article ended with coming attractions for the Friday and Saturday selections. Today we offer all of Sunday’s movies.
But first we want to offer you a film that the Chairman of the Board felt strongly about making in 1945. It won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
This 10-minute short has a theme of racial and religious tolerance and is especially timely in 2015. The lyrics Sinatra sings describe the wonderful things about America with images of the time—the butcher, the grocer, children in a playground, a wedding in a churchyard, co-workers and friends meeting. The “house” is a metaphor for the country in what is a patriotic song that had a resurgence of popularity after 9/11.
As the film opens Sinatra takes a break from a recording session and steps outside where he sees a youth gang chasing a Jewish boy and intervenes, telling them we are “all” Americans, each as good as the next and should be respected equally.
Abel Meeropol wrote the lyrics with music by Earl Robinson. Meeropol wrote The House I Live In under the pen name Lewis Allan for the Broadway show Let Freedom Ring (1942). He had mixed feelings about America, passionately defending the constitutional rights and freedoms that the country is based on but unhappy about the mistreatment of people of other races and religions, not to mention political views. But he wanted his song to express a hope for why we fight for this country.
When he saw the film he became so upset that a stanza of the song — “my neighbors white and black” – had been deleted and he felt altered the meaning, that he had to be removed from the theater.
Meeropol wrote many poems and songs including the anti-lynching poem that he adapted in the controversial song Billie Holiday made famous, Strange Fruit and the Peggy Lee hit Apples, Peaches and Cherries.
Sinatra loved the song and often sang it even as his political views moved from left to right in his later years. As an Italian-American he had experienced bigotry growing up. He sang it at John F. Kennedy’s inaugural, in the Nixon White House and for Ronald Reagan at the rededication of the Stature of Liberty in 1986.
At a Madison Square Garden concert in 1974 he made this introduction: “It’s a song about this great, big, wonderful, imperfect country. I say imperfect because if it were perfect it wouldn’t be any fun trying to fix it, trying to make it work better, trying to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake and then some. My country is personal to me because my father, who wasn’t born here, rest his soul, he made sure that I was born here. And he used to tell me when I was a kid that America was a land of dreams and a dreamland, well I don’t know if our country fulfilled all of his dreams while he was alive, but tonight with all of us together for this hour, it sure fulfills my dreams. And to all of you in the country and all of you watching tonight, here’s a song about a place we call home, probably the greatest nation ever put on this earth.”
In 1982, Sinatra sang a powerful version of The House I Live In at the Concert for the Americas in the Dominican Republic, which also featured Buddy Rich, Heart and Santana. “I’d like to think the words fit not only my country, but this country, and all of the Americas, today,” he said while introducing it.
Mark Steyn has written an in-depth essay on the film and song. Previews of Coming Attractions on Sunday at Ring-a-Ding-Ding: The Movies of Frank Sinatra:
Sunday, August 22:
Come Blow Your Horn 1:30 PM Buy tickets.
The Man With the Golden Arm 4 PM Buy tickets.
The Manchurian Candidate 6:30 PM Buy tickets.
Suddenly 9 PM Buy tickets.
Read more: Eat My Shorts features Frank Sinatra’s The House I Live In, Michael Cecconi shares a Sinatra-inspired Jack Daniels cocktail, Eat Like the Stars presents three of Frank Sinatra’s recipes, and a fan’s remembrance of meeting Old Blue Eyes.
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Washington DC Video Production to Prevent Conflict and Improve Lives
In rural Afghanistan, you play by the rules. Don’t look at women; stay in the armored vehicle unless given permission to exit; when you get out, stay close to your armed guard.
Life was on lockdown, and the culture cloaked behind the local languages of Dari and Pashto (which I don’t speak). I had only 20 minutes to film the women farmers and I could only interview one. Then, back to Kabul before dark.
I did my job and we exited the high-walled compound. Then, inexplicably, villagers from all angles began heading directly at me and my camera, like so many iron fillings attracted to a magnet.
What could they want? It was unnerving. I’d been to dozens of countries and found myself in lots of new situations, but Afghanistan was next-level. Then I heard a voice, familiar and in English. My Unit Producer, Najib Siawash, was hollering at me from a hilltop: these men wanted a photo! Of course.
That was how, in a dry, war-torn Afghan village, I got a portrait with a fighting dog, his trainer, a farmer, and a military man.
Producing Videos for Organizations That Work with Countries in Conflict
If you’re an international organization working in conflict-affected or war-torn areas, who do you trust to tell the story of your life-transforming work?
Dorst MediaWorks has produced for the International Executive Service Corps, the International Monetary Fund, USAID, USDA, the World Bank, Women for Women International, and other groups in countries in conflict or emerging from it: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo DRC, Lebanon, and Yemen.
Countries at peace have a much better chance to make steady social, economic, and political progress. Their people have a much better chance to flourish and lead more fulfilled, prosperous lives.
However, in an increasingly interconnected world, where conflict, violence, and extremism do not respect national borders, unprecedented numbers of people are at risk.
That is what motivates us as a Washington DC video production company to work with international organizations that are working in these difficult places. Videos about people living in fragility, conflict, and violence help to shine a light on what is happening, and help motivate diplomacy, security, and mediation to prevent violent conflict and bring peace and prosperity.
Here are some videos we’ve produced:
World Bank: Tackling Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Addressing the global challenge of fragility, conflict and violence is key to ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity. To tackle this complex landscape, the World Bank Group is taking a broader approach to fragility by focusing on prevention, and engaging during active conflict, transition and recovery. The organization is also helping forge partnerships between organizations that work on humanitarian aid, development, and peace initiatives, which explains the United Nations video interviews and footage we have in this one.
Sustainable Development Video Production: Afghanistan, Empowering Women Farmers
This video is what came from the footage I shot that day in rural Afghanistan. After the war, Afghan farmers — particularly women farmers — were getting virtually no support from the government. This is the story of how the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture improves how it does business, which helps farmers, spurs the economy, and contributes to stability. This is a program of the United States Department of Agriculture named CBCMP (Capacity Building and Change Management).
IFC: Strengthening Corporate Governance in Fragile and Conflict-affected Countries
This video production for the International Finance Corporation includes footage that Dorst MediaWorks traveled to Sarayevo, Bosnia to capture as well as footage sent to us from war-torn Yemen. Today many countries face political instability or are struggling to emerge from years of conflict. This threatens to destroy once vibrant businesses, sending more people into poverty. IFC works in fragile and conflict-affected countries to help businesses weather the difficulties through stronger corporate governance and by building up companies’ resilience, so they can emerge from crisis as powerful engines of economic growth, hiring people, and improving lives.
Washington DC USAID Video Production: Lebanon & Rabih’s Fishing Business
This is the story of Rabih, who struggles to make a living as a fisherman before buying a new boat and building his business. And the microfinance institution Al Majmoua, which is extending loans to rural entrepreneurs in Lebanon for the first time. Dorst MediaWorks produced this USAID video for USAID subcontractor International Executive Service Corps.
Washington DC USAID Video Production: Lebanon & Hala’s Flower Shop
This is the story of Hala, who had a passion for flower arranging and used to dream of starting her own business. And the microfinance institution Vitas, which is extending loans to women entrepreneurs in Lebanon for the first time. Since 1964, IESC has worked in 130 countries and helped to create or save over 1.5 million jobs.
Washington DC USAID Video Production: Expanding Microfinance in Rural Lebanon
This is the story of a USAID project, Lebanon Investment in Microfinance Program, which worked with nine microfinance institutions to improve access to finance and increase lending to business owners in rural Lebanon. The program awarded about $10 million in grants to microfinance partners, who then made 14,000 micro-loans totaling more than $30 million. In 2015, the nation’s first microfinance association was formed, which will better serve the needs of small business owners throughout Lebanon.
Washington DC Sustainable Development Video Production: Afghanistan, From Ledgers to Biometrics
This is the story of a transformation. After the war, the Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture is in disarray. Staff stand in line for an hour to sign in for work (if they come at all) and accounts maintain paper records. Through a USDA program named CBCMP (Capacity Building and Change Management) the Ministry undergoes an array of productivity and process improvements. Since 1964, IESC has worked in 130 countries and helped to create or save over 1.5 million jobs. Directed, shot, and edited by Steve Dorst.
Washington DC Video Production: “A Peace Plan, Oil Shock, & Crisis” [#1/4] The IMF in Colombia
This is a four-part video story of Colombia’s resilience in the face of economic crisis, which allowed it to move forward during an historic peace process. Today, a 53-year civil war with the FARC is a thing of the past, and rural Colombia is enjoying new investment and opportunity. The International Monetary Fund engaged Dorst MediaWorks to tell deeper documentary stories about its work in Vietnam, Ireland, and Colombia.
Washington DC Video Production: “A Tax Reform Succeeds” [#2/4] The IMF in Colombia
Washington DC Video Production: “Peace is Good for Business” [#3/4] The IMF in Colombia
Washington DC Video Production: “Business Goes to Quibdó,” [#4/4] The IMF in Colombia
Since 2002, Dorst MediaWorks has been producing videos for international organizations. That journey has taken our team to 50+ countries. Our mission is to be the best video production company for organizations that do good and help make the world a more just, sustainable, and equal place. If you share that vision or need a video, drop us a line…
If you’d like to check out more videos, refer to this YouTube playlist featuring all seven videos that Dorst MediaWorks produced for the International Executive Service Corps and the USDA in Afghanistan during the conflict:
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DATA PROCESSING INFORMATION
The DOT FOR YOU Design Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság business association (hereinafter referred to as “DOT FOR YOU or “data controller”) processes personal data provided it as specified in this Data Processing Information:
THE DATA CONTROLLER’S DATA:
Name: DOT FOR YOU Design Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság
Company registration number: 01-09-326961
Seat: 1068 Budapest, Király utca 80. fszt. 11.
Website: dotforyoushop.com
Postal address: 1072 Budapest, Klauzál tér 7. 3. em. 6a.
E-mail: info@dotforyou.hu
Contact information of the data protection officer:
Name: Erika Baglyas
Former data processing registration number of the webpage https://dotforyoushop.com: NAIH-140096/2018.
‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
‘controller’ means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;
‘processor’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller;
‘recipient’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing;
‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
‘personal data breach’ means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed.
THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING:
Purchases from DOT FOR YOU online shop, issue of invoices on the purchases, registration of Customers, performance of orders, documentation of purchases and payments, fulfilment of accounting obligation, customer relations, analysis of purchasing habits, more dedicated sales, contacting others with remarketing and direct marketing purposes, information on current offers and processing of employees’ data.
SCOPE OF DATA BEING PROCESSED:
The data controller learns the following personal data in the course of customer’s signing up, ordering/purchasing products and thereby processes in particular the following data: the client’s user name and e-mail address, and after the client is signed up, the client’s family and given names, shipping and/or billing address, telephone number, data pertaining to the product that is purchased, ordered or pre-ordered by the client (the name, quantity and price of the product) and the IP address.
The customer is required to provide his or her personal data for purchasing the product he or she has selected. Without the personal data, DOT FOR YOU cannot process the data subject’s order and no contract is concluded with the Data subject.
THE BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING:
for using cookies on dotforyoushop.com, signing up to the website and participating in promotional games: the data subject’s voluntary consent (Article 6(1) a) of the GDPR), the legitimate interest of the data controller
for purchasing from the online shop and for entering into employment contracts with: preparing and executing the contract entered into between the parties (Article 6(1) b) of the GDPR and Section 13/A (1) to (3) of Ektv) the legitimate interest of the data controller;
for direct marketing activities and profiling: the voluntary consent of the data subject (Article 6(1) b) of the GDPR, Section 6 (5) of the Act on Reklámtv.);
for invoicing, storing invoices and for employee data: obligations as per laws (including Számv.tv., Art., Áfatv.,Tbj., etc.).
RETENTION PERIOD FOR PERSONAL DATE SUBJECT TO PROCESSING:
The personal data of the data subject are retained as follows:
– for data processed on the basis of consent, until the deletion of registration/the consent is revoked;
– specified personal data, during the existence of the contractual relationship (under the legal title of performing the contract), and for 6 years after the contract is dissolved (for the legal interests of the data controller, taking into account the limitation period as per Art. and Ptk.); the invoices issued in connection with the contract, for eight years by the data controller (Section 169 (2) of the Számtv.);
– for the invoices issued, for 8 years, during the retention period as per the Act on Accounting (Section 169 (2) of the Számv. tv.);
– for data subjects participating in the promotional game, for six years after the prize is delivered;
– during the existence of employment relationship, for the purpose of fulfilling obligations under the law, and after the termination of the legal relationship for 6 years (for the legal interests of the data controller, taking into account the limitation period as per Mt. and Ptk.);
and upon the expiry of such periods, the data controller provides for the destruction or anonymization of such personal data.
If an authority or court proceedings has been launched for the enforcement of the rights or obligations arising from the contract within the retention period, the retention period is exceeded until the final completion of the proceedings.
For the purpose of providing customised services, the operator of the webpage dotforyoushop.com places the data subject’s computer and rereads so-called cookies. The cookies collect information, remember the customised settings, monitor the data subject’s session, prevent data loss, are used in cases such as when online carts are used, for instance, and generally make is easier for visitors to use the online shop. The data subject, when visiting the webpage for the first time, may decide as to whether to approve the use of cookies.
Cookies to be used:
a) session cookie: is automatically deleted following the data subject’s visit. These cookies help the Data controller’s website to work more effectively and safer and thus are necessary for the proper operation of certain functions or applications of the website.
b) persistent cookie: persistent cookies are used for the purpose of providing a better customer experience. These cookies are stored for a longer period in the cookie file of the browser. This period depends on the settings of the data subject’s internet browser.
c) “Cookies used in password protected session”, “cookies required for carts” and “security cookies” may be used even without the data subject’s prior consent.
d) Cookies for statistical/market purposes:
The data controller uses Google Analytics, Google Remarketing, AdWords Conversion Tracking and Facebook Remarketing programmes for the purpose of measuring visits, monitoring the behaviour of visitors, making statistics and for checking the efficiency of advertisements. These programmes place so-called cookies on the user’s computer which later on collect data.
External servers assist in tracking the number of visitors and making other web analytical measures; the cookies for statistical purposes of Google Analytics serve this purpose. These cookies help to monitor as to how the visitors use the website and which websites the visitor visit. These cookies do not collect identification data; the data collected are anonymous; its sole purpose is to enable Google to analyse as to how the visitor used the website as well as to prepare reports on the activity of the website and to provide further services related to the use of the website and internet use.
Detailed information on the processing of the measurement data may be requested from and provided by the data controller to data subjects. Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
If the data subject does not want that the data be measures in such manner by Google Analytics, he or she should install an Ad blocker in the browser.
The Data controller also uses Google AdWords, using the service of Google conversion tracking. This means that a cookie is placed on the computer of the data subject when the data subject finds a certain website through a Google advertisement. These cookies are valid for a limited period and contain no identification data which means that the data subject cannot be identified through them; however, when the data subject is searching on certain pages of the website while the cookie is still valid, Google and the data controller see if the data subject clicks on the advertisement. Each AdWords client gets a unique cookie, therefore, other cookies cannot be traced on the websites of other AdWords clients. Such information is used by AdWords to prepare statistics for its clients that have chosen the service of tracking. DOT FOR YOU may gain information as to the number of visitors that click on the advertisement and are then forwarded to the website subject to conversion tracking. However, it may not obtain any information that could be used to identify users.
The aforementioned tracking may be rejected by blocking cookies in the browser. By choosing this option, you won’t be included in the conversion tracking statistics. Further information and the Google Data Protection Policy are available on: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The data controller uses the programme of Google Remarketing for its online advertisements, which means that the data controller’s advertisements are shown on the websites of external service providers, such as Google. The data controller and the external service providers, such as Google, place own cookies of their own (such as Google Analytics cookies) and cookies from third parties (such as DoubleClick cookies) to gain information on previous visits on the website by users and to optimise and display advertisements.
The data controller used the pixel of Facebook Remarketing to increase the efficiency of Facebook advertisement, for the purpose of building a so-called marketing list. The external service provider, such as Facebook, displays advertisement on websites after visits on the website. Remarketing lists cannot be used for identification. These lists do not contain the personal data of visitors, only the browsing software is identified.
The “Help” function available in the menu bar of most browsers provides information as to how to block cookies, how to accept new cookies or how to direct the browser to install new cookies or turn off other cookies. By blocking the application of cookies, the data subject acknowledges that the website won’t operate properly and certain functions of the website won’t not available or cannot be used properly.
Help to set cookies:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=hu ,
Edge: Setting -> Advanced settings -> Cookies („Allow cookies” / „Block all cookies” / “Block only third-party cookies” or: F12 – Error view – Cookies
IE11: https://support.microsoft.com/hu-hu/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies ; https://support.microsoft.com/hu-hu/help/260971/description-of-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/hu/kb/sutik-engedelyezese-es-tiltasa-amit-weboldak-haszn
Visitors of dotforyoushop.com are notified of the use of cookies in the pop-up footer at the bottom of the page and may choose to allow the use of cookies on the website by clicking on the right button.
If the data subject does not approve the application of cookies used on the website (in particular session cookies, Optimonk cookies, Google Analytics, CDSDevice, cookie_notice_accepted), it may happen that certain services of the website will be unavailable or will not work properly. Blocking cookies may affect the appearance and user experience. The approval to the use of cookies that are used on the website may at any time be revoked.
SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES:
For the purpose of using certain social media functions, the links to Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn, with which the products can be shared on the profile of the data subject, are displayed on the data sheet of all products on the website, the controller is entitled to learn the public profiles of data subjects who has liked the website on their Facebook, Pinterest or LinkedIn social media pages or follow the data controller. In this case, the purpose of data collection is sharing and promoting the products and promotions of the data controller or the website itself. Data subjects may find information on the processing of data, the method and legal basis of data transfer on the respective social media pages. The data are processed on the social media pages, therefore, processing is subject to the regulations of the respective social media page.
The data controller, from time to time, organises and carries out promotional games on the page available at https://www.facebook.com/DOTforYOU/ in the interest of promoting and raising awareness to its products. The purpose of processing is participation in the promotional game, conducting lotteries, notifying the winners and complying with accounting obligations. In the course thereof, the data controller processed the name of the Facebook profiles of the Data subjects, the identification number, and other personal data provided voluntarily in the course of current games, including the contact information and address of the winner. The winner is chosen by the Data controller with the help of facebooknyertes.com, to which the data controller transfers only identification numbers attached to those participating in the game, and the service provider may not have access to data to specified persons. A separate information letter is available on the page of the respective promotions.
NEWSLETTERS, DIRECT MARKETING (DM):
By virtue of Act XLVIII of 2008 on essential conditions of and certain limitations to business advertising activity, subject to the prior express consent of the data subject, the data controller may contact the data subject with its advertisements and other mails at the contact information provided by the data subject when signing up. If the data subject has subscribed to the newsletter, the personal data provided in the course of subscribing for the newsletter may be processed exclusively for the purpose of sending newsletters to the e-mail address of the data subject, if the data subject has provided his or her voluntary consent to the processing. The newsletter contains direct marketing elements and advertisement. The purpose of sending newsletters is to provide information on current information and promotions of DOT FOR YOU products, to send direct marketing requests and to keep in touch with.
The personal data of data subjects provided in connection with newsletters may be stored by the data controller until the data subject unsubscribes from the newsletter from clicking on the button on “Unsubscribe” or request to be deleted from the list of subscribes to newsletters in any other way (e-mail, mail). After the data subject has unsubscribed, the data controller may no longer send newsletters and offers to the data subject. The data subject is entitled to unsubscribe from the newsletter and revoke his or her consent at any time.
PROFILING:
Collecting data for remarketing purposes qualifies as profiling under the GDPR. The visitors of the website are profiled on the basis of their interactions, the products they view or added to their carts or purchased.
The profiles are added to remarketing lists, which are used to target and customise advertisements. As a result of profiling, during their searches, data subjects are provided with personal marketing messages that are based on their activities.
The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
The aforementioned entitled may not be applied of the proceeding
is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller;
is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or
is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.
The data subject shall have the right to revoke his or her consent at any time. The revocation of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its revocation.
DATE PROCESSING:
The processor must act upon the instruction of the data controller, and the method of using the data and the purpose of processing are specified by the data controller. Data processors must not process personal data received from the data controller for their own purposes or for purposes other than those specified in the contact.
The data controller uses the services of the following data processors for the following activities as of the time this information letter becoming effective.
Data processor: DHL Express Magyarország Kft., (seat: BUD International Airport, Terminal 1, DHL Building 302, 1185 Budapest, rules of data processing: https://www.dhl.hu/hu/jogi_informaciok.html#privacy; seat of parent company: Deutsche Post AG, Headquarters, Platz der Deutschen Post, 53113 Bonn)
Activities performed by the data processor: Delivering purchased products to the clients at the address provided by the client (data subject). Drivers are provided only with the personal data that are strictly necessary for the delivery (name, address, telephone number).
Personal taking over at pickup points
Data processor: Lumen Zöldség és Közösségi Szolgáltató (address: 1077, Budapest,
Csányi utca 2.)
Activities performed by the data processor: Storing the purchased products, handing such products over to the client or the client’s representative. The data processor is provided only with the data that are strictly necessary to identify the products and the order (order identification).
Payment on the online shop
Data processor: PayPal (seat: PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal L-2449, Luxembourg; data processing regulations: https://www.paypal.com/hu/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full#7)
Data processor: OTP Mobil Kft. (seat: 1093 Budapest, Közraktár u. 30-32. Tel.: +36(1)366-6611 +36(20)366-6611 +36(30)366-6611 +36(70)366-6611 ; e-mail: ugyfelszolgalat@simple.hu ; https://simplepay.hu)
Data transfer statement:
I acknowledge the following personal data stored in the user account of DOT FOR YOU Design Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság (1068 Budapest, Király utca 80. fszt. 11.) in the user database of https://dotforyoushop.com will be handed over to OTP Mobil Ltd. (1093 Budapest, Közraktár u. -32.) and is trusted as data processor. The data transferred by the data controller are the following: name, email address, phone number, billing address, delivery address.
The nature and purpose of the data processing activity performed by the data processor in the SimplePay Privacy Policy can be found at the following link: http://simplepay.hu/vasarlo-aff
Activities performed by the data processor: Online payments made in connection with purchases from the online shop.
Data processor: KBOSS.hu Kft. (seat: 1031 Budapest, Záhony utca 7/C., Phone: +36-30-35-44-789, https://www.szamlazz.hu, e-mail: info@szamlazz.hu, data processing information: https://www.szamlazz.hu/adatvedelem/)
Activities performed by the data processor: issuing invoices on purchases from the online shop in compliance with legal provisions. The data processor is provided with billing name, address and the purchase price.
Sending newsletters
Data processor: MailChimp (https://mailchimp.com/contact/; seat: The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA; data processing information: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/)
Activities performed by the data processor: sending to the subscribers to newsletters marketing materials and information with content specified by the data controller. For this purpose, the data processor is provided with the list of the e-mail addresses of subscribers to the newsletters.
MailChimp is the framework to regulate trans-Atlantic exchange of personal data for commercial purposes; a USA company registered in the so-called Privacy Shield, the MailChimp undertook to provide adequate protection to personal data, and therefore, personal data from the territory of the European Union are allowed to be transferred to it.
Data processor: ProfiTárhely Kft. (seat: 6000, Kecskemét, Szolnoki út 23.)
Providing for the technical conditions of the online shop
Data processor: Horváth Sándor e.v. (seat: 6077 Orgovány, Szabadság u 30.)
Activities performed by the data processor: Making dotforyoushop.com available and operating it. The data processor is provided with the personal data of data subject in the course of operating the website and fulfilling its tasks; and the personal data must be used in compliance with their purpose and only in the extent necessary for the fulfilment of the data processor’s duties.
Data processor: “haMARhelp” KFT. (seat: 1121 Budapest, Kútvölgyi út 66/a. I/4.)
Activities performed by the data processor: Performing auditing, accounting and pay rolling tasks related to the data controller’s operation. The data processor is provided with the contents of the data controller’s invoices and the data of the data controller’s employees which may be processed only in the context of complying with legal regulations.
RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT:
The data subject may at any time request information on the processing of his/her personal rights from the data controller, and may request the rectification and, except for the processing of mandatory data, the erasure and withdrawal of his/her personal data, the restriction of processing, and may use the right of data portability, as well may object as specified at the time of data recording or through customer service.
Right to information (right to access):
All data subjects are entitled to proper and transparent information, which is the obligation of data controllers. The information must be provided to the data subjects in plain language and free of charge.
The data controller is obliged to provide information in a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language.
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information: the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations; the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored; the right to rectification, erasure, the restriction of processing and the right to objection; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; any available information as to the source of data; the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject. Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
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Overland adventures in India
India has shared so much of its incredible culture with the rest of the world, so a visit to this diverse and eclectic country is a chance to experience where it all began. India has so much to offer, from the beautiful landscapes of the Himalayas, the amazing temples and coastlines, the rich culture, the chaotic cities and of course the amazing food!
India's highlights include its stunning historical treasures such as the ancient cities of Fatehpur Sikri and Hampi, the Humayun's Tomb and Qutub Minar in Delhi, the phenomenal caves of Ellora and Ajanta, the stunning Shore Temples of Mahabalipuram, and of course the world-famous Taj Mahal.
Temples, plantations & beaches
There are some incredible religious sites, such as the Hindu temples of Madurai and Karmi Mata, and the Buddhist sites of Sikkim. There are some wonderful natural areas such as the vast deserts of Jaisalmer, the cool tea plantations of Wayanad and Darjeeling, the mountains of Gangtok, and the incredible beaches of Varkala and Goa.
Foremost a visit to India is probably best remembered by the welcome you are likely to receive. This, combined with India's unique atmosphere and the seemingly endless variety of the culture and the sights, is what brings travellers returning time and time again.
of India
Odisha Tribal Area
Wilds of Orissa & Kolkata Chennai - Kolkata
Through India
Moghuls, Mahel & Mayhem Kathmandu - Delhi
Through India, Nepal
WHI
Bengal & Bhutan Explored Kolkata - Kathmandu
Through Nepal, India + 1 more
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Rajasthan & Rajput Explorer Delhi - Mumbai
India - the Chaos, Charm & Calm Kolkata - Kathmandu
Through Nepal, India
Northern India & Nepal Kathmandu - Delhi
Goa & the Deep South Mumbai - Chennai
Darjeeling, Odisha & Bhutan Explorer Chennai - Kathmandu
Through Bhutan, Nepal + 1 more
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Darjeeling, Odisha & the Eastern Horizons Chennai - Kathmandu
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The Taj Mahal is by far the most recognisable icon of India. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, coming face-to-face with this magnificent building never disappoints.
Built between 1632-1653 CE by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, the spectacular building was a mausoleum in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died while giving birth to their 14th child. Because of this origin, the building is often described as a "monument to love".
It took over 20,000 labourers and skilled craftsmen to built it, some of whom were brought in from all over India, Central Asia and even Europe to work on the marble inlay work and complex decorations. The site has been described by UNESCO as being "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage".
The Taj Mahal is fantastic to explore at any time of the day, but the early mornings are the best - sitting quietly and watching as the iridescent white marble takes on a soft morning glow is a memory you will never forget.
Jodhpur, situated on the edge of the Thar Desert, is affectionately known as the "Blue City" of Rajasthan due to its many indigo coloured houses in the old town. These are best seen from the ramparts of the mighty Mehrangarh Fortress, which looms above the bustling city. Built in the late 15th Century CE, the colossal fort of Mehrangarh is the largest in the whole of Rajasthan, and has never been taken by force. The fort complex itself is huge and spreads over the hill looking over Jaipur - it houses the Maharaja's Palace as well as a number of temples, extensive gardens and some of the most well-stocked museums and galleries in all of India.
Elsewhere in the city, Nai Sadak is the place to head for shopping, and the Sardar Market is a riot of sights, sounds and smells that's a baffling assault on the senses. Also in Jodhpur are the historical sites of Jaswant Thada, built at the end of the 19th Century and constructed entirely out of sheets of marble, and Mandore, the ancient capital of Marwar.
Set on the banks of the river Ganges, Varanasi (formerly known as Benares) is the holiest place in the Hindu religion. Hindu pilgrims travel here from all over the world come here to wash away their sins in the blessed river water of the Ganges, and to cremate their loved ones who have passed away. In Hindu mythology, to die in the city of Varanasi will result in instant "moksha", a release from the cycle of death and reincarnation. Varanasi is also the birthplace of Buddhism, as the Buddha is said to have given his first ever sermon at the nearby site of Sarnath in 528 BCE.
Dawn is probably the best time of day to experience the city - by floating down the river on a boat, you can witness thousands of worshippers coming to the river's ghats to purify themselves in their morning rituals. You will also be able to see the burning ghats, where the bodies of the faithful are cremated and their ashes strewn out over the waters. To the Hindu people, Varanasi is a very special and spritual place, and it has a very evocative and sometimes other-wordly atmosphere, although being so close to the intimate rituals of life and death can sometimes leave you feeling a little overwhelmed.
The hinterlands of Odisha are home to more than 60 different tribal communities, all with their own distinct indigenous culture and traditions. Perhaps one of the most fascinating tribes are the 'Bondas', fiercely-independent people of Tibeto-Burmese origin. The women of this tribe wear many silver necklaces from their shoulders up to their chin and prefer to take younger husbands, so that they will have someone to earn a livelihood for them in their old age.
The Paraja tribe are also particularly interesting because of the numerous deities that they worship, who are all said to live in the hills and forests. They also love dance and music, and their celebrations are also accommopanied by a lot of singing and dancing.
This is a remote region which is difficult to visit as a single traveller, and exactly the kind of place where overlanding comes into its own.
To many people, Goa is all about the beaches - and it's fair to say that the soft white sand and sparkling blue water of the Arabian Sea are definitely some of the main attractions here.
But this is also an area rich in history and culture. The coastal state retains much of its old Portuguese colonial architecture, traditions, religion, and lifestyle, particularly in the old capital of Old Goa, where there are several churches, a cathedral and lots of great local markets, all well worth exploring.
Relax under a palm tree on the beach, watch the dhows sailing out into the sunset and see the fishing boats landing their catch, or wander around the local spice plantations revelling in their heady scent - there's something here for all kinds of different travellers. The locals say that time moves more slowly in Goa, so if nothing else it's a brilliant stop for a few days, a great chance to enjoy a bit of tranquility in an often frenetic country.
Goa is also home to some fantastic cuisine, including many fish-based curries, classic Goan pork vindaloo and Feni, a local spirit made from coconut and cashew nuts.
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1 Year Later March 6, 2012
Posted by Dru in Japan.
Tags: 1 year later, 1 year on, 2011, Aomori, back to normal, Chiba, Earthquake, Fukushima, Great East Earthquake, Great East Japan Earthquake, Iwate, japan, Japan Earthquake, March 11, Miyagi, nuclear power, Occupy Kasumigaseki, Occupy Protest, protest, Sendai, TEPCO, Tohoku, Tohoku Earthquake, tokyo
Author’s Note: Dru’s Misadventures has moved to HinoMaple. Please venture on over there to read “1 Year Later” complete with photos. http://wp.me/p2liAm-Nm
Almost 1 year has passed since the earth moved, literally. I feel like a broken record as I mention the huge earthquake that occurred off the coast of Miyagi on March 11, 2011. The tremor was felt almost all over Japan and the tsunami that followed cut a swath of destruction from Chiba to Aomori. To give you an idea of how far that is, in 2007, I rode my motorcycle from Tokyo to a location near the northern point of Aomori. It took me over 12 hours of riding on mostly highways at around 100km/h. Of course I had breaks but the distance was roughly 700km or so. It is almost unbelievable to imagine so much land was washed away due to the tsunami. The following days after the earthquake was a tense one as people realized just how bad the earthquake had been and the realization of how many lives were lost and the time it would take to rebuild.
My own personal ordeal was somewhat well documented on this blog and I had made updates to travellers when asked about Japan. It took roughly 6 months for Tokyo to return to complete normalcy. For the first two or three months Tokyo was a very different city. With infrastructure being damaged in an area just east of Tokyo, several roads, water mains, and electrical lines were cut. It didn’t take long to fix everything and the speed at which things were repaired was amazing. After the earthquake and over the summer, Japan had to institute energy saving measures which made the Tokyo a very dark place, relatively speaking. Tokyo is usually a bright and vibrant city but from spring till summer, the city was very sombre. It didn’t take long for people to return to their normal routines and people seemed to quickly forget about the people in Tohoku. Similar to the events of 9-11 in America, after a week or so, the public starts to turn its attention to regular non-essential things. In Japan, you can easily see news programs repeating information about the troubles and hardships the people in the eastern Tohoku region are experiencing. It is a terrible situation for them that will last years if not decades. In the past year most of the east coast has been cleaned up and only sorted debris remains in some places. Recently the final evacuation centre closed and most of the people displaced due to their homes being washed away have been placed in various temporary homes.
In the past year I have also come to envy and silently commend a lot of people whom I have met in the past year or so. A lot of the people whom I have met have made trips up to the Tohoku region. I have seen one person make a trip almost every month. It is amazing to see how many people from Tokyo made a trip up to Tohoku in the months following the earthquake. I would see pictures on Facebook that would highlight their personal trips up to Tohoku and the challenges they had. Some drove, some took trains, and many took buses. The main clean-up took roughly 6 months, if the accounts from my friends are any indication. There are still mountains of garbage in the destroyed towns that need to be removed and disposed of but they are at least sorted and awaiting incineration, burial, or recycling. It is an unfortunate situation to see in the news recently that many cities and people all over Japan are against the disposal of the waste. While most of it is safe with no radiation, NIMBYism has been rampant and it has been difficult for municipal officials in other regions to convince their residents that the waste is safe. I have even heard of pleas from a few mayors from the tsunami ravaged areas pleading for people to understand and help out so that their cities can begin the process of rebuilding. Without the ability to remove the waste, the area cannot rebuild.
With the spring approaching in Japan, it is hard to imagine how Tohoku can move on. There are various documentaries and news stories starting to be shown on local TV to remind people of the problems that are still affecting the people on the coast however I fear that the general public is now turning their focus on nuclear energy and the problems in Fukushima. I remember passing by an Occupy Kasumigaseki camp in Tokyo in early January. Kasumigaseki is the neighbourhood where the Japanese national government is located. It was a very small camp with less than 20 people, by my crude estimate. Most of them wanted to remove nuclear energy from Japan. There have been various demonstrations over the past year against nuclear power and they continue to be present. There are a lot of open meetings for various government officials at all levels as well as for TEPCO. Most of these meetings have been fairly boring but the news programs are sure to show the outbursts of residents at each of the meetings. While I can’t understand everything that is being said, many are angry at the inability to go home, the thought of burning trash with a potential to have a trace of radioactive material on it, or the idea of restarting nuclear reactors in Japan. It seems as if nuclear energy is dead in Japan and only time will tell if this is true, but for the people in Tohoku, it is a shame that the general public is no longer trying to help them rebuild. (Note: This is just a perception that I have from watching various media. I doubt people don’t want to help rebuild Tohoku, but their focus is more on the nuclear issues that the future of the devastated towns.)
Personally, I am also a victim of forgetting. I have been busy with various work activities and I haven’t been able to sit back long enough to think about the people in Tohoku. It is an unfathomable job to rebuild the entire area if they even want to. I really hope things get back to normal for everyone. I have the luxury to enjoy living in Tokyo where things are virtually back to normal. Aside from a few reports in the news reminding people about the dangers of a potential future earthquake and meeting up with friends where we sometimes bring up the earthquake again, there are few points where I even think about the earthquake last year. It is a shame that I haven’t helped Tohoku enough and I do regret not doing my part. That is the problem of living a relatively busy life. I hope I won’t be too busy to take a minute out of my supposedly busy life to reflect and pray (to whatever god/spirit is out there) for the people of Tohoku. I hope you will also do the same this Sunday.
1 Year Later is part of a series of posts following the earthquake in Japan. Please continue reading the following posts in this series:
The Great 2011 (Higahi-Nihon) East Japan Earthquake
Kobe Refugee (Media Musings)
Saving Power in Tokyo
The New Normal (After the 2011 Great Higashi-Nihon Earthquake)
2012 Tokyo Auto Salon January 24, 2012
Posted by Dru in Japan, Tokyo.
Tags: 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, Auto Salon, Back to the Future, BBS, Bridgestone, Chiba, Chiba-ken, DeLorean, GD, HKS, japan, Lexus SC430, Makuhari, Makuhari Messe, Mazda, Mazda RX-7, Mazda RX-8, Motor Show, NATS, NATS to the Future, Nihon Auto College, Nissan GT-R, Nissmo, Rays, RE Amemiya, SEMA, STi, tokyo, Tokyo Auto Salon, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo Motor Show, Tokyo-to, Tommy Kaira, Toyota Prius, Toyota Soarer, Toyota Soarer Z40, tuner, tuner car, Veil Side, VeilSide, Yokohama
Author’s Note: Dru’s Misadventures has moved to HinoMaple. Please venture on over there to read “2012 Tokyo Auto Salon” complete with photos. http://wp.me/p2liAm-M4
Last week I had written about going to the Tokyo Motor Show at the end of 2011. In January 2012, a second motor show of the season called the Tokyo Auto Salon is held. This is a very different car show compared to the Tokyo Motor Show. The Tokyo Motor Show is a typical auto show that focuses on new cars and concepts from the major car manufacturers. The Tokyo Auto Salon is a tuner car show that is similar to the SEMA show. For those who are unfamiliar with the auto industry, a tuner car is any car that has been modified from its original form. This can be anything from upgrading engine parts, changing the paint or any other part of the car. It can be very subtle to very crazy. The Tokyo Auto Salon is the best way to see all of the potential craziness people can do to their own cars.
The first thing to understand about visiting the Tokyo Auto Salon is to know where to go. The Tokyo Auto Salon is held in Makuhari Messe in Makuhari, Chiba. It is one of the most famous convention centres in Tokyo with concerts and various trade shows being held at all times of the year. Due to the layout and cheap rent relative to Tokyo Big Sight makes this a very attractive location for trade show organizers. The Tokyo Auto Salon is a large show that encompasses the main 8 halls as well as a small exhibition outside. While they don’t make use of the entire facility, they made use of a huge space nonetheless. Compared to the Tokyo Motor Show, it felt somewhat smaller, yet more tiring. The show itself has a lot more to see and it is all crammed into a somewhat smaller space than the Tokyo Motor Show. There are relatively less people at the Tokyo Auto Salon but with the area being more cramped makes getting around the show floor difficult. When visiting the Tokyo Auto Salon, like the Tokyo Motor Show, I highly recommend going early and being as patient as possible.
As I mentioned, the Tokyo Auto Salon is very different to the Tokyo Motor Show. It focuses on tuner cars. The entire Auto Salon in 2012 was loosely divided into sections. There were the custom car areas, the manufacturer custom car division, accessories, sound systems, paint, and custom car displays. While there are many sub-sections in each area, they generally kept close to their theme. All of the major Japanese aftermarket tuners were at this show. Many of the well-known Japanese aftermarket companies such as VeilSide, Tommy Kaira, and HKS were present at the show. Wheel and tire manufacturers such as Bridgestone, Yokohama, BBS, and Rays were also present. You could easily spend hours just visiting these booths to see what new and innovative products they had. Each company had their own theme. HKS was very much performance based while VeilSide was all about looks. The major Japanese manufacturers had their own booths as well showcasing the products of STi, GD, Nissmo and others. These names may not seem very familiar but companies like STi stand for Subaru Tecnica International. They are subsidiaries set up by their parent companies to be somewhat independent but loyal to their parent company. In fact, most of the companies were fairly loyal to one or two manufacturers. RE Amemiya is a well-known tuner company that is known for their ability to tune Mazda RX-7s and RX-8s. It provided a lot of variety into the designs of each car that can be both a blessing and a curse.
The other aspect of the show is to showcase individual cars. At the Tokyo Auto Salon, some of the aftermarket companies brought cars to be judged. Other individuals from around Japan also brought their cars to be put on display. Most of the cars on display in the general area were street legal. By far the most memorable was one by NATS (Nihon Auto College). It is a school that teaches the students how to fix and modify cars. They modified a Lexus SC430 (SoarerZ40 in Japan) to be a modern take on the original DeLorean from the “Back to the Future” movies. It was a work of art and craftsmanship that was nearly unmatched in the entire show. There were other great examples of their work that was present in the auto show but that one still sticks out in my mind. NATS is a great college that probably doesn’t get much attention overseas. It is a very creative group of students and teachers working together like a master and their apprentices. In fact, I would say that most of the companies at the show acted in a very similar way. From my very limited knowledge of the aftermarket industry, a lot of it is art with a healthy dose of mechanics. With enough time and money, you could create anything you wanted but you still need the ideas to make something good.
One other aspect of the show is the women. No auto show would be complete without having beautiful women posing in front of the expensive cars. The Tokyo Motor Show was the same yet very different. The women at the Tokyo Motor Show had to either fit in with the theme of the manufacturer. Many times you would see women in the strangest costumes just to fit the theme. At the Tokyo Auto Salon, that seemed to be less apparent. Most of the women at the show were there to get as many people to their booths. You could tell which booth had a woman modeling by the crowds surrounding them. If there was a large crowd, it was highly likely that there was a woman there. It was a bit sad as the most beautiful women, rather sexy looking, were getting the most attention. The women who dressed in a regular way or those who didn’t go the extra mile to look beautiful or sexy didn’t get large crowds of men with cameras in front of them. It is an unfortunate part of life that men usually think predictably. Each booth that had girls had a slightly different taste but in general. When you see a few booths, you have basically seen all of the girls as they all have girls that are differentiated by the colour of their clothes and a little difference in taste or style but generally it is similar and gets numbing after a while.
There are several final thoughts I have about the show itself. My first thought is that it was cramp and crowded the entire time. At the Tokyo Motor Show, I had a lot more energy to see the entire show whereas at the Tokyo Auto Salon, after an hour or so I was exhausted. I would also say that the types of people that went to the show were different. The Tokyo Motor Show is geared towards the average person. I saw more families at the Motor Show compared to the Auto Salon. I also saw more young people and “gangsters” at the Auto Salon. While I would not say that they are gangsters, some of them did fit the bill in terms of style. There were also more camera geeks who would do anything to push their way forward to get dozens of photos of the same girl. It was annoying and difficult to manage. For those who love fixing cars and seeing tuners, I highly recommend visiting the Tokyo Auto Salon. In fact, you might enjoy it a lot more. Unfortunately, since it is a tuner crowd, expect to see a plethora of Nissan GT-Rs, Toyota Prius’, and Mazda RX7s. It is an unfortunate reality that domestic cars will get more attention as it is cheaper to buy a domestic car than an imported car and easier to get parts for it. Either way, there are some great cars to see and if I had the time and patience, I would go for a second day as well.
2012 Tokyo Auto Salon is part of a series of posts about various car and bike shows in Tokyo. To read more about the other car and bike shows, please follow the links below:
2011 Tokyo Motor Show
2010 Tokyo Motorcycle Show
Tokyo Auto Salon: http://www.tokyoautosalon.jp/
NATS (Blog with Tokyo Auto Salon information): http://www.nats.ac.jp/pc/as/ebizo/index.php?day=20120114
2011 Tokyo Motor Show January 17, 2012
Tags: 2011 Tokyo Motor Show, Chiba, japan, Makuhari Messe, Motor Show, tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo Motor Show
Author’s Note: Dru’s Misadventures has moved to HinoMaple. Plesae venture on over there to read “2011 Tokyo Motor Show” complete with photos. http://wp.me/p2liAm-LT
In December of 2011, I had the luxury to head to the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. It is a regular pilgrimage for me to go and see this event. The Tokyo Motor Show has been held every second year since 2005. Prior to 2005, it was held every year, however one year was dedicated to passenger vehicles and the next was dedicated to commercial vehicles. Since 2005, they combined both shows into one large event. The last Tokyo Motor Show was in 2009 and it was at the height of the financial crisis that started in 2008. While a lot of the pain of the financial crisis had subsided a lot, most of the planning for the 2009 show had to occur in the beginning of the 2009 and a lot of manufacturers pulled out of the show citing financial problems and a declining relevance of the Tokyo show itself. The 2011 show had a very different feeling and it is debatable whether things got better or worse.
The 2011 Tokyo Motor Show had moved from its recent traditional home of Makuhari Messe in Chiba to Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. It was a bit of a shock for me to hear that, but at the same time I was very happy to hear it. I don’t normally enjoy heading out to Makuhari Messe as it feels very far away. Odaiba is still within Tokyo and there is a lot to do in the area. Makuhari is a somewhat isolated area that is famous for the convention hall, baseball stadium, and outlet mall but not much else. In 2005, the largest show I attended, it occupied all of the main halls in Makuhari Messe. This created over 70,000 square metres of exhibition space. In 2009, they only occupied the main halls with over 54,000 square metres of space. It was a very noticeable difference that year. For 2011, they used all of Tokyo Big Sight for roughly 80,000 square metres of exhibition space. I couldn’t completely verify the numbers for Tokyo Big Sight but I thought it was a lot smaller than that. It is a large convention hall regardless and it still took me nearly a full day to see everything.
The theme of the 2011 Motor Show was “Mobility can change the world”. On the Tokyo Motor Show website, they say the motto shows how technology developed in cars and other vehicles can help change the world for the better. Whereas the typical internal combustion engine has been derided as a harmful invention for the environment, the organizers of the show wanted visitors to understand how the various manufacturers were trying to change people’s perceptions. In 2009, the motto was “Fun Driving for Us, Eco Driving for Earth”. This is a bit more fitting as they are explicitly talking about the new green technology that most of the manufacturers were trying to promote. While the 2011 show did have a heavy “green” theme to it, it also had a very strong theme that things will change in the future. All of the manufacturers in attendance brought the standard set of concept vehicles, new vehicles, and displays of technology. Upon reflecting on the exhibits I visited, there did appear to be a bit more emphasis on technology at this show compared to past shows, but it could also be a bit of a bias on my part after researching this post and reflecting on what I saw.
The 2011 show was most notable for its return to Tokyo, as well as the return of a few foreign manufacturers. In 2009, a lot of the manufacturers pulled out leaving the show nearly crippled. This time, enough had returned to create a better balance, but on the whole most of the exhibits were Japan based manufacturers. In fact, the Toyota group took up an entire hall on their own displaying the various products from Daihatsu, Lexus, and of course Toyota. All of the manufacturers brought various new cars as well as concepts however the area seemed to be more spacious. I was lucky enough to attend the show on a weekday, but it was still as busy as ever and very hard to get around. It wasn’t very enjoyable trying to fight with people trying to take photos but that is the life of those who can’t go to the show on press days.
Comparing this show to the past shows I attended, I would say that things are similar, yet different. I was happy that the show was back in Tokyo, rather than still being in Chiba. I was also happy that I could go on a weekday and see the various new cars. Unfortunately, there weren’t many world premier cars at the show. The relevance of the Tokyo Motor Show is decreasing each year and I fear that the ability to see cars for the first time in person before most of the world will be rarer and rarer. With China and India vying for greater importance in the automotive world, Japan will be nothing more than an afterthought as most manufacturers, Japanese included, vie for increasing markets in developing countries. Let’s hope those in Japan can continue to get a top notch motor show for the foreseeable future.
2011 Tokyo Motor Show is part of a series of posts about various car and bike shows in Tokyo. To read more about the other car and bike shows, please follow the links below:
2012 Tokyo Auto Salon
Outlet Malls of Tokyo November 16, 2010
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Shopping is a major attraction of Tokyo, and the Outlet Malls are no exception. While there is a lot of information out there on the different outlet malls, the information isn’t very detailed, and it’s difficult to understand the history of outlet shopping in Tokyo. In Japan, shopping in large shopping malls, much less outlet malls, is a new concept. Based on my short research, the first outlet mall is Outlet Mall RiSM located in Saitama. This was opened in 1993. It’s a fairly small outlet mall, from what others have said, and from their website, caters mostly to Japanese brands. It isn’t too far from central Tokyo, but probably not worth a trip for the average person. There are several other “independent” outlet malls with locations in Machida (western Tokyo) one on Chiba which is east of Tokyo, and a new one that opened in Odaiba’s Venus Fort in December, 2009. Do note that the Odaiba outlet mall is small but worth a short visit if you are in the area.
In general, there are only two companies that have outlet malls that are worth visiting. Mitsui Outlet Parks are the largest chain of outlet malls in Japan. They have 10 locations throughout Japan and 4 within the Tokyo area. Depending on where you are staying or living, each one is convenient. For those living on the east side of Tokyo, or in Chiba, the Makuhari branch is the best. It is located next to Makuhari Messe and a lot of their business is from people visiting the convention centre and doing a little shopping at the same time. This outlet mall is pretty good overall. While it isn’t huge, nor is it the best, for those looking to go somewhere close by, and for only half a day, this is a good location. Due to its relative close proximity to Tokyo, it can be very busy at times. The other close mall would be the Tama Minami Osawa branch, located in Tama. This one is best for those living on the west side of Tokyo. From what I have heard, it isn’t that great, but very convenient and close enough to Tokyo to enjoy. The last convenient branch would be the Yokohama Bayside. This isn’t convenient for anyone in Tokyo, but for those in Yokohama, it’s a wonderful place to visit. It’s large with many shops to see. Unfortunately, it’s far from the station, about a 5-10 minute walk, and there is nothing else to do after you have finished. It can take nearly one full day if you are travelling from Tokyo. For those living in Saitama, or north western Tokyo, a trip to Iruma is also an option, but not convenient unless you have a car. This is one of Mitsui’s largest outlet malls, and the newest one in the Tokyo region. Unfortunately, it’s too far from the station making it tough for a regular tourist to visit.
Personally, and by many accounts on the internet, Gotemba Premium Outlets is the best outlet mall near Tokyo. It is locate about 1.5 hours west of Tokyo and requires a bus to get there. It’s located near the foot of Mt. Fuji creating a very picturesque scene for shopping. Do note that Mt. Fuji is often obscured by clouds, and I have never really seen it when I have been to Gotemba. Then again, I have been very unlucky and only visited Gotemba when it was raining. This mall is huge, to say the least. It can take several hours to get through all of the shops, but it can be worth it. The food may be expensive, but thankfully, there are several places for children to have fun, including a small amusement park. Do beware of the crowds on the weekend as it’s very popular. Compared to the Mitsui outlet malls, Chelsea is more upscale with more foreign brands due to its foreign ownership.
For those looking for a cheap shopping experience near Tokyo, you can’t really go wrong with the outlet malls. The only down sides are that they tend to be farther away from central Tokyo. They also can’t compete well with the large sales that happen every few months at the department stores. The amount you save on travel expenses may be more than enough to say home. However, it’s still a great experience to see the other areas of Tokyo that few people experience. If you are looking for a basic shopping mall, there are a few in eastern Tokyo, such as Lalaport Toyosu and Olinas Mall in Kinshicho.
Wikipedia index of Outlet Malls in Japan (Japanese): http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:日本のアウトレットモール
Wikipedia on Mitsui Outlet Malls (Japanese): http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/三井アウトレットパーク
Premium Outlets (English): http://www.premiumoutlets.co.jp/en/
Premium Outlets (Japanese): http://www.premiumoutlets.co.jp/
Gotemba Premium Outlets (English): http://www.premiumoutlets.co.jp/en/gotemba/
Gotemba Premium Outlets (Japanese): http://www.premiumoutlets.co.jp/gotemba/
Mitsui Outlet Park (English): http://www.31op.com/english/index.html
Mitsui Outlet Park (Japanese): http://www.31op.com/english/
Venus Fort (Japanese, but logos of the outlet shops): http://www.venusfort.co.jp/index.html
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The Only “Jobs Plan” That Matters These Days
Mr. Obama, optimistic to a fault—or as shrewd as Machiavelli—is offering Republicans yet another opportunity (yet another “grand bargain”) to come to the aid of the country, an opportunity right-wingers will, of course, reject.
Why? Why would they reject a deal to cut tax rates on businesses in exchange for “a significant investment in creating middle-class jobs,” as the President offered in Chattanooga today? Because the rejection is not based on the offer, but the offer-er, the Scary Negro in the White’s House. They deal with him at their own political peril.
President Obama, making fun of House Republicans, said today that “wasting the country’s time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal ObamaCare is not a jobs plan.” About that he is certainly wrong. Taking all those meaningless votes is a jobs plan for right-wing legislators, as those meaningless votes will help keep them employed in Congress after the 2014 elections. Republican primary voters have a preternatural affection for such meaninglessness and they nearly always reward its champions.
And there’s the problem. A relative handful of extreme and energetic reactionaries, strategically spread across the country in tangled and twisted congressional districts, fed propaganda day after day by well-funded right-wing interest groups, can, by proxy, stand in the way of anything that looks like progress for the country as a whole.
For that we can think the collective genius of our Founders, the Supreme Court, and, most important, the indifference and complacency found among a rather large number of Americans, folks in the 99% who can’t send their spare cash on exotic vacations in the Cayman Islands, but who are willing to sit back, refuse to vote, and allow a tiny fraction of the electorate who can park money in sun-soaked hideaways to control politics in Washington and elsewhere.
[AP Photo]
by R. Duane Graham on July 30, 2013 • Permalink
Tagged grand bargain, jobs plan, middle-class jobs, Republicans
Posted by R. Duane Graham on July 30, 2013
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/the-only-jobs-plan-that-matters-these-days/
Can Corporations Pray? And Other Tales From The Blue Dot
What strange creatures we are.
I don’t know exactly why it struck me this way, but two items in the news seem to be related in some strange way.
First up is a decision out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that declared, according to SCOTUSblog:
that a family-owned, profit-making business cannot challenge on religious grounds the new federal health care law’s mandate of birth control health insurance for its workers. The two-to-one decision by the Philadelphia-based court conflicts with a recent ruling by the Denver-based Tenth Circuit Court.
The blog provides a little background:
The case involves a Pennsylvania company that makes wooden cabinets. All of its stock is owned by members of the Hahn family, who practice the Mennonite faith. Their company has 950 employees, and it is company policy not to support “anything that terminates a fertilized embryo.” The objection is aimed at two drugs that must be provided in health coverage for employees under the contraception mandate — the so-called “morning-after pill,” such as Plan B, and the so-called “week-after pill,” known by the name ella […]
The Third Circuit majority concluded that the First Amendment right to exercise a religious belief — under the Free Exercise Clause — is a “personal right” that exists for the benefit of human beings, not artificial “persons” like corporations. Religious belief, it said, develops in the “minds and hearts of individuals.” In drawing this conclusion, he noted the contrary view announced by the Tenth Circuit Court, and said that “we respectfully disagree.”
The majority remarked: “We do not see how a for-profit, ‘artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law,’ that was created to make money could exercise such an inherently ‘human’ right.” The opinion said that the judges could not find a single court opinion, before the lawsuits against the contraception mandate began, that had found that a profit-making corporation doing ordinary business had its own right of “free exercise” of religion.
It is one thing for a religious organization to be able to exercise the tenets of its faith, the court said, and another thing for a purely secular corporation to make the same claim.
So, this latest court decided that, unlike people, corporations cannot worship God and, presumably, can’t pray down the wrath of the Almighty on their competitors.
Now, it strikes me as beyond weird that we, here in the twenty-first century, are hung up on whether a non-human entity like a corporation can have a personal relationship with God. I mean, it’s one thing to define corporations as people, just so they can give lots of money to Republicans, but it is quite another to define them as people so they can, among other things, prove their fealty to God by denying women contraception coverage.
In any case, that leads me to my second item in the news, which is this stunning photograph produced by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, while it was beyond Saturn, some 900 million miles—yes, 900 million miles—away:
That’s a picture of the earth and the moon. Somewhere in that picture are you and I on July 19, 2013. Somewhere in that picture are the judges about to issue their opinion on whether corporations can worship God by not having to provide access to birth control via insurance policies. Somewhere roams Steve King and his imaginary cantaloupe-calved friends. Somewhere Anthony Weiner and his text-friendly schnitzel are about to doom his—their?— political future.
Yes, what strange creatures we are.
But I won’t end it there, thanks to Phil Plait (“The Bad Astronomer”), who reminded us of one of my heroes, Carl Sagan, and his remarkable “Reflections on a Mote of Dust,” written shortly before his death in 1996. Sagan was commenting on a photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, but what he said is even more amazing as you think about the Cassini picture above. It’s something to mull over this weekend, as we will, no doubt, hear the usual God-talk and more political commentary on Steve King and Anthony Weiner and the ongoing dysfunction that has paralyzed good government:
We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Carl Sagan, contraception coverage, Obamacare, Pale blue dot
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/can-corporations-pray-and-other-tales-from-the-blue-dot/
Steve King, Ted Nugent, And Team Republican
It is assumed, by most talking journalistic mugs in the medium of cable television news and elsewhere, that Steve King, Republican congressman from Iowa, is a member of the “fringe” of the Republican Party. He’s waaaay out there, it is said.
So, when Steve King labeled most undocumented immigrants as “drug mules” with Herculean, cantaloupish calves who could haul 75 pounds of dope through the desert, it was considered a nutty act by a former dirt-mover in Iowa who, polite commentators want to assure us, is not a mainstream Republican.
Except that in June the supposedly fringe-friendly King offered an amendment in the House of Representatives that would have essentially forced the government to deport “DREAMers“—young folks brought into the country by relatives and who don’t have proper documentation—and his amendment passed the House! Oh, and it passed the House with 221 Republican votes (including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and local right-winger Ozark Billy Long)! Some fringy congressman King is. Only six—six!—Republicans voted against the extremist amendment.
Like Steve King, another conservative, Ted Nugent, is not considered a mainstream right-winger because, as the mainstream press would tell you, he says crazy stuff on the scale of a Steve King. When told of Stevie Wonder’s performance boycott of Florida, due to the state’s Stand Your Ground law, Nugent said:
You’ve got to be kidding me. So 700 black people, mostly young children and young people were slaughtered in Chicago last year by black people, and not a peep out of Stevie Wonder. Are you kidding me? What is this, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest? How brain-dead do you have to be? How strangled by denial, how dishonest, how cheap do you have to be to focus on a clear-cut case where all the evidence, from the DOJ, from the FBI, from the army of investigative specialists in Florida determined that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense against a life-threatening attack by hoodlum, dope-smoking Trayvon Martin?
Leaving aside the fact that he lives in a fact-free world, what Nugent said has been said, in one form or another, by most conservative pundits on TV and elsewhere. The opinion he expressed above is mainstream conservative opinion, whether any leader of the Republican Party or whether any mainstream media journalist wants to admit it.
If that isn’t enough to convince the average journalist that Steve King and Ted Nugent are smack in the middle of contemporary GOP thought, if not eloquence, then the average journalist should consider this:
I’m looking here at Steve King. He needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington!
That, of course, was the loud voice of the last Republican to run for President of the United States. Remember him? Remember Mittens Romney? He spoke those words in September of 2012. And Steve King was as nutty then as he is now, yet the guy who represented the GOP in the last national election, the guy who represented what the party stands for, not only accepted King’s endorsement, he said, again:
I want him as my partner in Washington!
Yeah, boy!
What about Romney and Ted Nugent? Oh, there was this:
According to Nugent, Romney called him and asked him for his endorsement. And that call and that “long heart&soul conversation” came after Nugent, among other things, had called Democratic leader Debbie Wasserman-Schultz a “brain-dead, soulless, heartless, idiot,” and after he called former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a “sub-human scoundrel,” and after he referred to President Obama as a “piece of shit,” and after he referred to Hillary Clinton as a “worthless bitch” and a “toxic cunt.”
Yeah, that must have been some heart&soul talk the gun-loving, pants-crapping, draft-avoiding rocker had with the Republican Party’s national presidential candidate.
After Nugent’s endorsement, Tagg Romney tweeted out this keeper:
How cool is that? Very cool! Ted Nugent and Steve King, even if they don’t always express their conservatism with phony Washington politeness, are on Team Republican!
Tagged immigration reform, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Steve King, Ted Nugent
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/steve-king-ted-nugent-and-team-republican/
Republican Mission: “Destroy The Place”
I have recently heard liberals refer to the current covey of conservatives in Congress, especially in the House of Representatives, as a “do nothing” group, ruling over the Party of No, whose members are not interested in getting anything done.
Nothing could be further from the truth. What we are seeing, day after day, and month after month, and now year after year, is a group of fanatics carrying out their mission, in many cases their “God-given” mission, to destroy the notion of a “federal” government, one that can serve to unify this otherwise disparate land by looking out for the well-being of all Americans. In the news now is talk of another battle over the debt ceiling and yet another threat of a government shutdown by these fanatics. The mission is ongoing.
Let me quote something to you a long-time Republican, John Dean, said about what is going on:
Conservative antigovernment philosophy works best when conservatives are in the minority, for they then have no responsibility to accomplish anything. In that position they are very good at obstructionism and using their minority status to make the Democrats look bad. This, in fact, is how they won control of Congress in 1994…Republicans achieved that victory by doing their best over the course of a number of years to destroy the place and then put the blame for it on the Democrats. Because the tactic worked so successfully, they are again reverting to this mode of behavior.
Now, John Dean didn’t write that yesterday. He didn’t write that in response to the latest debt-ceiling threats by extremist Republicans. He wrote that way back in 2007, before the term “Tea Party” was on the lips of anyone, before radicals in the Republican Party took over control of the House of Representatives and began the process of subverting good governance, the kind that benefits all the people, not just the wealthy few.
“We should not be judged on how many new laws we create,” said John Boehner, leader of the House fanatics, “We ought to be judged by how many laws we repeal.” That was on Sunday. Today we learn that Congress’ approval is at an all time low—83% disapprove of the “job” they are doing—and that the public is also losing confidence in President Obama—his job-approval number fell to its lowest mark in two years. That last datum is no accident. It is an accomplishment. It is something the “do nothing” Republicans are doing very well: bringing down Obama, as they destroy people’s faith in the possibility of good governance.
Today The New York Times reports:
Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama’s top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president’s signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.
In the Senate, as approvingly reported by none other than Glenn Beck, Mike Lee, a fanatic from Utah, is hard at work destroying ObamaCare—and with it good governance—by recruiting his fellow fanatics to help him:
Fifteen Republican senators, including Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ted Cruz (Texas), John Cornyn (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.), James Inhofe (Okla.), David Vitter (La.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), John Thune (S.D.), and Chuck Grassley (Iowa), plan to block a continuing resolution to keep the government funded beyond Sept. 30 if it includes funding for Obamacare.
How do you deal with such fanatics? If you were President Obama what approach would you take?
This morning on two different cable networks, MSNBC and CNN, I heard the same outrageous suggestion from Joe Scarborough and Chris Cuomo, respectively: why isn’t the President providing leadership? Why doesn’t he do something about the gridlock? Why doesn’t he make a deal with Republicans?
The ridiculous implication, of course, is that there is something he can do, some magic wand he could wave that would make fanatics in the House and Senate stop waging jihad against him and the federal government. The Founders settled that matter a long time ago when they wrote the potential for gridlock—the separation of powers—into the Constitution.
So, there is little the President can do until the American people come to their senses and stop electing anti-government fanatics. In the latest polling, there is a tiny bit of good news, as reported by NBC:
…there are signs that Republicans are shouldering more of the blame for the situation in the nation’s capital: just 22 percent say they believe the GOP is interested in unifying the country in a bipartisan way, versus 45 percent who say the same about Obama.
It is up to Democrats, since the mainstream press is unwilling to point out the obvious, to keep explaining to the public just how radical are Republicans in Congress, just how they are attempting to undermine faith in Washington, how they are, in old-school Republican John Dean’s words, trying “to destroy the place.”
And speaking of Dean, he ended his great book, Broken Government, with a quote from “an old friend from the Nixon White House,” a “lifelong Republican” who “voted for Bush and Cheney twice,” who would only speak off the record:
Just tell your readers that you have a source who knows a lot about the Republican Party from long experience, that he knows all the key movers and shakers, and he has a bit of advice: People should not vote for any Republican, because they’re dangerous, dishonest, and self-serving. While I once believed that Governor George Wallace had it right, that there was not a dime’s worth of difference in the parties, that is no longer true. I have come to realize the Democrats really do care about people who most need help from government; Republicans care most about those who will only get richer because of government help…
Again, that was in, uh, 2007. Yikes.
Tagged Broken Government, debt ceiling, government shutdown, John dean, Mike Lee, Obamacare
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/republican-mission-destroy-the-place/
Detroit: The Other Story
Finally, someone has told the other side of the story about Detroit.
After all the conservative crapola fed to us about the plight of one of America’s great cities (some of it involving the subtle suggestion that blacks have mucked it all up), after all the media hand-wringing regarding what to do about Detroit’s bleak financial condition, finally someone has come forth with another view, one that rings true for those of us who have followed conservative philosophy and policy over the years.
David Sirota, writing for Salon.com (“Don’t buy the right-wing myth about Detroit“) makes some counterpoints to the narrative that has been thrust upon us by reactionaries and their fellow travelers in the mainstream press, a narrative that goes like this: the problem with Detroit is that taxes are too high, corporations need more breaks, and, above all, public workers need their pensions cut:
It’s a straightforward conservative formula: the right blames state and municipal budget problems exclusively on public employees’ retirement benefits, often underfunding those public pensions for years. The money raided by those pension funds is then used to enact expensive tax cuts and corporate welfare programs. After years of robbing those pension funds to pay for such giveaways, a crisis inevitably hits, and workers’ pension benefits are blamed — and then slashed. Meanwhile, the massive tax cuts and corporate subsidies are preserved, because we are led to believe they had nothing to do with the crisis. Ultimately, the extra monies taken from retirees are then often plowed into even more tax cuts and more corporate subsidies.
Sirota mentions a truly unbelievable situation involving the Detroit Red Wings hockey team and its quest for a new place to play:
By focusing the blame for Detroit’s bankruptcy solely on workers’ pensions, rather than having a more comprehensive discussion that includes both pension benefits and corporate giveaways, the right can engineer the political environment for the truly immoral reality mentioned at the beginning of this article — the one highlighted this week by the Associated Press story headlined “Arena Likely Still On Track, Business As Usual For Sports Teams Despite Bankruptcy Filing.” Yes, that’s correct: at the same time government officials are talking about slashing the meager $19,000-a-year pensions of workers who don’t get Social Security, those officials are promising that they will still go forward with a plan to spend a whopping $283 million of taxpayer money on a new stadium for the Red Wings.
I recommend you read the entire article, but if you don’t, and if you, like me, have heard for some time now that bondholders need to be protected in all this (remember the GM bailout? same argument) and those greedy public employee pensioners are going to have to take a big hit if Detroit is to survive, you need to know the power dynamics of the situation:
…with Wall Street bondholders intensifying their push to make sure all the pain is felt by public employees, and with the right’s blame-the-workers narrative preventing any real discussion of corporate subsidies and tax policies, it’s a good bet the $19,000-a-year pensioners are going to bear a disproportionate share of the sacrifice. After all, out of all of this situation’s players — corporations that want public subsidies, bondholders, rich folk who want more tax cuts, right-wing [Governor Rick Snyder] administration officials and municipal workers — the retirees earning benefits just above the poverty line have the least amount of political power.
Bottom line: Hockey arena? Yes. Paying promised pensions? Nope.
For all the talk that has come from the right wing over the years about how powerful are the public employee unions in our large cities, compared to corporate power and the power of Wall Street bankers, those $19,000-a-year pensioners don’t have much of a chance.
Tagged Detroit, detroit bankruptcy
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/detroit-the-other-story/
The “History That Doesn’t Go Away”
It’s hard for me to tell you how remarkable it was to hear President Obama talk, extemporaneously and personally, about the events surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin. I found his words the most poignant of his presidency, as he attempted to put into context the African-American response to the killing of the sixteen-year-and-a-month-old kid in Florida.
But not everyone, of course, found his commentary pleasing or helpful. The reactionaries among us were quite upset and had a lot to say about it.
And I don’t just mean what outrageous and extremist conservatives like Sean Hannity and other IQ-sapping schmucks had to say about it (hint: Obama’s admission that Trayvon Martin could have been him 35 years ago was an admission that “he smoked pot and he did a little blow”).
And I don’t just mean the ridiculous commentary Mike Huckabee offered as he substituted for the racially-challenged Bill O’Reilly on Friday (hint: contrary to Obama, no race issue was involved, only pornography, graphic media violence, and abortion!).
And I don’t just mean the insane opinion of Huckabee’s guest, “Republican strategist” Brad Blakeman, who said that if protests this past weekend turned ugly, Obama “incited any violence that takes place.”
No, I’m not just talking about those conservatives, the usual suspects, whose reactionary responses are fire-retardant chemicals, putting out the firing synapses of anyone with a brain.
I’m talking about what Charles Krauthammer, who gets much credit for being an enlightened conservative commentator on Fox “News” Channel, had to say about Obama’s remarks:
…a political speech addressed to his constituency on the left, which I thought was unfortunate . . . Look, I gave him and Holder credit all week for trying to de-racialize the issue. And what Obama did, I think, unfortunately, today is to reracialize it.
That the very white Dr. Krauthammer would take from the President’s remarks not much more than that they constituted “a political speech” designed to appease folks who understand in their bones the racial context of the tragedy—which means, let’s not kid ourselves, that Krauthammer was talking about Obama appeasing blacks—is instructive as to the mental state of the Fox blabber.
But it is more instructive as to the philosophical corruption of much of contemporary conservatism, whose decadence extends beyond failed economic theories or the compulsion to get inside the heads and vaginas of American women in order to save zygotes.
This corruption is related to the corruption that has plagued this country from before its official founding, when black folks in chains were introduced to America as the property of white folks. But this modern corruption is not the kind one would find at, say, an old slave auction where the young black men were referred to as “bucks.” No, no, no. The modern conservative, like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, is much more subtle than that. He or she would never dehumanize Barack Obama in that way.
The more subtle form of denying the basic humanity of black men is reflected not only in Sean Hannity’s stupid remarks, but in the comments of the ostensibly more refined Charles Krauthammer: Obama, a black man who happens to be president, had no real business “racializing” the issue of a black teenager getting profiled and killed because the killer suspected he was up to no good and followed him. You see, President Obama, not for a moment, not for the tiniest increment of time, is suppose to act like a normal human being in front of all the white folks who don’t like him anyway, who have from the beginning profiled him as some kind of angry and Scary Negro, without the hoodie.
Because conservatives have long ago dismissed any claims that America still has significant problems left over from its racist past, they’d rather everyone just shut up about it. They don’t want to hear it. And they especially don’t want to hear it from an uppity black who, God only knows how and why, was reelected as president.
Among other things, President Obama offended many conservatives with this:
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.
Pain. “There’s a lot of pain around what happened here,” said the President. Speaking to that pain, speaking for the first time in his presidency as one who knows first-hand that pain, speaking for the first time out of the depth of his experiences as a black man in America, Mr. Obama has disturbed many extremists on the right—99.9% white—who don’t want to hear him speak about that “history that doesn’t go away” or the “pain” associated with it. These white conservatives want to hear only about their pain, the pain of watching their America turn brown before their very eyes.
What white conservatives also want to hear is a lot of talk about black criminality, as if black criminality is not, in any conceivable way, related to centuries of slavery followed by Jim Crow laws and other such instruments of oppression. All over Fox and the Internet you can find palefaced conservatives saying that the President ought to quit worrying about George Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin and start worrying about all the “black on black” killings plaguing African-American communities.
Oh, yeah? What about all those “white on white” killings? Here’s a graph I found on MSNBC this weekend:
As many have pointed out, people commit crimes where they live. Whites, like around here in Petticoat Joplin, tend to commit crimes against other whites. If I were to do a little criminal profiling in my neighborhood, the suspects would look a lot like Sean Hannity or Charles Krauthammer or Ann Coulter. So, conservatives chanting “black on black” crime, and pretending that they give a damn about it, is irrelevant to what happened to Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida.
The President also talked about how the history that doesn’t go away is “unacknowledged” and how that “adds to the frustration.” He then said,
And the fact that a lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African American boys are more violent — using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.
That’s the point in all this. Sure, as President Obama said, “African American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system,” and “they’re disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence.” But it won’t do to treat all black “sons” as if they are criminals, or criminals in waiting. We can’t exist as a peaceful, prosperous society if we do so. We can’t label all black teenagers or young men as “suspects”—and that’s what profiling does—and then expect African-Americans to believe they are full citizens with all the opportunities this wealthy country affords. That won’t work. We can’t ignore, as the President said, “the fact that a lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush.”
I want to tell you a short story related to that broad brush.
I know a father whose son recently graduated from Joplin High School. A few years ago, this white boy had his iPod stolen at school, even though the father expressly told him not to bring it there. I won’t go into the details, but the boy knew with near-certainty that the thief was a fellow student, a black kid who had been in trouble many times at school.
Now, the iPod was worth only $300, but that was no small amount of money for this family. And the boy was very upset about losing such a valuable item and began wondering, out loud, why black kids were such thieves, why they went searching for other people’s stuff.
This is how black teenagers, those who would never think of stealing an iPod, start to get painted with that broad brush the President was describing. It may start with a white boy being victimized in some way by an African-American and ends with suspecting that every black kid he meets is about to do something bad to him or to others.
The white boy’s father had a long, long talk with his son. He talked about the likely difficulties that the black kid had at home, the differences in background compared to the mostly white kids he went to school with. His father told him that despite the pain he felt, despite the feeling of victimization, it simply wouldn’t do to think of black kids first as thieves, then as human beings. To that end, despite the fact that the boy was warned that he should not bring the iPod to school in the first place, the father bought his son a brand new one. He bought it, he said, to take the sting out of the loss, so as to help his son remember not to make suspects out of every black kid he meets, even though it might seem rational to do so.
Related to that, President Obama will have the last word:
And let me just leave you with a final thought that, as difficult and challenging as this whole episode has been for a lot of people, I don’t want us to lose sight that things are getting better. Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race. It doesn’t mean we’re in a post-racial society. It doesn’t mean that racism is eliminated. But when I talk to Malia and Sasha, and I listen to their friends and I seem them interact, they’re better than we are — they’re better than we were — on these issues. And that’s true in every community that I’ve visited all across the country.
And so we have to be vigilant and we have to work on these issues. And those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature, as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions. But we should also have confidence that kids these days, I think, have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did; and that along this long, difficult journey, we’re becoming a more perfect union — not a perfect union, but a more perfect union.
Tagged Charles Krauthammer, george zimmerman, President Obama, Trayvon Martin
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/the-history-that-doesnt-go-away/
A frequent commenter on this blog has written a couple of comments (here and here and here) regarding my opinion on the Martin-Zimmerman case. I thought I’d share with you, those of you who don’t regularly read the comment section, my latest response, which I will use as probably my last word on the subject for a while:
I have ignored some of your comments because, well, you only know a lot of what you know about what happened at the trial from watching excerpts or reading news reports about it. Nothing against that, it’s the way most of us usually get our news, but it leaves at least a few holes in your knowledge of what happened at the trial.
An important and crucial example is when you said “the evidence” showed that,
MARTIN was seen atop Zimmerman banging his head into the sidewalk.
Except that there wasn’t anyone who saw any such thing. There wasn’t any evidence, apart from Zimmerman’s self-serving account, of Trayvon Martin “banging” Zimmerman’s head into anything, much less the sidewalk. The only witness who claimed to see Martin “atop Zimmerman” was John Good, and if you had watched the trial, you would know that Good explicitly testified that he did not see the guy on top slamming the other guy’s head into concrete.
You therefore have to ask yourself why it is that you believe someone actually saw Trayvon Martin “atop Zimmerman banging his head into the sidewalk” when it clearly isn’t true. I mean that. Ask yourself why it is that you believe something, something extraordinarily important about this case, that is patently false. Perhaps that is an important clue as to why you and I differ.
Having said that, you concluded in one comment that “Two young men acted ‘stupidly.” First, Zimmerman was twenty-eight and Martin was barely seventeen, having been so about a month. One was a man and one wasn’t, but the fact that you see them both as “young men” is part of the problem. It’s what Eugene Robinson and Michael Steele were trying to say. Martin was a high-school kid and Zimmerman was the one who had the responsibility of an adult, an adult with a deadly weapon, an adult with mixed martial arts training, an adult with some knowledge of criminal law (even though he lied about it), particularly self-defense and Stand Your Ground laws.
Moreover, there was exactly no evidence that Trayvon Martin acted “stupidly.” The only account of how he acted at all at the end of the event came from a man who, if he wanted to remain free, had to portray Martin as the aggressor who acted for who knows what reason. Martin could have reacted, for all we know, because Zimmerman flashed his gun at him or otherwise threatened him with it. We don’t know, but some of us are very quick to think we do. Some of us are very quick to think that Martin was the aggressor. Why is that? Could it possibly be because he was a black kid in a hoodie? Isn’t that possible? Again, ask yourself.
We know that Zimmerman thought Martin was up to no good for essentially no other reason than he was an unknown black kid in a hoodie. He labeled him, among other things, a “fucking punk” and an “asshole” and later identified him as a “suspect.” It is because of the reactions of the George Zimmermans of this world that people like Eugene Robinson and Michael Steele have to tell their kids-becoming-adults about the special rules that govern how they should, potentially as a matter of life or death, act in public. That’s the point you don’t get and I suppose never will. You are blind to that separate reality, a reality that is true for even famous and relatively well-off black folks.
I can’t argue about what kind of kid Trayvon Martin was. He had some problems in school like a lot of kids do, a lot of white kids included. Is that how we want to finally evaluate the character of people? How much or what kind of trouble they got into in school? I can’t argue that Martin didn’t attack Zimmerman after he perceived him as some kind of threat. I can’t argue that he didn’t do something that night that contributed to his death. I wasn’t there.
But what I can fervently argue is that George Zimmerman was an adult and Trayvon Martin wasn’t. What I can vigorously contend is that Zimmerman, given his training and standing as a neighborhood watcher, should have acted like an adult, even if Trayvon Martin didn’t. What I can confidently assert is that Zimmerman, even if his suspicions were justified, still had the responsibility of identifying himself and telling Martin what he was doing, if not simply remaining in his car and waiting for the police, who were only minutes away. That’s what I can say. And that means Zimmerman bears some amount of responsibility for killing an innocent—I repeat: innocent—kid.
As far as your comment that there is no difference between raising “a black boy instead of a white one,” I’m afraid that is the problem. You refuse to acknowledge what it might be like to be a black teenager in this culture. Suppose your kids were evangelical Christians. Suppose you were raising them in a Islam-dominated culture that didn’t look too kindly on “aggressive” Christians, especially those who called themselves “evangelicals.” My guess is that you would have enough sense to offer them wise advise about how to behave out in public, in front of law enforcement officials, in all the various social situations. In short, you would raise them with a different set of rules, in terms of how to interact with those around them, than Muslim parents would raise their kids. And you would be right to do so. But that has nothing at all to do with teaching them “the basics” of other social behavior. Muslims and Christians both teach their children “right and wrong.” But a Christian in certain Muslim nations had better be aware that some kinds of behavior can get you in trouble in a hurry. Blacks, in this white-dominated culture, feel the same way, despite the fact that they too teach their kids right from wrong.
Next, I am not “furious” over anything. It sounds like fury to you because you can’t accept the fact that your lily-white reality is not the same reality as the one Trayvon Martin or his family experience, at least in some ways, on a daily basis. Sure, we all need to do what is right and follow the rules. But for some of us, doing all the right things and following the rules isn’t always enough. For some folks, teenagers who are black for instance, merely wandering home after a visit to a 7-Eleven is enough to get you killed and your killer allowed to soon go on his way. You tell me what “rule” Martin broke that night and how you know he broke that rule. And then tell me how it was that the man who killed him got to go to work the next day.
Finally, what upsets me as much as anything about this case is the outrage that many white people expressed over the demand for at least a trial in this case. The system was predisposed to believe Zimmerman, and some of us think that was the case because Martin was a black teenager. Thus, some of us believed that a trial was necessary to sort out the facts. That outraged many in the white community, and the defense attorneys expressed as much after the trial was over. They were indignant that their client was even accused of any type of crime. It was open and shut as far as they, and other white people, were concerned. That attitude is why a lot of people of color don’t trust the system. It is why a lot of black folks are marching in the streets.
And you, and others, can ignore them, you can pretend they are completely wrong and you are completely right, you can tell yourself that this kid deserved what he got. But the frustration and, in some cases, outrage, they feel won’t go away. We all have to live together in this country, like it or not, and we best get on with the business of trying to understand each other. I can think of no better way of doing so than trying to understand why black folks like Eugene Robinson, one of the calmest, most thoughtful columnists in the business, and Michael Steele, a very conservative Republican who defends right-wingers at nearly every turn, are both upset today.
Tagged george zimmerman, Trayvon Martin
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/ask-yourself/
“It Pretty Much Happened The Way George Said It Happened,” Said Juror B37
“Black boys in this country are not allowed to be children. They are assumed to be men, and to be full of menace.”
—Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist
y now you have heard that “Juror B37” has talked to Anderson Cooper of CNN and that she has signed on with a literary agent in hopes of cashing in on her jury service. Judging from the quality of her analysis, judging by her confusion and the way she apprehended what was going on in that courtroom in Florida, judging by her utter failure to understand the larger issues involved in this case, I will say that if her book gig fails, she would make a perfect host of “Fox and Friends,” where bias, as well as confused, sloppy thinking, is an asset.
In any case, this juror believed that the man who shot Trayvon Martin in the heart was a man “whose heart was in the right place,” whose real problem was his over-eagerness “to help people,” who, well, I’ll let her say it:
…I think George was pretty consistent and told the truth, basically. I’m sure there were some fabrications, enhancements, but I think pretty much it happened the way George said it happened.
Yeah, “George” may have fudged the truth a little bit, he may have told things in such a way as to make it look better for him, but it “pretty much” happened the way “George” said it happened, which, of course, made Trayvon Martin ultimately responsible for his own death:
COOPER: So you think, based on the testimony you heard, you believe that Trayvon Martin was the aggressor?
JUROR: I think the roles changed. I think, I think George got in a little bit too deep, which he shouldn’t have been there. But Trayvon decided that he wasn’t going to let him scare him and get the one-over, up on him, or something. And I think Trayvon got mad and attacked him.
“Trayvon got mad.” There was exactly zero evidence for that conclusion, but, as I said before, Trayvon Martin was found guilty of his own killing.
Juror B37 went on to say that she didn’t believe race had anything at all to do with this case:
COOPER: Do you feel that George Zimmerman racially profiled Trayvon Martin? Do you think race played a role in his decision, his view of Trayvon Martin as suspicious?
JUROR: I don’t think he did. I think just circumstances caused George to think that he might be a robber, or trying to do something bad in the neighborhood because of all that had gone on previously. There were unbelievable, a number of robberies in the neighborhood.
COOPER: So you don’t believe race played a role in this case?
JUROR: I don’t think it did. I think if there was another person, Spanish, white, Asian, if they came in the same situation where Trayvon was, I think George would have reacted the exact same way.
This white female juror cannot see, or says she cannot see, what so many black people know in their bones: that race had very much to do with this case and that if Trayvon Martin had been white, none of what subsequently happened would have happened.
And that, I submit, is the problem this case highlights: there are a lot of white people who don’t understand that being black in America is a different experience from being white, that being a young black man in America is especially a different experience.
Eugene Robinson, an African-American and columnist for The Washington Post, wrote:
If anyone wonders why African Americans feel so passionately about this case, it’s because we know that our 17-year-old sons are boys, not men. It’s because we know their adolescent bravura is just that — an imitation of manhood, not the real thing.
We know how frightened our sons would be, walking home alone on a rainy night and realizing they were being followed. We know how torn they would be between a child’s fear and a child’s immature idea of manly behavior. We know how they would struggle to decide the right course of action, flight or fight.
And we know that a skinny boy armed only with candy, no matter how big and bad he tries to seem, does not pose a mortal threat to a healthy adult man who outweighs him by 50 pounds and has had martial arts training (even if the lessons were mostly a waste of money). We know that the boy may well have threatened the man’s pride but likely not his life. How many murders-by-sidewalk have you heard of recently? Or ever?
Contrast that with what Gene Lyons, a columnist I respect and admire very much, wrote some days ago—something I haven’t been able to get out of my head since—about the Martin-Zimmerman case:
On the evidence, it’s clear that both Zimmerman and Martin acted badly, with tragic consequences — Zimmerman by carrying around that accursed gun he was in no way qualified to handle, and Martin through foolhardy teenaged bravado. One life ended, another destroyed.
But not necessarily symbols of anything greater than their own confusion and folly.
That kind of statement, that Trayvon Martin was acting out of some kind of “foolhardy teenaged bravado,” that there is no symbolism attached to this case beyond “confusion and folly,” could only have been written by a guy who has not raised black sons. It may qualify as the most ignorant thing Gene Lyons has ever written.
All of which brings me to a discussion on Morning Joe this morning, which is must-see TV for anyone truly interested in the two Americas that so many black Americans wake up to each and every day. I will post the segment below, but I want to call your attention to observations made by two black men of very different political persuasions, Eugene Robinson, the liberal Washington Post columnist, and Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Both men, who have raised boys, said that they had to teach their sons that being a young black man in America requires learning a set of rules that white sons don’t have to learn. If they are to survive or thrive, even as middle-class black kids and later as adults, there are certain things they have to know, to do. Michael Steele said to his kids:
Remember, when you walk out that door, you are a black man in America. And you need to understand what that means when people see you, how they look at you, how they approach you, what they think about you, and how they will deal with you. Because it’s not the same for your white friends. It’s not the same for your other friends. Because a lot of history walks with you out that door.
That’s unacceptable in twenty-first century America.
White folks should not ignore that history, or pretend it didn’t happen, or pretend that all is now well. We shouldn’t pretend that there are no larger issues attached to the tragic encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. There are. And that is why all of us, black and white, need to find ways—starting with recognizing the reality behind what happened in Sanford, Florida—to change what it means to be a young black kid-man in America, especially now that half the country has adopted stand-your-ground vigilantism as a way of life.
Tagged Eugene Robinson, Gene Lyons, george zimmerman, Trayvon Martin
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/it-pretty-much-happened-the-way-george-said-it-happened-said-juror-b37/
Trayvon Martin Found Guilty!
Trayvon Martin, profiled as a criminal and then killed on a patch of grass in Florida more than a year ago, has been on trial for the last month. Now the verdict is in and Martin has been found guilty of trying to kill, or to cause serious damage to, George Zimmerman.
Oh, I know most people think Zimmerman was the man on trial, but it wasn’t so. It was the 16-year-and-a-month-old black kid in the hoodie, the black kid in the hoodie with the Skittles. And, of course, the black kid in the hoodie who, allegedly, armed himself with a sidewalk.
To sort of summarize what many Americans, many white Americans, felt about the black-kid-is-guilty verdict, I’ll use a Tweet from gun-crazed Ted Nugent:
You see, Nugent, along with many, many others—most of them before the trial began—convicted Trayvon Martin—a “kid” Nugent said—of an “attack” on George Zimmerman, even though there was no evidence, other than the word of George Zimmerman—who happened to be charged with second degree murder—for such a conviction.
But it was crucial for the defense to make that case, to leave the six-woman jury with the idea that 158-pound Trayvon Martin was a man-sized thug who was armed with a dangerous sidewalk and who meant to kill 200-pound George Zimmerman with it.
Now, unlike most people who will read this or read anything about the case, I watched nearly all of what I only loosely refer to as George Zimmerman’s trial, including watching the closing arguments, through which each side attempted to pull together the evidence in support of their respective claims in the case.
I can tell you, emphatically, that I would not have found Trayvon Martin guilty of trying to kill George Zimmerman. There simply wasn’t enough evidence to do so and the star witness against him had an obvious motive to lie. In fact, he lied to Sean Hannity about whether he had heard of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law:
HANNITY: …prior to this night, this incident, had you even heard “Stand Your Ground”?
ZIMMERMAN: No, sir.
HANNITY: You have never heard about it before?
ZIMMERMAN: No.
Except that the trial revealed this:
…an army prosecutor who taught Zimmerman in a 2010 college class on criminal litigation, testified that he often covered Florida’s self-defense and “Stand Your Ground” laws in his 2010 course. Army Captain Alexis Carter said Zimmerman “was probably one of the better students in the class,” calling him an “A” student.
Leaving aside the lie about that dangerous law in Florida, let’s move on to something simple: if Martin had really wanted to use the sidewalk as a way of seriously injuring or killing Zimmerman, he could have. Perhaps, some cynical people would argue, he should have. Had he done so, had he killed Zimmerman with that deadly sidewalk, Trayvon Martin would be alive today and, given the ridiculous nature of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, might be free to wander the streets in pursuit of more Skittles and more victims of his sidewalk-aided killing spree.
Except that George Zimmerman’s injuries, as the evidence demonstrated to me, were not consistent with the idea that Trayvon Martin was trying to kill him using that killing machine some of us know only as a walkway.
If we believe the star witness against Martin, that is, if we believe Zimmerman’s varying accounts of what happened, then we must believe that Martin is guilty of attempted murder. We must. If we believe that Zimmerman was pinned down with his head on the concrete, if we believe he was being beaten so badly that he feared for his life or seriously injury, then we must believe that Trayvon Martin was guilty of trying to kill the neighborhood-watching Zimmerman, who, by the way, never bothered to identify himself as such, when he and Martin met.
We must believe Martin was the person with the intent to kill, or else Zimmerman is a liar. Zimmerman told police, the day after he killed Martin, the following:
I kept yelling for help. And I got a little bit of leverage, and I started to sit up, and then he took my head and slammed it into the concrete several times….I started screaming for help, and he covered by nose with one hand and my mouth with the other one, and he told me, “Shut the fuck up!” And I couldn’t breathe; I was suffocating. But when I shifted, my jacket came up and my shirt came up, exposing my firearm. And that’s when he said—he sat up and looked and said, “You’re gonna die tonight, motherfucker.” And I saw him take one hand off my mouth and slide it down my chest. And I just pinched his arm and I grabbed my gun, I aimed it at him, and fired one shot.
Leaving aside the mechanical implausibility of that account, leaving aside its self-serving nature, the claim is that Martin explicitly threatened Zimmerman’s life. Some months later, Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that Martin told him that “he was going to kill me.” Was he? Did this Skittles-buying kid have murder in his heart? What did the evidence presented during the trial tell us?
Again, as the Zimmerman defense team—which was really the Martin prosecution team—framed this case, the salient issue was whether a black teenager wandering home from a convenience store viciously attacked George Zimmerman and meant to kill him with a slab of concrete. They made this case despite the fact that there were no serious injuries to the eventual killer’s head. They made this case despite the fact that their client didn’t require medical treatment beyond a few Band-Aids.
I will submit to you that Trayvon Martin most obviously was not trying to kill his killer or to seriously harm him, as only a few hard cracks against that sidewalk—defense attorney Mark O’Mara at one time forcefully and deliberately demonstrated to the jury what that would look like—would have done the trick.
In fact, it was O’Mara’s violent demonstration on a foam dummy during the trial that convinced me that Martin did not do what O’Mara essentially accused him of doing. Straddling that dummy, O’Mara violently pounded the back of its head into the floor. Wow, I thought. If Trayvon Martin did that to Zimmerman on the sidewalk and Zimmerman lived to tell about it, he must have a super-human titanium skull.
That demonstration by O’Mara was not without foundation. George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that Martin “was slamming my head into the concrete, and I thought I would lose consciousness.” I can only tell you, as the state tried to tell the jurors in this case, to use your “God-given common sense.” You try banging your head, with the force implied by the defense, against a slab of concrete and see how long you are conscious enough to talk about it, let alone remember it in vivid, if self-serving detail. It became clear to me that no such thing happen to Zimmerman. There wasn’t sufficient evidence for it, even though a paid defense expert witness said,
You can get severe trauma to the head without external injuries, actually.
Think about that. Zimmerman said his head was being slammed repeatedly into concrete. The defense dramatically claimed concrete was a deadly weapon. And, conveniently, they put on a doctor who suggested that such a weapon could kill or seriously wound without leaving much of a mark! That Trayvon Martin could slam Zimmerman’s head into the concrete “several times,” trying to kill him, and it might not necessarily look like it after the fact, after the fact that Zimmerman shot Martin in the heart. I’m sorry, but that’s not something I can accept as even remotely plausible, and certainly not believable enough to convict Trayvon Martin of attempted murder.
So, I disagree with the verdict in this case. I would have found Martin not guilty of trying to kill George Zimmerman. The evidence simply wasn’t there and the witness against him offered an implausible account and had a good reason to lie about what happened. But apparently the jury, and certainly many white Americans, don’t agree with me.
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/trayvon-martin-found-guilty/
The Conservative Movement At Work:
Sometimes the headlines say it all:
Tampons Confiscated, Guns Still Allowed At Texas Capitol Ahead Of Abortion Vote
Only a good guy with a tampon can stop a bad guy with a tampon
Amid ‘Circus’ Scene, Texas Senate OKs Abortion Bill
Jane Nelson, Texas GOP Senator: Abortion Bill Isn’t A ‘War On Women, I’m A Woman!’
Fox’s Erickson Directs Liberals To Coat Hanger Sales Site After Texas Abortion Bill Passes
North Carolina GOP Attaches Abortion Restrictions To Motorcycle Safety Bill With No Public Notice
Pat McCrory Would Sign Motorcycle Abortion Bill, Despite 2012 Campaign Promise
Republican filibuster derails student loan bill
Iowa Supreme Court OKs firing attractive people
Rand Paul defends secessionist staffer
House, Senate prepare new attacks on federal health care law
House GOP Digs In on Resistance to Immigration
House OKs Farm Bill, Without Food Stamps
The Republican Insanity of Helping Farmers But Starving Poor People
Laura Ingraham: People Who Use Food Stamps Will Be Like “The Roof Squatters” During Hurricane Katrina
Bozell: Romney Lost Because The Media Failed To Report The Obama Was A ‘Pothead’
Joel Gilbert Claims Obama Stole Election With NSA Data, Letting Disabled People Vote
Tom Marino, GOP Congressman, Floats Idea Of Filing Criminal Charges Against Obama
Limbaugh: Media Doesn’t Want Quick Zimmerman Verdict Because The Rioters Aren’t “Ready To Go” Yet
Fox’s Doocy Asks If DC Bill Requiring Walmart To Pay A Living Wage Is “The Death Of Free Enterprise As We Know It”
Jobless claims jump, reach two-month high
https://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/the-conservative-movement-at-work/
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9 Disney Princesses Dressed in Traditional Thai Costumes
January 23, 2014 /in Blog, Thailand /by Duke Language
How would your favourite Disney Princess look like if she was born in Thailand?
These amazing sketches by “BoonShoes ShoesBoon,” illustrate the beauty of the graceful Thai costume on 9 well-known Disney Princesses.
Can you guess who they are? Let’s start with an easy and obvious one.
She is the first Disney Princess to have not been born human and is also the first to have children (in the sequel). She is the second Disney Princess to be 16 years old in her first film.
She is somewhere between the ages 16 and 20. She is the first Disney Princess to have siblings, although they are not her actual siblings. Though originally not from a noble family, she becomes a Princess by marriage to a Prince.
This Disney Princess was the first to be physically injured by a villain. She is the purest pedigree of any Disney Princess, being the first-born daughter and only child of a King who marries a Prince who is the first-born son and heir of a King. She is also well educated by her 3 godmothers and interestingly, she has the least amount of screen time among all Disney Princesses.
She is the youngest Disney Princess at age 14 (in her film appearance). She is the daughter of a King who marries an unnamed Prince.
She is the first Disney Princess to have been an antagonist of her love interest. She is 18 to 19 years old and also the first Disney Princess to have a confirmed country in the movie (since the countries of other princesses were inferred, though not confirmed). She is not from a noble family and becomes a Princess by marriage.
She is of noble birth and the first-born daughter (and only child) of a King. She is the first Disney Princess to marry a commoner, whom after marriage, gains the title of Prince Consort, and also the first to have a different singing voice than speaking voice.
She is the first Disney Princess to have been based (loosely) on a real person, and not on a fairytale. She is also the first Disney Princess to have 2 “Princes” (though only one of them is an official Disney Prince). Her eventual marriage to a commoner does not change her status or his. She is the second Disney Princess to have a different singing voice than speaking voice.
She is the first Disney Princess to be based on a legend instead of a fairytale, and the second not to based on a fairytale. To date, she is the only Disney Princess who doesn’t hold the title of Princess in one form or another – she is not noble born, bears no title of her own, and her eventual marriage does not make her a Princess either. She and her husband are the only non-royal Disney couple in the Disney Princess franchise.
She is the first African-American Disney Princess and the third to attain the title of Princess by marrying into a royal family. She is probably the most modern of all Disney Princesses, as the time and setting of her story the is closest to ours.
1. Ariel
2. Cinderella
3. Aurora
4. Snow White
5. Belle
6. Jasmine
7. Pocahontas
8. Mulan
9. Tiana
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Weezer premiere new track “Do You Wanna Get High”
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 5:22 PM (PST) by milhouse
Weezer have premiered a brand new single entitled “Do You Wanna Get High” and you can check it out below.
No word yet if this is a sign of more to come in terms of an album, however this is the second single from the band is as many weeks. Perhaps the band has a secret they’re keeping under wraps?
Weezer’s last album, “Everything Will Be Alright in the End”, was released in October 2014 through Republic Records.
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Ukraine Eastern Poltava
The splendid and inimitable nature of Ukraine – along with its ancient sights, architectural extravagances, vivid history, and peculiar culture - is one of the country’s main sources of pride. Shining mountain peaks and powerful rivers, crystal lakes and transparent waterfalls, mysterious forests and marvelous islands, fabulous caves and fantastic canyons - not every European country boasts such number and variety of natural resources.
The beauty and the uniqueness of its landscapes is the first thing that tourists notice coming to Ukraine, especially those who get into the country by plane. The country’s north amazes with the lush grasses of the Polesye valleys; the south - with its wide steppes and the azure of two seas, the Black and the Azov; the west - with the colors of its mountain terrain and the shininess of numerous rivers. Its marvelous and diverse nature, combined with the mild and moderate climate, makes Ukraine an extremely attractive destination for those who love all kinds of relaxation.
Many rivers flows across Ukraine’s territory, the main ones being: the Dnieper, which divides Ukraine in two parts, the left-bank and right-bank; the Danube, which connects Ukraine with many European countries; and the Pivdennyy Buh, whose splendid rapids are so valued by lovers of rafting.
The majority of Ukraine’s natural treasures are located in the south, the Crimea, and the west. The country is most proud of its mountain ranges: the rocky Crimean Mountains and picturesque Carpathian Mountains. The former amaze with their fantastic landscapes and caves (the most famous of which is the Marble Cave that is on many lists of the top-five most beautiful caves of the world). The Carpathians beckon with their mountain lakes of pure crystal water, coniferous forests full of mushrooms and berries, and valleys covered with motley grass carpets. In the unique, untouched nature, you will also find a shelter with hundreds of animal, bird and plant species, many of which are endangered species in Ukraine.
Over twenty natural parks and preserves are located in Ukraine, created in order to protect the country’s natural riches. The biggest of them is the Carpathian National Natural Park, on whose territory you can find (in addition to all other sights) the well-known Valley of Daffodils and the highest point in Ukraine - the Hoverla Mountain. All the guests of Zakarpattia strive to conquer its peaks!
South Ukraine also has many protected territories. The National Reserve ‘Askania Nova,’ the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, and the Natural Park ‘Bugsky Guard’ are the best known, having become famous for their unique landscapes and diversity of flora and fauna. On these protected lands lives a large number of rare animals, such as Indian antelopes, zebras, Scottish ponies, and wild Przewalski's horses. You can also find hundreds of species of birds there during their hibernation season, and over a thousand species of healing herbs growing all year round. Mysterious and secretive places are also located in Ukraine – including the Kamennaya Mogila, which lies close to Zaporozhye, and the geological reserve ‘Stone Village’ in the Zhytomyr region.
Botanical gardens and arboretums occupy separate position among natural gems of Ukraine. The most well known of them are Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Crimea with very rich collection of unique samples of flora and National Arboretum ‘Sofiyivka’ in the central region of the country - the real masterpiece of landscape design.
Ukraine’s nature is a source of national pride for its residents. To understand Ukrainians’ deep love of natural wonders, one needs only to visit the Carpathian valleys, to see the reflection in the mirror-like surface of mountain lakes, to climb through one of the numerous Crimean caves, or to raft on the Pivdennyy Buh rapids. Rest assured: the breathtaking sights will stay in your memory forever. Over time, they will transform into a desire to rediscover the wonders of Ukrainian nature.
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This discussion on the Go Betweens forum sums up The Distractions' modern day fan base... keen and eager to spread the word; perhaps slightly obsessive. New converts have usually had their head turned at the extraordinary Factory Records single, Time Goes By So Slow, then go on to discover the album, its beauty and its limitations.
skulldisco:
"The Distractions – Nobody’s Perfect. Long-forgotten classic Manchester band from 1981. I wish I still had the single they released on Factory Records, it's probably worth a small fortune. Who would have thought Factory would have a power pop, '60s influenced band on their roster! The album is on Island Records, my copy is pretty scratchy having been in transit so many times over the last 29 years or so."
Jeff Whiteaker:
"Kevin, I think Time Goes By So Slow is an incredible pop song, but I could never really warm up to their album."
"Jeff, I know where you are coming from. It probably sounds a bit dated now to be honest, but I think the songs are of a high quality, it's the production that dates it. It may be more up Randy's street, I’ll send him a couple of songs on the off chance he doesn’t already have them."
Michael Bachman:
"Time Goes By So Slow is a great pop song. I like the guitar break; it was almost heading into Tom Verlaine territory there for a second or two. I must admit I've never heard of them. Why wasn’t Nobody's Perfect ever released on CD? Were the vinyl sales too small?"
Randy Adams:
"I had never heard of The Distractions. The end part of Time Goes By So Slow is when it starts to really happen for me. Thanks for sending it, Kevin. In your mail you'll find the answer to your question about the other song you sent. Michael, my observation is that a lot of small-selling things released in the early '80s – shortly before the introduction of CDs – never saw CD release. Most of them were now just yesterday's news but not old enough to be revived and if they weren't earlier releases by artists enjoying continuing success they disappeared."
Note the discussion about Occultation label-mates, The Wild Swans' Revolutionary Spirit, later in the thread. Also mentioned is The Fall's Extrictate, which featured none other than Martin Bramah, returning founder member of The Fall and now leader of Factory Star. To complete the Occultation links, the Go Betweens themselves are name-checked on Jonathan Beckett's beautiful EP, She's a Vampire.
There have been a couple of mentions of an alleged Time Goes By So Slow video that was filmed by Charles Salem in Albert Square (where else?). Sadly, Charlie doesn't recall filming this - but admits that doesn't mean it didn't happen!
We do know that Salem worked as Factory Records' video man during the time that The Distractions were associated to Tony Wilson's label. He worked with friend of The Distractions, Liz Naylor, on 'No City Fun' with music by Joy Division. 'All Night Party' and 'Red Dress' were music videos by Salem featuring soundtracks from A Certain Ratio and Ludus, respectively. These three videos were packaged together as FAC 9 [1].
Salem was supposed to work again with Liz Naylor in September 1979, in a video project entitled 'In Search of the Lost Chord', a "sojourn through the mathematics of Western tonal mathematics" with music supplied by Martin Hannett. Unsurprisingly, this never happened due to "...misgivings on the part of Miss Naylor on the question of this all-pervading concept of 'product.' She wants to know when we're going to market toilet paper next. Good question [1]."
Unfortunately, it's probably more likely that FAC toilet roll will turn up before footage of The Distractions in Albert Square with FAC 12 as the soundtrack...
Here's the original, beautiful, colour image of Albert Square by Andy Cooke that inspired Mark Cooper to take the shots which resulted in the artwork for The Distractions' two 2010 EPs, Black Velvet and Come Home. The below image is a rough mock-up of what became the Black Velvet EP sleeve.
(c) Andy Cooke (andy.cooke) at flickr.
1. http://news.cerysmaticfactory.info/2004_10_01_archive.html.
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How NASA’s moon mission turned Houston into “Space City”
If New York is known as the “Big Apple” and New Orleans the “Big Easy,” Houston is “Space City.” That reputation began almost six decades ago, when NASA decided to open the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston and put the city on the map.
Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Stuckey, who joined the Houston Chronicle to cover NASA’s mission to the moon, said the culture of NASA plays a “huge” role in the framework of the city itself.
“You can look everywhere and there’s space stuff,” Stuckey said. “I mean, there’s space murals everywhere.”
At George Bush Intercontinental Airport, there’s a moonwalking cow, and Houston boasts two space-themed sports teams: the Astros and the Rockets.
“Houston is among the first words uttered in outer space,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, who wrote the book “American Moonshot.” “NASA looks at Houston as the Vatican of space.”
But the Vatican of space had very humble beginnings. “Houston began its life as a muddy, swampy, mosquito-infested, yellow fever trap,” said Rice University professor Melissa Kean.
The growth is due in large part to city leaders’ determination to expand a creek known as Buffalo Bayou into a 25 mile-long shipping lane from the Gulf Coast port of Galveston, which had been leveled in 1900 by the nation’s deadliest natural disaster.
Houston leadership took advantage of this circumstance to undergo the audacious construction project. By 1960, the city had everything NASA was looking for: elite universities to support research and training, a modern airport, and a warm climate for working outdoors all year.
It also offered another major advantage: political clout. Congressman Albert Thomas controlled NASA’s budget as chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was also on board, as was construction magnate George R. Brown.
“Kennedy barely won Houston in 1960. He would need to win it in 1964 and pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Houston was good new frontier politics,” Brinkley said.
“NASA announced that the Manned Space Center was gonna be located in Houston on September 19th, 1961,” Kean said. “And every newspaper in town, the front page was covered with, ‘We’re Space City.’ ‘We are now fighting the Russians from Houston.’ It was spectacular.”
A year later, President Kennedy was at Rice teeing up the mission. “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,” he famously said.
“All of a sudden, we felt like a young and vibrant and important place,” Kean said. “We’re building satellites. Our experiments are going up in space.”
Rice University was all in, too. The school donated land on the outskirts of the city for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center and the people who worked there.
“Three years later, there’s a small city there,” Kean said with a laugh. “All around it, residential areas begin springing up like mushrooms.”
Those areas became home to the Mercury and Apollo astronauts, including Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
The lead up to the 1969 launch was infectious. “It was an oil and gas town, it was petroleum,” Brinkley said. “Once NASA comes to Houston, everything changes. Every business wants to be part of this moon energy.”
One example of this is the Astrodome, the world’s first multi-purpose domed stadium. After a successful, historic mission, the Apollo 11 crew were welcomed back in an Astrodome homecoming hosted by Frank Sinatra.
Fifty years later, NASA hopes to return to the moon – this time as a jumping off point to reach planets deeper in the solar system.
“People around my age, they want to go to Mars,” Stuckey said. “I’ve interviewed so many people that have said, ‘I’m not getting married, I’m not having kids, because I want to go to Mars.’”
Stuckey believes that curiosity comes from the desire to go where no one’s gone before – “which is what we had in the 60s.”
“This may be the age of Neil Armstrong we’re living in right now,” Brinkley said. “That’s how large breaking Earth’s gravitational pull is. So from years from now, Houston may be seen as the great American city where first-time earthlings from Houston were able to project to the solar system and beyond.”
The post How NASA’s moon mission turned Houston into “Space City” appeared first on CBS News.
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Category Archives: Paul Provenza
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The Pencil Today:
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
♢
Steven Higgs of the Bloomington Alternative ran a fascinating two–parter this month on the 1971 opening salvo in the right wing revolution that has turned this holy land into a corporatocracy. Don’t miss it.
Less than half a year before he was nominated by Richard Nixon to become a US Supreme Court Associate Justice, the then-rightist Lewis Powell wrote an explosive memo detailing what he saw as the coming war for free enterprise.
Powell, you may recall, retired in the middle of Ronald Reagan’s second term as president. By that time, he was seen as a moderate, a compromiser, the guy who could talk to both Antonin Scalia and Thurgood Marshall. In fact, many felt Powell was even too liberal for a Court and a nation that had moved dramatically rightward in the preceding 16 years.
Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy, an even more conservative jurist, to replace Powell. Now Kennedy is seen as the moderate, the compromiser, and, occasionally, too liberal for his own good.
The right has come a long way, baby.
Anyway, Powell, a big-time corporate lawyer and legal advocate for the tobacco industry, wrote that American capitalism was under attack on a variety of fronts 41 years ago. Everybody, he wrote, from Ralph Nader, the media, academia, the federal courts, communists and “New Left”-ists, to outright revolutionaries were gunning for our sacred economic system.
Powell wasn’t speaking metaphorically either. He was convinced liberals were out to destroy America. His screed sounded like nothing other than a typical Rush Limbaugh upchuck.
For instance, Powell quoted a Fortune magazine diatribe against consumer advocate Nader:
“The passion that rules in him — and he is a passionate man — is aimed at smashing utterly the target of his hatred, which is corporate power. He thinks, and says quite bluntly, that a great many corporate executives belong in prison — for defrauding the consumer with shoddy merchandise, poisoning the food supply with chemical additives and willfully manufacturing unsafe products that will maim or kill the buyer.”
Nader, Powell asserted, was dangerous.
Funny thing is, a mere six years later it was learned that Ford Motor Company bosses knew their Pinto model was liable to explode in flames in rear-end collisions. Those execs also knew a certain number of Pinto drivers and passengers would die as a result. They decided that the deaths and resulting financial damage claims were simply the cost of doing business.
Dangerous, indeed.
In the Powell Memo, sent to members of the US Chamber of Commerce, he suggested corporate America and political leaders devote themselves to the “constant surveillance” of school textbooks and eliminate left-wingers from schools and positions of power.
“There should be no hesitation to attack,” he advised corporate leaders.
Yeesh!
Higgs concludes that the memo was “a literal call to the political arms that have (sic) subsequently driven the nation’s devolution from democracy to oligarchy.”
I suppose the only difference between today and 1971 is that, back then, the only people who would spout such psycho garbage were toady corporate lawyers. Now, the corporations have an entire Tea Party to parrot their paranoia.
LIZZ WINSTEAD’S BABY
Lizz Winstead created the fabulously successful Daily Show franchise that we think of as Jon Stewart’s baby.
It isn’t.
Stewart came aboard two and a half years after the show was born. He replaced the smarmy-snarky, celebrity-gossipy Craig Kilborn as host. Toward the end of Kilborn’s run, he granted an interview to an Esquire magazine writer in which he suggested that Winstead would happily blow him. It was the last straw in Winstead’s long-standing battle against the comedy boys club that was taking over her show. She quit soon after.
Since her Daily Show stint, Winstead’s career has soared and dived. She co-founded the ill-fated Air America Radio network. She writes occasionally for the Huffington Post, has produced a few TV and radio shows, and now hosts a weekly New York City radio news wrap up program called “Shoot the Messenger.”
I was reminded of Winstead while reading a neat book called “¡Satiristas!: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians,” by Paul Provenza and Dan Dion. It was published by itbooks, a HarperCollins imprint, in 2010. In it Provenza chats with dozens of funny people about their art.
Winstead is included in the line-up. She tells Provenza that part of her comedic sensibility emanates from her conservative Catholic childhood home in Minneapolis.
She recalls facing her first adult dilemma as a teenaged girl.
“[T]he first time I ever had sex, in high school, I got pregnant. I knew I wasn’t having a baby, bu the way to get an abortion was so insane. Being brought up a Catholic, I didn’t know where to go, but one day I saw a sign on the bus for a place that said, ‘Abortion options.’ I thought, ‘Oh, there are many options.’
“So I go to this place, and it was run by some group called The Lambs of Christ. This woman comes out wearing a lab coat, so I’m thinking she’s some kind of doctor. Then I realized the women at the Clinique and Lancôme counters wear lab coats; she’s not really a doctor, lab coats are pretty much available anywhere. She shows me blow-ups of mangled fetuses and a picture of a kid on a bike. I’m like, ‘A bike?’ It was insane. I left completely confused. As I walked out the door, she was yelling after me, ‘Just remember, the choice you make is mommy or murder.’
“I thought, ‘I’m sixteen and here’s an adult, a “person of God,” impersonating a physician, just scaring the shit out of me.’ Even as a kid, I was, like, ‘That’s fucking weird.'”
Winstead’s 51 years old now, meaning the encounter took place 35 years ago, probably sometime in 1977.
Just four short years after the US Supreme Court’s landmark Roe vs. Wade decision.
Nashville’s The Tennessean newspaper reported Friday that 24 states passed new abortion restriction laws in 2011, more than any previous year.
Talk about fucking weird.
MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING
Written by Bruce Springsteen, performed best by Cyndi Lauper.
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Esteban Touma
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Hey, long time no see. I’ve had a couple of busy couple of weeks (as in “I’m not working and don’t want to open my computer” busy). I’ll start by letting you all know that, if you haven’t seen it, my Comedy Central set came out last week. You can watch it here. They edited out the part where I riffed on forgetting a joke, thank god. Overall I’m happier with it than I thought I would be. I received so much feedback from friends, family, and strangers. It was overwhelming and great. Damn, those social media hearts, they get to you. Thank you to all of you who reached out or watched it!
The ads I made for Pringles are also out. There are four of them with different topics: pugs, coffee date, emotional cheating, and wine. The concept is a bit dumb (it’s an ad, after all), but I had fun doing them and was happy to see several of the lines I wrote or improvised in the ads.
We’ve had a couple of social weeks! We spent an entire week with our dear friends, Beth and David, in a cabin up in Wyoming, near the Bighorn National Forest. Days of regular showers, a full kitchen, great conversation, and just hanging around, sharing food and drinks. The days are accompanied by the sound and feel of the creek that overlooks the property, and I spend a good amount of time walking up the river, jumping from stone to stone. The prehistoric Netflix. I could watch a river streaming for hours.
We also wade in a beautiful swimming hole down the road. The river opens up right under a big clay wall that has several natural holes. David and I create a game that consists of throwing rocks into these holes, to see if we can make the rocks stay there. We feel like we’ve invented something totally original, until I realize it’s just a giant, natural version of skeeball –without the tickets.
After a week we say goodbye to Beth, David, and hot showers, but we stop by Thermopolis, a town with hot springs. They’re so proud of it they painted an entire mountain to say “World largest thermal waters”, with an arrow pointing at the town. We swim in their free pools. They smell like sulfur, so I come out smelling like rotten egg for a couple of days. This is a preferable alternative to my natural smell, to be honest.
On our way to Yellowstone we spend a night in Cody, WY, a town founded by Buffalo Bill, whose real name was Cody. In an attempt to recreate his sense of entertainment, this town has a theatrical shootout in the street. At 6 pm they roll out into the streets 3 shacks that represent a saloon, a bank, and a jail, and 5 characters that represent Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Wyatt Earp, and two unnamed women. All of them, buildings and characters, very stiff and badly constructed. The old-town bank shed had letters badly painted on it that say “ATM inside,” with an arrow. Whether this was a post-modern addition to add some humor or a graffiti by a local vandal was not clear.
Before the start of the scene, the emcee, a slow-moving man who has to read from a piece of paper the list of sponsors -the city of Cody and the local Chinese restaurant-, asks everyone to stand up for the national anthem. It surprises me how quickly everyone rises up, as if showing allegiance to the country seems natural before some street entertainment. I immediately feel bad about thinking that an act of patriotism before a shooting seems ironic, considering the latest news. Apparently I’m the only one who’s confused about it, as everyone is singing their hearts out. Why? Is the amateur production of an outlaw shootout what the forefathers meant when they were talking about freedom? I know Lincoln wouldn’t appreciate the sound of a gunshot during a play.
The emcee then introduces the characters, who shyly proceed to their marks. They seem a bit old and they’re exhausted by the time they greet the audience. The first act gets on their way: Cassidy and Sundance are playing “Go fish” in the saloon. When one accuses the other of cheating they both stand up, ready for a shootout. At least that’s what the script must’ve said. Before standing up they grasp the table in place and move the props carefully. Sundance Kid takes a cautious step back, unholsters the gun, peeking at it as trying to make sure it’s ready.
“No one calls me a cheater,” he says, while taking a couple of minutes to pull his gun out. But the gun malfunctions and doesn’t fire. In the confusion Butch Cassidy takes out his gun and after some hesitation he hands it to Sundance Kid, who shoots him. The moment the gun is heard I realize I’ve had enough of Cody. I’m not sure how the play ended, but if you hurry they may still be at it.
We head towards Big Sky. Our friends Holly and Brian have invited us to a music festival there. I’m not much of a concert-goer anymore. For me, listening to music has become a very private act. But being there I’m reminded of how fun it is to go up front and just feel the music pulsating through you, your friends, and a bunch of weird, fun-loving people. What a cool thing to show someone from another planet: a group of human bodies moving to magnified vibrations, raising hands and screaming at command, trying to sync up to these beats. “How come” the aliens would ask, “a ridiculous hat and a flashy scarf is cool as long as you’re on a stage, holding a guitar?” and I wouldn’t have an answer for them because I would be too busy clapping for Clay Johnson on drums or whatever.
Before heading into Yellowstone we stop at a free campsite where I meet Chris, Bob, Andrew, and Mike. We’re all strangers but we’ve come from our campsites to see Andrew’s rig. It’s impressive. A giant school bus covered with home-made modifications to be turned into a 2 bedroom apartment that San Francisco residents would envy. It has two bedrooms, a compostable toilet, a fully-equipped kitchen, a small living room, and a small garden with herbs, along some hanging plants. The most noticeable aspect of the bus is the second floor: they’ve taken a classic Volkswagen van and put the top half of it on top of the bus.
We tour the place, amazed at how big and cool a school bus can be without kids. We go up the stairs (it has stairs!) to the VW. The back window of it opens up into an 8×8 deck. In front of the VW there are several solar panels. Bob, an old man with a southern accent who tours the bus with me, Andrew, who bought it from a family some months ago, and me, sit at the deck and do some wonderful small talk: from camping, to full-timing, to vans, to Volskwagen, to Hitler, to socialism. When I find myself uselessly trying to convince Bob that Nazi Germany was not Marxist I realize I should just let it go. We’re just two strangers in the roof of someone else’s modified bus, this is not a place to discuss politics. Later I learned Bob just got a divorce after 41 years of marriage and has decided to spend his half in a class C camper and go see the country.
Later I meet Mike, who tells us he’s moving to a new town and a new job, arriving late as he had to take care of family issues. His brother had died a week ago, unexpectedly, in a McDonalds, suffering from a condition he may also have.
Another camper, Chris, is sitting by the fire after e come down, so I start talking to him. He’s a young guy, with a shy smile and big eyes. I immediately feel comfortable with him and start talking. He seems open to people, and tells me how happy he is that I decided to come join them. He speaks slowly and stares intensely but warmly. He’s nice but there’s a sense of feebleness and defeat in his voice. When I meet Haley, his dog, he tells me how much she means to him. “She helps me in my dark moments,” he says.
Chris lives in a modified pickup truck, and has been living there for 3 years. “It’s a small space, now that there’s two people in it.” I didn’t see anyone else. “Tanya is accompanying me,” he tells me. She’s a Finland native who’s been traveling with him for the last two months. Chris looks at the fire, and understands the weight of the words he’s about to share with me. “I just want to show her a bit of this country before time comes. She has brain cancer, and doesn’t have long.” She sleeps most of the day, I learn. Her memory is fading. She repeats herself and gets disoriented. “But it’s nice to share the road with someone.” Tanya comes out later. She moves slowly and her difficulty communicating could be because of her English vocabulary or her condition. She tries to go into the bus as if it’s her house, and asks about the showers. “No showers here, Tanya,” Chris says, leading her back to bed.
“This is our last stretch,” he tells me later. “She’s starting to forget things, and I’m not qualified to take care of her.” As the night falls the conversation among all of us goes to more expected places: work, travels, etc. And despite the intensity of Chris and Tanya’s story, and Bob’s, and Mike’s, we fall back to small talk. What else can you say to strangers who hold inside of them unspeakable feelings? Let’s just talk about the weather, campsites, or fascism.
We spend a couple of days in Yellowstone. Fire and water are in constant struggle here. These multicolor pools and their violence are like a prehistoric soup, cooking unicellular organisms and the secrets of geology since forever. We hear about the horrible burns and deaths of dozens of people who have fallen in these pools, and the rangers in charge of retrieving the bodies.
It’s a land of altitude and earthquakes. Despite of how different the landscape is I can’t help but to feel a connection to my Andes. The rock formations, the sharp silver edges of the volcanic mountains and the sudden waterfalls all remind me of home.
Yellowstone is a beautiful park, but it’s also a great example of what I call the tourist paradox: there’s so much people you can’t really enjoy the place that much, but you are also part of that problem. In those cynical eyes I see every tourist as an idiot, and I’m sure I’m seen the same way. If an alien sees us collectively, humanity may appear as a mass of bodies standing in the way of each other for the chance of a photo opportunity. But if that same alien takes the chance to meet me individually they’ll find a charming, interesting human who is mindful of his surroundings and knows how to use his car blinkers. In any case, it’s beautiful, and everyone there deserves to see it. Even if they’re carrying selfie sticks. Ok. Maybe not.
Where we are: Grand Teton National Park
Where we are going: Colorado! We’ll be in Denver and Boulder soon. If you know a place we can park our camper please let us know!
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Beautiful, Esteban. Never miss your lines!
A big hug from auntie Maricruz hoho
Hey, I’m anonymous, tis great too!
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Richard Lee I
Col. Richard Lee I (1618-1664), the "Immigrant"
Col. Richard Lee I, “the Immigrant” (1617–1664) arrived in Jamestown in 1639 at the age of 22 with very little to his name other than the patronage of an influential man, Sir Francis Wyatt, the 1st Governor of Virginia. Once there he became Attorney General of the Colony of Virginia, Colonial Secretary of State, and member of the King's Council. He became Clerk of the Quarter Court at Jamestown, within the Secretary of State’s office. He was a loyal supporter of King Charles I of England, and his public offices ceased when Oliver Cromwell seized power in England in 1649. In addition he served as High Sheriff and was a Colonel in the Militia. He was also a tobacco planter, trader, owner and trader of slaves, and employer and importer of indentured English servants (who paid for their passage to America with 7 years of labour). At the time of his death he was the largest landholder in the colony (13,000 acres) and perhaps the richest man in Virginia. He was the great-great-great grandfather of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and great grandfather of President Zachary Taylor.
1.1 Colonial politics
1.2 Land holdings
1.3 Death
1.4 Richard Lee's Marriage[4]
3 Family legacy
In 1643 the new Governor, Sir William Berkeley (1606–1677), on the recommendation of Sir Francis Wyatt, appointed Richard as Attorney General of the Colony.[1]
Richard was in the fur trading business with the Indians. Because of this, Richard took his bride away from the capital city, and went to live among the Indians beyond the frontier of settlement. His first patent was for land on the north side of the York River at the head of Poropotank Creek, in what was then York, later Gloucester County. He had received the title to this 1,000 acre (4 km²) tract on August 10, 1642 through the headrights of thirty-eight immigrants unable to pay their own passage, who were brought over by Col. Lee in his own ship on his return from Breda in 1650. However, Lee did not take title to this land until 1646, when there is record of his purchasing 100 acres (0.4 km2) at this location. Richard’s first home was on leased land on the same side of the river, at the head of Tindall’s Creek near the Indian community of Capahosic Wicomico. However, on April 18, 1644, hordes of Powhatan Indians massacred the newcomers to the area, led by Chief Opchanacanough. They killed 300, but were driven back by a successful counterattack. As a result the English abandoned the north side of the river.
Richard and his family escaped and settled at New Poquoson on the lower peninsula between the York River and the James River, where it was safer from attack. He was said to have been the first white man to have settled in the northern neck of Virginia. They resided upon this land for the next nine years, which consisted of 90 acres (360,000 m2) and was a comfortable ride from Jamestown.
On August 20, 1646 he took out a patent for 1,250 acres (5 km²) on the Pamunkey River in York, later New Kent County, at the spot “where the foot Company met with the Boats when they went Pamunkey March under ye command of Capt. William Claiborne” during the counteroffensive against the Indians after the massacre of 1644. He did not develop these lands, but exchanged them in 1648 for a tract of the same land along the north side of the York near the present Capahosic, retaining the 400 acres (1.6 km2) he called “War Captain’s Neck” and selling the other 850 acres (3.4 km2).
Colonial politics
Lee became a Burgess of York County from 1647–1651, and in 1649 he was appointed a member of the King’s Council, and a Justice. In 1651 he became Colonial Secretary of State. With the title of Secretary of State, he was next in authority to the Governor, Sir William Berkeley (1606–1677). That same year, Charles I, King of England (1600–1649), was beheaded and Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) began his control. Since the people in the distant colonies could not believe the incredible news from England, they remained loyal to the Crown and to Charles II (1630–1685), heir to the throne. In 1650, Richard made a voyage to the Netherlands to report Virginia’s loyal adherence to Charles II. However, this does not necessarily mean that he was a devout royalist. It turns out that two years later, he negotiated the capitulation of Virginia to the Commonwealth of England, and was satisfied with the terms that were laid out. At this time, he retired from public office, but continued to represent the interests of Virginia in London.
Land holdings
Richard began to acquire many land grants on the peninsula between the York and the Rappahannock River. After peace with the Indians had been concluded and the lands north of the York reopened for settlement in 1649, Richard was issued a patent of 500 acres (2 km²) on May 24, 1651, on land adjacent to “War Captain’s Neck”. That same year he also acquired an additional 500 acres (2 km²) on Poropotank Creek. He sold 150 acres (0.6 km2) of his original grant, the tract on Poropotank Creek. This left 850 acres (3.4 km2) at the original site, to which he later gave the name “Paradise”, and resided from 1653-1656 in the newly created Gloucester County. He became a part owner of a trading ship, whose cargoes brought indentured servants with headrights that Richard used to enlarge his Virginia property. He spent nearly as much of his time from 1652 to his death in 1664, in London, as he did in Virginia. In about 1656 Richard moved the family to Virginia’s Northern Neck, the peninsula formed by the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. Leaving the “Paradise” tract to overseers, they resettled on a spot acquired from the Wicomico Indians, which consisted of 1,900 acres (8 km2). This new land was termed “Dividing Creek”, near what is today the town of Kilmarnock. This tract in later generations became known as that of “Cobbs Hall”.
He later purchased another 2,600 acres (11 km2) in Northumberland County at Machodoc Creek, which empties into the Potomac River. This tract was patented on October 18, 1657, and repatented the following year on June 5, 1658 as 2,000 acres (8 km²). Upon this tract became what was known in later generations as the estates “Mount Pleasant” and “Lee Hall”. He then acquired 4,000 acres (16 km²) farther up the Potomac, near where the city of Washington, D.C., would rise, in what was then Westmoreland, now Fairfax County. One of these would eventually become the site of Mount Vernon.
Disposing of several lesser properties he had obtained, Lee was able to consolidate and develop four major plantations. He had two in Gloucester County: “War Captain’s Neck” and “Paradise”, and two in Northumberland County: “Dividing Creek” and “Machodoc”. He also acquired a plantation called “Lee’s Purchase”, located across the Potomac in Maryland.
In 1658 Richard acquired a residence at Stratford Langthorne, in the County of Essex, then a pleasant suburb of London, and in 1661 he moved his family there. Essex borders London on the east, and the village of Stratford Langthorne was a resort for persons of means who found London unhealthy. It is located about a mile from Stratford-at-Bow on the north side of the Thames in West Ham Parish, until recently the site of great wharves, docks, and the congestion of east London. He did that so that his younger children would have a proper education, seeing as his oldest two sons, John and Richard II, were already students at Oxford. Nevertheless, he eventually wanted his children to reside in Virginia. Though now a resident of England, he continued in his role as a Virginia planter and merchant.
During 1663, Richard Lee, with his wife and children, journeyed to England, where he had his will executed in London on 6 February 1663-4 just before returning alone to Virginia to oversee his interests in the Colony. The exact date of his death is unknown, but had to be before 20 April 1664 when his son John made an application for land due to his father, deceased. (John had probably returned to Virginia with his father.) It is also not known where he died, but it may have been at his home at "Dividing Creeks", Northumberland Co., Virginia.[2][3]
Richard Lee’s will directed that his wife and children, "all except Francis if he be pleased", were to return to Virginia. His property at Stratford in England was to be sold, and the proceeds be used to discharge his debts, to pay for the education of his 2 eldest sons John and Richard, and to provide dowries for his daughters, Elizabeth and Anne. Richard left land to all his sons, and to his widow Anna (or Anne) for her lifetime. In Virginia, he left the "Dividing Creeks" and "Mocke Nock" plantations to his widow for her lifetime and afterwards to be divided among his 3 youngest sons, the "Machodoc" plantation and 3 islands in the bay of Chesapeake to his son John, the "Paradise" plantation to Richard, and "Paper-makers Neck" and "War Captain's Neck" to Francis, William "all the land on the Maryland side, and the remaining plantations and land to William and his 2 youngest sons Hancock and Charles. Richard had also been actively involved in the slave trade[1] and he left his widow 5 "negro" slaves for "during her widowhood and no longer" and 10 English (indentured) servants. He gave John 10 "negro" slaves as well as 10 English (indentured) servants. He left Richard all the English (indentured) servants on the "Paradise" plantation, and Francis 5 "negro" slaves and 10 English (indentured) servants. Other property that was divided among his 8 surviving children included livestock and furniture. His share in 2 trading ships he left to Francis.[3]
His widow Anna (or Anne) married again to Edmund Lister before 24 September 1666.[3] The date of her death is unknown, although legend has it that she was buried beside Richard near the house at "Dividing Creeks".
Richard Lee's Marriage[4]
An interesting claim is made in many genealogies that Richard's wife was Anne Constable, the daughter of Francis Constable the London publisher.[5]
Richard I Lee and his wife Ann had 10 children
John Lee (1643–1673) of "Mount Pleasant", who never married
Henry Lee (1650–1696)
Col. Richard Lee II "the scholar" (1647–1715), who married Laetitia Corbin (c.1657-1706), daughter of Hon. Henry Corbin, Sr (1629–1676) and Alice (Eltonhead) Burnham (c.1627-1684). Greatx2-grandfather of General Robert E. Lee
Francis Lee (1648–1714) a merchant in England, who married Tamar
Capt. William Lee (1651–1696), who married Alice Felton in 1675 and fathered four children
Capt. Hancock Lee I, Hon. (1653–1709) of "Ditchley", who married 1) Mary Kendall (1661–1694); 2) Sarah Elizabeth Allerton (1671–1731), daughter of Col. Isaac Allerton, Jr. (1630–1702) (son of Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower) and his second wife, Elizabeth (Willoughby) Overzee Colclough, widow of Simon Overzee and George Colclough. Grandfather of President Zachary Taylor
Elizabeth (Betsey) Lee (1654–1714), who married 1) Leonard Howson Sr (1648–1704); 2) John Turberville (1650–1728), son of George Turberville IV (1638-c.1659) and Bridget
Anne Lee (1654–1701), who married Maj. Thomas Youell Jr (1644–1695), son of Thomas Youell (1615–1655) and Anne Sturman (d. 1672)
Capt. Charles Lee Sr (1655–1701) of "Cobbs Hall", who married Elizabeth Medstand, daughter of Thomas Medstand (-1675). Ancestor of the Manning family of Eli Manning and Peyton Manning
Anne Lee (1655), who died young
Today the different branches of the Lee family are known as: "Cobb's Hall", "Mount Pleasant", "Ditchley", "Lee Hall", “Blenheim”, “Leesylvania”, “Dividing Creek”, and "Stratford". These were the estate names of the descendants of Richard Lee I that are still referred to today when talking of Lee descendancy. An interesting note is that Richard had patented somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 acres (61 km²) on both sides of the Potomac, in Maryland and in Virginia. Part of this land later became George Washington’s Mount Vernon. When he divided his estate among his children, he also left them the products of the several plantations including white indentured servants, Negro slaves, livestock, household furnishings, silver, and many other luxuries.
Notable descendants of Richard Lee I include signers of the Declaration of Independence Francis Lightfoot Lee and Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary War general Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Confederate Civil War generals Robert E. Lee, Richard Taylor, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee and George Washington Custis Lee, Richard L. T. Beale, Richard Lucian Page; President of the United States Zachary Taylor, Chief Justice of the United States Edward Douglass White, Governor of Maryland Thomas Sim Lee.
^ a b McGaughy, J.K., Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: a portrait of an American revolutionary
^ Hannings, B., American Revolutionary War leaders: a biographical dictionary
^ a b c Lee, E.J., Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the descendants of Colonel Richard Lee
^ Her name is given as Anna in Richard Lee's will, and Anne in documentation of 24 September 1666
^ Genealogy Magazine
McGaughy, J.K., Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: a portrait of an American revolutionary Chapter 1 [1]
Lee, Casenove, Lee Chronicle, published by New York University Press, New York, NY, in 1957.
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The music industry or music business sells compositions, recordings and performances of music. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate within the industry are the musicians who compose and perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music (e.g., music publishers, producers, studios, engineers, record labels, retail and online music stores, performance rights organizations); those that present live music performances (booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew); professionals who assist musicians with their careers (talent managers, business managers, entertainment lawyers); those who broadcast music (satellite and broadcast radio); journalists; educators; musical instrument manufacturers; as well as many others.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the music industry was dominated by the publishers of sheet music. By the middle of the century records had supplanted sheet music as the largest player in the music business: in the commercial world people began speaking of "the recording industry" as a loose synonym of "the music industry". Since 2000, sales of recorded music have dropped off substantially,[1] while live music has increased in importance.[2] Three "major corporate labels" dominate recorded music — Universal Music Group (after purchasing EMI in November 2011), Sony Music Entertainment,[3] and Warner Music Group — each of which consists of many smaller companies and labels serving different regions and markets. The live music industry is dominated by Live Nation, the largest promoter and music venue owner. Live Nation is a former subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, which is the largest owner of radio stations in the United States. Other important music industry companies include Creative Artists Agency (a management and booking company) and Apple Inc. (which runs the world's largest music store, the iTunes Store).[4]
1.1 18th Century
2 Business structure
2.1 Recorded music and compositions
2.1.1 Compositions
2.1.2 Recordings
2.1.3 Physical media
2.1.4 Other uses of recorded music and compositions
2.1.5 Regional variations and industry evolution
2.2 Live music
2.3 Artist management, representation and staff
2.4 Other income streams
3 Statistics
3.1 Total value by country
3.2 Albums sales and market value
3.3 Singles sales
3.4 Recorded music retail sales
4 Music industry organizations
Until the 18th century, the processes of formal composition and of the printing of music took place for the most part with the support of patronage from aristocracies and churches. In the mid-to-late 18th century, performers and composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began to seek commercial opportunities to market their music and performances to the general public. After Mozart's death, his wife (Constanze Weber) continued the process of commercialization of his music through an unprecedented series of memorial concerts, selling his manuscripts, and collaborating with her second husband, Georg Nissen, on a biography of Mozart.[5]
In the 19th century, sheet-music publishers dominated the music industry. In the United States, the music industry arose in tandem with the rise of blackface minstrelsy. In the late part of the century the group of music publishers and songwriters which dominated popular music in the United States became known as Tin Pan Alley.
Main article: 20th-century music
At the dawn of the early 20th century, the recording of sound began to function as a disruptive technology in music markets.[citation needed] With the invention of the phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, and the onset of widespread radio communications, the way music is heard was changed forever. Opera houses, concert halls, and clubs continued to produce music and perform live, but the power of radio allowed obscure bands to become popular on a nationwide and sometimes worldwide scale.
The "record industry" eventually replaced the sheet music publishers as the industry's largest force. A multitude of record labels came and went. Some note-worthy labels of the earlier decades include the Columbia Records, Crystalate, Decca Records, Edison Bell, The Gramophone Company, Invicta, Kalliope, Pathé, Victor Talking Machine Company and many others.[6]
Many record companies died out as quickly as they had formed, and by the end of the 1980s, the "Big 6" — EMI, CBS, BMG, PolyGram, WEA and MCA — dominated the industry. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987 and changed its name to Sony Music in 1991. In mid-1998, PolyGram merged into Universal Music Group (formerly MCA), dropping the leaders down to a "Big 5".
Genre-wise, music entrepreneurs expanded their industry models into areas like folk music, in which composition and performance had continued for centuries on an ad hoc self-supporting basis. Forming an independent record label, or "indie" label, continues to be a popular choice for up-and-coming musicians to have their music heard, despite the financial backing associated with major labels.
Main article: 2000s in the music industry
In the 21st century, consumers spent less money on recorded music than they had in 1990s, in all formats.[7] Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the world dropped 25% from $38.6 billion in 1999 to $27.5 billion in 2008 according to IFPI. Same revenues in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $10.4 billion in 2008. The Economist and The New York Times report that the downward trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future[8][9] —Forrester Research predicts that by 2013, revenues in USA may reach as low as $9.2 billion.[8] This dramatic decline in revenue has caused large-scale layoffs inside the industry, driven retailers (such as Tower Records) out of business and forced record companies, record producers, studios, recording engineers and musicians to seek new business models.[10]
The "Big 5" major record companies became the "Big 4" in 2004 when Sony acquired BMG, and the "Big 3" when EMI was acquired by Universal in 2011.
In the early years of the decade, the record industry took aggressive action against illegal file sharing. In 2001 it succeeded in shutting down Napster (the leading on-line source of digital music), and it has threatened thousands of individuals with legal action.[10] This failed to slow the decline in revenue and proved a public-relations disaster.[10] However, some academic studies have suggested that downloads did not cause the decline.[11] Legal digital downloads became widely available with the debut of the iTunes Store in 2003. The popularity of internet music distribution has increased and in 2009 more than a quarter of all recorded music industry revenues worldwide are now coming from digital channels.[12] However, as The Economist reports, "paid digital downloads grew rapidly, but did not begin to make up for the loss of revenue from CDs."[9] The 2008 British Music Rights survey[13] showed that 80% of people in Britain wanted a legal P2P service, however only half of the respondents thought that the music's creators should be paid. The survey was consistent with the results of earlier research conducted in the United States, upon which the Open Music Model was based.[14] According to Nielson Soundscan, by 2009 CDs accounted for 79 percent of album sales, with 20 percent coming from digital, representing both a 10 percent drop and gain for both formats in 2 years.[15]
The turmoil in the recorded music industry changed the twentieth-century balance between artists, record companies, promoters, retail music-stores and the consumer. As of 2010[update], big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy sell more records than music-only stores, which have ceased to function as a player in the industry. Recording artists now rely on live performance and merchandise for the majority of their income, which in turn has made them more dependent on music promoters like Live Nation (which dominates tour promotion and owns a large number of music venues.)[2] In order to benefit from all of an artist's income streams, record companies increasingly rely on the "360 deal", a new business-relationship pioneered by Robbie Williams and EMI in 2007.[16] At the other extreme, record companies can offer a simple manufacturing and distribution deal, which gives a higher percentage to the artist, but does not cover the expense of marketing and promotion. Many newer artists no longer see any kind of "record deal" as an integral part of their business plan at all. Inexpensive recording hardware and software made it possible to record reasonable quality music in a bedroom and distribute it over the internet to a worldwide audience.[17] This, in turn, caused problems for recording studios, record producers and audio engineers: the Los Angeles Times reports that as many as half of the recording facilities in that city have failed.[18] Changes in the music industry have given consumers access to a wider variety of music than ever before, at a price that gradually approaches zero.[10] However, consumer spending on music-related software and hardware increased dramatically over the last decade, providing a valuable new income-stream for technology companies such as Apple Inc.
The music industry is a complex system of many different organizations, firms and individuals and has undergone dramatic changes in the 21st century. However, the majority of the participants in the music industry still fulfill their traditional roles, which are described below.[19]
Recorded music and compositions
There are three types of property that are created and sold by the recording industry: compositions, recordings and media (such as CDs or MP3s). There may be many recordings of a single composition and a single recording will typically be distributed into many media.
Compositions are created by songwriters or composers and are originally owned by the composer. The composer may sell the copyright to another party.[20] Compositions are (traditionally) licensed or "assigned" to publishing companies. A publishing contract specifies the business relationship between the copyright owner and the publishing company. The publishing company (or a collection society operating on behalf of many such publishers, songwriters and composers) collects fees (known as "publishing royalties") when the composition is used. A portion of the royalties are paid by the publishing company to the copyright owner, depending on the terms of the contract. Typically (although not universally), the publishing company will provide the owner with an advance against future earnings when the publishing contract is signed. A publishing company will also promote the compositions, such as by acquiring song "placements" on television or in films.
Recordings are created by recording artists, often with the assistance of record producers and audio engineers. They were traditionally made in recording studios (who are paid a daily or hourly rate) in a recording session. In the 21st century, advances in recording technology have allowed many producers and artists to create "home studios", bypassing the traditional role of the recording studio. The record producer oversees all aspects of the recording, making many of the logistic, financial and artistic decisions in cooperation with the artist. Audio engineers (including recording, mixing and mastering engineers) are responsible for the audio quality of the recording. A recording session may also require the services of an arranger or studio musicians.
Recordings are (traditionally) owned by record companies. A recording contract specifies the business relationship between a recording artist and the record company. In a traditional contract, the company provides an advance to the artist who agrees to record music that will be owned by the company. The A&R department of a record company is responsible for finding new talent and overseeing the recording process. The company pays for the recording costs and the cost of promoting and marketing the record. For physical media (such as CDs), the company also pays to manufacture and distribute the physical recordings. Smaller record companies (known as "indies") will form business relationships with other companies to handle many of these tasks. If contractually bound to do so, the record company pays the recording artist a portion of the income from the sale of the recordings, generally known as a mechanical royalty. (This is distinct from the publishing royalty, described above.) This portion is similar to a percentage, but may be limited or expanded by a number of factors (such as free goods, recoupable expenses, bonuses, etc.) that are specified by the record contract. Session musicians and orchestra members (as well as a few recording artists in special markets) are under contract to provide work for hire; they're typically only paid one-time fees or regular wages for their services, rather than royalties.
Physical media (such as CDs) are sold by music retailers and are owned by the consumer. A music distributor delivers the physical media from the manufacturer to the retailer and maintains relationships with retailers and record companies. The music retailer pays the distributor, who in turn pays the record company for the recordings. The record company pays mechanical royalties to the publisher, composer, and songwriter via a collection society. The record company then pays royalties, if contractually obligated, to the recording artist. In the case of digital downloads, there is no physical media other than the consumer's hard drive. The distributor is optional in this situation; large online shops may pay the labels directly, but digital distributors do exist to service vendors large and small. When purchasing digital downloads, the consumer may be required to agree to record company and vendor licensing terms beyond those which are inherent in copyright; for example, some may allow freely sharing the recording, but others may restrict the user to storing the music on a specific number of hard drives.
Other uses of recorded music and compositions
Sheet music provides an income stream that is paid exclusively to the composers and their publishing company. When a recording is broadcast (either on radio or by a service such as Muzak), performance rights organisations (such as the ASCAP and BMI in the US or MCPS and PRS in the UK), collect a third type of royalty known as a performance royalty, which is paid to composers and recording artists. This royalty is typically much smaller than publishing or mechanical royalties. When recordings are used in television and film, the composer and their publishing company are typically paid through a synchronization license. Subscription services (such as Rhapsody) also provide an income stream directly to record companies, and through them, to artists, contracts permitting.
Regional variations and industry evolution
The industry is further complicated by the fact that the definition of "royalty" and "copyright" varies from country to country and region to region, which changes the terms of some of these business relationships.
In addition to these traditional business relationships, new ways of doing business are being developed in the 21st century. The traditional lines that once divided artist, publisher, record company, distributor, retail and consumer electronics have become blurred. Artists may own their own publishing companies, artist management companies may promote and market recordings on behalf of their clients, artists may promote and market themselves using only free services such as YouTube or social media, consumer electronics companies have become digital music retailers, and so on, in many variations. New digital music distribution technologies have also forced both government and industry to re-examine the definitions of intellectual property and the rights of all the parties involved.
A promoter brings together a performing artist and a venue owner and arranges contracts. A booking agency represents the artist to promoters, makes deals and books performances. Consumers usually buy tickets either from the venue or from a ticket distribution service such as Ticketmaster. In the US, Live Nation is the dominant company in all of these roles: they own most of the large venues in the US, they are the largest promoter, and they own Ticketmaster.
Choices about where and when to tour are decided by the artist's management and the artist, sometimes in consultation with the record company. Record companies may provide tour support; they may finance a tour in the hopes that it will help promote the sale of recordings. However, in the 21st century, it has become more common to release recordings to promote tours, rather than book tours to promote records.
Successful artists will usually employ a road crew: a semi-permanent touring organization that travels with the artist. This is headed by a tour manager and provides stage lighting, live sound reinforcement, musical instrument tuning and maintenance and transportation. On large tours, the road crew may also include an accountant, stage manager and catering. Local crews are typically hired to help move equipment on and off stage. On small tours, all of these jobs may be handled by just a few roadies, or by the musicians themselves.
Artist management, representation and staff
Artists may hire a number of people from other fields to assist them with their career. The artist manager oversees all aspects of an artist's career in exchange for a percentage of the artist's income. An entertainment lawyer assists them with the details of their contracts with record companies and other deals. A business manager handles financial transactions, taxes and bookkeeping. Unions, such as AFTRA in the U.S., provide health insurance and other services for musicians.
Other income streams
A successful artist functions in the market as a brand and, as such, may derive income from many other streams, such as merchandise or internet-based services. These are typically overseen by the artist's manager and take the form of relationships between the artist and companies that specialize in these products.
Further information: Global music industry market share data
US music market shares, according to Nielsen SoundScan (2005)
Nielsen SoundScan reported that the big four accounted for 81.87% of the US music market in 2005:[21]
Universal Music Group (USA based) — 31.71%
Sony Music Entertainment (USA based) — 25.61%
Warner Music Group (USA based) — 15%
EMI Group (UK based) — 9.55%
Independent labels — 18.13%
and in 2004, 82.64%:
Universal Music Group—29.59%
Sony Music Entertainment—28.46% (13.26% Sony, 15.20% BMG)
Warner Music Group—14.68%
EMI Group—9.91%
Independent labels—17.36%
World music market sales shares, according to IFPI (2005)
The global market was estimated at $30–40 billion in 2004.[22] Total annual unit sales (CDs, music videos, MP3s) in 2004 were 3 billion.
According to an IFPI report published in August 2005,[23] the big four accounted for 71.7% of retail music sales:
Universal Music Group—25.5%
Sony Music Entertainment—21.5%
EMI Group—13.4%
Warner Music Group—11.3%
Independent labels—28.3%
Prior to December 1998, the industry was dominated by the "Big Six": Sony Music and BMG had not yet merged, and PolyGram had not yet been absorbed into Universal Music Group. After the PolyGram-Universal merger, the 1998 market shares reflected a "Big Five", commanding 77.4% of the market, as follows, according to MEI World Report 2000:
Universal Music Group — 28.8%
Sony Music Entertainment — 21.1%
EMI — 14.1%
Warner Music Group — 13.4%
Independent labels — 22.6%
Note: the IFPI and Nielsen Soundscan use different methodologies, which makes their figures difficult to compare casually, and impossible to compare scientifically.[24]
Total value by country
According to the IFPI more than 95% of the total revenue from music in 2003 was derived from the 30 major countries in the proportions shown above, organized roughly by geographic location. In the industry, it is commonly accepted that the three major music markets are the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom.
Albums sales and market value
The following table shows album sales and market value in the world in the 1990s–2000s.
Album Sales Share
Share of World Market Value
1 USA 37–40% 30–35%
2 Japan 9–12% 16–19%
3 UK 7–9% 6.4–9.1%
4 Germany 7–8% 5.3–6.4%
5 France 4.5–5.5% 5.4–6.3%
6 Canada 2.6–3.3% 1.9–2.8%
7 Australia 1.5–1.8% 1.5–2.0%
8 Brazil 2.0–3.8% 1.1–3.1%
9 Italy 1.7–2.0% 1.5–2.0%
10 Spain 1.7–2.3% 1.4–1.8%
11 Netherlands 1.2–1.8% 1.3–1.8%
12 Mexico 2.1–4.6% 0.8–1.8%
13 Belgium 0.7–0.8% 0.8–1.2%
14 Switzerland 0.75–0.9% 0.8–1.1%
15 Austria 0.5–0.7% 0.8–1.0%
17 Russia 2.0–2.9% 0.5–1.4%
18 Taiwan 0.9–1.6% 0.5–1.1%
19 Argentina 0.5–0.7% 0.5–1.0%
20 Denmark 0.45–0.65% 0.5–0.8%
Singles sales
Physical single sales in the world in the 1990s–2000s and digital single sales in 2005.
Physical Sales Share
Digital Sales Share in 2005
EU 34–50% 13.2%
1 UK 26–32% 1.7%
2 Japan 4–25% 85%
3 USA 14.5–16% 6.3%
4 Germany 9–12% 5%
5 France 4–12.5% 1.9%
6 Australia 1.8–4.6% 0.48%
7 Netherlands 1.3–1.7% < 0.2%
8 Belgium 0.8-1.8% < 0.2%
9 Sweden 0.6-0.96% < 0.2%
10 Switzerland 0.5-0.92% < 0.2%
11 Austria 0.58-0.82% < 0.2%
12 Italy 0.3-1.0% < 0.2%
13 Spain 0.3-0.7% < 0.2%
14 Norway 0.3-0.47% < 0.2%
15 Ireland 0.2-0.5% < 0.2%
16 Canada 0.1-0.6% < 0.2%
17 Portugal 0.01-1.0% < 0.2%
18 Republic of Korea 0.02-0.45% < 0.1%
19 New Zealand 0.19-0.29% < 0.1%
20 Denmark 0.10-0.25% < 0.1%
Recorded music retail sales
Interim physical retail sales in 2005 - all figures in millions.
Approximately 21% of the gross CD revenue numbers in 2003 can be attributed to used CD sales growing to approximately 27% in 2007 (the growth is attributed to increasing on-line sales of used product by outlets such as Amazon.com, the growth of used music media is expected to continue to grow as the cost of digital downloads continues to rise.)
1 USA 14.7 300.5 11.6 326.8 4783.2 4783.2 −5.70% −5.30%
2 Japan 28.5 93.7 8.5 113.5 2258.2 239759 −6.90% −9.20%
3 UK 24.3 66.8 2.9 74.8 1248.5 666.7 −1.70% −4.00%
4 Germany 8.5 58.7 4.4 71 887.7 689.7 −7.70% −5.80%
5 France 11.5 47.3 4.5 56.9 861.1 669.1 7.50% −2.70%
6 Italy 0.5 14.7 0.7 17 278 216 −8.40% −12.30%
7 Canada 0.1 20.8 1.5 22.3 262.9 325 0.70% −4.60%
8 Australia 3.6 14.5 1.5 17.2 259.6 335.9 −22.90% −11.80%
9 India – 10.9 – 55.3 239.6 11500 −19.20% −2.40%
10 Spain 1 17.5 1.1 19.1 231.6 180 −13.40% −15.70%
11 Netherlands 1.2 8.7 1.9 11.1 190.3 147.9 −31.30% −19.80%
12 Russia – 25.5 0.1 42.7 187.9 5234.7 −9.40% 21.20%
13 Mexico 0.1 33.4 0.8 34.6 187.9 2082.3 44.00% 21.50%
14 Brazil 0.01 17.6 2.4 24 151.7 390.3 −20.40% −16.50%
15 Austria 0.6 4.5 0.2 5 120.5 93.6 −1.50% −9.60%
16 Switzerland ** 0.8 7.1 0.2 7.8 115.8 139.2 n/a n/a
17 Belgium 1.4 6.7 0.5 7.7 115.4 89.7 −13.80% −8.90%
18 Norway 0.3 4.5 0.1 4.8 103.4 655.6 −19.70% −10.40%
19 Sweden 0.6 6.6 0.2 7.2 98.5 701.1 −29.00% −20.30%
20 Denmark 0.1 4 0.1 4.2 73.1 423.5 3.70% −4.20%
Top 20 74.5 757.1 42.8 915.2 12378.7 −6.60% −6.30%
In its June 30, 2000 annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Seagram reported that Universal Music Group made 40% of the worldwide classical music sales over the preceding year.[25]
Music industry organizations
Academy of Country Music aka ACM
Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies aka AARC
American Association of Independent Music aka A2IM
American Federation of Musicians aka AFM
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists aka AFTRA
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers aka ASCAP
Asosiasi Industri Rekaman Indonesia aka ASIRI
Association of Independent Music aka AIM
Australian Recording Industry Association aka ARIA
Billboard Magazine, known for the Billboard Hot 100
British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
Broadcast Music Incorporated aka BMI
Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA)
Country Music Association
Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI)
Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) in Germany
Harry Fox Agency (for-profit branch of the NMPA)
Indian Music Industry (IMI)
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA)
Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (LARAS)
Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
Musicians' Union
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)
National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)
Philippine Association of the Record Industry (PARI)
Recording Artists' Coalition aka RAC
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ)
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)
Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA)
Society of European Stage Authors & Composers (SESAC)
SoundExchange
List of record labels and Category:Record labels
List of best-selling music artists – World's top-selling music artists chart.
MIDEM –The World's Music market.
Music Directory Canada (book)
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^ Dear Constanze The Guardian
^ http://www.angelfire.com/band/vintage78rpm/great78/Early_Record_Labels.htm Early record companies
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^ Andrew Orlowski. 80% want legal P2P - survey. The Register, 2008.
^ Shuman Ghosemajumder. Advanced Peer-Based Technology Business Models. MIT Sloan School of Management, 2002.
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^ All of the information in this section can be found in:
Krasilovsky, M. William; Shemel, Sidney; Gross, John M.; Feinstein, Jonathan, This Business of Music (10th ed.), Billboard Books, ISBN 0823077292
^ In the case of work for hire, the composition is owned immediately by another party.
^ Paul Cashmere (Jan. 5, 2006). "Universal Is The Biggest Music Company of 2005". Undercover (Australia). http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=1215. Retrieved May 27, 2006.
^ According to the RIAA the world music market is estimated at $40 billion, but according to IFPI (2004) it is estimated at $32 billion.
^ IFPI releases definitive statistics on global market for recorded music
^ [1]"Digital Music Futures and the Independent Music Industry", Clicknoise, February 1, 2007.
^ BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES The Seagram Company Ltd.
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Imhorst, Christian: The ‘Lost Generation’ of the Music Industry, published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License 2004
Gerd Leonhard: Music Like Water – the inevitable music ecosystem
The Methods Reporter: Music Industry Misses Mark with Wrongful Suits
Music CD Industry – a mid-2000 overview put together by Duke University undergraduate students
d’Angelo, Mario: Does globalisation mean ineluctable concentration ? in The Music Industry in the New Economy, Report of the Asia-Europe Seminar, Lyon, Oct. 25–28, 2001, IEP de Lyon/Asia-Europe Foundation/Eurical, Editors Roche F., Marcq B., Colomé D., 2002, pp. 53–54.
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Ulrich Dolata: The Music Industry and the Internet. A Decade of Disruptive and Uncontrolled Sectoral Change. Research Contributions to Organizational Sociology and Innovation Studies. Discussion Paper 2011-02. full text online
New York Metro article by Michael Wolff analyzing the decline of the record industry
Salon article on Courtney Love's criticism of record industry business practices
Federal Trade Commission press release regarding price fixing
Antitrust settlement in Nevada price-fixing case
Songwriter Janis Ian's critique of the record industry's policies
The Net is the Independent Artist's Radio – August 10, 2005 MP3 Newswire article
Music Downloads: Pirates- or Customers?. Silverthorne, Sean. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2004.
The British Library - Music Industry Guide (sources of information)
The ASCAP Resource Guide: Recording Industry
BPI: Music business – Industry Structure
Academic articles about the music industry The Music Business Journal
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TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has vehemently censured the Sunday terrorist attack on a church in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least nine people and injuring 35 others.
In a Monday statement, the ministry’s spokesman Bahram Ghasemi condemned the suicide attack on a church in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province in southwestern Pakistan, and extended his sympathies to the Pakistani nation and government, as well as the bereaved families of the victims.
“The remnants of the Takfirist-Zionist terrorists of ISIL, who emerged in the Middle East with the support of some regional and trans-regional countries, and whose defeat has become definite in Syria and Iraq, are now scattered across the region, killing and shedding the blood of innocent people with any religion and belief in every part of the world,” Ghasemi said.
He went on to add, “in the aftermath of their downfall, they are seeking to intimidate nations and undermine their resolve and unity by carrying out blind, aimless and scattered terror attacks.”
“Although the largest terrorist group in the world has disintegrated by the steel resolve of regional countries and in spite of the inclination of our enemies, their remnants are still trying to keep the terrorist ideology alive and keep the region and the world in turmoil by taking such blind and brutal acts,” Ghasemi concluded.
Two suicide bombers attacked a church packed with worshipers on Sunday in Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan Province southwestern Pakistan, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 35 others. ISIL has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Tehran museum to host 2nd Conference of Sassanid Archaeology and Art
TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) – The 2nd Conference of Sassanid Archaeology and Art will be held at the Carpet Museum of Iran in Tehran on October 15.
“The Sassanid period is one of the eras that has received little regard,” executive secretary of the conference Milad Vandaii said in press conference ob Saturday.
“This conference will provide an opportunity for archaeologists, historians and scholars to come together and to offer their latest studies about this period,” he added.
Iranian archaeologist Ali Hojabri will present his paper on the classification of the Sassanid square domes.
In addition, Professor Turaj Daryaii of the University of California, Irvine, who is the author of “Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire”, will present his article entitled “Why was Kartir forgotten in the Middle Persian texts?”
Kartir was a prominent Zoroastrian priest in the second half of the 3rd century CE, known from his inscriptions and mention in Middle Persian, Parthian, and Coptic Manichean texts.
Vandaii is also scheduled to deliver a speech about the role of the Anahita, an ancient Persian Goddess, in the history, art, and architecture of the Sassanids.
The conference has been jointly organized by Kandokav (Excavation), a Persian magazine on archaeology, the Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts organization, and the Carpet Museum of Iran.
The organizers also plan to honor Daryaii with the Negahban Prize for his lifetime achievements in the Iranian archaeology.
The prize, named after Ezzatollah Negahban, the father of modern Iranian archaeology, was established by the organizers during the first edition of the conference in March 2013.
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For other uses, see Horse (disambiguation).
Domesticated four-footed mammal from the equine family
Domesticated
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
E. ferus
Subspecies:
E. f. caballus
Trinomial name
Linnaeus, 1758[1]
Synonyms[2]
at least 48 published
The horse (Equus ferus caballus)[2][3] is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.
Horses are adapted to run, allowing them to quickly escape predators, possessing an excellent sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight response. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down, with younger horses tending to sleep significantly more than adults.[4] Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.
Horse breeds are loosely divided into three categories based on general temperament: spirited "hot bloods" with speed and endurance; "cold bloods", such as draft horses and some ponies, suitable for slow, heavy work; and "warmbloods", developed from crosses between hot bloods and cold bloods, often focusing on creating breeds for specific riding purposes, particularly in Europe. There are more than 300 breeds of horse in the world today, developed for many different uses.
Horses and humans interact in a wide variety of sport competitions and non-competitive recreational pursuits, as well as in working activities such as police work, agriculture, entertainment, and therapy. Horses were historically used in warfare, from which a wide variety of riding and driving techniques developed, using many different styles of equipment and methods of control. Many products are derived from horses, including meat, milk, hide, hair, bone, and pharmaceuticals extracted from the urine of pregnant mares. Humans provide domesticated horses with food, water, and shelter, as well as attention from specialists such as veterinarians and farriers.
1 Biology
1.1 Lifespan and life stages
1.2 Size and measurement
1.2.1 Ponies
1.3 Genetics
1.4 Colors and markings
1.5 Reproduction and development
1.6 Anatomy
1.6.1 Skeletal system
1.6.2 Hooves
1.6.3 Teeth
1.6.4 Digestion
1.6.5 Senses
1.7 Movement
1.8 Behavior
1.8.1 Intelligence and learning
1.8.2 Temperament
1.8.3 Sleep patterns
2 Taxonomy and evolution
2.1 Wild species surviving into modern times
2.2 Other modern equids
3 Domestication
3.1 Feral populations
3.2 Breeds
4 Interaction with humans
4.2 Work
4.3 Warfare
4.4 Entertainment and culture
4.5 Therapeutic use
4.6 Products
4.7 Care
Main article: Equine anatomy
Points of a horse[5][6]
Specific terms and specialized language are used to describe equine anatomy, different life stages, and colors and breeds.
Lifespan and life stages
Depending on breed, management and environment, the modern domestic horse has a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years.[7] Uncommonly, a few animals live into their 40s and, occasionally, beyond.[8] The oldest verifiable record was "Old Billy", a 19th-century horse that lived to the age of 62.[7] In modern times, Sugar Puff, who had been listed in Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living pony, died in 2007 at age 56.[9]
Regardless of a horse or pony's actual birth date, for most competition purposes a year is added to its age each January 1 of each year in the Northern Hemisphere[7][10] and each August 1 in the Southern Hemisphere.[11] The exception is in endurance riding, where the minimum age to compete is based on the animal's actual calendar age.[12]
The following terminology is used to describe horses of various ages:
Foal: A foal of either sex less than one year old. A nursing foal is sometimes called a suckling and a foal that has been weaned is called a weanling.[13] Most domesticated foals are weaned at five to seven months of age, although foals can be weaned at four months with no adverse physical effects.[14]
Yearling: A horse of either sex that is between one and two years old.[15]
Colt: A male horse under the age of four.[16] A common terminology error is to call any young horse a "colt", when the term actually only refers to young male horses.[17]
Filly: A female horse under the age of four.[13]
Mare: A female horse four years old and older.[18]
Stallion: A non-castrated male horse four years old and older.[19] The term "horse" is sometimes used colloquially to refer specifically to a stallion.[20]
Gelding: A castrated male horse of any age.[13]
In horse racing, these definitions may differ: For example, in the British Isles, Thoroughbred horse racing defines colts and fillies as less than five years old.[21] However, Australian Thoroughbred racing defines colts and fillies as less than four years old.[22]
Size and measurement
The height of horses is measured at the highest point of the withers, where the neck meets the back.[23] This point is used because it is a stable point of the anatomy, unlike the head or neck, which move up and down in relation to the body of the horse.
In English-speaking countries, the height of horses is often stated in units of hands and inches: one hand is equal to 4 inches (101.6 mm). The height is expressed as the number of full hands, followed by a point, then the number of additional inches, and ending with the abbreviation "h" or "hh" (for "hands high"). Thus, a horse described as "15.2 h" is 15 hands plus 2 inches, for a total of 62 inches (157.5 cm) in height.[24]
Size varies greatly among horse breeds, as with this full-sized horse and small pony.
The size of horses varies by breed, but also is influenced by nutrition. Light riding horses usually range in height from 14 to 16 hands (56 to 64 inches, 142 to 163 cm) and can weigh from 380 to 550 kilograms (840 to 1,210 lb).[25] Larger riding horses usually start at about 15.2 hands (62 inches, 157 cm) and often are as tall as 17 hands (68 inches, 173 cm), weighing from 500 to 600 kilograms (1,100 to 1,320 lb).[26] Heavy or draft horses are usually at least 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) high and can be as tall as 18 hands (72 inches, 183 cm) high. They can weigh from about 700 to 1,000 kilograms (1,540 to 2,200 lb).[27]
The largest horse in recorded history was probably a Shire horse named Mammoth, who was born in 1848. He stood 21.2 1⁄4 hands (86.25 inches, 219 cm) high and his peak weight was estimated at 1,524 kilograms (3,360 lb).[28] The current record holder for the world's smallest horse is Thumbelina, a fully mature miniature horse affected by dwarfism. She is 17 in (43 cm) tall and weighs 57 lb (26 kg).[29]
Main article: Pony
Ponies are taxonomically the same animals as horses. The distinction between a horse and pony is commonly drawn on the basis of height, especially for competition purposes. However, height alone is not dispositive; the difference between horses and ponies may also include aspects of phenotype, including conformation and temperament.
The traditional standard for height of a horse or a pony at maturity is 14.2 hands (58 inches, 147 cm). An animal 14.2 h or over is usually considered to be a horse and one less than 14.2 h a pony,[30] but there are many exceptions to the traditional standard. In Australia, ponies are considered to be those under 14 hands (56 inches, 142 cm).[31] For competition in the Western division of the United States Equestrian Federation, the cutoff is 14.1 hands (57 inches, 145 cm).[32] The International Federation for Equestrian Sports, the world governing body for horse sport, uses metric measurements and defines a pony as being any horse measuring less than 148 centimetres (58.27 in) at the withers without shoes, which is just over 14.2 h, and 149 centimetres (58.66 in), or just over 14.21⁄2 h, with shoes.[33]
Height is not the sole criterion for distinguishing horses from ponies. Breed registries for horses that typically produce individuals both under and over 14.2 h consider all animals of that breed to be horses regardless of their height.[34] Conversely, some pony breeds may have features in common with horses, and individual animals may occasionally mature at over 14.2 h, but are still considered to be ponies.[35]
Ponies often exhibit thicker manes, tails, and overall coat. They also have proportionally shorter legs, wider barrels, heavier bone, shorter and thicker necks, and short heads with broad foreheads. They may have calmer temperaments than horses and also a high level of intelligence that may or may not be used to cooperate with human handlers.[30] Small size, by itself, is not an exclusive determinant. For example, the Shetland pony which averages 10 hands (40 inches, 102 cm), is considered a pony.[30] Conversely, breeds such as the Falabella and other miniature horses, which can be no taller than 30 inches (76 cm), are classified by their registries as very small horses, not ponies.[36]
Horses have 64 chromosomes.[37] The horse genome was sequenced in 2007. It contains 2.7 billion DNA base pairs,[38] which is larger than the dog genome, but smaller than the human genome or the bovine genome.[39] The map is available to researchers.[40]
Colors and markings
Bay (left) and chestnut (sometimes called "sorrel") are two of the most common coat colors, seen in almost all breeds.
Main articles: Equine coat color, Equine coat color genetics, and Horse markings
Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings, described by a specialized vocabulary. Often, a horse is classified first by its coat color, before breed or sex.[41] Horses of the same color may be distinguished from one another by white markings,[42] which, along with various spotting patterns, are inherited separately from coat color.[43]
Many genes that create horse coat colors and patterns have been identified. Current genetic tests can identify at least 13 different alleles influencing coat color,[44] and research continues to discover new genes linked to specific traits. The basic coat colors of chestnut and black are determined by the gene controlled by the Melanocortin 1 receptor,[45] also known as the "extension gene" or "red factor,"[44] as its recessive form is "red" (chestnut) and its dominant form is black.[46] Additional genes control suppression of black color to point coloration that results in a bay, spotting patterns such as pinto or leopard, dilution genes such as palomino or dun, as well as graying, and all the other factors that create the many possible coat colors found in horses.[44]
Horses that have a white coat color are often mislabeled; a horse that looks "white" is usually a middle-aged or older gray. Grays are born a darker shade, get lighter as they age, but usually keep black skin underneath their white hair coat (with the exception of pink skin under white markings). The only horses properly called white are born with a predominantly white hair coat and pink skin, a fairly rare occurrence.[46] Different and unrelated genetic factors can produce white coat colors in horses, including several different alleles of dominant white and the sabino-1 gene.[47] However, there are no "albino" horses, defined as having both pink skin and red eyes.[48]
Reproduction and development
Main article: Horse breeding
Mare with a foal
Gestation lasts approximately 340 days, with an average range 320–370 days,[49] and usually results in one foal; twins are rare.[50] Horses are a precocial species, and foals are capable of standing and running within a short time following birth.[51] Foals are usually born in the spring. The estrous cycle of a mare occurs roughly every 19–22 days and occurs from early spring into autumn. Most mares enter an anestrus period during the winter and thus do not cycle in this period.[52] Foals are generally weaned from their mothers between four and six months of age.[53]
Horses, particularly colts, sometimes are physically capable of reproduction at about 18 months, but domesticated horses are rarely allowed to breed before the age of three, especially females.[54] Horses four years old are considered mature, although the skeleton normally continues to develop until the age of six; maturation also depends on the horse's size, breed, sex, and quality of care. Larger horses have larger bones; therefore, not only do the bones take longer to form bone tissue, but the epiphyseal plates are larger and take longer to convert from cartilage to bone. These plates convert after the other parts of the bones, and are crucial to development.[55]
Depending on maturity, breed, and work expected, horses are usually put under saddle and trained to be ridden between the ages of two and four.[56] Although Thoroughbred race horses are put on the track as young as the age of two in some countries,[57] horses specifically bred for sports such as dressage are generally not put under saddle until they are three or four years old, because their bones and muscles are not solidly developed.[58] For endurance riding competition, horses are not deemed mature enough to compete until they are a full 60 calendar months (five years) old.[12]
Main articles: Equine anatomy, Muscular system of the horse, Respiratory system of the horse, and Circulatory system of the horse
Main article: Skeletal system of the horse
The skeletal system of a modern horse
The horse skeleton averages 205 bones.[59] A significant difference between the horse skeleton and that of a human is the lack of a collarbone—the horse's forelimbs are attached to the spinal column by a powerful set of muscles, tendons, and ligaments that attach the shoulder blade to the torso. The horse's four legs and hooves are also unique structures. Their leg bones are proportioned differently from those of a human. For example, the body part that is called a horse's "knee" is actually made up of the carpal bones that correspond to the human wrist. Similarly, the hock contains bones equivalent to those in the human ankle and heel. The lower leg bones of a horse correspond to the bones of the human hand or foot, and the fetlock (incorrectly called the "ankle") is actually the proximal sesamoid bones between the cannon bones (a single equivalent to the human metacarpal or metatarsal bones) and the proximal phalanges, located where one finds the "knuckles" of a human. A horse also has no muscles in its legs below the knees and hocks, only skin, hair, bone, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and the assorted specialized tissues that make up the hoof.[60]
Main articles: Horse hoof, Horseshoe, and Farrier
The critical importance of the feet and legs is summed up by the traditional adage, "no foot, no horse".[61] The horse hoof begins with the distal phalanges, the equivalent of the human fingertip or tip of the toe, surrounded by cartilage and other specialized, blood-rich soft tissues such as the laminae. The exterior hoof wall and horn of the sole is made of keratin, the same material as a human fingernail.[62] The end result is that a horse, weighing on average 500 kilograms (1,100 lb),[63] travels on the same bones as would a human on tiptoe.[64] For the protection of the hoof under certain conditions, some horses have horseshoes placed on their feet by a professional farrier. The hoof continually grows, and in most domesticated horses needs to be trimmed (and horseshoes reset, if used) every five to eight weeks,[65] though the hooves of horses in the wild wear down and regrow at a rate suitable for their terrain.
Main article: Horse teeth
Horses are adapted to grazing. In an adult horse, there are 12 incisors at the front of the mouth, adapted to biting off the grass or other vegetation. There are 24 teeth adapted for chewing, the premolars and molars, at the back of the mouth. Stallions and geldings have four additional teeth just behind the incisors, a type of canine teeth called "tushes". Some horses, both male and female, will also develop one to four very small vestigial teeth in front of the molars, known as "wolf" teeth, which are generally removed because they can interfere with the bit. There is an empty interdental space between the incisors and the molars where the bit rests directly on the gums, or "bars" of the horse's mouth when the horse is bridled.[66]
An estimate of a horse's age can be made from looking at its teeth. The teeth continue to erupt throughout life and are worn down by grazing. Therefore, the incisors show changes as the horse ages; they develop a distinct wear pattern, changes in tooth shape, and changes in the angle at which the chewing surfaces meet. This allows a very rough estimate of a horse's age, although diet and veterinary care can also affect the rate of tooth wear.[7]
Main articles: Equine digestive system and Equine nutrition
Horses are herbivores with a digestive system adapted to a forage diet of grasses and other plant material, consumed steadily throughout the day. Therefore, compared to humans, they have a relatively small stomach but very long intestines to facilitate a steady flow of nutrients. A 450-kilogram (990 lb) horse will eat 7 to 11 kilograms (15 to 24 lb) of food per day and, under normal use, drink 38 to 45 litres (8.4 to 9.9 imp gal; 10 to 12 US gal) of water. Horses are not ruminants, they have only one stomach, like humans, but unlike humans, they can utilize cellulose, a major component of grass. Horses are hindgut fermenters. Cellulose fermentation by symbiotic bacteria occurs in the cecum, or "water gut", which food goes through before reaching the large intestine. Horses cannot vomit, so digestion problems can quickly cause colic, a leading cause of death.[67]
A horse's eye
See also: Equine vision
The horses' senses are based on their status as prey animals, where they must be aware of their surroundings at all times.[68] They have the largest eyes of any land mammal,[69] and are lateral-eyed, meaning that their eyes are positioned on the sides of their heads.[70] This means that horses have a range of vision of more than 350°, with approximately 65° of this being binocular vision and the remaining 285° monocular vision.[69] Horses have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.[71]
Their sense of smell, while much better than that of humans, is not quite as good as that of a dog. It is believed to play a key role in the social interactions of horses as well as detecting other key scents in the environment. Horses have two olfactory centers. The first system is in the nostrils and nasal cavity, which analyze a wide range of odors. The second, located under the nasal cavity, are the Vomeronasal organs, also called Jacobson's organs. These have a separate nerve pathway to the brain and appear to primarily analyze pheromones.[72]
A horse's hearing is good,[68] and the pinna of each ear can rotate up to 180°, giving the potential for 360° hearing without having to move the head.[73] Noise impacts the behavior of horses and certain kinds of noise may contribute to stress: A 2013 study in the UK indicated that stabled horses were calmest in a quiet setting, or if listening to country or classical music, but displayed signs of nervousness when listening to jazz or rock music. This study also recommended keeping music under a volume of 21 decibels.[74] An Australian study found that stabled racehorses listening to talk radio had a higher rate of gastric ulcers than horses listening to music, and racehorses stabled where a radio was played had a higher overall rate of ulceration than horses stabled where there was no radio playing.[75]
Horses have a great sense of balance, due partly to their ability to feel their footing and partly to highly developed proprioception—the unconscious sense of where the body and limbs are at all times.[76] A horse's sense of touch is well developed. The most sensitive areas are around the eyes, ears, and nose.[77] Horses are able to sense contact as subtle as an insect landing anywhere on the body.[78]
Horses have an advanced sense of taste, which allows them to sort through fodder and choose what they would most like to eat,[79] and their prehensile lips can easily sort even small grains. Horses generally will not eat poisonous plants, however, there are exceptions; horses will occasionally eat toxic amounts of poisonous plants even when there is adequate healthy food.[80]
Main articles: Horse gait, Trot (horse gait), Canter, and Ambling
Walk 5–8 km/h (3.1–5.0 mph)
Trot 8–13 km/h (5.0–8.1 mph)
Pace 8–13 km/h (5.0–8.1 mph)
Canter 16–27 km/h (9.9–16.8 mph)
Gallop 40–48 km/h (25–30 mph), record: 70.76 km/h (43.97 mph)
All horses move naturally with four basic gaits: the four-beat walk, which averages 6.4 kilometres per hour (4.0 mph); the two-beat trot or jog at 13 to 19 kilometres per hour (8.1 to 11.8 mph) (faster for harness racing horses); the canter or lope, a three-beat gait that is 19 to 24 kilometres per hour (12 to 15 mph); and the gallop.[81] The gallop averages 40 to 48 kilometres per hour (25 to 30 mph),[82] but the world record for a horse galloping over a short, sprint distance is 70.76 kilometres per hour (43.97 mph).[83] Besides these basic gaits, some horses perform a two-beat pace, instead of the trot.[84] There also are several four-beat "ambling" gaits that are approximately the speed of a trot or pace, though smoother to ride. These include the lateral rack, running walk, and tölt as well as the diagonal fox trot.[85] Ambling gaits are often genetic in some breeds, known collectively as gaited horses.[86] Often, gaited horses replace the trot with one of the ambling gaits.[87]
Main articles: Horse behavior and Stable vices
Horses are prey animals with a strong fight-or-flight response. Their first reaction to threat is to startle and usually flee, although they will stand their ground and defend themselves when flight is impossible or if their young are threatened.[88] They also tend to be curious; when startled, they will often hesitate an instant to ascertain the cause of their fright, and may not always flee from something that they perceive as non-threatening. Most light horse riding breeds were developed for speed, agility, alertness and endurance; natural qualities that extend from their wild ancestors. However, through selective breeding, some breeds of horses are quite docile, particularly certain draft horses.[89]
Horses are herd animals, with a clear hierarchy of rank, led by a dominant individual, usually a mare. They are also social creatures that are able to form companionship attachments to their own species and to other animals, including humans. They communicate in various ways, including vocalizations such as nickering or whinnying, mutual grooming, and body language. Many horses will become difficult to manage if they are isolated, but with training, horses can learn to accept a human as a companion, and thus be comfortable away from other horses.[90] However, when confined with insufficient companionship, exercise, or stimulation, individuals may develop stable vices, an assortment of bad habits, mostly stereotypies of psychological origin, that include wood chewing, wall kicking, "weaving" (rocking back and forth), and other problems.[91]
Intelligence and learning
Studies have indicated that horses perform a number of cognitive tasks on a daily basis, meeting mental challenges that include food procurement and identification of individuals within a social system. They also have good spatial discrimination abilities.[92] They are naturally curious and apt to investigate things they have not seen before.[93] Studies have assessed equine intelligence in areas such as problem solving, speed of learning, and memory. Horses excel at simple learning, but also are able to use more advanced cognitive abilities that involve categorization and concept learning. They can learn using habituation, desensitization, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning, and positive and negative reinforcement.[92] One study has indicated that horses can differentiate between "more or less" if the quantity involved is less than four.[94]
Domesticated horses may face greater mental challenges than wild horses, because they live in artificial environments that prevent instinctive behavior whilst also learning tasks that are not natural.[92] Horses are animals of habit that respond well to regimentation, and respond best when the same routines and techniques are used consistently. One trainer believes that "intelligent" horses are reflections of intelligent trainers who effectively use response conditioning techniques and positive reinforcement to train in the style that best fits with an individual animal's natural inclinations.[95]
Main articles: Draft horse, Warmblood, and Oriental horse
Horses are mammals, and as such are warm-blooded, or endothermic creatures, as opposed to cold-blooded, or poikilothermic animals. However, these words have developed a separate meaning in the context of equine terminology, used to describe temperament, not body temperature. For example, the "hot-bloods", such as many race horses, exhibit more sensitivity and energy,[96] while the "cold-bloods", such as most draft breeds, are quieter and calmer.[97] Sometimes "hot-bloods" are classified as "light horses" or "riding horses",[98] with the "cold-bloods" classified as "draft horses" or "work horses".[99]
Illustration of assorted breeds; slim, light hotbloods, medium-sized warmbloods and draft and pony-type coldblood breeds
"Hot blooded" breeds include "oriental horses" such as the Akhal-Teke, Arabian horse, Barb and now-extinct Turkoman horse, as well as the Thoroughbred, a breed developed in England from the older oriental breeds.[96] Hot bloods tend to be spirited, bold, and learn quickly. They are bred for agility and speed.[100] They tend to be physically refined—thin-skinned, slim, and long-legged.[101] The original oriental breeds were brought to Europe from the Middle East and North Africa when European breeders wished to infuse these traits into racing and light cavalry horses.[102][103]
Muscular, heavy draft horses are known as "cold bloods", as they are bred not only for strength, but also to have the calm, patient temperament needed to pull a plow or a heavy carriage full of people.[97] They are sometimes nicknamed "gentle giants".[104] Well-known draft breeds include the Belgian and the Clydesdale.[104] Some, like the Percheron, are lighter and livelier, developed to pull carriages or to plow large fields in drier climates.[105] Others, such as the Shire, are slower and more powerful, bred to plow fields with heavy, clay-based soils.[106] The cold-blooded group also includes some pony breeds.[107]
"Warmblood" breeds, such as the Trakehner or Hanoverian, developed when European carriage and war horses were crossed with Arabians or Thoroughbreds, producing a riding horse with more refinement than a draft horse, but greater size and milder temperament than a lighter breed.[108] Certain pony breeds with warmblood characteristics have been developed for smaller riders.[109] Warmbloods are considered a "light horse" or "riding horse".[98]
Today, the term "Warmblood" refers to a specific subset of sport horse breeds that are used for competition in dressage and show jumping.[110] Strictly speaking, the term "warm blood" refers to any cross between cold-blooded and hot-blooded breeds.[111] Examples include breeds such as the Irish Draught or the Cleveland Bay. The term was once used to refer to breeds of light riding horse other than Thoroughbreds or Arabians, such as the Morgan horse.[100]
Sleep patterns
See also: Horse sleep patterns and Sleep in non-humans
When horses lie down to sleep, others in the herd remain standing, awake or in a light doze, keeping watch.
Horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. In an adaptation from life in the wild, horses are able to enter light sleep by using a "stay apparatus" in their legs, allowing them to doze without collapsing.[112] Horses sleep better when in groups because some animals will sleep while others stand guard to watch for predators. A horse kept alone will not sleep well because its instincts are to keep a constant eye out for danger.[113]
Unlike humans, horses do not sleep in a solid, unbroken period of time, but take many short periods of rest. Horses spend four to fifteen hours a day in standing rest, and from a few minutes to several hours lying down. Total sleep time in a 24-hour period may range from several minutes to a couple of hours,[113] mostly in short intervals of about 15 minutes each.[114] The average sleep time of a domestic horse is said to be 2.9 hours per day.[115]
Horses must lie down to reach REM sleep. They only have to lie down for an hour or two every few days to meet their minimum REM sleep requirements.[113] However, if a horse is never allowed to lie down, after several days it will become sleep-deprived, and in rare cases may suddenly collapse as it involuntarily slips into REM sleep while still standing.[116] This condition differs from narcolepsy, although horses may also suffer from that disorder.[117]
Taxonomy and evolution
From left to right: Size development, biometrical changes in the cranium, reduction of toes (left forefoot)
Main articles: Evolution of the horse, Equus (genus), and Equidae
The horse adapted to survive in areas of wide-open terrain with sparse vegetation, surviving in an ecosystem where other large grazing animals, especially ruminants, could not.[118] Horses and other equids are odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a group of mammals that was dominant during the Tertiary period. In the past, this order contained 14 families, but only three—Equidae (the horse and related species), Tapiridae (the tapir), and Rhinocerotidae (the rhinoceroses)—have survived to the present day.[119]
The earliest known member of the family Equidae was the Hyracotherium, which lived between 45 and 55 million years ago, during the Eocene period. It had 4 toes on each front foot, and 3 toes on each back foot.[120] The extra toe on the front feet soon disappeared with the Mesohippus, which lived 32 to 37 million years ago.[121] Over time, the extra side toes shrank in size until they vanished. All that remains of them in modern horses is a set of small vestigial bones on the leg below the knee,[122] known informally as splint bones.[123] Their legs also lengthened as their toes disappeared until they were a hooved animal capable of running at great speed.[122] By about 5 million years ago, the modern Equus had evolved.[124] Equid teeth also evolved from browsing on soft, tropical plants to adapt to browsing of drier plant material, then to grazing of tougher plains grasses. Thus proto-horses changed from leaf-eating forest-dwellers to grass-eating inhabitants of semi-arid regions worldwide, including the steppes of Eurasia and the Great Plains of North America.
By about 15,000 years ago, Equus ferus was a widespread holarctic species. Horse bones from this time period, the late Pleistocene, are found in Europe, Eurasia, Beringia, and North America.[125] Yet between 10,000 and 7,600 years ago, the horse became extinct in North America and rare elsewhere.[126][127][128] The reasons for this extinction are not fully known, but one theory notes that extinction in North America paralleled human arrival.[129] Another theory points to climate change, noting that approximately 12,500 years ago, the grasses characteristic of a steppe ecosystem gave way to shrub tundra, which was covered with unpalatable plants.[130]
Wild species surviving into modern times
A small herd of Przewalski's Horses
Main article: Wild horse
A truly wild horse is a species or subspecies with no ancestors that were ever domesticated. Therefore, most "wild" horses today are actually feral horses, animals that escaped or were turned loose from domestic herds and the descendants of those animals.[131] Only two never-domesticated subspecies, the tarpan and the Przewalski's horse, survived into recorded history and only the latter survives today.
The Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii), named after the Russian explorer Nikolai Przhevalsky, is a rare Asian animal. It is also known as the Mongolian wild horse; Mongolian people know it as the taki, and the Kyrgyz people call it a kirtag. The subspecies was presumed extinct in the wild between 1969 and 1992, while a small breeding population survived in zoos around the world. In 1992, it was reestablished in the wild due to the conservation efforts of numerous zoos.[132] Today, a small wild breeding population exists in Mongolia.[133][134] There are additional animals still maintained at zoos throughout the world.
The tarpan or European wild horse (Equus ferus ferus) was found in Europe and much of Asia. It survived into the historical era, but became extinct in 1909, when the last captive died in a Russian zoo.[135] Thus, the genetic line was lost. Attempts have been made to recreate the tarpan,[135][136][137] which resulted in horses with outward physical similarities, but nonetheless descended from domesticated ancestors and not true wild horses.
Periodically, populations of horses in isolated areas are speculated to be relict populations of wild horses, but generally have been proven to be feral or domestic. For example, the Riwoche horse of Tibet was proposed as such,[134] but testing did not reveal genetic differences from domesticated horses.[138] Similarly, the Sorraia of Portugal was proposed as a direct descendant of the Tarpan based on shared characteristics,[139][140] but genetic studies have shown that the Sorraia is more closely related to other horse breeds and that the outward similarity is an unreliable measure of relatedness.[139][141]
Other modern equids
Main article: Equus (genus)
Besides the horse, there are six other species of genus Equus in the Equidae family. These are the ass or donkey, Equus asinus; the mountain zebra, Equus zebra; plains zebra, Equus quagga; Grévy's zebra, Equus grevyi; the kiang, Equus kiang; and the onager, Equus hemionus.[142]
Horses can crossbreed with other members of their genus. The most common hybrid is the mule, a cross between a "jack" (male donkey) and a mare. A related hybrid, a hinny, is a cross between a stallion and a jenny (female donkey).[143] Other hybrids include the zorse, a cross between a zebra and a horse.[144] With rare exceptions, most hybrids are sterile and cannot reproduce.[145]
Main articles: History of horse domestication theories and Domestication of the horse
Bhimbetka rock painting showing man riding on horse, India
Domestication of the horse most likely took place in central Asia prior to 3500 BC. Two major sources of information are used to determine where and when the horse was first domesticated and how the domesticated horse spread around the world. The first source is based on palaeological and archaeological discoveries; the second source is a comparison of DNA obtained from modern horses to that from bones and teeth of ancient horse remains.
The earliest archaeological evidence for the domestication of the horse comes from sites in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, dating to approximately 3500–4000 BC.[146][147][148] By 3000 BC, the horse was completely domesticated and by 2000 BC there was a sharp increase in the number of horse bones found in human settlements in northwestern Europe, indicating the spread of domesticated horses throughout the continent.[149] The most recent, but most irrefutable evidence of domestication comes from sites where horse remains were interred with chariots in graves of the Sintashta and Petrovka cultures c. 2100 BC.[150]
Domestication is also studied by using the genetic material of present-day horses and comparing it with the genetic material present in the bones and teeth of horse remains found in archaeological and palaeological excavations. The variation in the genetic material shows that very few wild stallions contributed to the domestic horse,[151][152] while many mares were part of early domesticated herds.[141][153][154] This is reflected in the difference in genetic variation between the DNA that is passed on along the paternal, or sire line (Y-chromosome) versus that passed on along the maternal, or dam line (mitochondrial DNA). There are very low levels of Y-chromosome variability,[151][152] but a great deal of genetic variation in mitochondrial DNA.[141][153][154] There is also regional variation in mitochondrial DNA due to the inclusion of wild mares in domestic herds.[141][153][154][155] Another characteristic of domestication is an increase in coat color variation.[156] In horses, this increased dramatically between 5000 and 3000 BC.[157]
Before the availability of DNA techniques to resolve the questions related to the domestication of the horse, various hypotheses were proposed. One classification was based on body types and conformation, suggesting the presence of four basic prototypes that had adapted to their environment prior to domestication.[107] Another hypothesis held that the four prototypes originated from a single wild species and that all different body types were entirely a result of selective breeding after domestication.[158] However, the lack of a detectable substructure in the horse has resulted in a rejection of both hypotheses.
Feral populations
Main article: Feral horse
Feral horses are born and live in the wild, but are descended from domesticated animals.[131] Many populations of feral horses exist throughout the world.[159][160] Studies of feral herds have provided useful insights into the behavior of prehistoric horses,[161] as well as greater understanding of the instincts and behaviors that drive horses that live in domesticated conditions.[162]
There are also semi-feral horses in many parts of the world, such as Dartmoor and the New Forest in the UK, where the animals are all privately owned but live for significant amounts of time in "wild" conditions on undeveloped, often public, lands. Owners of such animals often pay a fee for grazing rights.[163][164]
Main articles: Horse breed, List of horse breeds, and Horse breeding
The concept of purebred bloodstock and a controlled, written breed registry has come to be particularly significant and important in modern times. Sometimes purebred horses are incorrectly or inaccurately called "thoroughbreds". Thoroughbred is a specific breed of horse, while a "purebred" is a horse (or any other animal) with a defined pedigree recognized by a breed registry.[165] Horse breeds are groups of horses with distinctive characteristics that are transmitted consistently to their offspring, such as conformation, color, performance ability, or disposition. These inherited traits result from a combination of natural crosses and artificial selection methods. Horses have been selectively bred since their domestication. An early example of people who practiced selective horse breeding were the Bedouin, who had a reputation for careful practices, keeping extensive pedigrees of their Arabian horses and placing great value upon pure bloodlines.[166] These pedigrees were originally transmitted via an oral tradition.[167] In the 14th century, Carthusian monks of southern Spain kept meticulous pedigrees of bloodstock lineages still found today in the Andalusian horse.[168]
Breeds developed due to a need for "form to function", the necessity to develop certain characteristics in order to perform a particular type of work.[169] Thus, a powerful but refined breed such as the Andalusian developed as riding horses with an aptitude for dressage.[169] Heavy draft horses developed out of a need to perform demanding farm work and pull heavy wagons.[170] Other horse breeds developed specifically for light agricultural work, carriage and road work, various sport disciplines, or simply as pets.[171] Some breeds developed through centuries of crossing other breeds, while others descended from a single foundation sire, or other limited or restricted foundation bloodstock. One of the earliest formal registries was General Stud Book for Thoroughbreds, which began in 1791 and traced back to the foundation bloodstock for the breed.[172] There are more than 300 horse breeds in the world today.[173]
Interaction with humans
Worldwide, horses play a role within human cultures and have done so for millennia. Horses are used for leisure activities, sports, and working purposes. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that in 2008, there were almost 59,000,000 horses in the world, with around 33,500,000 in the Americas, 13,800,000 in Asia and 6,300,000 in Europe and smaller portions in Africa and Oceania. There are estimated to be 9,500,000 horses in the United States alone.[174] The American Horse Council estimates that horse-related activities have a direct impact on the economy of the United States of over $39 billion, and when indirect spending is considered, the impact is over $102 billion.[175] In a 2004 "poll" conducted by Animal Planet, more than 50,000 viewers from 73 countries voted for the horse as the world's 4th favorite animal.[176]
Communication between human and horse is paramount in any equestrian activity;[177] to aid this process horses are usually ridden with a saddle on their backs to assist the rider with balance and positioning, and a bridle or related headgear to assist the rider in maintaining control.[178] Sometimes horses are ridden without a saddle,[179] and occasionally, horses are trained to perform without a bridle or other headgear.[180] Many horses are also driven, which requires a harness, bridle, and some type of vehicle.[181]
A horse and rider in dressage competition at the Olympics
Main articles: Equestrianism, Horse racing, Horse training, and Horse tack
Historically, equestrians honed their skills through games and races. Equestrian sports provided entertainment for crowds and honed the excellent horsemanship that was needed in battle. Many sports, such as dressage, eventing and show jumping, have origins in military training, which were focused on control and balance of both horse and rider. Other sports, such as rodeo, developed from practical skills such as those needed on working ranches and stations. Sport hunting from horseback evolved from earlier practical hunting techniques.[177] Horse racing of all types evolved from impromptu competitions between riders or drivers. All forms of competition, requiring demanding and specialized skills from both horse and rider, resulted in the systematic development of specialized breeds and equipment for each sport. The popularity of equestrian sports through the centuries has resulted in the preservation of skills that would otherwise have disappeared after horses stopped being used in combat.[177]
Horses are trained to be ridden or driven in a variety of sporting competitions. Examples include show jumping, dressage, three-day eventing, competitive driving, endurance riding, gymkhana, rodeos, and fox hunting.[182] Horse shows, which have their origins in medieval European fairs, are held around the world. They host a huge range of classes, covering all of the mounted and harness disciplines, as well as "In-hand" classes where the horses are led, rather than ridden, to be evaluated on their conformation. The method of judging varies with the discipline, but winning usually depends on style and ability of both horse and rider.[183] Sports such as polo do not judge the horse itself, but rather use the horse as a partner for human competitors as a necessary part of the game. Although the horse requires specialized training to participate, the details of its performance are not judged, only the result of the rider's actions—be it getting a ball through a goal or some other task.[184] Examples of these sports of partnership between human and horse include jousting, in which the main goal is for one rider to unseat the other,[185] and buzkashi, a team game played throughout Central Asia, the aim being to capture a goat carcass while on horseback.[184]
Horse racing is an equestrian sport and major international industry, watched in almost every nation of the world. There are three types: "flat" racing; steeplechasing, i.e. racing over jumps; and harness racing, where horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a small, light cart known as a sulky.[186] A major part of horse racing's economic importance lies in the gambling associated with it.[187]
Horse pulling a cart
A mounted police officer in Poland
There are certain jobs that horses do very well, and no technology has yet developed to fully replace them. For example, mounted police horses are still effective for certain types of patrol duties and crowd control.[188] Cattle ranches still require riders on horseback to round up cattle that are scattered across remote, rugged terrain.[189] Search and rescue organizations in some countries depend upon mounted teams to locate people, particularly hikers and children, and to provide disaster relief assistance.[190] Horses can also be used in areas where it is necessary to avoid vehicular disruption to delicate soil, such as nature reserves. They may also be the only form of transport allowed in wilderness areas. Horses are quieter than motorized vehicles. Law enforcement officers such as park rangers or game wardens may use horses for patrols, and horses or mules may also be used for clearing trails or other work in areas of rough terrain where vehicles are less effective.[191] Although machinery has replaced horses in many parts of the world, an estimated 100 million horses, donkeys and mules are still used for agriculture and transportation in less developed areas. This number includes around 27 million working animals in Africa alone.[192] Some land management practices such as cultivating and logging can be efficiently performed with horses. In agriculture, less fossil fuel is used and increased environmental conservation occurs over time with the use of draft animals such as horses.[193][194] Logging with horses can result in reduced damage to soil structure and less damage to trees due to more selective logging.[195]
Main article: Horses in warfare
Ottoman cavalry, 1917
Horses have been used in warfare for most of recorded history. The first archaeological evidence of horses used in warfare dates to between 4000 and 3000 BC,[196] and the use of horses in warfare was widespread by the end of the Bronze Age.[197][198] Although mechanization has largely replaced the horse as a weapon of war, horses are still seen today in limited military uses, mostly for ceremonial purposes, or for reconnaissance and transport activities in areas of rough terrain where motorized vehicles are ineffective. Horses have been used in the 21st century by the Janjaweed militias in the War in Darfur.[199]
The horse-headed deity in Hinduism, Hayagriva
See also: Horses in art and Horse worship
Modern horses are often used to reenact many of their historical work purposes. Horses are used, complete with equipment that is authentic or a meticulously recreated replica, in various live action historical reenactments of specific periods of history, especially recreations of famous battles.[200] Horses are also used to preserve cultural traditions and for ceremonial purposes. Countries such as the United Kingdom still use horse-drawn carriages to convey royalty and other VIPs to and from certain culturally significant events.[201] Public exhibitions are another example, such as the Budweiser Clydesdales, seen in parades and other public settings, a team of draft horses that pull a beer wagon similar to that used before the invention of the modern motorized truck.[202]
Horses are frequently used in television, films and literature. They are sometimes featured as a major character in films about particular animals, but also used as visual elements that assure the accuracy of historical stories.[203] Both live horses and iconic images of horses are used in advertising to promote a variety of products.[204] The horse frequently appears in coats of arms in heraldry, in a variety of poses and equipment.[205] The mythologies of many cultures, including Greco-Roman, Hindu, Islamic, and Norse, include references to both normal horses and those with wings or additional limbs, and multiple myths also call upon the horse to draw the chariots of the Moon and Sun.[206] The horse also appears in the 12-year cycle of animals in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.[207]
Therapeutic use
See also: Hippotherapy and Therapeutic horseback riding
People of all ages with physical and mental disabilities obtain beneficial results from association with horses. Therapeutic riding is used to mentally and physically stimulate disabled persons and help them improve their lives through improved balance and coordination, increased self-confidence, and a greater feeling of freedom and independence.[208] The benefits of equestrian activity for people with disabilities has also been recognized with the addition of equestrian events to the Paralympic Games and recognition of para-equestrian events by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI).[209] Hippotherapy and therapeutic horseback riding are names for different physical, occupational, and speech therapy treatment strategies that utilize equine movement. In hippotherapy, a therapist uses the horse's movement to improve their patient's cognitive, coordination, balance, and fine motor skills, whereas therapeutic horseback riding uses specific riding skills.[210]
Horses also provide psychological benefits to people whether they actually ride or not. "Equine-assisted" or "equine-facilitated" therapy is a form of experiential psychotherapy that uses horses as companion animals to assist people with mental illness, including anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, behavioral difficulties, and those who are going through major life changes.[211] There are also experimental programs using horses in prison settings. Exposure to horses appears to improve the behavior of inmates and help reduce recidivism when they leave.[212]
Horses are raw material for many products made by humans throughout history, including byproducts from the slaughter of horses as well as materials collected from living horses.
Products collected from living horses include mare's milk, used by people with large horse herds, such as the Mongols, who let it ferment to produce kumis.[213] Horse blood was once used as food by the Mongols and other nomadic tribes, who found it a convenient source of nutrition when traveling. Drinking their own horses' blood allowed the Mongols to ride for extended periods of time without stopping to eat.[213] The drug Premarin is a mixture of estrogens extracted from the urine of pregnant mares (pregnant mares' urine), and was previously a widely used drug for hormone replacement therapy.[214] The tail hair of horses can be used for making bows for string instruments such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.[215]
Horse meat has been used as food for humans and carnivorous animals throughout the ages. Approximately 5 million horses are slaughtered each year for meat wordwide.[216] It is eaten in many parts of the world, though consumption is taboo in some cultures,[217] and a subject of political controversy in others.[218] Horsehide leather has been used for boots, gloves, jackets,[219] baseballs,[220] and baseball gloves. Horse hooves can also be used to produce animal glue.[221] Horse bones can be used to make implements.[222] Specifically, in Italian cuisine, the horse tibia is sharpened into a probe called a spinto, which is used to test the readiness of a (pig) ham as it cures.[223] In Asia, the saba is a horsehide vessel used in the production of kumis.[224]
Main article: Horse care
See also: Equine nutrition, Horse grooming, Veterinary medicine, and Farrier
Checking teeth and other physical examinations are an important part of horse care.
Horses are grazing animals, and their major source of nutrients is good-quality forage from hay or pasture.[225] They can consume approximately 2% to 2.5% of their body weight in dry feed each day. Therefore, a 450-kilogram (990 lb) adult horse could eat up to 11 kilograms (24 lb) of food.[226] Sometimes, concentrated feed such as grain is fed in addition to pasture or hay, especially when the animal is very active.[227] When grain is fed, equine nutritionists recommend that 50% or more of the animal's diet by weight should still be forage.[228]
Horses require a plentiful supply of clean water, a minimum of 10 US gallons (38 L) to 12 US gallons (45 L) per day.[229] Although horses are adapted to live outside, they require shelter from the wind and precipitation, which can range from a simple shed or shelter to an elaborate stable.[230]
Horses require routine hoof care from a farrier, as well as vaccinations to protect against various diseases, and dental examinations from a veterinarian or a specialized equine dentist.[231] If horses are kept inside in a barn, they require regular daily exercise for their physical health and mental well-being.[232] When turned outside, they require well-maintained, sturdy fences to be safely contained.[233] Regular grooming is also helpful to help the horse maintain good health of the hair coat and underlying skin.[234]
Glossary of equestrian terms
Lists of horse-related topics
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Marshallese Americans
Marshallese American
22,434 (2010 estimate)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Hawaii · Arkansas (mainly in Springdale) · Spokane (Washington) · Orange County (California)
Marshallese language · American English language
Protestantism (Baptists)
Related ethnic groups
Other American groups of Micronesian origin (Chamorro, Palauans, Micronesians)
Marshallese Americans are Americans of Marshallese descent or Marshallese people naturalized in the United States. According to the 2010 census, 22,434 people of Marshallese origin live in the United States. The United States has the highest concentration of Marshallese people outside the Marshall Islands. Most of these Marshallese people live in Hawaii and Arkansas (mainly in Springdale, Arkansas and Celina, Ohio).
2 Demography
In 1986, the Marshall Islands and the United States established an agreement called the Compact of Free Association,[2] according to which the archipelago attained its full sovereignty. The treaty allows United States to provide defense, "social services and other benefits to the Marshall Islands" in exchange for military bases on the islands.
Under this treaty, Marshall Islanders can also travel and work in United States without having visas,[2][3][4] although they must be legal permanent residents and go through the same naturalization process equal to that of all other nationalities.[3][4] Because they have the legal right to travel and work in the U.S., few Marshallese immigrants seek or attain citizenship.[4]
Immigration from the Marshall Islands to the United States first began in the 1980s. Additionally, when numerous layoffs occurred in the Marshall Islands in 2000, there was a second wave of migration of Marshallese to the U.S.
Most of them emigrated to Hawaii and Arkansas when Tyson Foods, the largest poultry meat distributor in the world, began employing numerous Marshallese people on the islands. Therefore many Marshallese employees were transferred and relocated to Springdale, Arkansas, to the corporate headquarters of Tyson Foods.
Some Marshallese came to United States looking for educational opportunities, particularly for their children. Other Marshallese sought a better work environment or better health care that they could not find on the islands.[2]
Furthermore, since 1996 many Marshallese children have been adopted by American parents. Between 1996 and 1999, over 500 Marshallese children were adopted by American families. These adoptions are a result of social marginalization and economic poverty suffered by the population of the archipelago. [5]
Demography[edit]
Most Marshallese Americans reside in Hawaii and Arkansas. Some 4,300 to 6,000 Marshallese call Arkansas home. Most reside in Washington County (mainly in Springdale),[3] compared to 7,400 living in Hawaii.[6] So, Springdale has the largest Marshallese community in the continental United States and the city's 2005 demographic census shows the Marshallese population in the city at about 2,000 people. However, other estimates raise the number as high as 6,500.[7] Most of them migrated to Springdale to secure permanent employment at Tyson Foods International.[4][8] Most them already had legal status as American citizens.
About 12,000 Marshallese live in Arkansas and in live surrounding states.[9] Other significant Marshallese populations include Spokane (Washington) and Costa Mesa (California). According to Karen Morrison, director of Spokane’s Odyssey World International, a nonprofit that provides services for immigrants, the Marshallese population in Spokane County is localized between 2,400 and 3,000 people. Spokane-area schools had a lot of Marshallese students around 2006, so that Spokane Public Schools has 370 students whose primary language is Marshallese; these students form the second group, more numerous than the Russian-speaking students (530 people) and following the Spanish-speakers (360 people) in these schools (in reference to non-English languages).[10]
The Marshallese in the United States generally live in multi-family, multi-generational [6][10] and sparsely furnished households. In general terms, the population (which now has a western diet) has been adversely affected by diabetes, heart disease, tuberculosis, and obesity.[6]
Many Marshallese are Baptist. The Marshallese Bible study group at Cross Church, a Baptist congregation in Springdale, has grown quickly in recent years, although the service is done mostly in English, since the church does not have ministers who speak fluent Marshallese.[2]
Children born in the United States to Marshallese families enjoy dual citizenship.[10]
Anju Jason, taekwondo practitioner
Todd Lyght, American football player
Haley Nemra, middle-distance runner
^ The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2010 Census, 2010 Census Briefs, United States Bureau of the Census, May 2012
^ a b c d Marshallese immigration. Consulted on 25 October 2013, to 1:30 am.
^ a b c Marshallese support industry in Northwest Arkansas Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine.Consulted on 25 October 2013, to 12:50 am.
^ a b c d Republic of the Marshall Island. Consulted on 25 October 2013, to 1:15 am.
^ ADOPTION AND AGENCY: American Adoptions of Marshallese Children. Consulted on 25 October 2013, to 13:30 pm.
^ a b c Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Marshallese.
^ A New Island: The Marshallese in Arkansas.
^ "Micronesians Abroad", Micronesian Counselor, published by Micronesian Seminar, authored by Francis X. Hezel and Eugenia Samuel, number 64, December 2006, retrieved 8 July 2013.
^ AllGov.Consulted on 25 October 2013, to 1:45 am.
^ a b c The Spokesman Review: Marshallese making a new life in Spokane. Posted on March 4, 2012. Consulted on 26 October 2013, to 13:15 pm.
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Westbeth Artists Community
United States historic place
Westbeth
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NYC Landmark
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Westbeth Artists Housing is a nonprofit housing and commercial complex dedicated to providing affordable living and working space for artists and arts organizations in New York City. Its campus comprises the full city block bounded by West, Bethune, Washington and Bank Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City; the complex is named for two of these streets, West and Bethune.[2]
It occupies the Bell Laboratories Buildings, which were the headquarters of Bell Telephone Laboratories 1898–1966, before being converted in 1968–1970. That conversion was overseen by architect Richard Meier.[3] This low- to moderate-income rental housing and commercial real estate project, the largest in the world of its type, was developed with the assistance of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Westbeth is owned and operated by Westbeth Corp. Housing Development Fund Corp. Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation governed by an unpaid, volunteer board of directors.[4] As of 2009[update], Westbeth has a very old population, including many original tenants – about 60% of tenants were over the age of 60 years, and about 30% were over the age of 70.[5] It is thus a naturally occurring retirement community, and has an on-site social worker. Children of tenants are allowed to take over their parents' apartment, and thus there is a multi-generational community. Due to the 10–12-year waiting period for an apartment, Westbeth closed its residential waiting list in 2007. This changed on March 18, 2019 when the institution started accepting applications for an indefinite period of time.[6]
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Westbeth is among the first examples of adaptive reuse of industrial buildings for artistic and residential use in the United States. It is a complex of 13 buildings in Manhattan's West Village. The complex was originally the site of Bell Laboratories (1898–1966), one of the world's most important industrial research centers and home to many inventions, including the vacuum tube, the condenser microphone, an early version of television,[7] and the transistor.[8] The complex was vacated by Bell Labs in the middle 1960s, and remained empty until the Westbeth project started later in the decade. Using seed money from the J.M. Kaplan Fund and help and encouragement from the National Council for the Arts (which has since become the National Endowment for the Arts), an ambitious renovation project designed to create live-work spaces for 384 artists of all disciplines was initiated under the direction of developer Dixon Bain. The project was the first significant public commission of Richard Meier, who later won the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and who is still a significant figure in modern architecture. Westbeth opened in 1970 for artists, dancers, musicians, actors, writers and film makers.
Artists of all disciplines are admitted as tenants in Westbeth after review by a committee of residential tenants in their discipline. They must also meet certain income requirements at the time of admission. (The waiting list for new residential tenants was closed in 2007.) As of 2014, residential tenants paid an average of $800 a month in rent, including electricity, approximately one-third to one-quarter the market rate for comparable space.
The courtyard of Westbeth (2012)
In addition to its residential component, there are also large and small commercial spaces, performance spaces, and rehearsal and artists' studios.[9] Westbeth is home to a number of major cultural organizations, including The New School for Drama, the LAByrinth Theater Company, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the first LGBT synagogue in New York and the largest in the world, with more than 800 members. The space occupied by The New School was previously occupied by an Off-Broadway theatre.[10]
View from the Westbeth Artists Community roof
Westbeth was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 2009, after the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), using funds from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, commissioned historic preservationist Andrew Dolkart to write a nominating report to list Westbeth on the State and National Register of Historic Places.[11] The research included interviews with several key figures in the conversion of the former Bell Telephone Labs to the nation's first subsidized housing complex for artists, including architect Richard Meier, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and Joan Davidson, the daughter of J.M. Kaplan who coordinated the founding of Westbeth.[12] Following Prof. Dolkart's submission, and citing the "extraordinary significance" required to list sites on the State and National Register of Historic Places which are less than 50 years old, the New York State Historic Preservation Board unanimously approved the nomination of Westbeth to the State Register of Historic Places.
As part of an effort to extend landmark protections to the Far West Village, GVSHP spearheaded a campaign to have the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designate the entire complex as an individual landmark. In response, the LPC committed to do so in 2004 as part of a broader series of landmark designations it agreed to do in the area.[13] It was not until 2009, however, that the LPC took the formal step of "calendaring" the complex for a hearing and issuing a "Statement of Significance".[14] GVSHP urged the LPC to act before the end of 2010, the 40th anniversary of the complex's conversion to artists’ housing. On October 25, 2011, Westbeth was designated a landmark by the LPC.[15]
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The Westbeth Artists' Residents Council, elected by the residential tenants, acts as the building's tenants association and provides free cultural events to the public such as readings, performances, and film screenings in the Westbeth Community Performance Space and runs the Westbeth Art Gallery, which exhibits the work of both resident and non-resident artists; both in spaces donated by the corporation. The council receives public funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2008, the council was awarded a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation for the council's official website. The website hosts individual artists' pages showing the work of its artist-residents and publicizes cultural events and exhibitions sponsored by the council. The council also functions as the tenants association, and is involved in various larger community issues, particularly with regard to preserving the historic character of the West Village neighborhood, and zoning issues.
A gate on West Street (2007)
Westbeth Artists Housing has been home to a number of influential artists, musicians and performers including Diane Arbus – whose suicide in 1971 caused a stir in the young community – Robert Beauchamp, Paul Benjamin, Karl Bissinger, Barnaby Ruhe, Black-Eyed Susan, Joseph Chaikin, David Del Tredici, Robert De Niro Sr., Vin Diesel, John Dobbs, Gil Evans, David Greenspan, Moses Gunn, director Tod Culpan Williams and his sister, former supermodel Rachel Williams, Hans Haacke, Billy Harper, Spencer Holst, Irv Teibel, Gayle Kirschenbaum, Anita Kushner, Ralph Lee, Hal Miller, Herman Rose, Barbara Rosenthal, Muriel Rukeyser,[16] Ed Sanders, Tobias Schneebaum and Anne Tabachnick.[citation needed]
Merce Cunningham, the noted choreographer and dancer, had his studio and offices at Westbeth for more than 40 years, from 1971 up to the time of his death and the dissolution of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2012.
Edward Field and his partner Neil Derrick, co-authors of The Villagers, lived together at Westbeth. As of February 2018, Field continued to live at Westbeth and was considered one of its Icons.[17]
One of the first feminist theater groups in the country, the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective, originated here.
Entrance on Bethune
The film Growing Up At Westbeth by Christina Maile and Francia Tobacman Smith features archival photos, footage and interviews, 40 years later, with the children who grew up at Westbeth. The film was shown at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of Westbeth in October 2010 as part of the Westbeth Film Festival. A film about the noted feminist artist Anita Steckel, a resident of Westbeth, is in production by the same filmmakers. "Harry's Gift, A New York Story," is a 2015 documentary by Alexandra M. Isles about Harry Schunk, a photographer and long-time Westbeth tenant, and the man who cleaned out his apartment after his death.
The feature documentary Winter at Westbeth by Rohan Spong charts one year (2014–2015) in the life of the building and spotlights three long term residents - filmmaker Edith Stephen, poet Ilsa Gilbert and notable contemporary dancer Dudley Williams of Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey fame. It had its world premiere in 2016 at the 60th Sydney Film Festival.[18] The film then had its international premiere at IFC Center, where it screened in competition as part of Doc NYC, ultimately receiving a Special Jury Mention.[19] It has since screened at the US Library of Congress.[20]
Notable current and past artists-in-residence include:[21]
Jelon Vieira - Artistic Director
Edward Field - Poet
Peter Bernstein Jazz Guitarist
Valerie Ghent - Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
David Greenspan - Actor, Playwright, Director
Madeleine Yayodele Nelson Musician
Nasheet Waits - Drummer
Hugh Seidman - Poet
Paul Abels
^ "National Register of Historic Places". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-12-18.
^ Bosh, Clemen (June 8, 1968). "The Talk of the Town: Westbeth". The New Yorker.
^ Shockley, Jay. "Bell Telephone Laboratories (Westbeth Artists' Housing) Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (October 25, 2011)
^ "Westbeth: Home of the Arts"
^ Rosenstock, Bonnie (7–13 January 2009). "Westbeth comes of age: A unique artists'complex tries to stay afloat". 78 (32). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Westbeth Artists Housing Lottery Application Process" on the Westbeth Center for the Arts website
^ "Mechanical Television: Bell Labs" on the Early Television Museum website
^ Gertner, Jon. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. New York: Penguin, 2012.
^ Jackson, Kenneth T. (1995). The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York, NY: The New York Historical Society; Yale University Press. p. 1254. ISBN 0-300-05536-6.
^ Horwitz, Simi (2002-03-05). "Westbeth Forced From Home After 25 Years". Backstage. Retrieved 2014-11-22.
^ GVSHP & Andrew Dolkart. "Nomination of Westbeth to the State and National Register of Historic Places" (PDF).
^ "Westbeth Oral Histories".
^ "Re: Landmark Designation of Westbeth and Other Far West Village Sites" (PDF). Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
^ "Westbeth Statement of Significance" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
^ Amateus, Albert (November 3, 2011). "City Dubs Westbeth a Landmark". The Villager.
^ Robledo, S. Jhoanna (November 21, 2010). "Enforcing Utopia". New York.
^ "Westbeth Icon: Edward Field poet". Retrieved 13 March 2018.
^ http://sffarchive.efirst.com.au/2016/session_sff.asp?sn=Winter+at+Westbeth
^ http://www.docnyc.net/news/and-the-award-goes-to/
^ http://www.washingtonblade.com/dc-events-calendar/film-winter-westbeth/
^ "Profiles in Art: Conversations with Westbeth's Artists". Retrieved 13 March 2018.
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the Bar Association of the City of New York in 1869 and vice-president in 1886. He was twice married: first to Louise Mott Strong, who died in 1857, and secondly, in 1861, to Cettie Moore Gwynne, younger daughter of Henry Collins Flagg, for many years mayor of New Haven, Conn. Under the pen name of Paul Siegvolk, Mr. Mathews contributed to the Knickerbocker Maga- zine, 1850-57, and later to other magazines and I^eriodicals. He is the author of: Walter Ashivood: a Love Story (1860); Incidental Protection: a Solecism (1869); A Bundle of Papers (1879); Tlioughts on the Codification of the Common Law (1881); Memorial of Bernard Roelker (1889), Ru- minations. The Ideal AmeHcan Lady, and Other Essays (1893); and A Feio Verses. He also con- tributed a series of essays for many years to the New York Home Journal.
MATHEWS, Charles Thompson, author and architect, was born in Paris, France, March 31, 1865; son of Charles Drellincourt .and Rebecca (Thompson) Mathews; grandson of William Edmund and Anna (Lorree) Mathews, and a direct descendant on the maternal side of An- thony Thonij)son of Sandwich, England, who married Dorothy Honeywood of Royton Manor and came to America in 1637; also a descendant tlirough his paternal greats-grandmother of Maj. Dirke Wesselse Ten Broeck, who came to Bever- wyck (now Albany), N.Y., in 1662, was first re- corder of the city, 1686, and mayor, 1696-98. He received his preparatory education at St. Paul's school. Concord, N.H., and in Paris and Nice. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1892, and from the Columbia School of Mines, Ph. B., 1889. He studied architecture in Paris, exhibited drawings at the World's Columbian Exposition, Cliicago, 1893, and was made a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He won the competition for remodelling the Church of the Holy Trinity, 1891; introduced an innova- tion in fire-proof construction into New York which became a requirement of the building de- partment, and in 1901 won the competition for re- modelling the east end of St. Patrick's cathedral. New York, and adding a Lady chapel. This com- petition was entered into by architects from France, England, Canada and America. Mr. Mathews is the author of: The Renaissance under the Valois (1893); and The Story of Architecture (1896).
MATHEWS, Cornelius, author, was born in Portchester, N.Y., Oct. 28, 1817; son of Abijah Mathews. He was graduated from the Univer- sity of the City of New York, A.B., 1834, A.M., 1837; was admitted to the bar in 1837, but after practising for one year he abandoned the profes- sion for literature. He founded Yankee Doodle, the first successful comic paper in New York
city, and with Evert A. Duyckinck he edited
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(3 vols., 1841-42). He founded the Copyright club in 1843, to promote international copyright, and was its first president. He was a friend of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the first Amer- ican editor of her works. He devoted himself to dramatic writing in 1844 and produced the com- edy, The Politicans," and the tragedy, " Witch- craft," a story of the Salem delusion, which was performed in Philadelphia and New York thea- tres in 1846, and translated into French; " Jacob Leisler," a drama, performed in Philadelphia in 1848, and "False Pretenses," a comedy. al>out 1842. He is the author of: The Motley B«o^• (1838); Behemoth: a Legend of the Mound- Builders (1839); Tlie Career of Puffer Hopkins (1842); Appeal on Behalf of International Copyright (1842); Poetns on Man in Jiis Various Aspects under the Amer- ican Republic (1842); Various Writings (1848); Big Abel and the Little Manhattan (1845); Chan- ticleer: a Tlianksgiving Story (1850); Moneypenny, or the Heart of the World (18.'>0); Witchcraft (1852); A Pen-and-ink Panorama of Xew York City (ISTiS);Tlie Indian Fairy Book (1856); The Indian Fairy Book Compiled from MS. of Henry Roioe Schoolcraft (1869); 27/e Enchanted Mocca- sins, and Other Legends of American Indiana (1877). He died in New York March 25, 1889. MATHEWS, Ferdinand Schuyler, author and artist, was born in New Brighton, Statt-n Island, N.Y., May 30, 18.54; son of Ferdinand Schuyler and Frances (CoflEin) 3Iathews, and grandson of William Edwin and Hannah Schuyler (Loree) Mathews and of William and Eliziibeth Chase (Hussey) Coffin. His ancestor, Ephraim Loree, surgeon in Colonel Dayton's regiment during tho Revolutionary war, was married to Gettie, daughter of Gertrude (Schuyler) Voorhis, a descendant of Abraham Schuyler of Albany, N.Y. William Coffin was a descendant of Tris- tram Coffin, ancestor of the Coffin family of New England.. Ferdinand S<^huyler Mathews attended the Wooster Street public school of New York city, and finally deciding on art as his vocation, studied at the Cooper institute, New York city; at a later period he studied in Rome and Naples, Italy. He began work with Russell Sturgis, architect, in New York city in 1872; entered the art department of Tiffany & Co., 1874-78. and became a si>ecial artist on the staflf of L. Prang & Co. in 1879. He removed to Bos- ton, Mass., in 1885. He was married, Nov. 17, 1886, to Carolina, daughter of Professor George W. Maynard of New York. He is the author of: The Golden Flower (1890); The Beautiful Floirer Garden (1894); Familiar Flowers of Field and G'an/en (1895); Familiar Trees and their leaves (1896, rev. ed.. 1901); Familiar Features of the
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Marcel Dénommé
Born in Saint-Damien-de-Brandon, 1953
A 1975 fashion design graduate of Montreal’s Collège Marie-Victorin, Marcel Dénommé is a designer of men’s fashion, businessman and college professor. He became known in the 1980s and 1990s for the Dénommé Vincent brand of men’s ready-to-wear, which he co-founded with Louise Vincent in 1980.
The brand ceased operations in 2001, two years after being purchased by the Montréal Mode group. Shortly thereafter, Marcel Dénommé became the co-owner, with designer Jean-Claude Poitras, of 2 Corso Design, an agency specialized in fashion, home decor and art direction. Among its dozens of mandates, 2 Corso Design notably designed uniforms for Place des Arts, the Pointe-à-Callière Museum and Purolator, and created the model for Casa Poitras, a factory-built house manufactured by Bonneville Industries. This partnership with Jean-Claude Poitras ended in 2007.
In addition to this work, in 2003 Marcel Dénommé began working as a consultant for various fashion brands. He also started teaching fashion at Cégep Marie-Victorin, where he was still working as of 2018. Wanting to encourage the next generation, for over 20 years he has been a volunteer mentor to young designers wishing to start a business.
Marcel Dénommé, 2013 © Anastasia Lomonova. Photo courtesy of Dénommé Vincent
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accents on english | fall 15-winter 16
Home / News & Events / Newsletter / Accents on English, Fall 2015-Winter 2016 / Romanian Internship
Exploring Romania's ‘Living Literature' Key to MA Student's Success
Matthew Evans began a life-changing journey when he enrolled in Ileana Orlich’s Eastern European literature course during the Spring 2014 semester; it was then that he was introduced to ASU Study Abroad. Pushing his graduation date to allow for the summer program, he visited Central and Eastern Europe with the student cohort.
Following graduation, Evans was accepted into the Department of English's MA program and Orlich approached him with the opportunity to work at the University of Babes-Bloyai in Cluj, Romania. Collaborating with English's Director of Internships Ruby Macksoud, Evans folded the program into his master's degree work.
Evans describes the experience as a “self-made internship” that gave him valuable experience learning how to balance his teaching, his research, his elementary knowledge of the Romanian language, and his students’ lack of English.
“Eventually," he says, “though it was particularly informal, this kind of lesson-building and on-the-fly teaching became the experience I needed. I now have a great position at ASU's Global Launch, where I teach English as a second language to international students.”
Evans' experience also meant a lot to him on a more personal level, allowing him to appreciate Romanian language and literature in a way that he would not have been able to without this experience. He notes that “the literature of Romania is constantly challenging and reinventing Western critical lenses; it is a living literature that reacts and reclaims the human experience.” Evans believes that Romanian literature is something that all students of literature should read and embrace.
Reflecting on his experience, Evans says that it was a chance he will never forget. “Students come from all over the world to study in Romania,” he says, “and being able to engage these individuals was a privilege.”
—Dana Tait
Image 1: Matthew Evans in Romania. / Courtesy photo.
Image 2: A Romanian 'skyline': view of the spire of the Lutheran Cathedral Church in Sibiu, Romania. / Photo by Matthew Evans.
Image 3: Evans captured this colorful procession of Romanian laborers protesting illegal logging practices by the company Holtzindustrie Schweighofer. Evans narrates the scene: "The sentiment among Romanians, particularly Romanian laborers (these men, by their dress, conform to either a career in manual labor or they are what is sweetly called 'ciobani' or shepherds, really meaning something less offensive than hillbilly) is that companies, in general and not only this particular German company, abuse the Romanian parliament's ease of access, by which I mean bribery. Not necessarily open bribery, but not just campaign donations. Every year new members and political leaders are arrested on these kinds of charges, so Romania is not afraid to take a very open stance. . . . These men marched loudly through the streets, on the road with cars, disrupting traffic, and not a fuss was made. It was welcomed. No one intervened, but some joined in." / Photo by Matthew Evans
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Ludvig van Beethoven: Genius, Inspiration and Musical Revolutionary
Ludvig van Beethoven, 1770-1827
Fun Facts About Ludvig van Beethoven
Born in 1770 in Cologne, Germany, Beethoven performed in public by the age of seven, and while not quite the sensation that the young Mozart was, he was quickly recognized as a brilliant musical talent.
He moved to Vienna while in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and gaining a solid reputation as a virtuoso pianist.
Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 7 concertos, 17 string quartets, 32 piano sonatas, and 10 sonatas for violin and piano.
Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
There were three major periods of Beethoven’s musical life. The second period, sometimes called the “Heroic” period, lasted from 1803 to 1814 and is named for the tremendous works that express struggle and heroism. His famous Fifth Symphony was one of the many pieces of music written during this period.
He also popularized instrumental music in a European culture that had a preference for vocal music such as operas.
Even though he wrote only one classical opera, Fidelio, he remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.
As one who scorned authority and social rank, he would stop performing at his piano if the audience was talking too much or not giving him their full attention. At soirées, he refused to perform if suddenly called upon to do so.
Beethoven began having hearing problems as early as 1802. What started as an annoying ringing in his ears worsened until he was almost totally deaf by 1816.
The cause of deafness is unknown, but it has variously been attributed to syphilis, lead poisoning, typhus, autoimmune disorder and even his habit of immersing his head in cold water to stay awake.
A large collection of his hearing aids, such as special ear horns, can be viewed at the Beethoven House Museum in Bonn, Germany.
He used a special rod attached to the soundboard on his piano that he could bite. The vibrations of the bite would then transfer from the piano to his jaw thus increasing his perception of the sound.
At the premier performance of his final masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven had to turn around to see the audience’s thunderous applause: he was too deaf to hear it.
Strange but true: Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.
Beethoven was bedridden for most of the last months of his life. Many friends came to visit him and when he died on March 26, 1827, it was during a thunderstorm. His friend, Anselm Hüttenbrenner, who was present at the time, claimed that there was a peal of thunder at the moment of his death.
Despite his reputation for being rude and angry, Beethoven had many friends and was well liked. More than 20,000 people attended his funeral.
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About Stephen Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry II was born in Akron, Ohio, but grew up in North Carolina while his father, Dell Curry, played for the Charlotte Hornets. During his junior year at Davidson College, Curry was the NCAA scoring leader and was named first team All-American. He choose to forgo his senior year and enter the NBA draft in 2009. He was selected as the seventh overall pick by the Golden State Warriors. After just five seasons in the NBA, Curry broke the record for most three-pointers in a season and has been selected as an All-Star.
Stephen Curry Facts
Full Name: Wardell Stephen Curry II
Team: Golden State Warriors
Date of Birth: March 14, 1988
Birthplace: Akron, Ohio
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Fante's Inferno
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The Men Who Were Superman (Part I)
In honor of Superman’s 75th anniversary and the June 14th premiere of Zac Snyder’s Man of Steel, Fante’s Inferno honors the iconic character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster with a spotlight on The Men Who Were Superman.
Part I: 1940-1958
When I first sat down to write this post, I didn’t expect to find more than five or six actors over the last 75 years that have played Superman. But upon further review the list ended up much longer when you include radio, animation, TV specials, etc. IMDB lists 175 appearances of Superman (live action and voice over) on film, TV and radio, and that number increases to 219 when you include video games and archive footage. So I’ve decided to concentrate primarily on the actors that have played Superman/Clark Kent in the feature films and serials, with a couple of notable exceptions.
Ray Middleton
This name may not stand out among the more famous actors we’ve known to play Superman, but Ray Middleton is technically the first actor to play Superman on film even if it was in a home movie. Middleton had a long career as an actor in film, TV and theater, but it was his public appearance in the classic Golden Age Superman costume for “Superman Day” on July 3, 1940 at the World’s Fair in New York that places him on this list. An attendee at the event took the 16mm footage below.
Bud Collyer
The Adventures of Superman Radio Serial (1940-1951), Max Fleischer’s Superman cartoons (1941-1942), The New Adventures of Superman (1966)
When I began my research for this post, I instinctively began with Kirk Alyn, the first actor to portray Superman in the live action serials. But I was quickly reminded that Max Fleischer’s Superman cartoons from 1941 preceded the serials on the big screen by seven years. Actor Bud Collyer was the voice of Clark Kent/Superman in those animated classics as well as The Adventures of Superman radio serial from 1940-1951 (Collyer’s first broadcast as Superman/Clark Kent in the radio serial preceded Middleton’s World’s Fair appearance by several months). While his dialogue was sparse in the Fleischer cartoons, Collyer’s voice brought charm to Clark Kent and strength to Superman. He would later voice the role again in the animated The New Adventures of Superman (1966-1970) and several other DC superhero cartoons.
Kirk Alyn
Superman (1948), Atom-Man vs. Superman (1950)
Kirk Alyn was the first actor to play Superman in a live action film production with 1948’s Superman serials and 1950’s Atom-Man vs. Superman. He declined the role in The Adventures of Superman TV series, but in 1978 Alyn had a special cameo appearance in Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie as Lois Lane’s father General Sam Lane opposite Noell Neil (Lois Lane from The Adventures of Superman) as young Lois’ mother.
George Reeves
Superman and the Mole Men (1951), The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958)
For many, George Reeves will always be Superman, and Superman will always be George Reeves. He wore the costume for six years during The Adventures of Superman’s run on TV in the 50’s until his untimely death in 1959. Other notable roles in his career include Stuart Tartleton in Gone With The Wind (1939) and Sgt. Maylon Stark in From Here to Eternity (1953). Even though I was born in the early 70’s, George Reeves was actually the first actor I had seen in the role of Superman. I had been introduced to The Adventures of Superman in reruns prior to Christopher Reeves’ turn as Superman in Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978).
Coming up in Part II of The Men Who Were Superman: Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill.
Tagged Action Comics, Bud Collyer, DC Comics, George Reeves, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Kirk Alyn, Man of Steel, Max Fleischer, Ray Middleton, Superman, Superman Day, Superman Radio Serials, The Adventures of Superman, Zac Snyder
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Dawson County, Texas
Commodity subsidies in Dawson County, Texas totaled $427 million from 1995-2019‡.
Counties in Dawson County, Texas Receiving Commodity Payments, 1995-2019‡
Pct of
1 Plains Cotton Cooperative Association $1,015,779,850 5.3% 5.3%
2 Gaines County, Texas $647,583,452 3.4% 8.6%
3 Wharton County, Texas $646,386,680 3.4% 12.0%
4 Hale County, Texas $546,268,654 2.8% 14.8%
5 Dawson County, Texas $426,759,107 2.2% 17.1%
6 Lamb County, Texas $401,257,069 2.1% 19.1%
7 Parmer County, Texas $397,373,524 2.1% 21.2%
8 Terry County, Texas $391,532,926 2.0% 23.2%
9 Lubbock County, Texas $383,450,582 2.0% 25.2%
10 Castro County, Texas $382,010,147 2.0% 27.2%
11 Telmark LSA $371,137,146 1.9% 29.1%
12 Floyd County, Texas $333,555,059 1.7% 30.9%
13 Nueces County, Texas $325,265,962 1.7% 32.6%
14 Matagorda County, Texas $323,433,247 1.7% 34.2%
15 Deaf Smith County, Texas $299,291,799 1.6% 35.8%
16 Hockley County, Texas $297,278,862 1.5% 37.3%
17 Lynn County, Texas $297,070,669 1.5% 38.9%
18 San Patricio County, Texas $290,428,779 1.5% 40.4%
19 Jackson County, Texas $281,861,380 1.5% 41.9%
20 Swisher County, Texas $281,542,809 1.5% 43.3%
21 Crosby County, Texas $260,802,443 1.4% 44.7%
22 Colorado County, Texas $257,555,554 1.3% 46.0%
23 Yoakum County, Texas $229,348,277 1.2% 47.2%
24 Cameron County, Texas $221,521,044 1.2% 48.3%
25 Sherman County, Texas $217,201,445 1.1% 49.5%
26 Willacy County, Texas $207,064,564 1.1% 50.6%
27 Moore County, Texas $206,070,819 1.1% 51.6%
28 Hidalgo County, Texas $204,501,644 1.1% 52.7%
29 Brazoria County, Texas $203,187,693 1.1% 53.7%
30 Hansford County, Texas $202,053,488 1.0% 54.8%
31 Dallam County, Texas $200,518,750 1.0% 55.8%
32 US Cotton Growers Association $191,393,735 1.0% 56.8%
33 Cochran County, Texas $190,785,066 1.0% 57.8%
34 Haskell County, Texas $187,856,162 1.0% 58.8%
35 Jefferson County, Texas $184,648,357 1.0% 59.7%
36 Hartley County, Texas $182,300,224 0.9% 60.7%
37 Fort Bend County, Texas $180,151,090 0.9% 61.6%
38 Martin County, Texas $170,590,927 0.9% 62.5%
39 Tom Green County, Texas $169,382,054 0.9% 63.4%
40 Bailey County, Texas $167,954,061 0.9% 64.3%
41 Chambers County, Texas $166,383,930 0.9% 65.1%
42 Jones County, Texas $159,641,783 0.8% 66.0%
43 Collingsworth County, Texas $150,692,158 0.8% 66.7%
44 Liberty County, Texas $150,538,439 0.8% 67.5%
45 Ochiltree County, Texas $150,431,465 0.8% 68.3%
46 Howard County, Texas $139,466,861 0.7% 69.0%
47 Hall County, Texas $139,117,101 0.7% 69.8%
48 Williamson County, Texas $134,895,506 0.7% 70.5%
49 $134,711,784 0.7% 71.2%
50 Carson County, Texas $131,430,041 0.7% 71.8%
51 Hill County, Texas $124,143,567 0.6% 72.5%
52 Fisher County, Texas $123,358,487 0.6% 73.1%
53 Wilbarger County, Texas $116,259,852 0.6% 73.7%
54 Glasscock County, Texas $112,517,281 0.6% 74.3%
55 Runnels County, Texas $110,387,483 0.6% 74.9%
56 Knox County, Texas $101,547,179 0.5% 75.4%
57 Ellis County, Texas $100,642,524 0.5% 75.9%
58 Victoria County, Texas $99,175,708 0.5% 76.5%
59 Calhoun County, Texas $87,933,245 0.5% 76.9%
60 Refugio County, Texas $84,573,080 0.4% 77.3%
61 Scurry County, Texas $83,789,832 0.4% 77.8%
62 McLennan County, Texas $81,628,450 0.4% 78.2%
63 Childress County, Texas $78,448,467 0.4% 78.6%
64 Waller County, Texas $73,260,827 0.4% 79.0%
65 Falls County, Texas $73,169,116 0.4% 79.4%
66 Uvalde County, Texas $72,991,591 0.4% 79.8%
67 Fannin County, Texas $72,936,091 0.4% 80.1%
68 Briscoe County, Texas $71,356,988 0.4% 80.5%
69 Mitchell County, Texas $71,257,921 0.4% 80.9%
70 Milam County, Texas $70,454,095 0.4% 81.2%
71 Frio County, Texas $69,347,905 0.4% 81.6%
72 Nolan County, Texas $69,129,795 0.4% 82.0%
73 Randall County, Texas $68,532,450 0.4% 82.3%
74 Harris County, Texas $67,464,414 0.4% 82.7%
75 Bell County, Texas $63,789,811 0.3% 83.0%
76 Lamar County, Texas $62,241,232 0.3% 83.3%
77 Medina County, Texas $61,803,788 0.3% 83.6%
78 Hardeman County, Texas $61,714,707 0.3% 84.0%
79 Concho County, Texas $60,495,949 0.3% 84.3%
80 Jim Wells County, Texas $59,485,497 0.3% 84.6%
81 Wichita County, Texas $58,151,302 0.3% 84.9%
82 Grayson County, Texas $58,122,533 0.3% 85.2%
83 Baylor County, Texas $57,968,399 0.3% 85.5%
84 Kleberg County, Texas $57,185,005 0.3% 85.8%
85 Collin County, Texas $55,719,867 0.3% 86.1%
86 Robertson County, Texas $53,853,448 0.3% 86.4%
87 Navarro County, Texas $53,288,162 0.3% 86.6%
88 Gray County, Texas $53,175,188 0.3% 86.9%
89 Cottle County, Texas $52,761,083 0.3% 87.2%
90 Atascosa County, Texas $51,743,993 0.3% 87.4%
91 Hutchinson County, Texas $49,564,970 0.3% 87.7%
92 Taylor County, Texas $49,394,466 0.3% 88.0%
93 Comanche County, Texas $49,383,599 0.3% 88.2%
94 Erath County, Texas $48,530,393 0.3% 88.5%
95 Bee County, Texas $47,684,621 0.2% 88.7%
96 Garza County, Texas $45,313,088 0.2% 89.0%
97 Donley County, Texas $44,281,573 0.2% 89.2%
98 Andrews County, Texas $41,591,857 0.2% 89.4%
99 Archer County, Texas $41,116,898 0.2% 89.6%
100 Dickens County, Texas $41,094,292 0.2% 89.8%
101 Motley County, Texas $40,962,544 0.2% 90.0%
102 Burleson County, Texas $40,707,799 0.2% 90.3%
103 Armstrong County, Texas $40,652,816 0.2% 90.5%
104 Reagan County, Texas $40,100,336 0.2% 90.7%
105 Wilson County, Texas $39,503,202 0.2% 90.9%
106 Foard County, Texas $39,484,042 0.2% 91.1%
107 Wheeler County, Texas $38,546,639 0.2% 91.3%
108 Denton County, Texas $38,401,041 0.2% 91.5%
109 $36,227,074 0.2% 91.7%
110 Lipscomb County, Texas $35,846,802 0.2% 91.9%
111 Austin County, Texas $35,333,813 0.2% 92.0%
112 Clay County, Texas $34,483,212 0.2% 92.2%
113 Starr County, Texas $34,083,320 0.2% 92.4%
114 Reeves County, Texas $33,897,271 0.2% 92.6%
115 Hunt County, Texas $33,865,300 0.2% 92.7%
116 Zavala County, Texas $33,707,691 0.2% 92.9%
117 Midland County, Texas $33,433,940 0.2% 93.1%
118 Hopkins County, Texas $32,644,425 0.2% 93.3%
119 Eastland County, Texas $32,539,556 0.2% 93.4%
120 Red River County, Texas $32,183,373 0.2% 93.6%
121 Oldham County, Texas $32,142,558 0.2% 93.8%
122 Cooke County, Texas $31,981,966 0.2% 93.9%
123 Lavaca County, Texas $31,129,360 0.2% 94.1%
124 Brazos County, Texas $30,975,571 0.2% 94.3%
125 Young County, Texas $30,420,958 0.2% 94.4%
126 Guadalupe County, Texas $30,411,507 0.2% 94.6%
127 Galveston County, Texas $30,163,444 0.2% 94.7%
128 Bowie County, Texas $28,713,021 0.1% 94.9%
129 Travis County, Texas $28,622,009 0.1% 95.0%
130 Coleman County, Texas $28,392,152 0.1% 95.2%
131 McCulloch County, Texas $27,566,676 0.1% 95.3%
132 Southwestern Irrigated Cotton Growers Assoc $26,684,631 0.1% 95.5%
133 Throckmorton County, Texas $26,653,730 0.1% 95.6%
134 Stonewall County, Texas $25,164,781 0.1% 95.7%
135 Pecos County, Texas $24,800,332 0.1% 95.9%
137 Borden County, Texas $22,790,424 0.1% 96.1%
138 Johnson County, Texas $22,108,522 0.1% 96.2%
139 Hudspeth County, Texas $20,917,662 0.1% 96.3%
140 Upton County, Texas $20,484,253 0.1% 96.4%
141 Live Oak County, Texas $20,226,600 0.1% 96.5%
142 Coryell County, Texas $19,825,039 0.1% 96.6%
143 El Paso County, Texas $19,685,014 0.1% 96.7%
144 Limestone County, Texas $18,723,127 0.1% 96.8%
145 Bexar County, Texas $18,462,618 0.1% 96.9%
146 Schleicher County, Texas $17,873,246 0.1% 97.0%
147 Delta County, Texas $17,817,481 0.1% 97.1%
148 Duval County, Texas $16,645,366 0.1% 97.2%
149 Caldwell County, Texas $16,023,266 0.1% 97.3%
150 Brown County, Texas $15,742,569 0.1% 97.4%
151 Mason County, Texas $15,078,315 0.1% 97.4%
152 Karnes County, Texas $14,986,074 0.1% 97.5%
154 Kaufman County, Texas $13,774,346 0.1% 97.7%
156 Kent County, Texas $13,419,665 0.1% 97.8%
157 Hamilton County, Texas $13,338,808 0.1% 97.9%
158 Callahan County, Texas $12,944,089 0.1% 98.0%
159 Dallas County, Texas $11,674,912 0.1% 98.0%
160 Roberts County, Texas $11,348,354 0.1% 98.1%
161 King County, Texas $11,109,816 0.1% 98.1%
162 Potter County, Texas $10,864,378 0.1% 98.2%
163 Fayette County, Texas $10,839,278 0.1% 98.2%
164 Montague County, Texas $10,785,356 0.1% 98.3%
165 Houston County, Texas $10,636,825 0.1% 98.4%
166 Shackelford County, Texas $10,624,288 0.1% 98.4%
167 Hemphill County, Texas $10,090,639 0.1% 98.5%
168 La Salle County, Texas $9,711,752 0.1% 98.5%
169 Gillespie County, Texas $9,551,746 0.0% 98.6%
170 Val Verde County, Texas $9,463,270 0.0% 98.6%
171 Bosque County, Texas $9,366,979 0.0% 98.7%
172 Edwards County, Texas $9,107,963 0.0% 98.7%
173 Culberson County, Texas $9,075,391 0.0% 98.8%
174 San Saba County, Texas $8,867,331 0.0% 98.8%
175 Wise County, Texas $8,847,209 0.0% 98.8%
176 Goliad County, Texas $8,213,858 0.0% 98.9%
177 Crockett County, Texas $7,860,543 0.0% 98.9%
178 Sutton County, Texas $7,442,467 0.0% 99.0%
179 Kinney County, Texas $7,151,856 0.0% 99.0%
180 Wood County, Texas $7,093,578 0.0% 99.0%
181 Mills County, Texas $7,071,221 0.0% 99.1%
182 Bastrop County, Texas $6,899,880 0.0% 99.1%
183 DeWitt County, Texas $6,602,018 0.0% 99.1%
184 Hays County, Texas $6,249,302 0.0% 99.2%
185 $6,196,364 0.0% 99.2%
187 Lee County, Texas $6,022,069 0.0% 99.3%
188 Rockwall County, Texas $5,951,792 0.0% 99.3%
189 Tarrant County, Texas $5,730,705 0.0% 99.3%
190 Gonzales County, Texas $5,584,523 0.0% 99.4%
191 Coke County, Texas $5,548,658 0.0% 99.4%
192 Hardin County, Texas $5,185,388 0.0% 99.4%
195 Franklin County, Texas $4,602,803 0.0% 99.5%
196 Washington County, Texas $4,536,952 0.0% 99.5%
197 Dimmit County, Texas $4,523,290 0.0% 99.5%
198 Brooks County, Texas $4,250,628 0.0% 99.6%
199 Menard County, Texas $3,662,996 0.0% 99.6%
201 Van Zandt County, Texas $3,626,785 0.0% 99.6%
202 Lampasas County, Texas $3,587,635 0.0% 99.6%
203 Orange County, Texas $3,463,637 0.0% 99.7%
204 Stephens County, Texas $3,298,964 0.0% 99.7%
205 Cherokee County, Texas $3,245,270 0.0% 99.7%
206 Kimble County, Texas $3,113,987 0.0% 99.7%
208 Sterling County, Texas $2,959,121 0.0% 99.7%
209 Upshur County, Texas $2,940,126 0.0% 99.8%
210 Rains County, Texas $2,933,419 0.0% 99.8%
211 Terrell County, Texas $2,646,662 0.0% 99.8%
212 Parker County, Texas $2,615,853 0.0% 99.8%
213 Jack County, Texas $2,345,389 0.0% 99.8%
214 Aransas County, Texas $2,119,043 0.0% 99.8%
215 Irion County, Texas $2,060,257 0.0% 99.8%
216 Hood County, Texas $1,915,896 0.0% 99.8%
217 Kendall County, Texas $1,905,701 0.0% 99.9%
218 Palo Pinto County, Texas $1,841,528 0.0% 99.9%
219 Kerr County, Texas $1,693,532 0.0% 99.9%
220 Henderson County, Texas $1,681,512 0.0% 99.9%
221 Webb County, Texas $1,679,135 0.0% 99.9%
222 Jeff Davis County, Texas $1,586,063 0.0% 99.9%
223 Comal County, Texas $1,404,129 0.0% 99.9%
224 Anderson County, Texas $1,263,546 0.0% 99.9%
225 Burnet County, Texas $1,198,071 0.0% 99.9%
226 Camp County, Texas $1,013,198 0.0% 99.9%
227 Jim Hogg County, Texas $999,973 0.0% 99.9%
228 McMullen County, Texas $994,663 0.0% 99.9%
229 Nacogdoches County, Texas $945,933 0.0% 99.9%
230 Blanco County, Texas $903,751 0.0% 99.9%
231 $894,066 0.0% 99.9%
232 Ward County, Texas $867,450 0.0% 99.9%
233 Grimes County, Texas $815,361 0.0% 100.0%
234 Llano County, Texas $800,459 0.0% 100.0%
235 Bandera County, Texas $787,302 0.0% 100.0%
236 Somervell County, Texas $782,351 0.0% 100.0%
237 Real County, Texas $729,897 0.0% 100.0%
238 Morris County, Texas $729,512 0.0% 100.0%
239 Panola County, Texas $650,208 0.0% 100.0%
240 $526,088 0.0% 100.0%
241 Titus County, Texas $496,210 0.0% 100.0%
242 Leon County, Texas $468,503 0.0% 100.0%
244 Rusk County, Texas $346,778 0.0% 100.0%
245 Zapata County, Texas $298,640 0.0% 100.0%
246 Walker County, Texas $283,147 0.0% 100.0%
247 Smith County, Texas $202,803 0.0% 100.0%
248 Maverick County, Texas $198,549 0.0% 100.0%
249 Cass County, Texas $145,149 0.0% 100.0%
250 Angelina County, Texas $140,598 0.0% 100.0%
251 Madison County, Texas $126,064 0.0% 100.0%
252 Jasper County, Texas $124,149 0.0% 100.0%
253 Presidio County, Texas $101,706 0.0% 100.0%
254 Polk County, Texas $99,900 0.0% 100.0%
255 Newton County, Texas $92,867 0.0% 100.0%
256 Montgomery County, Texas $76,486 0.0% 100.0%
257 Crane County, Texas $76,186 0.0% 100.0%
258 Brewster County, Texas $64,979 0.0% 100.0%
259 Marion County, Texas $54,809 0.0% 100.0%
260 Harrison County, Texas $54,062 0.0% 100.0%
261 Tyler County, Texas $41,263 0.0% 100.0%
262 San Jacinto County, Texas $32,715 0.0% 100.0%
263 Freestone County, Texas $31,965 0.0% 100.0%
264 Shelby County, Texas $24,434 0.0% 100.0%
265 San Augustine County, Texas $17,670 0.0% 100.0%
266 Sabine County, Texas $5,357 0.0% 100.0%
267 Ector County, Texas $5,131 0.0% 100.0%
268 Gregg County, Texas $4,114 0.0% 100.0%
269 Loving County, Texas $1,221 0.0% 100.0%
270 Trinity County, Texas $14 0.0% 100.0%
271 Kenedy County, Texas $2 0.0% 100.0%
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
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In 2008, former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was the No. 1 high school football player in the nation, and one of the most sought after recruits of the past decade. He waited until the last moment to commit to a college team (had been interested in Florida, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, and Pittsburgh also), and finally decided on the Buckeyes. Columbus, Ohio rejoiced. Former Ohio State football head coach was going to bring in Pryor, and finally get back to, and win, the national championship.
In 2011, amid brewing controversies about his involvement in the selling of sign Ohio State football merchandise in exchange for tattoos, and his involvement in a long-time car dealership loaning service, he left the university. This would have been his senior season, but as he began to feel the heat of the NCAA down his back, closing in on his “secrets”, after Tressel had resigned because his “secrets” have been revealed, he left.
Oh how the times have changed from his freshman year – sitting on the bench – with a lot of hype to his name. Columbus, Ohio, is rightfully upset at their presumed “star quarterback.”
The Tressel situation has been well documented, thanks to Sports Illustrated, but the Pryor situation is just beginning to play out. He’s gone. He won’t be the quarterback this season… and he doesn’t know if he’ll be the quarterback anywhere this season.
For Pryor, he came out today and said he didn’t want to play in the Canadian Football League, after reports that a team from that league was in pursuit of his rights to sign him. Pryor said he wants to be focused on the NFL.
ESPN’s NFL Draft expert, Mel Kiper Jr., says he’ll be a tight end.
So a career goes down the drain in Columbus. The person who once held the weight of a city on his shoulders to produce a national title, is now gone – hated in the city which once beloved him.
Leaving school, Pryor will not go down as a great Ohio State quarterbacks – as he could have been the best in a string of good ones, Troy Smith, Craig Krentzel, etc. No, he will go down as a quitter. A selfish player, who believed his own hype and didn’t live up to it.
He was one of the most sought after recruits in the nation in 2008, and one of the most sought after in this decade. The 6-foot-6 juggernaut QB, will go down as one of the poorest results of the No. 1 high school ranking.
Prior to 2008, Rivals.com kept prospect rankings beginning in 2002. Vince Young (’02, Texas), Ernie Sims (’03, Florida State), Adrian Peterson (’04, Oklahoma), Derrick Williams (’05, Penn State), Percy Harvin (’06, Florida), Jimmy Clausen (’07, Notre Dame), and Pryor (’08 Ohio State).
One can make an argument that each No. 1-ranked player before Pryor had a better career – oodles better in some cases. Players like Young, Peterson and Harvin were tremendously successful in their careers – whether they brought Heisman Trophies or crystal balls out of their college careers.
Sims was exceedingly successful for his position. He was also the second best player from his recruiting class. Reggie Bush, although his legacy is tampered with now, was a better recruit than Sims. Williams and Clausen, too, were more successful than Pryor.
Even more, Pryor wasn’t the best player or quarterback in his recruiting class. DaQuan Bowers (Clemson), Julio Jones (Alabama), AJ Green (Georgia), Will Hill (Florida), Michael Floyd (Notre Dame), Brandon Harris (Miami). Those are just a few names you could put ahead of Pryor’s.
Also, enter Blaine Gabbert, the quarterback from that class who turned out to be the best. Pryor doesn’t compare.
Now while Pryor’s pro potential is no where near the other players I’ve compared him too, that is not the sole purpose why I’m calling him such a disappointment. His college career was even disappointing up until the day he quit the team, dropped out of the school, and looked to the future.
Pryor might have won a couple Big Ten titles, but none resulted in a title game appearance. Pryor’s best game overall was the Rose Bowl game against Oregon two years ago. Not once did he end the season in the top five voting for the Heisman Trophy. He was never the player everyone expected him to be. He was never the best quarterback in the nation – he probably was never one of the top five or ten quarterbacks in the nation.
This past year will go down as his final season as Ohio State’s quarterback, and maybe his final season as a quarterback in his life. Andrew Luck (Stanford), Nick Foles (Arizona), Cam Newton (Auburn), Blaine Gabbert (Missouri), Landry Jones (Oklahoma), Matt Barkley (USC), Brandon Weeden (Oklahoma State), Kellen Moore (Boise State), Russell Wilson (North Carolina State), Andy Dalton (TCU), Kirk Cousins (Michigan State), Denard Robinson (Michigan). Those are just a few quarterbacks better than him last season… don’t make me list all the seasons before.
One person I mentioned, Cam Newton, is like the man Pryor never was. The way Newton produced, won a Heisman, and won a national championship all in one season, that’s kind of the expectations that were laid on Pryor. And don’t even get me started about the comparisons of the teams. Ohio State probably had better support for Pryor than Newton had. But Newton was legendary, Godly. He won a title in his first season as a starting quarterback. He came from a junior college national title, to Auburn to win a national title. That’s a hell of a two year run.
Sorry for Columbus, that was never Pryor. Tressel recruited the wrong guy. Pryor never showed the leadership or superstar ability that was expected of him. Moreover, he failed the school, and failed himself.
His talent, so hyped, turned out to be stoppable. His leadership turned out to be weak. His credentials out of college turned out to be empty. He was a disappointment, and a lot of people are putting the blame on him for Tressel’s resignation. Now, Tressel deserves all of the blame – he dug his own hole. Pryor is totally different. He took part in what Tressel allowed to happen.
Pryor didn’t live up to the hype. He didn’t deliver, especially in the clutch. And he wont be a quarterback anywhere except the Canadian Football League.
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Filipino American Patrick Rosal Wins Major Poetry Award
Posted by Filstop Filipino Food Blog on October 11, 2017 November 9, 2017
New Jersey native Patrick Rosal, a son of immigrants from the Ilocos region of the Philippines, has won a major award for the most outstanding book of poetry of the year.
The 2017 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets is a $25,000 award that recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.
“In Brooklyn Antediluvian, Rosal unflinchingly addresses questions of race and race relations in America,” according to Rutgers-Camden News Now. “The lyrical masterpiece dives to the depths of his identity and experiences as a Filipino American, traversing his childhood growing up in North Jersey and his family’s roots from home to the Philippines.
“Most importantly, says Rosal, he is proud to be the first Asian American to win the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. It’s an accomplishment, he says, that has to be personally experienced to be fully understood.
“I don’t know how to impress upon people who don’t know what it’s like to look at pop culture or the literary world and not see people who look like you,” says Rosal, who notes that he is the only person with whom he grew up who has written books and one of the few members of his family to have attended college.
“I hope that this recognition opens up possibilities for others,” he says.”
Patrick Rosen is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University–Camden.
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Gérard, Baron François Pascal [French, 1770-1837]
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François Gérard was born in 1770 in Rome into the family of a French clerk/officer of the French Embassy and an Italian mother. He grew up in Rome and love for Italian art later influenced his own paintings. Around 1782 the family came to Paris, where François studied in the studio of the sculptor Augustin Pajou. At the age of sixteen, Gérard entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David and soon became one of his favorite pupils, specializing in portraits.
In 1790, after his father's death, Gérard traveled to Italy, where he married his mother's younger sister. After his mother's death, which followed soon, he took care of his younger brother. At that time Gérard mostly earned a living by illustrating the works of Racine and Virgil.
He tried himself in painting historical scenes, and won the competition to commemorate the meeting of the National Assembly of 10 August 1792. His first real success was at the Salon of 1795 for the work Belisarius Carrying his Guide after he was Bitten by a Snake. The miniature painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), who repeatedly helped Gérard, organized the sale of the work and in gratitude Gérard painted the portrait of his friend with his small daughter. The portrait launched Gérard’s career as a portraitist, whose works were much sought-after because of their naturalism and brilliant characterizations.
For historical and mythological subjects, Gérard based his style on David's Neoclassicism.
Gérard’s reputation remained high through the Restoration period. In 1817 he became court painter to Louis XVIII, and was ennobled in 1819. He died in 1837 in Paris.
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Home » Real Estate » New NYC buildings host modern science labs, research facilities
New NYC buildings host modern science labs, research facilities
City encouragement, alongside a booming market, have made life science leases hotter than ever.
But because of the detailed construction work and funds that go into creating wet labs, it’s a commitment for owners, says Jonathan Schifrin of CBRE. His team is the leasing agent on both the Hudson Research Center at 619 W. 54th St. in Midtown West and the Taystee Lab Building at 450 W. 126th St. in Harlem.
Among the requirements are additional electricity, back-up generation, plumbing and venting as well as loading areas. Maintaining sterility could mean numerous exchanges of outside air per hour, adds Schifrin.
Due to all the mechanical work, it can take $450 per foot to upgrade and deliver a pre-built lab from raw space. As a comparison, traditional office space can be delivered for around $125 per foot.
Even if the base building already has extra electricity, plumbing and venting installed, it could still cost $250 to $300 per foot to create lab-specific spaces.
That’s why renting labs can run into the triple digits, and why the city is supplementing these projects with its land, buildings, grants and tax abatements.
In 2010, the Alexandria Center in Kips Bay, along the East River and by both NYU Langone’s campus and Bellevue Hospital Center, made waves when it opened on 3½ acres.
Now, the Alexandria Center has two buildings and will soon add a third at its campus between First Avenue and the FDR Drive at East 29th Street. The Alexandria Center’s LaunchLabs provides move-in-ready office/lab space, shared equipment and services, creative amenities, access to startup capital and engagement with its network.
Its first 309,035-square-foot building at 450 W. 29th St. includes the 25,000-square-foot Apella conference center, two restaurants by Tom Colicchio, an urban farm, other green space and an onsite parking garage. This building houses life science companies including Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Roche.
The second building, with 418,639 square feet, opened in 2013. CoStar real estate data shows just 30,000 square feet still available. Its largest tenant is the New York University Proteomics Laboratory.
Developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities is now planning a third building with 550,000 square feet of laboratory and office space.
According to Alexandria, one of the largest biotech owners in the country, 60 percent of the US’s pharmaceutical industry is here.
Alexandria also bought the Pfizer campus buildings on East 42nd Street in Midtown that could be redeveloped when that pharmaceutical company moves out.
In Long Island City, Alexandria has a smaller project underway at 30-02 48th Ave.
‘There is no shortage of investment and talent [in New York].’
The city’s Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has a $500 million initiative called LifeSci NYC. It already committed $100 million of that towards an Applied Life Sciences Hub project.
The NYCEDC is also seeking partners for a number of other projects. In September, it partnered with Deerfield Management to redevelop the 12-story 345 Park Ave. South into a life sciences campus.
Programming will be operated by Deerfield in partnership with MATTER, a Chicago-based nonprofit healthcare incubator. Expected to open in early 2021, more than 200,000 of its 300,000 square feet of life sciences space will be wet labs.
Deerfield is also supplying $30 million that will expand NYCEDC’s LifeSci NYC Internship program and Deerfield’s CUNY Fellows, Break into the Boardroom and Women in Science initiatives.
NYCEDC also awarded Bio- Labs@NYULangone a $5 million grant towards 50,000 square feet of new incubator lab space, which had its ribbon-cutting with NYC- EDC President James Patchett in December. He says it is “the city’s largest life-science incubator, with 22 companies already on site.”
It also approved a $10 million fund to help incubator grads and launched an internship program for life sciences talent.
While NYU Langone has a new science building with wet lab space at its First Avenue campus, the Upper East Side is home to other research hospitals and campuses.
Rockefeller University’s River Campus has over 160,000 square feet of laboratories, conference rooms, and common areas.
Labs and incubators can also be found at JLabs at 101 Ave. of the Americas, which is an initiative of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, New York State and the New York Genome Center. In addition, the Alexandria Center’s LaunchLabs, the BioBat space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal and various college campuses — including the new Renzo Piano-designed Jerome L. Greene Science Center at Columbia that will include the Zuckerman Institute — all have labs and incubators.
Uptown, Harlem is home to CUNY’s Advanced Science Research Center, City College’s Center for Discovery and Innovation, Harlem Biospace and the New York Structural Biology Center.
“Tenants coming out of those incubators will propel the industry,” says Bill Harvey of Newmark Knight Frank, who is leasing Innolabs, an upcoming project in Long Island City.
For New York, Harvey says the challenge has been availability of top-tier lab space. “There is no shortage of investment and talent,” he says.
Innolabs, being developed by King Street Properties and the Gural family’s GFP Real Estate, celebrated its groundbreaking in December. The 266,800-square-foot T-shaped life sciences facility is being redeveloped at 45-18 Court Square West for occupancy in 2021.
Along with laboratories, it will have a bike room with showers and lockers, plus space for conferences and events.
Back in Manhattan, on the West Side, Taconic Partners and Silverstein Properties are working on the Hudson Research Center near the Hudson River.
Schifrin’s group at CBRE is also leasing the Taystee Lab Building, which topped out this week. Developed by Janus Property Company in the Manhattanville Factory District, the 350,000-square-foot life sciences building will have nearly 20,000 feet of outdoor terraces across its 11 floors and courtyard.
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What are Performance Analysis and Match Analysis?
Fifteen years ago, there may be only a few big Premier League football clubs had a performance analysis department. Nowadays, even a League 2 club like Aldershot for which I am working have set up a Performance Analysis department this season. It is a fast growing industry and I firmly believe it will keep growing for the next ten years at least.
If we want to know where it came from, sports science has to be mentioned. The first academic programmes in sports science were studied in the UK in 1975. Initially, it included biology, biochemistry, physiology, biomechanics, mathematics, psychology and sociology. Nowadays, the sports science programmes may include economics, recreation sport development, coaching and computer science also (Reilly and Williams 2003). The first Bachelor of Science degree which combined science and football together was offered at Liverpool John Moores University in 1997. Performance analysis in football was one of the core modules.
Difference between Performance Analysis and Match Analysis
You may realize both terms are used in books and articles as they are very similar. In my opinion, match analysis focuses everything about the matches, e.g. post-match analysis, opposition analysis (tactics and strategies). Performance analysis has a wider coverage and includes more disciplines. In short, match analysis is part of the performance analysis. Apart from match analysis, performance analysis includes player recruitment, player evaluation, training analysis, trend analysis and even referees analysis (Prozone 2009). However, you may realize that some of these disciplines are just the further development of match analysis, e.g. player evaluation and trend analysis. Therefore, I think match analysis is the core part of performance analysis. I will focuses on match analysis in the following paragraphs.
Why match analysis is undertaken?
Some people may argue that soccer is an art, especially if you watch the Zinadine Zidane played. I won’t deny that as I agree playing and coaching soccer are arts but I think science can be a part of soccer as well. In terms of preparation, science information is helpful for coaches and trainers to make decisions and judgement. For one’s own team, the information can be used to identify strengths and weaknesses. For opposition, we can use data to counter opposing strengths and exploit weaknesses. Moreover, match analysis can be used to evaluate whether the training programmes improve the match performance or not (Carling et al. 2005). The information is a big set of data and coach can’t remember all of it during the game. Franks and Miller (1986) found that international level soccer coaches could only recollect 30% of the key elements that determined successful soccer performance observed. Another research indicated that coaches are able to recall fewer than half of the key incidents (Carling et al. 2005). Another reason is that the coach may not be able to get the information objectively. Neisser (1982) found that the accuracy of memories of events I greatly influenced by many factors, e.g. the beliefs of the observer. In other words, coaches are active observers rather than passive perceivers of information. Their perception of events would not be a copying process but rather a selective and constructive one (Reilly 1996). Then coaches can’t provide an objective and unbiased information. Therefore, match analysis/ performance analysis is needed to provide such information and analysis.
What does match analysis include?
In my opinion, match analysis can be divided into two categories: Notational analysis and Motion analysis.
Notational analysis is a means of recording events so that there is an accurate and objective record of what actually took place (Carling et al. 2005). There should be at least five elements which should be recorded: the position (where?), the players involved (who?), the action concerned (what?), the time (when?) and the outcome of the activity (e.g. successful or unsuccessful, or on target or off target. Generally there are two ways to do it: by hand/manual or by computer. Reep and Benjamin (1968) were the early researchers in hand notation system. They collected data from 3213 matches between 1953 and 1968 and recorded actions such as passing and shooting. Their conclusions were that 80% of goals were resulted from a sequence of three passes or less and 50% of all goals came from possession gained in the final attacking quarter of the pitch. In terms of computerized notation system, Matchviewer of Prozone is a good example which provides the data of passing, heading, shooting, tackling etc. Both systems have their strengths and weaknesses. The following table summarizes part of it.
Hand/ Manual notational system Computerized notational system
Accurate (fully defined and used correctly)
Game is represented in its entirely and store in ROM which forms a database
Immediate feedback (i.e. short time)
Lead to the development of predictive models
Indication of areas requiring improvement
Search video recording
Learning time required can be reduced considerably (e.g. keyboards, pads, graphical user interfaces, voice interactive systems)
Good presentation because of computer graphics, word-processing, database and multi-media packages
Time required for data processing can be very long
For complex game such as soccer, learning and training time is long in order to ensure accuracy and reliability of the operator
Less accurate unless very carefully designed and validated
Table 1: Summary of the strengths and weaknesses of hand and computerized notation system
Another category of match analysis is motion analysis which focuses on raw features of an individual’s activity and movement (Carling et al. 2005). It can specify work rates of the players in different positions and distances covered in a game (Reilly and Williams 2003). This analysis is useful in identifying fatigue and differentiating between positional differences in work rate and fitness levels (e.g. ability to move backwards and sideways is important for defenders) (Carling et al. 2005). There are three elements which should be measured: intensity (walking, jogging, cruising and sprinting), duration (or distance) and frequency. Prozone3 is software of Prozone which provides this sort of data. Nowadays, most of the motion analysis would be done by computer as it is difficult for people to record how many metres a player ran in a match. However, in the old days, researchers had to do it by hand. Reilly and Thomas (1976) recorded and analyzed the intensity and extent of discrete activities. They combined hand notation with tape to analyse the movement of the players. They found that a player is in possession of the ball for less than 2% of the game.
Performance analysis is becoming more popular in lower leagues and more football clubs will set up the performance analysis department in future. There is still much room for the development of performance analysis. Match analysis is different from performance analysis but it is the core part of performance analysis. The aim of doing analysis is to provide objective information and analysis for the coach about past performance (either team or individual). The analysis can be done by hand/manual and computer as well. Both systems have their own strengths and weaknesses.
FRANKS, I.M. and MILLER, G., 1986. Eyewitness testimony in sport. Journal of Sport Behavior, 9, 38-45
NEISSER, U., 1982. Memory Observed. San Francisco: CA
PROZONE, 2009. Services [online][viewed 5 September 2012]. Available from: http://www.prozonesports.com/services.html
REEP, C., & BENJAMIN, B., 1968. Skill and chance in association football. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 131, 581-585
REILLY, T., 1996. Science and Soccer. E & FN Spon
REILLY, T. and THOMAS, V., 1976. A motion analysis of work-rate in different positional roles in professional football match-play. Journal of Human Movement Studies, 2, 87-97
REILLY, T. and A., M. WILLIAMS, 2003. Science and Soccer. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge
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The Month of MoMA: Art Museum Opens Anew
The MoMA's $450 million dollar renovation has brought new, interdisciplinary spaces for viewers to interact with artwork and experience it in new ways.
ISABELLA SOTTILE/THE OBSERVER
By DANIEL HUR and ISABELLA SOTTILE
MoMA Reimagined
By ISABELLA SOTTILE
On Oct. 21, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) officially reopened its doors to the public after the completion of a major renovation and expansion project that began in 2016. The museum has been closed to the public since June 2019 while the final pieces of the $450 million expansion were put into place. In collaboration with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler, about 47,000 square feet were added to the museum to allow 30% more gallery space.
The reimagined MoMA offers interdisciplinary gallery spaces invented to bring different media together for a new perspective on the artwork. Free ground-level galleries open to the public bring art to the streets of midtown Manhattan, a Creativity Lab offers visitors the opportunity to engage with and discuss the art and a central multi-purpose performance space named the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio will host a variety of performance exhibitions.
MoMA’s Director of Real Estate Expansion and master orchestrator of the project Jean Savitsky detailed the process of these monumental renovations and the purpose behind the design during a tour through the new museum.
With regard to the additional constructions, Savitsky said, “We were threading together different decades of architecture on the exterior. But the interior experience is seamless as you flow from building to building, with only a subtle shift in architecture.”
As visitors enter the museum through the large lobby, they are met with art installations immediately. One of Savitsky’s colleagues pointed out that the lobby “evokes the feeling of a busy public square, not a hectic subway stop.”
The walk through the galleries feels fluid and easy, not like the typical monotonous museum march so often feared in the trek through museums with large collections — each room is inviting, accessible and full of fascinating artwork. Large windows dispersed intermittently throughout the galleries connect visitors with the outdoors as they view the art displayed in new and creative ways. Within the rooms, MoMA combines various media rather than separating painting from sculpture and photography.
The performance space is front and center, unlike many museum layouts which hide such a space away. Savitksy said that this feature, unique to the museum, is “designed to be an integral part of the journey through the galleries because they wanted to emphasize the importance of performance in their space.”
In addition, MoMA has consciously worked towards representing more diverse artists in their exhibitions. On display now, “Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl’s Window” is a collection of autobiographical prints which draw on themes of family, history and mysticism in Saar’s art and her earliest work in printmaking. Another exhibit, “Member: Pope.L, 1978-2001” displays a collection of Pope’s public performances which raise questions “about a culture consumed with success yet riven by social, racial, and economic conflict.” The debut of the reinvented MoMA offers 10 provocative exhibitions in addition to the permanent collections.
Student admission is $14 with a valid full-time student ID, but the museum currently offers free admission on Friday evenings from 5:30-9 p.m. in a sponsored partnership UNIQLO. More information regarding admission and the exhibits can be found on the MOMA website.
A Look Inside: The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
By DANIEL HUR
For the last four months, MoMA closed and underwent extensive renovations with new pieces and exhibits of artwork and restructuring the architecture of the building itself. On Oct. 21, it reopened to the public with a new addition: the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio, a new exhibit space for live events “dedicated to performance, music sound, spoken word, and expanded approaches to the moving image,” according to the official MoMA website.
Open to visitors to engage the art with their senses, the Studio enables them to be truly aware of what art can do as it comes alive through performances by artists who helped make it. Being a part of this experience is truly a new approach to what art can mean for people. The Studio connects visitors with artwork made up of everyday objects, bringing new perspectives of how “modern” art can be.
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The experience of viewing the artwork in the Studio is coupled with hearing sound associated with it by way of speakers throughout the space.
Centered at the heart of the museum on the fourth floor within the collection galleries, the studio is a new space for the MoMA to display its collection as a living history for established and emerging artists. The Studio allows you to see objects and hear sounds from speakers connected to each piece of artwork, like banging on a wooden wall or sounds of metal chains hitting against each other softly.
Designed to create an open experience, the Studio is surrounded by a double-height glass wall with a view of 53rd Street. On the other side of the small space, an overlook from the fifth-floor collection galleries brings light into the room.
The walls of the Studio are shiny and black, and the lights on the ceiling create shadows on the floor. The Studio includes installations constructed from everyday objects, such as a metal barrel, a vintage compact disc and plastic tubes.
Since the MoMA’s founding, the museum has shown a “commitment to dance and the performing through its collection and exhibition programming.” The Studio positions itself to be one of the bold innovators in live and broader narratives of art, providing a personal and emotional atmosphere within the room. The Studio also integrates art in a unique way, involving the viewers with their feelings and emotions, enabling them to see art in a new and unexpected way with modern objects.
The scale of the space with each display, which includes speakers where visitors listen to the sounds associated with the artwork, provides an intimate, focused experience. With a different approach to appreciating art from the other pieces in the museum, the Studio allows one to “feel” the art.
The Studio will be active throughout the year with multiple performances, which can be seen on the official MoMA website. One particular exhibit, “David Tudor and Composers Inside Electronics Inc. Rainforest V,” will be presented through Jan. 5, 2020, and can be viewed on certain dates in November and December. The exhibit will feature a musical score for choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance of the same name to celebrate MoMA’s reopening.
The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio allows audiences to experience art in a new way that not only appeals to our visual tastes but also serves as an introduction to the whole-body experience of all senses with modern and contemporary art at the MoMA.
Daniel Hur
Isabella Sottile
Jean Savitsky
Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
DANIEL HUR, Staff Writer
Daniel Hur, FCLC '23, is a staff writer for The Observer and is currently majoring in Journalism. He hopes to become a news reporter one day for FOX News. In his free time, he loves to watch movies and the news, listen to all kinds of music and tour the city.
ISABELLA SOTTILE, Staff Writer
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Report: Career Diplomats Fear Trump Retaliation Over Ukraine Career Diplomats Fear Trump Retaliation Over...
Career Diplomats Fear Trump Retaliation Over Ukraine
State Department officials find themselves without many defenders in a hyperpartisan fight.
By Robbie Gramer
| October 24, 2019, 4:46 PM
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives for a closed-door deposition before members of the House of Representatives in Washington on Oct. 11. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
Officials in the U.S. State Department who work on issues related to Ukraine are expressing fear that their careers will become collateral damage and that they could face retaliation as they are asked to give testimony in the hyperpoliticized impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill.
Lower-level diplomats who operate outside the spotlight are now caught between high-profile partisan battles in Congress, an angry president, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has drawn criticism for not doing enough to publicly support the diplomats already caught in the crossfire.
Several current U.S. diplomats who spoke to Foreign Policy described an atmosphere of fear and trepidation in the department’s bureau that oversees work on Ukraine policy. “I would hope that [retaliation] would not happen,” a senior U.S. diplomat said. “I would hope that that’s an unlikely circumstance, but we’ve never found ourselves in a situation like this.”
Professional diplomats were again caught in the impeachment saga this week, when the White House issued a scathing rebuke of testimony from the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, William Taylor. The White House castigated its own acting ambassador and slammed the impeachment process as “a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution.” President Donald Trump later tweeted that he does not know his acting ambassador to Ukraine and Taylor was probably a “Never Trumper”—a comment that may have irreparably damaged Taylor’s standing in Kyiv. (Taylor served as George W. Bush’s ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009.)
Taylor’s testimony, parts of which were leaked to news outlets, painted a damning portrait of how Trump pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate one of his potential Democratic presidential rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, by withholding military aid for the country as it grapples with a yearslong war with Russian-backed separatists.
It also exposed the risk career diplomats face as they testify before the House of Representatives in the impeachment inquiry. As the inquiry drags into its second week, with more depositions expected, career diplomats fear they will have no protection from senior levels of the department or White House if they are called in to testify.
Taylor was pulled out of retirement to serve as charges d’affaires in Kyiv after Trump removed the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, from her post. Yovanovitch testified that she fired after “unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives,” citing Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Other State Department officials may soon have to follow in the footsteps of Taylor, Yovanovitch, and George Kent, a career diplomat who serves as a deputy assistant secretary of state, to testify.
The White House and State Department have ordered each of the diplomats in question who are still serving in government not to cooperate with the inquiry, citing executive privilege. But they were compelled to testify after the House panels overseeing the impeachment inquiry subpoenaed them. All had to hire outside legal counsel to represent them in the depositions.
“To put people in between the Congress and the executive branch and say, ‘If you don’t appear, then you’re in contempt of Congress. If you do appear, then you’re violating your instructions from your boss’—that’s a really tough place to be,” said one senior U.S. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Lawmakers who have attended the depositions have also expressed concerns about whether career diplomats will become collateral damage in the process, though there have not been any indications of reprisals thus far. “They’re putting their obligation to obey the rule of law in the United States of America above any threat they may have in disobeying an order,” said Democratic Rep. Bill Keating, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who has attended some of the depositions.
“Anyone that’s ordered to do something by your boss and doesn’t do it because they’re doing the right thing, you still worry about what happens when you go back to work,” he said.
Even before the impeachment inquiry dragged the State Department into the center of Washington’s fiercest political fight, career diplomats have already been exposed to mismanagement and retaliation based on perceived political leanings. Senior Trump administration officials in the bureau overseeing relations with international organizations were the subject of a scathing report by the State Department inspector general, following an investigation into mismanagement and politically targeting professional diplomats.
“We already saw the State Department Inspector General’s report about political targeting of career employees. While I can’t comment on what’s been discussed by witnesses, any sort of improper retaliation against State Department personnel is utterly unacceptable,” Rep. Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Foreign Policy. “Yet, sadly, it has become typical under this Administration. The Foreign Affairs Committee will continue to make it a top priority to protect our diplomats from abuse and harassment.”
Trump denies any wrongdoing related to withholding aid to Ukraine, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also publicly denied that he was pressured to investigate the Bidens in exchange for military aid.
U.S. diplomats involved in Ukraine policy, along with an anonymous White House whistleblower, outlined their concerns that the president was improperly pressuring the Ukrainian government into investigating Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was vice president.
Among others who have been called to testify before the House, many compelled by a congressional subpoena, are: Kurt Volker, the former State Department envoy for Ukraine who stepped down amid the impeachment probe; Fiona Hill, a former top National Security Council aide on Russia; and Laura Cooper, a Defense Department official whose testimony was interrupted when dozens of Republican members of Congress stormed the secure room where she was set to testify to protest the way the inquiry was being handled. Philip Reeker, another career diplomat who serves as the acting assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, is expected to testify before the House on Saturday.
Kent, according to people familiar with his thinking, believes that the State Department’s top leadership offered no support or reassurances ahead of his deposition. Kent’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Pompeo has criticized the impeachment process but said the department will work as required under the law with Congress to cooperate with the inquiry. “This inquiry will proceed. Congress will perform its oversight function. The State Department will continue to do all the things that we’re required to do under the law and the Constitution,” Pompeo told the Wichita Eagle in an interview on Thursday during a visit to Kansas.
“We understand their role. I was a member of Congress. I think it’s absolutely important that they perform their function in a way that is professional,” Pompeo said. “I wish that they were doing that. Unfortunately, today they are not.”
Pompeo has so far refrained from offering any public defense of Yovanovitch or Taylor. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RobbieGramer
Tags: Diplomacy, Report, State Department, Trump, Ukraine
Pompeo’s State Department Reels as Impeachment Inquiry Sinks Morale
As the investigation grows, so, too, does the foreign service officers’ legal defense fund.
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Trump Impeachment Inquiry Puts State Department in the Crosshairs
U.S. diplomats are concerned they will become star witnesses.
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Divided Lawmakers Still Unite Around Ukraine
Despite the impeachment inquiry, U.S. lawmakers on both sides insist their support for Ukraine against Russian aggression remains strong.
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Running as terror expert, Loretta Sanchez misses many anti-terror panel meetings
Posted on August 5, 2016 by DCG | Leave a comment
She’s a demorat in California, that’s all the qualifications she needs to be elected in that state.
Loretta Sanchez
From Sacramento Bee: California U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who points to expertise in homeland security issues as a reason for Californians to elect her to the U.S. Senate this fall, has missed more than half the hearings of the House Committee on Homeland Security since she first joined the influential panel 13 years ago.
She’s far from the only one. It’s not uncommon for members of Congress, who may have conflicting meetings or other responsibilities, to miss committee meetings, and there are many with worse records than Sanchez.
But Sanchez has ranked particularly low in attendance in recent years: Last year, she ranked 28th out of 30 committee members after missing seven of the nine full committee hearings for which the Government Publishing Office has transcripts.
She also missed nearly all 2015 meetings of the Subcommittees on Border and Maritime Security and on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies, according to the available official transcripts.
Sanchez announced in May of last year that she is running for the Senate to replace the retiring Barbara Boxer – so, not surprisingly, Sanchez spent time in California working on her campaign effort.
But she also missed the bulk of the meetings in 2013 and 2014, including most held by the subcommittees on border security and Counterterrorism and Intelligence.
Sanchez attended nine of the 22 full committee hearings those years, placing her near the bottom in attendance. Among the hearings she missed were “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland” and “The Rising Terrorist Threat and the Unfulfilled 9/11 Recommendations.”
Sanchez joined the Homeland Security Committee in 2003 and has attended 44 percent of the hearings since then, according to a McClatchy analysis of the full-committee hearings for which there are official transcripts released by the Government Publishing Office.
Her attendance record is far from the worst – Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Young of Florida, for example, didn’t show up for a single hearing during his two years on the committee – but it’s below the 55 percent average for members of the committee dating in 2003.
Sanchez has campaigned on her position as the most senior female member of the Homeland Security Committee, saying she “has emerged as an expert on intelligence and counterterrorism issues.”
Sanchez is also a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, where she is on a pair of subcommittees and is particularly known for her work combating military sexual assault and expanding women’s combat roles. The Armed Services Committee transcripts don’t indicate how many of the meetings Sanchez and other members attended.
Sanchez spokesman Luis Vizcaino said attending hearings was one aspect of her role on both committees, along with subcommittee work, briefings and congressional trips to volatile regions of the globe. “She is known and respected in Congress and the Pentagon for her expertise on military readiness and counterterrorism,” Vizcaino said in a statement.
“Her work ethic, commitment to her committee role and 20 years of experience on national security issues has provided her with a strong foundation of in-depth knowledge and expertise. Rep. Sanchez is always speaking with leaders and experts to get the information and intelligence needed to make the best decision for the security of this nation,” Vizcaino said.
Read the whole story here.
Posted in Congress, DHS, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Middle East, Military, Taxes, Terrorism, United States
Tagged Barbara Boxer, California
SF gay activist arrested for child porn of 1 year olds
Posted on October 16, 2012 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
“Relativism poses as humble by saying: ‘We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.’ It sounds humble. But…[i]t’s like a servant saying: I am not smart enough to know which person here is my master—or if I even have a master. The result is that I don’t have a master and I can be my own master. That is in reality what happens to relativists: In claiming to be too lowly to know the truth, they exalt themselves as supreme arbiter of what they can think and do. This is not humility. This is the essence of pride.” ― John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
Have you ever considered that the Left’s championing of moral relativism actually is their way of rationalizing and justifying their own moral perversions? If there’s no clear right and wrong, then what they do isn’t wrong.
Bernie Ward
Take Bernie Ward for example. A prominent leftist, Ward was a former aide to Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and a popular radio talk host on San Francisco’s KGO 810 AM with his own news talk show, as well as a 3-hour Sunday program called “God Talk.”
In 2008, Ward pled guilty to distributing child pornography “between 15 and 150 times” via the Internet and was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment. In the chat logs with a woman who posed online as a dominatrix, Ward also described sexual activity with his own children, although both he and his children denied to investigators that the activities ever occurred.
Most recently, another San Francisco leftist champion of moral relativism, 66-year-old prominent gay activist Larry Brinkin was charged with six counts of sending and receiving images of child porn, including those of children as young as one year old.
How utterly perverted can a man be to find a one-year-old child sexually appealing?
Larry Brinkin
Erin Sherbert reports for SFWeekly, Sept. 26, 2012, that Brinkin, San Francisco’s well-known gay rights activist, appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to six felony charges of sending and receiving images of child pornography.
The charges came three months after Brinkin, 66, was first arrested by San Francisco police, who claim he had been using the e-mail address zack3737@aol.com to view images of children as young as perhaps 1 year old being sodomized by and performing oral sex on adult men, accompanied by highly racist commentary.
On May 8, the SFPD was contacted regarding Brinkin’s alleged illegal activity. Investigators secured a search warrant on his home where he lives with his husband and son. They seized items from his house, including computers, videos, VHS tapes, and a floppy disc. Police later determined Brinkin received e-mails and sent two reply e-mails containing child pornography. Then on Aug. 8, the SFPD seized additional computers belonging to Brinkin, which allegedly contained dozens of images of child pornography. On Sept. 20, police arrested Brinkin again and booked him on child pornography charges.
Brinkin retired in 2010 after serving 22 years as a contract compliance officer for San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission. Beloved member of the gay community, the S.F. Board of Supervisors had declared the first week of February as “Larry Brinkin Week.”
Now I know why the latest push from the Left is to “normalize” pedophilia as just another ho-hum “sexual orientation.”
Posted in Children, crime, Culture War, Evil, LGBT, Liberals/Democrats/Left, United States
Tagged Barbara Boxer
The bankrupt Democratic Party – by a former Democrat
Posted on September 25, 2012 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2T81nsqKA&feature=player_embedded]
I honestly don’t understand how any Democrat, after watching this video, can remain a Democrat.
Maybe the message is getting through.
Rasmussen keeps a running monthly poll of party identification. Its latest poll found that in August, 2012, 37.6% of Americans considered themselves Republicans. That’s up from 34.9% in July and 35.4% in June, 2012. It’s also the largest number of Republicans ever recorded by Rasmussen Report since monthly tracking began in November 2002.
Posted in 2012 Election, Barack Obama, God, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Media, Military, Republican Party, United States
Tagged Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi
Democrats are hypocrites on gas price
Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU]
Democrats, thy name is Hypocrisy!
They doth speaketh with forkéd tongue.
H/t our Miss May
Posted in Liberals/Democrats/Left, Media, United States, US Presidents
Tagged Barack Obama, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi
Americans With No Abilities Act
Washington, DC – June 13, 2011
The Obama Administration is urging Congress and the Senate to
pass sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many
Americans: The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA). President Obama said he will sign it as soon as he squeezes out some free time from playing golf.
The AWNAA is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
“Roughly 50% of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Senator Barbara Boxer, a ready-made candidate for the AWNAA. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
Another AWNAA candidate, Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) also threw his support for the bill: “As a representative an exhibitionist with a big small penis, way too much time on my hands, but no abilities whatsoever, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference, two other AWNAA candidates — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) — pointed to the success of Congress, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74% of the members of Congress lack any job skills, making this institution one of the largest U.S. employers of Persons of Inability.
Other institutions and industries with good records of non-discrimination against the incompetent and inept include teachers’ unions (75%), Wisconsin public employee unions (95%), SEIU (99%), TSA (99.5%), U.S. Dept of Homeland Security (99.8%), ACORN (99.9%), and the Obama White House (100%).
At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons of Inability (a whopping 83%).
Under The Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million ‘middle man’ positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most inept employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions,and gives a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the Non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a Non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Ken Cox, who lost his position as a TSA screener at Kennedy International Airport due to his inability to remember Janet Napolitano’s instruction, “Strip Search All Blond, Blue-Eyed Babies!”
“This new law should be real good for people like me,” Cox added.
H/t beloved fellows May & Joseph.
Tagged ACORN, Anthony Weiner, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, public employee unions, SEIU, TSA
Left's Censorship of Conservatives Begins
Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, famously said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Rahm was merely making explicit what the Left had been practicing for decades — the exploitation of some public tragedy by reflexively blaming the Right.
As an example, the Left blamed the “climate of hate” in conservative Dallas and the “paranoid style” of American (conservative) politics for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, despite the convicted killer Lee Harvey Oswald being an avowed Marxist!
It’s the same liberal modus operandus in the recent Tucson, Arizona mass murders. Before anyone even knew who and what the shooter was, the Left and their complicit accomplices in the MSM already began pointing their fingers at “right wing hate rhetoric” as the culprit. Even after the facts began pouring in about Jared Lee Loughner — that he was apolitical, paid scant attention to the news, did not listen to talk radio, but instead is a drug-addled mentally-disturbed loser who worshipped at a skull-bedecked homemade altar — the Left’s scapegoating and demonization of Conservatives persist, undeterred by facts or the truth.
Paul Krugman himself engages in hate speech (A BKeyser design)
True to Rahm’s injunction, the Left did not let the crisis go to waste. In the aftermath of the Tucson tragedy, the father of Christina Green, the 9-year-old girl killed in the massacre, pleaded with the nation that his daughter’s death should not be exploited as a justification to crush constitutional rights. But the Left are doing exactly that.
First, Demonrat California Sen. Barbara Boxer sprang into action to censor the conservative organization Patriot Post. Below is a letter from the Patriot Post explaining what happened:
A staff member from California Demo Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office discovered a small image of an old sticker from the humor section of PatriotShop.US, targeting liberals for defeat prior to 2013. This image clearly was intended as humor but is no longer on our site. Only a small number of people had ever actually seen it.
Boxer believed that this three-inch image was too dangerous to be seen in public, lest it incite murderous violence. Ostensibly, to make her point, she enlarged the image dramatically, distributed copies of it at a televised news conference, and displayed it for the entire nation to see. (One may presume that her audience included more than a few psychopaths who otherwise would never have seen this image … good thinking Babs!)
We now find ourselves in the good company of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives who stand accused by the Left of provoking murderous attacks through words and imagery. However, Boxer’s public accusations pose a serious problem for us. While we have a large following, we remain a grassroots organization, not a well-funded political or media conglomerate.
By midweek, Boxer and her entourage of histrionic sycophants were actively endeavoring to have the entire PatriotShop.US site censored — and shut down. (And we thought Democrats wanted to create jobs.)
To date, our team has done an outstanding job of repelling Boxers efforts to silence us, and we will do everything in our power to continue to defend our First (and Second) Amendment rights. We write simply to ask for your prayers on behalf of our steadfast defense of Essential Liberty.
— The Patriot Shop Staff
Then, we learn that the FBI is compiling a list of Americans deemed a potential threat because they criticized their representative – and targeting them with home visits. As Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars reports:
An Ozark man who ran a blog last year critical of Republican Congressman Billy Long was shocked to see an FBI agent turn up on his doorstep asking questions. The agent was accompanied by Green County Sheriff Jim Arnott, who had stepped outside of his jurisdiction to become involved in this act of political repression directed against Clay Bowler, a resident of Christian County.
The FBI agent wanted to know if Bowler was a threat to Long because he had used an Internet blog to highlight claims of cronyism and corruption involving the Congressman before the southwest Missouri election in November, in which Long defeated Democrat Scott Eckersley to replace outgoing Rep. Roy Blunt.
The most heated confrontation Bowler had with Long was when he asked him a question about political donations Long had made. The video clip of the incident shows Bowler calmly asking Long a question as the Congressman walks away. He ran a website called “Long is wrong” in an attempt to prevent Long from being elected last year. The website has since been discontinued and Bowler hasn’t had any contact with Long since September.
Even the FBI agent who visited Bowler had to agree that his actions represented no kind of threat whatsoever. “I’m not a threat to Billy Long,” Bowler said Thursday. “I find the whole thought very funny, because I’m such an advocate for constitutional rights that I would never do anything that would put in jeopardy those constitutional rights like the Second Amendment”….
“Arnott confirmed to KSPR News that Bowler isn’t the only local person who’s been scrutinized in the wake of last weekend’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ) during a meet-and-greet with constituents in Tucson, Ariz,” states the report, affirming that the authorities are compiling new lists of Americans who are now considered to be potentially violent threats for the crime of asking their own public servants uncomfortable questions. Separately it was reported that the FBI was preparing to visit other bloggers in the area.
Targeting anyone who exercises their First Amendment right to redress their grievances against local representatives who are paid to serve them with home visits accompanied by FBI agents only has one outcome – it chills free speech and discourages other Americans from speaking out against the government. These tactics also have the impact of making asking questions of elected officials, the lifeblood of a free society, seem somehow abnormal or suspicious.
Once again, vultures are still busy circling around last weekend’s tragedy, using it as a vehicle through which to advance their own authoritarian and anti-American agendas of political repression.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and any move to imply that asking questions of public officials or engaging in criticism of government is somehow suspicious or indicative of a violent individual is a damning indictment of everything America is supposed to stand for. Circumstances like these should only encourage Americans to become more vocal in their dissent while they still have any semblance of free speech left at all.
H/t beloved fellows Tina & May.
Tagged Arizona shooting, Barbara Boxer, FBI, hate speech, Paul Krugman, Rahm Emanuel
Funny Spoof of Dem Sen. Barbara Boxer
David Zucker is a famous movie producer, of films such as Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret!, and An American Carol. Like many denizens of Hollywood, Zucker was a mindless unthinking liberal and had contributed big bucks to California Demonrat Barbara Boxer in her past (successful) elections for the US Senate.
But like many other Americans, Zucker’s eyes are now wide open. He has finally seen the light. He now regrets having supported Boxer and penned an apology to Big Government readers:
Every time I see the public record listing my campaign contribution to Boxer — I wince. I mean, we all have things we’ve done in the past that we’re embarrassed about, but I’d rather have my being restricted to 100 yards away from elementary schools be public knowledge than that $5,000 Boxer campaign contribution.
In atonement, Zucker made a video spoofing Boxer’s whining insistence that General Michael Walsh call her “Senator” instead of “Ma’am”. As a reminder, here’s the prickly Boxer reprimanding the general in June 2009:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CprVYsG0k]
And here’s Zucker’s very funny act of penance, “Call Me Madam Joe”:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OoPnlIbNrU]
All is forgiven. Welcome to the Patriotic Resistance, Mr. Zucker! 😀
H/t HotAir.
Tagged Barbara Boxer, Hollywood, liberals
California Welfare $ Spent in Vegas, Cruise Ships
Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
Here’s another reason why the state of California is dead broke and broken. Millions of taxpayer dollars handed out to welfare recipients parasites were spent in Las Vegas casinos, luxury cruises, and vacation sites of Hawaii, Miami, and Guam.
Despite that, the latest polls show perennial politico Jerry Brown (D) leading in the governor race and Barbara Boxer (D) — whom even the liberal San Francisco Chronicle refuses to endorse because she’s “ineffective” — leading in the senate race.
If welfare dollars are being squandered in California, imagine how federal welfare money is being spent….
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$69 million in California welfare money drawn out of state
By Jack Dolan – Los Angeles Times – October 4, 2010
More than $69 million in California welfare money, meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children, has been spent or withdrawn outside the state in recent years, including millions in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands in Hawaii and thousands on cruise ships sailing from Miami. State-issued aid cards have been used at hotels, shops, restaurants, ATMs and other places in 49 other states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, according to data obtained by The Times from the California Department of Social Services. Las Vegas drew $11.8 million of the cash benefits, far more than any other destination. The money was accessed from January 2007 through May 2010.
Welfare recipients must prove they can’t afford life’s necessities without government aid: A single parent with two children generally must earn less than $14,436 a year to qualify for the cash assistance and becomes ineligible once his or her income exceeds about $20,000, said Lizelda Lopez, spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services.
Round-trip flights from Los Angeles to Honolulu on Orbitz.com Sunday started at $419 — more than 80% of the average monthly cash benefit for a single parent of two on CalWorks, the state’s main aid program. “How they can go somewhere like Hawaii and be legit on aid … they can’t,” said Robert Hollenbeck, a fraud investigator for the Fresno County district attorney’s office. “This is money for basic subsistence needs.”
The $387,908 accessed in Hawaii includes transactions at more than a thousand big-box stores, grocery stores, convenience shops and ATMs on all the major islands. At least $234,000 was accessed on Oahu, $70,626 on Maui, $39,883 on Hawaii and $22,170 on Kauai. The list includes $12,433 spent at the upscale Ala Moana shopping center, $3,030 spent at a group of gift shops next to Jimmy Buffett‘s Beachcomber restaurant on Waikiki Beach and $2,146 withdrawn from ATMs on the island of Lanai, home to a pair of Four Seasons resorts and little else. “If it’s on Lanai, that should trigger an investigation,” said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. “California taxpayers, who are struggling to keep their own jobs, are subsidizing other people’s vacations. That’s absurd.”
Of the nearly $12 million accessed in Las Vegas, more than $1 million was spent or withdrawn at shops and casino hotels on, or within a few blocks of, the 4.5-mile strip. The list includes $8,968 at the Tropicana, $7,995 at the Venetian and its Grand Canal Shoppes, and $1,332 at Tix 4 Tonight, seller of discount admission for such acts as Cirque du Soleil. Although many Las Vegas casinos block the use of welfare cards in ATMs on gambling floors, more than $34,700 has been spent or withdrawn from the ATM at a 7-Eleven in the shadow of Steve Wynn’s new Encore casino and a couple of blocks south of Circus Circus….
The data show addresses of stores and ATM locations where the cards have been used and the amounts of the transactions by year. They do not reveal the identities of the welfare recipients or show how many users visited a given retailer.
Of the $1.5 million accessed in Florida, $13,109 was spent or withdrawn in South Beach, most of that at bars and restaurants along trendy Lincoln Road. More than $7,000 was withdrawn from ATMs a few hours north, at Walt Disney World.
The data also show $16,010 withdrawn from 14 cruise ships sailing from ports around the world — Long Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing. Eight sail primarily from Miami.
The out-of-state spending accounts for less than 1% of the $10.8 billion spent by welfare recipients during the period covered, and advocates note that there are legitimate reasons to spend aid money outside of California. From the data provided, it cannot be determined whether any of the expenditures resulted from fraud. “I think when somebody hears it’s in a fancy hotel in Hawaii or Vegas, it’s too easy to assume the [welfare recipient] is visiting that place and it wasn’t somebody who stole their card,” said Jessica Bartholow, a legislative advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
There is no rule preventing welfare recipients from leaving California, as long as they get clearance from their county case worker to be absent from the program’s 32-hour-a-week job training requirement. County investigators, who state authorities say are responsible for rooting out fraud and abuse, typically don’t question a recipient’s whereabouts until transactions on a welfare card show that he or she has been gone for more than 30 days.
“If it’s a one-time thing in Miami, we would never check that out,” said John Haley, commander of the financial crimes division of the San Diego County district attorney’s office, who said 24% of all new welfare applications in his jurisdiction contain some form of fraud. “We look for patterns of abuse.” In Los Angeles County, investigators hadn’t been checking until a recipient was gone for three months, said Department of Public Social Services Director Philip Browning. The inability to do more was “really just a resource issue,” he said. Following questions from The Times, Browning said investigators would start inquiring once the data show that a recipient has been gone for more than 30 days.
Many recipients travel to other states in an emergency such as a death in the family, investigators say. But with government resources scarce, it’s difficult to sort those cases from incidents of abuse. An anti-fraud unit in Orange County, which won praise from state officials last year for saving the state millions, has since had to slash its budget and lay off 15 investigators, said Paul Bartlett, commander of the county district attorney’s Bureau of Investigation. Those cuts saved $900,000 in operating expenses but allowed “an estimated $9.6 million in suspected fraud payments out the door,” according to an Orange County Grand Jury report released in May.
A state audit last year found that none of California’s 58 counties was adequately following up on information that could help root out fraud, including monthly computer matches that list clients who are receiving duplicate aid from other states, those who are ineligible because they’re in prison and others who have died.
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‘Documentary Now!’ serves up satire
November 2, 2016 fhsfalconer Leave a comment
Documentary Now! is the most recent of many quality projects that have been made by retired cast members of the famous Saturday Night Live skit TV show. Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Myers came together to create this amazing satire series, and the quality remains consistent with each episode. Documentary Now! spoofs actual famous documentaries, but with exaggerated or fictitious characters replacing the original subjects. From a chef that serves chicken at his restaurant, but is also afraid of chickens, to an Eskimo who turns into an obsessive movie director, the comedic scenarios are odd and unique.
The idea for the show came about after Armisen and Hader wrote a skit for SNL in 2013 that was inspired by the mockumentary style of This Is Spinal Tap (1984). The production team of Documentary Now! uses the same filming techniques as the original documentary they are parodying, including similar cameras and lenses, wardrobe, camera angles, and even background music. Although the visual aspects are similar to the original, the writing and acting of the mockumentary pushes the subject of the original documentary to the limit by emphasizing the ridiculous extremes.
The main writer of the show is Late Night host Seth Myers, and on certain episodes the stars, Hader and Armisen, write some parts. These three comedic geniuses have carried their talent from SNL on to this project flawlessly. Hader and Armisen star in every episode together, which is one of the many reasons this show is great. Their on-screen chemistry is unbelievable, and this is the perfect venue for their persona.
The humor is subtle most of the time. The majority of the jokes make fun of the original documentary, so it may be hard to separate the jokes from the actual content of the original. The jokes that are very obvious, however, are extremely funny. Hader and Armisen are able to do almost exact impressions of characters from the documentaries. SNL fans will appreciate the comedy set behind this show.
The IFC network produces the show, and they release many short clips on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to compare the parody with the original documentary, so the viewer gets a feel for its style and approach. However, even if you can’t identify the similarities, the comedy is so farfetched it’s humorous.
The first season of Documentary Now! can be found on Netflix, and the second season is in full swing. You can watch new episodes every Wednesday at 10 p.m. on IFC. There are also full, free episodes located on the IFC website, along with special content for the series. This is a tongue-in-cheek satire leaves viewers smiling, laughing out loud, and appreciating the wry humor.
~nate thomason, staff reporter
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School community loses talented chemistry teacher
On Thursday, Oct. 13, when chemistry teacher John Thomas was found dead at the young age of 28, the administration was faced with the difficult task of breaking the news to students and staff, and with offering grief counseling
“It was very sad for all of us,” Principal Clarence Burton said. “I was immediately in contact with Frank Finn, the assistant superintendent. He contacted experts and followed their advice. We brought in mental health professionals to help the students when they needed it. We really wanted to help people as much as we could.”
Senior Anna Hiner had Thomas for two years for chemistry and AP chemistry.
“Mr. Thomas was easily one of the best teachers I’ve ever had,” Hiner said. “He was really honest with his students. If someone was [struggling] at something, he would tell them that, but then work with them to fix the problem. If I didn’t understand something, I knew I was always welcome to come to him for extra help. Mr. Thomas made every student feel like they were his favorite student.”
Senior Peyton Evans also had Thomas for several classes, including chemistry, AP chemistry, and a chemistry independent study.
“Mr. Thomas was the type of teacher that you knew was so passionate in what they do. He did everything he could to make sure his students loved coming to class. From good music to fun extra credit trivia, chemistry was always a fun place to be,” Evans said. “He was understanding and would always tell you like it was. He had so much faith in each and every one of his student’s success. In the end, we all started believing in ourselves and in chemistry, too, even if the comical complaints ensued well into AP.”
Thomas had a personality that resonated with students.
“Mr. Thomas was a great person to just talk to,” Hiner said. “He was really sarcastic and funny. We could talk to him about anything, whether it was chemistry-related or not. I think that not just me, but other students, as well, feel like they’ve not only lost a great teacher, but a friend. I feel a little selfish because I know that I won’t be able to have him as a teacher anymore, and that really bothers me.”
Evans enjoyed Thomas’s sense of humor.
“He was lighthearted, motivated, and a complete jokester. He was always motivating me to do more in chemistry and pushed me to to pursue higher studies in a field I already loved,” Evans said. “That’s one of the things I’ll miss most about him, that and him making fun of me being a nerd, even though he’s just as much of one. I’ll miss his music and trading playlists with him at the start of every week.”
Losing Thomas so unexpectedly has made it difficult for students to accept, and the reality still not sunk in for some.
“I mentally couldn’t grasp what happened. I cried all weekend, and I see him in everything I do,” senior Lexi Boone said. “Losing a teacher so unexpectedly is something that I never want to experience again or want anyone else to experience. I’ve seen him and talked to him everyday for two years, and now it’s gone and I don’t know how to feel about it. It’s like he’s not dead, but just gone on vacation or something.”
Evans also had a hard time coming to grips with the loss of Thomas.
“When I first heard the news, I was speechless,” Evans said. “There’s still a part of me that’s holding on and saying that he’ll be back in class next week, laughing. All I have left is his memory and my motivation to make him proud.”
If students are still experiencing grief or are having a hard time coping with the loss, the administration stresses the importance of getting help.
“The best thing you can do is talk to somebody, especially an adult [like a] teacher or a parent. Everyone handles grief in different ways, and we want to be there to help people and put them in contact with those who can help them,” Burton said.
In memory of Thomas, students painted the rock in the courtyard after school on Oct. 17, a tradition that has been in the school for decades.
“We painted the rock as a tribute to Mr. Thomas,” Boone said. “The rock has always been something students use to get a message out to the school, and I thought that everyone should have a glimpse of the life he lived, whether they had a chance to meet him or not. He was such an amazing person, and he deserved to be remembered in a remarkable way. Naturally, painting the rock with everything he loved and stood for was something we really wanted to do.”
Evans believes that Thomas instilled a sense of school pride that all students should follow.
“Mr. Thomas had more support for his students and fellow teachers than I have seen in most people. He was always there to give extra help in a tough chapter or go see his students play soccer at Kettle Run. He would even be the first to volunteer to supervise theatre rehearsals,” Evans said. “I believe that it’s important to learn something from this and come together as a school to keep up that support for our classmates. Go to those band concerts, those soccer games, those musicals, those poetry readings more [often]. Support who you go to school with. It’s what he would have loved to see.”
~emma dixon, copy production editor
Cheerleading tumbles into third place
The cheer team placed third at the conference tournament on Oct. 22, following a win at the mini-conference on Sept. 28 that earned them a bid to regionals. They hope to place well at regionals on Oct 29, and eventually states, by relying on their strengths.
“One of our main assets this year is how many tumbling skills we have,” cheer coach Ashlynn Foster said. “The level of gymnastic skills has dramatically increased over the past few years, and this year we have more skills than teams in the past. We’ve also really improved on executing very difficult stunts.”
Although the team uses the same routine at each competition, the girls are constantly practicing and looking for ways to improve it by making it more complex and adding harder stunts. They are also preparing for future competitions by working on consistency and precise performance of stunts.
“There are no second chances, so we’re constantly working on how we can execute our skills better and to make sure that we are able to hit them when the team competes on the mat,” Foster said.
Practice for the fall season started in March; since then, team members can now do stunts, like high-to-highs and 360s, that involve cooperation between the flyer and the base. The stunts can lead to serious injury if the flyer falls. Upperclassmen are pleased with the team’s progress.
“[Our] tumbling has gotten so much better,” senior captain Jazmine Fitts said. “We’re doing really hard stunts compared to my freshman year when I was doing straight-up heel stretches, and now I’m doing high-to-high tick- tocks. I never thought I’d do that. We’ve just grown so much in the past four years and since March.”
According to Foster, the team’s biggest competition is not another school, but rather the VHSL scoring rubric. Specific skills need to be executed to earn points, so many of the teams are working hard to execute the same skills.
“VHSL has continued to change the scoring rubric over and over, making this year especially challenging,” Foster said. “It’s a little unfortunate because the rubric has taken a lot of creativity away. Every school is working on the same stunts, just in a different order. So, as long as we can execute them the best, then hopefully we can come out scoring the best.”
The team has formed a strong bond, and coaches have assigned “cheer sisters,” pairing athletes together to support one another. They have team dinners at each competition.
“We always help each other out, especially as cheer sisters,” freshman Brielle Phillippe said. “We always try to give each other advice. It’s like a sisterhood.”
Unfortunately, the team did not make it to states last year, but they did compete both years previously, and they hope to return again this year.
“Our biggest goal is winning states, and we’ve been told by our choreographer that we have a lot of potential, too,” Fitts said. “[We need to] go through [and] watch our routine, and basically find what we’re doing wrong, and then make it better and do what the judges want, because that’s what’s going to get [us] there.”
Candidates model poor behavior, values for future generations
It seems like this year’s presidential election has been more focused on xenophobia, low blows, and “he said, she said” than any other. With Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump going at each other’s throats, we have forgotten that this is more at stake than a petty competition of who can throw the worst insults.
Since spring, 2015, the race for president has seemed like an under budget soap opera with the big, mean bully and the lying goodie-two-shoes front and center. With the front runners being the main topic discussed over dinner, people are forgetting about the children that will grow up during the campaigning and the next presidency. There couldn’t have been a more inconvenient time for parents to teach their children about right and wrong when the media is fixated on Clinton’s truthfulness or Trump’s lechery.
When I was growing up, my parents instilled strong values in me, including respect, honesty, and compassion; that’s the baseline of raising a good person. Now that’s hard enough; it’s even harder when the media is full of allegations about Trump sexually assaulting women or Clinton’s secrecy and dishonesty about her health, e-mails, and a host of other topics. Kids are impressionable and follow by example; shouldn’t the president be someone all Americans can look up to as a role model? Is it hard to imagine that when children hear their parents advocate for someone who doesn’t respect women, they will come to believe that it’s all right to touch someone without consent? Or that they will come to believe that lying is acceptable, as long as it gives them an advantage?
The presidential debates are meant to show voters where the candidates stand on the issues. However, the Clinton-Trump debates (which had the most viewers in history) have seemed more like a competition of who can deliver the best insults, rather than an informed discussion of their tax plans. The debates have featured childish outbursts, name calling, unsupported assertions, and interruptions—far from a reasoned, well-informed discussion of issues affecting the nation’s future. Children shouldn’t think that the way to confront a problem is to throw a temper tantrum, spit nasty remarks, shout down the opposition, and lie through your teeth.
The candidates are the most disliked in history; according to a poll by the Washington Post, Clinton has a disapproval rating of 56 percent, while Trump takes the lead with 63 percent. With neither of the candidates registering well, it seems inevitable that the American people won’t be happy no matter who gets elected. Whichever joker gets into the Oval Office, he or she will represent America as the figurehead of this country. Young girls and boys want to look up to the president, but when the major parties nominate two such unpopular and unsuitable candidates, children can draw the conclusion that someone doesn’t have to be a good person to lead the free world.
For those who are voting in this election, the choice may be between the lesser of two evils as to which candidate will make the best role model for the children who are maturing and forming themselves during this next presidency. According to a study done by Livescience, personality is set by the time a child reaches first grade. By the time the kids of this generation are adults, they could potentially be molded to think that this is acceptable behavior.
Which candidate would you rather have a child modeled after? A lying corporate puppet or a loose cannon? Get to the polls on Nov. 8; your vote counts. And hope the nation has better choices four years from now.
~erica gudino, editor-in-chief
FFA prepares students for the future
Senior Camden Franklin poses with TV veterinarian Dr. Jan Pol and his wife Diane Pol. Dr. Jan Pol stars on the Nat Geo Wild television show The Incredible Dr. Pol.
From the competitions to the national convention, the activities that FFA members participate in contribute to one goal: career development. Competitions are designed to enhance each student’s knowledge of the agriculture business and its influence locally, according to FFA advisor Susan Hillary.
“FFA is developing students for careers in agriculture,” Hillary said. “Even if people don’t have a career in agriculture, they have a better understanding of agriculture. As they go into their adult life and make purchases and decisions, they have a basis that helps them make better decisions.”
FFA started the year off strong by participating in the state fair in September. Students competed in a variety of events over a span of three days, including a horticulture demonstration and crop and forestry events. Junior Ben Scaring competed in the log throw in which he had to throw a four to six foot pulpwood log.
“I had to throw a 40 pound log and I threw it 21 feet,” Scaring said. “[The toss] was different than I expected; I expected the log to be a lot smaller than it was, so I went in with a different mindset than what it needed to be.”
Freshman Mack Barney competed in a one-man saw competition, and sophomore Josh Carl and freshman Logan Risden competed in the two-man saw competition. In both, participants had to saw through a six-inch thick log within the time limit of two minutes.
“It was hard work,” Carl said. “You just have to really push yourself to get it done. It was completely different at the competition than at school; they had pressed the log which made it harder.”
On the final day, seniors Devyn Martino, Justin Barron, Tyler Newman and junior Katie Crow competed in a crop judging competition in which they judged and identified a panel of seeds. Overall, FFA placed third among 35 other schools.
“It was pretty hard,” Martino said. “Some classes were easier than others, like the red clover was easy. I expected it to be a bit challenging, but this was my second year competing in it so I had a bit more experience.”
FFA celebrated homecoming by decorating FFA advisor Dennis Pearson’s hay wagon to ride in at the homecoming parade. The float was pulled by the club’s new tractor and rode in the beginning of the parade, proudly displaying a colorful banner. They also had a social event in the agriculture shop before the homecoming football game, with food and drinks.
“It was by far the best float in the parade,” Pearson said. “Overall [the parade] was nice. I’m glad it didn’t rain since it was threatening.”
On Nov. 3 FFA will be hosting the annual Food For America event on the FFA field from 10 am to 1pm. At this event, 25 different stations are set up, varying from presentations about machinery safety to welding to animals, for fourth graders from local elementary schools to come and explore. Students are welcome to come during advisory to learn about the different aspects of agriculture.
“It’s going to be a big event,” Pearson said. “We have a lot of [participants] and are going to have a lot of animals out there.”
FFA seeks to spread in-depth knowledge about agriculture to the club members and the community.
“[FFA members] have belonging—an organization that they can belong to and the sense of an identity,” Hillary said. “They can get a lot of experience for resumes or an application. It’s an opportunity to be a leader and make a difference.”
~nina quiles, managing editor
Some choose not to stand for the pledge
When Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, did not stand for the national anthem before a preseason football game in August, he was protesting the country’s oppression of minorities, especially police killings of unarmed black men. The entire nation responded. He faced backlash from those who said his demonstration dishonored the nation. However, thousands supported his cause and his exercise of freedom of speech, sparking a wave of young people who refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem.
Sophomore Addi Bowman said that, although people are entitled to their opinions, not standing for the anthem and the pledge is highly disrespectful to veterans of the military who fought for the country and the values that the flag symbolizes.
“There are men and women, young and old, that are out there giving their lives to protect us,” Bowman said. ”They went out and gave their lives for us to be here. Honestly, I feel like if you’re not standing for what they fought for, then it’s just so disrespectful [and] wrong.”
In West Virginia Board of Education vs. Barnette, the Supreme Court decided that reciting the Pledge is political speech, and therefore, reciting it, or not, is protected by the First Amendment. However, the court has never ruled whether school students, who do not have the same constitutional rights as adults, could be required to stand during the pledge out of respect. According to senior Daniel Parry, sitting during the Pledge and the anthem is not only inconsiderate, it is also uneducated.
“I find it really ignorant and people are trying to blame other people instead of themselves,” Parry said. “For Black Lives Matter, as an example, you see that police officers are getting a lot of backlash for doing their job and doing what they’re supposed to do.”
Junior Kevin Mulliss began not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in his freshman year, not as a form of protest, but because he does not identify with the religious language.
“I’m not trying to be the next Colin Kaepernick or anything,” Mulliss said. “Personally, I’m not religious, and I feel the pledge is pretty strongly religiously affiliated. Anyone who wants to stand can stand, but I’m not going to if the teacher’s okay with it.”
Junior Tim Ruff does not stand for the Pledge because he does not agree with the phrases “under God” and “liberty and justice for all.” Although he is not protesting police brutality specifically, Ruff believes that the nation has many social, political, and racial injustices. He also finds it unnerving that students stand to recite a “prayer” to a flag.
“Why do you [stand]?” Ruff said. “Do you do it because you’ve been doing it since kindergarten, or are you doing it because you believe in it? If you do it because you believe in it, great for you. If you do it because it’s what you’ve been doing since kindergarten, have you [ever] thought about [why]?”
Although Mulliss remains seated, he does not believe that it is an effective form of protest because it doesn’t get anything done.
“If you want to sit down for the Pledge of Allegiance, like I do, I think that should be an issue of [whether or not you] feel it’s right for you,” Mulliss said. “If you just want to sit down because someone, somewhere faced injustice, I don’t think it helps. There are a lot of better things you could do.”
According to Parry, sports stars like Colin Kaepernick who sit for the national anthem brought attention to issues they’re protesting, but the attention is not positive.
“I think that it’s making other people look at them as ignorant and very disrespectful to the country and the people who serve them,” Parry said. “I think people need to be educated, because if they’re going to protest against something, they should at least learn about it and actually look into the facts and statistics.”
According to history teacher Tyler Walker, sitting during the anthem only further divides the country.
“My professional stance is that you have the right to petition your government, to not stand if you don’t want to, and as a soldier I defend those rights for you,” Walker said. “However, I don’t think it’s the appropriate manner to petition your government. I can understand being frustrated and wanting to express your displeasure with the current status of the country, but I think that is a way that is creating more of a divide, instead of providing for a solution. If you really want to be an advocate for change, stand up for what you believe in. Why would you passively sit down? That kind of [protest] shows weakness to me. Stand up and do something about it; go bridge that divide, go to the communities, and do something.”
According to Walker, students should not be compelled to stand, and the right not to stand is protected by the constitution. However, he will always stand to honor soldiers who didn’t come home.
“I cannot, by law, tell you that you should or should not, so I want that to be clear, that as educator, we cannot force you,” Walker said. “Morally, I will always stand. I will stand until I can’t because I know there’s some brothers of mine and soldiers who couldn’t come back, and there are some men and women who can’t stand because they’ve lost their legs. I’ll stand for those who can’t, and I will stand and continue to honor the country that I love, because I believe that I’m blessed to be here.”
~katie johnson, features director
Presidential election creates controversy
In a combined poll using paper ballots and Twitter, the Falconer conducted a poll of 290 students asking whom they would vote for in the 2016 election if they were allowed to vote.
With election day less than one weeks away, it’s crunch time for the presidential candidates who are two of the most disliked nominees in American history. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has been on the national political stage for nearly 35 years, as the First Lady with President Bill Clinton, the first female senator from New York, and as Secretary of State from 2009-2013. Republican candidate Donald Trump a business mogul and star of his reality show The Apprentice, is an outsider to the political office.
Roughly 25 percent of the population have unfavorable views on both Trump and Clinton according to a poll run by Gallup.com. In the latest poll by the New York Times, Clinton has a six percent lead over Trump.
“It seems that [Trump] could get by in the primary election with 30-40 percent, but that’s not good enough when you want to win,” government teacher David Smith said. “The thing that many of the observers in the Trump campaign are not paying attention to is that you have to win the electoral college to be president. That means there are certain states that [Trump] just has to win. There may be some political pundits who will surprised [by the outcome of this election].”
Senior Gretchen Dietrich is leaning towards Clinton and agrees with her economic reform policies to rebuild the middle class and with her stand on abortion and women’s issues. Due to her years of working in public service, Dietrich feels that Clinton has enough experience to be in the White House and improve the infrastructure.
“I think she’s a really valuable candidate and will fix this country,” Dietrich said. “I was a Hillary supporter [from the beginning], but whenever people asked me [who I liked], they shot me down because of the email scandal. I know she has a lot of problems with trust, and I think that she should talk openly about it instead of sweeping it under the rug. Other than that, I think she’s a really strong woman.”
Senior Alex Amirato, who volunteers for the Clinton campaign, said that the 2016 election is probably the craziest of recent times.
“Some of the rules of a regular election have gone out the window,” Amirato said. “Usually, during the debates, the candidates are diplomatic, calm, and level-headed. At this point in the election, the candidates are bringing up stuff that isn’t relevant.”
Sophomore Anthony Doble originally supported Rand Paul, but shifted to Trump when Paul dropped out of the race. He also thinks that Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, is a good choice for Vice President and agrees with his views that businesses should not be required to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs.
“I am choosing Trump because I think that we have a problem with the border, are losing jobs to other countries, and need to support our military more,” Doble said. “[Trump] loves our veterans; he wants to treat them with the best. Sometimes veterans are treated worse than illegal immigrants.”
According to a CBS/New York Times poll, 51 percent of voters think Trump would do better with the economy than Clinton. Sophomore Caleb Bristow agrees and is also a Trump supporter.
“Trump is more of a businessman and he’s really straightforward; he does exactly what he wants when he wants to,” Bristow said.
However, according to the CBS/New York Times poll, 67 percent of voters think that Trump would be a risky choice for president, and 64 percent do not think he has the right temperament. The release of tapes that record Trump’s vulgar comments about women, and his stereotypes of Mexicans and Muslims, have helped reinforce this perspective. Dietrich thinks that he should focus on how he is going to help this country, instead of attacking other candidates and people with crazed rhetoric.
“I think that Donald Trump is going to get this country into a lot of trouble and put a lot of fear into our eyes,” Dietrich said. “You want the U.S. to be a really stable country. We are a mix of every race, a kind of hybrid country, and if he wants to take that all away to make a white supremacist [country], then we’re not going to have any culture left.”
One of Trump’s primary campaign focuses is immigration; he promises to build a wall that would separate America from Mexico. Although he is a Trump supporter, Bristow disagrees with the deportation of immigrants.
“It’s very unethical; [he just wants people gone] because they’re taking [Americans’] jobs, but [at least] they actually go out and get jobs,” Bristow said. “He’s trying too hard and needs to focus on where he can get, instead of what he will never achieve.”
During her four years as Secretary of State, Clinton used a private email server to conduct government business. When requested by the State Department to turn over her emails, many accused her of hiding those that contained sensitive information regarding the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, leading to controversy about her honesty and trustworthiness. In June, the FBI decided not to charge Clinton with wrongdoing. Doble believes that Clinton is unfit to be in office and should be imprisoned for her involvement in the Benghazi and the email scandals.
“I don’t like her policies at all, supporting the TPP, being a feminist, and her tax plan for the middle class,” Doble said. “She says there’s a wage gap, but it’s proven that if women take the same amount of vacation days, they’d be paid the same as men.”
Trump has called Clinton’s health into question after she stumbled into public, implying that she was ill and unable to perform presidential duties. Clinton brushed Trump’s allegations off and continued campaigning. Amirato said that by not addressing the controversy, Clinton seems more untrustworthy.
“I feel that she needs to be much more open about [the health controversy]. A lot of people don’t trust her, which is rightfully so,” Amirato said. “She said she didn’t have health issues when she did; she was battling pneumonia, but she lied about that. If she had been more open about [her health and] emails, she wouldn’t be under as much scrutiny.”
Senior Adam Ward says that both Clinton and Trump are corrupt, represent the anarchy that is politics, and that neither would make a good choice for president. He is in favor of Libertarian Gary Johnson, one of the third party candidates in the race, because he thinks government should be less involved in the civilians lives.
“Trump is obviously insane; I’ve always thought of him as one of those people that others think [represents] the stereotyped perspective of America: white, xenophobic, bigoted, and we don’t want that,” Ward said. “Hillary Clinton is also terrible; she is the epitome of corruption in politics. But at least she somewhat knows what she’s doing because she’s been involved in politics for so long. The fact that we have a two-party system that gives us such limited options makes us feel like we don’t really have a choice. A lot of people don’t even realize we have other options: Gary Johnson. To me it’s a lesser of multiple evils.”
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Even amid affluence of tech capital, local news struggles
Posted 12:58 PM, December 28, 2019, by Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of California campus and bedroom communities for Silicon Valley that produce median incomes 50 percent higher than the national average.
What they no longer have is a thriving landscape of local daily newspapers.
Gone is the Oakland Tribune, the Contra Costa Times, The Daily Review of Hayward, The Argus of Fremont and the Tri-Valley Herald, among others. All had tens of thousands of readers during their heyday and served communities populous enough to be among the largest cities in many other states.
Ownership changes and consolidations have left the region known as the East Bay with just a single daily newspaper. The East Bay Times, based in Walnut Creek, attempts to cover a region nearly the size of Delaware with a fraction of the staff of the former dailies.
The growing number of places across the country with dwindling or no local news options has been associated with mostly rural and lower-income areas, places that have little resilience to counter the trend among readers and advertisers to go online. But the East Bay — among the wealthiest and highest educated regions in the country — shows that no place is immune to the struggles of the traditional news industry.
“It is really shocking that the place with the demographics and the business and the universities and the progressiveness, that this is a news desert … ” said U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat who represents a significant part of the East Bay.
The former small business owner started his political career on the Concord City Council nearly three decades ago, where he recalls seeing at least one reporter in the front row of every meeting. DeSaulnier is so concerned about the state of local news that he has backed legislative action in Congress to support it.
One of those bills targets what he and others believe is a main culprit of the industry’s woes — the big tech and social media companies that profit from the content news outlets produce without adequately sharing the profits.
Facebook and Google, among the most prominent of those targets, say they are not to blame for the news industry’s downfall and have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to boost local news and help develop new business strategies. That includes backing for news sites in the East Bay, where many of the tech giants’ employees live.
But some wonder if that philanthropy is too little, too late. In Fremont, Dan Smith used to have two copies of The Argus delivered daily, one to his family’s funeral home for the obituaries placed on behalf of clients and the other to his home, where he turned to sports and comics.
But Smith, 60, no longer subscribes to a daily newspaper, after The Argus turned into a weekly insert to cover a community of nearly 240,000 people, where one of the local employers is electric car maker Tesla.
“Where does one go for local coverage, high school sports? What’s going on with the city and the politics, and what’s happening around the community?” he said. “How can I be part of my community if I don’t know what’s going on?”
Former journalists, civic leaders and others in the East Bay lament the loss of the community coverage that was once the staple of local dailies, many of which competed for scoops in towns where coverage areas overlapped.
In Richmond, a working-class city of 110,000 dominated by Chevron and its oil refinery, Mayor Tom Butt recalls a time when two reporters were posted full-time in the press room in the basement of City Hall.
“And everything that happened in the city of Richmond showed up in the newspaper the next day or two, a detailed, blow-by-blow account of every city council meeting, every planning commission meeting,” Butt said.
Today, coverage of Richmond falls largely to two online publications. The graduate journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley staffs Richmond Confidential, which goes on hiatus during summer and winter breaks.
The city’s largest employer, Chevron Corp., runs the other through a public relations firm. The Richmond Standard posts stories about crime, high school football and community events. It also provides “a voice for Chevron Products Company on civic issues.”
The website has posted stories about a Chevron workforce program, its employees and philanthropy, including an article about Chevron taking kids to an Oakland A’s game.
A few miles down Interstate 80, Martin Reynolds gazes up at the 22-story Tribune Tower that defines the Oakland skyline and was home to the Oakland Tribune for decades before the paper was sold and its headquarters moved. The Tribune’s nameplate with fancy gold script remains over the building’s main entrance.
The 142-year-old Tribune was the first African American-owned major metropolitan daily, and its staff took pride in its deep connection to the racially mixed city of over 400,000. The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Its reporters scoured the city’s neighborhoods and institutions, and they filled the front page with Oakland-based stories, said Reynolds, who started as an intern and became editor in 2008. They also tried out new ideas in the digital age, such as blogging about life inside one of the city’s most dangerous zip codes.
“We were just out there covering stuff all the time,” said Reynolds, 51. “We even had a Berkeley bureau.”
But ownership consolidated and newsrooms shrank. The Digital First-owned Bay Area News Group eventually announced it would collapse the East Bay’s daily papers into one.
“There was a time when newspapers were so powerful and so meaningful and so influential to the community,” Reynolds said. “To have lost that is a shame.”
Digital First has a record of consolidating newspapers and trimming staff, but it also has said that its business model keeps local journalism alive. The company staffs reporters throughout the region and has separate regional sections on the East Bay Times’ website.
The East Bay Times won its own Pulitzer in 2017 for its coverage of a fatal warehouse fire in Oakland. Even then, it wasn’t long before cutbacks resumed.
Bay Area News Group Executive Editor Frank Pine said he understands the loyalty people have for the newspapers they grew up with, but said there is no way to turn back time.
The East Bay Times has collaborated with other publications in efforts to beef up local reporting, including a recent in-depth project about law enforcement officers with criminal convictions. The news group also received a grant from Google to test a premium, ad-free service for subscribers.
“Our business — the business of news — continues to be distressed, and we’re doing our level best to stabilize that business and make it sustainable into the future,” Pine said.
The loss of so many daily news outlets in this relatively well-to-do region has a ring of irony: Much of the East Bay’s wealth and growth is due to tech giants — Apple, Facebook and Google — whose headquarters are a mere bridge crossing away on the other side of San Francisco Bay.
The dominance of Facebook and Google, which rake in the majority of digital ad dollars, is a key reason the traditional news business has been struggling through a period of layoffs and readership decline.
Apple’s iPhone conditioned people to abandon print and seek information with a swipe of a screen. Since the iPhone debuted in 2007, employment in U.S. newspaper newsrooms has dropped by nearly half, according to the Pew Research Center.
David Chavern, president and chief executive of the News Media Alliance, said Google and Facebook can solve the crisis affecting the news industry by paying more for content and sharing more data about the people who click on it.
“The fact of the matter is that both Google and Facebook control everything about the news experience, and yet they don’t want to compensate the people who create that content,” he said.
Newspaper ad revenue was $50 billion in 2005, according to the Pew Research Center. Today, it’s $14 billion.
Representatives of Google and Facebook reject the suggestion that their companies are responsible for the decline of newspapers, saying business models, readership and the way society operates changed dramatically.
They say they are making it easier for people to subscribe and are offering grants, partnerships and training programs to boost local news, but draw the line at sharing digital revenue at the levels news executives want.
“It’s not about providing artificial props to models that frankly are no longer valid,” said Richard Gingras, vice president of news for Google. “It’s not a healthy thing if you’re dependent on other sources for revenue to allow you to do your journalistic work.”
Google drives an invaluable amount of traffic to news sites, he said, and shares revenue with publications that use its advertising technology.
Campbell Brown, a former television journalist and current head of global news partnerships at Facebook, said publishers she talks to want to be less dependent on platforms such as Facebook.
“We have to find new business models,” she said. “But it has to be something that’s sustainable over the long term.”
Both companies are putting money behind attempts to build different business models and resuscitate local news. In announcing an array of initiatives and partnerships, the companies have also said they understand that strong local journalism is critical for a healthy democracy.
Each has pledged $300 million to boost journalism across the country, much of that at the local level where newsrooms have suffered the most; a University of North Carolina study found that more than 2,000 weekly and daily papers have closed in the U.S. during the last 15 years.
Facebook sees promise in its accelerator program, which brings leaders from various news outlets together to brainstorm over flash sales, e-newsletters and other tools to boost revenue and attract subscribers.
Josh Mabry, Facebook’s lead for local news partnerships, said publications need to remind people why local journalism matters — and why they should pay for it.
“Asking goes a long way,” he said. “And I think, frankly, a lot of the publishers that we work with are learning how to market themselves in a way that maybe they haven’t done in a while.”
The program has helped several news outlets in the San Francisco Bay area, including a hyper-local website in Berkeley that used what it learned last year — along with grant money from Facebook — to sign up 343 members during its year-end membership drive. The previous year had seen just 23 new members during the same period.
“The program really injected a lot of discipline into what we were doing,” said Tracey Taylor, co-founder and managing editor of the site, Berkeleyside.
Founded in 2009 by three journalists, Berkeleyside is a beacon in a bleak local news landscape. The site has a staff of seven and an annual operating budget of $800,000, with just under half of its revenue from advertising, Taylor said.
Most of its readers live or work in the relatively wealthy and famously liberal college town, and they send tips and shape coverage, Taylor said.
Habits have changed, said Gingras, the Google vice president. Consumers no longer need the local newspaper for national news or movie show times. Berkeleyside is smart in doing exactly what publications need to do to thrive in the digital age, he said: connect with readers.
Berkeleyside isn’t the only local outlet attempting to fill the news void created by the loss of the East Bay’s dailies. Political bloggers, community volunteers and others have started their own sites, determined to inform their communities about schools, town councils and crime.
In a major boost for local journalism, Berkeleyside announced recently that it was branching out to cover Oakland with $3 million in backing from Google and the American Journalism Project.
The two newsrooms will team up to cover the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and regional transportation, said Lance Knobel, Berkeleyside co-founder and CEO of the new non-profit that will oversee both sites. He is hoping that a combination of philanthropy and dedication to covering communities creatively will usher in a new era for local news. Knobel said he sees the hunger for that all around him.
“If we bring that sort of passion and caring and ability to tell stories and do deep reporting, there are a lot of people in the city who will say, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that about the place that I live in,’ and will take an interest,” he said.
The Associated Press has received grant funding from the Google News Initiative for its AP Verify and AP Story Share projects.
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Aqua an is a superhero movie that was originally published in 2018, and I think it is one of the best DC movies over the last years. Revenue has reached 1.148 billion dollars. The film begins with Aquaman’s mother fainting on the sting until a guard finds her and takes her home. Some days…
Why Teenagers Watch Horror Films
These days the most famous kind of movies are horror movies and that’s because people like the idea of getting spooked and some would say that’s perfectly normal. I mean most of my friends only watch horror movies and nothing else, which I find ridiculous in a way because there are so many interesting movies…
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Watching Movie at Home Vs Cinema
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The first movie I saw at the cinema is SpongeBob out of Water. It is a funny animated film and it is about a sponge’s adventures in the bikini bottom. In the movie, a pirate steals the kraby patty recipe and mr Krabs says Placton stole the recipe, but Bob says that Placton didn’t steal…
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Report: Russia Working to Pick Off U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebels
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Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that he plans to publicly outline in early August details of a bilateral agreement that will enhance military cooperation between the United States and Russia in the fight against terrorist groups in Syria.
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President Obama approved a new military partnership with Russian forces to strengthen cooperation between the two nations in the fight against terrorist groups in Syria.
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U.S.-trained rebels that reentered Syria over the weekend after completing the Pentagon program allegedly gave their weapons to the al Qaeda affiliate in the region, al Nusra.
Turkey Tipped Off Al Qaeda Group that Grabbed U.S.-Trained Fighters, Syrian Rebels Say
Syrian rebels are claiming that Turkey tipped off members of the al Qaeda affiliate that kidnapped at least five U.S-backed Syrian opposition fighters late last month when they entered Syria after completing a Pentagon training program.
Terrorists on the Move
U.S. airstrikes prompt Islamic State, al Qaeda, fighters to move positions, hide among civilians
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Dissent in the Ranks
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Not Yet Over the Goal Line: Understanding What Happened with the NCAA Compensation Vote and What Comes Next
by JSEL | Nov 2, 2019 | Highlight |
On Tuesday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) made headlines when its governing board voted to “start the process of modifying its rule to allow college athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses ‘in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.’” This change comes on the heels of California passing the Fair Pay for Play Act into law. This legislation, set to take effect in 2023, would prevent the NCAA from prohibiting college athletes from profiting off of their names, images, and likenesses. I recently wrote a JSEL blog post on the implications of this law on EA Sports’ NCAA Football video game franchise returning; check that out here.
Chris Vannini, a reporter for The Athletic, cautioned on Twitter that mainstream media headlines are overstating what occurred. This news is a big deal, but the NCAA has only agreed to start a process of modifying its rule—a great deal remains to be determined. Key thought leaders in the sports business world, like Professor Andrew Zimbalist, have homed in on a specific clause in the NCAA’s announcement: the new rule will be created “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.”
What does that mean? We don’t yet know. The “collegiate model” tends to point to the preservation of amateurism in college sports, which some may find incompatible with the concept of compensation altogether. The decision makers are sure to haggle over how the NCAA can reconcile amateurism with compensation in the new rules, consistent with the direction that this vote has given them. This is not the last we will hear of this question.
A recent post on Inside Higher Ed highlighted an interesting division on the political right regarding college athlete compensation following the NCAA vote. U.S. Senator Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, tweeted: “If college athletes are going to make money off their likenesses while in school, their scholarships should be treated like income. I’ll be introducing legislation that subjects scholarships given to athletes who choose to ‘cash in’ to income taxes.”
U.S. Representative Mark Walker, also a North Carolina Republican, responded to his colleague in the upper chamber: “If scholarships are income, that makes them employees, not student-athletes. This isn’t about income. It’s about basic rights that every other American has to their own name.” Rep. Walker is the author of a bill that would amend the Internal Revenue Code to “prevent qualified amateur sports organizations from restricting student-athletes from using or being compensated for use of their name, image, and likeness.” Andrew Distell covered the Walker bill for JSEL back in April 2019. Walker’s point seems to be that the NCAA’s current model is anti-free market.
The NCAA vote likely buys the organization some time to figure out the issue of athlete compensation on its own terms, but the clock is certainly ticking. We are not out of the woods just yet.
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Inside the Former Soviet Union's Secret Nuclear Test Cities
Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
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Though it played out on the international stage, the arms race between the United States and the USSR took place mainly in rural, isolated parts of the world. The Americans tested their nuclear bombs on a desolate patch of Nevada. The Russians chose a barren polygon-shaped patch of what is now Kazakhstan.
The photographer Nadav Kander was arrested twice while visiting this so-called Polygon—aka the Semipalatinsk Test Site, a desolate area as big as New Jersey where the USSR detonated almost 500 nuclear bombs between 1949 and the fall of the Soviet Union. Kander was visiting to shoot his latest book, Dust, which documents the places where Russia set up—and later abandoned—its nuclear program.
In some cases, scientists build faux-towns and structures to test the impact of their bombs. In other cases, the towns were real, because the Polygon wasn't actually remote at all. In fact, it was quite close to human settlements, including the formerly closed city of Kurchatov, where The New York Times says Kander was arrested. By setting up the Polygon, the USSR set off a generations-long legacy of explosive cancer rates, birth defects, and other health problems in Kazakhstan, as io9 described last year.
And as the CTBTO explains, the people who lived there were, for all intents and purposes, part of the experiments:
They were normally told to refrain from lighting their iron cooking stoves when testing was taking place in case the fire flared back into the house. They were also warned to stay outside when an explosion was scheduled, since it might topple their house. Historical accounts of residents who were schoolchildren before 1962 indicate that windows were blown out of their schools and that their bodies convulsed when testing occurred.
The area became a closed, secret place which was only "put on the map," so to speak, by the advent of satellite intelligence. Today, you can visit the area with the help of specialized tour outfits.
Though the testing is over, the Polygon still poses a threat to the world today. Because so few records were kept of the test sites, and because of the fall of the Soviet Union and rocky transition into present-day Kazakstan, radioactive material still litters the area. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the area was so saturated with plutonium and radioactive material, it would have been possible to make a dozen more bombs. And there it lay, free for the taking for anyone willing to look for it.
So for 17 years, a coalition of American, Russian, and Kazakh scientists worked on a top-secret mission to map, uncover, and secure the dangerous evidence of the Polygon's former life as the test bed for the USSR's nuclear might. That is a story unto itself—and in fact, it's already been written: Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-Year Mission to Secure a Legacy of Soviet Nuclear Testing. Despite the $150 million effort, the area is still highly contaminated (though more secure), and the people who live near it are still struggling with the legacy of the tests, which will likely endure for generations.
You can check out Dust on Amazon, or see the images until October 11 at Flowers Gallery.
Nadav Kander: Dust
All images copyright Nadav Kander, courtesy Flowers Gallery London and New York.
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Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and director. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988) and the miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films – To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), and Gerry (2002) – and in Steven Soderbergh’s comedy heist trilogy Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Ocean’s Twelve (2004), and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi’s independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006).
Affleck’s breakthrough was in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and acted in the crime drama Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I’m Still Here. He then had a string of successful films in the early 2010s, with Tower Heist, ParaNorman, and Interstellar, and received particular praise for his performance as an outlaw in the indie film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.
In 2016, Affleck starred as the lead in the drama film Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as Lee Chandler, a man grieving the loss of his children, he won the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actor, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2017, Affleck received critical acclaim for his leading role in the supernatural drama film A Ghost Story.
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Mum slammed for letting sons' girlfriends sleep over
'Promoting promiscuity'
TV viewers have been left divided after a mum confessed to letting both of her sons' girlfriends sleep over.
Lizzie Cundy told ITV's This Morning she started allowing both her boys - aged 17 and 23 - to have their girlfriends stay the night once they turned 16.
The mother-of-two explained she wanted to "provide a safe environment" for them to have sex.
"I just was very welcoming, they are welcome to stay at the house in a safe environment where I can monitor them," she said on the show.
"I don’t want them out and about where I don’t know where they are."
(ITV/This Morning)
Author Anna-May Mangan slammed Cundy's decision, saying the family home is no place for "sex, drugs and rock and roll".
Read more: How to talk to your kids about sex
Mangan has four children aged 26 to 31, three daughters and one son and has a strict no-sleepover policy which she ruthlessly enforces, even putting bells on her children's doors when they had friends sleep over in the living room to catch out any sneaking around at night.
"There was no big debate, they had friends and they were welcome. They were only allowed on the sofa, and we did put bells on the door, as a small deterrent.
"My husband and I did not want them in the house. It is not my job to facilitate their sex life, I sorted out their education."
She went as far as to say allowing sleepovers is "condoning promiscuity".
"Let's be honest how many of us are still with their first loves," she said. "Besides, who wants to have sex when your parents are under the same roof?"
Viewers quickly joined the conversation via Twitter, with one woman confessing to a teen pregnancy, despite not being allowed to have sleepovers with her boyfriend.
"When I was a teen, my boyfriend was not allowed to stay over, I was pregnant at 15 regardless, nearly 18 yrs later, we’re married now with 3 boys. People find a way whatever you do to stop them," said Gemma.
"I was pregnant at 15 and my boyfriend didn't stay over, 29 years later we are married and have 4 kids," tweeted Sarah.
Claire wrote, "I have 4 boys, so only can only comment as a mum of boys. But as long as it’s all legal and safe I have no issue with it. After all if no one had sex, we wouldn’t be here."
"They are going to have sex if they want whether parents like it or not," said Kellie.
"I would rather my daughter was at mine with her boyfriend than anywhere else. I’d make extra sure though that contraception was already taken care of."
Tell us what you think by sending an email to jabi@nine.com.au.
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Home Departments & Services Jefferson Rehabilitation Meet Our Therapists
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Nicole L. Dugan, PT, DPT, CLT-LANA, WCS
Nicole Dugan received her Master's and Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Temple University in 1997 and 2003. She also received a Master's in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. She is a certified lymphedema therapist as well as a clinical specialist of women's health. Nicole has a special interest in pelvic floor dysfunctions, women's and men's health, pregnancy related dysfunctions, lymphedema and cancer fatigue.
Haleh Houtan, PT, DPT
Haleh Houtan is a 2006 graduate of Seton Hall University with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. She has studied vestibular rehabilitation and treatments for concussion, and has used this knowledge to educate physical therapy students and residents here at Jefferson. Her focuses include vestibular conditions and orthopedics.
Nicole Hofmann PT, MPT
Nicole Hofmann received her BS and MS in Physical Therapy from Misericordia University in 1996. Nicole has focused her career on working with burn survivors. She has been working with this patient population in multiple settings since she graduated from Misericordia in 1996. Nicole's areas of focus includes burns, wound care management, scar management and gait dysfunction with the recovery of burn survivors.
Tiffany Prince-Kandrakota, PT, DPT, OCS
Tiffany Prince-Kandrakota graduated from University of the Sciences in 2002 with her BS in Health Science and Master's of Physical Therapy. She obtained her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Temple University in 2009. Tiffany is a certified orthopedic specialist and her area of focus is orthopedic-related problems with a focus on the cervical spine. She splits her time amongst patient care and management of the clinic.
Mary Michelle Tenorio, PT, DPT
Mary Michelle Tenorio received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from A.T. Still University in 2013. She is a certified lymphedema therapist as well as certified in LSVT BIG training for those with Parkinson’s disease. Her primary areas of focus include lymphedema therapy and breast cancer rehabilitation.
Joseph McCoy, PT, MSPT, NCS
Joseph McCoy received his BS in Nutrition in 2003 from Montclair State University and his Master’s of Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 2006. Joseph is a neurologic certified specialist, and LSVT-certified. His area of focus includes all neurologic conditions with an emphasis on progressive neuromuscular diseases.
Ed Haughey, PT, MSPT
Ed Haughey graduated with his Master's of Science in Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 2000. Since then, he has spent his career at Jefferson Health in a broad range of clinical and managerial roles. His clinical focuses are on new pain management concepts as well as manual therapy and craniosacral therapy.
Luke Smith, PT, DPT, OCS, CEAS, CSCS
Luke Smith is a 2005 graduate of Drexel University with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. He is a certified orthopedics specialist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and a certified ergonomic assessment specialist. He is also adjunct faculty for the physical therapy program at Jefferson. Luke's areas of focus include orthopedics, bleeding disorders, ergonomics and workers' compensation.
Megan Liu, PT, DPT
Megan Liu is a 2012 graduate of Thomas Jefferson University with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Megan has worked at Jefferson Health since graduation in multiple areas. Megan has given presentations on physical therapy vs. opioids for pain management. Her clinical area of focus is orthopedic conditions including running.
Elizabeth Grace Georgelos, PT, MSPT, NCS
Elizabeth Grace Georgelos received her Master's in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University in 1999 and received a MS in Neuromotor Science from Temple University in 2015. Elizabeth is a neurologic clinical specialist who has focused her career on vestibular therapy and lectures at multiple universities and conferences. Her area of clinical focus is vestibular and balance therapy.
Robert Lontz, PT, MSPT, OCS, Cert MDT, MBA
Robert Lontz is a 1996 graduate of Arcadia University with a Master's of Science in Physical Therapy. He also received his MBA from Colorado State University in 2010. Robert has obtained multiple certifications including Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment, Isernhagen/Work Well FCE certification, and his orthopedic specialist certification. His area of focus is orthopedics with special interest in the spine.
Pia Leone, PT, DPT, WCS, CLT
Pia Leone received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from the University of the Sciences in 2012. Pia completed a women’s health residency and has obtained her specialist certifications in women’s health and lymphedema. Pia is adjunct faculty for several physical therapy programs in the Philadelphia region. Her area of focus include pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy, low back/SI joint pain, lymphedema and cancer.
Jennifer Rexon, PT, DPT
Jennifer Rexon received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Widener University in 2008 and received her vestibular therapy certification in 2015. Since, she has guest lectured at Jefferson and at a number of educational conferences in the Philadelphia area. Her areas of focus include vestibular therapy and concussion treatment.
Peggy Fox, PTA, BS, CEAS
Peggy Fox received her Associate's Degree in Physical Therapy in 1994 and her Bachelor's Degree from Drexel University in 2002. Peggy is a certified ergonomic assessment specialist and a CPR instructor, and has used her ergonomic specialty to lecture on proper body mechanics. Her areas of focus include orthopedic disorders, orthotics and body mechanics.
Todd O'Leary, PTA
Todd O'Leary received his Associate's Degree in Physical Therapy in 2011 from Harcum College. Since graduating, Todd has taken multiple courses on manual treatment techniques. His areas of focus are chronic pain and manual treatments for orthopedic patients.
Christine Evans, PTA
Christine Evans received her Associate's Degree in Physical Therapy from Alvernia College in 1994. She has spent her entire career at Jefferson in multiple settings, and the majority of her career has been in outpatient therapy. Her area of focus is general orthopedics.
Brandis Johnson, PT, DPT, CLT-LANA
Brandis graduated from Arcadia University with her doctorate in Physical Therapy. She is a certified lymphedema specialist. Brandis has lectured at multiple universities in the Philadelphia area as well as at local and national conferences. Her focus includes oncology, lymphedema and pelvic floor dysfunction.
Elizabeth DiFebo, PT, DPT
Elizabeth received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Arcadia University in 2015. Her areas of interest include Parkinson Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, and she has presented posters at both local and national conferences about the effects of intensive exercise programs on individuals with PD. She is also a certified yoga teacher and a partner teacher for Love Your Brain, a national evidence-based organization promoting the benefits of yoga and meditation for individuals living with the effects of traumatic brain injury and concussion.
Lisa Hoglund, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT
Lisa Hoglund received her Bachelor’s of Science and Certificate in Physical Therapy from the University of Michigan in 1983. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Therapy from Temple University in 2009. Lisa is a certified orthopedic specialist and is also certified in Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (McKenzie therapy). Lisa conducts research in the areas of knee osteoarthritis and patellofemoral pain. Her clinical focus is orthopedics with special interests in the knee joint and spine.
Bryan Spinelli PT, PhD, OCS, CLT-LANA
Bryan Spinelli received a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy and a Master of Science from Northeastern University in 2001. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy at Drexel University in 2016. He is an American Physical Therapy Association Board-Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist and Lymphology Association of North America Certified Lymphedema Therapist. Bryan is an Assistant Professor at Jefferson University and has lectured nationally on cancer rehabilitation. His area of focus includes neck and shoulder dysfunction, lymphedema, fatigue and weakness after cancer diagnosis.
Colleen Bradley PT, DPT
Colleen Bradley began her career at TJUH as a Physical Therapist Assistant in 1991. She then returned to school and received her Master's and Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Neumann University in 1998 and 2008. Colleen has worked in all areas of the Rehabilitation Medicine department but she has focused the last 20 years focusing on treating the orthopedic and worker's compensation populations.
Michael Butsick PT, DPT, OCS, Cert. LSVT BIG
Michael Butsick received his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Thomas Jefferson University in 2014. He has become an Orthopedic Certified Specialist after completing an Orthopedic Residency at Jefferson University in 2018. Michael received his LSVT BIG certification. Michael has presented at both local and national conferences. His areas of interest include treating those with neurologic and orthopedic conditions including those with chronic pain and sports related injuries.
Kelly Salmon SLPD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLT-LANA
Kelly Salmon received her Bachelor's in Speech Pathology and Audiology from Stockton University in 2000, and her Master's in Speech Pathology from New York University in 2002. She received her Doctorate in Speech Pathology from Nova Southeastern University in 2018. Kelly is a certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders as well as lymphedema. Her areas of interest include swallowing disorders from a variety of causes and treating those with head and neck cancer.
Nora Whittaker Jones, MA, CCC-SLP
Nora Whitaker Jones received her Bachelor's in Theater and Psychology from Muhlenberg University in 2000 and her Master's in Speech, Language and Hearing from Temple University in 2011. Nora has 20+ years of professional singing experience and uses this to teach others and treat voice disorders, and is LSVT certified. Her areas of focus include voice disorders, chronic cough, motor speech disorders and swallowing impairments.
Adeline Schultz, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Adeline Schultz received her AB in Speech-Language Pathology from Rutgers University in 1966 and her M.Ed, Speech-Language Pathology in 1967 from Pennsylvania State University. Adeline has multiple certifications including LSVT and swallowing and swallowing disorders. She has worked for decades at Jefferson as a speech therapist and trains pastoral care residents on communication techniques. Her areas of focus include dysphagia, aphasia, cognitive disorders and all neurological conditions.
Rosemary Ostrowski, MA, CCC-SLP
Rosemary received her Master's of Science in Speech Pathology from the University of Tulsa in 1999. She also has a Master's of Music from West Virginia University and four years of operatic training at the Academy of Vocal Arts. Rosemary specializes in the rehabilitation of the singing and speaking voice. She has more than 25 years of vocal performance experience and lectures on the use and care of the singing and speaking voice.
Judith Folweiler, OTR/L, CHT, CLT, CEAS
Judith Folweiler received her Master's in Occupational Therapy from Texas Woman's University in 1980. Judith is a certified hand therapist, certified lymphedema therapist and certified ergonomic assessment specialist. Her areas of focus include hand/wrist and elbow disorders, lymphedema, cognitive impairments and activities of daily living.
Joe Kardine, OTR/L
Joe Kardine received his Master's in Occupation Therapy from Saint Francis University in 2014. Joe is LSVT certified and is an acquired brain injury specialist. He has lectured at continuing education conferences on acquired brain injuries and cognitive rehabilitation. His areas of focus including treating those with vision and cognitive deficits as well as neurologic rehabilitation.
Karena Landin, OT, OTR/L
Karena is a 2012 graduate of Thomas Jefferson University with her Master's of Science in Occupational Therapy. Her specialty is treating patients with burns using splinting and scar management techniques. She has lectured in multiple healthcare facilities and local universities. She is a certified burn therapist and member of the American Burn Association.
Cecilia Roan, MS, OTR/L
Cecelia Roan received her Master's of Science in Occupational Therapy from Temple University in 2009 and an advanced practice certificate in neuroscience from Thomas Jefferson University. Cecelia's specialties include sensory integration and pediatrics. Her areas of focus include general pediatrics as well as neonatal therapy.
Dermis E. de Jesus, MA, CCC-SLP
Dermis de Jesus received her Master's in Speech Language Pathology from Temple University in 1994 and has been certified by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association since 1996. Her diverse background allows Dermis to be a mentor for bilingual therapists and to treat bilingual patients. Her areas of focus include pediatric dysphagia and speech and language delays and disorders associated with autism.
Alicia Graf, MA, CCC-SLP
Alicia received her Master's in Speech-Language and Hearing from Temple University in 2005. Alicia specializes in feeding and swallowing disorders as well as speech and language disorders in general pediatric population as well as neonatal intensive care population.
Melissa Chiu PT, DPT
Melissa Chiu received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Arcadia University in 2015. She has a special interest in pediatric care and has worked in various settings including long term care, school based services, and Early Interventions. Melissa's current focuses include general pediatric outpatient care and neonatal therapy.
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H&H Team
Stay Humble. Stay Hungry.
Artists featured in this article
Austin Modglin
That’s the mantra Hart & Huntington tattoo artist Austin Modglin lives by.
It’s something he learned during his apprenticeship after college and carried with him throughout his career to date.
It’s what drives me to be better. I don’t have a feeling that I’ve reached my potential yet, that there’s always room for improvement. I’m not tattooing for the fame. I just want to be seen as an artist who does exceptional work.
Austin has always been an artist at heart, even since he was a kid.
I’ve been drawing for as long I can remember. I’ve always been kind of a loner, off in my own world, so art was something I could do on my own using my imagination and creativity.
But it wasn’t until high school that he considered turning his handiwork into a career.
I was always under the impression as a kid that art was fun, but you couldn’t be anything but a starving artist. But then I was introduced to graphic design.
He ended up earning his bachelor’s degree in graphic arts in college, where he took a lot of print classes and produced a ton of illustrative work.
That’s when I realized tattooing could be a career opportunity for me because my style translates well into that. From then on, I always had it in my mind to go into tattooing after I graduated.
He started his career with an official apprenticeship after graduating that summer. That’s when he met Jimmy King, his mentor, who had just opened his own tattoo shop.
I went in, spoke with him, showed him my artwork. He sent me home to do several rounds of drawings and eventually was willing to take me on and give me an opportunity.
But beyond knowing he was a talented enough artist to pursue a career in tattooing, Austin was in for a real surprise.
There was a lot I didn’t expect. While I’d been tattooed a couple times, I never really understood the business side of it until then. Things like the importance of preventing cross-contamination, setting up your station, how tattoos should flow onto the body. It was all new to me.
Thankfully, Austin loves learning new things, so he soaked it all in like a sponge.
Whenever I came in for the apprenticeship, it was always something new. Learning how to set up and build the machine, apply the tattoos to skin. It was a constant challenge, and I loved that. It never felt like a job.
But the number one most challenging aspect of becoming a professional tattoo artist: obtaining self-confidence.
I had major hesitations about putting needle to skin. There’s no erasing this. It’s permanent. Getting over the nerves, telling myself this is something I can actually do and do well was the biggest obstacle I had to overcome as an apprentice. Just getting out of my own way.
Austin’s constant thirst for knowledge and sense of humility translates to his style of work to this very day. And it’s something he plans to share with his apprentices in the future.
One thing I’d want them to learn is that this job takes a lot of dedication, hard work and time. It doesn’t happen overnight. You have to be patient with yourself. The minute you think you know everything, you stop being a good artist. Everything should be a learning experience.
Working at H&H Nashville has allowed Austin to maintain that momentum.
The artists I’m with now at H&H are showing me new techniques, different ways to get set up, new artists to follow on Instagram. It’s broadening my depth perception, helping me forge new paths and directions of how to do things.
But make no mistake. Austin already knows his way around several signature tattoo styles. Like Traditional and Neotraditional, for instance.
My artwork has always been more illustrative and graphics related. I was big into doing posters and stuff like that, so I really enjoy how Neotraditional allows me to translate that into tattoos. Lots of bold lines, color, dimension, different accents. It’s tattooing, modernized.
Austin’s also into Biomechanical, a style he’s working on perfecting.
I love the sense of contrast and texture, how it flows on the body. And how lighting affects those textures. It’s a great way of making something look like it has depth on the skin.
It’s the struggle to learn new techniques that gets Austin out of bed every day.
What I get out of it is the sense of accomplishment. Especially on challenging pieces. When the client is ecstatic with my work, only then am I happy with it. That’s when I get a real sense of pride and accomplishment. Like, “Wow… I did that!”
That attention to detail, to perfection, is what allows Austin to forge such strong relationships with his clients.
The more people come back to get more tattoos from you, or work on bigger pieces, the more they open up to you and tell you personal things. You become a confidant. I love hearing stories about their life, how their day is going. I feel humbled to get to know them and the effect you can have on each other’s lives.
Now that he’s an H&H artist, he gets to enjoy all of that.
Working at H&H has been great so far. I was previously in a small-town setting, so coming into a city now has exposed me to people from all over the world. That was a big jump for me. I’m in the big leagues now.
Get a tattoo from Austin Modglin.
A Fork in the Road, Which Way Do You Go?
For Hart & Huntington tattoo artist Tarik Tatham, there’s always been one clear path. An artist all his life, he was destined for the tattoo shop before he even reached adulthood.
My story is a little bit complicated.
Escaping a country. Losing everything. Creating a new life for his family by never losing touch with his talent. Angel Marquez overcame a lot. But he’s as humble as it gets.
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Oprah Winfrey becomes a special contributor to ’60 Minutes’
Photo: Harpo, Inc
in Broadcasting, News
by GRUNGECAKE 31st January 2017, 10:38 AM
Oprah Winfrey, the esteemed broadcaster, producer, actress and philanthropist, will become a special contributor to 60 Minutes, the #1 news broadcast in television, it was announced today by the news magazine’s executive producer, Jeff Fager.
Ms. Winfrey will make her first appearance on CBS News’ legendary Sunday night broadcast this Fall.
“There is only one Oprah Winfrey,” said Fager. “She has achieved excellence in everything she has touched. Her body of work is extraordinary, including thousands of interviews with people from all walks of life. She is a remarkable and talented woman with a level of integrity that sets her apart and makes her a perfect fit for 60 Minutes. I am thrilled that she will be bringing her unique and powerful voice to our broadcast.”
“I’ve been a big admirer of 60 Minutes since my days as a young reporter,” said Winfrey.
“I’m so excited and proud to join forces with this historic news program, which for me represents the bastion of journalistic storytelling. At a time when people are so divided, my intention is to bring relevant insight and perspective, to look at what separates us, and help facilitate real conversations between people from different backgrounds.”
Oprah Winfrey is an American original who has established during her storied career an enduring connection with the American people. For 25 years, Winfrey was host of her award-winning talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history.
While hosting and appearing on the #1 syndicated show, Winfrey founded her own production company, Harpo Productions. Under her leadership, Harpo developed many successful syndicated television programs, including “Dr. Phil,” “The Dr. Oz Show” and “Rachael Ray,” among many others, plus motion pictures under her Harpo Films banner, including the recent award-winning “Selma” in which she also had a featured role. In 1985, she co-starred in Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple,” where she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She earned critical acclaim in “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and will appear in the upcoming HBO movie “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and the Disney feature film “A Wrinkle in Time.”
In 2011, in partnership with Discovery Communications, Winfrey founded OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and serves as its chairman and CEO. OWN has become one of the fastest growing cable networks for women, achieving its highest rated and most watched year in network history in 2016.
Winfrey founded O, The Oprah Magazine, which Fortune magazine declared the most successful start-up in that industry’s history and recently debuted her first cookbook memoir, Food, Health and Happiness, which reached #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List. She joined the Weight Watchers board of directors in 2015.
Winfrey is also one of the most active philanthropists in the world, donating more than $20 million to the creation of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year, of which she has contributed more than $100 million to provide education to academically gifted girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In 2013, Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
60 Minutes, the most successful television broadcast in history, began its 49th season in September 2016. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast begun in 1968 is still a hit in 2017, consistently making Nielsen’s Top 10 list week after week. Today, 60 Minutes continues its dominance as the number-one news program, drawing an average of approximately 14 million viewers per week – almost twice the audience of its nearest network news magazine competitor. The average audience for a 60 Minutes broadcast still dwarfs the biggest audiences drawn by any and all cable news programs.
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Read volume 1 and volume 2 at Google Books.
Thomas Hartwell Horne (1780-1862) was a theologian and researcher whose Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures set a high standard for all future works on the subject. The work is most dated on textual matters, since many of the great discoveries of the nineteenth century occurred late in Horne’s life or after his death. A student of textual criticism will of course want to bring his knowledge up to date by a careful study of the work of scholars like Bruce Metzger. But a knowledge of the wealth of information contained in Horne (vol. 2, part 1, chs. 2 through 5) would be an excellent preparation for that study.
Students of apologetics will find much of interest in the first two volumes of Horne’s work. But the most important sections will probably be the chapters on non-Christian evidence for the credibility of the New Testament (vol. 1, ch 3, sec. 2), miracles (vol. 1, ch. 4, sec. 2), prophecy (vol. 1, ch. 4, sec. 3), and particularly on the apparent contradictions in Scripture (vol. 1, Book 2, ch. 7), which is especially thorough for a work not devoted solely to apologetics. Horne’s bibliographic obsession provides a diligent reader with numerous references to track down, making this work a virtual map of all previous literature on the subjects he touches.
The print in the editions linked above is, regretably, quite small. For a slightly older but more readable edition, see the sixth edition (1828), volume 1 [A] and volume 2 [A]
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On November 8, 2017, Delhi earned the dubious distinction of being named the world’s most polluted city. If that wasn’t bad enough, Delhi was only one among the nine Indian cities that ranked among the world’s 20 most polluted cities. The other eight include Gwalior, Allahabad, Patna, Raipur, Ludhiana, Kanpur, Firozabad and Lucknow. China in comparison has only four cities in this list and Saudi Arabia has three. These were the cities where the concentration of harmful PM 2.5 particles topped 700 micrograms per cubic metre (mpcm). So while Delhi’s PM 2.5 concentration was 122, London’s average PM 2.5 is 15, in Paris it is 18, in Los Angeles it is 11, and in Beijing it is 85. India also ranks at number eight among the world’s top 20 countries with the most polluted urban areas. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh outrank us while Nepal and China trail us in this list.
Anyone who’s lived in a big Indian metro has had to deal with smog – especially in winter when dense cold air settles down, making it difficult for pollutants to be ‘breezed away.’ This smog is an outcome of not just vehicular exhaust fumes but also construction and desert dust, factory and power plant emissions and finally the burning of garbage and crop residue. According to the World Health Organization, over 5.5 million people die each year due to problems associated with breathing polluted air. The lack of clean air is even touted to be the third leading cause of death after heart disease and smoking.
The measures to address pollution range from the immediate to the long term and almost all of them have limited outcomes given multiple geographic and climatic variables in addition to those that are man-made. In such a situation what can our policy markers do? Several cities across the world are adopting interesting initiatives to address the problem. These include combining big data along with IoT and artificial intelligence. Using a network of connected sensors, scientists can, not just measure exactly where pollution is coming from, they can pinpoint the numerous factors that contribute to it, and ultimately, reduce it. And doing this over a period of time allows them to measure the cause and effect of pollution on a real-time basis. This in turn gives researchers options to use predictive analytics to ‘forecast’ pollution (as is being done in cities as disparate as Dubai, Chicago, Pittsburg London and Beijing to name a few) to manage it more effectively and intelligently.
So what can and should Delhi and other cities across North India do? First things first – they need to put out a widespread and integrated network of air quality monitoring sensors across the cities to begin real-time monitoring of air quality. This should be accompanied by a policy change to ensure that civic agencies install pollution meters across factories, commercial establishments (such as malls and office complexes), dump-yards and even locations such as schools and hospitals to begin monitoring of emissions and pollutant levels. Air quality levels should be monitored across a wide spectrum of emissions so that civic agencies and citizens get information on spikes and dips in specific pollutants, allowing them to pin-point the cause to a specific source. Pollution control certificates whether for automobiles or factories and commercial establishments should be made real-time instead of being periodic (as it is now).
The data should also include other sources such as weather monitoring stations and satellites, traffic systems, industrial data, farm data, and even social media. By combining all this disparate data, predictive analytics can create highly accurate models to predict pollution trends in advance allowing civic agencies to make relevant predictions and changes to prevent spikes and keep pollution levels in check. A comprehensive and widespread network such as this to track the causes of pollution at source will allow government agencies to create smarter strategies to combat pollution – and when combined with predictive analytics, predictions in some cases can even be made in advance.
Big data and analytics can also help improve traffic management in addition to just monitoring pollution levels. Sensors will ensure that traffic flows and incident feeds are updated every second, with traffic-impacting incidents such as accidents, closures, and detours, also considered. Combining all this data will allow predictive analytics to throw up both predictive and historic traffic flows along with predictions of incidents basis which traffic police can gain improved insights into how traffic is behaving as well as anticipate and address problems before they happen. Over time smarter management of the causes of pollution – from traffic to power plants, to emissions from factories can help reduce and even contain pollution.
Reports put out by the WHO say that 90 per cent of the deaths caused by air pollution are in low and middle income countries. India is one of them. We need to adopt a pragmatic approach that makes use of technology to address an issue which by any account is alarming. By embracing the power of big data and analytics, policymakers can provide civic agencies the relevant tools and resources that, when used optimally, will help reduce pollution thereby enhancing our quality of life. This will be aided by new developments in sensor technology to ensure that pollution and its resultant impact can be monitored literally on a street-by-street basis. It is time we gave this serious thought.
Rajesh Shewani
Rajesh Shewani heads Technology and Solutions at Teradata India. He comes with close to two decades of experience in the areas of Data Management, Advanced Analytics, Solution Architecture, Enterprise data warehousing and Business Intelligence to name a few.
At Teradata he is responsible for leading a team of experienced Business Analytics consultants, data scientists and solution architects focusing on Teradata Data Analytics solutions. Rajesh has worked in various areas of information management across different industries and functional domains, advising customers on devising corporate performance management and business analytics strategies that will help them achieve differential advantage.
Prior to Teradata, Rajesh was with IBM for over 14 years and performed various roles in technology leadership, architecture and consulting. In his most recent role at IBM he was Country Manager for technical sales for IBM Business Analytics portfolio that included Cognos, SPSS, OpenPages and Algorithmics, leading a team of analytics functional and technical sales architects. Rajesh is certified in technologies such as Cognos BI & FPM, SOA, WebSphere Application Server and DB2.
He holds a Masters in Business Marketing & Information Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies.
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Suzanne Husky, “Mars, Bitches!”, hand-knotted wool rug, 47” x 59”, 2018.
SATELLITE OF. LOVE presents, Going Away, artworks by Randy Colosky, Suzanne Husky and Mary Anne Kluth at Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco from September 6th through October 4th, 2019. Opening reception Friday, September 6th, 6pm-9pm.
Artists Randy Colosky, Suzanne Husky and Mary Anne Kluth challenge our habit of not noticing; a habit that often originates from the fear that to notice will fill one with grief over what one has already missed. “Wake up!” these artists whisper. Missing something because one is distracted is entirely different than missing something because it is irrevocably lost. Yet, one leads to the other; and so very much is now at risk of going permanently away.
Randy Colosky’s Cryo Kinetic sculptures exist in a constant state of flux as they repeatedly ice over and melt due to shifts in temperature, humidity and light. Based on the simple mechanics of refrigeration, they reveal the clunky fragility of the systems that allow humans to dominate the planet; while also standing in for our ephemeral selves.
Functioning as both a present day reporter and an archeologist from the future, Suzanne Husky examines the crass stupidity of our current relationship to the planet. With a light touch and a heavy heart, she suggests that we neither laugh nor cry but, instead, confront the internal and external forces propelling us towards doom.
Mary Anne Kluth’s work springs from her lifelong fascination with representations of the natural world that provide the locations and backgrounds for theme park experiences. Curious about how these simulacra affect our understanding of what’s real, and how what’s real may pale in comparison to what’s fake, she offers a technicolor meditation on the thinning membrane of collective reality.
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”
― Rachel Carson
Randy Colosky
Working from the Bay Area and his studio in Los Angeles, Randy Colosky splits his practice between public art and studio work. His public installations can be seen at the Embarcadero Square Complex in San Francisco, Downtown Oakland, Sonoma State College, and Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa amongst other locations. His more experimental Cryo Kinetic works have been shown at Brilliant Champions Gallery (Brooklyn NY), Hibbleton Gallery (Fullerton, CA) and Ship in the Woods (Escondido, CA) and will be featured in an upcoming shows at Root Division in San Francisco. He has been an artist in residence at Facebook, Inc. and KALA Art Institute, and has received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Zellerbach Family Foundation and the Fleishhacker Foundation. He is also a partner in the Cathedral Gallery at the historic Bendix Building in Los Angeles CA. He received a BFA in Ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute.
www.randycolosky.com & www.randycoloskypublic.com
Suzanne Husky has obtained an MFA from the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, received a Landscape Horticulture Design Certificate (Merritt College, Oakland), and has taught landscape history and ethnobotany in the School of Art and Design Orleans, and Plant Matters at the San Francisco Art Institute. For the past 20 years, Husky has developed a mixed media creative practice focused on human and plant relations. She is a founder of the artistic duo Le Nouveau Ministère de l’Agriculture (The New Department of Agriculture) that creates subversive art work on agribusiness and agtech. Husky has shown as part of the regional triennial Bay Area Now 5 at YBCA, had exhibitions at the De Young Kimball Gallery, Southern Exposure, Wendy Norris Gallery, SF Recology, Minnesota Street Project, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Bradford Gallery, and the San Francisco Art Commission, and was selected to install a permanent artwork at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), has artwork in the French National Collection, and will be included in the Istanbul Biennale 2019. www.suzannehusky.com
Mary Anne Kluth
Mary Anne Kluth lives and works in the East Bay and has exhibited widely in the Bay Area, including at the Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, ampersand international arts, Root Division, the Palo Alto Art Center, and Bedford Gallery, as well as in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle, the midwest, and Hong Kong. She has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from the California College of Arts. www.maryannekluth.com
Curators:
Theodora Mauro co-directs the alternative gallery space SATELLITE OF. LOVE, is director of ampersand international arts gallery, and is a San Francisco native supporting artists, local and international, emerging and mid-career, with platforms for communication and exhibitions that are open, unique and inspirational.
Tracy Wheeler co-directs the alternative gallery space SATELLITE OF. LOVE, is a regular curator at ampersand international arts, and leads content and curation for End Well, a dynamic day-long symposium and platform committed to generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for the end of life experience.
SATELLITE OF. LOVE
SATELLITE OF. LOVE is a project dedicated to supporting outstanding mid-career artists through sales and exhibitions. Our atelier is located in the heart of the Mission District, where we offer work by over a dozen artists and maintain relationships with many more. www.satelliteof.love
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How to Identify a Trademark
By Karyn Maier
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a trademark is essentially the same thing as a brand name. It may consist of a word, phrase, symbol or any combination thereof to establish an association between the mark and a particular product, service or celebrity. In effect, it helps the consumer distinguish one manufacturer from another. Because a trademark is unique by design or suggestion, it stands apart from generic words and symbols, making it easy to identify.
Trademark Symbols
Technically, a trademark does not have to be registered with the federal government to exist, although there are benefits to registration. An unregistered trademark that contains a word, phrase, slogan or product name is identified by the letters TM or SM immediately following it, usually in superscript. The TM designation means a mark that applies to goods, while the letters SM stand for "service mark," to indicate a trade or service used in commerce. If the trademark is registered, the letter R appears in a circle.
Marks of Distinction
The most distinctive trademarks identify the source of goods or services by association or suggestion, as opposed those that describe a product or make a generic reference to it. For example, “Apple” is a successful trademark because it refers to a brand of computer, but it wouldn’t cut it as a brand name for the fruit of the same name.
Other Identifying Elements
Even in the absence of TM and the registered trademark symbols, it’s still fairly simple to identify a trademark by its presentation. Unique spellings and capitalizations point to a trademark, as in “Brite-Lite” and “LITE-BRITE”; the former represents a distributor of electronics, and the latter represents a child’s toy.
The standard practice is to treat the mark as an adjective, not a verb or noun, a lesson taught to the Otis Elevator Company in the landmark case, Haughton Elevator Co. v. Seeberger. In 1900, an employee of the company named Charles Seeberger secured U. S. trademark No. 34,724 for the word “Escalator,” the brand name given to his newly invented moving stairway. Unfortunately, because the company often used the word in advertisements to refer to "an Escalator," as opposed to an "Escalator brand moving stairway," the word became associated with the actual device rather than its source, the manufacturer. As a result, the company lost all rights to the trademark in 1950 and the word remains in the public domain today.
Trademark Owner's Responsibilities
United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks
HTML Writers Guild: Trademarks and Copyrights Frequently Asked Questions
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University: Overview of Trademark Law
Legal Flip: Otis Elevator Company Inventor Trademarks “ESCALATOR” (1900)
What Is a Dead Trademark?
A trademark is a symbol, design, word, phrase or combination of these elements a business uses to identify its products to the public. While a trademark is active, its owner can take action in court against unauthorized use of the mark. A dead trademark, however, is no longer protected against unauthorized use. A mark can die for various reasons, including lack of use and misuse by an assignee.
When Does a Trademark Become a Generic Term?
Trademarks are licenses that businesses obtain to gain the exclusive use of a word or term for their business. This is to allow these organizations to better market their specific products or services by attaching their brand to a recognizable term. If anyone else uses the term, the business that holds the trademark can sue for damages and get the other business to stop using it. However, some terms may be classified as general and cannot be trademarked. It is important to understand what qualifies as a generic term and whether a term can be something that can be trademarked but transformed into a general term.
How to Trademark a Catchphrase
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Adam Koppel, MD, PhD
Managing Director, Bain Capital Life Sciences Fund
Adam Koppel rejoined Bain Capital in 2016 as Managing Director of the Bain Capital Life Sciences Fund. He had initially joined Bain Capital Public Equity in 2003 where he was a leader
within the healthcare sector until mid-2014. During the period mid-2014 to mid-2016, Dr. Koppel was at Biogen where he served as EVP of Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer.
He sits on the Board of Directors of PTC Therapeutics (NASD: PTCT) and Trevena (NASD:TRVN). Prior to initially joining Bain Capital in 2003, Dr. Koppel was an Associate Principal at McKinsey
& Co in New Jersey where he served a variety of healthcare companies. Dr. Koppel received an MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He also received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a AB and AM in History and Science.
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Film, Reviews, Interviews & Features!
Lucia Wang’s Free Ride
May 1, 2019 pressva Leave a comment
Audiences love a well-written story with twisting plots. These films are the result of layers upon layers of professionals both in front of and behind the camera. The path from the set to the silver screen is as complex as the actions and motives on screen. One of the professionals who gains the first glimpse to what “will be” is the on-set editor. Ziyang “Lucia” Wang was both editor and the on-set editor for the recently released comedy/crime film Free Ride. The fast pace of the film and its frequent use of VFX kept Wang on the edge of her seat in a manner similar to fans of this film. Even though it has barely had time to appear, Free Ride has already received awards from the Los Angeles Film Festival (Best Indie Short), the CineCina Film Festival, and the Transparent Film Festival (Best Comedy). Though not yet in wide release, Lucia offers an inside peek to the process of making this acclaimed film.
Free Ride is the type of film in which leaves you constantly guessing about who is the real danger. While transporting three dangerous mental patients to another state, the van driver loses one of them. During his search, he encounters a thief who is eluding the authorities. When the criminal offers the driver a cut off his loot, the actions and intentions of all involved parties becomes convoluted and suspect. Hot pursuit, questionable allegiances, and the X-factor of mental patients culminates in both nervous anticipation and hilarity.
One of the most enjoyable aspects of the story is its constantly twisting and uncertain direction, by design. “What’s going to happen next?” is the sign of good writing and good execution in a film. This requires an incredible amount of planning and Ziyang was a part of this from the earliest of preproduction meetings. From storyboard layout to final presentation, her editing expertise was a major benefit for director Yi Qu in achieving her vision for this film. The tone of the story could be described as a sarcastic black comedy influenced by No Country for Old Men and Hell or High Water. There’s a palpable undertone which alludes to the human condition of always wanting more contributing to one’s downfall. Ziyang relates, “Free Ride is not only a tense movie but has a lot of craziness and cynical perspective to it. As a road film, it contains a lot of location changes that we needed to cover in a short amount of time. Our director was very worried about this during the pre-production but I showed her some short clips to convince her that in the world of editing, we don’t have to show every line, every sentence, and every second; jump shots work perfectly, especially in a comedic piece.” This approach is perfectly displayed when the criminal first jumps into the van. Lines of dialogue overlap and the back & forth editing perfectly complements this frantic moment. The silence that follows delivered by the punchline of the driver asking the robber to buckle his seat belt is even more gratifying because of this. Yi Qu’s confidence in Wang’s editing was so great that she even conducted a reshoot based on the editor’s input. Ziyang states, “In the original version of there is a scene in which the driver decides to strike the criminal with a taser. I felt there was a lack of drama for this peak moment in the story. I asked for a separate insert shot of the taser hidden under the driver’s seat as a POV shot. I cut it in this way: the driver hops off the van, looks down, and cut to the taser to highlight it as an important prop. Then I cut back to the driver looking up with this taser already in his hand…and now the audience knows what he’s going to do. Subtle tweaks like this are important and this shot totally increased the tension.”
In a variety of ways, Ziyang Wang proves that she’s not there simply to cut what others imagine but to reimagine ways of helping their vision be achieved. She’s not clairvoyant, she’s an editor. As a professional who is focused on making the work of others looking better, Ziyang is creating a reputation that will see much more work heading her way.
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Starbucks Commits $100 Million as Cornerstone Investor in Valor Siren Ventures I L.P. to Focus on “New Retail” Innovation
Company focuses on new ideas and technologies that are relevant to customers, inspiring to partners (employees), and meaningful to the Starbucks business
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced its pioneering investment in the new Valor Siren Ventures I L.P. (“VSV”), which will serve as a growth driver for the next generation of food and retail start-up technology companies. Managed by Valor Equity Partners, a leading growth-focused private equity investment firm that was among the first investors in food technology, the new fund will identify and invest in companies that are developing technologies, products, and solutions relating to food or retail. These verticals are increasingly relevant to Starbucks as it seeks to support its world-class talent with an innovation agenda accelerated by external relationships.
The Starbucks $100 million cornerstone commitment to VSV is the first of its kind for the company, and the new fund will seek to raise an additional $300 million in the coming months from other strategic partners and key institutional investors. Separately, Starbucks will also explore direct commercial arrangements with these start-ups. Under the leadership of Kevin Johnson, Starbucks president and ceo, the company is growing with focus and discipline, embracing new ideas and innovations that are relevant to Starbucks customers, inspiring to its partners, and meaningful to its business.
“We believe that innovative ideas are fuel for the future, and we continue to build on this heritage inside our company across beverage, experiential retail, and our digital flywheel,” said Johnson. “At the same time, and with an eye toward accelerating our innovation agenda, we are inspired by, and want to support the creative, entrepreneurial businesses of tomorrow with whom we may explore commercial relationships down the road. This new partnership with Valor presents exciting opportunities, not only for these startups, but also for Starbucks, as we build an enduring company for decades to come.”
Antonio J. Gracias, Valor's Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer, said, “as experienced investors in food and retail technology, we are thrilled to partner with Starbucks, one of the most iconic and forward-thinking global brands. Under our partner Jon Shulkin’s leadership, we are incredibly excited to partner with Starbucks to drive innovation in the food and retail industries.”
Over its 20-year history, Valor's team has worked with companies, principally in the consumer, engineered products, and services sectors. Examples of Valor’s investments in the food and retail technology space include goPuff, Fooda and Sizzling Platter, to name a few. Valor combines extensive entrepreneurial experience with operational and technical expertise to accelerate growth.
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About Valor Equity Partners
Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm focused on control and non-control investments in high-growth companies across various stages of development. For decades, Valor has served its companies with unique expertise to solve the challenges of growth and scale. Valor partners with leading companies and entrepreneurs who are committed to the highest standards of excellence and the courage to transform their industries. For more information on Valor Equity Partners, please visit www.valorep.com.
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The Flash Gordon Reboot Movie Has A Director, And It's A Good One
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It's Matthew Vaughn, who helped relaunch the X-Men for Fox with First Class and more recently turned Kingman into a surprise hit. As The Hollywood Reporter says, Vaughn is much in demand, so it makes sense Fox would want him in charge of a potentially big new scifi franchise.
As you might recall, 1970s Flash Gordon star Sam G. Jones recently claimed the new movie would be a sequel to his original film , but I remain somewhat skeptical that Jones is fully up-to-date on the project. However, there are no other confirmed details yet, so we'll keep you posted, especially as regards the new movie's potential casting of former hawk man Brian Blessed or the use of the greatest soundtrack song of all time.
The New Flash Gordon May Be A Sequel To The 1980 Movie For Some Reason
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The Aftermath Of Trump’s Missile Strikes On Syria
Analysts say Russia could make U.S. operations in Syria against ISIS complicated. Foreign allies back Trump, but there's mixed reaction back home.
Nigel Roberts
As the smoke clears, political assessments are coming in on Friday from President Donald Trump’s missile attack on Syria.
The president authorized the launch of more than 50 Tomahawk missiles from U.S. Navy ships Thursday night that targeted Syrian military sites, which Syria said killed six people. It was in response to a chemical weapons attacks on civilians in Syria blamed on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the president denounced Assad for the chemical attack that “choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children.”
He added: “It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.”
Trump on Syria attacks: "Vital national security interest of the US to deter & prevent the use of chemical weapons" https://t.co/l9V79j9Wwo pic.twitter.com/M8fHO1wSII
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 7, 2017
The New York Times said Russia “reacted harshly” on Friday to Trump’s strikes on Syria. Assad is a close ally of Moscow, which denies that the dictator used chemical weapons on his own people.
Russia reacted harshly to U.S. strikes in Syria, saying they would further corrode already dismal relations https://t.co/8cjGl7qfJo pic.twitter.com/0aCbVkie5K
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 7, 2017
However, Vladimir Frolov, a foreign affairs analyst, told The Times that Moscow will publicly denounce the strikes, “but everybody understands that this is just a symbolic act meant for Trump to look different from Obama.”
Still, there could be consequences for the American-led coalition that continues to launch airstrikes on the Islamic State in Syria.
Andrew Exum, a former senior defense official in the Obama administration, told the Washington Post that Russian anti-aircraft systems have ignore the coalition’s warplanes flying over Syria as long as they focused on attacking ISIS. It’s unclear what will happen in the aftermath of Trump’s missile strikes on the Syrian government.
“Both the Syrians and Russians can act as a spoiler. American and coalition aircraft have flown around and through their air defense systems for the last two years. If you launched a strike against the regime, it would have every excuse to start lighting up coalition planes with antiaircraft systems,” Exum stated.
Meanwhile, traditional allies overseas applauded the president.
The United Kingdom said it “fully supports” the American attack on Syria, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported. Britain’s defense secretary, Michael Fallon, said the strike was “limited” and “wholly appropriate,” according to the BBC.
Michael Fallon on Syria strike: "We have learned that there's a price you pay for not intervening" https://t.co/YMGc1c4Gmg pic.twitter.com/aLlnPa2Aa5
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) April 7, 2017
Back home, some of Trump’s sharpest foreign policy critics in his party are backing the president. The Post reported:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said, “Tonight’s actions show the days of being able to attack with impunity when it comes to Assad are over.”
“Unlike the previous administration, President Trump confronted a pivotal moment in Syria and took action,” Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in a joint statement.
In the background, there are questions about the legality of the missile strike. The Guardian noted that neither the U.S. Congress nor the United Nations authorized Trump’s attack. International law scholar Mary Ellen O’Connell, of the University of Notre Dame, told the Guardian that there is no legal basis for military action.
“Under international law, he has zero right to attack Assad,” she told Guardian. “It would be a reprisal attack. You won’t find any international law specialists who will find a legal right to carry out a reprisal.”
In light of that and other concerns, some Democrats and Republicans are urging Trump to consult with Congress about military action in Syria, The Hill reported.
"I'm officially OFF the Trump train." Trump's far-right supporters turn on him after the Syria missile strike. https://t.co/CRIDWz4PgB
And on the far right, many of Trump’s most faithful supporters are turning on him for breaking a promise to not get the United States entangled in Syria’s civil war, according to The Times.
SOURCE: New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Guardian, The Hill
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Good 'Ol Days: Barack Obama Was Nominated For President By The DNC 11 Years Ago
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"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
-- President Barack Obama
Happy #PresidentsDay, Mr. President! We ❤️ you!@BarackObama pic.twitter.com/xhQEb4OG1U
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) February 18, 2019
Continue reading Good ‘Ol Days: Barack Obama Was Nominated For President By The DNC 11 Years Ago
Exactly 11 years ago today, Barack Obama was nominated for President of the United States by the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Obama famously gave a powerful speech. SEE ALSO: Some No Name, Pitchy R&B Singer Disrespected Keith Sweat And Gets Demolished On Twitter Obama said in part, "America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess." Watch the speech below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato7BtisXzE Obama had many wins while he was president. He brought the Black unemployment rate for African Americans from 16.8 percent, due to the horror of President George W. Bush to 7.8 percent by January 2017. The poverty rate for African Americans fell faster in 2015 than in any year since 1999 -- falling 2.1 percentage points, resulting in 700,000 fewer African Americans in poverty. Teen pregnancy among Black women was at an historic low with he birth rate per 1,000 African-American teen females fell from 60.4 in 2008 to 34.9 in 2014. Pell Grant funding for HBCU students increased between 2007 and 2014, growing from $523 million to $824 million. Obama banned solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prison in January of 2016, the President of ACLU said about this in 2016, “It’s absolutely huge. We rarely have presidents take notice of prison conditions.” The incarceration rates for Black men and women fell during each year of the Obama Administration and were at their lowest points in over two decades when he left office. Not to mention, he saved our country from one of the greatest recessions since the Great Depression due to the Republican administration before him -- and now our current president tries to take all the credit. People are so happy 2ith his legacy that the people of Los Angeles were blessed to have President Barack H. Obama Highway as in December. The Mercury News reported at the time, "Two large, green-and-white freeway signs were unveiled Thursday, one on the right shoulder of westbound State Route 134 at the beginning of the 210 Freeway at Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, the other at the eastbound 134 in the vicinity of Route 2 in the city of Los Angeles near Glendale." In honor of Obama's historic nomination, check out photos of our favorite president below.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – TV Review
So, it turns out that Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) didn’t die at the end of The Avengers. Thank goodness, because I really like him. He is charged by Nick Fury to start a new crew to do S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff. There’s long-time agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), tough guy Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), lovable geeks Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) and they are joined by naughty rebel computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).
You know what I love about this series? It’s kind a like Buffy and Angel all over again. It’s got the Joss Whedon touch, with him involved in some of the writing, and the directing of an episode. It’s clever and fun, though the inclusion of Captain America: The Winter Soldier as a film with a cinema release timed to match in with the series was a bit annoying. I managed to cope with the series without the film, but after I saw the film I went back and there were quite a few things in the series that made a lot more sense.
I’ll watch more. For sure. I just hope they don’t try to do that movie thing again, it’s really annoying.
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Europarliament Campaigners Condemn Kazak Violence
MEP pressing for European Union action against Kazak government following Janaozen violence.
By Saule Mukhametrakhimova
A member of the European Parliament says Brussels needs to take a tougher line on Kazakstan in the wake of the violence of recent days.
IWPR interviewed Paul Murphy, a member of the European Parliament from Ireland’s Socialist Party, who has been involved in supporting Kazak oil workers in their campaign for better pay and working conditions since 2009, and visited the country in July.
He was behind a letter sent to Kazak president Nursultan Nazarbaev this week by the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, GUE/NGL – a European parliamentary group of leftist parties – as well as by six other political groups. They expressed concern about the violence police deployed against striking oil workers, supporters and family members in Janaozen on December 16.
Kazak officials say 14 people, most of them protesters, were killed when police opened fire on crowds in the town centre on December 16. Another man died in the nearby village of Shetpe the following day when police opened fire on a smaller protest. (See Kazak Protesters Demand Accountability for Killings.)
“We were horrified to hear that the riot police attacked the protesters, opening fire with live ammunition on the unarmed strikers and their families,” the letter said, calling for a swift and genuinely independent inquiry into the violence, and for those responsible to be brought to justice.
IWPR: In a statement on Janaozen on December 17, the European Union’s foreign affairs high representative Catherine Ashton expressed concern about the violence and expressed hope that the authorities would investigate it. It does not seem to be a very strong statement, since the Kazak authorities have already set up a government commission. It does not look like they will allow an independent investigation. Will the European Parliament follow up on this and press for an independent inquiry?
Paul Murphy: I agree that the statement of Ms. Ashton is nowhere near strong enough. Unfortunately, the leadership of the EU in the European Commission has a strong tendency to pay only lip service to human rights issues, in my opinion, while pursuing the commercial interests of European big business. In the case of Kazakstan, they have proven willing to deal with President [Nursultan] Nazarbaev because of their interest in oil and other resources as well as the question of a Trans-Caspian pipeline.
It is the responsibility of those of us concerned about workers, democratic and human rights in Kazakstan to put pressure on the EU so that Ms. Ashton does take stronger action in this case.
IWPR: How much leverage does the EU have?
Murphy: The EU has a lot of leverage in dealing with Kazakstan, in my opinion. Forty per cent of Kazakstan’s external trade is with the EU, and there is a lot of European foreign direct investment in Kazakstan too, in particular in oil and gas.
Politically, the regime in Kazakstan clearly has an orientation to the EU. With the talks currently under way about a new, enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Kazakstan and the EU, the possibility to suspend those negotiations gives the EU extra leverage, too.
IWPR: What does this agreement involve, and how important is it for Kazakstan to get it signed?
Murphy: There is currently a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Kazakstan. The essential element of this is a trade agreement, to lower export and import duties by giving “most favoured nation” status to each other.
The current negotiations aim to go further than this, to establish a New Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, with deeper political and trade integration and relations. The first talks about this new agreement took place on October 12. From the point of view of the regime in Kazakstan, this is an extremely important agreement.
IWPR: In a video address to the Janaozen workers you posted on your website, you said you had launched a call to break off the EU negotiations with the Kazak government on the agreement. What are chances that this will be successful?
Murphy: As a call by only one MEP, it would not be successful, but it is a question of building a campaign to put pressure on the EU and Kazak authorities. I initiated an open letter from MEPs to President Nazarbayev condemning the massacre of protesters and demanding an immediate, genuinely independent inquiry. This was signed by 48 MEPs from 17 different countries and six political groups, so that is an important first step.
I will be arguing very strongly that the topic of Kazakstan, and in particular the killings of workers in Janaozen must be discussed as an urgent human rights topic at the next plenary session of the European Parliament [on January 16-19]. If we are successful in getting it on the agenda, it will be on Thursday, January 19, as part of a human rights debate.
If we can manage to get a very strong resolution passed which condemns the actions of the government and calls for a suspension of the talks, this will put further pressure on the European Commission.
The key campaign will take place outside the parliament, however, based on activists and trade unionists across Europe and the world, acting in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Kazakstan through protest actions to put pressure on governments and the EU.
IWPR: Your name is also associated with Campaign Kazakstan, a group that has organised protest actions outside Kazak embassies in several European cities since events in Janaozen. Can you describe this group?
Murphy: Campaign Kazakstan is a campaign that was initiated by me and other socialist and trade union activists shortly after my visit to Kazakstan in July. It was established to be a campaign for democratic, social and workers’ rights in Kazakstan. It has particularly been focused on building support for the oil workers’ strike in Mangistau, because of the seriousness of this dispute.
We have campaigned within the trade union movement internationally for support for the oil workers’ strike, including organising a delegation of workers to meet with trade unionists in Europe. We had planned a day of protest on Friday, December 16 in solidarity with the ongoing oil workers’ strike, but when we heard about the violence of the state forces, we immediately changed those protests into a protest against this violence.
We will be continuing to campaign on the streets and in the trade union and workers’ movement against the oppression of the Kazak state and in support of the oil workers.
IWPR: Following the initial concerns expressed by international organisations about the use of live ammunition against demonstrators, another problem emerging in Janaozen is that of ensuring that the rights of those detained after the unrest are protected. Is that something you as an MEP or part of Campaign Kazakstan are going to raise as an issue – and if so, how?
Murphy: Yes, from what I have heard, very serious human rights abuses are now being committed in Zhanaozen. There appear to be mass arrests of men in particular, to such an extent that they are unable to leave their homes. I have also heard that those who have been arrested have been subject to torture, for example being doused with cold water outside in the freezing cold.
I have raised these issues in a meeting I had with the ambassador of Kazakstan to the EU, but he denied them. However, I and the campaign will be continuing to publicise these abuses with our protest actions, my speeches in the parliament and elsewhere.
IWPR: International pressure hasn’t always been successful in making Central Asia governments listen to concerns, act upon them and acknowledge wrongdoing. What can this campaign in support of Janaozen achieve?
Murphy: I think an international campaign by trade unionists and activists in support of the workers in Janaozen can make a real difference in many different ways.
Firstly, it can bring the attention of people around the world to the massacre that happened there, and the ongoing struggle of the oil workers. Secondly, it can build real pressure on various governments and the EU to stop ignoring the massive abuses of human rights in Kazakstan, for example by withdrawing from the New Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement talks.
Thirdly, it can give real practical assistance to the workers by donating to the solidarity fund that has been set up for the workers and their families. In those ways, we can provide real assistance to the heroic workers and their families in Mangistau.
Interview conducted by Saule Mukhametrakhimova, IWPR Central Asia editor in London.
If you would like to comment or ask a question about this story, please contact our Central Asia editorial team at feedback.ca@iwpr.net.
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July 22, 2019 Britain / history of science / Intellectual history
Carrying Coals to New South Wales: The Voyages of the HMS Endeavour
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By Editor Spencer Weinreich
The great ships of maritime history are protagonists in their own right. That iconic trio of explorers, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. That martyr for American imperialism, USS Maine. That scientific trailblazer, HMS Beagle. That bold adventurer, Kon-Tiki. Following the “lives” of these vessels, rather than the lives of those who sailed in them, brings out the sheer diversity of interests and narratives impelling human beings and their craft across the seas, the overlapping imperatives of commerce, science, and power plotting their courses.
The ship seen in Samuel Atkins’s serene painting, now held by the National Library of Australia, began its life in Whitby, North Yorkshire, built by the local shipwright Thomas Fishborne for the merchant Thomas Millner, also of Whitby. Launched in June 1764, the Earl of Pembroke, as the vessel was christened, was a collier, a cargo ship destined to transport the coal of northern England’s mines.
A hull model of the Earl of Pembroke as a collier, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
But the stars—or in this case, the planets—aligned a different way for the Earl of Pembroke. One of the rarest pieces of serendipity that periodically grace our solar system is the Transit of Venus, in which the planet passes in front of the sun so as to be observable from earth, not unlike the passage of the Moon during a solar eclipse. Transits occur in pairs eight years apart, but with one pair separated from another by more than a century. Astronomically, they are as invaluable as they are rare, affording unique opportunities to learn about the workings of the heavens. In the eighteenth century, astronomers hoped to use the Transit to calculate the distance between the Sun and the earth.
Unfortunately, observations of the 1761 Transit were ruined by adverse weather; to the stargazers at the time, the 1769 recurrence became quite literally the chance of a lifetime to conduct such observations. A number of European powers made plans to seize the moment—the dogged French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil had gone to the Indian Ocean to observe the transit, then hung around for eight years until the next one (see Sawyer Hogg)—including the British Crown. With the king’s backing, the Royal Society and the Royal Navy joined forces to mount an expedition to the Pacific—with the dual purpose of observing the Transit and discreetly exploring and mapping any islands they should encounter along the way.
The Royal Society initially nominated the Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple to lead the expedition, but First Lord of the Admiralty Edward Hawke, a decorated war hero entering his forty-eighth year in the service, declared that he would cut off his right hand before he entrusted a naval ship to a civilian with no maritime experience (Westfall and Sheehan, 327). The compromise candidate was a navy lieutenant barely forty years old, fresh from a surveying expedition to Newfoundland with experience making astronomical observations—one James Cook.
William Hodges, Capt. James Cook of the Endeavour (c.1775)
Cook had grown up in Great Ayton, less than thirty miles to the west of Whitby, and began his nautical career as an apprentice to one of Thomas Millner’s competitors, the Quaker coal merchant John Walker, who became a lifelong friend (see Williams, chapter 2). After nine years sailing the North Sea coal routes, Cook enlisted in the navy in 1755, rising rapidly through the ranks. In 1758, he began to learn surveying, and spent the next decade doing cartographic work on the navy’s behalf.
Cook was promoted to lieutenant in May 1768, a high enough rank that he could take sole command of a ship. The vessel in question was, of course, the Earl of Pembroke, which the Navy had purchased from Millner in April, refitted, and renamed HMS Endeavour, the eighth naval ship to bear that name. The choice of the humble collier to undertake so grand a voyage was no mistake: a well-built collier was study, capacious, and highly maneuverable. Vitally, they were designed with shallow hulls, to aid navigation through the rocky coasts of the North Sea, a feature that would prove invaluable when exploring waters whose shallows, reefs, and sandbars were uncharted.
On August 26, a crew of 94, including the naturalist and future president of the Royal Society Joseph Banks, set out from Plymouth. Two weeks into the voyage, the Endeavour arrived at Funchal in the Madeira Islands to take on fresh supplies, something to which Lieutenant Cook paid close attention. It was fortunate for his crew that he did so: the leading cause of death among eighteenth-century sailors was neither cannonshot nor shipwrecks nor sharks, but scurvy.
Scurvy—a debilitating and ultimately fatal deficiency of Vitamin C—was first observed by the Ancient Egyptians circa 1550 BCE. The connection between the condition and one’s intake of fruits and vegetables is one of the most frequently discovered-and-lost pieces of information in human history, learned by numerous sailors and admirals throughout the medieval and early modern period, yet never firmly or widely established in the medical—to say nothing of the popular—consciousness. In 1747, James Lind, a surgeon onboard the ship HMS Salisbury, devised an experiment in which he treated scurvy sailors with a range of supposed cures, among them hard cider, seawater, garlic, mustard seed, and, crucially, oranges and lemons. He found that the latter worked by far the best—but unfortunately for his seagoing contemporaries he buried this discovery in a single paragraph within a long and dull book that very few people read.
Interestingly, among Lieutenant Cook’s various missions was to test the latest theory about scurvy, which held that the condition stemmed from the depletion of the body’s gases and could be prevented with malt and wort, byproducts from the brewing of beer or whisky. As it happened, not a single one of Cook’s crew succumbed to scurvy—an achievement historians credit to the lieutenant’s scrupulous attention to cleanliness and frequent stops to pick up fresh supplies—and he lauded the virtues of malt and wort to his superiors.
The visit to Funchal was not without incident. The Endeavours quatermaster, Alex Weir, was killed when his leg was caught by the anchor cable and he was dragged into the water. Cook simply kidnapped a replacement from the crew of an American ship also in the harbor, a John Thurman of New York, and proceeded on his way (Hough, 62–63). Impressment, the forcible recruitment of sailors, was rife on the eighteenth-century sea, and was shortly to become a flashpoint of the American Revolution. Amid all the scientific investigations, it must not be forgotten that the Endeavour was a military craft, operating with the full authority of the British Navy.
Richard Sorrenson has brilliantly elucidated how ships like the Endeavour were really scientific instruments, tools for mapping coastlines and observing weather conditions. Furthermore, the Endeavour functioned as a “floating laboratory,” from which astronomical observations could be made and natural specimens could be taken. So much so, that Banks arranged for an enormous (and enormously expensive) refit of the collier destined for Cook’s second and third voyages, the HMS Resolution, with an unwieldy deluxe set of scientific apparatus. The changes made the Resolution virtually unsailable, and another small fortune was spent undoing Banks’s grandiose renovations.
All that lay in the future, of course, but even without a specialized ship, Banks and company accomplished a great deal from the Endeavour. Charting a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia, for example, Cook and his crew initially decided upon the name “Stingray Bay,” in honor of the area’s most prominent fauna. But a later version of Cook’s journal states, “The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Botanist Botany Bay” (Beaglehole, 1:ccix). The precise reasons for this change are much debated—bona fide respect for the naturalists’ achievements, flattery to the well-connected Banks, an imperial reclamation of the former French name, “Coste des Herbaiges,” perhaps even a bit of mockery—but the energetic achievements of Banks and company cannot be doubted (Carter, 9–12).
Gweagal shield taken on Cook’s voyage, currently held by the British Museum.
A more visceral form of imperial assertion came in the Endeavour‘s violent confrontation with the Gweagal Aborigines. Cook’s crew had several tense encounters with the indigenous inhabitants of what became Botany Bay: when several Gweagal warriors approached, and offerings of gifts proved unsuccessful, Cook shot one of them in the leg. This bit of violence neither cowed the Gweagal nor resulted in further clashes. Alongside the specimens collected by the naturalists, the Endeavour‘s crew made off with several dozen Gweagal spears and shields. These artifacts survive in the collections of several British museums, which have thus far rebuffed claims by the Gweagal for the return of their patrimony.
With the Transit successfully observed and a wealth of cartographic and scientific data gathered to boot, the Endeavour could begin the journey homeward, a journey not without further incident. On June 11, 1770, the collier—shallow hull notwithstanding—had an abrupt encounter with what we know as the Great Barrier Reef. As the ship began to take on water, Cook’s crew threw more than 50 tons of excess weight overboard, including several cannons. High tide freed the Endeavour from the reef, and the ship managed to make it back to mainland Australia for emergency repairs. In 1969, the cannons and other pieces of ballast were recovered from the waters surrounding the aptly named Endeavour Reef.
Nor was this the end of the Endeavour‘s trials: lightning struck the ship in the Dutch East Indies, near what is now Jakarta. Once more, science came to empire’s aid: the mast was equipped with a rudimentary lightning rod, developed less than twenty years previous by Benjamin Franklin, which averted serious damage.
At long last, the Endeavour made it back to Britain on July 12, 1771, where Cook and Banks’s achievements caused a sensation. Plans were afoot for another expedition almost immediately, but this would be made in another converted collier, Resolution. Endeavour was refitted as a transport and spent a few more years in naval service, making several trips between Britain and the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
The fame won by Cook and Banks did not transfer to their vessel, such that the Navy saw no particular reason to keep the Endeavour. In March 1775 it was sold to the merchant James Mather, in whose service the ship made at least one commercial voyage to Russia (see Baines).
Once again, however, the tremors of world history contrived to jolt the Endeavour out of the world of commercial shipping: His Majesty’s American colonies rebelled against the Crown. To prosecute a transatlantic military operation, ships were needed in large quantities, and merchants could make a tidy sum selling vessels to the Navy. Toward the end of 1775, Mather offered the Endeavour back to the Crown, but battered by thousands of miles’ worth of wind, waves, reefs, lightning, and years of wear and tear, the craft was rejected as unseaworthy. Nothing daunted, Mather simply renamed it the Lord Sandwich (presumably a bit of flattery directed as John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich and legendarily the inventor of the eponymous foodstuff, who had succeeded Hawke as first lord of the admiralty) and tried again. Again he was refused. This time, Mather deigned to make some repairs to the former collier, and finally succeeded in selling it back to the Royal Navy.
The change in ownership occasioned yet another renaming—there was already a navy ship called the Lord Sandwich—this time to the eminently original Lord Sandwich 2. The Lord Sandwich 2 was dispatched to the colonies, where it served as a transport and as a prison ship in the British occupation of Rhode Island. But on August 4, 1778, with the French navy closing in on Newport harbor, the British commander ordered surplus ships scuttled to blockade the bay—the Lord Sandwich 2 among them.
For nearly two and a half centuries, Captain Cook’s first naval command has been resting on the bottom of Narragansett Bay, a testament in wood and canvass to the inextricable entanglements of warfare, commerce, science, and empire in oceanic history. No single person who sailed on the Endeavour experienced half so much, or shared in all of the projects and ambitions of the ship—demanding that we broaden our historiographical horizon beyond the human. At the same time, the materiality of the ship—the wood, canvass, rope, tar, and the human resources of crew and captain—affirms the materiality of travel, even as the many repairs and reconstructions bely any static notion of an “object.” Like the ship of Theseus, the Endeavour was never a single thing. So much so, that its journeys continue, on the reverse of every New Zealand fifty-cent coin, in full-scale working replicas, and even into outer space, bequeathing its name to the Space Shuttle Endeavour, a NASA orbiter that flew twenty-five missions between 1992 and 2011. Wonderfully, fragments of the original Endeavour‘s timber were carried on the shuttle, and on Apollo 15—callsign “Endeavour”—when it landed on the Moon in 1971 (Wright). Not quite as far as Venus, but not bad for a North Sea collier.
Space Shuttle Endeavour, photographed from the International Space Station in 2010
As a coda, let me briefly return to Samuel Atkins’s beautiful painting of the HMS Endeavour off the coast of New Holland. Atkins painted that canvas circa 1794—the ship in question had been resting on the bottom of Narragansett Bay for sixteen years. Though the best years of Britain’s empire are still very much ahead, the loss of the American colonies was a blow to the national psyche. The tranquil grace of the Endeavour, the vehicle for one of the maritime British Empire’s greatest scientific and geographical triumphs, is a potent fantasy in 1794.
What We're Reading: Week of Dec. 29
What did Europeans contribute to the caste system in India?
Why are all the Con Artists White?
Crisisⁿ or, Rebooting Conceptual History for the Twenty-First Century
Dolf Sternberger (1907-1989) and the Political Foundations of the German Federal Republic
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Story structure and story beats
In some of my previous blogs I’ve talked about the importance of story structure. It’s a subject that’s fascinated me since I first started writing fiction. Some great writers ridicule the idea of an underlying story structure as being too formulaic. They say it’s based too much on the ‘hero’s mythical journey’ or it’s not appropriate for their genre. Yet when we look at their work we see the familiar patterns of story structure are there. For them story structure is instinctive and organic. Obviously, for lesser mortals, following a pre-set story structure will not guarantee the success of a story. But a story without any of the normal structure elements will almost always certainly fail.
At school we learnt to write essays and other narrative with a beginning, middle and an end. However, when writing a 70,000-90,000 word novel, it doesn’t really help to know that we should have a beginning, middle and an end. We need a more detailed breakdown of the underlying story pattern. And to get to this breakdown we need to understand the elements that are common to all stories. In their simplest form, stories are about people and how they react and adapt to a life changing event(s) in their life. The plot is the series of events, actions and revelations that occur in the story; but the real emotional content of the story is how those events, actions and revelations affect the main characters and those about them.
Much of the detailed analysis of stories has been directed at screen writing and the movie industry, but is equally important to all forms of storytelling, including novels. Syd Field, for example, took the classical three-act structure to emphasise the importance of the main turning points that naturally occur at the end of Act 1 and Act 2; and he discovered that something important always seems to occur at the mid point of Act 2. But as Blake Synder later commented in ‘Save the cat goes to the movies’, knowing the need for these turning points still left a ‘lot of empty space in between’ when writing his scripts. Snyder therefore came up with a more detailed fifteen-point ‘beat sheet’, which he then illustrated by applying it to a number of popular films in each of ten of the most common movie genres.
Blake Snyder is not the only movie guru to look at story structure this way. Each guru seems to have a slightly different way to look at structure, although their differences seem less important than their similarities. For example, John Truby in the ‘Anatomy of Story’ talks about twenty-two step story structure, although not all the steps are considered necessary. Truby emphasises that the steps will not tell you what to write in the way formulas or genres do, but they show the most dramatic way to tell your story. Truby tends to focus on the main character’s development during the course of the story; including the psychological needs and desires of the main character at the start of the story, and how these change with revelations that occur at the turning points of the story.
In the structure below, I have taken the Snyder beat sheet, added some of the flavour of John Truby’s steps, and fused it into my own simplified analysis of the three-act structure. It’s not significantly different from Snyder’s, except I have reduced the number of captions to 11 by combining some. The reason that I do this is more for practical reasons than anything else. I am experimenting with some screenwriting plot software at the moment that will organise my scene cards under these 11 basic plot captions. For reference, I’ve numbered the original 15 Snyder beats so you can still see which ones I’ve combined. The text in italics is there for further explanation.
Opening scene (1)
* Should hook the reader's interest from the outset.
* Introduce main character in his/her normal story world.
* Reveal main character's weakness/ghost and personal desires.
* Foreshadow.
* Hint at theme of the story (2).
Catalyst (4)/ Inciting event
* Opportunity/problem arises that changes everything for the main character.
* Sets in motion the chain of action and reaction that becomes the story.
* Provides the main character with his principal goal and motivation.
Initial response
* Debate (5).
* Main character tries to avoid dealing with problem.
* May seek help from ally/fake ally.
Plot Point 1 (6)
* First revelation and decision to act. No going back.
* Thrust into a new world.
* First clash with the primary obstacle in the story.
Act 2 part A
* Sequences of obstacles and challenges for main character.
* Some 'fun and games' as main characters encounters some success (8).
* Introduce B story (often the love story) (7).
Midpoint (9)
* May or may not have overcome the primary obstacle.
* But an even larger problem looms, and/or stakes rise.
* Main character's desire/commitment increases.
Act 2 part B
* Sub plots (related to theme of story).
* Bad guys close in (10). Opponents plan finally revealed.
* All is lost (11). Possible betrayal.
* Darkest hour (12)
Plot point 2 (13)
* Epiphany moment. Finally the main character knows what to do.
* Main character now has obsessive desire to see it through.
* The finale (14) or final battle
* Main character has changed.
* The world is back to normal
End scene (15)
I’ve said structure is important. It is. But it’s also a very basic required writing skill, like grammar. It won’t write your story for you. Many good writers may have a natural instinct for organic structure without consciously thinking about it. But if you’re like me, and still learning the craft, thinking about structure, both at the planning phase and completion phase of a project, provides an opportunity to step back and look at your story from a high level viewpoint. If a story doesn’t make sense at this level, then it probably doesn’t make any sense at all.
So what is your view of story structure? Do you think it is something intuitive and natural that you feel you don’t need to think consciously about? Or do you think the idea of a beat structure is helpful?
By John • Posted in For newbie authors • Tagged Blake snyder, John Truby, Outlining, Story beats, Story structure, Syd Field, Three Act Structure
There’s no such thing as writer’s block
That’s what I thought until a young writer contacted me recently asking for ideas of how to get around writer’s block. She had had some success as a writer and was finding it hard to get started again. That very success seemed to be the cause of her anxiety, and that was holding her back from starting again.
The more I thought about it, the more I realised that if writer’s block exists, it has nothing to do with a shortage of ideas to write, or knowing what words to start with. Quite the opposite. It’s a form of paralysis caused by too many ideas to choose from, and a nagging self-doubt that any of those ideas will lead to anything of real quality.
I’m sure all writers have spells where we are distracted for periods. Writing is a solitary activity and it’s easy to get distracted by e-mails, social networking, marketing – anything other than writing. And I think it is here that we can lose some of the passion to write and let self-doubt creep in. We write a paragraph and it looks like c**p, compared to the work we’ve published before. We seem to forget that all first drafts are rubbish, and it’s only after the editing and polishing that the draft will begin to shine.
Some of the writing gurus say that the answer is for all writers to set word count targets per day, or per week; turn off the e-mail, Facebook etc. and focus on writing the first draft. They also suggest avoiding redrafting until the first draft is complete. Others have said that they will start the day editing the work finished the day before, but will not go back any further. This way they can keep up the daily count.
It’s probably all good advice, but it is not for me. I write when the creative juices are running. When I’m not happy with a scene, I sometimes leave it for days to let my subconscious work on it. Then I go back and redraft the scene, and any further structural changes before moving on. The time I spend thinking about the problem, for me, is just as valuable as the time spent hitting the keys. But then again, I’m fortunate, as writing is a hobby for me; it doesn’t have to pay for my board and rations, and I don’t have any publisher’s targets to meet.
If you’re a writer, have you ever experienced writer’s block? And if so, what was your solution?
By John • Posted in For newbie authors • Tagged Editing, word counts, writer’s block, writing
Editing — my tools and techniques
Editing — How fiction differs from other forms of writing
Editing – early lessons learnt from professional editors
Story Shapes and Emotional Arcs
Amazon eBook offers
Conflict, Tension and Audience Participation
Story, Plot, Arc and Theme — how they work together
The big idea, concept or premise
Save the cat writes a novel
New Years resolutions for writers
Reading as a writer reads
Plot patterns
The Eight-Sequence Method
Plot points and pinch points
Hero Goal Sequences
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Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War: Part One
Written by James DiEugenio
How can one tell the story of American involvement in Vietnam without mentioning the Dulles brothers or General Edward Lansdale? With a full 18 hours at one’s disposal, I would have thought such a thing would be impossible. Yet with Burns and Novick, the impossible becomes the possible, writes Jim DiEugenio.
After a huge publicity build-up the PBS ten-part series The Vietnam War is upon us. Like previous efforts—The War, Prohibition, Baseball—it was written by Geoffrey Ward and produced and directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. I predict that like those other documentaries, it will win many Emmy Awards. But not because of any intrinsic qualitative value. But because Burns has become a cultural darling. He, Novick and Ward understand how to attain funding and how to get approval through media gatekeepers. Which is not the same as writing or filming honest, valuable history. As we will see, whatever historical value this much-ballyhooed production has is quite dubious.
It begins with the 1858 attack on DaNang as the French begin to take over all of Indochina for colonial purposes. After France fell to Germany in World War II, the Japanese occupied Vietnam. Before he passed away President Franklin Roosevelt had made a statement that after the war, former colonies should be allowed freedom to choose their form of government in the future. The film mentions Roosevelt’s dictum but says President Truman turned this around due to the Russians exploding atomic bombs, China being taken over by Mao and the eruption of the Korean War. This sounds a lot like it was cribbed from David Halberstam’s bad book, The Best and The Brightest. And like much of that bloated mediocrity, it is not really accurate. And since one of the main talking heads in The Vietnam War is Leslie Gelb, the editor of the Pentagon Papers, Gelb could have corrected this.
After the British let the French back into Vietnam in 1946, there were still those in the State Department who followed the on-and-off vacillations of France’s policy toward Bao Dai. Bao Dai had been the titular leader of Vietnam since 1926. The French gave him little leeway to accomplish anything of significance. The Japanese allowed him to stay as a figurehead leader during World War II. Some in the State Department told the French to alter the successive “agreements” they contracted with Bao Dai into an effective nationalist alternative to revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh and his followers the Viet Minh. This proved unsuccessful. And the US sensed that French unwillingness to concede political power to the Vietnamese “heightened the possibility of the Franco-Viet Minh conflict being transformed into a struggle with Soviet imperialism.” (Pentagon Papers, Volume I, p. A-5)
Therefore, American diplomats were told to “apply such persuasion and/or pressure as is best calculated to produce desired result of France’s unequivocally and promptly approving the principle of Viet independence.” And Paris was put on notice that the US “was willing to extend financial aid to a Vietnamese government, not a French puppet, but could not give consideration of altering its present policy in this regard unless real progress is made in reaching non-communist solution in Indochina based on cooperation of true nationalists of that country.” (Ibid)
This same study found that there was no strong evidence of Soviet influence with Ho Chi Minh in 1948, even though the French colonialist war had been going on for two years at that time. (Volume 1, p. A-6)
In early 1950, the French “took the first concrete steps toward transferring public administration to Bao Dai’s State of Vietnam.” This fateful move enraged Ho Chi Minh who denied the legitimacy of Bao Dai as anything more than a puppet of Paris. At this point Ho’s Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) was formally recognized by China and the USSR (ibid, p. A-7) When this occurred, Secretary of State Dean Acheson now reversed the policy of neutrality that had been announced in 1948. On February 1, 1950 he made the following public statement: “The recognition by the Kremlin of Ho Chi Minh’s communist movement in Indochina comes as a surprise. The Soviet acknowledgement of this movement should remove any illusion as to the ”nationalist” nature of Ho Chi Minh’s aims and reveals Ho in his true colors as the mortal enemy of native independence in Indochina.” (ibid, p. A-7)
Acheson then tried to disguise the aim of France bestowing administrative powers on Bao Dai by saying this would actually lead “toward stable governments representing the true nationalist sentiments of more than 20 million peoples of Indochina.” (ibid) Apparently keeping tongue in cheek, he went further and said this move was backed by the countries of the world “whose policies support the development of genuine national independence in former colonial areas … .”
On the day France recognized Bao Dai, President Truman also recognized him as the leader of Vietnam. A few weeks later, France began to request financial aid for their mandarin. On May 8, 1950, Acheson acceded to that request with these words:
The United States Government, convinced that neither national independence nor democratic evolution exist in any area dominated by Soviet imperialism, considers the situation to be such as to warrant its according economic aid and military equipment to the Associated States of Indochina and to France in order to assist them in restoring stability and permitting these states to pursue their peaceful and democratic development.
As the Pentagon Papers notes, “The US thereafter was deeply involved in the developing war.” (ibid, p. A-8) Later that year, the United Sates stationed a Military Assistance Advisory Group in Saigon to help the French.
I would have gladly forfeited all the incessant Burns-Novick use of colored maps with red endangering the Far East (I counted this six times just in Part One); all of narrator Peter Coyote’s—who I used to think was a pretty decent guy—intoning the David Halberstamish warnings about Russia detonating an atomic bomb, or China going communist; I would have exchanged all of those warmed-over 1970’s clichés for just three minutes of the above passages from the Pentagon Papers. Since this was the real reason America got involved in Vietnam: our failure to stand up to the French desire to recolonize Indochina. In other words, Secretary of State Acheson valued the alliance with France more than he did Roosevelt’s pledge of colonial independence. And his failure to admit Bao Dai was a French puppet is what pushed Ho Chi Minh closer to Moscow.
Two questions so far: how can you elucidate anything as fundamental and documented as this if:
You never mention the name of Dean Acheson, and
You never mention the name of Bao Dai?
Incredible as that sounds, it is true. And it was at this (rather early) point that I began to question the film-makers’ honesty. It is fine and dandy to let people directly engaged in the conflict, that is, soldiers and civilians, have their say. It gives the series grounding in the day-to-day ugliness and drama of that prolonged horrific struggle. But do Tom Vallely, Duoun Von Mai and John Musgrave make up in importance for the lack of Acheson and Bao Dai? Anyone who saw the film Platoon—as millions did—knows how scary night patrol must have been in Vietnam. But one function of the historian is to explain how John Musgrave got into that precarious position. The declassified record shows it was Acheson’s decision that got America “deeply involved in the developing war.” (My citations are from the completely declassified Pentagon Papers, not the Daniel Ellsberg or Mike Gravel versions which were incomplete.)
But that is just the beginning of the crucial excisions made by Burns and Novick. How in heaven’s name can one tell the story of American involvement in Vietnam without mentioning the personages of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, CIA Director Allen Dulles, or General Edward Lansdale? With a full 18 hours at one’s disposal, I would have thought such a thing would be impossible. Yet with Burns and Novick, the impossible becomes the possible. And by doing so, the film-makers all but erase the next major step of American involvement in Vietnam, and how Musgrave got stuck on that nighttime patrol in the jungle.
John Foster Dulles was even more extreme than Dean Acheson. His anti-communism contained an almost religious-metaphysical amplification. But he was not just anti-communist. Like his brother Allen, he would not even tolerate neutrality, or non-alignment within the boundaries of the Cold War. (See Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World, by Robert Rakove, pp. 5-8) Therefore, the aid to France in its imperial war was greatly increased once Eisenhower became president and Foster Dulles his Secretary of State. Today, it is common knowledge that by 1954, America was footing close to 80% of the cost of the war. In the last year of the war, America had supplied France with over a billion dollars in supplies and weapons. By 1953 this meant 12 shiploads per month, which had accumulated at that point to 777 armored fighting vehicles, 13,000 transport vehicles, and 253 naval vessels (See John Prados, Operation Vulture, Chapter 1 of the e book format.)
Burns and Novick briefly discuss the 1954 battle at Dien Bien Phu, which ended the French attempt to retake their Indochina empire. Dien Bien Phu was a scheme created by General Henri Navarre to lure General Giap, Ho Chi Minh’s military commander, into the northwest corner of the country. The idea was to engage Giap in an open battle and crush his forces via artillery and aerial bombardment. That strategy backfired. And about a month into the 55-day siege, it became apparent that France had gambled and lost.
But the Dulles brothers were not going to accept the fact that they had bet on the wrong horse. They now began to arrange one of the most frightening and outrageous episodes in the entire 30-year history of the war. It was called Operation Vulture. As John Prados, Fletcher Prouty and others have noted, this was the assemblage of a giant air armada. It was made up of over 200 planes. It consisted of fighters, bombers and three special Convairs to carry three atomic bombs to bail out the French. As Prados describes in his book Operation Vulture: America’s Dien Bien Phu, this was a Dulles brothers project, done with the knowledge and connivance of Vice President Richard Nixon. Nixon had previously convinced Eisenhower to allow the French to use American support planes, which were flown by CIA pilots. And some of these planes and pilots flew into Dien Bien Phu in March of 1954. They were disguised with French insignias. (Prados, Chapter 3)
Eisenhower would only approve Vulture under certain restrictions. Two of them were congressional consultation, and also that our main ally England would join the effort. Nixon lobbied Congress, while Foster Dulles had his ambassador to England approach foreign minister Anthony Eden for approval. Dulles then went to London himself. Eden refused to go along and (correctly) labeled the effort a lost cause. (Prados, Chapters 6 and 8)
Nixon and Dulles did not agree. And Dulles and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Arthur Radford did not give up. They had meetings with congressional leaders like Senators Lyndon Johnson and William Knowland, and encouraged the Pentagon brass to support Vulture. (ibid, Chapter 6. Although David Halberstam, in his book The Best and the Brightest, wrote that LBJ did not support direct American intervention in 1954, Prados dug up written evidence that he actually had.)
This lobbying effort included a speech in April of 1954, where Nixon proposed the insertion of American combat troops to save Dien Bien Phu. Which is perhaps the first public statement of that kind by a high ranking American politician. (Prados, Chapter 9) Foster Dulles made no attempt to reprimand Nixon for that statement. In fact, the two men were sharing working lunches on the attempt to save France. Foster Dulles now began to encourage Eisenhower to act unilaterally. At the same time Radford had sent a bombing specialist to fly over Dien Bien Phu to inspect the proper paths and altitudes for Vulture. (Ibid, Chapter 10)
When Eisenhower would not act alone, Foster Dulles played his last card. He offered the French foreign minister the use of two atomic bombs to lift the siege. Georges Bidault said his reply did not require a lot of thought. He pointed out to Dulles, “If those bombs are dropped near Dien Bien Phu, our side will suffer as much as the enemy.” (David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard, p. 245) What makes this so stunning is that Dulles was acting without presidential approval in making that proposal.
In watching the opening episode of this series, which deals with the French defeat in Vietnam, I did not detect one mention of Operation Vulture.
After pondering that historical black hole about the Dulles brothers, I began to think back to one of the opening statements made by poor Peter Coyote. He says that the Vietnam War “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings.” Decent people? Misunderstandings? Bidault certainly did not misunderstand the effect of thermonuclear war over Dien Bien Phu. And in this day and age, with all we know about them, how can anyone call the Dulles brothers “decent people”? One wonders if that common knowledge today is the reason that their names are left out of this installment.
From the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the episode now shifts to the peace conference at Geneva, Switzerland. As everyone who has studied that conference knows, it was essentially stage-managed by the United States, with Foster Dulles as the ringmaster. Although Ho Chi Minh and Giap had soundly defeated the French, China and Russia understood that the Dulles brothers’ unending support for the French colonial cause signaled ominous warnings for the future. Namely, as Nixon had alluded to, direct American intervention. Their allies therefore encouraged Ho and Giap to take a smaller cut of the pie than they had earned. Foster Dulles and Eisenhower had two immediate goals. The first involved the immediate future of Vietnam. They wanted a partitioning of the country between north and south at the 17th parallel with a Demilitarized Zone there. At the end of a two-year period, national elections would be held and the country would be unified under independent, democratically elected national leadership. Since the Dulles brothers were lawyers, they pulled a neat legal trick over this agreement. The United States did not actually sign the agreement. But Foster Dulles had his representative read a statement saying that America would honor the agreement. (See Vietnam Documents, edited by George Katiaficas, pp. 25, 42, 78) The other aim the administration had was to set up an anti-communist alliance called the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Which, of course, made the specter of American intervention more palpable.
Within weeks of the conference, Allen Dulles had given veteran black operator Edward Lansdale the assignment of creating a country called South Vietnam—which had never existed before—and propping up a new leader there named Ngo Dinh Diem. The Agency gave Lansdale a blank check, and the ambitious and imaginative CIA officer came through in spades. Knowing Diem was a Catholic, Lansdale created one of the largest psychological operations in the history of the CIA. As Ralph McGehee described in his book Deadly Deceits, Lansdale infiltrated teams into the north to disseminate propaganda about upcoming pogroms by the Chinese Communists against the North Vietnamese, and perhaps American atomic weapons used over Hanoi. As a result, in the 300 day grace period for north-south migration, about a million people fled the north, about half of them Catholics. The CIA allowed free transportation on US Navy ships and also air flights through their proprietary Civil Air Transport. Not only did this boost Diem’s constituency, it fooled many Americans into thinking that somehow Hanoi embodied evil and Saigon—the new capitol of the new country—was a democratic oasis.
Lansdale then helped further this illusion. He helped Diem rig a plebiscite that placed him officially in power with a mind-boggling 98% of the vote. Diem’s opponent, Bao Dai, was not allowed to campaign. And as Seth Jacobs wrote in Cold War Mandarin, in several districts, the vote tally for Diem exceeded the number of registered voters. What made this even harder to swallow was that voter turnout was nowhere near 100 percent. (Jacobs, p. 95) Lansdale had told Diem 60% would be plenty, but Diem insisted on the 98 number. (The CIA: A Forgotten History, by William Blum, p. 139) Lansdale had done all his masters wished, and more. In fact, as John Pilger noted in his book Heroes, Lansdale later complained, “I cannot truly sympathize with Americans who help promote a fascistic state and then get angry when it doesn’t act like a democracy.”
Although you can see his photograph twice, you will not hear Lansdale’s name mentioned in Part One. And by doing that, the CIA’s role in the rigged plebiscite and the forced migration is not revealed. Why this silence over the man who, in reality, created South Vietnam and Ngo Dinh Diem? Maybe because he wasn’t one of the “decent people”?
The effect of Lansdale’s work was to first, to stop the promised 1956 elections from making Ho Chi Minh president of a united Vietnam, and second, to spell the end of any leftover French rule in the south. With the plebiscite, Bao Dai was now gone. In fact, Diem formally banned him from visiting the country. After all this skullduggery and treachery, Foster Dulles would make the following astonishing statement: “We have a clean base there now, without a taint of colonialism. Dien Bien Phu was a blessing in disguise.” In the judgment of history, could any statement have been more wrong?
In May of 1956, Washington further violated the Geneva Agreements by sending in 350 military advisors. (ibid, Blum p. 139.) Burns and Novick try to place this violation on President Kennedy. But JFK just sent in more military advisors, they were not the first. And as far as violating the Geneva Accords, the Dulles brothers had broken that agreement to pieces already. But the importation of advisors was made necessary since the vote for Diem was so ersatz. He had no real broad-based constituency.
Since Diem could not command the allegiance of the people, the resistance against him began in the countryside. To counteract this rebellion, the CIA created a training program for Saigon security forces at Michigan State University. It was these trainees who manned Diem’s brother Nhu’s police force. A law was passed in 1957 that every Vietnamese 15 years and older was required to register with the government and carry a proper ID. Anyone without a card was considered a part of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of Ho Chi Minh’s sympathizers in the south. The military arm would be called the Viet Cong. Thus, using Lansdale’s ingenuity and the CIA’s money, the Dulles brothers created a “fascistic” police state which ended up imprisoning, torturing and executing tens of thousands of people.
But as Lansdale said, who can get angry when a fascistic state doesn’t act like a democracy?
These are the “decent men” that Burns and Novick could not bring themselves to mention.
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Rolling Stones Return Credit To The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft For ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’
The Stones Had The Publishing Rights To The Hit Song Thanks To A Lawsuit From The 90’s
Just about everyone has jammed out to The Verve’s ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ at some point in their life. While the song was a huge hit in the 90’s, the band never saw any royalties from its success. Apparently the Rolling Stones have owned the publishing rights thanks to a lawsuit, but now the band is returning the rights back to The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft.
After being forced to relinquish his songwriting royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards over 20 years ago, the Verve’s Richard Ashcroft is now the sole writer credited on “Bitter Sweet Symphony” https://t.co/PuDAaHcIWW
— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) May 23, 2019
‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ famously samples an orchestral piece from a cover of a Rolling Stones song. The part that was sampled did not appear in the bands original version of 1965’s ‘The Last Time.’ However, longtime Stones lawyer, Allen Klein sued The Verve giving Mick Jagger and Keith Richards the rights to the song.
Richard Ashcroft of the Verve posted this amazing news that Mick and Keith are giving him all their royalties for “Bittersweet Symphony”Another reason to love the Rolling Stones. pic.twitter.com/tV8l7cvwva
— Matt Pinfield (@mattpinfield) May 23, 2019
Now Jagger and Richards have decided to do what’s right, and return the publishing rights to The Verve’s lead singer, Richard Ashcroft. Both the song credits and publishing has been returned to the original writer of ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony. In a statement by Ashcroft, the singer said, “This remarkable and life affirming turn of events was made possible by a kind and magnanimous gesture from Mick and Keith.”
While it has been a long time since ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ was topping charts, Ashcroft is happy to be given the proper credit for his most famous song. It may not be a cash cow for the singer, but better late than never.
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Whatever Happened To Emily Hartley?
Posted on April 24, 2019 by upperco
Welcome to a new Wildcard Wednesday! This week, I’m looking at the premiere episode of a short-lived sitcom entitled Suzanne Pleshette Is Maggie Briggs, which ran on CBS from March to April 1984 — ending 35 years ago this month. Pleshette, of course, was best known to TV audiences as The Bob Newhart Show‘s grounded leading lady, and as her fictional ex hubby was starting out on his own comeback (MTM’s Newhart, which premiered in the fall of 1982), the former Emily Hartley also found herself itching to return to the fold. Her chosen vehicle, also from MTM, was a classically designed ensemble workplace comedy created and executive produced by Charlie Hauck, who’d written for Maude and co-created The Associates, and would go on to launch Valerie and write for Home Improvement (and Frasier).
As per the title, Hauck — who is credited with all six scripts except for one by Bob Ellison and Tom Whedon — developed a concept in which co-creator Suzanne Pleshette was Maggie Briggs, a hard-hitting New York reporter who reluctantly decides to transfer into her paper’s “Modern Living” department after the new boss (John Getz) successfully recruits her long-time partner (Kenneth McMillan). The series was to follow Maggie and her co-workers as she — a tough, embittered, newshound — tries to adjust to more lighthearted and recreational fare… under a boss to whom she’s subconsciously attracted. The MTM influences were obvious. In addition to the workplace construct, the core relationship was familiar; McMillan, who played Rhoda’s boss on the last two seasons of Rhoda, was once again “Lou Grant lite” to a Mary, er Maggie, who’d evolved since the early ’70s — now much stronger, more of an equal.
This evolution from the ’70s to the ’80s also came through in the aforementioned attraction between Pleshette and her new boss, Getz — a likely response to Cheers, another ensemble workplace comedy and unofficial MTM descendant that many smart writers of the time were emulating, principally because of its electric Sam/Diane relationship. With the rom-com notion hot, it’s not hard to guess, even from just having seen the premiere, that a longer run for Maggie Briggs would have explored some kind of romance between these two… Meanwhile, the ’70s’ ensemble structure remained; the show was filled out with co-workers, including Stephen Lee and Alison La Placa, who were reportedly joined after the pilot by Roger Bowen, Edward Edwards, and Michelle Nicastro. Also, Shera Danese played a model and Maggie’s non-newspaper best friend (the Rhoda to her Mary — although perhaps with inverted personalities).
How does it play? Well, having seen the premiere, I think Pleshette is as captivating as ever. But in the years since The Bob Newhart Show, her voice has already dropped another half-octave and the naturalness with which many of us associate her talents is somewhat obscured by the gruff persona that naturally accompanies such a harsh vocalization. Perhaps out of necessity, the show embraces Pleshette’s rougher aspects in building the character — but regrettably, this broadens her, undermining the simple authenticity that made her work on The Bob Newhart Show so commendable. Thus, to answer the rhetorical question in this post’s cheeky title, Emily Hartley is nowhere to be found, and in this case, that’s more unfortunate than fortunate, for now as the star of her own show, Pleshette pushes harder, making more of an effort to sell the premise, and more importantly, hit “the jokes”… But this now speaks to a larger concern — the writing, which seems serviceable, but certainly doesn’t compare favorably against the other shows mentioned above, like Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, and Cheers.
You see, Maggie is allowed to be such a dominating presence that no one else in the cast looks worthy of sharing the stage with her, and in a teleplay that labors to be funny, two things become clear: the characterizations, particularly within the ensemble, aren’t rich enough to sustain the series beyond the star power of its top-billed lead, and as a result, the material is neither emotionally full or comedically sharp. Accordingly, I’m afraid I agree with Variety, which thought the show needed help with its humor (this generally speaks to a flaw with how characters are designed) — despite a templated ensemble workplace construction that could enable the series for future success… However, six episodes is seldom enough to give any series a fair shake, and having only seen the pilot, my thoughts are further qualified… CBS, on the other hand, felt like it had seen enough when Maggie Briggs lost too much of its lead-in from 60 Minutes and never showed signs of improvement. Its unsurprising boot was likely no loss to the genre, but with several talents involved, you never know what might have been…
Yet there’s some good news here — especially for you subscribers who comment below to alert me of your interest — because I’m offering access to the premiere (for your private, scholarly, and non-commercial viewing pleasure). It’s called “Maggie Meets Geoff,” and was broadcast by CBS on March 04, 1984. It was written by executive producer and series creator Charlie Hauck and directed by Pleshette’s former Bob Newhart co-star, Peter Bonerz, who helmed all six episodes… In the meantime, and for the rest of you, here’s a clip.
Come back next week for another Wildcard post! And stay tuned Tuesday for more sitcom fun!
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For F*** Magazine
Director : David Yates
Cast : Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, Simon Russell Beale, Jim Broadbent
Genre : Action/Adventure
Run Time : 1 hr 49 mins
Opens : 30 June 2016
Rating : PG13 (Violence)
Superheroes may reign at the multiplex, but the Lord of the Apes is hoping to reclaim the crown. We find John Clayton III a.k.a. Tarzan (Skarsgård) living a life of aristocracy in London, alongside his American wife Jane Porter (Robbie). It has been years since Tarzan has left the jungle and now, King Leopold II of Belgium has invited him to return to the Congo Free State. Tarzan is initially reluctant to travel back to Africa, but is convinced by George Washington Williams (Jackson), an American diplomat who plans to investigate Leopold’s alleged use of slaves to build a railway through the Congo. Tarzan is unaware that he is being lured back to the jungle by the ruthless and avaricious Belgian Captain Léon Rom (Waltz), who has offered to deliver Tarzan to the vengeful Chief Mbonga (Hounsou) in exchange for diamonds. As Tarzan reunites with the various wild animals he grew up amongst, the people of the Congo must fight for their liberty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan is an enduring figure in popular culture, but is now most often viewed as kitschy and campy. Clad in a loin cloth, yelling as he swings through the trees – he’s not exactly the action hero modern-day moviegoers have become accustomed to. Director David Yates, best known for helming the final four instalments in the Harry Potter film series, endeavours for viewers to take Tarzan seriously again. This take on the story is commendable in that it wants to be about something, directly addressing the colonialist politics and the unethical means by which various European nations went about their conquest of Africa. It’s pretty heady stuff and the film’s approach errs on the simplistic side, but there’s enough action to ensure the film doesn’t get bogged down in its sombre themes.
Yates, working from a screenplay by Craig Brewer and Adam Cozad, approaches this as a work of historical fiction. The primary antagonist, Léon Rom, is an actual historical figure, who was known for keeping severed heads in his flowerbed. In addition, George Washington Williams as depicted in the film is a fictionalisation of a real-life Civil War veteran, preacher, politician, lawyer, journalist and historian. The 1890 setting is established with enough detail, but one does occasionally get the sense that this is an adventure flick putting on stuffy period drama airs.
Skarsgård beat out the likes of Henry Cavill, Tom Hardy, Charlie Hunnam and swimmer Michael Phelps, who was toying with using this film to launch an acting career, for the title role. We first see Tarzan as John Clayton III, trying to fit in among the upper crust, and Skarsgård ably conveys that this is a man who is not in his element. While Tarzan is traditionally viewed as a feral man, this version portrays him as a person of both instinct and intellect, having mastered multiple languages and well-versed in various cultures. He wants to be seen as more than a mere oddity. Naturally, we get to see him doff his shirt, and any doubts that he wouldn’t be able to pull off the necessary muscled physique are quickly assuaged. For all his efforts, Skarsgård is still encumbered by a certain stiffness, and this reviewer would like to have seen a more passionate, unbridled Tarzan.
Yates wanted Jessica Chastain to portray Jane and the studio had their eyes on Emma Stone, but it’s Robbie who portrays Tarzan’s lady love. Robbie possesses an irrepressible radiance and imbues Jane with a charming vigour. The film is able to strike a balance between putting Jane in peril, as she is expected to be so Tarzan can rescue her, while also making her a capable character in her own right. She holds her own opposite Waltz, but the scene in which Jane grits her teeth to sit down for dinner with Rom is a pale imitation of the similar scene between Belloq and Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
There’s no denying Waltz is a talented actor, but by now, audiences have begun to tire of seeing him typecast as the villain, and he does nothing different as Rom. The character is the embodiment of imperialist greed, striding through the jungle with fearsome troops behind him, taking what he wants at will. There’s no nuance here, and Waltz often seems extremely close to twirling his moustache. Hounsou strikes an imposing presence as the tribal leader who has a long-standing vendetta with Tarzan, but gets too little screen time for their conflict to take hold. Jackson is entertaining as Williams and the character gets a moment to reflect on his own history and explain his motivations. However, his performance can’t help but come off as anachronistic, and Williams is very much a wise-cracking buddy cop sidekick, which can pull one out of it at times.
There is a great deal of visual effects work and a multitude of computer-generated animals required to populate the Congo. Unfortunately, some of these beasts look sillier than others, and several sequences, particularly a railroad ambush and an ostrich stampede, lack polish. Tarzan calls on his animal friends for assistance during the climax, and for a film purported to be a more serious telling of the Tarzan tale, it is a little goofy.
The world was never aching for another Tarzan movie, but this one justifies its existence by incorporating historical elements and setting out to make a statement about man’s relationship with nature. This is complemented by a blend of National Geographic-style panoramic vistas and moderately exciting action beats. While it lacks the heart of the animated version the target teen audience might be most familiar with, it’s a fine addition to the Tarzan movie canon, and definitely ranks far above the risible 2014 animated take.
Summary: Historical elements are cleverly weaved into the familiar Tarzan tale and this is not as much of a re-tread as one might expect, but there’s still a certain vitality missing from this version.
The Rezort
Director : Steve Barker
Cast : Jessica De Gouw, Dougray Scott, Martin McCann, Jassa Ahluwalia, Lawrence Walker, Elen Rhys, Claire Goose
Genre : Horror
Run Time : 1hr 31mins
Rating : M18 (Violence and Some Coarse Language)
The most dangerous game has just gotten dangerous-er. In the aftermath of the Chromosyndrome-4 virus outbreak, the world is reeling from a war between the living and the infected undead. Entrepreneur Valerie Wilton (Goose) has established a game reserve called ‘The Rezort’, an island getaway where paying guests can hunt and kill zombies for sport. Melanie (De Gouw), a young woman whose father died in the zombie war, goes to the Rezort with her war veteran boyfriend Lewis (McCann) in search of catharsis. Joining them in the tour group are enigmatic sharpshooter Archer (Scott), gamer teenagers Alfie (Walker) and Jack (Ahluwalia) and Sadie (Rhys), who was supposed to go on the trip with her fiancé before he left her. All hell breaks loose as a glitch in the security system allows the zombies to overrun the island.
Director Steve Barker is no stranger to the zombie movie subgenre, having made Outpost and its sequel Outpost: Black Sun, featuring Nazi zombies. The influences on The Rezort are readily apparent: in addition to the obvious parallels with The Most Dangerous Game, this is best described as “Jurassic Park with zombies instead of dinosaurs”. John Hammond’s catchphrase in Jurassic Park was “we spared no expense” – given the limited resources director Barker had at hand vis-à-vis the relatively ambitious scope of The Rezort, the production values are surprisingly decent. The concept is realised with enough thought behind it and the Rezort has a nicely developed corporate identity within the story. This is a B-movie through and through, but it’s certainly not a bad premise. Paul Gerstenberger’s screenplay takes stabs at confronting the ethical quandary of hunting what once were human beings, and there’s a half-baked refugee allegory somewhere in there too. It’s not lofty philosophy by any means, but it’s more than we expected from an action-horror romp.
Unfortunately, it takes too long for the movie to kick into gear, and once everything goes pear-shaped, the zombie mayhem is largely repetitive and not terribly exciting. It’s the same thing a lot of zombie flicks struggle with – the undead hordes chomp down on their victims or rip out their throats, the human survivors blast a zombie in the head, repeat ad nauseam.
It certainly doesn’t help that all the acting is patently unremarkable. Some might recognise De Gouw from the recent DraculaTV series or her stint as the Huntress on Arrow; she’s little more than a generically pretty brunette and does not possess much screen presence. It’s also a bad sign when the mysterious badass in your cast is played by Dougray Scott, who probably still rues the day he had to drop out of X-Men and was replaced by Hugh Jackman. The two jumped-up teenage gamer characters are supremely annoying, but that was likely the intention. Goose is pretty flat in the stock icy boss lady role, which really could’ve been a lot of fun in the hands of someone like Cate Blanchett or Glenn Close.
If you’re a genre aficionado and enjoy seeking out low-to-mid-budget horror flicks that fly under the mainstream radar, The Rezort is worth a passing glance for putting a somewhat inspired spin on the zombie movie formula. It’s plenty silly, but does not get swallowed up entirely in said silliness and with a better cast and a bigger budget, might actually have been almost good.
Summary: The Rezort lacks in thrills and its ambition is hamstrung by its budget, but there are glimmers of wit in its premise, such that it rises slightly above your run of the mill zombie flick.
RATING: 3out of 5 Stars
Director : Rodrigo García
Cast : Ewan McGregor, Tye Sheridan, Ayelet Zurer, Ciarán Hinds
Rating : M18 (Some Nudity)
There was a meme going around a while back, of a framed photograph atop an altar of Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Attack of the Clones, the idea being that some old lady thought it was a picture of Jesus Christ. Here, McGregor actually plays Jesus, referred to as “Yeshua”. This film imagines an incident during Jesus’ sojourn to the desert, during which He was tempted by the Devil (also McGregor). Jesus comes across a family living in the desert, comprising an unnamed Father (Hinds), a sickly Mother (Zurer) and their son (Sheridan). The Devil poses a challenge to Jesus, wagering that the Son of God will not be able to find a solution that will please each member of the family. Jesus stays as a guest of the family, helping them out with a construction project, while wrestling with the Devil, Father God seemingly millions of miles away.
Writer-director Rodrigo García has repeatedly clarified that this not your run of the mill Biblical epic, and is instead an intimate drama and character study. The story of Jesus’ temptation in the desert is told in three of the four gospels, and Christians will be familiar with how Jesus refuted each of Satan’s challenges to Him by quoting from the scripture. This film departs from tradition, but also does not feel like it’s courting controversy for the, uh, hell of it. García explained his decision to refer to Jesus as “Yeshua”, which is the original pronunciation, in an interview with Christianity Today. “I wrote a few pages in which I called Him ‘Jesus’, but when you’re writing a screenplay and it says ‘Jesus walks, Jesus says,’ after a while, the weight of the name is paralyzing,” García said.
There are individual elements to García’s approach that are intriguing, but as a whole, the film often comes off as aimless and meandering. If it was his intention to make the audience feel like they’re spending 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness alongside Jesus, then García has succeeded. All things considered, the 108-minute running time is not particularly long, but even then, this feels interminable at times. It seems like three or four good ideas are spaced out, with a vast void in between. The Oscar-winning Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki is the cinematographer here, but it is a dull movie to look at, the desolate surroundings about as dull as one imagines the average desert to look. The film was shot on location in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in the Colorado Desert of Southern California, and it might sound silly, but for this reviewer at least, the knowledge that this was filmed in the United States did rob the movie of some authenticity.
Speaking of authenticity, this is yet another Hollywood film in which a white man is cast as Jesus. We don’t want to harp about issues of race and sure, there’s always room for poetic license, but especially with an actor who feels as contemporary as Tye Sheridan running about, it’s very hard to take this very seriously as a film set in Ancient Israel. That said, McGregor does face the myriad challenges in portraying the iconic religious figure head-on. There’s enough of a humanity to Jesus and at one point, He even laughs at a fart joke, but McGregor’s portrayal does have an undercurrent of reverence to it.
One of the smartest ideas on display is that of having McGregor play the dual roles of Jesus and His tormentor Satan. A conversation they have about the nature of God is the closest the film gets to any real theological insight. For a movie that wants so much to depart from tradition though, it seems a cliché that Satan wears jewellery as a way to differentiate him from Jesus; that the bad guy has to be coded as flamboyant. The visual effects work in duplicating McGregor is seamless and one does forget that there aren’t two Ewan McGregors after a while.
On one level, this is a family drama, with the parents and their child working out their issues while a house guest is present. Hinds’ Father is a realist, a practical man who has his doubts about issues of faith, but does not dismiss the holy man outright. The struggles of a father in understanding his son are very relatable. Sheridan shares some genuinely affecting moments in which the son bonds with Jesus, but as alluded to earlier, he’s ultimately too American to be believable in this setting. The mother is ill for most of the film, so Zurer has less to do compared to Hinds and Sheridan, but the character’s pain still resonates.
Last Days in the Desert feels more like a filmmaking experiment than a well-told story, but García is largely able to strike a balance between portraying Jesus’ humanity and deity without getting caught up in that, or blazing down a blasphemous path Last Temptation of the Christ-style. Alas, it is likely that this will induce thumb-twiddling rather than soul-searching.
Summary: Ewan McGregor shines in his dual role, but Last Days in the Desert’s loose structure and lack of narrative drive keep its audience at a distance.
RATING: 2.5 out of 5Stars
Director : Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast : Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Aaron Paul, Danielle Nicolet, Thomas Kretschmann
Genre : Action/Comedy
Rating : PG13 (Some Sexual References and Coarse Language)
Over the past few years, Kevin Hart has become the universal adapter plug of the buddy comedy subgenre, having been paired with the likes of Will Ferrell, Josh Gad and Ice Cube amongst others. This time, Hart is teamed with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. But is just their disparity in physical stature enough to elicit the laughs?
Hart plays Calvin “Golden Jet” Joyner, who in high school, was a popular and highly successful student. Robbie Weirdicht (Johnson) was an overweight social outcast who was relentlessly bullied, and Calvin was the only one who would show him any kindness. 20 years later, Robbie has undergone a complete physical transformation and reinvented himself as “Bob Stone”. Calvin is married to his high school sweetheart Maggie (Nicolet), but is unfulfilled in his accounting career. Robbie and Calvin reunite, but Calvin is informed by CIA agent Pamela Harris (Ryan) that Robbie is in fact a dangerous rogue agency operative wanted for the murder of his former partner. Robbie tries to convince Calvin of his innocence as the two go on the run, trying to stop classified intel from falling into the hands of a mysterious underworld player known as “the Black Badger”.
The thinking behind Central Intelligence seems to have been “just let the two leads loose, that should be plenty to carry a movie.” Much of the would-be comedy is painfully unfunny, and the action is generic and unimpressive. This is far from the first comedy in which a regular Joe is flung into the mix of high-stakes international intrigue, and the plot is painfully perfunctory and the final reveal is a predictable one. There’s an anti-bullying message here, that if you’re picked on by the jocks in high school, all you need to do is transform yourself into Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to get back at them. That should be pretty easy for anyone to do. The prologue features Johnson’s face digitally pasted onto Sione Kelepi who portrays the young Robbie; this effect is nestled deep in the uncanny valley and is terrifying rather than funny.
To the movie’s credit, it doesn’t go down the “one’s silly and the other’s stoic” route typical of buddy cop flicks. While Hart does eventually go into shrill, flailing mode, the character is likeable because of the kindness he shows towards the underdog. Johnson does have fun with the Robbie character, who may be all 6’ 5” of hulking muscle, but is the same awkward, socially mal-adjusted kid deep down. The thing is, Johnson is too slick and polished to come across as convincingly dorky. Nicolet’s Maggie is just “the wife” – the plot seems to hint at how marrying one’s high school sweetheart may not be all it’s cracked up to be, but doesn’t really go anywhere. Ryan is certainly far above the material, and phones it in as the comically serious dogged agent hunting down the suspect. Bateman is pretty much wasted as a stock slimy, snivelling banker type, and Paul’s appearance amounts to little more than an extended cameo. Look out for a prominent comedienne in the film’s climax.
Central Intelligence has the same problem that most Kevin Hart vehicles have: the producers bank too much on the comedian’s appeal to audiences and everything around him seems to be on autopilot. It’s a wasted opportunity, especially since Hart is paired with a bona fide action hero like Johnson. Instead of a production line comedy with bits of action sprinkled about half-heartedly, it would have been fun to see the duo tear into the conventions of buddy cop and spy movies in a full-tilt action extravaganza fuelled by belly laughs. The film trucks out the hoary dictum of “being yourself” – we’ll bet it’s easy to “be yourself” when you’re Dwayne Johnson. The scenes in which Robbie is wracked with anxiety brought about by the trauma he endured in school did resonate a little with this reviewer, but it never seems sincere enough to be a truly effective message. Sure, it’s sporadically amusing just by dint of putting Hart and Johnson together, but it’s clear that Central Intelligence isn’t aiming for any particular heights and is merely coasting along.
Summary: Sure, the leading men have chemistry, but unremarkable action sequences and jokes that are more cringe-inducing than genuinely funny ensure this won’t be front and centre in most moviegoers’ memories after they leave the theatre.
Director : Andrew Stanton
Cast : Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Idris Elba, Dominic West
Genre : Animation
Rating : PG
Pixar beckons us back fathoms below in the sequel to Finding Nemo. In real life, it’s been 13 years since the first film, but our story picks up a year after the events of Finding Nemo. Dory (DeGeneres), the blue tang stricken with acute short-term memory loss, begins to have flashbacks to her childhood, hitherto entirely forgotten. Dory recalls her parents Charlie (Levy) and Jenny (Keaton), and sets out on a quest to track them down. Dory’s friends, the clownfish Marlin (Brooks) and his son Nemo (Rolence), accompany her from the Great Barrier Reef to the Marine Life Institute in California. There, they become acquainted with the cantankerous ‘septopus’ (he’s lost an arm) named Hank (O’Neill); Destiny (Olson), a near-sighted whale shark who was Dory’s childhood friend; Bailey (Burrell), a beluga whale with self-confidence issue, and the sea lions Fluke (Elba) and Rudder (West). While Marlin wants nothing more than to stay home, he has to brave the unexpected yet again so his friend can be reunited with her family.
Over the years, DeGeneres has relentlessly lobbied for a Finding Nemo sequel on her talk show. Not only has she gotten her wish, Dory has been bumped up to the main character. In addition to voice actors DeGeneres and Brooks, director Andrew Stanton has returned. Stanton also co-wrote the screenplay with Victoria Strouse, with Bob Peterson and Stanton receiving a “story by” credit. There was always the danger of this being a mere retread of the first film, now considered a classic of contemporary animation. While it does cover some of the same territory and doesn’t arrive at the same purity of emotion that Finding Nemo did, the sequel is still packed with heart and offers entertainment by the tank-full.
Sequels have a tendency to lose sight of what made the first film work in their pursuit of being “bigger and better”. Finding Dory is actually smaller in scope than the first film, with most of the action taking place within the Marine Life Institute, modelled on the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. As we’ve come to expect from the studio, the animation is awe-inspiring and suffused with life, the environments spilling over with realistic detail. The animators have a lot of fun guiding Dory through the various mini-environments within the Marine Life Institute and the action sequences have a dynamic theme park ride feel about them.
Like its predecessor, it’s still a road movie: our heroes meet weird and wonderful personalities as they journey far from home in search of something, or someone. The story possesses a crucial forward momentum: there’s never a dull moment and the characters get from point A to point B in increasingly inventive ways. Not only is it fast-paced, it’s also frequently funny, with many jokes eliciting guffaws from this reviewer. A well-known actor who has appeared in a Pixar film before gets a riotous vocal cameo.
This reviewer was worried that Dory would be the latest victim of what we call “breakout character-itis”, wherein a supporting character becomes such a hit with audiences that their screen-time is massively increased in the sequel, sometimes to the film’s detriment. Dory’s appeal remains untarnished – much comedy is derived from the character’s ailment, but the film also recognises it as a source of profound tragedy, and this becomes the driving force in the plot. Dory’s back-story is established from the outset, and while it doesn’t quite tug on the heartstrings the way Nemo and Marlin’s bond did in the first one, there will still be no shortage of tears. Keaton and Levy bring understated warmth to the roles of Dory’s long-lost parents.
Marlin and Nemo receive just the right amount of character development: while they’ve both learned from their harrowing adventure, the essence of who they are remains unchanged. The pragmatism and impatience that Brooks brings to his performances ensure that Marlin remains an excellent example of the “comically serious” trope, while Rolence is as ideal a replacement for original Nemo voice actor Alexander Gould as any imaginable. Gould, now 22, has a vocal cameo.
O’Neill can play the curmudgeon in his sleep, and Hank is eminently endearing despite, or perhaps because of, his crankiness. Hank is the focus of many clever visual gags that make playful use of an octopus’ ability to contort itself and change its skin colour with the help of chromatophores to blend seamlessly into the background. Some of the other new characters, while often amusing, are not quite so memorable, and each of them have an obvious hook which seems like something a lesser animated film might fall back on. It’s always great to hear Elba’s distinct baritone, but he was better in Zootopia earlier this year.
Finding Dory isn’t as good as Finding Nemo, but considering the stratospheric watermark that film set, it’s to be expected. This film reunites us with the characters we love, just as we remember them, plunged into zany new scenarios. Pixar knows how to reel an audience in, and there’s so much here to hook on to. The short film preceding the feature, Piper, is an exercise in straightforward storytelling, starring a particularly adorable feathered hero and boasting some of the most sublime computer-generated animation this reviewer has ever seen. Oh, stick around for a post-credits stinger!
Summary: Seek and ye shall find all those Pixar hallmarks: beautiful animation, humour, moving sentiment and family-friendly thrills. It’s not as profound as some of the studio’s other work, but it’s so entertaining that its shortcomings are easy to forgive.
Director : Jon M. Chu
Cast : Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Mark Ruffalo, Jay Chou, Daniel Radcliffe, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Sanaa Lathan
Run Time : 2 hrs 10 mins
Rating : PG (Some Violence)
The Four Horsemen ride again with new tricks up their respective sleeves in the sequel to Now You See Me. It’s been a year since the events of the first film, and Daniel Atlas (Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Franco) have been lying low, awaiting instructions from The Eye, the secret society into which they were inducted. FBI Agent Dylan Rhodes (Ruffalo) attempts to keep up the charade of pursuing the Horsemen while secretly leading them. Replacing Henley Reeves, who grew tired of waiting, is the enthusiastic Lula (Caplan). The Horsemen’s new mission is to expose the unethical practices of smartphone manufacturer Octa, but a spanner is thrown in the works by Walter Mabry (Radcliffe), Octa’s reclusive co-founder. The Horsemen find themselves in Macau, and must seek the help of magic shop proprietor Li (Chou) as Mabry forces them to pull off a nigh-impossible heist. In the meantime, both former benefactor Arthur Tressler (Caine) and magic debunker Thaddeus Bradley (Freeman) seek their vengeance on the Horsemen.
Jon M. Chu replaces Louis Leterrier in the director’s chair for the second instalment of what studio Lionsgate is hoping shapes up to be their next big franchise. If the first film offered up flashy spectacle and a plot comprised of puzzle pieces that did not quite fit together in hindsight, Now You See Me 2 gives audiences more of the same. The screenplay by Ed Solomon ties itself into knots that do not untangle despite giving the appearance of doing so. This might seem like a film that imagines itself to be far smarter than it really is, but the more likely scenario is that the filmmakers are well aware that these movies will not hold up to scrutiny and that audiences will be content with revelling in the moment. Chu brings slickness and swagger to the proceedings that ever so slightly papers over the gaping plot holes. The director’s dance movie expertise is evident in several sequences that are elaborately choreographed, but ultimately more dizzying than dazzling.
The first film’s greatest asset was its cast, comprising actors whose charisma and charm could almost rival that of Danny Ocean and his 11, if only the Four Horsemen weren’t outnumbered. Isla Fisher was unable to reprise the role of Henley Reeves due to her pregnancy, so Henley was written out and Lizzy Caplan steps in as new character Lula. The danger with these characters is that being showmen, they’re all egotistical and obnoxious to different degrees. Harrelson seems to be having twice as much fun as before, but comes across as irritating rather than actually funny. Atlas’ haughty, twitchy nature is something Eisenberg has no problems conveying, but Atlas has had to eat some humble pie since the events of the last film, and Eisenberg convincingly portrays that character development too. Caplan is a likeable performer, but her “over-eager new girl” shtick does also wear on the nerves after a while.
Rhodes’ charade is up and the audience knows that he is not only on the Horsemen’s side, but actively leading them. Ruffalo gives the role far more effort than it deserves, and his presence does elevate the material. Quite amusingly, Ruffalo becomes the latest Hollywood actor who has to pretend to be adept at speaking Mandarin Chinese. As the primary antagonist, Radcliffe isn’t exactly easy to buy as someone who would be able to run rings around the Horsemen. The actor has explored his darker side in other film and stage projects, but there’s supposed to be menace behind Walter’s smile, menace that Radcliffe is unable to muster.
It’s abundantly clear that Chou’s inclusion and the Macau setting merely serves to pander to Chinese audiences. Veteran actress Tsai Chin (not to be confused with the Taiwanese singer of the same name), who plays Li’s grandmother Bu Bu, is a far livelier screen presence than Chou. The film calls upon Caine and Freeman to provide gravitas while not doing very much at all, something the iconic actors do without breaking a sweat.
Now You See Me 2 alternates between being supremely entertaining and frustrating. There’s glitz, glamour and eye candy effects work galore, but twist after twist after twist does not a truly engrossing thriller make. That’s the paradox: it does not hold up to close examination, yet invites audiences to do so. Ultimately, your enjoyment of Now You See Me 2 is contingent on just how willing you are to be taken on a ride. You’ll get bamboozled, but you just might have fun in the process.
Summary: Now You See Me 2 doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the first movie convinced general audiences that making sense isn’t the goal here. The goal is to entertain while misdirecting, and this has entertainment and misdirection in spades.
Heeding the Call: Ghostbusters Singapore red carpet
HEEDING THE CALL
Ghostbusters star Melissa McCarthy and director Paul Feig grace the red carpet as fans set a world record
Inclement weather threatened the Ghostbusters red carpet and fan event at the Event Plaza at Marina Bay Sands on Sunday night, but the skies cleared up just in time and fans’ spirits remained undampened. A group of 263 people clad in white hoodies, trousers and masks set a new Guinness World Records title for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Ghosts in a Single Venue. Radio deejays Justin Ang, Vernon A, Joakim Gomez and Gerald Koh served as emcees, dressed in Ghostbusters uniforms with inflatable proton packs.
The event was organized by Sony Pictures Entertainment to promote the new Ghostbustersreboot film starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth, and directed by Paul Feig. Both McCarthy and Feig were in attendance, greeting fans and signing autographs on the red carpet. The female-led reboot has been met with harsh criticism from long-time Ghostbusters fans, but one wouldn’t be able to tell based on the warm reception McCarthy and Feig received.
Commenting on this record, Feig said, “Seeing this many people get their ghost on and set a Guinness World Records title is a true testament to this amazing franchise that Dan [Aykroyd], Harold [Ramis] and Ivan [Reitman] created 32 years ago. Fortunately, I ain’t afraid of no ghosts because we were up to our armpits in them. Ghostbusters of the world, gear up!” Feig was accompanied by his wife Laurie on the red carpet.
Rishi Nath, the Guinness World Records Adjudicator who presented McCarthy and Feig with an official certificate, added, “We are incredibly impressed the fans’ dedication to Ghostbusters as well as their sense of adventure and fun. It’s official – this is a fantastic achievement!”
The event kicks off several days of Hollywood glamour as the Sony Summit continues apace in Singapore, with Inferno stars Tom Hanks and Irrfan Khan and director Ron Howard as well as The Magnificent Seven director Antoine Fuqua set to grace the red carpet this week.
Ghostbusters opens July 14 2016.
June 9, 2016 July 4, 2016 / jeddthejedi / Leave a comment
Director : Duncan Jones
Cast : Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Ruth Negga, Daniel Wu, Anna Galvin, Clancy Brown, Terry Notary
Genre : Adventure/Fantasy
Run Time : 2 hrs 3 mins
Opens : 9 June 2016
Rating : PG13 (Some Violence)
Blizzard’s fantasy franchise comprising video games and novels finally makes its leap to the big screen. Sir Anduin Lothar (Fimmel), the military commander of the Stormwind Kingdom in Azeroth, faces an unprecedented threat: Gul’dan (Wu), a powerful orc warlock, is leading the orc hordes from their dying homeworld of Draenor into Azeroth. Garona (Patton), a half-orc, half-human woman enslaved by Gul’dan, must decide where her loyalties lie. The noble orc chieftain Durotan (Kebbell), whose mate Draka (Galvin) is pregnant with their first child, does not see the merit in Gul’dan’s attack. At the behest of Stormwind’s King Llane Wrynn (Cooper), Lothar must defend Azeroth from the invaders. Together with young mage Khadgar (Schnetzer), Lothar seeks out the reclusive sorcerer Medivh (Foster), the Guardian of Tirisfal. They must repel Gul’dan’s evil magic, known as the Fel, as the seeds of an ages-long conflict are sown.
Director Duncan Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Leavitt, weathered an arduous production process and is himself an ardent fan of the Warcraft franchise. The disparity in the reaction the film has received from critics and fans indicates that this does appeal to those already familiar with the source material and who are excited to see the characters and locations come to life in cinematic form, but that those coming in cold will likely be alienated. This is very much a generic high fantasy tale, and there are so many characters introduced from the get-go that it’s easy to get them mixed up. The straight-face earnestness in the approach is a double-edged sword: on one hand, the filmmakers demonstrate a belief in the world they are building, but on the other, there’s an impenetrable rigidity to it all. Jones ploughs dutifully through the plot, but audiences aren’t given a chance to acclimatise to the world and the characters; the story itself is simple in nature but convoluted in execution.
Visually, this is an achievement, if not as earth-shattering as some might have hoped. The visual effects work, handled by Industrial Light and Magic and other houses like Hybride and Rodeo FX, is superb throughout. Visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer was an Oscar winner for Life of Pi, and one can tell that great care has been put into realising the digitally-created characters and environments. The props were crafted by Weta Workshop, and everything from the suits of armour to the swords to King Llane’s helmet abounds with pleasing detail. It’s a shame then that while perfectly acceptable, none of the designs really set Warcraftapart from its high-fantasy ilk.
After boarding the project, Jones set about re-writing the script so that it wasn’t built around the hoary trope of “all the humans are good guys and all the monsters are bad guys”. Fimmel, best known as Ragnar Lothbrok on the TV series Vikings, is a serviceable heroic military commander. Lothar’s relationship with his son Callan (Burkely Duffield) is a key component of the character’s arc, but because it has to make room for everything else, that is severely underdeveloped. Patton exudes confidence and retains a degree of elegance while playing a feral half-breed; Garona ended up being the character this reviewer gravitated to the most. Foster lacks the other-worldly mystique that Medivh should have, while Schnetzer is a fine sidekick to Fimmel.
In addition to play the orc chieftain Grommash Hellscream, Terry Notary was also the movement coach for the actors play the orcs. Notary’s credits include Avatarand Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The orcs are brutish by nature, and the gentleness with which Durotan holds his new-born son does lend the character more shades beyond that of a fierce warrior. Cooper looks the part of a dashing young king and Negga is plenty regal as Llane’s Queen-consort Lady Taria. Gul’dan is as one-dimensional as villains get: he’s little more than the snarling, hunchbacked wizard with an unquenchable thirst for power. We would offer Wu some praise, but it is hard to find him (or most of the other actors playing orcs, for that matter) in the character, since his voice has been treated in post-production and there’s no resemblance whatsoever. This reviewer feels Wu should be a much bigger star in Hollywood, so it was a bit of a disappointment knowing he’s in this movie but is hardly noticeable.
Warcraft is not a total wash, but given the build-up and the massive following the franchise has, it’s a shame that the film carries with it the vibe of going through the motions. Jones is obviously passionate about the property and has filmmaking talent to spare, but the cluttered narrative holds neophytes at bay. It’s hard to shake the feeling that one has been dropped in the deep end of the Warcraft lore pool, when this is meant to be an origin story that builds the world from the ground up. It’s more frustrating than genuinely aggravating that Warcraftstumbles so many times in its would-be epic journey.
Summary:For long-time fans of the franchise, this might be a dream come true, but it will be challenging for newbies to make head or tail of the overstuffed story, or differentiate a number of the characters.
Les Misérables Musical Review
June 3, 2016 November 21, 2017 / jeddthejedi / Leave a comment
Cast : Simon Gleeson, Earl Carpenter, Chris Durling, Patrice Tipoki, Kerrie Anne Greenland, Emily Langridge, Paul Wilkins
Run Time : 2 hrs 55 mins (With 20 mins interval)
Runs : 31 May to 24th July 2016 at Esplanade Theatre
When one thinks of juggernaut musical theatre extravaganzas, the show that immediately comes to mind (apart from the one about a disfigured genius who kills a bunch of people in an opera house) is Les Misérables. Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, considered to be one of the greatest works of 19thCentury literature, the musical was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, with French-language lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. After becoming a hit in Paris, an English-language version with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer premiered on the West End in 1985 at the Barbican Theatre. Weathering some nasty reviews from the British press, the show has gone on to be a worldwide sensation, with touring productions, translations into multiple languages, anniversary gala concerts and a 2012 Oscar-winning film adaptation. Touring productions have previously visited Singapore in 1994 and 1996.
It is 1815, and Jean Valjean is a convict who was sentenced for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s dying son. Valjean breaks parole to start a new life, eluding the capture of Inspector Javert. Following an encounter with a gracious bishop, Valjean reinvents himself as “Monsieur Madeleine”, eventually becoming the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer and a factory owner. Factory worker Fantine gets fired and is forced into prostitution. As she lies dying, Valjean vows to care for Fantine’s daughter Cosette. He rescues Cosette from the cruel innkeeper Thénardier and his wife. Years later, Cosette meets and falls in love with Marius, a dashing young student drawn into a rebellion led by the passionate Enjolras. In the meantime, Thénardier’s daughter Éponine pines for Marius but goes unnoticed. Through all this, Javert continues his relentless pursuit of Valjean, whom he sees as no more than “Prisoner 24601”.
The show has such an in-built following that one has to remember that for audiences who have had no prior exposure to the story in any form, there’s some legwork to be done. While the lush score and exceedingly memorable songs do sweep one up, it’s clear that even at a running time of 3 hours (including intermission), the story has been greatly truncated. There are two major time skips: the story begins in 1815, then skips to 1823, and then further ahead to 1832. Characters reunite out of what seems like sheer convenience –Thénardier even references the serendipity that fuels the plot with the line “Ain’t the world a remarkable place?”. The bulk of the story is set against the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, but even given spirited speeches from student revolutionary Enjolras, we don’t get all that clear of an idea what exactly they’re rebelling against, apart from vague injustice.
That said, this is still a show with tremendous emotional impact, enhanced by big-budget spectacle. This new production, patterned after the 25th anniversary reworking of the show, features set designs by Matt Kinley, inspired by the original paintings of Victor Hugo. Hugo’s paintings are also worked into the projected backdrops. The multimedia effects include splashing water projected onto the scrim in front of the chain gang rowing away in the galley, as well as 3D animation of the cavernous sewers through which Valjean carries Marius. It’s a tiny bit tacky. The set is detailed and elaborate, with hinged flats swinging open to let in shafts of light; Paule Constable’s lighting design always dramatic. The askew back-alleys do look authentic enough, though the stage does often seem cluttered because so much is going on at once. Fans of the original staging might find themselves missing that turntable once the barricade goes up or pining for the way the sewer scene was originally lit, but there’s still no shortage of awe-inspiring visual splendour in this staging. Also, those gunshot effects are wont to give everyone in the first five rows mild tinnitus.
Simon Gleeson’s Valjean is a man who begins as violent and bitter, and through his quest for redemption, never completely shakes that. It’s an interpretation that this reviewer found quite compelling, as Gleeson constantly reminds us that the feral beast with nigh-superhuman strength has never really gone away, and that Valjean is a man who has never been at peace with himself. While he delivers Valjean’s Soliloquy with great conviction, Gleeson has a tendency to go a little shouty during the opening act. His take on Bring Him Home, typically thought of as a tender song, is a little angrier than fans might be used to, but it does work with Gleeson’s characterisation of Valjean. Gleeson has, quite touchingly, said that the moment in each performance he most looks forward to is when Valjean meets little Cosette for the first time. One does get the sense that Valjean is valiantly trying to better himself for the sake of his adopted daughter, and the conclusion of Valjean’s odyssey is both satisfying and heart-rending.
Earl Carpenter reprises the role he’s played on the West End and in other touring productions, the antagonist Javert. The character is driven by a singular obsession and is unwavering in his hunt for the fugitive who has eluded his capture, so it is easy to make him a moustache-twirling villain. Carpenter stays a safe distance away from that, but his Javert is still easy to root against. The superciliousness and condescension that are vital components of the character are very much present in Carpenter’s interpretation, and the actor’s imposing physical stature certainly helps. His take on Javert’s signature tune Stars is a genuine show-stopper and is one of the best renditions this reviewer has heard.
Patrice Tipoki’s Fantine is perfectly serviceable and her rendition of the iconic song I Dreamed a Dream is a decent one, but she ultimately doesn’t plumb the depths of the character’s tragedy, failing to make enough of an impact in her limited time on stage. Incidentally, her sister Laura is the conductor and musical director for this production.
Both Paul Wilkins and Emily Langridge are expectedly pretty in appearance and vocals as Marius and Cosette respectively. The “love at first sight” arc, complete with a meet cute in the town square, will set more than a few eyes rolling.
Enter the hypotenuse in our love triangle, everyone’s favourite character Éponine. Kerrie Anne Greenland is plucky and feisty, but is also capable of becoming heart-achingly vulnerable during On My Own and A Little Fall of Rain. Her Australian accent creeps in quite often (listen out for how Greenland sings the word “only”), but it actually adds to ‘Ponine’s charm. She might just be this reviewer’s favourite performer in the show.
The designated scene-stealers, Mr. and Mme. Thénardier, played by Cameron Blakely and Helen Walsh respectively, with great aplomb. The characters provide much of the comic relief in a relatively downbeat show (it’s there in the title), but also have to possess actual malice and make the audience’s skin crawl. Some of the slapstick in Master of the House is a little too silly, but an elaborate gag involving a blind traveller and his pet bird is downright hilarious. We have to laugh at the Thénardiers and also find them utterly despicable; Blakely and Walsh have got all the bases covered. Over at the barricade, Chris Durling imbues Enjolras with great vigour, but did go off-key a few times while issuing his calls to arms.
Because of the nature of the 1900-page (in the original French) source novel, Les Misérables might not be a work that’s readily understandable in full, but it is a musical that is easy to connect with. The stirring music, powerful characters and dazzling eye candy stagecraft all make for a thrilling night at the theatre. Despite the long running time, there’s nary a dull moment in this show rife with incident. Rather than pulling one out of it completely, the moments of melodramatics and overall lack of subtlety add considerably to the charm of the show. Those attached to the original staging might bemoan what seems like change for change’s sake, but if you’re experiencing the show for the first time, it will be difficult to resist.
Summary: The storytelling is hampered by various practical limitations and some of the changes in this new production are unnecessary, but there’s no denying that this beloved musical remains a visual and aural treat, with powerful performers leading the cast.
Photos by Matthew Murphy, courtesy of MediaCorp VizPro International
Join the Upri-sing: Les Misérables Singapore press call
June 3, 2016 December 16, 2016 / jeddthejedi / Leave a comment
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F*** Magazine peeks behind the barricade at the Les Misérables press call
It has been 22 years since the barricades arose at the Kallang Theatre, when the blockbuster musical Les Misérables first arrived in Singapore. Arguably the best-known adaptation of Victor Hugo’s landmark 1862 historical novel, the story is predominantly set against the backdrop of 1832 June Rebellion in Paris. Composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricists Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel’s original French-language musical debuted in 1980, with the English adaptation featuring Herbert Kretzmer’s lyrics opening in 1985. Les Misérables has since become the longest-running musical on the West End, and has celebrated its milestones with all-star anniversary concerts. A feature film adaptation of the musical was released in 2012, winning three Oscars.
On Thursday morning, F*** was in attendance at the Esplanade Theatre as a press preview was staged, followed by interviews with the cast and crew. This production is at the tail-end of a two-year tour, which began in Australia and is fresh off their Philippines leg. This staging is different from how fans of the original might remember it; the show was reworked for its 25th anniversary with new set designs and a re-orchestrated score. While iconic elements like the turntable and the barricade set that splits in half have been excised, Matt Kinley’s set design takes inspiration from the paintings of author Hugo, who was also an accomplished visual artist. The paintings, projected onto the backdrop, further enrich the depiction of 19th Century France.
“We’re getting older, but it looks like the show is never aging, and is [in fact] getting kind of younger,” Boublil said. “All the people who play in the show now were not born when Claude-Michel and I were writing it!” Boublil told us about the process of adapting the 1500-page book into a musical. When it debuted in 1985, the English-language version was four hours long; this has now been whittled down to around three hours. Boublil stated that the novel is required reading in most French schools, “but you don’t understand it – you know it’s about injustice, but apart from that, you don’t get the heart and soul of it.”
Boublil is of the opinion that not everything makes a good musical, and described how he and Schönberg were convinced of Les Misérables’ potential. “Many of them are musicalized in an opportunistic way, or they don’t last,” he said of other source material. When asked whether or not he remembers the feeling of first seeing the musical on stage, Boublil replied “I remember it very well.” On the cast of the original West End production, which included such luminaries as Colm Wilkinson, Frances Ruffelle and Patti Lupone, Boublil commented “We had the crème de la crème of musical theatre, but we didn’t know it yet! We didn’t know that they would each become a star in his or her own right.” It might be hard to imagine now, but the show opened to scathing reviews on the West End. Boublil remembered a headline in an English daily which read “What can be worse than a bad musical? A French musical.” “That day was like a death sentence is ringing,” he recalled, thinking that the show would surely close inside of a month after those notices. “To my amazement and pride, it has become the world’s longest-running musical,” he said.
The lead role of Jean Valjean is played by Australian actor Simon Gleeson, who won a Helpmann award for the role. The character, an escaped convict who embarks on a journey of redemption, is one of the most prominent roles in musical theatre. When asked what aspect of Valjean he most connected with, Gleeson answered “My job is to connect with all of them. The frustration that he feels at the start, the anger that he feels towards the world at the start, the joy he gets when he meets little Cosette, I connect with all of them.”
The part Gleeson most looks forward to during each performance might surprise audiences, since it isn’t the grand solos like Valjean’s Soliloquy or Bring Him Home. “It’s meeting little Cosette. Meeting the little girl is the first time the character gets to smile. It’s the first time he goes ‘I can live for something now’.” He had quite the heart-warming story to relate about his daughter. “When I first was rehearsing for the audition years ago, I would sing Bring Him Home in the house and she actually said ‘I forbid you to sing in the house’.” Gleeson related to us. “I didn’t realise it was because she would go to her room and cry, because she locked on to the fact that something was wrong, that I wasn’t happy, that I was in pain and something was going on and she couldn’t comprehend it, she understood just from the music alone.” His son’s reaction after watching the show was a little less complicated. “He just liked the guns,” Gleeson chuckled.
Gleeson played Raoul in Love Never Dies, the sequel to Phantom of the Opera. “The role I played was a horrible man – alcoholic, abusive, he was a terrible father, he was all the things that Jean Valjean isn’t,” Gleeson remarked, admitting “I had such a good time! It was really great.” Gleeson said the music plays an enormous part in helping him get into character. “The music is so evocative that you can’t helped but be seduced into where you need to be. Good luck if you can resist, you’d be a fool to try.” Gleeson worked briefly with Hugh Jackman, who played Valjean in the 2012 film. “He actually said to me ‘I don’t know how you do it eight times a week,’” Gleeson revealed. Gleeson said that, “frustratingly” enough, Jackman lives up to his reputation as being an affable person. He’s so generous and an incredibly talented guy, I can’t speak highly enough about Hugh.”
Valjean’s arch-nemesis Inspector Javert, a dogged police officer who pursues the fugitive over the course of almost two decades, is played by Earl Carpenter. The English actor has played Javert on Broadway and the title role in The Phantom of the Opera on the West End. He also performed in the 25thanniversary concerts of both shows. “Everyone says he is a bad guy! Not at all!” Carpenter insisted, describing Javert as “a robust individual that knows one thing, which is his belief in the law”. “At that last moment, you see something very different happen to him, which is the fact that somebody has knocked his beliefs off the track and there’s no other way for him to deal with it, he doesn’t have the capacity to deal with it,” Carpenter said of Javert, who is ultimately undone by his own unwillingness to see Valjean as anything other than a criminal. Recalling his first time seeing the show at age 21, Carpenter said “it was just incredible to see something so epic but live, rather than seeing it on the screen, it was extraordinary.”
On Russell Crowe’s much-maligned portrayal of Javert in the 2012 film version, Carpenter pragmatically stated “There’s a reason for everything. Everybody makes decisions. That film had to appeal to a massive audience and to do that, maybe just Les Mis as a musical, wasn’t going to be enough to sell the film. It’s incredibly expensive to put a film on these days.” Coming to Crowe’s defence, Carpenter said “I know he confessed to being very nervous, in front of musical theatre singers. It was an incredibly scary time for him.” Carpenter shared that he thought that “there were moments of Russell’s character that were just absolutely spot on. His persona, for that role, was great.” Quite graciously, he added “there could be people who probably don’t like my singing, it doesn’t matter.”
Central to the story is the love triangle between Valjean’s adoptive daughter Cosette, the dashing, rich young Marius and Éponine, whose parents mistreated Cosette when she was in their care. Emily Langridge plays Cosette, Paul Wilkins plays Marius and Kerrie Anne Greenland plays Éponine. Most fans gravitate to the character of Éponine, who is placed squarely in the ‘friendzone’ by Marius. “Actually, the funny thing is that especially in the rehearsal room, I get to see a lot more of A Heart Full Of Love, where Cosette and Marius finally get to really see each other for the first time, and it’s so beautiful,” Kerrie admitted. “I know I’m Éponine, but it’s really awesome what they’ve got going on!”
“I think it’s hard for Cosette because she actually has gone through a lot,” Langridge said. “We see Cosette as a child and we see Éponine as a child and their roles really swap when they’re older. I think they’re really similar. Maybe if Éponine didn’t die, then they would be friends.”
Commenting on the perceived obtuseness displayed by Marius in his interactions with Éponine, Wilkins said “I think that comes with the territory of young love and experiencing it for the first time and kind of not knowing the signs.” He related a story from his own youth: “When I was in primary school, a girl used to kick me under the table in music. She kicked me, and I thought she hated me – little did I know, months later, that she really, really fancied me!”
Greenland added that Éponine might have stood a chance “if she had a bath”.
The actors spoke of going back to the source material, since much of the material was cut down in the adaptation process. “Cosette as a character has so much description in the book and in so much detail, where in the musical, her role is scaled down quite a lot, so I really try to get as much detail as I can from the book to give the role the most amount of depth in a short time,” Langridge said. This process was also helpful for the actors in creating something that resonated with them, rather than attempting to replicate past portrayals.
Out of all the characters, Fantine, Cosette’s biological mother, probably has the most number of tragic calamities befall her. Fantine sings what is arguably the best-known song in the show, I Dreamed a Dream. Australian actress Patrice Tipoki, who has starred in productions of The Lion King, Wicked and Beauty and the Beast, plays Fantine. She has been a fan of Les Misérables since she was young. “I used to sing Master of the House when people would come to the house, I don’t know how appropriate that was for a seven-year-old girl!” she laughed.
“It took a while for me to shake other people’s versions of this song, especially in my head, because I grew up with it,” she said, on the subject of making the role her own. “It was nice to have the rehearsal process that we do to be able to find my voice and my story that I wanted to tell. And of course, that still changes every night, depending on how I’m feeling and how receptive the audience is. It’s nice to know that everyone already loves the song, so it’s starting on a good note.” Fantine’s appearance in the musical, while impactful, is relatively brief. “Every night I go ‘maybe I’ll live tonight!’ It’s never happened yet, still trying!” Tipoki joked.
Co-director James Powell explained the lasting appeal of the show, saying “The story itself is about the human condition. It’s a classic story that’s just as relevant today as it was 400 (sic) years ago. The generosity of spirit is what I think people are moved by, in the face of adversity, they come through, and I think that’s what people find very uplifting. And the music helps a bit.” Working for super-producer Cameron Mackintosh has kept Powell on his toes. “When you work for Cameron Mackintosh, you are always evolving, you don’t stay still,” Powell said.
So, why should audiences go see Les Misérables? Producer Nick Allott, who is the managing director of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd., has the answer. “This is a story that covers everything: it covers love, it covers conflict between two people, it covers the triumph of good over evil, it has battles, it has epic scale and it has fantastically strong characters, characters you can fall in love or identity with,” he enthused. “I can’t think of anyone sitting there being bored. This is a show that picks you up and carries you through in this extraordinary way.”
Les Misérables runs from 31st May to 24thJuly at the Esplanade Theatre. Please visit http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/mis0716 for ticket information.
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What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury.
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So now we get the syntax. Just as morphology has a neat trick of the arbitrariness of the sign, syntax has its own neat trick described by the scholar Wilhelm von Humboldt as infinite use of finite media. What we have in language is a set of distinct symbols, say words or phrases or categories that words and phrases belong to, and rules that order these symbols, and then other rules that call upon these rules giving rise to the possibility of infinite production of symbol strings, what's called a recursion. This isn't special to a human language. So, other systems that exist have symbols and rules that act upon them such as music and a DNA works that way. But our focus here is on language. So, in case this all sounds a little bit abstract and confusing, I want to give a concrete example. Imagine a simple language. This simple language has five words. It has three nouns: Fred, Barney, and Wilma; and it has two verbs: thinks and likes; and it has a rule. The rule is, a sentence can expand into a noun and a verb and a noun, in that order. So, what can this rule create? Well, you could pick any noun, say, Fred, follow it by any verb, say, likes, and follow that by any noun, say, Wilma, and now you've produced a sentence, Fred likes Wilma. How many sentences can this rule produce? Well, think about it. You got three nouns and two verbs. So, any noun, then any verb, then any noun is three times two times three, which is 18. This is actually fairly impressive. You had to learn six things, five words in one rule. But you got to generate a series of novel sentences. If you have a lot of nouns, lot of verbs, you could generate a lot of sentences. Imagine how many sentences you could create with a 1,000 nouns and 100 verbs. But still, while it's powerful, it's not infinite and we're not getting at the core of language. So now, imagine a more complicated language. This language has the same vocabulary, but it has one more rule. It has a second rule saying, a sentence can lead to a noun followed by a verb, followed by a sentence. So, for instance, you could say, you could evoke rule two; Fred thinks Barney likes Wilma. But you could also use rule two repeatedly. So, you can say Fred thinks Barney thinks Fred likes Wilma. Because there's no limit to how often you can use this rule repeatedly, there's an infinite number of sentences. So, I'll use it with more regular English examples. So, a simple rule of English creates the sentence, John hates cheese. But we can say something like, my roommate heard a rumor that John hates cheese, where the sentence, John eats cheese, is embedded into another sentence. We could say, it disturbed Mary when I told her that my roommate heard a rumor that John hates cheese, or I was amazed that it disturbed Mary when I told her that my roommate heard a rumor that John hates cheese, or Professor Bloom devoted way too much of his lecture talking about how I was amazed at the disturbed Mary when I told her that my roommate heard a rumor that John hates cheese. Now I can guarantee you, you have never heard that sentence before, but you can understand it. It's unwieldy we could understand it because you could apply rules to it. So, there's no stopping you. It really bothered me that Professor Bloom and I won't continue. The generativity of language, these rules, these recursive rules give rise to the capacity to produce and understand a lot of sentences. We talked earlier about how many sentences are 20 words long? But take us another example of the tweet. So the tweet, as I'm saying this right now, is 140 characters long. Let's forget about numbers and the like. There are 26 characters in English, 27 if you include the space. So, the number of possible sentences you have is 27 to the power of 140, which is a lot. But that's too much because I would include gibberish. So, when you narrow it down to possible English sentences, and the calculations are done in a cartoon xkcd. I have the link up here, if you want to look at it. You'll see that the answer is about two times 10 to the 46. We will never run out of tweets. The fact that our language is governed by rules that generate different possibilities leads to all sorts of things leads to ambiguity. So, take this old joke by Groucho Marx, where he says, "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got into my pajamas I'll never know." It plays on to grammatical readings. It turns out that people collect headlines, newspaper headlines, where there's an unintended ambiguity. Here's some of my favorite examples: "Complaints about NBA Referees Growing Ugly", "Kids Make Nutritious Snacks", "No one was injured in a blast, which is attributed to the buildup of gas by one town official", and "General Arrested for Fondling Privates." For each of these, you can understand what the intended meaning was, but then you could also realize there's sort of another humorous meaning. But sometimes this isn't entirely funny, the ambiguity of language. So, take the phrase, "Let him have it." It turns out that a lot of linguists are interested in the legal implications of language and interpretation of language as in the interpretations of legislation, but also in criminal cases to interpretation of speech, and "Let them have it" turned out to be a very important phrase. Quite a while ago, there were two brothers in a robbery. One of them was intellectually disabled. They were stopped in the middle of the robbery, and one of the brothers pointed the gun at the cop, and then the cop shouted for him to drop the gun. The brother with intellectual problem said, "Let him have it." The first brother then shot and killed the police officer, and they were both charged with murder. Now, the guy who shot the police officer explained the murder. But the question is, what about the other brother who said, "Let them have it"? It turns out, whether or not you think he's guilty depends on what you think the proper interpretation of the phrase is. "Let him have it" could mean give him the gun, let him have the gun, or it could mean attack him. People thought he meant the second thing, and he was found guilty of murder. There's a lot of legal work again, looking at these sort of ambiguities and the role that they play. I'll also mention on a lighter note that the ambiguity of language can lead to humor as in Groucho Marx and as in one of my favorite authors, Richard Russo, who writes books with titles like, Straight Man and Nobody's Fool. These titles are, I think, deeply clever. Straight Man for instance refers to a heterosexual man. You refers to a man who is straight and honest, but it also refers to a man, who plays a certain role in a joke. Nobody's Fool is great because it has two meanings which are almost opposite. Nobody's Fool, meaning the man you can never fool, he's nobody's fool, or Nobody's Fool, being a fool that nobody wishes take possession of.
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Gill Memorial Boys’ Home (Or: Australia Is A Democracy, Not A Nomikocracy)
Posted on January 2, 2014 by lewisblayse
Image: Dr. Ralph Doughty, 80 – Former Gill boy (Source: Daily Telegraph)
The Salvation Army’s Gill Memorial Boys’ Home will be one of the four Children’s Homes which will be covered by the next hearings of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Home was opened in 1939 by then Australian Prime Minister Lyons, and closed in 1980. It catered for about 90 boys, aged from 3 to 18 years old.
The Salvos are still fighting compensation case from the Home, including in the courts. It clearly is resisting the payment of reasonable compensations. The revelations about the Home will be typical of those at the other three Salvation Army Boys’ Homes which the enquiry will consider – Alkira Indooroopilly Boys’ Home (the author’s old Home), Riverview Training Farm (see previous posting) and Bexley Boys’ Home (see yesterday’s posting).
Ralph Doughty, 80, (pictured above) entered the Home at age seven, when his mother died. His father had been a World War 1 veteran. He was there for 10 years. Recently, he has filed a civil claim against the Salvation Army for $10 million, or as he puts it, $1 million for each year. He claims that the Salvation Army has told him that it will use delaying tactics so that he will die before the case is resolved.
Despite having previously offered Dr. Doughty a $150,000 ex-gratia payment ((plus $3,000 for psychiatrists fees), including a clause saying he will not pursue further civil claims, the Salvos have entered an unusual statement to the courts. It would “not admit” that Mr Doughty ever resided at Gill Memorial Home, that he was abused or that he still suffers psychologically from any alleged abuse.
Given that the Salvation Army has had a bad habit of losing, inadvertently destroying, and simply misplacing files, it may be hard for Doughty to prove he was indeed in the Home. This would apply to most former residents of their 60 Children’s Homes, and may constitute the Salvation Army’s “get out of jail free card”, just as the Catholic Church uses the “Ellis Defence” (which is basically that there is no such thing as the Catholic Church, in the legal sense, so it cannot be sued – see previous posting).
Dr. Doughty says he had witnessed and endured physical, psychological and sexual abuse, even torture. The element of sadism will be sure to be raised many times during the up-coming hearings of the Royal Commission.
“The pain from these events haunts me seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The pain builds up, like rust in a metal water pipe. Its first trickle is about being alone and helpless…Just look around. I’ve got a good family, I’ve got good friends, but the pain stays in you.” This comes from a man who is talking about how he feels more than 60 years after he left the Home.
Like all Salvation Army “Home Boys” he was given a number not a name. He was No. 59. At a recent reunion of Gill old boys, some members had forgotten their numbers, but the event reminded some of them of their number.
Here are some of his claims: He was punched, kicked and repeatedly assaulted with canes, straps and pieces of hose and timber, then denied medical treatment. At night he was sexually assaulted and during shower time boys were poked in the penis and anus with a cane. He was locked in a cupboard without food or water and often told he was “worthless“, “a bastard” and that no one was interested in him.
Other alleged abuses at the Home included: Forcing boys to stand for hours until they urinated or defecated in their clothes, attracting more punishment. Boys were forced to crawl on their hands and knees while licking the timber floors.
Often they had to “run the gauntlet“, which involved the boy running between two lines of other boys who were made to punch and kick them. If a boy failed to do that, he was made to run the gauntlet as well. [The author has witnessed such an event]. Events like this form the main reason why some claim that violence was “institutionalized” in the Salvation Army Homes.
Dr. Doughty also says that “If you stood and you eyeballed an officer – I’m talking about 5-year-olds, 6-year-olds, 10-year, 12-year-old kids you would get a smash in the face, you know…. Punched in the face and then if you went down they put the boots into you.”
Another Gill boy who has spoken out is Jim Luthy, who was in “The Gill” from 1965-68. It was his letter to the head of the Salvation Army world-wide which resulted in a belated apology a couple of years back. He says that “It’s the very first time a senior ranking Salvation Army officer has ever issued an apology for the endemic and systemic abuses that occurred.”
[He has numerous education qualifications to his name and is completing a Ph.D. on the 2004 Senate inquiry into Children in Institutional Care. It is titled ‘Why Good People do Bad Things,’ based on his own experience.]
Amongst his claims are: “I was abused in every possible way – physically, emotionally and psychologically. I was not sexually abused but I know plenty of boys there who were. People were bashed routinely. It was a case of when, not if you were going to be hit…One boy was hit so badly he couldn’t sit down…. It was a brutal institution that discouraged learning and left children traumatized and with no life skills.”
He recalls a regimented lifestyle of rising at 6am, being made to strip the bed, stand at the end and being thrown to the ground by officers if it wasn’t done. His worst memory was of an officer wrapping a boy’s urine soaked sheets around his neck and swinging him down the stairs.
As elsewhere in Salvation Army Homes, he recalls boys being known by numbers, not names, being marched everywhere, made to take cold showers whatever the time of year and eat substandard food, sometimes filled with weevils that made them vomit. Officers sat on a dais overlooking the boys, but didn’t eat the same food. [Again, the author can confirm such claims].
Ten years ago, a Senate enquiry revealed the abuses at the Salvation Army’s Gill Home, yet things have not changed for the old boys. The Senate enquiry recommended that a formal apology led by the Federal Government is needed; States should amend legislation to increase the statute of limitations for prosecutions, and establish a national reparations fund for victims of abuse funded by the Federal Government, the churches and various institutions. Only the formal apology occurred.
In a clear example of just how long it can take for an idea to take hold, in 2004, one of the report authors, (then) Australian Democrats Senator, Andrew Murray (see previous posting) commenting on the need for the churches to give justice to their victims, said: “Governments have means to make people do what is right.”
When asked if this could include a Royal Commission, he said: “Yes, if people won’t come voluntarily and do what’s right.” [Andrew Murray is now one of the six Royal Commissioners, ten years later.] He is on record as saying: “I would expect churches who say they believe in the love of Jesus – they shouldn’t have any difficulty with actually exhibiting that love and giving up some of their money and their assets to make good the harm they did.”
One journalist, in describing the release of the Senate enquiry’s report in 2004, said that the Senators were “wildly applauded” and then the Senators broke down in tears. Normally, wild applause would make any politician smile broadly. It was a case of release for the Senators for the horrendous accounts they had heard. One wonders what the parallel will look like when the Royal Commission releases its report.
At the time, the Salvation Army refused the journalist an interview, saying in a statement they were regretful for any incident of abuse and at the same time refusing to discuss the issue of money. Hopefully, the Royal Commission will finish the job and real change will result.
Fred Walshe gave a quote in his submission to the 2004: “you cannot have a system of justice if there’s no justice in the system.” He added that “What annoys me most is the two faced presentation of the Salvation Army Officers who pride themselves as outstanding members of the community while in Salvation Army uniform, the other face of abuse hidden from the community.”
[Postscript: One former Gill boy, Clem Apted, is gathering material for the book he’s writing – ‘The Salvations Army’s Shame’ – with journalist friend Mike Davis. Its publication is much anticipated.]
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.retirement/xXfVOL3oMnE
Previous postings on the Salvation Army:
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/05/10/salvation-army-fullarton-girls-home-or-are-your-hands-clean/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/05/09/eden-park-salvation-army-boys-home-or-the-coward/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/04/22/salvation-army-admissions-to-the-victorian-enquiry-or-things-are-good-now-trust-me/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/03/04/the-salvation-army-or-the-war-on-kids/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/08/04/girls-homes-and-boys-homes-or-pick-a-bale-of-cotton/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/05/23/walking-the-path-or-endless-highway/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/03/07/terms-of-reference-types-of-abuse-physical-abuse-or-things-arent-always-overt/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/02/12/power-distance-and-abuse-or-i-kick-therefore-i-am/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/23/the-mcdonalds-connection-or-feed-the-homeless-crap/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/22/why-wally-should-be-heard-or-selective-hearing/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/21/what-the-next-hearing-is-about-or-nothing-is-forever/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/24/the-great-toy-heist-or-how-can-you-lose-100000-toys/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/25/the-australian-salvation-armys-finances-or-melding-church-and-state/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/26/more-on-salvation-army-funding-sources-or-purifying-tainted-money/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/27/the-salvation-army-position-on-sexuality-or-they-dont-just-shoot-horses/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/28/the-salvos-rag-trade-or-rags-to-riches-literally/
https://lewisblayse.net/2013/12/29/the-salvation-army-olympics-connection-or-our-business-is-charity/
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In Focus: Roberta Ireton Is A Super Classy Japan-Based Yuppie—This Sunny Radio/TV Host Is Ultra Lit
Julia Arenas
There are many Filipinos all over the world, but not every person out there has a multi-cultural background story as colorful as Roberta's. Roberta Ireton, also known online as "Robachan" or @robachan8 on Instagram, is a fun-loving Filipina-American-Japanese girl enjoying the now that involves a budding entertainment career in Japan. When you meet Roberta you mistakenly think she grew up in the US because of her American accent, but she grew up in Japan with Japanese as a first and only language until she switched to an international school. Now though, she is also learning Tagalog and other languages. "Robachan", as they fondly call her in Japan, just doesn't stop.
She's a genuine chill pill when you meet her but has the loudest smile, classiest speaking voice, and by the way, be warned, she dances in random public places. Roberta hosts for radio, TV, and does comedy stints with friends for both broadcast and online shows. She doesn't admit it but she also happens to be an exceedingly obvious fashionista groomed by Japan, with self-salon finished hair a lot of the time and her own red lip makeup look.
Happy New Year everyone!!! ??????????????????????#tokyo #dressingroom #newyears
A video posted by Roberta/ ???? (@robachan8) on Dec 31, 2016 at 7:05am PST
What is your ethnicity and where were you born and raised? "I am quarter Japanese, quarter American, and half Filipino and was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. My dad is half Irish-American and half Japanese and my mother is Spanish-Filipino."
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A video posted by Roberta/ ???? (@robachan8) on Dec 30, 2016 at 7:48pm PST
Do you remember how you were raised to be bilingual? When and how did you learn Japanese and was English the main language at home? "Actually, my first language that I learnt was Japanese. I remember that until I switched from a Japanese public school to an International School in fourth grade, I only knew how to say 'Thank You' and 'Please' in English. My mom wanted us siblings (by the way, I have four brothers!) to learn Japanese before any other language because it's a hard language to acquire. So, at home my dad had to translate what we were saying at the dinner table when we were sharing stories of what happened in school that day for my mom."
Ireton Five ????????????????????????????! Siblings reunite! Matthew flew in today and I fly out tomorrow so today is the only day the family is complete ???? ?????5????!?????????????????…???????????????TODAY!
What are your parents like, what were their career backgrounds and how did they meet? "My dad was the President of Warner Brothers Japan and ran the company for 26 years. As a child, I remember looking forward to my Dad coming home especially when he brought back posters and trailers for the latest movies. He would ask us siblings to give feedback and constructive criticism. Also hosting dinners for the movie stars that would come to promote their movies was a bonus!"
"Before he became the President of WB in Japan, he was a writer for a trade paper that my grandparents started. He went to cover the Manila International Film Festival and was staying at the Manila Hotel where he fell in love at first sight when he saw my mom working as an assistant manager. It so happened that they had a mutual friend, Johnny Litton, who introduced them to each other."
"As for my Mom, it must have been hard for her to leave everything behind and move to a foreign country where she did not know the language or the culture. But you would never see that struggle because she would always see everything with positivity, class, and joy. I felt like that was a quality she brought from the Philippines, which I love and admire very much."
Where did you go to school, what was your course, and what do you do now for a living? "After I graduated from an International School in Japan, I went to London for four years to study art. I was accepted to Chelsea College of Art and Design for my foundation course, which was for a year. I then I applied to Central Saint Martins where I studied Graphic Design and received Bachelor of Fine Arts with second honors. After graduating, I moved to Los Angeles, and then to the Philippines, and I am now living in Osaka hosting TV shows and appearing in comedy plays, TV dramas, and I also have my own radio show."
What's a typical busy day for you? "A typical busy day would be where I would host my weekly nationwide radio show from 1AM to 4AM, then hop on the first bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo, finish whatever job I have and hop back on the last bullet train back to Osaka!"
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A video posted by Roberta/ ???? (@robachan8) on Nov 18, 2016 at 1:28am PST
It was coming of age day in Japan 2 days ago so tonight we are going to call the Philippines to find out about their culture of coming of age! (Debut/Debutant)! @blessmybag Going LIVE from 1 am to 4 am on FM OSAKA and 34 other networks! ???????????????????????????????????!????????????????!???????????????????????20??????????????????????!FM?? JFN 35????1???4?????????????????!????!??????????!
A video posted by Roberta/ ???? (@robachan8) on Jan 12, 2017 at 7:24am PST
"I would say Japanese people in general when it comes to time and scheduling is detailed and precise. Being on time in Japan means that you are there 15 to 30 minutes early! Opposite of Pinoy time!"
What are your free windows during the week and how do you spend those? "My free time varies week to week depending on my work schedule. When I have free time, I love to write at cafes or go watch movies."
"But I have lots of interest and I am currently studying Chinese, French, and Tagalog. Also, I love ballroom dancing, I take cooking lessons, dance lessons, yoga, and Kung Fu lessons. Oh! And I also go to a circus school where I am currently learning aerial silk!"
Do you like to shop? What retail zones do you usually hit in Japan wen you have a little extra? "Shopping in Japan is the best. Of course in Tokyo I would recommend the Harajuku/ Shibuya/ Aoyama area. In Osaka, Shinsaibashi and Umeda are great places to shop and eat!"
You mentioned that you are a comedian and you have an online funny partner, are you guys together in the same agency and how does being booked happen? "My best friend Yuriyan Retriever is a very talented up and coming comedienne in Japan and is my frequent collaborator. As of booking jobs, we basically nag our managers to book us for whatever they can! Usually we would guest appear on each other's radio shows, which is always super fun. Besides our joint Instagram account, we are also planning to start a YouTube channel together."
What do you look forward to when coming home to the Philippines? "I would have to say hanging out with the Titas at Via Mare at Rockwell for merienda is what I look forward the most. I love listening to their conversations while sipping on hot water with lemon and eating Pancit Luglug and Adobo with rice."
Your Dad used to work at Warner Brothers, Japan, AND as a result you've met several Hollywood stars. Who have you met while growing up? "Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Robert Pattinson, George Clooney, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Jodie Foster, and the list goes on!"
Because of her career she's always quite made up when you first meet her, but don't be fooled by "formality" up front, Roberta's got a heavy dose of wacky in her being a young comedienne-host in Japan. As she said with a wry grin, "Isn't there one (comedian) in every family?"
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Photographs from Instagram.com/robachan8, some photography by the author, and others provided by Roberta Ireton
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Why I Wrote WOMAN ENOUGH
My debut novel is out! You can buy it as an eBook at various online stores or paperback. You can find more information on my order page.
WOMAN ENOUGH is about an exotic dancer who faces down social stigma and struggles with addiction as she fights for her right to dignity in a world that calls her a whore.
I have always been a writer. From the time I received my first diary at age eight, to the journals that followed every year after, to winning a short-story contest in seventh grade, to writing stories for friends to read, to writing clinical assessments in my job, to blogging, and to now finally publishing a book.
My love of writing is not surprising; my grandfather, Russ Waller, was a talented wordsmith and publisher who passed on the Waller writing genetics, employing all of his children at some point in their lives at the family newspaper decades ago in Iowa. My father, Steve spent the majority of his career doing the same as a columnist, editor, and owning a newspaper in Iowa thanks to guidance from my grandfather. My dad was a great resource through the years with AP English assignments and even editing my first manuscript (currently unpublished).
But I was never seen as a writer. I was the actress in the family; that is, if I could be seen at all out from underneath my mother’s unintentional shadow (also an actress/director). Even my grandfather would carry me into the house from the car calling me his “Princess”, which couldn’t be further from who I have been or who I am now. In high school, I was determined to be a successful professional actress, later enrolling in the theatre program at University of Vermont before switching my major to psychology (and switching schools). It was there that I really hit my stride.
I became passionate about psychology and social justice issues. It gave me life. Minnesota was my home but I “grew up” in college. A nontraditional student having taken a gap-year-or-two as I bounced around from one gig to the next, I went to school when I was ready to focus, and I’m so glad I did. Vermont treated me right. It healed me. It also birthed a new me… a me who was no longer held back from the distorted self-image learned from my environment. I broke free from who society had taught me to be, and because I dealt with my own suffering first, I was finally able to be present for others.
My degree brought a career as an addictions and assessment treatment counselor at an inpatient substance abuse center. Soon followed graduate school. At work I heard stories from resilient women; their challenges worthy of being heard. I was a counselor and always maintained professional boundaries, but in some of their experiences, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of belonging. Women have survived shared experiences. It was the first time I fully grasped what a great community we have in womanhood and how important it is to swap stories in order to break the cycle of shame passed on through the generations… just for being women.
Little me with my grandfather, R.B. Waller. The love was mutual.
When writing a book, authors have their own style. Some writers are plotters; outlining the story arc before writing it. Some writers are pantsers who “fly by the seat of their pants” not knowing how a story will unfold. I’ve tried both approaches but my preferred style is to write scenes as they come and then piece them together later like pieces of a puzzle. Called a “puzzler”, many of the scenes in WOMAN ENOUGH were written this way and saved in a file from 2014. I found a short story I wrote from that time, too and wanted to use in a novel, and it later became chapter two (was originally the opening chapter).
As I was piecing the manuscript together, the voice was very much a woman’s, who was edgy and dark but also likeable and searching. She was questioning everything around her including herself, which to me, represents great strength.
At the time I was writing it, Hillary Clinton was running for president. There was a lot of empowered woman energy to channel. Because of this, literary agents were asking for manuscripts with women in roles of doctors, lawyers, and scientists. All of which are books definitely needed but I thought of what books I like to read… stories about women who are getting by (or not- I’m a huge Sylvia Plath fan). Not women who are necessarily of the elite, but who are struggling every day yet persevering (I’ve also been deeply inspired by Anne Frank’s life ever since portraying her in a play at age twelve).
With that goal in mind, I began to thread together scenes I had written with a protagonist who is white, twenty-one, and struggling with addiction. I named her Rebecca. A former gymnast, she had everything: a scholarship to one of the best schools, from a middle-class family with parents still married (although they have their problems, too). Rebecca was perfect.
So I made her an exotic dancer. Because why not? Not because stripping would be her flaw, but because that would be her blessing. Since the dawn of time, women have carried around shame for being sexual. Of course, it’s fine for a woman to be objectified, but according to society, it’s not okay for a woman to actually feel sexual or to want to be sexual. Because that would be liberating. And we don’t want liberated women, now do we???
I made Rebecca empowered in her sexuality, something that exotic dancing taught her. She embraces her womanhood for the first time, makes great money, but also is subjected to shame because of it. She works hard to keep the job a secret from her family because of the stigma around working in the sex industry as being “dirty”.
For example, in the opening chapter, Rebecca aka Corrine, is on stage using her gymnast skills, new to dancing, into the music, and proud of the money she’s finally making. And then a man yells that she is a “whore” and she’s absolutely broken from it. In an instant, her pride is taken from her and she’s reduced to this trembling, anxious, sick-to-her-stomach little girl. I think many women have felt this at some point in our lives. I know I have.
I’d also like to say something about creativity. It’s not hard for me to let my imagination be free to explore and follow any ideas that swirl around in my head. Having been an actress for most of my life, I always found it easy to escape into the world of the character… a character that was written. Created. Someone made a character and I was putting them to life. That’s what I’ve done with Becca. I hope people can appreciate the creative energy put into making up a story and then releasing it for others to think about or talk about, and hopefully enjoy.
When I finished the first draft of this manuscript, I knew I had something powerful. Something that really spoke to my experience as a woman, and something other women could probably relate to. Then on the news, there was a scandal in New Zealand with a rugby team and an alleged sexual assault of a stripper. I was appalled at the lack of investigation. So I kept writing Rebecca’s story. Around that same time, in the USA, there was the case of the rapist swimmer from Stanford who got a short jail sentence due to his privilege of being white, wealthy, and male.
These ordeals were so similar to scenes I had written previously that I knew I had to keep telling Rebecca’s story. I continued on, revising and sending it off to readers. I met an agent at a conference who I really had a good feeling about. She was the first professional (aside from my developmental editor) I really got to talk to about this project and I have to confess… I cried. Yes, I cried while pitching an agent this story. That’s how much it means to me. I can tell you more about that at another time. Luckily, she was not an agent who gets uncomfortable around emotion. She was incredibly supportive of this story and continues to cheer me on as I follow my dream.
During my final revision this past year, allegations of rape and assault (among other things) against a Hollywood producer became public and the #metoo movement prompted more people to openly share their stories of abuses endured from men. The community of womanhood was fierce and we are now really starting to look out for one another.
I had to publish now. The timing is right.
So here it is.
WOMAN ENOUGH is your story. My story. Their story. Her story. While you may not agree with or relate to some of what Becca endures, I hope you might actually read it and feel like you belong.
When it’s no longer a dream but reality
(A note about the cover: Artwork by Chicago-based artist, Pamela G. Waller. Text design by Wellington artist James Ford. One of the perks of self-publishing is being able to have complete say over how I want the cover to look. For that reason, I honoured my childhood dream by keeping the word “by” in front of my name. The little girl in me is quite happy about it.)
2 responses to “Why I Wrote WOMAN ENOUGH”
Jane Wickenkamp says:
I’m a friend of your Aunt Pam and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your book and your writing style. You have a real talent and a wonderful way of expressing yourself and getting your imagination, thoughts, fears, and beliefs down on paper.
Hope you are able to keep writing and look forward to your next book!
Lissa Carlino says:
Thank you, Jane! I’m glad you enjoyed the book! I think I would probably lose my mind if I had to stop writing. How about that cover? 🙂
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Mississippi State hires Mike Leach away from Washington State
Mississippi State hired Washington State’s Mike Leach as its new head coach Thursday, bringing one of the nation’s quirkiest and most successful coaches to the Southeastern Conference.
Leach will replace Joe Moorhead, who was fired last week after two seasons.
The post-bowl-game firing was unusual, but the Bulldogs landed a coach with a long track record of winning at programs that have historically struggled. In 18 years with Texas Tech and Washington State, Leach is 139-90, using his Air Raid offense to set records and consistently reach the postseason.
At Washington State, Leach took over a program that had been mired in the Pac-12 basement and went to five straight bowl games, including an 11-2 season in 2018.
He finished 55-47 in eight seasons with the Cougars. He produced a similar turnaround at Texas Tech, taking the Red Raiders to bowl games in all 10 seasons.
His style is anything but typical. Leach gets a lot of attention for his news conferences, where he has doled out wedding advice and pondered which Pac-12 mascots would survive a fight.
It has not all been fun and games, though.
Leach was fired by Texas Tech after being accused of mistreating a player with a concussion and then butting heads with his bosses. When his teams have struggled, Leach has not been shy about calling players soft and making other disparaging remarks.
But on the field, his teams win more than they lose, and his quarterbacks typically throw for more yards than just about any in the country.
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Bale on legal definition of bale on
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The system that governs the status of individuals charged with committing crimes, from the time of their arrest to the time of their trial, and pending appeal, with the major purpose of ensuring their presence at trial.
In general, an individual accused of a crime must be held in the custody of the court until his or her guilt or innocence is determined. However, the court has the option of releasing the individual before that determination is made, and this option is called bail. Bail is set by the judge during the defendant's first appearance. For many misdemeanors, bail need not be set. For example, the defendant may be released on the issuance of a citation such as a ticket for a driving violation or when booked for a minor misdemeanor at a police station or jail. But for major misdemeanors and felonies, the defendant must appear before a judge before bail is determined.
The courts have several methods available for releasing defendants on bail. The judge determines which of these methods is used. One alternative is for the defendant to post a bail bond or pledge of money. The bond can be signed by a professional surety holder, the accused, or the family and friends of the accused. Signing the bail bond is a promise that the defendant will appear in the specified criminal proceeding. The defendant's failure to appear will cause the signers of the bond to pay to the court the amount designated. The amount of bail is generally an amount determined in light of the seriousness of the alleged offense.
A defendant can also be released upon her or his own recognizance, which is the defendant's written, uninsured promise to return for trial. Such a release occurs only if the suspect has steady employment, stable family ties, and a history of residence in the community. Willful violation of the terms of a personal recognizance constitutes a crime.
Other conditions may also be set regarding the release of the defendant. The Bail Reform Act of 1984 (18 U.S.C.A. §§ 3141–3150) provided for many additional conditions that do not rely upon finances and that reflected current trends to move away from financial requirements for freedom. These conditions came about, in part, owing to concerns regarding the discriminatory nature of bail toward the poor. The Bail Reform Act allows for conditional releases dependent upon such circumstances as maintaining employment, meeting curfews, and receiving medical or psychiatric treatment.
A defendant in a civil action can be arrested to ensure that he or she will appear in court to respond to the plaintiff's claims. Civil arrest prevents a defendant from leaving the jurisdiction to evade the litigation, and from attempting to conceal or dispose of assets in order to keep the plaintiff from collecting on the judgment if the plaintiff prevails. Since civil arrest is a drastic remedy, state laws must be consulted to determine when it may be used. The purpose of bail in a civil action is to ensure the presence of the defendant at trial and to guarantee the payment of a debt or the fulfillment of some civil duty, as ordered by the court.
The court sets the amount of bail, which is generally based on the probable amount of damage against the defendant. In some instances, if informed of changed circumstances, the court might increase or reduce bail. Cash, as opposed to a bail bond, may be deposited with the court only when authorized by statute. The purpose of the arrest and the statutory provisions determine whether this deposit may be used to pay the judgment awarded to the plaintiff.
Criminal Prosecutions
The objective of bail in criminal actions is to prevent the imprisonment of the accused prior to trial while ensuring her or his appearance at trial. Constitutional and statutory rights to bail prior to conviction exist for most offenses, but state constitutional provisions and statutes must be consulted to determine the offenses to which bail applies. The Bail Reform Act of 1984 governs bail in federal offenses. It provides the federal magistrate with alternatives to the incarceration of the defendant. If the charge is a noncapital offense (an offense not punishable by death), the defendant may be released on her or his own recognizance. If there is a reasonable likelihood that the defendant will not return for trial, the judge may impose bail. The judge may also release the defendant into the custody of a designated person or organization for supervision. Restricting the residence, extent of travel, and personal associations of the accused are other options.
Discretion of the Court
A court exercises its discretion with respect to the allowance of bail. In reaching its decision, it evaluates the circumstances of the particular case, including the existence of doubt as to the accused person's appearance at trial. Unreasonable delay or postponement in the proceeding, which is not attributable to the accused, usually constitutes a ground for bail—in some jurisdictions, by absolute right; more frequently, at the discretion of the court.
In jurisdictions in which it is neither proscribed nor regarded as an absolute right, the grant of bail pending a motion for a new trial, a review, or an appeal is also discretionary. The grant of bail is then determined in light of the probability of reversal, the nature of the crime, the likelihood of the defendant's escape, and the character of the defendant.
The decision to grant or deny bail is reviewable, but the scope of the review is limited to whether the court abused its discretion in its determination.
The amount of bail set is within the discretion of the court. Once fixed, it should not be modified, except for good cause. An increase cannot be authorized when the arrest warrant specifies the amount of the bail. An application for a change in bail is presented to the court by a motion based on an Affidavit (a voluntary written statement of facts) confirmed by the oath of the person making it. The affidavit must be taken before a person authorized to administer such an oath and must contain the facts justifying the change. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and the provisions of most state constitutions prohibit excessive bail, meaning bail in an amount greater than that necessary to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial.
The Bail Reform Act of 1984 helped to set guidelines allowing courts to consider the danger a defendant might present if released on bail. This response to the problem of crimes committed by individuals who had been released on bail marked a significant departure from earlier philosophies surrounding bail. Bail laws took on a new importance; they would ensure the appearance of the defendant in proceedings, and they would see to the safety of the community into which the defendant was released.
Pursuant to the 1984 act, if the court deems that the accused may, in fact, pose a threat to the safety of the community, the accused may be held without bail. In 1987, United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 107 S. Ct. 2095, 95 L. Ed. 2d 697, addressed the constitutionality of holding an individual without bail while awaiting criminal trial. The Supreme Court held that due process was not violated by the detention of individuals without bail.
Breach and Forfeiture
A breach of the bail bond occurs in both civil and criminal actions when the defendant "jumps bail" or "skips bail"—that is, deliberately fails to return to court on the specified date, thereby forfeiting the amount of the bond. The act of jumping bail is either a misdemeanor or a felony, depending upon statute. The mandatory appearance required in a bail arrangement consists not merely of responding to the charges but also of attendance by the defendant at the trial and sentencing by the court. Appearance by counsel ordinarily does not prevent a breach, although under some statutes, where the offense is a misdemeanor, such an appearance might be sufficient.
When a bond is breached, the court enters a judgment of Forfeiture of the bail. In some jurisdictions, the judgment is appealable, but only if the failure to comply with the conditions of the bond was excusable and the state suffered no loss of rights against the defendant.
A final judgment normally cannot be entered on recognizance or bail bond without additional proceedings. Such proceedings are usually of a civil nature and follow the forfeiture of bail. These proceedings can be commenced by a writ (a court order) of scire facias (a judicial writ requiring the person against whom it is brought to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record) or by an independent action.
Bredefeld, Nicole J. 2001. "The Bail Reform Act of 1984 and Felons who Possess Weapons: Discrepancy Among the Federal Courts." Seton Hall Legislative Journal 26 (September): 215–62.
Colbert, Douglas L., Ray Paternoster, and Shawn Bushway. 2002. "Do Attorneys Really Matter? The Empirical and Legal Case for the Right of Counsel at Bail." Cardozo Law Review 23 (May): 1719–93.
Goldfarb, Ronald. 1965. Ransom: A Critique of the American Bail System. New York: Harper & Row.
Israel, Jerold H., ed. 2001. Criminal Procedure: Constitutional Limits, in a Nutshell. 6th ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group.
LaFave, Wayne R., Jerold H. Israel, and Nancy J. King, eds. 2000. Criminal Procedure. 3d ed. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group.
Sharma, R. 2001. Human Rights and Bail. New Delhi, India: APH Publishing.
Thomas, Wayne H. 1976. Bail Reform in America. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
United States House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution. 2000. Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act of 1999: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 2964, March 30,2000. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Due Process of Law; Eighth Amendment; Recognizance.
1) n. the money or bond put up to secure the release of a person who has been charged with a crime. For minor crimes bail is usually set by a schedule which will show the amount to be paid before any court appearance (arraignment). For more serious crimes the amount of bail is set by the judge at the suspect's first court appearance. The theory is that bail guarantees the appearance of the defendant in court when required. While the Constitution guarantees the right to reasonable bail, a court may deny bail in cases charging murder or treason, or when there is a danger that the defendant will flee or commit mayhem. In some traffic matters the defendant may forfeit the bail by non-appearance since the bail is equivalent to the fine. 2) v. to post money or bond to secure an accused defendant's release. This is generally called "bailing out" a prisoner. (See: bail bond, bail bondsman, own recognizance)
the release of an accused person pending further process, a procedure known in England since the time of Richard III. There is a presumption in favour of bail. Money bail is uncommon in the UK having been replaced by the imposition of conditions. Bail need not be granted if there are substantial grounds for believing that the accused would re-offend, interfere with witnesses or abscond. Breach of bail is in itself an offence. A person who is not granted bail is placed on REMAND.
BAIL, practice, contracts. By bail is understood sureties, given according to law, to insure the appearance of a party in court. The persons who become surety are called bail. Sometimes the term is applied, with a want of exactness, to the security given by a defendant, in order to obtain a stay of execution, after judgment, in civil cases., Bail is either civil or criminal.
2.- 1. Civil bail is that which is entered in civil cases, and is common or special bail below or bail above.
3. Common bail is a formal entry of fictitious sureties in the proper office of the court, which is called filing. common bail to the action. It is in the same form as special bail, but differs from it in this, that the sureties are merely fictitious, as John Doe and Richard Roe: it has, consequently, none of, the incidents of special bail. It is allowed to the defendant only when he has been discharged from arrest without bail, and it is necessary in such cases to perfect the appearance of the defendant. Steph. Pl. 56, 7; Grah. Pr. 155; Highm. on Bail 13.
4. Special bail is an undertaking by one or more persons for another, before some officer or court properly authorized for that purpose, that he shall appear at a certain time and place, to answer a certain charge to be exhibited against him. The essential qualification to enable a person to become bail, are that he must be, 1. a freeholder or housekeeper; 2. liable to the ordinary process of the court 3. capable of entering into a contract; and 4. able to pay the amount for which he becomes responsible.
1. He must be a freeholder or housekeeper. (q. v.) 2 Chit. R. 96; 5 Taunt. 174; Lofft, 148 3 Petersd. Ab. 104.
2. He must be subject to the ordinary process of the court; and a person privileged from arrest, either permanently or temporarily, will not be taken. 4 Taunt. 249; 1 D. & R. 127; 2 Marsh. 232.
3. He must be competent to enter into a contract; a feme covert, an infant, or a person non compos mentis, cannot therefore become bail.
4. He must be able to pay the amount for which he becomes responsible. But it is immaterial whether his property consists of real or personal estate, provided it be his own, in his own right; 3 Peterd. Ab. 196; 2 Chit. Rep. 97; 11 Price, 158; and be liable to the ordinary process of the law; 4 Burr. 2526; though this rule is not invariably adhered to, for when part of the property consisted of a ship, shortly expected, bail was permitted to justify in respect of such property. 1 Chit. R. 286, n. As to the persons who cannot be received because they are not responsible, see 1 Chit. R. 9, 116; 2 Chit. R. 77, 8; Lofft, 72, 184; 3 Petersd. Ab. 112; 1 Chit. R. 309, n.
5. Bail below. This is bail given to the sheriff in civil cases, when the defendant is arrested on bailable process; which is done by giving him a bail bond; it is so called to distinguish it from bail above. (q. v.) The sheriff is bound to admit a man to bail, provided good and sufficient sureties be tendered, but not otherwise. Stat. 23 H. VI. C. 9, A. D. 1444; 4 Anne, c. 16, Sec. 20; B. N. P. 224; 2 Term Rep., 560. The sheriff, is not, however, bound-to demand bail, and may, at his risk, permit the defendant to be at liberty, provided he will appear, that is, enter bail above, or surrender himself in proper time. 1 Sell. Pr. 126, et seq. The undertaking of bail below is, that the defendant will appear or put in bail to the action on the return day of the writ.
6. Bail above, is putting in bail to the action, which is an appearance of the defendant. Bail above are bound either to satisfy the plaintiff his debt and costs, or to surrender the defendant into custody, provided judgment should be against him and he should fail to do so. Sell. Pr. 137.
7. It is a general rule that the defendant having been held to bail, in civil cases, cannot be held a second time for the same cause of action. Tidd' s Pr. 184 Grah. Pr. 98; Troub. & Hal. 44; 1 Yeates, 206 8 Ves. Jur. 594. See Auter action Pendent; Lis pendens.
8. - 2. Bail in criminal cases is defined to be a delivery or bailment of a person to sureties, upon their giving, together with himself, sufficient security for his appearance, he being supposed to be in their friendly custody, instead of going to prison.
9. The Constitution of the United States directs that "excessive bail shall not be required." Amend. art. 8.
10. By the acts of congress of September, 24, 1789, s. 33, and March 2, 1793, s. 4, authority is given to take bail for any crime or offence against the United States, except where the punishment is death, to any justice or judge of the United States, or to any chancellor, judge of the supreme or superior court, or first judge of any court of common pleas, or mayor of any city of any state, or to any justice of the peace or other magistrate of any state, where the offender may be found the recognizance @tal,-en by any of the persons authorized, is to be returned to the court having cognizance of the offence.
11. When the punishment by the laws of the United States is death, bail can be taken only by the supreme or circuit court, or by a judge of the district court of the United States. If the person committed by a justice of the supreme court, or by the judge of a district court, for an offence not punishable with death, shall, after commitment, offer bail, any judge of the supreme or superior court of law, of any state, (there being no judge of the United States in the district to take such bail,) way admit such person to bail.
12. Justices of the peace have in general power to take bail of persons accused; and, when they have such authority they are required to take such bail There are many cases, however, under the laws of the several states, as well as under the laws of the United States,, as above mentioned, where justices of the peace cannot take bail, but must commit; and, if the accused offers bail, it must be taken by a judge or other,, officer lawfully authorized.
13. In Pennsylvania, for example, in cases of murder, or when the defendant is charged with the stealing of any horse, mare, or gelding, on the direct testimony of one witness; or shall be taken having possession of such horse, mare, or gelding, a justice of the peace cannot admit the party to bail. 1 Smith's L. of Pa. 581.
14. In all cases where the party is admitted to bail, the recognizance is to be returned to the court having @jurisdict on of the offence charged. Vide Act of God. Arrest; Auter action pendent; Deat Lis pendens.
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805 F. 2d 834 - Decker Coal Company v. Commonwealth Edison Company
805 F2d 834 Decker Coal Company v. Commonwealth Edison Company
DECKER COAL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee,
COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.
Argued Feb. 4, 1985.
Submission Stayed March 21, 1985 Pending
Certification to Montana Supreme Court.
Resubmitted March 31, 1986.
Decided Dec. 1, 1986.
Donald S. Young, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.
Paul W. Schroeder, James K. Meguerian, Isham, Lincoln & Beale, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana.
Before CHOY, ANDERSON and TANG, Circuit Judges.
TANG, Circuit Judge:
In early 1984, Decker Coal Company filed suit against Commonwealth Edison Company in the United States District Court for Montana alleging breach of contract. In the course of that action, the district court enjoined the prosecution of a substantially similar action Edison had filed in Illinois shortly after Decker filed its action in Montana. Edison appeals the injunction and also appeals the district court's denial of Edison's motion to dismiss Decker's complaint for lack of capacity to sue, lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue, or in the alternative, to transfer the action to the Northern District of Illinois.1 We determined that the question of capacity to sue under Montana law may be dispositive of the appeal, and certified the following question to the Montana Supreme Court: Does Decker Coal Company, as a joint venture between two out-of-state corporations, have capacity to bring suit as a plaintiff against a corporation under Montana law? The Montana Supreme Court answered the question in the affirmative. The appeal was then resubmitted and we affirm.
Decker Coal Company is a joint venture between Wytana, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Western Minerals, Inc., an Oregon corporation. It is engaged in the surface mining of low sulfur coal and operates its plant in Decker, Montana. Commonwealth Edison Company is an Illinois corporation. In 1974, Decker Coal and Edison entered a long-term contract under which Decker agreed to supply coal to Edison in quantities between minimum and maximum tonnages from 1978 to 1997.
Although the contract expressly required Decker to supply Montana coal, it apparently was amended in 1983 to allow Decker to supply Wyoming coal in satisfaction of its obligation to supply coal from its mine in Decker, Montana. Article XI of the contract contained a force majeure provision which allowed performance to be deferred or excused upon certain events. Such events included "fire, flood, explosion, strikes, labor disputes, sabotage, riots, civil commotion, ... major equipment failures, unavailability of major transportation facilities or acts of the other party." The contract called for delivery F.O.B. the Montana mine. The coal would then be shipped by railroad to Edison plants in Illinois and Indiana.
Edison invoked the force majeure provision to defer or terminate coal purchase obligations in May, June and July, 1983. Edison claimed that structural damage to its plant in Illinois and a cracked turbine rotor at its Indiana plant justified invocation of the force majeure provision.
On January 4, 1984, Decker filed a complaint in the District of Montana seeking a declaration that the problems at the Edison plants did not qualify as force majeure events. Decker also sought damages for breach of contract, claiming that Edison failed to take sufficient measures to prevent damage to its generating plants thereby breaching an alleged contractual duty to mitigate damage.
Several days later, Edison filed an action in the Northern District of Illinois seeking a declaration that it properly invoked the force majeure provision of the contract.
On February 3, Decker filed a motion in the Montana action to enjoin further prosecution of the Illinois case. On February 8, Edison filed a motion to dismiss the Montana complaint for lack of capacity to sue, lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue. It also sought transfer of the case to the Northern District of Illinois.
The district court, Chief Judge Battin, ruled that jurisdiction was properly asserted, that venue was proper in Montana because the alleged contract breach occurred in Montana, and that Decker had capacity to sue as a partnership entity. The motion to transfer was denied, and the motion to enjoin the Illinois proceeding was granted.
We heard oral argument on this appeal on February 4, 1985. Submission of the cause was deferred until February 15, 1985 to permit counsel to address jurisdictional questions. On March 21, 1985, we ordered further proceedings in this court stayed pending determination by the Montana Supreme Court of the capacity to sue question. On February 20, 1986, the Montana Supreme Court issued its decision holding that, under Montana law, Decker Coal Company does have capacity to bring suit in its own name against Edison. Decker Coal Co. v. Commonwealth Edison Co., 714 P.2d 155 (Mont.1986). On March 31, 1986 we ordered the stay of proceedings in our court lifted, and the case submitted.
I. Personal Jurisdiction
The assertion of personal jurisdiction must first comply with the requirements of Montana's long-arm statute; second, it must not offend due process. Colonial Leasing Co. v. Pugh Brothers Garage, 735 F.2d 380, 383 (9th Cir.1984).
A. Montana Long-Arm Statute
The district court concluded that jurisdiction was proper under the terms of the Montana long-arm statute. This court reviews the district court's interpretation of state law de novo. Matter of McLinn, 739 F.2d 1395, 1403 (9th Cir.1984) (en banc).
Mont.R.Civ.Pro. 4B(1) provides:
All persons found within the state of Montana are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state. In addition, any person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any claim for relief arising from the doing personally, through an employee, or through an agent, of any of the following acts:
(a) the transaction of any business within this state....
Commonwealth Edison argues that the district court incorrectly found that Mont.R.Civ.Pro. 4B(1)(a) applied. It contends that its activities within Montana are too limited to qualify as "the transaction of any business within" Montana.
The Montana cases interpreting 4B(1)(a) do not offer precise guidelines for the statute's interpretation. They do, however, suggest a rather generous approach in defining its reach. The cases Parker Brothers Farms, Inc. v. Burgess, 197 Mont. 293, 642 P.2d 1063 (Mont.1982), and Prentice Lumber Co. v. Spahn, 156 Mont. 68, 474 P.2d 141 (Mont.1970) are instructive. In Parker Brothers Farms, an Idaho defendant initiated telephone conversations with a Montana potato seller and together they negotiated a sale and distribution agreement. Shipments were sent and accepted. A disagreement as to whether a later shipment was sold to the defendant or merely consigned led to an action against the Idaho defendant in Montana court. On appeal, the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's assertion of jurisdiction over the nonresident defendant, stating "it requires no discussion to conclude that the defendant transacted business within this state." 197 Mont. 293, 642 P.2d at 1065. In Prentice Lumber, a Montana lumber seller sued a Wisconsin buyer. In sixteen transactions between the two parties, only one was a direct order placed with the Montana seller. All other transactions were made through a sales representative working in Wisconsin on behalf of the Montana seller. The buyer paid the Montana seller directly until the Wisconsin sales representative instructed the buyer to make payments to him. The Montana Supreme Court held that the Wisconsin buyer transacted business within the state and was therefore properly within the reach of the long-arm statute. The court supported its conclusion by noting a "prevailing trend toward expanding the permissible scope of state jurisdiction over the person of nonresident defendants," and by noting that the assertion of jurisdiction complied with federal due process. 156 Mont. 68, 474 P.2d at 145.
Under the contract, the coal is shipped F.O.B. the Montana mine. Commonwealth Edison had accepted delivery of Decker's coal in Montana for five years prior to Edison's invocation of the force majeure provisions of the purchase agreement. The finding that Edison transacted business within the state and the assertion of jurisdiction under Mont.R.Civ.Pro. 4B(1)(a) comports with the Montana Supreme Court's reading of the long-arm statute.
B. Due process
Federal due process requires that a nonresident defendant have minimum contacts with the forum state such that the exercise of personal jurisdiction does not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316, 66 S.Ct. 154, 158, 90 L.Ed. 95 (1945). The plaintiff bears the burden of showing by a preponderance of evidence that jurisdiction is proper. Colonial Leasing Co. v. Pugh Brothers Garage, 735 F.2d 380, 383 (9th Cir.1984); Data Disc, Inc. v. Systems Technology Associates, 557 F.2d 1280, 1285 (9th Cir.1977). The constitutional test may be satisfied in either of two ways. If the defendant has "substantial" or "continuous and systematic" contacts with the forum state, general jurisdiction may be proper even if the cause of action is unrelated to the defendant's forum activities. Data Disc, Inc., 557 F.2d at 1287 (citing Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co., 342 U.S. 437, 446-47, 72 S.Ct. 413, 418-19, 96 L.Ed. 485 (1952)); see also Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., 465 U.S. 770, 781, 104 S.Ct. 1473, 1482, 79 L.Ed.2d 790 (1984). In the absence of such continuous or substantial activity, jurisdiction may nonetheless be proper as an assertion of limited jurisdiction if there is a strong relationship between the quality of the defendant's forum contacts and the cause of action. Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 105 S.Ct. 2174, 85 L.Ed.2d 528 (1985); Hirsch v. Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Kansas City, 800 F.2d 1474 (9th Cir.1986).
Limited jurisdiction may be exercised when the "nature and quality" of the defendant's contacts with the forum state are significant in relation to the specific cause of action. Data Disc, Inc., 557 F.2d at 1287. This determination is made using the following three-part test.
(1) The nonresident defendant must do some act or consummate some transaction with the forum or perform some act by which he purposefully avails himself of the privilege of conducting activities in the forum, thereby invoking the benefits and protections of its laws.
(2) The claim must be one which arises out of or results from the defendant's forum-related activities.
(3) Exercise of jurisdiction must be reasonable.
Haisten v. Grass Valley Medical Reimbursement Fund, Ltd., 784 F.2d 1392, 1397 (9th Cir.1986); Data Disc, 557 F.2d at 1287.1. Purposeful Availment
Purposeful availment analysis turns upon whether the defendant's contacts are attributable to his own actions or solely to the actions of the plaintiff. Burger King, 105 S.Ct. at 2181-82; Hirsch, 800 F.2d at 1480. Purposeful availment requires some kind of affirmative conduct by the defendant which allows or promotes the transaction of business within the forum state. Thus, if the defendant directly solicits business in the forum state, the resulting transactions will probably constitute the deliberate transaction of business invoking the benefits of the forum state's laws. Gates Learjet, 743 F.2d at 1331 (solicitation of distributorship agreement); Taubler v. Giraud, 655 F.2d 991, 994 (9th Cir.1981) (solicitation of California market by sending of wine samples). Similarly, conducting contract negotiations in the forum state will probably qualify as an invocation of the forum law's benefits and protections. Data Disc., Inc., 557 F.2d at 1287-88. Making the forum state's law the governing law under the contract also meets the purposeful availing test. Gates Learjet, 743 F.2d at 1331.
Commonwealth Edison has purposefully availed itself of the privilege of doing business in Montana. Although contract negotiations took place in Nebraska, the contract expressly requires that Decker deliver the coal in Montana. Moreover, Montana performance is essential because the low-sulfur coal Edison wanted is primarily found in Montana which, together with Wyoming, contains approximately 68 percent of this nation's low-sulfur coal reserves. See Commonwealth Edison v. Montana, 453 U.S. 609, 638 n. 1, 101 S.Ct. 2946, 2964 n. 1, 69 L.Ed.2d 884 (Blackmun, J., dissenting) (citing H.R.Rep. No. 96-1527, pt. 1, p. 3 (1980)). Edison benefitted from Decker's mining and shipment of Montana coal because it thereby obtained the low-sulfur coal it needed for its Illinois and Indiana plants. Thus, Edison caused the transaction of business inside Montana.
2. Arising out of Forum-Related Activities
Because the contract requires the mining and shipment of coal from Montana, Edison's alleged breach of the long-term supply contract diminishes or extinguishes its need for the product of these activities. Edison argues that the claim arose in Illinois where the events leading to the invocation of the force majeure provisions occurred. Decker's claim, however, arises from the disruption of its contractual expectations under the Montana supply contract. See Haisten, 784 F.2d at 1400; Hirsch, 800 F.2d at 1481.
3. Reasonableness
Finally, the limited jurisdiction test requires that the exercise of jurisdiction be reasonable. Seven factors have emerged as relevant to this inquiry:
(1) The extent of purposeful interjection into the forum state;
(2) The burden on the defendant of defending in the forum;
(3) The extent of conflict with the sovereignty of defendant's state;
(4) The forum state's interest in adjudicating the dispute;
(5) The most efficient judicial resolution of the controversy;
(6) The importance of the forum to plaintiff's interest in convenient and effective relief;
(7) The existence of an alternative forum.
Raffaele v. Compagnie Generale Maritime, 707 F.2d 395, 398 (9th Cir.1983); Insurance Co. of North America v. Marina Salina Cruz, 649 F.2d 1266 (9th Cir.1981).
These seven factors together determine whether "under the totality of the circumstances the defendant could reasonably anticipate being called upon to present a defense in a distant forum." Taubler v. Giraud, 655 F.2d at 993 (9th Cir.1981). "To determine reasonableness, we consider the relative significance of each factor and balance them all." Olsen by Sheldon v. Government of Mexico, 729 F.2d 641, 649 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 917, 105 S.Ct. 295, 83 L.Ed.2d 230 (1984).
Edison has purposefully interjected itself into Montana by requiring contract performance within the state and by accepting deliveries of coal F.O.B. the Montana mine for several years under the contract prior to the invocation of the force majeure provisions.
Improvements in communication and transportation have reduced much of the historical burden of litigating in a distant forum. Hanson v. Denckla, 357 U.S. 235, 250-51, 78 S.Ct. 1228, 1237-38, 2 L.Ed.2d 1283 (1958); Raffaele, 707 F.2d at 398. The burden on Commonwealth Edison is not unreasonable.
Although sovereignty interests may carry significant weight when jurisdiction is asserted over a defendant from a foreign country, Olsen by Sheldon, 729 F.2d at 650, the importance of this factor with respect to state sovereignty is minimal in light of the Supreme Court's indication that the personal jurisdiction requirement is a function of the individual liberty interest protected by the due process clause rather than federalism concerns. Insurance Corporation of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee, 456 U.S. 694, 702-03 n. 10, 102 S.Ct. 2099, 2104, 72 L.Ed.2d 492 (1982).
The forum state's interest in adjudicating the dispute appears rather substantial given the unique location of this country's low-sulfur coal reserves. Montana's interest in business transactions that deplete its resources should provide an ample basis for weighing this factor in favor of the forum state. "The entire value of the coal, before transportation, originates in the State, and mining of the coal depletes the resource base and wealth of the State, thereby diminishing a future source of taxes and economic activity." Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U.S. 609, 624, 101 S.Ct. 2946, 2957, 69 L.Ed.2d 884 (1981).
An efficient resolution of the controversy can be obtained in either state. The circumstances leading to Edison's decision to invoke the force majeure provisions occurred at their plants in Illinois and Indiana but Decker's injury occurred in Montana. "A court sitting in the district where the injury occurred and where the evidence is located ordinarily will be the most efficient forum." Olsen by Sheldon, 729 F.2d at 650.
Montana offers the most convenient and effective forum to the plaintiff because Montana is where Decker suffered injury and disruption.
As to the existence of an alternate forum, Edison is clearly amenable to suit in Illinois and has already filed suit there but this factor cannot overcome the others which favor Montana jurisdiction.
In sum, the exercise of Montana jurisdiction is reasonable. We conclude that the district court properly exercised limited jurisdiction over Edison in Montana. Accordingly, we need not consider whether there was general jurisdiction over Edison.
II. Venue
Because the only basis for federal subject matter jurisdiction in this case is diversity of citizenship, the applicable venue statute is 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1391(a). It allows venue "only in the judicial district where all plaintiffs or all defendants reside, or in which the claim arose." We review venue determinations de novo as a question of law. Cf. Central Valley Typographical Union No. 46 v. McClatchy Newspapers, 762 F.2d 741, 745 (9th Cir.1985). We hold that Montana venue is proper because Decker Coal is a resident of Montana and the claim arose there.
Residence for purpose of venue can be the residence of the partnership entity rather than exclusively that of its individual members. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 387 U.S. 556, 559-60, 87 S.Ct. 1746, 1748, 18 L.Ed.2d 954 (1967) (the residence of an unincorporated association for purposes of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1391(b) is the residence of the association itself). Courts have analogized partnerships and associations to corporations in making venue determinations. See id. at 562, 87 S.Ct. at 1750; Varsic v. U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 607 F.2d 245, 248 (9th Cir.1979) (quoting Braun v. Berenson, 432 F.2d 538, 544 (5th Cir.1970), which, in construing the federal antitrust venue provision, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 15, analogized an unincorporated association to a corporation). Where a corporation engages in only one business activity, substantially all of whose operations occur in one state, the state of operations is the corporation's principal place of business even if policy and administrative decisions are made elsewhere. Bialac v. Harsh Building Co., 463 F.2d 1185, 1186 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1060, 93 S.Ct. 558, 34 L.Ed.2d 512 (1972).
All of Decker's employees, coal properties, mining equipment and supplies are located at the mine in Montana. Montana managers supervise and control of the day-to-day mining operations. Only sales and accounting functions take place out of state and these services are performed under the supervision of a management committee which usually meets at the mine in Montana. Therefore, Montana is Decker's principal place of business and residence for purposes of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1391(a).
Furthermore, the claim arose in Montana. A claim arises in any district in which a substantial part of the acts, events, or omissions occurred that gave rise to the claim. Sutain v. Shapiro and Liebeman, 678 F.2d 115, 117 (9th Cir.1982). Edison argues that the event giving rise to the claim was its transmittal of notice invoking the force majeure clause, therefore, the claim arose in Illinois. Decker Coal contends that the claim arose at the place of intended performance which, under the contract, was Montana. This circuit has never ruled on the precise issue of whether breach of contract occurs at the place of repudiation or performance. The overriding purpose of Sec. 1391(a) is to further the convenience of the parties. See Gardner Engineering Corp. v. Page Engineering Co., 484 F.2d 27, 33 (8th Cir.1973). We believe that the spirit of Sec. 1391(a) is better served in this case if venue for a claim based on breach of contract be the place of intended performance rather than the place of repudiation. American Carpet Mills v. Gunny Corp., 649 F.2d 1056, 1059 (5th Cir.1981); Gardner, 484 F.2d at 33. We favor this rule because the place of performance is determined at the inception of the contract and therefore parties can anticipate where they may be sued. Furthermore, the place of performance is likely to have a close nexus to the underlying events. The rule proposed by Edison, on the other hand, invites forum shopping. Under that rule a party could force removal to any district court in America simply by repudiating the contract in that state.
Edison argues that Illinois is a more convenient forum because the trial will inevitably focus on whether Edison properly invoked the force majeure clause. Since the claimed force majeure events occurred in Illinois and Indiana, it is argued, Illinois is a more convenient forum. Although availability of witnesses and access to evidence is a factor in determining venue, it does not control. The determinative factors are set out in the statute: residence of the parties or situs of the claim. We hold that Montana venue is proper under either factor. An argument based on convenience alone is more appropriate in a Sec. 1404 change of venue motion. Transfer or dismissal in favor of a more convenient forum lie within the discretion of the trial court and we consider that issue in the next section.
III. Denial of Motion to Transfer
Edison argues that, even if venue was technically proper in Montana, the trial court erred in denying Edison's motion to transfer. We review the district court's denial of transfer motion for an abuse of discretion. J-R Distributors, Inc. v. Eikenberry, 725 F.2d 482, 485 n. 3 (9th Cir.1984), rev'd. on other grounds sub nom., Brocket v. Spokane Arcades, Inc., 472 U.S. 491, 105 S.Ct. 2794, 86 L.Ed.2d 394 (1985).
28 U.S.C. Sec. 1404(a) provides: "For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought." This statute partially displaces the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens. Miskow v. Boeing Co., 664 F.2d 205, 207, (9th Cir.1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 1020, 102 S.Ct. 2717, 72 L.Ed.2d 138 (1982) (the statute only applies to transfers between federal district courts). Nonetheless, forum non conveniens considerations are helpful in deciding a Sec. 1404 transfer motion. In the former case a court must balance the preference accorded plaintiff's choice of forum with the burden of litigating in an inconvenient forum. Mizokami Bros. of Arizona v. Mobay Chemical Corp., 660 F.2d 712, 718 (8th Cir.1981); Continental Oil Co. v. Atwood & Morrill Co., 265 F.Supp. 692, 699 (D.Mont.1967). The defendant must make a strong showing of inconvenience to warrant upsetting the plaintiff's choice of forum. Id. As part of this inquiry, the court should consider private and public interest factors affecting the convenience of the forum. Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235, 241, 102 S.Ct. 252, 258, 70 L.Ed.2d 419 (1981). Private factors include the "relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive." Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, 330 U.S. 501, 508, 67 S.Ct. 839, 843, 91 L.Ed. 1055 (1947). Public factors include "the administrative difficulties flowing from court congestion; the 'local interest in having localized controversies decided at home'; the interest in having the trial of a diversity case in a forum that is at home with the law that must govern the action; the avoidance of unnecessary problems in conflict of laws, or in the application of foreign law; and the unfairness of burdening citizens in an unrelated forum with jury duty." Piper Aircraft, 454 U.S. at 241 n. 6, 102 S.Ct. at 258 n. 6 (quoting Gulf Oil Corp., 330 U.S. at 509, 67 S.Ct. at 843).
Edison will defend on the ground that the problems at their Illinois and Indiana plants were sufficient to invoke the force majeure provision of the contract. It argues that the Illinois forum is more convenient because it is closer to witnesses and to the plants in case they must be viewed by the jury. We do not feel that these factors are sufficient to help Edison. Although the liability witnesses may be located in Illinois and Indiana, the damage witnesses primarily reside in Montana. The transfer would merely shift rather than eliminate the inconvenience. Furthermore, the public factors weigh in favor of Montana since that is where the claim arose. The district court concluded that it would be unnecessary for a jury to view the Illinois and Indiana plants and that "[o]n balance, factors relating to plaintiffs choice of forum, convenience of witnesses and interests of justice weigh in favor of plaintiff." The court did not abuse its discretion in so holding.
IV. Injunction of Later-Filed Illinois Action
Edison contends that the district court abused its discretion by enjoining prosecution of Edison's action in the Northern District of Illinois filed nine days after Decker filed its action in Montana. A grant or denial of injunctive relief will be reversed only where the district court abused its discretion or based its decision on an erroneous legal standard or on clearly erroneous findings of fact. Colorado River Indian Tribes v. Town of Parker, 776 F.2d 846, 849 (9th Cir.1985.
When a district court has jurisdiction over all parties involved, it may enjoin later filed actions. United States v. Oregon, 657 F.2d 1009, 1016 n. 17 (9th Cir.1981); Seattle Totems Hockey Club, Inc. v. International Hockey League, 652 F.2d 852, 854-56 (9th Cir.1981), cert. denied sub nom., Northwest Sports Enterprises v. Seattle Totems Hockey Club, 457 U.S. 1105, 102 S.Ct. 2902, 73 L.Ed.2d 1313 (1982); see e.g., Kerotest Manufacturing Co. v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co., 342 U.S. 180, 185-86, 72 S.Ct. 219, 222, 96 L.Ed. 200 (1952). "[T]his 'first to file' rule is not a rigid or inflexible rule to be mechanically applied, but rather is to be applied with a view to the dictates of sound judicial administration." Pacesetter Systems, Inc. v. Medtronic, Inc., 678 F.2d 93, 95 (9th Cir.1982).
Because the Montana district court properly exercised personal jurisdiction over Edison, the cause of action arose in Montana, and Montana venue prevails, we hold that the trial court exercised sound judicial discretion in enjoining the later filed Illinois action.
For these reasons the judgment and determinations of the District Court are
This court has jurisdiction to review the district court's denial of motion to dismiss even though it is interlocutory because the same issues underlie both that order and the injunction order. Fentron Industries v. National Shopman Pension Fund, 674 F.2d 1300, 1304 (9th Cir.1982)
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Vera Drake 4.0 stars
Mike Leigh's post-WWII portrait of a middle-aged homemaker and housecleaner who performs the occasional abortion on the side: "All right, then, dear, first thing we've got to do is put the kettle on." (Tools of the trade: a cheese grater, a bottle of disinfectant, a bar of soap the color and nearly the size of a canned ham, and a rubber tube and squeezable bulb collectively known as a Higginson Syringe.) A master of euphemism, the very embodiment of cheery British sublimation, she doesn't so much do abortions as "help young girls out." And the fetus will not miscarry so much as simply "come away." And everyone is to be addressed as "dear," even the police inspector conducting her interrogation. The rights and wrongs of abortion, as distinct from the legality of it in early-Fifties England, or the fact-of-life of it in any place and period, do not enter into it. Far, far from the run-of-the-mill problem picture, the movie is loaded with what might be termed irrelevancies, the flavors and textures of the characters' lives irrespective of any overriding "issue": Vera's husband, in coveralls, at work in the garage with his business partner and brother; their son taking measurements at the haberdashery or having a night out with his chums at the dance hall; their hopelessly mousy daughter testing lightbulbs on the factory assembly line or throwing herself at -- no, not exactly throwing herself at, but leaning ever so timidly toward -- the lonely bachelor neighbor whom Mum has calculatingly invited to dinner; the circumspect war stories that make up the liveliest topic of conversation at that dinner. The movie narrows its focus and slackens its pace (never very swift) once the police come calling, but by then the reality of the situation -- wonderfully, horribly, excruciatingly real -- has become so engulfing that you would not want to skip a beat. Faultlessly acted from top to bottom: from Imelda Staunton and Phil Davis (tops) to Alex Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Daniel Mays, Peter Wight, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent.
— Duncan Shepherd
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Genotypic Variations in Phenolic, Flavonoids and Their Antioxidant Activities in Maize Plants Treated with Zn (II) HEDTA Grown in Salinized Media
Author(s) Zeinab A. Salama1*, Alaa A. Gaafar1, Mohamed M. El Fouly2
1 Department of Plant Biochemistry, National Research Centre (NRC), 33 EL Bohouth st. (former EL Tahrir st.), Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
2 Department of Fertilization Technology, National Research Centre (NRC), 33 EL Bohouth st. (former EL Tahrir st.), Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
Zinc (Zn (II) HEDTA) was used to determine their effect on salt-induced damages in maize plants. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant capacity and the levels of enhanced total phenolic (TPC), total flavonoid (TFC) contents and their antioxidant activity in leaves of two maize cultivars Single cross 10 (SC10) and Single cross 162 (SC162) grown in two levels of salinity 0.00 and 100 mmol in response to 20 μmol Zn (II) HEDTA foliar spray treatments. Significant differences (P ≤ 0.05) in amounts of TPC ranged from (2.55 to 4.62 mg/gdw as Gallic) in Single cross 10 (SC10) and from (2.53 to 4.38 mg/gdw as Gallic) in Single cross 162 (SC162), TFC (ranged 1.53 to 2.41 mg/gdw as qurestien) in Single cross 10 (SC10) and from (1.28 to 2.41 mg/gdw as qurestien) in Single cross 162 (SC162) among all treated plants were observed. The levels of their compounds increase related to foliar spraying of Zn (II) HEDTA. A significant positive correlation between TPC, TFC and DPPH scavenging activity and iron chelating activity was observed which shows that phenolic compounds were involved in the mechanism of salt tolerance of the two cultivars by showing enhanced antioxidant activity which resulted in reduced membrane damage and hence improved growth. According to the results obtained, the adverse effects of salt stress on maize plants can partly be alleviated with application of Zn (II)-HEDTA chelates. It is concluded that the application of Zn (II) HEDTA to maize plants grown in salt conditions leads to the increase of antioxidant compounds and maize tolerance.
Salinity, Phenolics, Flavonoids, Zn (II) HEDTA, Maize Crosses
Salama, Z. , Gaafar, A. and Fouly, M. (2015) Genotypic Variations in Phenolic, Flavonoids and Their Antioxidant Activities in Maize Plants Treated with Zn (II) HEDTA Grown in Salinized Media. Agricultural Sciences, 6, 397-405. doi: 10.4236/as.2015.63039.
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Emile Haddad
FivePoint Holdings, LLC
Emile Haddad is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FivePoint Holdings, LLC. FivePoint, which is the largest developer of mixed-use communities in coastal California, owns and manages Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine, Newhall Ranch in Los Angeles County and The San Francisco Shipyard and Candlestick Point in San Francisco. Combined, these four mixed-used communities will include approximately 40,000 residential homes and 20 million square feet of commercial space. All total, these developments will generate approximately 288,000 jobs during construction and $54 billion in activity for the California economy.
Prior to founding FivePoint, Emile was the Chief Investment Officer of Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, where he was in charge of the company's real estate investments and asset management. Emile was a founding member of Lennar in California, and was instrumental in its growth.
Emile has over 30 years of development experience in the United States and overseas. Prior to joining Lennar, Emile was a senior executive in charge of land for Bramalea, which was part of the Canadian real estate conglomerate in the 80’s and early 90’s.
Active in the community, Emile serves as Chairman of USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate and as a member of the USC Price Planning Program Advisory Board. He’s the Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Trustees at the University of California, Irvine and serves on the Real Estate Advisory Boards of the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves on the board of Spain-based AEDAS Homes.
Emile is the recipient of the Boy Scouts of America Construction Industry Good Scout Award, the UCI Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Diabetes Association Father of the Year Award. In May 2017, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Emile holds a civil engineering degree from the American University of Beirut. Emile and his wife Dina started their journey together in the United States 31 years go.
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Which of the ‘Big 5’ animals from each continent have you seen?
Photo: Christina Saint Marche
Matt Hershberger
Big game hunters on trips to Africa often referred to the “Big 5” — the five most difficult African animals to hunt on foot: the lion, the elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard, and the rhinoceros. Fortunately, these days, the Big 5 is used less as a to-kill list and more as a to-photograph list for safari-goers in Africa.
But what are the Big 5 for the other continents? What are the must haves for pro and amateur wildlife photographers in North America, for example? Or Australia?
Here’s a list of some of the best / hardest animals to catch on camera for each continent. How many have you shot? Pictures taken at zoos don’t count.
Although they're usually thought to be an African animal, the lion used to exist throughout Europe and parts of America as well; there are still small populations in some areas of Asia.
Photo: Diana Robinson
Though still fairly common in sub-Saharan Africa, elephants are vulnerable to conflicts with humans, particularly in the form of illegal ivory poaching.
Photo: Stuart Richards
The Cape buffalo makes the list because of how aggressive it can be towards humans. Along with hippos and crocodiles, it's considered one of the most dangerous animals in Africa.
Photo: Steve Slater
Leopards are difficult to find because they're experts at stealth and tend to try and avoid humans.
Photo: Tambako the Jaguar
The white rhinoceros is the most common species in Africa and gets its name from a mistranslation of the Dutch word for “wide.” As you can see, it’s not really white at all. Rhinos have been known to charge humans and can be skittish in human presence.
Photo: Eugene Wei
Grizzlies are the easiest choice for a North American Big 5. They're huge predators and are particularly dangerous.
Photo: Neerav Bhatt
Moose are on the list because of their distinctiveness and also because of their cultural ties to Canada and the American North, although there are also moose in Eurasia, where they're called Eurasian elk.
Photo: Doug Brown
Bison used to virtually carpet the American plains. They were everywhere. Then, naturally, European settlers came and treated them like they were an endless resource, which drove them into endangerment; although, lately, they’ve pulled out of the “endangered” classification, thanks to conservation efforts.
Photo: Kabsik Park
The gray wolf is not exclusive to North America, but I’m putting it on this list due to its cultural ties, especially to the American West. Historically, gray wolves have existed in pretty much all of North America and Eurasia but were wiped out by humans. Lately, they’ve been making a bit of a comeback, most famously in Yellowstone National Park.
Photo: Jason Bechtel
The polar bear can be found in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and pretty much any other Arctic region. They’re on the list because not only are they rapidly losing their habitat, and are thus decreasing in number, but also because they're particularly dangerous, and are known to hunt humans.
Photo: Visit Greenland
The jaguar is the biggest cat in the Americas. Their habitat extends up into Central America. But they're probably best known for their jungle homes in the Amazon and were culturally important to many early American societies.
Caimans are members of the crocodilian family that reside primarily in the Amazon. They've been known to feed on humans and also tend to live relatively far off from major human population centers, making them fairly difficult to capture on camera.
Photo: Bernard Dupont
You’d have to eat a poison dart frog or come into contact with its poison for it to actually harm you. It’s not like it can attack you. But they get on this list because of their insanely vibrant colors and the fact that they're incredibly small, and thus can be tough to spot.
Photo: MoleSon
Honestly, ocelots are all over the place in South America, particularly the Amazon. I just added them because I think they’re awesome looking.
Photo: Valerie
Probably known best for that absolutely ridiculous Jennifer Lopez movie, anacondas are the heaviest and largest snakes on the planet (though the reticulated python is longer). They pretty much never eat humans, but as they kill through constriction, they probably could if they were big enough.
Photo: Silvain de Munck
Of course pandas are on this list. Pandas are culturally connected with China, and though their population in the wild is somewhat precarious, there are a lot of them in zoos and preserves.
Photo: Nathan Rupert
The Bengal tiger is the largest cat in the world and also one of the most dangerous to humans, though of course humans are more dangerous to tigers. Part of the problem is that they exist in areas with extremely high human population densities, notably Bangladesh and India, both of which consider tigers their national animal.
Snow leopards are endangered and are native to Central and South Asia, primarily the Himalayas and other alpine regions. They’re extremely difficult to spot in the wild and tend to avoid humans. There are no known attacks on humans.
Photo: Ben Byrne
King cobras are the world’s longest venomous snakes and can reach a length of up to nearly 19 feet. They're primarily found in Southeast Asia and prefer to avoid humans but can kill us with their bite.
Photo: Mark Dumont
Asian elephants are generally more docile than their African counterparts and can be domesticated. That said, they're still endangered thanks to encroachment on their habitats by humans and illegal ivory poaching.
Photo: Peter Glenday
You aren’t going to have much of a problem finding a kangaroo. There are actually almost too many of them, and overgrazing can be a problem in Australia. That said, they’re so iconic they can’t not be on this list.
Photo: Alexis Counsell
You’ll have to go to Borneo or Sumatra to see an orangutan in the wild. Elsewhere, they only live in zoos and are critically endangered. Unlike many of the other animals on this list, their endangerment isn't a result of poaching—it’s because of forest fires and deforestation of their natural habitats.
Photo: Makaku
The Komodo dragon can only be found on the Indonesian island of Komodo and a few others. It’s the world’s largest living lizard, and its bite can be very dangerous thanks to particularly nasty bacteria in its mouth and mild toxins. They've been known to attack humans.
Photo: Yellloh
Bird-of-paradise
Birds-of-paradise are extremely colorful birds that are primarily found on New Guinea and a few other Pacific islands. They're incredibly difficult to catch on camera in the wild because they tend to live in dense rainforest, difficult to access in New Guinea.
Photo: Tim Laman
Crocodiles could be in the American continents’ lists, or in Africa’s or Asia’s, but I’m putting it under Australia, I’m ashamed to say, for two reasons: Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin.
Technically, there are reindeer in North America, too, where they’re called caribou. But reindeer are particularly iconic in Russia and the Scandinavian countries, and they’ve become culturally synonymous with European Christmases.
Photo: Soese
The Eurasian lynx is native to both Europe and Asia and tends to prefer forested areas. It's currently being reintroduced to Western Europe, where it was killed off.
Eurasian wolf
The Eurasian wolf is primarily in Russia and the former Soviet Union countries and is a relative of the gray wolf. Like many of the European species, the Eurasian wolf was systematically killed off and can only be found in the less-populated areas of the continent.
The grizzly bear is a type of brown bear but exists mainly in the Americas. The brown bear in Europe, again, is found mostly in mountainous and less-populated regions, meaning primarily Russia and Scandinavia.
Photo: Mark Stevens
A quirk of urbanization in many European cities is that urban foxes—red foxes living in urban areas—have shown up everywhere. They're not uncommon, but a good picture is tough to get, so they make the list.
Photo: Hans Watson
There are a lot of great whale-watching tours around the world, but you tend to not see as much in the way of the blue whale—the largest living animal, and the heaviest animal ever—as there are only around 12,000 in the wild.
Photo: FMyMind
Probably one of the most misunderstood animals in the seas, the great white shark can be found in most of the world’s oceans but is tough to photograph unless you manage to catch it leaping out of the water—or are diving with it, which is just not a thing most people want to do.
Photo: Pterantula
Manta rays are large eagle rays whose wingspan can reach 18 feet or so. They get a place on my Big 5 list because I’ve always wanted to catch a good picture of a manta ray jumping.
Photo: Chris Zielecki
Cuttlefish are relatives of squid and octopi, best known for their camouflage and color-changing abilities. That’s why they’re on this list; they’re particularly photogenic.
Photo: Peter Helberg
Dolphins are among the most intelligent creatures in the world, and there are plenty of them out in the ocean. They’re another particularly photogenic species and often seem to be basically mugging for the camera. If you can catch a photo of them underwater, or airborne, that’s extra points.
Photo: Willy Volk
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By Dianne Lawrence
The people over the road are moving out, the whole kit and caboodle: the chairs and beds, the IT paraphernalia, cat-basket, books, tele’ and lawn mower. In the year I’ve lived here I’ve been aware of at least half a dozen such moves. Once an aquarium left and a drum kit moved in, though thankfully that was at the other end of the street. No sooner will this lot of vans and over-loaded cars drive away than the incomers will show up and carry in a set of belongings that are at one and the same time identical to the outgoings items and yet, utterly different. The items may be the same, but the assemblage and its meanings will be unique to that household.
I use the word ‘belongings’ in the preceding paragraph because I think that most accurately describes our relationship with our ‘stuff’. To speak of ‘possessions’ suggests it’s a one way arrangement, and fails to make due allowance for the power we grant to our objects, particularly those in our homes. They are an expression of our subjectivity, but because we set them within a mesh of associated practices they have agency in constructing our identity. They perform a mediating function in the circumstances of our lives, but they’re not impartial in that mediation.
It was an interest in such processes of domesticity that prompted my investigation into the home-making practices of a specific sort of British women living in colonies of the British Empire (Genteel women: empire and domestic material culture, 1840-1910). The women concerned were members of social elites, who adhered to a set of values, a highly nuanced form of knowledge known as gentility. Such individuals deemed themselves to be in a position of superiority, elevated above those around them, who were, by definition, considered to be ‘vulgar’. Genteel values were expressed through modes of behaviour in conjunction with material means. Put simply – they were accustomed to having access to, and using, a lot of ‘stuff’. Their ‘belongings’ were critical in negotiating the circumstances of their lives. How, I questioned, had such women not merely survived, but actually prospered when faced with the rigours of and, by their terms of reference, material deprivation of colonial life?
I wanted to see how their physical environments impacted on their cultural landscape. I identified genteel women who lived in the temperate zones of Aotearoa/New Zealand, south Australia and southern Africa and in the sub-tropical and tropical regions of northern Australia, India and West Africa. Selecting the geographical and temporal range – c1840-1910 – permitted inclusion of women living in long-established British communities in India, the expanding and consolidating colonies of southern Australia and New Zealand and in newly emergent settlements of northern Australia and West Africa.
All the women I wrote about had relocated to set up homes in the company of a man to whom they were related by either blood or marriage. Their menfolk were working ‘out in the colonies’ – be it in a military, commercial, administrative or agricultural capacity – and one of the women’s primary functions was to support the men in their endeavours. Certainly his successes or failures would have been hers, but so too her contribution could develop and extend – or, horror of horrors, actually undermine their joint enterprise.
With so much hanging on their domestic management how had these women gone about not just setting up home, but actually making themselves feel at home? Where did they source all that complex material culture they held so dear? I chose to investigate their dress, living rooms, gardens and food management because they were the four areas seen by contemporaries as being the quintessential elements of genteel womanhood.
I started with such questions as: how did they get hold of a new corset, a set of dinner plates, living room curtains or seeds for the garden, when a thousand miles or more and an ocean away from the retail riches of nineteenth century Britain, and what strategies evolved when one simply could not get hold of such items? The answers proved illuminating and a complex picture emerged, with gentility – both its ideology and expression – proving to have been responsive and adaptable to the many environmental changes it encountered. The women not only brought to bear a whole range of cultural competences acquired in their previous homes, they also developed different forms of genteel behaviours and practices as befitted their new location. Most striking of all, it’s evident that many women didn’t just become competent in the colonial site they developed a ‘sense of self’ in situ and became firmly attached to their new homes.
Perhaps it’s because the Spring sun is shining on my own garden that my thoughts turn to the work I did on the colonial women’s gardening practices. Initially I had my doubts as to whether I would be able to locate sufficient traces of this area of their homes, for by their very nature the gardens are long gone. My anxieties proved groundless, for the women so relished their gardens that they wrote about them constantly, and in great detail, in their letters and journals. Sarah Courage, who lived in New Zealand for 26 years, wrote ‘Whatever the employments of the day, I always contrived to find a little spare time for the flowers’ and Adela Stewart, who had been a complete novice on her arrival in the country subsequently reported ‘At the end of our 4th year I had become an enthusiastic gardener, and so continued, finding far more pleasure in growing flowers, vegetables and trees than in any other occupation.’ In addition to the women’s personal writing I was able to draw on seed and plant catalogues from Britain, Australia and India, gardening manuals from India and South Africa, memoirs from Nigeria and paintings and photographs made in Australia, India and New Zealand. There is ample material to underpin the argument that the spaces and practices of the women’s gardens had agency for the expression of gentility, and were highly significant in furthering these migrants’ attachment and sense of being at home, though far from ‘Home’.
I’ve become aware that the street is quiet once more, so perhaps I’ll leave this employment and ‘contrive a little spare time for my flowers…’
Dianne Lawrence is an Independent Scholar and the current holder of the Meryl Huxtable Bursary, as awarded by the Wallpaper History Society.
Genteel women: Empire and domestic material culture, 1840–1910 is now available in paperback.
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Review on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and their mechanical performance
Sharun Hegde, B. Satish Shenoy, K. N. Chethan
Department of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
Directorate of Research
Materials play a huge role in the shaping and development of human civilization. The need for materials started from the early stone-age where man needed fire to keep him warm and also to cook his food. Many materials such as copper, iron have been used in the past for few of the applications. But with the advancement of technology and new innovations brings about the need for lighter, more compact and many such other properties. So in order to fulfill these conditions a material such as composite material was developed. Carbon fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is a composite material which is very unique. CFRP has been widely used in aerospace industries. Slowly but gradually due to reduction in cost has lead it to be introduced in the automobile sector. The strength of the CFRP depends on the type of application, right combination of fiber to resin, length, type, orientation of fibers, use of anchors and form (sheet, plate). Temperature is an important factor which is taken into consideration. Curing of the adhesive at elevated temperatures and also if temperatures of the structures to which CFRP are bonded are kept below the glass transition temperature (Tg) it leads to longevity of the structure. CFRP is not affected by moisture by using non-reactive adhesive and in certain cases by treating the specimen with silane. The machinability of the CFRP specimens can be accomplished by using cold air, cryogenic environments and also by traditional methods with slight modifications. Hence it can be found useful in construction industry.
Machinability
Hegde, S., Satish Shenoy, B., & Chethan, K. N. (2019). Review on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and their mechanical performance. Materials Today: Proceedings, 19, 658-662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2019.07.749
Hegde, Sharun ; Satish Shenoy, B. ; Chethan, K. N. / Review on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) and their mechanical performance. In: Materials Today: Proceedings. 2019 ; Vol. 19. pp. 658-662.
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Ambrose Patterson (1877 - 1967) “Kilauea,” Color Woodblock 9 1/4" x 14 1/4" Signed lower left Professionally matted and framed. Ready to hang! Condition: Pristine. This is the ONLY work of its type by Patterson we have seen on the market in 30 years and may be the only extant example! If you are interested in this item, PLEASE CONTACT US at 808-227-2931 or mkg@maunakeagalleries.com for more information and accurate shipping rates to your location. --- Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (29 June 1877 – 26 December 1967) was a painter and printmaker. He was born in Daylesford, Australia and studied at the Melbourne Art School and at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne before moving to Paris to continue his studies at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian under Lucien Simon, André Lhote and Maxime Maufra. In Paris he became a friend of compatriot, Nellie Melba, the famous soprano. Through her influence he was able to further study with John Singer Sargent. After a visit to his homeland in 1910, he spent the following seven years in Hawaii. In November 1917 he visited the Monterey Peninsula and was so impressed with its scenic beauty that he rented a house and remained a month to paint. He then settled in Seattle, WA where he taught painting at the University of Washington until 1947 and worked as a freelance artist. In 1919, he established the University of Washington School of Painting and Design. Patterson married painter and former student Viola Hansen in 1922, and the two became major figures of the arts in the Pacific Northwest region. Patterson taught until his retirement in 1947. He died in Seattle in 1966. -Wikipedia and Askart.com Exhibition: Paris Salon, 1903-08; Blue Bird Restaurant (Carmel), 1917 (solo); SFAA, 1918, 1925, 1932; Western Painters, 1922-24; Oakland Art Gallery, 1932, 1936; Seattle Museum, 1934 (prize), 1961 (solo).
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The Auckland Region is in the North Island of New Zealand. Centred on the Auckland metropolitan area, it also includes a large rural area, stretching as far north as the Wellsford district.
Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand at 1.7 million citizens, and the main arrival point for visitors to the country.
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Auckland Airport is New Zealand's largest and busiest airport, with over 70% of international visitors to the nation landing or taking off there.
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Erika Petersen, M.D., Selected to Lead National Clinical Trial on Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
Erika Petersen, M.D., has been named the principal investigator for a national clinical trial on using spinal cord stimulation to treat painful diabetic neuropathy.
Program Director Associations
By Amy Widner
Sept. 4, 2019 | Erika Petersen, M.D., a neurosurgeon and researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named the lead investigator for a major national clinical trial exploring a unique treatment for a painful chronic diabetic foot condition.
The trial will test whether high frequency spinal cord stimulation is an effective treatment for painful diabetic neuropathy, a type of nerve damage caused by diabetes that results in severe pain and numbness in the hands and feet. About 4 million diabetic patients have painful diabetic neuropathy in the U.S. Spinal cord stimulation is a technique for treating pain that involves surgically implanting a device epidurally. Thin wires carry electrical current from the device to the spinal cord, providing therapeutic stimulation to the nerves in the area where the pain is felt.
The company sponsoring the trial, Nevro Corp., has been investigating whether the Senza® SCS system could also be effective for treating painful diabetic neuropathy. Nevro is a global medical device company focused on providing innovative products that improve the quality of life of patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain.
Petersen, an associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery in the UAMS College of Medicine, has led the UAMS portion the research.
“Dr. Petersen’s performance in the study has been exemplary,” said David Caraway, M.D., Ph.D., chief medical officer of Nevro Corp. “Dr. Petersen has demonstrated tremendous leadership of her team through robust study recruitment, careful patient selection, and efficient movement of subjects through the protocol. As the lead principal investigator, Dr. Petersen will be the first author of the primary endpoint analysis report and will represent the investigators at many conference presentations of the study data.”
The company also applauded the contributions of UAMS sub-investigators Heejung Choi, M.D., Chris Paul, M.D., and Johnathan Goree, M.D., of the Department of Anesthesiology; neuropsychological assessments by Jennifer Kleiner, Ph.D., and Jennifer Gess, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry; and research support services provided by the Translational Research Institute.
About a quarter of Americans with diabetes have painful diabetic neuropathy, according to published data. In Arkansas, where an estimated 363,000 people have type 2 diabetes, about 73,000 of those (20%) would be expected to have painful diabetic neuropathy. The number could be higher — a study conducted in five rural Arkansas counties concluded that painful diabetic neuropathy was alarmingly underdiagnosed.
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Hammond Community Coalition
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Review - Stoicism and Emotion
by Margaret R. Graver
Review by Jo Doran
Mar 7th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 10)
It is important to realize. . . . that the Stoic investigation concerning the wise person
is also meant to be an investigation into the nature of ordinary human beings. Pg. 174
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia references the Stoics as "identif[ying] virtue with happiness," but after reading Stoicism and Emotion by Margaret Graver, it might be more accurate to reference the Stoics as identifying happiness with virtue. While this switch may seem like rhetorical word play, what Graver does within her second book is no game. Overcoming the stereotypical view of Stoics as void of emotional response and indifference to feelings is done--and done very well--in Graver's book.
Graver introduces her topic by situating and developing it within the context of authentic Stoic beliefs and practices, using Chrysippus and Zeno, along with Aristotle and others, as telling sources. In spite of Graver's strong grounding in Classical theory--or maybe because of it--she does this in a way that is easily comprehensible to the reader. This is no mean feat. Early on, she tells her readers that in order to understand Stoic thought in today's world and language they must understand it within its original historical situation. This contextual investigation reveals the Stoics as early psychologists, even though Chrysippus' treatise, "On the Psyche," was a biology 'project,' similar to Aristotle's 'philosophy project' that was, in actuality, a type of biological taxonomy.
Typical considerations of Stoicism include a definitive indifference to feeling: the picture of the isolated or lonely individual seemingly oblivious to all attacks on the senses. Yet Graver explains that the Stoics acknowledged feelings and saw them as natural--but--and this is a big but, also distinguished an emotional reaction as a response to a choice. It is evident here that physical responses to emotions (such as hand-sweating, blushing, etc.) cannot be classified as choices. Consequently, Graver, very early on, distinguishes between such physical responses to feelings and affective responses.
A consistent focus that runs through Graver's book is that of choice. The Stoics carefully delineate what they believed to be the source of emotion within the body as the connection between the human and the divine that allowed for the psyche of the individual to be capable of feeling, thinking, judging and choosing specific actions in response to those feelings and thoughts. In fact, the Stoics believed that in order to make wise emotional choices, an individual must have true knowledge of all that is involved in feeling: "For them [the Stoics], one has not had an emotion until one accepts that the way the emotion presents its object is really true; that is, that that object really is charged with value or disvalue and really does merit a vigorous response" (108).
Graver begins her book with an introductory chapter on "Emotion and Norms for Emotion." This is essential reading for the entire book and is easily approachable. Chapter one lays foundational groundwork on which Graver expands her dialogue. Here the reader begins to understand the historical underpinnings of Stoic thought and practice. In chapter two, "The Pathetic Syllogism," Graver discusses how Stoicism does not deny the 'rightness' of responding affectively but does stipulate or constrain acceptable capacity, in other words, the degree to which an individual responds and the manner in which that individual responds. Chapter three goes on to discuss "Vigor and Responsibility," a consideration, among other things, of the importance of being aware of one's situatedness, the current momentum of emotion and affect, and the desire for 'normative affect.' This chapter concludes with one of the main points of the book: Within Stoic thought, "the wise do not believe that externals have genuine value, but they do believe that human conditions and activities have that sort of value, and it is toward these that normative affect is directed" (82). Chapter four elaborates on "Feelings without Assent," again, essential to understanding all of Graver's interpretations. Chapter five, "Brutishness and Insanity" discusses the "importance of examining one's conscience [as a way to preserve] one's humanity" (132). In chapter six, "Traits of Character," Graver focuses on the tendency of some traits to manifest themselves over others and the Stoic stance on "consistency in belief" (135). Chapter seven, "The Development of Character," deals with 'moral error' and the rooting of these moral errors in the individual. In chapter eight, "City of Friends and Lovers," Graver attends to more familial emotive and affective responses. "The Tears of Alcibiades," chapter nine, deals with an interesting aspect of Stoicism, that of remorse. While practical, it is one of the most difficult chapters to connect to the basic Stoic belief system. It may be because the Stoic approach to remorse was so practical that the content matter of this chapter so disconcerting.
My interest in this book was to consider the historical and contextual views of affect theory as it relates to individuals, especially in considering individuals from various cultures. Graver's text discusses the evolution of emotion and affect from birth to a place of moral responsibility. Within this discussion lies interesting material on the possibilities of cultural impact on individuals. Stoicism, as Graver acknowledges, is not seen (normally) as having individual application. A stoic person is--as we most likely think of him or her--a stereotypically unaffected person, a person of distinct patterns of thinking, responding, and behaving. Yet in chapter six, Graver discusses the reality of individualism, within the Stoic system, as possessing a variety of personality traits.
The voices in this book are from the mid to late third century BCE, and Graver's forthrightness about the limitations of these voices--as well as the profound insights of these voices--is to be applauded. In presenting herself as an interpreter or translator of what she calls the "Stoic position," Graver does not reduce Stoicism to a modern theory and decontextualize it--or 'de-historize' it: "This is not a project in neo-Stoic thought. I do not mean to claim that other ways of thinking about emotion are invalidated by the one studied here" (13). Yet readers may be assured that the unearthing of affect within the Stoic belief system can relate to situations within our world of globalization. Graver's book has multiple applications, and those in cultural studies, psychology, second-language studies and more will benefit from reading Stoicism and Emotion.
Graver is an excellent teacher and communicator. Her in-depth understand of her topic is evident through her ability to build on difficult yet well-explained Stoic beliefs situated within both Stoic time and today. The complexities involved in working through layers of invaluable historical records on emotion and affect are attainable through Graver's capacity to delineate between details and perspectives, leaving one idea when necessary with a fulfilled promise of returning to it as appropriate. Graver's writing is superb, concise yet extravagant enough in explanation to carry the reader easily through historical and present day theory and application. Readers of Graver's book might wonder if she chose such oxymoronic words as 'Stoicism' and 'Emotion' for her title to make us pick up her book questioning the word play. Lucky are those who do pick it up and read it through.
© 2009 Jo Doran
Jo Doran, M.F.A., is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University, where she teaches professional writing focusing mainly on international/L2 students. Her main research is in the area of English as a Second Language. She has also published poetry in various journals.
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