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Archive for War
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake's own brother among them.
Drama | History | War
Jojo Rabbit 2019
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Midway 2019
MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome the odds.
Action | Drama | History | War
T-34 2018
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Action | War
Fury 2014
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
War | Drama | Action
The Imitation Game 2014
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Inglourious Basterds 2009
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Dracula Untold 2014
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | War
Dunkirk 2017
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Action | Drama | War
Apocalypse Now 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Drama | War
First Blood 1982
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
Action | Adventure | Thriller | War
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
Adventure | Drama | War
Battle of Jangsari 2019
Based on a true story of Jangsari Landing Operation, 772 student soldiers – whose average age was 17 and who received just 2 weeks of boot camp training – were tossed into Korean War effort in order to pave the way for Incheon Landing Operation, which turned the tide of war.
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Schindler's List 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Allied 2016
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Action | Drama | Thriller | Romance | War
Saving Private Ryan 1998
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Braveheart 1995
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
300: Rise of an Empire 2014
Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistokles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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The Hazards of McMindfulness by Claire Wheeler, MD, Ph.D
Mindful this, mindful that. The mindfulness industry is getting out of hand, and far removed from the ancient philosophies that created it. “Showing up, ” and “being present” is only the first step to mindful living – and it can make you anxious and angry if you don’t work on step two – radical acceptance of what is. In this workshop, we’re going to practice being here now with meditative techniques, but we’re also going to explore what it’s like to go deeper. To say, “Yes.” Yes to everything just as it is. We’re going to talk about the difference between accepting and condoning, and how to move from resistance to surrender. The greatest strength you have is your ability to perceive, allow, and participate in this life you’re living. If you can’t accept the universe as it is, with all its danger and paradox and loss, you can’t fully participate in its unfolding. Mindfulness, in its original form, is the cultivation of expansive awareness and loving, ecstatic equanimity. Through various exercises with vocalization, interaction with each other, and other forms of expression, we will show each other what it’s like to be present, be aware, and to abide peacefully with what we find here, and now.
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Claire Wheeler was an Emergency Medicine physician for several years before she earned her Ph.D. in psychology and certification in Mind-Body Medicine. For the past 18 years, Claire has been a faculty member for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, teaching people from all over the world how to use meditation, guided imagery, mindfulness, expressive arts, movement, and other techniques for happier, healthier lives. Her book, “10 Simple Solutions to Stress,” is based on this work and her training in the psychology and neurobiology of stress and resilience. Claire has been a full time instructor in Portland State University’s School of Community Health for ten years. In addition to this and her work with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, she conducts workshops, seminars, and gives speeches for many different groups, organizations, and communities. Mind-body medicine isn’t a job, it’s a way of life, one that is grounded in mindfulness and enriched by powerful scientific evidence. For Claire, it’s more than a professional field – it’s a way of life that influences everything, every day, every moment. Her passion for the transcendental nature of mindful practice comes through in all of her work.
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Inez Vincent *
Inducted on October 25, 2003
Inez LeBlanc Vincent was born in rural Vermilion Parish to Etienne and Rita Leleux LeBlanc on September 16, 1922. Her formal education began at a Catholic school in New Orleans where her father worked in the furniture business. When her family returned to Vermilion Parish, she completed her elementary education at the LeBlanc School. After graduating from Erath High School in 1939, she entered Southwestern Louisiana Institute, S.L.I. (presently, U.L.). She received her B.S. in Home Economics in the fall of 1943.
Mrs. Vincent’s first teaching assignment was a home economics class at Morganza High School in Point Coupee Parish. The following year, she was assigned to Erath High School where she taught Home Economics for twenty-nine years. She retired from teaching in May 1974.
In fall of 1957, Inez was invited to be a guest cook of Town and Farm Journal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with all expenses paid. She presented a feature story on shrimp and prepared all of the dishes in their test kitchen. This presentation was published in their magazine. The school board gave her a two-week leave to participate in this event.
After retirement, Inez became involved with the U.S.L. (U.L.) Home Economics Alumni. From 1987-89 she served as president of this organization. In 1995 she received the outstanding Home Economics Alumni Award in the College of Applied Life Sciences.
In spite of retirement, Inez has continued her work as an educator even to this day as a substitute teacher especially for teachers taking maternity leave.
. Mrs. Vincent continues to be invited to judge the cooking categories at festivals and fairs in the area, including the Cattle Festival in Abbeville and the Yambilee Festival in Opelousas. She also judges social studies and science fairs in the area schools.
In community service, Inez is a volunteer at the Erath Museum. In 1997 and 1998 she helped the U.S.L. Folklore Department with some very interesting programs featuring our Cajun heritage.
Mrs. Vincent has served as vice president of La Famille de LeBlanc since 1997. She was program chairman for the International LeBlanc Family Reunion held in August of 1999 in Erath. Relie LeBlanc and Simon LeBlanc took a trip to Canada to personally invite the Governor General, Romeo LeBlanc, to attend the reunion. It was an awesome moment when Presley LeBlanc, the LeBlanc president, introduced the governor General at the reunion.
While serving as vice president of La Famille de LeBlanc, Inez attend a French Immersion course at the University of St. Anne in Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada. She received le Pris d’Houneur, Prize of Honor, presented at a banquet held at the end of the course.
In 2001, Inez was the Grand Marshall of the Erath 4th of July Parade. This honor is given to one who has worked in and promoted the Erath community on a volunteer basis.
Inez is an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. This organization promotes professional and personal growth of women educators. She also belongs to the Vermilion Parish and State Retired Teacher’s Association.
Mrs. Vincent’s hobbies include traveling, gardening and baking. Inez has been an avid walker for many years, who has been known to walk many miles on the streets of Erath. She can also be seen playing a good game of Bourre with friends.
Mrs. Vincent is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters of America, and the Ladies Alter Society.
Inez married to the late J.D. Vincent, Jr. She has two sons, Tommy and Timmy Vincent, three grandchildren Leigh Vincent Collier, Bryant Vincent (deceased), and Jacques Vincent, and one great-grandchild, Cameron Bryant Collier. Her sisters are Irene Dronet, Leona Poche’ and Lois Boudreaux and one brother Guy LeBlanc(deceased).
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Return to Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails.
07/21/94 Transport Corporation of v. International Business
[Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion]
[1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
[2] Transport Corporation of America, Inc., a Minnesota
[3] corporation, Appellant,
[4] International Business Machines Corporation, Inc., a New
[5] York corporation; Innovative Computing Corporation,
[6] an Oklahoma corporation, Appellees.
[7] No. 93-1918
BLUE BOOK CITATION FORM: 1994.C08.835 (http://www.versuslaw.com)
[8] Date Filed: July 21, 1994
[9] Date Reported: Rehearing Denied August 19, 1994 at: 1994 U.S. App.
[10] Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. District No. CIV 4-91-615. Honorable James Rosenbaum, District Judge.
[11] APPELLATE PANEL:
[12] Before McMILLIAN, WOLLMAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.
[13] DECISION OF THE COURT DELIVERED BY THE HONORABLE JUDGE MCMILLIAN
[14] McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
[15] Transport Corporation of America, Inc. , appeals from a final order entered in the District Court*fn1 for the District of Minnesota granting summary judgment in favor of International Business Machines Corp. and Innovative Computing Corp. . Transport Corp. of America, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., No. 4-91-CV-615 (D. Minn. Feb. 16, 1992) (order). For reversal TCA argues that the district court erred in holding that (1) the economic loss doctrine bars its tort claims, (2) IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties is effective against TCA as a [16] subpurchaser, (3) IBM's limited remedy of repair and replace did not fail of its essential purpose, (4) ICC effectively disclaimed liability for consequential damages, and (5) the limited remedy provisions by IBM and ICC are not unconscionable. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
[16] TCA is a Minnesota corporation that operates a national trucking business, with its principal place of business in Minnesota. IBM is a Delaware corporation that manufactures and sells computers, with its principal place of business in New York. ICC is an Oklahoma corporation that produces software and resells IBM computers, with its principal place of business in Oklahoma.
[17] In 1989 TCA decided to update its computer system, which is used to process incoming orders, issue dispatching assignments and store all distribution records. The information entered into the computer system is stored onto a backup system at 2:00 a.m. every day. TCA entered into an agreement to purchase an IBM computer system from ICC for $541,313.38. TCA subsequently executed a lease agreement which assigned to IBM Credit Corporation its right to purchase the IBM equipment from ICC, but TCA retained possession and use of the computer system. The [19] computer system was installed at TCA's offices in Minneapolis on December 29, 1989.
[18] On December 19, 1990, almost a year later, the computer system went down and one of the disk drives revealed an error code. TCA properly contacted IBM, and IBM dispatched a service person. Although TCA requested a replacement disk drive, the error code indicated that the service procedure was not to replace any components but to analyze the disk drive. TCA had restarted the computer system and did not want to shut it down for the IBM service procedure. IBM informed TCA that replacement was not necessary under the limited warranty of repair or replace, and agreed to return on December 22, 1990, to analyze the disk drive. On December 21, 1990, the same disk drive completely failed, resulting in the computer system being inoperable until December 22, 1990.
[19] TCA alleges that the cumulative down-time for the computer system as a result of the disk drive failure was 33.91 hours. This includes the time to replace the disk drive, reload the electronic backup data and manually reenter data which had been entered between 2:00 a.m. and the time the system failed. TCA alleges that it incurred a business interruption loss in the amount of $473,079.46 ($468,514.46 for loss of income; $4,565.00 for loss of data and replacement media).
[20] TCA originally brought this action against IBM and ICC in Minnesota state court, based on the failure of the disk drive purchased through IBM and ICC, alleging strict liability, negligence, breach of implied [23] warranty, and breach of express warranty. IBM removed the action to the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on diversity of citizenship grounds. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a)(1), 1441(a). IBM and ICC then moved for summary judgment on all counts. The district court granted the motions in favor of IBM and ICC on all counts. The district court applied Minnesota law and held that the economic loss doctrine barred TCA's tort claims, the terms of IBM's remarketer agreement with ICC "passed through" to TCA, IBM effectively disclaimed implied [24] warranties, the remedy of repair or replace in IBM's express warranty did not fail of its essential purpose, and ICC's disclaimer of liability for consequential damages was not unconscionable. This appeal followed.
II. ARGUMENT
[21] We review a grant of summary judgment de novo. The question before the district court, and this court on appeal, is whether the record, when viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, shows that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c); see, e.g., Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23, 91 L. Ed. 2d 265, 106 S. Ct. 2548 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 249-50, 91 L. Ed. 2d 202, 106 S. Ct. 2505 (1986); Get Away Club, Inc. v. Coleman, 969 F.2d 664, 666 (8th Cir. 1992); St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. FDIC, 968 F.2d 695, 699 (8th Cir. 1992).
[22] We review de novo the district court's determinations of state law. Salve Regina College v. Russell, 499 U.S. 225, 231, 113 L. Ed. 2d 190, 111 S. Ct. 1217 (1991).
[23] A. Economic Loss Doctrine
[24] TCA argues that, under Minnesota law, tort claims are not barred by the economic loss doctrine if two conditions are met: there is damage to other property and the parties are not "merchants in goods of the kind." Because TCA is not a merchant in computer systems and the loss of data due to the failed disk drive constitutes damage to other property, TCA argues that the district court erred in holding claims for negligence and strict liability are barred. IBM argues that TCA did not suffer damage to other property because the data on the disk drive was integrated into the computer system. IBM also argues that the risk of failure of the disk drive (and the risk of loss of data due to failure of the disk drive) was reasonably contemplated by TCA. Thus, IBM argues that the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in Minnesota controls the remedy in a transaction between sophisticated commercial parties.
[25] The economic loss doctrine in Minnesota bars recovery under the tort theories of negligence or strict liability for economic losses that arise out of commercial transactions, except those involving personal injury or damage to other property. Superwood Corp. v. Siempelkamp Corp., 311 N.W.2d 159, 162 (Minn. 1981) (Superwood), overruled in part, Hapka v. Paquin Farms, 458 N.W.2d 683, 688 (Minn. 1990) (Hapka) (holding U.C.C. controls exclusively with respect to damages in commercial transaction which involves property damage only). There are two issues in applying this doctrine to TCA's claim: whether the damages arose out of a commercial transaction and whether the damages claimed fall under the "damage to other property" exception.
[26] In interpreting Superwood, the Minnesota Supreme Court has held that the U.C.C. controls exclusively with respect to remedies for property damage in a commercial transaction. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. In Hapka, the plaintiff and the defendant were both commercial farmers who grew seed potatoes. When contaminated seed potatoes sold by the defendant to the plaintiff infected other seed potatoes owned by the plaintiff, the plaintiff brought an action asserting negligence and strict liability. In applying Superwood to bar the tort action for economic loss based on damage to other property caused by the defective product, the Minnesota Supreme Court emphasized that the U.C.C. is intended to displace tort liability, and that tort exceptions for economic losses are applicable to consumer transactions only. Id. at 688.
[27] TCA argues that because it does not buy and sell computer systems, the purchase was not between "merchants in goods of the kind" and therefore not a commercial transaction within the meaning of Hapka. Lloyd F. Smith Co. v. Den-Tal-Ez, Inc., 491 N.W.2d 11, 17 (Minn. 1992) (en banc) (Den-Tal-Ez). TCA further argues that the loss of data on the disk drive constitutes damage to property other than the computer system, and that under Den-Tal-Ez the tort remedies of negligence and strict liability are therefore available. Id. at 17.
[28] In Den-Tal-Ez, a motorized dental chair caught fire and allegedly caused substantial building damage. The plaintiff brought suit both in tort and for breach of warranties against the chair manufacturer for damage to other property (that is, damage to property other than the allegedly defective dental chair). Den-Tal-Ez, 491 N.W.2d at 13. The court stated:
[29] when there is a claim by a buyer for damage to the defective product itself (and this includes consequential damages), the U.C.C. remedy is exclusive and tort will not lie. . . . A subpurchaser is also limited to the U.C.C. remedy. In this situation . . . the product lacks its bargained-for value and fails to meet the buyer's or sub-buyer's performance expectations. This is exactly the kind of loss that the Code and its warranty protections are designed to cover. This economic loss includes the consequential damages for repair and loss of profits resulting from inability to use the defective product during the period of its replacement or repair.
[30] Id. at 15. As the district court correctly noted, this pronouncement from Den-Tal-Ez applies directly to the instant case.
[31] TCA is not a dealer in computers and thus not a merchant in goods of the kind. Therefore, the transaction between TCA and IBM and ICC was not a commercial transaction for purposes of the economic loss doctrine. However, we hold that the economic loss doctrine does apply here because TCA did not experience damage to other property within the meaning of the doctrine. Under Minnesota law, "where a defect in a component part damaged the product into which that component was incorporated, economic losses to the product as a whole were not losses to 'other property.'" Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts v. Parker-Klein Assocs. Architects, Inc., 354 N.W.2d 816, 820 (Minn. 1984) (citing cases) (Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts), overruled on other grounds, Hapka v. Paquin Farms, 458 N.W.2d 683 (Minn. 1990).
[32] In Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, a claim was made that defective bricks damaged the building into which they had been incorporated. In discussing the economic loss caused by the allegedly defective bricks, the court stated that "to hold that buildings constitute 'other property' would effectively overrule Superwood as to every seller of basic building materials . . . because the 'other property' exception would always apply. The U.C.C. provisions as applicable to component suppliers would be totally emasculated." 354 N.W.2d at 820 (footnote omitted). Thus, damage to other components integrated into a single unit are not considered damage to other property for purposes of the economic loss doctrine.
[33] Here, the electronic data stored on the disk drive was integrated into the computer system. If the disk drive had started a fire that caused damage to property outside of the computer system, then the exception to the economic loss doctrine as applied in Den-Tal-Ez would be applicable. 491 N.W.2d at 15, citing Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688 (if defective coffee pot starts a fire which burns down a building, the coffee pot purchaser could sue in tort as well as for breach of warranty for damages to the building).
[34] Furthermore, TCA was aware of the risk of computer system failure and possible loss of data. In applying Superwood, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota held that "tort claims [are] allowed only in limited situations where the nature of the defect or damage is other than that which could ordinarily be contemplated by the parties to a commercial transaction." Holstad v. Southwestern Porcelain, Inc., 421 N.W.2d 371, 375 (Minn. Ct. App. 1988) (Holstad). The fact that TCA backed up the disk drive at 2:00 a.m. every day objectively demonstrates that TCA realized the risk of its failure. TCA argues that Superwood and Holstad were expressly overruled by the Minnesota Supreme Court in Hapka, and that under Den-Tal-Ez tort claims are never barred in commercial transactions so long as the parties are not "merchants in goods of the kind." We disagree. Hapka overruled Superwood and its progeny only to the extent that they are contrary to the U.C.C.'s exclusive damages in commercial transactions involving property damage only. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. Minnesota courts have consistently held that the U.C.C. should apply to commercial transactions where the product merely failed to live up to expectations and the damage did not result from a hazardous condition. Den-Tal-Ez, 491 N.W.2d at 15; Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 687-88; Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 354 N.W.2d at 820-21; Superwood, 311 N.W.2d at 161-62; Holstad, 421 N.W.2d at 375. Because failure of the disk drive was contemplated by the parties and the damage was limited in scope to the computer system (into which the disk drive and its data were integrated), TCA must look exclusively to the U.C.C. for its remedy.
[35] TCA also argues that Independent School Dist. No. 622 v. Keene Corp., 495 N.W.2d 244 (Minn. Ct. App. 1993) (school district allowed to sue in tort for cost of asbestos removal), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 511 N.W.2d 728 (Minn. 1994), supports its tort claims. That case does not support TCA's argument because the court held that the claim for the costs of asbestos removal was not one for economic loss. 495 N.W.2d at 247, citing 80 South Eighth Street Ltd. Partnership v. Carey-Canada, Inc., 486 N.W.2d 393, 397 (Minn.) (claim is for contamination of buildings, not for damages caused by defective product), amended in part, 492 N.W.2d 256 (1992).
[36] B. IBM's Disclaimer of Implied Warranties
[37] TCA next argues that because it was not a party to the negotiations between ICC and IBM, it is not bound by the terms of the remarketer agreement, including IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties. TCA also argues that any disclaimers of implied warranties by IBM are not binding because they were not delivered at the time of the sale. IBM argues that the remarketer agreement between IBM and ICC included a valid disclaimer of implied warranties, and the U.C.C. as enacted in Minnesota operates to extend the disclaimer as a matter of law to TCA as the ultimate purchaser or end user.
[38] The U.C.C. as adopted in Minnesota has a privity provision that operates to extend all warranties, express or implied, to third parties who may reasonably be expected to use the warranted goods. Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-318 (West Supp. 1994).*fn2 The seller can disclaim implied warranties. Id. § 336.2-316.*fn3 Disclaimers of implied warranties are extended to third party purchasers by operation of § 336.2-318. Hydra-Mac, Inc. v. Onan Corp., 450 N.W.2d 913, 916 (Minn. 1990) (Hydra-Mac); see also SCM Corp. v. Deltak Corp., 702 F. Supp. 1428, 1432-33 (D. Minn. 1988) (applying Minnesota law).
[39] The remarketer agreement between IBM and ICC included a disclaimer of "ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE." As the district court correctly noted, this language complies with the requirements of Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-316(2) (that is, it was in writing, conspicuous and mentioned merchantability) and thus effectively disclaimed all implied warranties.
[40] Even assuming that TCA did not receive a copy of the warranty disclaimer, TCA's claim of breach of implied warranties by IBM fails as a matter of law. TCA argues that the disclaimer must be delivered at the time of the sale. See, e.g., Noel Transfer & Package Delivery Service, Inc. v. General Motors Corp., 341 F. Supp. 968, 970 (D. Minn. 1972) (Noel Transfer) (burden is on party asserting the disclaimer to establish disclaimer was delivered at time of sale and constituted an integral part of the transaction). Noel Transfer is distinguishable from the present case because it did not involve a third party transaction. Thus, operation of Minn. Stat. Ann. §§ 336.2-316, .2-318 extends IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties to TCA as a matter of law. Hydra-Mac, 450 N.W.2d at 916.
[41] C. IBM's Limited Remedy of Repair or Replace
[42] TCA next argues that the district court erred in holding that IBM and ICC effectively limited the remedy to repair or replace. TCA argues IBM's limited warranty of repair or replace failed of its essential [47] purpose because there was a latent defect and the remedy provided for in the warranty was not provided.
[43] Under Minnesota law, "an exclusive remedy fails of its essential purpose if circumstances arise to deprive the limiting clause of its meaning or one party of the substantial value of its bargain." Durfee v. Rod Baxter Imports, Inc., 262 N.W.2d 349, 356 (Minn. 1977) (Durfee), citing Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-719, U.C.C. Comment 1. A repair or replace clause does not fail of its essential purpose so long as repairs are made each time a defect arises. Durfee, 262 N.W.2d at 356.
[44] It is undisputed that IBM repaired the disk drive after it failed. TCA argues that latency of the defect in and of itself mandates that the limited remedy of repair or replace fails of its essential purpose. TCA cites no cases that hold that a remedy of repair failed of its essential purpose when, after a single failure, the system was fully repaired within one day, and so the rule from Durfee controls and the remedy is adequate.
[45] TCA further claims that IBM's failure to replace the defective disk drive before the malfunction occurred caused the remedy to fail of its essential purpose. The computer system was fully operational between the time the computer system first revealed an error code for the disk drive and the time the disk drive failed. The drive failure occurred two days after the error code was revealed and one day before IBM was scheduled to perform diagnostic service. When the disk failed, IBM provided warranty service on the disk drive and repaired it. Given these undisputed facts, IBM's remedy of repair or replace did not, as a matter of law, fail of its essential purpose.
[46] D. ICC's Disclaimer of Consequential Damages Liability
[47] TCA next argues that ICC's disclaimer for consequential damages fails of its essential purpose. A seller may limit or exclude consequential damages unless the limitation is unconscionable. Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-719(3).*fn4 The U.C.C. encourages negotiated agreements in commercial transactions, including warranties and limitations. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. "It is at the time of contract formation that experienced parties define the product, identify the risks, and negotiate a price of the goods that reflects the relative benefits and risks to each." Id. An exclusion of consequential damages set forth in advance in a commercial agreement between experienced business parties represents a bargained-for allocation of risk that is conscionable as a matter of law. American Computer Trust Leasing v. Jack Farrell Implement Co., 763 F. Supp. 1473, 1489 (D. Minn. 1991) (American Computer) (applying Minnesota law), aff'd and remanded, 967 F.2d 1208 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 113 S. Ct. 414 (1992).
[48] In the agreement between ICC and TCA, TCA expressly agreed to an ICC disclaimer that stated in part "IN NO EVENT SHALL ICC BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SUCH AS LOSSES OF ANTICIPATED [54] PROFIT OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS IN CONNECTION WITH . . . THIS AGREEMENT."
[49] We agree with the district court that the disclaimer of consequential damages was not unconscionable and that the damages claimed by TCA, for business interruption losses and replacement media, were consequential damages as defined by Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-715(2).*fn5 Furthermore, TCA and ICC were sophisticated business entities of relatively equal bargaining power. ICC's disclaimer was not unconscionable and TCA is therefore precluded from recovering consequential damages. American Computer, 763 F. Supp. at 1489.
III. HOLDING
[50] In sum, TCA's procurement of an IBM computer system through ICC, for purposes of conducting its business, was a transaction between sophisticated parties. Potential failure of the disk drive was contemplated by the parties, and any property damage was to property integrated into the computer system. The economic loss doctrine therefore bars TCA's tort claims and limits TCA's remedies to those provided by the U.C.C. as enacted by Minnesota. IBM properly disclaimed implied warranties in its remarketer agreement with ICC, and this disclaimer passed through to TCA as a matter of law, limiting TCA's remedy to the warranty provision of repair or replace, which did not fail of its essential purpose. Finally, ICC properly disclaimed consequential damages in the agreement between ICC and TCA.
[51] Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is affirmed.
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[52] *fn1 The Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.
[53] *fn2 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-318 (West Supp. 1994) (Third party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied) states: "A seller's warranty whether express or implied extends to any person who may reasonably be expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods and who is injured by breach of the warranty. A seller may not exclude or limit the operation of this section."
[54] *fn3 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-316 (West 1966) (Exclusion or modification of warranties) states (in relevant part):
[55] (1) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable and consistent with each other; . . .
[56] (2) . . . to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it the language must mention merchantability and in case of a writing must be conspicuous, and to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness the exclusion must be by a writing and conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."
[57] *fn4 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-719(3) (West 1966) provides: "Consequential damages may be limited or excluded unless the limitation or exclusion is unconscionable. Limitation of consequential damages for injury to the person in the case of consumer goods is prima facie unconscionable but limitation of damages where the loss is commercial is not."
[58] *fn5 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-715 (West 1966) provides (in pertinent part):
[59] (2) Consequential damages resulting from the seller's breach include
[60] (a) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and
[61] (b) injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.
***** END FOOTNOTE(S) HERE *****
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Twin Lights Opens New Exhibit
Category: History and Happenings
PHOTO: 1828 Monmouth Banknote
Museum goers can get a closeup look at the year the first set of Twin Lights was built with the opening of the newest exhibit at the Twin Lights Museum, the 1820s.
The 1820s were also the time of primaries and presidential elections, mud-slinging and politics, notably with the 1828 election of Andrew Jackson when he defeated incumbent John Quincy Adams. That election is widely regarded as the beginning of the down-and-dirty “mud-slinging” tradition in United States politics. What might it have been like to live in Monmouth County during that pivotal year?
The new exhibit at the Museum explores that question and transports visitors back nearly two centuries through a group of rare artifacts from the 1820s.
The year 1828, in addition to the highly controversial election, marks the completion of the first set of Twin Lights atop the Navesink Highlands. The two towers were not connected as they are today (the current building was erected in 1862) but served as a vital beacon to shipping in and out of New York harbor, which grew dramatically in size and importance during that era. The 1828 towers used polished parabolic metal disks to amplify their illumination; the first Fresnel lenses did not go online until the 1840s.
Through its collection of artifacts, the 1828 display transports visitors to a time when fewer than 30,000 people lived in Monmouth County. Even so, it had a robust economy and even its own bank. Part of the exhibit includes a $2 note issued by the Bank of Monmouth, located in Freehold. Added to several copper and silver coins bearing a date of 1828, it represents what a laborer would have had in his pocket for a week’s work. Along with the coins and currency is a list of everyday items available in stores at that time, as well as the prices.
“Although three dollars and change doesn’t seem like much, you can clearly see that a typical working person could have fed a small family with what he made in a week,” said Jeff Tyler, President of the Twin Lights Historical Society.
“The new display also includes several items that would have been treasured by a boy or girl, including a lovely sampler that formerly belonged to the Newark Museum and a colorful little book that teaches American history through rhymes. You realize as you read the verses about the Revolution that this was a story that was also being told to children in 1828 by their grandparents, who lived through those times.”
Among the other features of the 1828 exhibit are items that tell the story of that year’s election—the most contentious in U.S. history to the time—and foreshadow the worst of modern political campaigns. A newspaper from that year overstates the positions and accomplishments of Jackson on its front page. The publication took its talking points from Jackson, who then repeated them as facts in his campaign rhetoric. A graphic poster produced by Adams supporters accused Jackson of mass murder and claimed that he had stabbed a business partner during a dispute.
“Jackson supporters accused Adams of having funneled underage girls to the Czar while he served as a diplomat in Russia,” said trustee Mark Stewart, who helped assemble the artifacts for the 1828 exhibit. “Throughout the campaign, supporters of the president besmirched Jackson’s wife, Rachel, suggesting that she was a prostitute—a relentless attack that may have led to her death shortly after election day. Jackson never forgave Adams.”
Why suddenly all the craziness? According to Stewart, there were two catalysts for the heightened anger that served as a backdrop for the 1828 campaign.
Jackson had actually defeated Adams in the popular vote in the election of 1824 (an election when all four presidential candidates come from the same political party) but did not have sufficient electoral votes. For the first and only time in history, the final decision was left to Congress, which dealt Jackson out of the presidency. In the four years that followed, Jackson railed against Washington and burnished his image as an outsider, a man of the people who was not part of the ruling elite. Also during that time, the eligibility rules for voters were loosened, bringing more small farmers and working Americans into the campaign. Most intended to vote for Jackson.
“Imagine living in Monmouth County that year,” says Tyler. “New Jersey had gone for Jackson in 1824, but in 1828 they voted for Adams by a narrow margin. I imagine the political discourse got pretty heated in the taverns and drawing rooms around here.”
Jackson won the national vote by a landslide but refused to pay Adams the traditional post-election visit at the White House. Adams, in turn, decided to skip Jackson’s inauguration.
The Twin Lights Historical Society will be adding a video on the election of 1828 in January. The display will be up through the spring and is slated to be replaced by an exhibit on life in Monmouth County in 1862 sometime later in the year.
The Twin Lights recently hosted a traveling exhibit, “Guns Blazing!” which featured the maritime paintings of Maarten Platje. The exhibit, which occupied Galleries II and II, increased museum attendance dramatically during its 12-week run. A new exhibit of historic paintings is being planned for these galleries in 2020; currently they house lifesaving, maritime and technology exhibits. An original of the first printing of the Pledge of Allegiance is also on display adjacent to the 1828 exhibit.
The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am . to 4pm., the grounds are open from 9am.. to 4:30. Gates close promptly at 4:30pm - vehicles should not be left unattended on the property. For further information contact the Museum at 732-872-1814.
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Tag: Phil Lapsley
There are a few books I wanted to mention here at the height of the holiday season, not because they’re new or even necessarily recent but because, selfishly, I simply wish more people had read them. If you’re looking for an extra gift, or just a last-minute surprise, for anyone with an interest in architecture, landscape, archaeology, acoustics, geopolitics, history, and more, here are eight titles to consider.
(1) The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History by Daniel Jütte (Yale University Press)—This is an academic work, in both tone and approach, but of the ideal kind: nearly every page had something I wanted to underline, write down, or scramble to look up elsewhere. Put simply, The Strait Gate is a history of the door, but, as Jütte shows, this ultra-quotidian architectural detail—the dividing line between inside and outside—has political, psychological, Constitutional, philosophical, mythological, narrative, cultural, and even material implications that are easy to overlook. Whether it’s a controversial order that “all door handles and knobs be removed from homes and shops” so that the metal could be melted down for war materiel, divine gateways as described in the Book of Revelation, or the resonant phenomenon of Torschlusspanik—“panic of gate closure,” aka a fear of being locked out—Jütte’s book is a superb example of how we can still look at architecture afresh.
(2) The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press)—What did cultures without the benefit of modern scientific knowledge think of the monstrous skeletons and fossilized bones they occasionally unearthed? Quite a lot, as it happens. It turns out that huge chunks of human mythology, including the existence of dragons and the idea of an extinct race of titanic super-human ancestors, can all be traced back to misinterpretations of paleontology. Mayor’s writing is casually engaging—even quite funny, at times—and the book’s many examples of ancient human societies encountering monstrous, inexplicable, and possibly otherworldly things hidden in the earth stuck with me long after reading it.
(3) The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox (W.W. Norton)—If you have even a passing interest in sound, this is the book to read. Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer, introduces readers to sonic phenomena around the world, both naturally occurring and artificially induced, from the frozen surface of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Stone Age tombs in rural England. There are examples of sound art, acoustic science, and even landscape-scale auditory effects that easily justify the subtitle, “sonic wonders of the world.” This would pair well with David Toop’s Ocean of Sound, for those of you interested not just in acoustics but in avant-garde composition and ambient music, as well.
(4) The Tomb of Agamemnon by Cathy Gere (Harvard University Press)—This slim book, part of classicist Mary Beard’s excellent (but, sadly, now hibernating) “Wonders of the World” series for Harvard University Press, hit so many sweet spots for me. Author Cathy Gere convincingly shows how Mediterranean archaeological discoveries over the course of the 19th century helped to shape an emerging European mythos of the glories of war and historical empire. These same emphases lent themselves extremely well, however, to tragic and grotesque distortions that soon fed into the twin ideologies of Nazism and 20th-century fascism. Along the way, Gere writes, Classical discoveries misinterpreted by modern biases helped to justify British involvement in World War I. Gere’s book includes a brief, beautiful, and monumentally sad description of young, Homer-quoting scholars being shipped off to war to fight a rising evil from the East—only to be annihilated in the sodden trenches of the Somme. The Tomb of Agamemnon is probably one of my favorite ten books of the past decade; no other book I’ve read in that time conveys the true political stakes of archaeological research and the clear and obvious risks in distorting history for ideological ends.
(5) Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Anchor)—It’s a little disingenuous to suggest that this widely publicized book has been overlooked, but Lawrence in Arabia is nonetheless an uncannily well-timed history of the post-World War I Middle East and well worth taking the time to read. I was utterly absorbed by it for nearly a week. Part military adventure, part geopolitical biography of Lawrence of Arabia, part soul-crushing alternative history of a region that could have been—complete with agonizing descriptions of the infamous assault on Gallipoli—this book will make you see the entire 20th century differently, up to and including our own century’s Iraq War and the rise of ISIS.
(6) Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt (Granta)—I mentioned this book in a recent post and I would recommend it again. Map of a Nation tells the story of the British Ordnance Survey, the institute’s original geopolitical context, and the experimental cartographic tools it used to make its imperial surveys more accurate. For anyone interested in geography, maps, landscape, or British history, Hewitt’s book is a must-read.
(7) Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley (Grove/Atlantic)—You don’t need to be interested in the wonkish details of the telephone system to be amazed by the weirdness of Exploding the Phone, Phil Lapsley’s introduction to so-called phone phreaking. On one level, it’s a story of bored teenagers using synthesized sound and DIY home electronics to hack the global telephone network; on another, it’s a story with hugely metaphoric, almost occult undertones. The phone system’s diffuse and labyrinthine system of “inward operators,” robotic mechanical test numbers, and secret military phone exchanges—to name only a few ingredients—takes on the air of something invented by Alan Moore or Grant Morrison: teens encountering a world of numerological connection and mechanical intelligence through handheld receivers in the long afternoons of the 1960s and 70s. So good.
(8) Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor by Ben Hellwarth (Simon & Schuster)—The only thing that makes me pause before recommending Ben Hellwarth’s Sealab right now is that a brand new paperback edition is due out in June 2017; but, that aside, I heartily endorse this one. Imagine Archigram teaming up with a secretive branch of the U.S. military to invent an utterly bonkers new version of human civilization on the ocean floor, and you’ve roughly pictured what this book is about. Whether it’s describing what were, in effect, moon bases at the bottom of the sea or bizarre experiments with farm animals, submerged ecological research stations or Cold War espionage in the Sea of Okhotsk, Sealab is as much outsider architectural history as it is a maritime geopolitical thriller. At the very least, preorder the forthcoming paperback if you want to wait before diving in.
Finally, it’s super-obnoxious to end with my own book, but if you’re looking for something to read this winter—or if you need a gift for someone who can be hard to shop for—consider picking up a copy of A Burglar’s Guide to the City. It’s a mix of true crime, architectural theory, and first-person reporting, from a Chicago lock-picking club to flying with the LAPD’s Air Support Division, from an architect who became the most prolific bank robber of the 19th century to fake apartments run by the British police. A Burglar’s Guide includes interviews with a Toronto burglar known for using the city’s fire code to help pick his next target, with renowned architect Bernard Tschumi, with game designers, and with FBI Special Agents, among others, and the whole thing is currently being adapted for TV by CBS Studios. Check it out, if you get the chance and let me know what you think.
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Is Awakening a Gradual Process or a Sudden, Spontaneous Shift?
a message from Eckhart Tolle
Thursday, 21 April, 2016 (posted 8 July, 2016)
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For most people awakening is gradual. A very drastic and sudden transformation is rare, and usually occurs only in the face of extreme suffering—suffering that either comes from within or from a real-life situation such as serious illness, loss, or some other form of pain. Then there is the possibility for a sudden and radical shift.
But for most people it is a gradual awakening and a going back and forth, so to speak. There may be a falling back into unconscious patterns triggered by situations, then a coming out again into more presence. But on the whole there is a gradual increase in presence that then flows into more and more areas of your life.
There can also be a sudden burst in awareness triggered by some kind of event—usually one that would not be called “pleasant.” For example, I’ve met people who’ve been practicing for some time and have shown slow but wonderful growth in presence; and then suddenly a serious physical condition arises that brings about a very rapid intensification of awareness. In some people it brings about a reaction into deep fear, so they lose awareness; but in many others I have observed an intensification of awareness—especially if the possibility of mortality comes in. So there’s suddenly an enormous influx of presence—but that only occurred because they’ve already been practicing living in awareness, perhaps for several years.
There’s really no end to the deepening that’s possible. Be happy with what’s happening to you, and if anything else is needed, life will give it to you. On the whole, for those who voluntarily embrace the arising new consciousness the need for pain to serve the function of spiritual teacher or to break down the ego, diminishes greatly
Now for those who don’t open themselves to the emerging new consciousness, it’s as if there were an egoic shell around something within them that wants to grow but can’t; it’s pushing up against the shell, and that begins to become quite painful. In many people, this ego shell may also be experienced as a deep inner longing for something they cannot name.
And then what life tends to do is to break through the shell through some kind of event, whatever it may be—losing a job, your home, or your spouse. It could also be something physical; whatever it is, there’s a shock, a crack appears, and then the light can come through. At first the crack is, of course, painful and there’s some degree of suffering; then suddenly, “Ah!”—an intensification of aliveness.
I’ve met so many people over the years who have had some kind of blow dealt to them by life, the universe, fate—whatever you want to call it—and retrospectively they reported, “that was the best thing that could ever have happened to me.” So many people have told me, “I wouldn’t be here talking to you if that hadn’t happened to me.” And I’m sure there are people reading this who could say the same. I know that I could say the same! Without intense suffering, I wouldn’t be here.
There’s always grace hiding behind seemingly negative events. (And if you listen to the news there’s no shortage of extremely negative things that are happening.) But all these challenges are potentially awakening experiences. The ego demands security, saying things like, “wouldn’t it be great if I didn’t have to worry about my job and I could really pursue awakening and presence.” But no, if that were the case you would most likely go to sleep. With 100% security, almost everybody would go to sleep, having everything mapped out as if nothing can go wrong.
Life isn’t like that anyway, so even if there were some security on the financial or professional level, you would, of course, still be faced with the insecurity of your physical vehicle—and the insecurity or unpredictability of the people around you!
So, to live with the insecurity or uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you—and to actually embrace it—is a wonderful thing. Rather than fearfully thinking, “oh, I don’t know what’s going to happen to me” and about the uncertainty of it all, surrender into that uncertainty or insecurity, because it is life. Life actually flows more powerfully when there is uncertainty.
The essence of every human journey is that it’s uncertain what’s going to happen tomorrow. Yet it’s there where transformation becomes possible. If you always deny uncertainty, thinking, “I want certainty,” then it’s like closing the valves through which life and the possibility of transformation enter.
That’s why the traditional idea of pilgrimage is universally important in all cultures. The real purpose behind it was never the arriving—it was the uncertainty of the journey itself, which has a transformational effect. People knew that, perhaps, intuitively, and they would become transformed by their pilgrimage.
To embrace the uncertainty of life, to live with it and begin to love it, has another interesting effect in terms of creativity. Creativity is stifled by excessive security. If you look at the lives of history’s great artists and writers, most of them didn’t have secure income; survival was uncertain. But that’s when creativity arises and when awakening becomes possible.
So, what the world calls “negative” is not necessarily negative. When you listen to the news, remember there’s always another side to everything. And the difficulties being experienced collectively these days are also potentially an opening into awakening.
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Spiritual Teacher and author was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey.
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By Dafe Oputu / News March 20, 2013
SSMU Executive Candidates Clash Over Student-Admin Relations
Candidates for executive positions in SSMU took to the Lev Bukhman room on March 13th to introduce themselves and debate their positions. The debates lasted for about two hours and touched on topics ranging from the proposal for a student-run café to relations between students and the administration.
Those running for each position had one minute to introduce themselves before being faced with a series of surprise topics prepared by the moderators. Candidates also faced pre-screened questions from the audience, which were passed to the debate desk or sent via twitter. “We’re going to have to screen them beforehand just because there have been arbitrary questions in the past,” said one moderator.
Debates for the position of VP External were scheduled first and passed quickly. With the withdrawal of Daniyal Naqvi, Sam Harris is running unopposed for the position. Harris noted that he plans to increase the visibility of the student federation TaCEQ and that he wants to work with student residences to make first-year students more considerate of the Milton-Parc community.
Tyler Hofmeister and Thomas Kim, the two candidates running for the position of VP Finance and Operations, debated in a discussion that largely focused on the accessibility of SSMU funds and the planning of a student-run café.
The establishment of a student-run café has been a popular cause on campus since the closing of the architecture café in 2010. Hofmeister said that the café would be a good opportunity for students to gain work experience and would provide a new study space on campus. “I really hope it isn’t a quiet study space just because it’s a cafe,” Kim countered. “The student-run café should add to campus life, not necessarily in a rowdy and rambunctious way but in a fun good way.”
Kim said his mandate would be making the position of VP Finance and Operations “more engaging” and improving face-to-face communication with SSMU clubs. Hofmeister agreed but argued that the main problem was making resources such as budget creation guides available online and having them be more up-to-date.
In the VP University Affairs debate, Sam Gregory and Joey Shea clashed over SSMU relations with the administration. In his introduction, Gregory promoted himself as a candidate with “realistic goals and solutions” who could “repair our relationship with the administration.” Shea, on the other hand, called for “better representativeness and real dialogue with the administration.”
Gregory called for more consultation fairs and less antagonism with regards to relations with the administration. Shea questioned the efficacy of consultation fairs and proposed that the new administrators be invited to SSMU general assemblies where they could speak and listen to students in a less contrived environment. “We can’t lose sight of our role to represent students while talking with the administration,” noted Shea.
Chris Bangs and Katie Larson capped off the night with the presidential debates, where the candidates were asked how they would balance the need to represent students with their need to work collegially with the administration as the only student on the Board of Governors.
Bangs suggested that SSMU should find methods of allowing for direct representation for student organizations on the Board of Governors, which became a point of contention between the candidates.
“I do agree that it is important to talk to the student organizations you mentioned,” explained Larson. “However, I think at the end of the day, as students there is a limit to how much we can force our way into things like the Board of Governors. That would be taking a hardline stance and that’s not going to work. I would prefer to work in a collaborative way.”
“I disagree,” countered Bangs. “I don’t think that just because we’re here for only three or four years or because we don’t have a degree yet that we’re any less valuable members of the community.”
The ongoing SSMU Building lease negotiations between SSMU and the administration were discussed in terms of which methods are most effective for negotiating with the administration. “I don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors, but three years is a long time to wait,” said Bangs. “And if McGill is going to pull the rug out from under us again, I’m not interested.”
“It is going somewhere,” Larson assured. “Obviously it’s frustrating but you have to know the reality of the space you’re working in. […] You have to compromise.”
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the most effective methods to deal with the administration were discussed by the presidential candidates in terms of the student-run café, when they were in fact discussed in the context of the SSMU Building lease negotiations.
Voting in the SSMU elections is ongoing until Friday March 22nd. Make your voice heard at: https://ssmu.simplyvoting.com/
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La Marq – A Home away from Home
From communal bathrooms in Residence Halls, to dilapidated but pricey Ghetto apartments, it would be generous to call university housing…
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We have heard about child marriages in South Asia. Unfortunately this is also widely practiced in Africa. Read more here and other news about women that made it to the headlines.
Africa’s child brides expected to double by 2050
When Fatimetou was 13-years-old she was forced to marry a much older man. She kept running away, but her family kept sending her back. “I could not look at him,” says the girl from Mauritania, in west Africa. “And then when I saw his face I thought: ‘I really hate that man.'” Her story is not unusual in this part of the world.
Read more here from CNN.
Women facing fines of up to £6,500 for wearing burkas in Swiss region
Wearing a burka or niqab in public has been banned in the Swiss region of Ticino, with offenders facing a fine of up to £6,500. The region’s parliament approved the law on Monday, thereby banning full-face veils worn by women in many Muslim countries, in the wake of heightened terrorist alerts across Europe.
Read more here from The Independent.
Four shocking statistics on the day the world tries to unite to end violence against women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is marked on November 25. Here is one of the things you may not know: One in three women experience some form of violence in their lifetime.
Muslim woman thanks ‘Geordie angels’ who defended her from racist abuse on Newcastle Metro
A Muslim woman who was racially abused on the Metro in Newcastle has thanked the “Geordie angels” who defended her and her sister. Ruhi Rahman, 23, from Newcastle, said sh had been travelling on the train with her sibling for about ten minutes when a man approached them and began shouting at them.
100 Women 2015: The small band of pioneering women farmers in India
Eighty percent of all economically active women in India work in agriculture but few own the land. Farms are traditionally passed down through the male line even though women can inherit equally by law. For the BBC’s 100 women season, Rupa Jha and Neha Sharma travel across India to meet a pioneering community of women landowners.
Read more here from BBC
Tampon tax: men should share the burden of ending domestic abuse
Women’s Aid is feeling extremely fortunate. The chancellor has just announced that we will be sharing a fund of £2m to work with another domestic abuse charity, SafeLives, to improve early intervention in domestic abuse: something we have long argued is essential. This work is being funded through the proceeds of the tax on sanitary products. There is good in this, but questions are inevitable and we are glad the government will continue to work to get rid of this tax. However, we must take every opportunity to loudly and clearly affirm that women alone are not responsible for ending domestic violence.
Read more here from The Guardian
Could You Have a Thyroid Disorder?
Your thyroid, a thumb-size gland, rules your waistline, energy level, and mood. And for 10 million women, this regulator is on the fritz. Are you one of them?
Read more here from Women’sHealth
Hair Shedding: What It Is & What You Can Do About It
Hair loss is probably one of those things you only think about when you’re arguing with your roommate about who plugged up the shower drain again. (It was totally not you, right?) But if you’ve been noticing a few extra hairs in your brush, you may be questioning how much hair loss is normal.
Read more here from Refineri29
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Women in India’s Kerala fight taboos to climb mountains January 25, 2019
Legend has it that the world will come to an end if women scale the Agasthyarkoodam peak in India's southern state of Kerala. But these women want to take a chance and prove tradition wrong.
In God’s name: Indian girls forced into sex work despite ritual ban January 22, 2019
Young girls in south India continue to be “dedicated” to village temples and then forced into prostitution despite laws banning the ancient ritual, researchers said. The devadasi system, which involves putting a beaded necklace around girls and often leads to a life of sex work and slavery, goes unchecked in Karnataka state, according to two reports released this month.
Children Living on Railway Stations January 18, 2019
Deepa (who only has one name) is sitting desolate in the corner of the busy Thane railway station in Mumbai. She looks exhausted, weary and frightened after a long train journey that lasted 8 hours .
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Did the Civil War really start in Kansas?
BALDWIN CITY, Kansas — Fireflies beckon to each other in the darkness accentuated by the trees and the rural countryside. But rough-spoken men break the fairy-tale cheer with threats that reek of hatred — hatred of each other and what the others stand for.
These men are on the frontier of the still young United States — indeed, their looming confrontation is based on whether the barely settled swath of rolling prairie and forest known as the Kansas Territory should be admitted to the Union as a state where slavery is legal or is forbidden.
And tomorrow at daybreak, these men will stage what many historians consider the true first battle of the Civil War — almost 5 years before the Confederates will fire on Fort Sumter, more than 1,150 miles back east.
History a few miles away
This re-enactment, along with others plus museums and an active Army base, recount not just the tortured history of what became known as “bleeding Kansas” but also the state’s role in the challenging creation of the frontier in the mid-19th century. A driving trip of less than 150 miles reveals a rich vein of America’s history. But few sites are as dramatic as the Battle of Blackjack Springs, just a few miles from quiet Baldwin City.
The re-enactors include those angry men and one woman — now a sorrowful widow and grieving mother victimized by the blood lust along the Kansas-Missouri border. They re-create events before and during a three-hour firefight on the grassy hillsides split by a creek along the Santa Fe Trail.
The re-enactment is held on the anniversary of that battle on June 2, 1856, when an estimated 75 Missourians ultimately would surrender to about 25 Kansans led by John Brown, an Easterner who would become a lightning rod for abolitionists.
On the night before the re-enactment, visitors sit on hay bales on the site of the actual three-hour battle, to hear Brown — cradling a rifle, his eyes blazing — decry the “abomination” that is slavery.
He recounts the history of thousands of pro-slavery Missourians moving across the Missouri River into Kansas, where fewer thousands of anti-slavery Easterners and Northerners had already settled.
Battling the Jayhawks
Many arrived just to take part in the vote that would decide Kansas’ status. Many of the Missourians terrorized the settlers — called Jayhawks, after an imaginary combination of those two birds — robbing and beating them.
The raiders also set fire to the town of Lawrence, a hotbed of abolitionists. Five townspeople were killed.
Brown, leading a group that included some of the five sons who had preceded him into Kansas, crossed into Missouri. On May 26, 1856, the group committed what is known as the Pottawatamie (cq) Massacre, using swords and pistols to slaughter five farmers.
The showdown at Blackjack Springs abut a week later was to avenge the massacre, but Brown’s vastly outnumbered forces were victorious. Oddly, no one was killed in the firefight before the Missouri force, led by a deputy U.S. marshal, surrendered.
For the annual re-enactment just yards from the actual battlefield, Brown briefly summarizes the reasons for the fight. Then for about 20 minutes, a few dozen re-enactors including some on horseback have at each other, firing their rifles and pistols.
When it’s time for the surrender, firebrand John Brown (enactor Kerry Altenbernd (cq) tells the crowd: “Everyone heard of Blackjack — it was civil war!”
Later, Altenbernd, the law librarian for Douglas County (site of Blackjack Springs and Lawrence), tells me in a surprisingly soft voice, “I feel I understand Brown. He was dedicated, not crazy” — addressing a concept most people have when they hear of the massacre.
“There were 4-million of his brothers and sisters in bondage, and he couldn’t free them.”
Different play, different troupe
Another set of folks offers their version of the history that led to the nickname “bleeding Kansas” in the tiny town of Lecompton, briefly the territory’s first capital and just 30 miles from Baldwin City.
A repertoire troupe of about 30 takes turns portraying Brown, as well as the sheriff who torched Lawrence, the Pottawatomie widow and several more historic figures, in a play written 17 years ago by a resident.
Their preferred venue is in the main hall of a former college building, now the Lane Museum. There, the re-enactors send visitors into either side of the main aisle and encourage them to shout out huzzahs or boo the actors, depending on whether the visitors are sitting on the Missouri or the “Free State” side. This group, which also bought or made their costumes and props, performs up to 50 times a year, often for school groups around the state.
On the road west
Less than an hour’s drive southeast, in Olathe, more of Kanssas’ history — without the emphasis on the bloodshed — is recounted by costumed docents at the Mahaffie (cq) Stage Coach (two words cq) Stop and Farm. Occupying original and recreated buildings, plus a 4-year-old museum, the story of America’s westward growth is told through artifacts — from a child’s plate to farm implements to a Colt revolver – and reproductions and a timeline mural that begins in 1845. That’s 12 years before James Beattie (cq) Mahaffie arrived in Olathe with his wife and five children and created a 600-acre farm along the Santa Fe Trail.
That wagon path was used by Midwesterners as the trade route when Mexico won its freedom from Spain. It went from Missouri’s Mississippi River towns to what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Uncle Beattie” Mahaffie first built his stone farmhouse, which still stands, and operated an inn and then a stop for stagecoaches. His wife and daughters would feed 75 to 100 passengers daily — the coaches rolled 24 hours a day between 1865 and 1869.
Owned by the city of Olathe and covering 11 of the original 600 acres, the attraction includes a blacksmith shop, livestock barn for oxen and horses that pull the reproduction stagecoach that carries visitors around the buildings. In the farmhouse, they can watch a docent cook using authentic kitchen equipment and even try their hands at churning butter.
But 30 years before the Mahaffies arrived, the federal government needed to protect the traffic along the Santa Fe and Oregon trails and the early settlers from attacks by Native Americans. The government erected a series of forts about 100 miles apart along the frontier, and one of them is the oldest, continuously operating, military base west of the Mississippi. It has a familiar name: Leavenworth.
Touring an Army base
Laid out on the tree-covered bluffs high above the Missouri River, Fort Leavenworth opened in May 1827 and as usually happened, a village grew up nearby.
It wasn’t long before a 14-year-old from the village named William Cody began working for a freight shipper, riding along the trails to help protect the wagons and to provide the drovers with fresh meat. His prowess with a rifle earned him a nickname he cherished: Buffalo Bill.
Nowadays, visitors to Fort Leavenworth are passed through a security checkpoint and can follow a self-guided tour of the base, a handsome facility of red brick buildings that date back a century but are also are as new as the 21st century.
Immediately after the Civil War, newly freed blacks comprised about a fifth of the U.S. Army, By 1867, Leavenworth was home to one of the regiments of African-American cavalry known as the Buffalo Soldiers. When he was commander of Leavenworth in the early 1990s, Gen. Colin Powell had erected two handsome statues commemorating those units.
Visitors learn that the famed Leavenworth prison now has both military and civilian components. Prohibition-era gangsters such as Machine Gun Kelly were imprisoned here. So was Robert Stroud, a murderer who gained fame because he kept birds in his cell, Thus he was later — but incorrectly — referred to as the Birdman of Alcatraz, where he did serve time.
While the prison buildings are not open to the public, the base does hold the Frontier Army Museum, which traces America’s growth even before there was a United States. Among the artifacts are a1763 French musket, surveyors’ tools from the late 18th century and on to the 20rh century — including a biplane like those used to chase Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1916-17.
Among the extraordinary pieces on display: a Medal of Honor awarded in 1875, and a paymaster’s ledger showing that in 1881, the highest paid non-commissioned officers were chief musicians, who earned $228 total for a five-year enlistment.
End Bag, the new book from Bob Jenkins, collects his best stories from 19 years as travel editor. Available now on Amazon.com. View a sample at Smashwords.com. Read more about End Bag here.
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Dagsboro man arrested in Clarksville shooting
John Barnhard, 60, of Dagsboro was arrested last week in connection with a shooting that occurred on March 27 in unincorporated Clarksville.
Around 9:24 p.m., police said, Delaware State Police troopers were dispatched to Irons Lane and Old Mill Road for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, a 16-year-old boy who had sustained an apparent gunshot wound to his upper torso was located near the roadway, police reported.
The 16-year-old victim was transported to Beebe Hospital in serious condition and later transported to A.I. DuPont Hospital, they said.
As of Coastal Point’s Wednesday news deadline, Delaware State Police Public Information Officer MCpl. Melissa Jaffe said there were no additional updates regarding the incident or the status of the victim.
Through their investigation, police said, troopers learned that, prior to the shooting, the victim — whose identity was still being withheld by police due to his age, which is also in line with Coastal Point editorial policy — was reportedly a passenger in a vehicle, along with the driver and three other men.
The four men were traveling eastbound on Old Mill Road from Irons Lane, police said, when the vehicle was allegedly flagged down by a motorist, later identified as Barnhard, who was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck.
Police said Barnhard proceeded to stop and, once he exited the truck, words were allegedly exchanged and the four men also reportedly exited their vehicle.
Barnhard then, police reported, allegedly proceeded to pull out a handgun and fire a shot, striking the 16-year-old victim in the upper torso, before allegedly fleeing the scene in his vehicle.
Once troopers were able to identify Barnhard, they said, he was found within close proximity to the scene and taken into custody without incident,
Barnhard was charged with Assault First Degree; five counts of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony; Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Person Prohibited; and four counts of Reckless Endanger First Degree.
“Barnhard was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition,” said Jaffe. “He was convicted of a felony or a crime of violence involving physical injury where he was charged with Reckless Endangering 1st Degree.”
After his arrest in the March 27 incident, Barnhard was committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $317,000 secured bond.
Jaffe said the incident remained under investigation mid-week. If anyone has any information regarding the incident, they are being asked to contact Detective Grassi at (302) 365-8441.
Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or via the internet at www.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com.
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Record Sales: 25,000+
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Laura Wright's story began in 2005 when she won BBC Radio 2's Chorister of the Year and found herself a member of classical girl group All Angels shortly after. She achieved great success with the vocal quartet; gaining Classical Brit Award nominations, record breaking sales, platinum status and performing in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the London's O2. After three albums, Wright left the group in 2010 and has since been signed as a solo artist under Decca. Her debut album, The Last Rose, emphasises the fusion of classical and folk music. Her second solo album, Glorious, celebrated the Queen's Jubilee and the single 'Stronger As One' was used as the official Jubilee song and featured on Gary Barlow's number one EP 'Sing'. Vocally (and to put it simply) Wright has an incredible sound. Trained as a choirgirl, Wright is not operatic but is not restrained by the traditional choral inflexibility and her tone is appealing and pure. All Angels fans will be pleased to have her back whilst fans of Hayley Westenra and Jackie Evancho will enjoy getting to know her as a soloist.
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Thames Water ordered to pay record £20 million for river pollution
Thames Water Utilities Ltd sentenced in the largest freshwater pollution case ever taken by the Environment Agency
(Press Release First published:22 March 2017).
Environment Agency officers worked around the clock responding to reports of pollution
Thames Water Utilities Ltd (Thames Water) has today (22 March 2017) been fined an unprecedented £20,361,140.06 in fines and costs for a series of significant pollution incidents on the River Thames. These offences were caused by negligence and led to the death of wildlife and distress to the public
The prosecution saw 6 separate cases – which caused widespread, repeated, sustained and avoidable pollution at a number of sites from 2012 to 2014 – brought together in one hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court. It is the biggest freshwater pollution case in the Environment Agency’s 20 year history.
The court heard how TWUL’s repeated illegal discharges of sewage into the River Thames, and its tributaries, resulted in major environmental damage including visible sewage along 14 kilometres of the river, and the death of birds, fish and invertebrates.
The multiple incidents from the company’s wastewater sites in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire caused significant distress and disruption to the public. Riverside residents, farmers, local businesses, anglers, and recreational river users were all affected. Sailing regattas and other events on the River Thames were also disrupted.
Investigations carried out by Environment Agency officers revealed a catalogue of failures by TWUL management. This involved repeated discharges of untreated or poorly treated raw sewage into rivers, disregarding risks identified by their own staff and failing to react adequately to thousands of high priority alarms used to alert them to the serious problems.
The Court heard how for weeks, untreated sewage, amounting to millions of litres per day, was diverted to the rivers and away from the treatment process, although the incoming sewage flow was well within the designed capacity of the treatment works. In many instances less than half of the incoming sewage was sent for treatment.
It was pointed out to the Court that local residents impacted by the pollution were also customers of TWUL and were paying the company to have their sewage treated to the legally required standards – standards which protect the environment.
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, said:
Water and sewerage companies provide a vital service to the community. Where they experience problems through no fault of their own we will always work with them to resolve them but where negligence causes serious pollution, or a serious threat to the environment, we will seek the strongest possible penalties.
This case sends a clear signal to the industry that safeguarding the environment is not an optional extra, it is an essential part of how all companies must now operate.
His Honour Judge Sheridan, condemned the “disgraceful conduct” of Thames Water Utilities Limited, which he said was “entirely foreseeable and preventable.”
It was “a very dark period in the history of Thames Water” who demonstrated “scant regard for the law, with dreadful results for people who live in the area.”
He congratulated the Environment Agency for their “painstaking and thorough investigation”, and added that he hopes the courts never see the like of such a case again.
When commenting on the level of the fines, His Honour Judge Sheridan, noted this was a record breaking fine for record breaking offending. He asks that the fines must be met by Thames Water, and not be passed onto customers; it was the company, not the customers, who broke the law.
Anne Brosnan, Chief Prosecutor for the Environment Agency said:
Thames Water was completely negligent to the environmental dangers created by the parlous state of its works. Our investigation revealed that we were dealing with a pattern of unprecedented pollution incidents which could have been avoided if Thames Water had been open and frank with the Environment Agency as required by water company industry protocol.
Members of the public are our eyes and ears so if you see any signs of pollution in a watercourse near you please report it to the Environment Agency Incident Hotline on 0800 80 70 60.
The offences caused officers to work around the clock for lengthy periods, responding to reports of pollution, attending to clean up and river recovery and in undertaking very detailed and complex investigations. The ongoing investigation included intelligence gathering, monitoring, interviews and analysis by the Environment Agency and resulted in bringing the company to court to face the consequences.
Fines and costs:
Fines for each charge
Little Marlow: £8,000,000
Aylesbury: £9,000,000
Henley: £1,000,000
Littlemore: £800,000
Didcot: £800,000
Arborfield: £150,000
Costs: £611,140.06
TWUL had already been fined £1million and £380,000 in 2016 for similar problems in 2013 at 2 of their other sewage treatment works at Tring in Hertfordshire and Princess Risborough in Buckinghamshire in earlier cases brought by the Environment Agency.
The Court was informed that TWUL had already been convicted, in individual prosecutions, of pollution offences at six other sites in the same period of time as the six cases before the court – mid 2012 to early 2014.Thames Water have attempted to maintain that these offences are the result of unprecedented wet weather and also the result of the public putting products such as wipes and condoms down the loo. Firstly, the Environment Agency were careful to exclude the periods of wet weather as a cause of the offences charged and, secondly, modern sewage equipment, properly maintained, can and does cope with the contents of foul sewers – as the operation of the same works with properly operating equipment is now demonstrating.
List of charges:
Aylesbury STW polluted the River Thame, a tributary of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, between January 2013 and November 2013. TWUL had previously been prosecuted in 2004 for offences at this STW in 2002. There were 2 distinct and repeated illegal actions at Aylesbury STW which resulted in pollution of the River Thame. One was the by-passing of the treatment process by up to half of the incoming flow of untreated effluent and its discharge, untreated, into the river. The other was the diversion, at the end of the treatment of process, of poorly treated effluent away from the only permitted outfall and sampling point into the river, through a disused and unauthorised land treatment area and thence to the river. Amongst the persons affected were a cattle farmer who lost the value of a prime beef cow due to a human tape worm and a professional crayfish fisherman who suffered losses of £25,000 in 2013 and further losses in the next 3 years.
Little Marlow STW, polluted the River Thames, Thames Path and farmland both directly and via the Spade Oak Brook in Buckinghamshire between November 2012 and December 2013. The most serious pollution incident ever recorded in the River Thames from Little Marlow Sewage Treatment Works (STW) resulted in over 100 complaints from the public about sewage in the water. The water company’s inadequate investment, maintenance and poor management caused months of misery for local communities and visitors and affected the River Thames for over 1km.
Henley Sewage Treatment Works (STW), polluted the River Thames via the Fawley Court Stream in Oxfordshire between May 2013 and June 2014. Pollution from Henley STW caused the death of fish and had a detrimental and long term impact on Temple Island Meadows a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), in particular aquatic invertebrates.
Didcot STW, polluted the Moor Ditch, a River Thames tributary in Oxfordshire, in April 2013. Pollution from Didcot STW was spotted by a cyclist who saw a black cloud of polluted water containing toilet roll, sanitary towels and other solids. Environment Agency officers spotted extensive sewage fungus in the watercourse. TWUL managers were regularly made aware of issues by their own staff including that the storm tanks were ‘black and septic’ and that ‘if storm tanks discharge to stream fish kill imminent.
Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station, polluted the River Thames in Oxfordshire between February 2013 and April 2013.’Pollution from Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) created a visible plume of brown raw sewage. The TWUL ‘clean-up’ was not adequate, leaving sewage debris and black colouration to the channel and causing months of misery for local communities.
Arborfield STW, pollution of Barkham Brook, tributary of the River Loddon in Arborfield Berkshire on 29 September 2013 untreated sewage discharged from the storm tanks due to faults with the inlet pump systems and failure to heed alarm and telemetry systems, causing a significant water pollution incident, resulting in the deaths of a significant number of fish in the river, as well as other flora and fauna.
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The 6 Booking Zones. Pete hotel (1) Ticketing (1) travel (2) virtual (1) walt disney world (1) wikipedia (1) This ‘s the best way to consider doing it. History of allegiant Air. 1. allegiant Air was set up in 1997 under the title WestJet Express. [1]Following a trademark dispute with West Jet Air Center of Rapid City, South Dakota, and with the name’s similarity to WestJet Airlines of Calgary, Alberta, the airline adopted the title allegiant Air and received its operating certificate for charter and scheduled national operations in 1998.
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Should you don’t mind the extra cost, the benefit of purchasing early is accessibility to more flight choices and a better chance of securing your desired flight. The airline was not able to earn enough revenue to cover its own costs and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 13, 2000. 2. In More about the author June 2001, Maurice J. Peace of Mind: 4-6 months beforehand. Gallagher, Jr. joined the airline and became President and Chief Executive Officer. This window is lower cost than Dibs. Having previously worked with WestAir and ValuJet Airlines, Gallagher led the airline’s transformation into its current form, moving the base to Las Vegas and focusing on smaller niches that bigger airlines did not function with mainline aircraft. Though you might pay $20 more than discounted fares, you are still going to have a broader selection of flights and seats.
By 2001, they have grown from two destinations to over 50 from vegas, Orlando/Sanford, Florida, and St Petersburg, Florida. 3. On November 20, 2006, allegiant Air announced that it had filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in anticipation of a planned initial public offering of its Common Stock. Prime Booking Window: 3 weeks -4 months beforehand.
It’s listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol "ALGT". Attention bargain shoppers: this is your window. On July 31, 2007, the airline announced plans to start a fourth focus town and operations base at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona, connecting the Phoenix metropolitan area to 13 destinations already served by allegiant and a new destination. This is when you will discover the best fares. The airline began service from the new focus town on October 25, 2007. [5] The airport declared a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) expansion in August 2008 which will increase the amount of passengers from two to four and allow allegiant to triple the amount of flights from Phoenix. This window, normally, sees fares range within 5 percent of the cheapest cost.
The expansion will be funded by a loan from allegiant which will be paid back by passenger charges. [6] 4. On August 1, 2007, allegiant also announced plans to start their fifth attention town and produce an operations base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, connecting the South Florida area to destinations already served by allegiant. Push Your Luck: 2-3 weeks in advance. The airline began service within this focus town November 14, 2007. You’re getting near, and this is the next best choice after the Prime Booking Window. On January 29, 2008, allegiant opened their sixth base at Washington’s Bellingham International Airport. Watch out as your initial choice for seats might not be accessible.
The airline is basing two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft at Bellingham as a portion of this expansion. [7] Routes served only from Bellingham include Las Vegas, Reno, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco, and Phoenix. 5. Expansion in Bellingham has been largely driven by its proximity to Vancouver, Canada. Playing With Fire: 1-2 weeks beforehand.
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UAE, Indonesia Discuss Further Defense Cooperation
WAM16.12.2019 UAE
Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs, has met with General Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs of Indonesia, to discuss bilateral cooperation and friendship relations between the two countries.
During the meeting, which was held in Jakarta Friday, the two sides exchanged talks on opportunities to further develop cooperation in various fields with the aim of enhancing the partnership between the two countries.
Al Bowardi also reviewed means of bolstering defense cooperation with Prabowo Subianto, Defense Minister of Indonesia, according to Emirates news agency WAM.
During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation relations in the defense field and defense industries between the UAE and the Republic of Indonesia.
The two sides discussed ways to enhance bilateral relations as well as exchanging views on regional and international issues of mutual concern.
Al Bowardi highlighted the importance of developing bilateral cooperation between the two countries and opening new horizons for joint action in various fields, especially the defense field.
The Minister of State for Defense Affairs also opened the UAE’s new Military Attaché office in Jakarta in the presence Abdullah bin Mutlaq Al Ghafli, UAE Ambassador to Indonesia, along with a number senior officers of the armed forces.
Meanwhile, Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the UAE Ministry of Defense, received Thursday the visiting Prime Minister of Mali, Boubou Cisse.
The meeting, which took place at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, entailed discussions on the friendly relations between the two countries and means to further develop cooperation in various fields, especially in the defense and military sectors.
The two sides exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual interest as well as current regional and international developments.
Al Dhaheri welcomed the visit of the Prime Minister of Mali, expressing his hope that the visit would contribute to opening new horizons for cooperation and joint work between the two countries.
The meeting was attended by a number of senior officers and officials at the Defense Ministry, Boukary Sidibe, Malian Ambassador to the UAE, and members of the delegation accompanying the Prime Minister Cisse.
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A Trip to Jacob’s Pillow
Jacbob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012
Skybetter and Associates (July 26)
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company (July 25-29)
Jessica Lang (July 25-29)
There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances. The dance festival in Western Massachusetts, has now been running for 80 years, since Ted Shawn freed himself from a vaudevillian past (and a dancer wife, Ruth St. Denis), bought an old farm on a hill in the Berkshire Hills, and founded an all-male dance company. He brought together men recruited at Springfield College PE classes, and dedicated himself to the idea of promoting dance as a virile, athletic activity. His dancers built cabins and dance studios when they weren’t rehearsing, some of which are still in use today. Early on, they began offering performances to well-heeled audiences of New Yorkers and Bostonians, who summered in the cool, verdant hill towns of the area.
In 2012, the Pillow is one of the most active presenters of touring dance companies in the U.S. Every week, a new batch of artists is seen onstage at the barn-like Ted Shawn Theatre, a smaller black box theater, the Doris Duke, and a stunning hillside platform where emerging artists and student dancers offer al fresco performances. More than three hundred performances featuring artists from Australia, China, France, Finland and American companies well-known and soon-to-be-well-known offer a variety show that would have made Ted Shawn very pleased.
The weekend I visited, Bill T. Jones was there with his group, there was a young freelance ballet choreographer, Jessica Lang, offering a first glance at her new company of dancers, and a four-person company from Brooklyn, Skybetter and Associates, was supposed to perform on the Inside/Out stage on Thursday night, July 26. Unfortunately, it rained.
Sydney Skybetter’s group was moved to a small rehearsal studio, where folding chairs were lined-up and the audience limited to the first 50 or so who showed up to claim tickets. Watching his multi-part 2012 piece, “For Want of Sleep,” up close and intimately, may have been a unique opportunity to watch costumes and dancers slowly becoming soaked in sweat, but it robbed the audience of the physical space that might have let the movement breathe and register over a distance. As it was, the piece, presented with a collage of recorded music by Johánn Johánnsson, Arvo Pärt, and Sxip Shire, was a flowy, circling suggestion of intimacies and partnerships that didn’t ever ignite into anything engaging. Kristen Arnold, Kile Hotchkiss, Jordan Isadore and Barbi Powers were attractive performers, technically strong, but never breaking out of the lyrical blandness of Skybetter’s choreography.
Costumes, by Karen Young, changed, from movement to movement, as the men arrived shirtless in one section, then dressed in long black skirts in another. It was as if lights, music and costuming might have been intended to provide more contrast than the movement offered, at least in a theatrical setting. Here, not even outdoors, but crammed into a tiny studio, the circumstances didn’t allow for any of that. There was plenty of subtlety to Skybetter’s efforts, just not dynamism, or much originality for that matter.
Bill T. Jones is touring the world with a new piece, “Story/Time” (2012) intended as homage to John Cage, the composer known most widely for his collaborations with Merce Cunningham, and his use of the principals of chance. According to the program notes, Cage’s 1958 piece, “Indeterminacy” featured no music. Rather, he sat by himself on a small stage, and read an “unbroken stream of one-minute stories.” Thus, Jones was planted center stage at the Ted Shawn Theatre, sitting at a desk lined with green apples, a digital timer flashing behind him, telling stories.
For those who have followed the work of Jones (and Arnie Zane, his original collaborator, who died of AIDS in 1988), the idea that he might dispense with dancing altogether, just as Cage did with music, would not be surprising. “Story/Time,” however, had a lot of dancing. It wasn’t always easy to see, however, because Jones, with his magnificent voice and ever-fluent way with words, offered such a magnetic stage presence that was hard to stop watching him. Multi-tasking was called-for, but not easily accomplished.
Jones followed the Cage/Cunningham principle of chance for this event. Apparently, the order of the show was put together just for this performance—stories and dances were combined in ways that would never be seen again. Composer Ted Coffey, who sat at a digital control panel and “played” various recorded bits of sound, also manipulating Jones’ live feed, added to the sense of a disjointed, but possibly cumulative, power to the work.
Stories ranged from memories of life with Zane (being called faggots when they walked down a street together by a man in a passing car), a conversation with a sushi chef at a Japanese restaurant, taking his grandmother to see the movie, “Titanic” and answering a post-performance question about what possible through-point Jones might have had in a career with such incredible variety (“Doubt, burns like fire,” he answered).
Jones’ fine cast of dancers exemplifies not just the diverse approach he takes to his work, but his philosophy about dance. There are tall and short, black, Asian and white, thin and not-so-lanky dancers. All of them move with a consistently strong sense of physical commitment yet retain their individuality—each has a persona that adds to the stew of humanity that the choreographer is commenting on. Although Jones no longer appears regularly as a dancing soloist, it is clear that his movement approach and vocabulary continue to live, even grow. Janet Wong is listed as co-choreographer, and although she never appears alongside him to take a bow, clearly her movement imagination is helping to keep things fresh.
Meticulous and interesting stagecraft in Jones’ works exemplifies how much he has worked in the worlds of theater and opera, and how far he has moved beyond his beginnings in the grittier world of “downtown” modern dance. Every aspect of the setting is typically striking and effective, with, in this case, a grid-marked floor, sofas and room-dividers which are manipulated depending on the scene, and lighting (by Robert Wierzel) that creates a luminous glow around the players, not a darkness that communicates cynicism or sadness—but the opposite really.
The only downside to all of this beyond the temptation to ignore the dancing in order to take in Jones’ aura all by itself is the danger of chance. At the performance I attended, the final story told was about Jones’ sister Rhodessa, who was attending to her dying father at his hospital bedside. The father said he had to urinate, and the daughter found herself in the uncomfortable situation of holding the old man’s penis with his permission, in order to allow this. It was a quiet and weird way to end an otherwise powerful evening.
Jessica Lang, who appeared with her newly formed company, Jessica Lang Dance, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, a veteran of Twyla Tharp’s company (THARP!) and a prolific freelance ballet choreographer. While professional dancers (especially ballet dancers) rarely take the time out from their short-lived careers to attend college, the Juilliard School is an exception, offering students a degree as well as training in New York City with some of the top teachers and choreographers in the world. A high percentage of the graduates go on to careers in some of the biggest modern and ballet companies in the world.
The Juilliard education features equal attention paid to both ballet technique as well as various styles of contemporary dance. Lang, and many of the dancers in her company, share that background—and the movement they embody has that blend of styles. It’s a look becoming more and more prevalent in ballet companies, where traditional pointe work and tutu’s are being cast aside for edgier explorations by people like John Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, and Nacho Duato—Europeans (or, in the case of Forsythe, an American who has made a career in Germany) all.
Lang describes her choreography as a fusion of contemporary and modern, and one ventures to guess that her success with ballet companies (she has set more than 75 works on companies like the Joffrey Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, ABT II and American Ballet Theatre) has to do with the fact that she is fluent in the language of ballet, and familiar with pointe work. At the Pillow, the one dancer who donned pointe shoes, Maggie Small, was given some of the most interesting choreography of the evening. The bad news is that the rest of the evening fell short of that.
The best new ballet choreographers, like Christopher Wheeldon, have a knack for embodying the essence of the music they explore. Lesser talents, like Lang, get stuck in the trap of merely illustrating music. Back in the early days of modern dance, “music visualization” was a term that described that tendency. These days, ever since Balanchine, basically, it is not enough just to “do” music.
Lang’s pieces were either so short that they didn’t explore the possibilities set up by the use of props or costumes, or the use of props and costumes was something that gave Lang an excuse to fill up phrases of music with empty manipulations—not dance, not steps, not images.
“Lines Cubed,” a world premiere for nine dancers, had sections named after the colors of the costumes the dancers wore, with the yellow section a perky daffodil-colored exercise in sprightly movement for three women, the red section featuring an Asian dancer, the blue section a slow and soulful (blue, get it?) movement, and so forth. The music, by John Metcalfe and Thomas Metcalf, had a “modern” industrial sound to it, a clangy, rhythmic score that Lang filled with sharp kicks, robotic, jutting arms, and, regrettably, long sections of collapsible tubing, like accordion bellows, which the dancers folded, unfolded, hid behind and moved.
“The Calling,” an excerpt from the 2006 piece, “Splendid Isolation II,” featured former Alvin Ailey dancer Clifton Brown in a dress. The striking imagery of the lengths of fabric spreading out around him like a pool of cream had the potential to offer an interesting voyage in movement, yet Lang decided to cut the journey short—the piece was a few minutes of gesture and the visual interest of Brown’s muscular back, facing the audience, but the excerpt ended before there could be any investigation of movement, use of the fabric, or exploration of the space.
“Solo Bach,” (2008) was a happy, virtuosic dance for Shu Kinouchi, who was smiling and seemingly effortless in his quick jumps and turns. It was the sort of light, fluffy piece designed for galas, or summer audiences, where the mood is fueled by champagne or picnics, and the dance is designed to please—not think, not feel.
Perhaps Lang’s programming was not representative of her actual talent as a choreographer, but the pieces on display at Jacob’s Pillow offered some attractive dancers an opportunity to smile and move props around, to pose in lengths of well-lit fabric, and to change their costumes a lot. What was missing was the kind of movement invention and emotional investment one looks for in a serious artist. Lang’s works seem to be pleasant enough, but judging from these dances, she is just another ballet choreographer playing it safe. Champagne gives me a headache.
Michael Wade Simpson Santa Fe ,
Mr. Simpson has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and worked as an advertising writer in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue a different passion: dance. He danced professionally in New York and Boston before founding a community-based modern dance company, Small City Dance Project, in Newburyport, MA. His fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. He was a teaching fellow at Smith College, where he received his MFA in choreography. While living in the Bay Area for 15 years, he wrote about dance for the San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals. In 2005, he was a NEA Fellow at the Dance Critics Institute, American Dance Festival. For culturevulture.net, he reviews dance, theatre and film. He moved to Santa Fe in October, 2008. He writes for "Pasatiempo," the Arts magazine of the "Santa Fe New Mexican."
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2. What's the history of Curve?
Pre-Curve
Dean Garcia's early career during the '80s was spent playing bass for several artists including Mick Jagger, Michael Kamen, Tom Petty and Eurythmics, The Blockheads and Sinead O'Connor. Toni Halliday started her music career singing in various bands (her first was called Incest back in 1978 but her first signed band was The Uncles in 1984). She was discovered by Dave Stewart after he saw her on a local TV programme saying she was a fan of The Tourists (his and Annie Lennox's current band before they split and formed Eurythmics). Through Stewart, Dean and Toni met backstage at a Eurythmics gig in 1983.
They first worked together when they formed State Of Play (along with Julie Fletcher & Olle Romö) in 1985 and signed to Virgin Records. The label invested several million pounds in them but the resulting two singles and album flopped badly and the band split acrimoniously...*
"We were just bunged loads of money, loads of gear... We were chucked into this mega-studio and none of us knew what the f*** was going on really... It was a disaster."
(Dean Garcia : Melody Maker interview, March 1991)
For three years Dean and Toni had no contact (except through solicitors). Dean emigrated to Spain and got married, while Toni released a solo album - Hearts And Handshakes - on Dave Stewart's Anxious label. It also failed to chart and the singles from it fared little better...
* "Metropolis" (a b-side of all things!) is the only State Of Play track that Curve still regard as worth listening to these days...
Curve : phase #1
Dean returned to the UK in 1989 and he and Toni sorted out their differences... The following year they formed Curve and signed to the Anxious label. Their first release - the Blindfold EP (which cost just £300 to record) - was a surprising success. Promoted with just a white label 12" and an anonymous photo of the band, it became a Melody Maker Single Of The Week in February 1991 (even though it wasn't due to be released for another six weeks!) Curve rapidly became The Next Big Thing - appearing on the cover of pretty much every music magazine in the UK. The follow up EP's Frozen and Cherry were huge indie hits (and also reached the Top 40) and their live shows were sellouts... As is typical in the UK though, the backlash started quickly. Toni and Dean's failed 'pop' past was continually referred to and they were accused of being contrived, manufactured and of cashing in on the current "shoegazing" scene. In 1992 their debut album Doppelgänger was released and received mixed reviews - mostly criticising that it sounded too similar to the three EP's released over the previous year...
"...so should they have done a couple of reggae numbers, or what?"
(Robin Gibson : Volume, May 1992)
To promote the album (and the singles taken from it - Faît Accompli & Horror Head) they toured the world. Afterwards, they returned to the UK and commenced work on their second, more experimental album Cuckoo. In Autumn 1993 the two-part BlackerThreeTracker single was released in the UK and was another hit - a month later the album followed. Once again, the band toured to promote it but during this time, Toni and Dean became increasingly disillusioned with the music business. Shortly after the tour, they split the band and disappeared as quickly as they'd arrived three years earlier...
"We weren't happy with the way everything was going. It had stopped being fun and we couldn't do what we wanted any more. We just wanted to jump off that treadmill."
(Toni Halliday : New Musical Express interview, August 1996)
'Post' Curve
While Dean spent time with his family and experimented in his home studio writing soundtracks, Toni worked with The Future Sound Of London, Freaky Chakra and also scored a UK Top 40 hit with Original - her collaboration with Leftfield. She also formed an all-girl band called Scylla though not much is known about them except that they recorded a few tracks but only one - Helen's Face - was ever released.
Toni and Dean made a low-key return as Curve in 1996. Forming their own record label - Fatlip - they released the Pink Girl With The Blues single. Many cynics believed that they'd returned to cash in on Garbage's recent success - an ironic claim considering that Garbage could easily be accused of the same thing, as their musical style could be interpreted as a more polished, radio-friendly version of Curve's old sound...
"Good luck to them. I can see our influence. I'm actually quite
chuffed - I know Butch Vig. He's a big Curve fan - he wanted to
produce our third album. I'm not bitter. If we helped to open
doors then that's good."
(Toni Halliday : Select interview, August 1996)
Curve later signed to Universal / Estupendo and in Winter 1997 released the Chinese Burn single - the track was also used on an advert to promote the new Sony MiniDisc format. Around the same time they returned to the live scene and were rapturously received by the press and fans alike.
"...Curve have established that they can still play the old songs with frightening intensity, that they can still make noises like coughing seagulls actually sound melodic, and that their new songs boast the grinding beats, morose basslines and atmospheric whooshings that made them so good years ago..."
(April Long : New Musical Express, November 1997)
A few months later in 1998, their third album Come Clean was released after several delays... It proved popular overseas but the UK press were as cynical as ever...
"...a band unique in the world of hi-tech, low-calorie goth music for never having chanced upon a tune... they split up a few years ago in the face of universal indifference - while still releasing identically-flawed records."
(James Oldham : New Musical Express, May 1998)
Once again they toured the world to promote the album while another single Coming Up Roses was also released in the UK (though it failed to dent the charts). Afterwards, they vanished again leaving their official website untouched and many fans fearing the band had split again just as before... Dean released an internet-only CD under his Headcase alias in 1999. Finally, in mid-2000, Curve re-surfaced with a brand new official website (created by Dean himself) plus an update from Toni...
"Keep it together everyone, Dean is working as fast as his little hands will allow, yes some things are still not right but the main objective of this site is going to be to get music to our fans as quickly as possible... Dean and I are in long drawn out negotiations with the record label but we fully expect a release later this year of our new album "GIFT" . Until then we are quite happy to update this site and offer "you" free music that we love in the hope that you will too..."
The site featured the first of many exclusive MP3 tracks to be regularly released online plus a message forum where Toni and Dean responded to fan questions. In January 2001 another announcement was made...
"Finally we have some news regarding our recording commitment with Estupendo Records. As of this week we have been formally released from our contract without the last record we recorded for them being released. So sorry to all the fans out there that have been waiting for "Gift" but it seems unlikely that this record will ever see the light of day since they technically own the recordings and have no intention of allowing us to use them. Unfortunately the music business has changed to such a degree that it no longer feels the need to support bands like us, leaving you the consumer with limited access to the wealth of music that is made...
As for the future of Curve..... that will depend on you and how willing or receptive you would be to buying music directly from us via our site. At the moment we are getting between 15-17 thousand hits per day or around 500 thousand hits a month. If just 5% of those people bought our records it would allow Dean and I to make the next record. Both of us have worked hard at making our music available to you through this portal for free. If you would like Curve to continue ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
On a lighter note... We're Free... We're Free... We're Free... Hip Hip Hooray."
2001 was Curves' most prolific in years, though the year actually started with Dean releasing a second Headcase album - Crosseyedrabbit. On the Curve site, four tracks from Gift were tantalisingly released as MP3's, while a new CD - Open Day At The Hate Fest (a collection of the previous online tracks plus 3 new songs) - was released exclusively through the site. The biggest event of the year though was Gift finally being released in September - but in the US only.
In 2002, with their new found freedom, Toni and Dean recorded an entirely new album - The New Adventures Of Curve - and released it though the site... Also, Gift was finally released in the UK and Australia along with two singles - Perish in the UK and Want More Need Less in Australia. The band then rounded off the year with a remix of Gary Numan's "Down In The Park" which was released on his 25th anniversary album...
The Way Of Curve
In June 2003 a message was posted on the official site:
"We've been working on our own and more recently with Flood. The tracks are sounding good so we want to do more. Alan is mixing 4 new tracks to be cut in a few days time. QuickTime clips of todays recording are posted here and here of Alan playing some guitar and mixing one of the new songs...In Disguise. We hope to be able to post more footage as we've recently got a cool digicam...so you never know we may actually crop up here and there, better get the smoke and strobes out. Hope you like the clips and thanks for the continued support. love and all that."
Dean Toni Alan Turkey and Flood
The band were hoping for a September release of the new material but, apart from an MP3 of Some Good Some Bad nothing else materialised...
In July, the release of a compilation CD was announced and Curve asked their fans to choose tracks which they felt should be included. In October, the discovery of some old stock at the Church Studios finally allowed a few lucky fans to get hold of the Superblaster CD...
The Way Of Curve was released in May 2004. It featured re-mastered versions of material covering the whole of Curve's career and also included the new track In Disguise.
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
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Volume 73 - Issue 3 - August 2014
Plenary Session 3: Fatty acids and health and disease
Conference on ‘Transforming the nutrition landscape in Africa’
Dietary PUFA and cancer
S. Abel, S. Riedel, W. C. A. Gelderblom
The aim of the present paper is to give a brief overview on the role of dietary fat in carcinogenesis and as possible anticancer agents. Dietary fat is an essential nutrient and important source for the essential fatty acids (FA), linoleic and α-linolenic acids, which contribute to proper growth and development. However, dietary fat has been associated with the development of colorectal, breast, prostate, endometrial and ovarian cancers, with the type and quality of fat playing an underlying role. Tumour growth is the disruption of the homoeostatic balance regulating cell differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis and is associated with altered lipid metabolism. Animal cancer models and human cancer biopsy tissue demonstrate that a characteristic lipid profile is associated with the growth and development of neoplastic lesions. This entails alterations in membrane cholesterol, phospholipid and PUFA metabolism. Particularly, alterations in cell membrane FA metabolism involving the n-6 and n-3 PUFA, are associated with changes in membrane structure, function, cellular oxidative status, activity of enzymes and signalling pathways. These events are a driving force in sustaining the altered growth of cancerous lesions and provide unique targets for intervention/cancer modulation. Challenges in utilising FA in cancer modulation exist regarding intake and effect on cell structure and biochemical interactions within the cell in the prevention of cancer development. Therefore, utilising dietary PUFA in a specific n-6:n-3 ratio may be an important chemopreventive tool in altering the growth characteristics of cancer cells.
Symposium 1: Global challenges related to sustainable diet
Conference on ‘Sustainable diet and food security’
Seasonality and dietary requirements: will eating seasonal food contribute to health and environmental sustainability?
Jennie I. Macdiarmid
Eating more seasonal food is one proposal for moving towards more sustainable consumption patterns, based on the assumption that it could reduce the environmental impact of the diet. The aim of the present paper is to consider the implications of eating seasonal food on the different elements of sustainability (i.e. health, economics, society), not just the environment. Seasonality can be defined as either globally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season but consumed anywhere in the world) or locally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season and consumed within the same climatic zone). The environmental, health, economic and societal impact varies by the definition used. Global seasonality has the nutritional benefit of providing a more varied and consistent supply of fresh produce year round, but this increases demand for foods that in turn can have a high environmental cost in the country of production (e.g. water stress, land use change with loss of biodiversity). Greenhouse gas emissions of globally seasonal food are not necessarily higher than food produced locally as it depends more on the production system used than transportation. Eating more seasonal food, however, is only one element of a sustainable diet and should not overshadow some of the potentially more difficult dietary behaviours to change that could have greater environmental and health benefits (e.g. reducing overconsumption or meat consumption). For future guidelines for sustainable diets to be realistic they will need to take into account modern lifestyles, cultural and social expectations in the current food environment.
Symposium 4: Food for the future
Opportunities to enhance alternative sources of long-chain n-3 fatty acids within the diet
Jacques Delarue, Nathalie Guriec
Health benefits or advocated health benefits of long-chain (LC) n-3 PUFA are better known by medical doctors as well as by consumers, so that consumption increases. In addition, the development of aquaculture requires more fishmeal and fish oil. Humanisation of care of companion animals is also associated with addition of LC n-3 PUFA in pet foods. The risk of the increased demand for LC n-3 PUFA is the excess harvesting of natural sources, especially of marine origin (oily fishes, krill). In order to improve sustainability, alternative sources of LC n-3 PUFA have been developed. These alternative sources are: (a) terrestrial plants naturally or genetically enriched in stearidonic acid (SDA), which bypasses the first limiting step of (i.e. ∆6 desaturase) of the biosynthesis of LC n-3 PUFA; (b) single-cell oils rich in LC n-3 PUFA (microalgae, Escherichia coli) and krill. Currently, plants rich in SDA are expensive, metabolic engineering is unfavourably accepted by consumers in many countries, cultivation of microalgae is very expensive even though their ability (for some of them) to synthesise biofuels could induce a decrease in industrial costs, and Antarctic krill harvest must be restricted. Thus, it is difficult to predict their real development in the future.
Symposium 5: Cultural diversity of sustainable diets
Nutrition transition and food sustainability
Rekia Belahsen
The aim of the present paper is to review nutrition transition (NT) ongoing in low and middle income countries and the associated dietary changes. NT is accompanied by demographic and epidemiological transition associated with economic development and urbanisation. In these countries, while the problems of hunger and undernourishment persist, there is an escalation of diet-related non-communicable diseases; making them face both problems of malnutrition, under and overnutrition. Indeed, in addition to protein energy malnutrition underweight and micronutrient deficiencies affect a high proportion of children and women. Conversely, changes in dietary habits and physical activity patterns have led to emergence of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, hyperlipidaemia, CHD and cancer. One possible explanation of weight gain and its associated health consequences is the trend of the consumption of already prepared meals and the restaurants that are in continuous development leading to high consumption of foods rich in sugar and fat. The health problems associated with NT have not spared populations in the Mediterranean area where the type of diet is reported to be healthy and to protect against cardiovascular risks. This is seen in North Africa that belongs also to the Mediterranean basin, where the nutritional situation raises the problem of traditional foods sustainability. Accurate nutritional policy and education are needed to redress the effects of malnutrition related to NT on health.
Symposium 3: Effects of early nutrition on later health
Conference on ‘Childhood nutrition and obesity: current status and future challenges’
Childhood obesity: the impact on long-term risk of metabolic and CVD is not necessarily inevitable
Sarah McMullen
The worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity in the adult population is estimated to be 35 %. These trends are reflected in childhood obesity prevalence, and the potential impact of early-onset obesity is of great concern. The aim of this review was to investigate the long-term implications of childhood obesity for metabolic and cardiovascular health, focusing on the independent contribution of childhood obesity to adult disease risk, as distinct from associations mediated by tracking of obesity across the lifespan. The data systematically reviewed provide little evidence to suggest that childhood overweight and obesity are independent risk factors for metabolic and cardiovascular risk during adulthood. Instead, the data demonstrate that the relationships observed are dependent on tracking of BMI between childhood and adulthood, alongside persistence of dietary patterns and physical activity. Adjustment for adult BMI uncovers unexpected negative associations between childhood BMI and adult disease, suggesting a protective effect of childhood obesity at any given level of adult BMI. Further work is required to explain these findings, both in terms of pathways and statistical artefacts. To conclude, it must be stressed that it is not suggested that childhood obesity is without negative consequence. Childhood obesity is clearly associated with a range of adverse physical and psychological outcomes. However, the data are important in supporting a positive message that the long-term consequences of childhood obesity are avoidable; and that there remains opportunity for intervention across the lifespan. This nuance in understanding long-term risk is important when considering the effectiveness of interventions at different stages of the lifespan.
Symposium 4: Strategies for reducing childhood obesity
Influencing and modifying children's energy intake: the role of portion size and energy density
L. Kirsty Pourshahidi, Maeve A. Kerr, Tracy A. McCaffrey, M. Barbara E. Livingstone
Childhood obesity is of concern worldwide. The portion size (PS) and energy density (ED) of food are two major determinants of children's energy intake (EI). Trends towards increasing PS are most apparent and best documented in the USA, where PS of numerous food products have increased in the marketplace over the past three decades, particularly high-energy dense foods. Analyses of population-level dietary surveys have confirmed this trend in children for both in- and out-of-home eating, and a plethora of observational evidence positively associates PS, ED and adiposity in children. A limited number of intervention studies provide clear evidence that children, even as young as 2 years, respond acutely to increasing PS, with some studies also demonstrating the additive effects of increased ED in promoting excessive EI. However, most of the evidence is based on children aged 3–6 years and there is a paucity of data in older children and adolescents. It is unclear whether decreasing PS can have the opposite effect on children's EI but recent acute studies have demonstrated that the incorporation of lower energy dense foods, such as fruit and vegetables, into children's meals down-regulates EI. Although a direct causal link between PS and obesity remains to be established, the regular consumption of larger PS of energy dense foods do favour obesity-promoting eating behaviours in children. Further research is required to establish the most feasible and effective interventions and policies to counteract the deleterious impact of PS and ED on children's EI.
Plenary Lecture I: The John Waterlow Lecture
Conference on ‘Nutrition and healthy ageing’
When longevity meets vitality
Rudi G. J. Westendorp, Frank H. Schalkwijk
Alarmed by the sustainability of our health and social security systems, longevity has become a great societal challenge. In line with evolutionary logic we see a continuous increase of average life expectancy and maximal lifespan. Striving for a healthy old age, however, is an infelicitous expression as for human subjects the ageing process cannot be ultimately postponed. Not disregarding the huge variation in health trajectories, in old age we will all suffer from frailty and infirmity. As yet efforts of the biomedical arena are almost exclusively focused on stalling the ageing process and preventing dysfunction. Too little effort is spend on how to inspire and coach the great majority of people who still feel relatively well notwithstanding the presence of multiple age-related disorders. There is a strong rationale to separate the quest to live in good health for longer from actively and effectively negotiating the challenge of functional decline in old age. In particular, we emphasise a focus on adjusting the environment in order to correct the gene–environment mismatch that contributes to ill health. An additional strategy is to empower people to set ambitions and to realise appropriate goals, in spite of infirmity. Striving for vitality presents a striking opportunity to achieve subjective feelings of life satisfaction when ageing.
Symposium 1: Biology of ageing
DNA methylation, ageing and the influence of early life nutrition
Karen A. Lillycrop, Samuel P. Hoile, Leonie Grenfell, Graham C. Burdge
It is well established that genotype plays an important role in the ageing process. However, recent studies have suggested that epigenetic mechanisms may also influence the onset of ageing-associated diseases and longevity. Epigenetics is defined as processes that induce heritable changes in gene expression without a change in the DNA nucleotide sequence. The major epigenetic mechanisms are DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNA. Such processes are involved in the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression, cell differentiation and genomic imprinting. However, epigenetic dysregulation is frequently seen with ageing. Relatively little is known about the factors that initiate such changes. However, there is emerging evidence that the early life environment, in particular nutrition, in early life can induce long-term changes in DNA methylation resulting in an altered susceptibility to a range of ageing-associated diseases. In this review, we will focus on the changes in DNA methylation that occur during ageing; their role in the ageing process and how early life nutrition can modulate DNA methylation and influence longevity. Understanding the mechanisms by which diet in early life can influence the epigenome will be crucial for the development of preventative and intervention strategies to increase well-being in later life.
Biomarkers of healthy ageing: expectations and validation
Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Thomas von Zglinicki
The challenge of devising a set of biomarkers capable of measuring the ageing rate in human subjects was articulated long ago. In recent years, progress in the basic biology of ageing suggests the realistic possibility of preventive or restaurative interventions that may extend healthy lifespan in mammals including human subjects. Specifically, frailty is being increasingly recognised as a clinically relevant syndrome that may be therapeutically addressed. This greatly enhances the need for sensitive and specific biomarkers of healthy ageing that are validated in both experimental animals and, importantly, in human subjects over the whole age range. Here, we will discuss the present challenges and requirements for biomarker validation in human subjects. We propose the central requirements for a validated biomarker of healthy ageing as: (i) better predictive power than chronological age for multiple dimensions of ageing; (ii) identification of the age range in which the marker is informative; (iii) establishment of sensitivity/specificity as indicators of its predictive power at the level of the individual; (iv) minimisation of methodological variation between laboratories.
The 2013 Summer Meeting Postgraduate Winners
Oxidative stress, protein glycation and nutrition – interactions relevant to health and disease throughout the lifecycle
Antonis Vlassopoulos, Michael E. J. Lean, Emilie Combet
Protein glycation has been studied for over a century now and plays an important role in disease pathogenesis throughout the lifecycle. Strongly related to diabetic complications, glycation of Hb has become the gold standard method for diabetes diagnosis and monitoring. It is however attracting attention in normoglycaemia as well lately. Longitudinal studies increasingly suggest a positive relationship between glycation and the risk of chronic diseases in normoglycaemic individuals, but the mechanisms behind this association remain unclear. The interaction between glycation and oxidative stress may be particularly relevant in the normoglycaemic context, as suggested by recent epidemiological and in vitro evidence. In that context nutritional and lifestyle factors with an influence on redox status, such as smoking, fruit and vegetable and antioxidants consumption, may have the capacity to promote or inhibit glycation. However, experimental data from controlled trials are lacking the quality and rigour needed to reach firm conclusions. In the present review, we discuss the importance of glycation for health through the lifecycle and focus on the importance of oxidative stress as a driver for glycation. The importance of nutrition to modulate glycation is discussed, based on the evidence available and recommendations towards higher quality future research are made.
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Cyhi heads to West Chester University to open up for Wiz Khalifa’s Green Carpet Tour. He previews his verse for the remix of YC’s club anthem “Racks On Racks” and speaks about being boo’ed during a show in NYC. Shot and edited by Decatur Dan. Royal Flush Mixtape 2 coming soon!
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Captain Marvel official, plus What We Left Behind documentary, Alita, Wong Kar-wai news, and more
All right, today’s update is a bit of a catch-all, but I assure you that we’ve got a little something for everyone this afternoon...
First, I’ve posted my in-depth review of Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down in 4K Ultra HD. It’s available now from Sony and I have to say, I think it’s one of the most significant picture and sound upgrades yet on this format, especially when you consider that the existing Blu-ray was an early title on the format and that the Extended Cut has only been released on DVD previously. The set even carries over most of the previous Deluxe Edition DVD extras. Best of all, it’s only $20 on Amazon right now. Definitely check it out – it’s a must have UHD title.
Now then, the big news today is that Disney and Marvel have just officially announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel. Look for the discs to be released on 6/11, just as we’ve been expecting for a while now, with the Digital release due on 5/28. You can see the official 4K artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Captain Marvel 4K
Captain Marvel 3D
What We Left Behind documentary
Alita: Battle Angel 4K
Wong Kar Wai
Black Hawk Down 4K review
Toy Story 4K
From the Earth to the Moon BD
Sacrifice of Angels
Bill McClelland Rest in Peace
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Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Smart Grid / Energy Efficiency
Thermoelectrics
Advanced Photovoltaics
Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors
Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium
Schumer Seeks Pentagon Work For STC Center In Canandaigua
By: Tom Tobin, Staff Writer
Source: Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Sen. Charles Schumer has made a pitch to the Department of Defense to direct some its high-tech and state-of-the-art optics funding to upstate New York and the micro-processing facility in Canandaigua.
The STC Center in Canandaigua, formerly the Infotonics Center, is a manufacturing facility for nano-sized, or ultra-small, devices used in sensors and other military equipment. The STC Center is a partner with SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The U.S. Navy has a major program in the works to upgrade its military hardware. American companies and politicians are lobbying for a share of the lucrative military contracts.
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Albany-based College of Nanoscale Science and Technology has developed a network of research and development units, including the Canandaigua center, that fits the military’s needs.
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Fifth Caspian Summit
Vladimir Putin attended the Fifth Caspian Summit in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The summit participants have considered key issues of cooperation in various spheres and discussed the implementation of the decisions taken at the previous meetings of the 'Caspian five.'
The heads of state have adopted the Convention On the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea and signed a number of intergovernmental documents.
Protocols have been signed on fighting terrorism and combating organised crime as they pertain to the Agreement on Security Cooperation in the Caspian Sea of November 18, 2010, as well as the Protocol on Cooperation and Interaction of Border Services to the Agreement.
In addition, agreements have been signed between the governments of the Caspian states on trade and economic cooperation, cooperation in transport, as well as the Agreement on Prevention of Incidents in the Caspian Sea. The Communique of the Fifth Caspian Summit has been adopted.
The presidents of participating countries also made press statements.
Speech at the Fifth Caspian Summit
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Nazarbayev, colleagues, friends,
I agree with those colleagues who have spoken before me: this summit is indeed extraordinary, if not historic.
Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
The Convention On the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, a document that we have been negotiating for over 20 years, at last formalises our exclusive rights and the responsibility each of us carries to protect the future of the Caspian Sea, and it establishes clear guidelines for its collective use.
I want to thank everybody involved in this major project, heads of state, negotiators and experts alike.
Based on consensus and consideration for our mutual interests, we have produced a modern and balanced international agreement. The convention will replace the Soviet-Iranian agreements of 1921 and 1940.
It is important that the Convention regulates the issues of necessary delimitations, regimes of navigation and fishing, establishes the principles of political and military interaction of member states, and ensures the use of the Caspian Sea solely for peaceful purposes and the non-presence of the armed forces of non-regional states in the sea.
Regulating the legal status of the Caspian Sea creates the necessary conditions for taking the level of cooperation between the countries to a brand new level and will serve to develop closer interaction in various areas. The six specialised agreements in the economic, transport and security areas that were signed today, among others, will provide the necessary legal foundation for this. It is Russia’s aim to work jointly with all Caspian states on the implementation of these agreements.
In particular, the agreement on economic cooperation in the Caspian region will serve as basis for paying priority attention to boosting regional, trade and economic ties, as well as enhancing close and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Statement by Vladimir Putin following the Fifth Caspian Summit
I should note that the volume of trade between Russia and the Caspian states constantly grows. In 2017, foreign trade increased by over 20 percent and amounted to $22 billion, while in January and February this year it grew by over 10 percent.
The decisions being adopted on establishing the Caspian economic forum will allow us to reinforce contacts between our countries' business communities.
Russia suggests that the 'Caspian five' states focus on cooperation in the digital economy, actively introducing information and communication technologies and e-commerce, and engaging in the digitisation of foreign trade operations, cargo transportation and logistics.
We expect that the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in transport in the Caspian region will serve to develop a common integrated infrastructure. Transport interconnection is one of the key factors for securing sustainable growth and strengthening our countries' cooperation.
In this regard, I would like to inform you that Russia has adopted and is currently implementing the Strategy for the Development of Marine Ports in the Caspian Sea until 2030. It defines the prospects for comprehensive modernisation of the Caspian sea communications and related railway and motor transport infrastructure.
In particular, there are plans to construct a new deep-water port near Kaspiysk that will receive large-capacity ships with actual loads of 15,000–25,000 tons.
We are taking strides to integrate Russia’s port capabilities into global and Eurasian transport and logistic networks, increase the competitiveness of cargo and passenger transportations, and multiply the volumes of processed cargo.
We support the project of the International North–South Transport Corridor, which provides for rail, ferry and automobile services, which we intend to develop.
Its launch will allow for a 2.5-fold increase in the speed of transporting cargo, which will amount to 25 million tonnes delivered annually via Iran from European countries to the Middle East and South Asia.
The development of a five-party agreement on cooperation in marine transport could go a long way in developing international transportation and providing equal unified conditions for transit across the Caspian Sea. Experts from the five countries can now more closely engage in drafting such an agreement.
I should note that tourism is a promising area of cooperation as well. According to available estimates, Caspian Sea resorts could receive over one million vacationers annually. Yet, this requires a modern tourism infrastructure.
Russia is building the cruise ship Pyotr Veliky (preliminary commissioning deadline is 2019), which, once built, can be used for circuit cruises in the Caspian Sea, stopping in all five Caspian states, and also carry out cruises in the Caspian and Black seas as well as in the Sea of Azov.
We also plan to boost the development of tourist clusters in coastal areas, building new hotels and recreation centres. The relevant authorities of the five countries should draw up a programme for such joint projects in tourism.
We deem it equally important for the Caspian states to interact in preserving the environment and biological resources. The five states already are successfully implementing a number of beneficial agreements, such as the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, Agreement on the Rational Use of the Biological Resources of the Caspian Sea, and the Protocol on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
These documents provide for strict environmental control over infrastructure projects that may create potential risks for the Caspian Sea.
Last year, a specialised intergovernmental commission of the 'Caspian five' adopted an important decision on extending a ban on commercial fishing of sturgeon. Russia welcomes the temporary ban on fishing for this valuable species and is ready to support a longer moratorium. It is advisable to quickly complete work on documents that will regulate our joint fight against poaching.
Colleagues, we are well aware of the responsibility of the Caspian states to provide security in the region. There are spots of instability in close proximity to the Caspian Sea, such as the Middle East and Afghanistan, and therefore our core interests and even life itself require that we cooperate closely.
It is important for the 'Caspian five' states to further boost consistent interaction in fighting terrorism and organised crime and to expand the joint efforts of our special services and border agencies. Corresponding protocols to the agreement on cooperation in security of 2010, to be signed today, are aimed at this.
Russia fully supports these decisions and is ready to actively engage in their implementation. In the future, we should also think about developing a separate document on cooperation to stop drug trafficking in the Caspian region.
We deem it important to develop partner relations in the area of our naval forces, in particular, to implement regular reciprocal visits of our ships, expand the mutual participation of ship crews in various events, such as the Sea Cup international competition as part of the International Army Games in the Caspian region.
The intergovernmental agreement on prevention of incidents in the Caspian Sea is very important, as it will considerably strengthen the system of confidence-building measures in the region.
Regular consultations as regards our countries' navies and regular meetings of our naval commanders could serve as an efficient mechanism of cooperation in this field.
And of course, joint efforts should be continued under the agreement on cooperation in emergency prevention and response.
Our rescue services hold joint exercises, and act out special scenarios of incidents and possible disasters to rehearse joint actions. This practice must undoubtedly be continued.
In conclusion, I would like to thank Mr Nazarbayev for the major efforts Kazakhstan has made to prepare this important meeting.
Thank you for attention.
Publication date: August 12, 2018, 13:45
http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/keywords/82/events/58296
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On September 15, 2018, the world celebrated Cleanup Day. In Russia, many cities hosted Clean Games, an event that combines cleaning and recycling efforts in a game format. MSUBS Bachelor students traditionally participate in Clean Games in September, and the games that took place in Zhulebino Park this time were no exception: 13 out of 40 participating teams were made up of MSUBS students.
The game was opened by its traditional sponsors, Gazpromneft Oil Refining Factory and Hometowns, a Gazprom social investment programme. The teams did an impressive job, gathering about 3 tons of recyclable waste within the three hours of the game. Moreover, all trash was sorted to be recycled later on. The competition at times yielded surprising results: among the unusual finds was a purse with a passport and a Rosneft Staff ID. The find was passed into the game headquarters and, with the help of local police, the owner was located before the game was over.
The competition was tough and we are proud of the two MSUBS teams that took the first two places. The main outcome of the game, however, is in the fact that after such major cleanup efforts none of the participants would ever be careless with their own trash and will watch out for others as well.
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McDonald Controversies
There have been a number of public controversies concerning the ways in which some historians and museums have portrayed the life and work of refugee advocate James G. McDonald.
McDonald kept extensive personal diaries in the early and mid-1930s, portions of which have long been housed, along with his correspondence and other documents, at Columbia University. In 2003, previously unknown portions of the diaries were discovered by a family friend, and were donated by the McDonald family to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The Museum’s leaders hailed the diaries as a “landmark acquisition.” They held programs about McDonald, published brochures, and printed a James G. McDonald Calendar, with each month featuring a different photo accompanied by a quotation from McDonald.
FDR’S “WARNING MESSAGE”
In early 2004, the Holocaust Museum announced plans to publish the complete diaries, and provided advance excerpts to the New York Times.
In a prominent news article on April 22, 2004, the Times quoted senior USHMM historians Richard Breitman and Severin Hochberg as claiming that the diaries showed President Franklin D. Roosevelt was “very concerned” about the persecution of German Jews “early on.” In particular, they cited a diary entry dated May 1, 1933.
According to the Times, that entry described how McDonald, having just returned from Nazi Germany, told the president about the plight of the Jews. FDR “seemed deeply concerned and said he wanted to find a way to send a warning message to the German people over the head of Hitler,” the article asserted.
Prof. Hochberg was then quoted as saying that “this picture is very different from the claim that [President Roosevelt] was indifferent to the fate of the Jews.” Likewise, Prof. Breitman later wrote, “In this diary Roosevelt is not the indifferent figure depicted in some of the scholarly literature about America and the Holocaust.”
An excerpt from that May 1 entry about FDR’s “warning message to Hitler” was also used as one of the featured monthly quotations in the museum’s McDonald calendar.
The full text of the May 1, 1933 entry was not accessible by the public at that time, because the diaries were closed to all but USHMM staff members from 2004 to 2017.
In 2007, the first volume of the diaries, Advocate for the Doomed, was published. It covered the years 1933-1935. The May 1, 1933 entry turned out to be different than it had been previously represented. McDonald wrote there that what “deeply interested” President Roosevelt was Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht, not the plight of the Jews. FDR wanted to know from McDonald “what sort of a person [Schacht] was.” The entry, which occupied almost three full pages in the published volume, did not mention German Jews.
In addition, the “warning message” to which Roosevelt referred was not related to German’s Jews. It concerned the military situation in Europe and two upcoming conferences on disarmament and the world economic order. On May 16, 1933, FDR sent identical telegrams to the 54 countries represented at the disarmament and economic conferences, outlining America’s hopes for peace and progress.
Prof. Breitman later reversed his position on the matter. In his 2013 book, FDR and the Jews, Breitman wrote that the May 1 diary entry showed that McDonald “inferred correctly that, despite Roosevelt’s concern, the Administration would not publicly reprimand Germany and jeopardize international economic negotiations and disarmament efforts.” He did not explain why his view of the episode had changed.
EVIDENCE DISPUTED
In 2009, the USHMM and Indiana University Press published the second volume of the McDonald diaries, Refugees and Rescue, covering the years 1935-1945. The Museum’s press release announcing its publication was headlined “New Evidence Challenges Widely Held Opinions About FDR’s Views on the Rescue of European Jews Prior to the Holocaust.” In their introduction, conclusion, and footnotes, Breitman and Hochberg argued that information in the diaries demonstrated that President Roosevelt did his best to aid German Jewish refugees.
In response, the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies published a report titled Not New, Not Evidence: An Analysis of the Claim that Refugees and Rescue Contains New Evidence of FDR’s Concern for Europe’s Jews. It argued that Breitman and Hochberg had exaggerated the significance of a private statement by FDR about helping refugees, and that they erroneously claimed to have discovered information about Roosevelt’s interest in 1930s resettlement schemes that was actually first published by Prof. Henry Feingold.
Feingold, who wrote extensively on the resettlement schemes in his book The Politics of Rescue in 1970, issued a statement that “when it came to projects that actually had some practical potential, [Roosevelt] was unwilling to cross swords with restrictionists…The Jewish issue was peripheral to him. FDR was unwilling to confront powerful restrictionists and isolationists, and take the political risks involved.”
The Wyman Institute subsequently issued a second report, titled James G. McDonald, FDR, and the Holocaust, 1943-1944. Based on documents located in the McDonald Papers at Columbia, the report found that in eight articles and addresses in 1943-1944, McDonald strongly criticized the Roosevelt administration’s positions with regard to the plight of European Jewry.
FILM AND EXHIBIT
In 2010, McDonald’s daughter, the historian Dr. Barbara McDonald Stewart, authorized Shuli Eshel, an Israeli-American filmmaker, to produce a film based on her father’s diaries. Members of the McDonald family provided nearly all the funding for the film and approved the script. In early 2014, Eshel completed the 54-minute documentary, A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald. It included interviews with four USHMM historians, who appeared on screen 21 times, and three Wyman Institute scholars, who appeared a total of 10 times.
Dr. Stewart provided USHMM officials with an advance copy of the film and asked that the Museum host its premiere. The officials objected to the fact that Eshel had included brief interviews with historians who were critical of President Roosevelt. As a result, the Museum declined to host screenings of the film. It premiered on Capitol Hill on Holocaust Memorial Day in April 2014, under the auspices of the Wyman Institute, with the McDonald family and members of Congress in attendance.
In a letter to Dr. Stewart on March 24, 2014, USHMM director Sara Bloomfield wrote that even though the Museum would not host the film, it “will feature [McDonald] in our upcoming exhibition on Americans and the Holocaust.”
The 5,000-square foot exhibit, titled Americans and the Holocaust, opened in April 2018. It did not include any mention of McDonald. Eshel, together with a number of scholars who have written about McDonald, sent a letter of protest. Bloomfield and the exhibit’s chief curator, Daniel Greene, replied that there was not enough room in the exhibit to mention McDonald. In January 2019, twenty-nine Holocaust historians signed a petition to the USHMM, organized by the Wyman Institute, protesting the museum’s decision to omit McDonald from the exhibit.
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New rugby programme to tackle youth unemployment
Wasps has launched a programme to ‘tackle’ youth unemployment, crime and disillusionment in Coventry.
The award-winning HITZ programme, overseen nationally by Premiership Rugby, uses the game of rugby to increase young people’s resilience, self-reliance and confidence.
The programme, which will be delivered at the Coventry Sports Foundation-managed Centre AT7 in Bell Green Road, aims to give 16 to 19-year-olds the skills they need to stay in or get back into education, vocational training, apprenticeships or employment by providing practical training alongside educational workshops covering employability and financial skills.
Educational rugby initiative Engage! Coventry, hosted by Coventry Sports Foundation and supported by the Millerchip Family Fund, has been commissioned by Wasps to deliver its Premiership Rugby community programmes across the city.
Anthony O’Reilly has been appointed as Wasps’ HITZ officer and will be looking to recruit around 40 young people to join the programme during its first year.
Young people can sign up to join the programme and referrals will also come from youth offending teams, police and probation services and social and youth services in Coventry.
Anthony has a wealth of experience supporting children with learning and behavioural difficulties having previously worked at a Pupil Referral Unit and as a sport and leisure activity leader for Charnwood Borough Council in its priority neighbourhoods.
The 26-year-old is also a Sports Development and Coaching graduate from Staffordshire University and plays for Syston RFC in Leicestershire.
Anthony said:
“I am delighted to have been appointed as Wasps’ HITZ officer. The project will help young people across Coventry to realise and fulfil their potential, giving them the best chance to find work or start further education.
“Not only will they learn key skills of the game, they will also enter a personalised study programme which will teach numeracy, literacy, IT and employability skills.
“Integrated discussions will also look to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing youngsters today by focusing on issues such as drugs, sexual health, anger management and communication.
“Our aim is to recruit over 120 young people throughout the three year programme and empower them with the skills and confidence they need to progress positively back into education, employment or training.
“Rugby is an inclusive game and its core values of teamwork, respect, integrity, enjoyment and discipline can be used as a vehicle to inspire young people and help them develop into healthy, well-rounded and confident individuals.
“I am looking forward to welcoming the first group of young people and to helping them to reach their full potential.”
The HITZ programme is funded by national partners Barclays, Comic Relief, Land Rover and Wooden Spoon.
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The Meaning and Function of the HATTA'T Offering
Kiuchi, Nobuyoshi (1986) The Meaning and Function of the HATTA'T Offering. PhD thesis, University of Gloucestershire.
This study investigates the symbolism of the hatta't offering in the priestly literature of the Pentateuch, especially Leviticus. It starts by discussing the relationship between the occasions for bringing hatta't and its basic function, with special reference to J. Milgram's thesis that the hatta't purifies only sancta and not persons. The examination of the relevant texts shows that his view is one-sided. The hatta't deals with both hatta't (sin) and uncleanness; when sancta are purified, so is the offerer (chapters 1-2). A deeper dimension of 'purification' is set out in Lev 17:11 (chapter 4) and is manifested in contagion of the hatta't, viz. setting substitutionary death over against death caused by sin and uncleanness (chapter 5). Exegesis of Lev 10:16-20 (chapters 2-3), a crux interpretum, forms the basis of inquiry into the various types of hatta't ritual, opening up the possibility that behind the variety of atonement ceremonies in Leviticus there is a coherent system. The episode in that section shows the inadequacy of the eighth-day service in the face of Nadab and Abihu's sin and adumbrates the ritual in Lev 16 (chapter 3). Then from Lev 10:17 and other texts it is inferred that the concept of kipper includes 'purification' and 'bearing guilt' (chapter 4). It is argued that the modes of blood manipulation in the hatta't depend on the nature of the occasion, whereas the modes of disposal of the hatta't-flesh hinge on whether the agent of atonement is also its beneficiary (chapter 5). These conclusions provide a rationale for the Azazel-goat ritual (Lev 16). By purifying sancta Aaron bears guilt. Then that guilt is removed from the sanctuary by the Azazel goat when Aaron confesses the sins of all the Israelites over it and sends it away to Azazel (chapter 6).
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Wenham, Gordon J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
PhD awarded by The College of St. Paul & St. Mary which later became the University of Gloucestershire
Bible studies,Leviticus
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BS The Bible
Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education & Humanities > Religious, Philosophical and Historical Studies
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From Atolan to New Guinea
Futuru Tsai is a native of Hsinchu in Taiwan. He first went to the Atolan Community (Dulan) when he was 23, where he became the honourary son of Kapah, a local Amis person. He was given the Amis name Futuru and also joined the Atolan Community’s Sakakaay No Kapah (Age Group).
Looking at the World from Other's Eye 透過他人的眼睛看世界
Music of Micronesia
Professor Osamu Yamaguti is a world famous ethnomusicologist currently engaged in research as a visiting professor in Taiwan's Nanhua University. He recently gave a conference about Belauan culture organized by NTU, after which he also agreed to be interviewed by us. In this video, Prof. Yamaguchi shares with us his opinions about the importance of music in preserving culture in Micronesia, and the similarities of certain Micronesian cultures to those of the aborigines of Taiwan.
Rethinking 'Pacific Time'
In this video, Fr Arthur Leger from Fiji explains the different concepts of time prevailing in Oceania and in particular in Fiji Island: the time for basic needs, the community time and the sacred time.
Security and the Cartography of Pacific Islands Regionalism: The Origins and Evolution of Regional Identity
Richard Herr has taught at the University of Tasmania since his appointment in October 1972 and has held a variety of positions within the University. He is currently the academic coordinator for the Faculty of Law's Parliamentary Law, Practive and Procedure course. He earned a PhD in Political Science from Duke University and, during his academic career; he has written widely on aspects concerning Pacific Island Affairs. Professor Herr has served as a consultant to the Governments of the Pacific Islands region on a range of organizational issues for nearly three decades and most recently on the restoration of democracy in Fiji. He was awarded the Medal in the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours List for "service to higher education". In 2002 he was presented with an AusAID Peacebuilder award for his work in the Solomon Islands.
This is an interview with Richard Herr on Australia's role in the Pacific:
Alternative (for readers in China)
In addition to the full text of the speech available below, we have provided a video of his speech at the conference "Mapping and Unmapping the Pacific" on Regionalism in the Pacific:
Drawing the boundaries of a region would appear to be a relatively simple task. However, 70 years of scholarship analysing the global growth in international regions suggest it is far from easy. Bruce Russett demonstrated empirically in the 1960s, using rather sophisticated factor analysis, that there were no real “natural” geographic regions.[1] Nevertheless, regionalism as a concept implies geography as a central factor. A doyen of international regional scholarship, Joseph Nye, makes the point that geography cannot be the sole criterion. He has argued that the states that comprise a region need both to be geographically proximate and have achieved a high level of interdependence.[2] But, interdependence demands a third element – trust amongst the associated states. Geographic proximity tends to encourage trust since it enables the routine interactions required to build interdependence. The shared characteristics such as ethnicity, historical experience, economic ties and the like that often go into a regional definition usually involve proximity. Yet, although military necessity is another frequently identified rationale for international cooperation, historically, it is as likely to divide contiguous states as unite them. In brief, the concept of international regions remains definitionally challenging. Perhaps, the only practical way to map the contours of an international region is to accept a tautology: a region is a region if its members say that it is.
There are complications, nevertheless, even with this temporisation. Who has the authority to say what a region is? Here one needs to differentiate between “owners” and “stakeholders” – that is, those that formally constitute a region and those with a significant interest in it. The distinction is important as this paper argues that ownership of the concept of a Pacific Islands region was in dispute for much of the early years of the post-World War II era. The issue was largely settled by decolonisation and the decision to retain the colonial era boundaries of the region. However, the retention of dependencies as co-owners of the concept of the Pacific Islands region and the inclusion of two metropolitan powers within the formal ownership arrangements of the region have continued to create tensions and ambiguities between owners and stakeholders. These tensions have existed primarily because the independent Island states have maintained the original boundaries of the region. The emergence of new stakeholders and heightened internal conflicts have raised a second issue with the capacity of member states to decide the boundaries of the Pacific Islands region. Heretofore, all interdependent arrangements within the Pacific Islands region with limited memberships have been deemed “sub-regional”.[3] This distinction is under pressure now and may well be the most serious challenge to the boundaries of the Pacific Islands region in its history.
Defining a Region
Indigenous assertions that there was a pre-contact of Pacific Islands’ identity has been disputed despite myths of a “Pacific way” or some pan-Pacific brotherhood of peoples uniting all the Pacific Islands together.[4] Modern scholarship does not support extensive geographic awareness across the entire scope of the modern Pacific Islands region amongst pre-contact Pacific peoples.[5] This is not to deny the extensive voyaging and navigational skills of the pre-contact peoples in various parts of the modern Pacific Islands region, which was truly remarkable, provided some peoples with an in-depth knowledge of the area now considered to be the Pacific Islands region.[6] Rather, it is to say that the contours of the contemporary system were not derived from aboriginal foundations of knowledge or cooperation. The simple fact is that, at least initially, the residents of the Pacific Islands did not define the scope of their neighbourhood. The Pacific Islands region and its boundaries were, to a real extent, imposed by outsiders – not as a ghetto, perhaps, but for the convenience of the extra-regional powers nonetheless. The political marvel is that the locals managed to embrace this concept and to make it their own.
The colonial experience was as divisive for Pacific Islanders as it was for peoples in other corners of a world riven by imperialism. The essentially competitive nature of conquest and subjugation did not tend to promote international cooperation across imperial frontiers. Nevertheless there were some internationally mitigating factors in the Pacific Islands’ area. The British Empire, itself very extensive in this area, had its influence further extended by the cubs of the British lion – Australia and New Zealand – who also pursued territorial ambitions with parts of Oceania. Regionally focused cooperation for administrative efficiency such as the Western Pacific High Commission and the Suva Medical School within the British Empire did promote awareness amongst the dependent peoples from separate colonies of each other but this was scarcely their purpose. The Pacific Islands Monthly, perhaps, served as the most significant innovation regarding consciousness-raising for Pacific Islands regionalism in the colonial era. A product of the Great Depression, this English language magazine published in Australia crossed imperial boundaries by satisfying a common need amongst the plantation elites across much of the British and French South Pacific for news of markets, economic trends and political developments.[7]
The Japanese invasion of the European Pacific colonies was an even more powerful, albeit negative, impetus for regional cooperation. The threat united the Western powers – Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States – in mutual defence of their security and for the protection of their Pacific territories. The Southwest Pacific and South Pacific theatres of war generated integrated command structures and, consequently, the necessary arrangements for cooperation to prosecute the war. This identity became especially important to Australia and New Zealand as the middle powers whose security interests were most directly threatened by the Japanese aggression. Their concerns were to survive the war and so gave rise to the modern regional system.
The ANZACs’ Draft a Blueprint for the Region – Almost
The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission, a wartime measure to provide for economic and social needs of the island peoples in the two countries’ Caribbean dependencies, offered the template for a regional approach in the Pacific.[8] The two ANZAC states promoted the same basic idea at various post-war reconstruction planning sessions of the Allied Powers. They made little headway with the other Pacific metropolitan powers that were more concerned with re-establishing their colonial control after the war. After repeatedly being denied effective representation in the broader councils for Allied post-war planning, the two antipodean powers made their own demarche for regional reconstruction through the Agreement between Australia and New Zealand (ANZAC Pact) in February 1944.
This agreement proposed two post-war regional associations for the South Pacific. The more important, from an Australian perspective, was one that provided for a regional security system that would stretch from Portuguese East Timor to French Polynesia. This one would include all the Western colonial holdings (once these were restored to their metropoles) within its ambit. Seven stakeholders were identified for this association – the six allied powers plus Portugal, which was officially neutral during the war. The second of the regional associations in the ANZAC Pact proposed a trust arrangement to promote the welfare of the dependent peoples. This arrangement excluded the Netherlands and Portugal from participation and therefore their territories were excluded from the trusteeship region. The omission of Portugal and the Netherlands was almost certainly due to an anthropological presumption that the dependent peoples of these two states were not genuinely South Pacific Islanders but belonged to Southeast Asia.
The 1944 ANZAC Pact was a brave but almost futile declaration in terms of generating international support for its regionalist intentions. It was only Australian persistence and a concession to abandon the security scheme that finally won a grudging willingness from the other metropolitan powers to meet in Canberra in February 1947 to discuss the ANZACs’ proposal for regional cooperation based on the welfare of the Pacific Islanders. The 1944 Pact did not include either the Dutch or the Portuguese in the welfare body but the Netherlands was invited to the 1947 meeting when it promised not to include the bulk of its East Indies colony within the proposed body. The Netherlands sought only to add West New Guinea, a territory with people indistinguishable from those across the border in Australia’s Papua New Guinea.[9] Portuguese involvement, on the other hand, appears not to have been reconsidered despite Australia’s debt of gratitude to the people of East Timor for their valiant assistance to Australian troops during the war.
The “South Seas Regional Commission Conference” made most of the critical decisions regarding the scope of the South Pacific region. Given that the intention of the proposed body was to promote “the advancement and well-being of the native peoples” of the area, the first key decision was in inviting those imperial powers that Australia deemed had the appropriate indigenous peoples whose welfare was to be promoted. Portugal was out but so too was Chile. Chile administered the furthest outpost of Polynesia, the sparsely populated Easter Island. Japan, which possessed much of Micronesia at the start of the war, was not included in the 1944 proposal for fairly obvious reasons. Still, it is interesting to note that the native peoples of the Japanese Pacific Islands empire do not seemed to have been considered as eligible candidates even by the new American administration after the war. In 1947, the United Nations passed control over these islands formally to the US but the American Government was allowed to treat these islands as a security asset, indeed, as had Japan under a League of Nations’ mandate. In early 1947, the future of America’s new Micronesian islands were too uncertain to be deemed eligible for the proposed regional welfare agency.
The status of its Micronesian territories was not the only decision the United States had to make regarding its dependencies in the Pacific. The Philippines was not considered at all as it had been promised independence and, in any case, it would have been regarded as ineligible on the same grounds as the Dutch East Indies by Australia and New Zealand. Guam had been reclaimed but was still separate from the ambit of the proposed South Seas Regional Commission by the extensive expanse of the former Japanese Micronesian islands. Hawaii was the largest Polynesian dependency in the Pacific but the local non-Polynesian population and Washington had plans for a future that did not include separation from the US. Initially, therefore, the American delegation to Canberra brought only one territory to the table – the small Polynesian territory of American Samoa.
Australia was the only other participant to face territorial dilemmas regarding the geographic scope of the proposed region. As with the US decision on Hawaii, the Australian Government gave short shrift to suggestions that the Aborigines of the Northern Territory or that the Torres Strait people should be included in the operational area of the South Seas Regional Commission. More problematic was the case of Norfolk Island. This tiny island between Australia and New Caledonia was peopled by the descendents of the Bounty mutineers who were relocated from Pitcairn in the 1850s. Later, many of these returned to Pitcairn with the result that Britain included this miniscule territory within the proposed Commission’s scope. The uncertain status of Norfolk Island as Australian domestic territory and the origins of its people saw Norfolk included within the defined region but not convincingly.[10]
There was one other territorial quibble at the South Seas Regional Commission Conference regarding the scope of the proposed region but one with profound political implications for the future development of South Pacific regionalism. The standing of Tonga was disputed. This ancient Polynesia kingdom had never been colonised. By treaty, Tonga was a British protected state but it remained formally independent. Thus, the Tongans were unwilling to be defined as a “dependent people” although the UK Government wanted them included in the organisation’s work programme. Again, early maps of the Commission’s boundaries were instructive as they drew a dotted line across the bottom of the Tongan “enclave” to show that it was included in the SPC’s work programme while the solid line on the other three sides indicated Tonga was, to some extent, apart from the rest of the region. The significance of this was not so much that Tonga was not being regarded as part of the region. Rather, it was that Tonga was in the region. Being eligible as a beneficiary of the SPC’s work programme, Tonga was deemed ineligible from ownership of the SPC’s region.[11]
The SPC Defines the Region – Ultimately?
Although the ANZAC states did not achieve all their aims, the South Seas Regional Commission Conference did reach a successful conclusion from their perspective. The six participating states signed a treaty (the Canberra Agreement) to establish the South Pacific Commission (SPC)[12] but without the mandate for political development that the two sponsoring states had wanted. Thus, for the first time, the most of the Pacific Islands were united in a region-defining cooperative enterprise yet not one of their making. The 1947 Canberra Agreement delineated a region but it had not yet defined the Pacific Islands region. This point may have come in 1951 when the SPC reached its greatest extent following the successful bid by the United States to add Guam and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI) to the SPC’s ambit.[13] At this point, the South Pacific region stretched from the Northern Marianas to Norfolk Island along one axis and from the Pitcairn Islands to West New Guinea on the other.
This geographic span lasted scarcely more than a decade. In 1962, the Dutch were expelled from West New Guinea and withdrew from the SPC. The Indonesians were not of a mind to succeed the Dutch vacancy in the SPC on behalf of West New Guinea (renamed West Irian) nor did any SPC member encourage Jakarta to pursue the possibility. Nonetheless, the loss of the Dutch territory profoundly influenced the course of Pacific Islands regionalism. The idea that external decisions could decide who was or was not a Pacific Islander shocked some Island elites who were becoming more self-conscious of a regional identity due to both the interactions available through the SPC and the ‘winds of change” beginning to stir across the South Pacific. The SPC had made provision for a triennial advisory meeting of Islanders through an organ called the South Pacific Conference. The first of these met in 1950 and there were five including the ill-fated 1962 Conference in Pago Pago, American Samoa where the West New Guinea delegates wept bitter tears in the knowledge they would never sit together with those that they had come to regard as fellow Pacific Islanders.
The second critical definitional influence on South Pacific regionalism in 1962 was the independence of Western Samoa.[14] As the first dependent territory to reclaim its sovereignty, Samoa opened a number of problematic issues about the nature of the SPC as a regional organisation. The capacity of a “non-dependent” people to continue to benefit from the work programme of the SPC was fairly easily resolved in Samoa’s favour. Apia’s unexpected desire to accede to the Canberra Agreement, however, provoked a three-year test of wills that transformed the concept of ownership of the region. When Samoa succeeded in joining the Commission in 1965, the entire exclusionary approach to membership in the SPC and, with it, external ownership of the regional identity, was overturned.
From 1965, the SPC’s Western members were confronted with a two-pronged challenge to their control of South Pacific regionalism. Decolonisation would increasingly add to the number of states with the eligibility to follow Samoa’s path into formal Commission membership through accession to the Canberra Agreement. The second prong led to reform of the Conference to allow the dependent territories to have a greater say over the organisation’s work programme through this organ. Regionalism and regional identity would never again be the preserve of extra-regional states. The authentic boundaries of the Pacific Islands region would only be drawn by the inhabitants of the region not by those outside who claimed to know what was best for them.
The Forum and the SRO – A Need to Redraw the Regional Boundaries?
The dramatic failure to reform the SPC at the South Pacific Conference meeting in Suva in late 1970 was a critical turning point in regional affairs. It forced a fundamental shift in Pacific Islander attitudes toward the nature of South Pacific regionalism but, critically, not the definition of the region’s boundaries. In this regard, the Pacific Islands pursued a different regional path than that taken by the Caribbean Islands when confronted with the same political crossroads the Pacific Islands faced in 1970. In the process of morphing from the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission into the Caribbean Commission the concept of the region shrank in the minds of the “owners” of the regional identity. Its boundaries were redrawn. The perceived boundaries of the Caribbean region were diminished in scope by the exclusion of non-independent territories. The concept of an integrated Caribbean regional system has never recovered the breadth of the Commission had in the 1950s.[15]
Pacific Islands’ regionalism could have opted for the exclusionary road taken by the Caribbean states but it did not. There were strands of development that might have taken it down the Caribbean path. Five countries within the SPC region became independent or self-governing by the time of the 1970 South Pacific Conference – Western Samoa, Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga and Fiji. Four of these countries established a body in 1964, outside the SPC framework, called the Pacific Islands Producers Association (PIPA), which served as a minor marketing arrangement mainly with New Zealand.[16] PIPA provided a mechanism to regroup after the disappointment of the Suva Conference. Had it become the vehicle for independent political cooperation, the Pacific may well have followed the Caribbean path.[17] A second important influence was the desire to exclude the colonial powers that had blocked political reform in the SPC. This attitude toward the colonial powers in the Caribbean was a significant factor in the exclusionary approach taken by the independent states there.
However, the four independent members of PIPA members in consultation with Nauru recognised their very real limitations as international powers, and so adopted a more pragmatic approach to creating regional capacity. Australia and New Zealand were invited to join the five independent and self-governing states in a new political association. This pragmatism went so far as to ask New Zealand to host what was to be the first meeting of the South Pacific Forum in Wellington in August 1971. Clearly, the Pacific Island states did not want to exclude all the metropolitan powers from their next stage in South Pacific regionalism even though a significant rationale for the initiative was to exclude some; those powers – France, the United Kingdom and the United States – perceived to be obstructionist. More importantly, the Island member of the South Pacific Forum (or “FICs” as an acronym for Forum Island countries) did not want to exclude the territories that were ineligible for membership in the Forum even, or perhaps more correctly, especially those territories under the administration of the metropolitan powers that were excluded. Moreover, none of the members of the new South Pacific Forum members resigned from the Commission or the Conference subsequently. Thus, from the very outset of the Forum arrangement, the conceptual boundaries of the region remained the geographic scope of the SPC.
There were several reasons why the operational scope of the South Pacific region was not redefined with the advent of the Forum. Perhaps the most important reason was that even the Forum’s Island members had not given up on reforming the SPC. Just how this long-term aspiration for reform was to be expressed in the context of the new Forum relations was rather inchoate for several years. In part, this stemmed from some initial confusion as to the Forum’s real purpose as demonstrated by Australia’s faux pas in sending Charles Barnes, the Minister for External Territories, to the first Forum meeting in Wellington as its representative. Canberra appeared to inadvertently reveal a colonial bias contrary to the new direction that Pacific Islands’ regionalism was taking. On the other hand the three excluded metropoles were generally relaxed regarding the political initiative. They tended to see the regional scheme as a localised development that was largely irrelevant to the future of their territories in the South Pacific. This attitude might have been expected from France and the US but is less explicable in the case of the UK since the Forum, in 1971, was made up entire of FICs with Commonwealth connections. The developments at the next meeting of the Forum, however, clarified some of the risks and challenges posed to the established pattern of regional relations by the establishment of the Forum.
Australia convened the second meeting of the Forum in Canberra and, correcting the error in Wellington, Prime Minister William McMahon hosted his fellow Heads of Government. A number of questions were resolved at the Canberra meeting that bore significantly on the future of regionalism in the Pacific Islands. The first was a decision not to create the Forum as a legal entity in its own right. The model chosen was a direct crib from the Commonwealth of Nations’ Heads of Government Meetings. It was to be a club that operated on club rules rather than international legal obligations. So, what were the rules for entry to this rather exclusive regional club? An Australian proposal to invite Papua New Guinea (PNG) to join the Forum at its next meeting resulted in a “full and frank” debate on membership. PNG was on the verge of self-government[18] and, Australia argued that this would the same status as the Cook Islands, which was a founding member of the Forum. Fiji argued against the nomination on the grounds that, unlike the Cooks, self-government was not the “final” status for PNG and so there would be many uncertainties as to PNG’s capacity within the Forum until it settled its independence issues. A compromise was reached that offered PNG observer status in the Forum until independence when it would be eligible for full membership.
The ambiguities in concept of “eligibility” for membership in the Forum were also apparent in the criteria for the intergovernmental organisation (IGO) established at the second Forum.[19] Despite having PIPA, at least potentially, available as an economic IGO to be revamped to suit the Forum’s needs, the second Forum agreed to establish a new, OECD-style economic advisory body to be known as the South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation (SPEC).[20] Article XI (2) of the SPEC Agreement states:
The signature of a member government shall not be taken as extending the rights and obligations set forth in this Agreement to the territories for whose international relations the member government is responsible.
The intention was to ensure the compromise with regard to PNG’s membership would not be undone in SPEC. Significantly, nothing in the SPEC Agreement specified the operational scope of SPEC; only that its membership would be determined by the Forum.[21] Yet, it was commonly understood at time that recruitment into the Forum and into SPEC would only be from the Pacific Island countries (PICs) of the SPC. This “understanding” soon set in train a contest for ownership of the agreed concept of the region – an extended debate that was to become known as the “single regional organisation” (SRO) issue.
A confluence of interests following the formation of the Forum merged the ANZAC powers’ desire for greater economic efficiencies in aid to a region that absorbed very large shares of their overseas assistance and the FICs’ desire for greater control of the regional agenda. However, the locking of horns over where ultimate control of the Pacific Islands region rested – SPC or Forum – was only possible because proponents on both sides agreed there was only one region. SPEC provided the catalyst for the first shots in the debate. SPEC’s inaugural Executive Secretary, Mahe Tupouniua, had been only the second “commoner” to attain ministerial office in the Kingdom of Tonga. He applied his redoubtable energy, intellect and drive to making a success of SPEC. In March 1974, less than a year after SPEC was established, it absorbed PIPA’s functions and PIPA itself was terminated.[22] The realisation that the functions of one regional organisation could be transferred to another was undoubtedly a critical inspiration for the SRO. The report of SPEC’s 1976 review of regional aid delivery found that better coordination of aid would produce more effective aid enabling the donors to achieve the efficacy they desired and the Island polities would secure improved outcomes.[23] The perceived duplication of effort between SPEC and the SPC interfered with achieving these efficiencies. Thus, it was argued, aid impacts could be enhanced if the two organisations were merged.
The SRO issue did not influence in any material way the contours of the Pacific Islands regional borders since it was predicated on keeping those of the SPC as they were. Rather, it was the fact that the Forum accepted these boundaries as valid that is important for the present argument. Basically, the FICs sought to use the Forum as a parallel vehicle to pursue the decolonisation of the SPC in order to preserve the integrity of the region as defined by the SPC. Yet confusion regarding the SRO concept and, perhaps, a lack of a real commitment to the objective were evident almost immediately the debate was joined. In 1978, the Forum members established the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) as an independent IGO despite officially maintaining a need for a single regional organisation. The contradiction was not lost on critics of the SRO proposal but there was no slackening in the efforts by the proponents of an SRO for another decade.[24]
While the SRO imbroglio did not involve a reconsideration of the outer boundaries of the Pacific Islands’ region it did throw up some interesting conundrums relating to internal stakeholders and ownership of the concept of the region. Perhaps the first test of ownership versus being a legitimate stakeholder after the decision regarding PNG’s eligibility for Forum membership arose in connection with Guam in 1984. Guam was a participant in a project searching for hydrocarbons amongst the Pacific's atolls managed by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) through a Committee for the Coordination of Offshore Prospecting/South Pacific (CCOP/SOPAC). Despite the SRO issue, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 1984 to commission CCOP/SOPAC as a regional IGO. All of the body's members were Forum members except for Guam yet none of the other participants wanted Guam excluded under the new arrangements.[25] A bit of legal legerdemain and a willingness of member states to look the other way allowed Guam to remain a stakeholder in, albeit not a co-owner of, the regional organisation. Guam was included in the MOU’s preamble as a participating member but not listed amongst the signatories to the MOU.[26]
The membership complications of the SRO issue were perhaps most spectacularly revealed in the resolution of the status of SPREP. A South Pacific “Regional Seas” project of the United Nations Environment Program became a subject of the SRO rivalry. The compromise was a hybrid inter-institutional administrative arrangement to manage the South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP). The SPC housed the program and provided the secretariat services while SPEC chaired the SPREP executive. Spurred by the increasing funding available for environmental projects in the 1980s, the Forum sought exclusive control of SPREP. However, as an SPC based program its activities reached across the entire ambit of the SPC region. If the Forum were to incorporate SPREP as an IGO within its family of agencies, this would alienate the non-FIC Islands from its work. Such exclusion was unacceptable to these territories. The Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region [1986] accentuated the challenge posed by the non-FIC Island participants in SPREP by including all the PICs within the scope of the Convention.[27] Additionally there would be the probable loss of financial support from those metropolitan SPC members (France, UK and US) that would not be in the Forum arrangement. Finally the international community would have had some doubts about a regional program that defined the Pacific Islands region more narrowly than SPREP's original area of coverage. Yet again, another compromise proved necessary and, again, inclusiveness at the regional level won out. A 1991 ministerial meeting of SPREP participants agreed to reconstitute SPREP as an IGO with a headquarters in Samoa and retaining a membership essentially the same as the SPC’s South Pacific Conference.[28]
The SRO debate ended essentially with the creation of the South Pacific Organisations Coordinating Committee (SPOCC) in 1988. Establishment of SPOCC was intended to achieve greater technical and administrative efficiencies through easier collaboration between member agencies and, hopefully, to avoid the charge of duplication and waste, which was the ostensible rationale for the SRO proposal. SPOCC was misnamed, however, to some extent since it did not have the power to coordinate the affairs of its member agencies.[29] Rather it served as an advisory arrangement to the parent bodies through their secretariats. Further evidence of the commitment to inclusiveness within the boundaries of the region regardless of political status was given when SPOCC changed its name to the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP) in 1999. This was, in part, a consequence of a couple of important name changes to delete "South Pacific" from some regional agency names. “South Pacific" was seen by some as inappropriate because the region's ambit included islands above the Equator and so was a slight to them. This issue had proved a challenge to the SPC from the early 1960s but no consensus could be found as an alternative until Dr Bob Dun, then Secretary-General of the SPC, forced renaming the South Pacific Commission as the "Pacific Community" in 1997.[30]
Resolving the SRO issue may have helped to promote some more liberal inclusiveness within the Forum. New Caledonia (1999) and French Polynesia (2004) were admitted into the Forum as observers despite no general acceptance that they were clearly on a path to a final political status that achieved at least effective internal self-government if not full independence. France that had lobbied long along with these territories for their inclusion and, in part, this was a reward to Paris for finally ending nuclear testing in the Pacific in 1996 and the accords setting out the options for New Caledonia’s future.[31] The two French territories were given a closer relationship with the Forum in 2006 through the creation of an “Associate Member” status. At the same Forum, another French territory, Wallis and Futuna, was given admission as an Observer.[32] This tranche of expansion in the Forum’s participation provided the first partial, but very minor, tweaking of the regional boundaries since the SPC’s boundaries reached their zenith in the early 1950s. Essentially at Canberra’s insistence, the Forum granted Timor-Leste “special observer status” in 2002, which was subsequently confirmed as an Observer under the new rules.
Security and the Future of Pacific Islands Regionalism
What security gave in creating the contours of the contemporary Pacific Islands region it may someday take away. As has been argued, the pursuit of security played an integral part in creating the Pacific Islands region albeit not directly. The ANZAC Pact of 1944 proposed two differently configured regions for the South Pacific. The military alliance advanced in the 1944 treaty did not eventuate but the participation of the other four Western powers in the SPC in 1947 was intended to reassure Australia and New Zealand of their cooperation in regional affairs with the ANZACs despite the absence of a formal defence arrangement. The value of the SPC for Australian and New Zealand security ambitions proved inadequate and the US had to find a more direct defence association with the deepening of the Cold War in the early 1950s. In order to secure ANZAC support for a “soft” peace treaty with Japan to strengthen Cold War containment aims, the United States negotiated a defence alliance with Australia and New Zealand in 1951.[33] The ANZUS Pact was neither as regionally comprehensive as the arrangement proposed in the 1944 ANZAC Pact nor was it as strong as the NATO structure for which Australia argued. Nevertheless, it was a defence alliance and it did provide a regional coverage.[34] The requirement to consult amongst the treaty parties was activated by Article V of the ANZUS Treaty, which held:
an armed attack on any of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack on the metropolitan territory of any of the Parties, or on the island territories under its jurisdiction in the Pacific or on its armed forces, public vessels or aircraft in the Pacific.”
By the terms of the treaty, the geographic reach of its operation was potentially anywhere in the Pacific where troops or any vessel with an ANZUS member state flag might be. However, the practical geographic extent was the homelands and Pacific dependencies of the three member states. This was underscored when Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies apparently asked the US Administration of John Kennedy in the early 1960s if the ANZUS provision for military assistance would be triggered should Canberra go to the aid of the embattled Netherlands in West New Guinea. The response did not encourage any expectation of help if Australian troops came under fire in an engagement outside Australian territory.[35]
The American commitment to ANZUS really only became more than minor and largely ceremonial with the advent of the US intervention in Viet Nam in the mid 1960s. Annual ministerial consultations, shared defence facilities and joint manoeuvres emerged to draw the three states parties together for perceived mutual security but the ANZUS focus was in Southeast Asia rather than the Pacific Islands. It was not until 1976 that ANZUS discovered a need for a regional string to its Pacific security planning. The number of territories achieving independence had reached a critical mass as evidenced by the creation of the South Pacific Forum in 1971. The significance of this continuing wave of independence for Western security interests struck home rather dramatically (some might argue, over dramatically) in April 1976 when the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Tonga. The ANZUS Council of Ministers meeting in June of that year proposed inter alia to address the Soviet challenge by promoting regional solidarity amongst the generally pro-Western FICs. Regional coherence was made a critical plank in what came to be known “strategic denial”, an approach that was basically an extension of the general American policy of containment against the Soviet Union.[36] Whether strategic denial actually worked can be debated but there was every expectation at the time in the three ANZUS capitals that regional solidarity was the key to preventing the USSR from exploiting the individual weaknesses of the Pacific microstates.
Significantly, while the ANZUS regional strategy did not depend on the SPC’s regional boundaries, broader Western security interests for the entire region did interlock to some extent within the SPC’s operational ambit. NATO linked the security interests of the three non-Forum metropolitan powers in the region – France, United Kingdom and United States – although not directly the mutual protection of their Pacific possessions. France and the UK were individually responsible for their territories but the US enjoyed some shared alliance support through the ANZUS Treaty. However, the critical issue at the time was not the dependencies but the independent FICs that had the capacity to act self-interestedly and autonomously with any extra-regional power they might choose. Thus, the ANZUS regional approach to strategic denial relied on the privileged position that Australia and New Zealand occupied in the Forum as something more than just key stakeholders.[37] Their hegemony in this powerful regional association and the application of soft power rather than military-based relations were meant to reduce the sort of aberrant behaviour amongst the FICs that could lead to a Pacific “Cuba”.
Not without irony, the assumption of ANZAC hegemony and the coincidence of Western security interests was challenged in following decade by the same division that provoked the split within the SPC leading to the creation of the Forum. This was the cleavage separating the nuclear powers and the non-nuclear powers. By the mid 1980s, Labour parties beset by intra-party divisions over security participation with nuclear capable states governed both Australia and New Zealand. Partially as a response to these pressures the two agreed to promote a regional nuclear weapons free zone in the South Pacific. The FICs were happy to embrace the resurrection of a concept that enjoyed their support at the very instigation of the Forum. The Forum states signed the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty (SPNFZ or Treaty of Rarotonga) in August 1985 at their annual leaders meeting.[38] The ANZAC powers found to their chagrin that they had miscalculated the effect of SPNFZ on the permanent five members of the UN Security Council. The two had hoped that SPNFZ would eliminate any non-Western nuclear interest in the region while cementing the conventional weapons predominance of the West in the Pacific Islands. In the event, the PRC and the USSR quickly associated themselves with SPNFZ by signing the appropriate protocols to the treaty but the three Western powers rejected the treaty and its protocols.[39]
Tensions within ANZUS over regional policy were intensified at this time by other factors. New Zealand’s domestic anti-nuclear weapons policy alienated the US when Wellington insisted that Washington identify nuclear equipped vessels before allowing port access. The breach had New Zealand suspended from ANZUS activities when Australia supported the US against New Zealand.[40] Unrelated but paralleling these developments, Kiribati lost patience with the US over its refusal to accept coastal state management of the highly migratory species of tuna, which constituted a principal known natural resource. In August 1985, it signed a fisheries access agreement with the USSR. The agreement only lasted a year and was not renewed due to a Soviet Oceanic Fisheries Department demand for reduced fees. Vanuatu had acquired reputation as a somewhat aberrant actor within the region following its independence in 1980. It accepted relations with Cuba and Libya, presumed Soviet surrogates, and the ni-Vanuatu Government signed a fisheries access arrangement with the USSR shortly after the i-Kiribati agreement lapsed. Vanuatu took a leading role in the region opposing colonialism and nuclear weapons, especially testing by one of its erstwhile administering powers – France. Thus, even as the Cold War was on the verge of collapse, the value of the regional security consensus within the Forum was being sorely tested. Whether it would have been viable had Cold War tensions continued is moot but the Western powers were making adjustments in aid, fisheries policy and the like to maintain a soft power capacity for significant influence within the Pacific Islands region to maintain influence.
The perceived security value of Pacific Islands’ regionalism changed with the end of the Cold War. From 1976 to the end of the 1980s, regionalism served as a vehicle to help maintain some Western security interests. This is not to say that no FIC security interests were served. There was some mutuality; some perceived physical security benefits for the FICs as in SPNFZ; and, most importantly for the Islands, some benefits with economic and human security through agencies such as the FFA. Nevertheless, for nearly a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a decline in external security interest as Western powers such as the US and UK began reducing their effort in the region. Even Russia, which had finally secured a diplomatic mission (in Port Moresby) just before the collapse of the USSR, found little reason to stay. There were security issues such as money laundering, the sale of passports, resource poaching, flags of convenience and the like but the international community generally left such issues to bilateral or intra-regional action. The Forum approved programs to strengthen policing capacity, cooperation on information and intelligence sharing; transport and communications security and the like from the early 1990s. A Forum Regional Security Committee was formed in 1992 essentially to coordinate the efforts against transnational crime. Throughout the decade of the 1990s, a series of declarations were drafted by the Forum to strengthen the rule of law and security established a political framework for enhancing the collective regional capacity to assist individual FIC members to meet their sovereign responsibilities with regard to internal security.[41]
A fundamental change occurred following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. International perceptions of the risks posed by fragile and failing states rewrote security analysts’ assessments of the potential exploitation of the vulnerabilities of the Pacific Islands.[42] A regional response regained favour with the two ANZAC powers – this time to deal the non-state threat of terrorism. Again, the Forum was the principal instrument. At the urging of its Australasian members, the Forum responded with the 2002 Nasonini Declaration on regional security and terrorism and expanded the work of the Forum Regional Security Committee to include terrorism within its remit. The Australian and New Zealand Governments also strongly supported relevant action through other regional agencies. This included the SPC’s Regional Maritime Programme, which aided the implementation of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code. Through chairing CROP, the Forum was able to influence the entire region but this was enhanced from 2005 with the adoption of the “Pacific Plan”.[43] The Plan was endorsed by all agencies and their members (more or less) to rationalise regional institutional architecture and to promote regional integration in order to strengthen state capacity across the region. The strengthening of the role of the Forum would also further entrench the position of Australia and New Zealand in the regional system as non-resident co-owners.
It is beyond the scope of the present paper to detail in full the speculation presently circulating regarding the pressures within the Forum arising from internal security concerns. Yet, it is possible that the new tensions could actually redraw the boundaries of the Pacific Islands region. The Pacific Plan’s roadmap to closer regional integration has provoked concerns as to the hegemonic role that Australia and New Zealand play within the present regional architecture. However, it is the 2000 Biketawa Declaration that has raised the spectre of a serious pushing these concerns to the level of being a threat to the Forum as a “regional” organisation.[44] The Biketawa Declaration was a Forum response to coups in both Fiji and the Solomon Islands in 2000. By it, the Forum leaders committed themselves inter alia to, “upholding democratic processes and institutions”. The Declaration also included options for sanctions including “if necessary, targeted measures.”[45] The application of sanctions in support of the principles of the Biketawa Declaration against the post-2006 coup Government in Fiji has become increasingly controversial. The Government of Commodore Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama, in power since a military coup in December 2006, has taken particular exception to the use of the Forum to impose sanctions against it seeing Australia and New Zealand as the principal instigators of these sanctions.[46] Bainimarama therefore has appealed increasingly to regional neighbours to resist the ANZAC influence in the Forum.
Bainimarama has turned to the sub-regional association, the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), as the mechanism for his regional fight back. The MSG was formed in 1988 by three Melanesian states to express solidarity for the decolonisation of the French territory of New Caledonia.[47] Fiji joined the MSG in 1996[48] and, in 1988, the four states signed the Agreement Establishing The Melanesian Spearhead Group association, which gave the group legal personality and so transformed it into an IGO. There is an historical irony in contemporary Fiji’s use of the MSG against the Forum. Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fiji’s first Prime Minister and the acknowledged architect of PIC regionalism, feared that sub-regionalism might destroy the broader regional system. This fear looms much larger now as a real prospect with the divide between the Forum and MSG over Fiji driving the wedge between the two levels of association.[49] Bainimarama’s appeals to the MSG appear to have elicited some very positive responses. For example, all the MSG leaders visited Fiji shortly after the 2009 Forum and expressed their support for Bainimarama despite having endorsed the decision at the Forum to continue the sanctions against Fiji. There have been a number of similar and important gestures since.[50]
Fiji’s Prime Minister may have recently pushed the MSG wedge to the point where it may actually fracture the region. In preparing to host the 2010 MSG meeting, where he would become MSG Chair, Bainimarama indicated that he would invite FICs not members of the MSG to attend as observers, the “MSG Plus” arrangement.[51] The prospect that, as Chair, he would be able to use the MSG as a vehicle to re-create the Forum without Australia and New Zealand raised such concern in Canberra and Wellington that steps were taken to prevent Fiji from taking over the Chair. Whatever the actual involvement in the decision by then ni-Vanuatu Prime Minister Edward Natapei’s decision to cancel the 2010 MSG leaders meeting, Bainimarama reacted strongly to perceived Australian and New Zealand involvement by expelling their senior representatives in Suva. Natapei’s decision was repudiated by other MSG countries soon afterwards and, when Natapei lost the prime ministership, arrangements were made within the MSG to apologise and return the Chair to Fiji. The Solomon Islands hosted a ceremony of apology where the Chair was passed the Solomon Islands, which then immediately passed it on to Fiji. Whether Bainimarama will now continue to pursue the ”MSG Plus” option is open but, if he does, the older concept of the Pacific Islands region may not survive the challenge. It seems unlikely that “MSG Plus” could replace the Pacific Islands Forum even though it could preserve the long-standing boundaries of the Pacific Islands region. Nevertheless, there could little doubt that a viable MSG Plus and an attempt to retain the Forum intact would revive many of the features of the older SRO issue.
Mapping the boundaries of the Pacific Islands region has been a long odyssey and one that continues today. This cartographic exercise is interesting not so much because the boundaries have been in dispute. They have not been for sometime. Indeed, the only real change in the last 60 years has been the exclusion of West New Guinea (1962) and the very recent, and very limited, attempt to include Timor-Leste. Rather the tensions have risen from defending the agreed boundaries. Initially, these stemmed from disputed ownership of the region. Extra-regional colonial powers created the region but the residents of the region wanted to take possession of it through a process of decolonisation. The desire for complete ownership of the region was so strong amongst the Island peoples that, even when it became clear that decolonisation would not deliver absolute ownership of the region to them, they refused to redefine the boundaries of the Pacific Islands region in the way the Caribbean peoples had Caribbean regionalism.
Creation of the South Pacific Forum became a significant test of what was the authentic Pacific Islands region. The inclusion of Australia and New Zealand created an anomaly in the distinction between owners and stakeholders. The two Western states clearly constituted a special category of stakeholders but, without changing the region’s boundaries, they became owners as well. This imposes a sort of political schizophrenia on Pacific Islands regionalism since in the case of the FFA and SPNFZ boundaries; for example, parts of the two are included within the region’s operational ambit. The single regional organisation row both demonstrated that the SPC’s boundaries were the region and that the FICs were not prepared to concede ownership rights even to those PICs that had not yet secured control of their own destinies. Since the FICs were unable to relax their commitment to either tenet, they had to temporise, which they did through the establishment of SPOCC (now CROP). This has allowed the continuation of “two speed” regional integration across the expanse of the Pacific Islands.
Recently, issues of internal security (as opposed to the external security concerns that served as a catalyst for creating the region) have threatened the coherence and, possibly, the regional system itself. The attempt to strengthen state capacity through regional mechanisms, especially the Pacific Plan, has generated increasing tensions with regard to Fiji since the December 2006 military coup. Never before had regional machinery been used punitively against a member and Fiji, not alone, has felt this to be a misuse of the regional system. The Government of Frank Bainimarama has been resisting this pressure by accentuating the anomalous role that Australia and New Zealand have in the Pacific Islands regional system. Fiji’s attempt to reinvent a Forum without the participation of the two Western powers was only partially successful but the contest of wills over the MSG Plus proposal seems destined to leave serious scars regionally. Being supplemented by closer ties with Asia and the promotion of other exclusionary mechanisms such as the Pacific Small Islands Developing States group (PSIDS) at the United Nations, Fiji has thrown down a diplomatic gauntlet that might appear to be only an ownership/stakeholder issue. However, the MSG is an ethnically based association, which cannot remain true to its origins and provide a comfortable home to Polynesian states such as Samoa. Should the current divisions intensify, one option may well be for the MSG to abandon its “sub-regional” status and claim full regional standing. Where this would leave the Pacific Islands region is anyone’s guess but it would force a very serious redrafting of the regional atlas of the Pacific Islands.
[1] Bruce M. Russett, International Regions and the International System: A Study in Political Ecology (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1967)
[2] Joseph Nye (ed.) International Regionalism, (Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1968), xii.
[3] As will be addressed below, the membership of the Pacific Islands Forum and other agencies are not conterminous with the functional scope of the Pacific Islands region but they are not regarded as sub-regional since their potential membership pool is all within the region.
[4] This was a common theme in the early years. See, for examples: “Twenty-fifth Anniversary Messages”, South Pacific Bulletin, XXII (October 2, 1972), p 19.
[5] Gordon R. Lewthwaite, “Geographic Knowledge of the Pacific Peoples” in Herman R. Friis (ed), The Pacific Basin (New York: American Geographical Society, 1967), pp 51-86.
[6] Naming the region has been somewhat more difficult than identifying its reach. The “South Seas” was in common use from the advent of extensive European contact until the early/mid 20th Century. From the end of WW II until the late 1990s, the region was generally referred to as the “South Pacific” when the term “Pacific Islands” became the preferred usage. “Oceania” was once popular in anthropological circles but not in general use.
[7] W.D. Forsyth, “South Pacific”, New Guinea and Australia, the Pacific and South-East Asia, VI (September-October, 1971), p 8.
[8] This organisation, founded in 1942, was expanded in 1946 to include the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and so comprised four of the SPC’s six member states. See: Herbert Corkran, Patterns of International Cooperation in the Caribbean, 1942-1969 (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1970).
[9] This was an extraordinary political concession at the time since the Dutch were still fighting to preserve their hold over the entire colony.
[10] Early maps of the scope of the South Pacific Commission show Norfolk Island as included but this was later disputed by Australia when the Norfolk Government attempted to use this as a lever for greater autonomy from Australia.
[11] T.R. Smith, South Pacific Commission (Wellington: Price Milburn, 1972), p 46.
[12] In 1997, the SPC was renamed the Pacific Community but retained the familiar SPC acronym.
[13] The TTPI, the former Japanese mandated islands that were ceded by the UN to the US as a security trust in 1947, but could not be added to the SPC until control was transferred to civilian authority in 1951.
[14] Western Samoa renamed itself as Samoa in 1997 over the protests of American Samoa.
[15] For a useful review of the transition from colonial regional cooperation to post independence arrangements see: Herbert Corkran, Patterns of International Cooperation in the Caribbean, 1942-1969 (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1970)
[16] Nauru did not join PIPA, as its only export commodity was phosphate.
[17] There would have been an internal complication with PIPA as constituted in 1971, however. Niue and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony (GEIC) had associated themselves with PIPA’s Constitution although they were not independent or self-governing.
[18] PNG did not achieve full internal self-governing status until 1 December 1972.
[19] Agreement Establishing The South Pacific Bureau For Economic Co-Operation (With Annex) [1973]. The treat can be accessed at: http://www.paclii.org/pits/en/treaty_database/1973/2.html#fn1
[20] By 1971, PIPA included Niue and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony as members and by the February 1972 decisions of the Forum they were ineligible for membership in the Forum at that time. Moreover Nauru had never been a member of PIPA.
[21] Article XI (4) of the SPEC Agreement: “Other governments may, with the approval of the Forum, accede to this Agreement.”
[22] http://untreaty.un.org/unts/60001_120000/8/2/00014075.pdf
[23] South Pacific Bureau for Economic Cooperation, ‘More Effective Aid: A Report to the South Pacific Forum’, 1976, unpublished consultants’ report.
[24] I have dealt with some of the inconsistencies and complexities of the SRO issue in my "Regionalism and Nationalism", in K.R. Howe, Robert C. Kiste and Brij V. Lal (eds.), Tides of History: The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994.
[25] The MOU served the purpose of doubts removal legislation in municipal law so that it confirmed that the original intention of CCOP/SOPAC's regional members to constitute it as an IGO. Thus, CCOP/SOPAC was deemed technically not to be a "new" regional organisation and so not contrary to the SRO aspirations of the Forum. The 1984 MOU and CCOP/SOPAC's existing Terms of Reference served as the body's foundation documents until a full treaty was drafted in 1989.
[26] The same approach was taken in 1989 when the 1984 MOU was replaced by a full treaty. See: Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission [1990] at
http://www.paclii.org/pits/en/treaty_database/1990/7.html. The 1989 review process renamed CCOP/SOPAC the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC).
[27] http://www.paclii.org/pits/en/treaty_database/1986/15.html. However, the Convention’s scope also included Australia and New Zealand but none of the three metropolitan powers excluded from the Forum thus blending elements of the SPC and the Forum. These decisions may well have been essential precursors to the compromises that led to SPOCC in 1988.
[28] SPREP therefore includes all the 22 Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) that are members of the SPC. However, only four of the five metropolitan states of the SPC – Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States – joined the new IGO. The United Kingdom, which then was restructuring its Pacific interests, decided to remain outside SPREP.
[29] These are currently listed as: the Forum Secretariat (formerly SPEC), the Pacific Community (formerly the SPC), the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the Pacific Island Development Program (PIDP), the South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), the University of the South Pacific (USP), the Fiji School of Medicine (FSchM), the South Pacific Board for Educational Assessment (SPBEA) and Pacific Power Association. However, this list may no longer be accurate due to some national and regional institutional changes.
[30] The South Pacific Forum changed its name in October 2000 to the Pacific Islands Forum.
[31] Nic Maclellan, “New Caledonia Pursues Full Forum Membership”, Island Business, Vol. 36 (May 2010), pp 25-6.
[32] The 2005 Forum created the new category but its communiqué does not offer much on the distinctions between the new categories of Observer and Associate Member. See: Thirty-Sixth Pacific Islands Forum Communiqué at: http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/spacific/regional_orgs/pif36_communique.html
[33] Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America [1951]; http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/new_zealand/anzus.pdf
[34] For an assessment of the linkage between ANZUS and the South Pacific region, see: R.A. Herr, "The Changing Geo-Politics of ANZUS: The Place of the South Pacific", World Review, March 1984, pp. 21-42.
[36] The details and consequences of the 1976 ANZUS ministerial meeting are addressed in my "Regionalism, Strategic Denial and South Pacific Security", Journal of Pacific History, XXI (1986), pp. 170-182.
[37] The role of the two ANZAC states has always been ambiguous since they are outside the SPC’s operational ambit yet they as much bound by Forum decisions as the FICs. Thus, have both the characteristics of owners (without being resident in the region) and stakeholders (as outsiders/donors).
[38] Michael Hamel-Green, The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty: a critical assessment, (Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1990).
[39] The end of the Cold War changed strategic attitudes, however, and so, a decade later, France, the United Kingdom and the United States signed the three protocols that applied to them in a joint ceremony in March 1996.
[40] For the history of this dispute see: Stuart McMillan, Neither Confirm Nor Deny (Wellington, Allen & Unwin, 1987).
[41] These are the 1992 Honiara Declaration on Law Enforcement Cooperation, the 1997 Aitutaki Declaration on regional security, the 2000 Biketawa Declaration.
[42] See for example: Elsina Wainwright and Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Our failing neighbour: Australia and the future of Solomon Islands, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Barton, A.C.T., 2003
[43] The Pacific Plan and details concerning it can be accessed at: http://www.forumsec.org.fj/pages.cfm/about-us/the-pacific-plan/
[44] Laisa Taga, “Forum’s Fiji ‘Plan’ Causing New Split”, Island Business, June 2009, p. 5
[45] http://www.forumsec.org/_resources/article/files/Biketawa%20Declaration.pdf
[46] See for example: Rowan Callick, “Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama orders Australian professor out”, The Australian, 5 November 2009. Accessed at: http://www.news.com.au/world/fijian-prime-minister-frank-bainimarama-orders-australian-professor-out/story-e6frfkyi-1225794505333
[47] The “Agreed Principles of Co-operation among Independent Melanesian Countries signed in 1988 by Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu as founding states members and the Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste, (FLNKS) of New Caledonia as an observer self-identified their association as “sub-regional”.
[48] Fiji became an observer in the MSG from 1993.
[49] The Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuila’epa Sailele Malielegaoi, repeated these concerns in 2006 before the coup in Fiji later that year. See: “MSG: trading on political capital and Melanesian solidarity”, Pacific Institute of Public Policy, Briefing Paper 02, July 2008, p.3.
http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=MSG:+trading+on++political+capital+and++Melanesian+solidarity+Pacific+Institute&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=MuoiTajtGYqmcPzf-dgK
[50] See for example: “PNG urges Australia, NZ to support Fiji”, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/png-urges-australia-nz-to-support-fiji-20091014-gxbt.html
[51] “Fiji PM says Pacific grouping to strengthen” Radio Australia, 30 October 2009, http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200910/s2728299.htm
Focus: Mapping and Unmapping the Pacific
The Other “Ties That Bind”: Christianity in East Asia and the Pacific
In this and similar conferences, we are in the process of being reintroduced to one another–like a gathering of a long-lost family. Not just Taiwanese, especially the aboriginal population, and the Island peoples–who are joined by ancient linguistic and cultural ties; but Westerners, Europeans and Americans as well.
Taiwan as a Source of Inspiration
At the end of her six weeks spent in Taiwan animating a workshop about Samoan dance, choregrapher Tupe Lualua reflected back on her trip and her rich experience making connections between Austronesian cultures.
Focus: Embrace the Pacific
From Orchid Island, With Love
Impressions of another island
About 40 miles southeast of Taiwan lies an island called Lanyu, which means "Orchid Island" in English. The local people on the island used to call this island Bon Showao Dawa which means island people. However, after winning an orchid race a long time ago the island became known as Lanyu. It is actually rare to see an orchid on the island, I saw more goats than orchids during my stay there.
Currently the island is comprised of six villages and one tribe called the Yami (or the Tao). Despite the island's small population the local people on Lanyu have been working hard to keep the tradition of canoe building alive. Each man is expected to build a canoe by the time he reaches the age of 18, however, it is becoming more common for young men on the island to wait until they reach their twenties or thirties before they start building their own canoe. Community efforts are critical in the process of canoe building and once the canoe is built the local people on the island will have a ceremony to celebrate.
It is in the deepest interests of the island's elders to preserve the tradition of canoe building and efforts to preserve this tradition focus on the island's elementary school. According to Principal Syamen Womzas at Lanyu Elementary School, they have been trying their best to negotiate with the Department of Education to revive the tradition of canoe building as well as sailing by including these activities as a form of extra curricular activity at school.
As part of the school's extra curricular activity, it often takes its students to watch the elders build canoes so that they can learn from participating in the canoe building process.
The manner in which they teach canoe building on Lanyu is similar to that in Lau, because no plan or drawing is involved in the canoe building process. The son just learns from his father or grandfather, by watching and practicing.
The locals use Breadfruit trees to build their canoes, they use the gum from the trees as glue to join the planks together. It doesn't last long but its lighter for when they want to row against the wind instead of sailing. They only use the sails if they are going with the wind or with the wind at their backs.
The Taiwanese take pride in their culture and tradition and have strived hard to revive ancient songs and dances with a lot of passion. Their interest in how our ancestors sailed the ocean is huge. After being invited to the Formosa Song and Dance Troupe, formed by indigenous people from the 14 tribes in Taiwan in 1991, they were given an insight into traditional Fijian navigation and sailing. The Taiwanese believe that the fruit of the barringtonia asiatica — vutu in Fijian and which grow in the coastal area of southern and northern Taiwan and Orchid Island — is dispersed by the ocean connecting the islands and shows how humans migrated (floated) from Taiwan into the many lands of the Pacific spreading their seeds of hope, possibility, culture, language and knowledge.
The Drua Project — a proposal to build a drua in Fiji that will sail to the Pacific Arts festival in Guam in 2016 — is of particular interest to the Hualien Tribal College (Taiwan Indigenous), which may send one of its own to Fiji in August to learn and take back our traditional boat-building skills. There's only one club in Taiwan which teaches about the sea and I was glad to be back in the water with some of its members. I was taken aback by their surprise when I returned from paddling three miles out. One of the old men thought I was going to paddle back to Fiji.
The Taiwanese pride themselves in traditional revival and the Formosa troupe, which travels the world performing in theatre and stages, is working with other stakeholders to try trace their past to revive all indigenous cultures, songs and dances in all their tribes.
Earlier on, I did my first presentation at the National Taiwan University, which was organised by Taiwan Society of Pacific Studies and co-hosted with the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Resource Center, with the support of the Council of Indigenous People. This workshop was well attended with more than 100 participants of all ages and walks of life. They were given an insight into the Te Mana O Te Moana voyage and the Uto Ni Yalo bole, a traditional challenge that was written by Manoa Rasigatale. It was only right that I made this traditional call as this here is a new journey for me and the Uto ni Yalo Trust (formerly the Fiji Islands Voyaging Society) with our Taiwanese friends and kin. The bole is what they have requested I must teach them before I leave but first they must understand the meaning of the chant. I began with short clips of the soon-to-be released documentary, Our Blue Canoe. Then I shared with them the history of the Uto ni Yalo Trust and its role in the epic voyage across over 50,000 kilometres of the Pacific Ocean. I shared with them some activities we've carried out such as turtle tagging around Ringgold Islands and whale watching near Ovalau, the community visits and sails with children and how we are trying to reach out to revive our traditional sailing knowledge.
After Hualien, I travelled to Taitung, one and half hours by train towards the southern side of the island, and was welcomed by the students and principal of the National Guan Shan Vocational Senior High School, which has a special class for students learning about their culture, carving, weaving and traditional designs. Fiji must do the same if we are to safeguard our traditional knowledge. We must act fast and also start a school to revive the ancient arts of navigation and boat-building for those with the knowledge back home are in old age and time is running out on us. We need to teach primary schoolchildren. I hope the Ministry of Education can allow such a school or a special class for each school to learn chants, songs and meke.
There is much to learn from the Taiwanese and there are a lot of similarities between us. While I was on the island, I discovered there were some words that I found were similar to our Fijian language, such as "ulu" for head, "daliga" for ear, "mata" for eye, "gusu" for mouth, "lima" for five, "vitu" for seven, "walu" for eight, "tina" for mother, and "tama" for father. My only regret is that I didn't fully understand their language so I was unable to dig for more information.
Seeing the response from the people of Taiwan made me eager to see the UTO NI YALO sailing up to Taiwan as soon as possible in order to reinforce the message that I had shared with them on behalf of Fiji, and hopefully reconnect the people of both our islands.
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Photo by Tupe Lualua
Watch here a video overview of the workshop in Orchid Island
A Traditional Sailing Experience in Taiwan
At National Taitung University, during one of the workshops engaging Fijian navigator Setareki Ledua and Samoan dancer Tupe Lualua, aboriginal Tao writer Syaman Rapongan (夏曼●藍波安) talks about his own experience sailing in the Pacific in 2005 on a 8 persons canoe.
During the months of June and July 2013, the Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies held a series of forums on Fijian navigation culture and Samoan Dance, lead respectively by the young Fijian navigator Setareki Ledua and the Samoan dancer Tupe Lualua. Together, they participated in various educational and cultural exchanges, mostly with students on the East Coast of Taiwan. Thus they visited schools and villages in Hualien County, Taoyuan County, Taidong County and Orchid Island. For example, they met with the Formosa Aboriginal Song & Dance Troupe (原舞者舞團) and Tao writer Syaman Rapongan.
This month's Focus gives you an overview of their trip in Taiwan as well as an insight of the way the two young pacific islanders carry and reinvent their heritage.
Sailing on the Blue Canoe
Setareki Ledua, whom we generally just called "Seta", is 22 years old and he is from Fiji. Between 2010 and 2013, he spent two years navigating on "Uto Ni Yalo" ("Heart of Spirit" in Fijian), one of the canoes from the Pacific Voyager fleet that roam throughout the Pacific ocean using traditional navigation methods. During June and July 2013, he was invited to Taiwan by the Taiwan Society for Pacific Studies for a 6-weeks workshop in order to share his knowlegde and his experience as the youngest Chief Officer ever on the Pacific Voyager fleet.
In this first interview, he had just arrived to Taipei and he shyly introduces himself and traditional canoe sailing:
A Vibrant Culture with an Ugly Facade: Honiara and the Pacific Art Festival
Let me admit it: Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, situated on the Guadalcanal Island, does not strike the visitor with awe. Cavernous Chinese shops filled with all kinds of goods, administrative buildings and houses in concrete scattered around the roads that run parallel to the coastline, commercials for "Solomon Telekom" and the "SolBrew" beer, the two brands that seem to monopolize the advertising expenditures of the country... nothing that really draws the attention. On the hills, a monument adorned with granite plaques recalls the naval battles that ravaged the island during WWII. Modest but numerous Adventist, Catholic and Protestant churches are landmarks all along the way. In the haven and on the beaches, carcasses of warships still lay down, giant ghostly presences. But there is also a kind of softness in the atmosphere, a mixture of gentleness and restraint in people's conduct that, from the start, intrigues and seduces the newcomer.
In Honiara, a wide field has been surrounded by high fences in preparation for the festival, and is divided into two villages – traditional houses hosting on the one side the different provinces and cultural groups from SI, on the other the delegations from abroad, among them the Taiwanese one. A vast public, mainly local, attends the dance and music performances, looks at the handicrafts for show or for sale, marvels at the similarities and differences of languages and customs witnessed from one island to another.
I am usually a bit dreary of festivals and other public events, but this time I find myself thoroughly enjoying the show. I especially like to stay in the SI village, with the huts under the shadow of the giant trees, and to watch the performances offered by tribal groups from the mountains and the coast. The dancers from Isabel Island are my favorites.
Contacts are easy and relaxed. Dancing, panpipes and drums, tattoos, weapons, canoes... I enjoy myself like a child, far away from the megacity of Shanghai where I usually live. Near the main venue of the festival, the little village of Doma, right on the seashore, offers performances from the various tribes living in Guadalcanal Island. Children play on the sand, the music of the drums and that of the waves join into one. The Pacific starts to operate its magic.
Not far away, within walking distance of the fishing village of Lilisiana, the festival gathers local people between the seashore and a lake. The setting is modest, but groups are coming from far away villages, some of them from the mountain bush, and other from the coast. Mathilde, a woman form the Lau tribe, tells me that she takes care alone of a plot of land, where she cultivates cabbage. Her English is quite good: she has worked for five years for a Catholic NGO, she tells me, and in 1997 she even went to the World Youth Day in Paris. She directs the dancers' troop of her village, and performs with much gusto and sense of humor.
Photos by B.V.
The following video is an interview and a performance by Arasuka'aniwara, a panpipe collective from the Solomon Islands:
This video is currently not available for readers in Mainland China.
Focus: The Solomon Islands
Sakinu Ahronglong: Poetry and Song
Ahronglong Sakinu is a full-time police man, working in forest conservation, and an amateur writer, recording the wisdom passed down for generations in his tribe. Here he presents us with a poem and a song which he performed at the 2012 International Austronesian Conference - Weaving Waves's Writings:
Focus: Austronesian Conference 2012
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Boston Manor Sports Facilities
Current & Future Events
Past Projects& Events
Pavilion Cafe
Spartans YFC
There is a basketball court, completed in 2003, open for use by members of the public. The court is available on a turn up and play basis and cannot be hired.
Putting Green (formerly Bowling Green)
Our old bowls green has been converted into a Putting Green and is open for use by the public. Equipment can be hired from the Pavilion Cafe, which is open Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. We are, however, now investigating the possibilities of raising funds to establish a fitness trail in this area at some time in the future. Please keep checking the website for updates on this exciting new project.
As from 9th September, 2006, the football pitch in Boston Manor Park has been used by the Spartans Youth Football Club on Wednesday evenings during the light nights. The Club holds training sessions on Saturdays between 9 and 12 noon and will be there again on Sunday Mornings for matches. Please see the Spartans Youth Football Club page for further information.
The pitches will still be available at all other times for casual use by visitors to the park.
Tennis Courts & Tennis Club
There are three tennis courts which are open to the public, subject to prior booking, at fees of £5 per hour per court, and concessions £3.00 per hour per court. However, Boston Manor Park has a thriving, non profit making Tennis Club with extremely low annual membership fees, winter league, social events, and free club sessions. Visit the Tennis Club Webpage for detailed information about the club. There are also coaching sessions available (please click here for charges). If you are an experienced tennis player or interested in learning, you can join this tennis community to participate in the sport at all levels. Please contact the Tennis Club Chair, Bala Chalasani here, or telephone the club number on 07913 791 923 for further information about the Tennis Club or to book a court as a non member. The Tennis Club is a non profit making voluntary club whose aim is to improve the tennis facilities for all within the park, to encourage the enjoyment of playing tennis and to offer the community spirit of a tennis club.
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Meet Gus
Motivational Minute
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Meet a man who has turned personal tragedy into triumph.
When Gus speaks, he shares a humorous, heart-touching message you'll find unforgettable and life-changing.
By Ron "Gus" Gustafson
(Paperback - 200 Pages)
Raised on a farm in Lyons, Nebraska, Gus was a standout basketball player in high school in spite of having lost his right arm and shoulder in a tragic childhood farm accident. After a knee injury ended his collegiate basketball career, he was devastated. But, once again, his faith and courage sustained him and he redirected his energies, building outstanding academic and business careers.
Learn how business owner, motivational speaker and author Ron "Gus" Gustafson turns personal tragedy into sheer triumph. You'll find his unforgettable message to be humorous, heart-touching and life-changing.
Turning a set-back into a come-back.
(Downloadable Video - 50 Minute Live Recording)
When you face an obstacle in your life, think of Ron "Gus" Gustafson. Gus battled for his life at age 9 after a tractor accident that took his right arm and shoulder and crushed his right leg. In spite of his injury, he was determined to excel in athletics and in life. Gus played varsity basketball -- dazzling the coach who once said "that poor little one-armed Gustafson kid would never make the team!"
He was the first recipient of the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame inspiration award named in his honor. For Gus, each set-back has presented an opportunity to grow.
This video is the perfect addition to the digital libraries of any elementary, middle or jr./sr. high school, churches, and the resource centers of companies and organizations.
To fan the flame of hope, To ignite the spark of faith and love, That will burn in the lives of people God has placed in my path, In my family first!”
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2383. Toxic Concoctions: How the EPA Ignores the Dangers of Pesticide Cocktails
By Nathan Donley, Center for Biological Diversity, July 2016
More than 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the United States each year, applied to agricultural fields and orchards, residential lawns, playgrounds and parks. Pesticides are often mixed with other pesticides and chemicals before application or after, and the individual ingredients in these mixtures can interact in such a way as to enhance their toxic effects. This is referred to as “synergy,” and it can turn what would normally be considered a safe level of exposure to people, wildlife and the environment into one that causes considerable harm.
Although pesticide mixtures in the environment have been extensively documented, the Environmental Protection Agency generally only assesses the toxicity of pesticides individually, in isolation from potential real-life scenarios where these pesticides may interact with other chemicals. The EPA, which is tasked with ensuring that pesticides do not result in unreasonable harm to human health and the environment, often rationalizes this approach by stating that studies measuring mixture toxicity are often not available for analysis.
Our analysis, however, contradicts that claim by utilizing a publicly available information source (data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) that provides a disturbing snapshot of pesticide synergy and the potential for widespread danger to people, waterways and wildlife — risks the EPA has repeatedly failed to identify and consider during its approval process.
For this report we conducted an intensive search of patent applications that were germane to all pesticide products containing two or more active ingredients approved by the EPA in the past six years from four major agrochemical companies (Bayer, Dow, Monsanto and Syngenta).
Among our key findings:
• 69 percent of these products (96 out of 140) had at least one patent application
that claimed or demonstrated synergy between the active ingredients in the
product;
• 72 percent of the patent applications that claimed or demonstrated synergy
involved some of the most highly used pesticides in the United States, including glyphosate, atrazine, 2,4-D, dicamba and the controversial neonicotinoids thiamethoxam, imidacloprid and clothianidin, among others, indicating that potential impacts could be widespread.
This suggests that synergistic action between pesticide active ingredients is much better documented and more common than current EPA pesticide assessments would indicate. Further, it appears that pesticide companies are in fact collecting information about the synergistic effects of their products that they are not sharing with the EPA. Recognizing that pesticide synergy data are widely available and that the synergistic relationships between pesticides can have serious implications for human and environmental health, the EPA must now take action to properly consider the potential consequences of pesticide synergy.
For the full PDF version of the report click here.
Labels: Biodiversity, Capitalist agriculture, Chemcial poisions, Chemical industry, EPA, Pesticides
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RESIDENCE: New Kent; Mecklenburg Co. VA
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Mother: Sarah Hardiman CLARK
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RESIDENCE: England
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Hannah ELLIS
5 Oct 1741 - 22 Aug 1791
RESIDENCE: Amherst Co. VA
BIRTH: 5 Oct 1741, Hanover or Henrico Co. Virginia
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Mother: Susannah HARDING
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Sir ROBERT FITZ SIMON of Lincolnshire
TITLE: Sir
+MARGARET FITZ SIMON
BLACK JOHN MACGREGOR
1440 - 24 May 1519
BIRTH: 1440, Glenarm Barony Coast of Antrim Co. Scotland
DEATH: 24 May 1519, Glenarm Barony Coast of Antrim Co. Scotland
Father: PATRICK MACGREGOR
+MALCOLM MACGREGOR
Spouse Unknown
_IAIN Dhee McChaim MACGREGOR _
_MALCOLM MACGREGOR __|
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ELLEN MALLORY
Family 1 : JOHN BERNARD
+THOMAS BERNARD
Matilda J. "Bettie" NELSON
RESIDENCE: Mason Co. KY
BIRTH: 13 Nov 1830, Mason Co. Kentucky
DEATH: 1845, Mason Co. Kentucky
BURIAL: Maysville Cem., Section H, Lot 139
Father: Thomas Washington NELSON
Mother: Frances "Fannie" DONIPHAN
She was married to John Moreau STOCKTON on 24 Jan 1853. John Moreau STOCKTON was born on 12 Jun 1828. He died in 1889. Children: i. Laura Anderson STOCKTON (born on 21 Oct 1853).
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ANNE PARR
ABT 1510 - 20 Feb 1551
DEATH: 20 Feb 1551
Father: THOMAS PARR of Kendall
Family 1 : WILLIAM HERBERT 1st Earl Of Pembroke, K.G
HENRY HERBERT 2nd Earl of Pembroke
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James POWERS
15 May 1809 - ____
RESIDENCE: E. Feliciana Parish, LA
RESOURCES: See: [S482] [S1009]
Father: Mark POWERS
Mother: Nancy Ann
James Powers was born 15th May 1809.
_John E. POWERS _____|
_Mark POWERS ________|
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Josiah TURPIN
RESIDENCE: of Amherst Co. VA
Father: (QUERY RESEARCH) TURPIN
Family 1 : Frances BURTON
Callowhill TURPIN
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Samuel L. WEAVER
1779 - 1 Dec 1850
RESIDENCE: Manakintowne, VA and Coweta Co. GA
BIRTH: 1779, Manikintowne, Goochland, Va
DEATH: 1 Dec 1850, Coweta Co, GA.
Father: David WEAVER
Mother: Masinbird SHOEMAKER
Family 1 : Mary PATMAN
MARRIAGE: 4 Dec 1800, Oglethorpe Co, GA.
Nancy WEAVER
Sara W. WEAVER
Elizabeth B. WEAVER
+Seaborn Jackson WEAVER Sr.
+Andrew Baker WEAVER
Susan B. WEAVER
Mary Massingbird WEAVER
+William Watson WEAVER
John WEAVER
Samuel WEAVER Jr.
"Coweta, GA 1850 5,000; Grew up in Oglethorpe, GA, married and lived on Cloud Creek later moved to the part of Baldwin that became Putnam. Will dated 17 Oct 1846 and recorded on 15 Mar 1851, Coweta Co., GA Will Book "B", page 41 (Roll 168-56). The will named the children in the order they are listed in this PAF file."
--Sources
Birth: Margaret R. Main, PO Box 2232, Onalaska, TX 77360.
Death: Margaret R. Main, PO Box 2232, Onalaska, TX 77360.
_Samuel II WEAVER ___________________+
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|--Samuel L. WEAVER
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Mary Catherine WELCH
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Richard Frank "Dick" Gamble - Born November 16, 1928 in Moncton, New Brunswick – Died March 22, 2018 in Rochester, New York was a Canadian professional ice Hockey left winger.
Gamble played his first junior Hockey for the Moncton Bruins in the New Brunswick Junior Hockey League, helping Moncton win the New Brunswick championship and the Maritimes junior championship in 1945.
Gamble played another season in the Maritimes before joining the Oshawa Generals on the recommendation of Eddie Drillon, who was also from Moncton. Gamble played in Oshawa for 3 seasons, improving each year with his scoring - 15 goals, 31 goals and 39 goals.
The Toronto Maple Leafs, who held his NHL rights, felt he was too small to be of use. Instead, Punch Imlach brought Gamble to the Quebec Aces for the start of the 1949-50 season, scoring 20 goals, 25 assists. The next season, Gamble scored a amazing 46 goals, 34 assists in 58 games, and 10 goals, 8 assists in the playoffs, as the Aces finished second in the league. Gamble was also a First Team All-Star in 1951.
Montreal Canadiens Dick Irvin, Sr. took notice and signed Gamble as a free agent on September 24, 1951. Gamble responded by scoring 23 goals, 17 assists in 64 games. The stellar performance was overshadowed by three other superb rookies Montreal added that season in Dollard St. Laurent, Dickie Moore and Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, who won the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie.
The following season the Canadiens finished in second place in the regular season. They eliminated the fourth-place Chicago Black Hawks in a seven-game semi-final series with Gamble scoring the game-winning goal in a 4-3 comeback in Game 2. Despite his heroics, the left winger was benched by coach Dick Irvin Sr. in the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins, who were defeated in five games, earning Gamble a place on the 1953 Stanley Cup despite having watched the victory in street clothes. Gamble also played in the 1953 NHL All-Star Game.
Gamble split the next season between the Canadiens and the Quebec Hockey League Montreal Royals.
Gamble was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks by for Bill Shevtz and cash with Montreal holding right of recall, October 9, 1954, where Gamble played just 14 games for the Black Hawks before he was returned to Montreal by Chicago, November 23, 1954, and finished the season with the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League / AHL. Gamble played very well in Buffalo, scoring 38 goals, 21 assists, and 4 goals, 4 assists in the playoffs, as the Bisons made it to the Calder Cup championship finals, losing in 6 games.
Gamble started to the 1955-56 season with the Canadiens, but after 12 games, was sent to the Quebec Aces, where he scored 23 goals, 24 assists during the season. Gamble had a strong 1956-57 season with the Aces, scoring 35 goals, 14 assists in the regular season, then scored 4 goals, 4 assists in the playoffs, as the Aces won the 1957 Thomas O'Connell Memorial Trophy as champions of the Quebec Hockey League. The Aces then went and challenged for the Edinburgh Trophy versus the Western Hockey League champions. Gamble scored 3 goals, 2 assists, as the Aces defeated the Brandon Regals for the 1957 Edinburgh Trophy championship in 6 games.
Gamble was then traded to the AHL Buffalo by Montreal for cash, July, 1957, where he played for the next 4 seasons. Gamble helped the Bisons reach the 1959 Calder Cup finals. Gamble was also on the 1961 AHL First All-Star Team.
Gamble was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs by Buffalo for Dave Creighton, July, 1961, and would play for their affiliate, the Rochester Americans for the next 8 seasons.
Gamble would become a legend in Rochester, and would record seasons of 39, 35, 34, 48, 47 and 46 goals for the Americans. The prolific and durable scorer, who rarely missed a game, won the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as AHL leading scorer with 47 goals and 98 points in 71 games in the 1965-66 season, also earning honours as the league’s most valuable player, winning the 1966 Les Cunningham Award, and being named to the 1966 AHL First All-Star Team.
Rochester would win the Calder Cup championship in 1965, 1966 and 1968, while also making it to the 1967 final. They are the only team in AHL history to appear in the Calder Cup finals in four consecutive seasons. Gamble would be a big part of these teams.
Gamble became the playing coach of the Americans, and after scoring just one goal in eight games to start the 1969-70 season, hung up his skates to coach full time. Gamble added the General Manager position to his duties, but was fired from the club in 1971.
Gamble's 892 points in 898 AHL games remains the fifth-best in league history.
Dick Gamble was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame at Fredericton in 1984.
His name was added to the Moncton Wall of Fame in 1986.
Dick Gamble was inducted into the Rochester Americans Hall of Fame in 1986.
Dick Gamble was inducted into the American Hockey League Hall of Fame in 2007.
The Rochester Americans retired his jersey No. 9 in 1999.
Michael McKinley’s 2006 book Hockey: A People’s History revealed that Dick Gamble was the model for the 1950s Eagle Toys table top Hockey player in the Forward and defencemen position. They just changed his hair color for different teams.
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Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham Hotspur Journey Comes To An End, Club Sacks The Argentine
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Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed the sacking of manager Mauricio Pochettino after a poor start to the season that leaves them 14th in the Premier League
Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed they have parted ways with manager Mauricio Pochettino after a less than impressive start to the new Premier League season. The Argentine was in charge of the Premier League club for five years during which he led the club to a UEFA Champions League final and a league cup final.
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) November 19, 2019
Tottenham's poor start to the season under Mauricio Pochettino
Tottenham Hotspur have made a disappointing start to the current Premier League campaign and are currently 14th in the Premier League, 11 points behind fourth-placed Manchester City. Mauricio Pochettino's side failed to build on the promise of recent seasons this term. Along with their disappointing league form, they were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by League Two side Colchester United and hammered 7-2 at home by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Mauricio Pochettino sacked by Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur have finally reacted by relieving Mauricio Poichettino and his coaching staff of their duties. The Argentine's assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d'Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club. According to the statement released by the club, the decision made by the club was to re-energise the club to improve the situation as soon as possible. Tottenham Hotspur said in the statement that they would provide an update on new coaching staff "in due course".
Spurs under Mauricio Pochettino
I can’t thank this man enough. He’s taught me so much and I’m so grateful for everything he’s done for me. Good luck and hope to see you again my friend. pic.twitter.com/dUO6AJlMxR
— Dele (@dele_official) November 19, 2019
Mauricio Pochettino joined the club in 2014 and guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season. He also led the club to two third-placed finishes and a runners-up spot in the Premier League. Last season, he led Spurs to a runners-up finish in Champions League and a fourth-place in the league although they did only manage to win three of their final 12 league games.
Since taking over the club, Mauricio Pocchettino has transformed the club into genuine title contenders. He forged a strong core at the club with the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Heung-min Son and others. And despite unable to lead the club to a winners' medal, his time at the club will be fondly remembered by fans as Spurs look to move in a new direction.
Mauricio Pochettino gone, Jose Mourinho in?
The Tottenham board did state that an imminent change in coaching staff will be made and according to reports in the UK, Jose Mourinho is at the top of the club's wish list to take over. Reports state that Jose Mourinho is expected to speak with Spurs chairman Daniel Levy on Wednesday, November 20, with the former Manchester United and Chelsea boss feeling confident the two sides will reach an agreement.
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Hamilton Township School District » About Us » Board of Education » Superintendent » District Message
HAMILTON TWP (01-1940)
The Hamilton Township School District is a pre-kindergarten to grade eight district serving over 3,200 students. The district is comprised of three schools: The Joseph C. Shaner Primary School housing preschool, kindergarten and grade one, the George L. Hess Educational Complex housing preschool and grades two through five, and the William Davies Middle School housing grades six, seven, and eight. The district currently offers a full day four-year-old and three-year old preschool program for eligible students, a half-day four-year old program for registered students, and a full day kindergarten program for all Hamilton Township students.
The Hamilton Township School District strives to empower all students to develop the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to find success in college and career. The Hamilton Township School District shares one vision: “…committed to learning, growing, and achieving together.” The spirit of this statement is reflected and reinforced in each building’s mission statement and in all district initiatives.
Students in the Hamilton Township School District receive a thorough and comprehensive educational program including daily instruction in English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health and physical education. Additionally, our students receive extensive exposure to the related arts areas of music, art, library, technology and world language.
Hamilton Township implements board-approved curricula that is aligned with the State Board of Education’s adopted Curriculums. District curriculum in all subject areas is fluid and is formally reviewed in a five year program cycle.
The school district curriculum has been developed using the “Instructional Design Process.” This is a standards-based, comprehensive method that has fully redesigned the teaching/learning process in each school building throughout the district. It was developed by the teachers and administrators of the district to reflect the learning culture and academic needs of the community and to establish student performance expectations that adhere to national and state curriculum standards. This type of curriculum is fluid in nature and is therefore reviewed annually by the teachers and administration to ensure its effectiveness.
The curricular impact in each of the content areas is evaluated by analyzing individual student progress intermittently through benchmark assessments, performance indicators, and teacher observation to ensure that every student in our district meets with success.
The Hamilton Township School District plans five full day and four to five half-day teacher in-services or professional development days each year. Important educational initiatives, as well as teaching practices and programs form the framework for these valuable days. As indicated in our district’s professional development plan, extensive training for all school staff in the areas of English language arts, writing, and mathematics is provided. In addition to this, workshops are conducted in the district for meeting the needs of our English Language Learners and special education students, as well as for the specialized areas of related arts. Our staff receives training through presentations and workshops conducted by in-house staff and by consultants from various universities that have been recognized as educational leaders and specialists. The Hamilton Township School District takes pride in the high level of expertise our educators have as a result of this extensive professional development program.
All students are assessed using the following:
Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark for reading levels of elementary students
Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt Reading Inventory for Lexile Levels of middle school students
GO Math benchmarks for math of elementary students Houghton-Mifflin- Harcourt Math Inventory for Quantile Levels of middle school students
PARCC for students in grades three through eight (or DLM for select students)
NJASK Science for students in grades 4 and 8 (or APA for select students)
District Common Performance Indicators/Assessments
Teacher Assessments
Student performance results on these assessments are carefully and thoroughly disaggregated and analyzed with results used to assess program effectiveness.
The school district is the heart of Hamilton Township. In addition to numerous activities which invite our parents to become involved in the education of their children, our school buildings are used for community education, community swimming, athletic events, and musical productions. Summer school reading program for kindergarten and grade one, summer camp, after school childcare program, and an extensive array of before and after school clubs all help to make our school buildings the center of activity in our community.
The philosophy of the Hamilton Township School District is that “All Children Can Learn.” We take pride in our ability to provide the best educational experience for every child, every day, in our increasingly diverse population. We hold high expectations for all of our students as we prepare them to meet with success on a daily basis and to become lifelong learners who are college and career ready.
Frank Vogel, Superintendent
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Atopic Dermatitis: Nerological or Immune Problem?
New evidence supports the patient-reported sensation that «eczema is the itch that rashes,» Yosipovitch told Medscape Medical News.
The research, published in Nature and presented during the President’s Symposium at the 28th European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress in Madrid, shows that neurons serving the skin directly interact with mast cells to trigger the massive histamine release associated with atopic dermatitis inflammation.
These new findings confirm a direct role for the nervous system, which is responsible for the itchiness and was already implicated in the inflammation.
«We, as a profession, have this thinking that eczema is an immune condition, and we forget that the immune system works with nerves,» Yosipovitch explained. «Ten years ago, you wouldn’t accept it because there weren’t any data.»
«Eczema Is the Itch That Rashes»
Atopic dermatitis, a form of eczema, is far more than just itching skin. The condition cycles through flares and remissions and can take over the entire body, leading to discomfort and inflammation. In fact, the root of «eczema» is a Greek word for boiling, which is an apt description of the burning inflammation and itching people experience.
Eczema affects about one in five children, some of whom show signs of it shortly after birth. Genetic variants can increase susceptibility.
For newborns at high risk for eczema, the pre-emptive application of petroleum jelly might delay onset or limit escalation, one study suggests. However, studies on the use of cream emollients and oil baths have yielded disappointing results, as reported by Medscape Medical News.
The investigators used dust mite antigens from the skin of reactive patients to induce a reaction in mice.
The condition is so similar in mice and humans that it is difficult to distinguish samples from one another at the microscopic level, presenter Nicolas Gaudenzio, PhD, an immunologist at INSERM in Toulouse, France, told Medscape Medical News.
For their study, Gaudenzio and his colleagues used several mouse models to show that sensory neurons and immune cells work together to detect allergens related to the common dust mite.
The team pursued this research question because levels of neuropeptides — signaling molecules produced by sensory neurons called nociceptors — are elevated in people with atopic dermatitis, as are markers for mast cells.
To examine the association between neurons and mast cells, the researchers exposed mice to dust mite allergens and monitored their skin. They found that nociceptors, which transmit pain and itch messages, and mast cells do not chat with each other from a distance. Instead, they cluster together and make physical contact, with the mast cells gathering around the nociceptors like bees around a hive.
We don’t really know why some people are reacting and others are not.
Although these neuron–mast cell units seem to be part of normal immune defense, not everyone reacts to ubiquitous dust mite allergens. In some people, «they can literally fire up the nerve fibers,» he pointed out, «but we don’t really know why some people are reacting and others are not. That’s a black box.»
Nociceptors and mast cells occur in other tissues that show an allergic response, the researchers explain, including the lungs, upper airways, and gut.
After his presentation, audience questions to Gaudenzio homed in on the same subject: Does this discovery mean new therapeutic possibilities for this sometimes-intractable condition?
That is not clear, Gaudenzio said, but the next steps will be to block the interaction between the sensory neuron and the mast cells to see if doing so forestalls the cascade of events that leads to the inflammation.
28th European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress. Presented October 12, 2019.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/920715
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Home Breaking News India Over 4 lakh children in the CCIs remain at high risks, says...
Over 4 lakh children in the CCIs remain at high risks, says NCAT
NEW DELHI: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its report released on Tuesday, “Torture & Sexual Abuse of Children in India”, released on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, stated that about 96 children are tortured and sexually assaulted everyday in India while over 4 lakh children residing in the Child Care Institutions (CCIs), the dens of torture and sexual abuses, remain at high risks.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its Crime in India-2017 recorded torture of 4,857 children and sexual assault of 30,123 children during the year i.e. a total of 34,980 victims or about 96 children being victimised every day.
TORTURE OF CHILRDREN: Madhya Pradesh tops the list followed by Assam
“That the NCRB for the first time reported cases of torture of children including by the police under Section 330 and 331 of the Indian Penal Code in its ‘Crime in India-2017’ is welcome.” – stated Suhas Chakma, Coordinator of the NCAT.
In 2017, the highest number of cases of torture of children was reported from Madhya Pradesh (1,638 victims) followed by Assam (1,127 victims), Maharashtra (377 victims), Chhattisgarh (370 victims), Uttar Pradesh (244 victims), West Bengal (247 victims), Tamil Nadu (179 victims), Kerala (178 victims), Delhi (97 victims) and Andhra Pradesh (120 victims), among others.
“Though Section 10(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 [JJ Act, 2015] specifically states that in no case, a child alleged to be in conflict with law shall be placed in a police lockup or lodged in a jail, in reality children are still detained in the police lock ups regularly and tortured to extract confessions. The cases of custodial death of a 17-year-old minor boy in the custody of the Government Railway Police, Wadala in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 13 April 2019 and 17- year-old son of Brijendra Singh Rana at the Sidcul police station in Rudrapur city in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand on 11 July 2019 show rampant use of torture against children.” – further stated Mr Chakma.
Many States and Union Territories have failed to set up adequate number of Observation Homes to house the juveniles during trial by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and detention of children in police lock ups is a common practice. There are 718 districts in India, but as per the latest data available, as on 3 August 2018, India had only 301 Observation Homes, 31 Special Homes, 21 Observation Cum Special Homes, and 9 Place of Safety. It implies that 396 districts did not have Observation Homes, 666 districts did not have Special Homes and 709 districts did not have Place of Safety to house the juveniles in conflict with law and consequently, the juveniles remain at risks at the hands of the police.
Citing the case of Arunachal Pradesh, the NCAT stated, “The Central government had provided Rs 116.99 lakhs during 2014-15 and Rs 253.49 lakhs during 2015-16 to Arunachal Pradesh Government for construction of two Observation & Special Homes. But the state government of Arunachal Pradesh has constructed only one Observation cum Special Home as on date meant to house juveniles from 25 districts. There is no separation between prisons and police stations in the State as most districts do not have any jail and there is only one Observation Cum Special Home for the entire state. In the absence of Observation Home, juveniles are invariably kept in police lock ups or prisons.”
SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CHILRDREN:
About 4 lakh children residing in the Child Care Institutions remain at high risks of torture and sexual assault. Though the JJ Act, 2015 requires mandatory registration of the CCIs and the Supreme Court in its order on 5th May 2017 directed to ensure registration of all the CCIs or close down those institutions which decline to register, the Government of India does not have the real time data on the CCIs. On 11 July 2019, the Ministry of Women and Child Development informed the Rajya Sabha that there were 7,909 CCIs in the country registered under the JJ Act but it had data of children staying only on 2,089 CCIs and no data on 5,820 CCIs, exposing serious protection gaps for children.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) had registered 62 complaints against torture and sexual exploitation of children in the CCIs from 2014-15 to 2018-19. But these cases are only the tip of the iceberg.
Time and again the investigation reports of the NGOs, the NCPCR and academic institutions about the lack of minimum standard of care and incidents of torture, sexual exploitation, sex trade, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment have been regularly brushed aside under the carpet by the authorities.
The Bihar government commissioned the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to conduct a social audit of the CCIs and the TISS exposed massive scale of inhuman torture and sexual abuse of the residents particularly girls in the shelter homes. However, little actions were taken until the Muzzafarpur shelter home case shocked the conscience of the nation as medical reports confirmed sexual assault of 34 out of 44 minor girls and revelation by the police that the girls, aged between 7 and 18 years, had been repeatedly raped, tortured, cut, beaten and locked up at this Girls’ Children Home at Muzzafarpur.
“There are far too many Muzzafarpur type shelter homes in the country. The NCPCR had registered 203 complaints of inmates fleeing from the CCIs to escape alleged physical torture, sexual assaults and unhygienic conditions during 2014-15 to 2017-18. There is obviously a need to send a clear message against such grave violations but to a large extent, it depends on the final prosecution in all the 17 shelter homes in Bihar named in the TISS report which are being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation under the direction of the Supreme Court.” – also stated Mr Chakma.
INDIA URGED TO RATIFY AMEND JJ ACT, 2015 TO PROHIBIT TORTURE:
The JJ Act of 2015 does not use the term torture while the torture of children including by the police is routine across India and the data is being currently being recorded by the NCRB.
The NCAT urged the Government of India to amend the JJ Act, 2015 to prohibit torture of children as defined under Article 1 of the UN Convention against Torture (UNCAT), ratify the UNCAT and bring a stand-alone national law against torture.
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Export success for the Mercedes Benz eCitaro with fully electric drive
After many orders from German transport companies, Mercedes-Benz is now delivering the first export orders for the eCitaro.
Ulrich Bastert, Head of Marketing, Sales and Customer Services at Daimler Buses said: “The orders from well-known companies from Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden show the wide range of variants of the eCitaro available. It can be adapted to a wide range of different requirements.”
The basic version of the 20 eCitaro models from the three orders varies greatly. What the buses have in common, however, is the high-quality equipment and double glazing, the electrically operated pivot-and-slide doors, comfortable Inter Star Eco seating for intercity operations and USB sockets for charging mobile devices.
Voyages Emile Weber has chosen nine two-door eCitaro buses. These are equipped with the maximum number of twelve high-voltage battery packs delivering a total capacity of 292 kWh. Besides the extensive equipment, the colour concept of the passenger compartment is also very striking. From the upholstery of the seats to the grab bars or the side-wall panelling in needle felt: everything is in red. The floor covering has a homely wooden look. Something else which is especially distinctive: all of the seats in the front section are on raised platforms and all feature two-point seat belts. Voyages Emile Weber has over 600 vehicles, ranging from minibuses to luxury coaches, of which numerous buses from Mercedes-Benz.
Norgesbuss, a group with a total of more than 700 buses, is one of Norway’s leading bus operators. The company has ordered six eCitaro buses which will be operating in the capital, Oslo. Ten high-voltage battery packs with a capacity of 243 kWh provide the electricity for the three-door buses. There are also pantographs on the roof for intermediary charging to extend the vehicle’s range. In Scandinavia, an alcohol tester in the driver’s area is part of the equipment. For operation during winter, the floor areas near to the entrances are heated.
Bergkvarabuss is the pioneer for the eCitaro in Sweden. In the town of Ystad on the south coast, five eCitaro buses are going into operation. The two-door rigid buses are equipped with the full complement of twelve high-voltage battery packs with a total capacity of 292 kWh. The extensive safety and interior equipment of the vehicles includes an alcohol tester for the driver, folding ramps for both doors, a passenger compartment signal system with visual and tactile response, ambient lighting and upholstered single seats with high backrests and leather headrests. With over 1000 buses, Bergkvarabuss is one of the largest bus companies in Europe.
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An-Nahl (The Bee)
The name, An-Nahl, of this Surah has been taken from v. 68. This is merely to distinguish it from other Surahs.
The following internal evidence shows that this Surah was revealed during the last Makkan stage of Prophethood:
v. 41 clearly shows that persecution had forced some Muslims to emigrate to Habash before the revelation of this Surah.
It is evident from v. 106 that at that time the persecution of the Muslims was at its height. Therefore a problem had arisen in regard to the utterance of a blasphemous word, without actual disbelief, under unbearable conditions. The problem was that if one did so how he should be treated.
vv. 112-114 clearly refer to the end of the seven-year famine that had struck Makkah some years after the appointment of the Holy Prophet as Allah's Messenger.
There is a reference to v. 116 of this Surah in v. 145, and v. 118 of this Surah contains a reference to 6:146. This is a proof that both these Surahs (6 and 16) were sent down in the same period. The general style of the Surah also supports the view that this was revealed during the last stage at Makkah.
Central Theme
All the topics of the Surah revolve round different aspects of the Message, i.e., refutation of shirk, proof of Tauhid, and warning of the consequences of the rejection of and opposition and antagonism to the Message.
Topics of Discussion
The very first verse gives direct and strict warning to those who were rejecting the Message outright, as if to say, "Allah's decision has already been made concerning your rejection of the Message. Why are you then clamouring for hastening it? Why don't you make use of the respite that is being given to you!" And this was exactly what the disbelievers of Makkah needed at the time of the revelation of this Surah. For they challenged the Holy Prophet over and over again: "Why don't you bring that scourge with which you have been threatening us! For we have not only rejected your Message but have been openly opposing it for a long time." Such a challenge had become a by-word with them, which they frequently repeated as a clear proof that Muhammad (Allah's peace be upon him) was not a true Prophet.
Immediately after this warning they have been admonished to give up shirk, for this false creed was the main obstacle in the way of the Message. Then the following topics come over and over again, one after the other:
Very convincing proofs of Tauhid and refutation of shirk have been based on the plain signs in the universe and in man's own self.
The objections of the disbelievers have been answered, their arguments refuted, their doubts removed and their false pretexts exposed.
Warnings have given of the consequences of persistence in false ways and antagonism to the Message.
The moral changes which the Message of the Holy Prophet aims to bring practically in human life have been presented briefly in an appealing manner. The mushriks have been told that belief in Allah, which they also professed, demanded that it should not be confined merely to lip service, but this creed should take a definite shape in moral and practical life.
The Holy Prophet and his companions have been comforted and told about the attitude they should adopt in the face of antagonism and persecution by the disbelievers.
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Posted on October 9, 2015 - News
A sleek archive room showcasing the history of Kleinhans Music Hall and the couple responsible for the hall opened Thursday in what was once two adjoining storage rooms crammed with boxes of papers.
The walls of the archive room are covered with nine large panels reflecting themes ranging from the acoustics at the music hall to Edward and Mary Seaton Kleinhans, the couple whose estates paid to build the hall in 1940.
One of two glass cases contains a register, dating back to the music hall’s opening, signed by visiting performers and special guests.
“It’s an amazing who’s who of music when you look at the signatures that are here,” mused Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, president and CEO of Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
She pointed out the large scrawl of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the Russian composer, pianist and conductor who performed at Kleinhans in November 1940.
One glass case contains an album of circa 1930 photographs of the changing fashion tableaux in the Kleinhans clothing store, which went out of business in 1992.
Several donors contributed a total of $13,000 to buy the album during an auction last December at a New York City gallery.
The archives room on the second floor opened Thursday just days before Kleinhans celebrates its 75th anniversary on Monday, one of several projects undertaken. New carpeting and new seats also were part of the improvements.
“I think, for me, this is the most fantastic moment of the summer renovations,” executive director Dan Hart said at the ribbon-cutting for the archive room. “For so many years, this material has been in a dark room, surrounded by 5 feet of garbage.”
A wall separating the two rooms was taken down and both spaces were gutted, according to Hart. The ceiling and walls were redone, and carpeting and lighting installed.
The project was paid for by a $75,000 grant by Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, which was bequeathed by the Kleinhans estates. The couple made their fortune from the former clothing store bearing their name.
The couple, who shared a love for music and the arts, died within three months of each other in 1934 and left a will that expressed their wishes to build a music hall for the enjoyment and benefit of the people of Western New York.
With so much history to preserve, the foundation grant was made “to showcase the story of Buffalo,” said Dedecker, the foundation’s president and chief executive officer.
“This place is the history of this community in so many ways,” Dedecker said.
Beyond the musical performances in the hall, Dedecker also mentioned the graduation ceremonies, recitals and weddings that have occurred under its roof.
Hart credited archivist Lauren Becker with making sense of the historical materials, including original plans and photographs of the models for the facility that have been framed and hung in the archives room. “Lauren is the person who really came up with the final vision,” he said.
The archive room will be open during concerts and by appointment; there’s no admission charge.
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DeGruyter, Peter Lang, Vervuert and Knowledge Unlatched cooperate for Open Access in Romance Studies
Press Release in German
Berlin/Bern, 02.10.2018. Together with the international publishers Peter Lang, DeGruyter and Vervuert, Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is forming a collection of books in Romance studies. KU will collect funding from libraries all over the world to make 36 titles which are to be published between 2019 and 2021 available as Open Access. Publication will be overseen by a prestigious editorial board.
KU’s Romance Studies package, which is now open for pledging by libraries, is the first cross-publisher initiative in the field of Romance Studies. Libraries will help to finance the publication of 12 new titles a year which will be published as gold Open Access, alongside 12 backlist titles which will be made available Open Access free of charge.
About Knowledge Unlatched (KU): Knowledge Unlatched (KU) offers free access to scholarly content for every reader across the world. Our online platform provides libraries worldwide with a central place to support Open Access models from leading publishing houses and new OA initiatives.
Knowledge Unlatched:
Philipp Hess
philipp@knowledgeunlatched.org
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Marcelo Schamy
After finishing his studies at the University of Belgrano and beginning his career as a businessman and entrepeneur in the city of Bs. As (Argentina), he decided in 1989 to expand horizons in the United States for a few years after finally establishing his position as a business partner. of the electronics industry (OSMAR ELECTRONICS and Electroland).
Going through other economic activities such as the opening of the first Ricky Sarkany in the USA, he finally ventured into the world of real estate investments after the fall of the market in 2008 and taking advantage of the unique opportunities that were presented.
From that moment he specialized in what is called tangible investments, that is, in physical assets, outside of what were the first line developments points to what really has good economic results.
After the Bankruptcy declaration of Detroit in 2013, Schamy does not hesitate to get involved to apply the already known business models, and it is very easy to project the positive results.
Today, in partnership with John Schamy and Jack Etcherling, they form a strong work team that leads the purchase, refurbishment and sale of units in Detroit, especially in combination with investors from South America who also saw the opportunity from the beginning.
Contact Marcelo
John Schamy
Graduated from the University of Florida
in 2014 with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate Development.
In his first 12 months working in the local Miami market, he has sold more than $ 5,000,000 in investments and continues to grow his client's portfolio looking for the highest possible profits.
In 2015 he founded J & E Asset Management, which currently manages investments worth more than $15,000,000 in Miami, Fl. As one of the founders of IDG HOMES LLC he has sold more than 50 properties in the first quarter of 2016.
John is growing to become one of Miami's youngest players in the real estate investment world and he is doing so through his successful track record.
Jack Echterling
After graduating from Florida State University, Jack began his real estate career with one of the largest real estate investment companies in the country. He won sales accolades and closed more than $ 7,000,000 in sales in his first 18 months. After the financial collapse in 2008, Jack left the brokerage house and started his first investment company at the age of 27 years.
Jack and his partners acquired more than 34 properties in South FL between 2009-2011.
At the end of 2010, Jack started his second investment company, JWE Equity, to acquire, renovate and sell single-family homes and condominiums. Together with its affiliated companies, it has purchased and resold more than 100 properties for a total of more than $ 36,000,000 in sales.
Today Jack sits on the Buyers Advisory Board of the nation's largest auction house and his properties have appeared in numerous publications including Modern Luxury Magazine. Jack is considered "The" expert in South Florida in the purchase of distressed residential real estate from
$300,000 - $2,000,000 +. The country's largest auction house also included Jack as "Changing the face of real estate." IDG HOMES is Jack's third company that serves both domestic and foreign investors. "This opportunity reminds me of South Florida in 2009 but on steroids". Jack feels so confident about the opportunity in southeastern Michigan that he has moved part-time to suburban Detroit from his home in Miami. He has consistently acquired characteristics 30-50% below current market prices that allows IDG HOMES to rehabilitate, rent and sell these assets to its investors at similar prices. Banks are selling their foreclosures in a distressed state.
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New equality tool for mergers
Is the institute where you work going to be restructured or will the entire university college be merged with another institution? The KIF Committee has now prepared a guide with advice on how you can work with gender and diversity during restructuring processes.
“Diversity efforts must be customized”
Specific advice on how to increase diversity in academia is now being developed – but there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution.
On a mission to solve the Nordic gender paradox
Two new research centres will try to find the solution to the gender imbalance in Nordic academia.
“Don’t look for discrimination – you won’t find it”
Vague, subjective assessments and stereotypes that we don’t even know we have can negatively impact the hiring process. The good news is that there are measures to counteract this.
New demands on managers
Candidates for NTNU’s management positions must now document that they have competency in gender equality. But what kind of competency are we really talking about?
The KIF Committee: Watchdog and help centre
All research institutions that work with gender balance and diversity should be familiar with the KIF Committee.
Refugees overcome huge obstacles to get a higher education
But poorly adapted Norwegian language instruction ruins the chances for refugees who are motivated to get a higher education, according to Juhar Yasin Abamosa.
Disappointed about NTNU’s lack of gender perspectives
Perspectives on gender and diversity are not addressed at all in NIFU’s evaluation of the extensive changes at NTNU.
Rectors do not want gender equality put on hold
Norwegian universities and university colleges are undergoing an extensive merger process. “In major processes like these, there are often matters that are more urgent than gender equality. That being said, gender equality should still be high on the agenda,” says the pro-rector of Norway’s largest university.
New law would weaken gender equality efforts
The Norwegian Government has recommended consolidating the Gender Equality Act and three anti-discrimination laws into a joint anti-discrimination act. According to the KIF Committee, there are several reasons why this is not an ideal proposal.
Have we already achieved gender balance?
The foundation has already been laid for gender balance at the senior level of academia, according to an associate professor of finance. However, critics say it’s risky to sit back and wait for gender balance to happen on its own.
Immigrants want to be included, but aren’t
People with an immigrant background are more motivated to conduct research and pursue a doctoral degree than those without an immigrant background. However, according to a new report, there is no advantage to being an immigrant in academia.
Two thoughts at once - pilot project on both gender equality and gender perspectives
While the idea to establish a gender equality network within the European Research Area (ERA) emerged back in 2004, GENDER-NET was finally launched in 2013 as the first ERA-NET on the topic of gender equality and the gender dimension in research.
Is it time for male quotas in the health sciences?
There is no lack of good arguments for gender balance and diversity in the health sciences.
State Secretary praises the new Diversity Report
The Diversity Report has finally been launched, and the Ministry of Education and Research is pleased with the result.
Sceptical about a joint anti-discrimination act
The proposal to create a joint anti-discrimination law will weaken the employer’s reporting duty, and thereby weaken all efforts to promote gender equality. This is the view of both the Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombudsman and the Vice Chair of the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research.
Do female professors mean more gender perspectives in research?
Not necessarily, according to researchers. More women than men do research on gender, but all female researchers are not concerned with gender.
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Katy Perry Testifies In Court After Christian Rapper Accuses Singer Of Stealing Hip-hop Praise Beat
Pop star Katy Perry took the stand Thursday in a California court after being accused of copyright infringement by Rapper Flame and the co-creators of his Christian rap song.
The Christian rappers had filed a lawsuit over Perry's single “Dark Horse” featuring Juicy J, which became a certified hit when it was released in 2013. They claim Perry's song copied the beat from their 2008 song "Joyful Noise" featuring Lecrae.
“Defendants never sought or obtained permission from plaintiffs to use the ‘Joyful Noise’ song in creating, reproducing, recording, distributing, selling, or publicly performing defendants’ song,” the complaint states. “Plaintiffs never gave any of the defendants permission, consent, or a license to use ‘Joyful Noise’ for any purpose, including creation of a derivative work based on ‘Joyful Noise.'”
On Thursday, Perry testified for 35 minutes in civil court. Prior to the lawsuit, she said she had never heard "Joyful Noise" or the artist involved, CBS reported.
However, she stated how co-creators Dr. Luke and Cirkut had brought her that beat.
On day one of the two-week trial, Emmanuel Lambert Jr., popularly known in the Christian hip-hop scene as Da Truth, also took the stand. As one of the writers of "Joyful Noise," he revealed that the song was a big success in the Christian music world and could have been heard by the Plaintiff on multiple streaming platforms online.
Todd Decker, a musicologist, broke down the underlying beat in both songs on Friday. While Perry's attorneys argue that the musical pattern is too short and common to be copyright protected, Decker testified that the ostinatos (short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition) share “five or six points of similarity,” including pitch, rhythm, texture, pattern of repetition, melodic shape and timbre, or “the quality and color of a sound," as reported by Billboard.
After studying the two songs, Decker concluded that Perry "borrowed" the underlying beat from "Joyful Noise."
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Honoring Our Heroes: John Fenech
Monday, October 28, 2019 8:22 AM EDT
John Fenech, of Shoreham, fulfilled his childhood dream of serving his country by joining the Coast Guard in 1984.
One of Fenech's most notable missions was the search and recovery effort after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
All seven crew members were killed when the spacecraft broke apart and disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 28, 1986.
Fenech and fellow crew members aboard the Cutter Dallas were dispatched to search and recover the debris for NASA.
For their service during the operation, the Dallas received the Coast Guard's Meritorious Unit Commendation.
Today, Fenech serves on the board of Something Magic Foundation, which grants wishes to children suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
Fenech is also a member of the Patriot Guard Riders. The group's mission is to attend the funeral services of fallen heroes as a show of respect to their families.
“Their loved ones signed up with a sense of service and yeah, we all know this could happen but when it does happen you really have to be there to support them because you owe this to them. We owe this to them,” said Fenech.
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The true situation of the Catholic Church in Lithuania; the attempts to involve Church leaders, the clergy, and the faithful in the atheistic cause
On August 12, 1972, in the newspaper Sovietskaja Litva [Soviet Lithuania] appeared an article by Rimaitis entitled "Bažnytininkai prisitaiko" [Churchmen adapt]. It stated that in the struggle against religion "irreparable harm can be caused by various administrative attacks or affronts to the sensibilities of believers. The use of incorrect methods in the struggle against religion not only fails to destroy the basis of the propagation of the faith, but, on the contrary, leads to a strengthening of religious fanaticism and to secret forms of the cult and of rites, arousing mistrust and discontent among believers and irritating them."
Rimaitis repeated the old atheistic principle which demands an uncompromising struggle against religion. In the event of a strong reaction by the faithful, this principle permits a retreat—allowing the faithful to calm down— then after determining the best means of attack, to strike again.
The reaction of the Lithuanian clergy and the faithful to the restrictions of religious freedom, which began in the summer of 1968, reached its culmination in early 1972. After the arrests of the priests Juozas Zdebskis and Prosperas Bubnys, a flood of written protests from the faithful appeared, describing the persecution of believers. The Soviet authorities ignored these protests by the populace and did not react to them, acting similarly as they had with the protests of the clergy in 1968-1971.
The first of the more significant conflicts between believers and government officials occurred on the day Father Zdebskis was tried, in Kaunas, on Ožeškienė Street. Only the use of force enabled the police to disperse the crowd which had gathered near the courthouse to honor the priest on trial.
Causing especial anxiety to the authorities was the news that signatures were being collected on a memorandum to the Soviet government. Government functionaries were intending to ignore this appeal by the faithful on this occasion as well; however, this memorandum of the Catholics caused one unexpected event after another. The document, signed by 17,000 believers and sent to the General-Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU through Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary-General of the United Na-itons, immediately became known throughout the world. Public opinion hailed the brave action of the faithful and condemned the existent restrictions of human rights in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet authorities decided to remedy the situation, which was becoming more and more complicated, by forcing Monsignor C. Krivaitis, the administrator of the Vilnius Archdiocese, to declare to all foreign countries in April that there is freedom of religion in Lithuania. The faithful of Lithuania learned of this interview with the ELTA News Agency only from foreign radio broadcasts. There have been rumors that what administrator G Krivaitis told the reporters differed somewhat from what was made public.
On April n all officially functioning bishops and ecclesiastical administrators were invited to the Curia of the Kaunas Archdiocese. Compelled by government representatives, they signed a so-called pastoral letter through which the government tried to compromise the organizers of the memorandum and the believers who signed it. Although on April 30 some priests read the above-mentioned letter from the pulpit, whether in modified, shortened, or complete form, nevertheless, the expected results were not forthcoming: some listeners did not understand who was being condemned in the letter, and others were outraged and deeply distressed at the government's attempts to involve our spiritual leadership in actions that would benefit atheism. Soon, news of this shameful act of coercion appeared in the columns of the foreign press.
The security officials who were searching for the organizers of the memorandum and the channels through which accurate information about the Catholic Church in Lithuania reaches the free world, were then taken unawares by the tragic events in May. On the 14th day of that month in the city park of Kaunas, the youth Romas Kalanta immolated himself as a protest against the persecution of freedom in Lithuania. Deeply moved, everyone discussed this tragic protest against coercion, the lack of national rights, and the Soviet government's tyranny toward nationalities. The interrupted funeral turned into a spontaneous demonstration demanding national and religious freedom. The army and police dealt roughly with the demonstrators, but government officials were disturbed— apparently, not only priests desired freedom, but also "their very own," that is the youth brought up communistically from the time they were Little Octobrists. Among those arrested were members of the Young Communist League, who had been born and grew up during the years of Soviet rule.
In the summer of 1972, an ebbing of tension could be felt. Children preparing for their First Communion were set upon by Soviet officials in only a few places: N. Radviliškis and Šunskai. A few priests were punished by administrative measures for failing to banish children from the altar. J. Rugienis, commissioner of the Council for Religious Affairs, almost ceased persecuting the clergy.
No doubt this was a deliberate step taken by the atheists in order to restore tranquility in Lithuania and, at the same time, to repair somewhat their own fallen prestige in world opinion, or perhaps even to convince the world and the Vatican that the disturbances had been stirred up by the tactlessness of one or another official. Thus, all is quiescent at present. Currently the lives of the faithful proceed in a normal fashion.
How does the present situation of the Catholic Church in Lithuania appear to the clergy and the faithful?
Everyone is very concerned that the Soviet government is increasingly trying to strangle the Catholic Church in Lithuania with the hands of the clergy and faithful themselves.
How is this being accomplished?
I. The Church Leadership Is Being Subjugated
to the Interests of the Atheists
Wishing to conceal from the world its treatment of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, and nurturing the hope of deceiving the Vatican in order to obtain there decisions favorable to itself, the Soviet government has more than once forced certain Lithuanian bishops and ecclesiastical administrators to publicize to the world incorrect information. For example, the interview of H.E. Bishop J. La-bukas published by the newspaper L'Humanité; the interview of Monsignor C. Krivaitis, the administrator of the Vilnius Archdiocese, by Jok?bka, the editor of Vilnis, and his 1972 interview with the ELTA News Agency; the interview granted by H.E. Bishop Pletkus for radio transmission to Lithuanians abroad; and others. In these interviews the following has been maintained: that the present state of the Catholic Church in Lithuania is normal, and that the faithful are not being persecuted by the government. It is unclear whether the persons referred to really made such statements because many instances are known of interviews being intentionally distorted, altered, and arbitrarily supplemented.
Knowing that the clergy and the faithful of Lithuania lack the conditions and possibilities for informing the world about the true state of the Church, a most lamentable situation has developed over the years. When the Vatican conferred the title of monsignor on certain priests "loyal" to the Soviet government, thus apparently indicating approval of their behavior, when it nominated as bishops candidates selected by the government, when it remained silent about the distressing situation of believers in Lithuania—then voices began to be heard: "The Vatican has been deceived! The Chekists have penetrated the Roman Curia! We have been betrayed!"
At such a difficult time, all that the Catholics of Lithuania could do was to trust in Divine Providence and search for ways by which the correct information might find its way to the Vatican and the world, namely, that the most disastrous threat for the Catholic Church in Lithuania is not its persecution from without, but the noose being tied by hands within it.
Desiring to weaken the influence of the priests on the believers, the government has more than once forced bishops to restrict the rights of priests. In 1968 H.E. Bishop J. Labukas, compelled by Rugienis, prevented the Rev. S. Tamkevičius, curate of the parish in Prienai, from preaching for several months; in July, 1970, he revoked the power of jurisdiction over the Vilkaviškis Diocese and the Kaunas Archdiocese from the Rev. Br. Antanaitis, pastor of the parish in Alksninė, formerly chancellor of the Panevėžys Diocese, who had been exiled in i960 to the Vilkaviškis Diocese. A circular sent to priests on March 30, 1971, restricted the rights of priests regarding the hearing of confessions and preaching of sermons—priests from one diocese were not allowed to preach sermons or hear confessions in another diocese without the consent of the Curia. This prohibition aroused protests from the clergy, for under conditions of persecution, the rights of priests should be expanded, not restricted. The bishops had to proclaim all these restrictions of clerical rights in their own name while the chief perpetrator—Rugienis, the commissioner of the Council for Religious Affairs—remained in the shadows.
The bishops are allowed to appoint only some of the priests to parishes themselves; Rugienis often specifies which priests are to be transferred, and all that the bishop has to do is to put his signature on the appointments. It is not by accident that the most diligent priests are scattered throughout small and remote parishes, but those who are lax, physically feeble, or have even compromised themselves before the faithful, not infrequently occupy the most important posts of ecclesiastical work.
Rugienis himself suggests to which parish the priests who curry favor with the government or who have fallen into disfavor should be appointed, and without his consent, a bishop may not transfer a priest even in case of necessity. For example, in September, 1972, under compulsion by Rugienis, Bishop Labukas forced the pastor of the parish in Juodaičiai, Father Pesliakas, under threat of suspension to take over the duties of curate in the parish of Vidukle. Whenever a diligent priest improves the state of spiritual matters of a parish and becomes familiarized with the people and the conditions of his work, Rugienis tries to have him transferred and lets the bishop appoint a negligent priest, so that everything in the parish would fall apart again.
Rugienis forbids the bishops to mention that he controls the appointment of many priests. Thus, priests know absolutely nothing about their appointments in advance. They are pushed around like billiard balls in accordance with Rugienis' whims. When people want to find out why a priest is being transferred, Rugienis sends them to the bishop, who gives them to understand that he is powerless to do anything.
Seeing that the bishops are coerced by government officials, sometimes the priests attempt to appeal to Church law: "This transfer is uncanonical; therefore, please do not assign me to a new parish."
Under direct or indirect compulsion, H.E. Bishop Labukas obtained a dispensation from the Holy See on November 19, 1970, enabling him to assign priests without complying with Canon Law. In the opinion of all the priests, this dispensation has made the bishop even more subservient to Rugienis' plans. Previously the bishop could have opposed Rugienis: "I can't transfer a good pastor to a small parish because Church law doesn't allow me to do so," but now the representative of the government can reply to the bishop's objections: "You have the pope's dispensation, so please transfer this priest from the parish."
The bishops were forced to cover up Rugienis' arbitrary interference in clergy appointments with the circular of March 30, 1971, in which was written: "Desiring to improve the ministry of the spiritual needs of the faithful, the Ordinaries have decided to reorganize the system of appointing priests to parishes. It has been decided in the future to assign priests who are young, diligent, and suitable for such duties as pastors where there is much work; whereas the elderly priests who cannot cope with the work will be transferred to smaller parishes, where it will be easier for them to serve as pastors." As one reads the circular, one forms the impression that the Ordinaries in Lithuania act with complete freedom, assigning priests wherever they wish. In practice, however, the matter has been and remains otherwise. Immediately after the publication of this circular, the young and enthusiastic Father P. Dumbliauskas was transferred from the parish in Garliava to the small parish in Šunskai; and the pastor of the parish in Šunskai, the Rev. I. Pilypaitis, born in 1903, was appointed to the Aleksotas Parish in Kaunas.
Bishops are also being forced to interfere with the struggle waged by the clergy and the faithful for freedom of religion in Lithuania. In December, 1970, the Rev. A. Jakubauskas, the curate of the parish in Kėdainiai, was threatened with suspension if he left the boundaries of the parishes in Kėdainiai and Apytalaukis. At that time, the above-mentioned curate had been preparing to solicit signatures on a petition asking that bishops would not be subjugated into participating in the attempts to destroy the Church.
On April ii, 1972, those who had collected signatures and those who had signed demanding freedom of religion in Lithuania were condemned in a "pastoral letter."
The bishops are forced to keep in check the congregations of religious sisters working underground so that they would not "step out of line" and draw upon themselves the government's attention. It is no wonder then that some of them have not fully given their share to the religious life of the nation but have been content to only pray. Meanwhile, like a storm, atheism has been raging and destroying the life of the Church.
In an attempt to prevent the government from subjugating the leadership of the Catholic Church in Lithuania to its interests, the Lithuanian clergy addressed an appeal to the bishops and ecclesiastical administrators of Lithuania in September-October, 1970, in which they indicated which concessions must not be made. This appeal was signed by fifty-nine priests from the Vilkaviškis Diocese and fifty priests from the Vilnius Archdiocese.
II. Involvement of the Clergy in the Atheistic Cause
Priests are forbidden to teach religious truths to children. They have been left only with the right to test them. Since parents are most often incapable of preparing children well for First Communion, many priests, especially in the larger parishes, allow them to receive Communion with little or no preparation. For example, at the Aušros Vartai Shrine in Vilnius children have been receiving their First Communion for some time without even having been taught their prayers properly. They come in droves from Byelorussia, where there are no priests. Their parents are not able to prepare them because the printing of catechisms or other religious literature is forbidden. Since the priests decline to teach the children, the faithful form the impression that if the priest is afraid then they should fear the authorities all the more. That is how people begin to easily excuse their children when they begin to neglect religious practices for trivial reasons: "The teachers will scold; they'll note it in the school record; the child won't be able to enter a school of higher learning, etc."
The government pressures the pastors to keep children from serving at the altar and from participating in processions. Uncompliant priests are punished. Priests are especially being coerced in these matters at present. Some, who have resolved to bear all the necessary hardships, do not forbid children to participate in religious ceremonies, but others, currying favor with the government and valuing their good position or their peace and wanting "no unpleasantness with the government," do not permit children to take part in processions or to serve mass. Thus, in place of children at the altar, one frequently sees old men.
No doubt a most negative effect concerning this question resulted from the circular written under duress on May 31, 1961, by Dr. J. Stankevičius, the administrator of the Kaunas Archdiocese and the Vilkaviškis Diocese: "According to a decree by Rugienis, the commissioner for Religious Affairs, public participation in liturgical rites is permitted to those who are eighteen years old. Younger children cannot serve mass, cannot sing in the choir, cannot carry banners or scatter flowers. Children are to participate in liturgical-religious practices only with their parents." So reads the circular referred to. After receiving this circular, certain priests began to justify their behavior all the more readily, but lately in many parishes children have again begun to participate in religious rites. Because children participate in the rites in so many places, it is most difficult for Rugienis to fight against this.
The secret police try to recruit certain priests into becoming their agents. Wanting to draw them into this despicable work of undermining the Church, security officials both entice and threaten the clergy, promising them, in exchange for signing to become a security agent, permission to work in a choice parish, to be made deans or perhaps to attain even higher positions, or to let them leave for studies in Rome or to travel around the United States. Sometimes they promise an outright monthly wage. Priests who have sinned against morality are blackmailed by security agents: if they do not sign up to collaborate, all their vices will be dragged out into the open. Security officials have succeeded in recruiting a few amoral priests and are forcing them to carry out assignments for the Soviet government.
It is true that the recruited priests never work all that seriously for the State Security agencies, but sensing their inner duplicity, they ultimately become demoralized, unstrung, and take to drink. Such priests try to justify themselves by claiming that they are not destroying the Church but merely seeking "dialogue" with the Soviet government. The Vatican, it appears, does not understand what this "dialogue" means. It is total capitulation. The complete betrayal of the Church's cause. The postwar experience of the clergy testifies to this truth. Foreigners often consider priests recruited by State Security forces as knowing how to adapt to conditions of persecution. This shows total ignorance of the situation in our country.
In the assignment of the more active priests, bishops are being forced by the government to place them under the "tutelage" of pastors who are timid or who have been recruited by the secret police. State Security agents threaten such pastors by claiming that they will have to answer for any of their curate's "excesses." They are ordered to watch that their curates would not deliver any "anti-Soviet" sermons, that they avoid traveling too much, etc. For example, Father Berteška, the pastor of the parish in Prienai, was even ordered to report on every trip outside the parish by his curate, the Rev. J. Zdebskis. At present, more than a few of the more diligent priests are already forced to suffer more from their own people than from government functionaries. In this manner the government alienates the clergy, setting them against each other, the clergy against the curiae, and conversely. Priests who work for the security police label their diligent colleagues as hotheads, extremists, and revolutionaries who want to "bang their heads against the wall"; but they look upon themselves as wise and capable of "plowing deeply"; but as they do so, only a handful of old men and women tend to remain within their church.
The secret police try to involve recruited priests in Soviet propaganda. For example, in the publication intended only for abroad, by J. Rimaitis, The Church in Lithuania (in English and Italian), and also in J. Aničas' book Socialinis politinis Katalikų Bažnyčios vaidmuo Lietuvoje 1945-1952 metais [Socio-political role of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, 1945-1952], can be found untrue statements by certain priests that minimize the extent of persecution of the faithful throughout the entire postwar period. No doubt the government may also be successful in compelling even priests who have not signed up to work for the secret police into making statements about the "freedom" of religion in Lithuania.
The special duty of recruited priests is "to take care of," in an ideological sense, the tourists visiting from a-broad, especially priests. They present an erroneous picture of the actual situation of the Catholic Church, declaring that there is freedom of worship, that whoever wants to, may pray, that the parishes are adequately provided with priests by the seminary, that some of the clergy are but hotheads. If it weren't for them, the bishops would be able to obtain even more privileges from the Soviet government, and so forth.
In order to demonstrate how well the Soviet government treats the clergy, foreigners might be shown the villa of the ecclesiastical administrator Monsignor C. Krivaitis on the banks of the Neris River or the rectory of the Rev. St. Lydžius, pastor of the Immaculate Conception Parish in Vilnius, or others. The foreigner will not be able to visit out-of-the-way places and will not see that at times the priests lack even the basic necessities. For example, Father A. Lukošaitis, the pastor of the parish in Valakbūdis, lived in a tent pitched in the churchyard during the summer of 1972 because the government refused him permission to purchase a residence. Meanwhile, the nursing home for the aged, which had been confiscated from the parish, stands practically uninhabited.
To understand the actual truth, to get a feeling for the capably masked duplicity, hypocricy, and deceit, it is necessary to live for some time in Lithuania. Hence it is not surprising that even the Vatican has been misled for a long time. Seen through the eyes of those of us who live in Lithuania, a number of its decisions have been disadvantageous to the Catholic Church in Lithuania. Even now the priests and believers of Lithuania are distressed that the Holy See, while defending those who are being discriminated against throughout the world, only mentions in passing the "Church of Silence and Suffering" and does not bring up the question of persecution in the Soviet Union or condemn it.
No one in Lithuania believes that dialogue is possible with the Soviet government. The atheistic authorities need it only in order to get into a better position to destroy the Church the more successfully from within. In Lithuania it is plain to all that the Church will not be destroyed if the priests are imprisoned, or if school children are forced to speak and act against their beliefs, or if there is no Catholic press and no officially published prayer books or catechisms; but the Catholic Church in Lithuania will lose the people if it should lose their confidence because of bootlicking the Soviet government. Something similar to this has already happened to the Russian Orthodox Church.
III. Involvement of the Faithful
in the Atheists' Designs
According to the program of the Communist Party, all intellectuals—teachers, physicians, agronomists, and others—should be ideologically "enlightened" and prepared to "enlighten" others. In the hospital at Švenčionys, an order from the chief physician was posted year-round to the effect that every physician, not excluding even physicians known to be believers, was obligated to be prepared at a moment's notice to present a lecture on one medical topic and one antireligious topic. In the schools, more than once teachers known to be believers have been assigned to sponsor atheistic groups. In factories and offices even believing workers are assigned to atheistic councils. This is done to make them speak and act agaist their convictions. Because they do not wish to lose their jobs, or at the least, experience some unpleasantness, even educated persons give in at times, becoming accomplices of the atheists. It is impossible to even make a rough estimate of the numbers of believing teachers, who, terrorized by the atheists, have spoken against the faith; or of how many students they have enrolled into the atheistic Pioneers and the Young Communist League or into outright atheistic groups. It is not by chance that in Lithuania one can often hear it said that it is the teachers who have contributed the most toward turning our nation into a godless one, and thus to its assimilation.
Terrorized by the atheists, indifferent Catholic parents also often undermine their children's faith. When a child doubts whether or not to join the Young Communist League, more than once religious parents, fearing that their child might be harassed otherwise, advise him to join: "Join, child. What can one do? Such are the times..." Thus they push the child onto the path of hypocricy and spiritual lameness. The majority of such children lose their faith, and their parents fail to understand that they themselves have destroyed their children's religious life, due to fear of persecution by the atheists.
There are parents who, from fear of reprisals or simply from imprudent behavior, are afraid of defending their children when they are being compelled to act against their faith. There are also, however, some very resolute parents who declare: "Don't terrorize my child, or I'll be forced to keep him out of school."
The atheists try to involve even believing students in atheistic activities. In school it happens more than once that a religious student must speak against the faith, draw antireligious caricatures, or ridicule a friend for publicly practicing his religion. Acquiring an attitude of obsequiousness usually from their elders, the children conceal their faith and look down upon those classmates who practice their faith openly.
Soviet pedagogy encourages such behavior by religious students, calling it "a positive effect of the collective."
Let us compare the facts we have stated with atheistic propaganda:
That "the Soviet state and its governmental organs do not interfere in the Church's internal affairs" is stated in a booklet by J. Aničas and J. Rimaitis, Tarybiniai įstatymai apie religinius kultus ir sąžinės laisvę [Soviet laws concerning religious cults and freedom of conscience], Vilnius, 1970, p. 21.
"The Party fights for complete freedom of conscience and regards with respect every sincere conviction in the area of religious beliefs," has written A. Balsys in the brochureKur susikerta ietys [Where lances cross], Vilnius, 1972, p. 58.
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The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Series, with Max and Monique Nemni
Submitted by Grace on April 23, 2012 - 6:57am
This year marks the twelfth iteration of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. The prize rewards the year's finest book tackling a political subject of interest to Canadian readers.
This year, Open Book speaks to each of the five finalists as the April 25 announcement approaches. Be sure to visit our site and catch all of the interviews!
Husband and wife team Max and Monique Nemni won the 2006 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for the first instalment of their Trudeau biography, Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944. Their hotly anticipated continuation, Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965 (McClelland & Stewart), is shortlisted for this year's award. The Nemnis, who are both retired university professors, were close to Trudeau and received his approval to write his intellectual biography.
Max and Monique talk with Open Book about Canada's beloved maverick prime minister, including surprising revelations about his young life.
Open Book:
Tell us about the book for which you were shortlisted.
Max & Monique Nemni:
This is the second volume of an intellectual biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In Volume 1, we were dismayed to discover that contrary to what we, like everyone else thought, the young Trudeau of the 1930’s and early 1940’s was not rowing against the current. He was very much the product of his milieu and, more specifically, of his Jesuit upbringing. Like the great majority of the people around him, he believed that liberal-democracy was a deeply flawed regime, whereas an autocratic regime led by a strong and benevolent leader, working hand in hand with the Church, was an ideal form of government worth fighting for. Indeed, for a short time he was a member of a revolutionary clandestine group aiming at the creation of an independent, French, Catholic, corporatist (a euphemism for pro-fascist), and autocratic Quebec, called Laurentie.
In Volume 2, we witness, step-by-step, the surprising emergence of the man who has forever marked the Canadian consciousness. Every chapter challenges misconceptions about Trudeau’s thoughts and actions from the time he left Montreal in 1944 to study at Harvard, to his first election as a Mount Royal Liberal MP, in 1965. For example, it is generally believed that he was perfectly happy to have finally found at Harvard people who shared his liberal philosophy. In fact, Harvard was a shock that forced him to reexamine his core values and beliefs.
Similarly, Paris was not all fun, plays and concerts. There he studied, and attended numerous lectures by renowned personalities, such as Jean-Paul Sartre. It is also in Paris that he gave his very first public lecture on the situation of Quebec within Canada. In London, as is well known, Trudeau studied under Harold Laski, whom he greatly admired. But what is never mentioned is that during his year in England he witnessed the workings of the very first Welfare State, an experience that would mark his search for the Just Society. And, when he embarked on his worldwide travels in 1948-49, he was not simply seeking new adventures. Rather, he was attempting to grasp the many forms of political governance around the world.
Some still believe that Trudeau sprung on the federal scene coming out of nowhere. In fact, as soon as he came back home, in 1949, he played a very active and important role in the struggle against clericalism and nepotism; which to him were the two evils that arrested Quebec’s progress. Believing that the federal system was the best possible form of government for French as well as English Canadians, he ceaselessly promoted it. And when separatism arose in the early sixties, it became to him the new obstacle, which he sought to overcome. This, in fact, explains his passage to federal politics in 1965.
OB:
In your opinion, what qualities or characteristics signify that a book can be considered political writing?
M&MA:
This is a difficult question. To some, politics is everywhere. We do not go that far but we believe that politics should be given a fairly broad meaning. It isn’t just the preserve of political parties or even of parliamentarians, but rather the interaction between human beings and the organization of their society. Any book that clarifies these interactions should be considered a political writing. For this reason, we are happy that Empire of the Beetle, by Andrew Nikiforuk, and Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, by Jacques Poitras, are also short-listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen prize.
The prize is presented at an evening event in Ottawa called Politics and the Pen. What are you most looking forward to about P&P? Have you attended before?
We are fortunate to have received the award for the first volume of our biography of Trudeau. We had a memorable time in Ottawa. All finalists were pampered for two days. So we know we will have a wonderful time, whether we win or not.
If you were to recommend one past finalist or winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize to readers, which title would you choose?
How could we choose a title other than our own: Young Trudeau?
What can you tell us about your next project?
We are taking some time off. If we embark on a new project, it would be a Volume 3 of the biography of Trudeau. We would look at his years in power using the kind of perspective we have adopted in the first two volumes.
Max and Monique Nemni are retired university professors who spent most of their working lives in Quebec. They were friends of Trudeau, who encouraged them to become the editors of Cité Libre and agreed to let them write his intellectual biography. The authors have both been much published in academic publications in both English and in French. They now live in Toronto.
For more information about Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965 please visit the McClelland & Stewart website.
Buy this book at your local independent bookstore or online at Chapters/Indigo or Amazon.
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At the Desk: Kenneth Sherman
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Submitted by Grace on May 14, 2012 - 11:45am
For each book that sits on our shelves or rests in our hands, a writer has spent countless hours researching, organizing, writing and rewriting. In Open Book’s At The Desk series, writers tell us about their creative processes and the workspaces that inspire them.
Kenneth Sherman is the author of Words for Elephant Man (Porcupine's Quill), a collection of poetry which examines the life and fate of Joseph Merrick, also known as the Elephant Man.
Kenneth talks with Open Book about his work space, discussing the postcards he's received from writer friends over the years, to which he often returns for inspiration.
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New York Liberty legend Teresa Weatherspoon hired by New Orleans Pelicans
9/27/19 11:10 AM NYLiberty.com
(Elise Amendola)
The New York Liberty's director of player and franchise development Teresa Weatherspoon has been hired by the New Orleans Pelicans, the team announced Friday. The team has added Weatherspoon to its staff as a two-way player development coach.
"As one of the most respected and inspirational players to ever play in the WNBA, Teresa has a long-standing tenure with the New York Liberty franchise as both a player and a member of the coaching staff," said the Liberty's owner Joseph Tsai. "She will always be a part of the Liberty family."
During her eight-year WNBA career, Weatherspoon appeared in 254 games with the New York Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks averaging 5.0 points, 5.3 assists and 3.1 rebounds per game.
For more info about the Pelicans hiring Weatherspoon, visit NYLiberty.com.
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Love as sickness
The analogy put to the test
— Fabio Bacchini
love, Sickness, disease, Illness, analogy, Metaphor
The analogy between love and sickness is a powerful conceptual device that structures our understanding of love (and perhaps partly our understanding of sickness, too). We grasp love in the way we do because we have this analogy in mind. My aim in this paper is, firstly, to explore some of the reasons that can be called up to justify the analogy. I will try to identify the properties that love and sickness can be considered to share. I will therefore point out that love and sickness are both characterized by being alterations, conditions demanding a solution, seeming inexplicable, being detectable by symptoms, and so on. These common traits can provide some foundations for the analogy. But a good analogy is not created just because some common traits exist: the shared properties need to be relevant, and the analogy should let us discover new, interesting things about our target concept. So my second question in this paper is: what can we learn about love if we take the analogy between love and sickness seriously? I will develop the analogy, and will try to examine whether some other important traits of sickness can nevertheless be discovered in love, and how they are disguised. Sick persons are not normally responsible for their condition; sickness has possible causes and possible effects; there are therapies, doctors, hospitals, contagion, right or wrong diagnoses; sickness has special relations with voluntariness, and with beliefs. What does all this become on the side of love? Is the analogy successful, or does it end in failure?
My aim in this paper is to explore some of the reasons that can be called to mind to justify a powerful analogy active in our culture: the analogy between love[note 1]As will be clear from my treatment, by the term ‘love’ I mean the burning, destabilizing being in love, not the well-known, calm love of the golden anniversary. The analogy between love and sickness is first and foremost the analogy between being in love and being ill, and between falling in love and falling ill, although it may involve an illuminating secondary application coupling consolidated love, never spent but which no longer transports, with disease become chronic, with which one lives with disciplined habit.
and sickness. It is undeniable that this analogy structures many of our discursive practices about love, both in everyday life and in literature and the arts, and even in current psychology. It seems to be a one-way analogy: it is secretly present in most of our attempts to conceptually grasp love, while it does not enter into our dealing with the notion of “sickness”. We are not used to understanding the notion of ‘sickness’ via the notion of “love”, while we are used to understanding the notion of ‘love’ via the notion of “sickness”. We could also say, in Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) terms, that our conceptual system contains the structuring metaphor LOVE IS SICKNESS – that is to say, the concept of ‘love’ is (also) structured in terms of the concept of “sickness”. In Lakoff and Johnson’s theory (1980: 59), “we typically conceptualize the nonphysical in terms of the physical – that is, we conceptualize the less clearly delineated in terms of the more clearly delineated”: it is therefore no surprise that we conceptualize love (a psychological alteration) in terms of sickness (a physical alteration)[note 2]I accept, though loosely, Twaddle’s (1968) classic conceptual distinction between disease, illness and sickness. In this author’s terminology, disease is illness objectively possessed, and it is also that which the doctor diagnoses; illness has to do with the patient’s viewpoint in the first person with his clinical descriptions and subjective suffering; sickness has clear, strong social connotations; in fact a person is sick if others catalogue his condition as sickness. The triple distinction is further studied in Nordenfelt and Twaddle (1993), and receives new energy in Hofmann (2001). This paper does not intend, however, to rely on the sustainability of this semantic division and will neglect it.
I will continue to speak of the analogy ‘love is like sickness’ rather than of the metaphor LOVE IS SICKNESS. I maintain that choosing between the first or the second solution is just a matter of terminology preference[note 3]If we look at the main definitions of the metaphor provided during the course of the history of the analysis of poetic language from Quintilian onwards, the attempt to describe the metaphor as an abbreviated simile is clear. A similar definition, according to many contemporary researchers, does not make clear the creative and cognitive capacity of the metaphor; but this kind of importance only has sense if we uncritically accept the idea that to glimpse a similarity cannot constitute an innovative, authentically cognitive act. From my point of view, metaphor and analogy are one and the same thing, because they presuppose the same logico-gnoseological operation, namely picking out common properties between two entities and exploring the possibility that there are other ones as well. This does not yet say that metaphors and analogies are all good or revealing or useful (and I shall shortly say on which conditions they may be so), nor that they are all active and dynamic, nor that they always constitute a step ahead from the cognitive point of view. But the fact remains that to define the metaphor as “transference of the name of an object to another object due to a relationship of analogy” leads, in my opinion, not to falsehood, but to tautology – for “the relationship of analogy is indeed the metaphorical relationship” (Eco 1984: 147).
; after all, I am not intending to rely upon Lakoff and Johnson’s theory, nor to assume its general truth[note 4]I do not want, for example, to presume as accurate or useful the particular classification of metaphor typologies made by Lakoff and Johnson. Of course I agree with them regarding the fact that a metaphor (or equally an analogy) produces new similarities, in the sense that it enables aspects of things to be perceived as similar which were not previously perceived as such.
. I am not saying that we structure our understanding of love only in terms of our understanding of sickness: as Lakoff and Johnson themselves show, we also understand love in terms of a physical force (“I could feel the electricity between us”), of magic (“She cast her spell over me”), of war (“She fought for him, but his mistress won out”), and even of a patient (“The marriage is dead – it can’t be revived”). However, these other analogies just enlighten us as to how lovers behave (war), or how long a particular love can last (patient); or, in the case they are aimed at helping us comprehend what love is, they are vague and non-resolutive (magic, physical force); while the analogy between love and sickness seems to be the only one providing us with a way of understanding what love is, and what it is that is going on when we do love.
You can activate an analogy between each thing and every other thing. The point is that each thing has an infinite number of properties in common with every other thing (for example, the tree under my window and Davy Crockett’s original coonskin cap share the property of never having been touched by Ronald Reagan, the property of not having existed before Julius Ceasar’s birth, and so on), so it is sufficient to highlight at least one property – better, some properties – they happen to share, and you have an analogy. If we put aside the misconceived analogies grounded on the alleged sharing of a property (or of a set of properties) that is not actually shared, we still have an infinite number of ‘legitimate’ analogies (one for each non-empty set of actually shared properties which the analogy itself can be activated by). The large majority of legitimate analogies shall clearly reveal themselves to be useless: but how can we distinguish the useful from the unusable? Why should love be like sickness rather than like milk (both English words denoting them contain an ‘l’) or like atoms (neither can be seen by a human eye)? It is clear that each thing also has an infinite number of properties not in common with every other thing: so, it is not a solution to say that love is not like milk because you can’t drink love, or that love is not like atoms because a table is made of atoms but is not made of love. We could say, too, that love is not like sickness because a TV series called ‘Love Boat’ exists but a TV series called ‘Sickness Boat’ does not.
Good analogies can be defined as the subset of legitimate analogies that (1) insist on relevant shared properties, and (2) if developed, have interesting consequences. There is no strong logical progress, because the whole problem of definition of what a good analogy is, is offloaded onto the difficulty of defining what a relevant property and an interesting consequence are. But we can admit that such notions as ‘relevant’ and ‘interesting’ are simple enough for us to handle. Even if we cannot rigorously define them, we can do without a rigorous definition. It will be sufficient for our purposes to say that relevant shared properties are shared properties that we are willing to consider as a good inferential basis for conjecturing further shared properties between the two things; and that interesting consequences are, among others, the conclusions of these conjectures (“maybe thing 2 (say love) has property X, since thing 1 (say sickness) has it”), provided they are capable of making us notice new aspects of thing 2 (love) –making us see it from new points of view that are in turn able to change our relations with it.
Which properties that are shared by love and sickness justify the initial activation of the analogy and can explain its success?
One common trait is being an alteration. Sickness comes and troubles normal physical processes in our body and our whole life as a consequence; love has the same effect on us, by upsetting our normal psychological condition. Both can deflagrate abruptly; both can paralyze our life. Both are abnormal states: health – like not being in love – is normality, while sickness – like being in love – is exceptionality. Of course it is possible to love all life long, just as it is possible to be sick all life long; but in these quite rare cases love and sickness have lost the strength of their newness and their capacity to perturb and have become chronic[note 5]I certainly do not wish to maintain that chronic illnesses are less painful or less intense than acute ones. The point is that the chronically ill person finds, with time, a way of living with his/her disease, while the sudden illness – at the onset – constitutes an unexpected change, which a person does not yet know how to deal with; it is unknown and ‘outrageous’. Serene love of the golden anniversary may, in the same way, be very intense, but its strength is a pacific force, whose action on the life of the lover is known and largely foreseen. Acute love, being in love, presents itself as a new factor, and arrogantly asks us to negotiate a new equilibrium with it, which we will not necessarily find. Chronic love, stabilized love, is love with which we have found for some time a way of living; it is, as the chronic disease often is, love kept under control by us.
. Lifetime typically hosts love and sickness in narrow, crucial, dramatic periods – the default condition being non-love and health.
Another trait is their demanding a solution. Sickness often generates pain, functional limitations and immobility. It often (if not always) produces a desire in the sick person to change his/her condition. We certainly understand sickness as a condition that requires a remedy. Likewise, when you fall in love, you desire: and a desire is an intentional mental state whose conditions of satisfaction require changing the world. You cannot live your life as before. You feel you must do something to enter into possession of your remedy (the loved person). Whenever sickness and love arrive, they become priorities.
Both sickness and love seem inexplicable. They are mysterious events. We cannot usually say why she (rather than someone else) was taken ill, nor why she fell ill with that particular disease (rather than another), nor why it happened now (rather than two years ago). It is the same for love. We cannot say why she fell in love, why she fell in love with him, why she fell in love with him right now, and so on.
Sickness and love cause people around the sick – or the loving – person to be powerless. Not only can they not understand; they can do practically nothing. Consolation is, in particular, almost inefficacious. You can, of course, comfort a sick person: but this won’t cure him/her. Similarly, you can console a person in love, but it is fairer to say this will be more of a palliative than a remedy.
If sickness and love are mysterious in the way they appear, they are equally mysterious in the way they vanish. They may end without any apparent explanation. Nonetheless, an aetiology of their birth and death is partially possible (medicine, and love psychology, do exist). An alerted eye can detect symptoms of a disease as well as of love, before they are manifest, and it is possible to collect symptoms of their imminent, unsuspected end.
Sickness is a physical alteration. Love is similar to sickness because it also produces uncontrollable physical alteration in the body of the person who loves (a famous founding literary example is contained in Sappho’s poem[note 6]“If I meet you suddenly, I can’t speak – my tongue is broken; a thin flame runs under my skin; seeing nothing, hearing only my own ears drumming, I drip with sweat; trembling shakes my body and I turn paler than dry grass. At such times death isn’t far from me”. Sappho (1958).
). Parallel to this analogical bridge there is another: mental illness is a particular kind of illness, and love is quite similar to mental illness. Both involve psychological alteration; both change the very identity of their victims, to the point that the insane and the lover become incomprehensible and irrational; both involve the limit of the rule of reason, the advent of illogical reasoning, the onset of self-harming behaviour, and indifference towards social opinions. A lover is someone who cannot but think obsessively of his/her beloved. A lover is someone who firmly and intensely believes evidently false things (such as “She is the most beautiful girl on earth”). A lover’s mind is bewitched.
So far we have examined some common traits that cause and legitimate activation of the analogy. But is the analogy a good analogy? Can it throw new conceptual light on love? What happens if we develop the analogy – i.e. if we identify some other important characteristics of sickness and try to look for them (better, for analogous elements) in love?
Steps forward: Voluntariness
Sickness is not voluntary. We do not fall ill voluntarily. But could we? We can certainly harm ourselves voluntarily, but we cannot fall ill just as an effect of our choosing to fall ill. We cannot get cancer or a herpes or Alzheimer’s disease as an effect of our deciding to get them. We can hope to fall ill, and also try to increase our chances of falling ill, for example when we have to go to school or to the front: but falling ill is not under the control of our will.
What about love and will? It seems that love is quite similar to sickness: we cannot fall in love just as an effect of our choosing to fall in love. We can (as for sickness) hope to fall in love; we can act in order to maximize our chances of falling in love; we can even act in order to maximize our chances of falling in love with a particular person (for example, buying a romantic holiday for ourselves and our suitor). But we cannot voluntarily fall in love, nor can we voluntarily fall in love with someone in particular. Moreover, when we fall in love, we have not necessarily decided to fall in love – just as, when we fall ill, we have not necessarily decided to fall ill at all. Love and sickness prove to be alike.
Not only can falling in love and falling ill not be intentional actions; they cannot be actions either. According to Davidson (1971), an event is an action of mine if, and only if, at least one description d of the event exists so that we can truly say I have intentionally done d. Frankfurt’s (1978) idea is similar: an event is an action of mine if, and only if, it is identical with an event that is under my guidance. But neither falling in love nor falling ill can be re-described as something we do intentionally, or as events which are under our guidance: therefore, neither can be an action of ours. English phraseology lays emphasis on the similarity of love and illness (both are a kind of falling), but we can find some inaccuracies in this emphasis: the majority of our ordinary episodes of falling while walking or running are actions of ours, because they can be re-described as intentional (although ‘wrong’) movements of our bodies, while our falling in love and falling ill are not actions.
In this respect, falling in love and falling ill could be compared to believing. I cannot voluntarily start to believe something, because in this case I would know that the reason for my having the belief is my decision to have it rather than its being true – but one necessary condition for something to be a belief of mine is that I think that the only reason I have it is its being true (that is why voluntary self-deception is impossible). What I can do is to choose to try and to obtain the evidence that will allow me to believe a particular proposition – and this is analogous to choosing to maximize my chances of falling in love (romantic holiday) or falling ill (kissing people who have a cold). But these voluntary actions are neither sufficient nor necessary – respectively – for my believing, my falling in love and my falling ill. A minor difference between love, on one side, and falling ill and starting believing, on the other, is this: while my trying to maximize my chances of believing and my trying to maximize my chances of falling ill generally increase my chances of believing and of falling ill, it is arguable that my trying to maximize my chances of falling in love actually inhibits my chances of doing so. If this is true, voluntary falling in love would be impossible in the more precise sense of being a self-defeating enterprise (in this respect, deciding to fall in love would be like deciding to forget something: the more you concentrate on the task, the more you fail). Other emotions and feelings are more impermeable to their encircling beliefs than love: this explains why they are more easily voluntarily obtainable than love (think, for example, of terror at a fun-fair).
We usually acknowledge the involuntariness of sickness: we do not usually consider people who are sick to be responsible for their conditions. We even take into account, it seems, the fact that falling ill is not an action: indeed we think that people making mistakes are responsible for them and for their consequences – in fact mistakes are actions, although not voluntary actions – while we do not consider people who are sick to be responsible for being sick and for the consequences of being sick. Do we have the same attitude towards love? Not quite. We happen to think that, if someone has fallen in love with a despicable person, he/she must be (or must have become) blameable too. “Don’t judge her: she’s in love with him” is a frequently pronounced justification; but also attacks like “I have changed my opinion of her, since she fell in love with that horrible man” are not rare in everyday conversations. The problem is that we cannot easily concede that love is involuntary. This move would destroy our conception of love.
The idea of love active in our culture is a highly incoherent one (Bacchini 2003). It contains both the instruction that true love must be love at first sight, an irrational force that overwhelms us and goes beyond our control – that is, love is involuntary – and the inconsistent instruction that true love is well-founded, chosen (“I love you” also means “I choose you”), and directed towards someone whom we have evaluated as a most lovable person, and we have decided to love – that is, love is also voluntary. A love missing the voluntary component is in trouble as is a love missing the involuntary component; “I love you: and my love is accidental and unjustified, since apparently you are no more lovable than everyone else” is a dreadful love declaration, just like its rival “I love you: I have chosen to love you because I find it very reasonable to love you”. Elsewhere I have put forward the hypothesis (Bacchini 2003) that the psychological phenomenon of love has coevolved together with the cultural notion of love, and - as this cultural notion is incoherent, and as we cannot feel love unless we know our feelings fall under the cultural category of love – we cannot love unless we participate in this incoherence. An interesting task in cognitive studies is explaining how dealing with this required inconsistency can be psychologically tolerable – but I will not face this problem here. I maintain that we do not conceive nor experience love as simply voluntary or simply involuntary. As a matter of fact, we cannot start loving someone as an effect of a decision to love him/her. But we also (inconsistently) think that we choose to love the person that is most lovable in our eyes. That is why we can (also) blame someone for loving a blameable person. This is a difference between love and sickness. We do not happen to blame people for having cancer or Alzheimer’s disease.
If we want to preserve the analogy between love and sickness, we could say that our ambivalent moral attitude towards love is similar to our moral attitude towards some special cases of sickness such as those that have been favoured (but not determined) by personal habits and lifestyles. In this respect, love is like cardiovascular pathologies favoured by obesity, or like hepatic problems favoured by alcoholism: in such cases, patients are not completely ‘innocent’ because to a certain degree they are supposed to be responsible for their disease. So, from this point of view, love is like sickness whose victims are not completely innocent. Even when clearly involuntary, loving requires some degree of acceptance of the condition of loving – which is not necessarily so for sickness. We could compare love to having cancer (which is not voluntary) plus having stopped to fight against the disease and secretly accepting it (which is more voluntary than involuntary). A sick person who has accepted a disease is partly to blame for being sick, just like a lover.
Steps forward: Awareness
So love is involuntary like sickness, but our moral and cultural/emotional attitudes towards love are like our attitudes towards those special cases of sickness where voluntariness is not totally absent.
Another important trait of sickness is this: we can certainly be sick without knowing it. In order for us to have lung cancer or Alzheimer’s disease, the psychological requirement that we know we have it is not at all necessary. We may discover we are ill long after we have caught the disease. We may catch a disease and recover, or catch a disease and have it all life long, or catch a disease and die, without ever knowing we had caught it. Is it the same for love? Can we love without knowing we are loving? Well, our love culture is full of examples in which a person “discovers he/she is in love”. Dante’s Paolo and Francesca do not even suspect they love each other until they kiss. A famous Italian song by Luigi Tenco says: Ho Capito che Ti Amo(I Realized That I Love You, 1964); in the same year Charles Aznavour was singing J’en Déduis Que Je T’Aime (I Deduced From It All That I Love You). The idea was the same: the two singers were analyzing their ‘strange’ behaviour, and then put forward an explanatory hypothesis that could account for it. It was a typical explicative medical abduction (not a deduction as in Aznavour’s terminology): in other words, a clear (self-)diagnosis. And if we can discover that we are in love, it must be possible to be in love without knowing it.
But things are not so simple. Love is not just uninterpreted physiology. It requires a cultural interpretation of physiological events. And such a cultural interpretation is not possible unless the subject puts his/her feelings under the cultural category of love. This means that love requires believing that what one is experiencing is love. As I have said, the psychological phenomenon of love has coevolved together with the cultural notion of love. The conditions for the correct assertability of ‘She loves’, as well as those of ‘I love’, include her being aware that her love acts and thoughts and feelings are tokens of the type specified by our cultural notion of love. A more sophisticated argument for the impossibility of unaware love is this: true love must contain – as we have seen – both voluntary and involuntary aspects. This would be cognitively intolerable, unless via some special psychological permission (obtainable through immunizing metarepresentations; see Bacchini 2003 and Sperber 1996[note 7]In Bacchini (2003) I maintained that the contradiction might be resolved thanks to the presence of tacit meta-beliefs of the following type: I believe that love enables me to believe without too many problems something that on its own would be a contradiction, namely: My love is both voluntary and involuntary.
) granted by the fact of falling under the cultural category of love.
In my analysis, believing that what we are feeling is love (that is, classifying what we are feeling under the category of love) is a necessary property for our loving. If we do not believe that what we are feeling is love, we may be ready to love, but we cannot actually love. I think that, all other things being equal, our being ready to love someone generates our believing that we love him/her – which by this very fact lets us start loving him/her.
What is more, the impossibility of loving without knowing it does not imply the impossibility of our falsely believing we love. It is perfectly possible not to love, still believing that we do love. In this respect, love is like sickness: we can show someone who believes he is in love with someone that he is not, just as we can show someone who believes he is sick that he is not.
This brings us to another common trait. Just like a disease, love can be correctly and incorrectly diagnosed. Self-diagnosis is not necessarily right as regards the disease/health dichotomy: you can falsely think you are sick when you are not, and you can falsely think you are healthy when you are sick. In the territory of love it is similarly possible that you think you are in love when you are not. Dutton and Aron (1974), for example, showed that we can easily mistake the effects of high anxiety for sexual attraction. The common opinion is that the reverse is possible, too: you can think you are not in love when you actually are. It would seem that my claim that believing you love is necessary to be able to love eliminates this possibility. Notwithstanding, I think that a good unified theory of belief and self-deception should account for the difference between believing p and simply (and falsely) believing you believe p. After all, believing p cannot be the same as saying p or supporting p. I think that apparent cases of loving without believing you love can be shown to be cases of loving and believing you love plus believing you do not believe you love.
Steps forward: Treating and recovering
The concept of sickness is surrounded by some other concepts that crucially contribute to fix its properties. One of them is the concept of recovering. If we want to say that, by definition, recovering is the restoration of health[note 8]I am presuming that recovering requires health to be restored and not just finding a way of living with the illness which will assure a minimal degree of wellbeing. Although wellbeing is important, I consider that the co-presence of illness and minimal wellbeing does not amount to recovering. In some cases it is impossible to recover and the best prospect to be pursued is the search for minimal wellbeing in the presence of the disease. But no-one would say this is the best solution; the ideal outcome is always to recover, and where recovery is not available, a compromise becomes desirable, namely living with the disease.
, we have to deal with the notion of health. What is analogous to health in the domain of love? As love is sickness, non-love should be health[note 9]One may object that one is cured from being in love not only by not loving any more, but also by beginning to love without being in love any more. The idea is that by moving on from being in love to loving, the subversive, destabilizing force of love disappears, which (it seems) is all that makes it similar to disease. Actually, the analogy is structured thus: to be in love is the same as being prey to an acute disease, and falling in love is the same as falling ill; to become a chronically ill person is the same as loving without being in love any more, since the characteristics of novelty, untameability and disorientation fall, and habit, control, capacity for coexisting appear; to be cured of an illness is the same as being cured of love, namely to stop both being in love and loving, with the condition previous to the change being restored.
. But this stipulation causes the analogy between love and sickness to suffer. Healthy people do not happen to hope to fall ill while people who are not in love do happen to look for love, and hope to fall in love. The general problem with the analogy is this: health is universally preferable to illness, while a non-love condition is not universally preferable to love. It is possible that some people, after falling in love, wish they were not in love; but many others appreciate being in love, and would not prefer to be restored to their previous non-love condition. So, at this particular point, the analogy suffers. If love is sickness, it is also a potentially very delightful sickness that is in great demand. When we look for the place of health within the analogy, we must face this difficulty. We can also consider the concept of wellbeing: it overlaps the concept of health and is very far from the concept of sickness, but we cannot say that it is nearer to non-love than to love.
We have said that love, like sickness, is an alteration characterized by involving some lack and something being missed. As an alteration, love is like sickness (the analogy holds): love originates from perturbation of a non-love condition, and sickness originates from perturbation of a healthy (non-sickness) condition. But as a condition where something is missing, love is not just like sickness. Whereas what lacks and is missing in sickness is health, what lacks and is missing in love is not the non-love condition: it is rather the object of love. In this respect, we could compare love (not to sickness, but) to addiction: a kind of psychophysical sickness where the victim experiences something as missing – but what is experienced thus is not the previous non-addiction condition, but rather the object he/she is addicted to. A problem still active for this analogy is this: we do not usually want to become addicted, nor do we seek it. However, when we become addicted, we often do not want not to become addicted – and an analogous situation is also true for love, while it is false for sickness. Moreover it is possible that, once addicted, (provided that we know we are) we do not want to stop to be addicted – the analogous characterizes love, while it does not hold for sickness. A new problem is this: becoming addicted can be said to be an action of ours, while falling in love cannot. And another problem is this: the desire of the lover is his/her desire, while the addicted person can say that his/her desiring and yearning for the object he/she is addicted to is not his/hers. Therefore the analogy between love and addiction holds, though it runs into some difficulties concerning the location of voluntariness and responsibility. It seems that love is a kind of addiction whose activation we are not as responsible for as we are for other kinds of addictions; still, once love exists, it is a kind of addiction we (abnormally) claim responsibility for.
But there is a serious major problem that affects both the analogy between love and addiction and the analogy between love and sickness: from an objective (as opposed to subjective) point of view, the solution to sickness is the previous, healthy state[note 10]See Note 8.
; and the solution to addiction is the previous, non-addictive state; but the solution to love is not the previous, non-love state. The solution to love is rather fusion with the loved person. So love seems to be a kind of sickness, either of addiction, whose solution is not recovering but succeeding in gratifying all the whims of the sickness, or of the addiction itself. That is why there is practically no equivalent of a cure for love. First, we do not ask for it. Second, as treatment is normally aimed at restoring a healthy condition, and as the analogous state of a healthy condition for love (a non-love condition) is not at all the solution when we are in love, here recovering and finding a solution diverge, and consequently the concept of treating is in trouble. We can see it normally resurfacing for people who (abnormally) do not want to love: the cure is getting out, reasoning, not listening to love’s claims, waiting for love to die. However, we cannot voluntarily cease to love: the more these treatments are voluntary intentional mental acts that operate directly on our loving, the more they are condemned to fail.
We cannot easily be our own love doctor but what about the very concept of a love doctor, not identical to the lover? It seems perfectly possible. We have previously remarked that people around the person in love (like those around the sick person) are powerless. But doctors are not. What could anyone do in order to cause our love to be extinguished? Well, love is sensitive to many beliefs – and one of the reasons why we cannot voluntarily control our loving is that we cannot voluntarily determine what we believe. But, while we cannot start to believe what we voluntarily and consciously decide to believe, it is still possible that we start to believe what someone else voluntarily and consciously decides we will believe. So a love doctor could be someone who makes us believe that our beloved does not deserve our love anymore. Even if this were false, we would start to believe that he/she has acted in such and such a way, and this belief would alter the conditions of possibility of our love. The interesting aspect of the idea of a love doctor is that it seems as though such a doctor could only treat his/her patients with a placebo effect for love.
In the territory of sickness, the placebo effect is an important phenomenon, and it would be a weak point of the analogy to encounter difficulties in singling out its analogous counterpart in the territory of love[note 11]Someone might find the fact arbitrary that the analogy between love and sickness is pressed here towards the borders of the placebo effect. But it is a case, once more, of verifying whether an important characteristic of illness is also to be found in love or not, and in what form. The issue of the permeability of sickness, and of love, by beliefs (of the patient; the person in love) is at stake.
. All other things being equal, the probability of recovering from a certain disease (and the probability of recovering within a certain time) grows when patients believe (even falsely believe) that they are not ill – or that they will certainly recover; or that they are taking a drug; or that the drug they are taking is wonderful – in comparison with when they do not believe these things. The analogous situation of the placebo effect in love’s domain would be as follows: (1) I love, but my starting to believe I do not love causes my ceasing to love; (2) I love, but my starting to believe I will surely cease to love causes my ceasing to love. Case (1) is logically possible, but its occurrence would be bizarre: as I have said, all other things being equal, our being ready to love someone generates our believing that we love him/her – which by this very fact lets us start loving him/her. Although believing we love is a necessary condition for loving – and there would therefore be nothing incoherent in a process where the disappearance of love is caused by the disappearance of the belief we are in love – it is not at all simple to imagine how to realize it. It is difficult to eliminate just the belief, leaving all the other necessary conditions for love untouched. Maybe the only way to eliminate the belief we love is to eliminate some other necessary condition for love, whose disappearance will cause the disappearance of the belief. But love would vanish because of the disappearance of the other necessary condition, not because of the consequent disappearance of the belief, and this would not be a case (1). Case (2) is empirically possible, and is a token of the ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ type.
This is a regular, descriptive placebo effect for love. But there is also the possibility to draw a picture of a special, prescriptive placebo effect for love. If a necessary condition for loving is believing that the person I love (morally, or in some other sense[note 12]It could be suggested that love requires, as a necessary condition, moral respect, as well as respect of the intellectual kind.
) deserves my love, my starting to believe that she does not deserve my love would cause my ceasing to love. A love doctor could make me recover from love by offering me some evidence that leads me to believe that I should not love her. This evidence could obviously be false: this means that my ceasing to love would be under the total control of my ‘doctor’s’ will. But I cannot start believing that p by exposing myself to some evidence that I believe is false: this guarantees that ceasing to love would remain non-voluntary.
It is fun to wonder what hospitals might be in the domain of love. Perhaps places where people in love are repeatedly told that love is a risk or that their beloved does not deserve their loving them? Although there are no love hospitals, we can identify the analogous character of another important element of sickness: contagion. It is well known that we often start to love someone just because someone else loves him/her. This is the idea of triangular desire, which we can find in René Girard’s anthropological system (1961). And this is contagion: my loving her causes your starting to love her – or (in a counterfactual style) you would not have started loving her if I had not loved her.
Like sickness, love brings about loss of concentration, reduction in efficiency at work, social inactivity, unproductiveness, waste of money (flowers, candies), time and energy (letters, poems). The analogous situation to national and international health prevention programs would be national and international programs to prevent love. But nothing similar exists with this specific aim (although some social institutions and laws, in different places and times, can be suspected to have served some very similar and neighbouring aims).
We could try to compare the aetiology of disease and the aetiology of love, in order to see how well the two frames overlap. Roughly speaking, you can get sick because something external to you comes into contact with you, or because something inside you starts to not work properly. In the family of the former we find traumata (but I have assumed that they caused people to be harmed/hurt/injured, not ill; illness is something you cannot voluntarily get), contamination (external pathogenic agents that are not living and often inorganic; the same specification holds as before) and infections (living external pathogenic agents). In the latter family we find genetic causes, as well as obsolescence (time produces due wear and tear on the body and its parts). Can we follow this pattern and confirm its validity for love? I think we can. The various aetiological models of love can be reclassified in order to fit this taxonomy. For example, the ‘love at first sight’ model uses a contamination/infection device. The amorous glance is like fatal contagion; love is like the plague. On the other hand, the ‘twin souls’ model presupposes an innate predisposition that was just silently waiting for the right factor to recognize and activate it: its modality is no doubt genetic-like. “She has developed a passion for him” is internal pathogenesis; “She has been dazzled by his beauty” is external pathogenesis. “I have fallen in love with him because I was feeling alone” is pathogenesis due to aging.
We can also compare the possible outcomes of illness and of love. For an illness, the possible outcomes are: recovering, chronicity or death. Love may continue in a less intense and more durable form (marriage, long relationship: chronicity); it may end (recovery); or it explodes so brutally that it is intolerable and leads to death (Werther).
A good analogy: Projecting the other way round
Our analysis has shown that the analogy between love and sickness is in good shape: if put to the test, it wears thin but does not collapse. It reveals itself to be a good analogy. It is not sterile; on the contrary, it throws an interesting conceptual light on love, letting us see new possible truths about it.
While some traits that love and disease have in common do not constitute cognitive steps ahead, but rather the fundamental bases of the analogy (being an alteration, demanding a solution, involving intolerable alteration, seeming inexplicable, being refractory to consolation, being revealed by symptoms), I have tried to show that the analogy enables us to glimpse new issues, to detect new problems and to examine love with the help of a conceptual comparison. For example, we conceive disease to be involuntary, and for this reason do not usually consider sick people to be guilty of being sick. With love we have a more ambivalent attitude: sometimes, and with degrees of intensity that can vary from case to case, we may catch ourselves considering people in love to be responsible for their love. The analogy as a guide provides us with a good explanation for this fact: we think such persons have perversely sought, or have not resisted enough against, their (wrong) falling in love, just as it sometimes happens that we blame sick people for accepting their illness with too much self-pity, or for having favoured becoming ill by their own careless behaviour.
When, again responding to the stimuli of the analogy, we wonder if love may be unaware, as disease certainly can, we find other interesting truths: love seems to be unaware, but in actual fact it cannot be so. Its degree of dependency on culture, much greater than that of disease/illness, is too high to bear the lack of conscious cataloguing. In order to feel the sensation of being in love, a person in love needs to have carried out the mental operation of cataloguing him/herself as ‘in love’.
The analogy enables us to observe the processes leading to falling in love through the eyes of the pathologist, classifying aetiologies in new ways. It then suggests we examine what the concept of recovering corresponds to in the field of love, which forces us to run up against a series of significant difficulties – for example, why, for love, the cure is never seen as being restored to the condition previous to falling in love, and is conceived more as managing to yield completely to love. If love is an illness, it is an illness that we frantically seek, from which we do not want to get better, and the cure for which is: not being healed. These may be seen as the limits of the analogy: but I prefer to see them as new points of view on love that have been revealed precisely by the explorations carried out by the analogy and by the surprises it encounters on its way.
Fabio Bacchini is Professor of Epistemology at the University of Sassari, Italy. He has published papers on semiotics, philosophy of mind, bioethics, and rational argumentation. The author wishes to thank Sofie Vandamme, Sjaak van der Geest, Marianne Vysma, Janus Oomen, Frans Meulenberg, Christine Tilley, Sara Murgia and the anonymous reviewers of Medische Antropologie for their great willingness to help. Correspondence address: bacchini@uniss.it
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Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765)
Written by Richard Carney
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Arthur Dobbs, Colonial Governor from 1754 to 1764. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Arthur Dobbs, sheriff (1720), Surveyor General (1730), and member of Parliament (1727-1730) in his native Ireland, became one of the five royal colonial governors of North Carolina in 1754. He was born on April 2, 1689 in the fishing village of Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland, to Richard and Mary Stewart Dobbs. Soon after his birth, Mary returned with Arthur to Ireland. He resided there until moving to North Carolina.
While serving in the Irish Parliament, Dobbs became a land proprietor of North Carolina. Under a land grant rewarded to London merchant Henry McCulloh, Dobbs purchased land in North Carolina in 1736. In 1745, Dobbs, along with Colonel John Selwyn, bought a land grant totaling 400,000 acres in modern-day Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties. As a colonial proprietor, Dobbs progressively encouraged colonial settlement in North Carolina, especially by Irishmen.
With increasing investments in North Carolina, Dobbs participated in politics. Following the death of Governor Gabriel Johnston, Dobbs sought for appointment as the new governor of North Carolina. By January 25, 1753, he was confirmed. Even though he was officially governor, he did not arrive in North Carolina until October 31, 1754.
Dobb’s administration reenergized and restructured the colonial government of North Carolina. The people and the Assembly were ready for reorganization after Governors Nathaniel Rice and Matthew Rowan mismanaged government from 1752 to 1753. As the newly appointed governor, Dobbs appealed to both the colonists and the crown; he believed in strict monarchical rule, yet he considered the needs, requests, and complaints of the colonists. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), Dobbs encouraged the colonists to fight and defend their land. By encouraging the development of the silk industry, postal service, printing, and trade, Dobbs encouraged the economic growth of North Carolina. He also wanted to establish the Church of England in North Carolina and improve the province’s educational system. Dobbs assumed office as North Carolina evolved into a colonial power, and throughout his administration, Dobbs fostered economic and demographic growth.
In 1757, Dobbs suspended several Assembly members who challenged his authority. This caused a split between the Assembly and Governor Dobbs. Dobbs also created discontent by trying to please both the colonists and the Assembly; in the end, he pleased no one.
Two major events overshadowed Dobbs’s governorship: the French and Indian War and the start of the American Revolution. Some historians, such as Hugh T. Lefler and William S. Powell, suggest that Dobbs foresaw colonial revolution. Dobbs once wrote that the King should rule the colonies more strictly in order to “oppose and suppress a republican spirit of Independency rising in the colony.”
After ten years in office, Arthur Dobbs retired as governor in 1764. Dobbs died in North Carolina on March 27, 1765, two weeks before he planned to return home to Ireland. He is buried at St Philip’s Church in Brunswick, North Carolina.
Sources: Desmond Clarke, Arthur Dobbs Esquire, 1689 – 1765: Surveyor – General of Ireland, Prospector and Governor of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1957); Hugh T. Lefler and William S. Powell, Colonial North Carolina – A History (New York, 1973); and Blackwell P. Robinson, The Five Royal Governors of North Carolina, 1729–1775 (Raleigh, 1963).
Colonial North Carolina
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In 1669 Sultan Mohammed IV Osman granted Dimitrij VII Dimitrevic’ recognition of His prerogatives as Head of the Name and Arms of the Rjurik Dynasty. The Sultan accorded Him the rank of Sovereign Bey and granted hospitality and protection to Him and to His Orders and cultural Institutions.
By tradition the Head of the Confraternity of Saint Catherine of Somport administered also the Priory of the French Langue of the Order, which was recognised in 1671 by an Edict of the Roi Soleil.
The Order consolidated and flourished in various countries in East and West. In 1788 Duke Ercole III authorised the establishment of the Order in the Duchy of Modena, granting citizenship of the Duchy to the Head of the Imperial House of Moscow and de jure recognition to His Orders and cultural Institutions.
The Order was confirmed under the rule of Saint Basil and assumed as one of its principal aims that of assisting Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, recalling the ecumenical spirit of the “Edict of Milan” with which Constantine the Great had decreed that freedom of worship be guaranteed to the faithful of all religions, particularly to Christians.
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Partnership Deal
CANADIAN COUNTRY ARTIST JOJO MASON RELEASES BRAND NEW SINGLE “RED DRESS” TODAY – MASON SIGNS WITH VANCOUVER’S 604 RECORDS
Heart, Charisma, & Extraordinary God Given Talent
“When fate, serendipitous timing and a jar of moonshine combine – expect the extraordinary….expect the unexpected…”
– Dan Swinimer, Manicdown Music Inc
When Jojo Mason walked in to a Christmas party on December 21st 2013 clutching a jar of that Ole’ Smokey Moonshine, he could not have predicted how a strange combination of events would change the course of his life forever.
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan February 26, 1990, Jojo spent most of his early years like many true Canadian kids – playing hockey on ice rinks and frozen lakes. With the opportunity of a successful career in the sport, he relocated to Victoria, BC in 2004 to play at the junior ranks. But this pursuit suddenly came to a screeching halt after suffering a herniated disk. This injury was devastating to his future in hockey and drove him down an unknown road without a destination – until now.
As the story goes – that fated jar of moonshine resolved a debate Dan had had with a co-writer earlier that day:
“During my writing session I wanted to use the line ‘drinking moonshine out of a jar’ because growing up in a small town, that’s exactly what we used to do. My co-writer had never heard of this and we debated this line for some time – we never did settle on it. Later that night at a Christmas party, in walks some guy named Jojo and to my delight, he was toting a mason jar of moonshine. This was an immediate talking point for us and the rest is history.“
Some say everything happens for a reason and some believe in fate. Whatever the case, Jojo’s irresistible personality and obvious star quality caught Dan’s attention and as the night wore on and the drinks continued to flow, Jojo expressed an interest in singing.
“At first I just passed it off as booze talk. Jojo had absolutely zero experience as a singer. In fact – until that moment he had never even aspired to be a singer. When I asked Jojo if he could sing, he uttered his now legendary response ‘I’m not the worst – I sing in the shower’. The more I talked to him and experienced his infectious, magnetic personality, the more I felt it worth my time to see if this guy could actually sing.”
And sing he could. It’s been a busy 2 and a half years since Jojo started his work with Dan and Manicdown Music. He released his first single “It’s All Good” on June 21st / 2015 and it’s been a wild ride ever since. “It’s All Good” was the #1 most added song at radio in it’s first and third weeks of release, an accomplishment that has never before been achieved by an independent artist’s debut single in Canadian Radio history. “It’s All Good” had a surreal run – reaching the top 10 on both Mediabase and BDS charts. Jojo’s 2nd single titled “Good Kinda Love”, was released in early November / 2015 and also hit the ground running. It was the #1 most added song it’s first week, debuted at #42 on the charts and eventually became Jojo’s 2nd Top – 10 hit.
Jojo’s current single, “Red Dress” has been blasting up the charts since it’s release. It’s already in the Top – 25 at Country Radio and has consistently been among the fastest rising songs in the genre.
Get Red Dress on iTunes!
Jojo’s music is about having fun, appreciating life and sharing stories. It is passionately country, but with no fear of a deep groove, fresh lyric or original melody. He will charm you with his personality, wow you with his beat boxing, earn your respect with his work ethic, inspire you with his character and compassion, elicit a smile with his message but most importantly, Jojo will sweep you off your feet with his voice. From a moonshine slinging, shower singing prairie boy to Canada’s next country music sensation – Jojo Mason.
“What I love about Jojo is that he’s pure, raw talent. I love his voice, his story, plus he’s got this magnetism about him that draws you in. Great dude – through and through!”
– Tim Hicks
“Jojo has got heart and charisma but most of all, he has extraordinary God given talent. I can’t wait to buy his album!”
– Madeline Merlo
“I believe strongly in my heart that Jojo is exactly what country music needs. With his honesty, integrity, originality, and that bigger than life personality and undeniable soulful voice of his, it’s just a matter of time before he’s heard on the world stage.”
– Rod Black
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New Hampshire Thanks You, Mr. Bush
from The Concord Monitor:
Is Franklin Pierce due for a promotion? Pierce, the only New Hampshire man elected to the White House, is a perennial nominee for Worst President Ever. But as that office's current occupant finds his own reputation under attack from many historians and the public, Pierce could move up a notch from the bottom of the presidential rankings -- a boost Pierce partisans say is long past due. "When I speak to groups, somebody always asks, 'How does it feel to know your man is no longer the worst?' " said Peter Wallner, author of a recent two-volume biography of Pierce. "I take a little bit of pleasure in the fact that (President George) Bush is viewed by them as worse than Pierce." Actually, Pierce is generally not listed as the worst, but rather one of the worst -- James Buchanan, Millard Filmore, Warren G. Harding, and a few others make all the lists, and when the lists are ranked, Pierce is seldom number one. But still. Mr. Bush, …
This Gene is Not a Hedgehog
from an article on nomenclature in New Scientist(via Bookforum):
"We had particular problems with fruit-fly researchers," says Sue Povey of University College London, who chaired the committee approving names for human genes from 1996 to 2007. "They were always giving their genes names like hedgehog."
Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Harold Pinter has died.
Here are the last words from one of his last plays, Celebration:
The WAITER stands alone.
When I was a boy my grandfather used to take me to the edge of the cliffs and we'd look out to sea. He bought me a telescope. I don't think they have telescopes anymore. I used to look through this telescope and sometimes I'd see a boat. The boat would grow bigger through the telescopic lens. Sometimes I'd see people on the boat. A man, sometimes, and a woman, or sometimes two men. The sea glistened.
My grandfather introduced me to the mystery of life and I'm still in the middle of it. I can't find the door to get out. My grandfather got out of it. He got right out of it. He left it behind him and he didn't look back.
He got that absolutely right.
And I'd like to make one further interjection.
He stands still.
Slow fade.
We sleep, and at length awake to the still reality of a winter morning. The snow lies warm as cotton or down upon the window-sill; the broadened sash and frosted panes admit a dim and private light, which enhances the snug cheer within. The stillness of the morning is impressive. The floor creaks under our feet as we move toward the window to look abroad through some clear space over the fields. We see the roofs stand under their snow burden. From the eaves and fences hang stalactites of snow, and in the yard stand stalagmites covering some concealed core. The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see fantastic forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.
--Henry David Thoreau, "A Winter Walk" (1843)
The first day of winter. It's been snowing here for the past few days. This comes after devastating ice …
A Few More
Inevitably, I forgot some books I enjoyed greatly this year when I wrote my post about books I'd encountered in 2008. Despite my feeling that I hardly read anything in 2008, and that much of what I did read didn't appeal to me, I'm discovering that neither feeling is particularly true, and this is a pleasant discovery. So here are a couple more books I enjoyed mightily this year:
The Situation by Jeff VanderMeer: I forgot this one because I had read a version of it some time ago and so never associated it with 2008. It's marvelously strange and an excellent study of office life, and PS did a great job with the production of the book itself.
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepard: I reviewed this for Rain Taxi, and it was easily one of my favorite books of the year -- I think I forgot it because it's a book that resides in my mind among books that have been around a while, books that made a deep impression,…
Dear Mr. Obama
I've been skeptical of most (not all) of Barack Obama's cabinet appointments, and even aghast at a few, but I've never felt "betrayed" by him, since he's been honest all along about his moderate views and his "pragmatism" (generally a support for minor changes to the status quo), and I do think it's worth waiting to see how he and his cohorts govern before giving up completely on anything resembling optimism. Obama's better than Bush or McCain and he's not another white guy, so I was quite happy when he won the election. I keep my standards for politicians low, and that way I can occasionally be pleasantly surprised. Idealists are always disappointed and depressed; honest cynics now and then have to admit that humanity isn't entirely dreadful.
But the choice -- not Obama's alone, but he's said he supports it -- of RickWarren to give the invocation at the inauguration really pissed me off. No softer words can encapsulate th…
The Ubiquitous Bolaño
I find it mildly embarrassing to be so enamored of Bolaño these days. I picked up By Night in Chile and Distant Star back when they were the only Bolaño books available in English -- back in the dusty old days of, what, 2005? -- and they both perplexed me and impressed me; then when Last Evenings on Earth came out, I picked it up and was blown away -- something really felt like it exploded in my head, and I went back and reread parts of By Night in Chile and Distant Star and they felt so much richer than they had before. I had, in some ways, been teaching myself how to read Bolaño.
There was great praise of Bolaño from the moment the first translations appeared, but the praise and admiration for Bolaño back then felt restrained and quiet compared to what would happen when The Savage Detectives came out -- suddenly it seemed like Bolaño had been made the saint of all literature. I was excited, yes, but also a bit fearful, and I resisted Savage Detectives for a while, partly, I think,…
Rain Taxi Benefit Auction
The great and glorious magazine Rain Taxi is holding a benefit auction to raise some money. They're offering a wide assortment of books and book-like items of all sorts and genres for sale -- some real treasures.
RT is a wonderful source of information on books that otherwise are difficult to learn about, and I have relied on them for years now. In a time when book coverage is disappearing from the mainstream media, it's particularly important that venues such as Rain Taxi exist.
Books This Year
I've had a few requests to participate in various "best books of the year" surveys, and I've avoided them all, mostly because I have read so few new books in 2008 that I wouldn't be able to contribute anything of value. It's been easily the most difficult year of my life for more than one reason -- any one of them would have made it the most difficult year of my life, but there were more than one! -- though things are going fairly well now, and I'm less stressed out than I have been in a while. This is good. But a difficult year doesn't lead to a lot of reading or even keeping up with what's being published. In fact, moving from New Hampshire to New Jersey to New Hampshire over the course of 18 months saw me losing books right and left (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not).
But I thought it would be fun to try to remember some of the books I've encountered this year, particularly since circumstances have kept me from writing very much ab…
"And then there's no other choice but to write"
The truth is, I don’t believe all that much in writing. Starting with my own. Being a writer is pleasant -- no, pleasant isn’t the word -- it’s an activity that has its share of amusing moments, but I know of other things that are even more amusing, amusing in the same way that literature is for me. Holding up banks, for example. Or directing movies. Or being a gigolo. Or being a child again and playing on a more or less apocalyptic soccer team. Unfortunately, the child grows up, the bank robber is killed, the director runs out of money, the gigolo gets sick and then there’s no other choice but to write.
--Roberto Bolaño
New Practical Physics
I've turned my story "New Practical Physics", originally published in Say...What's the Combination? in 2007, into an experimental hypertexty bloggy thing (that's the technical term). I thought it would take an hour or two, but then I got to fiddling with the layout, searching for pictures and links, etc., and an hour or two turned into hours of work over many days.
But I think the work was worth it. Collage is my favorite art form, and this has made the story even more of a collage than it was originally, so I'm now happy enough with it to share it with y'all.
Help a Writer and Publisher Facing Foreclosure
Writer and publisherVera Nazarian has been terribly affected by these difficult economic times and by some personal emergencies. She and her ailing mother are now facing foreclosure.
Now folks are joining together to try to help her.
I can testify to the fact that Vera is tremendously diligent and immensely generous. Nobody should have to go through what she's going through in what we're told is the richest country in the world.
If you can send money, if you have items you can donate to auction or sell, etc., please do. I'll post more info as it becomes available.
Update 12/8: And it is done! The total amount past due on Vera's mortgage was raised in 3 days! There are still items for sale and auction, and future monies will go to helping Vera get new sewer pipes, medical care, etc. This wasn't the first time I donated to help a writer or person associated with the world of books out of a crunch, and it certainly won't be the last, but every time reminds me wh…
BAF '08 Story-by-Story Discussion
BookSpot Central is hosting a roundtable discussion of the stories in volume 2 of Best American Fantasy -- first up is M. Rickert's "Memoir of a Deer Woman". It's an ambitious project, and I look forward to following it.
Music Meme
I love happenstance and serendipity with music, so am quite attracted to a music meme Andrew Wheeler just shared:1. Put your iTunes (or any other media player you may have) on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!Here we go...
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Izakunyatheli Afrika Verwoerd (Africa is Going to Trample on You, Verwoerd) -- from This Land is Mine: South African Freedom Songs
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Six O'Clock News -- John Prine
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Another Man's Vine -- Tom Waits
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Pagan Poetry -- Björk
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine -- Bob Dylan
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
I Kill Children -- Dead Kennedys
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Humdrum -- Peter Gabriel
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Brother Flower -- Townes van Zandt
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIK…
Internet access troubles (rural New Hampshire, snow) kept me away for a while, and I missed the 30th anniversary of the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk on November 27. I first learned of this moment in history during my undergraduate years in the mid-90s, all thanks to the Dead Kennedys song "I Fought the Law (and I Won!)".
What, I wondered then, did "Twinkies are the best friend I’ve ever had" mean? Who was Jello Biafra singing about in the line "I blew George & Harvey’s brains out with my six-gun"? I loved the song because my father had a 45 of one of the earlier versions that I listened to a bunch, so the changes in the DK version thrilled me, even though I had no idea what the song was about (this was in the days before the internet and quick Googling). At the same time, I was trying to educate myself on gay history, and when I read about the assassinations and the supposed "Twinkie defense", I suddenly realized wha…
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Land of Doubt by Sam Baker
Sam Baker's music is relatively new to me, and it has become an obsession. I first heard of him when I heard part of his Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross in 2014 while driving somewhere, and I was captivated, but for one reason or another, I didn't remember to seek out any of his albums. Then late this fall, looking for new stuff to listen to, I happened upon his recent album Land of Doubt, which wrapped itself around my consciousness and wouldn't let go. "Who is this guy?" I thought, imagining he was a grizzled old feller something like the Woodsman in Twin Peaks. I soon discovered he was the guy I'd heard on Fresh Air whose music I had wanted to listen to but then got distracted and didn't. Land of Doubt was different enough from my perception of his earlier music that I hadn't connected that musician, who had both a powerful personal story and a powerful talent as a singer-songwriter, with this one.
It's rare that I write about music, beca…
Sentences Seeking, and Finding, Forms: On Some Passages in Barnaby Rudge
William Gassdied a few days ago, and, as I do when a writer I value dies, I returned to his work. I read around in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and then A Temple of Texts, where, in the essay "The Sentence Seeks Its Form", I read:
Between Shakespeare and Joyce, there is no one but Dickens who has an equal command of the English language. This struck me because I hadn't ever particularly thought of Gass as a Dickens man. You won't find, for instance, a Dickens novel listed in the book's earlier essay on "Fifty Literary Pillars", nor has Gass written at length about Dickens in the way he has so many other writers. (But still, many of us have writers we cherish, or at least admire, about whom we've written little or nothing.) I found, going back through his essays, that Gass has scattered brief insights about Dickens throughout; not only is there the wonderful discussion of David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, and details in "The Sentence…
Virginia Woolf Miscellany and a Remembrance of Jean Kennard
The Spring 2017 issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany (issue 91) has been posted online as a free PDF. It includes a brief essay I wrote in remembrance of Jean Kennard, who taught a Woolf seminar twenty years ago that helped set me on a path I am still following.
Here's a taste:
We read all of the novels except Night and Day, plus Room, Three Guineas, and the essays in Michèle Barrett's Women & Writing anthology. I remember being so exhausted from reading that I could hardly keep up with my other classes, but it was a profoundly fulfilling exhaustion, because reading such a volume of Woolf made her words and images feel like a presence in my life, a sort of companion.
Notes on Blade Runner 2049
To write responsibly about Blade Runner 2049, I would need to see it again, and to explore what I want to explore I would need to watch Denis Villeneuve's previous film, Arrival, again (I last saw it on its theatrical release), and I would need to watch all of Villeneuve's previous films (a couple of which I've missed), and I would need to watch the original Blade Runner again (a film I cherish and have seen a dozen times, at least, though I'm always happy for an excuse for another viewing), and—
I do not have time for any of this at the moment. But, before my thoughts disappear like — well, if wanted to insert an obvious and tacky allusion here, I'd say, like tears in rain, but you can fill in the simile yourself — before my thoughts disappear, I will jot down a few notes, on the off chance that they may be of use to you or somebody or me or nobody—
For me, Blade Runner 2049 is a sometimes visually interesting movie and not much other than that. Among the people …
What Is To Be Done About The Social Novel?
The new issue of Harper's includes a review-essay by Jonathan Dee that asks a question summed up by the writer of the headline as "Does the social novel have a future?" Ultimately, though, the essay is not so much concerned with that question as with questions of imagination and representation.
Dee reviews (or at least mentions) four recent books (three novels, one nonfiction account) which got him thinking about questions of what tends to be called "cultural appropriation" and the limits of fictionality. He admits he was skeptical of the idea of "cultural appropriation" until he read Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck and found himself thinking it's a good novel that also makes choices that he, when reading, grew uncomfortable with.
I haven't read the books Dee writes about, but I expect I would generally agree with his assessment of them, and his description of Erpenbeck's book made me quite certain I would dislike it for all the reasons …
"Grade Inflation" as a Path to Ungrading
At Jacobin, Ed Burmila writes about grade inflation as a symptom of the neoliberalization of education, pointing out that there is no group within contemporary higher ed for whom there is much benefit to a lowering of grades, and, indeed, there are many groups for whom a lowering of grades is at best inconvenient and at worst utterly undesireable.
This seems to me an accurate assessment, but it misses any sense of opportunity. Burmila laments the loss of meaning in grades and seems to yearn for a time when teachers were tough and gentlemen preferred Cs. There is an assumption within what he writes that grades and grade-point averages can be useful and meaningful.
I don't entirely deny that grades can mean something. But what they mean is obscured by the simplification of a grade: one instructor's C is another's B is another's D. Grades provide an alibi for us, they let us pretend we're seeing an assessment when what we're seeing is something so simplistic and r…
Shetland: Attending to the Consequences of Violence
From now on, whenever someone argues that their story or tv episode or movie or whatever absolutely couldn't possibly work without a graphic rape scene, I will think of episode 5 of the third series of the BBC show Shetland. The episode includes the kidnapping and rape of a regular series character. But we don't even see the kidnapping, only the moments leading up to it and then other characters' growing concern over the disappearance. She reappears, walking barefoot to a Glasgow police station, and at first there is relief: She's safe and she doesn't seem harmed. And then she tells the series' main character, DI Perez, that evidence will need to be collected. The rest of the episode and much of the final episode pay careful attention to her and her colleagues' work to come to grips with the event. The drama plays out through dialogue and restrained, thoughtful acting.
I tend to watch murder shows with dinner. I'm quite used to munching away amidst fic…
Against Academic Conferences
There's a lot I love about academia — more than I dislike, or I wouldn't be about to start my 5th year toward a PhD — but it is an often vexing world, particularly to those of us who've spent a lot of time outside it. If you've never gotten outside the groves of academe, you're likely to internalize academic practices and not simply think that they're normal, but be utterly convinced that they're acceptable and even, perhaps, the only way to do things. Academic publishing, for instance, is even more whackadoodle bonkers and exploitative than trade publishing, and back in the days when I only knew the world of trade publishing, I wouldn't have thought such a thing was possible. Most academic publishing makes trade publishing look positively noble, generous, and big-hearted.
A recent piece by Pamela L. Gay on "The Unacknowledged Costs of Academic Travel" got me thinking once again about one of the things I most dislike in academic life: traveli…
Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou
A hazard of doing intense academic work all about novels and novelists and The Novel and the novelties of novelism, etc. etc. etc. ad noveleam, — as I have been doing for a few years now — is that you stop being able to enjoy novels. (Or maybe not you. Maybe this is just me. I long ago learned that I cannot binge on particular genres, whether novels or stories or poems or essays. After working as the series editor for the three Best American Fantasy anthologies, for instance, I hardly read any short fiction for a few years.)
I didn't realize I wasn't enjoying novels until recently when, after not enjoying yet another book that had been highly praised and/or recommended by friends, I asked myself what the last novel I actually enjoyed was. I had to think long and hard. The answer: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, from February. (Before that, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You, December 2016.) Not that long ago, but given how many novels I read or tried to read aft…
Watching Fassbinder Now
I've written a lot about Rainer Werner Fassbinder here at The Mumpsimus, and a few years ago created a video essay about his early films when Criterion released five of them as part of their (apparently discontinued) Eclipse series of bare-bones releases. I keep meaning to write more about RWF, to create new video essays (on Fassbinder and the recently deceased cinematographer Michael Ballhaus; on queer Fassbinder), and I will eventually, but for now I simply want to point out that U.S. viewers, at least, now have access to a big selection of Fassbinder films via TCM's new streaming site, Filmstruck, which replaced Hulu as the home to Criterion's streaming service.
I'm giving Filmstruck a test ride, and so of course have delved into the Fassbinder titles. (And I'm not alone in that: here's a good new piece from Brandon Soderbergh on them.) There's quite a lot that hasn't been available in the U.S. for a while, most notably Querelle, which is streaming …
Notes on Theory of the Novel by Guido Mazzoni
I've spent the last couple of weeks reading — almost devouring — Guido Mazzoni's Theory of the Novel, recently translated by Zakiya Hanafi from the Italian (a very clear translation of a complex text; not reading Italian, I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it's one of the most readable works of academic theory I've ever encountered). I'm still working through where I agree and disagree with Mazzoni, but however my thinking evolves regarding his ideas, the book is unquestionably impressive and thought-provoking, and particularly valuable in how it develops and clarifies some of the classic concepts in the field from Bakhtin, Lukács, Erich Auerbach, and Ian Watt (among others). The only other recent book I've read that seems almost as clear and logical on similar topics is The Rhetoric of Fictionality by Richard Walsh, a less ambitious, less fulfilling, and less elegant book than Mazzoni's, but useful in filling in around some of Mazzoni's edges, si…
Few cinematic genres are as consistently awful as the biopic. Many of the greatest filmmakers have avoided any temptation to enter that genre, and the ones that, for reasons of finances or temporary insanity, did give it a shot usually ended up creating some of their worst films. (Mike Leigh is one of the few great filmmakers to have also created great biopics with Topsy-Turvy and Mr. Turner.)
Biopics of writers are especially hazardous. Most writers, after all, aren't as cinematic in their lives as Hunter S. Thompson or William S. Burroughs. Making the highly interior work of writing into something cinematically interesting is a nearly insuperable challenge, a challenge that usually results in Romantic cliché and general absurdity.
Which brings me to Terence Davies' latest film, A Quiet Passion, a biopic of Emily Dickinson, a writer with perhaps the least cinematic life of them all. I am fascinated by Dickinson's poetry, but I'm not a Davies acolyte; I find his gauzy…
Counternarratives by John Keene
John Keene's Counternarratives is one of the most impressive short story collections I've ever read from a living writer, and I was pleased to have the chance to write about it for my old blogosphere friend Dan Wickett, who does wonders celebrating short fiction via his Emerging Writers Network. Here's a taste:
The stories of John Keene provide an aesthetic to push against the power of the cultural forces that venerate quick, easy thinking; forces that reduce knowledge to soundbites and hottakes and quick! mustread! breaking! stories, enforcing a compulsory presentism that is little more than mass amnesia — and self-aggrandizing mass amnesia at that. It’s a prose aesthetic to fight against any impulse insisting life here and life now is the most, the best, the worst, the only. His 2015 collection Counternarratives — easily one of the most invigorating English-language story collections of the last 25 years — offers us a powerful contemporary toolbox of approaches to langu…
Experiments with Feedback and Grading in a First-Year Writing Course
It's been a while since I last wrote here about teaching, for a simple reason: I've been teaching the same course, First-Year Writing, for a couple of years now, and haven't really had much to say about it. (Literature grad students at UNH used to be able to get some lit courses to teach after a required year of teaching what we colloquially call 401, but various forces related to lower enrollments made my cohort the last to get any lit courses [when I taught Literary Analysis and then an American lit survey], and so for the past two years I've taught nothing but 401).
For the upcoming year, the university awarded me a Dissertation Year Fellowship, so I will not be teaching. Before all memory of the past few years leaves my mind, here are some reflections...
This academic year, bored to death with my own teaching, I decided to experiment with the course a bit, and those experiments worked out well generally, so perhaps they are worth sharing here.
Most of my experimen…
I am just coming to the news that Mark Woods, who ran the wood s lot site, died in February.
I'd not been reading wood s lot regularly for a while — life got complex, internet reading more fragmented, and wood s lot was just too rich, too full, too much: I hated skimming it, because it was material that needed to be absorbed more fully, more thoughtfully. I regret that, and am glad that the archives survive.
I can't overstate the effect of wood s lot on me in the early days of blogging here. (The consistent quality of the site is awe-inspiring. I look back through my own archives here and mostly think I'm looking at the doodles of a child. Read through the archives of wood s lot and from the beginning you'll perceive a sharp mind arranging the signs and sights of the universe.) In the scrappy days before social networks and corporate bloggers, Mark Woods' site and David Auerbach's Waggish offered a literary seriousness that made online writing seem meaningful …
Delany at 75
Samuel R. Delany just celebrated his 75th birthday, an auspicious occasion.
I've been writing about Delany for over a decade now — I've written and published more about his work than about that of any other writer: introductions to new editions of The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, Starboard Wine, and The American Shore; on his early pornographic novel Equinox; on his recent novel Dark Reflections; an interview in 2009. I spent some time last summer researching in his archives at Boston University and expect to return this summer, as about a third of my doctoral dissertation (in progress...) is devoted to his work. I've given presentations about him at academic conferences, and all of my academic friends are probably quite tired of my invoking his name at every possible opportunity.
The simple fact is that I think Delany is one of the most important American writers, one who ought to be spoken of alongside any great American writer (however defined or identified) of the second half of…
The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge
When I heard, a few months ago, that Paul La Farge's new novel would be about H.P. Lovecraft, I groaned. For one thing, I don't care much about Lovecraft; for another, there's a boom in people writing about Lovecraft these days. Good writers, too! Not just the hacks of fandom churning out their unintentionally almost-funny imitations, not just cretins of the sort who bought Weird Tales because they would rather run it into the ground than have anybody taint its legacy with stories that aren't imitations of Lovecraft — no, I'm talking about good writers, interesting writers, original writers, and—
And then comes the announcement about Paul La Farge, a writer I've enjoyed for almost twenty years now, ever since a friend of mine spent some time at the MacDowell Colony when he was there and told me, "There's a guy here who writes weird surrealist stuff you'd like," and when I went to visit her we stopped by the Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough…
Selecting Woolf's Essays
It is time for a capacious, authoritative one-volume selection of Virginia Woolf's essays and journalism. (Perhaps one is in preparation. I don't know.) The sixth and final volume of her collected essays was released in 2011. It is wondrous, as are all of the volumes in the series, but though it's a goldmine for scholars, the series isn't really aimed at the everyday reader; each volume is relatively expensive (though not to the extent of an academic volume, e.g. the Cambridge Editions), and plenty of the material is ephemeral, repetitive, or esoteric.
A one-volume Selected Essays does exist, edited by David Bradshaw and published by Oxford World's Classics. It's better than nothing, but it's small and missing many of Woolf's best essays — including perhaps her single most-frequently-reprinted essay, "The Death of the Moth". Bradshaw also slights Woolf's literary essays, perhaps because the two CommonReader volumes remain in print. Also i…
Andrew Haigh wrote and directed one of my favorite films of the century so far, Weekend, and his 2015 movie 45 Years is based on David Constantine's breathtaking short story "In Another Country" — as rich and perfect a story as you're ever likely to read.
For these reasons, I put off seeing the movie for a long time, because I feared it could not live up to my hopes and expectations for it.
And no, it couldn't live up to my hopes and expectations, and my hopes and expectations did, indeed, get in the way — but it's still an impressive film. In particular, the performances and the cinematography are magnificent.
The plot of 45 Years is simple, and starts right from the second scene: An older couple, Kate and Geoff, are getting ready to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, having not been able to celebrate their 40th because of Geoff's heart bypass surgery. That week, Geoff receives an official letter letting him know that a body has been found encase…
"We must remain readers..."
Virginia Woolf, from "How Should One Read a Book":
We must remain readers; we shall not put on the further glory that belongs to those rare beings who are also critics. But still we have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal into the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print. And that influence, if it were well instructed, vigorous and individual and sincere, might be of great value now when criticism is necessarily in abeyance; when books pass in review like the procession of animals in a shooting gallery, and the critic has only one second in which to load and aim and shoot and may well be pardoned if he mistakes rabbits for tigers, eagles for barndoor fowls, or misses altogether and wastes his shot upon some peaceful cow grazing in a further field. If behind the erratic gunfire of…
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
John Darnielle's first novel (after the uncategorizable critical novella Black Sabbath's Master of Reality), Wolf in White Van, got a lot of attention and made the longlist for the 2014 National Book Awards. I read it when it came out, since I adore Darnielle's work as singer-songwriter for The Mountain Goats, and thought maybe he'd be okay at writing novels, too, though I tried not to get my hopes up. After a few pages, I was entranced, and read the book quickly, almost in a fugue state, stopping only because at times I found it emotionally overwhelming. I never wrote about it because I didn't know how to do so in any way other than to say, "Go read this." To explain what made the book such a rich reading experience for myself would require delving into a lot of weirdnesses of personal response, useless to anybody else, and to talk much about the plot and structure would be to give away part of the novel's magic. I am not at all a spoiler alerter — …
Elements of Style for the Age of Blight
As the world burns away in political crises and ecological catastrophe, writers strain against meaninglessness, against the sense that their work is nothing more than a few grains of confectionary sugar tossed to a howling wind. What forms might fit our time, what stories might we tell against a future of no-one left to listen to stories?
No other label for where we are and where we’re going as a world seems quite so accurate as the one Kristine Ong Muslim has used for her recent collection of stories, The Age of Blight. It is a book of glimpses, shards, and lost myths; it works like a nightmare recollected during the day before you know the nightmare will return and sleep cannot be kept at bay indefinitely.
The Age of Blight and a thousand books like it will not forestall our own Age of Blight, but Muslim offers strategies for storytelling as the blasted era blightens. Her techniques for writing fiction are ones that make demands on the reader, but they're not the dem…
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Continued From previous post: How to Publish Your Novel by Ken Atchity
Chapter Thirteen: Perfecting Your Craft
All five of these elements must be present in your protagonist. And as you’ve no doubt noticed, all of these attributes link directly to your novel’s action. Because in a good story, the action happens as it does because of who your protagonist is. Conversely, your protagonist develops as he does because of the way the action unfolds. Action and character drive each other.
All the elements in your novel must support this single line of protagonist in action. This holds true as well for all the other characters who populate your novel. Whether major, minor or functional, characters only belong in your story to the extent that they serve the action line.
Minor or supporting characters have a “tag”: a single attribute that defines them and makes them memorable. Any supporting character who isn’t memorable should be instantly thrown out.
A minor character’s “tag” can be just about any attribute: greed, lechery, or like Sally’s friend in When Harry Met Sally, an all-consuming desire to get married. Don’t spell it out, though. If a character is absent-minded, show it in action, thought and dialogue, don’t use the phrase “absent-minded” or you rob audience of the chance to figure it out for themselves.
A minor character can have a motivation but not a mission—that’s your protagonist’s job. They, too can evolve, but not along the same lines as your protagonist. Your minor characters are there to make his life more interesting. Establish them quickly, then move on.
Function characters play an even less important role than supporting characters. They perform a single function without being involved in the main character’s motivation. They ride in at sunset to deliver the fateful telegram, then ride away again. They serve the drinks, drive the cabs, do their duties, then go upon their way. Unlike your protagonist and minor characters, they’re supposed to be forgettable.
Keep function characters simple. If you spend too much energy on them your readers will start to think they’re more significant than you mean them to be. Then when the character disappears, it will feel to your readers like you left something dangling, or worse, like you misled them.
Keep in mind that your characters are not real people but devices that you invented for the sole purpose of capturing and holding your reader’s attention. As such, it’s your primary responsibility to keep them interesting. The best way to do that is to give them, at all times, something significant to do.
Your audience wants action. The best writers don’t get wrapped up in the complex psychological machinations of their characters. They write to satisfy their readers’ expectations. Your audience wants more than anything to see how your protagonist gets out of the corners you paint him into. All you have to do to create a compelling novel is: don’t disappoint your readers!
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Myth to Movie: Pygmalion
First published in Produced By, the official magazine of the Producers Guild of America
By Ken Atchity
The wish-fulfillment archetype —the dream become flesh—finds perennially poignant expression in stories based on the Pygmalion myth.
A Cyprian sculptor-priest-king who had no use for his island’s women, Pygmalion dedicated his energies to his art. From a flawless piece of ivory, he carved a maiden, and found her so beautiful that he robed her and adorned her with jewels, calling her Galatea (“sleeping love”). His became obsessed with the statue, praying to Aphrodite to bring him a wife as perfect as his image. Sparked by his earnestness, the goddess visited Pygmalion’s studio and was so pleasantly surprised to find Galatea almost a mirror of herself she brought the statue to life. When Pygmalion returned home, he prostrated himself at the living Galatea’s feet. The two were wed in Aphrodite’s temple, and lived happily ever after under her protection.
Though it was never absent from western literature, this transformation myth resoundingly entered modern consciousness with Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, which enlisted it to explore the complexity of human relationships in a stratified society. My Fair Lady, based on Shaw’s retelling, took the myth to another level of audience awareness.
The obligatory beats of the Pygmalion myth: the protagonist has a dream inspired by encounter with an unformed object (“Look at her, a prisoner of the gutter!”), uses his skills and/or prayers to shape it into a reality; falls in love with the embodiment of his dream, and lives happily ever after, or not.
Essential to the pattern is that the dreamer-protagonist is rewarded for doing something about his dream, for turning it from dream to reality with or without a dea ex machina. Thanks to the infinite creativity of producers, directors, and writers, Pygmalion has generated countless wonderful movie story variations: Inventor Gepetto, in Pinocchio (1940--with numerous remakes), wishes that the wooden puppet he’s created could become the son he never had; a department store window dresser (Robert Walker), in One Touch of Venus (1948, based on the Ogden Nash/S. J. Perelman musical), kisses a statue of Venus (Ava Gardner) into life— trouble begins when she falls in love with him. In 1983’s thenEducating Rita (from Willy Russell’s play), a young hairdresser (Julie Walters), wishing to improve herself by continuing her education, finds a tutor in jaded professor (Michael Caine), who’s reinvigorated by her. In a reverse of the pattern, as quickly as she changes under his tutelage he resents the “educated” Rita and wants her, selfishly, to stay as she was.
Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon), in 2003’s Love Don’t Cost a Thing, a remake of Can’t Buy Me Love (1987), comes to the rescue of Paris (Christina Milian) when she wrecks her mother’s Cadillac and can’t pay the $1,500 for the repair. Alvin fronts the cash with his savings and, in return, Paris has to pretend to be his girlfriend for two weeks; Alvin becomes “cool” for the first time in his life, but learns that the price of popularity is higher than he bargained for. In She’s All That (1999), the pattern is reversed as Freddie Prinze, Jr., is a high school hotttie who bets a classmate he can turn nerdy Rachel Leigh Cook into a prom queen but, of course, runs into trouble when he falls in love with his creation. In The Princess Diaries (2001), Mia (Anne Hathaway), a gawky Bay Area teen, learns her father was the prince of Genovia; the queen (Julie Andrews) hopes her granddaughter will take her father’s rightful place as heir, and transforms her from a social misfit into a regal lady but discover their growing love for each other is more important than the throne.
Pretty Woman (1990) is my second favorite example of the tirelessness of the Pygmalion myth. Taking the flower-girl motif of My Fair Lady to the extreme, Vivian (Julia Roberts) is a prostitute (albeit idealized) and Edward (Richard Gere) a ruthless businessman with no time for real love. As he opens his credit cards on a Rodeo Drive shopping spree, we experience a telescoped transformation-by-money accompanied with the upbeat music that reminds us that we love this highly escapist part of the Pygmalion story, the actual process of turning ugly duckling into princess swan.
My favorite example is La Femme Nikita (remade as Point of No Return, 1993, with Bridget Fonda), because it shows the versatility of mythic structure, taking Pygmalion to the darkest place imaginable as it fashions of street druggie Nikita (Anne Parillaud), under Bob’s merciless tutelage (Tcheky Karyo), a chameleon-like lethal sophisticate whose heart of gold allows her to escape both her unformed past and her darkly re-formed present.
So popular is the Pygmalion myth with audiences that it crops up in the most unlikely places. In Pao zhi nu peng you (My Dream Girl, 2003), Shanghai slum-dweller Cheung Ling (Vicki Zhao) is thrust into high society when she encounters her long-lost father, who hires Joe Lam to makeover his daughter to fit her new status. In Million-Dollar Baby (2004), the unformed matter (Hilary Swank) reports for duty and demands to be transformed. Instead of falling in love, the boxing instructor (Clint Eastwood) is reborn, reinvigorated, re-inspired, learns to feel again—thereby revealing the underlying emotion that drives the Pygmalion myth for both protagonist and the character he reshapes: rebirth into a more ideal state of being.
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A NOVELIST’S TOOL KIT - Part One
From How to Publish Your Novel by Ken Atchity
Chapter Thirteen:
Perfecting Your Craft
Nothing takes the place of practice. A famous athlete once said, “If you’re not practicing, someone out there is practicing. And when he meets you he will beat you.” Writing isn’t just a talent, it’s a craft that requires the honing of skill and technique. In this chapter I’ll give you several concrete suggestions about how you can improve yourself as a commercial novelist.
A novelist’s toolkit
A novelist’s medium is story, his form the contemporary novel. His most basic tools are character, action, setting and narrative voice. From the alchemy created by mixing these, a story emerges. Let’s examine each of these elements in turn.
Major, minor, and supporting characters
Character is by far the most important element of a novel. To the extent that your readers are “on board” with your protagonist, they will stay committed to your story. An unforgettable protagonist, even if he appears complex and multifaceted to the reader, is made up of just a handful of key components:
1.) Motivation: What makes your protagonist tick? What does he want? Your character must be struggling with one of the major human drives, including love, hate, fear, anxiety, vengeance, rage, jealousy, ambition, and greed. Your readers know these drives intimately; odds are, they’ve grappled with them in their own lives. They’ll respond to them.
Identify one drove for each of your characters and develop it. The best stories take a single, profound emotion and plumb its depths through all the characters like variations on a theme in music; the worst stories skim the surface of many different human drives, leaving their readers lost, confused, and unsatisfied. A well-constructed protagonist may possess two drives that are in conflict with each other, but rarely more than this. He is driven by greed and fear, for example, so that each step toward his goal of riches increases his psychological pain. In real life, people run a gamut of emotions, explore many drives, but not in well-made fiction. The beauty of the “what if” pattern (“What if a man driven by greed was as strongly driven by fear?”) is that it allows us to isolate and explore the ramifications of action issuing from such a character.
2.) Mission: Your protagonist needs a job to do, a goal for his drive. If it’s greed you’ve chosen, you may want to be the man who aims at being the top player on Wall Street, the woman who corners the oil exploration business, the couple who want to have more than anyone else at their country club. It doesn’t matter whether the character chooses to undertake the mission himself, or it’s thrust upon him. The mission should relate directly, in one way or another, to the character’s motivation.
The mission must be involved enough and challenging enough to sustain the story for the duration of the novel. It must lend itself to challenges, both in the form of obstacles, and in the form of an antagonist.
An antagonist, by definition, is a force that works against your hero’s mission—your protagonist’s nemesis. Your antagonist will not necessarily be a bad guy—he might not even be a person at all. In Sebastian Junger’s novel The Perfect Storm, nature is the antagonist. It’s the storm itself that foils Captain Billy Tyne’s mission to come home with a boatload of swordfish. In Steve Alten’s Domain, the antagonist is the other-worldly dragon creature who rises from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico after lying dormant for millions of years.
3.) Obstacles: Action happens when your hero struggles against obstacles to his mission. The obstacles you choose to confront your protagonist must be appropriate for him—don’t pit Bambi against the Galactic Empire. Arrange your series of obstacles in ascending order, so that the tension rises throughout your story. Your obstacles, ideally, should relate to one another in some fashion. And like all the other elements of your story, they must have a beginning, middle, and end.
4.) Relatability: If your audience can’t identify with your protagonist, they’re not going to be able to involve themselves in your story. Beginning writers often get the impression that a protagonist has to be likable. But if that were the case, we couldn’t enjoy Bill Murray’s performance as the irascible Frank Cross in Scrooged. Readers don’t have to like your protagonist. They just have to relate to him. They have to see the direction you’re pointing him in, and root for him to go there. If he’s a jerk, the audience must hunger for his redemption. You can’t help rooting for Hero’s Bernie LaPlante, even if you do want to kick him.
5.) Change: Over the course of the story, your protagonist must face his shortcoming, or his fear, or whatever it is that’s really keeping him from achieving his mission. He must grow into his ability to meet the goal you’ve set for him. In real life, human change is nebulous, messy, imprecise. In fiction, it can’t be. Your character’s change must progress in a logical, clear series of steps. See Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing for a thorough discussion of the steps that lead a character from state A to state B.
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GumboWriters aka The Gatekeepers PostInterview with Literary Manager, Ken Atchity
GumboWriters had the opportunity to interview legendary literary manager, Ken Atchity. He has been responsible for managing the careers of many bestselling authors and securing million-dollar film deals for them as well. He also has a wonderful blog you should take a look at.
How long have you been agent and how did you get your start Ken?
Well, to begin with, I'm NOT an agent although half the world calls me one. I'm a literary manager and producer, which allows my company, Atchity Entertainment International, a much wider purview and operating plane: we develop literary properties, sell them to publishers (like agents do), then set them up as films or multimedia franchises. It's been a nearly 20-year evolution to where we are today, following my first career as professor of comparative literature at Occidental College (Yale Ph.D., Georgetown B.A.), Fulbright Professor to the University of Bologna, Instructor in Screen- and Novel-writing at UCLA Writers Program, and regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
My second career is founded on my first. I wanted to move on from analyzing and critiquing stories to helping storytellers create them for publishers and the big screen. As an author myself, with 15 books to date and a half dozen or so screenplays, I thought I should 'put my money where my mouth was" and focus on creation instead of deconstruction. Turns out, the latter serves the former and has continued to do so. In fact, I formed a second company, The Writer's Lifeline, as a kind of farm team for my management and representation company—a company that mentors writers not yet ready for representation, and also ghostwrites for individuals and companies who want to get a story or information into the world but don't have time to be writers. Some of AEI's biggest successes have been incubated in the Writer's Lifeline, including Dracula: The Un-Dead, a novel AEI just sold for nearly $2 million and will produce as a film in '09.
What makes your agency different than any others?
Primarily that we think outside the box and focus on storytellers instead of screenwriters vs novelists. Our ideal clients are ones that want to be paid for their intellectual property on both coasts, publishing and entertainment, and in the global market.
What are you looking for specifically that you wish you would see more of?
We've just launched the Brand Management division of AEI, for projects like Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt's Dracula: The Un-Dead, Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not!, Royce Buckingham's Demon Keeper, that can be branded in all media—book, film, television, internet, music, merchandising & licensing. We'd like to see more high-concept and/or blockbuster novels to set up as films (like 3 Men Seeking Monsters, which we're producing at Universal, Demon Keeper at Fox 2000, Sex in the South at Lifetime, and High Voltage which we're producing with Baror International and just about to make the rounds with). When it comes to screenplays, we're looking only for high-concept action, broad comedies, successful comic books or graphic novels, high-profile fantasy (based on underlying properties) and ones based on high profile true stories. And we're also looking on the constant hunt for film financing because we've decided to take our clients' fates into our hands by financing independent movies as a more realistic supplement to the original business of setting up big studio films. Does that mean a screenplay with money attached gets our attention? Yes indeed.
Ken what are you tired of receiving?
(a) Books that have too narrow a market; (b) children's picture books (we can't make a business of them unless they're already successfully published); (c) nuclear war stories—arghhh!; (d) childhood abuse stories. I could go on…
How can a new writer get your attention in a good way?
Sending me a two-line email about their project, and two lines about themselves. When the email gets longer I forward it to my staff to answer. Don't worry--if I'm interested in the 4 lines, I'll ask for more.
How can a signed writer stay in your radar without driving you insane?
Great question. My fantastic staff is there to answer their everyday questions, and to handle the flow of the business required to get them into the marketplace. The clients we tend to retain are those that work with the whole group—including my long-time partner Chi-Li Wong. Those that demand my attention for every little thing that pops into their mind tend to drift away. I focus on creative thinking and marketing (sales!), and hope my clients understand that's where their best benefits lie. My radar is my company, and when I hear good things or nothing I'm aware the client is working well with us; when I hear about them too often, there's usually trouble brewing. The busier we get the more we turn away from trouble. But I have to say we've gotten better at better at selecting people we work well with we're pretty happy these days.
What do you wish more writers understood about you as an agent Ken that they don't seem to?
That I'm much more than an "agent." Because of my prior experience I'm a writer, editor, producer, manager, psychologist, teacher—and, above all, a determined enthusiast who will go to the ends of the earth to sell a story once I decide I love it—and have done so long after a client has lost hope
Labels: Gatekeepers Post, Gumbo Writers, Interview
Movie Myths: The Faust Myth
First published in Produced By, the official magazine of the Producers Guild of America.
Myth to Movie
“I’m tired of the same old clichés,” Sam Goldwyn once said. “Bring me some new clichés.” Since Homer’s Odyssey, which describes its protagonist as a teller of twice-told tales, storytellers achieve greatness by finding new ways to tell those universal stories that have been around since the beginning of storytelling. “It could happen anytime—anywhere—to anybody. Yes, it could even happen to you,” to quote from the opening titles of William Dieterle’s “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1941). These perennial tales are what we call myths, and our new takes on them work best when we clearly recognize the exact myth from which we’re spinning a new yarn. Films go astray when the myth is lost sight of. “Writing free verse,” Robert Frost remarked, “is like playing tennis with the nets down.”
For us development producers, the “nets” are the “obligatory beats” in the myth that’s generating the screenplay we’re working with. You simply have more creative control if you know where you’re starting from. Take one of Hollywood’s favorites—“the deal with the Devil” (human POV) or the “Devil tempting humans” (Devil POV, the latter going at least as far back as the Book of Job). This temptation-to-supernatural power-and-redemption myth decisively predates the namesake it’s often identified with (Doctor Johannes Faust actually existed in the 16th century, a famous magician renowened for his devotion to necromancy), going back at least as far as Prometheus (who enables man to go beyond his nature), touching down again memorably with Satan offering Jesus from the mountain “all the kingdoms of the world, if you will fall down and adore me” and reappears memorably again with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’s wildest dream become real enough to destroy him.
The myth generates stories that fall into two categories: in one set of stories, often called “Faust” stories, like “Damn Yankees” (1958), “Alias Nick Beal” (1949), and “The Devil’s Advocate,” a living protagonist makes a deal with the evil spirit; in the second set, like “Heaven Can Wait,” “The Devil and Max Devlin,” “Angel on My Shoulder” (1946), and Todd McFarlane’s “Spawn,” the protagonist Al Simmons is murdered by his evil boss Jason Wynn, then makes a hell of a deal that brings him back to life (the story is muddled by putting in too many elements that undermine the power of the myth to involve us personally).
The Faust stories may be slightly more popular to filmmakers because they remain rooted in earthbound reality without having to deal with visualizing the afterlife except in the random nightmare flash. In the typical Faust story, the protagonist wants something (eternal life, power, knowledge, the perfect woman—or lots of her) so badly he attracts an evil spirit (the Devil, Satan, “Wall Street’s” Gordon Gekko) who promises to help him get it, for a price (usually his immortal soul, almost always his morality). Note that the devil’s deal is usually deceitful in some way—why wouldn’t it be?—though the protagonist is blinded to the deceit by his greed. The protagonist longs for a power beyond the ordinary, the devil comes to offer it to him in exchange for his soul. He accepts the bargain, and enjoys what he longed for until he realizes the enjoyment is hollow. The devil then comes to claim the bargainer’s soul. In the final act, Faust ether is redeemed and given a second chance or is taken, howling, down to hell. Note that in either version the important catalyst the athe antagonist’s 9the devil’s )The details of the bargain laid out, the deal sealed, our hero gets the girl, or the money, or the power—but finds something wrong either with what he wanted or what he has to pay, or with both. Then he tries to get out of it, and—in act 3—either succeeds or fails (comedy or “tragedy”). Cases in point: consitgency. Faust may change his mind, and wish the deal undone; but the devil sticks to his guns.
• In Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” (1586), the price is his soul, the exchange 24 years of service from Mephistopheles, bringing him knowledge, power, wealth, and beauty; the outcome, tragic: Repentance is too little too late, and Faust is dragged howling into hell by demons. Yet he’s still seen somehow as a hero, of man’s transcendence of his own nature.
• Goethe’s “Faust” (1808) brings an Enlightenment twist to the familiar story: the protagonist scientist, master of his own destiny, is the one who lays down the conditions of the demonic deal. Tragedy is transformed to comedy by a literal dues ex machina – when Mephistopheles comes to collect his soul, angels beat him to it and carry Faust off to heaven. The angels in Goethe’s tale are man’s higher nature, saving him because of his desire for knowledge on behalf of all humanity.
• In “The Devil & Daniel Webster,” the payoff for xxx is seven years of prosperity, but Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston) is defeated by the oratory and Yankee ingenuity of Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold): “No American citizen may be forced into the service of a foreign prince.”
• In “Mephisto” (Mephistopheles is the name of the devil in Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust), the devil is the Nazi regime, the payoff to the actor-protagonist is being allowed to continue in the theater.
Typically the storytellers’ desire is t somehow save Faust, for saving him would allow audiences to believe that transcendence is possible, that one can go beyond the limits of human nature with impunity. The trick is how to save him believably, and that is a tough trick to pull off.
The producers’ challenge is to work with the screenwriter to think up a twist that excites audiences to take this “same old ride” one more time. In “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), the twist is that the diabolical deal is made by the protagonist’s husband and she’s left holding the bag—er, the baby. In “The Devil’s Advocate,” the twist is that the protagonist played by Keanu Reeves finds out he’s the Devil’s son. In both cases, the stories have clear and satisfying resolutions because the storytellers have kept sight of the invisible net—the mythic understructure of the story--which allows them to play tennis as though they and the audience could see it. When the story gets the myth right, even with all its twists and turn to “make it new,” the audience sighs with relief—redemption, even after great evil, is still possible.
But if the twists and turn twist the essentials of the myth too much, the story falls flat. “Bedazzled” (2000) has a cool twist, with the devil as a saucy woman (Elizabeth Hurley), but by adding the “seven wishes” motif to the basic Faust myth, muddles up the the myth by, among other things, trying to mix it with the “three (in this case seven) wishes” myth and the writing isn’t strong enough to pull off the graft effectively.
In Indecent Proposal, the innocent young couple encounters the handsomely tuxedoed John Gage (his dapperness reminiscent of Ray Walston’s Mr. Applegate in “Damn Yankees”). But Ray Walston was no romantic competition for Tab Hunter. “Indecent Proposal” goes awry for the audience because once the audience has seen the devilish gleam in Robert Redford’s eyes, they, like Demy Moore’s Diana Murphy, lose their rooting interest in husband David (played by hapless Woody Harrelson). The producers chose the star system over adhering to mythic storytelling—the devil’s not supposed to be the good guy, but by the end we’re rooting for Diana to stay with him and his lovable dogs, not go back to her ineffectual husband and his white rhinoceros. For the devil to play antagonist, you need a heavy, like Al Pacino in “The Devil’s Advocate” or Robert de Niro in “Angel Heart.” But of course Redford wanted the role, and who wouldn’t want Redford? The film did over $300 worldwide on an all-in of $63 million. It just felt fuzzy at the end because we lost sight of the nets. Moral of the story: when in doubt about your script, attach a star!
Labels: Movie Myths, The Faust Myth
When I was younger and involved a lot with water colours and showing my work at the various shows I met many good artists. One elderly artist who was an excellent water colourist gave me a word of advice I never forgot. He said that there is a point you arrive at when your right brain intuition tells you that you have a piece of art before you. He went on to say that, at this point, "do not fiddle!" By-passing your intuition and fiddling with the end result destroys the piece of art and leaves you with an "illustration." He said, "Don't do it!"—Thomas Mitchell [via John Reid]
So you think English is easy?
From J. Marie Bjorklund
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce .
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present
the present .
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Labels: On Writing
TEN RULES TO MAKE WORKING WITH AGENTS AND EDITORS A SUCCESS FOR YOU
Continuing on with my August 12th post Excerpt from my How to Publish Your Novel here are the first five rules in depth:
Rule 1: Take the time to become familiar with the agents and editors that you want to represent you.
Consider the literary property that you want to sell and try to choose an agency or editor that has a good track record in selling or publishing that type of work. There are several good resources to refer to for this information, i.e. Jeff Herman’s “Writers Guide to Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents” (Prima) or “The Writers Market – Online Edition” (Holm & Lucyszyn).
For instance, if you have a novel that you think would make not only a bestseller, but also a blockbuster at the movies, then try to find an agent that sells both to publishers and studios. Some agencies only represent writers for publishing, others only represent writers for feature film screenplays or television series or movies, and some do both.
If you are going to submit directly to editors, then you should have a sense of what the publisher has published in the past and what they are looking for now. For instance, if you want to publish your bathroom humor non-fiction book, don’t send it to a publisher that primarily publishes literary fiction. Or if you have a literary fiction manuscript, don’t send it to a publisher that only handles only commercial fiction. It’s really worth it to take the time to research the agents and editors that you are considering submitting to. You can avoid wasted postal fees, rejections and good will by taking the time to do this.
Rule 2: Familiarize yourself with the submission policies of the agent or editor that you want to submit to and abide by these policies.
When doing your research on agents and editors, you will run across submission policies for each. These are helpful guidelines that should be paid attention to. For instance, some agencies and editors do not allow email or fax queries and only accept hardcopy, mailed queries. Most agencies and editors require queries to be sent before they will request a submission of the entire literary property. Unsolicited submissions are almost always returned. Jeff Herman’s guide and the Writers Market guide, which can also be found on www.writersmarket.com, lists specifically what the requirements are for almost all agents and editors. If the policy is not listed, don’t hesitate to call the agent or editor to clarify.
Also, in specific reference to agents and managers, these guides will usually tell you if there is a reading fee required to be paid to have the agent or manager consider your work. If a reading fee is required, this usually means that the agent or manager is bunk. It is a good idea, to base your estimate of an agent or manager on their sales track record, which is usually listed on their website or that they will gladly share with you if you call to ask.
Rule 3: YOU are as important as the work that you are submitting. The quality of your work is not the only element evaluated by an agent or editor considering a business relationship with you – so, SELL YOURSELF as much as your work.
You may have the next bestseller, but if an agent or editor doesn’t want to work with you, there’s a good chance that you won’t get signed. So many times, writers sabotage their own efforts by behaving arrogantly or being overly demanding, aggressive, impatient or even rude. Ironically, new writers, who have no credentials or marketing platform, are usually the biggest abusers of this rule. Remember that it is not only your work, but also the entire package of your work and you, and how you are to work with as a person, that sells an agent or editor. If it looks like it’s going to be a difficult process to work with you, editors and agents will usually opt not to, no matter how good your writing is.
You don’t want to get on anyone’s “Life is Too Short” list. And this is what usually happens to writers that look like they will be difficult to work with. For most editors and agents, life is too short to work with difficult personalities, and there are plenty of writers out there who have great projects and are capable of working well with others. Successful relationships with agents and editors are like successful relationships in life. They are long-term. Aggressive, difficult behavior has no place in a long-term personal relationship, nor does it in a long-term business relationship.
Rule 4: Consider the appropriateness of a phone call before dialing your agent or editor.
There are appropriate and inappropriate phone calls that are made to agents and editors everyday. If an agent or editor has not responded within the response time listed in the market guides or directories, then it is appropriate to call to check on your manuscript. But it’s not a good idea to keep calling. Call during business hours and politely ask the agent or editor if he/she can provide you with information regarding the status of X project, written by X author. Most likely, the agent or editor will give you the response right there and then on the phone, by indicating that he has “passed” on the project, i.e. he doesn’t want to represent it or buy it, or that he needs more time reading it. If the agent or editor wants to sign you and your project, they will call you, without a doubt. If an agent or editor needs more time to read your project, they will usually give you a timeframe within which they will respond to you. If they don’t, don’t feel uncomfortable asking them for a timeframe. This will guide you on when the next appropriate call can be made.
Other phone call rules:
a. Don’t call your agent or editor at home, unless specifically requested to do so.
b. Don’t call an agent or editor to discuss why they passed on your project.
- This will only work against you with future submissions. Sometimes reasons for “passing” are provided in the rejection letter. If they are not, and you definitely want feedback, be very polite in the way that you request it and the way that you respond to it.
c. Don’t call to ask “Did it get there yet?”
- It is safe to assume that a publisher will get back to you in the time specified in the directories or market listings. Calling before this time has elapsed will only annoy agents and editors. Also, this question can easily be answered by including a self-addressed-stamped postcard along with the manuscript. If your project is rejected, it will be sent back to you. If it is accepted, you will be called without a doubt.
Rule 5: Gimmicks don’t work.
Sometimes writers will change the names of their lead characters to the name of the agent or editor that they are submitting to in order to endear the agent or editor to their project. This usually backfires and many times sacrifices the integrity of the story.
Sometimes writers will try to put pressure on agents and editors by telling them that their project is being offered a deal elsewhere or by indicating that they must have an answer immediately or else they will be forced to sign with someone else. This kind of pressure rarely works and can be easily verified. So be careful what you say. It can come back to haunt you if you’re not telling the truth!
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LKP blocks vote on major bills
Agreement on Friday morning gives way to a filibuster threat
Lawmakers from the main opposition Liberty Korea Party stage a sit-in protest in front of the entrance to the main conference hall of the National Assembly on Friday to block the passage of contentious bills. [YONHAP]
The ruling and opposition parties failed Friday to follow through on an earlier agreement to hold a plenary session to vote on dozens of bills, including some politically volatile ones, as the main opposition party decided to filibuster to block the proceedings.
National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang and floor leaders of three main parties - the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) and Bareunmirae Party - agreed in the morning that they would hold a voting session at 3 p.m. Friday. They agreed to first vote on 22 bills linked to the budget bill that was passed on Tuesday and dozens of uncontentious bills.
After that they planned to introduce a series of five contentious bills, including a bill to revise the election law, for a vote.
The contentious bills had been designated fast-track items in April after the DP and LKP had failed to agree on them. Earlier this month, Speaker Moon sent them for pre-voting deliberation. The DP and its allies are backing a bill to introduce a new general election system and a package of bills to weaken the prosecution’s powers by creating a new investigative agency for public servants and redistributing investigative power between the police and prosecution. The LKP adamantly oppose them.
“Among the fast-track items, the election law revision bill is the top priority,” said Rep. Lee In-young, floor leader of the DP, after the morning negotiation with the LKP and Bareunmirae counterparts. “We want to vote on all fast-track bills, but I am not sure if we can discuss other bills if the LKP filibusters the election law revision bill.”
The DP said the election law revision bill must be passed before Tuesday because registration for the April general election candidates begins that day.
After a plan to hold the voting session at 3 p.m. was announced, the LKP held a general assembly of its lawmakers and finalized a strategy to filibuster a voting session in order to block the contentious bills.
The party’s agreement in the morning was an apparent ruse to make the DP submit a motion to open an extraordinary session to hold the voting session. Only then could it submit a request to filibuster it.
“We must use all possible means to stop their attempt to ram through the fast-track bills,” Hwang said. “Even if we need to lie down in the lobby, we must fight until the last moment.”
Hwang, then, started a sit-in demonstration in front of the entrance of the National Assembly’s main chamber around 2:40 p.m. in a show of defiance. LKP lawmakers joined Hwang.
The plenary session was delayed.
The LKP also filed a motion to filibuster a motion, submitted by the DP, to open an extraordinary session. It was the first bill to be deliberated if the plenary session started.
Speaker Moon urgently asked the floor leaders of the three parties to meet with him, but LKP floor leader, Rep. Shim Jae-cheol, and Bareunmirae floor leader, Rep. Oh Shin-hwan, did not respond.
After meeting with Moon, Rep. Lee In-young, floor leader of the DP, expressed his frustration. “The agreement we reached in the morning was denied,” he said. “We agreed in the morning that they won’t filibuster a motion to hold an extraordinary session,” he said. “But the LKP did.”
Shim, however, refuted Lee’s claim. “I never said clearly that we won’t filibuster it,” he said.
The LKP also challenged the DP’s argument that a motion to open an extraordinary session is not subject to filibuster, citing a clause in the National Assembly Act.
According to the act’s Clause 2, Article 106, a lawmaker, who desires to filibuster an item on the agenda referred to the plenary session must submit a request to the speaker, signed by at least one-third of all incumbent lawmakers.
In such a case, the speaker shall implement the filibuster.
BY SER MYO-JA, YI WOO-LIM [ser.myoja@joongang.co.kr]
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Remains at Gwangju prison site investigated
The Justice Ministry is investigating the origins of the remains of around 40 people discovered underneath the old Gwangju Penitentiary last week over a possible connection to the missing victims of a bloody crackdown of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement.
A team of nine investigators are currently crosschecking records of maintenance at the cemetery. Gwangju citizens were shocked last Thursday, when the government and the May 18 Memorial Foundation, the organization established to honor the victims of the 1980 Gwangju democratic uprising, discovered around 40 unidentified remains while working to clear a convicts’ cemetery on the grounds of the old Gwangju Penitentiary.
The May 18 Memorial Foundation announced Saturday that it will ask the Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office on Monday to open an investigation to determine the origins of the remains discovered in the old Gwangju Penitentiary, which number around 40.
The penitentiary itself was moved to another neighborhood in the city in 2015, leaving behind a graveyard where a total of 111 convicts without family connections were buried. The new remains were found piled up on top of one another without any organization on existing prisoners’ coffins, leading to the speculation that they were victims of the killings that overtook Gwangju in 1980.
From May 18 to 27, 1980, thousands in Gwangju joined a pro-democracy uprising against Gen. Chun Doo Hwan’s seizure of power in a military coup five months earlier, which led the government to dispatch paratroopers for a brutal clampdown on protesters. What resulted was hundreds of deaths, though it is still widely disputed exactly how many citizens were killed that day, ranging from the government’s count of 193 to over 600 according to civic groups.
At least 78 people have been officially acknowledged as “missing peoples,” whose bodies are believed to have been buried secretly in some location, though the number of people reported missing exceeds 448.
One major-ranking officer surnamed Kim who commanded troops during the uprising testified to civic groups that some of the victims’ bodies were secretly buried in Gwangju Penitentiary.
The prison was also where dozens of citizens and civilian protesters were jailed after partaking in the uprising. Soldiers stationed at the prison were also responsible for firing at citizens in a vehicle traveling to another local town, causing several dozen more casualties.
So far, the government has sent the remains off to the National Forensic Service for DNA analysis to prove their origins.
Because the bones of dozens of people were found mixed together, the organization will first have to identify each of the pieces before setting off on a DNA test. The entire process, according to Prof. Park Jong-tae of the Chonnam University’s medical school, is likely to take an entire year.
Park added, however, that the holes found on some of the discovered skulls do not immediately appear to have been inflicted by gunfire, though he said a more thorough analysis was needed to make a conclusion.
BY JIN CHANG-IL, SHIM KYU-SEOK AND CHOI KYEONG-HO [shim.kyuseok@joongang.co.kr]
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Along the Outer Banks
By Caleb Lemke
Bodie Lighthouse. Image credit: Caleb Lemke
Discovering OBX, the Carolina Coast
I've had an obsession with the Outer Banks for years, an infatuation and fervent longing for this fabled land since I was a young kid. That was when I first read David Alan Harvey's article, where he wrote about the sandbar along North Carolina's coast, and the life he saw there. I wanted to join the locals he described as having "perfecting the art of hanging out," to see the sandbar that served as an escape from the real world for so many. Then providence smiled down upon me - I was moving to North Carolina. Though I lived in the center of the state, I knew it was only a matter of time before I would have the sand between my toes. It seemed everyone around me had been there, boasting of summers in beach houses, showing off their "OBX" shirts, and it seemed almost every car around had an OBX decal on it. In the end though, my hopes and longings came to naught - I was never able to go. Then providence offered one more chance, as my family moved to North Carolina once more. Over my summer visit, I knew that this was the time to go to my promised land.
Aside from the beautiful, anticipated beaches, the Outer Banks is home to fascinating history. The Roanoke Colony, one of America's enduring mysteries and the first attempt at colonization of the Americas by the English, was on the Outer Banks. This portion of Carolina cost later became a hotbed of pirate activity because of the the dangerous shifting sandbars, inlets and islands that pirates could use for cover, slipping in and out of the Outer Banks to attack and evade. The waters themselves were so naturally dangerous to ships that the area was dubbed "The Graveyard of the Atlantic." Many famous pirates, such as Calico Jack and Mary Reed, were known to sail through, but the most famous was undoubtedly Blackbeard, who met his end in the Outer Banks. There was a small Freedman's Colony on the Outer Banks during the Civil War, and markers from various skirmishes and minor battles from the Civil War. The Outer Banks even boasts the first flight - it was in Kitty Hawk (present day Kill Devil Hills) that the Wright Brothers first flew, and a national monument now commemorates them.
The beach and woods on Roanoke. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
The remains of the Roanoke Colony still stand and are now located in a National Park,on the north side of Roanoke Island. The park is rather small and features a nice information center, helpful guides, and picnic tables under the trees. The paths are well maintained, lined with red cedar chips, and the area is covered in the typical mix of Carolina pines and coastal fauna, with Spanish moss hanging from most everything. The remains of the settlement have all mostly been washed away, but a few things remain to mark the failed settlement's presence. Placards and informational signs inform visitors of the history around them, as one could otherwise miss the importance and evidence of the Colony. A giant headstone along one of the paths also tells of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas. Nearby, the Elizabethan Gardens draw a lot of visitors, and there is also The Lost Colony, a small outdoor theater that hosts events. I enjoyed wandering the short trails, one of which leads straight to a beach on the sound, though I doubt anyone would want to swim in it since much nicer beaches, with fewer critters, are just across the sound.
A headstone telling about the colony. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
Manteo is arguably the hub of Roanoke Island, and isn't far from the previous park. It's still a small, charming village, with main tourist drags that tend to attract people to the souvenir shops and the restaurants catering to weekenders. I stopped at one ice cream shop for a few and chatted with the vendor, who corrected my pronunciation of the town name: true locals call it "Man'eo," and only weekenders pronounce the T. Afterwards, I strolled through the town once more, looking for something to do. That is how I discovered the highlight of my trip: Kill Devil Rum.
Outer Banks Distilling lies tucked away from the main drags, in a nice, unassuming brick building covered in white paned windows. Curious about the business, I signed up to take the hour long tour that they offer, joining a small group of weekenders who may have attended another "tasting" before coming. Our guide, Matt Newsome, was one of the four founders, who led us on the tour through the few rooms that comprise the operation. He began his tour by launching into a history of rum and its influence on the area. Newsome explained that most rum came from Caribbean, and that when rum first became popular, it was colloquially know as '"kill devil," since it was such strong hooch it was thought to kill anything living inside you - even the devil. A major trade route for these rum distillers in the Caribbean ran up the East Coast of North America to New England, which took them along the Outer Banks coastline. The dangerous, moving sandbars, which made the Outer Banks the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," claimed an untold number of these ships - either stranding or destroying them.
When rum first became popular, it was colloquially know as "kill devil," since it was such potent hooch it was thought to kill anything living inside you - even the devil.
The ships were quickly pillaged by opportunistic locals, all of whom tried to find and make off with the barrels of rum on almost every ship. But making off with a barrel of rum is not so simple: the looters soon realized they could more easily roll them a little ways away down the beach and simply bury them in the sand, so that they could hide their stash, coming back to slowly drain their supply. The dunes along the beaches were popular hiding places, which is how one of the local village earned its name, Kill Devil Hills.
The Kill Devil Rum logo and motto. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
Our guide then began the tale of how Outer Banks Distilling came to be. The four locals mentioned, Matt Newsome, Scott Smith, Adam Ball and Kelly Bray were all friends who had been working in bars and breweries in the area for years. Seeing the over saturation of the micro brewing market, inspired by local history and unsatisfied with the quality of many rums, they decided to strike out on their own and open their distillery, focused on crafting excellent rums. Since they were so determined to avoid selling the "well-marketed swill" that they detested, they buckled down to see how they could make truly fine products from quality ingredients. Between them, they began taking distilling classes, including college courses on the science of distilling, trying every vintage and flavor of rum, and closely coordinating with the company that made their distilling equipment. While they attempted to find a location in the eponymous Kill Devil Hills, they were forced to settle in Manteo for its superior sewer system that could handle their processes.
The guide showing us the distilling process. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
We toured the main room, where our excited and passionate guide gave us an overview of the distilling process, walking us through the minutiae of it. Complicated valves and pipes, meters and sensors, vats and tanks were arranged in the center of the room, as Newsome led us along the distillation process. He also mentioned that Outer Banks Distilling is locking into buying more and larger equipment, as their rum is becoming more and more popular and they are trying to keep pace with growing demand. The walls were lined with barrels that aging their rums, featuring a variety of years of refinement and ingredients. He explained that many of the barrels were filled with special batches that they periodically release, limited edition rums where they've tinkered with the exact formulas.
Finally we came to the highlight of the trip, the tastings.
We were brought into a tasting room, with a long bar that our guide boasted was cypress saved from when they renovated their current building. The tastings included in the tour, the Distillery's three most popular rums, lined the bar. The first was their youngest, a white rum they refer to as Silver. This was predominantly used in cocktails, and seldom had straight, but I have to say it was still wonderfully smooth. The second glass only got better, a gold hued, eighteen-month aged, magical liquid. It was appropriately named the Gold, and it was my personal favorite of the three, incorporating more of the oak and bourbons flavors from the barrel. The final one was the Pecan rum - intriguing. Using local pecans and honey in the recipe, the rum was aged with the nuts in the barrel. This was the darkest of the three, and definitely the sweetest. The rest of the tour groups preferred this variety, and especially loved that the leftover nuts from the barrels were candied and left on the bar for us to eat. After the tour, Newsome took us to a little gift shop, where Outer Banks Distilling sellls their merchandise and rums at decent prices. Our guide proudly reminded us that once any bottles we bought there had been drained, we could also find Kill Devil Rums in state liquor stores across North Carolina.
Twenty-one villages lie up and down the Outer Banks, squished along the narrow sandbar. There are few people who actually live there year round, but during the summers there are many more people, a mix of people on vacation, weekenders, and people coming to live in the summer homes. One major road runs up and down the strip of land, North Carolina Highway 12, a nationally designated scenic byway that stretches some 130 miles. Driving along it is spectacularly beautiful, as you pass over marshy inlets, and cruise between sand dunes. At a few points you can look to your left and right to see beaches on both sides.
The boardwalk over the marsh. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
I cruised for only a short period before I came to Bodie Lighthouse. I stopped for just a few minutes, struck by the scenery along the marshes. The lighthouse stands tall and alone, solitary in a well manicured lawn with black and white stripes winding around it. From the parking lot, a wooden boardwalk leads around to behind the lighthouse, to a better lookout point over the marsh itself. Signs warned to stay on the path, as the reeds held unseen cottonmouths, and false land through which one can fall. The clouds hung low, and I could smell the coming rains, so I didn't tarry too long. While it was a nice little stop, and I knew you could go up the lighthouse, I thought it best to save that excursion for some other time on a clear day. I continued down the byway, fascinated by the narrow two lane highway with water on both sides. I drove for a while, enjoying the views after the rains had passed, cruising between giant dunes. Before returning to my lodgings for the night, I stopped once more, determined to at least get my feet wet. I was lucky, stopping just in time to catch the sun setting as a fisherman reeled in his last catch of the day, with his dog on shore barking happily.
A fisherman wading in the Sound. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
The next day, with the skies bright and clear, I knew I was destined for the beach. I loaded up and headed for Nags Head, one of the larger villages on the Outer Banks. Before reaching the beach, one nagging thought plagued me... where's the beer? As if conjured by thought, I passed a business that made my heart soar with unbridled patriotism: the Brew-Thru. The simple concept was to have people drive through an old, renovated carwash station, where they're able to order beer from the comfort of their cars, as carhops bring it to you. I later learned that there are a few of these up and down the Outer Banks, and that they're a well-known business in the community. They have been around since the 1970s, and have yearly psychedelic t-shirts they design that are popular local apparel. After careful consultation with the carhop, I ordered a pack of lagers from a Hawaiian brewing company, which I was assured were excellent for the beach. My taste buds confirmed this declaration.
The overgrown path. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
The beach itself was busy, but it never felt crowded. In fact, it actually helped to set the atmosphere, with the sounds of families playing in the surf and sand, and someone playing the obligatory music of Southern beaches, the Zac Brown Band. Far down the beach a major pier jutted out over the ocean, supporting a bar and restaurant. I settled in a spacious plot, close to others, yet not encroached by them. There were families and couples, lifeguards reclining like Greek deities in their towers, and a few fishermen who had cast their lines in breaks of shore without swimmers. The water was fantastic, cool and fairly clear. By following the sandbars I could see beneath the waves, walking out into the ocean some fifty feet before the water got to my waist, with the sands shifting beneath me. The waves are constantly remolding the sands even there, along this innocuous little stretch of beach.
As the day continued, I felt compelled to visit at least one other beach along the coast. Knowing that it was an uninhabited wildlife refuge, I chose to drive down to Pea Island, just down the byway. Before walking over to the beaches, I did take the nature path by the information center, just as a short jaunt out of curiosity. The first section is a wooden boardwalk, walking you over a small pond of what I would guess is brackish water, full of turtles lazily swimming around in the sun. When I first came to the next, cement portion of the path, my heart leaped into my throat as I watched a cottonmouth slither out from one section of brush and cross the path. While the little guy did give me a good scare, I continued along the path, albeit carefully and loudly to ward off any other water moccasins I couldn't see. Along this portion, the shrubs and other fauna were encroaching on the path, with it growing over into a nice little archway at one point.
The beach on Pea Island. Image Credit: Caleb Lemke
But the beach on Pea Island was what I truly remember. More than at Nags Head, the beach was astonishingly flat and wide, including well out into the surf. I didn't test how far into the waters the sandbars could lead me, though I imagine that the slope into deeper water was incredibly slight. The beach was practically empty, with just one or two couples, a few people fishing in the surf, and a game warden watching us all from his ATV. Sitting in the surf, I realized that I ought to have left Nags Head earlier to come out here and relax on the gorgeous stretch of sand. After a couple of hours, though, storm clouds chased me off, marking the end of my short weekend excursion to the OBX.
I won't have the life along the beaches there that David Alan Harvey had, which had inspired me to take the trip. Too much has changed. The strip is growing more popular, attracting visitors from further away, and real estate prices are starting to cause issues with locals who have lived there for years. Hurricanes come more frequently and with greater severity, seemingly leaving more damage every year. Nevertheless the pace of life endures, as does the natural beauty and the appeal of living there. I am not done with the Outer Banks after this. My trip did not fulfill what I wanted, but only teased me with what life there can be. I'll continue to slip away to the OBX when I can, hopefully more often, until I have truly perfected the art of hanging out.
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Caleb was born with an insatiable wanderlust and a love for learning new things. An International and Comparative Politics major, he hopes to spend his career globetrotting.
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Ten O'Clock News; South Boston High violence
Marcus Jones reports that Ione Malloy (author and teacher) has written a book about the busing crisis in Boston called Southie Won't Go. Jones notes that Malloy was a teacher at South Boston High School during the busing crisis. He adds that Malloy's book is based on her notes and journal entries from that time. Jones interviews Malloy on the front steps of South Boston High School. Malloy says that she lived in constant fear for her safety during the busing crisis at South Boston High School. She recalls a tense staff meeting in the wake of the stabbing of a white student at the school in 1974. Malloy reads a journal entry written at the time of the stabbing. Malloy says that she wrote about the situation as she experienced it. Malloy adds that students were sacrificed in the name of social ideas during the busing crisis. Jones notes that Malloy does not state her opinions outright in her book. He adds that her point of view comes across through her journal entries. Jones' report is accompanied by footage of school desegregation at South Boston High School in the 1970s.
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NIGHTLY NEWS WITH CHRISTOPHER LYDON AND CARMEN FIELDS Began January 1976. Replaced evening news show EVENING COMPASS. Original host: Steve Nevas. Other anchors, Christopher Lydon (1977-91) and Gail Harris (1983). In 1980 - hour long. Ended in 1991.
(PREDECESSORS: Louis Lyons began news operations at WGBH in 1952. The News at 10 began in 1966. The Reporters premiered in 1970. The Evening Compass started in 1974.) Series release date: 1/1976
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Recent developments and applications of Lewis acidic boron reagents
Lawson, James R. and Melen, Rebecca L. 2017. Recent developments and applications of Lewis acidic boron reagents. In: Fairlamb, Ian, Lynam, Jason M, Patmore, Nathan J and Elliott, Paul eds. Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 41. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 1-27. (10.1039/9781782626923-00001)
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781782626923-00001
One field of organometallic chemistry that has seen great advancements over the last 20 years is that of main-group chemistry, in particular boron chemistry, that has led to a wealth of new discoveries. In this review, we will focus on modern advancements in this growing field, such as interesting uses of firmly established reagents, such as tris(pentafluorophenyl) borane, B(C6F5)3, which has demonstrated extensive applications in a wide variety of chemistry. In addition to this, a number of novel Lewis acidic boranes and borocations have been recently synthesised, which are often structurally tailored for a specific role such as borylation reactions or use in main-group catalysis. The reactions of these compounds are broad in scope, inclusive of borylation substitution reactions, addition of B–E across p-bonds and applications in pharmaceuticals and materials science. In addition, boron reagents often constitute the Lewis acid moiety of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), an area of main-group chemistry that has also expanded rapidly, with numerous applications notably in main-group catalysis. Newly discovered Lewis acidic boron reagents and their implementations are proving to be an appealing and exciting applications-based field as more advances are discovered.
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Mittal to Build Tver Plant
By Aoife White
Dec. 19 2007 00:00
BRUSSELS -- ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, said Tuesday that it would build its first new steel plant in Russia to feed the country's booming construction industry.
It will spend an initial $100 million developing the site in the Tver region, 180 kilometers north of Moscow.
Work will begin in the first half of 2008 to build a furnace eventually capable of churning out 1 million tons of long carbon steel per year and two bar mills.
The first mill, producing 600,000 tons of rebars and merchant bars, should be up and running by the start of 2010.
The plant would employ 200 workers directly and create an extra 400 jobs indirectly, the company said.
"The mill in Tver will give us exposure to a construction sector which is expected to grow at a yearly rate above 10 percent," said Malay Mukherjee, who sits on ArcelorMittal's group management board.
Tver Governor Dmitry Zelenin also welcomed the agreement, saying it would help bolster the region's development. "We are very happy to be able to partner with a world-class company such as ArcelorMittal to further develop its potential," Zelenin said, according to a statement posted on the firm's web site.
Russia -- along with Brazil, China and India -- is leading world steel demand, with the booming oil and gas industries requiring more energy piping, and higher household incomes leading to a boost in construction of both buildings and cars.
At the same time, demand from Europe and North America is slowing, not least as steelmakers such as ArcelorMittal face tougher competition from Chinese imports.
Separately, ArcelorMittal said it concluded a share buyback program, in which it spent 1.35 billion euros ($1.95 billion) for 27 million shares at an average price of 50.15 euros ($72.18).
It now expects to have another share buyback, planning to purchase up to 44 million shares over two years to be used in "future corporate opportunities or for cancellation." It said it would not pay more than 120 percent of the shares' 12-month average closing price.
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Malaysia Crushes Ethnic Indian Rally
Nov. 26 2007 00:00
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Police used tear gas and water cannons Sunday to crush a banned rally by more than 10,000 ethnic minority Indians -- a rare street clash that exposed Muslim-majority Malaysia's deep racial divisions.
Slogan-shouting protesters hurled water bottles and stones at police, who chased them through streets surrounding the famous Petronas Twin Towers and doused them repeatedly with tear gas and chemical-laced water for more than eight hours.
Police said 241 people had been detained but that nearly half of them were released after authorities recorded their personal information. Four policemen were injured, the federal police headquarters said in a statement, but there was no immediate estimate for injuries among protesters.
The rally -- rooted in complaints that the ethnic Malay Muslim-dominated government discriminates against minorities -- was the largest protest in at least a decade involving ethnic Indians, the country's second-largest minority population after ethnic Chinese. The ethnic Indians are generally the most underprivileged.
"This gathering is unprecedented," protest leader P. Uthayakumar said. "This is a community that can no longer tolerate discrimination."
It was the second such street protest in Kuala Lumpur this month.
Street demonstrations are extremely rare among the multiple ethnic groups in Malaysia, which prides itself on its communal and political stability.
The two protests indicate that Malaysians are becoming bolder about venting their frustrations publicly against a political system that concentrates power and influence in the hands of the Malay ruling elite.
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Sale Talks For News Outdoor Dropped
Oct. 15 2008 00:00
JCDecaux scrapped talks to buy News Outdoor Group, News Corp.'s Russian billboard unit, an acquisition which would have created the world's largest billboard advertising group, as the credit crunch made it impossible to fund the deal.
Europe's largest outdoor advertising group had said as recently as last week that it was pursuing its plan to buy News Outdoor Group, the Russian outdoor ad unit of billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., in a potential cash and shares deal.
Moscow-based News Outdoor is the sixth-largest out-of-home advertising company in the world, according to its web site. Newspapers put a value of more than $1 billion on the unit.
However, the two groups said matters had changed.
"Both companies recognize that economic and capital market conditions have made it increasingly difficult to conclude strategic partnerships on this scale," they said in a joint statement Tuesday, a month after first revealing the talks.
Asked whether the freezing-up of bank finance was the reason behind the decision, a JCDecaux spokeswoman said: "You can say that, yes."
Murdoch has expressed nervousness about investments in Russia, where News Outdoor generated the bulk of its revenues -- $385 million last year.
"We have great growing business there, but ... this is purely me, I'm sorry, the more I read about investments in Russia, the less I like the feel of it," Murdoch told reporters in August.
Investigators briefly closed News Outdoor's Moscow offices in September to search for evidence of criminal activity by a Moscow city official, according to the company, which said it was not the target of any investigations.
JCDecaux had been keen to expand in emerging markets, where News Outdoor was strong, particularly in Russia.
A combination of the two businesses would have created a company with annual sales of about $3.3 billion, topping world leader Clear Channel Outdoor.
The company's co-chief executive, Jean-Charles Decaux, said last week that the group was pursuing talks with News Corp. despite the financial crisis, as News Outdoor was a quality asset and the sector needed to consolidate. The crisis did "not fundamentally challenge the analysis" it was conducting, he said, adding that it was carrying out due diligence.
"How can you even talk valuations in the current Russian stock market?" one analyst asked, referring to the sharp falls in Russian stocks and wave of trading suspensions.
News Corp. said in June 2007 it was mulling strategic options for News Outdoor including expanding its existing shareholder group through new strategic and private equity partners.
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Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company was a United States shipyard, active from 1917 to 1948. It was founded during World War I to build ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II, it built ships as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding program. Operated by a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, the shipyard was located at Kearny Point where the mouth of the Hackensack River meets Newark Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey. The shipyard site is now part of River Terminal, a massive distribution facility that is partially a foreign trade zone.
Federal built numerous destroyers, destroyer escorts and a handful of light cruisers as well as merchant ships during and between the wars. Around 570 vessels were contracted for construction by Federal SB&DD Company with about 100 not delivered fully completed due to the end of the World War II. Federal also had a yard at Port Newark during World War II that built destroyers and landing craft.
History of the Federal Yard at Kearny
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was founded July 24, 1917 as a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation to supply ships for the United States Shipping Board during World War I. The site on Kearny Point was first surveyed during the summer of 1917. The shipyard was to consist of everything needed to fully complete a ship from a facility power plant to a wood joining shop. A steel plate mill and boiler shop were to be built as well. $10 million ($200 million today) was allocated for construction. The American Bridge Company was contracted to provide 10,000 tons of steel for the structures. E.H. Gary was president of Federal in August 1917. The ship-ways were completed by the fall of 1917 with keels being laid by November 1917. Federal completed a 9,600 ton ship around six weeks before World War I ended as well as two other ships before the close of 1918. 27 ships were delivered to the Emergency Fleet Corporation in 1919. Federal accounted for 5% of the steel merchant tonnage built in 1919.
By June 1921, the Federal yard at Kearny had a 535 by 161.5 feet (163.1 m × 49.2 m) boiler construction shop to build Scotch marine boilers, exhaust stacks, tanks, uptakes and other related items. 235 boilers had been constructed from September 1919 to June 1921. Boilers constructed there were mostly 15 feet (4.6 m) diameter or larger. At that time, 250 men were able to construct three boilers a week with a single 8 hour shift each day.
By November 1921, Federal had shipbuilding ways for twelve 15,000 ton vessels and had constructed a 9,000 ton floating dry dock. The dry dock was first used June 23, 1921 when Transmarine corp's SS Suhulco docked. The Kearny yard was 17 acres (6.9 ha) with 2,400 feet (730 m) of frontage on the Hackensack River. A wet basin was located at the southern end with a 100-ton 3-legged jib crane for fitting out new ships.
On Sunday night, May 18, 1924, a fire destroyed the largest building at the Kearny yard causing an initially estimated $500,000 in damage. Other estimates were $1.6 million or as high as several million dollars in damage. Firemen used four mobile cranes to try to extinguish fires in the pattern building and the plate shop. Over a thousand workers were idled by the fire. The shipyard had around 5,000 workers at the time and was said to be one of the largest steel fabrication plants in the world. Fireboats and numerous firemen from around the area were called in to fight the fire which spread rapidly through the wooden structures at the Kearny yard.
The Federal yard at Kearny remained operational during the difficult interwar period and Great Depression. Federal built commercial ships, tankers, barges and car floats for companies like Grace Line, Standard Oil of New Jersey and various railroads. Federal also was able to get contracts for two Mahan-class destroyers in the mid-1930s followed by a few Somers-class destroyers and Benham-class destroyers in the late-1930s lead up to World War II.
1940 to closure
Federal made national news when around 16,000 workers went on strike at Kearny from August 7 to August 25, 1941. Work was stopped on $493 million ($8.57 billion today) in Navy and merchant shipbuilding contracts as the nation ramped up ship construction before entering World War II. The strike was ended when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the Navy to seize control of the facility. The final sticking point in negotiations had been the refusal of management at Federal to accept demands to require a "maintenance of membership" clause which would effectively make the shipyard a closed shop. Company president Lynn H. Korndorff offered the shipyard to the Navy rather than accept the demands to become a closed shop.
When the Navy took over, the yard fell under the supervision of Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr. as Officer-in-charge. It was the first take over of an industrial plant by the Navy in that era. While the union was enthusiastic about the seizure, they did not get the response they were expecting when the Navy took control. According to Rear Admiral Bowen in his autobiography, while he was cordial with labor, he refused to acknowledge any union's right to collectively bargain for the workers at Kearny. He also refused to take steps to implement the "maintenance of membership" issue. By November 1941, the "maintenance of membership" clause was still not being enforced and the union sought relief from the Defense Mediation Board.
After 134 days of operation by the Navy, control of the shipyard was returned to the company on January 6, 1942. Under Navy control the shipyard laid 12 keels, launched 10 and commissioned 7 ships. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox returned the shipyard and asked that the company and union work out the remaining issue. Failing that, the two parties would use newly established national machinery to resolve the dispute. The "maintenance of membership" issue had still not been resolved. In May 1942, Federal finally gave in to demands to require membership in the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers. Company president Lynn H. Korndorff said Federal only complied with the order of the National War Labor Board because of the war emergency. The incident was viewed as one of the first major tests of the NWLB.
According to John T. Cunningham in "Made in New Jersey," Federal "completely proved its might". On one day alone in May 1942, the company launched four destroyers in a 50-minute period. By 1943, Federal Shipbuilding was employing 52,000 people and building ships faster than any other yard in the world."
Federal continued to set company construction speed records throughout the war. In July 1943, Federal claimed records of 170 days from keel to commissioning on the large destroyer USS Dashiell (DD-659) and 137 days on light destroyer USS Thorn (DD-647). Federal also said Type C2 ships were being built in an average time of 82 days. In July 1943, destroyer escorts were being launched about once a week since spring of 1943. Between the Newark and Kearny yards, Federal launched a company record of 11 ships in 29 days during March 1943.
After World War II ended, a number of destroyers were cancelled including some that were partially constructed. Federal had contracts to build several cargo ships for the United States Maritime Commission. Five Type C3-class ships were for Lykes Lines and six for American South African Line. Two bulk carriers were built for National Gypsum and three Type C2 ships for Grace Line's "Santa" / South American passenger-freight service. Federal also converted SS Uruguay from wartime service for Moore-McCormack starting in 1946.
4,000 shipyard workers at Federal joined 90,000 other east coast shipyard workers in a strike action on 1 July 1947. The strike at Federal ended in November 1947 after 140 days.
On April 23, 1948, Lynn H. Korndorff, the President of Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company announced that the US Navy had agreed to purchase facilities at Kearny for around $2,375,000 ($25.3 million today), its depreciated book value. The Navy planned to hold the facility in a standby state for potential emergency reactivation. The New York Times regarded this sale price to be "astounding low". In July 1948, Federal's large floating dry dock was towed 1,700 miles in 19 days to Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation's Chickasaw, Alabama shipyard, which had been constructed during World War I by U.S. Steel, parent of Federal SB&DD.
Around 465 ships were delivered by Federal SB&DD Company out of its 569 hull numbers allocated. 325 were delivered from the Kearny yard and 140 from Port Newark.
Instead of building ships, the site eventually hosted a salvaging operation where numerous ships were scrapped. In 1975, the former Federal yard was described as one of the nation's largest ship-breaking yards. According to the 1975 head of the River Terminal Development Corp, the first ship to be scrapped at the yard was USS Enterprise (CV-6) in 1959. Other carriers scrapped there included Essex, Randolph, Boxer, Wasp and Antietam. Battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers and submarines had also been scrapped at the former Federal yard as of the mid-1970s. Texas Tower 3 was also scrapped at the Federal yard by Lipsett Corp.
Federal Yard at Port Newark
In January 1942, Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company announced they were expanding their facilities to increase capacity and employ an additional 10,000 workers. They expanded to the site of the former Submarine Boat Corporation at Port Newark. After nine months of construction to rebuild the facility, the first ships were launched at the Port Newark yard on October 10, 1942. All of the Gearing-class destroyers built at Federal were built at the Newark yard. The Port Newark yard closed after the war and the site gained some notoriety in late 1947 during a dispute over the scrapping of the battleship New Mexico and two others by Lipsett Corp. The site was an automobile terminal parking lot in the 2010s.
Ships built
Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District – the site of a US Steel shipbuilding yard in Chickasaw, Alabama which was later owned by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of Waterman Steamship Corporation during World War II.
Bowen, Harold G. (1954). "5". Ships, Machinery and Mossbacks: The Autobiography of a Naval Engineer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. p. 205. - Written by Admiral Harold G. Bowen Sr., chapter 5 details his operation of the Kearny yard in 1941 during the time the government had seized the shipyard.
Palmer, David (1998). Organizing the Shipyards: Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933–1945. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2734-3. - details the labor issues surrounding this shipyard and others in the New York area
Detailed record of all ships built at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny and Newark
"Kearny Yard history". globalsecurity.org.
"Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Kearny". Destroyer History Foundation. - Yard background and photographs from 1945 and 2003
"Ladies Who Launch". phillyseaport.org. Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. - A web exhibit of ship christening photos that includes half a dozen images of launching ceremonies at the Kearny Yard
"River Terminal Development". riverterminal.com. - on the site of the shipyard.
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Tarzan and the Lost Empire was first published by Metropolitan Books, Inc. in 1929. The image to the left shows the dust jacket from that book.
Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service, Inc., a subdivision of Metropolitan Books, published an illustrated condensed newspaper comic-strip version of the story. It doesn't seem to have run simultaneously in all the newspapers carrying the series. The Worcester Evening Post carried it during the period between January and April 1931. This newspaper series was illustrated by Rex Maxon.
These comic strips were collected by Roland N. Anderson (1916-1982) while working as a paperboy. He delivered both the Worcester Evening Post and the Worcester Evening Gazette, both newspapers published in Worcester, Massachusetts. The strips appeared in the paper six days a week, from Monday to Saturday.
When Ballantine Books republished this book in paperback in 1963, it summarized it on the back cover as follows: "Somewhere in the heart of Africa, a man had disappeared - Erich von Harben, son of an old friend of Tarzan of the Apes. Now the ape-man was seeking to rescue him. The trail led to a mysterious valley where Tarzan discovered two surviving outposts of ancient Rome, almost unchanged by time. And there, Tarzan was thrust into the bloody arena, to face every peril the cruel and corrupt Emperor of Castra Sanguinarius could devise to ensure the ape-man's death. Miles away in Castrum Mare, Erich von Harben was also awaiting execution upon the sands of another tyrant's arena. "
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Polished Lefty Idrogo Joins Rotation
CLEBURNE, Texas (Apr. 8, 2019) – The Cleburne Railroaders announced Monday the signing of left-handed pitcher Eudis Idrogo (pronounced YOU-diss ih-DROE-go).
The 23-year old Idrogo was released by the Detroit Tigers organization on March 26 after seven seasons in their minor league system. Idrogo split the 2018 season between Class-A West Michigan and High-A Lakeland, combining for a 6-5 record and 3.09 ERA in 105.0 innings. Over the winter, the native of Anzoategui, Venezuela pitched for La Guaira in the Venezuelan Winter League, compiling an impressive 1.82 ERA in 24.2 innings while allowing only 14 hits.
“All you have to do is look at the numbers for Eudis to see that this kid really knows how to pitch,” manager Brent Clevlen said. “He succeeded at every level in the Tigers system, and pitched very well this past offseason in a strong winter league. Left-handed pitching continues to be a big priority for us, and Eudis gives us some more quality depth in that area.”
Idrogo was signed by the Tigers as a 16-year old international free agent in 2012, and made his professional debut that same year with Detroit’s Venezuela Summer League team. The left-hander dominated that level over the course of three seasons, forging a combined 13-5 record and 2.03 ERA in 37 games, 20 of which were starts. Idrogo struck out 111 while walking only 36 and allowing 114 hits in 133.0 innings.
The Tigers promoted Idrogo twice in short order following his impressive numbers in Venezuela. He started the year in the Gulf Coast League, again posting a 2.03 ERA in eight starts before he was elevated to Low Class-A Connecticut to finish the 2015 season. After two good starts with Connecticut, the Tigers promoted Idrogo again to Class-A West Michigan to begin the 2016 campaign.
Idrogo spent parts of 2016, 2017 and 2018 with West Michigan, posting dramatically improved numbers with each passing season. After a 4.29 ERA in his first tour with the White Caps, the 6’1, 200-pounder sliced that number to 3.01 the following year in 23 starts. He was even better in 2018, starting the season with a miniscule 0.49 ERA through six starts before earning another promotion to Lakeland. At the time of his promotion, Idrogo’s ERA was the lowest in all of Minor League Baseball among qualified pitchers.
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Memories of West Aliquippa (Audio)
BY Pete Marovich
When I began photography of this project in 2015, I decided to start in the steel town where my parents were born, Aliquippa, Pa.
The part of the town that fascinated me the most was a neighborhood now called West Aliquippa. This was where my father was born.
West Aliquippa is the original Aliquippa. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad named the town for a Native American Indian personality arbitrarily chosen in 1878, as it did for many stations along its route.
Once home to an amusement park built by the railroad, Aliquippa took on a whole new life when the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., looking to expand downriver from Pittsburgh, demolished the park and began erecting what would become the largest, integrated steel mill in the world. In the process, homes and businesses were erected in Aliquippa and the nearby town of Woodlawn to accommodate the influx of steel workers from other countries.
In 1928, Aliquippa and Woodlawn were consolidated and the Woodlawn name was dropped to match with the name of the railroad depot. The former Aliquippa became known as the neighborhood of “West Aliquippa,” which I always thought strange since it is actually located almost directly north on the Ohio River.
Almost 90 years later, the mill is now an empty lot and West Aliquippa is a shell of its former self. Virtually all of the businesses are gone and all that remains is a couple of hundred homes.
One of the first people I met when I began to explore West Aliquippa was George “Blackie” Miller.
Miller, who changed his last name from Dokmanovich years ago, was born in West Aliquippa and lived there all of his life. He has seen the town go from boom to bust along with the steel industry.
Miller owns a bar called Mahoney’s West in the town and is quite the no-nonsense character. When you first meet him he can come across as gruff and his language can be quite salty at times. But after awhile you realize that he really is a kind man that loves his town, but is really nostalgic for the old days.
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to sit down with “Blackie” in his bar, in West Aliquippa, PA. and have him tell me what it was like when then mill was operating and the town was thriving.
Listen to Blackie talk about West Aliquippa (Language not suitable for children or workplace):
http://searchingfordreamstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Blackie-and-Aliquippa.mp3
Searching for Dream Street is an ongoing photographic expedition to document the current state of the former steel towns along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers within approximately 40 miles of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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That He Shall Not Die a Second Death
Feb 26th, 2009 by s/pores
Edgar Liao
Photographs by Isrizal
Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar in Singapore, 14 February 2009.
On a serene, warm Valentine’s Day, over fifty individuals gathered in the Manasseh Mayer Seminar Room in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS to commemorate Dr. M.K. Rajakumar (Rajkumar), who passed away on 22 November 2008, aged 76. A preceding memorial had already been held on 4 January 2009 in the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. This memorial in Singapore was most fittingly held in the former home of the University of Malaya in Singapore (from 1962, the University of Singapore), where Dr Rajkumar burst forth like the awakening dawn as a young student intellectual and activist. Many guests at this gathering had themselves walked or ran along these once-hallowed corridors. Hence the irony that some guests either lost their way or had to be guided to a familiar venue, albeit with an unfamiliar name and an unfamiliar modern interior.
It was a motley collection of participants. A maze of greying and greyed miens was interrupted by a splattering of youthful black hair belonging to a couple of university students, a few young activists (exempt two), and the intrepid filmmaker Martyn See, who recorded the proceedings for documentary purposes. Naturally, Dr Rajkumar’s friends, admirers, university classmates and University Socialist Club compatriots constituted the majority. Some had specially made their way down from Malaysia just as others in Singapore had travelled to Kuala Lumpur for the earlier memorial. That his memory should be honoured in both countries reflects his membership of a generation that conceived of Malaya and Singapore as one territory and once operated as such. His demise is a concomitant stark reminder that his is, as Toh Paik Choo puts it in her account of the event (The New Paper, 13 March 2009), ‘a vanishing generation.’ One of those who had already gone before Dr. Rajkumar, and could only be represented by his family members at this memorial was Dr. Gopal Baratham (1935-2002). Dr. Baratham is better known today in Singapore as a literary stalwart, but he was also Rajkumar’s junior in the Medical Faculty of the University of Malaya and a fellow member of the Socialist Club. Other than those present who had known Rajkumar personally, there were academics, well-wishers and other interested observers.
There were too some conspicuous absentees, including Professor Tommy Koh, who was a principal supporter of this memorial but had to be overseas, and a few former Socialist Club members who had attended the memorial in Kuala Lumpur. Although no invitation was known to have been sent, it would have been mightily interesting if the Minister Mentor, one-time ally and long-time foe of the Socialist Club, had made an appearance to provide a perspective of an individual he helped defend, if only to jump-start his political fortunes. As it turned out, his non-presence did not inhibit his memoirs and his legacies from casting small shadows on parts of the proceedings through allusions, references and a black T-shirt imprinted with a frequently-deployed section of his Legislative Assembly speech in April 1955.
The program began with a video screening of the K.L. memorial, before eulogies were made by friends and contemporaries of Rajkumar and two members of the University Socialist Club Book Project Team, Loh Kah Seng and Lim Cheng Tju. The speeches were punctuated by tributes for Dr. Rajkumar from Dr. Agoes Salim, who chaired the session, and members of the audience; those who could not be present had their tributes read out by Michael Fernandez, the chief organizer of the event. Platitudes after benedictions sought to celebrate an individual whom Dr Salim termed ‘a man of many facets’ – a consummate activist, physician, intellectual, a ‘philosopher guide’ to Dato Dominic Puthucheary, and even a singer of love songs according to Professor Arthur Lim. Reminiscences of the unremitting consistency and constancy of Rajkumar’s idealism, socialism and humanism was the tenor of the day, which few deviated from.
Echoing the choice of title for the commemorative publication produced for the K.L. memorial, Dato Dominic Puthucheary opened his speech by emphasizing that Rajkumar epitomized ‘Fajar’, the word which ‘encapsulates so many dreams’ of Rajkumar and his fellow activists then, young men driven by ‘the urge to do something greater than for themselves.’ These were individuals who possessed an ‘inner flame which always grew’ as they persisted in a constant, painful search for the realization of their ideals against the persecution, the narrow political space, and the ravaging tide of broader processes and political developments they faced. Even if others disagreed with their activities, he argued, the ideals, the moral compulsion and the energy that propelled their activism ought to be remembered, partly because in ‘these interesting times…the Rajakumars are needed, both here and there…more than ever before.’ As an example, Puthucheary recounted how Rajkumar inspired him to help ensure that the political turmoil and savagery in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, which culminated from ethnic tensions, ‘must not happen here.’ Rajkumar, to him, was a noble human being who ought not to ‘die a second death’ by not being remembered.
Others recollected Dr Rajkumar’s interest and involvement in improving and invigorating medical practice in Malaysia and later China, while promoting and personifying social change and humanitarianism. Professor Arthur Lim, who had been a classmate, regaled the audience with light-hearted anecdotes about Rajkumar before he lauded him for being a good physician who never refused to treat anyone, even those who could not afford it. Professor Lim’s subsequent announcement of a personal donation of $10,000 to fund an annual activity to commemorate Dr Rajkumar’s memory, drew excited applause. Perhaps the more appropriate way of remembering an individual who believed in social action over un-materialized discourse would be to orient this proposed annual event towards community benefit or social welfare, in the place of or in addition to a suggested annual memorial lecture.
In remembering Dr Rajkumar, it seemed impossible to forget his roles in the formation of the University of Malaya Socialist Club and the publication of Fajar. During both memorials, and elsewhere, his classmates and colleagues in the University of Malaya recalled how they joined the few other politically-conscious students in the University of Malaya in participating in the struggle for an independent Malayan nation based on socialist, egalitarian and democratic principles. The Fajar Trial of May 1954 received plenty of attention and interest during the session. Before Dr Loh Kah Seng made the last speech of the day, touching on Rajkumar’s contributions in building bridges ‘between university and society, between young intellectuals and the downtrodden masses, and between Singapore and Malaya’, Lim Cheng Tju took the audience through the background and proceedings of the Trial. Then he dwelled on how his short interview with Rajkumar while researching the Trial left him with pondering, with a tinge of wistful pathos, if the generation of Malaysian youths today, scions of the struggles of yesterday, knew of these battles and understood the idealism of those who waged them. The nostalgia for the compelling and infectious idealism that Rajkumar exhibited, extolled, exemplified, and evoked is shared not only by his contemporaries and wayfarers, but also by those who seek to study what Rajkumar and his colleagues did, including both Cheng Tju and this author. In the closing moments, K C Chew provided yet another anecdote about the Trial to end off an afternoon of revelations. He recounted his discovery, while at a dinner with the Chairman of the Lee Foundation, that Lee Kong Chian paid the fees of D.N. Pritt, the Queen’s Counsel who defended the eight prosecuted Socialist Club members of the Socialist Club. This was at the request of Poh Soo Kai, a nephew, following a suggestion by the junior defense counsel – Lee Kuan Yew.
Professor Wang Gungwu, a historical giant in his own right, stood up to pay tribute to a contemporary which he self-admittedly had not been close to. He began by drawing on Dato Puthucheary’s reference to the Yugoslavian crises in the 1990s to launch into a discussion of the vicissitudes and difficulties of the formation of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nation-state, which had been one mission of Rajkumar and his Socialist Club colleagues. He concluded with a sobering note that his generation of student activists, laudable their dedication and commitment may be, ‘were probably too idealistic and too naïve.’ This position formed the basis of his tribute to Rajkumar; he would like to ‘remember Rajkumar by the fact that he lived continually in the hope that the ideal of his which we all have shared when we were young, should one day still be achieved.’ He echoed many of the other speakers in lauding ‘the constancy and loyalty to ideals that Rajkumar stood for.’
Intriguingly, the few young political activists at the meeting elected to politicize the memory of Dr Rajkumar, through comments made during the session, and their report of the memorial. Seelan Palay, among the most active and irrepressible activists of his generation, took issue with Cheng Tju’s assertion during his presentation that Lee Kuan Yew established his prominence with the left-wing movement in Malaya and Singapore through his participation in the Fajar Trial. Palay could not ‘help but scoff at that line…because of what [he] knew and what [he] read’, rather sanctimoniously dismissing Lee’s early left-wing connections and credentials as another distortion within the government’s representation of Singapore history. He offered little evidence to refute the well-documented historicity of Lee’s early favour within the left-wing movement before the end of the 1960s, and preferred to view the past through the heavily tinted windows of present dispositions. Palay and the activists he spoke for ought to be congratulated for ‘being able to recognize the dragon to slay’. One hopes they soon acquire the ability and capacity to fight ‘dragons’, instead of the ‘dragonflies with many tricks up their sleeves’ they claimed their enemy to be.
While the proceedings had largely been a celebration of Rajkumar’s undying idealism and dedication, the Singapore Democrats were apparently more excited by “More LKY revelations at Rajakumar’s memorial”. Its report posted on the Singapore Democratic Party website focused primarily on mining anecdotes and fresh information raised at the meeting to indict Lee for the misrepresentation of his role in the Fajar Trial. The activism and struggles of Rajkumar and his colleagues were rather disjointedly employed as metaphor and evidence for a grand indictment – ‘ Forged from the crucible of the struggle for freedom, the PAP turned around and denied that very freedom to the people when it ascended the throne.’ To cast the political tribulations of Dr Rajkumar, where he was famously detained by the Malaysian government between 1965 and 1967, within un-nuanced binaries of activism/domination or idealism/repression essentializes his positioning. After all, as Dr Salim avowed, Rajkumar was a man who believed that ‘difference of political ideas would be subordinated to his object of working for the poor and the downtrodden.’
Perhaps the Democrats would be pricked by the irony that it should be a The New Paper journalist, Toh Paik Choo, who more veraciously captured the ubiquitous tone of the memorial. The sole media representative present depicted the event as a gathering ‘in celebration, not in mourning’ of an individual who ‘lived life in service of people’. There were two factual inaccuracies in her report nonetheless. Contrary to her report, official business had impeded Dr. Syed Husin Ali, the Vice-President of Partai Keadilan Rakyat, from attending the memorial as was previously planned.
Another inaccuracy, more ironic given her fame as a humorist, saw her mistaking the authorship of an amusing anecdote told at the memorial pertaining to the colonial authorities’ arrest of Rajkumar for the Trial. It was Professor Lim, Rajkumar’s hostelmate in Paterson Hostel, and not Dr Salim who recounted the tale of the short and bald British police officer who gathered an Eurasian and five Chinese hostelities and proceeded to ask which of them was Rajkumar. When the senior members of the audience burst out in laughter after Professor Lim announced how he raised his hand then and said “I am Rajkumar”, their humour was probably triggered not only from by the absurdity of the situation but the resonance of the ridiculous ineptitude of a colonial official with the anti-colonial sentiments they held in the past.
In making this otherwise inconsequential slip, which she might not have had she understood the anecdote’s historical resonance, she evinces a shadow of the same amnesia about this period of Singapore history that she either suspected or assumed the newspaper’s readership shared. This is a assumption implicit in her decision to preface her account by asking “Who is Dr M K Rajakumar and why are they saying all these things about him?” While the event was first and foremost a memorial, more mediation might have been helpful to bridge the gap in historical knowledge and understandings that existed between the younger members of the audience and the speakers. The latter quite naturally spoke with too much familiarity with Rajkumar, the people around him, the events and the changing milieus they were immersed in. It is a familiarity that the young can readily admire, thirst for, and even exoticize, but less easily come to share in a largely different historical context and environment. Still the same, the passion, the sincerity, and the veneration with which the speakers honored the memory of one of their own threaten to seduce and enthrall a young Singaporean like myself, constantly in pursuit of his own imagined past.
In a morning bustling and bursting with remembrances and reminiscences, the one remaining piece which would have completed the commemoration of the life and legacies of Dr. M.K. Rajakumar is unfortunately missing. The real measure and true testament of a man is revealed not only in how he is remembered by the sea of admirers that Dr. Rajakumar clearly does not lack, but how he chooses to remember himself. In the absence of such an answer, it shall be left to those who remain today and arrive tomorrow to ensure that his memory does not die, and to ruminate on what his memory mean.
We should not limit liberal education to mean the pursuit of knowledge without any thought of its ultimate or practical utility. We may have a love for knowledge for its own sake, but at the same time seek to make use of it for the benefit of our Society, The search for truth must be unceasing and at all costs. But the truth that is to make us free cannot be useless; and the search for useful truth need not be evil. – M.K. Rajakumar, “The University in Our Times” (1952)
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5 Responses to “That He Shall Not Die a Second Death”
Poh Soo Kai says:
March 2009 at
1. K.C.Chew made a very interesting “revelation”. Unfortunately not
factual.
2. D.N.Pritt’s services were gratis, free. We did not pay a cent.
Bought him a small present. Paid for from the defence fund.
3. I did not make any request – at Lee Kuan Yew’s suggestion or
without his suggestion – to my uncle Lee Kong Chian to pay a
non-existent legal fee.
KC Chew says:
Appreciate the factual correction made by Dr Poh Soo Kai. Indeed, that was how I heard the story from Lee Seng Gee, eldest son of Lee Kong Chian and thought it was an interesting anecdote to share with the audience. Now I stand corrected.
April 2009 at
According to D.N. Pritt’s account, the University of Malaya students he defended indeed did not pay him any fees. Only his fares and expenses were taken care of.
But he did also mention that when he returned to Singapore to defend Chinese school students charged for demonstrating against the conscription laws, “one of the rich Chinese businessmen in the city offered to help in providing fees for “any counsel they wished” for their defence against the charges of unlawful assembly…” (The Autobiography of D.N. Pritt, Part Three: The Defence Accuses, p. 150)
The identity of this rich Chinese businessman is unknown.
Michael Fernandez says:
I just had a chat with Dr. Lim Hock Siew, 02/04/2009 who was then the Chairman of the FAJAR DEFENCE FUND. He confirmed:
1. that Dr. Poh was not involved in getting funds from people. Dr. Tan Seng Huat, who knew Lee Kong Chian, and he went to see Lee Kong Chian, Dr. Lee Seng Gee’s father. He donated S$2000/ and Dr. Lim also got S$2000/ from Tan Cheng Lock, the father of Tan Siew Sin.;
2. Dr. Lim also confirmed that the Socialist Club did not pay any fee to DN Pritt, the Queen]s Counsel, who togather with LKY defended the 8-member editorial Board, but paid for all his expenses.
3. Dr. Poh is right to say that he did not seek funds from his uncle, Lee Kong Chian for the Fajar Trial
1.Edgar Liao refering to K.C.Chew’s “discovery” wrote: Lee Kong Chian
paid the fees of D.N.Pritt, the Q. C……
2.He also wrote: “This was at the request of Poh Soo Kai, a nephew,
following a suggestion by the junior defence counsel–Lee Kuan Yew”
3.I am happy the issue of Pritt’s legal fee has been settled. It was a
gesture of solidarity with those who fight for freedom, democracy and
peace. It was a memory I cherish.
4.As for the second point, (2) above, I have confirmed I did not make
any request to my uncle, Lee Kong Chian; and none at the suggestion
of my junior counsel.
5.However, one should not fudge the issue of Pritt’s legal fees with
the Fajar Defence Fund, which as indicated, is small, and paid for
other expenditures.
6.It is not correct to say I was not involved in soliciting funds. I
was. Neither is it correct to assume I did not know of some of the
big items. More important to me were the small annonymous items,– an
indication of support. University staff donated. And researchers
may like to check the PRO files which record that the authorities
were surprised. The recorded exuse given was that as teachers they
were concerned for their students ! A measure of academic freedom.
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Many stages had to be surmounted in order to put RECSAM on a proper footing to carry out its mission statement. These entailed the preparation of the required legal documentations and acquisition of curriculum materials, equipment and library resources, in preparation for SEAMEO RECSAM to open its doors to regional participants in July 1970.In between all the on-going infrastructural developments, December 1971 saw SEAMEO and the Government of Malaysia officially signing the document that legalised the privileges and immunities,which gave RECSAM the status it enjoys.
The First Enabling Instrument of RECSAM that detailed the role of the Governing Board and the Centre was approved and adopted by the Council at the 7th Ministerial Conference in Vientiane, Laos in January 1972. The Governing Board Members of the SEAMEO Centres were represented by the respective Senior Officials of the SEAMEO Ministries of Education.
When RECSAM was completed with up-to-date facilities, a culmination of excitement and assiduous preparation took place as history was about to be aptly recorded. His Excellency, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, then the Deputy Prime Minister cum Minister of Education Malaysia officiated the Opening of SEAMEO RECSAM on 31 October 1977. Tun Mahathir later went on to become the longest-serving Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The official adoption of RECSAM’s logo and logotype took place in 1975; The molecular-triangle model or known as a tetrahedron symbolises science and mathematics; The ellipse mirrors the multiplying effect created by RECSAM in its leadership role in the region; The colour red signifies strength, power and energy; Blue represents the Southeast Asian Region; and White denotes the ability to accept and be ready for change.
a. Serving as educators and officers from the Education Service, Ministry of Education.
b. Possess at least a Master's degree in the relevant area.
c. First degree must be in either science/mathematics/physics/chemistry/biology or related subjects.
d. Excellent command of written and spoken English.
e. At least ten years of experience in teaching.
f. Experienced in writing and research & development.
g. Applicant must at least currently be in DG48.
a. Conduct courses.
b. Conduct research and development projects.
c. Assist the Centre to conduct special projects, e.g. conferences and workshops.
a. Senior Specialist RS2 : Minimum RM6,262.40, Maximum RM13,538.30
a. Entertainment : RM800.00 (Sr. Specialist)
b. Housing : RM700.00 RM900.00
c. COLA : RM300.00 RM300.00
a. DG 48 : RM470.00
b. DG 52 : RM480.00
c. DG 54 : RM500.00
SEAMEO RECSAM achieves regional, national and international recognition as a Centre of Excellence for training, as well as research and development in science, mathematics, and technology education in the SEAMEO Member Countries
Leading centre for quality science and mathematics education
To promote and enhance Science and Mathematics Education in the SEAMEO member countries.
• Conduct Research and Development activities to inform pedagogy and policy.
• Design and implement high-quality professional development programmes.
• Ensure strong and active networking with experts, institutions and the community.
• Serve as an effective clearinghouse for information.
• Strengthen quality assurance in the management of resources and services rendered
Since its inception, RECSAM, one of its kind in the region which is dedicated to the development of educational manpower, has been playing the role of a catalyst for the advancement of science, mathematics and technology education at the primary and secondary school levels among its Member Countries. Ever surging forward and now in its midst 10th Five-Year Plan (July 2015–June 2020), more than ten thousand key educators have passed out from RECSAM’s Training, Development, and Research Courses. As RECSAM forges ahead with its programmes and activities, it not only draws upon its reserve of resources and past experiences but also continuously examines the development of science, mathematics and technology education in the SEAMEO Region as well as in the world at large. In keeping with current global trends and developments, RECSAM carries out its science, mathematics, and technology education courses in the context of values and needs of changing societies.
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Role of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase-Akt pathway in the regulation of IL-10 and IL-12 by Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide
Stimulation of the APC by Porphyromonas gingivalis LPS has been shown to result in the production of certain pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. However, the signaling pathways that regulate these processes are currently unknown. In the present study, the role of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)-Akt pathway in regulating P. gingivalis LPS-induced production of IL-10, IL-12 p40, and IL-12 p70 by human monocytes was investigated. P. gingivalis LPS selectively activates the PI3K-Akt pathway via Toll-like receptor 2, and inhibition of this pathway results in an abrogation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation, whereas the activation of p38 and c-Jun N-terminal kinase 1/2 kinases were unaffected. Analysis of cytokine production following stimulation of monocytes with P. gingivalis LPS revealed that inhibition of the PI3K pathway differentially regulated IL-10 and IL-12 synthesis. IL-10 production was suppressed, whereas IL-12 levels were enhanced. Inhibition of P. gingivalis LPS-mediated activation of the PI3K-Akt pathway resulted in a pronounced augmentation of NFκB p65 that was independent of IκB-α degradation. Furthermore, the ability of the PI3K-Akt pathway to modulate IL-10 and IL-12 production appears to be mediated by the selective suppression of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 activity, as the MEK1 inhibitor PD98059 closely mimicked the effects of wortmannin and LY294002 to differentially regulate IL-10 and IL-12 production by P. gingivalis LPS-stimulated monocytes. These studies provide new insight into how engagement of the PI3K-Akt pathway by P. gingivalis LPS affects the induction of key immunoregulatory cytokines that control both qualitative and quantitative aspects of innate and adaptive immunity.
Katz, Jannet
Michalek Ph.D., Suzanne
Journal of Immunology Journal
10.4049/jimmunol.171.2.717
Martin M; Schifferle RE; Cuesta N; Vogel SN; Katz J; Michalek SM
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Esther Kläs
Valerie Krause
Bettina Pousttchi
Nicola Schrudde
Johannes Wald
Monolith, 1999
Plexiglass, steel, fluorescent tubes
Permanent loan
Michael und Eleonore Stoffel Stiftung
Simon Ungers (b. 1957 in Cologne, d. 2006 in Hürth) studied architecture at Cornell University from 1975 to 1980 in Ithaca, New York. He became known internationally as an architect when he built the T-House (in collaboration with Tom Kinslow), a private house with a sculptural feel made of Corten steel, and the Cube-House, made of concrete blocks. As an artist he specialised in Minimalist (light) installations and sculptures, which were built giving due consideration to the site. In 1995 he won the competition for the Holocaust Monument in Berlin (design remains unbuilt). Ungers was on the teaching staff at Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of Maryland. He lived and worked in New York and Cologne.
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Sebastian "Baz" St. George
Characters » Sebastian "Baz" St. George
Registry of the Evolved Database
File #28 Mar 2010 03:54
Name Sebastian Michael St. George Aliases
Status Unregistered Evolved Ability Audio Mimicry
Gender Male Race/Eth. Caucasian
Birthdate January 22 Age 31
Height 6'1" Build muscular/well-built
Eyes amber/light brown Hair auburn
Residence NYC
Employment worldwide - rock star
Parents Tam and Cathleen St. George Siblings Brothers: Lucian (presumed dead). Atticus. Cianan. Aidan. Giles. Gregory. Elias (youngest brother).
Sisters: Rhian (oldest sister). Phoebe. Bridget (youngest sister and last child).
Marital Status Single. Children None.
First Seen 3/23: Insolence from a Punk Last Seen
Sebastian, aka Baz, is a rock star - but a fairly new one. He started to get big just before the Bomb, and afterward has taken his time continuing the whole thing with his touring and such. He moved to the NYC area more or less because of family there, and because in his heart he does want to try and help the place out. This doesn't mean he isn't easily recognizable by this point as the lead singer and guitarist of "The Cursed" (a hard rock band) by those who listen to the music, but those who don't listen probably have no idea who he is.
He comes from a very large family, and is thus far an unregistered Evolved. He could have plenty of affiliations in the past to work with, and is open to making new ones now. RP Hooks that have been offered publicly: with relations between Evolved and non-Evolved tense at best, having his livelihood threatened by exposure from someone could be interesting to play out. He's aware of his ability, and considers it next to useless in the face of others' abilities, which has led him to have a complex with it. Needless to say, he may try and find other ways to compensate. He's available to RP out concerts for this or that reason, in nightclubs or in much bigger venues. Stuff could happen there too. If anyone would like to be the Evolved who almost killed him several years back, and who DID kill his fiancee, Miranda, I'd love to talk to you about it.
He's open for ideas other than this.
Born to a large family of Irish Catholics in Ireland, Sebastian began life in a tough world that only got tougher. This wasn't to say that the St. George line actually began in Ireland. It's simply that at some point, a Catholic man from England decided to marry a beautiful Irish Catholic lass in the past, and they settled in Ireland. Until Tam St.George moved to the United States and settled THERE much later on, that is.
Sebastian is the seventh son of his father, Tam, and his mother, Cathleen. Tam himself is a seventh son. There were babies after Baz's birth for a total of eleven. To make matters worse, his mother named them all after Catholic saints and angels. Sebastian was a studious and quiet child, angelic really, growing up. That didn't keep them from loss: his older brother, Lucian, vanished when Sebastian was eight. Lucian went off to Africa as part of his religious training and never returned. It fell on their brother, Aidan, to help take up the slack. Aidan was at times merciless in his taunting and outright abusive of his siblings, Sebastian especially, for no other reason than he stood up for the others. Tam and Cathleen, almost never around due to work, would often snap at them to "Handle it yourselves." Sebastian was ten by the time Aidan left home, but by then it was too late. He would grow to have a strained relationship with his siblings and parents.
When he was nine, his father got a job in America and they all moved there. He found it hard to settle in until the day he met Miranda, who would become his best friend and more later on. He was known to stand up at school to bullies, but it backfired the summer just after his thirteenth birthday; he got jumped. Sebastian, having wanted to become a doctor when he grew up, suddenly withdrew from that area. He started taking self-defense lessons that he paid for monthly by using his daily lunch money and helping out around the dojo after school. Miranda, knowing his love of Jimi Hendrix, gave him his first old, hand-me-down acoustic guitar for Christmas when they were twelve, and he had played it and learned it on his own in another year. Sebastian owned every record that Hendrix had ever put out by the time he was thirteen and bought a second-hand electric guitar to play. Rock was his genre of choice, and it soon colored his entire worldview.
But thirteen was also a year of change. He began dating Miranda, and was finally happy with the way his life was going. But with the onset of puberty, he discovered he wasn't normal: he had the power to vocally mimic anything he heard, natural or otherwise. Unable to ignore it after a year or so, he finally told his parents. His father didn't believe him, but his mother revealed a secret at that point: she had powers as well. Some of his brothers too. Lucian had been one of them back when they were still in Ireland, using his gift hand in hand with his faith - and he had been after a cruel man in Africa when he vanished, presumed dead. Others of his family had shown their gifts to their mother: Atticus could speak to animals, Cianan could de-molecularize and re-molecularize objects, and so forth. It apparently hadn't been all of the brood, however, and so Cathleen had been careful to keep it from her husband and the other kids. Sebastian would have to learn how to control his gift, despite his humble birth.
Despite the trials and tribulations of living in New York City as a teenager, especially one with a gift that made him abnormal, Sebastian managed to survive. Miranda and he had their fights and on again, off again, relationship until post-graduation. When she discovered his ability, quite accidentally, she surprised him by being accepting of it after a short period. Sebastian joined the NYC Police force soon after his graduation from high school, and Miranda worked at a local diner while saving up to start college. In the meantime, his focus shifted from simple karate and ju-jitsu to more violent, harder forms of martial arts: that of banshay and bando. The instructor was a man from Malaysia (Burma) who knew the arts well. One was more defensive, but the other managed to help Baz learn to use various weapons - and even things not usually thought to be weapons - with lethal force if necessary.
He and Miranda lived together for a couple more years before Sebastian bought a ring for her. The day that he took her out to propose at dinner was the last day he would have her in his life. A random encounter on the way home down the block pitted him against another, unknown, Evolved and an accomplice. Miranda died trying to save Sebastian, and took the brunt of the power-boosted telekinetic hit. All the same, it nearly severed him in two as well as killing her, and all he could do was use his mimicry to get someone to call for help as he lay dying. He was saved two days short of his 23rd birthday - the same day, ironically, that his namesake Saint had been brutally martyred.
The aftermath for him was devastating. Miranda had been the rock he based much of his life off of. Within another two years, he had left the force due to his loss interfering with his work. He focused much more on his music, creating a band at that point and getting into alcohol and occasional drug use to dull his pain. When they were discovered and signed to a label, they began to tour as the opening act for other, larger bands - until they became that larger band themselves.
It all changed the day of The Bomb. He and the band had been flying into JFK for a return visit full of concerts and parties and interviews when the center of the city virtually blew up. They saw the mushroom cloud from their windows in the private jet as they were re-directed several minutes away. That day, and then in the ensuing months, they lost most of their family that lived in the bomb's epicenter and out to the irradiated sections. For Sebastian, it was his mother and father, given the rest of his siblings had long since grown up and moved away. For the others in the band, it was most of their families. The fallout of this event left them stranded in Secaucus, New Jersey, until they could make their way towards Union City and the nearby Lincoln Tunnel - and it was there, they could go no further. Communication was down, and no amount of money could possibly help them find their families for several months. In the meantime, the entire country, even the world, had begun to suffer from the economic destruction of a major hub of business.
Baz and his band refused to tour during these long months, and tried to help as best they could where they could. In February of the next year, the Evolved were outed by Nathan Petrelli. Feeling a distinct target on his back, Sebastian kept his head down and kept silent about his ability. Once reunited with his remaining family, and his band's, he figured things would settle down and they would begin their touring once again. He was wrong. Nothing was as it seemed any longer, and many of their venues could hardly afford to support them. His income dropped dramatically, and he had to downgrade in order to save himself.
The band hasn't split up, but he now makes his home on the outskirts of New York City - both because he wants to help the place and because he grew up there. Now that things are settled, he feels that his secret ability will remain that way - and given the climate of hate that has sprung up around the idea of the Evolved, he's finding himself more and more willing to do anything to protect that secret he has, lest it cost him his livelihood.
Sex, drugs, and rock & roll, baby. When Sebastian isn't playing serious guitar and singing in that rough-edged sexy voice of his, he's playing to the crowds on stage in the way only rockers can do. He plays extra hard off stage as well, and there is a string of broken hearts and busted chops in his wake from his drunken parties. Anything goes at those things, and that's how he likes it.
He's fun-loving, but far smarter than he looks - as a matter of fact, he has to try and hide that intelligence lest he be called "pretentious" in his music. That isn't to say that he doesn't have an affectionate and serious side. It's just that the a-hole in him is his shield so that people don't hurt him anymore than he already has been. He's prone to depression now and then when the world is too much for him. And there are some triggers for his anger that nobody should touch, because he can and will finish what he starts. He can be a little spazzy and a little quiet, depending on what's going on around him, but if you're in trouble and he knows and likes you, he'll come to your defense without thinking twice about it. He's otherwise quite laid back, and very live and let-live.
His self-esteem fluctuates greatly from day to day, person to person, and sometimes situation to situation. He might be upbeat and happy one day, sociable and hyperactive, and even flirtatious - but the next day, he could wake up so depressed he doesn't get out of bed, and hates everything about himself. His moods are temperamental, to say the least, but only in brief periods. He hits rough patches where they move back and forth, but for the most part they're mostly stable. He gets more prone to depression while sleepy and exhausted than well-rested, which was what pushed him more or less to drink at parties in the evening. While drinking, and even other things, he can forget about whatever bothers him and feel much better about himself and everything around him.
He would never admit it to himself or to anyone else, but he's searching for something that he just can't seem to find - his own inner peace and happiness. Though a good fuel for his song-writing, it's less comfortable for him to live it. He's a romantic at heart, and will go out of his way to spoil someone rotten if he fancies them; however, he's afraid of commitment for a good reason, and long-term is difficult for him at this time. He's a wild-child Irish boy who needs taming before he'll give up his bachelor life, but once it happens, he's true-blue through and through. Betraying him is not a good idea, nor is trying to manipulate him. Not if he means more to someone than a night's fun, at least.
As one of the Evolved, he tends to view them on a case by case basis. He does feel they have the right to live, but he's also worried that some of them may prove dangerous - either accidentally or on purpose. He's not really for locking them all up if they're too strong; however, he is all for finding some way to let them practice their gifts and learn to control them so that the ones who don't mean to harm others won't have to. The others? They're criminals if they want to harm people for fun and profit, the same as anyone who doesn't have extra powers.
When it comes to Registration, Sebastian isn't about to be hypocritical. He simply refuses to agree with the idea. He feels it's too much like Nazi Germany, and that there's a line somewhere that may soon be crossed - from registration to death camps for the Evolved. It's why he keeps his ability a secret, and why he refuses to agree to the idea of Registration itself. He's pretty sure that the Evolved know when they have powerful gifts and need to learn to use them; everyone else has a gift so inconsequential that they're no danger to anyone anyway.
Anything that the man hears, he can mimic vocally. It doesn't matter if the sounds are natural or man-made, organic or otherwise.
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Tourism Takes a Beating
Carnival and the World Creole Music Festival as well as other aspects of Dominica's tourism product hard hit by Hurricane Maria
Fort Young Hotel severely damaged by Maria
The enormity of the economic challenge the country faces after the unforgiving and unforgettable punishment inflicted by Hurricane Maria a little over two months ago can be found in a report of the findings of an assessment of the tourism industry conducted by the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA), the state agency charged with marketing the destination.
With the little there was of the productive sector pummelled into a crushing halt, the country is counting on tourism to jump start the economy; evidence of which can be found in the 'open for business' messages that the authorities are sending out in drips to the outside world.
However, there is a much grimmer reality facing tourism, as indicated in the report dated 16 October by Colin Piper, the director of tourism, a copy of which was obtained by The Sun.
It paints a rather depressing picture of the state of accommodation - some of which are unlikely to reopen – as well as sites and attractions, the very basic needs for tourism, although the situation with access is more encouraging, with LIAT, Seaborne and Air Sunshine having resumed limited services to Douglas Charles Airport and the ferry continuing to operate.
Of the 73 properties comprising 909 rooms listed as functional here before the curse of Maria struck, the DDA visited 64 and what it found was telling.
"The damage to the accommodation plant in Dominica is extensive and spans across the island with damage ranging from moderately affected to severely damaged [or] destroyed," Piper wrote in his report. Half of those were described as moderately damaged and could resume operation "now or in the near future with fix and repairs" but would require assistance with lights, water and amenities like laundry services for linens and towels.
Even more worrying are the 32 properties that were severely damaged or destroyed, "with serious to total destruction of structures including roofs, electrical and plumbing", some of which are likely gone for good.
"The outlook for these properties is longer term, say 12 to 24 months. However, some property owners have indicated they will be unable to rebuild," the director of tourism stated.
"The industry will need a lot of support and concessions in order to rebuild to previous state," he warned, his conclusion likely based on the uncertainties surrounding the future of the industry.
These uncertainties and concerns were made clear when the Dominica Hotel and Tourism Association (DHTA) presented its own preliminary assessment report, from which Piper quoted.
"The tourism private sector will need assurance that there will be a tourism industry for rebuilding," he quoted the DHTA as saying. "Unless this is assured owners will not want to continue these long term large scale investments. We need to understand where the government will be in meeting our needs."
It's a frightening prospect for an economy that needs every single penny in foreign exchange that tourism can earn.
The study found the state of tourism sites to be just as dire, with those attractions suffering extensive damage, and further hampered by limited access due to major landslides and debris.
The prognosis for the tourism services seemed better, although they were all impacted by the hurricane, some severely. "One of the operations office was totally destroyed; nonetheless several operations lost the bulk of their equipment which includes vessels, life jackets, tubes, vehicles and office furniture/fixtures," Piper said in his report.
However, the operators have said they will be ready to resume operations sometime between next month and January 2018, "specifically if they are able to replace the equipment which they have lost", and that they were willing to modify their tour packages to include locations which are ready and accessible.
This is likely to have a major impact on the cruise sector, which also suffered severe damage.
Two of the industry's largest revenue earners, carnival and the World Creole Music Festival, have been hit hard by Maria.
For the second time in three years the authorities have been forced to cancel the festival, having taken the not-so-popular decision to do so after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in 2015.
This year, with accommodation severely depleted, the decision was taken early to cancel the event, while the Dominica Festivals Committee, which is responsible for both events, has decided to scale back next year's carnival.
"We suggest that carnival events are scaled back in size and scope in light of the circumstances and the two days of street jump up should be the highlight with the private sector taking the lead in a weeklong calendar of activities starting with the Lagoon Street Jam," Piper wrote, with a recommendation that the DFC facilitates a Diaspora t-shirt band on one of the two days.
Piper recommended that one or more cruise lines be asked to provide accommodation for Dominica during its 40th anniversary of independence and the 2018 staging of WCMF.
He also called for a short, medium and longer term strategy for the tourism industry, drawing from the experiences of destinations that have been through similar crises, with the focus on volunteer and Diaspora tourism and tourism for a cause in the next six to twelve months.
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By Adam Grabowski 05.04.2012
Video Rewind 05.04.2012
Neneh Cherry & The Thing “Accordian”
Fans of MF Doom must all be too familiar with Madvillain’s track “Accordian”. We get jazzy reinterpretation of the song by Neneh Cherry & The Thing. Covers seem to be a thing of theirs as they just released a cover of “Dream Baby Dream” by Suicide. The song itself is a jazzy rendition of the MF Doom with a female vocalist. Though the video follows Neneh around with nightvision on, there is something to the atmosphere. Like you’re joining some intimate group like The Dead Poet Society, and there you are outside just watching a performance of a rap song in the style of jazz. Two things that much like poetry are about improvisation and technical skill. I gotta admit, if I were to mistakenly look over the title of this track I wouldn’t have recognized it as MF Doom’s until the part about Mutley and sick laughter. As any good cover should be, this one takes the original and puts a special spin on it without dirty the original. Nice work Neneh Cherry & The Thing. This cover as well as others will appear on their album The Cherry Thing due out June 19th. (Also, keep an eye out for the mask. Shout out to MF Doom there).
Cut Chemist featuring Blackbird “Outro (Revisited)”
Cut Chemist teams up with Blackbird for “Outro (Revisited)”. The track has tons of energy, and one thing the video does is capture that. Not only does Blackbird feature demonstrating his ability to drop these funky flows, but they have him running ragged. The poor rapper literally can be seen running “cartoon-like” down the street. It all makes sense with the feel of the song. You’re not supposed to be just sitting there listening to it; get up off your ass and move around. This is a wake up song and Blackbird’s getting up and moving with you. Tight production here by Cut Chemist as well.
Dragonette “Let It Go”
In Dragonette‘s video for “Let It Go,” at first everything is white or at least it’s supposed to be. You find yourself being dragged out of a white car by two men dressed in white suits into a white building with white interior. They strip you of your clothes and dress you in white. They hook you up to a white machine in a yellow room and somehow you start dancing. Yes, this is how drugs are made. It’s visually appealing especially with the clarity and color contrast. But don’t worry, istening to the song and watching the video won’t result in you being dumped on the side of a road.
Dosvec “1979 Tipsy Kicks”
I know how much the blogs love Dosvec. We love him here at Surviving the Golden Age, too. It’s no wonder with the mash-ups he produces. If you can’t make out from the music or the lyrics, then you should be able to make out the tracks from the video. That’s the fun part about mash-ups, seeing how many elements of the song you can identify. Here we get pieces from J-Kwon‘s “Tipsy” mixed with Foster The People‘s “Pumped Up Kicks” laid over Smashing Pumpkins‘ “1979” (Slink Mix). That was tougher than I thought it would be to write, so sit back and enjoy the mash-up video and see if you remember when these came out.
Eddy B & Tim Gunter “Tomorrow”
All right, I’ll admit it. So far, I’ve been pretty impressed with what I’ve heard from Eddy B and Tim Gunter. I think it’s the honesty you get. This video was shot in Greensboro, NC where Eddy actually goes to school. Shout out to Greensboro. Hope you know the talent you go under your nose. We follow Eddy as he walks down the street rapping about the streets he got off of. He’s waiting for tomorrow, but it may not come. In the vid, Eddy takes a bullet to the head. Unfortunate, a tale of getting out of a bad situation only to have your life ended in tragedy anyway. It sort of reminds me of Jasper Howard, the University of Connecticut football player who was stabbed to death. His family sent him to Connecticut to escape the trouble he might find in his hometown of Miami, Florida and in the end, it may have been the wrong choice. Just goes to show that tomorrow really isn’t promised to no man. So, have a safe weekend. Hope it’s fun, but do your best to make it to tomorrow.
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Julia Roberts enters the Casa del Mar hotel ballroom with the confidence that comes from enjoying a solid movie career. On this particular day, the Pretty Woman star has made herself available to discuss her role as the sinister queen in Mirror Mirror, the re-imagining of the classic Snow White fantasy, directed by Tarsem Singh. The actress has a close relationship with Spain after receiving last year the Donosti Award in San Sebastian. Close friend of the actor Javier Bardem, with whom she worked in the past, Julia Roberts confesses that she doesn’t speak fluent Spanish but knows some words and reads many books of Spanish authors.
Q: What is your beauty secret if you have one?
JR: Just happiness, and the love of a good man. I think that keeps you (knocks on table-laughter) it really does.
Q: To take care of the kids, that’s a beauty secret.
JR: Well, that’s the exercise part, of the beauty and exercise part of life.
Q: Do you think your kids will like to see you as a bad Queen?
JR: Eventually I think so. They are a little young for that still, but I think there will be a day where they probably will think it’s quite amusing.
Q: What do you think about this hunt for everlasting beauty? Like not necessarily using bird poo, but in the real world, what people do to keep young?
JR: I know, it’s pretty incredible, I would think it’s exhausting really, but I guess some people have more time to spend on it than would be interesting to me.
Q: We don’t often see you in villain roles Julia, but you obviously had a great time and it was a pleasure to watch you. Had you been after a bad guy role in particular or was it just the script?
JR: No, it was just Tarsem, I’m just so crazy about that guy, there’s just no two ways about it, I just think he’s so remarkable and his point of view is so original and massive, I was really a big fan, I just really wanted to have lunch with him, I didn’t really care what we were going to talk about, and he spins his web, (laughs) and there’s no getting out of it.
Q: You didn’t feel a little lost with all the special effects and all the opulent sets?
JR: I didn’t feel lost, but it’s not so crazy special effect-y really, I mean, it was all kind of there for me, I mean I never felt like I was looking at tennis balls, or didn’t understand where I was, and even when we did the stuff in the cottage where I’m with myself as it were, we had worked it out so well and my sister actually who is an actor, had come to read the other side for me, so I at least had this comfort of a voice that made sense to me, as me, as we kind of went back and forth, so that was really as confusing as it got in that realm, but otherwise it all seemed like it was right before us.
Q: With the fairytales, I’m looking at the old Grimm books, I have a daughter now and I wouldn’t read that to her.
JR: Parental editing. That’s what I call it, you kind of start and then you get through part of it and then make some stuff up, and make some stuff nicer and then you say, The End. That was a short one! (laughter)
Q: Sometimes, even like Dr Seuss’ The Lorax, there are things that are pretty dark.
JR: Well Rapunzel, the fairytale of Rapunzel, is so savage and the Prince falls out of the tower, and his eyes get gouged out, and then he’s bleeding and then he can’t find her anymore, and he wanders through the deserts and the streets looking for her but of course he’s blind now and I read that story to my kids one night and it was very (xxxx-laughter) very well.
Q: Did you ever read any Spanish author?
JR: Yes, of course. I read the books of Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Hundred Years of Solitude. But I didn’t read them in Spanish (laughter)
Q: Do you speak any Spanish at all?
JR: I know some words nothing mayor. I wish I could tell you that I do speak Spanish. I know “Por favor” y “Gracias”
Q: What do you do to make the planet greener now?
JR: Just try to limit our impact obviously as a family of five, we can produce a lot of waste, and so we compost and we have chickens, so that takes care of most of our food waste, we don’t use any superfluous paper products in our house, no paper towels or anything like that, they don’t use Ziploc bags for lunches, in fact, our school has a waste free lunch policy, so everything has to be reusable, all the containers, and stuff like that. We have solar shingles on our roof, I drive a bio diesel and a Prius…
Q: In Mexico on your ranch?
JR: Here in California.
Q: Do you still grow your own vegetables?
JR: We have a lettuce garden because I don’t like to buy lettuce in a plastic box, it just makes me have a pain in my stomach, I just feel bad, that box is so big and so we grow a lot of lettuce and kale and carrots, that’s all we have in our garden right now. And we get our fish and our meat and our fruits from local farmers that co-op that get every week.
Q: Now you sit here all dressed in white, I would imagine with three kids, I would not be able to do that. How do you juggle that balance being like the mommy, at work, and the private life?
JR: Well a few years ago, we would have had dried avocado all over me (laughter) but I think we’ve all gotten past that, that stage where you can wear white again. (laughs)
Q: I saw a beautiful movie with you and Ryan Gossling, and it’s a small movie, a story about family, very beautiful, it was released one month ago. Do you think in the future, you will have the desire to produce a small movie, a particular movie, or not?
JR: Well we just produced a movie, I think it’s going to come out actually in April, with Toni Collette and Michael Sheen, called Jesus Henry Christ, and it was at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and it’s the same director as Fireflies in the Garden. Yeah, it’s a nice movie. They did a great job.
Q: Is it hard to get excited about new projects Julia after a career of about 20 years?
JR: It’s not, I feel like if I have the privilege to be part of something and I’m going to take time away from my life which I’m enjoying, it’s got to be something that I’m going to be pretty excited about, and I like my job, I’m happy at work, it’s fun and pretty extraordinary, so I try to appreciate all that time that I’m there, make the most of it.
Q: And do you prefer to play a Pretty Woman or a bitchy woman?
JR: Well, they are not mutually exclusive, (laughter) but just whatever comes up that has some good stuff for me to do.
Q: Was it a tougher challenge to be a bad queen than to do like your last films?
JR: You know, everything has it’s challenges, being funny, being nice, being mean, it all kind of on the day, when you are trying to do it the best that you can do it, and it will last forever, it’s going to have a challenge with it.
Q: Where did you find your inspiration for this wicked role? Is it somebody you got your inspiration from, or it was all on paper?
JR: George Clooney. (laughter) It was all on the paper. (laughter)
Q: Do you remember the amount of your first paycheck and how did you spend it?
JR: I’m sure it was a very small amount, like the first paycheck ever? It’s a smaller amount now. (laughter) I think I spent it on myself, I was a teenager and I think I had gotten a job so that I could buy things that were not important for my mom to be supplying. Struggling to kind of keep everybody fed and with the appropriate amount of everything that they needed, it was, oh, but I have to have this coat, and that was back in the days of a layaway plan, where you could, every time you got some money, take it to the store, and then pay it off.
Q: How often do you look into the mirror?
JR: When I brush my teeth in the morning, I’m looking at myself. I just don’t put a huge investment in it, I mean, anybody with kids knows that it’s, come wipe me, where are my shoes? There’s just not a lot of time.
Q: Would you like to go back to the theater?
JR: I would love to do that. I would love to do that.
Q: And a lot of social networking as well, where people are interconnecting and they think they know about you, are you part of that Twitter universe?
JR: I have never had Twitter…I’ve never seen Facebook. I saw The Social Network, but I’ve never seen Facebook.
Q: You do have the internet at the house I presume.
I do, I have email and I know how to text.
Q: Any desire to direct or write yourself?
JR: Zero. (laughs) I’ll leave it to her. The young have energy and time. I’ve never had any desire to do that really, it’s just a different thing, so many people coming at you, and looking at you for answers to a whole lot of questions, I just like my one little section.
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Wednesday 19 August 2020 (other days)
Wednesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
or Saint John Eudes, Priest
Cry out with joy to God, all the earth: serve the Lord with gladness.
Year: A(II). Psalm week: 4. Liturgical Colour: Green.
Saint John Eudes (1601 - 1680)
He was born and died in Normandy. He was ordained priest and spent many years preaching parish missions. He organized a congregation of nuns that grew into the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, dedicated to the care of women rescued from a disorderly life, and a congregation of priests dedicated to the running of seminaries. He was active in encouraging devotion to the Sacred Heart, and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In his time the Church in France was corrupt and in many ways a source of evil rather than grace. The higher clergy were rich and privileged, and enjoyed and guarded their privileges (the country was run, and wars were waged, by a cardinal). The lower clergy were ignorant and the common people were poor, superstitious, and oppressed as much spiritually as materially. To this mix was added the poison of Jansenism, which taught that human nature was corrupt, original sin rampant, and perfection was both necessary for salvation and practically unattainable.
In such circumstances, setting up seminaries to ensure the proper education of priests becomes itself a revolutionary act, and the encouragement of devotion to the Sacred Heart – to the emotional core of Jesus – becomes not a sweet pious platitude but a defiant proclamation that the centre of God’s essence is his love, not condemnation.
Over and over again in the lives of the saints we find the Church sick and corrupt. Perhaps it must always be so, journeying in a fallen world and staffed by sinners who are as fallen as the rest of us and subject to worse temptations. And over and over again we find God’s grace acting through people like St John Eudes. They do not stand outside and complain or run campaigns, they go in and do things, removing the mould of worldly corruption and putting back, bit by bit, the leaven of grace. They will always be needed, until the world ends.
See also the articles in the Catholic Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia.
Other saints: Saint Ezekiel Moreno (1848 - 1906)
Hel was born in Alfaro in Spain on April 9, 1848. He joined the Recollect Congregation of the Augustinian Order in Monteagudo (Navarra) in 1864. He was sent to the Philippines, where he was ordained in 1871 and where he worked for 15 years. He then returned to Spain to serve as prior in Monteagudo for three years, after which he gave all of his energy to various forms of ministry in Colombia until shortly before his death. He was a leader in the restoration of the Augustinian Recollect Province of La Candelaria in Colombia. In 1899 he became bishop of Pasto.
His life as bishop was not easy due to the horrors of a cruel civil war, a period of rising anticlericalism, and persecution of the Church. Nevertheless, through his simple spirit of openness and rigorous defence of the rights of the Church, he showed himself a faithful pastor whose concern was the well-being of the Church entrusted to his care. Struck by cancer, he returned to Spain at the insistence of his priests in order to receive treatment, and died there at Monteagudo on August 19, 1906 at the age of 58.
He was beatified in 1975, and canonized in the Dominican Republic by Pope John Paul II in 1992 at the close of the 5th Century Celebration of the Evangelization of Latin America.
Other saints: St Oswin (- 651)
Hexham & Newcastle
In the political upheaval caused by King Oswald’s death in 641/2, his precarious kingdom of Northumbria disintegrated. This allowed Oswin, a relative of the former king Edwin, to regain control of Deira, its southern part, while Oswald’s half-brother Oswy held on to its northern half, Bernicia. Oswin proved a popular ruler, who worked as successfully with St Aidan as Oswald had. Bede tells us that he was courteous in manner and generous to all, and “among his other qualities of virtue and moderation the greatest was humbleness.” In an effort to consolidate his position against the enemies who had overthrown Oswald, Oswy eventually invaded Deira, conniving at Oswin’s murder, the news of which brought about the death of Aidan twelve days later, in August 651. Oswin, always popularly regarded as a martyr, was later buried at Tynemouth.
Second Reading: St Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)
Augustine was born in Thagaste in Africa of a Berber family. He was brought up a Christian but left the Church early and spent a great deal of time seriously seeking the truth, first in the Manichaean heresy, which he abandoned on seeing how nonsensical it was, and then in Neoplatonism, until at length, through the prayers of his mother and the teaching of St Ambrose of Milan, he was converted back to Christianity and baptized in 387, shortly before his mother’s death.
Augustine had a brilliant legal and academic career, but after his conversion he returned home to Africa and led an ascetic life. He was elected Bishop of Hippo and spent 34 years looking after his flock, teaching them, strengthening them in the faith and protecting them strenuously against the errors of the time. He wrote an enormous amount and left a permanent mark on both philosophy and theology. His Confessions, as dazzling in style as they are deep in content, are a landmark of world literature. The Second Readings in the Office of Readings contain extracts from many of his sermons and commentaries and also from the Confessions.
Liturgical colour: green
The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the season in which we are being neither especially penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).
1 Corinthians 10:24,31 ©
Nobody should be looking for his own advantage, but everybody for the other man’s. Whatever you eat, whatever you drink, whatever you do at all, do it for the glory of God.
Colossians 3:17 ©
Never say or do anything except in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:23-24 ©
Whatever your work is, put your heart into it as if it were for the Lord and not for men, knowing that the Lord will repay you by making you his heirs. It is Christ the Lord that you are serving.
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New Trump Administration rules undermine health insurance consumer protections
Statement by Jesse Ellis O’Brien, US PIRG Health Care Advocate, on release of new federal health insurance regulations known as the “Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters” (PDF)
American consumers know that health insurance still costs too much and delivers far too little for what we pay. Unfortunately, new rules announced today by the Trump Administration will likely make matters even worse.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new regulations today that threaten the affordability of health care even further, and reduce the value of health insurance coverage for American consumers.
Currently, if a health insurer proposes a rate hike of 10% or more, it has to explain the reasons for the premium increase, and go through a public review process to determine whether the higher rate is justified. The new rule will lift the threshold to 15%, meaning that many large rate hikes will go into effect without any public review.
If anything, the current standard is too weak. Even a 9% rate hike is much bigger than the rate of inflation. Insurers should be required to tell the public why a big hike is necessary. Weakening this standard is a disservice to consumers.
The new rules also water down the requirement that health insurers spend at least 80% of our premium dollars on health care services—not administrative expenses and profits—or rebate the difference back to consumers. Under this requirement, known as the Medical Loss Ratio or 80/20 Rule, insurers rebated more than $1.6 billion to consumers from 2012-2015. The new rule could reduce the requirement to as low as 70%, and will enable insurers to pass more administrative expenses off as medical costs.
Together, these changes will make it easier for health insurance companies to raise rates and reduce the value of health coverage for consumers. This is a big step in the wrong direction.
When these rules were proposed last Fall, 8,000 US PIRG members and supporters across the country wrote to HHS in opposition to these changes. American consumers are fed up with unjustified health insurance rate hikes, and these weaker protections are the last thing we need. American consumers need real health care reform, and we will continue our work to hold our leaders accountable for delivering meaningful results.
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Home : Island Profiles : Grenada : Hazards
Grenada - Kick `Em Jenny Hazards
Kick 'em Jenny is the source of a number of potential dangers. The most immediate and frequent danger is to marine vessels in the vicinity of the volcano during eruptions and during the 'quiet' periods between eruptions. The volcano lies directly beneath one of the main inter-island shipping routes and the area is popular both with recreational sailors and fishermen. For this reason Kick 'em Jenny is carefully monitored and a 1.5km exclusion zone around the summit of the volcano is currently in place. Although scientists continue to stress the improbability of an eruption generating a tsunami (a giant sea wave) this hazard also remains of great public concern.
Ballistic Projectiles
If Kick 'em Jenny erupts, it might throw hot rocks up through the water column into the air above the surface of the sea. Such rocks could travel as far as 5km from the volcano, and would pose a great danger to nearby ships or boats. Any ship which happened to be over the vent of Kick 'em Jenny during the 1939 eruption would certainly have been destroyed.
In September 1952 a Japanese research ship was passing over the active Myojinsho volcano in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan when that volcano erupted ripping the hull apart. All 31 people on board were killed. This volcano is similar to Kick 'em Jenny but of a slightly less violent type.
This picture shows an eruption from a submarine vent off the south coast of Iceland in 1963 which eventually led to the formation of Surtsey Island. This picture closely resembles the description of the 1939 eruption of Kick 'em Jenny. An eruption such as this one would present a clear hazard to shipping.
Lowered Water Density
Submarine volcanoes release large quantities of gas bubbles into the water, even in quiet times between eruptions. This can lower the density of the seawater above the vent. This is very dangerous to shipping, because boats entering a zone of lowered water density will lose buoyancy and may sink.
Tragedy of the Island Queen
One of Grenada's worst maritme tragedies may have resulted from just this phenomenon. On the 5th August 1944, the wooden schooner Island Queen, with over 60 people on board, disappeared between Grenada and St. Vincent. At the time it was thought that a German or allied submarine had torpedoed the boat. These theories, however, cannot easily explain the total lack of debris after the boat's disappearance. However, if a boat sinks because of lowered water density everything would sink.
Kick 'em Jenny had, in fact erupted the year before (1943) and it is highly likely that it was still actively degassing in 1944, without any signs at the sea surface of such activity.
A degassing submarine volcano can lower the
water density above the volcano. This possibility
of lowered water density above the volcano is an
ever-present hidden hazard.
In addition to the vulnerability of the shipping industry many people are also concerned about sea waves or tsunamis. While it is probable that large explosions or landslides at Kick 'em Jenny could generate tsunamis, the threat from tsunamis has been largely over exaggerated. Not all eruptions at Kick 'em Jenny will generate tsunamis and not all tsunamis will be large.
Studies show that the worst eruption that Kick 'em Jenny is capable of under any circumstances might generate a wave with an amplitude of 10m in open waters at a distance of 10km from the vent. Waves of this amplitude could be generated only if the volcano began to erupt in water depths of less than about 130m. Currently the depth to the vent is 268m.
Prior to recent bathymetric measurements it was thought that Kick 'em Jenny was growing steadily towards the surface and thus approaching depths at which previous workers (e.g. Smith and Shepherd 1996) had suggested that eruptions could become more explosive. Thus in addition to direct hazards caused by volcanic activity, such as water disruptions and ballistic projectiles over the volcano, there was some speculation that the probability of an eruption-generated tsunami was increasing. However, with the re-evaluation of previous surveys showing clearly that the volcano is not growing towards the surface, together with the results of the most-recent survey which revealed that the vent region of the volcano (the crater floor) is 268m below sea level, the likelihood of a tsunamigenic explosive eruption is now considerably lower (see figure below). Eruption-generated tsunamis may, of course, become a more significant hazard if Kick 'em Jenny does begin to grow closer to the surface.
The best-studied example of underwater dome growth in the West Indies occurred at the Soufriere volcano in St. Vincent in 1971. On that occasion a dome began to grow at the bottom of the 175 metre deep crater lake in early October 1971 and reached the surface in late September. By analogy with this episode we would expect a period of one to two months of steady eruption before Kick 'em Jenny grows into the violently explosive range of depths.
For a detailed study of the potential effects of eruptions of Kick 'em Jenny, particularly its potential for generating tsunamis, go to the bibliography section of this site.
This figure shows that Kick 'em Jenny would need to grow a considerable amount (approximately 138m) before it could potentially produce explosive eruptions which may trigger tsunamis. Scientists do not know how long this growth could take.
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Julen Lopetegui wants his Real Madrid players to bounce back in derby clash
Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui has demanded an instant response from their midweek defeat at Sevilla when his side tackle derby rivals Atletico.
Los Blancos missed the chance to make the most of leaders Barcelona’s unexpected loss at Leganes when they went down 3-0 at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on Wednesday night.
There is little chance for the squad – which must do without defender Marcelo for several weeks because of a calf injury – to regroup before Atletico head to the Bernabeu.
Lopetegui, though, is relishing such a key encounter so soon to help set the team back on course.
“Everything goes fast in football, wins and defeats. Everything has to be left behind quickly, because now we have a massive challenge in the shape of a derby against Atletico,” the Real Madrid coach said at a press conference.
“Just as we don’t stop when we win, we’ll not stop at defeats either. We have just enough time to prepare for the next match, which will be a special, a big challenge.”
Lopetegui added: “In a derby everything is important, it’s a match that has an emotional element and we have to go in to it prepared for everything.
“It’s not just another game, it’s a demanding game and the team will be ready.”
Atletico will have enjoyed an additional day’s recovery following their midweek 3-0 victory over Huesca.
Lopetegui, though, will not be claiming fatigue as an issue, with his squad then set for a Champions League trip to CSKA Moscow.
“I don’t take in to account the day less. Our motivation and desire are more important than that,” he said.
“The team is fine. We have a match every three days and, logically, we have had to respond.”
The Real Madrid coach added: “The reality is that the team is motivated and keen to win LaLiga and is very well set up to do so.
“There’s a long way to go, but we’re candidates for the title. It’ll be a tough and a long season for everyone.”
Real Madrid offered no timeframe on Marcelo’s expected return.
A club statement on Friday read: “After the tests carried out today by the Real Madrid Sanitas Medical Services on our player Marcelo, he has been diagnosed with a muscle injury in the soleus of his right leg. His recovery will continue to be assessed.”
Atletico coach Diego Simeone, meanwhile, is not expecting anything other than a fiercely contested derby, no matter what form of either side.
“I don’t evaluate an opponent based on the last game that they played,” said Simeone, whose team trail the leaders by just two points and beat their rivals 4-2 in the UEFA Super Cup at the start of the season.
“I value them for their characteristics and potential. We know we’re going to face one of the best teams in the world.”
Simeone added at a press conference: “It will be a tough match, like all the games we play against Madrid and we will have to seize control of it.”
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'Smallville' Tops Latest Slate of DVD Releases
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)
CHICAGO (thefutoncritic.com) -- Warner Bros. Home Video is set to release "Smallville: The Complete First Season" on DVD on September 23. The news comes after early indications the company would not release the series on the format until early 2004.
The six-disc set will feature all 21 first season episodes in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 surround. Extras on the set, which retails for $64.92, include audio commentary on the first two episodes, deleted scenes from the pilot, an interactive tour of Smallville, storyboards, TV spots and a link to the official Smallville site featuring added bonuses. Based on the information provided by Warner Bros., this is essentially the Canadian release of the series' first two episodes with the remaining 19 episodes tacked on.
"Smallville" is just one of many TV series getting the DVD treatment in the past couple of weeks. Here's a breakdown of the latest news:
-- "Highlander: The Complete Second Season" (July 29, MSRP $89.95) - Anchor Bay Entertainment will serve up year two of the syndicated drama next month. The massive nine-disc set features all 22 second season episodes presented in 4:3 full screen and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. Extras include talent bios, complete scripts for several episodes and DVD-ROM links to other downloadables.
-- "The Best of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" (August 26, MSRP $19.95) - Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment will release an 88-minute compilation of the TBS' series best moments including such segments as the "Lizard Man" and the "Wardrobe in a Bottle." Extras include a DVD-ROM link to three additional segments on the series' official web site as well as a $10-off coupon good towards admission to any "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" museum in the U.S. or Canada. Final picture/sound specs were not available.
-- "Jim Henson's The Storyteller Collection" (August 26, MSRP $24.95) - Columbia TriStar will also serve up all nine episodes of the short-lived HBO series directed by Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient") and narrated by John Hurt. Final picture/sound specs were not available.
-- "Mr. Show: The Complete Third Season" (August 26, $34.95) - Warner Bros. Home Video is set to release all 10 episodes of the HBO series' third season in a two-disc set presented in full screen and Dolby 2.0 stereo. A large slate of extras include audio commentaries on all ten episodes by the cast and crew, the 30-minute "Best of Mr. Show: Fantastic Newness" documentary featuring new material, the "Drugachusettes" music-only track with score by Eban Schletter, footage from Mr. Show at the 1997 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and several TV spots for the series.
-- "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Second Season" (September 2, $89.95) - Paramount Home Entertainment will offer up the second season of the highly-rated drama, this time in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby 5.1 surround. Four featurettes ("Behind-the-Scenes," "Make-Up," "Music" and "Special Effects") round out the extras on the six-disc set.
-- "The Outer Limits: The Original Series - The Complete Second Season" (September 2, $69.95) - MGM Home Entertainment will release the second (and final) season of the 1960s classic on three DVD-18 discs. All 17 episodes are remastered in their original 4:3 aspect ratios and English mono sound. No extras are mentioned aside from a booklet with episode and airdate information.
-- "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror" (September 2, $14.95) - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has a compliation of the annual feature on the animated series. A list of the specific segments were not available however the disc will include a bonus montage of "Kang and Kodo's finest moments."
-- "Stargate SG-1: The Complete Fourth Season" (September 2, $69.95) - MGM will also offer up the fourth season of the popular sci-fi series. The five-disc set features all 22 episodes in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1 surround. Extras include include a documentary, audio commentary on each episode by the filmmakers and cast (a first for the series), plus two "Secret Files of the SGC" featurettes.
-- "Xena: Warrior Princess - The Complete Second Season" (September 9, MSRP $89.95) - Anchor Bay has the full sophomore year of the syndicated drama. Final picture/sound specs and extras are not available.
-- And finally in a post to the official "Freaks & Geeks" web site, co-creator Judd Apatow told visitors his short-lived series may be headed to the format after all. You can read the complete posting by clicking here. Previously, "Geeks" was said to be in "music rights hell" as far as getting a DVD release. Apatow also mentions "Undeclared" may be headed to DVD as well.
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· CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (CBS)
· FREAKS & GEEKS (NBC)
· RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT (TBS)
· SIMPSONS, THE (FOX)
· SMALLVILLE (CW)
· STARGATE: SG-1 (SCI FI)
· UNDECLARED (FOX)
· XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (SYNDICATION)
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Shoreditch, an eclectic and hip village which is located immediately to the northeast of the City of London within the three London Boroughs of Islington, Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
An historic industrial area which had fallen into decay. It underwent rapid regeneration during 1990s when artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin moved in and turned Shoreditch into the epicentre of London’s cool, creative set. It was at this time that the trend for loft living took off with many former industrial buildings being converted into ‘warehouse conversions’. Shoreditch is now entering the next stage of its transformation with new build residential towers already built or in the pipeline.
Shoreditch is popular with financiers, lawyers and other professionals keen to live close to the City, on-trend hipsters and young entrepreneurs in media and digital technologies based at nearby Silicon Roundabout (Old Street). The typical resident is primarily under the age of 35 and without children.
The most desirable properties in the area tend to be warehouse apartments, especially with some outdoor space, in the Shoreditch Triangle, the area bounded by Old Street, Great Eastern Street and Shoreditch High Street.
Shoreditch is known for shopping, restaurants, late night drinking and clubbing. The area is known for its independent retailers as well as its vibrant nightlife.
Given its urban location, green space is in short supply, however, there is a garden and bandstand in Arnold Circus, green space at Finsbury Square, and Shoreditch Park located at the northern edge of Hoxton.
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Soviet-Polish relations, 1919-1921
Croll, Kirsteen Davina (2009) Soviet-Polish relations, 1919-1921. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921 was a direct consequence of the ideological objectives pursued by the belligerents. Ideology shaped the political agenda and the diametrically opposed war aims of both states, and was implemented through the foreign policy, diplomatic negotiation and military engagements pursued. This proved to be the principal obstacle to the establishment of cordial relations. As western democracy and Russian Marxism battled it out, war was inevitable.
Externally, the Paris Peace Conference provided the necessary conditions for the resumption of traditional Russian-Polish hostilities, whilst the Allied States consistently demonstrated their absolute inability to directly influence either the development, or outcome, of the conflict.
Redressing the balance of historiography, this thesis includes a greater examination of the conflict from the perspective of the Soviet regime. This firmly controlled the Russian decision-making process. By charting the war, it becomes clear that both states deliberately pursued a dual offensive: traditional diplomatic negotiation and military campaign as conditions dictated. However, in addition, Soviet Russia developed a unique and innovative, revolutionary, agit-prop, diplomatic medium. This enabled adept Soviet diplomats to win the majority of diplomatic battles during the conflict, although often negotiating from a militarily weak position.
Nevertheless, the regime ultimately failed in its objective: to ignite socialist revolution in western Europe. The mistaken Soviet decision in July 1920 to cross the ethnographic border to forcefully sovietise Poland, in opposition to Marxist doctrine, irreversibly altered the complexion of the war and proved its pivotal turning point. This culminated politically with the short-lived establishment of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee in Białystok, and militarily, with the decisive defeat of the Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw. It is now certain that the Red Army offensive into Poland in July 1920 aimed not only at the sovietisation of Poland, but at spreading the socialist revolution to Western Europe and overthrowing the Versailles settlement.
The European revolutionary upsurge had largely extinguished during the previous year and in August 1920, Communist ideology ultimately failed to inspire the vast majority of the Polish population. Thus, by utilising the Soviet military to secure its war aims, Lenin and the Politburo inadvertently signed the death-warrant of socialist revolution in Poland at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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History of the British Open Golf Tournament
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British Open Golf Tournament is also popularly recalled as Open or Open Championship. It is also a part of the prestigious tournaments of Golf around the world. British Open Golf Tournament proudly stands in between U.S Open, Masters Tournament and PGA Championship. Due to rich history of the tournament, the title is regarded quite highly by the experts and professional players. The tournament is organized annually on several courses around England and Scotland. Northern Ireland has got the privilege for single time only.
The very first Open Championship has been organized 17th October, 1860 at Prestwick, Scotland. During this time, the championship has been concluded within a single day. Eight players have taken part in this inaugural tournament. Prestwick Golf Club is consisted of 12 holes. As the prize, a Challenge Belt has been offered to the winner. Willie Park Sr. has been honored as the winner of the first Open Championship.
Some prize money has been added to championship from the year 1863. However, it has been merely about £ 10. The money has been shared between the players who have acquired 2nd, 3rd and 4th position. Cash prize for the first place holder has been announced from the 1864.
Tournament has been won by Tom Morris Jr. three times in a row for the first time in 1870. There has been a gap of two years when the tournament has not been held. Lack of prize money can be held responsible for this decision.
From the year 1872, winner has been offered the Golf Championship trophy or Claret Jung. Intensity of the game has been increased with 72 holes and four rounds in 1892.
The championship has been won by the professionals mostly. However, there are about six amateurs in the history of British Open Golf Tournament. These amateurs have acquired the title prior to 1930s. Popularity of the game increases further with the dawn of mid-20th Century.
Significant champions of the tournaments are Sir Henry Cotton who has won the trophy for three times in 1934, 37 and 48. Bobby Locke from South Africa is also a renowned golfer in the history of Open Golf Championship. It is important to remember names like Tom Watson and Arnold Palmer. Watson has won the last championship in 1983.
In most occasions, Americans have taken upper hand over the other golfers. In a span of 14 years, they have won for about 12 times. Apart from the Americans, Jung has been claimed by Greg Norman from Australia, Seve Ballesteros from Spain and Nick Faldo from England.
Open Championship has been included within the PGA schedule from 1995. John Daly from America has won by defeating Constantino Rocca from Italy. Following to this year, supremacy of America has been seen once again. In the subsequent 13 years, title has been claimed by Americans 10 times. Tiger Woods has also won this championship for three times between 2000 and 2006. The command of British Open Golf Tournament has been retained by American still as Zach Johnson has gain the title in 2015.
Many may not be aware but the Open Championship is also available for placing wagers on your favorite golfers throughout the tournament. Online industry leaders such as 365 bet and others offer 100s of a different betting markets covering every facet of the game. For getting started with registering a bet365 account, you can view here for more details.
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Home Coils Metal Detectors in Archaeology – Of Highest Significance
The uses and also the importance of the metal detectors in the field of Archaeology, with the passage of years, are increasing by leaps and bounds. In this regard there is hardly any doubt that the metal detectors are and are also becoming fascinating pieces of technology. What has been found, is that there is the presence of a variety uses and have become even more versatile throughout the years. Ever since the first metal detectors came out in the 19th century, scientists and engineers have never stopped working on better and more efficient designs. In this day and age, there is the great presence of metal detectors that can identify metals in the best accurate manner for which they have become indispensable tools in fields like Archaeology.
It is the deign of Gerhard Fischer regarding the use of resonating coils for the proper identification of the presence of metal under the ground that became a major success. These metal detectors proved to be an asset during World War II. Metal detectors were used during the war to find land mines scattered across the paths of troops. They saved a number of soldiers back then. However, these metal detectors could have been more useful if they were not that heavy. But to be very precise in these days, the metal detectors have number of applications. If you take in concern the field of Archaeology, there the metal detectors are indeed of good help.
Though, it has been found, that in some countries especially France and Sweden law makes metal detectors against the law, but with special permission it can be used. In the face of all these restrictions the contribution of metal detectors in this area cannot be denied. A good example is the utilization of these detectors to inspect wide areas like sites of battlefields, where the only remains could be the surface, scattered with metal objects. What has been learnt is that the metal detectors are used by the archeologists, to find out there remnants of the metals of the ancient periods.
On the other hand, at several times, some people do utilize consumer metal detectors for the sake of finding coins on the beach as heir hobby. But most often they are used by the archeologists for the sake of coin Shooting, searching for coins, mainly old coins. Other than this they are also used for the sake of prospecting, searching for precious metals like gold or silver; relic hunting, searching for any thing that has any historical significance, like weapons and also for the hunting of treasures and also several other types of hidden items. But at the same time, one should be aware of the correct procedure of using a metal detector. In this regard the very first need is to take a great care of tuning.
This invariably means the detector must be adjusted so that it can be able to be on familiar terms with the ground as a channel for the targets to be inside. From time to time, nevertheless the devise posses a self-tuning trait installed. It is only after this one gets ready to go for the search of the targets, coins, treasure or anything. Remember the placement of the loop is also very important. To get the best functioning it should be held at arms length along with the loop and it should be barely above the ground and the loop must always be in motion for best result. While searching with the detector one should move at a slow pace.
To conclude, apart from the presence of convenient metal detectors that we have grown accustomed to and use in hobbies and games like treasure hunting, there is also the presence of several bigger models that are used for the most part in security and related fields.
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Hey Mama Nathaniel Rateliff Song Meaning
– Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. A playlist featuring Son Little, Benjamin Booker, Leon Bridges, and others. He said it's really easy just "Say it louder, say it clearer" and the whole X-Tra joined in. This is my first attempt at chording out a tune. Ruth Brown recorded “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” in 1953, and it’s a great example of “jump blues” that morphed, terminology-wise from “Race Records” into “Rhythm and Blues” and later into “Rock and Roll. Happy Belated Mother’s Day , By: TheAugMan on May 15, 2019. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama Lyrics Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out My only son this will be so hard to hear C'mon mama. It's a pounding vamp, punctuated by chants, that's long on grit and energy. CD, Released by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, in genre Rock/Pop, on 03/09/2018. Song of The Day - Headfonia Headphone Reviews Exploring new music and discovering new bands is always fun, but it’s not that fun if you can’t find anything new and fresh to listen to. Van Morrison - Ten Songs For You - 2019 Tracklist: 01 – Brown eyed girl 02 – Astral weeks 03 – Madame George 04 – Beside you 05 – Cyprus avenue 06 – Sweet thing 07 – T. Music News From ABC News Radio. Meaning of Hey Mama. Centricity: how close a voter came to picking to the winning 10 albums. Get lyrics of Nathaniel rateliff what i need song you love. With the aim of writing songs that sounded like a fusion of The Band and Sam & Dave, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats were born. Third time even! This time though his show seemed more like the show we got at Bethel than the show we got last year at Farm Aid. The: Meaning of The. Get lyrics of Nathaniel rateliff what i need song you love. While drum tabs can be useful, they have limitations that mean many important details get missed out. Explain your version of song meaning, find more of Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats lyrics. " For those who are interested (or perhaps just bored): I stumbled across the song 'Hey Mama' …. Weekend Music Break: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, "Hey Mama" March 11, 2018 by John 2 Comments I thought I'd never even heard of this band before this week. #great song. While each song on the album was born of different. Tagged as: singer-songwriter, folk, acoustic. The meaning of this track fits perfectly with the album's theme, which was explained by vocalist Dan Reynolds, "We all deal with our own demons and anxieties, but we find that nothing calms the mind more than creating. It sounds like a group of 50-year-olds trying to make a catchy song, but pretty much failed. We all love a good British folk song here, and Goring's delivery reminds me of Frank Turner's frankness and optimism. ~ Songs like Dawin - Dessert, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S. Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out My only son this will be so hard to hear C'mon mama what do you mean I know you've been knocked down I know it ain't all been easy Nothing ever good really is Why you gotta wait so long. Paul’s songs have that feel good, love life appeal that has put Texas country on the map. From 1950's to current. Robinson and A Flock Of Seagulls Ahead By A Century – 2016 – The Tragically Hip Ain’t Giving Up – 2016 – Craig David and …. This song kind of repeats the same line but still has amazing vocals from Lorde and outstanding EDM from Disclosure. "Rateliff and company delivered a soulful performance of "Hey Mama" from their 2018 album Tearing at the Seams. use the following search parameters to narrow your results: subreddit:subreddit find submissions in "subreddit". Whether it was a heartfelt song like “Age Don’t Mean a Thing” or a swinger like “Get It While You Can,” he was a captivating presence. Rolling in the deep. Listen every weeknight at 7pm to hear a couple of songs for a chance to win a copy. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a beautiful, green- colored vinyl, released in 2015. Paul Eason is a talented up and coming singer/songwriter with roots deep in the lone star state. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. It's hard for me to be excited about these. That's how "Hey Mama" evolved from an acoustic guitar riff Rateliff devised in one of hundreds of green rooms the band has occupied pre-show into one of the catchiest songs on the album. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me Lyrics. He talks about the shift and how a. Mel Urban opens the playlist to a variety of great cover songs, new artists, local artists and well known artists. That was exactly the place Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats found themselves in when their eponymous 2015 debut album became an unexpected hit behind the song "S. It's really slow and these 2 need to step it up better. BUREAU : Discuss the new music, the new tour and what has inspired the latest batch of songs. 10-dated tally with "You Worry Me. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Perform 'Hey Mama' 10/30/2019 admin Comments Off on MEAN GIRLS 3 with GIGI GORGEOUS!. You start looking mean you need something to ruin Carved out your name, not enough for you I remember when there was nothing to take your mind off it I know all the ways to act like a fool I needed you In other words, other ways I want you to be there for me …. Hey Colossus Hold On In Black and Gold Launch 0:09:51 () Akira Rabelais 1440 Promp. Esta vez sí nos atrevemos. Long before he was the leader of rock octet Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff was a kid in rural Missouri sneaking around Nathaniel Rateliff Keeps Secrets For Himself On 'Tearing At The Seams' | NPR Illinois. It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since I decided to post my annual “Best of the Year” collection online. X Ambassadors - Renegades (#7)^ 44. Shop Tearing at the Seams [LP] VINYL at Best Buy. Granted, that's just what his voice does in general, but in a song that would probably be a little flat otherwise, Rateliff's vocals make it simply enjoyable. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats "Tearing at the Seams" (Stax ***) The "Intro" to Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats' new album comes, oddly, halfway through the set's 12 tracks (14 if you get the deluxe edition). The three-song encore included the beautiful, soulful, Hey Mama, a homage to all mothers in the world. The band absolutely delighted the Iowa crowd with hit after hit. New playlist inspired by past shows (City & Colour, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, Samantha Crain, Max Frost, Penguin Prison, Tow’rs) as well as new discoveries (Owl Paws, Meet Me in Orbit) from awesome opening performances. A playlist featuring Dan Auerbach. Nathaniel Rateliff présente son nouvel album avec "You Worry Me", "Coolin' Out" et "Hey Mama" à écouter ci-dessous. Ashley Monroe, with Mother’s Daughter, Kelly Clarkson’s Meaning of Life and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats’ Hey Mama paint similar pictures of the importance of mothers (respective. KRG Homemade Karaoke Tracks The following is a list of all homemade CD+G karaoke songs. And now, they've done it again with this heartfelt, passionate, downright soulful album (think Nathaniel Rateliff's superb Stax debut from 2015 for reference). That's how "Hey Mama" evolved from an acoustic guitar riff Rateliff devised in one of hundreds of green rooms the band has occupied pre-show into one of the catchiest songs on the album. And he got a lot it at his show Tuesday night at the Fillmore in Charlotte. Songfacts category - Songs used in commercials. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats' video for their lead single "You Worry Me" debuts today-watch here. 42 MB Download ♬ Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama (Lyric Video) Watch “Hey Mama” - from the upcoming album 'Tearing at the Seams' from Nathaniel Rateliff. They have so many songs in their playlist, that we just let them feel the crowd and play away! They played so many songs that I have never heard a cover band play before due to difficulty, and these guys nailed it! From high energy to the light dinner music, these guys brought it all. When you submit your Top 10 songs of the past 19 years, your picks will help program our 893 Essential countdown May 9 - 16. Sheet music is the language of musicians and conveys far more accuracy and detail than drum tab. Those in green I have as stripped down promos or don't have but have managed to hear somehow. Locked Away by Rock City. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is an Academy Award-winning popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which gained wide recognition in 1949 when it was performed in the film Neptune's Daughter. Nelson and Rateliff's respective bands were recently among the nominees for Duo/Group of the Year at the 2018 Americana Honors and Awards, though Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit ultimately went home with that prize. I remember in the 70,s Brewer & Shipley song It's everything you do it ain't nothing you did. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats LIVE in Ottawa Sept. This song has a Rolling Stones feel to it and would have sat nicely on the Stones Exile on Main Street album. Wildest Dreams by. This week's Fresh Pork Chops features cuts from "Full Circle and Then Some," the new release from Trigger Hippy. I think that putting songs out there and knowing that people are going to take their own meaning from it is a really great part of performing and releasing records. Song - Hey Mama (By Nathaniel Rateliff) For those who are experiencing sudden regret for clicking the link, a summary: "Being awful at things when you first start is inevitable. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a beautiful, green- colored vinyl, released in 2015. Here are all of the songs that were in purple at one time on the countdown, meaning that they were the best song on the countdown: Niall Horan - This Town (12/10/16-12/31/16) Lukas Graham - You're Not There (1/7/17-present) Here are all of the songs that were in orange at one time on the countdown, meaning that they were the worst song on the countdown:. I mean even the standard vinyl is $35. org Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats garnered generally positive reception from music critics. Hey mama, why it's me Say you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Saving a long time money Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the suns out My only son, this'll be so hard to hear C'mon mama, what do you mean I know you've been knocked down I know it ain't all been easy Nothing ever good really is Why you gotta wait so long Why you gotta wait. So he either needs to find a new pressing plant that doesn't gouge him or not 4x upcharge it. They are easily forgotten and probably won't last that much longer, hopefully. Nelson and Rateliff's respective bands were recently among the nominees for Duo/Group of the Year at the 2018 Americana Honors and Awards, though Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit ultimately went home with that prize. It was a sunny setting for emotionally overcast music. Meaning he was hung-the-fuck-over, and completely unprepared. And now, they've done it again with this heartfelt, passionate, downright soulful album (think Nathaniel Rateliff's superb Stax debut from 2015 for reference). I mention it now because we did get to do a Drug Month show, on Songs From the Big Hair at WRIR. Songs are listed in the order that they were played. And, in first place, a song I loved and identified with from the first time I heard it: FourFiveSeconds - Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney. Not only has it allowed me to share my favorite songs with a wider net of folks, but it’s also saved the world from more @#$%! plastic (all those CDs and jewel cases). Rest In Peace Bobby!!! favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: MUSE, Robert Johnson, Whiskey Bob, Beet Root Stew, RIP, Bob Johnson, Winona Legend, Winona, MN,. Seeing Ray LaMontagne the first time was pretty dang incredible. CDT Monday, April 22, 2019. The Details. ←Tuesday, April 24, 2018 → Overnight. Nelson and Rateliff's respective bands were recently among the nominees for Duo/Group of the Year at the 2018 Americana Honors and Awards, though Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit ultimately went home with that prize. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats have taken their authentic late '60s soul aesthetic and refined it with tight songwriting and instrumental performances, creating a more electrifying album. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is an Academy Award-winning popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which gained wide recognition in 1949 when it was performed in the film Neptune's Daughter. Nathaniel Rateliff expands tour, adds Apollo show, shares “Hey Mama”. nathaniel | nathaniel rateliff | nathaniel hawthorne | nathaniel | nathaniel bandy | nathaniel rowland | nathaniel taylor | nathaniel parker | nathaniel dixon |. The Dunwells, who are about to release their second album Light up the Sky, are a quartet from Leeds whose music is intimate yet epic, and whose songs are full of headphone moments that prompt shivers, but also possess the kind of choruses that could be. GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS - Medicine 6. Nathaniel Rateliff Nathaniel David Rateliff (born October 7, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter based in Denver, whose influences are described as folk, Americana and vintage rhythm & blues. About us; Help *Photos courtesy of and copyright Free Range Stock, www. SOB- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats* (Definitely some language, but if you’re looking for something cleaner try, I Need Never Get Old, also by Nathaniel Rateliff) Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson/Alien Ant Farm (both versions are worth listening to) This Is What You Came For- Calvin Harris; Just a Girl- No Doubt. Song of The Day - Headfonia Headphone Reviews Exploring new music and discovering new bands is always fun, but it’s not that fun if you can’t find anything new and fresh to listen to. The song is called "You Worry Me," and it'll be on the band's second record titled Tearing At The Seams. A website that collects and analyzes music data from around the world. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me Lyrics. Long before he was the leader of rock octet Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff was a kid in rural Missouri sneaking around Nathaniel Rateliff Keeps Secrets For Himself. Sweet Mama Janisse (Live) Taj Mahal. Listen to your favorite songs from Tearing at the Seams by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Now. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Out On The Weekend (Verison 2) Lyrics Out on the weekend I was standing in the corner Laughing about You can follow the rain or let the tears come out It's standing right over you Out on the weekend I remember carrie farro I was never to old to dance Always find the beat. Whether it was a heartfelt song like "Age Don't Mean a Thing" or a swinger like "Get It While You Can," he was a captivating presence. Concert photos from night two Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats at Red Rocks 2018. Elsewhere, Hey Mama is a slow burner that allows Rateliff's ever more confident vocals to move through the gears — while the free-flowing single You Worry Me nods to classic Memphis soul, as. Escuchar musica de Justin Bieber en GoMusicaOnline. Coolin' Out - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Lyrics, Letra da musica com Video para Ouvir) I’ve been coolin’ out baby Now I might be fool enough maybe And now I want to hear you say it Say that love ain’t enough to carry Now it might be that I’m being swayed in a lie. " For those who are interested (or perhaps just bored): I stumbled across the song 'Hey Mama' …. The Songs are in alphabetical order automatically. Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out My only son this will be so hard to hear C'mon mama what do you mean I know you've been knocked down. Nikki Lane, the Suffers, Begonia, Amythyst Kia, and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats all brought their brand of blues. freerangestock. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a beautiful, green- colored vinyl, released in 2015. Her Message is committed 5. Nathaniel Bellows Nathaniel Braddock Nathaniel Rateliff Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats The National Liberation Jug Band Native Harrow Natural Child Natural Snow Buildings Natureboy Nawal The Naysayer Nazarene Congregational Church Choir of Brooklyn Neale Powell Lundren Neblung Price The Necks Ned Collette Ned Collette/James Rushford/Joe. song by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. With the aim of writing songs that sounded like a fusion of The Band and Sam & Dave, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats were born. Those in green I have as stripped down promos or don't have but have managed to hear somehow. Hey Mama This song is by Nathaniel Rateliff and appears on the album Tearing at the Seams (2018). He said it's really easy just "Say it louder, say it clearer" and the whole X-Tra joined in. Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns The Soundtrack. 3 by Various Artists' MP3 download online from 7digital United States - Over 30 million high quality tracks in our store. L'album très attendu "Tearing At The Seams" est sorti ce 9 mars. It's a pounding vamp, punctuated by chants, that's long on grit and energy. Song Premiere: Rod Picott’s “Mama’s Boy” from “Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil” Nathaniel Rateliff Releases Video of “Hey Mama” for Mother’s. She reminds him he “hasn’t gone far enough” or “worked hard enough” to say he tried. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama Lyrics. Music News From ABC News Radio. Song - Hey Mama (By Nathaniel Rateliff) For those who are experiencing sudden regret for clicking the link, a summary: "Being awful at things when you first start is inevitable. “Hey Mama” share’s a little of the relationship Nathaniel and his mother. Ain’t Messing Around / Gary Clark Jr. Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out My only son this will be so hard to hear C'mon mama what do you mean I know you've been knocked down. za has ranked N/A in N/A and 907,150 on the world. His music and his story are worthy of your applause. Song of The Day - Headfonia Headphone Reviews Exploring new music and discovering new bands is always fun, but it’s not that fun if you can’t find anything new and fresh to listen to. The band and Lucius, who team up for the songs “Coolin’ Out. It Was Almost Like A Song: Country: Ronnie Milsap: Back On My Mind: Country: Ronnie Milsap: Since I Don't Have You: Country: Ronnie Milsap: Turn That Radio On: Country: Ronnie Milsap: In Love: Country: Ronnie Milsap: What A Difference You've Made In My Life: Country: Ronnie Milsap: Daydreams About Night Things: Country: Ronnie Milsap: Nobody Likes Sad Songs: Country: Ronnie Milsap. With the aim of writing songs that sounded like a fusion of The Band and Sam & Dave, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats were born. LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2016 – BMG US has announced the promotion of Zach Katz to President of Music Publishing. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats I'll Be Damned Lyrics: We were staying home to get away Trying to loose the hold but it's still too late Don't sigh on me, Search songs, albums or artists Toggle navigation. 2015 Bubbling Under. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 10/12/2019 | Long Island Events. Sweet Mama Janisse (Live) Taj Mahal. Fortunately, most of the album retains the spark of the band’s debut. Another problem people seem to have is that the tempos are not all perfect, I do admit that I chose songs that "work", meaning that no, a professional ballroom competition would not use them, but you can do the dance to it just fine. 180 Gram - 45 RPM - Double Gatefold Album 20 Page Photobook 7". Thanks for the A2A. The standout is "Hey Mama," a tribute and a heartbreaker to a mom who had to tell her boy that life will never be easy: "You ain't gone far enough to say / At least I tried / You ain't worked hard. Rateliff's vocals really shine in this one, taking that new-vintage sound and making it sound full-on classic. Nathaniel | nathaniel rateliff | nathaniel hawthorne | nathaniel bacon | nathaniel taylor | nathaniel | nathaniel bandy | nathaniel parker | nathaniel crosby |. ←Tuesday, April 24, 2018 → Overnight. I ain't grown, and I ain. Hey mama, answer me. Seeing Ray LaMontagne the first time was pretty dang incredible. I must have listened to it so much that I actually thought it was one of the old songs 🙂 But hey, that's a good sign! An actual old song "Wasting Time" was performed next. Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out My only son this will be so hard to hear C'mon mama what do you mean I know you've been knocked down I know it ain't all been easy Nothing ever good really is Why you gotta wait so long. The video also documents the band's extended Denver family. Descargar Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats, Descargar y Escuchar música MP3 - Descargar Música MP3 GRATIS | How To Make Friends, Look It Here, Happy Just to Be, Having A Party (Live), Still Out There Running. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 10/12/2019 | Long Island Events. You start looking mean Need something to ruin Carved out your name Not enough for you I remember when There was nothing to take your mind of. We also welcome feedback on how we can improve our services. Meaning of Hey Mama. A blistering, 18-song set that captures a commanding, euphoric performance from their triumphant, sold-out home-coming show at Colorado's legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 21st, 2016. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ “Hey Mama” pays tribute to the resilience and wisdom of mothers, and in the song’s new music video, the band features their own real-life mothers in. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama (Lyric Video)→ Download, Listen and View free Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama (Lyric Video) MP3, Video and Lyrics 2 EN PUNTO - AY MAMA INES →. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Hey Mama (Official Music Video) Read more DIRECTED BY RETT ROGERS Watch “Hey Mama” from the new album “Tearing at the Seams” out now everywhere. Motivating yourself past that is difficult, but not impossible. Going into Mama, I had high hopes for it to be a rather scary horror. Based in Los Angeles, Katz will continue to report to Laurent Hubert, President of Creative & Marketing. SOB- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats* (Definitely some language, but if you're looking for something cleaner try, I Need Never Get Old, also by Nathaniel Rateliff) Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson/Alien Ant Farm (both versions are worth listening to) This Is What You Came For- Calvin Harris; Just a Girl- No Doubt. Read more about all the features we pack into our drum sheet music. Feel free to take down one whole step and capo 2. See more ideas about Night sweats, Excessive sweating and Getting old. Lirik Lagu Be There - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Lirik lagu Be There dinyanyikan Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. There's also a "mama" set Hey mama Nathaniel Rateliff Hey Me Hey Mama - Ray Lamontagne Hey mama - Barney Bentall I played some classics on today's Stew Joni Mitchell, You turn me on I'm a radio Poco - Rose of Cimmaron Eagles - Chestnut Mare Jimi Hendrix - Wait until Tomorrow Help Me - Harry Manx Rhiannon Giddens - She. Ashley Monroe, with Mother’s Daughter, Kelly Clarkson’s Meaning of Life and Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats’ Hey Mama paint similar pictures of the importance of mothers (respective. En la medida de lo posible, detallaré miembros que forman el grupo. Baby boy you better sit down. "Hey Mama" is a down-tempo highlight. perpetualvisionary. 29 I've Been Failing Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 3 Stream or buy for $1. I have been listen. Admin Menu | Website. Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't lis. “Get What You Want” has been called the Stones’ response to “Hey Jude,” and that’s certainly evident. Songfacts Newsletter. Provided by Alexa ranking, nataniel. This song also spent a little bit too much time on Hit-Bound, but I am newer to it compared to Hold Me Up. "Rateliff and company delivered a soulful performance of "Hey Mama" from their 2018 album Tearing at the Seams. Hey guys! Here it is, the year end weekend countdown. Buy ''50s Rockabilly Pioneers Vol. 20 19 – 2 S. The album recounts moments in the last few years of his life, some good and others not so much. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Still Out There Running Lyrics: Yeah baby, we could set the whole thing on fire I was the king of standing alone Looking b Search songs, albums or artists Toggle navigation. The standout is "Hey Mama," a tribute and a heartbreaker to a mom who had to tell her boy that life will never be easy: "You ain't gone far enough to say / At least I tried / You ain't worked hard. Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns The Soundtrack. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – You Worry Me Lyrics. try to ignore all this blood on the floor / it’s just this heart on my sleeve that’s bleeding. ~ I am starting to grow out of Zayn Malik - Pillowtalk. Posts about Domestic Charts written by shawnpt. It's a pounding vamp, punctuated by chants, that's long on grit and energy. I mention it now because we did get to do a Drug Month show, on Songs From the Big Hair at WRIR. freerangestock. TREVOR HALL LYRICS album: "KALA" (2015) To Zion To Zion I fly on Up with the sunrise Breeze through the wind chimes Open my eyes as the images rush my mind Shine Well baby, you're just in time The water is in the kettle The stars have just aligned Within the hour Oh we'll see the power Never knew this tree could bloom so many flowers Yes I. Nathaniel Rateliff & Night Sweats - Trying So Hard Not To Know Hey Hey Hey; Mustard Plug - Beer (Song). Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Still Out There Running Lyrics: Yeah baby, we could set the whole thing on fire I was the king of standing alone Looking b Search songs, albums or artists Toggle navigation. That's how "Hey Mama" evolved from an acoustic guitar riff Rateliff devised in one of hundreds of green rooms the band has occupied pre-show into one of the catchiest songs on the album. 29 I've Been Failing Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats 3 Stream or buy for $1. Judge tenderly—of Me Emily Dickenson [1862]. SOB- Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats* (Definitely some language, but if you're looking for something cleaner try, I Need Never Get Old, also by Nathaniel Rateliff) Smooth Criminal- Michael Jackson/Alien Ant Farm (both versions are worth listening to) This Is What You Came For- Calvin Harris; Just a Girl- No Doubt. No particular music genre. Tracklist: 01 – From Out Of Nowhere 02 – Help Yourself 03 – All My Love 04 – Down Came The Rain 05 – Losing You 06 – One More Time 07 – Sci-Fi Woman 08 – Goin’ Out On Me 09 – Time Of Our Life 10 – Songbird. So when the Christmas season rolls around, I turn on one of my favorite albums and listen to the lessons learned from, the mean ole,' Mr. With tender Majesty. 10-dated tally with "You Worry Me. Long before he was the leader of rock octet Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff was a kid in rural Missouri sneaking around listening to rock and roll. "Dance Macabre"-GhostAgain, I know that Ghost is considered to be a “Doom Metal” band but, I can’t help but put them on this list this week. Don’t Sweat It: Sure, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats were bound to have a substantial year on the Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart; they were all over the list in 2015 and 2016 with their debut self-titled album, reaching No. Stories of Record Collecting and Music with Jenell. Show Me the Way. A pesar de que algunas no son 100% acústicas como tal, ya que en un momento dado hay algún acorde de guitarra eléctrica y/o un pequeño y posible uso de efectos (pedaleras), hemos optado por incluirlas por su predominante carácter acústico. Whether it was a heartfelt song like “Age Don’t Mean a Thing” or a swinger like “Get It While You Can,” he was a captivating presence. 14, 2017 | TheBootTube. English (US) · Español · Português (Brasil). Key and BPM for Changes by Charles Bradley. Site by: Burn & Broad + Made for MassesBurn & Broad + Made for Masses `. Van Morrison - Ten Songs For You - 2019 Tracklist: 01 – Brown eyed girl 02 – Astral weeks 03 – Madame George 04 – Beside you 05 – Cyprus avenue 06 – Sweet thing 07 – T. They added a. Lyrics of HEY MAMA by Nathaniel Rateliff: Hey mama why it's me, Say you better wait child, Said you've been a long time running, Saving a long time money,. She would tell me, ‘Hey, I’m gonna take a break during this show. Admin Menu | Website. ” According to the late Eubie Blake, the phrase “Rock and Roll” originated in the late 1800s. 15 August 2010. Saturday, October 12, 2019. Fortunately, most of the album retains the spark of the band’s debut. Last year they wowed me on Brent Cobb's "Shine On Rainy Day". Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are: Rateliff (vocals, guitar), Joseph Pope III(bass), Patrick Meese (drums), Luke Mossman (guitar), Mark Shusterman (keys),Andreas Wild (saxophone), Scott Frock (trumpet) and Jeff Dazey (saxophone). Nathaniel rateliff what i need lyrics. She reminds him he “hasn’t gone far enough” or “worked hard enough” to say he tried. Jason Isbell song meanings and interpretations with user discussion. Lead singer Nathaniel Rateliff means it too. When LaMontagne was a child, his mother left his musician father Ray LaMontagne – Music at Last. The band played at Denver's famed amphitheatre and have two more shows at the Ogden in December. "Wasting Time" is an ode to time spent struggling and how Rateliff felt in the midst of this turmoil. Rateliff remembers. Nathaniel is ranked #116 on our popularity charts and is often added to lists like Bible Names for Boys and discussed in our forums with posts like "A brother or sister for little Jack or Olivia". This is my first attempt at chording out a tune. com Nathaniel Rateliff - Still Trying - Official Video Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - "Hey Mama" (Live at WFUV). WTTS and the Nickel Plate District Amphitheater want to send you to see Moon Taxi at the Nickel Plate District Amphitheater for a free show on Friday, August 4th. Saving a long time money. Gimme some mo. Michael Franti & Spearhead Medicine Songs. What's your emotional soundtrack song? "Hey Mama" by Nathaniel Rateliff and The Nightsweats What's your good luck charm? my favorite playlist — it inspires me to be my best self Favorite inspirational read? The Alchemist Three things you can't live without? my labradoodle (Frisco), my yoga mat, and vegan pizza Follow Kate on Instagram:. Tagged as: singer-songwriter, folk, acoustic. Price Match Guarantee. A blistering, 18-song set that captures a commanding, euphoric performance from their triumphant, sold-out home-coming show at Colorado's legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 21st, 2016. But you know to each their own, still love these guys and the music for sure. Nathaniel rateliff what i need lyrics. Home; About Jenell; Blog Posts. Use this form to submit your 10 essential songs since 2000 and enter the 893 Essential Songs giveaway between Tuesday, April 2 at 12 p. You could probably change the section names if something else makes more sense to you. Babe I know it swirls around me Like the sun shines on the coast Like a weathered, torn, once sturdy barn I used to give you shoulder and warmth It's clear, I can see The dry grass at my feet As I wait to go, you'll come home and you'll say "Baby I know" Babe I know Baby I know The course has drifted here As we swim to land, mouths full of the sand, just say "Baby I know" I'm more tired and my. If you're new to Radio Paradise, welcome! We're very glad you found us. The group performed a terrific version of “Hey Mama,” one of the highlights off their 2018 release Tearing at the Seams, with a. Add in a couple of recurrent ( R ) “hits” and a handful of older back catalog titles ( G ) from the past sixty years and you have an idea of how the show is. 4) to perform on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The album recounts moments in the last few years of his life, some good and others not so much. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S. 19 Nov 2016- Explore judeyb1's board "Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats" on Pinterest. net dictionary. It described. Drake - MIA: 2: 72 ---Alice Merton - Funny Business: 1: 73 ---. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Get known every word of your favorite song or start your own karaoke party tonight :-). David Guetta – Hey Mama Lyrics. 1 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Songs airplay chart, ruling the Feb. That song, featuring plaintive piano underscoring a rousing chorus, allows Rateliff to declare his desire to "leave it all out there to dry. com I need never get old. He said it's really easy just "Say it louder, say it clearer" and the whole X-Tra joined in. Vitality (album): the fraction of an album's points that came from voters new to the poll that year. #nathaniel ratecliff and the night sweats #sob #s. Hey Mama answer me Baby boy you better sit down, can’t listen when the suns out My only son this will be so hard to hear. He admits he wasn't satisfied with his first stab at lyrics and melody, but "everybody in the band would walk around singing that melody and I'm. Rateliff, Pope and co’s big break came in August 2015, when they were invited to perform live to an audience of millions on US television courtesy of The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon. As indicated in the last installment of this year's list, I believe the top 11 (and actually 13) songs this year are particularly strong. Henry Jamison, "Real Peach" 3. Music News From ABC News Radio. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Be There Lyrics. Free David Guetta Hey Mama Ft Nicki Minaj Bebe Rexha Afrojack Original Audio mp3. When LaMontagne was a child, his mother left his musician father Ray LaMontagne – Music at Last. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, who have a new album out in March, recently announced a tour, which already has a few sold-out dates, and more shows have since been added. Hey Mama This song is by Nathaniel Rateliff and appears on the album Tearing at the Seams (2018). To all KWUL listeners: Mother’s Day is not so far in the rear view mirror to miss this cut from Nathaniel Rateliff (not Radcliffe) and the Night Sweats entitled “Hey Mama”. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) And it happens all wrong, and only half of it's seen from here. The band played at Denver's famed amphitheatre and have two more shows at the Ogden in December. His responsibilities are. Together,The Night Sweats created a set of songs that comprise both an r&b party record and deeply personal confessional from Rateliff,who penned all the lyrics. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats Tearing at the Seams (Stax ***) The "Intro" to Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats' new album comes, oddly, halfway through the set's 12 tracks (14 if you get the deluxe edition). Hey Mama - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Lyrics, Letra da musica com Video para Ouvir) Hey mama, it's me Said you better wait child Said you've been a long time running Hey mama, answer me Baby boy you better sit down Can't listen when the sun's out. Shake baby I feel it when you Shake baby I really want to Shake baby What does this song mean to you? Show All. I mention it now because we did get to do a Drug Month show, on Songs From the Big Hair at WRIR. A playlist featuring Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Good Old War, The Avett Brothers, and others. Compiling our list of 2015's best songs can't be done without a caveat: We're only talking about songs from THIS YEAR, people. NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS: (Singing) Yeah, baby, we could set the whole thing on fire I was a king standing alone, looking back to see how far you've flown. 2010 Year End List Mentions. za has ranked N/A in N/A and 907,150 on the world. Rateliff remembers. 3 by Various Artists' MP3 download online from 7digital United States - Over 30 million high quality tracks in our store. I listen to a lot of music throughout the week, the playlist (3300+ songs) I use has pretty much everything on it that I like. All of the charts, sales and streams, constantly updated. And, in first place, a song I loved and identified with from the first time I heard it: FourFiveSeconds – Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney. It worked, obviously: the band's self-titled. If you are an avid listener of Young Folk you know that I enjoy a good cover tune especially one that crosses genres. " But that isn't necessarily a bad thing, you get sweet mellowed vibes like "Coolin' Out" and "Hey Mama" instead. org brought us a terrific set of houseguests: a couple from the beaches of California asked to stay in my home while they came to Colorado to pick up the due-any-day baby that they had just been chosen to be the adoptive parents of. Acoustic, rock, Americana, anything goes on The Thursday Free 4 All - plus occasional studio interviews. Hey Mama - David Guetta feat. Anthologies and reissues have been (mostly) weeded out, moved here.
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Mitch Benn by the Numbers
Posted on October 26th, 2010 in Culture | 10 Comments »
Recently, in the wake of the latest round of wrangling over the licence fee, Radio 4 comedy songwriter Mitch Benn composed a song owing a lot to both We Didn’t Start The Fire (in its construction) and Subterranean Homesick Blues (in is video presentation). This song is essentially a list of what the BBC has given us – chiefly, but not exclusively – radio and TV programmes.
Being a public-spirited chap, and generally well-disposed towards Mitch Benn (well, the song does namecheck Doctor Who three times), I popped the link on my Facebook page – as no doubt did many others. My curmudgeonly friend Ivan responded as follows.
Alas this just makes the point that the BBC is living on past glories. If I were a bit sadder I’d work out the average time since the shows mentioned were first on but at a guess I’d say 25 years?
Now, anyone who knows me at all will know that I took this as a challenge, firstly to defend Mitch Benn (and therefore the BBC)’s honour, and secondly because there’s very little which I am prepared to pass over on the basis that to do it would require me to be a bit sadder.
I thus compiled an Excel spreadsheet of all the shows mentioned in the song, and looked up all their dates. No, really. I did. You can download it here.
This creates some problems. Firstly, not all of the items in the song are shows, so this list ignores stations (“everything on BBC 4”), people (such as Michael Palin), other services (such as iPlayer), events which the BBC covers but which would take place anyway (such as Wimbledon). Where possible I have construed groups (such as Monty Python) as referring to the shows with which they are chiefly associated. I wasn’t able to do anything sensible with Last Night of the Proms. There were also one or two in the last sequence which I couldn’t hear clearly, but I doubt a few extra data points would change the overall picture.
Then we have to decide what is being referred to. Does Yes Minister include Yes Prime Minister? Does The Wombles include the nineties episodes as well as the seventies episodes? Do we take into account the revamp of Top Gear in 2001? How? My choices are revealed in the spreadsheet, but basically I tried to be as inclusive as possible, while recognising the difference between a successful revival which continues the story (Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads) and an obscure or unsuccessful revival which is a mere stub and can be ignored (the Dave episodes of Red Dwarf).
What do the numbers tell us?
Here are some raw statistics. Mitch Benn mentions 110 items which meet the criteria above (basically audibility, coherence and showhood). The earliest was first transmitted in 1946 (a tie between Letter from America and Woman’s Hour) and 44 were still transmitting in 2010 (only one or two of which have been officially cancelled). The longest-running is the aforementioned Woman’s Hour and only one, Sherlock, debuted in 2010.
So, what of Ivan’s guess? Well, give Mr Grumpy his due, it’s pretty bloody good. The average year of first transmission is in fact 1980, meaning an error of five years, arguably in Ivan’s favour. But let’s now proceed to ask if this number actually makes Ivan’s case and indeed whether it’s a fair measure to use.
The BBC has been broadcasting regular radio programmes since 1922 and regular television programmes since 1932 (or 1936 or 1946 depending on how you count). With 89 years of broadcasting to choose from, an average date of first transmission from just 30 years ago looks like a bias towards the recent, rather than a basis towards the ancient. This isn’t entirely fair, of course, since it isn’t really until the 1950s that the BBC got into its stride and almost no programmes from before that time survive, so how can we possibly judge them? But even if we assert that “proper” television began in 1950 (Quatermass, Panorama were both first broadcast in 1953), Mitch Benn’s song still lands right in the middle of that range. What could be fairer?
But why do we think that date of first transmission is the appropriate metric in the first place? As noted, getting on for half the programmes cited (44 out of 110) transmitted episodes in, or have not been cancelled as of, 2010 and so can be counted as current output. So this isn’t the BBC wallowing in nostalgia, this is a celebration of the BBC both past and present. Counting only start dates effectively penalises longer-running and therefore likely more successful ones. It’s easy to make the case that the BBC is no longer worth the licence fee money if you hold up its most successful programmes as its biggest failures!
Let me now attempt to anticipate Ivan’s next rejoinder. If the schedules are clogged up with ancient programmes first devised in the 1990s, 1980s or even 1970s (as well as repeats of programmes cancelled decades earlier) then that at least suggests that the BBC is failing to innovate. Where are the programmes which Mitch Benn’s children will be including in their song in thirty years time?
Well, it’s reasonable I think to allow a song such as this to include the very best of the BBC. Not every programme will be successful, and we want a public service broadcaster to experiment and so to have the right to fail and not to have its failures permanently haunt them (provided there’s still a steady stream of successes, that is). So it’s not surprising that the average time span of programmes in Mitch Benn’s list is 16 years (this doesn’t necessarily mean 16 series – Fawlty Towers, for example, consists of two series, one broadcast in 1975 and one broadcast in 1979, so on these figures it counts as a five year span). This doesn’t mean that the list excludes wonderful one-offs like Tinker Tailor Solider Spy or Edge of Darkness, but it does mean that it – quite naturally and fairly – favours shows which have proven that they have some staying power.
But the list of shows which has run for, say, five years or more and which debuted in 2010 is very short!! We don’t yet know whether or not new shows like Him and Her, Songwriters Circle, Whites, Lip Service, Single Father, The Science of the Young Ones and countless others will prove to be long-lasting, fondly-remembered and hugely successful. To criticise Mitch Benn for leaving them out is unfair. To criticise the BBC for not having launched this year any shows which have already run for five years is absurd.
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Lennox Castle in Dumbartonshire was originally built as a home for John Lennox Kincaid and was designed by the architect David Hamilton. It was to remain a personal residence until it was requisitioned for use as a military hospital during World War 1. In 1927 the castle was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation, as well as much of the surrounding land with a view to using it as a hospital for the mentally ill. Several buildings around the castle were constructed at this time to provide for 1200 patients. While the construction was ongoing the castle was used to accommodate the patients but then was later used as the nurses home.
During World War 2 Lennox Castle was again requisitioned for use as a general hospital, with the existing patients moved to temporary huts erected in the grounds which would eventually last for 40 years. Post World War 2 one of it’s most famous residents Lulu was born here.
In 1987 the Castle was considered tired and not fit for purpose for modern medicine and it was vacated. Other buildings were still used and a structured closuring plan was implemented with all buildings closed in 2002. In 2004 all other buildings were demolished leaving only the Castle standing. In 2006 part of the site was purchased by Celtic Football Club and some of the land is now used as a training ground.
In 2008 a major fire broke out with part of the tower destroyed and some of the walls partially collapsing. The extend of this in 2017 can be seen by clicking the play button on the model below:
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Have You Heard Of Splendors In Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Ishikawa Prefecture (石川県, Ishikawa-ken) is located on the coast of the Sea of Japan in the Chubu Region. Ishikawa's capital and largest tourist attraction is Kanazawa, best known for Kenrokuen Garden (One of the most beautiful gardens in Japan).
Home To Many Famous Onsen – Yamanashi Prefecture
When visiting Yamanashi Pref. to see Mt. Fuji or to have a fruit picking experience, you should also stop by a hot spring to relax because Yamanashi is home to many famous hot springs! Even if you don’t have time to stay there over night, some of them are open for daytime visitors, too. Enjoy and relax!!
Jigokudani Monkey Park – Nagano Prefecture
Jigokudani Monkey Park is located in Yamanouchi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Joshinetsu Kogen National Park (locally known as Shigakogen), and is located in the valley of the Yokoyu-River, in the northern part of the prefecture. The name Jigokudani, meaning "Hell's Valley", is due to the steam and boiling water that bubbles out of small crevices in the frozen ground, surrounded by steep cliffs and formidably cold and hostile forests.
Ukai or cormorant fishing in Nagara River – Gifu Prefecture
Gifu is famous for Ukai or cormorant fishing. Japanese fishermen have been practicing ukai for over one thousand years, but today it is rare. The Nagaragawa River in Gifu is one of the few places where the cormorant fishing tradition has been preserved. Ukai is performed every night from May 11th to October 15th, except on days of high water and on the night of the Harvest Moon in autumn.
Enjoying Green Tea Aromatic in Greenpia Makinohara
Green tea is a very important product in Shizuoka Prefecture. Shizuoka accounts for 40% of total tea production in Japan, and the region aims to capitalize on this dominance by conducting recent research on green tea benefits. The Shizuoka climate, along with its water quality and proximity to major ports, has established its status as the main region of green tea production. In addition, Shizuoka's green tea comes in a variety of different varieties, giving it a significant flexibility.
The Famous Cuisines – Hyogo Prefecture
Hyogo, is a huge area that borders Okayama in the south, Tottori in the west, and both Osaka and Kyoto to the northeast. Such a wide area, as one would expect, gives way to a huge variety of cooking ideas and influences. Here are the Top 3 local dishes that put Hyogo on the map.
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan – Osaka Prefecture
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is located in Tempozan Harbor Village which is close by Osaka Bay. It is one of the world’s largest aquariums, and certainly the most impressive aquarium in Japan. Because the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan is so big, you should give yourself at least two hours to walk through the many marine habitats that house charismatic animals like manta rays, otters, penguins and sharks!
Aomori Prefecture : Explore The Nebuta Matsuri Parade Japan (Festival)
Aomori Prefecture (青森県, Aomori-ken) ,is a prefecture in the northern part of Japan’s main island of Honshu. Prefectural capital is Aomori City. This port town used to be the main departure point to Hokkaido via ferry; and, although it remains the main port for car ferries, the opening of the Seikan Undersea Railway Tunnel and the advent of cheap flights have reduced ridership and many travelers now bypass the city altogether. Today Aomori is best known for its spectacular Nebuta Matsuri summer festival.
Travel Japan let’s be a foodie in Hokkaido
Hokkaido (北海道) is an island at Japan's northern extremity, surrounded by sea in all directions. The northern island of Hokkaido in Japan also is known for its variety of fresh seafood and agricultural produce– and is therefore known as the “Kingdom of Food”. When visited Hokkaido, the one thing you need to know and had to do is eat, eat and eat! From a variety of popular local favourites like Ramen and Ice-cream, to its freshly-caught bounty of Crabs, Fish and Sea Urchins; was spoiled for choice.
Eastern Hokkaido Tourism
Hokkaido takes up 22.1% of land in Japan. Eastern Hokkaido covers approximately 45% of land in Hokkaido. It’s an amazingly diverse climate in Eastern Hokkaido that brings new experiences with every season.
The Strawberry Kingdom – Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Tochigi Prefecture (栃木県, Tochigi-ken) is a prefecture located in the Kantō region of Japan. The capital is the city of Utsunomiya. Nikkō. The cedar-filled park contains volcanic Mt. Nantai and the adjacent Lake Chūzenji, formed when the mountain erupted. At the lake’s east end are the picturesque, 97-meter Kegon Falls. The city of Nikko, in western Tochigi, is home to Tōshō-gū, an elaborate gold-encrusted shrine honoring the first shogun military dictator.
Experience Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Gunma Prefecture (群馬県, Gunma-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region. Its capital is Maebashi. It's also known for its hot springs (onsen) and ski areas. The small town of Kusatsu has more than 100 hot springs, most famously Yubatake, a large pool fed by steaming mineral water gushing down a wooden chute. Set 1,200 meters above sea level, Kusatsu also has skiing and hiking trails.
Okayama Prefecture: Home of the Japanese Folk Hero, Momotaro (Peach Boy)
Okayama city is best known for its white peaches and for… Peach Boy - Momotaro (momo means peach and taro is a common Japanese name), the main character of a well-known Japanese legend. It is said that the story has its origins right here in Okayama and the island described is Megijima.
✨ 10 Things to do in Hiroshima Prefecture✨
✨ 10 Things to do in Hiroshima ✨ Must experience when you traveling here. 1. Visit Miyajima island (and the Itsukushima Shrine) 2. Eat Momiji Manju – sweet bean paste-filled maple-leaf-shaped cake~ A yummy delicacy that is famous as a souvenir as well! 3. Pet deer around Miyajima 4. Visit the Hiroshima Memorial Museum 5. Visit Okunoshima / Rabbit Island 6. Eat Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki 7. Visit Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park 8. Visit Shukkei-en, is a historic Japanese garden 9. Visit the Hiroshima Pokémon Center 10. Visit Mitaki Dera Temple
What is Kansai Area Pass? One ticket for Holiday to Japan adventure in Kansai Area!
Kansai Area Pass can be used as a transportation pass on the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, such as Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, kobe, Himeji and Wakayama!
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It was in Barcelona, in 1967, that Luis Monreal, curator of the Frederic Marès Museum, first conceived the idea of a nonprofit international organisation that would gather the existing societies of Friends of Museums around the world.
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Broadcast: 29th October 2006
Writer: Helen Raynor
Director: Colin Teague
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Roots: There is brief mention of Strictly Come Dancing, Antiques Roadshow and Cash in the Attic.
Goofs: Jack can easily survive a bullet to the head. So why does he flinch so dramatically when Gwen points the gun at him during training? Especially since this is before he disengages the safety. It can't be a reflex action, because he didn't do it when Susie pointed a gun at his head in Day One
The flashback to World War 2 shows a number of more modern features (street lighting, electric traffic signals ticket barriers). [Presumably the device just superimposes the people onto the present day location.]
Splott is apparently the kind of neighbourhood where Owen's fancy car would be unlikely to still be there when he got back to it.
Technobabble: The device uses nanotechology and is said to be a Quantum Transducer. Apparently it converts quantum energy and amplifies it, and human emotion is energy.
Continuity: Torchwood has the ability to hack into medical records.
Jack lives in the Hub and doesn't sleep.
Gwen doesn't even kill spiders in the bath. In this story she learns to fire a gun. Rhys sometimes plays poker with a mate called Dav whose other half is called Karen. There is a flashback to Gwen and Rhys getting ready for Gwen's mum's 60th Birthday party, though there is no indication how long ago that was.
Owen has enough of a conscience to want to bring Ed Morgan to justice. After he knows that's not possible, he wants vengeance enough to make sure Morgan knows that other people know what he's done, and then, later, to want to kill Morgan (though he does manage to control himself).
The alien device is in two halves. The half we see for most of the episode shows its user past events, including the emotions of one of the participants. Put the two together, and the show the same for future events. It is suggested that the other half will show future events if used on its own. At the end of the episode, Ianto places this device into secure storage.
Location: Various areas of Cardiff over a period of four days. 1941 is said to be "66 years ago", making it 2007 (though you could say very late 2006 or very early 2007). The Strictly Come Dancing final was on during the first night, making it probably December (though the fact that it was won by a female newsreader suggests a date of December 2004).
The device shows scenes from 1941 and 29th March 1963.
The Bottom Line: A definite improvement on the last two episodes, but still nothing special. The highlight of the episode was the comedy chase through the back gardens. And three episodes in we've had a rape or attempted rape at least once per episode.
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Angela Winbush is one of the greatest soul artists of the 80's
Posted by Spoken Word Nov 5th 2013
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Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Angela Winbush's credentials include her own solo hits such as her number one R&B hit, "Angel"; hits as one-half of the singing duo Rene & Angela and their hits "Save Your Love (For #1)" and "Your Smile"; and her hits by Stephanie Mills and the Isley Brothers. One Rene & Angela hit, the 1983 ballad "My First Love," was covered by Avant on his spring 2000 debut CD, My Thoughts. Winbush's own albums are Sharp, Angela Winbush, and It's the Real Thing. Besides Rene Moore, Winbush's early collaborators were Moore's brother, Rufus, bassist Bobby Watson, engineer/producer Bruce Swedien, and George Duke.
Born in St. Louis, MO, Winbush grew up singing gospel music in the church choir and learned to play piano as a child. She had no intentions of pursuing a professional music career when she began attending Washington, D.C.'s Howard University majoring in architecture. To earn money to pay expenses, she began singing on recording sessions and formed a singing trio that opened for Van McCoy and Al Jarreau. She became interested in the music business and changed her major to music education.
Around 1977, Winbush sent a demo tape to New York DJ Gary Byrd. He played it over the phone for his friend Stevie Wonder. He called Winbush and invited her to Los Angeles. While singing in Wonder's backup band Wonderlove, Winbush learned about writing and producing by sitting in on sessions with Wonder. In 1980, she met singer/songwriter Rene Moore through Wonderlove vocalist Carolyn Dennis and they began writing songs together, eventually forming the duo Rene & Angela. In 1978, former Tower of Power lead singer Lenny Williams recorded one of their songs, "Changes." A friend introduced the duo to Dr. Cecil Hale, a Capitol Records executive who signed the duo to the label. Two LPs were issued, Wall to Wall and Rise. Another Rene & Angela song, the ballad "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love," was recorded by Alton McClain and Destiny on their self-titled 1978 Polydor LP. It can be found on Polygram's Power of Love: Best of Soul Essentials Ballads. In 1985, Rene & Angela signed with Polygram and were assigned to their Mercury imprint. Their label debut, Street Called Desire, went gold, yielding the number one hits "Save Your Love (For #1)," which featured a rap by Kurtis Blow, and "Your Smile." An earlier Rene & Angela song would resurface in a big way. The first single from Stephanie Mills' 1985 Stephanie Mills album was "Stand Back"; on its flip side was her passionate cover of "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love." Because of its massive radio play as an album track, Mills' version, produced by Philly Soul keyboardist Ron Kersey, was reissued as an A-side and held the number one spot for two weeks in spring 1986.
By 1987, Winbush was solo and got her first production job on the Isley Brothers' Smooth Sailing LP after the group's lead singer, Ronald Isley, mentioned to Warner Bros. records executive Benny Medina that he wanted to work with the group who did "Your Smile." After working together, Isley became the singer's manager. Becoming romantically involved, Winbush married Ronald Isley on June 26, 1993. She produced and wrote the bulk of his solo debut, Spend the Night, credited as the Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley. Winbush's other credits include the platinum Isley Brothers album Mission to Please, Body, Lalah Hathaway, the 1982 self-titled debut of Plush, Klymaxx, Sheena Easton's The Lover in Me, and the 1993 Warner Bros. various artists set, A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield. ~ Ed Hogan, Rovi
Source: MTV http://www.mtv.com/artists/angela-winbush/biography/
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Nicky Rubin is a global citizen, international alternative singer, songwriter, and performer who was born in Manchester, and educated in British boarding schools. He spent his teenage summers in Paris and Israel. At 17, choosing to live with neither parent he left for the last time to continue his wayward adolescence in the bazaars of Persia, India and Afghanistan in search of adventure. Gainfully employed as a trader of antiquities in the Hindu Kush Mountains in Pakistan, now Taliban country, but bored with the opium dens and the smell of the East, he returned to Paris to moonlight on the drums after work and then finally to London and Vienna to sing. Since then his musical life has taken him all over the globe both as a lead vocalist with a myriad of bands and as a solo artist armed purely with a guitar. After being rejected by various record companies for being too ugly to promote, and never one to give up, he set up his own record company Ugly Mother Records and has produced several albums. Although academically qualified as a lawyer he abandoned that profession long ago and took to the road where he has been ever since. As a result of his itinerant life style his inspiration is drawn from his experiences, love affairs and break ups globally. As seen through his essentially London eyes but peppered with references to the darker side of life and his own personal war zone, it is the romanticism of Western Europe, the streets of South America, the remote landscapes of Africa, the big sky country of North America and the gangster capitalism of Eastern Europe which provide the rich tapestry and colorful backdrop to his songs, “A life on the run.”
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Not enough time on my hands
Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:56:24 CDT David-Braverman Geography, Politics (0)
I thought the weekend of Canada Day and the weekend before Independence Day wouldn't have much a lot of news. I was wrong:
Ontario Premier Doug Ford (the brother of Rob Ford) cancelled Canada Day celebrations in Toronto*. (Imagine the Governor of Virginia or the Mayor of DC canceling the 4th of July and you've about got it.) Fortunately for the city, the Ontario legislature reinstated them.
You know how I write about how urban planning can make people happier, healthier, and friendlier? Yah, this city in California is my idea of hell. I hope the developers lost all their money.
In contrast, I learned of the Lil Yellow House while in Toronto, and the rap video the real-estate agent created to sell it. (It sold quickly, for C$500,000.)
Apparently, my drinking gets me a B-. (80% of Americans drink 6.75 drinks per week or less; the top 10% drink 15.28 per week. This is the one B- I'm happy to have.)
My alma mater recently published new research linking your email address to your credit score.
Alabama prosecutors have brought charges for manslaughter against a woman who miscarried after getting shot. No, really. Because Alabama.
Former President Jimmy Carter called out President Trump on the (alleged) illegitimacy of his election.
The New Republic adds to the chorus of organizations surprised at what it actually took to get the Supreme Court to call bullshit.
Ever wonder how often two bags of Skittles candy have the same proportions of flavors? No, me neither. But this guy did.
Windows has a case-insensitive file system; Git is case-sensitive. Do the math.
Um. That's not a pet bird.
*Those celebrations will be here, on the right, in this view from my hotel room yesterday:
Finally filled up the Prius
Sunday, 30 June 2019 10:10:33 CDT David-Braverman General, Personal (0)
I bought my car, a Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, on December 23rd. It took almost 188 days—more than six months—before I finally put gas in the thing.
Friday morning, on my way to Toronto, I put 34.8 L into the car after driving it 2183.6 km since the dealer delivered her. That's an average efficiency of 1.6 L/100 km, and an operating cost of 1.4¢/km.
For comparison, the last six months I owned my last car, she was getting 13.3 L/100 km and had an operating cost (because of maintenance as well as gas) of 52.9¢/km.
The whole trip to Toronto, during which the car ran almost exclusively on gas instead of battery, used only 73 L of fuel and averaged 4.3 L/100 km.
I think it was a good purchase.
Also, let me just say that adaptive cruise control makes long-distance drives a ton easier.
Record heat in Europe
Sunday, 30 June 2019 08:48:28 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography, Politics, Weather (0)
Significant changes in the northern jet stream has caused serious problems for Europe and South Asia:
Unusual jet stream behavior has been recorded every three to five years since 2000 — in 2003, 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2018 — turning what scientists initially thought could be an isolated abnormality into what appears to be a pattern, [Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology for Weather Underground] said.
What is surprising to scientists now is that the wavier-than-normal jet stream has returned for a second year in a row — the first time that has been observed, said Kai Kornhuber, a climate scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City.
“I wouldn’t have expected this situation to return so quickly after the extreme summer last year,” Kornhuber said. “It gives me the chills to see this evolving in real time again. It’s a really worrying development.”
This weather pattern brought temperatures over 45°C to France earlier this week:
The highest reliable June temperature previously recorded in France was 41.5°C on 21 June 2003. The country’s highest ever temperature, recorded at two separate locations in southern France on 12 August during the same 2003 heatwave, was 44.1°C.
“At our local Potsdam station, operating since 1893, we’re set to break the past June record by about 2C,” tweeted Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Eastern parts of Germany, including Berlin, are already experiencing their hottest June on record.
“Weather data show that heatwaves and other weather extremes are on the rise in recent decades,” he said. “The hottest summers in Europe since the year AD1500 all occurred since the turn of the last century: 2018, 2010, 2003, 2016, 2002.”
Monthly records were now falling five times as often as they would in a stable climate, Rahmstorf said, adding this was “a consequence of global warming caused by the increasing greenhouse gases from burning coal, oil and gas”.
And the band played on...
Saturday, 29 June 2019 08:51:08 EDT David-Braverman Entertainment, General, Travel (0)
My plan for an 8-hour drive from Chicago to Toronto yesterday did not survived contact with the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). It turns out, coming into Toronto from the west during rush hour on Friday before a three-day weekend may involve traffic. So it was, in fact, a 10½-hour drive.
So the secondary plan of wandering around the Rogers Centre, getting a bunch of photos, hearing both "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada," and then watching the Blue Jays beat the Royals, didn't quite work out. I arrived at my seat during the top of the 6th inning, well after both national anthems, with the Royals up by two, and didn't get any of the shots or wandering that I'd planned.
The Blue Jays did win, though, thanks to four Toronto home runs in the last three innings. And this is in a dome; it's not like the wind was blowing out.
Today: breakfast in Toronto, dinner in Sawyer, Mich., and probably straight to bed when I get home. Tomorrow: photos from the game, a new NuGet package from Inner Drive Technology, and maybe some Pride Parade viewing. Or fleeing the area. Haven't decided yet.
Reactions to the Rucho decision
Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:14:44 CDT David-Braverman Politics (0)
It turns out, I wasn't the only one to have a strong reaction to Rucho v Common Cause. We start with Justice Elena Kagan (citations removed):
The majority disputes none of what I have said (or will say) about how gerrymanders undermine democracy. Indeed, the majority concedes (really, how could it not?) that gerrymandering is “incompatible with democratic principles.” And therefore what? That recognition would seem to demand a response. The majority offers two ideas that might qualify as such. One is that the political process can deal with the problem—a proposition so dubious on its face that I feel secure in delaying my answer for some time. The other is that political gerrymanders have always been with us. To its credit, the majority does not frame that point as an originalist constitutional argument.
After all (as the majority rightly notes), racial and residential gerrymanders were also once with us, but the Court has done something about that fact. The majority’s idea instead seems to be that if wehave lived with partisan gerrymanders so long, we will survive.
That complacency has no cause. Yes, partisan gerrymandering goes back to the Republic’s earliest days. (As does vociferous opposition to it.) But big data and modern technology—of just the kind that the mapmakers in North Carolina and Maryland used—make today’s gerrymandering altogether different from the crude line drawing of the past. Old-time efforts, based on little more than guesses, sometimes led to so-called dummymanders—gerrymanders that went spectacularly wrong. Not likely in today’s world. Mapmakers now have access to more granular data about party preference and voting behavior than ever before. County-level voting data has given way to precinct-level or city-block-level data; and increasingly, mapmakers avail themselves of data sets providing wide-ranging information about even individual voters.
Crain's Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz:
We’re all used to momentous U.S. Supreme Court rulings at the end of June. But rarely has the potential impact here in Chicago and Illinois been as great as it will be after a pair of key decisions today, in which the court upheld partisan gerrymandering and temporarily blocked a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census.
One decision likely removes much doubt that Illinois Democrats—led by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state House Speaker Mike Madigan—will remain in power here and assure that allies do the same in the Illinois House and Senate and in the state’s congressional delegation. The other raises the odds that Illinois will lose one, not two, U.S. House seats in the upcoming decennial reapportionment—and keep hundreds of millions of federal dollars that are allotted on the basis of population.
Back in Illinois—unless Democrats were to somehow lose their majorities in the 2020 elections—that means that they'll draw the next set of legislative and congressional maps. There will be no court challenge, at least not one base on the new map's partisan tilt.
Gov. Pritzker has promised not to be partisan in the upcoming remap, and a reform group, Change Illinois, today called on him to honor that pledge, saying in a statement that "we deserve competitive elections and an equitable democracy in Illinois."
But if you really think Pritzker, who may have national political ambitions, is going to throw away the Democratic edge here while Republicans in states such as Indiana work to screw Democrats, you don't know politics. I'm not sure how he'll wiggle out of this one. But wiggle he will.
Had Garland been confirmed to the court, he quite possibly would have sided with the court's liberal justices and been a fifth vote to outlaw partisan gerrymandering. But he didn't get confirmed. As a result, states that already are blue (like Illinois) likely will get even bluer. And states that are red will turn redder.
Democratic presidential candidates:
“Today the Supreme Court refused to stop politicians rigging our democracy by writing election rules for their own benefit,” former vice president Joe Biden said on Twitter. “It couldn’t have happened without Justices put there by Donald Trump and Republicans — another reason why Democrats must take back the White House in 2020.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another presidential candidate, called the decision an “abomination.”
“Five Republican-appointed justices gave the green light to partisan gerrymandering — which lets Republicans pursue their extreme agenda without accountability to the people,” Warren said in a tweet. “It’s bad for our democracy and we need to fight back.”
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), another White House hopeful, said a ban on partisan gerrymandering would be “a top priority” for her if elected president.
“Politicians shouldn’t be able to pick their voters, voters should choose their representatives,” Harris said on Twitter. “The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision will have drastic consequences for the future of our nation.”
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), another White House hopeful, called the court decision “misguided” and “an insult to our democracy.”
And Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) also weighed in on Twitter, quoting from the dissenting opinion of Justice Elena Kagan.
“Of all times to abandon the Court’s duty to declare the law, this was not the one,” Kagan said. “The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government.”
This isn't over, by the way. Kagan's dissent was sound; and 5-4 decisions by nakedly partisan courts tend not to live past the next appointment.
Still, it's a bad decision for the country, and a good one for the Republican Party. Those things usually go together, after all.
SCOTUS embraces partisanship
Thursday, 27 June 2019 10:37:30 CDT David-Braverman Geography, Politics (0)
Remember when US Senator Mitch McConnell blocked the confirmation of Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court because he could? And when I and lots of others warned that the election of 2016 would have far-reaching consequences? Good morning, it's the last day of the Supreme Court's term, and they are publishing their far-reaching consequences to the world.
In a decision that surprised no one but saddened a lot of people who believe the Court has drifted into naked partisanship, the five Republican-appointed justices voted against the minority parties of North Carolina and Maryland, deciding that gerrymandering was "a political question:"
The drafters of the Constitution, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority, understood that politics would play a role in drawing election districts when they gave the task to state legislatures. Judges, the chief justice said, are not entitled to second-guess lawmakers’ judgments.
“We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” the chief justice wrote.
When I was in law school, my constitutional law professor joked that "political question" means "we can't come up with anything logical that will pass a smell test." As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent, "For the first time ever, this Court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities. And not just any constitutional violation. The partisan gerrymanders in these cases deprived citizens of the most fundamental of their constitutional rights: the rights to participate equally in the political process, to join with others to advance political beliefs, and to choose their political representatives. In so doing, the partisan gerrymanders here debased and dishonored our democracy, turning upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people."
Let's not gloss over this: the Republican-appointed justices voted for their own party.
Maryland, like Illinois, California, New York, and Massachusetts, already have Democratic majorities. Sure, this decision means Republicans won't ever again have anything approaching real representation in those states. But Democratic voters already outnumber Republicans in North Carolina, Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania. So this decision very much favors the Republican party, and will enable Republicans to hold on to power even as their numbers dwindle over time. Both of which, I don't need to point out, are happening.
So this decision makes explicit what everyone already knew: the Republican-appointed justices are Republicans first, justices second. This was a party-line vote, not a conservative vs. liberal vote, and it diminishes the Court.
The Court also decided today that the White House explanation for its proposed citizenship question was so much bullshit and sent the case back to the lower courts, meaning the Commerce Dept. probably won't put it on the forms they send out next spring. Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion for a unanimous court, however, held that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied about the rationale for putting the question on the 2020 form, but there was nothing wrong with the question itself. This decision resulted in five separate concurrences and dissents, with the Republican justices generally supporting the question and the other justices not.
In other words, the Republican justices couldn't come up with a rationale that supported their party that could pass the laugh test in this case either, but also couldn't call it a "political question," because Ross was just too incompetent at lying to help them. This isn't a victory for anyone; this is an own goal by the GOP.
That's right. We live in a country that still has the rule of law because the ruling party are too incompetent to do authoritarianism correctly. (It helps that authoritarians tend to incompetence by definition.) And the rope-a-dope strategy the Democratic Party are currently using just isn't working.
Lunchtime reading
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 13:09:38 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, General, Politics, Weather (0)
Articles that piqued my interest this morning:
O'Hare's on-time performance is slipping.
David Ignatius thinks we're on a death trip as a country, while Dana Milibank reminds us that demanding subservience gets the president incompetence instead.
West Loop restaurant Aviary suspended a server after the Secret Service arrested her for allegedly spitting on Eric Trump. (I would have just booed him.)
Josh Marshall analyzes Joe Biden within the context of the late-20th-century crime wave.
The New Yorker explains why and how weather forecasting keeps getting better.
The Atlantic's Adam Chandler thinks McDonald's restaurants have become, for many people, the public square...and that's OK.
Feargus O'Sullivan cries "Death to Livability!"
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A timeless hoax by a government agency
Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:09:06 CDT David-Braverman General, Geography, Politics, Work (0)
NPR and other outlets reported earlier this week that the far-north Norwegian island of Sommaroy planned to abolish timekeeping:
If the 350 residents of Sommaroy get their way, the clocks will stop ticking and the alarms will cease their noise. A campaign to do away with timekeeping on the island has gained momentum as Norway's parliament considers the island's petition.
Kjell Ove Hveding spearheaded the No Time campaign and presented his petition to a member of parliament on June 13. During the endless summer days, islanders meet up at all hours and the conventions of time are meaningless, Hveding says.
Only, a subsequent press release admitted the whole thing was a marketing campaign:
NRK.no revealed today that the initiative to make Sommarøy a time-free zone was in fact a carefully planned marketing campaign, hatched by the government-owned Innovation Norway.
The story has been covered in more than 1650 articles in 1479 different media, including CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, Time, El País, La Repubblica, Vanity Fair and Der Spiegel, potentially reaching 1.2 billion people. The value of the coverage is estimated to 11.4 million USD - a pretty good return on investment for Innovation Norway, which spent less than 60,000 USD on the campaign.
Paul Koning, one of the moderators of the IANA Time Zone group--the group that maintains the Time Zone Database used in millions of computers, phones, and applications worldwide, including The Daily Parker--was not pleased:
That's very disturbing. It's problematic enough that not all governments give timely notice about time zone rule changes.
But if in addition we have to deal with government agencies supplying deliberately false information, the TZ work becomes that much more difficult.
Difficult indeed. The group has to deal with dictators changing time zones with almost no notice, political groups attacking the spellings of time zone identifiers, and all sorts of hassles. For a government agency to do this on purpose is not cool.
Egregiously misleading headline on CNBC
Tuesday, 25 June 2019 11:57:18 CDT David-Braverman General, Politics (0)
I saw this on the video monitor of an elevator I took heading back to my desk just now, and laughed out loud with all the derision I could muster (I was alone in the elevator):
This debt could force you into bankruptcy, and it’s not student loans
No shit. Student loans have huge barriers to discharge in bankruptcy in the US, so it's unlikely they would show up as "the cause" of bankruptcy actions.
I'm not sure what CNBC's goal was, but my guess is to counter the talking points from some of the Democratic primary campaigns about forgiving student loan debt.
One-third San Francisco and two-thirds Detroit?
Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:55:41 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, Geography, Politics (0)
So says urbanist Pete Saunders on the economic bifurcation in Chicago:
[T]he two economic narratives emerging across two wildly different sets of Chicago neighborhoods are being reflected in changing demographics. The downtown and Near North Side, stretching from the Loop to neighborhoods such as Bucktown and Logan Square, has boomed in ways similar to superstar cities such as New York, D.C., Seattle, and Austin, while large stretches of the rest of the city have suffered from decreasing middle class populations, disinvestment, and in the worst cases, abandoned property and increased crime.
“On its own, the portions of the city that includes the Loop, north lakefront, West Loop, and Logan Square have the population of San Francisco, are about the size of Manhattan and nearly as dense, and have been booming,” he tells Curbed. “It’s as safe, vibrant, and walkable as any of the other cities you’d associate with success.”
[R]ecent economic growth has been unevenly distributed. According to recent UIC research, in 1970, roughly half the city was considered middle income. In 2017, that distinction applied to just 16 percent of Chicago. Income segregation and extreme, concentrated poverty have become more pronounced. Saunders called it Global Chicago versus Rust Belt Chicago.
“A few years ago, I published something on my personal blog that characterized Chicago as one-third San Francisco and two-thirds Detroit,” he says. “I caught some flack from Rahm Emanuel for that, and I get it. Nobody wants to be associated with Detroit; it’s my hometown, so I know how that goes.”
Saunders recently pointed out on his blog that we Gen-Xers started the Back-to-the-City movement, ultimately blazing a trail that our Boomer parents and Millennial (and now Gen Z) followers benefited from.
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Close to a year ago, I had never heard the name "Harvey Milk". "The first openly gay man elected to public office", as the media dubbed him, had managed to escape my attention for all those years. While many famous martyrs (e.g. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Mohandas Ghandi etc.) are firmly stuck in my consciousness, Harvey Milk apparently wasn't famous enough to warrant any attention from the Belgian press/TV/radio. A possible explanation : Belgium, while not the most progressive country in the world, doesn't have grave issues with homosexuals : they can marry, they can live together and they won't be closely watched and followed during a walk in the park. You could say they are treated equally, but then again, they are not yet allowed to adopt a child. Time will tell what Belgium has up its sleeve for the queer.
Milk, then. The new Gus Van Sant movie. Prior to this movie, I had only seen Good Will Hunting (excellent flick) and Elephant. The latter was my favourite of the year 2003, because of its thought-provoking narrative elements, cunning cinematography and talented actors. A well-deserved Palme d'Or, me reckons. After a string of experiments (Last Days, Paranoid Park), Van Sant returns to the more conventional cinematic approach of Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester.
Sean Penn is extremely good. He could have easily made his performance a caricature of the real Milk, but what he does here borders on the genius. The way he slightly moves his hands while making a point, the movement of his mouth (a combination of grinning and hesitating) ... it's incredible. Watching Penn is better than going to an acting school. Just watch the man and you'll learn a lot about character development. Needless to add, a well-deserved Academy Award. I haven't seen The Wrestler (as such, I can't compare) and I wish Mickey Rourke all the best with his rejuvenated career. I loved the dedication Penn gave Rourke during his acceptance speech : "Mickey Rourke rises again, and he is my brother."
Lest I forget, the entire cast truly shines. James Franco, of whom I have only seen the three Spider-Man pictures, is a fantastic counterpart to Sean Penn. Humble, relaxed, sweet and supportive, his Scott Smith is better than anything he ever showcased in the webspinner's outings. Emile Hirsch, critically acclaimed for Into The Wild & critically panned for Speed Racer, is just as good. He plays Cleve Jones, a very gay character who will become one of Milk's most valued supporters.
Josh Brolin, while being one of my favourite actors alive, is very good as the tormented, troubled Dan White. But he never rivals the mastery of Franco or Hirsch. The idea of a Goonie winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar is great, but I think the other two were more worthy of an Academy nod. Then again, he had no chance of winning. Congratulations with your statuette, Heath Ledger. It's the award you should have won for Brokeback Mountain.
During the credits, Van Sant shows us images of the actors, followed by an image of their real-life counterpart. It struck me how extremely well the casting directors did their job. Every likeness is spot-on.
It needs no further saying that Milk is a must. If you're a conservative bobo, don't be scared off by the thought of seeing two men kiss. Milk is a sublime slice of cinema.
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Executions → First public hanging of a woman in Iran
The first public hanging took place at dawn on the 19th of March 2001 when 30 year old Fariba Tajiani-Emamqoli and four men were put to death for drug trafficking in Tehran. Everyone of them died a painful and humiliating death, there being no effort made to minimise their suffering or make their execution in any way humane. Pictures of Fariba Tajiani-Emamqoli's hanging and those of male prisoners show that an American style coiled noose made from modern nylon rope is used and that the prisoner is either stood on a box which is pulled from under them or hoisted into the air by a crane jib as happened with Fariba.
The photographs are of Fariba Tajiani Imamgholi, 30, who was hanged on March 19, along with four men, in East Tehran's Khaksefid district. Tajiani was among hundreds of impoverished residents of Khaksefid, arrested on February 22 during a brutal raid by the State Security Forces who razed their homes and subsitence to the ground.
Early morning on March 19, the State Security Forces returned for another show of force. This time, they brought along five former residents of Khaksefid to hang them before the eyes of their neighbors. Fariba was sobbing, begging the judge to forgive her, but to no avail. She was taken up the crane, and moments later, she was no more!
Fariba was one of the first victims of a new wave of terror prevailing Iran and the first woman who was hanged in public, to terrify a weary population growing more disenchanted every day with its oppressive rulers.
Under Iran Revolutionary law young girls who were sentenced to death could not be executed if they were still virgins. Thus they were "married off" to Revolutionary Guards and prison officials in temporary marriages and then raped before their execution, to prevent them going to heaven. The Mullahs believed that these women were ungodly and did not deserve paradise in the next life, and that if they were deprived of their virginity it would ensure that they went to hell. Therefore on the night prior to execution, the condemned girl was injected with a tranquilliser and then raped by her guard(s). After the execution, the religious judge at the prison would write out a marriage certificate and send it to the victim's family along with a box of sweets.
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Churches and Cathedrals in Budapest & N.W.Hungary
(above) The Parliament building in Budapest
Hungary, formerly in the Eastern Bloc dominated by the Soviet Union, yet always wasone of the most "western" states in the confederation. Hungary a country so often occupied and subdivided, throughout history. The Turks were here from the mid C16 to the late C17, then the Austrians (Hapsburgs) became the rulers of the country. Following the first world war large areas of Hungary were ceded to form parts of other countries, Slovakia, Romania for instance. The Magyar have risen against Turks, Austrians and USSR, to exert themselves as the proud nation they are and were cruelly put down. The end of Communism in Hungary, unlike its many neighbours, came peaceably and without bloodshed.
Today Hungary is looking to become part of the European Union, Budapest appears like most large international cities and the unmistakable marks of capitalism e.g. the signs of the rival cola or burger companies are everywhere. Outside of the capital, things are less so, although the amount of building work on the edges of towns and cities is impossible to miss as western supermarkets - Tesco, Auchan and others - move in.
The reason for such a proud national identity must in part be due to an impossible language! In the city, the young speak English, many others can speak German here and in the north-west of Hungary, but many more only speak Magyar, especially in the country. Still they are very happy and patient with pointing fingers and smiles, and appreciate the pitiful efforts of tourists as they try to speak a few words of Hungarian! We did not go hungry, nor did we lack water (or other drinks!) or fuel for the car.
The churches in Budapest ( really two cities Buda and Pest on opposite banks of the Duna) were generally open, as they were in the other cities we visited, although the visit was sometimes restricted to the west vestibule. On the whole rural churches were not open unless Catholic when the outer door was often ajar with an inner grille from where the interior could be glimpsed although rarely appreciated. The majority religion is Roman Catholicism (link to diocesan map), followed by the Protestant Reformed and Lutheran Churches. There is a sizeable Jewish community, now largely concentrated in Budapest, and Greek and Serbian Orthodox churches. Communism did mean some church demolition, notably the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Buda, but the churches seem in remarkable condition, albeit a little dark and dingy and in need of redecoration in many cases. This work is in hand and several of the churches we visited gleamed and shone with new paint and gold-leaf.
So on to the churches. I have split the capital into its two main parts, Buda (to the west or right bank of the Danube) and Pest (east or left bank). I started the holiday in Budapest at the end of June 2000, and the rest of the places were all in easy reach by car from Tihany on Lake Balaton where we stayed in a former residence of the Hapsburgs, now a hotel.
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Budapest (1) - Buda (The Castle Area and Lower Town)
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Gila Baby
The film is about a man named Bob who needs a large amount of money in order to pay the medical fees for his dad's surgery. Bob's friend, Roy, decides to lend him a hand by taking the 'easy street', where both of them end up committing a crime by stealing a stranger's car. Both of them get into a bigger trouble when they discover a cute little baby at the back seat of the car that they have stolen.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Distributor: PRIMEWORKS STUDIOS
Cast: Beto Kusyairy, Nadiya Nissa, Sharnaaz Ahmad, Adlin Aman Ramlie, Jalil Hamid
Director: Kabir Bhatia
Writer: Farizan Zainal
Watch this if you liked: “Cinta”, “Sepi” and “Nur Kasih The Movie”
The Good, the Bad and The Lost Baby:
After making films for almost 20 years, veteran director Kabir Bhatia moved on to another piece titled "Gila Baby", starring experienced actors and stuntman which include Beto Kusyairy, Nadiya Nisaa, Sharnaaz Ahmad, Anuar Chew Abdullah, Adlin Aman Ramli and Lan Pet Pet. The action comedy film tells the story of a man who is in need of a large amount of money in order to pay the medical fees for his dad's surgery. Because of that, he had no choice but to work with his friend by stealing a car. Unfortunately, he finds a baby at the back seat of the car and the baby is actually the granddaughter of a Triad leader in Kuala Lumpur. According to the director, this film shows the reality of the world where villains are always merciless. Comedians such as Adlin Aman Ramli and Lan Pet Pet truly outshine the other cast for their hilarious performance. Overall, this film is unique piece of work. With the baby onboard, this film is not easy to shoot, nevertheless, the cast and crew managed to deliver it wonderfully.
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Fimie Don and Johariz Sani hilarious roles as two teenagers who just started to dabble in the world of gangsterism.
Beto Kusyairy injured his knee and forehead during the film shooting.
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Anyone above 18-years-old as this film can be quite heavy and deep at times. Not for babies, despite its title.
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Frisky Young Tenors on Operatic War Horses
http://www.beyondcriticism.com/3111/frisky-young-tenors-on-operatic-war-horses
Nine bull’s-eye high C’s fired off with parade-ground panache: this is what the aria “Ah, mes amis” demands of the bumpkin Tonio in Donizetti’s screwball comedy “La Fille du Régiment.” Most tenors are thrilled to get through it once.
In February 2007 the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez made history at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, when he nailed it twice. The last soloist to sing an encore on that hallowed stage was the Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin in Rossini’s “Barbiere di Siviglia” in 1933. The ban on the practice goes back to Toscanini. Since then only the chorus “Va, pensiero,” the song of the enslaved Israelites in Verdi’s “Nabucco,” has been repeated. Italians regard it almost as their second, superior national anthem.
“Such an uproar,” Mr. Flórez said this month at the Metropolitan Opera, between rehearsals for Laurent Pelly’s production of the opera opposite the scene-stealing soprano Natalie Dessay as Marie, the Daughter of the Regiment. (The premiere is on Monday.) Mr. Flórez had just flown in from Lima, Peru, where he had not only sung his first Duke in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” but also exchanged vows with the German-born Julia Trappe. The wedding was an encore too, the couple having been married privately last April in Vienna. Their ceremony at Lima Cathedral, the first wedding there since 1949, had the news media in a frenzy.
“I’d done encores of ‘Ah, mes amis’ before,” said Mr. Flórez, 35. “Many times, in Bologna, in Genoa, in Lecce, in Japan. But Milan can be a little snobbish. There’s an effort there to put singers down a bit. I couldn’t believe the fuss.” Even sports magazines took notice, comparing Mr. Flórez to Maradona. A replay at the Met is not impossible. The company’s general manager, Peter Gelb, says the house has no policy in this matter.
The last Tonio to knock the world on its ear was the very young Luciano Pavarotti, for whom the lyrical Donizetti was a stepping stone to the heavier Verdi and Puccini. Mr. Flórez is a different creature entirely: a dedicated bel canto specialist, fluent in scales, runs and fancywork far beyond Pavarotti’s comfort zone.
The charismatic example of Mr. Flórez is inspiring a whole new generation of tenors, among them two Americans: Lawrence Brownlee, 35, often tapped for productions when Mr. Flórez moves on; and Alek Shrader, 26, now at the Juilliard Opera Center, where in November he sang the fiendishly difficult title role of Rossini’s “Comte Ory,” an opera expected at the Met with Mr. Flórez in 2010-11.
Last season Met audiences witnessed Mr. Flórez in all his glory as Count Almaviva in “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” His performance crested, as Rossini intended, with the eight-minute pyrotechnics of “Cessa di più resistere.”
That aria, the opera’s last, establishes Almaviva, rather than the barber Figaro, as the true hero of the story. Yet “Barbiere” (which received its premiere under the title “Almaviva”) was long performed without it. As recently as 1988, when the American tenor Rockwell Blake reintroduced “Cessa di più resistere” at the Met, its novelty value occasioned a news release.
In the latest production Mr. Flórez included it as a matter of course, bringing down the house. “Very early in my career, I got used to singing my parts without cuts,” Mr. Flórez said. “The decision was not only mine. Ernesto Palacio always pushed for that.”
A former bel canto tenor and fellow Peruvian, Mr. Palacio has acted as teacher, agent, adviser and confidant to Mr. Flórez throughout his career. He is one of several forerunners Mr. Flórez acknowledges: in the 1950s, Luigi Alva, another Lima native; in the 1970s, apart from Mr. Palacio, Francisco Araiza, a Mexican.
“They had wonderful polish and style,” Mr. Flórez said. “Then, at a certain point, the Americans came in: Rockwell Blake, Chris Merritt. They sang with such virtuosity. It was the first time people heard singing with such breath control, rapidity, color. I’m lucky to come after them. I like to listen, to study. I see a span of development, which I am part of. I have learned from what they created.”
But unlike his predecessors, who wowed the experts, Mr. Flórez also has mass appeal. In a recent call from Seattle, Bartlett Sher, who directed him in the Met “Barbiere,” described the Flórez effect. “Juan Diego is fun to watch,” Mr. Sher said. “He has a great, very natural confidence and a relaxed nobility, together with what Noël Coward would call a little twinkle: something slightly wicked and playful and fun. He has a delightful sense of entitlement onstage, and he never makes singing seem intimidating or too much. He keeps you with him. You feel you could be his friend.”
Thanks to Mr. Flórez, opera houses are flinging their doors open to frisky young tenors with agile technique. The bright ones know better than to copy him.
Mr. Brownlee, who won both the Richard Tucker Award and the Marian Anderson Award in 2006, followed Mr. Flórez in the Met “Barbiere” last year, receiving a hero’s welcome.
“You won’t find a bigger fan of Juan Diego’s singing than me,” Mr. Brownlee said recently from Toulouse, France, where he was appearing in Rossini’s “Turco in Italia.” “He definitely raises the standard. He’s said that our voices are very similar in certain ways. I think in some ways they are, and in some ways we’re night and day. People are always going to compare me to him, because, one, we sing the exact same repertory, and, two, we perform on the same stages. I couldn’t compete with him, but it’s not about that. I’m so inspired by what he does. He makes me want to go into the practice room and perfect what I do.”
Mr. Shrader made his professional debut with Opera Theater of St. Louis in 2006 as Almaviva (without “Cessa di più resistere,” which he did sing last month in a broadcast concert with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra in Georgia). Early in 2007 he appeared with the Gotham Chamber Opera in Rossini’s “Signor Bruschino.” But his biggest moment to date was on the Met stage as a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. There he tossed off stylish, vivid accounts of Mozart’s florid “Il mio tesoro” from “Don Giovanni” and that Flórez specialty, “Ah, mes amis.”
After a further season in training as an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera, Mr. Shrader will head for Germany, to take up major roles in Rossini and Mozart at a leading house. “Flórez has done what opera companies all over are trying to do,” he said recently, “namely to get people to notice opera.”
Asked about his vocal models, Mr. Shrader gave Pavarotti pride of place. “I listen to Pavarotti a lot, to be as organic and as easy as he was,” Mr. Shrader said. “But it’s important to sing in your own voice. No one will sing like him. What you can do is let the music come out of your body as he did.”
When learning new roles, Mr. Shrader avoids listening to recordings until he has formed clear ideas of his own. Then he checks them out selectively. “For my own repertory,” he said, “I go to Flórez. I go to the best.”
Last month, in a Juilliard recital, Mr. Shrader sang a love song from “Barbiere” to his own guitar accompaniment, conjuring up Almaviva’s beloved in the balcony so palpably that people turned to see if she was there. To judge by that excerpt, Mr. Shrader is the most romantic Almaviva of these three, the most innocent of heart, for whom the world is new. At the Met, Mr. Brownlee made the sunniest sound, paradoxically coupled with the giddiest temperament, and Mr. Flórez showed the most mercurial personality, the greatest sense of mischief and the fieriest coloratura. Such distinctions make it worthwhile to keep revisiting war horses; by the same token the personalities artists like these reveal can spark life into works long forgotten.
“Matilde di Shabran,” for instance, dusted off for the first time in more than a century in 1996 by the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. Mr. Flórez was on hand, 23 and fresh from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he had completed the training begun at the conservatory in Lima and as a private student of Andrés Santamaria.
Spreading the lessons out over long hours, Mr. Santamaria and the young Mr. Flórez would take time out for cool drinks of whiskey and Coke, rustle up thick steaks and rice, and listen to the kind of singing Mr. Santamaria had a passion for: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Almaviva’s morning song “Ecco ridente,” shot through with the intricate, swift-moving vocal lines that kindled in Mr. Flórez a love for bel canto.
His professional debut was to have been as a walk-on in Pesaro. But Bruce Ford, a noted American bel canto specialist, withdrew on short notice from the role of the woman-hating tyrant Corradino, and Mr. Flórez was pressed into service.
“It’s a strange opera,” Mr. Flórez said of the experience a few summers later. “There’s no aria for the tenor, but the ensembles are phenomenal.” Just how phenomenal may be heard on a live Decca recording of a Pesaro revival in 2006. On YouTube the astonishing first stab Mr. Flórez took at the role plays on, epitomizing the confidence Mr. Sher speaks of. The stage-hungry dramatic ferocity is as startling as the technical bravura that makes his lean, intensely focused voice blaze like a hero’s.
“I don’t like it,” Mr. Flórez said the other day. “The high notes are ugly. There’s no legato. I like myself better now.”
His mantra now is lightness. “When I was in my teens, singing pop music, I tried to make my voice heavy, like a man,” Mr. Flórez said, caricaturing the dull, macho sound. “You can hear that on YouTube too. Voices lose agility as they get older. It’s common for tenors to lose their high notes, for their voices to get heavier. Many go into heavier parts. But technique is like an antioxidant. It maintains your high notes, your agility. Maybe you need to make more effort.”
Mr. Flórez cited the Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus, an immaculate technician renowned for the freshness of his voice into his 70s. “I will add roles, but nothing heavier,” Mr. Flórez said. “I am faithful to my repertoire. That’s what I’m known for. That’s what people want to hear me in.”
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