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Understanding the Globalization of Chinese Companies
July 30, 2014 By Neelima Mahajan
Joel Backaler, author of China Goes West, talks of the globalization of Chinese companies and whether or not the West needs to be wary of them.
Chinese companies are globalizing at an unprecedented rate. While Lenovo is now the world’s largest PC maker, Haier is the world’s largest consumer appliance manufacturer. Huawei has been giving Ericsson a run for its money in the telecom equipment space, and now two-thirds of its revenue comes from overseas. Other companies like real estate major Dalian Wanda, conglomerates like Fosun, and consumer goods manufacturers like Shuanghui and Bright Food have been on a global M&A spree.
What is fuelling their global ambitions? Are their strategies sophisticated enough? Also, Chinese companies often run different kinds of challenges when they go global—especially protectionist concerns in the West. How much of that is valid?
We posed these questions to Joel Backaler, author of the recently released China Goes West and Associate Vice-President at Frontier Strategy Group. Backaler, who has lived and worked in China, offers some insights on the globalization paths of Chinese companies and whether or not the West needs to be wary of them.
Q. Have you seen significant differences in how Chinese companies approached globalization 10-15 years ago versus now?
A. Previously [Chinese companies] were much more [focused on] distressed assets: for example, TCL buying Thomson. [Now] Chinese companies go overseas for a variety of business reasons. The market is getting very competitive here. Companies are going overseas for new technology, especially advanced technology, getting global management talent so they can start instilling some of their best practices into their own organization, and they are looking to get global brands to help them appeal to the overseas audience. The other real motivation is to diversify away from the Chinese market.
Q. Can you elaborate on the different patterns that are emerging in the globalization of Chinese companies?
A. If you look at the distinction between emerging markets and developed markets, and the approach that Chinese companies take, I think it comes down to their business model. For example, if you look at companies that are consumer-based, they are starting to do fairly well in some of the emerging markets because they are more easily able to adapt the products they are offering and also business practices for markets in southeast Asia, Africa.
Looking at the business-to-business (B2B) space, you see more and more these kind of companies that are going to the developed market because that’s where they are going to get the advanced technology, that’s where they are able to get some of the global managers that will strengthen their business. If you look at Goldwind, one of China’s largest wind energy firms, they’ve done extremely well over the years. They purchased a company in Europe called Vensys, and got their technology. They not only expanded their presence in Europe, but also developed a unique Americas business.
Companies like Lenovo are the exception at this stage. I think it’s going to be quite some time till we see companies, especially in the B2C (business to consumer) space, that are able to compete effectively in developed markets. It’s a very different business environment, especially for companies that don’t have experience operating within a much stricter regulatory environment. They don’t actually know who to go to for that kind of advice.
Q. In your eyes, what is the best example of a globalized Chinese company?
A. Lenovo has done a great job not only in their acquisition strategy, but also in incorporating global management at senior most levels. So they have senior executives from companies like Apple, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Then they use their global perspective to do things that even well-established western companies wouldn’t do. They now structure their organization to have as much local experience as possible. They do this by having a headquarters in North Carolina, US, one in Beijing, and one in Singapore. Their senior management team is constantly going around to stay plugged in with their global team. They are also able to tap into that local knowhow that they have on the ground. There are others like Huawei [that] outside markets like the US are doing quite well. But again, there are very few.
Q. Talking about motivations for these companies to go global, how much of that is really driven by pride? What prompts them to go global?
A. There are a few different motivations: business motivation and government motivation with the “go out” policy. Some of them don’t quite fit but I think they are mostly related to pride. For example, Weichai, the largest bulldozer manufacturer, bought Ferretti (a yacht manufacturer) so that doesn’t necessarily make sense. Even Dalian Wanda’s purchase of AMC movie theaters at the time was very strange. Their core business was real estate. While AMC—obviously there is a lot of real estate involved in the movie theater industry—is an entertainment firm. Since that acquisition, the company has proven that they are more committed to making investments in the entertainment industry, especially movie production. They invested in Sunseeker, a yacht company. It goes to the fact that these CEOs are getting a lot of guidance from their inner circle, [which is] related to the ‘guanxi’ effect: people in their inner circle are giving them suggestions of areas to invest in. They may or may not make sense for their business from a pure commercial perspective.
Q. In your interactions with Chinese companies, what do you think of their level of preparedness to go global? Companies like TCL floundered when they went global.
A. When you are looking at the developed markets, the vast majority of Chinese companies aren’t ready. There are five relations that Chinese companies need to master or deal with effectively. First they need to understand how to interact with the government. That’s not just within the overseas market but also here in China. For Chinese companies to go global for the first time, they may need to interact with the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission), MOFCOM (Ministry of Commerce), or SAIC (State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China) if they want to get their money outside China. It’s very complex. For a company that isn’t fairly large in size, it can be very difficult to understand how to navigate that system, what the right path is.
Additionally, when Chinese companies go to the US or Europe, they tend to rely on the government to give them more direction as to where to invest. They are finding that the only way to get that insight is through relying on professional services firms, be it tax advisors, management consultant or accountants: people know how to play by the regulations in these different markets. Oftentimes Chinese companies want to continue that government relationship model as they do here in China.
The next thing is their relationship with their employees. As you look at any company when they go overseas, there tends to be a need to balance between a centralized organization and a decentralized organization. So how do you maximize the fact that you have a global company but also the fact that you have people on the ground that can respond more quickly to change?
In addition to needing to empower individuals on the ground, Chinese companies need to have people back at headquarters that have global perspectives and are able to manage expectations across the organization for overseas business. The other factors are the relationships with consumers and communities, to overcome misconceptions, to know how a Chinese company operates. The last relationship is with capital. Chinese companies need to make sure that they are investing for the long term, investing in their employees and incentivizing them appropriately.
Q. Compared to western multinationals, Chinese companies are fairly young. Let’s take Lenovo which as a recent Businessweek article put it: “sold only one product, PCs, in one country, China,” 10 years ago. “Now it sells PCs, phones, tablets and servers in more than 160 countries. It has 46,000 employees.” That is a phenomenal achievement in a short timeframe. Do you think that some Chinese companies have found ways to shorten the “learning curve” and achieve global scale faster than it would normally take?
A. Chinese business has only been operating since last the three or four decades since the ‘Reform and Opening-up’. If you compare a company like Haier with Maytag or GE, these western companies have hundreds of years of experience therefore these companies are able to understand how to evolve and operate in international markets. It’s very difficult.
If you look at Chinese companies based on their size and revenue, it seems like unequal footing in terms of the experience of the companies and the executives who run them. It’s very different. So this is not only causing a lot of companies to continue to scale here in China, but also go overseas at the same time. It is becoming very complicated because you are not only looking at many different geographies. A lot of the companies are also expanding into a variety of product lines that could be very different from their core. If you look at the number of Chinese companies right now, especially in sectors like steel [which has] overcapacity, or infrastructure where things have slowed down for quite a bit, they are looking for different ways to diversify. One of the examples domestically is of a lot of steel companies investing in real estate. You even have a lot of them investing in really bizarre areas as agriculture. It doesn’t necessarily make sense and I think part of that goes with the level of experience and the sophistication of the executives that run those companies.
Q. Chinese companies also have to battle perception issues when they go abroad, as we have seen in the case of Huawei in the US. Protectionist concerns often crop up, especially when iconic Western brands become the takeover target of Chinese companies. Are these concerns valid?
A. I think there are some very valid concerns. They are going to vary depending on whether they are at the government level, the business level, or the consumer level. If you are looking at the whole country like the US, what is the government worrying about? National security is number one, cyber security, the supply of national resources and China’s ability to manipulate global resources. If you look at the companies, it is anti-competitiveness, it is intellectual property theft. What happens after that acquisition? Will the company be purchased? Will all the employees be fired? Will the manufacturing of the technology go back to China? And then at the consumer level, consumers are worried about food quality, environment and labor standards? I think Chinese companies have quite a bit to overcome.
If you look at Smithfield Food and Shuanghui International last year in the US, at that time when Shuanghui announced they wanted to purchase Smithfield, which is pork producing company, just a few months earlier globally there were headlines about Shanghai where there were thousands of pigs floating in the Huangpu River. So when you are reading headlines about floating dead pigs, tainted milk, food security, these are all things that perpetuate the whole idea of it. Is it going to be safe for Chinese companies to operate in my own backyard? So consumers are worried and the media plays it up, politicians make it work in their favor.
The number of deals that are politicized are actually quite small but they are the ones that are talked about all the time. Meanwhile, I think the US is very open to investment and you’ll see that when you dig into the data. You’ll see that when you look at the other side which is ‘what are the positives of Chinese investment’. As long as you have the right security review, anti-competitiveness mechanism within the government, then you can strike that right balance between essentially mitigating the negative consequences while maximizing the positive benefits.
Q. As the ranks of Chinese MNCs grow, do you think they’ll become similar or more different from the established western multinationals?
A. I think what this comes down to is not “Will China build global companies?” It really is: “Will there be companies that are global that just happen to be from China?” I know from speaking to the executives from Lenovo, that’s exactly what they are pushing for. They want to be known as a global company. If you were to ask a typical American consumer if Siemens is an American company, I think they probably think that it’s an American company, not a German company. That’s what the Chinese companies need to strive for. They need to be incorporating international talent from around the world, operating locally, really investing in their brands so they are seen as a local company. Only when they get to that point will you see companies operating much more as a global entity.
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Julio Macias of Netflix’s “On My Block” Masters Perfecting His Craft and Simply Being Himself
Entertainment, Kontrol Homme Report
by Diamond Jones
Photo: @ajuliomacias on Instagram
After recently getting the green light for season three, viewers of Netflix’s critically-acclaimed original series, “On My Block,” are in a victorious uproar as they anticipate the show’s newest addition.
Set in South Central Los Angeles, the show follows the friendship of four charming, complex, and coming-of-age individuals working through the motions of life in the inner city. The light throughout the entire tunnel is the perspectives guided through by each of these teens being from underrepresented groups, and the show’s content is raw and realistic enough for those sitting at home to genuinely relate.
However, it’s the cast that shines through, creating conversations to arise within viewers through their portrayal of these characters and their day-to-day.
One, in particular, being 29-year-old, Julio Macias, who plays the vicious, but pridefully protective older brother to Cesar, and leader of the Santos Gang, Oscar “Spooky” Diaz.
Before Macias stepped onto the streets of L.A., his journey began in Mexico City, his hometown he holds close to his heart, and credits for his ability to be present within his surroundings today. “ In Mexico City, it’s a beast, it’s a monster of a town. You see that inequality rapidly throughout the society, so that was something that always struck me, especially always flying back between there and L.A. Growing up I never got it, I was thankful that my parents were able to afford me the life that I had, but I was always very aware of it. I kind of pushed myself to incorporate that in all communities. Even though there are real threats in certain neighborhoods, so much of it really is psychological and you know the threat or the danger, or level of insecurity that you have is something that you mentally put in your head before you even go anywhere. I tried to always keep present and always keep in mind that we can all do something to lessen those distractions. The best thing you can do is vote, and talk to those politicians and have them fix it. Then there’s stuff we can do within our daily lives, like speaking through each other as human beings. Just because someone’s serving you, they’re not your servant. Just because someone’s helping you out, doesn’t mean that you can speak or treat them a certain way. I try to keep that very present in my daily life. I’ve learned all that from growing up in Mexico City.”
At the tender age of 8-years-old, Macias had already dipped his foot into the TV and film industry. Aside from at one point dreaming of being a zoologist, his parents’ ownership of a dubbing company is what guided him into the avenue of acting.
His childhood environment revolved around sound studios, directors, actors and actresses, and the process of translating series and films into Portuguese or Spanish. A decade later, it became more surreal for a young Macias, when after high school he headed for Miami, which he left for California, and where the plan to transfer to UCLA turned into ending up at New York’s Circle in the Square Conservatory. “It switched my mind into the gear that I needed it to be. It was like ok, people are doing this professionally at my level, and they’re tackling this every single day, with everything they got. I have to give that and then 10% more. It was a scene study, acting study, breathing techniques, movement, script analysis, Shakespeare, singing. All of it filled me to the point where I was like, this is exactly what I have to be doing every single day. So make sure that every day you’re bettering yourself however you feel you need to do that. Always be in class, always keep studying, always keep learning, and keep yourself open to everything. Strive for excellence. Don’t try to be the best, be your best.”
“There’s stuff we can do within our daily lives, like speaking through each other as human beings. Just because someone’s serving you, they’re not your servant. Just because someone’s helping you out, doesn’t mean that you can speak or treat them a certain way.”
Macias wanted to create a space where he could incorporate this abundance of lessons learned, as well as his own creative genius into one platform. He teamed up with who he describes as his brother, mentor, and friend, Alfredo Ibarra, to create Blank Films, where the two would go on to produce shorts, comedy sketches, and a string of music videos for notable Latin artists.
Due to financial roadblocks, according to Macias, current projects within the business had to be put on hold. However, the biggest lesson he kept with him from the process, is the saving grace of working with a team and realizing asking for help can be our greatest strength. “In film school, Alfredo, who I started “Blank Films” with, was in the directing department and I was in the acting department, and one time he said to me, “My crew is being kind of lazy, I need your help. Can you please come on set and help me out?” I was like alright. I didn’t know what to do, but he told me he would show me. I felt so useful on that set, setting up all these lights and equipment I never known, or touched before in my life. It was maybe 3 o’clock in the morning and we were still pushing, and again this was film school, so we’re shooting 20 hour days, and everyone’s exhausted and cranky, and it smells bad, and people want to go home, and things are not working, and I’m just walking around with the biggest smile on my face, like, if this is how bad it gets, I can only imagine how good it gets. Yes, this is it for me.
Teamwork also makes the dreamwork on the set of “On My Block,” which Macias claims makes the entire series so dope. With the shift from season one to season two, he labeled it as “perseverance in the face of challenges,” but despite it all, each character finds a way to stay strong and conquer not staying down.
“So make sure that every day you’re bettering yourself however you feel you need to do that. Always be in class, always keep studying, always keep learning, and keep yourself open to everything. Strive for excellence. Don’t try to be the best, be your best.”
For Macias’ character Spooky, intimidation is a mantra. With the two being almost complete opposites, Macias had to put on a bit of extra weight for the role, literally and figuratively. Through the dialogue, and Spooky’s actions and purpose of motives, Macias found a way to root for him overall, by figuring out his ultimate purpose comes from a place of love. “It’s a pleasure to play him, and it’s a responsibility I have to to take with great caution and respect. I knew I needed to look a certain way before I got into the character. So for me, it was first physically training to get to a place where I thought that I could achieve the biggest that I had ever been in my life. I wouldn’t want to mess with me [laughs]. At that point, that’s when I started to go back to the text, and what I loved about this particular character is that it’s hard to argue that what he’s doing is the right thing, but he does it out of love. That’s what I rooted from. His love for his brother, and the limits he’ll go to protect him. I’m a little bit more you have to handle your own things, so I’m not going to physically harm anyone. That’s not the person that I am, and that’s something I had to learn to open up to with Spooky. I had to feel that anger and rage quickly, and for a while, it stepped over to me being Julio and within my daily life. One way to control it, which is what Spooky does, is to speak up on anything, and that’s one attribute I can thank him for because it gave me the confidence to say, hey, probably not right now, or I don’t think so.
Julio Macias as Oscar “Spooky” Diaz in “On My Block” Photo: Nicola Goode, Netflix
Another “thank you” Macias can gratefully hand out to Spooky, comes from the ability for this and the younger generation to see characters like the one he plays, or Manse, Cesar, Ruby, Jamal, or Jasmine; and know they’re not alone.
“…what I loved about this particular character [Spooky] is that it’s hard to argue that what he’s doing is the right thing, but he does it out of love.”
Macias retorts back to growing up in Mexico City where the idea of representation wasn’t as abundant. He would watch a film like “Hocus Pocus,” and see three women as witches, and wanting to embody those characters. Then it was when he scored a role in Evelina Fernandez Mexican Trilogy the play, where each character shared the same ethnicity and cultural background of Mexican roots, and Macias newfound perspective and landscaping across discovering multiple diversities grew. “When people started reaching out to us through social media, something I’m new to, the outpour of “Dude, thank you for doing that, thank you for being here,” and the younger kids, and asking me how I did it and telling me they never saw themselves, and telling me their brother is in the life, he’s like that dude [Spooky]. I’m like “Oh shit, they’re seeing that!” [laughs]. So for me, it really opened up my eyes. It didn’t really affect me in my personal life, that I can consciously remember because I had whitewashed my head trying to blend into the United States when I first came here. People asked, “Where is your accent?” I’m like, this is my accent, and do you know how hard I worked to get here. Maybe it is super self-conscious in my head, but being in this show now and seeing everybody respond to it the way they’re responding to it, it really shows how overdue it was. It’s coming. Every single network right now is buying up property that betters diversity as a power of this industry, so it’s coming.”
Ultimately, Julio Macias would categorize himself under the category of an actor that has been working at his craft for a very long time and doesn’t plan on stopping. His goals stretch to the many opportunities and experiences playing different characters will allow him, and that’s exactly how he plans on solidifying his prosperous career. “I think I’m definitely going to be pushing envelopes here and there. So my advice for anybody that’s doing this is staying true to what you want to play. Be flexible obviously, be willing to play whatever comes your way, but they know the character you want to pursue and chase them. If it comes to where you have to give up a role to really be able to play that one character that you really want to do, be true to yourself, and it’ll shine through. All you have to do is focus on your grain of sand, and the beach will come together.”
As fans await the next set of chapters from “On My Block,” they can catch Macias behind the scenes of short films and comedy sketches, and voicing a part in the animated series “The Grandfather.”
“All you have to do is focus on your grain of sand, and the beach will come together.”
Macias plans for the rest of the year couldn’t be more authentic, as he continues to enjoy the humbling process and reality of being an actor, by auditioning for those game-changing roles.
To keep up with all things Julio Macias and “On My Block” head over to Twitter and Instagram and follow @AJulioMacias & @OnMyBlock.
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Digging Dirt to Dial For Dollars?
Republican operative seek dirt on East Bay's Afghan-American congressional candidate.
by Steven Tavares
Photo courtesy of Aisha Wahab
A conservative opposition research maven is digging for dirt on Aisha Wahab.
Just days after Hayward Councilmember Aisha Wahab announced her campaign for Rep. Eric Swalwell's open congressional seat in the East Bay, a shadowy Republican political action committee and opposition research firm with ties to the Trump administration and other conservatives, was already digging for dirt on her.
Allan Blutstein, a noted Freedom of Information Act maven asked the Hayward city clerk last month to gather any emails from Wahab, one of the nation's first-ever Afghan-American elected officials. The fishing expedition included references to or correspondences with a trio of young, dynamic, but controversial, progressive congresswomen — Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Wisconsin, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Blutstein also sought information on Wahab's spending as a city councilmember.
Blutstein is a senior vice president for America Rising, a conservative group that provides opposition research on Democratic candidates. Blutstein previously served the same capacity for Definers Public Affairs, a conservative communications firm that was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to seek emails from low-level bureaucrats in the department containing negative comments about President Trump. The firm also was retained by Facebook last year to dig up negative information on Senate Intelligence Committee members who were set to grill its chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
In both cases, Blutstein's bid for information was featured in the effort. Blutstein also has made attempts to investigate the records of many Democratic presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and recently, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. In addition, the business of America Rising and Definers Public Affairs appear to overlap. According to news reports, they share the same office space and some of the same employees.
Such so-called opposition research, the act of campaigns and political groups compiling information on opposing candidates, is extremely common. The information sought can range from the mundane, like voting records or publicly available personal data, to damaging facts and tawdry rumors, such as do they pay their taxes or are they cheating on their spouse? Opposition research is time-intensive and expensive, and therefore not undertaken lightly.
Wahab dwells in a much lower stratosphere than that of some of Blutstein's more well-known targets, but her first six months in office have successfully changed the trajectory of Hayward city government and energized parts of the city's often-apathetic citizenry. Her youth, the fact she is a woman of color, and her aggressive push for housing and homelessness issues, have earned her comparisons to Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman who jumped from a being complete unknown to one of the most well-known and influential progressives in the Democratic Party. Some have even labeled Wahab the "West Coast AOC."
The 31-year-old councilwoman, who faced instances of racial and gender discrimination during her successful campaign last year for the Hayward City Council, expected this type of scrutiny. "I was surprised about how quickly they came at me," she said, adding Blutstein's records request came just three days after she entered the congressional race. Wahab said she has no clue how she came on the radar of America Rising and its conservative operatives.
"For whatever reason, whoever is doing this believes I'm a threat to the status quo," she said. "Let's be real, I would be an easy target as anyone. I'm a Muslim, a person of color. I'm a woman. They have so much to choose from. The cards are stacked against us."
Nonetheless, Wahab said she finds it odd that the conservative PAC is digging around the 15th Congressional since it's clearly a blue seat and will be for the foreseeable future. "It's just, 'How blue do we want to let it be?'"
When Swalwell announced his candidacy for president on April 8, Wahab waited just four days to announce her candidacy for Congress. Swalwell has said with differing levels of conviction that he will not seek re-election to his seat. Last week, Democratic state Sen. Bob Wieckowski joined the race. Wahab's campaign quickly labeled the senator the "establishment candidate."
But the attempt to procure information on Wahab appears different, said Jason Scalese, a Republican consultant who also worked two years ago on Ted Cruz's presidential campaign in California. "This is the kind of opposition research that is typically seen in a competitive race, but there will not be a competitive Republican in this case."
Swalwell, although right-of-center for East Bay progressives, won re-election last November with nearly 75 percent of support. Wieckowski and any other credible candidates in this races will likely fall somewhere on the progressive spectrum.
Scalese said the intent of the information-gathering may revolve around Wahab's religious affiliation, but is more likelyan attempt to forge a link between Ocasio-Cortez and far-left progressives to Wahab in order to label them as radicals on social issues and the environment. "Republican groups all over the country are trying to identify AOC-like candidates in order to highlight their radical, far-left views and then fundraise off them," said Scalese.
Blutstein's public records request likely netted little usable information at this point. The city's response found no references to Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, or Omar in emails during the time frame requested. Information related to Wahab's spending yielded expenditures related to dinner receipts paid by the city for dinner prior to the City Council's Tuesday night meetings. Wahab said she has always paid for her own meals since becoming a councilmember last December. But earlier this month, Wahab did receive an email for an invitation-only dinner hosted by Tlaib and Omar in celebration of Iftar, the meal after sunset during the holy month of Ramadan from Tlaib and Omar. Wahab said she was not able to attend because of the short notice of the event.
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Baz Lurhmann’s Australia is a cornball compote of old-fashioned romance, sweeping outdoors-y saga, and WWII drama of epic proportions—think The Thorn Birds down under, or Ryan’s Daughter set in the Australian Outback. What makes it so enjoyable is that it doesn’t pretend to be anything but. It’s far from perfect (unlike, say, Lurhmann’s earlier films Moulin Rouge! and Romeo+Juliet) but that’s also part of the film’s considerable appeal (not to mention length; it clocks in at a little under three hours but you wouldn’t know it unless you’re not having any fun at all, in which case you’ve probably already left). That darling of Aussie exports Nicole Kidman receives top billabong-ing as Lady Sarah Ashley, a right proper lady who moves to the Northern Territories when her husband loses the farm (so to speak). In the months following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Lady Ashley vows to drive her two thousand head of cattle to sell to the armed forces in Darwin, putting a crimp on rancher King Carney’s (Brian Brown) monopoly on Australian beef. With few hired hands to make the trip across then treacherous terrain, Lady Ashley reluctantly recruits the handsome and often shirtless Drover (X-Men‘s Hugh Jackman) and together with Lady Ashley’s adopted “creamy” (half-cast Aborigine, played by the strikingly good-looking Brandon Walters) the loyal band of cowhands heads north. The corn is as high as a kangaroo’s eye, mostly in the form of Lady Ashley’s primness coupled with the down-and-dirty drudgery of life on the open trail (Kidman’s wonderful, of course, and Jackman is spot on as the weary cattle hand; likewise, 12-year-old Walters is captivating as Nullah) and the only real questions in Australia are when will Sarah and Drover start snogging and when will the (boo! hiss!) villainous Carney get his comeuppance.
Happy-Go-Lucky (2018)
Poppy (née Pauline) is a colorful, optimistic, North London schoolteacher who sees the good in everything and everyone. She’s bright, spirited, and full of life—a British Amélie but without the underlying subtitles (although those certainly wouldn’t have hurt her cause herein). She’s also rather annoying, too good to be true. She’s too happy-go-lucky, too full of life (maybe even herself). And to some she’s likely more than just rather annoying (the words hellish, freakish, obnoxious, and grating all come tumbling to mind). But I liked her, mostly. I enjoyed her consistency, her inability to say nothing, to let sleeping dogs lie when a pithy retort has already formed itself in her brain and is heading, Mach 1-style, for her lips. Poppy is exhausting in that regard; no quip is left unturned, no sarky comment left unsaid, no rebuttal laid to rest. Maybe it’s a defense mechanism on Poppy’s part. Maybe, maybe not. But it’s there. Always. And you can count on it. Poppy, the character, is a creation of Mike Leigh (who wrote her) and Sally Hawkins (who plays her). Happy-Go-Lucky, Leigh’s latest, is a bit of a departure for the director, who’s best known for his working-class dramas—High Hopes, Life is Sweet, Secrets & Lies, etc. Sally Hawkins is new to me, although having said that I do remember seeing her in the Woody Allen film Cassandra’s Dream, in which she played a thinly disguised version of Scarlet Johansson (Hawkins was also in Leigh’s Vera Drake and All or Nothing, apparently). There’s not much plot to the film—Poppy is the plot—but it’s when Poppy takes driving lessons with Scott (Eddie Marsan) that Happy-Go-Lucky really comes alive. The mantra-spouting Scott is the complete opposite of Poppy, uptight and rigid, and their scenes together have a real, uncompromising bite.
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Hectic. That, in a word, is the new Bond film—number 22 if you’re counting—from its opening sequence onwards with barely a break for a vodka martini (or a Vesper) thereafter. And even if you’ve never read the books you get the sense watching Quantum of Solace (that title, by the way, is a mouthful and mostly meaningless) that this is probably how Ian Fleming imagined his James Bond: ruthless, efficient, hard as nails—a veritable bullet on the hit parade. In his second go-round as the suave, globetrotting MI6 operative Daniel Craig leaps from balconies, speeding cars, and prostrate women with the alacrity of a Namibian springbok. He’s easy on the eyes (his are a brilliant ice-y blue) and loose-y goose-y with the trigger finger. There’s less cheekiness to his Bond. And speaking of growing into a role Dame Judi continues to arrive as M, acerbic and no-nonsense-y. She’s so good, in fact, that you can’t imagine her wanting to play another role (although she’s done more than 75 to date). Director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) choreographs the whole thing as if his tenure with the franchise depended on it (although not since 1989’s License to Kill has the same director helmed back-to-back Bonds). Ukranian supermodel Olga Kurylenko plays “Bond Girl” Camille, Roman Polanski lookalike Mathieu Amalric is the baddie, and Giancarlo Giannini returns as Mathis. Gone are Q and Moneypenny but David Arnold’s serviceable music evokes the classic Bond scores of old. A novel twist in Quantum‘ is how it picks up where the last one left off—Bond is bent on avenging the love of his life, Vesper Lind, even though M clearly tells him not to make it into a personal vendetta 007. ‘Solace isn’t as assured as Casino Royale but it’s an exciting—and noisy—diversion nonetheless.
Changeling (2008)
The last time Angelina Jolie did a stint in the loony bin she wound up winning an Oscar for her pains (Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted) and I daresay that realization wasn’t far from her mind when she opted to star in Clint Eastwood’s latest film Changeling, a period drama about a single mom who’s unceremoniously institutionalized by the L.A.P.D. when her 9-year-old son goes missing, shows up five months later, and is denounced by Christine Collins (Jolie) as not being her son. This happens after Collins takes “Walter” home, for a “trial period,” while the flashbulbs burst and the Police Department, who supposedly found the boy in Dekalb, Ill., spat and polished up their tarnished reputation. The story (by J. Michael Straczynski) is an earnest one, leading to one of the most despicable crimes in the annals of American history (serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott figures in the latter going) but the film is an odd mix of genres that never quite settles into the one we want to watch. Jolie is suitably distraught and outraged in equal amounts and her experience in ‘Interrupted has stood her in good stead to play the bughouse scenes with conviction. But the film is undone by a surprising laziness on Clint’s part, who telegraphs too much too often and constantly gussies Jolie up no matter what her situation (those famous lips are never anything but bright cherry red and you wonder why her character feels the need to look mahvelous so much of the time). Although inspired by true events (the Wineville Chicken Murders), the central conceit in the film—that a doppelganger could dupe an individual’s teachers, doctors, and peers—make Changeling a pretty preposterous pill to swallow (one administered forcefully, at the hands of brutal, one-dimensional prison guards).
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Bill Hulsey
Austin, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer with 32 years experience
(512) 478-9190 3300 Interstate I-35
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
"Thank you all Sooo much! I can't imagine being on this journey with anyone else. I look forward to continuing to work with you all for years to come!"
- Ian P., Austin, TX to Bill Hulsey Patent Lawyer (2018)
"Their expertise in their field is matched only by their enthusiasm to help us succeed in ours. Foresight, execution, responsiveness and success are hallmarks of our experience with Bill Hulsey and his team."
- Dr. Charlie D., Rochester, NY to Bill Hulsey Patent Lawyer (2019)
"Mr. Hulsey is an outstanding professional. He is straight-forward and knowledgeable. He has tremendous experience in US...
Charles Marcellus Vethan
Austin, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 25 years experience
(512) 236-8888 106 E 6th St Ste 950
IP, Business, Employment and Trademarks
Texas business attorney, Charles M.R. Vethan, earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence at Southern Methodist University School of Law in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta, Canada. Mr. Vethan served as an editor for The International Lawyer, as well as authored articles on international letters of credit, the role of insurance defense counsel in complex litigation matters, and Implied Licenses in Copyrights. He also presented courses through the National Business Institute to attorneys and CPAs on corporate structure and governance. Mr. Vethan is one of less than 20 attorneys practicing in Texas who are...
John Chandler
(512) 732-7904 8500 Bluffstone Cove, Suite A201
University of Texas - Austin
I primarily do patent preparation, prosecution, strategy and licensing. I also selectively handle trademark, copyright and other general legal matters. I am admitted in Texas and Washington State. I enjoy creatively crafting collaborative solutions to complex problems with minimal expense. Please involve me early in the process!
Tracy Jill Willi
(512) 288-3200 100 Congress Ave., Suite 1530
Free ConsultationIP, Appeals, Business and Trademarks
Tracy J. Willi focuses on civil, commericial, and intellectual property litigation and appeals in Federal and Texas courts. Having been licensed to practice law in Texas since 1992, Ms. Willi has extensive trial and appellate experience in business law, civil and commercial law, real estate law, patent, copyright, and trademark litigation, and probate litigation, much of which is reflected in numerous published trial court and appellate decisions. Ms. Willi has represented clients at all levels of Texas courts including County Courts, District Courts, Courts of Appeals, and the Texas Supreme Court. She has also represented clients at...
Hamp Skelton
(512) 651-7000 248 Addie Roy Rd
Free ConsultationIP, Appeals, Business and Construction
Hamp Skelton, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Princeton University in 1978 and from the University of Texas School of Law in 1981. He has tried lawsuits in Texas for over 37 years. Hamp joined Vinson & Elkins in Houston in 1981, practicing in its commercial litigation section. He moved to Austin in 1986, joining Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. While there, he built a litigation section and served as partner in charge of litigation. His present law firm opened in September, 1991. He and his wife, Karen, have three sons.
Hamp's practice encompasses a wide spectrum of business...
Alex Shahrestani
Austin, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 1 year experience
(512) 387-0919 3800 North Lamar Boulevard
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Trademarks
I'm a startup-tech nerd trapped in an attorney’s body. One of my favorite hobbies is hearing about other people’s new ideas and watching them succeed.
You can often find me at startup launches and panels, just absorbing all of the out-of-the-box thinking that is necessary to a lot of today's startups. I have a startup of my own, and man is it a bumpy ride! I'm working on automating various parts of the legal profession to try and keep costs down.
Like many others in 2008, I had severe financial difficulties, and the frustrations I faced in trying to pull...
Donika Pentcheva
Austin, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 9 years experience
7700 West Parmer Lane
Building D, Suite 300
IP, Patents and Trademarks
Donika was born and raised in Bulgaria. In 1999, she immigrated to the United States, where she obtained degrees in engineering, mathematics, political science, and law. Donika's full profile is available at www.donikapentcheva.com.
Joey Miller
(512) 537-1606 7901 Cameron Road
Saint Louis University
Joey Miller is a transactional attorney in Austin, Texas who focuses on helping creative professionals in the entertainment, small business, and non-profit fields. He was licensed to practice law in Texas in 2011 and opened his private practice in June 2012. He represents musicians, writers, and artists, as well as businesses and non-profits in the creative and technology industries. Joey earned his B.A. in Philosophy and German from Rhodes College (Memphis, Tennessee) in 2008 and his J.D. with a concentration in Intellectual Property from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2011. During college Joey was involved with...
Jeffrey Toler
(512) 327-5515 8500 Bluffstone Cove
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Matthew James Booth
(512) 474-8488 5501A Balcones Dr STE 301
Free ConsultationIP, Patents and Trademarks
My practice focuses on strategizing and protecting the Intellectual Property (IP) of businesses of all sizes, both private and public, ranging from the identification and acquisition of Intellectual Property to licensing and enforcement. The work includes preparation, prosecution, and litigation of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; licensing of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; validity and infringement opinions; trade secrets, agreements and litigation; OEM and distribution agreements; technology sharing and joint development agreements; commercial and business litigation; and other general business agreements.
My areas of technical expertise include semiconductor design and manufacturing; computer hardware and software; and electrical, mechanical, and environmental technologies.
Phillip Anthony Yeager
Georgetown, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer with 21 years experience
(512) 300-7445 203 South Austin Avenue
IP, Business, Divorce and Family
Jodi Ruth Lazar
(512) 477-1600 305 Camp Craft Road
Jodi Lazar practices family law exclusively and represents clients in both the traditional litigation and collaborative law models, depending on the client’s needs.
Jodi is also an Adjunct Professor in the Advocacy Department at The University of Texas School of Law, where she teaches Intensive Trial Skills and works with the Interscholastic Mock Trial Program.
The University of Texas School of Law, 1988
The University of Texas at Austin, 1985
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & HONORS
Member, State Bar of Texas (Family Law Section)
Member, Oregon State Bar
Member, American Bar Association (Family Law Section)
Member, Austin Bar Association (Family Law Section)
Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
COLLABORATIVE LAW...
Frances Jones
(512) 476-8999 1108 Lavaca Street
IP, Business, Communications and Consumer
New York University School of Law
Licensed in NY, NJ, and TX, Ms Jones has 20+ years of global experience in business & legal affairs, marketing, operations, strategic planning, and management. Her in-house counsel and large law firm experience includes firms and companies such as Univision Communications, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, PolyGram Records, Zomba/Jive/BMG Entertainment (now Sony), and Green Mountain Energy Company. A graduate of New York University School of Law, Frances has in-depth knowledge and experience in the areas of advertising, media (including digital and mobile), and entertainment, as well as in technology, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, and corporate law. In addition, she has substantial domestic...
Mr. Ali A. Akhtar
(512) 879-1935 7500 Rialto Boulevard
Building I, Suite 250
IP, Business, Consumer and Personal Injury
I represent both individuals and businesses, in areas such as: - Personal injury (car/truck accidents, DWI, motorcycle, slip-and-fall cases, on-the-job injuries, etc.). - Businesses needing help with corporate formation, protection of intellectual property, contract review, etc. - Litigation on behalf of both businesses and consumers in all types of disputes.
R. Floyd Walker
(512) 655-9074 1101 W 34th St. # 223
Patrick Sebastian Stellitano
(512) 899-8038 2803 Inridge Dr
Free ConsultationIP and Patents
Professional Licenses and Court Admissions U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2002 United States Patent & Trademark Office, 1998 State Bar of Texas, 1995 Education JD University of Houston, cum laude, 1995 MSEE Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985 BEE Georgia Institute of Technology, with honor, 1983 Legal Experience Application and Prosecution: Foreign and domestic patent application preparation and prosecution in technical areas including wireline and wireless communications, software and algorithms, computers, processors, networks, Global Positioning System technology, digital signal processing, video processing, RF components and systems, optical and electro-optical, precision instrumentation, acoustics, electro-mechanical systems, and mechanical devices. Client Counseling,...
Brian J Elliott
(512) 961-7000 9311 North FM 620
Brian Elliott ? Austin Business Lawyer ? is an experienced business and technology attorney based in Austin, Texas. Brian focuses his law practice on business transactions, intellectual property, brand protection, business formation, corporate governance, real estate and strategic development for startups, investors, emerging growth companies and established global enterprises. In addition to private practice of law, Brian has spent many years as an in-house general counsel in private equity, software, cloud technology, eCommerce and manufacturing sectors. His business experience allows him to approach the practice of law from a business solutions perspective. In addition, Brian...
Feras Mousilli
(512) 609-0059 4400 Far West Blvd
IP, Business, Patents and Trademarks
Feras Mousilli is a founding partner of Lloyd & Mousilli and regularly advises business clients on a range of technology law issues. He specializes in counseling technology companies from start-ups in their early formation and development, through support of multi-billion dollar business operations of the largest companies in the world.
Mr. Mousilli has served as Senior Corporate Counsel for both Apple Inc. and Dell Inc., where he counseled clients on product development and intellectual property matters, including advertising & marketing, copyright, and trademark strategies and risks. Prior to serving as corporate counsel, Mr. Mousilli practiced with DLA Piper in the intellectual...
Gene Pierson
(512) 514-6927 7000 North Mopac Expressway
University of Richmond School of Law
Gene Pierson is a patent attorney located in Austin, Texas. and is registered before the US Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the Virginia Bar Association. Before opening his own office in Austin, Texas, Gene worked at a top #5 ranked patent law firm in the United States. He brings knowledge and experience from working at a top tier law firm to the Austin, Texas start-up community. He has provided intellectual property assistance as a patent attorney for a wide range of clients, from small start-up companies to large corporations. The following is a partial...
Christopher Lawrence Graff
(512) 418-9944 7718 Wood Hollow Dr
IP and Business
Eva C. Ramos
IP, Business and Insurance Defense
Joseph Uradnik
(512) 322-2562 1500 San Jacinto Center
IP, Antitrust, Appeals and Employment
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Sam Haddad
(512) 478-0100 1501 West Avenue
IP, Business, Communications and Employment
Adam Vincent Floyd
(512) 495-8648 2801 Via Fortuna
Mr. Robert Adalbert McLauchlan III
(512) 339-4100 3811 Bee Caves Road
Austin, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer
(512) 651-3930 9442 N Capital of TX Hwy
Arboretum Plaza One STE 500-181
IP, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Real Estate
Russell D. Hunt
IP, Animal, Business and Criminal Defense
Kevin Mark Jones
Cypress, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 14 years experience
(832) 675-9680 15119 By the Lake Way
Kevin M. Jones & Associates is a general practice law firm focused on the needs of small businesses and the individuals who run them. We are highly experienced in the specialized area of Intellectual Property concerns as well as contract negotiation and drafting. We aid and guide our clients in securing Intellectual Property (IP) protection, forming business structures to leverage their IP, brand their business and product lines, and handling contracts for sales, marketing and manufacturing of their products.
David Barranco
San Antonio, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer with 21 years experience
8715 Starcrest Dr
IP, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Entertainment & Sports
Internationally-acclaimed author and litigator David Barranco graduated with honors from the University of Texas’ Plan II Program in 1994 and from UT’s Law School in 1997. Based in Alamo Heights, Texas, David helps artists, writers, investors, designers, and other innovators reap (and retain) the financial rewards from their original creations. In 1993, David was named UT’s most outstanding liberal arts student; in 1997 he won the Willie Morris Award, which recognizes a superlative “call to intellectualism, vigorous defense of civil liberties, and overall pursuit of excellence.” After covering Microsoft's antitrust trial for the London Sunday Times, Mr. Barranco began his...
A. Jabbar Fahim
San Antonio, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 6 years experience
300 Convent St.
A 2012 alum of St. Mary’s University School of Law, I practice and provide counseling in the areas of intellectual property and commercial litigation. I am a registered patent attorney, allowing me to prosecute patents and trademarks and represent clients in administrative proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Fluent in Spanish, I am able to provide bilingual services for his clients. Prior to attending law school, I graduated with a B.S. in biochemistry, with honors, from St. Mary’s University and then enrolled in the UTMB School of Medicine in Galveston, TX. I am a member of...
John Martin Taboada
San Antonio, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 15 years experience
(210) 920-5297 1925 N New Braunfels Ave
Free ConsultationIP, Communications, Patents and Trademarks
Dr. John M. Taboada offers a unique perspective and approach to the protection of intellectual property. For over a decade, he has run a high tech company focused on creating unique high tech instruments and solutions for a variety of industries, including health and military related applications. He co-founded Taboada Research Instruments, Inc. in 1999 while finishing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Early in the company’s life, Dr. Taboada realized the importance of intellectual property and the special need for its protection. After completing his Ph.D. in 2000, he...
David Hunter
Sugar Land, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 30 years experience
(281) 265-1515 1600 Hwy 6, Suite 450
IP, Business, Criminal Defense and Stockbroker Fraud
Former Fort Bend Judge
Michael Allan Lee
Houston, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer with 29 years experience
(713) 489-4309 5707 Havenwoods Dr
Free ConsultationIP, Antitrust, Business and Consumer
I litigate, arbitrate, and try multimillion dollar disputes for individuals and businesses located in the United States and abroad. I have experience in a wide array of legal and procedural areas including: pharmaceutical, product liability, and environmental torts; multidistrict and class action cases involving antitrust, securities, and consumer fraud violations; individual personal injury and wrongful death claims arising from general negligence, medical malpractice, toxic exposures, defective products (drugs, autos, medical devices); lawsuits on behalf of businesses, partnerships, and franchisees for damages related to fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and statutory claims; and claims for ...
Nathan Roach
San Antonio, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer
(210) 820-0833 112 E. Pecan St., Suite 1100
Geekdom, Office E
Free ConsultationIP, Communications and Trademarks
Kirt O'Neill
San Antonio, TX Intellectual Property Attorney
(210) 281-7106 300 Convent Street Suite 1500
University of Texas School of Law
Mr. O'Neill's practice focuses on patent and trademark litigation, as well as other intellectual property disputes. He also emphasizes licensing general counseling in all areas of intellectual property.
Adam Jason Sabrin
(770) 366-3780 3030 Nacogdoches, Ste. 222
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Consumer and Criminal Defense
I have been serving San Antonio and the State of Texas since 2009 as a General Practitioner, taking on issues ranging from Contracts to Criminal Defense to Immigration. Focusing on the client, I provide a broad base of legal knowledge to a variety of issues with the understanding that helping the client is the ultimate goal of legal representation.
Starting out handling criminal defense and family law with my partner, Caitlin Howell, I have developed experience in a variety of legal matters. While providing top-to-bottom business representation is a favorite area or practice, including issues of formation, agreements, IP, and...
Louis Henry Iselin
12603 Mile Dr
James M. (Duke) Johnston, Jr.
Waco, TX Intellectual Property Attorney with 26 years experience
(254) 300-8769 7215 Bosque Blvd.
Free ConsultationIP, Business, Real Estate and Trademarks
Justin Allen Coquat LL.M.
(210) 745-0144 21970 Bulverde Rd.
IP, Business and Real Estate
Victor Hernando Segura
Katy, TX Intellectual Property Lawyer with 22 years experience
(832) 790-0773 5554 South Peek Rd
Prior to starting his law firm, Victor provided trusted IP counsel to large multinational corporations, serving as in-house Chief Patent Counsel for National Oilwell Varco in Houston, as in-house IP Counsel for Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas, and as an associate with the Arnold, White & Durkee law firm in Houston. Before practicing law, Victor served as a helicopter crew chief in the U.S. Marine Corps, attaining an Honorable Discharge following his tour of duty.
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Gov. Pat McCrory calls lawmakers back for veto session on Sept. 3
Following constitutional dictate, GOP Gov. Pat McCrory has called the N.C. General Assembly back to Raleigh for a reconvened session on Sept. 3. The General Assembly will consider McCrory’s vetoes of two bills – one that would require drug testing for Work First applicants, and one that would…
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Lunch with Designer and Author Jeffrey Banks
by Diane Clehane
I have been looking forward to this week’s lunch ever since Jeffrey Banks invited me some weeks ago. I’ve chatted with him a few times when I’d seen him lunching at Michael’s with one of our many mutual friends, and we’ve gotten to ‘know’ each other on Facebook. But I’d never had the opportunity to sit down at length with the urbane and dapper designer who has had a very successful second career as an author – until today.
I was eager to talk to him about so many topics. We covered it all, from his six books to his charming collection of tartan home furnishings for HSN to his recollections of working with his mentor Ralph Lauren.
We started with his latest masterpieces: the book, Norell: Master of American Fashion and the exhibition, Norell: Dean of American Fashion which both debuted earlier this year. Jeffrey wrote the book with Doria de La Chapelle and co-curated the exhibition with Patricia Mears. “When I do a book, I always want it to be an event,” he told me.
“Knowing how museums work, I didn’t think there was a chance in hell they’d do another show,” said Jeffrey. “There had been one [about Norell] in the nineties with pieces from one woman’s wardrobe, and I remembered that I didn’t think it was that great, so I asked them if they’d consider revisiting [Norell]. It was Valerie Steele’s first show, and she didn’t think it was all that great either.”
Much to Jeffrey’s great surprise they gave him “carte blanche” deferring to his exhaustive knowledge of designers and design history. He discovered a bridal designer named Kenneth Pool had a collection of over one hundred vintage pieces from Norell, many of which made it into the exhibition. “I started with 250 pieces and was told [by Mears] that might be too much. One of the first things you learn as a designer is how to edit.” In the end, Jeffrey selected 100 beautiful garments for the exhibition.
For the uninitiated, Norman Norell is one of the most celebrated fashion designers of the mid-twentieth century and is best remembered for his sleek, sophisticated and timeless approach to American glamour. I saw the exhibition in April just before it closed with my 13-year-old daughter, Madeline, who marveled at the idea that although the garments we were looking at had been made decades ago, they could have easily be worn today. “I want that green coat, Mommy!” she told me as she took her iPhone around and photographed her favorite items.
Jeffrey smiled when I told him about our visit. “Exactly,” he said. “Although [the cost of] a wool jersey dress was between $300 and $500 — stratospheric in 1960 — a woman could amortize its cost over ten years and it would still look great.” He marveled at the discovery of six to twelve-inch hems on garments. “Norell thought women should be able to shorten or lengthen hemlines at will over time. These clothes were made over fifty years ago. As a designer, this wowed me.”
As much as Jeffrey was awed by Norell’s timeless and enduring appeal and unique artistry, I was equally taken by Jeffrey’s desire to see the designer, who passed away in 1972, get his due. The exhibition was the direct result of Jeffrey’s latest book, which he began writing two years ago.
“I was shocked that no one else had done a book and I became obsessed,” he told me. “I had to do this.” Jeffrey had been collecting images of Norell’s work for almost 20 years. “I wanted to do this while the people who knew him were still here. I told Bill Cunningham about it and while I was writing it, but before I could talk to him, Bill died.”
Jeffrey’s memories of Norell that he shared with me were evocative of a very different time in New York. In October 1972, when he was working for Ralph Lauren, as his second assistant, he implored the designer to get tickets to a retrospective on the designer at the Met. “He asked me, ‘Who is this Norell guy?’” Jeffrey must have been convincing. “He listened to me, and we went. In the end, [the auditorium] went black and there were these lights like glittering stars.
Then 60 girls in his sequined mermaid gowns came out. Then the president of Parson’s came out and said Mr. Norell had had a stroke the night before,” said Jeffrey still moved by the memory. “He didn’t get to see any of that show, and he didn’t come out of the hospital again. He died ten days later.”
I’d known about Jeffrey’s connection to Ralph Lauren, but hadn’t realized it started when he was so young. Jeffrey first met Ralph when he was 16 and working at Britches, a menswear store in Georgetown when the designer came down from New York for a personal appearance at the store. “I’d had perfect attendance [in high school] up until that point, but I told my mother I was going to be absent and she was going to write me a note. And she did.”
Young Jeffrey made quite an impression. “He told me he might have a job for me [in New York] when I graduated [high school].” A year later, after convincing his mother, Eleanor, who wanted to accompany him to the interview, to wait for him at Bonwit Teller, Jeffrey met with Ralph (and wound up chatting with Bobby Short who was at the designer’s offices for a tuxedo fitting) and thus started his career in fashion in New York.
I assumed that Jeffrey’s impeccably tailored blazer was a Ralph Lauren design, but it turns out there was another fascinating story behind its origins. “It’s Brooks Brothers,” he said reaching for his iPhone. Jeffrey had selected an advertising image of the same jacket and repp-striped tie from Brooks Brothers’ archives for the cover of his book, Preppy: Cultivating Ivy Style which was published in 2011 by Rizzoli. “It was from the 1940s, and they remade the jacket and the tie [to coincide with the book launch]. It sold out.” When he showed me the cover, I remember loving it when I saw it on the main floor of Brooks Brothers’ Madison Avenue store.
His other books, especially his first with Rizzoli, Tartan: Romancing the Plaid, which came out in 2007, all have fascinating stories and deep personal connections behind them. Having seen Jeffrey’s adorable plaid home and pet accessories on HSN, I wanted to know where his obsession started. And, it turns out, so did he.
“Everything [written] was always about finding ‘your clan.’ I talked to theologians, architects, and psychiatrists to get a read on why people are obsessed,” he said. The verdict: the familial and familiar aspect of the plaids appeal to people especially in “chaotic times.” Said Jeffrey: “Bill Cunningham had a piece in the Times on tartan hats and scarves, and Tiffany had done tartan windows after 9-11. I knew then I had to do a book.”
Speaking of obsessions, I asked Jeffrey to weigh in on mine – the British royal family. “Meghan is terrific,” he told me. “When she first appeared with Prince Harry at the Invictus Games in jeans and a white shirt with her fresh-scrubbed face. Who wouldn’t fall in love with her?”
“She’s such a boon for the royal family. You can tell by the way the British public has embraced her. If you go to Great Britain, you’ll see that it’s such a melting pot. As a mixed-race woman, she represents the face of the people who live in Britain.”
And what does he hope her wedding dress will look like? “I hope it will reflect her style and be a little more body conscious [than other royal wedding dresses]. I hope it’s not over the top, though.”
I told Jeffrey that I was surprised Meghan had chosen that elaborate Ralph & Russo gown with its eye-popping price tag [$75,000] for her official engagement portrait. “I love it,” he said. “It was an unusual choice, but I feel like when it comes to royals, the price shouldn’t be a concern. She was making her statement with that dress.” I’ll say.
As we sipped our coffee, I had to ask Jeffrey for his take on the Met Gala. He told me he last went attended the event in 1996, the same year Princess Diana accompanied by her friend and former Harper’s Bazaar editor Liz Tilberis to the event. The late princess famously wore a navy silk slip dress from John Galliano’s debut couture collection as the Creative Director of Dior.
The company was being honored that year. “And we all stole the napkins that were embroidered with lily of the valley, the company’s signature,” said Jeffrey, laughing at the memory.
It’s been all downhill since then for the event, said Jeffrey who recalled getting a panicked phone call from his friend Terron Schaefer, who was then vice president of marketing at Saks Fifth Avenue, in the days leading up to the gala some years ago. “He told me he’d convinced Saks to buy a table, but Anna Wintour wasn’t letting [Saks’ president] Steve Sadove bring his wife. I told him to call Vogue and tell them that the store would pull all their advertising. That’s how she got to go.”
He continued, “Not only do you have to be invited [to buy a table] but Anna Wintour tells you who you can invite and which celebrities you should invite. I know it’s supposed to raise $12 million for the Costume Institute, but I can’t believe a lot of it doesn’t get funneled to the rest of the Met. It’s become more about the celebrities than the fashion or the designers. It’s a three-ring circus. I don’t miss it.”
And once again, as he’d done several times during our two-hour lunch, he was able to transport me back to a far more exciting time in the city. “When I was a student at Parson’s I bought a ticket to the after-party. It was $150 or $200, and you saw Nan Kempner, Diana Vreeland, and Jackie Kennedy. It was like the US Open; you got to see all the people you dreamed about seeing,” he said. “They would be coming out of the dinner as we were going into the after-party and you got to see the exhibition. It was magical.”
Michaels through a window
Seen & Heard Around the Room
Hudson News’ James Cohen holding court on Table One … Andrew Stein on Two …Herb Allen on Three … The Today show’s Kathie Lee Gifford and contributor Jill Martin on Four. KLG and I arrived at the front door very same moment this afternoon. She, a vision in black and white, stepped out of her car and sailed in looking flawless. I came loaded down with two bags — the tell-tale sign of a commuter — and wearing my Nikes. Yes, I know, my life is so glamorous.
Tom Florio and, so we’re told, his father on Table Six …Sharon Bush (mother of Lauren Bush Lauren) and Anne Hearst took over Six for the second seating … New York Social Diary’s David Patrick Columbia at his regular perch on Table Eight … Friends and fellow scribes Roger Friedman and Jill Brooke on Nine … Tina Brown and Jolie Hunt on Eleven … Simon & Schuster’s Alice Mayhew on Fourteen… Long time no see! Adam Platzner, who was lunching on Fifteen, stopped by my table to tell me he’s co-founded a “new media” company, Zig Media, and former Vanity Fair EIC Graydon Carter is one of his investors. Sounds intriguing. Stay tuned!
PR priestess Susan Blond on Sixteen … LAK PR CEO Lisa Linden and colleague Hannah Arnold on Seventeen … Marc Rosenthal and Marshall Cohen on Eighteen … Joel Silverman and Patricia Duff on Twenty … Peter Price on Twenty-one … Attorney Bob Barnett, who was kind enough to stop by my table to say hello, on Twenty-three … Tom Goodman on Twenty-five … Kira Semler and Vi Huse toasting today’s lovely spring weather with a champagne lunch at the bar. Cheers!
I won’t be lunching at Michael’s next week because I’ll be getting ready for the royal wedding and all the attendant hoopla that comes with it. I’ll be covering every minute for Best Life and MSN. Instead of serving up a lunch report next Wednesday, I’ll have an exclusive editorial on the whole shebang instead.
See you back at Michael’s in two weeks!
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Diane Clehane
Diane Clehane is a leading authority on celebrity and royalty who has written for Vanity Fair, People, and many other national outlets. She is a New York Times best-selling author of five books, including Diana: The Secrets of Her Style and Imagining Diana.
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Hey, Hey, Heyman!
Hello all! Thought I would lead off this week with a little heads up about a new album from one of the best artists in all of power-pop and maybe music as a whole itself. Not only that, but a hell of a nice guy to boot. I recently had a chance to do an interview with Mr. Heyman and it was very fun talking about music with him. Not just his own, either, but his obscure desert-island faves as well.
Check out the review of his new album below and please pick his new disc up and give it a chance. Some of the best power pop around, in my humble opinion.
Anyways, here goes:
Richard X. Heyman – Actual Sighs
Turn-Up Records
A criminally overlooked melodic pop/rock auteur who usually only gains notice from the power pop underground, Heyman has had a much longer career than his cultish but impeccable reputation (creator of 5 of the greatest power pop CDs ever made, in my opinion) would suggest, a fact that comes into play in regards to this, Heyman’s latest CD release.
I’d like to say this is a new CD, and in a sense it is, but with a very interesting twist: for this CD Heyman has decided to resurrect his first 6-song EP Actual Size from 1986 and reissue it along with another fourteen songs recorded at the same time but unreleased until now. And, lest one think this is merely the twentieth anniversary celebration of that first EP, it is also in some ways a near 40 year anniversary celebration of his first musical forays.
A much sought-after drummer since his early teens in the mid-’60’s, Heyman began his career by playing for some of the hottest bands on the East Coast during that exciting decade (and beyond). Heyman also gained a wealth of valuable musical experience by backing up many musical legends as part of one of the most well-known backup bands on the East Coast. A CD comprised of stories about Heyman’s exploits with legendary musical figures would be a great buy at any price all on its’ own and maybe he will pursue that avenue sometime down the road. Heyman’s book “Boom Harangue” has some of these types of stories in it, but not enough for my taste. Time to write “Generation X. Heyman” as far as I am concerned. (Forward all royalites for the book title to my attorney, Richard!)
That he has managed to master a plethora of instruments in the intervening years and become a home-recording genius only adds to the immense musical shadow he manages to cast. By the late 70’s Heyman was plying his speedily improving guitar and songwriting technique in bands with fellow future stars like Tommy Keene. That it took almost another ten years for his first EP Actual Sighs shows Heyman’s devotion to his craft and not wanting any sub-par material to leak out.
Mixed back in the day by Ed Stasium, this EP-turned-epic-album has a cohesiveness which is more than just semi-surprising. Sure, all the songs were recorded at the same time so you expect a modicum of similar subject matter and musical ability, but all the cuts retain a brilliant freshness and a thematic parity that turns the album into more than just a cut-and-dried reissue project. It boggles my mind how undated these songs sound and how much they sound like some of the lo-fi pop that is all the rage today. All recorded in Heyman’s home studio, his living room. (And also the inspiration for another of Heyman’s great albums, titled ahem…..Living Room!)
I tried listening to the album before reading the liner notes just to test myself to see if I could pick out what was on the original release and what was left off. To my surprise, I couldn’t do it. I was sure I would be able to pick the wheat from the chaff but there is no chaff! What Heyman could have done (which would have rare and novel) would have been to let people listen to all the songs and compile six of their choosing for their own Actual Sighs EP. Though it would be criminal not to have all the songs, it would have more than illustrated the point that there is no filler on this album. Why he left any of these songs off of the orignal release is a mystery known only to Heyman, but thankfully he has corrected it and let these great tracks out into the sun after all these years.
Anyone into melodic pop on a par with Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren and Emitt Rhodes will love this CD. Filled with sing-along melodies and hooks that burrow into your head like worms, this CD will no doubt become the CD you pop in your car stereo over the summer when you’re driving around looking cool. In fact, if I were to pick the first CD I’ve heard this year that could be classified as a great summer CD, this would be it. Pick it up and see for yourself.
Author Scott HomewoodPosted on May 8, 2007 Categories Emmitt Rhodes, Music Nerd, paul mccartney, Richard X. Heyman, Todd RungrenLeave a comment on Hey, Hey, Heyman!
Hoehn-ing In On Some Great Pop
I am back yet again to write about the best music ever created, if I do say so myself….and I do! I wrote this review about a recent reissue of forgotten Memphis power-popper Tommy Hoehn’s best album. With a new album by Paul McCartney not too far away thanks to a label owned by the very same people who help get me awake in the morning, I figured it was a perfect time to write about one of Sir Paul’s best students. So, here t’is:
Tommy Hoehn – Losing You To Sleep
Air Mail Records
Memphis has always reminded me a lot of New Orleans. Not only are both world-class cities with their own rich histories of influencing almost every aspect of the world’s culture from cuisine to art, but they both have a similar way of closely guarding their own, almost to a fault. Take, for example, New Orleans: there are stars from New Orleans that are worshipped like kings but are unknown, or long-forgotten, in almost every other place in the world. There are also plenty of other musicians who are virtual prisoners – so addicted to the way of life they are used to that they cannot succeed anywhere else no matter how hard they try because they simply do not, or cannot, fit in with the rest of the world and end up living in obscurity, despite their abundance of talent.
It is the same way in Memphis.
Though filled to the brim with people with more musical talent than they have a right to possess, there are also tons of the musically walking wounded – artists who should have, could have, had-it-but-lost-it, close-but-no-cigar careers – who just couldn’t conquer the hold (or curse) Memphis has on them.
Probably the biggest rock band from Memphis who should have made it but didn’t is the band Big Star featuring Chris Bell and Alex Chilton (formerly of hit band The Box Tops who had a monster song called The Letter). Influential to a host of ’80’s rockers but whose own albums sold hardly anything, the band remained a footnote in the history of rock until bands like the Replacements started namechecking them and covering their songs. Following up not far behind that legendary band in the Memphis obscurity sweepstakes is Tommy Hoehn, who has himself sang backup with Big Star (on Sisters/Lovers), and had been a vital part of the mid-70’s Memphis pop scene.
A master at McCartney-esque pop filtered through a Southern point of view, Hoehn was poised to break through big time in the mid-70’s when he was signed to London Records after the label caught wind of his first album, the enigmatic, self-released Space Break. Soon, he was hustled to New York City and given free reign to record his melodic but quirky love songs. The result was Losing You To Sleep, a weird little pop record that has a ton of Beatles and Big Star influences right down to it’s production. In this Air Mail Records version (a Japanese import) it is also paired with the EP that followed, I Do Love The Light, which is also an intriguing example of mid-70’s pop. Anyone checking out these albums and looking for the huge hooks of the Raspberries or Badfinger will come off a little confused as Hoehn’s hooks and clever wordplay sneak up on you only after repeated listening. But, when you do put the time in, you will be rewarded with the benefits of one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated pop records of all time.
Encouragingly, Hoehn is still recording today, often recently as a duo with fellow Memphis pop also-ran Van Duren who has also seen a career resurgence with an all-new solo album and reissues of his own older, overlooked Memphis masterpieces.
For his part, Hoehn deftly continues to make masterful pop and is a definite survivor who should never be counted out. Even though the classless inbreds who run radio might never notice him, I often hear his best work played on some cool satellite radio shows, webcasts, and Pandora. A truly cagey singer or band could take any one of the smartly-written tunes on this reissue (and any of his other albums) and probably get the hit record Hoehn deserved.
Anyone interested in McCartney’s ’70’s work and Todd Rundgren will find plenty to like on this wonderful reissue as the songs are all top notch with plenty of great performances. Killer Memphis pop, in a nutshell.
So, there you have it. There is a lot more to the story and maybe I’ll hit you with some additional info in the future (in the meantime, find the two albums Hoehn and Duren have done as a team, Blue Orange being the best of those) but for now, check out as much of the work as you can of the names I’ve dropped and I am sure they will provide you with many hours of fantastic music.
Author Scott HomewoodPosted on May 2, 2007 Categories Alex Chilton, big star, Box Tops, Music Nerd, paul mccartney, Tommy Hoehn, Van Duren3 Comments on Hoehn-ing In On Some Great Pop
SCAFFOLD “Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall 1968” CD (el/ Cherry Red)
Review by P. Edwin Letcher
SCAFFOLD “Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall 1968” CD (el/ Cherry Red)… It was a swinging time for music in England in the ’60s. It was also a pretty cool era for comedy. Scaffold was a comedy trio that mixed a smattering of music with a whole bunch of funny bits. Paul McCartney’s brother Mike was in the group and that’s probably why Scaffold received a bit more notice than a lot of other comedy acts of their day. The liner notes mention the group being forever remembered for a novelty singalong called “Lily the Pink.” Unfortunately, that piece wasn’t part of the set they performed here. There is a jolly touch of whimsy in one of the rare musical accompaniment numbers, “Ten Whiskey Bottles,” in which the singer gets progressively smashed while guzzling hootch and progressively screws up the lyrics. While some of this is very funny, it requires an awful lot of undivided attention to get through the heavily accented banter. Fans of Monty Python, with the requisite patience to sit still for an hour in an otherwise quiet room and just listen, will be rewarded with some classic irreverent British humor.
Author kimPosted on September 21, 2006 Categories comedy, Monty Python, P. Edwin Letcher, paul mccartneyLeave a comment on SCAFFOLD “Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall 1968” CD (el/ Cherry Red)
The Return of Merseybeat
Perhaps it was the most untimely demise of original dreamer Freddie Garrity. But did I really neglect to mention when last we took the virtual Ferry cross the Mersey that none other than Frank Lee Sprague – yes, he the still-taller half of those supremely rooty-rockin’ Sprague Brothers (not to mention an authentic cousin of The Man Who Invented Sixties Music Himself, I kid you not!!) — has been very busy indeed “on the side,” helping keep the meaty, big and bouncy spirit of the M-Beat alive and very thriving here in Century 21?
I hardly would’ve believed it possible myself …UNTIL, that is, I heard for my own a deceptively, disarmingly charmful little disc called Cavern, and on it some of the best, most magnificently melodic p-o-p this side of your fave rave Searchers EP of yore.
And also, here I felt I was the only lad left on the block who thought a certain P. McCartney wrote many of his best songs EVER for….. Peter and Gordon. But Frank Lee too has obviously been listening lots to “I Don’t Want To See You Again,” as well as to some of the more rough ‘n’ tumblest circa-’62 cellar sounds this side of The Big Three. When not channeling a certain Jane Asher as muse, that is.
Alas, the dank, sweaty, musty, subterraneanly homesick aura of those magic long-gone days and particularly nights beat again right there deep down in Frank Lee Sprague’s very own Cavern.
Meet you there soon?
Author garypiggoldPosted on May 28, 2006 Categories Buddy Holly, catchy, Frank Lee Sprague, Gary Pig Gold, paul mccartney, Peter and Gordon, pop, Sprague BrothersLeave a comment on The Return of Merseybeat
“the perfect book for the advanced record collector” (Ear Candy)
One of the great things about collecting rock and roll music is that there is always an undiscovered gem lacking from your collection just waiting for you to discover. This year (2005) celebrates the 30th year that I have been such a music junkie. LOST IN THE GROOVES is a book that celebrates albums that fell through the cracks in the “classics” description. Included are albums that: might have sold well initially but are now pretty much ignored (“McCartney II”), works by artists that were not taken seriously at the time (Herman’s Hermits, etc), obscure artists of merit, and generally lost gems that demand reevaluation.
I had quite a few of the discs mentioned such as: “Muswell Hillbillies”, “No Dice”, “Klaatu”, “L.A. (Light Album)”, “McCartney II”, “Subterranean Jungle”, “Face Dances”, “Pacific Ocean Blue”, “Hillbilly Deluxe” – just to name a few. But, I found many more that I now need to hear! I only take issue with one entry: Pink Floyds’ “The Final Cut”. I bought it when it first came out and 20+ years later still say its crap!
I’ve already given LOST IN THE GROOVES several readings and, armed with a yellow highlighter, have made note of which albums I need to add to my collection. This is the perfect book for the advanced record collector/music fan! (Ronnie, Ear Candy)
Author kimPosted on March 9, 2006 Categories beach boys, Book Reviews, dennis wilson, ear candy, kinks, paul mccartney, pink floyd, ramones, the who4 Comments on “the perfect book for the advanced record collector” (Ear Candy)
“championing the underdog even when he turns out to be Paul McCartney” (Jambands)
… A month or two after I finished Kill Your Idols, I discovered another recent book, Lost in the Grooves (edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay), almost by accident. If upending the rock canon is a worthy goal, this book has the approach I like: positive, off center, championing the underdog even when he turns out to be Paul McCartney. The book is a series of capsule reviews of uncelebrated favorites, and although the pick with which I agree most, Spirit’s Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, isn’t all that obscure (it went gold, after all), more than half of the book is stuff I’ve never heard of at all. There’s a bit of the anti-canon thing – Jim O’Rourke writes that he’d rather hear about Sparks’s Propaganda than Pet Sounds, but, to balance that out, I can’t help being amused by O’Rourke’s comment that "Propaganda is the standard to which I hold myself and everything else." (Imaginary dialogue: "Well, Jeff, I guess A Ghost Is Born is shaping up pretty well. But it’s no Propaganda.")… (Patrick Buzby, Jambands.com)
Author kimPosted on March 9, 2006 Categories Book Reviews (cont.), dr. sardonicus, jambands, jim o'rourke, kill your idols, paul mccartney, sparks, spirit, wilco3 Comments on “championing the underdog even when he turns out to be Paul McCartney” (Jambands)
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By Danielle Shepherd, Editorial Controller
It is often said of the British suffrage movement that it was a cause fought by the middle classes, for the middle-classes – a narrative that was further cemented by the 1918 Representation of the People Act’s failure to enfranchise those women who did not own property. In the vein of those attempting to highlight the contribution of working women, and while we’re in the centenary year of the passing of such important, if to modern eyes flawed, legislation, I feel it is prudent to shed light on one working-class Manchester-based woman in particular. The information and quotes below are taken from the writer’s autobiography, The Hard Way Up (Faber and Faber, 1968).
Suffragette Hannah Mitchell (née Webster) was born into a poor family on a Derbyshire farm in 1872. Upon running away from home at the age of 14, to escape from her mother’s cruelty and in search of a better life, Hannah moved to Bolton where she became a dressmaker. Once free of the domestic chores of her childhood, she highly valued the one day off a week she had on a Sunday when she would work hard to improve her reading and handwriting. Like most workers though she abhorred the long hours that shop work brought. She was introduced into politics through working-class demands for shorter working hours, attending various meetings agitating for reform and becoming an avid reader of the socialist organ The Clarion. It was through her early involvement with the Socialist movement that she met her future husband, Gibbon Mitchell, and moved with him to Ashton-under-Lyne. Hannah found, upon marriage, that not only did she have to give up her job, but that she also lost the leisure time she had previously enjoyed to domestic drudgery once again: ‘I soon found that a lot of the Socialist talk about freedom was only talk and these Socialist young men expected Sunday dinners and huge teas with home-made cakes, potted meat and pies, exactly like their reactionary fellows’. In addition to her independence being lost, the couple were financially worse off upon marriage, particularly once they had a child. Hannah was forced to take in extra needlework at home to make ends meet, and fit this around the childcare and housework that was solely left to her to complete.
Through her attendance and involvement at local Independent Labour Party (ILP) meetings, she gradually became a well-known speaker, and became acquainted with those who would later become major figures in the suffrage movement such as Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. She joined the newly formed Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and thus became a Suffragette during their early campaigning years, even serving a minor stint in Strangeways for interrupting a political meeting. Tales such as these are commonplace among Suffragette memoirs that the reader can easily become desensitised to the sacrifices made by the militant activists. However, Hannah’s blunt description of the heckling and physical attacks she faced during her attempts to campaign, coupled with her admittance that ‘no cause can be won between dinner and tea, and most of us who were married had to work with one hand tied behind us’, provides a very stark picture of the difficulties working-class women in particular faced in the fight to gain their right to vote. Even the description she gives of her husband paying her prison fine against her wishes so that she could continue her domestic duties at home is a sad reminder that not all of those who took part in the suffrage movement had the luxury of time, money or support at home on their side.
Hannah’s membership with the WSPU ended after she suffered a nervous breakdown due to overwork and malnourishment. Unable to carry out the acts of militancy that were becoming ever more intense, and upset by the lack of support offered to her from the Pankhurst family during her illness, she instead joined the Women’s Freedom League (WFL), an organisation who had splintered from the main WSPU group over the use of violence within the movement. Hannah continued to campaign, albeit in less dramatic ways, up until the First World War, at the end of which the Representation of the People Act was passed. She continued her work in politics throughout the 1920s and 1930s, firstly being elected to Manchester City Council in 1924 and serving for four terms until 1935, and secondly serving as a magistrate from 1926 until 1937. Her experience of running a household on such a small income proved useful in these years as she provided much relief and a sympathetic ear to the poor, defending their needs in small but important ways. For example, she was instrumental in ensuring a public wash-house was built in her ward to help the local housewives have access to hot water and hot-air dryers, reducing the amount of time they would spend at home doing the laundry and with much better results.
It is in these personal victories that she gained for the women of Manchester that you can really feel her pride emanating from the pages of her autobiography and why the achievements of ordinary working women should not be overlooked, no matter how small, as the struggle behind them is often felt the hardest. For all of her life she longed to be a writer, and achieved her dream posthumously when The Hard Way Up was published with help from her grandson, Geoffrey Mitchell, after he discovered the manuscript upon her death. This text is an invaluable source for social historians, giving insight into a way of working-class life in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries largely unrecorded in written form. Lack of other such memoirs is largely down to the scanty education that those from poorer families received in the Victorian era, even after the 1870 Education Act, and education is certainly a strong, recurring theme throughout Hannah’s life (and book). Her annoyance at being prevented from attending school due to domestic duties, and her disdain at being ‘forced to darn my brothers’ stockings while they read or played cards’, are the driving forces behind her future political activities and feminist ideology.
Despite the vote being won for (almost all) women 100 years ago, the inequalities faced by Hannah Mitchell at home and in public are still depressingly similar to the struggles faced by women today. The Suffragettes may now be confined to history, but the attitudes that drove them to adopt their motto ‘Deeds Not Words’ still prevail, making The Hard Way Up a surprisingly modern read. Hopefully the work carried out by Hannah and her contemporaries have made the path to equality easier for twenty-first-century women to tread, with the result that some other ‘ordinary’ woman’s autobiography published in the next century will talk of further improvements still.
Photograph via Manchester Evening News.
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Mid-century modern is a style that’s timeless and sleek. Heavily influenced by the design concept that ‘form follows function’ mid-century homes and furniture are often characterised by their practical designs and beautiful craftsmanship.
Popping up as a new trend shortly after World War II and remaining popular until the 1960s, mid-century style and furniture is characterised clean lines, gentle organic curves, inspired by the natural world and simple designs that are functional for the home. It inspired a love for different materials and designers that are idolized even today, some of the most famous mid-century furniture designers are Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Arne Jacobsen.
While there is some disagreement about when the period started, it roughly lasted from the mid-1930s to mid-1960s. The timeless quality of the style, however, continues to appeal to today's homeowners.
Background and Influences
This style grew in America based on earlier styles such as Bauhaus which began in Germany, and the International style, which grew from the Bauhaus style in America. Cataclysmic world events such as wars uproot and destroy, but they can also create opportunities sometimes. This is what happened during and after the World War II when many Bauhaus architects and designers migrated to America as a result of changes in Germany.
As with war, changing economies and technological advances also affect how we live, and what we want and need. After the Second World War, there was an expansion of cities and suburbanization in the U.S. Along with that emerged a demand for modern furnishings for the new, quickly built modern homes, such as the Eichler homes built in California by Josef Eichler. Technological advances led to production and development of a range of new materials making it possible to explore new textures and effects, colors and even new form.
Distinguishing Features The distinguishing features of this style consist of a classic, understated look, and clean lines with minimal fuss.
Functionality is important, as form follows function
Uncluttered and sleek lines with both organic and geometric forms
Minimal ornamentation
An exploration of different traditional as well as non-traditional materials
The juxtaposition of different, and sometimes contrasting materials
Colour and Materials New methods of construction and new materials such as plastic, dramatically influenced later Mid-Century Modern designers. Plastic was used for its own qualities rather than to imitate wooden furniture. There was liberal use of traditional material, such as wood, and non-traditional materials such as metal, glass, vinyl, plywood, Plexiglass and Lucite. A vast range of colour, including colours from neutral to bold, and graphic use of black and white.
Mid-Century Modern Designers There are several Mid-century Modern designers of note, and pieces designed by them have continued to inspire designers who came after them. Furniture pieces inspired by their designs, as well as copies are greatly sought after.
In America, Herman Miller became synonymous with “modern” furniture and worked with the likes of George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames. Knoll is another company known for its classic furniture mid-century modern pieces. Our top five designers of this period include George Nelson, Charles Eames and his wife Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard.
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The Montgomery County Archives acquires, organizes, preserves, and provides access to the records of Montgomery County, Alabama.
Montgomery County Archives, Courthouse Annex III, Montgomery, Alabama, 36104, (334)-832-7173
Collection2006.001 - The Emory Folmar Papers
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SeriesPhotographs and Other Images
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The Emory Folmar Papers
1977 - 1999 (Accumulation)
The Emory Folmar Papers consists of 236 cubic feet of records housed in 126 records boxes.
Emory Folmar
Born in Pike County, Alabama on June 3, 1930, Emory McCord Folmar graduated from Montgomery’s Sidney Lanier High School and served as a United States Army ranger during the Korean War. Shortly after his military service Folmar attended the University of Alabama and graduated with a business degree. Folmar entered politics in 1975 when he won a seat on the Montgomery City Council, later becoming council president. In 1977, Folmar became mayor of Montgomery when a scandal forced then Mayor James Robinson to resign. Folmar held the position of Mayor for twenty-two years, the longest consecutive tenure of any Montgomery mayor. Folmar was also at the vanguard of the state’s Republican Party, serving as its chairman. As a result of his involvement in the Republican Party, he received political appointments from both President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W Bush. In 1982 Folmar unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Alabama against incumbent George Wallace. Folmar took 40% of the vote, proving to be a formidable opponent for Wallace who sought his fourth term in office. Folmar finally relinquished his role as Mayor of Montgomery in 1999 when he lost to Democrat Bobby Bright. Emory Folmar died on November 11, 2011 at the age of 80.
The Montgomery County (Alabama) Historical Society (MCHS) donated the Emory Folmar Papers to the Montgomery County Archives (MCA) 2006 by signing a deed of gift on December 15, 2006. To complete the transfer to the MCA, Anita Folmar, the original donor of the papers to the MCHS, signed a deed of gift transferring the papers to the MCA on December 18, 2006.
This collection documents Emory Folmar’s twenty-two year tenure (1977-1999) as mayor of Montgomery, Alabama. While the collection includes personal materials, such as birthday cards and invitations to social functions in Montgomery, it primarily consists of materials documenting Folmar’s political career, including his work with the Montgomery police and fire departments, as well as his work within the Alabama Republican Party. Significant themes and subjects in the Folmar Papers include the development of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Montgomery Zoo, Folmar’s involvement with Maxwell Air Force Base, and his relationship with Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W Bush. Much of the collection concerns itself with records related to Folmar’s unsuccessful 1982 campaign for governor of Alabama. Additionally, a number of records relate to the social activities of Folmar’s wife Anita, including her involvement with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Montgomery Council on Aging, and firearm safety training courses. The Folmar Papers are largely textual and include memoranda, minutes and agendas, financial and legal material, clippings, publications, and related printed matter. Other formats in the collection include photographs and artifacts such as plaques, ephemera, and campaign paraphernalia.
The Montgomery County Archives’ mission statement notes that the MCA collects non-government records, as long as they pertain to the history of Montgomery County.
No further accruals are expected.
This collection is organized into three series:
Series I: Office Files
• Sub-series I: Over-sized newspaper clippings
The “Office Files” series dominates the Emory Folmar Papers collection, consisting of 121 of the 126 boxes in the collection. The series contains a wide assortment of topic matter, including everything from Folmar’s work as mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, to his run for governor of Alabama in 1982. Press clippings, correspondence, materials related to Folmar’s multiple mayoral re-election campaigns, records created in the course of the day-to-day functioning of the city, are among the records represented in this series. Because Folmar served as mayor of Montgomery for so long, 1977-1999, the “Office Files” series provides a fascinating glimpse into Montgomery’s political, social, and economic spheres over a twenty-two year period. The one sub-series of Series I, “Over-sized newspaper clippings” trace Folmar’s political career over time, as well as—like the office files—providing an engrossing look at political, economic, and social life in Montgomery.
Series II: Photographs and other images
• Sub-Series I: Scrapbooks
Because Emory Folmar served as mayor of Montgomery so long, the photographs in this collection provide a pictorial history of Montgomery over a twenty-two year period. The photographs in series II depict everything from city council meetings to programs at the Montgomery Zoo. In particular, the photographs show the extent to which the physical landscape of Montgomery has changed over time.
Series III: Ephemera
The “Ephemera” series contains records like political pins, resolutions, pamphlets, assorted publications, etc.
Collection is open for access with the exception of box 110, which is restricted due to privacy concerns. This box contains individuals’ medical information and social security numbers, as well as information related to police investigations. Researcher must demonstrate need to review materials in box to county archivist and probate court assistant chief clerk or chief clerk.
It is presumed corporate and individual copyrights have been retained by copyright owners. Copyright restrictions apply. Users of materials should seek necessary permissions from the copyright holders to comply with U.S. copyright laws.
The collection consist of newspapers, paper-based office files, and paper-based photographs.
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STS 5205: Main Themes in the History of Science (core course)
Instructor: Janet Abbate
Tuesdays 7:00–9:45pm, NVC Falls Church
Was there really such a thing as the Scientific Revolution? What are the historical links between science and religion, technology, or politics? How have the knowledge-producing practices we call “science” varied across cultures and time periods, and how have individuals established an identity as scientists in different social contexts? This seminar is designed to provide you with the basic outlines of the history of Western science and to introduce key STS theories, approaches, and resources for historical research. We will survey some of the main schools of thought about the development of Western science and how have they been challenged. We will discuss issues such as the nature (or nonexistence) of scientific revolutions, the meaning of objectivity, scientific practices and institutions, and the influence of gender and race on scientific thought. The course will begin with ancient and medieval Science, focus in depth on the Scientific Revolution, and continue through the twentieth century.
STS/NSEG/SPIA 5284: Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Security (elective; anchor course for the Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Science, Technology, and Policy)
Instructors: Sonja Schmid and Mark Pierson
Wednesdays 7:00–9:45pm, NVC Falls Church and Blacksburg (Zoom)
Nuclear energy is at a crossroads: on the one hand, control regimes to contain the spread of nuclear weapons are being refined, while there are still countries seeking to acquire these weapons. On the other hand, we see a revival of nuclear energy as a low-carbon source of energy in some parts of the world, and simultaneously decisions to phase out nuclear energy as not worth the risk of beyond-design accidents. More than ever, then, effective communication is needed between the communities involved: nuclear scientists and engineers, energy strategists, regulators, policy-makers, the nonproliferation community, and the general public. This course offers the next generation of nuclear engineers and science and technology policy scholars a solid introduction to the main features of our global nuclear nonproliferation regime. The seminar combines an overview of technical questions, historical developments, and policy challenges relating to nuclear energy and proliferation, using current case studies. Topics include origins of the nuclear nonproliferation regime, technical basics of the nuclear fuel cycle, international safeguards, and the threat of nuclear terrorism. Graduate students from all disciplines are welcome, particularly those from technical disciplines, STS, and international policy studies. There will be one instructor each in Blacksburg and in the National Capital Region.
STS 5024: Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (required)
Instructors: Sonja Schmid and Matthew Wisnioski
Thursdays, 7:00–9:45 pm, Blacksburg & NVC Falls Church (Zoom)
This seminar introduces graduate students to the field of STS and some of its major ideas and texts. We will discuss how STS differs from other fields and the advantages and limits of our unique interdisciplinary approach. Drawing on anthropological, historical, philosophical, and sociological methods, we will explore topics such as the foundations of scientific knowledge; science as a source of social power and authority; understanding technological systems; race, gender, and postcolonial perspectives; and public engagement with science and technology. You will become familiar with some of the major questions and theories that have been debated by STS scholars and learn how the focus of the field has changed over time. Weekly exercises in critical reading, written commentary, and discussion leading will help you learn how to think and communicate like an STS scholar.
STS 5106: Contemporary Issues in S&T (core course)
Dr. Barbara Allen, Tuesdays 7:00-9:45
This course is the second of two core courses that introduce students to the social studies of science and technology. While the first course focuses on the emergence and development of the social studies of science as a field, this course examines more contemporary theories and approaches to science and technology. Over the last few decades, scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS) have developed new theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing not only the transformative impacts of technoscience on society, but also how social arrangements fundamentally influence their development in the first place. Readings will include foundational texts relevant to contemporary issues in STS as well as more recent scholarship and topics. Students will come to understand from a variety of viewpoints how societies and technosciences interact. Prerequisites: STS 5105 or Intro to STS is strongly recommended.
STS 5305: Main Themes in the Philosophy of Modern Science and Technology (core class)
Dr. Jim Collier (via zoom), Mondays 7:00-9:45
What is the purpose of philosophy? What, specifically, is the purpose and place of the philosophy of science in Science and Technology Studies (STS)? Given the general shift in interest in STS to technology, technoscience, and micro- sociological and anthropological methods and research, how might being philosophically-minded cash out in scholarly practice? Our class will take up these metaphilosophical questions in examining how the philosophy of science and technology speaks to issues in STS. Initially using an historical approach, we will map the respective approaches in continental and analytic philosophy, examine the social turn in the philosophy of science through the 20th to the early 21st century, and perform a close comparative reading of five signature articles from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology. Our learning goal is to develop a refined philosophical perspective for work in STS.
STS 6564: Risk in Contemporary Culture
Dr. Sonja Schmid, Thursdays 7:00-9:45
This seminar provides an introduction to the phenomenon of risk from a sociological, historical, and cultural perspective. We will ask questions such as: What constitutes a risk and for whom? Who gets to decide what risks are worth taking? What constitutes credible information and what role do experts play? We will explore how ideas of safety, reliability, and probability shape our understanding of risk, and address the assumptions underlying and influencing the practices of risk assessment and regulation. We will focus on the role of communication, trust, and legitimacy in risk management and regulation, and how to facilitate stable, consensual decisions in contemporary societies.
STS 5014 - Science and the Public
Theoretical and practical aspects of the public's role in the development, application, and oversight of scientific and technological advances.
STS 5024 - Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
Intellectual and institutional history of the field. Key theories, methods, and domains of study. Relation among perspectives from contributing disciplines, and emerging interdisciplinary trends. Emphasis on both solid grounding through classic texts, and discussion of emergent research areas.
STS 5105 - Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Studies
Theoretical and methodological issues addressed in the interdisciplinary social study of contemporary science and technology. 5105: social studies of science; 5106: social studies of technology. I
Theoretical and methodological issues addressed in the interdisciplinary social study of contemporary science and technology. 5105: social studies of science; 5106: social studies of technology. II
STS 5205 - Main Themes in the History of Science and Technology
Methods and concepts in the history of science and technology. 5205: research methods, interpretive approaches, and contemporary issues in the history of science; 5206: research methods, interpretive approaches, and contemporary issues in the history of technology. I
Methods and concepts in the history of science and technology. 5205: research methods, interpretive approaches, and contemporary issues in the history of science; 5206: research methods, interpretive approaches, and contemporary issues in the history of technology. II
STS 5284 (NSEG 5284) (SPIA 5284) - Nuclear Nonproliferation, Safeguards, and Security
Technical essentials, policy analysis, theoretical perspectives of nuclear energy and nuclear nonprofileration. Fundamentals of the nuclear fuel cycle, management of international safeguards, threat of nuclear terrorism, and challenges for global nuclear industry. Pre: Graduate standing.
STS 5305 - Main Themes in the Philosophy of Modern Science and Technology
Problems, literature, and schools in the philosophy of science and technology. 5305: explanation and confirmation; 5306: theory change. I
Problems, literature, and schools in the philosophy of science and technology. 5305: explanation and confirmation; 5306: theory change. II
STS 5364 - Public Ecology
Examines policy developments and practices that move beyond the conceptual divisions and policy operations begun during the 1970s, which largely divided the more natural science- based environmental sciences from social science-based environmental based studies. Mixes the insights of life science, physical science, social science, applied humanities, and public policy into a cohesive conceptual and operational approach to environmental protection in the 21st century. Graduate standing.
STS 5424 - Topics in Science and Technology Studies
Variable topics in science and technology studies such as role of values in science and technology, risk assessment, and past and present relations of religion to science and technology. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. I
STS 5444 - Issues in Bioethics
Identification and analysis of ethical issues arising in basic and applied biological, medical, environmental, ecological, and energy studies.
STS 5514 - Research Designs and Practices for Sts
Examines research designs and practices that uncover historical relationships between knowledge contents and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. Includes archival research, archaeology of instruments and physical spaces, interviewing for knowledge content, logical and conceptual analysis, participant observation, questionnaires, and proposal preparation.
STS 5614 - Introduction to Science and Technology Policy
Strategies for science and technology policy; science education; scientific and technical information for societal uses; government and public policy; resource allocation; economy and global exchanges of science and technology; approaches to policy evaluation.
STS 5974 - Independent Study
STS 5984 - Special Study
STS 5994 - Research and Thesis
STS 6234 - Advanced Topics in the History of Modern Science, Technology and Medicine
Variable topics in history of science, technology, and medicine after 1800, such as the atomic age; space science; science, technology, and institutions; scientific and technological medicine; and environmental history. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.
STS 6244 - History, Culture, and Politics of the Internet
Explores a variety of social factors, past and present, that have affected the way we make, use, and think about computers and the Internet. Begins with the origins of the Internet and the people who shape this technology, from military strategists to hackers. Examines the ways diverse groups interact and build communities online and how cultural norms about race and gender shape the ways we participate in the world of computing. Graduate standing required.
STS 6314 - History of the Philosophy of Science
Philosophers of science from 1650 to 1900 with particular attention to the historical development of views about the methods of induction and hypothesis and accounts of theory testing.
STS 6334 - Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science
Variable topics in advanced philosophy of science, including major theories of scientific explanation and their criticisms; philosophical foundations of statistics; naturalized philosophy of science. May be repeated for credit, with permission and different content, for a maximum of 12 hours.
STS 6534: Adv Topics Cult Stud of STEM-H
Variable topics in cultural studies of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and health. May include theories of language and science, popular and public knowledges, cultural performances around science and technology, conceptions of health and the body, cultures of quantification, technology and identity, hierarchies and diversity in science and technology, and cross-cultural comparisons. May be repeated with different content up to a maximum of 12 credits.
STS 6554 - Energy Policy Hist & Contemp
Social-scientific perspectives in energy policy. National and international topics and controversies such as fossil fuel resources, climate change, energy security, and the debate over nuclear power. Comparison of international perspectives. Challenges involved with management and regulation of large technological systems, the politics of expertise at the intersection of global climate change and energy security, and the changing character of our global energy infrstructure. Pre: Graduate standing.
STS 6564 - Risk in Contemporary Culture
Conceptual perspectives on social and cultural studies of risk. Qualitative theories and tools for analyzing a wide range of risks in contemporary culture. Definitions of risk as opposed to concepts such as danger, hazard, and uncertainty. Perception of risk and selective bias in risk perception. Efficiency, objectivity, and morality as factors influencing risk assessment and risk management, and affective definitions of safety and reliability. Role of expertise, trust, and communication in risk regulation. Democratic policy instruments to facilitate stable, legitimate decisions about what risks to take or avoid in contemporary societies. Pre: Graduate Standing.
STS 6614 - Advanced Topics in Technology Studies
Variable topics in technology studies, including development and structure of knowledge in technology and engineering, social construction of technology, knowledge and power in technology, gender and technology, engineering in society, human/nonhuman relations in technology. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits. I,II
STS 6664 - Advanced Topics in Science and Technology Policy
Variable topics in science and technology policy. Includes advanced study of science, technology, and economy; science, technology, and power; strategies for research and development policy --public and private sector; transfer of technology; technological forecasting; government regulation and responses; science policy assumptions and challenges, specialist knowledge and expertise; state and academic knowledge production; issues of race, class, gender, and national identity in policy work. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.
STS 6674 - Advanced Topics in Alternate Perspectives On Science, Technology & Medicine
Variable topics in alternate perspectives. Includes science from scientists' perspectives, indigenous knowledge forms, alternative medicine, New Age science, cyborg theorizing, heterodox perspectives. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.
STS 6834 - Advanced Topics in Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Variable topics in social studies of science, technology, and medicine, including studies of disciplines, institutions, boundaries, discourses, knowledges, and practices. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credits.
STS 7994 - Research and Dissertation
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At the Earth's Core: The Geophysics of Planetary Evolution
Submitted by B Peret on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 22:21
Reciprocity XXVII, #1 (Spring, 1998), p. 9.
Very little is actually known about the Earth's interior. Actual research is limited to what is pulled up from a scant few miles of the crust, by deep mines and drilling rigs. Volcanoes provide some additional insight as to the existence of a molten plastic-like layer between the crust and mantle known as the asthenosphere. However, the bulk of data beyond this point comes from the distant echoes of earthquakes, and the seismographic machines that plot their deviations as they traverse the depths of the Earth's interior.
What seismology has discovered is that the Earth's interior is composed of several layers of varying density and composition. The topmost being the crust, a 40-mile-thick layer of silicon, aluminum, and magnesium, cracked into large, "tectonic plates", sitting on an 1800-mile thick layer of basalt known as the mantle, covering an 1200-mile thick, irregular sphere of molten iron comprising the outer core, and finally, a solid sphere some 1600 miles in diameter, of which very little is known—the inner core.
What goes on in the depths of the Earth is still a mystery. The farther down, the bigger the mystery. According to author Dougal Dixon, "The rules of conventional physics just do not apply to the Earth's core."1
There are also several planetary oddities that have stumped modern science. The drifting of the magnetic poles, their inexplicable reversal of magnetic polarity, the Van Allen belts of radiation, volcanic and earthquake activity, artic areas with tropical fossils… the list goes on and on.
Perhaps the biggest mystery is the magnetic pole. "Like a magnet, the Earth has two magnetic poles. From time to time, the magnetic poles reverse polarity….No one knows why this happens."2
Prior to examining the geophysics of planets, it is necessary to determine how planets were formed. This will reveal the processes involved in planetary phenomena, by identifying the components that generate them.
Geophysics can be considered an intersection between physics and astronomy—the boundary between physical processes of atoms and chemistry, and the stellar ones—otherwise known as, "the planet." The Reciprocal System of Dewey B. Larson covers a great deal of ground in both areas; yet the Reciprocal System, itself, has never before delved into the construct of worlds; only a brief summary of their formation3, and the physical processes that occur at the atomic level.4
This paper is a summary of a preliminary investigation into the natural consequences of the Reciprocal System, applied to the study of geophysics. Here, I will propose a model of solar system formation, and the evolution of planets and biospheres, as a natural result of Larson's "backwards" stellar evolutionary sequence (as compared to modern astronomical theory). From this planetary model, all of the observed Earthly phenomenon follow as logical consequence: plate tectonics, "drifting" continents, weather systems, the shifting of the poles, magnetic reversals, global cataclysms,… even the whereabouts of the mythical lost continents of Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria, and what lies ahead in the next evolutionary stage.
Modern astronomy differs from Reciprocal Astronomy in one major aspect: the stellar combustion process. An important aspect, for it is the combustion process that determines the stellar evolutionary sequence.
Modern astronomy relies on the fusion of hydrogen to helium, the process observed within the photosphere (the outer layers of a star). This process starts out with a bang—a nova—which forms a blue giant star, that gradually cools down, moves down the Main Sequence, and burns out (due to lack of hydrogen fuel). At the end of its life cycle, a number of strange things occur, such as its sudden bloating up to a red giant, then re-condensing down to a white dwarf, or altogether vanishing from the universe in a "black hole."
Reciprocal System astronomy is a bit more straight-forward, akin to heating up a piece of metal. The only thing required to build a star is "matter" and gravitation does the rest.
Stars in the Reciprocal System, start out as large clouds of dust, emitting infra-red light from the sparse collisions of atoms. The gas and dust are pulled together by gravitation, and collisions become more frequent, heating the aggregate up so it glows dull red—a red supergiant. As more matter is pulled in, the gravitational pull of the star increases, reducing its size and increasing its temperature, moving down thru orange giant stars, and on to the Main Sequence. From this point, the stellar matter can no longer be compressed, so the star becomes physically larger, and moves up the Main Sequence towards the blue giant—exactly the opposite evolutionary path as modern astronomy.
The most important aspect of the stellar evolutionary system that we are considering is the death of a star—the supernova. In the Reciprocal System, it comes in two varieties, both of which are observed by modern astronomers. The first occurs when the star reaches its thermal limit, and explodes as a "Type I" supernova. This only happens to the blue giant O-class stars, for only they are hot enough to reach the thermal limit.
The second stellar death can happen to any class star—the age limit. When the matter composing the star reaches a certain age (determined by isotopic mass), it explodes. When a large enough chunk of matter does this at the same time, a "Type II" supernova forms. The Type II supernova is more violent than the Type I, and typically propels matter into the ultra-high speed range (designated 3-x), moving far in excess of the speed of light.
The supernova explosion throws the outer layers of the sun off into space, comprised mostly of gases and light elements. The explosion also forces an implosion of the heavy elements in the core. (A spatial "implosion" in the Reciprocal system is a temporal explosion—the imploding matter expands in time, and contracts in space.)
As mentioned, stars are created from simple aggregates of dust and rock in space, so the obvious result of a supernova is a large cloud of expanding matter, which will eventually slow, stop, and re-condense to form another star at the center of gravity of the debris field, usually quite near where the original supernova occurred.
The second supernova byproduct—the imploded stellar core—forms a white dwarf star, with all of its unusual characteristics: inverse density gradient, intense magnetic field, quantized emission, and all the phenomenon associated with intermediate-speed (2-x) motion.5
The supernova can be considered a "birthing process" of either a binary star system (red giant/white dwarf pair), or a single star with a planetary system, depending on its generation. (A "generation" being the number of times a star has been thru the supernova/reformed star phase.)
Solar System Formation
In The Universe of Motion, Larson proposes that the solar system was formed by a Type II supernova, where there was insufficient "Substance B" (stellar core) to form a white dwarf, so the cool remains were distributed out across space in a linear form. This is one possible explanation, though it is difficult to accept that the imploding core of a star would suddenly decide to move linearly outward in space, and break into fragments. I offer an alternate explanation.
First generation stars, as those found in young aggregates such as globular clusters and dwarf galaxies, will not have any planetary systems, because their gravitation would simply pull in any nearby matter that would be the prospective planets. Even if a large rock were able to establish orbital velocity, it would decay fairly rapidly, because both the rock, and the sun, would be increasing in mass and gravitational attraction. The orbit would quickly degenerate to an ellipse, then the rock would be pulled into the sun, adding to its mass.
These first generation stars lead a solitary existence. Since they are composed of primarily "young" matter, they are most likely to continue to build mass, move up the main sequence, reach the thermal limit in the B and O-Class range, and become a Type I supernova. We see evidence of this in numerous open clusters (a globular cluster that has been pulled into the disk of the galaxy, and broken up), such as the Pleiades, that contain mostly blue stars, which are about to become supernova, and enter the binary and planet forming stages.
After the first generation star becomes a Type I supernova, the common binary star system is formed. Initially, neither component is visible. The original debris cloud is widely dispersed, and does not generate enough heat or light to detect, unless illuminated by nearby stars. The stellar core, imploded in space (and hence exploded in time), is too hot to observe, for its radiative emissions have moved into the X-ray band, well outside of the visible light and infrared.
From this point, gravitation takes over, and begins to condense the debris cloud, heating it up and creating a red supergiant (which we will refer to as the "A component"). Conversely, temporal gravitation takes effect on the stellar core remnant, pulling its components together in time, and expanding it in space, causing it to cool. Its emissions then move into the visible spectrum, forming the visible white dwarf star (which we will refer to as the "B component"). At this point, we have a red giant/white dwarf binary system—the second generation, and one of the most common star systems observed in this region of the galaxy. And the "parents" of an upcoming solar system.
However, the process of "giving birth" to a planetary system requires the death of the parents—another supernova. Examining the characteristics of the candidates, we find that it is more likely that the A component will reach its age limit and become a Type II supernova, before the B component can reach either the thermal or age limit.
The matter in the debris field that forms the A component will have been exposed to neutrinos, so the isotopic mass of the elements will be high. Though the B component was also exposed, its temporal motion, and inverse thermal motion, will cause isotopic mass to drop, thus making the matter "younger". By the time the A component forms a stellar object, the star will be prime for an age-limit explosion, just waiting on sufficient core density and magnetic ionization.6
So, by the time the A component reaches the orange giant (M or K stellar class), there is a high probability that it will become a Type II supernova.
The A component explodes, in a much more violent fashion than its predecessor, reaching into the ultra-high (3-x) speed ranges. Because of the proximity of the B component, the supernova will accelerate the white dwarf into the ultra-high speed range of the pulsar, and also shattering it into a number of pieces, from explosive shock wave.
This white dwarf fragments will behave like mini-pulsars, with the same "anti-gravity" motion, moving outward away from the center of mass of the system—which is the center of the supernova debris field; the former location of the A component star.
Thus, the second generation binary star system is destroyed, and the third, planet-bearing generation begins to form. The core of the Type II supernova, being in the ultra-high speed range, will be a small pulsar. However, because of the lack of heavy materials at the core, it will be a very small object, and rapidly disappear from the Material Sector, to add to the background radiation of the Cosmic sector. Its vanishing point will, for some time, leave its mark as one foci of the elliptical orbits of the later planets.
Two other by-products of the Type II supernova are a ring structure, composed of intermediate (2-x) and ultra-high speed (3-x) matter, and a large cloud of low-speed (1-x) debris. The low-speed debris will eventually re-condense to another red giant sun, forming the third generation star.
The matter forming ring structure will eventually cool, lose its ultra-high speed motion, and drift back towards the center of gravity (the newly forming sun). Gravitational attraction within the ring itself will create larger aggregates of matter within the ring, forming an asteroid belt. The white dwarf fragments, subject to the same conditions as the ring matter, will take up position on either side of this asteroid belt, depending on the velocity they achieved during the supernova explosion. Being of intermediate and ultra-high speed motion, the position of the asteroid belt, and planets, will form a quantized relationship—identified as the Titus-Bode Law. (A complete description of the Reciprocal System interpretation of the Titus-Bode Law can be found in The Universe of Motion, page 92.)
The remnants of the white dwarf companion, shattered into pieces and distributed in a narrow conic section outwards into space, will take up orbital positions around the newly formed giant star. Unlike low-speed matter which will simply be sucked into the gravitational whirlpool of the star, the white dwarf fragments will maintain broad, slightly elliptical orbits, using the new giant sun as one foci, and the vanished core of the supernova as the other. The orbit is maintained because the white dwarf fragment possesses ultra-high speed motion, and like a true pulsar, will generate a motion in the same direction as the progression of the natural reference system—away from all gravitational sources. So, with gravity pulling in, and ultra-high speed motion pushing away, the planets enjoy a very stable, nearly circular orbit.
After the dust of the 2nd supernova has settled, we find a red giant star, condensing and heating up, moving towards the main sequence, surrounded by a a ring of rock, and typically 8 large fragments of the former white dwarf, in the sequence 4 small fragments, asteroid ring, 4 large fragments, and finally the rock, dust, and bits and pieces that were expelled far out from the original supernova, of both A and B component matter (low and intermediate-speed range, as not all the "heavy" matter had settled into the core when the supernova explosion occurred).
The solar system will contain two general regions of planetary formation, on opposite sides of the asteroid belt. The larger fragments, having a more ultra-high speed motion (and thus a larger "outward" or anti-gravity movement), will be further out, past the asteroid belt, and will be called the "outer planets". The smaller fragments that exist between the sun and the asteroid belt will be designated as the "inner planets".
In the early stages of cooling, the outward motion of the white dwarf fragments will prevent any large amount of dust and debris from accreting on their surfaces. The cooling of the fragment itself, will, however, produce hydrogen and helium gases in its core which, like its stellar counterpart, will occasionally "nova," and expel these gases and other matter onto its surface, producing a bright, combustive flare. As cooling continues, heavier elements will be produced, as more matter drops into the low speed range, and this matter will allow meteors, dust, and debris to begin to accumulate on the surface of the fragment.
The Inner Planets
The smaller fragments forming the inner planets will allow them to cool faster than the outer planets, and build a gravitational field more rapidly. As a result, they will have a chance to capture more debris from the supernova cloud than the outer planets will. Due to the close proximity to the sun, there will also be more of the heavier elements present, because the lightest elements get thrown the furthest out during an explosion. Once a blanket of debris surrounds the white dwarf fragment, the cooling process slows—for the layers of rock acts as insulation.
Given a typical 4-inner-planet system, what we find is the innermost planet, Planet 1, will remain mostly "white dwarf", as being exposed to the heat of the sun will slow the cooling process. Its surface will be composed of the heavy metals (remembering that the white dwarf has an inverse density gradient, and the highest density is on the surface), in a near molten state. Meteoric dust will add a very small quantity to this, as the proximity to the sun will also pull most debris past this small world.
Planets #2 and #3 will cool at a similar rate, and collect a reasonable amount of debris from meteor aggregation. They will be similar in size (based on their fragment size), and collect a reasonable amount of dust and rock on their surfaces. Planet #2 will have a smaller core, but more mantle than Planet #3.
Planet #4, however, being near to the neutral point of the asteroid belt, will pick up some debris, but not nearly as much. It will cool faster than the other three, and will be the first planet of a system capable of harboring life, as the sun will still be in the giant phase, and providing sufficient heat and light for a reasonable, life-bearing environment.
Thus, the size distribution of the inner planets will be: small, medium, medium, small, with planet #4 developing life first, followed by #3, then #2 as the sun moves into the main sequence. Planet #1 will never form the water-based ecosystems that the three other planets will, as the sun will start to get hotter and larger (moving up the main sequence) before the surface of this planet cools sufficiently to retain water in liquid form. This, however, does not preclude the possibility of life based on other ecosystems.
As the sun grows in size and temperature, the inner planets slowly become uninhabitable, succumbing to solar heat, radiation, and charged particles, vaporizing their seas, and creating dry, arid climates.
In our system, Planets #1 thru #4 are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Mars will be the first world to develop water-based life, followed by the Earth, then Venus. By the time Venus moves into the habitable range, Mars will have moved out of it, and Earth will be in its early habitable stage. Each planet's evolution is unique—Venus has one, short life stage, Earth has one long one, and Mars has two different stages, early and late.
The Outer Planets
The larger fragment sizes of the outer planets will put them in a relatively simple inverse distribution pattern—the largest fragment will be nearest the asteroid belt, and the smallest the furthest out.
If we continue our numbering system, again with a 4-planet spread going from #5 near the asteroid belt, to #8 at the outer limits of the solar system, we can determine some of the basic geophysics.
Most of the heavy elements will not have made it past the asteroid belt layer, so the bulk of material available to the outer planets will be the lighter materials, particularly hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and neon. A number of compounds will also occur, namely the hydrocarbons, such as methane, from the natural interaction of these elements.
The accumulation on Planets #5-#8 will be in standard spherical distribution; the planets closest to the sun will get the most debris, and hence develop the largest atmosphere. The white dwarf fragments will also be producing these gasses in abundance, so the 4 outer planets will be "gas giants", having a thick gaseous atmosphere, surrounding a hot, white dwarf core will a small amount of heavy matter. The ratio of atmosphere to core will decrease as we move outwards to Planet #8. These planets will look like small suns, because they actually are small suns, without the miles of rock covering up the cores, as found in the inner planets.
Because these are larger fragments, they remain hot for a longer time, and hence "repel" any white dwarf debris. But gravity still pulls, so the larger chunks of debris end up in orbit around these bodies, as moons. The moons then aggregate the bulk of the supernova debris trapped in orbit, and become small "inner-type" planets, rather than having the characteristics of the host planet. The outer planets will have a large number of moons, whereas the inner planets will tend to have few to none.
When the white dwarf debris that makes up the core of a moon drops entirely into the low speed range, it can no longer resist the pull of the host planet, and breaks apart in the gravitational tide, forming a planetary ring, or rings.
In our system, Planets #5 thru #8 are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The Pluto / Charon System
Our solar system also has one other member, which thru recent observation has proved out to be a dual-planetary system. Pluto, and its moon Charon, have an elliptical orbit that takes the pair inside the orbit of Neptune. Due to this more highly elliptical orbit, and the closeness of Pluto to Charon, it is reasonable to assume that this pair was a small white dwarf fragment that may have chipped off the fragment forming the core of Neptune during the 2nd generation supernova, but at a distance from the sun. As such, it shares a near orbital path, but being small in size, has rapidly cooled off. Deprived of the ultra-high speed motion in its core that kept it in a stable orbit, the orbit has begun to decay. The eventual fate of Pluto/Charon will have Charon crashing into Pluto, forming a single planet, which will have an orbit that is more cometary, than planetary. And like all cometary orbits, it will eventually decay, and fall into the sun (or hit another planet).
The Geophysics of Planets
Having taken a quick exploration of the general planetary characteristics, we will now focus on the geophysics of planets, which may have some rather startling conclusions for your average geophysicist.
To understand the structure and behavior of the planets, it is necessary to understand the foundation upon which it is built—the white dwarf star. The most important characteristic of the white dwarf is that it is an implosion product, rather than an explosion product. As such, its atoms have expanded in time, rather than in space. There are several important consequence to consider with the white dwarf star:
The dwarf star has an inverse density gradient. The heaviest elements are on the surface of the star, and the lightest at the center.
Also, since the atoms are dispersed in time rather than space, they cannot be measured using spatial detection methods, and the star, itself, appears to be composed of what is viewed on the surface: a solid, metallic ball.
It is very hot. So hot that its radiation is well into the X-ray band.
A normal sun will condense and heat up over time, the white dwarf (being inverse) will cool down and expand over time.
As with all super-luminal matter, transitions occur in quantized jumps, rather than a continuous transition.
As matter cools and drops back into space, it appears as light gases in the center of the star. When gas pressure in the white dwarf builds up, it erupt onto the hot surface, combusting, and producing a "nova" flare.
The intermediate speed range within the white dwarf will produce a intense magnetic field.
The ultra-high speed ranges at the surface of the star will produce thredules, a co-magnetic phenomenon.7
The white dwarf fragment that forms the core of the planets exhibit all of these characteristics. Applying this knowledge to what we know about the interior of planets allows us to explain a number of "inexplicable" phenomenon that occurs on this world.
Applying white-dwarf structure to the planetary core fragments, we can determine some of the early geophysical structure. Starting with the "bare fragment" itself, the first process will be cooling and expanding. The original fragment may have only been a few miles in diameter, but would appear to have the full mass of the current planet. As the core cools and expands, gas and light elements will make their way to the surface, changing the white dwarf to a "brown dwarf": a hot, liquid body with a rarefied atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia (the light gases).
The atom-building process is not exempt from white dwarf fragments. Eventually, the lighter elements will become heavier elements, and sink to the core forming a "normal" density gradient over the inverse density gradient of the core. The region of highest density will be at the core boundary—not the center of the planet!
As a depth of matter builds over the core, it will eventually create sufficient insulation to become solid near the outer regions, retaining a liquid metal "outer core" around the white dwarf fragment, which is now the "inner core". Most of this will be in the nickel-iron elemental range, as heavier elements will be combusted, as in the inner workings of a star.
As a result, several thermal ranges will develop. In the outer regions of the outer core, liquid metals will exist, in the low temperature ranges (low temperatures for stars, that is). The central regions of the outer core will have thermal motion in the intermediate speed ranges, generating intense magnetic fields. Right at the boundary of the outer core, ultra-high temperature ranges form, driven by the thermal motion of the white dwarf fragment.
The outer region of the inner core is basically the "stellar interior" of a white dwarf, having an inverse density gradient. It will have motion in the ultra-high speed range as well. Hence, there are two areas from which thredules (co-magnetism) can form. The central regions of the inner core would be in the intermediate speed ranges, again generating an intense magnetic field.
One of the direct results of this structure will be a planetary magnetic field, in two large "belts", generated from the intermediate speed ranges of the outer and inner core, respectively.
As stated in consequences #4 and #5 above, the inner core will flare up at a regular interval, and send hot, explosive gasses into the outer core, where they will detonate, shattering the solid structures above, allowing magma to seep thru the cracks, and form a light layer of magma over the surface of this solid portion.
Meteoric dust and rock are also crashing into the surface, and being mostly of the stony type, are made of light materials that will float on this coating of magma, eventually crusting it over. The constant expansion of the inner core will utilize the outer core as a hydraulic ram, and split the crust into a large number of plates, just like dried mud smeared over the surface of an expanding balloon.
So far, we have identified the geology of the planets as:
An inner core, composed of a fragment of a white dwarf sun, having an inverse density gradient, intermediate and ultra-high speed ranges generating magnetic and co-magnetic effects, and anti-gravitational motion.
An outer core, composed of liquid nickel-iron, having a normal density gradient, but three distinct temperature zones—a thin, ultra-high temperature region adjacent to the inner core creating short-term, co-magnetic thredules, an intermediate temperature zone, generating a large magnetic field, and a low temperature zone, forming the transition from molten to solid mantle.
A solid mantle, surrounding the outer core, of fractured rock, making the outer core boundary irregular.
A layer of magma that has seeped thru the cracks in the mantle—the asthenosphere.
A solid layer of magma above the asthenosphere that has "crusted over", forming the simatic crust.
A thin crust of light materials from meteoric aggregation, cracked into large "tectonic" plates, forming the sialic crust of continents.
So far, we have a fairly accurate description of the geophysics of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, when we compensate for the relative proportions of heat and white dwarf fragment size.
Mercury is mostly "outer core", with a thin mantle that is constantly melted by the proximity of the sun. Little to no crust, or atmosphere, exists.
Venus is much like the Earth at a later stage. All the components are present, in approximately the same ratios.
Mars has a thin outer core and mantle, because of the smaller core size. Otherwise, it is very similar to Earth, and most likely had a hydrosphere and breathable atmosphere in the past, when the sun was larger and nearer to the planet.
The outer planets follow a similar design, but the actual "planet" is buried beneath thousands of miles of lighter compounds. Due to the larger fragment sizes, the outer planets are still in a stage of having a molten surface, covered by a light liquid/gaseous "mantle." Because there is insufficient insulation between the inner core and the hard surface, a crust cannot form—it is consumed instead.
Magnetic Fields and Poles
The bulk of the data regarding planetary magnetic fields, and the motion of the magnetic poles comes from a study of the Earth. The features recognized are:
The magnetic field reverses polarity, at fairly regular intervals.
The poles wander about the surface, sometimes appearing in equatorial regions.
Two distinct "Van Allen" belts of radiation, formed by charged particles running along magnetic lines of force.
Occasional disruption of magnetic fields on the surface of the Earth, typically associated with severe weather, either hurricanes, tornados, or supercell thunderstorms.
The geologic structure of the inner and outer cores explain all of these phenomena. Some familiarity, however, is needed with Prof. K.V.K. Nehru's research on the interior of the sun, the seven states of matter, and the nature of sunspots.8
In quick summary, Nehru identifies seven states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, inverse gas, inverse liquid, and inverse solid, and "thredule." The one of interest concerning the magnetic phenomena of the Earth is the last, the thredule—termed "co-magnetic", and is a 1-dimensional magnetic field where like poles attract, and unlike poles repel, are an inward scalar motion (normal magnetism is outward), and form the solar phenomena known as sunspots.
Motion in the ultra-high speed ranges produce the thredule phenomena. In our sun, they originate at the very center from two magnetic sheaths, projecting out like rays. When they pass thru the intermediate ranges in the sun's outer core, a second set of thredules is induced, of the opposite polarity.
The same happens in the white dwarf core of planets, with a couple of important changes. Whereas our sun is a normal, "A component" star, the core of planets are "B component", the inverse of the A component. As such, some of the magnetic operations are "flipped around," and occur multiple times.
Normally, the thredule sheaths form in the very center of a star. In the white dwarf, they form on the surface, not the core, because the surface is the white dwarf "stellar interior," where the highest thermal motion takes place.
At the Earth's core, there are two thredule-generating areas. The outer region of the inner core, and the inner region of the outer core. The sheaths formed maintain the same, alternating magnetic polarities:
The thredules from the inner core, being generated from the dwarf fragment component moving in time, are long-duration, existing for perhaps several thousand years. These sheaths form thredules, one projecting north, the other south, and form the magnetic poles (the magnetic poles will never coincide with the rotational poles). The toroidal shape of the magnetic field is due to this co-magnetic motion of the polar thredules.
Both the inner and outer cores generate intense magnetic fields, due to their intermediate-speed motion. However, because of the random motions involved in the constituent atoms, the magnetic field has no inherent direction, so it should be a spherical distribution. However, enter the thredules from the inner core—a 1-D magnetic pull, in the opposite scalar direction as normal magnetism. This gives the two magnetic fields a "favored direction"—like a child sticking his fingers in opposite sides of a balloon—and produces a toroid, with a definite north or south orientation.
Just as the sunspot cycles reverse magnetic polarity every sunspot "season", so do planetary magnetic fields, for the same reason. When a magnetic pole first forms, call it the North pole, it will be in the 50-55° latitude range, then drift northward towards the rotational axis. Unlike its sunspot equivalent, there will be only a "North" projected—the south pole will not appear from this thredule, because of the inverse density gradient of the inner core—the south half of this thredule will project into the center of the planet, not its surface.
The south pole will be generated by the inner sheath of thredules, again with south pole thredule projecting only (with no induced thredule), and will manifest near the rotational pole, drifting to equatorial regions towards the 50° latitude range.
The time for a polar magnetic reversal can be determined by the locations of the poles. Once the north reaches the 15° area, the inner sheath will start to take dominance, and create a new magnetic pole cycle, of the opposite magnetic polarity. At this time, the planet's magnetic field will appear to collapse—it does not. The magnetic field is still there, as intense as ever, but has become random, because the co-magnetic pull of the inner core at the poles is no longer providing sufficient bias to orient the field, so it slips back to a random, spherical distribution.
Outer Sheath Thredules
The thredules in the lower regions of the outer core are far less energetic than their brethren of the inner core. They have a short life span, and are greatly affected by the sun's magnetic field. The planets, not running precisely along the sun's equatorial projection, will be exposed to the north magnetic field of the sun for half their year, and the south for the other half. This creates a bias in the formation of thredules in the outer core, so there occurs two periods of thredule formation each year, during the transition, which occur during our spring and autumn seasons.
The short-lived thredules of the outer core form, project thru the crust of the planet, and die off quickly, seldom lasting more than a few days. They are of the opposite polarity of the polar hemisphere they are in—south poles occur in the northern hemisphere, and north in the southern. However, their effect on the surface of the world can be somewhat extreme.
The outer core thredules, on Earth, project thru the simatic crust (ocean floor) with little to no distortion, and upwards into the sky. When projecting thru the continents, both the simatic and sialic crusts, the thredule is scattered and broken down into a number of smaller thredules, spread over a wider area, from the irregular concentration of elements in the sialic crust.
What the thredules do, being a 1-D inward motion in the inverse temperature gradient range, is to produce a super-cold column of air at high altitudes. When over the ocean, this cold air drops to the water, creating updrafts, lifting great quantities of vapor, and forming dense cloud layers, rotating around the original thredule projection, which remains a "clear eye" of downdraft—a hurricane.
When over land, the result is similar—but due to a lower quantity of water vapor, it produces super-cell storms, with tornados resulting from the scattered thredule projections. As such, tornados are more likely to form over flat ground, than mountainous regions, though no topography is excluded.
Even when the thredule dissipates, hurricanes can continue onward from the processes generated during its initiation, but dissipate rather quickly. Hurricanes also dissipate quickly over land, as the thredule driving the center becomes scattered, and the hurricane breaks down into an intense rain storm.
Thredule formation continues for about 3 months, before it weakens to the point where only minor effects on weather take place. When the Earth slides to a new solar polarity, the cycle starts again.
Since the inner core rotates at a slightly different rate than the mantle and crust, there is a general shifting of this phenomena, creating the weather "cycles" that occur over a number of years.
Where Did All the Water Come From?
Earth is unique in our solar system for having an enormous quantity of surface water. Given that the inner core is constantly expanding, and thus the surface area of the Earth is also expanding, and considering that ocean water levels are continuing to rise (as demonstrated by the continental shelf, which was once above the surface and is now 600' below), where does all the water come from?
There is another attribute our world has that is not found on the other worlds of our system—we are covered with life, and an enormous variety of forms. Water and Life must be related.
As it turns out, most land-based ecosystems produce more water than they consume. Plant bacteria in particular, excrete water as a "waste product" by consuming oxygen and hydrocarbons. It is reasonable to assume that our hydrosphere is a by-product of the life of the land. As the amount of life increases, so does the depth of the water. It is a good thing that the Earth is expanding, or we would be a water world by now.
Considering that water is generated by life, rather than a geological process, we can now proceed to refine our view of the crust of the Earth.
Examining the crust, we find that under its original formation, the top layers of the molten asthenosphere solidify, as the lighter elements move to the surface. Over this solid crust of gabbro basalt, meteoric dust and rock fall, forming a second, lighter crust mainly of silica and aluminum (stony meteorites). This is a typical crustal formation of a planet like Venus, where no hydrosphere exists. Geophysicists name these two crustal layers "Simatic" and "Sialic", after the primary elements of their composition—Silicon / Magnesium (gabbro basalt, SIMA for short), and Silicon / Aluminum (or SIAL for short).
The Earth expands; the outer crust (both layers) crack open, and thru the cracks pour magma, which solidifies to more SIMA. We now have a surface where the SIMA is exposed, and at a lower elevation than the surrounding SIAL sitting on top of the SIMA. These great basins become the repositories for the water generated by the microscopic life forms existing in the SIAL layer, and develop into seas and oceans. The SIMA thus forms an underlying, global crust with large cracks, making tectonic plates. The SIAL forms the continents.
The interesting conclusion—life did not form in the oceans, life started out on the land, and formed the oceans, in which higher forms of life evolved, which moved back on to the land. Since the amount of water is constantly increasing on the planet, as the continental shelves were at one time exposed to the air, it is an indication that the time may be near for another quantum expansion of the planet.
Pangaea?
Modern theory believes the continents all started out lumped together in a single, supercontinent called Pangaea, where the rest of the world was ocean. Given the analysis of the crust, we find this is incorrect. Indeed, there was at one time, a supercontinent of Pangaea, but the Earth was only a fraction of its current size—the whole of the land mass was Pangaea comprising the entire surface of the planet. The oceans had not yet formed.
The expansion due to the cooling of the core cracked Pangaea into a number of large pieces, with magma breaking thru those cracks to fill in the gaps. A core flare occurred (the planetary core equivalent of a nova flare of a white dwarf star. Same cause and reason). The eruption of the explosive gases pushed the Americas apart from Eurasia, along what is now the mid-Atlantic fault. This formed the first ocean bed—the Atlantic.
Water eventually filled in the basin, and formed the Atlantic Ocean.
The next core flare occurred in the Pacific basin, pushing Russia apart from North America. Leaving two super-continents, North America-South America-Antarctica (then off the west coast of the Americas), and Europe-Africa-Asia-Australia. This created a great number of weak fracture areas in the Pacific basin, which continue to exhibit the bulk of the expansion of the Earth.
A later core flare separated Antarctica from the Americas, rolling it off South America to its more southerly position, eventually disconnecting it from the continents, altogether.
If you look at a topography map of the ocean floor, the stretch lines are obvious. Continents are not sliding towards or away from each other vectorially, they are all sliding away from each other, in a scalar fashion—because the Earth is expanding. Oceans will grow wider. Other fractures occur as the surface area of the Earth increases, breaking up the large continents into smaller ones. Eventually, the Earth will be a large, ocean world with many large islands, and no major continents.
Lost Continents
There are three cycles to the expansion of the Earth. The first, and most mild, is the gradual cooling of the core, causing a slow expansion, and minor volcanic and earthquake activity worldwide, as things re-settle.
The second is the intermediate speed matter from the inner core dropping into the low speed (1-x) range. This is not done in a smooth, continuous motion. A threshold is reached, then there is an avalanche effect that causes a great deal of matter to drop out of motion in time, back to motion in space. Take, for example, motion defined as s/t. A motion of 5 units, in time, would be defined as 1/5, or as it would appear in space, 0.20. When those 5 temporal units invert, and become 5 units of space, 1/5 becomes 5/1—what was 0.2 meters, is now 5 meters—a major expansion in volume occurs at the core of the planet.
This causes the plates, world-wide, to separate and exposes the magma of the asthenosphere to whatever is above, typically water. With wide gaps between the plates sitting on the molten, slippery asthenosphere are free to move, in relation to each other, as well as over the mantle of the crust.
Because the Earth is rotating, the plates will seek the "least energy" configuration. The largest continental bulge will tend to become equatorial. In most cases, this is one of the polar ice caps, with ice piled miles high. Thus, the plates containing these ice caps will slide to equatorial positions, normally turning the surface of the Earth 90° from its prior position. This would be a regular, and predictable, phenomenon.
The final cycle of expansion is the "core flare", when enough gas is produced in the center of the core (the low density area), to generate sufficient gas pressure to break thru the inner core, and into the molten outer core, and explode—the core flare. This has a devastating effect on the surface of the planet. The thermal release will break thru a section of the mantle, literally blowing a several-mile-wide volcano in the surface of the planet to release the pressure. Enormous quantities of material will be pushed to the surface, causing another sudden increase of surface area, but localized to a region, rather than distributed globally. This outburst would most likely coincide with the second cycle, but not always occur. Again, it would probably be at a fairly regular interval, with a number of Cycle 2 events occurring between.
The results of this core flare could split a section off a continent, and push it several hundred miles away from its parent in a matter of a few days.
Consider a tribe living in a coastal area, with a large island visible to the west. The core flare occurs, and volcanism and earthquakes flare up all around for several days. The activity dies down, and they look to their west, and see nothing but muddy waters of the ocean, bubbling with volcanic remnants. Their reasonable conclusions: the gods have gotten angry, and sank the island continent to the west. In reality, the coast was the fracture zone, and that island just moved over the horizon, where it can no longer be seen, and will probably continue to move rapidly for several decades. The volcanoes and muddy waters make it look like the continent had sunk; in reality, it just moved a great distance in a short time.
We find evidence of this in the legends of Mu, Atlantis, Lemuria, and "Ancient Lanka" (Ceylon). Ancient Lanka was supposed to exist off of the west coast of India, where a series of islands now exist. However, since the water levels were much lower then, those islands were part of the coastal mountains of India. The topography of the ocean floor at that point indicates only simatic crust—no continental mass. However, by following the fracture zones and stretch marks, the ancient island of Lanka can be found.
Lanka is also known by the name Lemuria, named after the Lemurs found in both India and Africa, but not in any of the intervening lands. It was assumed a land bridge once spread between Africa and India, allowing these creatures to cross freely. And so was the case. Consider:
"Because many of its animals, plants and rocks resemble those of Africa, some think that… was at one time connected to that continent. But it has also plants and animal seemingly of East Indian origin. This is the basis for supposing it to be a remnant of a continent called Lemuria, which is believed to have filled, in ages gone by, the central basin of the Indian Ocean." [Comptons Encyclopaedia, Vol 9, 1946]
When the Earth's size is reduced, as it was ages ago, and island does connect India to Africa—the island of Madagascar. Madagascar IS Lemuria/Ancient Lanka. (The island seemed much bigger, then, because it Earth was smaller).
The same is true for Atlantis. Prior to the last major expansion, Antarctica was tropical and much closer to Africa and South America. North America was at the North Pole, and in an "Ice Age" (Ice Ages occur when the crust is reoriented so the place having the ice age is near one of the polar points). Antarctica IS Atlantis. And Atlantis will "rise again", when the next core flare occurs, as it now has the bulk of the elevated mass of the planet piled up in its ice sheets. When the crust slips, that bulk will become equatorial, and melt. However, all the remains of Atlantis are now crushed into sand, by the massive sheets of ice.
Continuing extrapolation shows that Mu was the continent of North and South America combined with Antarctica, just after the formation of the Pacific basin. The core flare formed the basin, and pushed Antarctica off of America, rolling it south. Those survivors in America saw the continent of the west disappear, leaving only mud and volcanism. But it really isn't gone, just relocated.
Predicting Cycles of Destruction
Of the three cycles identified, the latter two can be predicted—and perhaps have been for many generations. If we look to India, there are records going back many thousands of years. They indicate that there are two cycles, known as "Yugas." A minor yuga is about 6,000 years. A major yuga is 4 minor yugas, or 24,000 years. I believe these represent approximations of the 2nd and 3rd destructive cycles of the core.
On the other side of the world, we have the sacred calendar of the Aztec and Maya, handed down from their ancestors, the Toltec, handed down from the people of Iltar, who migrated there when their home of Aztlan was destroyed. The Maya also have similar cycles, but hold a great deal more precision. The minor cycle occurs every 1,872,000 days, or about 5,125 years. The major cycle is 5 of the minor cycles, or 25,627 years (which is also a very close figure for the precession of the equinoxes).
Both systems indicate that the current major cycle will end within the next 20 years, around 2000 for the Yuga cycle, and on December 23, 2012 for the Mayan cycle. The Mayan date, though precise, may not be as accurate as hoped for, because there are errors in the current Julian calendar that may have caused an erroneous start date for the Mayan calendar. The actual Mayan 'end time' could be as early as 2003.
As for a more scientific determination, it is difficult, as there is no prior data to base a theory on. Several features can be isolated, to aid in determining a date. For example, there will be a large drop in the Earth's magnetic field (the geomagnetic field has dropped 38% in the last 2000 years). A new south magnetic pole will begin to form in the northern hemisphere, near 50° N latitude (according to KVK Nehru's sunspot research, extrapolated for the Earth's core). This new south pole will cause some unusual phenomenon, as being co-magnetic in nature, will cause the existing magnetic field to collapse at that point, allowing gamma rays to penetrate to ground level, causing sterility in the area of the new pole, as well as unusual magnetic, electric, and gravitational effects. There is one particular area on the Earth, at 52° N latitude, that fits this description—the Salisbury plains in England, in the area of Stonehenge, where the crop circle phenomenon is building. Observation agrees with mysticism—a "pole shift" is coming sometime soon.
Post-Cataclysm Earth
What will happen if a core flare occurs say, for example, in the springtime of 2003? Mayan records indicate that the earth trembled with volcanoes and earthquakes for 3 days. The sun and moon stopped in the sky, then moved "crazily" in different directions. Then they were blocked out by clouds, and the sun did not shine again on the land for 26 years (due to the volcanic ash and dust thrown into the atmosphere).
The Hopi describe it as:
"The twins [the two gods who hold the rotational poles in place] had hardly abandoned their stations when the world, with no one to control it, teetered off balance, spun around crazily, then rolled over twice. Mountains plunged into the seas with a great splash, seas and lakes sloshed over the land; and as the world spun through cold and lifeless space it froze into solid ice."10
The equatorial paradise of the ancient Hopi had been relocated to the artic region of the new poles.
In Norse mythology, "Sibyl's Vision" says of Ragnarok (the final battle, where the gods are destroyed):
"The sun will go black, earth sink into the sea, heaven be stripped of its bright stars; smoke rage and fire, leaping the flame lick heaven itself."11
From the Christian Bible, Revelation 6:12:
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places."
Virtually all mythos has a similar description of the "end times", which seem to recur. The native tribes of the Americas describe four such destructions in their history. The Yuga system describes three such cycles, others describe many more. All the recent destructions seem to fit near these time frames, obtained from ancient records. Note that the dates do not correspond with geologic time scales.
Ancient Records
(BCE)
Geologic Period
Era / Comments
75,000 100,000,000 Cretaceous
breakup of Mu
50,000 65,000,000 Paleocene
2nd breakup of Mu
1st breakup of Atlantis
24,000 45,000,000 Eocene
2nd breakup of Atlantis
16,000 12,000,000 Oligocene
Lemuria disappears
9,600 10,000 Modern
final sinking of Atlantis
3,114 4,000 Modern
Start of Mayan calendar
It is interesting to note how the "ancient records" greatly differ in time scales from modern geologists. When examining the methods of long-term dating, I did discover that there is a cumulative, exponential error in geologic dating that relies on radioactive decay. Anything beyond the 5,000-year range of carbon dating may be drastically wrong, and the Earth may be much younger than ever conceived—by as much as a factor of 1,000:1. The 4.6 billion year age of the Earth, may be as little as 500 million, and mankind may have been present when dinosaurs walked the Earth, as actually shown etched in ancient Peruvian stone tablets. Also, recent fossil evidence in Texas is supporting this hypothesis—much to the objection of anthropologists—having found human footprints petrified in rock next to dinosaur tracks, as though the humans were hunting the dinosaurs. Originally thought a hoax, until they discovered the tracks continued under a large cliff, and when excavated, showed the same human/dinosaur prints.
It appears that a major disruption of the Earth's surface is due, as well as a magnetic pole shift. It may be possible to determine where the breaks will occur; plate tectonics are fairly well defined but typically limited to oceans. Breaks under the continental crust can also be identified by the separation of land masses, and mountain ranges.
This preliminary investigation into Reciprocal Geophysics brings out a lot of concepts and ideas not likely to be accepted as a "matter of fact." However, it does provide a more consistent view than the ad-hoc collection of theories now used to try to explain the planet, its history, and its phenomenon. I consider this a starting point, needing much refinement and extrapolation. It offers the opportunity to get to the nature of many of the "core" problems our world faces, and also offers a basis to start correction.
Dixon, Dougal, Geography Facts, (Marboro Books Corp, 1992).
Hall, Cally & O'Hara, Scarlett, Earth Facts (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 1995).
Larson, Dewey B., Universe of Motion (North Pacific Publishers, 1984).
Larson, Dewey B., Nothing But Motion (North Pacific Publishers, 1979).
Larson, Dewey B., Density Gradient of White Dwarf Stars (paper).
Larson, Dewey B., Basic Properties of Matter (North Pacific Publishers, 1982).
Nehru, K.V.K., Glimpses into the Structure of the Sun, Parts I & II, The Collected Writings of K.V.K. Nehru on The Reciprocal System of Physical Theory (North Pacific Publishers, 1994).
"Madagascar", Compton's Encyclopedia, Volume 9 (1946).
Waters, Frank, Book of the Hopi (Penguin Group, New York, 1972), p. 16.
Sturluson, Snorri, The Prose Edda, Tales from Norse Mythology (University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1954), p. 90.
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Susan Crytzer Marchant
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Sad news for our fellow classmate, Roberta Rouse, who suffered two significant losses in 2018. Roberta’s father passed away in July and her husband recently passed away in mid October. Sending prayers to Roberta and hoping friends and family nearby in AZ have been able to provide comfort.
On a lighter note, I received news from Rebecca Fox. She and husband, Michael, now live in Ashland, VA. Rebecca has been working at Chesterfield Co. Public Schools for 17 years and has 2 grown children. Her son, Matthew, graduated from VA Tech and is an engineer in Norfolk working on ships. Her daughter, Jordan, is graduating in May ’19 from The University of Maryland. Jordan is in Army ROTC and is a Distinguished Military Graduate in the top 10% in the nation; she will branch Aviation when she graduates. Rebecca and Michael are proud parents!
From Joseph “Jay” Comfort ’90:
Hello to Class of ’90.
Hi all! After the last ten years, keeping a foot both in Ashland and Northern, VA, my family and I have relocated permanently to Arlington, VA! My wife Lara and I travelled to Thailand in February to attend one of Lara’s great friend Andrew’s wedding in Phuket and to visit with her sister in Bangkok who is DOJ Attache for East Asia to the US Embassy there. For Lara, returning to East Asia meant that we met up with many friends and colleagues from her tenure in Hong Kong w/Star TV and BBC. Both Lara and I have celebrated “that” birthday and have done so in grand style with great parties, surrounded by friends and family. We travelled to New Orleans in July to celebrate Lara’s big day and I travelled to New Mexico to (successfully) hunt elk last Fall. Lara will travel to Argentina with her mom in March ‘19 (Campana is Lara’s mom’s childhood home) in her family tradition of a Mom/Daughter trip to anywhere for the “big” birthday. In September of this year, IRON HORSE staged a gala fundraiser for the Ashland Theatre Foundation that raised over $70,000 for the benefit of the restoration and re-opening of the historic Ashland Theatre which is set to reopen in early 2019. The IRON HORSE restaurant, which I have owned for the last 11 years and operated remotely for 7, continues to thrive under our tenured management and a great sales/service team. You are invited to join us in the “Center of the Universe” anytime for a bite and a pint. We are just steps from Randolph Macon College in Ashland’s “old town”. in September, after 10 years managing operations for the Lebanese Taverna Group, I joined Jamie Leeds’ Restaurant Group in Washington, DC as Vice President of Operations. JLRG operates six properties (Hank’s Oyster Bars, Pasta Bar and Cocktail Bar) in Washington and Virginia. The restaurant business NEVER gets boring and I say that looking over the top of my glasses, grinning. Lara and I live with our daughter Zoë (7) and son Grayson (14) just two miles from the homes where we spend our school age years. Our kids play in the same parks we did and we all ride the WO&D trail on the weekends. Life is good.
Re Nicola Mason ’90 from her husband:
I’m writing to brag on a UMW alumna who would never do so herself—my spouse, Nicola Mason (class of 1990). Since graduation, Nicola has made a career as a fiction writer (she’s been the recipient of an NEA Individual Artist Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and inclusion in the annual New Stories from the South prize anthology, among other distinctions), a visual artist (with paintings, mixed-media work, and ceramic sculpture exhibited widely), and an editor. After several years at The Southern Review and LSU Press (where she edited the late, great Claudia Emerson, among many others), she moved to Cincinnati in 2002 and in fourteen years as managing editor led the fledgling Cincinnati Review, less than a year old when she took over,to its current status as one of the most prominent literary magazines in the country. Last year she moved on to start a new venture, Acre Books—a book-publishing offshoot of the magazine—and this month the very first book she acquired for Acre was named to the short list for PEN America’s prize for best debut.
From the Marchant household, my oldest son, Adam, took his SAT and we have begun the search for the right college; at a recent college fair he downselected to four VA state schools…and Mary Wash was one of them! No pressure, but we shall see what happens.
Shannon Eadie Niemeyer
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Hello, Class of ’91! Hope you all are well. I didn’t receive much news this time; I hope to hear from more people the next time!
DeAnna Toten Beard was recently appointed Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Baylor University, where she is Professor of Theatre History and Co-Director of Baylor in Oxford. DeAnna and husband Kemper celebrated 27 years of marriage this summer.
Courtney Hall Harjung
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In August my husband Tom and I moved into a 150 year old home in Midtown Mobile, AL, and two days later a 200-year old, four-ton live oak crashed through their backyard onto our garage. What a welcome to the neighborhood! In October we celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary in Navarre Beach, FL. In November we attended our niece’s wedding in Phoenix, AZ. I serve on the Mobile Arts Council and the SouthSounds Music Festival Boards and volunteer with several other local nonprofit organizations. We’re looking forward to the start of Mardi Gras season which means weeks of balls, parades, and float barn parties. This spring we plan to get Rescue Diver certified on a Caribbean scuba vacation. Please email your Mary Wash memories and personal and professional news to me at charjung@hotmail.com.
Rene and Sonya (Snider) Rios ’91 live in Ashburn, VA with their two kids attending VA Tech. Nicholas is a Senior graduating from VA Tech this spring, and Natalie is enjoying her freshman year at VA Tech.
Christine Harrison Casey ’92 was recently promoted to Director of Philanthropy at Transitions LifeCare (Hospice of Wake County) in Raleigh, NC. She is responsible for managing a team of three and raising more than $1.5 million in Unrestricted Funds for the agency each year. She won a scholarship from the Association of Fundraising Professionals local Chapter to attend the International AFP Conference in San Antonio, TX in late March. She and her husband Tom recently welcomed his oldest daughter April to live with them after her year of living abroad in Thailand.
Kate Stanford McCown ’92 and her husband John enjoy the Canton, GA, home they moved into in the summer of 2017. Kate got back into the working world in August 2018 as an Area Director for a national au pair agency, AuPair Care Inc. They recently traveled to her nephew’s wedding in Leesburg, VA with their kids, Mary Ella (15), Jack (14) and Ashlyn (7). Oscar, their 100 pound Bernese Mountain, was a wonderful new addition to their family in 2017 and keeps the family busy.
Donald Fuller ’92 retired in January from the Army after 26 years of service as a Chief Warrant Officer 5 and attack helicopter pilot/instructor. After six long deployments and several shorter ones, he decided it was finally time to move on to an adult job and focus on family and the rest of his life. His first post military career takes him to the Dubai, UAE where he will be flying as part of a contract, still remaining in the attack aviation world. He’s excited to be close to Europe where he grew up. He plans on working overseas for a little while and then come back stateside for good. His long term plan is to get a post graduate degree in something completely useless, but interesting, and also opening up an animal sanctuary of some kind. He hopes to end up in the Boise, Idaho area, where his family is.
Tevin Chaney ’92 still lives in McLean, VA and works with data analytics for the federal government. He took some time off from work since he was diagnosed with Stage 4a colorectal cancer in late August. Treatment has been aggressive but is going very well. He finished chemotherapy in December, earlier than expected due to very positive results. He began chemoradiation in late January, and surgery is expected to take place in April. He maintains a very positive outlook despite an initially disappointing prognosis, and his body is responding to treatment better than expected. He reminds everyone of the importance of getting a colonoscopy and not to delay.
Cheryl Roberts Heuser
chatatcha@yahoo.com
Stephen Covert is in his 26th year as an educator and serves as Principal at Pine View School in Sarasota, which is a school for the gifted and ranked #6 in the United States amongst magnet Schools. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee in the master’s in Education leadership program. His wife, Cara, teaches 3rd grade gifted at a Sarasota school, and all four of their kids (two juniors, a freshman, and a fifth grader) attend Pine View. Stephen and Cara both love what they do do! They are starting the college search process for their two oldest children and are quite busy!
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio reports that After graduation, she went to grad school at Rutgers, where she got her MA and PhD in Art History. She moved to Italy, where she lived for seven years, during which time she married her husband, Giuseppe, and had their first child, Tommaso. She had a post-doc at the state archives in Florence. We then moved to Burlington, Vermont, in 2003, when she became a professor of art history. In 2007, they had their second child, Elisa. Kelly is now a full professor and an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at UVM. She has published six books and dozens of essays and articles. She has lectured across Europe at major institutions like the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Collége de France in Paris; and at universities in Poland, Spain, Italy, and across the U.S. Their kids are now 16 and 11, and they love to travel; they make frequent trips back to Italy to see Giuseppe’s family.
At UVM, one of the hardest moments she had was when a prospective student told her that she was trying to decide between UVM and Mary Washington! Kelly reports that she had to be honest with her because she owes so much to Mary Washington. Kelly is so grateful that she was trained there as a scholar by a wonderful art history faculty, that she had opportunities for leadership like Class Council, and that she had such an amazing group of dear friends that truly taught me the value of supporting each other through thick and thin. She cherishes her friendships with such great women there which have continued, particularly with Janet Marshall Watkins, Lori Rose Drew, Devin Williams Cushman, and Lydia Cordes. She wishes they could get together more often!
As for me, I had a wonderful time at the Class of 1993 Reunion in June 2018: 25 years! I had a great time catching up with everyone who attended. In August I made a career move and accepted a position at Navy Federal Credit Union’s headquarters in Vienna, Va in the President’s Office. I am using my legal and financial services regulatory compliance background in the Regulatory Compliance and Public Policy Group as Senior Compliance Officer. I love Navy Fed and the new opportunity! This has brought me back to Virginia where I have enjoyed reconnecting with my many friends from Mary Washington and being closer to my family. It has been great catching up with Jen Studt Schimmenti, Jean Sudlow Simpson, Aimee Cooper Starr, Kathy Opiela King and Bethany Zecher Sutton! If you are in the area, hit me up! I would love to catch up!
Jennifer Dockeray Muniz
dockeray@apple.com
Fannie Davidson Gray has been reconnecting lately with some other alums. She says that it was cool to catch up with the Jill and Andrew Salp while they were all briefly in San Fran and she also hiked with Kari Ellis (93) while in San Diego (there was a man hunt for a fugitive AND a massive snake sighting on our hike and then hours later part of the cliff we had been under collapsed making the news. She’s also been messaging with Ken Fulk trying to get him to be her date for Reunion. Fannie still lives in Montclair NJ where Stephen Colbert has been actively trying to avoid her for the last 4 years.
David Janes – has taken up a new position as Senior Advisor, Office of the President, at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Okinawa, Japan.
Karen Hatwell- After MWC, she completed graduate school at UMass Amherst and received a PhD in chemistry in 1999. She had a two-year postdoctoral position shared between the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Basel (Switzerland) and taught college for seven years (Swarthmore, Vassar, and Stevenson University). She’s been working for the US Food & Drug Administration for the last 10 years and is currently Senior Advisor for Chemistry in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. In her free time, she volunteers with several organization: Dogs XL Rescue, Girls on the Run, and Bike MS, as well as for my local neighborhood. She continues to keep fit through rock climbing and running. She’s now living in Silver Spring, MD, close to family and hopes to attend our 25th reunion in 2019. She can be reached on Facebook.
We’re all looking forward to seeing who can make it back to UMW this spring for our 25th reunion! Wow.
Jane Archer
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Jennifer Rudalf Gates
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Jill McDaniel
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Michelle Trombetta
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Congratulations to Dianna Rowell Boschulte and her husband, Rich, who welcomed Liam Patrick to the world on January 10, 2019. He is their first child and they are thrilled to become a family of 3.
Jennifer Wilson Watson and her husband, Chris Watson ’96, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. They still reside in Fredericksburg. Jenifer was recently promoted to Director of Membership Engagement at the FBI National Academy, and she is enjoying the new work challenges and opportunities to travel. You can still find Jennifer out on the track playing for Fredericksburg Roller Derby, now on her 6th season.
Amy Costello Miller and her husband have two teenage boys in 8th and 10th grades. This is her 4th year homeschooling their younger son, Ben. The Millers are a rugby family, Amy married a prop, and they enjoy watching their eldest son Andrew who plays the same position for his school team and summer league. Amy accidentally restarted her vintage and antiques business last year via Instagram after a five year hiatus, and it has really taken off. College conversations with their oldest have begun, and they already visited Mary Wash to see the rugby team and tour campus. When Jenifer turned 44, she realized we graduated MORE than half our lifetime ago and had to share that crazy thought with our class.
Jamie Simpson started a new job at the end of January as Director, Meetings for the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. Jamie and Phil Stoneman ’94 have been married for 18 years and live in Vienna, VA with their 14 year old daughter and 11 year old son. I also started a new job in January, as Director of Product Innovation for Surescripts. I am working in the Minneapolis office, but will be at Surescripts headquarters in Northern Virginia often and am looking forward to seeing friends and campus more. I’ve been quite spoiled seeing Kira Stchur Villarreal a few times a year despite our living far apart. She and her husband, Eddie, celebrated Thanksgiving with us in Minnesota, and then we celebrated a mutual friend’s birthday in Vegas. We are already planning to see Kira and Eddie at their home in San Antonio later this year.
Erika Giaimo Chapin
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Jen Carter Tsimpris still lives in Richmond, VA, working as the Resident Life Services Manager at Cedarfield, a premier retirement community in the West End. She and her husband Basil just celebrated nine years of marriage this past July and their children, John Landon and Anne Kathryn, just turned seven years old and three years old this Fall, respectively. They are happy and well and hope all fellow Mary Wash alums are, too!
She adds that the 20th Class Reunion this past June was amazing and it was so wonderful to see so many old friends (and meet some remarkable new friends, too)!
We had a mini-reunion of sorts in Seattle this summer, hosted by Darien Berkowitz Jacobson, her husband Andy, their sons Alex and Ben, and their dog Snack. Attendees included Katie Shea Britton, Caitlin Jenkins Losh, Courtney Lamb Whitworth, Alexis Kingham Fuge, Clint McCarthy, Kelly Sutton Russell, Deacon Chapin, and me. We had lots of laughs in Darien and Andy’s new home on the West Coast.
Marc Williams is an assistant professor and co-chair of the Department of Theatre at Arkansas State University. He earned an MFA in directing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds a certification as an actor combatant from the Society of American Fight Directors.
Please send your updates when you get the email from MWC!
Amanda Goebel Thomas
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An app from Vicis Labs aims to help millennials and the precariously employed manage their cash
January 3, 2018 | By John Lorinc
In the burgeoning wealth-management industry, customers with lots of money to invest have always gained the lion’s share of attention from both the big banks and the growing ranks of startups elbowing into this business.
But when Tricia Jose (MASc 2017), the 25-year-old founder of Vicis Labs, began scouting around for market niches, she took the classic entrepreneurial left turn and headed off in the opposite direction – toward millennials and freelancers toiling in the gig economy who struggle to manage their irregular incomes, much less save anything.
Sprout, a web-based platform created by Vicis Labs, uses predictive data analytics to analyze an individual’s transaction history as a means of developing strategies for timing bill payments and managing cash flow during dry spells. The service will be launched early in 2018.
Jose didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur in the booming “fintech” sector. After completing a master’s degree in biomedical engineering at U of T, she teamed up with two MBA students at the Rotman School of Management and a third student in the Munk School of Global Affairs. Together, they developed an app to help low-income families in the developing world manage their money. They saw it as a way of improving the quality of life for people living under tremendous duress. Financial well-being, as she says, is closely tied to physical and mental well-being.
The app won a competition in the Middle East. But realizing they’d have to relocate to the developing world to properly launch their product, Jose and her collaborators shelved their initial plan and instead adapted it to an overlooked Canadian demographic that also contends with financial precarity.
When her team began its research, they quickly discovered that many in this market segment had difficulty setting aside money for taxes – a process done automatically for people with standard employment income. Sprout has an option that diverts a portion of income to a tax reserve fund. “Tax is our wedge,” Jose adds. “If we can get people to [set aside] their taxes, then we can get them to contribute to an RSP. It’s an opportunity to be at the centre of their economic lives.”
Having participated in more than one Toronto business accelerator, Jose has built Sprout on “family and friends” financing as well as a $10,000 grant from the Behavioural Economics in Action, a group at the Rotman School. She completed a soft launch of the product and is aiming for a round of angel financing in the next few months. Once established, Jose sees Sprout relying on a subscription model. “We’re trying to target people differently than our competitors,” she says.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
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Could This Palm-Sized Cube Replace an Entire Lab?
Spartan Bioscience, founded by three alumni, aims to make DNA testing more accessible
By John Lorinc
How a Verbal Test Can Reveal Your Brain Health
WinterLight Labs analyzes speech for evidence of even mild dementia. All patients need to do is describe a picture
3D Movies in the Sky
A U of T startup is developing a whole new kind of night-time entertainment
By Brent Ledger
Artificial Intelligence Is Here. Is It Time to Rethink Your Business Strategy?
To answer this question, consider this thought experiment
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Amina Abawajy
Amina Abawajy’s visits to her parents’ homeland of Ethiopia are special. “I feel at home there. We got to see our story before it started. And how we’re doing today is shaped by the decisions my parents made and their parents made,” says Amina. “It was a really humbling and connecting experience. When I go back home, I can see that it’s very community-oriented.”
Her parents arrived as refugees: her father, Abdulfetah, in 1989, and mother, Sueda, in 1990. The Oromo people were targeted and oppressed in many ways, including by being drafted. They chose Halifax as Abdulfetah’s brother was studying here. Abdulfetah completed grade 12 and graduated from Saint Mary’s University in chemistry. Unable to find work in his field, in 1999 he started Canadian Way Driver Training which attracts a diverse clientele because he speaks several languages. Sueda studied accounting there as well. Both have been ISANS volunteer interpreters and conduct settlement work. Amina says they are instrumental in her success, “but they definitely faced barriers and challenges.”
What they give me I hope to utilize and give back to the world.
She has three siblings: Aisha, completing applied computer science and political science; Khadija, just 18, in third-year medical sciences; and Hamza, in grade seven. They volunteer in the community, take Taekwondo and swim. “Almost everything is a family affair; whether it’s parent-teacher day or if I’m giving a talk, I can expect the whole family. It’s a supportive, all-hands-on-deck situation!”
The family speaks Oromo and their home is a place of celebration for Muslim holidays. The children attended Maritime Muslim Academy. “It was great to have time for prayers and to know my religious holidays were being observed,” says Amina. But as one of few Black families, she wishes there was more support and representation.
Amina started university at 16. “I was passionate about international studies as a way to connect to my community. Computer science was a financial decision to bridge my passion with relevant skills.” Growing up in Halifax, “navigating the intersections of sexism, anti-blackness and Islamophobia,” has shaped her experiences and where she is today — Dalhousie’s Education Advisor for Human Rights and Equity Services, ensuring that students, faculty, and staff know their rights and can access resources and services.
Amina was elected student union vice-president academic and external, and then president. She is currently Oromo Community Association’s communications officer and vice-chair of African Diaspora Association of the Maritimes. And she has started the Global Humanitarian Initiative Association to counter the “saviour complex” she finds in international development. Amina says she has a complicated relationship with the word Canadian. “I am indigenous in my lands. I think about the responsibilities the government has to my people and likewise the responsibilities this government has to the indigenous people here, the Mi’kmaq.” Amina dearly loves her home and also hopes to stay in Ethiopia often. “My family, my parents, my community were able to give me a strong foundation. What they give me I hope to utilize and give back to the world. And I hope that energy continues.”
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60% of Women in Europe Are Victims of Sexism at Work
Society | October 14, 2019, Monday // 19:22| views
60 percent of women in Europe have suffered abuse or sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a study in five countries. The French research group IFOP found that 21 percent had reported such cases in the last 12 months, and more than 40 percent of the victims are under the age of 30.
More than 10 percent of the 5,000 respondents - nine percent in France, 15 percent in Spain - said they were "forced into" unwanted sex by someone at work. The study authors said that figure "highlights the grey area that may exist around consent" when it can "be extorted in a context of subordination, intimidation or manipulation".
In addition, nine percent of women said they had at least once been "pressured" by a colleague to perform an "act of a sexual nature" such as sex in exchange for job or promotion. While about 18 percent say they have been touched inappropriately, such as a hand on the bottom, a forced hug or an unwanted kiss. The study was conducted in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Spain. It also found that sexual abuse which includes whistling, gestures, rude comments or leering, was the most common attack with 46 percent of women affected. The situation in Germany is quite "tough", as far as 56 percent of women are affected.
The study's authors say that "a very small minority of victims of workplace harassment manage to break the wall of silence" and speak out. Only 13 percent of women who have been inappropriately touched, and 16 percent of those who have been sexually abused, said they had talked to someone, such as a superior or a trade unionist, to resolve the issue. The IFOP study was conducted with an online questionnaire in April this year for the Fondation Jean Jaures think tank and the European Foundation for Progressive Studies (FEPS)
Tags: sexism, women, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, survey, IFOP
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Gourd Willing
Tucson pumpkin carver is showing off his mad skills on Food Network’s Halloween Wars this month
by Christopher Boan
Courtesy photo Matt Harper on the set of Halloween Wars: “The highlight of the show, for me, was getting a little bit more attention or notoriety through the pumpkin carving. It’s a really fun thing that I think more and more people should try.”
What started as a seasonal hobby took Tucson's Matt Harper to Food Network's Halloween Wars.
Harper, who works as vice president for a software company by day, has found his calling in carving intricate designs into pumpkins and other gourds with his spare time.
That hobby has blown up over the last few years, with Harper's art growing more and more detailed.
A quick glance at Harper's Instagram page shows the extent in which he delves for his carvings, featuring everything from a Medusa-like snake-wrapped skull to a man with a cigarette in his mouth.
Harper, who studied art in college, said the hobby took on a life of its own, after he found interest in creating 3D designs in the Halloween mainstays.
"This is a full-on hobby. It's turned into something cool because it is a unique thing to carve, a neat thing to do. But yeah, the origin was just like anybody else: carving jack-o-lanterns at Halloween," Harper said. "And then I have an art background from way back in college and I had to put it aside and I had a family and all that stuff. And about four or five years ago, picked it back up."
Harper's exploits caught the attention of the Food Network, which put him on a team of Halloween decorators who are competing in this year's Halloween Wars. Harper survived the first show, which aired on Sunday, Sept. 29, episode, but he was tight-lipped on the details of what the rest of the season holds in an interview with Tucson Weekly.
The show, which pits contestants against each other to create the most unique Halloween-themed items possible, was a once in a lifetime moment for Harper and his family.
"What was really fun was getting to know a lot of the other artists," Harper said. "Tucson is jam-packed with artists. I mean, just loaded. And to even be in the same breath as some of the local Tucson artists is just an honor. And to me, being around some of these hand-selected national artists was really inspiring."
Harper's wife, Mindy, made the trip to Los Angeles with him for the show's taping. She said watching her husband's television debut in person was a great experience.
"We would watch the show, and we have three daughters, because we would watch Halloween with them, like, 'Oh my gosh you are so much better than these people,' or at least as good," Mindy said. "Our daughter is the one to really push him over the top to send pictures. He is very humble about his work."
Harper is hopeful that the exposure will help his artistic career to flourish, as his talents run beyond mere gourds and assorted other vegetable-related carvings.
"The highlight of the show, for me, was getting a little bit more attention or notoriety through the pumpkin carving. It's a really fun thing that I think more and more people should try," Harper said. "It's a strange way to build your art portfolio, to be on a competitive show like this. But if it ends up getting me a little bit more notoriety, then that's great. But just to be a part of the Tucson art community is probably the most exciting thing."
Mindy said Matt's latest exploits are no surprise to the family, as he is constantly on the move, either doing artwork, playing music or helping with local causes.
"First of all, I'll say he's a man of many, many talents," she said. "I'd say he's kind of like a modern renaissance man, because he not only be sculpting pumpkins he's also a drummer in a band in Tucson. He's a swimmer. He's a member of a few philanthropic groups around town. Plus, I don't know, he's just always been very creative ever since I first met him. He does have a lot of creative outlets, which I think is fantastic."
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Mercyhurst hosts book signing for debut novel of Deborah Goodrich Royce
Many fans will remember Deborah Goodrich Royce in the leading role of Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane, on the long-running ABC soap opera All My Children.
But that was merely a launching platform for the woman who went on to star in feature films such as Remote Control, April Fool’s Day, and Just One of the Guys; television movies such as Return to Peyton Place, The Deliberate Stranger with Mark Harmon, and Liberace; and television series like St. Elsewhere, Beverly Hills 90210, and 21 Jump Street.
Royce, a longtime friend of Mercyhurst University President Michael T. Victor, will visit Mercyhurst on Monday, Oct. 7, when she will share highlights of her career with the college community and do a reading and book signing of her debut novel, Finding Mrs. Ford, released earlier this year. The event, which is open to the public, is in The Waterford Room of Ryan Hall at 10 a.m.
Finding Mrs. Ford already has achieved considerable attention by being named:
One of the five must-read summer mysteries for 2019 by forbes.com
One of the top 10 summer reads of 2019 by Good Morning America
One of the top 50 summer books of 2019 by Book Riot
Victor met Royce when he was president of her alma mater, Lake Erie College, from 2006-2015.
“Despite her fame and many successes, Deborah is an easy conversationalist and very approachable,” Victor said. “I am grateful that she has agreed to share her career highpoints and her widely acclaimed book with us.”
After the birth of her daughters, Royce moved to Paris in 1992 and worked as a reader for Le Studio Canal Plus. On her return to the U.S., she transitioned to Miramax Films as its story editor. At Miramax, she worked on the development of such films as Emma, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Walking and Talking by Nicole Holofcener, and early versions of Chicago and A Wrinkle in Time. With writing partner, Mitch Giannunzio, she won a grant from the Massachusetts Arts Council in 2002 to develop their original screenplay, Susan Taft Has Run Amok.
In 2004, Royce and her husband, Chuck Royce, restored and reopened the Avon Theatre Film Center, a 1939 landmark in Stamford, Connecticut. The not-for-profit Avon is dedicated to independent, classic, foreign, and documentary films, and hosts an ongoing series of visiting film luminaries. Directors and writers such as Robert Altman, Peter Bogdonavich and Nora Ephron, and actors such as Jane Fonda, Chole Sevigny, Emma Roberts, and Richard Gere, have all come to the Avon to show their films and talk about their work. The late Gene Wilder, who frequently appeared at the Avon, was an early and avid encourager of Royce’s writing.
Royce serves on multiple boards, including the national council of the American Film Institute, the executive board of the Greenwich International Film Festival, and the governing boards of the New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich Historical Society, and the PRASAD Project.
The Royces have restored several hotels, including Ocean House, one of only 13 triple Forbes five-star properties in the world, a bookstore (The Savoy in Westerly, Rhode Island), and have completed numerous Main Street revitalization projects in Tannersville, New York, and Westerly, Rhode Island.
She and her husband have a tribe of children, stepchildren, grandchildren, and animals.
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Since I started taking my songwriting more seriously a few years ago I've learned to always be on the lookout for any kind of a cue that might have the potential to grow into a song.
As we were finalizing the list of songs that we would record for Everything Everywhere, we had settled on nine songs and were trying to decide on the tenth. I had committed to having the tenth one selected and its demo done by the end of a certain weekend so the musicians could record it early in the week.
Problem was, I didn't have a good choice for the tenth song. I had a couple of options but I didn't feel like they were really at the same level as the others we had already done, and no one who had heard them was clamoring to hear them get recorded either. Driving home from church on Sunday afternoon I had resigned myself to a particular song that I really wasn't all that excited about.
While driving home that Sunday, I heard the song "Walking Her Home" by Mark Schultz on the radio. Now, I love that song, and I think Mark Schultz is a phenomenal songwriter and storyteller, and for some reason this particular day a certain line near the end of the song stuck in my subconscious.
Later that afternoon I made one last try at finding a better song to record. I asked my son who writes his own music too whether he had any songs that might fit my CD, so he played me a song that he had written for a friend who moved away, and in an odd case of coincidence, this song also had the exact same line in it.
Now, I'm the first to admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, as they say, but hearing that same line in two different songs only a couple of hours apart connected some synapses somewhere, and I started thinking about what a song with that one line as the theme would sound like. Pretty soon my son and I were throwing ideas back and forth... A song about people at the end of their lives... full of regrets about the choices they had made and leaving their loved ones behind... with a chorus that focuses on God's mercy and grace...and it would resolve with the idea that the end of our time on earth is not really the end, but that there's a whole new existence awaiting us.
I wasn't sure how a song written at the eleventh hour would turn out, but by the time we were finished recording we had a song that I think is touching, sad and poignant, but that doesn't lose sight of the fact that even when we're at the point where there seems to be nothing left before us, thanks to God's mercy and grace, This Is Not The End.
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Time to Decide
September 24, 2010 September 25, 2010 Sophie Rosen
Now that we’ve been at school for almost a month, you may be starting to feel a little tired because of all the work you have to do in order to be successful. You may even be starting to feel a little frustrated.
Frustration comes when you have two conflicting goals.
Maybe you want to earn high grades but you also want to avoid spending time doing school work after class. You know that it is unreasonable to expect high grades if you don’t earn them, but you still don’t want to do any homework. So you feel frustrated.
Maybe you want to talk in class almost constantly because you like talking, but you also want to be known as a cooperative and respectful student. You know it is unreasonable to have a reputation as a trustworthy student if you don’t follow the teacher’s instructions, but you don’t want to be quiet. Not surprisingly, you feel frustrated.
You are now old enough to understand that some goals aren’t easy to reach. You are also old enough to understand that being part of a group has disadvantages as well as advantages.
So, you have to decide what is most important to you. Do you really want those high grades even if it means less time to spend on your other activities? Do you really want to be part of the class even if it means that sometimes things don’t go your way?
As soon as you decide what is most important to you, your frustration will start to go away. You may feel disappointed or sad for a short time, but you will know what to do: go after the goal you’ve chosen. And if you take the time to feel grateful for all the good things you do have in this life, you will soon start to feel happier.
Starting a New School Year
September 2, 2010 March 12, 2016 Sophie Rosen
Looking for a good book to start the new school year?
Nothing But the Truth by Avi (Orchard Books, 1991) is an Newbery Honor Book about a ninth grader who likes to run. But when a failing grade takes him off the track team, he is sure his teacher is to blame. Parents, administrators, lawyers and the media all become involved. But who is telling the truth? For more books for young adults, click here.
Walking to School by Eve Bunting (Clarion Books, 2008) describes eight-year-old Allison journey through a Protestant neighbourhood on her way to a Catholic school. Discussions about prejudice and courage could all follow from this picture book suitable for grades three and up. For more books about courage, click here.
A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins, 2001) tells the story of a principal who loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year. His students have to show him that free time is a good thing, too! This picture book is not only lots of fun but can also be used for teaching parallel structure, conversation, plot and theme in writing. For more picture books useful for teaching writing, click here.
Schooled by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Canada, 2007) is a humorous story told from various points of view. But they all focus on thirteen-year-old Cap who is entering middle school for the first time after spending years being home schooled. This book is on the ERAC recommended novel list for grades 6-8. For more books by Gordon Korman, click here.
Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate (Ballantine Books, 2006) is essential reading for parents and teachers. The authors explain why children turn away from their families and how they can recover a sense of belonging with the adults around them. For more books for parents and teachers, click here.
Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynold Naylor (Aladdin Mix, 1991) describes Alice’s triumphs and trials as she starts grade seven. To see a list of all the popular Alice books, click here.
Thank You Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco (Philomel Books, 1998) tells the story of Trisha who feels like an outsider because she can’t read until her fifth-grade teacher changes how she views herself. This picture book could help start an insightful discussion for grades 4-7. For tips on reading aloud, click here.
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits (Foster Books, 2003) describes the experiences of a Korean child who is struggling to learn a new language and adapt to a new country. This picture book would be a great read-aloud but could also be used for teaching elements of a short story (problem, strategies, resolution). For an outline on analysing a short story, click here.
Nasreen’s Secret School: a True Story from Afghanistan by Jeannette Winter (Beach Lane Books, 2009) tells the story of a young grief-stricken girl who hasn’t spoken since her parents disappeared. Will school help her learn to speak again and find happiness? This picture book would be an excellent read aloud for students in grades 4 to 8. For more books about recent wars and conflicts, click here.
Feather by Jacqueline Woodson (Puffin Books, 2007) is a Newbery Honor Book about a sixth-grade girl called Frannie who is reading a poem about hope in school. But there’s not much hope in her life. Her friend Samantha is becoming peculiar. The class bully is becoming more trouble. And the new boy, nicknamed ‘Jesus Boy’, says he’s not white but he sure looks like he’s white. What’s going to happen next? For more Newbery winners, click here.
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Who Caused the War in the Gulf? Five Versions of History
Richard Curtiss
Just as history is written by the victors, reality is often in the eye of the beholder. Different parties to the war in the Persian Gulf have widely different perceptions of its causes, and the objectives of the leaders involved.
That very different histories of the war eventually may be recorded in the Middle East, Europe and the United States is of more than academic interest. These widely differing versions of what led up to the dispute also explain why it is so difficult to deal with it.
What follows are three American and two Arab versions of reality. Of the American versions, one is, basically, the president’s case, another sees the US as fighting a war against Iraq on behalf of Israel, and a third blames US “middle level bureaucrats,” or “Arabists,” for indulging Iraqi President Saddam Hussain until he thought he could grab Kuwait with impunity.
Of the Arab versions, one sees the invasion of Kuwait growing out of a conspiracy between Saddam Hussain and other Arab leaders including King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. The other version sees Saddam Hussain as the victim of a US-Kuwaiti conspiracy to trap Iraq into a suicidal war.
Ultimately, the history, or mythology, of this key turning point in centuries of Western-Middle Eastern interaction will be written not only by the victors in war, the coalition forces, but also the victors in peace, a role still unassigned.
The Gulf War, According to George Bush
Polls show that US public opinion support for the course chosen by then President George Bush, or an even tougher one, has ranged between 75 and 85 percent ever since Aug. 2, 1990, the day Saddam Hussain’s Iraqi forces occupied Kuwait. Senior Bush’s actions reflect a general American consensus that, for at least the past 15 years, has supported maintenance of rough equilibrium between the three power centers in the Gulf. These are Iran, with a population of 55 million, Iraq, with a population of 17 million, and Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states of the Gulf, including Oman, with a population of 15 million, but backed up by an alliance with the US.
The theory was that if any of these three indigenous power centers sought to dominate the Gulf, with 65 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves, the other two would combine to resist that domination.
In the Iraq-Iran war, this happened to some extent. For Iraq’s war effort to receive the economic support it needed from all of the Arab states of the Gulf, however, the US had to enter the equation by “flagging” Kuwaiti tankers and keeping Iran from interdicting the Persian Gulf shipping lanes through which Arab oil moved to world markets.
When the Iraq-Iran war ended, the borders were essentially unchanged, as was the dispute over navigation rights on Iraq’s only outlet to the sea, the Shatt Al-Arab.
The US chose to continue the closer relations it had developed with Saddam Hussain during the Iran-Iraq, war, although it was under no illusions about the nature of his tyrannical rule. The theory was that Iraq, as a “have” nation with the second largest proven petroleum reserves (after Saudi Arabia) in the world, was ripe for a political and economic turnaround, from the East bloc and socialism to the West and a free economy. Treating Saddam Hussain, a strongman with no fixed ideological orientation, like a gentleman might turn him into one, or so the “Arabists” in the US foreign policy establishment hoped.
Instead, after a period of making threats and demands on Kuwait, Saddam negotiated with Kuwait for one day last July 30, then broke off negotiations and occupied it on Aug. 2. Clearly, he had not turned into a gentleman, but it had been a reasonable, pragmatic American-style try.
The UN embargo on Iraq, Saudi Arabia’s request for US protection, and the buildup of coalition forces followed. When Iraqi forces refused to withdraw by the Jan. 15, 1991 date specified in the UN Security Council resolution authorizing collective action, US and allied forces attacked to end the illegal Iraqi military occupation of Kuwait. That’s the Bush administration version of events.
Two US Reservations
Many among the three-quarters of the American public who support then President Bush, and most of those who don’t, have two basic qualms about this version of history. They question why the then US president, on Nov. 8, more than doubled the US troop commitment to the Gulf and thus transformed the military force there. Initially, it was a force capable of defending Saudi Arabia from an Iraqi military invasion while the world waited a year or so for the embargo and sanctions to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Doubling the US military commitment changed it to an offensive force too large to stay idle without politically destabilizing the area it had come to defend. It made American use of military force, if Saddam Hussain refused to withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, virtually inevitable.
Similarly, a good many Americans look askance at President Bush’s decision to strike Iraq militarily on Jan. 16, only one day after the deadline. Many had expected the US to give Saddam Hussain a face-saving interval of at least a few days to accept any of the peace plans in motion to link a peaceful Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a commitment to call an international conference to consider unsolved Middle Eastern problems, specifically including the Israel-Palestine problem as well as Iraq’s claims on Kuwait.
A “Blame Israel” US Version of Events
The Nov. 8 and Jan. 16 anomalies in the Senior Bush administration’s version of events, both of which support the idea that the US president wanted a war, have given rise to an alternative interpretation. Proposing that the deterioration in US-Iraqi relations was a direct result of manipulation by high-level supporters of Israel within the US government, it has gained currency in the US among Arab diplomats, Arab Americans and Middle East specialists.
This version of history has coalesced around a 93-page booklet published early in 1990, well before war broke out, by three participants in the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College. As such, it reflects their individual views and not those of the US government. Writing in late 1989, the three, Douglas Johnson 11, Stephen Pelletiere, and Leif Rosenberger, warned the US was on a “collision course” with Iraq because US “policy certainly renders comfort to the Israelis but it could provoke bitter consequences from Baghdad. “
They wrote that when a cease-fire ended the Iran-Iraq war in August 1988, Israel was so alarmed by Iraq’s emergence as the most heavily armed state in the Middle East, that Israel considered a surprise attack on Iraqi missile sites, along the lines of Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s nuclear facility.
The authors do not make a connection, although most proponents of the theory do, between the fact that Israel did not make such an attack, which no one in the US government wanted to happen, and what they call a simultaneous “180-degree shift” in the policy the US had pursued toward Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. This shift was expressed, they say, by the sudden US acceptance of charges that Iraq had used lethal chemical weapons against its Kurdish citizens.
While there was clear photographic evidence that Iraq, Iran, or both had used lethal gas during fighting in the Kurdish town of Halabja three months before the cease-fire, there was no uncontested evidence to substantiate the charge that Iraq had used lethal gas after the cease-fire to drive thousands of Kurds from tribes that had sided with Iran into Turkey. Nevertheless, the authors write, “the State Department abruptly, and in what many viewed as a sensational manner, condemned Iraq for allegedly using chemicals against the Kurdish population. “
Proponents of this theory conclude that the policy switch, possibly to deter Israel from acting on its own or possibly to begin cutting a victorious Iraq down to size, was initiated by Reagan-administration Secretary of State George Shultz. He personally made the poison gas charges on Sept. 8, 1988, just prior to a scheduled meeting in Washington with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz.
What is remarkable about Shultz’s charge is not only its timing but also the fact that it was based upon “evidence” compiled by staff members of a Senate committee, in the absence of corroborating information from the State Department itself. The next day, Sept. 9, Senate supporters of Israel introduced economic sanctions legislation against Iraq which was adopted by the Senate but never signed into law by President Reagan.
The events in Washington prompted the Iraqi government to organize a protest march to the American Embassy in Baghdad by 150,000 Iraqis. Subsequently, Iraq expelled an American Embassy official, the US retaliated by expelling an Iraqi diplomat, and relations began a rapid downward spiral.
That spiral became a free-fall as charges were aired in Congress and the media that Iraq had undertaken extensive programs to develop nuclear, biological and chemical warheads which could be adapted to Iraq’s existing missiles, whose effectiveness (with conventional warheads) had played a major role in Iran’s decision to agree to a cease-fire.
A new human rights group, Middle East Watch, which seems to have close ties with Israel’s US supporters, charged that Iraq was governed by “one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in power today. ” Such harsh criticism was reflected in the next annual State Department report on human rights worldwide.
Saddam Hussain contributed to the downturn by calling, in February 1990, for the complete withdrawal of US naval forces from the Gulf, ignoring the fact that they had been there ever since World War II, and that they had been augmented largely as a result of the US “tilt” to prevent Iran from winning its war with Iraq.
Gerald Bull, an artillery expert holding both Canadian and US citizenship, who had been a consultant to Iraq as well as to China, South Africa and many other countries, was murdered on March 22, 1990 in Brussels, probably by Israel’s Mossad. Material implicating other arms experts apparently was planted on his body, presumably by the killers.
There were highly publicized arrests of four Iranian citizens and one French citizen charged with smuggling arms to Iraq. A – sting” in the US resulted in the dramatic airport seizure in London of Iraq-bound krytrons, precision timing devices which have many applications, including the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Most spectacular, however, were the seizures in several countries of Europe of trucks and ships headed for Iraq with sections of what the Iraqis claimed were tubes for an oil pipeline and what US and British authorities claimed were components of a planned “big gun, ” capable either of putting a satellite into orbit, or of firing huge shells for hundreds of miles, allegedly being developed for Iraq by Gerald Bull.
On April 11, 1990, Tariq Aziz charged that “Israel wants to attack Iraqi industrial and scientific sites to maintain the balance of power, which has changed. ” After the US announced it had halted an Iraqi request to purchase on credit $500 million in US agricultural commodities, King Hussein charged the West with carrying out “an outrageous plot” against Iraq. As Congress escalated charges against Saddam Hussain, charges of a Western plot against him also were raised by the Arab League at its summit meeting in Baghdad in late May, and by an Iraqi-backed “International Islamic Popular Conference.”
The American policy switch, initiated by George Shultz, the most pro-Israel secretary of state in US history, and kept alive by pro Israel members of Congress, has been adopted unquestioningly, this version of history goes, by the Bush administration. The end result was the US war in the Gulf, which, backers of this version of history maintain, is aimed not so much at the liberation of Kuwait as at destroying the infrastructure that had made Iraq the most credible threat to Israel in the Arab world.
“Blame Anyone But Israel” Version
A third version of the lead-up to the Gulf war is offered by American apologists for the government of Israel. It is well summarized in the Winter 1990/91 issue of The National Interest, a quarterly published by neoconservative Irving Kristol. The magazine’s advisory board reads like a Who’s Who of Likud’s American supporters.
In an article entitled “A Great American Screw-Up, the US and Iraq, 1980-1990,” Paul A. Gigot, Washington columnist for The Wall Street Journal, probably the most openly pro-Likud major daily in the United States, provides different versions or draws different conclusions from some of the same events cited in the US War College study.
His thesis is that the US is not fighting Israel’s war in the Gulf, but that the war came about through a series of misjudgments or mistakes at the middle level in the State Department by such career officers as Ambassador Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary for the Near East and South Asia during the Reagan administration; his successor during the Bush administration, Ambassador John Kelly; and US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie. Their mistakes, Gigot charges, were compounded by inattention at the Bush White House and the Baker State Department. In both places, Gigot charges, high level policy making is confined to such tight inner circles that a matter like the US-Iraq relationship “falls outside their radar screen” and is “run on auto pilot by the permanent bureaucracy. “
This “blame anyone but Israel” version of history starts in the aftermath of the Israel initiated Irangate scandals. At that time many US officials identified with the pro-Israel camp and deeply implicated in the “opening to Iran, ” which quickly degenerated into arms-for-hostages dealing, resigned or were banished from the bureaucracy. These included former NSC Adviser Robert “Bud” McFarlane, NSC Middle East Adviser Howard Teicher, White House I ‘consultant” Michael Ledeen, and, in the Pentagon, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle and Deputy Assistant Secretary Stephen Bryen.
Benching the “Israelists” left the field open to “Arabists, ” seeking to find US allies among Arab states by cooling ties to Israel, according to Gigot. They compounded some initial “mistakes” made early in the Reagan administration in 1982. These had included removing Iraq from the US list of nations promoting terrorism and Secretary Shultz’s “Operation Staunch,” an attempt to keep other nations from selling arms to Iran for its war against Iraq. The US also had begun to share intelligence information with Iraq, and in 1984 the two countries resumed full diplomatic relations.
Gigot criticizes the US decision to reflag Kuwaiti tankers and protect the flow of Arab oil through the Gulf from Iranian interdiction. Reiterating the charges that Iraq used chemical weapons against Kurds after the 1988 cease-fire, Gigot carefully refrains from claiming this involved lethal poison gas. He charges, however, that “The Reagan administration-and the rest of the West-reacted with what can politely be called restraint.”
He criticizes the Reagan administration for preventing the resulting congressional sanctions against trade with Iraq from being enacted into law. Gigot implies that by elevating some of the Reagan administration bureaucrats identified with these policies into its tight inner circle of policy making, the Bush administration ensured that policies perpetuating the tilt toward Iraq would be adopted without searching examination.
Gigot neglects to mention, however, that the two most influential of the Bush administration middle level “inner circle” policy makers dealing with the Middle East, National Security Council Middle East adviser Richard Haass and State Department Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning Dennis Ross, are not Arabists, are Jewish, and were both regarded by Reagan administration colleagues as protective of Israel.
Gigot admits that the Bush administration reviewed its policy toward Iraq after Saddam Hussain’s April 2, 1990 speech in which he said, “By God, we will make the fire consume half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq. ” The policy review, however, “died aborning, ” Gigot says, because of opposition from the Department of Commerce and NSC Adviser Brent Scowcroft.
Gigot’s “don’t blame Israel” version raises other 1990 events already well documented. These include State Department support for a complaint by Saddam Hussain that a Feb. 15 Voice of America commentary entitled “no more secret police” had listed Iraq (along with China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba and Albania) as countries where “the secret police are still widely present”; a cordial April 12 meeting between Saddam Hussain and US senators from both parties; and suppression by the State Department on July 25, one week before the Kuwait invasion, of a VOA radio commentary which said “the US remains strongly committed to supporting the individual and collective self-defense of its friends in the Persian Gulf. “
Gigot cites the famous exchange in which, according to an Iraqi release of a surreptitiously recorded (and, conceivably, doctored) transcript of a July 25 conversation in Baghdad, US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie allegedly responded to Saddam’s account of his dispute with Kuwait:
“We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. I was in the American Embassy in Kuwait during the late 1960s. The instruction we had during this period was that we should express no opinion on this issue and that the issue is not associated with America.”
Gigot hangs his case on this statement, saying: “This conversation has been taken as the decisive, final signal to Saddam of US weakness, and it may well have been. But it also wasn’t far removed from the pattern of US policy set during three previous years, and especially the previous five months. Glaspie may have been more fawning (US officials say she had no specific instructions for the meeting since it was called on very short notice), but she was only one part of ‘the mindset.”‘
Gigot notes that, six days later, on July 3 1, only two days before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Assistant Secretary of State John Kelly told Congress: “We have no defense treaty relationships with any of the [Gulf] countries. We have historically avoided taking a position on border disputes or on internal OPEC deliberations, but we have certainly, as have all administrations, resoundingly called for the peaceful settlement of disputes and differences in the area.”
“April Glaspie, ” Gigot declares, “clearly was not alone.”
Reality According to Saddam Hussain’s Supporters
The Glaspie conversation also figures prominently in the history of the dispute by those who charge Saddam. Hussain was “trapped” into a fatal miscalculation of US intentions so that the US could destroy Iraq’s armed forces and war industries.
Saddam Hussain’s initial claims on Kuwait are well known. International maps show most of the huge Rumaila oil field lying in Iraq but extending across the border into Kuwait. Saddam Hussain claimed, however, that while Iraq was preoccupied by its war with Iran, Kuwait moved border posts, police stations and oil rigs north and, by using so-called “slant drilling” (like that used to tap oil deposits under the sea from installations on shore), pumped and shipped to world markets huge amounts of Iraqi oil.
Saddam Hussain claimed the entire Rumaila oil field. He also claimed uninhabited Warba and Bubiyan islands which, though of little use to Kuwait, could protect Iraqi access to the sea. Saddam added to his demands reimbursement for the Rumaila oil allegedly pumped by Kuwait, and forgiveness of some $17 billion in loans Kuwait had made to help Iraq’s war effort against Iran.
The Iraqi president further charged that both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates were deliberately pumping far more oil than the OPEC quota to which they had agreed. The reasons, the Iraqi government charged, were to hold down the price of oil to delay Iraq’s recovery from its war with Iran, and also to enable the US to fill its strategic reserve at the lowest possible prices.
These actions, Iraqi officials charged, were responsible for a drop in oil prices on the world market from $28 a barrel to $11 a barrel, costing Iraq $14 billion.
In the words of Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in a July 15, 1990 note to the secretary-general of the Arab League: “The aggression of the government of Kuwait against Iraq has been two-fold; by encroaching upon our territories and oil fields, and by stealing our national wealth, such action is tantamount to military aggression. The Kuwaiti government’s deliberate attempts to bring down the Iraqi economy is an aggression no smaller in its consequences than a military aggression.”
In a subsequent Sept. 4 note to “all countries of the world” explaining Iraq’s Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, Tariq Aziz added: “The former regime in Kuwait was bent on perpetrating its design to destroy the Iraqi economy and destabilize its political system. It is inconceivable that such a small regime could entertain the perpetration of a conspiracy of this dimension against a big and strong country like Iraq without being supported by a great power. That power was the United States of America.”
Journalists sympathetic to Saddam Hussain have supplied the rest of this version of history. Ambassador Glaspie’s assurances were intended to lure Saddam Hussain into thinking he could seize the oil field and islands with impunity, they claim. Then, the US would either rush to the defense of Kuwait or actually mount a military strike against the Iraqi forces occupying part of Kuwait. The American purpose would be to put a permanent US military presence into the Gulf, and thus secure control of so much of the Gulf s oil-producing area that it could control the world market price of oil indefinitely.
Instead, these journalists claim, Saddam outsmarted the US by seizing all of Kuwait, complicating any attempt by the US to drive him out and destroy his military forces. So ends the Saddam Hussain version of history.
Saddam Hussain’s Conspiracy Against the Gulf States
The final version of what led to the Gulf crisis was reported in the November 1990 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. It was recounted, not for attribution, to the writer by the ruler of one of the Gulf states, and corroborated by residents of the others. Whether or not it is true, in whole or in part, it is credited by officials throughout the Arabian peninsula as the only rational explanation for the subsequent conduct during the Gulf crisis of Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan, and the presidents of Yemen, Sudan and some states of North Africa.
Saddam Hussain, this version of history goes, planned his strike into Kuwait well in advance. He discussed it with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, assuring Arafat that the conquest of Kuwait was the first step for Arab armies on the road to Jerusalem. The Palestinians in Kuwait would be given citizenship, and perhaps control of Kuwait, and the other Gulf oil-producing states would fall into line, or be conquered. Their oil revenues, like those of Kuwait, would be put at the service of an Arab army capable of defeating Israel and any state that backed it.
Saudi Arabia, the conspiracy story goes, would be dismembered. Since Jordan’s population now is at least 60 percent Palestinian, Saddam Hussain promised King Hussein of Jordan that he would have the Hejaz, the Western part of Saudi Arabia that includes the two holy cities, Mecca and Medina, and the bustling Red Sea port of Jiddah.
Proponents of this conspiracy theory cite as evidence the fact that, shortly before Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the king indicated to his followers that he would prefer to be called Sharif Hussein. It is the title borne by the great-grandfather for whom he was named, the Sharif Hussein. He, as descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, was appointed by the Ottoman Sultan as caretaker of the Holy Places. Instead, he joined forces with the British to launch the Arab Revolt that helped free the Arabs from 400 years of Ottoman rule. Although the British set up two of the Sharif Hussein’s sons as rulers in Iraq and Jordan, they did not come to his aid when King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, founder of the modem Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, incorporated the Hejaz into the Kingdom in the 1920s.
Similarly, the story goes, Saddam Hussain promised President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, in return for his support, the beautiful highlands of Asir province, which were among the last areas to be incorporated into the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after fighting with Yemen in the 1930s. The support of Yemen, although seemingly far from the oil fields, would be important to Saddam Hussain because its population o Ilmillio is roughly comparable to that of Saudi Arabia, and at the time of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait more than a million Yemenis were working in Saudi Arabia.
Saddam Hussain supposedly promised, and perhaps delivered to Sudan, arms to pursue its civil war with Ethiopian and Israeli supported animist and Christian tribes in the south, and made other promises o political leaders in North Africa, and to journalists and politicians throughout the Middle East.
This conspiracy theory is not one developed solely to explain the seemingly shortsighted and self-destructive support offered Saddam Hussain by these leaders even after the military tide turned against Iraq. In fact, the conspiracy story appeared full-blown in the Arab world almost immediately after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
Its proponents say it explains why Palestinians insist on hailing Saddam Hussain as their friend, although his armies split the Arab world by marching south on Kuwait rather than west toward Jerusalem. The story explains why the Saudis, main supporters of both the PLO and the Kingdom of Jordan, have cut essential funding to both, refusing even to supply Jordan with needed oil.
It would also help explain Yasser Arafat’s cheerful account that when he told Saddam Hussain in February it might take Iraq three years to win its war, the Iraqi ruler vowed he was prepared to fight for six. Why would the leader of the ever-beleaguered Palestinians conduct such a surrealistic dialogue in Baghdad on a day when the Iraqi army was being destroyed in Kuwait, and the network of bridges built up over 20 years in Iraq was being destroyed from the air with no serious resistance? Perhaps because Yasser Arafat, like King Hussein and Ali Abdullah Saleh, know that Saddam. Hussain tapes all conversations that take place in Baghdad, and then releases them to embarrass former friends when it suits his purposes.
Building Blocks of History
These five explanations, with many possible variations and combinations, are the building blocks of the histories to be written of the Gulf war of 1990 and 1991. They explain why American supporters of the present government of Israel are in full cry to blame the war on US “Arabists” and why they will be calling Glaspie, Kelly, and possibly James Baker to congressional hearings in hopes of making that blame stick.
These “histories” also explain, however, why after half a million US service members return from a war that many already suspect was brought to a head as much to reduce Iraq’s threat to Israel as to protect the oil fields or punish aggression, there will be pressure as never before to settle the unresolved problems in the Middle East. For Americans, this pressure will center on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, which underlies all other American problems there.
As for which version of history is true, readers might as well combine elements of all the versions to suit their own visions of reality. In Washington, just as in every capital of the Middle East, that’s what everyone else does.
Mr. Richard H. Curtiss is the executive editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Quotations in this report from Iraqi government statements and interviews by Iraqi government officials are taken from Iraq Speaks: Documents on the Gulf Crisis, compiled and published by Fred Moore of Palo Alto, CA. This 100-page reference work, published in February 1991, is available from the American Educational Trust.
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»History And Mystery Of Holiday Traditions
Santa Claus as we know him today may be a bit different than historical versions, but the sentiment is much the same as it was back in the third century. St. Nicholas was born in 280 A.D. in what would be modern-day Turkey, and was known for his kindness to others, giving away his inherited wealth to help the sick and poor. Such acts of generosity made him very much admired and he became known as the protector of children and sailors. His feast day was celebrated on December 6th, the day of his death, and by the Renaissance, St. Nicholas was the most popular saint in Europe.
St. Nicholas’ Dutch nickname was Sinter Klaas and eventually evolved into Santa Claus as we know him here in America today. But the 18th century inspired American Santa wasn’t the only St. Nicholas-like character to make an appearance at Christmastime.
Swiss and German children have been visited by Kris Kringle (Christkind), a sort-of angelic side-kick who assisted St. Nicholas on his Christmas journey. Jultomten, a Scandinavian elf, delivered his gifts in a goat-driven sleigh. Father Christmas takes care of English children, filling their stockings with treats, while Pere Noel prefers French children’s shoes to fill.
Babouschka, an aging Russian woman, gave the wrong directions to the wise men as they journeyed to Bethlehem. Unable to find Jesus, she felt remorse for what she had done but it was too late to undo the damage. It is said she still seeks forgiveness and annually visits Russian children on January 5th, leaving gifts at their beds while they sleep, hoping that one of them may be the baby Jesus. In Italy, it is La Befana, a kind witch who rides upon a broomstick to deliver toys to the children, whisking down chimneys much like our own jolly Saint Nick.
It was Clement Clarke Moore who wrote a poem for his three daughters called, An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas, known to us today as ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. That was in 1822, and in 1881 a political cartoonist named Thomas Nast, drew inspiration from this poem to create the first version of how we think of Santa Claus today. This “right jolly old elf” appeared in Harper’s Weekly many times, complete with his suit of red, his workshop run by elves in the North Pole, and the Mrs. of course.
Another beloved character synonymous with Santa Claus is Rudolph, “the most famous reindeer of all.” But Rudolph was a late addition, over a hundred years later, to the traditional eight flying reindeer that pulled Santa’s sleigh around the world to make his deliveries. Robert L. May, a copywriter at Montgomery Ward, wrote the story-poem in 1939, telling children about young Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.
The Christmas tree itself was a late arrival on the American scene, with a historyof its own. It wasn’t until Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were sketched with their family around a Christmas tree for the Illustrated London News in 1846 that it became fashionable to have a tree, both in England and in the US. By the 1890s its popularity grew, with families placing floor to ceiling trees in their homes, starting the American tradition.
Once electricity brought Christmas lights, trees popped up in town squares all across our country, with famous trees like the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree dating back to the Depression Era, the tallest on record at 100 feet tall in 1948.
However you choose to celebrate, whether you’ve been naughty or nice, Wevorce wishes you peace and joy in the coming holiday season.
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With no ties to the accounting world, Colleen K. Conrad, CPA, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, NASBA, began her journey in high school with an accounting class, in search of opportunities in the business world. After many paths led her to public accounting, Conrad took the CPA Exam with plans to attend law school, but never made it – she loved accounting too much. “What surprised me most was that accounting itself is just a small part of the profession. There is so much more to it.” Working her way up as a c-suite leader at NASBA, Conrad is energized daily by her position where no two days look the same. We recently interviewed Conrad on why she became a licensed CPA, what advice she has for candidates, what it’s like to be a c-suite leader, and much more.
When did you first start your journey in accounting?
I first started my journey in accounting in high school by taking an accounting class. No one in my family was in the business world so I had no context or knew what to expect. My parents were teachers, a noble profession. This meant they had summers off, but didn’t make much money. After getting to know some business executives through our church, I was intrigued with the idea of getting into the business world and thought it might provide me a lot more opportunities.
After high school, I interviewed for a scholarship at my university, now known as Truman State University. During the interview process, the dean of the business school asked me what I was interested in majoring in, and I said either accounting or international finance. His advice to me was to get a degree in accounting because I could still use my accounting degree to eventually go into international finance. So, I became an accounting major, not with the intent of just being an accountant, but it seemed to be a more flexible degree.
I chose public accounting right after college. I told myself I would get my two years of experience in a firm, get my CPA license and then go to law school. But, once I got into public accounting, I loved it so much I stayed.
What surprised you most about the inner workings of the accounting profession?
What surprised me most was that accounting itself is just a base on which the profession is built. Yes, knowing the technical aspects is crucial, but ultimately it is an entrepreneurial business. After your first few years, a significant amount of your time is spent managing and leading people, running a business, obtaining new clients, marketing and mentoring, coaching and advising clients. Yes, there is a part of it that is roll up your sleeves work, including auditing and assurance, tax and consulting services, but that’s just part of it. To really succeed in the accounting profession, you must truly become an entrepreneur and gain business savvy.
Why did you take the CPA Exam and become licensed?
Going through the education requirements, it was only natural to want to take the CPA Exam. It was an affirmation of what I learned with my accounting degree, and it is prestigious to become licensed. Being a licensed CPA shows the world that I am a professional, like a doctor or lawyer, and a CPA is a gold standard in the profession.
Did you ever run into any roadblocks while embarking on the journey to become a CPA?
I consider myself very lucky. I didn’t have any significant roadblocks that I know some candidates encounter. I took the CPA Exam right after I graduated and passed. I consider my ‘roadblock’ the spring semester of my senior year when all of my friends and classmates were having a good time, excited to be graduating soon. It was hard to keep studying when everyone was having a good time without me, but it paid off!
Looking back at the entire process of becoming a CPA, is there anything you would do differently now that you are licensed?
No. I did it in the way that I would recommend to all CPA Exam candidates. Study while everything is still fresh in your mind and knock it out as soon as possible.
What would you say to someone who is on the fence of getting their CPA license?
If you are on the fence, just do it. The license opens so many doors because people know what it takes to become a CPA. It sets you apart, and even if you aren’t going to be in public accounting, it demonstrates your proficiency. It’s the gold standard. CPA on your resume can be a game changer. It’s the gold standard and it really does open doors and elevate you above the crowd.
What is one of the biggest concerns or struggles you see with CPA Exam candidates, and what advice do you have for them?
My advice for CPA Exam candidates is simple. Test as soon as possible before life gets in the way. At NASBA, data shows that the sooner candidates take the Exam after their education, the higher the pass rates.
What is it like working at NASBA and being the Executive VP and COO?
Working at NASBA is amazing. Every day is different, and I get to work with a formidable team of very passionate people who work every day toward NASBA’s mission, which is to enhance the effectiveness and advance the common interests of the Boards of Accountancy.
After being in public accounting for 26 years, I brought a lot of those skills and tools to this position, but I’ve had an opportunity to learn more here, too. No longer practicing as a CPA, I mainly manage and lead others, including our IT group, which is new to me, and the operations of a business. I also have the wonderful opportunity to engage with regulators and other leaders, who share my passion for the profession. It’s all been an energizing career change.
Many CPA candidates aspire to one day be in your shoes as a c-suite leader. What have been some of the most important steps in your ability to reach this level in your career?
A CPA license certainly helps get you there as the license opens doors and tells the world that you have a broad and deep knowledge of accounting, but also importantly how businesses function. Layering on the license, though, were all of the crucial leadership skills I developed throughout my years in public accounting, including the ability to think strategically, create a vision and motivate others. Becoming a leader is an evolutionary process, as you pick up skills and knowledge throughout your career. Getting out of the thick of the details and thinking big picture are necessary to being a c-suite leader.
Why are CPAs necessary in today’s world?
Bottom line is that CPAs bring order from chaos. Without CPAs, you have a bunch of data that doesn’t make sense. CPAs bring order to that data, with honesty and integrity, in a way that people trust it. People can look at data and make educated decisions, which then stimulates the economy.
This is a profession that provides more and more ‘trust services’, and ultimately, people do trust CPAs. Surveys prove this notion. There is comfort in that because CPAs uphold rigorous standards in everything they do.
To connect with Colleen, find her on LinkedIn.
Interview By: Jenna Elkins, NASBA Communications and Digital Media Specialist
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Control Catalogue
Mizuma Gallery is pleased to announce Control, the solo exhibition of Chinese artist Zhao Zhao – his first solo presentation in Southeast Asia. Featuring new sculpture and embroidery works, the exhibition will showcase two of Zhao Zhao’s iconic series: his Control series and Constellations series.
Manifest in the works of Zhao Zhao is a persistent interest in Chinese history, tradition, craft, culture and a keen observation of life. Juxtaposing the speed (and ferocity) of industry and technology with the deliberateness and delicateness of craft, the two series presented in the exhibition, Control (2015–) and Constellations (2008–), are evocative of forms of desistance from the conditions of living in a “modern” capitalised world of conformity.”
We witness in the artist’s Control series, an exploration on the theme of control specifically focused on the collective consciousness of people. In the exhibition, this theme is projected through several gourd-shaped sculptures; 4 new marble pieces and a large stainless steel one resting on a rosewood pedestal, the centrepiece anchor of this presentation. As Chinese culture and society go through drastic transformations in the modern era, the usages and metaphorical meanings of gourd became oriented towards reality and blessings, and people projected more secular desires onto gourd, the plant of a unique natural symmetry in itself. In pursuit of perfection, the growth of gourds have been intervened by man by having them grow in man-made moulds, forcing them to grow into desired shapes. When we look at this series’ overarching idea, life on both individual and collective levels have become deeply controlled by power. Human beings are also placed under the covert and especially effective manipulation of all kinds of ‘power installations’. Just as young gourds encapsulated into moulds, life, as it grows, gradually reaches a state that the majority pervasively acknowledges.
The ongoing series, Constellations, originated from Zhao Zhao’s fascination with the twisting cracks emanated by the impact of his body against the glass windshield after being in a motor accident in 2007. Through studying the patterns and visuals of the breaking glass, the artist explores the repeated, forceful, violent efforts that proved futile against political, social and/or economic resistances.
These subtle expressions of individualism figure strongly throughout Zhao Zhao’s artistic practice: from his obscure acts that playfully challenge the regulated social and ideological sphere in works such as Cobblestone (2007) and On Guard (2008); to absurd representations of social phenomena in, for example, Slap (2013), Crush (2014) and Confusion (2015); to witty commentary on the economy of (ethical and cultural) values such as Again (2012–13), Countless (2014) and Suit (2016); and more recently, poignant journeys into forgotten realities and land in Project Taklamakan (2016), Desert and Camel (both 2017). The series Control, developed since 2015 (first iteration shown in 2018), marks another stage of the artist’s use of materialised forms that uncover the gaps in conditioning control.
Zhao Zhao (b. 1982, Xinjiang, China) graduated with a BFA from the Department of Painting at the Xinjiang Arts Institute, Xinjiang, China in 2003. His solo exhibitions include the forthcoming Control at Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (2019); Control at Roberts Project, California, United States (2019); One Second · One Year at Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong (2018); Zhao Zhao: Constellations II (2015), and Zhao Zhao: Constellations (2013) at Chambers Fine Art, New York, United States (2015); Nothing Inside II at Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2013); and Da Quan Gou at China Art Archives and Wavehouse (CAAW), Beijing, China (2008). Zhao Zhao has also participated in numerous in China, United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Spain, Belgium, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia. His works are in the public collections of Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany; DSL Collection, Paris, France; The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland; Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Frankfurt, Germany; and White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia. In 2019, he won the “Artist of the Year Award” in the 13th Annual Award of Art China (AAC) and in 2017, he was shortlisted for the “Young Artist of the Year Award” in the 11th AAC. Zhao Zhao lives and works in Beijing, China.
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Gordon Greenidge
A former West Indies cricket player, Gordon Greenidge was the opening batsmen for his country and in his career he scored 37,000 runs and 92 centuries. As a high profile sportsmen with a wealth of stories to tell, Gordon is a popular and in demand guest speaker who went on to have a successful coaching career after retiring from the game. Gordon played for his country between 1974 and 1991 and was one half of the famous batting duo with Desmond Haynes. The pair made 6,482 runs while batting together in partnerships, the highest total for a batting partnership in Test cricket history.
In his illustrious career he played 108 Test Matches 56and also played 128 One Day International matches, including playing in the 1975 and 1983 World Cup Finals, scoring 5,134 runs and 11 centuries. IN his time he scored two famous double centuries against England in a series his side one 5-0 and the first of those innings was on the last day as West Indies successfully chased 342 for victory. It remains the highest ever run chase at Lords and Gordon also played for Hampshire in the English domestic league. Greenidge is currently on the West Indies selection committee for Test matches and after retiring coached Bangladesh in 1997, winning a number of trophies.
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Eli Tomac, Ken Roczen get off to a slow start in Supercross
By Dan BeaverJan 8, 2020, 10:00 PM EST
When Justin Barcia won the Monster Energy Supercross season-opener last week at Angel Stadium, the kickoff races for 2019 and 2020 began eerily similarly: with the same surprise winner two years in a row. The riders lined up behind him were not as familiar in 2020. Now, two of the sports’ biggest names, will be looking to overcome a deficit next week at the Dome at America’s Center in St Louis in Week 2.
Ken Roczen finished sixth at Anaheim 1; Eli Tomac was seventh.
For most of 2019 the Supercross title was a three-man battle between the eventual champion Cooper Webb, Tomac, and Roczen. In 2019 all three riders finished among the top five at Anaheim 1 with Roczen second, Tomac third, and Webb fifth.
Entering last week’s race, the least experience rider among the championship troika had the biggest obstacle to overcome. Webb battled the flu and could barely talk in pre-race ceremonies, but he rasped his way through an interview at the end of the night while standing on the podium.
Roczen and Tomac headed for the pits.
Roczen suffered his worst Supercross season-opener since he joined the series full time in 2014. That year he won Anaheim 1. He won again in 2015 and 2017 and until last week, he had not finished outside the top five in a race since 2014.
In 2019, Roczen was the runner up to Barcia.
Tomac was on his back wheel last year – standing on the bottom rung of the podium in third. That was unfamiliar territory for Tomac, however. Since 2014 he has been inside the top five twice in six races and never better than third until 2019.
Roczen’s uneven season last year suggests that his sixth-place finish – his worst ever in Anaheim 1 – might be difficult to overcome. He podiumed in Week 2 at Glendale, finished fourth and fifth at Anaheim 2 and Oakland respectively before finishing on the podium three more times in successive weeks. Then, he was off the podium in four straight races.
Roczen was never able to firmly establish momentum and he was eliminated from contention before the finale.
On the other hand, Tomac is accustomed to coming from deep in the points. He finished 21st at Anaheim 1 in 2014, 20th in 2015, and 22nd in 2018. After his modest start in 2014 he finished 13th in the standings. But he was much more successful after struggling in the other two seasons. Tomac climbed to second at the end of 2015. He was third in 2018.
Like Roczen, Tomac struggled to find consistency in 2019. He was not able to stand on the podium in back-to-back races until April. Once he finally did, he rattled off consecutive wins at Nashville and on his hometown track of Denver. He podiumed in New Jersey in the penultimate race and won the season-ender in Las Vegas. It was too little too late, however, and Webb’s consistently strong runs carried the season.
Webb won after starting with a modest deficit to Tomac and Roczen. This year Webb has a modest advantage. Roczen spotted the 2019 champion four points in the opener. Tomac gave up five points. And in an intense 17-race championship, that could make a big difference at the end.
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Save Me the Waltz – Zelda Fitzgerald
Reading Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz was not an ideal reading experience. It was difficult for me to get through this book and consider it on its own—its story is too enmeshed with the history of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, and the ways in which both writers cannibalized their real lives to write their novels. Mostly, it was difficult for me to separate Alabama Knight, the heroine of Save Me the Waltz, from what I know of Zelda Fitzgerald, and this irritates me because I want to think about her as a creation. I assume that even if Zelda had been drawing on her own life for inspiration, Alabama was her creation—not a stand-in or a mouthpiece or even an example, an ideal, an apology.
This is how I always assume that fiction is written, and how the book deserves to be considered. A university professor named Harry T. Moore writes the introduction (in 1966) to my Vintage copy of Save Me the Waltz and he considers the book not much more than a footnote to Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. He spends most of his introduction talking about Scott instead of Zelda, and he dismisses Alabama Knight’s story in the same way he dismisses Zelda as a writer – asserting that her attempts to create art were based on jealousy of her husband. Even with the handful of kind words he does give this novel and its author, I cannot conceive of a more condescending and dishonest introduction to a work of literature.
Matthew Bruccoli’s Note on the Text tells me that Scott acted as an advisor to Zelda’s revisions to the novel but that it does not seem likely that he actually re-wrote the manuscript. So, I think, readers are safe to assume that the novel is mostly her own work. But we can also assume—sadly, frustratingly—that any editing Zelda may have needed or benefitted from (by Maxwell Perkins at Scribner and from Scott Fitzgerald) did not honestly take the book on its own terms, but took it already at that time as an amendment to Scott’s work.
Because of all of this background, before I say anything else about the book, I want to say this: Save Me the Waltz is a novel in its own right. A novel that stands up as a story without the reader knowing anything about its writer or her marriage or her life. It is a novel with an intriguing (if a bit lopsided) structure and form. A novel that suits its time period—with modernist language patterns and a distinctly modernist mood.
Something that struck me right away about Save Me the Waltz is how it reminded me of Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor – that dark southern gothic feel and something about the way the mysterious and brooding interior life of the female character is written. How she reacts-emotionally-to the world around her. And then I had to check dates because, contrary to what I was expecting, Zelda Fitzgerald wrote this novel ten years before Carson McCullers would publish her first novel and twenty years before Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood. It is even earlier than Eudora Welty’s first short story publication. So I think we need to be very careful about ever using the word “derivative” when talking about Zelda Fitzgerald.
There are four parts to Save Me the Waltz: Alabama’s late adolescence, her marriage to David Knight and their life in Europe, her ballet obsession, and then her injury and return to extended family. It is extremely interesting that the book opens and closes with Alabama’s family in the United States, with discussions of tradition and inter-generational observations. That mirroring of sections invites a wonderful discussion about how Zelda reflects upon some of the questions raised within the middle parts of the novel’s structure—especially in terms of marriage and how a life is to be lived.
Superficially, this is the story of an American couple who travel to Europe and what happens to them while they are there. But the story is much more interior than it is about “event”; indeed, there are few events in the story. A first significant event would be Alabama’s unexpected infatuation with a Frenchman she meets during one of their first stops in Europe, when the teeth of a dangerous boredom have begun to nip at her already. This “event” creates a fissure in the relationship façade that Alabama and David have created both publically and privately. A first question is raised about personal freedom and exclusivity in love—which the Knights do not address head-on, instead they avoid each other and themselves in constant partying and an empty life of friends and high-living. Anything to keep boredom at bay. Especially for Alabama, who has nothing to do but party. No role for her except wife to her painter husband and mother to a young child. Without a passion of her own, these are her only two choices. Some time later, they have a brief exchange about their tumultuous life and David says, offhand, that he “needs new emotional stimulus.”
Alabama looked at him coldly.
“I see.” She realized that she had sacrificed forever her right to be hurt on the glory of a Provençal summer.
It is a brief moment, but the tone of the novel swings dramatically after this point. Alabama becomes bitter as David looks at other women and eventually begins an affair with a French actress. The way Alabama thinks about herself after this—in comparison to other women or the ways in which she refers to her body or her self—changes, becomes at first fidgety, and then dark. She is interested in David’s infidelity, but also in her own reaction, in her own desires. In the space of a few short pages, the reader witnesses a surprising loss of confidence, which eventually fuels the novel’s greatest “event”—Alabama’s obsession with ballet.
But just before this are a few of Alabama’s more curious & thoughtful reflections:
In response to an offhand comment about the possibility of her learning to dance:
Alabama went secretly over her body. It was rigid, like a lighthouse. “It might do,” she mumbled, the words rising through her elation like a swimmer coming up from a deep dive.
In response to David’s infidelity:
Men, she thought, never seem to become the things they do, like women, but belong to their own philosophic interpretations of their actions.
And finally, in one of the last paragraphs before she makes the decision to become a dancer:
The macabre who lived through the war have a story they love to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama’s continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semiconscious banquet table, her insistence on the magic and glamor of life when she was already feeling its pulse like the throbbing of an amputated leg, had something of the same sinister quality.
The next section of the novel is my favorite. An intense 65 pages in which all of the novel’s difficult questions reside. Alabama becomes a dancer. She abandons her husband and her child—slowly at first, then openly when a position opens in an Italian ballet company—and she experiences something that makes her feel alive in a way that nothing up to this point in her life has ever done. And of course this feeling comes with an equally intense sacrifice. Because to feel this way, she must be alone. She cannot have this feeling and have her family at the same time.
Interestingly, the prose in this section of the novel is dramatically different than the other sections. Smoother, cleaner. Very vivid. The narrator’s sensitivity has turned from emotional to physical, and then, every once in a while, connects the two in a dramatic way:
He exhibited her to his friends as if she were one of his pictures.
“Feel her muscle,” he said. Her body was almost their only point of contact.
Isn’t that rather devastating?
I won’t ruin the ending of this book by saying anything else about it except that the story of Alabama and David comes full circle in an interesting way. The last few pages reconnect with the beginning of the book, but also draw a line straight out from patterns created in the middle. And the mood created by the ending is both curious and frighteningly bleak.
All of this is to say that I think Save Me the Waltz—its structure and especially its creation of a character like Alabama Knight—deserves much more consideration than Mr. Harry T. Moore ever thought to give it. Not to mention those involved in the book’s original publication. I’m guessing the academic world has done this or is starting to, and I hope there will be more discussions of her work on its own terms. Whatever the similarities to Zelda’s real life and despite the small ways the writing may falter from to time (ZF has trouble with metaphors and, a bit less often, with narrative consistency), this is not a book that should be dismissed so quickly. Or lauded only for its contribution to an understanding of Scott Fitzgerald’s work. It has a life of its own, it raises questions absolutely unrelated to anyone’s biography, and the writing is interesting for its fragmentation, unusual descriptions and pacing. It is the kind of book that makes me wish the author had had a chance to write again, to write differently, to finish with this story (which perhaps she needed to tell), and try her hand at another.
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Over the years, I have completed a range of projects in website development, graphic design and writing for a variety of audiences including landing page content, blog articles, email direct marketing (eDM), press releases, grant writing, and more. This page provides a sample of some of the work that I have completed during this time.
The Metal Gate Shouts Beaumaris Zoo to Passersby, but Who Stops Anymore?
This article for Tasmanian Times tells the story of the original Hobart Zoo, most famous for being the location where the last known Thylacine died in captivity.
Is the Lynch Saga the Fault of Free Agency?
Article written for The Roar surrounding the signing of Gold Coast captain Tom Lynch by the Richmond Tigers at the end of the 2018 AFL season.
Hobart Basketball Association
With a change to the structure of Basketball in the south of Tasmania ahead of the 2018 season, Hobart Phoenix were able to return to their roots as the Hobart Basketball Association, and as such, undertook a rebrand which included a new logo and identity, completely new website, and an entirely new digital marketing strategy. Josh Mitchell was privileged to assist throughout this process, including the creation of the new website, and a move for club newsletters to a MailChimp template which provides significant improvement in how communications are managed with the various stakeholders involved in the club.
Tasmanian Youth Orchestra
During 2018, I had the great honour of working with this Tasmanian not-for-profit who provide musical education and development opportunities for young Tasmanians. The project included the development of a marketing strategy for the organisation coming into 2019, as well as the creation of new social media content which led to a significant increase in engagement on the organisation’s Facebook page. During this time I also created several media releases announcing various upcoming projects and events on the TYO calendar.
Kingborough Family Church
When it came time for Kingborough Family Church to update their website and digital presence, Josh Mitchell provided a completely new website built on the WordPress platform, as well as overhauling the church’s communications in migrating their email newsletter to the powerful MailChimp platform, providing a new design, and easier-to-manage creation systems. Josh also wrote copy for the weekly newsletters for Kingborough Family Church for several years.
Strategic Research Tools
Strategic Research Tools provide a range of market research products and services for retail providers around the globe. Josh Mitchell provided copywriting services to SRT for both website landing pages, and printed marketing collateral, as well as a variety of additional copywriting services.
Business Software Tasmania
When Graham Legg and Andrew Newlands made the decision to demarcate their business, Modulo Software, Graham contacted Josh Mitchell around building the new brand and identity for Business Software Tasmania. Josh assisted throughout the process of creating the new identity, and built Business Software Tasmania’s new website on the WordPress platform, as well as email copywriting to advise clients and contacts on the changes to the business.
Ultra106Five
When Hobart’s Christian Community Radio station, Ultra 106 Five were preparing for their 2017 fundraising appeal, they contacted Josh Mitchell to create graphics for the Shake the World campaign that would suit a variety of media including their own website and social media platforms. This included a Facebook page cover photo, profile picture, as well as banner advertisement and website graphics sized specifically for social media sharing.
MusicBuzz
A startup company who developed an app that allows radio stations to survey their users; Josh Mitchell provided MusicBuzz with various copywriting services, including website page content, support desk articles for ZenDesk, and an on-boarding eDM campaign for new clients.
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Top 19 Richest Hip Hop Singer With Their Net Worth In Millions
Everybody has a passion for music. Mostly in free time or sometime to make their mind relax people listen to music. The categories of melody are various like soft songs, rock songs,hip-hop songs and other. Most for the enjoyment and to boost up the party hip-hop melody are played. Given below is the list of the top 19 richest hip hop singer around the planet of Earth. These singers are not the sudden rich person they struggle way hard to achieve this height in which they are now. The see the talent they have in their voice. Instead of becoming a high businessman they chose this field because of some personal reasons and some because of they knew their talent of great sound they have.
19.Lil JonLil Net Worth : $6 Million USD
Real name Jonathan Smith but in the hip-hop industry, he is known as Lil Jon. Such great and fantabulous artist having a gross of $ 6 Million. He is an American hip-hop artist, record producer, DJ, and rapper. “Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz” group frontman which is made in 1997. With this group, he releases various albums. Afterward, he leaves the group and releases solo songs. In 2010 “Crunk Rock” the single album release by him. Such a great personality who is a feature as on 11th and 13th seasons on the “CelebrityApprentice. With such worth he put his name in the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer on the planet.
18.Tech N9neTech Net Worth : $7.5 Million USD
Kansas City, Missouri born hip-hop artist on 8 November 1971 who have a gross of $ 7.5 Million. His real name is Aaron Dontez Yates, but in the field of music or the hip-hop industry he is known as Tech N9ne. He is American songwriter, rapper, actor, entrepreneur and record producer. “Strange Music” label is founded by him and Travis O’Guin who is a businessman. His names include Stange Music, Interscope, Warner Bros, Perspective A&M, Qwest, and RBC. Tech feature in movies, games, and television by selling over 2 M albums. This man recive a award of MTVU Music and the award is of “Leftfield Woodie”. Along with that his songs are appear in the movies also like the Born 2 Race, Alpha Dog and various others.
17.Swizz BeatzSwizz Net Worth : $8.5 Million USD
His real name is Kasseem Dean, but in the industry, he is known as Swizz Beatz has a gross of $ 8.5 Million. With such worth he put his name in the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer on the planet. Born on 13 September 1978 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States. His occupation includes creative direct His invasion include or, record executive, record producer, disc jockey, fashion designer, rapper, singer, Actor, songwriter, visual artist and hip-hop artist. Swizz labels include Atlantic, Warner, Everest, DreamWorks, Monster, Universal Motown, Full Surface and Ruff Ryders. He has produced various multiple hit singles. Produce these singles with different artist in many genres like hip hop, pop, soul, and R&B.
16.Macklemore & Ryan LewisMacklemore Net Worth : $9 Million USD
An American hip-hop duo who emerge in 2008 having a worth of $ 9 Million. They were formed from Seattle, Washington. This duo consists of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis both are the hip-hop artist. Macklemore is the rapper, and the Ryan is the photographer, DJ, and producer. Both meet each other at a photo shoot. Since then they have extensive good collaboration. Their first duo effort release in 2009. Their album received various awards like the Grammy award win by the album “The Heist” in 2012. The Grammy award is also won on the album “This Unruly Mess I have Made” in 2016.
15.Pharrell WilliamsPharrell Net Worth : $9 Million USD
Full name Pharrell Lanscilo Williams having a gross of $ 9 Million. With such worth he put his name in the list of the 20 richest hip hop singer on the planet. He is born on 5 April 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In the music industry of hip-hop, he is known as “Pharrell”. Pharrell is an American hip-hop artist, singer, film producer, and record producer. “The Neptunes” the duo record made by Chad and Williams. They produce soul, hip-hop and R&B types of music. The lead drummer and vocalist of the band “NERD” which is a rock hip hop band. Later on his first single release in 2003 “Frontin”. In 2006 he released his debut album “In My Mind” following the solo song.
14.Kendrick Lamarkendrick Net Worth : $9 Million USD
California raise hip-hop artist having a gross of $ 9 Million. 17 June 1987 born singer in Compton, California, United States. He is an American hip-hop artist and songwriter. Kendrick starts his career or debuts his fame under the stage name “K-Dot”. He releases a mixtape with the label “Top Dawg Entertainment” (TDE). The mixtape gave him way local fame and put his name on the list of the richest hip hop singer in the world. With such worth he put his name in the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer on the planet.
13.LudacrisLudacris Net Worth : $35 Million USD
One of the most beautiful wealthy rapper having a gross of $35 Million. Real name Christopher Brian Bridges but professional name as “Ludacris”. He is professional hip-hop artist and actor who act in various movies and lead his name to the list of the 19 richest rappers in the world. Ludacris is the founder of the Disturbing Tha Peace. He has won various Screen Actor, Grammy, MTV awards. Christopher is the most influential rapper of “Dirty South” who achieve success during the 2000s.
12.Wiz KhalifaWiz Net Worth : $53 Million USD
Born on 8 September 1987 an American songwriter, singer, hip-hop artist and actor have a gross of $53 Million. The real name of Wiz is Cameron Jibril Thomaz but professionally known as “Wiz Khalifa” and with such wealth put his name on the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer in the world. He releases various records and albums. In 2006 “Show and Prove” is release which is a great success to him and it signs to Warner Bros Records. Hot Rap Tracks chart was achieved by his single “Say Yeah” and also receive urban radio airplay. He did not just release one album with Warner Bros but also release “Deal or No Deal” with a mixtape “Kush and Orange juice”.
11.PitbullPitbull Net Worth : $65 Million USD
Full name Armando Christian Perez but in the audience, he is known as “Mr. worldwide” or “Pitbull” who have a gross of $65 Million. He is born on 15 January 1981 in Miami, Florida, United States. Pitbull is American hip-hop artist, rapper, record producer, and actor. His first performance is on solo track “Lil Jons’s”. This track includes in the 2002 album “Kings of Crunk”. Pitbull first debut album was in 2004. The album name is “M.I.A.M.I,” and it is under the TVT records. With such high singing and great personality, he put his name on the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer in the world.
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10.Nicki MinajNicki Net Worth : $70 Million USD
One of the great wealthy female hip-hop artist in the world and the heartbeat of the most person due to his sexy body and attraction with a gross of $70 Million. Born on 8 December 1982 with real name “Onika Tanya Maraj” and professional fame as Nicki Minaj. She is singer, songwriter, and actress. Her first album is Pink Friday and Pink Friday Roman Reloaded. She releases various and series of the record and keep on touching the highest of the sky and put her name on the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer in the world.
9.DrakeDrake Net Worth : $100 Million USD
One of the wealthy Canadian hip-hop artist who born on 24 October 1989 having a gross of $100 Million. His real name is Aubrey Drake Graham but professional famous as Drake. He is Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, entrepreneur and record producer. Initially, he gains eye in the audience as an actor on some drama series ion television. In 2007 he got to know his talent of rapping and achieve the heights of the hip-hop artist. The same year he releases a mix-tape “Room for improvement”. With that, he released two further projects in June 2009. Having great talent, he going to up on the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer in the world if he keeps going on.
8.Snoop DoggSnoop Net Worth : $135 Million USD
Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr, as a Professionally he is known as Snoop Dogg is an American hip-hop Artist and actor. He is also known by many other stage names like Snoop Lion, Snoop doggy dog, Snoopadelic and Snoopzilla as well. Snoop is from Long Beach California. He was born on OCT 20, 1971. Snoop began his career as a musician from 1992 when Dr. Dre of N.W.A discovered him. In 2016 the Rapper is ranked at number 17 on the list of the wealthiest rapper by Forbes. He has the total worth of $ 135 Million USD earned in the single year of 2016. He has a gross of 143 million USD, and with this amount, he’s placed at number 14 in Forbes general 100 Richest Rappers.
7.Lil WayneLil Net Worth : $150 Million USD
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Born on 8 June 1977 and an American hip-hop artist, record producer, fashion designer, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Real name Kanye Omari West and better known as Kanye West has a gross of $147 Million. He attends High School. His spouse is “Kim Kardashian” and genres is “Hip Hop, R&B, and POP”. Athe instrument he likes to work on which he plays are Vocals, sampler, keyboard, drum machine, piano, synthesizer. Kanye labels are GOOD, Jam, Roc-A-Fella Def. He is in that musician of 21 century who is the best selling artist of all time worldwide. With such tremendous and massive gross, he put his name on the list of the 19 richest hip hop singer in the world.
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3D printers can even make magnets now
3D printers can even make magn...
A cup-shaped magnet (lower right) created using the new technique
TU Wien
Magnets are typically made via an injection molding process, which is fine if you're manufacturing enough of them to make it worthwhile building a mold. Scientists, however, often just need a few in specific shapes for research projects or specialized sensors. Thankfully for them, a team at the Vienna University of Technology has developed a method of 3D printing magnets in any form desired.
First of all, though, why would anyone want an unusually-shaped magnet?
"The strength of a magnetic field is not the only factor," says project leader Dr. Dieter Süss. "We often require special magnetic fields, with field lines arranged in a very specific way – such as a magnetic field that is relatively constant in one direction, but which varies in strength in another direction."
To make such a magnet using the new technology, you start by creating a digital model of it on a computer. That model is then fed into a 3D printer, which starts building the actual magnet up layer by layer.
Instead of using straight-up polymer, however, the printer heats and extrudes a mixture of 90 percent magnetic micro granulate filaments, and 10 percent polymer binder. Because the granulate is applied in an unmagnetized state, the resulting object has to finally be exposed to a strong magnetic field, turning it into a permanent magnet.
Not only can the process be used to produce magnets in different shapes, but it also allows for different types of magnetic material to be included in one magnet – this means that a single magnet could have areas of both weak and strong magnetism.
A paper on the research was recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
Source: Vienna University of Technology
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Bob Flint October 26, 2016 01:26 PM
That's interesting could eventually 3D print complete electromagnetic motors using different materials at the same time
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Device may detect onset of sepsis, before it's too late
Device may detect onset of sep...
A close-up rendering of the sepsis-detecting device
Janet Sinn-Hanlon
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the body's immune system releases chemicals to fight an infection, causing widespread inflammation. If it's addressed too late, it can result in organ failure and ultimately death. Scientists at the University of Illinois are working at detecting the harmful immune response quicker than ever, with a new lab-on-a-chip device.
Ordinarily, sepsis is diagnosed by monitoring vital signs such as blood pressure, oxygen levels and body temperature. Should sepsis be indicated, doctors will then set about trying to determine the source of the infection.
The new device isn't aimed at identifying that source, but is instead intended to provide a diagnosis of sepsis significantly earlier than is currently possible, so that appropriate treatment can be delivered that much sooner. After all, in some cases, the immune system response begins before the infection is even detectable.
The lab-on-a-chip works by counting total white blood cells in general, along with specific white blood cells known as neutrophils. Additionally, it measures levels of a protein marker known as CD64, which is found on the surface of the neutrophils – the greater the response of the patient's immune system, the higher those levels are.
In a test of the system, scientists received drops of blood drawn from patients in the intensive care unit and emergency room of the Carle Foundation Hospital. When those samples were analyzed using the new device, the findings were found to strongly correlate with sepsis diagnoses based on observations of the patients' vital signs.
The hope now is to improve its sensitivity, by upgrading it to "read" other immune response biomarkers besides white cells and CD64.
"We want to move the diagnosis point backward in time," says lead scientist Prof. Rashid Bashir. "The big challenge in sepsis is that no one knows when you get infected. Usually you go to the hospital when you already feel sick. So the goal is that someday you can be testing this at home, to detect infection even earlier if you can."
A paper on the research was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
Source: University of Illinois
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Tara Graff
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'Creatively Creative' Marketing Director Generates Award-Winning Communications
'I like to have goals. Without a couple of big goals to work toward, I feel lost.'
TARA GRAFF IS PORTRAYED by her colleague Casey Carlson as “creatively creative” and “über-talented.” And, “Emily Dickinson-esque.”
“I hope that doesn’t mean I’ll be famous only after I’m dead!” Graff quips. “Ever since I was little, I loved writing. In grade school, I would write plays and skits and ask my friends to perform them on the playground.”
It looks like those playground skits are paying off.
As the director of marketing at SPIRE Credit Union in Falcon Heights, Minn., Graff breathed new life into the credit union’s communications. In 2014, SPIRE won three CUNA advertising Diamond Awards.
Carlson, vice president of marketing, says that Graff’s “fingerprints were on all of them.”
“We won a Category’s Best with a branding video that Tara had to complete in less than two weeks with a very limited budget,” he says. “Furthermore, the brand awareness from the television commercials that she produced and won awards for is outstanding.”
How did Graff script, get voice-over talent, line up interviews, shoot, and edit a television campaign in just two weeks? Jamming to pop hits from the 1970s, of course.
“I was up until 1 a.m. the morning before it was due, working with my videographer to finalize the edit,” she says. “We worked and jammed along to the jukebox, playing every song in the Hall & Oates catalog.”
Graff is “never bored.”
“My days might include brainstorming concepts for an auto loan acquisition campaign with my team, creating targeted member email communications, writing original content for the website, and shopping for unique promo giveaways.”
With a background in advertising, Graff brought fresh talents to the table when she joined SPIRE’s team.
“I cut my teeth at an advertising agency, where we worked with clients in a number of industries, including health care, tourism, and financial services. With such a variety of clients, I learned the importance of a consistent brand voice.”
Graff describes SPIRE’s branding as, “down-to-earth, accessible, and genuine.”
“What you see in our television ads and hear on the radio—that’s how you’ll be treated, whether you speak with our CEO or any member of our front-line staff. We’re here to improve lives.”
Graff deeply enjoys her work. “I feel like I’ve found my niche and would love to continue to grow my career in this industry,” she says. “I feel good at the end of my days. If my work has introduced someone new to life-changing benefits of a credit union membership, I feel really good. I believe our work can make such a positive difference in people’s lives.”
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Guest Blog: The Caring Public Deserve Better Information
Breaking The Brand is delighted to have a guest blogger, Caroline Bertin. Caroline is a supporter of and donor to Breaking The Brand. Caroline is based in the UK and we were delighted that she headed along to the rhino horn pro-trade/no-trade debate, presented earlier this month. John Hume, South Africa’s largest private rhino breeder put forward the pro-argument while Will Travers, CEO of the Born Free Foundation presented the opposing view. This blog presents the observations of someone who has invested their time in understanding this complex issue, she recently spent time volunteering at TRAFFIC in Hanoi. Like so many, Caroline wants to believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel for rhinos and a way to save these magnificent animals from extinction in the wild. Here are Caroline’s observations from the event……
I recently had the opportunity to go to an interesting debate called: “Should the global trade of rhino horn be legalised?” Craig Packer was moderating the discussion held in London between John Hume, South Africa’s largest private rhino breeder and an advocate for legalising horn trade, and Will Travers, Born Free Foundation President and CEO.
The goal for me was to understand how educated the audience was about rhino horn and how the split was between pro-trade and anti-trade. There was well over 100 people at the venue and a vote was being held at the beginning of the debate and at the end to reveal the split and how the debate might have affected one camp or the other. A filming crew (from Pulse) was present to film the whole evening to be part of a documentary about trophy hunting which will be released in the coming years.
The First Surprise – Poor Summary of the Current Drivers of Rhino Poaching
Before the debate started, there was a short presentation about rhino horn, why it was consumed and by whom. I was very surprised to see that the first mentioned reason was that it was seen as an analgesic in China. The second source of consumption did mention Vietnam but stated that it was consumed because it was seen as a cure for cancer and there was no mention of it being used as a status symbol. Another slide showed us the optimal scenario to conserve the species, namely: 1/ Growing the anti-poaching units and 2/ Raising the fines upon conviction. Again, I was shocked that no mention of demand reduction was made and that people were mainly looking at the supply side of the trade and not the demand side.
Demand Side Facts are Overlooked
I found the debate that ensued then a bit too superficial, with no relevant talk about the demand side. However, it is interesting to note an argument that was raised: in the event of a trade legalisation, whilst funds would be generated to protect those rhinos in private hands, there is no guarantee that the South African government would use the funds raised to protect wild rhinos – it seems likely that if the trade was legalised, farmers would sell to the South African government (presumably at a set price) who would then sell (probably at a mark up) to the Vietnamese/ Chinese governments, etc with no guarantee that the funds raised would be put back into conservation – John Hume himself said the government was constantly letting them down!
Later in the debate, it became clear to me that John Hume and his camp had no understanding of the demand market and that it didn’t matter to them: “As long as they have the money to pay, it doesn’t matter who consume the horn and what for”. The problem is that it does matter to understand the demand market. If they studied it they would know for instance that the end users of real rhino horn in Vietnam do not want farmed rhino horn so their whole business plan is moot. Some of the pro-trade people in the audience supporting John Hume were really obnoxious, with 5 or 6 people granting themselves the right to interrupt people as they spoke and not contributing to the debate with insightful remarks. What is critical to remember is that consumers consistently show a preference for wild over farmed product so there will always be a market for wild rhino horn. As a result, demand reduction campaigns that target the consumers and have them change behaviours is what will really challenge the status quo.
Conservation Beware – Are People Losing Trust in You?
As a general feeling though, it felt to me that the debate was going in John’s favour as he was able to appeal to the crowd through emotions, keeping on saying that all he wanted was to save his rhinos. As I watched the discussion, it reminded me of a political debate between someone who has valid facts and also speaks in an ideological way about our relationship with nature – but somehow doesn’t have the personality to win people over – against a charismatic individual whose facts are not backed up but still wins because he manages to speak to the crowd “from the heart”.
One lady came to the venue with no clear view whether she was pro- or anti-trade and wanted to see the debate to make up her mind. She told the audience that John had convinced her because in her own words, ‘he spoke form the heart’. It was clear she didn’t understand what was at stake if the rhino horn trade was ever legalised.
The Audience Vote
Before the debate:
Anti-trade: 62%
Pro-trade: 30%
Undecided: 8 % After the debate:
Undecided: 1%
Although the anti-trade camp still represented the majority of the audience, it was clear that the undecided people sided with the pro-trade camp after hearing the discussion.
John Hume stated he was in favour of demand reduction if it meant that the poaching rate is down to zero and he doesn’t have to spend his money each month to protect his rhinos. I had to talk to him at the end of the debate and tell him about what Breaking the Brand does in terms of demand reduction and how it is different from what most of the other organisations have been doing. I gave him one of the leaflets that I printed out for the event and – maybe it was due to the fact that the filming crew was there filming our discussion – he accepted and looked interested in what I was saying.
Conservation Needs a Re-Think?
As I exited the room, I found the lady who had earlier told us how John Hume had managed to convince her and I decided to go and talk to her. At first, the conversation was slightly hostile and she refused my leaflet, as if she had made up her mind and who was I to try and convince her to look at other facts. I tried to explain to her what was Breaking the Brand and the work they were doing but she replied that to her, it’s just another organization which claims to be saving species when unfortunately, the results show otherwise. I tried to convince her how the methods used by BTB were different and how they are a valid and efficient alternative to the campaigns that have been done before. In the end, she and I want the same thing: stop the poaching of rhinos and save this iconic species. So she started to listen more and accepted a leaflet in the end. But she made a point and rightly so: despite a few successes, she saw like all of us how the big NGOs have failed to save the rhinos and that it was time to do something different.
Firstly, thank you Caroline for your on the spot observations from the event.
It is rather disappointing that someone like John Hume could ‘win’ such a debate and that, as a result, there was a swing towards legalising trade. Sadly, the large conservation sector has only itself to blame for such an outcome. They have consistently failed to discuss the demand side, from a trade perspective, I have had representatives from large conservation say to me ‘We don’t ask the users about farmed vs. wild because it is not in our mandate to comment on international trade’. Well, what use is that to these animals? I know that many organisations have a philosophy of sustainable use of wildlife to minimise human-wildlife conflict; but this approach can not, and should not, be generalised to all species. When there is evidence that buyers/users want a ‘wild and not farmed product’ then they should have the guts to take a strong anti-trade stance. Unfortunately, too many representatives in large conservation, including rhino specialists, only look at the rhino trade from the supply side and have no clue about the user. As a result some conservationists are pro-trade, one said to me ‘Anti-trade people knew nothing of what that the commercial white rhino owners were going through’, while at the same time he knew nothing about the users. Their current strategy of focusing on protection on the ground and lobbying for law enforcement has not produced the results the concerned public are looking for. Maybe they will be more open if their donors start to question this narrow focus more.
Similarly, their lack of openness to ‘try something different’ has enabled the neoliberal ideology of ‘less government, more free trade’ to get a foothold in conservation as well. As a result, large conservation should not be surprised that smaller organisations are stepping in to the void they have created. In a blog I wrote in March 2015: Conservation vs. Wildlife Traffickers. Who do you think will win the war in wildlife crime?! I commented:
The final challenge for the conservation sector to ponder is the pattern of increasing public outage if they are not seen to be making a difference for the animals that people care about – like it or not ‘extinction anxiety’ is in the public domain. This brings with it the expectation that the conservation sector is being innovative in trying to solve the wildlife poaching problems. Any techniques that could work to save animals but the conservation sector isn’t using because they are being too risk adverse could have future consequences; their inertia could come back to bite them. Companies such as Futureye (www.futureye.com) in Australia support industries and organisations assess the risk to reputation of making the wrong move and triggering increased public outrage. As they say, “Most businesses and industries struggle to deal with criticism and negative public attention. Although they wish the voices of activists, the media or the community would just go away, they constantly find themselves powerless to stop outrage from growing”. The ‘Increasing Outrage Curve’ reflects how organisations and sectors respond to increased negative public criticism.
The next 5-10 years will be telling for the conservation sector. They may just get away with presiding over a period when rhinos become extinct in the wild; I don’t think they will survive the elephant’s demise. Unless they evolve, some of the organisations that have been around for decades could well follow the animals they have been ‘protecting’ along the road of extinction.
Another example of others stepping in to the void that large conservation is leaving is: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/12/why-the-guardian-is-spending-a-year-reporting-on-the-plight-of-the-worlds-elephant-population
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The gut microbiome may have a major role in the onset of heart disease, suggests a recent paper published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. The study, led by researchers from the Cornell University, has examined the role of gut microbiota in converting nutrients into a dietary compound, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), that research has suggested plays a role in heart disease. The research team conducted a crossover feeding trial in 40 healthy young men with meals containing fish, eggs, beef, and a fruit control. Each of these meals was administered in random order in a single day separated by a one-week washout period. Before each meal, feces were collected to profile gut microbiota compositions, and blood and urine were collected to measure TMAO levels. Fish yielded higher circulating and urinary concentrations of TMAO than eggs, beef, or the fruit control. The concentrations of TMAO, which is naturally found in fish at high levels, were increased within 15 min of fish consumption, suggesting that dietary TMAO can be absorbed without processing by gut microbes. The researchers also found that healthy men with elevated TMAO levels after eating eggs and beef had high counts of firmicutes than Bacteroidetes and less gut microbiota diversity, thus indicating that TMAO production is a function of individual differences in the gut microbiome. "The findings demonstrate that a person's gut microbiome can influence circulating TMAO," said Marie Caudill, Cornell professor of nutritional sciences and the paper's senior author. "It also raises questions about the causative role of TMAO in the disease process, and it begs the question whether the gut microbiome is playing a role in the disease process rather than the TMAO itself."Future research may include testing the role of gut microbiomes in heart disease, and looking at ways to reduce circulating TMAO and seeing if there are benefits that reduce heart disease, Caudill said. The paper was picked up by 12 news outlets, including Technology.org, The Medical News, and Huffington Post.
In a press release issued last week, La Jolla, California based biotechnology company, Xycrobe Therapeutics, Inc has announced a new research partnership with Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. to develop treatments for inflammatory skin diseases, such as acne, psoriasis, dermatitis and eczema. These conditions affect over 100 million people in the US alone, and are not effectively addressed by the therapies currently on the market. Xycrobe has developed a library of commensal strains from the skin microbiome engineered to grow and secrete biotherapeutics as needed to help treat an array of skin issues. The collaboration will provide both companies with information on how the Xycrobe technology may be best applied to future therapeutic and commercial applications. "The current paradigm for treating skin conditions, such as acne, completely disregards the importance of the commensal skin flora. Overuse of antibiotics have led to a higher prevalence of resistant strains of bacteria and along with that comes less efficacy for conventional treatments. So, we are attempting to change that paradigm," said Thomas Hitchcock, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Xycrobe.
Covered by numerous media outlets, this news certainly caught the attention of the US national media. A mysterious black slime is spreading like a disease over the iconic monuments of Washington DC, including the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. This black biofilm first became noticeable in 2006 and since then has become increasingly more pronounced. A multi-disciplinary team of conservators, architects, and molecular biologists has been studying the growth on the Jefferson Memorial since 2014 as they prepare to test potential treatment options. Judy Jacob, a conservator at the park service in New York, has helped assemble a global team of scientists, microbiologists and architects who are trying to create a slime antidote. “This is an enormous challenge,” Jacob said. “We don’t even know yet if the biofilm -- aside from an aesthetic problem -- is causing damage to the marble or if it’s actually protecting the marble.” The park service has now posted signs letting people know about the battle and has received at least 100 cleaning tips from the public. The National Parks Service has recently started trying out 10 chemical biocides in small patches of the Jefferson Memorial, and they will be soon trying some non-traditional options, such as ozonated water and irradiation with lasers, according to a NPS press release. “We have absolutely no intention of allowing nature to take its course and cover a gloriously white marble rotunda with a blackened biofilm,” said Mike Litterst of the park service.
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Ontario CBS workers narrowly avoid strike deadline
“The union believes this new agreement will play an important role in ensuring Canada’s blood supply remains safe, secure and reliable." — Warren (Smokey) Thomas, OPSEU President.
Toronto (08 Jan. 2015) — Ontario blood services support workers have reached a last-minute tentative agreement with CBS, narrowly avoiding a midnight strike deadline.
OPSEU/NUPGE bargaining team recommends acceptance of tentative agreement with the Canadian Blood Services
“These workers were prepared to do what it takes to ensure the safety of our blood supply system, and I commend them for their strength and courage in taking a stand,” said Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
The union bargaining team is recommending that its members vote to accept the new four-year contract, which is retroactive to 2013 and will expire in 2017.
“The union believes this new agreement will play an important role in ensuring Canada’s blood supply remains safe, secure and reliable,” said Thomas. “Public safety is a huge responsibility, and this union will not allow it to be compromised by so-called austerity policies.”
More than 800 employees of Canadian Blood Services are covered by this collective agreement.
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The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) is one of Canada's largest labour organizations with over 340,000 members. Our mission is to improve the lives of working families and to build a stronger Canada by ensuring our common wealth is used for the common good. NUPGE
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CHSAA changes site of state title game
By T.M. FASANO
fasano@greeleytrib.com
If you plan on driving down to Denver to watch the No. 1 Eaton Reds play the No. 2 Denver Christian Crusaders in the Class 2A Football State Championship game at 1 p.m. Saturday, please don’t drive to the Crusaders’ home field off South Pearl Street. If you do, you’ll be hanging out all afternoon with nothing to watch.
The game will be played at All-City Stadium off Interstate 25 across the highway from the University of Denver.
“Our field is actually a Denver city park. Denver city park rules prohibit you from charging for any activity you hold there,” Crusaders football coach Mark Swalley said.
Swalley said the school operates off donations for football games in the past. Colorado High School Activities Association assistant commissioner Bert Borgmann said that was a concern for the title game.
“That’s not good enough for CHSAA for a state championship game,” said Swalley, whose Crusaders (11-1) will be playing in their first state title football game since losing to Las Animas in 1975.
Ticket prices for the game will be $8 for adults, and $6 for students and senior citizens 60 and older.
“We knew as early as the middle of the season that if Denver Christian got anywhere near the playoff game, that they would probably be looking for an alternative site,” Borgmann said. “There is no Denver Prep school involved in any of the playoffs this weekend, and it seemed to be natural for them to move it over there.”
The Reds will be playing in their fourth consecutive state championship game, but this is the first title game for them on a neutral field, even though it’s just a few miles from Denver Christian. The Reds won the state title over Roosevelt at Leslie R. Leake Field in Eaton in 2000, and lost to Burlington in 2001 and Holy Family in 2002 on the road.
The weather is supposed to be in the low 30s with a chance of snow, and All-City Stadium’s polyturf surface will be better to play on than the field Denver Christian played on all season.
“In reality, that’s probably good because I think I counted about 13 blades of grass on it Tuesday when we were up there practicing,” Swalley said of his field. “All-City Stadium is a great venue for a state championship game.”
Eaton coach Bill Mondt agrees.
“At this time of year, it’s probably the best possible field you can get,” Mondt said. “The grass fields are all dry and hard as a rock.”
Swalley said Denver Christian’s field seats about 1,000 people. Borgmann said All-City Stadium will hold about 7,000 to 8,000 people.
“I think we’re going to have a big crowd,” Borgmann said. “Denver Christian wanted to have a quality facility for a state championship game.”
Swalley isn’t upset that the game won’t be played at his home field.
“This is the way a state championship game should be played on a neutral field,” Swalley said.
Swalley said both the Eaton and Denver Christian communities always support their teams.
“I expect that each of our schools will bring a big crowd,” Swalley said. “Because it’s in the Denver-metro area, we will get a lot of other people who will decide to come to the game on game day.”
Take Interstate 25 south to the University exit. Take University south to Buchtel. Go west on Buchtel to Franklin. Turn north and go back across the highway to All-City Stadium.
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2019 U.S. Open swimming TV, live stream schedule
By OlympicTalkDec 3, 2019, 8:04 AM EST
Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel and Caeleb Dressel headline the U.S. Open, swimming’s biggest domestic winter meet, live on NBC Sports this week.
U.S. Olympic hopefuls are looking to establish themselves this week in Atlanta, six months out from the trials.
Finals are at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday on USASwimming.org, plus Friday and Saturday on NBCSN and streaming on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app. The 800m freestyle will kick things off on Wednesday at 6 p.m. on USASwimming.org.
Ledecky is entered in her full complement of freestyles (100m through 1500m), plus the 200m and 400m individual medleys, which she sometimes races domestically but never on the major international level.
After being hit by illness at the summer world championships, Ledecky was back in form at a Pro Series stop a month ago, sweeping the 200m, 400m and 800m frees.
Manuel, the American record holder and world champion in the 50m and 100m frees, is entered in both sprints, plus the 200m free (anticipated showdown with Ledecky), the 100m backstroke and the 100m butterfly.
Manuel’s 200m free is of particular interest. She has never swum it individually at an Olympics or worlds but ranks second in the U.S. in the event this year behind Ledecky. If she adds it for the Olympic trials, she could be looking at a seven-event lineup in Tokyo when including four relays.
Dressel, who could go for a Phelpsian eight events in Tokyo, is entered in five individual events in Atlanta — 100m and 200m free, 100m and 200m fly and the 200m IM. He could face training partner Ryan Lochte in the medley. Lochte, at 35, is bidding to become the oldest U.S. Olympic male swimmer in an individual event since 1904.
The U.S. Open also features Olympic or world champions Regan Smith, Lilly King, Chase Kalisz, Matt Grevers and the oldest swimmer of the meet, 38-year-old Anthony Ervin, who took 50m free gold in 2000 and 2016.
MORE: Dressel recalls summer tears in Golden Goggles speech
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OLYMPIC TALK | NBC SPORTSolympics Diving
Ten memorable Summer Olympic gold-medal moments from 2010s
By Nick ZaccardiDec 19, 2019, 2:51 PM EST
NBCSports.com looks back at the 2010s this week. Here are 10 Summer Olympic gold-medal moments that defined the decade …
London 2012: Fierce Five puts U.S. back atop women’s gymnastics
Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross became the first U.S. gymnastics team to win an Olympic title outside of a home Games. This group set the tone for what would become a dynasty — the U.S. women have won every Olympic and world team and all-around title since 2011. Douglas went on to capture the all-around in London. Raisman grabbed her all-around medal in Rio, a silver. Wieber kicked it off with the 2011 World all-around crown. Maroney was shockingly relegated to silver in the 2012 Olympic vault final, then repeated as world champion in 2013. Ross would join Simone Biles on world all-around podiums in 2013 and 2014.
London 2012: Michael Phelps breaks career Olympic medals record
Though Phelps broke Mark Spitz‘s single-Games mark by taking eight golds in 2008, he entered the decade in second place on the career Olympic medals list behind 1950s and ’60s Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina. Phelps needed three medals in London — what he said would be his final Games — to take the lead with 19 total. He tied and broke the record on the same night with a silver behind Chad le Clos in the 200m butterfly and gold anchoring the 4x200m freestyle relay. Phelps went on to win another nine Olympic medals between London and Rio — with a brief retirement in between — to finish with 28 medals and 23 golds. Latynina, with 18 medals and nine golds, is now a distant second.
London 2012: Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh Jennings three-peat
The greatest team in beach volleyball history took their final bow together at Horse Guards Parade, completing an undefeated run for a third straight Olympics. May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings had separate win streaks of 90 and 112 matches in the 2000s but were vulnerable going into London. They had won four of their 17 international events together since May-Treanor unretired in 2011. But they dropped just one set in seven matches at the Olympics, sweeping countrywomen Jen Kessy and April Ross in the final. May-Treanor retired from international play for good, while Walsh Jennings planted the seed of her next partnership at the net after the final. She and Ross paired and earned bronze in Rio.
London 2012: David Rudisha breaks world record in epic 800m final
Maybe the greatest race in history. The Maasai warrior Rudisha was tapped by many to break his own world record in his Olympic debut. He did it, leading from the break and towing six of the seven other finalists to personal bests. Rudisha clocked 1:40.91, becoming the first man to break 1:41. Every runner’s time was the fastest ever for that finishing placement. “It was the performance of the Games, not just of track and field, but of the Games,” said London 2012 chairman Seb Coe, a former 800m world-record holder.
London 2012: David Boudia wins platform on final dive
Boudia, after qualifying last out of 18 divers out of preliminaries, entered the sixth and last final-round dive in a virtual tie with world champion Qiu Bo of China and British favorite Tom Daley. For the biggest dive of his life, Boudia performed the highest-scoring dive of the day — 102.60 points — on a back two-and-a-half somersault with two-and-a-half twists in the pike position. He won by 1.80 points over Qiu, giving the U.S. its first Olympic diving title since Laura Wilkinson in 2000.
Rio 2016: Simone Biles, Aly Raisman go 1-2 in all-around
For Biles, gold was a coronation marking four years of unprecedented excellence. For Raisman, silver was sweet, representing a three-year comeback journey to become an even better gymnast than she was in London (where she missed an all-around medal on a tiebreak). Biles’ margin of victory — 2.1 points — was greater than the previous nine Olympic margins combined. Raisman had a 1.433-point edge over bronze medalist Aliya Mustafina, greater than the margin separating Mustafina from the 10th-place finisher.
Rio 2016: Katie Ledecky completes 4-gold-medal Games with second world record
You can’t ask much more of a swimmer than a personal best. When Ledecky does that, it usually means a world record. She shattered personal bests in the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyles en route to four golds (including the 4x200m free relay) at her second Olympics. The 400m and 800m frees were world records, nearly two seconds faster than the previous marks. Ledecky shed rare tears after the last race, the 800m free, knowing it was her final one under D.C.-area coach Bruce Gemmell before matriculating at Stanford.
Rio 2016: Wayde van Niekerk breaks Michael Johnson’s 400m world record
From way out in lane eight, the South African took down Johnson’s 17-year-old world record in perhaps the most astonishing feat of the Games. Van Niekerk, then coached by a 74-year-old grandmother (Ans Botha), clocked 43.03 seconds. Usain Bolt, watching on a TV in the stadium, covered his mouth in a similar reaction to many at the Maracana. The two sprinters trained together earlier that year. “Bolt told me in Jamaica, ‘You will break the world record,'” van Niekerk said in Rio. “Tonight [Bolt] said, ‘I told you you can do it.'”
Rio 2016: Usain Bolt finishes golden Olympic career
With one last relay leg, the Jamaican bid farewell to the Olympics with a “triple-triple,” gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics (the 2008 relay title would later be stripped for a teammate’s doping). Though Bolt turned a close 4x100m into a runaway on anchor, perhaps the more memorable image of that night came hours later. Some time after midnight, Bolt made his way back onto the track and threw a javelin.
Rio 2016: Neymar wins Brazil’s first Olympic soccer title in shootout
In what he later called the most nervous moment of his life, Neymar calmly netted the decisive shootout attempt in the Olympic final at the Maracana. The opponent: Germany, whose national team trounced Brazil 7-1 two years earlier in the World Cup semifinals, also in Brazil. Neymar dropped to his knees, was mobbed by teammates and then sobbed. Brazil, a five-time World Cup champion, earned its first Olympic soccer title and its most coveted medal of the Rio Games.
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Tags: aly raisman, Beach Volleyball, David Boudia, David Rudisha, diving, gymnastics, Katie Ledecky, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Michael Phelps, Misty May-Treanor, Neymar, olympics, Simone Biles, soccer, swimming, track and field, Wayde van Niekerk, Aly Raisman, David Boudia, David Rudisha, Katie Ledecky, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Michael Phelps, Misty May-Treanor, Neymar, Simone Biles, Wayde van Niekerk
Ilya Zakharov, Olympic diving champion, retires after missing drug tests
By OlympicTalkNov 26, 2019, 8:23 AM EST
Russian Ilya Zakharov, who broke China’s diving gold-medal streak on the springboard, has retired due to injury, according to his social media.
Zakharov’s post came on the same day that Russian media reported that he missed three drug tests over a 12-month period, triggering an 18-month suspension.
“I have never used doping… and I will never do it!” was posted on Zakahrova’s Instagram. “Due to injury I had two operations and missed doping tests.”
Zakharov, 28, did not compete at July’s world championships but did win a synchronized springboard title at the Russian Championships in May after having knee surgery earlier this year, according to Russian media. The three missed tests came on October 21, 2018; February 17 and June 11, according to TASS, citing the Russian Diving Federation president.
In the 2012 Olympic springboard final, Zakharov overtook Chinese Qin Kai on the last dive to become the first non-Chinese diver to win an Olympic title on the event (man or woman) since 1992.
Zakharov finished 18th at the Rio Olympics.
He also earned synchro springboard silver in 2012, plus seven world championships medals on the springboard from 2011-17.
MORE: No medal, but mission accomplished for David Boudia
Tags: diving, Ilya Zakharov, olympics, Russia, Ilya Zakharov
China authors most dominant diving world championships in history
By OlympicTalkJul 20, 2019, 9:21 AM EDT
Yang Jian put an exclamation point on China’s most dominant world diving championships ever, winning the men’s platform with the highest finals score in recent history to end the meet.
Yang tallied 10s in each of the last two rounds to hold off countryman Yang Hao (who had all 10s in round four) with 598.65 points. Yang Hao tallied 585.75 for silver, 44.7 points ahead of Russian bronze medalist Aleksandr Bondar.
Ukrainian 13-year-old Oleksii Sereda took fourth.
British star Tom Daley, the defending world champion who had the previous recent highest score of 590.95 points, dropped out of the medals in the fifth round with the lowest score (46.25) of the 72 dives from 12 entrants. He ended up seventh.
Americans Brandon Loschiavo and David Dinsmore placed eighth and 12th, respectively.
China won all 12 events that it entered at diving worlds, skipping a mixed-gender springboard Saturday that’s not on the Olympic program.
China, which has dominated the sport for two decades, won every event that it entered at an Olympics or worlds for the second time after going 10 for 10 in 2011.
This year’s feat is more impressive because mixed-gender events were added to the world program (but not the Olympic program) since 2011. And this year, China not only won every gold but also every silver in the four individual Olympic program events.
Yang Jian is an interesting story in particular. In 2014, he broke the record for highest-scoring dive with a 123-point, front four-and-a-half, leading 2012 Olympic champion David Boudia to dub him the 2016 Olympic favorite.
But Yang struggled with injury in 2015, dropped to 10th at those worlds and wasn’t on China’s team for Rio. He came back for bronze at 2017 Worlds and silver at the 2018 World Cup before an ankle injury last winter.
“It is hard to win the gold medal after such a long term of difficulty in my life,” he said.
Tags: China, David Dinsmore, diving, olympics, Tom Daley, Yang Hao, Yang Jian, David Dinsmore, Tom Daley, Yang Hao, Yang Jian
Ten memorable Summer Olympic gold-medal moments from 2010s December 19, 2019 2:51 pm Ilya Zakharov, Olympic diving champion, retires after missing drug tests November 26, 2019 8:23 am China authors most dominant diving world championships in history July 20, 2019 9:21 am China on brink of sweeping every gold medal at diving worlds July 19, 2019 8:50 am No medal for David Boudia as China extends perfect run at diving worlds July 18, 2019 12:15 pm Chinese 13-year-olds go 1-2 at diving worlds; U.S. medal drought ends July 17, 2019 8:54 am David Boudia adjusts diving event, goal for world championships July 16, 2019 3:00 pm Sarah Bacon is first U.S. female diver to earn world medal in 14 years July 13, 2019 6:47 am 2019 World Diving Championships TV, streaming schedule July 8, 2019 3:19 pm Youngest Rio Olympic champion left off China team for diving worlds July 2, 2019 8:25 am U.S. diving roster for world championships finalized at nationals May 26, 2019 2:54 pm David Boudia wins U.S. title, qualifies for worlds after break from diving May 25, 2019 4:00 pm Steele Johnson returns to diving after difficult year out of competition May 20, 2019 3:02 pm David Boudia’s return highlights diving nationals, world spots at stake May 17, 2019 10:27 am Sam Dorman, Olympic medalist diver, retires December 12, 2018 11:38 am David Boudia changes diving events after concussion November 20, 2018 4:09 pm Relive Greg Louganis’ diving board accident on 30th anniversary September 19, 2018 7:00 am Lawsuit alleges USA Diving ignored sex abuse of divers July 17, 2018 6:22 am David Boudia’s diving comeback delayed by concussion May 14, 2018 3:01 pm Diver slips, falls on springboard, crashes into water (video) November 13, 2017 11:43 am David Boudia to return to diving, eyes fourth Olympics September 12, 2017 2:49 pm Tom Daley wins 10m platform gold at Worlds on final dive July 22, 2017 1:46 pm Diving world championships schedule on Olympic Channel July 12, 2017 5:21 pm Olympic medalists headline U.S. roster for diving worlds May 22, 2017 11:23 am U.S. diving moves on without David Boudia April 24, 2017 8:50 am 14-year-old diver qualifies for world championships April 15, 2017 9:45 am Laura Wilkinson announces diving comeback March 2, 2017 7:33 pm David Boudia takes international season off, to decide whether to retire February 23, 2017 12:56 pm Chinese diving legend emotionally retires December 15, 2016 10:07 am Diver Sammy Lee, first Asian-American male gold medalist, dies at 96 December 3, 2016 4:48 pm Chen Roulin ends record-breaking diving career at age 23 October 19, 2016 9:14 am Olympians discuss the role of LGBT allies October 6, 2016 11:37 am Diving: Boudia slips to bronze; China’s Chen hits perfect last dive for gold August 20, 2016 5:03 pm Diving: Ren, Si give China a 1-2 finish; Canada’s Benfeito bronze August 18, 2016 4:24 pm WATCH LIVE: Women’s basketball, women’s handball and women’s platform diving August 18, 2016 1:30 pm WATCH LIVE: Sailing, BMX racing, boxing and platform diving August 17, 2016 11:30 am China’s domination of diving continues in men’s 3m springboard August 16, 2016 7:21 pm WATCH: Gold medal diver Ilya Zakharov slips out of competition August 16, 2016 5:13 pm USA divers Ipsen, Hixon advance to tonight’s springboard final August 16, 2016 11:30 am WATCH LIVE: Ipsen and Hixon diving for USA; 105kg weightlifters lift August 15, 2016 2:00 pm
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Three Problematic Truths About the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009
Lombard Street, Vol. 1, No. 12, September 14, 2009
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-48
27 Pages Posted: 18 Sep 2009
See all articles by Joshua D. Wright
Joshua D. Wright
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
Todd J. Zywicki
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty; PERC - Property and Environment Research Center
Date Written: September 15, 2009
The creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (“CFPA”) is a very bad idea and should be rejected. The proposal is not salvageable and cannot be improved in substance or in form. The foundational premise of the CFPA is that a failure of consumer protection, and specifically irrational consumer behavior in lending markets, was a meaningful cause of the financial crisis and that the CFPA would have or could have averted the crisis or lessened its effects. To the contrary, there is no evidence that consumer ignorance or irrationality was a substantial cause of the crisis or that the existence of a CFPA could have prevented the problems that occurred. The CFPA is likely to do more harm than good for consumers. In this article, we highlight three fundamentally problematic truths about the CFPA: (1) The CFPA is premised on a flawed understanding of the financial crisis, (2) the CFPA will have significant unintended consequences, including but not limited to reducing competition, consumer choice, and availability of credit to consumers for productive uses; and (3) the CFPA creates a powerful bureaucracy with undefined scope, risking expensive and wasteful regulatory overlap at both the federal and state levels without any evidence of its own expertise in the core areas it is designed to regulate.
Keywords: Barack Obama, behavioral economics, credit cards, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Trade Commission, Financial Regulatory Reform, Michael Barr, new paternalism, Oren Bar-Gill, plain vanilla, regulation, White Paper
JEL Classification: D18, E50, E58, G18, G24, G28, G38, K22, K23, L44, L51, R38
Wright, Joshua D. and Zywicki, Todd J., Three Problematic Truths About the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 (September 15, 2009). Lombard Street, Vol. 1, No. 12, September 14, 2009; George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-48. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1474006
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Parajet were pleased to attend WIRED 2014, Wired Magazine’s fourth flagship event held at Tobacco Dock in the East End of London; the first two days were aimed at an adult audience and the final day was their “Next Generation” event for 12-18-year-olds.
The event revolved around some truly extraordinary guest speakers from diverse backgrounds such as design, advertising, digital media, life sciences, publishing, programming, humanitarianism and more. Some of the more notable speakers were Will I am, Mark Chapman (Bloodhound project), Sir John Hegarty (Bartle Bogle Hegerty), Zee Frank (viral videographer) and over 40 others. Between talks, delegates were free to wander through the Test Lab, four large areas showcasing innovation and technology with exhibits on 3-D printing, robotics, surround vision/sound systems, glasses that would data-stream to the wearer and much more. It was with a great sense of pride that we were invited to display both our Parajet paramotors and the SkyRunner flying car.
As exhibitors, the show fluctuated between extremely busy in the breaks followed by quiet periods during the conference talks. On Friday morning we were extremely privileged to be visited by the Duke of York who spent some considerable time talking with Parajet MD Tom Prideaux-Brune about the technology and engineering that has gone into the SkyRunner and its vast possibilities. The newly launched Bear Grylls Paramotor that was on display caught the eye of another notable visitor, international pop star and technology enthusiast Will.I.am who was very intrigued by the idea.
The show was a huge success, allowing a very diverse group of people who were leaders in their fields to meet and exchange ideas and the Parajet team are very much looking forward to exhibiting there again next year.
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Over 3,500 crimes against refugees registered in Germany
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By IANS On Feb 26, 2017 - 6:11 PM
Berlin: Law enforcement officials in Germany registered 3,533 attacks on refugees and asylum-seekers in 2016, which resulted in 560 people, including 43 children, being injured, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
In addition, the ministry reported that last year there had been 217 attacks against non-profit groups that support refugees and on volunteers from those NGOs, Efe news reported.
According to the report, which was drafted in response to a request by the parliamentary group of the opposition party Die Linke, 2,545 of the 3,533 instances of anti-refugee hate crimes took place outside official reception centres.
The government-run centres were the site of 988 attacks, a slightly lower number than the 1,031 attacks registered in 2015.
“Must there be deaths before right-wing violence is considered a central security problem and put on the interior policy agenda,” asked Ulla Jelpke, Die Linke’s parliamentary spokesperson in an interview.
Jelpke accused the government of fear-mongering by giving the impression that refugees pose a security threat after passing stricter asylum and immigration laws.
According to the data provided by the ministry, Germany took in 280,000 asylum-seekers in 2016, a 68-per cent decrease compared to 2015, when 890,000 people arrived in the country seeking refuge.
The main causes of this dramatic drop in asylum requests are the closure of the so-called Balkan route and the signing of a refugee repatriation deal between the European Union and Turkey.
This January, almost 14,500 asylum-seekers entered Germany.
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Chris Pureka
Friday Night Stage
It’s rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Her bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of her life in song has long appealed to those listeners who crave authenticity. Now, five years coming, she shares with us another powerful entry in her life’s work, her sixth release, the aptly titled, Back in the Ring.
Chris’s elegant emotionality as a vocalist, and her flair and immediacy as a lyricist have garnered her favorable comparisons to Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. She’s earned accolades from such distinguished taste-making outlets as The New York Times, Paste, Magnet, Billboard.com, and The AllMusic Guide. She’s shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as Dar Williams, The Lumineers, The Cowboy Junkies, Gregory Alan Isakov, Martin Sexton, and Ani DiFranco. Along the way, Chris has remained fiercely independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through her own label, Sad Rabbit Records.
Chris’s journey in music mirrors her path toward self-discovery. At 16, writing songs became a way of journaling. “I was shy and introverted, and songwriting was a very personal process. I never had any intention of performing,” she shares. Post high school, she went on to complete a biology degree at Wesleyan University, and afterwards, worked in a microbiology research lab at Smith College. Meanwhile, she established a music career parallel to her biology work through touring and issuing a clutch of well-received indie releases. In 2006, when Chris found herself turning down too many opportunities as a musician, she shifted her priorities to become a full-time artist.
Her latest album, Back in the Ring, is Chris’s first studio full length since 2010’s critically acclaimed How I Learned to See in the Dark. “I’m not interested in releasing songs I can’t get behind or records I don’t love,” she says of the five-year span between albums. The title of her latest playfully suggests something of an artistic comeback, but it also references the album’s themes of relationship conflict and making the decision to fight back against dark inner demons.
“My music is the outward expression of the work I’m doing internally. What I do comes from my experiences, and I strive to express these experiences authentically. Speaking my truth, and being myself, is the way that I connect with people,” Chris confides. Her rise as an esteemed artist with captivating emotional integrity has been organic and always on her own terms. For someone who never had an intention of being a professional musician, it’s been a life of far-reaching changes and unexpected rewards.
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Why the wealthy voted for Obama and higher taxes
November 11, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: $250, 000, and private-equity barons, banker, Blue State, Bush-DeLay, Bush-era, Bushenfreude, corporate CEOs, Fairfield County, financial services, Fortune, gazillionaires, George W. Bush, Goldman Sachs, hedge-fund managers, higher taxes, Hudson River, Jim Himes, McCain-Palin, New England-born, Obama, Poor State, professional athletes, Red State, republicans, Rhodes Scholar, Rich State, Right-wingers, social conservatism, Taxes, trust funders, voted, Washington, wealthiest, Yalie aristocrats, York Times, yuppies | Leave a comment
For several years, I’ve been writing about Bushenfreude, the phenomenon of angry yuppies—who’ve hugely benefited from President Bush’s tax cuts—funding angry, populist Democratic campaigns. I’ve theorized that people who work in financial services and related fields have become so outraged and alienated by the incompetence, crass social conservatism, and repeated insults to the nation’s intelligence, of the Bush-era Republican Party, that they’re voting with their hearts and heads instead of their wallets.
Last week’s election was perhaps Bushenfreude’s grandest day. As the campaign entered its final weeks, Barack Obama, who pledged to unite the country, singled out one group of people for ridicule: those making more than $250,000. At his rallies, he would ask for a show of hands of those making less than one-quarter of $1 million per year. Then he’d look around, laugh, and note that those in the virtuous majority would get their taxes cut, while the rich among them would be hit with a tax increase. And yet the exit polls show, the rich—and yes, if you make $250,000 or more you’re rich—went for Obama by bigger margins than did the merely well-off. If the exit polls are to be believed, those making $200,000 or more (6 percent of the electorate) voted for Obama 52-46, while McCain won the merely well-off ($100,000 to $150,000 by a 51-48 margin and $150,000 to $200,000 by a 50-48 margin).
Right-wingers tend to dismiss such numbers as the voting behavior of trust funders or gazillionaires—people who have so much money that they just don’t care about taxes. That may explain a portion of Bushenfreude. But there just aren’t that many trust funders out there. Rather, it’s clear that the nation’s mass affluent—Steve the lawyer, Colby the financial services executive, Ari the highly paid media big shot—are trending Democratic, especially on the coasts. Indeed, Bushenfreude is not necessarily a nationwide phenomenon. As Andrew Gelman notes in the book “Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State,” the rich in poor states are likely to stick with the Republicans.
But in the ground zero of Bushenfreude, Fairfield County, Conn., it was practically an epidemic last week. Bushenfreude’s most prominent victim was Rep. Chris Shays, the last Republican congressman east of the Hudson River. For the past several cycles, Shays, who played a moderate in his home district but was mainly an enabler of the Bush-DeLay Republicans in Washington, fended off well-financed challengers with relative ease. Last week, he fell victim to Jim Himes. Himes, as this New York Times profile shows, is the ultimate self-made, pissed-off yuppie: a member of Harvard’s crew team, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and a resident of Greenwich.
Shays claims he was done in by a Democratic tsunami in Fairfield County and the state. And Connecticut’s county results show Obama ran up a huge 59-41 margin in the county, which includes Bridgeport and Norwalk—densely populated cities with large poor, minority, and working-class populations. But an examination of the presidential votes in several of Fairfield County’s wealthier districts (here are Connecticut’s votes by town) shows the yuppies came out in the thousands to vote for a candidate who pledged to raise their taxes. In the fall of 2003, I first detected Bushenfreude in Westport (No. 5 on Money’s list of 25 wealthiest American towns). The telltale symptom: Howard Dean signs stacked in the back of a brand-new BMW. The signs of an outbreak were legion this year. On our route to school, my kids would count the number of yard signs for Obama and McCain (the results: 6-to-1). On the Saturday morning before the election, I stopped by the Westport Republican headquarters to pick up some McCain-Palin buttons, only to find it locked. On Election Day, Westport voters went for Obama by a 65-35 margin. (That’s bigger than the 60-40 margin Kerry won here in 2004.) Bushenfreude spread from Westport to neighboring towns. In Wilton, just to the north, which Bush carried comfortably in 2004, Obama won 54 percent of the vote.
Perhaps most surprising was the result from Greenwich, Conn. The Versailles of the tri-state metro area, the most golden of the region’s gilded suburbs, the childhood home of George H.W. Bush, went for Obama by a 54-46 margin—the first time Greenwich went Democratic since 1964. Who knew the back-country estates and shoreline mansions were populated with so many traitors to their class? (In the 2004 cage match of New England-born, Yalie aristocrats, George W. Bush beat Kerry 53-47 in Greenwich.) Some towns in Fairfield County were clearly inoculated from Bushenfreude. In New Canaan and Darien, which ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in Money’s list of 25 wealthiest towns, McCain-Palin won by decent majorities. (In both towns, however, the Republican margins were down significantly from 2004.) What’s the difference between these towns and their neighbors? Well, New Canaan and Darien are wealthier than their sister towns in Fairfield County. (In both, the median income is well more than $200,000.) So perhaps the concern about taxes is more acute there. Another possible explanation is that these towns differ demographically from places like Greenwich and Westport, in that they are less Jewish, and Jews voted heavily for Obama.
While there has been job loss and economic anxiety throughout Fairfield County, I don’t think that economic problems alone explain the big Democratic gains in the region. In Greenwich, economic stress for many people means flying commercial or selling the ski house (while maintaining the summer house on Nantucket). There’s something deeper going on when a town that is home to corporate CEOs, professional athletes, hedge-fund managers, and private-equity barons—the people who gained the most, financially, under the Bush years and who would seem to have the most to lose financially under an Obama administration—flips into the Democratic column. Somewhere in the back country, in a 14,000-square-foot writer’s garret, an erstwhile hedge-fund manager is dictating a book proposal to his assistant, a former senior editor at Fortune who just took a buyout, that explains why many of the wealthy choose to vote for a Democrat, in plain violation of their economic self-interest. Working title: What’s the Matter With Greenwich?
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Sudan’s Leaders Uneasy About Obama
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Black African Muslims are seen as being of less value than lighter or browner African Muslims from the North, killing Black Africans seems less important to the Middle East and N. African regions than the Palestinian crisis, where far fewer people have died.
NAIROBI — If the election of Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different.
In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum these days, political elites are bracing for what they expect will be a major shift in U.S. policy toward a government the United States has blamed for orchestrating a violent campaign against civilians in the western Darfur region.
“Compared to the Republicans, the Democrats, I think they are hawks,” said Ghazi Suleiman, a human rights lawyer and member of the Southern People’s Liberation Movement, which has a fragile power-sharing agreement with the ruling party. “I know Obama’s appointees. And I know their policy towards Sudan. Everybody here knows it. The policy is very aggressive and very harsh. I think we really will miss the judgments of George W. Bush.”
While the Bush administration most recently advocated the idea of “normalizing” relations with Sudan as a carrot approach to ending a crisis it labeled a genocide, Obama’s foreign policy appointees have pushed for sticks.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the nominee for secretary of state, has called for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone to “blanket” Darfur in order to prevent Sudanese bombing of villages. The appointee for U.N. ambassador, Susan E. Rice — a key Africa adviser to the Clinton administration during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when President Bill Clinton was sharply criticized for failing to act — has pushed for U.S. or NATO airstrikes and a naval blockade of Sudan’s major port to prevent lucrative oil exports. Rice has vowed to “go down in flames” advocating tough measures.
Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was chosen for his foreign policy experience and pressed early for U.S. intervention to stop the fighting in the Balkans, was blunt during a hearing last year: “I would use American force now,” he said.
But it remains unclear how those pre-election views will square with the president-elect, who has outlined a pragmatic, coalition-based approach to foreign policy, while also speaking of America’s “moral obligation” in the face of humanitarian catastrophes of the sort that are plentiful in Africa.
Heading off potential genocide is the focus of a task force report to be released today in Washington. The group recommends, among other things, that the Obama administration create a high-level forum in the White House to direct the government’s response to threats of mass violence.
So far, Obama has been more cautious on Darfur than some of his appointees, advocating tougher sanctions against Khartoum and a no-fly zone that might be enforced with U.S. “help.” He has not called for direct U.S. intervention.
Obama intends to keep Bush’s defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, who has already suggested that the United States will not provide much-needed helicopters to a struggling peacekeeping mission in Darfur because U.S. forces are stretched too thin in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has also nominated as national security adviser retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, a former NATO supreme allied commander who has suggested that NATO’s role in Darfur should be training and support to the current peacekeeping mission rather than direct intervention.
And specialists close to Obama’s presidential campaign said that more generally, the new administration sees a need for diplomatic approaches to security crises across the continent.
“We don’t have the capacity to pacify these places militarily,” said John Prendergast, a Darfur activist and former White House aide during the Clinton administration, citing Sudan and the worsening conflicts in Congo and Somalia. “We need political solutions.”
Sudan’s U.N. ambassador, Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, dismissed the calls for military action as “only election slogans.”
“You cannot claim to be disengaging from disasters like Iraq but creating a new disaster in one of Africa’s biggest countries,” he said.
The crisis is in many ways a far more complex conflict than the one the Bush administration confronted. The violence in Darfur began in February 2003 when two rebel groups attacked Sudan’s Islamic government, claiming a pattern of bias against the region’s black African tribes. Khartoum organized a local Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed, to wage a scorched-earth campaign against the three ethnic groups — mostly farmers and traders — thought to be the rebels’ political base.
Some analysts estimate that as many as 450,000 people have died from disease and violence in the conflict. About half the population of the Darfur region — about 2.5 million people — are now displaced.
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Owain’s public image is that of the revolutionary warrior prince. The public are far less conscious of his formidable skills as statesman and diplomat.
France and England had been rivals and foes for centuries and in 1337 the Hundred Years War started. In his revolt against the repression of the English crown Owain sought support from France, who had established links with Scotland and Ireland.
Owain Lawgoch (Owain of the Red Hand), a great nephew of Llywelyn the Last, spent most of his life in exile in France as an officer in the French army. His dynastic claims made him a grave threat to the English throne especially when, in 1372, the French king gave him a fleet and an army to invade Wales. The expedition was called off. He was assassinated in 1378 by an English spy, but his French service may have been influential when Glyndwr was to call for assistance from France later.
Henry IV was heavily involved in expensive campaigns in Scotland and Ireland, and his right to the English throne was questioned. In 1401 a Welsh knight, Dafydd ab Ifan Goch, was sent as an emissary to the king of Scotland on behalf of Glyndwr. In 1403-4 the French squadron of Jean d’Espagne had worked with the Welsh and Owain sent his brother-in-law John Hanmer, and his chancellor Gruffudd Young to France. A treaty was concluded on July 14th 1404.
A French force left Brest on July 22nd, 1405 with 140 ships carrying 800 men-at-arms, 600 crossbowmen, and 1,200 lightly armed troops, and reached Milford Haven early in August. They joined Owain’s men on a march through south Wales, into England, and reached Woodbury Hill within 8 miles of Worcester. In November, however, a large body of French knights returned to France, and early in 1406 the rest of the French went home. Only feeble attempts were made afterwards to provide replacements for them and after this there were to be no more combined military operations to speak of.
On March 31st. 1406 Owain Glyndwr sent a letter in Latin to king Charles VI of France at the synod of the Welsh Church at Pennal. Its main interest is that it highlights Owain’s ambitions for Wales as an independent country. Click here to see the full text of the letter.
He wrote to seek the king’s support for his campaign to rid Wales of oppressive English rule (there were severe discriminatory laws favouring the English over the Welsh in Wales). In return for French support Owain was prepared to recognise Benedict XIII of Avignon as Pope (in place of Pope Innocent VII in Rome, whom the English recognised). Benedict was expected to support more suitable ecclesiastical appointments in Wales.
Before Owain’s time bishops were almost always English - between 1372 and 1400 out of a total of sixteen bishops appointed in Wales, only one was a Welshman. Owain campaigned for a Welsh (and Welsh-speaking) clergy. He called for a crusade against Henry IV, and forgiveness for all his own supporters. St David’s would be the seat of a restored Archbishop of Wales whose domain would include the diocese of Exeter, Bath,
Hereford, Worcester, Coventry and Lichfield, and in so doing return to the arrangement that applied at an earlier period in Britain’s history. Income from monasteries and their lands would be retained in Wales.
His vision included the establishment of two universities - one for north Wales and the other for south Wales (there were only 22 universities in the whole of Europe at the time).
The original letter is held at the Archives Nationales in Paris but facsimile copies of the letter were presented to the following: St Peter ad Vincula Church, Pennal; The Owain Glyndwr Centre, Machynlleth; the National Library of Wales; Glyndwr University; National Museum of Wales; National Assembly of Wales. These exact facsimile copies on parchment, prepared by the staff of the National Library of Wales, should be seen to be appreciated. The staff used specialist-ageing techniques and the seal of Glyndwr was recreated from moulds of the original seal.
Glyn Dŵr - the Statesman
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President John Brewer called the meeting to order at 7:30am. Dick Pilling led the flag salute. Guests included Jessica Hernandez (speaker) and Chris McDonald (reporter from the Peninsula Daily News). The thought for the day was: Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and, if you are lucky, really lucky, he will be gone all weekend.
Announcements: Sam Phillips, Fire Chief District 2, thanked everyone for their help during the “Fill The Fire Engine” food drive. Sam said 2000 lbs. of food and $770 in cash was collected.
Stephanie Noblin said she did not need the funds that PABA had allocated last year for a new camera. She said she would be cutting back on the number of meetings she attended and filmed but she would continue to cover PABA meetings.
No minutes were read covering the Christmas Party.
President Brewer said that Vice President Phil Kitchel would fill in for him on the 12th. The Board Meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 18. The Business Meeting will be on January 26.
Treasurer Jon Faber reminded people that he is collecting dues but will send out invoices to those who have not paid their $70.
Phil Kitchel reported that County Commissioner, Bill Peach, has been sworn in as a representative to the Department of Natural Resources.
Chamber Report: PABA Representative Andrew May said eight applicants were interviewed for the position of Chamber Executive Director. Out of town applicants were interviewed via Skype. Andrew mentioned his concerns about the whole election process and the lack of full Board interviews. The new Director will be named within the next week.
Andrew introduced Jessica Hernandez, Director of the Port Angeles Food Bank. Jessica said she was interested in the position she took on in 2014 because of her background in accounting, leadership, and her concern for people. She said a food bank is more than a place to hand out food. Good health, nutrition, and well balanced meals are just as important. The Food Bank Coalition is now handing out 500 Friday Food Bags to students so they will have healthy meals over the weekend. She has helped set up the Clallam County Food Bank Coalition which is made up of the Food Banks in Port Angeles, Sequim, at the Salvation Army, Senior Nutrition Program, the Jamestown S’Klallam, Quileute, and Makah tribes and several churches. The Coalition has helped in times of shortages and in times of surpluses. Figures for 2014 showed 25% of the County used the food bank, with 10% of those being veterans, 21% over the age of 55 and 29% under the age of 18. Seniors and those with limited mobility are served on non-regulation distribution days. She said the 15 tons of food from the Polar Pioneer were a blessing and have been distributed to members of the Coalition.
Q & A Period
Which is best, food or money? Number of staff? Food stamps or other governmental help? How to reduce the annual 10% increase.
Andrew May made a motion that PABA send a letter of thank you to the parent company of the Polar Pioneer for their donation of food. Bill Feeley seconded the motion. Motion carried.
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Loose Change, Part IV
by Greg Curtis
Last week we solved the problem of reforming a defective Affordable Care Act in a simple and brilliant manner. Alas, not all the changes Americans want — and voted for — will be so simple to effect. For example, let’s turn to:
Although President Obama entered office promising to “reset” America’s relations with Russia, he left office with Russo-American relations at their lowest point since the Cold War. Given the importance of Russia to American interests in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, to our interests in a volatile Middle East, and to our interests in containing China, this was a diplomatic failure of large proportions. And we’ve paid a large price, especially in Ukraine and the Crimea, in Syria, and in the recent US Presidential election.
Of course, it wasn’t all America’s fault. Vladimir Putin is an autocratic, volatile leader whose aggressive actions in Georgia and the Crimea infuriated the Obama Administration, as well as the leaders of most countries of Western and Central Europe. This led to the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia and on individual Russian officials, which undercut a Russian economy that was already reeling from the drop in oil prices and which, of course, led to a further decline in relations.
But just for the hell of it, let’s try to look at Russia’s actions not through the annoyed lens of America or democratic Europe, but through the much darker and apprehensive lens of Russia itself. And let’s use as our guiding spirit the notion that nations, like people, tend to behave badly when they are threatened. Russia is, to be sure, paranoid, but even paranoid nations have enemies.
Ever since the Russian state was formed in the 9th century, Russia has been surrounded by powerful enemies who, should they take a mind to invade Russia, have had few geographical obstacles in their way. No sooner had the Russia state arisen, for example, than it was invaded and destroyed from the east by the Mongol Golden Horde. In more modern times Russia has been repeatedly invaded from the west by the likes of Napoleon and Hitler.
Today, Russia continues to be surrounded by enemies. To the west sit the great Western European nations, among the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world. To the southwest lies the MENA Region (Middle East and North Africa), a hotbed of radical Islam so threatening to Russia that Putin has entered the Syrian Civil War on the side of Bashar al-Assad and against ISIS. To the southeast lurks China, Russia’s ancestral enemy. Just off the Russian southeast coast sits Japan, with whom Russia fought a war in 1904-05 and again in 1945. Oh — and 55 miles across the Bering Sea to the east sits the biggest, baddest enemy of them all, the United States of America.
You might suppose that America’s leaders, being, surely, astute students of history and geopolitics, might conclude that maybe Russia was feeling threatened enough. And you might especially suppose this because, once the USSR collapsed and Russia lost its Central European colonies, Russia was no longer in any position to challenge the US for global hegemony. Russia’s population is not even half of that of the US (and is declining) and its economy is a mere one-thirteenth that of the US.
But if you supposed these things you would be wrong. No sooner did the late, unlamented Soviet Union collapse than the EU began gobbling up former Soviet satellites. And in case Russia didn’t get the message, many of those former satellites promptly joined NATO, a military alliance whose only real purpose is to face off against — you guessed it, Russia. German and Belgian (NATO) troops are now in Lithuania, the US military (NATO) is in Poland, Canadian (NATO) troops are headed to Latvia, and British (NATO) troops are heading to Estonia. If you look at military map of Europe, it looks like a giant pincer aimed straight at Russia’s heart.
While we’re at it, let’s not forget that it was NATO’s pledge to expand into Georgia that set off Russia’s invasion of that country. And it was the West’s encouragement of the so-called Euromaidan Revolution in the Ukraine — which, by the way, overthrew a democratically elected leader and which had virtually no support from eastern Ukraine — that led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea.
And as a not entirely irrelevant aside, while many western Ukrainians no doubt legitimately believed in the Euromaidan movement, some of its instigators were anti-Semitic neo-Nazis. Among the largest political parties supporting Euromaidan was the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party, whose leader called for the liberation of his country from the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.” Americans and Europeans, drunk on our post-Soviet triumph, looked the other way.
In case some of my readers might imagine that I’ve become an apologist for bad Russian behavior, I have one word for you: Cuba. If you want to know how a glorious liberal democracy like the US responds to feeling threatened, let’s walk back in history to 1959, when Fidel Castro and his band of fashionista revolutionaries overthrew Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. A mere two years later, terrified by what was happening on this tiny Communist island, America launched the Bay of Pigs invasion, designed to overthrow Castro.
The invasion failed miserably — I served in the US Army with men who fought at the Bay of Pigs and who couldn’t stop talking about how they were “sold out” by the Kennedy Administration. But trying to invade a sovereign nation wasn’t enough for us. A mere year later the US was so unnerved by Cuba that President Kennedy took the world to the very brink of nuclear annihilation over the island. Putin’s behavior has been annoying, to be sure. But we have short memories about our own behavior.
Donald Trump also claims to want to “reset” relations with Russia, and I have no idea whether he will succeed or not. But this is one of those “changes” that has nowhere to go but up.
Next up: Loose Change, Part V
Category : Between the Issues
Greg Curtis
Gregory Curtis is the founder and Chairman of Greycourt & Co., Inc., a wealth management firm. He is the author of three investment books, including his most recent, Family Capital. He can be reached at . Please note that this post is intended to provide interested persons with an insight on the capital markets and is not intended to promote any manager or firm, nor does it intend to advertise their performance. All opinions expressed are those of Gregory Curtis and do not necessarily represent the views of Greycourt & Co., Inc., the wealth management firm with which he is associated. The information in this report is not intended to address the needs of any particular investor.
As I dutifully did every morning, I listened to my overnight voicemails. My boss was saying something like this: “Stop what you’re doing and get yourself to the Isle of Arran, and don’t dilly-dally!”
Why the Extremes Are Gaining
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity.” —“The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats
The Rest of the “Great” Democracies
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” —“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
Other stories in this category: « Loose Change, Part III Loose Change, Part V »
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C. J. Beathard
C. J. Beathard Biography
First published on:February 2, 2019
by Jack Ol
Facts of C. J. Beathard
Casey Jarrett Beathard
Casey Beathard
Susan Beathard
Tucker Beathard
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Currently Working For
University attended
School attended
Battle Ground Academy
Affair with
Madelyn Chupka
C. J. Beathard is an American professional Football player who plays in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers as their quarterback. He played college football at Iowa and was picked in the 3rd round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
As of 2019, C. J. Beathard reportedly earns around $882,162 as his yearly salary from San Francisco 49ers. The 2015 Manning Award Quarterback of the Week has an estimated net worth of over $500 thousand. Additionally, he is currently in a romantic relationship with his girlfriend Madelyn Chupka.
Net Worth and Salary
As of 2019, C. J. Beathard has an estimated net worth of over $500 thousand. In 2017, he reportedly signed a 4 year, $3,528,646 contract with the San Francisco 49ers, including a $706,288 signing bonus, $706,288 guaranteed.
In 2018, Beathard earned a basic salary of $625,393, with a cap value of $801,965 and a dead cap value of $529,716. Further, the NFL player has an average salary of $882,162 annually. Additionally, C. J. Beathard so far has made earnings of $1,796,681 from his 2 years of NFL career.
Contracts and Earnings:
YEAR TEAM SALARY
2017 San Francisco 49ers $465,000
Additionally, he will be earning $946,179 in 2020. Further, the NBA Player C. J. Beathard earns a good amount of money from various sponsorships which helped him to collect decent net worth.
C. J. Beathard Personal Life
Exploring his personal life, he is not married but reportedly, he is in a romantic relationship with his girlfriend Madelyn Chupka. He met her while he played college football at the University of Iowa. She is also a graduate of the University of Iowa.
CAPTION: Madelyn has been dating Beathard since 2012 SOURCE: Daily star
Though the couple is yet to be married, they share a daughter named Lyla who was born in 2016. Further, the information about their wedding plan has not been revealed in the media yet.
Happy 24th birthday to this pretty girl! Thank you for all of your support and everything you have done the past few years! Hope you had the best day. Love you!
A post shared by C.J. Beathard (@ceejaybeat_hard) on Sep 29, 2017 at 9:42pm PDT
Additionally, there aren't any rumors about his past affairs, relationship, and girlfriend in the media yet.
Talking about his body measurement, the Famous NBA star is 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) in height and weighs around 215 lb (98 kg).
C. J. Beathard Early Life and Education
C. J. Beathard was born on November 16, 1993, in Franklin, Tennessee to parents Casey Beathard and Susan Beathard. As per his racial background, he is American and belongs to the White ethnic group. Further, his star sign is Scorpio. He grew up along with his sibling, Tucker Beathard.
He is a grandson of Bobby Beathard, an American former football executive who was a general manager in the National Football League.
A day late, but happy 22nd birthday this dude right here, had my back since day one! Love you and proud of you bro. Would pay money to know what this conversation was about right here ??????
A post shared by C.J. Beathard (@ceejaybeat_hard) on Jan 25, 2017 at 5:40pm PST
In Franklin, Tennessee, Beathard attended the Battle Ground Academy. He played football in high school for the Wildcats Battle Ground Academy. After his high school football career, he committed himself to the University of Iowa and played football.
Beathard played college football at the University of Iowa and later was drafted by 49ers in 2017 NFL draft. Beathard was invited to play in the Senior Bowl in 2017. During the week of the Senior Bowl, he met with representatives of the Chicago Bears but failed to stand out after a week of practice.
Beathard signed his rookie contract on June 12, 2017. He competed with Matt Barkley and Nick Mullens for the job as a backup quarterback during the training camp.
During the 49ers' Week 11 match at home against Seattle Seahawks on 25 November, Beathard suffered a leg and hip injury in the 4th quarter and was replaced by Jimmy Garoppolo.
In 2018, After playing against the Arizona Cardinals on week 8, Beathard suffered wrist injury. Nick Mullens began the next game in Beathard's place against the Oakland Raiders.
NFL National Football League Football Player San Francisco 49ers quarterback C. J. Beathard
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PLDI 2016 (series) / Dino Distefano
Name: Dino Distefano
Bio: I’m Professor of Software Verification and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London. I was a member of the East London Massive.
I was also a founder of Monoidics Ltd a technology startup specialised in automatic verification tools. Monoidics was acquired by Facebook in July 2013.
I received my PhD from the University of Twente, in The Netherlands.
Affiliation: Facebook London
Personal website: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~ddino/ddino_homepage/About_me.html
SOAP 2016 Committee Member in Program Committee within the SOAP-track
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Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year.
She is the author of Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006). The poet Adrian Matejka describes her poems as “revelations—of memory, of dust, of the cotton and marginalia strung together to make a history.”
Of her own poetry, Francis says, “I’m very much saying that how African-American women are defined is inhuman in its narrowness, and that I, for one, am not going to allow it.”
The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Kresge Foundation, Francis currently serves as an editor for Callaloo and teaches English and creative writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015)
Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012)
Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006)
Given to Rust
Every time I open my mouth my teeth reveal
more than I mean to. I can’t stop tonguing them, my teeth.
Almost giddy to know they’re still there (my mother lost hers)
but I am embarrassed nonetheless that even they aren’t
pretty. Still, I did once like my voice, the way it moved
through the gap in my teeth like birdsong in the morning,
like the slow swirl of a creek at dusk. Just yesterday
a woman closed her eyes as I read aloud, and
said she wanted to sleep in the sound of it, my voice.
I can still sing some. Early cancer didn’t stop the compulsion
to sing but
there’s gravel now. An undercurrent
that also reveals me. Time and disaster. A heavy landslide
down the mountain. When you stopped speaking to me
what you really wanted was for me to stop speaking to you. To
stifle the sound of my voice. I know.
Didn’t want the quicksilver of it in your ear.
to silence another? It means I ruminate on the hit
of rain against the tin roof of childhood, how I could listen
all day until the water rusted its way in. And there I was
putting a pan over here and a pot over there to catch it.
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Old president’s campaign derails
Duda elected president of Poland
Andrzej Duda in April 2013. Photo Piotr Drabik, (CC by 2.0).
All over Poland people got up, switched on their TV sets or radios, and over their morning cups of coffee heard that they had elected the opposition candidate, Andrzej Duda, to be president of Poland. Almost until the last moment, pollsters were predicting a victory for the incumbent, Bronisław Komorowki. But it was not to be. When the election news blackout was lifted at 22:30 exit polls indicated that the newcomer had secured a decisive 6% lead. Shortly before midnight Komorowski conceded defeat.
It had been an election largely fought on negative point scoring. Opponents of President Komorowski, accused him and the governing party, Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) of employing communist-era officials in key government positions, turning a blind eye to fraud and corruption in high places, and preferring to ignore the problems of ordinary people. Opponents of Duda, ridiculed his membership of the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) party which is portrayed by the mainstream media, as a bunch of religious bigots obsessed with the circumstances of the Smolensk aeroplane crash which killed President Lech Kaczyński.
The danger in conducting negative campaigns is that while two candidates tear each other apart, a third can emerge quietly from the wings… . And so it was that ageing rock musician, Paweł Kukiz, emerged as the surprise youth candidate and garnered over 20% of the vote in the first round of the elections. While Kukiz took no part in the second round, he and his supporters are already gearing up for the parliamentary elections due in October. It seems likely that neither Law and Justice, nor Civic Platform will gain an overall majority in the parliamentary elections and that there will be a coalition government.
Andrzej Duda, born 16 May 1972, is a lawyer and a Member of the European Parliament. He comes from Krakow, the son of Janina Milewska and Jan Tadeusz Duda. His wife, Agata Kornhauser, is a high school German teacher. His father-in-law is Julian Kornhauser, a well-known Polish-Jewish writer, translator and literary critic.
He began his political career with the now-defunct Freedom Union Party (Unia Wolnóści) in the early 2000s, but after the parliamentary elections in 2005, began his collaboration with the Law and Justice Party. In 2010, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the elections for the Mayor of Kraków, but was more successful in the 2011 parliamentary election, where he received 79,981 votes for the Kraków area, becoming a member of the Polish Parliament’s lower house, the Sejm. He did not complete his term, becoming elected in 2014 as a member of the European Parliament.
He was the official candidate of the Law and Justice party for the office of President of Poland in the 2015 Polish presidential elections. He won the election with 52% of the vote. He is President-elect of Poland and will take up the office of President on 6 August 2015.
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Gone Dead Train. Photo moistworks.com
(Click to see original context.)
While half the world stayed up all night anxiously glued to their TV sets and the other half partied, I slept soundly, oblivious to all. Now don’t be alarmed, Behind The Water Tower is not going into wade into the murky waters of party politics. We are strictly non-partisan here. But on the other hand, much as I would have personally liked to have headed today’s post with a picture from a recently rediscovered cache of Polish narrow gauge railway photographs, it seems somewhat churlish to ignore recent events across the pond altogether. So as a compromise, I’ve decided to post an anthology of extracts from the latest posts by some fellow bloggers across the political spectrum. Just please don’t run away with the idea that I agree with everything that these people post in their blogs!
(The blog of Caroline Lucas, MEP, The leader of the Green Party.)
“changing the soul of man”…
An interesting title, but on closer inspection her post is about taking part in a BBC World Service debate about capitalism and the environment. Clearly Caroline thinks that whoever sits in the White House is totally irrelevant to the USA’s carbon footprint. The frightening thing is that she may just be right.
UK TOP SECRET Postman Patel
(The blog of Baron Patel, FMedSci, FRSE)
” Railway Property has been found very valuable since 1845.In many cases shares have doubled in their nominal value in a few days and often afterwards fallen as rapidly.”
A Million of Facts. Ward Lock. London 1850 by Sir Richard Phillips
I was delighted to see that my friend, Lord Patel, is returning to his family’s railway roots. The new strapline is much more tasteful than his earlier quote from The Unabomber Manifesto. But what’s this, his last post is about a programme on the BBC World Service! What is it about these guys? Is it something that’s been added to the tapwater or what?
(The blog of Tom Harris, Labour MP for Glasgow South, former Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport, responsible for Britain’s railways.)
Gosh, not one, but six posts praising Obama’s victory. I’ll just quote selectively from the first of of them.
I was wrong. Phew!
WELCOME to the Oval Office, President Obama.
So, I was wrong. You can hardly blame me for being pessimistic.
Amazing. Astonishing. Quite genuinely, tonight has restored my faith in the good sense and judgement of the American people.
Obama has rewritten the rules of American politics, and this is a very exciting time for the world.
Our Tom does get rather emotional. His lament on Ruth Kelly’s departure from the post of Secretary of State for Transport cost him his job.
(The blog of Iain Dale, one of Britain’s right wing political commentators. He was the host of Britain’s first political internet TV channel, 18 Doughty Street.com.)
Three pithy posts from Iain: the first, a brief invitation for comments when he retired to bed as soon as the result was known; the second, an analysis of the boundary of possibilities within which Obama will have to work; (See below for a sample.) the third, an analysis of BBC TV’s election night coverage.
A lot of Democrats will be expecting radical things from President Obama. I suspect they will be disappointed, at least initially. He may have campaigned on the slogan of ‘change’ but I suspect he will be far more conservative that many of his most enthusiastic supporters expect. He won’t want to rock the boat too much until he has proved his competence to the nation. There may be one or two headline announcements in the first 100 days, but from a military point of view I am not sure much will change initially.
Peston’s Picks
(The blog of Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor)
In a post called “Obama shackled by debt” Peston reviews Obama’s campaign slogans:
a) a windfall tax on the “excess” profits of oil companies;
b) a redistributive tax cut for those on middle and low incomes, funded by a claw back of tax cuts received by the wealthiest 2% during President Bush’s two terms;
c) serious public spending on roads, bridges, transport and infrastructure;
d) subventions for renewable energy and for the development of green technologies, especially in the automotive industry…
And then there’s the cold wind of political reality:
Because Obama may turn out to be less red in the practice of his presidency than his words and aspirations would imply.
For example, on that windfall tax – which much of the Labour Party would love to see imitated here – there’s already been a strong hint from Obama’s advisers that it’s on hold, following the collapse in the oil price.
(The blog of Christian Wolmar, Britain’s leading rail pundit)
At last a mention of both BTWT’s keywords ‘environment’ and ‘transport’.
But what will he mean for the environment and transport? I suspect he will send out the same mixed message that Brown has done. He will talk Green but at the same time support low gas prices and do nothing to try to wean Americans out of their cars. Already during the hustings, he began to falter, for example, over the issue of drilling in Alaska. He may well throw a bit more money at Amtrak and possibly help finance light rail schemes in urban areas, but I doubt that he will really take on the issue of climate change. He cannot, however, be worse than Bush and the most positive aspect is that he is an intelligent man not in hock to crazy fundamentalists. He will, at least, accept that climate change is happening and needs to be tackled. The real test is what will he do about it?
So what do I think? Well by complete coincidence I watched an episode of The Prisoner as America went to the polls. It was the one where ‘No. 6’ is persuaded to take part in the election for the post of ‘No. 2’. Very apt I thought.
Do you remember the heady days in the 1950s and 60s when rail travel was affordable and British Railways ran ‘Mystery Excursions’ to the seaside? You never quite knew where you would end up, and sometimes the locomotive hauling the train was a nice surprise, but the possibilities of where you were going to were somewhat constrained by the train’s starting point, its time of departure, its return time and the fact that you were promised six hours at the seaside.
In a similar manner, political leaders in much of the West (and this certainly includes Poland, the UK and the USA) are constrained by the people who fund their campaigns; by the treatment that they receive from the mass media and the financiers who control their economic policies. No wonder they always arrive at the same familiar destinations!
So now you know. Tomorrow we return to railways, and that’s a promise!
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Milton Marks Family Camp – A Respite from Brain Cancer
May 30, 2017 /in Amy Gray, PEN Blog /by Amy Gray
For the past three autumns, a small gathering has taken place in the wild beauty of Sonoma County, California. There, doctors, nurses, musicians, therapists, and body workers, among others, have convened to offer support and respite to a unique group of people – families living with brain cancer.
But unlike many specialized family camps that focus on a child with cancer, this one flips that model – offering support to a family with a parent with cancer. It is the only one of its kind.
The diagnosis of brain cancer is a catastrophic event in the life of a family. The brain is the source of a person’s ability to communicate and interact. Certainly a breast or prostate cancer diagnosis can be devastating for an individual and their family. But the patient’s essential personality can remain intact throughout the grueling treatments. That may not be the case in glioblastoma, the most virulent and fast-moving type of brain cancer. And it is incurable.
Brain cancer can strike people in the prime of their life, when their children are young. During the months of treatment, a patient’s ability to speak, reason, laugh, or interact may be affected adversely. The sight of dad or mom deteriorating physically and mentally can cause immense suffering for the family.
In 2010, Abby Marks found herself living this life with her husband Milton Marks and their three young sons. After Milton’s death in 2012, Abby came up with the idea of offering a place of respite and connection for families experiencing the impact of brain cancer. Working with the University of California Medical Center’s (UCSF) Neuro-Oncology department, where Milton had received treatment and care, the camp launched in 2014.
The camp’s mission is to provide connection, community, and fun! It is a camp, after all. There are sing-a-longs at the campfire, art projects, music, ropes courses, swimming, and more. The UCSF doctors and nurses that tend to these families can also attend, adding a new dimension to the patient/medical professional relationship. There are therapists and body workers available, as well as a professional photographer to document this island of respite in the long haul of brain cancer. Families leave with sense of connection to others living this unique journey.
The Camp is now gearing up for its fourth year. A few families are returning. Most are new. All are looking forward to spending three days being cared for, understood, and encouraged as they navigate this difficult journey.
[Disclosure: Amy Gray is the operations manager for the Milton Marks Neuro-Oncology Family Camp]
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By Lenie Lectura – November 19, 2018
from Business Mirror
AC Energy Inc. is eyeing to close in the next few months a deal with an investor for the sale of the 4×135-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, in Mindanao.
AC Energy President Eric Francia said the power arm of conglomerate Ayala Corp. is in “active discussions with parties.”
“I can’t comment because we have a nondisclosure agreement with our potential partners/investors. Of course, we can’t say who these parties are,” said Francia. “But I would probably make a decision in the next couple of months. It’s fluid because we started this process earlier this year and we always said it’s actually flexible.”
There is no decision yet if AC Energy will opt for a partnership or sell the power asset.
“Some of the investors have expressed interest to partner with us still at a platform level but some investors expressed interest to have a path to control, ultimately buy out everything,” Francia said.
The group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan earlier expressed interest.
“We heard about that. We’re trying to get data. What I am told, it is a coal project. It seems to be almost finished so it’s ready for operation. It looks interesting because we don’t have to wait for all sorts of approval. We will probably take a look at it,” said Pangilinan, chairman of the Manila Electric Co. whose unit is involved in power generation business.
For now, AC Energy’s focus is to finish construction of the Kauswagan plant by 2019. “Again, our top priority at this point is to finish the Kauswagan project by 2019. We don’t want to lose focus. First quarter is our target for the start-up of unit 1 and thereafter every couple of months for the other units.”
The project proponent is GN Power Kauswagan Ltd. Co.
Francia said AC Energy’s committed equity is around 70 percent with a value of about $250 million.
Francia said the capacity of the three of the fours units are already contracted. AC Energy is on the lookout for off-takers for the remaining 135 MW amid oversupply of power in Mindanao.
“We will continue to look for customers. But there’s oversupply in Mindanao so it’s not easy. But the good news with having an extra unit is that we will be able to serve our customers almost to close to 100 percent of availability, because if one unit is down we have a back up reserve,” he said.
He is also confident that demand for power in Mindanao will grow as the Department of Energy (DOE) expects demand to hit 2,100 MW peak next year. This and the Mindanao-Visayas Interconnection Project of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), which will be completed by 2021, “will open up a new department for Kauswagan.”
Francia said the power plant’s large capacity and strategic location will surely attract investors. “There’s quite a bit of interest in Kauswagan because it’s a sizeable plant. It’s the most competitive in Mindanao. It’s strategically located because it will be the major substation that will ultimately be connected to Cebu because the Mindanao-Visayas interconnection typically needs two major substations to balance the frequency.”
Francia explained, “That’s why…if you look at the NGCP plan, while [the subsea cable] terminates in Zamboanga, there’s an overhead line that connects directly from the cable landing to Kauswagan. So that forms an integral part of the backbone to connect Mindanao and Visayas.”
Aboitiz Power Corp. earlier acquired a 49-percent voting stake and 60-percent economic interest in AA Thermal, AC Energy’s thermal business, for $579.2 million.
The assets initially consist of AC Energy’s limited partnership interests in GNPower Mariveles Coal Plant Ltd. Co., the owner and operator of an operating 2×316-MW coal plant in Mariveles, Bataan, and in GNPower Dinginin Ltd. Co., the developer and owner of a 2×668-MW supercritical coal plant project in Dinginin, Bataan.
The transaction forms part of the company’s goal to achieve 5 gigawatts from a balanced mix of renewables and thermal assets by 2025.
“We’re close to 50-50. We’re in a nice position. This is our objective for 2025 to be at least 50 percent renewables. We are trimming down to achieve this balance. So, this selldown of AA Thermal to Aboitiz helps balance our portfolio and allows us to raise capital for our growth. We can maintain the balance we have now in 2018 all the way to 2025,” said Francia.
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Afghanistan as a Buffer State
This paper seeks to discuss the subject of Afghanistan as a Buffer State. There are several types of states in the world, and one of them is Buffer state. The paper is going to analyze the characteristics of a buffer state and analyze why Afghanistan is in the category of buffer state. The main goal of this paper is to determine the origin of Afghanistan as a buffer state. This will be by the help of past information regarding Afghanistan, its experiences and occurrences that led to the state being a buffer state. This paper will apply the historical approach in gathering information about Afghanistan as a buffer state. In addition, the paper will cite relevant cases that support this notion that Afghanistan is a buffer state. A buffer state refers to a neutral nation lying between two potentially hostile or rival states and serving to put a stop to conflict between them (Taylor, Flint, 1999, p. 25).
For instance, there have been studies that give information on why Afghanistan is a buffer state and the reason for its creation. The researchers carry out various interviews and researches in connection to Afghanistan gathering information concerning the neighboring countries and coming up with conclusions. In most cases, these researches are a convenient way of getting information that backs up the view that Afghanistan is a buffer state. Political Geography is in connection with the occurring changes in the world and their effect on the globe. In the political arena, there have been many dramatic changes, which have led to new states for example the Afghanistan state. The main reference explores various topics on Afghanistan as a buffer state concerning its geopolitics and neighboring territories. Afghanistan was a buffer state between the British Empire and the Russian Empire during the Anglo-Russian conflicts in Asia. This took place in the 19th century when the conflicts between these two regions were at their peak. The British Empire’s ruling was much of South Asia while the Russian Empire covered much of Central Asia.
The Afghans did not participate in the creation of their country. The creation of Afghanistan was by a treaty between Great Britain and Russia in the 19th century. During this, times, the two greatest forces in Asia were the Russians who were covering the south and the British who were taking hold of the north area of Asia. With time, the Britain had taken control of the entire Indian sub-continent and their rivals had managed to take control of Turkic speaking areas like Bukhara and Samarkand. Geographically Afghanistan is alternately as part of South Asia, the larger Middle East, or Central Asia. In other times, different regions of the country have been assigned to separate areas, mostly the central, Middle East or south areas of Asia.
The artificial creation of Afghanistan in the year 1893 was after Durand Line accord between the Government of colonial British India and Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan. This accord was to minimize or limit the respective circles of influence in the conflict between these two powers. The current boundaries of Afghanistan were in the first place drawn to allow the country to meet the function of a buffer state between the British and Russian empires. These boundaries were because of political rivalry between Russia and Britain. Currently the nation finds itself locked between different regions each with its own sets of security issues. In the year, 1844 Russians came up with the idea of Afghanistan serving as a buffer state because the tensions between the two powers had intensified. This was despite the fact that none of the two empires wholly shelved their intentions to have power over parts of Afghanistan.
According to Michael G. Parthem, the characters of a buffer state are mostly in terms of geography, capability of distribution, and a foreign policy orientation. This means that Afghanistan is a buffer state as its location is right in between these two empires and in times of conflict, it was incapable of resolving the confrontation between Russia and Britain. It is evident that the policy orientation in Afghanistan is as the two powers have dissimilar alliance patterns. The buffer state will take both policies from the two empires, which is the case in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been at the focus of attention between the Western countries and the czarist Russian for the last centuries. During this time, none of the powerful nations had their focus on establishing stability and peace in Afghanistan as most were after their own interests (Flint, 2010, p. 72). Neighboring nations have hindered Afghan’s government from functioning and even influenced its domestic and foreign affairs. The entire Afghan issue was the matter of security between czarist Russia and imperial Britain that determine the status of Afghanistan as a buffer state rather than a matter of its independence.
Most historians believe that Afghanistan was helpful in maintaining balance of power between Russia and Britain. This is usually the role of most buffer states. When the two empires were in conflicts, the king in reign was King Abdur Rahman. When the King was getting support from the Britain Empire, there was the growing of the gap between ethnic minorities. Afghan comprises of four ethnics, which are Hazara, Pashtun, Uzbek, and Tajic. The Pashtun ethnic had the dominant part in Afghanistan, and the King was from this ethnicity. King Rahman killed about sixty percent of the Hazara ethnicity but still got subsidies and aid from the west especially from Great Britain. This led to tension between the ethnic groups in Afghanistan and eventually they were geographically segregated.
King Rahman had control over Cabul, and the British gave him the Wakhan territory to control. Peter the Great of Russia felt that Russia had to obtain a warm- water port. There was tension in the Britain Empire as Russia tried to establish a warm water port in Karachi. In the mean, time Yakub Beg was establishing a country greater Turkestan that would cover a two-mile long Turkish speaking area. Yakub in his powers invited the British, and this worried the Russians. In this state, the two empires came to an agreement that the Russians would maintain the area of North of the Oxus River while the British was to cover south of crest of the Himalayas. To avoid either of the two countries getting into conflict with each other a sort of no-man’s land was set up. A buffer state came up, which was to be in between the British and Russia empires. No country had been there before until the time of this agreement. Researches carried out on Afghanistan reveal that the main reason for it is creation was to keep armies of Britain and Russia away from each other.
It is evident in the above discussion that Afghanistan is a buffer state, which was helpful in bringing equilibrium of power between Britain and Russian empires. This is true looking at the geographical location of Afghanistan; it is right between the two empires. Looking at Afghans current political instabilities, it is clear that other nations have influence in its affairs. This means that Afghan has not been a country from the word go, and the two nations significantly affect the affairs of the country. The difficulty of Afghanistan cannot only be understood by looking just to its independence and its diplomatic relations with other countries. Afghan is currently facing other domestic issues like power struggle between the minorities in line with geopolitics of the region. In addition to these issues, there is also the matter of relations between the West and Islamic world. The onset of these problems was when Afghan was a buffer state. The British created Afghanistan to serve its own interests, and this was to avoid any more conflicts with the Russia Empire.
From the discussion, it is evident that powerful nations have influence in other regions and will do anything to meet their political, economical, and social interests. Afghanistan is a clear indication of these malicious activities of the powerful nations especially the Great Britain. Most researchers will want to come up with different methods that saw the emergence of the Afghan state, but, from first hand information, it is clear that it was a buffer state. In research, information can be from primary sources or secondary sources. Primary sources refer to information from observation, interviews, or experiments, and they normally provide researchers with first hand information. In this paper, most of the information is from primary sources and secondary sources like books and journals.
In conclusion, Afghanistan is a buffer state, and all reasons support this view. In identifying a buffer state, we use certain characteristics like its geography, its policies, and the current sovereignty of the country. In relation to Afghanistan, its geographical location supports the view that it is a buffer state. It lies right between two empires who are formidable rivals from the eras in which Afghanistan did not exist. A buffer state is found within the boundaries of two competing states. In terms of its policies, Afghanistan has a mixed pattern of political policies that contain ideologies from both Britain and Russian nations. Currently Afghan is unstable in its operations as different nations keep interfering with its affairs both at the local and foreign level. The concept of buffer state mainly bases on the fact that boundaries of these buffer states are because of regional political rivalry between super powers. Afghanistan is the best example of this situation as its history explains its origin.
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Bombardier's Global 7000
Expected to Enter Service in 2017
Bombardier Aerospace first announced the launching of its Global 7000 aircraft program in 2010 with the expectation of the ultra long-range VIP jet to enter service in 2016. However, the schedule for the completion of the aircraft has been delayed due to billions in unexpected costs and other requirements associated with developing the new aircraft.
The Canadian manufacturer boasts the Global 7000 as being the first and only ‘four-zone’ cabin. The Global 7000 will feature four individual living spaces, starting with a galley designed to resemble a home kitchen leading into the first passenger zone with club-configured seating, a second passenger zone featuring a table and comfortable seating for six, a third zone organized as a cinema room, and a fourth zone featuring a bedroom.
The Global 7000 is now expected to enter service in 2017. With its long-range performance boasting 7,900nm (14,631 km), and a maximum operating speed of M 0.925, the Global 7000 will have the ability to connect New York City to Dubai, London to Singapore, and Sydney to Los Angeles non-stop.
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General Terms and Conditions of Business for the online store
of H. Stoll AG & Co. KG
Section 1 Scope of application, Definition of terms
1) The following terms and conditions of business (hereinafter known as “T&Cs”) shall apply for all contracts entered into by means of a data download for knitting pattern software (hereinafter known as “Software”) between H. Stoll AG & Co. KG (hereinafter known as “Supplier”) and a downloader (hereinafter known as “Customer”).
2) If a Customer has terms of business differing from those of H. Stoll AG & Co. KG, they shall not be recognised, unless the Supplier expressly agrees in writing that they shall apply.
3) The contractual language is English.
4) The entire text of the contract will not be stored by the Supplier. Prior to sending off acceptance of the order, the Customer shall have the option of printing out the contractual data and the T&Cs via the print function in the browser or saving it electronically.
Section 2 User Licence
1) The subject-matter of the contract is the handing over a software licence in return for a payment. The details, in particular the basic features of the Software are in the Software description and in the supplementary information on the Supplier’s website: http://patternshop.stoll.com.
2) The Software offered is protected by copyright.
a) The Supplier grants the Customer a non-exclusive, non-transferrable right for an unlimited period of time to use the Software on Stoll knitting machines and Stoll pattern machines alone in accordance with these T&Cs.
Moreover, the Customer may modify or process the Software, provided that this is necessary for using his own knitting patterns and is necessary to rectify defects. To this end the Supplier’s patent rights may be used.
No other modifications or processing is allowed. In particular, company names, brands and references to patents and other references to reservations of rights in the software must not be amended or deleted and the versions of the Software amended or processed in accordance with Sentence 2 are also to be included in the Software.
c) The Customer must not decompile the programme code or process it with a disassembler except in cases permitted by law in accordance with Section 69e of the German Copyright Act [UrhG].
d) The Customer is entitled to make a back-up copy of the Software. In so far as the Software is fitted with technical copy protection, the Customer shall in the event of damage be entitled to download the Software again upon presentation of an error report.
3) The Customer is not entitled to transfer the Software or copies thereof electronically to third parties or to pass them on to third parties regardless of the length of time or the legal reason for doing so. Software parts or modified or processed versions within the meaning of Number 2.b) must not be transferred or passed on to third parties either.
4) Shopmaster@stoll.comis available during normal business hours to answer queries concerning Software installation and use, the availability of a new version and the transfer to them.
Section 3 Materialisation of the contract
1) The Supplier shall submit a binding offer to enter into a licence contract to the Customer when making the Software available for downloading on his website http://patternshop.stoll.com. The contract shall materialise when the Customer accepts the offer by activating the “Complete payment” button.
Acceptance may only be submitted and transmitted if the Customer accepts these terms and conditions by clicking on the “I have read the Standard Business Conditions of your shop and do agree.” checkbox and his acceptance is received as a result. Prior to sending off his acceptance the Customer has the option of reviewing all information, amending it (also by using the “Return” function) and breaking off the order.
2) Acceptance and transfer of all information required in connection with the contract being entered into as well as the invoices shall be handled by e-mail, and in part by automated e-mails. Consequently the Customer has to ensure that the e-mail address he has entered is correct and he must ensure that he is able to receive e-mails and in particular that he is not prevented from receiving them due to a spam filter.
Section 4 Making ready to download and availability
1) After the Customer has accepted the contract and he has acquired the right of use associated with it having paid the licence fee the Software will be ready for downloading.
Section 5 Prices
1) All prices quoted in the Supplier’s respective offer are in Euro and do not include VAT. Any value added Tax at the rate in force, shipping costs and delivery charges have to be added, if not otherwise described.
Section 6 Methods of Payment
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2) Unless stated otherwise in the individual methods of payment, payment claims under the contract entered into shall be due for payment immediately. Payment must be made prior to downloading.
Section 7 Liability for defects
1) The Customer’s rights if there are defects shall be determined solely in accordance with the following provisions.
2) The Supplier shall furnish a warranty that the programme is basically suitable for use as described in the Software description on Stoll machines and Stoll pattern machines. Attention is drawn to the fact that it is not possible to develop software so that it is free of defects for all conditions of use. Minor discrepancies from the features stated on the website http://patternshop.stoll.com which only impair fitness for use to a minor extent shall not substantiate claims under warranty.
3) If the Software turns out to be not fit for purpose within the meaning of these provisions within a one-year warranty period beginning when the Software is made available for use by the Customer, the Customer shall consequently be entitled to download the Software again from the Supplier’s server. If this does not turn out to be fit for purpose within the meaning of these provisions either and if the Supplier is unable to make it fit for use at a reasonable cost and within a reasonable period of time, the Customer shall, as he chooses, be entitled to reduce the licence fee or to withdraw from the contract with the result that the Software is to be deleted and the licence fee returned to the Customer.
4) The Supplier shall not have any other warranty obligations. In particular there shall be no warranty that the programme will fulfil the Customer’s specific requirements.
The Customer shall bear the sole responsibility for the selection, installation and use of the Software as well as for the results intended with it.
5) There is moreover, no warranty for the versions of the Software modified or processed in accordance with Section 2 Paragraph 2 Letter b), unless the Customer is able to prove that the existing defect is not associated in any way with the modifications and processing.
Section 8 Liability
1) Unless stated otherwise in these provisions, the Customer shall not be entitled to compensation claims for damages and claims for the reimbursement of his expenses regardless of whatever legal reasons upon which such claims may be based. The Supplier shall, moreover, not be liable for indirect and unforeseeable damages, consequential harm caused by a defect, savings not made, lost profit and financial loss. The Supplier shall likewise not be liable for backing up data for contents which the Customer enters on the Supplier’s website.
2) The Supplier shall be liable for damages
· attributable to death, personal injury or physical harm for which he is to blame on account of his negligence at least or
· attributable to a breach of duty attributable to intent and gross negligence on his part or
· for which claims are compulsory under the German Product Liability Act
3) The Supplier shall, moreover, be liable for damages which are attributable to a breach of important contractual obligations (cardinal obligations) for which he is to blame and which constitute at least negligence, in so far as achieving the contractual objective is jeopardised. If important contractual duties are breached, liability shall be limited to damages typical for the contract with the materialisation of which the Supplier had to reckon when entering into the contract given the circumstances of which he was aware.
4) In so far as the Supplier cannot be held liable, or his liability is limited in accordance with the above provisions, this shall also apply for the personal liability of his employees, staff, representatives and assistants.
Section 9 General Provisions
1) Contracts entered into between the Supplier and the Customer shall be governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. The UN law on sales (CISG) shall not apply.
2) Should one of the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions of Business be or become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. The invalid provision is to be replaced with valid arrangements which come as close as possible to all of the General Terms and Conditions of Business in actual, legal and economic considerations. The same approach is to be adopted if it should turn out that there is a gap in the General Terms and Conditions of Business.
3) The place of fulfilment is Reutlingen in Germany. The place of jurisdiction is Reutlingen in Germany, provided that the Customer is a registered business. The Supplier shall however still be entitled to take legal action against the Customer, at the latter’s general place of jurisdiction.
Section 10 Additional provisions only applicable for Consumers
1) Definition of a Consumer
A Customer is a Consumer provided that the purpose of the goods and services ordered can predominantly not be ascribed to his commercial activity or his independent professional work.
The regulations in Paragraphs 2) to 4) below shall also apply for Consumers.
2) Restriction in the choice of law in accordance with Section 9 Para 1)
The choice of law in accordance with Section 9 Para 1 shall apply to Consumers with the restriction that the protection existing for the Customer on the basis of compulsory regulations in the law of the state in which he has his normal place of residence cannot be excluded.
3) Termination of the Right of Revocation
The subject-matter of the offer to purchase a licence to use the Software is the supply of data not on physical data carriers within the meaning of Section 312 f Para 3 of the German Civil Code [BGB], which is manufactured and provided in digital format.
The Customer has expressly agreed on the website http://patternshop.stoll.com that the Supplier may begin to carry out the contract prior to the expiry of the revocation period, which ends 14 days after the contract has been entered into.
The Customer has, moreover, confirmed on the website http://patternshop.stoll.com that he is aware that he shall forfeit his right of revocation by agreeing to work on the contract being carried out.
4) Data protection and Communication
The Customer states that he agrees to his personal data being processed, provided that this is necessary for the purpose of this contract and that the German Federal Data Protection Act will be observed.
The Customer’s attention is expressly drawn to the data protection declaration at http://www.stoll.com/data-privacy-terms and he declares that he has read and confirmed the data protection regulations.
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Building on a strong 2nd-quarter 7% GDP
August 24, 2016 By rbapadmin
The good news is that the Philippine economy, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 7 percent in the second quarter of this year – April to June. Not so laudatory is the observation that this has not been inclusive growth, that the statistical gain has not been felt by most Filipinos who have seen no improvement in their daily lives.
The 7 percent quarterly rise – compared to only 5.9 percent in the same period last year – is largely attributed to the massive spending in the last presidential election campaign. As the election spending is over and we are back to the usual pace of economic activity, we can expect the rise in GDP in the rest of this year to return to normal.
But for now, we can take pride in knowing that in this second quarter of the year, the Philippines appeared to have the fastest growth among the countries of Asia, together with India which also had 7 percent. China had 6.7 percent; Vietnam, 5.6 percent; Indonesia, 5.2 percent; Malaysia, 4 percent; and Thailand, 3.5 percent. By way of further comparison, the world’s leading economies had even more modest second-quarter GDP growths – the United Kingdom, 2.2 percent; Singapore, 2.1 percent; the United States, 1.2 percent; and Japan, 0.2 percent.
The Philippines’ 7 percent GDP covered the last three months of the Aquino administration. “The previous administration gave us a strong and stable economy that we can build on further by maintaining the sound macro-economic, fiscal, and monetary policies already in place,” new Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia said.
The challenge now is for the new Duterte administration to build on this second-quarter growth and to make the growth inclusive. Pernia said the new administration has already pinpointed one area that must be developed – the farming and fishing sector, which has about 10 million workers and their families.
“Knowing that the majority of poor Filipinos rely on this sector for their livelihood, the administration will prioritize agricultural development,” Pernia said. Agriculture had been sorely ignored by the last administration, suffering five consecutive quarters of decline. In the last quarter of April-to-June, while the overall GDP was up 7 percent, agriculture declined 2.1 percent. A great deal of work is thus awaited from the new Secretary of Agriculture Emmanuel Pinol.
There will be other sectors of the economy that will be receiving considerable attention from the administration’s new economic managers. It may now be concentrating on fighting crime and drugs, in keeping with the principal campaign promise of President Duterte, but with along with peace and order, security and stability, the people will be looking forward to real economic growth that reaches down to touch them in their daily lives. – Manila Bulletin, August 24, 2016
Read more at http://www.mb.com.ph/building-on-a-strong-2nd-quarter-7-gdp/#xUW6jAh8LF4T0I7e.99
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Working Artists and the Greater Economy – An interview with W.A.G.E.
March 24, 2013 June 11, 2017 realismworkinggroup
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W.A.G.E. WAS FORMED IN 2008 WITH THE WRITING OF THE WO/MANIFESTO BY A GROUP OF VISUAL ARTISTS, PERFORMERS AND INDEPENDENT CURATORS (HTTP://WWW.WAGEFORWORK.COM/ABOUT/1/WOMANIFESTO). W.A.G.E. IS DEDICATED TO ADVOCATING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTIST FEES AT U.S. NON-PROFIT ARTS INSTITUTIONS. IN 2010, THE GROUP SET OUT TO GATHER DATA ABOUT THE ECONOMIC EXPERIENCES OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTISTS WHO HAD WORKED WITH NEW YORK CITY ART NON-PROFITS BETWEEN 2005 AND 2010. INCLUDED IN THE SURVEY WERE QUESTIONS ABOUT ARTIST FEES, COVERAGE OF EXHIBITION COSTS, AND TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR SHOWS, SCREENINGS, LECTURES, AND PERFORMANCES AT OVER 67 INSTITUTIONS. THE RESULTS GAVE INSIGHT INTO THE ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY CONNECTED TO THE TERRAIN OF ARTISTIC SUCCESS IN NEW YORK. THE MOST CONCLUSIVE INFORMATION IS THAT 58 PERCENT OF ARTISTS INVITED TO WORK WITH SMALL, MEDIUM, AND LARGE NON-PROFIT ARTS INSTITUTIONS AND MUSEUMS RECEIVED NO FORM OF PAYMENT, EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT, OR ARTIST FEE AT ALL. LARGER ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSEUMS WERE 10 PERCENT MORE LIKELY NOT TO PAY AN ARTIST FEE THAN SMALL- TO MEDIUM-SIZED ORGANIZATIONS. www.wageforwork.com
RWG How was this investigation perceived by art producers and institutions? What kind of political effects have you noticed so far?
W.A.G.E. Soon after the survey results were announced in April 2012, W.A.G.E. experienced some pushback from an organization that was not favorably represented. They called into question the validity of the survey’s methodology, which we chose to use as an opportunity to enter into dialog with them. One of our conditions was that they allow us to look at their operating budget, to show us whether they had paid fees or not, since that was the real issue. Transparency is a cornerstone of our work – we expect it retroactively and we demand it going forward. This may have deterred them because we’re still waiting to hear back.
We were questioned about how widely the survey had been disseminated and if it provided an accurate representation of the demographics it purported to represent. It was also suggested that people who were inclined to complain about non-payment were more likely to take the survey and therefore skewed the results. It’s not clear if this criticism is valid since over 40% reported that they did receive payment. From the point of view of data analysts the survey was sound, but either way, it’s all vital feedback that we’re using to develop a second survey that will collect data for 2010-12 (where the first one left off), and it will also gather information on an ongoing basis – in real-time. We’re thinking of this as a watch-dog, a third eye, a big sister of the art institution that, together with W.A.G.E. Certification and funders holding arts organizations accountable for paying fees, will apply enough pressure to break the resistance to regulating artist compensation.
RWG You started W.A.G.E. at the beginning of the economic recession in 2008. How does “the crisis” effect your political work? Do institutions use it as an argument to reject your demands?
W.A.G.E.Conditions in New York are anomalous, both in relation to other regions within the United States and in relation to other countries. Foundations, corporations, investors, philanthropists, industrialists, collectors (private equity) and non-profits (public institutions) are more intertwined than ever before, decreasing accountability and autonomy for non-profits and increasing the potential for compromise and/or corruption of their programming. Government funding for public institutions has been in a steep decline over the past three decades and now largely accounts for no more than about 15% of income for many medium sized non-profits. As W.A.G.E. stated in 2008, at the intersection of our formation and at the beginning of the financial crisis: even when the economy was booming, the institutional landscape was inequitable; the crash merely highlighted that inequity, and it’s time for it to be rectified.
As long as the art market economy continues to thrive it will remain difficult for art institutions to claim poverty in the face of so much prosperity and unregulated insider trading amongst the wealthy, which currently comprises the world’s strongest trading economy (http://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailesman/2012/02/29/the-worlds-strongest-economy-the-global-art-market/).
But the crisis can – and is — being used in defense of non-payment. The remuneration of artists is not implemented as policy, and exploitation continues without repercussion or accountability. We’re developing W.A.G.E. Certification with a provision that makes the ‘crisis’ defense impossible by positioning the artist fee in relation to an organization’s other expenses (i.e., staff, production, development, overhead, marketing, etc), and inextricably linking it to them in two ways: first, establishing artist compensation on par with the payment of an organization’s employees and subcontracted workers (director, curator, graphic designer, web designer, custodian, etc.); and secondly, asserting that the fee cannot be eliminated or cut, and reduced only in direct relation to the reduction of other expenses— particularly the highest-salaried.
RWG What can you tell us about your organizational group structure? How can other art workers participate in W.A.G.E.?
W.A.G.E. Our organizational structure was consistent for the first few years but is starting to shift in relation to the nature of the work we’re doing. In its early formation W.A.G.E.’s organizational structure was necessarily larger because W.A.G.E. was an open-ended proposition that primarily did consciousness-raising and that required more voices, more energy, and more organizing in order to extend its reach as far and wide as possible. Horizontal, non-hierarchical, consensus-based process worked well. Now W.A.G.E. is working toward policy change that involves sustained, internal work. It means developing models through writing, research, correspondence, making presentations, as well as meeting and organizing together with others who are making similar or compatible efforts through groundwork and investigating the possibilities of institutional change.
W.A.G.E. needs and values the participation of all cultural producers. This means standing with us in support of our work and informing ourselves, and each other, about the institutional landscape. In 2012 Printed Matter invited us to produce a pamphlet as part of their Artists & Activists series and the result is ‘W.A.G.E. FAQs’, a 14-pg printed and downloadable PDF that details our history and strategies. We’re trying to build a visible coalition using the ‘Coalition’ page on our website, where you can add your name. Here, size really does matter: the more pledges of support we gather, the more powerful our voices are and the more visible our needs are within the arts community. You can also add a W.A.G.E. signature to your email correspondence when you work with an arts organization: Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is a group of artists, art workers, performers, writers and independent curators fighting to get paid for making the world more interesting. http://www.wageforwork.com) to demonstrate solidarity, an understanding of inequity and, most importantly, an expectation of compensatory negotiation. We need all of these strategies to be shared, discussed and utilized.
RWG Is there anything like a union for artists in the US
W.A.G.E. Currently there isn’t an artist’s union in the United States, although there have been efforts to organize art workers, particularly since OWS (Occupy Wall Street). The functionality of a union, guild, association etc. remains in question – particularly the viability of applying a traditional organizing models to a post-Fordist system that is defined by precarity and opacity, whose members hold multiple jobs in the context of an industry that is defined by competition within which solidarity is nearly impossible. Paradoxically, there is now a great deal of interdependency between artists and exhibitors, since many cultural producers double as arts administrators and art handlers to support ourselves, which makes speaking out or advocating for change sometimes very difficult and risky.
RWG Are there other political organizations you actively collaborate with?
W.A.G.E. We’ve been in dialogue/solidarity with OWS Arts & Labor since it’s inception in 2011, and our participation in the Truth is Concrete festival this past September at long last brought us together with Art Leaks and the Precarious Workers Brigade. We began a discussion about an international formation or action of some kind but it’s in a nascent stage. Over the years, we’ve collaborated with Artist Bailout, F.E.A.S.T. Brooklyn, Temporary Services and many other groups dedicated to equity, sustainability and the implementation of consciousness and ethical structures within the arts community, and continue to do so.
On another front, we’re working toward developing a second survey that could be “franchised” by other groups looking to gather similar data about conditions in their own regions. For this we need to make a template whose questions are flexible and easily augmented – questions that are not too broad to be ineffectual in gathering usable data, and not too specific to be inapplicable to the particular conditions of others economies, funding structures, etc.
RWG Have you seen any political connections to non-artistic working conditions in- and outside the art institutions?
W.A.G.E. This is becoming an important consideration within W.A.G.E. Certification as it is being developed now. We are looking at each arts organization as its own entity by understanding its particularities and contingencies. For example, its relationship to real estate: does it rent or own? Its age: is it long established or newly formed? What are its long-term and short-term investment and funding strategies? What is its mission? What is its total operating budget? Does it have an endowment? How many exhibitions does it produce each year and how many cultural producers tend to participate annually? Once we have a complete picture of how an organization derives its income and chooses to spend it based on these kinds of contingencies, we can begin to consider what fairness and equity are within that context – within the context of what is essentially a micro-economy, and that means looking at all of the workers within its organizational structure, including non-artistic labor. W.A.G.E. has taken on quite a big job…
RWG Has there been any attempt of collective art strikes in New York? Do you consider an activist closing of art institutions as a realistic option?
W.A.G.E. Relatively recently here was an effort to organize around the Whitney Biennial. Going back much further to the Art Workers Coalition there have been many such efforts. It would require a cause that cuts across class lines within the art world – that affects artists on multiple levels. Finding solidarity within a structure that thrives on, and is driven by, competition is challenging. Before any such action could be considered, we have to understand that we’re talking about the withdrawal of labor and production, and then ask the most basic questions: Withdrawal from the studio, the marketplace and/or the public sphere? Are there demands? What are the leverages? Who is striking and who/what are we striking against?
RWG It sounds contradictory to demand “wage” for artistic work that is not based on any contract of employment – why do you think it is useful to consider artists as wage workers?
W.A.G.E. W.A.G.E. isn’t demanding wages for labor; we’re demanding compensation for the content that we provide within the non-profit sector. Without the contribution and participation of cultural producers, arts institutions would cease to function, nor exist.
We’re not looking to be compensated for the work we may have done prior to entering into a relation with an arts institution, we’re looking to be compensated once it – and we – enter the marketplace, and non-profits are certainly part of the marketplace. At this point, the machinations of the non-profit institutional arts sector are completely intertwined with valuation within the commercial auction and sales markets. So, when cultural producers collaborate with an arts organization to participate in an exhibition, performance, lecture, screening etc., we are entering into a transactional, contractual and recognizable work relationship.
Through our participation in Truth is Concrete (http://truthisconcrete.org/about/) we developed this concept into a statement. In the process of trying to W.A.G.E. Certify the festival, we worked closely with its managing director, Artemis Vakianis, who posed a very important question to us: “What does equity mean to W.A.G.E.?” The answer has become our ‘Equity Statement’:
“Equity begins with recognizing that the contribution made by cultural producers is integral to the functioning of an arts institution. Financial compensation for this contribution acknowledges its value. Payment must be conceived and established in direct relation to what an institution chooses to pay its employees and subcontractors.”
RWG How exactly should this equitable compensation be determined?
W.A.G.E. The next phase of work on W.A.G.E. Certification is focused on exactly that, and on developing Certification into a comprehensive policy and regulatory tool. Some preliminary thoughts on how to determine equity have included a relatively simple formula, such as: Taking the Director’s salary and dividing it by the number of exhibitions produced per year. If for example, the salary were $100,000 dividing it by 5 exhibitions would mean that each artist would get a $20,000 fee for their work. $20,000 would almost amount to a living wage for an artist working over the course of a year to prepare an exhibition. But since we’re using the artist fee as a starting point to think about all of the labor in an organization, compensation for other employees or subcontracted labor would also be included For example, it might be more equitable if the Director’s salary were $50,000 instead of $100,000 and the security guard earned $30,000 annually instead of $15,000.
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Fascinating Physician: Dr. Sachin Jain, Chief Medical Officer at CareMore Health System
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Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA is President at CareMore Health System, an innovative health plan & care delivery system with $1.2B revenue & over 100,000 members in 8 states. He is also consulting professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a contributor at Forbes. Dr. Jain was previously CareMore's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information & Innovation Officer at Merck & Co. He also served as an attending physician at the Boston VA-Boston Medical Center and a member of faculties at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. From 2009-2011, Dr. Jain worked in the Obama Administration, where he was senior advisor to Donald Berwick when he led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Jain was the first deputy director for policy and programs at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). He also served as special assistant to David Blumenthal when he was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Dr. Jain graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in government and continued on to earn his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School. He trained in medicine at the Brigham and Women's Medicine, earned his board certification from the ABIM, and continues to practice medicine at CareMore. He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science & Innovation and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and in journals such as the New England Journal, JAMA, Health Affairs, and the Harvard Business Review blogs and was an editor of the book, The Soul of a Doctor (Algonquin Press).
Dr. Jain is a native of Bergen County, New Jersey, but presently resides in Los Angeles, California.
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RxART to Complete Six Artist Commissions in Children’s Hospitals Across the U.S. from Fall 2019 through Spring 2020
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Artists Nicolas Party, Jonas Wood, Urs Fischer, Derrick Adams, Ann Craven, and Nina Chanel Abney Design Wallpaper, Murals, Privacy Curtains, and More
Site-Specific Installations Transform Intimidating, Clinical Spaces into Welcoming Environments for Pediatric Patients RxART will unveil six new artist commissions at pediatric hospitals around the country, from this fall 2019 through spring 2020.
Championing a holistic model of care, RxART partners with medical facilities and leading contemporary artists to create site-specific interventions, installations, and works of art, introducing beauty, humor, and comfort into once sterile and intimidating spaces. Starting this fall with the completion of unique wallpaper designs by Derrick Adams for six treatment rooms at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, through the installation of a 207-foot-long mural by Nicolas Party and launch of Urs Fischer-designed FIGS pajamas at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), the projects of the upcoming season demonstrate the depth, range, and impact of the nonprofit’s work.
Fall 2019 will also feature the publication of Between the Lines: An RxART Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists, Volume 7, produced biennially by RxART. With an exciting collection of drawings by dozens of contemporary artists, including Keith Haring, Martin Creed, and Maira Kalman, among others, the coloring book is donated to hospitals nationwide.
Since its founding in 2000 by former gallerist and curator Diane Brown, RxART has completed nearly 50 projects in hospitals across 18 cities in the U.S. From paintings, murals, and coloring books, to CT Scan wraps, privacy curtains, and hospital-grade pajamas, designed by such artists as Jonas Wood, Urs Fischer, Jeff Koons, and Rob Pruitt, RxART projects support the psychological and emotional health of pediatric patients, their families, caregivers, and medical teams. RxART projects are realized at no cost to the hospitals and provide artists with a modest honorarium, in recognition of their priceless contributions.
“Bringing the work of incredible artists to children at a moment when they vitally need inspiration is a great privilege,” states founder Diane Brown. “After almost 20 years of RxART, we now realize the impact these projects have on children, as well as their caretakers, and are so thrilled to complete this next slate of projects in high performing hospitals across the U.S. We are so thankful to the hospital leadership and staff and the collaborating artists for their participation and willingness to improve the healthcare experience for all involved.”
Additional details on forthcoming projects follow below:
Between the Lines: An RxART Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists, Volume 7 - September 2019
This September, RxART will release their 7th biennial artist-designed coloring book, Between the Lines: An RxART Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists, Volume 7. Featuring a cover design and colorful, interactive sticker set by the late Keith Haring, this edition includes contributions from artists Gina Beavers, Claudia Comte, David Shrigley, Tavares Strachan, and Philip Taaffe, amongst others. Made possible through the generous sponsorship of Clark’s Botanicals, Volume 7 will be sustainably produced. RxART has donated more than 115,000 coloring books to children in hospitals since 2005. The coloring books provide pediatric patients of all ages the opportunity to express their creativity and learn more about contemporary art. The RxART Coloring Book is also sold at select locations across the U.S., including the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, and Printed Matter to raise funds for future projects.
Derrick Adams: Wallpaper for Six Treatment Rooms Pediatric Emergency Department at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, New York City - October 2019
Derrick Adams is designing wallpaper for six treatment rooms in the Pediatric Emergency Department at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem. The Pediatric Emergency Department services more than 16,000 ill and injured infants, children, and adolescents annually. In operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, medical providers use the treatment rooms to perform examinations and provide treatments and procedures. This will be RxART's second collaboration with the hospital, following the 2019 installation of a Keith Haring wall decal in the center’s waiting room. Derrick Adams (b. 1970) is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist working in performance, video, sound, sculpture, collage, painting, and drawing. His practice focuses on the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, exploring identity.
Jonas Wood: Privacy Curtains Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC - November 2019
In his first collaboration with RxART, Jonas Wood is designing privacy curtains with bold colors and bright graphics, creating a playful space and much needed respite from hospital activity for patients and their families. To be installed this November in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s National Health System in DC, one of the leading pediatric hospitals in the nation, this collaboration marks the first time RxART has worked with an artist to design privacy curtains, which are often the only barrier for patients from the bustling and crowded areas of the intensive care wing.
Jonas Wood (b. 1977) is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles who uses painting, drawing, and printmaking to create bold, patterned graphic works that depict objects, interiors, plants and people. Translating the three-dimensional into flat color and line, Wood distorts scale and perspective in compositions that merge historical references with his everyday life.
Ann Craven: Wall Coverings The Chadwick Center, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego - November 2019
Known for her bold portraits of the natural world that fuse nostalgic images and bright colors, Ann Craven is creating a site-specific mural for the lobby of The Chadwick Center, which specializes in the treatment of abused and traumatized children. Craven’s mural of sleepy panda bears will be situated at the entry point for families coming to the Center to receive care. Working with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to ensure effective service, the Chadwick Center at Rady Children’s Hospital offers a range of programs to families and children that prevent, identify, and treat the effects of traumatic experiences.
Ann Craven (b. 1967) is a New York City-based painter who is known for her bold depictions of the natural world. Fascinated by birds, the moon, flowers, and animals, Craven creates brightly colored paintings drawn from personal observations that serve as a record of her life and practice.
Nicolas Party: Mural Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles - March 2020
Nicolas Party is creating a site-specific mural for the vast, 207-foot long corridor at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which provides nearly 16,000 surgeries annually to children of all ages. Traversed by children, parents, and healthcare providers daily as they head to the operating rooms, the hallway, with stark white walls and severe lighting, has long been a blight for patients and hospital staff. Party’s mural will transform the corridor with uplifting, vibrant, and poetic imagery.
In honor of this collaboration, Party is being recognized at the annual RxART PARTY, held on October 16, with the 2019 Inspiration Award.
Nicolas Party (b. 1980) is a multimedia artist based in New York City and Brussels. Party is best known for his color-saturated paintings, murals, and sculpture. Exploring the nature of representation, Party creates portraits, landscapes, and still lifes of everyday objects, in bright colors and graphic compositions.
Urs Fischer: Pajamas Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), Los Angeles - March 2020
Urs Fischer is designing hospital-grade pajamas for pediatric patients to wear during their hospital stay. Developed in partnership with FIGS medical apparel brand, the pajamas will feature a playful print and are made of antimicrobial, liquid repellent fabric, with plastic snaps that are safe for MRI machines and X-Rays, and have full back-coverage, so no child feels embarrassed or exposed during their course of treatment. Fischer previously collaborated with RxART to create wallpaper and ceiling designs for Cedars-Sinai’s Maxine Dunitz Children’s Health Center in Los Angeles.
Urs Fischer (b. 1973) is a New York City-based multimedia artist. Combining photography and sculpture, Fischer is best known for his large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations that distort scale and perception of everyday objects, creating an illusionistic and often humorous effect.
Nina Chanel Abney: Wall Coverings The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore - May 2020
Nina Chanel Abney is designing vibrant, narrative wallpaper for the pediatric waiting room at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital, a leading center for ophthalmic care, serving more than 7,500 pediatric patients per year. Building on Abney’s history of making works of public art, her work for the Wilmer Eye Institute will combine representation and abstraction to create a mesmerizing composition for children and families to explore while they wait for care.
Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982) is a multimedia artist based in New York City. Using collage, painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques, Abney creates large scale compositions, often public murals, that address pop culture and racial conflicts.
About RxART
RxART leverages the transformative power of art to promote healing and comfort in children. Working in close partnership with pediatric hospitals and medical professionals, RxART commissions leading contemporary artists to create site-specific installations and uplifting interventions, infusing beauty, humor, and comfort into once sterile, intimidating environments. From murals, wallpaper designs, and CT Scan wraps, to privacy curtains and hospital-grade pajamas, RxART has completed nearly 50 projects in hospitals across 18 cities in the U.S. since it first launched in 2000. Developed at no cost to the hospitals, RxART projects provide artists with unique opportunities to create works of public art with a purpose, staged in often unconventional and unexpected spaces that help transform the lives of children as they heal.
For more information, please visit www.rxart.net
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Rob Pruitt for CHOC Children’s Hospital in Orange County, CA (2019). Photo courtesy of Christopher Bliss Photography
Other news about RxART
International Design Firm HKS to Donate In-Kind Architectural Services To RxART Supporting Design and Realization of Art Commissions At Children’s Hospitals Around Country
https://resnicow.com/client-news/international-design-firm-hks-donate-kind-architectural-services-rxart-supporting-design
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Observer Highlights Nicolas Party's Collaboration with RxART
https://resnicow.com/client-news/observer-highlights-nicolas-partys-collaboration-rxart
RxART PARTY 2019 celebrates Nicolas Party and Heather Hasson
https://resnicow.com/client-news/rxart-party-2019-celebrates-nicolas-party-and-heather-hasson
Artist Nicolas Party and Medical Apparel Pioneer Heather Hasson To be Honored at RxART’s annual PARTY on October 16
https://resnicow.com/client-news/artist-nicolas-party-and-medical-apparel-pioneer-heather-hasson-be-honored-rxart%E2%80%99s
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Chinese provincial government
George Macartney, Kashgar and the Great Game
April 2, 2019 April 2, 2019 by Gale Review Team
By Dr Alexander Morrison, Fellow & Tutor in History, New College, University of Oxford
The exciting new archive China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets launches this month. This will be the third instalment in the China and the Modern World programme, which covers many aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, including its international relations, trade, and domestic and foreign policy. Diplomacy and Political Secrets is sourced from the India Office Records at the British Library, and presents a wealth of rare records, gathered by the British, pertaining to the relations among China, Britain, British India, British Burma, Central Asia, Russia and Japan. Below, academic advisor Dr Alexander Morrison discusses one of the influential characters whose career can be traced through these files.
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Categories Editorial, Thought leadersTags 1916 revolt against Russian rule, academic advisor, Anglo-Russian agreement, annexation of territory, British Empire, British India, China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, Chinese provincial government, diplomats, Foreign Department of the Government of India, India Office Records at the British Library, Kashgar, Qing Empire, Sir George Macartney, Turkestan, University of Oxford, Xinjiang
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Ganduje House probe for ruling Dec 6
Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje
A Kano High Court has fixed Thursday, December 6, 2018 to rule on whether the state House of Assembly has the power to investigate the bribery allegation against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the National Coordinator of Lawyers for Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria, an NGO, Mr. Mohammed Zubair, had filed a suit challenging the court’s constitutional right to investigate the bribery allegation.
When the case came up for hearing on Wednesday, counsel to the Kano State House of Assembly, Mohammed Waziri, argued that the Assembly had the power to investigate any person — including the governor — for the purpose of making laws and checking corruption.
He said the governor’s immunity did not forbid the investigation to be conducted by the House.
Waziri, therefore, prayed the court to dismiss the application filed by the counsel to the plaintiff due to the fact that it was trying to usurp powers given to the House by the constitution.
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However, in his argument, counsel to the plaintiff, Nuraini Jimoh said the House had the power to investigate the governor in view of the fact that it would conduct the investigation in order to expose corruption specifically mentioned by the constitution.
“What the House is investigating is no doubt a crime against the governor. But by doing so, they are exercising their powers to expose corruption,’’ he said.
In his submission, the third defendant, who is also the state Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Ibrahim Muktar maintained that the House had no power to conduct criminal investigation against the governor.
According to him, the state Assembly has no trained experts or investigators to conduct the investigation, and as such assignment should be referred to the police or any relevant agencies.
“The House has no capacity to conduct criminal investigation and it will be to the detriment of the person being investigated because they lack the capacity to conduct the investigation,” he said.
In his ruling after listening to the argument of both parties, the presiding Judge, Justice, A. T. Badamasi fixed Thursday, Dec. 6, for judgment on whether the state Assembly had the power to carry out the investigation or not.
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January 24, 2017 - Tuesday January 25, 2017 - Wednesday Jeggit Ireland, Northern Ireland, Politics, Society, United Kingdom
Theresa May is Determined to Undermine Irish Peace
Enda Kenny, An Taoiseach na hÉireann, invited Theresa May to address Ireland’s elected TDs at Dáil Éireann while she is in Dublin. Today the British Prime Minister snubbed the invitation because she doesn’t have time for real diplomacy.
Ireland has learned through hard and painful experience that Britain’s arrogance makes it impossible for the Westminster government to treat the Republic of Ireland as an equal partner in dialogue. Between 1919 and 1921 the people of Ireland were forced to take up arms against the brutality of the British occupation, and even after defeating the British Empire in Ireland the London government still refuses to acknowledge, to their fullest extent, the respect that is due to Ireland as an independent and sovereign nation among nations. In the North of Ireland the UK has a proven track record of collusion with Loyalist paramilitaries to wage a dirty war against Irish nationalists; it has denied people civil and political rights, detained them without charge, and shot them on their own streets.
There is no mistaking the sense of insult in Dublin today at Theresa May snubbing the invite to address Dail Eireann.
As the old Irish proverb runs: “Beware of the hoof of the horse, the horn of the bull, and the smile of the Saxon,” Irish people – north and south – have an intuitive caution about them when it comes to their dealings with Great Britain. It was only with the intervention of the United States and its envoy George Mitchell, the Irish government, and the work of countless Irish intermediaries that the Good Friday Agreement – the concordat that ended a century of violence – could be hammered out. Yet Britain seldom recognises this. It sells its Tony Blair model for peace. More worrying is the reality that London has never taken the importance of the Good Friday Agreement for the whole of Ireland seriously. The reason for this is simply that Britain refuses to take Ireland seriously.
Now that yet another British Prime Minister is posing a direct threat to the welfare of Ireland the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, extended to Mrs May and invitation to address Dáil Éireann – the Dublin parliament – when she is in the city later this month. Ireland has made all the concessions in the process of normalising relations between the two countries. When it was Britain’s Crown forces that demolished Dublin in 1916 and waged a nationwide terror campaign until independence was won, it was Dublin that had to swallow hard and welcome the Queen herself in 2011 on a state visit. Irish people had to watch their president, Mary McAleese, laying a wreath with the Queen at the 1916 Garden of Remembrance honouring even the British soldiers who fell.
Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972: 14 civil rights demonstrators murdered by British soldiers.
A hard Brexit brings a great deal of uncertainty to Ireland. Ireland’s economy, as the United Kingdom’s closest EU neighbour, depends heavily on trade with Britain, and Theresa May’s hard line position on leaving the single market has worried many in Ireland. Moreover, and by far more seriously, her recklessness threatens to upturn the Good Friday Agreement – bringing the shadow of the Troubles back over the whole island. Seeing as Mrs May will be in Dublin by the end of the month Mr Kenny reached out to her in good faith, and asked if she would address the Dáil chamber. But she can’t. She does not have enough time on her schedule – that’s diplomatic code: “Sorry Paddy, I don’t have time.” Irish people don’t need to be told that England doesn’t take them seriously.
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The Circus, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Elder
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The Circus is an example of Georgian architecture in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, begun in 1754 and completed in 1768. The name comes from the Latin 'circus', which means a ring, oval or circle
The Circus, was designed by the architect John Wood the Elder, although he never lived to see his plans put into effect as he died less than three months after the first stone was laid. It was left to his son, John Wood the Younger to complete the scheme to his father's design.
Wood's inspiration was the Roman Colosseum, but whereas the Colosseum was designed to be seen from the outside, the Circus faces inwardly. The circus consists of 3 storey townhouses and mansard. 3 or 4 windows. Divided into 3 blocks, all of the same size but each with a different number of houses. Three classical Orders, (Greek Doric, Roman/Composite and Corinthian) are used, one above the other, in the elegant curved facades. The masonry between columns is not curved but this is not apparent. The frieze of the Doric entablature is decorated with alternating triglyphs and 525 unique pictorial emblems in the metopes, including serpents, nautical symbols, devices representing the arts and sciences, and masonic symbols. The parapet is adorned with stone acorn finials.
The Circus is constructed from Bath Stone is a Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate its warm, honey colouring gives the circus and much of Bath its distinctive appearance.
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IDEAS 2018: Pakistan Air Force Updates
During the 2018 International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS), the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) opted to showcase that it was ‘staying the course’ with a predefined, long-term modernization roadmap.
The core of this roadmap was set by Air Headquarters (AHQ) more than a decade ago, i.e., complete the procurement of 150 JF-17 Thunder multi-role fighter aircraft, enable and enhance interoperability among each of the PAF’s combat and surveillance assets, and address the margins where possible.
It is in the ‘margins’ where activity is, perhaps, the most dynamic. For the PAF, the ‘margins’ are programs that are important, but not essential to maintaining a deterrence posture vis-à-vis India. Major examples of this are the PAF’s search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters and lead-in-fighter-trainer (LIFT) needs.
In terms of SAR, the PAF announced (via an event daily) that it concluded the procurement of 14 AW139 SAR helicopters. The Leonardo AW139 has replaced the PAF’s legacy Alouette IIIs in the SAR role.
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Gupta launches 1GW renewable plan at Cultana solar project
Gupta confirms plans for 1GW of dispatchable renewables at ground-breaking ceremony at new Cultana solar project, a day after Coalition agree to NEG policy that models zero new investment in large-scale renewables and storage over next decade.
Giles Parkinson Posted on 15 August 2018 15 August 2018 0 Comments
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UK steel billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has officially launched his plans to build more than 1 gigawatt (1,000MW) of dispatchable renewable energy at a ground-breaking ceremony for the first of those projects – the 280MW Cultana solar project near Whyalla.
Gupta was joined by South Australia Premier Steven Marshall and Whyalla mayor Lyn Breuer for the ceremony, where Gupta reinforced his goal to expand Australia’s manufacturing and heavy industry around a supply of cheap and reliable renewable energy.
The contrast with the policy debate in Canberra, where the Coalition on Tuesday endorsed a National Energy Guarantee policy designed to ensure no new renewable energy is built over most of the next decade, could not have been more marked.
“Today’s event is symbolic of our desire to develop and invest in new‐generation energy assets that will bring down Australia’s electricity prices to competitive levels again, as well as our commitment to local and regional Australia,” Gupta said in a statement released before the ceremony.
“In particular, this signals the beginning of our journey with a number of stakeholders to not only transform GFG’s operations in Whyalla, but also further enhance the appeal of this great city.”
Gupta bought the Whyalla steelworks and other OneSteel assets in the eastern states late last year, and immediately announced his plans to transform the business by building and contracting large-scale solar and energy storage, even highlighting plans to build as much as 10GW across Australia to create a “solar-based” economy.
Already, he has signed a contract to power much of the Laverton steelworks with a new solar farm in Victoria, and several other contracts to supply other major energy users in South Australia.
The Cultana solar farm, which is due to begin formal construction early next year, is the first of a number of projects planned for the area,.
These include a second stage of the solar farm, what would be the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery (120MW/140MWh), a major pumped hydro project in dis-used iron ore mines in the nearby Middleback Ranges, and co-generation at the steelworks themselves.
Gupta’s plan to power the steelworks in South Australia, Victoria and NSW – and the new solar farm built by Queensland zinc refiner Sun Metals – contrasts with the position of other manufacturers like Bluescope and Tomago, who insist that renewables could only play a minor role in their power supply, and that they need new “baseload.”
Marshall, elected in March after spending years criticising the previous Labor government’s support for renewable energy, including its latest target of 75 per cent renewables by 2025, is now likely to see his state reach that target by 2020, thanks to projects like Gupta’s.
That, at least, is the assessment of the Australian Energy Market Operator, and is confirmed in the modelling for the NEG – even if the Energy Security Board is trying to convince people that investment will come to a sudden halt after that across the country.
Gupta’s plans show the insanity of that particular part of the modelling.
The Cultana solar farm will be built by Simec Zen Energy, the company of which Gupta’s GFG Alliance now holds a 51 per cent stake.
It will produce 600GWh of electricity a year from 780,000 solar panels – enough to power almost 100,000 average homes.
It will compete with the Bungala solar farm, currently completing its first stage of 120MW and now building its second stage 120MW at nearby Port Augusta, for the title of biggest solar farm in the state, indeed the country. Bungala also has a stage-three project with storage in the pipeline.
Gupta says even larger solar projects will follow in other states.
“All of these projects will not only improve reliability and greatly reduce the cost of electricity in our own operations,” he said.
“They will also provide competitive sources of power for other industrial and commercial users, while at the same time playing a key role in the market’s transition towards renewables,”
“We have a strong conviction that traditional carbon-intensive generation sources do not have a long‐term future as the predominant source of power in Australia and globally. We believe the world is undergoing a momentous transition to renewable power as the cost of renewables drops dramatically and quickly.”
Gupta said it was clear that coal and other traditional fossil fuel-based power would continue to play a role in the clean energy transition – meaning they wouldn’t suddenly disappear overnight. But he says he has no doubt that generations to come will be powered mostly by renewable power.
“Looking forward, we will therefore continue to invest in renewables, helping drive their market penetration and continual increase in affordability and reliability,” he said.
“At the same time, we will make use of traditional power sources supporting an orderly transition.”
Mayor Breuer said the council was keen to partner with GFG in the rejuvenation of Whyalla over the coming decades, including leasing a portion of the land for the Cultana project.
“We’ve already seen Sanjeev invest tens of millions improving efficiencies and reducing input costs for his Whyalla operations, this now marks the beginning of his long-term investment program,” Mayor Breuer said in the statement.
“Most importantly for Whyalla, this project signals to the nation that Whyalla is open for development, helping attract industries to our great city and further diversify and strengthen our economy.”
Simec Zen has commenced preliminary consultation discussions with the local community regarding the project, with development approval anticipated in the fourth quarter of this year, and construction commencing in the first quarter of 2019.
Giles Parkinson
Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of Renew Economy, and is also the founder of One Step Off The Grid and founder/editor of The Driven. Giles has been a journalist for 35 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review.
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Documentaries are a vital link between journalism and art: We need better ways to make, discover and watch them
Posted By: Madhavan Narayanan December 11, 2019
As India was shaken last week by the horrible rape and murder of a vet in Hyderabad and the manner in which the four accused were shot dead by the city’s police, the reactions to both showed a range that displayed the dilemmas of a democratic India. And I thought: this is not something that can be easily told in a news story. It needs a documentary.
A couple of weeks ago, I had a meeting in South Delhi that was cut short at the last minute and I had an hour free in the middle of a busy schedule. On a suggestion from my Facebook page, I went to the Siri Fort Auditorium and I am glad I did. The visit to the Woodpecker International Film Festival that promotes “issue-based cinema” became a wonderful way to recall an aspect of journalism that is not quite included in it, but increasingly relevant. The Hyderabad horror and the accompanying news of a rape victim in Unnao being burnt to death by the perpetrator out on bail naturally became just the kind of subject a documentary maker can handle better than a news cameraman. Not to speak of the debate on extra-judicial killings that followed.
The Woodpecker festival is a commendable effort. This year’s screening schedule looked most impressive. This deserves a bigger audience.
The film I saw at the festival, born in India and also being taken overseas, was ‘Iq Rah’ — about two madrasas (schools of Islamic learning) in the heart of the National Capital Region at Mehrauli in Delhi — a short distance from both the corporate hub of Gurgaon and fashionable hangouts like the Select City Walk in Saket. I could not find the documentary online but would urge people to watch it. Made as a diploma film as part of the Jamia Millia Islamia university’s famous AJK Mass Communication Research Centre (which gave us Shah Rukh Khan as a celebrity alumnus), Iq Rah quietly shoots life in the madrasas, where children, mostly from poor families, learn the Quran, study English, play cricket and discuss life and ambitions. Gripping and insightful, the documentary takes us to zones we often ignore — the minds and hearts of ordinary people, their beliefs, their conditions and their ways.
Directed by Faisal Saleem with help from his schoolmates, Iq Rah is the kind of stuff that should be shown alongside news on TV channels so that people join the dots on what really happens in society instead of wasting time on pointless, ill-informed, insensitive debates. The film shows how children have a happy childhood and nurse big ambitions even as they cope with innuendo on madrasas being linked to terrorism. It shows how poor parents value religious education, even as they hope that some of the stuff taught free would make them materially successful. There is one kid suggesting that mathematics should be taught in madrasas, and another saying he wants to become a businessman in a matter-of-fact way.
You have to go into the minds and everyday lives of people to get true insights. Feature journalism in print/text is supposed to do that but that is a genre increasingly hard to find. More important, it is an art, not easily practised by vanilla news boys and girls for whom the he-said-she-said format has become the staple for journalism.
As I discussed ‘Iq Rah’ with one of its team members, I was reminded of how an all-woman collective of Jamia alumni called Mediastorm produced two brilliant documentaries, one on the Shah Bano Judgement ( the verdict helped the rise of the BJP) and the other on a sati in Rajasthan. To this day, they remain relevant, intimate records of social upheavals in the 1980s, long after many of the news headlines have been forgotten.
The horrific 2012 rape on a bus in Delhi, known as the Nirbhaya case, led to a BBC documentary called ‘India’s Daughter’ that was banned in India. It features the perpetrator driving the bus justifying his act — on camera. Chilling, disgusting and yet necessary for us to understand how things happen.
Documentaries fill that vital gap between literature/art and journalism. We need more systematic ways in India to make, discover, list, watch and discuss them. I know Netflix and YouTube offer platforms, but there is a long way to go.
Madhavan Narayanan
N Madhavan is a senior journalist and editor who has worked for Reuters, Business Standard and Hindustan Times. He is currently an independent media entrepreneur, consultant and columnist.
He is listed among the top 200 Indian influencers on Twitter. He tweets as @madversity.
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Email: rekennedy@ntu.edu.sg
Bob Kennedy is the Dean at Nanyang Business School, assuming office on January 1, 2018.
He comes to NTU from the Ivey Business School in Canada, where he has been Dean and the Tapp Chaired Professor since 2013. Under his leadership, the school increased research output by more than 30% per faculty member and improved its global rankings. The school was twice ranked as the top “international” program in the BusinessWeek MBA rankings (2014 and 2015), and improved its FT Research rank from 44th to 26th.
Bob is a well-known scholar, speaker, and educator. His research focuses on business strategy and policy issues in developing countries and has been widely published in leading economics and strategy journals. He has authored more than 120 articles, chapters, notes, and case studies on emerging market issues. From 2002-2016, his teaching materials were used at every one of Business Week’s top 25 U.S. business schools.
Prior to Ivey, Bob served as the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business – where he led the school’s international programs. He was also Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute. Prior to Ross, Bob was an Assistant, and then an Associate, Professor at Harvard Business School.
Prior to his academic career, Bob worked as both a strategy consultant (late 1980s), and as a partner in a Private Equity firm in Poland (1991 – 1995). He has completed projects in more than 25 countries.
Bob holds BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, an MSM in Management from MIT, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.
My research and publications span several interrelated areas. They broadly focus on business and policy issues in developing countries. The work spans traditional academic outlets (primarily economics and strategy journals, several books and book chapters, funded research by governments and development agencies, and many teaching case studies and technical notes). The broad areas of work include:
1. Applying Industrial Organization frameworks to business and policy issues and transition and emerging economies. Most work was on Central and Eastern European transition economies and published in applied economics and strategy journals. Later work applied these issues to developing countries.
2. Offshoring and the globalization of services. This work focuses on the changing nature of globalization (from natural resources and manufactured goods to trade in services). There have been several book chapters and articles, and a well received book The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity.
3. Economic development policy, particularly Base of the Pyramid Markets. Several book chapters, as well as funded studies for leading development organizations such as the World Bank, the IFC, USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
4. The Role of Business Schools in economic development. Mostly applied work for development organizations such as USAID, the World Bank, and Rockefeller Foundation. I am currently the Chair of the Global Business School Network.
5. International Business education. I have written more than 100 teaching case studies and technical notes that are used around the world. Founded a case center at Michigan Ross. Revised strategy and grew sales by more than 50% over four years as Dean at Ivey. Ongoing experimentation with new case formats and pedagogical methods.
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New communications guide enables providers to widen reach
The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) has unveiled a new guide to inclusive communications. Written in partnership with Big Voice Communications, it supports providers to reach a wider audience, including more disabled people.
It aims to address the main communication barriers that many people experience in sport and physical activity, which also stop disabled people from accessing some opportunities. As well as providing essential better practice guidance on planning, terminology and language, it explains the purpose of accessible formats and shows how providers can get the best from their communications.
In 2012, EFDS research on barriers to participation showed communication as something, which can enhance experiences or restrict disabled people from being active. This applies to all aspects of marketing and delivery, at all levels.
Although the proportion of disabled people who are playing sport once a week has gone up slightly over the years, disabled people are still half as likely to be taking part in sport as non-disabled people (18.5 per cent compared to 39.2 per cent). There is still a long way to go in order to address this imbalance and inclusive communications play an important role in this.
There are approximately 11 million disabled people in the UK (one in five of our population). As a group, disabled people are a large proportion of this potential audience. As with any other large group, there can be no one-size fits all approach to how or what is communicated with disabled people and despite the advances in technology, there are still a number of different factors that can prevent groups of people or individuals from receiving communications.
The way in which disabled people access communications may be different to non-disabled people; and people with different impairments have different needs or experience different ‘barriers’ to accessing information. EFDS hopes this new guide enables more providers to understand the principles of and benefit from inclusive communications.
Barry Horne, EFDS’s Chief Executive, said: "Communication is central to EFDS’s work with a wide range of partners. We always aim to build on our insight into disabled people’s preferences in language, messages and the channels to reach more participants. This guide can be a starting point for many to think more deeply about their planning and processes and whether they are reaching as many people as possible."
Tanya Joseph, Sport England’s Executive Director of Business Partnerships, added: "Getting communication right can be the difference between a disabled person finding out about and trying a new sport and being unaware of the many opportunities available to them. This new guide gives sports providers simple, easy to implement advice which will make a valuable contribution to making sport more accessible for all."
Catherine Grinyer at Big Voice Communications, commented: "There is a strong business case for developing an inclusive approach to communications, but until now there has not been any comprehensive guidance on how to design and deliver inclusive communications campaigns. We have produced this guide to provide professional communicators in sport with an overview of the business case and many practical examples of how to make communication campaigns and channels more inclusive to diverse audiences including disabled people. Successful communications are those that reach the widest possible audience; this guide shows you how to go about it."
The way organisations talk, words used, tone of voice or even body language can affect anyone’s opinion of the sport or fitness provider and most of all- their trust in them. This is relevant in every organisation, no matter what sector they work in. Therefore, this guide is not limited to providers in these specific sectors or in the communications field.
The guide is available in various formats, including as an accessible PDF. Click here to download the guide (note the file is 10MB). More information is available on the EFDS website www.efds.co.uk.
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Tanni Grey-Thompson and Michael Rimmer cheer on 15,000th runner as Go Run For Fun campaign hits halfway
INEOS GO Run For Fun™ has got 15,000 children running after 800 were cheered on by Tanni Grey-Thompson and Michael Rimmer in Stockton last week.
The events, held on 23 April and hosted by Stockton School Sport Partnership (SSP) at Preston Park, Stockton, saw 11x Paralympic Gold Medallist, Tanni Grey-Thompson and Michael Rimmer, London 2012 Team GB 800m athlete and 6x British champion cheer on the children.
Toni Kent, a year 5 pupil from Tilery Primary School, Stockton, was the campaign’s 15,000th runner to cross the finish line. This marks the halfway point in the campaign which aims to get more than 30,000 children aged 5-10 to take part in one of the GO Run For Fun events across all corners of the UK.
The UK’s newest mass participation running campaign for children aims to encourage kids to get off the couch, give the TV a rest, get active and have fun, regardless of ability.
The GO Run For Fun series is the idea of Jim Ratcliffe, owner of INEOS, one of the UK’s largest manufacturing companies, who recently announced a £1.5m donation spread over three years to establish a new charitable foundation to encourage children to run for fun.
Go Run For Fun will work with parents, children and communities to encourage children to have fun running. The charity is already supported by three leading British Olympians, Lord Coe, Brendan Foster and Colin Jackson, with more celebrity and sporting ambassadors expected to be announced shortly.
Put on your trainers and your GO Run For Fun T-shirt, then run 1 mile however you like and have fun with your friends as you go.
Jim said: “I’m passionate about getting as many children running as possible as early as possible. The idea is simple – to get children out of the house having fun. It is not rocket science.
“Running is the basis of so many great sports. If our children can catch the running bug early, they’re more likely to stick to it, and this can only lead to them having more active and healthier lifestyles in the future.”
A recent survey commissioned by YouGov on behalf of the Go Run For Fun Foundation revealed that 77% of people believe that children aged 5-10 should get more exercise and 43% said that children aged 5-10 are unfit or couch potatoes.
It has already established itself as a leading advocate of children’s running with more than 15,000 children taking part in its runs since August last year. It expects to organise 250 events over the next three years involving more than 100,000 across the UK.
Michael Rimmer, said: “It’s brilliant to have over 800 children here today, all participating in GO Run For Fun. These fun events are a great way for your kids to get out of the house and have fun with their mates - running.
“We really must make sure that kids are given the opportunity to get active from an early age, and GO Run For Fun provides the chance to do just that. If they enjoy it you never know where it might end up, we might find Britain’s best talent for the future.”
For more information and to enter your child for INEOS GO Run For Fun events happening near you, or to register your local club or school’s interest in joining our campaign, please visit: www.gorunforfun.com.
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The Accidental Genius of George Lucas Part 3
Posted on December 16, 2015 December 18, 2015 by Russell Newquist
Star Wars was a work of accidental genius. I mean both the original film that we now know as A New Hope and also the entire saga – although each is its own accident. George Lucas himself never understood the true reasons for their respective successes, and that’s why he wasn’t able to replicate it with the prequel trilogy.
99% of the philosophical depth of the Star Wars universe was added by people other than George Lucas. In Part 1 I noted that the original film is nothing more than a solid, fun adventure romp. The philosophical depth of it is minimal. Yesterday, I noted that the philosophy underlying everything else came from the second installment in the series, The Empire Strikes Back.
It’s important to understand that a large portion of the depth, however, came from entirely outside of the official “canon” of the series. I’m hardly the first person to note, for example, that certain non-canon entries – the so-called “Extended Universe” or EU – are vastly superior to some of the lesser films. Several of the EU novels – including the Thrawn Trilogy that kicked off the modern EU – are absolutely amazing, and add quite a bit of depth to the series. Even some of the video games are better than the prequels. Knights of the Old Republic was better than any of them, as was its sequel, despite being seriously hamstrung by Lucas Arts.
The backstories of both the Sith and the Clone Wars were handled better in a half dozen different EU settings – each. KOTOR in particular developed a massive world in the Old Republic, adding tons of history and giving a rich mythology to the Sith. The aforementioned Thrawn Trilogy hinted at a version of the Clone Wars that was far more interesting than anything we’ve seen on screen – but even the animated Cartoon Network series proved a more interesting take on this event than Attack of the Clones.
The brilliant thing that George Lucas did in his accidental genius was to create a framework that was solid and compelling yet vague enough to allow others to fill in the gaps in even more interesting ways. The Force can become philosophy, magic, or religion depending upon your interpretation. Jedi Knights are hinted at in a way that allows all of us to fill in the gap, conjuring up endless tales of excitement. The gigantic universe – only hinted at in the original trilogy – could hold any number of tales. And who doesn’t love space ships, blasters, aliens, princesses and laser swords?
A whole generation of talented authors and game designers filled in this void of vagueness with interesting ideas. They fleshed out the universe, adding depth far beyond what Lucas ever did. Yet when compared to the real drivers of the Star Wars mythos, even these extremely talented writers look amateurish.
Tomorrow: the real depth of the Star Wars franchise came from the imaginations of the fans.
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99% of the philosophical depth of the Star Wars universe was added by people other than George Lucas. Yesterday I noted that the original film is nothing more than a solid, fun adventure romp. The philosophical depth of it is minimal (some would claim that the philosophical depth of all of Star Wars is minimal; even by their standards, A New Hope is lacking). Seriously. Go take a minute to watch it again.
The spiritual depth of the entire film consists of an old wizard/sage/priest giving our young hero a brief description of the Force, telling him that legions of warriors who harnessed it once roamed the galaxy but are now nearly extinct, and that he should trust his feelings. That’s it, in the entire movie. Even in the lightsaber scenes (not just the duel, but also when Luke is training aboard the Millennium Falcon), the use of the Force is minimal. The only truly strong uses of it in the entire film are Obi-Wan’s Jedi mind trick and Luke blowing up the Death Star.
The philosophical depth of the Star Wars saga comes from three sources: The Empire Strikes Back (which, as we will see in a minute, was not truly Lucas’s film), the Extended Universe, and the collective imagination of the fans. Seriously – almost all of it comes from these sources.
First, Empire, which was the root of it. Notice that the Force gets a big upgrade in this film. We see people manipulating objects with their minds, performing athletic and acrobatic feats far beyond normal human ability, using it as a kind of “spider sense” for defense, and even using it to glimpse into the future. This is a big jump from the first film.
Then we get Yoda, who brings with him some pithy, vaguely Zen, deep sounding aphorisms: do or do not, unlearn what you have learned, much anger I sense in him, etc. To be honest, the depth even here is… modest. The speech of the movie puts forth a somewhat facile pseudo-Zen philosophy. As a child, I thought it was somewhat deep. As a 37 year old man with a philosophy degree, I find it fun but lacking.
What it did do, however, was present a surface facade of real depth – while remaining extremely vague. The vagueness is critical. It allowed the viewer imagine a lot more depth than was actually there. And for decades, that’s exactly what we did. Those of us who grew up with the movies made up stories in our heads, or while playing games with each other. We traded theories and rumors – rumors that were often so full of BS that they were literally made up by one of our own friends, who had no source.
Importantly, Empire is the film (until this week) that had the absolute least input from Lucas himself. The film was directed by Irvin Kirshner, and the screenplay was by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. Numerous documentary evidence confirms that Lucas himself had little input into the script, and at one point during production he literally told Kirshner that he was “ruining my movie.”
Thus, the first burst of true depth and genius of the overall saga came not from Lucas himself but from his collaborators. And the reports of Lucas’s feelings about Empire confirm that he didn’t truly understand what made it great. The prequels only confirm that he still doesn’t – the beauty of the saga was just more accidental genius.
Tomorrow: the Extended Universe.
First, let’s consider the original 1977 film. But let’s be clear about it: I don’t at all think that Lucas was slacking off when he made this film. The tales of how difficult the film was are famous and many. Lucas spent four years just writing the script, and then he famously fought sandstorms, studio executives, budget issues, and technical issues. And don’t forget that he spawned an entire industry to create the special effects that couldn’t previously be done.
Star Wars was a labor of love – or at least a labor. But go watch that original film all over again. Unless you’re a male, nerdy member of my generation – in that case, you probably already know the film word for word. You guys can stay with me if you like. The rest of you, go watch it again.
What kind of film is it? At the end of the day, all you’ve really got is an adventure romp. Now, it’s a really solid one. It’s tons of fun. It was set in a world that felt lived in and real – and also massive. It hinted at enough outside of the core story to suck you in and let you lose yourself in what was going on. And it did all of this while providing scenes of space battles and laser swords in ways that were completely unheard of before the film’s release.
But still, all you’ve really got is an adventure romp – deliberately styled after the pulp serials of the 1930s. George Lucas admits this straight up in interviews. Indeed, that’s a large part of the charm of the film. Many people I know still list it as their favorite of the series specifically because it’s just a fun adventure romp.
But it’s also a really strange film – and I don’t just mean its revolutionary special effects and kinetic space dogfights. The structure of the film is really bizarre, and it doesn’t map to standard storytelling conventions. It spends half an hour following the story of two minor characters, when it hasn’t even introduced the main protagonist yet. The near universal consensus is that said protagonist is whiny and annoying and is overshadowed by the rogue of the series. Everyone remembers that crazy pace of the Death Star assault, but the first half of the movie is almost painfully slow – I remember as a kid fast forwarding through the droids in the desert on my Betamax video cassette.
But the visuals are stunning. And quite a bit of the film was heavily experimental in its day: the special effects, of course, but also the narrative structure, the heavy reliance on an orchestral soundtrack, and the raw pacing of the aforementioned Death Star assault.
In short, it was a gigantic art house film.
It’s the most successful art house film of all time. George Lucas got really, really lucky with it. But because the film he was actually trying to make was an art film, he never truly understood why it resonated with everyone.
Forget Empire and Jedi for a moment, since they weren’t directed by Lucas himself. Besides, we’ll be discussing those later this week. Think about the prequels – and think about them as the most expensive art house films ever made.
The reason they didn’t resonate well with audiences is because Lucas never understood what made the Star Wars films so popular. He thought – and still thinks to this day – that everybody loved his little art house film because it was an art house film. That’s basically how all art house directors think. What he never realized was that the universal appeal of it was a happy accident.
He managed to get just enough right – and at just the right time – to appeal to a vast, previously untapped audience. Laser swords? Check. Aliens? Check. Spaceships? Check. David vs. Goliath story? Check. A frenetic pace that nobody had ever seen before? Check. Visuals unlike anything previously done? Check. Giant spaceships more awesome than anything… except for that even more giant space station that could blow up entire planets? Check. An awesome toy line in a world that hadn’t been merchandised to death yet? Check.
The thing is, even this entire package wouldn’t have had the appeal that it did if any of it had been well done before. But it hadn’t been. And on top of all of that, there were just enough hints of a cosmic half-magic, half-religion, half-philosophy underlying his universe to suck everyone in to the mythological side of his accidental genius.
But that’s for tomorrow’s story, when we look at the accidental genius of the saga as a whole.
Science Fiction, Silver Empire
There Will Be War: Volume X
Posted on December 11, 2015 by Russell Newquist
I’m deeply honored to announce that my story “The Fourth Fleet” will be reprinted as part of the upcoming anthology There Will Be War: Volume X by Dr. Jerry Pournelle. I have to admit to having been a bit surprised by this.
Some of you may know Dr. Pournelle as one of the science fiction grandmasters. Or you may know him from his days as a science adviser to President Reagan. Or you may not know him at all, but recognize some of the other authors on the list – Dr. Martin van Creveld, Larry Niven, or Poul Anderson.
I’m deeply humbled to find my name listed in such company, and I hope that the readers find that the story justifies its placement. As soon as I have a purchase or pre-order link available, I’ll post it.
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Not Our Friend
Posted on December 7, 2015 December 7, 2015 by Russell Newquist
The video below has been making the rounds and provides a curious mixture of truth and propaganda. But then, the best propaganda always has a strong component of truth.
Putin’s latest intervention against ISIS makes him the enemy of our enemy. Despite that, he’s not our friend.
For the better part of a century, Russian geopolitical strategy has been to stir up trouble around the world, basically forcing their rivals to expend energy dealing with that trouble. That’s energy that can’t be spent fighting Russian interests. Keep in mind that in many of these cases, the only actual Russian interest served by these interventions is… stirring up trouble.
Stalin was an absolute master of this and brought the technique to dominate Russian foreign policy. One of his biggest wins in this arena was pushing the Chinese and the Americans into a proxy war in Korea in the 1950s, while the Soviet Union resolutely kept the conflict at arms reach. They were not our friend.
His successors repeated the technique in the 1960s in Vietnam. The Soviets never cared about winning in Vietnam. They just cared about keeping the Americans occupied there. They supplied the North Vietnamese with plenty of weapons, materiel, training and intelligence. But again, they resolutely refused to get involved directly. They were not our friend.
Simultaneously, they carried out a proxy war with the west that still plagues us today. Namely, the KGB sponsored terrorist organizations throughout the world, specifically to cause unrest for western nations. It’s amazing how much this is forgotten in the modern world, but in the 1980s and 1990s we were well aware that middle eastern terrorist groups largely existed thanks to Soviet funding. Not that they didn’t have their own ideological reasons. But without that Soviet funding, they never would have survived into the present day.
It’s worse than that, though. The Soviets also funded the Irish Republican Army in the UK, the Red Army Faction in Germany, the National Liberation Army in Colombia, the Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, as well as noted individual terrorists such as Carlos the Jackal. They were not our friend.
As if that weren’t enough, they also had a huge influence on political groups in western politics – especially leftist organizations aimed at peace.
Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev said in his autobiography that “the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad,” and that during the Vietnam War the USSR gave $1 billion to American anti-war movements, more than it gave to the VietCong
They were not our friend.
This isn’t paranoia. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, KGB documents were released confirming all of this (see many of the sources used in the two Wikipedia articles linked above.
Today, Russia carries on attacks against Isis in Syria. On the surface, we share the same goals. But don’t for a minute think that they’ve got our best interests at heart. Russia is simultaneously propping up the Assad regime, they’re still funding and propping up groups all over the world. They are not our friend.
The US government has made some really stupid decisions in geopolitics over the last 15 years. Looking at some of those decisions, it’s very easy to come to the conclusion that we’re not exactly the good guys in the world these days. Neither are the Russians. They are not our friend.
Recall that in World War II, the Russians were fighting on the side of the Nazis until Hitler double crossed them and invaded Russia. After that, they joined with the Allies against Germany. They were an ally. But they were not our friend.
When the tigers they’ve fed and nurtured in the middle east mature and turn on them – and they will – the Russians will join the western world to fight them. At the rate the western world is proceeding, they may even join us before we join ourselves. But don’t fool yourself – they haven’t done it yet. Until then, they will continue to foment chaos and unrest for their own gain. They will eventually become our allies in this conflict.
But they will not be our friend.
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The Zuckerberg Tax Dodge
Like other big name charity donations before him, Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to donate 99% of his wealth to charity isn’t being done out of the goodness of his heart. It’s a tax dodge.
It’s quite simple once you know how it works. First of all, you have to get rich. That’s the only part of the process that’s actually hard. Once you’ve accomplished that, you form a non-profit corporation. You and I can do it for a couple of hundred dollars and an hour or so in line at the county courthouse. Someone like Zuckerberg will probably shell out a few thousand dollars to have some lawyers do some extra fancy setup for him because he’s got so much money that why not?
Now, a non-profit corporation is almost exactly the same as a for-profit corporation… except that you have to set things up just right in order to maintain your tax exempt status. It’s “purpose” (more on this in a minute) has to be one of the listed purposes approved by the IRS, and it can’t be a political organization primarily aimed at influencing elections or legislation. It’s “purpose” can’t be to benefit private interests. And any profits can’t get passed back to the shareholders.
Yes, you read that last sentence right. Being a non-profit organization doesn’t mean you can’t make a profit. It just means you can’t pass that profit on to the shareholders. There are also a few riders that a non-profit organization has to spend a certain amount of its net worth every year. Again… more on this in a minute.
About that “purpose” noted above. That’s the easy part. You just pick a cause. Or, if you have billions like Zuckerberg – and Bill Gates before him, whose model he’s following – you pick several. This is the nice part: they’re probably causes you legitimately care about and want to do something about. Easy and done. But this isn’t the actual purpose. It’s just the organizing purpose that you build the organization around. The actual purpose, of course, is to avoid a shitload of taxes.
Next, you “donate” all of your money to the non-profit organization. Of course, it’s not actually a donation. You’re just transferring your money (or stocks, bonds, or whatever other assets) from one account into another, or from one name into another. In reality, you and/or your spouse, children, family, friends, etc own 100% of the shares of the non-profit. So you’re really “donating” all of your funds to… yourself.
But the great thing is, this donation is, itself, a tax deduction. So you’ve transferred all of your wealth into another account and wiped out most or all of your actual income for the year (from a tax perspective) at the same time. It’s a good deal, right?
We’re just getting started.
Being a non-profit organization doesn’t mean you don’t pay your employees. So now, you, your spouse, your children, and other family and friends are all instantly employees of the non-profit organization. And it doesn’t mean you have to pay them poorly, either. Let’s make them officers, because we can. And officers at non-profit organizations routinely make six figure salaries. Some of them make seven figure salaries. But… we don’t want our salaries to be too high, because then we get into tax issues again. Remember, we’re trying to avoid taxes here. Not pay more.
So we set a decent salary, but not too high. But aren’t we just paying ourselves out of our own money? Ah – here’s where the real fun starts. Because no, we aren’t doing that. We just put together a “charity organization,” right? So we’re going to get a lot of other people’s money, too. And unlike a real business, we’re going to get it all tax free.
So what, we’ll go around like the Salvation Army or Children’s Miracle Network and ask people for donations to the cause, right? Sure. But that’s not where the real money comes from. The real money comes from doling out services and influence in exchange for payment… er, donations. All those six figure speaking fees that Bill Clinton collects? They don’t go to him. They’re donations to his charity. So they’re a tax deduction for the payer, and they’re tax free revenue on his side.
But now we’re still only getting that six figure salary, while all of the rest of our money languishes. We’re not paying taxes on it, but we can’t really do anything with it for ourselves, can we? Well, not exactly. And this is where the non-profit life starts to look a lot like the for-profit one.
Because your job requires you to travel around town a lot, for all kinds of functions. It’s required for a charity, right? You’ve got to mingle. So here’s a car, on the foundation’s dime. Oh, it’s not your car – it’s the foundation’s. You’re only using it. Except that you own the foundation and nobody else is ever going to ask you for it. And you really need a nice one, because your an executive at a very important foundation. Bam. $100k+ car that didn’t come out of your income. No taxes involved, other than sales tax and annual property taxes… which again, are paid by the foundation. And oh yeah, the insurance, maintenance and gas are paid for by that foundation, too.
But we’re not talking about a regular foundation here. We’re talking about Mark Zuckberberg. Surely he does a lot of real travel, too. We’d better have a private plane ready. And of course he’ll need a posh place to stay, at only the best hotels. He’s gotta eat while he’s out, but those big wigs he’s hobnobbing with only eat at the best places. So that’s gonna cost. And of course the foundation picks up the tab for all of it.
You definitely need that home office decked out with the latest communication and technology. Top end computers every year, new smart phones to keep in touch with all of your important charity work. Phone bill, internet bill, all paid for by the foundation. It’s a work expense. Health insurance? Paid for by your “employer” – but only the best, because you’re important.
You have to be careful with some of this, because the IRS actually does have guidelines to prevent “abuse” of this. But a little ingenuity can find substantial overlap between what the IRS allows and what you actually want to do. The foundation doesn’t need to pay for everything, either. After all, you’re still getting that six figure salary and you didn’t donate all of your wealth to it. But imagine how little money you’d actually need if your house is already paid for, your cars are bought and paid for by your employer, and all your vacation… um, I mean work travel is paid for by somebody else. And at the end of the day I’ve only scratched the surface of what you can get away with having the foundation paid for.
But wait a minute. Don’t we require charities to, you know, actually pay for charity? Yes, some. But nowhere near all of your assets. The tax laws on this – and on all of the sneaky ways to pad your own coffers – get complex. But that’s OK, because your “charity” has billions of dollars to pay all the best tax lawyers to be sure that you’re following the rules to the letter. Remember, the purpose here isn’t to break the law. The purpose is to avoid every penny of taxes that you can avoid legally and keep that money in your own pocket. I mean, your foundation’s pocket, of course. Right? Right.
And finally, we get to the best part. You set in your will, and in the foundation’s bylaws, that when a shareholder dies, the shares revert to the foundation itself. “Wait a minute!” I hear you saying. “Don’t you want all this wealth to pass on to your children?”
Yes, yes you do. Which is why you make them – at some point before you die, either at the formation of the charity or later – shareholders. You sell them the shares for some token fee, so that it’s not a “gift” and doesn’t incur taxes. And they can be minority shareholders – even slim minority shareholders. But when you die, your shares revert to the foundation instead of going to them – and hence incur no taxes – they already own their shares – and hence pay no taxes – but now their shares (combined) give them full ownership and control of the foundation.
At the end, you’ve avoided the biggest tax of them all: the 40% inheritance tax that kicks in on estates valued at over $5 million. If you believe nothing else I’ve written above, realize that by forming a foundation and “donating” his money, Zuckerberg manages to pass on all of his $45 billion to his daughter instead of paying 40% of that ($18 billion) to Uncle Sam.
And that’s why I call it the Zuckerberg Tax Dodge. He’s hardly the first to do it. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, and plenty of others have done it. The practice dates back at least to JD Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon in the nineteenth century.
But when the wealthiest of the wealthy “donate all their money to charity,” don’t call them saints. Follow the paper trail and see how they’re perpetuating their family wealth.
Megan McArdle has a post up today talking about the rise of helicopter parents. Speaking as a very relaxed parent myself, this is a real phenomenon. My wife and I regularly get crazy glares, disapproving looks, and even snide comments from other parents. To be fair, she gets a lot more of it than I do. The Mommy Wars are a real thing, too. But when I regularly watch parents tell their five and six year old children that they aren’t allowed to do things that my two year old does, because safety, there’s clearly an issue.
Vague noises are made about how the world is more dangerous for kids than it used to be (it isn’t), how parents are more anxious than they used to be (really? More anxious than they were during the pioneer days or the Great Depression?), or how liability makes institutions more attuned to parental worries than they once were (OK, but the parents of 1970 didn’t ask institutions to keep their kids from climbing trees). I grew up in a New York City where kids had a lot more freedom — and a lot more crime to contend with, a lot more pollution, and a lot less safety gear. What changed?
The most plausible explanation I’ve heard is that we got richer, and richer people can expend more effort protecting their kids.
After settling in to explain, fairly enough, that we’re not that much richer than our parents, and surely this isn’t all of the explanation, she continues to assign much of the blame to our increasingly credentialized society and the importance of everything being perfect in a child’s life in order for them to have a good chance at a happy future.
With all due respect to Ms. McArdle, whom I read regularly and find to be regularly a great author, this is bunk. I can tell you in one word the primary driver in the rise of helicopter parents:
Numbers.
I am a father of three, with number four due early next year. Now, as it happens, my wife and I have inclined toward free range parenting from the beginning. However, I can tell you from direct experience – in a way that few Americans can these days – that helicopter parenting becomes exponentially harder with each additional child. And once you pass a certain point – probably at the birth of the fourth child, although I’m not there yet (I’ll get back to you) it becomes patently impossible.
Modern American parents are more hovery than their own parents because they can be. The smaller number of children that the average family has makes this possible. When there are only two kids (or, increasingly these days, only one kid) to ferry around, watch over, and care for, you can spend all of your time fretting over every little detail. And for women caught up in the mommy wars, there’s every incentive to do so – to signal how great of a parent you are.
Once the kids outnumber the adults, hovering over them in this way becomes very difficult – no matter how inclined toward it you may be. The kids will pull you in every possible direction, sapping your energy and attention. When the ratio hits 2 to 1, only the most die hard of helicopter parents can manage it anymore.
Today, Americans have fewer children. I believe this is detrimental for many reasons. The rise of helicopter parents is only one of them – but it’s a big one.
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April 19, 2019 April 20, 2019 Ryan Meeks
Easter… after ‘magic’
This Sunday, people all over the world will be celebrating Easter by dressing up, taking family photos and going to a church to hear a story they know by heart. Before they head home for some ham, they’ll sing songs celebrating that after they die, they will be going to heaven to be with god forever all because a poor, homeless, brown, Jewish Rabbi from Palestine was brutally executed by an evil alliance of Religion and State 2000 years ago but came back to life in 3 days and floated up to heaven telling his followers to spread the word that everyone who ‘believes in their heart’ that this story actually-legit-happened-for-literal-reals, gets into heaven and those who remain unconvinced, will go to hell. This is sometimes called the GOOD NEWS. Hmmmmm.
Granted, there will be less people doing it all this year, as Christianity is currently the fastest shrinking major religion on earth according to the most recent pew research. As for me, I still have a fondness for this particular story. Its not because I’m one of the, ‘it happened for reals’ folks, but because I see the metaphors of transformation, awakening and salvation/healing/wholeness playing out in similar and familiar ways, all the time. And about that, I DO mean ‘for reals’.
No matter what one believes about the Easter story, I think it can serve as a reminder that the new resurrected life we all long for only comes after we submit to the death of the old one. Death, burial and resurrection is ultimately a pattern of transformation to follow, not a supernatural story to simply believe and defend.
I often wonder how long before thinking people start admitting that they don’t really believe all the supernatural magical stories and start consciously choosing to live ethically anyway, without appealing to the gods or a sacred text to make ourselves feel better about death or to scare others into behaving the way we want them to. It feels insane to me that people are still trying to make this transactional religious concept work for modern people. The idea that someone was executed ‘for your sins’ makes absolutely no sense for people who don’t live in a culture steeped in religious animal sacrifice. Its not only horrifically violent, its illogical nonsense. How do they connect? I heard a comedian reference this when he said, “I hit myself in the face with a shovel… for your mortgage”. Thats about it, right there.
But does that mean the story is meaningless? That’s really up to you. I don’t think it has to be completely discarded. The idea of ‘god’ being LOVE itself seems useful to me. And to take that further and suggest that the power of love is the one truly transformational energy in the universe and that you can’t kill love because love is immortal… that seems like a myth to live by.
The Jesus story is full of mythology that still speaks with a voice of authority. The pattern is universal! To become your true, glorified, ascended self, you have to submit to a bit of a crucifixion. It may feel like you’re dying! But we have to trust that this process is fruitful and that after a season of mourning and darkness and difficulty… after your hopes have been buried deep in the earth… something new can emerge.
I believe it. I’ve lived it. The cycle will play out many more times in my life, I’m sure.
It doesn’t make sense to me anymore to spend Easter singing happy-clappy songs about being in the right religion and going heaven because we believe in a magical-murder, but I DO like the idea of getting together to talk about the kind of human beings the world needs right now. And this struggle of transforming into such people will require a pathway, a practice and a supportive community that is committed to seeing their own garbage and doing the hard work of dying to a false, contracted sense of self, letting go of fear, and trusting the voice of love within. To me, this is the meaning of Jesus’ saying “take up your cross and follow me”.
Turns out, Jesus didn’t ‘pay it all’, he led the way.
It’s up to us to follow his pattern …and save ourselves.
I do too
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Cannes does 'right thing' in appointing Spike Lee to lead
'By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press
FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019 file photo, Spike Lee arrives at the world premiere of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" in Los Angeles. Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, and festival organizers hope the provocative American director will "shake things up" at the gathering of the world's cinema elite.
Jordan Strauss
PARIS (AP) — American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event's 73-year history.
Festival organizers hope Lee will “shake things up” among the world's cinema elite at the festival which runs May 12-23. And anti-racism campaigners hope Lee's appointment wakes up the French cultural world to persistent discrimination and the damaging stereotypes it perpetuates.
Lee said he was “honored to be the first person of the African diaspora" chosen for the prestigious position.
Festival organizer Thierry Fremaux said Lee is the first black president of any major film festival, calling the decision a “message of universality.” Speaking on France's RTL radio, Fremaux said it wasn't a political decision, but noted that black artists are underrepresented in the cinema world.
Many of Lee's films have been shown at Cannes, and his “BlacKkKlansman” won a major prize at Cannes two years ago. This year's festival runs May 12-23, and the rest of the jury members will be announced in April.
“When I got the call ... I was shocked, happy, surprised and proud all at the same time,” Lee said in a letter. He said Cannes "changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema.”
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Several of Lee's films first screened at Cannes, including "Do the Right Thing" in 1989.
Without explicitly mentioning Lee's career-long fight against racism or other political views, the festival said Lee's “perspective is more valuable than ever” and that "Cannes is a natural homeland and a global sounding board for those who (re)awaken minds and question our stances and fixed ideas."
Ladj Ly, whose film “Les Miserables” echoes some of Lee's work and tackles tensions between police and minorities in a poor Paris suburb, hailed the move by festival organizers. “Les Miserables” screened at Cannes last year and won an Oscar nomination Monday for best international film.
The honorary president of French black rights group CRAN also welcomed the appointment of a filmmaker who confronts viewers and powers-that-be with strong opinions about discrimination and police violence.
“The arts world considers itself above questions of discrimination,” Louis-Georges Tin told The Associated Press. “But the #MeToo campaign showed that sexism is all too present in the arts world. And racism is too."
Tin expressed hope that Lee's role in Cannes could prompt the French cinema world to take a hard look at how it treats minorities and France's own colonial history. In French cinema, he said, “it’s always the blacks who make you laugh and Arabs who scare you."
Last year's Cannes jury president was Mexican director Alejandro Iñárritu, and the festival's top prize went to Korean director Bong Joon-ho's “Parasite,” who was nominated this week for best international film at the Oscars.
A baby gorilla is born at LA Zoo, the first in over 20 years
LOS ANGELES — A gorilla was born at the Los Angeles Zoo this weekend, the first such birth in more than 20 years, officials announced.
James Dean revival spurs debate on raising the digital dead
James Dean’s planned appearance in the Vietnam War movie “Finding Jack,” and the possibility of future parts, comes as digital de-aging and duplication of real actors has tipped from cinematic trick into common practice. And it's giving new life to old arguments about the immortality and dignity of the dead.
West Point cadet sought donations to host porn star for date
A West Point cadet briefly tried to raise money online to cover travel and lodging costs for an adult film star to be his date for a formal banquet at the storied academy.
'Parasite' parties, Leo greets young fans inside SAG Awards
Off-camera and during commercials, the stars at the Screen Actors Guild Awards got to rub shoulders, give congratulatory kisses, and meet for the first or the 50th time. Here are some of the more memorable moments from inside Sunday night's ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Like Miami, 'Bad Boys for Life' soundtrack is hot and fun
Various artists, “Bad Boys for Life Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (Epic/We the Best Music)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Off-camera and during commercials, the stars at the Screen Actors Guild Awards got to rub shoulders, give congratulatory kisses, and meet for the first or the 50th time. Here are some of the more memorable moments from inside Sunday night's ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The men bringing James Dean back to life for a forthcoming film are aiming not just to give his digital likeness a role, but a whole new career.
Johansson, Sterling K. Brown among SAG Awards presenters
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scarlett Johansson, Sterling K. Brown and Taika Waititi will be up for Screen Actors Guild Awards and also handing them out at Sunday’s ceremony.
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Suspect in Libya may have played Benghazi role, congressman says
By CNN Staff
The United States has "pretty good indications" that a man now held in Libya may have been involved in the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told CNN last week that the FBI had been able to question a man identified by sources as Faraj al-Shibli. But it was still not clear what role, if any, al-Shibli may have played in the September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. A source briefed by Western intelligence officials said al-Shibli had recently returned to Libya from Pakistan.
"We're not sure yet," U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, told CNN's State of the Union. But. Rogers added, "we have pretty good indications that he is, at least, highly suspected of being involved."
Post by: CNN Wire Staff
Filed under: Benghazi • Libya • Rep. Mike Rogers
U.S. lawmaker questions North Korean leader's 'stability'
By Matt Smith CNN
A top U.S. congressman expressed concern about the "stability" of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after months of provocative statements and behavior from the nuclear-armed communist state.
"You have a 28-year-old leader who is trying to prove himself to the military, and the military is eager to have a saber-rattling for their own self-interest," said Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. "And the combination of that is proving to be very, very deadly."
North Korea launched a satellite into orbit atop a long-range rocket in December, conducted its third nuclear weapons test in February and announced earlier this month that it was abandoning the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
Post by: CNN's Matt Smith
Filed under: Kim Jong-un • North Korea • Rep. Mike Rogers
Newly-freed Afghan prisoners walks after a ceremony handing over the Bagram prison to Afghan authorities, at the US airbase in Bagram north of Kabul on September 10, 2012.
Afghanistan's Karzai agrees to new deadline for prison handover
There's a new one-week deadline for handing over control of a U.S.-run detention center near Bagram Air Base to Afghan authorities, Afghanistan's president said Sunday.
On Sunday, Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement that he had agreed to a request from U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel for one week "to carry out the full handover the prison."
"President Karzai agreed with the new time request and reminded Secretary Hagel that the transfer has been delayed several times in the past and that this time, the handover should take place," the statement said.
Filed under: Afghanistan • Karzai
Cyberthreats getting worse, House intelligence officials warn
By Ashley Killough
The highest-ranking officials on the House intelligence committee continued to warn Sunday of the increasing cybersecurity threat to the U.S. economy and national security.
Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, the committee's chairman, spelled out the different levels of cyberattacks during an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" and cautioned that the worst of those – a debilitating hit by a terrorist group - could become reality.
"We know that terrorists, non-nation states, are seeking the capability to do a cyberattack. They're probably not there yet," he said, sitting next to the ranking member on the committee, Democratic Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger.
Read more on CNN's Political Ticker.
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University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
"Why did you take the MCAT 4 times" Report Response
"What do you want to say that is not present on your application" Report Response
"How does your wife feel about moving to Maine. " Report Response
"What do you do to relieve Stress" Report Response
"What do you think will be the biggest change when you are in medical school" Report Response
"SDN, School Website, AOA website, reviewed applications" Report Response
"The facilities" Report Response
"The lottery system for rotations" Report Response
"The change of the curriculum to a trimester system" Report Response
"It was a good day. I got to the school early and I was able to sit in on a first year class. The facilities were nice but I did not get a chance to see the whole thing. I was supposed to interview with two people but I only interviewed with one. I was very relaxed and we were always kept company to make sure we were relaxed. " Report Response
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Final Frontier Friday
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Final Frontier Friday: ‘Dear Doctor’
Posted January 11th, 2019 by Nick Cavicchio
Hello and, as always, welcome to ‘Final Frontier Friday’! This week, we’re kicking off 2019 with a look at one of the stand out episodes from the first season of ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’, ‘Dear Doctor’.
If you read our countdown to ‘Discovery’ back in the summer of 2017 (during which we reviewed every single ‘Star Trek’ pilot episode), you might remember that a big focus on the part of producers during the ‘Next Generation’ era was making each new show in some way distinct from ‘TNG’ and the original series. ‘Deep Space Nine’ was set on a space station instead of a starship. ‘Voyager’ stranded its titular ship on the other side of the galaxy, preventing them from relying on a lot of the familiar elements that we associate with ‘Trek’. And ‘Enterprise’, of course, had its prequel setting. That setting is what drove a lot of the show’s uniqueness, specifically because it meant that it predated a lot of franchise standbys, like the Federation, holodecks, and even the Prime Directive.
Falling as it does squarely in the middle of the first season, ‘Dear Doctor’ expands on a number of elements that had been established over the preceding twelve episodes. Among these, Phlox himself is front and center, as the doctor gets his very own episode for the first time. If you weren’t following this show as it aired, you might not get why this is a big deal (unless you just really like Phlox, I suppose), but at the time the show debuted, he was one of the least fleshed out characters. And this wasn’t just a case of a new show playing coy with details of a main cast member’s backstory. The ambiguity extended behind the scenes as well. When John Billingsley was interviewed for an August 2001 issue of TV Guide (by which time ‘Enterprise’ was several episodes into production), he said of his character, “They haven’t told me where my character comes from or even given his species a name.” This is the episode where that all began to change, as its focus on Phlox included the first mention (by name) of Denobula.
The episode also marked the most explicit time to date that the series saw the crew grapple with a situation that was complicated by the lack of the Prime Directive, which itself was rather specifically “foreshadowed.” This, of course, was one of the most significant ways in which ‘Enterprise’ sought to set itself apart from its predecessors. And while it wasn’t the first time the show had dealt with this, having dipped its toe into that particular pond in a handful of previous episodes (most notably ‘Civilization’), It was the first time it served as the focal point of a story.
Also of note is the episodes ending, which differs substantially from what was originally scripted. In the finished episode, Phlox is able to find a cure for the disease that threatens the Valakians, leaving Archer to struggle with the ethics of intervening, essentially playing god. The original ending, however, saw Phlox find a cure but after much agonizing decide to lie to Archer about it. The change was made at the behest of the network, which felt it important that it be clear that the crew was there to support the captain’s decisions, and that this obviously included trusting his judgment. For his part, Billingsley preferred the original ending, feeling that the final version “lost something interesting in this potential tension.”
But enough of that! Time for a clumsy segue!
As Phlox goes about his business in sickbay, Hoshi arrives to deliver a letter, which turns out to be from Dr. Lucas, a human colleague of his from the Interspecies Medical Exchange. Phlox listens to the message and, In voiceover, crafts his reply. In addition to giving Lucas some advice about life on Denobula, he relates some of his own experiences on Enterprise. This includes routine duties, tending to a crewman’s burns and the… after effects of Archer’s inability to refuse Porthos a piece of cheese. He also touches on the social side of his life among humanity, having noticed Crewman Cutler’s increasingly flirtatious behavior towards him. Amid all this, Enterprise comes across a Valakian ship in distress. The Valakians, a pre-warp society confronted with a devastating plague, have been sending expeditions into space in the hope of contacting more advanced civilizations who may have the technology and medical expertise to help. After consulting with T’Pol, who agrees that the risk of cultural contamination is minimal, Archer asks Phlox to do what he can to help.
Upon arriving at Valakis, Phlox tours a Valakian medical facility and learns of the existence of the Menk, a second, seemingly less advanced species that evolved alongside the Valakians and are not effected by the disease. After some study, Phlox reports to Archer that he has developed a palliative treatment, though he has rather troublingly discovered that the condition is not caused by some infection or environmental factor. Rather, it’s genetic. Due to the difficulty of remedying this level of genetic deterioration, he estimates the Valakians will be extinct within two centuries. Neither he nor Archer is ready to give up, however.
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Rose Parade will have Star Wars tribute
by Doc on Dec.29, 2006, under General News
The 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade, which kicks off New Year’s Day, will have a tribute to Star Wars, including George Lucas as the Grand Marshall, and members of the “501st Legion”, an unofficial group of hardcore fans that appear in authentic replica costumes. Lucasfilm is flying in 200 of them from around the world to participate. Also, the Grambling State University Marching Band will appear in Imperial officer uniforms. At each end of the tribute section of the parade will be floats – one scene from Endor, the other of Naboo.
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Health> Vol.3 No.8, August 2011
Cortisol levels and serum antioxidant status following chemotherapy
DOI: 10.4236/health.2011.38085 5,378 Downloads 11,093 Views Citations
Eugenia Limberaki, Phaedra Eleftheriou, Georgios Gasparis, Eugenios Karalekos, Vassilis Kostoglou, Christos Petrou
Department of Informatics, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Chemotherapy results in increased free radical formation and depletion of tissue antioxidants. Moreover, patients receiving chemotherapy are under emotional stress, which is also accompanied by low antioxidant levels. In the present study, we measured cortisol, the main stress hormone, and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in serum of 51 cancer patients during chemotherapy. Antioxidant activity was estimated by measuring the influence of serum in oxidation of ABTS (2,2'-azino-bis (3-ethylbenz-thiazoline-6-sulfonic acid to ABTS+ by methmyoglobin (Antioxidant kit of Cayman). Serum cortisol was measured using an ELISA colorimetric assay. Serum TAC was significantly decreased (75% decrease compared to normal levels, p = 0.001) in all patients during chemotherapy, while blood cortisol concentration was increased by 10%, (p = 0.044). Lower antioxidant levels and higher cortisol concentration were detected in patients receiving chemotherapeutic drugs daily, compared to the ones receiving chemotherapy once a week. A difference between sexes was observed with male patients presenting lower antioxidant status and higher cortisol levels than females. A significant and persistent decrease in antioxidant capacity accompanied by increased cortisol concentration was observed in all patients during chemotherapy. This fact, which is probably generated by biological and emotional stress, increases the probability of harmful side effects and organism weakening and needs to be considered during patients’ treatment.
Antioxidant Capacity; Cortisol; Chemotherapy; Cancer
Limberaki, E. , Eleftheriou, P. , Gasparis, G. , Karalekos, E. , Kostoglou, V. and Petrou, C. (2011) Cortisol levels and serum antioxidant status following chemotherapy. Health, 3, 512-517. doi: 10.4236/health.2011.38085.
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Quote by David Spade:
But seriously I got hit by a car the other day. Yeah, I'm alright, I appreciate the concern. I was going about 8, the care behind me was going about 11. He wasn't getting to 11, he was at 11. But he was behind me so cha-ching! C4, C5, bingo! He gets out of the car about 105 years old. A little cooky in the head. I'm a little tattered. He starts saying things he probably shouldn't at the scene of an accident. Hell buddy, I wasn't even looking. Might want to keep that to yourself.Then he just keeps burying himself. I can't even drive a stick. I don't know which one is the brake. My legs are numb. I been drinking!
David Wayne Spade is an American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, television personality, and late-night talk show host. He rose to fame in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, then began a successful acting career in both film and television.
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Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
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The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.
I feel very privileged that I am able to do something. All of us saw the images on TV and we said we can send money but we still wanted to contribute more.
Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of "Easy Fit" jeans.
I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.
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Rare images of Sikh soldiers who fought in World War I
Indian citizenship to those persecuted in their countries will provide better tomorrow, says PM Modi
The remarks came at a time when leaders of Opposition parties, and groups in the North East have strongly protested against the Citizenship Amendment Bill.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Friday. | Twitter/Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that Indian citizenship for people facing persecution in their own countries will ensure a better tomorrow for them, Hindustan Times reported. The remarks came at a time when leaders of Opposition parties, and groups in the North East have strongly protested against the Citizenship Amendment Bill that will be tabled during the ongoing Parliament session.
“We practice politics of performance not politics of promises,” Modi said, addressing the inaugural event of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi. “Every government should feel the pressure to perform. We have taken the pressure onto ourselves. We have taken the pressure onto ourselves.”
The prime minister said that the target of a $5 trillion economy was connected to providing a better future to all Indians. This will enhance ease of living, Modi said, adding that his government will enable and promote it with its maxim of reform and perform.
Modi said that his administration had displayed courage with the merger of banks that helped in recapitalisation. The prime minister said there was pressure on the banking sector and that the Centre will work towards improving it. “I do not run away from responsibilities,” he said.
India had improved its place in the list of ease of doing business, the prime minister said. The country jumped 14 spots to rank 63 out of 190 nations, with a Doing Business score of 71 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index.
The prime minister also criticised previous governments for ignoring certain parts of the country, and said that people in a few districts had been left to fend for themselves. Kalahandi in Odisha, Gumla in Jharkhand, Begusarai in Bihar, Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, Bastar in Chhattisgarh, and more such districts were being developed as “aspirational districts”, Modi added. He said 112 districts had been identified for this purpose.
The prime minister highlighted the Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict, and said that it proved that the country cannot be tied to the past, and can therefore have a better tomorrow. On November 9, the Supreme Court had ordered a trust to be set to oversee the construction of a Ram temple at the site while the Muslims were offered a separate five-acre plot elsewhere in the city for the construction of a mosque.
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The A to Z of Ukraine
Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio and Myroslav Yurkevich
Although English-language histories of Ukraine have been published since the 1930s, there has been no one-volume compendium of articles covering Ukrainian history from ancient times to the present, emphasizing the modern period. The A to Z of Ukraine introduces Ukraine to the reader through 700 entries on population, geography, economy, politics, and culture; descriptions of institutions, cultural monuments, political parties, battles and wars; and biographical sketches of key individuals in politics, the arts and sciences, the church, and the military. The work includes nine maps and a comprehensive chronology of Ukrainian history. It also features the most extensive and up-to-date bibliography of English-language writings on Ukraine currently in print. Scholars, students, and other readers interested in Ukraine's history will find this comprehensive volume a most useful resource.
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Zenon E. Kohut is director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta. His many works on early modern Ukraine, historiography, and the development of Ukrainian identity include Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy: Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s- 1830s.
Bohdan Y. Nebesio teaches film in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and serves as assistant editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers. His publications focus on the Films of Alexander Dovzhenko, East European cinema, and the history of film theory.
Myroslav Yurkevich is senior editor of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press and has participated in the CIUS project to translate Mykhailo Hrushevsky's ten-volume History of Ukraine-Rus' since its inception.
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Thinking Differently About Work and Wealth, Part 3
Posted on July 20, 2011 by Roy-Gene Aidan
This is Part 3 in a three-part series. To read Part 1, click here. To read Part 2, click here.
Which has greater value: 18 ponchos or more hours of time with the people we love? To a woman living in a poor South American village, it was the time. It isn’t clear which held greater value to the group of Peace Corps workers. It would be poetically beautiful if they walked away with a revolutionary new understanding of work and the reasons we do it. Of course, they just as easily could have left the woman’s house thinking, “How stupid was she?”
The world has lost perspective. We’ve devoted ourselves to the pursuit of greater efficiency and increased production apparently without giving thought to why such a pursuit serves our own interests. We’re quite literally asking the wrong questions, each based on a faulty assumption.
We ask everyday variations of the question, “Where can we find the resources to maintain our current rate of consumption?”
1. “Where can we find the food to allow us to continue eating the same amount?”
2. “Where can we find the gas so all our cars can stay on the road?”
3. “Where can we find the wood and stone so we can build bigger houses?”
We ask these things without first verifying that they’re even necessary. In effect, we seek more food without ever asking ourselves if we’re hungry. Corporations have been built, self-help books written, and an army of young workers raised to continue the wanton growth we’ve come to believe is necessary for civilization to flourish. We’ve done so in vain and the results will be far different than expected.
Manfred Max-Neef, the Chilean economist who recounted the story of the woman who made ponchos to support her family, spoke on this topic in his interview with Amy Goodman, drawing a distinction between growth and development:
“Growth is a quantitative accumulation. Development is the liberation of creative possibilities. Every living system in nature grows up to a certain point and stops growing. You are not growing anymore, nor he nor me. But we continue developing ourselves. Otherwise we wouldn’t be dialoguing here now. So development has no limits. Growth has limits. And that is a very big thing, you know, that economists and politicians don’t understand. They are obsessed with the fetish of economic growth.”
Humanity has given itself over to greed, a greed which neither satisfies its seminal cause nor accomplishes its declared end. What’s more, the First World stands poised to repeat the mistakes of empires past by allowing its greed to create an unsustainable reality which will lead to inevitable decline.
Max-Neef sees this possibility as well:
“I’m the author of a famous hypothesis, the threshold hypothesis, which says that in every society there is a period in which economic growth, conventionally understood or no, brings about an improvement of the quality of life. But only up to a point, the threshold point, beyond which, if there is more growth, quality of life begins to decline….
“I mean, your country is the most dramatic example that you can find. I have gone as far as saying — and this is a chapter of a book of mine that is published next month in England, the title of which is Economics Unmasked. There is a chapter called ‘The United States, an Underdeveloping Nation,’ which is a new category. We have developed, underdeveloped and developing. Now you have underdeveloping. And your country is an example, in which the one percent of the Americans, you know, are doing better and better and better, and the 99 percent is going down, in all sorts of manifestations.”
There will come a point when humanity will be forced to ask itself where it has been going. It’s a simple question, really: Where are you going? Yet, in a wide-spectrum view of all people, it’s impossible to answer. The mistake that so many have made is to believe that work is a journey to a particular destination. The reckless rat race for boundless efficiency and productivity will lead only to ruin, which is why we must, as a civilization, reexamine the reasons we work and pursue wealth.
Resources are not limitless and the day will come when all Men will be forced to acknowledge that our current model of civilization will not last forever. Unless we come to that realization now and make the necessary changes to ensure that we have sustainable prosperity, we will be taking a plunge into the unknown, one from which we may not return.
Human beings were not created to be cogs in some vast economic machine. The mere notion of regarding humans as “capital” is offensive to their divine nature and a flagrant disregard of the underlying reasons people live and work. We do not live to work; we work to live. Once we’ve planted that realization in our hearts, it might just begin to make sense to us why a little woman in a remote village saw greater value in more time spent with those she loved than in 18 extra ponchos.
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This is Part 2 of a three-part series. To read Part 1, click here. To read Part 3, click here.
Remember the theory I put forward about why the Roman model of civilization failed? While I have no intentions of playing the game “Pin the Tail on the Reason Rome Failed,” an undeniable reason was simply because the empire became unsustainable. The Romans couldn’t maintain the relentless conquest and expansion needed to feed the monstrous economic engine it had created. Sure, the lead pipes and barbarians also played a role, but, still, the simple truth is that Rome reached its technological limit during the reigns of the emperors Hadrian and Trajan and, resultantly, was unable to meet the challenges it faced in the latter part of its history.
In case it isn’t clear by now, I’m trying to draw an analogy between Rome and the Twenty-first century First World in this regard. There will come a point when civilization will reach some sort of limit that cannot be overcome. More likely than not, that limit will be environmental in nature. In other words, there simply won’t be enough resources to meet demand.
We see harbingers of that at present: the depletion of global fossil fuel supplies, the felling of the world’s oxygen-producing rain forests at a horrific rate, the acidification of the oceans due to the increased carbon in the atmosphere, and the list goes on. Human beings are being confronted daily by the fact that the Earth is not an infinite source of resources and raw materials; there are limits to how much we can exploit it to satiate our own greed. Whether of our own volition or if we eventually run up against the Earth’s own natural productive boundaries, that exploitation will end. For our sakes, we should probably do something about it now while we can still take measures to ensure the continuity of our prosperity.
I previously asked if continual growth was a good thing and left the answer ambiguous. It depends, I wrote, on the ultimate reason why men work and produce goods. I’d like to discuss that further now.
Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean-born economist who teaches at UC-Berkeley. In an interview last fall with Amy Goodman on the independent news show Democracy Now!, he related a story that beautifully illustrates the issue I’m getting at.
He told of a group of Peace Corps workers in South America who come across a woman in a remote village. This woman has a machine that allows her to make two ponchos in week that she then sells to make a living and provide for her family. The Peace Corps workers tell her they could give her another machine that would allow her to make twenty ponchos a week and, therefore, more money. The woman gladly accepts the machine and the group leaves.
Several months later, the workers return to the village to seek out the woman and see how her life has changed with the new machine. What they find, however, isn’t quite what they expected. Upon asking the woman how many ponchos she now makes, she replies, “Two per week.”
The Peace Corps workers are incredulous and tell the woman she could be making much more. The woman replies to this by saying she doesn’t need to make more.
“But what good is the machine if you aren’t making more?” the flabbergasted Peace Corps workers ask.
“Well,” the woman answers, “I make two, but now I can make them much faster so I have more time to spend with my friends and children.”
Contained in this little parable is a picture of the great tragedy of our time. We’ve ironically come to value the tools more than the project, the road more than the destination, the labor more than its fruits.
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,” said Jesus in Matthew 6:21. The woman’s treasure wasn’t in making more ponchos and increasing her socioeconomic status. Her treasure wasn’t in her work but in people.
Max-Neef went on to say after he told the story:
“In our environment, you know, you have to do more and more and more and more. No, there, instead of making more, they have more time to enjoy themselves, to have a nice relationship with friends, with family, etc. You see? Lovely values which we have lost.”
The fruit of our labor should be the means to live. The means themselves have virtually no intrinsic importance; they are the mere tools we use to enable us to live. Food, drink, shelter, they are all meaningless without people to share them with and if a quixotic quest to get more of these things has surpassed in importance the act of sharing them, then we’ve lost perspective. Indeed, we’ve ceased to live.
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Motivation: Barrow Alcohol Study
Communicating Data Science Results
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Important note: The second assignment in this course covers the topic of Graph Analysis in the Cloud, in which you will use Elastic MapReduce and the Pig language to perform graph analysis over a moderately large dataset, about 600GB. In order to complete this assignment, you will need to make use of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon has generously offered to provide up to $50 in free AWS credit to each learner in this course to allow you to complete the assignment. Further details regarding the process of receiving this credit are available in the welcome message for the course, as well as in the assignment itself. Please note that Amazon, University of Washington, and Coursera cannot reimburse you for any charges if you exhaust your credit. While we believe that this assignment contributes an excellent learning experience in this course, we understand that some learners may be unable or unwilling to use AWS. We are unable to issue Course Certificates for learners who do not complete the assignment that requires use of AWS. As such, you should not pay for a Course Certificate in Communicating Data Results if you are unable or unwilling to use AWS, as you will not be able to successfully complete the course without doing so. Making predictions is not enough! Effective data scientists know how to explain and interpret their results, and communicate findings accurately to stakeholders to inform business decisions. Visualization is the field of research in computer science that studies effective communication of quantitative results by linking perception, cognition, and algorithms to exploit the enormous bandwidth of the human visual cortex. In this course you will learn to recognize, design, and use effective visualizations. Just because you can make a prediction and convince others to act on it doesn’t mean you should. In this course you will explore the ethical considerations around big data and how these considerations are beginning to influence policy and practice. You will learn the foundational limitations of using technology to protect privacy and the codes of conduct emerging to guide the behavior of data scientists. You will also learn the importance of reproducibility in data science and how the commercial cloud can help support reproducible research even for experiments involving massive datasets, complex computational infrastructures, or both. Learning Goals: After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Design and critique visualizations 2. Explain the state-of-the-art in privacy, ethics, governance around big data and data science 3. Use cloud computing to analyze large datasets in a reproducible way.
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Big Data has become closely linked to issues of privacy and ethics: As the limits on what we *can* do with data continue to evaporate, the question of what we *should* do with data becomes paramount. Motivated in the context of case studies, you will learn the core principles of codes of conduct for data science and statistical analysis. You will learn the limits of current theory on protecting privacy while still permitting useful statistical analysis.
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[MUSIC] In this module, we're gonna talk about ethics and privacy and as with many of the topics in these courses in this specialization, this topic warrants a entire course unto itself. But, just like we've done with the other topics, what we're going to do is try to give you an overview of the important concepts in the area. We're going to motivate this with real world examples and we're going to do a technical deep dive into particularly important concepts, or to make sure you have an intuition for how to use them and how to apply them elsewhere. What we hope is that this will be enough of an appetite whetting exercise to encourage you to go take an entire course on ethics and privacy in big data and data science, of which there are many starting to emerge. We've done this with databases and large scale data management systems. We've done this with machine learning. We've done this with statistics. We've done this with visualization. Now, we're gonna try to give it a treatment of this topic. Cherry picking topics that we think are especially relevant given the theme of the course and given things that I'm interested in. I want to start off with a study that was conducted quite a while ago in 1979, in Barrow, Alaska. Barrow is the northernmost point in the United States, northernmost city in the United States and it's a rural community. This is a zoom in shot and you can see those lakes in the aerial, you can see those lakes, as well. This was a Native American community that has been hunting whales for thousands of years and since World War II, there have been significant economic changes over a short time. Native leaders and city officials were concerned about the use of alcohol in the community and the associated violence and invited a group of sociology researchers to assess the problem and work with them to devise solutions. So, a team came in, and the methods used here were to collect a representative sample of everyone over the age of 15. Although, as we'll mention in a moment, they targeted the Native community in particular, and they interviewed them on attitudes and values associated with the use of alcohol, including psychological histories. They gave them a standardized alcoholism screening test that had been devised previously and asked them to draw a picture of a person which was intended to determine cultural identity. If you draw someone in a certain style, than that suggests that you're coming from the perspective of a particular community. If you draw someone in another style, it shows you're from another particular community and that's a method that was accepted at the time. The results of the study, the particular numbers are not terribly important, you can look them up but the overall effect was that alcoholism was pretty extreme there. There was widespread use and abuse of alcohol and associated with the problems that that would entail. The reason why I want to bring up this study that was not so much just for the results itself, it's the manner in which it was released and the overall context in which this study was done in order to motivate some of the ethical considerations. In particular, the results of this study were announced unilaterally and publicly in two forms simultaneously. One was a report was released and simultaneously, a press conference was held to the Barrow community, crucially, without representation from the tribal communities that were reflected in the study, even at the press conference. The report was picked up by the press and it became a front page New York Times story titled alcohol plagues Eskimos, alcoholism plagues Eskimo village. You can imagine the effect here, the quotes here in this article you can see, they're practically committing suicide by mass alcoholism. University of Pennsylvania researchers said yesterday, the alcoholism rate is 72% among the 2,000 Eskimo men and women in the village of Barrow. Violence is becoming the leading cause of injury and death. So the effects of this study on the populous were pretty immediate. If you were a member of the Barrow community, if you're a member of the Iñupiat tribe, you were associated with the brand presented in this article in a very, very public way. Further, the results of the Barrow Alcohol Study, it says here were revealed in the context of a press conference that was held far away from the native village. Without the presence and much less the knowledge or consent of any community member who might have been able to present any context concerning the socioeconomic conditions of the village. So the study results suggested that nearly all adults of the Iñupiat were alcoholics. In addition to the shame, the town's Standard & Poor bond rating suffered as a result, which in turn decreased the tribe's ability to secure funding for much needed projects. This was a direct financial harm incurred by the community, the inability to get loans in order to proceed with public works projects. There's a number of articles that were written after this, reflecting how they were upset about this and the harms they had faced. There's this subtle side effect too that's one of the reasons why this study is so well known in the medical and sociological and ethics' communities, as an example, is that research itself has a bad reputation among Native peoples. Not only in this area but widespread, in part, because of this study and others like it. Research has been described as probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world's vocabulary as a result of this. This is important to understand what went wrong here and there's a couple of particular points that I wanna make about this particular study. >> [MUSIC]
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Amélie Addison is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds researching the life and music of Tyneside-born theatre composer William Shield (1748-1829) Her thesis argues that Shield’s familiarity with Northumbrian and Scots airs during his childhood and early career laid crucial foundations for his distinctive compositional approach, explores the political and cultural implications of his lifelong practice of ‘borrowing’ and imitating traditional melodies, and seeks to identify the elements of his style that facilitated the ready absorption of his own original tunes into collections of ‘national airs’. Drawing on both her current research and extensive experience as a cellist and chamber musician specialising in eighteenth-century performance practice, Amélie has given papers and recitals at Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering, the William Shield Festival (Gateshead / Newcastle), Leeds International Concert Series, the North East Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies Forum, York Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, and EFDSS ‘Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs’ conference. Forthcoming outputs in 2019 include an article on Shield for Folk Music Journal, and an essay investigating subscribers to Shield’s first publication for the collection Music in North East England, 1500-1800 (ed. Southey, Carter & Gibson; Boydell & Brewer).
William Shield (1748-1829) was born near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His early musical training came from his father, a singing teacher, who died when he was ten; following an apprenticeship to a local boat-builder, Shield became musician and composer for Bates’ touring theatre company (Addison, forthcoming). From 1774 his songs began appearing as inserts in the Lady’s Magazine; the June 1778 edition included ‘A New Song. Set to Music by Mr. Shield,’ which was reprinted multiple times in London and Scotland over three decades. Differences between the scores of later editions are minimal, except where the song has been arranged for other instruments; a 1798 American version alone includes additional ‘Scotch snap’ rhythms, slight melodic alteration and occasional substitution of different chords. New York’s New Theatre opened that year, with performers including several who had worked with Shield in London, so this version may have crossed the Atlantic by oral transmission, while British editions referred to the original printed source (Allston Brown, 1903; Schneider, 1979). From 1785 the words were also published alone, in song collections and as a broadside ballad performed by street-singers (Roud V7521).
The Lady’s Magazine, vol. 9, June 1778 (images courtesy of The British Library)
The original lyrics (by Thomas Holcroft, an actor with Bates’ company 1776-1777) reflect pastoral romance tropes, with no explicit Scottish references. Yet within three years ‘Down the bourn’ was being marketed as a ‘Scots song’ by William Napier, a London-based Scottish publisher who would later commission twelve arrangements of traditional Scots airs from Shield for a substantial printed collection (Napier, 1790). Enthusiastic collection, appropriation, adaptation, imitation and even forgery of traditional Scottish music and poetry was widespread, so reinventing an original song with a national label could have been a ploy to increase circulation; but Holcroft’s memoir disclaims any such intention:
‘[Holcroft] also found time to write songs for Vauxhall…. Among these, the greatest favourite was the ballad, beginning, “Down the Bourne and through the Mead”…. This song, which is written in the Scottish dialect, has often been mistaken for an old Scotch ballad, and has been actually printed in a collection of Scotch songs.— Mr. Holcroft was one evening drinking tea with some friends at White Conduit-House, when the organ was playing the tune…. a person in the next box began to descant rather learnedly on the beauty of the Scotch airs, and the tenderness and simplicity of their popular poetry, bringing this very ballad as an illustration of his argument, neither the words nor music of which, he said, any one now living was capable of imitating. Mr. Holcroft…. turning to the gentleman, interrupted his argument by informing him, that he himself was the author of the song in question, and that the tune was composed by his friend, Mr. Shield, who I believe was also there present.— …
An Irish music-seller, at the St. Paul’s Head in the Strand, had procured the words and music, and had advertised them in his window to be sold. Mr. Shield was accidentally passing, saw the music in the window, and went in to demand by what right the advertiser meant to publish his property…. It was with difficulty that Mr. Shield by informing him that he was the author of the music, prevailed on the pretended composer to relinquish his claim’ (Hazlitt, 1816; 280-282).
Despite Holcroft and Shield’s attempts to defend their intellectual property against both outright piracy and spurious antiquarianism, contemporary listeners evidently accepted the song as traditional. The ‘Scottish’ characteristics they recognised probably owed something to Shield’s Tyneside roots: in his youth he had learned ‘Border Tunes’ from local musicians including fairground fiddlers and the Duke of Northumberland’s piper (Shield, 1817; 35-38). Shield’s own compositional voice naturally developed an accent which evoked the dialect, landscape and lifestyle associated with traditional airs, while he also showed an exceptional talent for sympathetically arranging and adapting them: ‘had I not been partial to their original simplicity, I should not have succeeded in those imitations of it, which have by many been denominated my happiest productions’ (Shield, 1817; 3).
Shield also acquired a valuable grounding in the form, harmony and orchestration of European concert repertoire through performing in subscription series and oratorio festivals in Newcastle, Durham, York and London. He developed the ability to combine composed and traditional influences, creating songs to please socially diverse theatre audiences. This is just one of many Shield songs that feature harmonic and melodic elements reminiscent of a traditional air, within a simplified ‘da capo aria’ structure:
Symphony orchestral introduction based on the air, with some expansion or decoration
A resembles a national air in melodic shape (e.g. using ‘gapped scales’) and harmonic context (simple accompaniment, often drone-based)
B introduces development and contrast, e.g. modulation to the dominant key, sequences, chromatic chords highlighting emotions in the lyrics, vocal cadenza
A1 / AB recapitulation of A melody or contraction of both sections
Symphony orchestral coda
Shield’s gift for evocative melody and simple, subtle harmony kept the national air ‘feel’ to the fore, while the operatic ternary structure underpinning the song went unnoticed. His original compositions were readily adopted as national airs, because their character and atmosphere fulfilled listeners’ expectations of a national style.
Representative sources
‘A New Song. Set to Music by Mr. Shield’, The Lady’s Magazine, vol. 9, June 1778, facing p. 328. Full score and text.
‘Johnny and Mary. A Scots Song. Introduc’d by Miss Catley in Love in a Village’, A Collection of Songs, sung at Vauxhall by Mrs. Weichsell, to which is added Johnny and Mary, a Ballad introduced by Miss Catley in Love in a Village… (London: W. Napier, [1780?]), pp. 14-15. Full score and text.
‘Johnny and Mary. The favorite new Scotch song. Introduc’d by Miss Catley in Love in a Village,’ (London: [Jonathan Fentum], [ca. 1780]). Guitar arrangement.
‘Song CXXXVIII’, The Vocal Enchantress, presenting an Elegant Selection of the Most Favourite Hunting, Sea, Love & Miscellaneous Songs (London: J. Fielding, [1783]), pp. 278-279. Melody and text.
‘Song CCXIX. Johnny and Mary. Sung by Miss Catley’, The goldfinch, or new modern songster. Being a select collection of the most admired and favourite Scots and English songs, cantatas, &c. (Glasgow: [1785?]), pp. 195-196. Text only.
‘Johnny and Mary. A Scots Song. Sung at Vauxhall by Mrs. Cubitt 1782. Introduc’d by Miss Catley in Love in a Village’ ([London], [1785?]). Full score and text (reprint).
‘Johnny and Mary’, The Scots Musical Museum (Edinburgh: James Johnson & Co., 1787 [1788, 1790, 1792], 6 vols), vol. 1, p.100.
‘Johnny and Mary, A Favourite New Scots Song, introduced by Miss Catley, in Love in a Village’, The Billington: or, town and country songster: containing upwards of seven hundred of the newest and most approved songs, Duets, Trios, Cantatas, Catches, and Glees; In Which Are Included, All The Favourite Airs That Have Been Sung At The Theatres From 1760 To This Present Season, And The New Songs Sung At Ranelagh And Vauxhall This Summer…. (London: E. Wenman, [1790]), pp. 197-198. Text only.
‘Down the bourn, or through the mead’, The sky lark. Being an Elegant Collection of the Best and Newest Songs in the English Language. (London: [1791]), pp. 178-179. Text only.
‘Johnny and Mary’, Antient and modern Scotish songs heroic ballads &c in two volumes… (Edinburgh: Lawrie & Symington and Thomas Brown, [1791?], 2 vols), vol. 2, pp. 324-325. Text only.
‘Johnny and Anna’, The Cheerful Companion, in his hours of leisure: containing upwards of two hundred songs, catches, glees, &c. Selected from the best publications, Ancient and Modern, with many valuable originals, ed. G Cunningham (Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1797), pp. 88-89. Text only.
‘Johnny and Mary’, (New York: J. Hewitt; Philadelphia: B. Carr; Baltimore: J. Carr, [1798]) Full score and text.
‘Johnny and Mary, a favorite Scotch song for a voice & harpsichord, sung by Mrs Billington, in Love in a Village’, (London: Bland & Weller, [c. 1800]). Full score and text.
‘Johnny and Mary. A favorite Scots song’, (Glasgow: J. Stevens, [c. 1810]) Full score and text.
‘Johnny and Mary’, A Selection of the Most Beautiful Scotch Melodies, Including those Performed in Guy Mannering, Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian, 2nd ed. (London: W. Blackman, 1820), pp. 10-11. Duet arrangement for flutes, flageolets or violins.
Addison, Amélie. ‘National airs in the life and works of William Shield (1748-1829)’ PhD thesis (University of Leeds, forthcoming).
Allston Brown, T. A history of the New York stage: from the first performance in 1732 to 1901, 3 vols (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903) vol. 1, pp.11-13.
W. Hazlitt, ed. Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816), pp. 280-282.
Napier, William, ed. A Selection of the most Favourite Scots Songs chiefly Pastoral adapted for the Harpsichord with an Accompaniment for a Violin by Eminent Masters (London: Napier, 1790), vol. 1, pp. 2, 4, 6-9, 23, 33, 39, 42, 62, 76.
Schneider, B. R. ed. Index to The London Stage 1660-1800 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, c.1979).
Shield, William. Rudiments of Throughbass (London: Robinson, 1815), pp. 35-38.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library online catalogue, www.vwml. org.uk/search, accessed 20 October 2018. Index no. V7521.
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Browse: Home » In Six Words, The Race Card Project Has Begun a Different Conversation about Race
In Six Words, The Race Card Project Has Begun a Different Conversation about Race
Tuesday, March 11, 12 p.m. | Taubman 275
in Audio & Video, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Race & Gender
Michele Norris (right) and Alex S. Jones
March 11, 2014 – What started as an experiment with 200 postcards turned into a life-changing project for Michele Norris, host and special correspondent for NPR. She started the Race Card Project as a way to begin a new conversation about race and cultural identity, and now thousands of submissions from postcards, the web and Twitter all make up a large database of thoughts, ideas and voices.
The Race Card Project “condenses a big topic into just six words,” Norris explained. People choose six words that they associate with race, and write them on a postcard or submit them online at theracecardproject.com. At first, Norris noticed that the responses (30% of all the postcards she sent out) were “inspirational,” vague and innocuous. But then, she said, “something happened, and the conversations became deep.” People began submitting words and phrases that were much more honest and intimate. It provided access to conversations “that I would have never been privy to” on public radio, Norris said. She explained that when you visit the website, “you will most certainly see something that will make you uncomfortable…but you will be enriched by the experience because you will understand life as lived by someone else.”
Throughout the course of the project, the “experiment has taken us to interesting places,” Norris said, and listed several examples of perspectives and ideas that she never would have associated with people’s assumptions about race. Themes like slavery, adoption and borders are common threads throughout the submissions. “This has been an education for me as a journalist and as a human being,” she said.
Norris admits that the project is “not a panacea—it won’t solve anything, and it won’t heal race relations.” But the important lesson is that, instead of focusing on “what is said versus what is heard,” this conversation “is about listening and providing a space where people can listen to someone else.” She hopes the project will live on as an archive, documenting an “interesting moment in American history.”
Article and photo by Janell Sims, Shorenstein Center.
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David Wiesner, Owner of Siena Bistro has worked in the restaurant industry for more than three decades. Owning and operating his own restaurant was a lifelong dream and in.
David Wiesner
Owner of Siena Bistro
He worked his way up from cook to sous chef. He then went on to become a server, floor manager, restaurant manager and finally the chef/owner at Siena Bistro in Willow Glen.
In his cooking Chef David relies on both traditional favorites as well as new twists on old ideas, using high-quality ingredients that are locally sourced and sustainable, when possible.
David is passionate about the restaurant industry. It is a field that allows his creativity and friendly approach to shine.
It’s a vocation and an avocation that enables him to make patrons smile, relax and feel like they are always at home, because when he is working in his restaurant, he feels like he’s at home!
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Why does a Yellowstone microorganism prefer meager rations over rich ones?
Arizona State University geoscientist Everett Shock has collaborated with a team of life scientists from Montana State University to discover a puzzle at the junction of geochemistry and biology.
The puzzle, which has no solution yet, is: Why would a microorganism thriving in a hot spring draw its energy from low-quality sources instead of rich ones?
Shock, who is a professor in geochemistry in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences, has long studied questions of habitability as they apply to life on Earth, and to the potential for life on other planets.
"The team isolated this organism, which is a member of the Acidianus genus, from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and cultured it in the laboratory," he said. "There it was given a choice of three different geochemical energy supplies."
This microbe, Shock said, can get energy from combining hydrogen with sulfur, or hydrogen with iron, or sulfur with iron. In the experiments the team carried out, hydrogen and sulfur supplied the least energy, while hydrogen and iron provided the most.
"Surprisingly, the organism grew best on the lowest energy supply — and it grew the worst with the richest energy material," Shock said.
The scientists' report was published July 3 in Nature Geoscience. The lead author is Maximiliano Amenabar of Montana State University; besides Shock, the other authors are Eric Roden (University of Wisconsin), and John Peters and Eric Boyd (both Montana State).
Rich diet: Genetically costly?
"The results were quite counterintuitive," said Shock. "It's only natural to expect that in any environment, the 'big deal' energy sources will be supporting the most organisms, and the feeble sources — well, you wonder if they are supporting anything at all."
It turns out, he explained, that in a genetic sense, it may be costly for the organism to go after the big-energy supply.
"It's like mining," he said. "You can have a rich ore deposit, but if extracting it costs more than you can get for it, it's not worth pursuing."
And in microorganism terms, Shock said, "biological cost may come down to availability. Perhaps the low-energy source is more reliable in nature than the high-energy one."
Shock suggested that reliability could "tune" the microorganism's metabolism to the energy source that's always available.
But apparently not exclusively, he added. "The organism is also capable of using these other energy sources. However, maybe using them takes more work, so the organism grows more slowly with them."
The focus of future research on this organism will be to assess in detail the energetic costs. Its recently completed genome will aid the research..
Shock concluded, "We don't know for sure why this organism thrives best on low-energy food sources — but now the task becomes finding that out."
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Mayor London Breed Celebrates Groundbreaking of Jefferson Streetscape Improvements
This second phase of the streetscape design will create a safer, more inviting street for residents and visitors of the Fisherman’s Wharf area
San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin joined community leaders and City officials today for a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of construction on the second phase of the Jefferson Streetscape Improvements Project, which will enhance pedestrian safety and beautify the popular Fisherman’s Wharf corridor.
The $16.3 million streetscape project runs along three blocks of Jefferson Street from Jones Street to Powell Street. The project includes numerous changes improving the experience for those walking or biking, including widened sidewalks, new lighting and landscaping, and expanded seating and bicycle parking. The street will also be narrowed and include textured paving to help calm traffic. The improvements support the vision set out in the Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan. The first phase of the project covered the two blocks of Jefferson Street from Hyde Street to Jones Street and was completed in June 2013.
“We are excited to begin the next phase of these important changes to Jefferson Street to make this area safer, more inviting, and pedestrian focused,” said Mayor Breed. “Fisherman’s Wharf is a unique destination and this project will create a better street experience for locals and visitors from around the world.”
Construction of the project is managed by San Francisco Public Works and is anticipated to be completed by fall 2020. The project will be constructed in phases to minimize construction impacts in the neighborhood, starting with work focused at the intersection of Jefferson and Jones streets, followed by work along the north side of Jefferson, then along the south side of Jefferson.
“This is the culmination of over a decade of effort to ensure that Fisherman’s Wharf remains a vital economic engine and draw for locals and visitors from around the world,” said Supervisor Aaron Peskin. “Since 2006, we’ve cobbled together millions of public dollars to turn this into a model pedestrian promenade. The Wharf welcomes millions of visitors and workers every year who will finally see this last stretch of Jefferson Street become much safer and more beautiful.”
To make room for the safety improvements and widened sidewalks, parking along Jefferson Street between Jones and Powell Streets will be removed.
“We have worked closely with multiple City departments and with the community to design something that will truly benefit everyone who visits, works and lives in the area,” said Director of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru. “Not only will we create a safer street, there will be more room on the sidewalks to welcome more tourists to the neighborhood.”
The project is a multiagency collaboration involving San Francisco Public Works, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Planning, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and the Port of San Francisco.
“The Port of San Francisco is excited to work with our city and community partners to bring the vision and plans of the Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan to fruition,” said Elaine Forbes, Executive Director of the Port of San Francisco. “This project will make Fisherman’s Wharf more accessible and inviting for tourists and residents alike; solidifying its special place in San Francisco.”
Randall Scott, Executive Director of the Fisherman’s Wharf Community Benefit District, which has been instrumental in the re-envisioning of this important corridor said, “We look forward to working closely with Public Works and the community throughout this process and look forward to a safer and more welcoming Jefferson Street for all San Franciscans.”
“The Jefferson Streetscape Improvements Project elevates safety with specially designed pavement patterns and narrowed travel lanes, to promote traffic calming throughout the corridor,” said Tom Maguire, Interim Director of Transportation for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Starting today and continuing for the duration of construction, Muni’s E-Embarcadero and F‑Market and Wharves historic streetcars will turn back at Pier 39. A shuttle bus will operate in a loop to serve missed stops on the remaining four blocks.
The project is funded in part by the California State SB1 Gas Tax, the San Francisco Public Works’ General Fund for Streetscape and Paving Program, the SFMTA Transportation and Road Improvement General Obligation Bond, Prop K sales tax revenue, and the San Francisco Port’s General Fund.
Additional project information can be found at www.sfpublicworks.org/jefferson.
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Midsummer Moves Into New Markets
Announces new BIPV metal sheet CIGS solar roof for end market applications
Swedish CIGS firm Midsummer has launched its new energy producing metal sheet roof 'Midsummer solar roofs' as part of a broader effort to expand into the end market for solar panels.
To meet increasing demand from mainly the US market, Midsummer is rapidly expanding its production capacity of DUO machines, its innovative and unique manufacturing tool for thin film flexible CIGS solar cells.
The company has decided to also directly address the end market, both B2B and B2C, for solar panels suitable for different types of roofs, facades, vehicles, landfills etc in urban areas. To support this expansion, Midsummer is looking into issuing Green Bonds of up to SEK 500m [€47.5m; $53.4m].
The company's new business model would include in-house production of solar panels for the end market and the establishment of a network of contract manufacturers in addition to its present production of manufacturing equipment.
A first step in Midsummer's new strategy and product offering is ”Midsummer solar roofs', a standing seam metal roof (shown above) that is integrated with Midsummer's thin film solar panels and with a high energy efficiency. The roofs are delivered pre-installed with solar panels and the installation is as simple as for any standing seam metal roof without solar cells. In order to further simplify for the customers, Midsummer offers installation with turnkey contracts.
Besides building integrated solar roofs, Midsummer's panels are suitable for a range of other roofs - corrugated roofs, membrane roofs, shingles etc - and also facades, vehicles, landfills, tents etc. Midsummer says its solar panels can be walked upon like any other metal roof and the weight does not differ significantly from a standard metal roof, nor does the appearance or the price.
Midsummer solar roofs have an expected lifetime of 25 years with a guarantee of 15 years for the roof, a five-year warranty for the solar panels and a guarantee that the roof delivers 90 percent of the installed peak power after ten years and 80 percent of the installed peak power after 25 years.
The new model solar cell roof is narrower than the previous one, which makes the roof more aesthetically pleasing and also increases the installed power per square meter, according to the company. Midsummer solar roofs also offer the option to connect the solar panels with each other for longer roofs, which means that Midsummer can supply its metal roof with integrated solar panels in lengths up to 12 metres.
“In recent years, solar energy and the installation of solar panels has grown rapidly across the world,” said Sven Lindström. CEO. Midsummer. “In order for this development to continue and for even more customers to be attracted by it, products with stylish design are required. We take the next step in this development with our refined metal roof Midsummer solar roofs. With the solar panels pre-integrated into the roof, this product is a no-brainer for both new buildings and for many older buildings.”
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fruiting
Anacardium occidentale
L. 1753
pronounced: an-uh-KAR-dee-im ock-sih-den-TAH-lee
(Anacardiaceae — the mango family)
common name: cashew
Anacardium comes from two Greek words, ανα (ana), upwards, and καρδια (kardia), the heart, referring to the fact that the fruit looks a little like an upside-down heart. Occidentale is from the Latin occidentalis, of the west. Cashew is derived from the Portuguese name for the tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupe name, acaju.
The tree pictured is in a garden in Wansfall Street, Picnic Bay.
The cashew tree is a native of Brazil, and the Portuguese took it to Goa, in India, between the years 1560 and 1565. From there it spread throughout south-east Asia, and eventually to Africa. Nuts were imported from India to the USA first in 1905.
This is a small evergreen tree to 10 – 12 m high, with a short, often irregularly-shaped trunk. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery in texture, elliptic to obovate, 4 – 22 cm long by 2 – 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers are produced in a panicle up to about 25 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with 5 slender, acute petals 7 – 15 mm long.
What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit (a pseudocarp or false fruit) that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the ‘cashew apple’, it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5 – 11 cm long. It is edible, and has a strong ‘sweet’ smell and a sweet taste. Its pulp is very juicy, but the skin is fragile, making it unsuitable for transport.
The true fruit is a kidney-shaped drupe that grows at the end of the accessory fruit. The drupe develops first, and then the peduncle expands into the cashew apple. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. This is a nut in the culinary sense, but botanically it is a seed. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing an allergenic resin, anacardic acid, a potent skin irritant. The shell is removed before the nuts are sold to the public.
Sometimes the nut is harvested in its tender form, while the shell is still green in colour and has not hardened. At this stage the shell is soft and easily cut, but gloves should be worn as it is still corrosive. The kernel is then soaked in turmeric water to get rid of the corrosive material.
Many parts of the plant are used medicinally by the Patamona people of Guyana. The bark is scraped and either boiled or soaked overnight, and used as an anti-diarrhoeal. It also yields a gum used in varnishing. The seeds are ground into powders used as an anti-venom for snakebite. The nut oil is used as an anti-fungal, and for healing cracked heels.
The cashew nut is a popular snack, and its rich flavour means that it is often eaten on its own, lightly salted, or sugared. The nuts are also sold covered in chocolate. They are a staple in vegan diets, as they are an excellent source of protein. They factor in Thai and Chinese cuisine, usually in their whole form, and in Indian cuisine, where they are often ground into sauces, and also used as a garnish on desserts. In Malaysia, the young leaves of the tree are often eaten raw in salads. In Goa, the cashew apple is mashed to extract the juice, which is then fermented and doubly distilled to make a strong liquor called feni. Tanzanians make a similar liquor which they call gongo. In Mozambique, a strong home-brew, called agua ardente (burning water) is made from the cashew apple.
This is a food plant for the larvae of the Mango Shoot Boorer Penicillaria jocosatrix, and the moth Pleuroptya balteat.
The timber (known as ‘white mahogany’ in Latin America) is fairly hard. The heartwood is basically brown with a golden or reddish cast, and the sapwood is distinct from the heartwood, being greyish white with a more-or-less pink tinge. It is used for light construction purposes, for firewood and charcoal. It also finds useful applications in the making of such items as wheel hubs, animal yokes, fishing boats, furniture and packing cases.
Information about medicinal qualities of plants, or about their use as medicines, is for interest only, and is not intended to be used as a guide for the treatment of medical conditions.
Photographs taken in Picnic Bay 2010, 2013
Page last updated 7th October 2018
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Published on July 12, 2018 July 12, 2018 by clerlewis
We have long been fans of Ann Kennedy Smith’s excellent blog, which focuses on the friendship networks of Cambridge University women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and so it’s a real pleasure to welcome her to Something Rhymed today. Ann’s piece below profiles one of Virginia Woolf’s important literary bonds – not her tempestuous friendship with Katherine Mansfield, which we have discussed on this site before, but Woolf’s relationship with another writer Kathleen Lyttelton.
Ann’s work has been edited by Clêr Lewis. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
In November 1904 Virginia Stephen (who would become Virginia Woolf when she married) was twenty-two and excited about beginning her new life. She had just moved into 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury with her sister and two brothers and wanted to put her sadness at the recent death of her father, and her subsequent major breakdown, behind her. She needed to earn her own living, but how? Her older friend Violet Dickinson suggested that she should send a sample of her writing to a friend of hers who worked for a weekly journal aimed at clergymen called The Guardian (not to be confused with The Manchester Guardian).
Kathleen Lyttelton, the forty-eight-year-old editor of The Guardian’s women’s supplement, lived with her daughter Margaret just a few minutes’ walk away, at 56 Gower Street.
Mary Kathleen Lyttelton (With thanks to Andrew Wallis for permission to use this photograph.)
They too were new to Bloomsbury, having moved there after the death of Lyttelton’s husband, the Bishop of Southampton. Lyttelton was an active suffrage campaigner and author of Women and their Work (1901). But she was also a short-story writer; the passionate ‘Francesca’s Revenge’ was published by Blackwoods Magazine in 1891. Although she now worked as a journalist, her job as editor allowed her to combine her twin interests in women’s issues and literature.
‘I don’t in the least want Mrs L.’s candid criticism; I want her cheque!’, Woolf told Dickinson impatiently. She had just sent off a sample of her writing and was anxiously waiting for a response. It was a positive one. Lyttelton generously invited her to contribute 1,500 words on any subject she liked. A few weeks later, in December 1904, The Guardian published Woolf’s essay ‘Haworth, November 1904’, in which she wrote: ‘Haworth expresses the Brontës; the Brontës express Haworth… They fit like a snail to its shell.’
When she met the woman she called ‘My Editress’ soon afterwards,Woolf liked her immediately.
Virginia Woolf in 1927 (This image is in the public domain.)
‘Mrs Lyttelton has just been – she is a delightful big sensible woman,’ she told Dickinson. ‘I wish she would pet me! I think she has possibilities that way!’ Warm and easy-going as she was, Lyttelton was not interested in being a substitute mother. Instead, she treated the younger woman as a professional writer, which caused occasional upsets. Woolf never got over having to shorten her review of The Golden Bowl by Henry James, but it was only what any male editor would have done (and did).
Lyttelton’s weekly Guardian columns show her to be an investigative and outspoken journalist who campaigned for equal access to higher education and improved legal rights for women. But she was also a lover of good novels, although she did not envy the limited life choices of Jane Austen’s women characters, of whom she wondered ‘how these unemployed young women managed to while away the long weary hours of the day’. Lyttelton was in no doubt that modern women (like herself and Woolf) who could make a career for themselves as writers were more fortunate.
Over the next two years, Woolf and Lyttelton developed a friendship based on warmth and mutual respect. Mrs L’s ‘melancholy roar of laughter’ amused Woolf. ‘I went to tea with her, and she roared at me, like a shaggy old Lioness with wide jaws, and gave me 4 books to review.’
During this time The Guardian published over 30 book reviews and essays by Woolf, including a funny and touching obituary of her family dog, Shag. She sometimes complained about the newspaper’s preachy tone (‘how they ever got such a black little goat into their fold, I can’t conceive’) but being published regularly gave Woolf new confidence in being able to earn a living by her pen.
There were more difficult times to come. Woolf’s beloved brother Thoby died of typhoid fever in November of that year, and less than two months later, Lyttelton herself died suddenly of influenza and ‘a weak heart’ aged fifty-one. Painful as such losses were, Woolf was already on her way as a writer by then.
In 1933, when she herself was fifty-one, Woolf wrote her essay ‘Professions for Women’. She recalled (a little inaccurately) how her career as a published writer began – by simply, she said, sending a few pages of her writing to a newspaper, ‘and my effort was rewarded on the first day of the following month – a glorious day it was for me – by a letter from an editor containing a cheque for one pound ten shillings and six pence’.
The thrill of being paid for her writing was a memory that Woolf cherished all her life.
Ann Kennedy Smith is a published writer and contributor to Slightly Foxed, TLS and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her ‘Ladies Dining Society’ blog celebrates the friendship networks of Cambridge University women 1870-1946. You can follow Ann on Twitter @akennedysmith
Edited by Clêr Lewis. Clêr has an MA in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is working on her first novel.
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Term of the month: E as in exchange semester
E as in exchange semester
Many students spend an exchange semester at another university. Is an exchange like a holiday or can work done and examinations passed in an exchange be credited at the HSG? And do all the students make use of it?
For many HSG graduates, an exchange semester at another university was one of the defining experiences during their university years. It brought them into contact with other cultures, new degree course structures and working methods. With more than 190 partner universities worldwide, the University provides an extensive exchange network. The range of exchange options is a voluntary service provided by the University of St.Gallen. Accordingly, there is no right to an exchange place.
Students at the Bachelor's and Master's Levels can apply for an exchange place once a year. An exchange semester at a partner university is possible at each degree course level. In order to be able to apply for an exchange semester at a partner university, students have to satisfy the following requirements, inter alia:
They must be enrolled at the HSG at the time of their application.
They are able to provide evidence of proficiency in English which is not older than two years at the time of application. Individual partner universities demand additional evidence of linguistic proficiency.
Undergraduates must provide evidence of a minimum average grade of 4.50 for the Assessment Year, students at the Master's Level must provide evidence of a minimum average grade of 4.50 for their Bachelor's degree.
At the Bachelor's Level, an exchange is possible from the fourth semester onwards at the earliest, at the Master's Level from the second semester. Students can have the work done and examinations passed in the exchange semester credited to their HSG degrees. To do so, they must be able to provide evidence of at least 16 creditable credits. The maximum number of credits to be credited per exchange semester is limited: at the Bachelor's Level to 32 credits and at the Master's Level to 30 credits.
All the exchange students have to present the University of St.Gallen at an information event for students at their host university. In addition, they have to draw up a report about the host university, the courses they attended, as well as the country and the people. Such reports will help future students select suitable exchange destinations.
Besides the "Partner Universities" exchange programme, students can also go in for free mover or Swiss Mobility exchanges. Free mover exchanges are exchanges at a university outside the HSG partner network organised by the students themselves. The conditions at which students can complete an exchange semester at these universities are defined by the host universities themselves. A Swiss Mobility exchange is an exchange within the Swiss university network.
During an exchange semester, students remain regularly enrolled at the HSG and therefore also pay the HSG tuition fees. In the case of a free mover exchange, they additionally have to pay the tuition fees of the host university.
Every year more than 900 HSG students spend a semester at a host university. 47 per cent of undergraduates and 41 per cent of students at the Master's Level spend at least one semester abroad.
More than 190 partner universities.
> 900 HSG students spend a semester at a host university every year.
47 per cent of undergraduates and 41 per cent of students at the Master's Level spend at least one semester abroad.
The HSG's "Partner Universities" programme is complemented by the free mover exchange organised by the students themselves and by the Swiss Mobility exchange at a Swiss university.
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Archival materials (90)
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Architectural drawings (3)
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Actors and actresses (2)
African American entertainers (2)
Art historians (2)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary (5)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications (4)
Archives Center, NMAH, SI. (2)
Avery, Milton (2)
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) (2)
Electricity and Modern Physics, Division of, NMAH, SI. (2)
Ellington, Duke (2)
National Museum of American History. Department of Exhibits (2)
Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2)
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (2)
ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) (1)
Adams, Molly (1)
Allis-Chalmers (1)
Almaraz, Carlos (1)
American Anthropological Association (1)
American Federation of Teachers (1)
American Marconi Company. (1)
American Stereoscopic Co. (1)
American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1)
Arman (1)
Armory Show (1913: New York, N.Y.) (1)
Arthur Lodge Productions. (1)
Asch, Moses (1)
Association for Computing Machinery. (1)
Association of American Painters and Sculptors (New York, N.Y.) (1)
Ayer (N W) Incorporated. (1)
Ayer, Francis Wayland (1)
Baden, Gary (1)
Baden, Sandra (1)
Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik) (1)
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History (41)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (4)
Query: More Perfect Union (Television production)
90 records — Page 1 of 9
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
36.54 cu. ft. (58 document boxes) (7.54 tall document boxes)
Here At The Smithsonian was a series of short features for television created and produced by the staff of the Smithsonian's Office of Telecommunications between the years 1982 and 1989. The series was designed for public dissemination of information about Smithsonian exhibition and research activities. Each year had a volume number [1982...
This accession consists of videotapes and audiotapes created during the production of "Here At The Smithsonian" ("HATS"), an eight volume series of television productions. The series was conceived by Nazaret Cherkezian, Director, Office of Telecommunications (1976-1986) and produced by Ann Carroll (Volumes I-IV) and John P. Meehan (Volumes V-V...
Saburo Shimono Papers
Shimono, Sab
15 Cubic feet (19 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Collection documents the career of Saburo "Sab" Shimono, an American actor of Japanese descent.
Industry on Parade Film Collection
Lodge, Arthur
Arthur Lodge Productions.
42.5 Cubic feet
INDUSTRY ON PARADE was a television series created by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) from 1950-1960. The series consisted of weekly episodes that highlighted American manufacturing and business. Hundreds of companies and products were documented during the programs decade-long run.
Bobby Short Papers
Short, Bobby
13.6 Cubic feet (35 boxes)
Bobby Short was a singer and pianist whose career spanned seven decades. An interpreter of American popular music, he became a performer in childhood and remained active until his death. He is best known for his more than 35 years as performer-in-residence at the Hotel Carlyle's Café Carlyle in New York City. This collection contains personal papers and photographs as well as business papers, musical materials and photographs relating to Mr. Short's career as a performing artist.
Hills Bros. Coffee, Incorporated Records
Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc.
Records of the Hills Bros. Coffee Company, Incorporated, documenting overall operations of the company, the creation of advertising materials, and development of the coffee trade.
Sandra and Gary Baden Collection of Celebrity Endorsements in Advertising
Baden, Gary
Baden, Sandra
2 Cubic feet
A wide-ranging collection of over 1,000 celebrity advertising endorsements, ca. 1897-1979. The endorsements were culled by a collector/hobbyist from high-end magazines publications such as Fortune, McCalls, Playbill and Vogue. They feature a wide range of celebrities from the fields of performing arts, sports, business, politics and "society." T...
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Motion Pictures
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
2.96 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 7 oversize folders, 8 map case folders, 1 flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material. )
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Motion
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Motion Pictures forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Albert W. Hampson Commercial Artwork Collection
Hampson, Albert W., 1911-1990 (artist)
Collection consists of the commercial artwork created by artist Albert W. Hampson dating predominately from during the 1950s and 1960s.
The Simmons Company Records
Simmons Company
9 Film reels
88 Cubic feet (172 boxes, 16 oversize folders)
Series 1 includes: news articles about the company and the Simmons family; photographs of the machinery, factories, factory workers, products and showrooms; annual reports; various corporate periodicals; audit reports; patents; and materials relating to sleep research conducted by Simmons. Series 2 includes product catalogues, scrapbooks of adverti...
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