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Kevin Martin: Keyboards, Vocals
Genre: Alternative, Blues & Soul, Pop, Rock
RIYL: Get Back Loretta, Pilot, Alan Parsons Project, Billy Joel, Elton John
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Blurt: "Occupy San Diego Inspires Get Back Loretta Song" · Oct. 19, 2011
Synoposis
Influences: The Beatles, Oasis, Badfinger, Jellyfish, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Fats Waller, Billy Joel, Elton John, A.J. Croce, Leon Russell, Tom Lehr
Singer/keyboardist Kevin Martin is a member of Get Back Loretta, who won Best New Artist award at the 2005 San Diego Music Awards and the Best Pop award in 2006. At the 2007 awards they won for Best Pop and Best Pop Album for the record Over the Wall. They won Best Pop again in 2008, and in 2009 their record Where Did You Go won Best Pop Album.
As of 2010, Get Back Loretta’s manager is “Jocko” Marcellino, of ’60s greaser rock group Sha Na Na. It was Marcellino who got some of the band’s songs into the hands of former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. After listening to GBL’s tunes and liking what he heard, the Foo Fighters’ front man and drummer for Them Crooked Vultures suggested the band play a showcase for Hollywood Records and RCA.
Martin released a solo album, Throwback Pop, in 2011. A video for his song “TV News” was shot during the October 2011 Occupy San Diego rallies downtown. The live footage was captured by photographer Steven Brannen using a hand-held camera. The finished video, which was posted to YouTube the same day, incorporates the studio version of the song with footage of the NYC Occupy Wall Street protests.
The reason for Martin’s visit to Occupy San Diego was his belief that news media had not done a fair job of covering the events. “The Occupy movement has gotten a lot of negative press, and I wanted to go see for myself what it was all about,” Martin said. He was pleased with the event’s organization and the reaction to his music.
“I think the message of the song ‘TV News’ is really in sync with the message of the Occupy Wall Street movement,” he remarked. “People are finally becoming aware of the corporate greed and misuse of government. Watching families lose their homes, small businesses fail, and people lose their jobs while huge corporations rake in billions of dollars and get bailout money is what motivates me to get involved.”
Martin says performers have a duty to speak out. “I think music has a great capacity to inspire people. That’s the main reason I wanted to have my music video linked to the movement. I really want to empower people to stand up for what they believe in and be fearless while doing so.”
Though Martin considers the Occupy movement to have merit, he’s also realistic about change. “Protesting is great, but at the end of the day we need to get involved with our local government and vote. Our real power is going to come from exercising our democratic right to vote. So the protests should really just be to get the word out that things need to change.”
For Throwback Pop, Martin's producer and songwriting partner was Lauren Scheff, who comes from the local Point Loma-based Scheff family musical dynasty. “His brother Jason has been the singer in Chicago for years and his dad, a bass player, was on [the Doors'] L.A. Woman, and a bunch of other records.”
Throwback Pop was nominated for two 2012 San Diego Music Awards, Best Pop Artist, and Best Pop Album. “It's just me and Scheff on the record. We worked pretty hard on the music...I've won both of those categories with Get Back Loretta.”
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
I make it easier and faster for you to write high-quality software.
Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
Graham / 2019-10-24 / architecture of sorts, design
In one part of the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is neither about Zen nor motorcycle maintenance, there are two motorcycles and two riders. John Sutherland is a romanticist who appreciates the external qualities of his motorcycle: its aesthetics, and its use as a vehicle. The narrator is a classicist who appreciates the internal qualities of his motorcycle: its workings, parts, and mechanisms. When Sutherland has a problem with his bike he takes it to a mechanic. When the narrator does, he rationalises about the problem and attempts to discover a solution.
The book, which as its subtitle gives away is “an inquiry into values”, then follows the narrator’s exploration of a third way of considering quality that marries the romantic and classical notions holistically.
Now we come onto software. Software doesn’t exist. At some level, its abstractions and mathematics get translated into a sequence of states of an electronic machine that turns logic into procedure: but even that is a description that’s a few degrees abstracted from what software and computers really do.
Nonetheless, software has external and internal qualities. It has aesthetics and utility, and can be assessed romantically. A decidedly pedestrian word to describe the romanticist view of software is “requirements”, but it’s a common word in software engineering that means the right thing.
Software also has workings, parts, and mechanics. Words from software engineering to describe the classical view of software include architecture, design, clean code, SOLID…
…there are many more of these words! Unsurprisingly, the people who build software and who change software tend to take a classical view of the software, and have a lot more words to describe its internal qualities than its external qualities.
Typically, the people who are paying for software are interested in the romantic view. They want it to work to achieve some goal, and want someone else (us!) to care about what makes it work. Perhaps that’s why so many software teams phrase their requirements as “As a romantic, I want to task so that I can goal.”
Which is to say that making software professionally involves subordinating classical interpretations of quality to romantic interpretations. Which is not to say that a purely-classical viewpoint is unvaluable. It’s just a different thing from teaching a computer somersaults for a paying audience.
And maybe that subordination of our classical view to the customer/gold owner’s romantic view is the source of the principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
In fact, this second one is not quite true. It suggests that you could somehow “count software”, and the more (working) software you’ve delivered, the better you’re doing. In fact, romanticism shows us that people only want software in that it enables some process or business opportunity, or makes it more efficient, or reduces errors, or lets them enjoy some downtime, or helps them achieve some other goal. So really progress toward that goal is the primary measure of progress, and working software is a leading metric that we hope tells us how we’re working toward that goal.
So all of those code quality and software architecture things are in support of the external view of the software, which is itself in support of some other, probably non-software-related, goal. And that’s why the cleanliness, or architectural niceness, or whatever classical quality, of the code is not absolute, but depends on how those qualities support the romantic qualities of the code.
Real life comes at you fast, though. When you’re working on version 1, you want to do as little work, as quickly as possible, to get to the point where you can validate that there are enough customers who derive enough value to make the product worthwhile. But by the time you come to work on version 1.0.1, you wish you’d taken the time to make version 1 maintainable and easy to change. Most subsequent versions are a little from column A and a little from column B, as you try new things and iterate on the things that worked.
As fast as possible, but no faster, I guess.
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The lawsuits allege J&J knew of research that suggested a link between talcum powder for genital use and ovarian cancer, yet they failed to put a warning on their products that contained the mineral.
“Women who trusted Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder and other products to help maintain cleanliness for decades are now filing lawsuits after discovering the product was a contributing factor in their cancer diagnoses,” said Simmons Hanly Conroy Shareholder Jayne Conroy, who oversees the talcum powder cases filed by her firm. “These women deserved to have been warned so they could have made informed choices about their health and safety.”
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What is Talcum Powder?
Talcum powder, which is used in various products including Johnson & Johnson® baby powder, has been shown to increase risk of ovarian cancer when used by women near reproductive organs. But what exactly is talcum powder, and what makes it dangerous?
Talc powder is used regularly by women of all ages. Some estimates show that approximately one out of five American women apply talc powder to the genitals. Talcum powder is often used to absorb moisture, prevent rashes, keep skin dry and cut down on friction.
Talcum powder is made from talc, which is a mineral that contains magnesium, silicon and oxygen. Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the main manufacturer of talcum powder products, does not use warning labels and denies a link to ovarian cancer. J&J talcum powder products include:
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Talc Products and Their Connection to Ovarian Cancer
Overall, genital use of talcum powder remains popular among women despite numerous studies pointing to its increased risk of ovarian cancer. Many women are not aware of the increased health risk. Talc powder studies over the years have shown different results, but the collective research shows a clear link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer. Genital use of talcum powder poses the main issue to women, increasing the risk of ovarian cancer by 33 percent, according to a recent study.
When talcum powder is applied to the genitals, it can travel into the body through the vagina and fallopian tubes. It then irritates the ovaries and can cause inflammation and growth of ovarian cancer cells. Talcum powder has been advertised for genital use to increase freshness for women and girls. It is also used on sanitary napkins, diaphragms or condoms.
Studies Link Talcum Powder to Ovarian Cancer
In the 1970s, talcum powder particles were found in ovarian tumors. This sparked research into the substance and its effects on women. Animal testing has shown that some animals exposed to talcum powder develop tumors. In 1992, the link was substantiated with a study finding a 33 percent increased risk of ovarian cancer in women who practiced genital use of talcum powder. The danger of genital talc powder use has been denied by talcum powder product manufacturers and mostly overlooked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA has acknowledged the talcum powder and ovarian cancer risk on its website. Because the FDA lacks the authority to regulate cosmetic products, the responsibility to warn consumers shifts to talcum powder product manufacturers. But Johnson & Johnson, a primary talcum powder manufacturer, denied the original 1970 findings. The company continues to deny the risk of ovarian cancer and produce talcum powder products without warning labels.
A 2016 study, conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in the journal Epidemiology, outlines the link between genital use of talcum powder and ovarian cancer. In the study that compared talcum powder use among women with ovarian cancer and women without illness, doctors found that applying the product to genitals, underwear and sanitary napkins increased the risk of developing ovarian cancer by one third.
Talcum Powder Side Effects
The most serious of the talcum powder side effects is its increased risk of ovarian cancer. One study found a 30 percent increased risk of developing ovarian cancer within a person’s lifetime with the perineal or genital use of talcum powder.
On a wider scale, talcum powder side effects may also include:
Respiratory problems in infants
Talcosis (acute or chronic lung irritation)
Fast and shallow breathing
Triggering of asthma symptoms
Chronic respiratory diseases
Talc Product Testing
Many talc products have shown mixed results in testing for carcinogenic properties. Research into the connection between talcum powder and ovarian cancer began in the 1970s when talc particles were found in ovarian tumors. Animal testing has shown that some lab animals form tumors from exposure to talcum powder and some do not.
Additionally, it is unclear whether the reactions of these animals can be applied to humans. Findings are also mixed in human testing, showing either no risk or a slight increased risk. One study found a 30 percent increased risk of developing ovarian cancer within a person’s lifetime with the perineal, or genital use of talcum powder.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) states that if talcum powder is applied to the genitals, the particles can travel to the ovaries through the vagina and fallopian tubes, possibly causing inflammation and growth of ovarian cancer cells. Talcum powder is sometimes applied to the genitals for hygienic purposes or used with sanitary napkins, diaphragms or condoms.
Perineal use is relatively prevalent among women. The ACS suggests to limit or eliminate the use of consumer products containing talc and to switch to cornstarch based cosmetic products for safety.
Although the dangers of talc were first recorded in the 1970s, lawsuits against J&J have been ongoing since 2013. Women who have used talc powder and have since developed ovarian cancer are coming forward to file claims against Johnson & Johnson, who may have failed to warn consumers of its health risks.
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Buyer's Guide: DVD Writers
By SmallBusinessComputing Staff | Posted May 02, 2002
These days, CD burners are standard equipment on almost every new PC. But the immediate future lies in more powerful DVD burners that work with discs that can hold 4.7GB of data, and may be used for performing back-ups and storing movies that may be viewed through consumer DVD movie players.
For some time, CDs have provided a convenient way for computer users to distribute data and back up hard drives, but the medium's storage limits in this era of 100 GB and larger hard drives leaves much to be desired. So if DVD is clearly the way to go, it should be a simple matter to purchase a DVD burner. However, the industry is involved in a war of standards that is yet to be resolved, and early drives are pricey.
On the DVD writing side, there are two main competing standards. The standard known as DVD-R/RW (this is a combination of DVD-R and DVD-RW-note the minus in the name) is supported by Pioneer and other manufacturers and has taken an early lead. The other competing standard, DVD+RW (note the "plus" in place of the dash), is being backed by HP and Sony and making a strong bid.
The situation is similar to that of the competing VHS and Beta video standards decades ago. But unlike the video tapes of old, the two main competing DVD standards are designed to create discs that may be read by most consumer DVD movie players. And both standards can read commercial Hollywood DVD movies, as well as work as CD readers and burners.
Both DVD-R and DVD+R let you write a single time to a DVD (similar to CD-R technology). Once you use a DVD-R or DVD+R disc, you can't write data to that disc again. Note that DVD+R capabilities were not available on the first DVD+RW drives from HP and Sony, and drives with this capability are just coming to market. On the other hand, DVD-RW and DVD+RW technologies let you write continually write to a DVD, just as you can to a CD-RW disc or a floppy.
A third DVD rewritable standard, DVD-RAM, runs a distant third. This technology is incompatible with commercial DVD players-data stored on a DVD-RAM disc can't be read by DVD movie players, or many other DVD drives. The only real use for DVD-RAM is as a high-capacity network backup medium. DVD-RAM discs are housed in cartridges and hold between 2.6 GB and 9.4 GB.
DVD-R and DVD-RW media, as well as DVD+R and DVD+RW media, are generally compatible with newer DVD movie players and DVD-ROM drives on PCs. At the moment, there are differences between manufacturers of different DVD drives, but acceptance of DVD discs by different drives will improve over time. This evolution will probably resemble that of the early days of CD-R and CD-RW drives. You may recall that initially, older CD players couldn't read all the media that newer ones could.
As with Beta versus VHS, DVD standards will eventually iron themselves out. The difference is that whether you choose DVD-RW or DVD+RW, you should, in theory, be able to create DVD discs that can be read by most DVD-ROM drives and DVD movie players. And the more the standards evolve, the stronger this compatibility will become. The best option is to wait for the standards and equipment to mature. But if you absolutely need to use a DVD burner to backup data or create DVD movies, you can do so now.
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History Quiz / Famous Palaces
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The main residence of the British Royal Family in London.
Now a world famous museum in Paris, it was the French Royal Family's residence till 1682.
This palace complex housed centuries of Chinese emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is now a large museum.
This palace outside Paris housed the French Monarchy from 1682 to till the French Revolution. It was built by Louis XIV. It is now a Museum.
This palace in St. Petersburg was the residence of the Tsars of Russia and was infamously the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre in the Russian Revolution and was later stormed.
The Arab Nasrid Dynasty converted this fort into a palace as a residence for its Emirs. It is located in Granada, Spain.
King Phillip II of Spain built this palace as a residence for the Spanish Monarchy and as a monastery. It is located just outside the capital, Madrid.
This palace is the largest in the world with 257 bathrooms and 200,000m squared of floor space. It is the residence of the sultan of Brunei.
This palace was the residence of the sultans of the Ottoman empire for roughly 400 years. It is a very large palace in Istanbul.
The Doges of Venice lived in this Gothic palace for centuries.
This romanesque palace was the residence of the Medici Family briefly before being the seat of the council of the Republic of Florence when it was a city-state.
This rococo and baroque palace was a residence for the wife of Frederick I of Prussia and was later used by Frederick the Great. It was damaged in the bombings of Berlin in WW2.
This palace was designed for the Bishop-Princes in Southern Germany and is in baroque style.
This palace in Croatia was built in 300 A.D in classical style for a Roman emperor.
This now ruined palace was built by the Incas high in the Andes and was only discovered in the early 20th century.
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By Drayson Ball Sports April 9, 2014
2014 MLB Season Underway
The 2014 Major League Baseball regular season is officially underway. Following its World Series defeat in last year’s playoffs, the St. Louis Cardinals begin the season as the number one ranked team in the power rankings.
The Cardinals lost in six games to the Boston Red Sox in last year’s World Series. Despite the defeat, however, many baseball experts believed the Cardinals were the better team. Behind a solid pitching rotation of Adam Wainwright, Shelby Miller, and Michael Wacha, St. Louis signed shortstop Jhonny Peralta to fill a hole in their infield.
The 2014 Major League Baseball regular season has officially started. Photo courtesy of yahoo.sports.com
Following the Cardinals in the opening day power rankings are the Los Angeles Dodgers who were eliminated from the playoffs by St. Louis a season ago. The Dodgers played their first games of the season on Saturday, March 22 in Australia. They were victorious in both games they played against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Dodgers’ main headline heading into the regular season was the injury of their number one pitcher, Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw suffered a back injury and subsequent back swelling, which made him unable to make his scheduled start on opening day. Recent developments say that Kershaw will be placed on the disabled list and likely miss two or three more weeks.
On the injury, Kershaw commented, “It’s frustrating. I can’t pitch right now. I’ve been hurt before where I knew when I’d be able to pitch. I’m getting better now, just not fast enough,” Kershaw finished by saying, “You don’t feel like you’re a part of the team when you’re hurt. It’s not a good feeling.”
Perhaps the biggest headline entering this season is the addition of instant replay. Major League Baseball implemented the policy in the off-season and hope that it will eliminate the missed calls often associated in baseball.
Teams have already experimented with the new replay system. The first call to be challenged and overturned took place on opening day during a game between the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers. On a ground ball, Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun was initially called safe at first base. The Braves challenged the call and, upon further review, the call was reversed.
Other notable off-season headlines belong to the New York Yankees. Shortly after signing the Japanese pitching sensation Masahiro Tanaka, Yankee great and future hall-of-fame shortstop, Derek Jeter, announced this will be his final season.
Jeter is entering his 19th MLB season and will be 40 years old in June. He has a career batting average of .312 and is the all- time hit leader in Yankee history with 3,321 as of April 8, 2014.
Only time will tell what new headlines will develop as the season progresses. Despite off-season predictions and expectations, the old adage says, “That’s why they play the games,” and play the games is what they will do-162 of them to be exact.
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Data set: American Community Survey Tables: 2007 -- 2009 (3-Year Estimates) (ACS09_3yr)
Table: C23002F. Sex by Age by Employment Status for the Population 16 Years and Over (Some Other Race Alone) [27]
Universe: Some other race alone population 16 years and Over
C23002F. Sex by Age by Employment Status for the Population 16 Years and Over (Some Other Race Alone)
C23002F001Some other race alone population 16 years and Over
C23002F002 Male
Some Other Race Alone Population 16 Years and Over (ACS09_3yr:C23002F001)
Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; American Community Survey 2007-2009 Summary File: Technical Documentation.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Sex
The data on sex were derived from answers to Question 3. Individuals were asked to mark either "male" or "female" to indicate their biological sex. For most cases in which sex was invalid, the appropriate entry was determined from other information provided for that person, such as the person's given (i.e., first) name and household relationship. Otherwise, sex was allocated from a hot deck.
Sex is asked for all persons in a household or group quarters. On the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire for households, sex is asked for all persons listed on the form. This form accommodates asking sex for up to 12 people listed as living or residing in the household for at least 2 months. If a respondent indicates that more people are listed as part of the total persons living in the household than the form can accommodate, or if any person included on the form is missing sex, then the household is eligible for Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU). During FEFU operations, telephone center staffers call respondents to obtain missing data. This includes asking sex for any person in the household missing sex information. In Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instruments sex is asked for all persons. In 2006, the ACS began collecting data in group quarters (GQs). This included asking sex for persons living in a group quarters. For additional data collection methodology, please see www.census.gov/acs.
Data on sex are used to determine the applicability of other questions for a particular individual and to classify other characteristics in tabulations. The sex data collected on the forms are aggregated and provide the number of males and females in the population. These data are needed to interpret most social and economic characteristics used to plan and analyze programs and policies. Data about sex are critical because so many federal programs must differentiate between males and females. The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services are required by statute to use these data to fund, implement, and evaluate various social and welfare programs, such as the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) or the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Laws to promote equal employment opportunity for women also require census data on sex. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must use census data to develop its state projections of veteran's facilities and benefits. For more information on the use of sex data in Federal programs, please see www.census.gov/acs.
The sex ratio represents the balance between the male and female populations. Ratios above 100 indicate a larger male population, and ratios below 100 indicate a larger female population. This measure is derived by dividing the total number of males by the total number of females and then multiplying by 100. It is rounded to the nearest tenth.
Sex has been asked of all persons living in a household since the 1996 ACS Test phase. When group quarters were included in the survey universe in 2006, sex was asked of all person in group quarters as well. Beginning in 2008, the layout of the sex question response categories was changed to a horizontal side-by-side layout from a vertically stacked layout on the mail paper ACS questionnaire.
Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) was included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have sex distributions that are very different from the household population. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the sex distribution. This is particularly true for a given geographic area. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. The Census Bureau tested the changes introduced to the 2008 version of the sex question in the 2007 ACS Grid-Sequential Test (www.census.gov/acs). The results of this testing show that the changes may introduce an inconsistency in the data produced for this question as observed from the years 2007 to 2008.
Sex is generally comparable across different data sources and data years. However, data users should still be aware of methodological differences that may exist between different data sources if they are comparing American Community Survey sex data to other data sources, such as Population Estimates or Decennial Census data. For example, the American Community Survey data are that of a respondent-based survey and subject to various quality measures, such as sampling and nonsampling error, response rates and item allocation. This differs in design and methodology from other data sources, such as Population Estimates, which is not a survey and involves computational methodology to derive intercensal estimates of the population. While ACS estimates are controlled to Population Estimates for sex at the nation, state and county levels of geography as part of the ACS weighting procedure, variation may exist in the sex structure of a population at lower levels of geography when comparing different time periods or comparing across time due to the absence of controls below the county geography level. For more information on American Community Survey data accuracy and weighting procedures, please see www.census.gov/acs.
It should also be noted that although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates the official estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Age
The data on age were derived from answers to Question 4. The age classification is based on the age of the person in complete years at the time of interview. Both age and date of birth are used in combination to calculate the most accurate age at the time of the interview. Respondents are asked to give an age in whole, completed years as of interview date as well as the month, day and year of birth. People are not to round an age up if the person is close to having a birthday and to estimate an age if the exact age is not known. An additional instruction on babies also asks respondents to print "0" for babies less than one year old. Inconsistently reported and missing values are assigned or imputed based on the values of other variables for that person, from other people in the household, or from people in other households ("hot deck" imputation).
Age is asked for all person's in a household or group quarters. On the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire for households, both age and date of birth are asked for person's listed as person numbers 1-5 on the form. Only age (in years) is initially asked for person's listed as 6-12 on the mailout/mailback paper questionnaire. If a respondent indicates that there are more than 5 people living in the household, then the household is eligible for Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU). During FEFU operations, telephone center staffers call respondents to obtain missing data. This includes asking date of birth for any person in the household missing date of birth information. In Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) and Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) instruments both age and date of birth is asked for all person's. In 2006, the ACS began collecting data in group quarters (GQs). This included asking both age and date of birth for person's living in a group quarters. For additional data collection methodology, please see www.census.gov/acs.
Data on age are used to determine the applicability of other questions for a particular individual and to classify other characteristics in tabulations. Age data are needed to interpret most social and economic characteristics used to plan and analyze programs and policies. Age is central for any number of federal programs that target funds or services to children, working-age adults, women of childbearing age, or the older population. The U.S. Department of Education uses census age data in its formula for allotment to states. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs uses age to develop its mandated state projections on the need for hospitals, nursing homes, cemeteries, domiciliary services, and other benefits for veterans. For more information on the use of age data in Federal programs, please see www.census.gov/acs.
The median age is the age that divides the population into two equal-size groups. Half of the population is older than the median age and half is younger. Median age is based on a standard distribution of the population by single years of age and is shown to the nearest tenth of a year. (See the sections on "Standard Distributions" and "Medians" under "Derived Measures".)
Age Dependency Ratio
The age dependency ratio is derived by dividing the combined under 18 years and 65 years and over populations by the 18-to-64 population and multiplying by 100.
The old-age dependency ratio is derived by dividing the population 65 years and over by the 18-to-64 population and multiplying by 100.
Child Dependency Ratio
The child dependency ratio is derived by dividing the population under 18 years by the 18-to-64 population, and multiplying by 100.
The 1996-2002 American Community Survey question asked for month, day, and year of birth before age. Since 2003, the American Community Survey question asked for age, followed by month, day, and year of birth. In 2008, an additional instruction was provided with the age and date of birth question on the American Community Survey questionnaire to report babies as age 0 when the child was less than 1 year old. The addition of this instruction occurred after 2005 National Census Test results indicated increased accuracy of age reporting for babies less than one year old.
Beginning in 2006, the population living in group quarters (GQ) was included in the American Community Survey population universe. Some types of group quarters have populations with age distributions that are very different from that of the household population. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the age distribution for a given geographic area. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. For example, in areas with large colleges and universities, the percent of individuals 18-24 would increase due to the inclusion of GQs in the American Community Survey universe.
Caution should be taken when comparing population in age groups across time. The entire population continually ages into older age groups over time, and babies fill in the youngest age group. Therefore, the population of a certain age is made up of a completely different group of people in one time period than in another (e.g. one age group in 2000 versus same age group in 2009). Since populations occasionally experience booms/increases and busts/decreases in births, deaths, or migration (for example, the postwar Baby Boom from 1946-1964), one should not necessarily expect that the population in an age group in one year should be similar in size or proportion to the population in the same age group in a different period in time. For example, Baby Boomers were age 36 to 54 in Census 2000 while they were age 45 to 63 in 2009 ACS. The age structure and distribution would therefore shift in those age groups to reflect the change in people occupying those age-specific groups over time.
Data users should also be aware of methodology differences that may exist between different data sources if they are comparing American Community Survey age data to data sources, such as Population Estimates or Decennial Census data. For example, the American Community Survey data are that of a respondent-based survey and subject to various quality measures, such as sampling and nonsampling error, response rates and item allocation error. This differs in design and methodology from other data sources, such as Population Estimates, which is not a survey and involves computational methodology to derive intercensal estimates of the population. While ACS estimates are controlled to Population Estimates for age at the nation, state and county levels of geography as part of the ACS weighting procedure, variation may exist in the age structure of a population at lower levels of geography when comparing different time periods or comparing across time due to the absence of controls below the county geography level. For more information on American Community Survey data accuracy and weighting procedures, please see www.census.gov/acs.
It should also be noted that although the American Community Survey (ACS) produces population, demographic and housing unit estimates, it is the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program that produces and disseminates theofficial estimates of the population for the nation, states, counties, cities and towns and estimates of housing units for states and counties. (Please refer to: factfinder.census.gov/home/en/official_estimates_2008.html)
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Employment Status
The data on employment status were derived from Questions 29 and 35 to 37 in the 2009 American Community Survey. (In the 1999-2002 American Community Survey, data were derived from Questions 22 and 28 to 30; in the 1996-1998 American Community Survey, data were derived from Questions 21 and 28 to 30.) The questions were asked of all people 15 years old and over. The series of questions on employment status was designed to identify, in this sequence: (1) people who worked at any time during the reference week; (2) people on temporary layoff who were available for work; (3) people who did not work during the reference week but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent (excluding layoff); (4) people who did not work during the reference week, but who were looking for work during the last four weeks and were available for work during the reference week; and (5) people not in the labor force. (For more information, see the discussion under "Reference Week.")
The employment status data shown in American Community Survey tabulations relate to people 16 years old and over.
Employment status is key to understanding work and unemployment patterns and the availability of workers. Based on labor market areas and unemployment levels, the U.S. Department of Labor identifies service delivery areas and determines amounts to be allocated to each for job training. The impact of immigration on the economy and job markets is determined partially by labor force data, and this information is included in required reports to Congress. The Office of Management and Budget, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, uses data about employed workers as part of the criteria for defining metropolitan areas. The Bureau of Economic Analysis uses this information, in conjunction with other data, to develop its state per capita income estimates used in the allocation formulas and eligibility criteria for many federal programs such as Medicaid.
This category includes all civilians 16 years old and over who either (1) were "at work," that is, those who did any work at all during the reference week as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession, worked on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (2) were "with a job but not at work", that is, those who did not work during the reference week but had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent due to illness, bad weather, industrial dispute, vacation, or other personal reasons. Excluded from the employed are people whose only activity consisted of work around the house or unpaid volunteer work for religious, charitable, and similar organizations; also excluded are all institutionalized people and people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.
Civilian Employed
This term is defined exactly the same as the term employed above.
All civilians 16 years old and over are classified as unemployed if they (1) were neither "at work" nor "with a job but not at work" during the reference week, and (2) were actively looking for work during the last 4 weeks, and (3) were available to start a job. Also included as unemployed are civilians who did not work at all during the reference week, were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off, and were available for work except for temporary illness. Examples of job seeking activities are:
Registering at a public or private employment office
Meeting with prospective employers
Investigating possibilities for starting a professional practice or opening a business
Placing or answering advertisements
Writing letters of application
Being on a union or professional register
Civilian Labor Force
Consists of people classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the criteria described above.
The unemployment rate represents the number of unemployed people as a percentage of the civilian labor force. For example, if the civilian labor force equals 100 people and 7 people are unemployed, then the unemployment rate would be 7 percent.
All people classified in the civilian labor force plus members of the U.S. Armed Forces (people on active duty with the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard).
The labor force participation rate represents the proportion of the population that is in the labor force. For example, if there are 100 people in the population 16 years and over, and 64 of them are in the labor force, then the labor force participation rate for the population 16 years and over would be 64 percent.
Not in Labor Force
All people 16 years old and over who are not classified as members of the labor force. This category consists mainly of students, homemakers, retired workers, seasonal workers interviewed in an off season who were not looking for work, institutionalized people, and people doing only incidental unpaid family work (less than 15 hours during the reference week).
This term appears in connection with several subjects: employment status, journey-to-work questions, class of worker, weeks worked in the past 12 months, and number of workers in family in the past 12 months. The meaning varies and, therefore, should be determined in each case by referring to the definition of the subject in which it appears. When used in the concepts "workers in family" and "full-time, year-round workers," the term "worker" relates to the meaning of work defined for the "work experience" subject.
Worked Last Week (Question 29): From 1999-2007, an italicized instruction was added to the question to help respondents determine what to count as work. Starting in 2008, the instruction was removed and the question was separated into two parts in an effort to give respondents - particularly people with irregular kinds of work arrangements - two opportunities to grasp and respond to the correct intent of the question.
On Layoff (Question 35a): Starting in 1999, the "Yes, on temporary layoff from most recent job" and "Yes, permanently laid off from most recent job" response categories were condensed into a single "Yes" category. An additional question (Q35b) was added to determine the temporary/permanent layoff distinction. Temporarily Absent (Question 35b): Starting in 2008, the temporarily absent question included a revised list of examples of work absences.
Recalled to Work (Question 35c): This question was added in the 1999 American Community Survey to determine if a respondent who reported being on layoff from a job had been informed that he or she would be recalled to work within 6 months or been given a date to return to work.
Looking for Work (Question 36): Starting in 2008, the actively looking for work question was modified to emphasize 'active' job-searching activities.
Available to Work (Question 37): Starting in 1999, the "Yes, if a job had been offered" and "Yes, if recalled from layoff" response categories were condensed into one category, "Yes, could have gone to work." Starting in 2008, the actively looking for work question was modified to emphasize 'active' job-searching activities.
The data may understate the number of employed people because people who have irregular, casual, or unstructured jobs sometimes report themselves as not working. The number of employed people "at work" is probably overstated in the data (and conversely, the number of employed "with a job, but not at work" is understated) since some people on vacation or sick leave erroneously reported themselves as working. This problem has no effect on the total number of employed people. The reference week for the employment data is not the same for all people. Since people can change their employment status from one week to another, the lack of a uniform reference week may mean that the employment data do not reflect the reality of the employment situation of any given week. (For more information, see the discussion under "Reference Week.")
Beginning in 2006, the population in group quarters (GQ) is included in the ACS. Some types of GQ populations have employment status distributions that are different from the household population. All institutionalized people are placed in the not in labor force category. The inclusion of the GQ population could therefore have a noticeable impact on the employment status distribution. This is particularly true for areas with a substantial GQ population. For example, in areas having a large state prison population, the employment rate would be expected to decrease because the base of the percentage, which now includes the population in correctional institutions, is larger. The Census Bureau tested the changes introduced to the 2008 version of the employment status questions in the 2006 ACS Content Test. The results of this testing show that the changes may introduce an inconsistency in the data produced for these questions as observed from the years 2007 to 2008, see "2006 ACS Content Test Evaluation Report Covering Employment Status" on the ACS website (www.census.gov/acs).
Along with the 2008 ACS release, the Census Bureau produced a research note comparing 2007 and 2008 ACS employment estimates to 2007 and 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS)/Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) estimates. The research note shows that the changes to the employment status series of questions in the 2008 ACS will make ACS labor force data more consistent with benchmark data from the CPS and LAUS program. For more information, see "Changes to the American Community Survey between 2007 and 2008 and the Effects on the Estimates of Employment and Unemployment" (www.census.gov/hhes/www/laborfor/researchnote092209.html).
Since employment data from the American Community Survey are obtained from respondents in households, they differ from statistics based on reports from individual business establishments, farm enterprises, and certain government programs. People employed at more than one job are counted only once in the American Community Survey and are classified according to the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours during the reference week. In statistics based on reports from business and farm establishments, people who work for more than one establishment may be counted more than once. Moreover, some tabulations may exclude private household workers, unpaid family workers, and self-employed people, but may include workers less than 16 years of age.
An additional difference in the data arises from the fact that people who had a job but were not at work are included with the employed in the American Community Survey statistics, whereas many of these people are likely to be excluded from employment figures based on establishment payroll reports. Furthermore, the employment status data in tabulations include people on the basis of place of residence regardless of where they work, whereas establishment data report people at their place of work regardless of where they live. This latter consideration is particularly significant when comparing data for workers who commute between areas.
For several reasons, the unemployment figures of the Census Bureau are not comparable with published figures on unemployment compensation claims. For example, figures on unemployment compensation claims exclude people who have exhausted their benefit rights, new workers who have not earned rights to unemployment insurance, and people losing jobs not covered by unemployment insurance systems (including some workers in agriculture, domestic services, and religious organizations, and self-employed and unpaid family workers). In addition, the qualifications for drawing unemployment compensation differ from the definition of unemployment used by the Census Bureau. People working only a few hours during the week and people "with a job but not at work" are sometimes eligible for unemployment compensation but are classified as "Employed" in the American Community Survey. Differences in the geographical distribution of unemployment data arise because the place where claims are filed may not necessarily be the same as the place of residence of the unemployed worker.
For guidance on differences in employment and unemployment estimates from different sources, go to www.census.gov/hhes/www/laborfor/laborguidance082504.html.
ACS 2009-3yr Summary File: Technical Documentation -> Appendix A. Supplemental Documentation -> 2009 Subject Definitions -> Population Variables -> Race -> Some Other Race
Some Other Race
Includes all other responses not included in the "White," "Black or African American," "American Indian or Alaska Native," "Asian," and "Native Hawaiian" or "Other Pacific Islander" race categories described above. Respondents providing write-in entries such as multiracial, mixed, interracial, or a Hispanic/Latino group (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) in the "Some other race" write-in space are included in this category.
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LEKOIL (AIM: LEK), the oil and gas exploration and production company with a focus on Nigeria and West Africa, is pleased to announce that it has secured funding for the appraisal drilling and initial development programme activities on the Ogo field within OPL 310.
Lekoil 310 Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LEKOIL, has entered into a binding loan agreement with the Qatar Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar (“QIA”) in the amount of US$184.0 million (the “Facility”). The Facility will be disbursed in five (5) tranches over eleven (11) months, with the first drawdown intended to occur in February 2020. The Company looks forward to providing further details on the intended work programme in short order. The tranching of the drawdown of funds under the terms of the Facility is expected to enable LEKOIL to meet the costs commitments under the envisioned work programme as and when they arise.
The Facility, which has a tenure of seven years from the date of first disbursement, is secured against, amongst other things, the shares and assets of Lekoil 310 Limited (“Lekoil 310”) and Mayfair Assets and Trust Limited (“Mayfair”) and includes a moratorium on both the interest and principal repayments commencing from the date of the Facility until six months after the commencement of commercial sale of production from the field. Repayment of the principal and interest will occur subsequently, in equal installments, on a semi-annual basis. LEKOIL holds its interest in OPL 310 through Mayfair and Lekoil 310. The Facility is not secured against any other assets or interests of the Company, including its interest in the producing Otakikpo marginal field.
The annual interest rate payable on amounts drawn under the Facility is 3.72 per cent. with an upfront fee of 2.75 per cent. of the amount drawn under the Facility which is payable upon drawdown of the Facility.
A Debt Service Reserve Account will be established twelve months after the end of the moratorium period with a one-off amount equal to six (6) months of debt service standing to its credit. The Company will be required to meet a number of covenants on an ongoing basis in order for the Facility to remain in good standing, and adhere to QIA’s policies on procurement, environment and social responsibility and anti-corruption. The Facility is subject to event of default clauses, and a provision that the employment of the Company’s CEO cannot be terminated without good cause during the term of the Facility.
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The Facility was arranged by Seawave Invest Limited (“Seawave”), an independent consultancy firm specialising in cross-border transactions with an exclusive focus on Africa. After deducting the commission payable to Seawave by LEKOIL for arranging the Facility, and the upfront fee payable by LEKOIL to the QIA as set out above, the net proceeds of the Facility available to the Company are approximately US$174.3 million.
Background to the Ogo field
Following on from the drilling of Ogo-1 and Ogo-1 ST in 2013 which encountered hydrocarbons within the SynRift and PostRift, LEKOIL and the Operator of the OPL 310 License, Optimum Petroleum, are envisaging a two-well programme with the objective of obtaining dynamic flow data from well test while preserving the drilled wells as producers. It is envisaged that first well spud could occur in H2 2020.
CEO Incentivisation
As a condition to the provision of the Facility, Mr Lekan Akinyanmi, LEKOIL’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), will pledge his full holding of 39,138,601 ordinary shares in the Company (“Share Pledge”) as part of the security package for the Facility. In connection with the Share Pledge, Mr Akinyanmi will be compensated with a one-time fee in an amount equal to US$1,840,000 (the “Bonus”) which shall be set off against the existing director loan made by the Company to the CEO in December 2014 of US$1,704,000 (the “Director Loan”) such that the CEO shall be fully discharged and released from his obligation to repay the Director Loan to the Company, and the balance paid to the CEO. If the pledged shares are foreclosed upon, the Company shall issue to the CEO, such number of new ordinary shares of nominal value US$0.00005 each in the capital of the Company as is equal to the number of the pledged shares (the “Share Indemnity”).
In connection with securing the Facility, Mr Akinyanmi will also be granted an award of up to 30,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company to be issued at nil cost and allotted in five equal instalments (the “Award Shares”) if, and when, the Company’s ordinary share price reaches the following hurdles: 20 pence, 25 pence, 30 pence, 35 pence and 40 pence per share. Each of these share price hurdles must be satisfied by the seventh anniversary of the date of grant of the Award Shares (being today) and each share price hurdle must have been met for a minimum period of 30 consecutive dealing days.
Wressle Development Granted Planning Consent on Appeal - EDR, UJO, EOG
Related Party Transaction
The grant of the Bonus, the Share Indemnity and the Award Shares to Mr Akinyanmi is classified as a related party transaction pursuant to the AIM Rules.
The Directors of the Company, other than Mr Akinyanmi, having consulted with Strand Hanson Limited, the Company’s Nominated Adviser, consider that the terms of the Bonus, the Share Indemnity and the Award Shares are fair and reasonable insofar as the Company’s shareholders are concerned.
Lekan Akinyanmi, LEKOIL’s CEO, commented, “Following the recent achievements of the OPL 310 license extension and the securing of funding for the appraisal drilling and development programme, we are delighted to have made strong progress, as promised, towards the start of the appraisal drilling programme on Ogo. We will continue to work closely with our partner and the Operator of the OPL 310 License, Optimum Petroleum, as we pursue value for our shareholders.”
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement via the Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.
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What comes first to mind when you think of Russia? Vodka? Rich oligarchs? The Kremlin? St. Petersburg? Military parades? Matryoshka dolls? Fur hats? Cold war? Russia, the enormous country between the Baltic Sea and the Bering Sea, has so much to offer. Not in the least the 766 universities in 82 regions of the country, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok.
Russians rightly take enormous pride in their heritage. The country has given the world many great writers, poets, philosophers, composers, artists and musicians: Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Rerikh, Sergey Rakhmaninov, Boris Pasternak, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergey Eisenstein, Mstislav Rostropovich... Literature, ballet, classical music, architecture, painting, theater and cinema. Today, Russian cities are centers of cultural life, where exhibitions, festivals, concerts, shows, performances and other cultural and entertainment events take place on a national and international level. The Bolshoi Theater, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Hermitage, and St. Isaac's Cathedral are Russian cultural sights known worldwide, attracting millions of tourists every year. However, this is merely the tip of the iceberg on the list of things worth seeing. 30 Russian cultural sites are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In addition to the Kremlin and Red Square, the UNESCO list includes the monuments of Novgorod, Suzdal, Vladimir, the Holy Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius, Lake Baikal, the volcanoes of Kamchatka, the Golden Mountains of Altai, the Novodevichy Convent, the Curonian Spit, and others. Many universities organize trips for students. The choice is almost endless: from the Golden Ring spanning 8 ancient Russian cities to traveling the legendary route of the Trans-Siberian Railway.
In terms of study facilities, Russian universities are a match for many western universities. High-level equipment for laboratories, scientific centers and study facilities are now a reality of student life today. Most Russian universities have their own dormitories with a relatively low cost of accommodation.
Ever thought about learning Russian? The Russian language is spoken by about 260 million people worldwide and some 10.5 million foreigners are regularly learning Russian. Maybe you will take your chance too to learn the language. Russian universities offer different Russian language programs, including courses and summer schools. But if you don’t have the time, no problem, more and more Russian universities are offering programs taught in English.
In such a vast country you can choose not only a course of study or university, but even your preferred climate – from a moderate continental climate in the European part of the country to the subtropical Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and southern Crimea. Besides this the Russian constitution guarantees freedom of conscience: Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, and representatives of other faiths peacefully coexist here. The country's multinational and ethnic structure illustrates the diversity of all spheres of life, from cultural to domestic. Unsurprisingly, many foreigners arriving in Russia feel at home here. Russian universities are proud of their long experience in the training and acclimatization of international students: supervisory programs are arranged for first-year students and there is an established network of student communities.
And are you fond of sports? Russia is the place for you. More than 60% of residents and 71% of students in Russia are involved in sport. Sports facilities include 70,000 gyms, 140,000 sports pitches and fields, and 4,800 swimming pools, accessible to all. Russian universities typically have their own sports facilities and are well placed to offer students excellent opportunities to get involved in sport.
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Mark Duplass Defines Being A Multi-Hyphenate
Mark Duplass plays Jennifer Aniston's executive producer on Apple TV's "The Morning Show."
The Frame® | December 3, 2019
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On today's show:
He's All Over The Place
(Starts at 7:45)
Mark Duplass writes, produces, directs and acts for both television and film. He talks with John Horn about juggling his various duties and about his current roles in "The Morning Show," "Bombshell" and "Paddleton."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9YpUktrWw
No Turkeys At The Box Office
(Starts at :45)
John talks with Rebecca Rubin of Variety about her reporting on the Thanksgiving weekend box office: "Studios have long maintained the notion that Hollywood needs existing IP and long-running franchises to entice audiences during the Thanksgiving crush. But in a clear win for fresh content, original movies — including Disney-Fox’s 'Ford v Ferrari' and Sony’s 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' — otherwise dominated box office charts. 'Frozen 2' demonstrates there’s a ravenous appetite for all-audience tentpoles, particularly among ticket buyers with young kids, but there’s still a market for moviegoers looking for something unique and different."
JPEGMAFIA Wants You To Expect The Unexpected
Rapper/producer JPEGMAFIA, also known as Peggy, says his newest record is the “most me album I’ve ever made in my life” and hopes it “disappoints every last one of u.” The 18-track album, called “All My Heroes Are Cornballs,” was narrowed down from 93 songs and follows his 2018 record, “Veteran.” He spoke with KPCC producer Itxy Quintanilla about the making and significance of his music.
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NEW FUND SEEN AS INCREASING DIVERSITY OF MEMBERSHIP
Exec Q&A: Caitlin Wege, Tech Coast Angels
By Elise Reuter
Local angel investor Caitlin Wege was named the incoming president of Tech Coast Angels — San Diego. The angel investment group has seen membership grow in the last year, and is already on pace to beat last year’s investment levels, having invested $7 million as of May. TCA San Diego also rolled out a new $2.3 million ACE (Angel Capital Entrepreneur) Fund this year, that allow angel investors to pool together their resources to quickly provide up to $500,000 to promising startups.
Wege has served on TCA San Diego’s board for two years. She is also a partner with family fund MooDoos Investments, which invests in seed and early-stage startups across all sectors. Some of its local investments include NeuraLace Medical, Clics and Sourcify.
Outside of her work with MooDoos, Wege serves as a board member of the Ecology Center in Orange County and serves on the advisory board of San Diego State University’s ZIP Launchpad. She also has two young kids.
Tell me about your work with MooDoos:
I transitioned from a passive partner (at MooDoos) to a full-time partner about five years ago. My dad has been doing this for 30 years. We’re not an impact fund, but we’re looking for something that creates more than monetary value —something that makes a difference.
For some companies where we’ve come on as early lead investors, we’ve been involved to the exit. Our most successful ones are where we can offer more than money. Where we can just be a phone call away.
How did you get involved with Tech Coast Angels?
It was because I had decided to move into a full-time position with our family fund. I needed to get to know people and I needed deal-flow. I stayed because I love the people.
We’re able to roll up our sleeves and tap into the collective knowledge of the group. We’re tech entrepreneurs, life sciences C-suite managers, designers, real-estate developers, M.D.s and surgeons. It’s really cool to see what’s in the room when we’re meeting a company.
How has it changed in the last five years?
I’ve been with the organization for about five years and there’s been a big transition. One of the big things Tech Coast Angels was trying to do was create more diversity.
We’re starting to see more young and diverse founders. Tech Coast Angels’ membership wasn’t reflecting the ecosystem. We needed to make a cultural shift.
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Executive Q&A Ashok Kamal, Executive Director of Tech Coast Angels
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GOP eyes new election laws in states Obama won
BOSTON (AP) — After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.
From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state’s popular vote all of its Electoral College votes, too. Instead, these officials want Electoral College votes to be divided proportionally, a move that could transform the way the country elects its president.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus endorsed the idea this week, and other Republican leaders support it, too, suggesting that the effort may be gaining momentum. There are other signs that Republican state legislators, governors and veteran political strategists are seriously considering making the shift as the GOP looks to rebound from presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Electoral College shellacking and the demographic changes that threaten the party’s long-term political prospects.
“It’s something that a lot of states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red ought to be looking at,” Priebus told the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, emphasizing that each state must decide for itself.
Democrats are outraged at the potential change.
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Boys basketball: Wildcats close season at .500; face Lincoln Academy in tourney
Jay Pinsonnault
The York High School boys basketball team closed out the regular season on Friday with a 65-51 loss to Lake Region.
The Wildcats ended the regular season with a 9-9 record and earned the No. 8 seed in the Western Maine Class B tournament. York was scheduled to host No. 9 Lincoln Academy on Tuesday in a preliminary round game. Results of the game were not available at press time. See www.seacoastonline.com/sports.
The winner of Tuesday's game will face top-seeded Greely on Saturday in a first round game at the Portland Expo. The Wildcats entered Tuesday's game having lost three of their last four games.
York and Lincoln Academy, which plays out of the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference, did not meet in the regular season.
Lincoln Academy also went 9-9 on the season and enters the tournament on a three-game losing streak and having lost four of its last five games.
"Lincoln Academy has very good athletes," York coach Randy Small said. "We've watched a lot of film on them and they're a very athletic team. They don't have a true center, but their forwards and guards just run and gun. They have four guys who average in double figures. If they don't shoot within 10 seconds, something is wrong. I would compare them to a Lake Region or a Yarmouth, teams that like to just run up and down the floor."
Michael Gallagher scored a game-high 16 points for York in Friday's loss to Lake Region. Nick Darby added eight points for the Wildcats, while Zach Gauthier and Mark MacGlashing each had seven.
York has gone 58-21 the past four seasons, advanced to the Western Maine Class B boys basketball championship last year, and the regional semifinals the two previous seasons.
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RSU 21 budget drops slightly
Donna Buttarazzidbuttarazzi@seacoastonline.com
KENNEBUNK - RSU 21 Superintendent Kevin Crowley shared revised figures for the FY16 budget during the district budget public forum Monday evening.
On March 16 the Finance Committee presented the budget of $40.5 million, which represented a 3.69 percent increase over last year’s $39 million budget. At Monday night’s meeting Crowley outlined three factors that have changed since the first reading, and have reduced the proposed budget by more than $350,000.
The district was carrying a 10 percent increase in employee health insurance in the proposed budget. Crowley said that on March 27 he was notified by the MEA Benefits trust that the specific increase to RSU 21 would be at a rate of 2.31 percent, resulting in a reduction of $314,764 from the anticipated budget figure.
The district also learned that the state subsidy for the Adult Ed program would be reduced by just over $500, and the subsidy for general purpose aid would increase by $1,200.
These adjustments result in a 2.89 percent increase over last year's budget.
Per $100,000 of valuation, the revised proposed budget would mean an increase of $44.62 for Arundel taxpayers and an increase of $7.03 in Kennebunk. Kennebunkport taxpayers will see a decrease of $14.59 per $100,000 of valuation.
The sharp disparity in the tax impacts is due to a one-time return of $1.2 million from the state to the towns formerly making up School Administrative District 71 - Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. In the 1990's SAD 71 opted into the participating local district plan through the state of Maine for employer and employee contributions to retirement funding, but Arundel did not opt in. The employer contributions resulted in a $1.2 million surplus that the state refunded to the district this year.
Kennebunk resident Ed Karytko asked how much of the $1.2 million was shared with Arundel in payments since the RSU was formed. Crowley said that total was roughly $33,000 and Karytko asked if any correction had been made so that money comes back from Arundel. Crowley said he has notified the towns of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport.
“I’ve chosen to put that in their lap to handle,” Crowley said.
Chairman Maureen King noted that it is an agenda item for the next Kennebunkport Selectmen’s meeting on April 9.
The district budget meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on May 18 with the budget validation referendum on June 9.
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Technical snag fixed, Chandrayaan-2 ready for launch: Ex-ISRO chief
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 20 (ANI): Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman A S Kiran Kumar on Saturday said that Chandrayaan-2 is ready for launch on July 22.
"Chandrayaan-2 is now ready for launch on 22 July. We intend to move towards the moon on August 14 and land on the moon around September 6. All the activities are in full swing and we are getting ready for the event on July 22," he told ANI here.
Talking about the technical snag due to which the launch of the lunar mission was aborted last week, he said, "One of the issues, any system of this magnitude, we keep testing to various levels and during one of the levels we found that there was a shortcoming. So, that has been overcome. We are ready to go now."Chandrayaan-2 was scheduled to be launched on July 15. However, less than an hour before the launch, the mission was aborted after a technical snag was detected in the rocket.
Chandrayaan-2, which has home-grown technology, will explore a region of Moon where no mission has ever set foot. The spacecraft consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover together referred to as "composite body". The probe's total mass is 3.8 ton and it is expected to land on Moon's South Polar Region on September 6 or 7 this year.
It will be the first Indian expedition to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface. This mission will make India the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to carry out a soft landing on Moon. (ANI)
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AHA mourns passing of cardiac surgeon killed at hospital
The cardiac surgeon who was shot to death at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was remembered by American Heart Association leaders Wednesday as a caring and brilliant man devoted to saving lives.
Michael J. Davidson, M.D., died Tuesday night from wounds sustained during a shooting at the Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at the hospital.
“He was a brilliant surgeon who was beloved by his patients and colleagues,” said American Heart Association President Elliott Antman, M.D., a longtime colleague and friend at Brigham and Women’s. “Countless patients have benefitted from his expertise, and he will be sorely missed.”
Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, offered condolences on behalf of the organization.
“We are all so very saddened by the shocking and senseless loss of such a gifted surgeon who devoted his life to saving others,” Brown said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this terrible time.”
Davidson, 44, was shot(link opens in new window) twice by a gunman who had asked to see him at about 11 a.m., police said. The gunman then apparently killed himself.
“Dr. Davidson was a wonderful and inspiring bright light and an outstanding cardiac surgeon who devoted his career to saving lives and improving the quality of life of every patient he cared for,” said hospital President Betsy Nabel, M.D. “It is truly devastating that his own life was taken in this horrible manner.”
The hospital itself was in mourning Wednesday, with the flag flying at half staff, Employee Assistance Program staff standing by to help, and guest books where employees could leave condolences, memories and other messages. The Chaplaincy was holding a gathering Wednesday afternoon.
Antman and his colleagues worked very closely with Davidson regularly discussing complicated cases with him. “He was always available in the middle of the night, and he always came rushing in to help patients,” Antman said.
Davidson was well known for his focus on patients.
“He was an extremely technically skilled surgeon who was very well liked here because he took the time to talk with us about our patients and took the time to talk to patients and their families both before and after the operation.” Antman said. “Numerous patients have told us about how much they appreciated that extra time he spent with them.”
Davidson also was known as an innovator. He was part of the team that performed the hospital’s first tricuspid “valve-in-valve” procedure, the hospital said in a statement. And he was involved in establishing the hybrid operating room at Brigham and Women’s, which is considered one of the most advanced operating rooms in the country.
The hybrid operating room enables heart teams to simultaneously perform multiple catheter-based and surgical procedures in the same setting. “Previously, you’d have one procedure in the cath lab and one in the OR,” Antman said. “But the hybrid OR makes this extremely efficient.”
Davidson’s colleagues at the Brigham praised his creative methods of treating valvular heart disease and thoracic aortic disease, both of which Davidson approached using cutting-edge medical devices.
“He was an outstanding example of the modern-day clinician-innovator,” Antman said, noting that Davidson embraced a team-based approach to treatment that served patients well. “He tackled some of the most challenging problems with great success.”
In 2012, Davidson gave two technical presentations during Scientific Sessions, the American Heart Association’s flagship scientific meeting. He also served on a panel discussing medical innovations.
AHA Chairman Bernie Dennis served on that panel with him, and he recalled how impressed he was after spending time with Davidson.
“He struck me right away as a smart, passionate and inquisitive young doctor who put patients first and loved what he did,” Dennis said. “He was really down to earth. I was really struck by his enthusiasm and how much he loved his patients. He was a great guy and this is a huge loss.”
Antman also remembered being impressed by Davidson during that meeting.
“At Scientific Sessions he was able to speak to general cardiology audiences, surgical experts, and the general public, all in the same setting,” he said. “The groundbreaking work he has done has set the stage for others to carry on in in the fine tradition he established.”
Davidson was the director of endovascular cardiac surgery and the surgical director of the advanced valve and structural heart disease program. He also was an assistant professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School.
Davidson graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and then trained at Duke University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In 2006, he joined Brigham and Women’s, which is a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
An avid runner who marked his 40th birthday by running the Boston Marathon, Davidson is survived by his wife, two young daughters and a young son. He was also remembered as a guitarist and fisherman(link opens in new window). His father, Robert M. Davidson, is a well-known cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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World #3 – U.S. to withdraw from Syria before Turkish operation
Posted on October 8, 2019 in Tuesday's World Events
File photo of President Donald Trump with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (AFP)
(by Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post) – US troops on Monday began pulling out of positions along the border in northeast Syria ahead of an expected invasion by Turkey….
The development comes hours after the White House announced that “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria.”
“The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation,” a statement read. “Turkey will now be responsible for all ISIS fighters in the area captured over the past two years in the wake of the defeat of the territorial ‘Caliphate’ by the United States.”
A senior Turkish official told Reuters that his country is highly likely to wait until American forces have withdrawn before launching an offensive to avoid “any accident” — adding that it will take US troops about a week to clear the planned area of operations. …
There was no immediate confirmation from the White House on Monday of movements by US troops in northern Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said the US forces have started withdrawing from positions — and a video posted by a Kurdish news outlet showed a convoy of American armored vehicles apparently pulling out of the border area of Tal Abyad.
Erdogan didn’t elaborate on the planned Turkish invasion but said Ankara was determined to halt what it perceives as threats from the Syrian Kurdish fighters, whom Turkey considers a terrorist group.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — as the Kurdish-led force is known — said the US pullout began first from areas along the Syria-Turkey border.
“The American forces did not abide by their commitments and withdrew their forces along the border with Turkey,” the SDF said in a statement. “Turkey now is preparing to invade northern and eastern parts of Syria.” …
In an agreement between Ankara and Washington, joint forces had been patrolling a security zone that covers about 80 miles along the border between the towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn.
Turkey and the US disagreed over the depth of the zone, with Ankara seeking to also have its troops monitor a stretch of territory between 19 and 25 miles. Despite the agreement, Erdogan had continued to threaten an assault.
The Kurdish-led fighters have been the main US-backed force in Syria in the fight against ISIS, and in March, the group captured the last bit of territory held by the jihadists, marking the end of the so-called caliphate that was declared by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014.
“We will not hesitate for a moment in defending our people” against Turkish troops, the Syrian Kurdish force said, adding that it has lost 11,000 fighters in the war against the terror group in Syria.
A Turkish attack would lead to a resurgence of ISIS, whose sleeper cells are already plotting to break free some 12,000 extremists held by Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria in a “threat to local & international security,” it said.
From nypost .com, with wire services. Reprinted here for educational purposes only. May not be reproduced on other websites without permission from the New York Post.
The president posted the following tweets relating to the U.S. announcement:
“The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate including capturing thousands of ISIS fighters, mostly from Europe,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
He said Europe wouldn’t take back the captured fighters and tried to make the United States take responsibility for them, even if they were nationals of other countries.
“Europe did not want them back, they said you keep them USA! I said ‘NO, we did you a great favor and now you want us to hold them in U.S. prisons at tremendous cost. They are yours for trials.’ They again said ‘NO,’ thinking, as usual, that the U.S. is always the ‘sucker,’ on NATO, on Trade, on everything,” Trump wrote.
“The Kurds fought with us, but were paid massive amounts of money and equipment to do so. They have been fighting Turkey for decades. I held off this fight for almost 3 years, but it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home,” he wrote.
“WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN. Turkey, Europe, Syria, Iraq, Russia and the Kurds will have to figure the situation out, and what they want to do with the captured ISIS fighters in their ‘neighbourhood.’ They all hate ISIS, have been enemies for years.”
“We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win,” he wrote.
1. For TURKEY, give the following information:
location/the countries that share its borders
the religious breakdown of the population
the type of government
the chief of state (and head of government if different) If monarch or dictator, since what date has he/she ruled? – include name of heir apparent for monarch
the population
Find the answers at the CIA World FactBook website. For each country, answers can be found under the “Geography” “People” and “Government” headings.
NOTE: Before answering the following questions, read the info under “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources” below.
2. For TURKEY:
a) list the who, what, where and when of the news item
b) What did the U.S. say about the ISIS fighters captured and held by the Kurds in Syria?
c) This is a complex situation. Re-read President Trump’s tweets at the end of the article. Read ALL of the “Background” below. Watch the news reports below (and others you see). What do you think? Is this the right decision? Explain your answer.
d) Ask a parent the same question from c). Discuss your answers.
Many critics on both the right and left say Trump is abandoning the Kurds. The vast majority of reporting is along the lines that Trump is abandoning the Kurds, our allies, and leaving open an almost certain resurgence of Islamic State (ISIS). The president had in December 2018 announced the U.S. withdrawal.
Read excerpts from commentaries explaining/supporting the president’s position below. (For opposition to Trump’s move, see any news outlet.)
What do you think? Read the following:
From” Trump’s Syria withdrawal bravely puts America First, the establishment last” by Brad Palumbo at washingtonexaminer.com:
Objections to Trump’s withdrawal take two forms, both worth taking seriously.
One school of critics predicts that in the absence of American military involvement, ISIS will make a comeback. This is a worthwhile concern, and worth taking seriously, seeing as something similar happened when former President Obama pulled troops out of Iraq in 2011.
But that’s not going to happen in Syria. As Trump rightly notes, an involved Turkey will have a strong security incentive not to allow ISIS to re-emerge. So too would regional neighbors such as Russia. And if a terrorism threat were to re-emerge, the U.S. does not need troops on the ground to step back in and fight it through remote strikes.
Think about it like this: Can we really justify endless occupation of a foreign country based on the idea that if we ever leave, a threat might emerge? That logic would have us occupy everywhere, all the time.
The other chief concern, as pointed out by my Washington Examiner colleague Tom Rogan, is that by pulling out, we will condemn our allies, the Kurds, to death at the hands of merciless Turkish forces.
Syria will continue to be a bloody disaster zone with deaths on all sides either way, and it may be true that leaving puts the Kurds in danger. But we should leave anyway. U.S. foreign policy exists to put America first, and we did not enter Syria or return to Iraq in order to establish a Kurdish state. We never promised the Kurds our ongoing protection or aid in a war of independence in northern Syria. Our own goals and interests should always dictate our military decisions. To risk U.S. lives to police the outcome of the Syrian conflict, which will continue to be extremely bloody no matter what, puts American interests last in a failed attempt to continue policing the world.
Read a Wall Street Journal article “U.S. Begins Pullback From Northern Syria” at wsj.com.
WHO ARE THE KURDS? (from a 2015 report)
A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia and Syria – a mountainous region of southwest Asia generally known as Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”). Read more at: washingtonpost.com.
ISIS (the Islamic State) began its advance on the Kurdish town of Kobani on September 16, 2014, seeking to cement its grip over a long stretch of the Syria-Turkey border.
The offensive prompted a mass exodus from the town and surrounding countryside, with some 186,000 fleeing into Turkey.
Extremist Sunni Muslim group ISIS has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq, declaring a “caliphate” in June 2014 and imposing its harsh interpretation of Islamic law.
The group has been accused of carrying out widespread atrocities including attacks on civilians, mass executions, beheadings, abductions, torture and forcing women into slavery.
The U.S. first launched air strikes against IS in Iraq in August 2014. Britain and France joined the strikes in Iraq and five Arab nations — Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — have taken part in the Syria raids.
Watch a CBS News report (Oct. 7):
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CBS_U.S.-withdrawing-troops-from-northern-Syria.mp4
From Euronews:
https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/euronews_Washington-green-lights-Turkish-incursion-into-northern-Syria.mp4
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“We hope Beijing…understands that a democratic Taiwan with a government chosen by the people will not give in to threats and intimidation.”
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Lagos beaches have a microplastic pollution problem
Plastic debris is everywhere and has grabbed the attention of environmental policy makers and regulators. When this plastic breaks up into smaller particles - less than 5mm in size - they are called microplastics. In some cases, they can only be seen under a microscope.
There are two types of microplastics: primary and secondary. Primary microplastics are manufactured to be 5mm or less in size. Examples include microbeads used in cosmetics and household products and resin pellets used in abrasive blasting.
Secondary microplastics are formed from the breakdown of larger plastic materials due to photochemical, mechanical and biological processes in the environment.
Sources of microplastics in rivers and oceans include littering, poor waste management, waste water treatment plants, storm water overflow, industrial effluents and even organic solids obtained from sewage treatment processes.
The presence of small plastic fragments in the marine environment was first highlighted in the 1970s. But with renewed interest over the past decade, microplastics are now considered a major emerging contaminant.
Microplastics pick up and transport heavy metals and organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These pollutants can be toxic. They can be carcinogenic - that is, they have the potential to cause cancer - and they can also be mutagenic - they can lead to changes in the genetic makeup of organisms.
Microplastics also release plastic additives into the marine environment. These can contaminate soil, air, water and food. They can damage creatures that live in the sea by blocking their digestive tracts, changing their feeding patterns, decreasing their immune response and altering reproductive activities. They can also be transferred up the food chain to humans when they're ingested by marine organisms.
Microplastics menace
Microplastics are simply everywhere. Studies have reported their presence in the guts of birds, fishes and marine mammals. They have also been reported in remote areas of the Alps and the Arctic.
Most studies on microplastics have been conducted outside Africa. Currently, there is little or no data on microplastics occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa.
We examined surface sediments from four beaches in Lagos for microplastics. This was the first attempt to investigate microplastic levels in the Nigerian coastal environment.
We found microplastics in all sediment samples collected from the beaches. We found that plastic fragments dominated all the samples we examined. This was followed by pellets and then fibres. The high number of fragments suggests the breakdown of larger plastic items from littering and poor waste management as the most significant source of microplastics in the beaches.
Plastic polymers confirmed were polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene. These polymers are used, among other things, to produce rigid food service containers (Styrofoam containers), disposable cups, bottles, as well as plastic wrappings and bags. This study also confirms the ubiquitous nature of microplastics in the Atlantic as reported in studies from different regions and locations.
Other countries are already taking action to minimise microplastic pollution. About 127 have implemented policies to regulate plastic production and usage. Nigeria should not be an exception.
The country needs to adopt a series of policies to manage plastics.
The Nigerian government - at all levels - should encourage citizens and organisations to embrace the "new plastics economy" where plastic never becomes waste. Plastic materials with no after-use value - single-use plastics - such as Styrofoam plates and the ubiquitous water sachets should be gradually phased out.
Individuals can also take action by reducing their plastic footprint.
Author: Ifenna Ilechukwu - Lecturer of Environmental Chemistry, Madonna University, Nigeria
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Summit County child predator sentenced to 10 years in prison
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Hector Reyes-Martinez, 34.
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BRECKENRIDGE — Hector Reyes-Martinez was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a felony charge of sexual exploitation of a child during an emotional hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Monday afternoon.
Reyes-Martinez, 34, was arrested in January after an investigation by the Dillon Police Department revealed a pattern of sexual assault over the past several years.
Detectives began investigating the case in December after a forensic nurse examiner at St. Anthony Summit Medical Center in Frisco reported a child was in the emergency room for a sexual assault examination.
During a series of interviews at the Treetop Child Advocacy Center and subsequent follow up conversations, police discovered that Reyes-Martinez assaulted multiple children from about 2013 to 2018, according to police reports. He was arrested and charged with felony counts of sexual assault on a child and contributing to the delinquency of a minor among others charges.
In late June, Reyes-Martinez accepted a plea agreement admitting to sexual exploitation of a child, a class 3 felony. At the sentencing hearing Monday, prosecutor Jake Lilly said the only reason a plea agreement was on the table in the first place was to protect the victims from having to relive at trial their traumatizing experiences. Lilly continued to slam Reyes-Martinez for a continuous lack of accountability for his actions.
“Even today, and throughout this (pre-sentence investigation) he’s continued to argue the fantasy that he didn’t quite do this,” Lilly said. At the hearing, Reyes-Martinez admitted to touching the named victim in the case though continued to deny other details. “There were years of touching, years of abuse, and years of terror from the threats and emotional manipulation. Even today, he’s trying to minimize it.”
In addition to Lilly, two others also spoke on behalf of the prosecution, including a victim and the mother of a victim. The mother spoke first, offering a statement about the emotional impacts the assaults have had on her child — including frequent anxiety and panic attacks — before eventually offering Reyes-Martinez her forgiveness.
“It’s hard for (them) to accept love and happiness,” she said. “(They) feel it’s their fault everything has changed in their life … and I just want to tell you I also forgive you because I am not God. God is the one who will judge all our sins throughout life.”
Kevin Jensen, Reyes-Martinez’s attorney, also spoke on his client’s behalf arguing that his behavior was in part driven by his own childhood victimization and lack of formal education and that a probationary sentence would be more suitable to allow Reyes-Martinez to seek treatment.
“We would simply ask to try and give Mr. Reyes-Martinez the tools to deal with his past issues and formulate a plan so he can continue in the future,” Jensen said.
Finally, Reyes-Martinez spoke for himself with the help of a court translator, asking only for some form of forgiveness from the court and the victims.
“I’m asking God for forgiveness a thousand times,” Reyes-Martinez said. “And now I’m asking (the victims) for forgiveness and you. I ask you for a new opportunity.”
Chief Judge Mark Thompson lauded the victims for their strength in speaking out before turning to the defendant. Thompson said any mitigating factors in the case were far outweighed by the aggravating factors — including the ages of the children and the drawn-out nature of the assaults.
Ultimately Thompson sentenced Reyes-Martinez to 10 years in prison on top of a three-year parole period. Reyes-Martinez was given credit for 198 days served.
“Your offense occurred over an extended period, included multiple victims and was intentional,” Thompson said. “It wasn’t the result of intoxication or a one-time misbehavior. It was persistent, categorically wrong, and you knew it. … The acts you completed that led to this were monstrous. This will put an end to that cycle, and I hope over the next several years you have time to think and learn and do the right thing in the future.”
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Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2
The catastrophic première of his First Symphony in 1897 had been a terrible blow to Rachmaninov, and led to a three-year period of almost complete creative paralysis. By 1906 he had summoned up the courage for a new attempt in the genre, however, and now the reception was completely different: it was to great acclaim Rachmaninov conducted the first performance in St Petersburg in 1908. The Second Symphony contains the very best of Rachmaninov: deliberately paced and rhythmically flexible it is propelled by that wonderful sense of melodic expansion of which he was such a master. With a playing time of an hour, the main criticism made against the work over the years has concerned its epic dimensions. It is this monumental work that Lan Shui and his Singapore Symphony Orchestra have chosen to record as a celebration of the orchestra‘s 30th anniversary. Founded in 1979 the SSO has become an important musical force in Asia, but is also gaining international recognition from its high-profile tours and its releases on BIS. Under Lan Shui, its music director since 1997, the orchestra has recorded a wide range of works, such as an acclaimed series of Alexander Tcherepnin‘s symphonies and piano concertos, as well as music by composers Zhou Long, Chen Yi and Bright Sheng. But the SSO discography also includes core orchestral works, such as Debussy‘s La Mer (on BIS-SACD-1447), in an interpretation which was highly praised on its release: the reviewer in BBC Music Magazine found it ‘an unequivocally world-class performance of Debussy’s masterpiece...‘ while his counter-part in American Record Guide reported it to be ‘the most astounding, effective, and beautiful recording of La Mer I have ever heard.‘ The French website Opus Haute Définition, finally, gave the disc a special commendation, claiming that Lan Shui‘s interpretation of La Mer possesses ‘a rare narrative force. With him the sea recovers its tangible depths without forsaking any of its poetic effects.‘
Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27
01 I. Largo – Allegro moderato
02 II. Allegro molto
03 III. Adagio
04 IV. Allegro vivace
05 Vocalise, Op.34 No.14
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A recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) illustrates how an employer can take steps to prevent a breach of trust and confidence that may otherwise give rise to a claim for constructive dismissal.
In this case, the employee worked as a chef in a pub. He was suspended from work by his manager and invited to an investigatory meeting on the grounds that he had not turned up for work when he had been asked to do so. At the investigatory meeting, it was established that the employee was on authorised holiday at the relevant time. As a result, it was decided that no further action should be taken.
The employee raised a grievance about the way he had been treated by his manager. He then attended two return to work meetings at which various options for his return were discussed, but he subsequently resigned as a result of his treatment by the manager and the company. His grievance was not concluded, on the basis that he had refused to return to work.
The employee’s claim for constructive unfair dismissal was not upheld. The tribunal agreed that the manager’s actions were inappropriate and over-reactive, and concluded that they were likely to damage the relationship of trust and confidence with the claimant. However, the tribunal was satisfied that the respondent had prevented the manager’s conduct from constituting a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence entitling him to resign and regarding himself as constructively dismissed. In its investigation of the disciplinary matter, the respondent had accepted the claimant’s version of events and stated that no further action would be taken. He was also offered the option of transferring to another pub to work with a different manager.
The EAT has now dismissed the claimant’s appeal against the tribunal’s decision. It has emphasised the distinction between a fundamental breach of contract that an apology by the employer cannot cure, and there being action by an employer that can prevent a breach of contract taking place. In this case, the “fair minded” way in which the investigatory meeting proceeded meant that it prevented the matter escalating into a state of affairs that would have justified the claimant leaving and claiming he was constructively dismissed.
This case provides a good example of how, in following a fair procedure, the employer has avoided the escalation of a dispute into circumstances giving rise to a fundamental breach of contract.
As the EAT points out in its judgment, the whole object of a grievance procedure and a disciplinary procedure is that the employee has the opportunity to articulate his concerns about the behaviour of management, and to defend himself against allegations that in some way he is unfit to remain in the employment of the employer.
If an employer acts fairly and reasonably in following such procedures, it will often be able to prevent a fundamental breach of contract occurring, meaning that the employee will have no grounds for claiming constructive unfair dismissal.
A copy of the EAT judgment is available here
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Sequels are in flavour this season in Bollywood, with films such as Houseful and Dabangg back on screen with their subsequent instalments. ...
Here are 10 Bollywood sequels that have managed to be as good as the original movie
By Elise November 26, 2019 0 coment�rios
Sequels are in flavour this season in Bollywood, with films such as Houseful and Dabangg back on screen with their subsequent instalments. Here, expectations run high and filmmakers are under the extra pressure of ensuring that the sequels do as well, or even better than the previous ones. However, with the kind of popularity that some of these films command, Bollywood will continue to make their sequels and we will continue to lap them up.
10 Bollywood sequels that are a great watch and sometimes, have even surpassed their success.
Hera Pheri and Phir Hera Pheri:
Voted as the best Bollywood comedy film of all times, the 2000 cult film Hera Pheri, featuring Paresh Rawal as the shortsighted, dim-witted but kind landlord, Baburao Ganpatrao Apte, had the audience rolling with laughter. Its success also led director Priyadarshan to make a second instalment - Phir Hera Pheri, which released in 2006. The movie retained the original cast of Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Rawal, and depicted the twists and turns in their lives after becoming rich. Phir Hera Pheri, however, could not match up to the level that the original did. The third installment of the series is due for release, and, after a few initial hiccups, it was reported that all the three lead stars of the franchise will be reprising their roles.
The Dhoom series:
The original Dhoom, and its sequels, may been the subject of many jokes, but that does not take away from its huge popularity. The first film of the Dhoom franchise, written by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced under the Yash Raj Films banner, revolved around a gang of biker-robbers and a cop, Jai Dixit (Abhishek Bachchan) who tries to catch the gang with the help of a local bike dealer/racer, Ali (Uday Chopra). The movie was a commercial success and paved the way for its more successful second part - Dhoom 2, which released in 2006. The multi-starrer, which had Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai and Bipasha Basu, along with Bachchan and Chopra who reprised their roles as Jai and Ali, was the highest-grossing Indian film of 2006. Dhoom 3, released in 2013, had the star cast of Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif along with Bachchan and Chopra. It broke a lot of records and officially became the first Indian film to earn Rs 500 crores, worldwide.
Dabangg and Dabangg 2:
The film that introduced cop Chulbul Pandey to movie lovers gave Salman Khan one of his biggest hits. It also marked the debut of Sonakshi Sinha. Dabangg became the highest grossing film of 2010 and won the National Award for Best Popular Film providing Wholesome Entertainment. Dabangg 2, which released in 2012, marked the directorial debut of Arbaaz Khan and retained the original cast of Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha. The movie was a blockbuster at the box office and one of the highest grossing movies of all times. The third instalment, Dabangg 3 is set to release on 20th December, 2019, will retain Khan and Sinha, and will also see Mahesh Manjrekar’s daughter, Saiee Manjrekar make her film debut.
Munna Bhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munna Bhai:
Munna Bhai MBBS gave us the adorable duo - don, Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) and his sidekick/friend Circuit (Arshad Warsi). The film also introduced the iconic ‘Jaadu ki Jhappi,' a hug to set aside differences. Released in 2003, Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial debut became a huge success. What made the movie even more special was that this was the first and only film in which real-life father and son Sunil and Sanjay Dutt appear together. The movie also won the National Award for the Best Popular film in 2004. The second movie in the series, Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), had the unforgettable pair of Munna and Circuit once again, along with Vidya Balan who played a Radio Jockey and Munna’s love interest. The movie was notable for the lessons in Gandhigiri that the protagonist, Munna who believes that he can interact with the spirit of Gandhiji, taught. In an interview, Hirani revealed how he had been under immense pressure while writing the script after the success of the first film. The sequel, however, proved to be a blockbuster, won four National Awards and was the first Hindi film to be shown at the United Nations. The third part of the series, is reportedly, set to go on floors soon.
Koi… Mil Gaya, Krrish series:
Koi...Mil Gaya and its sequels, Krrish 1 and 2, gave India its very own sci-fi movie and superhero. The first film in the series, Koi... Mil Gaya, also gave Hrithik Roshan’s slumping career, a major boost. Roshan once revealed that his father had been advised against making Koi..Mil Gaya, but his worries were unwarranted as it went on become one of the biggest hits of his career. Featuring Preity Zinta and Rekha in pivotal roles, Koi Mil Gaya revolved around a boy with Down Syndrome, Rohit (Roshan) who befriends an alien. The second instalment of the film, which released in 2006, took the story forward, with Roshan playing Krrish, a superhero. The movie became the second highest earning Indian film of 2006. Krrish 3, released in 2013, stars Roshan, Vivek Oberoi, Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut in the lead roles. The film, however, failed to make the impression that the first two in the series, did. Roshan has reportedly confirmed that the fourth instalment of the film will go on floors as soon as his father, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan recovers.
Aashiqui and Aashiqui 2:
In 1990, the original Aashiqui, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, introduced two newcomers - Rahul Roy and Anu Aggarwal, to the Bollywood industry. Apart from its story line, the music of the Aashiqui became a huge hit even before the release of the film and the soundtrack was considered as amongst the best-selling Bollywood soundtracks of all time. Thirteen years later, Aashiqui 2, directed by Mohit Suri, brought the fresh and sizzling pair of Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor on screen. The story about a singer Arohi (Kapoor), who is discovered by a well-known singer Rahul, lived up to the hype that was generated and became one of the biggest grossers of 2013.
Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and 2:
Director Anurag Kashyap once spoke about how the cult film, Gangs of Wasseypur, destroyed his filmmaking life because it set expectations so high. The film broke the mold in which most Bollywood movies were set and became the only Hindi film to feature in The Guardian’s list of 100 Best Films of the 21st century. Featuring Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadda and Tigmanshu Dhulia, Gangs of Wasseypur was originally shot as a single film but was shown as two separate films for the Indian audience, with both parts releasing in 2012.
Tanu Weds Manu and Tanu Weds Manu Returns:
The 2011 romantic drama, Tanu Weds Manu, by Anand L Rai, brought together the hugely successful and talented pairing of Kangana Ranaut and R. Madhavan. The movie was a commercial success and was well received by the audience, especially in North India. Tanu Weds Manu was also one of the few Hindi movies where the sequel, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, did even better than the first part. Released in 2015, Tanu Weds Manu Returns saw both Ranaut and Madhavan reprise their roles, and gave moviegoers the treat of watching the talented Ranaut play a double role. The movie became one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of 2015 and also received three awards at the 63rd National Film Awards.
Sarkar, Sarkar Raj and Sarkar 3:
India’s own rendition of the Godfather trilogy, the 2005 Sarkar, introduced the dark and brooding Subhash Nagre, played by Amitabh Bachchan, to the masses. Sarkar, which is said to be loosely based on the founder of Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray, delved into the dark underbelly of Mumbai’s crime syndicate. Its second part, Sarkar Raj, set two years after the original film ends, had Aishwarya Rai in the cast, with Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan reprising their roles. While the sequel, again did not pack the punch that the original did, it was lauded for its performances. With both his sons dead in the earlier two parts, Sarkar 3, released in 2017, retained only Bachchan senior in the titular role, and had Ronit Roy, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpayee, Amit Sadh and Yami Gautam, join the cast.
Golmaal Series:
No list on popular sequels in Bollywood can be complete without including the Golmaal series - amongst the most popular and successful of all sequels in Bollywood. The original Golmaal Fun Unlimited, released in 2006, was Ajay Devgan’s comeback to comedy, after Masti. It also featured Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Sharman Joshi, while the subsequent parts had Kareena Kapoor and Kunal Khemu, with Shreyas Talpade replacing Joshi. The film, whose storyline is similar to the Malayalam film Kakkakuyil, is based on the Gujarati play Aflatoon, adapted from Harsh Shivsharan's original Marathi play Ghar-Ghar. Golmaal Returns, released in 2008, added horror to the mix, while Golmaal 3, released in 2010, was a copy of Basu Chatterjee’s Khatta Meetha and was the second-highest-grossing Bollywood film of that year. The fourth installment of this series, Golmaal Again released in 2017, had Parineeti Chopra, Tabu, Neil Nitin Mukesh and Kunal Khemu join the cast. While the film was met with mixed reviews, it broke box office records and entered the 100 million club within three days of collection. Director Rohit Shetty is reportedly working on the script of the fifth instalment, which may release in 2021.
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Five Best Star Wars Games Available On Steam!
With the release of Star Wars Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker less than a month away, it’s proper to reminisce about the Star best Wars gaming titles which came out throughout the years and are, to this day, available on the Steam digital storefront. If you’ve received a Steam gift card or are just planning to get one for a Star Wars fan – maybe even yourself, and in turn raise your Steam account funds – these are some of the best Star Wars games you should keep your eye on!
Just recently, the gaming industry saw the release of the latest Star Wars title known as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. It was developed by the creators of Titanfall and published by Electronic Arts. Surprisingly, the game is available not only on EA’s Origin platform but also Steam! These old competitors have joined forces against the abundance of new digital storefronts like Epic Games or Rockstar Games Launcher. Therefore, getting a Steam gift card with a new Star Wars game in mind from now on is a good option, as licensed EA Star Wars games will continue arriving on the Steam platform in the future.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a third-person action-adventure game driven by a well-written narrative, and yet, is still open-ended enough to allow the player for a non-linear approach to missions on different semi-open world planets throughout the Star Wars galaxy. The game is set after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. You play as a persecuted young Jedi named Cal Kestis – a survivor of Order 66 who tries to reconnect to the Force and reconstruct the fallen Jedi Order.
Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)
Even the cheapest Steam gift card can allow you to purchase a rare but very significant and influential Star Wars game only available on the Steam storefront. It’s the original Star Wars: Battlefront first released in 2004. Up to recently, this game was quite hard to find despite its popularity among the fandom. However, not too long ago the game became available on the Steam platform and it serves as an amazing alternative to the questionable remasters of the series published by EA and released on the Origin launcher.
With a single Steam gift card, you can enjoy the game which will allow you to relive epic moments of the Star Wars movies – traverse in large scale maps with armed sci-fi vehicles while using iconic weaponry from the Star Wars franchise, oh yeah! Don’t be surprised if you’ll find yourself constantly replaying moments like the Battle of Hoth, as Star Wars: Battlefront games never fail to authentically recreate the cinematic experience of the movies in a completely engaging way and it all started with this particular game from 2004.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is an RPG created by the notable BioWare studios and it released one year before Star Wars: Battlefront. One Steam gift card of the lowest value can provide you (or someone else) with what is arguably the best Star Wars game ever made. Once Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic released, it was considered amongst the best things that have happened to the franchise ever since the release of the third film in the Original Trilogy – Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
The game is set approximately 4000 years before the events in the movies. The galaxy is threatened by a Sith Lord named Dark Malak who seeks to unleash his armada upon the Republic worlds. Get the game with a single Steam gift card and join the crew of Ebon Hawk! Stop Malak before he finds the Star Forge – an ancient superweapon that will bring the end to the Republic if it falls into Malak’s hands. However, in a typical BioWare fashion, the player has freedom. Maybe you’ll choose to embrace the Dark Side yourself? The battle between good and evil will be decided not by a lightsaber, but by your own choice.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Once again, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy can be purchased at a very cheap price which can be easily covered by a Steam gift card of the lowest value. This is another game from 2003 and it serves as a great alternative to the latest Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as it also features a non-linear story progression that takes the player to different planets as well as elaborated lightsaber combat mechanics. On top of that, Jedi Academy has much wider character customization options.
The game is set 10 years after the event of the Original Trilogy. Luke Skywalker has reestablished the Jedi Order and you’re one of the students in the new Jedi Academy. Soon enough, you’ll find yourself fighting new Sith warriors leading the remnants of the Galactic Empire. Get the game with a Steam gift card and enjoy epic lightsaber combat! Mid-way through the game you’ll get to choose between wielding a single lightsaber, having two lightsabers in each hand or using a double-bladed lightsaber – Darth Maul style!
Finally, it’s impossible to talk about Star Wars video games without mentioning the LEGO gaming titles. There are multiple LEGO Star Wars games released by this point, starting with LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and its sequel LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy both of which recreated Prequel and Original trilogies in campaigns respectively. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga offers the content of both games in one single package!
With a Steam gift card, it’s a lot cheaper to get the game, especially during the sales (like the Star Wars day which is on the May 4th) it’s possible to get The Complete Saga with a single gift card of the cheapest value. Even though the game is LEGO-themed, it can surprise you with its authenticity to the movies and the original John Williams musical score. Play through the first 6 movies of George Lucas, solve puzzles joined by a friend in local two-player co-op and enjoy great replay value with new unlockable characters, vehicles, and collectables.
The easiest way to enjoy Star Wars games!
Just like it was mentioned before, a single Steam gift card of the cheapest marketable value is usually enough to get these games on Valve’s digital storefront. Usually, you can get even two of them at once, especially during the frequent Steam sales. Star Wars day on May 4th (the date is chosen because it’s pronounced similarly to “May the Force be with you” phrase from Star Wars films) is one such occasion among the many. While most these games may be multiple years of age, they successfully hold up against some of the latest triple-A titles, so get the Steam gift card and expand your library with the Star Wars games that have already withstood the trials of time!
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Issue With Internet Explorer Could Affect Most PC Users
Posted by techpart On May 4, 2019
Are you still surfing the web with Internet Explorer? If so, you're not alone. Four years after Microsoft announced Edge as its successor, the company's old browser still has a few stubborn holdouts who continue to use it for various reasons.
Unfortunately, security experts keep finding critical security flaws in the code that make it something of a ticking time bomb.
The most recent of these was unearthed by an independent researcher named John Page. He published a proof of concept that demonstrates a flaw in the way the old browser handles MHT files, which are used by Internet Explorer for archival purposes.
If any computer running Windows 7, Windows 10, or Windows Server 2012 encounters an MHT file, it will attempt to open it using Internet Explorer. This fact represents a tremendous opportunity for a savvy hacker. All he has to do is present a specially crafted MHT file containing malicious code to a user and use a bit of social engineering to open it. Using history as a guide, convincing users to open files from untrusted sources is not especially difficult to do.
Even if you don't currently use Internet Explorer, your system is still very much at risk from this type of attack, because IE 11 still ships with every Windows-based PC, including the latest Windows 10 machines. The only potential saving grace here is that on Windows 10 machines, Internet Explorer is not enabled by default and needs to go through a user-initiated setup process before it could be used.
The solution then, at least if you've got a Windows 10 machine, is simply to avoid enabling Internet Explorer or, even better, simply uninstall it from the Control Panel altogether.
Mr. Page reported the issue to Microsoft on March 27, and received the following reply:
"We determined that a fix for this issue will be considered in a future version of this product or service. At this time, we will not be providing ongoing updates of the status of the fix for this issue and we have closed the case."
Unfortunately, that's a canned response that amounts to a dismissal. So for the foreseeable future, you should operate under the assumption that no help will be forthcoming from Microsoft on this issue. Make sure your IT staff is aware.
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China's manned space mission lifts off today
By Marc Chacksfield 2008-09-25T09:58:00.268Z
Din a nay na, din a nay na na. It's the the final countdown!
Shenzhou 7 and its occupants wave goodbye to Earth
China is to launch of a manned space mission today according to the Communist newspaper People's Daily. The launch is set to take place in a desert town in north-west China. An eight hour countdown kicked off this morning.
China's space program has been developing fast – this is the country's third trip into space. It should also mark China's first-ever spacewalk.
First spacewalk
Footage of the spacewalk – which will embark from the shuttle Shenzhou 7 – will be broadcast on Chinese television, and last up to 40 minutes.
It is unknown which of the three astronauts will set off on the spacewalk. All three are fighter pilots who have been training together for the last 10 years.
The spacewalk is a major step towards creating China's own space station.
China's first space mission was as recent as 2003. Since then it has received help from Russia in training and in equipment, but China has been busy generating its own technology as it looks to explore space independently.
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What a Time to Be a (Female) Skier
Why the “lady shred” movement is snowballing, and how you can find your tribe.
by Kimberly Beekman
The first time I experienced what it was like to ski with a pack of badass women was my inaugural year of Ski Magazine’s annual ski test, some 15 years ago. I walked into the test corral intimidated as hell—they being ex-U.S. Ski Teamers and the like—but from the minute we got off the lift, it was an all-time, game-on, bell-to-bell blast. We laughed. A lot.
I’ve gone on many women’s trips since—Silverton, Jackson Hole, Revelstoke, Aspen Highlands to name a few—and they remain some of my top ski days of all time. There was just something different, something incredibly special, about the vibe.
These days, it’s the cool thing to do. Women’s only camps and groups and hashtags have popped up everywhere (it’s catching on in the mountain biking, running, climbing, and surfing worlds, too), and women are opting to ski all over the world with other women they’ve never met rather than with boyfriends or husbands.
What is happening? Have we just figured out that skiing with other women is awesome? I mean, the “girls’ trip” has been around since things in the Garden of Eden didn’t quite work out. So why is the lady shred movement snowballing now?
I can point to a few catalysts. The 2014 all-women premiere of “Pretty Faces” tapped into a main artery of women frustrated by lack of representation in ski films. Also, ski manufacturers like Blizzard Tecnica began investing heavily in women’s technology that actually works. The rise of female athletes across all skiing disciplines—Elyse Saugstad, Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Hilaree Nelson, Jessie Diggins, and Kikkan Randall—is giving women more role models than ever before. And, of course, there’s our current social and political climate, which is best described by “me too” (the linguistics alone suggest a convergence to be reckoned with).
Regardless of the how and why, the important thing about these ski groups goes far beyond the slopes. Sure, we put on our party pants and laugh our asses off. But we also discover our strengths—strengths we have been taught all our lives to ignore. In a society that marginalizes, patronizes, and minimizes us, we are carving out our own niches, building our own communities that lift us up and support us in ways we don’t experience anywhere else.
Whether we’re intermediates skiing a black for the first time or experts hucking a cornice in a no-fall zone, when we’re surrounded by a bunch of girls—sometimes wearing tutus—shouting, “You got this,” we end up believing them. We have downplayed our abilities for so long, it takes the confidence of others we trust to make us see the truth. This shift in our inner dialogue is profound, and it’s transferable to every aspect of our lives:
We are badasses. And now we know it.
If you’re not already a part of a women’s ski group, welcome to your epiphany. If you are already enlightened, you’ll glean even more inspiration from these other like-minded women. So load up the shotski and cue “Don’t Stop Believin’” on the Karaoke machine: Here are a few of our favorite lady-shred posses in skidom. If none of these are in your zone, reach out to your local resort’s communications department to find out if one exists, sign up for a women’s camp (like the women’s camps held at the Alta Lodge) near you to build your network, or start your own by posting on Facebook. You got this, remember?
LADY SHRED POSSES
Jackson Hole Babe Force
The Ski Diva
Backcountry Babes
Colorado, California, New Hampshire
Snowbird SkiMums
Snowbird, Utah
Girls Outside
Thumbs Up Birds
Miss Snow it All
Bitchin’ Betties on Boards
Mammoth Mountain, Calif.
Winter Divas
Ski Away
Crystal Wright, pro skier and rodeo rider, grew up in the shadow of the famed (and infamous) Jackson Hole Air Force, a rogue band of skiers who pioneered all the out-of-bounds lines at Jackson Hole. “I grew up idolizing them,” she said.
The problem, though, is that they were all dudes, and the amazing women skiers she knew were always on the fringes. “I saw all of these ripping women who weren’t being recognized, and none of them were skiing together,” Wright said. One day in 2011, she was skiing out of bounds in Granite Canyon with a couple of her girlfriends when they ran into the JHAF boys, who wouldn’t let them pass on the traverse. Jokingly, she shouted, “Watch out, Babe Force coming through,” and the name just stuck.
Wright and her friends soon designed their own arm patch, started a Facebook page, and then organized a girls’ ski day. “We were nervous no one would come, and then 50 women showed up. We realized there’s obviously a need for this.” Since then, the Babe Force has expanded into a certified nonprofit, with women-only ski, hike, and mountain bike meetups and camps year-round.
The group also gives scholarships to girls and women all over Wyoming to take avalanche education courses or to go on a dream adventure. To join, donate, or nominate a woman for a JHBF patch, go to their website. Also, follow them on Facebook or Instagram @jacksonholebabeforce.
The Ski Diva has been a welcoming forum for female skiers for 13 years, “which, in the Internet world, is like a gazillion,” laughed Wendy Clinch, who founded the site. She started the site when she became frustrated by the lack of resources for women both online and in ski shops. “I found that people assumed I was a beginner, or that I wanted to know about ski fashion, or I got lots of comments that were sexual,” she said from her home in Vermont. “And they didn’t know anything about women’s gear.”
The site now has more than 6,000 registered members and countless others who visit the site to read the forums. Dedicated Divas—you have to post 25 times on the forum before you can gain access to the Divas Only section—also have the option to participate in women’s ski trips or arrange for casual meetups at home hills.
“On these trips, you leave behind all the labels—wife, mother, girlfriend—and you’re just you, having a great time,” she said. According to Clinch, the group empowers women to travel to places they wouldn’t necessarily go to on their own, and encourages them even when they doubt and downplay their own abilities.
It’s open to all levels and ages—"This isn’t the U.S. Ski Team,” Clinch said. The only restriction is, of course, no men. “Everything else in the world is for men. Even if it’s not for men, it’s for men. This is our corner of the world,” Clinch said. To join, register on The Ski Diva website.
Founded in 1997, Backcountry Babes has been around since before women-specific gear was a thing. It operates mainly as an outdoor education program designed to cultivate women’s leadership in the outdoors, and it also curates backcountry ski trips to places like Japan, Iceland, Chile, and British Columbia.
“Anyone can join who wants to,” said Truckee, Calif.-based owner Emily Hargraves, though it’s definitely more avy class/guide service than meet-up group. The idea is to empower women through education so they can feel comfortable guiding their own groups in the backcountry, and to eliminate the societal conditioning that men are the leaders in the outdoors.
The program clearly works: More than 300 women across the country sign up for Backcountry Babes’ avy courses or backcountry trips every year, and the operation now has hubs in Colorado, California, and New Hampshire. Female guides and educators are all AIRE-certified, and some have been with the program since its inception.
According to Hargraves, the program fosters women’s natural strengths in the backcountry, because they tend to have a stronger connection with their group. “I find women’s groups are better at making decisions and managing risk,” she said. They also tend to have more fun, too. To sign up for a course or a trip, go to the Backcountry Babes website.
“Not all of us are moms. Some of us have cats,” said Paula Colman, who founded this group eight years ago after moving from Houston, “the ski capitol of Texas.” True to her character, Snowbird SkiMums is anything but serious. “It’s like a glorified playdate.”
The group evolved from a few women Colman met who helped her learn how to ski, and now meets every Wednesday morning at the bottom of the Gadzoom lift January through March, weather permitting. It’s geared for intermediate and advanced skiers and offers free lessons with Snowbird instructors throughout the month of January.
The progression Colman sees every year is inspiring, she said, a direct result of the supportive nature of all-women group. “It’s a team effort. We help each other out. It’s competitive, but in a motivating way as opposed to an intimidating way.”
Most of all, though, it’s just fun. “I’ve never thought of all the things I’ve done in my life that this is the one that would give me the most joy.” If you want to join, just show up. For more information, check out their website or follow them on Instagram @skisnowbird.
When, Girls Outside cofounder Rachel Hadley moved up to the Roaring Fork Valley from Denver, she was a budding professional mountain biker who had no women friends to ride or ski with. She soon met Annie Gonzales, a ski patroller at Aspen, and they decided to start a group that would hopefully bring all the outdoorsy women out of the woodwork.
“There are so many amazing women up and down the valley who were tired of not having a safe, fun, and supportive environment,” Hadley said. Come winter, the hilariously named Frosty Whores (their summer moniker is the Dirty Bitches) skin up to the warming hut at Buttermilk or Snowmass with headlamps. “Everyone brings wine and snacks and costumes and music, so we do our party thing and then ski down in the dark,” Hadley said. “We have so much fun.”
Because they ski in-bounds, they can be inclusive of all abilities, and the group has garnered more than 700 members on its Facebook page. Gonzales feels their popularity is indicative of women’s empowerment having become a collective focus as of late. “We’re becoming more centered on what’s important to us, and that is relationships and doing things together.”
Check out their Facebook page @girlsoutside.
First, the name deserves explaining. Founder Kelley Wren grew up with the nickname “Bird,” owing to her last name, and her favorite childhood game was to award cool places she snowboarded with a thumbs up. “It was always about being outdoors, having a good time,” she said. Then she started a blog called Thumbs Up Birds as a way to let her parents know what she was up to (“I didn’t want to have to call them all the time,” she said, laughing).
The blog eventually morphed into a women’s ski and snowboard group, with articles about unsung female athletes who were going as big as the boys but without any media love. Now based in Breckenridge, Thumbs Up Birds hosts free meetups on the slopes at a different resort a couple of times a month, with demos available for women who don’t have their own gear.
“The biggest thing holding women back from learning a new sport is the equipment,” Wren said. They also run backcountry education courses, all funded by sponsors and donations, designed to give women the confidence to enroll in an avy course.
Thumbs Up Birds also hosts mountain-bike (“Pedals and Pints”) and rock-climbing meetups in the summer with an après component afterward. Check out Thumbs Up Birds online or follow them on Instagram @thumbsupbirds.
Do yourself a favor and watch this Instagram video now. It’s one of thousands hashtagged #showusdagirls, a campaign that Miss Snow It All founder launched about a year ago to when she was frustrated by the lack of images and videos of girls and women in Australia’s ski media.
“It’s not just about being a ripping extreme skier, it’s about being a skier,” Oakes said about the campaign. She simultaneously launched the Facebook group, which is a forum where women can discuss gear, meetups, or really anything ski-related, and it now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
Australian resorts have taken notice, too, upping the ante with their own marketing campaigns to include women and designating women-only camps and terrain park days. “It feels like what’s happening in the world is carrying over into the ski world.
There’s more of an emphasis on, ‘What do you want your ski day to be?’” The group recently organized its first heliski day with Southern Lakes Heliski in New Zealand. Follow them on Facebook @misssnowitall.
While this group isn’t open to newcomers, it will serve as inspiration for women to start their own Betty offshoot. Bitchin Betties started in 1999, when Tahoe ski instructor Maggie Hakansson and six of her female instructor friends took a weekend girls’ trip to Mammoth Mountain.
It grew exponentially every year until Hakansson capped it at 40-some members—all of whom rip. “We’ll ski all day, go out and dance and party all night, and then we’re first in line the next day,” said Hakansson, aka Boss Betty.
Needless to say, they earned a bit of a reputation around the hill, and now Mammoth rolls out the red carpet rolls out each year, giving them private access to the gondola to ski down Cornice Bowl after the slopes close.
“We are a bunch of hardcore women who just cheer each other on,” Hakansson said. And the Betties don’t stop when the snow does—come summer, they mountain bike and paddle together. To start your own Betty group, put up a post on Facebook and tag your women skier friends. You’ll have a ripping crew in no time.
Winter Divas doesn’t just bring women together to ski—it gives them a voice in the ski industry. Kjerstin Klein, who co-owns Willi’s Ski and Board shop in Pittsburgh, Penn., had long been frustrated by the lack of attention the ski industry paid to women—“we were in the ‘shrink it and pink it’ era,” she said—but also noticed that there was another problem: When women came into her shop, they didn’t know how to talk about gear in a meaningful way.
“I wanted to teach these women how to give their opinion in a way that the industry would actually listen to,” she said. So she founded the Divas in 2009 to educate women about technology, and set them loose with new gear on the slopes to evaluate it.
The Divas’ weekly ski day entails a gear test of the latest hard and softgoods, an educational session, and then, of course, freeskiing and après at Seven Springs Mountain Resort. The group now has more than 500 members, and the results of their tests are incorporated into reviews on realskiers.com.
“The best part about it is that the manufacturers are actually listening,” Klein said. If you have questions about specific gear or would like to start your own chapter of Winter Divas at your home hill, message Klein on their Facebook page @winterdivas.
The oldest women’s ski program in the country, Ski Away was founded in 1971 by Nancy Countryman who wanted to create a traveling ski school—common in the Midwest—for adult women. “She was a mom whose kids were in the program, and she wanted to be in one herself,” said Lezlie Pinske, who now owns the school.
Originally, Ski Away had busses that would pick up moms in the parking lot of the preschool, so they could drop their kids off and then go skiing. Now, the program has four coach buses that pick up nearly 200 women at many locations for the weekly ski days. Female instructors offer lessons for every ability, from never-ever to the beer league racer set.
Ski Away also organizes annual international ski trips to places like Portillo, Chile, and Chamonix, France. “We’re stretching one another to be bold and do things we might not do by ourselves,” she said. Pinske attributes the group’s success in part because moms of this generation are realizing the value sports bring to their own daughters.
“It’s so obvious now that we want our girls not to just be cheerleaders on the sidelines. I think we are watching our girls, and they’re empowering us.” Sign up to join on the Ski Away website.
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New Holy Cross president officially begins job today
By Linda Bock TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Jan 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM Jan 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM
The Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., officially began his tenure today as the 32nd president of the College of the Holy Cross, succeeding the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.
“From my first days as a member of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees, the distinctive mission of Holy Cross — along with the themes of academic rigor in a liberal arts environment, the commitment to teaching and learning, and social justice, meaning and value — have resonated with me,” Rev. Boroughs said in a news release. “It is an honor and a great privilege to join the Holy Cross community as its president.”
Rev. Boroughs, 62, was elected by the college's board of trustees in May. Rev. McFarland, who retired after a 12-year presidency, will begin a sabbatical at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University in California.
Immediately before coming to Holy Cross, Rev. Boroughs served as vice president for mission and ministry at Georgetown University
Rev. Boroughs was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and raised in Seattle. He earned his B.A. from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., in 1973, and received a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology, Chicago, in 1978. He holds a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, 1987, and received a Ph.D. in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkley, Calif.) in 1989.
He entered the Jesuit order in 1967, was ordained a priest in 1978, and made his final vows as a Jesuit in 1986.
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An opinion exchange meeting between the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the local government regarding the reorganization and integration of public hospitals began on the 17th, and Vice Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare announced the name of each hospital…
Public hospital reorganization / integration Opinion exchange meeting between the government and local governments
An exchange of opinions between the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the local government regarding the reorganization and integration of public hospitals started on the 17th, and Vice Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Hashimoto, announced that each hospital name was abrupt. Did. In response, local governments demanded to withdraw data, and there were a series of opposition voices.
As the population declined, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced last month 424 hospital names nationwide, including hospitals with particularly low medical treatment results, in order to encourage discussions on the reorganization and integration of public and public hospitals in each region. There is a backlash.
In response, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has decided to hold discussion meetings with local governments at seven locations nationwide since the 17th, and the first meeting of Fukuoka City was attended by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. .
Among them, Vice-Minister Hashimoto said, “We are reconsidering that the release of data was abrupt and caused residents' anxiety. We did not force it, listened to the voices of everyone, and carefully I wanted to work on it. "
On the other hand, the person in charge at the public hospital in Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture said, “Although the remote islands are struggling due to a shortage of doctors, the name of the hospital has made it even more difficult to secure doctors. "
In addition, there was a series of criticisms regarding the withdrawal of the published data itself and the criticism that it was in conflict with regional revitalization, as it was confusing in the medical field.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will continue to seek careful understanding based on the opinions given at the briefing sessions in each region.
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MOC Commission a Stacked Deck
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Private practice physicians have been leading the national outcry against maintenance of certification (MOC), but those physicians are woefully lacking on a commission charged with developing “a set of recommendations about the future of continuing board certification.”
The “Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future” campaign this week announced the names of the 28 women and men who will craft those recommendations. The commission membership is long on people with close ties to the certifying boards and physicians who work in academic settings, but it certainly doesn’t meet the original promise of a “variety of practice environments.”
To be fair, that list includes one outspoken MOC critic: Philadelphia-area internist Charles Cutler, MD, the former president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Dr. Cutler led several forums addressing physicians’ concerns with MOC – especially its expense and lack of relevance to daily practice – and exposing the finances of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and some of its member certifying boards.
I found one other private practice physician on the commission: Paul E. Johnson, MD, an otolaryngologist in Laramie, WY, and a past president of the Wyoming Medical Society. And Donald Palmisano Jr., who runs the Medical Association of Georgia and serves with me on the board of the American Association of Medical Society Executives, certainly has heard and can articulate all the MOC horror stories.
But the rest?
Using just the biographical information that the Vision Initiative provided, here’s the breakdown of the commission members’ background:
20 of the 28 commission members are physicians;
17 of those 20 are academic physicians or have served on or worked for one of the certifying boards;
Seven of those 17 are both: academic physicians who also have a board connection;
Three of the eight non-physicians work or worked in academia or for one of the boards;
One of the commission’s cochairs is Christopher Colenda, MD, the former president and CEO of West Virginia University Health System, and former treasurer and vice chair of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; and
The other cochair is William J. Scanlon, PhD, a former public member of the American Board of Surgery.
That stacked deck isn’t surprising – despite the lofty goals for diversity that the Vision Initiative announced when it solicited nominations for the commission – when you look at the background of the Planning Committee members who picked the commission. Once again, the committee was way heavy on physicians who’ve spent most of their careers at academic institutions or the certifying boards, not in private practice.
So why does all of this matter? It matters because the certifying boards have been staunch advocates for the status quo. (ABMS actually spent more than $25,000 last year on a lobbyist to fight TMA’s MOC reform bill in the Texas Legislature.)
It matters because the physicians in academia on the commission and the Planning Committee – several of whom I know to be outstanding individuals, very good doctors, and excellent at what they do – have a totally different experience of a medical practice. And that’s why academic physicians have not been the ones leading the fight against MOC. Their perspective and expertise are important, but they’re no replacement for the point of view of the doctors who are outraged over it.
And it matters because the Vision Initiative’s objectives are to “assess the current state of continuing board certification and envision its framework for the future as a process that is valued by physicians, patients, hospitals and health systems.”
Assessment and envisioning are in the eye of the beholder. Bricklayers don’t build wooden homes. Unless the Vision Initiative replaces at least half of the new commission with physicians who practice like the vast majority of U.S. doctors, its “framework for the future” is likely to be just as onerous, just as costly, and just as irrelevant to daily practice as MOC is.
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'This is Us,' 'The Voice' highlight 2019's fall television schedule
Therese Odell, Houston Chronicle
Updated 6:56 am CDT, Thursday, September 5, 2019
DANCING WITH THE STARS: 8 p.m., Monday, September 16, ABC
Photo: Eric McCandless/ABC Via Getty Images
The start of the fall television season is just around the corner. In just a couple of weeks, network television will clear their summer schedules to make room for new seasons of your favorite dramas, comedies and reality series.
Check out the gallery above for the return dates for your favorite shows and the premiere dates for the networks' new fall series.
The week of September 23rd marks the beginning of the Fall 2019-20 season, with all new episodes of the networks' biggest hits, including "The Voice," "This Is Us," "Grey's Anatomy," "The Masked Singer," "NCIS" and "Young Sheldon."
In addition to well-established favorites, the networks will be rolling out their new series, including seven new comedies, nine new dramas and one new reboot of a classic reality series.
On ABC, Tiffany Haddish is hosting the reimagining of "Kids Say the Darndest Things" on Sunday nights. "mixed-ish," a spinoff of "black-ish" that explores Rainbow's eccentric childhood, will also premiere this fall. "Stumptown," a detective series based on a comic book, and "Emergence," a paranormal series about a young girl with mysterious powers will also make their debut.
CBS will premiere three new sitcoms: "Bob Hearts Abishola," "Carol's Second Act" and "The Unicorn." Additionally, CBS will debut two new dramas, "All Rise," a legal series, and "Evil," a drama about a team of investigators who look into supernatural events.
The CW will expand its superhero offerings with "Batwoman" this fall. Additionally, the producers of "Gossip Girl" are reinterpreting the classic detective series with "Nancy Drew."
Fox will debut two new shows: "Prodigal Son," a drama about a criminal profiler with a dark past and "Bless the Harts," an animated series featuring the voices of Maya Rudolph and Kristin Wiig.
NBC is introducing two new comedies: "Perfect Harmony" and "Sunnyside," and one new legal drama, "Bluff City Law," starring Jimmy Smits.
The networks will continue to debut series throughout October.
Therese Odell writes about television at FoolishWatcher.com.
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Biden Urges Yanukovych to Open Dialogue With Opposition
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden expressed his deep concern about the tense situation in Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and urged him to open a political dialogue with the opposition.
Biden told Yanukovych Monday that the standoff between the authorities and protesters needed to be diffused and that "violence has no place in a democratic society." Violence is incompatible with the U.S.-Ukrainian strategic partnership, he said, according to a statement on the White House's website.
The United State's supports Ukraine's European aspirations and welcomes Yanukovych's commitment to following that path, Biden said.
He also welcomed the upcoming visits to Kiev of Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, and Victoria Nuland, U.S. State Department assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Nuland, who is in Moscow meeting with Russian foreign affairs officials, said Washington remained dedicated to supporting Ukraine's plans for European integration and asked Russia to use its influence to ensure a peaceful solution to the current situation, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.
During her visit, Nuland said that the U.S. supports a non-violent and political resolution and the restoration Ukraine's economy with the support of the International Monetary Fund.
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Exclusive: Black Eyed Peas coming to the UAE as part of world tour
The trio are embarking on a new tour to promote their upcoming album Masters of the Sun
Black Eyed Peas (L-R) Will.i.am, Taboo and Apl.de.ap of the are about to embark on their first major tour in seven years in support of their come back album Masters of the Sun. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images)
The Black Eyed Peas have the UAE in their sights as a destination on their next world tour. Speaking exclusively to The National before his solo gig at The Singapore F1 after-party The Podium Lounge, BEP member Taboo said a UAE show is in the works as part of the group’s latest global jaunt in support of their upcoming album Masters of the Sun, which is out on October 12 and will see them return to their hip hop roots.
The 43-year-old rapper and acrobatic dancer, real name Jaime Gomez, said the UAE show will happen as part of the Asian leg of the tour in 2019.
The show will mark the BEP’s first public performance in the UAE after having performed a private gig at Dubai’s Airport Expo in 2005. Since then, different members of the group toured the UAE sporadically for club sets in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
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“I always have a fun time there and we want to bring our shows to either Abu Dhabi or Dubai. We have a lot of fans there and we love performing there,” he says. “We will do that as part of our run of shows around Asia. We will do Australia and then Asia for some shows and then head your way.”
Black Eyed Peas’s upcoming shows mark their first international tour in seven years, while the new album Masters of the Sun is their long-awaited follow up to 2010’s The Beginning. The group recently released the evocative new single Street Living.
A lot of professional and personal developments happen in between; the group returned to their original trio format after singer Fergie left the group, while Taboo is now cancer free after undergoing a gruelling 12-week bout of chemotherapy treatment after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in June 2014.
“It definitely changed my perspective about how I live my life now,” he said. “I don’t get caught up in the small things anymore because I know that life is short. Money and fame means nothing to me anymore as well as people’s thoughts and expectations. I realised that as long as myself and my family are good, nothing else really matters.”
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Greek Restaurant Owners in Montreal Send Staff on All-Expenses Paid Trip
By TNH Staff January 9, 2020
Le Grec is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with a trip for its staff from January 6-16. Photo: Facebook
MONTREAL – Le Grec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and owners Ioanna Yannopoulos and her brother Dimitris wanted to “do something special” for their staff by sending them on an all-expenses paid trip to the Dominican Republic, the Montreal Gazette reported.
Cindy Robert began waiting tables for Le Grec 19 years ago and told the Gazette, “When I heard about the trip, I couldn’t believe my ears. It’s just pure euphoria. These aren’t bosses like other bosses, they’re family. They give us gifts when our children are born, they give us bonuses when we buy a house, we play ball hockey together, they’re there through thick and thin. Their doors are always open. This is just confirming what everyone already knew about the owners.”
The restaurant will be closed anyway for renovations during the 10-day trip starting on January 6, CTV News Montreal reported, adding that according to the restaurant’s website, “the trip will be free for employees who have been part of the company for more than three years, and it will partially cover costs for employees who have served less than three years.”
The Yannopoulos siblings will likely pay thousands for the trip, but Ioanna Yannopoulos said, the Gazette reported, “We wanted to say thanks to our family of workers. We are sewn into the fabric of this community and into the lives of our workers. We’re a good gang and when we get down south it’ll be wild.”
“Le Grec was opened in 1959 by Catherine Xenos and Jimmy Dedopoulos, who then passed on the establishment to their nephew, Constant Yannopoulos, in 1995,” CTV News reported, adding that “in 2009, when he retired, Yannopoulos’ wife, Rachelle Montour, and their children, Ioanna and Dimitris, took over – the third generation to run the restaurant.”
The Athens-born Dedopoulos began making pizza at the restaurant in an effort to gradually introduce the locals to Greek cuisine including lamb, souvlaki, and other Greek favorites, the Gazette reported.
Yannopoulos told the Gazette that “she grew up in the restaurant, running around the tables and kitchen as her parents ran the show,” noting that when “she inherited the business in 2009” she “never forgot what made it a special place.”
Many of the employees at La Grec have spent at least a decade working there, two have been there for 41 years, the Gazette reported.
“I plan on finishing my days here. Before I worked here, my family came here for dinner every Sunday. It’s a staple in these parts,” Robert told the Gazette.
Daniel Carignan and his wife enjoy the pizza at Le Grec every Friday, the Gazette reported. “There’s nothing like it. I don’t know how to describe the pizza exactly, but it’s damn good,” Carignan told the Gazette.
The restaurant’s general manager Richard Morrisseau said, “It comes from Greece, don’t argue with the owners, pizza is Greek. And that’s the number one reason people come from far and wide: our pizza,” the Gazette reported.
Le Grec “is also famous for keeping sheep on the property in honor of a pet lamb Dedopoulos kept while growing up in Greece,” the Gazette reported, adding that “it is eccentric, yes, but customers also flock to the flock and largely know the story of Dedopoulos’s first lamb Panayotis.”
Named after the man who had given the lamb as an Easter gift, the lamb became a cherished pet when Dedopoulos couldn’t let the animal be slaughtered, the Gazette reported adding that “today, the restaurant’s logo is a drawing of Panayotis’ head.”
“Our parents and grandparents did their best to preserve our Greek heritage. There was a [Greek Orthodox] priest who would come give a service every month and we used to have Greek classes on Sundays. There was a pretty thriving Greek community in the ’60s and ’70s. At first, my great uncle Jimmy, he had to ease his way into the market. But now we’re seeing clients whose grandparents were clients here. We are a part of this community and they’re a part of ours,” said Yannopoulos, the Gazette reported.
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Pedal Power to Solar Power
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Greg Rice teaches valuable lessons while making learning fun
By Colleen Creamer
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Greg Rice believes in growing the possibilities of solar power, re-directing the decline in American manufacturing, and helping kids to embrace learning. All at the same time. And all while having lots of fun.
The centerpiece for Rice's ambition is a simple, adult-sized pedal go-cart that you can find at just about any Tractor Supply store. With Rice's "Go-Cart Project," high school students in his hometown of Rochester, N.Y., retrofit the off-road vehicles to run off a battery juiced up by the sun's energy. Once completed, the solar-powered go-carts have a potential range of 400 miles and a cruise speed of up to 18 mph.
It might be a local initiative now, but bigger plans are afoot. "Our ultimate goal is getting the kids engaged using the TSC carts and then getting them distributed to schools throughout the country," Rice says. "Hopefully, we can develop a national competition." Rice, through his company Vance Curves, which makes metal art, has collaborated with a team of technicians, engineers, and grant writers, to put STEM learning — a project-based learning technique in many American schools that integrates science, technology, engineering and math — in seven Rochester schools, so far.
School superintendents, educators, and principals across the country are embracing creative STEM projects to help address America's manufacturing decline. The hands-on engineering of Rice's project engages high school students in science and engineering, and the switching from foot power to solar gets them interested in leaving the earth a little cleaner than when they found it. "This is an emerging green industry, and we've got to start somewhere," Rice says. "What I realized was, if we waited for the big car companies to do it, well, it's going to cost millions and millions of dollars to understand this stuff, and you know we can do it for a couple of thousand bucks."
The adult-sized pedal go-carts are perfect for the project because the nuts-and-bolts design was practically built to be retooled, Rice says. The go-carts can be rebuilt to be powered in a number of ways, including gas and electric, but solar energy is Rice's passion. "I will go and talk to anybody about it anywhere," he says. "My background is engineering, along with my love of mechanics and the ability to build steel products. When you put that combination together in a comprehensive project, it compels students to invest time and effort."
The Go-Cart Project also required the expertise of some of Rice's friends. "I went to all the smartest people I know and asked them, "Okay, how do you make this work?" he says. "I was learning; the kids were learning."
SEEKING SUCCESS
If the project does go nationwide, Rice has a good prototype with the TSC go-cart, but that wasn't always the case. Three years ago, when Rice first approached Rochester schools about the project, he started with little "razor" go-carts, but they proved too small, requiring solar panels to be packed in a trailer behind the pint-sized vehicles.
The first year, he and students got the razor go-carts to "go." The second year, they got them to "go a little faster," and the third year they began using the TSC carts, which solved many of the mechanical issues and certainly the size issue. "I said, 'If this is going to be realistic, then it's got to move me,' and I'm not a little guy. I have been driving it all over the city of Rochester," says Rice. "I was at a market here during the summer, and I was there for like eight hours because people couldn't stop talking about it."
First, though, Rice got an education from the school of hard knocks. He bought inexpensive, but large and unwieldy, solar panels that wouldn't hold enough power. "We determined that the panels we were using just didn't generate enough power, so then I had to go and spend the big bucks, $1,000 on one panel," says Rice, with a laugh. One goal for Rice and collaborators is to expand the project throughout the region and to form a league that works on the same model as NASCAR.
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"We will not be racing for speed, but we would like the ability for the different schools to have a reason to come together to show what each school has built and accomplished," he says. "It opens up the opportunity for business, fundraising, and sales for the students to experience." The project aims at high school students because they are old enough to possess the tools to theorize not only about science, engineering, and math, but also finance.
"We talk about the economics of our projects," Rice says. "I will share the budget of what it costs to build, and we will talk about how we can sell or market our efforts to finance the next project and earn a living." "It gives them the ability to learn how to work as a team in a working environment. We record data and give presentations based on the work we have done," he says. "It just helps everyone."
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Live CoverageThe Editors March 4, 2018
The Biggest Moments of the 2018 Oscars
Frances McDormand rousingly acknowledged women nominees, Jordan Peele made history, and The Shape of Water won big.
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The 90th Academy Awards were a strange, somewhat muted affair low on surprises—perhaps exactly what Hollywood wanted after the chaos of last year’s ceremony. The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s at once gentle and darkly violent fable of love between a mute woman and an amphibious creature, won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, but the wealth was pretty evenly spread among the big contenders. In many ways, Shape felt like a less polarizing “consensus” choice for the Academy, which is itself a sign of how much the film industry has changed in recent years.
The Shape of Water also won for its score and its production design. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh’s grim tale of grief and revenge, won acting awards for Frances McDormand (Best Actress) and Sam Rockwell (Best Supporting Actor). Darkest Hour took Best Actor for Gary Oldman, while Jordan Peele won Best Original Screenplay for Get Out, James Ivory won Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name, and Dunkirk collected three technical awards (Film Editing, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing). The biggest tragedy of the night was Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird missing out on an Oscar—its best shot, Laurie Metcalf, lost Best Supporting Actress to Allison Janney from I, Tonya.
Jimmy Kimmel’s second hosting job in a row felt a little more anonymous than last year’s. He repeated his stunt of connecting famous audience members with regular moviegoers (this time bringing stars from the Dolby Theatre to a nearby cinema to surprise folks). But his monologue jokes were largely pretty safe. He tackled the ongoing issue of misogyny and sexual assault in Hollywood by broadly encouraging change and praising the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and didn’t spend much time raking the industry over the coals.
The ceremony’s most memorable moment was probably McDormand accepting her trophy and bidding the other female nominees of the night to stand up for applause. It was a spontaneous, powerful idea but also a stark visual—the number of people standing up felt very small within the vast Dolby Theatre crowd. Peele’s victory, the only one of the night for Get Out, was a mild surprise that also drew a standing ovation. Similarly welcome were victories for cinematic stalwarts like Ivory and the cinematographer Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049), who had never won an Oscar before despite multiple nominations. All in all, it wasn’t the most exciting night, but it was also largely free of major screw-ups or awkward speeches; not a ceremony to be remembered like last year’s, perhaps, but one with a few lovely moments to hold onto.
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David Sims March 5, 2018, 12:20 a.m.
'The Shape of Water' Takes Best Picture, Capping a Night Light on Surprises
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Best Picture went to the film that collected the most trophies of the night (four): Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water. A strange, sometimes violent, but sweetly told story of love between a mute custodian and an amphibious creature in a government lab, the film clearly inspired voters with its allegorical thrust, telling a story of outsiders fighting to exist in a hostile world.
“Growing up in Mexico as a kid, I was a big admirer of foreign films, like E.T. or William Wyler or Douglas Sirk or Frank Capra,” del Toro said before gesturing to Steven Spielberg in the audience. “A few weeks ago, Steven Spielberg said, ‘If you find yourself [on the podium], remember you are part of a legacy, part of a world of filmmakers, and be proud of it’ ... I was a kid enamored with movies growing up in Mexico. I thought this could never happen; it happens.”
After last year’s mix-up over Moonlight’s Best Picture win, del Toro made sure to check the envelope, flashing an excited grin to the audience (the award was, for the second year in a row, presented by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway). “Everyone who’s dreaming of a parable, of using genre and fantasy to tell stories about the real world … This is a door,” del Toro said of his win. “Kick it open and come in.”
The host Jimmy Kimmel then took the stage with the most important news of the night: the costume designer Mark Bridges of Phantom Thread had won the jet ski prize for shortest speech at 36 seconds. Thus concluded a nearly four-hour ceremony with a lot less drama than last year, a fact that was probably music to Kimmel and his producers’ ears.
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Best Actress Frances McDormand Shouts Out All the Female Nominees, Gary Oldman Wins Best Actor
Frances McDormand took the Oscar stage as a winner for the second time in her career, capturing Best Actress for her work as the vengeful Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. But she wasn’t interested in accepting alone. After thanking her director, Martin McDonagh, her husband, Joel Coen, and their son, Pedro (“These two stalwart individuals were well raised by their feminist mothers”), she urged the other female nominees and winners of the night to stand up for applause and recognition.
“Look around, ladies and gentlemen, because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed,” she said. “Don’t talk to us about it at the parties tonight. Invite us into your office in a couple days, or you can come to ours, whichever suits you best.” She finished with something slightly more cryptic: “I have two words tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider.” Everyone in the theater applauded, and everyone at home probably opened up Google.
Gary Oldman, meanwhile, collected Best Actor for his work as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. “My deepest thanks to the Academy and its members for this glorious prize,” he said. “I owe this and so much more to so many. I’ve lived in America for the longest time, and I am deeply grateful to her for the loves and the friendships I have made and the many wonderful gifts it has given me.”
“I would just like to salute Sir Winston Churchill, who has been marvelous company on what can be described as an incredible journey,” he continued. “I would like to thank my mother, who is older than the Oscar; she is 99 years young next birthday. She’s watching this ceremony from the comfort of her sofa. I say to my mother, Thank you for your love and support. Put the kettle on. I’m bringing Oscar home.”
Oldman has had a long career in Hollywood, famed for playing villains and other memorable, colorful characters, so his Darkest Hour win (after one previous nomination, for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), had the ring of a career honor.
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Megan Garber March 4, 2018, 11:32 p.m.
'These Four Men and Greta Gerwig'
Emma Stone presents the Best Director Oscar (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
“And here are the all-male nominees.”
That was Natalie Portman at this year’s Golden Globes, introducing the—yep, all-male—slate of filmmakers who had been nominated for the Globes’ Best Director category: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Steven Spielberg (The Post), Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World), and Guillermo del Toro, who finally took home the award for The Shape of Water.
At the Oscars tonight, Emma Stone, presenting the award for this version of Best Director, made a similar move. Stone summed up the contenders in the category—Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Greta Gerwig—as “these four men and Greta Gerwig.”
The crowd laughed.
Del Toro won.
Guillermo del Toro Wins His First Oscar for Best Director
Guillermo del Toro won the Best Director trophy for The Shape of Water, his first after four nominations and a long and varied career in and outside of Hollywood making sci-fi, fantasy, and monster movies. He’s the third Mexican director to win the award in the last five years along with Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman and The Revenant), and he thanked his compatriots in his speech.
“I am an immigrant like Alfonso and Alejandro, my compadres, like Gael [García Bernal] and Salma [Hayek],” del Toro said, referencing other Mexican performers in the audience. “The greatest thing our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand and we should continue to do that, as the world tells us to make them deeper,” he continued, thanking the studio Fox Searchlight for funding his often strange or uncommercial projects. With its third win of the night, The Shape of Water remains the favorite for Best Picture.
Yep, Intersectionality Was Just Discussed on the Oscars Stage
Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra, and Salma Hayek (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
The “Time’s Up moment” was, in the end, a video: a compilation of filmmakers discussing what the effort means—not just for Hollywood as a workplace, but also for Hollywood as an idea. In the video, Dee Rees, Lee Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Kumail Nanjiani, and many others talked about a new phase coming to life in Hollywood: one that will be more equitable, more focused on representation and inclusion. The video was an attempt to herald, during the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, a new era for Hollywood itself.
Three of Time’s Up’s prominent women—Ashley Judd, Annabella Sciorra, and Salma Hayek—introduced the video (with Sciorra, properly, getting particularly enthusiastic applause). And “we work together,” Judd put it, “to make sure that the next 90 years empower these limitless possibilities of equality, diversity, inclusion, intersectionality.”
Yes: “Intersectionality” was uttered on the Oscars stage tonight. And the crowd cheered in response.
As Nanjiani noted: “Some of my favorite movies are by straight white dudes about straight white dudes. And now straight white dudes can watch movies about dudes like me, and you relate. It's not that hard. I've done it all my life.”
David Sims March 4, 2018, 11 p.m.
The Screenplay Awards Go to 'Call Me by Your Name' and 'Get Out'
Universal / Paul Spella / The Atlantic
The two winners for screenplay were both groundbreaking choices—one who’s been working in Hollywood for many decades, and another who won for only his second film script. The first was James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay winner for Call Me by Your Name; the second was Jordan Peele, the writer and director of Get Out.
The 89-year-old Ivory, best known as a director of masterful costume dramas like The Remains of the Day and Howards End (as part of the Merchant Ivory banner), won his first ever Oscar from four nominations. He thanked the Call Me by Your Name author André Aciman, saying the novel was, “A story familiar to most of us, whether we’re straight or gay or somewhere in between. We’ve all been through first love, I hope, and come out the other side intact.” He also thanked his former filmmaking partners, the producer Ismail Merchant (who was also his domestic partner and died in 2005), and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who died in 2013). “Voting for me, you are remembering them,” he said.
Peele—who made his directorial debut with the outstanding work of social horror Get Out—was in an extremely stacked category against contenders like Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. “You guys are gonna mess up my jet ski, hold up,” he joked as the audience stood to applaud his award.
“This means so much to me. I stopped writing this movie about 20 times because I thought it was impossible,” said Peele, who is the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay award. “I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone let me make this movie, then I knew people would hear it and people would see it.” He thanked Universal and the production company Blumhouse for getting the movie made. “My wife, who supported me through this whole process. My mother, who taught me to love even in the face of hate. And to everybody who went and saw this movie, who bought a ticket, who told everyone to buy a ticket … I love you for shouting out at the theater, for shouting out at the screen,” he said.
Sony Pictures Classics / Paul Spella / The Atlantic
Spencer Kornhaber March 4, 2018, 10:53 p.m.
Common Raps About Trump, the NRA, and Puerto Rico
If there were any political topics still left on your Oscars bingo card, Common likely gave you a chance to check them off. Performing Marshall’s “Stand Up for Something” with Andra Day, he added in new lyrics dissing Donald Trump, advocating for gun control, and expressing solidarity with feminists, immigrants, the Parkland students, and the people of Africa and Puerto Rico. “Tell the NRA they in God’s way,” he said in the poem he opened the performance with. Later, he rapped about the president’s “hate,” and he referenced Michelle Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda: “When they go low we stay in the heights.”
Midway through, spotlights lit up a group of activists behind the performers. As identified by Variety, they were:
Alice Brown Otter (Standing Rock Youth Council); Bana Alabed (author and Syrian refugee); Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative); Cecile Richards (Planned Parenthood Action Fund); Dolores Huerta (Dolores Huerta Foundation, United Farm Workers of America); Janet Mock (#GirlsLikeUs), José Andrés (ThinkFoodGroup); Nicole Hockley (Sandy Hook Promise); Patrisse Cullors (Black Lives Matter); and Tarana Burke (Me Too).
At the end of the song, Common and Day asked the audience to get to their feet. The point wasn’t about any one cause, but about causes in general: Whatever you believe in, Common said, you should stand up for it.
And the Award for 'Real People' Goes to ... Real People (and a Hot-Dog Gun)
Jimmy Kimmel leads a group of luminaries out of the theater as part of the show (Lucas Jackson / Reuters)
“The bit was both amusing and squirmy: a weird microcosm of Hollywood’s relationship with America, America’s relationship with the media, and Jimmy Kimmel’s ability to make everything a little more awkward than it needs to be.”
That was my colleague Spencer Kornhaber, writing about the Oscars bit that found Jimmy Kimmel bringing “real people” into the proceedings of the Academy Awards ceremony.
To be clear: Spencer wrote that last year. But his insights apply just as well to the 2018 ceremony: This year, once again, Kimmel staged a stunt designed to create a collision between Hollywood’s world of magic and the world of the muggles. This time, Kimmel recruited a bunch of celebrities from the Oscars audience—Gal Gadot, Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Guillermo del Toro, and many more—to surprise a group of people who were watching a screening of A Wrinkle in Time in a theater across the street from the Dolby. Kimmel armed the stars with baskets of candy—Junior Mints, Haribo gummy bears, and the like—and also, for maximum quirk, with a massive sub sandwich, and with a pair of hot-dog guns that, apparently, shoot sausages in the manner of T-shirts.
The formalwear-clad celebrities interrupted the movie screening. They distributed the treats. The crowd cheered and whooped.
And then: The theater’s screen switched from A Wrinkle in Time to a live shot of the crowd in the Dolby Theatre. The celebrities waved. The muggles waved back. It was … a moment. “Oh, this is better than Halloween!” Kimmel exclaimed. He paused. “This is a lot more fun.”
An Oscars Stage of 45 Million Crystals
Tonight’s musical performances have been heartfelt and well-executed, but the songs themselves are being somewhat outshone by the visuals around them. That’s a credit to Oscars set designer Derek McLane, who, for the show’s 90th year, crafted a dazzling and ever-changing stage—decked in, among other things, 45 million Swarovski crystals.
For the mandolin-spangled rendition of Call Me by Your Name’s “Mystery of Love,” singer Sufjan Stevens and his band—including rocker St. Vincent and folk artist Chris Thile—arose from a platform in the floor. Behind them was the handsome façade of a classical sculpture gallery, appearing like something between a high-resolution photo and a diorama. Stevens himself was something to look at, decked in a pink-striped suit jacket with dragon prints on it, from Gucci.
Coco’s “Remember Me” made for a gorgeous multi-part celebration: After a stripped-down acoustic performance by Gael García Bernal, a gate behind him swung open, revealing a lively landscape of neon skulls and a big, swinging church bell. Miguel and Natalia LaFourcade dueted among dancers in colorful swirling dresses, and confetti rained down on the audience as the song ended.
Mary J. Blige’s “Mighty River,” from Mudbound, came with a more austere, stately vibe. The misty backdrop slowly brightened up as Blige sang her song of perseverance.
The stage has shape-shifted throughout the show, with centerpieces ranging from modernist metallic rings to a baroque, mansion-like staircase, all meant to reference various eras of movie history. McLane told People that the set will change 14 times over the course of the night.
The 'Coco' Team Proclaims, 'Representation Matters'
Pixar / Disney / Paul Spella / The Atlantic
Coco, the winner for Best Animated Feature, was the expected victor for the night—a hugely acclaimed Pixar production that was a worldwide box-office success. But as an original film about Mexican culture and characters (a spiritual adventure revolving around the Day of the Dead), it stood out among Disney’s recent offerings. The co-director Lee Unkrich (a previous Oscar winner for Toy Story 3) dedicated the award to the people of Mexico. “Coco would not exist without your endlessly beautiful culture and traditions,” Unkrich said.* “With Coco, we tried to take a step forward toward a world where all children can grow up seeing characters in movies that look and talk and live like they do. Marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong. Representation matters.”
“Love and thanks to my family, my Latino community, to my husband Ryan, each for expanding my sense of what it means to be proud of who you are and where you’re from,” said the film’s co-director and screenwriter Adrian Molina, who is of Mexican descent.
The film’s producer Darla K. Anderson added, “Coco is proof that art can change and connect the world, and this can only be done when we have a place for everyone and anyone who feels like an other to be heard.”
*This post originally misattributed Lee Unkrich’s quote to Adrian Molina. We regret the error.
Megan Garber March 4, 2018, 9:59 p.m.
Before Allison Janney Was an Actor, She Was ... a Figure Skater
Cue the truism about things having a funny way of working out: Before Allison Janney, newly minted Oscar winner, became an actress, she was a figure skater. She was prevented from pursuing the sport because of an accident—a freak accident, specifically, at a party her parents threw.
As Janney told IndieWire in December, of the series of events that changed her path in life:
There was a game where couples had balloons tied around their ankles and you tried to pop the other couples’ balloons. I was cheating, and had my balloon tied around my knee, because I had a strapless long dress on. Cheaters never prosper! I was so competitive … Someone stepped on the back of my dress, and it ripped, and it started to fall off. I was 17 and [around] all these parents and kids, and I grabbed my dress and ran to go inside, and there was a porch with sliding doors and things, and I just thought a door was open and hit it and the glass fell on top of me.
Janney, as a result of that, cut a tendon and lost an artery—along with, she says, “three-quarters” of her blood.
She also lost her dreams of becoming a serious figure skater—a skater in the style of, say, Tonya Harding. Janney decided instead, she said, “to go to college and let the skating go, which was I think the wisest decision.”
Indeed: Shortly after she made that decision, Janney also decided to become an actor. And tonight … well, you saw what that led to.
Lenika Cruz March 4, 2018, 9:53 p.m.
'A Fantastic Woman' Wins for Best Foreign Language Film
Beating out contenders such as Lebanon’s The Insult and Sweden’s The Square, the Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s beautiful drama A Fantastic Woman nabbed the trophy for Best Foreign Language Film.
Lelio took the stage to accept the award alongside his producers and the film’s stars, Daniela Vega and Francisco Reyes. “This film was made by a lot of friends and artists; I share this with all of you tonight,” the director said. He went on to praise both Reyes and Vega, the latter of whom he called “the inspiration for this film.” A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantástica) centers on the terrific Vega as Marina Vidal, a young transgender woman who loses her partner (Reyes) and must cope with her own heartache and the intolerant outside world that comes rushing in.
In his review, my colleague David Sims called the movie “a tremendous portrait of grief and prejudice” centered on a “trans character who’s more than the butt of a joke or an exoticized other.”
Later in the evening, Vega became the first openly transgender presenter at the Oscars.
David Sims March 4, 2018, 9:43 p.m.
Best Supporting Actress Allison Janney Thanks the Cast, Crew, and Bird of 'I, Tonya'
Neon / Paul Spella / The Atlantic
Allison Janney has dominated the awards circuit all season for her work in I, Tonya as figure skater Tonya Harding’s domineering mother, LaVona. She capped that run with her first Academy Award (on her first nomination), besting a tough field of Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird, Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread, Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water, and Mary J. Blige in Mudbound. Janney, a beloved character actor with seven Emmys under her belt, was alternately hilarious and terrifying as LaVona, who spends much of her time onscreen with a bird perched on her shoulder.
“I did it all by myself,” Janney joked, before hastily adding, “Nothing further from the truth.” She thanked writer Steven Rogers, director Craig Gillespie, and her co-star Margot Robbie “for the gift of LaVona,” calling out “a cast and crew and bird that elevated my work.”
Rita Moreno's Dress Is the Same One She Wore at the 1962 Oscars
If Rita Moreno’s dress looks familiar … that’s because it’s the one she wore to the Oscars in 1962, the year she won the O in her EGOT—for her role as Anita in West Side Story.
In her memoir, Rita Moreno, the star describes the dress during its first time out, when Moreno wore it for her historic win. When she found out she’d been nominated, Moreno writes, “I ordered a heavily brocaded dress made of special Japanese obi fabric, a gorgeous gown with a black bateau top that I still have (and can still get into, happily).”
And: She still can. Moreno adapted the dress for its 2018 run: Instead of the black bateau-top the dress featured in 1962, it now features a strapless neckline—which Moreno paired with a jewel-crusted choker.
As she told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, of the iconic gown: “It’s been hanging in my closet.”
Behold, the Politicized Awards Presentation
Chris Pizzello/ Invision / AP
“If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that reality can be depressing.”
That was Jimmy Kimmel, introducing the presenters for Best Documentary Feature: Greta Gerwig and Laura Dern. The two women walked onstage grasping each others’ hands; “Congratulations, buddy,” Dern told Gerwig, of the latter’s Best Director nomination for Lady Bird. And then the women got to the category at hand: the one celebrating films that deal with reality, “depressing” though it may be.
As Gerwig put it, introducing the nominated films, “We live in a time when, now more than ever, all of us need to understand the importance of what is real, what is authentic, and what is fact.”
With that, Gerwig was invoking the machinations of the current White House: the disregard for truth, the weaponized spin, the “alternative fact.” The Academy Awards are well known for politicized acceptance speeches—Kimmel, during his opening monologue, reminded winners that “you have an opportunity and a platform” with the Oscars stage—but here was an aptly 2018 spin on all that: Here were the presenters themselves, injecting politics into the proceedings. And there were the presenters themselves, acknowledging, perhaps, that the politics have been there all along.
'Icarus' Wins Best Documentary Feature, Over 'Faces Places'
Bryan Fogel’s newsmaking documentary Icarus, which made headlines as the extent of Russia’s Olympics doping scandal became clear, won Best Documentary Feature, which often goes to topical films (like Citizenfour or Inside Job). It triumphed over the presumed favorite Faces Places, the French film by the pioneering director Agnès Varda (at 89, the oldest nominee ever) and visual artist JR. Though recognizing Faces Places would have been a good way to acknowledge the long, groundbreaking career of Varda as a female filmmaker, the shocking making-of story behind Icarus (which was originally intended with a smaller focus, then stumbled upon the doping scandal during production), helped propel it to a win.
“We dedicate this award to Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, our fearless whistleblower who now lives in great danger,” Fogel said in his acceptance speech. “We hope Icarus is a wake-up call, yes, about Russia, but also about telling the truth.”
Jimmy Kimmel Ends His Monologue With ... Helen Mirren and a Jet Ski
Chris Pizzello /Invision / AP
Kimmel had a tightrope to walk in his opening monologue for the 90th Academy Awards, speaking to Hollywood after a tumultuous, depressing year. His solution was a speech that was a little muted, a little tense, and oddly prescriptive—light on big jokes, heavy on explanation. Kimmel did a solid job last year puncturing the self-importance of the Oscars, which earned him a return trip to the stage, but this time around he felt a little overmatched by the moment, as Hollywood grapples with revelations of sexual harassment and the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
“What’s happening all over was long overdue. We can’t let bad behavior slide anymore,” Kimmel said. “If we can work together to stop sexual harassment in the workplace, if we can do that, women will only have to deal with harassment all the time, at every other place they go.” He name-dropped Harvey Weinstein, only the second person to be expelled from the Academy (the first, Kimmel ruefully noted, got booted for sharing a screener in 2004), and also provided a detailed explanation of the salary imbalance on the reshoots for All the Money in the World, though the punchline of that joke was that Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams shared the same agency.
“It is positive change. This is a night for positivity, and our plan is to shine a light on a group of outstanding and inspiring films, each and every one of which got crushed by Black Panther this weekend,” Kimmel joked. His focus was on the history-making nominees: He shouted out “the kid from Comedy Central,” Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, and Greta Gerwig, the director of Lady Bird, noting that only 11 percent of films are directed by women.
Unlike with his nightly ABC show, Kimmel didn’t really take aim at President Trump, perhaps because the host devoted so much time to the politics of the film industry instead. And rather than wrapping with some jokes, Kimmel had an extended segment about how long the show is, promising a jet ski (modeled The Price Is Right–style by Helen Mirren) to the winner who delivers the shortest speech of the night. The 90th Academy Awards will probably be heavy on retrospective clips and segments about Hollywood’s past, so it seems Kimmel has decided the way to counterbalance that is to keep everyone on a timer.
Spencer Kornhaber March 4, 2018, 8:35 p.m.
Sam Rockwell Is Very, Very Amped About His Oscar
The odds for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are looking even better after Sam Rockwell took Best Supporting Actor, the first award of the night. The film’s sympathy for Rockwell’s character, a racist and brutal cop who comes to an understanding with the rageful mother of a murder victim, was the source of politically tinged backlash to Three Billboards, but Rockwell’s speech was 100-percent positivity—delivered in a series of very! excited! yells!
Rockwell, who had never been nominated for an Oscar before, shouted out his fellow nominees and his collaborators on Three Billboards, including director Martin McDonagh (Rockwell wants to do 10 more movies with him, he said), and co-star Frances McDormand. But the loveliest moment came in a story he told about his dad pulling him out of school when Rockwell was a kid to go see movies. Rockwell’s dad had, in turn, provided one of the most heartwarming moments of Oscars season: leaving a proud comment on a New York Times review of Three Billboards.
Expect a Time's Up 'Moment' During the Oscars Ceremony
Bradley Whitford wears a "Time's Up" pin as he poses at the 70th annual DGA Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on February 3, 2018 (Mario Anzuoni / Reuters)
While the host of tonight’s Oscars telecast, Jimmy Kimmel, has had different answers to the question of how #MeToo might come into play during the ceremony itself, the founders of the Time’s Up initiative—an effort to bring structural change to Hollywood and beyond, in response to #MeToo’s revelations—have been (slightly) more direct. In a press conference this week, representatives of the group’s leadership, including Shonda Rhimes, Laura Dern, Ava DuVernay, and Tessa Thompson, told members of the media not to expect red carpet protests of the kind the nascent group had coordinated for the Golden Globes. Instead, they said, viewers should expect something to happen during the Oscars ceremony itself. Time’s Up members have said that they’ve been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to plan "a moment" that will take place during the telecast.
What will that moment entail? That will remain, it seems, a surprise. As DuVernay put it, with an air of mystery: “There’s a moment that’s been carved out.” But don’t expect that moment to be a scene-stealer: “We are not an awards-show protest group,” DuVernay explained. "So we stand down this time."
Where Mahershala Ali Keeps His Oscar
Mahershala Ali accepts the award for Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight at the Oscars on Sunday, Febuary 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles (Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP)
At last year’s Oscars, Mahershala Ali won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Moonlight. As he walked the red carpet tonight, Ali told ABC’s Michael Strahan about where he keeps the statue in his house: a place, Ali noted, that is purposely inconspicuous.
“I don’t necessarily want it right out in front of me,” Ali said, of the award, “because I want it to mean something. I don’t want to get used to it. I don’t want to take that moment for granted.”
Timothée Chalamet Thanks His High-School Drama Teacher
Timothée Chalamet arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP)
As Call Me by Your Name (and Lady Bird)’s Timothée Chalamet walked the red carpet with his mother, ABC had a surprise for him: a message from a group at his alma mater, New York City’s LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. The message included congratulations from current students at the school—and from Chalamet’s drama teacher, Harry Shifman. (Mr. Shifman has a good track record: He also instructed Baby Driver’s Ansel Elgort.)
Chalamet seemed to be thrilled by the surprise flash from the (recent) past. And he used the moment to thank Mr. Shifman. “I really would not be acting without that man, without that school, without public-arts funding,” he said—“and really that man who was just in that video, he fought for me to get into that school. I wouldn’t be at the Oscars, I wouldn’t be nominated without him.”
'I Know the New Generations Will Have It Easier'
Mira Sorvino, Ashley Judd, and Salma Hayek arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles (Charles Sykes / Invision / AP)
In December, Salma Hayek published an extended op-ed in The New York Times. In it, she detailed the harassment and abuse she’d taken from Harvey Weinstein—and from the Hollywood establishment that, for so long, helped to enable his behavior. “Why do so many of us, as female artists, have to go to war to tell our stories when we have so much to offer?” she asked. “Why do we have to fight tooth and nail to maintain our dignity?”
On the Oscars red carpet tonight, Hayek took a notably different tone. She was no longer talking about #MeToo; she was now talking about Time’s Up. She arrived at the ceremony with her friend Ashley Judd (who herself walked the carpet with their fellow Weinstein accuser, Mira Sorvino).
As Hayek told ABC’s Michael Strahan about her friendship with Judd, she vaguely alluded to Weinstein—but focused, tellingly, on her fellow woman. “We’ve been friends for so long,” Hayek said. “We’ve been there for each other, we’ve gone through all our struggles together, and here we are to celebrate the fact that women are not going to have to struggle as hard together.”
Hayek also told Strahan about her 10-year-old daughter. “She calls herself a feminist,” Hayek said—“even before all this, you know. She identities with it, and she’s very proud of it.” Hayek added: “I really feel relieved that I know the new generations will have it easier.”
Will #MeToo Be a Pawn in an Inter-Network Rivalry?
Ryan Seacrest appears during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York City, on December 31, 2017 (Carlo Allegri / Reuters)
Ryan Seacrest is conducting interviews for E! on the Oscars red carpet tonight—this in spite of allegations that he serially harassed and assaulted a former stylist (allegations Seacrest has stridently denied, and which an investigation conducted by E! “found insufficient evidence to substantiate the claims”).
How will celebrities respond to Seacrest’s presence? And: How will viewers respond to the celebrities doing the responding? As Jezebel’s Bobby Finger put it, “God, watching him smile as publicists whisk their clients past him is going to be good television.”
There are rumors, however, that television executives are trying to make the good television even better … at least for themselves. Page Six is reporting that Rob Silverstein, the executive producer of Access Hollywood, has instructed the show’s own red-carpet hosts, Scott Evans and Kit Hoover, to ask each celebrity they talk to on the red carpet “whether or not they will talk to Ryan Seacrest.” In other words: While E! has so far made no mention of the allegations against Seacrest in its coverage, the network’s competitor may try to inject those allegations into each of its interviews.
Here’s hoping the report is incorrect: To exploit #MeToo—the tragedy of it, the bravery of it—for purposes of inter-network rivalry would be an insult not only to the celebrities on the red carpet, but also to every person, in Hollywood and beyond, who has shared a #MeToo story.
Harvey Weinstein Was Expelled From the Academy—but Guess Who Remains?
Film director Roman Polanski arrives at the Madeleine Church to attend a ceremony during a “popular tribute” to late French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday in Paris, France, on December 9, 2017 (Charles Platiau / Reuters)
Last October, Harvey Weinstein was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That was unsurprising. (The Academy at the time, per NPR: “In stripping Weinstein of his membership, the Academy issued a statement saying it wanted to, quote, ‘separate itself from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over.’”)
What is a little more surprising, perhaps, is that his expulsion was exceedingly unusual. Weinstein, in his ouster, became only the second person in the Academy’s history to be expelled from it. (The other was Carmine Caridi, star of two of the Godfather films, who was expelled in 2004 for …. lending out movie screeners of films being considered for Oscars.)
Remaining as part of the Academy, then, are, among many others, Kevin Spacey, Roman Polanski, and Bill Cosby—three men who are accused of far, far more than lending out some For Your Consideration DVDs.
What to Expect When You're Expecting (an Oscars Treatment of #MeToo)
From top left: Tarana Burke, Michelle Williams, America Ferrera, Jessica Chastain, Amy Poehler, Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington, and, from bottom left, Natalie Portman, Ai-jen Poo, and Saru Jayaraman arrive at the InStyle and Warner Bros. Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP)
How much will the #MeToo movement factor into tonight’s proceedings? The answers have varied.
Earlier this week, in an interview with ABC News’s Paula Faris, the Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel announced, “This show is not about reliving people’s sexual assaults. It’s an awards show for people who have been dreaming about maybe winning an Oscar for their whole lives. And the last thing I want to do is ruin that for someone … by making it unpleasant.”
That comment was a reflection of what Academy Awards executives had been saying themselves about #MeToo. Channing Dungey, ABC’s president of entertainment, noted that she “would love for every award recipient to not feel like they have to acknowledge it independently.”
By later in the week, though, those answers had evolved—or, perhaps, in reaction to blowback among the media, they had become more straightforward. When a Variety interviewer asked Kimmel whether he would discuss #MeToo, he replied, “It’ll be a part of the show.” And when a Vanity Fair journalist asked whether he planned to include “questions or bits that address Time’s Up” in his hosting repertoire, Kimmel responded, “I do, yes.”
And, regardless of what Kimmel says onstage about Times’s Up and/or #MeToo—and regardless, as well, of what awards presenters and winners might say off the cuff about those subjects—one thing is clear: Expect, at the very least, a Times’s Up “moment” on the Oscars stage.
Harvey Weinstein Was There (Sort of) for the Run-Up to the Oscars
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Harvey Weinstein will—of course—not be attending tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony. In another way, though, Harvey Weinstein was extremely present for the run-up to the event at which he used to hold court.
On Thursday, Plastic Jesus, the L.A.-based street artist, unveiled a work he named "Casting Couch.” The statue depicted Weinstein—swathed in a golden bathrobe, clad in slippers, perched on a golden settee, clutching an Oscar. Plastic Jesus’s version of the former mogul was life-sized—it pretty much begged to star in people’s Instagram selfies—and was installed on Hollywood Boulevard (very close to, yep, the Dolby Theatre where the Academy Awards ceremony will be held).
And then: It started to rain in L.A. Because of that, Plastic Jesus and his collaborators removed the statue. And: “Sadly, due to the weather, we’ve not been able to put it back up.”
It is all, perhaps, a fitting metaphor. Plastic Jesus, pre-statue-removal, explained his latest contribution to the Hollywood landscape: "Whilst many thought the 'casting couch' was a thing of the past it was clearly still a part of the Hollywood culture.” Now, though, because of a change in weather … “Casting Couch” is a thing of the past.
This Year's Oscars Gift Bags Will Include Genetic Tests and 'Stylish' Pepper Spray
Richard Shotwell / Invision / AP
A smart person once asked, “How do you measure, measure a year?”
One way—not necessarily a good way, to be sure, but one way nonetheless—is to examine the selection of goods and services that are given (“gifted”) each year to the celebrities who participate in the Oscars. Distinctive Assets, the company that rounds up the goods, goes out of its way to clarify that the Academy has no official association with the gift bags after the Academy sued it in 2016 for trademark infringement. (The two parties reached a settlement, and the company has since continued with its acts of glittery generosity.) Distinctive Assets is refreshingly frank about its eagerness to shower the rich with even more riches: As Lash Fary, the owner of and the assembler of the bags in question, told me a couple of years ago: “This is just straight-up marketing.”
But: It’s revealing marketing. The gifts—the products being placed in the vicinity of celebrity—suggest the state of things, the status of things, what people care about during a given moment in time. When it comes to beauty standards. When it comes to physical and mental health. When it comes to what people find fun and delicious and necessary and extravagant and appealing.
Here, with that in mind, are some of this year’s gifts—2018 in a gold-plated nutshell:
a 12-night vacation to Tanzania (for two)
a weeklong stay at the Golden Door spa in San Marcos, California
a crate of California oranges from EpiFruit
Hydroxycut Organic weight loss supplements
"Stylish" pepper spray
a levitating Bluetooth speaker
a DNA kit from 23andMe
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What to Expect at the 2018 Oscars
First things first: It’s highly unlikely that this year’s Oscar ceremony will be as dramatic as 2017’s. It’d be hard to top the shock of Moonlight’s Best Picture victory and the manner in which it won (the announcement being made mere moments after La La Land was mistakenly named the winner). Still, though a lot of the big categories seem settled at this year’s Academy Awards, the top prize remains a wide-open race between at least five films, which could make for an exciting night, at least right at the end. Will the Academy’s expanding membership shake things up as it did last year, or will the conventional wisdom of the Golden Globes and guild awards—the best predictor of Oscar success—prevail?
The 90th Academy Awards, once again hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air on ABC at 8 p.m. Eastern Time (a little earlier than the usual 8:30 p.m. start). Red-carpet coverage outside the Dolby Theatre will air on ABC beginning at 6:30 p.m., and should have a weightier tone than normal after a year in which Hollywood’s institutional issues of misogyny and sexual assault have been under the microscope. The Academy, however, has made it clear that it wants the ceremony to focus on the nominated films, rather than the ongoing cultural moment around them.
Of those contenders, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is the nominal frontrunner for Best Picture, having collected 13 nominations (far more than the next-most nominated movie, Dunkirk, which has eight). A dark but magical period fairy tale in which a mute janitor falls in love with a sea creature, the film has done well at the various guild awards and del Toro seems a lock to win Best Director. But in more recent years, Oscars voters have favored splits between the Picture and Director categories—it’s happened four out of the last five ceremonies and may well happen again.
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, a visually spectacular war film that was a huge box-office hit, would have been a safe bet at one point but lacks the immediate cultural cachet of some of its rivals. Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has been one of the most polarizing films of the year, but seems poised to win two acting trophies (for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell) and was a big hit at the Golden Globes. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird was a favorite with critics’ groups and is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year. But the real sleeper is Jordan Peele’s Get Out, which is the most profitable film of all the nominees and remains a cultural touchstone more than a year after its release. Any one of these movies could make a case for a big victory, and as audiences learned last year, it’s best not to rule anything out—even after the envelope’s been opened.
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When a woman picks up a pair of scissors, she also picks up a trope.
“personally i believe wanting bangs is almost never about wanting bangs and if u want bangs u should go to therapy first,” the writer Allie Wach tweeted in February 2018. This personal belief was retweeted 15,000 times and received hundreds of replies. They were mostly from women tagging a friend, without explanation, to come see this truth universally known but slightly-less-frequently acknowledged: Cutting off the front of your hair is the ultimate expression of self-delusion, a desperate attempt to right something deeply wrong with a pair of scissors.
This trope of emotional-distress bangs is almost upsettingly widespread. No one specific age group seems to be more familiar with it than any other. The millennial fashion site Man Repeller has called “Should I get bangs?” one of the top three “existential questions that have plagued the human psyche since the dawn of time.” The New Yorker has printed a quiz titled “Are You Emotionally Stable Enough to Get Bangs?” Teenage YouTubers make videos like “having a mental breakdown and cutting my own bangs,” and Michelle Obama referred to her own bangs as a “mid-life crisis” in 2013. (I’ve given myself bangs more times than I can count or recall.)
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A Catfishing With a Happy Ending
Jeff Maysh
Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—a hoax that turned into an unbelievable love story.
Emma Perrier spent the summer of 2015 mending a broken heart, after a recent breakup. By September, the restaurant manager had grown tired of watching The Notebook alone in her apartment in Twickenham, a leafy suburb southwest of London, and decided it was time to get back out there. Despite the horror stories she’d heard about online dating, Emma, 33, downloaded a matchmaking app called Zoosk. The second “o” in the Zoosk logo looks like a diamond engagement ring, which suggested that its 38 million members were seeking more than the one-night stands offered by apps like Tinder.
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She snapped the three selfies the app required to “verify her identity.” Emma, who is from a volcanic city near the French Alps, not far from the source of Perrier mineral water, is petite, and brunette. She found it difficult to meet men, especially as she avoided pubs and nightclubs, and worked such long hours at a coffee shop in the city’s financial district that she met only stockbrokers, who were mostly looking for cappuccinos, not love.
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Defending Trump Is a Has-Been’s Best Hope
Dershowitz, Giuliani, Starr, and others relive their glory days by latching onto the president.
Trace the careers of Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, both of whom joined Donald Trump’s impeachment team last week, and you notice a similar arc. As young men, each rapidly ascended to the upper echelons of the legal profession. At age 28, Dershowitz became the youngest tenured professor in the history of Harvard Law School. At age 37, Starr was appointed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, often called the second-most-powerful court in America. In middle age, each reached the pinnacle of his fame. When Dershowitz was 52, Hollywood turned his most famous case—the acquittal of the socialite Claus von Bülow—into a blockbuster movie. Five years later, he helped defend O. J. Simpson. Starr, at age 51, wrote the report that congressional Republicans used to impeach Bill Clinton. In 1998, Time magazine gave Starr equal billing with the president in anointing the two as Men of the Year.
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The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Todd S. Purdum
As senators embarked on their first day of proceedings, the occasional yawn and rubbing of the eyes emphasized the pointlessness of the whole affair.
The impeachment trial of the century had barely begun when word came down that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had softened his initial plan to make the House managers and President Donald Trump’s lawyers present their cases in marathon 12-hour sessions over four days. He’ll allow the teams a more civilized eight hours over six days instead.
And a good thing, too—if the first afternoon’s deliberations were any sign. One hundred senators accustomed to talking at length were silenced by the trial rules, and by sundown they were visibly chafing, frustrated by the unbridgeable gap between the 18th-century gravity of the proceedings and the universal assumptions about its forgone conclusion.
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The Referees Have Taken Trump’s Side
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If Mitch McConnell ran the Super Bowl, would the game even have to happen?
I’ve covered sports for 40 years, not politics. Maybe that’s why I’m so bamboozled by this impeachment case in the U.S. Senate. Republicans are going to try Donald Trump with no witnesses? Some jurors have already announced they’re voting not guilty? The guy who makes the rules—Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky—gets his marching orders from the accused himself?
Can you imagine if we did sports like this?
Kyle Shanahan, the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, walks to the middle of the field and shakes hands with Andy Reid, the coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. Fifty-seven cameras, 65,000 people in the stands, and 100 million people around the world eavesdrop.
Referee: Gentlemen, welcome to the Super Bowl. One thing I want to make clear before we start: The 49ers are going to win.
The President Sang Amazing Grace
Joan Baez performs the mournful song in a new animated video that remembers Obama’s visit to Charleston.
A Black Olympic Fencer’s Long Road to Glory
Keeth Smart nearly died of cancer before winning the silver medal in Beijing. This is the story of his unlikely rise to prominence as one of the best fencers in the world.
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The New York Mayor's Race Just Flipped Upside Down
Anthony Weiner is not the only source of drama in the New York City mayoral primary. According to a new poll, the Democratic race has a new front-runner, Bill DeBlasio, as Weiner continues to drop out of sight.
Anthony Weiner is not the only source of drama in the New York City mayoral primary. According to a poll from Quinnipiac University, the Democratic race has a new front-runner, Bill DeBlasio, as Weiner continues to drop out of sight.
We've been tracking poll results over the past few months. Here's the latest iteration of our graph.
Even if you're not a poll junkie, this is a fun graph to look at. Let's start with the blue line, Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Over the course of polling, her poll numbers have stayed generally flat: at 22 percent a month ago, she's now at 24. Likewise with the fifth-place candidate, comptroller John Liu (purple), who has been at 6 or 7 percent the whole time.
What this graph shows is the aftermath of Weiner's implosion. While he and the two other candidates (including former comptroller Bill Thompson) gained as Quinn dropped at the end of last month, Weiner's collapse has allowed DeBlasio (green) and Thompson (yellow) to surge. That first big dip in the red line doesn't correspond with any candidate picking up a lot of support — voters often become undecided before they choose a new candidate. But as Weiner kept dropping, his former supporters overwhelmingly went to Thompson and DeBlasio.
This makes sense. Thompson is the sole African-American candidate in the race. Weiner maintained support in the black community even as his poll numbers dropped; it appears that has changed. Thirty-nine percent of black voters now support Thompson. DeBlasio, meanwhile, saw gains among white voters (among whom he leads) and, presumably, those who backed Weiner because he was the most progressive candidate in the race.
Bear in mind, if no candidate gets at least 40 percent of the vote, the top two candidates head to a run-off. For the first time, it appears to be possible that one of those two candidates might not be Christine Quinn. When we spoke with Columbia University's Andrew Gelman last month about the wobbly poll numbers of the front-runners, he made a critical point. "A primary election campaign for mayor can be very volatile," told us. This chart demonstrates that clearly.
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What Does a Forensic Psychologist Do?
Criminology Careers Career Profiles
Learn About the Salary, Required Skills, & More
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By Timothy Roufa
The term "forensic psychologist" likely brings to mind thoughts of fast-paced crime solving as seen on many popular television shows and movies. From CSI and The Profiler to even Hannibal Lecter, it is tempting to believe the field of forensic psychology is full of action and adrenaline, helping police to bring down a new criminal every week.
In actuality, the job of a forensic psychologist may be far less glamorous or exciting, but it is by no means less interesting or rewarding. If you have a passion for studying how the mind works, especially how it relates to criminal justice, you may find a career in forensic psychology to be both challenging and satisfying.
A career in forensic psychology offers many opportunities to help others, and as with other careers in criminology, it can be extremely fulfilling. The subject matter, however, may prove to be disturbing at times, depending on your own tolerance level.
Forensic psychologists use the principles of psychology to work with attorneys, judges, and other legal specialists to analyze and understand the psychological details of various cases. They typically specialize in areas such as civil, criminal or family cases, and often testify as an expert witness in court.
Additionally, forensic psychologists often work with those who are demonstrating extreme emotional states. As a result, the job can sometimes prove to be both physically and mentally demanding.
Forensic Psychologist Duties & Responsibilities
As is the case with the criminology industry as a whole, the job functions of a forensic psychologist are many and diverse. Instead of being a singular occupation with clearly defined duties and job description, the job title refers to any number of specializations within the field of psychology. The term Forensic Psychology simply refers to the practice of psychology in association with the law and the civil or criminal justice system.
The American Board of Forensic Psychology defines it like this: Forensic psychology is the application of the science and profession of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system.
In layman's terms, a forensic psychologist is simply any psychologist who works for or with the legal system. As such, any number of job functions could be involved in a forensic psychologist's work day. As a forensic psychologist, duties and responsibilities may include:
Criminal profiling services
Child custody evaluations
Investigate reports of child abuse
Expert witness/courtroom testimony regarding psychological questions before the court
Evaluating suspected criminals for mental competency and their ability to stand trial
Evaluating convicted criminals to aid in creating plans for rehabilitation
Evaluating potential jurors and consulting with prosecuting defense, and plaintiff's attorneys with regards to selecting juries
Evaluating witnesses, such as children, to verify the truthfulness and/or ability to recall key facts and circumstances
Consulting with, and providing training and curriculum development for, law enforcement and corrections agencies
Teaching undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as at law schools for juris doctorate candidates
Evaluating potential police officers for employment through psychological screenings
Forensic Psychologist Salary
A forensic psychologist's salary varies based on the area of expertise, level of experience, education, certifications, and other factors. Practicing clinical psychologists who work in forensics as consultants typically bill an hourly rate, which can be as high as several hundred dollars per hour for their services.
A psychologist who works in the prison system will earn a significantly lower salary. Forensic psychologists who worked for state governments were among the lower wage earners. According to the u.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the salary range for all psychologists, including those who work in forensics, is as follows:
Median Annual Salary: $79,010 ($37.99 /hour)
Top 10% Annual Salary: More than $129,250 ($62.14/hour)
Bottom 10% Annual Salary: Less than $43,800 ($21.06/hour)
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018
This profession typically requires an advanced degree and licensing, as follows:
Education: To interact with and evaluate clients or patients, a doctoral degree is required. Many post-graduate programs require a bachelor's degree in psychology as a prerequisite. However, some programs may simply require a certain number of semester hours in psychology combined with courses in other sciences.
Those who hold a master's degree in psychology may perform work on a research level. It is generally understood that an advanced degree is required to be able to practice as a forensic psychologist.
Licensing: In addition to educational requirements, every state has licensing requirements. The specific qualifications vary from state to state but include combinations of education and work experience requirements. Additionally, taking and passing a standardized test is required to obtain licensure.
Forensic Psychologist Skills & Competencies
In addition to specific education and other requirements for the job, forensic psychologists must possess the following skills in order to perform their jobs successfully:
Communication skills: These individuals need to communicate regularly with judges, inmates, crime victims, and attorneys. They need to adjust their communication style depending on the situation and have strong speaking and listening skills as well.
Objectivity: The work can become taxing and emotional, and individuals must maintain objectivity regardless of who they work with, whether a criminal, victim, attorney, or other parties. Forensic psychologists must also avoid getting emotionally attached to any of the parties they interact with.
Critical thinking: Forensic psychologists must be able to make critical observations of various parties, interpret research data, and make timely, informed decisions.
Attention to detail: The job relies on perceptive observation and analysis of factors such as body language.
Compassion: Forensic psychology brings a human element to a government system, and it's important to have compassion for involved parties while maintaining objectivity.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for certain niches within psychology and forensic psychology are expected to grow by 14% through 2026. The most opportunities will be for those who specialize in industrial psychology, particularly in testing and evaluating criminal justice job applicants. This growth rate compares to the projected 7% growth for all occupations.
A licensed forensic psychologist may be employed directly by the state, or a local, or federal government. In most cases, however, they mainly work in private practice and provide consulting services to the courts or police agencies on a contractual basis.
Forensic psychologists often choose their own working hours and may work part-time as consultants while maintaining their own private practice. Depending on the setting in which they work, these individuals may need to accommodate clients during weekend or evening shifts.
Those employed by clinics, hospitals, schools, government organizations, and other employers typically full-time during regular working hours, although jobs in hospitals and other healthcare facilities may require weekend or evening shifts.
How to Get the Job
As part of a Ph.D. program, psychology students typically work as interns. These jobs can often be found through your school's career center, through professor connections, or by locating internship opportunities through online job search sites.
NETWORK
Attend events put on by industry organizations such as the American Psychological Association (APA )and mingle with others in the profession to connect with potential hiring managers and people who can refer you to open positions.
Take advantage of contacts made through internships and networking, and look at job-search resources like Indeed.com, Monster.com, and Glassdoor.com for available positions. You can also visit industry-specific sites such as the APA's online career center for job openings.
Comparing Similar Jobs
People interested in a forensic psychologist career also consider the following career paths, listed with their median annual salaries:
Marriage and family therapist: $50,090
Sociologist: $82,050
Social worker: $49,470
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56 new airports will become functional in few years: Prabhu
The Dollar Business Bureau Citing the importance of efficient logistics for facilitating trade, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu on Thursday said that 56 new airports in India would be functional in the coming few years. “Efficient logistics is critical for countries like India to harness trade and facilitate greater and faster integration with both the domestic as well as the world economy,” the Minister said while speaking at the two-day Global Logistics Summit, jointly organised by Ministry of Commerce, FICCI and World Bank Group. Keeping this in mind, 56 new airports will become functional in the next few years which will enhance connectivity in the country,” he added. While urging all the stakeholders to churn new ideas for enhancing India’s logistics efficiency, Prabhu said, “There ...
Indias manufacturing sector growth declines in Mar, a 5-month low
The Dollar Business Bureau After remaining positive for the eight consecutive months, manufacturing sector activity in India declined in March to a low of five months, as the fresh business orders grew at a slower pace, and companies showed reluctance for recruitment, according to a private survey. The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) declined to a five-month low of 51 in March from 52.1 in February. “This indicated the slowest improvement in operating conditions recorded by the survey since last October,” Nikkei said in a statement. This is consecutively for the eighth months that the PMI remained above the mark of 50-point. In PMI parlance, a reading above the 50 point mark means growth, while below that mark shows a contraction. Commenting on ...
Trade war may impact Indias exports: ASSOCHAM
The Dollar Business Bureau India’s exports would be impacted if the current tariff war escalates into a full-fledged trade war, apex trade body ASSOCHAM said, adding that there would be severe damage to the Indian economy too. “If the tariff war escalates into a full-scale global trade war, it would have a collateral damage for the Indian economy as well, with the country's exports taking a hit, current account deficit facing pressure and the GDP taking a setback,” the trade body said in a statement on Sunday. The Chamber further said that the move of the US administration to levy tariffs could lead to a further retaliation against the US but it may not have a direct impact on India. “Instead of de-escalating, the ...
India to meet next year's fiscal deficit target: Moodys
The Dollar Business Bureau International credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday that India’s Union Budget 2018-19 had struck a balance between growth and fiscal prudence. And a little slippage in the target of fiscal deficit would not have material effect on the overall fiscal strength of the country. In the Budget, presented on February 1 by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Government has revised its fiscal deficit target for 2018-19 to 3.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) from the previous estimates of 3%. The estimate for 2017-18 has also been revised to 3.5% of GDP, from the original projections of 3.2%. “The revised fiscal consolidation path is modestly shallower than the previous road map, but it does not fundamentally alter India's overall fiscal strength,” said ...
Union Budget 2018-19: Focus on agriculture, employment, MSMEs
The Dollar Business Bureau Guided by mission to strengthen agriculture, employment, rural development, health, education, MSMEs and infrastructure sectors, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget 2018-19 in Parliament on Thursday. Reiterating the pledge given by the Government to the people of the country four years ago to give an honest, clean and transparent Government, Jaitley said that the Government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully implemented a series of fundamental structural reforms to propel India among the fastest growing economies of the world. Jaitley said that India’s agri-exports potential is as high as $100 billion against current exports of $30 billion and to realise this potential, export of agri-commodities will be liberalised. While presenting the Budget, he said, “Indian society, polity ...
GDP to grow at 7-7.5% in 2018-19, exports set to rebound: Economic Survey
The Dollar Business Bureau India’s gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to grow at 7%-7.5% in the 2018-19 fiscal, with exports set to rebound, according to the Economic Survey tabled in parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday. “A series of major reforms undertaken over the past year will allow real GDP growth to reach 6.75% this fiscal and will rise to 7 to 7.5% in 2018-19, thereby re-instating India as the world’s fastest growing major economy,” the Survey stated. The reform measures undertaken in 2017-18 can be strengthened further in 2018-19, it added. The Survey highlighted that due to the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), resolution of the long-festering Twin Balance Sheet (TBS) problem by sending the major stressed companies ...
India to grow at 7.4% in FY19: IMF
The Dollar Business Bureau International organisation International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday projected India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 7.4% in the financial year 2018-19, making India being the ‘fastest-growing’ economy among the emerging economies. “India is forecast to grow at 7.4% in 2018-19 against 6.7% this year, gaining pace to 7.8% in 2019-20,” the IMF said in its report World Economic Outlook: Brighter Prospects, Optimistic Markets, Challenges Ahead. China’s economy growth rate at 6.8% in 2017 was higher than India’s 6.7% but the former’s growth will slip to 6.6% next year. In 2016, India’s economy grew at 7.1% but slowed in 2017 due to demonetisation and rollout of GST. The IMF kept the aggregate growth projections unchanged for emerging markets and developing ...
Economic measures to show positive outcome in long-term: Jaitley
The Dollar Business Bureau Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the positive effect of the economic measures that has been taken by the current government would be visible in the medium to long-term. Jaitley said that in spite of slowdown globally and the previous government leaving the country among the ‘Fragile Five’ nations of the world in 2014, the current government, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not only undertook huge structural reforms but it also made the country a fastest-growing economy, consecutively for three years. “Some of the structural reforms undertaken by the government were attempted by the previous dispensation too, but it failed to do so because of several reasons,” the Minister said in the Rajya Sabha while replying to ...
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From solar panels and loft extensions to satellite dishes and replacement windows, all building works on the Estate must be undertaken in line with the Scheme of Management, to protect the character of the area and the amenity of neighbours.
This means that you must obtain written approval from the Scheme of Management Office before carrying out any works which will affect the external appearance of the property.
The Guidelines for Residents are designed to help us to work with you to establish a suitable scale and type of development which will meet your goals, while protecting the character of the area and the amenity of neighbours.
Below you can find relevant pages from the Guidelines for Residents covering applications for the following works:
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Please note that these approvals are not connected, so if consent is granted by one organisation, it does not necessarily follow that permission will be granted by the other. Certain changes may not need local authority approval but any change to the external appearance of a property does require the prior approval under the Scheme of Management.
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In Japan, university cut women's exam scores to boost numbers of male doctors
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A Tokyo medical school systematically cut women applicants entrance exam scores for years to keep them out and boost the numbers of male doctors,...
A Tokyo medical school systematically cut women applicant's entrance exam scores for years to keep them out and boost the numbers of male doctors, Japanese media said on Thursday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made creating a society "where women can shine" a priority, but women still face an uphill battle in employment and hurdles returning to work after having children, despite Japan's falling birthrate.
The exam score alterations were discovered in an internal investigation of a graft allegation that emerged this spring over entrance procedures for Tokyo Medical University, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily said.
From 2011, it said, the university began cutting the scores of female applicants to keep the number of women students at about 30 percent, after the number of successful women entrants jumped in 2010.
The paper quoted university sources as saying the action was prompted by a "strong sense at the school" that many women quit medicine after graduating to get married and have children.
Tokyo Medical University spokesman Fumio Azuma said an internal investigation had already begun after allegations this spring of bribery involving the medical school admission of the son of a senior official of the education ministry.
"Of course, we will ask them to include this in their investigations," he said, adding that the results of both investigations could come as early as this month.
Social media erupted in anger at the reports, with some posters demanding more steps to ensure equality while others said similar things were happening everywhere.
"It feels as if the earth's crumbling under my feet," wrote one. "Who are you kidding with 'Women should play an active role'?"
Another said, "Women are told they have to give birth; if they don't, they're mocked as being 'unproductive', but then again, just the possibility that they might give birth is used to cut their scores. What's a woman supposed to do?"
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Chairman : Dr. N.K. Ralhan Retd. Head & Prof. of Organic Chemistry Punjabi University, Patiala In 1980, Tinchem Industries was established with a vision to manufacture world class Surface Preparation and Surface Preservation Chemicals, contributing to persistent demand of the day to provide aesthetic appeal, surface finish and durability. Sodium Stannate was the first product launched to be used by the PISTON manufacturers of the country. The Company targeted the automotive components manufactures and ultimately achieved the goal of being a single source contributing to 90% share of Tin Coating Chemicals to the O.E. Manufactures of Automotive Pistons and Rings. In 1998 Tinchem Industries changed its name to Tinchem Enteprises and started manufacturing a wide range of chemicals. These are used in Bi- Metal Bearings, Wire Drawing, Paint/Powder Coating, and Pharmaceuticals & Textiles. In 2002 Tinchem Management took a decision to upgrade its systems and go in for international quality system standards ISO 9001:2000 which has been successfully achieved and is being implemented.
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Yves Saint Laurent Studio in Paris
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Mary Anne Evans is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She lives part-time in Auvergne, France and writes travel articles about the country.
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Yves Saint Laurent was a phenomenon, one of the world’s most influential fashion designers who by making the male wardrobe accessible to women also became part of the mid-20th-century female liberation movement. It was Le Smoking tuxedo jacket that set the tone; after that, he did the same with other hitherto male clothes like safari jackets, pea jackets, and flying suits.
His output was extraordinary, as was his lifestyle of drinking and drug taking. He died aged 71 from brain cancer in June 2008, was cremated and his ashes scattered in his Majorelle garden in Marrakesh, Morocco. As President Sarkozy said: "Yves Saint Laurent was convinced that beauty was a necessary luxury for all men and all women."
The Studio of Yves Saint Laurent
If you want to find out more about the fashion genius, his ideas of necessary luxury and his designs, visit his Paris studio on a tour with Cultival, a company that specializes in guided tours of places which are not usually accessible to the public. The studio is in the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, the Foundation that YSL set up with his lover and partner to preserve his heritage. The couple opened the YSL haute couture house in 1962 and moved to 5 A venue Marceau in the 16th arrondissement in 1974. The Foundation has an extraordinary collection of 5,000 haute couture garments as well as over 50,000 drawings, sketches and sketchbooks, and 15,000 accessories.
While the details have not been revealed, you're likely to see the Reception Salons, Yves Saint Laurent’s studio, and the library. There will also be original sketches and read YSL’s annotations to the workshops as well as haute couture prototypes. It will be a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of the designer who astounded and shocked the world.
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The Life of Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent was born on August 1, 1935, in Oran Algeria. At 18 he moved to Paris, studying at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture and gaining enough attention for his designs for an introduction to Christian Dior. Yves Saint Laurent's significant climb to fame within the house began when he won first prize for a cocktail dress he designed in 1954. When Dior died at the unexpected early age of 52, YSL took over, launched a spring collection and his career seemed made. However, it was cut short for a spell: in 1960 he was conscripted into the French army fighting in Algeria, suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to a mental hospital.
The subsequent release from Dior was a blessing. His lifelong partner, Pierre Bergé, provided the finance; YSL the inspiration and in 1962, the pair launched the YSL label. In 1966 he opened his Rive Gauche boutique, the first to offer ready to wear; in the 1970s menswear was introduced.
Yves Saint Laurent was way ahead of his time. He was the first designer to use ethnic models on the runway; in 1971 his radical ‘40s collection shocked the critics; he posed nude for his first YSL men’s fragrance, Pour Homme, which created an enormous frenzy of interest and condemnation, and in 1977 launched his Opium perfume. By the early 1980s, his fame was such that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York put on their first solo exhibition on a fashion designer. The Saint Laurent fashion house was sold in 1993 and he finally retired in 2002.
Today his designs are as iconic as ever; while the name lives on with new designers at the helm.
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Habré
International Justice in Africa
by Lauren Scott
On May 30, 2016 the Extraordinary African Chambers (“EAC”) issued a verdict in the Hissène Habré (“Habré”) trial. The significance of this verdict and of the trial itself will indeed be “extraordinary” for international justice. As a former head of State charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture, Habré’s trial was the first time that international justice had played out on the African continent. Africa, long bemoaned as the opportunistic target of International Criminal Court (“ICC”) <Read More>
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Hugo Gernsback, father of the science fiction genre, launched a magazine that in its letters column created sci-fi fandom
May 25, 2018 Nikola Budanovic
Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of literature of the 20th century. Influenced by various ideas and predecessors, this blend of futuristic predictions and storytelling has been around ever since man started producing machines capable of reducing work and optimizing production.
Historians argue about who is responsible for inventing the genre, with many of them supporting the claim that it was Mary Shelley with her novel Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, published in 1818, but when it comes to the United States, there is little doubt. One man was and is hailed as the Father of Science Fiction, and his name was Hugo Gernsback.
Born in Luxembourg, Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1904. From an early age, he showed interest in developing technology, especially the radio, which was then known as the “wireless.”
Hugo Gernsback c.1929
At first, Gernsback was trying to make a name for himself as an entrepreneur, managing Modern Electrics, the first magazine in history to deal with both electronics and radio. Even though Modern Electrics served more as a catalog for customers than a scientific journal, it included news, articles, and an editorial policy, thus qualifying as a magazine. It also held a section intended for “radio amateurs,” or people who were interested in the technology out of sheer enthusiasm.
Gernsback’s fascination with radio transmissions took hold. It opened to him a world of imagination in which Gernsback saw remote-controlled energy waves and space travel, and other marvels awaiting mankind in the future. He started a magazine called Amazing Stories―once again, first in its field―designed to promote and publish stories revolving around technological gadgets and human response to the development of science.
Hugo Gernsback watching television in his Manhattan apartment in August 1928
Pioneers of the genre like H. G. Wells and Jules Verne changed the way we perceive literature with their innovative subjects and challenging visions, which certainly influenced Gernsback in pursuing his career in publishing, but the man who actually inspired Hugo to take these steps into the unknown was Percival Lawrence Lowell.
This 19th century American writer, mathematician, astronomer, and businessman offered some of the boldest ideas of his time. His theory that the underground of Mars is inhabited by intelligent beings who dwell in an infinitely complex system of canals was the trigger for H. G. Wells to write his famous War of the Worlds.
Gernsback’s second novel, Baron Münchausen’s Scientific Adventures, was serialized in Amazing in 1928, with the opening installment taking the February cover.
These influences reached Gernsback as well, as he concocted a recipe for writing what he initially called “scientifiction.” According to him, a science fiction story should have a ratio of “75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science.” In the second issue of Amazing Stories, the term “sci-fi” was coined, as short for “scientific fiction.” This label stuck and remains in regular use today.
During the time, such literature was perceived as “pulp,” and although it guaranteed a profit, it was often diminished by critics who failed to see the true value of the genre.
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Apart from editing the Amazing Stories magazine, Gernsback wrote three novels, the first of which, Ralph 124C 41+, is considered a classic for its predictions of television, videophone, transcontinental air service, solar energy in practical use, and other inventions that would become common in the future. Although a classic in its own right, the book is poorly written, critics agree, as Gernsback obviously had more talent in envisioning and managing a magazine that would popularize sci-fi than in writing his own stories.
November 1931 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics
But his greatest legacy is not the magazine alone, despite the fact that it helped authors like H. P. Lovecraft find a following.
The true value of Gernsback’s life’s work lies in the development of sci-fi fandom, which grew up around the magazine. When he introduced the letters column into Amazing Stories to which readers could contribute, Gernsback chose to publish names and addresses of the people who sent letters. Later on, the readers would communicate with one another via mail, thus forming the very first fan network.
It was the first time that science fiction took a step out of the dark and became a thriving subculture. Suddenly, letters from all over the United States started to arrive. The community was born, and more importantly―it became aware of itself. Today, it is perhaps one of the largest fandoms of all, gathering people from all walks of life and involving various subcategories.
Gernsback watching a television broadcast by his station WRNY on the cover of his Radio News (Nov 1928)
On the other hand, Gernsback was notorious for paying extremely low fees to his writer, if he paid them at all. Lovecraft, together with Clark Ashton Smith―another fantasy writer―often referred to him as “Hugo the Rat,” because of his business practices that were reportedly shady and his habit of avoiding payment.
Barry N. Malzberg, a contemporary author of sci-fi prose and a historian of the genre, noted in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Bulletin that: “Gernsback’s venality and corruption, his sleaziness and his utter disregard for the financial rights of authors, have been well documented and discussed in critical and fan literature.”
Gernsback’s short story “The Cosmatomic Flyer”, under the transparently pseudonymous “Greno Gashbuck” byline, was cover-featured in the debut issue of Gernsback’s Science-Fiction Plus in 1953, illustrated by Alex Schomburg
Nevertheless, Hugo Gernsback’s legacy is undoubtedly important for the development of the genre and its current status. Starting on the outskirts of literary underground and reaching the well-deserved “high literature” label with authors like Arthur Clark and Stanislaw Lem, the sci-fi genre has certainly gone a long way.
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In honor of Gernsback’s contribution, the World Science Fiction Convention named its main prize the Hugo Award, given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
Nikola Budanovic is a freelance journalist who has worked for various media outlets such as Vice, War History Online,The Vintage News, Taste of Cinema,etc. He mostly deals with subjects such as military history and history in general, literature and film.
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Philippines - Question for Short Debate
Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:37 pm on 24th January 2019.
Lord Collins of Highbury Opposition Whip (Lords), Shadow Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), Shadow Spokesperson (International Development) 3:37 pm, 24th January 2019
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, for initiating this all-too-short debate. We have been able to encompass a wide range of issues, not least the inequality and poverty, which he and my noble friend mentioned, in a country rich with really good people. That is what makes this whole situation so awful.
Human Rights Watch’s latest world report focuses on Duterte’s murderous war on drugs, which has now expanded nationwide. As the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, and the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, mentioned, the number of deaths is horrendous. The official figures are bad enough—5,000 in just over two years—but of course that is just the tip of the iceberg; there are far more going on. As Amnesty International has reported, there is evidence of increased threats, intimidation and violence against those expressing criticism of the Administration and Government of the Philippines. The noble Lord, Lord Thomas, rightly highlighted the case of Senator Leila de Lima, Duterte’s most prominent critic, who has remained in jail since her arrest in February 2017 on trumped-up drug charges.
That is not all. In May, acting on a petition by the Philippine Government, the Supreme Court ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno for her criticism of the “drug war” and other policies of the Administration. Duterte has also targeted the Catholic Church, which has criticised the drug war, accusing bishops of corruption and labelling most Filipino priests as homosexuals. In December he urged the public to kill “useless bishops” because,
“all they do is criticise”,
As we have heard, our Government have responded. Last August, while in Manila, Mark Field called for adherence to the rules-based international system and expressed regret at the decision by the Philippines to leave the International Criminal Court. At the UN Human Rights Council in September, the UK urged the Philippines to investigate killings associated with the war on drugs and to ensure the safety of land rights defenders. Field also confirmed in a response to a Written Question that the UK embassy, as noble Lords have mentioned, has raised concerns with senior officials and government figures, and has maintained regular contact with human rights groups.
These steps by our Government are welcome, but we also have to see whether a consistent message is being given to Duterte’s Administration. As the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, mentioned, we also have an operation by Liam Fox’s trade department to improve relations with that Administration. We also have Richard Graham MP, the Prime Minister’s trade envoy. I would like to know a little more about trade envoys and exactly what they are doing when they go around the world. When this particular trade envoy was in Manila after the referendum, he said:
“The opportunity for our own FTA with the Philippines is exciting”,
“The UK and the Philippines have such a strong relationship and let’s make it stronger”.
What steps are the Government taking to ensure there is a consistent message to Duterte and his Administration? Is briefing and advice being given to the trade department and to these trade envoys on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines? I also hope the Minister will be able to tell us what we are doing to ensure these proposed trade agreements are consistent with international law and our international agreements to meet obligations on human rights.
(Citation: HL Deb, 24 January 2019, c873)
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October 1, 2019 AviationAir Mail, Helicopter, Los Angeles Airways, Pratt & Whitney R-985 AN-5, Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. T1B4, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Sikorsky S-51, Terminal Annex Post OfficeBryan Swopes
A Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky S-51 helicopter takes off from the roof of the Terminal Annex Post Office, 1 October 1947. The Los Angeles Times published this photograph 2 October 1947 with the following caption: “NEW MAIL SERVICE — Los Angeles Airways helicopter shown landing on the roof of Terminal Annex Post office yesterday to inaugurate helicopter air-mail service, the first of its kind in the United States. Two flights daily are planned on this run with another to start Oct. 16.” (Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive/UCLA Library)
1 October 1947: Los Angeles Airways began regularly scheduled air mail service in Los Angeles, using the Sikorsky S-51 helicopter.
“. . . the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board awarded LAA the route authorities to operate local air mail services in Southern California using the Sikorsky S-51. Before long, LAA was operating a twice-a-day mail service between the main downtown post office and Los Angeles International Airport along with a small package air express service.
“With a fleet of five S-51s, LAA’s first year of operations resulted in 700 tons of mail being carried with approximately 40,000 landings throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The small operation maintained a 95% reliability rate and by the time it began its small package air express service in 1953, it was annually moving nearly 4,000 tons of mail a year.
“In July 1951 the CAB awarded LAA’s reliable helicopter operation the rights for passenger services which started in November 1954 with larger Sikorsky S-55 helicopters while the smaller S-51s continued the mail and small package services. . . .”
— Tails Through Time, http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2010/06/on-1-october-1947-los-angeles-airways.html
The S-51 was a commercial version of the Sikorsky R-5 series of military helicopters. It was a four-place, single-engine helicopter, operated by one pilot. The cabin was built of aluminum with Plexiglas windows. The fuselage was built of plastic-impregnated plywood, and the tail boom was wood monocoque construction. The main rotor consisted of three fully-articulated blades built of metal spars and plywood ribs and covered with two layers of fabric. (All metal blades soon became available.) The three bladed semi-articulated tail rotor was built of laminated wood. The main rotor turned counter-clockwise, as seen from above. (The advancing blade is on the helicopter’s right.) The tail rotor was mounted on the helicopter’s left side in a pusher configuration. It turned clockwise as seen from the helicopter’s left.
The helicopter’s fuselage was 41 feet, 7.5 inches (12.687 meters) long. The main rotor had a diameter of 48 feet (14.630 meters) and tail rotor diameter was 8 feet, 5 inches (2.565 meters), giving the helicopter an overall length of 57 feet, 1 inch (17.399 meters). It was 13 feet, 1.5 inches (4.001 meters) high. The landing gear tread was 12 feet (3.7 meters). The S-51 had an empty weight of 4,050 pounds (1,837 kilograms) and maximum takeoff weight of 5,500 pounds (2,495 kilograms). Fuel capacity was 100 gallons (378.5 liters).
The helicopter was powered by an air-cooled, supercharged, 986.749-cubic-inch-displacement (16.170 liter) Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr. T1B4 (R-985 AN-5) direct-drive, nine-cylinder radial engine which was placed vertically in the fuselage behind the crew compartment. This engine was rated at 450 horsepower at 2,300 r.p.m., Standard Day at Sea Level. The R-985 AN-5 was 48.00 inches (1.219 meters) long, 46.25 inches (1.175 meters) in diameter and weighed 684 pounds (310.3 kilograms) with a magnesium crankcase.
The S-51 had a maximum speed (Vne) of 107 knots (123.1 miles per hour/198.2 kilometers per hour). Range was 275 miles (442.6 kilometers). The service ceiling was 14,800 feet (4,511 meters). The absolute hover ceiling was 3,000 feet (914.4 meters).
Of 220 helicopters in the S-51 series built by Sikorsky, 55 were commercial models.
A Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky S-51. The main rotor hub is covered. (Viewliner)
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North American Aviation test pilot George S. Welch, flying the first of three XP-86 prototypes, serial number 45-59597. (North American Aviation, Inc.)
1 October 1947: After three years development in which 801,386 engineering hours and 340,594 drafting hours had been expended, the first prototype North American Aviation XP-86 (company designation NA-140), serial number 45-59597, was ready for its first flight at Muroc Dry Lake in the high desert, north of Los Angeles, California.
Completed at North American’s Inglewood plant on 8 August 1947, it was trucked to Muroc in mid-September. It was reassembled, everything was checked out, and after a few taxi tests, company test pilot George S. Welch took off for a initial familiarization flight. Chief Test Pilot Bob Chilton flew chase in an XP-82 Twin Mustang with a company photographer on board. The duration of the first flight was 1 hour, 18 minutes.
Recently completed, the first prototype XP-86, 45-59597, waits inside the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, California, 14 August 1947. (North American Aviation, Inc.)
During this first flight, George Welch climbed to 35,000 feet (10,668 meters):
“In a little more than ten minutes he had reached 35,000 feet. Leveling out, the test pilot smiled as he watched the indicated airspeed accelerate to 320 knots. He estimated that should be 0.90 Mach number. . . Rolling into a 40 degree dive, he turned west. . . The airspeed indicator seemed to be stuck at about 350 knots. The Sabre was behaving just fine. Then at 29,000 feet, there was a little wing roll. Correcting the roll, George pushed into a steeper dive. The airspeed indicator suddenly jumped to 410 knots and continued to rise. At 25,000 feet, he pulled the Sabre into level flight and reduced power. The wing rocked again and the airspeed jumped back to 390.”
—Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1, by Al Blackburn, Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 1998, at Chapter 5, Pages 144–145.
George Welch was the first to report instrument readings that would be referred to as “Mach jump.” It has been argued that George Welch flew the XP-86 beyond Mach 1 during this flight, breaking the “sound barrier” two weeks before Chuck Yeager did with the Bell X-1 rocketplane. During flight testing, it was firmly established that the XP-86 could reach Mach 1.02–1.04 in a dive, so it is certainly possible that he did so on the Sabre’s first flight.
North American Aviation Model NA-140, the first XP-86 prototype, 45-59597, at Muroc AAF, 1947. (U.S. Air Force)
The XP-86 was unlike any airplane before it. It was the first airplane with a swept wing. After analyzing test data from the Messerschmitt Me 262, North American’s engineers designed a wing with a 35° degree sweepback to its leading edge. The wing tapered toward the tips, and its thickness also decreased from the root to the tip. In order to create a very strong but very thin wing, it was built with a two-layered aluminum skin, instead of ribs and spars, with each layer separated by “hat” sections. The wing sweep allowed high speed shock waves to form without stalling the entire wing.
Cutaway illustration of the XP-86. The speed brake configuation was not used for production aircraft. (North American Aviation, Inc.)
The wing also incorporated leading edge “slats” which were airfoil sections that automatically extended below 290 knots, smoothing the air flow over the wing’s upper surface and creating more lift at slow speeds. Above that speed, aerodynamic forces closed the slats, decreasing drag and allowing for higher speeds. Effectively, the wing could change its shape in flight.
This photograph of the XP-86 shows the 35° wing sweep. Test pilot George S. Welch, wearing his distinctive orange helmet, in the cockpit of the prototype XP-86. (North American Aviation, Inc.)
The XP-86 prototypes were 37 feet, 6½ inches (11.443 meters) long with a wingspan of 37 feet, 1–7/16 inches (11.314 meters) and overall height of 14 feet, 9 inches (4.496 meters). The empty weight was 9,730 pounds (4,413.5 kilograms), gross weight, 13,395 pounds (6,075.9 kilograms) and maximum takeoff weight was 16,438 pounds (7,456.2 kilograms).
North American Aviation XP-86 45-59597. (Ray Wagner Collection, San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, Catalog #: 16_002950)
The XP-86 was initially powered by a General Electric-designed, Chevrolet-built J35-C-3 turbojet which produced 4,000 pounds of thrust. This was soon changed to an Allison J35-A-5. Performance testing was conducted with the Allison engine installed. The J35 was a single-spool, axial-flow turbojet engine with an 11-stage compressor and single-stage turbine. The J35-A-5 was rated at 4,000 pounds of thrust (17.79 kilonewtons) at 7,700 r.p.m. (static thrust, Sea Level). The engine was 14 feet, 0.0 inches (4.267 meters) long, 3 feet, 4.0 inches (1.016 meters) in diameter and weighed 2,400 pounds (1,089 kilograms).
The three North American Aviation XP-86 prototypes. Front to back, 45-59598, 45-59597 and 45-59599. (National Archives and Records Administration)
The maximum speed of the XP-86 at Sea Level was 0.787 Mach (599 miles per hour, 964 kilometers per hour), 0.854 Mach (618 miles per hour, 995 kilometers per hour) at 14,000 feet (4,267 meters) and 575 miles per hour (925 kilometers per hour) at 35,000 feet (10,668 meters)—0.875 Mach.
The prototype fighter was able to take off at 125 miles per hour (201 kilometers per hour) in just 3,020 feet (920.5 meters) of runway. It could climb to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) in 12.1 minutes and had a service ceiling of 41,300 feet (12,588 meters).
The end of XP-86 45-59597 at Frenchman Flats, 1953.
XP-86 45-59597 was expended as a target during nuclear weapons tests. On 25 May 1953, it was 1,850 feet from ground zero of Upshot Knothole Grable. The only part still intact was the engine, which was thrown 500 feet.
Upshot Knothole Grable (National (Nuclear Security Administration CIC 0315864)
George S. Welch, North American Aviation test pilot, wearing his orange flight helmet. An F-86 Sabre is in the background. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Photo Archives)
George Welch was born George Lewis Schwartz, in Wilmington, Delaware, 10 May 1918. His parents changed his surname to Welch, his mother’s maiden name, so that he would not be effected by the anti-German prejudice that was widespread in America following World War I. He studied mechanical engineering at Purdue, and enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1939.
George S. Welch is best remembered as one of the heroes of Pearl Harbor. He was one of only two fighter pilots to get airborne during the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Flying a Curtiss P-40B Warhawk, he shot down three Aichi D3A “Val” dive bombers and one Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter. For this action, Lieutenant General H.H. “Hap” Arnold recommended the Medal of Honor, but because Lieutenant Welch had taken off without orders, an officer in his chain of command refused to endorse the nomination. He received the Distinguished Service Cross.
During World War II, George Welch flew the Bell P-39 Airacobra and Lockheed P-38 Lightning on 348 combat missions. He had 16 confirmed aerial victories over Japanese airplanes and rose to the rank of Major.
Suffering from malaria, George Welch was out of combat, and when North American Aviation approached him to test the new P-51H Mustang, General Arnold authorized his resignation. Welch test flew the P-51, FJ-1 Fury, F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre. He was killed 12 October 1954 when his F-100A Super Sabre came apart in a 7 G pull up from a Mach 1.5 dive.
An early production aircraft, North American Aviation P-86A-1-NA Sabre 47-630 (s/n 151-38457). (North American Aviation, Inc./Chicago Tribune)
After testing, the North American Aviation XP-86 was approved for production as the F-86A. It became operational in 1949. The first squadron to fly the F-86 held a naming contest and from 78 suggestions, the name “Sabre” was chosen. The F-86 Sabre was in production until 1955 at North American’s Inglewood, California, and Cleveland, Ohio, plants. It was also built under license by Canadair, Ltd., Sain-Laurent, Quebec, Canada; the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A total of 9,860 Sabres were built. They served with the United States Air Force until 1970.
XP-86 45-59597 was expended in nuclear weapons tests, Operation Snapper Easy and Snapper Fox, at the Nevada Test Site, Frenchman’s Flat, Nevada, in May 1952. The second and third prototypes, 45-59598 and 45-59599, met similar fates.
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Bell XP-59A Airacomet 42-108784, first flight at Muroc Dry Lake, 1 October 1942. (U.S. Air Force)
1 October 1942: At Muroc Dry Lake, in the high desert north of Los Angeles, California, Bell Aircraft Corporation’s Chief Test Pilot, Robert Morris Stanley, made the first flight of the top secret prototype turbojet-powered fighter, the Bell XP-59A Airacomet, serial number 42-108784. Weather was “C.A.V.U.” (Ceiling and Visibility Unrestricted) and wind was from the west at 20 miles per hour (9 meters per second).
Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Test Pilot Robert M. Stanley in the cockpit of an XP-59A Airacomet. (National Museum of the United States Air Force)
In his report, Stanley wrote:
“4. All take-offs were made using 15,000 r.p.m. on both engines with flaps fully up and with the airplane pulled off the ground at about 80 to 90 m.p.h. Throttle was applied promptly and acceleration during take-off appeared quite satisfactory. The run was estimated to be in the vicinity of 2,000 feet, possibly more. The first flight reached an altitude of approximately 25 feet, and landing was made using partial power without flaps. This take-off had the wind approximately 60° on the right bow and must be considered a cross-wind take-off.
“5. Aileron and elevator action appear satisfactory, although the rudder force appears undesirably light causing the airplane to yaw somewhat for very light pedal pressures. Left rudder was needed for take-off due to cross wind.”
—Bell Aircraft Corp. Pilot’s Report 27-923-001, at Page 1-12, by Robert M. Stanley, 1 October 1942
Bell XP-59A Airacomet 42-108784 disguised with a false propeller. (U.S. Air Force)
One of the three Bell XP-59A prototypes, circa 1942. (U.S. Air Force)
Bell Aircraft Corporation XP-59A Airacomet 42-108784. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Bell Aircraft Corporation P-59 Airacomet with updated national insignia, after August 1943. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Stanley made three more flights that day, as high as 100 feet (30.5 meters). The following day, Army Air Corps test pilot Colonel Laurence C. Craigie conducted the “official” first flight, reaching an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,048 meters).
A Bell XP-59A Airacomet prototype in flight near Muroc Army Airfield, 1942. (U.S. Air Force)
Three XP-59A prototypes were built. The number one ship, 42-108784, was affectionately nicknamed Miss Fire, because of the initial difficulty in getting the engines to start.
The Bell XP-59A was conventional single-place airplane with retractable tricycle landing gear. It was primarily of metal construction, though the control surfaces were fabric-covered. The prototype was 38 feet, 10 inches (11.836 meters) long with a wingspan of 49 feet, 0 inches (14.935 meters) and overall height of 12 feet, 3¾ inches (3.753 meters), at rest. The leading edge of the wings were swept aft 7°. The angle of incidence was +2° with -2° twist and 2½° dihedral. The horizontal stabilizer had a span of 16 feet, 8 inches (5.080 meters). Its angle of incidence was +1½° with no dihedral. The vertical fin had 0° offset. The empty weight of the XP-59A was 7,319 pounds (3,320 kilograms) and its maximum gross weight was 10,089 pounds (4,576 kilograms).
A cutaway display of a General Electric I-A turbojet engine. The single-stage centrifugal compressor and single-stage axial-flow turbine are on a single shaft (center). One of the annular combustion chambers is sectioned at the upper left. (National Museum of the United States Air Force)
The experimental fighter was initially powered by two General Electric Type I-A centrifugal reverse-flow turbojet engines, serial numbers 170121 (left) and 170131 (right), each producing 1,250 pounds of thrust (5.561 kilonewtons) at 15,000 r.p.m. These were copies of the British Whittle W.2B engines. They were heavy, underpowered and unreliable.
Performance of the XP-59A was disappointing with a maximum speed of 350 miles per hour (563 kilometers per hour) at Sea Level and 389 miles per hour (626 kilometers per hour) at 35,160 feet (10,717 meters), significantly slower than many piston-engined fighters.
Three XP-59A prototypes and thirteen YP-59A preproduction airplanes were built. The P-59 was ordered into production and Bell Aircraft Corporation built thirty P-59A and twenty P-59B fighters. These were armed with one M4 37mm autocannon with 44 rounds of ammunition and three Browning AN-M2 .50-caliber machine guns with 200 rounds per gun.
Although a YP-59A had set an unofficial altitude record of 47,600 feet (14,508 meters), the Airacomet was so outclassed by standard production fighters that no more were ordered.
Lawrence D. Bell with his XP-59A Airacomet at Muroc Dry Lake. (Robert F. Dorr Collection)
The race for a jet engine-powered fighter had been ongoing for several years, and the United States’ XP-59A was trailing behind. The first jet airplane, the Heinkel He 178, had made its first flight in Germany three years earlier, on 27 August 1939, though it was a proof-of-concept article, not an operational military aircraft. In the United Kingdom, the Gloster E/28.39, also a proof-of-concept aircraft, though more advanced than the Heinkel, made its first flight, 15 May 1941. The world’s first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, made its first flight on 18 July 1942. It was nearly two years before production Me 262s entered combat, but they were devastating against bomber formations. The Gloster Meteor, the Allies’ first jet fighter, first flew 5 March 1943, and deliveries to fighter squadrons began in July 1944. The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire made its first flight 20 September 1943, but it did not become operational until after the end of World War II.
The XP-59A flew nearly five months before its British cousin, but would not be assigned to an operational squadron, the 445th Fighter Squadron, 412th Fighter Group, until June 1945.
The first American military jet aircraft, Bell XP-59A Airacomet 42-108784, was preserved by the Army at Muroc, and the engines at Wright Field, Ohio. In 1978, these were given to the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum where the prototype was later restored and placed on display.g9
The first American jet-powered aircraft, Bell XP-59A Airacomet 42-108784 on display at the National Air and Space Museum. (NASM)
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What Is a Qipao in Chinese Fashion?
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by Lauren Mack
Lauren Mack studied Mandarin Chinese in Beijing and Taipei and has written for Newsweek International, Elle Girl, and the Chicago Tribune.
Qipao, also known as cheongsam (旗袍) in Cantonese, is a one-piece Chinese dress that has its origins in Manchu-ruled China back in the 17th century. The style of the qipao has evolved over the decades and is still worn today.
Cheongsam History
During the Manchu rule, the chieftain Nurhachi (努爾哈赤, Nǔ'ěrhāchì, ruled 1559–1626) established the banner system, which was a structure for organizing all Manchu families into administrative divisions. The traditional dress that Manchu women wore became known as the qipao (旗袍, meaning banner gown). After 1636, all Han Chinese men in the banner system had to wear the male version of the qipao, called the chángpáo (長袍).
In the 1920s in Shanghai, the cheongsam was modernized and became popular among celebrities and the upper class. It became one of the official national dresses of the Republic of China in 1929. The dress became less popular when Communist rule began in 1949 because the Communist government tried to erase many traditional ideas, including fashion, to make way for modernism.
The Shanghainese then took the dress to British-controlled Hong Kong, where it remained popular in the 1950s. At that time, working women often paired the cheongsam with a jacket. For example, Wong Kar-Wai's 2001 film "In the Mood for Love," set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s, features actress Maggie Cheung wearing a different cheongsam in almost every scene.
What a Qipao Looks Like
The original qipao worn during the Manchu rule was wide and baggy. The Chinese dress featured a high neck and straight skirt. It covered all of a woman’s body except for her head, hands, and toes. The cheongsam was traditionally made of silk and featured intricate embroidery.
The qipaos worn today are modeled after ones made in Shanghai in the 1920s. The modern qipao is a one-piece, form-fitting dress that has a high slit on one or both sides. Modern variations may have bell sleeves or are sleeveless and made out of a variety of different fabrics.
When a Cheongsam Is Worn
In the 17th century, women wore a qipao nearly every day. During the 1920s in Shanghai and 1950s in Hong Kong, the qipao was also worn casually quite often.
Nowadays, women do not wear a qipao as everyday attire. Cheongsams are now worn only during formal occasions like weddings, parties, and beauty pageants. The qipao is also used as a uniform at restaurants and hotels and on airplanes in Asia. But, elements of traditional qipaos, like intense colors and embroidery, are now incorporated into everyday wear by design houses like Shanghai Tang.
Where You Can Buy a Qipao
Qipaos are experiencing a resurgence since "In the Mood for Love" and other movies and television dramas in and out of China. They are available for purchase at high-end boutique stores or can be personally tailored at clothing markets in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore; many of the larger cities in China, including Chengdu, Beijing, and Harbin; and even in the west. You can also find a cheap version at streetside stalls. An off-the-rack qipao at a clothing store can cost about $100, while tailor-made ones can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. Simpler, inexpensive designs may be purchased online.
Chew, Matthew. "Contemporary Re-Emergence of the Qipao: Political Nationalism, Cultural Production and Popular Consumption of a Traditional Chinese Dress." The China Quarterly 189 (2007): 144–61. Print.
Xiangyang, Bian. "Origin of Qipao Fashion in Early Republic Period." Journal of Donghua University, 2003.
Yang, Chui Chu. "The Meanings of Qipao as Traditional Dress: Chinese and Taiwanese Perspectives." Iowa State University, 2007.
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King Ethelbert I of Kent
Statue of Ethelbert on Canterbury Cathedral in England. Adapted from a photo by Wikimedia user Saforrest; made available through the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
by Melissa Snell
Melissa Snell is a historical researcher and freelance writer with over two decades of experience. She wrote the Foreword to "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades” (Alpha, 2001).
King Ethelbert I of Kent was also known as:
Aethelbert I, Aethelberht I, Ethelberht I, St. Ethelbert
Ethelbert was known for:
issuing the earliest Anglo-Saxon law code that is still extant. Ethelbert also allowed Augustine of Canterbury to evangelize in his lands, which would begin the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England.
Military Leader
Places of Residence and Influence:
Born: c. 550
Became King of Kent: 560
Died: February 24, 616
About King Ethelbert I of Kent:
Ethelbert was the son of King Eormenric of Kent, who was believed to have been descended from Hengist, of Hengist and Horsa fame. When Eormenric died in 560, Ethelbert became king of Kent, even though he was still in his minority. The first notable action made by Ethelbert was an attempt to wrest control of Wessex from Ceawlin, then king of Wessex. His efforts were thwarted when he was badly defeated by Ceawlin and his brother Cutha in 568.
Though he was evidently unsuccessful in war, Ethelbert was quite successful in his marriage to Berhta, daughter of the Merovingian King Charibert. Ethelbert had long been a pagan, worshipping the Norse god Odin; yet he made every concession to Berhta's Catholicism. He allowed her to practice her religion wherever and however she wished, and he even gave her the church of St. Martin, which had allegedly survived from the time of Roman occupation, in his capital of Cantwaraburh (which would come to be called "Canterbury").
Although it is entirely possible that Ethelbert's devotion to his bride sprang from sincere regard and even love, the prestige of her family may also have motivated the Kentish king to accommodate her Christian ways. The Catholicism of the Merovingian kings tied them strongly to the papacy, and the power of the family was growing in what is now France. It is likely that Ethelbert allowed pragmatism and wisdom to govern these decisions.
Whether he was motivated by the influence of Berhta or the power of her family, Ethelbert readily communicated with missionaries from Rome. In 597, a group of monks led by Augustine of Canterbury landed on the Kentish coast. Ethelbert welcomed them and gave them a place to live; he supported their efforts to convert his people, but never forced conversion on anyone. Tradition has it that he was baptized not long after Augustine's arrival in England, and that, inspired by his example, thousands of his subjects converted to Christianity.
Ethelbert facilitated the construction of churches, including the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, which was allegedly constructed on the site of a pagan temple. It was here that Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, would be buried, as were several of his successors. Although there was at one point a move to make London the primary See of England, Ethelbert and Augustine together resisted the attempt, and the See of Canterbury thus became the foremost Catholic Church in England.
In 604 Ethelbert promulgated a law code known as the "Dooms of Ethelbert"; this is not only the first of several "Dooms" of Anglo-Saxon kings, it is the first known written law code in English. Ethelbert's Dooms fixed the legal standing of the Catholic clergy in England as well as setting in place a good number of secular laws and regulations.
Ethelbert died on February 24, 616. He was survived by two daughters and a son, Eadbald, who remained a pagan all his life. Under Eadbald, Kent and much of southern England saw a resurgence in paganism.
Later sources would name Ethelbert a Braetwalda, but it is not known whether or not he used the title himself during his lifetime.
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by Eric John, Patrick Wormald & James Campbell; edited by James Campbell
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Pterosaurs - The Flying Reptiles
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100 Million Years of Pterosaur Evolution
A fossil specimen of Rhamphorhynchus (Wikimedia Commons).
by Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss is a freelance writer and editor with over 25 years of experience in print and online media. He is the author of three books.
Pterosaurs ("winged lizards") hold a special place in the history of life on earth: they were the first creatures, other than insects, to successfully populate the skies. The evolution of pterosaurs roughly paralleled that of their terrestrial cousins, the dinosaurs, as the small, "basal" species of the late Triassic period gradually gave way to bigger, more advanced forms in the Jurassic and Cretaceous. (See a complete, A to Z list of pterosaurs.)
Before we proceed, though, it's important to address one important misconception. Paleontologists have found indisputable proof that modern birds are descended not from pterosaurs, but from small, feathered, land-bound dinosaurs (in fact, if you could somehow compare the DNA of a pigeon, a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Pteranodon, the first two would be more closely related to each other than either would be to the third). This is an example of what biologists call convergent evolution: nature has a way of finding the same solutions (wings, hollow bones, etc.) to the same problem (how to fly).
The First Pterosaurs
As is the case with dinosaurs, paleontologists don't yet have enough evidence to identify the single ancient, non-dinosaur reptile from which all pterosaurs evolved (the lack of a "missing link"--say, a terrestrial archosaur with half-developed flaps of skin--may be heartening to creationists, but you have to remember that fossilization is a matter of chance. Most prehistoric species aren't represented in the fossil record, simply because they died in conditions that didn't allow for their preservation.)
The first pterosaurs for which we have fossil evidence flourished during the middle to late Triassic period, about 230 to 200 million years ago. These flying reptiles were characterized by their small size and long tails, as well as obscure anatomical features (like the bone structures in their wings) that distinguished them from the more advanced pterosaurs that followed. These "rhamphorhynchoid" pterosaurs, as they're called, include Eudimorphodon (one of the earliest pterosaurs known), Dorygnathus and Rhamphorhynchus, and they persisted into the early to middle Jurassic period.
One problem with identifying the rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs of the late Triassic and early Jurassic periods is that most specimens have been unearthed in modern-day England and Germany. This isn't because early pterosaurs liked to summer in western Europe; rather, as explained above, we can only find fossils in those areas that lent themselves to fossil formation. There may well have been vast populations of Asian or North American pterosaurs, which may (or may not) have been anatomically distinct from the ones with which we're familiar.
Later Pterosaurs
By the late Jurassic period, rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs had been pretty much replaced by pterodactyloid pterosaurs--larger-winged, shorter-tailed flying reptiles exemplified by the well-known Pterodactylus and Pteranodon. (The earliest identified member of this group, Kryptodrakon, lived about 163 million years ago.) With their larger, more maneuverable wings of skin, these pterosaurs were able to glide farther, faster, and higher up in the sky, swooping down like eagles to pluck fish off the surface of oceans, lakes and rivers.
During the Cretaceous period, pterodactyloids took after dinosaurs in one important respect: an increasing trend toward gigantism. In the middle Cretaceous, the skies of South America were ruled by huge, colorful pterosaurs like Tapejara and Tupuxuara, which had wingspans of 16 or 17 feet; still, these big fliers looked like sparrows next to the true giants of the late Cretaceous, Quetzalcoatlus and Zhejiangopterus, the wingspans of which exceeded 30 feet (far larger than the largest eagles alive today).
Here's where we come to another all-important "but." The enormous size of these "azhdarchids" (as giant pterosaurs are known) has led some paleontologists to speculate that they never actually flew. For example, a recent analysis of the giraffe-sized Quetzalcoatlus shows that it had some anatomical features (such as small feet and a stiff neck) ideal for stalking small dinosaurs on land. Since evolution tends to repeat the same patterns, this would answer the embarrassing question of why modern birds have never evolved to azhdarchid-like sizes.
In any event, by the end of the Cretaceous period, the pterosaurs--both large and small--went extinct along with their cousins, the terrestrial dinosaurs and marine reptiles. It's possible that the ascendancy of true feathered birds spelled doom for slower, less versatile pterosaurs, or that in the aftermath of the K/T Extinction the prehistoric fish that these flying reptiles fed on were drastically reduced in number.
Pterosaur Behavior
Aside from their relative sizes, the pterosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods differed from one another in two important ways: feeding habits and ornamentation. Generally, paleontologists can infer a pterosaur's diet from the size and shape of its jaws, and by looking at analogous behavior in modern birds (such as pelicans and seagulls). Pterosaurs with sharp, narrow beaks most likely subsisted on fish, while anomalous genera like Pterodaustro fed on plankton (this pterosaur's thousand or so tiny teeth formed a filter, like that of a blue whale) and the fanged Jeholopterus may have sucked dinosaur blood like a vampire bat (though most paleontologists dismiss this notion).
Like modern birds, some pterosaurs also had rich ornamentation--not brightly colored feathers, which pterosaurs never managed to evolve, but prominent head crests. For example, Tupuxuara's rounded crest was rich in blood vessels, a clue that it may have changed color in mating displays, while Ornithocheirus had matching crests on its upper and lower jaws (though it's unclear if these were used for display or feeding purposes).
Most controversial, though, are the long, bony crests atop the noggins of pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus. Some paleontologists believe that Pteranodon's crest served as a rudder to help stabilize it in flight, while others speculate that Nyctosaurus may have sported a colorful "sail" of skin. It's an entertaining idea, but some aerodynamics experts doubt that these adaptations could have been truly functional.
Pterosaur Physiology
The key trait that distinguished pterosaurs from land-bound feathered dinosaurs that evolved into birds was the nature of their "wings"-- which consisted of wide flaps of skin connected to an extended finger on each hand. Although these flat, broad structures provided plenty of lift, they may have been better suited to passive gliding than powered, flapping flight, as evidenced by the dominance of true prehistoric birds by the end of the Cretaceous period (which may be attributed to their increased maneuverability).
Although they're only distantly related, ancient pterosaurs and modern birds may have shared one important feature in common: a warm-blooded metabolism. There's evidence that some pterosaurs (like Sordes) sported coats of primitive hair, a feature usually associated with warm-blooded mammals, and it's unclear if a cold-blooded reptile could have generated enough internal energy to sustain itself in flight.
Like modern birds, pterosaurs were also distinguished by their sharp vision (a necessity for hunting from hundreds of feet in the air!), which entailed a bigger-than-average brain than that possessed by terrestrial or aquatic reptiles. Using advanced techniques, scientists have even been able to "reconstruct" the size and shape of the brains of some pterosaur genera, proving that they contained more advanced "coordination centers" than comparable reptiles.
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PAULA MARIE WRIGHT
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:23pm
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Paula Marie Wright, of North Bend, WA, died on Tuesday November 21, 2017. She was 78 years old.
Paula was born in Spokane, WA. at Sacred Heart Hospital on May 14, 1939, the firstborn daughter of Clarence and Martina Taylor.
The Taylor family moved to the Snoqualmie Valley in 1947 where Paula attended North Bend Elementary and then went to Holy Names Academy. Paula met and fell in love with Dave Wright of North Bend, and the two of them whisked away to Idaho to get married. Dave and Paula then settled in North Bend where they have lived to this day.
She raised 5 children, Dave, Andy, Kim, Greg and Monty, and worked alongside her husband Dave in various business ventures including The Little Chalet Café, The Tift Haus restaurants in North Bend, WA and The Little Lodge at Snoqualmie Falls. Later, you could find Paula faithfully working with Dave when he was the general manager for George Wyrsch at the North Bend Chevron.
Throughout her life, Paula was active and engaged in the local community, whether through small business endeavors and social help organizations, or various family pursuits. She worked for lifelong family friends, Red and Helen Bushey, at the North Bend Shoe store when her kids were younger and she was also a part of the volunteer team that launched Children’s Services of Snoqualmie Valley (Now Encompass) which was a primary source of joy and pride.
After selling the family restaurants in 1982, Paula worked in the medical field for a while and then was a familiar face to Valley residents when she worked for John Marshall at the North Bend Drug center for many years.
Paula’s smile, and determined spirit will be missed by those she knew in the Snoqualmie Valley.
Survivors include her husband David L. Wright, her children, daughter Kim Flack (Paul), Sons Dave (Christy), Andy (Diane), Greg (Socorro) and Monty (Amy). Her sister Karen Sauve (Dave), nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church on Saturday, January 20th at 1:00 pm (located at 36017 SE Fish Hatchery Rd, Fall City, WA.) Following the service there will be light refreshments and a gathering time for friends and family.
Memorial donations may be made to Encompass 1407 Boalch Ave. NW, North Bend, WA 98045, 425.888.2777
You are invited to share your memories of Paula and sign the family’s online guestbook at: www.flintofts.com
ROBERT WHITLEY STANFORD
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Querrey wins against at Wimbledon
The Thousand Oaks High graduate Sam Querrey rolled to a 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8), 6-3 win over Australian John Millman to advance to the fourth round.
Querrey wins against at Wimbledon The Thousand Oaks High graduate Sam Querrey rolled to a 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8), 6-3 win over Australian John Millman to advance to the fourth round. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/sports/2019/07/06/querrey-wins-against-wimbledon/1664757001/
From wire reports Published 2:19 p.m. PT July 6, 2019 | Updated 2:32 p.m. PT July 6, 2019
T.O. grad to face Sandgren in rare all-American matchup
WIMBLEDON, England — Sam Querrey has struggled with injury and inconsistency this season.
But at Wimbledon, the 31-year-old with the booming serve seems to be right at home.
Sam Querrey celebrates after beating Australia's John Millman in straight sets in a third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday. (Photo: ALASTAIR GRANT/AP)
The Thousand Oaks High graduate won his third straight match, rolling to a 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8), 6-3 win over Australian John Millman on Saturday to advance to the fourth round.
“Felt great to kind of sneak by in those tiebreakers,” Querrey said.
The unseeded Querrey will play in the second week at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament for the fourth time. Querrey beat the Wimbledon top seeds in consecutive years by ousting Novak Djokovic in 2016 and Andy Murray in 2017 (when he reached the semifinals).
When Querrey, ranked 65th, faces Tennys Sandgren on Monday on Court 12 at Wimbledon, it will be the first meeting between two American men in the fourth round or later at the All England Club in 19 years.
Thousand Oaks High graduate Sam Querrey used his powerful serve to advance to the fourth round of Wimbledon. (Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
It’s also the first such matchup at any Grand Slam tournament since 2007.
“At least there will be one in the quarters, for sure, which is cool. I like that. I like the fact that there will be one guy pushing forward and looking to make an even farther run,” Sandgren said. “If there’s one that makes a run, that means we don’t have to hear the ‘They’re all gone by the second round’ stuff.”
Sandgren, ranked 94th, advanced Saturday by eliminating No. 12 seed Fabio Fognini 6-3, 7-6 (12), 6-3 in a match marked by Fognini’s outburst, in Italian, in which he said the All England Club deserved to be hit by a bomb.
The last time two men from the U.S. played in Week 2 at Wimbledon was 2000, when Pete Sampras beat Jan-Michael Gambill in the quarterfinals. Andy Roddick defeated Mardy Fish in the 2007 Australian Open quarterfinals.
Querrey was not expecting much of a run now despite his career success at Wimbledon.
He hadn’t won a Grand Slam match in 2019 until this week and was sidelined for a chunk of time with an abdominal injury.
Sandgren, who is from Tennessee, didn’t exactly love his own chances, either. He came into Wimbledon on a nine-match losing skid in tour-level action.
Tennys Sandgren hits a forehand during his win over Italian Fabio Fognini at Wimbledon on Saturday. Sandgren will face Sam Querrey in an all-American matchup Monday. (Photo: NIC BOTHMA/EPA-EFE)
No one, he said Saturday, should have expected much from him.
“You wouldn’t have been smart if you’d done that,” said Sandgren, whose best showing at a major was getting to the 2017 Australian Open quarterfinals. “Let’s say that would have been a bad call.”
He and Querrey have never played against each other on tour, although they have practiced together.
“If three months ago you were like, ‘Oh, two American men will play in the second week of a Slam,’ you probably wouldn’t have said, ‘Querrey-Sandgren,’ ” Querrey said. “It’s exciting. You’ve got one guy in the quarters.”
As for how much scouting Sandgren has done during Week 1, he said with a laugh: “I haven’t watched much, but when I do watch, he hits an ace.”
After hitting 26 aces in his second-round, straight-set win over Andrey Rubley, Querrey racked up 27 aces, won 85% (57 of 67) of his first serves and was broken just once on his serve to outlast Millman, who had just four aces.
Another county connection also won Saturday. Camarillo twins Mike and Bob Bryan beat Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela of Mexico and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez of El Salvador, 6-7 (13), 6-3, 6-4, 6-1, to advance to the third round of the men's doubles draw.
The record-setting doubles duo are back together at Wimbledon after Mike won the title with American Jack Sock last year with Bob sidelined by an injury.
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Unilever heeft de 10e plaats behaald in de Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Dit resultaat is Unilevers beste prestatie ooit in deze index en betekent een stijging met 5 plaatsen t.o.v. 2011. (Bericht alleen uitgegeven in het Engels.)
Unilever supply chain breaks into world top 10
London/Rotterdam, 22nd May 2012.- Unilever achieved 10th place in the 2012 Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, announced today. The result is Unilever’s best-ever performance in the index and an improvement of five places compared with 2011.
The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 recognises the world’s leading supply chains across all industries. The Top 25 companies were selected from a total of more than 298 companies assessed by Gartner analysts. Unilever was the top European-headquartered company to feature in the list and was rated third among FMCG companies.
Unilever’s recognition in the Gartner ranking reflects the strategic role of its supply chain in achieving the organisation’s ambition to double the size of its business whilst reducing its environmental impact. During the past three years, Unilever’s supply chain has been instrumental in enabling top line growth, enhancing the quality of its products whilst driving significant savings and trade working capital excellence. By partnering with its suppliers, Unilever has achieved important milestones at the core of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan.
Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Chief Supply Chain Officer, said: “We are delighted to be recognized amongst the top ten best supply chains in the world. Our supply chain represents the backbone of Unilever’s success and it is making the difference to our business thanks to our unique blend of global scale and local agility, combined with our focus on speed in execution. We have created a talent powerhouse that has secured us a podium finish among FMCG companies.”
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast moving consumer goods with operations in over 100 countries and sales in 190. Consumers buy 170 billion Unilever packs around the world every year, and our products are used over two billion times a day. We have more than 171,000 employees, and generated annual sales of €46.5 billion in 2011.
Working to create a better future every day, we help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others. Our portfolio includes some of the world’s best known and most loved brands including thirteen €1 billion brands, and global leadership in most categories in which we operate. The portfolio features iconic brands such as: Knorr, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Dove, Vaseline, Persil, Cif, Marmite and Pot Noodle.
Unilever has led the Food Producers sector in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes for 13 consecutive years. We are included in the FTSE4Good Index Series and attained a top environmental score of 5, leading to inclusion in the FTSE4Good Environmental Leaders Europe 40 Index. In 2011 Unilever led the Climate Counts Company Scorecard and was named #1 in the list of Global Corporate Sustainability Leaders according to the latest survey findings from GlobeScan Inc. and SustainAbility Ltd.
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A new joint power plant utilising biofuels to be built at UPM's Kaukas mill site in Lappeenranta
Archive 8.5.2007 0:00 EEST
(UPM, Helsinki, May 8, 2007 at 10.00) - UPM, Pohjolan Voima and Lappeenrannan Energia owned by town of Lappeenranta have agreed to build a joint power plant at UPM's Kaukas mill site in Lappeenranta, Finland. The total value of the investment is 244 million euros. The plant will start-up in spring 2010.
The plant will generate process heat as well as electricity for UPM's Kaukas mills, and electricity and district heating for Lappeenrannan Energia Oy. Its heat power is equivalent of 385 MWTH. The plant's energy sources are bark and forest energy i.e. logging residues, stumps and small wood from thinnings as well as peat.
"The new power plant will improve the security of energy supply to our Kaukas mills. It is also the latest example of UPM's long term strategy to utilise biofuels in energy production. The new power plant is able to utilise efficiently all site derived biomass based side products," explains Ms Anja Silvennoinen, UPM's Senior Vice President, Energy.
The project will be carried out by a separate company Kaukaan Voima Oy, which is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy (54%) and Lappeenrannan Energia Oy (46%). UPM has a 42% ownership in Pohjolan Voima.
"Pohjolan Voima has built several big bioenergy power plants, and we have recognised that acting together with Pohjolan Voima in joint power plant projects has been beneficial for all parties," says Ms Anja Silvennoinen. "The latest example is Rauman Voima power plant which produces energy both for UPM's Rauma mills and the town of Rauma. The same model we have used also in Kuusankoski, Ristiina, Savonlinna and Pietarsaari."
The new power plant will replace the 30 year old steam power unit of Kaukas mills and majority of the energy generation capacity of Lappeenrannan Lämpövoima Oy's 30 year old Mertaniemi power plant.
"The new joint power plant secures district heat supply for Lappeenranta citizens. The old Mertaniemi natural gas power plant will remain as a back-up capacity to balance load peaks," describes Mr Reijo Kolehmainen, Managing Director of Lappeenrannan Energia Oy on the importance of the new power plant.
Ms Anja Silvennoinen, Senior Vice President, Energy, UPM, telephone +358 204 150 733
Mr Raimo Särkelä, Vice President and General Manager, UPM, Kaukas, telephone +358 204 154 548
Mr Reijo Kolehmainen, Managing Director, Lappeenrannan Energia Oy, telephone +359 40 548 6360
Mr Jari Niemelä, Executive Vice President, Pohjolan Voima Oy, telephone +358 50 313 3416
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Accelerated Depreciation Write Off
The accelerated depreciation write-off for assets up to $20,000 acquired by small businesses was announced in the May 2015 budget. The write off threshold was previously $1,000 and the concession only applies to businesses in 2015/16 with an aggregate annual turnover of less than $2 million. However, as a boost for small businesses, the Government has extended access to a number of small business tax concessions by increasing the annual turnover eligibility threshold from $2m to $10m. These measures apply from July 1, 2016.
From a tax planning perspective some business owners may look at the timing of their expenditure to maximise the tax benefits of the instant write off.
On face value it seems like a generous tax concession but there are a number of conditions you need to satisfy. Firstly, the asset must be used in the business for income-producing purposes. The Tax Office have stated they will monitor usage to detect ‘rorts’ so once you lodge your tax return you might get a ‘please explain’ letter from the ATO asking for more details.
The $20,000 threshold only applies to assets that were first acquired at or after 7:30 pm (AEST) on 12 May 2015 and they were first used (or installed ready for use) on or before 30 June 2017. From 1 July 2017, the threshold will revert back to $1,000. The increased threshold is available to all small businesses (including those who previously opted out of the simplified depreciation rules). Depreciating assets that do not meet these timing requirements would continue to be subject to the $1,000 threshold.
Key features of the Write-Off Rules
The asset can be new or second-hand.
The deduction is claimed in the income year in which the asset is first used or installed ready for use.
The write-off is for the ‘taxable purpose proportion’ of the asset which is the proportion of the asset's use in an income year for producing assessable income.
The requirement that an asset be ‘first acquired’ at a particular time is not a feature of the current regulations and limits access to the increased threshold to a small business entity's "new" assets. Don't be confused, the acquired asset can be new or second-hand, but it must be a ‘new’ asset of the business. The ‘first acquired’ rule is designed to disqualify assets acquired at an earlier time, temporarily disposed of, and then re-acquired at or after the 7:30 pm start time.
Depreciating assets that are first acquired prior to the 7:30 pm start time would continue to be subject to the existing $1,000 threshold, irrespective of when they are first used or installed ready for use. The existing $1,000 threshold would also apply to depreciating assets that are first acquired from the 7:30 pm start time but were not first used or installed ready for use on or before 30 June 2017.
Small business entities can claim an immediate deduction for depreciating assets that cost less than $1,000 if the asset is first used or installed ready for use on or after 1 July 2017.
Small business entities can claim a deduction for an amount included in the second element of the cost of a depreciating asset (e.g. an amount spent on improving or transporting a depreciating asset) that are first used or installed ready for use in a previous income year. The total amount of the cost must be less than $20,000 and the cost must be incurred at or after 7:30 pm (AEST) on 12 May 2015, and on or before 30 June 2017. Costs that are incurred outside of these times would continue to be subject to the $1,000 threshold.
Primary Producers are also eligible for accelerated depreciation on the following items acquired after 12 May 2015:
Immediate deduction for the cost of Fencing and Water Facilities such as dams, tanks, bores, irrigation channels pumps, water towers and windmills.
The cost of Fodder Storage assets such as silos and tanks used to store grain and other animal feed can be depreciated over 3 years.
The government has warned that the $20,000 accelerated depreciation concession is not intended for assets that are acquired under ‘artificial or contrived arrangements’. The government says the general anti-avoidance provisions in the tax law are intended to capture arrangements where a number of related small business entities sell their assets to one another in order to satisfy the ‘first acquired’ condition and write off the full value of those assets under the increased threshold.
WARNING : While the $20,000 accelerated depreciation incentive sounds attractive to small business owners, spending up to $20,000 on an asset to simply get a tax deduction may not be prudent. As detailed above, there are some specific rules around this concession so we urge you to seek professional advice before committing to a major asset purchase.
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Joshua Tree National Park Culture
Humans have occupied the area encompassed by Joshua Tree National Park's nearly 800,000 acres for at least 5,000 years. The first group known to inhabit the area was the Pinto Culture, followed by the Serrano, the Chemehuevi, and the Cahuilla. In the 1800s cattlemen drove their cows into the area for the ample grass available at the time and built water impoundments for them. Miners dug tunnels through the earth looking for gold and made tracks across the desert with their trucks. Homesteaders began filing claims in the 1900s. They built cabins, dug wells, and planted crops.
Pinto Culture Indians Cowboys Miners Homesteaders Park History Oasis of Mara Research Papers Each group left its mark upon the land and contributed to the rich cultural history of Joshua Tree National Park. The park protects 501 archeological sites, 88 historic structures, 19 cultural landscapes, and houses 123,253 items in its museum collection. After the area became a national monument in 1936, local and regional residents were the primary park visitors. As Southern California grew so did park visitation; Joshua Tree now lies within a three-hour drive of more than 18 million people. Since Joshua Tree was elevated from national monument to national park status in 1994 however, greater numbers of visitors from around the nation and the world come to experience Joshua Tree National Park.
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‘The Paradigm Future of Business and Society’
Sean Matson ’05 addresses attendees at the Business Leadership and Innovation Summit.
—VMI Photo by H. Lockwood McLaughlin.
Now in its second year, VMI’s Business Leadership Innovation Summit (BLIS) was held with the goal of spurring entrepreneurial thinking among cadets and connecting them with like-minded alumni already succeeding in the business world.
This year’s summit attracted approximately 70 alumni, said Dr. Dekuwmini “Dee” Mornah, associate professor of business and economics. It also drew a good number of cadets, although fewer than last year because attendance by economics and business majors this year was optional, whereas last year it was mandatory.
But for those who came, the rewards were plentiful. “[Cadets] were getting internships and jobs everywhere,” reported Mornah, who organized the summit along with an alumni steering committee headed by John Kemper ’68.
Mornah also noted that of the 70 alumni who attended, approximately 90 percent attended BLIS last year.
“A 90 percent retention rate is great,” he commented.
Keynote speaker Dr. Michael Morris kicked off the event Friday, April 12, with a speech designed to broaden attendees’ thinking about entrepreneurship.
Morris, who was formerly the George and Lisa Etheridge professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Florida, shared the message that entrepreneurship is not just about starting a small business. Rather, entrepreneurship is a mindset that can be taught and cultivated, no matter what someone’s age or employment status.
“The most creative people are the people who practice their creativity more,” said Morris, who defined entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity regardless of resources controlled.”
That evening, Sean Matson ’05, a former Navy SEAL and founder of two small businesses, spoke about his experience as an entrepreneur as part of the John W. and Jane M. Roberts Institute Lecture in Free Enterprise series.
In his remarks, Matson stressed the intense focus it takes to get a business off the ground—a focus so great that it often demands giving up everything that’s not essential to success.
“Streamline everything so you focus your efforts on your priorities,” stated Matson, whose start-ups are Matbock, a military supply company, and Strike Force Beverage, a producer of energy drinks. “You have to quit everything that doesn’t help you achieve those goals.”
Matson also stressed that entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have to have top-notch skills in all areas to be successful. “I’m not a smart person … but I know how to build a team,” he stated.
On Saturday, April 13, a panel of VMI faculty and cadets from the departments of economics and business, mechanical engineering, and computer and information science convened to discuss how innovation and entrepreneurship are relevant to their fields of study.
Col. Clifford West, chair of the Department of Economics and Business, began by noting that for the past three years, cadets majoring in his department have been required to create a business plan as their 1st Class capstone project as a way of tying together the seemingly disparate components of their very broad discipline.
“We didn’t begin this with the intent of having our students become entrepreneurs and start their own businesses,” said West. “We didn’t discourage it. And so far, in three years, we’ve had one new business get started … and we’re hoping that that will accelerate as we go.”
Like West, Col. Mohamed Eltoweissy, chair of the computer and information science department, said that the capstone project in his department is meant to orient cadet learning toward the real world. The CIS capstone requires cadets to develop a working prototype of a computer system.
“We have developed a program such that innovation and experiential learning resonates throughout our program,” said Eltoweissy.
Col. Joseph Blandino, professor of mechanical engineering, stressed his department’s need to prepare cadets for a post-college world in which they’ll be competing for jobs with newly minted engineers from much larger schools.
“You want kids that understand that although you want to do cool projects and those are fun, at the end of the day, you’re doing it to make somebody money or to make the process better, whether it’s military or civilian,” he commented. “Innovative projects and collaborations with businesses are natural ways we can distinguish our graduates.”
Agreeing with Blandino was Bennett Johnson ’19, an economics and business major who recently teamed with three other cadets to take third place in a business pitch competition.
“Innovation obviously is the paradigm future of business and society as a whole,” said Johnson. “We think it’s just so, so important going forward for both cadets and the departments to embrace the idea of innovation.”
One of Johnson’s teammates, Jon Chamberlain ’19, a mechanical engineering major, also touted the benefits of cross-departmental collaborations and innovation.
“I learned so many things that a classroom setting couldn’t give me, and it makes me a better person for it,” he said of the cross-departmental capstone project that led to the business pitch competition.
VMI, Chamberlain concluded, “is the perfect environment to reach out, find your interests, do something you’re passionate about, and pursue it.”
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At the beginning of 2019, I fell in love with myself. To who do I give the credit? Social media (and myself, of course). Social media has been viewed by many as a double-edged sword, the source of downfalls and plenty of problems, and while it is, if used correctly, it doesn’t have to be. This is my story of how I found light in the darkness.
I like to call it “the individuality epidemic” or the 9 millionth social revolution and it is one that holds the story of a 17-year-old from South Africa. Hi, I am the 17-year-old from South Africa. I have been blessed enough to be part of a group of friends and a generation that encourages distinction. From the way we dress to career and sexuality, I personally feel as though I have grown up in the best time I could possibly be in. It's not perfect at all (and frankly, will never be), but after altering my immediate surroundings, I found that it isn’t impossible to be happy with who you are.
As a youth growing up in the midst of so much change, I have been allowed to upgrade myself as often as the software on my phone, which many can argue is almost every single day. My change has not been limited to a box on a form but to whatever my heart desires. It brings me so much joy to see people be as reserved or as outgoing as they want to be because it shows me that at least we are doing something right.
Platforms like YouTube and Instagram have allowed people like me, who aren’t exposed to that much, a space to hear the stories of others and have a more holistic view of the world and people who we do not come across every day. Being able to type something in a search bar and seeing millions of results from people you’ve never met is incredible. But with social media, the key is self-control. It can be the greatest blessing but also such a toxic place to be in. Like how I used it for education and self-development, so many people find it as a chore which is extremely unhealthy. It's a double-edged sword, but what matters is which side of the sword you choose to use.
The way I navigated around a healthy social media intake was being able to wrap my head around it. At the beginning of 2019, I then only realised the toll it took on my self-image. I refined my Instagram feed by doing a simple task, going through the people I was following and unfollowing the ones who made me feel remotely negative about myself. Building a diverse feed of people who look just like you and people who make you feel confident is the secret. Shocker, I know but its a task that isn’t done and its result are destructive.
I spent an average of 3 hours a day on Instagram (kind of an addiction). So, what I saw on the app heavily influenced my entire outlook on many aspects of my life. Dealing with self-esteem issues, puberty (and all of that in-between stuff) while also trying to be the best person I could be took a toll on my mental health which through very extensive personal research, I found that it stemmed from the pressure I had from the people I followed and admired.
It was something that I felt I owed myself after spending so long doubting my worth because of them. I had more time to focus on being the best version of myself instead of obsessing to become more like these people. It allowed me time to heal and deal with insecurities that I had, some of which I still deal with to this day and I’m in absolutely no rush to overcome them and not even close to being complete with the masterpiece that is myself and that’s okay. I’m 17-years-old. I don’t have to have everything figured out. A healthy social media intake is just one part of it. There are so many barriers that need to be broken. But any progress is good progress, right?
The individuality epidemic on social media is this uproar of encouragement of independence from the norms and standards. Of course, it depends on who is on your feed but I took full advantage of that and have allowed myself to go through every challenge with my head held high. Without it, I would not be where I am today. The epidemic without the help of social media would have never reached me. Movements like the body positivity movement and the feminists have had great strides in moulding my identity. I would be nowhere without these activists that break down these patriarchal and discriminatory views that society has built and told little teenage me that I am in fact normal and doing just fine.
It takes thick skin. But I have taken so many punches from social media that my skin gained little white blood cells and fought them off for me. The diversity is there, but the segregation and the discrimination are also very prevalent which completely cancels the former. Those who meet the standard of beauty are promoted and have the biggest following which is the first problem. Shoving an idea of beauty down the throats of the youth is so toxic and I urge those who are reading this to be their own standard because you don’t owe anyone anything.
To those breaking down the barriers and loving who they want, dressing how they want, putting on makeup the way they want, please do continue. Your presence makes the pessimists uncomfortable and it brings joy to my heart. Paint yourself like a Van Gogh, beautifully complicated. To those like me who are on their journey, it's going to take some time but I hear that the destination is so beautiful.
Remember the power that is your phone. It doesn’t have to be a never-ending dark hole. Like the stars in the sky, you too can shine through the darkness. There is room for all of us.
like a flower in the spring, you will rise and how the moon becomes fuller every night, you too will be greater than the you that came before
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The NEP of Classe Operaia (1980)
Raffaele Sbardella January 28, 2016
Franco Angeli, Untitled, 1963
Translator’s Introduction: The Victory of Defeat
Raffaele Sbardella is unknown to the English-speaking world, and even among Italian radicals he is an obscure figure. 1 If it nonetheless seems worth introducing him to the readers of Viewpoint, it is on the strength of the essay that we are presenting in translation below. “The NEP of Classe Operaia” is a rare bird: it is a critique of Italian workerism (or operaismo) from the left. We do not lack for critical perspectives on the later autonomist and post-autonomist theories of Toni Negri, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Paolo Virno, Maurizio Lazzarato, and others, whose work became more widely known due to the success of Negri and Michael Hardt’s Empire trilogy in the 2000s. The wellspring from which this entire tradition draws, however, is the unorthodox conceptualization of class struggle, workers’ autonomy, and capitalist development that took shape in the pages of the journals Quaderni Rossi and Classe Operaia in the early and mid-1960s. This earlier stage remains murky to all but a few specialists in the matter. 2 The workerist legacy is buried in the rubble of a cataclysmic defeat; there is much work still to be done simply to unearth its ruins. It may seem perverse to offer an attack on the mainstream of workerism – and especially one as withering and partisan as Sbardella’s – when many of the foundational texts to which the essay makes reference are still unavailable in English. I have chosen to translate and publish the piece nonetheless because I am convinced that its interest exceeds the merely antiquarian.
Sbardella’s intervention is historiographic: he aims to show that the later errors of the autonomist movement can be traced back to an ideology that took hold in the Classe Operaia group, and in particular in the work of its leading light, Mario Tronti. The essay itself is a document of defeat. Originally published in 1980, it was written in the wake of the Movement of ’77 – the last great outpouring of Italy’s decade-long “Creeping May” – and more specifically in the immediate aftermath of the Italian state’s repression of Autonomia in 1979. By the time Sbardella was presumably writing, many of the movement’s leaders were in prison (including, most famously, Negri), or had fled the country. But there was another and less painful exit available to erstwhile champions of workers’ autonomy. It was a choice, moreover, that some had made as early as the mid-1960s. This was the decision to rejoin one or another of the existing parties of the working class and thus to abandon the extraparliamentary struggle to its fate. Such was the trajectory of Tronti – the primary target of Sbardella’s article.
If “The NEP of Classe Operaia” were concerned only to chastise an apostate it would be of little interest, of course. Fortunately, it has a broader agenda. Tronti had been a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1950s; although he never technically left, he effectively distanced himself from it at the beginning of the following decade. At this time, he started working with Raniero Panzieri – who was affiliated with the Italian Socialist Party, or PSI, the Communist Party’s major competitor on the left – at the influential journal Quaderni Rossi (Red Notes). In 1964, Tronti left Quaderni Rossi to co-found Classe Operaia (Working Class), whose contributors would include Negri, Alberto Asor Rosa, Massimo Cacciari, and Romano Alquati, among others. In 1967 Tronti was reconciled to the PCI. Between the prodigal’s departure and return, however, he published Operai e Capitale (Workers and Capital), the first edition of which appeared in 1966. 3 This book effectively codified the major propositions of workerism: for instance, that the development of capital is largely a response to the self-activity of the working class, and that revolution is to be accomplished through the “strategy of refusal,” in other words, by workers’ withdrawal from capitalist production. Sbardella challenges some of these propositions. But he does so not in the abstract, refuting one after the other as if they were floating in the ahistorical ether. Rather, he aims to show his readers where these ideas came from – and, more importantly, where they led. For this reason, “The NEP of Classe Operaia” takes the form of a chronicle. 4 Or, one could say, a genealogy. Tronti’s embrace of the PCI appeared to many workerists and autonomists as a blatant contradiction of his own arguments in Operai e Capitale. Sbardella’s aim is to show that it was anything but. At stake are the philosophical underpinnings of workerism itself.
Sbardella’s narrative begins in media res. The year is 1964: Tronti has already broken with Panzieri and other comrades from Quaderni Rossi; the rest of the action traces the rise and fall of Classe Operaia. Yet the basic shape of Tronti’s politics has already congealed. It is founded on what Sbardella describes as an idealization of the concept of proletarian subjectivity. He aligns Tronti, unexpectedly, with the reactionary neo-Hegelianism of Giovanni Gentile, Mussolini’s court philosopher. Gentile’s imposing body eventually turned up riddled with partisan bullets on the streets of Florence in 1944 – an appropriate end to the thinker who championed the philosophy of the “act,” in other words, brute power as the truth of dialectics. The point of Sbardella’s scandalous maneuver is to argue for a link between Gentile’s “actual idealism” and Tronti’s own workerist ideology. In his telling, Tronti’s theory of the invariable positivity of the proletarian subject meant that this subject’s actions could only be, ipso facto, correct. This was, therefore, an “idealism of the Subject” that amounted to an affirmation of what already exists: and thus effectively an affirmation – in a formulation that echoes Gentile – of the balance of class power at any given moment.
When the working class was, indeed, on the offensive, the effects of this idealism were, at least, innocuous. Borne along by the rising tide of struggle, workerism gave a new impetus to the project of conceptualizing the autonomy of the working class from its own reformist institutions. There was, at first, much talk of an entirely new and genuinely revolutionary Party to come – outside of, and against, the PCI. But Tronti’s philosophy refused to give the negative its due. Sbardella’s story picks up in the years of the “retreat,” or riflusso, of working-class struggles that occurred after the decline of an important strike wave in 1962. Suddenly, Tronti and his comrades faced the conundrum of explaining these setbacks without at the same time abandoning their thesis of the inexorable advance of proletarian power. Instead of building their own autonomous organizations, Tronti and others correctly observed that workers in this period were increasingly reentering their old and by this time rather toothless left-wing parties, above all the PCI. It was this phenomenon that demanded urgent explanation, since the very legitimacy of workerist analysis was at stake. Thus began a period of torturous realignment on the part of the Classe Operaia theorists: their positions shifted rapidly from the imperative to construct a new revolutionary party, to the call to prevent the social-democratization of the PCI (and thus to conduct the class struggle within rather than outside the Communist Party), to suggestions for various alliances with other forces of the left. This led, eventually, to abject submission to the PCI exactly as it was. After all, if the migration back to the PCI was a genuine mass movement on the part of the workers, it could hardly be simply wrong. Tronti’s later allegiance to the Communist Party was no anomaly, but was rather the logical consequence of his own workerist assumptions.
This is the core of the argument. Sbardella’s critique of Tronti is subtler than might first appear, however. Following an insight not only of workerism itself, but also of a much older left communist tradition, he recognizes the historical institutions of the workers’ movement as founded on expropriation. Classical parties such as the PCI indeed represent the will of the class, but only as separate and alienated from the class. Parties monopolize political subjectivity. Yet this does not mean that the pure unmediated activity of the class is therefore inherently revolutionary, as a certain naively left communist position would imply. On the contrary: when the class suffers material defeat, its strategy, too, is thrown into disarray. Workers then find themselves huddling around whatever concentrations of power still survive. In these circumstances, spontaneity leads to bad politics, not because workers lack direction from a proper revolutionary vanguard, but rather because the objective situation leaves them few other options. In such a period even the most impeccably committed cadres are only capable of organizing defeat. It is not the case, according to Sbardella, that an oppositional subjectivity always exists. It is rather constituted and deconstituted in the flux of the class struggle. For all their emphasis on class composition, the workerists around Tronti failed to recognize this fact.
Sbardella argues that Tronti and his comrades were hoisted on their own petard. Because they had idealized proletarian subjectivity as invariably revolutionary, they were unprepared to properly analyze the Italian proletariat’s retreat into its own stultifying institutions. They were then left with no choice but to ratify this retreat as one more masterstroke of the proletariat’s undoubtedly correct, if inscrutable, strategy. When the struggle in the factories began to heat up again at the end of the ‘60s, however, Tronti and his followers were blindsided once again. Having already declared the PCI to be the authentic expression of the workers’ subjectivity, they were left with no way to respond to the new avalanche of defections. This accounts, Sbardella argues, for the emergence of Tronti’s utterly mystified doctrine of the “autonomy of the political.” If it was true that the workers had delegated their political will to the Party, then that Party implicitly would retain its legitimacy as the political expression of the class, even if – as indeed actually happened – that authority were to be turned against the class itself. What becomes autonomous here is not the class but rather its political representation. And this autonomization then has no effect other than to conceal, and to oppose, the real movement of the class.
Can one rightly say, then, that Sbardella’s analysis is marked by an implacable opposition to the form of the party, which after all makes an appearance here only to alienate workers of their subjectivity? Not quite. The essay is peppered with references to a properly revolutionary party-form, though this remains hypothetical. It would be an “instrumental party” subordinated to the working class rather than standing above it. Sbardella’s own political engagements do not suggest that he belonged to the leftmost margin of Italian politics. He had, in fact, started out in the PCI in 1950s, before joining the Quaderni Rossi collective and, subsequently, the group that published Classe Operaia itself. His path was therefore extremely close to Tronti’s own, at least until the middle of the ‘60s. Sbardella at some point studied with the Marxist philosopher Lucio Colletti, during which time he began developing his own analysis of alienation and abstraction (the fruits of which are clearly to be read in “The NEP of Classe Operaia”). He then passed through the orbit of at least two small parties to the left of the PCI: successively, the PDUP (Party of Proletarian Unity) and Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy). In the 1970s and early ‘80s he was also involved in the publication of the journals Metropolis, I Quaderni del No, I Quaderni del CRIC (the journal of the Centro di Ricerche e Iniziativa Comunista, or Center for Communist Research and Initiative), and finally Unità Proletaria. He also wrote books on the “critique of politics” and the eighteenth-century penal reformer Cesare Beccaria. At the turn of the twenty-first century Sbardella reemerged in the pages of the Italian Marxist journal Vis-à-vis, where “The NEP of Classe Operaia” was in fact republished. 5 He is still alive today, though evidently rather elusive. 6
Though it would be irresponsible to speculate further, what this record at least suggests is an attitude of profound suspicion towards political representation that all the same does not reject the party-form per se. The errors to which Sbardella sees Tronti falling prey are, on the one side, an uncritical acceptance of immediacy and spontaneous action, and on the other side, an equally uncritical acceptance of political mediation as the direct expression of proletarian subjectivity. In fact the two errors are symmetrical – two sides of the same coin. This is an insight of relevance to situations somewhat removed from its point of origin. One of the more remarkable sections of the essay, for example, is a long footnote on Toni Negri. Sbardella acknowledges that Negri rejected Tronti’s increasing recourse to political mediation. Yet he did not thereby “succeed in overcoming and critically liquidating the idealism of the Subject.” Instead, Negri’s theodicy of revolt merely played a game of musical chairs, abandoning the classical proletariat (and its historical institutions) in favor of “whatever is still oppositional” – marginal groups or social figures that supposedly escape the grid of representation. Sbardella argues that Negri in fact ratifies the effects of capital’s assault on workers, and thus misrecognizes the decomposition of the class as a definitive break with the centrality of the productive sphere in the revolutionary movement. This is an incisive comment that has clear implications for Negri’s later promotion of the “multitude” as a replacement for the industrial proletariat – as well as for any other premature identification of putatively new revolutionary subjects.
“The NEP of Classe Operaia” is of course embedded in the politics of its moment. Sbardella surely had in mind the “Historic Compromise” that had recently brought the PCI into an ultimately disastrous rapprochement with the conservative Christian Democrats. Indeed, the PCI was to dissolve completely little over a decade later. Parties in this mold are as good as extinct today, so it may be that Sbardella’s animus will strike contemporary readers as passé. Yet the problems at stake are not endemic to the Italian experience of some thirty or forty years past. Sbardella ultimately proposes an alternative to the phantasmal opposition between “spontaneity” and “organization” that remains a prominent feature of debates on the left to this day. Neither pole has any revolutionary content in and of itself. As fetishes, both are capable of leading revolutionaries, lemming-like, over the cliff. The virtue of Sbardella’s essay is to show how an incurable optimism with respect to the proletariat’s revolutionary capacities (incurable pessimism might well have the same effect) can blind even the best and brightest to the real state of the world. And that state, needless to say, is bad these days.
I therefore offer this translation as a modest contribution to a future theory of the strategic significance of disaster.
– Daniel Spaulding
The left has never seriously taken into consideration the philosophical matrices of Trontism and of the ideology of those comrades who, after the break with Quaderni Rossi, gathered around the review Classe Operaia: this is a fact. And also, of course, an error, because the workerist ideology of these comrades has spread through the movement mystifying readings of reality and political behaviors that are anything but adequate to the real levels of struggle. We have never seriously and critically taken into consideration the idealistic, or rather Gentilian 7, nature of Tronti’s thought; we have not emphasized with sufficient clarity the negativity of the absolutization of the idea of Subjectivity that he introduced and which continues to be the cause of considerable real failures in the movement. 8 The break with Panzieri may be fully explained only if we remember the idealistic and actualistic nature of Tronti’s thinking. 9 On the other hand, the coherence and continuity of this author’s thought, the non-contradiction between the theory of the “rough pagan race” 10 and that of the “autonomy of the Political,” can emerge in all their dimensions only if the analysis succeeds in critically tracing this theoretical path. It is a continuity and coherence that in turn make the story of Classe operaia itself comprehensible: the exit, first, of the Genoese group, then the split and, later, the dissolution of the group of those comrades closest to the positions of Toni Negri. In this way it is possible to explain, with sufficient clarity, the refusal of mediations – within the same idealistic conception of the working class – that Tronti was gradually introducing into his political discourse in order to master the new reality of the “retreat” and to grant a subjective valence to that which was not subjective.
Many comrades are still convinced that the theses contained in Operai e Capitale remain scientifically valid and authentically revolutionary, and are to be opposed, not without embarrassment, to Tronti’s current positions. 11 We, on the contrary, believe that, if we truly wish to construct a party completely immersed in the present composition of the class – a “party-instrument” which will have made its own both the critique of politics and the new behaviors and needs of collective subjects – it is necessary to seriously and theoretically reckon with the workerist ideology of Classe Operaia. 12
After the break with Panzieri, and after the publication of the sole issue of Cronache Operaie, the comrades who had left Quaderni Rossi found the review Classe Operaia, gathering and unifying around themselves various groups of political intervention and a number of regional newspapers. The last issue of Classe Operaia is published in March of 1967: the experience of this group will therefore take place during the years of the working class “retreat,” the “cold” years of the “conjunctural crisis.” The hypothesis according to which the working class’ attack on capital was permanent and growing in a linear fashion, and hence that the material conditions for the construction of a “new revolutionary party” were present – a hypothesis which was also formulated on the basis of a totally mystical conception of workers’ Subjectivity – very soon reveals itself as unfounded and not in correspondence with the negative reality of the “retreat.” 13 The groundlessness of this hypothesis causes serious difficulties for the group and, from the outset, negatively affects the regularity of the journal’s publication: the group does not grow, the organization does not mature and the working class does not reach the hypothesized levels of struggle.
The “political intelligence” of the journal is thus forced to progressively rediscover the “importance” and the “strength” of the historical institutions of the working class, to give new value to the determinant weight of the Political. With one clarification, however: that the political institutions of the class, due precisely to the a priori ideal represented by this mythical workers’ Subjectivity, are rediscovered not as what they are, namely as permanent sources of alienation for the class – as Panzieri rightly said – but rather as instruments which the class itself will succeed in conquering, controlling, and using positively in certain particular moments of its history. 14 Indicative of this failure is – as we have said – the progressive decline in Classe Operaia’s frequency of publication: there were, in fact, eight issues, as well as a supplement to no. 6, published in 1964; four issues and a flyer in 1965; two (one of which was a working report) in 1966; and only a single issue in 1967, after the definitive dissolution of the group had been decided at the end of 1966 during a national meeting in Florence held at the headquarters of the Giovanni Francovich Center. 15
The first issue of the journal perhaps does not yet faithfully reflect the program that the group had given itself: as a matter of fact this first issue does not at all respect the immediacy of the ideal Subject that is at the foundation of the common political position of the various groups that converge in Classe Operaia. 16 Already in the first issue, the Leninist exigency of the “party” emerges as a priority: naturally, given these theoretical premises, what really emerges is an “organicist” and exclusively political conception of the “party,” therefore a conception that, in the completely ahistorical and uncritical rediscovery of Lenin’s thought, considers the “party” to be the place where the Subjectivity of the class is incarnated. The Party, in short, is not presented as that which it is, with its historical characteristics of separation and alterity with respect to the class, but is rather identified with the class and totally confused with the workers’ Subjectivity – something that is of course absent from the thought of Lenin, who, on the contrary, knew very well that the “party” is “necessarily” external to the class. 17 With respect to the radical immediacy and the permanent activity of idealized Subjectivity, this most particular use of Lenin represents, even if covertly, a first logico-political mediation, or rather the first timid step towards the current Trontian discourse – the result, obviously, not of an objectivist conception of the class – as in Lenin – but of the ideal path of the same Subjectivity: the particular, concrete acts of the class, all of its manifestations (whether these are expressions of a real collective subjectivity, or the passive result of atomized objectivity, is of little importance), all of these, to repeat, are considered as real actions, strategic moments, of the permanent Subject which is the working class, or, more correctly, as moments of the manifestation of the Idea of subjectivity, or rather of the Spirit. Moreover, that the rediscovery of Lenin occurs within a subjectivist understanding of the class is well demonstrated by the fact that the “necessity of political organization” (which is for Tronti “definitively linked to the name of Lenin”) has as its general frame of reference a discourse which in fact reverses the methodological viewpoint of the Third Internationalist tradition: “it is necessary” – Tronti writes – “to reverse the problem, to change the sign, to start again from the beginning: and the beginning is the struggle of the working class.” 18) It could not have been otherwise. The discourse of the “autonomy of the political” was necessarily born with “Lenin in England,” an article that if on one hand offered a first political mediation to the group, on the other laid the theoretico-political foundations of Italian workerism in the 1960s and ‘70s.
The economic-political system reacts to the workers’ gains in the first years of the 1960s with an “investment strike” and a “violent credit crunch,” but also with a political crisis and an intensification of repression so as to provoke a partial retreat and backtracking on the part of the movement. Let us not forget that the first interviews in which Agnelli announces and threatens mass layoffs date precisely from 1963. 19 1964 was, therefore, a year in which the movement and the struggles of the workers come to a partial stop and, confronted with the massive conjunctural attack, inevitably flow back into a space of waiting and resistance: “a retreat that in certain aspects recalls the dark days of the ‘50s.” 20 Panzieri, foreseeing all of this, coherently criticizes those who, on the contrary, were hypothesizing an uninterrupted continuity in the struggles. Not coincidentally, it would be precisely over the judgment of this phase that the Trontian group would break with Quaderni Rossi: this same idea of Subjectivity – subjectivity as continuüm – does not permit the group to understand Panzieri’s analyses and to correctly register the reality in the factories and the temporary absence of the collective subject. 21
Thus, a contradiction is already present in the first issue: if one the one hand this mythic belief in a permanent class Subject represents the warp of its discourse, on the other hand, it is forced to register, but at the same time to present as an expression of this mythic subject, the real working class’ moments of “retreat.” 22) The autonomy of the struggles and the anti-constitutional characteristics of the new collective subject are exalted, but the reality of the relative “retreat” of the struggles becomes the object of a veritable ideological manipulation and mystification, a reversal of significance. 23) The strategic point of view is reversed but at the same time taken for granted; it is presumed, in opposition to the Union and the Party, that the workers can “do it themselves,” but at the same time the necessary mediation of the “party” reappears – or rather, one uncritically places “Lenin in England.”
Naturally, in this first phase the proposed “revolutionary party” is supposed to be born ex novo from within the class itself, autonomously and “against” the existing party. 24 Nonetheless the difficulties are not underestimated: “Organization” – Tronti writes – “is the most difficult point […] as soon as you become institutionalized in a form you are used by capital.” 25 A problem, evidently, that Tronti himself was to underestimate, since it is precisely with this first issue of Classe Operaia (namely in the moment of what seems to be the highest consciousness of the negativity of political forms) that he initiates – as we have emphasized – the true path of the “autonomy of the political”: “This practical work, articulated on the basis of the factory, must, in order to function on the terrain of the social relations of production, be continually judged and mediated [emphasis added] by a political level that generalizes it.” 26
It is precisely the two fundamental theoretical elements of this journal’s discourse – hypostatized Subjectivity and the consequent concealment of the moments of the class’ real objectivity – that do not permit them to grasp the historical-negative significance of the separation of political forms, the fact that they are, in any case, a source of alienation for the class: in fact, in order to exist, this Subjectivity has need at every moment – in reality, in the moments of the class’ objectivity and passivity – of certain theoretical-practical mediations. The entirely political rediscovery of Lenin (the tactical Party) is therefore, within this discourse, a first mediation: in this case as well – as we have said – the separateness of the party one wishes to build is concealed in order to display it, in a way that mystifies reality, as a possible instrument in the hands of the workers’ Subjectivity.
But the birth of the hypothesized “party” is overdue; the factory organization does not generalize and does not offer the “party” the mass vanguards that it needs. And in this way there emerges in the second issue – dedicated entirely to Europe – a second mediation that is certainly more advanced and significant. This time the mediation is represented by the ironically critical interest that the journal addresses to the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), or more exactly to nos. 5-6 of Critica Marxista, which are dedicated to the question of organization and the Party. 27 The polemic is harsh, its verbal expression violent, but it nonetheless opens a new chapter in the brief history of Classe operaia. Let us pay attention to the following: “And at this point we stop […]. We leave gossipy cries of joy to the bourgeois newspapers. All of this is right for them, and for their bosses. It is never right for the workers to be politically disorganized on principle”; from this one recognizes that the class without the PCI is “politically disorganized.” 28 Compared to the hypothesis of the construction of a “new revolutionary party,” this critical interest, but also this evident preoccupation with the separation of the Party from the class, represent a real – and sudden, one could say – reversal of the political line that had emerged in the first number of the journal. This turn, obviously, is not itself causal: it is in fact the historical result of the meeting of Trontian ideology – ideal Subjectivity – with a real phenomenon, namely that of the tendential and progressive “reentry” of the vanguards of the struggle into the historical formations of the workers’ movement.
It is in fact precisely in this period of “retreat” in the struggles and of the atomization of the collective body of the class that the workers themselves, forced to delegate their unitary will to the existing party, jumpstart the expropriative mechanism that transmits their capacity-to-will: a mechanism that only apparently seems to reconstitute a positive link between the working class and its institutions – given that consent always presupposes the division and passivity of the masses, and hides their political alienation behind a precisely represented, abstract, and separated Unity.
The group notes the reestablishment of the representative relationship and the “reentry” of the workers into the PCI with extreme promptness, but the absolutization of workers’ subjectivity, which does not permit them to grasp these same phenomena at a level beyond simple empirical appearance, paradoxically forces the group members to see in the mechanical and passive product of the class’ objectivity and atomization an organic, collective, and rigorously conscious “choice” on the part of the workers in struggle.
In the March issue, Toni Negri, with a brief, synthesizing editorial, attempts to shore up the discourse of Classe Operaia on the irreducible opposition between workers and capital, conceiving the problem of alliances as the “bloc of the working class with itself, the block of the working class against the class adversary.” 29 He aims to radicalize Tronti’s hypostatized discourse from the left. There is no doubt that this editorial represents a first clear resistance to the new discourse on the institutions of the workers’ movement that is beginning to penetrate and circulate with ever greater insistence within the group. This initial resistance is nevertheless defeated with relative ease: issues 4-5, 8-9, and 10-12 of the review will be dedicated to deep and expanded analyses related to the question, ever more crucial, of the Party and the Union. Tronti writes:
The imbalance between wages and productivity is a political fact, and should be understand as a political fact and be used politically […]. In these years the workers’ use of the labor union struggle has in fact surpassed and defeated the capitalist use of the union, today it is therefore necessary to drag along the old organizations. 30
Immediate, too, is the reaction of the Turin group and of all those comrades who participated more closely and attentively in the struggles of 1962. The supplement to issue no. 6, “dedicated to the workers’ struggle at Fiat,” which circulated essentially at Turin but was also present as an insert in the national edition, responds with extreme severity:
Today our first problem is this: we must make a clean break with the period in which we let the union do as it would, and we must build our organization to carry forward our class struggle against capital […]. The new party of the working class will not be born out of any of the currently existing parties, nor will it be the result of one of their unifications or disintegration, but will be the fruit of a long experience of handling struggles: all the organizational forms developed in the struggle will flow into it. 31
In the editorial of no. 8-9 – part of which is devoted to the problem of the “party” and the PCI – Tronti responds polemically, definitively clarifying his position:
The time is ripe, at the level of the class, for a direct discourse on the conditions of the workers’ movement [read: PCI] in Italy: now is the moment to open a debate, to conduct an analysis, to commence a precise political action on this terrain. Do not forget [Tronti observes] that the PCI still maintains a real relation to the working class. [… Therefore] let us say that today it is possible to choose the way that passes through a positive crisis of at least a part of the old organizations. This immediately clears the ground of the danger of starting over with the building of a new bureaucratic structure. 32
The critical tone present in this issue is, nonetheless, still quite harsh: the journal forcefully denounces the progressive diminution, between 1950 and 1962, of the number of workers enrolled in the Party, and the paralyzing “gap” between members and voters.
It is – as we have emphasized – precisely in this period that the thesis according to which the working class would not know what to do with yet another failed minoritarian experience begins to circulate and spread through the members of the group: now, it is said, the class prefers to transform the existing Party, “in a revolutionary sense”; it has chosen to “bring the PCI back into the factory” and there to use it for its own revolutionary ends. That the struggles suffer a relative setback, that the organic character of the real collective subject shows signs of atomization, that the workers are divided and opposed to each other, mediated by the abstracting presence of commodities and thus forced to alienate their own political will in representative institutions: all of this is evidently of little interest, or rather is set aside or presented as its exact opposite. In short, the not-immediately evident fact that the workers, due to a temporary defeat, are forced to alienate themselves in the PCI, in order in some way to recover their lost unity, is passed off as the coherent result of the collective subject’s free choice.
In this way the promise to dedicate more space and attention to the problem of the “party” was duly kept. The December issue will in fact be entirely dedicated to the PCI. It is only with this final issue of 1964 that the political shift clearly emerges with all its practical implications: thus we too have arrived at the problem of the party, or really, of the PCI. 33 Tronti criticizes himself: “This immense work will be collective, or will not be; it will succeed in immediately meeting the daily movements of the social mass of workers, or will remain blocked in itself, will stagnate, and will turn backwards.” 34 This may even seem to be a just demand, but, as we know, the other face of idealism is the uncritical acceptance of vulgar empiricism, or rather of the real data assumed acritically: indeed, if the “daily movements” of the workers are in reality equivalent to their atomistic and alienated movement in the direction of the PCI, then it is inevitable that the historical encounter with this “social mass of workers,” once the negative characteristics of this trend are concealed, can only happen within the PCI itself. Lenin is abandoned in England, with few regrets, while the PCI is rediscovered in Italy. For now, the workers’ rediscovery of the PCI is critical, and the workers’ decision to “enter” it presupposes – so it is believed – a clear revolutionary will: the “party” must be transformed and bent to the “subversive” needs of the workers. “The workers’ use of the communist party” is not peaceful; it is a use that profoundly transforms that which is used. This thesis – which presupposes, as one can easily see, a Subject that is always provided with consciousness and its own strategy (a thesis that the facts will also very soon blatantly contradict) – therefore places on the agenda the “immediate blocking” of the process of social-democratization that has affected even the PCI. “The tactic of the party [Tronti writes on this point] today rests on the illusion that it suffices to know capital in order to understand the working class”; with this approach one inevitably falls into the error of having to “adapt the organizational instrument of the party to the necessities of the development of capitalist society.” 35
The great mediation represented by the autonomy of the Political is still far off; the viewpoint still remains directly tied to workers’ subjectivity; the methodological reversal remains that of the first issue; the claim that it is the development of capital that can be explained by the development and growth of workers’ subjectivity and their struggles do not not undergo significant transformations. The thesis now maintained is that, if on the one hand the working class wants the development of capital, on the other hand it does not want to adapt itself to its political expressions; it wants to preserve its autonomy with respect to political processes that occur within the sphere of the state and are under the sign of capitalist power. The “political” subordination to capital is the true limit, the classic error of reformism, and therefore must be defeated within the PCI without delay. The development of capital must be pushed forward, just as the workers want, but the Party, even if it is a “workers’ party,” must not adapt or submit itself to this same development, must not become a political function: the Party, while capital forces it into development, must make sure to remove power from the hands of the capitalist class; it must, in short, destroy capitalist command over the whole of society. To succeed in doing so it is sufficient – again according to Tronti – to posses the “viewpoint of the working class”: capitalist development plus “workers’ power,” this is the Italian NEP of the ‘60s that the Trontians hypothesized and proposed in this period; this is the only possible path for the revolution in Italy. What is missing, however, is a “party” that firmly possesses the workers’ viewpoint. The workers themselves will come to realize that the ambiguities of the PCI are to be exploded by the workers themselves, who, for this very reason, will reenter the party en masse.
Consequently, in the article “Classe e Partito,” which is signed by Tronti, there exists a conception of the party that is revolutionary only in terms of content, or better, only imaginarily revolutionary: for this author, in fact, it is sufficient that the PCI should change its political line, acquire a workers’ nature and culture, that it liquidate its “populism” and become active in the factory, because it is indeed ultimately capable of transforming itself into a truly revolutionary “party.” Totally absent from this discourse is a critique of the structural separation of the existing Party, of its representative nature, of the alienating nature of political mediations; totally absent is a critical connection between the separate form of the PCI and the reformist content of its political line. This entire critical discourse rotates around the simple observation that the PCI lacks a “coherent” class culture. Not, therefore, workers’ struggles and self-organization plus a party that knows to remain strictly their instrument or appendage, that knows how to defeat every tendency towards statification within itself; but rather struggles “within” capital and as a function of its development plus more power firmly in the hands of the workers’ “party.” Thus the workers supposedly enter the PCI not to destroy the separation, or indeed the source of their own alienation, but instead only to overthrow the ideological view and to impose their own class viewpoint. It is hence not a matter of putting back on its feet an alienating and pacifying organizational structure, it is a matter only of introducing into it, as it is, the proper class culture and viewpoint. The principle error of Togliatti’s Party was not that of having constructed a mechanism similar to the state in order to expropriate the political will of the masses, but instead only that of having identified politically and culturally with a historical bloc “until it disappeared into it, until it became the party of all the people.” 36 Therefore: to the class, “strategy”; to the party, “tactics.”
In the first issue of 1965, the choice of the field is further explained and developed: “For the entire year this section of the journal will remain open to discussion about the party.” This time it is Alberto Asor Rosa who clarifies which party is at stake: “Beyond the single party, but also beyond the new party, the bonds that hold the working class to its party are slowly, laboriously, and tirelessly being discovered.” 37 The review’s discourse now turns to the “communist cadres in the factory,” who are assigned the task of exploding the “clique” of reformist bureaucrats and of taking the reins of the “party” in order to decisively bring it back into the factory, and there to connect it with the “workers’ capacity to struggle”: “these workers’ political cadres potentially exist both inside and outside the PCI. In this sense the political work must necessarily extend to the level of the workers’ official institutions.” 38 In the same number of the journal, Romano Alquati, in an article on the internal structure of the class that is rich in stimulating intuitions, adheres to the group’s new political course; he writes:
Today it is anything but negative to valorize the potential tactical capacity of the militant, in relation to the class and the communist party – its subjective capacity linked to a real presence. It is a political force that is now very important, that has already borne fruit by raising the problem of the militants, throwing it in the face of the party’s reformist direction. 39
Toni Negri, on the contrary, prefers not to enter directly into the merits of the polemic and, bypassing the obstacle of the PCI, publishes in this first issue of 1965 a long and interesting essay on Lenin and the Soviets. The purpose of this discourse is clear enough, even if it is presented indirectly: the Lenin of the Soviets is opposed to the Lenin of the NEP; rupture is opposed to continuity. 40
The “party in the factory” will be the central theme of the third issue in 1965: “The Call to the Third Conference of Communists in the Factories” proposes to use this political occasion to “impose the following choice. The choice is: either the workers’ party in the factory, or a unified socialist party. To say no to the single party is easy. We must say yes to the class party.” 41
“This time the workers’ cadres will both provoke and prevail in the clash between the PCI’s reformist strategy and its revolutionary tactics.” 42 [?!]
In the final issue of 1965, after the “workers’ conference” and with the 11th Congress 43 around the corner, Tronti further develops his reflections and begins to worriedly speculate whether the slogan “Block the process of social-democratization; the PCI in the factory in the workers’ hands” might still have a certain validity and practical function: “What is difficult here is not the words. What is difficult is the work.” 44 The discourse of the “party in the factory” and “workers’ control of the party” takes a backseat and fades considerably: “We have said: either the single party or the party in the factory. Let us take a step forward and say: party-class unity against social democratic unification.” 45 This is undoubtedly a step forward with respect to the contents expressed in the October issue, where indeed everything had fallen into the problematic of the “party in the factory.”
Tronti, evidently, begins to perceive the quality of the workers’ “command” or “use” of the PCI; he begins to perceive the workers’ passive attitude within the party, their lack of impact on its political line. All of this, naturally, without however succeeding in passing beyond the threshold of appearances, and thus without realizing that this passive attitude and this lack of impact are the specific product – at least within the Party – of the representative mechanism that also rules the internal life of the organization and the formation of political will. What Tronti is unable to recognize and to understand is the fact that the non-transformative presence of the workers within the Party depends essentially on their external atomization, and thus on their individual isolation and on the passive presence within its interior to which the party consigns them. And it could not have been otherwise, given that the Party, as a representative institution, has as its basis of existence this same atomization of the class, and is therefore one of the causes of this atomization: within itself, the party cannot abide anything other than individual workers whose own political will has been expropriated and thus made passive, or rather made into a simple transmission belt for bringing the political line decided at the top to the generality of the class. The Party’s interior spaces are the kingdom of passivity, the specific location where the Political becomes Subject and the real subject becomes the predicate of its predicate. But this passive presence of the workers, into which the leaders effortlessly pour their generic political contents, must be absolutely exorcized: as we know, the Idea of subjectivity – the idealism of the collective subject – is not able to tolerate this in any way.
For now, however, these perplexities remain circumscribed and indeed pass unnoticed. As a matter of fact, on the occasion on the 11th Conference – the first after Togliatti’s death – the Classe Operaia group will publish and distribute among the workers a pamphlet whose basic lines still gesture towards the struggle around social-democratic unification and the revolutionary “use” of the PCI, or really of the “party in the factory”: it invites the workers’ delegates to conduct a politically clear and open battle at the congress with the aim of breaking up the reformist leadership. At the end of May 1966, practically all of the local groups of Classe Operaia continue to operate with this political hypothesis and to use these slogans for their political interventions in front of the factories – when confronted with reality, however, those slogans, being dictated as we have seen by purely ideological motives, begin to reveal their internal weakness and political inconsistency.
The first issue of 1966, which does not arrive until May, registers the failure of these slogans definitively and without entrenchment. Asor Rosa takes stock of the situation with extreme lucidity. He writes:
The first observation is that the debate before and during the Congress did not succeed in creating a true left […]. The episodes of “resistance” are infinite. None of these have exceeded the level of the section. […]. There is no doubt that the birth of a true left within the PCI has failed. 46
So goes the line of Tronti, who, in the editorial of the very same issue, condenses and synthesizes it in the slogan: “united front against social democracy.” 47 What now counts most is political unity to the left: no longer the “party” in the hands of the revolutionary workers nor “party-class” unity – which had nonetheless represented an overcoming of the slogan of the “party in the factory”; now what counts is unity on the left of institutions of the workers’ movement against the unification of the PSI and PSDI [Italian Socialist Party and Italian Democratic Socialist Party]. 48 All efforts must aim at the unification between the PCI and PSIUP [Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity]: 49
This logic imposes an ever-more vast and organic acquisition by all of the principle that the “socialist transformation” of the country will not happen without open dialog with the other democratic forces of the left. PSIUP cannot, as such, reject this perspective. 50
In October the last issue of 1966 comes out (the flyer): it contains a long analysis of this phase; the polemic is directed not only against PSIUP, which rightly opposes, with strong resistance, the thesis of a merger with the PCI, but also within the group, and specifically against those “who already see as equals the PCI, as it is, and the social democratic forces that have only just become unified.” 51 In the first half of October a flyer is distributed in various places in the North (particularly in the Veneto and Emilia) which exalts the struggles and the high level of conflict that the workers have expressed, and in which the definitive social-democratization of the PCI is already taken for granted. Today the position of these comrades seems more correct than ever. Intransigent struggle against the liquidators; the “party” in the factory functioning to unify the workers’ struggles; no hint of the purely political unification of the PCI and PSIUP proposed by the Roman group:
By now the PCI has lost sight of the substance of the capitalist relation of production, which is exploitation […]; Isolate and strike social democracy wherever it appears: in the unions, in the socialist parties, and also and above all in the Communist Party. 52
The last issue of Classe Operaia appears in March 1967, after the decision to dissolve as an organized group had been made at a national meeting held in Florence at the Giovanni Francovich Center: the decision to dissolve as an organized group – and in this way to avoid falling into the old errors of the historical minoritarianism of the groups to the left of the PCI – is the clearest evidence of just how bankrupt the hypothesis of the “party in the hands of the workers” had shown itself, and conversely of how unchangeable the PCI had proven to be. The thesis of “unification to the left,” once it had been detached from real struggles, is forced to live on and articulate itself exclusively within the political sphere: in this way, every critical judgment on the PCI collapses and the ultra-minoritarian practice of entryism is rediscovered. Tronti’s farewell, in the editorial of the last issue, verges on the ridiculous:
Now we are leaving. We do not lack things to do. A monumental task of research and study courses through our head. And politically, with our feet again on the recovered ground, it is a matter of gaining a new level of action. It will not be easy. 53
From within Contropiano, after Toni Negri’s definitive break, the “recovered ground” – the “continent” of the PCI (now taken as it is) – would be observed with increasing attention, admiration, and respect. 54 In this way the “new level of action” would be quite easily achieved with the official reentry of the group into the PCI (Mario Tronti and Aris Accornero had never left it). After officially joining PSIUP, Alberto Asor Rosa and a few others would go on to promote a merger. A party game? The fact remains that in the early months of 1967 the first issue of Classe e partito is distributed at the University of Rome, a journal – we read – “elaborated and composed almost entirely by comrades in the PCI and FGCI [Communist Italian Youth Federation],” under the direction of Claudio Colaiacono – an ironclad Asor-Rosian – and aimed primarily at the Roman base of the PSIUP youth federation: 55 “Our discourse is therefore born from a direct experience of the PCI and FGCI […], it is the discourse – we believe – that may interest those sectors of PSIUP who are also searching for real unity at the base.” 56 In this period Asor Rosa is therefore searching for proper bargaining power, an area to hegemonize. It is not by chance that, one year later (the first issue of Contropiano appears in this same period), a notice informs the readers of Mondo Nuovo that Asor Rosa, “who has recently joined PSIUP […], resumes his collaboration with our weekly in the article that we are pleased to host in this issue.” 57
This disenchanted transmigration of Classe Operaia into the historical parties of the workers’ movement was itself easy to predict. In fact the workers’ struggle against the reformist bureaucrats does not succeed, as had been suggested, in bringing the “party” back into the factory; during the “workers’ conference” the communist leaders hint at self-criticism and partly succeed in defusing dissent. Aris Accornero attempts to limit the effects of the polemic that the Party, in view of the congress, had decided to launch against the group (or is this rather a wrong move on the part of the group itself?); Emanuele Macaluso instead harshly attacks the Classe Operaia group, denouncing from his own working class basis the adventurism of its “falsely workerist” discourse. 58 At the congress, then, the political line of the Party succumbs to yet another twist to the right and passes, after the defeat of the “left,” to the thesis of the “failure of the center-left.” Thus, after the 11th Congress, the slogan of mass workers’ entryism into the PCI, or rather into the “party in the factory,” will fully display its idealistic and fanciful nature. But even in this case a mystification is still operative – as we have already emphasized: this action on the part of the workers is not taken as evidence of failure, as the occasion for a self-criticism capable of uncovering the deficiency and ideological abstraction of one’s own analyses; the workers’ passivity in the PCI is not taken for what it is, but is rather as always transformed, from the heights of the workers’ ideal Subjectivity, into a brilliant new move on the part of the working class. Now – it is said – the workers do not want to enter the PCI in order to revolutionize it, that is, to change its culture and internal nature; now they enter the Party with the specific aim of utilizing it as it is. In this way, the workers’ defeat – their defeat within the Party – is read, paradoxically, as the umpteenth triumphant move of a working class that is believed to be permanently active and on the attack. With this new stunt, the presence of Mediation emerges definitively and in all of its dimensions. From this moment the ballet of surreptitious mediations and interpolations emerges into the light of day: now it is completely visible. It is not by chance that, again in Florence, Mario Tronti will affirm that the group’s political limit manifests “in the immediate application” of the thesis of a strategic reversal between class and capital: “today we instead find ourselves faced with the need to find certain concrete mediations in the application of this guiding principle to the history of the workers’ struggles.” 59 The becoming-visible of Mediation coincides as well with Tronti’s “passage” to a more openly Hegelian problematic, to an apparently more consistent “object and objectivity.” In this manner the final issue of Classe Operaia, which had appeared a few months before, suddenly becomes obsolete: the slogan “No to social-democratic unification – unity of the left to leave open the possibility of a clash between workers and capital” is totally abandoned. Now, it is possible for Tronti to hypothesize that “a stretch of road (may) be laid jointly by the working class and capital,” and thus that it is possible to hypothesize a long period of capitalist development in the presence of a political power in the hands of the workers’ party, but – this is the novelty! – as it is or even as it may become:
When I speak of the party […] I clearly do not refer to the PCI such as it is, but also to a possible general social democratic solution to the organization of the workers’ movement […]. Tactics does not exclude any solution. 60
In short, there is nothing left of the struggle against social democracy: now the workers appear to have acquired the capacity to utilize everything, even social democracy itself.
Rita Di Leo – Tronti’s most faithful follower – in this period often likes to repeat (taking Tronti’s discourse to the extreme, perhaps out of a love for paradox) that even within the PRI [Italian Republican Party] it might be possible to do fruitful work for the working class: as we know, the Spirit incarnates itself everywhere, in all things, without any restraint. 61
In his 1971 postscript to the second edition of Operai e capitale, Tronti, following the consistent logic of his discourse, makes the sensational discovery that “American politics of yesterday (could) be our historical present of today.” 62 The New Deal, therefore – again according to Tronti – may have been a political state of affairs that the workers imposed on the bosses: “the great capitalist initiative was a victory for the workers.” 63 Roosevelt’s entirely political action – the profound transformation of the separate sphere of the Political – is therefore the positive result of the working class struggle, a result that the working class had consciously pursued: “the truth is that the Weberian conception of totally and exclusively political action could perhaps only have been fully applied from the workers’ point of view.” 64
Thus does the form of pure politics finally come to light – the positivity of exclusively political action, in short the primacy of the political struggle: only that in each of these figures, within, namely, the various articulations of modern political alienation, Tronti discovers every time, by divinatory means, the presence of the working class (or rather, of the workers’ Spirit), in short the workers’ Will, which, according to Tronti, is able to functionalize for its own ends all of the existing political articulations of Power without worrying in the slightest about their class character or alienating nature. But this direct relation between the working class and the political sphere, or rather this immediate use of Mediation, is above all imaginary and thus doomed to vanish when faced with reality.
In 1968-69, new struggles explode that show no sign of flowing back; instead they extend and generalize themselves ever more, attacking, with their destructive charge, not only Capital and its State but also – and this is the point – the representative institutions of the workers’ movement. At this point Tronti finds himself in a truly embarrassing situation: compelled by the preceding low ebb in the struggles and working-class passivity during the years 1964-66, he was forced to partially correct the logic of his discourse in order to preserve intact his ideal Subject; he was forced to rediscover Hegel in order to bring into the open the effective presence of Mediation. Now, however, that the owl of Minerva has taken flight, it is suddenly day, and the night reveals itself to have been the effect of a simple eclipse. But the owl cannot stop or turn back, it can only close its eyes and continue its flight into the imaginary darkness of its own night. In short, this relation of identity between class and Party, and (mediated by the party) between class and State, is thus condemned, by the intensity and by the new quality of the social struggles – and in the first place by the practical criticism of the Political – to break off and wrap itself in ever-more paradoxical contradictions. But we ought not to be surprised: paradoxicality represents the most natural progression for an idealist mode of thought – such as, precisely, Tronti’s.
The years 1968-72 – those five long years of exceptional workers’ and social struggles – will definitively break that link of identity, or rather the immediate instrumental relation of “Politics,” and will finally produce in Tronti’s mind the rather original thesis according to which “Politics” (and in particular the Party) are entirely “autonomous”: autonomous even from the working class itself, from its struggles, from its subjectivity, from its interests and needs. 65 Now the “class” – it is presumed – concedes full autonomy to its “party,” liberating it even from the too-tight bonds represented by its own struggles and its own real movement: the “class” treats its own subjectivity and its own struggles with contempt, as particular moments deprived of real importance. The real movement is now pure appearance, and the “party,” on the contrary, is the real substance of the “class.” Now the Party can also dispense with the apparent reality of struggles. Now the “class” only indirectly “pulls all the strings.” The “party,” now that the “class” has granted it full autonomy, may calmly oppose itself to the workers’ struggles, may calmly suppress them, inasmuch as it knows itself to be, in any case, the most authentic expression of the “class”; it is the expression, all the same, of its most intimate Truth.
Now, however, spurred by recent events and by the widespread reemergence of the real movement, and under attack from the massive criticism of the Political mounted by new collective subjects, under attack from the crisis of credibility that is racking the PCI, Tronti gives the the thesis of the “autonomy of the Political” a twist, apparently to the left. In reality it is a matter (as always) of a consistent development of his thought, of a further conceptual articulation of the thesis of the “autonomy of the Political”: when the Spirit is rigorously immanent, it possesses the capacity to traverse every reality while conserving in the new that which it has moved beyond, thus firmly preserving, with every new step, its own identity. What is important is the mobility, the restlessness of this Spirit that at all times must prove itself capable of possessing and dominating everything new that emerges from the real: every “new” reality that emerges – Tronti writes, significantly – “must not displace, must not foreclose, namely, the defense of the already done, the already said.” 66 It must not foreclose, for example, the defense of the “autonomy of the Political” – the “already said”; if anything, it should rather compel us to search for richer articulations and further developments of this thesis: in short, it should compel us to find a way to preserve the past through change. The emphasis seems to be newly placed on the immediate identity of class and Party: in reality this new step in Trontian discourse represents – as we will soon see – an even more refined way to preserve the autonomy of the Party from the class; to preserve, exactly, that mediation, represented by the concept of “autonomy,” that allows the (workers’) Spirit, even in the presence of a real movement, to yet again incarnate itself in the Party, or rather to ideally identify itself with it.
“The practice of mass politics, its recovery by the class, the direct appropriation of its political functions by the workers, is” – Tronti writes – “an achievement that must be wrested from this society:” although this step is rather generic, it appears, in some respects, to be a correct description of what is stirring in the movement. 67 In reality, on closer inspection the concept of the “political” utilized here is extremely ambiguous and already contains in itself all of the separateness that characterizes the political Sphere of Representation. There is a radical difference between the political will of the masses and social subjects and the political Will of the Party and the State: the latter is in fact equivalent to the alienation of the first. The first will is concrete because it is lived, in a non-alienated way, by the collective subject, the second is abstract because this subject is separate and is itself a source of atomization and passivity. Thus, to affirm, as Tronti does in repeating Schmitt’s lessons verbatim, that the “Political” is not exhausted in the State, but is rather present outside of it among the mass movements as well, without clearly distinguishing between these various moments of the “political,” and, to the contrary – given that the concept of “autonomy” must certainly persist – continuously confusing non-representational politics with representational Politics: this is pure nominalism, a real ideological swindle that is equivalent, in effect, to an apologia for the world of fetishes and the concealment of real social subjects. In Tronti’s discourse, in fact, the “process of the distribution of the political, the entry of new social forces into the political, the birth of new political subjects,” are formulations that conceptually contain in themselves the ambiguity of referring at once to the real movement and to the representative institutions, such as, for example, the parties of the workers’ movement. 68 In other words the ambiguity lies in the fact that for Tronti the “entry into the Political” of “new social forces” resolves, for the latter, as a real mortal leap into Representation. Indeed, if there is a “need to make strategy, a will to look into the distance, a revolt against the day-to-day routine that rises from below,” is this not perhaps the same as saying that the need to alienate oneself in the separate organization of the Party rises from below? 69 On the other hand, for Tronti the “new political subjects” do not indeed represent the new movements born from within the social, but rather those political parties which are, or will be, those movements’ representation. And Tronti himself confirms that this is so when he writes that “alongside the State there have appeared other stakeholders, other subjects [emphasis added] of political reality, in the form of the parties.” 70 It is thus clear that “this achievement,” which for Tronti must be “wrested from this society,” is unthinkable with this subject that is the Party; or rather it seems to be precisely this Subject that, in the name of the masses, directly practices the reappropriation of the “functions of the political.”
These are the steps, then, in brief: in a first moment, the Spirit, by objectifying itself in the Party, makes the Party identical to itself. After this, having registered the class’ opposition to the Party, it renders the Party autonomous from the class of which it is, exactly, the Spirit. Thus autonomized, the Party now makes the “needs” of the real movement mystically emerge anew. In other words, in Tronti’s later writings, the return of the Identical is not indeed equivalent to the overcoming of the Party’s autonomy, but is rather its consistent development: that is, its development towards being the Spirit that is identical to the Party, but which is also mediated, in its identity, by the same Party’s autonomy. This autonomy, in its own turn, no longer appears to oppose the real movement of the class, but rather now appears to reconcile and to reunite the movement to itself, thus recovering its proper legitimacy.
Thus, with this magisterial tourniquet, the PCI is once again saved, and the real movement once again concealed. 71
This essay was originally published in the review Classe, no. 17, June 1980. The translation is based on a reprint in Vis-à-vis, no. 8 (2000): 172-88.
1. ↑ Both the present introductory essay and the translation that follows have benefited from exchanges with Marco Schulz (who first alerted me to Sbardella’s text), Harrison Fluss, and Jason E. Smith.
2. ↑ Steve Wright’s book, Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002) is the most complete account of the development of workerism that has been published to date. It is worth mentioning that Riccardo Bellofiore and Massimiliano Tomba’s afterword to the Italian edition of this book agrees in some respects with the analysis found in Sbardella’s much earlier essay (available as “On Italian Workerism,” on libcom.org).
3. ↑ No full English translation of this book yet exists, although French and German versions were published in the 1970s.
4. ↑ The title refers to the Soviet New Economic Policy that was inaugurated in 1921. The NEP marked a transition from the period of War Communism to a partial reintroduction of capitalist relations in the USSR; it therefore stands here, figuratively, for Classe Operaia’s compromise with the enemy.
5. ↑ The entire run of Vis-à-vis is available at http://web.tiscalinet.it/visavis/arretrati.htm.
6. ↑ I am grateful to Riccardo Bellofiore for confirming the biographical details in this paragraph.
7. ↑ On this point, see our “Gentilismo e tradizione idealistica nell’esperienza politica di ‘Classe Operaia,’” in AA.VV., Le maschere delle politica la rivoluzione possibile, ed. Ottaviano (Milan, 1979).
8. ↑ One thing must however be said clearly: that in the face of the passive objectivism of the Third Internationalist and Togliattian ideological tradition, these comrades forcefully posed the problem, even if in an idealized form, of the primacy of collective subjectivity and of the relations of production, demonstrating the possibility of another reading of social reality. (the new class composition, the mass worker, the factory-society relation, the new characteristics of capitalist development, the political character of wage struggles, the struggle against “work,” the need for communism, etc). Translator’s note: Palmiro Togliatti was the leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death in 1964.
9. ↑ Explanations that do not take account of the fundamental dimensions of this theory are inevitably condemned to partiality and necessarily lose their political efficaciousness. See on this point: Viottorio Riese, “Quaderni rossi,” “Rendiconti,” no. 10, 1965; also, Mario Valente, Ideologia e potere (Turin, 1978).
10. ↑ Translator’s note: Tronti used the phrase “rude pagan race” to describe the proletariat in his article “Estremismo e riformismo,” Contropiano no. 1, 1968, 51-58.
11. ↑ Mario Tronti, Operai e capitale (Turin: Einaudi, 1966). Significant, here, is the position of those who, while having autonomously elaborated the most important themes of workerism, today choose the easy path of exclusively historical-chronological reconstruction, avoiding in this way the difficult task of critically rethinking their own theoretical-political experience. See on this point: Sergio Bologna, “Così visse e morì Potere Operaio,” il manifesto, March, 25, 1979. Do not overlook, however, the subsequent clarifications contained in “Contro la strategia della confusione,” il manifesto, April 11, 1979.
12. ↑ Translator’s note: The term “partito-strumento,” which I’ve translated as “party instrument,” defines the party not as instrumental in end but as an instrument itself, thereby further disavowing any tendency toward the autonomy of the political apparatus from the struggle that articulates it.
13. ↑ “The historical characteristic of the class situation in Italy is shown in the open form that the struggle assumes in all situations and on every occasion […]. The anti-capitalist political capability that is present in the working class everywhere where capitalist production exists is here expressed in the continuously [emphasis added] aggressive form of direct confrontation. This characteristic is not diminishing, but has rather grown and become more radical.” [Emphasis added.] (“Intervento politico nelle lotte,” Classe Operaia, no. 6, June 1964.
14. ↑ See on this question: Raniero Panzieri, “Lettera a Mario Tronti” (December 12, 1960), in Scritti, interventi, lettere (Milan, 1973), 283.
15. ↑ In effect the March issue (no. 2) may be considered a working report, being an issue of only four pages. It is largely dedicated to the workers’ struggles in Milan and Turin that had exploded in the month of December. “Against the articulated struggle, the general strike”: this was the key slogan contained in this report. The flyer dedicated to the 3rd Conference of Communists in the factories was published in May as a supplement to issue no. 2. The October issue was published as a double issue, although it had fewer pages compared to the numbers of the previous year.
16. ↑ This is a contradiction that is also expressed in the ever-more oligarchic and separated conduct of the journal. Given that the source of every decision was made to coincide with the workers’ Subjectivity, which is thought to automatically express its own strategy, the initial project presupposed decentered moments of elaboration that would be autonomous and directly managed by the workers. The sole issue of Cronache Operaie partially reflects this program. At the turn of the ‘70s, Cahiers de Mai would realize this program with greater success. Translator’s note: Les Cahiers de Mai was a French journal that began publication immediately after the events of May 1968 and ran until 1974. It was characterized especially by the practice of workers’ inquiry.
17. ↑ Lenin, in fact, by virtue of his objectivist understanding of the class, is able to keep hold of the qualitative differences that exist between class and Party. Or rather: in Lenin, the class is absolutized as a passive object, and the Party is considered the only true Subject. Therefore: what a strange “Leninism” is Tronti’s! Not understanding the particularity of this Trontian reading of Lenin’s works, Lapo Berti, for example, let it slip into a (logical) trap of perspective; he sees, in Tronti’s first editorial, the birth of the “autonomy of the Political,” but not as a logico-political articulation within a subjectivist concept of the class, but rather – this is the point! – as the coherent result of an exclusively objectivist conception. This is a paradoxical result, and we think that it serves to safeguard the old workerist conception of the class as a continuüm, which is exactly that of Tronti and which he never really abandoned. See, Lapo Berti, “L’idea del potere,” Aut Aut, no. 169, 1979.
18. ↑ M. Tronti, op. cit. A hypostatized methodological reversal which provokes a radical refoundation, but with the same historical-sociological ideal: “The discourse of Classe operaia in ’63 opened on a strategic perspective; in it the ‘global unification of markets’ and the ‘plan of capital’ were seen as historical expressions of complex social capital and were discovered to be the product of a continuous [emphasis added] development of the working class.” (M. Tronti, “Si pianifica solo la contrattazione,” Classe operaia, no. 4-5, 1965.) This is an idealism that absolutizes the real fact of development as the capitalist response to the workers’ struggles, while remaining entirely in the dark about the other fact, just as real, of the class as a historical formation determined and made passive by capital. “What one gathers [as Panzieri rightly said, recalling the words of a Spanish anarchosyndicalist] is that capitalism lives by autosuggestion.” (R. Panzieri, “Inediti,” Quaderni Piacentini, no. 28, 1967.
19. ↑ See: AA.VV., “Capitale e classe operaia alla Fiat, Seminario sulla composizione di classe,” held at the Giovanni Francovich Center, Florence, 1978. Translator’s note: the reference is to Gianni Agnelli, a Fiat executive and head of the company from 1966 onward. He was perhaps Italy’s most prominent industrialist during the turbulent years of the 1960s and ‘70s.
20. ↑ Emilio Reynieri, “Comportamento di classe e nuovo ciclo di lotte,” in Problemi del movimento sindicale in Italia 1943-73, “Annali” della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 1974-75.
21. ↑ Let us remember here that Tronti, precisely in the editorial of the first issue of Classe operaia, writes: “Today it is urgently necessary to shake off this air of workers’ defeat […] Today the workers’ totally clear strategic vision makes one suspect that only now are we beginning to experience the hour of their splendid maturity.” M. Tronti, op. cit.
22. ↑ Hypostatized subjectivity – this permanent subjectivity – is very clearly expressed in the following passage: “Now, everyone must know that from at least June 1848, though cursed a thousand times by the bourgeoisie, the workers have climbed onto the scene and have never since abandoned it [emphasis added]: they have voluntarily chosen, from time to time, to present themselves in different roles, as actors, as prompters, as technicians, as workers, waiting to descend into the audience to attack the spectators.” (Ibid.
23. ↑ The working class “has discovered or rediscovered the true secret which will condemn its class enemy to violent death: the political capacity to skillfully impose reformism on capital and to crudely utilize it for the workers’ revolution.” (Ibid.
24. ↑ Tronti in fact writes: “Lenin in England is the search for a new Marxist practice of the workers’ party.”
25. ↑ Ibid.
26. ↑ Ibid. Thus, as early as this first editorial, the workers’ Spirit – this ideal subjectivity – incarnates itself in the figure of the Political, and, through it, shows one of its infinite faces: “It is political discourse” – Tronti writes, significantly – “that must verify the correctness of particular experiences: and vice versa. Because political discourse is, on this basis, the total viewpoint of the class [emphasis added] and therefore the real material datum of this same real process” (ibid.); here this confusion between class (materiality) and Party (Politics) is newly presented.
27. ↑ At issue is an unsigned article entitled “Critica marxista del Partito?” in Classe operaia, no. 2, February 1964. Translator’s note: Critica Marxista was founded in 1963 as the theoretical journal of the PCI. It still exists, having suffered only a short break in publication following the collapse of the PCI in 1991.
29. ↑ T. Negri, “Operai senza alleati,” Classe operaia, no. 3, March 1964.
30. ↑ M. Tronti, “Vecchia tattica per una nuova strategia,” Classe operaia, no. 4-5, May 1964.
31. ↑ “Lottiamo per la nostra organizzazione,” Classe operaia, supplement to no. 6, June 1964.
32. ↑ M. Tronti, “1905 in Italia,” Classe operaia, no. 8-9, September 1964.
33. ↑ With this issue the participation of the Genoese group also comes to an end.
34. ↑ M. Tronti, “Classe e partito,” Classe operaia, no. 10-12, December 1964.
36. ↑ Ibid. As regards the critique of the populism of the communist matrix, see also: Alberto Asor Rosa, Scirttori e popolo, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1964. Translator’s note: the term “historic bloc” derives from Antonio Gramsci, whose works were regarded as canonical within the postwar PCI. The concept refers to an alliance of social forces that successfully exerts hegemony.
37. ↑ A. Asor Rosa, “Partito nuovo, partito unico, partito di classe,” in Classe Operaia, no. 1, February 1965. Translator’s note: in this context, the phrase partito unico refers to the proposal to unite the Italian parties of left into a single, broadly social democratic rather than revolutionary party.
38. ↑ A. Norfi, “Manca l’organizzazione di classe,” Classe Operaia, op. cit.
39. ↑ Romano Alquati, “Una ricerca sulla struttura interna della classe operaia in Italia,” Classe Operaia, op. cit.
40. ↑ On this point see: T. Negri, “Lenin e i Soviet nella revoluzione,” Classe operaia, op. cit.
41. ↑ “Sì al partito di classe,” Classe Operaia, no. 3, May 1965. In early July of 1965, on the occasion of a national metallurgists’ strike to be held on the 13th of that month, the Torinese group distributes a flyer under the headline “Il Movimento di Classe Operaia.” Here one reads that: “The Communist Party is not composed only of managers (even if up to the present they have always made all the decisions); there are also worker militants. And it is these that we address ourselves.” “As of now, the party in the factory may function if the working class leads it to these perspectives” – this is written in another flyer that the Tuscan group distributed in November with a view to the deadline for the metallurgists’ contract, under the heading “Classe operaia,” Florence-Pisa-Livorno, and dated November 1965. The “Circolo operaio” is a direct emanation of the Roman group (Tronti, Asor Rosa, Di Leo, Coldagelli, De Caro, etc.): “On the initiative of a group of militant comrades in the political and trade union organizations of the working class, the “Circolo operaio romano” [Roman Workers’ Circle] was constituted,” reads a mimeograph from March. In June the first working report is published and circulated, under the title “Lotte operaie e programma capitalistico” [Working Class Struggles and the Capitalist Program]. Also in June they organize a debate held at the Teatro dei Satiri on the theme “Partito unico e partito di classe” [Single party and class party], with interventions by Giorgio Migliardi (FGS [Federation of Young Socialists] of PSIUP [Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity]), Claudio Petruccioli (FGCI [Italian Communist Youth Federation]), Lucio Colletti and, as always, Mario Tronti. Translator’s note: The FGS was the youth organization of the Italian Socialist Party (POS). PSIUP was a leftist split from the PSI that existed from 1964 to 1972. The FGCI was the youth organization of the PCI.
42. ↑ Rita Di Leo, “Operai e PCI, Storia di un rapporto difficile,” Classe Operaia, op. cit.
43. ↑ Translator’s note: The 11th Congress of the Italian Communist Party took place in January, 1966.
44. ↑ M. Tronti, “Una sola unificazione tra classe e partito,” Classe Operaia, op. cit.
46. ↑ A. Asor Rosa, “Le ambguità si chiariscono,” in Classe Operaia, no. 1, May 1966.
47. ↑ M. Tronti, “Fronte unico contro la socialdemocrazia,” Classe operaia, op. cit.
48. ↑ On this point, see also: M. Tronti, “Non è l’ora della socialdemocrazia, è l’ora di batterla per la prima volta da sinistra” (transcript of the Conference held in Florence, April 2, at the Giovanni Francovich Center), Classe operaia, op. cit.
49. ↑ Translator’s note: the PSDI, or Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, split from the PSI in 1947. The PSDI did in fact merge with the PSI in 1966, but the union would last only two years. PSIUP was founded as a split from the PSI in 1964. For the most part they favored coöperation, but not merger, with the PCI. Following a poor showing in the 1972 elections, a majority of PSIUP members left to join the PCI, while a minority would go on to found the Partito di Unità Proletaria (Party of Proletarian Unity, or PdUP).
50. ↑ A. Asor Rosa, Classe Operaia, op. cit.
51. ↑ “L’alternativa alla socialdemocrazia: unificazione a sinistra,” in Classe Operaia, no. 2, October 1966.
52. ↑ The flyer is dated “Porto Marghera-Bologna, October 15, 1966,” and signed “Potere operaio and the Venetian-Emilian editorial board of Classe Operaia.” Translator’s note: a number of groups calling themselves Potere Operaio, or Workers’ Power, formed in various parts of Northern Italy in the mid- to late-‘60s, although the unified group of this name was not officially founded until 1969. Potere Operaio leaders in the Veneto included Toni Negri and others involved with Classe Operaia. The group disbanded in 1973.] To reread it today is to be surprised by its lucidity and capacity to foresee, even then, the tendency that now prevails within the official workers’ movement. See also the flyer entitled “La tregua è una trappola” [“The truce is a trap”] (the requested truce between Intersind [Translator’s note: an organization representing Italian public sector enterprises] and Confindustria [Translator’s note: Italian employers’ federation]; the flyer signed “gruppi di azione proletaria,” [Group of Proletarian Action] “Potere operaio,” Padua-Porto Marghera-Vicenza-Pordenone, is dated May 20, 1966; and the flyer “Compagni” (a response to a PCI flyer which severely attacks the group Potere operaio), entitled “Potere operaio,” Venetian editorial staff of Classe operaia, dated Porto Marghera, May 30, 1966, in which one reads the following: “If this organization of the class vanguard is missing, the entire working class will necessarily find itself – when the push to struggle for contracts, without political guidance, is exhausted – without a political guide, without its own political force.” After the chemists enter the field, another mimeograph is circulated (a document of four pages), also entitled “Potere operaio,” signed by the Venetian editorial collective of Classe operaia and dated October 7, 1966. Among other things, we here read that: “The existence of a mass social democratic party guarantees at least this fact: the isolation of struggles at sectoral levels, in revindicative, unionist terms. European experience clearly teaches us that. At this time the working class has no weapons other than the political growth and effective generalization of the struggle.”
53. ↑ M. Tronti, “Classe, partito, classe,” Classe operaia, no. 3 (in reality, no. 1), March 1967.
54. ↑ In the same issue of Classe operaia in which Tronti attempts to focus on the boundaries of the “new continent,” Negri concludes his article thusly: “What are the forms through which the international working class threatens capitalist development? This is the new scientific question, the new horizon of both knowledge and organization.” In Toni Negri, “Cronache del ceto politico,” Classe operaia, op. cit. Translator’s note: Contropiano was published from 1968 to 1971. Numerous members of Classe operaia continued to work together at Contropiano, among them Tronti, Negri, and Asor Rosa, although Negri would break from the group after the first issue as a result of disagreements with Tronti.
A major political insight? It would in fact seem so. In fact, while Tronti completely abandons the specific level of struggles and of the social, as well as the analysis of the tendencies at work within the given composition of the working class, in order to make an entirely politicist choice and a totally acritical discovery of the historical institutions of the class, Negri intuits the meaning of that social magma that was expressed at the turn of 1967; he intuits that the struggles are about to start again and that the collective subject is about to reemerge. The definitive rupture would nevertheless come in 1968, when, riding the wave of the May struggles, Negri once again poses, against the Lenin of the NEP, the Lenin of the revolutionary “rupture,” the Lenin, that is, who situates the rupture “in that particular but necessary moment of development which is the crisis […]: here [writes Negri] the break is necessary and possible […]. And it is this Leninist experience of the break that is retrieved in the theoretical experience of the working class.” (T. Negri, “Marx sul ciclo e la crisi,” Contropiano, no. 2, 1968.)
Unfortunately, Negri’s polemic, due to the philosophical matrix of his thinking, does not succeed in overcoming and critically liquidating the idealism of the Subject. What Negri really criticizes and rejects is the passage, operative in Tronti, to a “dialectical” logic closer to that of Hegel and more available to political mediations and compromises with reality as it is; what he rejects, in sum, is the tauto-heterological moment of the interpenetration of opposites (which effectively, if not critically controlled, permits and justifies all sorts of practico-political operations). What results from this is a sort of (Kantian?) logic of separation and of real opposition ideally applied to history and to the struggles of the working class. A logic that itself has need, nonetheless, of a political mediation. And thus, in the case of Toni Negri, the mediation is still quite obscured behind the identification of Party with class: “Lenin,” as in early Tronti, is completely confused with the will-to-rupture (the hard struggle “against work”) on the part of the class, the “party” that, while maintaining its characteristics of tactical direction, and as the “necessary” subject, is ideally made identical with the general mass of workers. In Tronti’s case, on the contrary, the mediation is, now, entirely visible and the identity between the class and the Party is realized through its contrary, and thus by means of an ideal and therefore arbitrary dialectical leap. What must now be identified are two realities – the workers and the PCI – which, when they are not actually opposed to each other and openly in conflict, are nonetheless linked by a relationship of separation and alienation: in this case one would apparently surmise that the working class, in order to recover its “tactical articulations,” would be disposed to “utilize” the PCI through a series of self-negations and mediations. The divergences can no longer be silenced and recomposed. Contropiano publishes, at the end of Negri’s article, a brief statement with this notification to readers of the break that had occurred: “Due to substantial differences related to the political positioning of the journal, Toni Negri is leaving editorial staff with this issue.” The development of Negri’s thinking after the hot years of the struggle and within the real crisis of workers’ subjectivity will lead this author more and more to privilege (in a Foucaultian manner) all of those social realities external to the workers’ subjectivity which express themselves in the mode of irreducible opposition. We think that this logic has been one of the sources of all those political errors into which vast sectors of Autonomia Operaia have fallen in the last few years.
In fact, when the class is atomized and forced into the condition of passivity, the idealism of the Subject, once the logico-political mediations of the Trontian type have been rejected, is compelled to transfer its own attributes somewhere else, namely into those places where it can still incarnate itself in whatever is still oppositional. And it is thus that these characteristics, at first attributed to the united and active mass of the workers in struggle, become predicates either of the small fractions of the class that are still active but separate from one another, or of other “subjects” or social figures active solely in the sphere of the Abstract, or rather completely disconnected from the signifying structure of the System; or, even, of those vanguards constituted in “parties” which are completely disconnected from the concrete condition of the masses. Inevitably, this transmigration of the Spirit conceals the working class as a point of reference that is still central, just as it conceals the production process as the site for the formation of revolutionary subjectivity. What counts now is only the relation of “dominance”; and this relation emphasizes by contrast the “new revolutionary subjects.” To the effects of the disintegration of the productive fabric, decentralization, unemployment, and the marginalization of vast social sectors, one acritically affixes a positive sign, thus placing oneself in the position of not being able to identify the real positive tendencies of recomposition and the new unitary behaviors that, beneath the surface, are passing through the negative. When the negative is presented as positive, we are in the presence of a passive reflection of the crisis of the central revolutionary subject; we are in the presence, therefore, of a theory that, having been acritically constructed on the basis of the real disintegration induced by the class enemy, can do nothing other than present all the characteristics of subordination: in certain respects it also represents an apologia for the (economic and political) power of capitalism. Even if these theories indicate and interpret (though still distorting the meaning of) current tendencies or behaviors that are destined to contribute to the new composition of the class, they are nonetheless ideologies doomed to be swept away by the class itself when, recomposing itself as a unitary subject, it restarts a new cycle of struggles. On this point, see: T. Negri, Proletario e Stato, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1976; and also, Dominio e sabotaggio, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1978. Do not forget, however, Franco Piperno, “Sul lavoro non operaio,” Preprint, supplement to no. 0 of Metropoli; and also Oreste Scalzone, “Rapporto sullo Stato del movimento e i suoi nodi da sciogliere,” Preprint, op. cit. This last article in particular, although it still remains within the usual hypostatized logic of ideal subjectivism, nonetheless has the merit of limiting its references to “non-working class labor” and of partially bringing back the “working class refusal of work” to the movements of the class proper, or to that which is defined as “communism in progress”; it has the merit (even if the results are somewhat confused and at times even paradoxical) of not refusing an open and shut confrontation with the critique of the Political and with all those practical behaviors which have been expressed most recently as the collective reappropriation of the class’ own political will.
55. ↑ Translator’s note: the Federazione Giovanile Comunisti Italiani was the PCI’s youth organization.
56. ↑ Classe e partito, no. 1, November 1966. The second issue, in reality a working report, comes out in March of 1967.
57. ↑ A. Asor Rosa, “Da qui agli anni ’70,” Mondo Nuovo, no. 17, April 1968. Translator’s note: Mondo Nuovo was a PSIUP publication.
58. ↑ Emanuele Macaluso, “Partito e classe operaia,” Rinascita, no. 45, November 1965. The article in question contains a scathing response to two letters, sent to Giancarlo Pajetta, the director of the communist weekly, in defense of the positions of Classe operaia that are criticized in Accornero’s article. Aris Accornero, “‘Operaismo’ sterile,” Rinascita, no. 42, October 1965. In this article certain of Classe operaia’s positions are correctly reproduced and extensively quoted, while others are harshly criticized. The polemic contained in this article thus appears to be directed not so much to the positions of Classe operaia as to those of Mario Tronti, and to the political positions that Toni Negri had expressed in the article of issue no. 3, 1964, entitled “Operai senza alleati.”
59. ↑ M. Tronti, “La nuova sintesi: dentro e contro,” contribution at the Seminar on class composition, organized by the “Giovanni Francovich” Center, mimeograph, later published in Giovane critica, no. 17, Autumn 1967.
61. ↑ Translator’s note: the PRI is a centrist liberal party. In these years it was generally in alliance with the conservative Christian Democrats.
62. ↑ M. Tronti, Operai e capital, 2nd edition, Einaudi, Turin, 1971, 311.
63. ↑ Ibid., 292.
65. ↑ The theme of the “Autonomy of the political” appears for the first time as a central theme in the report Tronti held on the occasion of a meeting held at the University of Turin, December 5, 1972. The mimeograph document that appeared several months later contains, among other reports, Tronti’s discussion and conclusions. Edizione Feltrinelli would later publish the whole of it in 1975, with the addition of a second report and a brief introduction. On this point, see, by the same author, Hegel politico, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 1975; “La transizione,” in AA.VV., Stato e rivoluzione in Inghilterra, Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1977.
66. ↑ M. Tronti, “Politica e potere,” Critica marxista, no. 3, 1977.
71. ↑ In reference to this last rethinking, see also: M. Tronti, “La sinistra e la via di una ricerca comune,” l’Unità, September 26, 1978.
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Raffaele Sbardella is an Italian Marxist theorist once involved with the workerist journals Quaderni Rossi and Classe Operaia.
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Sadie Tronco, born to Charles and Anna Serio Carnaggio, on February 18, 1901, moved to Columbia with her parents and siblings around the year 1910. Charles Carnaggio owned one of the first fruit stores in Columbia, located on Gervais street close to Seaboard Railway Station.
During World War I, James Tronco was sent from his home in Philadelphia to Camp Jackson as a medic. There he met Sadie in her father’s fruit store and they married in 1918. They moved to Philadelphia and lived there for a few years before moving back to Columbia in 1930. They had four children- Joe, Charlie, Carmella and Anna Rose. Sadie and Jim opened a fruit store at 1901 Main Street. They named it Iodine Fruit Store because South Carolina was known for iodine in the soil. A few years later, they opened another fruit store at 1712 Main Street. During World War II, a lot of Northern soldiers of Italian descent were stationed at Fort Jackson and were homesick for their mother’s cooking, Sadie began making spaghetti and meatballs for those had become friendly with their family. The demand increased and Sadie, Mama Tronco, was thus the chef of the first Italian restaurant in Columbia. Mama Tronco also introduced pizza to Columbia and initially found herself giving it away because no one knew what it was.
Iodine Fruit Store turned into Iodine Grill and then Tony’s Spaghetti House. Now known as Villa Tronco, the restaurant still serves Mama’s treasured recipes. Mama Tronco, at age 87, was still actively engaged in the restaurant and came most days to see her family and friends until she passed away in 1988.
Family continued to be at the center of the restaurant. Mama Sadie’s Daughter, Carmella and her husband, Henry Martin were in the business with Mama for 41 years. In March 2012, Henry was selected as a recipient of the prestigious SEC Basketball Legends award for his achievement in being the first player to score 1,000 points for the Gamecocks during his basketball career. In August 2016, Carmella and Henry will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. They retired and turned the family business over to Carmella and Joe Roche in 1972 but are still frequently in the restaurant to visit family and friends.
In August 2015, Villa Tronco celebrated their 75th anniversary. Family and friends joined together and shared stories of their experiences over multiple generations. It was also a time for the family to thank all of their loyal patrons and their newest customers.
Joe and Carmella’s children, Bonner and Carmelina are active in the family business. Bonner, active in the wine industry, overseas the restaurant's wine selection. Him and his wife Kristen added to the family’s 5th generation with their sons, Joseph Bonner (Tripp), Donovan Peter, and their daughter Jorja Harris. Carmelina married Luis Nieto in July 2011 and took over baking Carmella’s Famous Cheesecakes from her grandmother.
Starting their own legacy,, Joe and Carmella initiated a new tradition, Broadway and Opera Nights at Villa Tronco. Upon reservation, guests join together to listen to local singers perform whilst enjoying our full menu. The restaurant building, declared a historic landmark, was restored to preserve as much of the original building as possible . The old walls carry the acoustics beautifully throughout the music filled evenings. In the back dining room you can also see the original stable doors from the old firehouse.
The restaurant's continued success is certainly a reflection of strong family values and the hard work ethic passed down by Mama Tronco throughout the generations. The family continues to carry on their beloved traditions and is grateful for the new endeavors to come.
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Music, Society
A VOX ATL Report: LGBTQ Voices In Hip-Hop — Are They Heard?
VOX ATL • Jul 31, 2019
Back in the day, if you were a gay artist, you wouldn’t dare say one word about it. The homophobia back then was stronger, but how strong is it now?
Credit Charli Brooks / Courtesy of VOX ATL
Hip-hop has gone through many changes that have shaped into different stages and categories. But with recent movements to respect people’s sexuality and new laws that allow same-sex marriage, will the booming industry try to make a change, too?
What if some guy was gay and wanted to become a hip-hop artist?
Now, a lot of hip-hop artists do identify as gay or lesbian but don’t really show it outside of their own personal space. An awful lot of them don’t sing/rap about their true sexuality either.
They’ll usually sing about the stereotypical topics in rap songs, girls if they’re boys, and boys if they’re girls. Boys rapping about any part of a girl’s body, the way they act, etc. Girls rapping about men and their “manliness.” You know, the usual.
But, there are a select few who do not bring these stereotypes into their music.
For example, Frank Ocean.
In his 2012 song “Forrest Gump,” his lyrics reveal his true sexuality when he sings, “Forrest Gump you run my mind, boy/Running on my mind, boy.”
How the world treats homosexual content in hip-hop has received mixed opinions. Back in the day, if you were a gay artist, you wouldn’t dare say one word about it.
The homophobia back then was stronger, but how strong is it now?
People of the same-sex can happily marry each other. People can walk the streets with Pride clothing and go to public clubs to enjoy themselves.
However, can they sing about it without facing backlash? Can they integrate themselves into genres of music that are closed off to homosexuals?
If you’re popular enough, your songs will most likely blow up in a relatively good way.
In 2013, heterosexual rapper Macklemore had a big hit with the gay ally anthem “Same Love” that went viral around the world.
The cover art for the song features a gay couple, and the lyrics dive into homosexuality that involves a gay wedding. During the 2014 Grammys, Macklemore and Madonna performed “Same Love” as 33 same-sex couples got married during the live telecast.
More recently, viral sensation Lil Nas X, came out on the last day of Pride Month, June 30.
some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care, some of y’all not gone fwm no more. but before this month ends i want y’all to listen closely to c7osure. 🌈🤩✨ pic.twitter.com/O9krBLllqQ
— nope (@LilNasX) June 30, 2019
Some fans on social media said that they couldn’t listen to him anymore because that’d be considered gay or they’d turn gay.
Not everyone sees it as a problem and will probably continue to listen to him without any complications (because his songs are really very good). But the world is cruel and to stay safe, most choose to blend in.
In an interview for VOX ATL, Anye Elite, a rapper best known for his contributions to Atlanta’s LGBTQ community, talked about how he felt while rapping or making lyrics to his latest songs.
“Sometimes, I can still get a little embarrassed about some of my lyrics, and it’s not because I’m embarrassed about who I am, but I do think just talking about love and liking people. It can be really hard to sometimes be out in the open about that. I think that’s the reason why I keep going, though, is that there are a lot of people who benefit from seeing or hearing at least from stories, even people who aren’t gay. The earlier people are able to see other examples of how people live, the better the world is for it.”
Lizzo, a fast-growing hip-hop artist who identifies as a gay ally, raps about whatever she wants without hesitation.
Le1f, another gay artist, raps, “I see it in his eyes, he can’t handle that/ Thinking I’m the prize in his Cracker Jacks/ I’m making him melt like candle wax,” on his hit single “Koi.”
Other rappers are more subtle and vague, whereas they may leave you confused when they hint at “something” but they’re not entirely clear about it.
On Tyler, the Creator’s album “Flower Boy,” he basically comes out on the song, “I Ain’t Got Time,” rapping “I’ve been kissing white boys since 2004.” But, because of his comical reputation, people don’t take him seriously.
In 2012, Syd the Kid from the band The Internet publicly displayed her sexual orientation and beliefs in the song “Cocaine.”
She was asked by LA Weekly why she decided to come out in the hit song.
“I decided to do it because I wish I had someone like that [an openly gay female artist] while I was coming up. People write on my Tumblr just thanking me for making the video, saying that I really inspire them, and they want to be like me. I put myself out there because I’m sick of people asking. I’ve been asked it so many times. It’s annoying, it’s like, you can’t answer that yourself? Do I look straight to you?”
Some famous hip-hop artists have accepted the community, sometimes in song and in person.
For example, openly gay rapper Chris Conde shared a story where late rapper Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys appeared to accept it.
In the 2005 song “Yes Yes Y’all,” Bill rapped: “Don’t like fa**ots/Hate politicians/Can’t stand snitches/Know the feds listen.” Fast forward to 2018, Conde was performing at the same show as Bill at SXSW. After Conde closed his show with a message promoting LGBTQ rights, Bill took the stage and said, “That’s what’s up. That’s what hip-hop is all about — expressing your own individual journey.”
The world is steadily changing and becoming more accepting with the LGBTQ community. Hopefully, the hip-hop industry is not far behind.
This story was published at VOXATL.org, Atlanta’s home for uncensored teen publishing and self-expression. For more about the nonprofit VOX, visit www.voxatl.org.
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GWMS Keynote Preview: How to Finance the Transition to a Zero Waste Future
Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and co-founder of the Planet Pledge Fund, gives a preview of his upcoming keynote session at GWMS.
Mallory Szczepanski | Jan 12, 2018
The biggest economic opportunity in the history of the planet is figuring out how to finance the transition to a zero waste future, according to Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and co-founder of the Planet Pledge Fund.
“Investing in converting waste to valuable materials is of interest to investors because of climate change, tremendous pressure on natural ecosystems, better technology for conversion and the need to harvest more materials locally,” says Tamminen.
For many years, those in the industry have harvested some recyclables locally and sent the rest to countries like China to make a profit. But now, China’s waste import ban is in effect and driving up the demand to use and manage more materials locally.
At the upcoming Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS), which is being held at the Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort & Space in Indian Wells, Calif., February 11-14, Tamminen will address this economic opportunity and what it means for those in the waste and recycling industry. He recently sat down with us to provide a preview of his keynote session.
Waste360: Why do you believe that figuring out how to finance the transition to a zero waste future is the biggest economic opportunity in the history of the planet?
Terry Tamminen: Right now, we are going through such great extremes to get raw materials, which is both hard and expensive. There are people cutting down trees for wood, paper and pulp, people marching in armies around the globe to secure the next barrel of oil and people mining to get various raw materials. It’s truly insane that we turn these raw materials into great products just to throw them away and start all over again. I believe within the next 10 to 15 years that we will start to see urban mining of landfills to get those materials given that the technology of conversion is getting better and better.
The economics and politics of cutting down trees, drilling for oil and mining are getting harder and more expensive, which is making our own backyard look better and better. If you do things in your own backyard, you can create local jobs, start new businesses and develop new value in the community where those materials exist.
At the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, we have supported many nonprofits in places around the globe working in diverse locations such as Algeria and Los Angeles, and we have helped people see the opportunity and harvest as much as 80 percent of the material that was previously going to landfill. That recycled content was then converted locally into valuable products and materials. This process kept value within the community, took pressure off natural ecosystems, created local jobs and turned waste liability into valuable assets at a low cost.
The waste industry right now is where things like solar and natural gas were years ago when they were expensive and not widely adopted. As the prices of solar and natural gas came down, the dynamic shifted and those things became more obvious and attractive to investors. The opportunities in the waste industry right now are becoming more obvious and attractive so more and more investors are supporting the industry as we make the shift toward a zero waste future.
Waste360: Technology is entering the waste and recycling industry at a rapid pace. How can capital combined with best-in-class technologies maximize the value of particular waste streams?
Terry Tamminen: New technologies can make it possible and more economically efficient to find new homes for materials that were never going to be exported to other countries, such as glass, e-waste and bulk waste. These technologies also provide opportunities for partnerships between recycling facilities and companies that are converting the recyclables into valuable products or materials.
In Algeria, for example, we supported the R20 Regions of Climate Action to help the country achieve a zero waste campus model where the materials resource facility partnered with the companies that were converting the recyclables into something useful. We helped co-locate these companies so that they saved on the cost of transportation and eliminated some of the uncertainties.
In L.A. and other parts of the U.S., companies like Nestle are willing to make global deals for secured recycled feedstock so you can take some of the risk out of the agreements and eliminate or reduce some of your costs by co-locating with the source of the feedstock.
A lot of investors are looking for “green investments,” but there’s only so much money that you can put into things like solar farms. Therefore, the biggest economic investment opportunity in the history of the planet is in waste because it takes something that we already have and offers opportunities to create valuable materials and products. It also solves problems like food insecurity by putting presorted or edible food back into the food system. Technology is helping to push the waste industry in the right direction, and I do feel there is a lot of value and opportunity in this industry.
Waste360: What can GWMS attendees expect to take away from your keynote?
Terry Tamminen: First, a reassurance that they are in the right business. Many people in the industry may be sitting on the next Uber, Apple or Tesla and they may not even know it. I grew up in the 1960s in Milwaukee, and my parents always used to tell me that I had to do well in school or else I would end up being a garbage man. But knowing what I know today, I wish they would have told me to do well in school so that I could be a garbage man. I really want to inject some optimism into the people who are in this industry because we’re at a tipping point now from various dynamics that will make this industry the most valuable industry on the planet.
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Situated just over five miles to the south west of Reading, Tyle Mill moorings is an idyllic spot from which to explore the Kennet & Avon Canal.
There are two mooring areas, both on the towpath above and below the lock, which currently provide space for up to 11 boats in total.
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The mooring site is in Tyle Mill, within half a mile of the village of Sulhamstead. Approach from the A4 along Sulhamstead Hill Road.
Access to the mooring site is from the west side of Tyle Mill swing bridge (23) and Tyle Mill lock (Lock 99). The site is located along the towpath.
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All facilities are located at or near to the sanitary station, which is on the offside of the canal to the east of Tyle Mill Lock (opposite the moorings).
There is a large CRT car park to the west of Bridge 23 (Tyle Mill Swing Bridge) and additional parking by the sanitary facilities opposite. The car parks are for public use and spaces for boaters are not guaranteed or reserved.
The mooring rings are spaced at 5 metre intervals.
Local shops, pubs and services can be found in the nearby village of Theale, approximately two miles away. A wider range of shops and services can be found in Reading, approximately seven miles east.
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Assessing credit risk and opportunity in a changing climate: Outputs of a working group of 16 banks piloting the TCFD Recommendations
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Submitted by Will Bugler | published 19th Jul 2018 | last updated 10th Jan 2020
The physical risks from a changing climate may differentially affect the financial health of businesses and impact the financial performance of sectors, creating risks and opportunities for those financing or investing in them.
This report* is the result of a collaboration of sixteen of the world’s leading banks coordinated by the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Secretariat to advance recommendations published by the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The TCFD recommendations urge banks to use scenario analysis to disclose the “actual and potential impacts” of climate-related risk and opportunities for their business as well as how they identify, assess and manage climate risks.
This report describes a pilot project that aimed to develop climate change scenarios and methodologies that can be used in-house by banking teams. It focuses on physical risk, which is the risk resulting from climate variability, extreme events and longer-term shifts in climate patterns. As a pilot exercise, the output of this process is intended to provide a first, but critical step, in a longer process of responding to the TCFD recommendations. During the pilot project, each bank in the Working Group co-developed and trialed at least one of the physical risk methodologies. The results, findings and lessons learned from these case studies are presented in Chapter 3.
This report constitutes the second in a two-part series publishing both the physical risk and transition risk assessment methodologies developed through the Working Group’s collaboration. The first report in the series ‘Extending our horizons: Assessing credit risk and opportunity in a changing climate’ was published in April 2018.
*Download the full report from the right-hand column.
Assessing physical risk in loan portfolios
The pilot project selected climate-sensitive sectors: agriculture, energy and real estate. The methodologies developed in the pilot project reflect the differences in these sector's vulnerability to the physical impacts of climate change. The methodology for agriculture and energy focused on analyzing the impacts of incremental climate change and extreme events on borrower revenues and cost of goods sold, and estimating changes in probability of default. For real estate, the methodology assessed potential changes in property values and loan-to-value ratios due to extreme weather events.
Overview of the pysical risk methodologies (figure 0.1, page 9).
Three combinations of timeframes and temperature scenarios were considered: 2020s – 2°C and 4°C; 2040s – 2°C; and 2040s – 4°C. Peer-reviewed assessments based on these scenarios were used to provide data on incremental climate change impacts on sub-sector performance, such as agricultural yields, crop prices and power production. These were then used to estimate changes in revenue for borrowers in these sectors.
A range of extreme weather and climate events were assessed. Impacts on property value, production and revenue losses, and increases in costs were assessed using global and regional datasets on observed frequencies of tropical cyclones, flood, wildfire, drought and extreme heat.
Estimates of the change in revenue, costs and property value were used to evaluate changes in credit risk for individual borrowers and sector portfolios. For borrowers in the agriculture and energy sectors, the financial ratios in rating models which have revenue and cost components were stressed, and revised risk ratings were calculated. For real estate borrowers, estimates of changes in property value due to extreme weather events were used to calculate changes in loan-to-value ratios.
The physical risks from a changing climate may differentially affect the financial health of businesses and impact the financial performance of sectors, creating risks and opportunities for those financing or investing in them. To date, risks and opportunities resulting from the physical impacts of climate change have received attention within the insurance sector, but have not been widely assessed in credit and lending portfolios held by banks. Greater emphasis appears to have been placed on transition-related risks and opportunities resulting from the shift to a low-carbon economy.
Banks can begin to assess physical climate risks in their loan portfolios for climate-sensitive sectors using climate change scenarios and methodologies which evaluate impacts on key credit risk metrics. The methodologies presented in this report describe some of the impacts of climate change scenarios on borrowers’ revenues, costs and property values, and estimate how these changes could affect the Probability of Default (PD) and Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratios at a borrower and portfolio level.
Assessments of the physical risk of climate change need to consider the impact of both incremental shifts in climate conditions and changes in extreme events. Incremental changes in climate (such as rising temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns) can affect economic output and productivity, while extreme events can lead to damage, operational downtime and lost production for fixed assets, and potential changes to property value. Extreme events, which are increasing in both frequency and intensity, often attract more attention as their impacts are more apparent. However, the risks from incremental changes, which are already underway, should not be overlooked. Extreme events may only occur in specific locations (such as floodplains or tropical cyclone regions) and require banks to have the ability to assess the probability of their borrowers being impacted by these events. In contrast, incremental changes have the potential to gradually erode the financial performance of entire borrower segments.
Banks can also begin to evaluate the growing opportunities to support borrowers’ finance requirements in adaptation. The Working Group has developed a framework for banks to assess strategic opportunities created by the need for borrowers to implement climate adaptation measures (see Chapter 4).
The methodologies developed in the pilot project can be applied to a wide range of sectors. The methodology piloted for the agriculture and energy sectors could be used to assess changes in credit risk across other sectors, provided that research exists to link changes in climate parameters with production characteristics of the sectors.
This pilot project represents a first step in the development of methodologies, but further work is needed to improve the ability to assess physical risks and opportunities of climate change. The pilot project has identified the need to: access location-based borrower data, improve climate models and datasets that can be applied to assets and industries, integrate the macro-economic impacts of climate change, determine adaptation finance needs, and better understand the evolution of insurance products, premiums and markets.
A taxonomy of climate-related opportunities has been created (see Chapter 4). The taxonomy recognises that some of the effects of a changing climate are already occurring, and financial products and services can help borrowers undertake actions to manage existing risks, such as extreme event preparation and post-event recovery.
Lessons Learnt and ways forward
Building climate resilience is a journey; the pilot project has broken new ground, but more work lies ahead.
The results of the pilot project highlight several factors potentially affecting the financial performance of borrowers which cannot be properly assessed at present, including macro-economic impacts, adaptation finance needs, and future actions of governments and insurers.
As a result, the assessments of climate impacts on borrowers may be incomplete. Filling these gaps will improve the robustness of future assessments.
Communication and collaboration between banks and stakeholder groups is needed to take this forward effectively.
Improved collaboration with the climate and economic research community can help to strengthen the evidence base underpinning physical risk assessments.
Key areas for development are improved spatial data on future changes in extreme weather and climate events, and further research on the macro-economic impacts of physical climate risks.
At present, macro-economic modelling approaches provide a wide range of estimated impacts on gross domestic product (GDP).
Furthermore, there is very little research on how physical climate change will affect broader macro-economic indicators such as inflation and interest rates.
Improved tools and spatial modelling expertise on the physical impacts of climate change are needed for banks to better quantify physical risks and opportunities.
Analytical tools are beginning to emerge which facilitate banks’ assessments, such as spatial risk analysis platforms, although there are challenges with how these platforms interact with borrower data.
Platforms should be developed and improved to incorporate analytics for evaluating physical risks in borrower’s value chains.
Improved collaboration between banks, borrowers, governments and the insurance industry would increase the quality of forward-looking disclosures.
Improved disclosures by businesses across all sectors will aid banks in evaluating the risks in their loan portfolios, and will also help banks to identify opportunities to support their borrowers.
Governments provide essential risk mitigation measures against extreme events and incremental climate change impacts, including flood defences, climate-related standards for critical infrastructure such as water resources and energy, and financial backing of insurance schemes.
Government policy and regulation on adaptation in these areas can have a profound impact on banks’ borrowers.
The insurance industry has been vocal about climate change for decades; however, it is unclear how insurance availability and pricing will change in the future, as a result of the impact of climate change.
Figure 3.7 from page 41 of the report: Overlay – Exposure of global power plants to present-day 1:100 year extreme heat risk (Exposure of Physical Assets to Climate Risks). This is an output of the approach developed by TD Bank Group (TD), Bloomberg and Acclimatise to use geospatial solution for assessing physical risks of climate change on borrower credit ratings within a bank's lending portfolio (see page 38 of the full report).
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Unexpected winner
Beijing Blues wins coveted gong at Taiwan film awards
Nov 30, 2012 (WiC 174)
Playing it cool: director Gao Qunshu
It came as little surprise that Johnnie To’s heavily-tipped thriller Life Without Principle should triumph at the 49th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan last weekend, winning best director, best actor and best original screenplay.
More surprising was the winner of the best picture award. It went to Beijing Blues, a gritty slice of life from the Chinese capital, that was directed by Gao Qunshu.
“This is really unexpected… I am only an amateur director who shot a few films. I didn’t expect that my name would ever be associated with the Golden Horse,” said Gao at the ceremony in the Yilan Performance Arts Centre in northeastern Taiwan.
Beijing Blues focuses on a battle of wills between a policeman and a series of Beijing con artists. It’s also an unusual choice. Unlike so many films popular with Chinese audiences, it is not a historical epic set in the Warring States period, a drama lamenting China’s experience during the Second World War, or a kung-fu flick.
Instead, this is a keenly observed social drama which focuses on a decent policeman working his way through a city populated by petty thieves and swindlers.
The film is full of sharp social commentary without ladling it on too thick. And despite tough censorship rules on how police officers can be portrayed in movies, Beijing Blues emerges seemingly uncompromised, which is a real achievement. Likewise the movie deals with issues that Beijingers really care about.
Also unusual: all of the roles are played by amateurs, many of them real-life police officers. There is also a smattering of public figures: the lead role of Zhang Huiling is played by Zhang Lixian, a well-known publisher, while his sidekick is played by Ren Yao’an, a racing driver and participant in China’s Got Talent. TV presenter Bai Yanseng pops up as a criminal, while the lead character’s wife is played by the writer Chen Lu. Also appearing in the plot are characters played by the drummer from The Panthers, the columnist Fang Lei and the writer Fei Fei.
The Golden Horse awards are the leading Chinese-language awards, and inevitably described as the Chinese Oscars (although the winners are decided by a jury so it is more like a Chinese version of the Cannes Film Festival).
This year there were more than 30 films from Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong competing, with a jury composed of Taiwanese, mainland Chinese and Hong Kong judges.
Films from mainland China were first permitted to take part during the 1990s, but have rarely made as big a stir as this year.
Not that everyone in Taiwan is happy with this development. Of the 23 awards, only four went to Taiwanese films or actors, which local media decried as the island’s worst performance for 20 years. In fact, the showing was so bad that the opposition Democratic Progressive Party even called for the event to be scrapped.
“The original purpose of the Golden Horse Awards was to encourage development of the local film industry, but now it is losing its uniqueness,” DPP lawmaker Kuan Bi-ling told the legislature. She said it should be wound up in favour of a new system that would spur homegrown Taiwanese filmmakers.
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Watching the Great Legislative Exodus
STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS
The 2020 races for the state Senate and House of Delegates have gotten more interesting due to the announcements by several senior lawmakers that they won’t seek re-election.
House Minority Leader Tim Miley, D-Harrison, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Shott, R-Mercer, announced last week that 2020 will be their final year in the West Virginia Legislature.
Miley, the former House Speaker from 2012 to 2014 — when the Republicans took the majority in the House — and former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is someone who has always been available to the press, especially me during my first year in 2010 covering the Legislature.
Shott, a country attorney, is largely considered to be a well-respected legal mind. He was first elected to the House in 2008, was appointed to the Senate in 2010 to fill an unexpired term, and went back to the House in 2012. Between Miley and Shott, they have 28 years of legislative experience.
I’m surprised by Miley’s announcement, but not Shott’s. He was treated rather disrespectfully by some in his caucus when Shott tried to fix substantial issues with the Campus Carry bill earlier this year. A good part of his time in 2018 was spent investigating the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and bringing articles of impeachment against its justices. He took the role seriously, but he didn’t make many friends.
Their announcements are just the latest. Over the last several weeks both Senate Minority Leader Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, and Senate Minority Whip Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha, both announced they would not seek re-election.
Prezioso, the former Senate Finance Committee chairman when the Democrats held the majority, was known as a fiscal hawk. The retired teacher and school administrator was first elected to the House in 1988 and later elected to the Senate in 1996. Palumbo, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is known for working across the aisle to create better legislation.
Palumbo, whose father was attorney general, was first elected to the House in 2002 and after a two-year hiatus was elected to the Senate in 2008. Together, Prezioso and Palumbo have 46 years of legislative experience.
Combine all four of their years of legislative experience. That’s 74 years. Some might call them career politicians. I do not, as we have a part-time citizen legislature. One is a full-time lawyer in a firm. The other is a trial lawyer who owns his own company in his hometown and employs several people. One is a retired educator who served our children for decades.
They give up 60 days every year, plus several days at a time every other month, to come to Charleston and craft laws to help individual people and the state as a whole. They take time away from their businesses and practices — even their families — to serve.
No matter what your politics and party affiliation might be, these gentlemen deserve our thanks and respect.
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There are more in the Senate who have announced they’re not coming back.
State Sen. Paul Hardesty, D-Logan, announced several months ago he would not seek election to a full term. He was appointed to replace Richard Ojeda after Ojeda lost his race for the 3rd Congressional District to Republican Carol Miller. Ojeda resigned from the state Senate for a very short-lived run for president of the United States.
State Sen. Kenny Mann, R-Monroe, was the next to announce. The funeral home director and former local school board member was once the chairman of the Senate Education Committee. That changed earlier this year when he was replaced with state Sen. Patricia Rucker, R-Jefferson.
Mann was an opponent of the education reform efforts pushed by Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, especially any effort to create charter schools or education savings accounts. Mann — along with state Sen. Bill Hamilton, R-Upshur — consistently voted with Senate Democrats against the first education omnibus bill during the regular session, then later the second education omnibus bill (House Bill 206) in June during the first special session.
Lastly, state Sen. Greg Boso resigned in August after taking a new job opportunity. Boso, a lifelong engineer, was most recently the chairman of the House Government Organization Committee often tasked with trying to make government less wasteful and more efficient. He was replaced by John Pitsenbarger.
So, that’s five senators who won’t be coming back in 2020. Half the Senate — 17 members — are up for re-election every two years for four-year terms. With five members not coming back, that’s 30 percent of the 17 seats that are open.
I said a few months ago that the Senate Republicans could be at risk of losing the majority in 2020 back to the Democrats, but with three Democrats not returning I think the Senate Republican majority is safe. I suspect that Prezioso’s seat is safe in Democratic Party hands, but Palumbo’s and Hardesty’s seats could easily go to the Republicans.
While Boso’s seat is occupied, it’s still susceptible to a challenge from the left flank. Mann’s seat was last occupied by a Democrat, so will it stay in Republican hands?
I haven’t even included state Sen. Mike Maroney, R-Marshall, in my analysis. He is facing a criminal trial for allegedly soliciting a prostitute. He hasn’t resigned, and as of yet hasn’t been removed as chairman of the Senate Health and Human Resources Committee. But he also hasn’t been seen during the last two legislative interim meetings in September and November.
Keep your eyes on the Senate races next year.
(Adams is the state government reporter for Ogden Newspapers. He can be contacted at sadams@newsandsentinel.com)
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The White County Courthouse, built in 1871 is said to be the oldest functional courthouse in Arkansas and has an elaborate clock tower that resembles the Liberty Bell and dates back to 1855. A statue located on the southeast corner of the court square honors the Confederate Soldiers. A new statue built of six tons of granite, was recently constructed on the courthouse lawn honoring those soldiers of White County who died in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, with each soldier’s name inscribed on the monument. A Vietnam War memorial already sits on the courthouse grounds. A fire in the courthouse some years ago necessitated extensive repair, and the courtroom was restored to its original 19th century look with hardwood flooring and oak benches. The entire courthouse is outlined in lights and comes alive in December each year when the Christmas ”Festival of Lights” is observed. Hundreds of tourists visit the area at this time of year. Searcy Landing was the Ferry Crossing on the Grand Glaise - Searcy Stagecoach Road where it crossed the Little Red River and on the West bank. French pioneer, John Fayac had received Spanish Grant #2312 before 1800. The crossing was just downriver from the present bridge bf the V.F.W. on C.W. Road and the River Oaks subdivision now occupies this land. Beeler Ferry, licensed in 1839, due north of Searcy, was on the Searcy - Batesville Road, a principal route across central Arkansas until bridges and roads were built after World War I.
White County History
White County, the second largest county in the state was created and received its name 10-23-1835 from Hugh Lawson White of Tennessee, Whig candidate for President. Searcy is the county seat and the largest community in its borders. Parent Counties Independence, Jackson, and Pulaski. Progeny County Cleburne 1883. County Boundary Changes: Line with Pulaski changed 3 Feb 1843, part of Conway annexed 11 Jan 1853, line with Prairie defined 17 Apr 1873.)
Searcy was originally called White Sulpher Springs at the time the county was formed and was the site of a health spa in the 1820's until the springs, which had three kinds of water running out of the ground - white sulpher, chalybeate and alum, dried up. In 1837, when the state Legislature formed White County, it stipulated that the seat be named Searcy. Richard Searcy born about 1796 in Tennessee and died at age 36 in 1832 and a prominent Arkansas Legislator. After the Civil War Issac M. Moore donated the area around the springs to the town as a park.
The home of David Crise, Searcy's first permanent resident, served as White County's first courthouse in 1837 until a log structure was built on land donated by James Walker and where the present courthouse stands. This was replaced about 1850 by a frame courthouse which served until 1870 when the present Georgian style building was constructed. There were two additions, both in 1912.
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Absentee ballot applications available
Absentee ballots for this year’s general election will be available in the town clerk’s office between Oct. 7 and Nov. 7. Connecticut law allows absentee balloting only under six conditions: active service in the military, illness, physical disability, religious tenets that forbid secular activity on Election Day, duties as an election official at a polling place other than your own, and absence from your town during all hours of voting.
Applications for absentee ballots are available now. They must be signed by the registered voter and submitted to Wilton’s town clerk. After Oct. 7, ballots will be sent to voters at the address specified on their applications. Voters may also come in person to complete an application and cast their ballot at the same time. There is no provision in state law for proxy or power of attorney voting.
Voters with a permanent physical disability may have an absentee ballot sent automatically to their homes. An application and a physician’s note must be filed with the town clerk to arrange for this accommodation.
Connecticut does not allow “no excuse” absentee voting. In the absentee ballot application, voters must state the reason for needing an absentee ballot and swear such a statement is true. Making a false statement in absentee voting is a Class D felony.
Information: 203-563-0106.
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What Are Common Reasons for an Abnormal CT Scan?
Abnormal CT scans of the abdomen and pelvic region are often caused by appendicitis.
Abnormal CT results of the abdomen can result from injury or disease to internal abdominal organs.
The presence of colon cancer may produce abnormal results on a CT scan.
A physician may order a sinus CT scan for a patient who suffers from chronic sinus infections.
Spinal fractures may cause an abnormal CT scan.
Malformations in the skull may cause an abnormal CT scan.
When a physician orders a chest scan, he is most often looking for diseases or conditions of the lungs.
A physician may order a CT scan of the head to evaluate any potential injuries to soft tissue.
Written By: Nicole Long
Edited By: Michelle Arevalo
Various illnesses, injuries, and conditions of the human body can result in an abnormal CT scan. Some of the issues or circumstances commonly responsible for such an abnormal result include diseases and conditions of the head, neck, and chest. In addition, illnesses and injuries involving abdominal organs and other parts of the body can show up as abnormalities on a CT scan.
CT scans are a beneficial imaging tool for physicians. A special kind of x-ray, these scans provide radiologists and physicians with cross-sectional images of the body. This can allow doctors to see beyond what traditional x-rays can show, and produces higher-resolution image for greater clarity and better diagnoses. These tests are a common diagnostic tool in both hospitals and out-patient healthcare centers.
A physician may order a CT scan of the head or brain to evaluate the many blood vessels and soft tissues that exist there. Tumors, aneurysms, and bleeding are all possible causes of an abnormal CT of the head or brain. Other possible causes of abnormal results can include malformations of the skull, such as a fracture, and diseases of the temporal bone, which could be the cause of hearing difficulties.
Soft tissues of the neck and structures related to the spinal cord can also be evaluated using this technology. In such a case, an abnormal CT scan may be related to a herniated disc or enlarged lymph nodes. Spinal fractures or breaks and spinal stenosis are also possible causes of a troublesome result in these regions of the body.
An abnormal CT scan can also appear on imaging results of the chest. When a physician orders a chest scan, he or she is most commonly looking for diseases or conditions of the lungs, such as a tumor, pulmonary embolism, or fluid around the lungs. Other possible abnormalities on a chest scan include evidence of emphysema or pneumonia.
Scans of the abdomen and pelvis can also result in abnormal testing outcomes. Some of the more common reasons for an abnormal CT scan result in this areas can include injuries and diseases of the internal organs. Examples include pancreatitis, appendicitis, and abdominal aortic aneurysms. Other possible reasons for abnormal results include colon or kidney cancer and hernia.
Other causes of troublesome CT results may depend on the body part being scanned. For instance, a CT of the leg or arm can reveal blood clots, tumors, or infection there. In another example, a scan of the sinuses can reveal sinus infections and obstructions.
What Is a Colon CT Scan?
What Is the Difference between a CT Scan and an X-Ray?
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How Do I Interpret the Results of a CT Scan?
@burcidi-- I don't feel that way. I had a head CT scan a few weeks ago and my doctor still has no idea what's wrong. I can't understand the language of the CT scan results, but it doesn't seem to be saying much other than that there is something wrong with my head. It's not very helpful.
I'm going to have to get an MRI, which may clarify the abnormal CT scan results. We'll see.
burcidi
Thank God for CT scans. I've had neck pain for the past six months and finally a CT scan found what's wrong. There is a small fatty tissue mass in my neck that's putting pressure on the nerves there. I'm having it removed soon. Hopefully, I'll be pain-free soon afterward.
Do we have any Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferers here with abnormal CT scans?
I was diagnosed with IBS several months ago. I just had my first ever CT scan and the doctor said that there are some abnormalities with the location of my bowels in the scan. I was born this way and this is probably why I have IBS in the first place.
I'm curious as to how many IBS patients have a similar condition and what could be done about it. I'm scheduled to see a specialist next week to learn about treatment options, but I'm afraid that all they will recommend will be surgery.
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Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for 'The Underground Railroad'
Updated: 2:52 PM CDT Apr 10, 2017
Wikimedia commons; editrrix from NYC SOURCE: Wikimedia commons; editrrix from NYC
The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts were announced in New York City this week.Colson Whitehead, 47, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the fiction novel called "The Underground Railroad."This is the contest's 101st year. The winners were revealed Monday afternoon at Columbia University.The Pulitzer Prizes recognizes the best journalism of 2016 in newspapers, magazines and websites. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism and commentary.In the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners:JOURNALISMPublic ServiceNew York Daily News and ProPublica for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.___Breaking News ReportingEast Bay Times in Oakland, California, for coverage of the "Ghost Ship" fire, which killed 36 people at a warehouse party.___Investigative ReportingEric Eyre, of the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, for reporting to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties.___Explanatory ReportingInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald for the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens.___Local ReportingThe Salt Lake Tribune staff for reports revealing the mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University.___National ReportingDavid A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post for reporting casting doubt on Donald Trump's assertions of generosity toward charities.___International ReportingThe New York Times staff for coverage of Vladimir Putin's efforts to project Russia's power abroad.___Feature WritingC.J. Chivers of The New York Times for a story on a Marine's postwar descent into violence.___CommentaryPeggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal for columns during one of the nation's most divisive political campaigns.___CriticismHilton Als of The New Yorker for reviews that put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context.___Editorial WritingArt Cullen of The Storm Lake Times for editorials that challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.___Editorial CartooningJim Morin of the Miami Herald for editorial cartoons that delivered sharp perspectives through flawless artistry, biting prose and crisp wit.___Breaking News PhotographyDaniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, for images published in The New York Times showing the disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users.___Feature PhotographyE. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune for a portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy's life back together after he survived a shooting.___LETTERS, DRAMA AND MUSICFiction"The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead.___Drama"Sweat," by Lynn Nottag.___History"Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy," by Heather Ann Thompson.___Biography or Autobiography"The Return," by Hisham Matar.___Poetry"Olio," by Tyehimba Jess.___General Nonfiction"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," by Matthew Desmond.___Music"Angel's Bone," by Du Yun.
The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts were announced in New York City this week.
Colson Whitehead, 47, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the fiction novel called "The Underground Railroad."
This is the contest's 101st year. The winners were revealed Monday afternoon at Columbia University.
The Pulitzer Prizes recognizes the best journalism of 2016 in newspapers, magazines and websites. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism and commentary.
In the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama and music.
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners:
New York Daily News and ProPublica for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities.
Breaking News Reporting
East Bay Times in Oakland, California, for coverage of the "Ghost Ship" fire, which killed 36 people at a warehouse party.
Eric Eyre, of the Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, for reporting to expose the flood of opioids flowing into depressed West Virginia counties.
Explanatory Reporting
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, McClatchy and the Miami Herald for the Panama Papers, a series of stories using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens.
Local Reporting
The Salt Lake Tribune staff for reports revealing the mistreatment of sexual assault victims at Brigham Young University.
National Reporting
David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post for reporting casting doubt on Donald Trump's assertions of generosity toward charities.
The New York Times staff for coverage of Vladimir Putin's efforts to project Russia's power abroad.
Feature Writing
C.J. Chivers of The New York Times for a story on a Marine's postwar descent into violence.
Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal for columns during one of the nation's most divisive political campaigns.
Hilton Als of The New Yorker for reviews that put stage dramas within a real-world cultural context.
Art Cullen of The Storm Lake Times for editorials that challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.
Editorial Cartooning
Jim Morin of the Miami Herald for editorial cartoons that delivered sharp perspectives through flawless artistry, biting prose and crisp wit.
Breaking News Photography
Daniel Berehulak, freelance photographer, for images published in The New York Times showing the disregard for human life in the Philippines brought about by a government assault on drug dealers and users.
Feature Photography
E. Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune for a portrayal of a 10-year-old boy and his mother striving to put the boy's life back together after he survived a shooting.
LETTERS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
"The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead.
"Sweat," by Lynn Nottag.
"Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy," by Heather Ann Thompson.
Biography or Autobiography
"The Return," by Hisham Matar.
"Olio," by Tyehimba Jess.
"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," by Matthew Desmond.
"Angel's Bone," by Du Yun.
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York Early Music Festival invites applications from ensembles to take part in the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. The competition (Saturday 13 July) and preliminary recitals (Thursday 11 & Friday 12 July) will take place at the National Centre for Early Music as part of the York Early Music Festival.
The pre-competition stage is judged by audio recording. Selected ensembles will be invited to come to the National Centre for Early Music in York from 10 - 13 July 2019. During Thursday 11 July and Friday 12 July, each ensemble will give an informal preliminary recital, introduced to the audience by performer and musicologist John Bryan. On Saturday 13 July the competition will take place, with the announcement of the winners directly after the final concert.
The competition on Saturday 13 July will be judged by an international panel of performers and promoters. This panel, as well as the audience, regularly includes representatives of the broadcasting, recording, festival and music promotion worlds who see the competition as a prime opportunity to identify and select new and promising young talent. The competition recitals will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 and highlights featured on The Early Music Show. The competition can thus be a key stage on the way to national and international recognition for young performers.
The competition is supported by the National Centre for Early Music, BBC Radio 3, Arts Council England and Linn Records.
Ensembles (instrumental and/or vocal, in any combination) must have a minimum of two members. Soloists are not eligible.
There is no restriction to the maximum number in the ensemble, but competitors should be aware that future professional viability may be limited for larger groups.
All ensemble members must be adults, with their average age being 32 years or under on 13 July 2019. Individuals must be aged 36 years or under.
Competitors must perform repertory from the period ranging from the middle ages to the nineteenth century using historically informed playing techniques, instruments and stylistic conventions
Applications are welcomed from ensembles of all nationalities
There is no restriction to the number of ensembles in which any individual can take part
Competition Schedule
Closing date for applications – Friday 18 January 2019, 23:59 GMT
Successful finalists notified - Wednesday 6 February
Rehearsals at NCEM - Wednesday 10 July
Informal recitals - Thursday 11 and Friday 12 July
Competition - Saturday 13 July
Entries must be received no later than Friday 18 January 2019, 23:59 GMT. The competition organisers reserve the right not to consider applications that are incomplete or received after the deadline.
Applications should be completed online. Please ensure that you include the name of your ensemble in the title of each file you upload. Each application must include the following:
A completed online application form
an unedited audio recording in either digital or CD format. The recording must feature only the people who will take part in the competition. All individual members of the ensemble must be included. The choice of timing and content of the recording is up to each ensemble but should demonstrate the group's diversity and range of repertoire. It may include music related to your proposed competition programme, but this is not obligatory. Audio files (mp3, mp4 or wma) up to a maximum of four files, and links to audio recordings, can be uploaded via the application form. If submitting a CD, obtain proof of posting and post in time for it to arrive at the NCEM no later than Friday 18 January 2019.
Please take care over the quality of the recording! Many applications in recent years have suffered at this first stage because the recording was not good enough for the panel to make an adequate assessment. The most common problems have been microphones placed either too far away or too close, both of which can result in details of the quality of sound, balance and dynamic variation becoming hard to judge. If you are making the recording yourself, take some time to experiment with microphone positions until you think you have a sound that is a good representation of how you would like us to hear you, which presents your performance in a natural but clear acoustic, and which you think will tell us what we need to know about the way you perform.
details of your recording.You should give the date and place of the recording as well as its contents. If not everyone is playing in every piece, name the players on each track. If submitting a digital file, give the timing for the start of each track.
programme details for both the preliminary and competition recitals. They must include the title of each recital; full names of composers with dates; full titles of pieces; titles of movements; full names of musicians and instruments. Care should be taken to ensure that these details are accurate, as they will be printed in the festival brochure if your application is successful. Programme notes and translations of texts are not required at this stage.
biography - of the ensemble (not of individuals), maximum 200 words.
letter of recommendation from a prominent personality in musical life (such as a teacher or professional musician)
two recent photographs of the ensemble (not of individuals) in high-resolution jpg files
proof of age of each member of the ensemble, such as a passport or ID card. The scan should include the expiry date as well as date of birth.
Fee of £100 per ensemble. This fee is non-refundable and must be paid on submission of the online Application Form – either by PayPal, or by credit/debit card via the guest checkout
Application forms must be completed, and all attachments uploaded no later than Friday 18 January 2019, 23:59 GMT. All documents must be in English.
Initial selection process
Finalists will be selected on the basis of their audio recording. No-one will be expected to come to York at this stage.
The initial selection panel will comprise the Artistic Advisers of the York Early Music Festival: John Bryan, Thomas Guthrie, Lindsay Kemp and Peter Seymour; and the Director of the National Centre for Early Music, Delma Tomlin.
Successful entrants will be notified of their selection as finalists by Wednesday 6 February 2019.
Ensembles who are not selected as finalists will receive a short paragraph of feedback written by a member of the selection panel, if previously requested on the application form.
Finalists in York - Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 July 2019
Finalists will be invited to come to York from 10 to 13 July 2019. There will be a reception from 6pm - 7.30pm on Wednesday 10 July to welcome them to York and enable them to meet each other and the competition team.
Limited rehearsal space at the NCEM will be available from Wednesday 10 July and rehearsal times will be allocated equally to each ensemble. Finalists will perform twice as part of York Early Music Festival - an informal preliminary recital and the competition recital. All performances will be open to the public and will take place at the National Centre for Early Music.
Preliminary recitals - Thursday 11 and Friday 12 July 2019
Finalists will present an informal 20-minute recital (this is playing time and does not include tuning or preparation) in front of a public audience with no judges present
The aim of these preliminary recitals is to give Finalists the opportunity to adapt to the performance space and get to know the audience in advance of the competition
The recitals will be introduced to the audience by performer and musicologist John Bryan, who will invite the musicians to explore aspects of their performance, with the aim of increasing their confidence and performance skills.
Competition Day - Saturday 13 July 2019
The competition will take place throughout the day. All Finalists will take part
Finalists will present a 20-minute programme (again, this is playing time only) in front of the panel of judges and a public audience.
The programme for the competition must be different from that presented in the preliminary recital.
The results will be announced and prizes awarded after the final concert.
All competitors will be required to stay for photographs after the prize-giving.
Representatives of international early music festivals, networks and radio stations are invited to attend the competition on Saturday 13 July.
Please note that it is expected that all individuals will be in York from Wednesday 10 July until 7pm on Saturday 13 July 2019.
Competitors will be assessed on the following:
choice of repertory - and a sustainable interesting repertory for future performances
application of historical style of performance
creativity of programme planning
technical ability
presentation - stage presence, rapport with audience, professionalism
quality of programme notes
overall contribution to the early music scene
eventual professional viability
professionalism of dealings with the Festival office
Information For Finalists
The following keyboard instruments, provided by Andrew Wooderson and the NCEM, will be available for use by the competitors:
Large single manual harpsichord (Italian)
Tuned at A=415 Valotti
Small single manual harpsichord (Italian)
Tuned at A=440 in 1/4 comma meantone
Double manual harpsichord (Flemish)
Chamber organ
Tuned at A=415 Valotti and A=440 1/4 comma meantone
Fortepiano (Viennese)
Tuned at A=430
Competitors are reminded that the amount of space and retuning time will be limited. Competitors are advised to select only one keyboard instrument for their final programme.
Finalists will be provided with accommodation in York free of charge for
4 nights (Wednesday 10 July to the morning of Sunday 14 July) for those from the UK
5 nights (Tuesday 9 July to the morning of Sunday 14 July) for those from mainland Europe
6 nights (Monday 8 July to the morning of Sunday 14 July) for long-haul competitors
The NCEM will reimburse the cost of return economy travel tickets from your point of arrival/departure in the UK direct to York up to a maximum of £65 per person. These travel expenses will be reimbursed by the NCEM once we have received your receipts and bank details.
Each ensemble is responsible for booking their own travel
Competitors are advised to book UK rail tickets 12 weeks in advance of travel when cheap tickets become available. They can be bought online at www.thetrainline.com. Please note that if you opt to collect them at your station of departure, you must have with you the credit card that the tickets were booked with
The NCEM will pay subsistence of £20 per person per day up to a maximum of four days
Programme notes for both preliminary and final recitals must be supplied by Friday 26 April 2019. They should include
programme notes about the music and concept of the programme (250 words for each recital)
name of the author/s
translations of texts if applicable
Recording and distribution
The organisers reserve the right to record or arrange for the recording of any of the preliminary or competition recitals, and to organise broadcasts and/or distribution (such as REMA radio) without recompense to the competitors
It is anticipated that the BBC will record the competition for future broadcast of the highlights
The NCEM will livestream the competition. The recording of the livestream will be posted on the NCEM website after the event
There is no appeal against the decisions of the jury
Participants will compete in the order given
Each competitor will receive a programme and a free ticket to one of the evening concerts in the York Early Music Festival
Tickets for the competition day - competitors will be given one week's priority booking before tickets go on general sale. They sell out quickly, so friends and family should book both tickets and accommodation early to avoid disappointment.
All participants must be fully acquainted with the regulations and schedules
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Northeast digs out after storm closes schools, slows commute
A late winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight – prompting school closures across the region, knocking out power to thousands and slowing the Monday morning com
Northeast digs out after storm closes schools, slows commute A late winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight – prompting school closures across the region, knocking out power to thousands and slowing the Monday morning com Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2019/03/04/northeast-digs-storm-closes-schools-slows-commute/39147701/
The Associated Press Published 9:42 a.m. ET March 4, 2019 | Updated 9:44 a.m. ET March 4, 2019
A man walks across a bridge in West Park on the Northside of Pittsburgh as snow falls during the early afternoon Sunday, March 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Photo: Gene J. Puskar / AP)
NEW YORK – A late winter storm dropped more than a foot of snow on parts of the northeastern U.S. overnight – prompting school closures across the region, knocking out power to thousands and slowing the Monday morning commute to a crawl.
The storm, which hit the hardest in the early morning hours of Monday, dumped more than a foot of fresh snow on a large swath of New England, hitting some areas that had gotten off relatively unscathed for most of the winter.
The National Weather Service’s Boston-area office says as of Monday morning, areas to the west and south of the city received the most snow, with 16 inches in Sharon, more than 15 inches (38 centimeters) in Weymouth and Foxborough, and 14 inches in Framingham and Natick, according to unofficial measurements.
Pomfret, Connecticut, had 16 ½ inches and Burrillville, Rhode Island, got 17 inches.
A slushy snow totaling 5 inches fell in New York City’s Central Park, on the low end of what was forecast, but enough for Mayor Bill de Blasio to close schools and suspend alternate-side street parking rules.
More: 2 teens killed after crash in snowstorm; driver hospitalized
More: Northeast digs out after storm closes schools, slows commute
More: I-83, Route 30 speed limits restored
Hundreds of schools throughout the country were closed or delayed because of the storm. In parts of Nebraska, dangerously cold temperatures prompted school and business closures as wind chill temperatures as low as 40 below zero are expected Monday. A weather service wind chill warning extends through 11 a.m.
As of early Monday morning, thousands of people were also without power due to the heavy, wet snow including nearly 60,000 customers throughout New England.
The storm may have contributed to the death of two teens in a single-car accident about 30 miles north of Philadelphia Sunday evening. The driver, a 17-year-old, was hospitalized.
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York County food inspections: Two restaurants out of compliance
Penn Waste sale a surprise to some York County municipalities
Big changes ahead for North George Street/Route 30 intersection
Ex-York Twp. fire lieutenant guilty of shoving state trooper
York City Police: Man arrested on gun, drug charges during probation visit
Two plead no contest in shooting of 12-year-old York City boy
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"He Did What Was Right in the Sight of Yahweh": Reconsidering Scholarly Appraisals of Hezekiah
Speaker: Paul S. Evans
Organization: ETS National
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A talk from the 69th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Nov. 15-17, 2017). The theme for this year's conference: "The Heritage of the Reformation," points to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. In addition, some sessions will focus on a secondary theme of "religious liberty," reflecting on the significance of meeting in Providence, Rhode Island where Roger Williams, author of "The Bloody Tenent of Persecution," planted a free church in the 17th century to protest the idea of an official state church. The plenary speakers for this conference are: Gwenfair Adams (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) "Shock and Awe: The Reformers and the Stunning Joy of Romans 1-8," Timothy George (Beeson Divinity School) "Where Are the Nail Prints? The Devil and Dr. Luther," Scott Manetsch (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) "John Calvin's Doctrine of the Christian Life.
Paul S. Evans served as a presenter at the Evangelical Theological Society Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island (2017), addressing the theme, Old Testament Narrative Literature - and is affiliated with McMaster Divinity College.
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Meet The Festival Team
The Women Behind YouthMundus
Ina Petersen
Founder & CEO of IVA
Ina Petersen is IVA’s Founder and CEO. Upon completing her B.A. in Psychology and English Literature at Harvard University in 2013, the multilingual Petersen began her career at ICM Partners. She joined Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 2014, and international sales company Sierra Affinity in 2017. Petersen's specialties are film finance, sales, and talent management. She has worked with teams behind Academy Award-winning projects, which among others include Brooklyn and Moonlight, as well as other critically acclaimed titles such as, The Lobster and Ingrid Goes West. Petersen also worked with the team behind critically acclaimed film, Atomic Blonde. During her years at CAA, she contributed to the company's philanthropic division by originating ideas for projects dedicated to helping the world's refugees.
Dijana Stupar
Head of PR, Talent Relations
& Media Consulting
Dijana Stupar is IVA’s Head of PR, Talent Relations & Media Consulting. She has an extensive Scandinavian event, PR, film and music festival experience and has worked several years for Over Oslo, Øya, Gullruten, Heartland, Pride and Oslo Pix Festivals in Norway. Stupar has organized several nonprofit and fundraising campaigns, where she has raised over $13,000 for UNICEF as part of Norway’s biggest annual charity event, airing on Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, NRK. She is also one of the main founders of a non-profit association, The Rainbow Team Events, which is dedicated to bridging the gaps - and dismantle social prejudices - for (and with) young people across the globe, through inclusive, shared experiences of representative art and like-minded interests.
Cristina Spinelli
Media & Culture Strategist at
Purpose House
Cristina is our Italian Festival Consultant. She has 15+ years’ experience in media spanning from ad agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Jwt, to entertainment companies like Sony Pictures and Warner Bros and FMGC like Unilever. She has a passion for culturally relevant and challenging opportunities. After an experience in influencer-marketing, she is excited to bring her expertise to the creation of positive impact through sustainable growth and purpose driven brands.
Marie-Lou Obdeijn
IVA’s Apprentice
Marie-Lou Obdeijn is currently studying film conception, production, camera, direction, and editing at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound (Ritcs) in Brussels, Belgium. She has customer service, project leader and management experience in various environments, and has worked several years within social media management and coordination, website development and maintenance, content creation, and blogging. Obdeijn is currently IVA’s Apprentice, as well as board member and website developer for The Rainbow Team Events.
A recent acting graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Veronica has extensive experience in film and television. In 2017, Veronica made her regional theatre debut with the Hangar Lab Company in a production of Harold Pinter's The Room. While working at the Hangar, she was involved in several other of their productions, including their Wedge (The Messenger) and KIDDSTUFF series' (Aesop's Fables). Most recently, Veronica was featured in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's Spring Season in a production of Julius Caesar as Portia.
When not performing, Veronica is running the YouthMundus Festival’s social media, researching for various projects and interviewing artists for YouthMundus’s Artist Spotlight series - a project she proudly spearheaded.
Intern
Tessa M. Dobrow is a recent NYU Tisch Graduate, with a passion for the NYC art world. Originally from Baltimore, she moved to New York in pursuit of her education receiving double degrees in Drama and Journalism. Tessa has been a part of various film projects, including the latest Marvel movie: Avengers Endgame. She’s also collaborated in the creation of several short films and theatre productions. As an intern at Inner Voice Artists, Tessa focuses on the Artist Spotlight Series, film research and the YouthMundus Festival.
Emma Heyndrickx is currently studying Scandinavian Literature Studies at the University of Oslo. She has experience in the sales and administrative sectors, as well as social media management, photography and organization of various events and travel. As an intern at Inner Voice Artists, Emma is continuing her work with social media management and event organization. Emma is very passionate about film and music, and gives her everything when working.
Bio: Mary Losurdo is a graduate student at Colorado State University earning her Masters in Arts Leadership and Cultural Management. Mary works as a Production Stage Manager and Project Manager in Los Angeles, California where she lives with her partner and their two cats. Mary is passionate about social justice and the environment, and strives to improve the world one (or many) artistic endeavor at a time!
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Conrads College Gifts moving to Easton
Family-owned business started in Zanesville
Conrads College Gifts moving to Easton Family-owned business started in Zanesville Check out this story on zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/2019/11/27/conrads-college-gifts-moving-easton/4319243002/
10TV Published 12:32 p.m. ET Nov. 27, 2019 | Updated 2:17 p.m. ET Nov. 27, 2019
COLUMBUS - Walking into the back office of Conrads College Gifts you can instantly feel the store's 50 year history come to life.
There are autographed helmets and photos from coaches dating back to Woody Hayes, Earl Bruce, Jim Tressel, and John Cooper.
Conrad's College Gifts, 316 W. Lane Ave., on Wednesday, June 5, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. After 50 years at their Lane Avenue location, the store plans to move by early next year. (Photo: Joshua A. Bickel/Columbus Dispatch)
There are old photos of the original store and photos of Jack Cohen and his wife Violet.
The Cohens are an example of the American dream. Neither went to college but built a business that became the oldest Buckeye gear store in the state.
"My parents came from nothing," Judi Cohen-Koval said.
After owning a small jewelry store in Zanesville, her father bought a small store on Lane Avenue.
"It was Conrad's jewelry and gifts on the main floor and my brothers and sisters lived above the store," she said.
The year was 1969.
"My mom said let's bring in some Ohio state stuff so the first thing that came in was glassware and it sold right away," she said.
The business started to grow. Thanks in large part to wins on the football field.
"My parents donated $100,000 to Ohio State because of this wonderful business we had," she said.
A business where her dad and Woody Hayes often chatted.
"At the time we had two leather chairs and he and woody would sit and talk about business and talk. My dad wanted to talk football, but he didn't want to talk football he just wanted to talk about the good old days," she said.
By now you may be wondering why this store is called Conrad's not Cohen's? Mr. Cohen thought Conrad Hilton was a successful businessman and thought if he called it Conrad's it would bring him good luck.
It did, and the family business became the go-to shop for Buckeye fans looking to find hard to get Buckeye gear for games.
Jack Cohen passed away seven years ago at the age of 88. His wife died two years ago.
The family says it's time to say good bye to the store and the siblings look to retire.
Judi Koval-Cohen says it's not easy after growing up in the store over the past 50-years.
"I did think it would last this long. I didn't think that it would end," she said.
While the store will close Dec. 31, it's not completely leaving. A new store is open at Easton Gateway 4191 Worth Ave.
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Local News Briefs: Local rescue dog in Puppy Bowl
Billy White humbled by Ohio MLK commission award
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District 12 All-Star games will be played Friday
District 12 All-Star games to be played Friday at Buckeye Trail
District 12 All-Star games will be played Friday District 12 All-Star games to be played Friday at Buckeye Trail Check out this story on zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: http://ohne.ws/1MEtlvl
Ohio Published 2:08 p.m. ET March 31, 2016
The annual Pepsi/District 12 All-Star Basketball Classic will take place Friday at Buckeye Trail High School.
The girls’ East-West game will tip off the evening’s festivities at 6 p.m. followed by the boys’ game at approximately 8 p.m.
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Zurich marks five year anniversary of Horizon funds
Five years of the Zurich Horizon multi-asset funds: How have they fared?
On their five-year anniversary, Zurich’s five risk profiled, multi-asset funds have delivered cumulative returns of 30% to 60%, with four ranked in top 10 of their sectors...
Zurich is marking the five-year anniversary of its multi-asset Zurich Horizon fund range.
Since launch - and as of 10 December 2018 - the five risk-profiled funds have delivered cumulative returns of between 30% and 60% over five years.
Four of the funds are currently ranked in the top 10 of their respective Investment Association sectors – with two funds in the top five - and all placed in the top quartile. The funds also have a Defaqto 5 Diamond Risk Targeted Fund Family Rating and three hold a 5 Crown Rating from FE.
The funds, which are designed to optimise returns for a given level of risk, have a unique investment process, benefitting from three layers of management.
AUM Return Quartile Decile Sector rank FE Crown rating Charge (OCF)
Fund I £24.5m 29.95% 1 3 26/119 *** 0.84%
Fund II £132.7m 38.42% 1 1 5/119 ***** 0.82%
Fund III £186.6m 44.77% 1 1 12/121 ***** 0.81%
Fund IV £80.9m 50.62% 1 1 7/121 ***** 0.81%
Fund V £23.9m 59.62% 1 1 4/125 **** 0.82%
Source: FE Analytics 10/12/18
The strategic asset allocation is carried out by EValue, using their stochastic asset model. Columbia Threadneedle’s multi-asset team, led by Alex Lyle, conducts the tactical allocation and active asset management, and Zurich provides a final layer of risk management oversight.
Fraser Blain, Zurich’s National Investment Development Director, said: “This is an important milestone for our Horizon Fund range, which now has a proven five-year track record.
“Despite high levels of market volatility during this period, the funds have delivered strong returns, and with four ranked in the top ten of their sectors, they have outperformed many of their peers.
“By combining EValue’s modelling of long-term asset returns with Columbia Threadneedle’s skill in tactical asset allocation and active asset management, the funds have helped to optimise returns for investors in all conditions.
“We are focussed on continuing to develop and enhance the range, which has enjoyed strong flows again this year, particularly among investors in the retirement market.”
The funds can be used in conjunction with the risk profiling tools on Zurich’s investment platform, providing an end-to-end solution for advisers as their client’s risk tolerance changes at different stages of their life.
The Zurich Horizon funds invest in a mix of assets including equities, fixed interest securities, property and cash. They are competitively priced with OCFs of 0.81-0.84%.
Find out more about the Zurich Horizon multi-asset funds
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Contact Us | Airlines Reporting Corporation
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Women's Resource Centre
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Herstory of Women's Resource Centre
Help, support & services
Feminist Leadership
Sisters Doing It For Themselves
London VAWG Consortium
WRC Women's Building
Pay Back the Tampon Tax
Join our campaigns
Small acts of resistance
Voices from the sector
Critical Issues for the consideration of CEDAW (2007)
This document focuses on the relationship between the Government, its commitments and obligations under CEDAW and the women’s NGO sector.
The women’s NGO sector has been a leader in bringing about positive changes to women’s (and men’s) lives and improving gender equality in the UK, yet is facing the worst funding crisis in recent history and its sustainability is being seriously undermined.
What is CEDAW?
Author: Hannah Coombes
Introduction to Commissioning (March 2020)
This half day training aims to give an introduction to the commissioning process and provides practical tips for writing successful bids.
Healthy Foundations Advocate
Women In Prison. Closing date: 10th February 2020.
Press & Campaigns Assistant
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service. Closing date: 27th Jan 2020.
This workshop explores a key piece of legislation that is relevant to work being carried out in all sectors and at all levels. It focuses on how the Equality Act can be used as a valuable tool to assert women's rights.
Volunteer Young Women's Therapist
Oasis Project. Closing date: 31st Jan 2020.
Are the Equality Act 2010 and CEDAW working for the women’s voluntary & community sector in England? (December 2019)
A report focusing on the five key areas relative to the CEDAW recommendations.
Executive Summary - WCSU
Executive summary of independent evaluation report into Women’s Commissioning Support Unit.
Women's Commissioning Support Unit - Evaluation Report
An evaluation of a Three Year Pilot Programme‘ Building capacity, developing partnerships’
Consultation response: Giving Green Paper (2011)
WRC response to Cabinet Office's 'Giving Green' Paper in 2011.
CEDAW Shadow Report (2004)
This Shadow Report is a collective effort developed from research, information and testimony provided by a number of NGOs who are concerned about discrimination against women.
The Crisis in Rape Crisis (2008)
This research is part of a joint project between the Women’s Resource Centre and Rape Crisis (England and Wales).
The State of the Women's NGO Sector - CEDAW Shadow Report 2008
This Shadow Report focuses on the relationship between the UK government, and its commitments and obligations under the Convention, and the women’s NGO sector in 2008.
Hidden Value: Demonstrating The Extraordinary Impact of Women's Voluntary & Community Organisations (2011)
This report highlights the far reaching benefits of the services provided by women’s organisations and the significant savings they create to the state, local economies and communities. It outlines the important role of the women’s voluntary and community sector and draws attention to the need to fund specialist services for women and support the financial sustainability of women’s organisations.
Women’s equality in the UK – A health check. CEDAW Shadow Report (2013)
Shadow report from the UK CEDAW Working Group assessing the United Kingdom Government’s progress in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Join the WRC membership and be part of the sisterhood, stand in solidarity or exercise your activism.
Want to stand up for the sisterhood but not in a position to donate to the women’s sector right now? Don’t worry! There are so many ways that you can be a women’s rights defender in your daily life.
We call on the Government to honour their promise and pay back the Tampon Tax to women’s charities. Will you join us?
WRC works towards transformational and substantive equality for women. We achieve this through being a thought leader in the women’s sector, joining-up-the-dots of women’s inequality to push for empowerment its true sense: supporting women and women’s organisations to achieve their full potential. Help us to continue this work by donating what you can.
Are you a woman looking for help and support? Our member organisations offer a range of specialist services and are there to help you.
About CEDAW - the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women
CEDAW Empowerment Feminist leadership Women's leadership
Women’s Resource Centre
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Women’s Resource Centre is a company limited by guarantee: 2462336 and registered as a Charity: 1070606 in England and Wales.
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All-New Mazda MX-5 Wins Both 2016 World Car of the Year and World Car Design of the Year
All-New Mazda MX-5 Wins Both 2016 World Car of the Year and World Car Design of the Year.
The first car to win both titles in the history of the awards
MX-5 has won over 30 awards, including 2015-2016 Car of the Year Japan and 2016 UK Car of the Year (UKCOTY)
The fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 has been named both the 2016 World Car of the Year (WCOTY) and the World Car Design of the Year. It is the second Mazda to win the WCOTY award, following the Mazda2 in 2008, and the first model to win both titles in the history of the awards.
World Car of the Year was established in 2004 by an international group of automotive journalists, and the judging panel this year consisted of 73 journalists from 23 different countries. The MX-5 was announced victorious over other finalists the Audi A4 Sedan/Avant and the Mercedes-Benz GLC, at the New York International Auto Show on March 24th. The other finalists for World Car Design of the Year were the Jaguar XE and the Mazda CX-3.
“What a wonderful honour, to have the Mazda MX-5 named both World Car of the Year and World Car Design of the Year,” said Masahiro Moro, President and CEO, Mazda North American Operations, and Managing Executive Officer, Mazda Motor Corporation. “As our iconic MX-5 roadster approaches one-million units of production, this award is proof that it is as young, vibrant, fun and relevant as ever, and proof that every Mazda looks as incredible as it drives, and drives as incredibly as it looks."
"While I accept this award on behalf of the company, I do so representing every Mazda employee, retail partner and customer around the world who has ever felt the joy of driving a pure roadster.”
Ikuo Maeda, Mazda’s Executive Officer and General Manager of the Design Division, said, “I’m very proud to accept this award, proof that our designs can connect with people all around the world. Our new-generation lineup has been designed under the KODO-Soul of Motion design philosophy which aims to bring cars to life, and we’ve continually refined the beauty of its forms. Mazda is a proud Japanese brand and, moving forward, we are determined to continue enhancing our designs.”
The fourth-generation MX-5 is the sixth model in Mazda’s new-generation line-up of vehicles featuring the full range of SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY and KODO—Soul of Motion design. Launched globally in 2015, the model has found favour with customers thanks to its vastly reduced curb weight, human-centered design and 'Jinba-ittai' fun-to-drive feel.
The new MX-5 has won over 30 awards so far, including 2015-2016 Car of the Year Japan and 2016 UK Car of the Year (UKCOTY). The retractable hardtop version of the model, Mazda MX-5 RF, makes its world debut at the 2016 New York International Auto Show.
Mazda will continue making cars that are fun to drive, aiming to become a 'one-and-only' brand which customers will choose again and again.
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Mother writes children's book to help kids understand hurricane safety
She couldn't find a book on the subject anywhere, so she decided to write her own
Victoria Ottomanelli
A mother of two couldn't find a children's book to help her explain hurricane safety to her children, so she decided to write her own.As a television news reporter with 20 years of experience, Jennifer Bauer knew what to expect when Hurricane Irma hit Parkland, Florida, just five weeks after her family moved there. But it was a first-time experience for her kids, and she struggled to explain why their evacuation to North Carolina wasn't just a regular road trip.Bauer searched online for a children's book that could explain the situation in a way her children could understand but was shocked to find there were none. This gave her the idea to write her own children's book about the topic, called "Aubrey, Evan, and the Hurricane."Watch the video above to learn more about what inspired Bauer to write a children's book about hurricanes.
A mother of two couldn't find a children's book to help her explain hurricane safety to her children, so she decided to write her own.
As a television news reporter with 20 years of experience, Jennifer Bauer knew what to expect when Hurricane Irma hit Parkland, Florida, just five weeks after her family moved there. But it was a first-time experience for her kids, and she struggled to explain why their evacuation to North Carolina wasn't just a regular road trip.
Bauer searched online for a children's book that could explain the situation in a way her children could understand but was shocked to find there were none. This gave her the idea to write her own children's book about the topic, called "Aubrey, Evan, and the Hurricane."
Watch the video above to learn more about what inspired Bauer to write a children's book about hurricanes.
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Peace Center announces Broadway show lineup, including Hamilton, for 2018-2019
Broadway show lineup for 2018-2019
The Peace Center on Tuesday night announced the Broadway show lineup for the 2018-2019 season.The shows coming to the Peace Center include nine Broadway shows. The shows and dates include:"The Play That Goes Wrong" Oct. 2-7, 2018"Anastasia" Oct. 23-28, 2018"Hamilton:An American Musical" Dec. 4-16, 2018"Miss Saigon" Jan. 15-20, 2019"A Bronx Tale" Feb. 5-10, 2019"The Book of Mormon" March 5-10, 2019"Come From Away" April 16-21, 2019"Hello Dolly" May 28-June 2, 2019"Dear Evan Hansen" July 2-7, 2019Nine-show season ticket packages are $410-$930. An eight-show package, not including "The Book of Mormon," is available for $355-$835. A per-order handling fee applies. Existing season ticket holders can renew now. Because of the high demand for the season, a limited number of new season ticket packages will be available. Requests for season tickets can be made by calling 864-467-3000 or 800-888-7768, in person at the Peace Center Box Office or online at www.peacecenter.org. New season tickets are not guaranteed. Group and individual show tickets will go on sale at later dates to be announced.
GREENVILLE, S.C. —
The Peace Center on Tuesday night announced the Broadway show lineup for the 2018-2019 season.
The shows coming to the Peace Center include nine Broadway shows.
The shows and dates include:
"The Play That Goes Wrong" Oct. 2-7, 2018
"Anastasia" Oct. 23-28, 2018
"Hamilton:An American Musical" Dec. 4-16, 2018
"Miss Saigon" Jan. 15-20, 2019
"A Bronx Tale" Feb. 5-10, 2019
"The Book of Mormon" March 5-10, 2019
"Come From Away" April 16-21, 2019
"Hello Dolly" May 28-June 2, 2019
"Dear Evan Hansen" July 2-7, 2019
Nine-show season ticket packages are $410-$930. An eight-show package, not including "The Book of Mormon," is available for $355-$835. A per-order handling fee applies.
Existing season ticket holders can renew now.
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Articles / Lifestyle / WYZA Life / Meg Keneally on murder mysteries and working with a famous father
Meg Keneally on murder mysteries and working with a famous father
By Shane Cubis,
The second instalment in Meg and Tom Keneally’s colonial murder mystery series, The Unmourned, takes convict detective Monsarrat and his companion Mrs Mulrooney to Parramatta. Meg reveals how the books come together...
Given this is your second book, has the writing relationship changed?
Not significantly. It did at the very start because initially we were going to write alternating chapters. But we tried that and it didn’t quite work out because I was very tentative, given, you know, Dad’s vastly superior experience – he’s written one or two books!
Our editor suggested that I write the first couple of drafts and then Dad come in on the subsequent drafts, so I did that with Book 1, constantly phoning him every day for advice. That worked quite well, so we did that with Book 2 as well and now Book 3.
And you have 12 instalments planned?
Yes, that’s right. He’s been contractually obliged not to drop off the perch! Some are more detailed than others, and may change somewhat in the writing. The third one is set on Maria Island off the coast of Tasmania.
Meg Keneally teamed up with her dad, Booker Prize-winning author Tom, to write a series of crime novels
One of the things that we were very keen to do was to go to the lesser-known convict sites, which perhaps haven’t received the attention they deserve, such as Port Macquarie and Perth. It’s funny how many people came up to us after The Soldier’s Curse and said, “I’ve been to Port Macquarie dozens of times and I never knew it was a convict settlement.”
Have you sown any overarching threads through the books?
They can be read as self-contained mysteries, but there are also some story arcs that run through them – there are a couple which have begun in book two. There’s a particular one that involves Mrs Mulrooney, to whom there’s more than meets the eye. Some skeletons fall out of her closet and that’s going to take a few books to resolve. Also, Monsarrat’s romantic life is going to evolve through the books.
How does the research process work?
If anyone is thinking about writing historical fiction I can highly recommend being born to someone who’s a walking encyclopaedia in history! Generally the books take about six months to write, but in the few months leading up to that I’ll be reading everything I can lay my hands on, to get the broad picture. And just before writing it, I’ll visit the place we’re writing about because there’s nothing like actually being there.
We went to the Parramatta Female Factory many, many times while we were researching The Unmourned. You walk around and think about what the smells and sounds and sights would have been like for your characters and what would have happened where. We came across a lady, Gay Hendriksen, who used to be president of the Parramatta Female Factory Friends. She got us access to the factory several times and was kind enough to step through with me exactly where the murder would have occurred, what would have happened, who would have seen it from each vantage point and that sort of thing.
Finally, now the TV rights have been sold, who do you see playing the main characters?
Oh gosh, I’ve always seen Monsarrat as looking like the love child of Daniel-Day Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch in terms of physical appearance. A lot of people have said to me they’d love to see Hugh Jackman play Monsarrat.
And one of the reasons Mrs Mulrooney is my favourite character to write is her age – it’s never explicitly stated in the book, but she’s 55 at the beginning of The Soldier’s Curse. I really wanted to write a strong, older female character who’s not there to be the love interest of anybody. A few people have suggested I should get Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney together, and I’m like, “No, no, no, no, no, no.” I was really keen to have a strong, intelligent, older female character who was right at the heart of the action.
In terms of who plays her, I don’t have anyone in particular in mind, but I would love it if they kept her an older character rather than lopping 15 years off her age.
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Posted on June 24, 2015 by Xenia Gazette
Commissioners respond to lawsuit
DAYTON — Greene County Commissioners have filed answers to claims made in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the board and other parties in the county, denying claims that it played a role in terminating a former Greene County Combined Health District employee.
Aloysius Onuoha filed the lawsuit in Dayton’s U.S. District Court in February against the Greene County Board of Commissioners, the health district, Health Commissioner Melissa Howell, as well as several John Does, according to court documents.
In the lawsuit, Onuoha alleges that between 2013 and 2014 he was harassed and berated on the job by Howell and that he was terminated in retaliation to discrimination allegations he made against Howell and district, as well as because of his age (Onuoha was over 40 when he was terminated). Howell and the district have previously denied these claims in their own response to the lawsuit. Additionally, Onuoha’s lawsuit alleges that commissioners approved of his termination from the health district, among other claims.
In the response filed by their legal counsel, commissioners denied the body of complaints leveled against them.
“Defendant denies that the Greene County Board of Commissioners played any role in the termination of Plaintiff’s employment as Plaintiff was not an employee of the Greene County Board of Commissioners,” one of the board’s responses, filed Friday, stated. “The Greene County Board of Commissioners has no authority over Co-Defendants Howell or the Greene County Combined Health District’s employment decisions. Defendant further denies that it approved of Plaintiff’s termination in any way.”
In his initial complaint, Onuoha asked that he be awarded compensatory and punitive damages, as well as back pay and other relief. The lawsuit was filed in federal court because of the civil rights nature of the accusations, as well as the amount in controversy exceeding $75,000.
In their response, commissioners requested the complaint be dismissed.
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Read An Extract From The Book
Yaya Sillah
Thoughts on marriage and society
The Gambia Gov…needs to do more
The Gambian government needs to do more to ensure that the human rights of its citizens in Libya and elsewhere are respected.
Right now, the international community is making a huge noise with regard to the upheaval of illegal migration which, according to some, is affecting the resources of major economies around the world. However, in my opinion, criminals who continue to enslave African migrants in Libya ought to be the primary concern. In the past few days, I noticed that major news outlets and users of social media are distracting people from this important topic to other less significant political matters (such as the “fire and fury” concerning the psyche of Donald Trump and the recent scuffle between the supporters of different political parties in the Gambia).
According to IMO, the lives of thousands of migrants are currently at risk from gangs across Libya. I am begging the international community to continue this discussion and strive to be more vocal to ensure that this immoral practise in Libya and elsewhere is immediately ceased.
In a civilised society, there should never be any correlation between Illegal migration and enslaving innocent people against their wills. Illegal migration is a major problem which profoundly requires its own discussions and its own solution. But enslaving human beings against their will is categorically wrong under any circumstances. Regardless of your culture, common sense would dictate that an ambitious youth who is both hopeless and desperate, trying to migrate elsewhere and hoping for a better future, does not deserve to be enslaved!
As I stated in my last article, the moral obligation to tackle and prevent such a heinous crime is not only confined to the EU and AU, but rather a moral obligation on each and every one of us.
Situations such as this often require both short-term and long-term solutions. I would suggest the following four steps:
There is a moral obligation on families and friends to discourage their love ones from using the ‘back way’ through Libya or Morocco which are the main hubs for enslaving African migrants right now. And they ought to encourage family members who are stranded in these two countries to immediately return home at the first available chance.
2. There is a moral obligation on people like me to make sure that we continue the discussion concerning this matter every day until slavery is stopped.
3. There is a moral obligation on us to participate whenever there are public demonstrations to draw the attention of the international community and put extra pressure on authorities in order for them to do more, like the demonstrations we have witnessed in the streets of London, Paris, New York and in Africa.
I understand that the Gambia’s government cannot use the migrant crisis in Libya and Europe as a bargaining chip to solicit more aid from the European Union. However, if the Gambia government hasn’t made any deal yet concerning the migrant crisis with the EU, as they claimed last week, then they have a moral duty to appeal to EU countries to grant temporary working visas for at least two years to Gambian migrants who went Europe through the ‘back way’ and are now illegally scattered across Europe, before enforcing any deportation.
While suggesting these short- term solutions, I think it’s extremely important for me to also point out and emphasis that the EU, like any continent, has a moral obligation to respect the concerns of its citizens regarding issues surrounding migrants. In addition to that, they have the legal right to remove anyone from their country if they wish, particularly those who they see as illegal immigrants. We have to understand that whatever help the EU might offer African countries concerning this matter would purely be based on humanitarian grounds. They don’t have any legal obligation whatsoever to allow illegal migrants to stay.
As a migrant living in Europe, there is a moral obligation on all of us to recognise that allowing us to remain in mainland Europe is a privilege. It is not an entitlement or a God-given right. As a result, it is our collective responsibility to ensure that we always maintain peace and tranquillity in European society.
Migrants who were lucky enough to make it to Europe, after escaping slavery in Libya should come forward and share their experience with the wider world in order to enlighten those who might be tempted to embark on such a reckless journey. Migrants should also acknowledge the generosity which is always accorded to them by Europeans. They rescue migrants from the peril of the open sea and show them love and kindness, which brings many a step closer to fulfilling a meaningful life in Europe. In my view, showing such appreciation would effectively ridicule the allegations and misconception of those who often claim that the EU is secretly collaborating with Arab gangs in Libya to enslave African migrants in the country.
After all, please remember that, we were all created equal. No man is a slave to another man.
EU and AU have moral obligation to prevent slavery in Libya
The AU and EU have a moral obligation to prevent slavery in Libya
(the continuation of my discussion concerning modern day slavery around the world, particularly in Libya)
I wish all my readers, a very Happy New Year.
People around the world are celebrating the coming of 2018 with a high expectation that the New Year will be more prosperous than the last. I join the international community in hoping this is so. However, we should bear in mind that thousands of African migrants are still languishing in slavery at labour camps and detention centres across Libya. I am pleased to see that certain countries in Africa, like the Gambia, are repatriating their citizens from Libya and persuading other countries to follow their example. However, I hope that conversations about slavery will continue to make headlines around the world, in order to ensure that we put enough pressure on authorities to put an immediate end to slavery, wherever it is happening.
There is a growing suspicion that economic agreements signed between the EU and armed gangs in Libya are encouraging criminals to enslave African migrants who are trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea through Libya. Therefore desperate youths will be discouraged from taking such a dangerous journey, and Europe will then have fewer illegal immigrants. Even though this theory sounds genuine to some people, I don’t want believe such a wild claim is true. I don’t think, in the 21st century, the EU would sanction that kind of unimaginable human rights abuse of migrants. However, in ancient times, these methods were occasionally used by powerful states to ensure that law and order was effectively maintained in lawless countries like Libya.
I do understand that whenever a country is confronted by a migrant crisis, there is no easy solution. When I was recently visiting Australia, there was a huge public outcry concerning the status of refugees and economic migrants who are still held in the refugee camp at Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea, under the control of the Australian authorities. With many others, I signed a petition to put pressure on the Australian government to make sure they allow these refugees to settle in mainland Australian. The governments counter argument is that allowing them to settle in the country would mean victory for people traffickers who are making millions of dollars through such a lucrative business. In my opinion such an argument and returning the boats makes more sense than encouraging criminals and gangs to enslave migrants elsewhere.
On the other hand, the behaviour of some economic migrants who are now living in mainland Europe is not helping campaigners like me, who are tirelessly advocating on their behalf. For an example, last week, I was stunned when I saw two videos emerge on Facebook of Gambian migrants based in Germany, ranting in Mandinka and using a Boko Haram type of rhetoric, threating terror in the Gambia if they were deported back to Gambia. According to them, there was a rumour that the Gambian government had signed an agreement with Germany regarding the deportation of illegal Gambian migrants. I was extremely disappointed by the people who made such threatening videos, and by those who liked it on Facebook.
Discussion concerning economic migration and slavery, especially in Libya, has to be constructive, based on mutual respect, ethics and discipline. But threatening to unleash terror on innocent people will only make the situation for migrants in Europe worse, and those guilty of any wrong doing would have to face the ultimate consequences for their actions. Let’s continue our debate with maturity and discipline, not with violence and contempt.
It’s always important to remember that we were all created equal. No man is a slave to any other man.
Sillah & Family Textile Enterprises
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Ad of the Month UK – Sainsbury’s
BrandIndexMediaRetail & consumer
This month, Sainsbury’s achieved the highest uplift in Ad Awareness of any brand in the UK – a +7.5 change in score.
Sainsbury’s newest advert celebrates the 150th anniversary of the retailer’s founding in London. The advert shows how Sainsbury’s began in 1869 as a small shop which only sold necessities and how it changed throughout the years while supporting local communities, depicted through the unusual medium of a stop-motion cake.
Her Majesty the Queen also marked the celebrations with a visit to a replica of the 1869 Sainsbury’s store, and a modern day equivalent.
YouGov BrandIndex data shows the brand’s Ad Awareness scores (whether someone has seen or heard an advert broadcast by a company in the past two weeks) have increased by 11 percentage points since the adverts release – up from 17% on the day (11th May) to 28% by the end of the month.
Buzz scores (a net measure of whether consumers have heard anything positive or negative about the brand in the last fortnight) have also increased, indicating that Sainsbury’s commemoration of their history has been perceived positively by the public – scores grew from +1.5 to +9.5 after the advert’s release. Scores among current customers and former customers also grew, with current customers seeing the highest uplift in Buzz of 12.1 points (from +7.4 to +19.5) and former customers increasing by 4 points (from -0.8 to +4.8).
This shows that Sainsbury’s celebration of its 150 year history was received well by customers as a whole, however the increase in positive news heard was largest among current customers (+12.1 points). The advert resonated with Sainsbury’s current target market, and demonstrates that Sainsbury understands their audience and what would appeal to them most.
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When you can't see it "the world is a wonderful place"
Dancer in the Dark, written and directed by Lars von Trier
By Bernd Rheinhardt
Danish director Lars von Trier's latest film is the final part of a trilogy (including Breaking the Waves [1996] and The Idiots [1998]), whose basic motif is that of a fairy tale. The little girl “Goldenheart” is so good-hearted that she is prepared to sacrifice all she has for other people.
The musical-tragedy Dancer in the Dark has met with both enthusiasm and disapproval. The film opened this year's New York film festival and won the top prize, the Golden Palm, at this year's Cannes film festival. Icelandic pop singer Björk (once of the Sugarcubes), who plays the lead in the film, won the prize in Cannes for best actress.
The story takes place in the American Pacific Northwest in the sixties. Selma, an immigrant from Czechoslovakia, has a poorly paid job in a factory. Out of the little money that remains after she has met her day-to-day expenses, she saves every penny to pay for an eye operation for her son. He faces the same fate as Selma herself—going blind in the near future. Selma's eyesight is deteriorating rapidly and she works like a demon to get enough money together before her lack of vision means she can no longer work.
Selma lives with her son in a trailer on land owned by Bill, a policeman, and his wife. Bill finds about Selma's cache of money and steals it to pay off debts. The bank is demanding repayment and Bill is fearful he could lose his wife, house and property. In a scrap with Selma, she grabs his gun, shoots and wounds him. From the floor Bill pleads with her to shoot and finish him off—she obliges enthusiastically and he dies.
The pair are then transported as if in a daydream. As music strikes up, the deceased Bill rises from the dead. Bill and Selma are reconciled—they sing and dance through the house. Bill has been redeemed. As a consequence, in court, Selma feels no guilt for his death. In a torturously drawn out sequence we accompany Selma on her way to prison and then finally to the gallows. She dies at the end secure in the knowledge that her son will receive his long awaited operation.
While the little girl in the fairy-tale “Goldenheart” is rewarded at the end in heaven with real dollars, Selma's death serves to redeem her bad conscience. She is guilty because out of “self-interest” she gave the gift of life to a child although she knew he would inherit her genetic eye disease. The conservative message of the film is unmistakable. Only he or she who personally comes to terms with the blows imposed by fate will find a form of inner peace. This is the intellectual framework which the director had already employed in a previous film Breaking the Waves.
In that work, Bess, a young woman, thinks she is responsible for her husband's dire condition because she had prayed to God to return him to her as quickly as possible from the remote oil platform where he worked. Her “egotistical” wish is fulfilled. Her husband returns home, but he has been so badly injured in an accident that his doctors say it would be better if he were allowed to die. Bess undergoes a trial of persecution (offering herself sexually to one and all), convinced that this will restore her husband to life. At the end of her passage of torment she dies, but her sacrifice was worthwhile—her husband improves. Her doctors finally conclude that she died from being “too good”.
Selma is also a pure soul, an angel exuding childish traits such as a powerful sense of fantasy. Condemned to a life of misery on earth she resolves to see everything “with her heart” and not her “eyes”. As Selma begins to dream, often in the middle of her work, she discovers beauty in the midst of her humdrum surroundings. (She loves musicals, where nothing bad ever happens.) The world is full of noise and rhythms, song and dance, a musical in which there are really no bad people, everybody is good-natured, there is always some one there to catch you when you fall. Suddenly the monotonous machines which Selma operates take on a life of their own and everything is suffused with momentum, strength and boisterousness—underlined in the dance scenes by Björk's emotion-fired music and song.
The director has stated that Selma, in common with Bess from Breaking the Waves, stands for the “defence of naiveté”. They are “icons.” In fact, when von Trier speaks of naiveté he is not speaking of childish innocence—which is directly bound up with curiosity about the world and the desire to know. The strength of Selma and Bess's convictions is intimately bound up with an inability to come to terms with reality. Isolation from the world is what protects their dreams.
In Breaking the Waves Bess admits frankly that she is stupid—stupidity is the only gift she has been given by God. In this gift resides her “talent to believe”. The director allows her to die in the film precisely at that point when she begins to doubt her own convictions. In the scene in Dancer in the Dark which first makes clear the threat of Selma's impending blindness, she bluntly declares to her factory colleague Jeff, without an ounce of regret: “I have seen enough—there is nothing more for me to see.”
Lars von Trier recently described the advantages of living in a beautiful world of illusion in an interview with the Süddeutschen Zeitung: “I was so disappointed by Africa. There were black people and lions and everything, but it was no way as fantastic as I thought it would be. That's why I think it is so important not to travel. Then the world remains a beautiful place.” In the same interview he goes on to say that he thought it was an advantage making his film in the US, under conditions where he had never previously visited the country.
Given such a conception it comes as no surprise that the narrative of Dancer in the Dark lacks any sort of concrete social or historical foundation. The elements of the plot could in fact be transposed to any time or place. Von Trier stated that he found it interesting to make Selma an inhabitant of a former “communist” country. But this plays no role in the film. The only line in the film which refers to this fact sounds hollow, as if it had just been tossed in.
In his last film The Idiots von Trier employed his so-called “Dogma Rules” and technical effects to achieve a sort of spontaneity and “authentic atmosphere”. In the case of the The Idiots the results were obtained with a minimum of technology—a few handheld video-cameras to obtain the documentary-type effect. Now, in Dancer in the Dark, no less than 100 video cameras were employed in one of the dance scenes to improve the sense of “spontaneity”.
When it comes to the development of plot and the main characters von Trier, however, applies less care. Much in the film comes across as crudely constructed and designed to appeal on the basis of affectation and cheap melodrama—for example, when von Trier allows the nearly blind Selma to trip her way home along the tracks of a railway line, skipping to one side as the locomotives roar down the track. Or nearly blind Selma in the factory making elementary mistakes as she places her tender fingers inside the huge stamping machine pressing metal plate. The director, it seems, does not want the audience to do too much of its own thinking. Despite the best efforts of some of the talented actors involved none of the characters and relationships portrayed on screen convince.
It is interesting that in addition to some criticism, such a confused film has been the subject of considerable praise. It would seem as if the film has struck a nerve amongst certain social layers. The film evidently feeds the sentiments of those predisposed to fatalism and the sentimental glorification of intellectual backwardness.
Today it is perhaps for some a source of consolation to learn that the indisputable cultural decline of society is an unstoppable process. Even more consoling is the notion that those who suffer most are prepared to suffer with dignity and quietly accept their “fate”. Cocooned in this cloak of security, it is then possible to be moved and weep for such holy souls as Selma and Bess.
The film can also serve to ease the conscience—perhaps a conscience initially formed years ago when one was far more radical in thought and deed. Everybody has their own cross to bear and to suffer because of the evil ways of the world—is not that the eternal fate of the goodly person? This is the inescapable and profoundly conservative message that von Trier communicates in his latest, thoroughly unconvincing film. Not exactly the most promising basis for a revival of critical cinema.
George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in triumphant return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera
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Interview with conductor William Barkhymer: “I think the world is just thankful we had Gershwin to compose Porgy and Bess”
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Dan Gilbert’s “New Detroit”
Billionaire land speculator witch-hunts teens for graffiti near his property
By Zac Corrigan
“Unfortunately, once in a great while, degenerates who don’t ‘get it’ crawl out of their deep dark holes and try to ruin it for the rest of us,” wrote Dan Gilbert, Detroit’s richest man, in an email to his 12,500 downtown employees. Attached were images and a video of three young women, recorded June 22 by Gilbert’s private network of surveillance cameras.
The low-resolution video shows the three teenagers in a back alley, spray-painting a building adjacent to one of the dozens of downtown buildings Gilbert owns. He enlisted his employees to “post the pictures and video on any of your social media accounts such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc”, and offered “the entire cost to paint your home” as a reward for information leading to an arrest.
Taggers captured on surveillance cameras
Mackenzie Snitgen and Mary Harder, age 17, and Isabella Mary Meteer, 18, were identified as suspects in a matter of hours. At their arraignment July 14 all three pleaded not guilty to charges of “malicious destruction of a building [valued at] $1,000 to $20,000”—a felony with a maximum prison sentence of five years. They were each released on $5,000 bail. The three attended a pre-trial hearing July 22, and are scheduled to reappear in court August 9.
Gilbert’s email refers to the young women as “degenerates,” “clowns,” and “fancy ‘ladies.’” After their arrest, Larry Mongo, a black business owner downtown, mocked the young women in an interview on Action 7 News, thanked Gilbert for hunting them down, and said he hoped the three, who are white and come from the Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Woods, would be treated the same as “ghetto kids.”
The three young women are the immediate targets. But the “degenerates” Gilbert wants to keep out of downtown, above all, are the masses of poor workers from Detroit’s neighborhoods. Gilbert has been at the forefront of efforts by the elite to “revitalize” a small enclave for the wealthy and upper-middle class in the downtown area (see: “Detroit’s downtown ‘development’ plan”) that will essentially be off-limits to the majority of the city’s population. This has been accompanied by the forced eviction of hundreds of poor and elderly residents, as well as dozens of artists, from the area. With investments worth tens of millions, Gilbert wants to make sure any “riff-raff” that don’t fit in with the sparkling, upscale designs of the “New Detroit” are kept out.
Teen taggers at arraignment
Gilbert, who holds no elected office, has emerged as the de facto king of Detroit. He wields enormous power over economic and political decisions, enjoys non-stop promotion by a fawning media in Detroit and nationally, and owns a private army to protect his property.
In addition to his hundreds of surveillance cameras, his Rock Security agents patrol the area 24 hours a day. He owns 60 buildings throughout downtown, many acquired from the city at rock-bottom prices through what he himself has referred to as a “skyscraper sale.” For some buildings he paid as little as $8 per square foot. Downtown rents are now approaching $2 per square foot every month—which means after four months the cost of his “investment” will be fully covered and he will make pure profit from then on.
Gilbert’s Quicken Loans mortgage lending companies, and his network of other companies under the “Rock” moniker (Rock Ventures, Rock Gaming, Bedrock, etc), make him the largest employer in downtown Detroit. He owns approximately nine million square feet of downtown real estate, including offices, apartments, the Greektown casino and hotel, as well as shopping, parking structures, and recently the building housing both of Detroit’s daily newspapers, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News (the papers plan to relocate). Residents therefore work for his companies, pay him rent on their homes, gamble at his casino, shop at his stores, are spied on by his cameras and policed by his hired agents.
The situation harkens back to the “company towns” of the 19th and early 20th century, when coal companies or the auto giants controlled virtually every aspect of life. Gilbert’s operation in particular recalls Henry Ford’s infamous “Service Department”—the hired thugs and spies who policed his workforce, visiting their homes to make sure they were going to church, were not drinking, were not cohabitating prior to marriage, and especially were not attempting to unionize or promote socialist politics. If workers were found to be violating Ford’s moral code, they were thrown out of their jobs and blacklisted.
The extreme charge of “malicious destruction of a building” is being handed down for what amounts to a teenage prank, while Gilbert is engaged in the most destructive and parasitic activity, for which he is not only not being punished, but on the contrary, being lauded and showered with public subsidies. Gilbert has been appointed to the Obama-created Detroit Blight Removal Task Force, which has a budget of $150 million to demolish tens of thousands of houses across the city’s 139 square miles.
This will provide even more profit opportunities for Gilbert and other aspiring “entrepreneurs,” while wide swaths of the city—deemed too poor for investment—will be “decommissioned” and their residents driven out by shutting down water, electricity, fire protection and other vital services. As Gilbert once boasted, “For probably the first time in Western civilization, large parcels of vacant, pristine land that have paved streets, utilities of all sorts, cable, phone, water, sewer” were available for the taking, with “everything at affordable prices.”
In 1960, Detroit had the highest standard of living of any major American city. After decades of de-industrialization, during which the automakers moved hundreds of thousands of jobs to low-wage areas throughout the US and overseas, it now perennially tops lists of “poorest,” “most dangerous” and “most miserable” big cities in the country. Detroit’s child poverty rate is near 60 percent.
The city is currently undergoing the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, and corporate vandals are looting it of anything they can get their hands on, including constitutionally protected city worker pensions, a publicly-owned (and world renowned) art collection, and one of the nation’s largest municipally owned water and sewerage systems. Thousands of its poorest residents are being shut off from water service each week.
The Obama administration has backed this attack in order to use Detroit as a model to attack public sector workers throughout the country, destroy public services and carry out the wholesale privatization of urban areas.
What is happening in Detroit is a massive transfer of wealth to the super-rich that is part of a national and international process. The fortunes of the very rich in the US have seen an historic increase nationwide, with 95 percent of income gains from 2009-2012 going to the top one percent of earners. Gilbert has virtually quadrupled his own wealth to $3.8 billion since the crash of 2008.
Gilbert is not the only oligarch in town. Fellow billionaire Mike Ilitch—owner of Little Caesar’s Pizza, the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings sports teams, the Motor City Casino, and much more—recently acquired a 45-block area of downtown for $1, and was given hundreds of millions in public money to finance the building of a new hockey arena and surrounding entertainment and shopping district.
Detroit’s unelected Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who is overseeing the bankruptcy and officially rules over Detroit as an unchallengeable dictator, has favorably compared Gilbert and Ilitch to bygone tycoons Carnegie and Rockefeller, saying “every great city needs its patrons.”
As ruthless as these robber barons were, they at least built vast industries and infrastructure. Gilbert embodies the decline and decay of American capitalism and the rise of financial parasites who make their money essentially by looting the already existing wealth of the population.
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The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the internet
On Tuesday, the New York Times published a major editorial statement warning about the “breakup of the web” amid the rise of internet censorship and international geopolitical conflicts. “If things continue along this path,” the newspaper warns, “the next decade may see the internet relegated to little more than just another front on the new cold war.”
The editorial begins by alluding to a warning by Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, that, in the Times’ words, “in the next 10 to 15 years, the internet would most likely be split in two—one internet led by China and one internet led by the United States.”
Schmidt, according to the Times, “did not seem to seriously entertain the possibility that the internet would remain global.” While agreeing with this appraisal, the newspaper adds, “if anything, the flaw in Mr. Schmidt’s thinking is that he too quickly dismisses the European internet that is coalescing around the European Union’s ever-heightening regulation of technology platforms. All signs point to a future with three internets.”
Censorship will become common to all of these “spheres,” not just that of China, the Times warns. “Internet censorship and surveillance were once hallmarks of oppressive governments—with Egypt, Iran and China being prime examples.” But it has become clear that this “isn’t just the domain of anti-democratic forces.”
The warning is ironic, given the fact that the Times has, for nearly two years, been at the forefront of justifying the efforts of US technology companies to censor the internet in alliance with leading figures in the Democratic Party, including Senator Mark Warner and Congressman Adam Schiff. For nearly two years, the Times has sought to promote and instigate censorship measures in the name of combating “Russian meddling” in American politics.
That campaign has resulted in a series of sweeping censorship measures, beginning with an initiative, known as “Project Owl,” announced by Google Engineering Vice President Ben Gomes in April 2017, that buried left-wing websites, including the World Socialist Web Site, in search results.
Facebook and Twitter have followed with similar actions, demoting oppositional pages in their users’ news feeds and, just last week, shutting down the accounts of left-wing news pages with millions of followers. The Times has cheered every step of this campaign, going so far as to label the political pages removed by Facebook as “spam” and “domestic disinformation.”
The Times and the American ruling class are now being hoisted with their own petard. Just as the American state and intelligence apparatus have sought to weaponize the internet, so too are other powers, as the internet becomes a battleground for economic and geopolitical conflicts.
What upsets the Times is that American companies, and Google in particular, are not tailoring all their actions according to the geopolitical interests of American imperialism.
“American corporations,” the Times writes, “do little to counteract Balkanization and instead do whatever is necessary to expand their operations. … If the future of the internet is a tripartite cold war, Silicon Valley wants to be making money in all three of those worlds.”
What instigated the Times’ ire at Google is the company’s insistence that it will operate in China, under rules imposed by the Chinese government, in defiance of protests by leading figures within the American government.
The Times pointed to a leaked speech by Gomes that made clear that the company’s plans to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market are in fact much further along than the company had publicly indicated. “Mr. Gomes’s leaked speech from inside Google sounded almost dystopian at times. ‘This is a world none of us have ever lived in before,’ Mr. Gomes told employees. ‘All I am saying, we have built a set of hacks, and we have kept them.’”
Readers of the World Socialist Web Site are familiar with the “dystopian” plans of Mr. Gomes, who has played a leading role in Google’s campaign to censor the internet in the United States and Europe. When he was working to crack down on political opposition within the US, the Times never mentioned his name and defended the censorship program over which he presided.
But now that Google is seeking to implement censorship in cooperation with the Chinese state, the Times is complaining about “[t]he power of a handful of platforms and services.”
In other words, the Times, speaking for the US intelligence apparatus, wants to have its cake and eat it too. It wants US technology companies to censor domestic political opposition in the name of preventing “foreign interference.” But it also wants those same companies to reject overtures by foreign governments to prevent “interference” by the Americans, including the US-backed campaign, which the Times alludes to, to promote separatist sentiments among Chinese Uighurs.
The Times, and the American ruling elite for which it speaks, wants to keep the internet “global” only insofar as its rules are written in the United States, insofar as the American ruling class can control the narrative. That other states and other ruling elites are moving to implement their own rules and restrictions, bound up with their own domestic and geopolitical interests, it considers intolerable.
Aside from the Times’ hypocrisy, the phenomenon it points to is very real—and dangerous. The internet emerged as a powerful mechanism for spreading information and sharing ideas, and for undermining national divisions and the control of the professional “gatekeepers”—the establishment media. With the proliferation of hand-held devices and social media platforms, vast troves of information are now available to workers and youth all over the world.
This development terrifies the capitalist ruling elites. The American ruling class, in particular, is fighting a two-front war. It wants to pressure the giant US-based social media and internet companies to suppress domestic opposition, while at the same time undercutting the efforts of its competitors and adversaries, whether in China or in Europe, to establish their own mechanisms of control.
The threat to an open and internationally integrated internet is one expression of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system—between a global economy and the division of the world into nation-states, and between socialized production and the subordination of economic life to the accumulation of private profit. Communication systems are global, but they are being manipulated by rival ruling classes. The spread of information is inherently liberating, but the infrastructure for its dissemination remains under the control of powerful corporations.
The social force capable of securing an open and global internet is the working class, the only genuinely international class, whose interests are bound up with opposition to the capitalist nation-state system. The struggle against censorship is the struggle to defend the social, cultural and technological achievements of mankind. It is inextricably connected to the fight against war, inequality and authoritarianism.
It is, in short, a revolutionary question. The international working class must respond to the two-front war of the capitalist ruling elites with a one-front war against the capitalist system itself. The internet must be established on secure foundations, through the establishment of a global, socialist society, based on equality and democratic control of production.
Andre Damon
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Hugo Chávez Frías: An Unforgettable and Victorious Permanence
Hugo Chávez Frías passed away from the pain and struggle of this world on March 5, only to become a permanent part of a constellation of revolutionary heroes. This morning, on March 8, Chávez will be laid to rest in a manner that will leave him on permanent display for millions of his adoring followers in Venezuela, the oppressed and marginalized majority whose cause he so valiantly championed through 14 years of government and at least 17 elections and referenda. He will be preserved physically, and politically, having emerged not just as Venezuela’s most significant leader since Simón Bolívar, but as the recognizable face of a global anti-imperialist movement. Chávez has now become a firm part of the Latin American political canon. In death, he is being literally monumentalized, an institution in his own right.
While many of us do feel his passing as an immense and deep loss, and 14 years was simply not enough, there is much to celebrate, and much to build on and continue. Apart from the seemingly infinite video and film recordings, we will never again hear his booming voice or his laughter, hear him sing, see him pound his fists into the air, watch that mischievous look in his eye that accompanied his smile–those closest to him, and those who followed him closely, will feel this sort of absence especially and little can make up for it. On the other hand, one should not descend into tragedy and remain stuck in mourning. Hugo Chávez is now more than just a man, or a memory of a man, he is a movement. Without a doubt, Hugo Chávez has become the new Ché Guevara–expect to see him everywhere, for the rest of your own days.
Over the past few days, and relying primarily and purposely on Venezuelan media and secondly on non-mainstream media from elsewhere,* I have been tracing (here mostly, here too) the outpouring of international support that has accompanied the millions coming out yet in the Venezuelan streets yet again for Chávez. The latest news is that 53 international delegations will be participating in the funeral for Chávez, 32 of which are led by heads of government or state. Leaders and representatives of Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Uruguay, Equatorial Guinea, Argentina, Honduras, and Peru, have visited the Military Academy where Chávez has been temporarily placed. Also visiting Chávez’s casket in the chapel have been the Prime Ministers of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts, Trinidad and Tobago, and Curaçao. Due to arrive this morning for the funeral will be the following presidents: Chile, Sebastián Piñera; Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla; Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina; El Salvador, Mauricio Funes; Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina; Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto; Panama, Ricardo Martinelli; Suriname, Desiré Delano; Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko; Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Prince of Asturias on behalf of the King of Spain. Chinese media reported somewhat different numbers: “A total of 33 heads of state and 55 high-level international delegations from 54 countries and regions“–a figure that seems to grow by the minute, and which has been confirmed by Venezuelan media. A total of at least 15 governments around the world have declared official days of mourning in honour of Chávez, most declaring at least three days of mourning, among them: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Haiti, Iran, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and as far away as Belarus, Nigeria (with seven days of official mourning), and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (see more here). The Venezuelan Foreign Minister has rightly called this an unprecedented level of international mourning for a deceased government leader.
Those interested in following the funeral, can do so starting from 11:30 am (EST), by seeing the live stream here. Otherwise, there is a thorough and comprehensive collection of videos on this YouTube channel.
North American and western European mainstream media are worth ignoring almost entirely, unless one’s purpose is to do yet another catalogue of the abrasive and abusive brainwashing by amateur propagandists, something that passes itself off as “journalism” and which holds media consumers in utter contempt. Our media are no longer produced by adults, nor are their products intended for adults. The predictable narrative is that of the megalomaniac corporate media serving the 1% which has great reason to fear that the real message of Chávez’s life and accomplishments might escape their control. And it has escaped their control. Western media are not just quite dispensable, they invite dismissal altogether. Those who spend their time with such media will encounter the usual clumsy and irresponsible characterizations of Chávez as a “dictator” and “demagogue” or that Venezuelan society is “divided” (which society isn’t?), as if it were somehow divided into two equal parts. When what we have leading us are bland cardboard cutouts who play powerlessness (when it comes to spending on education, healthcare, social security, and employment creation), because they are mere stand-ins for the powerful corporate elites, surely someone with character, personality, passion and purpose must be a demagogue.
Fortunately, less reactionary opinions have been flowing in, presented below in no particular order, and with only a few selected.
Cristina Fernández: “I only want to remember him as he was alive. Because he is alive.
Raul Castro: “Hugo Chávez died unbeaten, invincible and victorious.”
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America): “President Hugo Chávez was in life the beacon of light that inspired the emergence of ALBA-TCP, as an emancipatory project of the Latin American and Caribbean countries…[in the history of the Americas] no president had done so much in such a short time for the integration and unity of the peoples of our continent….UNASUR, CELAC, Petrocaribe and ALBA are the practical expressions of the integrationist fervor of Commander Hugo Chávez …who brought fervor and passion to the causes of integration and anti-imperialism, for the redemption of the poor and marginalized of the whole world. Today the world’s poor feel deeply for the physical passing of the leader who represented their voice and who will remain forever in their hearts, our dear Commander Hugo Chávez.”
UNASUR (Union of South American Nations): “The lasting mark made by President Chávez , head of the Bolivarian Revolution and key leader of the South American union, leaves a legacy and historical example of solidarity with fraternal peoples, that will last in the memory and hearts of Latin Americans, as a contribution to the path of our regional integration.”
Statements from across the government of Belize, including the opposition: “President Chávez was a true friend of Belize and over many years, the Belizean people enjoyed the fruits of friendship and cooperation that the Government and people of the Bolivarian Republic offered Belize under the leadership of President Chávez. His public life was one of leadership and struggle for high ideals and principles, with the purpose of improving the lives of individual citizens and promoting a spirit of community among peoples and among nations. It is under his leadership that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States was established in Caracas, Venezuela, in December of 2011.”
Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary for ECLAC/CEPAL (Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean): “Mr. Chávez will take his rightful place in our hearts and minds among the great men and women who have left their mark on the history of our continent. I had the opportunity to witness his unfailing commitment to the dispossessed, the poorest and the most humble, which defined his political and private persona. He made equality his compass, and the proud sovereignty of his homeland was his constant guide. His emergence changed the face of the Americas for the better, because Mr. Chávez proved that when the will for constructive change is the expression of majority aspiration rather than just a personal enlightenment, it becomes an unstoppable force. He was a determined campaigner for Latin American brotherhood, and his vision and tenacity are at the root of the new road map for integration, as UNASUR to CELAC, and ALBA to PETROCARIBE owe their origins to Mr. Chávez.”
Hebe de Bonafini, president of the association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Argentina): “Not only has a comrade departed, but one who is irreplaceable. He was one of these men who is rarely born, who is not repeated.”
General Workers’ Confederation of Argentina: “To the brave people of Venezuela, there is no obstacle that can divert the road. During these years of hard work building the Bolivarian revolution, under the key leadership of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, popular consciousness and popular will have become consolidated offering an example and guide for all of our America….the workers of Argentina will not forget the beloved Commander, who will live forever in the hearts and struggles of dignified peoples.”
National Indigenous Peasant Movement of Argentina (MNCI): “Commander Hugo Chávez devoted his life, energy, love and passion to Latin American unity and integration, to win liberty and equality for our peoples, for bringing the dawn (ALBA) of socialism.”
Evo Morales: “a caring brother, a fellow revolutionary, a Latin American who fought for his country, for the great homeland, as Simon Bolivar did. He gave his whole life for the liberation of the Venezuelan people, the people of Latin America and all anti-imperialist fighters in the world.”
“Chávez died, but he will return in the millions, in the thousands of millions of Chavistas, not just in Venezuela, Bolivia, etc., but across the planet.”
Rigoberta Menchú (Nobel Peace Prize laureate): “He has not died. He has made a transcendental passage in the evolution of life….We have lost a great president, a great friend, and a great comrade of the most oppressed peoples of the continent.”
Prime Minister of Haiti, Laurent Lamothe: “They helped us after the (2012) floods. They sent over 600 tons of food just recently. They are helping us every day with Petrocaribe. We’re going there to pay tribute to their people and of course show solidarity with the Venezuelan people.”
Mahmoud Abbas: “This is a great loss for us. The Palestinian people will remain faithful to Chávez whose memory will remain engraved in our consciousness in recognition of his courageous support for our right to an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Vladimir Putin: “President Hugo Chávez lifted hundreds of thousands, millions, of people out of poverty. He was talented and courageous. He is added to the list of sons of Latin America as Simon Bolivar, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and, among the living, Fidel Castro. He became a symbol of the Latin American struggle for independence and freedom. The ideals were internationalist, but he was also proud of his indigenous origins. Speaking of international affairs, I can safely say that Chávez always tried to ensure the establishment of friendly relations with all countries of the world without exception. But he never did that at the cost of suppressing the interests of his beloved Venezuela, never did he try to be nice to all at the expense of his own people.”
Jimmy Carter: “President Hugo Chávez will be remembered for his bold defense of the autonomy and independence of Latin American governments, and for his formidable communication skills in making a personal connection with his supporters, both at home and in the abroad.”
Imran Khan:
Sad 2 hear of bold Venezuelan Pres Hugo Chavez's death.He stood firm against forces of imperialism in trad of great Latin American ldrs.RIP
Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) March 06, 2013
Sean Penn: “Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion. I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.”
Oliver Stone: “I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place. Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chávez will live forever in history. My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned.”
Hugo Chávez remains undefeated, as expressed by Derrick O’Keefe, the president of the Canadian Peace Alliance. Imperialism could not defeat him. The U.S. failed in its efforts to overthrow him by way of its proxies. Chávez won election after election after referendum. Venezuela became the most democratic state in the modern history of the Americas. Unlike any of us in the North, Venezuelans were given the opportunity to participate in rewriting their own Constitution. Chávez could draw crowds that, in both absolute numbers, and especially in proportional terms, Obama could only dream of ever attracting. Chávez drew such crowds regularly at home, and often abroad too.
Among the numerous impressive social and economic achievements under Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, scholars have gathered the following details:
To make a more objective assessment of the real progress achieved by the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela during the last 13 years it is essential to review some of the key available data on the social determinants of health and poverty: education, inequality, jobs and income, health care, food security and social support and services.
With regard to these social determinants of health indicators, Venezuela is now the country in the region with the lowest inequality level (measured by the Gini Coefficient) having reduced inequality by 54%, poverty by 44%. Poverty has been reduced from 70.8% (1996) to 21% (2010). And extreme poverty reduced from 40% (1996) to a very low level of 7.3% (2010). About 20 million people have benefited from anti-poverty programs, called “Misiones” (Up to now, 2.1 million elderly people have received old-age pensions – that is 66% of the population while only 387,000 received pensions before the current government).
Education is a key determinant of both health and poverty and the Bolivarian government has placed a particular emphasis on education allotting it more than 6% of GDP. UNESCO has recognized that illiteracy [has] been eliminated furthermore, Venezuela is the 3rd county in the region whose population reads the most. There is tuition free education from daycare to university; 72% of children attend public daycares and 85% of school age children attend school. There are thousands of new or refurbished schools, including 10 new universities. The country places 2nd in Latin America and 5th in the world with the greatest proportions of university students. In fact, 1 out of every 3 Venezuelans are enrolled in some educational program. It is also a great achievement that Venezuela is now tied with Finland as the 5th country with the happiest population in the world.
Before the Chavez government in 1998, 21% of the population was malnourished. Venezuela now has established a network of subsidized food distribution including grocery stores and supermarkets. While 90% of the food was imported in 1980, today this is less than 30%. Misión Agro-Venezuela has given out 454,238 credits to rural producers and 39,000 rural producers have received credit in 2012 alone. Five million Venezuelan receive free food, four million of them are children in schools and 6,000 food kitchens feed 900,000 people. The agrarian reform and policies to help agricultural producers have increased domestic food supply. The results of all these food security measures is that today malnourishment is only 5%, and child malnutrition which was 7.7% in 1990 today is at 2.9%. This is an impressive health achievement by any standards.
Some of the most important available data on health care and public health are as following:
*infant mortality dropped from 25 per 1000 (1990) to only 13/1000 (2010);
*An outstanding 96% of the population has now access to clean water (one of the goals of the revolution);
*In 1998, there were 18 doctors per 10,000 inhabitants, currently there are 58, and the public health system has about 95,000 physicians;
*It took four decades for previous governments to build 5,081 clinics, but in just 13 years the Bolivarian government built 13,721 (a 169.6% increase);
*Barrio Adentro (i.e., primary care program with the help of more than 8,300 Cuban doctors) has approximately saved 1,4 million lives in 7,000 clinics and has given 500 million consultations;
*In 2011 alone, 67,000 Venezuelans received free high cost medicines for 139 pathologies conditions including cancer, hepatitis, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, and others; there are now 34 centres for addictions,
*In 6 years 19,840 homeless have been attended through a special program; and there are practically no children living on the streets.
*Venezuela now has the largest intensive care unit in the region.
*A network of public drugstores sell subsidized medicines in 127 stores with savings of 34-40%.
*51,000 people have been treated in Cuba for specialized eye treatment and the eye care program “Mision Milagro”; has restored sight to 1.5 million Venezuelans.
An example that clearly has earned the right to be hated by our ruling right wing parties (in Canada, the U.S., Europe), and which has earned the contempt of the children of Venezuelan oligarchs who call all of this “misery,” who call Chávez “the worst president ever” (even when compared to those that massacred thousands in the streets). This is the madness of the oppressors, that they can turn the world upside down, call thin fat, short tall, war peace, and actually demand that we believe them. They are finished. The anti-Bolivarian opposition in Venezuela can look forward to being buried and soundly defeated like never before in the elections that will be scheduled to take place in the next 30 days. Advance congratulations to President Nicolás Maduro. Long Live Hugo Chávez, Chávez Lives Forever.
* Sites I recommend are:
CORREO DEL ORINOCO
PARTIDO SOCIALISTA UNIDO DE VENEZUELA (PSUV)
Venezuela Analysis
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and its Americas Blog
Union of South American Nations
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
PetroCaribe
CHAVEZ, LATIN AMERICA, LIBERATION, VENEZUELAALBA, anti-imperialism, Bolivarian socialism, Death of Chavez, Funeral, Hugo Chávez Frías, PETROCARIBE, revolution, UNASUR, VenezuelaMaximilian C. Forte12 comments
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Adelante Comandante!
Beautiful requiem for a beautiful, power-full and empowered man; en corazon, en mente, en espiritu.
… and, after just now watching Cubavision’s online broadcast of the end of Comandante Hugo Chavez’s funeral, I was struck by something that I have seen before. For example, as in a buddhist monestery where more than methods of meditation are transmitted, but something I’d call “soul” is transmitted, inspired into the community around the source, a new light comes on in their faces, they seem to transmit a joy, and their very flesh changes its form and texture, they begin to look and be like Her, Jiyu Kennet, Roshi..
I saw this in Nicolas Maduro Moro’s impassioned, informed requiem for companero Hugo.
Revolution is something within, with body, mind, and spirit; and it spreads, like flooding waters or a wildfire; or love.
A beautiful tribute to an extraordinarily decent, principled and courageous man, a man of truly heroic proportions. Thank you for this Max.
President Chavez has been something of a hero to me since his ascension into the worldwide public realm (despite my attempts to resist this response). I am concerned only that his charismatic persona not devolve into a kind of cult or purely emotional, unthinking worship. He deserves all the adulation and recognition he receives, and more. But it is important, in my view, that people not lose sight of the principles and actions which he exemplified so well.
If ever there were a ‘great man’ in history, it is he. But ‘great men’ do not by themselves change the course of history; they are catalysts, important elements, but it is the grinding, slow work of masses of people who create change. For the beautiful Bolivarian Revolution going forward, this should not be forgotten.
R.I.P. President Chavez, you were and will remain among the very best that humanity has offered.
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I agree that the cult of personality can be counterproductive, disempowering, and potentially demobilizing. This is especially the case when the leader is actually alive. Such a cult-like following, in his death, however becomes more a source of inspiration and symbolic focus, rather than an impediment to individual action. As John suggested, this is where the “worship” means the spread of the spirit of the fighter, diffusing it to all others, adding to their own energies and determination. Many thanks for the comments.
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Just a few thoughts that I added in Twitter, to some of the pretentious critiques coming out in a spate of “leftist” articles in the West, some of which have trackbacks to my article above:
Call #Chavez brilliant, but when others do the same remember to assert how simplistic they are, so as to assert your own expertise.
https://twitter.com/1D4TW/status/310762374548295682
It’s equally important to write wishy-washy articles of support-criticism to manifest your own magnificent transcendence. #Chavez
How to appear smart without actually being so: say that all sides are just two sides of the same coin. Oh, brilliant! *Applause*
In other words, nothing is ever different, and everything reinforces the system. Very convenient, so you can go back to being resigned.
With the comforting aid of the Western anarchist ubercritic, you can safely demobilize yourself and resume viewing things as mere spectacle.
Now go put on a black hoodie and destroy some mailbox. Your work is done here.
One might think that the really human thing to do, when assessing the many positive contributions of a revolutionary leader who has passed away, is to say: thank you.
My profound condolences to the noble people of Venezuela for the passing of President Hugo Chavez. I share your grief for the departure of this heroic leader who dedicated his life to the well being of all Venezuelans and who spoke bravely, eloquently and bluntly to the criminal American imperial warfare state. President Chavez occupies an eternal place of honor in the history of human struggles for equality and social justice. Glory to the memory of Commandante Hugo Chavez!
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Bradley Manning: The U.S. on Trial for War Crimes
The following statement by Julian Assange was first posted on the WikiLeaks website. In addition to this, please see the Bradley Manning Trial FAQ, the “Opening statements on Bradley Manning’s intentions: trial report, day 1” on the Bradley Manning support Network website, and “Bradley Manning’s personal statement to court martial: full text.”
Assange Statement on the First Day of Manning Trial
Monday 3rd June 2013, 22:00 GMT
Statement by Julian Assange
As I type these lines, on June 3, 2013, Private First Class Bradley Edward Manning is being tried in a sequestered room at Fort Meade, Maryland, for the alleged crime of telling the truth. The court martial of the most prominent political prisoner in modern US history has now, finally, begun.
It has been three years. Bradley Manning, then 22 years old, was arrested in Baghdad on May 26, 2010. He was shipped to Kuwait, placed into a cage, and kept in the sweltering heat of Camp Arifjan.
“For me, I stopped keeping track,” he told the court last November. “I didn’t know whether night was day or day was night. And my world became very, very small. It became these cages… I remember thinking I’m going to die.”
After protests from his lawyers, Bradley Manning was then transferred to a brig at a US Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA, where – infamously – he was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at the hands of his captors – a formal finding by the UN. Isolated in a tiny cell for twenty-three out of twenty-four hours a day, he was deprived of his glasses, sleep, blankets and clothes, and prevented from exercising. All of this – it has been determined by a military judge – “punished” him before he had even stood trial.
“Brad’s treatment at Quantico will forever be etched, I believe, in our nation’s history, as a disgraceful moment in time” said his lawyer, David Coombs. “Not only was it stupid and counterproductive, it was criminal.”
The United States was, in theory, a nation of laws. But it is no longer a nation of laws for Bradley Manning.
When the abuse of Bradley Manning became a scandal reaching all the way to the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton’s spokesman resigned to register his dissent over Mr. Manning’s treatment, an attempt was made to make the problem less visible. Bradley Manning was transferred to the Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He has waited in prison for three years for a trial – 986 days longer than the legal maximum – because for three years the prosecution has dragged its feet and obstructed the court, denied the defense access to evidence and abused official secrecy. This is simply illegal – all defendants are constitutionally entitled to a speedy trial – but the transgression has been acknowledged and then overlooked.
Against all of this, it would be tempting to look on the eventual commencement of his trial as a mercy. But that is hard to do.
We no longer need to comprehend the “Kafkaesque” through the lens of fiction or allegory. It has left the pages and lives among us, stalking our best and brightest. It is fair to call what is happening to Bradley Manning a “show trial”. Those invested in what is called the “US military justice system” feel obliged to defend what is going on, but the rest of us are free to describe this travesty for what it is. No serious commentator has any confidence in a benign outcome. The pretrial hearings have comprehensively eliminated any meaningful uncertainty, inflicting pre-emptive bans on every defense argument that had any chance of success.
Bradley Manning may not give evidence as to his stated intent (exposing war crimes and their context), nor may he present any witness or document that shows that no harm resulted from his actions. Imagine you were put on trial for murder. In Bradley Manning’s court, you would be banned from showing that it was a matter of self-defence, because any argument or evidence as to intent is banned. You would not be able to show that the ’victim’ is, in fact, still alive, because that would be evidence as to the lack of harm.
But of course. Did you forget whose show it is?
The government has prepared for a good show. The trial is to proceed for twelve straight weeks: a fully choreographed extravaganza, with a 141-strong cast of prosecution witnesses. The defense was denied permission to call all but a handful of witnesses. Three weeks ago, in closed session, the court actually held a rehearsal. Even experts on military law have called this unprecedented.
Bradley Manning’s conviction is already written into the script. The commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, Barack Obama, spoiled the plot for all of us when he pronounced Bradley Manning guilty two years ago. “He broke the law,” President Obama stated, when asked on camera at a fundraiser about his position on Mr. Manning. In a civilized society, such a prejudicial statement alone would have resulted in a mistrial.
To convict Bradley Manning, it will be necessary for the US government to conceal crucial parts of his trial. Key portions of the trial are to be conducted in secrecy: 24 prosecution witnesses will give secret testimony in closed session, permitting the judge to claim that secret evidence justifies her decision. But closed justice is no justice at all.
What cannot be shrouded in secrecy will be hidden through obfuscation. The remote situation of the courtroom, the arbitrary and discretionary restrictions on access for journalists, and the deliberate complexity and scale of the case are all designed to drive fact-hungry reporters into the arms of official military PR men, who mill around the Fort Meade press room like over-eager sales assistants. The management of Bradley Manning’s case will not stop at the limits of the courtroom. It has already been revealed that the Pentagon is closely monitoring press coverage and social media discussions on the case.
This is not justice; never could this be justice. The verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience.
The alleged act in respect of which Bradley Manning is charged is an act of great conscience – the single most important disclosure of subjugated history, ever. There is not a political system anywhere on the earth that has not seen light as a result. In court, in February, Bradley Manning said that he wanted to expose injustice, and to provoke worldwide debate and reform. Bradley Manning is accused of being a whistleblower, a good man, who cared for others and who followed higher orders. Bradley Manning is effectively accused of conspiracy to commit journalism.
But this is not the language the prosecution uses. The most serious charge against Bradley Manning is that he “aided the enemy” – a capital offence that should require the greatest gravity, but here the US government laughs at the world, to breathe life into a phantom. The government argues that Bradley Manning communicated with a media organisation, WikiLeaks, who communicated to the public. It also argues that al-Qaeda (who else) is a member of the public. Hence, it argues that Bradley Manning communicated “indirectly” with al-Qaeda, a formally declared US “enemy”, and therefore that Bradley Manning communicated with “the enemy”.
But what about “aiding” in that most serious charge, “aiding the enemy”? Don’t forget that this is a show trial. The court has banned any evidence of intent. The court has banned any evidence of the outcome, the lack of harm, the lack of any victim. It has ruled that the government doesn’t need to show that any “aiding” occurred and the prosecution doesn’t claim it did. The judge has stated that it is enough for the prosecution to show that al-Qaeda, like the rest of the world, reads WikiLeaks.
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,” wrote John Adams, “who have a right and a desire to know.”
When communicating with the press is “aiding the enemy” it is the “general knowledge among the people” itself which has become criminal. Just as Bradley Manning is condemned, so too is that spirit of liberty in which America was founded.
In the end it is not Bradley Manning who is on trial. His trial ended long ago. The defendant now, and for the next 12 weeks, is the United States. A runaway military, whose misdeeds have been laid bare, and a secretive government at war with the public. They sit in the docks. We are called to serve as jurists. We must not turn away.
Free Bradley Manning.
No copyright has been asserted for this document. Julian Assange has entered it into the public domain.
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having just read Nick Turse’s expose of the US war crimes in Vietnam ( and, of course, neighbouring states) “Kill Anything That Moves”, I am not surprised at the Bradley Manning affair. More bluntly, nothing the US administrations do can be surprising in the realm of ignominy.What is particularly sad about the matter is the relative quiescence of the US public. Even there, the total absence on the US political scene of any significant political party of integrity is evidence of the deep malaise of the Land of the Free. Ad hoc groupings such as Ralph Nader’s backers were/are radical , but appear not to have ongoing organisational support and, presumably, have resources on a tiny scale compared to those of the Big Two (Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee) On this side of the lake, individual members of certain parties can be counted on to protest and attract some of the media attention that post-modern metapolitics requires, but are, I believe, less and less listened to. Bradley Manning is also, betrayed by so many of his comrades-in-arms, who appear to support the brutalised “man-hunting” crews and their like over any men of honour. “Oh, judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason!”
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Books: Acadie Then and Now: A People's History
L'Acadie hier et aujourd'hui – L'histoire d'un peuple
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Acadie Then and Now: A People's History is an international collection of articles from 55 authors which chronicles the historical and contemporary realities of the Acadian and Cajun people worldwide. In 1605, French colonists settled Acadie (today Nova Scotia, Canada) and for the next 150 years developed a strong and unique Acadian culture. In 1755, the British conducted forced deportations of the Acadians, rendering thousands homeless, and for the next 60 years these exiles migrated to seaports along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, eventually settling in new lands. This tragic upheaval did not succeed in extinguishing the Acadians, but instead planted the seeds of many new Acadies, where today their fascinating culture still thrives.
This collection includes articles on the Acadians and Cajuns living today in the American states of Louisiana, Texas and Maine, in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec, and in the French regions of Poitou, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and St-Pierre et Miquelon. This book provides an international perspective and furnishes the readers with new insights on the past, present, and future of the Acadian descendants from all the Acadies of the world.
L'Acadie hier et aujourd'hui – L'histoire d'un peuple est un recueil d'articles rédigés par 55 auteurs d'Amérique du Nord et d'Europe, qui rendent compte des réalités historiques et contemporaines des Acadiens et des Cadiens à travers le monde. En 1605, des colons français ont établi l'Acadie (aujourd'hui, la NouvelleÉcosse au Canada) et au cours des 150 années suivantes, ils ont développé une culture riche, distincte et singulière. En 1755, Les Britanniques ont brutalement déporté des milliers d'Acadiens qui se sont retrouvés sans foyer. Au cours des 60 années qui ont suivi, ces exilés ont erré de port en port, le long de l'océan Atlantique et du golfe du Mexique, pour enfin trouver refuge sur de nouvelles terres et s'y installer. Ce terrible bouleversement, loin d'écraser à jamais les Acadiens, a plutôt ensemencé de nombreuses Acadies nouvelles, dont la culture fascinante fleurit encore aujourd'hui.
Ce recueil regroupe 65 articles sur les Acadiens et les Cadiens qui vivent aujourd'hui dans les États américains de la Louisiane, du Texas et du Maine, dans les provinces canadiennes du NouveauBrunswick, de la NouvelleÉcosse, de l'ÎleduPrinceÉdouard, de TerreNeuve et du Québec, et dans les régions françaises du Poitou, de Belle-Île-en-Mer et de SaintPierre et Miquelon. Ce livre offre un point de vue international et, de ce fait, apporte un nouvel éclairage sur le passé, le présent et l'avenir des descendants acadiens de toutes les Acadies, où qu'elles soient dans le monde.
What people are saying about this book:
An important book in Acadian literature.
– Nicolas Steinbach, Radio-Canada (CBC)
A remarkable book and a remarkable feat to have touched on the Acadian experience from just about every point of view.
–Zachary Richard, musician, Louisiana's French Poet Laureate and author of The History of the Acadians of Louisiana
This book is a colossal work.
– Jimena Vergara, Radio-Canada (CBC)
I am proud to be a part of this project, which provides an impressive collection of perspectives on the Acadian and Cajun experiences. I suspect that this will become a standard reference for years to come.
– Barry Jean Ancelet, PhD, the Willis Granger and Tom Debaillon U. L. Professorship in Francophone Studies, author of Cajun and Creole Music Makers and Second Line Rescue
Thank you for all the exhausting work that you must have endured putting this fascinating book together. What you and others have done to offer this amazing book will be with us forever. I cannot imagine all the hours, months and years it took to do this. What dedication! And we, the Acadians receive this gift with heart-felt warmth that will have us reading for many years to come through our children, grandchildren and their children. Our Acadian family lives on in history because of all your research and hard work. Thank you for that.
–Claudette Brault-Breault and Jean Pierre Breault (Pete)
The book is a treasure trove ! I know it will be used for decades to come by students, scholars, genealogists and anyone merely interested in a good read.
– Dr. Shane K. Bernard, historian and author
In 1605, French colonists settled Acadie (today Nova Scotia, Canada) and for the next 150 years developed a strong and unique Acadian culture. In 1755, the British conducted forced deportations of the Acadians, rendering thousands homeless, and for the next 60 years these exiles migrated to seaports along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, eventually settling in new lands. This tragic upheaval did not succeed in extinguishing the Acadians, but instead planted the seeds of many new Acadies, where today their fascinating culture still thrives.
The collection provides the readers with new insights on the past, present, and future of the Acadian descendants from all the Acadies of the world.
The book was directed by Warren Perrin, lawyer, Acadian and environmental activist, and author; Mary Broussard Perrin, artist and author; and Phil Comeau, filmmaker and author, during several years of preparation.
All profits from the book will be donated to 22 Acadian museums which are located in three countries. Prior to his death, Cajun artist George Rodrigue gave his permission to use his painting for use on the books' cover.
Two of the book directors are available to do interviews:
Warren Perrin, (337) 501-3049 or (337) 233-5832
Mary Broussard Perrin, (337) 501-3053
Biographies of the three directors of the book:
Warren A. Perrin – born near Erath and currently residing in Lafayette, Louisiana. He holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Louisiana State University School of Law and is an attorney with the firm of Perrin, Landry, deLaunay, Dartez, and Ouellet. From 1994 to 2010, he was president of the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) and an adjunct professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was a member of the board of directors of the Congrès mondial acadien-Louisiane 1999, president of the Lt. Governor's Task Force of FrancoFête 1999, and the founder of the Acadian Museum of Erath, Louisiana. Perrin represented Louisiana and the U.S. at the World Francophone Summits in Hanoi, Vietnam; Moncton, New Brunswick; Bucharest, Romania; Quebec City, Canada; and Montreux, Switzerland. He is the author of six books dealing with French culture, including Acadian Redemption (2004), the first biography of an Acadian exile and which reveals how he obtained a successful resolution of his "Petition for an Apology for the Acadian Deportation" from Great Britain, resulting in "The Queen's Royal Proclamation," signed on December 9, 2003. The book was translated into French as Une Saga Acadienne (2005). In 1999, French President Jacques Chirac bestowed upon Perrin the French National Order of Merit. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2007, Perrin was inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame and in 2012 he was named chairman of the Francophone Section of the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Phil Comeau – film director, writer, and editor, was born in Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia and lives in Montreal. Comeau studied dramatic arts at Université de Moncton in New Brunswick, and cinema in Paris, France. He has directed 100 drama and documentary films and television episodes in 25 countries, of which a third are films on Acadians. His films have won over 40 awards in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. He has also written some 70 film scripts; published poems in Plumes d'icitte and Éloizes; written an Acadian French dictionary, Les mots acadjonnes; and written articles for the Montreal magazine L'Actualité. For his contributions to Acadian culture and cinema, Comeau received the Order of Canada, l'Ordre des francophones d'Amérique in Québec, l'Ordre des arts et des lettres in France, the Prix Méritas of the Fédération acadienne in Québec, and the Prix Grand-Pré in Nova Scotia. Comeau has also received honorary doctorates from Université Sainte-Anne and Université de Moncton, both in Canada.
Mary Broussard Perrin – A mixed media artist living in Lafayette, Louisiana, she works in painting, photomontage, artist books and performance art and is a former educator and gallery owner. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisiana and a Master's in Visual Art from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has work in the collections of the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, a branch of the Smithsonian; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Shown are authors (kneeling), left to right, Jean-Marie Nadeau (NB), André-Carl Vachon (QUE), and George Arsenault (PEI); standing, left to right, Raymond Gaudet (QUE), Évangéline Richard (QUE), Mary Broussard Perrin (LA), Gregory Wood (MD), Marty Guidry (LA), Sandra Pettipas Perro (NS), Gisèle Faucher (ME), Marie Rundquist (Md), Natial Perrin d'Augereau (LA), Warren A. Perrin (LA), Barry Ancelet (LA), Phil Comeaux (QUE), Michèlle Touret-Bodin (FRANCE), Marie-Claude Rioux (NS), and Richard Holledge (ENGLAND).
List of authors of book:
From USA:
Warren A. Perrin (co-director of book and author)
Mary Broussard Perrin (co-director of book and author)
Barry Jean Ancelet, Ph. D.
Shane K. Bernard, Ph. D.
Darrell Bourque, Ph. D.
May Gwin Waggoner, Ph. D.
Joshua Caffery, Ph. D.
Whitney P. Broussard, Ph. D.
Charles Larroque
Marsha Sills
Stanley LeBlanc
Martin Guidry
Natial Perrin d'Augereau
Michelle Le Blanc
Katy Reckdahl
Jason Theriot, Ph. D
Thomas L. Linton, Ph. D.
Kathey Broussard King
Joseph Donald Cyr
Gisèle Faucher
A. M. Hodge
Gregory A. Wood, Ph. D.
Marie Rundquist
From CANADA:
Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, Ph. D.
Herménégilde Chiasson, Ph. D.
Joseph Yvon Thériault, Ph. D.
Marc Robichaud, Ph. D.
Jean-Marie Nadeau
Maurice Basque
Michel Bastarache
Jeannita Thériault
Gérard LeBlanc
Sally Ross, Ph. D.
A.J.B. Johnston, Ph. D.
Marie-Claude Rioux
Dianne Marshall
Bernice d'Entremont
Sandra Pettipas Perro
Judy Doucet Bellefontaine
Dean Jobb
Phil Comeau (author and co-director of book)
André-Carl Vachon
Alexandre Riopel
Roger Léger
Pauline Carbonneau
Georges Arsenault
Françoise Eugehard
From FRANCE (5)
Jean-François Mouhot, Ph. D.
Maryvonne Le Gac
Danielle Blancaneaux
Michèle Touret-Bodin
Alain Troubat
From ENGLAND (1)
Richard Holledge
Order a copy of Acadie: Then and Now in our Museum Store.
Authors Warren and Mary Perrin are available to do a booktalk for your group. If interested, please contact us by calling 337-456-7729 or email us info@acadianmuseum.com.
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Gus Weil *
Inducted on September 21, 2002
Weill is generally recognized as the father of modern political public relations in Louisiana and he is the C.E.O. of Louisiana’s oldest advertising and public relations firm, established in 1958.
In 1955, Gus graduated from LSU while in the armed forces. Weill then graduated from the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence School as Special Agent. He was 1st Lieutenant Counter Intelligence Corps Special Agent in Frankfurt, Germany. He was honorably discharged in 1957.
In 1985, he was a visiting professor, division of Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies at LSU and a visiting Professor Playwriting, LSU.
Warren Perrin, President of CODOFIL said, “People may not realize that it was Gus Weill who helped to convince Governor McKeithen to support James Domengeaux’s dream of creating the state agency CODOFIL. We are deeply appreciative of his efforts to help us save the French language and culture”.
Born in Lafayette, the “capitol” of Cajun country, Gus Weill entered the political public relations field in 1958. Since that time he has handed over 350 campaigns in Louisiana at every level of government. He is known as the father of modern political public relations in Louisiana and has spawned virtually every major consultant in the field. Three of his protégés have managed presidential campaigns: James Carville, who managed President Clinton’s campaign, Raymond Strother, who was with Senator Gary Hart, and Roy Fletcher consultant for Pat Buchanan.
Among Weill’s clients have been Governors John J. McKeithen, Jimmie Davis, Edwin Edwards and Dave Treen. He is also the biographer of the late Governor Jimmie Davis. Weill served as Governor McKeithen’s Executive Secretary from 1964 until 1968 when he left to work as a writer for the legendary film producer, Otto Preminger, in New York.
Weill is a political consultant and analyst for The Louisiana Radio network, WAFB-TV (Baton Rouge), and WJBO-AM (Baton Rouge). As a major media personality, he is the long time host host of “Louisiana Legends” which is in its 22nd year on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Weill is known as the “The Conservatives’ Favorite Liberal” on WJBO-AM and is the co-host of “It’s a Weill-Weill World also on WJBO-AM.
Weill is also the author of six novels, two volumes of poetry and a biography which has been published internationally. Five of his plays have been produced in New York City, both on and off Broadway. The awards he has received in his career are numerous including: named a Louisiana Legend in 1994; Louisiana Political Hall of Fame Inductee in 1996; Man of Action Award, Louisiana Press Association; Community Service Award, Louisiana NAACP, 1990; LSU Commencement Speaker, 1981; LSU Alumni Association’s Hall of Distinction Inductee, ‘94 and Governor’s Committee of 100, 1985.
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy appointed Weill to the Business Council. And in 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed him to the Fulbright Scholarship Foundation.
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Cooper, Daniel (1785–1853)
by J. W. Davidson
Daniel Cooper (1785-1853), merchant and investor, was born at Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Cooper and his first wife Hannah. In 1815 he was convicted at Chester of stealing and was sentenced to transportation for life. He arrived in Sydney in January 1816. He received a conditional pardon in 1818 and an absolute pardon in 1821. On 6 January 1819 he was married at St Philip's Church, Sydney, to Hannah Dodd, who had been sentenced to transportation for fourteen years at Chester in 1816. Both Cooper and his wife described themselves as widowed.
Within a short time of his arrival in Sydney Cooper developed a variety of business interests. He ran a general store in George Street, and between 1818 and 1822 he was the licensee of an adjoining public house; he made a small investment in shipping; and in 1824 he established the Australian Brewery. In 1821 he became a partner in the firm of Hutchinson, Terry & Co. (also known as the Waterloo Co.). From its original concern with flour-milling, the company had extended its activities into general merchandising, and in 1822 entered the field of banking with the issue of its own notes. In 1825 Cooper and Solomon Levey became the sole owners of the Waterloo Co., which in the following years was generally known as Cooper & Levey, though the names Waterloo Co. and Waterloo Warehouse were also used. As a condition of their partnership, both Cooper and Levey disposed of individual business interests that conflicted with those of the new firm.
The firm of Cooper & Levey achieved a success that was spectacular in economic terms and conspicuous in that both its partners were emancipists. It continued the activities of its predecessor and developed additional ones based largely on the previous interests and experience of the two partners. To sustain its large retail trade, the firm sent ships to Van Diemen's Land, to New Zealand and the Society Islands, to India, and to Mauritius for cargoes of potatoes, salt pork, wheat, rice, wines, textiles and other goods. On occasions it bought the entire cargoes of vessels arriving in Sydney on speculative voyages. As an exporter, it took a leading part in pioneering the shipment to England of Australian wool. The firm's concern with shipping not only involved it in the ownership and chartering of a number of vessels but also enabled it to build up a lucrative business as a shipping agent. In addition, its shipping interests lay behind a number of its other activities. The firm engaged in both whaling and sealing. It seems to have procured the first cargoes of sandalwood from the New Hebrides. It was financially interested in Samuel Henry's trading establishment in Tahiti. In New Zealand it founded an establishment of its own at Hokianga for the procuring of timber, flax and salt pork, and its vessels visited many parts of the coast. Much of the profit from these varied ventures was invested in real estate. Perhaps the most notable of the firm's successes was its acquisition of the estate of Captain John Piper, which included more than 1100 acres (445 ha) at Woollahra and Rose Bay. Many other valuable areas were acquired in Sydney and its environs, in the Monaro and elsewhere in New South Wales, and in Tasmania.
In 1826 Solomon Levey left Sydney for England to further the firm's business interests. While he was there, he became involved with Thomas Peel in the colonization of Western Australia and did not return. The active direction of the firm thus largely fell on Daniel Cooper.
Though Cooper's management of the firm was a major achievement, it represented only a part of his activities. From an early stage in his career he served on committees concerned with the most diverse objectives: the prosperity of the colony, the interests of stockholders, the commemoration of anniversaries and the honouring of governors. He was elected to the executive committee of the Sydney Free Public Grammar School and was the only emancipist to participate in the founding of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce. He took an active part in the campaign to have emancipists accepted for service on juries; when it was won, he was one of the first to serve. He bitterly criticized the policies of the Bank of New South Wales and successfully countered its attempt to force his firm out of the banking field. In August 1828 he was elected a director of the bank. In addition he built up a personal fortune, largely in real estate, independent of his share in Cooper & Levey.
In October 1831 Cooper sailed on the Dukenfield for England. He subsequently took new partners into the firm, who carried on the management in Sydney. From an office in London he arranged shipping and other matters and apparently continued to exercise a general supervision of the firm's affairs. He died at Brighton, England, on 3 November 1853. His wife had died in June 1836; his third wife Alice survived him. He had no children but had taken great interest in the education and business training of a nephew who bore his own name (later Sir Daniel Cooper, baronet) and to this nephew the major part of his great estate passed.
Cooper, Thomas (half-brother)
Cooper, Daniel (nephew)
Cooper, Charles (nephew)
Cooper, Elizabeth (niece by marriage)
Terry, Samuel (business partner)
Levey, Solomon (business partner)
Fitz-Stubbs, Robert (educational sponsor)
J. W. Davidson, 'Cooper, Daniel (1785–1853)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.online.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-daniel-1919/text2281, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 23 January 2020.
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Brighton, Sussex, England
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South East Prairie Thunder
Hockey…Hockey…Hockey!
April 23, 2014 April 23, 2014 Robin
Congratulations Dundas Real McCoy's on your 2014 Allan Cup Victory! The entire week was full of energy from the volunteers, organizers and teams. I had a great time shooting for Hamilton Scores "The voice of the #HamOnt amateur sport community". All my photographs from the event can be viewed at www.Presentitphoto.com (Direct Link-2014 Allan Cup) Please enjoy my favourite picks from the tournament.
Last year I posted about the Real McCoy's because they sponsored the newly added Atom Select team. Since adopted by the DMHA they were known as the Dundas Jr. Real McCoy's. Being part of a small community it is nice to have the boys mentored by an amazing group of local hockey players. The McCoy's sponsored the boys who were in hockey limbo and gave time to run a very special practice. Read More: They Sure Are the Real McCoy | Hockey Links
On a personal note, my little guy tried out for rep that year and didn't make it. The coach of the Atom Selects was a former Real McCoy's player giving his time to share the love of the game. A wonderful parent network and commitment to the team led to lifetime experiences for our boys. These moments add growth to our children and deepens the ambition to be better hockey players. In my sons case, he wanted to try out for the rep team again. Once again he didn't make it. In light of some events he was asked to join the team. He had a great hockey year and the team building experiences are unforgettable. Now that hockey tryouts are around the corner, he has come to play. The Allan Cup Championship game has momentum that is inspiring to a young athlete. Mentorship is not only a one time moment, it is an ongoing connection and relationship.
The feedback from the 2014 Allan Cup by community members give a sense of loyalty and pride. I am pleased to present this video from the Championship day!
It was an extremely busy week. Just coming out of the OBA's in Windsor my computer hard drive failed. Creative Technologies in Burlington has worked hard to get me up and running. I hope to have a newly revised machine by the end of the week. Now among all that my daughter caught that awful hacking cold and was off school all week, my son had multiple sports-lessons and his birthday celebrations, I was shooting tons of hockey, my colleague from the Syracuse Crunch was in town to shoot the Bulldogs and I was hosting Easter Dinner. Needless to say I stopped to smell the roses in the beautiful flower bouquet from by sweetheart. Ahhhhhhhhh got it all done though!
Photo Above: Transway Bantam Girls Emotional Celebration Reclaiming their Provincial title at the OBA's
As I wind down from hockey season, I will be processing the last of the images and putting together a portfolio specific to hockey. Dave Black, SI photographer said my football is strong, but where is all the hockey? If I'm from Canada I should have more hockey in my portfolio. Well ya gotta listen and do when someone like Dave gives you advice. OH and I am very excited...no wait jumpy excited to meet with Dave Sandford-NHL photographer to gain some valuable photographic advice. It's kinda funny because I first met Dave Sandford back in 1997 at an event I was running. Yesterday when I was going through some photos I found this one one of a future NHL'r from the Whitby area. Jason Ward played in the OLA Celebrity Lacrosse Challenge. Here he is with NHL greats (L-R backrow: Adam Foot, Gary Roberts, Jason Ward, Joe Nieuwendyk, Colin Patterson. L-R Front Row: Darren Pang, Doug Gilmore, Brendan Shanahan, Stan Johnathan) all played lacrosse to improve their hockey skills.
At the time I was the Marketing Director for the OLA. I was just starting out as a photographer back then on film and we hired a professional photographer for the event to take the team shots. Such a small world to come full circle, live in a small town, support our local team and find a photo with some history. Photo: Real McCoy, Jason Ward (1997) and NHL Celebrities
The Hamilton Bulldogs (1) finished their season with a loss to the Syracuse Crunch (3) on April 20th, 2014 at FirstOntario Centre. Shout Out: Thank you Brandon Taylor, Hamilton Bulldogs photographer for sharing the glass and strobes all season. From beginning to end, it was so much fun to work with you.
Photo: Hamilton Bulldog, Mike Blunden fires one off at the Syracuse in the final game of the season. View Photos Here: http://presentitphoto.com/hamilton_bulldogs
One last shout out...THANK YOU DMHA for the feedback on the 2013- 2014 Yearbook. The positive response and the enjoyment the membership has shared has been overwhelming. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Amy Yanover, DMHA Sponsorship bent over backwards to keep the deadlines and we accomplished amazing things together as a team. It is a true pleasure to design and include my own photographs for the Dundas hockey community to enjoy for a lifetime. "The yearbooks are great...very glossy, colourful and professional! Thank you!"..."Awesome yearbook cover!"..."The yearbook is awesome and a great keepsake for our family..."Best Yearbook EVER!!!"...
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February 27th, 2014 | Notre Dame (100) vs North Carolina (75) | Joyce Center-Purcell Pavilion | South Bend, IN
Uh-CHAWN-wha…t? Will not be a question of who in the basketball world, but a fascinating everyday name we Canadians are proud to follow. Natalie Achonwa is a senior basketball player at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. She is the first international player to suit up for the University in its 37-year history.
Memorial Trust Fund
A trust account has been set up for Sydney Wood. The TDCT Account# is 2606-6425708 under the name of Patrick Butts (Sydney’s Uncle). People can make their donation directly at the TDCT or at the MHYSC office and they will in turn issue a cheque to the account. Please visit the Mount Hamilton Youth Soccer Club for more information
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Henry Bonsu
Henry BONSU, a leading British African broadcaster, has worked on some of the most influential UK current affairs shows, including BBC Radio 4’s Today, and has written for leading newspapers like the The Times, The Guardian, Mail on Sunday and the Daily Express. Mr Bonsu has presented discussion programmes on Vox Africa, BET International and Press TV and has been a commentator on BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera and Arise News. He specializes in international relations, business, health and education. Mr Bonsu began his career in the early 1990s writing for black-interest newspapers, including The Voice, the Caribbean Times and Pride Magazine. In 2006, he helped launch Colourful, a digital radio station targeting Europe’s African and Caribbean communities. Mr Bonsu now works as an international development moderator for the United Nations and major private sector organizations.
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