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After Longest Roadtrip In Franchise History Saints Offer A Little Variety During June 13-15 Homestand
ST. PAUL, MN June 10, 2016
It’s been two weeks since the St. Paul Saints stepped foot onto CHS Field. They won’t be home for long, but the three game homestand from June 13-15 will offer more variety than any homestand to date. So throw on your shades because you’ll need them to block out the hideous giveaway we have planned.
The three game homestand is a rematch of last season’s semi-final playoff match-up that the Saints lost three games to one to the Sioux City Explorers. It starts on Monday, June 13 at 7:05 p.m. with our Metropolitan State University Monday variety show. Imagine a cross between Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Sketches, musical acts and more will entertain crowds from first pitch to last out. The usual prime time players will be in attendance with The Nerd, Gert the Flirt, The Coach and Seigo. They will be joined by guest emcee Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and musical guest Har Mar Superstar. Each variety show Monday Andrew Crowley and the Vibrational States will provide backup music. A tasty surprise appearance by a Minnesota celebrity will also be in store.
Tired of wearing the same old ugly sweater to the annual Christmas party? The Saints will provide you with something unique that can be work all winter long. On Tuesday, June 14 at 7:05 p.m. the first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive an ugly sweater beanie giveaway. It’s perfect for any occasion whether it’s to cover your head in the frigid Minnesota cold, to be worn with your ugly sweater or just to make a unique fashion statement. Enjoy the amazing food specials on Mississippi Market Tasty Tuesday.
The final day of the shortest homestand of the season will be the coolest day of the year. On Wednesday, June 15 at 7:05 p.m. your future is so bright that we’re celebrating 80 years of aviators presented by Hamline University as the first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive aviator sunglasses. Pull off your best 1980s look with these sweet shades. Make sure to grab your free hot dog on the craziest tailgate party of the year with Walser Wednesday.
The homestand may be a speed bump between 20 games on the road and the next six game roadtrip, but it doesn’t mean it won’t be packed with fun and entertainment. Giveaways and entertainment are a staple of any perfect Saints homestand and this one has both.
Saints tickets continue to be a tremendous value. Tickets begin at $5 for berm seating (available only on day of game in person at the box office), $6 for bleacher seats, $12 for the drink rail, $14 for outfield reserved, $16 for infield reserved and $18 for home plate reserved. Friday Home Games with Post-Game Fireworks are an additional $2 per ticket. The American Association All-Star Game on Tuesday, August 2 with Post-Game Fireworks Supershow and Post-Game Fireworks Supershows (July 4 and September 4) are an additional $3 per ticket. Tickets purchased on the day of the game are an additional $2 per ticket. Children under the age of 12 and seniors 65 and older receive $1 off the admission price. Children under 2 that don't require a seat are free.
Saints Box Office hours on non-game days are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. On game days, the Box Office will open at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. Saturday and 12:00 p.m. on Sunday and will remain open until 15 minutes following each game. Tickets are always available at saintsbaseball.com.
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Best In The World, CHS Field Claims Two More Awards Including Prestigious World Architecture News Award
From coast-to-coast CHS Field has been recognized for its beauty, design and architecture that will change the way minor league ballparks are constructed for years to come. Now the world has taken notice as the St. Paul Saints new ballpark claimed the prestigious World Architecture News (WAN) Sport in Architecture Award. CHS Field also claimed the 2016 Green GOOD DESIGN™ Award presented by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
Three judges from WAN looked at seven different brand new ballparks/stadiums from around the globe. They were Paul Brislin, Director and Architect at Arup, Rasti Bartek, Associate Director at Buro Happold and Michael Taylor, Senior Partner at Hopkins Architects.
The Judge’s decision to name CHS Field as the winning project for the WAN Award was a unanimous one, with Bartek saying, “I love the simplicity of this project, it’s elegant and modern, it’s incredibly simple, that’s what I love about it and the atmosphere must be very, very nice.” Taylor also had nothing but positive words for the stadium adding, “The more you look at this project the more you realize the understated simplicity of it. It really succeeds in drawing in the urban backdrop whilst maintaining the focus on the field of play. The view from the open concourse is particularly exciting and from there you really appreciated the care and attention to detail right down to the elegant lighting stands. Everything has been very well integrated and coordinated to look effortless. Sport in the City done brilliantly!“
CHS Field went up against six other projects from around the world and they were: Musholm in Denamrk, Stade de Soccer de Montreal, the Couch in Netherlands, Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in UAE and Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre in Canada.
CHS Field was designed and built by Ryan Companies, Snow + Kreilich Architects and AECOM along with the city of Saint Paul, the state of Minnesota and the St. Paul Saints.
CHS Field also claimed the 2016 Green GOOD DESIGN™ Award which identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and to develop a public awareness program to the general public about which global companies are doing the best job ecological and sustainable design for our world environments.
Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, product, packaging, and graphic designs from over 20 nations were awarded with Green GOOD DESIGN 2016, representing the world’s most important manufacturers and design firms and leading FORTUNE 500 corporations that are forwarding a new emphasis on a more sustainable design and environment worldwide.
This is the eighth year the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design institutions have developed this very specialized edition of the original GOOD DESIGN program, which was founded in Chicago in 1950.
The Saints organization and CHS Field have won a total of 13 awards since the beginning of the 2105 season.
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5:00pm EDT March 26, 2015
Green Bay City Deck (photo: Mike Roemer)
Detroit Future City (Stoss)
Green Bay City Deck (Stoss)
Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee, WI (Photo: John December)
The definition of regime is at the intersection of government, infrastructure and planning, both have been predominate methods of acting and producing the 20th century city as well as the framework for global political stability. In contrast, the ecological definition of this word suggests that there is a time-based gradient between regimes that includes the access of resources produced prior and subsequent retooling.
Via the lens of the work produced by Stoss Landscape Urbanism in postindustrial cities, this lecture will explore the relationship between the interglacial landscape morphology, past urban occupations, critical infrastructure and the development of a new 21st century model of (living) infrastructure.
Spring 2015 visiting critic Scott Bishop, ASLA, is a Principal at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, an award-winning landscape architecture firm, which won the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in the category of Landscape Architecture. He is a registered landscape architect and a human ecologist. He currently works around the world with a variety of environments and ecologies including Eastern Africa, the Middle East, North America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe. Scott is the Distinguished Practice & Scholarship Lecturer in Urban Landscape at the Northeastern University School of Architecture, the Resident Expert at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, and was recently the Cejas Eminent Scholar at Florida International University. He is a visiting critic at the University of Puerto Rico, has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design as a studio critic for the Department of Landscape Architecture, and directed the Stoss Studio for the Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic Award at the Boston Architectural College. Bishop holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.
Brad Lynch Critic
Fall 2013 Brad Lynch
Terrance Goode Faculty
Terrance Goode Associate Professor tagoode@syr.edu 308A Slocum 315-443-4330
Guillermo Banchini Critic
Fall 2015 Guillermo Banchini
Bing Bu Faculty
Bing Bu Three Cities Asia faculty bubing@gmail.com
Peter Zuspan Critic
Fall 2014 Peter Zuspan
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Those Rare Books of Travel
A Real Bohemian
So Clever and Able a Ruler
Cock-Fighting
Rory on Fashionable Clobber
Rory on The Inca Saga
Rory on Too Horrible for Words
Rory on A Real Bohemian
Rory on The Brazilian Black Stone
Adventures in Bolivia
Adventures in Peru
Endpapers
Prodgers’ Adventures
Thrilling Tales of South America by an Edwardian Adventurer
Adventures in Peru, Chapter 18
July 29, 2015 Rory
Cock-Fighting, Part 2
Peru’s supreme advantage is that she has at the head of affairs, one of the most progressive statesmen in the world, His Excellency A. B. Leguia. Backed up by singularly able colleagues, he has done great things for his country. Among the notable works accomplished, may be mentioned the settling by arbitration of the dispute with Chile over Tacna and Arica; the re-organizing of Peru’s customs and finances, so that she is now in a better position than she has ever been before; the establishment of a more powerful army and navy; and the institution of an aviation department. In connection with the last-named, an air force has been created and developed that ranks higher in efficiency than any other in S. America. There is a naval section and also a military one.
Captain John Leguia, A. B.’s eldest son, is the Director of this most important arm of the national establishment. He and James Douglas once flew to Cerro Azul from Lima and back again in four and a half hours. The distance covered was about 180 miles. Bailey, the late manager of the Cable Co., writing to the author about this feat said, “Just fancy, John Leguia, and another chap flew to the head of the Cañete valley and back in four hours! The journey used to take you three or four days on horseback.” J. L. and J. D. also flew from Lima to Truxillo. Another machine was flown from Lima to Cerro Pasco. The pilot, although flying at an altitude of 18,000 feet, carried no oxygen but simply depended on his furs.
When aviation was in its infancy, so to speak, a Peruvian named Tenaux crossed the Andes in a flying machine. He was about the first to do so. Many airmen have told me that the High Flats and the coast of Peru are particularly well suited for aviation purposes; the atmosphere is ideal, and the wind so equable.
Before President Pardo’s time, ships from all over the world used to come and load up with guano, paying the veriest trifle for it. But when Leguia took office as Pardo’s Minister of Hacienda, he put a stop to the practice. Ever since, Peru has retained this excellent product for her own use.
The Incas were well versed in agricultural chemistry, and made great use of guano, the bird manure found on the Chincha and San Lorenzo isles. They secured the preservation of the birds that supplied this valuable fertilizer, by prohibiting anyone from setting foot on these islands during the breeding season.
The police is an exceptionally well organized force. In the larger towns at night, policemen, armed with rifles, are stationed every 200 yards. Where the shops are situated, the distance between the men is reduced to 100 yards. Each man blows a whistle every ten minutes. Two blasts warn his next-door comrade on either side that the help of both is needed. Three bring up all the force available at a run. When the police call upon one to stop it is advisable to comply with their demand, for they never hesitate to use their rifles, and they shoot to kill. Periodically during the night, inspectors ride round and see that the men are at their posts. Curfew is at 9.30. People out after that hour, especially strangers, are often called upon to produce their passports.
I was made aware of this, on my first visit to Peru, in the following manner. I had with me twenty-one racehorses, two carriage horses, and an arab hack. There were eleven stablemen, some of their wives accompanying them. When we arrived at Callao and the animals had been done up for the night, I stood treat. I told the men to go and enjoy themselves, at my expense, down at the saloons, where they might hear music very well rendered by competent artists.
Next morning, when I arrived at the stables intending to exercise my horses, not a lad was visible. A policeman was there, however, and when I commented on the absence of my boys, he said, “That’s just what I have come to see you about. They are all in jail; they could produce no passports when challenged after curfew.” I at once called upon the Chief of Police. That worthy gentleman told me my people had rendered themselves liable to be fined £1 each, or sent to prison, for breaking this excellent law. I assured him they had sinned in ignorance, and that I myself was unaware of the regulation. As I had told the boys to go, I of course offered to pay their fines, and was agreeably surprised when the Chief said, “No, we won’t impose any fine this time; but in future, give your boys a scrip to say they are out with your permission.”
In Peru there is scope for millions of new comers, but no room for wasters. Pick and shovel men would be well advised to give it a wide berth, for they would only be remunerated on the same scale as the Indians, who are content to work for very small wages. The same thing applies to domestics. The poorer inhabitants of Peru make excellent servants; there are besides a large number of West Indians available.
The sort of folk Peru needs, are engineers (especially those skilled in the use of the electric drill), machinists, and capable mechanics, who are not content to loaf around in pubs, but willing to undertake jobs, and stick to them. To all such, Peru affords excellent opportunities and good pay.
To return to A. B. Leguia. Were he not so clever and able a ruler, he might easily have made a very large fortune by training and riding racehorses. He has a natural gift for that sort of thing. Few gentleman riders could hold a candle to him, and not many professionals could give him poundage. He was one of the finest light weights I have ever seen. A. B. owns and breeds some of the best racehorses in Peru, and races for the honour and glory of the sport. He often accompanies and clocks them in their fast work. As a bettor he invariably plays light. Elias’s pacers are considered the finest in the whole of Peru, but Leguia’s come second only to them, and his strain of milch cows is very highly esteemed.
In Peru—a land where big estates abound—his are among the most extensive. Coffee, sugar, cotton—they are all run on the best and most up-to-date lines. It has often been my privilege to stay at his beautiful palace, midway between Pisco and Tambo-de-Mora. It reminds me of the residence of his Grace the Bishop of Trinidad. Leguia’s father, a member of one of the oldest and most notable families in Spain, preferred his son’s house before his own. Near the palace is a nice chapel where a reverend Father attends every alternate Sunday. Close by there is the largest private swimming bath I know of.
Old Mr. Leguia died not so very long ago, full of years and honour. As his eminent son described it in felicitous phrase, “his joint oil ran out.” That was all—just simply old age. Peace to his ashes!
With this pious aspiration I must bring to a close my narrative of Peruvian incidents, and address myself to the task of recounting some of my racing experiences in Chile and the Argentine.
To those who have a fancy for engaging on a trip to Peru, whether for business or pleasure, I would offer this word of advice. Before you make a start, look up the list of things printed at the end of Adventures in Bolivia. Pretty well all you will require is there set out in detail.
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Fomer USU linebacker Actkinson trades in cleats for wakeboard
By JACE MILLER
Everyone has heard about the “stereotypical football player.” They’re just big, dumb, tough guys who can’t do anything but play football. They take easy majors so they can ride through college on the back of a football program, getting out of class, assignments, and tests. They can’t do much beside hit people on the football field, right? Wrong.
Meet Jacob Actkinson, who during his four-year Aggie football career was anything but a stereotypical football player.
Actkinson, who was born and raised in Grapevine, Texas, played for Utah State in between 2006-2009. A high school running back, Actkinson hadn’t even heard of Utah State and originally planned to run track in college. After a great senior season, he was recruited by Utah State and came to Logan on a football scholarship. He started out as a running back his freshman year, redshirted, then switched to fullback the following year. After a season in which he played in every game and had a total of 253 yards and two touchdowns, he injured his shoulder and didn’t play during the 2008 season. He was switched to linebacker during spring drills in 2009.
Switching to linebacker wasn’t an ideal switch for Actkinson, but he said he was willing to make it because of his commitment to the team.
“I probably wouldn’t redo that again,” he said. “I’d never played defense, never played linebacker. It was fun and all but looking back I would’ve rather played running back or fullback.”
Despite the switch, he still loved playing the game, loved traveling, and loved being around the team. He played sparingly as a backup at linebacker in 2009, but left the team during the offseason last year. While he had another year of eligibility left for the Aggies, Actkinson, ever an over-achiever, was on to bigger and better things.
Not that he doesn’t still love his Aggies, however. The Texas native is still a die-hard Aggie who attends games regularly. He was in Logan for Utah State’s win over Idaho State and also for the blowout win over BYU.
“I still have a lot of friends on the team and don’t like to be too far out of the loop,” he said. “I definitely follow the games every week, like when they played Oklahoma I followed them on my phone the entire game.”
Actkinson, who graduated from USU with a dual business entrepreneurship and economics degree, is still very involved in sports, and is putting his Utah State education to use. He is working for Boardco.com – one of the largest wakeboard retailers in the country – as a manager. An avid wakeboarder since middle school, Actkinson was hired by Boardco after an internship hosted by the company during the summer. He said he stumbled across the internship on Wakeworld.com, and as an outdoor sports enthusiast, he, naturally, was very interested.
Actkinson outperformed the other candidates and nabbed the internship. This was not the end of the “game,” however. He had secured the internship, but still didn’t have a job. It was the fourth quarter, and there was no time to sit down and relax. That’s when his football mentality kicked in. A former weight room warrior at USU, Actkinson worked hard and impressed Boardco so much that, at the end of the summer, he didn’t just have internship to add to his resume, he had a full-time job.
Actkinson, who is the second-most senior person at Boardco, loves the job he has and helps people from the store in Springville, Utah as well as those who buy products online. He talks to customers over the phone, as well as over email, and makes sure they are satisfied with their purchases. He participates in company decisions and personally has used many of the products Boardco sells – making him an integral part of the company from sales to leadership. He said he plans to one day own his own company in the action sports market.
“I want to find a niche and get something on the market,” he said.
The values of the football field and the Utah State classroom played a very positive role in helping Actkinson get to where he is today.
“Persistence and always giving your best effort,” he said. “That’s the only way you’ll ever succeed in life. That’s something that was in play on the football field.”
Actkinson also learned to work hard on everything he does and to value his education. He credits his former coach, Gary Andersen, with stressing the academic component of being a college football player at Utah State. Having a degree to fall back on if football doesn’t work out is something Andersen preaches, and something Actkinson has proven in the business world.
“Coach Andersen has definitely ingrained academics as being a major focus, he wants all players to put academics first and get their degree,” Actkinson said. “I believe that hard work will always pay off in the long run, and I’ve seen it happen to a lot of people. I believe that if you have a dream, if you work hard enough, eventually it will come true.”
As for that education, it’s second to none in Atkinson’s mind. Getting his dual major in business entrepreneurship and economics was no cake-walk, and while he was not on the field he found himself workeing hard in the classroom. The challenging nature of earning his degree is something the young entrepreneur takes pride in.
“I took a lot away from Dan Holland’s management and entrepreneur classes,” Atkinson said. “I enjoyed those classes by far the most because I see those as the most helpful in the (business) field and that have the most to do with people.”
Actkinson has been a hard worker on the field, in school, and in the other aspects of his life. He definitely doesn’t believe the stereotype about football players.
“There’s a lot more to a football player than just sports. Student athletes aren’t just hard workers on the football field, they bust their butts in the classroom and they’re not just meatheads,” he said.
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ESTA ISLA
CRISTIAN CARRETERO
Puerto Rico | 2014 | 12 mins
“ESTA ISLA” – After a surprising turn of events, two young lovers escape off into the innermost part of Puerto Rico, finding freedom within.
About Cristian
Cristian Carretero is originally from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He graduated with his bachelors degree from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2014, he graduated with an MFA in filmmaking from New York University. He works as a director and cinematographer in both New York and Puerto Rico, primarily with the film production company, “Ludic Experiment,” which he founded with Lorraine Jones, in 2009.
In 2009, his short film “The Spot,” won the Best Short Film and Best Actor award at Cinefiesta Film Festival in Puerto Rico. In 2013, he made the short film “Yolanda,” which won Best Short Film at the Festival de Cine Global Dominicano and then in 2014, at the Screen Loud Film Festival in NYC, the short traveled the world in the film circuit. His next short, “This Island,” won Best Short Film by a unanimous decision at the 5to Festival de Cine Europeo (2014, PR). In 2016 he wrote and directed a short film shot in Harlem, New York, titled “The Ticket,” which debuted in the Habana Film Festival.
He recently received two Emmy Awards for the documentary “Semillas,” and the science show Laboratorio de Comunicaciones Científicas, which both aired in Puerto Rican local TV channel WIPR.
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By Amy Joi O’Donoghue | February 1, 2016
A Bureau of Land Management supervisory agent in Salt Lake City was investigated on ethics complaints by the Office of Inspector General for having colleagues escort his family at the Burning Man event and threatening retaliation during the probe. | Adobe stock photo
SALT LAKE CITY — The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General investigated an unnamed Bureau of Land Management supervisory agent in Salt Lake City for more than a year on ethics complaints, with the independent panel concluding that breaches had occurred.
The agent, which the Deseret News has confirmed is Dan Love through a source familiar with the investigation, is accused of using his position to secure preferential treatment for his family during the 2015 Burning Man event in Nevada, including using federal law enforcement officers as personal escorts for their safety, using his BLM vehicle to transport his girlfriend and allowing her to share overnight BLM lodging with him.
The national office of the BLM released a statement on the investigation, saying it takes the allegations of misconduct seriously.
"These types of allegations do not align with our mission or the professionalism and dedication of our 10,000 employees doing essential work for America's public lands each and every day. This is an internal personnel matter under review by the BLM, and we have no additional information to provide at this time," said spokesman Michael Richardson.
Efforts to reach Love for comment were unsuccessful and BLM officials had no additional information on his current status of employment with the agency.
According to the Office of Inspector General report, Burning Man organizers said Love asked for, and was granted, special access for him and his family inside a restricted area to watch the "Man Burn event" in an area typically reserved for event organizers and the pyrotechnics crew.
Because of scrutiny surrounding the agent's role in a request for a $1 million "luxury" compound to take care of BLM needs for the event, the report said the supervisory agent purchased tickets from the attorney representing the event's for-profit subsidiary and at full price because he knew people "would be looking."
Although unnamed in the inspector general's report, Love — who was the top cop for Utah and Nevada before being promoted to a national position — was linked to many of the requests associated with the luxury compound, according to emails obtained in an investigative news story cited in the report.
The Office of Inspector General, which is tasked with independent oversight and accountability of the Interior Department, launched the investigation in September of 2015 based on a pair of anonymous complaints.
Love has been at the center of multiple complaints by rural sheriff offices in Utah about the deteriorating relationship between the BLM and their officers. They've cited Love in particular for an attitude they say is dismissive and uncooperative. At least one county sheriff and six county commissioners traveled to Washington, D.C., in 2014 to express their frustration and ask for his removal.
Love led a controversial artifacts trafficking raid in the Blanding area in 2009 and was involved in the armed standoff on the Utah-Nevada border with the Cliven Bundy family over unpaid grazing fees.
Aside from the Burning Man incidents, the agent investigated by the Office of Inspector General was found to have manipulated the hiring process so his friend got a job at the agency, even though the man was not as qualified as other applicants and received an unfavorable recommendation by another employer, the report states.
The investigative report was forwarded to the Interior Department's assistant secretary over lands and minerals for any action deemed appropriate.
The report also noted several instances of threatened retaliation by Love — who has since been removed from his post — to the point where one colleague said she began locking the door to her office.
The agent also is accused of bragging that he "owned" the national director of BLM's Office of Law Enforcement and Security and that nothing would happen to him.
According to the report, Love told the woman she better do damage control after the investigation began in 2015. Once he was removed from his position, she said he told her: “You know, if you don’t side with me, grenades are going to go off and you’ll get hit."
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Govt sends Khaleda back to jail
Prison authorities transferred Thursday Khaleda Zia to the Old Dhaka jail house from hospital for a court appearance in the Niko graft case, report agencies.
The move followed a decision to set up a makeshift court in the old central jail on Nazimuddin Road.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Thursday alleged that the government has taken back their Chairperson to jail without the 'discharge certificate' from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) medical board.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is the key suspect in the graft case, filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The ACC filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station in 2007, accusing Khaleda and 10 others of abusing power to award a gas exploration and extraction deal to Canadian company Niko during her tenure as the prime minister.
Khaleda was earlier transferred to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital from the jailhouse for treatment.
Khaleda's personal belongings have already been taken to the jailhouse in a car, a prison official told bdnews24.com.
The special makeshift court has prepared to begin its operations in the jailhouse on Thursday morning, Advocate Mosharraf Hossain representing the ACC.
Fakhrul said "As per the information we've received, the medical board didn't give her any discharge certificate, and they said she's very sick and she shouldn't be taken to hospital in any way under her current condition."
Talking to reporters at the gate of Old Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road, Fakhrul also said the BNP chief was taken back to the jail ignoring the medical board's suggestions.
"The government has shifted her back to the jail and kept her in it out of its political vengeance," he added.
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Bob Sansevere, host of "The BS Show," was on the KQ Morning Show with Tom Barnard for 27 years and hosted his own show on Sports Radio 105 the Ticket. Bob also has been a columnist with the St. Paul Pioneer Press for more than 25 years. Bob says "The BS Show" is a lot like him. And he says about himself, "I’m bright, witty, charismatic, incredibly astute and remarkably insightful, and if you’re even a fraction as impressed with me as I am with myself, you’re going to love me afternoons on The Tom Barnard Network as well as when you download podcasts of 'The BS Show.'"
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The DK Project #27: Graduation parties, watering holes and hot tubs 0
In this episode of The DK Project, DK and Dave get into a little graduation party fun, strange activity at a local watering hole and Dave has a traumatic hot tub event.
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Hilton International
Hilton International owns, leases, manages or franchises more than 400 hotels across the world under the four- to five-star Hilton name and the mid-market Scandic brand (in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and northern Europe).
It started life as the international arm of Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC) of the USA. It was sold in 1964 and subsequently acquired by UK gaming giant Ladbrokes in 1987 (which later became the Hilton Group).
The two Hiltons were reunited in February 2006 to create a $1.7b business with more than 2,800 hotels and 475,000 bedrooms in 80 countries.
During the intervening 40 or so years, Hilton International owned the rights to the Hilton name throughout the world except the USA, where the name was operated by HHC along with six additional brands - Doubletree, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hampton Inn, Hampton Inns & Suites, Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton.
However, the two Hiltons have been moving closer together since 1997 with the launch of a global marketing alliance, a common identity and a joint venture agreement to share the development of the luxury Conrad brand.
The Hilton International line-up also encompasses Hilton Worldwide Resorts, time-share company Hilton International Grand Vacations and the LivingWell chain of health and fitness clubs that operate inside hotels and as standalone clubs.
Chief Executive:
Ian Carter
Group chief executive, Hilton Group: David Michels
Deputy group chief executive and group finance director: Brian Wallace
Senior vice-president, marketing Hilton International: Mike Ashton
Senior vice-president real estate: Adrian Bradley
Senior vice-president, distribution & ecommerce, Hilton International: Tim Davis
President Hilton International, UK and Ireland, Europe & Africa: Wolfgang Neumann
President Hilton International, the Americas: Howard Friedman
President Hilton International, Middle East & Asia Pacific: Koos Klein
President Commercial Operations Group: Jürgen Fischer
Managing director, LivingWell: Patrick Fitzgibbon
Hilton, in common with many of its peers, is moving away from hotel ownership through a series of sale-and-leaseback and sale-and-management deals. It has also started up a fledgling franchising business in recent years.
The group has 43 new hotels countries lined up for the 2005 to 2007 period. UK newcomers include new Hiltons at Dublin Airport in 2005 and, in 2006, at London Canary Wharf, London Tower Bridge and Manchester Deansgate.
Hilton also plans to boost its worldwide resort network from 59 to 73 sites by the end of 2006, and to expand the number of luxury Conrad hotel by 50 properties by 2010.
"This transaction represents the final and logical step in a process that began in 1997 with the signing of our strategic alliance, and is a unique opportunity to once again position HHC as a global lodging industry leader for the first time in more than 40 years.
With the current strength of our business in the US, our strong balance sheet, the beginning of a hotel industry recovery in the UK - which accounts for about a third of HIlton International's income - and the success we've had in working together with HI for eight years on such programs as Hilton HHonours, Hilton Reservations, Conrad development and technology initiatives, the time is right to put tthese two great organisations together."
Source: HHC statement on agreement to buy Hilton International, December 2005
Breakdown of results for year to 31 December 2005
Turnover: £630.9m (2004: £655.1m)
Operating profit: £81.3m (2004: £88.1m)
Revpar-London: £78.66 (2004: £77.11)
Revpar-provinces: £52.82 (2004: £52.51)
Turnover: £1.2b (2004: £1.1b)
Middle East & Asia Pacific
Operating profit: £27m (2004: £18.5m)
Turnover: £263.6m (2004: £236m)
LivingWell
Turnover: £52.7m (2004: £50m)
Operating profit: £4.2m (2004: £6.3m)
Number of hotels worldwide: around 400 in 78 countries
Hilton: 262
Scandic: 131
Conrad: 17 in 13 countries
Hilton Worldwide Resorts: 59 in 34 countries (37 operated by Hilton International, 19 by HCC, three by Conrad)
Coral by Hilton: four, all in the Dominican Republic
Hilton International Grand Vacations Club: 176 timeshares at four resorts in Scotland and Egypt
LivingWell health and leisure clubs: 86 in the UK and Ireland; nine/14 overseas in Australia, Germany, Turkey, Malta and Brazil.
Number of hotels in UK & Ireland: 78
Number of employees: more than 55,000 worldwide (UK: 15,000)
Pre-tax profit: £187.5m (2004: £159m)
Pre-tax profit: £72.6m (2004: £65.6m )
Financial year end: 31 December 2005
Half-year end: 30 June 2005
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Interview with Producer of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
Published : Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 12:03 pm
ACROFAN=Hyung-Keun Kim | hyungkeun.kim@acrofan.com | SNS
On the afternoon of November 19th, 2017, Square Enix's 'Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Fan Festa 2017 (FFBE Fan Festa 2017) Seoul' was held at Ilchi Art Hall, located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul,
'FFBE Fan Festa 2017' is an event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the "Final Fantasy" franchise and to thank users for being "Final Fantasy" mobile game with the highest number of downloads in the world. The Seoul event was the fourth event to be held in Paris, Taipei, and New York. Square Enix's Hirono Kei Producer and Fujimoto Hiroki Global Version Producer have had time to meet with over 350 pre-selected users.
After finishing 'FFBE Fan Festa 2017 Seoul', the two producers had time to receive questions about this event and games.
▲ Acrofan interviewed two producers of 'Final Fantasy Brave Exvius' about events and games.
Q1. What kind of pleasure did you like to have as a fan event while holding 'FFBE Fan Festa 2017 Seoul'?
(Fujimoto) 'FFBE Fan Festa 2017 Seoul' is the 4th event of 'FFBE Fan Festa 2017', and since the corners of all the events are fixed to some extent, users probably knew the contents roughly. But what I wanted to emphasize in such an atmosphere was the new information part. It was prepared so that the users who came to the venue could think "I did well at participating in the event".
(Hirono) There are two things I wanted to do but could not do. First, I wanted to stream live events for each event so that users around the world can get the latest information in real time. Also, as there are many events going on in the limited venue, I would like to invite all the users from all over the world to connect and enjoy the event together. Of course, these events could not be realized because the users are from all over the world and it is difficult to decide easily where to set the standard time. But I want to try it someday, so I am worried about how.
Q2. What do you think about the Korean fans after participated in this event?
(Fujimoto) During the Q & A session of the event, I felt that the users were very insightful. I was impressed that they were thinking deeply about the contents of the game, and I was once again able to realize that they are playing the game with their hearts.
(Hirono) I was looking forward to the event since this is the first time holding the event in Korea, and I am very pleased that many of the core users have come. When hearing the voice of the core users in Korea as well as all the countries where the event is held, and I feel that what we are doing is never wrong. Also, some of users who warmly welcomed us and asked us to come again were very impressed.
Q3. Did you have the most memorable user in the event today?
(Hirono) It is memorable that the proportion of male users who participated in the event in Korea was higher than other previous events.
(Fujimoto) At the end of the ceremony, we had time to give some gifts and a female user was additionally selected through rock-paper-scissors. She spoke Japanese very fluently, so I asked her how she studied Japanese. And I was so surprised to her answer that she studied by herself.
Q4. While there are various types of mobile games using IP of Final Fantasy, what can you say about FFBE's differentiating personality to users who have not yet enjoyed this game?
(Hirono) I think it is the greatest advantage of this game that users can simply enjoy the characteristics of mobile games, but they can also play RPG games with depth. There is a little inflexible, but I think this part is also a part of 'Final Fantasy' that can be appealing as a game.
(Fujimoto) The biggest advantage is that users can enjoy the world of 'Final Fantasy' in a single game through various collaborations while enjoying a lot in the original world view. The collaboration with Final Fantasy XV can be a typical example.
Q5. Unlike the recent mobile games, 2D dot graphics are being produced around the center. Is there a reason for this?
(Hirono) 'Final Fantasy' series has gotten out of dot graphics and accepted new graphics, but among the long-time users, there is a perception, "Final Fantasy that we know is still in 2D graphics.” So, we have developed the game with the idea of "If it was a series of 2D dot graphics, would not it be like this?" Thanks to this, I think that it is another pleasure to meet the character that appeared in the 'Final Fantasy' series from the seventh to the present with the admirable image of 2D dot graphic.
(Fujimoto) Of course, we do not stick everything in 2D dot graphics, but when we recall the summons during game play, we show the 3D graphic presentation such as that the summons break out the screen in 2D graphics.
Q6. Compared to other Final Fantasy mobile games, the songs of FFBE is also high. Is there any part that you particularly worked on?
(Hirono) Just as graphics, we tried to re-create songs until Final Fantasy VI, the atmosphere of the early works, so you can see that old songs were implemented with the latest technology. When Agematsu Noriyasu of Elements Garden, a music production group that was in charge of the songs, first composed, he said, "I started with a simple syllable similar to the early works, fleshed out, and now became this form." Because the melody line itself is simple, I can tell you that the biggest advantage of ‘FFBE’ songs is easy to remember.
Q7. In this work, Yoshitaka Amano's illustrations were used again. What story did you share in the process of making the illustrations of this game?
(Hirono) Amano is an artist constantly involved in 'Final Fantasy' from the earliest days to the latest. When we asked for an illustration, we emphasized that the main characters of other Final Fantasy works will serve together in the world view of FFBE in the form of “Vision”. So, in the first publicity illustration, we asked to make the main characters of FFBE be with the main characters of the previous work in the form of “Vision”. In addition to this, since we already delivered all the stories about season 2, which is currently underway, from the first time we gave request, so it also contains implications about the season 2.
Q8. Is there any Final Fantasy work or element that was the most influential to you?
(Hirono) Rather than being greatly influenced by one work, as favorite works for Square Enix staffs who participated in various Final Fantasy works are all different, I think we are influenced by various works eqully. However, we got advice from Hironobu Sakaguchi, indispensable in 'Final Fantasy', during development and changed the color of windows and fonts of characters.
Q9. At first there was a strong feeling that it was a combination with 'Brave Frontier', but the originality is gradually expanding as the game progresses. What do you think about the direction of 'FFBE' in the future?
(Hirono) We would like to get feedback from users and evolve it to the form that users want. And although we have not realized it yet, FFBE is basically a one-player game, so I thought it would be a great idea to expand social elements in the future considering that there are few social elements even though it is a smartphone game. Of course, there are many people who are familiar with the current atmosphere, so it is under consideration in which direction we should proceed.
Q10. Since the starting point of the Japanese version and the global version are different from each other, system and contents are often interchanged. How do you plan to handle these differences in the future?
(Fujimoto) First, we don’t have any plan to match the service of the global version with the Japanese version. This is because it takes time to translate and prepare after releasing the Japanese version and the global version is following the Japanese version and develops its own content to show its individuality little by little. Because of this, there are many features that are not available in the Japanese version but only in the global version, and we will continue to develop it to meet the taste of global users in the future.
Q11. There is an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of 'Final Fantasy' in many franchise games. Is there any special preparation for 'FFBE'?
(Hirono) In fact, this year's Fan Festa is also the 30th anniversary event of 'Final Fantasy' in FFBE. Of course, in the Japanese version, various events are held until early next year, but in the global version, it is also true that we have not prepared any outstanding events other than this event.
(Fujimoto) Instead, unlike 30-day of free summoning event for the 30th anniversary at the Japanese version, we are giving a benefit for 10 days each for a total of 50 days every time when Fan Festa is held so that it can fill in a missing part a little.
Q12. Previously, the SaGa for the Game Boy series was released to the North American market under the name “Final Fantasy Legend”. Is there any plan to carry out the SaGa related collaboration event in the global version?
(Hirono) In Japan, we have provided 'SaGa 1' and 'SaGa 3' characters in collaboration with 'Imperial SaGa' game, but since this 'Imperial SaGa' game is not available in the global region, I do not think it's easy to just borrow characters from the SaGa series without an opportunity.
Q13. When did you think you did well to start the 'FFBE' project?
(Fujimoto) I think I did well at starting this project when communicating with many users around the world. I haven’t been many places in this Fan Festa but I was glad to meet the users from overseas and receive direct feedbacks. I was surprised to people who visited events from many countries including Spain, Argentina, Philippines and Singapore.
(Hirono) I have a lot of good memories I got since I started the project. I am particularly pleased to be able to get involved in the great franchise called "Final Fantasy" and to promote the game more widely. And the fact that 'FFBE' is recording the highest downloaded number among mobile games of 'Final Fantasy' franchise will be memorable in developing the game with many people.
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CBS backs off Guard story
By Dave Moniz, Kevin Johnson and Jim Drinkard, USA TODAY
CBS News acknowledged Monday that it received disputed documents critical of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard from a former Texas Guard officer who now says he lied about where he got them and has doubts about their authenticity.
Bill Burkett, an ex-lieutenant colonel in the Texas Guard, provided CBS and USA TODAY with documents critical of George W. Bush's service.
The network said Bill Burkett, a former lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army Guard, was its source for the memos that were the basis of a 60 Minutes broadcast Sept. 8. Burkett provided the documents to USA TODAY later that night.
Initially, USA TODAY and other news organizations took the CBS report at face value but in subsequent days, inspired by Internet sites, began to report doubts about the documents' authenticity. For a week, CBS staunchly defended the documents against a stream of experts' opinions that they were fake. In a statement issued Monday, the network acknowledged it had been wrong and said it should not have used the documents.
"That was a mistake, which we deeply regret," CBS President Andrew Heyward said. The network's chief anchor, Dan Rather, apologized for "a mistake in judgment."
The admission was a major blow to the credibility of the news organization and of Rather, who has a history of skirmishes with politicians and is a favorite target of conservative commentators.
Heyward promised an "independent review of the process by which the report was prepared and broadcast to determine what actions need to be taken." The network aired an interview with Burkett on the Evening News Monday, after which Rather said, "I want to say personally and directly, I'm sorry."
In interviews in recent days with USA TODAY, both in person and on the phone, Burkett said he had merely been a conduit for the records purported to be from the private files of Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, one of Bush's former Guard commanders, who died in 1984. Burkett admitted lying to USA TODAY about the source of the documents but said he did not fabricate the papers.
In earlier conversations with USA TODAY, Burkett had identified the source of the documents as George Conn, a former Texas National Guard colleague who works for the U.S. Army in Europe. Burkett now says he made up the story about Conn's involvement to divert attention from himself and the woman he now says provided him with the documents. He told USA TODAY that he also lied to CBS.
Burkett now maintains that the source of the papers was Lucy Ramirez, who he says phoned him from Houston in March to offer the documents. USA TODAY has been unable to locate Ramirez.
When Burkett gave copies of the documents to USA TODAY, it was on the understanding that his identity would not be disclosed. USA TODAY honored that agreement until Burkett waived his confidentiality Monday.
"I didn't forge anything," Burkett said. "I didn't fake any documents. The only thing I've done here is to transfer documents from people I thought were real to people I thought were real. And that has been the limitation of my role. I may have been a patsy."
CBS 'regrets' using memos
Excerpts from CBS statement:
"60 Minutes Wednesday had full confidence in the original report, or it would not have aired.
"However, in the wake of serious and disturbing questions that came up after the broadcast, CBS News has done extensive additional reporting in an effort to confirm the documents' authenticity. ...
"Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret. ...
"CBS News and CBS management are commissioning an independent review of the process by which the report was prepared and broadcast to help determine what actions need to be taken. The names of the people conducting the review will be announced shortly, and their findings will be made public."
The White House on Monday welcomed the network's admission but said it "raised more questions than answers." Communications director Dan Bartlett called for an investigation that includes "whether the president's political opponents were behind these attacks." He added, "Since CBS News and USA TODAY had both obtained these forged documents, we now urge them to lead the way in finding the truth."
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush was told of the CBS statement as he flew to Derry, N.H., for a campaign appearance. McClellan said Burkett "is not an unimpeachable source as was previously claimed. Bill Burkett is a source who has been discredited, and so this raises a lot of questions."
Burkett's own doubts about the authenticity of the memos and his inability to supply evidence to show that Ramirez exists also raise questions about his credibility. Burkett has strong anti-Bush views. He has posted comments on Internet Web sites critical of Bush and has chastised Sen. John Kerry's organization for what he called its inept campaign.
Tired of 'being the bad guy'
Burkett's emotions varied widely in the interviews. One session ended when Burkett suffered a violent seizure and collapsed in his chair. Earlier, he said he was coming forward now to explain what he had done and why to try to salvage his reputation. In the past week, Burkett was named by many news reports as the probable source of the documents.
"It's time," Burkett said. "I'm tired of me being the bad guy. I'm tired of losing everything we've got," a reference to his financial and health struggles since he left the Guard. Turning to his wife, Nicki, he said: "We've lost it all, baby. We've lost everything."
Sitting in a rocking chair in his weathered ranch house south of Baird, Texas, Burkett recounted his continuing efforts — beginning before he was discharged from the Texas Army National Guard in 1998 — to clean up what he saw as Guard corruption and mismanagement. He said that activity led to a telephone call in March from Ramirez and her offer to provide documents damaging to President Bush.
Burkett said Ramirez told him she had seen him the previous month in an appearance on the MSNBC program Hardball, discussing the controversy over whether Bush fulfilled all his obligations for service in the Texas Air Guard during the early 1970s. "There is something I have that I want to make sure gets out," he quoted her as saying.
He said Ramirez claimed to possess Killian's "correspondence file," which would prove Burkett's allegations that Bush had problems as a Guard fighter pilot.
Burkett said he arranged to get the documents during a trip to Houston for a livestock show in March. But instead of being met at the show by Ramirez, he was approached by a man who asked for Burkett, handed him an envelope and quickly left, Burkett recounted.
"I didn't even ask any questions," Burkett said. "Should I have? Yes. Maybe I was duped. I never really even considered that."
By Monday, USA TODAY had not been able to locate Ramirez or verify other details of Burkett's account. Three people who worked with Killian in the early 1970s said they don't recognize her name. Burkett promised to provide telephone records that would verify his calls to Ramirez, but he had not done so by Monday night.
An acquaintance of Burkett, who he said could corroborate his story, said he was at the livestock show on March 3. The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said Burkett asked if he could put papers inside a box she had at the livestock show. Often, she said, friends ask to store papers in her box that verify their purchases at the livestock auction. She said she did not know the nature of the papers Burkett gave her, and he did not say anything about them.
A political hurricane
The documents story exploded into view Sept. 8, when 60 Minutes aired a report alleging that Bush had been shown political favoritism in getting into the Texas Air National Guard and that Killian had doubts about his performance as a fighter pilot.
The network interviewed Ben Barnes, a former speaker of the Texas House, who said he used his contacts to help Bush get into the Guard and avoid being drafted for Vietnam service. But that interview was eclipsed by the controversy over the rest of the report, which was based on documents supposedly retrieved from a personal file Killian kept and supplied to CBS by Burkett.
About an hour after the 60 Minutes story aired, Burkett also gave the documents to a USA TODAY reporter who had flown to meet him in Bozeman, Mont., where he said he was visiting friends.
Rather: CBS was 'mislead'
Excerpts from Dan Rather's statement:
"Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a 60 Minutes Wednesday story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in question � and their source � vigorously. ...
"Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. We have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where � if I knew then what I know now � I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.
"But we did use the documents. We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism.
Burkett had twice before been an on-the-record source for USA TODAY stories: a Dec. 18, 2001, story on inflated troop counts in the Guard nationwide — so-called ghost soldiers — and a Feb. 12 story this year in which Burkett recounted what he said were efforts by top Texas Guard officials to "cleanse" Bush's military record of embarrassing information in the summer of 1997.
Burkett's comments about cleaning up Bush's file were widely reported. The White House called the accusation "outrageously false."
In the Sept. 8 segment on CBS, Bartlett rebutted the charges that Bush failed to fulfill his Guard obligations, but he did not challenge the documents' authenticity. Within hours after the report aired, though, Internet sites began to raise questions about whether the papers were real. Two former FBI forensic document specialists enlisted by USA TODAY to examine the documents said they probably were forgeries.
The critiques focused on several factors: individual typed letters in the memos showed variable spacing, a feature rare on 1970s-vintage typewriters, and some terminology wasn't consistent with language used in the Air Guard at that time. Handwriting experts found discrepancies between Killian's signature on the memos and samples of his writing in Bush's publicly released files.
Last Tuesday, doubts about the documents' authenticity grew when Killian's former secretary, Marian Carr Knox, told The Dallas Morning News that she didn't type them and that the papers appeared to be fakes.
She repeated the account on CBS the next day. But she said in an interview with USA TODAY that Killian had written similar memos, which she had typed, and kept them in a locked drawer in his office at Ellington Air Force Base. Killian, a stickler for rules, was having trouble keeping Bush in line, she said.
"I was in a position where I heard a lot, and a lot was said in front of me," Knox, 86, said. "I had been with the military a long time. I know how they think, and I wasn't deaf." She said she liked Bush personally but doesn't approve of him as president.
Burkett said he began to have doubts about the papers' authenticity as evidence piled up suggesting they were fabricated. He said that by last Wednesday, he had begun to believe that he had been misled. Finally, he agreed in extended interviews with two USA TODAY reporters to give up his insistence on anonymity and to tell the story of how he says he became a conduit for the documents. USA TODAY spoke with him daily from Thursday through Monday.
Intense political feelings
Testaments to Burkett's intense feelings about politics are all over his house. On a side table is a copy of the book Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. In the front entry is a photograph of Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whom his wife supported against Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries.
After he received the documents in Houston, Burkett said, he drove home, stopping on the way at a Kinko's shop in Waco to copy the six memos. In the parking lot outside, he said, he burned the ones he had been given and the envelope they were in. Ramirez was worried about leaving forensic evidence on them that might lead back to her, Burkett said, acknowledging that the story sounded fantastic. "This is going to sound like some damn sci-fi movie," he said.
After keeping the copies for a couple of days, he said he drove to a location he would not specify, about 100 miles from his ranch, to put them "in cold storage." Burkett said he took the action because he believed the papers were politically explosive and made him nervous. "I treated them like absolute TNT," he said. "They looked to me like they were devastating."
Reporters who knew of Burkett's role as a Bush critic continued to call as they searched for files that could fill in details on a gap in Bush's service record. Bush was a well-regarded pilot but stopped flying fighter jets in 1972 and moved to Alabama, where he worked on a political campaign and apparently missed required Guard drills.
White House statement
Excerpt from Scott McClellan's statement:
"There are a number of serious questions that remain unanswered, and they need to be answered. Bill Burkett, who CBS now says is their source, in fact is not an unimpeachable source as was previously claimed. Bill Burkett is a source who has been discredited, and so this raises a lot of questions. There were media reports about Mr. Burkett having senior level contacts with the Kerry campaign. That raises questions. What were those contacts and what was discussed with Bill Burkett? Who was the original source of these documents and who was responsible for forging these documents?"
Ultimately, Burkett decided to turn over the documents to one of the most persistent journalists, CBS producer Mary Mapes, sometime in August. He and his wife met Mapes and CBS reporter Mike Smith at a pizza restaurant a few miles from their ranch. At first he gave them only two of the six documents, which Mapes said she planned to have analyzed for authenticity, according to Burkett.
Burkett said he passed the rest of the documents to Smith around Sept. 5, at a drive-in restaurant near Baird.
As Burkett told his story, he appeared overwrought, fatigued and unsure of how to deal with what he characterized as the extreme pressure of national attention. He spoke of being under a severe strain.
At one point Thursday, as he spoke on a cell phone to his San Antonio lawyer, David Van Os, Burkett's voice froze in midsentence and his body convulsed in a violent seizure. He was helped to the floor and then to a couch. He has had such bouts sporadically over the past several months, but this one was worse, his wife said.
The next day, Burkett resumed the interview. He lay on the couch with a wet cloth on his forehead.
Conn, the Texas Guard friend Burkett initially identified as the source of the documents, denied any connection in an e-mail exchange with USA TODAY. He wrote: "Know absolutely nothing about the Killian memos." Conn declined to be interviewed further.
Pressed about the inconsistency between his initial account and the story of Ramirez, the mysterious Houston source, Burkett confessed that the Conn story had been a lie to throw reporters off the trail.
"I just pushed too far," Burkett said. "I implied that George had something to do with this. I lied to you." He said he told the same story to CBS, but asserted that all his other dealings in the documents case had been honest. "I honest to God can't remember anything else I feel bad about," Burkett said.
Burkett voiced frustration that his effort to call attention to what he believes are legitimate questions about Bush's military service is now being obscured by a new story line: "that I am some kind of nut."
"The only reason I'm going on the record is because I've got to tell the story to save my name."
Moniz and Johnson reported from Texas, Drinkard from Washington. Contributing: Blake Morrison
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New Policy 8: Freedom of Speech
Harleen Kaur Dhillon
In the summer of 2018, the Ford government announced many changes for Ontario. Among them was the new requirement for universities and colleges to have free speech policies modeled after that of the University of Chicago. They were given a deadline of January 2019 to put these policies into effect.
The University of Waterloo (UW) recently redrafted Policy 8, the Freedom of Speech policy, in accordance with the requirements of the provincial government. Policy 8 begins by quoting the University of Waterloo Act, 1972: “The objectives of the university are the pursuit of learning through scholarship, teaching and research within a spirit of free inquiry and expression.”
Matthew Grant, UW director of media relations, said, “UW has always supported the principle[s] of free speech and freedom of expression on campus.”
“The new policy reflects long-held beliefs of UW that the campus should be a place that supports the free exchange of ideas, beliefs that have been documented in numerous university policies and in various public statements,” he said.
Policy 8 simply expects people to respect others’ freedom of speech. Violations of the policy will be addressed through pre-existing policies, many of which have sections concerning freedom of speech. Policy 8 states: “Alleged breaches of this Policy by members of the university will be managed in accordance with policies and agreements (including Policy 33, Ethical Behaviour; Policy 71, Student Discipline; the Memoranda of Agreements with the Faculty Association, CUPE, and Staff Association of the University of Waterloo) governing members of the university.”
Visitors who offend the policy will be managed by the appropriate policy or referred to the UW Police Services.
“The policy will be governed in part by Policy 71, where any issue will be dealt with through a non-academic misconduct process. The process itself is designed to be fair, and students are afforded the right to appeal if they do not agree with the decisions,” Grant said.
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Tag: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
MAE’s Ramin Esfandiari Named CSULB 2019 Outstanding Professor of the Year
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Professor Ramin Esfandiari has been named CSULB’s 2019 Outstanding Professor of the Year.
Dr. Esfandiari, who has been teaching at CSULB for more than three decades, has authored or co-authored 15 books, including “Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems, 3rd ed., 2018”, “Numerical Methods for Engineers and Scientists Using MATLAB, 2nd ed., 2017”, and “Applied Mathematics for Engineers, 5th ed., 2013.”
“I am filled with gratitude for such recognition, as I have simply followed my passion in the past 32 years,” he said.
In recommending Dr. Esfandiari for the recognition, College of Engineering Dean Forouzan Golshani noted that his teaching evaluation scores have been among the highest in the College of Engineering throughout his tenure. Continue reading “MAE’s Ramin Esfandiari Named CSULB 2019 Outstanding Professor of the Year”
NSF Grant Will Help Advance Understanding of Human Motion
Dr. Emel Demircan, an assistant professor in the CSULB Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering departments.
Emel Demircan, an assistant professor in the CSULB Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering departments, has been awarded a $175,000 grant to advance the understanding of human motor performance to help clinicians develop more effective motion-training treatments.
The National Science Foundation award will fund research to create a cyber-human framework that advances robotics and biomechanics, deepening scientific understanding of human motor performance dictated by musculoskeletal physics and neural control.
“The project has great potential to impact our society by creating a wearable cyber-human system to provide immediate feedback to the wearer to make postural corrections – applicable for the reeducation of patients with musculoskeletal disorders and for performance improvement in motion training,” she said. Continue reading “NSF Grant Will Help Advance Understanding of Human Motion”
MAE Remembers Dedicated Mentor Who Shared His Love of Rockets
Charley Hoult, right, accompanied by wife Janet, at the ESRA launch site in Green River, Utah.
Charles Hoult, a longtime Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering mentor, has passed away after a short illness. Hoult shared a half-century of rocketry experience with students involved with the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA). Students plan to pay tribute to their beloved mentor by propelling some of his ashes skyward during their next rocket launch.
Hoult first began working with research rockets in 1958 while an Air Force 2nd lieutenant assigned to the Cambridge Research Lab in Bedford, Mass. He continued working at the lab for a decade, seven years after he left the service. While there, he performed systems engineering and flight testing on a variety of research, or sounding, rockets, from the Nike-Cajun thru the Aerolab Argo D-4.
After leaving the lab, Hoult worked for El Monte-based Space General on the Aerobee and Astrobee rockets; Space Vector Corp. of Canoga Park on the Aries guided sounding rocket and guidance and attitude control systems; and in the late 1970s as a consultant. Continue reading “MAE Remembers Dedicated Mentor Who Shared His Love of Rockets”
MAE Students Submit Proposal for Reuse of Shuttered C-17 Plant
Students often attend lectures or solve problems for extra credit, but Dr. Juan Cepeda-Rizo’s MAE 330 Thermodynamics class had an opportunity to do something with more impact—create a proposal for reuse of the shuttered Boeing C-17 production facility.
Cepeda-Rizo, who lives near the former aircraft plant, offered the opportunity at the beginning of the semester at the suggestion of neighbor Patricia Chen. With an interest in sustainable energy, students Mohamad Alkam, Hope Daley, Elyssa Lawrence, and Eric Velazquez immediately stepped forward. Facing a tight deadline of Sept. 12, the students came up with an idea for a solar park for the 160-acre site on Cherry Avenue near the Long Beach Airport. Continue reading “MAE Students Submit Proposal for Reuse of Shuttered C-17 Plant”
MAE CELEBRATES ITS CLASS OF 2016
The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department celebrated its Class of 2016 at an awards ceremony and reception Monday.
“Congratulations, you made it,” Chair Jalal Torabzadeh told the nearly 100 students in attendance. “You have come a long way. This is a milestone. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate and be proud of your accomplishments.”
Dean Forouzan Golshani said what graduates must do next is figure out their passion. “Find what makes your life meaningful. I hope you find whatever it takes to fulfill your aspirations.”
Patrick Goggin, VP of 747/767/777 Engineering at Boeing and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, received the Outstanding Alumni Award for his contributions to the MAE Department. Continue reading “MAE CELEBRATES ITS CLASS OF 2016”
Labs Get Safety, Equipment Upgrades
While many students were on summer vacation, the CSULB College of Engineering facilities team was hard at work completing an extensive lab modernization project. Involving two years of funding allocations, nearly a year of planning and more than a month of construction, the upgrades will not only expose students to state-of-the-art equipment, but also increase accessibility and make working in the labs even safer.
The biggest, and most expensive, part of the project was replacing cement floors with safer non-skid surfacing in the industrial labs, said COE Facilities Coordinator Mike Berg, who oversaw the planning and work. Raised platforms were also removed from many labs to improve handicapped accessibility and reduce trip hazards. There’s also now a trolley to move heavy lab materials, a hoist for sheet metal, and new personal protective equipment in labs throughout COE. Continue reading “Labs Get Safety, Equipment Upgrades”
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And as for financial regulation...
Here's to your health...
Conspiracy or Culture?
McChrystal and Marja
Ask. Tell. Kill.
I'm sure that your mailbox, like mine, has been full of notices from credit card companies advising you of changes to your accounts, presumably due to the new regulations recently implemented. I've actually read every one of them. I'm not impressed, but that may because I never carry a balance on any of my cards. I'm one of the people the credit card companies call a "free rider," because I don't pay interest or fees.
Well, excuse me, but they're still collecting a nice cut from the merchants I patronize — even after they pay me my paltry cash-back rewards. Free riders (as in my previous post) cost the system money. Granted, the banks don't make as much from me as they do from some poor bastard who lost his job and is using credit cards to keep his family eating, but they're still making money — with virtually no risk involved.
So screw you, David Nelms, Brian Moynihan, Ken Chenault, and anybody else who's issued me a card. You're the free riders, riding on the backs of the naive and the unfortunate. It's clear why you so bitterly oppose an independent consumer protection agency — it might interfere with the extremely lucrative rackets you and your buddies have been working on the public for so many years.
As for real financial reform, I'm betting nothing much happens, if anything. Anybody who was paying attention knows it was the unregulated derivatives market — most notably credit default swaps — that caused the crisis of 2008. The joke is that the alleged "free marketeers" in Congress and in the banking industry are bitterly opposed to the transparency in the sale of such instruments that actually would allow a free market to operate.
An alleged "democracy" that can't serve its citizens is no democracy. Government is broken, and the plutocrats are more firmly in charge than ever.
Needless to say, nobody expected today's "bipartisan health care summit" to accomplish anything resembling bipartisanship. The advantage was in the Democrats' court for this one — Republicans would have been much happier to avoid direct interaction and just continue to snipe from the sidelines. Who won, of course, varies based on the news outlets individuals chose to get a report of the proceedings. I suspect that even members of the press couldn't force themselves to witness all six hours of partisan bullshit redux.
Like the rest of America, all I could bear was an occasional sampling — enough to assure me that I really wasn't missing anything significant. Just the same, I feel safe when I say that the biggest problem affecting health care costs — the problem of "freeriding" — was not addressed. Freeriders are those who use a system without paying their way. Good examples are those who benefit from a union contract without paying union dues. In the context of health care, the freeriders are those who go to the emergency room when their injuries or illnesses are bad enough, but pay neither for insurance nor the costs of their care.
Mind you, I have considerable sympathy for health care freeriders. Many would buy insurance if they thought they could afford it without significantly impairing their lifestyle choices — and they are inclined to wait until they are very sick before they head for the emergency room. Unfortunately, the very sick cost a great deal more to treat than those whose illnesses are diagnosed and treated early. Health care freeriders are a lot more expensive to carry than union contract freeriders, who can collect union negotiated salaries and benefits without necessarily breaking the bank.
And so, in the absence of a single payer plan financed by genuinely progressive taxation, I suppose forcing the young and healthy to buy coverage — bringing down average per-person health insurance costs — currently is the only viable option. The question remains, though: did today's "summit" give candy-assed Democrats enough political cover to dare going with reconciliation?
I suspect that a health care bill passed by reconciliation is quite likely. Sadly, it is likely to drive quite a few young, uninsured former Obama supporters into the arms of the Republicans, since money spent on health insurance cannot be spent on the latest and most fashionable clothing, drugs, and hair styles.
Was Obama really serious when he said he'd rather be a successful one-term president than a two-term president who failed to accomplish his goals? We'll see.
Labels: bipartisan, bullshit, health care, health insurance, Obama, summit
The Times had an interesting article today about the Tea Party movement, focusing on ordinary, previously non-political people who have become involved. Many are the kinds of people who used to tell me that I was paranoid. Well, as we used to say back in the sixties, "paranoia is heightened awareness."
Mind you, I suppose I should be at least somewhat pleased by the rapid growth of the idea that elite groups have undue control over our society and our lives. But, on the other hand, most of the details of Tea Party beliefs are dictated by mouthpieces for those same elite groups — Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, and similar faux-populists. (The persistent problem with populism is that people are such damned suckers for demagogy.)
The chief fear of those Tea Party foot soldiers is that their movement will be co-opted by the Republican Party. It's a rational fear, and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey is leading the charge. It may be that the Tea Party movement will have to choose between co-option and continued fragmentation — although a hostile takeover of the Republicans by Tea Party activists also is a possibility. Frankly, I look forward to that happening. It would leave the Republicans as fragmented as the Democrats.
So, I asked myself, why is it that the right can launch itself into a massive populist tizzy, while the left just sits around with its thumb up its ass?
The answer, of course, is the last election. Most people on the left — not me, regular "view from vicworld" readers may recall — believed we had "won," then were totally stunned when Obama and the Democrats let us down. Nascent populist groups like MoveOn.org were co-opted by the mainline Democrats very early in the election cycle. The innocents who actually bought the hype about "hope" and "change" are crushed, having seen neither.
It's kind of like the left is in a clinical depression, unable to get out of bed.
Is it really all a big conspiracy, as the Tea Parties believe, orchestrated by the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve, and (as some of them doubtless believe) the Elders of Zion to boot? It's kind of fun to believe in conspiracy theories, of course, and when conspiracy theorists get together, they feed off each other.
Sorry, but its not a conspiracy. It's culture — the culture of the modern world. It makes as much sense to say that Italian men "conspire" to pinch women's asses as to say that the rich "conspire" to control the government by buying our esteemed political leaders. That's just the way it is.
And, as Marx correctly noted, if you kick out one pack of plutocrats, a new pack of plutocrats slips right into place. All the tea parties in the world won't change that.
Labels: Tea Party
If General Stanley A. McChrystal actually makes a success of the Marja invasion — which is to say, actually keeping it rather than just conquering it — I might become a convert to the Obama plan for Afghanistan. One thing McChrystal already is doing which I find quite encouraging is redefining Afghans for the troops.
Typically, when an army invades a country, the inhabitants automatically become "the other." Military training encourages such thinking, which makes it possible for soldiers to kill efficiently without excessive guilt. McChrystal is making a concerted effort to teach his troops to discriminate between enemy fighters and civilians, minimizing civilian casualties. His effort to help the troops understand that "the population is the prize" is almost completely novel in the history of warfare. Will it work? We'll see.
I'll also be interested to see McChrystal's "government in a box, ready to roll in" when hostilities subside. If he truly has managed to locate enough non-corrupt Afghan administrators and policemen to run Marja without alienating and antagonizing the locals, that would be another genuinely novel accomplishment. Will he be able to come up with more, to govern the other towns in the Helmand River Valley that will need to be pacified? What will keep them honest, right there in the midst of Afghanistan's most important opium growing region, once NATO forces have moved on?
Frankly, I'm not especially hopeful — but I suppose there's no choice but to give McChrystal a chance.
Labels: afghanistan, corruption, Marja, McChrystal
It appears that Our President has concluded that the gay vote still matters — hence, the State of the Union promise to repeal "Don't ask, don't tell." Admiral Mike Mullen, reflexively loyal to the Commander in Chief, supports the President, albeit on a personal rather than an institutional basis. Defense Secretary Gates, another good soldier, does his best to sound loyal while saying little or nothing.
As for me, I think it would be a great advance for the women in the military to get some idea of which of their fellow warriors are willing to admit they're gay — that is to say, which guys are far less likely to rape them. Mind you, quite a few of the gay guys in the military still won't be coming out — hell, they don't want to be raped either.
Institutions designed to train young people to kill, but nevertheless must maintain a facade of high moral standards, have a lot of trouble dealing with sex. There is, you see, that nasty propensity of a substantial number of the prime candidates for such institutions to conflate sex with violence. To control the violence, many believe, the institution must control the sex as well — meaning that the sex, like the violence, must be standardized. The real obstacle to having openly gay men in the military is, more than anything else, administrative. Controlling the gay sex as well as the straight sex would be just too hard for the officer corps.
(Disclaimer, of sorts: thirty years in public education have predisposed me to believe that incompetent administration is at the root of most institutional problems. On the other hand, Philip Zimbardo's exhaustive analysis of systemic failures leading to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib provides substantial evidence that, in the military as well as in the public schools, the shit floats to the top.)
Gays, of course, have been in the military all along. If a fellow is looking for a place where it's raining men (hallelujah), and he doesn't have the skills for professional athletics, there are few better choices. "Don't ask, don't tell" has been military policy since the demise of ancient Sparta, where homosexuality was pretty much compulsory. When Congress codified that policy during the Clinton administration, it actually made things worse for gays in the military. Once "Don't ask, don't tell" was part of the law, anybody who was outed was automatically out.
In the unlikely event that Obama actually manages to get a repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" through Congress, what dire consequences might occur? Will evangelical Christian boys stop joining the military out of fear, leaving our national defense sorely understaffed? Will the straight and gay members of Marine patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan tolerate each other's tastes in rape victims? Will the next set of photos out of Abu Ghraib or the prison at Bagram be even more homoerotic?
Don't ask. Don't tell.
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The Great Syrian Fuck-up
Sandra Bland
The Iran Deal
The Greek Debt "Agreement"
The NO Vote
How fortunate are the Republican legislators, presidential candidates, and pundits who can sit back comfortably and rattle their sabers while the Obama administration muddles around hopelessly in Syria and Iraq! A grand fuck-up it is, and so it shall be, barring, say, Divine Intervention, or something equally unlikely.
Remember those "moderate" rebels we were going to train, and who were going to beat back the assorted Islamists who have nothing in common save hating our guts? According to today's Times, there are exactly 54 of them, and their leader and his lieutenant just were kidnapped by Al Nusra. Then, in order to get Erdogan to let us use Turkish airfields to bomb what I shall henceforth call "the Islamist State" (aka all that other stuff), the Obamites have to sort of ignore the fact that the Turks are not especially attacking IS targets, but reserving their firepower for the Kurds, previously the most effective force against IS.
One reason we have been so unsuccessful in recruiting anti-IS fighters is that we refuse to go after the Assad regime, presumably because Assad is fighting IS. Well, Mr. President, the PKK aligned militias under bombardment by Turkey are fighting IS too, Turkey wants Assad overthrown, Assad has committed war crimes, and nobody is supporting him but Iran. Oh, wait! I forgot that the Iranians are not quite so bad as they used to be.
Personally, I believe that the Kurds, PKK affiliated or not, are the only ones in the region worthy of support, and I sincerely hope they manage to carve out an independent Kurdistan from the shit gumbo the USofA is haplessly wading through in the Middle East. I understand that Turkey has to remain in NATO for various geopolitical reasons, but maybe it's time for another secularist military coup over there. Where's the goddamned CIA when you need it?
Labels: al Nusra, Assad, Erdogan, Iran, Iraq, IS, Kurdistan, Kurds, PKK, Syria, Turkey
Sandra Bland may or may not have committed suicide in her cell, but either way, she was killed by racism. Specifically, she was killed by Brian Encinia, the white highway cop who harassed her, threatened her, roughed her up, and arrested her. His punishment, most likely, will be loss of his job. Big deal.
From the dashboard video of Encinia's cruiser, and his interaction with Bland, it's not difficult to reconstruct what led up to their confrontation. Bland was doing the speed limit, always a good idea if you happen to be "Driving While Black." (We can be sure she was traveling at precisely the speed limit because Encinia did not charge her with speeding.) Seeing a black female with out-of-state plates, Encinia played the tailgate game — pulling up dangerously close behind her. This is a favorite game of highway cops, and if you've been driving for any length of time, it's probably been played on you. You pull over to the right, and hope he just goes on by.
Sadly, Bland neglected to signal. It's understandable, because one tends to panic a bit under the circumstances, especially if one is a black female with out-of-state plates. If she'd signaled, ninety-nine to one he'd have found some other pretense for hassling her. He asks if she's upset. Of course she's upset, you racist, misogynous, fascist asshole! You want her to be upset.
We all know what happened until she moved out of the range of the dashboard camera. The next thing we see is a cell phone video of Bland, handcuffed and on the ground, with Encinia holding her down. He claims she kicked him, and that's why she was jailed on $5000 bail. The only evidence of her "assault on an officer" is Encinia's word.
All cops lie. Bad cops lie a hell of a lot. What happened off-camera is anybody's guess. What happened on-camera, though, is egregious, like when Encinia threatened to "light her up" with his Taser. Unfortunately, police work attracts far too many individuals with personality disorders like Encinia's. We can't just eliminate the so-called "bad apples," because then the barrel probably would be half-empty. The culture of policing has to change.
You can't answer "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter" until black lives stop mattering so much less than white lives — until black lives are no longer habitually pushed aside or tossed away. There continues to be a significant advantage in being a white male, and it's time we white males admitted as much.
Labels: black lives matter, Brian Encinia, police abuse, Sandra Bland
While I'm not terribly interested in outer space, I felt a burst of sympathetic joy for the teams of scientists working on the Pluto project. What a great day that must have been for them when the first images arrived back on Earth!
Abdulazeez
Like a lot of other severely depressed young people, I suspect Mohammod Abdulazeez was already suicidal when he attacked the military base and recruiting station in Chattanooga. How convenient for him that his religion offered him redemption for his "sins" (alcohol abuse and bad debts) if he took it upon himself to become a martyr!
Yes, now that he's a lame duck, Obama is willing to take some of the political risks that terrified him before the Republicans swept the midterm elections, but I'm still not all that impressed. It's very, very unlikely that when he issues his post-election pardons prior to leaving office he will add Chelsea Manning to his list, but it surely would lift him up in my esteem.
Now that same-sex marriage is the law of the land, it may be time to take a good look at arguments for polygamy. The legalities are harder to work out due to the economic ramifications of polygyny, polyandry, and group marriage — how to figure out tax liabilities and child support responsibilities, for example — but logically, polygamy should be the next marital civil rights frontier. Currently, many Americans practice serial polygamy — having multiple spouses, only not at the same time — and there are "traditional" polygamous (usually polygynous) households making a go of it. Legal polygamy, at this point in our cultural evolution, deserves serious consideration.
Labels: Abdulazeez, Bradley Manning, Chattanooga, Chelsea Manning, Pluto, polygamy
As long-term readers know, I couldn't care less if Iran becomes a nuclear power. There are lots of nuclear powers in the world today, and none of them has used its bomb. Even though it's well over half a century old, mutually assured destruction (MAD) still works. India and Pakistan may rattle their silos from time to time, but they never launch. Even if Israel didn't have enough nuclear weapons to vaporize all their antagonists in the region, Iran still would not risk using a nuke. Hell, even Israel won't use its nuclear weapons unilaterally.
So, what's the benefit of a nuclear treaty with Iran? More than anything, it brings the Iranians closer to the rest of the world. By comparison with their neighbors, Iranians are better educated, less religiously fanatical, and much better disposed towards democracy. After all, it was the democratic election of Hassan Rouhani that made the nuclear agreement possible.
Reintegrating Iran into the world economy will make it more responsive to external influence. Alleviating the hardships suffered by average Iranians under sanctions will lessen the influence of the Revolutionary Guard and other right-wing elements. Further sanctions will not work (see Cuba), and the only other alternative is war, which also will not work (see Iraq.)
The time to normalize relations with Iran is now.
Labels: Iran, nuclear agreement, Rouhani
Pretty clearly, no "negotiation" took place in Vienna. The Germans — who, at last, seem to have achieved their WWII goal of taking over Europe — dictated the terms. Tsipras, faced with the crash of the Greek banking system, had no choice but to agree.
Personally, I believe that immediate "Grexit" is preferable to yet another round of destructive austerity. Maybe there are enough members of the Greek parliament to say "no," as the Greek people said "no" last week. Okay, I understand that a substantial majority of Greeks want to stay in the Eurozone, but it won't do them any good if they have no euros to spend.
The euro was a bad idea from the beginning, as the British recognized when they opted to stay with the pound. Not only Greece, but Spain, Portugal, and Italy would enjoy a great deal more economic autonomy if they had their own currencies. If Europe ever is politically unified, that will be the time for a unified currency. All the euro has accomplished is to put the bankers in charge.
In the meanwhile, it's time for Greece to cut its losses and default. The future is grim for Greece no matter what it does, but real recovery will come sooner if Greece has its own currency.
Μην αφήνετε τους Γερμανούς να κατακτήσουν και πάλι στην Ελλάδα. Πες ΟΧΙ!
Labels: debt, Euro, Germany, Greece
I am thoroughly confused by Donald Trump. It is clear enough what he is doing. Far less clear is why he is doing it.
Trump is appealing to the racist, nativist component of the Republican base, and his popularity in recent polling indicates that it is a distressingly large group. If his goal is to be taken as a serious contender for the Republican nomination rather than just a billionaire buffoon, he has been successful. If his goal is to become President of the United States, his perception of the American public is considerably more negative than my own.
Trump, a real estate developer, almost certainly is a net winner from illegal immigration. His contractors and subcontractors can offer him lower bids if some of their workers are illegals earning low or even sub-minimum wages. He is rich enough to be immune from the kinds of "criminals" who may sneak across the Mexican border, just like everybody else in his social set. Is he guided by some twisted sense of "social responsibility?" Doubtful.
He may be an asshole, but I find it hard to believe he is a complete idiot. He must know he is hurting the Republican brand by shouting out the ugly thoughts his competitors are content to merely imply, so party loyalty doesn't come into his calculations. Is he a secret, Machiavellian Democrat, working to help Hillary Clinton (who accepted his donations in previous elections)? Again, doubtful.
Some suggest he just enjoys publicity, attention, and doesn't especially care how he gets it. I call that the "mental illness model" of Donald Trump, and cannot entirely discount it, but I suspect the Trump candidacy goes beyond that.
Trump, who is as rich as he says he is, can afford to place large wagers against long odds — and the odds against him becoming President of the United States are very long indeed. Just the same, if enough Americans are sufficiently hateful, fearful, and knuckle-draggingly angry to vote for a pompous bag of wind like Trump, he just might win.
What would Trump do if he became the next "Leader of the Free World?" Has he thought it out that far?
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The Greeks have soundly defeated eurozone efforts to depose their allegedly "leftist" government by a margin of 61 to 39 percent. Even though they had no way of knowing the impact of their decision on Greece's future, they clearly understood that banker-imposed austerity policies have been a complete failure, and rejected them. The next move must come from the "troika," and what that move will be remains to be seen.
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Fundamentals of Physics, II : 16. Ray or Geometrical Optics I (Lecture 16 of 25)
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PHYS 201: Fundamentals of Physics, II
Lecture 16 - Ray or Geometrical Optics I
Geometric optics is discussed as an approximation to wave theory when the wavelength is very small compared to other lengths in the problem (such as the size of openings). Many results of geometric optics involving reflection, refraction (mirrors and lenses) are derived in a unified way using Fermat's Principle of Least Time.
Notes: Geometrical Optics [PDF]
Problem Set 8 [PDF]
Problem Set 8 Solutions [PDF]
Fundamentals of Physics, II: Lecture 16 Transcript
Chapter 1: Light as an Electromagnetic Phenomenon [00:00:00]
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: All right, welcome back. We're going to do a brand new topic. Well actually, a brand old topic, because it's about light, but I'm going to go backwards in time, because just before the break, we had this finish with a flourish, Maxwell's theory of light. We took Ampere's law and Lenz's law and Faraday's law and all kinds of stuff, put them together and out came the news: the view that electromagnetic waves can exist on their own, travel away from charges and currents. And they travel at a speed which happened to coincide with the speed of light, and people conjectured, quite correctly, that light was an electromagnetic phenomenon. And it was an oscillatory phenomenon, but what's oscillating is not a piece of wire or some water on a lake, but what's oscillating is the electric field. It's oscillating in strength. The field is not jumping up and down. The field is a condition at a certain point, you sit at a certain point, sometimes the field points up, sometimes the field points down, it's strong, it's weak, and you can measure it by putting a test charge. It's that condition in space that travels from source to some other place.
Now that point of view came near the second half of the nineteenth century, and it came after many, many years of studying light. And what I'm going to do is to tell you two different ways in which you can go away from the theory of light, of electromagnetic waves. One is, when the wavelength of light is much smaller than your scale of observation, namely, you're looking at a situation where you're thinking in terms of centimeters and meters and so on, and the wavelength of light is 10-8 centimeters, then light behaves in a much simpler way. You can forget about the waves, then you get this theory of light in which you have what's called geometrical optics. Geometrical optics is just light going in a straight line from start to finish, from source to your eye. So if you take Maxwell theory and apply it to a situation where the wavelength is very small, then you get this approximation that I'm going to discuss for a while today. But when you say very small, you always have to ask, "Small compared to what?" Do you understand that? When someone says wavelength is small, as it is, it has no meaning. I can pick units in which the wavelength is million or 1 millionth. That has no meaning. Small and large can be changed by change of units.
What we really mean is the following: suppose I have a screen and there's a hole in the screen. And behind the screen, there is a source of light. Then I put another screen here and the light goes through that and forms an image which you can obtain just by drawing straight lines from start to finish. So you illuminate a region which is the same shape as what you had here. That's what makes people think of using ray optics. Ray optics, the light rays come out, they're blocked by the screen except near the hole, except inside the hole, and the light escapes through that hole and fans out and forms an image of the same shape. If you made a blip here in the hole, you'll get a blip in the image, because it will simply follow the shape. Now I can tell you what I mean by, the wavelength is small or large. It's going to be small or large compared to the size of this opening. If λ, the wavelength, is much less than d, which is the size of that opening here, then you have this simpler geometric optics. That's the approximation. It's like saying, if you have understood Einstein's relativistic kinematics, if you go to small velocities — again, one must say, "Small compared to what?" The answer is small compared to the speed of light — you get another kind of mechanics called Newtonian mechanics, which is simpler and was discovered first.
Likewise, geometrical optics is simpler than the real thing and it was discovered earlier. You will note that this picture is incomplete if λ becomes comparable to the size of that hole. Then you will find out that if you put a very tiny hole in a screen, and it would be very tiny compared to wavelength, the waves have then spread out and formed something much bigger than the geometric shadow. Then you will have to realize that drawing straight lines won't do it. In other words, if I show you a side view, you would think, if you had a source, you'll form an image of that dimension on the screen, but actually it will spread out much more. And the smaller the hole, the more the light will fan out. You're not going to get that from geometrical optics. But in order to realize that, you will have to deal with apertures small comparable to the wavelength of light and the wavelength of visible light is 5,000 angstrom, which is very small. So it wasn't known for a while.
Now you might say, okay, if you want, you can go back in time, but you should probably start with this and build your way to electromagnetic theory a la Maxwell. Well, it turns out Maxwell isn't right either, and to see where Maxwell's theory fails, you will have to take light of very low intensity. Remember, intensity is the square of the electric field, or the magnetic field. They're all proportional. If light becomes really dim, you might think the electric field is going to be smaller and smaller, because E2 or B2 is a measure of intensity, but something else happens when light becomes really week. You realize that the light energy is not coming to you continuously like a wave would, but in discrete packets. These are called photons. But you won't be aware of photons if the light is very intense, because there are so many of them coming at you. It's like saying, if you look at water waves, you see this nice surface and you're looking at the description of that surface undulating. You have a wave equation for that. But if you really look deep down, it's made of water molecules, but you don't see them and you don't need that for describing ocean waves. But on some deeper level, water is not a continuous body. It's discrete, made of molecules. Likewise, light is not continuous. It's made up of little particles called photons. And that we will talk about later.
So you understand the picture now? You're going back in time to the ancient theory of light, then we did Maxwell's. I won't stop there, because I have already done it, and we'll go onto the new theory of light, which involves photons, and that's part of what's called quantum mechanics, so we'll certainly talk about that.
Chapter 2: Review of Geometrical (Classical) Optics [00:07:18]
So what did people know about light? Well, they had an intuitive feeling that something bright or shiny emits some light and you can see it. It seemed to travel in a straight line, and for the longest time, people did not know how fast it traveled. It looked like it traveled instantaneously, because you couldn't measure the delay of light in daily life. You can measure the delay of sound, but not the delay of light. They knew it travels in a straight line, unlike some, because if I close my face, you can hear me, but you cannot see me. So sound waves can get around an obstacle, but not light waves. That one, everybody knew. But they did not know how fast it travels. Sound, they knew, travels at a finite speed, because you go to the mountain and start yelling at the mountain, it yells back. You can even time it and find the velocity of sound.
So Galileo tried to find the velocity of light by asking one of his buddies to go stand on top of one mountain, and he's going to stand on top of the other mountain with a lantern which is blocked. Then he's going to open the lantern and the minute his friend saw this light, he was supposed to signal back with another light signal, come back to Galileo. Meanwhile, he was timing it with his pulse. Then he was going to — well, that's the only clock you had in those days. I think the two mountains were like 20 miles apart or something, so it's not impossible that with the pulse, you can probably find the velocity. So you've got some answer, but I think he realized very quickly that that answer just measured the reaction time of him and his friend. Do you know how you will realize that, that it's the reaction time and not the propagation time? How will you find out? You all had a good laugh at Mr. G. but what will you do? How will you know that it's really — yes?
Student: Vary the distance between them.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: You vary the distance. If he and his friend, instead of being on two different mountains, are in the same room, and they do the experiment and they get the same delay, then they know that it's nothing to do with the travel time. It's just how long it takes them to react. So the real serious measurement of light, you can't ask yourself, "How am I going to measure it if it's traveling that fast?" First of all, you don't even know if it takes any finite time. It's possible to imagine that if you turn something on, you can see it right away. It looks very natural. So the fact that it could take a finite time was a hypothesis, but to measure it, if it's going very fast, you need a long distance. Even the distance equal to the circumference of the earth is not enough, because it takes one seventh of a second for a light signal to go around the earth, if it could be made to go in a circle. So that's too fast. So the idea of finding the velocity of light, the first correct way, came from Roemer, I think in 1676.
He did the following very clever experiment: here's the sun, let's say, and here is the earth and here is Jupiter. It's got one of these moons called Io. And the moon goes round and round Jupiter, and we know from Newtonian physics that it will go in an orbit with a certain time period. If the earth was stationary, this would go round and round with some period. I've forgot what it is, an hour and something, to go once around Jupiter. So what you do is you record the pulse. Let's say you wait until it's hidden behind Jupiter, or it comes right in front of Jupiter. Pick any one key event in its orbit, then wait for the next pulse, and wait for the next pulse, and wait for the next pulse. You understand what I mean by pulse? You can see it all the time, but wait till it comes to a particular location in its orbit, then repeat, then time them. So that should be one hour and something. Let's say one hour exactly. But you notice that as the earth begins its journey around the sun, it takes longer and longer and longer, the pulses get spaced apart a little more. And he found out that if you go to this situation when the earth is here, Jupiter hasn't moved very much in this time, it takes about 22 minutes more. Namely, this pulse, with respect to the anticipated time, is 22 minutes delayed.
Do you understand? The delay is continuous, but take the case now and take the case six months later, and the pulse should have come right there if it was not moving, but it comes 22 minutes later. And he attributed that to the fact that it takes light time to travel, and it takes an extra time of traveling the whole diameter of the orbit around the sun. And that's the 22 minutes. And how do you know you are right? Well, you know you are right, because as you start going back now, the remaining six months, the pulses get closer and closer. So this delay is clearly due to the motion. Yes?
Student: How could they still see it [inaudible]?
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Well, it's not all in the same plane. So you can try to see it, even if it's not the... If you can see Jupiter at night, which you do, then you'll be able to see the satellite also. All right, so he calculated based on that timing and this distance, which was known to some accuracy at that time, a velocity of light, that was roughly 2/3 the correct answer. The correct answer is what, 3×108 meters per second. He got 2×108 or roughly that much. That was quite an achievement. I mean, it's off by some 50 percent, but till then, people had no clue. Also he used the best data he had, but the travel time was not really — the delay was not really 22 minutes, but maybe 13 or 14 minutes and he didn't have the exact size of the orbit of the earth around the sun. But it was quite an achievement, take a number that could have been infinity and to nail it to within 50 percent accuracy. Then after that, people started doing laboratory experiments to measure the velocity of light. I don't want to go into that. Everybody has something to say about velocity of light. That's not the main thesis. The main thesis is to tell you that what people had figured out by the seventeenth century is that it travels, and it travels at a certain speed.
Now you guys have learned geometrical optics in high school, right? Everybody? Who has not seen geometrical optics, lenses and mirrors? You've not seen? Okay, that's all right. But I will tell you, I'll remind you what the other guys have seen. I'm going to show you another way to think about it. First thing they teach you is if light hits a mirror, it bounces off in such a way that the angle of incidence is the angle of reflection. Second thing they will teach you is that if light travels from one medium to another medium, say this is air and say this is glass, then the first thing to note is that the velocity of light, c, is the velocity in vacuum. When light travels through a medium, that's not the velocity. The velocity is altered by a factor called n, which is bigger than 1 or equal to 1, and n is called the refractive index of that medium. I think glass is like 1.33. Every medium has a refractive index and the effective velocity of light is slowed by this factor, n. So let us say, this medium, let's not call it air, n1, this is refractive index n2. If a beam of light comes like this and hits this interface, it won't go straight. It will generally deviate from its original direction, and if you call this the theta incident, and you call this the theta refracted, then there is a law, called Snell's law, which says n1sinθ1 is n2 times sinθ2. And theta is measured — in fact, let me call it θ1 and θ2.
This is called Snell's law. Look, the way to think of the law is, if n2 is bigger, then sinθ will be smaller, so this angle would be smaller. So when light goes from a rare medium to a dense medium, it will go even closer to the perpendicular, or to the normal. And if you run the ray backwards, from the dense medium to the rare medium at some angle, it will go away from the normal even more. That was done and that was measured and all that stuff. Then you can look at more things. You look at mirrors, parabolic mirrors, where you know if a light ray comes like that, parallel to the axis, it goes through what's called a focal point. Every parallel ray goes through the focal point, so you can use it to focus the light ray. That's what you see. Whenever you have these antennas, your own satellite dish, here's the dish in which the rays come and they're all focused onto one point. That's where you put your probe that picks up the signal from the satellite. It's a way to focus all the light into one place, so it's a property of these concave mirrors that they will focus all the light at the focal point. Then you learn other stuff. If you don't have the object at infinity sending parallel rays, if you have an object here, what happens?
Well, you have to do other constructions. If you have an object here, for example, you want to know what image will be formed. You draw a parallel line and that goes through the focal point. You draw a line through the focal point. That comes out parallel, and where they meet is your image. And this is called h1, this is called h2. That distance is called u, that's called v, and you have this result, 1/u + 1/v is 1/f. By the way, there is no universal agreement on what to call these distances. Some people call it i and o for image and object. When I was growing up, they called it u and v. I don't care what you want to call it, but this is the law.
Then you've got lenses. This is a piece of glass and it has the property that when you shine parallel light from one side, it all focuses on the other side. That's called the focal length. And if you have an object here, it will go and form an image on the other side, which will be upside down and that also obeys the same equation, except u is the distance of the object and v is the distance of the image and f is the focal length.
So there's a whole bunch of things you learn. That's all I want you to know. Then there are some tricky issues you must have seen yourself, that if you got a lens that's not concave but convex, like this, and if you shine light on that guy, what will happen? This parallel ray of light, you can sort of imagine, will go off like that. In fact, the way it will go off is as if it came from some point called the focal point. In other words, these rays of light in this mirror, instead of really focusing at some point, seem to come from the focal point. And if you draw a ray of light here, since that is a vertical part of the mirror, you use i = r. That will go off at i =r. That ray of light when seen by person here will seem to come from there, and if you join them, you get an image here. That's the virtual image, in the sense that this is a concave mirror — convex mirror like the one you have in your car. And if forms a reduced image of the object. Okay, so this is the scene from Jurassic Park. That's the dinosaur, and there's the Jurassic — I mean, the image of that, and it says, "Objects may be bigger than what they appear in the mirror." That's what it's all about, because one of these mirrors will make an image, but it's called a virtual image. In other words, if you put a screen there, you won't see anything. It's on the other side of the mirror. Here, if you put a screen, if you put a candle here and put a screen here, you will see a bright image of the candle.
So this is a real image, and that's a virtual image. The way you do these calculations, you use the same formula, except f will be a negative number. Instead of really focusing, it anti-focuses, so the focal point, if you want, is on the wrong side of the mirror. You'll get all the right answers if you use a negative f. So your textbook will have many examples of how to solve these problems, very simple algebra. But what I want to do, since many of you have seen this, and to make it interesting for you, is to show you there is a single unifying principle, just one principle, from which I can derive all these laws. All the things I mentioned, this is why I didn't stop and go into detail, every single one of them comes from one single principle. Anybody know what that principle might be? Have you heard of anything? Yes?
Student: I don't know how to pronounce the name. It starts with an "H."
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: You mean Huygens' principle?
Student: Yes.
Chapter 3: Fermat's Principle of Least Time and Its Corollaries [00:21:50]
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: No, that's a different guy. This is the famous Fermat, who had this theorem with prime numbers. His principle says light will go from start to finish in a path that takes the least amount of time. That's the path it will take. That's the Principle of Least Time. Now we find a lot of pleasure when we can derive many, many things from a single principle and you will see then, all the stuff I wrote, I can deduce from this one principle and that's what I want to do today. So you don't have to carry all that baggage. You can derive everything. So let's see how it goes. So first let's say I am here and you are here, you send me a signal. What's the path it will take? Where is the path of least time? And everybody knows that's a straight line. No point going any other way. So that tells you first, light travels in straight lines when there's no other obstacle.
The next possibility is, I want the light — let me do this right because I'm going to really draw some pictures. I want the light to hit the mirror and then come to me, so it's like a race. You are here. You've got to touch the wall and go to the finish line. Whoever gets there first wins. That's the path light will take. Now there are different attitudes you can have. First is, you can start wandering like this. You know that person's a loser, because that's not the way to optimize your time. So we don't even listen to that person. There are other reasonable people who may have a different view. One person may say, "Look, he told me to touch the wall, so I'm going to get that out of my way first. Then I'm going to go there." Fine, that's a possibility. Another person can say, "Well, let me touch the wall right in front of this person, then run over to meet the person. That's another possibility." So there are different options open to you. And we've got to find from all these possible paths the one of least time. That's the goal. Now I already said, when you look at paths, the path to the mirror has got to be a straight line. You gain nothing by wiggling around. And the path back from the mirror to the receiving point should also be a straight line, because the winner lies somewhere there. Anybody who doesn't follow a straight line in free space is not going to win.
So the only freedom you have, the only thing you want to ask, is the following: "Where should I hit that mirror?" right? So let's call that point where you hit as x. Let's say the distance between these two points is L. This is at some height h1, this is at some height h2. So what I will do, is I will simply calculate the time, then find the x for which the time is minimum. So what's the time taken for the first segment? So let's find the total time. It will be the distance, d1, divided by the velocity of light + distance d2 divided by the velocity of light. d1, you can see, is h12 + x2, divided by c + h22 + L - x squared divided by c, just from Pythagoras' theorem, right? It's d1/c + d2/c. So let's multiply everything by c. That doesn't matter. Whether you minimize cT or T, it doesn't make any difference. So let's take d/dx of this whole expression and equate it to 0. That's how we find the minimum of anything. So let me take d/dx of the first term. That is x divided by square root of h12 + x2. You understand? Something to the power ½ is ½ times something to the power -½ times derivative of what's inside, that's the 2x. That's what cancels the ½ and you get this. This is the d/dx of the first term. The d/dx of the second term will look pretty much the same.
It will look like L - x divided by h22 + (L − x)2, but when you take the derivative of (L − x)2, you get a 2 times L - x and another - sign from differentiating that guy, so you will get that. And that's what should = 0. Therefore the point x has to satisfy this condition, but what is x over d1? This is just x over d1 = L - x over d2. So here is x and here is L - x. So x over d1 is cosine of this angle and that is cosine of that angle, right? I don't know what you want to call it? Let's say it's cosine α = cosine β. That means α = β. Or if you like, 90 - α is 90 - β and 90 - α is what one normally calls the angle of incidence and this is called the angle of reflection. So you get θi = θr. Now it's something everybody should be following, because if you don't follow, you should stop me. But it's very interesting that i = r is the way for light to go from here to there after touching the mirror in the least amount of time. So this is the first victory for the Principle of Least Time. It reproduces this result.
Now I'm going to reproduce a second result. That's when light changes the medium. So here it is. Now the challenge is different. So here is h1 in a medium with a refractive index n1, and you want to go there in a medium, refractive index n2, and the distance between these points is L. So imagine you are the light ray and this is the beach and this is the ocean. You are the lifeguard and here is the person asking for help. Now how do you get there in the least amount of time? One point of view is to say, "Look, let's go in a straight line, because we have learned that's always good." But it may not be always good, because maybe you want to spend less time in the water, because you are slower in the water. One point of view is to say, "Look, let's go as far as we can in the land, and then minimize the swimming time because we can swim slower than we can run." That's a possibility. Or you can draw all kinds of possibilities. So we're going to find one that has the least amount of time. If this happens to be the answer, it should turn out in the end, so once again, let's assume that we do that. And let this be at a distance x from the left. Now what do you want to minimize? Again, you want to minimize the travel time, T. That's going to be h12 + x2 divided by n1c. That's the only subtlety, because the time — I'm sorry, not n1c — time n1. It's c over n1. You want to divide by the velocity in the medium. Velocity is c divided by n1. Also you should know, it's going to take longer in anything but a vacuum, so n1 should come on top. Then you have the other term, that is, h22 + L - x squared divided by c times n2. And this will tell you what to do.
So you see, I'm teaching you a lot of practical things in this course. I taught you, if you're in a tsunami situation, remember what you should do? You should calculate the gradient and go along the gradient. On the other hand, if it's a volcano and you calculate the gradient, you go opposite the gradient. So this is one more thing. If you want to rescue somebody, you've got to go towards the water in such an angle that this function is minimized. So I suggest we calculate it and keep the answer ready, because if you really want to be a lifeguard, what you should do is swim and measure your speed, run and measure your speed. It's the ratio of those two speeds, n1 to n2 , that will tell you where to hit the water. Okay, so we're going to do that now. So I take d/dx of all of these things. What's the difference? It looks the same, except you've got an n1 everywhere, right? h12 + x2 should = (L − x)n2/h22 + (L − x)2. So what is x over this?
This is the x. So n1x over that distance = cosine of this angle. You understand? That's the sine of that angle. x over that is cosine of this angle or the sine of that angle, since people like to write it in terms of sine, you get this result, n2sinθ2.
So this is Snell's law. It also comes from the principle of least time. Each one of them has got interesting consequences. I don't have time to do it, but you can imagine some of the consequences are, if you are in the bottom of a lake, and you look outside, the light rays go like that, because lake is dense, air is not so dense. That means you can see stuff right up to the horizon by taking an angle, so that this comes exactly here. So if you're a fish and you look out, you can see right up to the surface of the lake without going to the surface of the lake, because all the light, right up to the surface, bends and comes into you. Or if you've got a flashlight and you're sending a signal, maybe hoping somebody there will see it, actually it will bend and somebody at this angle will see it. And if your angle x is a certain critical angle, your flashlight will go to the surface, and beyond that, it will just get fully reflected. It won't be able to go to the other side. So another useful thing to know, if you're going to be under water, you're lying there, you've got some concrete blocks you're dealing with. Meanwhile you're trying to send a signal.
What angle should you send it? You've got to remember that it's not going to go in a straight line. These are all useful lessons from 201.
All right, so now I'm going to do the third thing. The third thing is very interesting, which is the following: we say, take the path of least time, right? Now there is a problem that occurs when there's more than one path of least time. That's what we're going to talk about now. What if there's more than one answer? I'm going to give that to you, so here it is. Take an elliptical room, Oval Office. You stand here, at one of the focal points, and you want to send a signal to the person in the other focal point, a light signal. You know what you have to do. That portion of the mirror is like horizontal mirror, right? So it's like the tangent to the horizontal, so it's very clear that if you send it like that, it will end up here, because it will obey i = r, and you can see from similar triangles, that distance and that distance are equal, and therefore they are similar triangles. Are you will me? This is the angle at which you should send it. If you send it to this midpoint, by symmetry, it will come to the other focal point. Okay, so now imagine that this is not a mirror, but some steel walls and you have a gun. You've got one bullet left. You are here and your enemy is here. Now what direction will you fire in? Pardon me?
Student: At him.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Right. So you can fire — very good. See, this is why I forgot. So that's a little steel plate. Now what will you do? That's like asking the light how to go from A to B without hitting the mirror, I agree, that's the shortest time. But if there's something blocking you, then you know the other person's at the other focal point. Now which direction should you aim? You know the answer. I gave it, right? Give me an answer then. Yes?
Student: At that point in the wall.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: At that point in the wall. But it turns out, you can aim anywhere you like. You will thank me when you use that rule. In other words, you can shoot any direction. See? This is the guy who took only Physics 200. This person took Physics 201. That's what 201 gives you. Now that's amazing, right? I'm telling you, shoot anywhere you want. You know that bullets are like light. They follow angle of incidence = angle of reflection. This beam obeys i = r. You can see by symmetry. How about this one I shot at some random angle? The way to think of that is to draw a tangential plane mirror there. As far as this beam is concerned, the mirror could be flat. It doesn't know it's curving away. That angle better be equal to that angle. That's the way you should fire it, because you find the tangent, then draw the normal to the tangent, and choose and angle so that that and that become equal, and the bullet ends up here. But I'm saying you don't have to do all that. You shoot anywhere you like, you go crazy, shoot in any direction, they will all end up on this person.
So why is that? Pardon me? That's the definition of an ellipse, but why does the definition — if you follow the Principle of Least Time, why should that also work, according to the Principle of Least Time? I know this path is a path of least time, because it obeys i = r with respect to this mirror, so I know it's the path of least time. You agree?
Student: [inaudible]
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: That is correct. In other words, the time it takes is really that length + that length. But an ellipse is a figure that is drawn keeping the sum of that distance to that distance constant. That's how an ellipse is drawn. Take two thumbtacks and put them in the paper and you take a string of some length, and you stretch it out, grab your pencil and move it, and you will draw the ellipse. So that distance is r1 and that distance is r2, r1 + r2 = constant is what defines an ellipse. But the time taken is really r1 + r2 divided by c. So if you were to design a surface so that if you shot something one point, it will all end up here, all the light from here will focus here, you should build an ellipse, and send the light from one focal point. Likewise, if you talk, also the sound will come to that other point. Now sound waves behave more like waves rather than geometrical optics, but if it's high, long, short wavelength sound. Suppose you're talking to your dog, then you can talk to the dog from here. At sufficiently high frequency, the dog will hear it here. So it's a focusing effect.
So the way focusing works, is that there's more than one way to go from start to finish. But you are supposed to follow the Principle of Least Time. That means all those paths take the same time. That's the key. When you look at a mirror in front of — an object in front of a mirror, there's only one path, hit the mirror and bounce out. But if you have a geometry like this one, curved, then it's not true. There is more than one way to go from start to finish. Okay, so now let us ask how you build a focusing mirror. Here's what we want to do. So this is not very practical. This is very useful, but it's not what I'm talking about, because I didn't discuss that in things you knew from high school. Here's what you knew from high school, how to make a focusing mirror. So the deal is, light's going to come from some object at infinity, therefore it's coming in some parallel lines from a very distant object. You want to put some mirror of some shape so that every one of these guys will come to the same focal point. You can ask, "Can I even design such a thing? Is it possible? If so, what do I have to do? What's the shape of the object?" So let's do the following. Let's take the ray that goes along the axis of this thing. It goes here. It goes to that mirror, hits the mirror, then it comes back a distance f.
So in the time it takes to go from here to here, had it continued going, it would have gone to this wall here, also at a distance f. Do you agree? The time it takes for it to hit the mirror and come to the focal point is the same as the time it would have taken, but for the mirror, to go the other side the same distance f. Okay, now I take a second ray that's not on the symmetry axis, but above the axis. It comes here, and having come here, if it has to take the same time as the other beam, it's the time to go there. But you want it to instead come here. So how will that happen? What will ensure that that happens? Can you guys think of what condition you have? Yes?
Student: The two distances need to be the same. The distance from the mirror to the —
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Do you understand that? That's very important. That distance and that distance have to be equal. Let's be very clear on why we are doing that. See, these guys came from infinity. They've been traveling in a parallel line. Start with some plane here, so that everybody is counted from now on and see how much time you take. The ray from this center goes to the mirror and goes an extra distance f, because that's what it does. So that's the distance to which any distance these rays would have gone, but for the mirror. That's how much time you have. So if you went there and you want to turn around and come here, that extra distance better be equal to the distance to go to that plane, because that's the same time for everything. So that's the condition of the surface. It is a surface with a property that its distance, any point on that curve, has the same distance from a fixed point as from a fixed line. If you can find that, that's the surface you want. Now that happens to be a parabola, but we'll derive that, but that's what you learn in high school. A parabola is a curve which is equidistant from a point and from a line. Distance to the point is very clear. Distance to the line is obtained by drawing a perpendicular and measuring that distance, the shortest distance.
So I'm just going to equate these two, that's it. That will give me the equation for this curve. So let this graph, the shape of the mirror I'm trying to design, let this be the origin. This is some point with coordinate x and y, and y is some function of x that I'm going to find out. That's the goal. What's the function y of x that you want? So let's find out the different distances. So what is that distance it has to travel? You can see, x is the coordinate of this point. It's got to do that and another extra f on the other side. So going horizontally, it's got to do an x here and an f there, so it's got to do x + f. That's the distance from the mirror to this fictitious plane. That's the time they have. They all have the time to go to this fictitious plane. So I'm going to equate that to this distance. This one, you've got to use Pythagoras' Theorem. So this height is y. So it's y2 + (f − x)2, because this side here is f - x, because the whole distance is f and that's x. You follow that? (x,y) is the coordinate of this point. You drop a line down here. That distance is x. This is f - x and that's y.
That's that length. You want these two to be equal. So if you have a square root, you know what you have to do. You've got to square both sides. You square both sides, you get x2 + f2 + 2xf = y2 + (f − x)2. So x2 cancels, f2 cancels, then I get y2 = 4xf. That's the equation of the parabola. You're probably used to drawing parabolas that look like this, but it's the same thing. I've just turned it around. So if you go a distance y here, then this x is quadratic in the y. So that's the equation, that's the process by which you can design a mirror that will focus light from infinity. So it can be done. Likewise, if you said in the elliptical case, "Can I find a surface inside which the distance will go from here to there after touching the figure is independent of where I touch it?" the equation you will get will be an ellipse. That's more complicated to derive. This is a lot easier to derive. This is the equation of the parabola.
So if you want to build a dish that will really focus light, no matter how far, how wide the beam is, this will do it. Parabolic mirrors is something like what Hubble would use. Anybody would use parabolic mirrors, but there is a cheap trick people use if they cannot afford a parabola, because it's very hard to design things in a parabolic shape. Do you know what the simplest solution is? It's a sphere. Now a sphere is not quite a parabola, but you can imagine that if you have a parabola like this, and have a sphere, the sphere can sort of mimic the parabola up to some distance. Then of course it will deviate. But if you promise that you'll only take beams very near the axis, then the two are just as good, except it's easier to make a spherical mirror than to make a parabolic mirror. But if you've got the money, parabola is what you want. Otherwise, this is the cheaper solution. So let's ask ourselves the following question: if I take a sphere of radius R and I slice a part of it, okay, it's a hollow sphere and I slice a part of it and I paint it with silver, so I've got a mirror, this part of it, what will be the focal length of that?
That's what we are asking. I get that by saying the following: so here is that sphere. It's got radius R, and there is some point (x,y) on that sphere. Then if this is my origin, the equation for a sphere will be (x − R)2 + y2 = R2. See, normally is x2 + y2 = R2, right? That's when the origin is at the center of the sphere. But the center of this sphere is at a point x = R, so the equation in this coordinate system will look like this. So you open everything out, you get x2 + R2 - 2xr + y2 = R2. You cancel the R2 and you get y2 = 2xr + x2. I want you to compare this equation to the equation for a real parabola. They don't look the same. Yes?
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Yes, that's correct. Yes. Now the way to think about this is that but for this −x2 term, this equation looks like a parabola, but if you compare the two, you find that 4xf = 2xR. That means R = 2f. Or, if you like, the focal length is R/2. But we're not done yet, because I just threw away the second term. I've got to give you a reason for throwing the second term. So here is where you've got to get used to the following notion of big and small numbers. Whenever you deal with a mirror or a lens, things like u, v, f are all going to be treated as big numbers. Things like y that take you off the axis are going to be considered small numbers. Things like x are even smaller. So the hierarchy is, u, v, f, big, y is small, x is small squared. You can see that already. Suppose someone tells you to look at this equation. You can look at the two terms. One is x times R, other is x times x. So x times R beats x times x, because one is a small number, one is a small number squared.
So we're going to drop that term. Then we get, in that approximation, this condition. But that had to be such an approximation, because a sphere can never equal a parabola. It can look like a parabola only for small deviations from the axis. This is cautioning you that if your rays come too far off, like way over there, then the x times R term will be comparable to the x2 term and it will no longer look like a parabola. So you should be very clear. When you make a real parabolic mirror, it will focus rays, no matter how far they are from the origin. If I take a spherical approximation to it, it will work only if the rays are very close to the center. So here's a spherical mirror. You cannot have the rays going too far from here, in the scale of u, v and f. Yes?
Student: With the first equation, if f = 0, isn't it a plane?
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Yes.
Student: But the focal point isn't at the origin, is it? Because the plane here has —
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Yeah, what did you want to do for that one?
Student: If you put f = 0, so you have the focal length = 0.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Plane mirror is focal length = infinity.
Student: Infinity. Oh, it's the other way around. Okay.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: It's the fact there is bending that's focusing it. As you straighten it out more and more, it will just reflect it and go right back. And when will those lines meet? They'll meet at infinity. So I want to do one thing. I want to show you something. Here is a spherical mirror I've cut out. I want to send a parallel beam. I've already shown you that this should go through the focal point, because it's the path of least time. But you can say, "How do I know once again this is the same as i = r?" Suppose you grew up on incidence = reflection. I'm not going to reassure you continuously. I'm going to do it one last time, okay? Don't ever ask me again. It's the last time. I'm going to show you that Principle of Least Time is the same as i = r. I don't want to do it over. Here's the last time we're going to do this.
So what's our question? Question is, if I draw a tangent to that graph and drew the normal to that tangent, right, we want to know that that angle a will be equal to that angle b. That's what we want to show. But where will this go? If that's a circle, if it's a spherical mirror, you draw a normal to the tangent, it will go through the center of the sphere.
You understand? And this one is supposed to go to the focal point. Now let this height be h. Now let this angle is also a. This figure is too small, so let me draw you a bigger figure so you can see. This is sort of exaggerated so you've got to be a little careful that the — let's call that a and that's also a. Let's call this b. This is f and this is R. I hope you understand why. That's the important part. This mirror is locally tangential to that line, tangent to the circle. And the normal to the circle is pointing towards the center. That's the way circles work. You draw a perpendicular from the circumference, you hit the center, but that's looking like the plane mirror for that particular light ray. That light ray doesn't care if you bend it somewhere else. As far as this ray is concerned, you are a plane mirror. You want that angle to be equal to that angle. That's what I want to show you. So let's take this height h here, and you can notice that tan b = h/f and tan a = h/R. Can you see that? That's b and a? For small angles, for a small angle, I remind you again and again, sinθ is roughly θ and tanθ is roughly θ and cosθ is roughly 1 + corrections of order θ2.
So we delete the tan. And if you use the fact that R = 2f, it becomes h over 2f, you can see that a = b/2. So a = b/2. That means b is twice as big as a, but in any triangle, the external angle is sum of the internal opposite angles, therefore if this is 2a and this guy is a, that's also a. That means the angle of incidence is the angle of reflection. So what I'm telling you is, you can always go back to angle of incidence = angle of reflection, but it's going to take more work because you have to find the tangent. You've got to draw the normal to the tangent. You've got to find the angle with respect to that normal and equate it with that angle. You will find in fact every ray goes through f. But it works only in the small angle approximation. The small angle basically means your object is not too tall compared to the radius of the mirror. That's because if the object is comparable, then the approximation I made that a circle will approximate a parabola is no longer valid. So remember, if you took a real parabola, if you have the stomach, you can do the following calculation.
Take a real parabola, you will find angle of incidence is angle of reflection exactly. Whenever you draw a line, horizontal line, that hits the mirror, comes to the focal point, if you find the local value of the perpendicular, you'll find i = r, no matter how far you go. But if you approximate it by a spherical mirror, we have seen, the spherical mirror is only an approximation to the parabola, when you can drop the x2 term.
Okay, so we have seen the Principle of Least Time is able to give us i = r, Snell's law and focusing of a parabola. Now I want to consider the following thing: just because a parabola can focus light ray at infinity to a focal point does not mean if you put a finite object at a finite distance from it, it will form a clear image. It's only an approximation. And I will show you what we normally get from geometrical optics. I'll remind you what we know from geometrical optics. Geometrical optics tells you the following: if you have an object of height h at a distance u from the mirror and you want to know where the image will be formed, you first draw a horizontal line whose fate you know. It has to go through the focal point.
The second one says you draw a line through the focal point and it's got to come out horizontal. How do I know that? I know that if I run the ray backwards, a horizontal ray will go through the focal point, but if going backwards, it's a good idea, namely least time, it's also a good idea going forward. That's why we know that parallel will go through focus. Through focus it will come out parallel. So you join them and you've got the image there. And that's at a distance v at a height h2. So I'm now going to use ideas of geometrical optics, having shown you enough times that least time and geometrical optics are equal, to find the usual relation between u, v and f.
So how do we do that? We say, take that triangle with angle alpha and that with angle alpha and draw a triangle like this here. Then you equate tangent of this angle to tangent of that angle. Then you find tanα = h1 divided by u - f, that distance, = h2/f. Actually, there's a tiny bit. It's not quite f. It's (f − x)2, but x2 is negligible compared to f, so we won't worry about that.
You see this triangle here? That height is certainly h2. That length is not quite f. f goes all the way to the mirror, but if I drop a perpendicular here, there's a tiny little x inside. I'm now showing you that x. I've been neglecting it. In other words, you really should put an f - x, but x is quadratic in the small numbers, so we're not going to keep it. Then draw another similar triangle. This angle β is the same as this angle β. So let's say tan β found two ways it's equal. This one, tan β on the top, you can see is the h1/f and that's going to = the tan β of this triangle, which will be h2 divided by v - f. These are the two conditions you get. Okay, I may want to draw bigger pictures. Can you guys see this, or there's no hope? Can you see in the last row? Cannot. You should tell me when you cannot, because I'll be happy to fix that. So let me draw this bigger. The reason that I'm drawing everything small is that I don't want the rays to go too far up the axis, but I'm not going to worry about that. So let's make sure you can see the rays. There's one guy who did that, one which did that, correct? This is α and that is α and this is β and this is β`.
That's all I've done now. So tan α = h1 divided by this side, where u is the distance from the mirror, you take away f, because that's f. That's h1 over u - f. It's the same as tan alpha measured on this triangle. That tan α is h2/f - a tiny portion, which is the x, which I'm dropping. But similarly for β, you have a similar rule. So here's all you can get out of these two rays. So let's multiply this one and this one and that one and that one. So I'll get h1h2 over u - f times v - f. I'm going to cross multiply like that. It = h1h2 over f2. That tells you, u - f times v - f = f2. You may not have seen it this way, but it's a very symmetric way to write the equation. If you measure all distances, not from this point here but from the focal point, then it says u - f times v - f equals f2. But let's make contact with what we all know. So let's open out the brackets, so I get uv - uf - vf + f squared = f2. You cancel that guy. Then you get uf + vf = uv. Now divide everything by uvf. You divided everything by uvf, you'll get 1/v + 1/u = 1/f. Anyway, this is derived by standard geometrical optics, without going back to the Principle of Least Time.
So this is the result. But there's one more result, because you've got two equations, you can learn one more thing. You can ask yourself, what's the ratio of the object size to the image size? You can say, what is h2/h1? So h2/h1 is f divided by u -f. Or let me write it another way, it's easier. h1/h2 = (u − f)/f. That's equal to u/f - 1. u/f is u times 1/f and 1/f is 1/u + 1 over v - 1. And if you do that, you'll find it's just u over v. So the ratio of the object size to the image size is just the ratio of the object distance to the image distance. And people sometimes define a magnification M to be −u/v. What they mean by the - sign is that if this comes out negative, the object is in the upside down version. The image is an upside down version of the object. In this problem u and v are both positive, then M will come out negative. It just means it is that much bigger, but flipped upside down. In some other mirrors, you will find v is negative because the image is virtual. Then it will mean M is positive. That means the object is upright.
That's when you look into the mirror, the bathroom mirror, then your image has the same orientation as your face, not upside down. Then M will be positive.
Okay, now here's a question one can ask. When you do geometric optics, there's a question one can ask, which usually occurs about 30 years afterwards. I never asked that question. I kept doing all the problems. Then a few years ago, when I started teaching this course, I began to ask myself, you know, you can always draw two rays and they will always meet. What if I draw another one? What if I draw one that goes like this? How do I know it will come here? A lot of pictures show you that coming here, but should it come here? Maybe it won't, so let me check this thing. Let me make sure that if I have a ray coming to the center of this, it will also end up where the other two guys came. Well, if you do the center, remember, it's angle of incidence = angle of reflection, that means the tangent of the angles are equal. That means h1/u should be h2/v. Luckily that happens to be true, because h1/h2 is in fact u/v. Thereby you can show that this ray, which hits the center of the mirror, will also come to where this one came.
But that's not enough, because somebody can draw yet another one and yet another one. How do you know they will all come to the same focal point? How will you know they're all from the same image? Do you understand the question now? You have to show that every ray leaving that source hits the mirror and comes back to the very same image point. And it's not enough to draw two rays and show them meeting, because two rays will always meet. Now I've drawn a third one and shown you that it certainly comes to the right place, but that's not enough. You can sort of argue that the evidence is overwhelming it will come here, because if you look at all the rays fanning out of this, the one that went to the top came here. One that went to the bottom and also came here, but that's pretty solid. This involves the focal point. One in the middle also came to the same point. You can sort of say, "Look, this end is good, that end is good, point in the middle is good. What do you think will happen? We don't know. Sometimes it can happen that there are three points which are good, but everything else is wrong. So what is the way to nail this thing? I'm not going to do it today, but I want you to think about what calculation will satisfy you that no matter where I hit the mirror, I will get the same time. What do you think I have to do? What would you do? What do you want to check? Yes?
Student: You can make the object infinitely small [inaudible]
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Yes, if you make the object infinitely small, perhaps every ray will start looking parallel. That's correct.
Student: You can take infinitely small pieces [inaudible].
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: No, I think I'll explain what my question really is. Then you can think about it. Here is the mirror, right? I took an object here, that's the focal point, and I draw some number of rays, three of them in fact, right? This one, that one and one through the center. They all came. If I want to show you that if I took an arbitrary point at height y — yes.
Student: Create an ellipse based off of the two points.
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Pardon me?
Student: Could you create a function for an ellipse off of two points?
Professor Ramamurti Shankar: Yes. What you have to do is to pick a random generic point on that graph, not a parabola, and ask how long it will take light to go to that point and come here. So what do I want to show? Every ray of light hitting this is going to end up here, correct? For every possible altitude, all the way from 0 to the full height. Now in order to show that it will come here, it also has to be a path of least time, because you need to go in the path of least time. These three guys are obviously path of least time, the three rays I showed you. I want you never to forget that. If three rays leave here and they meet here, that means they take the same time, because light travels in a path of least time. If three guys get there, they all take the same time. But it's not enough to consider that height, 0 height and that height. I only took a height h2, h1 and 0. I want to take a generic height y, and I want to calculate that distance, divided by velocity of light. Just take that distance + that distance and show that the answer does not depend on y. The answer does not depend on y, then you vary any y you like. Then you get the same time.
So I'm not going to do the calculation, but I want you to think about what it is you want to calculate. I'm going to set it up, but then come back next time and do it, because it takes some time. I'm going to exaggerate everything so you can sort of see what we are trying to do here. You want to go to that guy, not at that height h1, sorry. I want to pick an arbitrary height y, then I wanted to form an image here. So that's at u, that's at v, that's h2. I want to find that distance and I want to find that distance and add them up, and the answer should be the same as any of the winners. The winner I want to take is this guy, which came like this, which I know is one of the least time. If you want, that corresponds to y = 0. So the time we are trying to match is really h12 + u2 + h22 + v2 divided by c, but I'm not going to divide by c. Just imagine everywhere we're dividing by c. The path length for this path that goes to the middle of the mirror and comes out, you can see from Pythagoras' Theorem's h12 + u2 and h22 + v2. And that's going to be equal to this length d1 + this length d2. And they will depend on y. d1 and d2 will depend on y. And we want to expand it as a function of y and make sure it doesn't vary with y, and I'll tell you the details next time.
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Snell's law
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AUSTRALIAN WOOL FASHION AWARDS RETURNING TO ARMIDALE NEXT YEAR
Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall with Australian Fashion Wool Awards models and event organisers in Armidale today, Maddie McFadyen, left, Mary Carter, Liz Foster, Lucy Vigona, Miki Wilson and Chloe Thaskway.
OVER the past 36 years the Australian Wool Fashion Awards has been one of the wool industry’s major promotional events in Australia and, after a three-year period being staged in Tamworth, the gala event is returning to its natural home of Armidale, the heart of New England’s superfine wool country.
Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall made the announcement today at a fashion parade of past award winners at Armidale’s iconic Hannah’s Arcade.
“It’s a great pleasure to be making this announcement as this event began as a very small local fashion parade in 1981,” Mr Marshall said. “Under the stewardship of Liz Foster and her committee, the awards soon grew in importance and are now acknowledged as one of Australia’s major wool fashion design events.
“It was designed to promote wool in all its many aspects but with particular emphasis on its developing role in the fashion world.
“I’ve heard many people speak of the popularity of the event which made it one of the highlights of the Armidale’s social calendar and with its return in July 2018, we can expect to see it attract an enormous amount of visitors to town with its extensive media publicity.”
Mr Marshall said each year some 400 entrants from all over Australia, and in more recent years New Zealand, UK, USA and Dubai, have competed for prizes worth more than $58,000.
“The Awards are designed to showcase the use of merino wool by national and international fashion designers and educate and encourage designer students in the wonderful qualities of wool,” Mr Marshall said.
“Secondary school and tertiary fashion students are invited to use the many versatile wool and wool blend fabrics to create their entries and the rewards include significant cash prizes and scholarships to study at recognised Fashion Institutes.
“Many entrants have gone onto careers in fashion. The Awards are not just for the young, entrants of all ages vie for the prizes and prestige of a win in this prestigious competition.”
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Appeals court strikes down most of NYC anti-pregnancy center law
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys considering options for appeal regarding remainder of ordinance
Created by ADF Jan 17, 2014
Related Case: Pregnancy Care Center of New York v. City of New York
Attorney sound bites: Matt Bowman #1 | Matt Bowman #2
NEW YORK — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Friday affirmed most of a district court’s order striking down a New York City anti-pregnancy center ordinance, which one of the judges called “a bureaucrat’s dream.” The appeals court allowed the strike-down of two out of three provisions in the city’s law. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys, who represent two pregnancy centers and a maternity home, say they and their clients are evaluating their options for appeal regarding the one provision that the appeals panel reinstated in its 2–1 decision.
“Pro-life pregnancy centers, which offer free help and hope to women and their preborn children, shouldn’t be punished by political allies of the abortion industry,” said Senior Legal Counsel Matt Bowman, who argued before the court in 2012. “The appeals court rightly affirmed that the city cannot force pregnancy centers to communicate some city-crafted messages that encourage women to go elsewhere, but the court left one provision in place that still does that. Because this type of compelled speech is not constitutional, we are considering our options for appeal regarding the remaining provision of New York City’s ordinance.”
“The district court’s order kept the city from enforcing the totality of its anti-speech ordinance, which some city officials designed to deter women from receiving the help they need to make fully informed choices about their pregnancy,” Bowman explained. “The 2nd Circuit reinstated one provision of the ordinance but did not provide any clarity as to whom it applies and when the city’s language must be recited. The district court was right about the vagueness of the entire ordinance. It should be completely invalidated.”
In a concurrence and dissent, which argues that the court was right to strike down two provisions of Local Law 17 but should have struck down the third as well, Circuit Judge Richard Wesley wrote, “Local Law 17 is a bureaucrat’s dream. It contains a deliberately ambiguous set of standards guiding its application, thereby providing a blank check to New York City officials to harass or threaten legitimate activity.”
In July 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order that prohibits the city from enforcing its ordinance, which threatens pro-life pregnancy services centers that are not medical clinics with heavy fines and possible closure if they don’t provide printed and oral notices crafted by the city that encourage women to go elsewhere. The city appealed that loss.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed Bill 371-A into law in March 2011 after it passed the city council. Two federal courts have issued injunctions against similar bills in Maryland.
Attorney M. Todd Parker of Moskowitz & Book, LLP is local counsel in the case, Pregnancy Care Center of New York v. City of New York, which the 2nd Circuit consolidated with The Evergreen Association v. City of New York.
Pronunciation guide: Bowman (BOH’-min)
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Adventist Peace Radio, Episode 1: Doug Morgan & Ron Osborn
April 05, 2016 by APF in Peacemaking & Reconciliation, Podcast
The Adventist Peace Fellowship is excited to launch a new podcast—Adventist Peace Radio. You can subscribe at iTunes or Stitcher.
Our first episode is an oral history of the Adventist Peace Fellowship. Host Jeff Boyd interviews APF’s co-founders, two professors who were also the first two directors. The episode consists of two Skype interviews that have been edited together to form one not-quite-seamless conversation.
Douglas Morgan is a historian and professor at Washington Adventist University. He has a PhD from Chicago University in the history of Christianity, with an emphasis in American religious and social movements. His work has focused on peacemakers in the Adventist and broader Christian heritage. In 2001, he helped co-found the Adventist Peace Fellowship, publishing its online content for several years and editing a small book of essays and historical documents entitled The Peacemaking Remnant. He is the author of Adventism and the American Republic: The Public Involvement of a Major Apocalyptic Movement (University of Tennessee, 2001) and a recent biography of an Adventist advocate of racial justice and social change, Lewis C. Sheafe (Review and Herald, 2010).
Ronald E. Osborn is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Wellesley College and was a 2015 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Burma/Myanmar. He has a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California. He is the author of Anarchy and Apocalypse (Cascade Books, 2010), which explores dilemmas of violence, just war, and pacifism. His second book, Death Before the Fall (IVP Academic, 2014), critiques fundamentalist readings of Scripture and wrestles with questions of divine goodness in the light of harrowing realities of animal suffering. In 2001, he helped to co-found the Adventist Peace Fellowship and served as its director from 2011 to 2015.
2:45 Brief description of the Adventist Peace Fellowship
4:08 Launching the APF
6:27 Historic Adventist documents (link)
10:24 APF stance on pacifism (statement)
19:45 Actions of the APF, Part 1 (Morgan)
23:41 Current challenges & opportunities of the APF, Part 1 (Morgan)
27:20 Expansion of focus in 2011 (Campaigns)
37:49 Official statements/stances of the APF
40:30 Actions of the APF, Part 2 (Osborn) (Peace Church network, university chapters)
43:10 Challenges and opportunities, Part 2 (Osborn)
46:00 Considering the future
DONATIONS: We welcome your donations to support future podcasts (link).
ARTWORK: Robert Fusté of fustédesign welded our logo in his pixel-centric metallurgy shop.
MUSIC: “Green Fields” by Scott Holmes, via Free Music Archive.
DISCLAIMER: Adventist Peace Fellowship is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports work for peacemaking and social justice building upon the values of the Seventh-day Adventist tradition. We are not part of, affiliated with, or supported by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists or any affiliates known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Any content, opinions, statements, products or services offered by Adventist Peace Fellowship, are solely those of our organization, and not those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Amplify originally ran this article in 2016 and is reprinting the story on the eve of the 80-year anniversary of the American Bund Party rally at Madison Square Garden.
“I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.”
-Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
On February 20, 1939, the eve of World War II, American Nazis and fascist sympathizers staged a huge rally at Madison Square Garden in support of Adolf Hitler. The building was covered in symbols of the Third Reich and the stage was adorned with a giant picture of George Washington, “the original American Nazi” according to organizers.
The rally was for the German-American Bund party, established by the viciously racist German-born American Fritz Julius Kuhn. The Bund Party was to be Hitler’s “Fifth Column” and encourage U.S. politicians not to intervene with the war in Europe. Officials with MSG later said they had instructed organizers not to cover the arena in Swastikas, but apparently the Nazis didn’t get the memo. A banner was hung from the rafters that read “Stop Jewish Domination of Christians.”
Kuhn was a former German WWI veteran who came to America and brought with him a strong hatred of Jews. Kuhn settled in Detroit and worked at a hospital owned by legendary industrialist Henry Ford. The hospital Kuhn worked for, the Henry Ford Hospital, had a policy against hiring Jewish doctors. Eventually Kuhn joined the Friends of New Germany, an American pro-Hitler organization with direct ties to the Nazi party.
The group came under instant scrutiny and congressional hearings threatened to expose the group’s links to the Third Reich, so the Nazi party in Berlin ordered it to shut down. Seizing an opportunity from the power vacuum, Kuhn created the American Bund party and appointed himself Bund Führer.
Fritz Julius Kuhn
The group began to stage pro-Hitler rallies around the United States, culminating in the massive 22,000 person rally at Madison Square Garden, under police guard while demonstrators protested outside. The arena was covered with swatiskas, anti-semetic slogans and a huge poster of the country’s first president.
“There is a reason Washington is up there and not Jefferson or Madison,” explained one scholar on a popular history site. “Fascism was an ideology that emphasized action and heroism over intellectualism and philosophy. This is why Hitler’s ideal Aryan concept was a strong, handsome, and physically fit person rather than someone with a mind for civics. Men of action were the ideal example figures.”
Many in attendance were teenagers who had been trained at Hitler Youth-style camps run by the Bunds on the East Coast. Hundreds of mock-uniformed “storm troopers” paraded to the stage, mimicking the Blitzkrieg-style battalions that would invade Poland months later. Kuhn opened the ceremony with a Heil Hitler salute and gave what has been described as “typical Nazi stump speech” by historians.
His speech was briefly interrupted by a young Jewish-American plumber, who sprung from the audience and ran at Kuhn to attack him, only to be be tackled and beaten by Kuhn’s bodyguards and eventually kicked out by police officers. There is evidence that the protester had links to famed Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky. Outraged by news of the Nazi atrocities, the Chicago Outfit gangster collaborated with other Jewish gangsters like Bugsy Siegel and Murder, Inc.’s Louis “Lepke” Buchalter to break up Bund party rallies with guns, knives and violence.
Meanwhile, outside of Madison Square Garden, throngs of anti-Nazi protesters that included WWI Veterans and weapon-wielding members of Lansky’s gang waited out front, preparing to attack the American Nazis as they left the rally. According to one article, a huge police response of mounted officers “large enough to prevent a revolution,” converged on the arena and prevented what many thought could have been a bloody riot.
After WWII broke out, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to launch an investigation of the German-American Bund party. Virginia Cogswell, one of Kuhn’s mistresses, agreed to work with the FBI and began to secretly record her conversations with the Bund Führer. The FBI uncovered that Kuhn was stealing from the German-American Bund Party and he was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces and Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States, the German-American Bund voted to disband itself. Shortly after the war concluded with the Allied Forces defeating the Axis Powers, Kuhn was deported to Germany and died in 1951.
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This article is about the film. For the song by Conchita Wurst, see That's What I Am (song).
Michael Pavone
Chase Ellison
Narrated by
Greg Kinnear (uncredited)
James Raymond
Kenneth Zunder
Marc Pollon
WWE Studios
April 29, 2011 (2011-04-29)
(limited)[1]
$6,400 (domestic)[2]
That's What I Am is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Michael Pavone and starring Ed Harris and Chase Ellison.[3] It received a limited release on April 29, 2011, and was later released on DVD on July 15, 2011.
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Set in one of the Jefferson Middle Schools of California in 1965,[4] the film follows a story of schoolboy Andrew "Andy" Nichol who is paired up with the school's reject, Stanley "Big G" Minors for a project assigned by a teacher named Mr. Steven Simon. As the project goes on, Andy and Stanley form a close bond. While the project is going, a rumor starts spreading around the school that Mr. Simon is a homosexual. One of the school's bullies, Jason Fleer tells his father, who goes to the school principal to ask if the rumor is true. The principal does not know, so she confronts Mr. Simon, who says that being a homosexual should not change his job. Mr. Simon does not confirm nor deny that he is a homosexual. Jason Fleer's father threatens to tell the whole community about the rumor, which he takes as a fact.
While that is happening, Andy's crush, Mary Clear, falls in love with him. Ricky Brown, the school's bully who is Mary's ex-boyfriend threatened Andy that if he goes near Mary, he'll kill him because he still likes Mary. Ignoring this fact, Andy asks Mary if she wants to go steady, and she says yes. While trying to ask Mary, Ricky shows up to the scene and tries to beat Andy up, but before he gets to it Mary steps in and tells Ricky to leave Andy alone. Stanley is also revealed to have wanted to perform in the school talent show, and even though Stanley's best friend Norman Gunmeyer does not condone it, Stanley participates anyway. At the show, Andy realizes that Norman isn't there, and bikes over to his house to ask him to go. Norman puts up a fight but then decides to go. When Stanley starts to perform, Ricky has a tomato in his hand and is planning on throwing the tomato at Stanley. Andy walks up to him, tells him not to throw the tomato. Andy then kicks him in the groin, and Ricky screams in anguish, but Mr. Simon does not punish Andy but rather congratulates him. Andy also finds out that Mr. Simon is moving to Florida, and even though Andy tries to stop him, Mr. Simon's mind is set. Andy and his English class who is taught by Mr. Simon surprises him by putting flowers in his car. In the end, it shows the "yearbook" of the school, and what happens to the characters. It is also revealed that Andy and Mary break up.
Ed Harris as Mr. Simon
Molly Parker as Mrs. Nichol
Amy Madigan as Principal Kelner
Chase Ellison as Andy Nichol
Randy Orton as Ed Freel
Daniel Roebuck as Mr. Nichol
Mia Rose Frampton as Mary Clear
Cameron Deane Stewart as Carl Freel
Daniel Yelsky as Norman Gunmeyer
Alexander Walters as Stanley "Big G" Minor
Camille E. Bourgeois III as Jason Freel
Jordan Reynolds as Ricky Brown
Brett Lapeyrouse as Bruce Modak
Greg Kinnear as Narrator (uncredited)
In its limited theatrical release of 10 theaters, the film grossed about $6,400 for three days.[2] The film holds a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[5] Alison Willmore of The A.V. Club gave the film a score of D+ praising its way of combining To Kill A Mockingbird with The Sandlot but failing to bring a climax.[6] The AXS's Joseph Airdo compared it to last year's Flipped.[1]
The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney was quoted saying that:
The film has a crisp, clean look, with decent period production values. But its chief distinction is Harris’ empathetic work in an uncharacteristically subdued role, striking stirring notes especially in some strong scenes with his real-life wife Madigan.
Film School Rejects gave a film a D- praising the teen fun and realistic relationships but criticizing painful acting and loose end script.[8]
Film Journal International didn't praised the film for anything but rather accuse the director of presenting a female character in a film as a slut.[9]
Michael Leader of the Den of Geek gave the film 1 out of 5 stars criticizing the over the top acting of Ed Harris and Randy Orton[10] while The New York Times compared it to a mix of Hallmark movie and The Wonder Years.[11]
^ a b Airdo, Joseph (May 1, 2011). "Movie Review: That's What I Am". Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ a b "That's What I Am - Box Office Data". The Numbers. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Lowenstein, Lael (February 16, 2011). "That's What I Am". Variety.
^ "Movie Review: "That's What I Am"". Roger's Movie Nation. January 13, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ "That's What I Am". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Willmore, Alison (April 28, 2011). "That's What I Am". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Rooney, David (April 10, 2011). "That's What I Am: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ "Review: That's What I Am". Film School Rejects. February 22, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ "Film Review: That's What I Am". Film Journal International. April 29, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Michael Leader (May 20, 2011). "That's What I Am review". Retrieved March 4, 2019.
^ Stephen Holden (April 28, 2011). "Puppy Love and Bullies and a Bow-Tied Teacher". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
That's What I Am on IMDb
Reed, Rex (April 26, 2011). "Movie Review: That's What I Am Offers Nostalgia, With a Twist". The New York Observer.
That's What I Am on Christian Answers.net
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Valeria Cherchi
Some of you killed Luisa
Essay by Emma Lewis
On 16 June 1992 a priest from the Sardinian region of Barbagia received an anonymous telephone call guiding him to a remote mountain road. There he found a package containing the following: a photograph of six-year-old Farouk Kassam, the upper part of the child’s ear, and a letter threatening his demise in horrific circumstances. Kassam, the son of hoteliers, had been held hostage for five months, in caves and other mountain hideouts. His kidnapping was by no means unusual: close to 200 people were held for ransom on the island between the 1960s and late 1990s. But his story precipitated an unusual wave of defiance against the ‘Anonima sarda’, the bandits who operate independently but in accordance with omertà, or code of silence. Hundreds of locals placed ‘Free Farouk’ signs in shop windows. White bedsheets were hung from balconies as a symbol of solidarity. Pope John Paul II appealed for the child’s release.
On 10 or 11 July – reports differ – Kassam was let go. Matteo Boe, one of Italy’s most wanted, was among those convicted of his abduction. Twelve years later, Luisa Manfredi, Boe’s fourteen-year-old daughter, was shot dead as she hung up washing outside her home. No one was ever charged for her murder though there remain several different theories as regards to the motive.
Most children, at some point or other, experience a fear of being taken from their parents. For Sardinian-born-and-raised Valeria Cherchi and her peers, this fear had a different gravitas. Cherchi was about the same age as Kassam when he disappeared, and has vivid memories of the white sheets that summer. She recalls, too, watching the news reports of Manfredi’s murder, and observing the contrast between the portrayal of her mother, Laura Manfredi’s, grief, compared to Boe’s. Over the years, Cherchi’s preoccupation with Sardinia’s kidnapping phenomenon intensified. Wishing to learn more about the history of her home island and – somewhat idealistically – ‘decode the complex structure of the kidnappings’, she began researching Barbagia’s small and closed communities in relation to omertà. Over time her focus narrowed to, as she describes it, ‘the desperation of two mothers: one unable to control the fate of her young kidnapped son, and the other unable to find justice for her murdered daughter.’ Both had pleaded for people – women especially – to speak out. One day, Manfredi walked into her town square and graffitied in broad daylight: ‘Qualcuno di voi hanno ucciso Luisa’: ‘Some of you killed Luisa’.
Part of the narrative around these events, of course, is that there is no reliable narrative. News reports from the time note the uncertainty surrounding the chronology on the 10 and 11 July. ‘Almost immediately after the boy’s release,’ described one New York Times article, ‘questions and discrepancies began to intrude.’ Details had to be ‘pieced together’ by the police, the victim and his family. According to Cherchi’s written accounts of her interactions with the Barbagia people, inconsistencies remain a key characteristic.
It is apt, then, that Some of you killed Luisa takes the form that it does: a combination – piecing together, if you will – of television and VHS stills; staged portraits; mise-en-scènes inspired by Cherchi’s own memories and those of the kidnapped; and reports of her investigation, including transcripts of oral testimony by kidnap survivors and those in the local community. The mood is unsettled, unsettling; the atmosphere enigmatic. This approach to conveying real-life events, prevalent in contemporary photography for a number of years now, is one that I think of as a kind of collaged approach to the documentary form: assembling a many-layered, multi-textured picture from disparate sources that may not otherwise be in close proximity. Regine Petersen’s Stars Fell on Alabama (2013), Jack Latham’s Sugar Paper Theories (2016), and Mathieu Asselin’s Monsanto: A Photographic Investigation (2017) are a few acclaimed examples. Often executed over a long period of time, the photographer embedded in the community, a case could also be made for them operating as part of the cult revival of investigative and long-form journalism.
And yet like the collage elsewhere in art, literature, and documentary film, this approach remains deeply subjective. Archival material is, by definition, decontextualised; selected or omitted according to personal criteria. This is the narrator’s prerogative, to convey the story that they wish to tell, in the manner in which that they wish to tell it. It almost goes without saying, too, that bringing a story alive after the fact requires imaginative use of non-documentary material – be it archival, staged or otherwise.
If this collage form grants freedom – in treatment of content, and in style – it also highlights the photographer’s responsibility to their audience and subjects. Certain questions have to be asked. What does it mean, for example, for a photographer to state that they are ‘investigating’, especially where criminal activities are concerned? What is motivating the protagonists to speak out? Is this the only the way that they feel their voices will be heard, and if so, whom do they believe to be listening?
The most robust examples of such projects – and I include Cherchi’s, and the three aforementioned, in this – address these questions by making the photographer’s position clear. Asselin’s project is, without ambiguity, an exposé. Latham and Petersen, by contrast, each state that their primary interest is photography’s relationship to the events in question. Some of you killed Luisa is successful because Cherchi makes it clear that she is delving into a subject that has needled into consciousness for decades. The inclusion of stills from her own family’s home videos – a nod, she explains, to her pained awareness that her life continued, while Manfredi’s did not – is a particularly effective way of introducing her presence. Likewise her reports: by turns factual statements on the how, why and when, of her research, and poetic but lucid accounts of time spent with Barbagian communities, as she navigates the regional differences, and the secrecy. As an outsider, this is fascinating: mysterious without ever becoming nebulous. One gets the feeling of being guided through the dark, almost, as Cherchi shares what she knows about this unknowable place – and what she is only just beginning to piece together. ♦
All images courtesy of the artist. © Valeria Cherchi
Emma Lewis is an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, where she organises exhibitions and displays and is responsible for researching acquisitions for Tate’s photography collection. Her book Isms: Understanding Photography was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.
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Kenco Announces New Leadership of Kenco Toyota-Lift
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—July 21, 2010 (James Street Media Services)—Kenco has announced the executive promotion of Jeff Burns to vice president of Kenco Toyota Lift (KTL), reporting directly to Andy Smith, who has assumed a leadership role with Kenco Toyota-Lift and also serves as president and COO of Kenco Logistic Services. Burns had served as the lift truck and material handling unit’s director for the past year.
According to Jim Kennedy, III, Kenco chairman and owner, “Since joining Kenco eight years ago, Jeff has been a tremendous asset. We are excited to see him assume leadership of our rapidly growing material handling services unit.”
Burns will continue to lead development of KTL as provider of complete material handling services with six dealerships throughout the east and southeastern United States. He joined KTL in 2002 as a senior logistics engineer, and he was promoted to general manager of the company’s Maytag Distribution Center in 2003. He was named northeast regional manager for KTL in 2005.
Prior to joining KTL, Burns held positions with Advance Vehicle Systems and Heil Trailer International. He holds a BS in Engineering from Tennessee Technological University.
About Kenco Toyota-Lift (www.kencotoyotalift.com)
Kenco Toyota-Lift, originally Cherokee Material Handling, was founded in 1961 as an Allis-Chalmers lift truck dealership. In 1981, the company became the dealer for Toyota Material Handling, USA in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia. Today KTL provides complete material handling services and fork lift sales from branches in Chattanooga, TN; Dalton, GA; Madison, AL; Baltimore, MD; King of Prussia, PA; and Cinnaminson, NJ.
About The Kenco Family of Companies (www.kencogroup.com)
Kenco's core competencies include not only logistic services but also transportation, real estate management and material handling equipment. The Kenco Family of Companies includes Kenco Logistic Services, Kenco Transportation, Kenco Toyota-Lift, Kenco Management Services, and JDK Real Estate.
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A Palestinian State Cometh: UN Secretary-General Calls For Imminent Action To Save The ‘Two State Solution’
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticized Israeli settlements in the West Bank and is calling for urgent action to save “the two state solution”. He insists that Israeli settlements in the West Bank “are illegal under international law” and he told reporters that the “occupation” of Palestinian-controlled territories “must end”. These comments represent perhaps the strongest statements that any UN Secretary-General has ever made against Israel, and they come at a very ominous time. As I detailed just a few days ago, there is a major push to try to get some sort of UN Security Council resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before Barack Obama leaves office. As you will see below, this is something that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon obviously endorses.
Those that are hoping for a “two state solution” know that fresh negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians are not likely to happen any time in the near future. So if the “peace process” is going to move forward, it is going to have to happen at the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon is among those that are desperate to try to save the “two state solution”, and as the UN begins a new annual session this week he is urging imminent action. The following comes from the official UN website…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for intensified efforts to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to take the difficult steps required to change the current destructive trajectory of the conflict, which is heading towards a “one-state reality” rather than a peaceful resolution.
“Twenty-three years ago, almost to the day, the first Oslo Accord was signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation,” the Secretary-General told the Security Council in a briefing on the situation in the Middle East.
“Unfortunately, we are further than ever from its goals. The two-state solution is at risk of being replaced by a one-state reality of perpetual violence and occupation,” he warned.
Using the term “occupation” clearly shows which side of the fence Ban Ki-moon is on, and he went on to declare that the “occupation” of the West Bank by Israel “must end”…
Turning to Israel’s settlement activities, Mr. Ban said that in the past two weeks alone, plans were advanced for yet another 463 housing units in four settlements in Area C of the West Bank. Official Israeli data shows that the second quarter of 2016 had the highest number of construction starts in three years.
“The decades-long policy that has settled more than 500,000 Israelis in Palestinian territory is diametrically opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state,” he said.
“Let me be absolutely clear: settlements are illegal under international law. The occupation, stifling and oppressive, must end,” he said.
Those that have followed Ban Ki-moon’s career know that he is a relatively soft-spoken guy.
To make these kinds of incendiary comments is basically his version of shouting from the rooftops. He appears to be obsessed with getting something done to formally establish a Palestinian state, and he knows that he realistically only has until January 20th, 2017 to accomplish his goal.
As I mentioned above, a new UN annual session begins this week, and many are concerned that a UN Security Council resolution that sets the parameters for a Palestinian state will be on the agenda. The following is from a Wall Street Journal article that was published just a couple of days ago…
The United Nations began its annual session this week, and Israel will be prominent on the agenda. Many fear the Security Council may consider a resolution setting definite territorial parameters, and a deadline, for the creation of a Palestinian state. President Obama has hinted that in the final months of his term, he may reverse the traditional U.S. policy of vetoing such resolutions. The General Assembly, meanwhile, is likely to act as the chorus in this drama, reciting its yearly litany of resolutions criticizing Israel.
If such a UN Security Council resolution gets passed, it will be far more important than the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in November. Recently I had the opportunity to explain why this is the case on one of the biggest Christian television shows in America…
Unfortunately, when I do articles like this they tend to get a less attention than many of my other articles typically do.
The truth is that most Americans simply don’t understand the importance of what is going on in the Middle East.
In fact, one recent survey discovered that less than a third of all U.S. Millennials can find Israel on a map of the world…
Less than one-third of US-educated millennials are able to identify Israel on a map, a new survey has found.
According to the joint study — titled “What College-Aged Students Know About the World: A Survey on Global Literacy” — conducted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and National Geographic, a mere 31 percent of respondents knew the location of Israel on a map of the Middle East.
Can you believe that?
How can our young people go to school year after year after year and not be able to point to Israel on a world map?
That is inexcusable, and it is yet another example of how our system of education has become a complete and utter disgrace.
And I was shocked to learn that UC Berkeley was actually going to have a college course about how to remove Jewish “colonialists” from “the land of Palestine”. The following comes from the Jerusalem Post…
This week I learned that beginning this year, the prestigious UC Berkeley will be offering a course on “settler colonialism” in Israel, meaning Jews as colonialists.* “Drawing upon literature on decolonization, [the course] will explore the possibilities of a decolonized Palestine.” In other words, let’s talk about how to eradicate Israel altogether. But not only the course facilitator will explore these possibilities, students will be required to “research, formulate, and present decolonial alternatives to the current situation.”
After criticism from the Jewish community, that course was canceled by UC Berkeley, but it still shows how anti-Semitism is on the rise in America.
All over the country, the tiny nation of Israel provokes extremely strong emotional reactions. Most people either really love the Jewish people or they really hate them.
And as the drama in the Middle East continues to unfold, support for Israel is going to become a major, major political issue in this nation.
But the very next thing that we are watching for is a UN Security Council resolution formally establishing a Palestinian state and granting them East Jerusalem as their capital.
Now that a new UN annual session has started, we are officially in the danger zone, and we will remain in the danger zone until the next president is inaugurated on January 20th, 2017.
Let us hope that nothing happens between now and then, because such a resolution would be one of the worst things that Barack Obama could possibly do.
*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog and End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*
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>The underworked American
The underworked American
Children are exceptions to the country’s work ethic
AMERICANS like to think of themselves as martyrs to work. They delight in telling stories about their punishing hours, snatched holidays and ever-intrusive BlackBerrys. At this time of the year they marvel at the laziness of their European cousins, particularly the French. Did you know that the French take the whole of August off to recover from their 35-hour work weeks? Have you heard that they are so addicted to their holidays that they leave the sick to die and the dead to moulder?
There is an element of exaggeration in this, of course, and not just about French burial habits; studies show that Americans are less Stakhanovite than they think. Still, the average American gets only four weeks of paid leave a year compared with seven for the French and eight for the Germans. In Paris many shops simply close down for August; in Washington, where the weather is sweltering, they remain open, some for 24 hours a day.
But when it comes to the young the situation is reversed. American children have it easier than most other children in the world, including the supposedly lazy Europeans. They have one of the shortest school years anywhere, a mere 180 days compared with an average of 195 for OECD countries and more than 200 for East Asian countries. German children spend 20 more days in school than American ones, and South Koreans over a month more. Over 12 years, a 15-day deficit means American children lose out on 180 days of school, equivalent to an entire year.
American children also have one of the shortest school days, six-and-a-half hours, adding up to 32 hours a week. By contrast, the school week is 37 hours in Luxembourg, 44 in Belgium, 53 in Denmark and 60 in Sweden. On top of that, American children do only about an hour’s-worth of homework a day, a figure that stuns the Japanese and Chinese.
Americans also divide up their school time oddly. They cram the school day into the morning and early afternoon, and close their schools for three months in the summer. The country that tut-tuts at Europe’s mega-holidays thinks nothing of giving its children such a lazy summer. But the long summer vacation acts like a mental eraser, with the average child reportedly forgetting about a month’s-worth of instruction in many subjects and almost three times that in mathematics. American academics have even invented a term for this phenomenon, “summer learning loss”. This pedagogical understretch is exacerbating social inequalities. Poorer children frequently have no one to look after them in the long hours between the end of the school day and the end of the average working day. They are also particularly prone to learning loss. They fall behind by an average of over two months in their reading. Richer children actually improve their performance.
The understretch is also leaving American children ill-equipped to compete. They usually perform poorly in international educational tests, coming behind Asian countries that spend less on education but work their children harder. California’s state universities have to send over a third of their entering class to take remedial courses in English and maths. At least a third of successful PhD students come from abroad.
A growing number of politicians from both sides of the aisle are waking up to the problem. Barack Obama has urged school administrators to “rethink the school day”, arguing that “we can no longer afford an academic calendar designed for when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home ploughing the land at the end of each day.” Newt Gingrich has trumpeted a documentary arguing that Chinese and Indian children are much more academic than American ones.
These politicians have no shortage of evidence that America’s poor educational performance is weakening its economy. A recent report from McKinsey, a management consultancy, argues that the lagging performance of the country’s school pupils, particularly its poor and minority children, has wreaked more devastation on the economy than the current recession.
Learning the lesson
A growing number of schools are already doing what Mr Obama urges, and experimenting with lengthening the school day. About 1,000 of the country’s 90,000 schools have broken the shackles of the regular school day. In particular, charter schools in the Knowledge is Power Programme (KIPP) start the school day at 7.30am and end at 5pm, hold classes on some Saturdays and teach for a couple of weeks in the summer. All in all, KIPP students get about 60% more class time than their peers and routinely score better in tests.
Still, American schoolchildren are unlikely to end up working as hard as the French, let alone the South Koreans, any time soon. There are institutional reasons for this. The federal government has only a limited influence over the school system. Powerful interest groups, most notably the teachers’ unions, but also the summer-camp industry, have a vested interest in the status quo. But reformers are also up against powerful cultural forces.
One is sentimentality; the archetypical American child is Huckleberry Finn, who had little taste for formal education. Another is complacency. American parents have led grass-root protests against attempts to extend the school year into August or July, or to increase the amount of homework their little darlings have to do. They still find it hard to believe that all those Chinese students, beavering away at their books, will steal their children’s jobs. But Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884. And brain work is going the way of manual work, to whoever will provide the best value for money. The next time Americans make a joke about the Europeans and their taste for la dolce vita, they ought to take a look a bit closer to home.
>July 4th Parades ‘Jumping on The Bandwagon’ Time
“July 4th Parades are used by Politicians and Activists to attract Crowds”
by Dom Nizza
2009 Ridgewood NJ July 4th Parade theme will be “50 States One Nation”
Town merchants, will have tickets for the fireworks and the evening performances. What is your local community doing this year? Or will your parade be ‘rained on’ by those that are ‘Jumping on the Bandwagon? Theodore Roosevelt made a clear-cut reference to the practice in his Letters, 1899 (published 1951). What political alliances wil we see at the Parades this year and ready to ‘jump on the bandwagon’? Yes, all photos courtesy of Google.
The Bandwagon is coming, the Bandwagon is coming”……
Traditional 10 horse drawn P. T. Barnum Bandwagon, that everyone tried to climb aboard whether they could play an instrument or not. That was the political approach many used for causes they advocated for (or against).We have many going on today don’t we? It’s becoming a real Circus with plenty of manure.
Modern Bandwagons today, many large bands are not always marching but, carried on large and smaller trailers like these. Some are from small towns that can be easily moved, the same day, to the next near-by town where a parade is also scheduled. That is the traditional sharing of talented musicians and the usual opportunists with a cause.
Editor Thanks once again from one of our “My Community” readers that has a
personal political cause, suggested that this year we will have many more activists spouting support for their personal interest. It’s unfortunate but, that’s what our July 4th Parades have come to be….. nothing wrong with that, provided you can play an instrument and not just jump on the Bandwagon to be seen. Send your photos and story to domnizza@netzero.com OK?
>The Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration
2009 Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration.
The theme this year is “50 States – One Nation.”
The Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration Committee urges you to look for these stars in many area businesses. These businesses and individuals are generous sponsors of the Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration. The Committee asks you to patronize these businesses, and to thank them for helping to “Support the Tradition” of the Ridgewood Fourth of July Celebration.
http://www.ridgewoodjuly4th.org/
>Swine Flu Update – June 6th 2009
>The Village of Ridgewood is monitoring the swine flu situation in the United States and State of New Jersey It is maintaining close ties with the health and emergency operations management at both the county and state level. The websites listed below provide the latest available information. State Joint Center for Information has a Hotline for Questions at 866/321-9571.
Pascack Valley Hospital:Stakes are high as hospital hearing starts
07450, 201, Ridgewood, Ridgewood NJ, Valley Hospital, Village of Ridgewood
>Stakes are high as hospital hearing starts
Last updated: Monday June 8, 2009, 6:30 AM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
http://www.northjersey.com/news/health/47172637.html
The people who live near the former Pascack Valley Hospital say their health will be jeopardized if it doesn’t reopen.
But some North Jersey hospitals say it is the region’s health care system that will be thrown into disarray if Pascack is revived.
>Bergen County awards the Village of Ridgewood with $263,500 of Open Space and Historic Preservation Trust funds
Picture ID from left to right: Councilman Paul Aronsohn, Freeholder Vernon Walton, Freeholder Julie O’Brien, County Executive Dennis McNerney, Councilwoman Anne Zusy, Ridgewood Deputy Mayor Keith Killion
Bergen County Executive Dennis McNerney and the Board of Chosen Freeholders are pleased to announce that the Village of Ridgewood has been authorized to receive a total of $263,500 from Bergen County’s Open Space and Historic Preservation Trust Funds. This project will repair approximately 10,400 square feet of green tile roofing, which are important to the building’s design and are in deteriorated condition.
The railroad station complex is located in Garber Square, Ridgewood. It was erected in 1915-16 and was later owned by the village of Ridgewood in 1967.
>Schools Out For Summer………………….
Last Day of Instruction
The last day of instruction and RHS graduation will take place on Wednesday, June 24. Graduation is at 5 p.m.
>June 6, 1944: D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded — but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
http://www.army.mil/d-day/
Posted on June 5, 2009 January 21, 2019
>New Jersey cops bust up widespread prostitution ring
>RAMSEY, NJ – A large-scale prostitution ring operating throughout the Bergen and Rockland County areas was shut down yesterday, authorities say.
The reported ringleader, John Lanza, 42, of the Bronx, was arrested on Wednesday, June 3 at approximately 3:30 p.m. on the charge of promoting prostitution. Also arrested, on the charge of engaging in prostitution, were Wol Lee, 28, of Queens, NY, and Hye Yeun Bang, 37, also of Queens.
According to authorities, the arrest stemmed from an investigation in which John Lanza was operating a large scale prostitution organization throughout the Bergen and Rockland County areas. Utilizing Internet advertisements and area hotels, Lanza would arrange for encounters where persons would either engage in or facilitate prostitution.
The arrests came about as a result of an investigation conducted by members of the Ramsey Police Department, under the direction Chief Bryan Gurney; numerous local law enforcment officers from the Bergen County Police Department and the police departments of Fort Lee, Saddle River, Hillsdale, Rochelle Park, River Vale, Park Ridge, Ridgewood, Bogota, and Tenafly; and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Computer Crimes Task Force.
The suspects have all been released on their own recognizance.
http://blogofbile.com/2009/06/04/non-crime-new-jersey-cops-bust-up-widespread-prostitution-ring/
>Chris Christie : Join Me ,Thursday, June 11 for a rally with my good friend, Governor Mitt Romney, to kick-off our general election campaign!
>Jon Corzine has created an absolute mess in Trenton. We’re going to change Trenton and we’re going to start by changing Governors. I’m so proud to be leading our party and excited to have such a great team of Assembly, Freeholder and local candidates all over New Jersey who are ready to cut taxes, lower spending, restore pride and make New Jersey an affordable place to live again.
We can’t win this fight alone, though. We need to rebuild the state party to help me defeat Governor Corzine. I hope you’ll join me next Thursday, June 11 for a rally with my good friend, Governor Mitt Romney, to kick-off our general election campaign to Take Back New Jersey. The rally is from 5 pm to 7 pm in the Robert Meyner Reception Center at PNC Bank Arts Center right off the Parkway in Holmdel.
This is our first chance to send a loud and clear message to Governor Corzine and make it clear that we’re ready for a change. We can turn our state into a job leader again. We can put the taxpayers first. We can reign in a government that has grown too big and too expensive. But I need your help. Join our campaign to Take Back New Jersey and join Gov. Mitt Romney and me next Thursday.
Paid for by The New Jersey Republican State Committee, John Bennett Treasurer
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No out-of-hours cover at Portree Hospital over the festive season
The out-of-hours service at Portree Hospital will be suspended over the festive season.
NHS Highland announced that the service at the Minor Injuries Unit/Urgent Care Centre will be suspended for "some time" starting on the week beginning Monday 25 December. NHS Highland cite "escalating staffing problems" as the reason for the suspension, stating: "The decision has had to be made following safety concerns raised by senior clinicians over the number of available qualified staff, especially advanced nursing practitioners (ANPs), at Portree.
"Normally the MIU/Urgent Care Centre operates from 8am to 11pm every day. Unfortunately, because there is no ANP staffing cover, the current position is that it will be closed all day on Tuesday 26th December 2017. In addition, on Wednesday 27th December 2017 it will close at 6pm and on Sunday 31st December it will close at 8pm. During these times cover will be provided by the Rural Practitioner Team based at the Dr MacKinnon Memorial Hospital in Broadford.
"Senior clinicians who cover the service were unanimous that unless a clinician is based in Portree who is able to 'See, Treat and Discharge', it is safer to provide the service from a single site at Dr Mackinnon Memorial Hospital. While we appreciate this will not be popular, it was felt that there is a greater risk of clinical error if Portree patients are managed remotely without a senior practitioner onsite.
"NHS Highland would like to assure the public that this decision was not taken lightly. The management team exhausted all avenues to try and provide cover and will continue to take every possible action to maintain services and fill vacant shifts. There is no change to accessing emergency services and people should dial 999 if they experience a medical emergency and the Scottish Ambulance Service will respond as appropriate.
"Recruitment efforts to attract more ANPs to be based at Portree are ongoing. The posts have been re-advertised and interviews will be held the week commencing Monday 8th January 2018.
"The severe staffing pressure has been prompted by three resignations. Interviews took place at the end of November but did not result in any appointments.
On hearing the news, Ross, Skye and Lochaber MP, Ian Blackford immediately made contact with NHS Highland Chair, David Alston asking for an explanation as to why this happened and what, if any measures were taken to counter this situation before it developed.
He said: “There is considerable anger and real worry in the North of Skye that for those needing medical attention there will be no local service on boxing day and on two other days. How has this has been allowed to happen?
“This situation is just not acceptable, especially at a time when GP services are restricted anyway and their surgeries closed over the holiday period. I have asked David Alston how this decision came to be taken and what consultation was made with local staff in advance of the announcement.
“Surely NHS Highland management must have known about this for some time and if so should have been able to take more appropriate action.
“The is already widespread concern as to the future of services at Portree hospital and this temporary suspension of out-of-hours cover will lead to further questions on the true commitment of NHS Highland to retention of services after the new hospital opens in Broadford.
“However, my immediate concern is the welfare of people living in the North of Skye who may need emergency medical aid when it is not available in Portree. Let us hope there are no major incidents at this time."
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While many are clicking off everything President Obama has done, implemented, plan on implementing, we cannot forget First Lady Michelle Obama.
First off, this country never had a spirited First Lady, let alone the first African-American in this position. Everything she says, wears, etc. is talked about by women around this country. Why? Because we have never had a woman who is almost like us, she dresses like us, talks like us, has a family like us, and is young like many of us.
This is what has been missing in the White House, youth and vigor. Look at all the past Presidents with the exception of Clinton and possibly Carter; they did not bring that energy that turned on a nation as the Obamas. Let's be frank, they did not, nor were these presidents in the media time that President Obama is in neither.
But no one was fascinated with a First Lady since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; can we remember any First Lady that had not just Washington DC talking but all across this country? No, not since Jackie Kennedy.
The 100 Days goes back to FDR days and many presidents have been measured by this metric since, it does not mean anything in the realm of things, but the media has made it a big deal. And as President Obama moves past the 100 days, FLOTUS will continue to mesmerize many worldwide. She is that popular.
Michelle Obama's first 100 days in the White House really began more than 365 days ago in Wisconsin.
Rallying an audience in Milwaukee, she said: "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." She explained that she was proud of the people who'd gotten involved in politics, but that's not what her critics heard.
They said the comment proved she hated America. They portrayed her as the stereotypical angry black woman. Fox News Channel talked of the "terrorist fist jab" she and her husband shared the night he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. The New Yorker, making fun of the people making fun of her, sketched Mrs. Obama on its cover in an afro and militant garb.
It was a dark time in the many months she had spent campaigning. Yet it was a teachable moment, too.
Mrs. Obama learned from her mistake.
And in the months since, she has gone from lightning rod to rock star, from the cover of The New Yorker to the cover of Vogue, from just plain fashionable to worldwide fashion icon.
She is popular as the president, maybe more. Depending on the poll, she has approval ratings in the 60s and 70s. Practically the only issue being debated these days, silly as it seems, is whether she goes sleeveless too much and for the wrong occasions.
It's not unusual for a first lady to be more popular than the president, but that usually happens further along. That it has happened so quickly for Mrs. Obama says a lot about how perceptions of her have changed.
"If you had told me a year ago that she would attain this kind of popularity I would have said, 'No way,'" said Myra Gutin, a professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., who studies first ladies. "She's really reversed things in a way that no one would ever have expected."
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Will EU Regulations Affect Access to Furry Sites for a Brexit Victim?
Dear Papabear,
I'm going to be blunt. This one problem is like a hydra - you cut one head off, two more take its place. I've been through the procedure mentioned in my last letter and survived, but with the world currently as it is, I'm not sure whether I'd really want to.
I'm really, really worried about the UK and my life and where I'll be in the next few years and I feel like I'm losing my grip on things. It's overwhelming when I wake up in the morning and just feel constantly depressed over how my life is falling apart and I don't have any control over it.
This first started back in 2016 with the EU referendum. I was too young to vote in it, but my family voted leave. I was at the time a remainer in secret, as my grandmother has this habit of force feeding her opinion to everyone else. Flash forward three years and it's approaching Brexit day. Whatever side people voted on, it's clear it's going to hit our economy pretty hard. There's talks of diverting already stretched police forces to the border to help with new customs checks etc., and food prices facing a significant increase.
But then there's the other side of the problem. In the past, I've used the fandom to escape from all of this, but this is now under threat from Article 13 (since renamed to Article 17) of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. This law, while it does not explicitly state this in writing, would force all Internet sites to install filters to check for copyright infringement at the point of upload for user generated content (basically YouTube's Content ID system but stricter and for everything). I run a furry YouTube channel that I fear will get deleted (YouTube's CEO has said they might have to block EU uploads) and the problem only gets worse from there. While there are exceptions written for small sites, the vast majority of sites don't fall into these. And back when GDPR [General Date Protection Regulation] was introduced, a lot of websites restricted EU access. I worry that sites such as FurAffinity and Furry Amino will choose this option instead of spending a fortune on filters (that are expected to be 100% perfect and non erroneous, which is effectively impossible) and simply choose to block all internet traffic from the EU, effectively cutting me off from the fandom. (The final Parliamentary vote on this law is on Tuesday at midday UTC therefore please read up on the result before replying to this.)
So that's the position I'm in. I'm worried about my economic future, my safety (more police at border equals less police dealing with the rise in knife crime) and also worried about losing the community that has helped me weather this storm.
I'm just getting so overwhelmed - every time I try to ignore any of this, I just feel the urge to do 'one quick Google search' to see the latest news, but end up sinking hours into analysing the outcome and trying to wonder how I'll cope in the coming months.
Glyn
Dear Glyn,
I'm glad the operation went well, and I hope it has helped with your hearing!
Okay, Brexit. Oy vay, right? I'm in agreement with you that the UK exit from the EU is a moronic decision that was inspired mostly by people (mostly older, conservative people like your parents and grandmother) who are afraid of change, immigrants, and international cooperation. It's totally idiotic and, yes, many people like you believe you're going to be hit hard economically. I'm sorry for you.
My understanding of the GDPR is that it is mostly about websites complying with privacy regulations set up by the EU, especially regarding personal data collection. Any website that interacts with citizens in the EU has a laundry list of policies to conform to, including providing opt-out options, adding SSL if not currently doing so, having written cookie and privacy policies, making sure that any third-party gateways (such as for shopping carts) are compliant if you use them, informing users in your policies that you use Google Analytics (if you do), and so on. Actually, all of the above are good ideas that websites and phone apps should do anyway.
If a website is not compliant, I believe that, yes, it could be blocked by the EU countries, but you won't be in an EU country anymore, so, if it applies to your online experience at all, it would only apply to content coming out of the EU, which it would do right now anyway. I could be wrong, but I don't think Brexit and the GDPR are going to affect your online and phone browsing access, including to furry sites.
As for the future of the British economy and issues such as police protection, well, I don't think anyone really knows how that is all going to shake out after Brexit. The government is just fighting with itself, and it is an awful mess. The world is going through a lot right now. I mean, the United States is having serious problems, and there is a rise in dictatorships and dictator-like governments all over the place, especially in South and Central America, Southeast Asia, and former Soviet Bloc countries. The reasons behind this are too complex to get into for this column. England, though, is one of those countries, and it is happening in large part because of the fear of immigration and a fear of loss of cultural identity.
With such challenging times ahead, family, friends, and community will be more important than ever. I think from the furry end, at least, you can rest assured that we will stick around for you and give you moral support and encouragement.
No one can say for sure what the future will bring, but I hope my words provide at least some comfort to you.
Charleston Rat
Speaking here as a Brit who chose not to vote in the EU referendum (main reason being that it felt like a no-win situation) yet most likely would have voted to remain in hindsight, I just thought I’d offer my two cents here to say that not everybody who voted to leave did so with xenophobic intent.
Just because pretty much anyone who’s racist voted to leave, that doesn’t mean everyone who voted to leave is a racist. Far from it! I can’t speak for everyone but whilst I don’t know that many people who voted to leave, those I do know for the most part did so for reasons that had nothing to do with immigration or culture or anything like that.
Just trying to avoid stereotypes is all.
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Up Close and Personal With a Comet: June 2016
The nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
In 2004, The European Space Agency launched a spacecraft called Rosetta, which, after roaming the solar system for more than 10 years, matched the orbit of a comet named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Once there, it could orbit around the small icy body, map its weird shape in great detail, and find out what it is made of. Rosetta’s instruments then studied changes in the comet as it got closer to the Sun and thus got warmer and more active.
The mission has been a remarkable success. The only major disappointment was that, rather than sticking to and drilling into the comet’s surface, its lander bounced off and finally came to rest on its side in a place where its solar panels could get little sunlight.
Some of the thousands of pictures taken by Rosetta’s cameras and some of the principal scientific results will be presented at a lecture, “Rosetta’s Remarkable Visit to a Comet,” by space physicist Marcia Neugebauer at the Arizona Senior Academy, starting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday {June 2).
The speaker is an adjunct research scientist at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and participated in the exploration of Halley’s comet in 1986.
Written by Marcia Neugebauer, Academy Village Volunteer
Tagged on: Comet lecture Marcia Neugebauer Rosetta Space
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Synagogue Demolished, But Where’s the Permit?
The 83-year-old building housing the oldest traditional synagogue in the East Bay and the largest Orthodox congregation in Northern California is no more—and two city commissioner think that just might not be. . .appropriate.
Demolition had been halted by city officials last week after they learned that the tear-down had begun without the necessary city permits, city Director of Planning and Development Dan Marks told the Landmarks Preservation Commission last week. Marks told the commission his staff had issued a stop-work order, halting the demolition until the congregation obtained the necessary permit.
When work stopped, the walls and roof were still intact, though the walls had been stripped of stucco and the ceiling had been reduced to segments of broken lath.
While the Zoning Adjustments Board gave their approval Thursday night to the latest modifications to the congregation’s plans for the structure, ZAB Commissioner Carrie Sprague said they hadn’t authorized the complete demolition of the existing building.
“Their plans called for retention of the brick structure on the site, and the city zoning code requires that they obtain a demolition permit issued by the board before they can remove more than half of the roof and exterior walls,” Sprague said. “None of us read anything about demolition in anything we approved Thursday night.”
Commissioner Andy Katz agreed. “We didn’t issue a demolition permit Thursday night. The permit we issued Thursday was only to modify the existing use permit.”
Katz also wondered why the project hadn’t been sent for vetting by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, since the structure was over 40 years old.
Asked Monday about the question of permits, Michael A. Feiner, the contractor in charge of the project, said, “I believe we have all the permits we were required to get.”
A spokesperson for the congregation, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited the Thursday ZAB action as the reason demolition had been recommenced.
All that was left of the 1921 wood frame structure Monday afternoon were the remnants of a single wall, propped up by two-by-fours on the west side of the 1630 Bancroft Way lot.
The original building had never been landmarked by the city, easing the demolition process.
The replacement will be a far less ambitious project than had been originally planned.
In October, 2001, architects Tomas Frank and David Finn unveiled plans for a far grander structure, a recreation of a fabled 17th Century wooden synagogue in Prezdborz, Poland, burned by Hitler’s troops when they massacred the community’s Jewish inhabitants in 1942.
When fund-raising efforts fell far short of the required $3.5 million needed to build the replica, the congregation scaled back their plans and opted for a more modest design.
Until the new building is completed, Rabbi S. Yair Silverman and his 180 members of Congregation Beth Israel are meeting in Berkeley’s Finnish Hall, 1819 Tenth Street.
There’s no doubt that the old stucco-coated wooden structure suffered from severe dry rot, and during a reporter’s visit to the site a weekend, a strong fungal scent was obvious.
All that remained Monday of the brick portion of the structure was a pile of bricks.
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Interview: Matthew Ryan
Photo by Chad Cochran
Words by Daniel Rourke
Matthew Ryan's career has been somewhat of a winding road. The Pensylvania-born singer has gone from releasing his debut record on a major label to a DIY artist with two decades under his belt.
Along the way, Ryan has shared the stage with household names such as Paul Weller, to upcoming punk outfits such as The Menzingers. But despite the impressive touring CV, it was Ryan's ability to write a sincerely beautiful track that began to turn heads, and it was within his songwriting that he struck up a friendship with The Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon.
Several years on, Ryan is now gearing up to take to the stage with The Gaslight Anthem on the UK leg of their 'The '59 Sound' ten-year anniversary tour, a tour that will see him play in front of some of the biggest international audiences of his career. We caught up with Matthew Ryan to discuss touring with The Gaslight Anthem, his career, and his side-project, The Summer Kills.
Burn After Writing: First of all, you’re gearing up for your UK tour with The Gaslight Anthem at the end of the month. How are you feeling about it?
Matthew Ryan: I’m excited. I’ll have my band with me, The Northern Wires. I was a fan of Gaslight before Brian and I became friends. When it came out, 'The '59 Sound' was one of those albums that restored my faith in the language of rock 'n' roll, so it’s beautiful and a bit surreal to be embarking on this adventure with them. They’re a good gang and while I’m bummed that The Flatliners couldn’t make it, I’m thrilled Dave Hause has joined the bill. We’re all friends, so there should be a great spirit in addition to the beauty that’s undoubtedly already anticipated.
BAW: You’re no stranger to big venue tours with big names, having previously toured with Paul Weller, Badly Drawn Boy and Tommy Stinson. How do you approach tours like this, is there anything you do differently?
MR: I have chosen a road where integrity and a stubborn engine of ethos come first. I’ve been very fortunate that a lot of bigger artists over the years have been so kind to invite me along and introduce me to their audiences. Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams were supporters that brought me along very early in my career. I learned then that even though you’ve been invited, you’re still a guest at someone else’s party.
Audiences have a special relationship with the headliner they come to see. So I view our role as an opportunity to participate in something beautiful, and maybe widen the sense of community. And while I won’t be the drunk guest that tries to take over the stereo, I will make my case.
My lean in these situations is always intended more as an invitation to these songs and this work that has maybe slid under the radar of the humans in the room. My goal is always to offer something loud and beautiful with heart, a mind and some fight, particularly when the band is with me. When solo it’s a bit trickier. I’m always happy when The Northern Wires are with me. I love the noise we offer together.
BAW: Obviously, you’ve played with The Gaslight Anthem in America in the past, you’ve also worked with Brian Fallon on some of your records. How did your relationship with the band come about?
MR: Brian tweeted out some of my lyrics around seven years ago, as he’s prone to do because he loves a lot of music. This was just before 'Handwritten', a mutual listener named Rachel messaged me about it because she knew I liked Gaslight. So I responded to Brian and then he responded and so on… a friendship was born.
He immediately invited me out on a tour with Gaslight. The timing was quite miraculous, the way our friendship developed. We’re both driven by heart, then mind. Purists to an extent, when it comes to what art and music are capable of. It’s a hard time for that kind of engine, it has been for quite some time now, so we need our blood brothers and sisters. I met the rest of the guys while out on tour with them. They’re a good gang of humans, all of them sweet and smart. I’m gonna love getting to see them play again together every night.
BAW: Your musical career has spanned over twenty years, and those years have produced many highs and lows. How would assess your career so far? Would you say you are currently in your best moment?
MR: The best moment is always the next moment, particularly that moment when your intentions are in-tune with what you’re seeing, feeling and doing. We have to live mile to mile, we have to live it all, the good and the bad and even the boring. But the best lightning is at the intersection of intimacy, fire, love, community and good work. I don’t really like talking about the past, other than to say my road has been winding for reasons.
I never wanted my life to be some singular sales pitch, I have responsibilities to ideas and people other than myself and I’ve stubbornly insisted that I’ll live this life as an artist. Sometimes I land a punch, sometimes life does. So, it’s come with a fair amount of angst because I believe in the work I offer. I’ve never released anything that I didn’t feel was part of the process, some necessary expression. How it’s received isn’t up to me, but I trust the story I’m telling. A long story should have mountains and valleys, these things take time. I refuse to be disposable. We should all refuse to be disposable.
BAW: I’d like to take you back to 1997 if I could. You’d been signed by A&M records and set to release your debut record. Then the Universal merger happened, and it is said that the roll-out of the album somewhat dwindled in the labels interests. How did those events impact the rest of your career?
MR: I don’t know how useful this part of the conversation is, it’s like mourning the wagon once the combustion engine took hold. It was a hard time, harder than people might understand. I went from a good living to virtually nothing the following year, it was just after my second album came out that things got really weird.
The short version is that my first album was stunted because of the merger, then my second was killed because of a change of leadership. I had a family (still do), so after it all went down I had to do something, so I tried to work a regular job. I was never built for that life, the 9 to 9. I admire those that can do it, and I marvel at those that love it. Genuinely, I was an awful employee. This was something I knew about myself from very early on. My mind is always feeling something and trying to make music out of it. So, after that happened, and after I got my heart back in order, I decided that for the sake of employers everywhere and for my own sense of possibility and fire, I would commit to the life of an artist.
I decided that nothing can stop a great song, and I set out trying to write the very best songs I could. My instinct was that if I offer great songs, everything would be ok and this idea still drives me. Now it’s been a bit like building a ladder one rung at a time, but things are better now than they were, and the work seems to keep finding light. Often I just find myself amazed and grateful, none of it makes any sense, but it’s a beautiful way to spend a life.
BAW: You tell stories of pitching your latest album to friends, and said friends being unresponsive. How did you take that experience and mould it into something positive?
MR: I’ve probably answered this in a few different ways already, but listen, we all gather information about our stories and where they’re headed from how we move through the world. Cynicism is a form of defeat. We mustn’t be idealistic or delusional either though, but we can willfully work towards every moment that makes us feel truly alive. That’s all I’m doing.
This work is mysterious, and the “rewards” are nothing compared to that moment when poetry visits and something like lightning exists where it didn’t before. Whether writing or in a room singing for other humans, this is strange and beautiful work, at times it is absolutely absurd but it’s like participating in the evolution of hope. I love it. Nothing that’s happened has changed why I do this. That’s my invincible summer I guess, to borrow from Camus.
BAW: Of course, the rejection that came from that experience led to you self-releasing your latest album, 'Hustle Up Starlings'. What was that process like?
MR: I didn’t feel rejected, I’ve been self-releasing albums since around 2009, and essentially DIY in my creativity for a very long time, since right around 2000. It’s hard work, and very humbling at times, but I have friends and people that help to make it manageable. I’m not an entrepreneur so I try to keep it simple: Make the work honest and beautiful, make it with fellow artists and musicians that fire me up, then share it and offer to places where it can be found. To me, the best music completely speaks to your complexity in the great moments as well as the hard ones. That’s what I strive for.
Too much of our culture wants to make our interiors black and white and easily divided into a demographic opportunity for some form of extraction. That’s the hope of consumer culture, art should not participate in that. Art has to communicate with something else, and it has to be received via something else. So, therefore, it has to be understood that art travels slower, and the beautiful stuff happens when someone needs that song that doesn’t lie to them. That’s what I hope to offer. That’s what the music I love offers. Those deeper waters require more heart, less salesmanship.
BAW: As mentioned earlier, your career has spanned over twenty years, and in those twenty years you’ve been compared to the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Paul Westerberg, and Ryan Adams. Your tour-mate Brian Fallon has received similar comparisons to Springsteen and it’s fair to say it took him some time to get comfortable with those. How do you take those comparisons?
MR: I view rock 'n' roll as a louder brother to the folk tradition. There’s a dialect and noise being dragged and changed when each of us picks up a guitar, and then there’s the confluence of limitations, indoctrination, culture, rebellion, and the clashes we’re experiencing in our times and our stories, big and small. Our roots are our maps. If a comparison is spot on, I welcome it because it’s true. I love a lot of music and I let what I love in, it’s all sharing lightning. But we have to be careful with comparisons, both as listeners and artists, it’s only a point of reference I guess. It shouldn’t define expectations.
BAW: Away from the project under your own name, you also front The Summer Kills. How did that come about?
MR: The Summer Kills is a beautiful, filmic collection I made with my friends in the ambient band Hammock. It was a labor love. It’s out there to be found on all the usual sites, Spotify and Apple and on and on. I hope people will spend some time with it, it feels like Terrence Malick met Raymond Carver’s more hopeful pen to me.
BAW: Finally, what does the future hold for yourself following this tour?
MR: There’s some more touring in the US coming up and it looks like that will stretch well into the fall. After that, I hope to settle into life and writing and some quiet in the early winter. I just moved back to Nashville from Pittsburgh after a six-year vacation. I’ve been so busy, I don’t quite feel settled in yet. So, winter is always good for some quiet and it’s starting to feel like a new album is coming. A certain mood starts to imbue by concentrations when the songs start their thing. I’m looking forward to that.
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Miranda Lambert Confronts Fame on “Priscilla”
New Track from Platinum Is Named After Elvis Presley's Wife
by CMT.com Staff 6/19/2014
In an ultra-successful debut, Miranda Lambert’s latest album, Platinum, landed at No. 1 on Billboard’s country albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200.
With her hard-earned superstar status propelling her to the top of the charts and media headlines, Lambert is admittedly learning day by day how to handle her level of fame.
“I wish there was like a handbook someone hands you when you start your career that has chapters so you can turn a page whenever you hit a new spot,” she told CMT Hot 20 Countdown . “But there isn’t, and it sort of comes out of nowhere sometimes. Things hit you out of nowhere at different times in your career and in your marriage, too. So it’s something you have to get used to.”
She and husband Blake Shelton try to take it all in stride.
“With Blake and I, all the things that have been going on with us and the tabloids and this new kind of level that we’re at with all of this stuff going on, it just came out of nowhere a little bit,” she said. “You kind of have to adjust to it a little bit.”
Lambert says the effects of fame have stretched far beyond her own life and marriage and into the lives of others close to her. So when she found a song that resonated so close to her experience, it was an obvious choice for the new album.
“’Priscilla’ just addresses it, and it does it in a smart way and in a fun way,” she said. “I never could have written this song, but that’s why I love it so much. I think it was written so well and really has a good perspective on what it’s like.”
It didn’t take long for the track to find its way into the hands of Lisa Marie Presley — Elvis Presley’s daughter and an artist herself — making an instant fan out of the singer and her mother, the song’s namesake. They showed their love for the song with a photo on Instagram .
Lambert will kick off her Platinum tour on July 10 in Fort Loramie, Ohio, and continue on with dates across the U.S. through September.
For more, tune in to CMT Hot 20 Countdown this Saturday and Sunday (June 21-22) at 11 a.m. ET/PT.
CMT.com Staff
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Even at the age of 83, the indomitable Sister Sophie Boueri is ready and willing to take on a new mission in a new place; after nurturing orphans in the West Bank for 30 years, she now cares for abandoned elderly women in her native Lebanon. Her community, the Daughters of Charity, has a worldwide charism to help the poor and the marginalized. But Sister Sophie, a highly qualified pediatric nurse — and something of a maverick — pursues her own special apostolate wherever she goes. CNEWA sat down with her to learn about her early life, her calling and what keeps her strong after so many years of ministry to the poor.
ONE: Tell us about your early life.
Sister Sophie Boeuri: I was born in Jounieh, Lebanon, in 1931. My father died when I was 8. My mother was just 28 and couldn’t support four children, so I was sent to live in an orphanage. When I was 13, I had a dream I saw children crying. I asked them, “Why are you crying?” They said, “It is because the sisters do not treat us very well.” I decided to be a religious sister, to take care of orphans. My mother was against it, but I became a sister at 19.
ONE: How did you become a pediatric nurse?
SS: I went to France and spent four years studying at the Université de Lyon. I specialized in hospital management, pediatric nursing and psychology. I excelled at my studies and because of this I was able to get my papers to go to the Holy Land. I started out working in one of our hospitals in Nazareth. My mother superior then sent me to Bethlehem in 1988, during the first intifada. Our hospital had an intensive care unit and a neonatal unit, and cared for 360 newborn babies per month.
ONE: Tell us about the home you started for abandoned infants in Bethlehem.
SS: In 1989, I started caring for abandoned babies in the corner of a run-down hospital. A wing of the hospital was renovated with the help of CNEWA and we made that the Creche. Some of the children were left anonymously at the hospital, some were the victims of child abuse. Some were given up by unwed mothers, others had parents who could not take care of them.
ONE: How were you led to reach out to unwed mothers and abandoned children?
SS: I had an ambulance and I used to travel to the villages by myself. One day, I found two girls who had been stabbed to death because they were unwed mothers. It was then I decided to prepare a department to receive unwed mothers. After delivery, we took care of their babies until we could find parents to adopt them, often in the U.S. and Europe. We didn’t tell the families of these women; their lives were at risk, and so was mine!
ONE: What was it like to live in the West Bank in the middle of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
SS: I was not afraid. People were wounded in the streets. Israeli soldiers would capture someone and I would intervene. The soldiers knew me. They allowed me to pass because they respected my work with the children. At the time there was no Palestinian government. The Israelis helped me to file the papers so the children could travel. I had help from both people — Israelis and Palestinians.
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Antoine Prost, a student from the Ecole Normale Supérieur at the rue d’Ulm and holder of the civil service teaching degree, has been a lecturer at Orléans and Paris I universities. He was head of the Centre for 20th century social History, a mixed centre run by the Paris I university and the CNRS. He is a doctor in political sciences and in history.
As a historian of French society (Minor work on the history of France from the Belle Epoque to the present day, Colin, 2009), he did a lot of work on the history of education and on labour history. However, he focused his doctoral thesis, entitled War veterans and French society 1914- 1939 (FNSP Press, 1977) on the consequences of the Great War the historiography of which he studied with Jay Winter (Penser la Grande Guerre) (Thoughts on the Great War), Seuil, 2004; The Great War in history. Debates and controversies, Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has written several articles on this war, the chapters of which about the workers and those who died, are dealt with in the work the Centennial History to be published by the Cambridge University Press and by Fayard at the end of 2013.
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Home » Latest Buzz » C.Kalyan bagged Vikram's Thandavam Telugu rights
C.Kalyan bagged Vikram's Thandavam Telugu rights
Written By Chiyaan Vikram on Friday, June 1, 2012 | 8:24 PM
Thandaavam Telugu rights have sold for around Rs 6 crore ...
Vikram's mega-budget film Thaandavam seems to be not only making noise in Tamil but also in Telugu. Well, the distribution rights of the Tollywood version of AL Vijay directorial film have been acquired by C Kalyan for a whopping price.
According to a source, “Thandaavam Telugu rights have fetched around Rs 6 crore for the makers of the film. Producer C Kalyan, after a few rounds of negotiations, sealed the deal for the record price.” It can be noted here that Vikram, AL Vijay and Anushka Shetty's Deiva Thirumagal (Telugu version is Nanna) rights were sold for Rs 4 crore in 2011.
However, UTV chief, Govind Dhananjayan, without revealing the exact price, said that the Telugu rights have been sold for a record price. Traders say that many factors have come into play in the deal. “Firstly, Thaandavam is made with the budget of Rs 36 crore, which is one of the costliest movie in the recent times. Secondly, Vikram has a huge fan following in AP. And, it is a mass-entertainer, which has been entirely shot in London. Adding to that it is a big-cast film comprising of Anushka Shetty, Amy Jackson, Lakshmi Rai and Jagapathi Babu.”
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Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrulls. Living on Earth in 1995, she keeps having recurring memories of another life as U.S. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers. With help from Nick Fury, Captain Marvel tries to uncover the secrets of her past while harnessing her special superpowers to end the war with the evil Skrulls.
Captain marvel is the final piece added to the Avengers squad - the person who is supposed to tip the tide against the mighty Thanos and secure a victory for the good guys. But was her story worth telling at the final hour of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
The answer to that question unfortunately doesn't come easy. For one, the MCU desperately needed another leading lady, and it especially needed to give a female character her own film. This is one regard where the competitor DC had beaten the MCU to the punch. The MCU films have gotten better as of late increasing the diversity of their films, as well as giving more meaningful roles to female characters, and so in that regard, Captain Marvel is a win. However, as an origin story it is forced to travel back in time because the MCU waited until the last minute to tell this tale. And so while the plot does provide the backstory of another powerful superhero, it is doing double duty of filling in some of the missing information before Avengers: Endgame. In this role, the film is a bit heavy handed and deliberate in its franchise-building purposes, something the later Marvel films have been able to do without it being so obvious. What this makes Captain Marvel is just another piece in a larger puzzle, more so than a film which will stand on its own when we look back on the accomplishments of the MCU.
The film starts off on the planet Hala, where an advanced alien race known as the Kree, ruled by a powerful superintelligence, wage a war on another alien race, the shapeshifting Skrulls. Vres is a warrior who was rescued by the Kree six years ago, but she doesn't remember anything before that moment. On a mission to recover a compromised spy, Vres’ special operation team is sabotaged, and Vres is captured. The Skrulls extract her memories and find details of her past life as a fighter pilot named Carol Danvers on Earth. Vres’/Danver’s past and the goal of the Skrull search seem to be related. Danver escapes from the Skrulls, crash-landing on Earth where she meets Nick Fury, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Danvers must work with Fury to recover her memory and find the reason for the Skrulls' actions before they can find it first.
The scenes on earth take place in the 1990’s, and so the entire film is essentially a flashback in the greater scheme of the MCU. The plot has more to do with Captain America: The First Avenger and the first Avenger’s film than it does with Infinity War. Visiting the 90’s is a fun nostalgia trip (and really the film doesn’t miss an opportunity to immerse us in 90’s pop culture references), but the side effect is the fact that the film becomes somewhat of a step back in terms of the story progression of one of the most successful film franchises of all time. While the other films had been steadily building up to the final confrontation with Thanos, this film feels like a side journey.
Granted, Captain Marvel is provided a more freewheeling and adventurous tone because it doesn’t have as much of the dramatic weight as some of the most recent Marvel films - the stakes are simply not as high. Like last year’s Ant Man and the Wasp, Captain Marvel is a refreshing change of pace. Teaming Carol Danvers up with Nick Fury makes Captain Marvel an enjoyable buddy cop movie, blended with some of the fish-out-of-water antics of Men In Black. While that combination of influences is fun to watch, it leads me to another minor complaint. The more recent Marvel movies have all found creative ways to push beyond the stereotypes of films we’ve seen before. Captain Marvel doesn’t do this nearly as well, and so in another way it feels like a bit of a let down compared to the creative momentum the series has been building as of late.
What hurts Captain Marvel the most is its predictability. Where the last few Marvel films have found ways to change up the super hero formula to great success, this one seems more by-the-numbers. Main character obtains super powers through freak accident? Check. Main character can’t fully utilize those powers until she really needs them? Check. More than just in plot, the film also struggles to make its hero stand out from the sea of big screen heroes we’ve already encountered, both in and out of the MCU. For one, her powers are ill-defined both in terms of narrative and special effects. She comes into her own so quickly the audience isn’t given the opportunity to explore her capabilities along with her. The action sequences are equally run-of-the-mill, and go so far as to borrow ideas from films that we’ve seen before. The generic action makes it difficult to fully comprehend Captain Marvel as a superhero (including the odd realization that the film never references her character by the title of the film).
The film is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Looking at their background as filmmakers may explain the uninspired feeling we get from Captain Marvel and her supernatural abilities - namely the fact that these filmmakers have only made indie dramas until now. Marvel deserves some kudos for bringing in different types of filmmakers to create more creative and diverse films. In the past this has worked out mostly well (we’ll forget about that Edgar Wright Ant Man fiasco), but Boden and Fleck still seem like a difficult match for the material compared to Ryan Coogler or Taika Waikiki. Perhaps they did not want their film to be defined by the spectacle, and so those moments are purposefully shot with a perspective honed in on our hero rather than the destruction she is laying in her wake. Really, they do a good job at focusing on Danvers and the message of the film is empowering, especially in the way they show her inner strength as she combats both impossible odds and the stigmas associated with her gender.
Brie Larson is up to the task of bringing Danvers to the big screen. As I mentioned, the directors do a good job of giving her the spotlight, and Larson does not waste the opportunity. Her character is tough because she is driven to be the best that she can be. Samuel L. Jackson brings classic Jackson charisma and boisterousness to his role, and is digitally de-aged to bring us a classic Jackson look. The special effects used to make Jackson look like his 90’s self are superb, but the production must have used most of their budget to pull this off because this film features some of the worst special effects in all of the MCU films to date. I mean, they brought an an anthropomorphic racoon to life in GoTG, but couldn’t achieve the same result with a common house cat? Jackson does have good chemistry with Larson, which is good because this is the heart of the film, and he works as the audience’s lense into viewing the film’s odder moments. Jude Law and Annette Benning have important supporting roles, but the standout is actually Ben Mendelsohn who brings an atypical wit and softness to the types of roles we’ve been seeing from him lately.
The film’s purpose is to introduce us to a new major character and also add more diversity to the series’ lineup. In these regards, Captain Marvel is a success, but not overly so. The film’s story is essentially told from two ends - connecting the dots between the MCU we’ve seen so far and what happened in Avengers: Endgame - rather than being developed linearly. Filling in the (admittedly small) blanks of the MCU can be fun for avid fans, but it comes at the cost of further exploring a character who has a lot of potential. Indeed, the film does leave the possibility of a sequel open (before Endgame), but I can’t help but ask what is the point if the end result is already known. Captain Marvel definitely looks to be an important part of the MCU, and the film really does a great job of creating an empowered female hero we’ll love to cheer on moving forward. But maybe she deserved a bit better?
A fun but generic addition to the franchise.
What's Good: Marvel finally gets a female-led film, Brie Larson is a good fit for her role, Samuel L. Jackson is never boring, fun swashbuckling plot, some funny moments, a few good twists, bright and optimistic tone.
What's Bad: Not as creative, interesting, exciting, funny, or important as other recent MCU films it will be judged against, filmmaker's lack of experience in creating big-budget films results in more than a few borrowed ideas, mixed bag special effects.
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Home » Critical News » Blue Toad Murder Files comes to PC this November
Blue Toad Murder Files comes to PC this November
CSI: Quaint English Village maybe a little way off from TV schedules for the time being, but those wanting a dose of murder mystery in a quintessential settlement in the countryside need to look no further than Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle, coming to PC on November 24.
The game by Relentless Software sees one to four players taking on the role of a detective in the sleepy village of Little Riddle, where they must solve puzzles, interrogate suspects and use their powers of observation to uncover the strange goings on.
David Amor, Executive Director at Relentless, commented: “A whole new audience of super sleuths will delight in Blue Toad Murder Files for PC; never has a ‘murder most horrid’ been so much fun to solve.”
Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle will be available for £14.99 from online game distribution partners and the Blue Toad Murder Files website. Trendy shades and The Who backing track not included.
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Christ the Redeemer
PHOTO & EVENTS
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF POLAND'S REGAINING INDEPENDENCE
100th Years of Poland's regaining Independence
General Haller’s Blue Army
General Haller’s Blue Army had a lot to thank France for: first and foremost, its name; then its regulations, machine guns, tanks and legendary blue capes. However, its rank and file was Polish, composed of diverse “Polish elements” – from recent subjects of Emperor Franz Joseph to settlers from Brazil. Despite its unofficial, romantic name, the Blue Army was unlucky as far as historians and legends go.
The research of the Army Historical Institute notwithstanding, a solid monographic work has yet to emerge and sources are sparse. The army did not fight any major battles on the Western front (its first regiment fought at Reims; there it charged Saarbrücken on the evening of 11th November 1918 when word of a cease-fire broke) but they did take part in a real battle on Polish soil in 1919.
Nevertheless, the significance of the formation of the Blue Army was immense. Politically it filled a gap by facilitating the use of Polish POWs and volunteers, and it forcefully reminded the diplomats at Versailles, who had readily forgotten about their commitments, of the Polish question. Moreover, it became a laboratory of what several years later would be a phenomenon distinguishing Poland from other states: the integration of a nation that had been partitioned for over 120 years.
Of course, at the root of decisions to create a Polish Army in France were big power politics and an attempt to use the Polish question to outbid other powers. Without the series of events initiated by the November 5th act, it would not have been possible for Raymond Poincaré, President of France, to sign the decree of June 4th, 1917.
For over a year, the efforts of “Polish elements” would concentrate on three issues: building up the mobilization apparatus in America and POW camps, attaining permission to have a Polish commander and most importantly – acquiring full political control of the army by the Polish National Committee (PNC), set up by Roman Demoski in 1917. Those goals were not achieved until the end of September 1918. It was not surprising that General Haller, pulled out of rebellious Russia by the PNC, was eagerly awaited in Paris as a providential man. Roman Dmowski’s cry “Welcome, General, you’re a true godsend!”, quoted by Haller in his memoirs, was not necessarily a whimsical fantasy or self-flattery, since there was a strong need for Polish leadership.
The United States had ostentatiously observed its neutrality until it joined the war on the side of the Entente in April 1917, but that did not prevent activists of the Polish Falcons from conducting a quiet agitation and recruitment campaign. This is worth mentioning because it was part of the great battle for the identity of “local” peasants – the same battle that had been waged over the past half-century since the January Insurrection in the territory of all three partitioning powers.
The recruitment campaign in US was an exceptional success not only in the purely military sense. Behind every recruit arriving at aptly named Camp Kościuszko in Niagara on the Lake, provided by the Dominion of Canada, were the efforts of Ignacy Paderewski and activists of the Polish Falcons and (the) PNC travelling around the USA, as well as that of Polish publishers, priests and teachers. Niemcewicz’s Śpiewy Historyczne ('Historic Songs') were evoked and, as is expected of nationalists, strong anti-German chords resounded. (A secret order issued by the Polish Falcons of America recalled the “treacherous mutilation of the living body of our homeland, (…) the Germanisation of Silesia and Wielkopolska, the expropriation of our people, and the persecution of Polish children”, whilst ignoring Siberian exile, and called people “into the battle field of a new Grunwald”, not Klushino). Twenty thousand Anteks Frontczaks and Józeks Kiełbasas turned up at Niagara on the Lake (those two names were the most common on the lists of the first volunteers).
From Chicago and Buffalo, they came to Niagara, where they travelled by steamship across the ocean to Brest, the Loire and Champagne. The next stage took them through Bavaria, Saxony and Cottbus, where they were escorted by French officers (including the young Charles de Gaulle) all the way to the first Polish station, Kąkolewo, and thence to Warsaw and finally to the Russian front on the banks of the River Berezyna.
Author: Wojciech Stanisławski
Source: “Rzeczpospolita”
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Darrell Scott Announces Four-Day Songwriting Workshop
Nashville, TN -- SongFood is pleased to announce a Songwriting INTENSIVE, led by Darrell Scott, to be held at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, TN from May 25-28, 2015! Get ready for 4 full days of instruction and guidance to songwriting led by Grammy Award nominee Darrell Scott. Immerse yourself in the vibrant setting and vibe that Music City (Nashville) has to offer while you discover the spiritual concepts that fire the creativity behind songs. Greenhorn or seasoned pro, this workshop is for you!
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More Guests Added for The Nashville Sessions
It is only a few days away from celebrating 15 Years of The Nashville Sessions at the historic Ryman Auditorium! We are thrilled to announce some special additions to the lineup: Del McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, Rob McCoury, Darrell Scott, Col. Bruce Hampton, and Elizabeth Cook. This will be an exciting and wonderful night! Here is an interview with Vince about the special evening ahead.
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Darrell Scott Releases Single to Benefit Arts Education
Roanoke, VA --Music Lab at Jefferson Center in Roanoke, Va. today announced the release of the There's A World of Song single, available now on iTunes, Amazon, Google Music, Shazam, and more. The single was recorded and produced inside Jefferson Center's professional recording studio and arts education hub, Music Lab. All sales proceeds benefit Jefferson Center's efforts to make music education available at the Music Lab to teens in grades 6-12 who want to learn music production, recording, performance, and all the basics of the music business.
There's A World of Song
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Final Week of January Jams Tickets Selling Fast
Abingdon, VA –The 2nd Annual January Jams at the Barter Theatre have brought in legendary and Grammy-Award winning artists every weekend this month . The series included 7 total concerts, most coming close to or selling out. “In a traditionally slow month in Abingdon, we’ve been able to create an event that people enjoy, and we couldn’t be more pleased,” explains Sara Cardinale, Special Events Coordinator for the ACVB. “The lineup this year has generated quite the buzz, and highlights Abingdon as an up-and-coming music destination.”
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Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott on Mountain Stage Oct 20th
Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott - These two stellar musicians - and longtime friends - have covered an incredible amount of ground and become mainstays of the country, American and bluegrass scene. Tim O’Brien is an incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. The Wheeling, WV, native came to prominence with the Colorado-based bluegrass band Hot Rize, and its country-Western alter ego, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.
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“Memories & Moments” by Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott Out September 17th
Nashville, TN -- The long-awaited studio follow-up to roots-music titans’ celebrated 2000 release Real Time hits the streets on September 17th on Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott's own Full Skies label. The prayers of roots-music fans will at long last be answered with the release of Memories and Moments, the second studio album from highly regarded writer/singer/multi-instrumentalists Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott, released on their newly formed Full Skies imprint, a compound of O’Brien’s Howdy Skies and Scott’s Full Light labels. Comprising five songs apiece from O’Brien and Scott plus one memorable collaboration in their timely “Turn Your Dirty Lights On,” along with a pair of chestnuts from Hank Williams and George Jones and a spirited rendition of the John Prine classic “Paradise,” with its author guesting on guitar and vocals, Memories and Moments is a face-to-face record by design.
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Darrell Scott & Tim O’Brien Create Memories & Moments
The September 17 release of Memories & Moments, is the second studio album from highly regarded writer/singer/multi-instrumentalists Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott, released on their newly formed Full Skies imprint, a compound of O’Brien’s Howdy Skies and Scott’s Full Light labels. Comprising five songs apiece from O’Brien and Scott plus one memorable collaboration in their timely “Turn Your Dirty Lights On,” along with a pair of chestnuts from Hank Williams and George Jones and a spirited rendition of the John Prine classic “Paradise,” with its author guesting on guitar and vocals, Memories & Moments is a face-to-face record by design.
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Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien Live Collaboration Now Available
Nashville, TN -- Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien, known for their solo work as well as for stints in high-profile bands, have united for a live album. The new album just released, We’re Usually a Lot Better Than This, was recorded during two separate concerts at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, N.C. in 2005 and 2006. The shows were benefits for the Arthur Morgan School, where both had children attending as students at the time. (It’s not their first recording together; the Grammy-nominated studio album Real Time in 2000 was their debut as a duo.)
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Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien Team Up for Live Album, Due this October
Nashville, TN -- Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien, known for their solo work as well as for stints in high-profile bands, have united for a live album. Titled We’re Usually a Lot Better Than This, and due for release October 9, 2012 on the Full Light Records label through Thirty Tigers, the album was recorded during two separate concerts at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, N.C. in 2005 and 2006. The shows were benefits for the Arthur Morgan School, where both had children attending as students at the time. (It’s not their first recording together; the Grammy-nominated studio album Real Time in 2000 was their debut as a duo.)
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Popular Bluegrass and Beer Festival Slated for August 3-5 in Keystone, Colorado
Keystone Resort, CO -- Those looking for an escape from the hot summer heat can visit Keystone, Colorado for it's 16th annual Bluegrass and Beer Festival, one of the most popular events of the summer at the resort. Festival goers can look forward to cool mountain temperatures, live bluegrass music across three different stages and sample all the beer they'd like from over 30 different breweries, from Colorado and beyond. August temperatures in Keystone average at about 75 degrees, with sunny blue skies and cooler nights, making it a quick and easy getaway from the city summer heat.
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Lonesome River Band, Darrell Scott, Special Consensus on Music City Roots
Nashville, TN -- Lonesome River Band will perform on Music City Roots on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7:00 pm CT. This live concert and radio show is held at the Loveless Cafe located at 8400 Hwy 100, Nashville, TN and streamed at MusicCityRoots.com. Also performing are: Darrell Scott, Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, Darrin and Brooke Aldridge, and Special Consensus. Tickets are $10 and $5 with Student ID.
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Song of the Month Queensryche “Silent Lucidity” From the full-length studio release, Empire
By Octavio Ramos Jr.
“Hush now, don’t you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You’re lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game of life
So here it is, another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over . . . or has it just begun?”
Chrisopher DeGarmo
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC
Every once in a while I enjoy trying to tilt a windmill or two. And such is the case with Queensryche’s “Silent Lucidity.” The song has been ripped by many listeners, some of whom have called it a rip-off of Pink Floyd, whereas others have misunderstood its lyrics. Even the music television channel VH1 stabbed the song in the heart, ranking it number 16 on its list of the 40 Worst Metal Songs Ever.
Formed in 1981, Washington’s Queensryche started off as a traditional heavy metal band with roots in both the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and a hint of glam metal. The band evolved into more of a power-metal vibe, subsequently incorporating elements of progressive metal.
Released in 1990, Empire was the band’s fourth full-length album, one which many fans consider Queensryche’s best work. Empire builds upon the approach first explored in Operation: Mindcrime, but this time incorporating more elements of mainstream rock. Compositions such as “Jet City Woman” and “Another Rainy Night (Without You)” have a strong, catchy vibe that helped make the band a radio mainstay throughout the 1990s. However, tracks such as “Anybody Listening?” and “Silent Lucidity” gained the band critical fan approval, as both songs demonstrated a strong progressive streak.
“Silent Lucidity” opens with an acoustic guitar played by Chris DeGarmo, with vocalist Geoff Tate using a lower register that slowly builds as the song progresses. Keyboards give way to full orchestration, which never lets up. The overall structure is similar to an approach favored by progressive masters Pink Floyd, who used such orchestration to evoke strong emotion. Because the lyrical content of “Silent Lucidity” is powerfully emotive, this musical approach works well, particularly when the guitar solo “floats” over the orchestration.
Lyrically, many critics and even fans have misinterpreted the song. The subject matter remains relatively esoteric; however, lucid dreamers and those who have lost family early in their lives may experience a catharsis when listening to this excellent composition.
“Silent Lucidity,” tells the story of a little girl who has either lost her father or has experienced a lucid dream within which she has lost her father. The nature of lucid dreams, within which a dreamer suddenly realizes he or she is dreaming, often leads to other abilities, such as actually learning how to control dreams as they happen. By “control,” it is possible to minimize nightmares and experience flights of fancy, such as flying or physically separating from the body.
The father of the child, whether alive or dead, tries to soothe the child by teaching her how to control her dreams. The father, as an observer, constitutes another element of lucid dreams, turning perception and the concept of reality into a conundrum—is the father alive, an observer in her dreams (either alive or dead), a ghost, or other manifestation? The answer can be frustrating: “Your dream is over . . . or has it just begun?”
For me, the song resonates because of the sensitive nature of my own daughter, a lucid dreamer. Born prematurely as a twin, she lost her twin brother hours after birth. She’s since then experienced dreams in which he plays a part, first as a shadow or wisp and later as a presence. One of the techniques I have attempted to teach her is to manifest a presence of me when in a nightmarish lucid dream. Much like the little girl in the song, my daughter would rather simply wake and be held. Of course, the little girl in the song may suffer because her father simply remains a shadow, one she cannot hold when awake.
Once understood, “Silent Lucidity” is a powerful and moving composition. In my opinion, it is one of the best songs ever produced by Queensryche. Play it again and see if it does not move you now.
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Up Close & Personal with Sam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet
By Contributing writer and photographer Song River
The land of Michigan has given the world a deluge of multiple necessities and sheer pleasures outside of what at one time was the auto industry mecca. Like its heart and soul of the blue collared working person that breeds an indelible, almost pioneer spirit, the music from here reflects its surroundings as once again this 26th state, added to the Union in January of 1837, is having a rebirth. The possibility of this land known warmly for its industrial explosion in the region of the Great Lakes is now standing at possibly a new dawn... the creation of being a strong contender for the music scene, much like Nashville is today.
With this in mind, the resonating rock and blues plus more yet to be revealed have begun with the band, Greta Van Fleet. They are poised and ready to bring the elements of rock n' roll up to the next level.
Recently bassist Sam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet took some time out while they are on tour to give their …
Stryper Brings Home Their Metal Sound: Concert Review "To Hell With the Devil"
Stryper Brings Metal Stings with Their 30th Anniversary Album Celebration Tour: To Hell With the Devil with Song River
It was a 'sweet' celebration Stryper brought with them everything a 30th-anniversary celebration should bring and then some! The strength and heart as the yellow and black brought the hard rock attack back to Arizona, as the Nile Theatre was packed with die hard fans that came from some sort of faith background so it seemed and included a wide age group range.
Stryper really was the premiere heavy metal Christian rock band that came onto the scene back in the 80's and pioneered the way and without a doubt still brings the best of it all today. Still working with the original lineup of vocalist Michael Sweet, drummer Robert Sweet, bassist Timothy Gaines and guitarist Oz Fox hitting the 30th-anniversary release, 1986's album, To Hell With the Devil. The album spoke to so many when it was released and today those fans who fell in love with To Hell With the De…
Concert Review: Adam Ant 'Vive le Rock and le Dandy'
Adam Ant at the Celebrity Theatre by H. Reavis
How does one categorize a man who is one part rock star, several parts romantic highwayman, a dash of the peculiar gentleman, and a whole lot of British? One doesn’t. He must be christened and his name yelled in revered abandon: it’s Adam Ant.
With a career spanning more than thirty years, the charismatic Adam has enjoyed chart success, awards (particularly the Q Music Icon Award in 2008), movie roles including Drop Dead Rock with Debbie Harry, and sold out concert performances worldwide. His music videos revolutionized the visual aid for musicians with storytelling in lieu of the standard promo. Drawing from his experience in art school his videos chronicled the adventures of his romantic pirate alter ego in “Stand and Deliver” and “Prince Charming.”
Currently in the throes of another tour called Anthems, which is a follow-up to his successful Kings of the Wild Frontier Tour, Adam, and the band are bringing his extensive singles catalog to b…
Interview with Michael Sweet of Stryper A Man of Few Regrets
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Whether it is the challenge of growing up too fast, playing in a band that he loves, flying solo, working on music projects, the loss of a loved one, or just kicking back at home musician/singer-songwriter Michael Sweet greets each day as if it were to be his first and his last. With an eagerness to say yes and come what may. His faith in God has carried him to say, "I am not a man of many regrets."
Song River: Being on tour for a band must be an almighty passion. What is it though that most bands do when they have a 'day off' while they are out touring?
Michael Sweet: To be honest, aside from interviews and social media, it is a day we finally get to do our laundry! [laughed] I am so OCD about doing laundry. You got to be the first one up if you want to get it done.
Song River: Laundry day has to be a good day! When you are on the road and away from home what are some of the things you miss?
Michael Sweet: Of course I don't like being away from my fam…
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REST IN POWER: PRINCE
When news hit that Prince had passed it was like a sucker-punch to the gut. While the drum & bass scene is well known for having a somewhat guarded if not antagonistic relationship with mainstream music and celebrity culture, there’s just something about Prince that hit us at the Vault in a unique and perhaps even unexpected way.
More than just another celebrity passing, Prince seemed to represent the kind of do-it-yourself punk rock ethos at the core of drum & bass. A self-taught musician who mastered not only numerous instruments but the production and recording process itself, Prince was the perfect mix of techno-geek and guitar-head. If you grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s and were down with Prince, you were a bit of an outlier until Purple Rain came along and blew it all wide open for the masses. Throughout it all, Prince never lost his swagger and in fact, that attitude of not giving a fuck, of bigging up “real” musicians and being an all-around inspiration and awe-inspiring force was no doubt what drew a lot of us eventual dnb-heads into his world.
Here was a Stateside artist combining funk, soul, hip-hop, rock, blues, and electronic music into one exhilarating mash-up of sound that defied genres in the same way that Prince seemed to defy clothes. It’s no wonder that so many dnb-heads cite Prince as an early influence.
For me personally, the quintessential moment was when I got my hands on the 1999 LP – that was where Prince just pulled out all the stops and took a cue from the prog rock guys and delivered two slabs of vinyl and eleven tracks that ranged from the radio-friendly “Little Red Corvette” on through to monstrous extended bits like “D.M.S.R.” and “Automatic.” Through it all was that signature groove, that funky vibe that merged the electric with the organic in ways that still holds up to this day.
I was fortunate enough to see Prince live numerous times in the past few years and there is no understating just how much presence and power he radiated in person. More than the music (which was off the chain, as expected), it was the way he was able to feed off the live band and audience alike in a kind of improvisational performance that made you feel like you were witnessing the birth of something unique and great – something that would be lost to time and hard to explain to those who weren’t there. The kind of energy that radiated off him definitely made you feel like you were in the presence of something larger than a human or mere mortal, definitely someone who you expected to be performing and sharing his love and passion for music for decades to come.
With his sudden passing, not only are we mourning the loss of an artist whose music has been intertwined with our own identities and memories growing up, but we mourn the wisdom and passion that goes with him. While this post might feel a bit too emo for the dnb-centric nature of the Vault, we can’t help but want to send a big shout out to Prince from all the junglists and dnb-heads worldwide for paving the way forward with his sound and uncompromising vision.
Big up!
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U.S. Food Supply May Be at Risk Due to Government Shutdown
THURSDAY, Jan. 10, 2019 — Food inspections have declined due to the partial shutdown of the U.S. government, potentially putting the nation’s food supply at risk.
The Food and Drug Administration typically performs about 160 routine food inspections a week, but there has been a sharp drop in that number since the shutdown began, CBS News reported. The FDA oversees about 75 percent of the U.S. food supply.
The agency says it is trying to get about 150 employees back to work to resume inspections of high-risk food facilities as early as next week, but inspections of routine facilities are stalled, CBS News reported. About 31 percent of the food checked by FDA inspectors is considered “high risk” and includes baby formula, seafood, cheese, and produce.
Along with looking for potential problems such as unsanitary conditions and infestations at food processing facilities, FDA inspectors also check food for Salmonella and Escherichia coli contamination, CBS News reported. The FDA says that during the shutdown, it is continuing foreign food inspections, inspections at ports, and dealing with recalls and outbreaks. Inspections of meat, poultry, and eggs are continuing, according to the Department of Agriculture.
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My thoughts on Battlestar Galactica, thus far.
As I’ve just started watching the series, I thought it’d be fun to kind of document my impressions and theories as I go. Just so I can look back and be all…”Well, I was totally wrong about that!”
But as far warning, I will discuss major spoilers. So from here on in:
*SPOILERS*
Right. So far, I’ve really enjoyed watching it. My major fear is that the whole first season is going to be one crisis per episode. That is going to get old FAST. I’d like a peek into how the civilians are living. I know the show is all about the Galactica, but still. The entire human race just basically got decimated and now these 40,000 or so people have to make their homes on ships that probably weren’t designed to live on. How do you manage? What do you tell your kids?
Other thing: They are getting quite a few things wrong about Ancient Greek mythology. They stated that Apollo was god of the hunt, which I’m pretty certain was his sister Artemis’s job. They said that Starbuck worshipped Aphrodite and Artemis, but when they show her with the figures it’s quite obviously Artemis and Athena. It’s not difficult to get right!
But that makes me wonder, how the hell do they have Greek gods if the ‘Earth’ colony split off first. I’d like a bit more history on how all this developed. And why their legal system seems to be just like the American one. “I plead the 23rd” instead of “I plead the 5th.”
Which also makes me wonder, how do the Cylons know about Christianity? Surely that’s an Earth thing? But maybe I’m just not suspending enough disbelief.
I like the characters. I think they did a good job in casting. Commander Adama plays the powerful yet vulnerable so well. And I love the president. She is so good. Although, I think she had a lapse of judgement in not chucking the Cylon guy out the airlock just because she had a dream about him.
Which leads to: Is Adama a Cylon? And if so, which Adama? If the statement is true (which I’m betting on it not being) but if it is, I’m thinking it’s Apollo. But the only motivation I can find for a Cylon revealing that is to sew mistrust, so that makes it a false statement.
Well, those are my thoughts, impressions, and theories so far. I’m excited to find out what happens next. There aren’t enough hours in the day to catch up!
Wizard World Los Angeles, David Mack, James Kyson Lee!
One of my favorite convention is Wizard World Los Angeles, and I’ve had much fantastic memories of the convention from all the years I attended. This year was full of good memories and fun, but I must admit, it wasn’t the best Wizard World I attended. The convention moved from the Long Beach Convention Center to the Los Angeles Convention Center. Although, the L.A. center is a nice one, it’s location in the downtown area is pretty inconvenient and less inaccessible. Plus, $15-30 for parking?… I don’t think so. I took the metro train up, thanks.
I didn’t attend the first day of the convention, but I was told by many that it was pretty much dead. Saturday had a nice turn-out, but it was still missing the energy it had when it was in Long Beach and the first two years that I attended. I can’t attest what WWLA2006 was like because I missed that since I was studying abroad.
Many of the more familiar artists I got used to having in Wizard World were missing, and so were a lot of the more celebrity figures of the geek world (i.e. neither Stan Lee or Kevin Smith showed up this time. Not to say that the convention was lacking in big names! I did get to take my photo with James Kyson Lee who plays Ando in Heroes. Still, the presence of Heroes stars didn’t up the energy of the convention at all. It was extremely mellow and strangely quiet for the most part.
Still, I got to hang out with one of my favorite artist, David Mack (Kabuki, Daredevil), and his girlfriend, Mandy Amano (model and actress). They’re always good with putting up with me– since there were less people for me to bother this time, they had to deal with me 90% of the time! I got to meet people like Stuart Sayger (Shiver in the Dark) and other many talented artists. I hope that this year has not turned them off from attending the convention in the future. I definetely plan on attending again, and hope that it improves next time. I do believe they should move it back to Long Beach, though!
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Cheque book solution on asylum is unconstitutional
A bench of five justices of the Supreme Court of Justice, the highest court in Papua New Guinea, has unanimously ruled that the detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is unconstitutional. Yet again, Australia has been complicit in its Pacific neighbours (PNG and Nauru) prostituting their Constitutions and undermining the rule of law in exchange for a fistful of dollars, with hapless asylum seekers, most of whom are ultimately proved to be refugees, being left to languish.
Sniff the rot in Australia's wobbly democracy
Justin Glyn
Last week, a member of Parliament, Jenny Leong, allegedly faced racist and sexist abuse by police from at least four separate commands. This abuse was linked to her opposition (in accordance with her party's stated policy) to the use of drug sniffer dogs without a search warrant. Whether or not one agrees with Green party policy in this regard, the treatment of Leong ought to rankle. Such ill-treatment at the hands of the executive is, unfortunately, not an isolated phenomenon.
Bob Ellis and the other nuclear royal commission
Michele Madigan
The passing of Bob Ellis recalls his faithful accompanying of the 1984-1985 royal commission into the British nuclear tests conducted in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. His article on the Wallatina hearings described what he named as the commission's 'worst story of all': Edie Milpudie's telling of herself and her family camping, in May 1957, on the Marcoo bomb crater. Re-reading the Ellis article, tears stung my eyes. It's so good when truth is recognised and held up for our freedom.
System must work for victims, not against them
Fatima Measham
For victims and survivors, the royal commission report into family violence comes as catharsis. For activists and advocates, it is vindication. Perpetrators thrive on impunity. Impunity is built on uncertainty of punishment, cultures of silence, victim-blaming and perceived collusion with figures of authority. Dismantling this is central to violence prevention and ensuring the safety of women and children in the home. The royal commission addresses this goal across 227 recommendations.
The bleeding obvious about homelessness
John Falzon
The Prime Minister wants us to be clever. Well how about we make sure everybody's got a place to call home? The problem of homelessness and the shortage of social and affordable housing is so huge that we need a massive solution and a massive financial commitment if we want to lay claim to being civilised and fair, let alone smart and innovative. This is why, among things such as reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax, we need a $10 billion social and affordable housing fund.
Preselection esteems politics over merit
The debate over the Coalition's proposed senate voting reforms has highlighted the inter-party brokering that brings candidates into office. Yet if representative democracy were predicated on transparency, then another area deserves scrutiny: preselection. The mechanism for choosing party representatives clearly relies on powerful backers - politics - rather than merit. That is an obvious thing to say. But it carries repercussions for governance with which we have yet to grapple.
A word to the wise on selling climate action
Greg Foyster
The best known examples of framing come from American cognitive linguist George Lakoff. He argues that George W. Bush replaced the phrase 'tax cuts' with 'tax relief' to reframe paying tax as an affliction. Embedded in those two words is a neo-conservative worldview against government intervention in the private sphere. If you accept the term, you absorb the worldview. In a similar way, a few words could build political will to tackle climate change. The problem is no one is sure what they are.
The night the Black Dog caught up
Peter Day
Our friend's not doing so well. The Black Dog has caught up with her. It's been chasing her for 20 years. She got tired; couldn't run anymore. So up to the emergency department she went: 'Doctor, nurse ... anyone, I can't run anymore. The Black Dog's too fast, too strong. I'm worn out - just want to be normal.' They heard her ... sort of. Into a tiny room she was sent ... to wait. Don't be fooled by politicians and bureaucrats holding umbrellas; the mental health landscape is in severe drought.
Being myself doesn't work
Paul Micallef
Autism typically makes people less likely to care what others think. When I was younger my default was to do what I wanted, to 'be myself', and not worry if others were not doing the same thing. You can imagine what happens when I put this into action: I end up alone. I am the only one not dancing. I am the only one who wants to crank the metal music at 7am. I like people. I want to share my experiences. But often my choice often comes down to: 'Do I be myself? Or do I be around others?'
Baby Asha and the pyramid of suffering
Kate Galloway
It is right and good that the outpouring of community and professional goodwill has at least delayed the return of baby Asha to what are reported to be the terrible conditions of the detention centre on Nauru. But Australia's asylum seeker laws involve unresolved systemic issues that such wins cannot by themselves resolve. Widespread community focus on individual cases such as that of baby Asha may in fact prevent action on the deeper issues from gaining traction.
Self-care as political warfare
Somayra Ismailjee
Feminist writer Audre Lorde wrote that 'Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.' In medical professions, the term 'self-care' originated in reference to the self-management of illness. Self-care, however, also exists in the context of social justice, extending beyond physical wellness to cater for a holistic approach that includes emotional, mental and spiritual fulfilment. The need for this is rooted in the burden of oppression.
Millennials have allies in the emerging grey vote
The formative experiences of Australian early boomers include unprecedented access to university education and health care, immersion in feminist discourse, Aboriginal land rights campaigns, environmental activism, LGBT movements and pacifism. Quite remarkably, it mirrors some of the elements that engage millennials. While in some ways anti-boomer sentiment seems well placed, what it misses is that on social issues a 21-year-old might have more in common with a 61-year-old than a 71-year-old.
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Audi provides 2012 WEC World Champions
10:10 PM PST - 10/28/2012 Written By: AUDI AG
Photography by: Audi
FIA World Endurance Championship Shanghai 2012 Source Audi
Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer are the first WEC Driver World Champions
Two podium places at WEC finale in China
Successful debut season of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro
In the Manufacturers World Championship of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Audi had been out of reach by its competitors since August. At the finale at Shanghai, the Audi factory drivers Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer, who finished in third place, won the Drivers’ World Championship as well - subject to the official publication of the results by the FIA. The second title crowns a successful debut season of the first hybrid sports car from Audi.
Audi has shaped the new FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) not only by winning both titles. Five times, the team secured the top spot on the grid and on five occasions in eight events, an Audi R18 achieved overall victory - including the brand’s eleventh success at the Le Mans 24 Hours where the Audi R18 e-tron quattro clinched the first ever victory of a hybrid sports car in this classic endurance event.
An intensive duel with Toyota marked the second half of the season - including the finale in China. The new World Champions in the number "1" hybrid sports car only had to take third place at the Shanghai 6 Hours to win the title. Their lead in the standings now amounts to 13.5 points. The driver trio secured three single wins this season and completed their tally with three second places.
Second place in the championship goes to an Audi squad as well. Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish, who had started from the front row in China, finished the race as the runners-up behind the Toyota of Nicolas Lapierre/Alexander Wurz. The Danish-Scottish duo’s track record this season reflects seven podium positions, including victory at the season opener, the Sebring 12 Hours, together with Dindo Capello. In addition, they were the most efficient combination in the field. At seven of the season’s eight rounds, the Michelin Green X Challenge Award went to car number "2."
The title win with the R18 e-tron quatto in China completes a unique endurance racing season for Audi. With the R8 LMS GT3 sports car, Audi decided the Bathurst 12 Hours and the 24-hour races at the Nürburgring, Spa and Zolder in its favor this year.
Quotes after the race
Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport): "It’s nice that after the Manufacturers’ World Championship we were able to decide the Drivers’ World Championship in our favor as well. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to finish the year with a victory in China. We’ve got very strong competitors, which provides us with high motivation to work hard for next year."
Ralf Jüttner (Technical Director Audi Sport Team Joest): "Now we’ve won all the titles. Well done to Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer. Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish came back with a strong showing in China even though it wasn’t enough for victory. Both squads performed flawless pit stops at the end of a tough season. The WEC is a fantastic new championship and we’re the first to have won it."
Tom Kristensen (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): "This track suited our Japanese competitors particularly well. Congratulations to them on winning the race! At the same time, I’m happy about a good race by Allan, our team and me. There were two reasons why we didn’t have a chance of achieving the title win. Our rivals in the battle for the title were driving an Audi as well, and these cars simply don’t fail. Marcel, André and Ben truly deserve the title with their performances."
Allan McNish (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2): "Second place was the best we could achieve today. We squeezed the maximum out of the car and the tires but Toyota was simply quicker. Congratulations to Marcel, André and Ben on winning the World Champion’s title. They were incredibly good. We compete against each other but work together as a team."
Marcel Fässler (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "I’d like to thank Audi very much because without this brand I could have never experienced a success like this. I’ve got tremendous team-mates and a top-flight team. The title means incredibly much to me. It’s a great feeling to be World Champion."
André Lotterer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "Winning Le Mans and the World Champion’s title together is simply brilliant. And I’m happy to be able to share this success with Marcel and Ben. The three of us are really good friends. A huge thank you goes to Audi and to our team. Our car was always superb. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to take victory today but after winning the title we can be very pleased."
Benoît Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro #1): "I’m more than happy after this great season. The World Champion’s title is a nice chapter in a driver’s biography. I want to thank Audi very much for the good season."
1 Wurz/Lapierre (Toyota) 191 laps
2 Kristensen/McNish (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) + 58.570s
3 Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) + 1m 42.814s
4 Belicchi/Cheng/Primat (Lola-Toyota) - 6 laps
5 Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck (HPD-Honda) - 6 laps
6 Kane/Leventis/Watts (HPD-Honda) - 9 laps
7 Martin/Graves/Beche (Oreca-Nissan) - 11 laps
8 Dalziel/Potolicchio/Sarrazin (HPD-Honda) - 11 laps
9 Lahaye/Nicolet/Pla (Morgan-Nissan) - 12 laps
10 Kaffer/Minassian/Perez Companc (Oreca-Nissan) - 12 laps
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For the Eurozone, Another Bump in the Road?
Posted by Andrew Chrismer | Apr 25, 2018 | Country & Individual Specific, Economic Affairs, Europe | 0 |
Still no government deal in Italy. But a deal in the future could mean several things. In the most likely scenarios, we could see either more political fracturing or a populist coalition government formed by the Northern League and 5-star. If this were to happen, the coalition will most likely push fiscal expansion, and this has economists concerned about Italy’s future in the Eurozone. Thus, the hefty task for Eurozone leaders will be to consciously balance Italian Euroscepticism while also guiding the country to meet Eurozone debt-to-GDP and deficit targets, in hopes that another crisis could be staved off. This political balancing act could impact how Eurogroup leaders handle high-debt countries in a new era of populist movements, and be the story to watch as Italy forms its fiscal, tax reform, and pension reform policies.
Italy’s populist parties have won on platforms generally aimed at changing the tax system, reforming pensions, and offering some form of fiscal expansion. While these issues are of major concern to most Italians, tactful and thoughtful policymaking must prevail to balance debt management with expansionary policies. Italy’s debt to GDP is floating around 130 percent, and its budget deficit around 2.5 percent. European debt standards as set by the European stability and growth pact (ESP) are 3 percent in deficit targets for total government budgets annually and debt to GDP of 60 percent annually. This means that in order for Italy to comply with targets, they must find a way to cut taxes, reform the tax system, and overhaul the pension system while also holding annual debt to GDP and budget deficits at or below their current levels. The problem is that both the northern League and 5-star may not have any political will to do this.
High debt is nothing new for southern Europe, nor is the threat to the breakup of the Eurozone in recent times. Budget deficits and non-performing loans have plagued countries like Italy, Spain, and Greece since the beginning of the Eurozone debt crisis, and were the cause of austerity policies being pushed in debtor countries to preserve the euro. In 2015, many experts thought Greece would exit the European single currency all together with a “no” vote on their austerity referendum. And Italian austerity policies have been equally unpopular, especially among young people who were among the citizens hit the hardest under such measures during the crisis. With the recent wave of populism in Italy, current debt to GDP at alarming rates, and a political mandate to launch a stimulus, there is a real probability that Italy will increase its deficit. This has the potential to cause uncertainty in the market, among other scenarios, which would again endanger stability in the Eurozone.
If Italy can in fact form a populist coalition between the northern League and the 5-Star movement, there are several likely scenarios that could play out in Italy and the Eurozone. The first is that the coalition will follow through on expansionary measures, while at the same time scoffing at Eurozone targets. This could lead to turmoil both for Italy and for the Eurozone, and could also lead to market volatility or a potential crisis. The second scenario is that the coalition works with Eurozone leaders to steer towards sustainable debt to GDP standards while also creating responsible fiscal policies and reforms of the pension system. This would most likely lead to relative market confidence in Italy, and slow economic growth, as forecasted by most current models. The third likely scenario is that Italy’s coalition government doesn’t get much accomplished at all. This could lead to sustaining relatively high debt to GDP levels for the country, a budget on target with the ESP, and slow growth over the short/medium term.
Without a doubt, the populist movement in Italy will usher in a new era for Eurozone politics, for better or worse. A silver lining may come in the form of the new Eurogroup head, Portugal’s Mario Centeno. Centeno may bring a new energy and new ideas to the group by bringing in perspectives on cooperation, sustainability, and targeting from a debtor country’s perspective (Portugal’s current debt to GDP is 130 percent). Centeno’s task is hefty, one where he must try to build bridges with the Italian populists while also maintaining sound yet fair guidelines at the Eurogroup level. Success in this task could mean that Italy’s coalition leaders feel represented at the Eurozone level, and it could help bring them to the table as they form their expansionary policies. Regardless, the Eurozone once again finds itself at a crossroads.
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Andrew Chrismer is an economist who specializes in transatlantic trade and investment, the Eurozone, and the broader EU. He holds degrees in Economics and Political Economy, and frequently contributes to the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund, the Hill, and other publications.
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Being Behind the Curve Can ‘Sting’
A little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, an invasive species of a tiny but fierce ant that packs a powerful sting. (Photo credit: Eli Sarnat)
By gisele galoustian | 10/19/2017
A medical condition that puzzled physicians, scientists and veterinarians, and remained obscure for decades, was long known by indigenous peoples in Colombia. The condition: Rice’s keratopathy, also called West Indian dots, and Florida spots, which causes lesions and white discoloration in the cornea of the eye. The disease was thought to be caused by viral infections, bacterial infections, and even inflammation resulting from exposure to a parasitic worm that causes river blindness.
Dating back to the 1960s, the medical community worldwide reported on this condition and their suspicions of its cause. The real culprit, however, turned out to be the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, an invasive species of a tiny but fierce ant that packs a powerful sting.
After ruling out the many potential causes of these lesions including corneal trauma and infections, researchers from Florida Atlantic University and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia helped to solve this mystery. They gathered knowledge on this condition from different sources and various medical fields in diverse corners of the world so that they could better inform the medical and scientific communities. Their cautionary tale? “Pay attention to other cultures as well medical fields outside of your own expertise.” Results of their study are published in a new paper in the Journal of Medical Entomology . Prior to this paper, the true cause of Rice’s keratopathy was unknown to researchers.
“I was first exposed to the serious impact of Wasmannia when I was working in the Solomon Islands in Melanesia. The locals told me that dogs rarely lived more than five years because these ants would sting their eyes, blinding them,” said James K. Wetterer, Ph.D., a professor of biology in FAU’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, who co-authored the paper with Diego Rosselli, M.D., a professor in the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. “I told this story to a colleague and he told me that where he worked in Gabon, all the cats would go blind and were often covered with tiny red ants. It turned out to be the same ant species.”
Rosselli contacted Wetterer with information on these ants attacking local people in Colombia, and together they compiled information from diverse sources on the impact of these ants.
“We have a lot to learn from indigenous cultures. We also need to be aware of discoveries outside of our own fields,” said Wetterer.
Known from virtually every South and Central American country and major West Indian Islands, Wasmannia auropunctata is a nuisance for crops and agriculture and affects humans, domesticated animals, as well as wild animals like elephants and leopards. The ants are typically found at high densities in cacao trees and citrus orchards. In the case of agriculture, when branches are disturbed, thousands of these ants fall on workers. The sting results when a human or animal blinks in response to the presence of the ant. The ant has spread through human commerce and has reached many parts of the world including Florida, Australia, Africa, Israel, and many Pacific islands, including Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, the Solomon Islands, and the Galapagos.
Rice’s keratopathy is named after Noel Rice, who in 1968, noticed the lesions in immigrants from the West Indies in London. He concluded that the condition was due to trauma to the eye. Keratopathy of this type was reported in cats in Florida in 1979 and in dogs in Brazil in 1997. In 2004, these corneal lesions were reported in cats and dogs in Martinique, but only in those animals living outdoors.
Wetterer and Rosselli note that next steps in research should involve looking at the chemistry of the toxin produced by Wasmannia auropunctata. As far as controlling its spread, the researchers caution that it is problematic because the ant is a “tramp species,” spreading throughout the world through human commerce. They recommend that in addition to the conventional methods used such as insecticides, increased inspections of agricultural products as well as quarantines of products infested with the little fire ant could be useful ways to control this intrusive species.
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The Halny? Shocking film! Says someone coming from a flat country after having watched a film about the power of the wind in a mountain area.
I had never heard about the halny before so I made a visit to Wikipedia and got this answer:
Halny is a warm windstorm that blows through the valleys. It is often disastrous; ripping off roofs, causing avalanches and, according to some people, can have some influence on mental states.
Precisely what this film shows.…”The Wind. A Documentary Thriller” is an interpretation of our situation : when nature in this form takes action, we have no chance. We have to face the consequences of the catastrophies that we create ourselves, some say, others refer to destiny, God´s will…
Nevertheless the people living in the Tatra mountains fight to survive. They try to stabilise their houses, when the wind is coming, they cut up the trees that have fallen on the roads, blocking the traffic, including the ambulances that hurry to help people with serious problems, some of them suicidal.
My hero in the film is the woman, who writes poems that are celebrating the forest. Like Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, known all over the world for his fairy tales, wrote in one of his books, she does like him, embracing a tree in one of the best scenes of a film that in a fragmented, powerful style conveys an overall drama with several fine parallel stories, and a soundscore that with the wind justifies the characterisation, “a documentary thriller”.
Fear, life and death, father and daughter: His house burns down, he has breathing problems, he goes to the doctor, he continues the lost battle against the evil power. She, the poetess, wants to buy a piece of forest, it’s beautiful to watch her emotions, as it is to watch the young ambulance nurse taking care of the victims.
Michal Bielawski’s film reminds me, with its own competence in content and cinematic skills, about current films about man and nature – Kossakovsky’s “Aquarela”, “The Earth” by Nikolaus Geyerhalter. Hate the word but films like these seem to be trendy – and yes, documentaries are raising the crucial questions our planet is facing, they do so in different styles, with different voices, make us think when we are given a visual statement and a visual artistic comment to the time.
Poland, 2019, 74 mins.
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All we can do is keep the pressure on Man City, admits Milner
Liverpool will aim to be perfect until the end of the season, according to James Milner, as they hope for Manchester City to slip up.
Liverpool put the pressure back on Manchester City in the title race after taking over top spot again on Sunday.
Jurgen Klopp's Reds returned to the Premier League summit thanks to a hard-fought 2-0 win away at struggling Cardiff City, Georginio Wijnaldum and James Milner scoring the goals in the second half.
The result lifts Liverpool two points ahead of their rivals, though City do still have a game in hand going into the closing weeks of the campaign.
Pep Guardiola's side can leapfrog over the leaders with victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday, though Milner admitted Liverpool are at least making it tougher for the reigning champions to retain their crown.
"All we can do is keep the pressure on them and win our games," the former City midfielder told Sky Sports.
"It makes it tougher for them, as if we slip up it gives them that little cushion, allows them a draw or a slip-up.
"All we can do is win the rest of our games and hopefully that's good enough. If not, fair play to City, but we are asking all the questions of them that we can.
"Both teams have been ruthless and clinical in doing their jobs. It's not easy week on week - we've lost one game all year and were second [before Sunday's result]. We go back top now, though, and puts a bit of pressure on them.
"We just have to concentrate on being perfect and will see if that's good enough."
33 - The top six teams have won all 33 of their Premier League matches versus the current bottom three teams in the table this season. This is a top-flight record; surpassing 30 wins in such games in 1891-92, 1978-79, 1985-86, 2001-02, 2011-12 & 2013-14. Hierarchy. pic.twitter.com/En9N3jJnHn
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 21, 2019
Wijnaldum's opener - a well-struck shot from a set-piece routine - was crucial against Cardiff, with the home side having made life tough for their opponents.
Yet despite having to wait until the 57th minute to break the deadlock, the Netherlands international was always confident Liverpool would win after controlling the first half.
"It's always a relief, especially at this time of the season. You know that you have to win - in the first half we created chances but didn't score," Wijnaldum said in his post-match interview.
"Everyone was waiting for a goal and when you get it, it's a relief. I was really happy, and the fans were really happy, too."
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X-Force script looking good
December 4th, 2013 by bash Comments
Original X-Force creator Rob Liefeld has taken to his Twitter account to praise Jeff Wadlow’s most recent draft of a screenplay for a forthcoming big screen adaptation of the comic team.
He said that that the “1st mission accomplished for X-Force” was the script and when casting begins “we can scream together”
Hinting that the film will maintain a balanced roster from throughout the book’s long and varied history, he added: “X-Force cast/film will please/appeal to fans of all eras. Wadlow carefully, cleverly navigates the legacy.”
X-Force was first launched in the early ’90s by Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. The original team consisted of many fan favorite characters including Cable, Cannonball, Domino, Warpath, and Deadpool, but later incarnations have featured Wolverine, Psylocke, Sunspot, and Colossus.
Tags: Jeff Wadlow, Marvel, rob liefeld, x-force
Hi all. I'm Bash and love anything and everything to do with Star Wars. Although I've watched hundreds of movies, read dozens of books and played numerous computer games from other genres and franchises since, nothing has come close to seeing George Lucas' epic for the very first time. I hope you all like the site and come back often.
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Quichotte Part I [23:33]
Quichotte Part II [22:38]
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of Tangerine Dream’s classic live album "Pergamon”. Recorded in January 1980 at the Palast der Republik, East Berlin, the album was originally released in East Germany in 1981 under the title "Quichotte”.
The documented performance was one of the first by a western band in East Germany and earned Tangerine Dream many new fans in Eastern Europe. Featuring a line-up of Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and newly recruited member Johannes Schmoelling, the album was later released outside of East Germany under the title "Pergamon” (after the impressive museum in East Berlin).
This Esoteric Reactive edition is newly re-mastered, fully restores the original album artwork and includes a lavishly illustrated booklet with new essay.
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How Scotland’s referendum will influence Brexit vote
February 21, 2016 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Everyone knows that Scotland narrowly voted against independence in September 2014.
The ‘Yes’ campaign waged that fight fully knowing that, by 2017, there would be a broader UK-wide vote on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. Given that Scots are relatively (though not universally) more pro-European than English voters, growing British euroscepticism may have played an important role to nudge some Scots toward the ‘Yes’ camp.
With that Brexit referendum now set for June 23, it’s the Scottish referendum that looms over the coming vote in at least two ways that could make Brexit more likely.
The first amounts to pure game theory on the part of Scotland’s voters, who comprise around 8.4% of the total UK population.
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Sinn Fein joins list of surging anti-austerity forces in Europe
Mary Lou McDonald, the deputy leader of Sinn Féin, represents a new post-IRA, anti-austerity face. (Facebook).
In April, Ireland will celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Easter Rising, the failed rebellion of an overpowered band of Irish republicans.
The heavy-handed response of British troops ended up martyring the republican cause, their lethal overreaction ultimately changing, and hardening, Irish public opinion in favor of independence from the United Kingdom.
Under the penumbra of this year’s centennial celebrations, Irish voters will go to the polls on February 26, after Enda Kenny, Ireland’s Taoiseach (prime minister) announced last week the dissolution of the Irish parliament, the Dáil, to ask voters to reelect his center-right Fine Gael, along with its junior coalition partner, Ireland’s social democratic Labour Party.
But polls show that the party with the most momentum is Sinn Féin, which hopes to capitalize on several factors toward what would be a historic victory. Hoping to peel off disaffected Labour voters, Sinn Féin might even be within striking distance of first place, given that no single party will come close to an absolute majority. Continue reading Sinn Fein joins list of surging anti-austerity forces in Europe →
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Gordon Brown: the not-so-secret weapon of the ‘No’ campaign
August 20, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Pity Gordon Brown, the long-suffering, long-plotting chancellor who assumed the British premiership only after Tony Blair’s three successive terms tested the British electorate’s patience on everything from Iraq to civil liberties.
By the time Brown finally wrested the keys to No. 10 Downing Street from Blair, the ‘New Labour’ project was in serious political trouble, and Brown, lacking the easy charm of either his predecessor or then-opposition leader David Cameron, waged a doomed, if feisty, 2010 general election campaign.
Unlike Blair, Brown didn’t take a high-profile role on the speaker circuit or announce a global initiative to bring about Middle Eastern peace. He mostly just went back to Scotland, where he wrote a wonky tome on reforming the global financial system. Brown’s strong reputation today, more so abroad than at home, reflects his adroit handling of the 2008-09 financial crisis, when he prodded other European and US officials to follow his aggressive and proactive example.
Today, he remains the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, a southern Scottish constituency in Fife. Accordingly, it’s no surprise that Brown is emerging as a key leader of the campaign against Scottish independence — to the surprise of many both north and south of the Tweed.
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European Council proposes Juncker as Commission president
June 27, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Bowing to pressure from European parliamentary leaders, the European Council has proposed as its candidate for the presidency of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the former prime minister of Luxembourg and former head of the Eurogroup, the informal gathering of the eurozone finance ministers.
That makes it virtually certain that the European Parliament will elect Juncker (pictured above) as the next Commission president, likely with the full support of the two major pan-European parties in the Parliament, Juncker’s own center-right European People’s Party (EPP) and the center-left, social democratic Party of European Socialists (PES). It also likely means that the PES candidate for the Commission presidency, Martin Schulz, will become the Commission vice president.
It’s obviously a defeat for British prime minister David Cameron who, just last week, was still holding out hope that he could pull together a blocking minority to keep Juncker from receiving the Council’s endorsement. But by the time the Council gathered to vote, only Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán joined Cameron in opposing Juncker. Not only did Cameron fail to win over allies, he failed to keep both Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte and Swedish prime minister Frederik Reinfeldt, neither of whom are enthusiastic about the prospects of a Juncker candidacy.
Contacted by a reporter for the Moscow-based RIA Novosti earlier today, I had a chance to put together some quick thoughts on what the Juncker decision means. Here are my real-time responses, which will double as my real-time analysis on where things go from here.
On how the choice reflects the European parliamentary elections on May 25:
The choice reflects the fact that Juncker was the candidate of the European People’s Party, the pan-European group of center-right, Christian democratic parties, and the EPP won the greatest number of seats in the European parliamentary elections on May 25. The EPP nominated Juncker as its candidate for the European Commission presidency prior to the May 25 parliamentary elections, just as several other European parliamentary parties nominated their own candidates. The candidates — the German term ‘Spitzenkandidaten‘ developed widespread use across Europe — campaigned throughout the spring, and they participated in a set of debates on the EU’s future.
Under the Lisbon treaty, the European Council is supposed to ‘propose’ a candidate for Commission president, which will be ‘elected’ by the European Parliament, with the Council ‘taking into account’ the results of the parliamentary election. No one knows exactly what that means, but Juncker and the other parliamentary leaders believe firmly that the Council must propose Juncker as its candidate. In so doing today, the Council has set an important precedent for future parliamentary elections, though national leaders will be loathe to admit it.
Proponents of the Spitzenkandidaten system argue that Juncker represents the will of the European electorate, because he’s the candidate of the party that won the most votes, but it’s not so simple as that. There’s no real indication that the majority of European voters were voting on the basis of this or that Commission presidential candidate. Voter turnout has dropped significantly since the first European elections in 1979, and voters often cast their ballots on the basis of national governments or other factors. To the extent there was a unifying theme to the elections, it was the rise of euroscepticism on both the far right and the far left, with the victories of groups like the United Kingdom Independence Party, France’s Front national (National Front) and Denmark’s Dansk Folkeparti (People’s Party). Whatever ‘mandate’ you take away from the European elections, it’s hard to argue there’s a groundswell of genuine democratic support for Juncker. It was only last October that Juncker’s own center-right Christian Social People’s Party suffered so many losses in Luxembourg’s national elections that he was forced out as prime minister after 18 years.
Continue reading European Council proposes Juncker as Commission president →
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A detailed look at the European parliamentary election results (part 2)
May 27, 2014 Kevin Lees 2 Comments
Across Europe on Monday, officials, voters and everyone else were trying to sort through the consequences of yesterday’s voting, across all 28 member-states, to elect the 751 members of the European Parliament.
Late Sunday, I began analyzing the results on a state-by-state basis — you can read my take here on what the European election results mean in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.
This post picks up where that left off, however, with a look at some of the results in Europe’s mid-sized member-states.
RELATED: A detailed look at the European parliamentary election results (part 1)
With the count now almost complete, here’s where the Europe-wide parties stand:
The European People’s Party (EPP), which has been the largest group in the European Parliament since 1999, will continue to be the largest group, but with fewer seats (215) than after any election since 1994.
The second-largest group, the Party of European Socialists (PES) has 188 seats, a slight gain, but not the breakout performance for which it was hoping.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe (ALDE) will remain the third-largest group, notwithstanding the collapse of two of its constituent parties, the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and the Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP, Free Democratic Party) in Germany.
The European Greens have won 53 seats, just two less than before the elections. The Party of the European Left, which had hoped to make strong gains on the strength of its anti-austerity message, gained nine seats to 44.
The Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a slightly eurosceptic group of conservative parties, including the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, holds steady at 46 seats — that’s a slight loss of around eight seats. The Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy (MELD) gained six.
The real increase was among the ‘non-inscrits,’ the unaffiliated MEPs, which will rise from around 30 to 104. The bulk of those MEPs include the newly elected eurosceptics that have made such a big splash in the past 24 hours, including Marine Le Pen’s Front national (FN, National Front) in France.
But, in addition to being a pan-European contest with wide-ranging themes that resonate throughout the European Union, the elections are also 28 national contests, and they’ve already claimed resignations of two center-left leaders — Eamon Gilmore, of Ireland’s Labour Party, and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party).
Here’s a look at how the European elections are affecting nine more mid-sized counties across the European Union: Poland, Romania, The Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Hungary and Sweden.
Continue reading A detailed look at the European parliamentary election results (part 2) →
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Here come the Spitzenkandidaten! But does anybody care?
May 23, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
If you believe the hype, the contest between Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured above, right) and Germany’s Martin Schulz (pictured above, left) is the European equivalent to the American election of 1800.
Fully 214 years ago, American voters (or, more accurately, white, male American property-holders) went to the polls in what was just the second contested presidential election in US history, pitting the incumbent, John Adams of Massachusetts, against Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
The aftermath of that election demonstrated flaws in the nascent American democracy’s constitution when Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr, both received 73 votes in the US electoral college. The clear intention was always that Burr was Jefferson’s running mate. Yet as a technical matter, the two candidates were tied in the only presidential vote that mattered in the electoral college. Jefferson ultimately prevailed, but only after 36 grueling ballots in the US House of Representatives. Four years later, the United States adopted the 12th amendment to its constitution, separating the electoral college vote for president and vice president.
Which is to say, new political systems often go through growing pains and their fair share of trial-and-error.
So it will be with the European Union. The Treaty of Lisbon, which came into effect in 2009, directs the European Council (the group of 28 European heads of state and/or government) to ‘propose’ a candidate for president of the European Commission (the European Union’s chief executive and regulatory body) to be ‘elected’ by the European Parliament.
RELATED: In Depth: European parliamentary elections
Each of Europe’s major families of political parties took the new treaty language as a sign to field Commission presidential candidates in advance of this weekend’s European elections. Though five groups ultimately selected candidates, the greatest attention has focused upon those of the two largest blocs in the European Parliament, Juncker’s center-right, Christian democratic European People’s Party (EPP) and Schulz’s center-left, social democratic Party of European Socialists (PES).
As the Europe-wide candidates of their respective parliamentary groups, Juncker and Schulz have become the standard-bearers of the most pan-European election campaign in history. They’ve traveled the breadth of the European Union, and they’ve faced off in debate after debate. The challengers have become delightfully known as the Spitzenkandidaten in Germany, a neologism that’s caught on throughout the European Union.
But beyond the symbolism and the novelty, does anyone in Europe care? Continue reading Here come the Spitzenkandidaten! But does anybody care? →
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The European parliamentary elections are really four contests
It’s hard to know exactly how to place the European parliamentary elections in the constellation of world politics.
From one perspective, they’re relatively unimportant — a largely apathetic electorate is choosing a body of 751 MEPs in a parliament that has less power within the European Union than most parliamentary bodies have within national governments. The Council of the European Union gives member-states veto power over EU legislation and the European Commission, the regulatory executive of the European Union, has the power to introduce legislation. Voters, since the first direct elections in 1979, have turned out in ever lower proportions with each election cycle. To the extent you talk to European voters who actually care about the elections, they mostly view them as an opportunity for a protest vote.
From another perspective, they’re incredibly important. They represent the one point of genuine democratic participation within the European Union and, given the tumult of the past five years with respect to the eurozone, the European economy and the power of relatively wealthier states to dictate the monetary policy and, increasingly, the fiscal policy of weaker states, the current elections represent a major conversation about the future of EU policy. That’s especially true in the context of the weighty matters that the next European Parliament will face, including a new data privacy directive and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a potentially game-changing free-trade agreement with the United States.
So which is the right interpretation?
It can be both — and many things besides — depending on your view. That’s because the European parliamentary elections are really four separate political contests, wrapped up and presented as one set of elections. The relative importance or unimportance that a particular actor places on the ‘European elections’ depends upon which of the four ‘contests’ most resonates.
So what are the four contests simultaneously raging across Europe? Continue reading The European parliamentary elections are really four contests →
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Who is Federica Mogherini?
When Matteo Renzi, the 39-year-old former Florence mayor, pushed Enrico Letta out of power in February, I questioned the timing of his decision and noted that it was an arguably anti-democratic electoral coup against a prime minister of his own party that could easily backfire on Renzi.
But among the most eyebrow-raising choices was Renzi’s decision not to reappoint the internationally acclaimed Emma Bonino as foreign minister, allegedly against the wishes of Italian president Giorgio Napolitano.
A longtime leader of the Radicali Italiani (Italian Radicals), a group of reform-minded, good-government economic and social liberals, Bonino had a long career in Italian and international politics as an inaugural (and subsequent) member of the European Parliament, international trade minister under center-left prime minister Romano Prodi, and European commissioner for health and consumer protection in the late 1990s. A longtime international activist for human rights, Bonino surfaced briefly as a potential Italian presidential contender in May 2013, though the electors ultimately decided to reappoint Napolitano.
Instead, Renzi appointed Federica Mogherini, a previously little-known international affairs expert and legislator in Renzi’s Partido Democratico (PD, Democratic Party).
Of course, youth need not prevent an official from becoming foreign minister (it hasn’t stopped Austria’s 27-year old foreign minister Sebastian Kurz). Nonetheless, it was a risk to replace such a renowned official like Bonino with an untested foreign minister like Mogherini (pictured above). Even before Bonino, the foreign ministry is a role that’s been held by some of Italy’s most senior politicians — Gianfranco Fini and Franco Frattini on the right, and Massimo D’Alema and Lamberto Dini on the left.
Mogherini, in her first trip abroad, was received by US secretary of state John Kerry yesterday, and she appeared briefly at the Brookings Institution today to share thoughts about European relations with Russia, Ukraine, North Africa and the Middle East.
Mogherini is impressive, even to those of us who regret that Bonino’s time as foreign minister was truncated to just 10 months. At her discussion at Brookings, she was more forthright and authoritative than one might expect from such an untested foreign minister. Continue reading Who is Federica Mogherini? →
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Le Pen v. Wilders: a tale of two far-right European movements
March 24, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
The big story from Sunday’s municipal elections in France is the success of Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front national (FN, National Front), overshadowing the marquee Paris mayoral election.
The far-right won the mayoral race in Hénin-Beaumont, a former mining town in the north, in a rare first-round victory, the FN came in second in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, and it led in at least six other locations as France prepares for second-round runoffs on March 30.
The result should certainly boost Le Pen in her efforts to win support in European parliamentary elections in May — and to unite the populist hard right across the continent.
According to preliminary results, the Front national won just 4.65% of the national vote. That’s a big deal because the party was running in just 597 of around 37,000 jurisdictions — it’s a massive increase from the 2008 municipal results, when the FN won around 1% and ran in just 119 constituencies.
The other narrative from Sunday’s vote is the collapse of France’s center-left — president François Hollande’s Parti socialiste (PS, Socialist Party) won 37.74% nationally, while the center-right Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP, Union for a popular movement) of former president Nicolas Sarkozy won 46.54% nationally. The bright spot for the Socialists remains Paris, where first deputy mayor Anne Hidalgo is the slight favorite to win a runoff against former Sarkozy campaign spokesperson and ecology minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet — but don’t rule out an upset next Sunday there, either.
The success in the 2014 municipal elections is just the latest chapter for Le Pen’s rebranding of the Front national in France as a slightly more moderate alternative than the party her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, led for decades. It’s harder today to target the Front national as a xenophobic, anti-Semitic fringe, because Le Pen has focused on an agenda much heavier on euroskepticism and economic nationalism. While the Front national isn’t exactly immigrant-friendly, its position has largely converged with the UMP’s position since the Sarkozy presidency, which embraced hard-right positions on immigration and law-and-order issues. By shifting rightward, Sarkozy may have sidelined Le Pen during his presidency and co-opted her supporters, but today, Sarkozy is almost as responsible as Le Pen for bringing the Front national within the political mainstream.
With the line blurring between the UMP and the Front national, Le Pen could become the chief voice of the French right in 2017, especially if the UMP succumbs to more infighting between its right-wing leader Jean-François Copé and the more moderate former prime minister François Fillon. The next presidential election is still a long way off, but if Sarkozy doesn’t run for the presidency in 2017, Le Pen stands just as much chance as Copé, Fillon or any other UMP figure of representing the French right in the second round.
More immediately troubling for France’s political elite are the European parliamentary elections in May. Despite its breakthrough performance on Sunday, the Front national isn’t about to overrun the city halls of France. Its victory is more symbolic than substantive. But if it’s one thing to turn over your local government to Marine Le Pen, it’s a far different thing to support the Front national as a protest vote with respect to European Union policy.
Polls show that the Front national and the UMP are competing for first place in the European elections within France — the most recent Opinion Way poll from early March shows the UMP winning 22%, the FN winning 21% and the Socialists just 17%. It wouldn’t be surprising to see a wave of undecided voters support the Front national at the last moment, nor would it be a surprise to learn that polling surveys currently underestimate FN support.
Extremists on both the far left and the far right are gaining strength throughout the entire European Union. That’s perhaps understandable, given the harsh economic conditions that have plagued Europe since the last EU-wide elections in 2009. But the euroskeptic right, in particular, seems poised for a breakthrough. Nigel Farage hopes to lead the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party to a breakthrough performance in May, and the Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ, the Freedom Party of Austria) is tied for first place in polls in Austria.
But just as Le Pen hits her stride, another standard-bearer of the hard right, Geert Wilders, found himself in free fall last week after pledging to allow fewer Moroccans into the Netherlands, remarks that have launched a cascade of criticism and a handful of defections from his party: Continue reading Le Pen v. Wilders: a tale of two far-right European movements →
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Swiss immigration vote threatens access to EU single market
February 9, 2014 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
An infamous campaign poster from the 2007 Swiss election that depicts a flock of white sheep inside Switzerland, with one kicking a black sheep outside — the implication being that the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP, Schweizerische Volkspartei in German; UDC, Union démocratique du centre in French) would tighten immigration policies to keep out migrants and perhaps reverse the trend of greater immigration to Switzerland in recent years. Critics pointed out the nastier racist undertones of the poster.
It’s that advertisement that I had in mind today as Swiss voters elected by a narrow 50.3%-to-49.7% margin to adopt an initiative ‘against mass immigration’ that would introduce quotas to Swiss immigration, despite the wishes of the Swiss government and Swiss business interests and the warnings of top EU officials. The result threatens the existing treaties between Switzerland and the European Union that guarantee the free movement of persons, one of the four ‘core’ EU freedoms.
It’s a significant victory for the SVP, which has emerged as a major force in Swiss politics through its forceful advocacy of a nationalist, conservative agenda to restrict immigration and oppose greater EU integration.
The result means that the Swiss government now has three years either to renegotiate or revoke the bilateral agreement finalized in 2002 with the European Union over free movement of persons. That treaty is part of a larger package that provided Switzerland access to the EU single market in exchange for enacting certain aspects of EU policy, and it’s part of a wider process that has more closely integrated Switzerland with the European Union over the past decade. The country’s historic independence means that it’s never seriously pursued EU membership — Switzerland joined the United Nations only in 2002, after all. Continue reading Swiss immigration vote threatens access to EU single market →
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From Heath to Wilson to Thatcher to Cameron: continuity in EU-UK relations
January 28, 2013 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
My friend and colleague, Dr. Michael J. Geary, and I, are in The National Interest today with a even-further revised piece on the history of relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union (pictured above are former prime ministers Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher).
In particular, we continue to argue that British participation in the EU — including UK prime minister David Cameron’s latest speech demanding a renegotiation of the UK’s position in the EU and a straightforward in/out referendum by 2017 — must be viewed within the long context of the tumultuous 40-year history of UK-EU relations:
But even as the Eurozone accepts that deeper union is necessary to make the single currency workable, it’s unclear that in the reality of today’s “multi-speed Europe,” Cameron would need to renegotiate anything in order to retain the fiscal prerogative at home—just 22 days ago, the “fiscal compact” took effect through much of the rest of the EU, despite Cameron’s refusal to ratify it.
That’s why Europe should view Cameron’s speech not only in the narrow context of right-wing domestic politics or fiscal sovereignty, but within the wider scope of Britain’s troubled relationship with European integration. Ideally, Britain wants a European-wide free-trade area without the supranational institutional apparatus, something it proposed during the 1950s. Yet unless the euro implodes, that’s not the future of the EU.
Photo credit to Paul Grover.
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Catalan election results: pro-independence parties win narrow majority
September 27, 2015 Kevin Lees Leave a comment
Regional president Artur Mas declares victory in Sunday’s Catalan elections.(Reuters/Sergio Pérez)
There’s no doubt that the pro-independence Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes) coalition won a resounding victory in Sunday’s regional elections in Catalonia. With nearly 40% of the vote, it is by far the largest force in Catalonia’s regional government and with the support of the ardently pro-independence, hard-left Candidatura d’Unitat Popular (CUP, Popular Unity Candidacy), it is likely to form a government that will carry forward the cause of Catalan independence over the next 18 months.
For the first time in Catalan history, an explicitly pro-independence coalition, running expressly on the campaign pledge to enact an 18-month process toward declaring independence, will control the Generalitat, the Catalan government.
But that’s essentially where the good news ends for Catalonia’s independence movement, which now faces the real prospect of hubris and overreach in the days and weeks ahead.
A democratic deficit
The first difficulty is that, though pro-independence parties now control the Catalan parliament, those parties did not, as a technical matter, win a majority of votes in the election. Pro-independence parties together won around 47.9% of the vote, just shy of an outright majority, depriving the pro-independence camp of an important moral victory in its quest. It’s difficult to claim that your movement commands democratic support when a majority of voters, in an election with nearly 77.5% turnout, supported anti-independence parties.
It’s hard to compare the 2015 result against the 2012 result because that’s something of an apples-to-oranges comparison. But in the broadest sense, the parties supporting independence (or at least sympathetic to the cause of Catalan nationalism) won 74 seats in the Catalan parliament. That’s actually two more seats than the pro-independence parties won in the 2015 vote.
Continue reading Catalan election results: pro-independence parties win narrow majority →
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In refusing Catalan vote, Rajoy risks isolating himself and Spain’s future
December 16, 2013 Kevin Lees 2 Comments
It’s not like Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy didn’t have any warning.
Catalan regional president Artur Mas called early regional elections for November 2012 for the express purpose of winning a mandate behind the call for greater autonomy and/or independence for Catalunya. That didn’t work out so incredibly well for Mas and his autonomist center-right Convergència i Unió (CiU, Convergence and Union), which lost 12 seats in the 135-member Catalan parliament, and was forced to form a unity government with the pro-independence, leftist Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, Republican Left of Catalunya). Nonetheless, the election largely ratified the strength of the Catalan separatists, who control 87 seats to just 48 for Catalunya’s federalist parties.
Three months ago, on September 11 — upon the celebration of Catalan national day — nearly 400,000 Catalan citizens formed a human chain stretching from the Pyrenees to the coast to emphasize just how fervently they support their right to self-determination.
Rajoy, much to his discredit, has ignored those Catalans, and Mas’s government has now set November 9, 2014 as the date for a referendum on Catalan independence — with or without the Spanish federal government’s blessing — after a vote last Thursday in the Catalan parliament that enjoyed the universal support of Mas’s Convergence and Union, the Republic Left and the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV, Initiative for Catalonia Greens). Rajoy (pictured above) and his justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (pictured below) have made clear that not only is a referendum unacceptable under the Spanish constitution, but that they won’t be coerced into negotiating with Mas over devolving greater power (and funds) back to Catalunya, one of the wealthiest regions in Spain. With over 7.5 million people, the region account for one-fifth of Spain’s economic output.
If the vote actually goes ahead next November (and there’s some reason to believe that Mas is bluffing), it could constitute the most severe constitutional crisis since Spain’s return to democracy in the late 1970s.
To some degree, it’s easy to sympathize with Rajoy. Though he took office just over two years ago when the center-right Partido Popular (the PP, or the People’s Party) ousted the center-left government headed by José Luis Zapatero and the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party) in November 2011, Rajoy’s popularity has plummeted as he’s pushed Spain through higher taxes and budget cuts. That fiscal adjustment is plausibly both the cause and effect of a cycle of economic depression that’s left Spain reeling, including an unemployment rate of 26.6% that may be peaking only after five years of GDP contraction. Spanish finances remain in tatters, despite the budgetary efforts of both the Zapatero and Rajoy governments, and Rajoy simply can’t afford to send more euros to Barcelona. It’s not difficult to see the slippery slope that would begin once Rajoy starts negotiating with Rajoy over Spanish federalism. An equally pro-autonomy regional government in Euskadi (Basque Country), which is also wealthier than the Spanish average, will be sure to follow with their own demands. Other regions, like Galicia and Andalusia, the latter one of Europe’s most economically forlorn, might also make demands for stimulus.
It’s equally easy to see the naked political game that Mas is playing. You need only look to the way that the referendum will be structured — Catalans will first be asked, ‘Do you want Catalonia to be a state?’ Those who agree with the first question will subsequently be asked, ‘Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state?’ The vote will be an easy way for Catalans to register their disapproval with Madrid without taking the kind of steps that could truly rupture Catalunya from Spain and that could leave Catalunya as an independent country outside the European Union (if only temporarily). Mas is clearly using the referendum as a game to strengthen his hand vis-à-vis negotiations with Rajoy and, perhaps, to maximize his own standing within the Catalan electorate. Some relatively moderate voices within the CiU coalition have even said that the referendum should only be held if it’s ultimately deemed ‘legal’ by Madrid. The shell game of posing two questions to determine whether Catalunya should be a state or an independent state conveniently blurs the line of independence — it’s such a cynical ploy that it’s hard to take Mas seriously as a statesman, despite the legitimate sentiment of millions of pro-independence Catalans.
But Mas can get away with such demagoguery largely because of Rajoy’s intransigence. Continue reading In refusing Catalan vote, Rajoy risks isolating himself and Spain’s future →
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Mas push for CiU dominance — and Catalan independence — backfires
November 27, 2012 Kevin Lees 3 Comments
When Artur Mas (pictured above) called early elections in late September, there was every reason to believe he would improve the position of his autonomist, center-right party, Convergència i Unió (CiU, Convergence and Union), in the wake of protests in Barcelona and throughout Catalunya (specifically on Sept. 11, a nationalist holiday in Catalunya) in favor of greater independence from Spain’s beleaguered federal government.
Even as recently as a month ago, it seemed that CiU was poised to gain enough seats to take an absolute majority in the 135-member Catalan parliament (the Parlament de Catalunya).
Instead, Mas’s party lost 12 seats and will fall to just 50 seats in the Catalan parliament. The CiU has long been Catalunya’s dominant party, and it controlled Catalunya’s regional parliament from 1980 until 2003 — it has won the largest share of seats in every regional election since Spain’s return to democracy, and that was always unlikely to change after Sunday’s election. Moreover, the result leaves the CiU in a stronger position than after the 2003 and 2006 elections, when a resurgent federalist, center-left Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC, Socialists’ Party of Catalunya) won enough seats to lead governing coalitions in the regional government.
All the same, Mas’s gambit — hopping on the bandwagon of wide Catalan discontent by wrapping himself in the cause of Catalan independence — has clearly backfired, and Mas will have fallen back from a near-absolute majority status two years sooner than necessary.
The CiU won just 30.68% of the vote on Sunday, a drop of 7.75% from the 2010 election that returned the CiU to power.
Meanwhile, the PSC won 14.43% and just 20 seats — eight fewer than its historically poor result in 2010.
The ‘winner’ of the election in relative terms is clearly the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, Republican Left of Catalunya) — a leftist party in favor of Catalan independence, which won 13.68% and 21 seats, giving it the second-largest number of seats in the parliament (although just barely). The CiU will most likely seek a governing coalition with the ERC for a broad separatist coalition. Although the ERC joined in a governing coalition with the PSC from 2003 to 2010, its current leader since 2011, Oriol Junqueras, has moderated the ERC’s sometimes-radical leftist tone, while pulling the ERC toward a more pro-independence line.
Both moves make it a likelier coalition partner for the CiU, and Junqueras looks set to become the second-most important politician in Catalunya after Mas. The ERC has indicated, however, that it will seek some moderation of the CiU’s support for austerity policies in exchange for joining any coalition. If negotiations fail with the ERC, however, the CiU might also seek a coalition with the PSC or other parties.
The Partit Popular de Catalunya (PPC, People’s Party of Catalunya) — the local variant of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular (the PP, or the People’s Party) won 12.99% and gained one seat for a total of 19.
The Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds – Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (ICV-EUiA), a green/leftist coalition, won 9.89% and 13 seats, while Ciutadans – Partit de la Ciutadania (C’s, Citizens — Party of the Citizenry), a center-left, federalist and euroskeptic Catalan party, won 7.58% and nine seats. A group of radical leftists, the Candidatures d’Unitat Popular (CUP — Popular Unity Candidates), broke through for the first time at the regional level with 3.48% and three seats.
To understand Sunday’s vote, it’s helpful to look at the result on three axes:
On the axis of ‘federalist’ parties (PSC, PPC and Ciutadans) versus autonomist and pro-independence parties (everyone else), the ‘federalists’ won 48 seats to 87 seats for the ‘separatists.’ If you break down the 2010 result, this is a one-seat ‘gain’ for ‘separatists.’ So the Catalan parliament will actually remain remarkably stable in terms of the balance of power on the separatist axis.
On the axis of center-right parties (CiU and PPC) versus leftist parties of all stripes, it’s clear that Sunday was a win for the broad ‘left’: the center-right parties, together, won 80 seats in 2010 versus just 55 for leftist parties; in 2012, the broad ‘right’ will control just 69 seats to 66 seats for the broad ‘left.’
But the real story of the election comes when you look at the axis of parties that are ‘tainted’ with having supported austerity policies — that includes not just the PPC and CiU, but also the PSC, which controlled Catalunya’s fiscal policy through 2010 and is the local arm of the national center-left Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) that governed Spain until December 2011 and implemented the first of Spain’s federal austerity policies. Those three parties’ share of the Catalan parliament’s seats dropped from 108 to 89 on Sunday, while the other parties — all of which are anti-austerity and/or protest parties of some degree — surged from 27 seats to 46 seats.
Taken together, the result indicates that Catalans haven’t necessarily reached a point of historically high support for independence as much as they, like most electorates throughout Europe in the past three years, remain weary of recession and unemployment, coupled simultaneously with budget cuts and tax increases.
At the end of the day, when you get past all of the sturm und drang about Catalan independence leading up to the election, the Catalan result fits fairly neatly within the context of the wider eurozone debate (which Edward Hugh noted back in October). I’ll have some further thoughts later today or tomorrow in a separate post on what the result means for ‘Catalan independence’ as such. Continue reading Mas push for CiU dominance — and Catalan independence — backfires →
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Spanish conservatives take Galicia; Basque nationalists win Euskadi
October 21, 2012 Kevin Lees 1 Comment
Sunday’s regional elections in Galicia and Euskadi (i.e., the Basque Country) have given just about everyone in Spanish politics something to be happy about.
In Galicia, the ruling center-right Partido Popular de Galicia (PPdeG, People’s Party of Galicia) of Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo (pictured above, top right), the local branch of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s Partido Popular (PP, People’s Party), extended its majority in the 75-member Parlamento de Galicia from 38 to 41 after winning 45.72% of the vote.
In Euskadi, the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV, EAJ, the Basque Nationalist Party or, in Basque, the Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea) emerged with the largest number of seats in the Eusko Legebiltzarra (Basque parliament), with 27 seats on 34.64% of the vote. Like Galicia, Euskadi’s unicameral parliament has 75 members.
As such, the PNV fended off a strong challenge from a more radical leftist and more firmly pro-independence coalition of Basque nationalists — the contest was widely seen as a fight between the more centrist PNV and the coalition of the ezker abertzalea (‘patriotic left’) formed this year, the Euskal Herria Bildu (EHB).
The PNV, however, is now likely to form a government and its leader, Íñigo Urkullu (pictured above, bottom), is very likely to become lehendakari (president) of Euskadi. Urkullu is the former PNV leader in Biscay, a stronghold for the party, and he became party leader in 2008. The likely return of the PNV to government will put it back in power after only its first stint in opposition in the past 30 years.
So what do Sunday’s regional elections means more widely for Spain?
The result will give some comfort to Rajoy (pictured above, top left), who hails from Galicia, a center-right heartland within Spain. Rajoy once served in Galicia’s parliament, and Rajoy and his party will be delighted to see Feijóo’s local Galician allies extend their majority. After extending the center-right majority in Galicia and winning a plurality, if not an absolute majority, of seats in the March 2012 regional elections in the center-left stronghold of Andalucía, Spain’s most populous region (despite remaining in the opposition), Rajoy can take respite that his party retains some support throughout the country, which is suffering its fourth year of consecutive economic malaise and unemployment that’s perhaps the highest in Europe at just over 25%.
But the result will also embolden nationalist movements throughout Spain, especially Catalunya, where the separatist movement has taken an increasingly popular turn in the past couple of months. Catalan president Artur Mas called snap elections early last month, and Mas is engaged in a high-profile political fight over regionalism with Rajoy — Catalunya votes on November 25. Urkullu, who called for calm following the election, has been vague about his plans for the region, and he has not said whether he intends to seek full independence for Euskadi or merely greater regional autonomy. But he is seen as the more moderate of the two Basque nationalist party leaders in a region where the armed separatist group, the ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), signed a ceasefire just one year ago.
The result will also provide some small amount of delight for the radical left, which can point to gains in both regions.
Continue reading Spanish conservatives take Galicia; Basque nationalists win Euskadi →
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Six ways in which Sunday’s Galician and Basque elections will affect the Rajoy government
Just over 10% of Spain’s population will vote in regional elections this weekend in two key regions, Galicia and Euskadi (the Basque Country), but the elections will play a role in shaping the national politics that affect the remaining 90% of Spain at what’s an especially precarious time for the government of center-right prime minister Mariano Rajoy (pictured above with Galician president Alberto Núñez Feijóo).
Although Rajoy’s Partido Popular (PP, People’s Party) only recently came to power in November 2011, after the eight-year government of prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the center-left Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), Rajoy has faced an unenviably difficult climate. Spain’s economy is contracting this year after two years of tepid growth under 1%, which followed a contraction in 2008-09. Unemployment is now just over 25%, among the highest in the eurozone.
Despite the tough economic conditions, Zapatero’s government, and now Rajoy’s government, have been relentless in slashing the Spanish budget. Although Spain ran a fairly tight fiscal policy throughout the 2000s, the drop in tax revenue has resulted in an exploding budget deficit, which Rajoy hopes to reduce to just 6.3% of GDP this year (and 4.5% next year and 3% in 2014), in order to prevent yields on Spanish debt from rising to dangerous levels.
In less than a year, Rajoy has passed at least four different budget cut packages, including a raise in the Spanish income tax rate, a 3% hike in the Spanish value-added tax from 18% to 21%, the elimination of tax breaks for home owners and spending cuts for education and health care. Furthermore, each of Spain’s regions are responsible for cutting their own budgets to just 1.5% of GDP.
Although Rajoy campaigned on a promise not to seek any bailouts from the European Union, like Greece has done, everyone in the EU believes it’s only a matter of time before Rajoy requests one — the European Central Bank has already provided emergency funding to prop up Bankia and other beleaguered Spanish banks in June. Unlike with Greece, however, the most likely path for a Spanish bailout would be through a temporary credit line through the European Stability Mechanism, triggering the purchase of Spanish debt by the European Central Bank.
So on Sunday, when election results roll in from Galicia and Euskadi, here are six items to consider about how the results could affect the Rajoy government and Spain’s national politics: Continue reading Six ways in which Sunday’s Galician and Basque elections will affect the Rajoy government →
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Mas calls early elections in November for Catalunya amid growing calls for independence
September 26, 2012 Kevin Lees 6 Comments
Artur Mas, the president of Catalunya (pictured above), called early regional elections yesterday, which are set for November 25, and which will now follow two other key regional elections in October — in the other two ‘nationalities’ of Spain, the Basque Country and Galicia.
The decision brings to the forefront of Spanish politics the question of Catalan independence during a period in which Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy is trying to balance increasingly harsh budget cuts against an economy mired in recession and 25% unemployment, trying to keep yields on Spanish debt from climbing too high (which surpassed 6% again this week) while also keeping his pledge never to seek a bailout from the European Union (a pledge that Rajoy seems increasingly unlikely to keep).
Mas’s decision amounts to the latest ploy in a game of chicken between Madrid and Barcelona, despite the fact that it’s a dangerous time for Spain (and for the eurozone) for either to be playing any such game. After a month in which the eurozone seemed largely on the right track — a pro-European election result in the Netherlands, the European Central Bank’s decision to buy eurozone debt, the German constitutional court’s decision to endorse the European Stability Mechanism and optimism on Greece’s continued membership in the eurozone — a Catalan/Spanish showdown could spook bondholders into another round of eurocrisis.
The elections come more than a year early — elections were not due until November 2013 — and they come after contentious negotiations between Mas and Rajoy over a bailout for Catalunya. At a time when many regional governments are struggling, Mas’s regional government is seeking a rebate of up to €5 million for Catalunya and a ‘fiscal pact’ under which Catalunya could levy its own revenues to be used solely in Catalunya. This comes in the shadows of strident pro-independence sentiment, with up to 2 million Catalans participating in pro-independence marches (pictured above) on September 11 earlier this month (that’s Catalan’s national day).
If Mas’s Convergència i Unió (CiU, Convergence and Union), a center-right and autonomist party, wins the election on the strength of a pro-independence wave, and if it garners an absolute majority in the 135-member Catalan parliament (the Parlament de Catalunya), Mas will have more leverage with Rajoy’s national government — and it seems likely that Mas and other Catalan nationalist parties will champion a referendum on either greater Catalan autonomy, a full declaration of Catalan nationhood or actual Catalan independence from Spain. Some polls now show over 50% of Catalans support independence, which has risen dramatically during the Spanish financial crisis of the past three years — just as Germans balk at sending money to shore up Greek and Portuguese (and Spanish!) finances, Catalans balk at shoring up broader Spanish finances.
If he wins, though, the danger is that Mas will become the unlikely champion of an independence movement that is moving faster than he might otherwise have liked. The snap elections only risk fanning the flames of Catalan independence further out of control of Mas, Rajoy or anyone in Spanish or Catalan politics.
Rajoy, who certainly has enough headaches of his own, has taken a largely conciliatory public stance, even as he looks for ways to isolate Mas at the federal level — in the broad fight between Mas and Rajoy over concessions to Catalunya, Rajoy has the support of his own party, the center-right Partido Popular (the PP, or the People’s Party) and the opposition leader, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the leader of the national center-left Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), as well as many of the regional presidents, who blanche at Catalunya getting a better deal than their regions.
Catalunya, the second-most populous region in Spain, with 7.5 million people and one of three ‘nationality’ regions (like the Basque Country and Galicia), has as strong a regional identity as the Basque Country — both have their own language and their own culture that were subdued during the Franco era. The current surge in support for Catalan independence comes from the view that Catalunya, as Spain’s wealthiest — and most indebted — region, has subsidized other (read: lazier) regions that have mired Spain in its current austerity/recession trap, and that money transferred from Catalunya to the federal budget is money that could be better spent shoring up the Catalan budget.
Essentially, Catalan politics since the end of the Franco era has been traditionally a battle between two major parties:
Mas’s CiU (technically it is a federation of two similar parties) essentially ran Catalunya from 1980 until 2003 under the leadership of Catalan president Jordi Pujol. Although it technically won a plurality of seats in the 2003 and 2006 elections under Mas’s leadership, it won nearly an absolute majority in 2010, with 38.5% of the vote and fully 62 seats, just six seats short of such a majority.
The Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC, Socialists’ Party of Catalunya) is the major center-left party in Catalunya, but remains much more federal in nature — it’s the Catalan variant of the national PSOE. It controlled Catalunya’s government from 2003 to 2010 in coalition with two smaller parties. It lost a significant number of seats in the prior 2010 election and holds 28 seats currently after receiving just 18% of the vote.
In response to Mas’s latest push, the PSC has called for a federal system, like in Germany (a call that has been met with something far less than enthusiasm from Rajoy’s government).
Meanwhile, five smaller parties also hold seats in the current Catalan parliament and will vie for support in the November elections: Continue reading Mas calls early elections in November for Catalunya amid growing calls for independence →
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Mind of Steel and Clay: Camille Claudel is a diary. Through the guilt-ridden words of Edouard Faret, Director of the psychiatric hospital of Montdevergues, we are drawn into to the life of an exceptional woman, Camille Claudel.
In the 19th century, Camille was an unrivalled sculptress and both the student and lover of Auguste Rodin. She wanted to make a name for herself in a world of men, to achieve the fame and prestige that her work deserved, but this never came to pass.
In 1913, after the death of her adored father, her family committed her by force to an asylum. There she would stay, locked up against her will for 30 years until her death, despite the doctors and others who argued in defence of her sanity.
Mind of Steel and Clay: Camille Claudel tells the tragic tale of an extraordinary woman, an artistic genius whose fate was sealed with misfortune.
For the first time ever, the dark, unknown years of Camille's confinement, an era shrouded in mystery, are revealed and explored in great depth.
Through his diary, the Medical Director of the psychiatric hospital describes the years of confinement of the sculptress Camille Claudel. This bloody, ruthless account is teamed with the hardship of the Vichy France regime in World War II, yet is dappled with moments of inspiring hope; art, passion, guilt, madness and genius are at the forefront of this short novel.
Perhaps Enrique Laso's most acclaimed and profound novel to date, the author's admiration for Camille shines through, whilst on countless occasions he shares in her rage against the injustice of a world in which the cruel and deplorable are allowed to win.
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Migration brainstorming session emphasizes ingenuity, hands-on approach
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On February 27, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, in cooperation with the Migration Policy Institute, hosted a brainstorming session on migration and development in the run-up to the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GF), which will take place in Belgium in July 2007.
Representatives from the Belgian government pointed out that in contrast to the approach in New York, where starting a dialogue rather than reaching resolutions was the focus, the agenda of the GF will concentrate on practical approaches, policy tools and government-led initiatives. It will promote a hands-on approach for policy makers to exchange best practices, identify obstacles to better migration management, explore innovative policies and initiatives, and promote fresh collaborative approaches among stakeholders. Development was explicitly included in the title of the Global Forum since the link between migration and development appears to be more consensual internationally than a discussion of migration policies only.
The goal of the brainstorming session was to provide conceptual and intellectual input into the agenda-setting process. During the meeting, some of the latest research on the issues of remittances, policy coherence, and human capital development was presented in order to help finalize the agenda of the GF and promote an open debate between representatives of different government agencies that are involved in and impacted by migration policies. This is to ensure that new approaches to migration management address both the development needs of sending countries while at the same time consider security, integration, and labor market concerns of industrial countries. This brainstorming session presented a rare opportunity to think in detail about the underlying concepts and definitions of international migration.
The discussion began by addressing the main challenge at the upcoming Global Forum, which is the creation of political will in both the United States and Europe to overcome the migration fatigue related to the negative discussions about illegal migration. The objective is to encourage politicians to consider migration as a phenomenon that benefits both sending and receiving countries.
In today's debate, stakeholders often only distinguish between permanent and temporary migration; permanent migration implying the indefinite relocation of a migrant to a host country whereas temporary migration allows workers to enter a foreign country for a very specific - and often very limited - period of time before returning to the country of origin. One way to change the current debate about the impacts of migration on both sending and receiving countries would be to reconsider existing permanent and temporary migration schemes and find a way to encourage increased circular migration. Both of these schemes have their advantages and disadvantages with regards to integration and development aspects.
According to some participants permanent migration tends to promote better integration of migrants in the host society and, on average, leads to a more sustainable flow of remittances. But it also fuels the fear of the native population of too much foreign infiltration and an increased supply of workers for a limited number of available for jobs. Temporary migration on the other hand ensures that foreign workers - at least theoretically - return to their countries of origin once the demand for their work slows down. It also prevents brain drain, a phenomenon which sending countries often quote as one of the main negative effects of permanent migration. However, temporary migration also discourages migrants from integrating into the host society and thus can lead to social tensions between migrants and the native population. Moreover, host countries are faced with the challenge of how to enforce the temporary nature of this kind of labor migration. Temporary migrants often stay in the host country illegally after the end of their employment period out of fear that restrictive immigration policies will hinder them from returning to the destination country for a second or third time.
Circular migration schemes, meaning setting up corridors in which migrants can move between sending and receiving countries, could prove to be a triple-win solution for both sending and receiving countries and the migrants themselves. Specifically, circular migration is characterized by migrants moving to a specific destination country on a fairly permanent basis while keeping close ties with their country of origin by undertaking regular and often very extended trips back to the homeland in order to invest or work for a certain period of time. Based on this definition, destination countries will have a steady supply of needed workers in both skilled and unskilled occupations that are responsive to the country's political and socioeconomic climate while countries of origin benefit from the inflow of remittances of migrants living abroad and their investments and skills upon return. Moreover, circular migration policies would provide migrants with improved legal channels to move back and forth between countries and thus potentially lead to a decrease of illegal migration. In recent papers by the European Commission as well as by UN agencies, circular migration has been recommended as a future policy tool for better migration management, for economic reasons as well as for security considerations (e.g. to stem illegal inflows of unregistered migrants.)
Some experts pointed to the case of Morocco in the 1970s and 1980s which implemented policies have created an atmosphere which allows for and encourages more circular migration. Back then, Morocco's relation with its diaspora community was characterized by tight controls and discouragement of integration out of fear that migrants would form a political opposition 'from outside'. Moreover, integration was perceived as endangering vital remittances transfers. However, stagnation in remittances in the 1990s and a growing consciousness that repressive policies alienated migrants rather than binding them closer to Morocco state prompted the Moroccan government to adopt a more positive attitude towards dual citizenship and voting rights for migrants living abroad.
Most participants agreed that encouraging migrants to integrate in host societies while at the same time providing them with an opportunity for regular returns has been one of the most effective instruments for promoting remittances and thus foster economic development in the country of origin. But it was also stressed that migration policies have to be accompanied by broader economic growth policies in order to take real advantages of the benefits international migration potentially has to offer.
Other presentations at the workshop focused on the general importance of remittances on development and the impact of migration on health sectors in developing countries. Everyone agreed that remittances are a major source of external development finance. However, they are private money and therefore should not be considered part of a country's official development assistance. Thus they should not be taxed by governments or directed towards specific development projects. Instead, the development community should work together with the private sector in order to decrease costs of remittances services and find ways to indirectly leverage remittances flows to improve financial access of migrants, their beneficiaries, and the financial intermediaries in the countries of origin.
Regarding migration and health issues, some experts presented empirical evidence against the popular assumption that it is mainly the outward migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries that contributes to an African medical brain drain. While not denying the dire situation in many developing countries' medical sector it was pointed out these countries suffer more from medical personnel moving from rural into urban areas or moving into jobs outside the health sector altogether because of better wages or working conditions than from movements out of the country. Thus, emigration should not be considered a cause but rather a symptom of bad health care systems in many developing countries and it will take more than restrictive migration policies for health personnel to improve medical conditions in developing countries.
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SPIRIT OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO CELEBRATED AT THE HARWOOD MUSEUM OF ART
Taos, N.M. -Red Willow: Portraits of a Town, Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming and Eli Levin: Social Realism and The Harwood Suite open at the Harwood Museum of Art Saturday, February 9 and will remain on view through Sunday, May 5, 2013. The exhibitions tell the stories of some of Northern New Mexico's most interesting people.
"We stagger the exhibitions at the Harwood in a pendulum type fashion-from Red Willow: Portraits of a Town which is home grown and local-to international and unexpected," says Harwood Museum of Art Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Jina Brenneman. "This spring, it's all about Northern New Mexico. Our permanent collection has a strong representation of traditional portraiture-many of which have not been out of storage. There are also some magnificent examples in local collections - and we have many generous lenders in this community. Each portrait in the exhibition is a narrative waiting to be told - both subject and artist are often important historic figures."
Red Willow: Portraits of a Town in the Mandelman-Ribak Gallery presents portraits of the many compelling historic and contemporary members of the Taos community. Artists from around the world have visited Taos to capture the iconic and exotic faces of the people. Portraits include both the native Tiwa people from the Taos Pueblo and the Hispanic and Anglo populations that now form the majority of Taos' population. Taken together, these three groups have made Taos a tri-cultural and tri-lingual community.
"With Red Willow: Portraits of a Town, we celebrate the heart of Northern New Mexico and the region's tri-cultures, "says Brenneman. "The material for portraiture was, and is, plentiful. ‘The Man in a Green Hat: Portrait of Raymond De Puy' by Leslie Brown is like much of the work in the exhibition because of the story the portrait tells. I want to stand in front of a painting and be able to story tell with my own imagination-this piece elicits the best of your imagination."
Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming in the Peter and Madeleine Martin Gallery explores the work of Taos Pueblo artists Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal), one of the first American female cartoonists and a renowned muralist, and her son, the celebrated artist, storyteller and writer Jonathan Warm Day Coming.
"We are fortunate to be able to do very grassroots driven ‘research exhibitions' such as Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming, planting the seed for what we hope becomes a subject for a larger museum exhibition," states Brenneman. "This exhibition is an example of this, and it also ties closely to the efforts we are making to exhibit local and regional treasures during this time of the year."
The telling of stories through storyboards and the expression of cultural history through pictures were central to Eah-Ha-Wa's style. Her murals would serve the same ends as her cartoons. Eah-Ha-Wa's mural work began as early as the late 1930s. Eah-Ha-Wa received instruction in working on large murals at the Santa Fe Indian School, often working with political themes, and became a sought-after muralist. Eah-Ha-Wa's art tradition is being carried on by her son Jonathan Warm Day Coming, a Taos Pueblo artist, storyteller and writer. Jonathan Warm Day Coming is considered a deeply influential voice for his family's homeland, the Taos Pueblo. He is primarily known for his colorful acrylic paintings, which provide a visual narrative of the daily experiences and spiritual life drawn from his many childhood memories. Currently Warm Day Coming is devoting part of his time to researching and gathering a collection of his mother's artwork, holding true to the Pueblo's religious and cultural traditions, and looking forward to the completion of his first novel.
Eli Levin: Social Realism and the Harwood Suite in the George E. Foster, Jr. Gallery of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs focuses on some of the iconic, dramatic illustrations that Levin created to depict Northern New Mexico. Eli Levin was born in 1938 to Meyer Levin, the well-known author, and Mabel Schamp, scientist and dedicated communist. He was raised in New York in an intellectual milieu, went to Music and Arts High School, and was influenced by the artistic movements of Social Realism and Regionalism. He studied with several politically leftist realist painters, including Raphael Soyer and George Grosz.
The Mandelman-Ribak Foundation Oral History Project in the Caroline Lee and Bob Ellis Gallery originated in 1999 as a collaboration with Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. The project's initial concept called for a series of videotaped interviews with individuals who had been associated with the Taos Moderns, a group of artists living in Taos during the 1940s and 1950s that included Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak. As the Oral History Project evolved, the objective for the interviews broadened to encompass subsequent generations, including the influx of artists and writers who came to Taos in the 1960s and 1970s, and others who have contributed to the culture and arts in Taos. The project has recorded 44 interviews, all of which have been transcribed. For this installation, selected videotaped interviews will be looped on three flat screens. Interviewees include Larry Bell, Malcolm Brown, Ron Cooper, John DePuy, Ted Egri, Rosa Ellis Clark, Dennis Hopper, Paul O'Connor, Robert Ray, Mildred Tolbert, Jenny Vincent, and Jim Wagner.
Curator's Wall: Deborah Rael-Buckley The Curator's Wall is reserved for imagination and the creative process. Deborah Rael-Buckley has responded to this challenge by creating an installation based on the dimensions of this wall, keeping in mind the impact on the viewer. "Deborah took this challenge to new ‘heights' utilizing the space with individual sculptures that span the length and height of the wall," states Jina Brenneman. "The pieces combine to create an individual work of art."
Joyce and Sherman Scott Gallery: Taos Clay: Hank Saxe
Hank Saxe has been a dominant figure in the Taos clay scene - having provided the means and technique for a better part of the anagama advent, an enigmatic process of clay that stems from a blend of wood kiln firing with erratic color and intricate texture compositions. Saxe is known for public art, primarily ceramic work that he produces for architecture.
New Acquisition Installation John DePuy
When John DePuy first moved to Taos, still under the influence of his teacher, Hans Hofmann, his painting was entirely abstract. Over time Hofmann's influence receded, but his advice to paint from nature remained. For DePuy, the influence of New Mexico on his art was "mainly the land" and the inspiration provided by Taos Pueblo Indians' connection with that land.
OPENING RECEPTION INFORMATION
Alliance Members' Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 5-7 p.m.
Director's Circles Preview: Friday, February 8, 4-5 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m; Sunday, 12 - 5 p.m.
Where: The Harwood Museum of Art , 238 Ledoux Street, Taos, NM
Jennifer Marshall
jennifer@jmarshallplan.com
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Paul Buhle
by Michael Schapira
Vegetarianism, artistic experimentation, gender and racial equality, sexual freedom, a principled aversion to sanctioned forms of productivity and respectability; who wouldn’t want to be a bohemian with a set of markers like these? In Bohemians, a graphic study of bohemianism from roughly the Paris Commune to 1950s America, we see the signal contributions of subversives and radicals in making our world a more just and interesting place. The book is impressive in its scope, covering the transatlantic networks of poets, photographers, dancers, musicians, and artists of everyday life that helped shape the cultural landscape of places like Paris and New York City in decisive ways. It’s also impressive in the range of styles chosen to represent these figures and movements, from Rebecca Migdal’s history of The Masses, which grabs directly from the visual template set by the early 20th century socialist magazine, to Lance Tooks’ mixed media chapter on Katherine Mary Dunham and Pearl Eileen Primus, two “revolutionaries of 20th century dance.”
Paul Buhle (along with his co-editor David Berger) deserves a lot of credit for managing such an ambitious project. Bohemians is the most recent addition to a long career in radical comics and history, which includes Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World and the seminal Marxism in the United States. I caught up with Paul over email following Bohemians‘ NYC launch at the CUNY’s Gotham Center for New York History, a fitting venue for a city whose story cannot be told without reference to hotbeds of bohemianism like Greenwich Village and Harlem. We discussed the kind of fidelity a graphic artist has to their material, radicalisms old and new, and the path that leads a young boy from Willie Mays and Mad Comics to Martin Luther King and Lenny Bruce.
Michael Schapira: At the NYC launch event you made a comment to the effect that, beyond being a contribution to illustrated history, Bohemians is a significant piece of historical work in its own right. Can you elaborate a little more on what you take this contribution to be? Was this a surprising outcome when compared to what you expected at the beginning of the project?
Paul Buhle: I always expect “my” artists to make their own interpretation, in the sense that art changes the narrative, even if a complete script is provided beforehand. In most cases, artists adapt a script freely, paying attention to historical accuracy but working out much conceptually as they go along. (In some cases, artists also do their own research and, apart from the topic, keep the editor at arms’ length! Our editorial ego suffers in this case, but not much.) I would say that the depth of understanding, e.g., in Lance Tooks’ piece on Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, is stunning: I was stunned at the work. Trina Robbins’ script for “Les Salons de Paris” is erudite. But Dan Steffan’s “Frowning Prophet,” scripted entirely by himself, is as intensely developed as a scholarly journal article. Each of these examples has its own integrity and none stands above the others.
Many of the contributors have worked from existing texts in the past — e.g. illustrating Kafka or Studs Turkel (Kafka, who famously demanded that no illustration appear on the cover of The Metamorphosis). When you are illustrating from an existing text how do you tend to approach your work? Is it a form of translation where the integrity of the initial text has to be respected, or are you thinking that you are going to be creating something radically new that is in dialogue with the original text?
I am the editor or impresario, not the artist, and shy about speaking for them. But you have put your finger on the task by suggesting that integrity must be retained. Then again, RETAINING integrity while seeking to explore the visual implications, is the task at hand. The result is certainly something new. Perhaps we can see this most easily in Sabrina Jones’ renditions of Walt Whitman’s lines of poetry. They add new dimensions without taking anything away. Whitman’s New York is Jones’ New York.
Do you think that, at this moment, a history of bohemians speaks more to the hope of the young or the nostalgia of the old (e.g. the post-’68 generation)?
There’s an element of bohemianism that speaks to a sense of political futility or at least extreme difficulty of anything like political change. That’s where we are now. The generations immediately after 1968 were perhaps (in my classroom experience) more resentful than nostalgic: they missed all the fun and wanted someone to blame. Nostalgia set in later, but I am not at all sure this can be seen as nostalgia for 1960s Counter-culture. Bohemianism occupies a different space.
If you had to isolate a set of core values for bohemians across the period covered in the book, what would you point to? Or, conversely, did you come away from the project with a new respect for the diversity of different bohemian groups?
This is a key question and one almost impossible to answer with any sense of finality. The desire to elevate art, the making of art, above career, money, etc., and the desire to live apart from existing standards of behavior, sexual morality, etc. — these were there, among the Parisian bohemians, in the 1850s. We face a somewhat different situation when “existing standards” fall away, but on the economic or career side, not much has changed. The greatest change is as you suggest: demographic diversity, to which I would add globalization and communication. But women artists and nonwhite artists, after all, face the same (and further) restraints, also the same (if lesser) opportunities plunging some, in each generation, onto the bohemian path.
How did you commission the individual pieces? You have the musician Jeffrey Lewis illustrating the chapter on Woody Guthrie. Did you try to look for these affinities, did the illustrators themselves approach you with their interests, or did you assign some based on other qualities like the style of the illustrator?
The answer here is that there is no single answer. I began publishing a radical history magazine in 1967, when I was not quite 23, with few resources but with a social movement (Students for a Democratic Society) to reach, if I could. Radical America was noted for its poetry and art, and I went looking for poets and artists. All these years later, I try to match artists with topics. But I have the advantage, clear already in Wobblies! (2005) that I could draw on two particular milieu: the remnants of the Underground Comix world (most notably my late friend Spain Rodriguez) and its “Alt” successors; and the circles around World War 3 Illustrated, the magazine that has been a gathering place for mostly young artists, since its inception in 1979. There are other artists, who I’ve found through contacts, and all this takes effort. But I enjoy the effort.
When, in your training as a historian, did you become interested in the form of doing history? Was your interest in illustration something that you carried with you into your work as a historian, or did it emerge as a reaction to the way that history is normally done?
I had an eighth grade history teacher, my first African-American teacher (and my last, one might say, until I became a sort of disciple of CLR James, whose life I hope to put into comic form, with Milton Knight as artist, pretty soon), and there, in 1957, I fell for history. I’d wanted at about the same time to write Science Fiction. But I was also deeply involved, mentally, in Mad Comics, which had shortly before come to a close (and re-emerged as Mad Magazine, a less intense project aimed at younger ages). Harvey Kurtzman’s attention to detail including historical detail had a strong effect on me. Later, starting Radical America, I was also thinking about ORAL HISTORY, the fieldwork gathering stories from oldtimers, and that, too, has greatly shaped my work, how I think history can be told. Last, I was always interested in reaching an audience beyond the university, and comics are my way, if they are successful, in reaching young people who are stirred or can be stirred by challenging, radical ideas but find too little of what they want in other places.
Your co-editor, David Berger, said that for him the biggest achievement of the work was to highlight the contributions of African-American bohemians. Was this a surprising outcome, or something that was self-consciously part of the project from the beginning?
I had been looking, from the beginning of my comics work, for African American artists, and having poor luck in matching artist to project. Lance Tooks and Milton Knight had collaborated with, had known, the World War 3 people; we “met” Afua Richardson on the web, looking up her work. I’m amazed at how resonant the resulting work in Bohemians is, and how far it goes to define the project as a whole. David pushed hard, wrote several scripts (all of them heavily adapted by the artists) and deserves great credit. Modern Dance, for instance, was a mystery to me.
Many subjects in the book, like Walt Whitman with his notebooks, worked in public. Some of the illustrators talked about carrying their sketchbooks around and working on the subway. Do you think that the public character of their art or politics or fashion is a central part of the history of bohemians?
The very nature of Ash Can Art as it evolved in the 1910s, came from newspaper illustration work, as the leading scholar of the field, Rebecca Zurier (a good friend), has detailed in several books. Several of the WW3 artists have remarked, from time to time, how the example of the Masses magazine, where the Ashcan artists’ work appeared to a wide audience, continues to be important for them. So: you’ve hit a key point. These artists are in their studios but also in the street, when something happens, for instance protests against Gentrification’s effects on poor people’s housing, or against some attack on ecology, or against the latest war, they are themselves part of the scene. When they work in the present and gather stories, as they do sometimes, they seem very much like my own work in oral history.
Was it Mad Magazine and the underground and alternative media of the 1960s that got you interested in illustration? And if so which were your favorite publications and illustrators?
You’ve come close to my heart or home base. At age nine, my great heroes were Willie Mays (of the New York Giants) and Harvey Kurtzman of Mad (at fifteen, they were Martin Luther King and Lenny Bruce). It is impossible to summarize what Harvey, but also his key artists Wally Wood and Willie Elder — not to forget Jack Davis and John Severin among others — meant to me reading the little Ballantine reprints “best of” Mad Comics paperbacks. I read these books hundreds of times. And learned what I later called the “immanent critique of popular culture,” that is, getting inside the phenomenon, looking at the discrepancies that are more than hypocritical. Kurtzman was taking apart postwar consumerism and the military-industrial society conceptually.
Nothing ever came up to Mad Comics’ level of satire and comic art, at least not until I received Feds ‘n Heads, Gilbert Shelton’s first little booklet, sent up from Texas; and until I began to see “Underground Comix” in the back pages of Underground newspapers. I went from there.
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Breaking news: Has debris from Malaysia Airlines MH370 finally been found?
Debris found on island "very likely" from MH370
Australian officials now say that the debris found on the island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, is "very likely" from the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared last year. The debris will be sent to France for examination.
Martin Dolan, the Australian who heads their search efforts, said he is "increasingly confident that the wreckage... is associated with a 777 aircraft".
facts about the debris:
The debris was found on Reunion Island, 2,500 miles from where it is believed the plane crashed.
Experts say that the debris found looks like a flaperon, a moving part of the wing of a plane.
Image: BBC
Even if the debris is from MH370, it's unlikely that the find will help trace the original crash site of the plane. "Over the last 16 or 17 months, any floating debris would have dispersed quite markedly across the Indian Ocean," Dolan said.
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Islamic Tradition and Reform
Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan's Vision in Post-Colonial Education
by Noorudheen Musthafa
http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2539/islamic-tradition-and-reform
Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan.
"Call me whatever names you like, I will not ask you for my salvation, but please take pity on your children. Do something for them (send them to schools), lest you have to repent (for not sending them)." – Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan [1817-1898]
It is often obscured whether modern intellectual discourse follows a path to the center of Humanity or produces lasting phenomena counter to indigenous, traditional morally- and ethically-dictated principles.
Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan, a visionary educator and statesman, was an exemplary reformer who found new ways and means for the effective integration of modernity with traditional, classical intellectual discourse. Multifarious living patterns, intellectual traditions, and philosophies of consciousness are adaptable to today's forward-looking society. Particularly in the Muslim world, many have exercised their minds with such types of fusion, involving modernity from the inception of the Enlightenment, through contributions at base and in outcomes. Perhaps all showed a proportion between the irrefutable evidence of social experiments, but sometimes the imposition of inappropriate schemes upon the process of synthesis has caused failure.
Nevertheless, the philosophy of integration in Muslim majority/minority spaces from East to West – which was the educational vision of Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan – overcame prejudices, whether rising from conventional dissonances with the rest of South Asia, to attain a totality of energy that united him with the time and space in which he lived. The thought of Sir Sayed about integration of Muslims with the West was the inner logical driver of his vision of modern, scientific education.
In this article I will seek new ways to fathom Sir Sayed Khan's vision of modern, scientific education and how his views have been maintained in the daily commitments of the senior secondary schools affiliated with the institution he founded, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). To reach an integral comparative analysis of its strengths, I had to answer three questions:
1) Whence did Sir Sayed derive his thoughts about the revival of the Muslim spirit in the 19th century and what were the perspectives he used in anticipating the fate of the secular communities?
2) What knowledge heritage encouraged Sir Sayed to produce a successful synthesis of Modernity with Tradition, with full recognition to both, in an appropriate application to the South Asian region and such areas in general?
3) In what ways do ongoing dialogues at the AMU secondary schools maintain a respect for Sir Sayed's vision of modern, scientific education, and how long may we expect their philosophical and ethical strengths to last when compared with those of other primary/secondary schools in India, and with other intellectual competitors?
Sir Sayed lived in the peak epoch of Western intellectual development, which attained a pinnacle of excellence in colonial countries, through its alleged civilizing and other missions of revival. The Enlightenment sought to implant the focal points of Hellenistic and Roman learning about life and practice creatively, in ambiguous spaces. It moved toward a constructed, conventional consciousness of multiple narratives around the globe. It used the tools of political power, the state, education, and even population. Modernity walked or ran toward different minds. Instead of traditional beliefs and the revelations of the hidden imagination, it shifted the rationale for identifying the source of ultimate truth and optimum utility. Nevertheless, reality continued through the specific interpretations of differing ideologies, religions, and other worldly-perceived sensations. The relevant cleavages between revelation and reason, state and religion, etc., were inspired toward introspection by the critical acceptance of modernity and its milieux. The aftermath of these discourses dealt with the balance of change through tolerance, reciprocity, and the temporality of evolving limitations.
Recently, numerous academic and non-academic debates have addressed the challenges and consequences of divergent Western methodologies and epistemological principles on which dialogue is constructed. It is imperative to note that none of the ethics, morals, and values which have survived subsequent criticism have balanced off tensions with the 'other'. According to Edward Said, an essential binary division exists between 'Oriental' and 'Occidental' views, regardless of the distinct intellectual systems and patterns of life. Much of humanity is indoctrinated with the presumption that integration of these two paradigms is impossible. But effective structural integration is possible: not only as a mere declaration in its favor, but as a contemporary imperative for interrelations of various groups.
Here we need to thank Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan for raising seminal questions in argument, about the subtleties and nuances of a mere blind acceptance of modern, scientific education. Instead of a direct course toward entry into the modern educational system, his approach was vital in preparing and directing social knowledge – in pursuit of tradition, the study of geography and culture, which he applied with the 19th century foundation of the Aligarh Movement. And the location in space and time he sought to affect was not only that of South Asia during successive decades, but the structural influences that could erase boundaries and move toward a specific, permanent model that could be acceptable for everyone at any time. Knowledge compels a need to penetrate the soul of society and describe its growth and flowering through its normative expansion, according to the 11th century philosopher and mystic Imam Ghazali. Sir Sayed was a pioneer who took the initiative in blending education with social empowerment – before such a term was conceived – through attendance at the secondary schools he founded. We may call him the 'modern Ghazali', thanks to his leadership and his distinctive concept of education.
It is necessary to clarify the position of India in the contemporary world, and how it provides for elementary schooling. As shown in various sources, India is an emerging power in the global South in economics, politics, health, and traditional expression. All these capacities emerge from the energy of its youth in contrast with the rest of the world. Today, even in structurally powerful and intellectually accelerated 'First World' countries there is much examination of the classrooms of India, to understand how a new generation of talent may transform existing structures and revive the glory of something lost in prior history.
Still, there is always a gloomy obstruction in that contemporary Indian academia has been generally much influenced by the influence of the Western model of knowledge in its relations, syllabi, and its broader conceptual framework. The Enlightenment prevailed throughout the colonized as well as the non-colonized countries, yet some troublesome beliefs and religious creeds persisted. Within the context of a new, indigenous power, all these trends attempt to accommodate Western paradigms, whether they accept that these are all superior to the vestiges of the past. These influences had lasting effects on different social sectors, beginning from the middle and elite classes. Sir Sayed criticized brilliantly the primitive discursive tradition of modernity and advocated successfully for a critical review of contemporary civilization and scientific determinism. He not only pointed out their errors but also brought forward answers with the substantial subjective role of reworking their premises. He founded a wide rhetoric on the basis of a respected, alternative academic program with special, intensive focus on fostering an educational vision and broadening its powerful mission. That is why the educational legacy of Sir Sayed applies divergent determinations and a ubiquitous unanimity to carry it through the different levels of intellectual and academic work from the primary school to scholarship dealing with contradictory themes.
In recent decades, senior secondary schools have been developed to conform with changes in the AMU. Unlike other educational movements, the Aligarh Movement is not a mere academic apparatus aiming to impose a totalitarian consciousness in education, to advance individual profit, or to sow discord among scattered mobs, but, rather, instils the particles that stimulate the intellectual for education and empowerment. A fruitful partnership of knowledge and common life is the unique aspect of the Aligarh Movement that is still found in Sir Sayed's famous schools, superior to its own and others' academic ventures.
Sir Sayed spoke always about educating generations, and his humble and unique ultimate space was the secondary school. Before its establishment during the bright dawn of 1875, the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, which would later become the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), was preceded by Sir Sayed's launch of excellent schools in Moradabad in 1859 and Ghazipur in 1863. The AMU administration of senior secondary schools pushed forward Sir Sayed's vision of the aims and goals of education in social development.
In the aftermath of colonialism in South Asia, especially in India, there is a lag in drawing a balance sheet of the unknown intellectual diversions and survivals of the colonial era. Recently, most Indian academics remain under the protection of that heritage because of the persistence of a scientific education lacking a proper systemic outlook that respects traditions, honors culture, seeks to heal society of its dangerous ailments, and commits itself to act jointly and early to ensure national integration.
All emerging nation-states are undergoing a fast, severe, and direct encounter with the concepts of 'development' and 'growth', which are joined structurally. And views of 'Peace', 'Harmony', and 'Pluralism' are necessary for an efficient behavioral synthesis. It is necessary, however, to analyze how long any of these principles may be achieved using present educational systems and social discourse. Assessing the disciplines on which curricula and modes of operation that lead forward and their resulting means of representation has faced tremendous obstacles in the absence of norms and lack of ethnic affiliations.
Studying the knowledge economy of Sir Sayed, with a specific survey of secondary schools, it is imperative to take the entire academic pattern into account. It is too easy to simply relate the thoughts of Sir Sayed to senior secondary education. In the dimly-lit market of contemporary consumption of knowledge, there is too much proof that the present is vulnerable in its attempt to reject tradition and social values. Some wish to drive Sir Sayed's vision of education out of the country's primary schools. Subtle and nuanced affectations derange individuals by removing the duties that always lead to the productivity of social empowerment, and return to a vanished, primitive intensity.
The AMU concept of education must reach every aspect of the disguised but powerful ideology of education, which lacks a vision of social, normative cooperation and collective creativity for the empowerment of all. The All-India Muslim Education Conference is a leading institution designed by Sir Sayed to spread the AMU model throughout the nation.
Let us enumerate what must be changed in contemporary pedagogy, and how new, alternative methods may be based on Sir Sayed's vision of modern, scientific education. Sir Sayed brought the Western model of scientific education to the Indian context, during the heated crossfire between colonial and anticolonial sectors. At the same time, various indigenous educational trans-disciplinary attitudes appeared within the Muslim community. At so critical a stage, Sir Sayed showed eminent courage by supporting modern, scientific education, through schools rooted in the social environment. The major outcome of this effort was the seminal association of a new approach derived from the Indian context. It does not entail a simple acceptance of the Western doctrine of education, or a totalitarian subjugation, but accommodates its structure and forms, rather than its norms.
AMU senior secondary schools pursue a fully-rounded critical style of modern, scientific education while preserving traditional, indigenous norms. The AMU model was not limited to a retrogressive individual empowerment, which did not fit with South Asia after colonialism. The Western model seems to propel each individual separately to the height of social status. Nevertheless, Sir Sayed had paid great attention to the limitations of such attitudes. He fortified the revision of colonial thought. The AMU knowledge economy was involved with the marriage of education to social empowerment. That originated in Sir Sayed's trans-national conception, with multiple disciplinary strategies covering the globe during his life, and through his activities to ascertain his own roots, which stood as a fertile space for creation of innovations uniting numerous civilizational products in a beautiful chronicle, a spectrum uniting the Islamic intellectual tradition and the new education.
In sum, the transformation of the contemporary educational system is undeniably inevitable, but a evinces a pattern implying a one-way expansion of technology and management theory that would not bring about the spread of knowledge and service from the upper to the lower strata of society. It is high time to instill Sir Sayed's lessons of moral responsibility, social consciousness, harmonious behavior, and pluralism to contemporary schools in the living Indian environment that have been lost to the interference of many 'others' today. If it is possible to act in accord with the inner logic of AMU and its branches, then it will be easy to revive the spirit of the nation with universal growth, equity, and stability, intellectually vibrant and morally complete.
Post-colonial states engage with the Enlightenment in different ways. The role of the academic is one of them, as an actor who can move throughout systems without challenge to one's own context, while politically free states also have an interest in producing an academic environment lacking criticism from within. Schools, however different their numbers of participants, are obsessed with normative affiliations and ethnic posturing, even considering these as necessary for the growth of democracy. Sir Sayed's vision of modern, scientific education had a unique power to burst through the collapse of established schools through moral enquiry. The AMU senior secondary schools have ended up increasing the dysfunction of conventional imbalances in modern, scientific education, and should respect Sir Sayed's vision of an education in close touch with the living world, in a dynamic of transformation defined by access to life and education. It is essential to learn from the dreadful dilemma surrounding us that Sir Sayed always maintained a call for conventional schools to make a paradigm shift from their age-old roots to a well-rounded synthesis of knowledge reviving the spirit of social advancement.
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Noorudheen Musthafa is a student in Islamic Studies at the Madeenathunoor College of Islamic Science, Poonoor, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
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MainOpEdsA Deja Vu in the Temple Mount?
A Deja Vu in the Temple Mount?
The writer, a man of integrity, looks at the situation on the Temple Mount and rubs his eyes.
Giulio Meotti, 22/02/12 00:23
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צילום: עצמי
Giulio Meotti
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
Books that were written in Hebrew, discussed Judaism, or mentioned Israel were banned from the Soviet Union. Zionism was branded “pornography” in the state-run media, and devout Jews were called “parasites” by the Stalinists, just like drug addicts.
Something similar is happening on the Temple Mount.
The Islamic Waqf has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the most Jewish holy site. At the entrance, a Waqf sign says “The Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic property”.
Today Jews are barred from praying on the Mount and are not even allowed to carry any holy articles with them. With Islamic observers supervising visits, Israeli police have frequently arrested Jews for various violations, such as singing or reciting a prayer even in a whisper.
Jewish women have been recently arrested following claims by police and Waqf officials that they noticed they were praying on Temple Mount.
Why is it a crime for a Jew to mention God’s name on Temple Mount? And why is the State of Israel complicit in enforcing this anti-Jewish rule?
Freedom of worship for all religions, including free access to the holy places of all faiths, has always been a cardinal principle of the Jewish state. And by and large, Israel has honored this principle, even under extremely difficult circumstances.
It is ironic that Judaism’s holiest site should be the only place in Israel where this principle is violated. Nothing can justify the infringement of religious rights in the Temple Mount and that infringement undermines respect for the rule of law in Israel by making a mockery of the law that guarantees freedom for all faiths.
Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel in the sense that Washington DC is the capital of the US.
Jerusalem is the city of the presence of God.
The Temple Mount is the reason for Jewish existence. It’s Israel’s testimony and license to the land.
The Arabs know that very well.
Many devout Jews won’t set foot on the Temple Mount until it is “redeemed”. They are afraid that they may be stepping on the ground covering the ruins of the Holy of Holies, allowed only to the High Priest on Yom Kippur, and that is enough to keep them away. But there are those who believe they have a right to pray in the grounds where the Temple stood, particularly on Tisha be’Av, the anniversary of its destruction.
Though many respected rabbis forbid praying on the Mount, others permit it. And there is a growing and brave movement, led by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel and Professor Hillel Weiss, which sensibilize the Israeli public on the Temple Mount.
After all, disagreements among rabbinical authorities have always been Judaism’s trademark. It is a religion that encourages questions and intellectual dialectics. That is not the Israeli authorities’ affair. Jewish worshipers should be free to pray on the holy mountain if they wish to.
Islamic leaders, aware of the centrality of the Temple Mount in Judaism, have whipped up a paranoid frenzy among their followers by carging that the intention of Jewish worshipers is to destroy the mosques. In October 1990, the mere sight at a distance of a dozen would-be Jewish worshipers (who had actually been turned away) triggered the blood-drenched Temple Mount riot.
Under these circumstances, the police prefer to avoid confrontation. The Wakf has obliterated the remnants of Jewish antiquities on the Temple Mount because enough Jews do not visit the Temple Mount. Nobody was there to guard the holy place.
There is a fine, but clear, line between doing everything possible to prevent unnecessary clashes and surrendering to terroristic threats.
Israel is the only democracy in the world in which Jews are forbidden to worship in an open space they consider hallowed. Those who lived in the country under the British Mandate or in USSR must be experiencing a twinge of deja vu.
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Home | Information For | Current Students | Admin and Registration | Add-on Ordinary and Honours Degrees
Applications for Add-on programmes at Ordindary and Honours Degree level:
In March of each year, the Institute of Technology, Tralee, welcomes applications for add-on degree and honours degree programmes, with a commencement date of the following September.
Please Note: Internal IT Tralee students are not required to make an application for an add-on programme for the academic year 2019/20, as an application has been automatically generated by the Admissions Office
Level 7 Add-On Programmes
There are two applicant types each year i.e. internal students who are already registered on a programme with the IT, Tralee, and external applicants who may wish to continue the next stage of their programme of studies with the IT, Tralee. Before completing the application, please familiarise your-self with the following protocol for determining the order in which eligible candidates are offered on both the Degree and Honours Degree Programmes. The application process is open for one month, from early March to the first week in April each year (this date changes slightly due to the Easter holidays, but it is always within the first week in April).
We also welcome late applications, but cannot guarantee that places will be available. Applicants who have submitted their application by the 1st of April will be given preference over late applicants.
Protocol for determining the order in which eligible candidates are made offers on add-on Degree programmes
Candidates are eligible to be considered for a place on a Degree provided they achieve a pass (40%) or higher on a relevant Higher Certificate programme or an equivalent programme. Please note that a small number of programmes may have a higher entry requirement and we would ask that you familiarise yourself with these requirements.
The Institute determines the number of places on each programme annually based on the budget provided by the Department of Education & Science. As there are a limited number of places on each programme of study, places are offered to eligible candidates on an order of merit basis as outlined below.
Offers to be made based on the following criteria, and in the following order:
(A) Holders of a Higher Certificate at Distinction Level:
Graduates of IT, Tralee who are holders of a relevant Higher Certificate at Distinction level
Graduates of other 3rd Level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Higher Certificate at Distinction level
(B) Holders of a Higher Certificate at Merit (1) Level:
Graduates of IT, Tralee who are holders of a relevant Higher Certificate at Merit (1) level
Graduates of other 3rd level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Higher Certificate at Merit (1) level.
(C) Holders of a Higher Certificate at Merit (2) Level:
Graduates of other 3rd Level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Higher Certificate at Merit (2) level
(D) Pass Certificate:
ITT Graduates who have a pass certificate based on an ordered list, ranked first by the number of attempts required to attain the award or the number of attempts on which the overall average is based, and then by the overall average achieved in that award. (Note those with relevant experience will be given an increment as outlined above).
Graduates of other 3rd level Institutions who have a pass certificate based on an ordered list, ranked first by the number of attempts required to attain the award or the number of attempts on which the overall average is based and then by the overall average achieved in that award. (Note those with relevant experience will be given an increment as outlined above).
Please note that late applicants will be reviewed only after all of the above are completed.
There is no benefit to a candidate, who has already been awarded a Higher Certificate resitting an exam to increase his/her overall average as irrespective of the overall average attained by resitting the examination(s) his/her original ranking based on the original sitting will always be superior to the ranking on the repeat examination(s).
Candidates who fail the summer examinations, and who successfully sit autumn repeats, are eligible to be considered for a place. Offers are made subject to availability of places.
Protocol for determining the order in which eligible candidates are made offers on add-on Honours degree programmes
Candidates are eligible to be considered for a place on an add-on Honours degree programme provided they are holders of a relevant Degree with an overall average of at least 40%.
The Institute determines the number of places on each programme annually based on the budget provided by the Department of Education & Science. As there are a limited number of places on each programme of study, places are offered to eligible candidates on an order of merit basis as outlined below. Offers are made based on the following criteria, and in the following order:
(A) Holders of a Degree at Distinction Level
Graduates of IT, Tralee who are holders of a relevant Degree at Distinction level
Graduates of other 3rd Level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Degree at Distinction level
(B) Holders of a Degree at Merit (1) Level
Graduates of IT, Tralee who are holders of a relevant Degree at Merit (1) level
Graduates of other 3rd level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Degree at Merit (1) level.
(C) Holders of a Degree at Merit (2) Level
Graduates of other 3rd Level Institutions who are holders of a relevant Degree at Merit (2) level
(D) Pass Degree
ITT Graduates who have a pass Degree, with an overall average of at least 40%, based on an ordered list, ranked first by the number of attempts required to attain the award or the number of attempts on which the overall average is based, and then by the overall average achieved in that award.
Graduates of other 3rd level Institutions who have a pass Degree, with an overall average of at least 40%, based on an ordered list, ranked first by the number of attempts required to attain the award or the number of attempts on which the overall average is based and then by the overall average achieved in that award.
Late applications will be reviewed when the above process is complete.
There is no benefit to a candidate, who has already been awarded a Degree, with an overall average of at least 40%, resitting an exam to increase their overall average as irrespective of the overall average attained by re-sitting the examination(s) his/her original ranking based on the original sitting will always be superior to the ranking on the repeat examination(s).
A student who has a pass Degree with an overall average of less than 40% may re-sit examinations to increase his/her overall average. These re-sit examinations may only be taken in the Summer Examination session in each academic year. Once the student attains an average of over 40% he/she is eligible to be considered for a place on the course and will be ranked as per the procedure outlined above. Offers are made subject to availability of places.
Add-on Degree and Honours Degrees for IT, Tralee Students:
As a registered student of the IT, Tralee (currently studying on year 2 of an Higher Certificate or year 3 of an Degree), you will be contacted by email in late February advising you that the applications for all Degrees and Honours Degrees will be opening in early March. You will be advised of the opening date and the process.
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Mississippi Burning: Disappearance of civil rights workers 50 years ago was pivotal time for the U.S. and the FBI
The burned interior of the station wagon that was discovered following the disappearance of activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman.
Source: FBI
Fifty years ago, our country was in the midst of a struggle to extend full rights and liberties to all of its citizens. On the national stage, the long legislative fight on the landmark Civil Rights Act was nearing a conclusion. Regionally, the push to roll back odious Jim Crow laws led to demonstrations between opponents of the legal discrimination and supporters of the status quo.
In Mississippi, the center of the civil rights effort in 1964 was the Freedom Summer, in which committed activists and local residents encouraged African-Americans to register to vote—fewer than seven percent of those eligible were registered at the time. The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of civil rights groups, arranged the drive, and orientation for its registrars had begun in mid-June.
Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old social worker, had just started a job with with the Congress on Racial Equality in Mississippi and quickly came to the attention of local Klan members. He had been at the Freedom Summer training in Ohio and was returning to Mississippi with fellow activists Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Their plan was to visit Mount Zion Church in Neshoba County, which had been burned by the Klan.
Arriving in Philadelphia, Mississippi on June 21, the three were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, who charged Chaney with speeding and held the other two “for investigation.” Though the men were released from custody later that night and set off for their lodgings, they were followed out of town. They never made it to their destination.
Even before that, their friends at COFO had become concerned. Schwerner’s travel plans indicated the three would arrive at their hotel that afternoon. When they missed 4 p.m. check-in, COFO began to try and track their whereabouts, calling around the county throughout the evening. By 10 p.m., around the time they were released, COFO still hadn’t heard from them and relayed their concerns to the local FBI and a Department of Justice representative who was in the area. At that point, though, nothing was known of the three or about what had happened. Without evidence to suspect foul play, there were no grounds yet for FBI involvement.
But in this case, the ramifications were not just a local matter. The voting rights drive in Mississippi and its national implications were clearly on the radars of President Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who took great interest in civil rights matters. Although the FBI’s local agent had begun asking about the missing workers on June 22, the Justice Department wanted even more involvement and told the FBI to place additional agents on the case.
By the next day, another 10 agents had been assigned to the case. The FBI received a tip about a burning station wagon seen in the woods off of Highway 21, about 13 miles northeast of Philadelphia—it was the men’s vehicle. Soon after the find, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was advising President Johnson on the case. With no remains found in the car, there was a slim hope that the three might still be found alive. President Johnson informed the Schwerner family and closely followed the FBI’s progress.
The Mississippi Burning, or MIBURN, case quickly became one of the Bureau’s biggest investigations; FBI resources and personnel that moved into Mississippi that summer—including the opening of the new FBI field office in the state capitol—reflected the massive effort. A closer look at the fate of the missing workers and the FBI’s role during this pivotal time will be the focus of a series of stories this summer on FBI.gov.
See Tom Paxton - Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney
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Police: Bronx man tried to scam senior out of $9,700
Carlos Miguel Torres Ferreira, 38, was arrested on June 18 for trying to scam a local senior out of $9,700 by pretending to be his grandson. However, the senior doesn’t have a grandson.
COURTESY NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
By Brian Stieglitz
A Bronx man was arrested in East Meadow in June 18 for allegedly trying to scam a local senior resident out of $9,700.
According to Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, Carlos Miguel Torres Ferreira, 38, called a 78-year old man and said that his grandson had been arrested for driving while intoxicated and needed $9,700 for bail. However, Ferreira called someone who doesn’t have a grandson.
Ferreira gave him the phone number of what he said was the Nassau County District Attorney for the senior resident to call and verify. On calling, the spurious District Attorney asked him to meet in the parking lot of the Greene Turtle in East Meadow.
Being a retired police officer, the senior, who requested to remain anonymous, knew the DA would never ask a resident to meet in a public parking lot. “Our District Attorney is one of the most professional in the country,” Ryder said. “They’re not going to ask you to drop off bail money in a parking lot.”
The senior called police who arranged to have detectives meet Ferreira under cover as the victim. They dressed as an elderly male with a walker and approached Ferreira to give him an envelope full of cash. When he reached out to accept the envelope, police arrested him. Ferreira resisted and a fight ensued between him and nearby detectives before he was apprehended.
Ferreira faces charges of third-degree attempted grand larceny and of resisting arrest. He will be arraigned in Town of Hempstead First District Court today.
Ryder added that Ferreira had taken a new approach to scamming the senior by giving him a fake number and pretending to be the District Attorney. He told residents to be weary of callers asking for money and to always call the police before taking action, should it seem suspicious.
“We need our victims to know what is going on out there,” Ryder said. “If you have a neighbor, if you have a family member who is elderly, contact them, speak to them. Let them know that they should be talking to you before they give anybody money.”
Jim Phegley, Glen Cove pastor, retires after 30 years of service
Residents react to state’s new Green Light Bill
DiLeo proposes change to IDA appointment policy
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Psychiatry, gynaecology
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) or inhibited sexual desire (ISD) is considered a sexual dysfunction and is characterized as a lack or absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity, as judged by a clinician. For this to be regarded as a disorder, it must cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulties and not be better accounted for by another mental disorder, a drug (legal or illegal), or some other medical condition. A person with ISD will not start, or respond to their partner's desire for, sexual activity.[1]
There are various subtypes. HSDD can be general (general lack of sexual desire) or situational (still has sexual desire, but lacks sexual desire for current partner), and it can be acquired (HSDD started after a period of normal sexual functioning) or lifelong (the person has always had no/low sexual desire.)
HSDD has garnered much criticism, primarily by asexual activists. They argue that HSDD puts asexuality in the same position homosexuality was from 1974 to 1987. The DSM at that time recognised 'ego-dystonic homosexuality' as a disorder, defined as sexual interest in the same sex that caused significant distress. The DSM itself officially recognized this as unnecessarily pathologizing homosexuality and removed it as a disorder in 1987.[2]
In the DSM-5, HSDD was split into male hypoactive sexual desire disorder[3] and female sexual interest/arousal disorder.[4] It was first included in the DSM-III under the name inhibited sexual desire disorder,[5] but the name was changed in the DSM-III-R. Other terms used to describe the phenomenon include sexual aversion and sexual apathy.[1] More informal or colloquial terms are frigidity and frigidness.[6]
3 Treatment
3.1 Counseling
3.2 Medication
3.2.1 Approved
3.2.2 Off-label
5 Criticism
5.2 DSM-IV criteria
Causes[edit]
Low sexual desire alone is not equivalent to HSDD because of the requirement in HSDD that the low sexual desire causes marked distress and interpersonal difficulty and because of the requirement that the low desire is not better accounted for by another disorder in the DSM or by a general medical problem. It is therefore difficult to say exactly what causes HSDD. It is easier to describe, instead, some of the causes of low sexual desire.
In men, though there are theoretically more types of HSDD/low sexual desire, typically men are only diagnosed with one of three subtypes.
Lifelong/generalised: The man has little or no desire for sexual stimulation (with a partner or alone) and never had.
Acquired/generalised: The man previously had sexual interest in his present partner, but lacks interest in sexual activity, partnered or solitary.
Acquired/situational: The man was previously sexually interested in his present partner but now lacks sexual interest in this partner but has desire for sexual stimulation (i.e. alone or with someone other than his present partner.)
Though it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between these types, they do not necessarily have the same cause. The cause of lifelong/generalized HSDD is unknown. In the case of acquired/generalized low sexual desire, possible causes include various medical/health problems, psychiatric problems, low levels of testosterone or high levels of prolactin. One theory suggests that sexual desire is controlled by a balance between inhibitory and excitatory factors.[7] This is thought to be expressed via neurotransmitters in selective brain areas. A decrease in sexual desire may therefore be due to an imbalance between neurotransmitters with excitatory activity like dopamine and norepinephrine and neurotransmitters with inhibitory activity, like serotonin.[8] Low sexual desire can also be a side effect of various medications. In the case of acquired/situational HSDD, possible causes include intimacy difficulty, relationship problems, sexual addiction, and chronic illness of the man's partner. The evidence for these is somewhat in question. Some claimed causes of low sexual desire are based on empirical evidence. However, some are based merely on clinical observation.[9] In many cases, the cause of HSDD is simply unknown.[10]
There are some factors that are believed to be possible causes of HSDD in women. As with men, various medical problems, psychiatric problems (such as mood disorders), or increased amounts of prolactin can cause HSDD. Other hormones are believed to be involved as well.[citation needed] Additionally, factors such as relationship problems or stress are believed to be possible causes of reduced sexual desire in women. According to one recent study examining the affective responses and attentional capture of sexual stimuli in women with and without HSDD, women with HSDD do not appear to have a negative association to sexual stimuli, but rather a weaker positive association than women without HSDD.[11]
Diagnosis[edit]
In the DSM-5, male hypoactive sexual desire disorder is characterized by "persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual/erotic thoughts or fantasies and desire for sexual activity", as judged by a clinician with consideration for the patient's age and cultural context.[3] Female sexual interest/arousal disorder is defined as a "lack of, or significantly reduced, sexual interest/arousal", manifesting as at least three of the following symptoms: no or little interest in sexual activity, no or few sexual thoughts, no or few attempts to initiate sexual activity or respond to partner's initiation, no or little sexual pleasure/excitement in 75–100% of sexual experiences, no or little sexual interest in internal or external erotic stimuli, and no or few genital/nongenital sensations in 75–100% of sexual experiences.[4]
For both diagnoses, symptoms must persist for at least six months, cause clinically significant distress, and not be better explained by another condition. Simply having lower desire than one's partner is not sufficient for a diagnosis. Self-identification of a lifelong lack of sexual desire as asexuality precludes diagnosis.[3][4]
Treatment[edit]
HSDD, like many sexual dysfunctions, is something that people are treated for in the context of a relationship. Theoretically, one could be diagnosed with, and treated for, HSDD without being in a relationship. However, relationship status is the most predictive factor accounting for distress in women with low desire and distress is required for a diagnosis of HSDD.[12] Therefore, it is common for both partners to be involved in therapy. Typically, the therapist tries to find a psychological or biological cause of the HSDD. If the HSDD is organically caused, the clinician may try to treat it. If the clinician believes it is rooted in a psychological problem, they may recommend therapy. If not, treatment generally focuses more on relationship and communication issues, improved communication (verbal and nonverbal), working on non-sexual intimacy, or education about sexuality may all be possible parts of treatment. Sometimes problems occur because people have unrealistic perceptions about what normal sexuality is and are concerned that they do not compare well to that, and this is one reason why education can be important. If the clinician thinks that part of the problem is a result of stress, techniques may be recommended to more effectively deal with that. Also, it can be important to understand why the low level of sexual desire is a problem for the relationship because the two partners may associate different meanings with sex but not know it.[13]
In the case of men, the therapy may depend on the subtype of HSDD. Increasing the level of sexual desire of a man with lifelong/generalized HSDD is unlikely. Instead the focus may be on helping the couple to adapt. In the case of acquired/generalized, it is likely that there is some biological reason for it and the clinician may attempt to deal with that. In the case of acquired/situational, some form of psychotherapy may be used, possibly with the man alone and possibly together with his partner.[9]
Medication[edit]
Approved[edit]
Flibanserin was the first medication approved by the FDA for the treatment of HSDD in pre-menopausal women. Its approval was controversial and a systematic review found its benefits to be marginal.[14] The second medication to be approved by the FDA for this indication was bremelanotide, approved June 2019.[15]
Off-label[edit]
A few studies suggest that the antidepressant, bupropion, can improve sexual function in women who are not depressed, if they have HSDD.[16] The same is true for the anxiolytic, buspirone, which is a 5-HT1A receptor agonist similarly to flibanserin.[17]
Testosterone supplementation is effective in the short-term.[18] However, its long-term safety is unclear.[18]
The term "frigid" to describe sexual dysfunction derives from medieval and early modern canonical texts about witchcraft. It was thought that witches could put spells on men to make them incapable of erections.[19] Only in the early nineteenth century were women first described as "frigid", and a vast literature exists on what was considered a serious problem if a women did not desire sex with her husband. Many medical texts between 1800-1930 focused on women's frigidity, considering it a sexual pathology.[20]
The French psychoanalyst, Princess Marie Bonaparte, theorized about frigidity and considered herself to suffer from it.[21] In the early versions of the DSM, there were only two sexual dysfunctions listed: frigidity (for women) and impotence (for men).
In 1970, Masters and Johnson published their book Human Sexual Inadequacy[22] describing sexual dysfunctions, though these included only dysfunctions dealing with the function of genitals such as premature ejaculation and impotence for men, and anorgasmia and vaginismus for women. Prior to Masters and Johnson's research, female orgasm was assumed by some to originate primarily from vaginal, rather than clitoral, stimulation. Consequently, feminists have argued that "frigidity" was "defined by men as the failure of women to have vaginal orgasms".[23]
Following this book, sex therapy increased throughout the 1970s. Reports from sex-therapists about people with low sexual desire are reported from at least 1972, but labeling this as a specific disorder did not occur until 1977.[24] In that year, sex therapists Helen Singer Kaplan and Harold Lief independently of each other proposed creating a specific category for people with low or no sexual desire. Lief named it "inhibited sexual desire", and Kaplan named it "hypoactive sexual desire". The primary motivation for this was that previous models for sex therapy assumed certain levels of sexual interest in one's partner and that problems were only caused by abnormal functioning/non-functioning of the genitals or performance anxiety but that therapies based on those problems were ineffective for people who did not sexually desire their partner.[25] The following year, 1978, Lief and Kaplan together made a proposal to the APA's taskforce for sexual disorders for the DSM III, of which Kaplan and Lief were both members. The diagnosis of Inhibited Sexual Desire (ISD) was added to the DSM when the 3rd edition was published in 1980.[26]
For understanding this diagnosis, it is important to recognize the social context in which it was created. In some cultures, low sexual desire may be considered normal and high sexual desire is problematic. For example, sexual desire may be lower in East Asian populations than Euro-Canadian/American populations.[27] In other cultures, this may be reversed. Some cultures try hard to restrain sexual desire. Others try to excite it. Concepts of "normal" levels of sexual desire are culturally dependent and rarely value-neutral. In the 1970s, there were strong cultural messages that sex is good for you and "the more the better". Within this context, people who were habitually uninterested in sex, who in previous times may not have seen this as a problem, were more likely to feel that this was a situation that needed to be fixed. They may have felt alienated by dominant messages about sexuality and increasingly people went to sex-therapists complaining of low sexual desire. It was within this context that the diagnosis of ISD was created.[28]
In the revision of the DSM-III, published in 1987 (DSM-III-R), ISD was subdivided into two categories: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder and Sexual Aversion Disorder (SAD).[29] The former is a lack of interest in sex and the latter is a phobic aversion to sex. In addition to this subdivision, one reason for the change is that the committee involved in revising the psychosexual disorders for the DSM-III-R thought that term "inhibited" suggests psychodynamic cause (i.e. that the conditions for sexual desire are present, but the person is, for some reason, inhibiting their own sexual interest.) The term "hypoactive sexual desire" is more awkward, but more neutral with respect to the cause.[30] The DSM-III-R estimated that about 20% of the population had HSDD.[31] In the DSM-IV (1994), the criterion that the diagnosis requires "marked distress or interpersonal difficulty" was added.
The DSM-5, published in 2013, split HSDD into male hypoactive sexual desire disorder and female sexual interest/arousal disorder. The distinction was made because men report more intense and frequent sexual desire than women.[3] According to Lori Brotto, this classification is desirable compared to the DSM-IV classification system because: (1) it reflects the finding that desire and arousal tend to overlap (2) it differentiates between women who lack desire before the onset of activity, but who are receptive to initiation and or initiate sexual activity for reasons other than desire, and women who never experience sexual arousal (3) it takes the variability in sexual desire into account. Furthermore, the criterion of 6 symptoms be present for a diagnosis helps safeguard against pathologizing adaptive decreases in desire.[32][33]
Criticism[edit]
HSDD, as currently defined by the DSM has come under criticism of the social function of the diagnosis.
HSDD could be seen as part of a history of the medicalization of sexuality by the medical profession to define normal sexuality.[34] It has also been examined within a "broader frame of historical interest in the problematization of sexual appetite".[35]
HSDD has been criticized over pathologizing normal variations in sexuality because the parameters of normality are unclear.[36] This lack of clarity is partly due to the fact that the terms "persistent" and "recurrent" do not have clear operational definitions.[27]
HSDD may function to pathologize asexuals, though their lack of sexual desire may not be maladaptive.[37] Because of this, some members of the asexual community lobbied the mental health community working on the DSM-5 to regard asexuality as a legitimate sexual orientation rather than a mental disorder.[38]
Other criticisms focus more on scientific and clinical issues.
HSDD is such a diverse group of conditions with many causes that it functions as little more than a starting place for clinicians to assess people.[39]
The requirement that low sexual desire causes distress or interpersonal difficulty has been criticized. It has been claimed that it is not clinically useful because if it is not causing any problems, the person will not seek out a clinician.[39] One could claim that this criterion (for all of the sexual dysfunctions, including HSDD) decreases the scientific validity of the diagnoses or is a cover-up for a lack of data on what constitutes normal sexual function.[40]
The distress requirement is also criticized because the term "distress" lacks a clear definition.[41]
DSM-IV criteria[edit]
Prior to the publication of the DSM-5, the DSM-IV criteria were criticized on several grounds. It was suggested that a duration criterion should be added because lack of interest in sex over the past month is significantly more common than lack of interest lasting six months.[42] Similarly, a frequency criterion (i.e., the symptoms of low desire be present in 75% or more of sexual encounters) has been suggested.[43][44]
The current framework for HSDD is based on a linear model of human sexual response, developed by Masters and Johnson and modified by Kaplan consisting of desire, arousal, orgasm. The sexual dysfunctions in the DSM are based around problems at any one or more of these stages.[13] Many of the criticisms of the DSM-IV framework for sexual dysfunction in general, and HSDD in particular, claimed that this model ignored the differences between male and female sexuality. Several criticisms were based on inadequacy of the DSM-IV framework for dealing with female's sexual problems.
Increasingly, evidence shows that there are significant differences between male and female sexuality. Level of desire is highly variable from female to female and there are some females who are considered sexually functional who have no active desire for sex, but they can erotically respond well in contexts they find acceptable. This has been termed "responsive desire" as opposed to spontaneous desire.[13]
The focus on merely the physiological ignores the social, economic and political factors including sexual violence and lack of access to sexual medicine or education throughout the world affecting females and their sexual health.[45]
The focus on the physiological ignores the relationship context of sexuality despite the fact that these are often the cause of sexual problems.[45]
The focus on discrepancy in desire between two partners may result in the partner with the lower level of desire being labeled as "dysfunctional," but the problem really sits with difference between the two partners.[41] However, within couples the assessment of desire tends to be relative. That is, individuals make judgments by comparing their levels of desire to that of their partner.[43]
The sexual problems that females complain of often do not fit well into the DSM-IV framework for sexual dysfunctions.[45]
The DSM-IV system of sub-typing may be more applicable to one sex than the other.[9]
Research indicates a high degree of comorbidity between HSDD and female sexual arousal disorder. Therefore, a diagnosis combining the two (as the DSM-5 eventually did) might be more appropriate.[46]
Sexual anhedonia
Sexual arousal disorder
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In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that expresses the internal forces that neighbouring particles of a continuous material exert on each other, while strain is the measure of the deformation of the material which is not a physical quantity . For example, when a solid vertical bar is supporting an overhead weight, each particle in the bar pushes on the particles immediately below it. When a liquid is in a closed container under pressure, each particle gets pushed against by all the surrounding particles. The container walls and the pressure-inducing surface (such as a piston) push against them in (Newtonian) reaction. These macroscopic forces are actually the net result of a very large number of intermolecular forces and collisions between the particles in those molecules. Stress is frequently represented by a lowercase Greek letter sigma (σ).
Strain inside a material may arise by various mechanisms, such as stress as applied by external forces to the bulk material (like gravity) or to its surface (like contact forces, external pressure, or friction). Any strain (deformation) of a solid material generates an internal elastic stress, analogous to the reaction force of a spring, that tends to restore the material to its original non-deformed state. In liquids and gases, only deformations that change the volume generate persistent elastic stress. However, if the deformation is gradually changing with time, even in fluids there will usually be some viscous stress, opposing that change. Elastic and viscous stresses are usually combined under the name mechanical stress.
Mechanic stress
Significant stress may exist even when deformation is negligible or non-existent (a common assumption when modeling the flow of water). Stress may exist in the absence of external forces; such built-in stress is important, for example, in prestressed concrete and tempered glass. Stress may also be imposed on a material without the application of net forces, for example by changes in temperature or chemical composition, or by external electromagnetic fields (as in piezoelectric and magnetostrictive materials).
The relation between mechanical stress, deformation, and the rate of change of deformation can be quite complicated, although a linear approximation may be adequate in practice if the quantities are small enough. Stress that exceeds certain strength limits of the material will result in permanent deformation (such as plastic flow, fracture, cavitation) or even change its crystal structure and chemical composition.
In some branches of engineering, the term stress is occasionally used in a looser sense as a synonym of "internal force". For example, in the analysis of trusses, it may refer to the total traction or compression force acting on a beam, rather than the force divided by the area of its cross-section.
2.1 Definition
2.2 Normal and shear stress
2.3 Units
2.4 Causes and effects
3 Simple stress
3.1 Uniaxial normal stress
3.2 Simple shear stress
3.3 Isotropic stress
3.4 Cylinder stresses
4 General stress
4.1 The Cauchy stress tensor
4.2 Change of coordinates
4.3 Stress as a tensor field
4.4 Stress in thin plates
4.5 Stress in thin beams
4.6 Other descriptions of stress
5 Stress analysis
5.1 Goals and assumptions
6 Alternative measures of stress
6.1 Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor
6.1.1 2nd Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor
Roman-era bridge in Switzerland
Inca bridge on the Apurimac River
Since ancient times humans have been consciously aware of stress inside materials. Until the 17th century, the understanding of stress was largely intuitive and empirical; and yet, it resulted in some surprisingly sophisticated technology, like the composite bow and glass blowing.[1]
Over several millennia, architects and builders in particular, learned how to put together carefully shaped wood beams and stone blocks to withstand, transmit, and distribute stress in the most effective manner, with ingenious devices such as the capitals, arches, cupolas, trusses and the flying buttresses of Gothic cathedrals.
Ancient and medieval architects did develop some geometrical methods and simple formulas to compute the proper sizes of pillars and beams, but the scientific understanding of stress became possible only after the necessary tools were invented in the 17th and 18th centuries: Galileo Galilei's rigorous experimental method, René Descartes's coordinates and analytic geometry, and Newton's laws of motion and equilibrium and calculus of infinitesimals.[2] With those tools, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was able to give the first rigorous and general mathematical model for stress in a homogeneous medium.[citation needed] Cauchy observed that the force across an imaginary surface was a linear function of its normal vector; and, moreover, that it must be a symmetric function (with zero total momentum).[citation needed]
The understanding of stress in liquids started with Newton, who provided a differential formula for friction forces (shear stress) in parallel laminar flow.
Overview[edit]
Definition[edit]
Stress is defined as the force across a "small" boundary per unit area of that boundary, for all orientations of the boundary.[3] Being derived from a fundamental physical quantity (force) and a purely geometrical quantity (area), stress is also a fundamental quantity, like velocity, torque or energy, that can be quantified and analyzed without explicit consideration of the nature of the material or of its physical causes.
Following the basic premises of continuum mechanics, stress is a macroscopic concept. Namely, the particles considered in its definition and analysis should be just small enough to be treated as homogeneous in composition and state, but still large enough to ignore quantum effects and the detailed motions of molecules. Thus, the force between two particles is actually the average of a very large number of atomic forces between their molecules; and physical quantities like mass, velocity, and forces that act through the bulk of three-dimensional bodies, like gravity, are assumed to be smoothly distributed over them.[4]:p.90–106 Depending on the context, one may also assume that the particles are large enough to allow the averaging out of other microscopic features, like the grains of a metal rod or the fibers of a piece of wood.
The stress across a surface element (yellow disk) is the force that the material on one side (top ball) exerts on the material on the other side (bottom ball), divided by the area of the surface.
Quantitatively, the stress is expressed by the Cauchy traction vector T defined as the traction force F between adjacent parts of the material across an imaginary separating surface S, divided by the area of S.[5]:p.41–50 In a fluid at rest the force is perpendicular to the surface, and is the familiar pressure. In a solid, or in a flow of viscous liquid, the force F may not be perpendicular to S; hence the stress across a surface must be regarded a vector quantity, not a scalar. Moreover, the direction and magnitude generally depend on the orientation of S. Thus the stress state of the material must be described by a tensor, called the (Cauchy) stress tensor; which is a linear function that relates the normal vector n of a surface S to the stress T across S. With respect to any chosen coordinate system, the Cauchy stress tensor can be represented as a symmetric matrix of 3×3 real numbers. Even within a homogeneous body, the stress tensor may vary from place to place, and may change over time; therefore, the stress within a material is, in general, a time-varying tensor field.
Normal and shear stress[edit]
Further information: compression (physical) and Shear stress
In general, the stress T that a particle P applies on another particle Q across a surface S can have any direction relative to S. The vector T may be regarded as the sum of two components: the normal stress (compression or tension) perpendicular to the surface, and the shear stress that is parallel to the surface.
If the normal unit vector n of the surface (pointing from Q towards P) is assumed fixed, the normal component can be expressed by a single number, the dot product T · n. This number will be positive if P is "pulling" on Q (tensile stress), and negative if P is "pushing" against Q (compressive stress) The shear component is then the vector T − (T · n)n.
Units[edit]
The dimension of stress is that of pressure, and therefore its coordinates are commonly measured in the same units as pressure: namely, pascals (Pa, that is, newtons per square metre) in the International System, or pounds per square inch (psi) in the Imperial system. Because mechanical stresses easily exceed a million Pascals, MPa, which stands for megapascal, is a common unit of stress.
Causes and effects[edit]
Glass vase with the craquelé effect. The cracks are the result of brief but intense stress created when the semi-molten piece is briefly dipped in water.[6]
Stress in a material body may be due to multiple physical causes, including external influences and internal physical processes. Some of these agents (like gravity, changes in temperature and phase, and electromagnetic fields) act on the bulk of the material, varying continuously with position and time. Other agents (like external loads and friction, ambient pressure, and contact forces) may create stresses and forces that are concentrated on certain surfaces, lines, or points; and possibly also on very short time intervals (as in the impulses due to collisions). In active matter, self-propulsion of microscopic particles generates macroscopic stress profiles[7]. In general, the stress distribution in a body is expressed as a piecewise continuous function of space and time.
Conversely, stress is usually correlated with various effects on the material, possibly including changes in physical properties like birefringence, polarization, and permeability. The imposition of stress by an external agent usually creates some strain (deformation) in the material, even if it is too small to be detected. In a solid material, such strain will in turn generate an internal elastic stress, analogous to the reaction force of a stretched spring, tending to restore the material to its original undeformed state. Fluid materials (liquids, gases and plasmas) by definition can only oppose deformations that would change their volume. However, if the deformation is changing with time, even in fluids there will usually be some viscous stress, opposing that change.
The relation between stress and its effects and causes, including deformation and rate of change of deformation, can be quite complicated (although a linear approximation may be adequate in practice if the quantities are small enough). Stress that exceeds certain strength limits of the material will result in permanent deformation (such as plastic flow, fracture, cavitation) or even change its crystal structure and chemical composition.
Simple stress[edit]
In some situations, the stress within a body may adequately be described by a single number, or by a single vector (a number and a direction). Three such simple stress situations, that are often encountered in engineering design, are the uniaxial normal stress, the simple shear stress, and the isotropic normal stress.[8]
Uniaxial normal stress[edit]
Idealized stress in a straight bar with uniform cross-section.
A common situation with a simple stress pattern is when a straight rod, with uniform material and cross section, is subjected to tension by opposite forces of magnitude F {\displaystyle F} along its axis. If the system is in equilibrium and not changing with time, and the weight of the bar can be neglected, then through each transversal section of the bar the top part must pull on the bottom part with the same force, F with continuity through the full cross-sectional area, A. Therefore, the stress σ throughout the bar, across any horizontal surface, can be expressed simply by the singly number σ, calculated simply with the magnitude of those forces, F, and cross sectional area, A.
σ = F A {\displaystyle \sigma ={\frac {F}{A}}}
On the other hand, if one imagines the bar being cut along its length, parallel to the axis, there will be no force (hence no stress) between the two halves across the cut.
This type of stress may be called (simple) normal stress or uniaxial stress; specifically, (uniaxial, simple, etc.) tensile stress.[8] If the load is compression on the bar, rather than stretching it, the analysis is the same except that the force F and the stress σ {\displaystyle \sigma } change sign, and the stress is called compressive stress.
The ratio σ = F / A {\displaystyle \sigma =F/A} may be only an average stress. The stress may be unevenly distributed over the cross section (m–m), especially near the attachment points (n–n).
This analysis assumes the stress is evenly distributed over the entire cross-section. In practice, depending on how the bar is attached at the ends and how it was manufactured, this assumption may not be valid. In that case, the value σ {\displaystyle \sigma } = F/A will be only the average stress, called engineering stress or nominal stress. However, if the bar's length L is many times its diameter D, and it has no gross defects or built-in stress, then the stress can be assumed to be uniformly distributed over any cross-section that is more than a few times D from both ends. (This observation is known as the Saint-Venant's principle).
Normal stress occurs in many other situations besides axial tension and compression. If an elastic bar with uniform and symmetric cross-section is bent in one of its planes of symmetry, the resulting bending stress will still be normal (perpendicular to the cross-section), but will vary over the cross section: the outer part will be under tensile stress, while the inner part will be compressed. Another variant of normal stress is the hoop stress that occurs on the walls of a cylindrical pipe or vessel filled with pressurized fluid.
Simple shear stress[edit]
Shear stress in a horizontal bar loaded by two offset blocks.
Another simple type of stress occurs when a uniformly thick layer of elastic material like glue or rubber is firmly attached to two stiff bodies that are pulled in opposite directions by forces parallel to the layer; or a section of a soft metal bar that is being cut by the jaws of a scissors-like tool. Let F be the magnitude of those forces, and M be the midplane of that layer. Just as in the normal stress case, the part of the layer on one side of M must pull the other part with the same force F. Assuming that the direction of the forces is known, the stress across M can be expressed simply by the single number τ {\displaystyle \tau } , calculated simply with the magnitude of those forces, F and the cross sectional area, A.
τ = F A {\displaystyle \tau ={\frac {F}{A}}}
However, unlike normal stress, this simple shear stress is directed parallel to the cross-section considered, rather than perpendicular to it.[8] For any plane S that is perpendicular to the layer, the net internal force across S, and hence the stress, will be zero.
As in the case of an axially loaded bar, in practice the shear stress may not be uniformly distributed over the layer; so, as before, the ratio F/A will only be an average ("nominal", "engineering") stress. However, that average is often sufficient for practical purposes.[9]:p.292 Shear stress is observed also when a cylindrical bar such as a shaft is subjected to opposite torques at its ends. In that case, the shear stress on each cross-section is parallel to the cross-section, but oriented tangentially relative to the axis, and increases with distance from the axis. Significant shear stress occurs in the middle plate (the "web") of I-beams under bending loads, due to the web constraining the end plates ("flanges").
Isotropic stress[edit]
Isotropic tensile stress. Top left: Each face of a cube of homogeneous material is pulled by a force with magnitude F, applied evenly over the entire face whose area is A. The force across any section S of the cube must balance the forces applied below the section. In the three sections shown, the forces are F (top right), F 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}} (bottom left), and F 3 / 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {3}}/2} (bottom right); and the area of S is A, A 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}} and A 3 / 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {3}}/2} , respectively. So the stress across S is F/A in all three cases.
Another simple type of stress occurs when the material body is under equal compression or tension in all directions. This is the case, for example, in a portion of liquid or gas at rest, whether enclosed in some container or as part of a larger mass of fluid; or inside a cube of elastic material that is being pressed or pulled on all six faces by equal perpendicular forces — provided, in both cases, that the material is homogeneous, without built-in stress, and that the effect of gravity and other external forces can be neglected.
In these situations, the stress across any imaginary internal surface turns out to be equal in magnitude and always directed perpendicularly to the surface independently of the surface's orientation. This type of stress may be called isotropic normal or just isotropic; if it is compressive, it is called hydrostatic pressure or just pressure. Gases by definition cannot withstand tensile stresses, but some liquids may withstand surprisingly large amounts of isotropic tensile stress under some circumstances. see Z-tube.
Cylinder stresses[edit]
Parts with rotational symmetry, such as wheels, axles, pipes, and pillars, are very common in engineering. Often the stress patterns that occur in such parts have rotational or even cylindrical symmetry. The analysis of such cylinder stresses can take advantage of the symmetry to reduce the dimension of the domain and/or of the stress tensor.
General stress[edit]
Often, mechanical bodies experience more than one type of stress at the same time; this is called combined stress. In normal and shear stress, the magnitude of the stress is maximum for surfaces that are perpendicular to a certain direction d {\displaystyle d} , and zero across any surfaces that are parallel to d {\displaystyle d} . When the shear stress is zero only across surfaces that are perpendicular to one particular direction, the stress is called biaxial, and can be viewed as the sum of two normal or shear stresses. In the most general case, called triaxial stress, the stress is nonzero across every surface element.
The Cauchy stress tensor[edit]
Main article: Cauchy stress tensor
Components of stress in three dimensions
Illustration of typical stresses (arrows) across various surface elements on the boundary of a particle (sphere), in a homogeneous material under uniform (but not isotropic) triaxial stress. The normal stresses on the principal axes are +5, +2, and −3 units.
Combined stresses cannot be described by a single vector. Even if the material is stressed in the same way throughout the volume of the body, the stress across any imaginary surface will depend on the orientation of that surface, in a non-trivial way.
However, Cauchy observed that the stress vector T {\displaystyle T} across a surface will always be a linear function of the surface's normal vector n {\displaystyle n} , the unit-length vector that is perpendicular to it. That is, T = σ ( n ) {\displaystyle T={\boldsymbol {\sigma }}(n)} , where the function σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} satisfies
σ ( α u + β v ) = α σ ( u ) + β σ ( v ) {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}(\alpha u+\beta v)=\alpha {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}(u)+\beta {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}(v)}
for any vectors u , v {\displaystyle u,v} and any real numbers α , β {\displaystyle \alpha ,\beta } . The function σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , now called the (Cauchy) stress tensor, completely describes the stress state of a uniformly stressed body. (Today, any linear connection between two physical vector quantities is called a tensor, reflecting Cauchy's original use to describe the "tensions" (stresses) in a material.) In tensor calculus, σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} is classified as second-order tensor of type (0,2).
Like any linear map between vectors, the stress tensor can be represented in any chosen Cartesian coordinate system by a 3×3 matrix of real numbers. Depending on whether the coordinates are numbered x 1 , x 2 , x 3 {\displaystyle x_{1},x_{2},x_{3}} or named x , y , z {\displaystyle x,y,z} , the matrix may be written as
[ σ 11 σ 12 σ 13 σ 21 σ 22 σ 23 σ 31 σ 32 σ 33 ] {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}\sigma _{11}&\sigma _{12}&\sigma _{13}\\\sigma _{21}&\sigma _{22}&\sigma _{23}\\\sigma _{31}&\sigma _{32}&\sigma _{33}\end{bmatrix}}\quad \quad \quad } or [ σ x x σ x y σ x z σ y x σ y y σ y z σ z x σ z y σ z z ] {\displaystyle \quad \quad \quad {\begin{bmatrix}\sigma _{xx}&\sigma _{xy}&\sigma _{xz}\\\sigma _{yx}&\sigma _{yy}&\sigma _{yz}\\\sigma _{zx}&\sigma _{zy}&\sigma _{zz}\\\end{bmatrix}}}
The stress vector T = σ ( n ) {\displaystyle T={\boldsymbol {\sigma }}(n)} across a surface with normal vector n {\displaystyle n} with coordinates n 1 , n 2 , n 3 {\displaystyle n_{1},n_{2},n_{3}} is then a matrix product T = n ⋅ σ = σ T ⋅ n T {\displaystyle T=n\cdot {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}={\boldsymbol {\sigma }}^{T}\cdot n^{T}} (where T in upper index is transposition) (look on Cauchy stress tensor), that is
[ T 1 T 2 T 3 ] = [ σ 11 σ 21 σ 31 σ 12 σ 22 σ 32 σ 13 σ 23 σ 33 ] [ n 1 n 2 n 3 ] {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}T_{1}\\T_{2}\\T_{3}\end{bmatrix}}={\begin{bmatrix}\sigma _{11}&\sigma _{21}&\sigma _{31}\\\sigma _{12}&\sigma _{22}&\sigma _{32}\\\sigma _{13}&\sigma _{23}&\sigma _{33}\end{bmatrix}}{\begin{bmatrix}n_{1}\\n_{2}\\n_{3}\end{bmatrix}}}
The linear relation between T {\displaystyle T} and n {\displaystyle n} follows from the fundamental laws of conservation of linear momentum and static equilibrium of forces, and is therefore mathematically exact, for any material and any stress situation. The components of the Cauchy stress tensor at every point in a material satisfy the equilibrium equations (Cauchy’s equations of motion for zero acceleration). Moreover, the principle of conservation of angular momentum implies that the stress tensor is symmetric, that is σ 12 = σ 21 {\displaystyle \sigma _{12}=\sigma _{21}} , σ 13 = σ 31 {\displaystyle \sigma _{13}=\sigma _{31}} , and σ 23 = σ 32 {\displaystyle \sigma _{23}=\sigma _{32}} . Therefore, the stress state of the medium at any point and instant can be specified by only six independent parameters, rather than nine. These may be written
[ σ x τ x y τ x z τ x y σ y τ y z τ x z τ y z σ z ] {\displaystyle {\begin{bmatrix}\sigma _{x}&\tau _{xy}&\tau _{xz}\\\tau _{xy}&\sigma _{y}&\tau _{yz}\\\tau _{xz}&\tau _{yz}&\sigma _{z}\end{bmatrix}}}
where the elements σ x , σ y , σ z {\displaystyle \sigma _{x},\sigma _{y},\sigma _{z}} are called the orthogonal normal stresses (relative to the chosen coordinate system), and τ x y , τ x z , τ y z {\displaystyle \tau _{xy},\tau _{xz},\tau _{yz}} the orthogonal shear stresses.
Change of coordinates[edit]
The Cauchy stress tensor obeys the tensor transformation law under a change in the system of coordinates. A graphical representation of this transformation law is the Mohr's circle of stress distribution.
As a symmetric 3×3 real matrix, the stress tensor σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} has three mutually orthogonal unit-length eigenvectors e 1 , e 2 , e 3 {\displaystyle e_{1},e_{2},e_{3}} and three real eigenvalues λ 1 , λ 2 , λ 3 {\displaystyle \lambda _{1},\lambda _{2},\lambda _{3}} , such that σ e i = λ i e i {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}e_{i}=\lambda _{i}e_{i}} . Therefore, in a coordinate system with axes e 1 , e 2 , e 3 {\displaystyle e_{1},e_{2},e_{3}} , the stress tensor is a diagonal matrix, and has only the three normal components λ 1 , λ 2 , λ 3 {\displaystyle \lambda _{1},\lambda _{2},\lambda _{3}} the principal stresses. If the three eigenvalues are equal, the stress is an isotropic compression or tension, always perpendicular to any surface, there is no shear stress, and the tensor is a diagonal matrix in any coordinate frame.
Stress as a tensor field[edit]
In general, stress is not uniformly distributed over a material body, and may vary with time. Therefore, the stress tensor must be defined for each point and each moment, by considering an infinitesimal particle of the medium surrounding that point, and taking the average stresses in that particle as being the stresses at the point.
Stress in thin plates[edit]
A tank car made from bent and welded steel plates.
Man-made objects are often made from stock plates of various materials by operations that do not change their essentially two-dimensional character, like cutting, drilling, gentle bending and welding along the edges. The description of stress in such bodies can be simplified by modeling those parts as two-dimensional surfaces rather than three-dimensional bodies.
In that view, one redefines a "particle" as being an infinitesimal patch of the plate's surface, so that the boundary between adjacent particles becomes an infinitesimal line element; both are implicitly extended in the third dimension, normal to (straight through) the plate. "Stress" is then redefined as being a measure of the internal forces between two adjacent "particles" across their common line element, divided by the length of that line. Some components of the stress tensor can be ignored, but since particles are not infinitesimal in the third dimension one can no longer ignore the torque that a particle applies on its neighbors. That torque is modeled as a bending stress that tends to change the curvature of the plate. However, these simplifications may not hold at welds, at sharp bends and creases (where the radius of curvature is comparable to the thickness of the plate).
Stress in thin beams[edit]
For stress modeling, a fishing pole may be considered one-dimensional.
The analysis of stress can be considerably simplified also for thin bars, beams or wires of uniform (or smoothly varying) composition and cross-section that are subjected to moderate bending and twisting. For those bodies, one may consider only cross-sections that are perpendicular to the bar's axis, and redefine a "particle" as being a piece of wire with infinitesimal length between two such cross sections. The ordinary stress is then reduced to a scalar (tension or compression of the bar), but one must take into account also a bending stress (that tries to change the bar's curvature, in some direction perpendicular to the axis) and a torsional stress (that tries to twist or un-twist it about its axis).
Other descriptions of stress[edit]
The Cauchy stress tensor is used for stress analysis of material bodies experiencing small deformations where the differences in stress distribution in most cases can be neglected. For large deformations, also called finite deformations, other measures of stress, such as the first and second Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensors, the Biot stress tensor, and the Kirchhoff stress tensor, are required.
Solids, liquids, and gases have stress fields. Static fluids support normal stress but will flow under shear stress. Moving viscous fluids can support shear stress (dynamic pressure). Solids can support both shear and normal stress, with ductile materials failing under shear and brittle materials failing under normal stress. All materials have temperature dependent variations in stress-related properties, and non-Newtonian materials have rate-dependent variations.
Stress analysis[edit]
Stress analysis is a branch of applied physics that covers the determination of the internal distribution of internal forces in solid objects. It is an essential tool in engineering for the study and design of structures such as tunnels, dams, mechanical parts, and structural frames, under prescribed or expected loads. It is also important in many other disciplines; for example, in geology, to study phenomena like plate tectonics, vulcanism and avalanches; and in biology, to understand the anatomy of living beings.
Goals and assumptions[edit]
Stress analysis is generally concerned with objects and structures that can be assumed to be in macroscopic static equilibrium. By Newton's laws of motion, any external forces are being applied to such a system must be balanced by internal reaction forces,[10]:p.97 which are almost always surface contact forces between adjacent particles — that is, as stress.[5] Since every particle needs to be in equilibrium, this reaction stress will generally propagate from particle, creating a stress distribution throughout the body.
The typical problem in stress analysis is to determine these internal stresses, given the external forces that are acting on the system. The latter may be body forces (such as gravity or magnetic attraction), that act throughout the volume of a material;[11]:p.42–81 or concentrated loads (such as friction between an axle and a bearing, or the weight of a train wheel on a rail), that are imagined to act over a two-dimensional area, or along a line, or at single point.
In stress analysis one normally disregards the physical causes of the forces or the precise nature of the materials. Instead, one assumes that the stresses are related to deformation (and, in non-static problems, to the rate of deformation) of the material by known constitutive equations.[12]
Stress analysis may be carried out experimentally, by applying loads to the actual artifact or to scale model, and measuring the resulting stresses, by any of several available methods. This approach is often used for safety certification and monitoring. However, most stress analysis is done by mathematical methods, especially during design.
The basic stress analysis problem can be formulated by Euler's equations of motion for continuous bodies (which are consequences of Newton's laws for conservation of linear momentum and angular momentum) and the Euler-Cauchy stress principle, together with the appropriate constitutive equations. Thus one obtains a system of partial differential equations involving the stress tensor field and the strain tensor field, as unknown functions to be determined. The external body forces appear as the independent ("right-hand side") term in the differential equations, while the concentrated forces appear as boundary conditions. The basic stress analysis problem is therefore a boundary-value problem.
Stress analysis for elastic structures is based on the theory of elasticity and infinitesimal strain theory. When the applied loads cause permanent deformation, one must use more complicated constitutive equations, that can account for the physical processes involved (plastic flow, fracture, phase change, etc.).
However, engineered structures are usually designed so that the maximum expected stresses are well within the range of linear elasticity (the generalization of Hooke’s law for continuous media); that is, the deformations caused by internal stresses are linearly related to them. In this case the differential equations that define the stress tensor are linear, and the problem becomes much easier. For one thing, the stress at any point will be a linear function of the loads, too. For small enough stresses, even non-linear systems can usually be assumed to be linear.
Simplified model of a truss for stress analysis, assuming unidimensional elements under uniform axial tension or compression.
Stress analysis is simplified when the physical dimensions and the distribution of loads allow the structure to be treated as one- or two-dimensional. In the analysis of trusses, for example, the stress field may be assumed to be uniform and uniaxial over each member. Then the differential equations reduce to a finite set of equations (usually linear) with finitely many unknowns. In other contexts one may be able to reduce the three-dimensional problem to a two-dimensional one, and/or replace the general stress and strain tensors by simpler models like uniaxial tension/compression, simple shear, etc.
Still, for two- or three-dimensional cases one must solve a partial differential equation problem. Analytical or closed-form solutions to the differential equations can be obtained when the geometry, constitutive relations, and boundary conditions are simple enough. Otherwise one must generally resort to numerical approximations such as the finite element method, the finite difference method, and the boundary element method.
Alternative measures of stress[edit]
Main article: Stress measures
Other useful stress measures include the first and second Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensors, the Biot stress tensor, and the Kirchhoff stress tensor.
Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor[edit]
In the case of finite deformations, the Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensors express the stress relative to the reference configuration. This is in contrast to the Cauchy stress tensor which expresses the stress relative to the present configuration. For infinitesimal deformations and rotations, the Cauchy and Piola–Kirchhoff tensors are identical.
Whereas the Cauchy stress tensor σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} relates stresses in the current configuration, the deformation gradient and strain tensors are described by relating the motion to the reference configuration; thus not all tensors describing the state of the material are in either the reference or current configuration. Describing the stress, strain and deformation either in the reference or current configuration would make it easier to define constitutive models (for example, the Cauchy Stress tensor is variant to a pure rotation, while the deformation strain tensor is invariant; thus creating problems in defining a constitutive model that relates a varying tensor, in terms of an invariant one during pure rotation; as by definition constitutive models have to be invariant to pure rotations). The 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor, P {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {P}}} is one possible solution to this problem. It defines a family of tensors, which describe the configuration of the body in either the current or the reference state.
The 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor, P {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {P}}} relates forces in the present ("spatial") configuration with areas in the reference ("material") configuration.
P = J σ F − T {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {P}}=J~{\boldsymbol {\sigma }}~{\boldsymbol {F}}^{-T}~}
where F {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {F}}} is the deformation gradient and J = det F {\displaystyle J=\det {\boldsymbol {F}}} is the Jacobian determinant.
In terms of components with respect to an orthonormal basis, the first Piola–Kirchhoff stress is given by
P i L = J σ i k F L k − 1 = J σ i k ∂ X L ∂ x k {\displaystyle P_{iL}=J~\sigma _{ik}~F_{Lk}^{-1}=J~\sigma _{ik}~{\cfrac {\partial X_{L}}{\partial x_{k}}}~\,\!}
Because it relates different coordinate systems, the 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress is a two-point tensor. In general, it is not symmetric. The 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress is the 3D generalization of the 1D concept of engineering stress.
If the material rotates without a change in stress state (rigid rotation), the components of the 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor will vary with material orientation.
The 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress is energy conjugate to the deformation gradient.
2nd Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor[edit]
Whereas the 1st Piola–Kirchhoff stress relates forces in the current configuration to areas in the reference configuration, the 2nd Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor S {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {S}}} relates forces in the reference configuration to areas in the reference configuration. The force in the reference configuration is obtained via a mapping that preserves the relative relationship between the force direction and the area normal in the reference configuration.
S = J F − 1 ⋅ σ ⋅ F − T . {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {S}}=J~{\boldsymbol {F}}^{-1}\cdot {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}\cdot {\boldsymbol {F}}^{-T}~.}
In index notation with respect to an orthonormal basis,
S I L = J F I k − 1 F L m − 1 σ k m = J ∂ X I ∂ x k ∂ X L ∂ x m σ k m {\displaystyle S_{IL}=J~F_{Ik}^{-1}~F_{Lm}^{-1}~\sigma _{km}=J~{\cfrac {\partial X_{I}}{\partial x_{k}}}~{\cfrac {\partial X_{L}}{\partial x_{m}}}~\sigma _{km}\!\,\!}
This tensor, a one-point tensor, is symmetric.
If the material rotates without a change in stress state (rigid rotation), the components of the 2nd Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor remain constant, irrespective of material orientation.
The 2nd Piola–Kirchhoff stress tensor is energy conjugate to the Green–Lagrange finite strain tensor.
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Temperature Entropy
Chemical potential Particle number
Critical plane analysis
Kelvin probe force microscope
Mohr's circle
Lamé's stress ellipsoid
Residual stress
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Strain rate tensor
Stress–energy tensor
Stress–strain curve
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Transient friction loading
Thermal stress
Virial stress
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Preliminary site work underway at new museum
Environmental and geotechnical testing ahead of major construction start
Drilling on location of 1,000sqm basement touring exhibition gallery
$428.3 million project to support up to 3,300 jobs and strong local content
The first significant machinery has swung into action today on the site of Western Australia's new museum development, with subsurface investigations underway ahead of the major construction phase.
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said the investigations were an important step forward for the exciting new development.
"These site investigations are critical to understanding the soil structure and subsurface environmental conditions at various depths, and will allow monitoring of the water table ahead of the major excavation and construction works next year," Mr Day said.
"They are particularly important for the planned 1,000 square metre touring exhibition gallery that will be located at basement level, about 10 metres underground. This gallery will be a vital space for attracting major exhibitions to WA, drawing both locals and tourists to Perth."
The Minister said the new museum had been championed by the Liberal National Government, with a bold and distinctive design incorporating five levels of galleries and public spaces.
"The construction phase will support up to 3,300 jobs," Mr Day said.
"The project also dovetails with the Liberal National Government's strategy to drive job creation in our tourism industry, along with destinations such as Yagan Square, Elizabeth Quay and Perth Stadium."
Since its appointment as Managing Contractor in July 2016, Multiplex has been surveying and conducting structural investigations on the existing heritage-listed buildings, progressing the design and seeking relevant development approvals.
"Fundamental to the project is efficiency and sustainability, with an innovative Energy and Thermal Solution combining solar power and geo-exchange systems to support the energy needs right across the Perth Cultural Centre," Mr Day said.
"Sourcing local content is a high priority for this project, with about 80 per cent of the goods and services to come from WA."
Early works will soon start on the heritage buildings and the Energy and Thermal Solution, with the new museum on schedule to open in 2020.
The project budget includes construction and design of the new museum, heritage building restoration, $17.6 million in upgrades to the Welshpool Collections and Research Centre, exhibition and content design and production, and public art
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Back Book Title Anything You Can Get Away With : Creative Practices
Anything You Can Get Away With : Creative Practices
Author - Eddie Tay , Lim Lee Ching
Country - Hong Kong
Publisher - Delere Press, Hong Kong
Series Name - The Screaming Series
This book takes stock of the practices of writing poetry, taking street photographs, and creative writing scholarship. It adopts both imaginative and critical ways of writing and exploring both texts and practices. I think of myself as a MacGyver-type character, indulging in the art ofbricolage, pulling together poetry, street photography, and autoethnography. Marshall McLuhan once wrote that “[a]rt is anything you can get away with” (Medium is the Massage, 132-136). I am going to borrow from him and say that “scholarship is anything you can get away with”. Hence, this project is a self-conscious assemblage of sorts, drawing from various genres. It is a scholarly work that draws from the methodology of autoethnography, it is a creative work to do with poetry writing, and it is a critical reflection on the possibilities of street photography. It also features my own poetry and street photography. Although I am working to articulate a socio-philosophy of creative work, teaching, and scholarship situated specifically within Hong Kong and Singapore, I write with an awareness that the issues I examine here are nonetheless relevant to fellow writers and artists in other locales who are likewise searching for ways to talk about what it is that drives them. ~~~~~~~ “A thoughtful, erudite and humane reflection on what it means to work at the nexus of multiple disciplines, identities, interests and obligations. With remarkable courage and rigour, Tay turns his critical eye inward, chipping away at the reductive purisms that continue to plague our digital age.” – Alvin Pang, poet, anthologist and translator, recipient of the Singapore Youth Award for Arts and Culture “These essays form an engaging, insightful tour through the sometimes conflicting, but more often overlapping worlds of academia, creative scholarship, photography and poetry. There are memorable moments of profound insight and wisdom, especially when Tay examines the liminal zones between word and image, scholarship and creativity, and between the open street and the enclosed worlds of academia and poetry.” – Boey Kim Cheng, award-winning poet, Associate Professor and Head of Division of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore “As a scholar, poet and street photographer, Eddie Tay has established himself as one of Hong Kong's most important and varied cultural voices. Now, in his latest and most ambitious project, he combines these three callings to create a deeply individual and original work. Part poetry collection, part photographic essay, part academic and personal reflection, this book provides a fascinating, insightful and idiosyncratic exploration of the creative process and life in the modern Asian metropolis.” – Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, founding co-editor of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, Vice President at PEN Hong Kong, poet and winner of Hong Kong Art Development Council's Young Artist Award
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Your Network Needs YOU!
I'm an arty-farty, liberal kind of chap, which is why I've been very pleased to see that one of the lasting legacies of the City of Culture is Merseytravel's ongoing commitment to public art. Last year, they had the Art on the Network competition, and the good news is: it's back for 2010!
Yup, you have the opportunity to design a piece of art to be placed somewhere on the Merseytravel network. To celebrate Merseytravel have launched an Art on the Network website, which not only gives details of the competition, but also shows some of the other pieces that have already been commissioned over the past few years. (Be warned, the website uses Silverlight, and caused my Mac to have a small hissy fit).
If there are any artists reading this, please, please come up with something and enter. The full details can be found here. It's open to anyone from Merseyside who's over 16, and it will be judged by Singh Twins, whose work I've admired for years. This kind of commission is just one of those details that enrich and enhance the lives of everyday people - they're not much, but they just put a smile on your face. If I had any artistic talent, I'd be doing it myself.
I'd especially like it if someone from the Wirral or St Helens entered, since those two boroughs shamefully couldn't scrape up any decent entries for last time. Come on! Pull out those pens and paper and get on with it!
Labels: Art on the Network, Merseytravel
So Faro, So Good
My holiday was in Portugal, and yet I've only written about Spain's metro, which is a bit unfair: like going to Scotland and telling everyone how great Cornish pasties are. In fairness, I did also visit Faro's main train station.
Faro's the capital of the Algarve, and unlike sweaty fish and chip purveying, vomit strewn sinkholes like Albufeira and Villamoura, has retained much of its historic core. There are pretty churches, a set of town walls, and an elegant marina.
The railway station is away from all that, in a district the travel guides probably call "gritty" and which everyone else calls "dumpy". It's at the end of a road full of grim bars, back packing hostels and rough looking cafes whose main menu item seems to be salmonella. We hustled past the concrete bus station, surrounded by pedlars and beggars and finally turned up at the tiny building.
For such a major town, Faro railway station is surprisingly tiny. It's about the size of one of the larger Merseyrail stations, Ormskirk perhaps, with a newsagent, ticket office and waiting room. It's a lot nicer inside than out.
The platforms and waiting rooms were deserted - it was a Sunday, after all - but there was a train waiting in the island platform. Not being a trainspotter, I can confidently say that this train was "red", and also "quite large".
Really, it was more like a country station than a town's centrepiece. Our travel guide had already warned us that railway services in this part of the world were slow, and that you'd be better off travelling by a (spit) bus than a train. Which seems odd to me, but seeing the way the station is tucked away, almost shamefully, in the back end of town, I'm not surprised.
Still, here's the obligatory Tart shot, even though I didn't actually travel anywhere. Just for completion's sake.
Nice tile action. I'll give them that.
Labels: Faro, International Supertart
Y Viva Espana
I'm back! I've spent the past week sunning myself in Portugal, and as a result I've turned the colour of creme caramel. This is a victory for me because I'm normally a sickly white. Hopefully I'll stay a bit brown and glowing for a while.
It was a week of relaxing in the sun, sipping wine by the pool, and reading book after book after book. The perfect way to switch off.
The one thing I can't switch off, though, is my Tarting instincts. We had planned a trip across the border to Seville, and on the way there in the car, I suggested it might be fun to have a ride on the Metro, which only opened last year. The Bf harumphed his agreement, no doubt mentally calculating that a ride on an underground is worth at least one World Cup game back at the villa.
The Spanish are Metro crazy, and yet for some reason it hadn't yet reached Seville. There was an attempt to build one back in the Seventies, until the money dried up. The new Metro is an unusual hybrid: it runs underground in the city centre, but the trains are actually trams, identical to the ones that run through the city streets. It's an interesting concept, as it reduces the cost to build the routes and allows the Metro to reach further out into the suburbs than it would do with conventional rail. As it turned out, Line 1 is completely segregated from other vehicles, but at least they have the option.
It hasn't stopped the Metro from being Credit Crunched, though. The plan was for three lines, but the second, due to begin work this year, looks increasingly unlikely as Spain wrestles with its debts
We started out at Puerta Jerez, right in the very centre of the city. My first reaction is - what the hell is that font, Seville? Green is apparently the traditional colour for the city, so I'll let that slide, but that station name looks horrible. It has no class or dignity. What's worse, they've used that font everywhere - signs, maps, everything. A unified design is great when it works - when it doesn't you're just staring at nastiness everywhere you look.
Still, the station entrance itself is nice, open and sunny and, blessedly, air conditioned. We headed down into the ticket hall, which is very spacious. Ridiculously spacious in fact. This can be great in an underground station - think Canary Wharf or Bermondsey - but here it just feels like a waste of space. All that open air for no apparent reason.
The ticket office was closed, so we had to negotiate the machine. This should have been simple - there was an "English" option - but they really should have used something other than Google Translate to decipher it. The English was more confusing than the Spanish. "Tablets" instead of "Tickets"? "Go and Back" instead of "Return"? And what the hell are "Jumps" - we had the option of 0, 1, or 2?
In the end we got two "Go and Back" tickets, mainly through bashing the touchscreen like ham-fisted apes, and pushed our way through the electronic barriers to the platform below.
Down the escalators, onto the single island platform. There are Platform Edge Doors, to stop random suicides, which I always like: it gives the station a sort of Star Trek air, especially as the train comes gliding in behind them almost silently.
Troublingly, the train we boarded was packed. It was a roasting hot day, and I was worried about my levels of sweatiness. Fortunately, we boarded right behind the driver's cabin, and thanks to a smoked glass wall, we were able to stare inside, watching the driver operate the controls and getting slightly seasicky as the tunnel streamed towards us.
We had no distinct destination in mind - we were just there for the thrill of the journey (well, I was) - so we got off spontaneously at Gran Plaza. This is much more of a neighbourhood station than Puerta Jerez, and has one tunnel with two side platforms - in fact, this is the tunnel built in the Seventies. It's smaller and more compact, which is bizarre, because right above our heads was the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizchuan, home to Sevilla FC. Can you imagine the streams of fans that must push their way through those tiny ticket gates on match day? It must be like pushing Colgate out of a Tube. Still, the street level presence is nice.
Incidentally, you see that hat? I had to buy it on the first day because my rapidly balding head was frying in the sun, so I nipped into a C & A! Yes, they still have them in Europe. I found that ridiculously thrilling.
After a wander round, to take a look at the very impressive stadium, we had nothing else to do except get back on the train and head into town again. I have to admit to being disappointed - it didn't have the wow factor that other new lines like London's Jubilee or Paris's Meteor do, and it didn't have the charm of Madrid or Barcelona's networks either. It felt a bit soulless. Perhaps it's because, with the tram-trains and the awful green lettering, it just wasn't quite working - it didn't convince as a big city network. This is not to reflect badly on Seville itself, because I adore that city - it's a wonderful place to visit, and I'd happily move there if I could. It was just a bit of a let-down.
What did inspire me, though, was the thought of how the same principle - trams on the outskirts, tunnels in the city centre - could be a cheap way of bringing Metro services to UK cities. It would be a lot more efficient, and less intrusive, if the Manchester Metrolink (for example) was sent underground as it crossed town. Or perhaps Liverpool could get some use out of the old railway tunnels under the city by sending trams down it too. So long as they copy Seville's ideas, and not its awful design standards. That would be too much.
Labels: going underground, International Supertart, Seville, The BF
He's Lovin' It
I'm with this guy.
He's been to a McDonalds, and had to marshall a load of screaming, insane, E-number fuelled children. They threw food, they clambered over the furniture, they chucked coke down their fronts. They wiped their noses on the bun of that kid everyone hates and made him cry. At the centre of this is a teeny tiny brat who is demanding everyone gives him their fries because he's the birthday boy and while they're at it he wants the best of the Happy Meal toys and if you don't give it to him he's going to SCREAM.
This guy's had to deal with all that, and all he's got out of it is probably a couple of hours with his snotty, obnoxious grandchild and two balloons with a Happy Meal logo on them. He thought it'd be a nice time out but kids are evil. He wants to get home and get away. What could possibly help him?
A keg of Heineken. Yeah, that'll do. He's going to get home, collapse into an armchair, and pour out the first of many, many pints of lager. Then he's going to pop each of those balloons, and enjoy. Every. Moment.
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Labels: Merseypeeps
From Hooton, Robert and I walked onto the old railway line that forms the Wirral Way. There is still the odd remnant of the old line at Hooton - the platforms are there, and there's an old waiting room, grown over with ivy. The station really was a behemoth in its day, with goods facilities to add to the mix as well. Unlike Rock Ferry, which is a shadow of its former self, Hooton still manages a brave aura of importance, a sense of place.
The Wirral Way curves south from the station, then heads due west. I had no idea how far we were going to walk, only the vaguest notion that it was a nice warm day, I had good company, and there was nothing else to do of a Sunday afternoon. The path was well maintained - it forms part of the National Cycle Route, and is popular with horses too - but the foliage either side of us was a disappointment: weeds and stinging nettles. There's maintaining the natural landscape, and there's letting it go to pot.
As we walked, we chatted idly. Robert has recently come back from a holiday in Scotland, and he told me about his misadventures there. I'm afraid that after clambering up and down mountains and glens, the almost flat landscapes around the Wirral Way were a bit of a come down. He spent a lot of time moaning about the lack of bracing vistas and inspiring views.
Normally I'd have told him to shut up and pushed him into a bank of stingers. In this case, he had a point. The path follows the track of the old railway exactly, and so it tends to be at a lower level than the surrounding landscape: it's also surrounded by high trees and hedgerows. The net effect is that you feel like a bit of a Borrower, stumbling around at the bottom of the vegetation.
It also quickly became clear why the railway failed. We had absolutely no idea where we were once we left Hooton. According to the map, we were passing to the south of Willaston, a large Cheshire village; but there was no sign of it at all. The railway builders had followed the path of least resistance, with the cheapest land and the simplest routes, so as a result the line passes close to a fair few settlements - but not close enough.
The first sign of civilisation was when we emerged at the preserved station at Hadlow Road. I came here back in the early days of the blog; when the line closed, the council kept the station as it was as a tourist attraction. When I had visited before, though, the ticket office had been closed, and we took the opportunity to have a poke around inside.
It's easy to romanticise old railways. Easy to forget that the service on this line was infrequent, and in noisy, filthy steam trains. Looking around the ticket office, with its bare wooden floors and charming anachronisms, you can forget that it would have been freezing cold, and there were only bare wooden benches to sit on. There was an undeniable power to it though, a whole mix of whistles and Bernard Cribbins and the smell of ash. Nostalgia for something which was dead long before I was even born. Another of those strange ideas that goes through the male psyche like words in a stick of rock.
We pressed on down the path, our conversation having turned, as it usually does, distinctly x-rated. I won't go into it here, as this is a public website: all I'll say is that Robert has a dirty mind.
Once again I gave thanks that I'm a man as I nipped into the bushes for a pee, and then we were passing under the Chester road through a dark concrete tunnel that the local teenagers had "decorated". If you believe the graffiti there, everyone in Willaston is inbred, Liverpool FC will last for ever, and a boy called John sucks cocks. I don't know where Frank Muir used to find his witty graffiti for the books he used to produce every Christmas: all I ever see is crudely drawn penises and insults. What's worse is text speak has crept onto the walls as well - there was actually an LOL up there, which is depressing for a hundred reasons.
A sense of magic began to infuse the path then, as we descended into a cutting. We were suddenly walking between high rock walls, slick with moisture and moss. I loved it. It was like being underground, or in a secret cave. I've always loved caves, and alcoves, and niches: it comes from reading too much Enid Blyton as a child, when middle-class children couldn't nip to the shops for a pint of milk without encountering smugglers hidden in a labyrinth of potholes. My absolute favourite was The Valley of Adventure, where four well-scrubbed youths and a parrot are isolated in the middle of a Mittel-European country and have to hide out in a cave behind a waterfall. I loved that idea. Maybe not the parrot though.
I expect that's where my love of underground railways comes from, too - the world of secret trains, of exciting hidden places. Either that or it's something deeply psychologically disturbing it's probably best not to dwell on.
At Neston, the line is broken by people, as the town has grown over the old railway line. There's still a Station Road, but now it's been subsumed by suburbia. Of course, as soon as we hit a population centre, it began to rain, and Robert and I must have looked a sight: wet, sweaty, slightly dirty from the mud.
We were at a metaphorical crossroads now. I'd done this section of the Wirral Way before, last year, so there wasn't really any need for me to do it again. On top of that, if we carried on, there'd be a while before we would find a way out again, and it was starting to rain. Neston had buses and trains that could take us somewhere dry.
Never underestimate cheapness. Yes, we could have left the track at that point, but we both had Saveaways, the Merseyside only ticket, and we were still in Cheshire. We'd have had to pay for a bus out of there, at least to the county line.
We walked on.
Fortunately the rain was only a shower, enough to get us mildly damp but not soak us. The path was a lot busier at this point as there were walkers out with their dogs, families out for a stroll, and bikers. Lots of bikers. Lots of nice families out cycling together. I never went cycling with my family when I was younger - me and my brother had BMXs, and we'd race around the estate on them or try and do wheelies, but my Dad never cycled, and it would have been a cold day in hell before you got my mum on one of them. I didn't think we were missing much. We used to go on walks as a family, where you can all talk to one another - it's hard to bond as a unit when you're whizzing along at fifteen miles an hour in a straight line.
Soon we were at Parkgate, home of the Famous Parkgate Ice Creams. I don't have a sweet tooth, at all: I mean, I like ice-cream, and I'll happily have the odd Magnum or Cornetto, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it. I'm far more a Cornish Pasty kind of guy. So Robert volunteered to find out why the ice cream was so famous, and bought himself a twin cone. For some reason, he then decided to perform oral sex on it:
Yes, folks, he is single and available. Just in case you want to find out what it's like to be a ball of toffee ice cream.
Once he'd eaten his ice cream, and sucked the sticky liquid off his fingers (steady...), we returned to the Wirral Way. We inadvertently ended up on the bridleway, which sounds fine, until you realise it's (a) soft and moist and (b) littered with horse muck. I mean, everywhere. Can't horse riders take a plastic bag out with them, like dog walkers? Though the quantities we saw would mean you'd probably have to cart a bin bag around with you.
Fortunately we were able to get back on the path in time to cross the border into Wirral, and with it, Merseyside. A plan was forming, as the afternoon was getting on and we were increasingly tired. We'd walk to Heswall, then go to the bus station in the town for a (Saveaway-funded) bus home. It wasn't that far, and in the meantime, we could admire the scenery: finally we were properly above ground, and we could see the Welsh mountains across the estuary.
I'm at a loss to explain what happened next. For some reason, we managed to walk past Heswall altogether, something which passed us by until we realised we were stood in the middle of nowhere with fields all around us. I can't explain how my normally fantastic sense of direction let me down. It must have been Robert's fault. Yeah, that's it.
We could have turned around, walked back, but that's an incredibly depressing prospect, so we decided we'd carry on to the next village, Thurstaston, and see if we could get a bus there. Robert was immensely disappointed that this would mean we wouldn't get to visit the not-funny-at-all Gayton, but there was no alternative. We was tempted to make a detour for this:
I mean, The Dungeon? What? We decided not to bother looking in the end, as the reality could never be as interesting as the Orc-manned torture chamber we had in our heads, and Thurstaston couldn't be too far away - could it?
It depends what you mean by Thurstaston, I suppose. We stumbled upon the old railway platform there, still preserved: the line was only single track, so this would have served up and down trains. More interestingly, behind the platform was a proper visitor centre, with a cafe, toilets, and exhibition space.
Inside were the usual rag-tag elements that the name "visitor centre" implies: a few stuffed animals in a diorama about the nature of the Wirral Way, a model ship, a few informative plaques. There was a brief history of the line's railway past, too. Once we'd spent a respectable amount of time cooing over the exhibits, and tried to work the hi-tech public transport kiosk (which could only tell us that yes, the Wirral had buses), we ventured into the village.
You know how I said the railway bosses had built the line some distance from the village they served? Well, take what I said about Willaston, and times it by a thousand for Thurstaston.
There was an astonishing distance between the village and the railway station. With planning like this, it's no wonder that Doctor Beeching decided to give the axe to the route. It's a shame it went, but there's no way it would survive, not in today's economy: there are vast lengths of route without anyone nearby - fine in an intercity railway, not so good on a little local one. Robert suggested that it might have been nice as a preserved railway, a steam train running between West Kirby and Hooton. That might have worked, but sadly, the line's now been built over in places, so it's never going to happen. Instead it's being slowly reclaimed by the earth: the only wheels that'll pass over it now are bicycle wheels.
As for us, we'd walked nearly ten miles in an afternoon, which isn't bad for two slightly podgy men with little or no athletic aptitude. There's now only a little strip between Thurstaston and West Kirby that I haven't walked, so I'll have to do that for completion's sake. In the meantime, we decided to celebrate the end of the walk as men always do:
Marvellous.
Labels: Hadlow Road, Hooton, Robert, unexpected historical tarting, West Kirby to Hooton Line
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I woke up this morning to find a box on my doorstep. Nothing new there: I'm currently being stalked by Russell Tovey, and he frequently leaves me gifts - chocolates, jewellery, pictures of him naked save for a pair of opened toed sandals. I keep saying stop, The Bf will find out, but I just can't quell his ardour. It's a hard life.
However, this box was different. Eight inches square, it was wrapped in plain brown paper, and my name was spelt out using letters cut from the newspaper. I wracked my brains: did I know anyone who had recently been kidnapped? After all, I know some very important people. One of my friends has met Cherie Blair. He could be in a cellar somewhere, right now, chained to a radiator with only a transistor tuned to the World Service for company. Unlikely, because no-one uses transistor radios these days, but you never know.
I gingerly opened the package, and inside was a letter. It had been wrapped around a Sheila Hancock souvenir paperweight: she was wearing her wimple from Sister Act. I took this as a veiled threat, having seen her as a Madam Whiplash judge on Over The Rainbow.
Dear Merseytart
it said.
I read what you wrote about Hooton the other day and I thought I'd put you right on a few things. Don't ask who I am: just trust me when I tell you that I am amazing, and know more than you ever will.
There are no plans to cut back the Ellesmere Port service to a shuttle, as you discussed. Quite the contrary. Merseyrail are planning on increasing the Chester service to four trains from December, yes, but that will be at no cost to the Ellesmere Port service. Through effective management of the fleet, they'll be able to increase frequencies without causing any problems. That'll mean six trains an hour between Hooton and Hamilton Square, and a total of fourteen trains an hour between Hamilton Square and Liverpool. Not bad eh?
"That's pretty good," I said, then realised I was talking to a letter.
Chester's not just one of the busiest routes: it also has "suppressed demand". There will have to be a change to the maintenance routines, but they will manage. There'll be no need to bring in the trains from down south for the new schedules, either, though Merseyrail is still looking at the possibility of bringing them into the fold in the future. Passenger numbers are rising all the time.
"So why improve Hooton? What's the reason?" I gasped.
I'm not sure why I can hear that, but here's the answer to your question. Hooton is being improved because it's a busy junction with a large car park that has been a little neglected. That's it. There's no ulterior motive - just a desire to make the station that little bit better, that little bit nicer, that little bit more accessible.
You're a cynical chap, I know: but remember that sometimes people do things for good reasons.
A RELIABLE SOURCE
P.S. This letter will now self-destruct.
With that, the missive burst into flames in my hand. As I ran my burnt fingertips under the cold tap, I couldn't help smiling. Two more trains an hour to Chester is fantastic news - that's doubling the service. It's a plan with no down sides. Increased frequencies between two major cities, metro-level service along the Wirral Line, and Ellesmere Port stays as an integral part of the network. Marvellous. Hurrah for anonymous tip offs!
Labels: futures, Hooton, Mike, Russell Tovey
Hooton and Howlin'
The last week has been an uninterrupted streak of glorious, hot weather, sunny and sticky. So what happens the one day I decide to leave the house? It goes cloudy and rains. Marvellous.
The plan was to hit Hooton to see the new MtoGo shop, and then to have a bit of wander down the Wirral Way - the old Hooton to West Kirby line. My partner in crime once again was Robert, who is increasingly becoming the Lois to my Clark. Sorry, the Lewis to my Clark. We venture forth into untarted territory, unbowed, fearless. With me in charge, obviously.
First stop, though, was Hooton, the unattractively named junction at the base of the Wirral Line. I tarted it - Christ - two years ago, but it's subsequently had a load of cash thrown at it to be redeveloped, so I wanted to get a "before" under my belt.
We got off the Chester train and immediately spotted this curious sign in the waiting room. I can't quite work out what's gone on here. Is there some technical, redevelopment reason for there being glue on the seat, or has someone just spilt some Uhu? Are they setting up a YouTube joke for later, when someone "hilariously" gets stuck to it? All the other seats were fine. It was the first time I'd been in one of those glass Tardis waiting rooms that have sprung up all over the place - it was surprisingly nice. Back when I used to commute to Chester, we'd often have to get off at Hooton for various reasons (usually a breakdown of some kind), and I'd stood in the peeing rain on the platform rather than venture inside the shelter. It always seemed to be occupied by aggressively noisy thirty something women who would do anything to protect their over-elaborate hairdos, and God help you if you came splashing anywhere near them. They've since built another modern looking waiting room on the Liverpool platform, but annoyingly, it doesn't match the one on the Chester platform:
Clearly the silver and blue scheme offended the Colour Tsars, and they decreed the new one should be in the corporate livery. It's also bigger than the old one. Freudians, do your work.
The biggest redevelopment to come at Hooton will be a new footbridge, incorporating full lift and disabled access. Because this is a busy station, and the active platforms are only accessible via the existing bridge (the platforms nearest the ticket office are used to hold trains overnight), it wasn't possible to demolish the current bridge until a replacement was around. As such, they're going to build the new bridge behind it, then demolish the old one once it's in place, somewhere early in 2011. The workmen are already on site, and have got rid of the old disabled toilet that used to be on the platform. No word yet on whether they'll transfer the distinctive "eau de pissoir" to the new footbridge, but fingers crossed.
Another part of the redevelopment is they've finally opened the long-promised MtoGo shop in the booking hall. The previous newsagent that was in the station building closed years ago, so it was always surprising that they took so long to install it. It's a smaller version of the Liverpool Central or Moorfields buildings, and looks very neat - however, it was closed when we got there, so we couldn't go in and poke the confectionary. I never knew that MtoGo shops did close, actually: I thought they were open as long as the station was, but the presence of a ticket window indicates otherwise, I guess.
The question is, why is Hooton getting all this cash thrown in its direction? I thought it was just a reflection on the fact that it's been neglected for a long time. Even though it's a Merseyrail station, and is within area B with the rest of the Wirral, it's actually in Cheshire. It's been ignored in the same way that the other Cheshire stations have.
Robert, however, had a different explanation. Network Rail have advocated more trains on the Liverpool-Chester route, freeing up capacity and increasing reliability. It'd also mean that there'd be six trains an hour between Hooton and Liverpool. However, to do that, they'd need to add some more trains.
Initially, the idea was to add units from London, the only other place that runs trains like we have on Merseyside. They were replacing theirs, so the trains were going spare. For some reason though, Merseyrail haven't bitten their hand off. The trains are still sitting around unused. No-one knows why: perhaps Merseyrail can't afford to rent them, or perhaps they don't fancy upgrading the trains to our standards. God knows what the Colour Tsars would say to trains that weren't yellow and grey travelling around willy nilly.
Without any new trains, it's difficult to add new services. So they may fall back on a different proposal: implement the four trains an hour to Chester... and withdraw the direct service to Ellesmere Port. One train would be left to run there and back again, and everyone would be forced to change at Hooton. Hence the upgrades, to ensure the people waiting on the platform are well catered-for.
This is all a rumour, for the moment. It would of course be a massive step back for Ellesmere Port if its direct service to Liverpool was withdrawn: even if it's a relatively simple change, it's an inconvenience for passengers. It'd be bad for Liverpool too, as I'm sure many of the people who currently take the train to shop in the city, for example, would change to a bus to Chester to save time. Plus, you only have to look at the Helsby-Ellesmere Port service to see what can happen when a service becomes a shuttle: it gets wound down and down until it becomes nothing. I'll keep an ear out but it would be a shame if this investment came at the detriment of the train service: that's text book giving with one hand, and taking away with the other.
Labels: futures, Hooton, Merseyrail, Merseytravel, MtoGo, Robert, The Colour Tsars, Wirral Line
Like, Duh
Merseyrail: never afraid to state the obvious.
Labels: Hamilton Square, Merseyrail
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How China is trying to enhance its international insertion through cultural diplomacy, by Danielly S.R. Bécard & Paulo Menechelli Filho
09/05/2019 Mundorama Ásia-Pacífico, Não Categorizado 0
In an article published in the New York Times on November 18th, 2018, titled How China Is Rewriting Its Own Script, Ami Qin and Audrey Carlson affirmed that “China wields enormous influence over how it is depicted in the movies Americans make and watch. It’s part of a broader push by the government to take control of its global narrative and present a friendlier, less menacing image of China to the world.” In the article titled Chinese Cultural Diplomacy: instruments in China’s strategy for international insertion in the 21st Century just published in the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI, vol.61, 1/2019), Paulo Menechelli Filho and Danielly Ramos analyzed how China is using instruments of cultural diplomacy, such as the cinema, but also the media, and the Confucius Institutes, to strengthen its presence in the world.
The authors argued that, since the Hu Jintao (2003-2013), and especially the Xi Jinping (2013 to present day) eras, China spared no efforts or resources to strengthen its cultural diplomacy. Among the most evident actions in this process, the internationalization of the Chinese media, the strengthening of Chinese movies and the spreading of Confucius Institutes (CI) are the most prominent. The academics pointed out that the attention to international image has been one of the driving forces of China’s foreign policy. In this context, the paper’s hypothesis is that the Chinese government used cultural diplomacy as a tool to improve its image and others’ perception of China. In this sense, cultural diplomacy would have allowed more knowledge about China abroad, which contributed to lowering tensions and creating a more favorable environment for China’s international insertion. To test this hypothesis, the researchers analyzed the perspectives and characteristics of Chinese cultural diplomacy over the past few decades. They also analyzed actions that China put into practice, their effects and potential results, as well as the perception of the environment where these initiatives were received. Moreover, they conducted a case study of the CIs in the U.S., as this is the country that received and closed the most CIs in the world.
Based on qualitative and quantitative data, the authors concluded that the Chinese government has recognized the need to improve China’s image so as to strengthen its presence worldwide, and that cultural diplomacy could be used as a tool to disarm tensions and create a favorable environment for China’s international insertion. Moreover, despite the fact that China uses instruments of public and cultural diplomacy very similar to those from other countries, such as the media, cinema, and cultural instruments, the researchers observed that there are important particularities in China’s conception of soft power and cultural diplomacy. The importance of the cultural dimension to the concept of soft power, as well as the broad definition of culture, justify the use of the term “cultural soft power” in academic debates and Chinese political rhetoric. Furthermore, the Chinese state is prominent in the conduction of cultural diplomacy, whether in the command of government agencies that promote cultural diplomacy or in choosing topics to be debated and disseminated. In addition, there is a double use of China’s cultural diplomacy: besides spreading the Chinese culture abroad, they aim at goals relating to cultural security and domestic social cohesion. These particularities might not suffice to characterize a Chinese model of cultural diplomacy, but they make the analysis of China’s cultural diplomacy actions more complex, and, besides, even when they make use of traditional mechanisms of cultural diplomacy, China’s actions are seen differently. Therefore, from an academic perspective, the authors argued that comprehending conceptual nuances and differences in its approach might make the analysis of Chinese cultural diplomacy more objective and pragmatic. Perceptions of Chinese cultural diplomacy are still not clear and erratic and studies that focus on their origins, actions and results are still not very abundant, which legitimizes the analysis effort presented here. However, this article concludes that there is strong evidence that the Chinese government will continue to invest heavily in its cultural diplomacy and act so that Chinese stories are heard, their voices are disseminated, and their characteristics are well explained, as stated by Xi Jinping in 2014.
Becard, Danielly Silva Ramos, & Menechelli Filho, Paulo. (2019). Chinese Cultural Diplomacy: instruments in China’s strategy for international insertion in the 21st Century. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 62(1), e005. Epub April 29, 2019.https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201900105
Danielly Silva Ramos Becard is Associate Professor at the Insitute of International Relations of the University of Brasília, Brazil.
Paulo Menechelli Filho is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the University of Brasília, Brazil.
Mundorama. "How China is trying to enhance its international insertion through cultural diplomacy, by Danielly S.R. Bécard & Paulo Menechelli Filho". Mundorama - Revista de Divulgação Científica em Relações Internacionais,. [Acessado em 19/07/2019]. Disponível em: <http://www.mundorama.net/?p=25538>.
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Editorial de "China rising – strategies and tactics of China's growing presence in the world: a special issue of RBPI", por Henrique Altemani de Oliveira & Antônio Carlos Lessa
Interview about “Swords into Ploughshares? China’s Soft Power Strategy in Southeast Asia and Its Challenges”, with Tung-Chieh Tsai
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Home / News / Buhari Jailed Me For 18 Months in 1984 Because I Was Rich – Anenih
Buhari Jailed Me For 18 Months in 1984 Because I Was Rich – Anenih
“I was sent to Kirikiri Prisons where I spent three months before I was transferred to Ikoyi Prisons.”
He also said he did not commit any crime, adding that his offence was that he was a popular and wealthy politician.
Further narrating his ordeal in prison custody, Anenih said “We were transferred to Ikoyi Prisons because of the riot that took place while we were there. The condemned prisoners whose death warrants had earlier been signed by Alhaji Lateef Jakande when he was governor of Lagos State, broke loose on sighting him as one of the detainees.
“They broke out of their cells and headed towards the building where Jakande and the rest of us detainees were kept. As the prisoners were attempting to force the iron door open, mobile police were called in to quell the riot.”
Adding that “Where we were staying, the bucket latrines or toilets had opening to the rooms. These buckets were emptied maybe once a week from behind, and if for any reason the buckets were not emptied once a week as the rule, you lived with the stench.
“At night, cockroaches, rats and lizards passed through these holes housing the bucket latrines into our cells after crawling on the buckets to disturb us. So, you could really not sleep for one hour without getting cockroaches perch on you.”
Anenih made this revelation in Abuja on Sunday, November 27, 2016, during the launch of his book titled: My Life and Nigerian Politics.
He served as the minister of works and housing during former President Olusegun Obasanjo tenure from 1999 to 2002.
Buhari Jailed Me For 18 Months in 1984 Because I Was Rich – Anenih Reviewed by newsrepublique media on November 28, 2016 Rating: 5
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Colombia VS Qatar, over game is expected
AMECColombia VS Qatar, over game is expected
Submit by tipster ChauForever
Match Time: 6/20/2019 05:30 Thursday (GMT+8)
Copa America --- Colombia VS Qatar
Colombia: Perfect start ( Recent Form: W L W W W )
The Colombians want to make a splash at Copa America and have already taken the first step. In the showdown against Argentina, "Los Cafeteros" proved impressively why they are among the narrow circle of Copa favorites. The last title in the South American competition is 18 years ago. At the Copa America 2001 hosted in their own country, the Colombians celebrated their only title success so far. In the last edition of the Copa, the team went to the superstars James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao even the third place, after the semi-final against Chile was unfortunately lost 0-2. The Colombian selection has improved significantly in recent years and has proved this at the recent World Championships. After the quarter-finals against host World Cup Brazil 2014, there was only at the last World Cup 2018 in Russia only a very close exit against the "Three Lions" from England. After the successful preparation for the Copa America 2019, the "Los Cafeteros" want to conquer the South American throne for the first time since 2001. In contrast to Argentina, where the offensive game is largely focused on Lionel Messi, Colombia benefits from a strong collective that coach Queiroz has at his disposal. His two substitutes in the game against Argentina even scored the winning goal, so the start-up decisions in the game against Qatar remains to be seen. Zapata, who showed strong performances on the club level, let Falcao take the lead in the group's opening event but could now face Qatar from the start. Coach Carlos Queiroz, who has been in office since the beginning of February, has only recorded victories so far. Will it also be on Wednesday evening or will this time a Colombia against Qatar forecast on the Queiroz team not true?
Qatar: The impressive draw ( Recent Form: W W W L D )
At the World Cup 2022 Qatar is hosted and wants to prove on home territory. So far, the ideas of the Weinroten were not very good in recent years. In any case, participation as the host of the 2022 World Cup will be the very first of the Qatari national team at a World Cup. Recently, the Qatari reds celebrated the biggest success in the club's history. At the 17th edition of the Asian Cup, Qatar chose for the first time champion. As a guest team, Qatar was invited to the Copa America 2019. Already in the first group match, the Qatari selection seemed to sink, but could still secure the draw after the 0: 2 deficit with two sizable goals. In the match against Paraguay, there were offensively good approaches, which is why the Weinroten also optimistically go into the second group match against Colombia. At the dress rehearsal before the Copa America, the Qatari selection against Copa host Brazil could keep up well, but in the end but expected to lose the test match. In the current squad of Qatar no legionary can be found. All players play in the domestic league. Hassan Al-Haydos is in the squad with 121 appearances in the current squad of the record and also has the most goals on the account. Big changes in the squad of Qatar are not to be expected against Colombia. In any case, coach Felix Sanchez made despite a 0-2 deficit against Paraguay until the end of the game a substitution. Surprising the Weinroten also in the second group game, Colombia can be lucrative quota against Qatar.
THE BETTING VERDICT:
After all, if they win this match, Colombia will soon gain access to Knock-out, and Qatar will get second place. So the two teams showed high determination and will join the open-minded attacks.
Colombia - Qatar
O/U Pick: Over 2.5 goals
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(Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Central Administration, SD (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Electronic Health Record Support Specialist A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Emergency Medical Services B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Energy Management B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Energy and Manufacturing Management B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Energy and Manufacturing Management B.S., Lonestar, SD (Not currently enrolling) Graduate Certificate Accounting Graduate Certificate Accounting Graduate Certificate E-Marketing Graduate Certificate E-Marketing Graduate Certificate Global Supply Chain Management Graduate Certificate Global Supply Chain Management Graduate Certificate Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Human Resource Management Health Information Management B.S. Health Information Management B.S., Independence, MO Health Information Management B.S., Rapid City, SD Health Information Management B.S. Health Information Management B.S., Overland Park, KS Health Information Management B.S., Wichita (East), KS Health Information Management B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Health Information Management B.S., Bellevue, NE Health Information Management B.S., Indianapolis, IN Health Information Management B.S., Georgetown, TX Health Information Management B.S. Health Information Management B.S., Kings Bay, GA Health Information Technology A.A.S., Independence, MO Health Information Technology A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Health Information Technology A.A.S. Health Information Technology A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Health Information Technology A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Health Information Technology A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Health Information Technology A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Health Information Technology A.A.S., Richardson, TX Health Information Technology A.A.S., Indianapolis, IN Health Information Technology A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Health Information Technology A.A.S. Health Information Technology A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Health Information Technology A.A.S. Health Information Technology A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Health and Beauty Management A.A.S (NM) Health and Beauty Management A.A.S (NM), Indianapolis, IN Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Independence, MO Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Health and Beauty Management A.A.S. Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Richardson, TX Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Health and Beauty Management A.A.S. Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Health and Beauty Management A.A.S. Health and Beauty Management A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Healthcare Coding Diploma, Independence, MO Healthcare Coding Diploma, Rapid City, SD Healthcare Coding Diploma Healthcare Coding Diploma, Overland Park, KS Healthcare Coding Diploma, Wichita (East), KS Healthcare Coding Diploma, Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Healthcare Coding Diploma, Bellevue, NE Healthcare Coding Diploma, Richardson, TX Healthcare Coding Diploma, Indianapolis, IN Healthcare Coding Diploma, Georgetown, TX Healthcare Coding Diploma, Kings Bay, GA Healthcare Coding Diploma Healthcare Coding Diploma, Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Healthcare Management B.S., Independence, MO Healthcare Management B.S., Rapid City, SD Healthcare Management B.S. Healthcare Management B.S., Overland Park, KS Healthcare Management B.S., Wichita (East), KS Healthcare Management B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Healthcare Management B.S., Bellevue, NE Healthcare Management B.S., Richardson, TX Healthcare Management B.S., Indianapolis, IN Healthcare Management B.S., Georgetown, TX Healthcare Management B.S. Healthcare Management B.S., Kings Bay, GA Healthcare Management B.S. Healthcare Management B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Information Technology A.A.S., Independence, MO Information Technology A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Information Technology A.A.S. Information Technology A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Information Technology A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Information Technology A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Information Technology A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Information Technology A.A.S., Richardson, TX Information Technology A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Information Technology A.A.S. Information Technology A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Information Technology A.A.S. Information Technology A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Information Technology A.A.S. (Indianapolis) Information Technology A.A.S. (Indianapolis), Indianapolis, IN Information Technology B.S., Independence, MO Information Technology B.S., Rapid City, SD Information Technology B.S. Information Technology B.S., Overland Park, KS Information Technology B.S., Wichita (East), KS Information Technology B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Information Technology B.S., Bellevue, NE Information Technology B.S., Richardson, TX Information Technology B.S., Indianapolis, IN Information Technology B.S., Georgetown, TX Information Technology B.S. Information Technology B.S., Kings Bay, GA Information Technology B.S. Information Technology B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Information Technology emphasis in Applications Developer A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Applications Developer A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Applications Development B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Independence, MO Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Rapid City, SD Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S. Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Overland Park, KS Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Wichita (East), KS Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Bellevue, NE Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Richardson, TX Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Indianapolis, IN Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Georgetown, TX Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S. Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Kings Bay, GA Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S. Information Technology emphasis in Cybersecurity and Forensics B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Database Administration/Microsoft B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Enterprise Web and Mobile Developer A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Enterprise Web and Mobile Developer A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Game Software Development B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Information Technology Administrator A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Information Technology Administrator A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Information Technology Professional A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Information Technology Professional A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Internet Systems Development B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Central Administration, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Management Information Systems B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Administrator A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Network Administrator A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Central Administration, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Management/Microsoft B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Network Specialist A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Network Specialist A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Network Support Technician A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Network Support Technician A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in PC Support Technician A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in PC Support Technician A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Video Game Design Technologies A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Video Game Design Technologies A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Video Game Design and Development A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Video Game Design and Development A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Web Applications Specialist A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Web Applications Specialist A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Development B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Information Technology emphasis in Web Technology Specialist A.A.S. Information Technology emphasis in Web Technology Specialist A.A.S. Leadership and Administration in Nursing Leadership and Administration in Nursing MBA MBA MBA MBA emphasis in Accounting MBA emphasis in Accounting MBA emphasis in Accounting MBA emphasis in Aviation Management MBA emphasis in Aviation Management MBA emphasis in Aviation Management MBA emphasis in E-Marketing MBA emphasis in E-Marketing MBA emphasis in E-Marketing MBA emphasis in Health Care Administration MBA emphasis in Health Care Administration MBA emphasis in Health Care Administration MBA emphasis in Human Resources Management MBA emphasis in Human Resources Management MBA emphasis in Human Resources Management MBA emphasis in Information Technology Management MBA emphasis in Information Technology Management MBA emphasis in Information Technology Management MBA emphasis in International Business MBA emphasis in International Business MBA emphasis in International Business MBA emphasis in Management MBA emphasis in Management MBA emphasis in Management MBA emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management MBA emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management MBA emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management MBA emphasis in Project and Process Management MBA emphasis in Project and Process Management MBA emphasis in Project and Process Management MSN emphasis in Care Coordination (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Care Coordination (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Care Coordination (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Education (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Education (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Education (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Administration (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Administration (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Administration (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Informatics (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Informatics (Not currently enrolling) MSN emphasis in Nursing Informatics (Not currently enrolling) Management A.A.S., Independence, MO Management A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Management A.A.S. Management A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Management A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Management A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Management A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Management A.A.S., Richardson, TX Management A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Management A.A.S. Management A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Management A.A.S. Management A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Management A.A.S. (Indianapolis) Management A.A.S. (Indianapolis), Indianapolis, IN Management B.S., Independence, MO Management B.S., Rapid City, SD Management B.S. Management B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Management B.S., Bellevue, NE Management B.S., Richardson, TX Management B.S., Indianapolis, IN Management B.S., Georgetown, TX Management B.S. Management B.S., Kings Bay, GA Management B.S. Management B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Management B.S. (Kansas) Management B.S. (Kansas), Overland Park, KS Management B.S. (Kansas), Wichita (East), KS Management with Concentration in Business A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Business A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Community Service A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Community Service A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Supply Chain A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Supply Chain A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Technology A.A.S. Management with Concentration in Technology A.A.S. Master of Management Master of Management Master of Management Master of Management emphasis in Aviation Management Master of Management emphasis in Aviation Management Master of Management emphasis in Aviation Management Master of Management emphasis in Criminal Justice Master of Management emphasis in Criminal Justice Master of Management emphasis in Criminal Justice Master of Management emphasis in E-Marketing Master of Management emphasis in E-Marketing Master of Management emphasis in E-Marketing Master of Management emphasis in Health Care Administration Master of Management emphasis in Health Care Administration Master of Management emphasis in Health Care Administration Master of Management emphasis in Higher Education Master of Management emphasis in Higher Education Master of Management emphasis in Higher Education Master of Management emphasis in Human Resources Management Master of Management emphasis in Human Resources Management Master of Management emphasis in Human Resources Management Master of Management emphasis in Information Technology Management Master of Management emphasis in Information Technology Management Master of Management emphasis in Information Technology Management Master of Management emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management Master of Management emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management Master of Management emphasis in Operations and Configuration Management Master of Management emphasis in Project and Process Management Master of Management emphasis in Project and Process Management Master of Management emphasis in Project and Process Management Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Human Resource Management (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Human Resource Management (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Intelligence Management Master of Science in Intelligence Management Master of Science in Nursing Emph Adult-Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Nursing Emph Adult-Gerontological Nurse Practitioner (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner (Not currently enrolling) Master of Science in Strategic Security and Protection Management Master of Science in Strategic Security and Protection Management Master of Science in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies Master of Science in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Independence, MO Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S. Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Richardson, TX Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S. Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S. Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S. (Indianapolis) Medical Administrative Assistant A.A.S. (Indianapolis), Indianapolis, IN Medical Assisting Diploma, Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Medical Assisting Diploma, Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Medical Billing and Coding Diploma Medical Billing and Coding Diploma, Overland Park, KS Medical Billing and Coding Diploma, Wichita (East), KS Medical Billing and Coding Diploma, Bellevue, NE Medical Billing and Coding Diploma, Indianapolis, IN Medical Laboratory Technician A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Medical Laboratory Technician A.A.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Medical Laboratory Technician A.A.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Independence, MO Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Rapid City, SD Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S. Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Overland Park, KS Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Wichita (East), KS Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Bellevue, NE Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Richardson, TX Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Georgetown, TX Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S. Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Kings Bay, GA Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S. Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S. (Indianapolis) Medical Staff Services Management A.A.S. (Indianapolis), Indianapolis, IN Mid-Level Certificate Counterterrorism Mid-Level Certificate Counterterrorism Mid-Level Certificate Executive Protection Mid-Level Certificate Executive Protection Mid-Level Certificate Intelligence Analysis Mid-Level Certificate Intelligence Analysis Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Network and Server Administrator Diploma, Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Nursing (LPN Bridge BSN) B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Nursing (LPN Bridge BSN) B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing (LPN Bridge BSN) B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Clinical Core B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Nursing Foundational Core B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S. (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Occupational Therapy Assistant A.A.S., Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Office Applications & Software Support Diploma Office Applications & Software Support Diploma, Overland Park, KS Office Applications & Software Support Diploma, Wichita (East), KS Office Applications & Software Support Diploma, Bellevue, NE Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Zona Rosa (Kansas City), MO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Wichita (East), KS (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Wichita (West), KS (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Rochester, MN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Tigard OR, OR (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Killeen, TX (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Denver, CO (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Kings Bay, GA (Not currently enrolling) Online Nursing RN-to-BSN B.S., Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Independence, MO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Bloomington, MN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Rapid City, SD (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Albuquerque (West), NM (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Sioux Falls, SD (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Roseville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Albuquerque (East), NM (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S. (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Overland Park, KS (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Central Administration, SD (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Austin - Undergraduate, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Watertown, SD (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Minnetonka - Education Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Colorado Springs (South), CO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Lee's Summit, MO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Allen - Service Center, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Centennial (Denver Metro), CO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Tulsa, OK (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Bellevue, NE (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Burnsville, MN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Richardson, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Lewisville, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Austin South, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Brooklyn Center, MN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Weldon Spring, MO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Mesquite, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Houston, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Indianapolis, IN (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Georgetown, TX (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., GH Service (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Colorado Springs (North), CO (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S., Garden City, KS (Not currently enrolling) Organizational Leadership B.S. 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Home / Cabinet / latest news / PMINDIA / Cabinet approves Continuation of Phase 4 of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)
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The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved ongoing GSLV continuation programme Phase-4 consisting of five GSLV flights during the period 2021-2024.
The GSLV Programme – Phase 4 will enable the launch of 2 tonne class of satellites for Geo-imaging, Navigation, Data Relay Communication and Space Sciences.
Financial implications:
The total fund requirement is Rs. 2729.13 Crores and includes the cost of five GSLV vehicles, essential facility augmentation, Programme Management, and Launch Campaign along with the additional funds required for meeting the scope of the ongoing GSLV Continuation Programme.
The GSLV Continuation Programme – Phase 4 will meet the launch requirement of satellites for providing critical Satellite Navigation Services, Data Relay Communication for supporting the Indian Human spaceflight programme and the next interplanetary mission to Mars. This will also ensure the continuity of production in Indian industry.
Implementation Strategy and targets:
The GSLV Continuation Programme – Phase 4 will meet the demand for the launch of satellites at a frequency up to two launches per year, with maximal participation by the Indian industry. All the operational flights would be completed during the period 2021-24.
Major impact:
The operationalization of GSLV has made the country self-reliant in the launching capability of 2 tonne class of satellites for communication & meteorological satellites. The GSLV Continuation Programme will sustain & strengthen the capability and self-reliance in the launching of similar satellites for national requirements including next generation navigation satellites, data relay communication satellites and interplanetary missions.
GSLV has enabled independent access to space for 2 tonne class of satellites to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). One of the very significant outcomes of the GSLV Continuation Programme is the mastering of the highly complex cryogenic propulsion technology, which is an essential technological capability to launch communication satellites to GTO. This has also paved the way for the development of a high thrust Cryogenic engine & stage for the next generation launch vehicle i.e. GSLV Mk-lll.
With the recent successful launch of GSLV-F11 on 19th December 2018, GSLV has successfully orbited 10 national satellites. GSLV with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage has established itself as a reliable launch vehicle for communication, navigation and meteorological satellites and also to undertake future interplanetary missions.
GSLV Continuation Programme was initially sanctioned in 2003, and two phases have been completed and the third phase is in progress and expected to be completed by Q4 of 2020-21.
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Lauv & Troye Sivan Perform “i'm so tired...” on Jimmy Kimmel Live
American singer-songwriter Lauv and Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where both of artists performed their latest collaboration song “i'm so tired...”. Also Lauv performed “I Like Me Better” as a solo.
The song “i'm so tired...” was released back in January along with the music video and written by Lauv, Michael Pollack, Troye Sivan, Leland and OZGO.
“I Like Me Better” was released in 2017 from Lauv's self-titled EP. The song reached the top ten in Australia, Austria and Germany.
Lauv announced that the collaboration will be his final single before resuming work on his debut LP, which follows up 2018 compilation album "I Met You When I Was 18 (The Playlist)".
While, Troye Sivan will embark on The Bloom Tour the UK and European leg in February and March. Learn more about tour dates, click here.
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In New ESPN College Football Campaign, Superstitions, Traditions, ‘Everything Matters’
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 11:27PM
NYSJ Sports-Entertainment Business News Service
August 29, 2018: ESPN has launched “Everything Matters,” the first spot in a fan-first campaign to support the 2018 college football season.
The campaign is part of ESPN's ongoing umbrella “Who’s In?” effort, which launched in 2014 to coincide with the inaugural year of the College Football Playoff.
The campaign will run across ESPN and ABC platforms during the college football season, with new spots in rotation as the season progresses.
“As the last four years have shown us, the path to the College Football Playoff is unpredictable, and superstition and tradition often play a role in how fans experience the season,” Wanda Young, ESPN’s svp-marketing and consumer engagement, said in a statement.
“We wanted to give a wink and a nod to what every fan knows in their heart: college football is more than what happens on the gridiron. It’s also the little things off the field that allow fans to have a real impact on their team’s journey.”
The schools represented in the initial spot include Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Miami, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Texas, Texas A&M, UCF, USC and Washington.
Among the superstitions and traditions: Face painting in your team’s colors, where you sit to watch a game, the height of the grass on your front lawn and what you eat for breakfast, “because everything matters.”
“No pressure,” says Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher.
In addition to the kickoff anthem spot, ESPN will launch an SEC-centric version that includes all 14 SEC schools and will be featured on the SEC Network.
McKinney is the lead agency.
ESPN’s schedule for the first three weeks of the college football season launches a season-long campaign that will culminate with six conference championship games and leads into a post-season featuring 35 Bowl Games.
That includes the New Year’s Six and the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T.
ESPN will also air every snap of the NCAA Division I Football Championship and crown the Division II and III National Champions.
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891. Rare French Bronze Grand Tour Table Casket Mid 19th Ct
An Extremely Rare Well Cast Table Casket depicting a view of the Arc De Triomphe monument in Paris France with a hinged cover for use as a match striker, resting on an oval stepped grey marble base with an ormolu plate and four ball supports, mid Nineteenth Century, possibly earlier.
Condition: Superb untouched condition with wonderful patination, no losses to castings.
Width: (at base) 7.25" (18.5cm). Height: 5.75" (14.5cm).
Item Sold.
Shipped to Second Avenue, New York City.
The Grand Tour has long been a symbol of wealth and freedom. In the late 16th century, it became quite fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Italy and France, as the finishing touch on their classical education. Travel was arduous and costly during this time and possible only for a privileged class, and thus the Grand Tour lasted until the 19th century, when railways across Europe allowed for easier travel. While these travels were very popular with the English, they were also undertaken by other Northern Europeans as well as Americans.
The Grand Tour was developed out of the idea of traveling for the sake of curiosity and cultural development. These travels not only provided a cultural education but it also allowed wealthier Grand Tourists an opportunity to purchase items unavailable at home, and it thus increased the travelers social standing and prestige. Travelers would return with crates of books, paintings, sculpture, and other cultural goods, which would be displayed in libraries, gardens, and purpose built galleries in their homes.
A large number of artists Such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canalletto) benefited from the patronage of the Grand Tour, as travelers purchased souvenirs.
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History of Lebanon - Occupation: 1992 To February 2005
Occupation: 1992 To February 2005
Since the end of the war, the Lebanese have conducted several elections, most of the militias have been weakened or disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have extended central government authority over about two-thirds of the country. Only Hezbollah retained its weapons, and was supported by Lebanon's parliament in doing so, because it officially for defending Lebanon against the Israeli occupation. Syria on the other hand kept its military presence in most of Lebanon, also holding various government institutions in the country, strengthening its occupation. The Israeli forces finally withdrew from south of Lebanon in May 2000, though the Syrian occupation of most Lebanon still continued.
By early November 1992, a new parliament had been elected, and Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri had formed a cabinet, retaining for himself the finance portfolio. The formation of a government headed by a successful billionaire businessman was widely seen as a sign that Lebanon would make a priority of rebuilding the country and reviving the economy. Solidere, a private real estate company set up to rebuild downtown Beirut, was a symbol of Hariri's strategy to link economic recovery to private sector investment. After the election of then-commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces Émile Lahoud as President in 1998 following Hrawi's extended term as President, Salim al-Hoss again served as Prime Minister. Hariri returned to office as Prime Minister in November 2000. Although problems with basic infrastructure and government services persist, and Lebanon is now highly indebted, much of the civil war damage has been repaired throughout the country, and many foreign investors and tourists have returned.
Postwar social and political instability, fueled by economic uncertainty and the collapse of the Lebanese currency, led to the resignation of Prime Minister Omar Karami, also in May 1992, after less than 2 years in office. He was replaced by former Prime Minister Rashid al Sulh, who was widely viewed as a caretaker to oversee Lebanon's first parliamentary elections in 20 years.
If Lebanon has in part recovered over the past decade from the catastrophic damage to infrastructure of its long civil war, the social and political divisions that gave rise to and sustained that conflict remain largely unresolved. Parliamentary and more recently municipal elections have been held with fewer irregularities and more popular participation than in the immediate aftermath of the conflict, and Lebanese civil society generally enjoys significantly more freedoms than elsewhere in the Arab world. However, there are continuing sectarian tensions and unease about Syrian and other external influences.
In the late 1990s, the government took action against Sunni Muslim extremists in the north who had attacked its soldiers, and it continues to move against groups such as Asbat al-Ansar, which has been accused of being partnered with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network. On January 24, 2002, Elie Hobeika, another former Lebanese Forces figure associated with the Sabra and Shatilla massacres who later served in three cabinets and the parliament, was assassinated in a car bombing in Beirut.
During Lebanon's civil war, Syria's troop deployment in Lebanon was legitimized by the Lebanese Parliament in the Taif Agreement, supported by the Arab League, and is given a major share of the credit for finally bringing the civil war to an end in October 1990. In the ensuing fifteen years, Damascus and Beirut justified Syria's continued military presence in Lebanon by citing the continued weakness of a Lebanese armed forces faced with both internal and external security threats, and the agreement with the Lebanese Government to implement all of the constitutional reforms in the Taif Agreement. Under Taif, the Hezbollah militia was eventually to be dismantled, and the LAF allowed to deploy along the border with Israel. Lebanon was called on to deploy along its southern border by UN Security Council Resolution 1391, urged to do so by UN Resolution UN Security Council Resolution 1496, and deployment was demanded by UN Security Council Resolution 1559. The Syrian military and intelligence presence in Lebanon was criticised by some on Lebanon's right-wing inside and outside of the country, others believed it helped to prevent renewed civil war and discourage Israeli aggression, and others believed its presence and influence was helpful for Lebanese stability and peace but should be scaled back. Major powers United States and France rejected Syrian reasoning that they were in Lebanon by the consent of the Lebanese government. They insist that the latter had been co-opted and that in fact Lebanon's Government was a Syrian puppet.
Up to 2005, 14-15,000 Syrian troops (down from 35,000) remained in position in many areas of Lebanon, although the Taif called for an agreement between the Syrian and Lebanese Governments by September 1992 on their redeployment to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Syria's refusal to exit Lebanon following Israel's 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon first raised criticism among the Lebanese Maronite Christians and Druze, who were later joined by many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims.) Lebanon's Shiites, on the other hand, have long supported the Syrian presence, as has the Hezbollah militia group and political party. The U.S. began applying pressure on Syria to end its occupation and cease interfering with internal Lebanese matters. In 2004, many believe Syria pressured Lebanese MPs to back a constitutional amendment to revise term limitations and allow Lebanon's two term pro-Syrian president Émile Lahoud to run for a third time. France, Germany and the United Kingdom, along with many Lebanese politicians joined the U.S. in denouncing alleged Syria's interference. On September 2, 2004, the UN Security Council adopted UN Security Council Resolution 1559, authored by France and the U.S. in an uncommon show of cooperation. The resolution called "upon all remaining foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon" and "for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias".
On May 25, 2000, Israel completed its withdrawal from the south of Lebanon in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 425. A 50 square kilometer piece of mountain terrain, commonly referred to as the Shebaa Farms, remains under the control of Israel. The UN has certified Israel's pullout, and regards the Shebaa Farms as occupied Syrian territory, while Lebanon and Syria have stated they regard the area as Lebanese territory. The January 20, 2005, UN Secretary-General's report on Lebanon stated: "The continually asserted position of the Government of Lebanon that the Blue Line is not valid in the Shab'a farms area is not compatible with Security Council resolutions. The Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for purposes of confirming Israel's withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425 (1978). The Government of Lebanon should heed the Council's repeated calls for the parties to respect the Blue Line in its entirety."
In Resolution 425, the UN had set a goal of assisting the Lebanese government in a "return of its effective authority in the area", which would require an official Lebanese army presence there. Further, UN Security Council Resolution 1559 requires the dismantling of the Hezbollah militia. Yet, Hezbollah remains deployed along the Blue Line. Both Hezbollah and Israel have violated the Blue Line more than once, according to the UN. The most common pattern of violence have been border incursions by the Hezbollah into the Shebaa Farms area, and then Israeli air strikes into southern Lebanon. The UN Secretary-General has urged "all governments that have influence on Hezbollah to deter it from any further actions which could increase the tension in the area". Staffan de Misura, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon stated that he was "deeply concerned that air violations by Israel across the Blue Line during altercations with Hezbollah are continuing to take place", calling "upon the Israeli authorities to cease such violations and to fully respect the Blue Line". In 2001 de Misura similarly expressed his concern to Lebanon's prime minister for allowing Hezbollah to violate the Blue Line, saying it was a "clear infringement" of UN Resolution 425, under which the UN certified Israel's withdrawal from south Lebanon as complete. On January 28, 2005, UN Security Council Resolution 1583 called upon the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, including through the deployment of sufficient numbers of Lebanese armed and security forces, to ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it. On January 23, 2006 The UN Security Council called on the Government of Lebanon to make more progress in controlling its territory and disbanding militias, while also calling on Syria to cooperate with those efforts. In a statement read out by its January President, Augustine Mahiga of Tanzania, the Council also called on Syria to take measures to stop movements of arms and personnel into Lebanon.
On September 3, 2004, the National Assembly voted 96–29 to amend the constitution to allow the pro-Syrian president, Émile Lahoud, three more years in office by extending a statute of limitations to nine years. Many regarded this as a second time Syria had pressured Lebanon's Parliament to amend the constitution in a way that favored Lahoud (the first allowing for his election in 1998 immediately after he had resigned as commander-in-chief of the LAF.) Three cabinet ministers were absent from the vote and later resigned. The USA charged that Syria exercised pressure against the National Assembly to amend the constitution, and many of the Lebanese rejected it, saying that it was considered as contradictive to the constitution and its principles. Including these is the Maronite Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir – the most eminent religious figure for Maronites – and the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.
To the surprise of many, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, who had vehemently opposed this amendment, appeared to have finally accepted it, and so did most of his party. However, he ended up resigning in protest against the amendment. He was assassinated soon afterwards (see below), triggering the Cedar Revolution. This amendment comes in discordance with the UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which called for a new presidential election in Lebanon.
On October 1, 2004, one of the main dissenting voices to Émile Lahoud's term extension, the newly resigned Druze ex-minister Marwan Hamadeh was the target of a car bomb attack as his vehicle slowed to enter his Beirut home. Mr. Hamadeh and his bodyguard were wounded and his driver killed in the attack. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt appealed for calm, but said the car bomb was a clear message for the opposition. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan expressed his serious concern over the attack.
On October 7, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council that Syria had failed to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Mr. Annan concluded his report saying that "It is time, 14 years after the end of hostilities and four years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, for all parties concerned to set aside the remaining vestiges of the past. The withdrawal of foreign forces and the disbandment and disarmament of militias would, with finality, end that sad chapter of Lebanese history.". On October 19, 2004, following the UN Secretary General's report, the UN Security Council voted unanimously (meaning that it received the backing of Algeria, the only Arab member of the Security Council) to put out a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with Resolution 1559.
On October 20, 2004, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri resigned; the next day former Prime Minister and loyal supporter of Syria Omar Karami was appointed Prime Minister. On February 14, 2005, former Prime Minister Hariri was assassinated in a car-bomb attack which killed 21 and wounded 100. On February 21, 2005, tens of thousand Lebanese protestors held a rally at the site of the assassination calling for the withdrawal of Syria's peacekeeping forces and blaming Syria and the pro-Syrian president Lahoud for the murder.
Hariri's murder triggered increased international pressure on Syria. In a joint statement U.S. President Bush and French president Chirac condemned the killing and called for full implementation of UNSCR 1559. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that he was sending a team led by Ireland's deputy police commissioner, Peter FitzGerald, to investigate the assassination. And while Arab League head Amr Moussa declared that Syrian president Assad promised him a phased withdrawal over a two-year period, the Syrian Information Minister Mahdi Dakhlallah said Mr Moussa had misunderstood the Syrian leader. Mr Dakhlallah said that Syria will merely move its troops to eastern Lebanon. Russia, Germany, and Saudi Arabia all called for Syrian troops to leave.
Local Lebanese pressure mounted as well. As daily protests against the Syrian occupation grew to 25,000, a series of dramatic events occurred. Massive protests such as these had been quite uncommon in the Arab world, and while in the 90s most anti-Syrian demonstrators were predominantly Christian, the new demonstrations were Christian and Sunni. On February 28 the government of pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigned, calling for a new election to take place. Mr Karami said in his announcement: "I am keen the government will not be a hurdle in front of those who want the good for this country." The tens of thousands gathered at Beirut's Martyrs' Square cheered the announcement, then chanted "Karami has fallen, your turn will come, Lahoud, and yours, Bashar". Opposition MPs were also not satisfied with Karami's resignation, and kept pressing for full Syrian withdrawal. Former minister and MP Marwan Hamadeh, who survived a similar car bomb attack on October 1, 2004, said "I accuse this government of incitement, negligence and shortcomings at the least, and of covering up its planning at the most... if not executing". Two days later Syrian leader Bashar Assad announced that his troops will leave Lebanon completely "in the next few months". Responding to the announcement, opposition leader Walid Jumblatt said that he wanted to hear more specifics from Damascus about any withdrawal: "It's a nice gesture but 'next few months' is quite vague – we need a clear-cut timetable".
On March 5 Syrian leader Assad declared in a televised speech that Syria would withdraw its forces to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, and then to the border between Syria and Lebanon. Assad did not provide a timetable for a complete withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon – 14,000 soldiers and intelligence agents. Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah called for a "massive popular gathering" on Tuesday against UN Resolution 1559 saying "The resistance will not give up its arms ... because Lebanon needs the resistance to defend it", and added "all the articles of UN resolution give free services to the Israeli enemy who should have been made accountable for his crimes and now finds that he is being rewarded for his crimes and achieves all its demands". In opposition to Nasrallah's call, Monday, March 7 saw at least 70,000 people – with some estimates putting the number at twice as high – gathered at central Martyrs' Square to demand that Syria leave completely.
The following day a pro-Syrian demonstration set a new record when Hezbollah amassed 400–500 thousand protestors at Riad Solh square in Beirut, most of them bussed in from the heavily Shi'ite south Lebanon and eastern Beka'a valley. The show of power demonstrated Hezbollah's influence, wealth and organization as the sole Lebanese party allowed to hold a militia by Syria. In his speech Nasrallah blasted UN Security-Council Resolution 1559, which calls for Hezbollah's militia to be disbanded, as foreign intervention. Nasrallah also reiterated his earlier calls for the destruction of Israel saying "To this enemy we say again: There is no place for you here and there is no life for you among us. Death to Israel!". Though Hezbollah organized a very successful rally, opposition leaders were quick to point out that Hezbollah had active support from Lebanon's government and Syria. While the pro-democracy rallies had to deal with road blocks forcing protestors to either turn back or march long distances to Martyr's Square, Hezbollah was able to bus people directly to Riad Solh square. Dory Chamoun, an opposition leader, pointed out that "the difference is that in our demonstrations, people arrive voluntarily and on foot, not in buses". Another opposition member said the pro-Syrian government pressured people to turn out and some reports said Syria had bused in people from across the border. But on a mountain road leading to Beirut, only one bus with a Syrian license plate was spotted in a convoy of pro-Syrian supporters heading to the capital and Hezbollah officials denied the charges. Opposition MP Akram Chehayeb said "That is where the difference between us and them lies: They asked these people to come and they brought them here, whereas the opposition's supporters come here on their own. Our protests are spontaneous. We have a cause. What is theirs?".
One month after Hariri's murder, an enormous anti-Syrian rally gathered at Martyr's Square in Beirut. Multiple news agencies estimated the crowd at between 800,000 and 1 million – a show of force for the Sunni, Christian and Druze communities. The rally was double the size of the mostly Shi'ite pro-Syrian one organized by Hezbollah the previous week. When Hariri's sister took a pro-Syrian line saying that Lebanon should "stand by Syria until its land is liberated and it regains its sovereignty on the occupied Golan Heights" the crowd jeered her. This sentiment was prevalent among the rally participants who opposed Hezbollah's refusal to disarm based on the claim that Lebanese and Syrian interests are linked.
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Cultivating the Past for the Future: Jeannie Berg's Take on Organic Farming
In each monthly installment of Bender, Caroline Ferguson will explore the social, cultural, and historical context of a single cocktail or boozy beverage. From settling which country lays claim to Pisco, to exploring the Carthusian Monks’ Chartreuse caves, Caroline will try to track down all the places your drink has been before it gets in your glass—always ending with a recipe of her own creation. Pull up a chair and a glass.
Photo by Matthew Vrvilo.
When we talk about the amount of time a farmer invests in a garden, that time is rarely limited to a single growing season. Whether it’s a Golden Delicious apple from a 50-year old tree or an heirloom Jory tomato seed that has been passed down for generations, food takes time to grow—often more than just a single farmer's lifetime. One farmer straddling the bridge between the past of her hundred-year-old conventional apple orchard and the future of organic farming is Jeannie Berg of Queener Farm in Scio, Oregon. In an age of chemical dependency on pesticides, environmentally irresponsible mono-cropping, and genetic modification for higher yields, Berg is harkening back to the organic practices of Queener's original homesteaders to grow foods that are well adapted to the local terroir and bring back the flavors of yesteryear.
Berg assumed the rather monumental task of taking over Queener Farm after being approached in May of 2014 by the previous owners, who had been taking care of the land for a decade. She was already handling several parcels of land around Independence at the time, growing 21 different tomato varieties (including the Jory tomato, a canning varietal that Berg brought back into availability with the help of Adaptive Seed), the elusive Trombonzino squash (which Berg overnighted to Dan Barber's restaurant Blue Hour in New York back in 2013), fava beans, winter squash, rhubarb, and a handful of native plants (including stinging nettles, miner's lettuce, and maple trees).
Success on a farm is about timing and balance, especially with a farm that was born before the widespread use of pesticides. The 50-year old Gravenstein apple trees give a hint of the age of the orchard itself, while the barn, erected in 1939, was built the same year that DDT was invented and the movement towards chemical farming began. Because of the cultural shift in farming techniques that Queener has witnessed over its hundred-year history, bringing microbial life back to the soil and beneficial insects to the area are arduous tasks. When Queener was originally homesteaded in the 1880s, pesticides were an unimagined future. Now, as the farm continues to persevere, Berg has brought Queener full-circle, harkening back to the methods of the original homesteaders of the property. Both were and are farming in a more natural way as well as with a more localized outlook.
For Berg, the challenge at hand now is the transition of Queener Farm from its conventional past to its organic future—and that takes time. For her, the shift towards organic is tied to a desire for a healthy and sustainable Earth rather than the higher yields touted by conventional farming methods, which kill off both pests and beneficial insects. The number and variety of microorganisms in the soil are depleted by the use of chemicals, which affect the soil quality over time and make it difficult to diversify the farm's crops. But because of the large number of varieties of apples that Berg grows, the chefs and restaurants that buy them aren't even asking her to change. So why bother?
"For us, it's more about using organic practices than being [simply] certified organic… I want a farm with a good balance of beneficial insects with a thriving ecosystem and I want to eat food that's not chemically raised. I want healthier soil, I don't want to use a lot of herbicides that are going to kill my microbial life. Part of it is just wanting a healthy farm, from the soil to the fruit."
Before acquiring Queener Farm, Berg found herself at a crossroads with her own past and future. For fifteen years, she worked in local government, primarily in agricultural policy under Congresswoman Darlene Hooley. At the time, there wasn't yet a separate division that focused on agriculture, which gave Berg the unprecedented opportunity to meet farmers and agriculture workers, tour farms, survey, document, and ultimately learn. When Hooley retired in 2008, the food movement was picking up and Berg had already gotten involved with food justice groups as a result of the food policy work that fell under her jurisdiction. She had a choice to make: the life of a politician or the life of a farmer.
Realizing that she wanted to work with the land, Berg decided to move away from policy work and forward into farming. She established a small business called Your Home Harvest that quickly spiraled into something more significant due to the fifteen years she had spent forging connections with the local farming community. When she started Your Home Harvest, she built around forty gardens in the first year. Later that year, people started offering her land to farm. After around seven or eight offers, Berg decided to let the obvious path forming before her be her guide. It took a few years, but that decision ultimately led her to Queener Farm.
And now Berg is looking at a ten-year contract with Queener, with the goal of transforming it from the orchard that it has been in the past to the cornucopia of diversity that it will be in the future. And after that? It depends. There are environmental issues to consider, of course, as well as the changing economy. But most of all, Berg wants to be growing heirloom plants, taking care of farmland, and continuing to influence those around her to work with nature’s predilection for diversity and against mono-cropping and chemical dependency. Her future on the farm is really a step backward in time, embracing bio-diversity and a re-established connection with the earth. Growing quality food that is well adapted to an area is a long-term commitment, one with a long history and – if Berg has any say in it – a long future.
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16mm, 10 min 37 sec, silent
Hungary 1973–1980
Time is measured by folding a piece of white linen in front of a black background: altogether I fold it seven times, each time starting anew and executing an extra fold. The proportions of the cloth correspond to the picture size of a 16mm film, its width is the distance between my two outstretched arms. At gallery shows the film is projected on the piece of linen that was used in the action so that the ambigous identity of the static carrier of the image and the moving picture is stressed. The piece of cloth shrinks and almost disappears in the process while structuring and determining the time of the film. Four variations were made: the one described above was the first. In the second a mask was placed before the lens to cover half the picture. After rewinding the negative in the camera the process was recorded a second time in order to expose the other half of the frame. In the third and fourth variations the mask was devided into four and eight parts resp. (Dòra Maurer, http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/125)
Timing has a remarkable place among the films of Maurer not only because of its clear structure and its ingenious basic idea, but also it stands on the crossroad of all her endeavours she has hitherto made. Of course, it is a ´displacement´ like so many works of her, but this is only a modest aspect of the film. Here one is folding a canvas into two, into four, …into thirty-two - until it becomes unpossible to fold it. But we must not forget that this canvas is the same proportion of the cinema screen, and the metaphor ´the canvas of the painter = the canvas of the filmmaker´ is particularly emphasized by the fact that while folding the canvas, the screen is also dividing itself (and shrinking). (László Beke, http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/125)
Dòra Maurer, born 1937 in Budapest, lives and works in Budapest.
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C6 Real Estate Partners Acquires 100-Unit Apartment Community in Bergen County, NJ in Joint Venture Partnership with Citymark Capital for $27 Million
C6 Real Estate Partners has acquired River Edge at Garfield, a Class-A multifamily community located in Garfield, New Jersey. C6 will manage all aspects of investment execution on behalf of the partnership.
Bergen County continues to be a strong draw for a wide range of residents seeking both luxury and convenience.
Garfield, NJ (PRWEB) June 20, 2017
C6 Real Estate Partners ("C6"), a vertically integrated real estate owner and operator, announced the acquisition of River Edge at Garfield, a 100-unit Class-A multifamily community located in Garfield, New Jersey. The property was built in 2017 and features oversized floor plans, a large swimming pool and two gyms. Located 15 miles northwest of Manhattan, the property is strategically located with direct access to Route 80, I-95, The Garden State Parkway, Route 21, Route 4 and Route 3.
The newly built property was acquired vacant by C6 in a joint venture partnership with Citymark Capital, an institutional private equity real estate fund manager. C6 will manage all aspects of investment execution on behalf of the partnership.
"River Edge is a rare off-market acquisition of luxury multifamily units in tightly constrained Bergen County, NJ. We are excited to bring institutional ownership and management standards to the value creation plan for this asset. The property benefits from being part of a larger master planned community that includes luxury condos, and is positioned as best-in-class from a quality of life and amenity standpoint," said Brian DiSalvo, C6 Principal.
“Citymark Capital is delighted to partner with a great company like C6 to bring attractive, institutional quality apartments to the Greater New York City area,” said Dan Walsh, founder and chief executive officer of Citymark Capital. “This aligns with our national platform of investing in leading U.S. markets and taking a disciplined approach to generating solid returns for our investors.”
"Bergen County continues to be a strong draw for a wide range of residents seeking both luxury and convenience,” added DiSalvo. “River Edge provides a spacious and attractive neighborhood feel that distinguishes itself from the competition."
About C6 Real Estate Partners
C6 Real Estate Partners specializes in acquiring and operating residential, mixed-use and commercial property in New Jersey and the surrounding area. The firm targets attractive markets economically tied to New York City where local relationships and proactive management provide unique sourcing capabilities and control over business plans. C6 prefers existing assets and selectively pursues development and re-development opportunities from $5 to $100+ million.
About Citymark Capital
Citymark Capital is a national real estate private equity fund manager that invests in market rate, institutional-quality multifamily and multifamily-anchored mixed-use rental properties in the top 50 US markets where strong demand for existing and new properties is driven by population growth, household formation and job growth. Citymark creates value for its fund investors by providing joint venture equity to top multifamily operating companies across the US.
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Accessibility Laws
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An accessible Canada isn’t possible without an accessible Quebec
03/12/2016 Canada, QuebecMarie
Nearly 150 people attended the consultation held in Montreal on November 16, 2016. Québec accessible was there! Photo Credit: Government of Canada
What does an “accessible Canada” mean for you?
The federal government asked this question during consultations on the future federal accessibility act.
Québec Accessible participated in the consultations held in Quebec and Montreal. We observed a strong interest on behalf of people with disabilities and their allies.
Topics discussed included employment discrimination, barriers in public transit, recognition of LSQ and ASL as official languages, the shortage of services to ensure that people with disabilities and their families live with dignity, and differences in levels of accessibility across cities, regions, provinces and territories.
The majority of the issues raised during the consultations directly or indirectly touched on areas within provincial jurisdiction. However, the new federal legislation will only address areas within the federal jurisdiction. Once again, this shows the need for a strong provincial law in Quebec law to address barriers and ableism (discrimination based on disability). If you share this opinion, add your name to the list of individuals and / or organizations calling for a stronger provincial accessibility law.
An accessible Canada isn’t possible without an accessible Quebec!
Laurence Parent of Québec accessible attended the consultation held in Quebec City on November 10, 2016. The Minister of Family, Children and Social Development, Jean-Yves Duclos, was present. Photo Credit: Government of Canada
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Canada 1 / Quebec 0
03/12/2016 Canada, International, QuebecCanada, Law, loi, UNMarie
On December 1st, the Government of Canada announced that it was starting the process of ratifying the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It’s about time! Ninety-two countries have already ratified the Protocol.
Canada ratified the CRPD in 2010, but it hasn’t yet ratified the Optional Protocol. Essentially, this Protocol would allow Canadian organizations and citizens to file a complaint with the UN if their rights aren’t respected. Canada, the provinces and the territories will therefore have a new incentive to create an accessible and inclusive society!
In a video highlighting the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, reminds us that “people with disabilities still face barriers to fully participating in society both in Canada and around the world”. The Minister, herself a disabled person, invites us to join her in “celebrating Canadians with disabilities and embrace a cultural change about accessibility and inclusion in Canadian society”. Continue reading International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Canada 1 / Quebec 0 →
Quebec Accessible at the World Social Forum
17/07/2016 Canada, Events, International, QuebeclawsMarie
We invite you to join us at the World Social Forum (WSF) next week. The WSF will be taking place from August 9 to 14 in Montreal.
Quebec Accessible has been involved in planning many events regarding disability and Deaf culture. We will be hosting three events: Continue reading Quebec Accessible at the World Social Forum →
Participate in the Public Consultation on the Proposed Federal Accessibility Law
17/07/2016 Calls to Action, CanadaCanada, Law, loiMarie
The Government of Canada has launched a public consultation about the proposed federal accessibility law. This law will promote equal opportunities and increase the inclusion and participation of Canadians with disabilities.
Individuals are invited to share their ideas and experiences about the barriers they face. For more information about the consultation , click here.
To complete the government’s survey , click here .
Let’s all share our experiences to ensure that the new federal law addresses our needs!
Montreal Gazette Interview with Laurence Parent
25/04/2016 QA in the media, QuebecloiMarie
Last week, the Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec announced the construction of a new light-rail network in the Montreal region. According to the Caisse, this new network will be fully accessible. But can we be sure?
“Parent, whose group is pushing for the province to adopt a law that would require all public transit to have wheelchair access, said she is still skeptical because there have been many unfulfilled promises about universal accessibility in the past. The new Mascouche line was supposed to be fully accessible, but the Agence métropolitaine de transport has gone back on that promise, saying it would cost too much to make the Mount-Royal and Canora stations accessible.”
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RADIO MOUSE ENTERTAINMENT is an award-winning New York based theater and media production company founded by Jason E. Grossman and M. Kilburg Reedy. Radio Mouse theater credits include the upcoming world premiere of Romantics Anonymous the Musical at Shakespeare’s Globe set for fall 2017, the Broadway productions of Come From Away (Broadway 2017), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (winner of the 2013 Tony, Drama Desk, NY Drama Critics, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Play), Peter and the Starcatcher (nominated for 9 Tony Awards; winner of 5 Tony Awards) and The Pee-wee Herman Show, and the Olivier Award-nominated West End production of Lend Me A Tenor The Musical. Off-Broadway productions include: Shear Madness, and Nevermore – The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe. Each of Radio Mouse’s producers bring to the company a history of previous productions, going back a decade or more.
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Why Supervision Committees Spell Danger for Corrupt Officials
A new pilot scheme will empower those outside the party to hold bureaucrats accountable.
Li Yongzhong
2016-12-21 07:25:42 Voices
Li Yongzhong Anti-corruption scholar
Li Yongzhong is the former vice-president of the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Institute.
In four years, China’s anti-corruption campaign has made huge inroads despite doubts about its sustainability. It is now time for the country to enforce a unified mechanism with universal coverage to curtail corruption and abuses of power.
Last month, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which runs the party’s daily operations, issued a directive to the provinces of Zhejiang in the east and Shanxi in the north, as well as to the Beijing Municipality, asking each to build a supervisory body overseen by their local legislative systems. This was an unprecedented measure, as it implied that real power was to be ensconced in an extra-party institution.
The supervision commissions will be dedicated graft-busting organizations designed to integrate China’s three existing supervisory forces. The commissions’ mandate places all of China’s power-holders under a system of universal oversight. The new bodies will be equal to the government in legal standing and more effective at holding the government accountable, bringing an end to 60 years of internal disciplinary supervision in the party.
I have researched corruption for more than three decades and would never have imagined that the CPC Central Committee would undertake a policy reform as ambitious as this. Until now, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has been the mainstay of corruption control in China. But this audit from within the party itself — built on the former Soviet model — has proven inefficient at clamping down on graft. As President Xi Jinping has recognized, corruption has worsened over the years, and it is high time we scrapped the Soviet method and undertook a root-and-branch overhaul of government supervision policy.
It is exactly because new inspectors have been further removed from corrupt officials within the party hierarchy that they have been able to target and punish their misdemeanors.
- Li Yongzhong, anti-corruption scholar
If the pilot scheme is successful, the new supervision commissions will have a national mandate to fight corruption within the government, its affiliated agencies, and the civil service. The new organizations will also be duty-bound to address an ever-growing culture of corruption across all walks of Chinese life.
I have been involved in the fight against corruption since I wrote my first dissertation 30 years ago and have served as a member of the CCDI’s anti-graft think tank ever since. China was actually one of the earliest countries in the world to place its officials under external supervision. During the Qin dynasty of the late third century B.C., the emperor sanctioned the independent supervision of members of the imperial court. The founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 broke that long-standing tradition, making the party responsible for monitoring the behavior of its own officials and thereby relegating such oversight to a subordinate role in state affairs.
In a letter to the CCDI leadership in 1995, I suggested that before substantial reforms of the supervision system were possible, it was advisable to first revive a tactic backed by ancient wisdom: sending high-powered government envoys to make surprise inspection visits to civil service and state sector offices.
The prototype of such inspection tours took shape in 1996, and the tours have become the single most important force behind the anti-corruption drive in China. Supervision by high-power officials has proven significant in cracking a host of major corruption cases. Since the Xi administration took power in 2012, 10 rounds of inspection tours by a few hundred empowered high officials have wreaked havoc on despotic officials to a degree unparalleled by the previously blunt-edged army of tens of thousands of enforcement officers.
The simple reason for the recent success of these reforms is that no matter how sharp the blade is, it can never cut into its own handle. It is exactly because new inspectors have been further removed from corrupt officials within the party hierarchy that they have been able to target and punish the officials’ misdemeanors.
Under the new supervision scheme, civic governance in the three pilot regions — which used to rely solely on the local government, the court system, and the municipal procuratorate — will now run a fourth branch: the supervision commission. Each pilot area has been selected for the way it reflects China’s social diversity, with Zhejiang representing the wealthy eastern coast, Shanxi the developing inland area, and Beijing the top-level municipal hub. The varied profiles of these regions are a testament to the widely held view in government that the battle against corruption is essential to the country’s future political legitimacy.
The ultimate goal of structural reform of the Chinese official supervision policy is to bring about a party-led but externally managed anti-graft institution, one that can enjoy the same success as the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, which played a significant role in the city’s development into a modern financial hub during the 1980s and ’90s. This, in turn, will make corruption unthinkable to anyone holding government office and will increase the capacity of state governance in China.
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SkillsPlanner at Number 10
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A personal landmark and also one for SkillsPlanner. This month saw a meeting with the Policy Unit at Number 10 Downing Street, attended by myself, Scott Young (Tideway, right) and fellow Ethos partner Colin Middleton (who heads up the SkillsPlanner councils and brokerage work packages). The meeting followed an introduction made by Mime Consulting, who have developed Skills Route (a portal to help young people understand their options after finishing GCSEs). Number 10 asked for more information and offered a meeting, so we went along to explain the project.
It was a very successful meeting. Lots of time given for us to talk (we went over the allotted time by about 20 minutes), with some pertinent questions asked and further connections made. All rather exciting.
Digital skills and the fourth industrial revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will demand a more long-term, whole career view of future digital skills needs.
The SkillsPlanner project aims to create an open linked data platform connecting those needing people with relevant construction skills (demand) with those able to educate and train people to gain those skills (supply). With the UK construction skills gap currently a subject of almost daily debate, it is little wonder the Government Construction Strategy 2016-2020 devoted a large section to meeting near-term needs (see Government recognises skills planning needs), and we read almost daily reports about new initiatives to train new workers and retain existing ones.
However, given that many of today’s teenagers have a working life of 50 or more years ahead of them, they – alongside existing workers – will need to be constantly updating their knowledge and digital skills throughout their careers, or planning for future career changes.
Evidence certainly suggests they cannot rely on their employers equipping them with the right expertise. In November 2015, for example, a study published by Vodafone and YouGov (news release) showed that, while businesses were aware of the need to keep pace with technological developments (in particular, digital technologies), around half doubted they would be able to keep up over the next five years – let alone five decades.
We only need to look back over the past 30 years to see how technology has transformed just about every aspect of our daily lives. Many of today’s business leaders in their 50s started their careers before email, before the worldwide web, before mobile telephones. Digital technologies have already transformed how we interact and work – and the pace of change shows no signs of slowing down.
Indeed, the World Economic Forum says we stand on the brink of a technological sea change – the Fourth Industrial Revolution – that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab describes this latest Revolution:
“The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices, with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, are unlimited. And these possibilities will be multiplied by emerging technology breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.
“Already, artificial intelligence is all around us, from self-driving cars and drones to virtual assistants and software that translate or invest. Impressive progress has been made in AI in recent years, driven by exponential increases in computing power and by the availability of vast amounts of data…. Digital fabrication technologies, meanwhile, are interacting with the biological world on a daily basis. Engineers, designers, and architects are combining computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering, and synthetic biology to pioneer a symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, the products we consume, and even the buildings we inhabit.”
Future built environment
Shwab says our response to this Fourth Industrial Revolution must be integrated and comprehensive, and involve all stakeholders. Yet, according to some critics, UK construction policy-makers seem focused on meeting immediate or short-term skills and physical infrastructure needs, and applying a narrow view of current technologies.
In Workplace Insight, for example, Mark Eltringham says “the Government seems to be largely unaware of or uninterested in what is happening beyond its bubble,” noting the Government Construction Strategy 2016-2020 “uses the word technology three times and, even then, only with regard to the application of BIM [building information modelling] as a way of improving the construction process.” He continues:
“Perhaps more worryingly, the very short section at the end of the document on whole life approaches only deals with the issue of sustainability. It makes no mention of creating the physical infrastructure capable of dealing with a rapidly changing world. [And] … the Government’s commitment to invest in technological infrastructure is woefully inadequate compared to its focus on physical infrastructure.”
What also seems to be lacking is a more wide-ranging and longer-term debate about future digital skills. One exception is SkillsPlanner collaborator BIM2050 which – as its name suggests – dares to look decades ahead; in 2014 it produced a report: Built Environment 2050: A Report on our Digital Future (available here, PDF) which, alongside some wider views of other trends, made some predictions about future skills needs:
In the 2020s: “construction roles will be diluted/hybrid versions of their previously heavily-siloed forms. There will be a significant focus on up-skilling the existing workforce. … Computational and analytical skills will emerge as a valued area.”
In the 2030s: “Skills within the industry will focus on the flow and process of information procurement and transactions throughout the supply chain. Sought after skills … will surround analytics and the ability to understand ‘big data’, [and] predictive data analysis.”
In the 2040s: “the skilled workforce will be reduced to 50% of its level in 2013. … Skills and roles will become more focused on the operation, maintenance and redevelopment of existing assets rather than the building of new assets. … Automated assembly and digital manufacturing will see a need for further support in designing digital systems which will allow for the creation of smarter material that ultimately responds to its environment.”
Ethos, SkillsPlanner and Future Cities
As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we will increasingly – as Schwab said – need a comprehensive, integrated and inclusive response embracing all stakeholders, with silos broken down and connections made between public policy-making, infrastructure planning, and investment in education and technology.
Future-gazing is all very well, but it also needs to be matched by a willingness to test new ways of living, working and interacting in our built environment. This fits with the vision of Ethos, and in particular its recent establishment of a business sector focused on Future Cities, in parallel with Ethos Skills. Future Cities currently has three product lines – focused on Parking, Retail and Active Mobility – all focused on particular human interactions with their surroundings, and deploying technology and using real-time data to help people and organisations better manage transportation and other aspects of their built environment.
Like our friends at BIM2050, we are excited about the prospects of creating new combinations of people, processes and technologies. We believe tomorrow’s leaders – some of them, perhaps, just about to start their careers – in the industry currently known as construction will be the ones that anticipate best and respond quickest to the multi-faceted challenges of delivering an increasingly digital built environment in the mid 21st century.
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Locke Review
Posted by Nic on May 16th, 2014
Ivan Locke drives a BMW. I own a Mazda 6. Since I got it a month ago, I’ve been using any excuse to go for a drive. The acceleration is powerful, it handles smoothly, and it looks great. Yet as much as I love my Mazda, it’s still, in essence, a way to get from point A to point B. So is Ivan’s bimmer, but on the night that Locke takes place it becomes his cocoon, one in which he must confront the problems of his past, present, and future. And there’s no doubt that when he emerges things will never be the same.
Ivan (played by Tom Hardy) is a family man with a wife and two boys. He’s got a successful job as a construction foreman. He’s a methodical man, the kind who sets goals and then charts a course to achieve them. That’s what makes him good at his job. It makes him a good provider. It makes him unlike his father. But, as my high school teacher Mr. Feltzin taught me, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
On the night before the biggest construction job of his career, Ivan learns that a woman he recently had an affair with is going into labor with his child. He’s currently about an hour and a half away from the London hospital in which she’s giving birth. About two minutes after the start of the movie he gets in his car and starts driving to her. We, the audience, get to join him for that drive. In real time.
That right there is probably going to scare away a large number of viewers, but it’s exactly what drew me to Locke. I’m enamored by movies (and TV episodes) that take place in one location in a condensed amount of time. When done well they can provide an enormous amount of tension and drama. All you have to focus on are the people, their predicaments, and their relationships. There are no distractions. If the story is about a group of people trapped in one place, then every bit of interpersonal tension is exacerbated by the fact that no one can leave. If it’s a solitary person trapped in one place, the draw is often that empathetic bond that is quickly established between the audience and protagonist. When you connect with a character in that way, like in 127 Hours and Buried, you become willing to watch them do just about anything in service of solving their problem. You become invested. Assuming the acting is good.
The acting in Locke is very good. I don’t know how many actors could be as captivating as Tom Hardy is in this role. Ivan spends almost the entirety of the car ride on the phone, speaking with his wife, his children, his mistress, his employee, and more, trying to fix the relationships that he’s put in jeopardy. It never once gets boring. You are always engaged. I don’t even know if I like Ivan, but I loved watching Tom as Ivan. The thing is Ivan has such a direct, matter-of-fact quality about him, that he seems cold and brutish. He attempts to solve his relationship problems the way he solves every other problem in life: by charting a course and attacking the matter head on. Tom Hardy is able to show us more than just that exterior though. We can see that there’s a real, feeling being beneath his robotic efficiency. I think a lot of actors could end up unlikeable in this role, but Tom doesn’t. He gets you to root for Ivan. Even more impressive, he gets you to want to be in that car with him.
The idea of concrete gets tossed around a lot in this movie. Ivan of course works with concrete. He has an immense respect for it, understanding how vital a sound foundation is for any structure being built. His wife complains about how he’s always dragging it into the house on the bottoms of his boots. You could say he’s a rigid man who’s set in his ways as if they were concrete. His love for the material is actually a running joke in the film. So it’s fascinating to watch what happens when the very foundation of his life—his family and career—starts to crack beneath him. And the great irony is that his only real option is to pour in more concrete to try to strengthen the base.
I liked this movie a whole lot, and now that I’ve written about it I like it even more. If you appreciate a really character-driven movie (pun not intended, but very welcome), if you want to spend 85 minutes in a BMW with an earnest man dealing with the repercussions of a foolish mistake, and if you don’t mind spending that 85 minutes looking at Tom Hardy’s bearded face, then this movie is for you. It’s probably the most interesting, life changing car ride you’ll ever watch.
Writer and Director: Steven Knight (Eastern Promises and Closed Circuit [screenplay], Redemption [directed])
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Looking south at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park this spring. / Photo by Thomas Melville
POP PIE A NO GO IN OB
Pop Pie Co. has confirmed it has pulled out of putting in an eatery at the former site of Nati’s Mexican Restaurant at 1852 Bacon St.
"We’ve parted ways with the developer of Pop Pie Co.’s Ocean Beach location,” said Steven Torres, Pop Pie co-owner along with Gan Suebsarakham. “We’re disappointed that it didn’t work out, but we’re incredibly thankful for and encouraged by all the support we received from the community. We’re working to bring Pop Pie Co. to more communities in the near future, and in the meantime, we look forward to continuing to serve you at our original location in the amazing neighborhood of University Heights.”
Nati’s restaurant building, which opened in 1960, has been extensively remodeled and improved after having much of the former building demolished. Pop Pie has an existing location in University Heights at 4404 Park Blvd, Suite A. The eatery serves sweet and savory pies including breakfast pies.
Originally owned by Vern Lontz and his wife, Charline, Nati’s started on the corner of Bacon and Niagara streets as a one-room OB diner before remodeling and expanding. The couple owned and operated Nati’s until retiring in 1972. Longtime employees Thomas and Kerr then took over for the Lontzes, operating Nati’s until the property was sold about a year ago.
SUMMER OPENING SET FOR OB TARGET
Saying only that it will be opening its new small-format Target Express store in OB “sometime this summer,” Target recently began hiring 50 available positions for the new store at 4854 Newport Ave. Candidates were being interviewed at Target’s existing Sports Arena Boulevard site.
A similar, existing small-format Target is in South Park at 3030 Grape St. The company said its small-format stores are customized to bring the best of the Bullseye into urban neighborhoods, near colleges and other areas where a full-size Target wouldn’t fit.
The new OB store will offer a curated assortment of food and beverage items, apparel and accessories, health and beauty, and home décor. Target said its OB store will be approximately 18,000 square feet, which compares with an average Target store of about 120,000 square feet. Target took over the former Antique Center at 4864 Newport Ave. in April 2018.
As happened previously with Starbucks coming in years ago to the beach community’s business strip dominated by mom-and-pops, there was an adverse reaction to a corporation entering the local market.
ALL-WAY STOP PLANNED AT SUNSET CLIFFS BLVD
“The likelihood is high that a proposed all-way stop will be installed at Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Point Loma Avenue,” said City supervising spokesperson Perette Godwin, noting the Department of Transportation Storm Water evaluated the intersection.
“During the evaluation, the City confirmed there has been some police-reported accidents and the volume of pedestrians crossing Sunset Cliffs Boulevard is high,” Godwin said. “It was determined the intersection does qualify for an all-way stop. The Storm Water Department will conduct summer traffic and pedestrian counts to confirm that there have been no significant changes in the results of the previous evaluation.”
Added Godwin, “It is anticipated that the installation of an all-way stop would reduce the number of traffic accidents and make it easier for pedestrians to cross.”
Godwin said the cost, and timeline, for installing a four-way stop at the problematic intersection has not yet been determined.
PLHS GRADUATION PARKING GUIDELINES
The beginning of on-campus construction will cause severe parking issues at Point Loma High School's commencement on June 11. Principal Hans Becker announced plans to accommodate the annual overflow crowd that descends on Pete Ross Stadium for the 3 p.m. event.
"Parking this year will be extremely limited, more so than ever," Becker said. "Parking on campus will be strictly limited to vehicles with handicapped placards in the staff parking lot on Clove Street," Becker said. "We will have golf carts to shuttle those needing assistance to the stadium. We are asking everyone else to please be patient and park on streets surrounding the school."
Gates will open at 2 p.m. for ticket holders at both the Voltaire Street gate and the basketball court gate. There will be seating set aside for handicapped guests and only one other chaperone or attendant, Becker noted, to make sure all handicapped persons can be accommodated. Seating for others is open and guests are asked not to save seats for those arriving later. Those without tickets will be admitted at 2:45 p.m. at the Voltaire Street gate only.
NEW VICE PRINCIPAL JOINS POINT LOMA HIGH
After decades of six-month-long Chicago winters, Dana Tolomeo is thrilled to be in San Diego. A veteran educator, Tolomeo was recently named to a vacant vice principal position at Point Loma High School.
After earning an undergraduate and master’s degree from University of Illinois (secondary education) and a master’s degree (education administration) from Columbia University, Tolomeo spent 16 years teaching English learners and Spanish.
One of the schools where she taught, Oak Park and River Forest, is the alma mater of many well-known persons as diverse as Ernest Hemingway and Dan Castellaneta, the voice of TV's Homer Simpson.
Her husband and two daughters are still in Illinois and will join her in July.
"The lifestyle here is so much more laid back and welcoming," Tolomeo said. "I fell in love with Point Loma High School the first time I came here, found out about it's history and realized it was a good place for me."
Tolomeo has found PLHS to be "a great school, with lots of pride which I love. They have great teachers, the students are very involved in clubs and athletics. It's just a wonderful school and I'm glad to be a part of it."
PORTUGUESE FESTA DO ESPIRITO SANTO STARTS
The 2019 Portuguese Festa do Espirito Santo (Feast of the Holy Spirit), one of San Diego’s oldest ethnic celebrations, will be June 7-9. The weekend-long event is on the grounds of UPSES Portuguese Hall, 2818 Avenida de Portugal, and St. Agnes Catholic Church, 1140 Evergreen St.
The highlight, the Festa Parade, begins at 10 a.m. Sunday June 9. It follows a route from the UPSES Hall to St. Agnes, where High Mass is celebrated and the coronations of the festival king and queen take place at 11 a.m., with church choir singing. The festival has been mounted in San Diego since the first Portuguese families settled in 1884.
NEW DIRECTOR AT SAN DIEGO DANCE THEATER
The board of directors of Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater has announced that Trisha Gooch, CFRE, is their new executive director. She began work at SDDT on May 14. Gooch has 17 years of fundraising, marketing communications, strategic planning, nonprofit management and leadership experience.
She comes to the SDDT team from Second Chance, where she was the vice president of advancement for more than six years. At Second Chance, Gooch created the signature event, Orange is the New Black, and led a staff of four in the creation of numerous giving programs, including Giving Tuesday’s successful Bail Me Out campaign, LawSuits, GEM (Give Every Month), and the $599 Club.
Prior to her tenure at Second Chance, she served as director of development for the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank for three and a half years. She also worked in San Diego for Mainly Mozart and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Gooch began her nonprofit career on the East Coast, working for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey for over three years.
SUMMER SOLSTICE AT LIBERTY STATION
Arts District Liberty Station is celebrating summer’s arrival with three days of creative events alive with art, dance, music and recreation open to the public Friday, June 21 through Sunday, June 23. “Become part of the International celebration of summer with us,” urged Peggy Fischbeck, artist and co-chair of the Solstice with the Arts project.
Friday, June 21 will feature art, dance and music from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 22 will feature art in the studios/galleries as well as art projects and a Yogathon open to the public, from noon to 4 p.m.
Sunday, June 23, noon to 4 p.m., continues the solstice celebration with public art, open studios, galleries and music. Visitors will find hundreds of paintings, drawings, fiber arts, jewelry, photographs and watercolors.
Arts District also offers a wide selection of dining options with Liberty Station’s restaurants.
Summer Solstice with the Arts 2019 is a collaboration of the Artists of Arts District and Jean Isaacs’ San Diego Dance Theater, through a grant from NTC Foundation.
More information can be found at libertystation.com/solstice.
OB HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW PRESENTATION
Ocean Beach Historical Society will present a lecture on Kate Sessions – horticulturist, landscaper, florist, and more – at 7 p.m. June 20 at Water’s Edge Faith Community, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd. Historian Nancy Carol Carter is a retired professor of law at USD. She is a frequent lecturer in San Diego and has been published in Pacific Horticulture and The Journal of San Diego History, with articles on Kate Sessions, the San Diego olive industry, and renowned local botanists Katharine and T. S. Brandegee. This program is free. Visit obhistory.org for information.
San Diego is one of the most beautiful cities in the U. S., due in large part to its abundance of exotic trees and plants – jacarandas, queen palms, Brazilian pepper trees, bougainvillea, Italian cypress, the bird of paradise, and the poinsettia. Yet, surprisingly, none of these trees and plants are native to San Diego. All of them were introduced to the region by Kate Sessions, the pioneering women horticulturalist who came to San Diego in 1883.
PL REPUBLICAN WOMEN MONTHLY LUNCHEON
Point Loma Republican Women Federated monthly luncheon meeting will take place 10 a.m. June 19 at Point Loma Cafe, 4865 Harbor Drive. Program: Daniel Piedra from the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund. A no-host lunch follows. Guests welcome. Call Marilyn at 619-222-9532 for additional information.
PENINSULA SINGERS CONCERT ON JUNE 14
The Peninsula Singers will present “Classic(al) Rocks!,” at 7 p.m. June 14 at All Souls Episcopal Church, 1475 Catalina Blvd. Classical pieces like In “Paradisum,” “How Lovely Are the Messengers,” and “Ubi Caritas,” will join rock songs like “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll,” “Beautiful Day,” and a selection of songs from a Beatles medley. Peninsula Singers will also perform Led Zeppelin and a head-banging rendition of “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students, seniors and military. Children age 10 and under may attend for free. For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit peninsulasingerssandiego.org.
POINT LOMA ARTIST WINS AWARD
Point Loma resident Roberta Dyer recently won the Board of Directors Award, SDWS Enthusiasts Award in the 44th Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies’ exhibit, held at the San Diego Watercolor Society.
Dyer is an award-winning, signature member of The San Diego Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, and International Society of Acrylic Painters. Her work focuses on figurative subjects in watermedia and collage, that lean towards the abstract and non-representational, with an occasional foray into landscape and florals.
SUMMER LONGBOARD CLASSIC
The Pacific Beach Surf Club will hold its 21st annual Summer Longboard Classic from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 8 at Tourmaline Surf Park. There will be raffle items, surfboards, music, and food. This year’s beneficiary will be the Pacific Beach Middle School’s Orchestra Music Program. For more information and to register to compete, visit pacificbeachsurfclub.com.
MEET A MERMAID BEACH CLEANUP
Join the SD Mermaids for a beach cleanup in honor of World Ocean’s Day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 8 at the South Mission Beach Lifeguard Station, 2597 Ocean Blvd. Bring the whole family for a day of fun, giving back to the oceans, and meeting a few local mermaids.
JONAS BROTHERS TO PLAY PECHANGA ARENA
Grammy-nominated multiplatinum powerhouse trio the Jonas Brothers recently announced the details for the 40-city “Happiness Begins Tour.” Starting this summer on Aug. 7, Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas will hit the road, stopping at Pechanga Arena in San Diego on Thursday, Oct. 17. They’ll bring along with them special guests Bebe Rexha and Jordan McGraw. Tickets for the concert go on sale on Friday, May 10 and LiveNation.com.
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Good bye Pop Pie. A lawyer friend who is passionate about this issue feels that there was stench, including with the O.B. Planning Board, for a long time.
Geoff Page
Your comment alludes to some problem with the OB Planning Board but you give no information on that. In fairness to those volunteers, I think you owe it to them to explain what you meant. Otherwise, you should remove this comment as an unsubstantiated criticism of the OBPB.
Barbara E. Plourd
Do you have cars for sale in your newspaper?
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For sale ads, for example.
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Carole Westbrook
Carole Westbrook in Cinderella (January 2018)
Roles Carole Westbrook has performed:
Performer in Around the World in 20 Shows (June 2019)
Chorus in Sister Act (February 2019)
Core Ensemble in Oh What a Lovely War (June 2018)
Chorus in Cinderella (January 2018)
Rita in The Pajama Game (June 2017)
Chorus in Oliver! (February 2017)
Chorus in Half a Sixpence (July 2016)
Chorus in The Mikado (January 2016)
Chorus in The Sorcerer (June 2015)
Chorus in Chess (February 2015)
Chorus in The Pirates of Penzance (July 2014)
Chorus in Jesus Christ Superstar (February 2014)
Chorus in HMS Pinafore & Trial by Jury (June 2013)
Narrator in Beauty and the Beast (January 2013)
Chorus in Beauty and the Beast (January 2013)
Chorus in The Yeomen of the Guard (July 2012)
Chorus in Orpheus in the Underworld (February 2012)
Chorus in Hot Mikado (June 2011)
Chorus in Carmen (January 2011)
Chorus in Utopia Limited (July 2010)
Chorus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (January 2010)
Chorus in The Gondoliers (June 2009)
Chorus in Fiddler on the Roof (February 2009)
Chorus in Ruddigore (June 2008)
Chorus in Oklahoma (February 2008)
Chorus in Anything Goes (June 2007)
Chorus in The Mikado (February 2007)
Chorus in The Grand Duke (February 2006)
Chorus in Die Fledermaus (July 2005)
Chorus in Iolanthe (January 2005)
Sergeant O’Hanrahanrahan in Guys and Dolls (June 2004)
Chorus in Princess Ida (June 2003)
Chorus in Annie Get Your Gun (January 2003)
Chorus in The Magic Flute (June 2002)
Chorus in The Yeomen of the Guard (March 2002)
Chorus in Orpheus in the Underworld (March 1987)
Chorus in HMS Pinafore (July 1985)
Chorus in Die Fledermaus (March 1985)
Chorus in The Zoo (July 1984)
Bridesmaid in Trial By Jury (July 1984)
Chorus in Princess Ida (March 1984)
Chorus in The Mikado (March 1983)
Chorus in La Vie Parisienne (March 1981)
Chorus in HMS Pinafore (June 1980)
Chorus in Iolanthe (March 1980)
Chorus in The Pirates of Penzance (March 1979)
Chorus in Carmen (March 1978)
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Realmuto 'astonished' by former teammate Yelich's ascent
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J.T. Realmuto and Christian Yelich formed part of a promising young core with the Miami Marlins after they were selected two rounds apart in the 2010 draft.
Now that both have found new homes after being traded by the rebuilding Marlins, Yelich has exploded. He won the National League MVP a season ago and leads the majors with 21 home runs so far in 2019.
While Realmuto, now with the Philadelphia Phillies, isn’t exactly surprised by Yelich’s meteoric rise, he didn’t foresee the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder having this level of success.
“I’ve always known since the day we got drafted that he’s always been an unbelievable hitter,” Realmuto said, according to Adam McCalvy of MLB.com. “But anybody can be a little astonished at what he’s doing.
“Going back to the second half of last year, on top of what he’s doing this year, you’re talking about historical levels. It’s pretty fun to watch. Obviously, I don’t like when he does it against the Phillies.”
Yelich’s second half a season ago was incredible. He earned the MVP by hitting .367 with 25 home runs in his final 65 games. He’s mostly maintained that momentum this year by hitting .323/.437/.732 with 20 homers, seven doubles, 42 RBIs, and nine stolen bases in 46 games.
While they’re now on opposite sides, the friendship developed while moving through Miami’s farm system has remained, and Realmuto hints at the possibility of the two joining forces again someday.
“I would have loved to go over there (to Milwaukee), but I love it here with the Phillies. We’ll both be free agents at some point, so maybe we’ll play together again.”
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Home > Sacraments & Celebrations
The Sacrament of Baptism is often called “The door of the Church,” because it is the first of the seven sacraments not only in time (since most Catholics receive it as infants) but in priority, since the reception of the other sacraments depends on it. Please contact the parish office at 613-547-5004 for more information.
Monday, Friday and Saturday: 4:00-5:00 p.m. or by appointment.
Confirmation is a Catholic Sacrament of mature Christian commitment and a deepening of baptismal gifts. Usually conferred in the fall by the Archbishop of Kingston. Please contact the parish office at 613-547-5004 for more information.
The sacrament of Holy Matrimony is a vocation from God and a public sign that one gives oneself totally to this other person. It is also a public statement about God: the loving union of husband and wife speaks of family values and also God’s values. Six months’ notice is required, as well as a Marriage Preparation Course. Please contact the parish office at 613-547-5004.
In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, or Ordination, the priest being ordained vows to lead other Catholics by bringing them the sacraments (especially the Eucharist), by proclaiming the Gospel, and by providing other means to holiness. Please contact Monsignor Lynch or Fr. James Quirk for more information.
A deacon is a servant to others and the Church. He serves via his ministry and functions at the Liturgy. Please contact Deacon Bob Wojcik for more information.
The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, formerly known as Last Rites or Extreme Unction, is a ritual of healing appropriate not only for physical but also for mental and spiritual sickness. Please contact the parish office at 613-547-5004.
Rosary in the Cemetery is an opportunity to assemble and to pray for those who have died. It is usually conducted at 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon of the first Sunday of November in the North West corner of St. Mary’s Cemetery (718 Division, Kingston, ON).
Celebration of Memory and New Life is an annual gathering to pray for and with those who have lost loved ones in the past year. It is usually conducted at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon at St. Joseph’s Church in early November.
A penance celebration is an opportunity to reflect communally on one’s own sins and to seek individual reconciliation. St. Joseph’s holds two such services each year, in Advent and one in Lent.
Holy Week is the most important time of the Church year in which we commemorate the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the last week of Lent and it includes Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.
St. Thomas More Catholic School and St. Paul Catholic School are affiliated with St. Joseph’s Parish.
School Masses take place at the church at 10:30 a.m. once a month. Please call the parish office at 613-547-5004 for specific dates.
For Catholics, an important devotion held on the First Friday of the Month where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed between the morning and evening Mass.
Flores de Mayo (Flowers of May) is a Mass where the Filipino community gathers to honor of the Virgin Mary. It is usually held in the third Sunday in May @ 3:00 p.m. in the Church. It begins at 2:00 p.m. with the rosary followed by the Mass.
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The Deaths We Won't Hear Of / August 15, 2018 by Tara Kaushal
June 2013: Last fortnight, I wrote about Jiah Khan’s high-profile suicide. Here, I talk about another suicide, a story of quiet desperation that will never make headlines.
Robin started working with our family—my parents and I—in Delhi in the early 2000s, an earnest and smart 16-year-old boy from a poverty-stricken family in a small village in Bengal. Not to be immodest, but our family has always taken care of help as well as these guidelines being issued for ‘Compassion Day’, and Robin moved cities with us—first to Chennai with my ex-husband and I, then to Dehradun for my father’s palliative care, then with me to Mumbai when dad died, mum moved to Australia and I got divorced… and finally to Hong Kong with my Aunt Alice and Uncle Romi in 2007. Here, he earned upwards of 30,000 bucks a month, making him a veritable success story in his village, a young English-speaking, Facebook-ing mover-and-shaker NRI, buying land, putting his three siblings—one brother and two sisters—through school, and breaking the vicious cycle brought on by generations of poverty. Earlier this year, when Alice and Romi moved back to Australia, he returned for a holiday before starting another job in Hong Kong, where he’d like to stay.
A few Saturday mornings ago, I awoke to a flurry of cross-country/continent phone calls—Robin’s younger sister had set herself on fire, and was critical in hospital. And this is how and why he says it happened.
A couple of months ago, Robin’s older sister was being harassed in college. When he went to “sort it out”, the siblings were beaten by a gang of goons (30, by his account). So when his younger sister, studying in the 10th standard, got recurrently 'eve teased', she didn’t tell the family. Probably thought: what’s the point? Instead, when one of the boys tried to hold her hand on the street, she came home, doused herself in kerosene, and set herself on fire. And, despite the best treatment his dollars could afford, Jharna was dead a few days later.
There are so many things wrong with this tragedy. To start with, although one reads about such things, it is hard to imagine being in circumstances so disempowering and lawless that you’d get harassed in college and on the street, and your family beaten up with impunity for seeking redress. It is hard to fathom just how socioculturally important a woman’s ‘virtue’ is, or being so indoctrinated with the burden of ones own ‘virtue’ that being 'eve teased' and touched would lead to self-blame and suicide; a far cry from the topless FEMEN protesters ‘Still Not Asking For It’ who represent the way one thinks. It is hard to reconcile with the horror of this society, this system and this situation; hard to empathise with these protagonists.
But this is reality.
Incredibly, as if this recent trauma wasn’t enough, local priests have been preying on this beleaguered family: Jharna’s ghost is apparently haunting the village, and only an expensive pooja will get rid of it, you see. The family will pay, for fear of being ostracised.
What’s worse is that Jharna’s death will remain unacknowledged, just like scores of other women’s. The media will never tell her story—unlike Jiah, Jharna was just another young girl. And Robin isn’t going to file a police complaint in the interest of communal peace (the men who 'eve teased' her are distant relatives in his small village: one is an unmarried 36-year-old who apparently ‘loved’ the teenager), particularly because he’ll leave for Hong Kong soon. In measured words he tells me, “Didi, the fight for justice is long and hard, Ma-Baba mein himmat nahi hai. And who knows what these people will do to my old parents if we pursue them.” Though he’s angry (“Maarne ka man karta hai”), he’s also stoic and reconciled—“Our family is destroyed, what will we achieve by destroying theirs now? What’s done is done.”
Since much before the Delhi Gang Rape, us armchair activists have been discussing feminism, equality, female empowerment in our living rooms and fancy cars, in our high-brow English columns, while living free, independent, liberated lives ensconced in little bubbles. Our battles are against glass ceilings, for ‘evolved’ feminist concerns like judgement-free promiscuity, maiden surnames and independent choice. When I hear stories like this one, I can’t help but wonder at the frivolity of our elite concerns, in light of the female infanticide, dowry harassment, education and social discrimination, marital rape, etc that less privileged Indian women, the majority, face. I am reminded that there are so many Indias, so many realities, so great a divide between ‘us’ and the nameless, faceless, voiceless ‘them’. And that, for the aam aurat, there are far more basic battles yet to be won.
An edited version of this column appeared in Governance Now in June 2013.
Tags: Suicide, Communal Violence
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Feels Like the First Time All Over Again With Foreigner
By Edwin Folven on November 12, 2018
The band played top hits like “I Want To Know What Love Is.” – Courtesy photo / Edwin Folven
By Edwin Folven
Rock ‘n’ roll fans rejoiced on Nov. 9 when Foreigner took the stage at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles Friday.
The band with 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 top 30 hits showed why it remains one of the most popular rock groups of all time. Every song was culled from a catalog of classics familiar to nearly anyone who has owned a record player, tape deck, CD player or radio during the last 40 years.
In a first, current band members and original band members performed separately and later together, covering an extensive list of hits from the supergroup’s lengthy musical career. Billed as Foreigner presents “Double Vision: Then and Now,” the group’s current members Mick Jones (lead guitar), Kelly Hansen (lead vocals), Tom Gimbel (rhythm guitar, sax, vocals), Jeff Pilson (bass, vocals), Michael Bluestein (keyboards), Bruce Watson (guitar) and Chris Frazier (drums) played the first portion of the show, followed by a set with Dennis Elliott, Al Greenwood, Ian McDonald and Rick Wills joining Jones, along with legendary Foreigner front man Lou Gramm. The set list included songs such as “Cold as Ice,” “Head Games” and “Juke Box Hero” performed by the current members, with the original line-up coming together for “Feels Like the First Time,” “Double Vision,” “Long, Long Way From Home” and others.
Current and past members performed. – Courtesy photo / Edwin Folven
Foreigner gave fans something special in its grand finale with all current and original members uniting on stage for “I Want To Know What Love Is” and the iconic “Hot Blooded.” The band is celebrating more than 40 years of entertaining legions of fans around the world, and with the reunion on stage of current and original members it gave the audience something that really did feel like the first time, all over again.
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Wounded Warrior Tennis Camp set
San Diego, Calif. - The sixth annual National Wounded Warrior Tennis Camp is scheduled to take place May 15-18, 2017 at the Balboa Tennis Club located at 2221 Morley Field Dr, San Diego, CA 92104.
Over 50 wounded, ill, and injured service members and military veterans from across the country are expected to participate in the Tennis Camp, which is being hosted by the San Diego District Tennis Association (SDDTA), in collaboration with the United States Tennis Association, Naval Medical Center San Diego, and the Balboa Tennis Club.
The camp, which will offer on-court sessions from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. each day, will focus on helping participants improve their tennis skills through game-based clinics and instruction in an upbeat, fun-filled atmosphere. The camp also provides emotional benefits and helps with community re-integration.
Fundraising efforts are currently underway to help cover all participants’ airfare, lodging, meals, transportation, tennis equipment and instruction. The San Diego District Tennis Association is accepting contributions through its 501(c)(3) fiscal agent, Tennis Lovers For Charity, which are tax deductible. Checks may be made to “Tennis Lovers for Charity” and mailed to SDDTA, 2221 Morley Field Dr., San Diego, CA 92104.
“The positive feedback we have received from past camp participants has been overwhelming,” said Steve Kappes, Director of Military Outreach for the SDDTA. “Many have commented that tennis changed their lives for the better and in some cases, has saved their lives.”
For more information on the sixth annual National Wounded Warrior Tennis Camp, please go to: sdwoundedwarriortennis.org and facebook.com/sdwoundedwarriorstennis.
The camp will be led by Balboa Tennis Club’s Tennis Director, Geoff Griffin, a USPTA-certified teaching professional for over 25 years, and other professional tennis instructors from the club. All have been involved in the club’s Wounded Warrior Tennis Program since its inception in 2009. Support staff from Naval Medical Center San Diego will assist, along with trained volunteers from the tennis community.
About the Wounded Warrior Tennis Program
Since 2009, the Balboa Tennis Club, in collaboration with Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) and the San Diego District Tennis Association, has provided hundreds of free weekly tennis clinics to more than 800 wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans from all the military services as part of NMCSD’s Wounded, Ill, and Injured Wellness Division of its Health and Wellness Department.
These military tennis clinics and tennis camps have been recognized for their excellence and impact by Congressional and local representatives, senior officials from the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs, and the leadership of the United States Tennis Association. They have become the model for similar tennis programs for wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans that have been established at other major military medical centers, Warrior Transition Units, and VA hospitals across the country.
The Wounded Warrior Tennis Program has made a positive impact in the lives of wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans. Therapeutically, tennis has helped them work on eye-hand coordination, balance, ability to transfer weight, endurance, strength, and overall fitness. In addition to the physical benefits, tennis enables them to learn a new sport, promotes socialization, decreases stress and anxiety, and helps with re-integration into the community.
About The Balboa Tennis Club
The Balboa Tennis Club (BTC), which dates back to 1922, was rated as America’s Best Public Tennis Facility by the USTA in 1989. In 2000, the San Diego District Tennis Association named BTC as Club of the Year and in 2003, it received the Outstanding Tennis Facility award from the USTA for large facilities in the United States.
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Shots fired at Don Mueang as PAD & taxi drivers clash
Thread: Shots fired at Don Mueang as PAD & taxi drivers clash
(BangkokPost.com)
Rival forces clashed on the road from Don Mueang airport on Tuesday and two people were wounded in the first exchange of gunfire between the PAD and UDD. CRISIS ROUNDUP
"I can confirm that there were gunshots," a police colonel on the scene said.
"There was a slight clash and two people were wounded."
The violence began on the old Phaholyothin Highway, when supporters of the pro-government United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) threw stones at a truck carrying members of the People's Alliance for Democracy.
The anti-government PAD members were returning from Don Mueang, where they have attempted to blockade the temporary seat of government.
From their truck, the PAD members fired slingshots and then at least two pistols at the UDD members.
The fight escalated, as the PAD truck turned to pursue the several dozen UDD supporters, firing at them.
Two of the fleeing UDD members were shot in the incident.
The PAD truck was apparently on the way to join about 1,000 PAD protesters who gathered in front of the armed forces headquarters on Chaeng Wattana Road on Tuesday, with more on the way. They aim to prevent a cabinet meeting rumoured to be scheduled for the building on Wednesday.
The entrance and exit gates of the command headquarters were closed. Military guards, with two fire engines, have been deployed for security inside the compound.
Meanwhile, the government remained in place and the army vowed there would be no coup.
The PAD planned to submit a letter to Supreme Commander Gen Songkitti Jaggabatara, asking the military to take sides in the conflict.
But they looked to be disappointed again.
"The armed forces have agreed that a coup cannot solve our country's problems and we will try to weather the current situation and pass this critical time," army chief Gen Anupong Paojinda said.
"The military will use all of its resources to prevent a clash," he said, but added that he was confident there would be no bloodshed.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was on his way back from the Apec summit in Peru. He will have to find new office space again; the PAD have seized his offices in Government House and at Don Mueang.
In Lima, Mr Somchai told reporters that he will call a meeting of all relevant agencies as soon as he returns on Wednesday.
He criticised the PAD's plan to gather at Suvarnabhumi airport when he arrives. The prime minister said this could cause considerable damage to the country and the PAD should think of the majority.
But there is no sign that the government will resign. It has effectively gone into hiding, and appears non-functional but there is no sign that the protests will force it to step down as the PAD indicated it would.
The PAD also stiffened its position again. Coordinator Suriyasai Katasila said there will be no negotiations with the government under any circumstances, because talks would be futile.
He said the PAD’s plan is to stop the government from exercising its power by all means, including by besieging the alternative government headquarters at Don Mueang airport.
He was reacting to a government offer to talk from acting prime minister Chavarat Charnveerakul, who proposed that Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva act as mediator at a neutral ground, the defence ministry.
Democrat party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban said in this situation the government should either resign or dissolve the House of Representatives. (with news agency reports)
BBC Video of the shooting
Re: Shots fired at Don Mueang Demo as PAD & UDD clash: 2 wounded.
Bangkok protesters fire on rivals
Thai anti-government protesters have fired shots at government supporters, in the capital Bangkok, injuring at least six people.
The incident happened on a road leading to the city's old airport.
People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protests have been going on for several months. The group is occupying the airport and several official buildings.
They want the resignation of the government, which they accuse of being corrupt and hostile to the monarchy.
Anti-government demonstrators have also blocked the main highway leading to the Suvarnabhumi international airport.
They are hoping to prevent Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, who had refused calls for his resignation, from returning from his visit to the Apec summit in Peru.
'Final battle'
Footage of the violence, aired by public broadcaster TPBS, showed shots being fired from a truck into crowds after rocks were thrown from the ground.
Thousands of people are taking part in anti-government protests
At least two handguns could be seen and people standing with the gunmen raised up a picture of the revered Thai king, whom the PAD claim to be supporting.
Protesters could be seen running across the empty multi-lane road and setting fire to a motorbike.
A man was also seized by pro-government supporters and what appeared to be a large knife was held to his throat.
TPBS said its cameraman had been threatened at the scene and that PAD personnel attempted to seize his tape.
PAD protesters have converged on Bangkok's old Don Muang international airport, from where the cabinet has been operating since its offices were occupied.
Organisers say the protest is a "final battle" to bring down the government.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says the government appears to have followed a strategy of allowing PAD to attack government buildings while avoiding clashes, in the hope that it will wear the protesters down.
But many ordinary Thais are sick of the protests and the PAD appear to be losing steam, says our correspondent.
Pro-government taxi drivers clash with PAD supporters
Some 20 guards of the People's Alliance for Democracy battled pro-government taxi drivers on Vibhavadi Road Tuesday afternoon.
Reporters saw the PAD guards running down from a sound truck when it reached in front of Soi Vibhavadi Rangsit 3 to chase after the taxi drivers.
The taxi drivers used red headbands threw objects as vehicles of the PAD when they driving past to the Suvarnabhumi airport.
Seeing the guards armed with knives and sticks coming to them, the taxi drivers fled into the soi.
The guards then damaged properties at the scene and set fire to three motorcycles.
The guards also attacked a taxi motorcyclists and threatened to harm a cameraman of Thai PBS, who ran for his life.
A taxi driver alleged that the PAD guards also fired at them.
Re: Shots fired at Don Mueang as PAD & taxi drivers clash, trouble also at Suvarnabhu
PAD vs. taxi drivers in Bangkok, Suvarnabhumi
(BangkokPost.com) - People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters on Tuesday evening clashed with a group of pro-government taxi drivers on Vibhavadi Road, which left at least 11 injured. Two of the taxi drivers suffered gunshot wounds.
According to the police, the PAD demonstrators attempted to break into the Khon Rak Taxi (Taxi Lovers) radio station on Vibhavadi Road, Soi 3, but a group of taxi drivers prevented them. As a result, both sides exchanged blows and threw things at each other until more than 60 policemen arrived to settle the situation.
The radio station is known for supporting the coalition government led by the People Power party (PPP).
Meanwhile at Suvarnabhumi airport, groups of taxi drivers and supporters of the PAD armed with weapons, including slingshots, fought each other before the police broke up the violence.
Richard Barrow
Thailand Travel Blogger
Originally Posted by Khun Don
Looking at that video, that was no "slight" clash. They were firing guns in the open. One guy looked like he had a long knife around the neck of a motorcycle taxi driver's throat. Then we cut away. Fate unknown.
They are provoking the police and government to take action like last time to give them the excuse to escalate the situation.
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Originally Posted by Richard Barrow
Certainly seems, despite the rhetoric, they want to fight the Police, government and anyone else that disagrees with them on the streets.
Don't know if i am over reacting to the news reports but I think the government has very little option now than to call a state of emergency, put the military on the streets and impose a curfew before things escalate out of control.
I think best to continue a cat and mouse game as long as they dare to. Let's wear them down. They are only hurting themselves with these actions. They have already lost a lot of public support. Not so many people are wearing yellow shirts on Mondays these days because they don't want to be associated with the PAD. So much hate there.
Suvarnabhumi closed, Sondhi delivers ultimatum
(BangkokPost.com) - The anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) on Tuesday evening announced that it will shut down Suvarnabhumi airport in an attempt to topple the government.
At 9pm, the airport was ordered to halt its operation temporarily as the PAD demonstrators broke into the compound.
Later, PAD leader Sondhi Limthongkul announced at the anti-government stage at Government House that Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat must resign without any condition.
He then claimed that the government was guilty of the October 7 riot, which left two dead and almost 500 wounded.
Mr Sondhi said the demonstrators will intensify their acts of 'civil disobedience' by closing down Thailand's international airport.
Re: Shots fired at Don Mueang as PAD & taxi drivers clash
An anti-government protester opens fire on a group of government supporters from a truck that is blocking a highway leading to Bangkok's old airport, in this TV grab taken on November 25, 2008. Thai anti-government protesters blockading a highway leading to Bangkok's old airport opened fire on a group of government supporters on Tuesday. The footage, aired by public broadcaster TPBS, showed at least two security guards from the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) firing half a dozen rounds from handguns at the government supporters.
KhaoNiaw
Samutprakan
It's difficult to see a way out at the moment. Violence spirals very easily in Thailand. PAD supporters have been murdered and I'm not entirely surprised to see the armed element among them coming to the fore. More red thugs to appear soon I should think. Thaksin is using increasingly aggressive language and is ready to fight and we know how the PAD leadership will respond.
It's so depressing because the ordinary 'yellow shirts' and ordinary 'red shirts' are just the same people. In my office there are supporters of both, all very nice middle class people with similar backgrounds and aspirations. The idea that this is some kind of middle class Bangkok s v the rural masses battle is way way too simplistic. There were millions of voters in Isaan and the North who didn't vote for TRT or PPP. My wife's district in Ubon, along with others, have continued to return their Democrat MPs. The way that this conflict is described almost feeds upon itself though and I haven't even seen much decent commentary from the western media.
The leadership on both sides are playing their own personal and political games, and putting ordinary people's lives on the line. I would love to see some of the more intelligent and moderate leaders on both sides of the divide stick two fingers up at their leaders, and get together in a way and thrash out a plan to pull Thailand forward.
pad, udd
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Rant 'n' Roll: Frank Zappa as Hologram??!!!
Zappa photo by Bruce Linton, courtesy Universal Music
When you get to be the Reverend’s age and have spent as many years hanging around the fringes of the ‘respectable’ record biz as I have (45+), you see a few things…and I’ve seen few things as cockamamie as this. The Zappa Family Trust announced this week that Frank Zappa, the family’s patriarch and namesake, will be hitting the road again despite the unfortunate fact that he’s been dead for nearly 24 years. Dear Frank has kicked the bucket, he’s shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!
Working with Eyellusion, ‘live music’s premier hologram production company,’ the Zappa Family Trust has developed Frank Zappa – Back On The Road: The Hologram Tour. According to the bloato-hype accompanying the estate’s press release, ‘Hologram Frank’ will provide fans “an opportunity to experience the prolific, eclectic and critically acclaimed music legend live in concert again.” Production for the hologram tour will begin later this year with performances expected sometime in 2018.
“I’m thrilled that Frank Zappa will finally be going back out on tour playing his most well-known music as well as some rare and unheard material,” said Ahmet Zappa, co-Trustee of the Zappa Family Trust, in a press release. “We can’t wait to bring his creative work back to the stage with the musicians he loved to play with, such as Steve Vai, Ian Underwood, Adrian Belew, Arthur Barrow, Vinnie Colaiuta, Scott Thunes, Mike Keneally, Denny Walley, Warren Cuccurullo and Napoleon Murphy Brock among others who are committed to being part of this epic endeavor. When I spoke with them, they were excited at the prospect of performing alongside Frank once again and can’t wait to give fans an unforgettable experience.”
Now either Vai, Belew, et al are all strapped for the cash this bad idea might provide them, or else they were all just humoring Ahmet when he rang ‘em up and proposed this horrible example of a craven cash-grab. “Sure, kid, I’d love to play with the disembodied shadow of your late father; can’t think of anything else I’d rather do next year.” I don’t imagine that any of these talented musicians are chomping at the bit to line-up on stage and perform alongside the ghostly image of their former bandleader. I realize that the Zappa Family Trust has been hemorrhaging cash and is allegedly millions of dollars in debt, but pimping out the corpse of dear ol’ dad isn’t the way to dig out of the hole.
Zappa photo by Greg Gorman, courtesy Universal Music
In the press release for this travesty of bad estate planning, Ahmet had to throw in an unnecessary dig at his estranged brother and sister, i.e. them what got the shit end of the deal with their mother’s death. “Also, how radical would it be to have Moon singing ‘Valley Girl’ onstage with Frank? Or to see Dweezil side by side with our father playing dueling guitar solos? That would be my greatest wish and I look forward to bringing this special celebration of Frank’s legacy to a town near you. But if that wasn’t enough Zappa coolness, we’re also planning on staging Joe’s Garage The Musical with none other than Frank Zappa himself starring as the Central Scrutinizer.”
Yikes, that’s a self-serving line of bullshit…and no matter what side of the Zappa family feud you come down on, you have to admit that Dweezil has done more to keep his father’s music alive by performing it publically over this past decade as “Zappa Plays Zappa” than anything that Ahmet has achieved by whoring out their father’s legacy with a steady flow of “product” that includes CD reissues, a glut of live recordings, and gratuitous vinyl reissues. If I were the 40% half of the trust (i.e. Dweezil and Moon), I’d be challenging Ahmet’s oversight, its millions of dollars of debt in spite of the abundance of major label reissues, and other issues that have created familial discord, not the least of which is this crappy hologram tour idea.
I never knew Frank Zappa personally, but I know enough about the man and his music from a lifetime of listening and researching my Frank Zappa Buying Guide book to believe that Frank the Artist would hate this idea. A musical perfectionist and restless creative spirit whose legend is built not only on his compositional genius and immense six-string skills but also on his improvisational abilities, ‘Hologram Frank’ will display none of these attributes when performing alongside whatever high-profile former sidemen the ignorant half of the family can bribe to tour with the evanescent apparition of Daddy dearest. This isn’t rock ‘n’ roll, it’s zombie karaoke, and woe upon any of you that support this shitshow by buying a ticket.
Posted by Rev. Keith A. Gordon at Sunday, September 24, 2017
Labels: Frank Zappa, opinion, Rant 'n' Roll
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