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Before the coming of the Presentation Sisters there were many hedge schools in Rahan. Dr. Cogan speaks of schools in Killina, Roscore , Killeranny, Clonshanny, Rahan, Cloonagh and Tullabeg. These schools must have been conducted mainly in the open air but during inclement weather conditions there sheds used wherever they were available. They were described by R. Cogan as “stables” or “miserable cabins”. Miss Maria O’Brien was the champion of the poor children of the parish and at her own expense built a school at Killlina and invited the presentation sisters from Georges Hill, Dublin to come and take over the school. They came in 1817. The building was enlarged but nevertheless it served as a schoolroom by day and sleeping quarters by night. The sisters received no remuneration but laboured “gratuitously for the instruction of the poor without deriving any profit from the school".
The schoolroom measured 18 ft x 22 ft and there were over one hundred children enrolled from the first day. In 1832 the sisters applied to the commissioner of education for a grant to enlarge the schoolroom. The cost of this extension was £91-4s-7d. and the commissioners agreed to give £60 if the sisters could raise the deficiency. This the sisters were unable to do and the board finally allowed the grant provided the extension was limited to that amount. From such humble beginnings the school continued to grow. During the famine years lace making was taught to the pupils and the ladies of the parish. The proceeds of this little industry helped many families to survive those years of want and hunger.
In 1948 the “secondary top” was started and the pupils were able to sit the Leaving and Intermediate Certificate examinations free of charge. In 1965 the new school was built in that year at the request of Fr. Kyne, Bishop of Meath, boys were enrolled for secondary education. The school attained full secondary status in 1977 and many new buildings have been erected to accommodate the growing numbers.
A model agricultural school was in operation in Rahan at the end of the last century. This would have a forerunner of the agricultural collages of the present day.
A new school was built in Mucklagh in 1951 by Very Rev. Judge, P.P, and Fr. McGahey. This school has been renovated and enlarged many times. In 1972 the Island school was closed. Children are transported by bus to Rahan and Killina schools. In 1986 a new school was built at Rahan.
Pictured at the unveiling are(left to right): Sr. Aine, Fr.Seamus Dunican, Sr.Patrick, Sr. Oliver, Ms. Carthagena Minnock (Vice-Principal), Fr. Mattie Mollen, Mr. Michael Nolan (Principal).
In 2007 Fr. Seamus Dunican,P.P. Rahan, officially unveiled a commemorative plaque on the 180th anniversary of the death of Maria O’Brien (Sister Mary Clare), who brought the Presentation Sisters to Killina in 1817.
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On the next Fresh Air, the story of a pioneering anthropologist in the 1920s and 30s and his students who challenged the static notions of race, sex…
Jonathan Groff on the Next Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
Terry talks with Jonathan Groff. He stars in the Netflix series Mindhunter, which is about to start Season 2. Groff played King George in Hamilton,…
Deep Cave Diving with Underwater Explorer and Photographer Jill Heinerth on Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with underwater explorer and photographer Jill Heinerth, who has dived into unmapped caves deep in the…
Rescuing Orphaned Kittens with Hannah Shaw on the Next Fresh Air – Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, rescuing orphaned kittens. We talk with Hannah Shaw, aka the Kitten Lady, about her work saving orphaned neo-natal and older…
Meet the First Trans Woman of Color to Write and Direct an Episode of TV on the next Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
Terry talks with Janet Mock, a writer, director, and producer of the TV series Pose, about the underground gay and trans ball culture of the late…
Business Journalist Christopher Leonard on the Next Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, the secret history of Koch Industries and how the Kochs changed corporate and political power in America. We talk with…
Sister Helen Prejean On Witnessing Executions: 'I Couldn't Let Them Die Alone'
Sister Helen Prejean is best known for her 1993 memoir, Dead Man Walking, about her role as a spiritual adviser to a convicted killer on death row.…
The Beekeeper Of 'Honeyland' Knows All Too Well: Respect Nature, Or Get Stung
I'm not sure that any creature is more marvelous than the honeybee, with its highly evolved social organization, its ability to create honey, and, of…
Fresh Air Weekend: Rodney Evans; Jia Tolentino; Gender Neutral Pronouns
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our…
Remembering Toni Morrison on the Next Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next fresh air, we remember Toni Morrison, and listen back to highlights from three of Terry’s interviews—from 1987, after the publication of…
Sister Helen Prejean on the Next Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
Terry talks with Sister Helen Prejean who wrote about ministering to men on death row in the book Dead Man Walking. At the age of 80, she has a new…
'Fresh Air' Remembers Toni Morrison With 3 Conversations Over 4 Decades
The Nobel laureate died Monday at 88. Terry Gross talked with Morrison in 1987 after she wrote Beloved, in 1992 after she authored Jazz and in 2015…
On the Next Fresh Air, Debunking a Conspiracy Theory – Thursday at 4pm
Dave Davies talks with investigative journalist Michael Isikoff who uncovered what he describes as the previously unreported role of Russian…
'Conspiracyland' Debunks Theories About Murder Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. When a young staffer for the Democratic National Committee was murdered in Washington, D.C.,…
'Succession' Season 2 Is A Cleverly Plotted Portrait Of Privilege
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The Emmy-nominated series "Succession" tells the story…
Actor Geena Davis and Director Maria Gise are Featured in a New Documentary on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
Actor Geena Davis who starred in the films Thelma and Louise and A League of Their Own and is the founder of The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in…
'This Changes Everything': Geena Davis On Empowering Women In Hollywood
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest Geena Davis starred in two…
New Yorker Staff Writer Jia Tolentino’s New Collection of Essays on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino. In a new collection of essays, she writes from the perspective of a…
'New Yorker' Writer Fears We're Fooling Ourselves In The Internet's 'Trick Mirror'
Jia Tolentino's strict Christian upbringing backfired. "I am sure that you don't send your kid to Christian school for 12 years and hope that they'll…
Even A Grammar Geezer Like Me Can Get Used To Gender Neutral Pronouns
Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do. Linguistic history is dotted with eruptions of pronoun rage. Right…
Opinion: Even A Grammar Geezer Like Me Can Get Used To Gender Neutral Pronouns
Remembering Oscar-Winning Documentary Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen back to an interview with one of America's foremost documentary filmmakers, D.A.…
'Vision Portraits' Filmmaker Wanted To Chronicle Other Artists Who Are Blind
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: Before we begin, I want to add our voices to the many who have expressed…
Filmmaker Rodney Evans on the Next Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, filmmaker Rodney Evans talks with Terry. He’s lost much of his vision but he’s still making movies. His new documentary,…
National Geographic Conservation Photographer Paul Nicklen Talks Climate Change on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
Scorching temperatures made this past June the hottest on record. On the next Fresh Air, National Geographic conservation photographer Paul Nicklen…
Fresh Air Weekend: Comic Wanda Sykes; Crime Novelist Laura Lippman
Polar Photographer Shares His View Of A Ferocious But Fragile Ecosystem
Paul Nicklen has spent decades documenting the Arctic and the Antarctic. He often finds himself in frigid waters, just a camera's length away from…
A High School Star Isn't What He Seems In The Psychological Drama 'Luce'
The title character in the coolly engrossing new movie Luce is a high school student who seems exemplary from every angle. Played in a remarkable…
Wanda Sykes on Being a Comic in the Obama and Trump Eras on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, comic, actor and writer Wanda Sykes talks with Terry about being a comic during the Obama era and the Trump era. Sykes does a…
Wanda Sykes Loves Stand-Up: That's Where 'I Can Be Free,' She Says
Before Wanda Sykes became a comic, she worked as a procurement officer for the National Security Agency and had top security clearance. But she…
How Our Personal Electronic Devices Betray Us on the Next Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
Would it surprise you to know that while you’re sleeping, your smart phone is sharing your personal data with companies you’ve never heard of? On the…
How Tech Companies Track Your Every Move And Put Your Data Up For Sale
Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler listened to four years' worth of audio that Amazon had captured and stored from his Alexa smart…
Final Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black' Feels Just As Vital As The 1st
Set in an immigration detention center, the seventh season of the Netflix series continues to take the plight of poor and minority women seriously —…
Author Laura Lippman on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Laura Lippman, author of the popular Tess Monaghan detective series. Her new stand-alone crime novel, Lady in…
'Cities Are Resilient,' Says Baltimore Crime Novelist Laura Lippman
Count Laura Lippman among those who take issue with President Trump's recent tweets characterizing Baltimore as a "disgusting, rat and rodent…
Lisa Hanawalt On 'Tuca & Bertie,' 'BoJack Horseman' And Channeling Anxiety Into Art
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Netflix animated series "Tuca & Bertie" has a look that's similar to another Netflix…
Bugged By Insects? 'Buzz, Sting, Bite' Makes The Case For 6-Legged Friends
There are quadrillions of insects on earth. Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, a professor of conservation biology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences,…
The Bizarre and Necessary World of Insects on Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air: We look at the bizarre world of insects, and why we can’t live without them. Terry talks with the author of "Buzz, Sting,…
Fresh Air Weekend: Filmmaker Lulu Wang; The 'Secret World' Of Sleep
Three Members of the Band Ranky Tanky on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with three members of the band Ranky Tanky. They perform contemporary versions of songs from the Gullah tradition…
'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' Is Tarantino's Most Personal Film In Years
Set in Hollywood in 1969, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a TV actor and his stunt double. The movie's low-key hangout vibes may test your…
How Credible Were the Accusations Against Al Franken That Led Him to Resign From the Senate? Fresh Air Begins Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer talks about her new article investigating the accusations against Al Franken that led him to…
Journalist Jane Mayer On The 'Many Mysteries' In The Accusations Against Al Franken
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In a new article in The New Yorker, titled "The Case Of Al Franken," my guest Jane Mayer…
Lulu Wang, Who Wrote and Directed the New Film The Farewell on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air – Lulu Wang talks about drawing on her own experiences to write and direct the new film The Farewell. When her grandmother in…
Filmmaker Lulu Wang Based 'The Farewell' On Her Family's Real-Life Lie
When Wang's grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, the family flew to China to see her, but decided not to tell her the prognosis. "I turned…
Sleep Disorder Specialist Guy Leschziner on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, sleep disorder specialist Guy Leschziner, author of The Nocturnal Brain. He’s seen it all: insomnia, night terrors,…
Remembering Paul Krassner, Journalist And Co-Founder Of The Yippies
Krassner, who died July 21, published and edited the magazine The Realist from 1958 until 1974 and became known as "the father of the underground…
From Insomnia To Sexsomnia, Unlocking The 'Secret World' Of Sleep
We tend to think of being asleep or awake as an either-or prospect: If you're not asleep, then you must be awake. But sleep disorder specialist and…
A New Breakthroughs for the Treatment and Prevention of Heart Failure on Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. On the next Fresh Air - a talk about recent breakthroughs in treating and preventing heart…
'State Of The Heart' Cardiologist Assesses Breakthroughs In Heart Health
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Breakthroughs in heart medicine, including surgical procedures, devices and medications, have…
'Veronica Mars' Offers More Than Nostalgia; She's Always Been A Survivor
The original Veronica Mars premiered on television 15 years ago, which, in TV terms, was a whole different era. David Milch's HBO series Deadwood,…
Fresh Air Weekend: TV Critic Emily Nussbaum; Satirist Randy Rainbow
Astronaut Michael Collins on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, we listen back to Terry’s interview with astronaut Michael Collins, who was part of the historic landing on the moon 50 years…
'Fresh Air' Commemorates The 50th Anniversary Of Apollo 11's Moon Landing
We listen to archival interviews with Michael Collins, of Apollo 11; Alan Shepard, the first American in space; Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield; and…
Is a Dysfunctional U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Contributing to the Migrant Crisis at the Border? Fresh Air Begins at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air –The migrant crisis on the southern border, and how years of dysfunction in the U. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency—as…
New 'Lion King' Remake Is More Creative Dead End Than Circle Of Life
The best scene in Disney's incredibly photo-realistic remake of The Lion King features a computer-generated beetle rolling a ball of…
The Success and Satire of Randy Rainbow on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air – Terry talks with Randy Rainbow, who writes and performs satirical songs about President Trump set to the melodies of show…
Remembering Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died yesterday at age 99. We're going to listen back to our…
Satirist Randy Rainbow Uses Show Tunes And Pop Songs To Lampoon Trump
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Song parodies about President Trump…
A Discussion About All Things TV with Emily Nussbaum on Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, a wide-ranging discussion about TV with Emily Nussbaum, the Pulitzer Prize winning TV critic for The New Yorker. . . Her new…
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Colson Whitehead on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Dave Davies talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead. His new novel, set in the early 60’s, is based on the…
Colson Whitehead On The True Story Of Abuse And Injustice Behind 'Nickel Boys'
Whitehead's new novel is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. "If there's one place like this,…
Rooted In History, 'The Nickel Boys' Is A Great American Novel
It's pretty rare for a writer to produce a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and, then, a scant three years later, bring…
We All Watch In Our Own Way: A Critic Tracks The 'TV Revolution'
When TV critic Emily Nussbaum was growing up in the '70s, she says television wasn't something to be analyzed, criticized and picked apart. "Even…
Fresh Air Weekend: Yiddish 'Fiddler'; How 'Maiden' Sailed Into History
Baseball Great Keith Hernendez’s Memoir is Now Out in Paperback – Fresh Air Begins Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, baseball great Keith Hernendez. His memoir is out in paperback. Also, we remember former pitcher Jim Bouton whose book Ball…
Remembering Major League Pitcher Jim Bouton, Author Of 'Ball Four'
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actor Rip Torn, who had a long career in film, television and theater, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut.…
'London Kills': A Cop Series That Keeps You Coming Back For More
Remembering 'Larry Sanders Show' Actor Rip Torn
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actor Rip Torn, who had a long career in film,…
Caitlin Dickerson on the Impact of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4 pm
Reports of immigrant children being held in squalid conditions at a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas have provoked public outrage and…
Lots Of Love And One Big Lie — 'The Farewell' Reminds Us Time Is Short
The Farewell opens with five cheeky words: "based on an actual lie." This funny, melancholy ensemble drama was inspired by an experience that the…
Steven Skybell Plays Tevye in a New Yiddish Production of Fiddler on the Roof on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, a new Yiddish language production of Fiddler on the Roof is currently in New York. Terry talks with Steven Skybell who plays…
Yiddish 'Fiddler On The Roof' Is A 'Dream Come True' For Lead Actor
A new, Yiddish language production of the musical is currently running off-Broadway. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, who directs the…
A Talk About Recent Supreme Court Decisions with Ari Berman on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, a talk about last month’s Supreme Court decisions on gerrymandering and the census citizenship question—and what the next…
Rulings On Gerrymandering And The Census Could Define The Political Future
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Supreme Court handed down two decisions at the end of their session last month that could…
Smart And Propulsive 'Copperhead' Asks: Can You Outrun Your Family's Sins?
Jessup Collins wants out. The main character of Alexi Zentner's tough new novel, Copperhead, Jessup is a 17-year-old high school football star with a…
Motorcycle Crash Shows Bioethicist The Dark Side Of Quitting Opioids Alone
In 2015, Travis Rieder, a medical bioethicist with Johns Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics, was involved in a motorcycle accident…
A Bio-Ethicist's Struggle with Opioids on the Next Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
Terry Gross speaks with Travis Reider. After shattering his foot, followed by six surgeries, he became dependent on opioids. With difficulty, he was…
We Listen Back to Terry’s Interviews with Willie Nelson, Plus a Review of His New Album on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
At the age of 86 WILLIE NELSON has a new album. On the next Fresh Air we listen back to excerpts of Terry's interviews with him, and hear a review of…
Fresh Air Weekend: Sarah Jessica Parker; 'Leaving The Witness'
Lizzo’s Making a Big Slash in the Music Scene on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Rapper and singer Lizzo talks about her latest album, ‘Cuz I Love You’, her body positivity, and her background as a classical…
Sarah Jessica Parker on the Next Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
We talk with Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of the HBO comedy/drama series Divorce which is beginning its third season about a couple starting new…
Sarah Jessica Parker On 'Sex,' 'Divorce,' Marriage And #MeToo
Sarah Jessica Parker has spent much of her acting career exploring what it means to be in a relationship — and to be single. In the HBO series Sex…
'Midsommar' Shines: A Solstice Nightmare Unfolds In Broad Daylight
In the viscerally unnerving films of Ari Aster, there's nothing more horrific than the reality of human grief. His haunted-house thriller,…
The Untold Story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
We talk with journalist Adam Higgenbotham, author of Midnight in Chernobyl, who writes about the design flaws and shortcuts, human hubris, soviet…
For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material Is A Job Hazard
Verge journalist Casey Newton investigated working conditions for the people who determine what material can be posted to Facebook. Many are…
Casey Newton Talks About Facebook Moderators on Fresh Air – Monday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with journalist Casey Newton about Facebook moderators, the people who are contracted to monitor texts or images of…
Fresh Air Weekend: '5B' Goes Inside America's First AIDS Ward; Ramy Youssef
VlogBrothers John & Hank Green on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with John Green, author of popular young adult novels including The Fault in Our Stars, which was adapted into a…
Loud But Not Captivating: Drama About Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Falls Flat
On June 30, the Showtime network launches a new TV miniseries called The Loudest Voice. Based on the Gabriel Sherman book The Loudest Voice in the…
Algorithmic Intelligence Has Gotten So Smart, It's Easy To Forget It's Artificial
Algorithms were around for a very long time before the public paid them any notice. The word itself is derived from the name of a 9th-century Persian…
Tracey Edwards is the subject of the New Documentary Maiden on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air – As a young woman, Tracey Edwards dreamed of sailing around the world. In 1989, Edwards led an all-female crew in a 33…
Imagine There's No Beatles: 'Yesterday' Proves Too Clumsy For Its Clever Conceit
I'll say this much for the breezy but dispiriting musical romance Yesterday: It has a clever conceit that it doesn't make the mistake of trying to…
With An All-Female Crew, 'Maiden' Sailed Around The World And Into History
In the 1980s, Tracy Edwards dreamed of racing a sailboat around the world. But at the time, open ocean sailboat racing was a male-dominated sport.…
Working the Medical Front Lines in San Francisco During the AIDS Epidemic of the ‘80s on Fresh Air - Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, a doctor and a nurse who were on the frontlines of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980’s. A talk with Dr. Paul Volberding and…
1st AIDS Ward '5B' Fought To Give Patients Compassionate Care, Dignified Deaths
Today, antiretroviral medicines allow people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to live long, productive lives. But at the onset of the AIDS…
On the Next Fresh Air – Terry Talks with Comic and Actor Ramy Youssef - Tuesday at 4pm
Ramy Youssef co-created and stars in a Hulu semi-autobiographical series called Ramy, about being the son of Egyptian immigrants, and surprising…
Comic Ramy Youssef On Being An 'Allah Carte' Muslim: 'You Sit In Contradictions'
In the semi-autobiographical Hulu series Ramy, comic Ramy Youssef plays a first-generation Muslim American who follows some — but not all — of the…
'Ask Again, Yes' Is A Profound Yet Unpretentious Family Drama
Mary Beth Keane's new novel is called Ask Again, Yes. What's it called again? That's what everyone I've raved to about this book has said to me a…
'I Couldn't Continue On': A Former Jehovah's Witness On Leaving The Faith
Growing up as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness, there were certain things Amber Scorah did not question. When, as a teenager, the community…
Imagining A Dismal Future, 'Years And Years' Says Plenty About The Present
Things are looking bright for pessimists these days — the world has caught up with their sense of gloom. Well over half of those living in the…
On the Next Fresh Air, Life After Leaving a Religion – Monday at 4pm
Terry talks with Amber Scorah, a third-generation Jehovah’s Witness who was raised to believe that Armageddon was imminent. Her decision to leave her…
Fresh Air Weekend: Ava DuVernay On 'When They See Us'; Bill Hader On 'Barry'
John Prine’s Interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry’s interview with John Prine. He was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame last week. PRINE’S first album came out…
'Legion' And 'Jessica Jones' Played The Long Game — And It Paid Off
Legion and Jessica Jones come from the more recent generations of Marvel comics, featuring relatively obscure characters. Neither show's protagonist…
Bill Hader Plays A Hitman Turned Actor in Barry – Fresh Air, Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air – Bill Hader, who co-created and stars in HBO’s dark comedy series 'Barry, about a marine veteran who uses his marksmanship to…
On HBO's 'Barry,' Bill Hader Asks, 'Can You Change Your Nature?'
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Bill Hader, became famous as a performer and writer on "Saturday Night Live" for his…
Ava DuVernay’s New Film About the Central Park Five on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Ava DuVernay, producer, director and co-writer of the Netflix series When They See Us, which depicts the…
Ava DuVernay Focuses On The Central Park 5's Perspective: 'Now People Know'
DuVernay's Netflix series, When They See Us, tells the story of how five black and brown teenagers were manipulated into confessing to a brutal rape…
To Infinity And ... Be Done: After 4 Films, Have We Finally Outgrown 'Toy Story'?
The Toy Story movies are about the secret lives of dolls and action figures that find their deepest fulfillment in a child's embrace. But they're…
Washington Post Investigative Reporter Michael Kranish on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air–The story of America’s first black sports hero: Major Taylor. He broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most…
Uncovering The Story Of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's 1st Black Sports Star
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in baseball, one of the most famous…
New Noir By James Ellroy And Denise Mina Is Daredevil Storytelling At Its Finest
From Nazis and narcos to mistresses and mysterious ship wrecks, Ellroy's This Storm and Mina's Conviction offer plot twists and zig-zags that take…
A Clearer Map For Aging: 'Elderhood' Shows How Geriatricians Help Seniors Thrive
Dr. Louise Aronson says the U.S. doesn't have nearly enough geriatricians — physicians devoted to the health and care of older people: "There may be…
Fresh Air Weekend: The Ordinary People Behind The Moon Landing; Damian Lewis
Cartoonist and Essayist Tim Kreider on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air: Dave Davies talks with cartoonist and essayist Tim Kreider. In his collection of personal essays, he writes about riding a…
Essayist Breaks Free From Conventional Relationships In 'Because I Love You'
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. Today, we'll listen to the interview I recorded last…
Expect Excellence From 'City On A Hill': A Cop Drama That Won't Disappoint
City on a Hill is a period cop series about trying to change the system from within, and encountering resistance — sometimes deadly resistance —…
New York Times Cybersecurity Correspondent Nicole Perlroth on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, a talk with journalist Nicole Perlroth, the New York Times cybersecurity correspondent about the powerful cyber weapons now in…
'Last Black Man In San Francisco' Reveals A Longing For Home In A Changing City
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The film "The Last Black Man In San Francisco" won two…
How Unprepared Was America When the Space Race Began? Fresh Air Begins Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, as the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, Charles Fishman talks with Dave Davies about how unprepared…
Bruce Springsteen Puts A Twist On California-Style Pop With 'Western Stars'
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air.
'One Giant Leap' Explores The Herculean Effort Behind The 1969 Moon Landing
In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy announced a goal of "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" before the end of the…
Inside Kim Jong Un’s North Korea with Anna Fifield on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air – Inside Kim Jong Un’s North Korea. Dave Davies speaks with journalist Anna Fifield, who’s traveled to the country 12 times and…
'The Great Successor' Ventures Inside Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Journalist Anna Fifield visited North Korea and interviewed many of its citizens — including members of Kim Jong Un's family — for her new book about…
Jurors Generate Drama Of Their Own In Smart, Disturbing 'Body In Question'
Jill Ciment is one of those just-under-the-radar writers. Probably her biggest moment of popular recognition came a few years ago, when her novel,…
On the Next Fresh Air, British actor Damien Lewis – Monday at 4 pm
Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody in Showtime's Homeland. Credit: Bob Leverone/Showtime/via NPRDamien Lewis plays a ruthless hedge fund owner on…
Devastating New Miniseries Examines The Horrors Faced By The Central Park 5
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new Netflix miniseries directed by Ava DuVernay,…
Actor Damian Lewis Explores A World 'Of Ego And Power' On Showtime's 'Billions'
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. Our guest today, actor Damian Lewis, has become…
Fresh Air Weekend: Christina Applegate; The Sustainable Food Revolution
Tony Nominee Heidi Schreck on Fresh Air – Friday at 4pm
Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me opens on Broadway on Sunday. Credit: Joan Marcus/Matt Ross Public Relations/via NPRThe Tony Awards…
Though Layered And Ambitious, 'Late Night' Doesn't Always Stick The Landing
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Actress and comedian Mindy Kaling has said in…
'See You Tonight!' 'I Needed This!': How A Ritual Friday Gathering Brought Healing
Last year ran me ragged. Every comedian feels bad, all the time. That's why we do comedy. But this felt different. Nothing could get me out of bed.…
Reporter David Kirkpatrick on Trump's Alignment with Middle East Crown Princes – Thursday at 4pm
David Kirkpatrick. Photo via NPROn the next Fresh Air, we talk with David Kirkpatrick, a New York Times international correspondent and former Cairo…
With 1 Huge Lie Revealed, 'Big Little Lies' Season 2 Takes A Slow-Burn Strategy
Sequels have come to seem inescapable in movies and TV, where the commercial logic is to keep a franchise going — even if it has nowhere to go.…
On the next Fresh Air, we talk with David Kirkpatrick, a New York Times international correspondent and former Cairo bureau chief, about what's…
Christina Applegate on the Next Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
Christina Applegate stars as a grieving widow on the Netflix dark comedy Dead to Me. She played the daughter in Married with Children and costarred…
'Dead To Me' Star Christina Applegate: Loss 'Lives In The Fibers Of Your Being'
Christina Applegate describes grief as "completely messy and unexpected and unapologetic." At least that's the way it's portrayed in her new Netflix…
Jim Derogatis’ New Book Soulless: The Case Against R Kelly on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, breaking the story of R&B star R Kelly’s underage sexual victims. We talk with Jim Derogatis. The stories he broke include the…
On the Next Fresh Air, Christina Applegate – Wednesday at 4 pm
Christina Applegate stars as a grieving widow on the Netflix dark comedy Dead to Me.
An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'
Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it. Take Usain Bolt,…
Jim Derogatis’ New Book Soulless: The Case Against R Kelly on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air –breaking the story of R&B star R Kelly’s underage sexual victims.
'Fate Of Food' Asks: What's For Dinner In A Hotter, Drier, More Crowded World?
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Climate change is affecting the weather. And droughts, floods, storms and unseasonal…
On the Next Fresh Air, the Sustainable Food Revolution – Monday at 4 pm
On Monday, a talk with environmental journalist Amanda Little, author of The Fate of Food about efforts to create a global food supply for a world…
Fresh Air Weekend: Mental Health On Campus; How Eugenics Shaped Immigration Policy
The HBO Series Deadwood Returns as an HBO Movie – Fresh Air Begins Friday at 4 pm
Deadwood, the HBO series about a lawless South Dakota mining town, is returning in the form of an HBO movie. On the next Fresh Air, interviews with…
13 Years Later, 'Deadwood' Goes Out Just As Brilliantly As It Came In
The three seasons of the series Deadwood, which ran on HBO from 2004 until 2006, were set in a mining town in the territory of the Dakotas — the…
'Fresh Air' Remembers Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Tony Horwitz
Horwitz, who died Tuesday, spoke to Fresh Air in '98 about Confederates in the Attic, his book about the legacy of the Civil War. Plus, Maureen…
'Sara Berman's Closet' Traces 1 Woman's Life, From Shtetl To Greenwich Village
Berman was 60 when she moved to New York with just one suitcase to start a new life. Berman's daughter, Maira Kalman, and grandson, Alex Kalman, tell…
On the Next Fresh Air, Children's Book Author and Illustrator Maira Kalman – Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air -- a modern day fairy tale… Children's book author and illustrator Maira Kalman and her son designer Alen Kalman.
Love, Disappointment Course Through 4 Classic Asian American Novels
Editor's note: This review includes racial epithets that appear in the book. In her foreword to America Is in the Heart — Carlos Bulosan's classic…
On the Next Fresh Air, Helping Your Kids Survive and Thrive in Their College Years – Tuesday at 4 pm
Helping your kids survive and thrive in their college years. Terry talks with psychologist B.
On the Next Fresh Air, Helping Your Kids Survive and Thrive in Their College Years – Monday at 4 pm
Fresh Air Weekend: John Waters; Lizzo
'Booksmart' Tweaks Convention By Offering A Gentler View Of High School
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new high school comedy "Booksmart" is the filmmaking debut of actress Olivia Wilde. It stars Beanie…
On the Next Fresh Air, Michael Pollan & Psychedelic Drugs – Friday at 4 pm
Michael Pollan is best known for his books about food but his latest book is about the history of psychedelic drugs, and current experiments with…
Rapper & Singer Lizzo on the Next Fresh Air – Thursday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Lizzo. She’s a rapper and singer whose new album, Cuz I Love You, is her breakthrough.
Branford Marsalis Revels In Jazz's Timeless Challenges On New Album
ABC Takes A Risky Gamble By Reviving 2 Classic Sitcoms For Live Broadcast
On the Next Fresh Air, Is the NRA's Tax-Exempt Status in Jeopardy? Join us Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, conflicts within the NRA and the New York State Attorney General’s investigation into the NRA’s tax-exempt status.
Dementia Reimagined - Terry talks with Dr. Tia Powell - Fresh Air Tuesday 5/21 @ 4pm
On the next Fresh Air - We’ll talk about caring for people with dementia, and how the medical system can improve how it treats people with dementia,…
'The Souvenir' Is A Piercing Portrait Of A Woman Learning To Become An Artist
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. At the recent Sundance Film Festival, the top prize in…
'Dementia Reimagined' Asks: Can There Be Happiness For Those With Memory Loss?
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. There's no cure for dementia, and there's unlikely to be one in the foreseeable future, which…
An Author Goes 'Spying On The South' 160 Years After Frederick Law Olmsted
I've been waiting for Tony Horwitz to write another big on-the-road book that crisscrosses the American cultural divide ever since his bestseller,…
'Filth Elder' John Waters Says There Are Still 'Plenty Of Rules' Left To Break
Cult filmmaker and self-described "filth elder" John Waters, 73, has plenty of ideas about what older people should and shouldn't do. The worst…
Fresh Air Weekend: Howard Stern; Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Novelist Stephen McCauley Embraces Life On A 'Small, Everyday Scale'
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Today's guest,…
George Clooney's 'Catch-22' On Hulu Is Ambitious And Darkly Satisfying
The Generic Drugs You're Taking May Not Be As Safe Or Effective As You Think
As the cost of prescription medication soars, consumers are increasingly taking generic drugs: low-cost alternatives to brand-name medicines. Often…
'Fleabag' Returns For A Raunchy 2nd Season — And Quits While It's Ahead
When Lena Dunham's Girls appeared seven years ago, it cleared the path for a parade of smart, provocative television shows about smart, provocative…
Howard Stern On 'Fresh Air': Part 2
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Howard Stern described my interview with him as exhausting. We talked a long time because…
'Fresh Air' Remembers Hollywood Legend Doris Day
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to listen back to the interview I was lucky enough to record with Doris Day, who…
Howard Stern Tells Terry Gross His 'Pure Id' Days Are Behind Him
Looking back on his early career, Howard Stern remembers being "petrified" that he wasn't going to be able to make a living. "All the sexual antics,…
'Fleabag' And 'Killing Eve' Creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge Is Full Of Surprises
Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes female characters who are flawed, reckless and unpredictable. "As an audience, all we ever want really is to be surprised…
French Comedy 'Non-Fiction' Infuses Every Conversation With Seductive Pull
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The new movie "Non-Fiction" is an ensemble comedy about two bickering couples who work in and around the…
Fresh Air Weekend: How Oligarchs Stash Fortunes; 'PEN15' Creators
'Fresh Air' Celebrates 'Veep,' A Comedy Series Skewering Presidential Politics
As the HBO series Veep concludes its seventh and final season, we listen back to archival interviews with showrunner David Mandel and shows stars…
Jazz Film 'Bolden' Mixes Fact And Fiction To Capture A Legendary Bandleader
'My Mother Is Mad At The Sun': A Poet Reflects On His Mom's Alzheimer's Disease
Deutsche Bank Is The 'Rosetta Stone' To Unlock Trump Finances, Journalist Says
The German bank was Trump's partner on countless investments at a time when most of Wall Street shied away. As a result, NY Times editor David Enrich…
'VEEP' Draws To A Close, Its Freewheeling Cynicism Still A Delight
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Sunday night sees the end of the seventh and final…
'No Visible Bruises' Upends Stereotypes Of Abuse, Sheds Light On Domestic Violence
Many women have a hard time admitting — even to themselves — that they're being abused by their husband or partner. Suzanne Dubus' first husband hit…
'Biggest Little Farm' Chronicles One Couple's Effort To 'Jump-Start The Soil'
Return To Middle School In 'PEN15': Creators Say 'It's All About Survival'
There aren't many people who would choose to go back to middle school — what with all its braces, bullies, crushes and drama. But that's exactly what…
Fresh Air Weekend: Patricia Arquette; David Carr's Daughter, Erin Lee Carr
'What Doesn't Kill You' Is A Humorous, Authentic Take On Growing Up Black
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Damon Young is best known as the editor and co-founder of the blog Very Smart Brothas, where he's built a…
'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Boyz N The Hood' Director John Singleton
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth…
Remembering Jo Sullivan Loesser, Wife Of 'Guys And Dolls' Creator Frank Loesser
Jo Sullivan Loesser, who died April 28, starred in Frank Loesser's Broadway show The Most Happy Fella and then married him. After he died she helped…
Archive Interviews with John Singleton and Jo Sullivan Loesser on Fresh Air – Friday at 4 pm
On the next fresh air, our archive interviews with two people who died this week.
Journalist Explains John Bolton's Push For 'Aggressive Use' Of American Power
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. President Trump's national security adviser John Bolton is known as a tough-talking hawk. A…
'Dead To Me' Is One Of The Best — And Most Unpredictable — Series On TV
On the Next Fresh Air, It’s John Bolton on the Warpath – Thursday at 4 pm
Terry talks with Dexter Filkins, staff writer for the New Yorker, about his new piece on national security adviser John Bolton - the hawkish, former…
'Moneyland' Reveals How Oligarchs, Kleptocrats And Crooks Stash Fortunes
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The Mueller investigation gave us insights into how Paul Manafort and his business partner,…
How Oligarchs, Kleptocrats, and Crooks Hide Their Ill-Gotten Fortunes - Fresh Air, Weds @ 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, how oligarchs, kleptocrats, and crooks hide their ill-gotten fortunes in shell companies, tax havens and real estate.
A Daughter Reflects On Her Parents' Addiction In 'All That You Leave Behind'
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest Erin Lee Carr has written a memoir about being the daughter of David Carr, The New…
David Carr's Daughter On The 'Grand Caper' Of Life, And The Grief Of Loss
Documentary Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr’s New Memoir on Fresh Air - Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air –Terry talks with Erin Lee Carr. Her new memoir is about her relationship with her late father David Carr, a New York Times…
Patricia Arquette Explores The 'Toxic Codependency' Of Munchausen By Proxy
In 2015, a woman named Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in the Missouri home she shared with her teenage daughter, Gypsy Rose. As the…
Patricia Arquette in The Act on Fresh Air - Monday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, actress Patricia Arquette. She stars in the new HULU series The Act, a true crime story about a mentally ill woman who…
Fresh Air Weekend: Glenda Jackson; The Word 'Socialism'; Baseball In 10 Pitches
'Our Planet' Is A Remorseful Call To Arms
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Over the past 40 years, Sir David Attenborough has become internationally known and respected for his…
We Hear From Colin Blunstone, Bryan Ferry, and Brian Eno on Fresh Air – Friday at 4 pm
The Zombies and Roxy Music were inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of fame last month.
'Avengers: Endgame' Is A Thrilling (If Exhausting) Journey Through Time
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. As you might've heard, this week marks the release of "Avengers: Endgame," which ties up the threads of the…
Mueller Report Shows How Witnesses, Messaging Apps Stymied Investigation
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to talk about the Mueller…
Washington Post investigative Reporter Rosalind Helderman Discusses the Mueller Report at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air – we talk about the Mueller report with Washington Post investigative reporter – Rosalind Helderman.
Washington Post Reporter Rosalind Helderman on the Mueller Report - Fresh Air at 4 pm
'Socialism' Isn't The Scare Word It Once Was
Time was when the word "socialism" had a firm footing in the American political lexicon, with as many meanings as it has collected in all the other…
'Mind Fixers' Documents The 'Troubled Search' For Mental Illness Medication
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The search for a biological understanding of mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar…
'The Beneficiary' Weighs The Emotional Heft Of Inheritance
Many years ago, I worked as an academic day laborer on Philadelphia's Main Line. For those unfamiliar with it, the Main Line — developed in the late…
Harvard Professor Ann Harrington’s New Book, Mind Fixes, on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, psychiatry's search to understand the biological basis of mental illness.
Glenda Jackson On Playing King Lear: Gender Barriers 'Crack' With Age
Shakespeare's King Lear is one of the most challenging and prestigious roles in theater — and one that's traditionally played by a man. But now a new…
Glenda Jackson Stars as King Lear on Broadway – Fresh Air Begins Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air -- Glenda Jackson. She’s now starring as King Lear on Broadway.
Herlin Riley's Swinging, Modern Style Shines On 'Perpetual Optimism'
Reporter Details Neglect And Disaster In The U.S. Navy
ProPublica journalist T. Christian Miller says outdated equipment and a shortage of sailors contributed to two separate collisions involving Navy…
ProPublica's T. Christian Miller Talks About Problems Affecting the 7th Fleet on Fresh Air at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, the deadly collisions of two U.S. Navy destroyers with large commercial ships in 2017 - a talk with ProPublica's T.
Fresh Air Weekend: Biographer Robert Caro; Actor Christopher Meloni
Frederick Douglass' Remarkable Life, From Slavery To 'American Wonder'
David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography details Douglass' passionate leadership in the abolitionist movement and his gift as a writer and…
'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Astonishes With Technical Achievement
'Lost And Wanted' Grapples With Grief, Regret And The Existence Of God
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The heroine of Nell Freudenberger's new novel "Lost And Wanted" is a physicist who finds her rational…
From Fastballs To Greaseballs, 'K' Offers A History Of Baseball's Most Iconic Pitches
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. Spring's here, and baseball's back. It's a comforting…
Tiger Woods Biographer Says Golfer's Masters Comeback 'Transcends Sports'
Woods' recent Masters title follows a 10-year drought of major tournament victories. Jeff Benedict, co-author of Tiger Woods, says: "What we're…
'SVU' Actor Channels 'Completely Different Energy' To Play 'Happy!' Hit Man
After 12 seasons on Law & Order: SVU, Christopher Meloni plays a disgraced policeman-turned-hit man (who collaborates with an imaginary unicorn) in…
Christopher Meloni and Biographer Jeff Benedict on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Dave talks with Christopher Meloni, who stars as an ex-cop turned hitman in the series Happy on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Climate Change Is 'Greatest Challenge Humans Have Ever Faced,' Author Says
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. If you want to hear some alarming facts about climate…
Fear and Hope About Climate Change with Bill McKibben on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air -- fear and hope about climate change.
Biographer Robert Caro On Fame, Power And 'Working' To Uncover The Truth
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Robert Caro has spent decades researching and chronicling the lives of notable men. His biographies have focused on…
Journalist and Biographer Robert Caro on the Next Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, journalist and biographer Robert Caro talks about unearthing the seamy details of political deal-making to understand the…
Fresh Air Weekend: Henry Winkler; Rob Delaney
Ray Romano On Fame, And Finding His Bearings After 'Raymond' Wrapped
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross. Comic, actor and writer Ray Romano has been plying his craft for a…
Remembering Oscar-Nominated Character Actor Seymour Cassel
Actor Richard E. Grant on the Next Fresh Air – Friday at 4 pm
Actor Richard E. Grant stars opposite Melissa McCarthy in “Can You Ever Forgive Me.
'I Never Had A Plan B': Henry Winkler On His Career, From The Fonz To 'Barry'
"I knew that I wanted to act since I was old enough to reason," says Henry Winkler. "I never had a Plan B. I never deviated. I never thought that…
'Game Of Thrones' Keeps Its Finger On The Pulse As It Enters The Home Stretch
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. As everyone has surely heard by now, on Sunday night,…
Writer and Biographer Claire Tomalin on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4 pm
Claire Tomalin is best known as a biographer. She has written books about the lives of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Mary…
'Charged' Explains How Prosecutors And Plea Bargains Drive Mass Incarceration
The U.S. prison population is booming. It is estimated nearly 2.2 million people were incarcerated in America in 2016, and as many people in the U.S.…
'Her Smell' Is A Brilliant And Blistering Portrait Of A Musician Falling Apart
Children's Book Author and Illustrator Jarret Krosoczka on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
Jarret Krosoczka has written numerous picture books as well as graphic novels for young readers, including the popular Lunch Lady series.
Reporters Say Members Of Congress Are 'Obsessed' With Getting Re-Elected
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Congress in the Trump era is the subject of the new book by my guests Jake Sherman and Anna…
Personal Demons And Class Differences Complicate Love In 'Normal People'
Normal People, Sally Rooney's second novel, opens in 2011 in a small town in the west of Ireland, where two teenagers, improbably, hook up. Marianne…
Musician and Composer Jon Batiste on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
Musician and composer Jon Batiste is the music director and band leader of Stay Human, the house band The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
'Losing Earth' Explores How Oil Industry Played Politics With The Planet's Fate
Climate change is often thought of as a partisan issue in the United States, but New York Times journalist Nathaniel Rich says that wasn't always the…
Wily And Clever, Billie Eilish's Debut Album Sounds Like No One Else
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Billie Eilish is a 17-year-old singer-songwriter from California who's just released her debut album titled…
Actress Melissa McCarthy on Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
Melissa McCarthy stars in the film, Can You Ever Forgive Me? based on the true story of a writer who becomes a literary forger.
Fresh Air Weekend: Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin; A Therapist Goes To Therapy
Remembering Choreographer And Dancer Merce Cunningham
From The 'Fresh Air' Archives: Dancer Gwen Verdon
'Fosse/Verdon' Surges With Creativity, Excitement And Dance
Celebrating the Centennial of Choreographer Merce Cunningham on Fresh Air – Friday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, we mark the centennial of the birth of choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham, one of the most influential figures in…
Internationally Acclaimed Maestro Yannick Nezet Segun on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air - the internationally acclaimed maestro Yannick Nezet Segun, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and music director of the…
Rob Delaney On Wrapping Up 'Catastrophe' And Working Through Grief
Over the course of its four seasons, Rob Delaney wanted Catastrophe — the Amazon series he created with Sharon Horgan — to show a more nuanced…
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Points To Reconstruction As The Genesis Of White Supremacy
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The white nationalist movement of today has my guest, historian Henry Louis Gates, looking to…
Historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Comic Rob Delaney on the Next Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air – the rise of white supremacy after the Civil War and reconstruction – when white southerners found ways to roll back new…
Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela
Venezuelans have been suffering one calamity to the next, but in recent weeks, much of the country has had to go long stretches without electricity.…
An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela
'New York Times' Journalist Describes An 'Almost Unimaginable' Crisis In Venezuela
Venezuelans have been suffering one calamity after the next, but in recent weeks, much of Venezuela has had to go long stretches without electricity.…
New York Times’ Nick Casey On The Unfolding Crisis in Venezuela on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, the unfolding crisis in Venezuela, where desperate shortages of food, electrical power, and medicine have compelled an…
'Chief' Explores The Motivations And Impact Of SCOTUS Justice John Roberts
CNN legal affairs correspondent Joan Biskupic discusses the roots of Roberts' conservatism and his work for the Reagan and George H.W. Bush…
'Other Americans' Take Center Stage In A Timely New Novel
Laila Lalami's new novel is called The Other Americans and it's likely to jump start some timely book group discussions about the American…
Understanding Chief Justice John Roberts on the Next Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
Veteran Supreme Court correspondent Joan Biskupic talks with Dave about the roots of Roberts’ conservative views, his reasoning on key decisions…
Fresh Air Weekend: John Mulaney; Natasha Lyonne
New 'Twilight Zone' Reboot Pales In Comparison To The Original
Mexican-American Author Finds Inspiration In Family, Tragedy And Trump
Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer. He told Fresh Air in 2018 that the…
On the Next Fresh Air, Writer Luis Alberto Urrea – Friday at 4 pm
Writer Luis Alberto Urrea talks with Terry about growing up with a border wall in his own family: he's the son of a Mexican father and American…
A Psychotherapist Goes To Therapy — And Gets A Taste Of Her Own Medicine
Even therapists need someone to talk to sometimes. Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist who started seeing a therapist herself five years ago, when the…
'Mrs. Wilson' Asks: Just How Well Do We Know The People We Love?
It's a commonplace that we never really know other people, not even those we love. This idea gets pushed to the limit in Mrs. Wilson, a new…
Lori Gottlieb, Columnist for The Atlantic, on the Next Fresh Air – Thursday @ 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Lori Gottlieb, who writes the Dear Therapist column for The Atlantic.
Natasha Lyonne On Being A 'Tough Guy' And Finding Herself Inside 'Russian Doll'
Natasha Lyonne is a survivor. On the Netflix series Russian Doll, which Lyonne co-created and stars in, her character Nadia keeps dying and returning…
'What We Do In The Shadows' Is Like 'The Office' — Just With Fangs And Blood
Natasha Lyonne Talks About the Netflix Series Russian Doll on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
Natasha Lyonne stars in the Netflix series Russian Doll.Credit Netflix/via NPREdit | Remove On the next Fresh Air Natasha Lyonne talks with Terry…
John Mulaney On Hosting 'SNL': 'I Had No Idea How Hard This Was'
After working for five years as a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, comic John Mulaney thought he knew everything there was to know about…
Comic Writer and Actor John Mulaney on the Next Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
John Mulaney returns to Netflix in Kid Gorgeous.Credit Courtesy of Netflix / via NPREdit | Remove John Mulaney used to write for Saturday Night Live…
Author Says New Zealand Massacre Points To A Global Resurgence Of 'Extremism'
On March 15, a 28-year-old Australian man opened fire in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and injuring dozens more. The…
How Extremists Use Social Media to Amplify Their Message on Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
How extremists use social media to amplify their message, recruit new followers, and incite violence.
Fresh Air Weekend: The Emotional Lives Of Primates; Playwright Heidi Schreck
All The Chess Pieces Are On The Move In Season 4 Of 'Billions'
Remembering Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet W. S. Merwin
Remembering Dick Dale and Poet W.S. Merwin on the Next Fresh Air – Friday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Dick Dale, the guitarist known for creating the surf sound of the ’60s, died on Saturday at the age of 81.
Russia's Connection To Brexit Is 'Opaque And Complicated,' Journalist Says
New Yorker journalist Ed Caesar discusses Arron Banks, the British businessman who funded the most extreme end of the pro-Brexit "Leave" campaign —…
On the Next Fresh Air, Did the U.K.’s Vote Leave Campaign Have Russian Assistance? – Thursday at 4 p
Donald Trump Jr. says in a way, Brexit and his father’s election are one and the same.
How Women Have Been 'Profoundly' Left Out Of The U.S. Constitution
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Heidi Schreck, wrote and…
Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
Heidi Schreck talks with Terry about writing and performing her show What the Constitution Means to Me – which is about to open on Broadway.
Road Trip With 'Zora And Langston' In This Real-Life Literary Adventure
One of the most joyous, true life, "on-the-road" adventures in literary history took place in the summer of 1927. It began in Mobile, Ala., when a…
Sex, Empathy, Jealousy: How Emotions And Behavior Of Other Primates Mirror Our Own
When Frans de Waal first started out, studying nonhuman primates in the Netherlands more than 40 years ago, he was told not to consider the emotions…
What Animal Emotions Can Tell Us About Ourselves on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Frans de Waal. He directs the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Former Physician At Rikers Island Exposes Health Risks Of Incarceration
As head of New York City's correctional health services, Dr. Homer Venters spent nine years overseeing the care of thousands of inmates in the jails…
Life and Death on Riker’s Island on Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
Dave Davies talks with Dr. Homer Venters, who spent nine years as head of New York City’s correctional health services.
Fresh Air Weekend: Aidy Bryant; Priest-Turned-Professor Barbara Brown Taylor
How 'Peasant Food' Helped Chef Lidia Bastianich Achieve Her 'American Dream'
Bastianich grew up eating farm-to-table meals with her Italian family. After they fled Europe as refugees, she drew on those meals in opening her…
'Ash Is Purest White' Is A Deeply Moving Gangster Romance Spanning 17 Years
On the Next Fresh Air, We Listen Back to Our Interview with Hal Blaine – Friday at 4 pm
Hal Blaine was the drummer who played on thousands of recordings and many hits of the 1960s and 70s.
Overlooked In The '70s, 'Wanda' Finally Gets Her Due
Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The actress Barbara Loden, who died in 1980, is best…
Aidy Bryant On 'Shrill,' 'SNL' Thrills, And Not Feeling Bad About Her Body
Aidy Bryant mourns the time she lost in her teens and early 20s feeling self-conscious about her body. The Emmy-nominated comic and actor says she…
Newly Restored 'Wanda' Revives A Classic Of Women's Cinema
Based on the true story of a crime gone wrong, Wanda is considered a cinematic landmark. The 1970 film, which is now out in a restored version, was…
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Aidy Bryant – Thursday at 4 pm
In addition to being a cast member of Saturday Night Live, Aidy Bryant stars in a new comedy series called Shrill, that’s based on the collection of…
Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much — Even For Those With Health Insurance
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. You wouldn't believe what some emergency rooms charge, or maybe you would because you've…
Meet The Lagoon's Forgotten Lady And See 'The Strangest Movie Never Made'
"Lost Hollywood." The phrase conjures up starlets in silver lamé and lunchtime gimlets at The Brown Derby; it does not bring to mind slimy swamp…
$60 for ibuprofen? Why are emergency room visits so expensive? Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
Why are emergency room costs so unpredictable? A talk with Sarah Kliff, a health policy journalist for Vox, who collected ER bills from around the…
'Times' Deputy Counsel On Fighting For Press Freedom In The Trump Era
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. You probably know my guest, the New York Times deputy general counsel David McCraw, from a…
New York Times Deputy General Counsel David McCraw on Fresh Air – Tuesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air – the New York Times deputy general counsel talks about issues he’s faced during the Trump presidency when the war over press…
'Manhunt' Highlights The Teamwork That Took Down A Serial Killer
It has become the nature of television to ramp up everything, even things that don't need it — like murder. We've grown so accustomed to seeing…
For Priest Turned Professor, 'Holy Envy' Is Key To Appreciating World Religions
From an early age, Barbara Brown Taylor knew that she wanted to live a spiritual life. "It started early in my life," she says, "a hunger for the…
Episcopal Priest Barbara Brown Taylor Talks About Her New Memoir on Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Barbara Brown Taylor is an ordained Episcopal priest who left the pulpit to become a professor of religion.
Fresh Air Weekend: Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck; The White House & Fox News
A Look Back At 'The Godfather,' With Mario Puzo And Francis Ford Coppola
DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. This week marks…
'Captain Marvel' Falls Short Of Instilling Its Heroine With A Distinctive Personality
The White House And Its 'Shadow Cabinet' Of Fox News TV Hosts
In July 2018, former Fox News co-President Bill Shine joined the White House staff as deputy chief of staff for communications and assistant to…
Jane Mayer Discusses the Making of the Fox News White House on Fresh Air – Thursday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with reporter Jane Mayer about the making of the Fox news White House.
'Never Look Away' Asks: Why Make Art? Who Is It For?
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck discusses his new film about an artist who grows up in Nazi Germany, comes of age in East Germany and travels to the…
Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who made the Oscar-winning “The Lives of Others”.
'An American Summer' Looks At How Gun Violence 'Gets In People's Bones'
Alex Kotlowitz discusses the people whose lives were changed or lost due to gun violence in Chicago one summer. He likens the trauma of living with…
Alex Kotlowitz Followed the Lives of Two Boys in a Chicago Housing Project on Tuesday's Fresh Air
On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Alex Kotlowitz, who followed the lives of two boys in a Chicago housing project for his 1991 book There Are…
Is Your Child An Orchid Or A Dandelion? Unlocking The Science Of Sensitive Kids
Dr. Thomas Boyce, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, has treated children who seem to…
'Say Nothing': Murder, Memory And A Masterful History Of The Troubles
It was a cold December night in 1972 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A 38-year old widowed mother of 10 named Jean McConville was with her children in…
Why Some Children Struggle with Adversity More Than Others on Fresh Air – Monday at 4 pm
On the next Fresh Air, a talk with Thomas Boyce. He’s a pediatrician and child development researcher and author of the new book, The Orchid and the…
Fresh Air Weekend: Pamela Adlon; The Real Life 'Green Book'
Remembering 'Singin' In The Rain' Co-Director Stanley Donen
"Dance numbers are anything but spontaneous," Donen told Fresh Air in 1996. Donen, who died Feb. 21, also directed On the Town, Funny Face and Damn…
'Fresh Air' Remembers 'Philadelphia Daily News' Obituary Writer Jim Nicholson
We celebrate the life of the legendary obit writer, who died Feb. 22, by listening back to a 1987 interview. Also, Philadelphia Inquirer editor David…
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Ohio Law prohibiting abortion of Down syndrome children may yet be enforced
Published Dec 26, 2019 ↤ KRLA Forum
Eighth in a Series: Pro-life Laws Under Attack
A New Year’s Prediction: Perhaps the legal case against Kentucky’s Heartbeat and Anti-Eugenics Law will not be decided before Spring 2020.
In a document filed on December 16, 2019 by the Plaintiffs, it is revealed that an ‘En Banc’ review of Ohio’s Preterm-Cleveland v. Himes case has been granted by the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court. The Preterm-Cleveland case was cited by our attorneys in document 47 as relevant to Kentucky’s when Ohio appealed for a ‘full-bench’ (en banc) hearing after the Appellate Court upheld the preliminary injunction against it.
In 2018, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood of America filed a suit on behalf of several abortion clinics and their patients to challenge HB214, the Ohio law that prohibits abortion if based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. They argued that the law imposes an unconstitutional burden on patients seeking abortions. ReWire News reported:
On March 14, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law, ruling that Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade bars states from prohibiting pregnant people “from making the ultimate decision to terminate [their] pregnancy before viability.”
On October 11, 2019, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court order blocking the law, ruling that it “unconstitutionally inhibits pre-viability abortions based on a woman’s reason for seeking abortion.” Ohio has sought a rehearing en banc.
Ohio’s request was granted on December 13, and the oral argument is scheduled for March 11, 2020. It seems likely that Judge Hale may wait for that opinion before issuing a decision on the Heartbeat and Anti-eugenics laws.
We await new documents to be filed, and will add a post to this series when that occurs.
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SCOTUS leaves Appellate Court ruling in place for Kentucky Ultrasound Law!
Published Dec 9, 2019 ↤ KRLA Forum
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the challenge to Kentucky’s Ultrasound Law. “This is the best possible news defenders of life in the womb could receive! It is bad news for EMW Abortion facility and for Louisville Planned Parenthood,” stated KRLA President Diana Maldonado.
Thank you to Governor Matt Bevin for defending this law at the Appellate level and at the highest level. Tomorrow, Kentucky’s new Governor will be sworn in to office. Andy Beshear refused to defend the Ultrasound law when he was the Attorney General.
As reported by AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions.
The justices did not comment in refusing to review an appeals court ruling that upheld the law.
The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the law on behalf of Kentucky’s lone remaining abortion clinic. The ACLU argued that “display and describe” ultrasound laws violate physicians’ speech rights under the First Amendment...
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Kentucky and Indiana a test market for Planned Parenthood superfund strategy
Published Oct 1, 2019 ↤ KRLA Forum
Mike Fichter, CEO of Indiana RTL, Host of LoveX2 podcast on Apple Podcasts (Facebook too), and author of many pro-life books, warned about Planned Parenthood on a mission.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) formerly had a budget of $15M, but after its “merger” (takeover) with PP of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands (PPGNHI), the budget includes $90M in financial resources.
Ky. and Ind. have become a “test market” for PP. They saw our states as abortion deserts with aggressive pro-lifers in charge, and they believe that if they can “break the back” of our pro-life majority, they can achieve the same goal in any state of the union.
Their plan is outlined in “Care For All” — See here.
The document begins:
There’s no way to sugarcoat it. With Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, we are likely to see the further erosion of Roe v. Wade in the very near future. There are 13 abortion-related cases that are just one step away from the Supreme Court, and 20 states are poised to ban abortion should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
The “Care For All” Plan is to:
Expand regional access and “virtual” access through telemedicine.
Partner with coalitions and advocates to ensure a network of states where abortion will still be legal whatever SCOTUS may rule.
Work to destigmatize abortion in the media and in the popular culture “including working with the music, fashion, movie and television industries”… and with content creators (etc). (This tactic is already in play by Whole Women’s Health as well. http://shiftstigma.org/)
PP’s strategy is also to drain state resources through taking us to court as pro-life laws are passed.
Be alert, pro-lifers. Do ALL that you can to preserve our state’s pro-life majority in the legislature and in state offices.
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Bevin administration denies Planned Parenthood abortion license
Published Aug 17, 2019 ↤ KRLA Forum
Update 8-22-19: C-J's Deborah Yetter reports:
[In a motion on Wed., Aug. 21] Planned Parenthood is asking a federal judge to hold Gov. Matt Bevin and top state health officials in contempt of court over what it alleges are repeated violations of court orders regarding its effort to get a license to provide abortions in Louisville…
“It is clear," the motion said, "that the defendants are engaging in self-help by ignoring this court's orders in hopes of a win on appeal in the sixth circuit.”
Wednesday's motion is the second time Planned Parenthood has asked the court to hold the Bevin administration in contempt over its long-running battle to get the license. Read more
It seems obvious that Kentucky would engage in self-help by appealing the case to the Sixth District Court of Appeals after losing it in the lower court. That is standard procedure, so how could it be viewed as ‘contempt’?
The C-J reports:
The Bevin administration is once again blocking Planned Parenthood from having a license to operate an abortion clinic at its building in downtown Louisville… Planned Parenthood announced the decision in a release late Friday night…
Read more. Also see this related post.
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We’re for women’s safety so we are for Transfer Agreements!
Published Aug 9, 2019 ↤ KRLA Forum
Chad Meredith (addressing the media), our state’s Chief Deputy General Counsel, argued to retain Transfer Agreements law in Kentucky at the Sixth Circuit Federal Appeals Court on August 8. Background on this case is here.
Many pro-lifers including KRLA staff and members heard the arguments and later participated in a media conference staged by Addia Wuchner, former representative for Ky’s 66th district. Reporters from WDRB-TV, the C-J and others covered the event and LifeNews has reported on it drawing from a story in CourtHouseNews.com.
Listen to the full proceedings from the hearing. As noted by CourtHouseNews, there is no timetable for the decision to be issued. Three judges heard the arguments by Atty. Meredith and attorneys for the EMW Clinic and Planned Parenthood. Two of them, Judges Chad Readler and Joan Larsen are recent appointees of President Trump. Judge Eric Clay was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Aside: Congratulations to Attorney Meredith who was recently promoted to Solicitor General. Read more.
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Orphans in Haiti will soon have a place to call home.
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Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress has initiated a regular vigil in support of Lt. Ehren Watada, who the US Army is threatening with a second court martial. The group will gather each Monday from 5:30-7:00 at the corner of Alameda and First Streets in Little Tokyo.
USC Student Activists Step up Pressure, Administration Responds In-Kind (tags)
Harsh response to anti-sweatshop sit-in threatens to obscure campaign details at a critical time: Breaking with a norm of accommodation of student protesters, the University of Southern California last week dramatized their willingness to evade responsibility for the repercussions of their business practices.
2006 Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro; Immokalee, Fl; Sep 21-24 (tags)
Student/Famworker Alliance is a national network of youth and students organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers in Southwest Florida. Together we won the Taco Bell Boycott in 2005. For more information, visit http://www.sfalliance.org
"At Work" Exhibit: Free Screening of "Salt of the Earth" (tags)
In conjunction with the exhibit, "At Work: The Art of California Labor," El Pueblo Historical Monument will screen a FREE screening of the classic film, "Salt of the Earth", on Friday, July 28 at 8 PM.
T. Hayes, KKK, and other Facist (tags)
Ongoing and Upcoming Facists actions in Califas. Note Saturday June 17th and 18th. Media slut Ted Hayes & Co. will gather in downtown. The 21st Century Ku Klux Klan ride will be in town that weekend also.
Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation (tags)
The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with 8% unsure).
Name Your Baby Lou Dobbs Challenge (tags)
The first undocumented immigrant to name their U.S. born child "Lou Dobbs," before September 16th, 2006, will win $500.00 worth of baby nursery items from participating East Los Angeles merchants supporting the Name Your Baby Lou Dobbs Challenge.
Canadian Baby Harp Seals Demonstration at the Canadian Embassy in Los Angeles (tags)
Volunteers needed for demonstration at the Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles, CA, to help bring awareness about the cruel annual massacres of the Canadian baby Harp seals.
Veterans for Peace, 2000+ Crosses at Arlington West in Santa Monica (tags)
SANTA MONICA, Sunday, October 30, 2005 – Every Sunday for the past two and half years members of Veterans for Peace have set up crosses for each US military death in Iraq on the beach in Santa Monica.
Host a WMD House Party! (tags)
Invite friends and neighbors for a viewing of “WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception”. This award-winning documentary takes a critical look at the war in Iraq that the mainstream media didn’t want you to see – the PR war to sway the hearts and minds of the American people.
Pending Actions & 9th Circuit Page on Beardslee Possible Execution 1/19/05 (tags)
On Jan 19, 2005 at 12:01 a.m., the State of California will murder a human being, Donald Beardslee, with our tax dollars, unless we do everything we can to stop this barbarism, the death penalty, which has been abolished in Europe, and is rarely used except in the most backward countries, like the USA.
OCTOBER 13: THE REAL DEBATE WILL BE IN THE STREETS (tags)
The Monsoon Anarchist Collective (MAC), a member collective of the Phoenix Anarchist Coalition (PAC) invites radicals, anarchists, and anti-authoritarians to Tempe, Arizona to confront the third, and final, presidential debate on October 13, 2004.
Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate, Peter Miguel Camejo in CA (tags)
LOS ANGELES / ORANGE COUNTY – Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate Peter Miguel Camejo will be participating in a statewide campus tour with special guests to announce plans for a major write-in campaign in California.
BTL:Palestinians Suffering in Lebanese Refugee Camps Hold Onto Hope for... (tags)
...'Right of Return'~Interview with Raida Hatoum, Lebanese activist and organizer, conducted by Between the Lines' Stefan Christoff
Wanted information : Rabinder Singh living in USA (tags)
Wanted information : Rabinder Singh living in USA REWARD --- %500,000
Rat & Bullies to Make Its California Debut at DancesWithFilms (tags)
A powerful and evocative epic documentary film chronicles the causes and consequences of bullycide.
Democracy Now's 70-City Exception to the Rulers Book Tour Kicks Off April 13th (tags)
Amy Goodman, host of the national, daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother, journalist David Goodman.)
VOTERS FOR PEACE (tags)
Greetings, We now have 30 cities and towns listed on the CPA website for M20. Please chech that all the details are there and let me know about any changes. Peace Sid Lacombe CPA
BE THE MEDIA (tags)
Organizing is under way to create a new Indymedia Center in the Central Valley. Here are the details about the meetings that have been set up to organize this project.
Protest Repeal of SB60-Dec. 12 (tags)
Protest Repeal of SB60-Dec. 12 in OC (tags)
UGSOA International Union (tags)
Ugsoa Members Find out How You to Can Join America's Union for Security Professionals SPFPA.
West Coast FTAA Consulta in SF Bay Area, Oct 18 (tags)
Activists around the west coast are converging on Oakland, California the weekend of Oct 18th for the West Coast FTAA Consulta. Full details below.
A Debate: The War over Music (tags)
Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig vs. Former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen
Letters in Support of Political Prisoner Rob Middaugh (tags)
To get a copy of the letter, e-mail cabin_fevered@yahoo.com
Kucinich for President Chapter Meets Thursday Night! (tags)
Kucinich for President Meeting on Thursday, August 14th 7 PM - Near 101 and Topanga. Contact Julie4Kucinich@aol.com to get address, directions, details.
Kucinich for President Chapter Meets Near Topanga / Woodland Hills (tags)
July 4-5: Los Angeles Peace And Social Justice Convergence! (tags)
Final Events for the PJ Fest!!
7/2: PJ Fest Conference: Fight Against Patriotic Acts, Know Your Legal Rights!! (tags)
ActionLA, Peace And Social Justice Convergence WEDNESDAY JULY 2, 2003 6 PM TO 11PM "A Celebration in Support of the Constitution"
From Fairbanks to Miami, 29 Cities to Protest or Celebrate Court Decision (tags)
THE U.S.A. WAITS WHILE CANADA CELEBRATES: From Fairbanks to Miami, 29 U.S. Cities to Protest or Celebrate Supreme Court Decision on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Rights
Its not anti-American to want the truth... (tags)
Bush across the board is making moves for his elite superwealthy businessmen. He ignores human rights. He ignores worker's rights. He ignores environmental and human survival and sustainability issues...
MARCH 15 MASS RALLY AND MARCH - DOWNTOWN LA INFO (tags)
As events in Washington, the UN, and abroad come to a head, and the war spectre looms large over the people of Iraq, it's even more important and imperative for us, ordinary American citizens, to come out and voice our concerns over the Bush Administration's increasingly perilous drive towards war. You have a voice, and you are not alone. Stand up, speak out, and take the streets!
Major Anti-War March in LA March 15! (tags)
The next day of national protests against war on Iraq will be Sat. March 15, including in Washington D.C., San Francisco and LOS ANGELES! Assemble Olympic and Broadway at noon.
War Without End? Not In Our Name O6 (tags)
Info for the Upcoming Days of Resistance Oct. 6 &7th
NOT IN OUR NAME-Days of Resistance Info (tags)
War With No End? Not In Our End
Radical Film Festival is Seeking Entries (tags)
Visualized: Messages in Motion Video and Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2002 festival in Denver Colorado. The festival will be over three days, November 8-10. Please visit our website or see below for more information and details on how to submit your film!
Cross border anti-war event! (tags)
NETSTRIKE for Palestine (tags)
CALL FOR ACTION WORLDWIDE *please forward* *post* *translate* *distribute*
Sep 29-30 Nationwide listing of antiwar protests/meetings/vigils (tags)
No War For "Revenge"! - website for antiwar movements, legal information & news across the country. **URL: www.ActionLA.org/S11 Since some events may change or cancel without advance notice, PLEASE PLEASE call and check with the event organizer before you go. To announce your protest, links, or good information, please send to: ActionLA@ActionLA.org or siuhin@aol.com
Building Bridges presents Harry Belafonte (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents a one hour conversation with Harry Belafonte on Wednesday, Aug.22 from 5-6pm PT over WBAI Radio In Exile www.wbix.org
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Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Connecticut Code 2011 Connecticut Code Title 42 Business, Selling, Trading and Collection Practices Chapter 735a Unfair Trade Practices Sec. 42-110a. Definitions.
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2011 Connecticut Code
Title 42 Business, Selling, Trading and Collection Practices
Chapter 735a Unfair Trade Practices
Sec. 42-110a. Definitions.
Sec. 42-110a. Definitions. As used in this chapter:
(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Consumer Protection;
(2) "Documentary material" means the original or a copy of a book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, map, chart, photograph, mechanical transcription, or other tangible document or recording, wherever situate;
(3) "Person" means a natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association, and any other legal entity;
(4) "Trade" and "commerce" means the advertising, the sale or rent or lease, the offering for sale or rent or lease, or the distribution of any services and any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal or mixed, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value in this state.
(P.A. 73-615, S. 1, 16; P.A. 78-346, S. 1; P.A. 95-79, S. 154, 189; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-346 redefined "trade" and "commerce" to include rent and lease of services or property; P.A. 95-79 redefined "person" to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004.
Cited. 186 C. 507. Secs. 42-110a to 42-110g, inclusive, cited as CUTPA (Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act). Determination of "unfair practice" discussed. 192 C. 558. Cited. 211 C. 613. Cited. 225 C. 70. Cited. 230 C. 148. Cited. 231 C. 707. Cited as Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) 42a-110a et seq., condominium mismanagement not within purview of CUTPA. 245 C. 504. Most significant question in considering CUTPA claim against an attorney is whether the allegedly improper conduct is part of attorney's professional representation of a client or is part of the entrepreneurial aspect of practicing law. 260 C. 766. Trial court properly concluded that the degree to which speeding fee, because it was a penalty, violated public policy was sufficient to find a CUTPA violation without addressing remaining criteria of the cigarette rule. 273 C. 296. Trial court properly granted airport defendant's motion to strike CUTPA claim. 275 C. 105. Assignment of plaintiff's CUTPA action to an estate would transform the action into a wrongful death action that is barred by the exclusivity provision of the Workers' Compensation Act. 289 C. 1.
Cited. 21 CA 275. Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) Sec. 42-110a et seq. cited; medical malpractice claims recast as CUTPA claims cannot form basis for a CUTPA violation. 52 CA 487. Defendants' breaches of their fiduciary duty to plaintiff entitled plaintiff to damages, including reimbursement of any improper fees and charges, interest for loss of use of profits and a constructive trust over profits defendants received through improper use of partnership funds, and constituted a violation of CUTPA because defendants' actions clearly placed them in direct competition with the interests of the partnership; trial court reversed. 57 CA 121. Where use and occupancy of apartment incidental to employment and not a tenancy, plaintiff could not prevail under CUTPA claim. 59 CA 704. Plaintiff, who established that defendant refused to sell and install carpeting at price originally quoted to plaintiff, suffered the loss of his contract and, therefore, sustained an "ascertainable loss" as result of an unfair trade practice. Accordingly, plaintiff was entitled to punitive damages under CUTPA. 76 CA 586. Defendants did not violate Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA); trial court's assessment of dispute as intracorporate and outside purview of CUTPA was not clearly erroneous. 91 CA 619. Where both parties honored the contract, there was no unfair, unethical or unscrupulous act so as to constitute an unfair trade practice. 117 CA 550.
Cited as Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) 42a-110a et seq., condominium mismanagement not within purview of CUTPA. 45 CS 341. Cited as Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) 42-110a et seq.; motion to strike complaint alleging unfair trade practices denied in case involving delivery system of a mail order pharmaceutical service; such delivery operation was entrepreneurial. 49 CS 388.
Subdiv. (3):
Cited. 203 C. 342. Cited. 230 C. 486. Cited. 232 C. 480. Cited. 238 C. 183.
Cited. 190 C. 510. Cited. 200 C. 172. Cited. 216 C. 65. Cited. 230 C. 486. Cited. 232 C. 480. Cited. 238 C. 183. Cited. 243 C. 17.
Cited. 28 CA 660.
Cited. 36 CS 183. Cited. 43 CS 431.
Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Connecticut may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.
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Census, cartography and measurement of trees on the Mule Hole site
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Roots in search of water
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Why are there differences in the growth of a dozen tree species in an Indian forest? Their rooting depth and ability to overcome exceptional droughts. And the most resilient are not the ones we may have imagined…
The members of the Franco-Indian Water Science Research Unit (Cefirse) would have been unable to demonstrate this without data from long-term observations: trees share vertical access to water in soil… “Every species therefore implements a different strategy: remain on the surface, plunge its roots to a depth of up to 30 metres, etc.”, states Laurent Ruiz, agricultural hydrologist (1). To achieve these results, Rutuja Chitra-Tarak, doctoral student at the Indian Institute of Science (2), used a traditional hydrological model. But she got it to work backwards!
A “niche” for every species
The idea came from an observation: when studying data on the growth of 7,677 trees, collected over 20 years by the BVET Observation Service (3) in Mudumalai National Park?in the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India, no logical pattern seemed to explain how each species responded to climate. “With models, more often than not the physiological parameters characteristic of the functioning of plants are imposed, and their growth is simulated in response to weather conditions, explains Laurent Ruiz. Here, we ran the model many times with a wide range of values for these parameters, particularly those which define the depth and efficacy of their root system. And we found that only certain combinations of parameters explained the growth dynamics observed. And these combinations differed for the 12 most represented species. Conclusion? Variations between these species could be explained by the differences in the relative depth at which they access water”. Researchers realised that these depths varied dramatically: from 2 to 3 metres for the most superficial to nearly 30 metres for the deepest. “It’s because every species has found its place, its “hydrological niche”, that they can all coexist”, insists Jean Riotte, co-head of Cefirse, who participated in research.
Mesure de la croissance des arbres avec un dendromètre. T. crenulata, au fond, a un profil racinaire profond, tandis que celui de A. latifolia, au premier plan, est intermédiaire.
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The roots of drought
The results extend beyond this initial discovery. Researchers had access to another set of data, independent from the first one: data on tree mortality. By comparing information on the depth of roots, prolonged dry spells, mortality, etc., the hammer dropped: the deeper a tree goes to draw water, the more vulnerable it is to extreme drought. To explain this counter-intuitive result, Laurent Ruiz recalls the two major strategies which govern life: the “acquisitive” strategy which consists of tapping into easily accessible yet intermittent resources as effectively as possible – as is the case of trees with superficial roots such as teak, for example. These species have become accustomed to competition and have built up a strong resilience to stress. The “conservative” strategy entails the ability to rely on less easily accessible yet permanent resources. While developing a powerful root system - reaching depths of tens of metres – is an ordeal, it allows them to avoid competition for surface water. These species find it hard however to withstand deprivation… “15 years ago the forest experienced an unusually long drought, which resulted in the temporary depletion of deep reserves. Our results show that the rise in mortality selectively targeted deeply rooted species. This is the first time a link has been established between sharing of “hydrological niches” and demographics on the scale of a forest community”, points out Laurent Ruiz. Should these extreme events increase under the effect of climate change, deeply rooted trees could disappear, thereby reducing biodiversity.
1. R. Chitra-Tarak, L. Ruiz, H. S. Dattaraja, M. S. Mohan Kumar, J. Riotte, H. S. Suresh, S. M. McMahon and R. Sukumar, The roots of the drought: Hydrology and water uptake strategies mediate forest-wide demographic response to precipitation,Journal of Ecology, 30 janvier 2018
2. The Cefirse International Joint Laboratory was created in 2001 by the Indian Institute of Science and IRD
3. SO BVET : Tropical experimental water catchment area observation system
Contacts: laurent.ruiz@ird.fr / jean.riotte@ird.fr
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HomeBrowse LibraryA Personalized Small Business Success
A Personalized Small Business Success
Bridget Weston - June 30, 2019
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A winning business idea often comes from an unexpected place.
For Ginny Jackson, the birth of her first child planted a seed of a business idea: She loved seeing her baby’s name on personalized gifts her family received.
She decided to start creating personalized items for friends and family, and her project soon turned into a business. Jackson’s company, Personalized Blankets, creates personalized, meaningful baby gifts that well-wishers can order online.
But after more than 15 years, Jackson says she wanted to reinvigorate her business after running on auto-pilot for several years.
Building a business while raising a family
“I found that the problems I faced were the same for many other small business owners: time management, focus, finances, technology and social media to name a few,” she says. Jackson had hired help to fulfill orders while she juggled business operations and raising a growing family, but she started to attend SCORE workshops to help grow her business.
Jackson attended workshops at her local Microsoft Store and local library. At local SCORE business roundtable events, she was able to meet various SCORE mentors and local business owners and build trust in her own business community.
Mentors Bruce William Marino and Gus Ferracane worked with Jackson to help her develop a growth strategy to scale her business wisely. “The perspective of having more than one mentor has been an added value as each offers their own expertise and knowledge,” she says.
Bruce and Gus helped Jackson develop a market entry plan for retail gift shops, to include specialty packaging, pricing, profit evaluation, policies, procedures and of course, a winning sales pitch. Jackson also discussed website development and social media alignment with her mentors in order to boost her online presence.
“I now have a clear and solid growth plan which will allow me to focus on the implementation of this new sales model to grow my revenue,” she says.
More than mentorship — a community, too
“I was so surprised at all the resources that are available,” Jackson says. “It didn’t take me long to start making some major progress with these business challenges. I attribute this to the help that I have received through SCORE mentoring and networking with other small business owners. We all help each other, which is great.”
After helping a generation of families celebrate their precious moments, Jackson is still focused on the customer service that served as the base for her business. “Entrepreneurs are usually people with a lot of ideas.” Jackson says. “It is important to stay focused so that you can gain momentum and make progress, one step at a time.”
And whatever step you’re at along the way, she says, asking for a mentor’s guidance is valuable. “You will appreciate the honest feedback you receive, and they will help you stay on course so that you can be successful.”
Bridget Weston is the Acting CEO of the SCORE Association, where she provides executive leadership and works directly and collaboratively with the Board of Directors to establish the vision and direction of SCORE.
Bridget Weston
Acting CEO, SCORE
My Story Blankets
Jackson attended workshops at her local Microsoft Store and library.
Ginny Jackson
Owner, My Story Blankets
Small Business Owners: Take Back Your Time
This eBook is chock-full of time management tips and best practices to help you be more efficient, sacrifice less personal time and achieve work/life balance. Read more
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Julian joined from Cazenove where he spent four years working in pan European equity sales to UK & US institutions. He also spent three years in New York working in European large cap sales to US institutions and four years on the UK small cap sales team.
Julian has a BA (Hons) from Edinburgh University in Spanish.
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Research Data Management Toolkit
The Legal and Ethical Framework
Research Data Management Toolkit: The Legal and Ethical Framework
This guide provides information about research data management and the Tropical Data Hub (TDH) Research Data repository
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Why Manage and Share Your Research Data?
Funders and FAIR Data
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The Tropical Data Hub
Introduction: The Legal and Ethical Framework
Data management must comply with the Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and relevant privacy protocols and ethics obligations.
The level of detail in which data can be shared may be limited factors such as ethics (particularly consent), legal and intellectual property restrictions.
This section of the Toolkit explores the relevant legislation and guidelines.
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Before collecting or using the personal information of others in research (e.g. health or social science research) the researcher must have obtained approval from the JCU Human Ethics Research Ethics Committee through the Research Services Office.
James Cook University: Human Ethics (Research Services)
The James Cook University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) reviews all research and teaching applications in accordance with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, 2007. Webpages include information about submitting applications, forms and FAQs.
National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) - Updated 2018
The National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) (National Statement) consists of a series of Guidelines made in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992.
Section 3.1 The Elements of Research, Element 4: Collection, Use and Management of Data and Information includes guidelines relevant to the identifiability of information, data management planning, secondary use of data and data sharing.
The new National Statement takes full effect on 1 January 2019.
Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities (NHMRC)
Provides a set of principles to ensure research is safe, respectful, responsible, high quality and of benefit to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. Released August 2018 and replaces: Values and Ethics: Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research.
Intellectual Property and Confidentiality
All enquiries about confidentiality in the context of protection and commercialisation of intellectual property should be directed to JCU's Manager Innovation and Commercialisation, Seth Jones on (07) 4232 1783.
James Cook University: Intellectual Property Policy and Procedure
The policy addresses ownership of IP for JCU staff, students and visitors as well as disputes, third party agreements, conflicts of interest and specific provisions for commercialisation of research IP.
James Cook University: Data and Confidentiality (Research Services)
Includes information on protecting research data via non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements.
Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
The Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research guides Australian institutions and researchers in responsible research practices and promotes research integrity. Compliance is a prerequisite for receipt of National Health and Medical Research Council and Australian Research Council funding.
The JCU Code is adapted from the National Code (2007). Section 2. Management of Research Data and Primary Materials addresses ownership of data and materials, access to data, retention and storage of data and materials, and confidentiality obligations:
JCU Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (adapted from the National Code)
The Code outlines researcher responsibilities e.g. they must:
ensure that research data and primary materials are kept in safe and secure storage provided, even when not in current use;
provide the same level of care and protection to primary research records, such as laboratory notebooks, as to the analysed research data;
retain research data, including electronic data, in a durable, indexed and retrievable form;
maintain a catalogue of research data in an accessible form;
The Tropical Data Hub (TDH) Research Data repository is designed to help JCU researchers meet their responsibilities for retaining, describing ("cataloguing") and providing access to completed digital data.
The Code also clarifies responsibilites as they relate to students (Section 2.2.1)
A student’s principal supervisor and Academic Head have overall responsibility for the retention and storage of the student’s research data and materials.
The College retains its responsibility for the management of a student’s data and primary materials after the student’s departure.
Unless a student has executed a relevant intellectual property assignment to the University, s/he will own copyright in their data.
Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018) - The National Code
The new Code (to be implemented by July 2019) is a principles-based document and no longer addresses research data management in detail. It does state that researchers must: "Retain clear, accurate, secure and complete records of all research including research data and primary materials. Where possible and appropriate, allow access and reference to these by interested parties." Supplementary guidance on research data management will be released in late 2018.
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Research involving the use of personal information (information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable) must comply with applicable privacy legislation.
Information Privacy Act 2009 (Queensland)
At JCU "It is the responsibility of the researcher and the relevant Division/College to ensure compliance with the information privacy principles in the IP [Information Privacy] Act. The personal information should be securely held and access to it should be limited to members of the research team, the funding body, if appropriate, and staff providing assistance to or supervising the research team. Researchers should seek the informed written consent of individuals who will provide personal information for research purposes and keep a record of that consent." --
JCU Right to Information and Privacy webpage retrieved from: https://www.jcu.edu.au/right-to-information-and-privacy
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September Newsletter- Part 2:
Kurdistan and Pakistan
As promised, here is the 2nd part of our update! There's just so much going on that no one letter can contain it all. :) I'm glad that you're able to join us again! I think you'll be blown away at all of the open doors and opportunities to shine the Light of the Gospel into places that were once incredibly restricted. The 'game' is changing! Be encouraged and check it out!
If you missed Part 1, you can find it and all of our other updates posted on our website, at LiftThemUp.org under the News tab.
Here's what's in this newsletter:
Part 1 (last week)
Rwandan Church Closures
Sponsorship Life-Change Story
Kurdistan Iraq Partners:
Syrian Refugee Relief and the Kurdish Miracle School
Pakistani Church Impact
Kurdistan- Semi Autonomous Region of
We have a couple of really amazing partners in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. If you've never heard of this place, just know that it flies in the face of everything that you think you know about the Middle East.
This region is governed by a people group known as the Kurds. They are an independent, freedom-loving, gun toting, fierce fighting people, who love line dancing, sweet tea, and have oil. So they're basically Texans, living in the Middle East.
Some are Muslims, some are not. But that's ok, because Kurdistan values religious freedom (more than her neighbors, anyway). There are also many Christians, Yazidis, and Atheists. People of all faiths and walks of life have fled to Kurdistan for safety during the long fight with ISIS across Iraq and Syria.
Kurdistan is a supernatural place of refuge, surrounded by war zones and pending wars on all sides. The majority of refugee camps in Iraq are located within its borders and therefore, most of the nonprofit work with refugees is focused here, too.
Syrian Refugee Relief
Meet BJ. She's the founder and director of Ascension Center International (ACI) and works alongside other NGOs (non governmental organizations) to minister to the Syrian refugee population in Northern Iraq.
LTU has been partnering with ACI since January of this year, when Reuben and I went to visit BJ and see the great work that she's doing there.
Since then, LTU donors have been able to support BJs work of bringing the Good News to Syrians and local Kurds through monthly Women's Group Meetings, weekly Bible studies with new Christian families, and also regular home visits for 62 families in 2 different refugee settlements!
These home visits provide unique access to BJ and her partners, allowing them to 'do life with' and be a blessings to these families that are in transition from their old life in Syria, to their new life in Kurdistan. They pray with refugees and also meet their physical needs with groceries, relief supplies, and help with medical issues.
Here is one of the Monthly Women's Meetings! The ladies meet, catch up on life, share some food together, and do a Bible study. Then the team blesses the women with a gift that was relevant to a current need or the teaching in the lesson.
Over 30 women attend these meetings. BJ and her team are bringing hope and building community ties, in a place where these ladies have felt like strangers, abandoned in a foreign land.
Above are some more pictures of the Women's Meetings and below is one of the Home Visits, where BJ and her team got to pray over a sick man, with the help of a translator.
LTU helps this team put fuel in their cars, pay for translators, and to be able to serve meals during Bible studies, which culturally, is super important!
Also, because of generous LTU donors, we've been able to ship them 60 Bibles in a unique Kurdish dialect, along with Gospels of John in another Kurdish langue, and some Gospel tracts in Arabic, for the local Christians in the area.
But now that we are 2 years out from the liberation from the occupation of ISIS in Iraq, funding is dwindling and there is such a need for the global Church to continue her great work in this country! Things are heating up geopolitically, but the Holy Spirit is just getting started with His work there!
The possibilities are truly amazing! I believe that we have a window of opportunity here, in this region, that we haven't had since before the Muslim conquest of 632. It's delicate, fragile, and always being threatened by one war or another, but it's there.
It is a quiet move of the Holy Spirit in this ancient land, overshadowed in the news by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iranian militias, Russian involvement in Syria, and Turkish posturing- but if we, the Church, will be wise, brave, and steward this movement well, we'll see things happening here in our lifetime that we never thought possible!
This! These pictures and testimonies- are already more than I had ever hoped for or expected! God is doing great things here! Thank you, to those who have poured in and become a part of it already!
Would you or your church like to be involved in this great mission? Funding for projects in the Middle East is dwindling- due to compassion fatigue, post-war contracts ending, and lack of 'tent-building' opportunities for local missionaries! BJ and her team need your help to keep going!
"Then he (Jesus) said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. -Matthew 9:37, NIV
We've got a worker, but she needs to be sent!
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?" - Romans 10:13-15, NIV
Be A Sender! Click HERE to sign-up for monthly support of this work!
You can also send a check, with 'Iraq Support' in the memo line, to our office:
Lift Them Up International
1107 Buffalo Ct.
The need is an additional $800 a month to this project. That's only 16 individuals giving $50 a month or a few church or social groups. We can totally make this happen!
The Kurdish Miracle School
This is our other partner in Kurdistan. We'll call him "Jeff". Jeff is an amazing, Godly man. He opened a school in his own home, to help vulnerable street children get an education. He gives tirelessly of his own time and treasure to pour into these kiddos, because he believes that God is calling them to greater things than being recruited as militants to some next generation terror cell.
Some of these kids are refugees, some have parents who are genocide survivors, others have parents who were genocide perpetrators under Saddam Hussein. These are boys and girls; Arabs and Kurds; Muslims and Christians, all doing school and life together in this beautiful, unusual scenario!
Jeff has been harassed recently, by pro-Iranian forces, who are operating within the Kurdish borders. They don't want to see forgiveness, reconciliation, and unity among Arabs and Kurds, which might bring about a free and independent Kurdistan. They also are suspicious of anyone associated with Western influences, like us.
But the school is still going. It has been for almost 1 year. LTU met Jeff and heard about what he was doing last January and has been working with him ever since!
Through generous donations, we've been able to partner with this Miracle School to hire a cook and serve hundreds of meals to these vulnerable children. Because of this school, these kids get a nutritious, hot meal when they come.
Giving these kids an education and meeting their physical needs are two of the ways that we can help them to avoid being recruited into a violent gang out of desperation. If they are taught how to read English, they can be exposed to a variety of thoughts and opinions that can inspire independent thinking, creative ideas, and open doors for them that otherwise would not have been available.
Meals are also shared with impoverished families who live nearby. Each meal, several Arab and Kurdish families are also blessed. One man confessed over dinner one night, that he hadn't had meat in 5 months! This shows the desperate situation that these families are in. God bless them.
As AMAZING as it is, the Miracle School is in danger of being closed
Not because of harassment, but for lack of funding. This blessing of a place needs $650 a month to keep it running and we had nothing to send them this month. To keep the doors open to these vulnerable kids, they need:
$400 for food and cooking fuel
$150 to hire a cook
$100 for teachers
If you would like to be a part of this peace building and education project, you can sow a gift to the Kurdish Miracle School by clicking this link!
Donate to the Miracle School!
On our website, under 'Funds & Causes', there is also a 1-time giving option. And as always, checks may be mailed to our office.
Pakistan- Undisclosed Location
The Church is alive and well in Pakistan! The Lord is doing some amazing things there and we're so excited to get to be a part of it. Our partners in-country are truly amazing! They are passionate and fearless lions for Jesus, God bless them.
Our partner church is one, well-structured church with five locations, across various towns and Christian villages. Help from LTU allows their pastors, teachers, and volunteers travel from village to village each month, teaching Sunday School lessons to the children in the churches and serving them hot meals.
They also host monthly prayer meetings and evangelism events, with new believers coming to the Lord regularly. These are just some of the things that God is doing in this country that, within just one generation can change the entire spiritual landscape of Pakistan.
This church ministers to children in 5 different villages and they've asked for help getting Bibles for their kids. They need 200 Bibles and have the ability to purchase them in a city nearby, which aligns with LTU's preference to 'Buy Local' and stimulate local economies. Buying locally will also be logistically easier than trying to ship them in from the US, because navigating customs there can be tricky still.
Like this one!
If you have a passion to spread the Gospel around the world, this is an amazing opportunity to do just that! As with all of our projects, 100% of your gift will go directly to buying these Children's Bibles in Urdu!
$2000 is needed to see this through. This would be a wonderful thing for a Youth Group or Bible Study Group to raise funds for! If you'd like more information or would like me to come and speak with your group, you can email me at Kendra@LiftThemUp.org. I have a TON of great pictures and stories that I'd love to share.
Or you can follow this link below!
Click Here to Purchase Children's Bibles in Urdu
Wow... that was a lot! But don't let it overwhelm you. The needs of the world will always be more than any one person can handle. That's why God put us in community with one another and that's why He put different passions and desires on our hearts.
What speaks to one person's soul may not speak to another's. We're wired differently so that we compliment each other and fill in each other's gaps... and together, we're the Church! Together, we can change the world.
If you feel the Lord asking you to help with any of the things mentioned in this newsletter, I bless you with the courage to see it through. If not, no worries! But please pray for us as we navigate these adventurous waters in these miraculous times.
Kendra Willard
Founder/Director
E. admin@liftthemup.org
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Cava is optimistic about Christmas
Published: 08 December, 2015
The Consejor Regulador DO Cava, the regulatory board for Spain’s famous sparkling wine, says worldwide sales were up a 1.7% to more than 158 million in the first nine months of the year, compared with the same period in 2014.
The domestic market shows a positive trend due to an increase in Reserva cavas sales (6.25% from the past year) and Gran Reserva (+18%). This growth has been recorded mainly in restaurants and bars, says the board.
CRDO Cava chairman Pedro Bonet, says he considers the industry can be: “Positive and optimistic, as we expect 40 million Cava bottles to be sold during the Christmas holidays.” A figure that reflects the recovery of the economy, according to Bonet.
In the foreign markets, the trend is also positive with the exception of Belgium and UK, which are showing a reduction in sales due to price policies, according to Ponet.
Regarding Germany, Cava sales are expected to end the year with positive figures. In addition, the Cava Regulatory Board outlines the growth in United States (2.81%), Canada (9.12%) and France (19.21%).
"This last example is very significant, as France is the country that knows best the qualities of sparkling wines. Right now, French consumers are drinking more Cava than Champagne are being bought by Spanish consumers,” said Ponet.
Javier Pagés: Cava targets middle ground
Official launch of single estate cava classification
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Prosecco beats champagne for value
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Tag: Sam Heughan
Outlander Season 4 filming is expected finish soon
Outlander Season 4 filming is expected finish soon. As many suspected, the fourth season will wrap by the end of this month. In July, various members of the cast have a number of projects and conventions to attend, with the first taking place from June 30 to July 1 in Paris.
Outlander news from Private Outlander tours Edinburgh .
Filming will also start for Heughan’s new movie, Bloodshot, which will reportedly happen in South Africa. Meanwhile, Balfe will soon start filming Ford vs. Ferrari (which is still to receive an official name) with Matt Damon.
The cast and crew are onto the season finale filming now, with many night shoots taking place. It’s going to be exciting to find out when the filming wraps and if there are any photos of those final glances for seven months as the cast and crew take time off before filming Outlander Season 5.
Outlander star Sam Heughan runs the Edinburgh Marathon Festival to raise funds for male cancer awareness charity Cahonas Scotland
Outlander star Sam Heughan was among an estimated 35,000 runners who took to the roads in this weekend’s Edinburgh Marathon Festival.
The actor completed the marathon as part of a challenge to raise funds for male cancer awareness charity Cahonas Scotland.
Outlander news from Outlander tours Edinburgh
Organisers said people from all over the world participated in Scotland’s biggest running festival.
Image copyrightPA
Image captionOutlander star Sam Heughan was raising funds for a male cancer awareness charity
Events included a marathon, half-marathon, 10k and 5k.
Kenyan Joel Kipkemboi Kiptoo took advantage of good running conditions to set a course record in the men’s marathon, finishing in two hours, 13 minutes and 33 seconds.
He beat the previous record set in 2005 by almost two minutes.
American Jeffrey Stein took second place, followed by local favourite Michael Crawley in third.
The women’s race was dominated by Kenyan athlete Caroline Jepchirchir, who led from the front with a time of two hours, 47 minutes and 35 seconds.
Outlander’s Sam Heughan is set to join Vin Diesel in Bloodshot
Outlander’s Sam Heughan is set to join Vin Diesel in Bloodshot for Sony Pictures. The pic, which marks Diesel’s first starring superhero film, starts production in July with Dave Wilson directing and Neal H. Moritz producing. The film is casting up quickly, with Eiza Gonzalez and Michael Sheen also coming aboard.
Outlander news from Private Outlander Tours
Bloodshot is a central character in the Valiant Expanded Universe – a comic book universe composed of a diverse array of thousands of characters embodying a wide variety of genres, tones and demographic groups and over 81 million comics sold. Valiant’s superheroes are ordinary people in extraordinary situations rather than gods and demi-gods; they are complex characters that reflect contemporary society, politics, and diversity of the modern world.
Wilson is a director at Blur Studios, the VFX factory owned by Tim Miller, who directed the first Deadpool and is reviving the Terminator franchise. Pic re-teams Fast and the Furious‘ Moritz and Diesel. Sony is hoping to launch a franchise here through the Bloodshot comic universe.
The film fits nicely into Heughan’s hiatus before he returns for Outlander, which recently got a two-season pickup from Starz. Heughan next stars with Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis in The Spy Who Dumped Me, which Lionsgate releases August 3.
Outlander stars in Emmy nominations
We have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for Starz. For this season, the premium network has newcomers “Counterpart” (J.K. Simmons) and “Vida” (Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada), returning Emmy contender “Outlander” (Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan) as part of their 2018 campaign.
Outlander news from Private Outlander tours .
Below, the list of Starz lead, supporting and guest submissions for their comedy, drama and limited series. More names might be added by the network on the final Emmy ballot. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
Drama Actress – Caitriona Balfe
Drama Actor – Sam Heughan
Drama Supporting Actress – Sophie Skelton
Drama Supporting Actor – David Berry, Tobias Menzies, Richard Rankin
Drama Guest Actress – Lotte Verbeek
Drama Guest Actor – Duncan Lacroix
Comedy Actor – Bruce Campbell
Comedy Supporting Actress – Dana DeLorenzo, Lucy Lawless, Arielle Carver O’Neil
Comedy Supporting Actor – Lindsay Farris, Ray Santiago
Comedy Guest Actor – Hemky Madera, Lee Majors
Drama Actress – Olivia Williams
Drama Actor – J.K. Simmons
Drama Supporting Actress – Nazanin Boniadi, Sara Serraiocco
Drama Supporting Actor – Mido Hamada, Harry Lloyd, Nicholas Pinnock, Stephen Rea, Ulrich Thomsen
Drama Guest Actress – Jacqueline Bisset, Sarah Bolger
Drama Guest Actor – Guy Burnet, Kenneth Choi, Richard Schiff
Be sure to make your Emmy predictions today so that Hollywood insiders can see how their TV shows and performers are faring in our odds. You can keep changing your predictions as often as you like until just before nominees are announced on July 12. And join in the fun debate over the 2018 Emmy taking place right now with Hollywood insiders in our television forums. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news.
is Outlander star Sam Heughan about to bring out his own whisky ?
Sam Heughan has been teasing a number of announcements as of late, and one of them included the development of his own whisky. He teased it briefly in an interview this week on This Morning, and earlier today he released a little more news in the form of a name: Great Glen Company.
In the post below via his official Twitter, you can see the announcement of the name alongside the notice that “Great Glen is Coming.” The development of a whisky brand is certainly not something that happens overnight, so obviously this has been planned out for a while. Also, what better time to make said announcement than World Whisky Day? It’s a great way to get some attention out there on the brand before the launch, whenever that may be.
With a name like Great Glen, it’s pretty clear that the brand is meant to be a celebration of Scotland. The Great Glen is a famous rift valley / fault line that runs through much of Scotland, and there is also a famous pathway entitled the Great Glen Way that goes along with it. Developing a whisky that reflects Scotland is clearly important, and this also helps to tie it in more with Outlander and the show’s devoted fans. Without ever mentioning or even referencing the show, the idea invokes a similar reaction. After all, Outlander fans would be a key marketing base for the product.
Heughan is not the first television star to be involved in a line of specialty beverages / spirits. Here in North America Arrow star Stephen Amell is heavily involved in Nocking Point, which is primarily a winery but also markets a number of other products. Doing this sort of thing is a way to further expand your business portfolio, while also exploring something else you have a passion for. Sam’s love of whisky is pretty well-documented at this point so this feels like the perfect endeavor for him to take on. The thing that continues to impress us is how he can juggle this with the show, charity work, and other ventures — it’s the end result of having focus and a good team around you.
Outlander star Sam Heughan heads for the hills in Take a Hike on BBC Two Scotland
Outlander star Sam Heughan has headed for the hills in his latest TV appearance.
He explains his love of the great outdoors to Cameron McNeish for Take a Hike on BBC Two Scotland.
The actor, who grew up in Dumfries and Galloway, said it was a passion which had been with him as long as he could remember.
He said that returning to Scotland to film Outlander had rekindled his desire to enjoy its countryside.
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Image captionHeughan said filming for Outlander in Scotland had made him “fall in love” with the country
“I was born and raised in a place called New Galloway, on the grounds of a derelict castle,” he said.
“It was a great childhood.
“I know I am very fortunate but I got to be outdoors all the time with my imagination and play a lot out there – I think that’s probably where my love of acting came from.
“The whole area was kind of my play park where there were really no boundaries and I think that discovery and excitement as a kid definitely has transferred into why I like coming to remote places.”
The return to his homeland for his acting career took him back to those memories.
Where did Sam Heughan grow up?
Image copyrightBILLY MCCRORIE
Image captionThe town is on the edge of the Galloway Forest Park
New Galloway lies on the west side of the valley of the Water of Ken a mile north of the end of Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway.
It is largely built around a single north-south High Street that climbs up through town and has a location on the edge of the Galloway Forest Park that gives it a “wonderful air of seclusion”.
The town as seen today dates back to planned development by Viscount Kenmure in the early 1600s, followed by the granting of burgh status in 1630.
But settlement in the area goes back much further with nearby Kenmure Castle fought over in the late 1200s.
Source: Undiscovered Scotland
Image captionThe actor said his childhood in New Galloway had inspired both his acting and his love of the outdoors
“I moved back to Scotland to shoot Outlander and go to all these amazing locations all over Scotland and it made me fall in love with the country that I knew from my childhood,” he said.
His first climbing experience as an adult was not such a success when he slipped and fell on Ben Lomond.
However, he said that was part of the excitement for him
“I think the challenge of climbing is certainly a part of why I do it,” he said.
“It’s like you’re an adventurer, you’re maybe the first person to ever be here and that’s what I love about the mountains.
“You can get to them quite easily and before you know it you feel like you’re the first man to ever climb here.
“To me, it’s something inside you, something inside your bones, it’s a real connection to the land.”
Take A Hike – A History of Scottish Walking is on BBC Two Scotland on 16 May at 19:00.
Caitriona Balfe Cheers On ‘Outlander’ Co-Star Sam Heughan As He Runs Stirling Marathon
Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe are a team on and off the screen.
The “Outlander” actor shared a photo from the Stirling Scottish Marathon in Scotland on Sunday. He captioned the tweet, “Is it too late to go back to bed? Wish us luck!”
✔@SamHeughan
Is it too late to go back to bed? Wish us luck!
8:24 AM – Apr 29, 2018
And luck he was wished. His co-star Balfe sent good vibes his way.
✔@caitrionambalfe
Good luck!!!! Just think
https://twitter.com/samheughan/status/990492070677803009 …
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Heughan, 37, also plugged the charitable causes he was running for, particularly testicular cancer awareness month.
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Outlander star Sam Heughan helps to launch the Glasgow International festival
Outlander star Sam Heughan joined a star-studded guest list to help launch the Glasgow International festival’s opening party this weekend.
More than 1,200 art lovers, artists and revellers joined the celebrations at SWG3, including Britpop legend Jarvis Cocker and fashion designer Pam Hogg.
Guests were treated to previews of four exhibitions, including jewellery designs by Judy Blame, the legendary artist – known for working with Neneh Cherry and Boy George – who passed away earlier this year.
The DIY bedroom brand winning over Glasgow’s fashion-conscious youth
A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow) by Richard Wentworth and Victoria Miguel was shown in the Galvanisers, with strings of heavy steel chains criss crossing across the huge space and dangling sheets of text.
Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey brought their Dancefloor Meditations for some escapist fun, with party goers taken on a ‘mind-altering journey into musical consciousness’ – all in complete darkness, and with music ranging from iconic dance numbers to Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing.
The Pulp frontman’s appearance in Yorkhill was followed by a quick visit to Mono for Record Store Day on Saturday, as reported on Glasgow Live.
Glasgow trio launch online gallery and store to encourage people to buy more original artworks
The biggest festival for contemporary visual art in Scotland, Glasgow International runs for three weeks, with 265 artists and 78 venues across the city involved.
It’s on until May 7 and you can find out more over at glasgowinternational.org.
The Outlander love story boosts visitor numbers
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan star in Outlander, which has given historic sites in Scotland a huge boost in visitor numbers
Fans of the hit television series Outlander helped to push tourist numbers at Scotland’s historic castles past the five million mark for the first time last year. Our Outlander set locations tour features visits to Doune Castle , Blackness Castle and Linlithgow palace
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) said that people had come from across the world to see sites associated with the time-travel fantasy starring Sam Heughan and Caitriona BalfeSam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe. It said that the “Outlander effect” had led to a 27 per cent increase in tourists from the US and a 19 per cent increase in those coming from France compared with the previous year.
Visitor numbers to Doune Castle, the location for the fictional Castle Leoch, are up by 227 per cent since 2013, when Outlander was first screened. The 15th-century Blackness Castle in West Lothian, the setting for the Tv series has seen a huge rise in visitor numbers .
Stephen Duncan, Director of Commercial and Tourism at HES, said: “Our record breaking visitor figures, including across all of our top ten sites, are a tremendous achievement for Scotland’s heritage tourism sector, reflecting the continued interest shown by tourists and home-grown visitors to learn more about our rich Scottish heritage.
“The exchange rate, as well as strong airport numbers, have both contributed to the growing figures.
“This rise in visitor numbers at our staffed sites has also been complemented by visitor growth at our unstaffed free access properties, bringing the overall total to an estimated 12 million.”
The top 10 most-visited HES attractions all individually celebrated record-breaking years, with over 2 million people passing over Edinburgh Castle’s drawbridge, an increase of nearly 300,000 visitors in comparison to the previous year.
Outlander fans visitor numbers to the Clan Fraser memorial are up
Historians who maintain the Culloden Battlefield in Scotland are reportedly blaming fans of the novels and TV series for trampling the area around the Clan Fraser memorial .
The property manager of Culloden says more than 180,000 people visited the battlefield last year, up 28 percent from 2016. Some even left behind little cutouts of Sam Heughan, who plays Jamie Fraser on the Starz drama.
Outlander news from Outlander tours .
The Battle of Culloden was teased at the end of season 2 and depicted in the premiere episode of season 3 on Outlander. It was a brief re-creation of the actual confrontation that took place on April 16, 1745 between British troops and the Jacobite forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie. In the series, it’s where Jamie finally kills Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies).
Aimee Spinks/Starz
“Some of the things I have seen at Culloden have really got my back up,” Alasdair MacNeill of the Circle of Gentlemen, a Jacobite appreciation society, tells the Daily Record. “A lot the visitors are American and seem to think they are on a film set rather than a war grave. They maybe don’t know the history. But how would they feel if I walked my dog across Gettysburg?”
The National Trust for Scotland is reportedly hoping to reseed the area around the monument. In the meantime, Outlander series author Diana Gabaldon weighed in on the phenomenon with a not-so-subtle message to fans to tread lightly on such hallowed ground.
✔@Writer_DG
Katey Boal and her team do a wonderful job in conserving, curating and presenting this precious part of Scotland’s heritage, and I’m sure that all Outlander fans are more than grateful and appreciative of their efforts, and I am sure they will make every effort to support them. https://twitter.com/ScotlandNow/status/985868066021142528 …
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SCREEN-L October 2006, Week 2
Studies in French Cinema News: two conference calls
Phil Powrie <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:20:24 +0100
1. Eminent Europeans Conference (see attachment)
17-18 May 2007, King's College London. A two-day symposium under the aegis of King's College Film Studies Programme, London/Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris.
Contacts: Ginette Vincendeau, Director, Film Studies Programme, King's College London, Strand, LONDON WC2R 2LS, UK [log in to unmask] or Irène Bessière, Director, Europe/Hollywood Cinema Programme, Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, 54 boulevard Raspail - 75270 Paris cedex 06 - France [log in to unmask]
2. (RE)CONSTRUCTING FRANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Contributions are sought for a collection of essays to be devoted to the latest manifestations of ongoing interest in contemporary France and French culture among English-language writers and filmmakers. Of particular interest are contributions that engage the depiction of a cultural site that has already been endlessly represented. A wide variety of approaches, perspectives, and subject matter dealing primarily with twenty-first-century representations is welcome, including fiction and film set in France; memoirs, personal narratives, sojourner texts, and travel literature; critical or humorous essays; expatriate writing; remakes of French films in Hollywood or American films in France; and media coverage of France, French culture, current events, and so forth. Also of interest are cross-cultural studies of the reception in France and in the country of origin of contemporary representations of French culture; works by European writers addressing similar questions; and works by French writers whose focus on the United States adds to an understanding of Franco-American relations and the role that American history and culture play in France's self-definition. Send inquiries, expressions of interest, detailed proposals (2-3 pp. in length), or complete essays (20-25 pp. in length, following MLA style, and in Microsoft Word or rich-text format) and a brief biography by 1 March 2007 to both editors, Carolyn A. Durham ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) and Edward C. Knox ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ).
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Nicolae Ceaușescu gave his last speech from the balcony, then fled the mob. Hours later he was arrested, tried and executed, all on Christmas Day 1989.
Black markers set into the ground mark the graves at Langemark German War Cenetery
Emil Krieger’s sculpture of four mourning figures watches over the last resting place of the fallen.
The Ebola isolation unit at ELWA in Monrovia.
The Leaning Tower in Pisa, Italy, looks a lot more likely to topple than this model.
Big Ben and Westminster seem small enough without the Eiffel Tower towering in the background.
Unexploded shells on display at Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917.
An impressive record of service.
An interior shot of St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres.
The European Union Parliament Building in Brussels.
A Boot Bath. With no running water this oddly shaped tub probably kept the water warm longer. The servants would bring the hot water in pitchers and pour it in.
Sir John A. MacDonald’s study.
The Macdonald family cradle was brough to Canada in 1820
Isabella Macdonald’s room. She was Sir John A.’s first wife who died young.
The kitchen was a much simpler place to eat than the dining room!
The laundry area.
The vault built to hold Canada’s gold reserves. It is empty because Canada no longer has gold reserves.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio studios.
The Prime Minister’s office – with his bedroom next door.
What to tell the public in case of a nuclear attack.
Civil defence area.
Contingency preparation
The entrance from the Bonnechere River.
Nineteenth century British Army commander Viscount Wolseley’s statue was paid for by public subscription.
The public paid for this statue of 19th century General Charles James Napier that sits in Trafalgar Square.
A typical cell. This one is furnished for the tourists – the rest of them are empty.
Separate quarters for family visitation and conjugal visitation. (We pamper our prisoners.)
Visitor’s booths
I had a different graphic chosen to illustrate this post and decided against using it. It was classic conspiracy theory – suggesting those liking things as diverse as Starbucks to jazz music were involved in witchcraft. I decided it was just too offensive, even if it did provide a perfect illustration of small minds at work..
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Lot 50-Kanyanyapilla, McLaren Vale
Ecological History
Ecological Regeneration
Cultural Regeneration
Architectural Expressions
Some Photos
References & Bibliography
Kaurna History
The Willunga Basin, named after the Kaurna place name Willangga, is a prime traditional Kaurna cultural landscape, rich with the history of the Kaurna Meyunna Kaurna People. There are numerous Kaurna camping places, burial grounds and Dreaming sites known in the region.
The modern story begins about 7,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age when the flooding of the plain to the west by the rising seas came to an end. Wonggayerlo Western sea (Gulf St. Vincent) had been created and the coastlines of the Fleurieu and Yorke Peninsulas soon formed. The stabilisation of the sea level led to more stable patterns of settlement and the emergence of broad cultural areas as the people adapted to the new physical landscape.
L50K is part of an ancient Kaurna camping place, occupied for up to 7,000 years, for as long as Wonggayerlo has existed. Detailed archaeological research nearby in coastal sandhills at Moana and another campsite give an occupation period of 6,500-7000 years. An archaeological survey of Lot 50 revealed campsite artefacts over most of the property.
Hammer Stones, Moana Sandhills, Tindale 1926
The Kaurna name for this place, announced by Karl Telfer, Senior custodian, is Kanyanyapilla. This is not a new name, rather it is the name recorded for the locality in 1839 during the survey of District C. The name was recorded by Louis Piesse, Surveyor’s Assistant and also Clamor Schurmann, missionary and linguist, whilst on a journey to Encounter Bay in July 1839 with Kaurna man Wauwitpinna (also recorded as Wattewattipinna) and Matthew Moorhouse, Protector of Aborigines. They camped at Kanyanyapilla (on a spot the other side of the now Victor Harbor Road) on 24 July 1839.
Variant spellings have been recorded: Kanjanjapilla, Canyanyapella, Cunyunyapella, Cunyanyapella, Canyauapella, Cananapella and Cananyapella and variations of the name were used by the first settlers for the locality or their properties.
Kanyanyapilla has different possible meanings depending on how it is deciphered linguistically; place of many camp ovens, two crowds or heaps, two lots of rocks and a multitude of eagles. L50K was a well-used camping place with many camp ovens there and Wedge tail eagles were common in the Willunga Basin. Three were in the sky above Kanyanyapilla in November 2015. (The ongoing research of Chester Schultz on Kaurna place names is acknowledged and his assistance most helpful.)
Kanyanyapilla is just a few kilometres to the west of the Kaurna travelling route which ran from Ngurlongga Noarlunga south towards Willangga Willunga and further to Encounter Bay and the south coast. An 1840 map by surveyor John McLaren shows the Kaurna track through the Willunga Basin
McLaren: Extract from Country south of Adelaide from O’Halloran Hill to Mt. Terrible including District C showing Native Track in Sections 46, 53, 61, 71, 72, 82
Paid Kaurna guides worked with the surveyors and information on Kaurna place names and travelling routes was therefore recorded. This helps explain the prevalence of Kaurna place names in the Willunga Basin and on the Fleurieu Peninsula whilst few Kaurna names are utilised north of Adelaide.
1839 THE NATIVES
It is a subject of the utmost gratification to observe the progress made in bringing the natives to a state of civilization. … Several of them are also employed in the Survey Department at Yankalilla and Aldingha (Aldinga), who receive rations and pay the same as white laborers. … This is truly gratifying, and promises well for the success of our schemes for civilizing our state. (South Australian Register 10.08.1839)
In addition the colony’s second governor, George Gawler, favoured indigenous place names:
In regard to the minor features of the country to which the natives may have given names, the governor would take the present opportunity of requesting the assistance of the colonists in discovering and carefully and precisely retaining these in all possible cases as most consistent with property and beauty of appellation.
Furthermore, all information on this subject should be communicated in precise terms to the Surveyor–General who will cause memoranda to be made of it and native names, when clearly proven to be correct, to be inserted in the public maps.
(Government Gazette, 1839)
L50K is just part of an ancient Kaurna camp site. The swamp area would have been rich in both mai vegetable foods and paru game, along with permanent water. The length of occupation of the camp site is likely to be up to 7,000 years. Archaeological research nearby in coastal sandhills at Moana and another campsite give an occupation period of 6,500-7000 years. An archaeological survey of Lot 50 revealed campsite artefacts over most of the property.
Kanyanyapilla is only several kilometres inland from the coastal summer camp places, coastal traveling corridor and the Tjirbruki Munaintya (Dreaming) sites of Karkungga Red ochre place (at Ochre Cove, Moana), Wirruwarrungga (at Port Willunga) and Witawali (at the southern end of Wangkondilla [the Washpool] at Sellicks Beach). Karkungga supplied various ochres for ceremony and trade, Wirruwarrungga was a fresh water spring site on the beach with another camp place behind the sandhills at the mouth of the Willunga Creek. Witawali was a fresh water spring site just south of Wangkondilla, a major workshop site used for the curing and drying of animal skins, from which items such as cloaks and bags were made.
Karkungga ‘Red ochre place’
Several Kaurna people are known of who had an association with the region before and after colonisation. Mullawirraburka (c1811-1845), also known by the colonisers as King John or Onkaparinga Jack, had responsibility for Country in the region and part of his parngkarra clan territory was inland from Ngaltingga (Aldinga). In contemporary terms he would be regarded as senior custodian of the Willunga area (Gara, 1998:93). It is probable that Mullawirraburka used Kanyanyapilla before and after colonisation. Dr. W. H. Leigh, ship’s surgeon, aboard the South Australian Company ship South Australian had contact with Mullawirraburka and recorded in his journal some events he shared with him, one a kangaroo hunt. Leigh provided a drawing of Mullawirraburka.
Two men, one Mullawirraburka, returning from a kangaroo hunt, c1837
It is probable that two other prominent Kaurna men, Ityamaiitpinna (c1814-c1860), known by the colonisers as King Rodney and Kadlitpinna (born c1804), known by the colonisers as Captain Jack, had knowledge of, or visited, Kanyanyapilla. Colonial artist Martha Berkeley painted them with Mullawirraburka.
From left: Mullawirraburka, Kadlitpinna and Ityamaiitpinna, 20 October 1838: From ‘The first dinner given to the Aborigines, 1838’ (Berkeley, AGSA)
Within twenty five years of colonisation Kaurna had been completely dispossessed of their lands and traditional movements, gathering and hunting practices were no longer possible.
“I fear for their future.” George Manning, McLaren Vale colonial settler.
“There is indeed, a certain sadness associated with our pioneering work.” Richard Hill, Willunga colonial settler.
Surviving Kaurna were relocated to mission living or became fringe dwellers. A Depot (Rations) Station was established at Willunga, c1858, at what is now the Police Station and Courthouse. Several Kaurna people are known to have been located there into the 1860s including Sam and Maria and their two children, Old Willimy (probably Tairmunda) and Old Charlotte and her son, Phillip. Charlotte was possibly the wife of Ityamaiitpinna. The Willunga Depot was in operation for only several years and provided for not only Kaurna survivors but also Ramindjeri who often came up there to ‘sit down’ or when in transit to Adelaide, as did the Ngarrindjeri. At its peak there were ‘70 to 90 natives, men, women & children, two of the men are blind and several old & infirm, not able to move much about from the worley.’ This number suggests a seasonal movement as the normal numbers were much closer to twenty and under. In October 1859 the keeper reported that ‘There has been seven deaths and no births that I am aware of during the last four months’ reflecting the declining Aboriginal population.
Police Station and Courthouse, Willunga c1872 (SLSA)
During the colonisation process land was reserved for Aboriginal occupation (as farmers/settled labourers). This was not successful and the land was then initially leased to settlers and then later resumed for other purposes in the late 19th century. Five Sections of 80 acres were set aside in the Hundreds of Noarlunga and Yankalilla but none in the Hundred of Willunga.
There are several reports of Kaurna and Ramindjeri men (and possibly Ngarrindjeri) undertaking agricultural work in the district between the 1840s and 1860s.
1842 WILLUNGA DISTRICT
HARVEST – The corn is ripening fast and all hands are engaged in cutting and carrying. A large party of natives came up from Encounter Bay on Friday evening to Oxenbury Farm, in this district, and offered their services to cut corn. The following morning, Mr Hewett employed six of them to reap and bind, and we must confess, we found two of them good reapers – one, especially, would surpass some whites that profess to be able hands. There can be no doubt that, with a little instruction, these natives could be made very serviceable in gathering, in the harvest. (Southern Australian 16.12.1842)
1860, January
Several of them left for McLaren Vale about three weeks ago and the remainder have gone to that place in order (as they say) to find employment but I believe they have gone on their “annual round”. (Report to the Commissioner of Crown Lands & Immigration on Aboriginal ration depots)
During harvest time I occasionally employ a native to assist my sons and me with reaping. Their labour is rewarded with either clothing, blankets or tobacco. It is sad to relate that a few miserly farmers cheat them, for I learned that on one occasion, three native women worked for six weeks, and were paid only sixpence per day (George Manning, Reflections 1870)
One hundred years later Aboriginal people, mainly Ngarrindjeri from Point McLeay Mission (now Raukkan), worked in the McLaren Vale district in the agricultural and viticultural industries from the 1940s to the 1960s.
The first Europeans to sight the region were Englishman Captain Matthew Flinders, aged just 28, and the seventy people on board the Investigator when they sailed past what is now the Willunga Basin on 27-28 March, 1802. Just sixteen days later on the morning of 23 Germinal, Year 10 of the Republic (13 April, 1802), the Frenchman Captain Nicolas Baudin sailed passed the site of Port Willunga on the Le Geographe. On board were over 100 people, adding to the number of Europeans to see Kaurna Yerta. Twenty nine years later on 15 April, 1831, Captain Collette Baker and four companions on the Isabella went ashore near the mouth of the Onkaparinga River and spent a week examining the coastal plains. They followed the Onkaparinga as far upstream as the horseshoe bend at Noarlunga and also made their way to the Mount Lofty Ranges ascending Mount Lofty (named by Flinders in 1802) on 19 April, 1831. Captain John Jones, a whaler based in Launceston and skipper of the 34 ton schooner, Henry, made several journeys in the early 1830s to Kangaroo Island and the region, including sailing up the eastern side of the gulf in 1833.
There were other European visitors in the early 19th Century, sealers and whalers based on Kangaroo Island, who raided the coastal area to kidnap women. Sealers, and whalers in general where known for their cruelty against Aboriginal people from Western Australia through to Tasmania.
The first official European expedition to travel through the Willunga Basin post colonisation was in June 1837, six months after the proclamation of the colony. It was led by Colonel William Light, Surveyor-General, and James Hurtle Fisher, Resident Commissioner. They set off from Glenelg on 16 June for Encounter Bay accompanied by Messrs Stephen Hack, John Morphett and a party of thirteen Marines from the Buffalo. The first night they camped in a ‘beautiful valley’ (Hurtle Vale, near Morphett Vale) and because of wet weather and difficulties with bullocks and carts remained there until the 19th when the Marines were sent back to Adelaide and a smaller party proceeded south. On the 19th and 20th they camped at the Onkaparinga River before journeying on to Encounter Bay, crossing the ranges near Willunga. Unfortunately there was no account of their full journey published but of the river Light wrote:
The river is … nearly three miles from the sea a beautiful one, full hundred yards wide, and very often more, with deep water, and we found the water at ebb tide fresh to within a mile of the sea, and the country is not only beautifully picturesque, but rich in soil. I have seldom seen a place more inviting than this, and I have no doubt some future time will form a country town here of considerable consequence.
The 1838 painting Onkaparinga visualised what Light described and the 1850 painting Noarlunga confirmed Light’s prediction.
Onkaparinga, South Australia 1838, Skipper, J. M. (AGSA)
Noarlunga 1850, Cawthorne, W. A. (SLNSW)
In 1839 surveyors, led by John McLaren after whom McLaren Vale is named, were at work in the southern districts mapping the land into Sections to provide land for the holders of Preliminary Land Orders (a land order mostly purchased in England as part of the establishment of the province) and other settlers.
Of particular note is that the survey parties included paid Kaurna guides. Information on Kaurna place names and travelling routes was therefore recorded which helps explain the prevalence of Kaurna place names in the Willunga Basin and on the Fleurieu Peninsula (in contrast to the few Kaurna names used north of Adelaide).
A survey depot was established on the Government Reserve at Willunga in 1839 and a sketch by Surveyor-General Edward Frome c.1840 depicts three early buildings: the Police Station (left), Survey Store (centre) and Post Office (right). All buildings were temporary, constructed of wattle and daub. There is another early sketch, c.1844, by noted colonial artist George French Angas of Atkinson’s farmhouse at Willunga.
Willunga – 28 miles south of… (Adelaide) E. C. Frome, c.1840
At Willunga, Atkinsons G. F. Angas c.1844 (NLA)
By mid-1839 land in the Willunga Basin was available for selection and settlement commenced soon after. In June 1839 Scotsman James McLeod acquired several Sections in District C (Willunga Basin region). He was one of the first, if not first, to select land in District C in the McLaren plains (McLaren Vale) region. His selection was most likely assisted by his friend James Hawker, a member of the District C survey team.
By November 1839 at the latest, he and wife Mary were living on their property Tarranga (or Taranga) to the north of the present township of McLaren Vale. They were visited by Governor Gawler’s party en-route to Willunga and the lower Murray on November 22nd 1839.
The McLeods were soon followed by others, on 2nd January 1840 noted early settlers ‘Charles Hewitt and William Colton with their families – settled in the McLaren Vale region at a place they called the Doringa Valley. Within months, they and like-minded settlers were clearing scrub and timber and creating farms modelled on their English experience’ (City of Onkaparinga).
They were soon followed by others, on 2nd January 1840 noted early settlers ‘Charles Hewitt and William Colton with their families – settled in the McLaren Vale region at a place they called the Doringa Valley. Within months, they and like-minded settlers were clearing scrub and timber and creating farms modelled on their English experience’ (City of Onkaparinga).
By the end of February 1840 a twice weekly freight and passenger coach service between Adelaide and ‘the rapidly improving township of Willunga’ had been commenced by William Deacon travelling via ‘The Horseshoe Ford, Onkaparinga, McLaren’s Valley, Tarranga, Mr. Hewitt’s Farm, The Bay of Biscay, and thence to the Police Station at Willunga’ (Southern Australian 27.02.1840 p. 2).
In August 1840 a newspaper report outlined that:
A few miles beyond the Onkaparinga is the beautiful valley called McLaren Vale. In it there are at present twelve settlers, who possess stock to the amount of 2000 sheep, and 200 hundred head of cattle. The district only being newly settled, agriculture has not yet made much progress. About 70 acres are however, under crop, and the grain – such as was early sown especially – is looking remarkable well. The Willunga district, a few miles further to the southward, is also beginning to be settled. (Adelaide Chronicle, 26 August, 1840)
McLaren’s Vale, Apr 24, 1840, E. C. Frome (AGSA)
Lot 50 History
Under the colonising land tenure system the land of Lot 50 was granted to William Edleston on the 7th day of November 1839 under the Hand and Seal of George Gawler, Esquire, Resident Commissioner and Governor of the province of South Australia. It was part of Section 194, District C (now Hundred of Willunga). By coincidence Governor Gawler and party, including his daughter, passed about a mile away two weeks later on his way to Willunga on 22nd November, on route to Lake Alexandrina to then journey up the River Murray.
Extract from McLaren, J. (1840) Country south of Adelaide from O’Halloran Hill to Mt. Terrible including District C and portions of Districts B and D.
Edleston of Sowerby Bridge near Halifax, county York (Yorkshire), England, purchased South Australian Land Order No. 796 on 9th November 1838 for £80 or £1 per acre. He was the first absentee owner. In June 1841 he agreed to sell the land to Harry (Henry) Hughlings, Sharebroker, of Halifax for £100 and on the 5th December 1844 the transfer of ownership occurred with an Edward Wright, the younger, of Adelaide also taking a share.
Hughlings was a speculator and Colonial Land Agent. He held several Land Orders and Adelaide Town Acres as well as several parcels of land in New Zealand which he visited in 1843 arriving on the Industry. He also held shares in the South Australian Mining Association. He on-sold Section 194 on 20th January 1855 to John Sutcliffe of Blackwall, Halifax for £600, taking a profit of £500, or 500%, for the 11 years he held the land. It is not known fully what role Edward Wright played in Adelaide. In the 1850s he was a land agent who also represented absentee proprietors. It appears that Edward Wright, the senior, was a surgeon who was dismissed from his position in London in 1830 ‘for frequent drunkenness, neglect of duties and undue familiarities’ and was then amongst the first arrivals in South Australia aboard the Cygnet in September 1836.
John Sutcliffe, a bachelor, later of Ovenden Hall near Halifax, died in February 1867. Gamaliel Sutcliffe, his nephew of Stoneshay Gate, Heptonstall, was his heir and ‘entitled to the land in South Australia, the rents of which are received by Lavington Glyde, Esq.’. Glyde was an accountant and later parliamentarian who had arrived in South Australia from Yorkshire in July 1850 aboard the Agincourt.
Ovenden Hall, Halifax, Yorkshire, August 1913
Gamaliel Sutcliffe applied to bring the land under the provisions of the Real Property Act 1861 on the 1st April 1871 as part of the sale of the land for £650 to Amelia Pomery, widow, of Willunga. On the 20th October 1871 the land was formally transferred to Pomery and the first certificate of title, Volume 159, Folio 107 was issued. Thus for the first 32 years Section 194 was held by absentee English landlords from Yorkshire.
Pomery was from Cornwall and arrived in South Australia in September 1839 with husband Richard aboard the Prince Regent. They first lived at Brown Hill Creek in a tent on the site of what is now Scotch College, Torrens Park. They settled in the Willunga district in 1845 on Section 186, known as Vineyard Farm (on Branson Road) and owned by George Fife Angas. They leased several sections of land. Section 194 was leased from 1853 and in May 1854 they purchased Section 196. Richard died in April 1859 leaving Amelia with eight children, the youngest just 11 months. She continued farming and managing the land as attested by a Public Notice in October 1859. (Section 196 is one section further to the east of Section 194)
Public Notice (Adelaide Observer 29.10.1859)
In 1871 she mortgaged other land to complete the purchase of the family homestead on Section 194. It has not been established when they built/occupied the homestead which she named Salem, meaning House of Peace. Although still standing in 1977 only a chimney now remains of the homestead which was located on the southern half of Section 194 (not on Lot 50). In April 1872 she leased Section 194, along with most other land holdings, to William James Blacker, her son-in-law who had married daughter Elizabeth in October 1871 at Salem Farm. In April 1878 Amelia remarried and in 1879 sold all her land to James Blacker, William’s father. Section 194 was soon passed to William who was later to become a Member of Parliament. The Blacker family leased of owned the land for eighty-five years (1872-1957).
Blacker family at Salem c1914 (Pomery & Merrett, 1981)
Salem 1977 (Pomery & Merrett, 1981)
From 1957 to 2015 the Bosworths, Irwins and Chaffeys held the land. Comprising 80 acres (32.4 ha) the Section has now been subdivided into three titles. In the 176 years since 1839, Malone is the ninth family name attached to the land title now known as Lot 50.
Cropping and Grazing
It is understood that Lot 50 was variously used for cereal cropping and cattle grazing up until about 1990. Cattle particularly graze young reeds. In the 1960s and 70s it was used to keep thoroughbred horses and over the last several years it has been used for horse agistment.
Farm gate with Redgum posts
Old swamp edge fence line revealed, Nov. 2015
Sand Mining Proposal
Sand mining to produce building and construction sands has been a major extractive industry in the Willunga Basin, operating since the early 20th century. One large mine is still operating at Maslin Beach. Others have now been exhausted and closed; one now used as a waste dump, another abandoned and derelict, and another revegetated. The mining operations reveal multi coloured sands and also provide the ferruginised sandstone, the coloured stones.
Maslin Coloured Sands
In the early 1990s it was proposed that Lot 50 be sand mined. Minor sand mining had been undertaken immediately to the west in the 1970s. Geological investigations were undertaken and 700,000 tonnes of recoverable sand identified comprising sands suitable for glass making and foundry use, beach replenishment, garden sand, general trenching sand and 350,000 tonnes of material for use as basic fill. The deposit includes red, yellow, orange and brown coloured sands but nothing as complex and colourful as the Maslin sands. Although the deposits are only a few kilometres apart, they are geologically quite different.
The necessary approvals for mining were sought but in July 1993 the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs refused approval. The proposal was revisited on and off until 2006 when in December that year the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs again refused approval although there was an agreement with the Kaurna Heritage Board for the mining to proceed. The mining proposal was then abandoned.
About a million years ago in the mid Pleistocene Age Lot 50 had been beach side, a dunal system surrounding an ocean bay.
Thanks to Olliver Geological Services for geological information.
The Project & Place
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Transport August 19, 2013 August 20, 2013
Home of Rolls-Royce Collection debuts Phantom Series II at Qualis
by Smitha Reagan
We all know that January 1 has been an important date with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Celebrating 10 years of production at its Goodwood, England home, the luxury car brand had plans to unveil a bespoke collection of cars under the banner of Home of Rolls-Royce Collection. This August 16, saw the first car from this collection debuting at Quails in all its glory. And to be honest, the model truly stands evidence engineering excellence and commendable craftsmanship that the artisans at Goodwood are capable of. The first car to debut from the Home of Rolls-Royce Collection is a Phantom Series II saloon. The car displays truly impressive wood work throughout its interiors, which proudly features 170 sections made of 11 varieties of woods. The result has been achieved through a special handcrafted technique called marquetry which assembles varieties of wood into a ‘celebration’ motif.
Also featuring on the bespoke creation is a complex but attractive ‘compass’ motif intricately embroidered into the armrests and console lid, which has painstakingly taken 100,000 stitches to create. A similar motif has been hand painted on the exterior of the car, which has been applied by a special technique – squirrel-hair-brush-wielding that takes close to six hours to completion.
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Although the delivery of the Home of Rolls-Royce Collection cars is due to begin later this autumn, the pricing details haven’t been disclosed yet. Autoblog reportedly expects the special edition car to start from $400,000.
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Neighbors speak out following tragic crash in Marcola
Credit: KEZI
Published on November 19, 2019 -
According to dispatch records, around 9:30 p.m.
Friday, Police responded to an accident on the 93000 block on Marcola road.
Of them.
Now to marcola where neighbors say someone is dead after a car lost control friday evening.
Kezi 9 news reporter emma jerome went to the scene earlier today and spoke with many people about why they say....this happens far too often in that neighborhood.
According to dispatch records... around 9:30 friday night... police responded to an accident on the 93 thousand block on marcola road*in marcola... those same records show that a deceased subject was at that scene witnesses say they saw a single car that looks like it lost control completely wrecked on the road they also say that while it was a tragic thing to happen... they just want measures to be taken in order to prevent things like this from happening in the future emma j: "neighbors say they want speed reduction... lights... signs... anything that will prevent tragedies like this from happening on their road.."
Long time residents say they heard about the accident that same evening... but since then... nothing... which is abnormal for the small town adam conley "usually when something happens everybody knows about it& but nobody seems to know anything about this wreck& it's odd."
Conley has lived in marcola his whole life and works right off the road where the crash occured and say he hears of accidents multiple times each month he also says that while lane county sheriffs office does great work and try their very best... they don't always respond as quickly as they would like so what can be done to prevent tragedies on this road?
"i don't really think there's much that can be done& they've already tried putting rumble strips out towards town and that hasn't really seemed to stop accidents i don't know what could be done beyond that" everyone i spoke with says they just want tragedies like this to stop so lives can be saved...in marcola... emma jerome kezi 9 news dispatch records... around 9:30 friday night... police responded to an accident on the 93 thousand block on marcola road*in marcola... those same records show that a deceased subject was at that scene witnesses say they saw a single car that looks like it lost control completely wrecked on the road they also say that while it was a tragic thing to happen... they just want measures to be taken in order to prevent things like this from happening in the future emma j: "neighbors say they want speed reduction... lights... signs... anything that will prevent tragedies like this from happening on their road.."
"i don't really think there's much that can be done& they've already tried putting rumble strips out towards town and that hasn't really seemed to stop accidents i don't know what could be done beyond that" everyone i spoke with says they just want tragedies like this to stop so lives can be saved...in marcola... emma jerome kezi 9 news we*have reached out to the lane county sheriff's office to get more information on this crash but have not heard back yet.
Of course the moment we do we will let you know.
Now to a crime alert....2 people are in jail tonight after a fight broke out near stewart pond in eugene this morning according to police, a call came in about a stabbing at 10:45.
As officers responded, a*second call came in about the victim being run over by a vehicle as suspects tried to leave the scene.
Officers found the victim....who was then treated by medics for a cut on his hand.
Officers later located a vehicle with a trailer attached to it.
We're told the people who were involved in the incident lived there.
Three people were inside of the trailer....when one of their dogs got out and caused problems for officers.
Two dogs were sent to the greenhill humane society for safekeeping.
Two suspects were
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OJBM Vol.4 No.2 , April 2016
Beyond Socio-Materiality and Sense-Making: Planting Symbolic Power and Critical Realism into Strategy-As-Practice Logic
Author(s) Huifen Wang, Guoliang Luo, Huanping Hong
Management School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Strategic practice is inherently a social practice shaped by the immediate social context, but capital power does not have a stronger presence in socio-materiality and sense-making. We argue that Bourdieu’s relational mode of thinking mode and Archer’s critical realism should be tapped into Strategy-As-Practice (SAP) research. Strategic discourse researchers “have limited understanding of how individuals become strategists, or even how some individuals in organizations come to be perceived as ‘strategic’ whereas others come to be routinely classified as non-strategic and excluded from studies of strategizing. Thus we have much to learn from paying closer attention to strategic discourse and subjectivity” [1]. This paper describes Bourdieu’s practice theory and suggests that by this lens we can better understand strategy as power relation construction through which symbolic capital is translated into symbolic value in a strategy transformation organization. Such shift of power relations is viewed as accepting relational mode of thinking and critical realism in strategic practice. From symbolic power perspective, character status and role prestige are ascribed to strategy. Implementation of strategy is configuration of power relation designed by strategists. By exploring strategy as social inclusion and distinction, we review strategy discourse beyond social-materiality. We also apply symbolic capital of Bourdieu’s theory to explain world-making beyond sense-making of strategy. We argue that strategies are not based on conscious calculation but rather results from unconscious dispositions towards a particular way of social recognition and inclusion. Strategic discourse analysis maybe has not initially recognized that strategy discourse is a form of symbolic capital used by strategists who wish to bolster social status.
SAP, Socio-Materiality, Critical Realism, Bourdieu’s Practice Theory, Symbolic Power, Discourse, Sense-Making
Received 16 January 2016; accepted 29 March 2016; published 1 April 2016
The lack of capital base and clear symbolic power analysis may be a reason that strategic artifacts presented in the socio-material writings are phenomenal, and why it is difficult to identify subjective power source which acknowledges power relations in strategic context and material artifacts. Strategy discourse researchers have oscillated between two seemingly incompatible points of view or two apparently irreconcilable perspectives: strategic artifacts’ materialism and strategist’s subjective power. On the one hand, it can treat strategic artifacts such as strategic tools, frameworks, and number-crunching systems as material elements, and thus leaves out everything that they owe to the fact that they are power objects of world-making, or misrecognition within strategic field. On the other hand, it can reduce strategic discourse to form of fiction [2] , episodic myth that strategic agents have it. We need to explore what constitute strategic artifacts in strategizing and how they shape and are shaped by more general social conventions attached to, for example, meetings and workshops. Then the task of strategic discourse needs to study the recursive links between strategy tools for doing strategy work in particular situation and the way that they are perpetuated within language that extends well beyond the situation with which they are initially deployed.
Strategy is significant symbolically because of a particular set of capitals in a particular set of fields. Strategic discourses promote strategist’s ideas, interests or power positions to make it highly symbolic. But strategic discourse researchers are ignorant of field force embedded in context. As strategic discourse researchers, “we have largely ignorant special arrangement of strategist interactions, even though analysis of spatial arrangements of strategic in other contexts, such as the arrangement of arbitrage desks on Wall Street trading floors, has been shown to have a critical influence on the way that traders interact and the profitability of trades”. It is necessary for strategic discourse research to produce an account of symbolic power embedded in strategic discourses and strategic field.
Treating strategy as symbol can deepen power analysis beyond socio-materiality and sense-making. This paper uses Bourdieu’s symbolic power to analysis strategy as structuring structures that mediate practices by connecting individuals and groups to institutionalized power relations. We argue that strategy is symbol, which mediates the effects of social structures to produce various forms of capital construction through strategy design and implementation.
In this paper, we try to transcend the artificial opposition that is thus created between strategic activities and representations based on relational mode of thinking. Our major contribution of what must rightly be called the structuralist revolution consists in having applied critical realism to strategic discourse analysis, and which identifies the real not with substances but with relations [3] . Our research tries to transcend strategic activities and events may provide a solution for the problem of the recursive intertwining of humans and tool in strategic practice and the entwining of the material and the social in world-making by symbolic power.
2. Using Relation Thinking Mode to Combine Macro-Level and Micro-Level Strategic Practice
Social practice is considered essential to understand what people really do in organizations and to bridge the micro with the macro levels of strategizing [4] - [7] . Within the Strategy-As-Practice perspective, some seminal works, such as Jarzakbowski [8] , Johnson [9] , Whittington [4] - [5] , mobilize practice in Bourdieu’s view. Bourdieu allows us to build in the notion of social control into a discursive framework where the power to name remains an integral element; therefore language is not only a means of communication or expression but a tool of power [3] [10] . Oakes et al. (1998) analyze the struggles to name and legitimate practices through business planning process, and the effects of these struggles on the agents and the field [11] . Oakes et al. also evidenced that through the use of symbolic violence, these practices lead to change the position of the agents and the different forms of capital [11] .
However, as asserted by Chia [6] , “advocates of practice-based approaches to strategy research may have underestimated the radical implications of the work of practice social theorists such as Bourdieu [10] [12] - [16] who they rely upon to justify this turn to practice” [6] . Authors mainly rely on the characteristics of practice and on the relation between practice and habits to understand how individuals develop their practical capacity to strategizing, but they mainly remain at a descriptive stage. They do not take into account the complete possibilities of the framework, mainly because they neglect the concept of field, which is nevertheless essential to understand the link between individuals and actions.
The nature of society as an open system makes it impossible to make predictions as can be done in natural science. According to Bourdieu’s practice, people are not aware of the factors affecting their behaviour, nor the implicit logic behind that behaviour [3] . One of the Bourdieu’s key epistemological critiques of the research process was the inability of study participants to critically reflect upon their behaviour because as humans our “practical logic”―the inherent association between what people do and their location in social space―is limited [3] . Just as Chia and Mackey [17] argued that “to understand strategy emergence we are required to develop a certain research sensitivity to the unspoken, the inarticulate and even the oftentimes unconscious aspects of strategy-making”.
Bourdieu suggested that “the principles embodied in this way are placed beyond the grasp of consciousness and hence cannot be touched by voluntary, deliberate transformation cannot even be made explicit” [3] [18] . Bourdieu provided his concepts which he coined a set of “thinking tools” [19] . In spite of the scrutiny and many attempts to apply Bourdieu’s theoretical work [20] - [22] , the way in which he saw his “thinking tools” being deployed is often overlooked.
Strategy in its objectivist moment, is a social topology, an analysis of relative positions and of the objective relations between social positions. The “social reality” which Durkheim spoke of is an ensemble of invisible relations. We argue that Bourdieu’s reltation thinking mode and Archer’s critical realism should be tapped into SAP research.
3. Planting Relational Mode of Thinking into Strategy Logic Based on Critical Realism
Even though it is always the case that strategy implementations will change power relations, SAP researchers have not payed more attention to power relations based on critical realism (Figure 1).
Traditional research method and paradigm of power is primarily studied using Foucault’s institutionalized power definition. The Foucault-inspired study by Ezzamel and Willmott elucidates how top managers and organizational members use strategy discourse to resist the change imposed on them. From critical realism, this kind of power analysis is based on power events and activities, not deepened into power structure and power mechanism.
Bourdieu’s work takes power perspective from power reality in which the point of view of the dominant power structure is imposed behind the power events and activities, which maybe cannot seen from empirical strategic practice. Our mental structures are strictly controlled by preconceived thematics which to a large extent are imposed by a broadly invisible state. The thematics portray a particular non-neutral vision of reality which serves to uphold the interests of the most powerful. Strategic meaning (reinforced by objective structures) is imposed upon individuals, groups and classes in a manner which both obscures power relations and legitimates them.
Figure 1. Framework of Strategic field and practice from critical realism.
Bourdieu described this process as misrecognition, a process, “whereby power relations are perceived not for what they objectively are but in the form which renders them legitimate in the eyes of the beholder” [3] . The imposition of systems of symbolism and meaning which hide objective power relations in a form which renders them legitimate is described by Bourdieu as symbolic violence. Strategic misrecognition means unearths the underlying objective structures of symbolic violence behind strategic events and activities.
To move forward power analysis we need further from “Where and how is the strategic power?” to “Why is strategic power? What is the nature of strategy? Why is strategy?” Practice turn need to combine linguistic turn in philosophy perspective-critical realism.
This research is situated in a critical realist paradigm which, as sociologist Margaret Archer argues, views strategic social practice as “inseparable from its human components because the very existence of society depends in some way upon our activities” [23] . This view is largely consistent with Bourdieu’s ontology [10] . “Interactions, which bring immediate gratification to those with empiricist dispositions -they can be observed, recorded, filmed, in sum. They are tangible, one can “reach out and touch them”―mask the structures that are realized in them. This is one of those cases where the visible, that which is immediately given, hides the invisible which determines it. One thus forgets that the truth of any interaction is never entirely to be found within the interaction as it avails itself for observation. One example will suffice to bring out the difference between structure and interaction and, at the same time, between the structuralist vision I defend as a necessary (but not sufficient) moment of research and the so-called interactionist vision in all its forms (and especially ethnomethodology) [10] .
Central to critical realism is that the explanation of strategic practice is achieved through revealing the causal mechanisms that produce them [24] . According to critical realism, the objective strategy is reflection of power relations between positions occupied within the distributions of the resources which are or may become active, effective, like aces in a game of cards, in the competition for the appropriation of scarce goods of which this social universe is the site.
By basing this research on the analysis of the causal mechanisms of strategy practice, it is possible to arrive strategic activities at potential consequences of mechanisms that operate in strategy implementation. But, uncovering these causal mechanisms is not a linear process whereby the researcher can ask strategic formers and implementers why they design strategy in a certain way or for what cause. It is important to place symbolic power in strategic field and acknowledge the social space in which symbolic power is embedded.
We argue that Bourdieu’s relational mode of thinking and Archer’s critical realism should be tapped into SAP research. In this paper we argue that context is relation field which full of power struggle. Individual is social actor who is embedded in social structure. SAP research need to broad reach of strategy design and implementation into a complex set of relationships, classification schemes and social dynamics. Bourdieu discusses in his work on the social field through the concept of symbolic capital and symbolic power. We need to use critical realism to explore power mechanism to SAP research. As part of a critical project, this paper has focused on the power relations in strategy and has tried to express power dominance that entails the privileging of interests over others. We use critical realism and try to explore change of power relations in strategic practice through symbolic power.
4. Why Is Symbolic Power?
Agents in strategizing are not only acting and living in the existing social world, but are historically situated and influenced through symbolic power. Bourdieu may serve to help enlighten the power source of critical discourse and struggle nature of linguistic-based strategy. Bourdieu put it, “the ‘subject’ of what is sometimes called ‘company policy’ is quite simply the field of the firm or, put it more precisely, the structure of the relation of force between the different agents that belong to the firm” [25] . This emphasizes the force relation of strategists, a struggle for power, a political fight over time between agents.
Symbolic power, which not only serves to make sense of underlying meaning through strategic discourses, but help to form world order and control. Whilst all agents may have the potential to reconstruct reality, that is not to say they are deemed by others as having the legitimacy to do so [10] . It is the dominant, those who have substantial symbolic power and access to resources who are able to access and reproduce mode of thinking in terms of discursive hegemony.
This is especially the strategic discourse analysis with sense-making analysis. On the other hand, the effects of and on power relations seem to be highly context dependent. With regard to the functionalist and contextual studies, theoretical reasoning and archival analysis are conducted by Julia Balogun, Clause Jacobs, Eero Vaara and Saku Mantere [1] . Strategy as symbolic capital is nothing other than economic capital, social capital or cultural capital means that symbolic capital is the representation of economic capital, social capital and cultural capital in strategic field. We suggested strategy be symbolic capital to change power relations because symbolic capital is the transformed form of economic capital, social capital and cultural capital. Traditional SAP research are focus on the empirical strategic level and strategic events level which did not deepen into mechanism and structure level as right part of Figure 1.
Critical realism offers researchers tool to explore “black box” of power struggle in strategic practice as top part of Figure 1. The framework discussed symbolic power is a suitable analytical tool for making sense of the maneuverer made by powerful actors to create obligatory passage points for weaker actors. The symbolic value in Figure 1 emphasizes social value aspects such as role status, social inclusion and legitimacy which determine strategic activities. The objective of the paper is to argue that given the complexity of strategic activities, power phenomenon requires a complex and rich theory such as symbolic power. Moreover, the hidden nature of power relationship need to be explored around strategic practice.
As asserted by Chia and MacKay [17] , “deliberate intentionality is not a prerequisite for the articulation of a strategy; strategy may emerge as a consequence of the inherent predispositions of an actor to unselfconsciously respond to external circumstances in a manner that we may retrospectively recognize as being consistently strategic” [17] . We should not pay more attention to power shift activities and attributes in strategic forming and implementation, such as discourse style and ritual activities, but think the nature of discourse as symbolic power and cause mechanism of power alteration.
For SAP researchers, we need to further that strategic discourse means social status and prestige. From symbolic power perspective, character status and role prestige is ascribed to strategic discourse.
For SAP researchers, we also need to further that sense-making is not only making clear of strategic vision, but also symbolic dominance through symbolic violence. Beyond sense-making, world-making by symbolic power are invisible mechanism in strategy just as Figure 1 show.
5. Explore Symbolic Power beyond Socio-Materiality
Orlikowski’s socio-material theory reflects social and material worlds of strategy [26] . Strategic goals, knowledge, government regulations, and the practices of credit rating agencies are entangled with the technological agencies of strategic tool. Routine conversations among strategists and non-strategists trigger intense entanglement and controversies over values, identities, and community within strategic field. But sociomateriality entanglement just reflection of strategic events and activities as in the middle level of Figure 2. We need use critical realism and explore entanglement mechanism and structure in strategic field as showed in the third level of Figure 2.
Beyond socio-materiality, objective relations of power in individual strategists tend to reproduce themselves through the adoption of symbolic power embedded in strategic field. In the symbolic struggle for the production of common sense or, more precisely, for the monopoly over legitimate naming, strategic agents put into action the symbolic capital that they have acquired in previous struggles and which may be rankings guaranteed. Thus titles of nobility, like status of “strategist”, strategic vision, educational credentials, represent true titles of symbolic property which give individual a right to share in the profits of recognition. Therefore, symbolic power in strategy is a power of world-making beyond sense-making.
The notion of socio-materiality has recently gained in popularity among organization studies in their search for providing new ways of theorizing about the dynamics between artifacts, practices, and organizations. Influenced by previous literature (in particular Latour [27] ; Pickering [28] ; Suchman [29] ) a number of influential ideas on sociomateriality has been published (see e.g., Leonardi and Barley [30] [31] ; Leonardi [32] ; Orlikowski [26] [33] - [34] ; Orlikowski and Scott [35] ). These writings have inspired scholars to offer a sociomaterial view on various topics such as enterprise system implementation [36] , mobile IT usage [37] , work collaboration in Second Life [34] , digital innovation [38] . The imbrication metaphor and digital materiality are particularly useful in the sense that they provide a language that is both clear and recognizable, that is, human and material agencies are distinct phenomena, yet fundamentally interdependent. But the terms that Leonardi uses and the
Figure 2. Symbolic power resulted from symbolic capital.
studies he conducts might not explore the power of imbrication. We think that the fundamental cause of imbrication is capital power especially symbolic power.
According to Bourdieu’s practice logic, fundamental powers in social relation are economic capital (in its different forms), cultural capital, social capital, and symbolic capital. Symbolic capital is the form that the various species of capital assume when they are perceived and recognized as legitimate [12] . Economic capital “is immediately and directly convertible into money and may be institutionalized in the form of property rights”; cultural capital “may be institutionalized in the form of educational qualifications”; and social capital is an individual feature, which is “the aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance or recognition”. Thus agents in social are distributed in the overall social space, in the first dimension, according to the overall volume of capital they possess and, in the second dimension, according to the structure of their capital, that is, the relative weight of the different species of capital, economic and cultural, in the total volume of their assets such as economic capital, cultural capital, social capital and symbolic capital.
Symbolic power of strategy is as showed in Bourdieu’s power relation [12] gave us another kind of view of strategic power relation. Strategy as a social practice is a symbol which also embedded symbolic capital and symbolic power. Thus strategy designers and implementers are distributed in social space according to the overall volume of capital they possess and adopt different strategic practice. On the other hand, according to the structure of their capital, strategists adopt different strategies based on the relative weight of the different species of capital, such as economic, cultural, social and symbolic capital. Thus power relation change in strategic processes and final value are quite dependent on the total volume of their capital volume and kind. The capital volume and asset species possessed by strategic agents are cause power of change in strategic practice.
According to Bourdieu, symbolic capital can take on forms such as obligations and expectations, information potential, and norms and effective sanctions. Owing to the fact that symbolic capital is nothing other than economic, social or cultural capital when it is known and recognized, when it is known through the categories of perception that it imposes, symbolic relations of power tend to reproduce and to reinforce the power relations that constitute the structure of social space. More concretely, legitimacy of the social world is not, as some believe, the product of a deliberate and purposive action of propaganda or symbolic imposition; it results, rather, from the fact that agents apply to the objective structures of the social world structures of perception and appreciation which are issued out of these which tend to picture very structures and the world as evident. From this point, strategic designers try to world-making structures of social structures of perception and appreciation which tend to picture very structures and the world as evident in strategy.
Therefore, strategy as symbolic capital is nothing other than economic, social or cultural capital when it is adopted and implemented, when it is known through the promotion of strategic promoters that it imposes symbolic power relations. Strategy designers and implementers tend to reproduce and to reinforce the power relations that constitute structure of social space. More concretely, legitimacy of strategy in worldwide story telling [39] seems the product of a deliberate and purposive action of propaganda or symbolic imposition. In fact, story-telling and strategic ritual is myth making and has symbolic world-making imposition and legitimacy effect underpinning symbolic power relations.
6. Review Strategic Discourse from Social Recognition Perspective
The definition of discourse is given as a specific form of language use (spoken or written) and a specific form of social interaction, both understood as a complete communicative event in a social situation. With the evolution of the linguistic turn in critical theory [40] , discourse studies have embraced the work of Foucault as a theoretical foundation for strategy research. Laine and Vaara [41] demonstrated the specific role of discourse by dominating and dominated agents. They show that strategic discourses are a space for struggles, “a dialectical battle between competing groups” [41] , as Potter suggests, discourse is text and talk in social practices [42] .
Symbolic power is in some senses more powerful than physical power, in that it is embedded in the very modes of action and structures of cognition of individuals and imposes the vision of the legitimacy of strategy. We argue that strategic symbolism is structured power in the sense that its power is as, if not more, maintain social production and reproduction through strategy.
The Strategy-As-Practice fields, with its focus on strategy as work that individual do have very explicitly sought to recognize the skill and craft involved in strategizing and to explicate some of this skill [1] . The use of social practice logic can be used to shed light on power relations in individual skill and craft in strategy struggle and ploy. This is an objectification technique that Bourdieu recommended researchers use as a process of standing back from the subject to get as close as possible to reaching objective reflection.
When individuals engage in strategic discourse like invisible and symbolic production, they enter a game-like scenario where they draw on their capital to make social gains or “wins”. Participation in the “game” of strategy relies on previous accrual and use of capital (e.g. strategic investment, social networking, cultural accumulation, play competency) and knowledge of the rules and engagement in “symbolic struggles” to legitimize social positioning and identities. By adoption a certain strategy such as spatial arrangement, exclusion as non strategist. By inclusion and exclusion in strategic processes express individual affiliation to a social group or rejection of lifestyles or groups to which they do not relate or do not wish to be perceived as related. In this way, strategist are much more complex than they appear at the outset; they are also meaningful, figurative, and an important element of social status and prestige.
“World-making” consists, according to Nelson Goodman [43] , “in separating and reuniting, often in the same operation”, in carrying out a decomposition, an analysis, and a composition, a synthesis, often by the use of labels. Strategy has become the label of symbolic property of social life worlds. The adoption of a particular strategy in certain boundary means composition and synthesis of knowledge, government regulations, and the practices of credit rating agencies.
Therefore, by discussion of the power dynamics behind strategy implementation assisted researchers to make conscious previously taken-for-granted social ranking and status distinctions. The symbolic property of strategy is also useful to unravel unconscious will from legitimacy.
7. Review Strategists from Social Distinction and Inclusion
Strategists construct social distinction in order to build social positions which embedded social power. Social distinction is constructed in such a way that the closer the agents, groups or institutions which are situated within social space, the more common strategy they adopt; and the more distant, the fewer. Therefore, strategy adoption is not an end in itself, but a means to activating behaviors through which social competencies can be demonstrated and symbolic gains or capital can be achieved according to what is valued by social distinction. Bourdieu’s conception of “lifestyle”, that is, a system of classified and classifying practices [8] can be used to analysis strategic style that are embedded in the formation of strategy evolution. To this end, Bourdieu’s concept of lifestyle is useful to understand how strategic styles are demarcated and to indicate how different strategic patterns lead to social cohesiveness or dissociation. Strategic style provides a foundation for understanding strategic dynamics or causal processes that highlights how these legitimated styles operate as a form of distinction.
Using Bourdieu’s theoretical frame we argue that the sense of strategic fashion regardless of cost, the sense of risk taking regardless enterprise live or die arises from the feeling of acceptance and belonging achieved through emulating social competencies in strategic transformation. Acting in congruence with the norms and mechanism displayed by dominant enterprises, which is verified by more popular peers who have the social authority to know what in vogue and who possesses symbolic capital to dictate, alleviates discomfort in strategic transformation. For example, since 2008, Chinese manufacturing enterprises tried to adopt strategic transformation and update industrial position. Just as one of the famous official slogan say: “If we do not adopt strategic transformation, we are waiting for dying. If we try to adopt strategic transformation, we try to find die. But maybe we can find one way to alive through transformation”.
Find dying legend in Chinese manufacturing transformation seems to be paradox from economical or institutional theory view. But we can find the answer to settle the paradox based on Bourdieu’s practice theory. Chinese manufacturing enterprises faced world-wide competition especially from India and Vietnam. Competition for world-making status occurs at two levels: at the multi-field level in which world-wide status is dependent on enterprise type, cost-profit structure, location and reputation; and at the sub-field, in which power struggles take place within industrial sectors. Thus, changing enterprise’s social status does not occur by chance. From the outset, the competition is unequal, the stakes and opportunities for accumulation of capital are not evenly distributed. Chinese manufacturing enterprises bring a social history of capital accumulation to each new strategic implementation. Further, social boundaries are imposed by strategic fields. The die sense-making means that it is worse that we do not adopt transformation. But it wouldn’t be as bad and maybe find a way to live through transformation.
In attempting to transgress social structures/fields, some of Chinese manufacturing companies ended up subscribing to worldwide dominant norms. For these kind companies, gaining entry to worldwide business mechanism is a source of symbolic capital. Here, strategy is transformed from a sense-making to a socially symbolic and value-laden object capable of communicating social distinctions. Adoption of strategic transformation would renew social history allowing Chinese manufacturing companies a fresh start for world encounter. In reality, the accumulation of capital is intrinsically linked to previous social encounters and therein, opportunities for the accrual of capital. Symbolic capital enables Chinese enterprise entry to worldwide community. Without social networks and symbolic capital, Chinese manufacturing companies would not have opportunity to enter new field and get opportunity of mechanism revolution.
As above official said, strategic transformation conferred upon symbolic capital accrued from subscribing to a way of being that represents the world inclusion and subsequently brings a sense of social ease. This is more of an imperative to Chinese enterprises ever before as all aspects of social life and particularly strategic transformation is becoming increasingly legitimacy. Human cost, environment pressure, forced Chinese enterprises to demonstrate international competence. Transformation is embodied with particular meanings and associations. Enterprises adopt strategic transformation also symbolizes inclusion and legitimacy and build it into part of their identity repertoire. The effects of classification as change and revolution rest on the volume of symbolic capital afforded to enterprises and their subsequent power and authorization to classify. Strategic transformation pattern therefore is based on popular regard, and power in a Bourdieuian sense is the ability to classify successfully, the capacity to make one’s definition of the situation as the situation.
Socio-materiality and sense-making are not enough to explain strategy design and implementation. Bourdieu’s relational mode of thinking and Archer’s critical realism provides a base for power analysis for strategic discourse. Researchers have the opportunity to master power relation embedded in strategy by review symbolic power. By doing so, researchers may gain power knowledge based on Bourdiue’s symbolic capital and symbolic value.
According to Bourdieu, the principal cause of variations in perception is one’s position in social space [13] . By explicating our use of Bourdieu theoretically (his practice) and methodologically (his practice) to understand SAP, we concomitantly offer guidance on the process of conducting theoretically SAP research. Through the outline of a reflexive process of applying social theory to further understandings, some important strategy perspectives come to light surrounding the social and symbolic aspect of SAP.
Sociological thought facilitates more complex understandings of social inclusion and distinction of strategist and non-strategists. We introduce symbolic power of Bourdieu’s practice concepts to SAP research. Our work provides Chinese manufacturing enterprise as an example that researchers in strategic transformation can draw on to critical realism and more complete social understandings of symbolic capital underpinning strategy. Strategy means affirming congruence with socially sanctioned practice and aligning internal resources according to what is deemed socially correct or legitimate. Strategy practice highlights acceptable behaviors and creates distinctions between social positions. Bourdieu terms this a “symbolic struggle” over capital [13] .
Symbolic power is also ascribed symbolic value transferred symbolic capital. The implications of strategy implementation on power relations cannot only be perceived on strategic processes or function. Power relations depend on how the actors make use of position resulted from symbolic capital. Symbolic power indicates that power has a legitimate source for social position.
Our contribution is exploring symbolic power in strategy and recommends that one must review power from relational mode of thinking and critical realism:
・ The content of strategy such as word, template, discourse, ritual, tools, and consultant service is beyond socio-materiality because of symbolic capital which causes power relation change. Symbolic capital is representation of economic capital, social capital and cultural capital.
・ Social positions of strategists are recognition and distinction by strategic practice. Strategy transformation is structured and also structuring social position of strategy designers and implementers. Transformation strategy is reflection of social relations, social infrastructure and capital history.
・ Social inclusion and recognition are world-making which cause power relation change resulted from symbolic struggle beyond sense-making.
By introducing sociologists Bourdieu to SAP field, we have prepared to ground our explanations in practice theory. We advocate the use of symbolic power theory to arrive at credible research findings and test empirically. Theorizing takes purely descriptive research further so that strategy practice can be examined, compared and understood rather than simply described. We hope to reflect more powerful explanations of social phenomena such as political struggle in strategy design and implementation.
Major Issue with Enterprise Development Research Institute of Jinan University: “Study on Dynamical Mechanism, Strategic Options and Operation Strategy of Enterprise Transformation” 2014ZD002.
Wang, H. , Luo, G. and Hong, H. (2016) Beyond Socio-Materiality and Sense-Making: Planting Symbolic Power and Critical Realism into Strategy-As-Practice Logic. Open Journal of Business and Management, 4, 177-187. doi: 10.4236/ojbm.2016.42020.
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Prem Patra (1962)
Posted on February 14, 2012 by dustedoff
I am not – most decidedly not – nuts about red hearts and roses and all that bullshit. Really, if you love someone, you love them. And not just on February 14.
But, anyway, here’s my nod to the bandwagon. I’m not jumping on to it, mind you; just reviewing one of my favourite romance films.
So here we go. A Bimal Roy film that’s a must if you like romances.
The hero of our story is Arun (a very young Shashi Kapoor – he was only 24 when the film was released). Arun’s parents died when he was a child, so he’s been brought up by Dr Mathur, who used to be Arun’s father’s best friend. Arun too has made medicine his profession. He’s an MBBS, and is now hopeful of getting a scholarship to go abroad for further studies.
The widowed Dr Mathur’s daughter Ratna (Praveen Choudhary) is younger than Arun. When the story begins, Ratna is:
(a) reading a book named Prem Patra Kaise Likhein (‘How to write a love letter’)
(b) very huffy that Arun did not come home for her birthday party the previous night because he was at work
Anybody with any knowledge of lovelorn young females would probably have figured out that Ratna’s got a massive crush on Arun, but that’s not the case in this household. Both Arun and Mr Mathur are blissfully unaware.
Ratna and Arun do get along well, though. In fact, since she’s known him from childhood, she’s even able to perfectly forge his handwriting and his signature, as she gleefully tells him one day during one of their light-hearted spats.
We’re now introduced to the female half of this love story. This is (as she’s referred to by all her classmates) “the famous Kavita Kapoor” (Sadhana). Kavita is a 5th year student at the medical college-cum-hospital where Arun is the House Surgeon. She’s very pretty, very good at her studies – and has been recently receiving some annoying anonymous love letters, which is presumably the reason for her so-called fame.
Kavita is now so irritated with these letters that she’s said – in a moment of anger – that she’s going to complain to the principal of the college the next time one of these letters comes her way.
In the meantime, though, it’s not a letter that comes her way, but the deliciously handsome figure of Arun himself, who bumps into her one day. He has a logical reason for not looking where he’s going – he’s just discovered he’s been granted that much-awaited scholarship, and has gone a little mad in his exultation.
There aren’t any fireworks at first glance (first bump?), but Arun’s friend and colleague Kedar (Rajendranath), who’s been witness to the entire episode, figures that Arun and Kavita would probably make a great jodi. He goes off to discuss the possibilities with his girlfriend Sumitra (Chand Usmani), who is also a doctor at the hospital and who immediately falls in with Kedar’s plan…
…which is to get Kavita and Arun on the same shift. Arun is House Surgeon for the night shift, and Sumitra has been assigned for the night shift in the Surgical Ward. That evening, she phones Kavita and tells her that she, Sumitra, isn’t feeling at all well, so will Kavita please do her shift at the Surgical Ward?
So Kavita is on duty when an emergency crops up: an appendicitis. She goes to the House Surgeon – Arun, of course – and he, after examining the patient, realises an immediate appendectomy is called for.
The senior surgeon isn’t available, so Arun has to perform the operation, with Kavita’s help.
They have a long and tiring night. The next morning, Kavita is driving home and offers Arun a lift. He accepts, and they drive off together. You can see they’re interested in each other, but beyond some shy sidelong glances and small smiles, there’s nothing yet.
When Kavita stops at Arun’s (or rather, Dr Mathur’s) house to drop him off, Ratna – who is sitting on the balcony above, with a friend of hers – sees them. Ratna’s friend has an elder sister who is Kavita’s classmate, so the friend knows all about “the famous Kavita Kapoor”. She shares all the gossip – about Kavita’s unknown admirers, the love letters, etc – with Ratna, and then takes herself off.
One evening, while Arun is sitting at home (he’s spending his time doodling Kavita’s name on page), Ratna comes along, asking for help with her chemistry lessons. The chapter she needs help with is on catalytic agents. Arun begins explaining catalytic agents to Ratna, and she deftly manages to swing the topic around to human chemistry – can, like two chemicals, two human beings too be in close proximity and not react to each other unless there’s a catalytic agent to spur them on?
Arun tells her off; she’s too young to be talking of things like that. This makes Ratna burst into indignant tears, and a disgusted Arun leaves. Dr Mathur, coming into the room, sees Ratna crying and from her confused babble, finally figures out what’s happening.
He informs Arun – Ratna is infatuated with him – and Arun is horrified. He’s always thought of Ratna as a younger sister.
Never mind, he tells Dr Mathur. He’ll go talk to Ratna and make her see sense.
But Ratna, though she’s not crying any more, has discovered Arun’s doodling, and is now a tight-lipped, cold female who whisks out of the room before Arun can talk to her.
The next day, at the medical college, there’s another love letter addressed to Kavita Kapoor. Her catty classmates (led by a pretty Bela Bose) decide to open it and read it for themselves before Kavita arrives.
It’s a very fervent prem patra, all right. The writer has poured his heart out, telling Kavita all that she means to him. And, for once, the writer isn’t anonymous. The letter is from Arun.
When Kavita gets to read the letter, she is angry – another love letter! The anger changes momentarily to pleased surprise when she sees who’s written it – and then back to anger, when her classmates gather around, jeering and egging her on to go and complain to the principal. Kavita does end up genuinely annoyed, and goes to the principal’s office.
Arun – completely baffled – is summoned and ticked off. He tries to defend himself and deny having written the letter, but he can’t get a word in edgeways. All he can do is stare at Kavita and feel betrayed and angry at this accusation.
Later that day, he receives a message from the principal that his scholarship has been cancelled.
Arun is so devastated that he goes home to the Mathurs’, packs his suitcase, and having told Ratna what has happened, tells her he’s going to his uncle in Rashidpur village, until he can figure out what to do with his life.
This brings Ratna to her senses. She goes to Kavita, introduces herself, and confesses: she, Ratna, was the one who wrote that letter – because she was infatuated with Arun, and was jealous of Arun’s love for Kavita. Now Arun is gone, and Ratna has been the cause of his ruin.
Kavita feels terribly guilty and wants to go beg Arun’s forgiveness, but he, of course, is far away. Sumitra, to whom she hurries for advice, consoles her. Arun will return sooner or later; she can apologise then.
But there has been an unexpected development in Arun’s life while he’s been in Rashidpur. At his uncle’s insistence, Arun has accompanied his uncle to the mansion of the zamindar of Rashidpur, to ask for a loan so that Arun can study abroad even though the scholarship is gone.
The zamindar is (in a refreshing departure from the stereotypical Hindi film zamindar) a generous and kind man, who readily agrees. Later, though, he confides in Arun’s uncle that he’s very impressed with Arun. He’ll give the money anyway, but in return, he’d like Arun as a son-in-law.
Arun, when his uncle tells him the deal, refuses. He won’t be bought. The uncle manages to convince him: it had been Arun’s father’s dearest wish that Arun should grow up and be a doctor, so that the villagers (like Arun’s mother, who died of cholera) would not succumb to disease because of a lack of medical care.
But Arun says he’ll marry the zamindar’s daughter only after he returns from abroad. And he has no wish to see the girl for himself. He has seen pretty faces, he says bitterly, which hide evil; what need does he have to see what his future bride looks like?
So Arun leaves, aboard a ship bound for distant shores (among the friends who come to see him off at the docks is a young Satyen Kapoo):
… and his fiancée, Tara (Seema Deo) is brought by her father, the zamindar, to the city. He brings her to the home of his sister (?) and her husband (Kanu Roy) – who happen to be Kavita’s parents. The zamindar wants Tara to spend some months in their home, acquiring a little town polish so that her husband-to-be won’t be disappointed.
Kavita is distressed to discover that her cousin will be marrying Arun, but she gamely joins in the makeover project. An Anglo-Indian governess is appointed for Tara; Tara’s ghagra-cholis are switched for saris, salwar-kurtas and capris; Tara is given a new hairstyle… and she finds herself quickly taken under the wing of a young man named Subhash (Sudhir) and Subhash’s sister Leela (Madhavi). Kavita’s parents had been hoping that Subhash and Kavita would be interested in each other, but it turns out that Subhash is keener on Tara.
And she on him. To the extent that, when Tara’s father writes to his daughter, instructing Tara to be a good fiancée and write to Arun, Tara is most reluctant. She confides in Kavita that she doesn’t know what to write; and when Kavita offers to dictate the letter, Tara has another excuse: her handwriting is so awful, Arun won’t come back to India!
Tara finally wheedles Kavita into writing the letter.
So Kavita writes to Arun, pretending to be Tara. And he, far away in England, is delighted to receive such a lovely letter from ‘Tara’. He writes back, telling her how surprised he was – he admits he hadn’t expected such a polished letter from a village girl – and even tells her, though without naming any names, about the girl who betrayed him.
Kavita is heartbroken when Tara reads out Arun’s letter. But Kavita has been well and truly sucked into the whirlpool now. She has to be the one to write to Arun, as Tara laughingly points out: after all, Arun now recognises Kavita’s handwriting as that of ‘Tara’.
And thus begins a chain of love letters: from Kavita (pretending to be Tara) to Arun, and back. She falls even deeper in love with him; and he comes to know and love the Tara he’s discovering through their correspondence. But every now and then, Arun mentions the bitterness he harbours towards the girl who destroyed his dreams… and Kavita knows that this long-distance love affair is a dream she’s built up for herself. It isn’t real.
Then, one day, there’s an accident in the laboratory where Arun is working, and he is blinded. He has to come home to India. He does – a changed man: blind and gradually growing uncertain of Tara’s love for him (he’s also changed in that his moustache is now thankfully gone, plus his singing voice has changed from Mukesh’s to Talat’s, but that’s a different matter).
Just about everything. I love Bimal Roy’s usually easy-to-relate-to style of film-making. Films like Parakh or Sujata aren’t about the rich and famous or about crazy adventures; they’re about the everyday lives of people like us. Prem Patra is in the same style; people are shades of grey, not outright black or white. There are no villains – not even tyrannical parents wanting to force their opinions on their offspring – and there is no high melodrama. Even folk like Ratna aren’t really wicked, just naïve.
I even like the fact that Tara isn’t portrayed as the traditional bharatiya naari who wouldn’t even look at a man other than her husband (or her fiancée). Tara is good and sweet all right, but she’s human, and not a doormat enough to think she has to marry a man she’s never seen.
Shashi Kapoor and Sadhana, two actors whom I like a lot, and who are great together. Their chemistry is fantastic too: from the initial shyness (despite a mutual attraction) onwards.
Bimal Roy’s subtle way of showing emotion. I love the way he uses silences and expressions, rather than over-the-top dialogues, to reveal feelings. Especially in the case of Kavita. Kavita is caught in the unenviable position of being in love with a man who hates her but who is in love with the woman she is pretending to be. Her joy at getting a letter from him; her distress on realising how much he hates “the famous Kavita Kapoor”; her sorrow when he goes blind: a lot of this is never said.
Lastly: Salil Choudhary’s music. Not one of his best-known scores, but with some lovely songs nevertheless, especially Do ankhiyaan jhuki-jhuki si, Saawan ki raaton mein, and Yeh mere andhere ujaale na hote.
A particular comic interlude that involves Tara going off with Subhash, Leela, Kavita’s father, and Kedar on a tiger hunt. It would’ve been better omitted from the film.
Still, I’m willing to forgive that in a film that’s otherwise so satisfying a watch for a romance lover.
Happy Valentine’s Day, all!
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94 thoughts on “Prem Patra (1962)”
Lovely Valentine Day’s post, Madhu, though I’m with you on the no-nonsense i.e. red roses and red hearts business. :) I really enjoy ‘Prem Patra’ and would not mind seeing it again. Though I do remember that hunt being way too long. Bimal Roy’s films are also so well-shot and cinematically satisfying.
Thank you, Banno – and yes, I could well imagine that you would be one of those who’d also steer clear of the red roses and red hearts business! Eww. It gets nauseating after a while, even to go to the market to buy something completely innocuous. Those flowers and hearts and teddy bears are everywhere.
Gaurav Rhyme
I’m new to Bimal Roy movies, will definitely watch his movies…Happy Valentine Day !
You should definitely see Bimal Roy’s films – I think he was one of Hindi cinema’s best directors, and his range of films is quite impressive, from fantasy (Madhumati) to social issues (Do Beegha Zameen and Sujata) to lighter films like this one or Parakh. I love the restrained, sensitive way he treats his subjects and stories.
Sharmi
Isn’t this film absolutely likeable!!!
Adorable. :-) I bought the DVD as soon as I saw it in a shop, because I’d watched the film years ago, and loved it so much!
Lovely review of a lovely film.
>He has to come home to India. He does – a changed man: blind and gradually growing uncertain of Tara’s love for him (he’s also changed in that his moustache is now thankfully gone, plus his singing voice has changed from Mukesh’s to Talat’s,
I **snorted** so violently on reading this that tea went up my nose, but the discomfort was worth it. :-D
Sadhana did really well in two of Bimal Roy’s films. Both such mellow and soothing films (the other being Parakh, of course).
Sorry about your nose getting an unwanted dose of tea!
But it did strike me as rather odd that while Mukesh sings playback for Do ankhiyaan jhuki-jhuki, Talat is the one who gets to sing both Saawan ki raaton mein and Yeh mere andhere ujaale na hote. SInce I prefer the latter two songs to the first one, that particular change was welcome enough!
Yes, I love Sadhana in both these films of Bimal Roy’s – very lyrical and sweet and soothing. I must see Parakh again.
Valentine’s day! Another commercial gag! Hate the commercialism about it, but also hate the religious fundamentalist agitation against it as well.
Prem Patra! I have intended to see it since I read a review of it, I think, at bollyviewer’s blog.
A Film by Bimal Roy can only be good!
“she’s even able to perfectly forge his handwriting and his signature”
This surely is going to bear heavily on the story!
“who bumps into her one day”
Reminds me of Mere Mehboob.
Like Shashi’s smug look in the 7th screen cap.
“She goes to Kavita, introduces herself, and confesses”
How sensible! How Bimal Roy!
Was Seema Seema Deo already at that time? She married Ramesh Deo.
“she finds herself quickly taken under the wing of a young man named Subhash (Sudhir)”
Now I will have to draw a mind map.
A loves B, B loves C, C loves B, B has to marry D, D loves E, E loves D, there are intentions of marrying C to E,
Now we only need somebody for A.
“the bitterness he harbours towards the girl who destroyed his dreams… ”
Why didn’t Ratna confess to Arun? *groan*
How unlike Bimal Roy!
“plus his singing voice has changed from Mukesh’s to Talat’s”
:-) Stautory warning in chemistry labs: Blindness caused due to explosions in chem. labs can change your voice!
Lovely review, madhu! Happy Valentine Day!
Yes, the commercialism behind Valentine’s Day (or even, now, Diwali and Christmas) is sickening – they make a tamasha out of it all. And that moral policing against Valentine’s Day is equally silly, as you point out. Indians have a tendency to get offended at anything around, no? Even if there’s nothing really offensive about it.
I don’t think Seema Deo was married when this film was made (she’s credited as ‘Seema’), but I did want to put in her more commonly-used name, that’s why I’ve listed her as Seema Deo. I do know she was Ramesh Deo’s wife – they made such a good couple in Anand.
Incidentally, your mind map can be simplified a little. :-) I didn’t mention it in the synopsis (it was just a small detail, anyway), but just as Arun is leaving for abroad, his foster father tells him that he’s found a groom for Ratna. Arun teases her about it, and she’s very shy and sweet – you can see that she’s gotten over Arun and is quite happy to be marrying the man she’s now met.
I have a feeling that Bimal Roy deliberately didn’t have Ratna confess to Arun. Of course, there’s the practical reason too: she doesn’t get the time to do it. He comes rushing home, tells her the news, throws a few things into a suitcase, and leaves before she even realises what the result of her action has been.
Also, I think the implication was that Arun would already have guessed who had forged the letter, and why… but he owed a lot to Ratna’s father, so he would not have spoken out against her. Even without Ratna telling him, he perhaps knew, and Ratna knew that. Just my thought. After all, Arun knows that Ratna can forge his handwriting perfectly, and that she is hopelessly infatuated with him.
“Indians have a tendency to get offended at anything around, no?”
It is not the people who sicken me, but the political parties who mobilise the people to do it. I think this way then extort more hafta. All Nazi methods!
Seema and Ramesh Deo do make a nice couple. They were sort of Dharam-Hema of the Marathi cinema in the 60s and early 70s.
You mean to say that Ratna doesn’t confess till the end?
No, no. Ratna confesses to Kavita, but never to Arun. In fact, we don’t see Ratna after Arun leaves for abroad. What I meant to say was that probably Arun and Ratna knew each other so well that he could guess she had been the one who forged his writing, and she knew that he had guessed. Also, perhaps, she was so childish that she couldn’t summon up the courage to say sorry to him. I don’t know… just gut feel.
That does diappoint me a bit!
But human!
Have just finished watching this movie. What a sweet movie it is!
Just to clarify one point here.
Arun does know immediately that it is Ratna’s job – he just doesn’t want to name her. He tells his friend that he knows who it is but owes a lot to that person’s family.
As for Harvey being disappointed that Ratna doesn’t confess to Arun, she does! She sort of apologises to him at his send-off. He says, he’s forgiven her because it’s all worked out fine for him anyway. Till then she hadn’t even got a chance to apologise because he’d gone off in a huff. And after that scene, she isn’t to be seen anymore anyway.
It’s a minor detail but since Harvey was harping on it, I just thought I’d clarify this and put his mind at rest. :-)
Not that he’s going to read this comment but anyway… :-)
I’m so glad you liked the film, Raja! It’s one of my favourites – such a lovely, romantic little film, and the Sadhana-Shashi Kapoor jodi is wonderful, isn’t it?
I’m glad you reminded me of Prem Patra, because I have another version of this film – in Bengali – sitting in the queue. Maybe I should watch it one of these days. :-)
O, thank you, Raja! Now I can sleep well! :)
BTW, harvey, how’s Valentine day over there? I don’t see much around here. Of course I live in a small town, but that shouldn’t make a difference because there’s a lot going on about fasnacht. A few years ago there was more, but seems to have lost it’s worth.
Just curious, pacifist: what is fasnacht? Something ‘night’, I assume?
Well I’m glad you didn’t look up the internet for the meaning because you would hear of a ‘doughnut’ called that. Probably a name given by the earlier settlers in America to a specialised doughnut.
Here it has to do with the ‘eve’ of the Lent. There is almost a month of goings on with special kinds of band called guggen, and groups going around playing it. Then there are days with processions in fancy dresses (like a carnival).
The highlight is on Thurday when a lot of fat was eaten in the food. The week following this Thursday it picks up and then stops on following Wednesday (ash Wednesday) when the period of Lent starts.
And yes, there are these crisp sugar powder sprinkled things one gets to eat at this time.
The other countries around Europe too have similar things going on.
Two cities that top in this celebration in Switzerland are Luzern and Basel, which was among the top 50 celebrations in Europe.
Here are two link for an idea.
http://www.luzern.com/de/kunst-kultur/de/festivals-events/brauchtum/fasnacht?gclid=CLXv2LbAna4CFUwe3godawhldA
http://www.universitieshandbook.com/articles/fasnacht-in-switzerland
Thank you, pacifist, for taking the trouble to tell me! Even as I’d been pressing the ‘Post comment’ button, I’d been thinking I should have first gone and Googled for fasnacht instead of asking you. Just as well I didn’t!
It sounds – and looks – rather like the other pre-Lent festivals (the one nearest home here is the Goa carnival) that are held around the world. One last big binge before Lent sets in? :-)
Yes, the various carnivals around the world having it’s roots here in Europe.
It’s pre-christian roots (at least in Switzerland) originated from people trying to chase away the dark cold winter demons by frightening them away with noise from beating of drums, and frightening faces.
I don’t know if you’ve looked at the video in one of the links I gave. The masks are quite hideous. The more hideous the better.
And the music is quite a noise. It’s not supposed to be melodious (originally, just the loud beating of drums).
This part of the tradition is still followed to a great extent though there are some modernized masks (not so hideous or not at all hideous) as opposed to quite fanciful, and pretty carnivals elsewhere.
All this incorporated very nicely as pre-lent revelry later on.
That’s an interesting bunch of information – it’s somewhat ironical to see that while the Christian church tried so hard to wipe out the ‘pagan’ beliefs of the pre-Christian world, so much of those beliefs have actually become so deeply entrenched in even Christian festivals.
The masks do look pretty scary!
>it’s somewhat ironical to see that while the Christian church tried so hard to wipe out the ‘pagan’ beliefs of the pre-Christian world,
I think that came later on. The catholics have incorporated a lot of things from that era. It’s the later protestants now the americans who are doing that, spreading uniformity and removing cultural background.
ooops. I’ll stop right now.
I’m getting into dangerous waters here!!!
Responding to you at the bottom of this page, pacifist…
Monami Basu
Dear Madhulika, the sister you have referred to in this review is Padmavati Devi, a famous Bengali film actress.
The flowers shops are full of bouquets and plants with the tag Schönen Valentinstag. People in general don’t make much hue and cry about it.
The Fasnacht is called Fasching here and the same type of doughnuts like in Switzerland are made here as well. they are mostly filled with apricot jam. The bakeries have started selling it weeks before. They are called Faschingskrapfen here. Quite tasty!
There will be a Fasching procession (carnival) on 21st. People dress up in different costumes. It all leaves me cold. People get drunk and throw up in street corners. Pubs make lot of money.
>People get drunk and throw up in street corners.
I have never once witnessed this, though I’ve been to the Luzerner umzug many times.
What one eats here is called fasnachts chuechli. It is just crisp with no filling something like papad.
The jam filled stuff is perhaps what one calls ‘berliner’, which one can eat all year through.
Here’s a picture of a fasnachts chuechli.
Here’s a link to the other form of the same thing from the Italian part of Switzerland.
http://www.dieangelones.ch/2011/01/feines-vor-der-fastenzeit/
I haven’t seen anything like doughnuts though. It must be an Austrian speciality.
Here they are the Faschingskrapfen! They are made mostly in Austria and Bavaria.
Here a link to a photo where the jam is injected in them
And here a link to the finished product.
The hideous masks are worn here in December as well. They are not worn by everybody but mainly by Krampus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus
The Fasching or Carnival masks are that of Perchten
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchten
@pacifist, harvey: Please stop talking about all those fabulous things to eat! I’ve been reading your comments and am sitting at home having just eaten a very boring breakfast (cereal and fruit), with an equally boring lunch planned for later… no hope of anything remotely as delicious as you’ve described or linked to!
I feel your pain DO. I’m on a diet :-(
I’m hungry! :( It’s not fair, you two, to deluge us with pictures of such delicious things…
I’m honestly feeling like going to the nearest outlet of Mad Over Donuts (they’re an Indian chain, and make pretty good donuts) – and splurging, big time. Shame on you, harvey and pacifist. :-(
Harvey I’m enjoying this exchange of notes :-)
The Faschingskrapfen from Austria here is called ‘berliner’ and we get it here most of the time.
http://ostwestwind.twoday.net/stories/1348797/
>The hideous masks are worn here in December as well.
Actually they start of on 11.11. of every year on Martini’s tag.
The hardcore players of guggen music carry on from there. (a close freind is one of them :-)
You know, I remember reading somewhere long ago that JFK made a huge faux pas when he addressed a crowd in Germany by saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” – which according to the magazine I was reading, means “I am a jelly doughnut.” So that’s the berliner they were referring to, right?
There is a Berliner sausage too, if I am not mistaken, which is more embarassing!
:-D :-D
Well, one gets it here all the year round too. But during the Fasching time the production explodes. I would prefer it if they made it only for Fasching.
Yeah the carnival starts on 11.11. but the fasting interrupts it in Advent. And the scary masks in Dec. have a different origin. It is coupled with St. Nicholas here. The Krampus comes with St. Nicholas and the scary masks for Fasching can be worn by everybody.
I think it must be the same way in Switzerland too.
Ah, I see we’ve been talking at cross purposes.
No, there’s no mask wearing krampus here. Instead he’s called schmutzli in the german speaking part and Père Fouettard in French speaking part. He doesn’t wear a mask.
And St Nicholas *does not* bring , what we know as presents. Just nuts and mndarins.
Some info here;
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Schmutzli:_the_Swiss_Santas_sinister_sidekick.html?cid=7082046
Andaleeb
I read half of your post and want to see the movie before reading it again. I had *no* idea that such a textured movie even existed. Do you have any online link or should I go DVD hunting? :-)
Andaleeb, you’ll love this one. I don’t like the romances in a lot of Hindi films, because they either consist of the heroine capitulating after being stalked incessantly by the hero, or it’s deep love at first sight. This one has a more believable progression: though they are attracted to each other from the beginning, their love grows only over time. And, anyway – Bimal Roy’s sensitive portrayal of Arun and Kavita’s love is like a breath of fresh air. Very nice and very real. Plus, both Shashi Kapoor and Sadhana are good in their roles.
The DVD is worth buying (you can order it online at http://www.induna.com), but you can also try watching the movie here:
http://www.indopia.com/showtime/watch/movie/1962010007_00/prem-patra/
Thanks Madhulika! :-)
You’re welcome, Andaleeb! Enjoy. :-)
Madhu, what a perfect Valentine Day’s post! (Add me to the list of ‘don’t like red roses and chocolate and hearts and all the hoo-ha!)
I really really loved this film (I watched it after reading the review on bollyviewer’s site). I didn’t know it was a Bimal Roy film until I read her review. Sadhana looked so much better in these films – Parakh, Asli Naqli, Prem Patra, Hum Dono – though I must admit she carried off the glamour-puss roles too. She is one of my favourite actresses from that era. Thank you for this review.
(My keyboard, along with pacifist’s nose, was another casualty of (he’s also changed in that his moustache is now thankfully gone, plus his singing voice has changed from Mukesh’s to Talat’s, )
Thank you, Anu – I’m glad you enjoyed this (sorry about your keyboard having been a casualty, though)!
Yes, I did think Sadhana was one of the few who could excel at both the seedhi-saadi ladki and the glamour puss roles. She’s so good in this, Parakh and Asli-Naqli, and so oomphy in Waqt, Woh Kaun Thi? and Mera Saaya. Great actress, and so pretty too.
I watch Bimalda’s movies with a very ‘humanitarian’ mind ;-) What good can I learn from the characters? How do they react? How do they show/suppress their anger? etc.,
The beauty of directors like Bimal Roy is that they make the audience “feel” the situations along with the characters. Which is why we all see so much of commonness in the films and our lives. To their advantage, the actors don’t even need to ‘act’ in a dramatic situation.
“Bandini” is a classic example of this. The scene where Tarun Bose discusses with Nutan about her marriage springs immediately to my mind.
Same can be said of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee and so many other Bengali directors.
“I watch Bimalda’s movies with a very ‘humanitarian’ mind”
It’s good that we had directors like that, no? (and I agree with the other names you’ve listed – they’re in the same league). Though I love suspense films and the occasional fantasy/adventure film, there’s a satisfaction, a contented comfort, in watching a film like this, or Parakh – the knowledge that the people you’re seeing onscreen are in situations that are familiar.
I don’t recall the particular scene from Bandini that you’re referring to, but that’s an excellent film too.
Yes, its so good we had directors like that. In today’s world, I get that feeling in Rajkumar Hirani’s Munnabhai series. (Please note I am not comparing him with the directors above).
Suspense films will always get a big YES from me too !! “Kab? Kyon Aur Kahan?”(1970), “Saajan”(1969), “Kohraa”(1964) and so many others come to my mind.
You mentioned some of my favourite suspense films! Unfortunately, very few people seem to have heard of Kab? Kyon? Aur Kahan, or Saajan – most people only think of Woh Kaun Thi?, Ittefaq or Teesri Manzil when it comes to suspense. But there were some really good suspense films back then… Anita, for instance, or Shikar.
Very nice review Dustedoff. I’ll look for it on YT.
Thank you, Sophy! I did find an online version (not on YT), though the speed of my net connection is so slow these dats, I couldn’t play it for myself. Have a look:
@pacifist: I’m responding to you here, because we’ve run out of space above… regarding the ‘dangerous waters’ we were getting into about ‘pagan beliefs’ versus Christianity. I’ve actually been reading some good historical detective fiction by the Celtic scholar Peter Tremayne (that’s his pseudonym; he writes the Sister Fidelma books) and from what I gather, the trend had begun well back in the 7th and 8th century too.
I am surprised at the tangents our discussions on films can go off on! ;-)
>am surprised at the tangents our discussions on films can go off on! ;-)
LOL! Yes. In this case I think it was Valentine celebrations.
I don’t know about the celtic author’s opinion, but as far as I know there are a lot of incorporated stuff (eg the one we are discussing here, and also the various idols) which goes on ‘with’ the blessing of the church.
It also could be that in the alpine region it was different from the celtic world?
The only sense I can make of it is that it depends on who was there, and when. So while some didn’t object, some did.
The tradition of adopting ‘pagan’ beliefs started with incorporating of Christmas and Easter itself.
The term Yuletide for Christmas highlights it. The Easter egg and the Easter bunny are of Celtic or Germanic traditions. The Hare was supposed to bring back the fertility in form of egg back to the earth after the cold winter.
It is beautiful to see different beliefs surviving the onslaught of time and fundamentalism.
That is why it is important for me to think of these traditions while celebrating these festivals. It brings back a connection to nature and its changing form. At the same time it also gives me connection to humans who lived long back. Furthermore it also underlines human fallacies and the place of humanity in the evolution and the presence of that supreme power/energy which is all-pervading and of which humans were and are in awe still.
“…am surprised at the tangents our discussions on films can go off on! ;-)”
… and this one takes us back to an old discussion we’d been having on another review (I think the Ek Saal one), about how certain communities – like the Christians – are stereotyped in Hindi cinema. Harvey, your comment about how different beliefs come together so beautifully reminded me of the goodies a lot of North Indian Christian families traditionally make at Christmastime: gujias, baajre ki tikiyaan, and baajre ki roti! And traditional Christmas lunch is invariably pulao and curry. The gujias are a particularly interesting phenomenon, I think, because they’re a North Indian staple at Diwali – so it seems our ancestors, even after converting, figured that a major fetsival had to be celebrated with gujias!
Shilpi Bose
Sorry for butting in, but I guess being a food blogger could not resist it, Gujiyas are not just a North Indian favourite, Bengalis too love their Gujiyas, mum made some yummy ones, besides the North Indians and the Bengalis – and I am sure the rest of East India like Orissa and Assam too may have their own versions of the gujiya– it is a Diwali favourite here in Western India as well, it is called karanji here and the filling is a bit different from the Bengali version.
Gujia!! Oh yes. This was a traditional christmas mithai. I say was, because I don’t make it here anymore :-(
Neither do we. :-(
Thank you for butting in! Now at least we can get together and pay back pacifist and harvey for having me and Anu drool. :-)
Just out of curiosity, what is the filling in the karanji? And in the Bengali version? The gujias my mum used to make when we were children had a filling of sooji with raisins and nuts. The gujias I’ve seen in Delhi (only in sweet shops, I’ve never had them at anybody’s house) are filled with a khoya mixture instead of the sooji. And, after the gujias are fried, they’re dipped in a heavy sugar syrup which crystallises on the outside.
Yes the karanji too has sooji and I think sometimes coconut, not too sure, haven’t eaten it for a long time and it is quite dry in comparison to the Bengali version which has a khoya filling.
Thank you, Shilpi! So I guess what I’ve been eating are variations of the different types…
We too made it with sooji. My mother used to put the mixtture of the filling in chaashni (sugar syrup) which made it less dry without sprinking sugar afterwards.
I have eaten gujia with khoya filling at friends’ during holi (also mixed with bhang ;-)
I like the idea of mixing syrup with the sooji – otherwise, yes, the filling is rather dry. I’ve had gujias sometimes filled with some grated coconut added to the sooji/khoya mixture too. Nice!
Swiss Schmutzli is Austrian Krampus alright. He wears a mask in Austria, otherwise it is hard to look sinister without it. ;-)
St. Nicholas just wears a false beard and he also doesn’t bring any presents but sweets, nuts and mandarins/oranges
Lovely post, Madhu – the way you narrate a story is something that I cannot admire enough.
I’ve not seen this movie but am 100% with you and the others here on Bimal Roy. The terms “great”, “brilliant” and “outstanding” are so overused nowadays for people and products of mediocrity that I’m even ashamed to use them for Bimalda. We need to find a yet-uncorrupted term to describe Bimal Roy.
The story sounds really good – and so does its handling. I need to watch this one, for sure.
As for the commercialism around Val’s day, *sigh*. I’ve begun to come to terms with the realisation (pretty fundamental but I’m a bit slow on some things) that intrusions in your lifestyle become a problem only if you allow them to. So all the commercialism nowadays (and it’s not just Val’s day, it’s just about EVERYTHING!) has stopped bothering me (remember my rant about Ra-one?). It exists, it serves some purposes for sure (and to be fair, if it helps some small-business people to grow their business around these events, I’m happy for them) but I choose not to fall for any of their gimmicks, because that’s a choice that is in MY control to make. :-)
Otherwise, I don’t mind Val’s day – I actually like it more than Diwali. That’s because it’s about love and affection, Diwali lost that personal thing long ago (if it ever had it) and has become too ritualistic. I agree that showing love is a 365-day affair and not just a 1-day thing – but as a celebration thing, I’m quite happy to have a day for this.
I even wrote a blogpost about Val’s day a year ago. It was more about the thought/feeling around it – the commercialisation is just riding on this love, of course.
http://rajaswaminathan.blogspot.in/search/label/love
I agree with what you say, Raja, about “intrusions in your lifestyle become a problem only if you allow them to“. That was approximately what a friend of mine told me when I first expressed a distaste for signing on to Faebook! It’s true, I guess, in lots of other things too – TV, for example. How much you let something rule your life depends ultimately on you.
How did I miss your Valentine’s Day post? Will go and read it now!
P.S. If you like Bimal Roy’s films, this one’s a winner. Do try and get hold of it – I think you’ll like it.
Now what did I like, the review or the later discussion between you, Harvey and Pacifist about the pre-Christian beliefs finding its way into Christian festivals? Well I will be honest Prem Patra was discussed quite often at home so much so that I have nothing left to say, just that I loved the film and the way the love story unfolds, by the way I think it is a remake of a Bengali film, I racked my brains but just could not remember the name of the Bengali film, sad mum isn’t around when I need her the most. Besides, here is a bit of trivia, dad does not feature in the film but you do here his voice, he dubbed for the actor playing Sadhana’s uncle.
Having got that out of the way let me tell you something, I am saving this post for the future you might well ask why? Well there is loads of stuff what with all those links and since yours truly is a history buff, I need to go through this at leisure. I have done a great deal of research on this subject, I have got ,books, cuttings and so on. Well what do I say keep it coming friends.
Thank you for that little nugget of trivia! I wish I’d known before I began watching the movie – I’d have paid closer attention to Sadhana’s uncle’s voice. :-)
Oh, and now I’m finding it so hard to be patient and wait for your site! Am really looking forward to it!
I have to thank you for reconnecting me to one of the best Talat-Lata duets Sawan ki raton mein aisa bhi hota hai
Yes. It’s a lovely song. :-)
raunakjoy
Hey,This is good but not old Raunak,back after a long time.Was awfully busy for a while,so could not update myself on your posts for quite a while.Currently,I am going through all the posts that i Missed.
A lovely film Prempatra and even more lovelier review of that by you.By the way,the bangla original of Prempatra that Shilpi mashi was referring to is Sagarika-An Uttam-Suchitra starrer.
Sagarika is a film that is loved by some people to bits while some others don’t like it at all.For example my dear friend Sharmi doesn’t like Sagarika at all while she is head over heel in love with Prempatra.Now this is something that i expected since I know that Sharmi is a die hard fan of Dev Anand-Shammi Kapoor style of romance and generally does not like the Dilip kumar-Manoj Kumar style of romance-A genre which Sagarika belongs to.Don’t worry-Sagarika is indeed a Dilip Kumar style of romance but minus the tragic ending.
On the other hand many and Bimal roy himself loved Sagarika.Now if we compare the two-Prempatra is indeed better,even though Sagarika has better actors in the lead.But Alas! Better actors don’t make a better film,better directors do.A great director can even make Inferior actors look much better than the great actors.And that’s why Prempatra scores more than Sagarika as it is directed by Bimal Roy,who is a far more better director than Agragami,the directors of Sagarika.That’s not to say that Agragami are bad,they are very good but Bimalda is great.What’s interesting is that Bimalda has given Premapatra a totally different treatment and feel from it’s original.To say it in short,Prempatra is better directed and is more technically perfect [due to brilliance of Bimal da’s technical team and financial money power of Bollywood] than Sagarika.So it’s safe to conclude that Prempatra is indeed the better of the two but that does not mean that Sagarika is as bad as Sharmi and some others say and is neither as good as some others say.But Sagarika is a very pleasant watch and is a very good film,if not an excellent film like prempatra.Also,Sagarika boasts of some wondeful music By Robin Chatterjee.And then there are Uttam & Suchitra-You know what I mean? Also there is one thing that one should always remember-No matter what,original is original and Sagarika was the original one.
Trivia-The beautiful story of Prempatra was written By Nitan Bhattacharya-A core member of Agragami,So Agragami too deserves a lot of credit for the film.
Released in 1956,Sagarika was a huge blockbuster.So huge that it spawned not one but two remakes,both in 1962.One was Bimal roy’s Hindi Prempatra and the other was the Telugu remake Aradhana. While Aradhana did great business like it’s original,Prempatra was only an average grosser at the box office.
Having seen and liked all the three versions-I would place Aradhana little below both Prempatra and Sagarika.Sagarika and Prempatra are at par with each other.Even though Prempatra is little better than Sagarika,I place both of them at par since Sagarika is the original one.Just like there can be no son without a mother,there could not have been a Prempatra without a Sagarika.
Note-Someone just said that most of the good looking actors in golden era of Bollywood were Punjabis,with which i thoroughly agree.In the same vein,I would like to state that most of the best and consistent directors and screenwriters[the two main persons behind a film] in the golden era of bollywood were bengalis.And here,I am just not talking about the feel good cinema of Bimalda,Hrishida or Basuda but overall.
p.s:Knowing your likes and dislikes,I assume that you better try not to watch Sagarika since i find your and Sharmi’s tastes quite similar.
Welcome back, Raunak! I was remembering you just the other day and wondering where you’d got to.
I’m so glad you liked my review of Prem Patra. I really love this film (as you’ve probably guessed!), and of course Bimal Roy’s direction is a class apart – you’re very right when you say that directors probably matter more than actors. I’ve seen some really good actors in movies that were simply awful, but just looking at the filmography of some of my favourite directors… I see almost no films that were bad, or even merely average.
That’s an interesting comparison between Sagarika, Prem Patra and Aradhana. I haven’t seen the other two, but I’d certainly like to see Sagarika. I know Sharmi and I share a lot of our likes and dislikes (not all – she is more forgiving of melodrama than I am), but I’ll take a chance on this one! Now, if only I get it with subtitles… will look out for it; thank you for telling me about it. :-)
Directors actually matter a lot more than actors.Infact even scriptwriters matter a lot more than actors.Film is a director’s medium not actor’s.
I always go by the name of the director or scriptwriter[here i am talking only about the story and screenplay writer,not the dialogue writer.If the story and scene are in proper place,then it’s quite easy to write the dialogues] when i watch a movie.For example,if i am in a mood for Bollywood thrillers,instead of going by the names of actors like Dev Anand,Biswajeet or Manoj Kumar-Heroes with whom bollywood thrillers are usually associated with,i go by the name of Directors like Vijay Anand,Raj Khosla,Shankar Mukherjee or Biren Nag-Directors who really make fine thrillers.Actually in case of thrillers,even more than the directors,i go by the name of two scriptwriters-K.A.Narayan [Jewel Thief,Duniya,Mahal] and Dhruv Chatterjee[Shikar,Gumnaam,Intaqam,Kab?Kyon? Kahaan?,Bees Saal Baad,Kohraa,Woh Kaun Thi,Anita]-two of the finest minds in the field of writing bollywood thrillers.Sadly,most of the people don’t know about them and these two never got their dues,even though Narayan was a favorite with Dev Anand and Dhruv Chatterjee- a favorite with Guru Dutt.
Going by the name of the director and scriptwriter actually helps as one is quite certain that one would get atleast a good product,if not exactly an excellent product.That’s the kind of certainty that good directors and scriptwriters usually ensure.For example,when you watch a Hrishida movie you are certain that it will have good dialogues,irrespective of whether the dialogue is written by Rajinder Bedi,Ehsaan Rizvi,Gulzar,Vrajendra Gaur,Rahi Masoom Reza or Inder Raj Anand.[of course there is a reason behind it,but i will tell it some other day].Of course,there are exceptions but generally,good directors and scriptwriters deliver most of the time.
Going by this way of watching films,i have saved myself from the torture of watching some terrible movies which boast of great actors and great music but are awful nevertheless.
Wah!
I am very impressed. You know so much. :-)
What is the reason behind Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies being always great irrespective of the dialogue writer, by the way? Please tell.
Now,you are making me blush.I don’t think i know much but i madly love music,movies and literature which translates into my knowledge and understanding of these arts.
Well,the reason behind Hrishida’s films having great dialogues irrespective of the dialogue writer was that Hrishida most of the times would first write the dialogues of his films in Bangla by himself.Not many know that Hrishida was quite a good writer too and wrote short stories in bangla.But he would never publish them and instead would make films out of his short stories.These include Anupama,Anand,Abhimaan,Namak Haraam,Ashirwaad,Alaap and Anokhi Raat-the last one directed by Asit sen.On such occasions,the dialogues of his short stories would get transliterated from bangla to hindi by his dialogue writers.He could not do the translation himself as his hindi was very bad.Sounds strange,but it’s true.
On other occasions,when Hrishida adopted Bengali novel Satyakam by Narayan Sanyal or Bengali stories like Anuradha by Sachin Bhowmick or Golmaal by Sailesh dey,he would again get the dialogues translated from the original novels and short stories.
On some other occasions when he remade Bengali classics like Galpo holeo Satyi [Bawarchi] or Chhadmabeshi [Chupke Chupke],he would again get the dialogues translated from the bangla original films.
This actually helped the dialogue writers too as they could now concentrate on ‘how to say the thing’ rather than ‘what to say’,something which hrishida already supplied them with.It’s something like this-when you already know what message you want to give,you start to think how to convey it in most beautiful and effective way.[i think you will understand considering that you are a very good writer yourself].
So,in this way,Hrishida ensured that the quality of his dialogues was top notch,both in it’s content and presentation,irrespective of who was his dialogue writer.
You needn’t be blushing – I really did mean it, raunak! You know so much.
I guessed it was something like that, what you mentioned about the dialogues of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s films. A director needs to be involved in just about every aspect of a film, and if the director is good and makes the effort, he can create a work of art.
H.Narayanan
About Ratna and Arun:
Arun does tell Kedar that he has guessed who wrote the letter
(in a scene before he leaves the hospital). He doesnt
mention names but it is clear from the conversation, he thinks it is Ratna.
His anger at Kavita really has nothing to do with Ratna’s writing
the letter but with the way Kavita acted- somewhat wilfully
when she had every reason to think well of him.
This appears to me one flaw in the plot – Kavita’s acting
somewhat out of character, just because the story needed it.
It could have been arranged so that the Principal receives the letter
from someone else and Arun thinks Kavita has complained.
The movie is really lovely and the trick of mixing hate and love
and confusing the recipient is really very effective and ofcourse also gives opportunities for Sadhana to display her skills.
I have watched portions of it many times and have promised
myself I wont watch it again. I usually have difficulty keeping
my promises though.
I remember that scene in the hospital with Kedar, though I didn’t recall Arun saying that he guessed who wrote the letter.
I also don’t think that Arun’s anger had as much to do with Ratna’s writing the letter – after all, he did know that she was infatuated with him, and might have been jealous of Kavita. I agree that it’s more a question of feeling hurt (betrayed?) that Kavita should have acted in this way. I think there’s a hint of why she did it – she’s goaded on by her classmates; they egg her on to complain to the principal. But I’d have expected that someone who seems as srong-willed as Kavita would have been able to withstand peer pressure in that way. Perhaps the alternate treatment you suggest would have worked more believably.
Thanks for the detailed, fun review. It’s amazing:)
A little more than two years ago, I was looking for a special film starring Shashi Kapoor and Sadhana.They looked so good in Waqt though they were cast not opposite each other.
And then I found this cool review and some others done by wonderful bloggers. Many thanks ♥
*not cast* Typo.
Thanks again:)
Thank you! I’m glad you liked this review. This film’s such a wonderful one, I wish Sadhana and Shashi Kapoor had worked together – opposite each other – in more films. They were fabulous here!
coolone160
Isn’t Praveen Choudhary is the one from “Woh Kaun Thi”who played the lady doctor?……
Yup, same one. Also in Professor, Prince, Preet na Jaane Reet and Jhuk Gaya Aasmaan, among others.
Neelam Gulati
Film is good, enjoyable and entertaining. Shashi and Sadhana have done a wonderful performance but I didn’t liked the acting of Praveen, she is irritating her dialogue delivery is very bad, she also irritated me in professor but the good thing is that she had a very minor role in both these two movies.
I didn’t mind Praveen Choudhary too much in this film because I thought she did a good job of portraying the character – and Ratna isn’t a very likeable character anyway: immature and selfish.
Was watching this movie after reading your review. I usually read your first paragraph and then the like vs did not like. This way I can see the movie without knowing about it much. Had to stop it mid-way to comment that this is such a well directed, acted and “subtle” movie, so unlike Bollywood. This should have been made in US. Sorry, but It is no surprise that it is not that popular or well known, which reflects the common taste.
Just realized. This is a Bimal Roy movie. I know he is a legend but had actually not seen his movies. Not surprised now. I need to see them all now. And Sadhana is “oh my god”… can I go back to 60s somehow
I’m so glad you liked Prem Patra. :-) Yes, it is a Bimal Roy film, and one of my favourites. Not just of Bimal Roy’s works, but of that period of Hindi cinema in general. It’s understated, it’s about everyday people, it’s easy to relate to (incidentally, the Bengali film on which Prem Patra is based – Sagarika – is nowhere close to as good, despite starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.
I know Bimal Roy tends to often be identified by his ‘bigger’ movies, the tragic Do Bigha Zameen, for instance, or (at the opposite end of the spectrum) Madhumati. But he made several films along the lines of Prem Patra, using very everyday, very likable, characters in quiet and memorable little films. I especially like Parakh, Majhli Didi and Parivaar in that category of his films.
I was worried at the end that because it is a movie by a big director with all the realism and tragedy would Arun get married to the real Tara. Thank god that it got sorted. The tiger scene could have been made part of the story where Kedar would tell Tara that Kavita likes Arun (hence she stops being interested in the letters). They could have avoided the folk dance scene (don’t know… may be there was a political reason in 62 to show it). Also, I cannot believe people think of Sadhana as just a fashion icon and without a filmfare award to her name. Parakh, Prem Patra, Asli Naqli and Gaban are as if done by some other actress vis-a-vis Aarzoo, Waqt and mystery trilogy.
Trivia: My father says he was on the lakeside with his friends in Udaipur (my hometown in India) during the shooting of Mera Saaya scenes. Hence, that is my favorite movie of hers.
Finally, the Shemaroo print on YouTube is so good.
Interestingly, a lot of Bimal Roy’s films have very sweet endings. They may be ‘realistic’ films in other ways, but they don’t do you out of a happy ending. :-) Even Do Bigha Zameen – one of his grimmest films – has a hint of hopefulness in its end.
Sadhana was an exceptionally versatile actress. I haven’t seen Gaban yet (but mean to, as soon as I’ve read the book, which also I mean to…). Looking forward to that.
That’s an interesting anecdote about Mera Saaya! Must have been interesting for your father and his friends. I really liked Udaipur, by the way – visited it for the first time a couple of years back, and loved it. So very beautiful.
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PHOTOS MARC KRAUSE
Lufthansa captain Robert Löffler is a passionate collector and has miniature aircraft in every – really every – possible shape and color!
The man in the pilot uniform picks up the red plastic airplane with the tiny propeller and the short wings, winds it up, sets it on the floor, and lets go. It zigzags wildly across the tiles, even performing somersaults and back flips. Robert Löffler, a distinguished airline captain with four golden stripes on his sleeve, laughs out loud and slaps his thighs in boyish delight.
Flashback: Robert Löffler was born in 1955 and raised in Kulmbach, in Germany’s Upper Franconia region, near to the East German border. One day, he was lying in a meadow, looking up at the sky, watching planes come and go overhead. “There wasn’t much else going on in my town,” he recalls. So he dreamed about the planes that traced white lines across the blue before vanishing. One such lazy day, young Robert decided to become a pilot. He obtained his private pilot’s license even before learning to drive a car. In 1974, he passed the Lufthansa exam and has since notched up more than 20 000 flying hours.
From Micky Mouse to Martini glass
A plane for every taste
Propellors lead the way! Spicy flights ...
... and cloud book ends
Captain Robert Löffler notched up 20 000 flight hours during his career. He found many of his pieces while traveling
In front of Löffler now on the big dining table in his living room in Frankfurt lie the objects of another passion, all carefully set out: a winged alarm clock and winged cufflinks; picture frames and reading lamps with propellers; key rings and brooches in the shape of a Boeing; stamps and egg cups with landing gears; candlesticks, piggy banks, penknives. In fact, almost everything has a connection to flying or is adorned with aircraft. “It all started with these bookends,” he says, pointing to the shelf holding a fluffy porcelain cloud, split into two, with a small propeller plane plunging through it. There’s a giraffe in the cockpit and a hippo sitting on the tail. The piece cost 30 dollars when he bought it back in 1980 at Pier 39 in San Francisco, Robert Löffler recalls. It’s still his favorite piece.
Löffler gives us a tour, pointing out the highlights: the Martini glass with a single-engine plane on the stem that he picked up in Vancouver; the teapot in British racing green from Harrods; the pink jet with gold accents and pictures of the Vatican that’s really an ashtray… Crazy stuff. “People often make fun of my hobby,” says Löffler dismissively. For him, a man with a PhD in historical science, it’s far more than a collection of knick-knacks and curiosities. “To me, it’s an expression of people’s historical response to aviation, of what they see and have seen in flying.”
The collection is an expression of people’s historical response to aviation
Robert Löffler, lufthansa captain
Everyday objects, curious and useful things, kitsch – over the years, a lot has come together. Take the Christmas decorations, for instance: a rainbow-colored jumbo jet with palms on the bodywork that hangs on the Christmas tree each year, and all of the traditional German articles sold at the Käthe Wohlfahrt Christmas store in Rothenburg ob der Tauber created solely for the purpose of spreading Christmas cheer. The smoking manikin chick with aviator glasses that comes out every year before Christmas is “very important” to Löffler. His latest acquisition is a reindeer in a blue airplane; clap, and it flashes a crazy, mixed-up red and green and white, and while the propeller spins faster and faster, tiny LED lamps tirelessly wish a “Merry Christmas.” Even now, months after the holiday is over, this masterpiece is still standing on the bookshelf. Over time, Löffler tells us, even friends and family started helping him to collect. Instead of shirts, ties and socks, they now give him dainty Limoges porcelain jewelry boxes with teddies in the pilot seat, USB airplanes with slots in the propeller positions or cuddly cushions shaped like fighter jets. So far, Löffller tells us, he has spent a four-digit sum (euros) on his collection. He never buys things on eBay. Instead, Löffler, 63, prefers to browse flea and antiques markets all over the world and scour souvenir and gift shops. And he always considers carefully before he buys anything. “Just because something is old, it doesn’t mean I have to have it. It has to be a bit unusual – and best of all, somehow have something useful about it.” He has only very few scale model aircraft because “they just stand around gathering dust.”
Robert Löffler’s collection comprises over 150 special little planes; one day, he intends to catalogue them and put on an exhibition
Löffler’s collection now numbers 150 pieces, maybe more. And there’s a special memory associated with each one. He still clearly remembers how the china plane with Micky and Minnie Mouse caught his eye a few hours before he was due to fly home from Toronto. He even had to figure out which T-shirts he should leave behind to make space in his case. The captain and collector brings out his Coca-Cola aquaplane from Florida. It reminds him of the modified light aircraft Piper Cub, with which he sometimes flies before plowing himself a runway – splish, splash – on a lake. He talks about the teapot from Stockholm with the badly fitting lid, for which he had himself detailed to the next flight to the Swedish capital. You could sit for hours, days even, listening to one story after another.
Löffler would love to compile a catalogue of his collection and exhibit it, but to him, it isn’t yet complete. There’s a model of the legendary Ju 52 propeller plane in a store window at the Main-Taunus-Center that he would really like to get his hands on, and he is also still looking to replace the Swarowski plane that fell on the floor and shattered. But the most important piece that’s still missing is a plane with a woman in the cockpit: “The history of aviation would not be complete without it.”
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The Hart Group (Hart Security Limited) is a private military corporation/security firm. Its website states, "Hart specialises in mitigating security risk globally, across land, sea and air." [1]
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The Hart Group was established by Richard N. Bethell in July of 1999 and registered in Bermuda after his departure from Defence Systems Limited in 1997. Bethell, a former SAS officer and recently elevated to Lord Westbury, is a veteran of the private military industry.[1]
They have hired from the South African pool of soldiers as was revealed when Gray Banfield, an employee and former member of SA's Apartheid era Project Barnacle, was killed in Iraq in April 2004.[2][3] The increase in live fire initiated discussions to allow security forces to up their firepower. [4]
Hart has operated in Kenya [5]. They are currently providing armed protection in Iraq.
Bethell went on to address the range of security needs that became so apparent after 9/11 by launching the marine security company Global Marine Security Systems Company in a partnership between Hart, Tufton Oceanic Limited and Energy Transportation Group, Inc. The new company will address the dangers imposed on the transportation of hazardous and explosive materials like Liquified Natural Gas. [6][7]
Hart is a member of the International Peace Operations Association and the Private Security Company Association of Iraq.
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↑ Home page, Hart, accessed March 2008.
Hart Group Web site, "The Hart Concept".
Hart Group Web site, "The Risks".
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Jamie Wilson, "Private security firms call for more firepower in combat zone", The Guardian (UK), April 17, 2004, viewed April 17, 2004.
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Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg Archives Manitoba Series
Vocation in Canada
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The series includes papers from the time Metropolitan Hermaniuk was appointed Bishop in Canada and throughout his religious career, spanning the anniversaries and milestones in his life. The documents are both official and personal, greetings, con...
Hermaniuk, Maxim, 1911-1996
The series is comprised of diaries hand-written by Metropolitan Maxim from his days in Belgium during the Second World War, until his death in Winnipeg in 1996.
Series consists of correspondence so designated by Sister Cornelia Mantyka, Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg Archives archivist in the 1980s, and Nick Yakimishyn, archivist from May 1991 to September 1993. There are many cards, congratul...
Ukrainian Catholic Youth
The series records the interest Metropolitan Maxim took in the spiritual and cultural life of Ukrainian youth in Canada. It traces the development of the youth program guided by the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Canada, the evolution of St. Nichola...
Ukrainian Relief Committee
The series includes records of the efforts made to aid Ukrainians in Europe displaced by the Second World War. He helped organize the Committee's publication, Visti, with the aim to bolster the spiritual, social, and nationalist life of the r...
The series includes the theses written by Metropolitan Hermaniuk in 1947, as well as his contributions to newspapers and periodicals such as Visti, Obnova, Voice of Christ, Lover of Mankind, P.B. Louvain, Logos, Postup/Progress, the New Catholic E...
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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard rejects white supremacist David Duke support
November 28, 2016 by Anthony Pignataro 20 Comments
You know you live in a magical age when politics is largely conducted on Twitter and repulsive white supremacy infests much of the Republican Party. But hey–here we are. As we (and pretty much everyone else) reported last week, U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, took a meeting on Nov. 21 with President-elect Donald Trump. She says they discussed foreign policy, while the press corps reported that she’s under consideration for some kind of administration post. The meeting would have attracted great attention by itself, but a few days prior a letter signed by 169 House Democrats, none of which were named Tulsi Gabbard, went to Baby Donald denouncing his decision to choose white nationalist Breitbart honcho Stephen Bannon to be his “chief strategist.” Gabbard’s decision not to sign the letter only heightened emotions out here that she was, in fact, soft on the white supremacy espoused by Trump and his inner circle.
But apparently, even Gabbard has limits. On Nov. 23, former KKK Imperial Wizard David Duke–as big a Trump fan as there is–tweeted that Gabbard would make an excellent Secretary of State:
On Nov. 26, Gabbard spurned Duke’s love note, though she did so using an @ reply that meant many of her Twitter followers (unless they also follow David Duke) probably missed:
Bravo, I say, though I have to question why it took Gabbard three days to respond to the despicable David Duke.
Photo of Tulsi Gabbard: U.S. Congress
Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Baby Donald, David Duke, Donald Trump, KKK, Mike Gabbard, Secretary of State, Stephen Bannon, Tulsi Gabbard
Sasha Fox
He is posting new support of her now and her pro-Assad bill, and she is again silent when it comes to disavowing his support.
dopamineboy
This is the problem when people just react to headlines without deeper inquiry. This is what Tulsi has said re her “pro-Assad bill” – If we continue to spend trillions of dollars on costly interventionist
regime change wars, overthrowing dictators we don’t like, we will not be
able to afford to make any real progress on all the other issues that
are so important to all of us. There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that
were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually
increased human suffering in those countries — many times over. Our war to overthrow the Assad government has strengthened rather than weakened our enemies like ISIS. Many people simply have not learned from the past. They’ve learned nothing from Iraq & our overthrow of Saddam Hussein.” Get the point?
Her argument is that we should prop up a dictator because it will help Russia.
Jan Civil
“Our war to overthrow the Assad government has strengthened rather than weakened our enemies like ISIS.”
I get that this is a quite vapid attempt at making an argument on matters of real gravity. Apparently your mileage varies.
Stop bashing our Tulsi
Maybe she should disavow support from the KKK immediately and question why she’s getting support from groups like that.
I guess you didn’t bother to see she tweeted about it – “Ur white nationalism is pure evil” Did you really think she supported the KKK? And what other “groups like that” are supposedly supporting her?
She hadn’t when I posted that, and it had already been a day.
I think that she’s anti-Muslim and pushes a pro-Putin line. White nationalist groups agree with her on that.
That is such bullshit, given that the article you are commenting on shows the tweet you said you didn’t read. It shows your agenda. She has also consistently opposed discrimination against Muslims and is supported by Muslims. See http://www.newslogue.com/debate/326/CaitlinJohnstone
She has also opposed Putin’s aggression in Ukraine https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabbard-russia-must-face-consequences-continued-aggression-ukraine
This article is talking about a different time David Duke supported her and she was slow to distance herself from it.
She and David Duke seem to align their thinking often.
David Duke aligns with her on the topic of US stopping it’s regime change war in Syria. That is great. She obviously doesn’t align with him on White nationalism, which is no surprise.
Slow to response – haha, like she has nothing else to do besides responding to tweets from David Duke, assuming she even saw his tweet or knew who he was in the first place. Most likely someone else brought it to her attention and then she replied
How do you know Tulsi even knew that David Duke endorsed her till the 27th
PJohnson
I’d question whether David Duke’s someone worth responding to at all, not whether Rep. Gabbard was tardy in replying to him. Why do you consider his website rantings to be something that deserves immediate consideration and replies from our lawmakers?
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The Honeybee Brain
How Our Brains are Similar to the Honeybee
In many respects, the honeybee’s brain is not as cognitively advances as humans but at the same time, humans and honeybees have a number of things in common. For example, human brains contain tens of billions of neurons that send signals throughout the body, while honey bees have just less than one million. Although this is a stark difference, both human’s and bee’s brains are both divided into two spheres. Scientists are just now discovering these similarities and investigating to find out more.
Humans and Bees Have “Sided” Brains
As mentioned, it has been discovered that both humans and honeybees have brains that are divided into left and right sides. Each side of a human’s brain is responsible for controlling different aspects of our day-to-day functions including different thoughts, cognition, and muscle control. Scientists wanted to explore how the different sides of a bee’s brain control their functionality – to do this, they removed either the right side of left side antenna from a group of honeybees and recorded their findings.
Bees who had the right side antenna removed were observed to still be able to recognize bees from their own hive while retaining the ability to feed and fight off invaders. On the other hand, bees who had their left side antenna removed took longer to recognize other honeybees from their own hive and had a harder time feeding and fighting off outsiders to the hive. This experiment proved that bees have “sided” brains, much like humans do, meaning different sides of their brain controls different functions.
Different Bee “Dances”
Scientists also believe that the different sides of a honeybee’s brain may be responsible for the dances they do to indicate the presence of food. When a honeybee finds nectar in a flower, it will fly back to the hive and perform this dance to alert other hive members of the food source. This complicated sequence of moves has stumped scientists for years, but recent developments in the study of their brains may unlock more about this common bee behavior and about the evolution of their communication.
Bees perform three instructive dances as part of their communication. The most common of these is known as the “waggle” dance – this is the most complicated of the dances and traces a vertical figure eight while also pointing out the direction of the food source. This dance also indicates the distance of how far away the flowers are from the hive. Further experiments will help to determine which side of the brain controls these dances and if it is possible for bees to learn other moves.
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“Working hard at work worth doing.” Are you?
A friend of mine recently lost in her bid to be elected for public office. Last week an opportunity for me to contribute to a segment on a national talk show fell through. Last month I had another publisher ‘pass’ on the book I’m working on.
The fact is that whenever we take on lofty goals, there is risk we will not achieve them. Too often though when our efforts fail to produce we have worked hard toward, we focus on the failure. We think about what we missed out on doing or getting. People speak about their “wasted effort” implying that because they did not achieve the goal they set out toward – whether it be the business contract they had worked so hard to secure or the promotion that went to someone else despite their hours of overtime – that their effort was of no value.
But that is not true.
You do yourself a disservice when you approach hard work begrudgingly. There is little in life more rewarding than working hard at work worth doing, regardless of whether you always produce the result you want.
Working hard toward a goal or vision that inspires us, regardless of the outcome, always holds intrinsic value. What matters far more than what we get from our hard work and effort, is who we get to become from it. Caren echoed this sentiment last night with a group of supporters gathered in my home. She shared her gratitude for the rewarding experience of simply running for office and her appreciation for the opportunity to meet so many people, of all political persuasions and across all walks of life. Yes she worked hard. Very hard. Door-knocking on 20,000 doors hard. But she also drew enormous pleasure from the hard work, and shared the quote by Theodore Roosevelt which has inspired this post: “Far and away the best prize life has to offer is working hard at work worth doing.”
Caren worked her extraordinarily hard for the last 12 months. Her work ethic left me in awe as she made thousands of phone calls, and stood in metro stations handing out fliers. She put herself out there again and again and again because she is committed to make a meaningful contribution to her local community and state.
It is only human to feel disappointment when we don’t achieve something we have worked hard toward. But our hard work and effort is never wasted. It truly is one of life’s deep joys to “work hard at work worth doing.” And working hard toward something that fills you with purpose and passion is always work worth doing – whether it be raising your family, fulfilling a long held dream, building a business that fulfills an unmet need or, writing a book to change lives.
Today the word “work” has come to mean something to be avoided as much as possible for many people. But there is value in work. Not just for the money you can earn from it, but from the person you get to become. Hard work draws out talents and capacities that may otherwise have laid dormant.
“Far and away the greatest pleasure we can get in life is working hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
I don’t know what challenges you face right now. But I will bet that in order to meet them successfully it will require you to do some hard work yourself. Work isn’t always “fun”. Sometimes it can be a grind. But that does not diminish from its intrinsic value.
So let me ask you, where is your life calling on you to work harder at work worth doing? Whether it is the inner work of transforming the way in which you are living your life, or the outer “roll up your sleeves and set your alarm early” work, always keep forefront of mind, that nothing worth doing has ever been done without good old fashioned hard work. Period.
I invite you to recommit yourself to putting in the effort needed to live a life that honors the best of who you are, and who have yet to become. After all, in the end its never about the final destination, it’s about the spirit in which we pursue the journey.
Journey on.
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President Museveni letter to PM Ruhakana Rugunda – “Re: Existence of a “Sugar Board” in Kampala” (19.08.2018)
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Amuru Land Grab – Apaa Village Evictions: A long process of failure from the state!
That the Northern Uganda have been in deep end of the stick in many eyes is evident, by how lax the state has been to take care of their needs and their rights. That can now be proven by the forceful evictions from land in Apaa Village in Amuru District/Adjumani District. Where the previously have been attempts to make a giant farm for an investor called Bruce Martin and also become sugar cane plantations and factory for Kakira Sugar Factory owned by the Madhvani Group, this goes all the way back to 2006. Therefore, the plans to evict these people has been slow process from the state.
Now in 2018, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) have evicted dozens upon dozens of the local residents from their lands. As the purge on the village and the area continues, this has been in the making, but the ones losing their lands get nothing, but lose their homes and their livelihoods at the same time. The government authorities have torched the houses and left nothing behind, as they are continuing to evict people. Their lives are no meaningless, as they have to flee their land and are living on the United Nations Compound in Gulu, while awaiting their future, as the state, UWA and the Uganda People’s Defence Force have been evicting them over the last two months. Surely, the hurt is felt and real.
Who can wonder if the state is finalizing the agreement with Madhvani Group to deliver his second sugar factory and also sugar plantation in the area or they are making a game drive from Bruce Martin. However, this is still grabbing the land without any forewarning and also taking their livelihoods without any compensation for the hurt.
The District Land Board and Area Land Board cannot been informed or care to inform the people, as the army and UWA have been busy evicting people with force. They are just pawns on the chess-set, and the authorities in Kampala let it happen. The leadership from afar are accepting it and have gazetted the land and taken the land. Therefore, the people who has settled in Apaa have to flee or be evicted from the land, without any justice or law helping them out. No compensation and nothing left for them.
This sort of play has to stop; I am sure the State House is fully aware and let it happen, as they are getting their cut of the transaction of the land for whatever purposes it has. Its been planned for years, but doesn’t make it better, when they could have had solutions back-in-the-day as the government knew this would come. They were already in talks with both Kakira and with Martin. They knew perfectly well, what was up. There is even a third scenario where the land is sold to someone else named Linton Brimblecombe.
Clearly someone forgot the memo and left it stranded. They just evicting people in the favour of one lucky bastard who capture all lands, without paying the needed ones who was actually living their and done so for generations. This is a violation of the trust between the citizens and the government. Because someone accepted the trade of the land people where living on and had rights too.
The Apaa village and Apaa community deserves better, all of the Acholi deserves better. They are being misused and taken for granted by the government. They are just pawns on the chess-set. No value, the first one in the battle-line to take out so the ones of value can be put into play. That is how it looks from the outside.
This have been planned for decades and now it happens.
Amuru Land Grab: What is ours, is OURS; What is their’s, is OURS; and Whatever is your’s, is still OURS. Peace.
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Kakira Sugar Limited addressing farmers strike (02.07.2018)
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Mzee complains today about waste, however he haven’t rehabilitated sugar industry or revamped pharmaceutical industry either!
“In this regard, we need to learn and apply lessons from emerging economies such as India, whose total healthcare industry revenue is expected to increase from US$ 110 billion in 2016 to US$ 372 billion in 2022 in response to deliberate investments in telemedicine, manufacturing of medicines and health technologies, medical tourism, health workforce training and risk pooling/health insurance, among others. In order to achieve this, we need to plan in a harmonized way. In Uganda, for instance, we, indeed, have a nascent pharmaceutical industry producing Aids/HIV, Malaria, Hepatitis-B, pharmaceuticals, etc. drugs. These are, however, still using imported pharmaceutical grade starch and imported pharmaceutical grade sugar. The pharmaceutical grade starch and sugar are crucial for making tablets and syrups for children’s medicines. Yet, the starch is from maize and cassava and the pharmaceutical grade sugar is from sugar. I am told the drugs would be 20% cheaper. Moreover, apart from helping in the pharmaceutical industry, more refined sugar is also needed in the soft drinks industry. Uganda is squandering US$34 million per year importing refined sugar for the soft drinks, about US$ 20 million for importing the pharmaceutical grade starches not including the other raw materials, US$ 77million for taking patients to India etc. Africa is incredibly rich but wasteful” (Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE JOINT EAC HEADS OF STATE RETREAT ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH FINANCING AND DEVELOPMENT, 22.02.2018).
Seems like the 1980s World Bank loans to restart Kakira Sugar Works hasn’t done enough, since the Ugandan state did right after the National Resistance Army takeover of the state. They went into an arrangement with the World Bank getting loans for the company, to restart. That deal was done 8th March 1988. As the documents said back in 198:
“Uganda currently imports US$15-20 million worth of sugar annually, which ranks second only to petroleum imports. Import substitution through restoration of domestic production capacity is therefore a high priority and eminently justified given the considerable comparative advantage Uganda enjoys as a result of its landlocked situation. Conditions for sugar production at Kakira are highly favorable. Cane growing benefits from excellent soils, good rainfall distribution (requiring only limited sunplementary irrigation) and relatively low levels of inputs of fertilizers and pesticides. The project brings back to the Kakira complex the original owners who have a demonstrated ability to manage sugar operations at Kakira and elsewhere” (SUGAR REHABILITATION PROJECT, 08.03.1988).
Therefore, what the President said today, the Sugar Rehabilitation Project, which was done to stop the heavy imports of sugar and for consumption, has clearly not worked as projected. Since his own state is squandering their resources and not even following the loans to make the project work. That is my take on it. The president of 32 years has clearly mismanaged this and not finished his job. Since he hasn’t been able to rehabilitate the industry.
When it comes to pharmaceutical industry there massive challenges, not just the sugar starch for medicine coverage of the pills. Nevertheless, the whole arrangement, since the technology to operate these machines are imported, as well is the parts. Not only the sugar starch, but also the ingredients are imported too, than you have few companies who has automated manufactures, which makes hard to make medicine on a larger scale. It is also high operation cost, because of use of back-up generators because of blackouts and shortfall of electricity. Because of this, it is expensive to have cold storage of the medicine and have a storage for the final products.
So the Idea from Museveni that it is simple, it is the whole system around it, that makes it more profitable to import ready made medicine, than actually produce it. Even if the added value of production would be there, but with the circumstances put by United Nations Industrial Development Organization, seemingly it is from 2009. However, the state of affairs hasn’t changed that much.
We can really estimate, that the adjustment and the needed organization to pull forward both industries during the years of NRM hasn’t been totally fruitful. If so, why would he complain about the imports of sugar and medicine, when he hasn’t been able to make it function with his 32 years of reign? Someone who has 3 decades, should have the ability and time to find the information, finalize plans and execute as seen fit. That is if he cared about the industries in question and their possible engines for growth and riches of Africa. Nevertheless, he hasn’t cared and haven’t used the time wisely. He has used the time bitching and not acting. That is just the way things is and it isn’t becoming better either.
He could have made sure that the pharmaceutical industry had energy, had the sufficient organization behind it to make the medicine, not only import and assemble certain medicine, he could have made sure the sugar industry was profitable and had the equipment to make the refined sugar used in the pharmaceutical industry. However, both is a lost cause, because it takes money and time. Both, is something he doesn’t have, since the narrative isn’t making him wealthy.
Alas, he we are at the status quo, with a President running for life and complaining about waste. When he has wasted 32 years and not made effort to change it. It is all talk and no fire. Peace.
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Looking into the inflation of 1987 as the Sugar prices are rising in today’s Uganda!
“We have had a wonderful collaboration with IMF since 1987. We have managed to control inflation. By controlling inflation, we have succeeded in preserving the people’s earnings” – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (State House, 2017).
Well, there been many who has set similarities with the inflation and price shocks of the year 1987. The Republic of Uganda has been through their mess before. The government of Uganda and the National Resistance Movement/Army (NRM/A) had just taken power in 1986. This was a year after the coup d‘etat, which brought the NRA into power. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in collaboration with International Monetary Fund (IMF), which had agreements and Structural Adjustment Program (SAP), which promoted deregulation and less state control of the economy. This was also put forward to settle inflation and the deficit that the state had.
So, because some has put similarities between 1987 and 2017, as the prices has gone from about 3,000 Uganda Shillings (UGX) in 2016 and 7,000 Uganda Shillings (UGX) in 2017. There is clearly that there was problems in 1987, but whole another level. The Sugar Industry wasn’t established, the economy of Uganda needed export of coffee and this was the sole benefit of foreign currency into the economy.
“Inflation in Uganda is running as high as 200 percent, and low prices to farmers serve as a disincentive to agricultural production in a country of rich soil and mild equatorial climate” (…) “At the center of the debate is the issue of devaluation. In its first year in office, the Government revalued the currency from 5,000 to 1,400 shillings to the dollar, saying that the move would make imports cheaper. But exports have become increasingly expensive. Devaluation Debated. Some hard-line nationalists in Government insist that the cost of devaluation would be devastating. The cost of such imports as sugar, cooking oil and soap would increase significantly, they say, making the average Ugandan even worse off than he is now” (Rule, 1987).
“In 1987 the Uganda shilling was demonetizated during the currency reform and a currency conversion tax at a rate of 30% was imposed to further reduce excessive liquidity in the economy. There was an immediate drop in average inflation from 360.7% in May to about 200% cent in June. However, with the possible fears of complex and drastic currency reform, the premium shot up, representing essentially a portfolio shift to foreign currency, and possible capital flight, and suppressed inflation. The intended aim of the conversion tax, apart from reducing excessive liquidity, was to lend money raised through this tax to the government. This was to finance the budget deficit over a short period, rather than financing it through printing more money. Nonetheless, inflation shot up again within three months mainly due to renewed monetary financing of increased government expenditure, domestic credit expansion by commercial banks to meet coffee financing requirements and financing of the newly launched rural farmers scheme” (Barungi, P: 10-11, 1997)
“Prices for sugar and vegetable oil (both imported goods) increased rapidly in the early part of the year, falling between May and August — replicating the pattern of the premium between the parallel and the official exchange rate. The subsequent fall in sugar prices and stability of cooking oil prices were due to greater official imports. Inflationary pressures on food prices have been aggravated by supply shortages on account of severe transportation problems” (World Bank; P: 36, 1988).
“In October 1986, Mulema was replaced by Dr. Crispus Kiyonga, who has a medical background Kiyonga has a difficult task. The government’s finances are shaky at best. In an attempt to enable Ugandan citizens to purchase imported consumer goods, the government fixes their prices below world prices. This, of course, puts considerable pressure on the government’s finances: for example, in July 1986 the government imported $4.8 million worth of sugar to sell at subsidized prices” (Warnock & Conway, 1999).
Perspective from Kakensa: “Today sugar costs 7000/- per kilo. When Museveni came to power in 1986 each kilo was at 4/-(four shillings). Immediately he came to power he said Ugandan shilling had lost value, in 1987 all money was changed, not only changed but two zeros were cut off to give it value on addition to the 30% levied on each shilling. This means on every 100 shillings, you got 70cents. Those who had 100,000/- got 700/-” (Kakensa Media, 12.05.2017).
We can see there was certain aspects, but the sugar industry now is different. The Sugar factories are now real and the business are now in full affect. While, in 1987 the state needed coffee exports to get funding and foreign currency. The sugar was imported and was put on fixed prices. The inflation back then was because of the crashing economy after the bush-war and the effects of it. The Sugar prices now are rising for different reasons. These reasons are the yields of sugar-cane, the hoarding of sugar and the export of surplus sugar. Also, the production of ethanol and bio-fuel. That was not the situation and context in the past.
Still, history is repeating itself, since the NRM, let the prices run as crazy in the past. The price has gone up a 100% in a years time. Which, means the prices who doubled from 3000 to 7000 Uganda Shillings. This is not a stable and the ones who get hurt is the consumer and Ugandan citizens. Peace.
Barungi, Barbara Mbire – ‘EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND INFLATION: THE CASE OF UGANDA’ (March 1997).
Rule, Sheila – ‘UGANDA, AT PEACE, IS FACING ECONOMIC BATTLES’ (28.01.2017) link:http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/28/world/uganda-at-peace-is-facing-economic-battles.html
State House Uganda – ‘President commends Uganda – IMF collaboration since 1987’ (27.01.2017) link: http://statehouse.go.ug/media/news/2017/01/27/president-commends-uganda-%E2%80%93-imf-collaboration-1987
Warnock, Frank & Conway, Patrick – ‘Post-Conflict Recovery in Uganda’ (1999)
World Bank – ‘Report No. 7439-UG: Uganda – Towards Stabilization and Economic Recovery’ (29.09.1988)
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A look into the rising Sugar prices in Uganda!
I commissioned a state-of-the-art ethanol distillery at Kakira Sugar Factory in Jinja today (Museveni, 23rd January 2017)
There are various of reasons for the rising prices of Sugar and processed sugar in Uganda. This isn’t the first time or last cycle of inflation on the prices of this common commodity. Sugar is common in Uganda for concept of having in it in the chai or the milk tea. To sweeten the milk and the black tea the Ugandans drink. Therefore, the Ugandans are needing and using lots of it on daily basis. It isn’t a luxurious goods, but a daily usage, for ordinary use. It has become staple and is staple together with matooke, cassava, rice and maize flour. This is all seemed as basic for the Ugandan people. Sugar is something very important. Therefore, the rising prices says something is out balance.
The balance have now been lost a year after the election. The prices of goods and food was also rising in 2011, therefore, the Republic had the Walk 2 Work demonstrations. These was demonstrations against the rising food prices, which also meant the sugar at that time went up. The same is happening now. With also on alternative exception, that the producers are not only creating sugar for consumption anymore, but ethanol and bio-fuel. Therefore, the produce and profits are going to export bio-fuel and other products, instead of the sugar that the consumers in Uganda uses. This also is an explanation for the rising prices, as well the added exports to Kenya, where the producers gain more selling it there. Than in Uganda, take a look!
In April 2017 USMA commented:
“Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association (USMA) says the increase in sugar prices has been prompted by the increase in cost of production and the deprecating shillings against major currencies. The Association’s Chairperson, Jim Kabeho says sugar millers were forced to announce what he called a paltry 4 percent increase on each 50-kilogram bag on ex-factory price. The increase according to Kabeho saw a 50-kilogram bag of sugar trading at one hundred and eighty five thousand shillings up from one hundred and seventy thousand shillings” (…) “Meanwhile a source at the Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives who asked for anonymity says the Ministry suspects that the big players like Kakira could have decided not sell its sugar to the market so as to increase production at the ethanol its ethanol plant. The sources says sugar mills with ethanol plants are finally making money on sugar through on co-generation of power, alcohol and ethanol” (URN, 2017).
In April in Masindi:
“Masindi district leaders have risen up against the Masindi district Resident Commissioner, Godfrey Nyakahuma over stopping sugar cane buyers from buying cane from Masindi district. Last week, Nyakahuma launched an operation of impounding trucks of all sugar cane buyers who buy sugar cane from Kinyara sugar limited out growers and over five trucks loaded with cane were impounded by police” (…) “Byaruhanga added that that is a sign indicating that Kinyara sugar Factory has no capacity to crush the available sugar cane adding that since Uganda has a liberalized economy let everyone come and buy the abundant cane available instead of leaving the farmers suffer with the monopoly of Kinyara sugar factory. Amanyire Joshua the former mayor Masindi municipality said that if Kinyara is saying that sugar cane buyers are poachers, Kinyara sugar factory is a smuggler because it is also doing the same. Mary Mujumura the deputy speaker Masindi district blamed Byaruhanga Moses the presidential advisor on political affairs for failing to advise the president on political issues saying that he is not supposed to enter into business matters” (Gucwaki, 2017).
In May 2017:
“From last year’s average of Shs 3,000 per kilo of sugar, the price shot to Shs 4,000 early this year and is now hovering over Shs 5,500. A kilo of Kinyara sugar is the cheapest at Shs 5000, while Kakira sugar is selling at 6,000 a kilo. On the shelves, Kakira sugar and Lugazi sugar are scarce compared to Kinyara sugar, which is in plenty. Many dealers have now started hoarding sugar in order to benefit from anticipated price hike in the short term” (URN, 2017).
In May 2017 – Stanbic Statement:
“The only category to buck that trend was wholesale & retail, where staff costs rose and employment fell. Average purchasing costs also rose in April, reflecting increased prices for animal feed, food stuffs, raw materials and sugar. Higher cost burdens were passed on to clients, leading to a further increase in output charges” (Stanbic Bank, 2017).
President Museveni praises Kakira Millers:
“I would like to thank the Madhvani Group, despite the disappointment by Idi Amin. The family pioneered the production of sugar in Uganda. By 1972 they were producing 70,000 tons but today they have almost tripled the production to 180,000 tons,” he said. The President was today commissioning a state of the art ethanol distillery at Kakira Sugar Limited in Jinja district. The US$36 million facility, which is the largest in the East African Region, will be producing 20 million litres of ethanol annually” (…) “President Museveni pledged to address the issues to regulate the sugar industry but urged the Madhvanis to partner with farmers with large chunks of land for production of sugar-cane, as the cane is not a high value crop. He said people with small land holdings should be left to do intensive farming like the growing of fruits that give high returns. Turning to the issue of prices payable to sugar-cane out-growers, President Museveni advised the buyers and out-growers to sit together and agree on the prices taking into consideration the market prices globally” (Uganda Media Centre, 2017).
Government statement on the 11th May:
“Speaking to 256BN on condition of anonymity a government official monitoring the situation said the manufacturers have not increased the factory price, but he conceded that the situation is worrying. “At the factory prices are stable. Why is it that the prices at the retail gate are high. This means that there are some distributors who are using the hiding strategy in order to rob Ugandans. As Government we shall continue monitoring the situation until we come up with the solution” the official said. Affordability of sugar is considered a key barometer of an ordinary person’s well-being and its pricing can take on political dimensions when people cannot have sugar with their tea” (256BusinessNews, 2017).
Putting the price in pespective:
Kakensa Media reported this today: “Today sugar costs 7000/- per kilo. When Museveni came to power in 1986 each kilo was at 4/-(four shillings). Immediately he came to power he said Ugandan shilling had lost value, in 1987 all money was changed, not only changed but two zeros were cut off to give it value on addition to the 30% levied on each shilling. This means on every 100 shillings, you got 70cents. Those who had 100,000/- got 700/-” (Kakensa Media, 12.05.2017).
This is all proof of a systemic malpractice, where both export, together with lacking yields because of drought and also the production of ethanol and bio-fuel. All of this collected together are reasons for the rising prices of sugar. The sugar price goes up because the use of cane for other things than millers producers sugar for consumption, but for other export products. This is all making sure even as the Republic of Uganda has in the past produces to much, it now doesn’t. Since it elaborately uses the sugarcane for other products.
That has made the Madhvani Group rich and their exports of sugarcane products are clearly selling. Now even their basic milled sugar are sold more expensive on the Ugandan market. There are also proven problems by other millers, who either has to much cane like Kinyara Sugar Factor in Masindi. Which is ironical problem, as the Kakira and Lugazi sugar is empty on the shelves, while the sugarcane hoarding Kinyara are still in the shops. But Kakira which is produced by Madhvani Group, we can now understand, since they have bigger operation and is blessed by the President for their industrial production of ethanol and bio-fuel.
Therefore, the are more reasons than just shopkeepers not getting enough stocks. That the rising prices are not only that there is lacking production. It is the system of export and production. Where the cane isn’t only becoming milled sugar for consumption, but for all the expensive industrial exports like bio-fuel and ethanol. This is all good business, but also bad for consumers and citizens who are accustom with decent prices for their sugar. That is not the fact anymore, as the business and millers has found new profitable ways. So that the surplus sugarcane and also the other gains massive profits. This is all good business for the owners of the sugar-millers and sugar industry. The one who feels the pitch is the consumer and the citizens. Who see scarcity of sugar inside the shops and also the inflation of prices on the sugar. Peace.
256BusinessNews – ‘Government to issue statement on sugar’ (11.05.2017) link:http://256businessnews.com/government-to-issue-statement-on-sugar/
Gucwaki, Yosam – ‘MASINDI RDC IN TROUBLE OVER STOPPING SUGAR CANE BUYERS’ (28.04.2017) link: http://mknewslink.com/2017/04/28/masindi-rdc-trouble-stopping-sugar-cane-buyers/
Stanbic Bank Uganda – ‘Ugandan economic growth continues at start of second quarter’ (04.05.2017) link: https://www.markiteconomics.com/Survey/PressRelease.mvc/143ca2b8e3d84c79b96aed4885b7337e
URN – ‘Sugar manufacturer’s association explains price hikes’ (14.04.2017) link: https://dispatch.ug/2017/04/14/sugar-manufacturers-association-explains-price-hikes/
URN – ‘Uganda: Sugar Crisis On for Another 2 Years – Manufacturers’ (09.05.2017) link: http://allafrica.com/stories/201705100129.html
Uganda Media Centre – ‘President Praises Madhvani Group’ (05.05.2017) link: https://mediacentre.go.ug/news/president-praises-madhvani-group
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$50M sugar plant to open in Amuru district (Youtube-Clip)
“A multi billion shilling sugar processing plant in Atiak within the northern district of Amuru, will be commissioned soon” (…)”The USD$50M (UGX 175B) investment will have an installed capacity of 5,000Metric Tons, according to the project managers” (…)”The facility sits on 15,000 hectares of land half of which has now been planted with sugarcane” (NTV-Uganda, 2015).
You want more meat to the barbeque:
Check these blogs:
Here you get certain information about the land-grabs that is vital and pivotal to building of this kind of factory and development in Amuru:
Amuru Land Grab: What is Our’s is Our’s; What is theirs is ours; Whatever is yours, is still ours
Some prequel stuff as well:
Amuru Land Grabbing and MP arrested
Hope you also found this interesting! Peace.
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Amuru Land Grab: What is ours, is OURS; What is their’s, is OURS; and Whatever is your’s, is still OURS
There has been a lot of news and articles on this matter because of the sensitive issue of owning land. Land can secure families and secure the heritage of the local people in the area. The issue is how to deal with wish of growing society and also keeping traditions. Also settling people in after years of war with the LRA and settle especially the ones that are seen as Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs). Another issue is if the government tries to deal with big monies and doesn’t include local patrons or community. That disfranchises the people and also grows a bigger distrust from the community about the government institution. That also shows the true color of especially some of that is, also the matter in the Amuru Land grabbing. I will not look into the local squats between families and also IDPs and local farmers stealing land from each other. That is equally important. But don’t have the space to write and find a good way to put it into this one. NRM-Regime has from day one been laisses faire economics and not governmental business orientated even if the President of 29 years was into communist thinking in the 70s. Also into business that gains the government, but not actually the public and citizens always. Therefore we have the heavy prices and expenditure of roads. The deals and arrangements hasn’t been made in sincerity of the public, therefore has also the MPs from the area in now bot the 8th Parliament and the 9th Parliament has reacted to deals that been set in fruition. The Madhvani deal is the big one and the one with the most flesh and grants. Also the Apaa village dispute over the land becoming a hunting ground instead of being a village for the people who actually live there. Then I will show other deals that have been questioned. This was the gist!
Professor Ogenga Latigo spoke his mind:
“While referring to the process of land acquisition for the project, Professor Ogenga Latigo, the former Member of Parliament for Agago county and Leader of Opposition in the 8th Parliament indicated that ―Government mishandled the Amuru case, while others informants argued: ―”The idea is not bad but the approach of establishing the sugarcane factory [was wrong, and besides the project] is imposed on the people, the project should be started when the people have returned to their land. The priority should be to give chance to the locals to resettle before establishment of the sugarcane factory” (Serwajja, 2012).
Basic information from 2005:
“Gulu district in her endeavor to alleviate poverty and promote development is committed to mainstream environmental concerns in its implementation strategies. The district continues to rely on the natural resources as important sources of income. It is been noted that over 82% of the population depend on agriculture and this can call for immediate up-date on status of the natural resources in the district” (Langoya & Ochora Odoch, 2005).
Land Law information about in Uganda:
“Tenure arrangement:
Until 1995, customary tenants did not legally own land they occupied. The land belonged to the State, and the tenants were merely permitted to live on it (Tenants at Sufferance). According to its preamble, the Decree was intended to provide for the vesting of title to all land in Uganda IN TRUST for the people of Uganda. The Constitution of 1995 vested land in the citizens of Uganda as opposed to land vested in the State, as was the case with the Crown Land and consequently Public Land.
• Customary tenants on Public Land were empowered to own land occupied.
• Three quarters of land in Gulu falls under customary tenancy hence Communal Land Management.
• The Land Act 1998 favoured the Acholi customary land holding e g. communal cultivation, communal grazing, and settlements” (Langoya & Ochora Odoch, 2005).
Important land law:
“Section 92 of Uganda’s Land Act (1998, Cap. 227) states that “a person who…makes a false declaration in any manner relating to land” or “willfully and without the consent of the owner occupies land belonging to another person”… “commits an offence.” Notably, however, the Penal Code Act does not mention land-related crime or theft, robbery, or grabbing of immovable property” (Northern Uganda Land Platform, P: 6, 2014).
“Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), or ‘mediation’ as it is known, is not as technical, costly, or time-consuming as formal court processes, and aims to promote harmony among community members rather than naming a winner and a loser” (Northern Uganda Land Platform, P: 18, 2014).
“Migration characteristics:
Virtually, there are no refugee settlements in the district. However, large number of people in rural areas has moved to the forty six Internally Displaced Persons’ Camps and urban areas (RUM). It is noted that the Population in camps have risen from 291,000 people in 2001 to 438,765 people in 2004 and those in the urban centres from 38,297 people in 1991 to 113,144 people in 2002. Due to the same insurgency, there is also movement of people from Gulu district to the neighboring districts of Nebbi, Adjumani, Apac, Lira, Masindi and other Districts, not mentioned here” (Langoya & Ochora Odoch, 2005).
“Three criteria are found to be reliable indicators of bad faith. These reveal themselves as the ADR process unfolds, and include:” (…)”RIGHTS: Land rights of each party. These are determined by family ties, marital status, and transactions (gifts and sales)” (…)”INTENT: Parties’ demonstrated willingness to (not) respect these land rights. Usually evidenced by the presence of any “warning signs” and/or similar actions, body language, and statements” (…)”POWER: Parties’ perceived ability/opportunity to deprive opponent of land rights. This is context-specific, and may be assessed through probing” (Northern Uganda Land Platform, P: 7, 2014).
Some information on the Area Land Committee(ALC):
“A major point of breakdown apparently concerns the integrity of the Lands Administration itself. Although Area Land Committees are the “eyes and ears” of the District Land Board—thus vital to the process of land surveying and registration at the grassroots—these bodies remain under-facilitated, unsupervised, and unsurprisingly corrupt” (Northern Uganda Land Platform, P: 75, 2014).
Witnesses from the ALC:
”There’s no supervision of ALCs. So they go and do the work the way they want… because they’re human, sometimes they’re stubborn. On the basis of relationship… they can favor somebody. There may be a boundary dispute that was really not resolved – but in their report they say the dispute was ‘decided” (…)”“…a nightmare. The Kakira Sugar Works Limited overdemands money! Your file can be lost if you don’t pay them. I have to be very bold with these people, and tell applicants what really goes on. The corruption is highly coordinated, you can’t penetrate it. They look at you as if you are stupid if you don’t hand them extra money. I think the reason why no official fee structure exists has to do with the people behind private survey firms. If survey rates become fixed, then they lose business.” (…)”If I want to do something, you have the knowledge, I have the money. Money is very evil. However principled I am in my work, there’s some degree to which I will bend. All government offices are strained. No department says they have enough facilitation to do their work… We need to agitate, put it to the government that resources be looked at. Facilitating the ALCs alone will not solve the problem. Instead of centralizing the court, where people cannot afford travel costs (80-100km away), can we facilitate departments to do their work?” (Northern Uganda Land Platform, P: 75, 2014).
One set of background for Acholi land grab:
“To a number of locals in Northern Uganda, the issue of Customary Land Titles/ Certificates continues to evolve, and the rush to pilot this project has raised a number of questions and concerns about state involvement in land-related issues” (…)”In 1995, the Constitution of Uganda gave the right to own land to Ugandan citizens and any Ugandan could settle anywhere following due procedure. Following the passage of the 1995 Constitution the customary land tenure system was uplifted to the level of freehold tenure” (…)”As such, a clear definition and understanding of public land becomes imperative to securing access to land rights. One such example is the act of Amuru District Land Board allocating 40,000 hectares of land to Madhvani Group of Companies for sugar cane plantations. This allocation was made in the understanding that the land was public land. To community members this was a clear mismanagement by the land boards and manipulation of customary land rights by state institutions” (Otim, Ina & Cody, 2012)
“Lending credence to the perception of threat was highly public pressure from central government (including the President personally) for the opening up of Acholi land to investors, large-scale commercial farming, and other forms of ‘development’. From early 2007 this pressure was focused on giving land – originally 40,000 hectares, later reduced to 20,000 – in western most Amuru District to the Madhvani-owned Kakira Sugar Works Limited for a sugar cane plantation” (United Nation, 2013).
Main issues in Acholiland on land:
“Many Acholis oppose the project not only because Acholi cultural land is not to be sold, but also because many of the owners of that land are still in camps and, because of displacement due to war and the consequences, have not yet been able to return to their ancestral birthplace” (Kligerman, P:28, 2009). A World Bank report in July 2008 recommended a moratorium on land titles to investors in Acholiland until residents had residents had returned home from camps and people had been “sensitized” to land issues (Atkinson, R, 2008). The report also recommended that the government demonstrate its commitment to protecting natural resource rights (Atkinson, R, 2008); this is remarkable support for the Acholi people, particularly considering that the World Bank is one of major promoters of land privatization globally” (Kligerman, P: 29, 2009).
Insecurity when it comes to Land in Acholiland:
First one:
“Previous and on-going attempts by private individuals to acquire private interests in land which is perceived to be owned communally. Acholi leaders believe that Government is engaged in designs to help well placed and politically influential people from other parts of the country to access and enclose land in Acholi land. Common Property Resources are particularly targeted by individuals as well as government agencies” (Rugadya, P: 3, 2009).
Second one:
“Investor interest in the region; Pursuit of land access by large-scale commercial interests, speculators and grabbers was also causing tension particularly in the Acholi sub-region. The concern is that commercial agricultural interests will be cavalier in their treatment/understanding of land rights and land use issues. A number of highly publicized multiple attempts to acquire land in the sub-region presumably for investment and potential government development programmes, while some of these proposals may have been legitimate investment programmes to help re-establish peace and spur economic development activities in the region, the absence of a clear national policy and institutional framework for pursuing these initiatives has fueled the suspicion that “government” or investors as trying to usurp their land” (Rugadya, P: 4, 2009).
On Land Policy:
“Hostility towards government land policy is acute. MP Reagan Okumu asserts that there is a kind of ‘scramble’ for Northern Uganda, accompanied by a deliberate effort to deny Northern Uganda any development by scaring away investors. He says that because people in Northern Uganda are poor, whenever one flashes money around, they will sell their land at even low prices” (Otim & Mugisha, P:9, 2014).
Continuation on land and allocation of it:
“In Uganda, land is the single greatest resource for which a large majority of the population derives its livelihoods – because of the importance attached to land in all communities, conflicting interests in are unavoidable” (…)”Okoth-Ogendo describes land as a political resource which defines power relations between and among individuals, families and communities under established systems of governance” (Mabikke, P:6, 2011).
Allocation Part II:
“These land allocations dominate in the western area of Amuru district. These concessions have spurred major discussions on land grabbing in Acholi land. Central to these concerns has been highly public pressure from central government for opening up of Acholi land for “development” since early 2007 to allocate” (…)”land in Amuru district to the Madhvani Group for a large-scale sugar cane plantation. Reports from aggrieved Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG) – a group of Acholi parliamentarians accuse the GoU for assisting investors to grab land in northern Uganda. According to APG, the Central Government’s support for alienating land for commercial sugar cane farming in the north has been accompanied by powerful individuals gaining, or attempting to gain, private title to land that overwhelmingly belongs to communal landholding groups” (Mabikke, P:19-20, 2011).
On IDPs and Returnees:
“Some returnees allege that the government grabbed large tracts of their land while they were in the IDP camps and offered these tracts to private investors. For example, in March 2008, the Madhvani Group submitted an application to the Amura District Land Board for 20,000 ha of land near to the Nile River for a sugarcane plantation. The local government approved the application with an initial allocation of 10,000 ha for a period of 49 years. Some of this land is claimed by returnees. In November 2008, several parliamentarians from the Acholi sub-region filed an application in the High Court in Gulu and obtained an ex-parte (temporary) injunction against the Madhvani Group, Amuru District Land Board and other respondents for interfering or encroaching on the disputed land. In ensuing court hearings, the Amuru District Land Board was forbidden from issuing new leases on the disputed land until the hearing and determination of the main suit. As of June 2010, the suit is still pending in the High Court” (Veit, 2010).
“The Land Matrix database indicates that four large scale land deals amounting to 76,512 hectares were concluded in Uganda. In 1992, the government of Uganda signed an agreement with the Libyan government to allocate three large chunks of land, i.e. Bukaleba Beef Ranch (4,000 hectares), Aswa Ranch (46,000 hectares) and Maruzi Ranch (16, 376 hectares (Okello, 2006). Meanwhile, Egyptian government planned to establish grain farms on land totalling to 840,000 hectares (Kugelman and Levenstein, 2009) and Agri-SA holds about 170,000 hectares of arable land in Uganda (Mabikke, 2011). Similarly, the Ugandan government tried to allocate 7,100 hectares of land to the Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL) to produce more sugar although the civil society resisted the allocation through massive demonstrations and appealing to donors to block the proposal (NAPE and Friends of the Earth International, 2012)” (Serwajja, 2012).
First information on Sugar factory in Amuru district:
“Box 1. Madhvani Amuru sugar works proposal:
In 2006 news began to emerge of a planned sugar works to be built by the Madhvani Group on 40,000 hectares of land in Amuru district. The proposal envisaged a joint venture between the Amuru Sugar Works (owned by the Madhvani family) and the government, with a projected cost of US$80 million (Shs 162 billion) and included construction of a factory, a power generation plant, a water treatment plant and reservoir, workshops, stores, fuel stations and administration blocks, staff housing and amenities including hospital and educational facilities, etc.34 Amuru Sugar Works anticipated employing up to 7,200 people (25 foreign and the rest local) directly at the factory and some 5,000 on outgrowers’ farms, providing a livelihood to around 70,000 people in total. Five villages to accommodate 200 farmers each were to be built in the nucleus estate. In these villages, farmers would benefit from education and health services, while extension and credit services, agricultural equipment for land clearing, ploughing and furrowing, and a development fund would be used to support outgrowers. According to the proposal, 200km of road network would be built on both the nucleus estate and surrounding areas.5 Despite the proposed benefits of the project, a political storm over the proposal quickly grew, with the Acholi Parliamentary Group (APG), under the leadership of MP Hon Livingstone Okello-Okello, arguing that the investment should not proceed until all internally displaced persons (IDPs) had safely returned and that the required land of 40,000 hectares was too big to be given out for a single investor, since the population was growing fast and in the process of returning from camps.6 Madhvani Group representatives, accompanied by President Yoweri Museveni, visited the north at the end of 2007 in a bid to gain support for the project. Museveni asked the Acholi paramount chief, His Royal Highness Lawii Rwodi David Onen Acana II, to undertake a consultative process by setting up a committee to assess the land in question, research the sugar industry and gather community views. The proposal has subsequently been reduced to 20,000 hectares for the nucleus estate and 10,000 for outgrowers. In July 2008 newspapers reported that during a meeting organised by the APG, residents resolved unanimously not to give their land to any investors. Most recently, following dissatisfaction regarding the ruling of the Amuru Land Board in favour of the Madhvani Group, a group of residents from Amuru district, led by MP Hon Simon Oyet, secured a court order stopping any transactions on land in the district, with the deputy paramount chief of the Acholi, Rwot Otinga Otto, calling on clan leaders and cultural heads to resist giving land to Madhvani if they are not consulted, saying: ‘Just rise up against whoever gives away land without your consent’” (International Alert, 2009).
The background to deal:
“The first public indication of Madhvani’s interest in a sugar cane plantation in the ‘north’s central part’ of Uganda – that is, Acholi – came in a New Year’s Day New Vision Business article, ‘Madhvani to set up second sugar factory’ (1 January 2007) . By July, this interest had become specifically identified as a 40,000 hectare tract of land in Amuru District – see, for example, two New Vision articles from 30 July 2007, one from the Local North section, ‘Acholi MPs asked to support sugar factory’, the other an Opinion piece by Gulu District
Chairman, Norbert Mao, ‘Sugar is sweet but Acholi cannot afford a raw deal’. It is important to note that the land sought by Madhvani is situated in an area cleared of people by the colonial government almost a hundred years ago and made a game reserve. But evidence of various Acholi group’s historical claims to customary land in the area, and its continued use through most of the 20th century for hunting by groups with recognized customary rights is extensive. It is also worth noting that this is also a part of Amuru where preliminary research indicates possible oil reserves, and where Government has given out licenses for oil exploration – as confirmed in a letter dd. 4 September 2008 from Daudi Migereko, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, in response to a request for information on the matter by J.J. Okello-Okello, Chairman of the Acholi Parliamentary Group” (United Nation, 2013).
“The project entails acquisition of 40,000 hectares of land in perpetuity and at zero cost, implicitly the people of Lakang are meant to give away the land for development of the sugar industry. Half of the land, 20,000 hectares, will be used to establish a central business district (nucleus estate) of the factory that will entirely be under the management of the Madhvani Group and the remaining land will leased to the communities to grow sugarcane under the out-grower scheme. At the same time, the Madhvani Group will acquire a title deed to the land in question (40,000 hectares) in a quest to secure additional funding of about US$50 million from the African Development Bank” (Serwajja, 2012).
“A review of the feasibility study report for proposed sugar project in Amuru district revealed that the area was preferred because of availability of permanent source of water which would provide water for irrigation and proposed factory. The proposed project is located about 6 kms is near the river Nile. Other suitable conditions for sugar cane growing identified included suitable topography with undulating plains, reliable rainfall of 1029 mm annually and fertile soils (sandy clay loam and loam) and availability of spear type of grass which is easy to clear (Madhivani Group March 2007). For the investors acquiring land from the UIA, they had to ensure that the land had no conflicts. For investors who acquired land from the UIA and DLBs, there are guidelines that prescribe all the processes for acquisition” (…)”In Amuru district, an investor had fenced off land cutting off adjustment villages from a health centre and a weekly market. Similarly, in the Kaweeri coffee plantation, the community complained about restrictions of movement through the plantation to access their villages. Since part of the process of land acquisition does not require understanding a gender analysis, its implications on women and men will not be understood and therefore such scales and effects will not inform planned actions“(Kanyesigye, P:13 & 15, 2014).
On the 11th December 2014 Attorney General Peter Nyombi wrote this in a letter:
“In a cabinet meeting presided over by H.E. the President, while briefing cabinet on the progress made so far by regarding the above project you informed cabinet that the survey of the project land would be done after the by-elections in Amuru District” (…)”Could you therefore have the land surveyed and the occupants of the same established and their property on the same recorded and valued so that the project can go ahead” (Nyombi, 2014).
Two other cases:
First case:
“According to the minister’s letter dated 7th January 2008, Major General Julius Oketa had applied to be issued with a certificate of title for approximately 10,000 hectares of land located in Amuru district for a sugar industry. The letter shows that there was no functional
Area Land Committees (ALC) in place which would inspect the land before issuing the title” (Mabikke, P: 20, 2011)
Second Case:
“A similar case of alleged land grabbing is cited in the petition presented to the Speaker of the Parliament, filed by Hon. Okello-Okello John Livingstone – chairman APG. Okello reported several attempts of land grabbing involving senior government officials in northern Uganda.
In 1992 the GoU signed a protocol with the Government of Libya giving away the following large chunks of land namely;
• Bukaleba Beef Ranch 4,000 hectares,
• Aswa Ranch 46,000 hectares
• Maruzi Ranch 16,376 hectares” (Mabikke, P:20, 2011).
A third case:
“The case of land in Apaa Village (Amuru District) illustrates the suspicions of local people concerning the acquisition of large tracts of land. In 2005, when people were still living in the camps, land was given to Bruce Martin from South Africa who was investing in game reserves for sports hunting. When resistance from the community intensified, it is claimed that the government changed tactics and asked the neighbouring district of Adjumani to contest ownership and claim that this land actually lies within Adjumani District. The Adjumani District authorities then passed a council resolution giving the land away to the ‘investor’. Some participants in this research argued that the boundaries between the two districts of Adjumani and Acholi are clear, and that some district politicians are manufacturing the boundary conflict. During an interview with the District Chairperson of Adjumani, he showed a map of the area in dispute claiming the area belongs to Adjumani District” (Otim & Mugisha, P: 8, 2014).
Fourth Case:
On the 9th of September of 2015 the police arrested the Amuru MP Hon Gilbert Olanya. Residents has reacted to buy of land and grabbing of Apaa village. The Villages and the MP was forced into the Police car even with the NTV camera crew in the place.
The TDA press release said this: “Three people are now confirmed dead by sources in Apa. Several people suffered grave injuries and are being treated at Amuru health centre. The Member of Parliament Gilbert Olanya was arrested and is believed to be detained in Masindi police station” (Minbane, 2015).
Afterthought:
I think I have said enough. If you’re not enlighten and gotten more clear information on the subject and the issue that these people are living through, then I am sure you should read more reports and dwell on the matter at hand. It is a sensitive matter that by my reckoning hasn’t been dealt in the best way. The arrangement and deals has been beneficiary for the government and state institutions, but not in favor of the demand in the districts. Also it has not put into an account what the local area needs or settlement of the IDPs after the long war in the war-torn area of the Northern Uganda. So many people are still in tents in the camps instead of building themselves into a stabile life. That is really growing prosperity and not just short and quick bucks with the sale of big areas located to foreign and not local merchants. Also fertile land is being sold to either facilitate a giant sugar-factory or as another big time deal to become hunting grounds instead of a place where the citizens can live and earn a livelihood. When this kind of actions happen from the government officials in Kampala and not directly with due diligence locally, then there will be frictions and anger towards the men who gave the businessmen the opportunity to occupy the lands. There are already as seen in many of the reports many smaller incidents between neighbors and family members to allocate lands in the Amuru and Adjumani district. Therefore this will be a sensitive issue that will not be over, especially not over until the next sunset. There will be many moons and even more hot air before a certainty is there. Especially when the Government overrules and sells the land without doing proper procedure and allocations, without checking the status of the area as it unfolds. They the government officials are just pocketing money quick and then send police to get rid of those who live there. At the same time having citizens in the camps as IDPs without a possibility to land and harvest, to find work to sustain them and live. That should have been the priority and not the businessmen from a far. Which is also the main reason why the locals reacts that strongly towards this land grabs and how they feel overrun and not listen to by the powers to be. In this case of the Government of Uganda and their LDC and certain ministries that have put the allocations into effect. An in this particular cases might put the quick monies before the additional and usually most important feature of any government institutions the people and the citizens before the contracts of selling the lands. Henceforth it’s understandable why people react and demonstrate when they feel wronged by the ones that supposed to serve you and secure security and care so you earn your livelihood. And that shouldn’t be too much to ask from the NRM-Regime, though it seems more likely that the big sums of monies matter more than the public reactions at this present time. Also that the continuation of disfranchising the northern districts of Uganda continues, especially with the Oil findings in Western/North Western Uganda – Bunyoro while Amuru and Adjumani will lose more to that area than even before. Peace.
Kanyesigye, Juliet – ‘Hearing the other Voice: Investor perspectives on Protection of Women’s Land Rights in Large scale Land Acquisition in Uganda’, Submitted to the World Bank Conference 2014 on Land and Poverty 23-27th 2015, Washington D.C.
Kligerman, Nicole – ‘Alienation in Acholiland: War, Privatization and Land Displacement in Northern Uganda (2009)
Langoya & Ochora Odoch, Walter – Gulu District Local Government – ‘District State of Enviroment Report (2005) – Gulu, Uganda
Mabikke, Samuel B – ‘Escalating Land Grabbing In Post-conflict Regions of
Northern Uganda: A Need for Strengthening Good Land Governance in Acholi Region’ (08-11.04.2011) – Paper presented at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, University of Sussex
Minbane – ‘Press Release: TDA condems the violent and forceful eviction in Apa Uganda’ (08.09.2015) link: https://minbane.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/press-release-a-condemns-the-violent-and-forceful-eviction-in-apa-uganda-08-09-2015/
Northern Uganda Land Platform – ‘Power & Vulnerability in land Dispute Resolution – Evaluating Responses to Domestic Land Grabbing in Northern Uganda’ (Lira, May, 2014)
Nyombi, Peter – ADM/7/168/01 – ‘Re: Land for the Sugar Project in Amuru District’ to Hon. Daudi Migereko, Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Kampala
International Alert – ‘Contributing to a Peace Economy in Northern Uganda:
A Guide for Investors’ (06.2009)
Rugadya, Margaret A. – ‘UNVEILING GENDER, LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS IN
POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA’ (November, 2008)
Serwajja, Eric – ‘The Quest for Development Through Dispossession: Examining Amuru Sugar Works in Lakang-Amuru District of Northern Uganda’ (17-19.10 2012) – Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI)
Otim, Denis Barnabas, Ina, Jahn & Cody, Emily – Refugee Law Project MUK – ‘Conflict Watch: “Land and Investment” – Balancing Local and Investor Interest’ (August 2012)
Otim, David & Mugisha, Police Charles – Saferworld: ‘Beyond the reach of the hoe: The struggle for land and minerals in Northern Uganda’ (April 2014)
United Nation – ‘LAND CONFLICT MONITORING and MAPPING TOOL for the Acholi Sub-region – Final Report March 2013’
Veit, Peter – ‘Focus on LAND in Africa – Breif: CONFLICT, DISPLACEMENT, AND LAND RIGHTS IN UGANDA: Uganda’ (December, 2010)
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BBC News Not As Hysterical About Harvey Sweinstein
Posted on 22 October, 2017 by ilana mercer 2 comments
By ilana mercer
I’d like to better understand the American conservative media’s orgy over Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced and disgraceful Hollywood film producer and studio executive who used his power over decades to have his way with starlets.
To listen to conservative talkers, the women affronted or assaulted by Weinstein were all Shakespearean talent in the making—female clones of Richard Burton (he had no match among women)—who made the pilgrimage to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hollywood Hills, for the purpose of realizing their talent, never knowing it was a meat market. Watching the women who make up the dual-perspective panels “discussing” the Weinstein saga, it’s hard to tell conservative from liberal.
“Conservative” women now complain as bitterly as their liberal counterparts about “objectification.”
However, the female form has always been revered; been the object of sexual longing, clothed and nude. The reason the female figure is so crudely objectified nowadays has a great deal to do with … women themselves. By virtue of their conduct, women no longer inspire reverence as the fairer sex, and as epitomes of loveliness. For they are crasser, vainer, more eager to expose all voluntarily than any male. Except for Anthony Weiner, the name of an engorged organism indigenous to D.C., who was in the habit of exposing himself as often as the Kardashians do.
The latter clan is a bevy of catty exhibitionists, controlled by a mercenary, ball-busting matriarch called Kris Kardashian. Kris is madam to America’s First Family of Celebrity Pornographers. (To launch a career with a highly stylized, self-directed sex tape is no longer even condemned.) Lots of little girls, with parental approval, look up to the Kardashians.
From Kim, distaff America learns to couch a preoccupation with pornographic selfies in the therapeutic idiom. Kardashian flaunts her ass elephantiasis with pure self-love. Yet millions of her admirers depict her obscene posturing online as an attempt to come to terms with her body. “Be a little easier on myself,” counsels Kim as she directs her camera to the nether reaches of her carefully posed, deformed derriere. While acting dirty and self-adoring, Kardashian delivers as close to a social jeremiad on self-esteem as her kind can muster. Genius!
Liberalism and libertinism are intertwined. The more liberal a woman, the more libertine she’ll be—and the more she’ll liberate herself to be coarse, immodest, vulgar and plain repulsive. Think of the menopausal Ashley Judd rapping lewdly about her (alleged) menstrual fluids at an anti-Trump rally. Think of all those liberal, liberated grannies adorning pussy dunce-caps on the same occasion.
By nature, the human woman is a peacock. We like to be noticed. The conservative among us prefer the allure of modesty. The sluts among us don’t. On social media, women outstrip men in the narcissistic and exhibitionist departments. In TV ads, American women, fat, thin, young and old, are grinding their bottoms, spreading their legs, showing the contours of their crotches, and dancing as though possessed (or like primates on heat), abandoning any semblance of femininity and gentility, all the while laughing like hyenas and hollering hokum like, “I Own It.”
The phrase a “bum’s rush” means “throw the bum out!” When it comes to Allison Williams, daughter of NBC icon Brian Williams, a bum’s rush takes on new meaning. Thanks in no small measure to her famous father, the young woman has become a sitcom star. And Ms. Williams has worked extra-hard to hone all aspects of an actress’ instrument (the body). Alison has carried forth enthusiastically about a groundbreaking scene dedicated to exploring “ass motorboating” or “booty-eating,” on HBO’s “Girls.”
The lewder, more pornographic, and less talented at their craft popular icons become—the louder the Left lauds their artistically dodgy output. (The “Right” just keeps moving Left.) “Singer” Miley Cyrus was mocked before she began twerking tush, thrusting pelvis and twirling tongue. Only then had she arrived as an artist, in the eyes of “critics” on the Left. The power of the average pop artist and her products, Miley’s included, lies in the pornography that is her “art,” in her hackneyed political posturing, and in the fantastic technology that is Auto-Tune (without which all the sound you’d hear these “singers” emit would be a bedroom whisper).
Liberal women, the majority, go about seriously and studiously cultivating their degeneracy. If “Raising Skirts to Celebrate the Diversity of Vaginas” sounds foul, wait for the accompanying images. These show feral creatures (women, presumably), skirts hoisted, gobs agape, some squatting like farmhands in an outhouse, all yelling about their orifices.
Do you know of a comparable man’s movement? If anything, men are punished when they react normally to women behaving badly.
Female soldiers got naked and uploaded explicit images of themselves to an online portal. The normals—male soldiers—shared the images and were promptly punished for so doing. And the conservative side of that ubiquitous, dueling-perspectives political panel approved of the punishment meted to the men.
So endemic is distaff degeneracy these days that “protesters” routinely disrobe or perform lewd acts with objects in public. Vladimir Putin is a great man if only for arresting a demented band of performance artists, Pussy Riot, for desecrating a Russian church.
If men flashed for freedom; they’d be arrested, jailed and placed on the National Sex Offender Registry.
Talk about the empress being in the buff, I almost forgot to attach an image of this celebrity, bare-bottomed on the red-carpet. Rose McGowan is hardly unique. Many a star will arrive at these events barely clothed. (Here are 38 more near-naked Red-Carpet appearances.)
Expect a feminist lecture about a woman’s right to pretend her bare bottom is haute couture, rather than ho couture, and expecting the Harveys of the world to behave like choir boys around her. Fine.
Being British, BBC News anchors are not nearly as dour about the Harvey hysteria as the American anchors. A female presenter began a Sweinstein segment by saying men claim the coverage of the scandal is excessive; women say the opposite. “That’s why we’re covering it,” quipped her witty male sidekick. She roared with laughter. That’s my girl!
Look, Harvey is a lowlife. But Hollywood hos are not as the sanctimonious Sean Hannity portrays them: “naive, innocent young things,” dreams shattered.
Ilana Mercer has been writing a paleolibertarian column since 1999, and is the author of The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed (June, 2016) & Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011). Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Gab & YouTube.
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Armoured Libraries and survival of culture and law
Posted on 26 November, 2013 by David Davis 10 comments
Various prominent British libertarians seem now agreed that The Endarkenment approaches. The signs have been increasingly clear for some time. The fact that liberty is the mother of order and not its daughter is inconvenient for those that mean to boot the vast majority of Mankind – except themselves – backwards, cruelly, painfully and hard into pre-enlightenment misery, starvation, disease and servitude.
Being a scientist myself by training and thought-modes, and therefore by definition not an intellectual – I have never figured out why humans get to want to bring about – and worse, specifically for others than themselves – what I described above.
It always seems after careful analysis of their plans, that they would like to visit upon the whole of humanity what Churchill described as “the torments that Dante reserved for the damned”.
[Incidentally, I think that “intellectual” (the noun) is is a mere imaginary literary concept, applied by primitive pre-scientific mystics to themselves and their friends who still work according to neolithic non-tribe-male-skull-crashing theories of how to behave towards others, and are driven by emotion and wishful thinking. This may become the subject of another discussion, but perhaps I may accidentally have defined “conservatives” as definitely not these people. We shall have to see, when I have time to try to write something again.]
Various commenters on recent postings here have said things like this, and this, and this. In the darkness however, someone said this, and Read more
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Talkin’-’bout my Generation
Posted on 22 May, 2013 by David Davis 5 comments
In the late afternoons of our lives, various thoughts occur. I had a cyberchat with my colleague, the Dear Leader of the Libertarian Alliance, Dr Sean Gabb, at some indeterminate time overnight last night. We both agreed on some things:- Read more
All around is fire, and yet the buggers won’t leave the burning building
Posted on 12 June, 2012 by David Davis 7 comments
These are very interesting times. The Euro is toilet-paper, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus are really absolutely quite fully-bust, Germany’s central bank is saying “sort yourselves out”, and yet….and yet….
This country’s government has already given £14 billion in aid to a currency that we don’t belong to, were nearly bullied into joining, and have no interest in….and furthermore, it says “there is no popular support for a referendum on the European Union”.
The current shift of Chimpanzee-Type-writers in the draughty Lancashire Nissen Hut is really not sure what to make of this. Or perhaps they are: When this government (or any for that matter) says the magic word “The People”, it probably means “the people that it has victoriously elected in the latest round of _people’s elections_ “, which is to say: itself.
I don’t recall any recent polls asking about the EU that said anything other than a clear majority of the British People would like to leave it. Does anybody else have any different information?
As Brutus said…”I pause for a reply”.
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MPs and expenses… Lavoisier was beheaded for less than this. Should we be happy or sad?
Posted on 20 June, 2009 by David Davis Leave a comment
How is it possible to overclaim for tax paid, whe you, er, had to pay tax?
I am beginning to be not able to figure out quite what these people think they are entitled to.
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Libertarian Alliance blast-from-the-past No 2: What can be done about the stsists’ long march through our educational institutions?
(Originally published on May 9th 2007)
This morning I had one of my most pleasant students over for an A-level Business Studies tute. we drank lots of coffee and talked about the definitions of many “business terms and buzzwords” that he needs to know of and use in the correct contexts when he writes his exam papers. (He hasn’t even been told except by me, to read the business pages of his newspapers, whatever ones they may be, even the tabloids, every day.)
This is an entirely amiable, “nice” young man, with a “normal” family background, and what he and his peers see as all the advantages of life in Blair’s New Britain currently going for him. He is averagely intelligent, whatever that means; but that is to say, that in my view he is capable of everything that a proper, rigorous pre “British-socialist” (as opposed to the much more rigorous socialist ones that existed and still to some extent exist behind the Iron Curtain) 1950s style education system can bowl at him. His horizons are only averagely narrow, and wider than many of his age group.
But something seems to have gone wrong with the amount of actual crunchy “hard” knowledge of the world that children are now expected to be aware of. It’s gone down. I see two strands of strategy at work here. Firstly, the “curriculum” has been progressively and continuously truncated. For example, the latest GCSE “science” syllabus for 14-16-year olds, in operation this year, is hard put to contain any actual science. This is just the example that I know most about, although you would be scared at what’s in – and also what’s NOT in – the current Geography syllabus. Secondly, the “institutions”, by which I guess I mean the “universities”, have for about four decades been turning out the kind of graduates that think individual people are a “Resource”, that they ought to be told what to think, and that the curriculum and popular media (including the content and presentational style of the “Wireless Tele- Vision” News) ought to reflect the world-view of the coterie that’s running the institutions.
This generates a population of people who, on the threshold of adulthood, have to be told what simple words and terms of description mean. Or, they “sort of know” what stuff means, but “can’t put it into words” (his and their phraseaology, not mine.)
Am I alone in thinking that the destruction of the most beneficent and powerful engine of education that has ever existed in the world – the broad universe of British schools and universities up to about 1960 both here and overseas – is under deliberate assault? And if I am right, then what is “their” motive? What is the use of a population whose members have lost the ability to articulate thoughts and abstractions? I know that statists hate us for inventing liberalism, and for degrading the realisable frontiers of tyranny through the ages. But, couldn’t they just “lie back and think of the Gulag”, and allow themselves to be carried along, glowing with self-satisfaction and prosperity, on the swelling tide of riches that will percolate down to them from the many crackpots who will harmlessly prosper in a capitalist civilisation, and in which their rantings will be of negligible account?
UK General election called – stop press Drudge Guido Iain Dale Huffington Landed Underclass Devil
Posted on 1 May, 2009 by David Davis Leave a comment
That got you. Yes. But sadly,
…there’s no UK election. Sorry. Go back to bed.
We are currently, for foreign readers who live in sunnier climes and more benign polities such as Venezuela or Russia, and who don’t know what it’s like here, living under an administration which has done these things as follows:-
(1) Deliberately gone about the stealthy and also overt destruction of lots of free voluntary institutions which “represented the forces of conservatism” (such as firms, schools, charities, local festivals, the Scouts, youth clubs, food hygiene, how people joke with each other in private, and the like)
(2) Deliberately monkeyed with the “constitution”, whatever that may have been, so as to change the sort of polity we are for ever (they did not have a mandate “for ever”)
(3) Handed over whatever “sovereignty” Parliament had in 1997, to the EU, a phantasmal construction in the minds of fascists, which __/was specifically designed to undo totally, in time, /__ the work of the Anglosphere Coalition in Europe, between 1813 and 1945,
(4) Deliberately card-sharped the constituency boundaries so that any other party would have to win about 70% of the vote to get an overall majority in the Commons (they’d have done more but just could not get away with it)
(5) Deliberately destroyed what was left of sensible, hard (which is to say “crunchy” or containing stuff you’d want and need to know about in order to understand the Universe or to get empoyed by someone other than a quango) interesting and rigorous curricula in education, so as to create on purpose a very very very large class of uncritical persons, who watch “BBC TV News”, and “Big Brother” and believe what the variously featured ephemeradroids say.
The MSM is saying increasingly that this government is inept and cack-handed. Here’s an example from Simon Heffer, an angry old red-haired-man who has better credentials to be a liberal Prime Minister than Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major or Michael Heseltine (remember – we nearly got saddled with that bugger with hair, over Westland and other matters – anybody remember what Westland did, or might now do?)
The Libertarian Alliance thinks that it does not matter if there is an election now, later or at any time in the forseeable future. The point of elections is now lost on many people, who also now face different problems from those that governments think they ought to solve. If there was an election now, which Gordon Brown might call in return for an hereditary-Vicountcy later, then either ZanuLieBorg will win slightly owing to the monkeying and falsifying with postal votes which it will certainly indulge in as it is their right so to do as taught by Al Gore their hero, or else David Cameron will slilghtly win with about 13 seats, which means he can’t do anything, much, to undo the Police state created by his predecessor.
This is because the ZanuLieBorg government of the UK right now is not at all cack-handed. It knows, has known and will [as neither we nor anybody else civilised will expunge it properly] know, even after defeat at any election it can’t rig and when it is temprarily not called the “government”, exactly what it’s been doing for decades, if not at least a century, and why. GramscoMarxiaNazis, and their clone [singular as is proper] the GramscoFabiaNazis, will continue to operate in the shadows, under cover of academia and quangocracy. We shall not “service” them, nor even “re-educate” them or “re-settle” them, because we have nailed our colours to the mast and said that we agree that they have rights to express their views. These they will express, you bet 50p.
But in the end, we have to decide what to do. The threats to liberty will not just go away because a more “ept” crew of inept statists such as the Tories gets to be allowed to take over, for a bit. Individual liberty will still roll slowly and sadly downhill, to the cesspool ultimately.
Libertarians ought to start thinking about what to do about the sort of people whose individual freedom to upend mass liberty they defend right now, and who, in the end, may not be able to be persuaded to come onside. As Auberon Waugh would have said … “I’m not saying yet that we should pack them in fours in white W-reg Vauxhall Astras and propel them over Beachy Head” … but…
…what safe jobs could they be allowed to do in a Libertarian polity, so that they can’t get the even potential ability to destroy it? They certainly can’t mind their own lives being controlled in this way, since they have been advocating it for all others, all of their lives, so they need not be consulted. But it is a problem that troubles me.
Help, anybody?
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Michael Gove ‘won’t be quitting’ over Theresa May’s Brexit deal
Richard Hartley-ParkinsonFriday 16 Nov 2018 9:49 am
Michael Gove insisted he still has confidence in Theresa May after deciding he will stay in her Cabinet.
Following the resignation of four ministers in the wake of her poorly-received Brexit deal on Thursday, speculation was rife that the departure of the most senior Leave campaigner in her Cabinet could deal a damaging blow to the Prime Minister.
But Mrs May faces mounting pressure from within Tory ranks as further MPs called for her to be ousted.
Michael Gove declined to comment earlier this morning when asked if he was going to resign (Picture: LNP)
Speaking outside his departmental office, Environment Secretary Mr Gove was asked if he had confidence in the Prime Minister and replied: ‘I absolutely do.’
He added: ‘I am looking forward to continuing to work with all colleagues in Government and in Parliament to get the best future for Britain.’
Mr Gove threw a lifeline to the Prime Minister by staying in government despite reportedly turning down the post of Brexit Secretary vacated by Dominic Raab after saying he would only take it if he could renegotiate the EU withdrawal agreement.
Mrs May told LBC she had ‘a very good conversation’ with Mr Gove on Thursday, but declined to say what they had discussed, other than the future of the fishing industry after Brexit.
She said the Environment Secretary had been doing ‘a great job’, adding: ‘I haven’t appointed a new Brexit Secretary yet, but obviously I will be doing that over the course of the next day or so.’
He will not be quitting his cabinet post as the Prime Minister faced a grilling from members of the public on talk radio station LBC (Picture: LNP)
A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mrs May was ‘very pleased’ that Mr Gove will stay on and ‘continue doing the important work he is doing’.
There was also support from Brexiteer Trade Secretary Liam Fox, who said he had ‘full confidence in the Prime Minister’ and ‘what we need now is stability’.
In a half-hour phone-in on the radio station, Mrs May faced repeated calls to stand down from members of the public.
One caller told the PM that Jacob Rees-Mogg would make a better leader, while another said she had ‘appeased’ the EU like Neville Chamberlain in his negotiations with Hitler.
Meanwhile, former culture secretary John Whittingdale and ex-minister Mark Francois were among the latest Tories to submit letters of no confidence in Mrs May as Conservative leader.
Theresa May faced questions last night in which she compared herself to Geoffrey Boycott (Picture: AFP)
Sources indicated that the number of letters submitted to Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the backbench 1922 Committee, may now be nearing the 48 needed to trigger a vote.
A Brexiteer source said ‘I think we’ll push enough through today to trigger the threshold’, but ‘we have no idea when that means Graham will announce it’.
Another senior Brexiteer said the number was ‘close’ to 48, adding: ‘People are consulting with their associations over the weekend.’
Mr Whittingdale told the Press Association: ‘I believe that the agreement that is being proposed does not deliver Brexit in the way that I and many others want to see.’
Former defence minister Mr Francois, the vice-chair of the European Research Group of Eurosceptic Tories, published his own letter, denouncing the Brexit deal as ‘truly awful’ and warning: ‘I can never vote for this and neither can many of my colleagues.’
Mrs May’s de facto deputy David Lidington said she would ‘handsomely’ win a confidence vote if one was triggered by Tory MPs.
The Prime Minister insisted she would ‘see this through’ despite the resignations and calls led by influential backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg for her to be ousted (Picture: AP)
Former Brexit minister Dominic Raab quit yesterday prompting May to offer the job to Gove (Picture: PA)
Mrs May played down suggestions that she might seek to maintain Cabinet unity by offering ministers a free vote when the Brexit deal comes before Parliament, as International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt has requested.
‘There is Cabinet collective responsibility in this country. Government policy is Government policy,’ she told LBC. ‘The Government will put its position to the House of Commons.’
The PM denied that she had had a ‘testy exchange’ over Brexit with Arlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her minority administration in the Commons.
But she left no doubt she was aware she cannot guarantee DUP support when Brexit comes to the Commons, saying: ‘Every individual MP will decide how they will vote, whether they are DUP, Conservative, Labour.
‘My job is to persuade first and foremost my Conservative benches, those who are working with us – the DUP are working with us, obviously, confidence and supply – but I want to be able to say to every MP I believe this is the best deal for the UK.’
Mrs May was forced to defend her deal with Brussels to a series of callers, including Conservative-supporting councillor Daniel Turner from Louth who told her to ‘stand down and allow someone from the Brexit camp to take the lead’.
Asked whether she saw herself as a ‘modern-day Chamberlain’, she replied ‘no I don’t’, insisting her deal meant taking back control of the UK’s money, borders and laws.
‘We’re out of the customs union, out of the single market.
‘I think that’s what people voted for and that’s what I’m delivering,’
Former Brexit Secretary David Davis denounced the draft deal agreed by Cabinet on Wednesday as a ‘dreadful proposal’ and suggested it was still possible to reopen negotiations with Brussels.
His comment on BBC’s Today programme earned a stinging rebuke from former Foreign Office permanent secretary Sir Simon Fraser, who said: ‘David Davis was a terrible Brexit secretary’ who could ‘hardly be bothered to go to Brussels’.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed Labour could secure a Commons majority for a ‘compromise’ Brexit deal.
He told Today a ‘unity platform’ was emerging at Westminster to avoid the ‘catastrophic’ impact of a no-deal break with the EU.
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Dana White Talks Justin Bieber vs Tom Cruise In The UFC
When pop sensation Justin Bieber called for a fight with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, he tagged UFC President Dana White. Now, White responds with some interesting news.
The world was taken by storm from a tweet that Justin Bieber sent, calling out Tom Cruise. Then, in the same tweet, he tagged Dana White, suggesting that he promote the fight. Now, White has spoken out about potentially making this fight happen.
White was asked about this celebrity cage fight, by TMZ Sports. Here, he revealed surprising information.
“So i’m going to tell you something interesting, okay? So obviously this thing comes out, lots of people will talk about fighting somebody in the ufc, and things like that. whether it’s nfl players or celebrities or whatever. it happens a lot. so obviously i saw it like everybody else did, and didn’t pay much attention to it.
the thing, it picked up a lot of steam, and it was everywhere. I’m not going to say any names, but i’m just going to tell you that i got a phone call from a couple of real guys that said that they really do want to this fight, and they believe that tom cruise would do it. i told them, and i’ll tell you this, if that is true, and everybody that is involved in this thing, really does want to do it, we can talk.”
White was then asked to confirm, that he would promote the fight.
“let me tell you what, i’d be an idiot not to make this fight.”
Subsequently, White would go on to say that promoting this fight would be “the easiest fight to ever promote,” likening it to Mayweather vs McGregor.
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FormatThesis (3)Article (2)SubjectThesis -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Music (2)Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 -- Criticism and interpretation (1)Bassoon music -- France -- 20th century -- Bibliography (1)Catholic Church -- Creeds -- Musical settings -- History and criticism (1)Choral music -- Finland (1)... View MoreDate Issued2010 - 2013 (3)2001 - 2009 (2)Author/ContributorEverett, William A., 1962- (5)Abner, Marita, advisor (1)Begley, Biljana (1)Botero, Victoria Sofia (1)Harris, Michael W. (1)... View MoreSubject: Time Period20th century (2)Subject: PlaceFinland (1)France (1)Sweden (1)Advisor
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The Bassoon in the Café: an Annotated List of Selected Works of Twentieth-Century French Chamber Music with Bassoon
Harris, Michael W. (2006)
This work is an annotated survey of 20th century French chamber music written including the bassoon.
The Creed in the Mass and the Liturgy
Begley, Biljana (2001)
From the beginning, the Creed has been recited or sung. It has evolved through the centuries and has remained as an important part of both the Mass and the Liturgy. Many composers wrote Creeds as a common part of numerous ...
The art songs of Jaime León: a textual and musical analysis
Botero, Victoria Sofia (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-26)
The thirty-six art songs of Colombian composer Jaime León (b. 1921) represent an important addition to the art song repertory. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and the literature on Jaime León and Latin American art song. ...
(Re)constructing Johann Sebastian Bach: reception history and performance practice in New York City during the Great War
Marks, Thomas Jared (2013)
The perception of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in New York City during the time of the Great War can be illuminated through two threads: 1) reception history and reputation, and 2) contemporary performance practices. ...
Jazz elements in select Finnish and Swedish choral music
Peck, Sarin W. (Sarin Christine Williams), 1978- (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
Jazz was born in the United States around the turn of the twentieth-century and arrived in the Nordic lands in the 1920s and '30s. After this initial encounter, jazz spread throughout Finland and Sweden, the two countries ...
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Resurrecting Little Italy
February 27, 2012 //
Back in 2009, while I was still at Phaidon, I worked on a cookbook called Coco, which I’ve probably mentioned here before. It was part of the 10×10 series Phaidon publishes, whereby ten heavy hitters in their field (be it architecture, graphic design, fashion, etc.) each select ten emerging talents in that field. Coco was the first food book in that series, and the curators selecting the underlings included Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali, Alice Walters, and René Redzepi.
For his selection of up-and-comers, Batali stuck to his coterie of former chefs and sous chefs, and among the emerging talent he chose was Mario Carbone. Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of Carbone before then, even though he had cooked at Del Posto, Babbo, WD-50, Café Boulud, and a personal favorite, Lupa, in the West Village. Quite the pedigree for someone not even thirty years old. (That’s his spread in Coco, below.)
The funny thing is, Carbone was somewhat between restaurants at the time. And to be featured in Coco, each chef needed to be currently head chef at a restaurant. Carbone was technically heading up Aeronuova, a new Italian restaurant in Terminal 5 at JFK. It was a little unusual, but my guess is he was brought on to put together their menu and do initial recipe consulting. When I was compiling the directory of restaurants I didn’t even know what address to publish: Terminal 5, JFK Airport, Queens, New York? But I knew something was up his sleeve, and Batali’s sleeve, because they seemed to suggest a new restaurant was in Carbone’s future, but it just wasn’t open yet.
And sure enough, as Coco hit the bookstores, a little red-sauce joint known as Torrisi Italian Specialities opened on Mulberry Street, near Prince Street, in December 2009, serving Italian-American staples like meatball subs and eggplant parm at the counter. Carbone and his co-chef and co-owner, and former Boulud colleague, Rich Torrisi, have created a kind of post-postmodern mecca of ziti and antipasti in Little Italy. Amidst all the fading tourist-trap pasta joints and clam bars on Mott and Mulberry Street. It’s a throwback to your Italian grandma’s Sunday suppers in Queens (or New Jersey, or Long Island), gravy and all. But the ingredients are good. Really good. Not imported from Italy, but all domestic and/or made in-house, like mozzarella made to order and house-cured olives. Olive oil from California that’s so good they should serve it in a demitasse cup for dessert, sprinkled with sea salt from Coney Island.
All this time I’ve been wanting to see what the buzz is about. In the meantime, Torrisi and Carbone opened Parm next door to Torrisi, a more casual restaurant serving some of the old favorites (like the subs), without the long waits and hard-to-get reservations of Torrisi, which now only serves a tasting menu or prix fixe but no more a al carte at dinner.
Good thing my friend Daniela came to town. Super foodie, blogger for Eater LA, trained pastry chef, food writer, this woman eats professionally. It was the perfect opportunity to try both Torrisi and Parm. So within a span of a few nights we dined at each place, allowing for a side-by-side comparison of the more upscale Torrisi, and low-brow Parm. (In the photo up top, Torrisi is on the left, Parm on the right.)
At Torrisi we were greeted with four antipasti for the table, including the famed mozzarella, hand-pulled to order, drizzled in that delicious, fruity olive oil and crunchy sea salt. When left to rest at the table, the mozzarella became more enjoyable, softer, and more buttery, then when it was first set down. It was served with four small perfect pieces of garlic bread: saltier, crunchier, cheesier, more garlicky than you’re expecting. When our busser cleared the empty plate we both nearly lept to keep the dish so we could lick the crumbs. We stopped ourselves. As part of our antipasti, a warmed parsnip cider was served in an espresso cup with a cool apple foam on top. Raw fluke Americain provided a clean, fresh bite between all the cheese and dough. Lastly, for the antipasti, was a rustic rabbit terrine served with pickled vegetables.
The pasta course, spicy sea shells di mare, was solid—the fish and shellfish were all cooked well, the pasta al dente, the sauce salty and spicy. It didn’t knock my socks off but it was darn tasty. For our main courses we were served skate giardinia and local duck with mulberry mustard. But by the time these mains came we were, well, stuffed like shells. I thought the main successes of the night were served at the bookends, our antipasti and the pastry: butternut squash custard, pizzelle cannoli, almond rainbow cookies, celery cake with green jelly and peanuts (a take on ants on a log), and a chocolate-mint truffle.
We arrived at Parm a few nights later (shot of the bar above), rain-soaked, hungry, and in need of some comfort food. We had come to the right place. We only waited twenty minutes at the bar for a table, then ordered up what seemed to be the must-haves: eggplant parmesan with a “Sunday salad”—iceberg lettuce, hot pickled peppers, cucumber, and red onions, served with a vinegary dressing—a veal-and-pork meatball platter served with ziti and meat gravy; Brussels sprouts; cauliflower; and the plate-licking garlic bread we’d had on Tuesday. (Brussels sprouts in the shot below.)
The favorites were the eggplant parmesan, which really did taste like my Italian (step) grandmother used to make when I was little, the Brussels sprouts, and the cauliflower. The sprouts were caramelized and served with thin crunchy slivers of red onion, parmesan, sea salt, and garlic. The cauliflower was nicely browned and seasoned and honestly tasted like candy in that way that only really good cauliflower can. Again, like my Italian grandma used to make. These guys are good.
The only sore spot in the evening at Parm came with the meatballs. First off, they were served flattened, and stacked, like a double hamburger. Maybe this is typical in some nonna’s kitchens but I know them to be rounded, and sized somewhere between a golf ball and baseball. The main issue, however, was that they were not properly cooked. The meat was verging on rare, cold in the center even. Our server argued with us, saying he was sure they were cooked through and that’s how they do it here. Minus two points.
Using the four-star system of the Times, I’d give Torrisi two stars and Parm one star. Two to Torrisi for the service, atmosphere, antipasti, and pastries. One to Parm for the tasty eggplant, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, garlic bread, and friendly hostess. Tell your nonna, Little Italy is back.
I had to cheat and use this photo below from the Torrisi website, so I could show you two of my favorite dishes, the mozzarella and the garlic bread, since my shots came out too dark. Buon appetito!
Tags Coco, eggplant parm, garlic bread, Mario Batali, Mario Carbone, mozzarella, Parm, Rich Torrisi, Torrisi
Categories Cookbooks, Desserts, Dining Out, Eggplant, Pastry, Restaurants, Savory, Winter
rosemary olive oil cake
Thanksgiving, Brooklyn Style
Chia Seed Pudding with Blueberries and Coconut
Wandern in München
What I’ve Eaten/Written Recently
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Edible Brooklyn
Mark Bittman – Opinionator
Nettle and Quince
The New Vegetarian
Vegans of Color
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Creatures the World Forgot
A stone-age horror film with almost no dialog, the people speak in grunts, centers around a tribe of cavemen. When the leader dies, there is a rivalry between twin brothers, each of whom want the top spot. A well done earthquake scene highlights this film.
Michael Carreras
Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessy
Genre:Action, Thriller, Horror
Release Date:September 1, 1971
Dawn of the Dead - Unrated Director's Cut
Against the Dark
Legion (2010)
Underworld (Unrated) [2003]
The People Under the Stairs
The Last House on the Left (Unrated)
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (Unrated)
13 Frightened Girls!
Moscow Zero
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
Into the Grizzly Maze
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In this provocative drama co-starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton and directed by David Fincher, a disaffected man and his charismatic friend organize brutal, bare-knuckle boxing matches.
Art Linson
Cean Chaffin
Ross Grayson Bell
Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto
Critics Consensus: Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride.
PJ Nabarro
The film's tongue is far too firmly in its cheek at all points of its discourse to ever take its c...
Patrick Z. McGavin
The movie demands a certain attention and is not easily dismissed, but there is something deeply u...
We Bought a Blog
Alan French
Pitt dominates the screen every second he's on it, and it simultaneously represents his weirdest,...
Filmmaker David Fincher has, perhaps notoriously, infused Fight Club with a decidedly off-kilter s...
Herald Sun (Australia)
Leigh Paatsch
Mr Loaf was never better on screen than as the ill-fated, big-hearted Bob Paulson, the only warm c...
David Ansen
An outrageous mixture of brilliant technique, puerile philosophizing, trenchant satire and sensory...
Independent on Sunday
Just when it's supposedly getting to grips with its theme, the movie goes utterly haywire and beco...
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
...capturing perfectly the stirring discontent of the 90s & the madness (geopolitical/economic) th...
Jami Bernard
Oh, for the time when men were men and were encouraged to beat the tar out of one another. That's...
Tim Brayton
Technically gorgeous... But it's such a wreck of tone and intellect.
Lurid, twisted, and violent movie has mature themes.
Parents need to know that Fight Club is the 1999 movie based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel in which Edward Norton plays an insomniac office worker who meets his masculine ideal opposite with whom he begins to get in touch with his primal self as well as a desire to sabotage consumer culture. Impressionable kids and teens are likely to miss the dark satire while witnessing numerous examples of graphic beatings, vandalism, shootings, and bombings. The overall cloud of nihilism permeating this movie, the lead character's attempts to place subliminal one-frame shots of pornography in family movies in a theater where he works as a projectionist, scenes in which characters who work in restaurants urinate in food, a scene in which the female lead, after engaging in loud and passionate sex, says, "I haven't been f--ked like that since grade school," as well as the aforementioned graphic violence, make this best for audiences mature enough to see the film's deeper messages on the ways in which consumer culture warps our individuality and self esteem. There's also frequent profanity, nudity, smoking, and drinking.
THX 1138: The George Lucas (Director's Cut)
Welcome to Mooseport
A Haunted House 2
Dark City (Director's Cut)
A Haunted House
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Joe Versus The Volcano
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Tag Archives: sentiment
Short story: The Lonely Tree
This is just something I rattled out, slightly in the style of Murakami:
This is the story of a boy, who was not yet a man. It’s the story of his first love, his first heartbreak and the tree that fell on him.
It’s the fashion to have summer romances but the boy was allergic to everyone’s favourite season. It made his eyes red and his nose stream. In fact he had always thought that girls were allergic to him. It wasn’t that he couldn’t speak to them or that they didn’t like him, but that they couldn’t love him. More than anything the boy wanted to know love. One winter, when the air was crisp and the nights chilled, he thought that he did.
He couldn’t believe his luck. A childhood crush, the cleverest catch around and a friend he cared for deeply rolled into one package. Her smile locked his worries away and out of reach for hours. Being with her he felt as if he wasn’t alone for the first time in his life. Hearing from her was, surprisingly, almost as good. Making her happy filled the void of purpose in his life. His existence no longer felt empty. Simply put: she made him happy.
Fate had never looked so kindly upon him before and deep down he knew that her favours would be brief. But while it lasted nothing else mattered. Or rather, everything mattered more. Her dreams enriched and expanded his own, her energy and life gave them colour. He was filled with enthusiasm and a drive he did not know he possessed. He felt like a better person and fully himself for the first time.
Looking back on it he supposed the relationship would seem a short lived folly to onlookers, and this angered him. Nothing had ever meant more. At least to him. The boy had never realised just how important intimacy, close friendship and the joy of caring for someone was to happiness. When it ended, for no reason besides that she didn’t love him after all, things reverted to normal. Only more so.
He wondered if that happiness had been an illusion and whether he had truly known love. He felt catapulted back to square one. He did not know what to think or feel, knowing for certain only that he was empty again. And he was alone. The dreams that had grown to new heights in her company were now mere weeds, smaller than the clumps of green nothingness at the foot of the tree in his garden.
The tree watched as the boy moped and rolled around like a pig in his misery. At first the tree felt sympathetic towards the boy, as no one knew better than him what it was to be alone. Trapped in his hollow shell with no friends to speak of, and no means to speak, the tree longed for contact of some kind. He knew everything the boy was missing and more. And then the tree realised how selfish the boy was. And how much harder it was to be a tree.
As the spring rapidly shifted into summer the boy felt every concrete trace of his love fading away, swamped by the passing of time. With each day he felt more and more like he had no right to feel anything at all. All he had left were the memories and hopes in his head. He missed so much; far too much for words, he told himself.
On a blue morning with a blazing sun and abstract strokes of white overhead, the boy had an epiphany. Well it was that day at least that he admitted to himself a truth that he had felt for a while. He said to himself: “Love is enough for me”. He knew that, for the right person, he would sacrifice all the goals and ambitions he had thought essential to his well being, satisfaction and success. He acknowledged that, during his time with his first true love, he had enjoyed and derived immense contentment from even the harder things. He was glad to be there when she was upset, happy to calm her down, even if he was only a slight comfort. Caring for someone important to him, as important as that, was all he could ever need.
He remembered reading a novel in which the main character believed there were only three chances of finding your soul mate. He pondered whether for him, “soul mate”, meant someone worthy of his absolute care. Plunged back into sadness and despair by the thought of having lost someone he could lose himself in and devote himself to, he ran into the garden, blinded by fierce tears. He crouched down in the dirt, sniffling as the pollen swarmed up his hostile nostrils. He pressed his back against the trunk of the tree. He stared at the world around him, confused and crying.
By this point, the tree was seething. The tree didn’t know how he knew all about what the boy was thinking and feeling, but he did know, and it made him angry. The tree did not know he was capable of anger. The tree could not think, had no brain and nothing at all to account for the melancholy consciousness brooding within his gently swaying frame. The wind blew lightly across the garden, flicking the odd leaf and stroking the odd stem. The tree felt a shiver of cold. The tree felt.
The boy was gradually coming out of his panic, descending into a depressed paralysis. The loveliest, brightest petals of the most vibrant flowers looked bleak to him. His mind’s eye conjured a symbolic bonfire of his dreams in the corner of the lawn. If he could be so easily tempted from them, what chance did he have of achieving such grand plans? What did they matter anyway? Forcing his head up from its slouch on his knees, he felt the bark in his hair and decided there was no point to any sensation at all without someone to share it with.
The tree was fuming with anger from its roots to its summit. It could sense the boy’s sadness. His self involved and ungrateful emotion wasn’t just saturating the air around the tree now, but squirming and writhing against its flaky skin. The tree couldn’t stand it. It was determined not to take it anymore. It wouldn’t be buffeted by nature or ignored by men today.
The boy sighed deeply, turning his face into the breeze and relishing its cold wipe. He felt the gusts get stronger and firmer in waves, as if someone were stirring the air with an enormous food blender. Pulse after pulse slapped against him. The sweat under his arms went from hot and sticky to icy and damp. His spine creaked as the tree trunk rocked a little against him. His back stood firm easily like a castle wall against the minute thrusts.
The tree was summoning all of its energy from its very furthest extremities, even the roots beyond the garden wall. The tree was straining every part of its being in pure and untamed rage. The tree was alive and a part of nature but for the first time ever it was wild. It did not have muscles to tense or bones to move but it had life and the tree channelled every last ounce of it into its rage. It didn’t know what it was doing or understand the consequences. All it knew was how wrong the boy was, how angry it made the tree feel. It was trying to teach the boy a lesson, on behalf of trees everywhere.
The boy continued to feel little swellings at his back. Small pressures, surely caused by the wind, made the entire structure of the tree wobble a fraction. Leaves that had been noisily rubbing in the flower beds slowly stopped. The bending blades of grass rested and stood upright. Gradually, the trunk seemed to be moving faster, almost pushing out into the boy, like something was stuck inside. The tree rocked more and more as the breeze died away to an unnoticeable whisper. As the branches began to rattle, the boy noticed properly for the first time the firmer and firmer touch of the trunk. He glanced up towards the sky, through the canopy of crisscrossing browns and greens, only to shrug away again with a sob.
The boy’s indifference only enraged the tree still more. So that, as the swaying grew quicker and quicker, the consciousness that had formed inside the tree disappeared, becoming something else entirely. Now the tree was just movement, just energy, just purpose. All of the life the tree had ever known became focused on the boy and ending his ignorant and cruel soul. The tree had never known what a soul was; would never know. It did not know whether or not the boy had one. It only knew that the boy had to be stopped. He had to be taught that at least he had tasted love, known happiness, shared warmth and feeling. He had to be shown that at least he could dream, chase dreams and possibly live them. There were always those lives that did not live, always those with truly no hope left; always lonely trees.
There was a crack. And the trunk threw its full weight at the boy, who scrambled too late from his pity. Falling branches pulled away the light and the blue from the canvas of the sky, bringing only dark.
Like in films, the boy came to gazing at sheer whiteness. Nothing else. The colour white was the afterlife? Appropriately empty he thought. And then he remembered. The tree.
He had often dreamt about his funeral. A song lyric drifted into his mind – “the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had”. The dreams in which he was dead were some of the best he’d ever had; terribly self indulgent fictions in which all the figures and characters of his life turned up, gushing praise and regrets. All the girls and friends he’d ever wanted poured their hearts out. He was great after all.
There was no one here he really wanted to see. The strip lights buzzed and whirred, stuffing light down his retinas. The whiteness turned out to be the roof tiles. A steady beep and blip passed the time like a clock ticking. His heart was liable to suddenly conk out. He was hooked up to a monitor like on telly. His parents were here.
They didn’t believe him about the tree. When he was well enough to argue, they argued. They accused him and lectured him. They warned and scorned him. His mother ranted about the hardships of life, bemoaned his ignorance. Even his father shouted. He wasn’t allowed grapes, hadn’t been for years, so someone, probably his mother, had brought biscuits. His father had eaten most of them during the interrogations.
If he’d been able to text, he might’ve texted her, would definitely have texted his best friend. She hadn’t come to see him, even when he’d asked his parents to try to organise it. He was still alone. But something felt different. His skull was cracked, his spine weakened, his legs bruised, his right ankle broken, toes misshapen, right thumb fractured, left hand in plaster, nose crooked, face scratched, knees cut, wrists sprained and buttocks sore. But he felt stronger.
When they took him home he realised what it was. The tree hadn’t been dealt with yet. Its big, bulky carcass, torn in two and smashed in a heap through the fence, reminded him how bad he had felt. It reminded him that he’d realised he just wanted somebody to love. A universal truth, some might say, theme of many a song, but for him it was deeper, all his other wants were trivial and only to love was what he needed and what he craved.
Those trivial dreams might have been exposed as mostly meaningless, but somehow the tree had taught him they were still important. Months in a hospital bed had forced him to write again to pass the time. So that’s what he would do. He would write more and more, hopefully better and better, churning out any old nonsense. He would write to forget, write to remember, write to move on, write to preserve, write from the heart, write from the mind, write in the night, write in the day and write to lose himself. He would write because he could. And to touch, now and again, on truths that made everything worthwhile. Even the lonely trees.
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Adapting good and successful novels: One Day, A Very Private Gentleman (The American) and Room
I’ve discussed the business of adapting books into films before on this blog, and indeed the increasing phenomenon of the adaptation as opposed to original screenplays. I’ve bemoaned the lack of creativity in the film industry, leading to such a focus on both true stories and transformations of already existing fiction dominating this year’s Oscars, for example. But for all my ranting and raving there’s something irresistible about a good adaptation, because if your source material’s good there’s a good chance your interpretation of it will be. It’s like a kind of quality guarantee.
Then again it’s a treacherous tightrope to walk, especially when you’re bringing not only a good novel but a commercially successful one to the screen. Films based on novels with a huge and devoted following will benefit from the diversity and commitment of that fan base at the box office, but perhaps also suffer critically if they don’t capture the brilliance of the book.
After mingling the words in your mind and arranging them on the page, watching their finely tuned order blossom into a bestseller and basking in the praise and revenue, it must be hard for an author to relinquish control of his characters, no matter what the financial compensations. This is presumably why many decide to remain attached to the cinematic versions of their creations as writer or producer or something, even with the risk of their original being tarnished and overshadowed.
David Nicholls did just this for the adaptation of his immensely successful One Day, choosing to write the screenplay himself. There is now a trailer online for the film, which can be seen over at Empire Magazine via this link: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30843
I was absolutely absorbed in One Day when I read it and funnily enough I think I read it in roughly one day. It’s one of those books that you have to try really hard not to call a “page turner” because of how limp and cliché that sounds. It really is difficult to put down though. It became an ever present feature of the landscape of bookshops for a long, long time and still lurks prominently in the shadows. No doubt it will enjoy a revival with the release of the film. It was not the usual sort of addictive trash either. There was an organic originality to the concept, a humour and truth to the writing. The two main characters, Dexter and Emma, were fabulously realised. It was at once epic and emotional, experimental and accessible.
It did divide critical opinion, but the overwhelming consensus was that it was a cracking read, a verdict echoed at tills across the country. It’s the story of Dexter and Emma, who meet and sleep together one day at the end of their time at Edinburgh University. In bed they discuss the future, their hopes, fears and dreams for it. The novel follows them on the same date of the year, whatever they’re doing, for every year that follows their meeting. It mostly focuses on their relationship as friends but also charts their development as people, journeying through alternative aspects of British history like dodgy 90s TV along the way.
It was quite a few months ago now that I read One Day but I am still excited about seeing its rebirth in cinemas. It will be difficult to bottle up the simultaneously intimate and epic feel of the book for the audience, but as I’ve said before what really matters is capturing the spirit, the essence and sentiment of a story. The trailer certainly seems to strike some of the right emotional chords, as One Day really was enormously touching and moving as well as gripping. It may simply be that my age, one of transition between worlds, allowed me to inhabit Dexter and Emma’s shoes perfectly and marvel at the rollercoaster of their lives, grounded in those student beginnings. But then again, One Day shows snapshots of its key characters at a variety of ages, so anyone should be able to jump right in and live their human journeys. Perhaps that is part of the secret to its appeal.
Three Cs are very important for a good adaptation: cutting, casting and creativity. Nicholls would certainly have had to ruthlessly cut chunks of his already lovingly crafted and edited novel for the screen, as well as find the right leads. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are the chosen ones, and they seem to fit the bill in the trailer, in spite of wavering accents on occasion, as Empire point out in their commentary on the footage. I’ve also recently seen and reviewed The American, starring George Clooney, which was based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe changed aspects of the story rather dramatically, including its conclusion, for a modern and cinematic update to the book. Despite my gripes about the increasing frequency of adaptations, it is possible to be really creative and bold with them, with the added benefit of a proven base material to work with. Joffe was certainly creative, as was Clooney, who needed to exhibit the right physical mannerisms to convey the book’s character in miniscule brush strokes, compared to Booth’s first person narration.
Having now both read the book and watched the film, Joffe appears to have done a good job in creating The American. And as I’ve said, perhaps what is most admirable is that he has created something, not merely transplanted the book to the screen, which can be the worst mistake when adapting something that’s already celebrated art. The original novel, written in the first person about a gun maker nearing retirement, was impossible to adapt as it was. It needed more drama and would lack the charismatic voice of the page. It needed new sources of charisma.
The film does drop key themes of the novel. Interestingly as a student of history, Booth’s recluse (known as Signor Farfalla or Mr Butterfly, as his cover is painting them) is outwardly repulsed by the idea of history and progress, unless it is the history of ordinary men. And yet his narration repeatedly comes back to the idea through imagery, symbolism and anecdotes. Mr Butterfly claims that he is truly influencing history by providing the weapons for assassination with deft craftsmanship behind the scenes. But what the novel hints at, which a film couldn’t do in the same way, is that the narrator is struggling with the idea that after his retirement no one will remember his life’s work. If he has altered history it is unnoticeably so. He never says as much but the light implications are there and extremely fascinating.
Booth was also a constant traveller, as well as a writer of history, which might explain Mr Butterfly’s anecdotes of the world and some of his eye for detail, along with his warped fascination with the past. One of the ways the film captures the incredibly vivid and visual style of the book is through director Anton Corbijn’s direction. Corbijn used to be a photographer, and in the film this becomes Clooney’s character’s cover and he never gains the nickname Signor Farfalla, only The American. This somewhat spoils Booth’s unassuming character blending into any background, but the essence of him remains the same and the parallels with the striking visuals of the film and the descriptions of the book are appropriate.
The American is a very minimalist and restrained production. You get more from the book in terms of the character, but still not a great deal, so Joffe reflects this with the dialogue. This is still a man in isolation with a unique existence, who forms meagre relationships that are still too much for a man of his profession. He is growing too susceptible to these ties with age. What I liked particularly about The American is that it stands alone from the book and one can be enjoyed without the other, just as well as the two together. They are distinctive and different but enjoyable entities of subtlety.
Of course some books should simply never be adapted. Something about them cannot be replicated and without this something any adaptation becomes a pointless exercise. A bad adaptation of such a book is painful and a great shame. I think that Room by Emma Donghue, shortlisted for last year’s Booker Prize, is such an un-adaptable book.
It’s been a while since I finished reading Room, and in any case my observations and insights would not compare to fellow blogger Tom Cat’s: http://tomcatintheredroom.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/room-emma-donoghue/
I will briefly say why I think any adaptation would fail however. Room is reliant on the first person narration of Jack, a five year old who has been imprisoned since birth in a small room with his mother. This is the controversial novel inspired by the Fritzl case. I was sceptical about reading it and presumed it to be an exercise in creative writing drawing rather shamefully off of ghastly deeds in the media.
After I read the first pages of Room however I was hooked enough to buy it. And Jack himself is never abused. The novel is bleak and harrowing at times, but usually because of what Jack doesn’t say. The obvious implications, for example when Jack counts the creaks in his mother’s bed from his hiding place of the wardrobe, are the chilling thing for the reader.
What Room is really about is a unique five year old, nurtured with extremely intimate and confined love from his mother. As Tom Cat points out in his review, the philosophical points potentially there to be explored are many. Instead of really delving these depths however Room is more intriguing for its characterisation of Jack and the original voice Donoghue gives him. He makes incredibly perceptive observations about the modern world through both his innocence and ignorance. Occasionally his impressive vocabulary doesn’t quite sit right and convince, despite it mostly being explained away by his intense education from an early age; sometimes Jack obviously uses Donoghue’s word or phrase rather than his own. But the fact that this only happens now and then is a remarkable achievement.
For the most part Room is a heartbreaking, funny and thrilling story that takes a fresh view of modern life and culture. Everything good about this story derives from Jack’s completely original and skilfully executed narrative voice though. Many of the reviews of Room call its concept unique, but it really isn’t that astounding, simply ripped from extensive news coverage. It’s the clever angle from which Donoghue approaches her story that’s so wonderful and this couldn’t be transformed into film, no matter how they attempted to do it. Voiceover would not work; we are witnessing the thoughts tumbling through Jack’s head not a commentary of events. Jack’s innocence wouldn’t transfer to the screen, so neither would the appeal and success of the novel.
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Reading and Writing Challenge Month – Days 5, 6 and 7
Posted on March 7, 2011 | Leave a comment
What’s the old saying; one step forward and two steps back? After finally making progress by finishing The Day of the Triffids (and easily answering a question on its opening line from University Challenge this evening as a result) I then went to see a friend for the weekend and did no reading whatsoever. I took an assortment of books, I intended to read and she intended to revise, but neither of us succeeded. I could hardly be rude could I? This is my excuse I know. But the break, not from this challenge but from life, did me good. So in reality this post could be entitled simply Day 7.
To make matters worse I haven’t devoted today solely to reading. Distracted by writing I haven’t actually read a great deal. However I do feel that I have a plan of action and that I made some considerable strides in terms of understanding today. I finally read Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog in its entirety, along with an introduction to a collection of his stories by Richard Ford. I’ve also read some more of Haruki Murakami’s short stories and I plan to read Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice before I sleep tonight. Lady Chatterley is on the back burner for the time being, but next on my list, whilst I get my head around different short story writers and hopefully attempt an article on them this Wednesday.
Reading the introduction to Chekhov’s stories really helped me appreciate the unique value and insight of short stories compared to novels. Much like essays they can single out a particular issue or aspect of existence for closer inspection. Chekhov’s writing was economical and concise in making its points, something I need to begin to hone. His stories also reveal life’s hidden truths that we’re sometime reluctant to acknowledge, often from mundane events and goings on. I shall hold back the rest of my musings for another time.
I also recalled a Ray Bradbury short story from The Martian Chronicles that I’m going to re-read, as it’s another example of a type of short story and something else they can do.
Tomorrow night I’m going to attempt serious physical exercise for the first time in ages. I shall be a shattered and broken man. Hopefully my eyes will still be able to read. Until then I suppose.
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Fairytales: they’re all sickly sweetness and light right? You know beautiful princesses, magical kingdoms, swashbuckling heroes, kindly companions etc. Well no. Think of any classic fairytale and chances are there’ll be generous portions of nasty evil deeds hand in hand with the overwhelming prettiness and niceness. This is certainly the case with Tangled, a Disney anniversary special retelling of the story of Rapunzel.
As a baby, Rapunzel is the girl with the golden touch, or to be precise, hair. After her mother, the queen of a kingdom that rather fittingly resembles the Disney logo with its picturesque towers and steeples, falls ill during childbirth, it turns out the only way to cure her is with a magical golden flower (formed from a drop that fell from the sun – bear with me). The royal guard promptly retrieves said flower just in time and mother and baby make it through fine, with the unexpected complication that baby Rapunzel adopts the plant’s amazing abilities. Prior to the soldiers snatching the flower for the good of the kingdom however, a miserly old crone had been using it to stay forever young. Bitter and after revenge, she steals the wondrous baby with the golden, glowing locks in the dead of night. Then, tucked away in a lush green wilderness, she raises the child in a tower as her own, and sings to it instead of the flower she replaced for eternal youth. Meanwhile a kingdom mourns and the endlessly saddened royal couple release thousands of lanterns each year on their child’s birthday, in the hope that she will return home to them one day.
So far, so Disney. This is the back story to Tangled. And if you’re anything like me, you’ll have been concerned about accidentally vomiting in such a family orientated environment. Much like Marmite, you either love this sort of sentimental tale, or you hate it (although I mildly like Marmite, so does this ruin the rule?). However this background to the story is dealt with swiftly in Tangled’s opening. And it gets away with its sickly sweet, emotional mush, to such an extent that it wins you over.
If you’re a Disney sceptic, you’ll be dubiously asking how. The key to Tangled’s immense appeal is that it recognises fairytales are too sweet and sugary for some, so it gently sends up the whole tradition at times. That’s not to say you can’t enjoy the fundamental fairytale aspects, as I say the relief is only gentle, but it’s crucial and enough to make Tangled an extremely accessible movie. It’s refreshing because it doesn’t take itself too seriously, despite being a significant anniversary picture. It can entertain kids and adults alike with its broad range of humour and sentimental punches.
The key to the appeal for adults lies with the self-depreciating performance of male lead, Zachary Levi. His loveable rouge character, Flynn Rider, crashes into Rapunzel’s life after stealing the kingdom’s crown. Incidentally he grabs the crown in an amusing homage to Mission Impossible, lowered from the palace ceiling and later on he snatches a frying pan (used throughout as an effective weapon, with decent comic effect) as Indiana Jones would snatch his hat from beneath a closing booby trapped door. Touches of adult humour like this, alongside Levi’s well judged, constantly witty tone, provide more than enough sly, self-mocking moments to stop normal human being’s brains turning into vegetables.
This is no mean feat, given that Tangled is not just a typical Disney tale but one with random bursts of song. This sort of spontaneous, inexplicable, irrational singing is usually enough to tip most men over the edge. Whilst none of the songs from Tangled are particularly memorable, they are poignant at the right moments (and had kids dancing in the aisles occasionally). Donna Murphy, as evil Mother Gothel, delivers a charming diva like performance whenever she gets the chance to belt out a musical number. “I’ve got a dream” an ensemble piece in a seedy tavern, is heart warming and funny and stands out from the crowd, along with “I see the light”, a romantic duet between leads Levi and Mandy Moore at the emotional peak of the story, as Rapunzel’s dream of watching the floating lanterns seems to be realised. This scene is one of the best examples of the film’s startlingly vivid animation, with glowing candles fantastically rendered in the early night sky. With my secret soft spot for sentimental songs, I nearly shed a tear at the beautifully animated visuals coupled with the emotional duet.
Indeed Tangled as a whole is touching and visually captivating. There are lovely strokes of animation on the expressions of the characters, amusingly so on horse Maximus, but what strikes you most of all is the colour of the scenery. Vibrant and vivid greens and blues contrast with bright pastel colours in the city, set against a varied, but always stunning sky. The animation also allows for some distinctive action set pieces, most notably when a chase climaxes at a dam. There are gobsmacking leaps, acrobatics with endless reams of magic hair and exciting sword fights, with a frying pan, guards and a horse. But most impressive for me was the glistening water, which eventually erupts outwards in a great, mesmerising wave, chasing our hero and princess into claustrophobic confinement.
I saw Tangled in 2D and there is really no need to seek out the 3D version. It’s refreshing to see an animation go back to basics at a time of endless technological advance and reinvention. Here we just get funny, moving storytelling, that’s generally inclusive and pretty for all. From a hilarious opening montage of Rapunzel simultaneously rejoicing and hating herself for escaping her “mother’s” prison, to a heart wrenching emotional finale, Tangled has ingredients to delight everyone. It’s a pretty near perfect family movie, with bags of not only laughs but tender moments for adults too, which rest on the scripting and performance of Levi’s character Flynn Rider. My friend and I really enjoyed it, despite a disappointingly small portion of popcorn and initial doubts. Tangled will reel you in and surprise you, too, whatever your preconceptions.
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Mrt’sblog First Anniversary Special: An ignorant review of The A-Team
A year ago this month I started this blog. I had always written and always wanted to write. I’d always imagined my life with some form of writing in it and hoped that I could do it for a living. And now thanks to this online archive of my work, I do live to write; about films, politics, football, books, television and more. I lack a particular speciality but so many things interest me that even if it hinders the expansion of my readership I cannot see myself settling on the one subject. And even with my scatter gun approach this blog has grown into something I couldn’t have envisioned a year ago.
I write regularly for a film website, Flickering Myth, that’s stuffed full of quality contributions. Recently it celebrated its own anniversary, a second birthday, not long after placing high in several online polls of movie sites. Occasionally I contribute to the national football blog, and epicentre of passionate debate, Caught Offside. My political pieces join those from other politically active and intelligent thinkers of the younger generation over at Demo Critic. Links to all these sites that are worthy of regular visits, can be found in my blog roll to the right.
I suppose I should update the “About” section for this blog, written over a year ago now. It’s very vague and as I’ve already said I still lack a specific focus; but I do now commit a great deal of time and hopefully productive energy to these articles and reviews. In the coming months I plan to attempt progressively more ambitious projects for the site. I’m aware that my blog is still perhaps only properly read by a few sympathetic friends and the odd one-off viewer. But for even one person to find my work and appreciate it means an awful lot. Perhaps someday the better pieces in this catalogue can provide a helpful showcase of my promise and interests.
I know this post is proving to be rather self-indulgent. It’s a bit of a drawn out and elaborate begging routine I suppose; a plea for anyone who likes anything at all they see here to come to stay at the virtual home of my mind again sometime. It’s especially grovelling when I throw in that today I’ve attempted to connect the blog to Twitter, a social phenomenon I’m unfamiliar with, in order to spread the word. You can “follow” me, like the obsessive and drooling delusional stalker you are, by clicking this link: http://twitter.com/Mrtsblog#
For me, writing this post is also quite soppy and loaded with sentiment. Because a year on from the start of my blog, my life is very different and drastically altered. I have both changed and remained the same. My views and opinions have evolved, whilst some values remain steadfastly in place. Most pathetically of all, I am far happier than I was a year ago. To quote half an advertising slogan, “the future’s bright…”. Against seemingly gloomy odds I’ve found a chunk of satisfaction and a handful of essential ingredients I had always lacked to be happy. This blog was part of the undulating and youthful, but ultimately tame, journey of the past year for me. At one time I felt the need to vent on here as if it were a diary. Now I look back on that as naive and immature. That part of me has evaporated and I look to the future with a grateful smile on my face. Older and wiser with those that I’m close to.
“SHOOT ME NOW!” you cry with stinging tears of irritation burning your angry face. Unfortunately I still have a tendency to ramble on a bit. I apologise for that overemotional detour. But I assure you I’m getting to the point. In fact, I’m about to get this infant’s birthday party started (it’s ok because I’m the parent). If I have such a thing as a “regular reader”, they may have wondered, and continue to do so, why this blog is called “Mrt’sblog”. I know from the handy stats tool provided by Word Press that every now and then the odd fan of The A-Team or Mr T stumbles across the green expanse of my page , via Google or other equally able (but let’s face it less well known) search engines, probably only to leave rapidly with a sense of disappointment. You see I never watched the original TV series of The A-Team and I’m not even much of a fan of Mr T himself.
The incredibly snappy, but uninteresting story behind this blog’s name, that proves brevity is rarely a virtue, goes as follows: an old History teacher of mine, one I still have fond recollections of, started calling me “Mr T” at some point during lessons, purely on account of my surname beginning with that letter of the twenty-six strong crew that is the alphabet. There was lots of what a certain type of annoying person might call, “legendary banter”, in these lessons. I cultivated with unhealthy and unnatural pride a slight cult of celebrity around this Mr T persona at school, with those in my class fully aware of my hotshot funny man status, solidified by the teacher’s jokey approval. It’s a level of fame I miss. Yes reader I live a narrow and dull existence. But then when starting out in the mysterious entity of the blogosphere, stretching tentative tentacles in exploration, unsure of what exactly to do with my own blog, I recalled the nickname from school and adopted it on a whim. Anything was preferable to exposing my shy face as it is to the world.
As I’ve said then, there is no connection to The A-Team. The music of course is iconic. As are some of the catchphrases. But for people from my generation the tune is unavoidably accompanied by two moustachioed fun-runners singing “ONE-ONE-EIGHT! ONE-ONE-EIGHT!” in oddly booming voices, offering to solve rare and strange occurrences. Equally the more memorable one-liners and personalities that no doubt originate in their best and purest form from the TV series, have tended to only crop up for me in adverts. Such as Mr T urging me to “Get some nuts” and rush out to buy a Snickers from the turret of a tank. Unfortunately I don’t own a tank and I don’t think my arms would be long enough to reach down to the counter and pay from way up there, perched on the gun. So I declined his command. Also I don’t like nuts.
Knowing that my blog’s birthday was coming up though, I decided its present would be a short and ignorant view of the film The A-Team from last year. I promptly elevated the DVD to a top priority title on Love Film and hoped it would arrive before the end of the month. Luckily I just about scraped the deadline. Hopefully my blog won’t hate me too much for missing the precise date.
THE A-TEAM opens spectacularly and the action is pretty much non-stop throughout. The bigger action set pieces are heavily reliant on shameless CGI effects. Normally this would ruin a film for me, but the core characters that make up The A-Team are so likeable and funny, bouncing off each other and generally not taking things too seriously, that you can look past the blatant lack of realism or stunning visuals most of the time. There’s something inexplicably endearing about these men falling about inside a tank as it supposedly hurtles through the air. At times I swear my eyes just saw actors mucking about in front of a green screen, but that’s still funny right?
I think I’ve stressed quite enough I know nothing of the original A-Team, so I am judging this film purely on its own merits. For all I know it could be an absolute travesty for fans of The A-Team, but to me the casting of the key players and the dynamic between them worked well. Liam Neeson is always assured in my opinion and here we see a funnier side to him. The suitably named Quniton “Rampage” Jackson takes on the Mr T, B.A. Baracus role, and more than looks the part. Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley are excellent as the quirkier members of the foursome.
The highlight of The A-Team for me was a scene in which the loony Murdock, played by Copley, is broken out of an asylum by his fellow team members. Murdock is sent a film to watch with 3D glasses and the film plays with a jeep hurtling along a road, only for it to burst through the wall to the amazement and delight of the patients, sporting their retro 3D specs. Murdock promptly escapes, wearing his set of specs, exclaiming as the team are shot at that the bullets look so lifelike in 3D. In a film full of simple gags, here was some physical, action packed humour that also doubled up as cutting satire of the current 3D trend.
All of the action in The A-Team is fun, if not groundbreaking or gripping. A scene with abseiling, gun toting baddies on Frankfurt skyscrapers with lots of smashing glass is quite inventive and hard hitting though, whilst still having the laughs present throughout the story. The plot itself is fine but uninspiring, as the gang attempt to clear their name and reclaim some stolen plates for printing US dollars. Patrick Wilson as mysteriously named CIA agent Lynch is particularly wonderful and amusing. He gets many of the best lines and delivers them in the believable style of a man with the heart of an easily impressed teenager. Watching an explosion from a satellite view, he gasps “wasn’t that just like Call of Duty?”. I may have missed many A-Team in jokes, but there were lots like this one that were up to date enough for the modern generation. Generally Wilson plays a refreshingly cynical and hilarious shady villain.
The A-Team was a film that exceeded my expectations. It’s a perfect pick me up and two hours of harmless fun with even recurring jokes like burly Baracus’ reluctance to fly, still making me smile by the end.
Happy first Birthday blog! Finally a post relevant to your name.
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Life, for most of us, boils down to monotonous repetition. It’s broadly predictable, with the odd insignificant surprise. And Date Night, starring the comedy talents of Tina Fey and Steve Carell, is a routine rom-com affair, in more ways than one. It’s about the universal desire to shatter the same old everyday habits once in a while with some glamour and risk, and it’s a standard action packed tale of spiralling events, misunderstood circumstances and hilarious antics. Like life it does feature the odd surprise, in the form of cameos dotted throughout that are often scene-stealing turns, but the outcome is never much in doubt and the route is familiar.
Indeed critical opinion of Date Night following its release earlier this year was fairly unanimous. It’s an average film, neither good nor bad but “pretty good”. Most reviews inevitably focus on the central pairing of Fey and Carell, so crucial to the success of the movie. Most verdicts declare Date Night to be an adequate vehicle for their talents, with pleasing performances from both, but certainly not their best. I would certainly agree with the assessment of the leads’ performances and add my voice to the chorus praising (or denouncing?) Date Night as a pretty good film. However like most reviewers I was caught off guard by some brilliant cameos that overshadow the stars at times and generally I enjoyed Date Night considerably more than the usual “pretty good” film.
What was the reason for this I wonder? Well perhaps it was largely down to the fact I’m a sucker for sentiment. Whilst Carell is undoubtedly better working with comedic material, he’s proved he can handle the action in films like Get Smart and more importantly the emotional side of things by giving his characters bags of appeal as well as humour, for example in 40 Year Old Virgin. Here he does a more than passable job as the well meaning everyman. Fey too proves she is comfortable with the serious stuff as well as proving more adept in the funnier moments. It was easy to buy into the dying relationship scenario and the basic premise set up by a cameo from Mark Ruffalo; that marriage can descend into two people that are “really excellent roommates”. It tugged at the heartstrings to see two people so comfortable with each other, so suited and so close, growing tired of each other’s company simply from over exposure and the onset of tedium. The story keeps prodding at your emotions and stirring them into life, in that instantly recognisable rom-com manner, as the thrills and spills reignite the couple’s buried love for one another. Crucially though this is confidently executed romantic comedy based on real-life, largely free of sick inducing soppiness and lame gags and stuffed with quality.
There is a danger of the film losing sight of its focus at times though. The description of the film called it an “Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller” and this might suggest an identity crisis. Indeed during a key action set piece, a car chase with a slick new Audi, the comedy is at its weakest at the expense of some ridiculous and not hugely exciting thrills. This is not to say there is not some enjoyment to be found in the action segments of the film, but the average excitement of these scenes is ultimately what ensures the labels of mediocre and average. The comedy has some excellent moments, and is consistently good throughout with some likeable running gags. I particularly liked the recurring theme of outrage that the Fosters (Fey and Carell) would have the audacity and cheek to take someone else’s table reservation, as they explain to various people the crimes and horrors heaped upon them since.
And those cameos of course, from James Franco and Mila Kunis as a wonderfully bickering criminal couple that simultaneously mirrored the Fosters and were opposite to them. From Mark Wahlberg, in a bare-chested performance that first alerted the world to his hidden comedy talents and William Fichtner as a detestable caricature of corruption. These performances inject life into the film and stop it going stale. Not that there is ever any real danger of it doing so; the runtime is blissfully snappy and the leads are always likeable, if not always powerfully magnetic. Of course you could want more from a film, but perhaps Date Night’s message and execution is best summed up by the song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. The Fosters undoubtedly need each other and you might find yourself needing a pick-me-up like Date Night on a dreary drizzle sodden winter’s day.
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Women have made a significant impression on The University of Alabama over the past 125 years, starting with the first female students. Women have impacted every aspect of campus life from athletics to Greek Life to the military. Significant increases of female students prompted the construction of the Women’s Campus to provide resources for the betterment of the female experience on campus. Female students and members of the university’s faculty and staff have made outstanding contributions to the campus community, the state, and the nation. The era of racial integration at UA was led by two women paving the way for acceptance and equality and the diverse and modern campus we know today. Women of the Tide have graced the silver screen and written themselves into history. Over 125 years, great advances have been made; however, there are still opportunities for progress as women continue pushing the boundaries and influencing the future.
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A woman weeps during a service at Western University in London, Ontario on January 8, 2020 for the four graduate students who were killed in a plane crash in Iran.GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images
Joseph Brean
The meaning of disasters sometimes reveals itself in a spectacular instant. Planes exploding into Manhattan skyscrapers were obviously terrorism. A train of oil exploding in Lac-Mégantic was obviously an outrageous accident.
But sometimes the significance of mass casualty events must be discerned from more compelling falsehoods. Commonsensical intuitions can obscure as much as they reveal, and make it easier to dismiss faraway calamities that really ought to trouble the domestic Canadian soul.
This is how the crash of a Ukraine-bound plane outside Tehran that first looked obviously like military escalation in the standoff between the United States and Iran was revealed overnight as an especially Canadian aviation tragedy.
“This disaster is a reminder of what it means to be Canadian and to belong to this cosmopolitan nation,” said Payam Akhavan, a Tehran-born former United Nations war crimes prosecutor, now a professor of law at McGill University, who gave the 2017 CBC Massey lectures on the perils of “us versus them” politics.
“There is a certain fluidity of identity when you open your doors to the whole world,” Akhavan said, and this crash is a reminder of how outdated views of national identity can distance Canadians from their own tragedies.
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The Canadians on board included professors of engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton; an expert in Iranian indigenous nomads pursuing a doctorate at the University of Guelph in Ontario; a staffer at an Ontario high school teachers union; students from schools across Canada; a nine-year old girl from Richmond Hill, Ont.; an eight-year-old girl from Toronto; a one-year-old girl on her first trip with her parents; and a young couple returning to their new house in Montreal after being married in their ancestral homeland.
Even the Iranians on board were largely young students coming or returning to Canada to study, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He said nearly everyone on board was bound for Toronto, transiting through Kyiv on a popular route. Trudeau said a plane arrived in Toronto from Kyiv on Wednesday with 138 empty seats, on which the victims were due to have travelled.
If the theory of an accidental crash holds up, this was a tragedy of dozens of Canadians and others killed through no fault of their own at high points in their lives. It involves a web of storylines that meander back from that field near Tehran’s airport through the Western prairies and Ontario university towns to the large urban communities in Edmonton and Toronto that grew throughout Iran’s post-revolutionary decline so much that they spawned good-natured nicknames used by the diaspora, like Tehranto.
As such, the crash is closer in kind to last year’s Ethiopian plane crash — which was also in a Boeing 737 that crashed soon after takeoff, with 18 Canadians among 157 passengers, second only to Kenyans — than to the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down in 2014 during a hot war between Ukraine and Russia, with one Canadian aboard.
But it initially seemed to be the other way round, given the rising tension between the U.S. and Iran, and the expectation of retaliation by Iran to the assassination of a top general. It seemed to be other people’s problems.
The flags at Edmonton City Hall are at half-mast following a plane crashed in Iran that killed at least 30 Edmontonians, in Edmonton Wednesday Jan. 8, 2020. David Bloom
This search for meaning can be difficult for Canadians in the early days of a shocking new disaster, existing as Canada does on the periphery of so many global conflicts, without taking sides or bearing the burden of the fighting. Why should this plane crash not simply blur into the foreign news like the deaths of African migrants in the Mediterranean or the victims of an Asian typhoon?
A secondary tragedy of the 1985 Air India bombing, the worst-ever Canadian terrorist attack that killed all 329 passengers including 268 Canadians, was the common sense that this was a foreign outrage, an attack by Indians against Indians that just happened to occur after some of the victims and perpetrators had moved to Canada. Recognizing the racist folly of that view has been a civic challenge ever since, taken up by politicians, media, educators. It has invited reflection on definitional aspects of Canadian identity in an age of immigration and multiculturalism.
A generation later, in an age when dual citizenship is common and international travel accessible to the broad Canadian middle class, these sorts of things get especially confused. Canadians can long for distant homelands. They can leave home to go home without any contradiction.
The trouble with Iran is that, over the same period, it has seemed to get farther and farther away, such that for the average Canadian, travelling to Beijing or Mumbai can seem like simple tourism in the land of one’s ancestors, but travelling to Tehran just seems reckless.
Why would Iranian-Canadians go back, knowing dual citizens are regularly taken as hostages by the regime, such as Homa Hoodfar, and even killed, such as Zahra Kazemi?
Rescue workers search the scene where an Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi
“Exile is a longing to belong. It’s an emotional space that we confuse with a physical space,” said Akhavan, who fled Iran before the 1979 revolution and, as a member of the Baháʼí faith, could expect persecution, detention and worse if he ever tried to return. “There is this very strong identity which is based on historical continuity.”
Much of the Middle East was carved up in the 20th century by European opportunists out of the carcass of the Ottoman Empire, but not Iran. Although the culture is diverse, Iranians have this deep attachment to what Akhavan described as “a rich mystical culture that refuses to be eclipsed despite the wars and invasions of the centuries.”
He described meeting Armenian Christians who love to speak Persian, which endured despite the spread of Arabic, and Iranians in Tel Aviv who share this national pride not just in cuisine, which every culture more or less shares, but also in unique traditions of poetry, literature, architecture, and art that are scarcely matched anywhere else.
The Iranian community in Canada is likewise diverse. It includes exiles, wealthy economic migrants, skilled entrepreneurs, and people in the orbit of the Islamist regime who have invested in Canadian real estate. So it is a common thing for people to go back for lavish weddings, to see family who stayed behind, to leave home for home.
One photo from Tehran by journalist Borna Ghasemi showed a girl’s red party shoe lying upright on gravel, its bow slightly singed but otherwise shiny and new, as if it had just been worn for the first time, as if at a wedding or family reunion.
• Email: jbrean@nationalpost.com | Twitter: josephbrean
They were supposed to be flying together. Instead, Ottawa resident Mohsen Ahmadipour said goodbye to his wife
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American Idol: Jennifer Lopez will return as judge
NEW YORK— Although Jennifer Lopez is a bit “mum” on her plans, an executive producer of reality talent show “American Idol” says Jennifer Lopez is slated to return for another season.
Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe made the announcement on the “On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” program Wednesday morning.
Lythgoe admitted the announcement was not official, but said he was “delighted to say that all three judges” and the show’s “brilliant host” are back for the next season.
So it looks like Jennifer will grace her presence with Ryan Seacrest, Steven Tyler and original judge Randy Jackson once again. No complaints, we loved her as a judge.
“American Idol” will begin its 11th season on Fox in January.
Let the ‘screeching’ begin followed by a “Dude, that was terrible,” from Jackson.
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Frank Pichel / Lindsay Ferris
Pausing the Data Revolution to Ask a Few Questions
Google us.
You’ll learn where both of us live, went to school and worked. You can even learn our political affiliation.
All of this is thanks to the ongoing revolution of open data.
Never before has so much information about our fellow humans been so readily available.
But, as highlighted earlier this month at the International Open Data Conference in Madrid, the data we have can be skewed and does not always reflect global priorities. We have far more data from developed countries than developing countries. And the data that we have from the developing world – even in the rare cases when it is a complete and accurate dataset – is not easily accessed.
So, for example, you can learn our political affiliation if you dig online for a few minutes. But days at your laptop will not yield reliable information about who has legal rights to vast swaths of land across dozens of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. And the information which is available often doesn’t reflect on-the-ground realities.
As the data revolution continues, we must ask:
How do we prioritize what data is collected?
What data is opened and to whom is it made accessible?
And who should make these decisions?
The answers to these key questions will have far-reaching impact on global and national-level government priorities and decision-making.
We believe the answers to these questions should be the product of discussions between open data experts and domain specialists who can provide a nuanced understanding of their field as well as data end users including communities, governments and corporations.
While our first instinct in collecting and opening datasets is to prioritize those that have the most demand and potential for re-use, questions of whose demand we should prioritize remain.
The most powerful potential users – governments and corporations – might be those most capable of demanding and making the most use of land datasets. But the whole movement of open data is predicated on the notion that open data is the great equalizer – that giving farmers in Africa data can empower them.
“Open data ensures that power will be shared – and that the world we change will, with luck, become a fairer and more democratic one,” wrote Joel Gurin of the Center for Open Data Enterprise in the Guardian.
Currently, those we want to empower with data – for example, farmers in Africa who want to know who has rights to a certain plot of land that they may want to buy and invest in (or even more fundamentally, want a public legal record of their own rights to land so that they can securely invest in their land and improve their harvests and their lives) – don’t have the same power and voice to demand data that meets their needs.
Four key themes can help guide our discussions on how we prioritize efforts to collect various open datasets to maximize the social good:
Increased coordination: Between the Global Open Data Index, the Open Data Barometer and the Open Data Inventory, there are several instruments measuring the “openness” of government datasets. We must recognize that different indexes can focus on different data needs and progress toward different social goods. Increased cooperation between these varied indexes can minimize overlap and provide an opportunity to examine open data from different angles. Each index should look to fill knowledge gaps left by others. While the Global Open Data Index prioritizes datasets based on civil society data needs, the Open Data Barometer could focus on datasets that stimulate increased interoperability between government agencies.
Create measurement standards: Together, we should agree on our approach to prioritizing datasets we believe all governments should be asked to collect and release. This requires collaboration between sector experts and data experts, but also a discussion that includes all actors – from powerful governments and corporations to representatives of indigenous communities and other vulnerable actors. This group should also offer operational guidance focused on maximizing social good.
Impact and demand: The aim is always to promote datasets that will have the most impact in their release. However, determining what kind of impact and whether it will actually come to fruition is hard to predict, especially across a global context. Therefore, we should first prioritize the outcomes we’d like to see and then measure how much releasing a dataset will get us toward these desired outcomes.
Addressing power imbalances: Often the civil society organizations that create indexes have their own aims, including a desire to get data into the hands of those who might not have the ability to pay for subscription datasets. Therefore, we should strive to collect and make accessible datasets that will alleviate, rather than exacerbate, information asymmetries.
Frank Pichel is co-founder and chief program officer, and Lindsay Ferris is the Open Data in Land Fellow at Cadasta Foundation.
Photo illustration courtesy of Open Data Watch, via Facebook.
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NCCSD Policy Manual Adoption Date: 5/12/2015
Section 3.1.5, Student Use of Computerized Information Resources (Acceptable Use Policy), #7315
SUBJECT: STUDENT USE OF COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION RESOURCES (ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY)
The Board of Education will provide access to various computerized information resources through the District's computer system ("DCS" hereafter) consisting of software, hardware, computer networks and electronic communications systems. This may include access to electronic mail, so called "on-line services" and the "Internet." It may include the opportunity for some students to have independent access to the DCS from their home or other remote locations. All use of the DCS, including independent use off school premises, shall be subject to this policy and accompanying regulations. Further, all such use must be in support of education and/or research and consistent with the goals and purposes of the School District.
Access to Inappropriate Content/Material and Use of Personal Technology or Electronic Devices
This policy is intended to establish general guidelines for the acceptable student use of the DCS and also to give students and parents/guardians notice that student use of the DCS will provide student access to external computer networks not controlled by the School District. The District cannot screen or review all of the available content or materials on these external computer networks. Thus some of the available content or materials on these external networks may be deemed unsuitable for student use or access by parents/guardians.
Despite the existence of District policy, regulations and guidelines, it is virtually impossible to completely prevent access to content or material that may be considered inappropriate for students. Students may have the ability to access such content or material from their home, other locations off school premises and/or with a student's own personal technology or electronic device on school grounds or at school events. Parents and guardians must be willing to establish boundaries and standards for the appropriate and acceptable use of technology and communicate these boundaries and standards to their children. The appropriate/acceptable use standards outlined in this policy apply to student use of technology via the DCS or any other electronic media or communications, including by means of a student's own personal technology or electronic device on school grounds or at school events.
Standards of Acceptable Use
Generally, the same standards of acceptable student conduct which apply to any school activity shall apply to use of the DCS. This policy does not attempt to articulate all required and/or acceptable uses of the DCS; nor is it the intention of this policy to define all inappropriate usage. Administrative regulations will further define general guidelines of appropriate student conduct and use as well as proscribed behavior. District students shall also adhere to the laws, policies and rules governing computers including, but not limited to, copyright laws, rights of software publishers, license agreements, and student rights of privacy created by federal and state law.
Students who engage in unacceptable use may lose access to the DCS in accordance with applicable due process procedures, and may be subject to further discipline under the District's school conduct and discipline policy and the District Code of Conduct. The District reserves the right to pursue legal action against a student who willfully, maliciously or unlawfully damages or destroys property of the District. Further, the District may bring suit in civil court against the parents/guardians of any student who willfully, maliciously or unlawfully damages or destroys District property pursuant to General Obligations Law Section 3-112.
Student data files and other electronic storage areas will be treated like school lockers. This means that such areas shall be considered to be School District property subject to control and inspection. The Computer Coordinator may access all such files and communications without prior notice to ensure system integrity and that users are complying with the requirements of this policy and accompanying regulations. Students should NOT expect that information stored on the DCS will be private.
The District's Acceptable Use Policy and Regulations will be disseminated to parents and students in order to provide notice of the school's requirements, expectations, and students' obligations when accessing the DCS.
Regulations will be established as necessary to implement the terms of this policy.
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Clarinet Concert at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre
Lunchtime on October 22nd
Klarinet-Ensemble Lignum
Lignum, a Clarinet Choir from Leiden in Holland
consists of twenty musicians
all playing the Clarinet.
On Friday October 22nd, they will play a Free Concert
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from 1.00pm –2.00pm
Lignum is an ensemble made up of some twenty musicians all playing the clarinet, based in Leiden. Such an ensemble is commonly known as a clarinet choir. Its set-up resembles that of a string orchestra: from the high e-flat clarinet via the b-flat clarinet, which is the most common, to the alto clarinet, the bass clarinet, and the contrabass. The result is a dynamic and flexible sound that ranges from soft and velvety to sparkling and energetic.
In 2008 and 2009 Lignum contacted a few composers, who were found willing to produce pieces of music specifically for Lignum. As a result of this, “Syzygy”, composed by Janco Verduyn and “Wervelingen” (swirls), composed by Hans Tolhuijs, were premiered by Lignum during the November concerts of 2008 and 2009, respectively. At least one more piece is yet to come in 2010.
In 2010 Lignum celebrates the fact that it was founded 20 years ago. For this purpose a lot of activities are being organized. One of the main activities will be a concert tour to Ireland from October 21st through October 24th.
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Pick up and return to your accommodation or cruise ship. Suggested day tour: Newgrange World Heritage site, 10th century High Crosses at Monasterboice, Hill of Tara the seat of the High Kings of Ireland and the Hill of Slane where St. Patrick let a Paschal fire in 433 More ...
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2019/2020 NPFL: MFM Set to Unveil Bolus as New Coach
The Board of Lagos-based Mounting of Fire Ministry (MFM) FC is on the verge of announcing a replacement for its former Coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Ilechukwu, who managed the premier league team for 13 years has recently been pouched and unveiled as manager on a three-year deal by Heartlands FC of Owerri.
A source in the club told NAN that Temitope Bolus, former Coach of Giwa FC of Jos, remained a strong favourite for the job.
The source also said Bolus, a former assistant to Imama Amakpakabo in Rangers International FC of Enugu, was considered to have capacity to carry on with the legacy Ilechukwu had left behind.
“Bolus is a good coach and I think he is the right man to take over from Ilechukwu. The technical crew of the club knows what is best for the club and is prepared to act accordingly.
“By the time the club announces the new coach, Bolus will surely get the nod’’, the source said.
Also, Olawale Quadri, the club’s media officer said the club would not allow a vacuum to be created by the departure of its longest serving coach.
“The board is working round the clock to re-position the club. We are not leaving any stone unturned as we have a legacy of good football artistry and we will continue in that fashion,’’ he said.
NAN reports that the League Management Company (LMC) recently announced Sept. 22 as the commencement date for the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) 2019/2020 season.
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UTME A NECESSITY - JAMB REGISTRAR
In Morning Crossfire 2019-07-03 13:07:04
By Dipo Omoware
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede says the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Board is a necessity.
According to him, UTME is not a certification examination but a ranking process as the qualification required to gain entrance into university anywhere in the world is 5 O’level credits.
Speaking to 99.3 Nigeria Info FM Lagos’ Morning Crossfire hosts Wemimo Adewuni and Sheriff Quadry, Professor Oloyede said “UTME is a necessity, it is a ranking examination and it eliminates a lot of problems and many nations of the world are doing this.”
“Without it, ranking would have been very difficult. It is assumed that all candidates who apply for entrance into the university would have been qualified. If they are not qualified, no institution will take them and the qualification is to have 5 credits at the O’level."
The JAMB boss also responded to stories of candidates who claimed they got multiple results for sitting for one examination. According to him, not one case has been found to be true. Prof Is-haq insisted that all those who made such allegation when subjected to further inquiry by the police confessed.
“Get one of them and come with them to JAMB and you will find out that that person is a crook.”
“Tell somebody who says I have two results, I will pay for your transport and pay for everything, come with that person and you will be surprised at what you will see.”
“About a week ago, you might have heard about one who even had the audacity to come. We invited him and fortunately he came. When he came, he brought two results. Eventually he confessed and we found out that he did not only do it for himself, he had been collecting money into his bank account and he has been defrauding people. He is now being prosecuted.”
“The problem is more serious than many of us are taking it.” He concluded.
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Sophia Rose Review: Wedding Bells and Deadly Spells by Danielle Garrett
Posted November 27, 2019 by Lily B in Reviews / 27 Comments
Wedding Bells and Deadly Spells by Danielle Garrett
Narrator: Amanda Ronconi
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Series: A Touch of Magic Mysteries #3
Published by Tantor Audio on April 12, 2019
Genres: Paranormal, Cozy Mystery
A drop of poison is all it takes to bring the biggest wedding of the season to its knees.
Anastasia Winters adheres to the adage that the show must go on, but when the groom of her latest wedding drops dead before “I do,” she’s left with no backup plan.
Things get even stickier when her friend and esteemed caterer, Francois, is named the top suspect.
Ana's loyalties are tested as the investigation turns into a vicious tug-of-war. She believes Francois is innocent, but holding the other side of the rope is the lead detective--her serious boyfriend--and the more she struggles, the more her own chance at happily ever after starts to unravel.
It’s up to Anastasia to find the killer, while gripping tightly to her relationships before they break and leave her with nothing.
Wedding Bells and Deadly Spells is the third novel in a new series of paranormal mysteries by Danielle Garrett. Step inside the magical world of the Seattle Haven and see what happens when the magic and wedding worlds collide! Packed full of laughs, magic, mystery, and a little romance, this series is sure to have something for everyone.
Rich, entitled, and very connected makes a jerk groom and his bride, Anastasia’s personal penance for months through planning their nuptials. She dreams of their ‘I do’ moment with happiness more than they do. I have such a good time with this author’s books that I couldn’t wait to jump back in her paranormal cozy mystery world.
Wedding Bells and Deadly Spells was the third of the Touch of Magic series that is a spinoff of the Beechwood Harbor Magic series. This series should be read in order to get the full storyline for main character and recurring characters, but it also works especially best after getting the older series because there is a small crossover with that series main character into this book.
Anastasia is a premier wedding planner for a big well-established agency. She’s at the top of her game with her career and her romantic relationship with Caleb, her Supernatural Police Agency boyfriend. But, when the snobby and annoying groom is murdered and her caterer friend stands accused by Caleb as the investigating officer even as she gets pounced on by a boss always waiting to catch her out, she is on the verge of losing everything. And, what’s with her younger sister sneaking around and lying to her? Can’t a poor witch catch a break?
I loved how this one turned out. Anastasia really got put through the wringer personally. It still had a light and fun feel, but also touched on personal relationships, career dreams, and big changes for her future while offering up a good murder mystery. She hit a low time and had to struggle which made it all the more engaging.
The mystery was good, but, I confess, that I only gave it half a thought because I was more interested in the intrigues of her personal life this go around.
Amanda Ronconi is very familiar and was a welcome sound when I picked this one up in audio edition. She has been the voice of all the author’s books and let me say, that is a good thing. She makes listening to this series and the others an enhanced experience because she captures her characters, the world, and the tone of the author’s writing so well. There is an inter-changeableness in that Ana sounds like Holly and Scarlett and Caleb sounds like the other heroine’s boyfriends, but I didn’t mind nor did it confuse me.
I think this series is getting better with each new release since this was the best yet to me. If you want entertaining cozy mystery set in a paranormal world with a well-developed cast of characters, you need look no further.
My thanks to Tantor Audio for the opportunity to listen to this book in exchange for an honest review.
Review: Recursion by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Published by Crown Publishing Group (NY) on June 11, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction, Time-Travel, Thriller
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?
I think I am at a point where I will read anything that Blake Crouch writes in the future. I love his writing. I love the imagination, and this book delivered it all in a near-perfect package. I knew when I cracked the book open, it will be the only thing consuming my reading time and I was right. From the moment I started it, I had a hard time putting it down until I finished it.
So what is the book about? I’ll try to explain some of it without going too deeply into it because I think it’s best to go into this book with the unknown and an open mind.
This book follows a cop named Barry and a neuroscientist Helena. Barry Sutton is investigating a phenomenon dubbed by the media as a FMS – False Memory Syndrome. People are popping up claiming they remember another life they lived, and that their memories feel so real as if they really did live them out. But how could it be if the life they are currently living in isn’t the same?
Helena Smith has devoted her entire life to create the technology of preserving precious memories, especially since her own mother’s memories are failing due to Alzheimer’s. What she ends up creating is far beyond that. A machine that can send you back into memory and have you relive that life all over again. People who were meant to die, don’t have to die. But what happens if they remember their deaths? In the wrong hands, the piece of technology is terrifying and possibly world ending.
This book was fast-paced, one wildly entertaining ride that is both imaginative, scary, and well written. I had a hard time putting the book down and love every minute of it. Blake Crouch is an amazing author that knows how to hook me from the first sentence until the very end.
Sophia Rose Review: Newly Wed and Slightly Dead by Danielle Garrett
Newly Wed and Slightly Dead by Danielle Garrett
Published by Self-published on February 14, 2019
Source: Freebie
Nothing ruins a rehearsal dinner quite like a passive-aggressive toast from the unhappy mother of the groom. Things go from bad to yikes when she’s found reduced to a pile of ashes and couture and the bride is pegged as the one wielding the wooden stake.
When a vampire marries a human, things are bound to get messy…
After years spent working the birthday party and baby shower circuit, Anastasia Winters finally has a corner office and a host of supernatural clients all begging her to plan their special day. But following a brush of bad luck, she finds herself on the brink of losing it all. With an ultimatum from her boss on the table, her next wedding has to be perfect.
When the vampy mother of the groom is found dead, the bride goes on the run, and Anastasia is forced head-first into the murder investigation if she has any chance of getting the wedding back on track and keeping her job.
Unfortunately, this is one wedding crisis that requires more than a strategically placed bobby pin or double-sided sticky tape.
Can there be a fairy tale ending, or will it be Happily Ever Never?
Newly Wed and Slightly Dead is the first novel in a new series of paranormal mysteries by Danielle Garrett. Step inside the magical world of the Seattle Haven and see what happens when the magic and wedding worlds collide! Packed full of laughs, magic, mystery, and a little romance, this series is sure to have something for everyone.
After blasting my way through the Beechwood Harbor Magic and Beechwood Harbor Ghost mysteries, I was thrilled the author had begun another spinoff series featuring Holly (Beechwood Harbor Magic Mysteries heroine) Boldt’s bestie back in the Seattle Haven, event planner witch, Anastasia Winters.
Newly Wed and Slightly Dead picks up with Anastasia having recently made senior event planner status and working on one of the biggest wedding accounts of the year, a vampire-human wedding for the Vanguard Vampire clan. The groom’s mother has been a beast, but the rest of the wedding plans have gone without a hitch until the future monster in law gets ashed at the rehearsal dinner.
Anastasia has thrown her heart into her career and finally made it to where she wants to be, but her work is her life. She has a premiere condo, a closet full of designer shoes, a fluffy cat companion and a wayward little sister sleeping on her couch, but she doesn’t have a life. So, when the sneering witch she beat out for the job and her own boss put the pressure on, she rises to the occasion until her perfect wedding is in shambles and the bride accused of murder by the supernatural detective hottie who wants to take her out on a date.
It’s an easy quick read, but engaging and fun. Anastasia is easy to like and I enjoyed getting the intro to her world and who will likely be regular series characters. The event business is suspenseful all on its own, but it was fun seeing how the mystery turned out. I’m looking forward to continuing on with the series and can definitely recommend it to current fans of the author and those looking for a light paranormal cozy mystery.
Incidentally, at the time of writing this, the book was free on Amazon. And, if you go to the author’s website, the prequel is free.
Review Round Up #9
Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson
Series: Jessica McClain, #1, #1
Published by Orbit on September 11, 2012
Genres: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance
Source: Won
Born the only female in an all male race, Jessica McClain isn’t just different—she’s feared.
After living under the radar for the last twenty-six years, Jessica is thrust unexpectedly into her first change, a full ten years late. She wakes up and finds she’s in the middle of a storm. Now that she’s become the only female full-blooded werewolf in town, the supernatural world is already clamoring to take a bite out of her and her new Pack must rise up and protect her.
But not everyone is on board. The werewolf Rights of Laws is missing text and the superstitious werewolves think that Jessica means an end to their race. It doesn’t help when Jessica begins to realize she’s more. She can change partway and hold her form, and speak directly to her wolf. But the biggest complication by far is that her alpha father can't control her like he can the rest of his wolves.
When a mercenary who’s been hired by the vampires shows up to extract information about the newly turned werewolf only days after her change, they find themselves smack in the middle of a war and there's no choice but to run together. When it’s up to Jessica to negotiate her release against her father’s direct orders, she chooses to take an offer for help instead. In exchange, Jessica must now swear an oath she may end up repaying with her life.
Phew. I had this book forever, or what feels like forever. My son picked a wrapped book for me and this was the choice. The book follows a girl named Jessica McClain and she is the world’s only female werewolf and because of that, there is a prophecy that says she will bring some sort of destruction to the wolves and now every werewolf is on edge and there are some out to get here.
I found this book okay. Just okay. It wasn’t great and reminds me of a bit of Bitten, the other only one female werewolf read. I think my issue with this was entirely Jessica. I found her aggravating and falls victim to the trope of too stupid to live. Luckily for Jessica, she is a werewolf so she isn’t killed easily and has a support network of males who would put their life on the line to protect her.
It just drove me nuts with all the stupid decisions she made and flying off the handle without considering how it affects others, and her family and friends screaming at her to get away and it took some time for the repercussions to sink in but even when they do, she still learns very little.
As of right now, I don’t have plans on continuing with this series. I gave it a generous 3 stars.
Spellbound by Tricia Drammeh
Series: Spellbringers,
Published by ATW Publishing on August 2, 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
The Demon Re’Vel stalks his prey in the forest of dreams, slowly gaining control over the mind of his victim. Rachel doesn’t realize the Demon is real. In fact, she doesn’t believe in magic, Demons, Hunters, or any of the other things the Alexanders have warned her about. She resists their protection, but can’t resist her overwhelming feelings for Jace.
Alisa has been drawn to Jace since the day she saved him from a Hunter attack. A mere human in a world of Spellbringers, Alisa has been embraced by the Alexander family as a hero, but not everyone is willing to accept her. Jace’s intimidating older brother, Bryce, keeps his emotions and his secrets hidden. When Bryce confides in Alisa, it puts her relationship with Jace and the entire Alexander family at risk.
Danger, secrets, and betrayal collide, and when the Demon makes his claim, the small, southern town of Oaktree becomes a battleground for Rachel’s life.
Formerly published under the title 'The Claiming Words,' Spellbound is a completely re-written, re-vamped novel featuring added scenes, additional chapters, and a new ending.
A cute YA paranormal that follows two girls. Alisa and Rachel in a dual POV. Rachel is a gifted Spellbringer, Alisa is a normal girl that somehow gets involved with the Alexander family – who are also a family with special powers.
This wasn’t bad. I liked the plot. I thought it was interesting. It did drag a bit at times and it felt repetitive. The girls sounded way younger than their 17 years of age. There was a lot of teenage boy swooning going on and falling madly in love way too quickly and thinking about marriage at such a young age. I don’t know how realistic this is for 17 year olds, maybe fanciful for someone young, like the age of 14 and 15 who don’t have a better understanding, but not many 17 year olds I feel still act like that. I could be wrong, but that’s not how my experience was.
I found Rachel to be an infuriating character. She had these Hunter’s that were looking for her and she was constantly rejecting trained professionals to protect her and kept putting the Alexander boys and her best friend in danger and it kept happening, so you’d think she’d learn? nah..
Like I said. It’s cute for a YA read, but I feel like it should be on a younger side.
Sophia Rose Review: The Knight Before Christmas by Marilyn Brant
Posted November 16, 2019 by Lily B in Guest Post, Reviews / 39 Comments
The Knight Before Christmas by Marilyn Brant
Published by Twelfth Night Publishing on November 27th 2019
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Holiday
Source: Author
I received this book for free from Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a light contemporary romance by New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Marilyn Brant, who also penned the award-winning and Jane Austen-inspired novels ACCORDING TO JANE and PRIDE, PREJUDICE AND THE PERFECT MATCH.
When successful building contractor Austin Knightley returns to his hometown of Crystal Corners, Minnesota after a decade away, he vows to avoid pampered and popular types like his old high-school crush Emma Westwood—the town's biggest queen bee and self-appointed matchmaker—only to get swept into a community Christmas project she's now organizing.
With nods to Jane Austen's classic novel EMMA, this modern heroine may be a little "clueless" in the Midwest, but she's got gifts to share and plenty to learn from the boy next door, who's all grown up and handsomer than ever. Even when a snowstorm threatens to derail her plans, she's determined to figure out how to set things right and save THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
This sweet and heartwarming holiday romance is a story that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
The Knight Before Christmas is a standalone that gives a flirty nod toward the classic tale of Emma the matchmaker and her gentleman Knightley with the clash of opposites in an adorable family and friends small town romance decked out for the holidays. Oh how I love a good small town, heartwarming holiday romance and it was no hardship picking up the latest from an author I trust to bring me the feels and the sweet goodies.
He thinks she’s a meddling busybody and she thinks he’s a crank when Austin comes home for Christmas and Emma finds he’s the only one who can help save her community kids’ project. Austin’s dad just had a serious heart surgery and his latest girlfriend is behind him. He wanted to make it big in the city with his building contract business. Now that he has, he’s ready to settle near home and spend time with his family. It would have been nice to find love and start a family, but the right woman just hasn’t come along and she is certainly nothing like his childhood frustration, chatty social butterfly rich girl Emma Westwood. Or can opposites really attract?
Emma has never understood why introverted Austin Knightley has always seemed to detest her and especially now that he’s gone away and returned taciturn as ever when it comes to her. He’s kind and generous to everyone else, but she always manages to get his scowls or silence. All her life, she’s had loving generous parents who gave her the best of everything including the heart to give back and do for others which includes taking charge of some community projects and steering others toward their special someone, but Austin sees her as a bossy meddler. Glimpses of the boisterous Knightley clan of adult kids and their parents leave her feeling hollow and envious. But, then her big Christmas project for the kids is in jeopardy and she has to approach Austin Knightley to help save the day. She sees a side of him that she never imagined and opens herself up like she never has to he can see the real Emma. She hopes he won’t reject this person because she most certainly has lost her breezy confidence and friendly distance when it comes to this knight with power tools and the ability to get her to step outside the box.
This was a warm, feel-good sweet romance that was perfect for getting one in the mood for the holidays. It starts as something of an opposites situation that ends up being more the childhood crush- boy next door sort of story which I found engaging and fun especially when surrounded by family, friends, and a small town setting. It’s an easy low-angst even paced story. The Austin and Emma at the beginning were a bad first impressions sort of thing, but then their real personalities and motives came out and I liked them a lot. I had a lot of sugary swoony moments and now I’m eager to press forward and get the other two Knightley brothers stories. I caught a quick glimpse of the next brother’s story in that epilogue and I think it’s going to be good times in Crystal Corners.
Sweet small town holiday romance lovers don’t hesitate to grab this one up.
Review: The Keeper by J.L. Bryan
The Keeper by J.L. Bryan
Series: Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper #8
Published by J.L. Bryan on December 27, 2016
Genres: Paranormal, Ghosts, Urban Fantasy
Source: Gifted
The South Channel lighthouse is a crumbling antique at the mouth of the Savannah River, abandoned and forgotten for generations. Local stories still tell of a mysterious woman in white who often stood at the old lighthouse, watching the sailors come into port...even long after she died.
Now the property by the lighthouse is owned by a famous movie star in search of a remote beach getaway on sleepy Tybee Island. Unfortunately, old ghosts haunt her new retreat, stirred up by the construction of a luxurious new mansion. Ellie, Stacey, and their team must remove the ghosts, who grow more dangerous and aggressive every night, threatening the lives of the client and her family and personal staff.
The lighthouse has a dark history, with many ghosts, and mysteries to unravel before Ellie can send them on to the other side.
If there is one book series that I can count on to pull me out of my slump, that’s Ellie Jordan by J.L Bryan and like the past few books in this series, this one does not disappoint.
Ellie is back, still trying to deal with the events of the last book as she struggles with the new management that took over her agency and finding the ghost that haunts her dreams.
In this one, we follow Ellie and Stacy to an island with a lighthouse, currently owned by an actress. As Ellie and Stacy scramble to capture the ghosts that haunt the house of the actress before her family comes to town, they are also trying to uncover the mysterious magician that haunts one of the theaters they believe might be connected to Anton Clay.
Chilling, entertaining and always fun, J.L Bryan delivers in another fantastic Ellie Jordan installment that held me captive and chewing through the pages.
I can’t get enough of Ellie and Stacy and how far they have come now and how close they seem to be getting what Ellie truly wants. There were a few good surprises in this book, the character development was great and I found myself enjoying this as much as the others. It also wraps up some loose connections from the previous installment.
I cannot wait to see what’s in store for Ellie and Stacy next, especially after that kind of an ending.
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Train entirely spray-painted in silver has NS seeing red
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Eight railcars belonging to national rail operator NS were thoroughly covered in silver spray paint as they sat idle at the station in Wormerveer, Noord-Holland. Vandals painted all windows and doorways along the platform side of a pair of four-car trains, which were coupled in the middle.
"We find this incredibly antisocial," a spokesperson for the NS told RTL Nieuws. The affected train was removed from service and replaced with another vehicle. The NS said it has to remove the paint and clean the train.
Technical issues possible cause for fatal collision between bus, cargo bike
An NS bus that collided with seven cars and a woman on a cargo bike in Bussum on Wednesday, may have had a technical defect, according to the police's initial findings in the investigation into the fatal accident. The woman on the cargo bike ended up underneath the bus and did not survive the accident. Her child was not hurt, NU.nl reports.
Motorist killed in collision with train
A motorist was killed in a collision with a train at a guarded rail crossing in the Limburg town of Haelen on Wednesday evening. The passenger of the car was rushed to hospital with serious injuries. None of the people on the train were hurt, the police said in a statement.
The accident happened at around 7:45 p.m. on the level crossing on Roermondseweg in Haelen, near Roermond. So far nothing is known about the victims' identity.
Woman on cargo bike killed in collision with NS bus; child unhurt
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An NS bus crashed into around seven cars and a cargo bike in Bussum, Noord-Holland on Wednesday afternoon. The woman riding the cargo bike became trapped under the bus and died. No one else was injured. The child in the cargo bike was also unhurt, the Gooi en Vechtstreek police said on Twitter.
The accident happened on Comeniuslaan at around 4:35 p.m. The woman killed in the crash came from Naarden. "We wish her loved ones a lot of strength with this loss," the police said.
Train derailment near The Hague has passengers seeking alternatives
TechnologyWeird
A passenger train derailment in Voorburg on Thursday was expected to interrupt scheduled service on the train route between The Hague and Utrecht through the night. There were no injuries among the passengers on the NS Intercity train when it went off the rails, according to rail infrastructure firm ProRail.
NS, Eurostar to run 5 trains daily between Netherlands & London; More sustainable than flying, says NS
Dec 17 '19 16:50
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Dutch national railway NS said it plans to work with Eurostar to run five high-speed trains daily between Amsterdam and London, with a stop in Rotterdam. The increase would mean the train service could conceivably handle up to 4,500 passengers per day in either direction.
Bomb threat prompts brief evacuation of Amsterdam train station; one arrest
Police working at the Amsterdam Sloterdijk train station arrested a suspect for allegedly making bomb threats. The threats were made by a person inside a train early Friday afternoon, a spokesperson for Dutch national railway NS told media outlets.
“No explosive was found,” police said in a statement.
Authorities were dispatched to the station before 12:15 p.m., and police confirmed they were responding to a suspicious situation about 15 minutes later. The arrest was made and the situation was resolved by 12:40 p.m., police said.
Amsterdam subway will extend to Schiphol; Costs to hit €3 billion: report
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The Noord-Zuid subway line in Amsterdam will be extended to Schiphol and Hoofddorp within the next decade, and the estimated costs of the project are least 3 billion euros, the Volkskrant reports based on sources within the seven parties involved in the project.
Rotterdam to Groningen night train to continue running after successful test
A two-year long experiment with running a night train from Rotterdam Central Station to Groningen after Friday night draws to a close attracted enough passengers to be considered a success, according to NS. The rail company will add this train to the timetable for the coming two years, RTV Noord reports.
The train departs from Rotterdam Central Station at just after midnight, pulling out of the station at 12:05 a.m. on Saturdays. It then runs via Utrecht, Zwolle and Assen to Groningen, where it arrives just before 3:00 a.m.
NS successfully experiments with self-driving train
NS dit its first experiment with a self-driving train during the early hours of Wednesday morning. The experiment was a great success, the rail company said. The train departed and arrived on time.
Three Tanzanian hypothermia victims taken off train, hospitalized
Dec 9 '19 11:40
A soaking wet train passenger and two others suffering from symptoms of hypothermia prompted an emergency response to Venlo, Limburg. One man had fallen into water in Eindhoven, and was pulled out by two others, a spokesperson for the fire department told AD. All three men are from Tanzania, and were taken to an area hospital for medical care, the police said in a separate statement.
National outage hits NS travel information
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NS is struggling with a national outage affecting its travel information on Wednesday morning. As a result, the travel information on signs at NS stations and on the NS app may be incorrect, the rail company said on its website on Wednesday morning.
There seems to be no way to determine which information is incorrect. Confused travelers can rely on information from conductors.
WiFi-tracking to improve NS' empty seat finding app
NS wants to use WiFi tracking to improve and expand its app that finds empty seats on a train. The current methods used are too imprecise. The rail company is waiting for the Dutch Data Protection Authority to green light this plan, Udo Oelen, NS' privacy director, said to Trouw.
High speed train links Breda, Schiphol, and Groningen in gov’t billion euro infrastructure plan
Nov 22 '19 08:30
The Dutch government is pushing over a billion euros into improving accessibility within the Netherlands. Schiphol Station will undergo major renovations for 237 million euros, and a high speed train line will soon link the northern cities of Leeuwarden and Groningen with the rest of the country, Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen and State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven of Infrastructure and Water Management said in a letter to parliament.
Invest in railways to reduce nitrogen emissions, ProRail, NS say
The government can solve the nitrogen emission problem by making public transit a more attractive option with a massive investment, according to NS and ProRail. The rail manager and -company propose that the government invest over 20.6 billion euros in the railways until 2040, for dozens of improvements, AD reports.
The organizations want to shorten the travel time from Leeuwarden and Groningen to the Randstad by making adjustments to the Hanze line, for example. Train journeys from Twente, Nijmegen and Vlissingen can also be up to 30 minutes faster with specific adjustments
Video: Train conductor knocked unconscious in Breda; man sought
A 63-year-old train conductor was attacked from behind by a man traveling without a ticket in Breda late in September. The man hit her so hard on the back of the head that she immediately lost consciousness. The police are asking for the public's aid in identifying the suspect.
The conductor checked the man's ticket on the international train from Brussels to Amsterdam on September 28th. She found that he did not have a valid ticket. She took his ticket and told him to buy a new one in Breda. The man behaved aggressively towards the conductor and she left the coupe.
Schiphol Station renovations to start 2022, cost €500 million: report
Nov 7 '19 09:18
The government, ProRail, NS, Schiphol and the Amsterdam Transport Region are very nearly at an agreement regarding the expansion of Schiphol train station. The renovations, which will include larger access gates and a new bus station, are scheduled to start in 2022 and expected to cost some 500 million euros, AD reports based on draft plans the newspaper got a look at.
NS cancels evening rush hour discount plans
The some 700 thousand holders of an NS discount hours card will lose their right to discount in the evening rush hour from 2021. NS is cutting various subscription types, reducing the number form 22 to 11, and the evening rush hour discount is one of those to go, NOS reports.
According to NS, cutting discounts during evening rush hour - between 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. - will result in fewer travelers during this time and thus more available seats. Currently 1 in 14 evening rush hour travelers has a discount subscription.
Snow to cause fewer problems for train traffic this year, NS promises
NS made changes to its policy for regional timetable adjustments so that it can be more flexible in dealing with local snowfall. This should mean a reduction in train cancellations on snowy days, the rail company pledged in comments to the Telegraaf.
Previously, changes to regional timetables had to be made at least 12 hours in advance and applied to a whole section of a day. Now changes must be made at least four hours an advance, and apply for at least two hours.
Man in wheelchair carried off crowded train for taking up too much space
Oct 31 '19 15:20
Sven Romkes from Assen managed to just get a spot with his wheelchair in a packed train from Almere station to the north on Tuesday evening. But two young men decided they'd rather have his spot. They picked him up, wheelchair and all, and carried him off the train. Romkes was left on the platform, watching the intercity train to Leeuwarden leave without him, De Stentor reports.
NS unveils new train interior concepts at Dutch Design Week
NS is presenting its vision for new train interiors at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven on Tuesday. The new interior design plans, made with the help of architect company Mecanoo, are focused on squeezing as many people as possible into a train as comfortably as possible, in order to cope with the increasing number of passengers and the limited capacity on the tracks.
Hundreds of train passengers evacuated after overhead line snaps
Damaged overhead lines between Hoofddorp and Leiden left three trains stranded on Thursday, ProRail reported. Around 1,400 passengers were evacuated. The stranded trains are currently being towed away.
"The contractor is currently inspecting the damage", ProRail said. "How long the repairs will take is not yet known." No trains are currently running between Hoofddorp and Leiden. "ProRail regrets the inconvenience for all travelers on this route."
NS called to create more room for bikes on trains
There are far too few spaces for bicycles on the train to keep up with the growing number of public transit users that travel with their bikes, according to cyclists' union Fietsersbond and travelers' association Rover. They call on NS to take measures, especially now that cycling is increasingly being encouraged, the Telegraaf reports.
New overnight train service to connect Amsterdam and Vienna
Oct 7 '19 15:30
Dutch rail company NS and its Austrian counterpart OBB are working on an overnight train connection between Vienna and Amsterdam. OBB aims to run its 'Nightjet' trains between the two cities three times per week from 2021, the Telegraaf reports.
The train would be an extension of the OBB's current Nightjet passenger route between Vienna and Düsseldorf. The firm is also expected to announce service to Brussels.
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Gaza resistance movements reiterate their resistance to the Israeli occupation and determination to liberate Palestine
29 December 2015 notwnadmin 0 Comments Fronte Popolare per la Liberazione della Palestina, Hamas, Israeli Occupation, Palestine, PFLP
Julie Webb-Pullman
Both Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) held well-attended events in the Gaza Strip in the past week, celebrating the anniversaries of their founding and reiterating their resistance to the Israeli occupation and determination to liberate Palestine.
December 12 marked the 48th anniversary of the PFLP, while December 16 was the 28th birthday of Hamas.
Hamas supporters rally in Gaza City
Referring to the 2006 elections, “a crucial transition in the history of Hamas and Palestine,” Hamas noted they “clearly were not the horse Israel or the western powers bet on, and in a barbaric and uncivilized way, the world backed Israel to impose a siege and wage three wars on Gaza to end Hamas rule and put an end to the free and democratic choice of the Palestinian people.”
“28 years ago, a handful of Hamas members were a crucial part of the first Palestinian intifada, throwing stones, barricading the roads so that the Israeli military jeeps could not pass, and fighting the occupiers’ brutality with Molotov, knives, and later on pistols. Today, 28 years later, Hamas has strategically improved and developed and grown militarily, socially, politically, and institutionally. Hamas now is capable of defending the Palestinian people against Israeli aggression without kneeling, without giving up Palestinian rights and demands. Hamas is here to acheive an independent, free Palestine. Hamas is here to stay,” they said.
The Islamic Movement released a Press Statement to mark the occasion:
A statement on the 28th anniversary of Hamas foundation
On the 28th anniversary of Hamas foundation, which coincides with Jerusalem intifada that defends Al-Aqsa Mosque and the sanctities in Jerusalem, Hamas is proud of its contribution to the resistance project, mainly armed resistance, after the PA abandoned it and adopted fruitless negotiations and security coordination.
Despite assassination of Hamas’s prominent Leaders and cadres, Hamas did not give up Palestinian rights and constants, and has recorded unprecedented heroic acts in defending the land and people of Palestine.
Hamas won the municipal and legislative elections, liberated Gaza from Israeli occupation and freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, both men and women.
Hamas and al-Qassam Brigades have defended the Palestinian people against three Israeli offensives, achieving a balance of terror and deterrence with Israeli occupation, and proving that the Palestinian people are able to defeat the Israeli siege and strangulation.
Over the years, Hamas has proved uncontainable, unbreakable despite the enemy’s plots and conspiracies. Hamas is still embraced by the Palestinian people and the noble peoples of the Arab and Muslim nations. It also remains a source of inspiration to the free peoples all over the world.
On our 28th anniversary, we in Hamas vow to continue our resistance and steadfastness until almighty Allah grants us triumph.
Hamas takes the opportunity of its 28th anniversary to emphasize the following:
1. Hamas will never recognize the Israeli occupation, and confirms that Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean is an Arab, Islamic country.
2. The right of return is a sacred, non-negotiable individual and collective right.
3. Jerusalem is the core of our struggle with the Israeli occupation, its holiness inspired from our faith and the blood of the martyrs, men, women and children. Therefore, we will never compromise even one inch or a grain of its soil or holy sites.
4. We vow to free our heroic Palestinian prisoners in an honorable prisoners swap deal similar to Wfaa Alahrar’s.
5. Palestine is the trust of the nation, and it is a must for all free honest people in our nation to contribute to the liberation of Palestine. Hamas vows to remain faithful to the liberation of Palestine and to keep its weapons directed at the Israeli occupation only.
6. We confirm that the Jerusalem intifada is an opportunity for unity. We support its continuation, we call on the PA to end security coordination with the Israeli occupation, and leave the illusions of peace with it, for Israel does not recognize our right to our land and holy places.
7. We salute our people in the Occupied Territories of 1948 for their heroic struggle against Judaization schemes, particularly Sheikh Raed Salah, the families of martyrs and wounded and worshipers at Al Aqsa Mosque.
8. We salute the Palestinian people in the Occupied West Bank who broke barriers of fear and terror of the Israeli occupation, and carried out heroic resistance operations against Israeli soldiers and settlers.
9. We salute the Palestinian people in Gaza, who have endured three brutal Israeli offensives and a nine-year-long siege, and who still struggle against all threats and conspiracies.
10. We also salute the Palestinian refugees in the diaspora, who are suffering displacement and internal conflicts, and we urge Arab countries to honor and relieve them until they return to their land.
The Islamic Resistance Movement
PFLP supporters march through the streets of Gaza
On 12 December the PFLP held a march from Soraya to the UN Headquarters in Gaza City, where Jamil Mizher, member of the Political Bureau and leader of the PFLP branch in Gaza, delivered the keynote speech. He saluted those who have died in the struggle to liberate Palestine, and made special mention of Sami Madi, who was killed in Bureij by Israeli occupation forces the previous day while participating in demonstrations on the Gaza border to mark the Front’s anniversary.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were also singled out for attention. PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat and his fellow leaders Khalida Jarrar and Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, as well as the diverse Palestinian leaders held behind bars such as Marwan Barghouti, Jamal Abu al-Hija and Hassan Salameh were all honoured for their sacrifices and struggles.
Mizher stressed that the role of the people in the current uprising is superseding all narrow interests and internal divisions, noting that US imperialism and the so-called “Quartet” in Palestine would be unable to stop the intifada without forcing their strategic partner, the Israeli occupier, to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people.
“Our people will no longer accept the path of negotiations and Oslo,” he said, while strongly criticising the Palestinian leadership in the occupied west Bank for continuing to “impede the implementation of decisions by the PLO’s Central Council” through its ongoing security coordination with Israel.
thanks to: Gaza.Scoop.ps
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Snapchats Austin Forget and Lauren Combs rescued a pet pig, then ate her.
by Eric Verlo - February 27, 2018 February 27, 2018 1
MOLLY was a 3-year-old pot-bellied pig rescued from an abusive home. After nursing her back to health, a "no-kill" shelter in British Columbia adopted Molly to a creepy young couple in Duncan, Vancouver Island, who signed papers agreeing they wouldn't eat her. Then Snapchat pics turned up celebrating Molly being seasoned, cooked and served. The shelter sent constables to investigate but learned no laws had been broken because Austin Forget and Lauren Combs assured them that Molly had been killed humanely. Forget was more descriptive on Facebook where he declared "hahahahahah I killed the fucking pig" with a gun apparently. The public outcry has prompted both to delete their social media accounts and Forget is apologizing for his insensitivity which he blames on his youth. Trolls are weighing in that it's just bacon. And while we can condemn Austin and Lauren for being souless gourmands, they're no more inhuman than anyone who eats the intelligent and sentient pig, whether family pet or terrorized industrial farm internee.
Idle No More versus War On Terra
Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in "War on Terra", praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the "Commonwealth".
Can Idle No More First Nations assert their sovereignty for real?
Here's an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. "Sovereignty" has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant? Even he probably knew what it was supposed to mean, and so do you. Sovereignty doesn't mean captive reservations, rural ghettos, Gaza Strips or West Banks slowly being ethnically cleansed by attrition. Sovereignty means independent nation states, not dupes of duplicitous treaties. Chief Theresa Spense is right to hold out to meet with the Canadian Prime Minister and a representative of the English crown. First Nations leaders deserve to meet with fellow heads of state, if the treaty lands are truly sovereign.
Denver Canadian Consulate closes its doors to IDLE NO MORE round dance and a very polite letter
by Eric Verlo - December 31, 2012 December 31, 2012 0
DENVER, COLORADO- Indigenous activists paused only one day before assembling a second IDLE NO MORE gathering to perform a round dance at the Canadian Consulate in Denver today, to deliver a letter urging the Canadian government and the British Crown (the Queen!) to meet with Chief Theresa Spence and end her hunger strike over recent legislation which gutted First Nation treaty protections. After a rally of dance, song and orations, a delegation sought to enter the consulate but was denied. After filling the downstairs lobby, being told picture-taking was not allowed, and the building's security crew receiving a squad of reinforcements from DPD, the activist were finally sent a representative to accept the letter without comment.
First Nations insurrection flash mob IDLE NO MORE hosting a round dance at a mall near you
by Eric Verlo - December 30, 2012 January 1, 2013 0
DENVER, COLORADO- This was the scene in Denver's Cherry Creek Mall on Saturday, December 29, where a flash mob of over 300 Native Americans commemorated the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, in solidarity with "IDLE NO MORE" demonstrations stretching from Canada to Mexico, where First Nation members are raising their voices to defend their land and sovereignty. So here's a wonderful video of the event: This one's a bit shaky, but it's filmed with the exuberance of someone simultaneously dancing: Here's Mall of the Americas in Minnesota on the same day: Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 22: Edmonton, Alberta, on December 18: What it's all about. December 10:
Need another reason to boycott 900 lb bully Amazon? Censoring Wikileaks
by Eric Verlo - December 2, 2010 December 2, 2010 3
Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud server service, at the behest of Zionist warmonger Joe Lieberman. Twittered Wikileaks in response: "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books." The corporate media is already censoring "Cablegate" with misdirection, describing the leaked diplomatic cables as indelicate embarrassments, as opposed to incriminating revelations of America's imperialist anti-democratic outrages. The Interpol has declared an international manhunt of the Wikileaks founder based on scurrilous accusations of sexual misconduct, Canada is calling for Julian Assange's execution via US drone, our politicians want to prosecute the Australian Assange under the draconian 1917 US Espionage Act. Amazon's cowardly deed today is a reminder of the private sector's omniscient control over everyone's access to information. Imagine a world where whistleblowers are denied whistles. Shopping bags only please. On Amazon's internet no one can hear you scream. While the US media is scolding Wikileaks spokespeople for shaming US diplomacy, the free presses are reporting about the cables which detail the US abuse of diplomatic cover to supply intelligence data, some of it intended to direct US/Israeli drone strikes. The collusion of foreign governments to help the US circumvent international law, US complicity in the Honduran coup, among many other crimes. Bradley Manning allegedly confessed leaking Cablegate to FBI informer Adrian Lamo, describing the trove of damning revelations thus: �Hilary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available in a searchable format to the public. Everywhere there is a U.S. post there is a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed. It is open diplomacy, worldwide anarchy in CSV format. It�s Climategate with a global scope and breathtaking depth. It is beautiful and horrifying." Although an estimated half million US government operatives had access to these cables, only 20-year-old intelligence analyst Manning had the conscience to recognize the immorality being kept from public view. That's a military culture of Don't Ask Don't Tell, of which discrimination against sexual preference is the smallest consequence. Have you read any of the objective coverage of the damning cables? What's been released is only a fraction, so as not to overwhelm a media which can only focus on a single soundbite at a time. Is the absence of cables critical of Israel evidence that Julian Assange is actually MOSSAD? Rather, and I'm not alone in pointing this out, the dearth of diplomatic cables to and from Israel indicates the streamlined collusion with the US. Only in Tarantino movies do hired killers have dialog. Old comrades don't regale each other with revelations about Quarter Pounder versus Le Royale. Israeli and US diplomats have nothing to have to keep abreast about. Is Assange really CIA/MOSSAD/AIPAC? I'd say the smears against him more likely are. When the same voices disparaging Assange ALSO find themselves horrified by the revelations of the US diplomatic cables, is when I'll start giving them
How “Officer Bubbles” and Toronto police “kettled” G20 convergence
by NMT - July 19, 2010 July 19, 2010 1
Here's the full story behind the viral video of the young Toronto protester arrested for blowing bubbles at police protecting the G20.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid undaunted by Zionist intimidation
Organizers of the 2010 gay pride parade in Toronto have relented to allow the participation of QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID. At first it was declared that the two words "Israeli Apartheid" would jeopardize their city subsidy and summon a perfect storm of angry Canadian Jews. Faced with queers determined to parade for their social cause in spite of the ban, Toronto Pride opted to honor their members' freedom of expression.
Should US torturers of 15-year-old combatant Omar Khadir stay unnamed?
Extending the jurisdiction of military tribunals to civilians and adversaries is not simply unpopular, it's illegal, and America's kangaroo courts in Guantanamo mock even self respect. Right now we're prosecuting Afghanistan combatant Omar Khadr, captured when he was age 15, for lobbing a grenade toward US invaders (are any of our GIs guilty of less?) meanwhile obscuring the identity of American soldiers culpable of torture and murder. Last week four key reporters were banned from Guantanamo proceedings for having revealed the name of "Interrogator #1" guilty of past episodes for abuse of detainees including a death. His name: US Army Specialist Joshua Claus. How many of these anonymity-seeking torturers can we out on the web? From mercenaries to repentant vets, the least we can do for the memories of their victims and their captives' loved ones is to publish their identities in public. You might see the wisdom in protecting the confidentiality of witnesses who were victims of sexual abuse, but perps? Of course a chief problem of military tribunals in addition to permitting testimony obtained through torture is the use of unnamed accusers. Convictions obtained through tribunals will stand up so long as the USA reigns omniscient, but in the eyes of international justice, the US and its torturers remain criminals at large.
Yanks overseas pretend to be Canadian but how do you do that in Vancouver?
Since the overt militarization of Pax Americana, US citizens traveling the world are advised to pretend they're Canadians. It only took this week's unexpected team USA victory over Canada in men's Olympic hockey, to ignite anti-American feelings. Even before the games began, the USOC's USA House was the only hospitality venue whose address was not made public, conveniently too because it was safely not open to the public. Now visitors leaving USA House are reminded not to wear or behave in any fashion that would distinguish them as Americans as they make their way to their accommodations. Security warnings didn't lessen even as Canada took revenge with a win against the US in Women's Hockey. Canada's speed skating victory wasn't helped by Apolo Ohno's complaint that his disqualification might have been owed to the supervising judge being Canadian. Will a Canadian victory in the finals be enough to ameliorate feelings against Americans who dominate every other aspect of North American culture so obnoxiously? In either outcome I foresee American visitors and athletes taking their leave with as little fanfare as possible. Just as McDonalds is uncontested as it pretends to speak for all Olympic athletes that their toxic McNugget is the "favorite of Olympians," so is the American war machine able to coopt US athletes for their imperialist message. Critics of the Olympics are ridiculed for politicizing the games, yet militant nationalism pervades the ceremonies. The television announcers remind us that the USA hockey players have been paired with beneficiaries of the Wounded Warrior program. Each stick-wielding, armored, helmeted ice warrior thus plays for the honor of an actual US soldier. A recognition I believe of America's undying desire to have a second chance to kick ass. I don't know anyone rooting for Team USA, the finals rematch would seem to be an extraordinary opportunity for Obama-spirited diplomacy. These athletes are all NHL players of mottled nationalities, probably most Canadian as much as they are American. What better chance to let the victory to the host. Can you imagine the US asserting its dominance over its coalition partner? What could come of that? Americans have precious few fans outside the homeland. Oh, they tell us, "we love Americans, just not America." But in Vancouver this week, that was not true. Imagine Canadians added to the list of world people grown tired of the idiot American brute. Canada will take the sympathy of the rest of the Commonwealth with them. After two weeks of patient cheerleading against US Olympic supremacy, suddenly I'm jumping up and down for a US win! It's just a game. The white man's war on the world is not.
Jokenhagen, the COP15 that wasn’t
You heard about the Yes Men successfully pulling off another stunt in Copenhagen? The delegates were fooled, even the media, and so unsurprisingly, the substance of their theatrics is being glossed over. While the reporters track the footprints to sort truth from facade, they are wiping all traces behind them. Url-shortening conduit bit.ly warns for example that clicking through might endanger your browser. The Yes Men prank Canada is as far as most news stories go. Why Canada -- is the more to the story. First the substance: Canada is a wealthy-nation holdout on the climate talks. Its conservative government is offering to curb carbon emissions by a mere 3% etc. So the Yes Men thought they'd lead by example, role-playing Canada stepping up as all industrialized powers must. Their special announcement was called AGENDA 2020, wherein Canada pledged a 40% cut in emissions by 2020, to reach a 80% cut by 2050. Plus they vowed a "climate debt mechanism" comprising 1% of Canada's GDP, climbing to 5% by 2030, to go toward emissions reduction and clean energy projects in Africa. Drastic cuts, and huge payments of "climate debt" are what scientists project will be necessary to reach the environmental 350ppm line in the sand. A COP15 without such figures will be a failure. It's small wonder the media is describing this "prank" without mentioning what was said. Some Canadian outlets are providing reasonable detail of the commotion which was provoked. Check out the Globe and Mail, then the Toronto Star for good overviews. The operation as it unfurled: preparations and execution were a collaboration between YM and the red-jacketed Climate Debt Agents (CDA). 0. YM begin tweeting as Canadian envoy PM Jim Prentice (example: "My staff have notified me of a fake account pretending to represent me. It is @JimPrentice hope we can get it removed shortly. 5:31 AM Dec 14th from web" ) 1. YM botch amusing anti-CocaCola prank 2. YM as Prentice tweets special announcement of a bold step forward. 3. YM (enviro-canada.com) offers Environment Canada press release 4. CDA fakes press conference outlining AGENDA 2020 5. Another CDA press conference features the envoy from Uganda, applauding Canada 6. Phony YM Wall Street Journal European Edition picks up story 7. YM (as ec-gc.ca) Environment Canadia press release pretending to denounce fraudulent prank 8. And the obligatory CDA press conference. 9. The real Canadian delegates provide the hijinks from there. Championing minor pranks here and there as they toured for the release of their new movie The Yes Men Save the World, a reputation no doubt preceded them to the Climate Conference. The Yes Men anti-CocaCola prank earlier this week was stopped after just 20 seconds, but may have been a ruse to resolve expectations that they were obviously in Copenhagen to do something. The CBC covers the moves of the Canadian and US delegates to get a handle on their PR. Interesting too were the frantic efforts to unmask the deception. While web sleuths followed the internet clues, a CBC reader comments
Canada welcomes Bush, bars Galloway
by Eric Verlo - March 28, 2009 March 28, 2009 1
Canada refused to bar entry to Ex-president George Bush, then declined calls for his arrest for war crimes and prevented attempts by others to make citizen's arrests. But in the same breath, Canada denied entry to a prominent antiwar voice, British MP George Galloway, because HE was infandous. Clearly they have no standard at all. The Canadian minister had to conjure an Old English word behind which to hide. And where hider handicap seekers with a countdown from an agreeable number, the Canadian obstructionist had to consult an Oxford Dictionary circa 1708, declaring Galloway to be persona-non-grata for unspeakably, unreference-able dastardliness. The trouble is, too many of us have seen Galloway's un-despicableness on Youtube. Galloway famously gave the Bush warmongers a dressing down rarely seen in the orchestrated political theater of today. Not only did Galloway show the emperor to have no clothes, he laughed at his teeny willy. Galloway's participation in RESIST WAR FROM GAZA TO KANDAHAR, seems most opposed by the Zionists. Here's the letter which purportedly influenced the Canadians in their decision: An Open Letter to the Government of Canada Keep George Galloway out of Canada It has come to the attention of the Jewish Defence League that a UK MP George Galloway, will be speaking in Toronto. As you are aware, anti Jewish attacks are on the rise across the world. Some of our campuses have given platforms to proxies from Radical Iran. It is our hope that the Government of Canada will not permit George Galloway entry into Canada. I have enclosed some information about George Galloway below; "I don't think Hamas is a terrorist organization" -- Galloway "Hezb'allah has never been a terrorist organization" --Galloway "there's no compulsion in Islam" -- Galloway George Galloway has spoken in Canada before, in 2006, at Carleton University and Concordia University. Here is a link exposing the fact that his visit was partly financed by the Syrian Social Nationalist Movement: splatto.net I remember seeing an on-line poster of this outfit, advertising Galloway's visit, on the now defunct Judeoscope Blog. The poster had neo-Nazi trappings, in bright red and black. Blog describing the Galloway visit, the poster, and the SNNN: splatto.net Mr. George Galloway, what is your connection with the organization "Toronto Coalition to Stop the War" ? "Toronto Coalition to Stop the War" is organizing this Galloway event and they are one of the groups which attended the conferences organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. "Canadian antiwar activists sat down with terror groups" Hamas, Hezbollah delegates among those at Cairo Conference Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 "... Canadian activists were out in force at a recent conference in Cairo that sought to ... Many of the Canadian delegates were from the Canadian Peace Alliance, ... banned Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian opposition parties," It is my hope that the Government of Canada will do everything possible to keep this hater away from Canada. Thank You, Meir Weinstein, National Director Jewish Defence League of Canada
Canada’s Christian genocide against its native population
by Tony Logan - January 7, 2009 January 7, 2009 0
So sorry. Canada apologized for its Anglo Christian genocide against its native populations last year, but I wonder how many Christians anywhere in the world really took any notice? Playground bones force Canada to face genocide of Indian children Wonder how many Colorado folk even noticed the Canadian government apology?
Did you know Canada was under attack?
by Tony Logan - October 8, 2008 October 8, 2008 0
I never knew? Canada is under attack and needs to spend about 1/2 trillion dollars in the next two decades to protect itself form hostile places like Haiti and Afghanistan! Canada First Defence Strategy underlines this horrible danger and came up with this plan to bankrupt the Canadian people before the Big, Bad Wolf gets them. The Canadians are a generous and responsible people and never would want to allow the American people to bankrupt just themselves without they themselves offering to go bankrupt alongside of us. And you might not have thought about this but Canada protects us from Vladimir Putin and his mad, evil Russian Vodka drinking threat to us. With the Arctic being now ice free for a much longer season each year, the Russians might try to invade us by going over the North Pole, down into the Hudson Bay, and launching a surprise attack on Detroit, which is in entirely a too weakened condition to defend itself without Windsor taking up some of the slack. So you might not know who PM Harper is, but he is a true friend of our own Pentagon. It's even kind of kind of him to not have labeled his 'defence' plan The US First Defence Strategy instead of The Canada First Defence Strategy. That way us Americans can hardly feel too guilty about the sacrifice the Canadian people are making of themselves to join alongside us Americans at The Party. Still I at least am not one to forget that the Mounties are our friends, and the entire Canadian Policing-military-industrial complex, too. Good people these and I believe that Sarah Palin is uniquely qualified in her foreign policy qualifications to lead us to better ties here. She knows the Canadian experience like no other American leader does, My Friends, and who more likely to put Northern Alberta to good use protecting us from the terrorists and meese?
Canadian government apologizes for allowing Christian abuse of Native population
by Tony Logan - June 11, 2008 June 11, 2008 0
The Canadian government, following in the footsteps of the New Zealand and Australian governments, today apologized for having institutionalized Christian missionaries' abuse of their Native populations. See Canada apologizes for failing natives Just as in the US, which has so far refused to apologize for much of anything in its bloody and racist history, the Christian churches of Canada were used as a government tool to stamp out the culture and languages of the indigenous populations. The Christan religious fanatics were used as agents of government planned and sponsored genocide. Will the churches themselves ever offer an apology? One rather doubts it. Many of the Christian Right are most willing 'little Eichmann's' in more than just a few ways. I guess that much more can be said about them here in Colorado Springs.... land of the dead Native.
New Police World Order comes home
by Eric Verlo - January 1, 2008 January 9, 2008 1
JUST IN: The Springs' own inveterate activist Mary Sprunger-Froese was turned away at the Canadian border owing to her political criminal record. She and her husband Peter who is a Canadian citizen, were paying a visit to his family in Saskatchewan on the occasion of his brother's wedding. They borrow a car for this semiannual trip. Peter sometimes makes the journey by bike. This time Canadian border agents made an issue of Mary's extensive civil disobedience arrest record and wouldn't permit her entry. The couple had to turn back and subsequently got caught in the interstate closures due to weather. More after they get home.
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Volume 1 Chapter 6
After Transformation, Mine and Her Wild Fantasy Volume 1 Chapter 7
Magician and Martial Artist
“……….” Tyre was silent.
“……….” KaMing was also silent.
“That’s right, Sir KaMing, what was the magic you spoke of just now? Is it a type of mysterious energy?” The extreme speed of topic changing left KaMing stupefied for a moment before he replied with a cough.
“That’s right, since you have amnesia, the common knowledge for this continent must have also disappeared with your memories. Though, not losing language and cognition is a fortunate thing.” KaMing ignored Tyre’s reactions, and started circling Tyre.
“Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Lightning, these are the five low level attribute elements, and Light, Dark, Space, these are the three high level attribute elements. Just as I said before, as long as one’s compatibility reaches above 10% with a certain element, the one can learn magic from that attribute.”
“Magic, just as it’s name indicates, uses the law of magic, and there are 17 stages of magic laws.” Stopping there, KaMing raised his left pincer, and suddenly a big scorching fireball appeared above his left pincer, as if a smaller version of the sun, the terrifying temperature caused Tyre to unconsciously take a step back.
[Jerry: Imagine a crab with it’s pincers up holding a fireball.]
“This is first stage magic, fireball. From here on up, first stage and second stage magicians are Magician Apprentice, the third stage is Magician, fourth to ninth stage are Grand Magician, ten to thirteenth stage are Magic instructors, as for 14 to 16 stages, these are the limits that mortals can reach, Sacred Magicians, and from stage 17 and up, the magic supersedes the boundaries and are called “Non-magic” only deities and other races can interact at this level. Have you understood what I have said so far?”
“Yes KaMing Sir, I feel that Magic is very good, can you teach me this, I believe that with this I can safely leave this forest.”
Tyre’s eyes shone with light, and his impression of the big crab increased by the second, the very poisonous looking green shell now looked somewhat profound.
“Don’t be in a hurry, I entered the realm of the deities through the path of Martial Arts after all, the magic part is something that I learned out of boredom after becoming a deity, I, myself is still half-baked in it, how can I teach you.” KaMing said with extreme honesty, and KaMing was someone who said what was in their mind, without the slightest cover up, giving Tyre a better impression of the crab, also, the crab almost seemed like a real deity, or in other words, to be able to talk to a mortal with such equality, can be said to be very approachable, very honest and modest.
“Then your meaning is…….”
Tyre said half a sentence, how could KaMing not understand what Tyre was thinking inside, so he waved his pincer in a nonchalant way and said
“Since you helped me escape that patch of mud, as a deity I will make it worth your while, even though I still have a mountain of things to take care of, I can still teach you a few moves.”
“Really?! Then let’s start now!” Tyre said with extreme excitement, when he thought of the moment before when the blond bastard scared himself with just a glare from the eyes, he suddenly became angry. Although Tyre doesn’t like to provoke others, but if it’s that guy, if he doesn’t return the favor, he can’t live down this matter.
“I already planned to teach you a few moves, and then I have to go take care of my business, of course you can be assured, even if the lowest deity teaches you, you will have some accomplishments, not even mentioning a veteran deity such as myself.”
“En En” Tyre nodded his head, so obedient that KaMing suspected that the rude youth that so easily dismissed himself earlier was an illusion.
After recovering his wits, KaMing coughed once, just like a teacher, still circlingTyre.
“Martial artists are one in ten people, compared to magicians, they can be said to have reached an overflow state, because of this, martial arts are more strict on the rankings, and the professions are even more diverse, knights are one, assassins are one, and swordmasters are one, just as a side note, magicians also have seal masters, elementalists, and seers.
“Just as magicians need the elemental magic around them to cast magic, martial artists also need DouQi to use martial techniques.
[Qi Harmony] is the first stage, where the body becomes many times stronger than that of a normal person, comparable to that of a wild beast.
[Army Breaker], the number of people who can reach this stage is just like the top level of a pagoda, much smaller than the masses of [Qi Harmony], this stage can be said to be the main pillars of a nation, some small nations will even grant pieces of land to entice them.
[Heavenly Son] and even higher the [Phoenix] stage I think will be useless to you even if I did explain them, when you reach a certain stage, you will naturally know.”
As if considering Tyre’s amnesia, KaMing told him some very basic knowledge in detail, Tyre sat and listened to this as if a very obedient student, taking in all that the big crab was saying.
“En, a basic martial artist must possess DouQi, Martial Technique, and various weaponry. DouQi cultivation method I can teach you, Body technique and Martial Technique I can also pass along to you, as for weaponry, I think this tree branch will suffice.”
“As a deity, KaMing sir don’t you have any belongings?”
“Shutup! All things can be used, as long as you are clear in the martial moves, even a small tree branch can defeat someone far stronger than you.” KaMing said with a grand and aloof attitude, but in Tyre’s eyes, the crab seemed to be lacking in confidence.
“Cough Cough, really is a naive brat, okay, enough useless talk, let us start with body method.”
“………” Tyre’s brows furrowed, he became solemn without saying a word.
“Is something the matter?”
“No, nothing, please continue teaching me.” Tyre suddenly became silent because his other self, woke up.
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Posts Tagged ‘Neel Kashkari’
June 2014 Post-Election Analysis: Governor
Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on June 9, 2014
In my effort to keep our readership happy and provide some interesting content on the blog while we all wait for the filing period for the November General Election to commence, I will be giving an analysis of each race (not including races with a Custom Campaigns client in it) detailing what happened. Each race will be analyzed with an Orange County perspective in mind.
I will be waiting a few weeks on my analysis of the race for California State Controller because the race is ridiculously close between 2nd-4th place and I want to know for sure who is advancing before I analyze this one. On a side note Chris Nguyen has informed me that he will be doing his analysis of different races with heads on the map (he did these in 2012).
We will start by taking a look at the race for Governor. Under the Prop 14 rules the top two candidates advance to number regardless of how high a percentage the top vote getter receives. This is good news for Neel Kashkari who advances to November but faces a steep uphill battle. Here are the statewide results on the race:
Akinyemi Agbede (Party Preference: DEM) 30,469
* Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown (Party Preference: DEM) 1,970,995
Richard William Aguirre (Party Preference: REP) 30,215
Andrew Blount (Party Preference: REP) 78,173
Glenn Champ (Party Preference: REP) 65,638
Tim Donnelly (Party Preference: REP) 543,817
Neel Kashkari (Party Preference: REP) 710,881
Alma Marie Winston (Party Preference: REP) 39,223
Luis J. Rodriguez (Party Preference: GRN) 53,220
Cindy L. Sheehan (Party Preference: P&F) 42,731
“Bo” Bogdan Ambrozewicz (Party Preference: NPP) 12,204
Janel Hyeshia Buycks (Party Preference: NPP) 9,965
Rakesh Kumar Christian (Party Preference: NPP) 9,217
Joe Leicht (Party Preference: NPP) 7,815
Robert Newman (Party Preference: NPP) 36,699
These results show Tim Donnelly running fairly closely to Neel Kashkari statewide but surprisingly in conservative Orange County Kashkari had a much wider margin of victory over Donnelly as can be seen by the results:
Completed Precincts: 1856 of 1856
* EDMUND G. “JERRY” BROWN 114,481 38.3%
NEEL KASHKARI 92,946 31.1%
TIM DONNELLY 58,715 19.7%
ANDREW BLOUNT 8,031 2.7%
GLENN CHAMP 5,320 1.8%
RICHARD WILLIAM AGUIRRE 3,215 1.1%
CINDY L. SHEEHAN 2,965 1.0%
ALMA MARIE WINSTON 2,941 1.0%
ROBERT NEWMAN 2,700 0.9%
LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ 2,299 0.8%
AKINYEMI AGBEDE 1,946 0.7%
“BO” BOGDAN AMBROZEWICZ 900 0.3%
JOE LEICHT 843 0.3%
RAKESH KUMAR CHRISTIAN 753 0.3%
JANEL HYESHIA BUYCKS 588 0.2%
Looking at results from the different cities in Orange County Neel Kashkari managed to finish ahead of Donnelly in all but one city. I was shocked to see that the city Tim Donnelly finished ahead of Neel Kashkari in was Santa Ana of all places by a margin of over 500 vote (vote counting is not quite over yet).
Statewide though Jerry Brown dominated most counties however it was Tim Donnelly and not Neel Kashkari that pulled off a win in a couple of counties (Modoc & Lassen). Here is a map from the Secretary of States website that shows the winners by county.
Donnelly ran a more grassroots campaign relying on members of the tea party and other conservative groups to help spread his message spending a grand total of $585,000 on the race including the following major categories of expenditures (expenditures are through 5-17-2014):
Consultants $220,000
Campaign Literature/Mailings $9,000
Campaign Paraphernalia/Miscellaneous $4,000
Television/Cable $0
Kashkari definitely ran a more aerial campaign as can be seen from his campaign finance reports were he spent over $2,500,000 on the race including the following major categories of expenditures (expenditures are through 5-17-2014):
Campaign Literature/Mailings $237,000
Television/Cable $1,000,000
Jerry Brown is clearly waiting for November with his campaign spending less than $100,000 in June.
At the end of the day numbers don’t lie and Jerry Brown is in a very strong position going forward to November. Despite low Democratic turnout Brown managed to capture over 50% of the vote statewide. Kashkari is going to be attacked by Jerry Brown in messaging to conservatives (who already were likely in the Donnelly camp) that Kashkari voted for Obama and ran TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). With increased voter turnout in November for Democrats and the possibility of some conservative voters sitting out this race Jerry Brown is at a definite advantage going into the November election. Financially Brown has over $20,000,000 cash on hand while Kashkari has just $1,400,000 which is a substantial deficit to start things off.
I am not going to make a prediction on this race though because Neel Kashkari did run a much stronger campaign than Donnelly and despite facing tough odds against Jerry Brown the CRP has been a bit revitalized with Jim Brulte doing an excellent job since taking over. I look forward to seeing Kashkari run a much stronger and more competent campaign than Meg Whitman did in 2010 (he can start by keeping the axe off of future mailers).
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Gubernatorial Race Looks To Be A Nail Biter. LA Times has Kashkari Up 5%
The LA Times just recently announced the results of a poll that they conducted for the gubernatorial race:
Half of Californians deemed likely to vote in the primary supported Brown’s reelection. Among his chief challengers, both Republicans, Neel Kashkari was far behind at 18% and Tim Donnelly trailed at 13%. The difference between the two vying for the second slot in the general election was within the poll’s margin of error.
The results showing Jerry Brown at over 50% are not surprising since incumbency is still of some value and Kashkari and Donnelly have been targeting each other more than Brown based on mailers and individual appearances at events.
Despite the fact that Donnelly currently trails Kashkari by 5% of the vote in the most recent poll I believe that the race may be closer than some may expect. Voter turnout is extremely low at this point and I project based on the fact that as of 6-2-2014 only 156,741 out of 743,454 (21%) of absentee ballots have been returned we are going to have a lower turnout than most people are expecting. This low turnout will benefit Donnelly more than Kashkari because Donnelly has a conservative voting base that is more likely to mail in an absentee ballot or vote at the polls.
At this point I would say that Kashkari is definitely the front-runner but I believe the race for second place will be a nail biter. The higher the turn out on election day the worse off Donnelly is.
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Why Neel Kashkari is a Non-Starter for this Fiscal and Social Conservative
Posted by Craig P. Alexander on February 10, 2014
Another entrant into the California Governor’s race, Neel Kashkari, is right out of the play book of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman – a rich businessman who has never held elective office and is socially liberal but claims to be a fiscal conservative. Mr. Kashkari, while likely a very nice gentleman and a great private industry success story, is not a candidate this fiscal and social conservative can support.
When the former Bush administration official entered the California Governor’s race he proclaimed that his emphasis for the Governor’s race is the high poverty rate in California and improving education. The successful Republican businessman has taken a position in favor of abortion and homosexual marriage. One of the chief creators and implementers of the Bush Administration’s Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP), he defends that program because he claims the government was repaid all of the loaned funds plus interest. In my opinion, on TARP, Mr. Kashkari seriously misses the point of fiscal conservatives’ objections to that program, some of which I will cover below.
Undoubtedly other voices in the Republican Party will soon be lecturing conservatives like myself that social issues are losers for Republicans in California and we need a successful businessperson who is “socially liberal” to lead California and the CRP out of its woes. With all due respect we have heard this tune before and it has only been a disaster for California and the Republican Party. This same tune was played to us in 2003 for the recall of Gov. Gray Davis. We were told Tom McClintock could not win the Governorship so we all must get behind successful showman Arnold Schwarzenegger. While Arnold’s early years showed promise (repealing the car tax which he later raised again), right after he was re-elected in 2006 he took a hard turn to the left and gave us things like the carbon cap and trade laws that are crippling business in California.
He also joined then Attorney General Jerry Brown by refusing to defend Proposition 8, which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow homosexual marriage in California not because the people voted for it, or due to the courts actually finding it was proper on the merits, but solely due to the Governor’s (and Attorney General’s) refusal to do their job and defend the law. This has severely weakened the initiative system in California as it allows the Governor and Attorney General to veto the people’s voice by simply refusing to defend a federal constitutional challenge to an initiative that the people voted yes on. I lay this partially at Mr. Schwarzenegger’s feet.
The next time we heard this piped piper tune of “we need to run a rich social liberal Republican” was Meg Whitman’s run for Governor against Jerry Brown four years ago. Although Ms. Whitman is a very nice person (I met her a couple of times) and she is a rich and successful Republican, she had never held elective office and she is pro-abortion. Her views on homosexual marriage seem to be both yes and no. It is my understanding that she also supported TARP. Ms. Whitman was rejected by voters who were tired of years of pseudo Republican Arnold as Governor in favor of re-tread Jerry “Governor Moon Beam” Brown.
And here we are again with another candidate right out of the Arnold / Meg mold. We are being told take our sincerely held beliefs on social issues (and even fiscal issues); ignore them and recent history to support and vote for Mr. Kashkari.
For this conservative activist my answer is No Thank You. Obviously as you have gathered Mr. Kashkari and I differ on abortion and homosexual marriage. And while I realize the Courts have instituted homosexual marriage in California by judicial fiat and abortion is regularly made more and more legal and taxpayer supported by the Democratic legislature (and current Governor) that does not equate to any obligation for me to support a candidate that also believes in these policies. There is no reasonable expectation that a Governor Kashkari would act any differently than the Arnold or Moon Beam.
However Mr. Kashkari’s actions as a Bush Administration Treasury official and his defense of his role in the TARP program, in my opinion, place him in at least a very questionable category on fiscal issues. The TARP program should be called the Bail Out Wall Street Big Bankers program. It put the federal government in the corporate boardrooms as an owner – a place it should never be in in a free enterprise economic system.
In addition, the companies the TARP program bailed out were, for the most part, companies that made very bad business decisions and should have been allowed to fail. Even with TARP bailouts, many, many employees of these companies (who did not make the bad decisions for their employers) lost their jobs anyway. Finally these big banks now have cash in their coffers but they are generally not lending to small businesses who find capital still very difficult to come by almost six years after the 2008 crisis. Regular consumers also are still having a harder time obtaining loans, etc. In short TARP was great for Wall Street but not for Main Street where the rest of us live. Many on the left also opposed TARP which could hurt Mr. Kashkari’s prospects with voters in June.
This is the bailout program Mr. Kashkari is so proud of and is his only governmental claim to fame. To me this does not make him qualified for the Governor’s office.
In the June “top two” primary election, we will most likely be given the choice of Governor Jerry Brown, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, Neel Kashkari and now Mayor Andrew Blount of Laguna Hills plus two or three more minor candidates. Of course a late entry by another more established Republican candidate like Congressman Darrell Issa would up end the race – he has money, a very good track record, good name ID, etc. But so far neither Mr. Issa nor any other well-known Republican has said they are even interested in entering the race.
Can Mr. Kashkari best Mr. Donnelly and now Andrew Blount in June to be one of the “top two” for the run off in November? Yes he may do so. But it is not “inevitable.” First – voters in the “top two” primary vote for one of all the candidates – not for which Republican or Democrat they like. Voters who like Jerry Brown over Tim Donnelly are going to vote for Jerry Brown not Mr. Kashkari. That leaves voters who do not like Mr. Brown which will include most Republicans and many decline to state voters. I will not predict how all Republicans will vote. But I will predict that many fiscal and social conservative Republicans like me will choose Mr. Donnelly as more in line with their beliefs on public policy than Mr. Kashkari plus Mr. Donnelly’s experience at holding elected office. I do not yet know enough about Mr. Blount (who describes himself as a Libertarian) to give any opinions about what voters will be attracted to him. A lot will depend on how Mr. Donnelly, Mr. Kashkari and Mr. Blount conduct themselves on the campaign trial.
As for Decline to State voters – many are former Republicans who left the party for one reason or another. For those who felt the party was too conservative – Mr. Kashkari might be their cup of tea. But for those who felt the CRP was not consistent in presenting candidates and elected officials whose positions and decisions adhere to the Party’s own platform – it is illogical to think they would vote for Mr. Kashkari. Some will vote for Tim Donnelly, some may vote for Andrew Blount and some may just skip that part of the ballot.
So I would say it is a toss up as to whether or not Mr. Kashkari will face Governor Brown in November. But my vote in June will not be for Mr. Kashkari – that tune I have heard before and is not a dance I chose to join in.
Am I supporting Assemblyman Donnelly? I have not given him any money or endorsed him (or any other candidate at this point). That may change, as we get closer to June. Also, I am a practicing attorney and a Republican activist for limited and constitutional government. I am not on any candidates’ payroll and I do not earn a living as a political consultant.
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At Silver Falls School District, students step up into IT roles
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Silverton High School sophomores Kate Schemmel and Ash Ayers were almost ready to fix the Chromebook cart that was acting up at Silverton Middle School.
“There’s a Chrome cart that’s really loud, so it probably needs a new fan,” said Ash, as she rummaged around in a sack for the necessary parts, eventually pulling out a fan. She noted it wasn’t the only IT help ticket she planned to tackle that afternoon. There was the social studies teacher who needed a new monitor, plus a teacher at the middle school with an un-chargeable laptop, which she speculated is probably a problem with the docking station.
Sophomore Ash Ayers replaces a monitor for a teacher at Silverton High School. She is one of around a dozen students who are paid to assist with the school district’s IT tickets.
Kate was across the room, rummaging through cords stored on a high shelf.
“Can you bring a VGA cable, too?” Ash shouted to Kate.
Kate paused. “Should it be that or HDMI?”
“Bring both,” Ash concluded.
Kate finally found the cables; they too went in the bag.
Kate and Ash were standing in the middle of Silver Falls School District’s IT department. The small maze of rooms is located right next to the Counseling Department at Silverton High School. It contains a big open area that doubles as one of the school’s computer science classrooms complete with disassembled computers and devices. Off to the left are the headquarters of SCAN-TV, Silverton’s 24-hour public access channel. You’ll find posters with titles like “Programming Languages” or “Hardware: Peripherals.” Finally, there are the students who help run IT for the entire district hanging around all hours of the (school) day.
This all happens under the watchful eye of Drew Hinds, the technology director of the district.
Drew is singularly and intensely dedicated to educating SHS students in technology. He thinks (and talks) about this constantly. How do we get more kids in these classes? How do we get the kids who are in the classes to take other ones? How are the current students doing, and do they know how to translate this into a career? What could the school do to attract more girls and people of color into the mix?
In addition to overseeing IT for the district, Drew teachers computer science classes and heads one of SHS’s many CTE (Career and Technical Education) tracks.
Left: Students work in a lab at Silverton High School, which offers extensive programming and CS classes. Right: Silver Falls School District Technology Director Drew Hinds.
These programs, run in coordination with community colleges and local businesses, aims to turn students into Career Pathway Completers. A Completer is a student who takes at least three years of classes in their focus and is armed with the soft skills — adaptability, collaboration, communication and more — that make them immediately employable upon graduation. They will almost certainly graduate; 97 percent of students who have taken at least two classes in their area of specialty do.
Adolescents, Drew said, “thrive on authentic self-direction and trust. Secondary students who feel respected with even a hint of independence thrive when they are given real responsibility.”
When Drew walks through the high school halls, he stops and talks with the students who are paid to maintain and troubleshoot the district’s 5,000 devices. When he’s not chatting, he strategizes, aloud, about which class one of his students really should be taking, then will rapidly switch topics to, say, the importance of connecting student programming with local businesses. He’ll pause, then start discussing how in the years to come he wants to make all of it — the programming track, the engineering track and the information and communication technology track — one integrated whole.
We stop at the auditorium. On this particular day, all the CTE students are attending a session on soft-skills put on by Kirsten Barnes, who oversees the CTEs.
Up on stage, Kirsten is talking about the importance of being a reliable human being, a quality that adolescents are not necessarily famed for.
“Are you an on-time type of person? Do you meet deadlines? Are you turning in your work on time?” she asks the students.
The questions aren’t rhetorical. Part of completing a CTE path is extensive training in soft skills, and right now the students have been asked to assess theirs. As the students ponder exactly how resilient, self-aware, empathetic and entrepreneurial they are, Multimedia Assistant Maddy Traver sits in the control booth.
It’s a familiar room for her. Maddy graduated SHS in 2018, and spent countless hours as a student in this same place, running sound, lights and more for anything that might be up on that stage.
Now, she works in the tech department and mentors the CTE students who run SCAN-TV. The 24-hour television station broadcasts sports, city council meetings and community events, among other things.
Mentoring, she said, “is one of the best ways I can think of to give back to a program that gave me so much. It taught me professionalism, business skills — because of that program, I was able to launch my own photography and graphic design business.”
Ash Ayers examines IT help tickets. She is part of the team that services around 5,000 devices around the district.
Much of Maddy’s time is spent in the SCAN-TV (Silverton Community Access Network) headquarters. Inside a long, narrow, very warm room, four students edit videos, while another one sorts an enormous bookshelf full of equipment that takes up nearly the entire wall. A greenscreen studio, complete with full lighting, is just beyond the bookshelf.
The station runs 24 hours a day, Maddy said, and students are responsible for nearly all aspects of it — though she is the only one with total access to its workings.
“So I’m on call 24/7,” she said.
The students are using Premiere, Adobe’s media encoder, to edit and render everything, Aftereffects to create graphics, Photoshop for menus, Encore for DVDs and “we occasionally use Illustrator for some things, but I’m pushing for the use of InDesign,” Maddy said.
Senior Caleb Roeder is the program manager of the station. He oversees the 14 students who run the station, making sure that there’s adequate, planned programming around the clock.
“You have to be really, really good at picking things up quickly, because whenever you’re assigned something … you have to get on it ASAP,” he said.
Caleb is one of the strongest students in the CTE track, and is also taking advanced programming classes.
Left: Junior Daniel Vasquez, who is the production manager at SCAN TV discusses upcoming programming with multimedia assistant Maddy Traver. Right: Vasquez organizes equipment in the small studio.
“It’s definitely given me more career opportunities,” he said. “I can say, ‘Hey, I have Completer status in both programming and digital media,’ and that gives me more options to explore when I’m looking for jobs.”
So what is he doing after graduation?
He laughs. “This is a weird change of pace, but I plan on hopefully going to Michigan to become a luthier, building guitars.”
This surprises and delights Drew, who says that everyone in Silverton seems to have a surprising side gig or past life. You’ll know someone for years, he says, before you find out that they used to be, say, a professional football player or full-time pianist. Perhaps this town tendency helps explain why experiential learning is key to SHS’s educational philosophy.
When there’s a need on campus, Drew said, it’s also an opportunity for the students.
“They run the Fox Shop, they run the coffee shop, they make trailers, they grow the flowers in the greenhouse, and they fix and run the computers in the district,” he said.
“You have to have patience,” Drew said. “Sometimes, you throw them in and they swim and rise to the challenge, and some of the time you throw them in and they don’t swim, and you have to go rescue them.”
“Hopefully before they crash the network,” Maddy said.
I asked how teachers and staff felt about students handling IT. Were they concerned that the students weren’t experienced enough?
“Jameson —” Drew says, and a head pops up across the room. “When you go to classrooms, do you think teachers are grateful that you’re helping?”
“They’re probably impressed,” comes the reply.
The really challenging jobs, Drew said, will normally go to one of the adults. But far from being frustrated, teachers were excited to see students working.
Junior Austin Hudson recounts a recent triumph — setting up a teacher so that her monitor was the main display, her laptop the secondary display and the projector the third.
“So all she had to do to get something up on the projector was drag it over from her display,” he says, pantomining dragging a window to the right.
Including Drew, there are seven people in the Silver Falls School District Tech Department. Counting the students, there are up to 27 people taking tickets, which means help gets there much faster. They service around 5,000 devices across three OS — there are 2,500 Dell and CTL Chromebooks. There’s 1500 iPad 2s and above that they manage by Jamf. Finally, 1,000 teacher desktops and laptops run Windows 10.
Left: Students in a hardware computer science class work collaboratively to disassemble, test and re-assemble an all-in-one desktop computer. Right: Junior Austin Hudson estimated that the process would take him around an hour and a half.
Working on three platforms, Drew said, makes them well-rounded. They leave with the ability to work with Windows, Mac OS, Google and, via the iPads, with mobile devices.
Long term, Drew says, he wants to see the technology CTE tracks become a cohesive whole. He wants a program that produces students who can move smoothly through diverse disciplines, who feel at home across a variety of technological landscapes.
First, he said, there’s the job opportunities. He’s seen graduates find jobs that pay $40,000 — even $60,000 — right out of high school. Plus, he says, interdisciplinary students are the ones who are going to get the highest-paying, most-difficult-to-outsource jobs.
Think, he said, of “an electrical engineer with a computer programming background — that’s the job that’s going to make $80,000 a year, the guys who’s programming stoplights.”
He wants to introduce kids to subjects they may never have considered
“If a kid will take an art class, why wouldn’t they take digital media?” Drew asked. “They should learn Photoshop, they should learn Illustrator, After Effects — let’s see if we can go get them.”
“As we’ve grown our computer science and programming, we’re able to say ‘Hey Craig — Caleb needs a programming class; I think he could go three or four deep in yours.’”
Drew pauses for a moment.
“Actually, now that I think about it, he needs to be taking a CAD class if he’s going to be making guitars.”
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Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients
Jayme Hiratzka, Jung Yoo, Jia Wei Ko, Natalie L. Zusman, James (Jim) Anderson, Shannon L. Hiratzka, Alexander C. Ching
STUDY DESIGN.: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE.: To examine the diagnostic value of prevertebral soft-tissue swelling in the setting of cervical spine trauma. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA.: In adult patients with trauma, an increase in the thickness of the retropharyngeal soft tissues is commonly used as a potential indicator of occult injury, but no studies have examined this parameter using computed tomography (CT) as a screening modality. METHODS.: A total of 541 patients with trauma with injuries at any level of the spine underwent CT. Patients with cervical injury were divided into those requiring noninvasive (observation or cervical collar, n = 142) management, and those requiring invasive (surgery or halo, n = 61) treatment. A control group of patients with isolated thoracic or lumbar injuries was used for comparison (n = 542). Retropharyngeal soft tissues were measured at the cranial and caudal endplates of all cervical levels on sagittal and axial CT. Sensitivity and specificity were calculated for +1, +2, and +3 standard deviations from mean values. RESULTS.: Sensitivity for detection of injury was found to be universally poor for all measurement groups. This ranged from 14.4% to 21.2% at +1 SD to 5.3% to 8.7% at +2 SD. Positive and negative predictive values for injury were also universally poor, ranging from 38% to 75%. Soft-tissue swelling as a sentinel sign of cervical spine injury demonstrates consistently high specificity and low sensitivity, precisely the opposite of what would be desired in a screening test. This study shows at best a sensitivity of 21.6% when using this parameter for the detection of these injuries in adult patients with trauma. CONCLUSION.: On the basis of the results of this study, we recommend against the routine use of measurement of the prevertebral soft tissues on CT as a screening tool for cervical spine injury in adult patients with trauma.
https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0b013e31827f0dc3
Published - Feb 15 2013
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Hiratzka, J., Yoo, J., Ko, J. W., Zusman, N. L., Anderson, J. J., Hiratzka, S. L., & Ching, A. C. (2013). Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients. Spine, 38(4). https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0b013e31827f0dc3
Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients. / Hiratzka, Jayme; Yoo, Jung; Ko, Jia Wei; Zusman, Natalie L.; Anderson, James (Jim); Hiratzka, Shannon L.; Ching, Alexander C.
In: Spine, Vol. 38, No. 4, 15.02.2013.
Hiratzka, J, Yoo, J, Ko, JW, Zusman, NL, Anderson, JJ, Hiratzka, SL & Ching, AC 2013, 'Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients', Spine, vol. 38, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0b013e31827f0dc3
Hiratzka J, Yoo J, Ko JW, Zusman NL, Anderson JJ, Hiratzka SL et al. Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients. Spine. 2013 Feb 15;38(4). https://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0b013e31827f0dc3
Hiratzka, Jayme ; Yoo, Jung ; Ko, Jia Wei ; Zusman, Natalie L. ; Anderson, James (Jim) ; Hiratzka, Shannon L. ; Ching, Alexander C. / Traditional threshold for retropharyngeal soft-tissue swelling is poorly sensitive for the detection of cervical spine injury on computed tomography in adult trauma patients. In: Spine. 2013 ; Vol. 38, No. 4.
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Decisions issued in the Contracting States of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children are recognised in Finland without any special procedure. The enforcement of such a decision in Finland requires an exequatur. Helsinki District Court is responsible for dealing with these exequatur matters.
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The Central Authority does not transmit any applications. To receive legal advice possibly needed to be able to submit an application, the applicant must contact a legal aid office or an advocate.
Relevant legislation and treaties binding on Finland
Between the EU Member States (with the exception of Denmark), the Brussels II a Regulation is applied (Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000).
Further information: The text of the Regulation and the handbook on its application are available on the European e-Justice Portal.
Between the Nordic countries, the Nordic Marriage Convention is in force (Convention between Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark containing rules of private international law regarding marriage, adoption and guardianship, Treaty Series 20/1931).
In addition, the Convention between Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark on the recognition and enforcement of judgments concerning claims under private law (Treaty Series 56/1977) is applied between the Nordic countries.
Finland has also acceded to the Hague Child Protection Convention (Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children, Treaty Series 9/2011).
Further information: A list of the Contracting States and other useful information are available on the website of the Hague Conference.
In addition to the agreements mentioned above, Finland has also acceded to the so-called Luxembourg Convention (European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children and on Restoration of Custody of Children, Treaty Series 56/1994).
Related national legislation
Act on Child Custody and Right of Access (361/1983)
Act on the Enforcement of a Decision on Child Custody and Right of Access (619/1996)
Act on the implementation of the provisions of a legislative nature of the Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children and on the application of the Convention (435/2009).
The national legislation and the international treaties are available in Finlex Data Bank.
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Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat
Kotaro Takahagi, Komaki Inoue, Keiichi Mochida
Institute of Plant Science and Resources
Genome duplications aid in the formation of novel molecular networks through regulatory differentiation of the duplicated genes and facilitate adaptation to environmental change. Hexaploid wheat, Triticum aestivum, contains three homoeologous chromosome sets, the A-, B-, and D-subgenomes, which evolved through interspecific hybridization and subsequent whole-genome duplication. The divergent expression patterns of the homoeologs in hexaploid wheat suggest that they have undergone transcriptional and/or functional differentiation during wheat evolution. However, the distribution of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in gene regulatory networks and their related biological functions in hexaploid wheat are still largely unexplored. Therefore, we retrieved 727 publicly available wheat RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets from various tissues, developmental stages, and conditions, and identified 10,415 expressed homoeologous triplets. Examining the co-expression modules in the wheat transcriptome, we found that 66% of the expressed homoeologous triplets possess all three homoeologs grouped in the same co-expression modules. Among these, 15 triplets contain co-expressed homoeologs with differential expression levels between homoeoalleles across ≥ 95% of the 727 RNA-seq datasets, suggesting a consistent trend of homoeolog expression bias. In addition, we identified 2,831 differentiated homoeologs that showed gene expression patterns that deviated from those of the other two homoeologs. We found that seven co-expression modules contained a high proportion of such differentiated homoeologs, which accounted for ≥ 20% of the genes in each module. We also found that five of the co-expression modules are abundantly composed of genes involved in biological processes such as chloroplast biogenesis, RNA metabolism, putative defense response, putative posttranscriptional modification, and lipid metabolism, thereby suggesting that, the differentiated homoeologs might highly contribute to these biological functions in the gene network of hexaploid wheat.
Frontiers in Plant Science
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01163
hexaploidy
interspecific hybridization
chloroplasts
developmental stages
Allopolyploidization
Co-expression gene network
Hexaploid wheat
Homoeolog
Transcriptional module
Takahagi, K., Inoue, K., & Mochida, K. (2018). Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, [1163]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01163
Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat. / Takahagi, Kotaro; Inoue, Komaki; Mochida, Keiichi.
In: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 9, 1163, 08.08.2018.
Takahagi, K, Inoue, K & Mochida, K 2018, 'Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat', Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 9, 1163. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01163
Takahagi K, Inoue K, Mochida K. Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2018 Aug 8;9. 1163. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01163
Takahagi, Kotaro ; Inoue, Komaki ; Mochida, Keiichi. / Gene co-expression network analysis suggests the existence of transcriptional modules containing a high proportion of transcriptionally differentiated homoeologs in hexaploid wheat. In: Frontiers in Plant Science. 2018 ; Vol. 9.
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‘We Could Have Lost The Premier League Today’ – Guardiola
A Phil Foden goal was enough to fire Manchester City back to the top of the Premier League as the Champions avenged their Champions League ouster at the hands of Tottenham in mid-week, with a vital 1-0 win that takes them back to the summit of the Premier League.
Guardiola praised his players’ mental fortitude, after the nerve-wrecking, mentally exhausting ending to the game on Wednesday.
“We could have lost the Premier League today -– after Wednesday it was really tough. As a footballer, I could not have done what my players have done today,” said Guardiola
“It was very important for the race for the Premier League. We know we cannot drop points. It was tight, Tottenham had more chances than the previous two games,” added Guardiola.
“We have been playing for the Premier League every three days for 10 months, you can feel the pressure.
“The title is still in our hands. We are fighting until the end.”
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Brooklyn Driver Kills 75-Year-Old Pedestrian, No Charges Filed
A 75-year-old woman was killed crossing Avenue S at E. 15th Street, shown here. Image: ##http://maps.google.com/maps?q=avenue+s+and+e.+14th+street,+brooklyn&hl=en&ll=40.603413,-73.957665&spn=0.003959,0.019033&sll=40.603429,-73.957729&sspn=0.008781,0.019033&hnear=Avenue+S+%26+E+14th+St,+Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York+11229&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.603427,-73.957529&panoid=v32jHBEN-s8umnXyHEn8pQ&cbp=12,81.53,,0,11.62##Google Street View##
A driver struck and killed an elderly woman crossing the street in the Homecrest neighborhood of Brooklyn this morning, according to the NYPD.
The driver, a 36-year-old male, was turning left from E. 15th Street onto Avenue S when he hit a 75-year-old woman crossing north on Avenue S. She was declared dead on arrival at the New York Community Hospital. According to Sheepshead Bites, which first reported on the crash, the victim suffered from traumatic arrest, in which the heart stops beating after an impact to the chest.
Though it seems likely the victim had the right-of-way and the driver failed to yield, assuming both went on a green light instead of a red, the police say that “no criminality is suspected” in this case. “It just appears to be an accident,” said an NYPD spokesperson.
Two years ago, the local community board argued against bringing DOT’s Safe Streets for Seniors program to an area starting one block south of this intersection. Safety improvements like longer crossing times and pedestrian refuge islands were derided as potentially getting in the way of drivers. This crash also took place across the street from a playground.
Less than two weeks ago, 13-year-old cyclist Henry Garcia was killed by a hit-and-run driver a mile and a half away from this intersection. Aaron Dudkin, an 80-year-old man, was killed by a 21-year-old driver just seven blocks away last December. Police did not file charges in that case either.
This fatal crash occurred in the 61st Precinct. To voice your concerns about neighborhood traffic safety directly to Deputy Inspector Georgios Mastrokostas, the commanding officer, head to the next precinct community council meeting. The 61st Precinct council meetings happen at 7:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month at 3093 Ocean Ave. Call the precinct at 718-627-6611 for information.
Filed Under: Brooklyn, Carnage
DOT, Chaim Deutsch, and CB 15 Set Stage for Latest MTA Pedestrian Death
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An MTA bus driver killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk in Sheepshead Bay Monday. The crash happened at an intersection where DOT planned to eliminate bus turns, but the project was shelved in response to opposition from City Council Member Chaim Deutsch and Brooklyn Community Board 15. Eleonora Shulkin, 62, was crossing E. 17th Street at around 6 […]
No Charges Filed as Six Are Killed by NYC Drivers in Seven Days
A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a truck driver in Red Hook Wednesday was the latest victim among six city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the last week. At approximately 6:40 a.m. yesterday, Lillian Cruz, 60, was crossing Hamilton Avenue at Court Street when the signal changed and the driver of a tractor-trailer, westbound […]
Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Senior on Ocean Avenue
By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 16, 2019
Brooklyn — especially southern Brooklyn — has been a killing field this year.
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By Summer Greenstein | Dec 5, 2014
The Weekly Carnage is a Friday round-up of motor vehicle violence across the five boroughs. For more on the origins and purpose of this column, please read About the Weekly Carnage. Fatal Crashes (9 Killed Since Nov. 14; 190 This Year*) Borough Park: Blima Friedman, 10, Struck Crossing Street With Her Pregnant Mother, Also Injured; No […]
Commercial Driver Kills 81-Year-Old Woman on Atlantic Avenue
Of 20 pedestrians killed on NYC surface streets in 2017, at least 13 were seniors.
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You searched for +publisher:"Freie Universität Berlin" +contributor:("Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk"). Showing records 1 – 8 of 8 total matches.
1. Nierste, Ulrike. Expressionism and modernism.
Degree: 2010, Freie Universität Berlin
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6453
► The architect Otto Bartning (1883-1959) designed two Berlin churches named the „Gustav-Adolf-Kirche“: the expressionist parabolic competition project (1924) and the modern fan-shaped church (1932-34). During… (more)
▼ The architect Otto Bartning (1883-1959) designed two Berlin churches named the „Gustav-Adolf-Kirche“: the expressionist parabolic competition project (1924) and the modern fan-shaped church (1932-34). During this time Otto Bartning was chief of the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar (1.4.1926- 31.3.1930) and built the Stahlkirche for the exhibition “Pressa” in Köln (1928) and the Rundkirche in Essen (1929-30), which are both stylistically connected with the Gustav- Adolf-Kirche. Because of Bartnings experiences with the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar, known as the other Bauhaus, and his contact with the avant-garde, the Gustav-Adolf-Kirche (1932-34) has great quality. Its history and design compared with other modern churches in the Weimar Republic show Otto Bartning as the innovator of evangelistic church building. Advisors/Committee Members: w (gender), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (firstReferee), Prof. Dr. Christiane Salge (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Expressionismus; Neue Sachlichkeit; Sternkirche; Stahlkirche; Rundkirche; Gustav-Adolf-Kirche; Otto Bartning; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung::720 Architektur::726 Gebäude für religiöse und verwandte Zwecke
Nierste, U. (2010). Expressionism and modernism . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6453
Nierste, Ulrike. “Expressionism and modernism.” 2010. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6453.
Nierste, Ulrike. “Expressionism and modernism.” 2010. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Nierste U. Expressionism and modernism. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2010. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6453.
Nierste U. Expressionism and modernism. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2010. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6453
2. Guttenberger, Anja. Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12537
► The Bauhaus school is one of the revolutionary schools of arts of the early Twenties that commits itself to reforming restrictive teaching methods of the… (more)
▼ The Bauhaus school is one of the revolutionary schools of arts of the early Twenties that commits itself to reforming restrictive teaching methods of the traditional art academies. During the period after World War I, which is marked by serious changes in politics, economy and society, especially the youth demands for something new that contrasts to the rigid conservativism of the Kaiserzeit. The Bauhaus school sees in the perfection of artisanry its way to create art. The dissertation is meant to show these self-portraits of the so-called „Bauhäusler“ in their historical and art-historical context. At first the Bauhaus-portraits will be compared to each other, then the dissertation will show parallels and differences to contemporary photographs and paintings of the vanguard movements New Vision, New Objectivity, Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism. With its comparative analysis the dissertation arrives at two main conclusions: First, the Bauhäusler do not create a new, homogeneous style that is uniquely present at the Bauhaus. László Moholy- Nagy’s as well as Walter Peterhans’s influence on the photographs that come into existence during the years of their teaching at the Bauhaus (Moholy-Nagy: 1923-1928, Peterhans: 1929-1933) is marginal. In comparing photos of the early experimental phase and of the more objectively influenced period to contemporary photographs and paintings of the Twenties and Thirties the dissertation points out that the Bauhaus photographs are a matter of the zeitgeist phenomenon. The Bauhaus-artists choose multifaceted ways of portraying themselves which is mirrored in their versatility and uniqueness of the art they create in the workshops. Second, men and women observe themselves in different ways. Due to the increasing importance of the emancipation female students and teachers at the Bauhaus challenge traditional roles in their self-portraits . With this they stand in for Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophic assumption that women are not born but are made women.15 Often women at the Bauhaus use the series for their photographic investigations of the self and seemingly produce more pictures than the men. This, however, has been proved untrue. The self-portraits of the female Bauhaus students and teachers demonstrate a change from the traditional vision of women influenced by pictorialism and art nouveau to a modern, elegant, and self-confident woman of the late Twentis and early Thirites. In this gender-specific analysis it is striking that men at the Bauhaus present themselves in their photographic self-portraits much more self-assured than their female fellow students. Their social role and their function at the Bauhaus are clearly defined and are not called into question. Advisors/Committee Members: [email protected] (contact), w (gender), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (firstReferee), Prof. Dr. Gregor Stemmrich (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Bauhaus; Photography; Self-Portrait; Portrait; Gender Studies; Feininger; Moholy; Kranz; Arndt; Brandt; Bott; Gropius; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung; 900 Geschichte und Geografie
Guttenberger, A. (2012). Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933 . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12537
Guttenberger, Anja. “Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933.” 2012. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12537.
Guttenberger, Anja. “Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933.” 2012. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Guttenberger A. Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2012. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12537.
Guttenberger A. Photographic self-portraits at the Bauhaus, 1919 to 1933. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2012. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12537
3. Cercelovic, Sabrina. Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism.
► Although the subject of time is a very important aspect of impressionistic art, the complexity of this subject is ignored by most of the authors… (more)
▼ Although the subject of time is a very important aspect of impressionistic art, the complexity of this subject is ignored by most of the authors who are writing about the history of art. As far as the phenomena of time is considered at all, it is mostly seen as being no more present (Nowotny, Rewald, Meyer). My analysis is designed to focus on the presence of time. For this reason I will deal not only with the visible aspects of time, but also with the invisible ones. The first part of this thesis is concerned with the introduction of certain paintings by Cézanne, Renoir, Monet, Degas and Pissarro. Structures and clues of time in these paintings are investigated under the topics 1. What characterizes the motifs as typical for the 19.th century ? 2. In how far do the depicted actions provide indications for the presence of time ? 3. What relevance has the artistic style to the subject of time ? 4. How many different levels of time can be discovered in each painting ? The special way in wich Paul Cézanne deals with the subject of time in his work is the main concern of the second part of this thesis. Clues for the presence and relevance of time in his art are discussed as well as what characteristics makes Cézanne a modern painter. Advisors/Committee Members: n (gender), Prof. Dr. Eberhard König (firstReferee), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Paul Cezanne; aspects of time; opera; impressionism;
Cercelovic, S. (1999). Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12520
Cercelovic, Sabrina. “Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism.” 1999. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12520.
Cercelovic, Sabrina. “Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism.” 1999. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Cercelovic S. Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 1999. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12520.
Cercelovic S. Aspects of time in the art of Paul Cezanne and his contemporaries. An analysis of the representation and illusion of time in the art of French Impressionism. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 1999. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-12520
4. Schulz, Simone. Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle.
► William Shenstones farm "The Leasowes" was one of the early english landscape gardens emerging around the mid 18th century and was most important for the… (more)
▼ William Shenstones farm "The Leasowes" was one of the early english landscape gardens emerging around the mid 18th century and was most important for the development of the new style in gardening, just as the well-known gardens of Stowe or Stourhead. The Leasowes are the most famous example for the "ferme ornée" or "ornamented farm", a concept that aims to combine use and agriculture with beauty and gardening. The Leasowes stand as an example for the reciprocal action of poetry and gardening in the 18th century and serve to give an analysis of the ornamented farm. This phd thesis gives a complete reconstruction and analysis of William Shenstones garden, including all architectural buildings and literary allusions. The reception of antique and mediaeval poetry as well as classic and gothic building features is described in detail. An excursus gives an idea of the genesis of the ornamented farm on the basis of antique writings. The development of the concept in theory and practice is described and some early realisations of the idea in England during the 17th century are presented. The most important theoretical approaches, the writings of Joseph Addisons and Stephen Switzer, are presented. An overview is given on the first attempts to put the concept into practice: The garden farm "Richings", owned by Lord Bathurst (later "Percy Lodge" of Lord Hertford), Lord Bolingbrokes "Dawley Farm" and Philip Southcotes "Woburn Farm", are presented. William Shenstones garden is put into relation to other landscape gardens of the time which have been developed under his influence or are connected with his park, such as Lady Luxboroughs "Barrels", Lord Stamfords Enville Hall and Davenport House. Shenstones particular relationship to Lord Lyttelton, Hagley Hall and the circle of the gothic expert Sanderson Miller is examined. The thesis ends with a short outlook on the reception of William Shenstones garden and examines his place in European garden history, especially concerning his theoretical essay "Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening". Some examples have been selected to show how the concept of the ornamented farm was taken over by gardening enthusiats on the continent during the late 18th and 19th century in France and Germany and even on the American continent. This outlook presents the french interpretation of the ferme ornée in gardens like Ermenonville and Moulin Jouli. Furthermore it show, how the concept is taken over by enlightened german princedoms, where progressive agricultural methods were introduced and experimental farms were created (Wörlitz/Anhalt-Dessau, Klein-Flottbek near Hamburg, Eckhof near Kiel, Paretz, Pfaueninsel near Berlin and the Englische Garten in Munich). William Shenstones influence even spread to the american continent: The president Thomas Jefferson, created a Ferme Ornée in Monticello, Virginia, after having seen William Shenstones little farm in England. Advisors/Committee Members: n (gender), Prof. Dr. Werner Busch (firstReferee), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Landscape Garden; Ornamented Farm; Ferme Ornée; William Shenstone; Gardening; 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
Schulz, S. (2005). Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-13713
Schulz, Simone. “Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle.” 2005. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-13713.
Schulz, Simone. “Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle.” 2005. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Schulz S. Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2005. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-13713.
Schulz S. Gardening, Agriculture and Poetry: William Shenstones Ferme Ornée The Leasowes and his literary circle. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2005. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-13713
5. Engel, Martin. The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany.
URL: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11880
► The topic of this doctoral thesis is the development of "Bebel Platz" at the east end of Berlins "Unter den Linden" avenue and its integration… (more)
▼ The topic of this doctoral thesis is the development of "Bebel Platz" at the east end of Berlins "Unter den Linden" avenue and its integration in the history of great squares of the 18th century. Frederic the Great and his architect Knobelsdorff planned a second great palace in Berlin, that was supposed to form a monumental ensemble along with an opera house and an academy for the arts and sciences. Right after Frederics coming to power in June 1740 the construction oft the opera house was started. Due to the Silesian Wars and intrigues at the royal court the original design, known as "Forum Fridericianum" never materialized. Some years later, in a phase of intensive planning, two further constructions complemented the ensemble: the catholic church of St. Hedwig and Prince Henry Palace, which replaced the much larger royal palace, now the main building of Humboldt University. The square received its formal completion by the construction of the royal library, started in 1774. The first part of this study comprises a survey of the available historical sources and the organization of the Berlin building authorities, followed by a summary of the urbanistic prerequisites, an analysis and evaluation of the initial project and the square defining edifices. In the second part of this dissertation presents a survey of princely squares in 18th century Germany. It focuses on architectural theory and the development of the formal design of princely squares. The finally conclusion points out the specific qualities of the "Forum Fridericianum" and "Bebel Platz", that received its unconventional appearance as a result of political events. Advisors/Committee Members: n (gender), Prof. Dr. Hellmut Lorenz (firstReferee), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: architecture; squares; Frederic the Great; Knobelsdorff; Berlin; Forum Fridericianum; Unter den Linden; royal palace; Preussen; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung::720 Architektur::720 Architektur
Engel, M. (2004). The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11880
Engel, Martin. “The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany.” 2004. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11880.
Engel, Martin. “The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany.” 2004. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Engel M. The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2004. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11880.
Engel M. The Berlin Forum Fridericianum and the princely squares in 18th century Germany. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2004. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11880
6. Dollenmaier, Verena. The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad.
► Most treatises on the painter Christian Schad (1894-1982) emphasize the cold eroticism in his paintings Nevertheless, none of these works have ever studied this issue… (more)
▼ Most treatises on the painter Christian Schad (1894-1982) emphasize the cold eroticism in his paintings Nevertheless, none of these works have ever studied this issue alone and in detail. The main assumption of the present work is, that it was Schad´s aim to show the tension between the individual personality and its social role. This conflict becomes particularly visible through the erotic self-conception of Schad´s painted persona. By showing strong figures, Schad values the divergence of the inside and the outside as an affirmation of distance. It takes his figures a lot of strenghth not to loose their self-controll, but within this, they escape the loss of their dignity. In this case, Schad is truly the opposite of the sociocritical artists of his time like Dix, Grosz or Schlichter, who are condemn the destruction of the individual caused by the society and the dramatic loss of comunication. This perspective on the affirmation of alienation in Schad´s work was never taken before. This treatise proves, that Schad states the conflict between the individual and the role in society by creating irritations in the scenery and paints his figures with a tired and exhausted expression. The deeper meaning of many of these paintings refers to the eroticism and, as a next step to the human problems related to this. To emphasize this issue, Schad uses erotic attributes, for example blooming flowers or lucid clothes. These attributes are fundamental for the understanding of the painting, because the passionless expressions of the represented are not immidiately showing an erotic allusion and sexual actions are hardly ever found. Although Schad shows attractive women in erotic poses who are, in a certain way, appealing to the viewer, it was never his intention to create an erotic or stimulating painting. It was rather Schad´s aim, to explain a human beeing. In Schad´s eyes this could be done best by characterising its personal erotic preferences and sexuality. He is always treating his figures in a respectfull way, no matter of which social background they have. Although he hints to their deepest hidden secrets and conflicts, he is never trying to find explanations or passes any judgements. Because of this we are looking at people who are distanced, but are nevertheless strong and extraordinary.you can find another layer of their personalities maintaining the viewers interest for them. Advisors/Committee Members: n (gender), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (firstReferee), Dr. Christiane Salge (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Christian Schad Eroticism Neue Sachlichkeit; 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke
Dollenmaier, V. (2005). The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11922
Dollenmaier, Verena. “The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad.” 2005. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11922.
Dollenmaier, Verena. “The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad.” 2005. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Dollenmaier V. The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2005. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11922.
Dollenmaier V. The Eroticism in the Works of Christian Schad. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2005. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/11922
7. Walter-Ris, Anja. Passion for Modern Art.
► The story of the Nierendorf Gallery and the Nierendorf brothers exemplify the extremely important, however, often underestimated influence of modern art dealers on the development… (more)
▼ The story of the Nierendorf Gallery and the Nierendorf brothers exemplify the extremely important, however, often underestimated influence of modern art dealers on the development of single artists, whole art movements and thus of modern art history itself. Advisors/Committee Members: n (gender), Schenk%2C%20FU%20Berlin%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk, FU Berlin (firstReferee), Prof. Jörn Merkert, Berlinische Galerie, Landesmus (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Nierendorf Gallery; modern art dealer; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung::700 Künste::700 Künste, Bildende und angewandte Kunst
Walter-Ris, A. (2003). Passion for Modern Art . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6309
Walter-Ris, Anja. “Passion for Modern Art.” 2003. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6309.
Walter-Ris, Anja. “Passion for Modern Art.” 2003. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Walter-Ris A. Passion for Modern Art. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2003. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6309.
Walter-Ris A. Passion for Modern Art. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2003. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-6309
8. Schwartzkopff-Lorenz, Ulrike. Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph.
► In this doctoral dissertation an artists monographie about the life and the versatile creative activity of Kurt Mühlenhaupt (1921- 2006) is presented. For the first… (more)
▼ In this doctoral dissertation an artists monographie about the life and the versatile creative activity of Kurt Mühlenhaupt (1921- 2006) is presented. For the first time this dissertation tries to put the chapters of the artists life in a chronological order. It also describes the artistic experiments of the artist with different materials and art styles in order to analyse those regarding their influence on the artists works. Kurt Mühlenhaupt was a devoted artist, who put a lot of love in his works to please his fellows. He was an original artist from Berlin and closely bonded to the cities history and the cities district Kreuzberg. With an immense productivity he made many drawings, prints and oil paintings and was able to convince many people that his art was worth knowing. In his later works he became more fixated on the applied arts. Without any academically degrees he advanced to one of the most popular artist of the post- war Berlin, who’s popularity even reached over the municipal borders. In the year of 1969 he had his final breakthrough in the art scene of Berlin as a painter of the so called “Berliner Milieu”. Like other Berlin artists, as in Heinrich Zille, Otto Nagel and Hans Baluschek, who were all outsiders and had a simple background, Kurt Mühlenhaupt was able to completely fulfil the specifics of the life in Berlin during his existence. His personal biography became the main theme of his artistic and graphic analysis and his personal experiences and events were discussed, explained and recorded in pictures. Kurt Mühlenhaupt dealt with many art- historic styles and always tried to find a style that resembled himself completely. His works often consist of realistic and classic themes, like the man, city or nature. Through his specific perspective onto the picture, he gave himself, but also the viewer a greater view over the portrayed object. This dissertation describes the individual Mühlenhaupt and points out his “poetic realism”. His unconventional and unique works, which are coined by several art- historic examples are explained and their art-historic independence is analysed. Advisors/Committee Members: [email protected] (contact), n (gender), Schenk%22%29&pagesize-30">Prof. Dr. Harold Hammer-Schenk (firstReferee), Priv. Doz. Dr. Gisela Moeller (furtherReferee).
Subjects/Keywords: Mühlenhaupt - Malerei - Berlin - Kreuzberg - Künstlermonographie; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung::750 Malerei
Schwartzkopff-Lorenz, U. (2008). Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph . (Thesis). Freie Universität Berlin. Retrieved from https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/12991
Schwartzkopff-Lorenz, Ulrike. “Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph.” 2008. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin. Accessed January 19, 2020. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/12991.
Schwartzkopff-Lorenz, Ulrike. “Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph.” 2008. Web. 19 Jan 2020.
Schwartzkopff-Lorenz U. Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph. [Internet] [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2008. [cited 2020 Jan 19]. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/12991.
Schwartzkopff-Lorenz U. Kurt Mühlenhaupt - an artist monograph. [Thesis]. Freie Universität Berlin; 2008. Available from: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/12991
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Toshiko Mente
Toshiko "Janice" Mente passed away at home peacefully on May 16, 2017. Born February 1, 1922 in Hiroshima, Japan, she lived most of her 95 years in Honolulu, coming to Hawaii as a mere toddler. She retired from Kuakini Hospital where she worked as a dedicated nurse's aide. She enjoyed life as a homemaker and was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Her family, friends and neighbors will miss her abundant energy and thoughtful acts of kindness for all she came to know. She is survived by her brother, Robert Masuda; children, Earl and Annette Mente; her grand- daughter, Lianne Rogers and two great-grandchildren, Claire and Cole. A private service was held. The family requests no monetary gifts; just the sharing of good thoughts and prayers for their mother's journey to Enlightenment. The family also wishes to express their sincere thanks to all her wonderful healthcare providers and especially to her loving caregivers. Arrangements Provided By: HOSOI GARDEN MORTUARY
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Academics Support Israel’s “Civil Disobedience Women” Willing to Break Israel’s Entry Laws
June 23, 2011 by occupiedpalestine 0 Comments
Thursday, 23 June 2011 07:29 Civil Disobedience
About 300 lecturers and teachers from institutes of higher education throughout Israel have signed a public advertisement in support of civil disobedience actions of a women’s group which openly infringes the law of entry to Israel.
Palestinian women enjoying a day at the beach with Israeli women who refuse to accept Israel’s racist laws that prohibit Palestinian freedom of movement (photo: “Civil Disobedience”)
The academics put their full names in an advertisement which was published in the Ha’aretz newspaper last Friday, 17 June 2011, next to an advertisement – the third in recent months – published by the women’s group called “Civil Disobedience”. The women, who have all been investigated by Jerusalem police and who now have official criminal records, called for the Israeli public to join them in their protest activity which consists of driving Palestinian women and children for a day at Israeli recreational sites and the beach. These actions come in the wake of writer and translator Ilana Hammerman,, who started publicizing such activities last year.
“We recognize neither the legality, nor the morality, nor the wisdom of the walls between us and our neighbors which have been erected with brute force,” stated the group in its advertisement.
Alongside the women’s statement, a support letter from the academics appeared, including the following words: We, the undersigned women and men, state that we are willing to collaborate with the actions of the “Civil Disobedience” women. In these dark hours, we are willing to drive their guests, Palestinian women and children, to hide them and to support their challenge in any other way, whether in deeds or in words. The action of these women shows the right way for any Israeli citizen who truly supports a democracy respectful of human rights. Should Israel’s legal system find it appropriate to prosecute and penalize these women we shall be willing to support them, to join them and to be tried alongside them.
Additional information about Civil Disobedience may be found on the group’s website (Hebrew only).
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Eva Samkova
Lindsey Jacobellis essentially wraps up Olympic berth; Sochi champ hurt
By Nick ZaccardiDec 13, 2017, 11:27 AM EST
More: Winter Olympics
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Lindsey Jacobellis all but clinched her fourth Olympic berth with a record-extending 28th career World Cup snowboard cross win in France on Wednesday.
Jacobellis, a 2006 Olympic silver medalist, five-time world champion and 10-time X Games champion, now has second- and first-place finishes from the first two of five U.S. Olympic qualifying events.
She will officially clinch a place on the Pyeongchang team after the next World Cup in Austria ends Saturday, so long as two other U.S. women don’t finish one-two in that event.
Pencil her in. Only twice in the last 10 years has another U.S. woman made a World Cup podium.
Jacobellis has won either a World Cup, a world title or the X Games in 15 of the last 16 seasons (the outlier was when she missed the 2012-13 season due to a torn ACL and meniscus).
Jacobellis now has eight more World Cup snowboard cross wins than the next rider on the all-time list — France’s Pierre Vaultier. She also has a World Cup halfpipe victory from 2004.
Of course, she is missing Olympic gold.
The 32-year-old infamously lost gold on a celebratory board grab on the penultimate jump at the 2006 Torino Winter Games, settling for silver. She then washed out in the semifinals in both 2010 and 2014.
Pyeongchang will bring another round of expectations, and one more opportunity to claim that elusive gold. It may be her last chance, but Jacobellis refused to put a timeline on the rest of her career after winning her fifth world title on March 12.
“Still just taking one week at a time, one month at a time, just living the dream,” she said then. “I don’t like to look too far in the future because you’re missing what’s going on right now. I’ve made that mistake before in the past, where you’re too worried about what’s coming, and you’re not seeing what’s right in front of you.”
Also Wednesday, two-time U.S. Olympian Faye Gulini finished fourth, her best World Cup result ever, matching her Sochi Olympic finish. Gulini is a strong bet to join Jacobellis on the Olympic team.
Meanwhile, Sochi gold medalist and 2017 World Cup champion Eva Samkova of the Czech Republic injured her shoulder in training in France and did not start.
The injury is not believed to be serious enough to impact her Olympic preparations, according to the Czech snowboard federation.
MORE: U.S. athletes qualified for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
Tags: Czech Republic, eva samkova, Faye Gulini, Lindsey Jacobellis, olympics, Snowboardcross, snowboarding, winter olympics, Eva Samkova, Faye Gulini, Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis wins fifth snowboard cross world title
By Nick ZaccardiMar 12, 2017, 11:55 AM EDT
Make it five world titles for Lindsey Jacobellis, who extended her dominance in snowboard cross outside of the Olympics on Sunday.
Jacobellis, 31, led nearly from start to finish of both her semifinal and final in Sierra Nevada, Spain, edging Olympic bronze medalist Chloe Trespeuch of France for gold. Italy’s Michela Moioli, the 2016 World Cup season champion, took bronze.
Jacobellis and Trespeuch exchanged words in the finish area after spending most of the final within a board of each other.
“I’m defending myself,” Jacobellis told Trespeuch. “You’re running into me. Sorry Chloe, but you’re trying to push me off, and I’m holding myself. You’re going to come into me like that.”
Jacobellis’ biggest rival, Czech Olympic champion Eva Samkova, went off course in her semifinal after posting the fastest time in qualifying last week.
Jacobellis has competed at worlds five times and won gold each time. No other snowboarder or freestyle skier has won a world title in a single event more than three times.
“Every year, it gets harder and harder because the level with women keeps increasing,” Jacobellis said. “I want to be remembered as someone who is supporting that next, younger generation as well as continuing to raise the bar.”
Jacobellis is one of the greatest Olympic sports athletes of all time, yet she has not won an Olympic gold medal. In 21 career appearances in major championships snowboard cross competitions (Olympics, X Games, Worlds), she has 15 gold medals.
Jacobellis infamously lost gold on a celebratory board grab on the penultimate jump at the 2006 Torino Olympics, settling for silver. She then washed out in the semifinals in both 2010 and 2014.
The PyeongChang Olympics will bring another round of expectations, and one more opportunity to claim that elusive gold. It may be her last chance, but Jacobellis refused to put a timeline on the rest of her career.
“Still just taking one week at a time, one month at a time, just living the dream,” she said. “I don’t like to look too far in the future because you’re missing what’s going on right now. I’ve made that mistake before in the past, where you’re too worried about what’s coming, and you’re not seeing what’s right in front of you.”
In the men’s event Sunday, France’s Pierre Vaultier took gold to follow up his Olympic title. The top American was Nick Baumgartner in fourth.
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NBC Olympics researcher Rachel Thompson contributed to this report from Sierra Nevada.
Tags: eva samkova, Lindsey Jacobellis, olympics, Snowboardcross, snowboarding, winter olympics, Eva Samkova, Lindsey Jacobellis
Lindsey Jacobellis wins 10th X Games title in photo finish
By Nick ZaccardiJan 31, 2016, 3:28 PM EST
More: X Games
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Lindsey Jacobellis extended her female record for X Games gold medals — Summer or Winter — with her 10th snowboard cross title on Sunday.
Jacobellis, 30, outleaned Czech Olympic champ Eva Samkova in a photo finish after passing Samkova midway down the course under falling snow.
“I could hear you,” Jacobellis told Samkova, who got the hole shot out of the start, afterward in the finish area. “I was like, no, go away.”
In the men’s race, two-time Olympic champion Seth Wescott and Sochi bronze medalist Alex Deibold were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Seven-time X Games champion Nate Holland bowed out in the semis. Full results are here.
Earlier, Olympic silver medalist Gus Kenworthy earned his second silver of these X Games in ski slopestyle. Kenworthy also took ski halfpipe silver Thursday. Olympic champion Joss Christensen was ninth, with Olympic bronze medalist Nick Goepper 11th. Full results are here.
MORE: Estonian becomes youngest Winter X Games champ ever
Gold — 2003 X Games (and third in slopestyle and fourth in halfpipe)
Joss Christensen up in men's ski slopestyle. Competing w/ broken hand, so no poles. Will get surgery this week. #XGames
— Rachel Axon (@RachelAxon) January 31, 2016
Tags: Alex Deibold, eva samkova, gus kenworthy, Lindsey Jacobellis, Nate Holland, olympics, Seth Wescott, Snowboardcross, winter olympics, Winter X Games, X-games, Alex Deibold, Eva Samkova, Gus Kenworthy, Lindsey Jacobellis, Nate Holland, Seth Wescott
Lindsey Jacobellis essentially wraps up Olympic berth; Sochi champ hurt December 13, 2017 11:27 am Lindsey Jacobellis wins fifth snowboard cross world title March 12, 2017 11:55 am Lindsey Jacobellis wins 10th X Games title in photo finish January 31, 2016 3:28 pm
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The Boere Jode – Afrikaner Jews
Boere Jode are Jews who immigrated to South Africa and settled in Afrikaans speaking areas. At the beginning of the 19th century, small numbers of European (Ashkenazi) Jews arrived in South Africa from Europe. They founded the first Hebrew congregation in 1841. Between 1900 and 1930, Jews began to arrive in large numbers from Lithuania and Latvia (via Britain). Many of them arrived with nothing more than experience and seykhl (brains – “kh” pronounced like the guttural “ch”).
Most of the Jewish immigrants knew no English. Many were to learn Afrikaans before they learnt English. Others learnt Afrikaans only. The latter became known as the Boere Jode (Afrikaner Jews). Yiddish remained the language of the home. In my family, English was the children’s first language, and my parents second language. Yiddish was the language my mother and father spoke to each other. They spoke to us in broken English; or was it broken Yiddish? Izzy also knew some Russian but there were no other (Bela)Russians in the house to verify how much Russian he knew.
Yiddish is a complete language and one of a family of Western Germanic languages such as English, Dutch, and Afrikaans. Yiddish is closer to Afrikaans than English, and so, Jewish immigrants to Afrikaner regions of South Africa felt an affinity to Afrikaans and so learned the new language quickly.
The term “Yiddish” derives from the German word for Jewish” jüdisch. Yiddish was the mame loshn (mother tongue) of most Jews in Eastern and Central Europe. (The Yiddish word loshn is derived from the Hebrew lashon “tongue”). Mame loshn is not to be confused with my favourite: mama’s lokshin (noodles).
Yiddish began to come into its own around the 12th century after French and Italian Jews migrated to the Rhine valley. With the migration of Jews from Slavic countries in the Middle Ages, Slavic elements were added to the mix of Hebrew, Jewish French, Jewish Italian and a variety of German dialects. Yiddish reached a peak of 11 million speakers by World War I. After WWI, it began to decline. Then came the Holocaust of WWII and the disappearance of a vast swathe of Yiddish speakers. Today, about one million Jews across the world speak Yiddish.
There are modest attempts to revive Yiddish; for example, in America. Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, has been more successful in the Yiddish revival. Ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel use Yiddish, not Hebrew, as their language of communication. They reserve Hebrew for worship and religious studies. The ultra-orthodox Jew considers Modern Hebrew to be a corruption of the pure language of the Bible. Not only does the ultra-orthodox Jew refuse to speak Modern Hebrew, he regards those who do speak it as apostates. Israelis, in contrast, regard Yiddish as primitive; but then most modern Israelis regard much of the Torah in the same light.
The ultra-orthodox Jews are anti-Zionists. They’re not opposed to living in Israel – otherwise they wouldn’t be living there. What they do object to is Jewish political control of Israel, or Jewish control over any nation. They base this belief on the Bible, which teaches that only when the Messiah comes will the land of Israel come once again under Jewish control.
Most of the Russian Jewish immigrants to Israel – more than a million in the last decade – learn Hebrew and then English as their third language. The vast majority of these Russians are secular Jews who have no background in Judaism and thus know no Yiddish. The ultra-orthodox Russian immigrants, of course, already know Yiddish before they emigrate to Israel.
The basic grammar of Yiddish is Middle High German. The vocabulary is a mixture of Hebrew, German and Slavic elements. Yiddish vocabulary and idiom varied across classes where the more educated classes used more High German words than the original Middle-German of the Middle Ages.
Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Hebrew words are pronounced as in Biblical Hebrew, and not as in Modern Hebrew. For example, Modern Hebrew talit (prayer shawl) is pronounced talis in Yiddish, which is the ancient (biblical) Hebrew pronunciation. Unlike the modern Jew, a Yiddish speaker uses the original pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible. Here is another example: a modern Jew says “Yisrael” (Israel), while a Yiddish Jew says “Yisroel”.
The oldest known printed Yiddish sentence is a blessing found in a prayer book in Worms, Germany in 1272 , which, like all Yiddish was written in the Hebrew alphabet:
gut tak im betag wer dis makhazor in bes hakneses trag
“(may) a good day come to him who carries this prayer book into the synagogue.”
Here is the literal English translation: (may) good day to him come who this prayer book into the synagogue carries.”
I said earlier that Jewish immigrants didn’t find Afrikaans difficult. One of the reasons for this was because the word order and much of the vocabulary are similar in Yiddish and Afrikaans. The above 12th century Yiddish sentence illustrates this point well. Here is the literal English translation of the Yiddish sentence above followed by the Afrikaans translation in italics:
“(may) a good day to him come
(mag ‘n) gooie dag aan hom kom
who this prayer book into the synagogue brings.
Wie die gebedeboek in die synagoge bring.
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Oulike artikel-nie voorheen aan die Yiddish en Afrikaans’e angle gedink nie-stel baie belang in die onderwerp van Boere-Joodse mense.
Translation added by onedaringjew:
Nice article – never thought about the Yiddish-Afrikaans angle before. I’m very interested in the Boere (Afrikaaner)-Jewish connection.
If you contact the Jewish Board of Deputies library in Johannesburg, they will be able to refer you to books on the history of Jewish communities of country towns in South Africa. When I was at the JBD I saw a few monographs on the topic.
Shalom thank you for the translation and reply. Last year spent time in the Graaf-Reinett area with an Israeli friend of mine.There is so much that happened in the Platteland with the arrival of Jewish people over time that as an Afrikaner it becomes clear God blessed our country thru this in a way that for me is special or “oulik” (the word nice doesn’t quite translate oulik for me: maybe comforting-warm-nice with a bit of French attitude added) What I love is to discover-jump to Italy and there is a city on a hill called Pitigliano-the little Jerusalem…visited last year and the same there-the town and surrounding area was blessed with life because of the Jewish population-and yes it does feel a bit like Jerusalem-Tikva mixed with Dolce Vita-The Main Jewish street was called Sugar street in Italian-so merci for the bloq was a welcome surprise on this chilly winter morning!
I visited Graaff Reinet for first the time a month ago. It’s frozen in time, as you know. I am very interested in Andrew Murray’s family roots there. The Murray’s “pastorie” house was wonderful. Do you have info on the Jews in the Graaff Reinet area?
Hallo again
We stayed at a B*B who had a tiny little book on the subject funded by the Rupert trust.Your Springbok link showed the Rabbi who I remembered where mentioned in the little book. That is why I am interested to see if anyone has compiled all these stories of the Karoo in a book yet. Did you go to Willowmore?There is a beautiful white synagoge on a side street…in Graaf-R its a modern one close to the Bowls Club and somehow I had hoped it would look like the one in Willowmore. Found the one in Willowmore not looking. If I find a copy of the little book
I will post the detail. The interesting aspect of the Murray house to me was the NG Kerk’s stay after the familie’s and that no plants really grow in the garden similar to Freud’s home (My Israeli friends input) The Murray home-Pastorie- was wonderful but left me sad as much was done afterwards in the Name of GOD by my people to others that was not the way of Life at all.
If you had gone down the back steps of the pastorie and turned left through the arch, the big garden is there. Who are the “others” in your last sentence?
Yes I saw the big garden-the garden I refer to is as you go out directly behind.The journey was a discovery of what is hidden behind the obvious and the not so. If one is sad because of understanding more of the divisions that came into being because of various reasons it just is.
The nature of God is Vision, the nature of man is division. The Murrays were in tune with the Vision; many of those who sat in their pews (and their children) were not. It’s natural. Human nature is sad, as you say.
good morning ! I came across your conversation this morning totally by accident.i grew up as a child in willowmore and still remember the Musickhant’s ,an influential Jewish family.Julius ,the father and his son,Jack could speak Afrikaans.They had a shop selling everything from a needle to an anchor.
Hi William, how nice to hear from you. I have come across the name Musikant (no “h”). I live in Port Elizabeth, 260km from Willowmore.
Richard Zuckerman says:
It is ridiculous and totally inaccurate to say that Yiddish grammar as we know it is Middle High German. Yiddish grammar has evolved in an original way for more than a thousand years and has been Slavicized to a great extent. Biblical Hebrew (loshn-keydesh) has also influenced Yiddish grammar, syntax and word formation. Modern Yiddish pronunciation and word order are light-years away from Middle High German.
I wrote:
“Yiddish began to come into its own around the 12th century after French and Italian Jews migrated to the Rhine valley. With the migration of Jews from Slavic countries in the Middle Ages, Slavic elements were added to the mix of Hebrew, Jewish French, Jewish Italian and a variety of German dialects.”
Where have I purportedly slipped up in that description?
The slavicization of (Eastern-European) Yiddish took place in the Eastern-European countries where Polish, Ukrainian and Belorussian were spoken. Several words also reflect Czech influence. Quite a few vocabulary items illustrate older variants of Polish. In the Western Yiddish of Germany and Alsace, Slavic influence was minimal (limited to a few words). Jews speaking Western Yiddish migrated from German-dialect territory to Eastern Europe (mainly Poland, the Baltic countries, Belorussia, Ukraine, Rumania) in three waves. There they came in contact with Slavic-speaking Jews. Richard Zuckerman
Thank you Richard for this information.
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A Jewish Nose of any other form smells as sweet
As far as I am aware, very few, including my children, know I had a nose job except those who knew me at school and during my first year in the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town. I mention my nose change for the first time here. I boasted an Adrien Brody bridge if not the cliffhanger nostrils.
“I think a lot of people (writes a female admirer of Brody’s nose) would say that Adrien Brody’s nose is his one handicap. It’s so large it makes it hard to concentrate on anything else when you look at him…When Adrien Brody kisses or kind of nuzzles a woman’s cheek, his nose sort of bends. Folds over a little bit… that fold-over is just the most damnably sexy thing I have ever seen.”http://megwood.com/archive/adrienbrody.html. At school.
Now, the closest I ever got to a nuzzle was my nozzle.
It was towards the end of my matric year that I had the first good – if that is the right word – look at my profile. Previously, I spent most of my leisure time between learning masquerades like Mario Lanza’s “Beloved” from “The Student Prince” and sideswiping my profile whenever I came near a bank of mirrors in a shop or school bathroom. Here is the first verse of “Beloved.”
Tonight was just a masquerade
Tomorrow just another day
Let come whatever
Tonight or never
I’ll through the mask away
(First verse of “Beloved”)
When I was at boarding school in Wellington, I used to sing this song outside the girls’ residence of Huguenot School, Wellington. I forgot all about my nose. I was Mario Lanza’s voice and Edmond Purdom’s nose.
(For more on the Cape Jewish orphanage days see here; and the Huguenot High School, Wellington days here).
The last line is intriguing: “I’ll through the mask away.” At first blush, it seems that “through” should be “throw” – as in “throw the mask away” (something I couldn’t do because my mask was my face). It seems that “away” in “I’ll through the mask away” is used as a verb as in “I must away from my mask by breaking through it.”
I never planned to see the world as it really was, but, as Don Quixote and Cyrano de Bergerac discovered, it is difficult to avoid doing so. It happened when I was in a clothes shop on the corner of Strand and Adderley Street, Cape Town. Sonia, my sister, was buying a suit for me. She said to the Jewish shopkeeper, “He’s tall and he’s matriculating.” What had matriculating got to do with being tall? More sense to a tailor would have been “He’s tall and he’s metriculating.” Sonia was so proud that one of the nine Gamaroff children was matriculating. I was given a bottle green woollen suit with black flecks and escorted to a cubicle to try it on. I poked my foremost appendage through the curtains and stumbled into my recurring nightmare: a close coop with mirrors all around. Wherever my eyes turned, I was felled by my profile; all demonic angles of it – the nose wagging the face, wagging the whole body. I piece by piece removed my outer garments to fit on the suit. Lanky calveless limbs, hunched shoulders, bounteous Adam’s apple, loose vest and lax underpants. At any moment, I expect to hear Julio Iglesias and Willy Nelson piping into the cubicle: “Of all the girls I’ve loved before….” If only I could shatter those implacable romantic effigies gloating over me.
I loved the suit. A few years later, I left it behind together with a suitcase including other precious items such as my rebound leather French bible in the loft of Marist Brothers School in Salonike, Greece. I was on my way to Israel and thought I would return to Greece to retrieve the suitcase. I never did.
Here is photo of someone in the Jewish Chronicle with my pre-op nose: Howard – the son of my father, Izzy’s half brother, David – at his wedding.
At the beginning of the post “Bags, bottles and bones”, I mentioned that Golda, Izzy’s mother, died in the 1920s when Izzy was in his twenties. Shaul, his father, married Bertha. They had a son called David.
Howard, unlike Adrien Brody who is purported to have broken his nose several times, is a natural. But I may be wrong. The nose is the most defining characteristic of Howard’s face, not only because it is so prominent, but because it’s a nose. The slightest alteration of your nose radically changes your appearance.
Here is the only existing post-op photo of me, taken a few months after my 18th birthday, at the end of my first university year.
The “before” photos have been lost. I might have thrown them away, but don’t remember doing so.
Adrien Brody has done very well by his nose. If he was around in 1958, he could have been by role model, instead of Elvis, and I wouldn’t have been so frantic to remodel my “Jewish” shnozzel to look like Elvis. Is there, though, really such a thing as a typical Jewish nose? The stereotype of a typical Jewish nose did not match the latest studies in physical anthropology, which “showed that Jews displayed a full range of hair colors, facial shapes, and, most important, noses” (Andrew R. Heinze, “Jews and the American Soul,” p. 151). Only a small percentage sported “the well-defined beaks that comic papers attribute to the entire race, while “nearly sixty per cent of both Jews and Jewesses had that finely shaped staright nose that is commonly found in Greek sculpture” (McClure’s Magazine, quoted in Heinze, p. 151). Perhaps – I’m being perverse now but also cautious – many American and European Jews originate not from the Israelites but from the Khazars. (see my “The invention of Shlomo Sand – a thousand “Jews” make one Palestinian”).
No one is sure when the “typically Jewish” nose became a scientific object of study. Two scientists have been credited with initiating such a study: The German, Blumenbach and the Scot, Knox, two 19th century scientists. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach claimed that Jews had a prominent nasal bone. Robert Knox, a prominent surgeon and zoologist with a nose as prominent as his reputation, described the Jewish nose as “a large, massive, club-shaped, hooked nose, three or four times larger than suits the face. . . . Thus it is that the Jewish face never can [be], and never is, perfectly beautiful.” Is that the prominent scot calling the shtetl black?
Robert Knox said that human races were different species of the human “genus”. For example, the Anglo-Saxon race was a distinct human “species”. Also, within species (races) there existed “sub-species” (sub-races), which could be identified by national type. For Knox, the English Anglo-Saxon sub-species was the most superior of all. That superiority logically extends to the English nose as well. What, though, is so superior about Robert Knox’s nose? He’s not English but Scottish. Perhaps Knox meant the “British”, not the English, race, because Scots are British, not English.
In 1914, Audrey Scott, a young North American woman hated her nose. Beth Preminger, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reported that the woman sought the advice of a surgeon who described the nose as “fairly long, has a very slight hump, is somewhat broad near and the tip bends down, giving somewhat the appearance of a Jewish nose.” On the basis of this race-based “deformity”, he recommended a nose job.
A 1996 plastic surgery manual stated that the “Jewish nose” requires “a classic rhinoplasty with lowering of the dorsum, narrowing of the bony pyramid, refinement and elevation of the excessively long hanging tip.” (Rhinoplasty – Greek: Rhinos, “Nose” + Plassein, “to shape”). More than half a million people in Europe and the US consult plastic surgeons about changing the shape of their noses.
What did the surgeon, Dr Davis, do to my nose? First, he made incisions inside the nose to gain access to the bone and cartilage support system. Next, he removed, added to, rearranged underlying bone and cartilage. There was no problem with the tip of the nose or the nostrils, so he didn’t have to sculpt in this area. The problem lay with the hump on my nasal bone. He sawed off the hump, made a new frame and then redraped the tissue and skin over the new frame, and closed off the incisions. He then applied a splint to the outside of the nose to help retain the new shape while the nose healed. Some soft, absorbent material was placed inside the nose to maintain stability along the dividing wall (the septum) of the air passages. This is removed the morning after surgery. I was in the hospital for a few days. On the day I was to leave the hospital, I leaned towards tmy attractive nurse with (my) swollen purple eyes and mummy face to kiss her goodbye. My first kiss! She shrieked and clouted me on my raw bandaged nose. I was hurt. So did my nose. I would have to wait another six months for my first kiss. Here is something: I had never heard the words “I love you” addressed to me in any shape or form. The first time I heard it was from the girl to (from?) whom I gave (received) my first romantic kiss – Karen. But the kiss only came months after Karen’s “I love you.” I can’t say how much my new nose had to do with it; what is certain is that with the old nose, the only creatures that were attracted to me were the flies hovering around my sticky toffee lips. I wonder to this day whether I really had a Jewish nose, or a Roman nose, or a Greek nose – or a a a Palestinian nose.
When I was teaching French at Westerford High School in Newlands, Cape Town (1977 – 1979), I taught Cyrano de Bergerac, who everyone nose. I jumped on the table in front of the class brandishing my imaginary sword. There was something in my demeanor that just didn’t cut it. I don’t think any of the matrics noticed – except maybe the tall one, who, naturellement, was also matriculating.
What really matters is what you are, and not what you look like, which is what Shakespeare means by “A Rose by Any Other Name would Smell as Sweet.” But it’s all very well saying that with my nice newish – and arguably non- Jewish – nose. But I think that some of the Jewish has over the last 50 years been progressively growing back. You just can’t keep a good Jewish nose down.
My father, Issy, didn’t only not object, he paid for the op. Business was improving, but he wasn’t that flush in 1959. Thank you Izzy.
I changed my biggish nose. The biggisher question is: “Did I change inside; did I “behave” differently? If John Watson, the Behaviourist was right, “we can change the personality as easily as we can change the nose.” I can’t say whether my new did change me radically. What I do know is that I felt much happier; and, oh, not long after the post op swelling came down, the girls at varsity started chasing me. What I’m sure didn’t change though, was my total obliviousness to what was going on around me, for many decades later, someone, who was at varsity with me told me about the girls. “Why didn’t anybody tell me!”
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Although not hooked, mine is big. I feel, too big for my face. With a bump. Very like my (Jewish) Grandfathers’. My uncle, with a beard, looks like the proverbial Rabbi. His is not hooked, just overly large like Grandpa’s and mine. So, what IS a Jewish nose?
As I wrote, it’s hard to pinpoint a Jewish nose. I don’t know what a Jewish nose is(sy), but I do know what a nosy Jew is – moi.
(Issy was my Dad’s name).
Lol! Fits me too!
Lyn Leahz says:
I didn’t see anything wrong with your nose in the picture of you when you were a young man. 🙂
What picture was that? Nobody nose. The only picture of me of a young man is the post-op one. Agh, now you’ve mixed me up (even more).
Well, you said that it was a few months after the surgery, and your nose appears that it healed up great!
After = new. That’s my new shnozz in the picture. Enough alrrrready.
Yes, I understood it was your new nose AFTER the surgery, silly. I said that it healed up nice, being that it was only a FEW months after the surgery! I won’t speak of it again, I promise..but who NOSE, it might just come up!
Can we discuss this on Oprah? Or what about Maury Povich? Or maybe the National Enquirer gossip column would be interested in bography’s new nose. They’ve wondered for years about this, and finally, the truth comes it…it is a nose job after all! No, it wasn’t implants or a rear end lift..it was a nose!
Silly me.
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Flavia Tumusiime Shares Marriage Lessons As She Celebrates One Year Anniversary
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Opinionator | Underwater, Feeling Our Ocean Origins
Diane Ackerman
Underwater, Feeling Our Ocean Origins
By Diane Ackerman
August 25, 2012 1:15 pm August 25, 2012 1:15 pm
Diane Ackerman on the natural world, the world of human endeavor and connections between the two.
I’ve always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can’t communicate well.
There are few ways to convey joy, amazement or thrill. How many divers know American Sign Language? The vocabulary of scuba talk is small and inadequate, circling around the transactional analyst’s bywords, I’m O.K. Are you O.K.? One can also signal: I’m in trouble, I’m low on air, I’m going to surface, Look at that, I’m cold, Danger over there, My ears haven’t pressurized, Stay where you are — but little more.
“Isn’t that fish on the rock face spending his whole life guarding a minute territory mind-blowing?” is just as unsayable as “I’ve got to go to the toilet.” Or “My throat feels parched from the wheeze of the regulator.” Or “Those brown angelfish are hanging like flak in the water.”
I think some people may dive, in part, for the thick layers of quiet and the luxury of not having to converse.
Once, offshore in Jamaica, I swam through a variety of vividly colored fish, including some I’d never seen before, and was so spellbound that one hand automatically touched my chest and my eyes teared. My guide’s eyes questioned me through the fishbowl of his face mask. There was no way to signal that I wasn’t hurt or frightened, but jubilant, merely glad to the brink of tears. How do you scuba-sign wonder?
Are you in trouble? he signaled.
No, no, I answered emphatically. I’m O.K. I put an open palm over my heart, then made a stirring motion in the water. My heart is stirred, and my eyes … I made a rain-falling movement beside one eye with my fingers.
Surface? he motioned, his knitted brow adding a question mark.
No! I signaled stiffly. I’m O.K. Wait. Wait. I thought for a moment, then made the sign French chefs use in commercials, the gestural Esperanto for “This dish is perfection,” making a purse of my fingers and exploding open the purse just after it touched my mouth. Then I swept a hand wide.
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Even with the regulator stuffed in his mouth and his eyes distorted behind the face plate, he made an exaggerated smile, yawning around the mouthpiece. He nodded his head in a magnified “Yes!” then made an O.K. sign and led me deeper, using his compass and surfacing once to check his direction by sighting the boat.
After a 10-minute swim, we suddenly came to a maze of underwater canyons thick with enormous sponges and coral fans, around which schools of circus-colored fish zigzagged. Plump purple sea pens with feathery quills stood in sand inkwells. Tiny tube worms — shaped like Christmas trees, feather dusters, maypole streamers, parasols — jutted out of the coral heads. Sea relationships are sometimes like those in a Russian novel; a worm enters the larder of a fine, respectable coral to steal its food, and just stays there, never being evicted. I moved my palm over a red-and-white striped parasol, and in a flash it folded up its umbrella and dragged it back inside the coral. It’s a game divers love to play with tube worms: abracadabra, and the tube worm vanishes.
On a coral butte just in front of us, a dark sea whip jutted out between the canyon walls, its Medusa-like hair straggling in the current. I laughed. That sea whip’s hair is just like my own.
Then I remembered: We’re mainly salt water, we carry the ocean inside us. The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply. I pulled my mask up and washed my face with salt water, fitted it back on and exhaled through my nose to clear it.
From then on, I was hooked, and often returned to the sea to re-experience the visible links of that invisible chain.
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For the past 5 years the Kanji, Oshi Shinobu, which means to persevere under pressure, has been the one consistent design element of all our kimonos. The Kanji and it's meaning defined our company, our core values and our beliefs. We could think of no better design element to feature.
We weren't the first company to use Kanji and we wont be the last. Over the years though more and more companies have started using Kanji and it's to the point that our gi and our company are no longer distinguishable from the plethora of other companies that use similar design elements. The only way to know what's ours and what isn't would be to put it on, the fit, quality and comfort easily distinguish us from the rest.
In May when we made the commitment to do this full time we started looking for a new logo or symbol that would help us stand out yet still represent what we are about. After a month of revision and searching we settled on an OSS mon, a unique flower and logo that carries with it our hope for the future while honoring our roots.
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AbbVie has submitted its Hepatitis C treatment to the European regulator, a triple-pronged therapy set to rival to Gilead’s Sovaldi.
Gilead’s hit the US market last year, and is already revolutionising the way Hepatitis C (HCV) is being treated, promising to eradicate the virus from most patients, and cut treatment times and side-effects.
AbbVie’s drug can make similar claims, but can go one further in offering interferon-free treatment to patients with the chronic genotype 1 (GT1) variant, the most common sub-type of the disease.
Interferon is a painful injection which often produces side-effects in patients, and is one of the leading reasons some patients delay or refuse treatment once diagnosed with Hepatitis C. That means AbbVie’s combination could be a major step forward in increasing the number of patients treated, as well as increasing levels of successful treatment.
The submissions for the drug combination are supported by data from the largest all-oral, interferon-free clinical programme in GT1 patients conducted to date, which consists of six Phase III studies that include more than 2,300 patients in over 25 countries.
“These regulatory submissions bring us closer to offering adult genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C patients an all-oral, interferon-free regimen which has the potential to provide a promising advancement for the hepatitis C community in the European Union,” said Scott Brun, M.D., vice president, Pharmaceutical Development, AbbVie. “This regulatory milestone, on the heels of our submission of a New Drug Application in the US, represents an important step for our pipeline.”
Cost concerns
Healthcare systems are eager to see rival treatments to Gilead’s Sovaldi launched, with the hope that competition in the field may help bring prices down. Gilead has been heavily criticised in the US for the high cost of Sovaldi, which is around $84,000 per patient, or $1000 per pill.
AbbVie is giving few indications yet as to its pricing strategy, but it looks unlikely that its launch will drive down prices substantially. This is a major problem for healthcare systems, as this generation of new drugs will create huge new demand and cost in the disease area.
Three-pronged attack
AbbVie’s regimen is a three pronged attack on the Hepatitis C virus: a fixed-dose combination of ABT-450/ritonavir (150/100mg) co-formulated with ombitasvir (ABT-267) 25mg, dosed once daily, and dasabuvir (ABT-333) 250mg with or without ribavirin (weight-based), dosed twice daily.
This combination of three different mechanisms interrupts the HCV replication process with the goal of getting the best ‘sustained virologic response’ rates across different patient populations.
The EMA has granted the drug combination accelerated assessment for ABT-450/ritonavir, ombitasvir (ABT-267), and dasabuvir (ABT-333), a designation given to new medicines of major public health interest.
This could shorten the EMA review time by around two months – AbbVie estimates that if approved, the combination could be launched in the first quarter of 2015.
Janssen and Merck
Meanwhile another competitor in the market, Janssen, has just made its own submission to the FDA. It has filed Olysio (simeprevir) for use in combination with Gilead’s Sovaldi (sofosbuvir). This combination is aimed at a hard to treat group: genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C (HCV) in adult treatment-naive patients with advanced fibrosis and null responders with all stages of liver fibrosis. Olysio is already approved for use in most major markets, but is still awaiting EU approval.
While Olysio is seen as a potential companion to Sovaldi rather than an outright rival, Merck does have its own contender waiting in the wings.
Merck’s combination of MK-5172 and MK-8742 is another regimen promising an interferon free treatment for hard to treat patients. The drug is just beginning phase 3 trials, which will look at sub-populations including patients with chronic kidney disease, HIV/HCV co-infection and cirrhosis.
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Nigerians may pay more for commodities, as new duty regime bites
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Importers bemoan hike in duty rate
Nigerians may be bracing for higher prices of commodities as the spiral effect of the sudden increase in import duty by over 6.1 per cent by the Federal Government, takes toll on prices.Already, importers and manufacturers are groaning under the new regime and the impact on their businesses.
However, the new regime introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may also worsen smuggling, import concealment and under declaration of goods imported into the country through the seaports, airports and land borders.CBN had recently jerked the exchange rate on imported goods from N306 to N326 per dollar, which took effect immediately, catching the clearing agents and importers unawares.
The Guardian gathered that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) had immediately commenced implementation of the new duty rate, which would apparently increase its revenue generation. For the importers, some of them have opted to close their shops or leave the country in search of a conducive business environment elsewhere in the region.
President of Shippers Association of Lagos State, Jonathan Nicol, in chat with The Guardian, said the government was probably ill-advised on the new policy, adding that the initiative of the government pursuing revenue rather than trade facilitation is fast crippling the economy.
According to him, the harsh environment created by government through its policies are sending importers away to neighbouring countries, and those nations are taking advantage of Nigeria’s lapses to enrich themselves.“Some of these policies are why people are moving away from Nigeria, because they are harsh, unproductive for importers and manufacturers. It will affect import and exports, because by the time you add all the sundry expenses, the cost will be very high and the market value may not be as expected because it is something for which you never budgeted.
“I will say the government is taking all the money even before we bring in our goods, and when it gets to a certain stage there would be a standstill, where everybody would be fed up, and that is not good for the economy.“It is unfortunate; our informal sector is gradually dying. If you look at the goods coming into Alaba market, ASPAMDA market and others, you will discover that the costs are higher than expected and the traders are having low patronage. It is high time government looked into these issues and create a business friendly environment for this economy to thrive,” he said.
President, National Council of Managing Directors of Customs Licensed Agents, (NCMDCLA), Lucky Amiwero, said the new regime would definitely lead to high cost of goods in the country.He bemoaned the fire brigade approach of the Federal Government in slamming a higher exchange duty and implementing it with immediate effect, without due consideration for the importers.
“You cannot increase duty and say it should be implemented with immediate effect. This is not in line with the international trade standards. They should consider the importers before slamming a new duty,” he said.
Amiwero continued: “It is going to increase the cost of clearance and this will have spiral effect on cost of goods locally, because an importer that is compelled to pay a higher duty than budgeted, would also find a way of recouping his expenses. That is where we have a problem. The Customs have started charging the new rate, and it is unfortunate that this policy is coming at this critical time; it will definitely have an impact on the economy.“I was shocked to hear that pronouncement, I think they have their own plan, but they should have given at least three months grace period for the policy to take effect,” he said.
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By: Mary Murphy
THE BRONX — The mother of slain 15-year-old Lesandro “Junior” Guzman Feliz doubled over in her seat Tuesday when a Bronx homicide detective introduced “freeze frames” taken from surveillance footage of her son’s murder as a way to identify the accused killers.
The freeze frames were being used by Detective Francis Orlando to establish who was on the bodega sidewalk last June 20, shortly after 11:35 p.m., when Junior was set upon by a mob with knives and a machete.
The first defendant talked about was 22-year-old Jose Muniz, who was “wearing a white tank top,” according to Orlando.
“It appears the male is carrying a long knife or a machete,” the investigator said.
Junior’s mother gasped and had to contain her emotions when one freeze frame showed her son desperately trying to hold on to the front door of the Cruz & Chiky bodega, so that he wouldn’t be pulled out to his deadly fate on the sidewalk.
She got more upset when another freeze frame showed the man in the white tank top raising his arm up with an apparent weapon, as he was about to attack the teen.
Early in Detective Orlando’s testimony, he said that Junior’s black Nike sandals were found by cops in the middle of the road at E. 184th Street and Hoffman Avenue, so there was an assumption the chase of Junior might have started right there.
Prosecutors have said, though, that the Trinitarios gang pursuit of Junior started earlier near Adams Place in the Belmont section of the Bronx.
The second suspect talked about on the surveillance was the defendant later identified as Jonaiki Martinez Estrella. Investigators said he wore a red shirt and red Chicago Bulls hat before the stabbing, but pulled off the shirt before the attack started.
The detective then introduced surveillance stills that allege to show a brown haired Manuel Rivera at the scene.
Then, the detective showed different surveillance from a night later when Rivera allegedly went to a beauty salon to dye his hair “yellow.”
Rivera’s hair was bright yellow when he was picked up with several suspects in Paterson, New Jersey on Sunday, June 24.
Elvin Garcia was the fourth suspect who had photos entered into evidence. Prosecutors said he wore a white shirt and shorts during the stabbing, with a dark cover over his face.
The detective entered more photos of Garcia taken by the Crime Scene Unit that showed him with stitches on his left hand, which was treated after the Junior murder at a Manhattan hospital.
Garcia told cops he had gotten into a fight about his girlfriend.
PIX11 spoke to Junior’s father Lisandro Guzman during the lunch break, who said—in Spanish—that it was difficult to watch the freeze frames of his son’s murder.
Testimony was expected to resume Tuesday afternoon with information about a fifth suspect who was wearing a dark hoodie.
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Coming Soon! Get A Sneak Peek ;)
Posted on April 1, 2014 by GSNAngel
We like to keep our games interesting, and feel this will be fun for all. We hope you agree!
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40 thoughts on “Coming Soon! Get A Sneak Peek ;)”
Kathleen on April 1, 2014 at 8:17 am said:
Great idea ! Anything that will get me to 7 Billion + Tokens, like the player in the video has, works for me. Happy April Fool’s Day !
bvankoughnett on April 1, 2014 at 8:47 am said:
hahahaha. Good one
2jellybeans on April 1, 2014 at 9:17 am said:
OMG….when i started watching this, i angrily said to myself, “i won’t be playing those 2 games again”….then i got to the end and saw it was for April Fool’s Day….,LOL…that was a good one. Cudos to whoever came up with that…..loved it! LOL
GSNAngel on April 1, 2014 at 10:57 am said:
GSN Scoop did it!! I laughed too!
Debbie on April 1, 2014 at 9:43 am said:
LOL, That is way too funny. April fools to you too!!
Hee 🙂
Sheryl on April 1, 2014 at 9:44 am said:
great gag! I had to watch it twice first time thought it was real because I missed the end
It’s brought to us courtesy of GSN Scoop! 🙂
Lorna on April 1, 2014 at 10:07 am said:
You got me!!!! I was thinking, wow, my FAVORITE slots game, Diamond Royale – anything with that interested me….well, never mind.. and a
Happy April’s Food Day to you too!
ladyo222 on April 1, 2014 at 10:29 am said:
LOL Funny!
Pam on April 1, 2014 at 10:48 am said:
HA HA… That was good…but tell me is the Emergen-C sausage maker also a April Fool’s joke. I laughed like a fool, it can’t be real. Thanks for the laughs and tokens.
LOL Pam! Of course Emergen-C Sausage Pump is not a joke. Who would turn down delicious vitamin-fortified fruitmeat sausages? 😛
doubleduece on April 1, 2014 at 11:17 am said:
My first reaction was… “Do what???????” LOL But definitely got a good chuckle at the end! LOL Good one, Scoop! Happy April Fool’s to all of you guys too! 🙂
LuckyLucy50 on April 1, 2014 at 12:48 pm said:
GOOD ONE GSN!!! I am ALWAYS happy to get a laugh, Thanks GSN! In fact thanks for everything you do!!! In fact I only have a short time left on this earth so I have decided to leave my ENTIRE FORTUNE to the GSN Angel, it is worth about 100 Billion Dollars!!!! All yours GSN Angel!!! Happy April Fool’s Day to OUR Angel!!!
GSNAngel on April 1, 2014 at 1:14 pm said:
LOL! One billion MONOPOLY DOLLARS!! I’ll split it with GSN Scoop. I love April Fools Day 😀
baitfish29 on April 1, 2014 at 1:40 pm said:
That was good, You really had us going
LaMachine50 on April 1, 2014 at 1:21 pm said:
LOL ~ Thanks for the laugh ~ Happy April Fools Day Everyone 😀
wakedaddy820 on April 1, 2014 at 2:35 pm said:
I was actually looking forward to the Video Bingo . . . I click every space anyway! lol Happy oodlng . . . and fooling! 😎 😛
David K. on April 1, 2014 at 2:47 pm said:
Hey Angel & Scoop team. I have 2014 world series tickets already. Top of the monster. Ya want them? LOL!!!!!
Haha!!!
Yeah, I thought so. But come October this will be no joke 😉
Pics if you’re there or it doesn’t happen 😛
Lesli on April 1, 2014 at 3:10 pm said:
April`s Full Of Fools ~ 😉
I’m a fool of many trades 😉
Linda on April 1, 2014 at 3:20 pm said:
Fell for it. Said, “Whaaat?!” And laughed out loud. Never saw it coming.
20ounce on April 1, 2014 at 3:28 pm said:
love you guys!!!!!!!
OH OH …I HAVE PRIME REAL ESTATE EAST OF MIAMI…ANY TAKERS!!!!!
LOL….for how much??? Hahhaahhahahaah
20ounce on April 3, 2014 at 12:45 am said:
how much you got?????
mary on April 1, 2014 at 4:36 pm said:
Excellent Ifell for it to then watched again very FUNNY LOL emergecy C also funny thought that to was April Fools joke but was not. HA HA happy APRIL FOOLS day to all good to have a laugh. Mary
Candy on April 1, 2014 at 5:08 pm said:
I fell for it also… lol
Happy “fools” day Candy 😉
Candy on April 2, 2014 at 6:52 am said:
Back at you
Happy “fools” day Mary 😉
2jellybeans on April 1, 2014 at 6:26 pm said:
It’s one those product gags for April Fool’s…there’s also one called the Fruit of the Loom panty iron…they say you can even plug it in to your usb port…lol
Bestbuds2nu2 on April 1, 2014 at 6:45 pm said:
Hahahaha Happy April Fool’s GSN!!!!
LUV2FISH261 on April 1, 2014 at 6:52 pm said:
HA HA! Lol, cute.
mindytbl on April 1, 2014 at 9:17 pm said:
Ya’ll are a HOOT !
For some reason I just felt Scoop was behind this one. (2 games in 1)
But honestly that Emergen C one oh my gosh I was hoping that was Blarney.
Then remembered it’s April 1st ! Ha,Ha Ha…… Cause THAT one grossed me out !!!!
mckimmy on April 1, 2014 at 9:18 pm said:
That’s so funny, not if it were for oodles i probably would have cried lol because i would have probably fallen for that good one.
JILL on April 1, 2014 at 9:53 pm said:
We are such good little fools!!! LOL Thanks for the good time with that one !
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Matt Painter’s ex-wife Jerri Painter
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Jerri Painter
Jerri Painter was once married to Matt Painter –whom you might know as the current head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers men’s basketball team.
Jerri’s former spouse has under his belt a pair of Sweet 16 appearances, eight NCAA Tournament berths, Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles and an international gold medal. What could have possibly made her want to separate from a successful guy? Some reports suggested Matt allegedly had an affair.
But don’t feel too bad for the lovely Jerri –who has since found new love.
According to Fabwags, Jerri Painter who is a Yoga specialist, is currently married to second hubby, Russell Harris.
Let’s take a step back for a bit. Jerri –who was born Jerri Lynn Uhrig on November 17, 1963 –and Matt Painter met during the early 90’s. The two were in a relationship for years and went onto exchange vows on May 24, 2003.
While on happier times, the former couple welcomed one daughter: Emma Painter born in 2004. Jerri Painter is also the mother of daughter Maggie from a previous relationship. Jerri was also stepmother to Matt’s son, Brayden from a previous relationship.
The former couple decided to take separate ways in 2013 after 10-years of marriage, according to the divorced docs filed in Hamilton County.
Jerri who is a Illinois native, is also a former high school athlete. According to her LinkedIn, she attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL –where she graduated with a masters degree in clinical social work.
She currently works as a Yoga teacher for the Pink Lotus Yoga Studio. According to its website, she is listed as a ‘certified yoga instructor, certified personal trainer and certified Wellness Coach.’
She is currently based in Lafayette, Indiana but has also lived in Carbondale, Illinois and Nashville, Tenn.
On Twitter she describes herself as a “High-Octane wicked wit street smart yoga meister who possesses a mature assessment of herself.”
You can check out her yoga profile here.
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The fires, which continue to burn, have charred millions of acres of land across the continent
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Bushfires destroy properties in the township of Hillville on the Mid North Coast of NSW, Nov. 12, 2019.
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In a photo taken on New Year’s Eve, a horse tries to move away from nearby bushfires at a residential property near the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales.
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FG to deliver four FIDs, tackle crude oil theft
By Etuka Sunday
The Federal Government has revealed plans to deliver Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) on at least four key projects within the nation’s oil and gas industry by the end of last quarter this year.
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipreye Sylva, who represented the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria disclosed this while speaking at the ongoing 24th World Energy Congress (WEC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday.
Sylva said his vision was to bequeath a vibrant petroleum industry which shall guarantee long term strategic investments and prosperity for Nigerians.
“My plan is to ensure that during my tenure, four Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) are taken. I am sure that within the next quarter, we should be able to conclude on some of these FIDs so as to grow the industry,” the Minister stated.
The Minister also highlighted gas development as part of government priority to fast track the industrialization drive of the country.
“As you are aware, we are focusing on the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline project which will address some of our power issues and encourage the setting up of local industries and businesses along different areas in Nigeria.”
Sylva also shed more light on the imperative of rehabilitating the nation’s refineries, saying that it was unsustainable for Nigeria to continue to import petroleum products.
The Minister further stated that while private investment in the refining sector is encouraged, Government should focus more on the repair of its existing refineries.
“People are talking about modular refineries, we know that modular refineries are part of the solution but they can only be part of the solution and not the solutions themselves. So, we are going to try to encourage modular refineries but before that, we are going to really focus on repairing the existing refineries to ensure that we are back on stream very shortly,” Sylva added.
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Health Science Students and Their Learning Environment: A Comparison of Perceptions of On-Site, Remote-Site, and Traditional Classroom Students
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This study compared the responses of on-site, remote-site, and traditional classroom students on measures of student/teacher interaction, course structure, physical learning environment, and overall course enjoyment/satisfaction. The sample population consisted of students taking undergraduate courses in medical terminology at two western colleges.
Utilization of Information Technology in Eastern North Carolina Physician Practices: Determining the Existence of a Digital Divide
by David A. Rosenthal, PhD, and Elizabeth J. Layman, PhD, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has emphasized the importance of utilizing health information technologies, thus making the availability of electronic resources critical for physicians across the country.
Mentoring Health Information Professionals in the Department of Veterans Affairs
by Susan S. Lloyd, MA, RHIA, PMP, and Susan H. Fenton, PhD, MBA, RHIA
As a major employer of health information professionals, the VA faces significant recruitment and retention challenges. The authors evaluated mentoring as a retention tool through a review of existing literature and the retrospective review of a VA health information management mentoring program.
SNOMED CT Survey: An Assessment of Implementation in EMR/EHR Applications
by Kathy Giannangelo, MA, RHIA, CCS, CPHIMS, and Susan H. Fenton, PhD, RHIA
A descriptive study of health information technology (HIT) vendors was conducted to identify which EMR/EHR vendors currently work or anticipate working with SNOMED CT, determine the prevalence of SNOMED CT integration in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) products, identify the available and potential future applications for SNOMED CT in EMR/EHR systems
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Marriage of Gorham
ISSUE: Wife hired Provinziano & Associates because husband lied about his earning ability and claimed that he was fired shortly after filing for divorce.
RESULT: After a court trial, court found that husband was not credible and ordered him to pay lifetime support.
Villa v. Estrada
ISSUE: Ex-wife went to child support authorities claiming that my client had not paid over $70,000 in child support without any supporting documentation.
RESULT: After going to court for my client, child support refused to enforce wife’s case and client ultimately settled for $5,000.00.
Bolton v. Hellman
ISSUE: Ex-wife had filed contempt for failure to pay non-modifiable spousal support from client when he hired Provinziano & Associates after being served while suffering from illness and disability.
RESULT: Contempt dismissed. Case settled for approximately 20% of what he allegedly owed to ex-wife.
Caruso v. Rahman
ISSUE: Wife hired Provinziano & Associates after husband left her with no support and multiple children.
RESULT: After emergency ex parte, court heard the matter and ordered child and spousal support within five days.
Marriage of Garza
ISSUE: Wife hired Provinziano & Associates after husband severely beat her for years and then left her with no property or personal possessions.
RESULT: Court ordered lifetime spousal support, half of her retirement for life (valued at $500,000), husband to pay her restitution for replacement of her property and living expenses while fleeing his domestic violence, and husband ordered to pay all debt from marriage.
Larson v. Marchetti
ISSUE: Wife hired Provinziano & Associates to enforce a judgment in her favor from ex-husband in the amount of $90,000.
RESULT: Case settled with payment in full to client in exchange for waiver of attorney’s fees.
Marriage of Mowry
ISSUE: Client hired Provinziano & Associates because on again and off again husband had not paid support to her in ten years despite court order.
RESULT: Court ordered judgment in the amount of $100,000.00 plus statutory interest.
Richter v. Jordon
ISSUE: Client hired Provinziano & Associates because ex-wife had re-married and never told him. Our client had paid support that he never should have for years.
RESULT: Court ordered our client to be reimbursed in an amount over $40,000.00 plus statutory interest.
Kelly v. Watson
ISSUE: Father recently got out of the army and income vastly reduced but support orders did not change and were consuming approximately 90% of his take home pay.
RESULT: Court ordered a modification of support in favor of our client, reducing support obligation to approximately 20% of his pay.
Marriage of Cuoto
ISSUE: Husband had wife that made a substantial amount of money, while he had stayed home to take care of the house and children.
RESULT: Despite husband’s advanced degree, the court held that his being out of the work force for a number of years reduced his earning capacity and awarded him child and spousal support.
Packer v. Nash
ISSUE: Husband agreed to pay $2,000 a month spousal support to wife in judgment, which did not take into account his care for adult children in the marriage.
RESULT: After a court trial, court considered fact that Husband was caring for adult children, and reduced spousal support to $1,000 a month – effectively cutting spousal support in half.
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Ireland Varadkar gambles on first Saturday election in century
09:10 15 january 2020 Source: independent.ie
Varadkar gambles on first Saturday election in century 2020-01-15 2020-01-15
Leo Varadkar refuses to rule out the Dail not returning next week as General Election looms
There is growing speculation this evening that Leo wants to call an election this weekend .Following a special Cabinet meeting on disability issues, Mr Varadkar faced the press where he was bombarded with questions about the election.He was asked numerous times - including by the Irish Mirror - if he could commit to the Dáil returning next week, and he couldn’t.
An election had been expected. Varadkar ’s Fine Gael party leads a minority administration reliant on The Green party’s success in European and council elections last year, plus youth-led climate As Ireland’s first gay prime minister and the son of an Indian immigrant, Varadkar attracted global
Leo Varadkar has called a snap general election in Ireland to be held on Saturday February 8, setting up a short campaign in The first official confirmation of the election came shortly before midday on Tuesday when the office of president Michael D Higgins said Mr Varadkar will visit the head of state
Sealed with handshake: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met with President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin to dissolve the Dáil. Photo: Mark Condren
Fine Gael is planning a three-pronged campaign which will see the party's key players separately seek to shore up support ahead of polling day on Saturday, February 8. It will be the first time an election has been held in Ireland on a Saturday since 1918 - with Fine Gael hoping the weekend vote will help more working families and students favourable to the party to get to the polls.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanáiste Simon Coveney will embark on separate nationwide tours while Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will be based in the party's headquarters in Dublin. Mr Varadkar and Mr Coveney will both campaign separately with election candidates while Mr Donohoe, who is the party's director of elections, will hold daily briefings on the key issues.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar could call general election for next month
The comments come just a day ahead of the crunch meeting with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál MartinThe Taoiseach has up until now insisted that a May election date would be his preference.
This will be Leo Varadkar 's first election campaign as taoiseach and he will be up against a proven campaigner in Micheál Martin. At this early stage, a very close result is expected but politicians from all parties know campaigns develop their own momentum.
The general election campaign is firmly under way ahead of the first Saturday polling day in more than a century was announced by Leo Varadkar for A Saturday polling day is unusual, with elections in recent decades taking place on a Thursday or Friday. Fine Gael figures have said Saturday polling
© Artur Widak/NurPhoto Eoghan Murphy, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, seen at the count centre, as counting of votes continues in the European Elections, at the RDS in Dublin. On Sunday, May 26, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will launch a similar ground offensive, relying less on staged events in favour of meeting as many voters as possible. The opposition leader, who believes the main parties are "neck and neck", will push the message that the country needs change after nine years of Fine Gael government.
Related: For all the election 2020 news, reaction and analysis, click HERE
However, Fine Gael is eager to highlight its ministerial team during the campaign, and a party source said Health Minister Simon Harris and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy will be "out front and centre" defending their records. "We will be very much taking on housing and health and Simon and Eoghan will be important figures," the source said.
Varadkar's plea: give me four more months
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will turn to controversial Independent TDs Noel Grealish and Michael Lowry in a bid to cling to power for the next four months. Mr Varadkar is under pressure from his ministers to put distance between recent controversies, including the Black and Tans debacle, and the forthcoming general election.
LEO Varadkar has confirmed that a general election will take place on a Saturday for the first time ever. The Taoiseach said Ireland will go to the polls "In deciding not to seek agreement on a date for an election in April or May, I do so knowing that, even if this was possible, we would effectively enter
The general election will be held on Saturday February 8th, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Cabinet on Tuesday morning. A Saturday polling day is unusual, with elections in recent decades taking place on a Thursday or Friday. Fine Gael figures have said Saturday polling means schools will not
Fine Gael is also expected to target Border communities over the next three and half weeks to highlight its performance on Brexit. The party's campaign launch is being held today in a forklift factory in Co Monaghan. Yesterday, the Taoiseach said he called the election for February 8 because he wanted a new government in place for a crucial European Council Summit on Brexit on March 26.
Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil will launch a major ground offensive focusing on party leader Micheál Martin meeting voters during daily canvasses with teams of candidates. Last night, he was canvassing with the party's Dublin North West candidate Paul McAuliffe in Finglas.
Fianna Fáil's core message will be that the country wants change and it will criticise Fine Gael for making long-term promises about fixing the health service and the housing sector in the distant future. A Fianna Fáil source said Fine Gael's election slogan, "a future to look forward to", was an example of its criticisms of the party.
'For the many, not the few' - FG ministers warned party has to change its image
Fine Gael ministers have been urged to change the public image of the party being only for the wealthy and elite ahead of the approaching general election. Ministers were told they needed to highlight what the party has done for all sectors of society, including the most vulnerable, as the debate over the election date rumbles on into the weekend.
Irish PM Leo Varadkar called an election for 8 February today, gambling on his Brexit record and his successes in resisting a hard border between northern Ireland and the Opposition Fianna Fail plans to reform the health service and housing market. Varadkar became the first openly gay premier in the
Next month's vote -- the first on a Saturday in Ireland's history -- is being called more than a year early. The last general election in February 2016 produced a hung parliament. Varadkar 's Fine Gael won 50 seats, while their fellow centre-right rivals Fianna Fail won 44, with leftists Sinn Fein third on
© SPORTSFILE Clare , Ireland - 21 October 2016; Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, left, and local Dail Deputy Timmy Dooley arrive for the funeral of Munster Rugby head coach Anthony Foley at the St. Flannans Church, Killaloe, Co Clare. The Shannon club man, with whom he won 5 All Ireland League titles, played 202 times for Munster and was capped for Ireland 62 times, died suddenly in Paris on November 16, 2016 at the age of 42. (Photo By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images) "The slogan that they pulled out demonstrates the key point we are making that they are always talking about things happening in the future," the source said. "People want things fixed now." Sinn Féin and the Labour Party are set to make the retirement age an election issue.
Mary Lou McDonald will promise to reduce the retirement age from 66 to 65, while Brendan Howlin said he will stop it increasing to 67 next year if in government. However, the two main parties will seek to squeeze the smaller parties out of the campaign and force voters to choose between Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil on election day.
No clarity on general election date as Leo and Micheál agree to meet again next week
The two party leaders met tonight to discuss the next general election and the precarious Dáil numbers.A statement from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael stated:
The General Election is to be held on Saturday 8 February after the President dissolved the 32nd Dáil this afternoon. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar briefed the Cabinet and opposition leaders this morning, before travelling to This is the first time since 1918 that there will be a Saturday General Election .
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar set the stage for a general election within weeks, gambling that a strong economy and his Momentum has recently built behind Varadkar . On Saturday , Northern Ireland’s power-sharing assembly reconvened, ending a three-year deadlock after a deal brokered by
Speaking yesterday, Mr Martin said he believed the two parties were "neck and neck" in terms of public support. Mr Martin said there were "a lot of competitive electoral battles in the different constituencies" which will determine the outcome of the election. Fine Gael sources said they expected the two parties to win up to 60pc of the overall vote once the ballots are counted.
The Fianna Fáil leader also said he would "love" a head-to-head debate with Mr Varadkar. TDs from all parties are expected to face-off on a series of debates on RTÉ's 'Prime Time', which will focus on their portfolios. The first debate is due to take place on Thursday and it will see Mr Donohoe take on the other party finance spokespersons on the economy.
© Thomson Reuters The Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar with President Michael D.Higgins at Aras an Uachtarain (The President's residence) as they sign the document that dissolves the government in Dublin, Ireland January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Lorraine O'Sullivan Mr Varadkar confirmed the date of the election at the end of yesterday's Cabinet meeting. He told ministers if he was re-elected to power, he would first talk to Independent TDs who "had the courage to go into government" with Fine Gael in 2016. It means Mr Varadkar would be likely to ask Transport Minister Shane Ross and Children's Minister Katherine Zappone to rejoin Fine Gael in government if they are re-elected.
Last-minute Labour general election candidate added to the ticket had to 'postpone honeymoon'
A FIRST-TIME general election candidate has had to postpone his honeymoon in order to run for a seat in the Dáil. Labour candidate in Dublin South West Ciarán Ahern got married on January 4 to human rights campaigner Dr Maeve O’Rourke, daughter of RTE broadcaster Sean O’Rourke.
It will be the first Saturday general election in this country since 1918. Varadkar said the decision on the day of the week was designed to ensure families don’t have Fine Gael entered government after the previous two elections in 2011 and 2016, firstly in coalition with Labour and then as a minority
Varadkar says Cabinet will meet on Tuesday and Dáil on Wednesday. Speculation has been growing that Mr Varadkar will call a general election in the coming days and the vote would A meeting of the Fine Gael executive council, due to take place on Saturday , was postponed due to the “fluid political
Ms Zappone said she "would be happy to talk to anyone who wishes to speak with me", while Mr Ross expressed a desire to progress new legislation to overhaul how judges are appointed which failed to become law before the Dáil was dissolved.
After he informed the Cabinet, the Taoiseach called Mr Martin to inform him of the election date. Mr Varadkar then travelled to Áras an Uachtaráin to officially seek President Michael D Higgins's permission to dissolve the Dáil. The election writ will be signed in the coming days and the election campaign will then have legally commenced.
Candidates will have seven days to put their names forward for election after it has been signed. Parties were last night still putting final touches to their election tickets with a number of new candidates expected in the coming days. There has also been a wave of retirements of senior political figures, which means the landscape in several key constituencies has dramatically changed ahead of polling.
Homeless Dublin man found dead (Dublin Live)
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Man charged with Nadine's murder (Independent.ie)
Death of young woman 'shows homelessness crisis has gone beyond repair' .
The Government is being accused of letting the homelessness crisis "go beyond repair" following the tragic death of a young woman in emergency accommodation. Gardaí were called to the scene of a sudden death at the Phoenix Lodge hostel on Parkgate Street in Dublin on Wednesday evening. The woman, who was in her late 20s, died in "tragic circumstances". "This week alone we have seen this death, a man with life-changing injuries as a result of his tent being removed by an industrial machine as he slept in it, and our case-management team assisted a woman in her 60s who was sleeping rough," said Inner City Helping Homeless CEO Anthony Flynn.
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Hollow Hand
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Steve Backman
Chris Smyth
Stefan Romer
Hollow Hand is the psych-folk project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, based in Brighton.
The music is recorded at 'Cosmic Ocean', the band's rehearsal space.
After gathering the talents and limited equipment of 4 like-minded friends, the band were able to record their first album; 'Ancestral Lands' which was released on limited cassette via US label Ongakubaka Records in January 2016.
The album is influenced by electric folk records of the late 60s/early 70s (Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Iain Matthews, Gene Clark).
Gold Flake Paint had the following to say about the band's debut effort "Ancestral Lands, is the consummate time-travel companion. Anyone game for getting deliciously lost in a strange landscape will reel with the twists and turns of the properly coherent body of songs possessing that rare quality: longterm listenability".
The band have just finished their second album, 'Star Chamber'.
The Stag & Dagger festival in Glasgow on Bank Holiday Sunday 5th May, features a whole host of Primary Talent artists:
...Rat Boy (Headline)
...TVAM
...Bad Nerves
...Hollow Hand
...Just Mustard
...Pearl Charles
www.staganddagger.co.uk
Hollow Hand: Lauren Laverne's 'Headphone Moment'
Hollow Hand's track 'Blackberry Wine' was Lauren Laverne's 'Headphone Moment', on her BBC Radio 6 Music show.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sc3mz
Hollow Hand: New Video 'End Of Everything'
Hollow Hand have created a video for their track 'End of Everything', which is premiered on Gold Flake Paint.
www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/first-watch-hollow-hand-end-of-everything
Gold Flake Paint Recommendations For The Great Escape
Gold Flake Paint's recommendations for this weekend's The Great Escape in Brighton, features Primary Talent International artists...
...Miya Folick
www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/feature-2017-great-escape-festival-preview
Hollow Hand: New Single 'End Of Everything'
Hollow Hand's new single 'End Of Everything' will be available as a limited edition 7" single & download.
Premiered in The 405.
www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/hollow-hand-have-released-the-soundtrack-to-summer-2017-149
Hollow Hand: To Support The Wave Pictures
Hollow Hand will support The Wave Pictures at the Prince Albert, Brighton on 16th April.
www.seetickets.com/event/the-wave-pictures/the-prince-albert-brighton/1076508
Pinegrove & Hollow Hand: At London's Scala
Pinegrove's concert at London's Scala on 22nd February, is now sold out. They will be supported by new Primary Talent artist Hollow Hand.
www.facebook.com/Pinegroveband
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News | Fundraising
Private Ancillary Fund Deadline Extended
Tuesday, 12th November 2013 at 10:51 am
Lina Caneva
The charity regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission is giving Private Ancillary Funds five more months to ask that their information not be made public on the ACNC Register.
Tuesday, 12th November 2013
The ACNC says that at the end of October 2013, 27 of the approximately 630 PAFs registered with the ACNC have made application for withholding of information.
“The 5 November deadline has now been extended up to 31 March 2014 to ensure charities are fully aware of the process, to give charities more time to apply, and to make sure the ACNC has adequate time to process all applications,” ACNC Commissioner Susan Pascoe AM said.
“The extension to 31 March 2014 means that Private Ancillary Fund details will be withheld from the ACNC Register until this date.”
“Given that this is the first time PAFs have had to think about whether they want their information made public on the ACNC Register or not, I felt it appropriate to grant this extension,” Pascoe added.
“We believe it’s important to work flexibly and productively with the sector,” she said.
“Of course, this doesn’t mean that any Private Ancillary Funds who are keen to give the public information about themselves have to wait until the end of March next year for that to happen.
“If there are PAFs out there who want to see their details on the Register, they just need to email us and ask,” she said.
The new Coalition Government has fueled uncertainty around the future of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission claiming it will dismantle the organisation.
However the Federal Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews has indicated his support for a national register of the Not for Profit sector which would require a level of reporting from the sector.
If a PAF would like its information displayed earlier it can email the request to the ACNC at advice@acnc.gov.au.
Lina Caneva | Editor | @ProBonoNews
Lina Caneva has been a journalist for more than 35 years. She was the editor of Pro Bono Australia News from when it was founded in 2000 until 2018.
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Authorities look to stamp out bushfire donation scams
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Government ordered to respond to fundraising inquiry
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Posts Tagged 'Claire Perry'
Questionable Time #54
Published March 1, 2013 Politics Leave a Comment
Tags: #bbcqt, Angela Eagle, BBC Question Time, Claire Perry, David Dimbleby, Eastleigh, Eastleigh By-Election, Jeremy Browne, Ken Loach, Neil Hamilton, Question Time
Good morning Lemmings and rejoice for unless I am mistaken, we appear to have a by-election on our hands. Now. I’m a by-election fan at the best of times but this one’s had it all: The suitably dramatic demise of an incumbent to kick the whole thing off? Check. The first real prospect of a Blue on Yellow electoral throwdown where the stakes are high enough to matter? Check. A Conservative candidate who’s in the process of wandering off the reservation, the off-chance of a UKIP upset and a Labour attempt to both have/eat cake (‘We knew we didn’t have a chance so we put a comedian up to show how unbothered we are about losing.’/’OMG! You guys got beaten by a comedian!’)? Check check check! Today, Lemmings, is a good day to be alive… providing you happen to be a politics dork with a predilection for mid-term ballots. Right, let’s do this…
Am I the only one who hears The Archer’s theme tune whenever Claire Perry’s about?
My god, Claire Perry’s got an abundance of jaunt. That gymkhana posture, the liberal use of exclamation marks, her sharp elbows, they all just scream Le Creuset and the ability to absolutely dominate PTA meetings. Anyway, I bring this up because last night was an instructive guide to both the benefits and perils of employing Jolly Hockey Sticks as a QT tactic. Let’s start at the very end, with the question about banker’s bonuses. In this case Perry stormed in, Jolly Hockey Sticky flailing wildly above her head and hellbent on reorienting the question to Labour’s less-than-stellar record on regulating banks. “I’m absolutely gobsmacked!” was her battle cry and the force of jaunt that built up behind her was enough to yank the crowd violently around to her point of view. Clapping ensued and so it would seem that Jolly Hockey Sticks are perhaps one of the most potent weapons in QT arsenal.
However, this conclusion can only be arrived at if one actively ignores the rest of the show, an episode which should act as a cautionary tale of Jolly Hockey Sticks Gone Bad to Shire-Tories across the land. Here’s how it happened: For most of the programme we saw Perry waggle her stick so vigorously in Angela Eagle’s direction that Dimbers was forced to intervene and what should have played out as righteous-indignation-spliced-with-the-invigorating-whiff-of-the-outdoors ended up coming across more like GTA:Waitrose (a game where the only car you can drive is a Volvo… Unless you buy the Saab DLC).
So yes, despite a late rally, this was a largely avoidable tragedy brought about by a surfeit of pushiness and a fatal misunderstanding of the way people react to unbridled confidence: Where you see a defiant call-to-arms, they see a wagging finger.
What to do with Angela?
Ok, so I had a bumpy ride with Eagle last night. At first, I was all ‘Boo!’ as she squandered probably the biggest open goal we’ve seen in ages. I mean seriously, how hard is it to take apart a government that spends numerous years buggering up numerous lives in the self-proclaimed quest to retain the UK’s AAA rating only to go and lose it? It doesn’t get any easier than this – it’s like QT Christmas, birthday and new year’s all at once – yet thanks to a monotone delivery and a stare so vacant that the middle-distance started feeling uncomfortable, Angela fluffed it and the only injuries Perry suffered were largely self-inflicted.
Having said that, when it came to her response to the question about whether politics is a safe place for women, my ‘Boo!’ turned to a ‘Yay!’. All of a sudden, she appeared to be animated, engaged and talking a fair bit of sense. The crowd agreed, applause was applied liberally and for a moment, she looked like she was back in the game. Alas, this run of form was not to last and as she slowly faded towards the end, my overall impression was sort of a ‘Meh’… A doffed cap to her stout defence of women’s rights followed by a cocked snook for her inability to articulate the easy.
Oh Jeremy Browne, you so funny…
I’ve often wondered how Jeremy Browne ended up being a Liberal Democrat MP. The only scenario that seems vaguely plausible was that someone at LDHQ got drunk, phoned up Central Casting and demanded a more youthful version of Colonel Blimp. Upon delivery papers were signed, implicit contracts were formalised and the Yellow Team inadvertently took ownership of perhaps the most entertaining face in British politics: A slightly confused looking scrunch that never seems more than two minutes from yelling ‘Now just you wait a bloody second!’.
The 20th Century called and it didn’t sound happy…
Ken Loach: He likes to harsh your buzz, usually through the medium of social-realist cinema but also through the occasional QT appearance as well. Anyway, Ken was on last night and despite the general bleakness that comes with all things Loach, he was actually the star of the show and won by a country mile. Part of this is down to making some fair good points but for me the bulk of it is due to a sense of nostalgia: Ken reminds me of a world where ideologies actually had to compete and politics was able to look beyond the narrow confines of the electoral cycle. So yes, a good innings but I should really take this opportunity to warn younger readers: Never go to a Ken Loach movie on a first date. Yeah, I know… You think you’ll come across as a compassionate-yet-edgy firebrand but you won’t. Trust me, the film will bum you out so much that the walk home will be conducted in muted silence and no good will come of anything. Just… Just take it from me.
You can’t argue with the logic of Neil Hamilton joining UKIP…
Once upon a time, Neil Hamilton wasn’t just a Thatcherite, he was an uber-Thathcherite – the sort of guy whose total faith in the virtues of the free market became almost sinister. Then his political career fell apart in a blizzard of scandals and for the next decade or so he wandered around the public’s peripheral vision in various states of absurdity, wife dragged willingly in tow. Now, let me see… Where could I find a home for a man who is both ludicrous and unhinged. Oh wait! I know just the guys!
Perry: 4/10
Browne: 5/10
Stuffy
Eagle: 6/10
Scuffy
Loach: 8/10
Hamilton: 5/10
Enoughy
The Crowd: 7/10
Puff?
So there you go, some adequate by-election lulz to give us hope (Joanna) ’til the morning comes. Now, seeing as I’m feeling a little guilty for ragging on Browne so hard I’ve decided to make it up to him with this gif. Lemmings, I give to you an animated rendition of Jeremy Browne doing what he does best: Hanging out with his panda (see Fig. 1)
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Tags: #bbcqt, BBC Question Time, Claire Perry, David Dimbleby, Emily Thornberry, Mehdi Hasan, Paul Nuttall, Question Time, Slough, Vince Cable
Good morning Lemmings and welcome to Sluff, famous for Mars Bars, tragicomic depictions of the UK workplace and for a bloody great fictional crematorium that featured in Brave New World. In fact,I find it rather apt that Slough turned up in Huxley’s novel as it’s always given me the sense of a place where the utopian and dystopian rub uncomfortably against each other. On the utopian side of the coin it can proudly boast of having the most ethnically diverse population outside of London and although not a New Town per se, it certainly has echoes of that period in British history where we thought we had the future licked. As it happens, we didn’t and the future turned out to be a much more drab and roundabouty affair than we initially anticipated, an unhappy occurrence that leads us to the more dystopian flip side of Slough: Aberrantly high crime rates, ‘The Slough Stench’ and that unshakable feeling that everything is – well – slightly crap.
Still, it’s not my job to bum out the people of Slough, not that there seems to be a shortage of people willing to do just that. No, my job is to see how the people of Slough react to a damn good Question Timing and so without further ado let us bravely put our collective heads into the maw of the beast.
Am I still on the Vince Train? I honestly don’t know anymore…
Back in 2008 when the whole world looked to be collapsing around our ears, one man stood forth and boldly donned the mantle of The Voice of Reason. That man was Vince Cable and in 2008 the one place I and many others wanted to be was in the first class carriage of the Vince Train, a doughty locomotive of yellow livery powered by pure Keynsianism. At first the ride was great fun, speeding along while the Hayek Express was forced into the sidings and I felt vindicated in having purchased my first class ticket at the station rather than experiencing the potential ignominy of having to upgrade on board. This train, I thought, was going places… Next stop, Government Central!
That, however, was where the problems started and if you ask me, Government Central has a lot in common with Birmingham New Street in that it’s a cold, dark, subterranean place that’s awfully hard to find your way out of. The effect it had on the Vince Train was no less baleful and there soon developed an ominous sounding creak from the axles while the Tanoy spoke of inevitable delays, usually attributed to signal trouble in the vicinity of Wilmslow. Looking back, I probably think that I should have got off at the next stop when I had the chance but I didn’t. Why not? Because for all the disappointments and that entire year where Cable carried a pained expression on his face like someone had just jellied his stapler, he had this look that made me stay on board. And it was just a look. A glint in the eye, a tap on the side of his nose that said ‘Just you wait. The chips may be down, but let me assure you that I’ve still got a couple of tricks up my sleeve’. Well, it’s now four years down the line and I must confess that I’m leaning so far out of the window of the Vince Train that there’s a good chance the next tunnel will take my head clean off. Could his performance last night coax me back safely into the carriage? To put it bluntly, no.
Here’s the thing: I actually quite liked the content of what Cable was saying last night. He played it very cautiously on the GDP figures, made it very clear that he wasn’t going to lend a hand to some of the Blue Teams pottier ideas (like IDS’s new stance on breeding) and was generally pretty reasonable about the Savile scandal. Instead, the problem for me was that he looked absolutely knackered, spent to the point that he simply couldn’t bring himself to flash me that look. Well, dammit Vince, I need that took! So what if you never back it up by actually pulling a rabbit out of the hat, at least the look seriously implies that you might be thinking about it. Last night, that look was nowhere to be seen. Should this situation persist, consider me off at the next stop.
There’s a wonderful mismatched buddy movie just waiting to be made starring Emily Thornberry and Claire Perry…
I think it’s fair to say that Emily Thornberry and Claire Perry aren’t exactly bessies, what with all the blow trading and eye-daggers we witnessed last night. For Perry’s part, I suspect that Thornberry’s rather measured and deliberate responses jangle her How Dare You Patronise Me nerve whilst Perry’s very assertive presentation scratches some very long fingernails across Thornberry’s Why You Jumped Up Little blackboard. Anyway, Perry generally had the better of it and emerged the less bruised of the pair but there was a brief and telling moment that stopped me dead in my tracks. During the Jimmy Savile question Thornberry said, very sincerely in fact, that she agreed with Perry and Perry responded with a genuinely heartfelt sounding “Thank you”. Well that was it Lemmings, after that my mind was set adrift on what could be the UK legislature’s answer to Point Break: Claire Perry as Keanu’s fresh-out-the-academy hotshot, Emily Thornberry as Busey’s seen-it-all-before jaded veteran, a pair who will never see eye-to-eye but find themselves thrown together by fate and the quest for justice. The only unresolved matter is who would take the part of Swayze’s ‘you can’t cage me bro!’ adrenaline junkie. Jacob “I’ve never sworn in my adult life” Rees-Mogg could be quite fun but I’m open to suggestions.
Paul Nuttall actually makes UKIP a little scary…
I’ve got all the time in the world for UKIP in the same way I’ve got all the time in the world for Made In Chelsea: If taken in isolation, they’re both a toxic mess of things I’m no great fan of but this is balanced out by their inherent absurdity, a factor that renders them ultimately harmless yet mildly entertaining. Well, this was the case until Paul Nuttall somehow managed to become the only other UKIP member allowed off the compound unsupervised… Now I’m just plain scared. You see, I can happily dismiss UKIP as a slightly dotty group of people with too much time on their hands when they’re fronted by the likes of Farage, but Nuttall? No, he has an edge and a hard one at that, what with all the talk of punishing people in death and “lunatics” having the vote. What’s worse is that he comes across as a guy who might actually hang out with some vaguely ordinary people. It’s at this point that UKIP stop resembling a harebrained cult that recruits exclusively at village fêtes and starts to become something a lot more worrying. Still, you know what makes Paul Nuttall slightly less worrying though? A nice .gif of him with Gareth Keenans hair (See. Fig. 1).
I was going to tell Mehdi Hassan off for not smiling enough…
I spend a lot of time looking at QT panelists on Google Images, mainly because I need to photoshop them into ridiculous scenarios but also because it’s good to have a hobby. Anyway, the reason I’m telling you this is that I’ve had to do quite a lot of staring at photos of Medhi Hassan and one thing that’s struck me is that you rarely see him smiling and that this is a shame because it makes him come across as A Very Serious Man. Now, I like Hassan, I think he’s generally on the money but the Very Serious Man thing can get a bit much and I thought a gentle chiding was in order to get him to lighten up a little. As it happens, I need not have bothered as the first thing out of his was mouth a joke and not a bad one at that (he said the government’s Plan B was “Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis”). So what did this get him? A slight titter and nothing more. Gah! What more do you people want?! Unperturbed by this lack of audience reciprocation, he had another go during the question on IDS’s new wheeze and once more, it was a serviceable little number (“Tough on babies, tough on the causes of babies”) but yet again, nothing. So fair play to you Mehdi, you tried but maybe you were just born to be A Very Serious Man… Them’s the breaks kid…
Cable: 5/10
Thornberry: 4/10
Acquired (a role in a fictional movie)
Nuttall: 4/10
Conspired
Hassan: 6/10
Retired (any hopes of being a stand-up comedian)
(Were suitably) Attired?
As those numbers imply, I can’t really chalk this up as triumph of of an episode, yet can I write it off as a total defeat. So quite a lot like Slough then…
Next week Lemmings, next week…
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Mushishi Zoku Shou – 11
Posted by Passerby on October 19, 2014 October 19, 2014 First Impressions / Mushishi
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「草の茵」 (Kusa no Shitone)
“Pillow of Grass”
It’s a minor source of curiosity for me that while Mushishi uses an English opening song, it’s so intrinsically Japanese. Its setting is a distinctive feudal Japan, and its mythology obviously inspired by Shinto. It’s of a time before humans had tamed the wilds and mastered its secrets, when nature was still profound but at the same time dangerous, inspiring both wonder and suspicion. Riding above all that is an abiding sense of ephemerality—something much more commonly found in works from the East compared to the West—because ultimately Mushishi is about life, and with it life’s shadow, death. That’s heavy stuff, but never too dark, because while death is a poignant subject Mushishi always manages to find more value in living. This new episode of Zoku Shou is no different.
Road of Thorns was perhaps even heavier than usual for Mushishi, so our second half of Zoku Shou pulls back from that to tell a story from the childhood of our protagonist, Ginko (voiced, when as his younger incarnation, by Sawashiro Miyuki). For those of you new to Mushishi this is not the place to start; you will appreciate this series a lot more by starting from the very first season. If you did, then you’d appreciate that this restart of Mushishi Zoku Shou still preserves all the good things you’ve come to expect of it and delivers an episode no less significant than its predecessors. Like them, Pillow of Grass is a self-contained narrative, but at the same time builds the overarching mythology of Mushishi‘s world. Not only do we learn more about the mechanics of the mountain lords and the Veins of Light, but also about the enigmatic mushi-shi as well. Zoku Shou had introduced mushi-shi of all stripes to us, and this episode revealed that some, just like normal people, are just simple scum, trying to use Ginko to establish an easy business model (and, as is common in the Mushishi world, their toying with the mushi backfires). It’s a good thing we have Suguro (Nakao Ryuusei) to serve as a proper father figure for the young Ginko. Kind, yet firm, Suguro teaches Ginko a life lesson. About life.
Ginko’s conflict this episode lies in his juxtaposition with the egg of the mountain lord. Ginko considers it ‘the chosen one’, while he considers himself the unwanted one. It’s an existential crisis, especially when he breaks the egg, with Ginko seriously questioning why he deserves to live. The lesson is one that is a central theme of Mushishi: all creatures strive for life, and thus all life is sacred. Ginko instinctively understands the will to live; the hungry Ginko saw food and did not hesitate to eat. Even the parasite in his eye is just struggling for survival. To think that only those that are ‘accepted’ deserve to live is human hubris. ‘There is no place in this world where we do not belong’. In pre-Industrial Japan, Suguro can confidently say that humans are just a part of nature. It’s a compliment; just look at what it is that we belong to. This is one of those episodes of Mushishi that really emphasises the beauty and majesty of nature, with many deliberate shots of flowers and landscapes (and both). The world of Mushishi is still an expansive frontier, and it, unlike us, accepts all life. Where you lay your head is home. Hence, Pillow of Grass.
One eye to the future
Mushishi is one of those series where I don’t really feel compelled to make predictions on its direction. It has always gone on consistently, one step at a time, content with its own pace. And I am content to just follow it as it goes. More than its plot, Mushishi has always invited its viewers to just soak in its world, its mythology, and its philosophy—in a natural manner, one might say. There is a journey here, made more apparent in Zoku Shou, but the emphasis is on taking in the sights as you go. Of course, I’d love to know more about the Forbidden Mushi, or revisit some of our old friends to see how they’re going. Such is my faith in Mushishi and the quality of its composition, though, that I’m happy just letting it reveal itself to us. I think that’s one of the highest compliments you can give any performance.
Best anime of the year 2014.
And best part, it didn’t take millions (yen) to make, in fact theres minimum amount of detailed movement at all.
Dwarg
Even better, there’s no fanservice.
There is fanservice in the form of making you calm,concentrated and not overexciting your brain with flashing and constantly changeing images. Even if there was nudity in Mushishi it would be handeled in an adult way.
Great back story episode!
On the other hand, I was not able to get over the fact that young Ginko was voiced by Space Bros Serika-chan for the entirety of the episode. I guess it’s one if those things that you can’t stop noticing it one you realize it’s there.
Or every other role Sawashiro Miyuki does
Great episode to start the second half of Zoku Shou. The feels were heavy with this episode. I was really shocked when I saw Ginko dropped the egg and disrupted the natural order, sad that Suguro couldn’t forgive him but quite happy that he still led Ginko to believe that even someone unique as him has a place he belongs to…which is why the mountain lord also led him back out.
I was waiting for an episode like this ever since I finished the Nui arc of the first series. There was always this hole after that arc of how Ginko dealt with what happened to him as a child and how he came to accept things and move on. This episode filled that hole perfectly and gave us a lot of development on Ginko. It also reminded me of the episode with the woman and the rain-forming mushi and how both learned to live together just like Ginko learned to live together with that mushi in his eye.
Solid fantastic episode!
Also there was tons of scenery porn.
kondee
I considered Suguro a ‘strict dad’ sort of character. All actions have consequences, and if you’re of a philosophy that values all life then you have to take some actions and consequences more seriously than most.
I thought there would be no coverage of Mushishi Zoku Shou this season due to the absent of Enzo… or is that just for the first ep of the 2nd season or will you cover it from now on Passery?
Zxafool
I’m already covering two other series this season, so I’m not going to fully commit to Mushishi just yet. I will be covering the first few episodes to see how it fits into my schedule. I do love Mushishi, though, so chances are good I won’t be able to resist picking it up full time.
Nonpareil.
Best premiere of the season. It’s very much a beautiful surprise to have been granted the chance to explore Ginko’s past, as another past story of ginko in the first season is one of the series’ most superb narrative outings. Ginko’s conflict was established really well and looking at the guy he’s manifested into in the present timeline of mushishi, it only felt natural for him to feel doubt and dilemma over his existence initially. Suguro is probably one of the most subtle and useful guest characters in Mushishi and he had some of the most quotable lines in the series. Overall i could’t have been satisfied more with this premiere. For me the Fall Season hasn’t kickstarted until now.
KingofConquerors
I envy mushishi because I don’t like urbanism
mikazuki loser
It’s episode 13. 11 and 12 were the special; Odoro no Michi.
@LW and @mac65
I referenced several sources before settling on numbering this episode as 11. From what I understand, Road of Thorns is being treated as specials and have been removed from the numbering.
We finally get some excellent, solid background on Ginko and how he got to be Ginko.
I thought it was telling that not every sorrow is forgiveable; a choice was made and
something important was lost. Ginko was not forgiven. Somehow we’ve arrived at a
cultural point where harm done is always expected to be forgiven, and that makes it
okay. Suguro is not the bad guy here.
@Passerby The episode numbering is going to confuse some people (it did me);
should be 13 IMHO. Thank you for covering.
Really wanted to see pre-albino Ginko. Oh well.
Also interesting how anyone can drop something so ergonomic when he’s holding it with both of his palms and that close to his body. You would think the natural instinct would be to hold it even closer to one’s chest when there’s an external threat.
Petit Orenji
Watch episode 12 of season 1 if you wanna see pre-albino Ginko.
LaughingMan
Mushishi is arguably the greatest series adapted from a manga. This series is truly one in a million. I absolutely love this series.
Why was is so difficult to forgive Ginko for dropping the egg? It’s not like it’d take dozens of years for the new lord of the mountain to appear.
It was really really sad when Ginko cried. It’s like he cried for all his lonely years of wandering. It’s only anime but it still makes me wonder how is he able to stay alone for his whole life? And basically, he doesn’t have a future either. I guess the feeling of hopelessness went through the whole episode.
We don’t know for how many years there won’t be Lord of the Mountain and yes it can be dozens or more, you have to understand that the mountains will be dead, and people will have to leave their villages and move somewhere else, because of Ginko.
And actually I feel this was episode filled with hope. The Mountain Lord is gone but The Life itself has given a promise it will be back. Ginko can’t stay anywhere for long and put down the roots but Suguro’s words has given him new way for living, when he can say he’s citizen of the world and he connects with every other human being because wherever we are, we live under the same sky and you can find everywhere grass, which can be your pillow.
gilraen_tinuviel
Aside from the obvious ramifications, Suguro did tell Ginko to stay put. That would make him pissed off.
But, hey, Ginko’s doing much good for other people now. You can say that his “mistake” is part of Life’s bigger plans.
“Where you lay your head is home. Hence, Pillow of Grass. ”
ohh Thank you , I didn’t know the meaning of the title
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INCOMING! Military Cartoon Feb. 7, 2014
February 7th, 2014 July 9th, 2014
The mission of INCOMING!, by John Sheppard, is to spotlight our military and honor currently serving troops and veterans of all services. Without these men and women our way of life would be much different.
There is no continuing plot or story line here. It is a series of single panel cartoons, sometimes depicting serving troops, sometimes their families and other time former service members.
Fun is poked at all the branches with no harm intended. Combat troops as well as rear echelon types (REMFs) are highlighted and share the spotlight as well.
See more INCOMING! Military Cartoons at http://incomingcartoons.com/
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UBA and Orange Group Partner On Innovative Payment System, Orange Money
Pan-African financial services group, United Bank for Africa Plc (“UBA”) and leading European and African telecom operator, Orange have announced a strategic partnership to deliver innovative financial services across Africa, with an agreement to jointly collaborate on the promotion of Orange Money.
Both UBA and Orange have a history of financial services innovation and their joint commitment to Africa makes them natural partners. Orange Money enables customers to transfer money from their mobile phone to other account holders domestically and abroad; as well as providing bill payment and other customer focused solutions. UBA is a leader in electronic banking, for both individual and corporate customers, and with presence in 19 African countries and over 14million customers in Africa, has one of the largest pan-African banking networks.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today in Paris by Tony Elumelu, Chairman UBA Group, Emeke Iweriebor, CEO UBA Africa and Marc Rennard, Chairman and CEO, Orange Middle East and Africa, committing both institutions to collaborate on the delivery of innovative and convenient payment options to customers and implement a range of mobile financial services in African countries, where UBA and Orange Money platforms operate.
Both Groups recognise the extraordinary revolution occurring in the digital banking space and are committed to providing customers with service excellence, built around efficient and trustworthy platforms.
“We are delighted to see the fruition of this partnership, which is capable of revolutionising mobile money payments across the continent and is very clear evidence of UBA’s commitment to Africa’s development and delivering financial inclusion to Africans” Tony Elumelu commented.
“UBA, with its extensive network on the continent and large customer base is the banking group of choice for us in this project and we are delighted with this partnership” Marc Rennard stated.
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GAIM 4 DRAWS: 13 New Millionaires Emerge In Fidelity Bank’s Savings Promo, Begin 2020 On A Happy Note
Gbemileke Ajayi
Thirteen lucky customers of Fidelity Bank Plc have started the new year on a strong note having emerged millionaires in the third monthly draw of the Get Alert in Millions (GAIM) promo season 4 in Lagos on Tuesday. The bank also rewarded loyal customers with cash prizes worth N16 million in the categories of N2 million and N1 million respectively.
The electronic raffle draw, which was held at the bank’s Broad Street Branch, Lagos Island was witnessed by the relevant regulatory bodies including the National Lottery Regulatory Commission (NLRC), Lagos State Lotteries Board (LSLB) and Consumer Protection Council (CPC). Lucky customers who emerged winners in the draw cut across all regions of the country.
The winners include Dare Abiodun Emmanuel; Ugwu Philomena Nneka; Chinenye Catherine Olunna; Egberi Agbarha Kelvin; Ivang Stanley Oham; Chinelo Loveth Egbuchunem; Dare Abiodun Emmanuel; Itabiyi Gbolahan Olakunle Hassan & Adejoke Jokotade; Larei Chindo; Chigozie Darlington Emoka; Khadijah Umar; Muazzam Ad Maizare; Isabella Chekwube Uche; Omolade Bamitale Olatawura.
Others are Joseph James Abah; Oghenetega Emmanuel Erus; Blessing Chidinma Okafor; Loveline Uche Okonkwo; Nafisat Ali Lawal; Comfort Ita Asuquo; Mohammed Halima Sadiya, amongst others. The bank doled out 19 consolation prizes in form of fridges, television sets and power generating sets.
Speaking during the event, Managing Director/CEO, Nnamdi Okonkwo, noted it is the bank’s 9th promo in 12 years whilst adding that a total of N16 million and 19 consolation prizes will be given out at the third draw. Okonkwo who was represented by the Executive Director, Shared Services and Products, Chijioke Ugochukwu, further added that the draw will see a total of N50 million in cash and 54 consolation prizes to over 93 winners.
“We would have given out a total of N50 million in cash and 54 consolation prizes to over 93 winners. We expect more winners to emerge at subsequent draws because the promo is still on and in addition to the N50 million that we will be giving out, we still have N70 million and several consolation prizes yet to be won”, he said.
Shedding light on how people can qualify for the draw, Head, Savings Group, Fidelity Bank Plc, Janet Nnabuko, stated that both existing and new customers can win by simply topping their account with N10,000 for existing customers or someone opening a new account and building it up to N20,000.
She further disclosed that to qualify for the star prize of N3 million one needs to build his account to N50,000 while aspiring for the grand prize of N10 million, one only has to grow his account to N200,000.
Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged commercial bank operating in Nigeria with over 5 million customers that are serviced across its 250 business offices and various digital banking channels. The bank focuses on select niche corporate banking sectors as well as Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and its currently driving its retail banking businesses through its robust digital banking channels.
Access Bank Breaks Into Cameroonian Market
Ayobami Ladipo
Nigerian banking group Access Bank just created a subsidiary in Cameroon. With an initial capital of about XAF14.5 billion, the new subsidiary’s headquarters will be in Douala, Cameroon’s economic capital.
The administrative board of this subsidiary is constituted of seven members with only one Cameroonian, the legal notice published for the creation indicates. These members are Patience Melone, Iyabode Soji-Okusanya, Fatai Oladipo, Abraham Aziegbe, Ibukunoluwa Odegbaike, and Elliz Nzo Azu.
Created for a duration of 99 years, the bank has chosen Price Water House Coopers as its external auditor and will operate in the management of current accounts, savings collection, checks payment and credit granting.
As required by the rules in force, the launch of Access Bank Cameroon’s activities in Cameroon is still subject to the issuance, by the Ministry of Finance and the banking commission COBAC, of various legal notices and authorizations to the bank’s shareholders.
If it succeeds in launching its subsidiary in Cameroon, Access Bank Plc will become the 16th commercial bank to operate in the country and will meet one of its compatriots, United Bank of Africa (UBA), on that market. Let’s note that it is entering the Cameroonian market some years after the departure of another Nigerian group, Oceanic Bank International namely.
Some years ago, Oceanic Bank International took over 54.5% of Union Bank of Cameroon’s (UBC) assets saving it from bankruptcy. However, in 2011, Ecobank had to buy Oceanic Bank International’s assets in UBC, which is a well-rooted bank in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon.
Let’s note that last January 15, 2019, Access Bank Plc’s executive director Victor Etokwu announced that apart from the Cameroonian subsidiary, the banking group would create subsidiaries in two other African countries this year. The banking group will then have 18 subsidiaries in Africa.
UBA Recruits 4000 New Staff, Promotes Over 5,000 Staff Members; Increases Salaries Up To 170%
Over 5,000 staff of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, started the new year with a lot of cheer as the bank yesterday announced its promotion to new grades as well as salary upgrades with immediate effect this January.
Those who are beneficiaries of this exercise will receive up to 170% increase in their salaries and benefits, whilst a good number have been moved to higher grade levels.
In a carefully planned restructuring embarked upon by the bank in the last quarter of 2019, UBA has transformed its grading system and processes to become one of the most competitive within the industry. The bank crashed its grade levels to 12 levels from entry-level to the top of the pyramid where previously it had been 16 levels. This means that staff will now find it much easier to attain top leadership management positions at UBA as their careers progress much faster.
In a massive recruitment drive, over 4000 new staff members resumed in the last week of December 2019 in Nigeria alone at the bank. UBA currently stands as the highest employer of labour amongst Nigerian banks with a staff strength of close to 20,000.
UBA’s Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Kennedy Uzoka, who announced the bank’s new staff improvement initiatives to the excited employees, noted that UBA is continually seeking new ways to improve the fortunes of its staff as they are the backbone of the organization.
Uzoka who spoke to the staff in a bank-wide live broadcast said, “As a leading financial institution, we do not take issues relating to our staff lightly. We take great pride in being a listening bank that has the ears of our employees as they turn the wheels which makes the organization successful for our customers and shareholders. UBA recruits highly talented staff who perform at the best standards and deserve to be remunerated accordingly’
Continuing, Uzoka said ‘ we have also taken steps to ensure that our bank remains at the top tier as it relates to a talent pool. We want to train the best and we have crashed the grade structure to make it easier and faster for our employees to progress along with their careers. With this new grade structure, it will be possible for a new graduate employed at UBA to rapidly chart their own careers and become GMD by the age of 36.”
UBA is one of Africa’s leading banks with operations in 20 African countries. The bank also has a presence in the global financial centers of London, New York, and Paris. UBA provides banking services to more than 17 million customers globally, through diverse channels.
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Biden and Buttigieg Exemplify How Corporatism and ‘the Madness of Militarism’ Go Together
Political positions on class warfare don't always run parallel to positions on military warfare. But they have now clearly aligned in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
January 7, 2020 Norman Solomon Common Dreams
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There's nothing like an illegal and utterly reckless U.S. act of war to illuminate the political character of presidential candidates. In the days since the assassination of Iran’s top military official, two of the highest-polling Democratic contenders have displayed the kind of moral cowardice that got the United States into—and kept it in —horrific wars from Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Eager to hedge their bets, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg have offered merely tactical critiques of President Trump’s decision to kill Qassim Suleimani. In sharp contrast to Elizabeth Warren and especially Bernie Sanders, the gist of the responses from Biden and Buttigieg amounted to criticizing the absence of a game plan for an atrocious game that should never be played in the first place.
Many journalists have noted that only in recent days has foreign policy become prominent in the race for the 2020 nomination. But what remains to be addressed is the confluence of how Biden and Buttigieg approach the roles of the U.S. government in class war at home and military war abroad—both for the benefit of corporate elites.
"In sharp contrast to Elizabeth Warren and especially Bernie Sanders, the gist of the responses from Biden and Buttigieg amounted to criticizing the absence of a game plan for an atrocious game that should never be played in the first place."
Let’s be clear: More than 50 years ago, when Martin Luther King Jr. bravely condemned “the madness of militarism,” he was directly challenging those who included the political ancestors of the likes of Buttigieg and Biden—Democratic politicians willing to wink and nod at vast death and destruction, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, equivocating while claiming that the war machinery would operate better in their hands.
On war-related issues, Buttigieg’s rhetorical mix offers something for just about anyone. “Mr. Buttigieg is campaigning as an antiwar veteran,” the New York Times oddly reported in a Jan. 5 news article. Yet on the same day, during a CNN interview about the drone killing, Buttigieg functioned more as a war enabler than opponent.
In response to anchor Jake Tapper’s first question—“Are you saying that President Trump deserves some credit for the strike?”—Buttigieg equivocated: “No, not until we know whether this was a good decision and how this decision was made, and the president has failed to demonstrate that.” His elaborations were littered with statements like “we need answers on whether this is part of a meaningful strategy.”
As for Biden, in recent months his shameful war-enabling history has drawn more attention while he continues to lie about it. And—given how hugely profitable endless wars have been for military contractors—Biden’s chronic enabling should be put in a wider context of his longtime service to corporate profiteering on a massive scale.
Biden has no interest in discussing his actual five-decade history of serving corporate power, which can only discredit the renewed “Lunch Bucket Joe” pretenses of his campaign. Meanwhile, as Buttigieg gained in the polls amid a widening flood of donations from Wall Street and other bastions of wealth, he moved away from initial claims of supporting such progressive measures as Medicare for All.
The military-industrial complex, inherently corporate, needs politicians like Biden and Buttigieg. One generation after another, they claim special geopolitical (Biden) or technocratic (Buttigieg) expertise while striving to project warm personas in front of cameras. The equivalents, one might say, of happy-face stickers on corpses.
Such dedicated political services to militarism are also political services to the corporate power of oligarchy.
Political positions on class warfare don’t always run parallel to positions on military warfare. But they have now clearly aligned in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Days ago, Bernie Sanders summed up: “I know that it is rarely the children of the billionaire class who face the agony of reckless foreign policy, it is the children of working families.”
One of the many reasons I’m actively supporting Sanders for president is that (although hardly flawless) his track record on military spending, war and foreign policy is much better than the records of his opponents.
Devastating impacts of nonstop war are all around us in the United States, from deadly federal budget priorities to traumatic effects of normalized violence. And it’s difficult to grasp the magnitude of harm to so many millions of human beings in other countries. Sometimes, while trying to clear away the fog of the USA’s political and media abstractions, I think of people I met in Baghdad and Kabul and Tehran, their lives no less precious than yours or mine
Norman Solomon is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His books include "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State." He is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
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2014 Women’s NIT Basketball Tournament Pairings, Results: March 23
By Matthew Postins March 23, 2014 2014 Women's NIT pairings 2014 Women's NIT results American Arkansas State Red Wolves Auburn Tigers Ball State Cardinals Belmont Bruins Bowling Green Falcons Butler Bulldogs Cal Poly Mustangs Cal State Bakersfield Central Michigan Chippewas Charlotte 49ers Colorado Colorado State Rams Creighton Blue Jays Delaware Blue Hens Duquesne East Carolina Pirates Furman Paladins George Washington Harvard Crimson hawaii warriors High Point Panthers Indiana Hoosiers Indiana State Sycamores Iona Gaels IUPUI Lamar Cardinals Marquette Miami Hurricanes Michigan Wolverines Minnesota Golden Gophers Mississippi State Bulldogs Missouri Tigers Montana Grizzlies Mount St. Mary's Navy Midshipmen North Carolina A&T Northwestern Wildcats Old Dominion Monarchs Oregon Diucks Pacific Boxers Princeton Tigers Quinnipiac Bobcats Rutgers Scarlet Knights Saint Mary's San Diego Toreros Seton Hall Pirates SMU Mustangs South Dakota State Jackrabbits South Florida Bulls Southern Miss Golden Eagles Southern Utah Thunderbirds St. Bonaventure Stetson Hatters Stony Brook Sea Wolves TCU Horned Frogs Texas Southern Tulane Green Wave UTEP Miners VCU Villanova Wildcats Washington Huskies Washington State Cougars Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix Women's NIT Tournament
John Fineran has compiled this update of the NIT Women’s Basketball Tournament pairings, which continues Sunday. Results are through March 22. All times are Eastern
WOMEN’S NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT
George Washington 86, East Carolina 68
Villanova 74, Quinnipiac 66
Minnesota 62, Green Bay 60
Montana 90, Washington State 78
Colorado 78, Texas Christian 71
Indiana 48, Belmont 47
IUPUI 72, Central Michigan 66
Bowling Green 72, High Point 62
Harvard 90, Iona 89
Rutgers 65, Delaware 61
Princeton 94, Virginia Commonwealth 76
Seton Hall 63, American 60
Auburn 78, Furman 64
Old Dominion 68, Navy 60
Stetson 70, Miami, Fla. 63
Marquette 63, Indiana State 61
Northwestern 69, Ball State 65
Southern Methodist 84, Texas Southern 72
South Dakota State 78, Butler 61
Creighton 77, Missouri 51
Mississippi State 77, Tulane 68
Southern Mississippi 75, Lamar 60
San Diego 82, Cal Poly 59
Southern Utah 71, Colorado State 56
Oregon 90, Pacific 63
Michigan 86, Stony Brook 48
Duquesne 62, Mount St. Mary’s 52
St. Bonaventure 81, Charlotte 62
South Florida 56, North Carolina A&T 50
Saint Mary’s, Calif. 75, Cal State Bakersfield 68
UTEP 74, Arkansas State 64
Washington 67, Hawaii 50
Indiana 72, Marquette 69
Colorado 79, Southern Utah 68
George Washington (22-10) at Villanova (23-8), 1 p.m.
Stetson (27-7) at South Florida (20-12), 2 p.m.
Creighton (20-13) at South Dakota State (23-9), 3 p.m.
IUPUI (23-9) at Northwestern (16-15), 3 p.m.
Princeton (21-8) vs. Seton Hall (19-13), 5 p.m.
Southern Methodist (18-13) at Minnesota (21-12), 6 p.m.
Duquesne (20-12) at Michigan (19-13), 7 p.m.
St. Bonaventure (24-10) at Bowling Green (28-4), 7 p.m.
Harvard (22-7) at Rutgers (23-9), 7 p.m.
Old Dominion (18-15) at Auburn (18-14), 7 p.m.
Southern Mississippi (27-6) at Mississippi State (20-13), 8 p.m.
San Diego (23-8) at Montana (23-10), 9 p.m.
Saint Mary’s, Calif. (23-9) at UTEP (25-7), 9 p.m.
Washington (18-13) at Oregon (16-15), 9 p.m.
THIRD ROUND
Day, site and time TBD; Games to be played Wednesday, March 26 to Friday, March 28
Advancing: Indiana (20-12), Colorado (19-14)
Day, site and time TBD; Games to be played Saturday, March 29 to Monday, March 31
Day, site and time TBD; Games to be played Wednesday, April 2 or Thursday, April 3
Semifinal winners, 3 p.m. (CBS Sports Network)
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A story in every face
By Amanda Arnold August 2015 issue
Portrait photographer Randy Bacon launched his 7 Billion Ones website in April. But the idea to create the website, which features the portraits and stories of everyday people facing adversity, has been brewing for a long time.
“For years and years my whole approach with photography has been trying to show the unique qualities of people and through their portraits to connect with the idea that we are each one of a kind and we each matter and that we have these stories that not only affect our personal lives but the lives of others,” Bacon says. “A year or two ago, I felt like I needed to ramp up this idea, to follow the passion and artistic drive within me to reach a wider audience with this message.” So he got to work on a business plan, brainstormed a name, and launched a website and social media strategy.
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The commonality among 7 Billion Ones subjects? “They’ve risen above a challenge and thus are living inspirations of the strength of hope,” says Bacon, who’s made portraits of a teenage couple on the verge of having a baby, a mother caring for a child with cancer, and a person with AIDS, among others. For some subjects, he plans to capture multiple portraits over time to chronicle their journeys.
Bacon, who now works with a small team that helps with administrative and business tasks, refers to the endeavor not as a project or even a website. He sees it as a movement. “I have done numerous projects over my career. This is something that goes beyond the normal project,” he says. “We want to empower people, and with that empowerment lives will be moved.”
The team’s aim is to post two to three portraits with accompanying stories to the website each week. But the mission doesn’t stop there. Bacon has launched a Billionaires Club, a group of volunteers willing to donate money, time, and skills to the endeavor. And his business plan calls for additional work. Next, he’ll reach out to humanitarian groups to see how 7 Billion Ones can bring awareness to their causes via its website and its donated photography skills. He’d also like to organize humanitarian trips for people interested in lending a helping hand. In the final phase, he plans to orchestrate local 7 Billion Ones events for volunteers and participants.
“I genuinely love people. That is why I do what I do,” Bacon says. “My mantra is, There are 7 billion people in the world, and each and every one of them is a unique work of art.”
Amanda Arnold is the associate editor of Professional Photographer.
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Pilates and String Musicians: An Exploration of the Issues Addressed by the Pilates Method, an Illustrated Guide to Adapted Exercises, and a Pilates Course for University String Players
String players have been identified as the most affected group of instrumentalists suffering from musculoskeletal disorders, and most of the problems are related to posture. The high prevalence of injuries among string players suggests that there is room in the music curriculum for a program tailored to this population and that can provide both immediate and long-term solutions. Pilates is a mind-body conditioning method of exercises and a philosophy that shares many similarities with string playing technique and performance, which suggests that its practice can be beneficial to improve not only the posture of string players but also various other …
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DIOPHANTUS ARITHMETICA PDF
Arithmetica: Diophantus: of Diophantus reposes, is his Arithmetica. Its historical importance is twofold: it is the first known work to employ algebra in a modern. Diophantus’ Arithmetica consists of 13 books written in Greek in ~ CE (the dates vary by ~ years from 70AD to ~AD). The original. The Story of Mathematics – Hellenistic Mathematics – Diophantus. and wrote an influential series of books called the “Arithmetica”, a collection of algebraic.
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Hermann Hankelrenowned German mathematician made the following remark regarding Diophantus. In book 4, he finds rational powers between given numbers.
Diophantus wrote several other books besides Arithmeticabut very few of them have survived. The original Greek text is lost to us. One of the problems sometimes called his epitaph states:. Certainly, all of them wrote in Greek and were part of the Greek intellectual community of Alexandria. On Diophantus and Hero of Alexandria, in: Even though the text is otherwise inferior to the edition, Fermat’s annotations—including the “Last Theorem”—were printed in this version.
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He also considered simultaneous quadratic equations. For example, he would explore problems such as: If he did know this result in the sense of having proved it as opposed to merely conjectured ithis doing so would be truly remarkable: The portion of the Greek Arithmetica that survived, however, was, like all ancient Greek texts transmitted to the early modern world, copied by, and thus known to, medieval Byzantine scholars.
Diophantus was the first Greek mathematician who recognized fractions as numbers; thus he allowed positive rational numbers for the coefficients and solutions. Views Read Edit View history. In any case, it is unreasonable to portray them with purely European features when no physical descriptions exist. It is, of course, impossible to answer this question definitively.
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Mathematical historian Kurt Vogel states: Diophantus was satisfied with a rational solution of his equations and did not require a whole number. Sign up using Facebook. Diophantus of Alexandria Ancient Greek: Britannica does not currently have an article on this topic.
Didier, arith,etica comment could be an answer. This book features a host of problems, the most significant of which have come to be called Diophantine equations.
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Bhargav 1, 4 16 Arithmetica work by Diophantus. Historia Matematica, New York,Vol. The method for solving these equations is known as Diophantine analysis. Mihai 1 5.
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Arithmetica became known to mathematicians in the Islamic world in the tenth century [5] when Abu’l-Wefa translated it into Arabic. Yes, the cost is high, but the profit margin is undoubtedly afithmetica less than on a routine calculus book. Although the original copy in which Fermat wrote this is lost today, Fermat’s son edited the next edition of Diophantus, published in The modern view of the Arithmetica is therefore that we have available 10 of the 13 original books: This article needs additional citations for verification.
Algebra still had a long way to go aritjmetica very general problems could be written down and solved succinctly. Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos — had written “Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your other theorems and particularly of the present theorem” next to the same problem.
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