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Page 21, 24 December 1831 — Beauties of Neukomm, No. I. By J. MOSCHELES.
24 DECEMBER 1831, Page 21
Beauties of Neukomm, No. I. By J. MOSCHELES.
We have before noticed Mr. MOSCHELES'S propensity to convert any popular air into a fantasia for the pianoforte. It is an employment wholly beneath his talents, and ought to be turned over to the nameless drudges who do this sort of work for the music-shops. In the piece before us, he has fastened upon the "Midnight Review of Napoleon" and" The Sea," and, by the help of a little garnish, has endeavoured to make them, in their present form, a palatable dish. The concluding movement is, of course, animated and pleasing, but the former conveys not the slightest idea of the " Review."
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ADAC: Istria is a favourite destination for Germans
For the eighth consecutive year, Istria has been the most famous regional destination for German drivers. This is the result of a survey carried out by the famous German Automobile Club ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club), which was published at the beginning of the year and which states that the popularity of Istria is increasing each year.
German campers have shown the greatest interest for Istria, with a share of as much as 13% out of a sample of 1.3 million enquiries from among users of the ADAC's Travel Planner. The runner-up is the Italian Lago di Garda with 5.2% share, and the third place is occupied by Dalmatia with a 5% share, followed by neighbouring Italian regions, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, with a 3.9% share.
In the category of countries, Croatia as a car destination is ranked third with a 7.6 % share, behind the most desirable, Germany with a 27.6 % share and Italy with 18.1 %, ahead of Austria which has a 6.8 % share and Turkey with 6.2%. Besides that, Croatia took a high third place in the rankings of favourite destinations for German campers, after Italy and Germany, and ahead of France and Spain.
According to the afore-mentioned research, the camping segment was extremely popular during 2017, and this trend is expected to continue in 2018 too. The ADAC has estimated about 170,000 tourist itineraries made by ADAC experts for its members, the so-called Routenplanners (travel planners). The itineraries were then tested to find out the number of users and to get valuable information on the subject of travelling by car and the preferences of tourist destinations.
The very flattering results of the ADAC research has contributed greatly to the marketing distribution and better perception of Istria as a destination in Germany - the most important target market for Istrian tourism. Moreover, diversification compared to other tourist regions contributes to the strengthening of the Istrian brand and its media presence in the German and Western European areas. The results of ADAC's research were published in the ADAC Motorwellt magazine, which is published in more than 13 million copies and is also on their website www.adac.de which is generally in favour of the higher-ranked regions, and therefore of Istria as well.
The positive results of the survey have also been commented by the Director of the Istria Tourist Board, Denis Ivošević: “When you have been proclaimed as the most desirable regional car destination eight times in a row, and when the Germans proclaim you a winner eight times in a row, who are our most significant and most numerous guests, then we can confidently say that 2018 has started in the best possible way. The publication itself, at the beginning of the tourist year, gives a big wind back to all promotional activities in Germany, especially when we are aware that demand for so-called caravaning has never been higher. This situation should definitely be used and emphasised in our performances, and the value of the publication is invaluable as far as reputation is concerned, as money really can’t buy anything like this."
» ADAC's press information: Istria is becoming ever more popular with campers
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Student Life Website Exclusives
Spotlight: The Pagan Club
October 17, 2018 October 12, 2018 48.03, webexclusive
Image Source: John Abbott College Student Activities Facebook Page
Anthony Issa
Website Extended Version
The Pagan Club is a relatively small group at school that has been around for quite a long time. For that reason, I decided to interview some of the club members and give a brief look into the community for those who may be interested in joining or getting to know about Paganism. Special thanks to President Brittany and Vice President Derya among other club members for letting this opportunity happen.
What is the Pagan club?
“Paganism is more of a lifestyle than it is a religion” stated the president of the club when I asked her the question. In Paganism, religion is used more as a blanket term due to its following and influence by Christianity which was explained by a club member: “Paganism is originally a mish mash of religions or communities that European Christians during the Middle-Ages did not approve of.”
From belief in stones, wicca and everything in between that encapsulates these similar views, Paganism is a very open community. There are multiple gods, there isn’t an organized sect nor is there a real leader. At its core, it is a community religion were participation is key. Learning about different pagan beliefs is encouraged and, if someone is interested in something, the club will try to research and practice it as well. Since there is so many beliefs, it is impossible to be close minded as there is so much to learn and to experience. “The Biggest rule in paganism is do what you will but cause no harm” affirmed Vice President Derya.
The current club is somewhat of a reboot. Originally, there used to be an older club with its own individual room for meetings and meditation. In fact, it was one of the oldest clubs at Abbott. However, due to bad leadership among other notable issues, such as tension between other clubs and general misunderstandings, it ended up falling apart. A semester after its end, another student, and now former president, decided to restructure the club, under new management, new rules and a new room. The new Pagan club was born. Once she graduated, it was handed down to President Brittany and Vice President Derya, who now both run it together.
In the past, anything related to spirituality had caused a lot of prejudice in the old club when dealing with the other religion clubs. Spells and witchcraft would cause eyebrows to be raised: “outsiders who checked out the club would be interested with stones and tarot cards but once spells came into play, they’d look at you like you were crazy.” (Brittany, President of the club). Despite past issues, respect seems to be much more open between the different religious groups on campus now.
What does the club have to offer to students who aren’t into paganism?
“The main idea of the pagan club is to learn, to have fun and to explore new things. It’s not a serious community; our goal is not to preach or to come off as a cult” (Vice President Derya)
Since they don’t want to enforce their own personal beliefs, the club provides access to a library filled with different books to help learn about the wide pagan beliefs and even other religions. Their library includes the Quran, the Bible and the Book of Taboo, among other goodies.
Like in every religious club, there can be instances an extremist believing student shows up and preaches their own beliefs. Lead members will do their best to sift down the tension and keep a comfortable and pleasant environment, which the vice president reassured me of: “if someone only wants to follow one belief, they are free to do so. If they do enforce it on others, then that’s crossing the line. We understand you do it this way, but we ourselves are not professionals and cannot follow or understand everything. We want to be open to everyone.” Both President and Vice President are keen on keeping a safe club community and will personally deal with these troubling club members if need be.
In terms of activities, the group is very nature oriented. One of their activities is a group coloring session where everyone goes out with coloring books. The goal is to draw, talk and de-stress in the outdoors. They also do card readings, tarot readings, meditation and breathing exercises, which is, of course, optional. Nobody is obligated to participate in an activity if they are not comfortable with it. In terms of events, they often go to Cunningham’s to chat and eat, have movie nights and celebrate Pagan holidays. For those who are interested in Pagan holidays, Samhain is coming up on October 31st and the club will of course be hosting a celebration. Any main holiday throughout the year has a Pagan equivalent around the same time. For Christmas there’s Yule, which is celebrated every year and for Easter, they sometimes celebrate Ostara. These events and activities are great ways for newcomers to get involved and learn about the community. It is also a good way to meet new people, make friends and have fun.
This concludes my brief interview and report of the Pagan Club. Hopefully, I’ve convinced a few of you to check out this club and its friendly community. The clubroom is in the basement of Herzberg (H-014) and meetings are every Thursday at 5:30 in room HO-340.
Originally Published in Bandersnatch Vol. 48 Issue 03 on October 10, 2018
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Nupami BD Ltd | The New PORCELANOSA Grupo website: the latest and the most essential news from the firm at your fingertips
30 Dec The New PORCELANOSA Grupo website: the latest and the most essential news from the firm at your fingertips
The PORCELANOSA Grupo website reinvents itself and from now on it offers a more attractive, functional and visual design, completely meeting the trends and latest designs from the firm.
The highlights section now plays a major role by becoming an excellent slideshow of pictures which are shown in excellent transitions. Through these slides, one can see some of the most important, and latest collections from the firm, such as Vitae by Zaha Hadid Design for Noken, Tono by Foster+Partners or the selection of Premium kitchens by Gamadecor. Likewise, and in the same highlights section, one can have direct access to either the latest issues of the architecture trend magazine by PORCELANOSA Grupo, in other words, Lifestyle Magazine, or a compilation of the best projects carried out by the company.
The highlights section, heading the new website, gives way to both a functional and attractive navigation system, which has the information organised, and what is more, it works as a direct access to both top products and collections from the firm. Several examples of this, are the PAR-KER ceramic parquet, the STON-KER ceramic stone or the Emotions® kitchens by Gamadecor, which are in reach for the user when they want to fulfil their most demanding of avant-garde projects. In this regard, it is also worth highlighting the KRION® Solid Surface mineral compact, the XLight extra-slim porcelain tile by Urbatek, or the natural materials by L’Antic Colonial, which are also provided with their own direct access button for the user to get even further information.
The functionalities of this home, which is highly-visual aesthetically, are also extended to other services which result in being very useful for professionals, such as the access to downloadable catalogues, or the mobile APPS by the PORCELANOSA Grupo. Both the Architecture and Interior Design Awards and the store locator, complete this set of highlights, thus, having all the essential information at the one’s fingertips.
With regard to the menu, it follows the same line as the previous design, but with a much stronger presence. One can find the access to the products by the eight firms from the Grupo, as well as access to the blog, without forgetting about the stores, extensive corporate information and the contact.
The visual aesthetics of the new website are both clear and elegant, and furthermore, in line with the group’s integral corporate image, together with the exclusivity and quality that its products are characterised by.
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Wolves in the Throne Room Out of the ashes
Monday 19th, June 2017 / 11:41
in • British Columbia, • The Skinny, MUSIC
“We aim to create an immersive atmosphere…. The everyday ‘monkey mind’ is put aside for a while…”
It’s been five long years since black metal shapeshifters Wolves in the Throne Room last wrapped the stage in their dark embrace. Ending their half-decade hiatus with a tour of Europe and the East Coast of the U.S., the Cascadian metal act have proven as surefooted as ever in their return thanks to the natural healing powers of the verdant Pacific Northwest.
“All of us need a bit of time to rest and recuperate, and gather energy and inspiration,” explains drummer/bassist/synth-player Aaron Weaver.
“For my part, that meant walking in the woods every day and go swimming in the salt water as much as possible. I’ve come to realize that if your life is a fire that has everything in it then music is just the leftovers. So, it’s important to me to spend time really living life in order to really play our music from the heart instead of just going through the motions.”
Steadfast in refusing to be driven by materialism or the need to observe genre-prescribed iconography, Wolves in the Throne Room have traveled many miles since the appearance of their debut album Diadem of 12 Stars (2006). Subsequent releases on Southern Lord Records, including Two Hunters (2007) and Black Cascade (2009), aided in winning ominous repute for the band’s turbulent heavy metal epics. Elementally bonded through the sacred vibrations of Washington’s wildness to his spiritual-brother guitarist-vocalist Kody Keyworth and his biological brother (who is also the band’s lead vocalist-guitarist, Nathan Weaver), Aaron believes in bringing a little piece of heaven on Earth to every Wolves in the Throne Room appearance.
“It’s super important for us that the music emanates from a place. It emanates from our home. That the thing that first attracted me to Scandinavian black metal. It seemed so clear to me that such music could arise from no other landscape than a wild, and rocky, and forlorn, and cold northern landscape. And I love music that is stamped with the imprint of the land it comes from. It’s just a beautiful thing to me when the artists are specifically calling upon the spirit of the landscape to animate the music,” he explains.
“When we travel, it’s our intention to bring that spirit with us, which we do by burning cedar or sage, and by literally bringing objects from home to carry that energy, and actively trying to conjure the sprits that inform our music. Our music comes out of an interaction with Spirit; the spirit of the salmon or the spirit of the cedar tree. These totemic spirits that are so powerful here, where we live. And, it’s my hope to be able to share some of that magic with the people who come to see our shows.”
The mystical outfit’s fifth studio album Celestial Lineage (2011) saw the Weaver brothers drowning nascent folk and punk influences in a soul-scouring doom undercurrent. Launched in 2014 under their own label Artemisia Records, the follow-up album Celestite, was an ambient-synth experiment born of the lupine clan’s desire to return to the cavernous realms of their previous LP in drone form. Following their intuition, the band of brothers has recently adopted two new (touring) pack members, who share their monastic regard for yoga and vegetarianism, generating a fresh outlook on the practice of spreading their proverbial ashes.
“The biggest change we’ve got is three guitars on stage now, which makes a huge difference. In the past our sound has been somewhat striped-down and a bit raw, and we’re really excited perform a more fully-realized live sound,” says Weaver.
“The person who’s going to be playing guitar with us is a really old friend of ours named, Peregrine Somerville (Sadhaka). We also have an amazing woman, Brittany McConnell, from the Idaho band Wolf Serpent, playing keyboards and doing additional percussion.”
According to Weaver, audiences can (still) expect to join Wolves in the Throne Room on a cathartic and exhausting journey through heartbreak and triumph. George R.R. would certainly approve!
“We aim to create an immersive atmosphere, which means the everyday ‘monkey mind’ is put aside for a while, and we can just be fully in the present with the music, and give ourselves space to be surprised by the what feelings will emerge and what visions will arise. It’s a situation where space and time are going to be torn open. People may be inspired to go wild. There’s possession that occurs and that’s understandable and desirable.”
Diadem of 12 Stars by Wolves in the Throne Room
Wolves in the Throne Room perform at Dickens on June 23 during Sled Island.
Dickens, Sled Island, Wolves in the Throne Room
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Chile inaugurates the first stretch of its high speed optical network
In a milestone of collaborative work between scientists, professionals from the world of technologies and academics from La Serena and Santiago (northern and central Chile), and with direct connection by videoconference between both cities, was held on April 19, the inauguration ceremony of the first stretch of the High Speed Fiber Optic Network of REUNA, the Chilean National Research and Education Network.
This new network is the first result of a project that, framed in the Strategic Development Plan of the Chilean advanced network, is led by REUNA with the participation of the AURA Observatory, as responsible for the Great LSST Telescope project, and Telefónica, as a technological partner. The digital route was designed as an infrastructure for the enormous amount of data that LSST will generate as of 2021, and will be available for the open access of astronomers, scientists, academics and students between Santiago and La Serena.
The stretch will be illuminated with multiple channels of 100 Gigabits per second and in the rest of the year, another stretch will be inaugurated with the same technology, connecting the cities of the Santiago, Concepción and Temuco. Subsequently, between 2019 and 2020, REUNA will launch stretches between Serena-Arica and then Temuco-Puerto Montt, to finish between 2020 and 2021, with the potential integration of REUNA Networks to the Southern Optical Fiber of the Government of Chile, to unite the scientific and teaching community in the extreme south of the country.
The inauguration brought together public, academic and scientific authorities and experts from the world of astronomy and the industrial area, located in Santiago and La Serena, who analyzed the impact of having enabling infrastructures such as high-speed networks and access to huge repository of freely available astronomical data, laying the foundations for the various industries that increasingly produce and analyze more and more data.
The event included a telepanel between both locations, with the participation of: Christian Nicolai, Executive Director of Conicyt; Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, Rector of the University of La Serena; Dr. Chris Smith, Director of the AURA Observatory in Chile; Roberto Muñoz, General Manager of Telefónica in Chile; Dr. José Palacios, Chairman of the Board of Directors of REUNA, and Dr. Fernando Liello, Director for Europe of the BELLA project - Building the Europe Link to Latin America, an initiative that is working on the connection of Latin America and Europe through a submarine cable that will unite both regions, and on the improvement of the capabilities of RedCLARA (and its step towards the constitution of an optical backbone in South America), which will be directly benefited by the REUNA effort.
"This first milestone is the materialization of a dream we coined in the 90s, working on the construction of networks to interconnect research centers and universities. This time we take a leap in speed and technology, deploying an avant-garde network with world-class standards that has been catalyzed by Astronomy projects, but that in its anteroom is extended and shared with research centers and universities in the network " , commented Paola Arellano, Executive Director of REUNA.
The mega digital infrastructure, which extends over 800 kilometers of fiber optic, becomes a large digital highway, with transversal access and capable of moving huge volumes of data at high speed. Chile thus ranks as the vanguard in Latin America in digital development and high quality connectivity for research and education. According to Arellano, there are few regional networks with these purposes that have long-distance infrastructure like this: "Today, thanks to this step, we share the leadership with Ecuador and Colombia that inaugurated their networks last year", concluded.
For more information about the inauguration and to read this information from its source, visit http://reuna.cl
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[UVPAFUG] Press Release for UVPAFUG Meeting on 9 Aug 2008
The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 9 Aug 2008, from 9 am until noon in the LDS "Red" Chapel at 4000 North Timpview Drive (650 East), in Provo. The main presentation will be by Laurie Werner Castillo on FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH AT BYU: THE OTHER FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY. BYU's Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is a major university library with 5 levels of books, manuscript collections, periodicals, maps and gazetteers, photographs, and displays. Additionally, it provides an Interlibrary Loan service for patrons to see books from other libraries. The HBLL website contains a wealth of valuable digital collections with many items of interest to family historians. The family history section of the HBLL was recently designated as a Family History Library, so it is no longer a Family History Center, but a branch of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. This presentation will show some of the family history items available at the HBLL, as well as on its website. Laurie Werner Castillo is a mother and grandmother first, and then a professional genealogy researcher, speaker, and free-lance writer. She has served at the BYU Family History Center for many years as a Consultant, Teacher, and Family History Missionary Trainer. She has also served as a Ward Family History Consultant, Stake Family Records Extraction Coordinator, President of the Utah Valley Chapter of the Utah Genealogical Association, and Vice-President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Utah Genealogical Association. Currently, she serves with the Utah Valley PAF Users Group teaching many classes there.
Following the main presentation there will be several classes taught concerning technology and family history. As usual, there will be something for everyone at all levels of expertise. The classes currently scheduled for this meeting are the following: (1) FamilySearch Indexing and RecordSearch, by Duane Dudley; (2) LDS Databases, by Pat Andrus; (3) Mentoring and a New England mini-class, by Becky Roberts and Lynne Shumway in the FHC; (4) Q&A on the BYU Family History Library, by Laurie Castillo; (5) Video of last month's main presentation on Digital Photography for Family History, by Marlo Schuldt; (6) Legacy 7, by Joel Graham; (7) RootsMagic, by Bruce Buzbee; and (8) Ancestral Quest, by Gaylon Findlay.
All meetings of the Users Group are open to the public whether members of the Group or not. The Users Group has the goal of helping individuals use technology to further their family history and there are usually 100-125 attending the monthly meetings on the second Saturdays. Several of the officers, including Gerhard Ruf, President; Brian Cooper, 2nd VP; Eileen Phelps, PAFology Editor; Kay Baker and Gerry Eliason working with finances and membership; and Bruce Merrill, Lynne Shumway, and Marie Andersen, working with the DVD & Video Library, will all be there. They will help with membership, questions, distribute the current issue of the monthly newsletter PAFology, and check out DVD's and videos of past presentations and classes to members of the group. Information about the Users Group, main presentations, classes, and class notes are available on the Group's website http://uvpafug.org. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvpafug.org (801-225-6106), VP1 Elder Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu, or VP2 Brian Cooper at vp2@uvpafug.org.
Elder Donald R. Snow, England London Mission
London Family History Centre (formerly Hyde Park Family History Centre), http://www.hydeparkfhc.org
Retired Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; snowd@math.byu.edu
Posted by snowd at 7/29/2008 04:53:00 PM
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Election 2014 Caravan of Delights: Colorado Gubernatorial Race
By Andrew Ujifusa on October 31, 2014 7:44 AM
As we get closer to the Nov. 4 general election, I will take a look each day at a state election of interest. (If you've missed my election reporting from California, Florida, and Georgia, you've still got time to catch up!) I'll look at polling numbers and the candidates' general positions on K-12 issues, and I'll also highlight the political and policy environments that are influencing the debate about public schools. For the sake of brevity, I'll only focus on the Democratic and Republican candidates. Today I'll look at the race for governor in Colorado.
The 2013 election in Colorado featured a proposed tax increase of just under $1 billion, intended to decrease class sizes and restore arts and physical education programs in schools. The proposal got thumped at the polls. It's risky to attribute broad political trends to a single event, but did that rejection of Amendment 66 signal that 2014 could be a tough election year for Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who backed the tax increase? He's overseen big policy changes, including shifts in teacher evaluations, and GOP nominee Bob Beauprez (a former member of Congress) could take the state in very different directions on several fronts.
Hickenlooper held a sizable lead heading into the summer, but it had all but evaporated by July. Beauprez has kept it close ever since, even nudging ahead in Real Clear Politics' running polling averages for awhile, and the race is now a virtual tie.
Bob Beauprez
Beauprez served in Congress from 2003 to 2007, but when it comes to education policy, he implicates Washington in his view of what's wrong with K-12. He wants Colorado to dump the Common Core State Standards (a decision that ultimately lies with the state school board, which is having its own elections this year) as well as other "one-size-fits all" federal approaches to education, although he doesn't specify which of those approaches Colorado should toss out. The Republican is also a big supporter of charter schools, as well as homeschooling.
And taking a page out of some Democrats' playbooks, he says he wants to create a "Teachers' Bill of Rights" to free them from what he calls onerous testing requirements.
In a recent TV ad focused on education, he also extols the virtues of increasing career and technical education programs as well as boosting reading programs in the early years:
He's gotten endorsements from two officials with the Alliance for Choice in Education, including executive director Norton Rainey.
The point person for education policy in the Colorado legislature is Sen. Mike Johnston, a Democrat representing Denver, who authored the state's teacher evaluation overhaul in 2010 as well as a new funding formula that ultimately failed to get lift-off because of the failure of Amendment 66. But the full impact of that bill, which was supposed to really kick in during the 2014-15 school year on the matter of tying test scores to teacher evaluations, was delayed this year.
Hickenlooper highlights his support of the READ Act, which Colorado passed in 2012 to provide greater support for academic interventions in the early grades to improve student literacy. He also toutes the Public School Financial Transparency Act, a law approved this year that requires districts to post a host of budget information online, including credit and debit card statements and quarterly financial statements. However, some districts in the state say the new law may not actually be valuable for the general public.
Colorado schools made national news earlier this year when students at Jefferson County Public Schools protested proposals from the school board about how to teach U.S. history. How (or whether) that conflict will impact the election landscape is unclear, but it revealed the deep political tensions that accompany many discussions about teaching and education policy.
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One of the most closely watched U.S. Senate races is in Colorado, where incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is trying to stave off GOP challenger U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner. In addition, as I mentioned above, there are also state school board race in Colorado, and Chalkbeat Colorado recently reported on the large amount of money being poured into those elections by Raising Colorado, an affiliate of Democrats for Education Reform. Their campaign spending tab now tops $200,000.
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The Fox News channel is one of America’s leading cable news and satellite channels. Owned by the Fox Entertainment Group it features a viewership of approximately 102 million people throughout the Usa. In addition, it broadcasts to an international audience airing programs mainly out of its NY city studios.
Fox news was developed by the media mogul Rupert Murdoch and was launched in 1996 and rose to prominence steadily gaining the location of US number 1 news network. Fox sports, however, has been in existence since 1994 and functions like a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company. They began with broadcasting the National Football League games and moved on to acquiring the rights of broadcasting the National Hockey League, NASCAR, Major League Baseball and also the Bowl Championship Series.
FOX Sports offers the exclusive coverage on the Daytona 500. Other than this they also exclusive cover other NASCAR events including Canadian Grand Prix, the US Grand Prix as well as the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Auto racing is one of the most watched professional sporting events in the United States coming second just to professional football. Fox Sports brings these sports activities live from the race track for its viewers. Aside from these Fox Sports along with its sister concern, referred to as Speed channels also covers the Formula One and Rolex 24 racing events.
Other than auto racing the Fox Sports network also offers the exclusive coverage of the World Series and has been airing this Major League Baseball Championship since 2000 and as per the new contract shall be the exclusive broadcaster till 2013.
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Britain is no country for old men
Is Britain a country where old men would want a Tikker death watch ?
Fredrik Colting, the Swedish creator of the 'Tikka Death Watch' has said that the idea came to after his Grandfather passed away: "It made me think about death and the transience of life, and I realized that nothing matters when you are dead. Instead what matters is what we do when we are alive.”
Apparently, the $39 watch comes with a simple actuarial quiz and on the basis of your you are given an estimate of your time left on Earth. You punch this number into the watch and then, without ceremony, it begins its final countdown towards your death.
Built by a group of 'designers, free-thinkers, lovers and life-afficionados' the concept behind the Tikker is to remind you of the important things in life. 'All we have to do is learn how to cherish the time and the life that we have been given,' says Tikker’s Kickstarter page, 'And the best way to do this is to realize that seconds, days and years are passing never to come again'.
When interviewed by the 'Daily Mail', Fredrik called his creation the "Happiness Watch" and said that : "The occurrence of death is no surprise to anyone, but in our modern society we rarely talk about it. I think that if we were more aware of our own expiration I’m sure we’d make better choices while we are alive."
Tikka's sell :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKLAxUzozY
My survey of old men in Britain this year would indicate a number of old men who certainly would not like to be reminded on their wrist how many more years they would continue :
* with being abused : Britain is 'no' country and 'a' country for more and more abused old men
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/britain-is-no-country-and-country-for.html
* with dementia : Britain, no country for old men suffering from dementia today, will continue to be, for more and more of them tomorrow http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/britain-is-no-country-for-old-men_29.html
* without care : Britain is no country for old men in 'care homes' which provide neither 'home' nor 'care'
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/britain-is-no-country-for-old-men-in.html
* through long, cold winters : Britain has been no country for the old men killed by the winter and cold, cold spring
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/britain-has-been-no-country-for-old-men.html
* in a state of malnourishment : Britain is no country for hundreds of thousands of old men in need of nourishment in their own homes
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/britain-is-no-country-for-hundreds-of.html
* in a state of debt : Britain is no country for the more and more old men falling deeper and deeper into debt
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/britain-is-no-country-for-more-and-more.html
* in a state of loneliness : Britain is no country and a country for more and more lonely old men
* under a chemical cosh : Britain is no country for old men in care homes and under a chemical cosh
In addition, the watch would be of no use to either those old men who are going to die unexpectedly :
Britain is no country for more and more old men who continue to die unexpectedly before their time
or those whose watch would give a false reading because it wouldn't note that they lived in Manchester :
Britain is no country for men in Manchester where preventable illness will kill them before they reach mature old age
http://britainisnocountryforoldmen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/britain-is-no-country-for-men-in.html
P.S. American, Jordan Cooper's 'You Tube' rant against the watch. Warning : Lots of bad language, but very funny :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkCxM1x-XyQ
Posted by ...............................JohnBoy at 11:52
Labels: The Tikker death watch
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (February 12, 2018) – “Fightin’ Irish” and Boston boxing has been synonymous for more than a century, since the Irish first started emigrating to the United States in general, Boston in particular, after the Great Potato Famine.
Many Irish and Irish-American boxers have fought in the Greater Boston area, some born and others resettling there. This rich tradition continues next month in a different way when the three-city 2018 USA vs. Ireland Northeast Boxing Tour kicks-off Monday, March 12, at the newly renovated Royale Entertainment Complex in Boston’s famed theater district. The Boston stop, which is being presented by Budweiser, will have general admission tickets for $20.00 and a limited amount of $30.00 reserved tickets go on sale today (Monday, Feb. 12) at 12 p.m. ET are available to purchase online here.
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All the duels will begin at 7:00 p.m. EST and tickets will be made available for purchase in the coming weeks. Each city will showcase up to 12 bouts, which will all be live streamed, free of charge, on USA Boxing’s website (www.usaboxing.org).
The tradition started back in the 19th century with “The Boston Strongboy,” John. L. Sullivan (Roxbury, MA), the first millionaire American athlete, as well as the first “gloves” world heavyweight champion and final “bare knuckles” heavyweight champion of the world. An International Boxing Hall of Famer, Sullivan won 38 of 38 pro fights, 30 coming by knockout, with only one loss and two draws.
Another Hall-of-Famer from that era, Jake Kilrain (29-5-8, 17 KOs), lived in Somerville and Quincy, both Boston suburbs. Kilrain (1829-1899) also reigned as world heavyweight champion.
Irish boxers from Greater Boston continued this rich tradition through the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries with world champions and top contenders such as welterweight Paddy Duffy (31-3,16, 18 KOs), Lawrence welterweight Mike Glover (Cavanaugh – 30-5-5, 16 KOs), and Charlestown welterweight Mike “Twin” Sullivan (28-6-16, 17 KOs), and Newton bantamweight Jimmy Walsh (33-10-20, 14 KOs)
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In the 1980’s, Irish boxers made their way to Boston to fight; some returned home after their careers, others relocated in the area. In 1984, Ireland-native Sean Mannion(42-14, 13 KOs), who had moved to the Dorchester section of Boston, lost a 15-round decision in Madison Square Garden to Mike McCallum for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Middleweight World Championship.
Steve “Celtic Warrior” Collins (25-2-1, 18 KOs) moved to Everett, later to Brockton, to work with Goody and Pat Petronelli, who handled Marvelous Marvin Haglerthroughout is Hall of Fame career. Collins captured the World Boxing Organization (WBO) middleweight and super middleweight world titles before moving back to Ireland.
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Another Ireland Olympian, Wayne “Pocket Rocket” McCullough (27-7, 18 KOs), moved to Las Vegas from Northern Ireland. The luck of the Irish wasn’t with him in Boston in 1997, when he lost his World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight title at Hynes Convention Center, by way of a 12-round split decision to Daniel Zaragoza.
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VALENTINE'S DAY & ROMANCE - History, Mythology, Culture, Traditions, Love, Dating, Advice, Gifts
Valentine's Day Fast Facts
Every February 14th, across the country, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday?
The history of Valentine's Day -- and its patron saint -- is shrouded in mystery. But we do know that February has long been a month of romance. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition.
So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men -- his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured.
According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl -- who may have been his jailor's daughter -- who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France.
Valentine's Day History and Background
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It was deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.
Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae). Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome, and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.
Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino).
The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was mentioned in early martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.
No romantic elements are present in the original early medieval biographies of either of these martyrs. By the time a Saint Valentine became linked to romance in the 14th century, distinctions between Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni were utterly lost.
In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14." The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Second Vatican Council calendar. February 14 is also celebrated as St Valentine's Day in other Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of 'commemoration' in the calendar of the Church of England and other parts of the Anglican Communion.
The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were expounded briefly in Legenda Aurea. According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.
Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail.
There is an additional modern embellishment to The Golden Legend, provided by American Greetings to History.com, and widely repeated despite having no historical basis whatsoever. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."
Though popular modern sources link unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays alleged to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day, Professor Jack Oruch of the University of Kansas argued that prior to Chaucer, no links between the Saints named Valentinus and romantic love existed. Earlier links as described above were focused on sacrifice rather than romantic love. In the ancient Athenian calendar the period between mid-January and mid-February was the month of Gamelion, dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.
In Ancient Rome, Lupercalia, observed February 13–15, was an archaic rite connected to fertility. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. The more general Festival of Juno Februa, meaning "Juno the purifier "or "the chaste Juno", was celebrated on February 13–14. Pope Gelasius I (492–496) abolished Lupercalia.
The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer wrote:
For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
["For this was Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]
This poem was written to honor the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia. A treaty providing for a marriage was signed on May 2, 1381. (When they were married eight months later, they were each only 15 years old).
Readers have uncritically assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine's Day; however, mid-February is an unlikely time for birds to be mating in England. Henry Ansgar Kelly has pointed out that in the liturgical calendar, May 2 is the saints' day for Valentine of Genoa. This St. Valentine was an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307.
Chaucer's Parliament of Foules is set in a fictional context of an old tradition, but in fact there was no such tradition before Chaucer. The speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. Most notably, "the idea that Valentine's Day customs perpetuated those of the Roman Lupercalia has been accepted uncritically and repeated, in various forms, up to the present".
Using the language of the law courts for the rituals of courtly love, a "High Court of Love" was established in Paris on Valentine's Day in 1400. The court dealt with love contracts, betrayals, and violence against women. Judges were selected by women on the basis of a poetry reading.[25][26] The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orléans to his wife, which commences.
Je suis desja d'amour tanné
Ma tres doulce Valentinée...
—Charles d'Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2
At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.
Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):
To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.<
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5
John Donne used the legend of the marriage of the birds as the starting point for his Epithalamion celebrating the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England, and Frederick V, Elector Palatine on Valentine's Day:
Hayle Bishop Valentine whose day this is
All the Ayre is thy Diocese
And all the chirping Queristers
And other birds ar thy parishioners
Thou marryest every yeare
The Lyrick Lark, and the graue whispering Doue,
The Sparrow that neglects his life for loue,
The houshold bird with the redd stomacher
Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone,
As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcyon
The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd
And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
This day more cheerfully than ever shine
This day which might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.
—John Donne, Epithalamion Vpon Frederick Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth marryed on St. Valentines day
The verse Roses are red echoes conventions traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (1590):
She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew.
The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784):
The rose is red, the violet's blue
The honey's sweet, and so are you
Thou are my love and I am thine
I drew thee to my Valentine
The lot was cast and then I drew
And Fortune said it shou'd be you.
In 1797, a British publisher issued The Young Man's Valentine Writer, which contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover unable to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing a limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called "mechanical valentines," and a reduction in postal rates in the next century ushered in the less personal but easier practice of mailing Valentines. That, in turn, made it possible for the first time to exchange cards anonymously, which is taken as the reason for the sudden appearance of racy verse in an era otherwise prudishly Victorian.
Paper Valentines became so popular in England in the early 19th century that they were assembled in factories. Fancy Valentines were made with real lace and ribbons, with paper lace introduced in the mid-19th century. In the UK, just under half of the population spend money on their Valentines and around 1.3 billion pounds are spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards being sent. The reinvention of Saint Valentine's Day in the 1840s has been traced by Leigh Eric Schmidt.[34] As a writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday." In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828–1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Child dressed in Valentine's Day-themed clothing.Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English Valentine she had received from a business associate of her father.[38][39] Intrigued with the idea of making similar Valentines, Howland began her business by importing paper lace and floral decorations from England. The English practice of sending Valentine's cards was established enough to feature as a plot device in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851): "I burst in with my explanations: '"The valentine I know nothing about." '"It is in your handwriting", said he coldly. Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary."
Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[4] The mid-19th century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow.
In the second half of the 20th century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts in the United States. Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving jewelry.
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than husband or wife, usually to children. When you include the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities the figure goes up to 1 billion, and teachers become the people receiving the most valentines. In some North American elementary schools, children decorate classrooms, exchange cards, and are given sweets. The greeting cards of these students sometimes mention what they appreciate about each other.
The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards. An estimated 15 million e-valentines were sent in 2010.
- from Wikipedia.org
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Kentucky Theatre
112 N 5th Street,
Architects: William Brainerd
Previous Names: Orpheum Theatre
Arcade Theatre
Brelco Theatre
Maiden Alley Cinema
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The Kentucky Theatre was opened on September 24, 1901. Initially a live theatre it later went over to movies. On February 27, 1922 it was renamed Orpheum Theatre. It was closed in 1940. It was given a new facade and reopened in 1942 and on September 27, 1945 it returned to the name Kentucky Theatre. It closed as a movie theatre on July 30, 1958. It then went back to live theatre use for almost a year, closing on April 5, 1959. It was demolished.
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Joe Vogel on November 26, 2009 at 5:02 am
Boxoffice of December 24, 1955, said “The Kentucky Theatre, 1200-seater at Paducah, Ky., shuttered recently….” The house had long been run by the Keilor family’s Columbia Amusement Company.
The March 2, 1959, issue of Boxoffice reported that the Kentucky Theatre and the adjacent Palmer Hotel were slated to be demolished to make way for a shopping center. One of the partners in the project was Jack Keilor. The item said that the Kentucky Theatre had been built by his grandfather, John W. Keilor, and had opened on September 24, 1901.
TLSLOEWS on March 18, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Thanks Joe.
Joe Vogel on October 4, 2010 at 10:01 am
The September 25, 1901, issue of the Paducah sun said that the Kentucky Theatre had been designed by Paducah architect William Brainerd.
An article in the March 9, 1904, issue of the Paducah Sun said that Brainerd had just returned from Henderson, Kentucky, where James English (manager of the Kentucky) was contemplating building a new theater. I’ve been unable to determine of this project was ever carried out.
The July 9, 1904, edition of the Sun said that William Brainerd had been hired to design a new opera house at Owensboro, Kentucky, and that it would be “…a similar plan to the ‘Kentucky’ of this city….” So far I’ve been unable to discover if this theater was built either. If the Owensboro and/or Henderson projects were carried out, they are either not listed at Cinema Treasures or are missing their aka’s.
Joe Vogel on September 13, 2013 at 5:50 pm
I’ve come across several references that place the Kentucky Theatre on North Fifth Street, between Broadway and Jefferson. One is page 112 of Paducah: Frontier to the Atomic Age, by John E. L. Robertson. Another is the advertising of the Williams Bicycle Co. in various issues of the Paducah Evening Sun in the 1900s, which give the shop’s address as “126-128 North Fifth St., Next to Kentucky Theater.” That would put the Kentucky Theatre on the east side of Fifth Street in the block north of Broadway.
If the Kentucky was on N. Fifth, that would leave the question of the brick theater at 111 S. Fifth, which this LoopNet listing insists is the Arcade Theatre. As the Arcade was on Broadway, this was clearly not it, but what theater was it?
For a while I thought it might be the missing Orpheum Theatre, which Leo Keiler was operating in the 1920s, but that turns out to have been the Kentucky Theatre itself. The Orpheum is mentioned as the former Old Opera House in Keiler’s 1958 obituary, and as the former Kentucky Theatre in John Keiler’s 1929 obituary. It was operating as the Orpheum in 1929, but I haven’t discovered when it returned to the name Kentucky Theatre.
The building at 111 S. Fifth doesn’t look large enough to have held the Kentucky’s original 1,600 seats, over 600 of which were in the gallery, according to the Cahn guide’s listings of the Kentucky Theatre. From the side view this theater doesn’t look as though it even had a gallery. It just isn’t tall enough.
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but the brick auditorium is attached to the back of the Arcade Theatre’s entrance building, and satellite view shows that the Arcade’s entrance ran back a long way. The entrance had shop entrances along both sides, in the manner of an Italian galleria. It looks like LoopNet was right, and the red brick building is the Arcade’s auditorium. It’s just about the right size for 700 seats.
Joe Vogel on December 6, 2018 at 5:40 pm
AKA Orpheum Theatre around 1929, per John Keiler’s obituary of May 24.
dallasmovietheaters on December 7, 2018 at 9:53 am
The Kentucky Theatre launched on September 24, 1901. It transitioned from a live venue to motion pictures. On February 27, 1922, it became the Orpheum Theatre under new operators. It closed in 1940. It got a new facade in 1942 but appears to have been closed through much of World War 2.
On September 27, 1945 it reopened and was changed back to the Kentucky Theatre.The Kentucky Theatre completed its film exhibition on July 30, 1958. It then was a short-lived live venue for plays in 1958 and 1959. Its last performance was the Charity League Follies ending on April 5, 1959. After the Cleveland Wrecking Company offered the theatre seats for sale in April and May of 1959, it was razed along with the historic Palmer House Hotel for a parking lot and J.C. Penney’s department store.
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315. Bananas, Chiquita, and the CIA
Reading at Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas (near West 10th Street), on Sunday, October 8, 2-4 p.m. I will read excerpts from my novels and New York stories, sign books, and take questions. Books will be available for purchase. I'll be glad to see a friendly face or two.
Dark Knowledge: Release date January 5, 2018, but copies now available from the author. Adult and young adult. A fast-moving historical novel about New York City and the slave trade, with the sights and sounds and smells of the waterfront. More excerpts to come.
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New York City, late 1860s. When young Chris Harmony learns that members of his family may have been involved in the illegal pre-Civil War slave trade, taking slaves from Africa to Cuba, he is appalled. Determined to learn the truth, he begins an investigation that takes him into a dingy waterfront saloon, musty old maritime records that yield startling secrets, and elegant brownstone parlors that may have been furnished by the trade. Since those once involved dread exposure, he meets denials and evasions, then threats, and a key witness is murdered. Chris has vivid fantasies of the suffering slaves on the ships and their savage revolts. How could seemingly respectable people be involved in so abhorrent a trade, and how did they avoid exposure? And what price must Chris pay to learn the painful truth and proclaim it?
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The Cavendish banana, the only kind we get.
I’ve always had a thing for bananas. I buy them from stands in the street, and when winter rages or summer seethes, rendering those on the stands half frozen or half cooked, I get them from the supermarket. Yes, they're phallic, egregiously so, but that has nothing to do with it. I prefer them not quite ripe, and therefore am leery of bananas with skins speckled brown, which pronounces them ripe. And of course I have always heeded Chiquita Banana’s warning:
I’m Chiquita Banana and I’m here to say
Bananas have to ripen in a certain way.
Don’t put bananas in the refrigerator.
Little did I know at first that the lady’s sponsor was Chiquita Brands International, the chief producer and distributor of bananas in the United States, and that this was the successor to the United Fruit Company of ill repute, which saw fit to change its name.
Seal of the CIA.
Founded in 1899, the United Fruit Company came to dominate the international banana trade throughout much of Latin America, especially Central America, whose small nations came to be known as banana republics. There is little doubt that the company engaged in neocolonialism, never hesitating to interfere in the internal politics of those small countries. Especially flagrant was its lobbying the U.S. government to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, whose leftist policies of reform threatened United’s interests. This was the time of the Cold War, and to the U.S. government Arbenz looked dangerously leftist, even Communist. In 1954 a small CIA-backed army invaded Guatemala, and Arbenz was forced to resign and flee, replaced by the right-wing dictatorial regime of Castillo Armas.
Carlos Castillo Armas Color, president of Guatemala, and a friend of United Fruit and
the CIA. Assassinated in 1957, he was celebrated as a martyr by the Guatemalan right.
In the early 1960s, innocent of any strong political opinions, I visited Mexico and Guatemala as a tourist eager to see ancient Mayan sites, climb pyramids, improve my Spanish, and buy bright-colored serapes in the open-air market of Oaxaca. In both countries I saw bananas on a tree with big, floppy leaves, and was informed that the tree would bear two years and no more. And in the markets I saw kinds of bananas I had never seen before: big green things called plantains, which were meant to be cooked, and others that I don’t now clearly recall.
A banana plantation in Guatemala. On the tree, bananas grow
pointing up. The blue bags keep off bugs.
Dennis Jarvis
But there in banana land I sensed a distinct difference in political atmosphere between the two countries. In Mexico I encountered a relatively free political atmosphere and in the heart of Mexico City witnessed a massive march of protesters hostile to the government of the long-ruling, monopolistic Institutional Revolutionary Party. Jokes were even permitted about López Mateos, el señor presidente. In Guatemala, on the other hand, I saw no hint of political activity, only posters with a photograph celebrating the benign rule of the bemedaled military officer then in power. Nor did I have any awareness that in the very year of my visit, 1962, guerrilla warfare against the regime was beginning, inspired by Fidel Castro’s recent success in Cuba.
Only later did I learn that United Fruit had worked hard, and with success, to influence my consumption of bananas in New York State. New York is a great apple-growing state and always has been. One October, when going upstate by bus to a cousin’s wedding, for miles on either side of the highway I saw vast orchards laden with apples fully ripe and begging to be picked, which within a few days they surely were. And in the New York City greenmarkets I have seen dozens of kinds of apples flood the stands in September and October, when fresh-picked apples have a taste they will never have again. Even in late spring I have counted eleven different kinds of apples in a single greenmarket stand, and this was late in the season for last year’s crop.
So why this digression about apples, in a post about bananas? Because long ago United Fruit with infinite cunning undertook to supplant the native-grown apple with the imported banana as New York State’s favorite fruit. How to do it? By making bananas even cheaper than apples. To do this, United cleared rain forests in Central America, planted vastly, built railroads to transport the fruit, and devised refrigeration techniques to control ripening. There are hundreds of kinds of bananas in the world, but by growing just one kind, the disease-resistant Cavendish, United made sure that all the bananas in a shipment would ripen at the same rate, thus realizing huge economies of scale.
Four kinds of bananas. From left to right: plantain, red
banana, apple banana, Cavendish.
TimothyPilgrim
But United went further than that: it promoted its product in ways unknown to apple-growing farmers and grocers: discount coupons, jingles (“I’m Chiquita banana…”), and placing bananas in schoolbooks and on picture postcards. Doctors were hired to convince mothers that bananas were good for children. And to keep prices low, United conspired with (or arm-twisted) Latin American governments to deny workers health care, decent wages, and the right to organize. Result: according to a 2008 article in the New York Times, Americans eat as many bananas today as apples and oranges combined. One might think otherwise, seeing all the orange peels that litter the American landscape, along with used condoms and plastic spoons, but such is the case. And this, even when Americans are being urged to eat foods grown locally, and New York City is a seething mass of self-proclaimed locavores.
Before containers: New York longshoremen taking bananas from a
conveyor belt to freight cars that will carry them to points west, 1937.
Just getting the bananas to sidewalk stands and groceries is an almost epic endeavor. In an article entitled “The Secret Life of the City Banana” by Annie Correal, in the Metropolitan section of the New York Times of Sunday, August 6, the whole undertaking is chronicled. Huge container ships bring 4 million bananas each in refrigerated containers to the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn, but many more refrigerated bananas arrive by truck from out-of-state ports like Wilmington, Delaware. Since bananas are rich in potassium, which is slightly radioactive, those arriving by ship go through a radiation detector at the terminal, and a few containers are inspected there by customs and border protection personnel. Next, the bananas are sent in cartons by truck to a ripening warehouse in North Bergen, N.J., where, still green and hard, they are placed in stacks in a cool, dark ripening room filled with ethylene, a synthetic version of the hormone that sets off ripening. Four days later, ripe at last, they are trucked to restaurant and fruit-stand suppliers, wholesalers, and groceries. And so they appear at the sidewalk stands where you can buy them, usually four for a dollar. And buy them I do, while I can, for the Cavendish is susceptible to a new strain of Panama Disease known as Tropical Race 4, or TR4, which will in time afflict it. Meanwhile I buy and I chomp.
I'm not the only one who likes them.
The Dame
Just when I thought I was done with bananas, I encountered a full-page statement on page 15 of the first section of the New York Times of Sunday, August 20, announcing that on Monday, August 21, Chiquita would move the moon in front of the sun to create an enormous yellow crescent in the sky, known as the Chiquita banana sun, a fiery Cavendish to be seen by everyone on the planet. Those thinking the totality -- the total eclipse, seen only in certain areas -- was worth traveling a long distance to behold, were misinformed; what counted, the ad insisted, were the two momentary banana suns, one before the totality and one after, which everyone in North America could see ("We planned it that way!"). How Chiquita would create the two banana suns was illustrated clearly with pictures, accompanied by a warning not to look at the Chiquita banana sun without protective eyewear. The source of this delicious nonsense: thebananasun.com, where the brand name continued to be linked to the eclipse. As always, Chiquita knows a good thing when she sees it, and gets her name in front of the public at every opportunity. Clever, I admit.
1. No Place for Normal: New York / Stories from the Most Exciting City in the World (Mill City Press, 2015). Winner of the Tenth Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Regional Non-Fiction; first place in the Travel category of the 2015-2016 Reader Views Literary Awards; and Honorable Mention in the Culture category of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for 2016. All about anything and everything New York: alcoholics, abortionists, greenmarkets, Occupy Wall Street, the Gay Pride Parade, my mugging in Central Park, peyote visions, and an artist who made art of a blackened human toe. In her Reader Views review, Sheri Hoyte called it "a delightful treasure chest full of short stories about New York City."
If you love the city (or hate it), this may be the book for you. An award winner, it sold well at BookCon 2017.
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Coming soon: Death by water in Central Park.
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Matt Gaventa: Home Repair 101
Job 42:1-6, 10-17
23rd Sunday after Pentecost - Year B
I used to live in a slowly collapsing farmhouse. Just a few years back, in a small town in rural Virginia, my family and I were renting an old two-by-two that at some point in its long and undocumented history had clearly suffered either the slow withering of the foundation or perhaps it had been partially washed away by floods but the result regardless was that the house was slowly sinking in on itself. This had a variety of ill effects - no toy cars would stay put when you set them on the floor. Furniture along the outer walls of the house had to be carefully selected so that it wouldn't fall on top of us. Hanging pictures so they look level - which was never my specialty in the first place - became nearly impossible. But mostly, after a while, you just got used to it. A few extra hooks would align the pictures. A few extra bolts would secure the furniture. And for the rest of it, like the time during one particularly cold winter that the heating duct just snapped off from the vent underneath the living room, for the rest of it, we just relied on that most elemental repair tool. We just used duct tape. Thank God for duct tape. It couldn't fix the foundation but at least it could make the heat work. Without duct tape I don't think that place would have ever felt quite like home.
Of course, duct tape's reputation precedes it. You don't need me to tell you this. These days duct tape has a bit of a magical reputation - for household repairs, sure, but also for construction on a grander scale. A quick glance online will unearth dozens upon hundreds of uses I'm sure quite unimagined by the folks who first put duct tape into the world: we've got duct tape as a fabric, with which folks have made everything from everyday wallets to prom dresses; we've got something called Duct Tape Occlusion Therapy, in which duct tape gets applied to warts and left on the skin for an extended period of time, though the results of this treatment are somewhat in dispute. Not to mention of course the many, many ways in which duct tape has become a repair tool for projects far beyond its original imagination: like, as a tarp that covers storm damage or as a patchwork fix holding up a streetlight. As a cradle for a car bumper as it cruises down the interstate. Even a quick fix wrapped around the wing of an airplane as it streaks through the skies. You don't need me to preach this Gospel. It's pretty well attested. The world breaks all the time. Our old house wasn't the only place with a crack running through the foundation. Good thing we have duct tape to patch it all back together.
If we're honest, I think that's what this story feels like, here at the end of the long, hard work of the book of Job. It feels like a patch job. The Book of Job is a curious thing. It starts with two meager chapters of exposition - God makes a bet that Job will stay faithful if God takes everything away, and so, God takes everything away. Job's estate disappears; Job's children die; Job's body fails; Job is left with nothing - and then we have thirty-nine chapters in between, thirty-nine chapters of poetry, thirty-nine chapters of lament, thirty-nine chapters of argument, thirty-nine chapters of Job and Job's friends and God going round after round after round over who gets to be angry and who gets to be in charge and who gets to complain and who does God think God is to make us suffer in this way and who does Job think he is to question or wonder or struggle and why of course, why do bad things happen to good people and why does the world have this crack running through it? And then, in chapter 42 - that's our chapter, that's the last one - in chapter 42 the story comes back and puts a little duct tape over the crack and calls it a day.
Job relents and bends the knee to the God who had destroyed his life in the first place. "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." It's an ending, but not a very satisfying one, like Job has been on hold with customer support for hours and hours and finally they pick up and tell him that actually the fire that erupted inside his computer and burned down his house really is his fault and eventually he just says, "Well, thanks for listening," and hangs up the phone. And then of course God does restore Job's fortunes. His wealth comes back. His estate comes back. He has a bunch of new children, which curiously I think is meant to paper over the demise of his old children, and he lives to see them all grow into prosperity and long life, the end. And somehow in these eight verses, we're supposed to forget the open wound that has been carved through the heart of the story. Somehow in these eight verses, we're supposed to just let go of all the needless suffering that preceded it. Something in these eight verses feels deeply unequal to the task at hand. Because we know that in Job's story, something in the world has cracked open and all we have at the end is somebody trying to duct tape it back together.
It's not the ending we want. Nobody wants to look out the plane window and see a line of duct tape running around the wing. In some ways the history of interpretation of Job is one long wrestling match with the abruptness of this ending, like even after thirty-nine chapters of back and forth, somehow, we still haven't gotten the answers we were looking for. In 1945, the poet Robert Frost published a short play called "A Masque of Reason" which he bills as nothing less than the 43rd chapter of the Book of Job, the additional ending we never quite got to read. Frost's play jumps to years later, at which point Job and Job's wife and God and Satan all reconnect and try to hash out all the unresolved stuff. Job gets to finally ask God the questions we're all asking: "I tried to think," Job says, "The reason might have been some other person's, but there is nothing You are not behind. I did not ask then, but it seems as if now after all these years, You might indulge me. Why did you hurt me so?" God even gives him half an answer - "I was just showing off to the Devil, Job," but even Frost can't put all the pieces back together. There's something unresolved in this story. Something fundamentally unresolved. Something fundamentally un-resolvable.
It's not the ending we want, but maybe it's the ending we need. Even in its abruptness, there's something refreshingly honest about these verses, something honest about what it is to have faith. Job doesn't quite get the answers he needs but at some point, he decides that he's heard enough. Job never quite gets the conversation he was hoping for, but at some point, he decides that at least he's had enough. After all, something has changed: God has appeared, God has listened, God has spoken into the gap. God has not answered all the questions. God has not repaired the breach. God has not undone the damage. And yet, Job has faith. Here at the end, I think Job chooses to have faith. Faith despite all of it. Faith born in this middling mess. Faith regardless of the outcome. Faith to move on. Faith to keep going. Faith to carry forward. It doesn't repair the cracks. Faith isn't something that repairs the cracks. It doesn't end the questions. It doesn't provide the answers. It doesn't make for happy endings. Faith doesn't put the world back together. At best, it's a patch job. But still, maybe it's just exactly what we need.
The most famous duct tape hack in history is without a doubt the one that saved the lives of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft in 1970. Maybe you've seen the movie. As the craft was approaching lunar orbit, an oxygen tank exploded, which aborted the mission and sent the crew scrambling into the lunar module for the long trip home. One of the problems they had to solve - with the help of a crew of engineers back on earth - was how to attach a square carbon dioxide filter to the round opening of the lunar module's filtration system. The solution eventually, of course, involved the duct tape that the crew already had onboard, alongside some cardboard and a few plastic bags. So, perhaps it's unsurprising that for generations duct tape became standard issue equipment on every space flight. Just a few weeks ago, in fact, astronauts discovered a leak in the International Space Station - a hole a mere two millimeters thick, caused probably by a micrometeorite, but big enough to drain the air out of the place over the course of a couple of weeks. Instead, they fixed it right up. First, an astronaut stuck his finger over the hole to block it for a few minutes, and then, they went in with the duct tape.
I would love to ask an astronaut how it feels to look around the station and see a pile of duct tape in one of the storage bins. I mean, on one hand, you are piloting multiple millions of dollars' worth of technology put together by some of the smartest people on the planet. The International Space Station is literally the most ambitious assembly of global knowledge and production ever created. It is a little unsettling, or at least I might find it a little unsettling, to look back in the corner and see a bunch of duct tape, as if a project of this substance and of this deliberation might ever come to the point where we are using everyday household adhesives to put it back together. And yet, it has gotten them home before. So, I wonder instead if the astronaut looking at the duct tape thinks something else entirely. It's not just a sign of the cracks in the foundation, it's also a sign of the resolve of the mission. It doesn't just say look at everything that can go wrong. It also says we are going to get home. It says we are going to get home no matter what. It says we are going to get home no matter what befalls us. It says we are going to get home no matter the miles and no matter the damage and no matter the cracks and no matter the cost. It says we've come this far by faith and we are going to get home, even if we have to duct tape the wing on the side of the fuselage. But we are going to get home together.
This is the power of the faith in which we stand, in which Job stands, the power of faith to carry us into all the broken places, the power of faith to bring us home again. It is not the domain of easy answers. It is not the stuff of quick resolutions. It cannot repair the foundation. But it does come with courage. It comes with the courage of the children of God that says we will get home again and why therefore should we be afraid. No matter where we go. It may not be that the week ahead finds you hurtling between the stars. More likely, the week ahead finds you in the more routine excavations of the cracks that runs through everything. It may find you in the fire. It may find you in the dark. It may find you in the cold. But the Gospel is this. There is nowhere this week may find you that does not also come with the faithfulness of God who has been there since the beginning and who will outlast even the end. There is nowhere this week you may go where you will not also be met by the God who created all things and sustains all things and redeems all things, even the fire and even the dark and even the cold. So, have a little faith. It doesn't fix the foundation, but it can still bring us home together.
Gracious God. So many of us pray to you today from hard places. So many of us are walking through fire, or suffering in the cold, or stranded in the dark. Give us the faith to believe in your promises, that in believing we might encounter the world with courage, and that in courage we might serve you with compassion, from now and until the end. In your mercy we pray, Amen.
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Noted Violinist Balabhaskar Passes Away A Week After His Accident
Balabhaskar's two-year-old daughter, Thejaswani, died in the accident on September 25. Doctors treating him said they were working overtime to ensure his recovery but it did not happen. It's really really hard to believe the news. Too unfair. Rest in peace Balu. Balabhaskar and his family were traveling in a auto on September 25 morning when it hit a tree. (more...)
Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra to reportedly tie the knot 'soon'
Nick was seen in his usual grey polo shirt, a blue cap and a fanny pack. However due to work commitments, Priyanka touched down in Mumbai earlier this week while the 25-year-old singer reportedly flew out to Paris. The picture also showed the former Indian captain in a yellow jersey. After keeping fans and media guessing for the longest time, Priyanka and Nick confirmed their engagement in August with a "roka" ceremony, followed by a private party in Mumbai . (more...)
Early Venom Reactions Range from Good to… Well, Venomous
Still, if you're hoping for a Venom vs. Spider throw-down, I might not recommend that you hold your breath. "They're scenes that aren't in this movie". Now, speaking to IGN, Hardy explained that nothing is missing from the film, just that they had to condense all of the footage created with him improvising and "playing" with the role of Venom . (more...)
Kanye West coming to record 'Yandhi' album in Africa
During an appearance on TMZ on Monday, Kanye said he hadn't finished Yandhi , and will be going to "what is known as Africa" in two weeks to complete recording. Amend is the right language... "A lot of them are first time offenders". While West took plenty of heat - with comments speculating about his mental health and links to President Trump - his reality star spouse wasn't spared. (more...)
Tom Hardy recreating Mogambo Khush Hua is making us remember Amrish Puri
The optics for the Venom film ain't too good right now. The cast seems to all know they're in a darker superhero movie, except Tom Hardy who is basically remaking Jim Carrey's Liar Liar. "But, these kinds of movies open up other opportunities and possibilities in your life", she said. We'll just have to wait and see this Friday when Venom finally unleashes upon the world. (more...)
Venom Deleted Scenes Have Tom Hardy's Favorite Footage /Film
The exact quote, which shows up at around the 4:40 mark in the video, was during a question from the host that asked Hardy what his favorite scene to film was. But Tom Hardy is no normal man. Tom Hardy strongly prefers roles that require at least half if not more of his face to be obscured by some uncomfortable doodad. (more...)
High school football player dies after injury during game
Thomas's uncle, Nick Burgess , has spoken to local media and posted about his nephew's death on Facebook . After #32 Dylan Thomas was taken off the field in an ambulance, the two teams gathered together on the prayer in field before the rest of the game was called out of consideration for his family. (more...)
Iconic French singer Charles Aznavour dead at 94
Born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris in 1924, Aznavour began his career peddling his music to French artists of the 1940s and 1950s such as Edith Piaf , Maurice Chevalier, and Charles Trenet. "I am happy up there, and you can see that", he said. Aznavour became a piano player, and toured in NY after World War II with Piaf, who encouraged him to perform his own songs. (more...)
Lana Del Rey slams Kanye for continued Donald Trump support
Does anybody know about that? "That's the Democratic plan", he said . He can be heard snickering and whispering, "Oh my God". "I can not tell you how happy I have been for the last 24 hours". The I Love It hitmaker has been at the center of plenty of controversy with his selfie featuring himself wearing the polarizing red cap as he called for the abolishment of the 13th amendment which has to do with slavery. (more...)
Chris Evans and Lana Del Rey call out Kanye West
She continued to write that both Trump and Kanye - who have both voiced their love for the other - have 'extreme issues with narcissism'. Ratified in 1865 after the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, but also "allowed for prisoners to be used as slave labor", writer Yashar Ali said on Twitter . (more...)
Netflix To Air TITANS Outside the U.S.
DC has already blessed us with a trailer for Titans , but they've released new visuals prior to the show's premiere at New York Comic Con in a few days. "But before its October 12 debut on the DC UNIVERSE service, Titans will serve as the kickoff event for New York Comic Con 2018, with an exclusive world premiere screening on Wednesday night, followed by a Q&A session with series stars and executive producers". (more...)
'Black Mirror' May Be Planning A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Episode
The new season of Black Mirror is set to be released in December 2019, so you don't have too long to wait. Netflix had earlier released the animated program " Puss in Book " where viewers could choose whether the fiesty feline fights a god or a tree. (more...)
Deontay Wilder: I helped to get Tyson Fury back in ring
When have I never not been a man of my world. "This is two champions colliding, equal rights". But the colourful language that has been a feature of his career was in evidence as he tried to goad Wilder, who has won 39 of his 40 fights by way of knockout. (more...)
Singer Charles Aznavour dies at 88
The legendary French singer Charles Aznavour - who said last week that he dreamed of breathing his last on stage - has died aged 94, his spokeswoman said. Though he never achieved fame in the United States on the level of his European popularity, his dramatic gestures and chanteur style of singing was a major influence on Liza Minnelli, David Bowie and even fan Bob Dylan. (more...)
Kanye West goes on pro-Trump rant on ‘Saturday Night Live’ stage
Does anybody know about that? Another said: " Kanye West finished #SNL wearing a MAGA hat". Going on to list some people that were in the studio with him during the discussion , including Kanye's own artist Teyana Taylor, Swizz then says: "I was just addressing how uncomfortable the culture feels with you representing somebody who's blatantly hurting our people ". (more...)
Cardi B Surrenders to Police Over Alleged Strip Club Fight
Cardi , 25, reportedly believed one of the bartenders had slept with her husband, the rapper Offset . " Jade says Cardi again accused her of sleeping with Offset-something she denies-and then Cardi threatened them with physical harm". (more...)
Kanye West Calls For Repeal Of Amendment That Abolished Slavery
He went on to advocate for the abolishment of the 13th amendment - a.k.a. the amendment that ended slavery. The amendment states, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction". (more...)
Meghan Markle sister Samantha in GROVELLING apology on Jeremy Vine show
One insider at the palace tells the outlet that 'The idea that Samantha can just turn up at Kensington Palace and demand to see Meghan is beyond laughable. Despite Ms Markle's apparent determination to see Meghan, her friends believe the Duchess will not see her half-sister. Meghan had support at the event from her husband Prince Harry and mother Doria Ragland, who joined her at the luncheon at Kensington Palace. (more...)
Kanye West Clarifies "Abolish The 13th Amendment" Tweet; Celebs And Media React
We'll provide jobs for all those who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment . Soledad O'Brien didn't hold back and slammed West: "The 13th amendment abolished slavery". Evans re-tweeted West's controversial statement on September 30, saying that it was "maddening". Lana Del Rey has criticised Kanye West for his support of of the United States president. (more...)
Donald Trump: Kanye West 'Leading the Charge' on MAGA Agenda
He also addressed his controversial MAGA hat. "Ain't nobody bullying you, we love you". He continued: "The blacks want always Democrats you know it's like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare". However, the fact that it wasn't all aired sprouted theories online that West had been " censored ". West has found himself at odds with many of his hip-hop peers since he visited with Trump in 2016 after the election, and reaffirmed his appreciation for him ... (more...)
Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo accused of rape
Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo has emphatically, denied claims he had unlawful intercourse with an American woman nine years ago, branding it " fake news ". "The plaintiff [Ms Mayorga] refused and stated she wanted to leave the hotel suite". She claims in the court papers that Ronaldo apologized to her after he raped her, according to the Sun . (more...)
Krishna Raj Kapoor passes away at 87
An era passes away, #KrishnaRajKapoor.God give you strength, and may the soul rest in peace. "We are deeply saddened by her demise", son Randhir told Press Trust of India shortly after her demise. Bollywood Life offers condolences to the entire Kapoor and Nanda family. Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor were her grandchildren. (more...)
Kanye West Wants To Abolish 13th Amendment Outlawing Slavery
West, who went on a pro-Trump rant during the closing of SNL's season premiere, tweeted the freaky message along with an image of himself wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat while sitting on a plane. "We will no longer outsource to other countries". The singer went on to say that 'I can only assume that you relate to his personality on some level. (more...)
"Dragon Queen" got a haircut like brad pitt
Last month Clarke hinted she might make this change during a Refinery 29 interview . Paltrow wore a similar hairstyle in the 1998 movie " Sliding Doors ". "Hope you enjoy this very fast version of our cutting session", she added. Now that filming has wrapped for the eighth (and final) season of HBO's Game of Thrones , the cast has been sharing some behind-the-scenes details (like Peter Dinklage revealing how he loved to prank his fellow actors ) and started saying their goodbyes. (more...)
Ariana Grande cancels appearance at Saturday Night Live
Speaking on the Origins podcast in a new interview, show executive producer Lorne Michaels noted that they had Grande originally lined up to be in the premiere before dropping out for personal reasons. Ariana has also been battling anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after 23 died following a suicide bombing at her concert in Manchester a year ago. (more...)
Gegard Mousasi Annihilates Rory MacDonald At Bellator 206
Taking to Twitter to call out the champion, MacDonald chose to put the title defense on hold and pursue a fight with Mousasi. Mousasi remained poised and peppered MacDonald with jabs. Silva won the first two bouts - via first-round TKO in the final of the PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix at PRIDE Final Conflict in November 2003 and via second-round KO to retain the PRIDE Middleweight Title at PRIDE 28. (more...)
I'm one of the reasons we lost Ryder Cup, says Woods
Despite some early momentum, the Americans could not erase the 10-6 deficit it faced coming into Sunday singles, and Francesco Molinari's win over an erratic Phil Mickelson gave Europe a Cup-clinching 14.5 points. But Garcia told him how and why he would win. He missed the cut in all four major championships this year. But Bjorn had faith Garcia, whom he called the "heartbeat" of the team, would become energized once he got with his Ryder Cup teammates. (more...)
Kanye West Booed as He Gives Pro-Trump Speech on SNL Stage
Comedian and SNL alum Chris Rock , who was sitting in the audience, filmed part of it and posted the footage on his Instagram Stories. "He's racist.' Well, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago". (more...)
Venkatesh to announce Bigg Boss victor
It was being speculated that Kaushal may not win the title and will be kept in the house only for the show be in the limelight. This season of the show, which has been hosted by Nani , has been 113-days-long. Also See: Bigg Boss Telugu 2 Finale Live UpdatesUnlike the first season, the victor of the Bigg Boss Telugu season 2 has been anyone's guess, at least going by the voting pattern and vote bank. (more...)
Brett Kavanaugh Hearing: Alyssa Milano Warned to Stop Filming Proceedings
Actress and Me Too supporter Alyssa Milano was a visible presence inside the committee room at the Senate hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford , who accuses Kavanaugh of sexual assault in high school. (more...)
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'Gossip Girl' Reboot Is Happening, Will Debut on HBO Max!
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Knight-McCormick fellows include four public broadcasters
Four pubcasters are among 20 fellows announced today (June 23) for the 2010 Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute hosted by the Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. Participating will be Holly Kernan, news director at San Francisco-based KALW public radio; Christine Montgomery, managing editor of PBS.org; Michael Skoler, vice president of interactive media for Public Radio International; and Matt Thompson, editorial product manager at National Public Radio. The announcement called the program "a unique, six-month curriculum 'tailored' to meet their individual needs as primary digital news leaders in their organizations."
Yellowstone pubradio personality dies at 55
Lois Bent, a longtime voice on Yellowstone Public Radio, died June 15 after an 18-month fight against cancer. She was 55.
According to an obituary on the station site, Bent started her career at YPR/KEMC as a volunteer in the late 1970s. She began a classical program in 1983, also as a volunteer, and was hired as operations manager in 1986. Bent was named interim general manger in 2005 and remained in that position until her medical leave of absence began in January 2009.
Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices, an indie radio collective, recalls his friend who, as he put it, "passed on into that great audio control room in the sky." He also offers an audio clip of Bent in 2003 answering his question, "How would you change the world?"
WTTW honors John Callaway with fellowship
Chicago's WTTW has created the John Callaway Excellence in Online Journalism Fellowship, the station will announce on this evening's Chicago Tonight (June 23). The fellowship is named for the founding host of the longtime pubaffairs program who died last June 23 (Current, July 6, 2009), exactly 10 years to the day after his final show. The fellowship will be funded through donations from family, friends and WTTW viewers, according to a statement from the station. It's open to graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Each quarter, a young journalist will work with TV producers and web staff to create original and supplemental content for the Chicago Tonight website. It runs for 10 weeks and each fellow receives a $3,000 stipend. “John Callaway remains an iconic figure in the history of WTTW,” said Dan Schmidt, WTTW president and CEO. “I can’t think of a better way to honor his memory than by making this opportunity available to talented young journalists.”
CPB Board gets reports on station collaborations at meeting in Beverly Hills
Among items on the agenda at the CPB meeting wrapping up today (June 23) in Los Angeles are reports on pubTV collaboration projects in the L.A. market, as well as four stations in Alaska. The meeting is at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, which, notes CPB Digital Strategy veep Rob Bole, monograms each guest's pillowcase (above).
PBS's satellite developer John Ball dies
John Edward Dewar Ball, who oversaw development of PBS's first satellite-based programming delivery system and was an early supporter of closed captioning, has died at age 77.
He was recruited by PBS in 1971 to design and oversee the implementation of the satellite system. "The successful completion of the system led other U.S. television networks to move to communication satellites for reaching their affiliates," notes TV Technology, which just reported his March 25 death. Ball received an Emmy for his work.
While working on that project in 1971, Ball attended a demonstration of closed captioning, then called “subtitling for the deaf,” at Washington’s Gallaudet College (now Gallaudet University). The enthusiastic response of the largely deaf audience led him to urge PBS to adopt the technology. By 1979, PBS had done so. He won another Emmy for that work.
Ball died of complications from a stroke he suffered late in 2009. Gallaudet University posted a detailed obituary written by his children, going back to his childhood in Scotland.
WGBH helping Disney World visitors to "hear" the park
The Media Access Group at WGBH is providing audio descriptions of Walt Disney World for visitors with vision loss. A new palm-sized wireless Assistive Technology Device developed by Disney provides information about outdoor areas, from architectural elements to the location of restrooms. The environmental descriptions were written by Renée Ruthel, one of WGBH’s describers. Visitors can hear descriptions of key visual elements, including action and scenery, for more than 50 attractions; amplified audio for most theater attractions; and closed captioning in pre-show areas where television displays narrate the upcoming experience. (Image: WGBH)
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Watch Ari Melber’s Bold Gun Violence Monologue: ‘Are We Helpless?’
The MSNBC anchor was filling in for Rachel Maddow when he gave a history lesson that was packing heat.
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Ari Melber has one question about gun violence: “Are we helpless?”
“No,” the MSNBC anchor would eventually go on to answer.
In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, which was the largest mass shooting in United States’ history, Americans have been wondering how such an atrocity could happen.
Filling in for Rachel Maddow Tuesday night, Melber used the time to reflect on the attack that killed 58 and injured over 500, and to recall how America responded to gun violence in the past.
He began with the 1929 Saint Valentine’s Day massacre, when Al Capone had seven rival gang members executed with a machine gun. “And the nation was captivated and horrified that so many people, seven, could be killed at once, so quickly, in an urban center,” Melber said.
The anchor added, “Now shooting of seven today, while horrific, is not even usually the lead story on our evening news.”
However, as a result of the shock and horror incited in the nation, the first piece of gun control legislation, the National Gun Control Act, was enacted. The NRA even backed the law.
“In fact, for the next 30 years or so, the NRA did support and sometimes even wrote different types of gun control legislation,” Melber explained. He described how the NRA worked with federal and local governments on certain gun control laws.
Eventually, the NRA lobby began halting legislation that would inhibit the ability to obtain firearms.
Melber added that while automatic weapons are illegal, it is legal to purchase devices that make semi-automatics act like automatics. Like the bump stock the Las Vegas gunman used.
Melber then asks the question The Chicago Tribune asked in 1929 after the Saint Valentine’s Day massacre: “Is it helpless? Are we helpless?”
He continued, “But historically, there’s never been a legitimate debate about when to regulate guns. Today’s laws will always be the echo of yesterday’s politics.”
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced a bill on Wednesday to outlaw bump-fire stocks in the United States. Melber discussed how many Democrats have signed onto the bill, and some Republicans are open to the idea, but there are still GOP members that say, “Now is not the time for this debate.”
“But the question is never really about timing,” Melber says. “Because the question is pretty old anyway. It’s what they asked in 1929: Are we helpless?”
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In PBS’s ‘The Great War,’ Soldiers Detail the War Effort
Courtesy of the Center for American War Letters Archives, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University, CA. Scan by National Postal Museum of loan for exhibition "My Fellow Soldiers: Letters from World War I.”
‘The Great War’ tells the story of World War I’s legacy, exploring how the war changed America and the world. This landmark 3-night event tells the story of America’s fight through unpublished diaries, memoirs, and letters from the Americans who experienced the Great War firsthand.
The letter pictured here, for instance, from Lt. Walter Boadway to his wife Betty, dated October 20, 1918, details an encounter with a soon-to-be famous compatriot. Lt. Boadway, stationed in Italy, writes about the fun of “going out” in uniform as an officer. He mentions a recent outing with a Red Cross lieutenant named Hemingway, from Oak Park, IL. Hemingway, of course, famously drove an ambulance at the Italian Front in 1918 and was seriously wounded in July of that year. Boadway met Hemingway when he’d been “in the hospital 4 months” after that incident, healing from his wounds. Boadway’s encounter with the future Nobel laureate reiterates how many American lives of his generation participated in the war, on the front and at home.
Find out more about World War I’s legacy by tuning in to the second installment of The Great War, tonight at 9/8c on PBS. Learn more www.pbs.org/thegreatwar.
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Michael Jackson Earned $140M This Year
Death hasn’t stopped Michael Jackson from accumulating millions of dollars. Although the beloved pop singer passed away in 2009, he earned $140 million in the past 12 months. His second posthumous album, Xscape, premiered at No. 1 this year, and his hologram form performed at the Billboard Music Awards. That $140 million made Jackson the highest earning dead celebrity, according to Forbes. The Prince of Pop even beat out the King, Elvis Presley, who came in second with $55 million through Graceland and his extensive music library.
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KILLER QUEEN
Rami Malek Snags Best Actor Oscar for Portrayal of Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Rami Malek has won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Malek, 37, known for his starring role in cable TV’s Mr. Robot, was at the top of some prediction lists after he won the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild award—but he faced stiff competition from Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Viggo Mortensen, and Bradley Cooper.
“I may not have been the obvious choice but I guess it worked out,” Malek quipped in his acceptance speech. “We made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life unapologetically... We’re longing for stories like this.”
Bohemian Rhapsody has not been without controversy: Bryan Singer, the fired director, is accused of sexual misconduct, and there has been much criticism of how Mercury’s sexuality was handled.
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The Man Fighting Europe’s Anti-Syrian Refugee Sentiments Through Comics
Benjamin Dix’s comic series on the Syrian refugee experience premiered the same day of the horrific Paris attacks. He hopes his art can quell the tide of immigrant hostilities.
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Produced by: PositiveNegatives, Director: Benjamin Dix Illustration: Lindsay Pollock, Animation: Wael Toubaji
Last Friday, the final part of A Perilous Journey, a three-part comic series depicting the stories of three Syrians fleeing for Europe, was launched at the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, Norway.
That same evening, Paris was rocked by multiple terror attacks leaving 129 people dead and more than 300 injured, becoming the worst terrorist attack to take place on European soil in over a decade.
As France reels from Friday’s carnage and Europe copes with new terror fears at formerly innocuous events, like soccer games, scapegoating migrants and Muslims has already begun.
The reports that one of the men involved in the Paris attacks may have posed as a refugee—later shown to be untrue—has fueled an increasingly negative attitude towards asylum seekers, one that was not nearly as pervasive after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.
This climate makes last week’s release of A Perilous Journey, which was commissioned by the human rights group Norwegian People’s Aid, to encourage its government to accept more migrants, seem not only extremely idealistic, but poorly timed.
“The day after we celebrated the launch of our comics in Oslo—the Paris attacks occurred. Our contributors, who had joined us to celebrate, were greatly saddened to see the carnage in the news,” A Perilous Journey’s creator Benjamin Dix told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.
“But they also felt the chill which comes over all ordinary Muslims, and especially refugees, when such atrocities occur: knowing that many in the west are too inattentive or intellectually lazy to differentiate between Muslims, refugees and terrorists.”
The three main characters in A Perilous Journey, Khalid, Mohammed, and Hasko, are all based on real-life accounts of refugees that Dix interviewed. Given different names so as to protect their identities, Dix says he allows his subjects to take part in the editing process. “It is their story and not mine to interpret, but to tell.”
A Perilous Journey comes at a crucial time for migrants, who are increasingly being viewed with suspicion not only in France, but all over the world, including in the U.S. where many Republican governors have called on Syrian refugees to be barred from their states.
“There are so many ordinary Syrians who have learned more about the extremes of human experience than we can imagine. Many of them have an appreciation and gratitude for life which is pathetically lacking in our culture,” Dix says.
Dix hopes that amidst the media frenzy and growing anti-refugee sentiments, a comic portraying the personal plight of three refugees who are also the victims of Islamic terrorism, can become an unexpected counter to mainstream noise.
A British anthropologist and former UN aid worker, Dix is the founder and director of Positives Negatives, a non-profit that “produce[s] literary comics about contemporary social and human rights issues,” according to its website.
“In this media-saturated world, we are often presented issues in a ‘Us vs. Them’ format, when the issues are far more complex,” says Dix. The graphic novel format “transcends and deconstructs mainstream media’s portrayal of a group like refugees, which are in the millions, by presenting individual stories” because “following a character for a few pages can be more powerful than statistics or photographs on the web.”
Dix recalls his time in Sri Lanka, where he discovered two politically-themed graphic novels, Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Joe Sacco’s Palestine, while taking shelter in a bunker during the Sri Lankan Civil War. He was struck by the graphic novel’s unique ability to transcend human rights and social issues in a way journalism could not.
“Up until then, my experience of comics was limited to Calvin and Hobbes. This was completely different,” Dix says.
While also in Sri Lanka, Dix experienced a pivotal interaction with a young woman that ultimately convinced him that personal stories were needed in order to create a more nuanced and relatable historical record.
“I was playing chess with a young female Tamil fighter. She was a lovely persona—intelligent, elegant, and her hair, like most of the women in Sri Lanka, smelled of jasmine,” Dix remembers. A few days later, Dix discovered that she had blown herself up.
“I was distraught,” he says. “Here was someone who I spent time with, talked to, and on the surface appeared quiet and kind, yet had a deep violence inside of her.”
Upon leaving Sri Lanka, Dix struggled to find a way to convey the complex, contrasting elements of the sweet-smelling young woman, as well as to cope with his own case of PTSD. But he was determined to do something to honor the war-ravaged people he left behind.
“There was no doubt that a comic was the perfect medium to tell these stories in a personal and powerful way. I wanted to reach a wider audience and knew, from reading Sacco and Spiegelman that this was the only way,” Dix says.
That led him to write his first graphic novel, The Vanni, an examination of a Sri Lankan family seeking refuge in Europe.
Since then, Dix has continued to produce graphic novels as a means to advocate and educate the public about human rights issues. He undertook the subject of Syrian refugees in 2013, conducting interviews with various individuals connected to the mass, panicked emigration, including people-smugglers.
As with his previous graphic novels, The Vanni and Meet The Somalis (which, as its title suggests, is about the Somali immigrant community in Europe), Dix’s intention with The Perilous Journey was the same: present a human story that could offer a different perspective, so often lost in the barrage of news reports about the millions fleeing Syria.
Dix hopes that his new graphic series can dissipate these hostile attitudes towards refugees. He points out that those depicted in The Perilous Journey “are also the victims of ISIS, and have suffered just as much if not more.”
“Their lives have been stripped down to the absolute fundamentals—and what remains is dignity. That’s what makes our uncharitable, cowardly response to the migrant crisis so shameful. We seem to think it’s our crisis, when in fact it is theirs,” Dix says. “I hope people will see that and take it to heart.”
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T.J. Miller Charged With Making False Bomb Threat on Train
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Former Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller was arrested Monday evening at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after allegedly calling in a false bomb threat, according to a Justice Department press release. Miller is charged with “intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device on a train traveling to Connecticut” and faces up to five years in prison, authorities said. He appeared in front of U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer on Tuesday and was released on $100,000 bond. According to the release, the comedian called a 911 dispatcher in New Jersey and claimed he was on an Amtrak train heading to New York from Washington, D.C. He then stated that a female passenger with “brown hair and a scarf” was on the train and “has a bomb in her bag,” federal prosecutors alleged. Amtrak officials stopped the train, but no explosives were found. An Amtrak attendant “stated that Miller appeared intoxicated upon boarding in Washington, that he consumed multiple drinks on the train, and that he had been removed in New York owing to his intoxication,” prosecutors said. He was also allegedly involved in “hostile exchanges” with a woman sitting in the First Class car. This comes after The Daily Beast reported that Miller allegedly physically and sexually abused a woman in his college years.
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Supermarkets: Conditions of Employment
What recent assessment his Department has made of the equity of employment contract terms and conditions in the supermarket sector.
Ruth George
<p>The Government is committed to upgrading workers’ rights and protecting the most vulnerable workers. Our legal framework already ensures that employers should always treat their employees fairly, and our Good Work Plan will introduce the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.</p><p> </p><p>In the retail sector specifically, the industry-led Retail Sector Council has identified employment as a priority workstream and this will be discussed at our next meeting on 20 June.</p>
Kelly Tolhurst
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Carers: Leave
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of providing a statutory entitlement to up to 10 days paid care leave.
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Steve McCabe
<p>The Government recognises the challenges of balancing work and care. Improving support for carers to do so is a key part of the action plan that we published in June 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working with colleagues across Government to consider the question of dedicated employment rights for carers alongside existing employment rights (such as the right to request flexible working and the right to time off for family and dependants).</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing the statutory right for employees taking longer-term unpaid care leave to return to their original employment after their caring duties have finished.
Redundancy: Pregnancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timeframe is for the publication of the Government’s response to the public consultation on extending redundancy protection for pregnant women and new parents.
Lyn Brown
<p>The consultation closed on 5<sup>th</sup> April 2019. We are currently analysing responses and will set out next steps in due course.</p>
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VJ Day: Anniversaries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will make an assessment of the potential merits of allocating an additional bank holiday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.
Frank Field
<p>The Government regularly receives requests for additional bank and public holidays to commemorate a variety of occasions, for example, cultural, historical and military events. However, there are no current plans to create another bank holiday. The cost to the economy of additional bank holiday remains considerable. The estimated cost to the economy for a one-off bank holiday for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was £1.2bn.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of VJ Day, and celebrations will take place to celebrate the 75<sup>th</sup> Anniversary which falls on Saturday 15 August 2020.</p>
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Minimum Wage: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on the (a) underpayment of the national minimum wage by employers, (b) amount of arrears and fines paid by employers for underpayment of the national minimum wage and (c) number of successful prosecutions of employers for underpayment of the national minimum wage for the 2018-19 financial year.
Stephanie Peacock
<p>The Government is clear that all employers are responsible for paying their staff correctly. Anyone entitled to the Minimum Wage should receive it. We have more than doubled the budget for minimum wage compliance and enforcement since 2015; it is now at a record high of £27.4 million.</p><p> </p><p>Last year was a record year for NMW enforcement. Across the 2018/19 financial year HMRC identified a record £24.4 million in minimum wage arrears, for over 220,000 workers. HMRC completed almost 3,000 investigations; issuing £17 million in financial penalties to over 1,000 non-compliant employers.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2007, 14 employers have been successfully prosecuted for underpaying the Minimum Wage. HMRC issued 7 Labour Market Enforcement Undertakings in the 2018/19 financial year.</p><p> </p><p>This information will be covered in more detail in BEIS’ Minimum Wage Enforcement and Compliance report, which we will publish in due course.</p>
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Company Liquidations
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies have gone into liquidation in each of the last five years.
Dr Matthew Offord
<p>The Insolvency Service publishes quarterly statistics containing the number of new company liquidations in England and Wales; Scotland; and Northern Ireland. This is broken down into compulsory liquidations and creditors’ voluntary liquidations. The most recent statistics, covering the period January to March 2019, were published on 30 April 2019 on gov.uk.</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for the public consultation on proposals for a single labour market enforcement body.
<p>The Government is committed to creating a labour market that works for everyone. Through the Good Work Plan - the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation - we set out a number of measures to improve state enforcement of core employment rights. In addition to introducing state enforcement of holiday pay for vulnerable workers, we also committed to expand agency worker protections to cover umbrella companies. In light of this expansion of the State’s role, we will consider the case for a single labour market enforcement body, which would bring together the relevant enforcement functions of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, HMRC’s National Minimum Wage team and the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate. Proposals will be published in due coursefor public consultation.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, of 4 June 2019, Official Report, column 47, if he will publish the findings of the further analysis that his Department conducted on the potential effect of changes to the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme on the number of employers named; and when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy last met the Director of Labour Market Enforcement to discuss the Naming Scheme.
<p>The Government is committed to enforcing the National Minimum Wage (NMW). In 2018/19, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) identified a record £24.4 million in arrears for over 220,000 workers and issued over £17 million in penalties to non-compliant employers. We have more than doubled HMRC’s budget for NMW compliance and enforcement since 2015 to £27.4 million for 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will resume naming employers found underpaying the NMW. We are reviewing the Naming Scheme to ensure that it continues to effectively support NMW compliance. We will conclude the review during the summer and publish any resulting effects on the operation of the Naming Scheme through the NMW Enforcement policy documents.</p><p> </p><p>We are reviewing the Naming Scheme in response to recommendations made by the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME), Professor Sir David Metcalf</p>
Post Office Card Account
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many Post Office card accounts were (a) active and (b) opened in each of the last five years.
Marion Fellows
<p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. The number of Post Office card accounts active or opened in each of the last five years are operational matters for Post Office Limited. I have therefore asked Alisdair Cameron, the Group interim Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the Hon. Member on this matter. A copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p>
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Russia: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Russian counterpart on the role the Russian military in Ukraine.
Chipping Barnet
Theresa Villiers
<p>When I met with First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov in February, I made clear that Russia must address the concerns of the international community, including ending their destabilising activity in Ukraine. Our position is clear that Russia needs to end its financial and military support for armed separatists and fully respect Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. We will continue to be one of the strongest supporters of Ukrainian defence and security.</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Ukrainian counterpart on the involvement of the Russian military in Ukraine.
<p>The British Government has regular discussions with Ukraine, including at Ministerial level, on Russia's aggression against Ukraine and continued threats to Ukrainian sovereignty. Our position is clear that Russia must end its financial and military support for armed separatists and fully respect Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity. We will continue to be one of the strongest supporters of Ukrainian defence and security. Since 2015 the UK has helped build the resilience and capacity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces through Operation Orbital, providing training to over 16,000 personnel so far. HMS Duncan visited Odessa on 7 July as part of Exercise Sea Breeze and hosted Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on board the ship.</p>
Sri Lanka: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Sri Lankan counterpart on the implementation of UN Human Rights Council resolutions regarding the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
<p>The UK continues to encourage and support Sri Lanka to deliver the commitments it made to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) through Resolutions 30/1, 34/1 and 40/1. We firmly believe that this is the best framework for establishing truth and achieving justice and lasting reconciliation. The Government has made these points regularly to Sri Lankan Ministers, including during a Ministerial visit to Colombo in October and in a number of meetings since. The British High Commissioner in Colombo also holds regular discussions on the implementation of the UNHRC resolutions with the Government of Sri Lanka.</p><p>In March the UK welcomed the Annual Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which assessed progress made by the Sri Lankan Government in the implementation of UNHRC resolutions 30/1 and 34/1. The Report found that the Government of Sri Lanka had taken some steps to address human rights concerns and to introduce more democratic and accountable government, including the return of some military-held civilian land, the establishment of an Office of Missing Persons and the ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances.</p><p>However, more needs to be done. The UK has urged further progress on these issues, and encouraged the Government of Sri Lanka to deliver meaningful devolution through constitutional reform, and to establish and then utilise credible mechanisms for transitional justice. We continue to urge the Government to prioritise the steps required to deliver fully on the commitments it made in resolutions 30/1, 34/1 and 40/1, and to develop a comprehensive and time bound implementation strategy.</p>
Abdullatif Nasser
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made representations to the US Administration for the release of Abdullatif Nasser after Mr Nasser was cleared for transfer in 2016.
<p>The Government has not made representations to the US Administration in relation to this specific case. The British Government's long-standing position remains that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close.</p>
Guantanamo Bay: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the US Administration on releasing Guantanamo Bay inmates who have been cleared for release by the Periodic Review Board.
<p>The British Government's long-standing position remains that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay should close and we continue to engage with the US Government on this issue to make this position clear. The UK continues to work closely with the US on a wide range of national security issues.</p>
Ahmed Mansoor
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the Emirati Government to allow Ahmed Mansoor access (a) to an independent lawyer of his choice and (b) regular family visitation rights.
Paul Farrelly
<p>The case of Ahmed Mansoor was raised by my officials with senior Emirati officials in the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The UK urges all countries to comply with their human rights obligations. When we have concerns in this regard, we raise those concerns at senior level levels with foreign governments.</p>
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Ukraine: Sanctions
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the decision of the European Court of Justice to annul sanctions on members of Ukraine's Yanukovych regime; and whether the Government remains committed to recovering those assets in the UK.
<p>EU sanctions against members of Ukraine's Yanukovych regime were originally imposed on 5 March 2014 and were renewed on a yearly basis. The decision by the European Court of Justice annuls sanctions decisions made in March 2017 and March 2018. However, the EU decided on 4 March to extend asset freezes against the individuals in question until 6 March 2020. The UK continues to freeze the assets of listed individuals under this regime.</p>
Diego Garcia: Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to which nation the road named national highway on Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory refers.
Patrick Grady
<p>The main road on Diego Garcia that links different areas of the island is officially named Britannia Way. It is more commonly known as DG1 or National Highway.</p><p> </p>
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Ministers
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, who currently fulfils the responsibilities of the position of Minister for Asia and the Pacific.
Jo Platt
<p>The Rt Hon. Dr Andrew Murrison is temporarily covering the Asia & Pacific Ministerial portfolio.</p>
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Explained: What is the government plug-in car grant?
To encourage motorists into zero-emission vehicles, the government offers a plug-in car grant to make EVs more affordable. The Executivecondominium explains how it works.
Morgan to produce modern, high-performance sports car
Traditionalist motor company to launch modern model to rival Aston Martin
Stay up to date with the latest from The Executivecondominium
Lotus has unveiled a long-awaited all-new model in the form of an electric hypercar, the Lotus Evija.
The Suzuki Vitara has received generally good reviews from the UK media, with our Expert Rating currently placing it in the top half of the small SUV field.
The Mazda CX-5 has received many good reviews from the UK media, with an overall Expert Rating that places it at the top end of the mid-sized SUV sector.
The Honda HR-V has received fairly average from the UK media, with our overall Expert Rating currently ranking it in the middle of the small SUV field.
Morgan Motor Company – creator of the iconic 3-Wheeler alongside other classic sports cars – is set to reinvent itself with a modern sports car to rival the likes of Aston Martin.
The new flagship vehicle will arrive before 2024 on a new front-engined, rear-wheel-drive platform. Although Morgans tend to use traditional manufacturing processes, including wooden chassis components, the new car will use the latest in chassis and powertrain engineering with a bonded and riveted aluminium box-section chassis.
Current top-end Morgans use an aluminium chassis but are based on a platform first seen in 2000 and have been highly modified since to meet manufacturing legislation. Morgan believes the new chassis will provide the right platform for its next wave of models, and can be modified for use into the next decade.
First look next year
The platform will first be seen in 2019 – on a new model internally named ‘Wide body’. This sports car, the company confirmed, will use a powertrain ‘never before seen in a Morgan’ – pointing the way for an all-electric or hybrid model. The new flagship model will then follow before 2024.
Initially, the car is likely to be produced as a hand-built two-door coupe, fitted with a six-cylinder engine producing around 350bhp. Performance will likely be close to the brand’s late flagship the Plus 8 – meaning a 0-60mph time of around 4.5 seconds and a top speed of more than 150mph. It’s likely to be priced around the same level as the Aston Martin V8 Vantage – approximately £120,000.
The new chassis is similar in weight and dimensions to the current one but is twice as rigid, aiding handling and comfort. Morgan says it’s also suitable for a wider variety in driver size – a boon for any particularly tall, short or wide enthusiasts.
Crucially, the platform can also handle forthcoming electrification demands – providing space for batteries and electric motors if necessary.
The 109-year-old brand recently celebrated its best-performing year in history, with special anniversary models of its Aero GT and V8 selling out. The Malvern-based company now employs 30 people in-house to design and engineer its models.
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What is needed to get world to see Africa’s potential in order to attract investment in innovation
Innovation is a critical part Africa’s DNA, but it only plays a part in shaping the continent’s narrative when the world becomes aware of it. This is where tactical communication is paramount in disseminating information about the continent’s progress, so that the right people join the journey in supporting and investing in innovation.
The underlying concept of communicating to the right audience requires an understanding of Africa’s dynamics coupled with a strategic approach that encompasses not only smart ideas and effective planning, but also a combination of traditional and digital media expertise. As the communication landscape evolves rapidly, strategic communication means keeping a watchful eye on the way your audience consumes information and the channels they utilize.
Let’s look at The African Innovation Summit (AIS), for example. It showcased potential solutions to Africa’s challenges in water, energy, food and healthcare. Young innovators from across the continent identified problems in their communities and came up with ways to fix them. What followed was genius. A compelling communications strategy was developed and effectively delivered. It entailed a three-step approach from pre-summit to post summit and this method involved telling the stories of each innovator in a way that would inspire audiences to action.
The hope was to enhance the African narrative and change the poor perception of its youth.
With media and business in attendance at the event, the summit highlighted detailed information about innovations that, with the right funding and support, could change Africa’s outlook in the future.
One of the inventions at the AIS included a remarkable diagnostic test that could detect and distinguish between seven different viruses simultaneously, including HIV. Dr Dougbeh-Chris Nyan invented the portable system, which fits into a college-size backpack and could be powered by a car battery plugged into its cigarette lighter outlet. Solar power was being looked at for alternative power.
This device could go a long way in helping deal with Africa’s health challenges, given that the continent accounts for 25% of the global disease burden. Health should be one of the region’s major priorities considering that HIV and AIDS claims around one million lives each year, while Africa’s leading cause of death in children under five is malaria.
This is just one example from the variety of proposals emanating from AIS that could advance Africa into the future. The key driver in turning these creative ideas into prototypes and tangible outcomes is strategic communications. Once the rest of the world sees Africa’s potential through a positive lens, investment and support is likely to follow. CNBC Africa- By Mimi Kalinda
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Students have the right to feel safe in their classrooms and parents deserve peace of mind that their children are protected at school and in their communities.
Learning from past tragedies, Cops and Kids Together identifies issues where resources can be provided to protect our schools against severe threats while still guarding the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens.
Post Election Round Up Cops and Kids Together PAC
All four candidates endorsed by APTS win on election night.
Thanks to the voters who helped us realize our goals for 2018 Midterm election.
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How Active Danger Situation Surveillance Tech Can Save Police Lives
Police going into dangerous situations have a lot of new tools at their disposal.Police departments have a wide range of aerial drones to choose from. These flying cameras can provide a better view of a situation, allowing police to make more informed tactical...
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MRI technique could provide accurate and early ADHD diagnosis
Researchers have used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify altered connections in different brain areas of children and adolescents with ADHD.
Research reveals more than half of young women who have abortions were using contraception when they fell pregnant
Reproductive health charity Marie Stopes UK has launched the findings of the first research in the UK into the contraceptive use of women aged 16-24 having one or more abortions.
Attention problems may be over-reported in children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder
Ellen’s (not her real name) adoptive parents weren’t surprised when the school counselor suggested that she might have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Strong association between pollutants from coal-burning stoves and miscarriages in Mongolia
Burning coal for domestic heating may contribute to early fetal death according to a new study by experts from The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Ulaanbaatar…
It may be possible to preserve our self-control resources with the help of Ritalin
Methylphenidate, also known as Ritalin, may prevent the depletion of self-control, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Discovery of anti-distraction system in the brain has implications for ADHD, schizophrenia
Two Simon Fraser University psychologists have made a brain-related discovery that could revolutionize doctors’ perception and treatment of attention-deficit disorders.
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Scientists open new avenues for research into ADHD and other attention-related problems
In a new study, Indiana University cognitive scientists Catarina Vales and Linda Smith demonstrate that children spot objects more quickly when prompted by words than if they are only prompted by…
Confirmation of the neurobiological origin of attention-deficit disorder
A study, carried out on mice, has just confirmed the neurobiological origin of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), a syndrome whose causes are poorly understood.
How do our brains differentiate information about places and faces?
Neuroscientists investigate ‘object-based attention,’ which allows us to pick a face we recognize out of a crowd, and find it is produced by three synchronized brain regions.
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Tech Trends for 2017
by elixirwebuk | Nov 11, 2016 | Apps, Internet of Things, News, Technology, Telecom |
Technology is evolving sometimes at an overwhelming pace, that is a secret to no one. But so is our everyday life, be it big new realities such as Brexit or a new president in the USA, or day to day life where we are bombarded with thousands of advertisements or non-stop news, twitter, and the buzz of modern life in a connected world, as Black Mirror reflects in its third season just released three weeks ago.
Think of the disruptive technologies and the new paradigm where Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming the norm and are getting on the mainstream media every day. They are now becoming a big part of the IT business, in which corporations will spend in 2017 a volume of 3,5 trillion dollars, according to market research firm Gartner.
Despite all the buzz generated by the latest MacBook Pro model, the future will be dominated by software vs the many hardware devices that we all have (laptop, smartphone, tablet, a GPS to run, health wristbands and other wearables…).
Here´s a recap on the 2017 tech trends:
Virtual Assistants: Apple´s Siri (2011), Google Now (2012), Microsoft´s Cortana (2014) or Amazon´s Alexa (2014) have been with us for a while, yet the mainstream use of these virtual assistants is to be seen. This category is going to experience a massive growth for 2017. Siri opened its code to external developers earlier this year, so more uses for this one and for Cortana are expected to come in the near future. Amazon has just launched its Echo Dot, a voice controlled personal assistant to be used at home to play music, set up your alarm, help you with your shopping or even order an Uber.
Internet of Things (IoT): these are devices connected (smart devices) to the internet such as drones, printers, webcams, your toothbrush, or remote health monitoring, and many more, that are able to send and receive data. The biggest cyber attack of the decade happened just 3 weeks ago by hijacking “smart” devices. Not only the tech industry needs to tackle the security issues of the IoT, but regulators, and this is the biggest challenge they face right now.
On the other hand, from next year these devices will be able to “talk” to each other, and therefore provide a better service. For instance, Manchester City Council was funded with £10 million by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for its programme to develop a smart city, connecting its health, transport, service and environment with 20 kinds of sensors. IoT market is expected to grow 4 times its actual size to reach $661 billion by 2021.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: over 30 years after Blade Runner and just 15 after Spielberg´s Artificial Intelligence, AI is now a reality, with machines, robots, drones, and many other forms of smart devices. Tech giants as Microsoft or Google are already using AI in their Cloud solutions, and it is expected to be used by smaller companies in the near future. AI business will grow exponentially (+10 times, according to Market and Markets) in 5 years to total more than 5 billion by 2020.
Virtual/Augmented Reality: Pokémon Go has been the hype since it was released earlier this summer, and made Nintendo´s shares skyrocket. By mixing AR and the actual world, this game-changing app made our kids (and not only young folks) to get moving and play out of their rooms, helping the digital natives to exercise (though still attached to a screen), and to boost marketing actions by small businesses or big corporations. Niantic´s game is evolving every week with new features, to keep players engaged. The latest one is that you can compete with your friends.
Augmented Reality is a term first used at the beginning of the nineties by a Boeing (company celebrating its centenary this year) researcher. For the next two decades it was mainly used by researchers at universities, with not many specific applications. It wasn’t until three years ago when Google released its Google Glasses that AR became a buzzword meant to be known and used by the mainstream public. The problem was the price (making it difficult for the masses to buy them) and mainly the uses the device allows, at least at the early stages of its commercialization. Samsung Gear VR is now available to buy for less than £50, and Facebook (who bought Oculus VR for $2billion in 2014, the company developing the Oculus Rift) are working hard to help AR to be a mainstream thing, and offer immersive experiences to the mass consumption society. Right now it is possible to “view” a house or “drive” a car even if they are not built yet. Or bring simpler activities to a new level, such as play video-games, or see how an H&M outfit fits you, and even sit in a front row show in Paris Fashion Week from your living room coach.
Major advances are expected for 2017, as AR/VR business will grow from $5 billion this year to +$160 billion in 2020, according to IDC (International Data Corporation).
Bots/Conversational Systems: interacting with apps (either writing or speaking to devices as Amazon´s Echo Dot) will find new ways of a two-way conversation, using bots. A bot can be a quite complex AI based machine able to understand almost anything, or just a simple device “understanding” predetermined commands (think of how we have been using Google daily since 1998). All the big players (Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are working on different bots with multiple purposes, which will replace the use of apps (there are over 4 million apps, but how many do we use regularly?). In China, more than 700 million people can book a taxi or a flight, play games or buy a concert ticket talking to a bot using Weixin (chinese name for WeChat app).
Digital Twins: still a bit early for these, but a digital twin is a combination of AI, IoT, AR/VR. Again, coming black to Charlie Brooker´s Black Mirror, it´s been almost 4 years since the first episode of the second season “Be right back” was aired, where a woman who just lost her husband is able not only to talk to “him”, but purchase a replica built from his social media and internet data. Scary? Wait and see…
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Turkish Prime Minister’s family caught up in Paradise Papers leak
His two sons were found to have investments in Malta enabling them to avoid paying taxes in Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s family is among the rich and powerful named in the latest dump of confidential documents, according to Cumhuriyet, the only Turkish news outlet that collaborated in the international investigation.
Yildirim’s family, including his two sons, were found to have investments in Malta enabling them to avoid paying taxes in Turkey, the newspaper said this week. They join a list of sundry figures like Queen Elizabeth, U2 front man Bono and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as well as corporate giants, who have used offshore companies to hide their wealth, according to data taken from the Bermuda-based law firm Appleby Group. More than 13 million documents were leaked in the latest trove, dubbed the Paradise Papers.
Such tax avoidance is technically legal, experts said, but the news raises questions about the ethics of elected officials or celebrities seeking tax havens not widely available to the general public and comes at a time when many are deeply frustrated that the super-wealthy do not pay their fair share.
The popular Yildirim, who served as transportation minister before taking over a top government post last year, said the report was an attempt to create “a perception” around him, though he did not deny the existence of the investments.
“These are companies whose activities are open and clear,” Yildirim said at a news conference on Tuesday before traveling to the United States for an official visit.
“When I entered politics, I left my business to my children. They do their job and I do mine. I recommended that my children never work with the state nor borrow money from state banks. Maritime is an international business, and they work everywhere around the world. There is nothing secret or hidden,” Yildirim said.
Malta’s corporate tax rate for foreign companies is 5%, compared with a 20% or higher rate for business profits in Turkey.
Yildirim’s sons Erkam and Bulent have registered companies in Malta, and Erkam is the director and main shareholder. At least one of the companies is involved in the buying and selling of ships, yachts and other marine vessels, as well as their financing. One firm is linked to an Istanbul-based entity whose shareholders have won state contracts from the Transportation Ministry, Cumhuriyet said.
Other Yildirim relatives are involved in three more companies registered in Malta, and still other relatives and friends with companies based in Turkey have links to firms in Malta, the paper said.
It also said separate documents showed Erkam Yildirim won a $7 million government tender this year, despite the prime minister’s recommendation that his children avoid doing business with the Turkish state.
Yildirim told reporters he was willing to be subjected to “all financial and legal investigations” in the matter.
Parliament’s third-biggest party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has submitted a motion for an investigation, and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has said it too will submit a proposal to look into the offshore wealth of elected officials and their relatives.
“As the government seeks to stop the Turkish economy’s downward trend, it has raised taxes on citizens, turning it into a ‘tax hell.’ Tax increases have reached 40%, unsettling the public, while the names of those close to the president, prime minister and other high-level politicians appear in the documents of a ‘tax paradise,’ wounding the public’s conscience,” wrote HDP group deputy chairwoman Filiz Kerestecioglu in the motion, according to an emailed copy obtained by Al-Monitor.
Aykut Erdogdu, the CHP’s deputy chairman, said Yildirim’s call for an investigation was a direct challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who dismissed Yildirim’s predecessor after he spoke out against corruption.
Cumhuriyet found the names of Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law, and his brother Serhat Albayrak in the Paradise Papers. Dozens of offshore companies were allegedly set up with links to Calik Holding, a Turkish energy-to-textiles conglomerate, when Berat and Serhat were running the Istanbul-based company, it said. Serhat is listed as the director of one Malta-based firm that is no longer active and whose activities were never included in Calik’s financial reports, it reported.
In total, 93 Turkish people and companies appear in the Paradise Papers, according to Cumhuriyet.
On Wednesday, Cumhuriyet reported that hotel developer Fettah Tamince, known for declaring his love for Erdogan, has offshore companies in Malta and the Virgin Islands that he allegedly used to avoid paying taxes on his hotel investments.
Coverage of the Paradise Papers has been scant in the Turkish press, but social media lit up with the revelations. Twitter users pointed out that of the four accounts Yildirim’s official account follows, one of them belongs to Malta President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca. Yildirim’s office issued a statement saying he only followed her after she followed him.
Cumhuriyet, one of Turkey’s oldest dailies, is at the center of a criminal trial in which 17 of its staff members are accused of aiding terrorism in connection with the paper’s critical coverage of the government.
The Istanbul-based paper joined hundreds of colleagues from 96 media organizations around the world to examine the Paradise Papers as part of an investigation by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The latest release followed last year’s Panama Papers, when nearly 12 million documents were leaked to reveal legal information about more than 200,000 offshore businesses.
Source: al-monitor.com
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Movie Review: Now You See Me (2013)
Is this the moment when movies finally moved too fast for their own good?
“Now You See Me,” directed by Louis Letierrer (“Clash of the Titans”; “The Incredible Hulk”), zips and swirls and spins around its characters so fast that it leaves them behind. It gives us awful dialogue and predictable situations. It goes “Abracadabra!” but no magic happens.
There’s promise at the beginning. Four magicians with different talents are recruited by a mysterious man in a hoodie and reappear a year later as a great Vegas magic act—a one-off but we don’t know it at the time. Amid their various swirls and spins they take a man from the audience (he’s French), ask him for his bank (it’s in Paris), transport him into its vaults, and then transport back, with the money, which is then showered onto the audience. This brings in both the FBI, in the guise of Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), and Interpol, in the much hotter guise of Alma Dray (Mélanie Laurent).
The movie becomes theirs. Rhodes, cocky, annoyed, is ready to take down the Four Horsemen, as the act is known, at their next show in New Orleans, but he winds up being taken down on stage, literally, by audience members, who have been hypnotized to tackle whoever says the word “Freeze!” (Anyone who didn’t see this coming wasn’t paying attention.) Meanwhile the Horsemen’s benefactor/manager, Arthur Tressler (Michael Caine), winds up being bankrupted by his own act. That’s the big trick this time. They take the millions from Tressler’s bank account and disperse it among the audience, all of whom have lost money during the global financial meltdown. It’s Robin Hood with a puff of smoke. After a chase through New Orleans, in which Rhodes is made to look the fool again, the magicians disappear.
The final act takes place in New York, by which time our Horsemen, now famous, the talk of whatever mass media is left, are merely on the edges of the story.
Subplots include a magic-act debunker, Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman), who makes multimillion dollar videos, and who hounds and embarasses Rhodes; the story of Lionel Shrike, a magician who, years ago, attempted to escape from a safe in the bottom of the East River but who was never seen again; and a mysterious organization called “The Eye,” which is like Freemasons Hall of Fame for magicians.
The actors playing the Horsemen play versions of other roles they’ve played better elsewhere. Jesse Eisenberg’s J. Daniel Atlas is supersmart and talks superfast in the manner of Mark Zuckerberg. (One wonders if Eisenberg will ever be allowed to play dumb again.) Woody Harrelson’s Merritt McKinney is a washed-up rapscallion in the manner of Woody Harrelson. Isla Fisher is the girl who used to be with Atlas and now receives the halfhearted, amused attentions of McKinney, while Dave Franco’s Jack Wilder, a pickpocket, is just happy to be there. They’re not bad together, but they disappear—poof!—for most of the movie. Because we need less talk and more swirls and swoops.
I like the “corked” conversation between Harrelson and Fisher. That was fun. Plus we get some not-bad dialogue about magic:
Thaddeus: When a magician waves his hand and says, “This is where the magic is happening,” the real trick is happening somewhere else.
But the focus on the FBI is dull, and the romance between Rhodes and Dray is so forced it almost feels like rape. Laurent is given almost nothing to do. At one point, because Interpol has no jurisdiction in a situation, she’s told to wait in the car. When Rhodes returns she yells at him, “Don't you EVER tell me to stay in the car, EVER!” Right. Sure. OK. But ... why did you wait in the car?
The Fifth Horseman
There’s a lot of chest thumping, arguments over who’s a step ahead of whom, and it all leads up to what’s it all about, Alfie. Turns out the mastermind of it all, the man in the hoodie, is the son of Lionel Shrike. It’s an elaborate revenge plot taken against the safe company that made the defective safe that killed him, the bank in France that I forget what, and Arthur Tressler who did somethingorother.
So who’s the man in the hoodie? The one you least suspect: FBI agent Dylan Rhodes. And at the end, he frames Thaddeus Bradley as the Fifth Horseman, inducts the Four Horsemen into “The Eye,” and goes to France to continue his bad romance with Dray.
“Now You See Me” is an empty, flashy movie, but it’s not all bad. Here’s my favorite part: a bit of dialogue on an airplane. It carries an implicit criticism of the entire movie industry:
Rhodes: What I hate is people who exploit other people.
Dray: Exploit them how?
Rhodes: By taking advantage of their weaknesses. Their need to believe in something that’s unexplainable in order to make their lives more bearable.
Of course “Now You See Me” didn’t exactly make my life more bearable. L’opposite.
Tags: Movie Reviews, Now You See Me, Louis Letierrer, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo
Posted at 07:46 AM on Thu. Nov 07, 2013 in category Movie Reviews - 2013
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Other partners include New York Life, Santander and current partner UBS
San Francisco-based robo-adviser SigFig raised $40 million in funding, led by Eaton Vance and contributions from institutions across the industry, the online investment firm said on Tuesday.
The extra capital includes $33 million in equity financing,and $7 million in credit from Comerica Bank to SigFig through a lending facility. The capital is proof firms see a place for digital advice, said Mike Sha, chief executive of SigFig. Institutions choose to partner with robos because of the automated investment providers’ flexibility and ability to grow digitally, Mr. Sha said.
“We can move a lot more quickly, we can enable them to get to market more quickly, and innovate in a much more fast-paced fashion,” Mr. Sha said.
The chief executive said funding will go toward research and development, team expansion and innovation. The company designed its syndicate of investors to remain uninfluenced, he added.
“There is no exclusivity and no corporate governance,” Mr. Sha said.
SigFig, which has $93.7 million in assets under management as of its latest Form ADV, focuses heavily on enterprise partnerships, and has sparked relationships with big name companies in the industry, including UBS Wealth Management Americas and Pershing Advisor Solutions. Cambridge Savings Bank, based in Boston, is using SigFig to open, fund and manage goals-based portfolios on the bank’s dashboard.
NEW YORK LIFE, UBS
Other investors besides lead investor Eaton Vance include New York Life, UBS, Santander InnoVentures, as well as Bain Capital Ventures, DCM Ventures, Nyca Partners and Union Square Ventures. Though UBS formed a “strategic alliance” with SigFig, these investments do not necessarily mean a partnership. Eaton Vance, for example, does not have a current customer arrangement in place, said Tom Faust, chairman and chief executive of Eaton Vance.
Personal Capital, a hybrid robo-adviser with $2.4 billion in AUM, last week closed out a Series E funding round of $75 million from IGM Financial, which invested $50 million immediately and agreed to invest $25 million more in the next year. It is valued at $500 million. Betterment, the leading robo-adviser with about $4 billion in assets under management, raised $100 million in March, with investments from venture capital firms. It has a valuation of $700 million.
Industry watchers say robo-advisers are in rough waters, especially with high client acquisition costs, but these digital companies disagree. Mr. Sha said the best way to scale is by partnering with large institutions.
“That strategy puts us in a good position to reach a much larger audience, which is a big part of why we have chosen large enterprises,” he said.
Mr. Faust said the evolving technology and regulatory landscape will put a spotlight on digital advice.
“It won’t set in motion new trends but accelerate trends already in place,” he said.
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« Reply #14280 on: September 07, 2014, 08:00:31 PM »
Yeah, but D00hickey is saying they all had "Massive profits". Breaking even after however long it took to do that is not "massive". (I don't want to know if the budget for Howard was massive or not, since either answer is depressing)
I was hoping this would be more fun. I'm not the biggest Kevin Williamson fan, but I do like Scream and I thought combining him with Robert Rodriguez would work well. But while it isn't as offensively bad as some Body Snatcher-type films (I'm looking at you The Invasion), it really squanders the potential of the premise. It does open up with a tense little chase scene (not as good as Scream's, but not bad and it makes me want to see Rodriguez do something more low key, though I doubt that is in his vocabulary any more), but after a promising start, the characters are mostly flat, the tension is generally not strong enough and the ideas it half explores were much better handled in the Buffy episode "Earshot". There is one line towards the end that makes me wish the film followed that line of reasoning where a kid who spent much of his life bullied telling the evil alien threat "you'd have hated it here". I wish it had more of a dark edge to it, not necessarily as hopeless as the good Body Snatchers films (I'm even half-OK with the possessed people being cured at the end, which was a huge bugbear for me in The Invasion), but one that really examines the idea that high school is nightmarish for some people. Lot of wasted potential.
d00hickey
Rohan Stan the Jelly Man
Quote from: Imrahil on September 07, 2014, 08:09:05 PM
Quote from: d00hickey on September 07, 2014, 05:30:10 PM
I just want to see a super hero movie where the studio/director actually take some risks and make something unique.
Ang Lee's Hulk was that, wasn't it? It was unwatchable.
Just because one director tried something new and it didn't work doesn't mean it can't be done. I find that notion ludicrous.
Don't straw-man. I didn't say that at all. You said "I want to see..." and I pointed you to one that was a big stinking green turd that fit your criteria.
I agree that Iron Man was a risk. I'd only vaguely heard of him before the movie, and putting terrorists in seemed like a shitty idea at the time.
I didn't intend to use a straw man argument on you, I legitimately thought that was the point you were trying to make.
Pak-Man
Insert $0.25 to Play!
Guardians of the Galaxy was an unprecidented risk for Marvel. Those characters have been around for a while in really obscure nooks of the Marvel Universe, but they've only been the Guardians of the Galaxy for like- 4 years. I'm sure it had a following, or there wouldn't have been a book, but even die-hard Marvel fans didn't really know them. Plus they went all space opera on it.
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I just would like some more variation on the Hero's formula they almost all follow. I want to see more stuff like V for Vendetta, Darkman, Kick Ass and Dick Tracy. I just find it difficult to believe people are so in love with these movies that always follow the same exact formula. I feel like I see the same movie over and over again with new characters.
Quote from: Edward J Grug III on September 07, 2014, 06:15:27 PM
It seems that way now, but most of the properties Marvel made were risks.
Iron Man was a not a known character before the movies happened, Hulk had a recent flop, Thor was considered ridiculous, and Captain America was considered unmarketable outside of the US. Not to mention setting them all up as a single universe and then making the Avengers.
And then there's GotG.
It's easy to look back from here and think it all is just them making safe moves, but it wasn't before they did it.
With the exception of the Hulk film, I don't recall any of the Marvel films flopping, they had massive budgets and made massive profits.
I'm not sure of your point? You didn't say "I want to seem some super hero movies that flop," you said you wanted to see them take chances, and, as I explained above, that's all that they HAVE done.
Note, those above meovies are the ONLY movies that Marvel themselves have made. The other stuff is from other studios.
Chronicle, Super, Birdman (upcoming) - Heck, I'd even argue Man of Steel broke the super hero forumla. It stunk, but it doesn't really fit along side the other you're talking about, does it?
What's your super hero movie forumla, by the way?
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The Hero's Trope, or formula. I personally find stale as I stated above. It's a film makers prerogative to make whatever they like and more power to people who like it. There are over 30 comic book/super hero movies slated for release in the coming years. In my opinion that seems ridiculous. I'm not trying to debate anyone about the merits of super hero movies, I'm simply trying to understand the appeal and the saturation. In under a decade we have had two successful Spider Man 2s, this doesn't seem odd to anyone else?
« Reply #14287 on: September 08, 2014, 12:06:46 AM »
Yes, because the second one was boring, but I'm a fan of the genre, so in general, no. Why shouldn't two of the thousands of movies made in those ten years be successful Spider-Man 2s?
I am genuinely curious about your idea of the formula? As in how broad does it have to be drawn to include The Hulk, X-Men: First Class (presumably?), The Dark Knight and Man of Steal?
I'm not trying to pick a fight either, I am just trying to understand your point, as it doesn't seem consistant.
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Quote from: Edward J Grug III on September 08, 2014, 12:06:46 AM
I basically mean the Hero's Journey and the Hero's Trope, both of witch are outlined in great detail on the web. I love a good story following the Hero's Journey, Star Wars follows it like clockwork and is one of my favorite films of all time. My point is that I personally don't see the value in revisiting the genre so frequently. Super Hero films are consistently at the top of the box office year round so apparently people don't see it as I do. I also feel that, on a personnel level, when huge budget super hero movies are being released one after another it would be nice to see more variation than there currently is.
That's my view and I'm going to bed.
Quantum Vagina
To understand why Hollywood is churning out every superhero film it can get it's hands on, you only need to look to one man.
You can also look at the decisions made in last year's The Lone Ranger. The only reason Johnny Depp looked the way he did was because he wanted the character to look a certain way, and the last time he did that was Captain Jack. The Pirates movies made a bundle, and Captain Jack was the biggest part of that(Bloom and Knightly were the worst characters, IMO). Clearly letting Johnny Depp have so much freedom in character design is a GOOD thing.
Hollywood doesn't view movies as movies. They view them as money printing machines, and Superhero movies are the best at it right now.
Quote from: d00hickey on September 08, 2014, 12:30:45 AM
If you are so broadly simplifying things down to the Hero's Journey, then do you simplify every narrative in the same way? Why do you bother watching anything?
All joking a salad.
Quote from: Imrahil on September 08, 2014, 06:12:47 AM
I like movies where my characters are larger than life and DO things instead of just being average guys who live dull lives, or worse, pathetic people who just exist and have bad shit happen. That's no story.
I think this is the best definition for mumblecore that I've seen....but I still like mumblecore.
Nominations for 100 movies you have to see.
Quote from: Quantum Vagina on September 08, 2014, 02:20:22 AM
A very familiar sight to a Jim Sterling fan.
They say there are seven stories out there. The number and types of stories change, and I'm not sure I agree with "them," but there's at least some validity to it. It seems silly, to me, to write off a movie then, because you've seen X type of story before. It's very likely you have, but how did you like this version?
I can say with firm conviction that Guardians of the Galaxy was the best retelling of the hero's journey that was a space opera and involved a sentiant, anthropomorphic raccoon and his gentle-giant tree friend that centered around a McGuffin hunt.
And that's Cyril Sneer. Watch some of "The Raccoons." Or don't. You're probably better off not. Bert always came off as a jerk who didn't deserve his spotlight. Alvin too, while we're on the topic of anthropomorphic '80s Saturday morning cartoon stars. :^)
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Can't Shoot Straight
Quote from: Pak-Man on September 08, 2014, 10:24:36 AM
Though its theme managed to have its own music video.
https://www.youtube.com/v/usFFKNRB2z8
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Forum 18 News Service
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AZERBAIJAN: Accountability for raiders through Baku and Strasbourg courts?
By Felix Corley, Forum 18
Baku-based Muslim Zeka Miragayev – whose home was raided by police and secret police without a warrant in May 2012 during which Korans and other religious books were seized – is seeking through a Baku court to have the raids declared illegal. Local police chief Lt-Colonel Hakani Mammadov denied to Forum 18 News Service that any literature had been taken in the raid. The secret police denied to the court that it had been involved at all. The OSCE Office in Baku told Forum 18 it will monitor the case when it resumes in court on 22 January. Gyanja-based Rashad Niftaliyev – who has been fined three times in as many years after police raids on unregistered meetings for worship – is the most recent Jehovah's Witness from Azerbaijan to lodge a case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg over such raids. Four other groups of Jehovah's Witness victims have lodged raid-related cases to the Strasbourg court since 2007, though no verdicts have yet been issued.
Some of Azerbaijan's many victims of police and National Security Ministry (NSM) secret police raids on meetings for worship and private homes are seeking accountability for those involved both in local courts and through the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, Forum 18 News Service notes.
A Baku-based Muslim, Zeka Miragayev, has pledged to continue his battle through the court to have a May 2012 police and secret police raid on his home in the Azerbaijani capital declared unlawful, he told Forum 18. The case resumes in a Baku court on 22 January. The raid led to the detention of many of his friends and the confiscation of copies of the Koran and books by Muslim authors, including the late Turkish theologian Said Nursi, which have still not been returned.
The Baku Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is planning to attend the next court hearing in Miragayev's case at Baku's Administrative Economic Court No. 2. "We will monitor the upcoming hearing due to take place on 22 January, as part of the Trial Monitoring Programme," the OSCE Office told Forum 18 from Baku on 16 January.
As Miragayev is seeking accountability for the police and secret police over their raid on his home through a Baku court, five of the many Jehovah's Witness cases lodged from Azerbaijan with the ECtHR in Strasbourg have been submitted by separate groups of victims of such police or secret police raids on meetings for worship or private homes. The most recent Jehovah's Witness case relating to raids was lodged at the ECtHR in March 2012. The lead victim in the case has been fined three times in just over two years for participating in meetings for worship without state registration.
An official of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations told Forum 18 on 16 January that its spokesperson Orhan Ali was out of the office and that only he could give official comment.
Raids on religious communities in Azerbaijan are frequent and religious literature is often seized in such raids. In another recent case, two Baptist-owned homes were raided by police in Aliabad in north-western Zakatala [Zaqatala] Region in November 2012. Religious literature was confiscated from them (see F18News 9 November 2012 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1765). Hamid Shabanov, one of those raided, told Forum 18 from Aliabad on 16 January 2013 that police have still not returned the confiscated books.
Punishment for unapproved religious activity
Meanwhile, the only Muslim community in the town of Hirdalan near Baku has had its legal status stripped from it. This is the second case known to Forum 18 that the State Committee has succeeded in court in having a religious community's registration with the Justice Ministry stripped from it. The first, Baku's Greater Grace Protestant Church, failed in its final Supreme Court challenge on 9 January (see F18News 17 January 2013 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1791).
Stripping a religious community of its legal status leaves it – like many other religious communities arbitrarily denied legal status – vulnerable to such police and secret police raids. Under Azerbaijan's harsh Religion Law, all religious activity without state permission is illegal and subject to punishment. Administrative fines for unregistered religious activity were massively increased in December 2010 (see F18News Azerbaijan religious freedom survey http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1690).
On 20 September 2012, Baku's Administrative Economic Court No. 2 finally accepted the suit against the police and NSM secret police lodged by Baku Muslim Miragayev. The case was assigned to Judge Farmayil Zeynalli. Both the police and the secret police denied Miragayev's claims.
Miragayev had been trying to lodge a court challenge since June 2012, but had faced obstruction in the courts. Baku's Administrative Economic Court No. 1 and Narimanov District Court both refused to accept the case. Miragayev had also written complaints to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and other state agencies without any response (see F18News 23 October 2012 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1757).
Miragayev's suit was against those who raided his private home in Baku's Narimanov District on 31 May 2012. Those present were taken to the police station for questioning. His home was searched without a warrant and left in a state of disarray. Police confiscated 30 copies of the Koran, as well as 24 other books, including some by Said Nursi. They also took 34 Manats (265 Norwegian Kroner, 35 Euros or 43 US Dollars) and 500 US Dollars (392 Manats, 3,050 Norwegian Kroner or 410 Euros) and a computer. Miragayev, who was away at the time, was particularly upset that the officers failed to take off their shoes in his home (see F18News 11 July 2012 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1719).
Police and secret police denials
In a 29 October 2012 letter to the court seen by Forum 18, Colonel Natig Abuzarli of Narimanov District NSM secret police denied absolutely that his officers had anything to do with the raid.
In a 1 November 2012 letter to the court also seen by Forum 18, Narimanov District's 18th police station chief Lt-Colonel Hakani Mammadov insisted that Miragayev's flat had been raided because "a large number" of people were in the flat "behaving suspiciously" and thus disturbing the neighbours. Mammadov did not explain in what way the behaviour was suspicious.
Lt-Colonel Mammadov denied absolutely that police officers had taken any items from the flat. "The photos submitted by Zeka Miragayev were taken some days afterwards when he came to the flat," Mammadov insisted to the judge. "The property of the plaintiff was not damaged." He called on the judge to reject Miragayev's suit.
Miragayev dismissed the police and secret police claims. He told Forum 18 the police chief had given "false information". "My friends were taken to the Police Station by force," he told Forum 18. "Mikayil Gurbanov was the last to leave the flat and closed the door. The police were engaged in taking my friends to the police station, then NSM officers took the books and other items to the NSM."
Asked by Forum 18 on 16 January why he had stated that no items had been taken from Miragayev's flat during the raid, Lt-Colonel Mammadov responded: "Because it's a fact." Asked who had taken literature and other items from the flat, he repeated: "Nothing was taken." Then he added: "Don't ring here again," before putting the phone down. Forum 18 was thus unable to find out what "suspicious" activity the police believed had been taking place and who had decided to launch the raid.
Forum 18 was unable to reach anyone at the NSM secret police prepared to discuss the case.
Claims in court
At the first hearing on 21 December 2012, police officer Kalandar Jabbarov claimed that the officers who arrived at Miragayev's flat showed their police identity cards, and stood in the doorway only without entering the flat. Responding to a question from Judge Zeynalli as to why the flat had been raided, the officer claimed that neighbours had complained of being disturbed. Miragayev and his friends denied all three of Jabbarov's claims.
Officer Jabbarov denied to Miragayev's then lawyer Rasim Nuriyev in court that the plain clothed men accompanying the police had been NSM secret police officers. Jabbarov also denied that the police had taken any books from the flat.
The second hearing was due on 25 December 2012, but neither the police nor the NSM secret police sent representatives. The hearing was then cancelled. "Police and NSM officers by this showed disrespect to the court and it was a serious breach of law," Miragayev complained to Forum 18. "They proved the crime they committed by being absent from the court."
The next hearing is due on 22 January, Miragayev's friends told Forum 18. They said it is unclear whether this will be the final hearing in the case or not. "It all lies in the hands of the judge." However, they are not optimistic that Miragayev will win his case.
Secret police pressure
Miragayev also told Forum 18 that an NSM officer named Rashad (last name unknown) met him on 17 December 2012. The officer called on him to withdraw his suit and offered to pay him if his religious books are not found.
Miragayev insisted to Forum 18 that the suit must go ahead. "I demand my rights, because an NSM officer abused the author of Risale-i Nur [Said Nursi]."
In early January 2013, Miragayev approached foreign representatives seeking possible asylum abroad. He expressed concern that further state action could be taken against him to punish him for exercising his right to freedom of religion or belief. "I do not know what my future life will be like, because who commits such injustice with me, may do any other acts also," he declared. "They even may also arrest me, though I have no fault, and also kill me."
Justice through Strasbourg?
Many of Azerbaijan's Jehovah's Witnesses who have been victims of police and secret police raids have lodged cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, Jehovah's Witnesses told Forum 18. On 1 March 2012, Gyanja [Gäncä]-based Rashad Niftaliyev lodged such a case on his and his fellow Jehovah's Witnesses' behalf: Niftaliyev and Others v. Azerbaijan (Application No. 561/12). The case relates to a police raid on a religious meeting in June 2011.
Niftaliyev was among a group of Jehovah's Witnesses punished in a late-night hearing in December 2010 after a police raid. He was fined 150 Manats (see F18News 7 January 2011 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1527). In June 2011 he was again fined 1,500 Manats, following another raid. He was among six local Jehovah's Witnesses fined in November 2011 after another police raid on a religious meeting. He was fined 2,000 Manats (see F18News 14 December 2011 http://www.forum18.org/archive.php?article_id=1647). In July 2012 Niftaliyev and another of those fined in November 2011 were taken to court after being unable to pay the massive fines. Although the other Jehovah's Witness was punished with a three-day prison term, Niftaliyev was given a formal warning (see F18News 10 August 2012 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1730).
Other Jehovah's Witness cases from Azerbaijan at the ECtHR which relate or partially relate to raids on their religious meetings or private homes are: Religious Community of Jehovah's Witnesses & Others v. Azerbaijan (No. 52682/07), filed on 16 November 2007; Mursalov and Others v. Azerbaijan (No. 4668/10), filed on 12 January 2010; Mukhtarov and Others v. Azerbaijan (No. 6013/10), filed on 18 January 2010; and Valiyev and Others v. Azerbaijan (No. 42651/11), filed on 11 July 2011.
The ECtHR said all five of these Jehovah's Witness cases are still pending before the Court. "So far, no decision has been taken as to the admissibility of these cases," a spokesperson for the Court told Forum 18 from Strasbourg on 16 January 2013. (END)
For more background information see Forum 18's Azerbaijan religious freedom survey at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1690.
More coverage of freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Azerbaijan is at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?query=&religion=all&country=23.
A compilation of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) freedom of religion or belief commitments can be found at http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1351.
For a personal commentary, by an Azeri Protestant, on how the international community can help establish religious freedom in Azerbaijan, see http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=482.
A printer-friendly map of Azerbaijan is available at http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/mapping/outline-map/?map=Azerbaijan.
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Comics and Medicine
Elaine Shen
I have always been an avid reader of comics, from classics such as Calvin and Hobbes, to the wonderfully nerdy webcomic xkcd. Comics are fantastically versatile, capable of appealing to broad audiences, and have the ability to address both humorous and serious subjects.
Comic theorist and cartoonist Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, provides insight as to why comics are such a compelling medium capable of diverse storytelling: “...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another. But when you enter the world of the cartoon, you see yourself.” In other words, we are drawn to cartoony faces because of their ability to amplify through simplification. Furthermore, as characters become more abstract, they become more universal, which allows the reader to project themselves more readily into the world of the character.
The ability for readers to connect with and empathize with comics has powerful implications. Comics can be a useful medium to discuss sophisticated narratives, such as those found in the ever-present and urgent issue of healthcare.
One online community, known as Graphic Medicine seeks to deliver the vision that comics provide in a friendly and approachable way to elucidate the complexities of the illness experience for both patients and healthcare professionals.
As Dr. Ian McWilliams (one of the co-founders of Graphic Medicine) points out, comics give an insider’s look on the emotional, sociological, and day-to-day details of daily life of the ill that medical textbooks provide no insight on.
The comic Cancer Vixen, is an autobiography of a New York cartoonist who suffered from breast cancer. As seen on the left, the artist illustrates how she felt when she was first diagnosed with cancer. The doctor appears to be giving the diagnosis, but the patient can only grab a few words such as “cancer” and “lymph nodes." The majority of the speech bubble contains incomprehensible scribbles. The patient implies that she should have brought a tape recorder, since she couldn’t process all of the information in the moment.
When a patient’s confusion and emotions are unrealized, a physician’s requests may go unpracticed simply because a patient is paralyzed by the sudden influx of information. Although the drawings are simple, the artist successfully conveys the tensions and feelings of this doctor-patient encounter with just a 2x2 inch panel.
Not only can comics help patients, but they also help physicians illustrate their experiences as well. One such example comes from a course at Penn State Medical School called “Comics and Medicine”, taught by Michael Green, M.D. The class aims to help medical students depict their own struggles and journeys as aspiring physicians, as well as the stories of the patients they encounter. Dr. Green has also published his own comic in a special article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, detailing challenges he faced as a medical intern.
Aside from helping physicians and patients bring anecdotal experiences to life, comics also serve as an illustrative and engaging way to deliver important health messages to educate the public.
The Survive! Inside the Human Body series does a fantastic job at using a quirky adventure story to present scientific facts in a fun way. The series features Dr. Brain, a frazzled grey-haired scientist who invents a ship in the shape of a virus that can be miniaturized to explore the body. In the first volume, Geo, the main character, is shrunk and accidentally eaten by his friend Phoebe. The comic details Geo’s adventure inside Phoebe’s digestive system in a manner that is reminiscent of The Magic School Bus adventures. The first volume is 12 chapters, which include nutrition, digestion in the mouth, life in the pharynx, stomach, and beyond. The art is clean with simple explanations and well-seasoned humor. Finally, the colorful drawings are informative and scientifically-accurate.
Regardless of how old you are, comics are an illustrative way to emotionally connect with readers of all kinds of content.
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Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr. - Born August 5, 1937 in Saint Paul, Minnesota – Died August 11, 2003 near Forest Lake, Minnesota was an American ice Hockey player and coach.
His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S.Olympic Hockey team at Lake Placid. At the games, Brooks' US team upset the heavily favored Soviet Union team in a match that came to be known as the 'Miracle on Ice'.
Before the game, Brooks read his players a statement he had written out on a piece of paper, telling them that "You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."
After his Olympic gold medal win, Brooks moved to Switzerland for a year to coach HC Davos in the National League A. From 1981 to 1985, he coached in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, where he became the first American-born coach in Rangers' team history to win 100 games. He also coached the Minnesota North Stars (from 1987 to 1988), New Jersey Devils (1992–93), and Pittsburgh Penguins (1999–2000). He was a long-time scout for the Penguins from the mid-1990s, and held the role of Director of Player Personnel from 2002 to the day of his death.
Brooks also coached two more Olympic team squads: Team France at the 1998 in Nagano, and the U.S. Hockey team again at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The 2002 team defeated the Russians in the semi-finals en route to a silver, losing in the gold medal game to Canada. The U.S. win over Russia came exactly 22 years to the day after the famous 'Miracle on Ice' game.
Brooks was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990, the International Hockey Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Hockey Hall of Fame (posthumously) in 2006.
As part of its 100th anniversary celebrations in 2008, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) chose the "Miracle on Ice" as the century's number-one international ice Hockey story.
Disney released a film about the 1980 Olympic team in 2004 called Miracle featuring Kurt Russell playing the part of Brooks (Karl Malden had previously played Brooks in a 1981 television film called Miracle on Ice). Brooks served as a consultant during principal photography, which was completed shortly before his death. At the end of the movie there is a dedication to Brooks. It states, "He never saw it. He lived it."
Upon the 25th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice, the Olympic ice arena in Lake Placid, New York, where the United States won the gold medal, was renamed Herb Brooks Arena. A statue of Brooks depicting his reaction to the victory in the 'Miracle' game was erected at the entrance to the RiverCentre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 2003.
The Herb Brooks Award is awarded at the conclusion of the Minnesota State High School League's state Hockey tournament to "the most qualified Hockey player in the state tournament who strongly represents the values, characteristics, and traits that defined Herb Brooks."
The Herb Brooks Training Center is located at Blaine, Minnesota.
The National Hockey Center at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota was renamed for Brooks in April of 2013.
Hockey Hall of Fame inscription reads:
"A man of passion and dedication, Herb Brooks inspired a generation of Americans to pursue any and all dreams."
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We understand how daunting the IAS examinations can be and therefore, have tried to present the following information in an easy to understand manner.
In the following article we will take you step by step through the entire process so that you can understand what each stage of the process is composed of and how it can easily and successfully be negotiated.
The following information is presented in a question-answer format.
EXAM DIFFICULTY
IAS PRELIMS
IAS MAINS
IAS SELECTION
IAS OFFICERS
IAS QUERY: What does the acronym IAS stand for?
A. The acronym IAS stands for ‘Indian Administrative Service’.
IAS QUERY: Which are the 24 Services for which the candidates are selected through the Civil Services Examination every year?
A. The 24 Services for which the candidates are selected are:
Group – A Services
(i) Indian Administrative Service.
(ii) Indian Foreign Service.
(iii) Indian Police Service.
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’.
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’.
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’.
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration).
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’.
(xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’.
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’.
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’.
(xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’.
(xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”.
Group – B Services
(xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade).
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group ‘B’.
(xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group ‘B’.
IAS QUERY: What is a Technical Service?
A. Those services are treated as Technical Services which require special medical status in terms of vision, height, chest, chest expansion etc.
IAS QUERY: Which are deemed as the Technical Services under the Civil Services Examination?
A. The Technical services under the Civil Services Examination are as follows.
i Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
ii Railway Protection Force (RPF) Group A,
iii Indian Police Service, Gr. A,
iv Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service. Group ‘B’.
v Pondicherry Police Service, Group ‘B’
vi Indian Ordinance Factories Service (IOFS) Group A.
IAS QUERY: Which are the Non-Technical services?
A The remaining 18 services for which selection is made through the Civil Services Examination are the Non-Technical Services.
ias DIFFICULTY
IAS QUERY: How many people apply to get into the IAS every year?
A. More than 10 lakh or 1 million people apply to the UPSC for taking the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS every year.
IAS QUERY: Of those who apply to the UPSC for getting into the IAS, how many drop out without appearing for the examination?
A. About half the people, i.e. about 5 lakh people, out of those who apply to the UPSC for getting into the IAS do not appear in the examination.
IAS QUERY: How many IAS officers are selected in a year?
A. Every year about 1000 – 1100 officers are selected for the various Civil Services. Out of them, about 180 are selected for the IAS and about 150 are selected for the IPS.
IAS QUERY: How difficult is it to get into the IAS and the Other Civil Services?
A. It is very difficult to make it to the IAS and the Other Civil Services. Only 1000-1100 candidates get selected for the Civil Services, out of more than 10 lakh candidates who apply to the UPSC. Out of the 1000-1100 candidates who are selected for the Civil Services, only about 180 candidates make it to the IAS.
IAS QUERY: Is the examination for getting selected to the IAS difficult?
A. The examination for getting selected for the Civil Services and the IAS is difficult only because of the huge competition that has to be faced. Less than 0.01% of those who apply make it through the Civil Services Examination and only about 0.001% make it to the IAS.
IAS QUERY: Is the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS the most difficult competitive examination in the world?
A. The Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS would easily rank among the most difficult competitive examinations in the world and it would easily eclipses any other competitive examination in terms of difficulty in India.
IAS QUERY: What are the chances for a candidate to pass the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. The chances for any candidate to pass the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS are as good as the chances of any other candidate aspiring for the IAS. It will ultimately depend on how seriously and purposefully the candidate studies for the examination. Please remember, you will not be able to clear the examination unless you make very extensive and intensive preparations for the examination.
IAS QUERY: On an average how many attempts are needed to clear the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. On an average, candidates take 3-4 attempts to clear the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: How many hours of study per day is necessary for clearing the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. You have to study over a very long period of time for clearing the examination for getting into the IAS. On an average, you will need to study for 10 to 12 hours for at least one and a half to two years to be able to do well.
IAS QUERY: Why do some people make it through the Civil Services Examination and many others do not?
A. Please remember, this is a competitive examination. Out of more than 10 lakh people who fill the form, at least 5 lakh people appear for the examination. Only about 1000 to 1100 out of them will get selected for the Civil Services. Out of these 1000-1100 people, only 180 make it to the IAS. So, most people do not make it through the examination. Only those candidates will make it through who have put in the maximum effort in their studies.
IAS QUERY: What has been the male female ratio in the selections to the Civil Services in the last few years?
A. The male female ratio in the selections to the Civil Services in the last few years has been around 80:20 or 80% males and 20% females.
IAS QUERY: What is the schedule followed by the UPSC for holding the Civil Services Examination?
A. The specific dates on which the UPSC takes out various notifications connected with the Civil Services Examination vary from year to year. However, generally, the following schedule is maintained:
•The Notification for the examination is issued during the last week of January or the first week of February.
•Registration begins from the second or third week of February.
•The Preliminary Examination is held around the second week of June.
•The Main Written Examination is held around the last week of November or the first week of December.
•The Interview for Personality Test starts from the first week of February.
•The Results are declared in May-June.
IAS QUERY: In how many stages is the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS held?
A. The Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS is held in two successive stages:
i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for the Main Examination; and
ii) Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various Services and posts.
iii) The Written Examination is held first. Those candidates who are deemed by the UPSC to have qualified the Written Examination are called for the Interview for the Personality Test.
IAS QUERY: Do the candidates have to write the examination papers of the Civil Services for getting into the IAS in their own hand?
A. Yes. Candidates must write the examination papers in their own hand.
IAS QUERY: Are any marks deducted for handwriting that is not easily legible?
A. If a candidate’s handwriting is not easily legible, some marks are likely to be deducted from the total marks otherwise accruing to him/her.
IAS QUERY: Is negative marking done for incorrect answers at the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. Yes. Negative marking is done for incorrect answers as detailed below:
i. For each question for which a wrong answer is given by a candidate, 1/3rd (0.33) of the marks assigned to the question will be deducted as penalty.
ii. If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer (even if one of the given answers happens to be correct) and the marks will be deducted.
iii. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.
IAS QUERY: Is it likely that the evaluated performance of a candidate may suffer because the answer books in his/her case are evaluated by a ‘strict’ examiner, while another candidate may benefit as his/her answer books are evaluated by a ‘liberal’ examiner?
A. The Paper Setter, who is always an eminent person in his field, normally acts as the Head Examiner. Wherever the number of candidates in a particular subject is very large, the UPSC appoints Additional Examiners for evaluation of the answer books. To achieve uniformity in evaluation, where more than one Examiner is involved, the UPSC arranges a meeting of the Head Examiner with the Additional Examiners after the Examination in that paper is over. During the meeting, they discuss thoroughly the question paper and the appropriate answers and decide upon the standard of evaluation.
To bring about further uniformity in the assessment done by the Additional Examiners, the following procedure is followed:
The Head Examiner conducts a sample survey of the answer books marked by each Additional Examiner to verify whether the uniform standards of evaluation evolved in the meeting of the Examiners have actually been followed. Depending on the standard adopted by the Additional Examiner, the Head Examiner may confirm the awards without any change, if the Examiner has correctly followed the standard decided upon, or may carry out upward/ downward moderation, as considered necessary, to ensure the maximum possible degree of uniformity in the evaluation process.
Therefore, the aspect of inter-examiner variation in standards of evaluation in a Paper affecting the performance of candidates is taken care of adequately by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: Which is the language / medium of question papers?
A. The question papers (other than the language papers) are set in Hindi and English.
IAS QUERY: THE MARKS SECURED IN WHICH PAPERS ARE COUNTED WHILE DECIDING THE RANK IN ORDER OF MERIT IN THE WRITTEN PART OF CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION TO DETERMINE WHO WILL BE CALLED FOR THE INTERVIEW FOR THE PERSONALITY TEST?
A. The marks obtained by the candidates in Papers I to VII only of the Civil Services Main (Written) Examination are counted for deciding the rank, in order of merit, to determine who will be called for the Interview for the Personality Test. Please remember, the rank, in order of merit, is awarded in the case of only those candidates who have obtained the specified minimum marks in the qualifying papers. However, the UPSC have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all of these papers.
IAS QUERY: How does the UPSC draw up the merit list of the candidates who have qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. In order to draw up a list of the candidates who have qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination for getting into the IAS, the UPSC first checks the marks obtained by the candidates in the General Studies Paper II. Only those candidates who have secured the minimum qualifying marks of 33% in the General Studies Paper II are eligible for being included in the merit list. The UPSC then looks at the marks secured by these candidates (who have qualified the General Studies Paper II) in the General Studies Paper I and prepares a merit list, in descending order, of the candidates who have qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination for getting into the IAS, with the name of the candidate who has secured the highest marks in the General Studies Paper I figuring at number one.
IAS QUERY: How can I find out about what kind of questions are asked in the two papers of the Preliminary Examination?
A. You can easily get to know about this by ordering the Question Papers of the earlier years from the UPSC. You can do this by going to their site: upsc.gov.in.
Similarly, you can also order the Answer Keys for these questions from the same site of the UPSC.
Once you have both the question papers and the Answer Keys, please read them carefully so that you can understand what kind of questions are asked and how they are to be answered.
IAS QUERY: Is it possible to get hold of some Model Question Papers to practice before the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. There are many sites on the Internet that can tell you how to obtain mock question papers for practice. You may or may not want to use them. However, you should certainly order the Model Question cum Answer Booklet from the UPSC so that you can practice answering the questions as you continue with your preparations. These are available at: upsc.gov.in.
IAS QUERY: How do you start your preparation for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. The Text Books prescribed by the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for the CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Examination) are a good place to start your preparations for Paper I of the Preliminary Examination. These books are prescribed from Class 6 onwards in the schools that follow the CBSE pattern.
IAS QUERY: Why are these books considered good for preparing for the Preliminary Examination?
A. Scholars, who are experts in their respective fields, have written these books in a simple and lucid style. A close study of these books will not only increase your knowledge but also help to improve your comprehension and understanding of various aspects of the subjects that you are preparing.
IAS QUERY: How do you prepare for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. You should make notes of whatever you study so that you do not have to open the books again and again. As time passes, you could collect additional information on the subject and add that to your notes and thus make your notes even more comprehensive.
IAS QUERY: As my notes get ready for various topics, what else should I do?
A. You must make sure that you go through your notes or revise them regularly so that, over time, the information contained in them becomes a part of you and your knowledge becomes very thorough.
IAS QUERY: How do I prepare for Paper I, General Studies, of the Preliminary Examination?
A. If you look at the syllabus of Paper I, General Studies, you will notice that there are seven topics in this paper. You will have to prepare each topic systematically.
IAS QUERY: What does the first topic of general studies pertain to?
A. The first topic pertains to Current events of national and international importance.
IAS QUERY: This subject appears to be so vast, how can I prepare for it?
A. Preparing this topic is not as difficult as it looks. In order to prepare this topic in a meaningful manner you have to read at least one national newspaper from cover to cover every day.
IAS QUERY: Which newspaper should you read from cover to cover everyday?
A. If you intend to read an English newspaper, then it should preferably be The Hindu. If you are unable to get The Hindu, then the Indian Express should be read. If you wish to read a Hindi newspaper, then you could read the Dainik Jagaran or the Dainik Bhaskar or the Amar Ujala.
IAS QUERY: In what manner should the newspaper be read?
A. You must read the newspaper from cover to cover and you must read it very carefully. You must especially focus on news reports connected with the polity, economy, science, environment, social issues, legal matters and sports. Since you do not know which news item may figure in the examination, you cannot ignore any news report, howsoever insignificant it may appear.
IAS QUERY: How should you approach the newspaper when you commence your preparation for the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. When you commence studying the current events for the Preliminary Examination, I would advise that even if you think you know something about the subject that you are reading about, you must try to forget that you know anything about it. Instead, you should take down extensive notes giving the impression that you are reading about the subject for the first time. As you start making your notes, you will gradually realize that you probably did not know the subject as thoroughly as you thought you did, because you will find nuances in the news report, which you had probably ignored earlier when you had read about the subject cursorily.
IAS QUERY: Sometimes news reports refer to related subjects to make a point, but they do not explain the related subject satisfactorily, which often leaves you confused. What should you do about this?
A. If the news report that you are reading refers to a related subject to make a point, then you must immediately search for that subject on the Internet, read it carefully and add the information that you have collected to your notes. This will help you to understand the news report in its proper perspective.
IAS QUERY: What is the benefit of doing so much research?
A. When you research a topic, the information that you collect gets stored in your mind and stays there. You can retrieve it at a moment’s notice. This will prove very useful, both during your preparation as well as at the time of answering the questions during the examination.
IAS QUERY: What should I do once I have completed my notes from the newspaper for the day?
A. Once you have completed your notes on the various subjects covered in the newspaper on that day, you must read the notes you have prepared once again. This will help you to retain in your memory what you have learnt that day.
IAS QUERY: How much time is a reading of the newspaper in this manner likely to take?
A. A thorough reading of the newspaper in this manner will consume at least four to five hours every day.
IAS QUERY: Is the time being spent on reading the newspaper not excessive? Will it not take away from the time that I need to spend on other topics?
A. Do not get disheartened by the time it will take to read the newspaper, because it is time well spent. If you persist with this method of reading the newspaper, you will notice, after the lapse of a couple of months, that not only has your knowledge of various topics improved and become more accurate, but even the range of your knowledge and your understanding of how various subjects are interconnected has also increased substantially. And as you continue with this method of reading the newspaper, you will also notice that very soon you will not have to rush to the internet to find out about various subjects as frequently as you had to do earlier, because the range and the depth of your knowledge would have increased manifold by then. Indeed, you will be able to hold your own in the event of any discussion on the subject, due to your having studied it so thoroughly.
IAS QUERY: Will I have to continue to devote so much time to reading the newspaper everyday till I appear for the Preliminary Examination?
A. No. As the days pass by and the range and the depth of your knowledge increases, you will also realize that the amount of time taken to read the newspaper thoroughly by you would also come down. This is due to the fact that by this time you would be able to understand the news reports in their proper perspective far more easily. This kind of dedicated work is called making solid preparation. It will pay you handsome dividends at the time of the examination.
IAS QUERY: What else will I need to read besides the newspaper to prepare for the examination?
A. Besides the newspaper, you must go through the issues of the magazines called KURUKSHETRA and YOJANA. These are government publications and they carry a lot of useful information. If you do not have the time to read both the magazines, then you must read at least one of them regularly. You must also make notes of whatever you feel is important in that issue of the magazine and add them to your overall notes on Current events of national and international importance.
IAS QUERY: Is there any other book that I must read for preparing for this topic?
A. Apart from the newspaper and magazines like KURUKSHETRA and YOJANA, the ‘India Year Book’ brought out by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) every year is a ‘must read’ while preparing this topic as well as many other topics contained in Paper I.
IAS QUERY: Are there any sites on the Internet that should also be perused?
A. There are a number of sites on the Internet that will have to be perused on a regular basis.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) maintains a website on the Internet. This website carries daily updates of the work done by various Ministries everyday.
There is another site called insightsonindia.com It brings out a summary of all important news items of the day in the evening.
A site called PRS India brings out updates on legal matters.
All these sites carry important information on a daily/monthly basis and can be perused. You can make notes of whatever you feel is relevant. You can also download the information from some of them.
IAS QUERY: Are there any other sites that can be perused?
A. There are numerous other sites on the Internet, which claim that for some financial consideration they can help you to prepare for the Civil Services Examination. Among other things that they offer, they also claim that they will provide a daily summary of the news reports carried by the various newspapers everyday. It is entirely up to you to decide whether you wish to avail of their offer or not. I have recommended sites where you are not required to spend any money, but you will get quality information.
IAS QUERY: If one studies as per the advice being given here, is it likely that one will do well at the Preliminary Examination?
A. If you read one national newspaper everyday, in the manner that I have suggested, go through the issue of either the KURUKSHETRA or YOJANA meticulously, read THE INDIA YEARBOOK, listen to the debates on the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha TV, read the Annual Issues and Special Issues of the magazine, ‘India Today’ and look at the information being provided by the internet sites that have been indicated above, you are likely to do very well in this topic in the Preliminary Examination.
Please remember, the information you collect by researching stays with you for life, because of the time and the effort you spend on collecting it.
IAS QUERY: Which is the second topic under General Studies?
A. The second topic under General Studies pertains to the History of India and the Indian National Movement.
IAS QUERY: Which books should be studied to commence preparing for this topic?
A. The books prepared by the NCERT on Indian History are the best books to start your preparation for this topic.
IAS QUERY: What kind of information is available in these books?
A. As you go through these books, which are prescribed for the various classes, you will notice that very useful information is provided in these books. As the level of the class rises, so does the quantum and range of information. More information is added as you move to the History books prescribed for Classes IX, X, XI and XII. Besides, at the end of each chapter, additional books have been mentioned for students who wish to know more about a particular subject.
IAS QUERY: Will it be a good strategy to read the books that have been recommended at the end of each lesson to increase your knowledge?
A. It may not be a good strategy to read all these books, because of the limited time available at your disposal.
IAS QUERY: Then what should be done to increase your knowledge of the topic?
A. Instead of reading the books prescribed at the end of each chapter, you can select one book for each of the broad periods of Indian History viz. Ancient, Medieval and Modern Indian History for advanced study. You should also select one book each for the Indian National Movement and India Since Independence.
IAS QUERY: How can I know which book to select for increasing my knowledge further?
A. You can select these books after consulting your friends and teachers and study them thoroughly. Generally, people select the books by RS Sharma for Ancient India, Satish Chandra for Medieval India, Bipan Chandra for Modern India, Indian National Movement as well as for the period pertaining to India Since Independence. Some people also read Ram Chandra Guha’s ‘India After Gandhi’.
IAS QUERY: Is there any other book that I should read to have a thorough knowledge of this topic?
A. There is a book on Art and Culture prescribed for Class XI by the NCERT. It’s title is AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN ART. It is a very useful book as it deals with the subject quite comprehensively. It is a ‘must read’ for everyone.
Nitin Singhania’s book on Indian Art and Culture is also a very useful book.
IAS QUERY: What is the level of knowledge that the UPSC is looking for when it sets the question paper?
A. Please remember, the level of knowledge that is expected of you while answering the papers set for the Preliminary Examination Paper I is at best of the B.A. (Graduate) level. You are not expected to have the knowledge of an M.A. or a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) on the subject. In the Preliminary Examination you have to attempt multiple-choice answers to questions. You are not required to write long, essay type answers. Therefore, very detailed studying of every aspect of the subject is really not required.
IAS QUERY: Which is the next topic in the paper on General Studies?
A. The next topic in the paper on General Studies is Indian and World Geography – Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
IAS QUERY: Which books should be consulted first to commence my preparations for this topic?
A. Once again, the books prepared by the NCERT for school students are the best for your basic preparation. Please also remember, Geography must be studied with maps and an Atlas. These help to clarify many things.
IAS QUERY: Which Atlas should be used while studying Geography?
A. The Oxford Atlas and the Blackswan Atlas are quite useful. Either one of them can be selected while preparing for your paper.
IAS QUERY: Are there any other books that I should consult while preparing for this topic?
A. In addition to the books prepared by the NCERT and the Oxford or Blackswan Atlas, you can select a couple of books on Indian Geography and World Geography for getting a little more advanced information. These books can be selected after consulting your friends and your teachers. Some of the better known authors are Goh Cheng Leong, Simon Adams, Robert D Kaplan, Majid Hussain, Savinder Singh, DR Khullar etc. You will have to make a very thorough reading of the books that you select.
IAS QUERY: How thoroughly should the books be read?
A. You must read the books that you select very thoroughly. Please remember, quite often, the things that appear insignificant while you are reading the book find their way into the question paper. If you have not studied the book thoroughly, you will not be able to answer the question.
IAS QUERY: Why is it necessary to practice on the maps while studying geography?
A. It is very useful to practice marking the location of places and geographical features like important rivers, lakes, seas, mountain ranges etc. on blank outline maps of India and the World while preparing for the topic of Geography. This will help you to form a good idea about the location of places and features in your mind and will come in handy while answering the questions.
A. The next topic in the paper on General Studies is Indian Polity and Governance – Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues etc.
IAS QUERY: What is this topic about?
A. As the topic itself suggests, this is about the Constitution of India.
IAS QUERY: Which books should be read while commencing preparation for this topic?
A. Apart from reading the books prescribed by the NCERT on Polity, the Constitution of India will also have to be read. You must keep a bare Act of the Constitution of India handy and read it as often as time permits.
IAS QUERY: Are there any other standard books that should be consulted?
A. One or two standard commentaries on the Constitution of India will also need to be referred to in order to understand various aspects of our Constitutional System. Durga Das Basu’s book on the Indian Constitution is the standard reference book. But it is a huge tome. If you have the time, you can take a look at it. However, the abridged version “An Introduction to the Indian Constitution” by Durga Das Basu also makes excellent reading and must be consulted. There are other books too. Some of these have been written by authors like Subhash Kashyap, PM Bakshi etc.
IAS QUERY: If I do not have the time to read these books, then what should I do?
A. If you feel that you do not have the time to read any of these books then there are a number of books written for candidates aspiring to appear for the Civil Services Examination. You could select one or two of them. Laxmikanth’s books on Polity and Governance are considered quite useful. Laxmikanth’s books are also available on PDF format on the Internet.
IAS QUERY: How will reading these books benefit me?
A. These books will help to clarify the Indian Constitution and the Political System that flows out of it. Things like the Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues etc. are all a part of the Constitution. Some of them were there right from the beginning when the Constitution was originally framed. Others were included over time through Constitutional Amendments. Going through these books will also help you to understand how Amendments to the Constitution of India can be made.
A. The next topic in the paper on General Studies is Economic and Social Development – Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives etc.
IAS QUERY: What is broadly contained in this topic?
A. This topic deals with various issues connected with economic and social development.
India’s tryst with Destiny commenced on 15th August 1947, in the famous words of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. In 1947, more than 70% of the Indian population was desperately poor. Their lot had to be improved. The Central and the State Governments of the country have been working since 1947 to raise the people out of poverty through various poverty alleviation programmes. The outcome of these programmes has been a mixed bag. Some programmes did well. Others did not. However, the efforts of the Government in this direction have not flagged.
To study this topic you will have to go through the development programmes and welfare schemes that were launched by the Central and the State Governments from time to time.
IAS QUERY: Which books should I begin with to commence my preparations?
A. The books by NCERT dealing with the various subjects under this topic which have been prescribed for classes IX onwards, are a must read for this topic.
IAS QUERY: Which other books should I consult after I have gone through the books by NCERT?
A. Ramesh Singh’s book on the Indian Economy is a very useful book on this topic. It is available in the PDF format on the Internet.
IAS QUERY: What else must I read?
A. Candidates must also go through the Economic Survey that is brought out by the Ministry of Finance every year. It is in two volumes. The Economic Survey brought out by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India is an absolutely ‘must read’ for all candidates aspiring for the Civil Services Examination.
IAS QUERY: Apart from the Economic Survey, what else should I know for this topic?
A. You must also have some idea of the the Finance Commission appointed by the President of India under Article 280 of the Constitution of India. Among other things, the Finance Commission recommends how the resources collected by the Central Government are to be shared with the States.
You must also know something about The Annual Budget of the Government of India, especially the portion that contains the ratio of sharing of expenditure on Centrally Sponsored Schemes by the Central and the State Governments. You must also take a look at the ongoing Five Years Plan to get some idea of the major developmental schemes that are under execution in the country.
IAS QUERY: Apart from all this do I need to look at any other information?
A. There is a site that provides details of the Major Initiatives taken by the Prime Minister of India. It is a useful site for getting updates on the Initiatives taken by the Prime Minister of India. The site is called PM INDIA.
Candidates should look at it regularly to update their information.
Books like, “Textbooks for Sustainable Development – A Guide to Embedding” brought out by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development could also be consulted, if you have the time.
A. The next topic is General issues on Environmental ecology. Bio-diversity and Climate Change. This is a critical sector and is very much in the news.
IAS QUERY: Which books should I consult to commence my preparations for this topic?
A. The NCERT books on Science for Class XI and XII contain some chapters on Environment. These should be read, especially Unit 9 and 10 of the book on Biology for Class XII by NCERT.
Jairam Ramesh, the former Minister, has prepared a very useful note on Critically Endangered Species. This must be read.
IAS QUERY: Are there any publications of the Government of India that I should consult?
A. The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, has carried out a number of surveys. These are the Tiger Survey, the Elephant Survey, the Survey of Biosphere Reserves, the Survey of National Parks, the Survey of Wetlands of India etc. These contain useful information about the status of all these subjects. They should be consulted. There is no need of making an in-depth study of these surveys, but the broad items of information contained in them are quite useful.
IAS QUERY: Is there any other publication of the Government of India that should be read?
A. The Ministry of Environment and Forests brings out a Forest Survey every year. This contains detailed information about all items pertaining to the subjects that are looked after by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. If you can manage to read this book, it will provide very useful information. However, if you do not have the time to do so, then you must make an effort to at least go through the Introductory Chapter of the Forest Survey.
IAS QUERY: Is there any material on the Internet on this topic that should be consulted?
A. There is a plethora of material on Environment and Ecology on the Internet. There are scholarly articles on the subjects by numerous persons including L Schipper, M Pelling, WN Adger, EL Tomkins, K Kern, M Linder, KL O’Brien, Amdt Hampe, Kathy J Willis, CD Thomas etc. These could be consulted.
IAS QUERY: What else should I know about for this topic?
A. (1) The Paris Accord on Climate Change is a very critical subject. It was negotiated by representatives of 196 countries at Paris in December 2015. It is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with Greenhouse Gas Emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance, starting in the year 2020. As of 2018, 196 UNFCCC members have signed the agreement and 179 countries have become parties to it. It must be studied carefully. Please remember, the G20 countries are responsible for 74% of the global Greenhouse Gas emissions.
(2) The current stand of the United States of America vis a vis the Paris Accord is very important in the present context.
The world leaders meet frequently to discuss the issues connected with this subject and these are extensively covered in the press.
(3) The Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of India deals with India’s policy and approach on these issues. The literature published by them can prove very useful for appreciating India’s stand on these issues.
(4) Very useful information is also available in the publications on Environment brought out by Pearson and McGraw.
A. The next topic is General Science.
IAS QUERY: Which books should be consulted to commence my preparation for this topic?
A. The books prescribed by the NCERT for General Science for the CBSE will be very useful for understanding the basic principles and theories and must be studied carefully. All the General Science Books prescribed for Class 6 to Class 10 must be studied. In addition, the books on Biology, physics and Chemistry for Class 11 and Class 12 must also be studied.
IAS QUERY: Which book should I read to increase my knowledge in General Science?
A. The book, “Science and Technology in India” by Ashok Singh is an excellent book and should be studied.
IAS QUERY: Is there anything else that I should read?
A. If you have the time, then you could probably supplement your knowledge by going through Lucent’s General Science too.
IAS QUERY: What is the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination?
A. UPSC conducts the Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) for recruitment to the IAS, IFS, IPS and other Central Services and posts. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit.
IAS QUERY: How many papers have to be attempted at the stage of the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. The Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS consists of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) of 200 marks each and carries a maximum of 400 marks.
IAS QUERY: In which languages are the question papers in the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS set?
A. The question papers are set in both Hindi and English.
IAS QUERY: What is the duration of each question paper in the Preliminary Examination?
A. Each paper in the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS is of two hours duration.
IAS QUERY: Is some extra time permitted to candidates falling in the category of “Persons with Benchmark Disabilities”?
A. Candidates who are
i. Blind;
ii. Suffer from Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy, which slows down their writing performance by a minimum of 40%
are allowed an extra time of twenty minutes per hour for each paper.
IAS QUERY: Are candidates permitted the use of mobile phone, pager or any electronic equipment or programmable device like pen drive, smart watch, camera etc. or blue tooth devices during the examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. Candidates are prohibited from using any mobile phone (even in switched off mode), pager or any electronic equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watch etc. or camera or blue tooth devices during the examination.
IAS QUERY: Are the marks secured by a candidate at the Preliminary Examination counted for determining their final order of merit for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. No. The Preliminary Examination is meant to serve as a screening test only. The marks secured in the Preliminary Examination by a candidate, who is declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination, are not counted for determining the final order of merit.
IAS QUERY: How many candidates are admitted to the Main Examination for the Civil Services?
A. The number of candidates admitted to the Main Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS is usually about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year through this examination.
IAS QUERY: Which candidates are permitted to appear for the Main Examination?
A. Only those candidates who are declared by the UPSC to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year are eligible for admission to the Main (Written) Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: What are the important points to be kept in mind for Paper I when attempting the Preliminary Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. The following points must be kept in mind when attempting Paper I of the Preliminary Examination:
i Paper I has a duration of two hours or 120 minutes.
ii You have to answer 100 questions in 120 minutes.
iii Each question carries 2 marks.
iv Negative marking is done for incorrect answers. If you give 1 incorrect answer, then you lose 1/3 or 0.33 marks out of the marks assigned to that question.
IAS QUERY: Please explain the implication of 100 questions to be answered in 120 minutes?
A. If you have to reply 100 questions in 120 minutes, it means that you get a little more than 1 minute to answer each question. This means that you have to adhere to a very tight schedule of time management. This is possible only if you have carried out extensive practice during mock papers and are thoroughly familiar with the topics on which the questions are likely to be asked. So, attempt as many mock papers as is possible. The more you practice, the easier it will be for you at the time of the Preliminary Examination.
IAS QUERY: Will I get time to revise my answer sheet for Paper I?
A. Please remember, you are not likely to find time to revise your answer sheet. You may also not find time to attempt a question that you may have left out. Therefore, try to answer each question as it appears, in the sequence in which it has been set in the question paper.
IAS QUERY: What will happen if I do not know the answers to some questions?
A. It is possible that you may not know the answers to all the questions. Please do not get daunted by this. If you get even 60% of the answers correct, and do not try guesswork for the answers to the questions you are not sure about, there is no reason why your name should not figure in the list of candidates who are permitted by the UPSC to appear in the Main Examination.
IAS QUERY: What kind of impact can negative marking have on the marks that I score in Paper I?
A. Negative marking can bring down the total marks secured by you and may even lead to your not clearing the Preliminary Examination. This obviously means that you cannot write answers on the basis of guess work as it may lead to a severe penalty in the form of deduction of the marks secured by you.
IAS QUERY: What is the general studies Paper II of the Preliminary Examination?
A. Paper II of the Preliminary Examination is also called CSAT or the Civil Services Aptitude Test or simply the Aptitude Test.
IAS QUERY: What is special about General Studies Paper II?
A. The General Studies Paper II is a qualifying paper. This means that the candidates must obtain the minimum qualifying marks or Pass Marks in this paper. The minimum qualifying marks or Pass Marks have been fixed at 33% by the UPSC. The marks secured in this paper are not counted for deciding the rank in order of merit of those candidates who are deemed to have cleared the Preliminary Examination. That is done only on the basis of the marks secured by the candidate in the General Studies Paper I. However, if a candidate fails to secure at least 33% marks in this paper, he/she is deemed to have failed in the Preliminary Examination.
IAS QUERY: What does this paper test?
A. This paper tests a candidate’s
•Comprehension;
•Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
•Logical reasoning and analytical ability;
•Decision making and problem solving;
•General mental ability;
•Basic Numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc.) [Class X level];
•Data Interpretation (Charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level).
IAS QUERY: Broadly speaking what does this paper intend to test in the candidate?
A. Basically, this paper has been included to test whether a candidate who is aspiring for the Civil Services possesses the minimum pre-requisites that are required to be present in an All India Services Officer. All these qualities are very important in the performance of day to day work by the officer. Absence of these qualities will adversely affect the ability of the officers to perform their duties. That is why candidates who do not obtain the minimum marks of 33% in this paper are deemed to have not passed the Preliminary Examination.
IAS QUERY: Are there any books available which can help a candidate to hone these abilities?
A. Answering the questions in Paper II depends primarily on the attributes that are already present in the candidate. However, there are a few books that may help you to hone your abilities further. Two books can be considered. The first is “Analytical Reasoning” by MK Pandey. The second book is “Verbal and non-verbal reasoning” by RS Aggarwal.
IAS QUERY: Are there any other books that can be considered for studying for this paper?
A. Arihant Publications has also brought out a book titled “Cracking The CSAT Paper 2”. A careful and close reading of this book is also likely to help you to sharpen your abilities further and may prove useful in preparing for Paper II.
The “15 Test Papers” published by Arihant for Paper II are also extremely important. They will help you to practice how to answer the questions that are likely to be asked during the examination.
IAS QUERY: What are the important points that must be kept in mind for Paper II?
A. The following points must be kept in mind about Paper II:
i Paper II is of two hours or 120 minutes duration.
ii 80 questions have to be answered in 120 minutes.
iii Each question carries 2.5 marks.
iv There is negative marking in this paper too. For each incorrect answer 1/3 or 33% of the marks assigned for that question will be deducted.
IAS QUERY: Please explain the implication of 80 questions to be answered in 120 minutes?
A. If you have to reply 80 questions in 120 minutes, it means that you get a little more than 1.5 minutes to answer each question. The questions in this paper are trickier than the questions in Paper I. You will have to think deeply. This means that you have to adhere to a very tight schedule of time management. This is possible only if you have carried out extensive practice during mock papers. So, attempt as many mock papers as is possible. The more you practice, the easier it will be for you at the time of the Preliminary Examination.
IAS QUERY: Will I get time to revise my answer sheet for Paper II?
IAS QUERY: What kind of impact can negative marking have on the marks that I may score in Paper II?
A. Negative marking can bring down the total marks a candidate may have secured substantially. And if it results in the candidate securing less than 33% marks in this paper, then, irrespective of how the candidate may have fared in Paper I of the Preliminary Examination, he/she will be deemed to have not passed the Preliminary Examination and will not be permitted to appear in the Main Examination. This obviously means that you cannot write answers on the basis of guess work as it may lead to a severe penalty in the form of deduction of the marks secured by you.
A. In Paper II there will be very few questions where the correct answers will be obvious, since it is supposed to test the various faculties that you are already possessed of. Therefore, please do not get daunted by this. Do not try guesswork for the answers to the questions you are not sure about. You will have to use your mental ability to answer the questions. So, there is no reason why you should not be able to answer the questions correctly. Also, please remember, you are only supposed to obtain 33% marks in this paper and the marks secured in this paper will not be added to the marks of Paper I to determine your merit. Just practice hard and answer the paper with confidence. There is no reason why your name should not figure in the list of candidates who are permitted by the UPSC to appear in the Main Examination.
IAS QUERY: Are the marks sheets of the Preliminary Examination supplied to the candidates?
A. As the Preliminary Examination is only a screening test, no marks sheets are supplied to successful or unsuccessful candidates and the UPSC does not entertain any request in this regard.
IAS QUERY: Which candidates are eligible to appear for the Main examination?
A. Only those candidates who are declared by the UPSC to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible to appear in the Main Examination of that year, provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination
IAS QUERY: Are fresh Admit Cards issued to the candidates who have qualified for the Main Written Examination?
A. Yes. Fresh Admit Cards are issued by the UPSC to the candidates who have qualified for the Main Written Examination, after they have filled up the prescribed form online. This is usually done about three weeks prior to the holding of the examination.
IAS QUERY: Do candidates who are declared by the UPSC to have qualified for admission to the Civil Services (Main) Examination have to fill up an Application form again?
A. Yes. Candidates who are declared by the UPSC to have qualified for admission to the Civil Services (Main) Examination have to apply online once again, in the Detailed Application Form, which is made available to them.
IAS QUERY: How can I obtain the Detailed Application Form for Civil Services Main Examination?
A. The detailed Application form will be available only for those candidates who have qualified the Civil Services Preliminary Examination. This form is available online from the UPSC website.
IAS QUERY: Will a candidate be required to pay the fee for the Main Written Examination also?
A. Yes. A Fee of Rs. 200/- will have to be paid again by male candidates belonging to the General Category and the OBC category for the Main Written Examination.
IAS QUERY: Which categories of candidates are exempted from paying any fee for the Civil Services Main Examination?
A. All female candidates and candidates belonging to the SC/ST/Persons with Benchmark Disabilities categories are exempted from paying the fee.
IAS QUERY: Is the Application Form for the Main Written Examination quite long?
A. The Detailed Application Form has two parts. Each part must be filled out carefully. Candidates are required to give in this form, among other things, their preference for the Service they wish to join and the cadre that they would prefer to go to. There is also a section where candidates are asked about their hobbies and interests. The form must be filled carefully because it is possible that at the time of the Interview for the Personality Test, the Board may ask you questions from the information provided by the candidate in the Application Form.
IAS QUERY: Can candidates change their Service priority and Cadre preference after they have filled up and submitted their Application form?
A. No. Candidates are not permitted to change their Service priority and Cadre preference for the IAS and the IPS after they have submitted their Application Form.
IAS QUERY: What does the Main Examination for the Civil Services consist of?
A. The Main Examination consists of a Written examination and an Interview. The Written examination consists of 9 papers of conventional essay type in different subjects, out of which two papers are of ‘qualifying in nature’.
IAS QUERY: What does ‘Qualifying in nature’ mean in the context of the Main Examination?
A. ‘Qualifying in nature’ in the context of the Main (Written) Examination means that for two papers (out of nine), a candidate only needs to secure the qualifying marks or pass marks to be able to move forward. The qualifying marks have been fixed at 25% by the UPSC for these two papers (Indian Language and English).These marks, however, will not be added to a candidate’s overall tally in the other papers. If, however, a candidate fails to secure the qualifying marks or the pass marks in these two papers, he/she will not qualify to proceed further, no matter how many marks he/she may have scored in the other seven papers.
IAS QUERY: What is the standard of the papers on the Indian Language and English at the Main Examination?
A. The papers on Indian Language (Paper A and Paper B) and English (Paper A and Paper B) are of Matriculation and equivalent standard. The marks obtained in these papers are not counted for ranking a candidate.
IAS QUERY: The marks obtained in which papers in the Main Examination are counted for determining the merit for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. The marks obtained by a candidate in Paper-I to Paper VII of the Main (Written) Examination only are counted for determining the merit for the Civil Services Examination.
IAS QUERY: How does the final merit get determined?
A. The final merit is determined by adding up the marks obtained in all the compulsory papers (Paper-I to Paper-VII) of the Main (Written) Examination and the Marks obtained in the Interview for Personality Test.
IAS QUERY: Please list out the papers that have to be answered during the Main Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. The Written Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS consists of the following papers:
2 Qualifying Papers and 7 Papers to be counted for merit.
The Two Qualifying papers are Paper A and Paper B.
Paper A is an Indian Language Paper and comprises 300 Marks
(A candidate can select a language he feels comfortable in, from the list of languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution).
Paper B is a paper on the English language. This paper also comprises 300 marks.
PAPER A: INDIAN LANGUAGE [300 Marks]
PAPER B: ENGLISH [300 Marks]
Then there are 7 papers to be counted for merit.
Papers to be counted for merit:
Paper I
Essay 250 marks
Paper II
Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society 250 marks
Paper III
Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations 250 marks
Paper IV
Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management 250 marks
Paper V
Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude 250 marks
Paper VI
Optional Paper 1 250 marks
Paper VII
Sub Total (Written test) 1750 Marks
Personality Test 275 Marks
Grand Total 2025 Marks
IAS QUERY: What is the difficulty level of the Paper on Indian Languages and English (Paper A and Paper B)?
A. The papers on Indian Languages and English (Paper A and Paper B) are of Matriculation or equivalent standard. These papers are, however, of a ‘qualifying nature’ or in other words candidates have to secure the minimum pass marks in them. The UPSC has fixed 25% as the qualifying marks or pass marks for these papers. The marks obtained in these papers are not counted for determining the rank in order of merit of the candidates.
IAS QUERY: Which languages are included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution?
A. As of now, the following languages are included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution:
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Dogri, Maithilli, Santhali.
IAS QUERY: How many optional subjects can a candidate choose?
A. A candidate can choose only one optional subject. It will have two papers, Optional Subject Paper I and Optional Subject Paper II.
IAS QUERY: Which are the most popular subjects for the IAS Mains Optional Subject paper?
A. The most popular subjects for the IAS Mains Optional Subjects are Geography, History, Public Administration and Sociology. Next come Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Economics.
IAS QUERY: Which Optional Subject should one take in the Main Written Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. You should not select a subject only because it appears to be popular with most candidates. You must remember that you are competing with lakhs of other candidates. Unless you do better than them in the examination, you are not likely to get selected. Your choice should be guided by the criterion of what you think will increase your chances of doing well in the examination. Generally, you do well in a subject that you are comfortable with. This is usually a subject that you may have studied in College or the University. The requisite books and other study material are also available for these subjects. Qualified faculty is also available for these subjects. They can be consulted in case of necessity. So, your choice should be guided by which subject you feel most comfortable in.
IAS QUERY: Please list out the subjects out of which the optional subjects can be chosen?
A. The list of optional subjects for the Main Examination is given below:
(i) Agriculture
(ii) Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
(iii) Anthropology
(iv) Botany
(v) Chemistry
(vi) Civil Engineering
(vii) Commerce and Accountancy
(viii) Economics
(ix) Electrical Engineering
(x) Geography
(xi) Geology
(xii) History
(xiii) Law
(xiv) Management
(xv) Mathematics
(xvi) Mechanical Engineering
(xvii) Medical Science
(xviii) Philosophy
(xix) Physics
(xx) Political Science and International Relations
(xxi) Psychology
(xxii) Public Administration
(xxiii) Sociology
(xxiv) Statistics
(xxv) Zoology
(xxvi) Literature of any one of the following languages:
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.
IAS QUERY: What is the duration of each paper in the Main Written Examination?
A. Each paper in the Main Written Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS is of three hours duration.
IAS QUERY: Is it, compulsory for a candidate to take the same optional subject in the Main Exam, which he had in the Under Graduate/Post Graduate level?
IAS QUERY: If the overall marks of two or more candidates are equal, how is the relative merit between such candidates decided?
A. The ‘Tie-Breaking’ principles are applied to decide the inter se merit among candidates having the same overall marks. It works as follows:
i. A candidate securing more marks in the Compulsory Papers and the Personality Test put together is to be ranked higher;
ii. In a case where the marks mentioned at (i) above are equal, the candidate senior in age is to be ranked higher; and
iii. In a case where the marks mentioned at (i) are equal and the condition mentioned at (ii) is also equal, the candidate who has secured higher marks in the Compulsory Papers is to be ranked higher.
IAS QUERY: What precautions should be taken while going to the Examination Hall for appearing for the Main (Written) Examination?
A. The following precautions should be taken while going to the Examination Hall:
•Please remember to carry the e-Admit Card to the Examination Hall.
•Please carry the e-Admit Card in each session to secure admission to the Examination Hall.
•The e-Admit Card should be preserved till the declaration of the final result.
•Please enter the Examination Hall at least 20 minutes before the scheduled time for the commencement of the examination.
•Please remember, you will not be admitted to the examination hall, if you reach 10 minutes after the scheduled time for commencement of the examination.
•You are permitted to use Scientific (Non-Programmable type) Calculators in the examination. However, you are not permitted to use Programmable type calculators in this examination.
•Mobile Phones and other Electronics/Communication devices are prohibited in the examination hall.
•The candidates must answer all parts and sub-parts of a question, in the space provided, in the Question Cum Answer (QCA) booklet, under each question/ part in the QCA booklet.
•Candidates should ensure that spaces/pages remaining blank are clearly crossed out before the QCA booklets are handed over to the invigilators.
•Candidates should not bring any valuable/ costly items to the examination hall, as their safekeeping cannot be assured by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: In which language are the question papers of the Main Written Examination set?
A. The question papers for the Main Written Examination for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS (other than the language papers) are set in Hindi and English only.
IAS QUERY: In which language can the candidates answer the Question Papers?
A. Candidates have the option to answer all the Question Papers, except the Qualifying Language Papers, in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India or in English.
A. As of now, the following languages are included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution:
IAS QUERY: In which scripts are the questions to the Language papers to be answered?
A. The Language papers are to be answered in the following scripts:
LANGUAGE SCRIPT
Assamese Assamese
Bengali Bengali
Gujarati Gujarati
Hindi Devnagari
Kannada Kannada
Kashmiri Persian
Konkani Devnagari
Malayalam Malayalam
Manipuri Bengali
Marathi Devnagari
Nepali Devnagari
Odia Odia
Punjabi Gurumukhi
Sanskrit Devnagari
Sindhi Devnagari or Arabic
Tamil Tamil
Telugu Telugu
Urdu Persian
Bodo Devnagari
Dogri Devanagari
Maithili Devanagari
Santhali Devnagari or Olchiki
IAS QUERY: Can a candidate write different papers of Civil Service (Main) Examination in different languages?
A. No, the candidates have the option to write their answers either in English or in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. They have to indicate the language in which they will write their answers at the time of filling up the Detailed Application Form for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Main Examination. However, as far as the Qualifying language papers are concerned, candidates have to write their answers to the questions in the Qualifying language papers in that language only.
IAS QUERY: Can a candidate write the Civil Service (Main) Examination in English and take the interview in Hindi or any other Indian language?
A. The candidates, opting for Indian Language medium for the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination may choose either the same Indian Language or English or Hindi as the medium for the interview.
The candidates who opt to write the Civil Services (Main) Examination in English may choose either English, or Hindi, or any other Indian Language which they may have opted for as the Compulsory Indian Language Paper in the Main (Written) Examination, as the medium in which the interview may be conducted. The candidate has to indicate the language in which he/she may like the interview to be conducted in the Detailed Application Form which is to be filled up for the Main (Written) Examination.
However, the candidates, who are exempted from the compulsory Indian Language Paper, will have to choose either English or Hindi as medium of Interview of Personality Test.
A. No. The candidates have to indicate their choice of the language at the time of filling up the Detailed Application Form. However, as far as the Qualifying language papers are concerned, candidates have to write their answers to the questions in the Qualifying language papers in that language only.
IAS QUERY: Is the paper A on Indian Language compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim?
A. The paper A on Indian Language is not, as of now, compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.
IAS QUERY: Is the paper A on Indian Language compulsory for Candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disability (only Hearing Impairment sub-category)?
A. The paper A on Indian Language is not, as of now, compulsory for Candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disability (only Hearing Impairment sub-category) provided that they have been granted such exemption by the concerned education Board/University.
IAS QUERY: Is the Indian language Paper compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim?
A. The paper on Indian Language (Paper A) is not compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim. This is made clear in the Online Application Form. In the Online Application, if a candidate hails from these North‐Eastern States, the option for Indian Language will automatically be disabled.
IAS QUERY: In how many centres in the country does the UPSC hold the Civil Services Preliminary Examination for selection to the IAS?
A. As of now, the Civil Services Preliminary Examination is held at 72 centres all over the country.
IAS QUERY: Please list out the names of the centres where the Civil Services Preliminary Examination for selection to the IAS are held?
A. As of now the Civil Services Preliminary Examination is held at the following centres:
AGARTALA GHAZIABAD GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR
AGRA GORAKHPUR PANAJI (GOA)
AJMER GURGAON PATNA
AHMEDABAD GWALIOR PORT BLAIR
AIZAWL HYDERABAD PUDUCHERRY
ALIGARH IMPHAL PUNE
ALLAHABAD INDORE RAIPUR
ANANTPUR (ANDHRA PRADESH) ITANAGAR RAJKOT
AURANGABAD JABALPUR RANCHI
BANGALORE JAIPUR SAMBALPUR
BAREILLY JAMMU SHILLONG
BHOPAL JODHPUR SHIMLA
BILASPUR JORHAT SILIGUDI
CHANDIGARH KOCHI SRINAGAR
CHENNAI KOHIMA THANE
COIMBATORE KOLKATA THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
CUTTACK KOZHIKODE TIRUCHIRAPALLI
(CALICUT)
DEHRADUN LUCKNOW TIRUPATI
DELHI LUDHIANA UDAIPUR
DHARWAD MADURAI VARANASI
DISPUR MUMBAI VELLORE
FARIDABAD MYSORE VIJAYAVADA
GANGTOK NAGPUR VISHAKHAPATNAM
GAYA NAVI MUMBAI WARANGAL
IAS QUERY: Where are the Civil Services Mains Examination for getting into the IAS held?
A. As of now, the Civil Services Mains Examination for getting into the IAS are held at the following 24 Centres all over the country:
AHMEDABAD DEHRADUN MUMBAI
AIZAWL DELHI PATNA
ALLAHABAD DISPUR (GUWAHATI) RAIPUR
BANGALURU HYDERABAD RANCHI
BHOPAL JAIPUR SHILLONG
CHANDIGARH JAMMU SHIMLA
CHENNAI KOLKATA THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
CUTTACK LUCKNOW VIJAYAWADA
IAS QUERY: Is there a ceiling on the number of candidates who can be allotted a centre for appearing in the CSE for getting into the IAS?
A. There is an upper ceiling on the number of candidates who can be allotted to each of the Centres for appearing in the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS.
There is, however, no ceiling on the number of candidates who can be allotted the Centres at Chennai, Dispur, Kolkata and Nagpur.
IAS QUERY: What is the procedure for allotment of a Centre for the CSE for getting into the IAS?
A. The allotment of Centres for the Civil Services Examination for the IAS is done on a “first-apply-first allot” basis. Once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, it is frozen.
IAS QUERY: What can a candidate who does not get a Centre of his/her choice do?
A. A candidate who does not get a Centre of his/her choice due to the ceiling will be required to choose a Centre from the remaining ones.
IAS QUERY: What should a candidate do to get the Centre of his/her choice for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. A candidate who wants to get a Centre of his/her choice for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS should apply early, because the Centres are allotted on “first-apply-first allot” basis.
IAS QUERY: Can a candidate ask for a change of his/her Centre for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS after it has been allotted?
A. Once a Centre has been allotted for appearing in the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS, the UPSC does not entertain any request for a change of Centre.
IAS QUERY: What is the age limit for taking the IAS examination?
A. The minimum age for appearing in the IAS examination is 21 years. The maximum age for appearing in the IAS examination is 32 years.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the upper age available to SC/ST candidates trying for the IAS?
A. The upper age of candidates belonging to the SC/ST category who are trying for the IAS is relaxable by a maximum of 5 years.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the upper age available to OBC candidates trying for the IAS?
A. The upper age of candidates belonging to the OBC category who are trying for the IAS is relaxable by a maximum of 3 years.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the upper age available to Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof for getting into the IAS?
A. The upper age of candidates who belonged to the Defence Services and were disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and were released as a consequence thereof are relaxable up to a maximum of 3 years for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the upper age available to ex- Defence Personnel trying for the IAS?
A. The upper age of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers, ECOs/SSOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service and have been released and are trying for the IAS is relaxable up to a maximum of 5 years.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the upper age available in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years Military Service and whose service has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a Certificate that they can apply for civil employment, including the IAS, and they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment?
A. In these cases the upper age is relaxable up to a maximum of 5 years.
IAS QUERY: Is there any age relaxation available for a candidate who falls in the category of “Persons with Benchmark Disability” and who is trying for the IAS?
A. The upper age of a candidate falling in the category of “Persons with Benchmark Disability” is relaxable up to a maximum of 10 years.
IAS QUERY: How many times can a candidate attempt the IAS and the Civil Services examination?
A. Every candidate is permitted six attempts at the IAS and the Civil Services examination, if he/she is otherwise eligible.
IAS QUERY: Is any relaxation in the number of attempts available to a candidate belonging to the SC/ST category who is trying for the IAS?
A. There is no limit on the number of attempts permitted to a candidate belonging to SC/ST category who is trying for the IAS and the Civil Services if he/she is otherwise eligible.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the number of attempts available to a candidate belonging to the OBC category who is trying for the IAS?
A. A candidates belonging to the OBC category who is trying for the IAS and the Civil Services is permitted nine attempts at the examination, if he/she is otherwise eligible.
IAS QUERY: Is there any relaxation in the number of attempts available to a candidate falling in the category of “Persons with Benchmark Disability” who is trying for the IAS?
A. A candidate falling in the category of “Persons with Benchmark Disability”, who is trying for the IAS and the Civil Services, is permitted the following number of attempts if he/she is otherwise eligible:
i) General Category – 9 attempts.
ii) OBC Category – 12 attempts
iii) SC/ST Category – No limit on the number of attempts.
IAS QUERY: Show in a tabular form the age limits, the no. of attempts allowed for candidates trying for the Civil Services Examination?
A. The information is given below:
AGE LIMIT/NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS TABLE
CATEGORY AGE LIMIT NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS
General Category Upper age limit is 32
years Number of attempts allowed is 6
OBC Category Upper age limit is 35
years. Number of attempts allowed is 9
SC/ST Category Upper age limit is 37
years Number of attempts allowed is unlimited
Physically Handicapped Category
Physically Handicapped Category Upper age limit for General Category Candidates is 42 years
For OBC Category candidates it is 45 years
For SC/ST Category candidates it is 47 years Number of attempts allowed is 9
Number of attempts allowed is 12
Number of attempts allowed is unlimited
Ex Servicemen Category Upper age limit for General Category candidates is 37 years
Upper age limit for OBC Category is 40 years
Upper age limit for SC/ST Category is 42 years Number of attempts allowed is 6
Number of attempts allowed is 9
Disabled Defence
Services Persons
Category Upper age limit for General Category is 35 years
IAS QUERY: What does the phrase, “an attempt at the Civil Services Examination”, mean?
A. An attempt at a Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination is deemed to be “an attempt at the Civil Services Examination”.
IAS QUERY: If a candidate appears in only one paper of the Preliminary Examination, will it be counted as an attempt at the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. Yes. Even if a candidate appears in only one paper of the Preliminary Examination, it will be counted as one attempt at the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: If a candidate is disqualified or his/her candidature is cancelled, will it count as an attempt at the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. Even if a candidate is disqualified or his/her candidature is cancelled, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as one attempt at the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: Is an attempt at the (Preliminary) Examination counted as an attempt at the Civil Service Examination (CSE)?
A. (i) An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be taken as an attempt at the Civil Services Examination.
(ii) If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, it shall be taken as an attempt at the Examination.
(iii) Even in the case of disqualification/ cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.
IAS QUERY: If a candidate has applied for the Preliminary Examination but has not appeared at any paper in that Examination, will it be counted as an attempt at the Civil Services?
A. No. An attempt is counted only if a candidate has appeared in at least one paper in Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination.
IAS QUERY: Where do you apply for appearing in the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. Candidates have to apply to the UPSC for appearing in the IAS examination. Candidates have to apply online by using the website upsconline. Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available on this website.
IAS QUERY: How much time is given to candidates for applying online?
A. Candidates get three weeks to one month to apply online. They can fill up the online application by following the instructions provided on the website for filling up online applications.
IAS QUERY: What happens after a candidate applies online to the UPSC?
A. The eligible candidates are usually issued an e-Admit Card three to four weeks before the commencement of the examination.
IAS QUERY: From where can a candidate obtain the e-Admit Card?
A. The e-Admit Card is made available on the UPSC website for downloading by candidates.
IAS QUERY: Is the Admit Card also sent by post?
A. No. The Admit Card is not sent by post. It must be downloaded.
IAS QUERY: How much fee has to be paid by a male candidate to become eligible to appear in the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS?
A. A male candidate belonging to the General Category or the OBC category is required to pay a fee of Rs. 100/- (Rupees One Hundred only) to become eligible to appear in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination to get into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: How much fee has to be paid by a female candidate or a candidate belonging to SC/ST/Persons with Benchmark Disability to become eligible to appear in the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS?
A. All female candidates and candidates belonging to the SC/ ST/ Persons with Benchmark Disability are exempted from payment of fee.
IAS QUERY: Will the fee of a candidate who has already paid the fee but does not wish to take the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS, be refunded?
A. No. The fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances nor can the fee be held in reserve for any other examination or selection.
IAS QUERY: Is a candidate who is admitted to the Main Examination for the IAS required to pay a further fee?
A. Yes. A candidate who is admitted to the Main (Written) Examination will be required to pay a further fee of Rs. 200/- (Rupees Two Hundred only).
IAS QUERY: Is it necessary to submit a hard copy of the Detailed Application Form (DAF) to the UPSC also?
A. No. The Detailed Application Form has to be submitted to the UPSC through the online mode only. All the documents that have to be submitted have also to be scanned and uploaded along with the Detailed Application Form.
IAS QUERY: What should a candidate do if he/she encounters some difficulty while filling out the Detailed Application Form (DAF)?
A. If the difficulty pertains to a Technical matter, an email should be sent to: web-upsc@nic.in
In case a clarification is required for an Application related query, an email should be sent to: csm-upsc@nic.in
You can also call up the UPSC on the following phone number in case you need any assistance in filling the form: 011-23385271.
IAS QUERY: Which Certificates and Documents have to be filed along with the Detailed Application Form (DAF)?
A. The following Certificates and Documents have to be filed along with the Detailed Application Form:
i. Scanned copy of the Certificate of age.
ii. Scanned copy of Certificate(s) of educational qualification (including a copy of the recognition letter/equivalence certificate from AIU/UGC, if applicable).
iii. Scanned copy of the Certificate in support of claim of belonging to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes/Other Backward Classes (where applicable). Annexure VI and VII may, however, be filled online by the OBC candidates.
iv. Scanned copy of the Certificate in support of claim for age relaxation (where applicable).
v. Scanned copy of the certificate in support of claim of falling in the Category of Persons with Benchmark Disability (along with a scanned copy of the certificate of Disability in Dominant (writing) Extremity, wherever applicable).
vi. Scanned copy of the Certificate to show that the candidate hails from Arunachal Pradesh/ Manipur/ Meghalaya/ Mizoram/ Nagaland or Sikkim (where applicable).
vii. Scanned copy of the undertaking given by a candidate who is in Government service that he /she has informed in writing the Head of the Office / Department about his/her intention to appear in the examination.
viii. Scanned copies of documentary proof in support of service/status/landholding/income from different sources/property held by parents of OBC (non creamy layer) candidates.
IAS QUERY: What precaution should be taken while uploading the Detailed Application Form?
A. The following precautions should be taken while uploading the Detailed Application Form:
i. All the copies of Certificates and documents mentioned above have to be scanned from the original Certificates and documents in 200 dpi grey scale and converted into a single PDF file.
ii. All the documents must be in the PDF format only.
iii. A proper Scanner should be used to scan the Certificates and Documents. The scanning should not be done with mobile phones.
iv. All the documents should be placed in a single PDF file. The size of the file, including the Detailed Application Form, should not be greater than 3 MB.
v. The PDF file should not be password protected.
vi. The uploaded file should be legible.
After all these precautions have been taken, the file should be uploaded online.
IAS QUERY: Are only scanned copies of the certificates and documents to be sent to the UPSC or do candidates have to send the original certificates and documents also by post or by hand?
A. Please remember, only scanned copies of the Certificates and Documents have to be uploaded online. Nothing has to be sent to the UPSC by post or by hand.
IAS QUERY: Will the UPSC send an acknowledgement of the submission of my DAF along with the accompanying Documents?
A. Yes. The UPSC will send an acknowledgement of the receipt of the Detailed Application Form along with the accompanying Documents through an email.
IAS QUERY: What will happen in case the DA Form is sent late, or wrongly filled out or is incomplete in some respect?
A. In case the Detailed Application Form is sent late, or wrongly filled out or is incomplete in some respect, it is liable to be rejected.
IAS QUERY: When will the UPSC issue the e-Admit Cards?
A. The e-Admit Cards will be issued electronically on the UPSC’s website. Candidates have to download it. The eligible candidates shall be issued an e‐Admit Card around three weeks to four weeks before the commencement of the examination. The e‐Admit Card will be made available on the UPSC website for downloading by candidates. e‐Admit Card will not be sent by post.
IAS QUERY: What should a candidate do if he/she is not issued the e-Admit card and does not hear anything from the UPSC in this regard?
A. If a candidate is not issued his/her e‐Admit Card or does not receive any other communication regarding his/her candidature for the examination around three weeks before the commencement of the examination, he/she should immediately contact the UPSC. Information in this regard can also be obtained from the Facilitation Counter located in the UPSCs Office either in person or over phone Nos. 011‐23381125/011‐ 23385271/011‐23098543.
IAS QUERY: After the e-Admit Card has been downloaded, what should the candidate do?
A. After the e-Admit Card has been downloaded, candidates must check it carefully to ensure that the particulars recorded in the e-Admit card are correct. In case a mistake is detected, it should be immediately brought to the notice of the UPSC with the request that they may kindly issue a new e-Admit Card.
IAS QUERY: Will a candidate be allowed to take the examination on the strength of the e- Admit Card issued in respect of another candidate?
A. No. No candidate will be allowed to take the examination on the strength of the e-Admit Card issued in respect of another candidate.
IAS QUERY: Is it compulsory for a candidate to carry the e-Admit Card to the examination hall?
A. It is compulsory to carry the e-Admit Card to the examination hall. No candidate will be allowed to take the examination without the e-Admit Card. In addition, candidates should carry with them extra copies of their photographs. These photographs should be similar to the photograph that has been sent with the Detailed Application Form.
IAS QUERY: What is the procedure adopted for allotment of Roll Number, Centre and Venue to the candidates?
A. Allotment of Roll number and Venue is carried out in a random manner without manual intervention. The UPSC makes all efforts to allot the candidate the Centre of his/her choice; however, the Centre may be changed at the discretion of the UPSC. Further, the allotment of Centres will be on the “first‐apply‐first allot” basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is exhausted, no further allotment at that Centre is possible. Applicants, who cannot get a Centre of their choice due to the ceiling, will be required to choose one of the remaining Centres.
IAS QUERY: When will the UPSC check the original certificates of the candidates?
A. The UPSC will check the original certificates of the candidates at the time of the Interview for the Personality Test.
IAS QUERY: Which date of birth Certificate of a candidate is accepted by the UPSC?
A. The date of birth Certificate accepted by the UPSC is the one that is entered in the Matriculation or Secondary School Leaving Certificate or in a Certificate recognised by an Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a Register of Matriculates maintained by a University which extract must be certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination Certificate.
IAS QUERY: Are any other documents related to age like horoscope, affidavits, extracts from Municipal Corporations etc. accepted by the UPSC?
A. No. The UPSC does not accept documents like Horoscopes, Affidavits, Extracts from the Records of a Municipal Corporation etc. or any similar document related to age as proof of date of birth.
IAS QUERY: When is the Date of birth Certificate to be submitted to the UPSC?
A. The Date of Birth Certificate is required to be submitted only at the time of applying for the Civil Services (Main) Examination.
IAS QUERY: What is the Minimum Educational Qualification required to be eligible to appear in the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. The candidate must hold a degree of any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University Under Section-3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification to be eligible to appear for the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: When is a candidate required to submit certificates in support of his claims regarding Age, Educational Qualifications, SC/ST/OBC and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities etc.?
A. Candidates are required to submit the certificates in support of their claims regarding Age, Educational Qualifications, Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes/Other Backward Classes and Persons with Benchmark Disability etc. only at the time of the Main examination for the Civil Services.
IAS QUERY: When does the UPSC take up the verification of the eligibility conditions of candidates?
A. The UPSC takes up the verification of eligibility conditions with reference to the original documents only after the candidate has qualified for the Interview/Personality Test for the Civil Services.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of candidates appearing in the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS till their certificates are verified by the UPSC?
A. The status of candidates appearing for the examination for which they are admitted by the UPSC viz. Preliminary Examination, Main (Written) Examination and Interview Test is purely provisional, subject to their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. If, on verification at any time before or after the Preliminary Examination, Main (written) Examination and Interview Test, it is found that they do not fulfil any of the eligibility conditions, their candidature for the examination will be cancelled by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: Are there any restrictions on applying for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. There are some restrictions on applying for the examination. These are as under:
i. a. A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to compete at this examination.
b. In case such a candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination for that year is over and he/she continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be eligible to appear in the Civil Services (Main) Examination notwithstanding his/her having qualified in the Preliminary Examination of that year.
c. Also, provided that if such a candidate is appointed to IAS/IFS after the commencement of the Civil Services (Main) Examination for that year but before the result thereof and continues to be a member of that service, he/she shall not be considered for appointment to any service/post on the basis of the result of the examination for that year.
ii. A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Police Service (IPS) on the results of an earlier examination and continues to be a member of that service will not be eligible to opt for the Indian Police Service (IPS) in the Civil Services Examination to be held during the subsequent year.
IAS QUERY: When can a candidate enter into correspondence with the UPSC?
A. The UPSC usually does not enter into any correspondence with the candidates about their candidature except in the following cases:
i. The eligible candidates are issued an e-Admit Card about three weeks before the commencement of the examination. The e-Admit Card is made available on the UPSC website for downloading by candidates. No Admit Card is sent by post. If a candidate does not receive the e-Admit Card or any other communication regarding his/her candidature for the examination three weeks before the commencement of the examination, he/she should at once contact the UPSC.
ii. In the event of a candidate downloading more than one e-Admit Card from the UPSC’s website, he/she should use only one of these e-Admit Cards for appearing in the examination and report about the other(s) to the UPSC’s Office.
IAS QUERY: Which details are mandatorily to be provided to the UPSC when entering into correspondence with them?
A. All communications to the UPSC must contain the following details:
1. Name and year of the examination.
2. Registration ID (RID).
3. Roll Number (if received).
4. Full Name of the candidate (in block letters).
5. Complete postal address as given in the application.
IAS QUERY: What are the precautions that candidates should take while uploading their photographs and signatures in the Online Application?
A. Before filling up the Online Application, the candidates must get their photograph and signature scanned in the JPG format. Care should be taken to ensure that the size of each file does not exceed 40 KB. However, it must also be ensured that the size of the photograph is not less than 3 KB and the size of the signature is not less than 1 KB. The photograph and signature must also be clearly discernible.
Candidates should upload their photographs carefully. Please remember, no changes are permitted once the photograph has been uploaded and the online application has been submitted. If a candidate uploads a wrong photograph he/she will not be allowed to appear in the examination.
Please go through the instructions issued by the UPSC carefully before commencing the uploading of the online application form.
IAS QUERY: What precautions should be taken while filling up the Online Application Form?
A. Please read the instructions carefully before filling up the Online Application Form.
IAS QUERY: What is RID?
A. RID stands for Registration (R) Identity (ID), which is generated by the system when the applicant completes PART-I of the registration of his/her application.
IAS QUERY: What is TID?
A. TID stands for Transaction (T) Identity (ID), which is given by the Bank official when the applicant deposits his/her fee in cash. It is automatically generated when Internet Banking or credit/debit card mode is used for payment of the fee.
IAS QUERY: What is meant by Part I and Part II of the Detailed Application Form?
A. The Online Detailed Application Form consists of two parts – Part I and Part II.
Part I of the Application has personal details like name, father’s name, date of birth, address, educational qualification, age relaxation, scribe details (only for Persons with Disabilities candidates opting for scribe) and preferences of particular exam, etc.
Part II of the Application consists of payment option for examination fee (only for those who are not exempted from payment of fee), centre of Examination along with uploading of photo/signature of the Candidate.
The candidate has to complete both, Part I and Part II to be a Candidate for the said Examination.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of the application when a candidate does not fill up Part II of the application form?
A If a candidate submits only PART-I of the application, without also submitting PART-II of the application, the application remains incomplete and the candidature of the candidate cannot be registered and is rejected.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of the application if the candidate has submitted Part I of the application form and has also paid the fee but has not properly completed Part II of the application?
A. Even if a candidate has submitted Part I of the Application Form and has also paid the fee, but has not properly completed Part II of the Application Form (i.e. failed to submit the photograph and the signature), the application is considered incomplete. Part II must also be properly completed before the application can be considered to be complete and registered.
IAS QUERY: What is contained in Part II of the application form?
A. Part II of the application form comprises the following steps:
i. Fee payment (only for candidates not exempted from payment of fee).
ii. Choosing of the Examination centre from the available drop down menu.
iii. Uploading of photograph and signature.
iv. Agreeing to the Declaration.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of the application if the candidate does not select and submit the choice of a Centre?
A. If a candidate does not submit the choice of a Centre, it is treated as non-submission of Part II of the application and leads to rejection of the Application. Therefore, Candidates must click on the “submit” button after selecting the Examination Centre.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of the application if a candidate submits the online application without making the Payment of the Fee?
A. In a case where a candidate submits the online application but does not deposit the fee prescribed, the application will be rejected.
IAS QUERY: What is the status of an application where candidates fill up multiple applications and pay the fee for all the applications, but wrongly fill up the fee particulars (TID) of one application (RID) against another application with a different RID?
A. Where a candidate fills up multiple applications, pays the fee for all the applications, but wrongly fills up the fee particulars (TID) of one application (RID) against another application with a different RID, the online applications will be rejected.
IAS QUERY: In a case where multiple applications have been correctly registered online and the fee has been duly paid for all the applications, which application will be finally entertained by the UPSC?
A In a case where multiple applications have been correctly registered online and the fee has been duly paid, the last application with the Registration ID (RID) number shall be entertained by the UPSC. Please remember, the fee paid against one RID number shall not be adjusted against any other RID number.
IAS QUERY: How does the UPSC deal with applications having:
i Poor quality of uploaded photograph;
ii Poor quality of uploaded signature;
iii Submission of only the photograph but not the signature; or
iv photograph affixed at the place where the signature was to be affixed?
A. In all the cases mentioned above the online application will be rejected by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: What happens when a candidate enters the wrong TID in case of payment through a Bank Challan?
A. Sometimes candidates who submit their fee through a bank challan either enter the wrong challan number or submit the challan number against the old RID. In such cases the application will be rejected.
Please note, that in case of multiple submission of online applications by the candidate, only the last RID is considered and all other applications are rejected through the automated system. Therefore, the candidates must ensure that they submit the fee against the last online application filed by them.
IAS QUERY:What are the eligibility criteria in terms of physical requirements/ functional classification required for a Service/ Post?
A. The physically disabled candidates shall also be required to meet eligibility criteria in terms of physical requirements/functional classification (abilities/disabilities) consistent with the requirements of the identified Service/Post as may be prescribed by its Cadre Controlling Authorities. The details of physical requirement and functional classification are given in the Rules of Examination.
IAS QUERY: Where are the eligibility conditions for availing reservation by the Physically Disabled Persons laid down?
A. The eligibility conditions for availing reservation against the vacancies reserved for the Physically Disabled Persons shall be the same as are laid down in “The Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.”
IAS QUERY: What information is to be given by persons already in Government Service to their Head of Office?
A. Persons already in Government Service, whether in a permanent or temporary capacity, or as work charged employees, or those serving under the Public Enterprises, are required to submit an undertaking that they have informed their Head of Office/Department, in writing, that they have applied for the Examination. In case the UPSC receives a communication from their employer withholding permission to the candidates applying for/appearing at the examination, the application of such candidates will be liable to be rejected and the candidature of such candidates will be liable to be cancelled.
IAS QUERY: When should I apply if I choose to pay by Bank Challan?
A. The closing date of submission of online application is clearly mentioned in the Examination Notice. Candidates, who make payments through Bank Challan, are required to submit online application at least a day before the notified closing date so that they can generate the Bank Challan to be submitted in any Branch of SBI throughout India. Facility of Challan generation will be deactivated on the last day of online application automatically by the system. However, Candidates can submit Bank Challan on the last day in SBI. Bank Challan generation is in Part‐II of Online Application.
IAS QUERY: What is ‘Fictitious Payment’?
A. Those payments mentioned by the candidates in their online application, which are not authenticated by the State Bank of India, i.e. the designated bank managing the entire payment module (including managing the payment gateway), are called fictitious payments.
IAS QUERY: How does the UPSC resolve the issue of fictitious payments made by a candidate?
A. The applicants, whose payments are marked fictitious, are intimated through e-mail to submit ‘physical proof of payment’ to the UPSC. These applicants are required to submit the physical proof within 10 days, from the date of such communication, either by hand or by speed post to the UPSC. In case, no response is received from the applicants, their applications are summarily rejected and no further correspondence is entertained in this regard by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: What precautions must be taken by candidates for claiming community reservation or reservation for Physically Handicapped?
A. Candidates seeking reservation/ relaxation benefits available for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes/ Other Backward Classes/Physically Handicapped/Ex‐servicemen must ensure that they are entitled to such reservation/ relaxation in accordance with the eligibility prescribed in the Rules/Notice. They should also be in possession of all the requisite certificates in the prescribed format in support of their claims for availing reservation before applying for the examination, and in any case, not later than the closing date for receipt of applications for the examination.
IAS QUERY: What action is taken by the UPSC in case of submission of false information by the candidates?
A. A candidate who is found to have furnished false information to the UPSC, or has suppressed information, or adopted various unfair means in the examination, like impersonation, etc., is liable to be disqualified or debarred from writing the Examinations by the UPSC. Detailed instructions in this regard are available in the Rules of Examination/ Examination Notices of the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: In case a candidate indicates in his/her form for the Preliminary Examination that he/she belongs to the General Category, but subsequently writes to the UPSC to change his/her category to a reserved one, will such a request be entertained by the UPSC?
A. If a candidate indicates in his/her application form for Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination that he/she belongs to the General category but subsequently writes to the UPSC to change his/her category to a reserved one, such request shall not be entertained by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: In case a candidate indicates in his/her form for the Preliminary Services Examination that he/she belongs to the General Category, but subsequently writes to the UPSC to change his/her category to Persons With Benchmark Disability, will such a request be entertained by the UPSC?
A. If a candidate indicates in his/her application form for Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination that he/she belongs to the General category but subsequently writes to the UPSC to change his/her category to Persons With Benchmark Disability, such request shall not be entertained by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: If a period of only 2- 3 months has elapsed between the issuance of a Government Notification by the Central Government enlisting a particular community in the list of any of the reserved communities and the date of submission of the application by the candidate, will the UPSC consider the change of Category of a candidate from General to Reserved in such cases?
A. If a period of only 2- 3 months has elapsed between the issuance of a Government Notification by the Central Government enlisting a particular community in the list of any of the reserved communities and the date of submission of the application by the candidate, in such cases the request of change of community from General to Reserved may be considered by the UPSC on merit.
IAS QUERY: Who should the candidates intending to appear in the Examination apply to?
A. All candidates, whether already in Government Service, Government owned industrial undertakings or other similar organizations or in private employment, should submit their applications direct to the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: What should a candidate do in case he/she has downloaded more than one Admission Certificate from the UPSC’s website?
A. In the event of a candidate downloading more than one Admission Certificate from the UPSC’s website, he/she should use only one of these Admission Certificates for appearing in the examination and report about the other(s) to the UPSC’s Office.
IAS QUERY: Does the UPSC entertain any requests for withdrawal of application after the application has been filed online?
A. The UPSC does not entertain any request for withdrawal of application after a candidate has submitted his/her application online.
IAS QUERY: Does the issuing of an e-Admit Card to a candidate imply that the UPSC has cleared his candidature?
A. No. Please remember, mere issue of an admission certificate to a candidate does not imply that his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the UPSC. The UPSC takes up the verification of the eligibility conditions of a candidate, with reference to original documents, only after the candidate has qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination. Unless the candidature is formally confirmed by the UPSC, it continues to be provisional.
IAS QUERY: If, on verification it is found that a candidate does not fulfill any of the eligibility conditions, what steps can the UPSC take against him/her?
A. If, on verification it is found that a candidate does not fulfill any of the eligibility conditions, his/her candidature will be cancelled by the UPSC.
IAS QUERY: What are the precautions to be taken while uploading candidates’ photographs and signatures?
A. Before filling up the Online Application, a candidate must have his/her photograph and signature duly scanned in the “JPG” format in such a manner that each file should not exceed 40 KB and must not be less than 3 KB in size for the photograph and 1 KB for the signature. The photograph and signature must be clearly discernable. Samples of acceptable photograph and signature are displayed in the application module.
Candidates should take due care while uploading their photograph since no changes are allowed once the photograph is uploaded and online application is submitted. Uploading of photograph/signature is the sole responsibility of the candidate and in case a wrong photograph/signature is uploaded, his/her candidature is liable to be cancelled for false identity.
Please check the e‐Admit Card carefully and discrepancies/ errors, if any, should be brought to the notice of UPSC immediately.
IAS QUERY: Is the facility of a scribe to write the papers available to any category of candidates?
i. blind or
ii. suffer from Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy where writing ability is adversely affected up to a minimum level of 40%
are allowed to write the examination with the help of a scribe. This facility is available for both the Preliminary Examination and the Main Examination.
IAS QUERY: Is any other facility also available for candidates who are blind or suffer from Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy?
A. Candidates who suffer from such disabilities are also provided compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour to write the paper.
IAS QUERY: Who can be selected as a scribe to write the examination for candidates suffering from blindness or Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy?
A. The eligibility conditions of a scribe, his/ her conduct inside the examination hall and the manner in which and extent to which he/she can help the blind candidate in writing the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS are governed by the instructions issued by the UPSC in this regard.
IAS QUERY: Is there any reservation of seats for candidates belonging to SC, ST and OBC categories who are appearing for the Civil Services Examination?
A. The following reservation of seats are prescribed for induction into the Civil Services:
Scheduled Castes (SC) 15%
Scheduled Tribes (ST) 7.5%
Other Backward Classes (OBC) 27%
IAS QUERY: Are any seats reserved for women in the IAS and the other Civil Services?
A. No seats are reserved for women per se in the IAS or in the Other Civil Services.
IAS QUERY: What are the circumstances under which a candidate can get the benefit of community reservation?
A. A candidate will be eligible to get the benefit of community reservation only in case the particular caste to which the candidates belongs is included in the list of reserved communities issued by the Central Government.
IAS QUERY: Can a candidate change his/her Community Status?
A. A candidate is eligible to get the benefit of community reservation if his/her caste/tribe is included in the reserved community as may be determined by the Central Government. The Commission does not entertain a request for change of community from unreserved to reserved category once the examination process is initiated. However, in some exceptional cases where a particular caste/tribe is included in the list of reserved community within 2‐3 months from the date of submission of application, the Commission may consider a request of change of community as a special case.
In case of a candidate unfortunately becoming physically disabled during the course of the examination process, the candidate should produce valid document showing him acquiring a disability to the extent of 40% or more as mentioned in the relevant rules to enable him to get the benefits of PH reservation.
IAS QUERY: What items are banned at the Examination Venues?
A. (a) Mobile phones, smart watches, bluetooth, pagers or any other communication devices and IT gadgets are banned items and are therefore not allowed inside the premises where the examination is being conducted. Any infringement of these instructions shall entail disciplinary action including ban from future examinations.
(b) Candidates are advised in their own interest not to bring any of the banned items including mobile phones/bluetooth/pagers to the venue of the examination.
(c) Candidates are also advised not to bring any valuable/expensive items to the Examination Halls, as safety of such items cannot be assured. UPSC will not be responsible for any loss in this regard.
IAS QUERY: Are there any general instructions issued by the UPSC that should be kept in mind by candidates while preparing for the examination?
A. The following general instructions issued by the UPSC should be kept in mind by candidates while preparing for the examination:
(i) Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.
(ii) Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in all subjects of the examination.
(iii) Candidates should use only International form of Indian numerals (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 etc.) while answering the question papers.
(iv) Applications submitted without the prescribed Fee (Unless remission of Fee is claimed) shall be summarily rejected.
(v) Candidates must ensure that the email IDs given in their online application are valid and active.
(vi) The name in the Admission Certificate, in some cases, may be abbreviated due to technical reasons. This should not be a cause for concern for the candidate. The Admission Certificate with the abbreviated name would be absolutely valid.
(vii) The fee once paid shall not be refunded under any circumstances nor can the fee be held in reserve for any other examination or selection.
(viii) No fee exemption is available to male OBC candidates.
IAS QUERY: What are the Physical Standards required for appearing in the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS?
A. The candidates appearing in the Civil Services Examination to get into the IAS have to be physically fit according to the Physical Standards as per the guidelines laid down by the Government of India.
IAS QUERY: How does the UPSC invite applications for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. Initially the UPSC invites applications for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination only.
IAS QUERY: Who has the discretion to fix the qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination?
A. The UPSC has the discretion to fix the qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the Examination.
IAS QUERY: What should be the Nationality of the candidate appearing for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. i. To be eligible to appear for the IAS and the IPS, the candidate must be a citizen of India.
ii. For the other Civil Services, a candidate must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Provided further that candidates belonging to categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for appointment to the Indian Foreign Service.
IAS QUERY: Can a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above, in whose case a certificate of eligibility has not been issued by the Government of India appear for the examination?
A. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary but has not been issued so far, may be admitted to the examination by the UPSC, but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of India.
IAS QUERY: Which candidates are called for the Interview for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. Those candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks, as may have been determined by the UPSC at their discretion, in the written part of the Main Examination, are called for an Interview for a Personality Test for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: How many candidates are called for the Interview for the Personality Test?
A. The number of candidates who are called for the Interview for the Personality Test for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS is usually about twice the number of vacancies to be filled.
IAS QUERY: How many marks does the Interview carry?
A. The Interview carries 275 marks. There are no minimum qualifying marks prescribed for the Interview.
IAS QUERY: Are the marks obtained in the Main Examination and the Interview added up to determine the final merit for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS?
A. Yes. The marks obtained in the Written part of the Main Examination and the Interview are added up to determine the final merit for the Civil Services Examination for getting into the IAS.
IAS QUERY: Who conducts the Interview of the candidates for the Civil Services for getting into the IAS?
A. The Candidates are interviewed by a Board of competent and unbiased observers who have before them a record of their career.
IAS QUERY: What is the object of the interview?
A. The object of the Interview is to get a Board of competent and unbiased observers to make an assessment about the suitability of the candidate for a career in public service.
IAS QUERY: What does the Board try to judge during the course of the interview for the Civil Services Examination for the IAS?
A. The Board tries to judge the mental caliber of the candidates. It tries to assess not only the candidates’ intellectual qualities but also the candidates’ social traits and interest in current affairs, modern currents of thought, new discoveries and inventions and generally in events happening around them. It tries to test the candidates for mental alertness, critical powers of assimilation, clear and logical exposition, balance of judgement, variety and depth of interest, ability for social cohesion and leadership, and last but not least, intellectual and moral integrity.
IAS QUERY: What is the technique of the Interview?
A. The technique of the Interview is not that of a strict cross-examination but of a natural, though directed and purposeful conversation, which is intended to reveal the mental qualities of the candidates.
The candidates, opting to write the Civil Services (Main) Examination in English, may choose either English or Hindi or any other Indian Language opted by them for the compulsory Indian Language Paper in the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, as the medium for interview. The candidate has to indicate the language medium of their interview at the time of filling up of the Detailed Application Form (DAF).
IAS QUERY: What happens after a candidate is selected for the Civil Services?
A. After selection, the successful candidates undergo training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) at Mussoorie in the State of Uttarakhand. The first part of the training is known as The Foundation Course. It is held for all the candidates who have been selected for the Civil Services.
IAS QUERY: What is the Foundation Course?
A. The Foundation Course is a Course intended for the new recruits to the All India Services and Central Services (Group A). It equips fresh entrants with requisite skills, knowledge and attitude to shoulder responsibility as public servants.
IAS QUERY: What are the objectives of the Foundation Course?
A. The main objectives of the Foundation Course are:
•to foster greater cooperation and coordination among various public services by building an esprit de corps;
•to promote all round development of the personality of an officer trainee – intellectual, moral, physical and aesthetic.
IAS QUERY: What is the duration of the Foundation Course?
A. The Foundation Course lasts for 15 Weeks.
IAS QUERY: What happens at the end of the Foundation Course?
A. At the conclusion of the Foundation Course, the officers recruited for services other than the IAS leave to join their respective Training Academies for further training. Only the IAS Officer Trainees stay back at Mussoorie for further training, which is imparted to them at the LBSNAA, Mussoorie.
IAS QUERY: How are candidates allotted different Services?
A. Candidates are allotted to the various Services keeping in view their rank in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the various services and posts.
IAS QUERY: Earlier only about 80-90 officers were selected for the IAS each year. Why has the number of officers selected each year for the IAS now gone up to 180?
A. The IAS, IPS, and the IFS (Indian Foreign Service) are suffering from a shortage of about 3000 officers as per the information provided by the Central Government. The Central Government is trying to fill up these vacancies in the shortest possible time. That is why the annual intake of officers for these services has gone up. Now 180 officers are selected for the IAS, 150 officers are selected for the IPS and 32 officers are selected for the IFS each year. The Central Government estimates that if they continue with this rate of induction into these services till 2025, then they are likely to overcome the problem of shortage of officers.
IAS QUERY: What is the career profile of an IAS officer?
A. After selection, IAS officers are allotted for work to different States in the country. The State that is allotted to an IAS officer is known as the ‘cadre’ of the IAS officer. Usually, officers spend most of their serving life in their cadre, serving at different positions in the State Government. IAS officers also go on deputation to the Government of India and hold different assignments under the Central Government. IAS officers may also get posted in the Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and in International bodies.
IAS QUERY: Who appoints the IAS officers?
A. The President of India appoints the IAS officers.
IAS QUERY: What was the Administrative Service known as when India was ruled by the British?
A. During the time when the British ruled India, the administrative service was known as the Imperial Civil Service or the ICS.
IAS QUERY: When was the ICS created?
A. The ICS was created in 1858.
IAS QUERY: When was the IAS created?
A. The IAS was created on 26th January 1950.
IAS QUERY: What is the first assignment that IAS officers hold under the State Government?
A. When the IAS officers go to their cadres after completing their training, they are usually posted as Sub Divisional Magistrates or SDMs. As SDMs they are responsible for the maintenance of the law and order, revenue administration and miscellaneous work of the government, like the holding of elections, conducting the census operations, ensuring that the schemes of the government are properly implemented etc. They report to the Deputy Commissioner/District Magistrate/District Collector.
IAS QUERY: When do IAS officers get posted as Deputy Commissioner (DC)/District Magistrate (DM)/ District Collector?
A. Different States have different conventions in this regard. In some States, officers are posted as DM within 6-7 years. In some other States they are posted as DM after 9-10 years. In a few States they are posted as DM after 12-13 years.
IAS QUERY: What other assignments in the field do IAS officers hold?
A. IAS officers also get posted as Divisional Commissioner and Financial Commissioner. These are very senior positions in the field in the State.
IAS QUERY: Do the IAS officers also hold any positions in the Secretariat at the State Government level?
A. Yes. IAS officers are posted as Deputy Secretary, Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary and Secretary to the Government in the State Government. Some IAS officers also get appointed as Chief Secretary of the State.
IAS QUERY: What positions do IAS officers hold when they get posted in the Central Government?
A. IAS officers can be posted as Deputy Secretary, Director, Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary and Secretary to Government, depending upon their seniority and performance, when they get posted in the Central Government.
IAS QUERY: What is the difference between a posting at the State Government and a posting at the Central Government?
A. The scope of the work at the State Government level and the Central Government level is quite different. In the States, the officers are responsible for preparing and implementing policies at level of the State only, which is a limited area. When they are posted with the Central Government, the scope of their work encompasses the entire country. It is vast.
IAS FACT: Which states contribute the largest number of IAS officers in the Civil Services Examination held every year?
A. Out of the candidates who are selected for the Civil Services and the IAS every year, the highest number, usually, belong to Delhi and UP. However, many candidates who are shown as having been selected from Delhi, actually belong to other states who come to Delhi to prepare for the examination.
Useful Government Websites for Civil Service Preparation:
•ncert.nic.in – Download NCERT Texts as PDF.
•nios.ac.in – Download NIOS Online Materials.
•egyankosh.ac.in – Download IGNOU Books.
•yojana.gov.in – Download Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines.
•upsc.gov.in – Official Website of UPSC.
•pib.nic.in – Press Information Bureau Website, for government updates.
•prsindia.org – PRS Website for tracking bills in Parliament.
•idsa.in – IDSA website for Defense and Foreign relations.
•gatewayhouse.in – Indian Council for Global relations.
•envfor.nic.in – Ministry of Environment and Forests.
•mea.gov.in – Ministry of External Affairs.
•indiabudget.nic.in – Download Budget and Economic Survey.
•ptinews.com – Press Trust of India.
•ibef.org – India Brand Equity Foundation for economy and business.
•vikaspedia.in – Knowledge initiative by InDG.
•makeinindia.com – Make in India initiative for manufacturing related info.
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Brenda Lee To Be Honored With “Entertainment Legend Award” This Week in Las Vegas
Award-winning vocalist Brenda Lee will be presented with yet another honor this week –this one the Casino Entertainment Legend Award at the fourth annual Casino Entertainment Awards (CEA) on Wednesday, September 28, 2016, inside the Vinyl showroom at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Wednesday’s presentation to Lee will make her the first woman entertainer to win the coveted award–following in the steps of fellow performing icons such as legendary comedian Jerry Lewis and Las Vegas showman Wayne Newton.It’s a fitting tribute for the diminutive Lee who in 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of first hitting a stage in Las Vegas at the age of 12.
She in fact celebrated her 12th birthday while performing at The Flamingo Hotel in December 1956 –a co-billing with the Ink Spots. Too young by law to actually be allowed inside the casino gaming area, the tiny phemon had to have security guards walk her thru to the showroom each night for her performance.
Sponsored by the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) and the American Gaming Association (AGA), the Casino Entertainment Awards are the only awards exclusively honoring outstanding artists, executive and venues in the casino entertainment industry. The Casino Entertainment Legend Awards recognize lifetime achievement in the casino entertainment industry.
With more than 100 million units of her music sold globally, Brenda Lee has been a superstar since childhood, releasing her first single when she was 11-years old, sharing the stage with Elvis Presley at 12, and having The Beatles open for her European tour before she turned 20. Her classic hits include “I’m Sorry” (which sold over 20 million copies), “Break It To Me Gently,” “All Alone Am I,” “Losing You,” “Emotions” and “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” a holiday standard for more than 50 years. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Lee has also had the honor of being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to honor her body of work as a recording artist.
Brenda recalls with fondness those who paved her path to stardom–and to this week’s honor in Vegas. She noted today in an interview: “My career had the blessing of being touched by real genuis in those that surrounded me. The recording side was covered by the legendary Owen Bradley who produced all my hits. While we were having success on the charts, I had a stage show created by Richard Barstow–the New York choreographer/show producer who had created shows for the top attractions of the day such as Judy Garland and the Ringling Brothers mainstage. Overseeing all, I had a true visionary for my manager–Dub Allbritten–who took me to Europe for concert dates in all the top venues while we were having the hits in America. These three wonderfully gifted men created a bridge for me from child star to a career that endured–something I am forever grateful for.”
Following her whirlwind honors in Las Vegas this week, Brenda fans will have yet another opportunity to catch her in Vegas this year–this time on December 5 when she headlines at The Golden Nugget Casino.
By Katelyn Hickman|2016-09-29T16:40:09+00:00September 29th, 2016|Categories: Music, Country, Nashville, Brenda Lee|Tags: Brenda Lee|0 Comments
About the Author: Katelyn Hickman
Katelyn is a graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University. She received her Bachelor's degree in Communication from Salem College in 2015. She has a passion for music and entertainment and currently serves as an editorial assistant at Nashville Country Club.
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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood return as hosts for the CMA Awards
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood return to host “The 52nd Annual CMA Awards,” Country Music’s Biggest Night™ live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 8/7 PM CT on the ABC Television Network. The beloved hosts return for the 11th time. Two-time CMA Awards Entertainer of the Year Luke Bryan, four-time CMA Awards nominated duo Dan + Shay and five-time CMA [...]
By Leslie Armstrong|2018-08-02T13:20:12+00:00August 2nd, 2018|Categories: Music, Country, Nashville|Tags: Nashville, Country Music, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, CMA Awards, Awards, Hosts, Nominees|0 Comments
Livestream GRAMMY Awards Red Carpet and Show
Music's biggest night is coming soon on CBS and you can live-stream the Red Carpet (beginning at 2 p.m. ET) and the ceremony (7:30 p.m. ET) via the CBS app. Country nominees Little Big Town, Brothers Osborne, Maren Morris and Eric Church plus more will be performing for the show. See the full list HERE of Country Music [...]
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News from the Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music® announced changes today to the ACM Awards radio categories’ criteria and open submissions date for the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards®. For the first time ever in the National On-Air Personality of the Year category, submissions will be accepted from terrestrial, satellite and internet radio personalities, if all eligibility [...]
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CMA Awards announces their performers for the show
Excitement continues to build as the first round of performers are announced for “The 51st Annual CMA Awards,” hosted for the 10th year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, and airing live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Wednesday, Nov. 8 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET). Fans will enjoy special performances by CMA Awards nominees Garth Brooks, Brothers Osborne, [...]
By Leslie Armstrong|2017-10-19T10:17:04+00:00October 19th, 2017|Categories: Music, Country, Nashville|Tags: Nashville, Garth Brooks, CMA Awards, 2017, Nominees|0 Comments
The 51st CMA Awards Nominations Are Announced via Good Morning America
Music, Country, Nashville, CMA, Country Music Association, CMA Awards
Miranda Lambert tops the list of nominees for “The 51st Annual CMA Awards” with five nominations. Little Big Town and Keith Urban each garner four nominations, tying for the second most nominations this year. “The talent of the past year for Country has been exceptional,” said Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer. It’s great to [...]
By Leslie Armstrong|2017-09-04T09:19:01+00:00September 4th, 2017|Categories: Music, Country, Nashville, CMA, Country Music Association, CMA Awards|Tags: Nashville, Country Music, CMA, CMA Awards, Nominations, Nominees|0 Comments
ACM Awards Nominees and Hosts chat about upcoming show
Music, Country, Nashville, ACM Awards
Collaborations are going to heat up the 2017 ACM Awards along with the anticipation of who will receive the big awards for the night. Winners were announced already for New Male Vocalist (Jon Pardi), New Female Vocalist (Maren Morris), and New Duo/Group (Brothers Osborne). Lady Antebellum returns as nominees, after taking a break and Florida [...]
By Leslie Armstrong|2017-03-31T01:50:20+00:00March 31st, 2017|Categories: Music, Country, Nashville, ACM Awards|Tags: Country Music, Lady Antebellum, Florida Georgia Line, Kelsea Ballerini, ACM Awards, Nominees|0 Comments
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Former Congressman Steiger Dies at 83
Steve Goldstein
Former Arizona Congressman Sam Steiger has died in Prescott at the age of 83. From Phoenix, KJZZ’s Steve Goldstein reports…
STEVE GOLDSTEIN: Steiger, a Republican, served five terms in the U.S. House before running for the Senate in 1976. Following a nasty primary battle, Steiger went on to lose the general election to Dennis DeConcini. Steiger was outspoken and unconventional, and became Mayor of Prescott after his decade of service in Washington. Steiger suffered a debilitating stroke in 2002. Not long before that, he spoke to KJZZ about some of the dramatic changes he’d seen in rural Arizona.
SAM STEIGER: I first came to Arizona in '44 and I just never got over it. It was one of those things. The Prescott you see now is very different than the Prescott I came to. I bought a ranch north of town, about forty miles. I was courting a girl in town and she lived at home. Her folks' phone number was seven.
GOLDSTEIN: The native New Yorker also served two terms in the Arizona State Senate, and he was a special assistant to then-Governor Evan Mecham.
Steve Goldstein, KJZZ News, Phoenix.
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Chill vs Lions in exhibition Game May 26 - 27th
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Thunder Bay, ON – The Premier Development League (PDL) released the 2018 schedule today including the 14-game regular season schedule for the Thunder Bay Chill who will playing in their 19th season in the league. The Chill will also face the Winnipeg Lions in the perennial exhibition series on May 26th and 27th.
The Heartland Division remains at six teams, with Sporting Kaw Valley (playing out of Lawrence, Kansas) replacing Saint Louis FC U23.
The Chill opens the regular season on the road for two on June 2nd and 3rd against WSA Winnipeg. The home opener is the following weekend when the Des Moines Menace travels to Thunder Bay on Friday June 8th. The Chill will face Chicago FC United the following night to complete its two-game home stand.
The remainder of the schedule has the Chill on the road on June 15th against Sporting Kaw Valley and 16th in Des Moines. WSA Winnipeg visits Thunder Bay on June 22nd and 23rd prior to a three-game road trip where the Chill will face the St. Louis Lions on June 30th and then play Chicago FC United for a pair on July 2nd and 3rd. The Chill will end the regular season with 3 games at home when the St. Louis Lions visit Thunder Bay on July 6th and 7th and Sporting Kaw Valley comes in on July 11th.
The Chill are coming in as a finalist in the 2017 PDL National Championship game losing 2-1 to the Charlotte Eagles. The Chill have been to the PDL National Championship on 3 other occasions. In 2010 and 2013 where they lost to the Portland Timbers U23 and Austin FC respectively and won the Championship in 2008 in Laredo, Texas.
Season tickets for the 2018 regular league games have gone on sale today on-line at www.thunderbaychill.com. Back this year is the kids club card allowing all youth to see every Chill game and receive additional benefits throughout the season. Purchase Adult or Senior ticket ONLY by March 1st and receive the new 2018 Supporter scarf.
The Thunder Bay Chill plays in the 74-team prospect focused Premier Development League (PDL) which is the highest level of amateur soccer in North America and an important stepping-stone for top professionals.
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July 19, 2013: Still sizzling but with a decent south wind
July 19, 2013: Still sizzling but with a decent south wind. With the water is so warm, the breezes are more like a fan than an air conditioner -- which it felt like when the water was 55 degrees and the southerlies blew in.
Clearer water along the beach has put a bit of a hurt on fluking and kingfishing the suds. Boat fluking is picking up, oceanside, as the winds are finally blowing enough to offer a good drift. The bay is finally wind-cooled enough to work without fear of heat stroke. It is also finally relatively bug-free. If you're heading down this afternoon, give bayside boat fishing a try.
I have yet to talk to anyone who has been night fishing along the beach. That type of relaxation surfcasting just isn't in any more. My dad and his buddy, Mel -- owner of one of the first houses built in Beach haven West -- lived for their Coleman-lit night sessions. Admittedly, the didn't mind catching dogfish. I think a big part of their night fishing impetus was sneaking away from the little ladies -- and, yes, us kids -- for a short stint offering cool breezes and laidback angling.
This sand eel photo has created a bit of a buzz on Facebook. The forage fish washed up onto the beach, obviously chased ashore by something spooky -- in their eyes. I guessed it was stingrays rooting around. The entire Jersey shoreline has been awash with rays, occasionally flush against the beach. Regradless of hat spooked the sandeels in, this is a great sign. As I commented in Betty and Nick's facebook page: Jay Mann Sand eels are not balled up this time of year but are individually buried, backing into the bottom sand, for the season. So this washup shows the nearshore showing of these prime forage fish is incredible. Could easily explain the super fluke fishing in the suds this summer. Check out Betty and Nicks Bait and Tackle Fishing Club.
Here are in situ sand eels.
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So I am hearing reports of sandeels again along the Jersey coast this summer. Something that I thought we would not see again for awhile thanks to Sandy last October.
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I'm not sure if Phil hooked this fish or jumped in and simply kicked the crap out of it. Just kidding. We go way back and Phillip is a cool -- and friendly -- guy.
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This morning Bud had Nick out fishing the incoming tide.
Nick is from Colorado and them came home with 4 keepers.
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Been fishing with this kid in the same spots since 2nd grade....
Schoep the Dog Passes Away
Updated Jul 18, 2013 at 8:31 PM CDT
Bayfield, WI (NNCNOW.com) - A 20-year-old dog from Bayfield made famous across the globe thanks to a touching picture with its owner, has passed away.
A Facebook post Thursday afternoon by John Unger, the owner of Schoep, states the dog passed away on Wednesday.
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"I Breathe But I Can't Catch My Breath. Schoep passed yesterday. More information in the days ahead," Unger's post said.
The picture that went viral last year featured Unger and Schoep floating in the waters of Lake Superior.
The dog suffered from arthritis and had trouble sleeping, so to ease his pain, Unger would take him swimming.
Unger received an overwhelming amount of support for the dog since that picture went viral last summer.
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How Climate Change Is Fueling A Rise In Deadly Diseases
By Sy Mukherjee on Jul 17, 2013 at 5:15 pm
In the summer of 2012, the mosquito-borne West Nile virus made a surprising comeback in America. In Dallas, the most affected region, 400 people contracted the disease and 19 of them died. That came as a shock to public health officials, since West Nile virus was thought to be in such precipitous decline that it was practically eradicated.
Now, a little detective work has led epidemiologists to the reason for its resurgence: warmer winters and wetter springs. In other words, the consequences of global climate change are fueling West Nile. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Health officials expect the number of people contracting other infectious diseases to rise right alongside global temperatures.
The diseases that are propagated by climate change tend to come in fungal, algal, tick-borne, and mosquito-borne forms. For instance, dengue fever — which causes a high fever, painful head and body aches, and rashes — will likely continue infecting Americans in hot and humid climates, as well as regions that are close to warming oceans:
That’s because warmer waters allow mosquitoes, which are the primary vessels for dengue fever transmission, to breed and live more freely. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), “Mosquito species such as the Anopheles gambiae complex, A. funestus, A. darlingi, Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti are responsible for transmission of most vector-borne diseases, and are sensitive to temperature changes as immature stages in the aquatic environment and as adults.”
Mother Jones notes that warming oceans also affect aquatic wildlife like reef fish. Dangerous algal blooms, which are caused by warmer waters and dying coral reefs, can infect fish that eventually makes its way into the human food chain. In 2007, nine North Carolina residents contracted ciguatera, or fish poisoning, from infected fish that had been caught off the coast of Florida.
But it’s not just coastal and humid regions that are feeling the effects of diseases that are propped up by climate change. In the western United States, states like New Mexico, Arizona, and California are experiencing an inexplicable rise in Valley fever, which causes head and neck aches, serious respiratory problems, has no cure or vaccine, and can be lethal. The condition is caused by fungus that resides in spores in the soil that are lifted off of the ground due to dry weather that is a consequence of global warming-related drought.
Furthermore, illnesses that currently impact other countries could flourish in the United States if they were to find their way here. Rift Valley fever — which causes fever, vertigo, and neck stiffness — is also spread through mosquitoes.
Public health officials in Europe and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have publicly warned that populations should prepare for a rise in these diseases as a consequence of global climate change. But currently, only eight states have taken measures to prepare to combat the public health consequences of climate change.
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Comment by Dave Nederostek on July 23, 2013 at 9:22pm
Jay, ever seen these or even hear of them ?
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/nature/post/bizarre-mysterious-cloud...
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Jimmy Howard
AHL Career
Beginning with the 2005-06 season, Jimmy Howard began his career in the AHL with the Grand Rapids Griffins where he was occasionally called up to play for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Howard's inaugural season in the AHL became what is still one of his best in professional ice hockey. During this season he set many personal records as well as franchise records, including being the first Griffin named to the AHL's All-Rookie Team and helping establish the Griffins franchise win streak record of 12.
He was in net for the Red Wings four times in the 2005-06 season posting a 1-2-0 record, a GAA of 2.99 and a save percentage of .904. In the 2007-08 season during the month of February, Howard was in net for the Red Wings an additional four times, and called up once during the 2008-09 season, bringing his total NHL games played to 9.
Howard only played four games in the 2007-08 regular season and therefore did not qualify to have his name engraved on the cup. However, he was included in the 2008 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup picture, given the Cup for a day, and awarded a Stanley Cup ring by the Red Wings' management. With the retirement of Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek in June 2008, Howard was expected to compete with Ty Conklin for the position beside Chris Osgood for the 2008-09 NHL season, despite Conklin's noticeable advantages in terms of experience and contract. Although Howard did not earn a permanent spot on the Red Wing's roster for the 2008-09 season, he was expected to make the roster in the near future.
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Oct 20 2003 Daily Mirror
DIANA LETTER SENSATION: 'THEY WILL TRY TO KILL ME'
By Jane Kerr, Royal reporter
PRINCESS DIANA claimed there was a plot to kill her in a car crash in a handwritten letter only 10 months before she died. She gave it to her butler Paul Burrell with orders that he should keep it as "insurance" for the future.
The princess predicted: “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous.” She said "XXXXXXXXXXX is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”.
In the letter, revealed by the Daily Mirror today, Diana named who she believed was plotting to kill her. But the Mirror is not able to repeat the allegation for legal reasons so we have blanked that part of the letter out.
The document will fuel the conspiracy theories which have raged in the six years since she was killed in a Paris car crash.
But it also appears to bring fresh importance to a warning by the Queen that there were “powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”.
The Queen was speaking to Burrell at Buckingham Palace in a meeting that would prove crucial in the collapse of his trial for theft.
Now, plagued by that meeting and deeply troubled that there has still been no inquest in Britain into the death of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, Burrell has come forward with the stunning new evidence.
In his new book A Royal Duty the former servant - cleared last year of stealing Diana’s possessions - claims she began to worry about her security TWO YEARS before her death and that this led her to record her fears in the document.
Before sealing the letter in an envelope marked “Paul”, the princess told him: “I’m going to date this and I want you to keep it ... just in case.”
In the second paragraph of the document, written in October 1996, Diana explained in the plainest possible language that she was convinced of the plot to mastermind an accident.
Burrell describes in his book the events that led the princess to write the document at her desk in Kensington Palace.
Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles had been finalised less than two months earlier.
The princess, who had cut down on her charities to focus on Aids, leprosy and victims of homelessness, was enjoying huge public support.
But according to Burrell, by the autumn of 1996 she had “an overpowering feeling that she was ‘in the way’.”
He adds: “Rightly or wrongly she felt the stronger she became, the more she was regarded as a modernising nuisance.
“She certainly felt that ‘the system’ didn’t appreciate her work and that for as long as she was on the scene Prince Charles could never properly move on.”
Burrell says the princess told him: “I have become strong and they don’t like it when I am able to do good and stand on my own two feet without them.”
THE princess’s anxiety deepened to such an extent that she ordered a sweep of her apartments at Kensington Palace for listening devices.
By October 1996 she once again confided in Burrell that she believed there was a concerted attempt to undermine her in the public’s eyes.
She recalled that she had been brooding about Charles’s relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles and the continuing role of Tiggy Legge Bourke, nanny to Princes William and Harry, in the Royal Household.
Burrell says the princess was feeling “undervalued and unappreciated”. But at the root of her fears she said she was constantly puzzled” by attempts by Prince Charles’s supporters to “destroy her”.
With these thoughts and fears in her head, Diana decided to put her fears to paper, says Burrell.
The letter betrays the loneliness Diana was feeling: “I am sitting here at my desk today in October, longing for someone to hug me and encourage me to keep strong and hold my head high.” According to Burrell it was not the first time Diana had felt it neccessary to record what was happening to her. He said: I became the repository for royal truths.
“These notes are her legacy and are crucial to the truths that enshrine her memory and debunk the damaging myths that seem to have been peddled since the day she died.”
Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed in the early hours of August 31 1997 when a Mercedes S280 driven by drunken chauffeur Henri Paul careered into the Pont d’Alma tunnel in the French capital.
An inquiry in 1999 by the French authorities blamed Paul, concluding that he had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs before losing control of the car because he was speeding.
However, there has been a growing unwillingness by the public to accept the official version of her death.
BURRELL admitted he shares the doubts. He said: “With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.”
It will strike a chord among people who remain puzzled by inconsistences in her death, including questions over a mysterious white Fiat Uno which grazed the Mercedes in the tunnel and over blood samples taken from Henri Paul.
Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s father, has spent tens of thousands of pounds on a private investigation, convinced that Diana and Dodi were murdered by British security services at the behest of Establishment forces.
But Diana’s family refuse to believe the theories. Her mother Frances Shand Kydd accepted the findings of the French inquiry “without reservation”.
Diana’s brother Earl Spencer also said he was satisfied that the authorities had “reached the right conclusion”.
Hopes that some of the mysteries would be unravelled were dashed last month.
A spokesman for the royal coroner Michael Burgess said the date for an inquest on Diana would be announced within days.
But hours later Mr Burgess ordered the statement to be withdrawn, saying it was premature” to suggest a date and refusing to give a timescale.
The lack of an inquest and his prosecution for theft in 2002 steeled Burrell’s determination to make public the princess’s concerns for her security.
“That letter has been part of the burden I have carried since the princess’s death. Knowing what to do with it has been a source of much soul-searching.”
He insists that whether it is a wild coincidence” or an explanation for the tragedy is a matter for a coroner’s court.
He adds: “It may be futile in what it achieves because it can do no more than provide yet another question mark.
“But if that question mark leads to an inquest and a thorough investigation of the facts by the British authorities it will have achieved something.”
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S. Korean Alpine Snowboarder Aims for Gold at Beijing 2022
Posted on February 8, 2019 by Korea Bizwire in Lifestyle, Sports & Entertainment with 0 Comments
South Korean alpine snowboarder Lee Sang-ho speaks at a national team event in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province, on Feb. 8, 2019. (Image: Yonhap)
PYEONGCHANG, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean alpine snowboarder Lee Sang-ho, who won a silver medal at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, said Friday his next target is to win a gold medal at the Beijing Winter Games.
Lee became the first South Korean to win an Olympic medal in snow sports after claiming silver in the parallel giant slalom at the PyeongChang Games in February 2018. The 23-year-old said he wants to achieve better results at the upcoming Winter Olympics.
“Although I couldn’t win a gold medal at the PyeongChang Olympics, I was still happy to win silver,” Lee said at a press conference in PyeongChang, Gangwon Province. “For the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, I’m aiming for a gold medal.”
Following his historic result at PyeongChang 2018, Phoenix Snow Park, a ski resort that hosted alpine snowboard events, named a slope after him.
On that slope, Lee will compete at the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup from Feb. 16 to 17.
“I’ve already competed on that slope for a local competition,” he said. “I couldn’t describe that feeling, but I was happy. It’s an honor to race on the slope named after myself, I’ll do my best to collect a good result.”
Lee is having a tough season after the Olympics. In his last five World Cups, he only managed to reach the round of 16 once.
“It’s true that I’m struggling this season,” he said. “Honestly, it’s difficult to find the same motivation that I had for the Olympics.”
Lee said he also changed his gears after the Olympics and that may have affected his slump this season.
“You can’t always get a good result,” he said. “But I’m sure there will be an opportunity for a rebound, so I will keep working hard.”
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Legacy by C.J. Daugherty
In the last year, Allie's survived three arrests, two breakups and one family breakdown. The only bright point has been her new life at Cimmeria Academy. It's the one place she's felt she belongs. And the fact that it's brought dark-eyed Carter West into her life hasn't hurt either. But far from being a safe haven, the cloistered walls of Cimmeria are proving more dangerous than Allie could have imagined. The students and faculty are under threat, and Allie's family - from her mysterious grandmother to her runaway brother - are at the centre of the storm. Allie is going to have to choose between protecting her family and trusting her friends. But secrets have a way of ripping even the strongest relationships apart...
Night School by C.J. Daugherty
Allie Sheridan’s world is falling apart. Her brother’s run away from home. Her parents ignore her. And she’s just been arrested.
This time her parents have had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to boarding school, far from her London friends.
But at Cimmeria Academy, Allie is soon caught up in the strange activities of a secret group of elite students.
When she’s attacked late one night the incident sets off a chain of increasingly violent events. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, she finds out that nothing at Cimmeria is what it seems to be.
And that she is not who she thought she was.
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RAGNAR JONASSON'S SNOW BLIND
Ari Thor Arason is a trainee policeman who on an impulse accepts a posting in Siglufjordur, in the far north of Iceland. He leaves his medical student girlfriend behind in Reykjavik, and arrives in the small and isolated village, once busy with the fishing industry but now just a sleepy bywater, where he is told 'nothing ever happens'. Of course, within weeks there are two corpses – one a famous writer found dead at the foot of the stairs of the local theatre on the eve of an amateur production, the other a woman living with the man playing the lead in that production, discovered almost naked, bleeding red into the newly-fallen snow.
Ragnar Jonasson's novel is very much a traditional murder mystery, closer to Yrsa Sigurdardottir than Arnaldur Indridason, which gains much from the isolated setting, in which a whole town is trapped, in effect, by the snow. Amateur dramatics and murder in an isolated setting make it sound very Agatha Christie, but as with Sigurdardottir it's the nature of the people in their isolated society, a world of extremes of light and darkness, that perhaps makes difficult the shadings of gray. It's a tangled web, with each character's back story suggesting more knots, and the past is woven deeply into it: thefts and murders, abuses and illicit loves: sometimes it seems as if no one in this Icelandic milieu possesses a life free of serious damage. And that includes Ari Thor, whose relationship with his girlfriend seems unlikely to survive the great distance, both real and metaphoric, between them.
Ari Thor is an oddly unfinished character, which may suit his relatively naiveté, but it stands in sharp contrast to the more telling bits of exposition the various suspects and victims receive. There's a fascinating dynamic between him and his boss, Tomas, whose live and let live attitude sometimes seems to take on a more sinister connotation, and sometimes seems almost comic: casting him in the film version is an amusing exercise.
In some ways, because Ari Thor 'solves' both deaths, but doesn't get a full measure of justice, this becomes the story of his adjustment to a world much different from the 'big city' of Reykjavik; an adjustment which was at the heart of Indridason's Erlendur series too. The novel's end leaves that story unfinished....
Snow Blind by Ragnar Jonasson
translated by Quentin Bates
Orenda Books £8.99 ISBN 9781910633038
Labels: Arnaldur Indridason , Quentin Bates , Ragnar Jonasson , Snow Blind , Yrsa Sigurdardottir
E.L.DOCTOROW: THOUGHTS ON MY FRONT ROW DISCUSSION
I was on BBC Radio4 Front Row yesterday, discussing E.L. Doctorow with Samira Ahmed. Although I was saddened by his death, it was a privilege to be able to convey some of my enthusiasm for his work, and for him as a person, to a wider audience. You can link to that broadcast here; our segment starts about 16 minutes in, but really it's worth listening right through from the start, it's that good a programme.
Doctorow's work is always about relations of power—whether class, financial, racial, physical or whatever, and how the imbalance of those relations is at the core of the American experience, if not the core of the American Dream. It is always about the problems of America, the way those at the bottom experience the City on A Hill. It's easy to miss, because the stories themselves are so engrossing, the characters so well drawn: his historical figures blend with his invented ones, reinforcing his insistence that he was not writing historical fiction. Take The March, published when he was 74. It's as good a Civil War novel as anyone had written in a long time, but at heart it's about the way, even before the war was over, the rebellious southerners were being welcomed back into the fold, and the newly 'freed' slaves were being found a status not much different from slavery.
I met Doctorow once, at a debate organised by the New Yorker (with whom I was on good terms at the time, though never good enough to sell them anything) and the Sunday Telegraph at Cheltenham Ladies College, probably about 25 years ago. I was standing by myself at the pre-debate reception, and two guys standing next to me drew me into their conversation. 'Hi, I'm Joe, this is Ed,' one of them said, and a few seconds later I dissolved into fan boy status as I realised I was talking to Joe Heller and Ed Doctorow. It was one of the finest half-hours I've ever spent: the discussion never got near literary gossip; it covered real topics, and had mobile phones been invented I would even now be bombarding you with selfies.
Doctorow was maybe the last of the politically involved novelists from the time writers of fiction (and excellent non-fiction) were considered important pundits, rather than retreating to academia and ceding the high ground to the screeching beltway hacks who now populate the airways and leech into print. He was younger than Vonnegut, Mailer, or Vidal, but like them he accepted a public presence. He and his Kenyon classmate Paul Newman helped keep the Nation, America's pre-eminent left-wing weekly, afloat for years, and Doctorow contributed many fine essays to it. And like Mailer, and Roth (who is two years younger) he may the last of that generation of novelists educated in New York's public schools and then WASPy private colleges. I mentioned on Front Row that Doctorow's academic career reads like a character from a Philip Roth novel (Marcus, from Indignation, actually).
What was important from Doctorow's time at Kenyon was his study with John Crowe Ransom, one of the godfathers of 'New Criticism'. There's an interesting essay to be written about how New Criticism's analysis of Modernism helped generate Post-Modernism. Mailer and Vidal followed the modernist greats, with Vidal picking up a post-modern sort of irony; but Vonnegut and, with less flash but more variety, Doctorow, clearly embraced a post-modern sense of narrative. I mentioned how Doctorow's narrative strategies changed with each book: Loon Lake, perhaps the most extreme example, might be compared with John Hawkes.
But it was Doctorow's sense of history that inevitably defines his writing. John Updike hated Ragtime, saying Doctorow was 'playing with helpless dead puppets...in a gravity-free faintly sadistic game'. But I can't think of a writer less sadistic to his characters. One often has the feeling the author wishes the characters could be something other than what they are, but that what they are is simply too powerful, too real, to change. The famous story about staring at a portrait of J.P. Morgan by Edward Steichen to 'research' his character rings absolutely true. It's also why I like his first novel, Welcome To Hard Times, so much. Many of the obituaries repeated the line that the book started out as parody, but even were that Doctorow's original intent, his sense of parody became one of deconstruction. I look at the book as a precursor to Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, and Berger's novel as a sort of precursor to Doctorow's bigger novels. The film of Welcome To Hard Times isn't great; Burt Kennedy's scripts were always better when someone else directed them, but you can see Henry Fonda gets what the book was about. In passing, it's odd how that great wave of post-modern novelists: Heller, Doctorow, Vonnegut, Mailer, Berger, Barth, Pynchon, were either ill-served or served not at all by Hollywood. I sometimes wonder if too many of Doctorow's novels end in melodrama and violence, and if those genre novels he edited at NAL did affect him, but it occurs to me that an imbalance of power in society is almost always enforced by violence, and protested by violence. Hard Times is about what happens when society is ill-equipped to deal with rampant evil; that's a classic western trope, but Doctorow's idea is that it is really endemic in our society.
I mentioned the New Criticism; Doctorow was a fine editor at New American Library and Dial Press. His obits mentioned the big names he edited, everything from Mailer and Baldwin to the unlikely pairing with Ayn Rand. But Ed Brubaker wrote today about how it was Doctorow who commissioned Jules Feiffer's The Comic Book Heroes; the first serious study of comics, and one that looked wryly at the America those early super-heroes represented. I mentioned to Samira that World's Fair might be my favourite of Doctorow's novels, and I spoke of the sense it gives me of the time in which my parents grew up; but I realised too that part of my pleasure in that book is the way our knowledge of what became of the world since then burnishes our memories of 1939. It was published in 1985, as if to say, look what we came out of, look at how high our hopes were, and now you want to turn the clocks back to the age of greed?
I ought to explain as well that I don't consider Waterworks his best novel, but in its style and structure it may be his best piece of prose writing. I haven't even mentioned Billy Bathgate or The Book Of Daniel, either of which might head many people's list of favourite Doctorow books, but we do mention them in the Front Row talk. I recommend his short stories too, and especially his essays, which approach literature and politics with the same caring that he shows his fictional characters. He gave a graduation address at Brandeis, and after the college edited the copy for its magazine, The Nation published it in full. It was almost a Jeremiad, an effort to remind the students of the world they were about to enter, and remind them more of what they could bring to it with the learning they had just received. Couching his words in almost literary theory, but using an uncharacteristic vituperative approach, he talked about how we were seeing a 'national regression to the robber baronial thinking of the 19th century—nothing less than a deconstruction of America...as if we were not supposed to be a just nation, but a confederacy of stupid murderous gluttons.'
Labels: Billy Bathgate , Burt Kennedy , Ed Brubaker , EL Doctorow , Front Row , Henry Fonda , Joseph Heller , Jules Feiffer , Paul Newman , Samira Ahmed , The Nation , Thomas Berger , Watrworks , Welcome To Hard Times , World's Fair
MARK STRAND: THE LOST TELEGRAPH OBITUARY
I wrote the following piece in early December for the Daily Telegraph, but for some reason it didn't appear in the paper immediately, and then it just drifted onto the spike. I was never taken with Strand's poetry, though I did enjoy his book on Hopper. But researching his obit made me appreciate some of the convergences between his life and his work. I was particularly fascinated with the idea he studied with Josef Albers, and then moved from art to poetry via Wallace Stevens: as if placing a cube in Tennessee...
Mark Strand, who has died aged 80, once said 'Poetry tries to lead us to relocate ourselves in the self.' Relocate seemed to be the key word for Strand, who has died aged 80. In his often spare but always elegant poetry, Strand seems to be looking at the world, and at himself, from the outside. 'The poet provides the reader with a surrogate world through which he reads this world,' Strand said, and at his best he achieved the paradoxical success of bringing readers closer to the very worlds from which he felt distanced and alienated.
That sense of dislocation may have begun in childhood. Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island 11 April 1934. His father's work took the family to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Montreal before moving to Philadelphia, where Strand started school as an outsider, speaking English with a heavy French-Canadian accent. His father's new job with Pepsi-Cola took the family to Cuba, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico, but the young Mark returned each summer with his mother to St Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia, and memories of that seacoast and its pine forests reverberate through his work. Still feeling less than comfortable with English, he intended to become an artist. While earning a BA from Antioch College (Ohio) he spent a summer an assistant to the Mexican muralist David Siquieros, painting 'the kind of art I learned to despise while I was working at it.' He moved to Yale, taking a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree studying under the painter Josef Albers. The contrast between Siquieros' social realism and Albers' abstract focus on the language of paint itself might be seen as template for Strand's later poetry.
While at Yale he immersed himself in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and began to move away from painting, placing poems in the New Yorker. A Fulbright grant took him to Italy to study 19th century poetry; when he returned he took a creative writing MFA at the University of Iowa, America's most prestigious programme. In 1965 he received another Fulbright, to teach in Brazil. His first collection, Sleeping With One Eye Open (1964) was published by a small press in Iowa, but in 1968 the influential editor Harry Ford at Athaneum published Reasons For Moving, establishing Strand as a major voice. He moved to New York and taught at Columbia, Brooklyn College, Yale and Princeton. There he became close to Richard Howard, Charles Wright, and Charles Simic, poets whose work incorporated elements of surrealism, what Wright and Robert Bly labelled 'leaping poetry'. But Strand's closest affinity might be with John Ashbery, particularly in their shared roots in painting.
He published three more collections whose titles are revealing: Darker (1970), The Story Of Our Lives (1973) and The Late Hour (1978), as well a long prose poem about immortality, The Monument (1978) and translations of the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti and the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade. But following publication of his Selected Poems (1980) he gave up writing poetry for a decade. 'I didn't like what I was writing; I didn't believe in my autobiographical poems,' he said. He moved to the University of Utah to teach and wrote three childrens books, a collection of essays on art, The Art Of The Real (1983) and a monograph on the artist William Bailey (1987). That year he also received a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'.
Strand marked his return to poetry with the 1990 collection A Continuous Life, and spent a year as America's Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress. His new publisher was Alfred Knopf, a relationship which survived an argument over reissuing The Monument labelled as prose. Dark Harbor (1993) received the Bollingen Prize, and in 1994 his monograph on Edward Hopper was a magnificent exercise in affinity, as Strand's minute breakdown of Hopper's paintings speaks of the waiting, the sense of time, and the position as observer of the poet in his own poems.
His 1998 collection, Blizzard Of One, received the Pulitzer Prize, deservedly so as it was perhaps his finest work. It includes the long meditation 'Delerium Waltz', reflecting on life as a waltz 'we think will never end'. He followed with the surprisingly brighter Man and Camel (2006), New Selected Poems (2007) and this year his Collected Poems, which was nominated for the National Book Award.
Strand died 29 November 2014, of liposarcoma, at his daughter's home in Brooklyn, to which he was moving back after living in Madrid. His two marriages ended in divorce, and he is survived by his partner Maricruz Bilbao, his daughter Jessica and son Thomas.
'Poetry tries to lead us to relocate ourselves in the self,' Mark Strand once told an interviewer. Relocate seemed to be the key word for Strand, who has died aged XX. In his often spare but always elegant poetry, Strand seems to be looking from the outside, at the world and at himself. 'The poet provides the reader with a surrogate world through which he reads this world,' he said, and at his best Strand achieved the paradoxical success of bringing readers closer to the very worlds from which he felt distanced and alienated.
Strand died 29 November 2014, of liposarcoma, at his daughter's home in Brooklyn, to which he was moving back after living in Madrid. His two marriages ended in divorce, and he is survived by his partner Maricruz Bilbao, his daughter Jessica and son Thomas. As he wrote in Blizzard Of One, in the poem 'A Piece Of The Storm':
A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
From your book, saw it the moment it landed.
That's all there was to it. No more than a solemn waking
To brevity, to the lifting and falling away of attention, swiftly,
A time between times, a flowerless funeral.
Labels: Daily Telegraph , Edward Hopper , John Ashberry , Josef Albers , Mark Strand , Wallace Stevens
THE COLOURS OF CHLOE: A POEM (AFTER EBERHARD WEBER)
I wrote this poem in January 1977, in my hometown of Milford, Connecticut. I had left Montreal in late November '76, having completed my master's thesis in August, to avoid having to register (and pay) for another academic year. I was about to fly to London with Theresa. I can't say I ever imagined I would stay more than a few years.
The title, of course, comes from the title song of Eberhard Weber's first ECM record, which was one of my favourites in the tiny flat Theresa and I shared on Lorne Avenue, and I'm sure I set my simple stereo up on my parents' porch, listened, and wrote. I may have been looking at Maya Weber's cover painting while I did. And it may have been the last thing I wrote before I arrived in England.
It seems it was published in something called Chock, which may have been the same as the Chock Freesheet, in October 1979. I've probably got a copy of it in storage somewhere. But this is its first appearance since then, 35 years ago...
THE COLOURS OF CHLOE (Eberhard Weber)
Why is she sleeeping
underneath
while her cello sits
unbowed just out of
cast aside
by a cypress, reaching down
to touch her?
She surrounds
the sunset in
her eyes.
The path of her dreams can be
followed on her face
by anyone
who drifts by
& happens to look.
As slowly as the music lures
her back to consciousness
she sees a spectrum
rising, below the horizon
the redness of angry
sky, crackling louder
than the cold blue of crying
than a yellow straw forgetting
broken in the wind.
Labels: Eberhard Weber , ECM , Michael Carlson Poems , Michael Carlson poetry , Milford Connecticut , Montreal , The Colours Of Chloe
RICHARD LANGE WINS THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER: A JUDGE'S TALE
The Crime Writers Association awards dinner June 30th was great fun, and I was privileged to attend as one of the judges for the Short Story Dagger award. It was my first experience of judging, and it was a long slog, with shall we say, an avalanche of stories from all different published formats--including one, Neil Gaiman's 'The Case Of Death And Honey' which we had been sent and all liked but then discovered had actually been entered for the Dagger the previous year!
Eventually Laura Wilson, our chair Ayo Onatade, and I each submitted long-lists of about 12 stories. I collated them, and it quickly became obvious that our short list had created itself. Two stories appeared on all three of our lists, three on two of the lists, and in correspondence we found the Dashiell Hammett story was on one long list (mine, as it happens) but had just missed the other two. It became our sixth story, and I was grateful to see it in print in what is a very fine collection for anyone keen on the progression of detective fiction from cosy to hard-boiled.
This was our short list, with the descriptions I wrote for the CWA's releases:
Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane 'Red Eye' (from Face Off, published by Sphere) Connelly's Harry Bosch travels from LA on the red eye to Boston to arrest a suspect his cold case file has turned up, and finds Lehane's Patrick Kinsey on a stake out of the same suspect. A tale whose understatement brings out the sharpness of both authors' handling of character, highlighting the differences between the two detectives in order to reveal their ultimate sameness at the core.
Dashiell Hammett 'The Hunter' (The Hunter & Other Stories/No Exit Press): In this story a detective who might be seen as a variation on Hammett's famous Continental Op uses ruthless bullying to try to get a confession, and in Hammett terms, something like the truth. This story, never published in its time, reminds us that the essence of hard-boiled is not cracking wise, ready violence, or blazing roscoes, but the world view which seeks solutions for their own sake, even though solving the crime does not necessarily bring society or its citizens (or its detectives) any closer to satisfactory solutions for their lives.
Richard Lange 'Apocrypha' (Sweet Nothing/Mulholland Press): An ex-convict called B works as a security guard in a jewellery store and lives in an LA flop house, where a couple of would be players who mock him as 'McGruff the Crime Dog' plan to rob his store. Lange reveals small bits of B's character with off-hand remarks about his past, but it's the fatalistic view of life, and the dark clarity with which it is drawn, that make this a subtly powerful neo-noir story.
Richard Lange 'Sweet Nothing' (Sweet Nothing/Mulholland Press): Richard Lange's stories of Los Angeles lie somewhere between Charles Bukowski and George Pelecanos. In 'Sweet Nothing' Dennis is a drug addict who's lost almost everything, including his children, and is trying to make himself respectable again. He shares an apartment with Troy, who weighs 450 pounds, and works as a manager in a Subway store. One night he meets a woman whose daughter is on life-support at a nearby hospital, hit by a car while jaywalking. Lange's characters are simply trying to get by in a world which sometimes seems casually antagonistic; this story is a very brightly lit piece of LA darkness.
Stuart Neville 'Juror 8' (OxCrimes/Profile Books): If you remember 12 Angry Men you will recall Juror 8, the older man with his own business who is the first one persuaded by Juror 9. But, asks Neville, what if Juror 9 weren't such a noble Henry Fonda, but more like the Fonda of Once Upon A Time In The West, and what if the boy accused of stabbing his father to death actually was guilty?
George Pelecanos 'The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us' (OxCrimes/Profile Books): In 1930s Washington DC, Greek immigrant Vasili is just starting his climb to the American Dream of success, and the one non-Greek friend he makes in his restaurant job turns up dead. Pelecanos' story is, like much of his writing, about the values of work and family, the struggles of little people in a world where those values aren't always followed. Vasili is written with such honesty the contradictions become plain, even in his own attitudes, but at heart he is a man of honour, and this is a dark look about what it means, or meant in those days, to be a man.
The two stories that appeared on all three long lists were 'Apocrypha' and 'The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us'. When we met for lunch to decide the winner, it wasn't an easy decision, hence the commendation as runner-up for the Pelecanos, but in the end we were probably influenced by the overall quality of Lange's collection, the quality of the second-nominated story, 'Sweet Nothing', which is sweet nothing at all like the winner, and indeed, just passingly a 'crime' story at all, and the freshness of the voice.
What was fascinating to me was the similarity between our two finalist stories. Both are tales of men of low status working in jobs they feel lucky to have, whose choice of whether to act to do what they perceive as being right runs the risk of losing their job, if not creating the kinds of problems with the law and with the unlawly, that vulnerable people always face.
There was a small debate about 'The Martini Shot', the title story of George Pelecanos' first collection. I thought it was an impressive story, but there was some discussion whether it actually ran too close to novel length (which didn't bother me). In the US, awards for novellas (indeed sometimes 'novelettes') are common but I don't see that as necessary. In the event there was also some discussion about the sex scenes in this one, whether they were necessary to the story and whether they distracted from it. But it should be noted Pelecanos came close to having two stories on the short list too.
But Richard Lange was a new name to me, and having discovered his work was compensation enough for judging the award, even before the dinner. It was richly deserved, and you are advised to read him.
Labels: Ayo Onatade , CWA Short Story Dagger , Dashiell Hammett , Dennis Lehane , LLaura Wilson , Neil Gaiman , RPelecanos
LAWLESS: BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL CONTINUES
Tracy Lawless has spent 18 months in the hole; locked up in a military prison, no contact with the outside world. Then he's handed the personal effects left behind by his brother, murdered nine months earlier; news the Army kept from Lawless. Two days later, he's gone: headed back to the city to avenge his brother's death, because that's what guys like him are supposed to do.
The brothers grew up in crime, and Tracy knows that if he tracks down Rick's last crew he's likely to find the killer. So he makes a small heist of his own, and infiltrates the crew without anyone knowing. But huge burn scars from his soldier time in the Middle East make him easy to identify. And the crew is preparing for a big heist, and of course there's a woman too, who happened to be his brother Rick's girl.
The beauty of this installment of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Criminal series isn't so much the noirish setting, which Phillips' dark art gets well-night perfect, nor the relentless pace of the story, which Brubaker takes through twists combined with the usual noirish inevitability. But what makes it really stand out is the way it shifts times: flashbacks to the Lawless childhoods, to Tracy's Army service, and the story of why he's behind bars at the start, and of course the caper which he intends to use as the stage for his revenge. They segue smoothly, but what's impressive is the way the stories mesh together, providing characterization and motivation that makes precise sense, even down to Lawless' names. And it connects, in the end, with previous chapters of the Criminal story.
Being noir, nothing works out as planned, not relationships, not revenge, not the noirish femme fatale, and of course not the heist. But the ending is perfect noir, and there aren't many writers around, in any medium, who get it as well as Brubaker does. This series moves from strength to strength.
Criminal Volume 2: Lawless
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Image 2015, £10.99 ISBN 9781632152039
Labels: Criminal , Ed Brubaker , Lawless , Sean Phillips
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Floods at Red River: Some Tales of the Great Inundations of 1826, 1852, 1861
by Samuel P. Matheson
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1946-47 Season
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I have thought that some notes on the three floods which visited this country in 1826, 1852 and 1861 respectively might be of interest historically to the members of our society. Various causes have been assigned for their prevalence in the early days and their comparatively rare occurrence in later years. It is contended, for example, by old timers who were here when floods did occur, that they arose from abnormally heavy snowfalls to the south, together with the fact that the swamps and low-lying land were filled almost to overflowing when the frost came in the previous autumn.
I myself recall the latter condition. The time was when in the rear of our river lots the country was composed largely of swamps, often filled with deep water and remaining so during the whole winter season. These swamps were like tumblers filled to the brim, which required very little to make them overflow. Others account for the floods by the blocking of the rivers by ice. Of course there were higher lands and elevated ridges in the rear, but between them were numerous low lying areas. In traveling weekly in the early days to Stony Mountain as chaplain of the penitentiary I encountered more than once deep swamps where, in a very wet spring or autumn, the water reached the bottom of my buggy and not infrequently came into it, with the result that I had to elevate my feet and legs on the dashboard to keep them dry. Moreover there were only certain districts by which you could make your way through these low places to reach your destination beyond them.
There was a trail going out from Old Kildonan and one also from what is now Logan Avenue that were fairly good, but not until you reached a point much farther north towards the Lower Fort was it possible in very wet seasons to get safely across the intervening swamps. I presume that may be the reason why Sir George Simpson and others, in giving evidence in 1857 before a committee of the British House of Commons on the suitability of this country for agricultural purposes, claimed that outside of a narrow strip of land along the rivers the whole hinterland was composed of deep swamps and mossy muskegs. I dare say that that was true when Sir George knew the country as it was in his day. With the system of draining which has since taken place, all this is now changed, with the result that what were deep swamps where some of us can recall shooting ducks are now cultivated fields for grain.
There were numerous creeks emptying themselves into the river containing large volumes of water. Some of these were large enough to have dams erected on them to supply motive power for several water mills which operated in those days. One of these creeks entered the river near my old home in East Kildonan, and higher up in the course was situated Long Angus Matheson’s water mill, which I remember very well, and to which I had often taken wheat to be ground into flour. By means of your modern drainage system, all these creeks are now as dry as a bone, and all the water flowing down them so far from running a water mill, would not move the wings of a mosquito, unless Dr. Speechly was on hand to give it a push.
In motoring out to Stonewall I have often passed by what we used to call “The Bear’s Swamp,” a regular rendezvous not only in the spring, but during the whole summer of crowds of ducks and other water fowl, but now a high and dry farm. My father owned it and used to cut tons of hay on it. I am of the opinion, therefore, that the claim that the chances of recurring flooding are minimized by drainage is a correct one. This view, however, was not concurred in by some of the old settlers, who continued to entertain fears that we might have a recurrence of a flood at any time.
The late Andrew McDermot, for example, for so many years a leading settler in what is now the City of Winnipeg, was so confident that the menace had not passed that he kept a large York boat at the back of his house at the foot of what is now McDermot Avenue and had it carefully pitched and caulked ready for embarkation by himself and his family in the event of a recurring flood in the country. Frequently when I visited him he took me to see his boat and emphasized the fact that he kept it in prime condition for an emergency. I remember also the late Col. Ruttan, for so long our city engineer, when questioned as to his view of the possibility of floods again taking place, remarking that, while the prospects were greatly lessened by the extension of draining, and while the rivers, especially the Red River, had greatly-widened and also were capable of carrying away rapidly a greater volume of water, he did not consider that the danger had entirely passed away. He gave as his reasons that, while doubtless the Red River was much broader all along its course than it once was, yet he had observed that its mouth where it entered into Lake Winnipeg, had remained the same width and he added that a funnel was only capable of carrying through itself what its small end could convey. Be that as it may, I have no desire to play the part of Noah and thus be an alarmist and picture to you the immensely increased population of Winnipeg and the Province trying to huddle together on Stony Mountain and Bird’s Hill and other higher spots, where the members of our little colony in olden days camped comfortably for weeks together until the tyranny of the waters was past.
After these preliminary remarks let me now give you some particulars about those early floods, the records of which, though scanty, are still extant. The first took place in 1826, though the aboriginal inhabitants and old timers have traditions of another and a greater inundation in some former year. The following are extracts from letters of my grandfather, John Pritchard, in my possession, written in the autumn after the flood. He was an eyewitness of what had taken place and wrote this letter to a brother in England 106 years ago:
Red River,
August 2nd, 1826.
With feelings of gratitude to Almighty God, who, though he has afflicted, yet has spared; and in His wrath thought upon mercy, I have to relate a most calamitous event which visited us this spring.
About the 30th of April the ice on the Red River began to give way in particular places, but did not generally break up till the first week in May, when it presented a scene of devastation dreadful to contemplate and very difficult to describe. I have before informed you, that this country is formed of one large plain of many hundred miles in extent, its western boundary the Rocky Mountains, its southern I cannot describe, but I suppose somewhere about New Mexico. It is intersected with very few rivers and the few eminences to be met with scarcely deserve the name of hills. I find it necessary to make these observations to enable you to form some idea of the terrific scene we have witnessed.
When the ice broke up in our neighborhood, it was late in the evening. The night was dark and stormy, accompanied with rain. The flood at once rose higher than ever known by man. The crashing of immense masses of ice was loud as thunder; neither the tallest poplar nor the stoutest oak could resist its impetuosity. They were mowed down like grass before the scythe. The inhabitants fled from their dwellings, and with their cattle sought safety upon the first high lands that presented themselves.
The water continued to rise, but not so rapidly as at first. As it rose the poor settlers daily retired and continued their sorrowful route until those on the east bank reached a hill at about eight miles, and those on the west another at about nine miles distance. From the heights they had the cheerless prospect of one general ruin. Far as the eye could discover, the earth was covered with water carrying on its surface the wreck of a whole colony. Houses, barns, stables, fences, and in fact all that could float was a prey to the destructive element. The water continued to rise till the beginning of June. It then began to fall though by slow degrees. As it retired, we retraced our steps and from the middle of that month till the early part of July, we planted potatoes, barley and some wheat upon such lands as the water had left; and I am extremely happy to say that what we so planted looks well and through the blessings of the Almighty now promises a sufficiency for man and beast.
You may form some idea of the extent of this flood by considering the river whose usual breadth may be compared with the Severn at Shrewsbury having expanded itself over a surface of more than seventeen miles; which is the distance between the hills on which the settlers took refuge. There, of course, it was contracted and its width above must have been considerably greater. The depth was thirty five feet above its common level, being more than twenty feet higher than the former flood which was considered a very high one. It is worthy of remark that the three churches, the residence of the clergy and the house of our social prayer meeting, with the exception of the windmill, should be the only buildings which have not been carried away or so much injured as not to deserve notice. It is no less remarkable that the sites of these buildings were not chosen on account of their central position.
I have now given you the outlines of this disastrous event, and turn in grateful remembrance to Him who directs all things; who in exhibiting the greatness of His power and the justness of His wisdom did not withold his merciful kindness. Incredible as it may appear, not one human life has been lost, and so few cattle perished that they are not worth mentioning.
I am writing this on the site of my usual residence, ‘The Elms’, opposite Kildonan Church where Mrs. Whellams now lives. I returned the day before yesterday after an absence of twelve weeks. I am living under a shed of boards, but before the winter sets in I hope to have a comfortable house. A considerable number of the settlers have left the country and gone to the United States, a few others will return to Europe. The old residents still remain and are very actively employed in re-establishing things as heretofore; so that I expect next summer the remembrance of the flood alone will be retained. To view the country now and compare it with what it was a few weeks ago—a sea of devastation or desolation—it is impossible not to exclaim, O Lord how wonderful are Thy works! Truly the wilderness has become a `fruitful field’ and ’the desert rejoices and blossoms as the rose.
Extract from letter 21 August 1826.
Since my last we have received further accounts of the recent flood and I very much fear for the safety of the American Settlements on the lower parts of the Missouri and St. Peter’s Rivers. Report says that some of their military posts have been overwhelmed and many soldiers drowned. We are also informed that several Indian Villages have fallen victims to these destructive waters. It is now clearly ascertained that they flowed from the Rocky Mountains and passing over the banks of the Missouri (their usual channel to the Gulf of Mexico) overflowed the adjacent country; and were conducted here by the Riviere a La Souris which falls into the Assiniboine River about one hundred miles from this place.
Our crops continue to look well; both wheat and barley are in full ear and the potatoes sufficiently large for the table. When you consider that seven or eight weeks ago we were only sowing after the flood you will join in praise to Him in Whom we live and move and have our being, for His providential care towards His creatures.
This will give you an idea of the extent of the flood if we picture to ourselves the conditions when the Red River arose thirty-five feet above its usual level. It is no wonder that only our two high spots at Stony Mountain and Bird’s Hill escaped being submerged. It seems extraordinary that under the providence of God there were no human fatalities and so few even among animals and livestock generally.
We come now to speak of the flood of 1852, twenty-six years afterwards. Here again I cannot speak as an eye-witness, for, though I was born in that year, 80-odd years ago, either my parents or myself with Scottish caution saw to it that I did not appear on the scene until the waters had completely subsided. So, I shall have to depend upon the particulars given by Bishop Anderson in his Notes of the Flood, which were published shortly after the event.
Bishop Anderson begins his notes as follows:
This little sketch does not profess to be a narrative of the late flood as a whole but of its effect in that part of which I am in the centre. Its effects were very different in different places; they varied almost with every reach of the river and according to the level of the bank at each spot. It was perhaps the most disastrous among the Canadians around and above the Upper Fort; it was very severe in the Upper and Middlechurch districts, Middlechurch and St. Andrews near Lockport. It affected a good deal the lower part of the Assiniboine; while the upper part of the district of St. James and Rat River and the Indian settlements were almost untouched. My own suffering was greater for my having so much on my hands and so many around me. Some have even called our buildings a village. The schools and households numbering sixty to provide for daily might almost be so termed. There was my own house with the Collegiate school, where all were boarders, chiefly from a distance; a little below us the large house of St. Cross, a similar establishment for young ladies. Across the creek, over which I had lately thrown a long bridge, was the farmyard, stables, etc., and the parochial day school attached to the Upper Church, at the far end of which some of my servants lived.” (There used to be a deep creek between what is now Church Avenue and what is now the St. John’s Park and it was there that those buildings stood.)
It would take too long and possibly might be tedious to follow consecutively the whole narrative, so that I shall content myself with giving you excerpts illustrative of how events progressed. On Sunday, April 25th, we find the following note:
The ice having partially broken up rendered it unsafe to cross the river. A few, however, came over in the morning and more to the afternoon service. Large masses of ice passed during the evening and the following day. The water had risen much, even before the ice gave way, and continued doing so during the week, there being no outlet for it as yet towards the lake. The rise was sometimes a foot or a foot and a half in twenty four hours.
Sunday, May 2nd: By this time the prospect became alarming. I determined in consequence to give notice of a day of prayer and humiliation.
At the service on that day the Bishop preached in the morning from a text in the Prophet Amos:
“It is He that buildeth His stories in the heavens and hath founded His truth in the earth; He that calleth the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. The Lord is His Name.” In the evening he spoke on St. Paul’s experience when shipwrecked, on the text: “The rest, some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship, and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land.” The narrative goes on with the encouraging words: “The evening was placid and calm” and every breast was filled with hope. But on May third a different story is told: “These expectations were encouraged by the slight rise during the night, but from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the waters came so fast as to lead to very painful forebodings. Some houses opposite to us were already abandoned, their inmates tenting on little knolls behind. We hear of one settler taking a bateau right through his house; another with a boat at his door to carry off his goods. From the fort we hear that more than fifty deserted houses may be seen. The owners of some, wholly reckless of the future and regarding their return to them as uncertain, have in some cases offered them for sale and some houses changed hands in this way for thirty shillings and two pounds.” Circumstances became worse and worse, until we find that people were notified during the church service on May fifth that anyone who chose might lodge wheat in the gallery of the church for safety, thirty bushels were brought immediately after. Many besides deposited the articles they most valued to themselves, as clocks, saws, seed, etc. One individual brought as much as 100 bushels of grain of different kinds for storage. On May seventh the note is as follows: “A morning of more wintry aspect. Six hundred weight of flour lodged in the gallery of the Church. Horses of the Hudson’s Bay Company I passed down, sent for security to the stone Fort. They were seen fording and swimming the creeks, now swollen to rivers. In every direction there are processions of cattle, horses and carts going to Little Stony Mountain; the creaking sound of the wheels is melancholy to hear. One stable is seen drifting down the river. The most melancholy sight of the day had been when those tented on the ground moved off and passed over the swollen water to the north of the church. All walked right through the stream, men and women up to their waists. The cattle were swum over and the carts with difficulty got through. Others were housed by us for the night.”
Later on the Church at St. John’s which had been a house of refuge as well as a storehouse for valuables, was flooded, for the Bishop writes: “I went over to the Church and found the water had entered it. It was a melancholy sight to look down from the gallery and as I viewed the Church yard lying under water (the present cemetery at St. John’s) I thought, what could be done in case of death? There had been two funerals the day before at St. Andrews; what could I do if death occurred in the upper settlement?”
Apparently for a time part of the district of St. James was immune from trouble, and a great many went there in canoes or boats and took refuge in the parsonage, which was not yet finished. We are told that as many as thirty-five camped in one room. Later on, however, practically the whole population had to repair to Stony Mountain, Bird’s Hill, etc., and camped for many weeks on these higher spots. Such is the account of an eyewitness of the flood of 1852, which proved a serious setback to the settlement and, like a good many other misfortunes, tested the courage and constancy of those early pioneers who laid the foundations of the old Red River Colony with wonderful pluck and perseverance and of what subsequently became our Province of Manitoba. In these days of depression and difficulty may we, imitating their faith, continue steadfast and keep on our feet. Some of us ought to feel proud that we are descended from those intrepid pioneers who in the midst of disasters never said die. ...
I need not weary you with any further details of the disaster of 1852. I have said enough to indicate that it was sufficient to put a serious damper on the progress and development of the little colony at that date. For the records of the two floods which I have described I have had to depend upon the notes which I have gathered from those who were here when they occurred. In 1861, however, there was an inundation of which I was an eye-witness, though I was only a small boy. It was only of a partial extent and did not cover nearly as large an area as the two previous ones. The fact is, these succeeding floods seem to have grown less, both in extent and in their destruction, as time went on, which is an encouraging feature, bearing upon the possibility of any recurrent ones. That of 1861 appears to have made so small an impression on the public that I have searched in vain for any reference to it in the histories covering that period. Only the low lying lands were affected and as far as I can recollect not many houses were flooded. In portions of Kildonan and Middlechurch considerable inconvenience to the inhabitants was caused, with the result that homes were abandoned and a good many people migrated as they did in 1826 and 1852 to the higher lands.
The farm where I lived at the time was on the east side of the Red River opposite Old Kildonan church. It was located on the river bank and near it quite a deep creek (on which there was a dam and a water grist mill higher up) to which I have already referred, emptied itself into the river near our house. For that reason possibly our farm was seriously affected, in fact, it was covered with water reaching back for about a mile from the river. Just about the time that the floors of the houses were flooded the men removed our goods, chattels and livestock to a higher spot not far from where Transcona now stands. Those of us who were left behind, an aunt, a sister and myself, remained upstairs, which in those days was termed “the loft”, and where quantities of wheat and other cereals were piled up. It was arranged that within a day or two the men were to come back for us and take us out to where tents and board shacks were being built in the meantime to receive us. A heavy storm, however, ensued and we were left there for several days in great anxiety.
In the meantime the water continued to rise rapidly and I remember bringing a canoe, which was tied to a tree outside, into the downstairs rooms of the house, and for a time paddling about throughout the building, which was a commodious one, for it had been used for a boarding school by my grandfather in the early days. I recall that as time went on, the canoe came nearer and nearer to the ceiling of the house, until I had to duck my head when paddling about. One day I espied sitting on the roof of the stable (we called it the byre in those days) a very favorite white hen, but when I essayed to go out in the canoe to fetch her I was strictly forbidden on account of the possible risk.
One morning, however, when the surface of the water seemed smooth, we saw a hay rick and a portion of a stable with hens on it floating by. I slipped out quietly from downstairs in the canoe, paddled to the byre and rescued my hen. Holding her tightly between my knees, I used my hands for paddles, made my way back to the house and went aloft with the hen, which I remember made straight for a pile of grain and feasted on it, for apparently she had been starving for several days. The next day the hen rewarded us for my escapade by laying an egg, which we relished very much, for our supply of tasty food was becoming decidedly low.
Some days afterwards my uncles arrived in a York boat which they had borrowed from Donald Murray, I think it was, and took us out through an upstairs window and conveyed us out to the place where they had established our camp and temporary quarters. On the way out when we had reached land and discarded the boat we came across some livestock which had been left behind on the way out. Carts met us there and among the livestock was a pig and a fine litter of young ones. The mother and family were placed in a cart with a low rail round it and I was commissioned to drive it to our destination. When we came to what was called Bunn’s Creek and had to wade through it with the oxen cart, and when the water came into the cart, Mrs. Pig and her progeny became restless and, resisting my endeavours to keep them in, jumped into the stream and swam to the other side. When we collected them together I recall how some of the little pigs were bleeding around the throat and I was told that, while pigs could swim when they were compelled, they always incurred the danger of cutting their own throats with the sharp points on their hoofs, and if they swam far they were liable to cut themselves so seriously that they bled to death. Be that as it may, our little piggies arrived safely in camp and grew into fine porkers.
Life in our temporary encampment was quite pleasant. We had plenty of food and not too bad shelter and, as there were several families near each other, we had not a little social diversion. I remember how plentiful game was. Prairie chickens, partridges, plovers, etc., abounded on the ridges near us and a deep swamp hard by, encircled by reeds and rushes, seemed to be full of ducks. An uncle who was a good shot kept us supplied with all the game we needed. Every boy in those days had a bow and arrows and one morning, not to be beaten by my uncle, I crept into the reeds and, concealing myself, waited for the near approach of some ducks, which were swimming in the pond. When a large mallard swam close to me I let him have an arrow in the head. He tumbled into the water and, lest he should revive, I hurriedly waded after him, despatched him and carried him proudly to the camp. My foster mother said that I was becoming a Nimrod, but as I did not know the difference between a Nimrod and a ramrod I failed to appreciate the compliment.
On Sundays we used to ride on horseback—for the swamps were too deep to go through in carts—to Bird’s Hill some miles away, where the settlers from Middlechurch were camped. They attended church services there conducted by the Rev. John Chapman, who rowed out in a boat from his parish on the river about three miles away, and who had been living in the gallery of the church, in which he had also taken refuge in the flood of 1852. Twenty-six years before, Bishop Anderson speaks of Mr. Chapman holding services on the same spot and also in the large tent of Mr. Pritchard, who, as he states, had been debarred by infirmity for many years from regular attendance at public worship. ... I recall very vividly an incident which occurred at one of those services at the end of which Mr. Chapman made a painful announcement to us to the effect that Dr. Bunn had passed away that morning. The Doctor was very popular from end to end of the settlement, and was not only an able practitioner but a most devoted family physician. He was the much loved “Dr. McClure” of Ian McLaren’s book Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush. I was only a boy of eight at the time, but I shall never forget the profound impression made. I had seen women break down into convulsive tears but I had never seen full grown men collapse and try to hide their emotions by disappearing one by one into the grove hard by to weep there. A good family physician is a possession of great price.
I am afraid that I have kept you too long already, but let me add, that, as in the case of the other two floods, though we planted nothing much before July, in the good providence of God, nature seemed to adjust itself to our needs and mishaps, with the result that both grain and vegetables matured in time to supply adequately our wants.
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Michael O'Brien Autobiography
I was born close to the village of Bodyke which is near Scarriff in east Clare, the youngest by ten years of a family of five with two brothers and two sisters. I grew up on a farm where we all did our share of the work and attended the local national school where I was part of the school choire and also the local church choir.
My first introduction to music came from my father who at one time played the violin which was still in our home. My vain efforts to play this instrument were soon abandoned as the scratchy sounds soon became a great source of annoyance to the entire household, even the poor old dog ran out when I started.
I had finished secondary school when I got my first guitar and after learning a few chords I very soon found that I could strum along and accompany myself singing a few songs that were popular at the time. This gave me great encouragement to continue. At this time after leaving school I worked for a short time in a piano factory where I found a new interest which was to play the piano.
I spent a all my spare time while I was there learning to play songs and tunes that I knew so eventually I got some proper piano lessons which gave me a good start.
As both my sisters were nurses I too decided that this was going to be my profession in life. I first trained and qualified as a Psychiatric nurse after which I qualified as a General state registered nurse. During this time I played with different bands and enjoyed writing my own songs and was fortunate enough to take home the winning trophy from a few song contests that I had entered.After some years playing the local scene I picked up the courage to record my first album titled "The Cliffs Of Moher" which was taken on board by "Failte Records" in Dublin. On this album was a song called "The Veil Of White Lace". This song became a number one hit for me which consequently changed my life and launched my singing career.
Philomena McGovern Biography
Philomena McGovern is a name that has a long association with country music as she made quiet an impact on her own local scene for many years when she and her sister Maureen had their own band, receiving much acclaim and were very much in demand.
Coming from a musical background Philomena was born and reared in Swanlinbar Co. Cavan where she grew up and worked until her early twenties. Living in that part of the country that is synonymous with country music it is not surprising that Philomena took a keen interest in music and singing from an early age. During her school years she studied piano and guitar at which she became quiet proficient and from time to time played with many of her musical friends around Fermanagh and her native Co. Cavan.
Soon after leaving school Philomena and her sister formed their own band and recorded their first album titled “Sweet Briar Country” which was purely for their own pleasure but nevertheless they picked up a lot of airplay on the local Breffni Radio.
This new exposure made them very popular on the home front and gave Philomena the experience necessary to move to better things.
In the early nineties Philomena and her family moved to Galway where she got involved in the fashion business and was manageress of a very popular boutique for many years. While at the same time not neglecting her music she soon established herself as one of the most sought after entertainers around. A new band was formed and in response to a great demand for tapes and CD’s of her songs at the many venues that she and her band played at, Philomena was prompted to go to a recording studio where she recorded a new sixteen track album which was later released as a very scenic video and also included her own band.
This new album titled “ Tonight I’ll Throw A Party” was very well recorded and with each song delivered in a clear distinctive voice that left you in no doubt that Philomena was indeed a talented country singer and was now destined to take her place amongst the best in the business.
This new album soon caught the attention of a long established record company
“A-One Music” based in Glasgow and they subsequently signed her to their record label. With a great selection of songs this album received a lot of airplay on all the radio stations that in the past were responsible for making household names of many of today’s top singing stars.
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A lack of jobs in a particular field or geographic region or simply the poor economy can stymie some b-school graduates attempting to make career changes. These factors have been working against Kathryn Wiyninger since she earned her M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma’s Michael F. Price College of Business in 2001.
Ms. Wiyninger wasn’t able to change to her desired field of art-museum management or public relations when she finished the degree. Then, after taking a position in business development in the high-tech industry, she was laid off in August.
Now job hunting, she still insists that the M.B.A. was “definitely worth it,” since she’s able to apply for jobs that pay more than double the $25,000 or so she might have earned annually before getting the degree. “It was a wise decision,” she says. “I’ve seen a dramatic difference in the jobs I’m qualified to apply for.”
Originally expecting to make her way as an artist, Ms. Wiyninger earned a fine-arts degree in studio art from Oklahoma State University in 1985. She moved to California, where she began working in retail stores while establishing herself as an artist. As it turned out, Ms. Wiyninger had a gift for retail sales “and the more successful I grew in retail, the further away I got from my art.”
She was recruited to manage stores for several retail chains, such as Esprit and Express, which transferred her around the country. After getting married, she quit to move to Belgium with her husband. The couple had two children and moved back to Oklahoma to be near family.
Ms. Wiyninger wanted to return to work when the children neared school age, but wasn’t sure what she would do. “I wanted it to be something I absolutely loved if I was going to be away from my family,” she says. She thought a job in museum management or public relations would marry her love of art with her sales experience and skills, and she discussed her options with museum executives, who suggested she complete an M.B.A.
But with only two major art museums in Oklahoma City, job hunting wasn’t easy. “I had picked an extremely narrow field that was filled with people with doctorates. I was overqualified for entry-level jobs and didn’t have quite enough education for the jobs I was qualified for,” she says.
Now a single mother, Ms. Wiyninger wanted to stay in Oklahoma despite the lack of job opportunities in her field. A friend who worked at Advancia Corp., a professional technical-services company in Oklahoma City, suggested she apply for a business-development opening at the firm. Customer-service and relationship-building skills were required, and she was hired. “It was challenging, but I was successful at selling technology services, and I learned so much,” she says. But after 13 months, the firm changed its strategy and laid her off.
Now Ms. Wiyninger is considering a wide range of jobs, including openings in Oklahoma state government, where she developed contacts while working at Advancia. “While I’m pursuing the museum idea, I think my true love is meeting people and helping them solve their needs,” she says. “This will translate into a lot of areas. I am very self-motivated, and people with this ethic can be successful. What’s difficult is defining the position I want. I’m more interested in the atmosphere of the company and the people I will work with, and it’s hard to articulate in job interviews.”
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Robots as companions: Are we ready?
November 23, 2014 by Maneesh Juneja
Some people on Earth seem to think so. In fact, they believe in the concept so much, they are actually building the world's first personal robot that can read & respond to human emotions. A collaboration between French robotics firm, Aldebaran, and Softbank mobile from Japan. You may already know one of Aldebaran's existing robots, Nao. The new robot is called Pepper, is due to launch in Japan in February 2015, and is priced at 198,000 Yen. Using today's exchange rates, that's approximately $1,681 and £1,074, although only the Japanese launch has been confirmed for now. Pepper may be sold in the USA through Sprint stores at some point. The notion of a robot in your home that can interact with you, and even tell you a joke if you're feeling sad, attracted my curiosity. So much so, that in September 2014, I hopped on a train from London to Paris.
Me & Pepper in Paris
Why Paris? Well, the world's first home robot store opened in Paris this summer, called Aldebaran Atelier, and they had Pepper in the store. You can't buy any of the robots in the store just yet, it's more a place to come and learn about these robots.
So what's Pepper like? You have to bear in mind that the version I interacted with in Paris is not the final version, so the features I saw are not fully developed, especially the aspects of recognising who you are, and getting to know you and your needs. The 3 minute video below shows some of the interaction I had. For now, Pepper understands English, French and Japanese.
A bit more about how Pepper works. In the final version, Pepper will be able to understand 5 basic emotional expressions of the face: smiling, frowning, surprise, anger & sadness. Pepper will also read the tone of your voice, the verbage used, as well as non verbal communication such a tilting your head. So for example, if you're feeling sad, Pepper may suggest you go out. If you're feeling happy, Pepper may sing a song and do a dance for you (more on that later). According to a Mashable article, "Pepper has an 'emotional engine' and cloud based artificial intelligence". The article also states, "The cloud AI will allow Pepper to share learnings with cloud-based algorithms and pull down additional learning, so that its emotional intuition and response can continually improve. It's either a technological breakthrough or the most terrifying robot advancement I've ever heard of."
Some facts and figures for you;
4 feet tall, and weighs 61 lbs/28kg
12 hour battery life - and automatically returns to charging station when battery is low
3D camera which senses humans and their movements up to 3 metres away
In the press kit I was given at the store, it's stated that "Pepper's number one intention is about being kind and friendly. He has been engineered to meet not functional but emotional needs."
It's not just speech and movement that Pepper responds to, it's also touch. There are sensors on the upper part of his head, upper part of his hands and on the tablet attached to his chest. Pepper may be talking to you, and if you place your hand on his head, the way that you would with a child, Pepper will go quiet. Although, when I tried it, Pepper responded by saying something about sensing someone was scratching his head!
The creators anticipate Pepper being used to care for the elderly and for baby sitting. What are your thoughts? Do YOU envisage leaving your elderly parent or young child with Pepper for company whilst you do some chores or dash to the supermarket? I told Shirley Ayres, Co-Founder of the Connected Care Network, about Pepper. Her response was; "I'd prefer a robot companion to 15 minutes of care by a worker on minimum wage struggling to provide quality care on a zero hour contract."
Given aging populations, and the desire for many to grow old in their own home, rather than an institution, are household companion robots the answer to this challenge? As technology such as Pepper evolves, will a robot at home be the solution to increasingly lonely societies? Will we really prefer the company of a household robot versus another human being? Will we end up treating the purchase of Pepper the same way we treat the purchase of an Ipad? Will your children buy you a Pepper so they don't have to visit you as often as you'd like? The CEO of Aldebaran, Bruno Maisonnier, believes they will sell millions of these robots. Apparently, they'll be able to make a profit from the sales of robot related software and content. Apps for robots?
Pepper does have all sorts of sensors so it can understand humans as well as understand the environment it's operating within. I understand it will collect data, but it's not clear to me, at this stage, exactly what would be collected or shared. Just because Pepper seems kind and friendly, doesn't mean we should not consider the risks and benefits associated with any data it collects on us, our behaviours and intentions. There could be immense benefits from a robot that can 24 hours a day remind an older person when to take their medications, and potentially collect data on when doses are being skipped and why.
An Institute of Medicine panel has just recommended that "Physicians should collect more information about patients' behaviour and social environment in their electronic health records." Some of the information the panel recommends collecting include "whether they are experiencing depression; their social connections and sense of social isolation." Is technology such as Pepper the most effective route to collecting that data? Do we want a world where our household robot sends data to our doctor on how often we feel sad and lonely? Perhaps for those of us too afraid to reach out for help and support, that's a good thing?
My brief interaction in Paris with Pepper was fun and enjoyable, a glimpse into a possible future. With it's childlike gestures and ability to monitor and respond to our emotions, could we as humans one day form emotional attachments to household robots? Here is the video of Pepper wanting to play some music for me in the Paris store.
One does wonder how the introduction of these new robots might impact jobs? What does technology such as Pepper mean for human carers? A recent report from Deloitte forecasts that 30% of jobs in London are at high risk from automation over the next 20 years. It's low paid, low skill jobs that are most at risk. Microsoft is trying out a different robot called K5 from Knightscope as security guards in their Silicon Valley campus. In Japan, Pepper has been used by Softbank to conduct market research with customers in a Tokyo store. Nestle is planning to use Pepper to sell coffee machines in 1,000 of it's stores across Japan by the end of 2015. Here is the video showing how Pepper might work in selling to consumers in Nestle's stores.
Now, some of us may dismiss this robot technology as crude and clumsy, with little or no potential to make a significant impact. I personally think it's amazing that we've reached this point, and like any technology, it won't stand still. Over time, it will improve and become cheaper. We are at a turning point, whether we like it or not. Does Pepper signify the dawn of a new industry, or will these household robots be rejected by consumers? How are household robots treated by the law? Do we need to examine how our societies function rather than build technology such as Pepper? Are we becoming increasingly disconnected from ourselves that we need Pepper in our homes to connect with ourselves as humans? Does the prospect of having a robot like Pepper in your own home with your family, excite you or frighten you?
Given the intense pressure to reduce costs in health & social care, it would be foolish to dismiss Pepper completely. So in the future, will we also see companion robots like Pepper stationed in hospitals and doctor's offices too? Can personal robots that connect with our emotions change how we 'deliver' and 'receive' care?
[Disclosure: I have no commercial ties to any of the individuals or organisations mentioned in the post]
November 23, 2014 /Maneesh Juneja
robots, social care, health care, digital health, aging, isolation, loneliness, future, NHS
Ideas need people, not just inspiration
May 13, 2014 by Maneesh Juneja
Before I write about my decision to find a coworking space in London to operate from, I just want to quickly follow up regarding my last post on wearables. An interview with Dr Jay Parkinson, a "physician entrepreneur" who some call the doctor of the future, was published last week. When asked his opinion on wearables, he dismisses them as "nonsense". He also states that "I don't think people will ever use webcams in a significant way in healthcare", when asked about the possibility of people being diagnosed through webcam and mobile apps.
I ask you then, if wearables truly are nonsense as he believes, then why is the US Air Force researching developing wearable sweat sensors for realtime blood test results? When it comes to video calling in healthcare, why is the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in England undertaking a trial where doctors will consult with patients via Skype? Have the US Air Force & NHS got it all wrong?
My search for a place to interact with others
Now, ever since I quit my job, and have been doing my own thing, I tend to work at home, or work in coffee shops when I've got meetings in London. I can work anywhere in the world, chiefly because much of my work involves working with data. However, despite all the progress I've achieved, there are days when I feel isolated. Particularly when I'm contemplating new ideas. I experienced this as an entrepreneur before when I quit my job to daytrade on the UK stockmarket back in the dotcom boom of late 90s. I made (and lost) in 6 months, enough money to buy a Ferrari [just a figure of speech, never actually bought one!], but the experience was socially isolating, and one of the main drivers in me going back into a salaried job in a buzzy office in an advertising agency.
However, times have changed, especially here in London. In certain parts of the city, there are an abundance of co-working spaces. I went to check some of them out. Some great places, but a mixed bag.
I found many coworking spaces seem to be designed for 5 year old children, given the horrible little chairs they have on offer. I work in the world of health, I wanted a space that had ergonomic chairs.
I turned to Twitter to see what the crowd could suggest.
@ManeeshJuneja We've got that box ticked! Anything else in particular that you were looking for?
— huckletree (@Huckletree) April 24, 2014
So a coworking space named "Huckletree" replied, and so I paid them a visit, and tried working there for a day. I travel so much I don't really need a permanent desk, just a community that I can 'hot desk' in when I'm in town.
I was impressed by the experience, I signed up for their flexible package, allowing me 10 days of 'hot desking' a month. So why did I choose this unknown space, when there are many more established and well regarded coworking spaces in London?
1. Community, community, community. I've learnt over the years that the communities you inhabit and/or create can either open your mind or close your mind to new opportunities. Whilst many tech coworking spaces have very diverse communities inside the offices, the environment once you leave the space is very tech centred. What I love about Huckletree's location is that it's in the middle of Clerkenwell, a bustling London community. When I step out of their space, I come across all sorts of people, from office workers grabbing their cappucinos before work, to workers from the historic Smithfield market who might be finishing their shift. It's also literally moments away from the pub where I held my first Health 2.0 London event in 2012, so maybe there is a special energy about the area for me?
The sensor of humour adds to the vibe!
2. The other coworkers - a really mixed bunch, it's truly refreshing for me. The space is still just a few weeks old, so it's not full up yet. However, the people I've met there so far are in completely different industries (not all are tech), working on some very fun projects and ideas. It's easy for one to get stuck in a groove, especially as one gets older. Already, I've had my thinking challenged by conversations I've had at Huckletree over a coffee, and I hope that continues with each visit.
3. The potential - I'm inspired by those who dare to be different, who experiment, who take risks in life. When I did my trial day, I could 'feel' the potential for Huckletree to become one of the best coworking spaces on the planet. Like many of the decisions I've made in my career, I've simply listened to my 'gut feeling'. I don't know if Huckletree will become the best coworking space in the world, but I don't see why not, and I want to be part of their journey.
2.1A USB sockets!
4. The small details - Regular readers will have noticed I have an array of gadgets, and all of these gadgets run on batteries that need charging. As a geek, I always search for USB power ports that offer 2.1A, as it means faster charging of my devices. At Huckletree, I noticed each desk had TWO 2.1A USB ports for charging devices. That makes a BIG difference to me. In addition, they have an abundance of regular power sockets.
5. Sustainability - It's the UK's first sustainable coworking space, and that's to be applauded. It's again the small details that I notice, from the eco-kettle, to the sheer amount of natural light that pervades the space through the multiple windows.
6. Hours of operation - I found some coworking spaces didn't offer pay as you go memberships and/or were limited to 9-5 office hours. Many of my clients are based in the US, and the fact that Huckletree are open until 8.30pm Mon-Fri, is really useful for me.
7. Multiple spaces - I often need peace and quiet when doing some research, and sometimes I'm on the phone all afternoon. Sometimes I want to have a private phone call where nobody can hear me. I was impressed that Huckletree has been designed to cover all my needs. One floor looks like a normal coworking space, but when you go to the top floor, it's designed to be a 'quiet' space with no phone calls allowed. In addition, there are 'Time Machine' booths where you can have that private phone call or teleconference.
The quiet area on the very top floor
I also found the vibe of the founder, Gabriela Hersham to be very unique, and it's her values that resonate throughout the space. It's clear that Gabriella has put her heart & soul into creating Huckletree, and since that's how I approach my projects too, it reminds me of how powerful it can be when one is authentic and aligned to one's core values.
Here is a short video from Gabriela explaining more about Huckletree.
For readers of my blog who decide to sign up to Huckletree before May 31st 2014, I've managed to get you 15% off your first month's fees. Simply use the promotion code, thanksmaneesh.
Huckletree may not be to everyone's tastes, but I'm likely to be working from Huckletree at least 2 days a week. So if you find yourself in the area and wanting to chat about Digital Health over a cup of coffee, don't be a stranger!
[Disclosure: I have no commercial ties with Huckletree]
May 13, 2014 /Maneesh Juneja
coworking, isolation, ideas, digital health, huckletree, london
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Home › News › Mar 2019
Piedmont Office Realty Trust Announces CEO Transition
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
Piedmont Office Realty Trust announced that Donald A. Miller, CFA, who has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since 2007, will retire effective June 30, 2019 and that the Board of Directors has named C. Brent Smith, the Company’s current President and Chief Investment Officer, as his successor. Mr. Smith was also appointed to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Miller will stand for re-election to the Board of Directors for the 2019-20 term.
“The entire Piedmont team has worked together diligently over the last several years to hone our competitive strategy, narrow our markets, and improve our portfolio of properties. During this time, Brent has provided valuable insight and leadership to the organization and been instrumental in the execution of each of the major transactions that have advanced this strategy,” said Mr. Miller. “We have been working with the Board on this management transition for a while and I am excited about Brent officially assuming leadership of Piedmont as we all endeavor to drive our business and strategy to build value for our stockholders.”
Mr. Smith, 43, joined Piedmont in 2012 as Senior Vice President focused on acquisitions and dispositions. He became Executive Vice President of the Company’s Northeast Region in 2015, while continuing his focus on strategic capital markets transactions. In 2016, his role was expanded to also serve as Chief Investment Officer for the Company and in November of 2018, he was additionally appointed President. As a result of Mr. Smith’s appointment to President, Piedmont has merged its Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions together (now referred to as the Northeast Region) to be led by Robert K. Wiberg, Executive Vice President, who previously headed the Mid-Atlantic Region. Mr. Smith will retain the title of President in addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer, as well as, his role as Chief Investment Officer through the end of the current year.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr. Smith said, “I am honored by the Board’s confidence in me and am appreciative of the entire Piedmont team’s support as I assume this new role. Having worked closely with Don and the Board for many years, I feel I have an in-depth understanding of Piedmont’s culture and corporate objectives. I look forward to continuing to work with the Board, and the rest of the leadership team to drive the Piedmont platform and grow our business for stockholders”
Commenting on the transition, Frank C. McDowell, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “We are very appreciative of Don’s service over the last twelve years; leading Piedmont through its transformation to a publicly-traded Company with a high quality portfolio focused upon select markets where Piedmont now has a dominant presence. While we will miss Don’s daily leadership, we are confident in Brent’s ability to provide a smooth transition and to successfully lead us into the next chapter – his energy, enthusiasm, and extensive knowledge of virtually all aspects of our business will serve us well over the coming years.”
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fortune: 711 - 720 of 1140 from linux cookie Motd - Message of the Day
Fortune: 711 - 720 of 1140 from Linux Cookie
Linux Cookie: 711 of 1140
"Floggings will continue until morale improves."
-- anonymous flyer being distributed at Exxon USA
"Hey Ivan, check your six."
-- Sidewinder missile jacket patch, showing a Sidewinder driving up the tail
of a Russian Su-27
"Free markets select for winning solutions."
-- Eric S. Raymond
"I dislike companies that have a we-are-the-high-priests-of-hardware-so-you'll-
like-what-we-give-you attitude. I like commodity markets in which iron-and-
silicon hawkers know that they exist to provide fast toys for software types
like me to play with..."
"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
-- Bakunin
[ed. note - I would say: The urge to destroy may sometimes be a creative urge.]
"A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the
last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security
or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discus-
sion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a
premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fal-
lacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more
than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew
a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among them-
selves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in what-
ever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto
been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of *honest* persons to know
this fact, because the *dishonest* are tolerably certain to be the first to
apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to
give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too ear-
nestly urged, that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, be better
for all parties."
-- Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks,
published around 1850
In respect to lock-making, there can scarcely be such a thing as dishonesty
of intention: the inventor produces a lock which he honestly thinks will
possess such and such qualities; and he declares his belief to the world.
If others differ from him in opinion concerning those qualities, it is open
to them to say so; and the discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to
public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and curiosity stimu-
lates invention. Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question
could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be
much more than counterbalanced by good."
published around 1850.
"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
-- Aeschylus
"Survey says..."
-- Richard Dawson, weenie, on "Family Feud"
"Paul Lynde to block..."
-- a contestant on "Hollywood Squares"
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An Enchanted Evening with Oscar Hammerstein goes Off Broadway
Doreen Taylor comes to the 777 Theater with Broadway star Davis Gaines to perform Oscar Hammerstein classics.
Coming off a sold out show at the Bristol Riverside Theatre in August, Doreen ups the ante by bringing on Davis Gaines (Phantom of the Opera, Sweeny Todd, Man of La Mancha) to collaborate on the groundbreaking Docu-musical.
Tickets are on sale at hammersteinlive.com, theatermania.com or (866) 811-4111. Proceeds will be donated to help save Highland Farm in Doylestown, PA.
tags: public relations, new hope, broadway, davis gaines, doreen taylor, oscar hammerstein, promotion
The Art of Sound Premieres New Art Exhibit
Promotion Photography
A PREMIERE ART EXHIBITION
FEATURING A 25-YEAR PERSONAL SELECTION
UNVEILED TO PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
BY ARTIST MIGUEL OSORIO
AT THE ART OF SOUND
Private Preview for Art Collectors set for
Wednesday, October 18th, 5-7pm
FOLLOWED BY PUBLIC OPENING RECEPTION, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20TH, 5-9pm
“The Gathering” exhibition exclusively at The Art of Sound, boldly highlights depictions of people from all cultures.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ (10/3/17) – Lambertville’s underground cultural supporter, The Art of Sound is pleased to announce their hosting artist Miguel Osorio October 18th and 20th as he unveils “The Gathering”, a most unique, yet relative exhibition that visually explores the diversity of our society through Osorio’s artistic interpretation. This exhibition consists of Osorio’s vast collection, artwork personally selected by the artist, spanning over the past 25 years.
“The use of bold colors represents the tones of my homeland – the bright blues for the skies and oceans, the vibrant reds for its passionate people – all of which is reflective of my thoughts both past and present” – Miguel Osorio stated
Serious art collectors can reserve seats by phone for the private preview event, set to be hosted on Wednesday, October 18th from 5pm through 7pm. The general public is invited to attend the opening reception without reservations, scheduled for Friday, October 20th 5pm – 9pm.
Both events offer refreshments and light fare. The Art of Sound can be reached at 609.483-5000 and is located at 201 South Main Street, Lambertville, NJ.
Attendees of this special exhibition can expect to be engaged and further enlightened by the Spanish-born artist’s personal experiences and view on cultural diversity, as his body of work examines issues that affect not only our society but also our world as a whole. Osorio also immortalizes moments so they are never forgotten, such as the Exxon Valdez oil crisis, Climate Change and 9/11.
Within its 4,000-square foot, audio-visual, underground studio, The Art of Sound proudly produces a thoughtful variety of cultural and artistic experiences for clientele and the public, including the ever-popular and sold-out Lost Recording Listening parties, Hammerstein fundraising screenings, as well as other exclusive, artist shows. To find out more about programming and The Art of Sound experience, visit: theartofsoundLLC.com
Primarily working in oils and pastels, artist, Miguel Osorio born in Barcelona, Spain, grew up in Lisbon, Portugal where he began his studies in Fine Art. From his early beginnings, Osorio was raised in an environment rich in art and culture, his mother a performing artist, his father a movie director, followed by professionally creative grandparents, one a writer and the other an opera singer. Additionally, Osorio’s childhood was filled the histories and folklore of past generations.
Carrying this exposure with him, he immigrated to the United States in the mid 80’s. He would later settle in Hunterdon County, an area steeped in history where creative people flourish and the arts thrive and has been a studying and working artist for a lifetime, producing celebrated works of all sizes and meaning.
“My direction as a painter is to visually stimulate and subliminally, if not consciously, educate the public. My work is inspired by the history and events of religion, war, and our environment.
tags: public relations, new hope, lambertville, art gallery, local art, miguel osorio, picasso, art of sound, promotion
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Three Softball Players Earn WNYAC All-Conference Honors
Kim Proper (Letchworth, NY) was named to the first team and Jerrica McAndrew (Ellicottville, NY) and Christina Vega (New York, NY) were named to the second team.
Proper, a sophomore catcher, was also named the team’s MVP and Genesee Athletic Department’s athlete of the year. She led the team in batting average with .365 and RBIs with 29.
McAndrew played first base for the Lady Cougars and ended the season with a .323 batting average and 16 RBIs, which placed her second on the team in both categories. McAndrew will return to the Genesee softball team next year.
Vega, a sophomore shortstop, was also named to the Region III second team. She ended the season with a .274 batting average, 13 RBIs, and 20 runs scored.
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Dr. Rainer Böger Joins Medical Advisory Board
Synergy WorldWide is pleased to announce that Professor Rainer H. Böger, M.D., leading expert in L-arginine research, has joined Synergy’s Medical and Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Böger received his medical training at Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany. He received his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Pharmacology both in Hannover and at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA.
Dr. Böger is currently the Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Director of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Hamburg University Medical Center, Germany. He is also Director of the Clinical Trial Center North at Hamburg University.
Dr. Böger’s scientific work centers on the early diagnosis and prevention of cardiovascular related diseases. Dating back to the beginning of his medical career, Dr. Böger has been heavily involved in the research and treatment of cardiovascular related diseases. In 1991, while working closely with pharmaceutical drug companies to develop treatments that could combat and alleviate such diseases, he became highly interested in nitric oxide (NO) and its effects on the vascular system.
Dr. Böger has dedicated 21 years of academic research in basic science and clinical studies related to L-arginine and its influence on the body’s ability to produce NO. His major achievements are the discovery that ADMA (asymmetric dimethylarginine) is a risk marker of vascular disease and the utilization of L-arginine to prevent vascular dysfunction and disease.
Dr. Böger collaborates with renowned institutions like the Mayo Clinic and Stanford University Medical Center. He has documented his knowledge in more than 200 scientific articles, of which 130 exclusively cover the roles of ADMA and L-arginine in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Dr. Böger’s extensive knowledge, expertise, and ongoing research clearly set him apart as one of the world’s leading L-arginine experts. This new partnership will further assist Synergy WorldWide in its effort to remain at the forefront of heart health.
Dr. Böger, it’s an honor you join the Synergy team.
Click here to see all the members of Synergy's Medical & Scientific Advisory Board.
Scandinavia Team Manager Academy Recap
Europe Team Members Recognized - March 2012
2013 Legacy Retreat Location Announced
Updates to Synergy Websites
Early Bird Registration Extended!
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Solar Energy: AECF earmarks $20 million for SMEs & Startups in five African Countries
Africa, Energy, Headlines, International
The African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), an investment fund set up by the British government has announced a new investment of $20 million to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in five African countries.
Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Somalia are the selected countries for the React Household Solar Round 2 competition.
AECF intends to organize competitions in these five countries to reward small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups specializing in the supply of solar home systems.
The selected small businesses in the five countries will receive a total of $20.8 million in the form of interest-free loans, grants and technical assistance.
According to Daniel Ohonde, CEO of AECF, solar home systems are a simple solution that does not appear in macroeconomic statistics and yet “they have the potential to transform the lives of millions of schoolchildren.”
He said the deployment of solar systems on a house-wide scale is making huge progress as technology costs fall, innovation in deployment and financing models accelerates and a more diverse set of stakeholders, including local entrepreneurs, as well as the international private sector and financial institutions, engage in the sector.
As a reminder, AECF is a $250m challenge fund that awards grants and repayable grants to private sector companies.
$20 million new investment
African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF)
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Libya: ‘Abhorrent’ ambulance attack in Tripoli imperils life-saving work, warns UN
Headlines, Libya, Maghreb
An attack on an ambulance in Tripoli on Wednesday that has critically injured the head of emergency services in Libya’s war-torn capital, along with two paramedics, has been strongly condemned by UN humanitarians as an abhorrent attack.
Health workers and civilians have not been spared in heavy clashes that erupted in early April between the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and eastern forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army, marking the latest episode in spiraling violence that followed the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
As the conflict continues into its second month, more than 400 people have died and some 2,000 have been wounded, in addition to the thousands of displaced civilians, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The “direct attack of a marked ambulance seriously injuring three health workers is absolutely abhorrent and should not be tolerated,” said UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Libya, Maria Ribeiro. “Those who ordered and carried out this attack must take legal and moral responsibility for this heinous act”, she insisted.
Echoing her comments, the WHO described the attack “on an ambulance with visible logos” as a “shocking and intolerable violation of international humanitarian law”.
“Not only did this attack injure key personnel, but the ambulance itself was taken away, thereby depriving patients of future care”, said Dr Syed Jaffar Hussain, WHO Representative in Libya.
Since conflict in the oil-rich North African nation escalated last month, 11 other ambulances have been either “impacted” or suffered “collateral damage”, according to the UN health agency.
In April, three medical workers were killed in Tripoli, and numerous first-line responders have struggled to reach the wounded without being hurt themselves, WHO said in a statement.
“This flagrant breach of the basic rules of warfare could jeopardize the operations of field hospitals and ambulance teams and deter dedicated health staff from performing their life-saving duties,” said Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO’s Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. “WHO cannot accept any actions that put health workers in harm’s way. Health staff in Libya are working to save lives and must be allowed to work without additional risk to their safety or well-being.”
Since the beginning of the Tripoli clashes, WHO has been supporting field hospitals and field ambulance teams, providing medical supplies that include trauma kits with medicines for war injuries.
It has also deployed emergency medical teams to key referral hospitals to perform surgery in and around Tripoli.
ambulance attack
Khalifa Haftar
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Episode Name: Hero or Hate Crime?
Summary: The gang goes to a professional arbitrator to decide who’s the rightful owner of a scratch off lottery ticket. While they’re there they also try to clear up whether or not the events surrounding the scratcher prove that Frank is a hero or hate monger.
Summary: Four young friends with big egos and slightly arrogant attitudes are the proprietors of an Irish bar in Philadelphia. Owning their own business gives them the flexibility to spend their time satisfying their own distorted needs. This provocative sitcom is known for pushing the envelope by tackling some controversial issues. Because of the show’s edgy subject matter, twisted humor, and the gang’s hilariously unconventional approach at life, this series drew a small cult following during its first season. The second season addition of Danny DeVito to the cast gave the series a slight ratings boost that helped its renewal.
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Shovel Knight Papercraft, Black Knight Revealed
By Kyle Emch / June 4th, 2013
Yesterday, Yacht Club Games posted an update on their KickStarter page regarding their upcoming game Shovel Knight. Along with some progress on the Propeller Knight stage, they also provided a neat Papercraft Shovel Knight for people to print out. The designs were made by Christopher Beaumont, who is responsible for Cubeecraft.
In addition, Yacht Club Games revealed a new character to do battle with. The Black Knight (not to be confused with the other Black Knight) will serve as Shovel Knight’s main rival, constantly trying to defeat him in battle. They confirmed that he would be a wandering boss, similar to the Hammer Bros. from Super Mario Bros. 3. He’s supposedly as powerful with the Shovelblade as Shovel Knight is. He also has a squeaky voice, so good luck trying to take him seriously.
Shovel Knight will be available on the PC, 3DS, and Wii U with an expected release sometime in September of this year.
About Kyle Emch
Kyle has been studying music at college for about three years now. He's played the piano since he was 6 years old and has been recently been learning how to write music. He has followed the Operation Rainfall movement on Facebook since it started and was happy to volunteer for the website. Just don't mention Earthbound or the Mother franchise around him.
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WMO confirms past 4 years were warmest on record
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Geneva, 6 February 2019
In a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change associated with record atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 have been confirmed as the four warmest years on record.
A consolidated analysis by the World Meteorological Organization of five leading international datasets showed that the global average surface temperature in 2018 was approximately 1.0° Celsius (with a margin of error of ±0.13°C) above the pre-industrial baseline (1850-1900). It ranks as the fourth warmest year on record.
The year 2016, which was influenced by a strong El-Niño event, remains the warmest year on record (1.2°C above preindustrial baseline). Global average temperatures in 2017 and 2015 were both 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. The latter two years are virtually indistinguishable because the difference is less than one hundredth of a degree, which is less than the statistical margin of error.
“The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one, “ said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. “The 20 warmest years on record have been in the past 22 years. The degree of warming during the past four years has been exceptional, both on land and in the ocean.”
“Temperatures are only part of the story. Extreme and high impact weather affected many countries and millions of people, with devastating repercussions for economies and ecosystems in 2018,” he said.
“Many of the extreme weather events are consistent with what we expect from a changing climate. This is a reality we need to face up to. Greenhouse gas emission reduction and climate adaptation measures should be a top global priority,” said Mr Taalas.
The globally averaged temperature in 2018 was about 0.38°C (±0.13°C) above the 1981-2010 long-term average (estimated at 14.3°C). This 30-year baseline is used by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to assess the long-term averages and inter-annual variability of key climate parameters, such as temperature, precipitation and wind, which are important for climate sensitive sectors such as water management, energy, agriculture and health.
WMO will issue its full Statement on the State of the Climate in 2018 in March. This report will provide a comprehensive overview of temperature variability and trends, high-impact events, and key indicators of long-term climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, sea level rise and ocean acidification.
The final statement will include information submitted by a wide range of United Nations agencies on human, socio-economic and environmental impacts as part of an effort to provide a more comprehensive, United Nations-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and United Nations global development goals.
The year 2019 has kicked in where 2018 left off.
Australia had its warmest January on record, with heatwaves unprecedented in their scale and duration. Tasmania had its driest January on record, with destructive bushfires. There has been a long-term increase in extreme fire weather, and in the length of the fire season, across large parts of Australia, according to its Bureau of Meteorology.
Intense heatwaves are becoming more frequent as a result of climate change.
Extreme heat in the southern hemisphere contrasted with extreme cold in parts of North America in January.
“The cold weather in the eastern United States certainly does not disprove climate change,” said Mr Taalas. “The Arctic is warming at twice the global average. A large fraction of the ice in the region has melted. Those changes are affecting weather patterns outside the Arctic in the Northern Hemisphere. A part of the cold anomalies at lower latitudes could be linked to the dramatic changes in the Arctic. What happens at the poles does not stay at the poles but influences weather and climate conditions in lower latitudes where hundreds of millions of people live,” he said.
Modern temperature record began in 1850.
WMO uses datasets (based on monthly climatological data from Global Observing Systems) from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and the United Kingdom’s Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom.
It also uses reanalysis datasets from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts and its Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the Japan Meteorological Agency. This method combines millions of meteorological and marine observations, including from satellites, with models to produce a complete reanalysis of the atmosphere. The combination of observations with models makes it possible to estimate temperatures at any time and in any place across the globe, even in data-sparse areas such as the polar regions.
Source : World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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The F-4 Phantom for sale by McDonnell, scored the most U.S. fighter victories over Vietnam. It was the only aircraft flown by both the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.
Pictured immediately above and below are of the F-4 Phantom for sale by NitroPlanes. They come in a variety of paint schemes as both a ARF or RTF, are 48" long with a 28" wingspan. They have a 70 mm fan unit and weigh around 30 oz.
In 1959 a F-4 Phantom set a short standing altitude record of 98,556 feet.
The F-4 Phantom for sale from VMAR has a 58.5" wingspan and a 63" length. Engines from .60 to .91 2C are recommended.
In 1962 the aircraft were used to enforce the Cuban blockade. On July 10, 1965, two F-4 Phantom aircraft downed two Mig aircraft, the first U. S. air victories of the Vietnam War.
On July 24, 1965, a F-4 Phantom was shot down by a surface to air missile over Vietnam. This was the first U.S. aircraft downed by an enemy missile in the Vietnam War.
The F-4 Phantom for sale by FMS. It is a ARF that has a wingspan of 28 1/2" and is 43 1/2" long. Included is a brushless motor driving a 45 mm fan system. All up weight is 2 lbs.
From 1965 to1972, during the Vietnam War, over 100 MiG aircraft were destroyed by F-4 Phantom aircraft in the air, and on the ground.
On January 17, 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, F-4 Phantom Wild Weasel aircraft were used to suppress Iraqi guided missile fire.
The F-4 Phantom for sale from Skymaster Jet has a wingspan of 63" and a length of 98". You will need single or twin turbines producing 34 to 40 lb. of thrust to power the 37 lb. it.
The F-4 Phantom is capable of performing in all weather conditions. It was first used by the US Navy as an interceptor, but also flew as a ground-support aircraft for the U. S. Marine Corps. Eventually it flew virtually every type of aircraft mission including fleet defense, attack, air superiority, long range strike, electronic counter measures, and reconnaissance.
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Over 5,000 F-4 Phantom aircraft were produced in 15 different types before production ended in 1979. Over 2,600 went to the USAF and about 1,200 to the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The remainder were sold to U.S. Allies. The USAF flew them into the 1990's.
A number of nations continue to fly upgraded F-4 Phantom aircraft and it appears that they will probably still be active in air forces around the world through 2020.
Scale RC Models.com has a F-4 Phantom for sale with a wingspan of 44". Suggested power is from a O.S. .91 VR DF engine and a Dynamax fan system.
HET-RC has a F-4 Phantom for sale. It is a ARF that has a wingspan of 32" and a length of 48". Suggested are 2 x HET-RC EDF 6409 or WeMoTec Mini Fans.
The Electric Jet Factory has a F-4 Phantom for sale as a kit made from balsa and plywood. Wingspan is 32", length is 48" and weight is about 71 oz. Recommended for power are a pair of Typhoon motors driving mini fan units.
Yellow Aircraft has a F-4 Phantom sale in a kit. Its wingspan is 43 1/2" and length is 68". Construction is with a fiberglass fuselage and balsa over foam wings. It needs a .82 or larger engine for power turning a single 5 1/4" fan unit. Weight is about 12 lbs.
Kit Cutters has a F-4 Phantom for sale in both plan and a kit form. It was designed by Jim Pepino and has a wingspan of 57 1/2".
Ultimate RC has a F-4 Phantom for sale. Its wingspan is 25" and length is 39 1/2". It comes with a motor turning a 67 mm EDF unit. Weight is about 22 oz.
Fly Fly Hobby has a F-4 Phantom for sale that is made from foam. It has a 51" wingspan with a 55" length and weighs about 4 1/2 lbs. Recommended power is a Typhoon 600 motor turning a 90 mm EDF unit.
Kyosho has a F-4 Phantom for sale. The ARF foamys wingspan is 23 1/2" and length is 30". It comes with a motor and 55 EDF unit. Weight is about 1 lb.
Pence Aviation has a F-4 Phantom for sale. It comes as a kit with a fiberglass fuselage and foam core wings. Its wingspan is 48", its length is 78", and weight is around 14 lbs. You will need a turbine or EDF for power.
Hobby Express has the rudder of a F-4 Phantom for sale.
Green Air has a kit for the F-4 Phantom for sale. Its wingspan is 24" and length is 34". Construction is from Depron foam. You can power the model with a pair of 44 mm EDF units or a pusher prop set-up. Weight is about 19 oz.
Easy Tiger Models has a F-4 Phantom for sale with a 40" length and 25" wingspan. Weight is 21 oz. and it comes with a 64 mm fan unit and motor.
Hobby Express has a F-4 Phantom for sale with a 29" wingspan and 45" length that weighs about 2 lbs. Included is a motor and 70 mm ducted fan.
Blitz has a F-4 Phantom for sale. Its a RTF with a wingspan of 36" and length of 55". Included is a 90 mm EDF and motor.
There is a F-4 Phantom for sale on eBay from AFM. It has a wingspan of 28" and a length of 43". Included is a motor and 70 mm fan unit.
Fei Bao has a F-4 Phantom for sale. Its wingspan is 59" and its length is 89". You will need from 27 to 36 lb. thrust turbines to power it. Weight is about 26 lbs.
Jet Hangar Hobbies has a 44" wingspan F-4 Phantom for sale. It is 68" long and made for 5" ducted fans.
Century Jets has a F-4 Phantom for sale with a 60" wingspan. Its length is 96" and weight is about 27 lbs. Motors can be from .91 to 1.0 in size to turn its 5" fans.
Supritape Comercio e Informatica Ltda., Brazil has a F-4 Phantom for sale that is made in China. Its wingspan is 25" and it has a length of 34". Included is a motor and 64 mm fan unit.
Sky Team has a F-4 Phantom for sale. It is a foamy that has a wingspan of 28" and is 43" long. You will need a motor to turn its included 70 mm EDF.
Amax has a F-4 Phantom for sale that is ready to fly. Its wingspan is 36" and its length is 55". Weight is about 4 1/2 lbs. Included is a motor and 90 mm fans.
Starmax has a F-4 Phantom for sale. Wingspan is 21", length is 31" and weight is about 19 oz. Included is a motor and 64 mm DF unit.
Huayu Hobby has a F-4 Phantom for sale. It has a wingspan of 25" and is 39 1/2" long. Included is a radio, receiver, flight battery, ESC, brushless motor and 64 mm fan unit.
ACX Technology appears to have the same 25" wingspan F-4 Phantom for sale.
Shanghai Impulse has a F-4 Phantom for sale. Its wingspan is 41" and length is 55". Construction is all wood. It needs your motor to turn a 90 mm EDF. Weight is around 4 1/2 lbs.
Ed Franklin has a F-4 Phantom for sale in a kit with a wingspan of 38" with 90 mm EDF units. Weight is around 5 lbs.
Carl Dawson brought in pictures of his scratch built rc F-4 Phantom for sale with a 26" wingspan powered by a brushless motor turning a pusher prop.
Arnie Stangler showed us a video of his F-4 Phantom for sale that has a 33" wingspan.
Albert Hanmau brought in his video of the first flight of his F-4 Phantom with a 84" wingspan that is turbine powered.
Joe Knight has a F-4 Phantom for sale with a 58" wingspan that is 90" long.
Don Openheimer scratch built a F-4 Phantom for sale with a 82" wingspan that weighs 25 lbs.
Al Clarkson sent us the following email review of his F-4 Phantom for sale by HET-RC:
"My F-4 Phantom for sale from HET-RC has a wingspan of 32" and is 48" long, with a weight of just over 4 lbs. It features a plywood and balsawood fuse and foamy wings with sheeted balsawood over them. I use a pair of 2725 brushless motors with a 50 Amp ESC driven with a 2300 mAH battery. The color scheme and decals are terrific.
I was looking for a high performance jet and the F-4 Phantom for sale fills the bill. Not only does it fly fast, but it will do just about any maneuvers I'm capable of, while its good looks will attract attention at the flying field.
Even though it flies fast, the F-4 Phantom slows down nicely for landings. The F-4 Phantom for sale from HET-RC goes together quickly and easily."
We received this email review of the F-4 Phantom for sale from NitroPlanes from Bill Bass:
"The F-4 Phantom for sale from NitroPlanes is a great looking and flying scale model radio control airplane. Its details get lots of attention at the flying field and I appreciate its speed and maneuverability. Mine weighs in at around 2 lbs. with a 14.8 Volt battery. It will fly rock solid, even in strong cross winds. The F-4 Phantom for sale from NitroPlanes is one rc airplane that I take to the field at every opportunity."
Jeff Palmer sent us this email:
"I like the flying characteristics of the F-4 Phantom for sale from NitroPlanes. It is fast, yet responsive to every input. This rc airplane goes where it is pointed, and can maneuver with the best of them. It will roll, loop, and even do low level inverted passes right over the runway. Not only does it look good and fly great, but the F-4 Phantom for sale from NitroPlanes price is right."
Paul Siddle emailed to ask about a discontinued F-4 Phantom for sale in kit form from Fen Chen. It has a 36" wingspan and is powered by an engine turning a 5" fan. He was wondering if there was a similar kit out there. We told Paul about the numerous Chinese factories, all producing similar scale models of the F-4 Phantom for sale. However, before taking a chance with a model made thousands of miles away, and a company with little if any customer service, we suggested spending a little more for what you know is a quality F-4 Phantom for sale at your local hobby shop backed by personal customer service.
If you know of a F-4 Phantom for sale that we should include on this page, please email us.
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Home » News » Press Releases » CNS small business contracting makes big jump in FY 2016
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2016, 12:00 am
AMARILLO, Texas – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC achieved a significant increase in contracting with small businesses during fiscal year 2016, eclipsing its small business contracting goals and awarding more than $276 million at Pantex and Y-12.
The small business dollars awarded represented an increase of more than $36 million over FY 2015 figures, and were 67 percent of all funding awarded, exceeding CNS’ FY 2016 goal of awarding 55 percent of all procurement dollars.
CNS uses small businesses in a range of diverse roles, from staff augmentation services to construction support work.
“Small businesses help form the fabric of a community, and Pantex could not meet its mission without their help,” Pantex Small Business Program Manager Ryan Johnston said.
Y-12 Small Business Program Manager Lisa Copeland added, “They’re not only valuable to the East Tennessee economy—and the national economy—but they’re extremely valuable to Y-12. We’re going to continue to be proactive in recognizing mission-matched capabilities and qualifications of small businesses locally and across our great nation.”
Approximately $99 million worth of goods and services were purchased from small businesses at Pantex, and $177 million was purchased from small businesses at Y-12, which includes first-tier small business subcontracts awarded by the Uranium Processing Facility. Y-12 made awards to more than 770 small business suppliers, and Pantex awarded to more than 625 small business suppliers.
“CNS is committed to ensuring small businesses remain an essential part of completing the Pantex and Y-12 mission,” CNS Supply Chain Manager Skip Skelton said. “Partnering with small businesses ensures we’ll be able to grow and thrive into the future.”
Not only did CNS eclipse its overall goal for small business contracting, it surpassed goals in five socioeconomic categories recognized by the Small Business Administration: woman-owned small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, veteran-owned small businesses, service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, and Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses.
Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) operates the Pantex Plant, located in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex, located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, under a single contract for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration. Pantex and Y-12 are key facilities in the U.S. Nuclear Security Enterprise, and CNS performs its work with a focus on the performance excellence and the imperatives of safety, security, zero defects and delivery as promised.
For more information on each site, visit www.pantex.com or www.y12.doe.gov. Follow Pantex on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Follow Y-12 on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.
Allison Roberts
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SHARP INCREASE IN BUSINESS ROBBERIES
Rustenburg – At least nine business robberies in eleven days had been reported in various parts of Rustenburg during June, a shocking statistic that points towards a sharp and alarming increase in the levels of crime.
Below is a timeline and details of several business robberies:
Thursday 20 June - A diesel truck was stolen at Learn Fast School, which is located at Bergsig Academy.
Thursday 20 June - A burglary was reported on a construction site along the R24 road.
Monday 25 June - A break-in occurred at Pep stores, which is located next to the Department of Home Affairs offices. The suspects are believed to have gained access into the store through the roof.
Wednesday 27 June - An armed robbery occurred at KFC in Safari Tuine. According to reports, two employees were injured after shots were fired.
Thursday 28 June - There was an armed robbery at Zorba Liquor stores in the East End area. A cell phone belonging to a security guard was stolen.
Friday 29 June - A business robbery was reported at Stoltz Group in Beyers Naude. Batteries were stolen after the suspects gained access through the roof.
Saturday 30 June - An armed robbery at Princess Café, which is located at the corner of Beyers Naude Drive and Zendeling Street.
Tuesday 2 July – Four suspects were about to break into Pep stores in Midtown Mall when they were arrested by the Rustenburg police.
Wednesday 3 July – There was a business robbery at Inkpot, opposite the Rustenburg Local Municipality (RLM) offices, in Beyers Naude Street at around 05:00. According to reports, cartridges were among the stolen items.
Four of the robberies have been confirmed by the police. Police spokesperson captain Elsabé Augoustides told Platinum Weekly: “I can confirm that there were robberies at KFC, Zorba Liqour Stores and Princess Café.
The police are investigating, and no arrests have been made yet.”
Anyone with information that could assist police investigations is requested to contact the Rustenburg Police Detectives unit at 014 590 4258.
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2018-19 NH Register/GameTimeCT Boys Basketball State Player of the Year: Jaylin Hunter, East Catholic – New Haven Register
East Catholic’s Jaylin Hunter is the Register/GameTimeCT boys basketball State Player of the Year.
Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
2018-19 NH Register/GameTimeCT Boys Basketball State Player of the Year: Jaylin Hunter, East Catholic
The days of basketball players getting recruited to Division I colleges based on how they performed during the high school season are primarily in the past.
It’s now all about how players perform during the summertime, during the AAU season, in between their junior and senior years of high school. That’s where you get the most exposure.
If this were completely true all of the time, Jaylin Hunter would likely be heading to a prep school to play next season. That’s because after his junior season of high school in Nebraska and the ensuing summer, Hunter had no offers, or much interest, to move on.
“I was in a little bit of panic mode going into senior year. I didn’t have any offers,” Hunter said.
Hunter moved with his family from Nebraska to Bolton and enrolled at East Catholic. He hit his first shot of the season — a corner 3-pointer against Hillhouse — and the rest went from there.
Now Hunter, 18, has a second straight state championship to his credit and Division I offers to mull over — just like a State Player of the Year should have.
Hunter averaged 23 points, seven rebounds and six assists for East Catholic, which finished 27-1. Hunter earned State Player of the Year laurels for the Register/GameTimeCT in his one and only high school season in the Nutmeg State.
“The best thing I can say about Jaylin is he is a great teammate,” East Catholic coach Luke Reilly said. “Our group has had a lot of success. With that success come with a very high standard. Any time you have an elite player not willing to sacrifice, it’s not going to work. From day one, Jaylin embraced that standard. It’s a hard dynamic, for one year to come in and mesh with personalities. It’s a credit to him and a credit to the guys in the program willing to accept new guys.”
Hunter is the son of a college assistant men’s basketball coach, so moving due to a change in jobs comes with the territory. He spent his younger years in the Washington, D.C., area when Kenya Hunter served as an assistant at Georgetown University. Then the elder Hunter landed a job at Nebraska, where he spent five seasons.
Jaylin spent his first two high school seasons at Lincoln High in Nebraska, where he said he won 10 games in two seasons. So he transferred to Creighton Prep and subsequently won a state championship.
Jaylin said he found out around this time last year that his dad would become an assistant coach at UConn, shortly after Danny Hurley took over for Kevin Ollie. Jaylin said another Huskies’ assistant, Tom Moore, has a daughter attend East Catholic and Hurley’s son Andrew became a teammate there.
“I didn’t know anything about the schools here,” Jaylin said. “(My dad) heard Coach Reilly’s program had been successful for years, so we took a chance, a chance that worked out for myself and my family.”
Jaylin and his mom stayed behind in Nebraska after his dad came East to start his new coaching job. Then they came across the country to Bolton. So between school, his new neighborhood and at UConn, there were plenty of places for Jaylin to work on his skill set.
East Catholic was coming off a 25-1 season, its only loss in the Division I state tournament quarterfinals. Hunter joined a team featuring fellow guard Joey Reilly and forward Matt Knowling among others. The Eagles ran off another undefeated regular season.
In fact, the Eagles’ regular-season winning streak now stands at 58 games.
East Catholic rebounded off its lone loss to Windsor in the CCC tournament final by defeating the Warriors in the Division I final at the Mohegan Sun.
“There were a lot of different and similar feelings,” Jaylin said when asked about comparing the two state championships. “With East Catholic, it was a brotherhood the whole year with all the activities on and off the court made us closer as a family. We couldn’t lose this for each other, we did not want to let our brothers down and that helped us throughout the whole year.”
Jaylin Hunter scored 24 points in that final. He averaged 26 points in the three games against Windsor.
“He shot a very high percentage from three, he guarded the ball very well,” Reilly said. “He could be a ball-hound when he needed to be. He’s got great feet, great hands, he covered space quickly. He didn’t want to take a possession off. Add that altogether is what makes him special. It was always about the team, never about getting recruited or his own individual accolades.”
As Reilly indicated, Hunter also did it on the defensive end of the floor, as his two steals per game attest to.
“My dad told me, ‘If you don’t play defense, you’re not going to get very far,’” Jaylin said. “(Playing hard on defense) is very important. Personally, I don’t like when people score on me. I’ve definitely gotten better on defense thru my high school career.”
Oh,and as far as those offers go — Hunter made an official visit to Old Dominion last weekend (April 13-14) and makes one to Boston University the following weekend. He also said Atlantic-10 schools Davidson and St. Bonaventure have shown interest.
Reilly confirmed that Davidson coach Bob McKillop — who coached Steph Curry there — had recently paid a visit to the school after the season concluded.
“(Coaches) were flying in to see these kids. There were a ton of division I coaches in our gym during the winter,” Reilly said. “It’s not about the hype, the websites or the rankings. It’s about genuine offers and options. … His work ethic stands for the kind of teammate he is. He’s easy to root for as a coach. I’d do anything for him and give him the highest recommendation possible.”
And now, Jaylin Hunter has some decisions to make soon about his immediate future — ones he didn’t have at the tail end of last season.
“I’m definitely looking for a place where I can play right away or make some type of impact,” Hunter said. “I want to go somewhere to get a good education, to a (program) that will take care of me, not hang me out to dry and a good environment for four years to make me a better person.”
joseph.morelli@hearstmediact.com; @nhrJoeMorelli
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Who are the Prime Timers of Phoenix?
Membership in Prime Timers of Phoenix is open to any gay or bisexual man twenty-one (21) years of age or older who is in accord with the principles and policies of Prime Timers of Phoenix and who pays the membership fee.
Prime Timers are mature gay or bisexual men and their admirers over the age of 21. Our members are men who choose to have their social lives enriched by the diverse activities in which our members engage. No single definition can describe Prime Timers, as they come from all walks of life. Prime Timers involve themselves in their community with volunteerism, gay issues, arts, entertainment, and every other facet of healthy living. Prime Timers are fathers and care givers. They are businessmen and entrepreneurs. They are workers and they are retired. Some are always on the go, and some enjoy the quiet company of others at home. But one thing is true of all Prime Timers: they enjoy the opportunities and friendships that develop with other Prime Timers throughout the world.
Prime Timers was founded in 1987 by a retired professor, Woody Baldwin. He felt a wide gap existed in today's society which caters almost exclusively to youth. This worship of eternal youth is never more flagrant than in the gay culture. Woody began the Boston Chapter by placing ads in local newspapers and soliciting his many friends. He expected only a small handful of men to attend the first meeting and was surprised when over 40 showed up. Attendance at the first meeting indicated to Woody that a need existed for social and cultural organizations to aid and support the aging gay and bisexual man. Now this organization has grown to over sixty chapters worldwide, located throughout North America, Europe and Australia. We welcome our newest members in Beijing, China! To see if there is a chapter near you or in a city you will be visiting please check out the parent website.
Travel opportunities for members are vast. Individual chapters welcome the chance to meet visitors from other chapters. Letters asking for local information and recommendations will be well received and acted upon. Chapters enjoy showing off their communities and having visitors come away with a feeling of kinship and brotherhood with their new-found friends. The Prime Timers Worldwide Convention is held every two years (odd-numbered years) to allow our members to gather to socialize with other Prime Timers, attend workshops geared towards Prime Timers and to conduct business of the organization. Our Conventions have been in Provincetown, MA; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Dallas, TX; Palm Springs, CA; Washington, DC, Houston, TX., Orlando, FL and Reno, Nevada. In addition up to 3 'Regional Events' are planned each year by our member chapters for local, Worldwide and Independent members. Our organization is emerging as a leading force in the gay and bisexual communities, and while we are not a political or religious organization, we are concerned with society as it effects the aging gay and bisexual population. As our organization grows, we will be leading the pack in seeking answers to the needs and problems of maturing gay and bisexual men. It is hoped that a Prime Timers chapter will soon be in every major metropolitan area in the world.
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Renovations and repairs are being done to the buildings as time and money permit. At this time tours are by appointment. If you would like to schedule a tour of the museum, please call one of the following people: Kayla Martin-Gant Brandon Public Library 601-825-2672; Mel Corley, 601-825-0838; or James Gould, 601-829-3705.
The building that serves as the Rankin County Historical Society Museum was originally the general store of John Cole Atkins located “down the hill, north of Brandon, across the tracks”.
It became known as the Value Post Office.
The residents of the area could get most of what they needed at Atkins store so they only went to Brandon to pick up their mail. About 1916 a post office was established at Atkins place, and so the story goes, one morning an old fellow wandered in and asked the “value” of an item he’d picked up. It is also said that there was no other post office in the United States by that name.
Atkins served as Value’s first postmaster and maintained the store until his death in the 1930’s. His daughter and son-in-law, the J.W. McRae, took over.
Value was never a town, but the first settlement there was about 1828.
The McRae family donated the building to the RCHS and it has been used since that time to house and exhibit the collection of historical items entrusted to the Society.
The Neely-Wilson Home is also part of the Museum. The house was originally located in Richland on land deeded to Nancy Williams by a US land patent dated February 10, 1840.
In 1904 this dwelling became the home of Henry S. Wilson and Ina Neely when they married. Mrs. Wilson and her father, David B. Neely were descendants of Nancy Williams.
The building was donated to the Historical Society by Mrs. Roy Wilson whose husband Roy was the son of Henry and Ina Neely Wilson.
McDonald’s has built a restaurant at the site where the house stood for so many years on Highway 49.
The house is a typical southern dwelling of the time.
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In the News: S.A.’s hope always there to get us through
by Susan | Jan 2, 2017 | inspiration, News Stories | 0 comments
OPINION COLUMNIST
ELAINE AYALA
San Antonio Express-News 2 January 2017
My friend Laurie was working as a teacher’s assistant in a Tucson elementary school, essentially performing the classroom drudgery. She lined up preschoolers and cleaned up after them, only to rinse and repeat.
It would have been easy to see the job as unworthy and beneath her intelligence, the kind of work no one notices or rewards.
Laurie chose not to see it that way.
As she washed every dish and organized every bookshelf, she saw it as helping to free up the teacher’s time, so she could focus on teaching young children to read. Therefore, in Laurie’s view, she, too, was helping them learn to read.
The decadeslong lesson has stayed with me as an example of how we frame progress, success and failure, self-worth and how kindnesses, however small, serve a purpose in the long chain-link reaction that turns the world, to every person a purpose.
I think of Laurie’s view when I’m anxious, when I need a reminder of hope, especially as we begin what may be a tumultuous year.
At work, at home, in our relationships and social circles, you might find comfort in Laurie’s hope. It’s everywhere in San Antonio:
• In Patricia Castillo of the PEACE Initiative, who has toiled against domestic violence for four decades and has seen courageous advocates — friends, neighbors, relatives, co-workers and strangers — intercede on behalf of those living with violence. In spite of being afraid, they don’t look away and don’t blame the victims. It’s called bystander intervention, “and more people than ever are doing it because it’s the right thing to do.”
• In Katheryn Barlow-Williams, senior pastor at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church, who sees evidence of hope every Sunday. From the pulpit, “the best seat in the house,” she sees faithful souls refusing to give up hope. The elderly, who’ve lived through everything, especially offer hope. They show up and don’t give up on themselves or life.
• In Father David Garcia of the Old Spanish Missions, who sees hope in the people who responded so quickly when Central American mothers and children were released from federal detention with little notice; in those who assist the food pantry run by Pax Christi nuns in his neighborhood; and in members of his Mission Concepción parish who took Christmas gifts to a refugee family from the Congo, one they help all year long.
• In activist and volunteer Kathy Hill, who may live in Leon Valley but sees herself as part of greater San Antonio and its great, big heart. In spite of problems, she sees a strong sense of community that appreciates and protects a shared heritage. “The willingness to help each other out always gives me a sense of hope,” she says. She has noticed since 9/11 that San Antonio has “more kindhearted people than stone-hearted ones. …We have to choose to focus on the good, roll up our sleeves and help where and when we can, and remember that even though the problems of the world swirl around us, making our home a better place is something each one of us can do.”
• In the Rev. Ann Helmke of the peaceCENTER, who’s, at heart, a poet. “What creates and gifts me with Hope is traveling the distance with others. Miles of slippery roads, moments of shared labor, metaphor in uncertain times. What creates and gifts me with Hope is reaching the destination with others … What creates and gifts me with Hope is that Love still descends and rises. Between us, within us, in spite of us. What creates and gifts me with Hope is that Love is so determined. No matter what, no matter where, no matter how … Every day. Every year. All the time. No matter what.”
• In Patty Vela of Catholic Charities, who sees a kind city growing kinder. She can’t help but make a “Star Wars” reference about hope, too. “Darth Vadar was defeated by a small group of people who were filled with the force of love and light,” she says, because “darkness can’t win. It does not exist without its counterpart, light.”
In moments of worry, Vela turns to writers such as Glen-non Melton Doyle, who advises that “we just hold each other’s babies,” Vela says, “and we realize we are one.”
The kind are everywhere in San Antonio. They’re raising money for good causes, sometimes doing the drudgery — like Laurie did — that such work demands. They’re working to feed children not their own and providing aid to keep them in college. They’re showing up to worship and marching on the streets for justice.
Their kindness offers hope. And if you’re not yet feeling it, hold a baby for a moment, or walk up to the front of your house of worship and look at the faces of hope.
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By Robbie Broughton
I don’t think you know what you’re letting yourself in for and, if you did, you wouldn’t do it.
That was the advice Phil Keoghan got when he first proposed recreating the 1928 Tour de France route and schedule on vintage bikes. His film, Le Ride, documents the madcap journey he undertook with his riding partner Ben Cornell in 2013. It’s now being distributed across the UK by Demand Film this November.
Keoghan was inspired when he came across the biography of fellow New Zealander Harry Watson who was the first Kiwi to compete in the Tour. He was part of a team of four Antipodean riders who had raised funds through national newspapers to take part. The plan had been to join up with some European riders to make a team of ten, but this never happened.
Competing with such a small team put the Australasians at an extreme disadvantage and the general consensus across the media was that they’d fail to even make it as far as the Pyrenees.
Back in those days, the Tour route was designed to eliminate as many riders as possible until a hardy handful remained for the final stages. The 1928 edition was no different with only 41 of the 164 riders completing the gruelling route, making it arguably the toughest Tour in history.
The Australasian team arrived in France after six weeks at sea, under-trained and under-resourced. Against the odds, and defying the dire predictions of the media and public, three out of the four riders successfully made it to the Parc des Prince Velodrome.
The best placed Aussie was Hubert Opperman who finished 18th, about eight and a half hours down on the winner, the Luxembourgian Nicolas Frantz. Despite smashing his frame on the final day, Frantz went on to win by borrowing a ladies’ bicycle to complete the final 55 miles.
Averaging 240 kilometres a day for 26 days, Phil and Ben followed the same route in 2013, traversing both the unforgiving mountains of the Pyrenees and the Alps, on original vintage steel racing bikes with no gears and marginal brakes.
The pair reflected that there are parts of the ride that they cannot remember due to physical and mental exhaustion. And this, despite their 2013 ride being much easier than what Watson encountered, with unsealed roads and many punctures per day.
Demand Film are hoping to screen in several locations across the country on Thursday 9th November. To book a ticket go to their website.
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Muslim Man Abandons Islam For Christ, His Mother Pays Men To Kidnap, Beat Him To The Edge Of Death And Burn His Body With Cigarettes
A former Muslim turned Christian was nearly put to death by his own mother for leaving Islam. He was kidnapped, burned with cigarettes over his body and then beaten badly but survived according to a report:
A Muslim woman in a Middle Eastern country ordered that her son be beaten nearly to death because he converted to Christianity.
Christian Aid Mission, which supports ministries around the world that are helping believers in dangerous places, recently reported that Abdel, as the young man is called (not his real name), has remained committed to his faith despite the attacks on his life.
Abdel’s mother was distraught when she learned that he had decided to leave Islam and convert to Christianity, even though he knew he would be shunned by his family.
He had been unable to find work in his home country (also not named) and had been relying on his parents to pay for his apartment and other living expenses. Following his conversion, his mother came to him with a checkbook in one hand, and a burial linen shroud in the other.
“You must choose between the two,” his mother told him.
Despite knowing that his mother was capable of anything, the young Christian replied: “I want to live for Christ and die for Him, no matter what the price will be.”
His mother left, warning that he will “pay the price” for his decision. Abdel was kidnapped by a Muslim gang two months later and beaten nearly to the point of death, with cigarettes burned to his body.
Though Abdel survived, he has been subjected to further financial difficulties from his mother, who has sent people to collect money from him that he says he doesn’t owe.
Still, Abdel has maintained his Christian faith, and has been encouraging others to turn to Jesus. (source)
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Police forced prostitutes into brothels
February 18, 2013 - 06:37
In the 19th century, the Danish government gave indirect consent to prostitution with a law that kept sex workers on a short leash.
Keywords: History
By: Irene Berg Petersen
Once the police had registered a woman as a prostitute or had forcibly registered her at a brothel, she could only get unregistered if she could prove that she was married or had found a job that she could live on.
The pictures in the above gallery come from police archives. The photographs have probably functioned as a sort of business card in the period when the woman was selling sex.
See more pictures at the Danish State Archives’s Flickr page.
In 1863, the Danish police were ordered to keep a close eye on women who sold sex for a living. By 1874, the police could even force the women to sign up at a brothel if they failed to obey police orders.
The battle against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) played a big part in 19th century police work. It was thought at the time that the cure against these diseases consisted of keeping track of the prostitutes’ health.
”Prostitutes were regarded as a main source of infection for syphilis and other STDs that the state wanted to clamp down on,” says senior researcher Jørgen Mikkelsen, of the Danish State Archives, who has written a journal article on the topic.
The police used their resources on keeping the so-called ‘professional fornication’ under control. But amid growing criticism that this was a way of rubber-stamping paid sex, brothels were banned in Denmark in 1901.
Sex workers punished by whipping
In 1815, the police started keeping a list of prostitutes in Copenhagen and had them checked for STDs once a month. If a woman suffered from e.g. syphilis, she was hospitalised and treated with ointment, and then she was released with a warning never to sell such services again.
This control took place discreetly by order of King Frederick VI, because the order was never announced to the general public.
The reason for this was that the new measures against prostitution and STDs conflicted with the constitution of that time because it implied a general acceptance of sex trading.
Nicknames for prostitutes in 19th century Denmark
Amalie Halvkusse (Amalie Halfpussy)
Den lille beridder (’The little rider’)
Kødben (’Bone’ – of the variety that you give to a dog)
Tyve Mille (’Thief Mille’ – with Mille being a common Danish name)
Øje op og øje ned (’Eye up and eye down’)
Slagter-Hanne (‘Butcher Hanne’)
Hængemule (Roughly translated: ’Grumpy cow’)
En halv flaske dobbelt øl (’A half bottle of double beer’)
Tømmer-Lene (Timber Lene)
”Prostitution was illegal. The man could end up in jail and the woman could be whipped,” says Mikkelsen.
From 1841, the women were checked twice a month. In 1844, this increased to once a week, and by 1853 they were checked twice a week.
And a further tightening coincided with the general restructuring of the police force in 1863. Here, the police were given a special department for inspecting health – including the health of the prostitutes.
Public brothels to prevent clandestine sex trading
The supervision of prostitution climaxed in 1877. Since 1874, the police had had the authority to force prostitutes to register with a brothel if they were caught repeatedly selling sex and were imprisoned.
In the brothels, the police could monitor the woman and make sure that she was checked twice a week for STDs.
But four years later, yet another tightening of the rules was implemented. The rules now applied to all women who sold sex:
All prostitutes were now required to keep a log.
The women were not allowed to change their address without prior permission from the Copenhagen Police, as long as the women were selling sex.
The prostitutes were not allowed to have a boyfriend residing at their address.
The police had the right to search the prostitutes’ homes.
Children over the age of four were forcibly removed from the prostitutes’ homes and were placed in foster care. Mikkelsen explains that with this new law, politicians, doctors and lawyers wished to avoid sex trading as a hidden crime. But the clandestine prostitution continued despite the new legislation.
Women married out of prostitution
The police records reveal a great variety in the type of women who were caught selling sexual favours. Many of them only worked the streets for a short period while they were young and until they found another job or got married. Others were professional prostitutes for years, where they sold sex to finance an alcohol-filled lifestyle.
In 19th century Denmark, women could also earn a living by being ’kept women’, i.e. they were put at one man’s disposal, provided that he paid them a fixed monthly sum.
Being a ‘kept woman’ was legal at the time, and some women earned a lot of money this way.
Source: Jørgen Mikkelsen
A third group had to make a living from selling sex because they had become unemployed or divorced and thus had no source of income.
Some even told the police that they were selling sex because they liked it.
Varying motives complicate the debate
The police’s control of the women met with increasing criticism from feminists and religious people, who saw this as a way for society to rubber stamp prostitution. The criticism was also targeted at the men who bought these services, because the efforts against prostitution had no consequences for them.
The police lost the authority to force women to sign up at a brothel in 1885, and in 1906 the police also lost the right to force prostitutes to undergo medical examinations and treatment.
“But prostitution remained unpopular. And it wasn’t until 1999 that women’s sex trading became decriminalised. Men have, however, had the same access to buying sex that they have had since 1866, and that’s what we’re discussing today,” says Mikkelsen, noting that the current debate reflects the fact that prostitution is carried out by people just as different and with just as varied motives today as 150 years ago.
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2. January 2019 Tabea Tietz
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Dave Stegman
Associate Professor, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
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Dave Stegman is an associate professor of geophysics in the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Stegman uses high-performance computing and advanced four-dimensional visualization systems to explore the intricate details of how planets evolve and why plate tectonics are unique to Earth.
His current research investigates global scale dynamics by reconstructing the history of where tectonic plates have been recycled into the earth’s mantle over the past 300 million years. This research aims to address many of the most important geodynamic events over the past 200 million years, including a 35 million year phase during the Cretaceous period when the magnetic field stopped reversing, increased production of volcanic greenhouse gases led to a warmer climate and several planetary reorientations of the entire solid Earth, known as true polar wander, occurred.
Prior to joining Scripps, he was the Centenary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and previous to that was at Monash University where he was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. During his time in Australia, he pioneered 3-D numerical models of free subduction, which address questions of why tectonic plates move, how plate boundaries evolve, and how features in the Earth's deep interior develop. This effort aims towards simulating regional tectonic evolution and providing a nucleus for integrating geological and geophysical data sets.
Stegman received his Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley, where he developed one of the first three-dimensional spherical models of thermo-chemical convection to investigate the thermal evolution of Earth, the Moon, and Mars with an emphasis on the important role of chemically distinct materials. Renewed interest in this area of planetary geodynamics led to a new model for explaining many of the enigmatic features on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn.
Dave collaborates widely with several groups across Australia, as well as America, Europe, and Japan and has published in on diverse topics, including on global and regional geodynamics, an enigmatic icy moon of Saturn, known as Enceladus, and high performance computing.
Last updated July 2013
Geodesy and Lithospheric Deformation, Geodynamics, Planetary Sciences and Meteoritics, Tectonics and Structural Geology, Volcanology
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dstegman at ucsd.edu
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The Copenhagen agreements
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Gonzalo Fanjul; Víctor Renes
Prior to the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, over 100 Spanish organisations from various sectors (cooperation, social development, environment and human rights) worked to impress on public opinion and political representatives the importance of the Social Summit. The result was: considerable engagement of the mass media; a commonly agreed set of arguments to present at the Summit; and -for the first time in history- participation of two NGOs as members of the official Spanish delegation to the Summit.1 However, this work was left unfinished. After the Summit no follow-up was made and much of what had been achieved was lost.
Evolution of poverty and challenges
Evolution of the global economic situation since 1991 has been irregular. The first years of the nineties were marked by recession. Reversal of that recession started in the third quarter of 1993, but the growth rate in that period remained negative and the reversal was not clearly manifest until the second quarter of 1994. At the beginning of 1995, a new and progressive slowing down took place. This started to reverse mid-1996, with clear recovery during 1997 leading to a calm situation in 1998.
The Gini index, as an index of inequality, increased during the mid-nineties, rising from 0.301 in 1990 to 0.310 in 1995. In fact, the two lowest income deciles underwent a recession in their participation, while the 20% richest saw their percentages improved.2
For those living in poverty -given that social benefits have remained roughly the same- no drastic changes seem to have occurred, except for the inevitable oscillations linked to seasonal and circumstantial changes. This was not the case for those living in severe poverty, since they are more vulnerable to changes. People living in severe poverty increased from 2.2% of the population in 1993 to 2.7% in 1997.
Greater economic activity does not mean that those who lost their jobs in time of crisis will necessarily recover. In the unemployment/poverty relationship, the situation is not always reversable. This is not only because the unemployment rate is still high, but also because, for example, in spite of a decreasing rate of unemployment, figures for groups of long-term unemployed, such as young people seeking their first job and unskilled women, do not fall as a percentage, they even rise.
The basic challenge was raised by the Economic and Social Council of Spain in its report on poverty: «The preparation of a national General Plan to Struggle Against Poverty and Social Exclusion would be appropriate, making it possible to establish a set of basic measures to halt this phenomenon and also to complement plans to struggle against poverty in the autonomic context.» In this and other reports,3 the necessary measures for achieving social development -including the ten commitments made in Copenhagen- are highlighted. The most salient points are:
There is a need to prioritize active employment policies aimed at those people who have special difficulties in accessing the labour market as a consequence of their reduced employability and who need to develop learning formulas close to the labour market in the form of insertion enterprises, solidarity enterprises, etc.
In the field of social protection, two risks should be dealt with. The first is the precariousness of protection due to changes in employment, which should be dealt with in such a way as to face not only the lack of protection of the unemployed, but also the issue of access to contributive protection. The second risk is that needy persons who should be covered by other systems such as unemployment benefits are put on the minimum income system (on welfare). Keeping people in the minimum income system generates dependency and socializes the situation outside labour activity. If social protection measures are not developed as a part of active employment policies, they run the risk of being devalued because of a lack of State budgetary support.
The extension of vocational training -together with implementation of measures such as a «social guarantee» within the educational system- points to the right path. It should be underscored, however, that budgetary allocations are insufficient to develop regulations for compensating educational inequalities (as mandated in Decree 299/1996 of 28 February 1996).
Housing is a key factor in social exclusion. Insufficient resources are allocated to public housing. Public expenditure on housing in Spain is about 1% of the GDP, while in the European Union it is around 2.5%. Within the Housing Plan, there is need to balance allocations for officially protected housing between general and special system housing, with particular attention to the promotion of special system housing (housing that can be accessed by people whose income is under 2.5 times the minimum inter-professional salary -approx. USD 500).
Social services must become comprehensive social welfare services. Insistence on better articulation between the different administrations should lead to improved financing of a network that guarantees basic benefits to needy citizens with quality services adapted to their needs.
Finally, mention should be made of the partial and sectoral social integration of various groups such as women, gypsies and immigrants. Broad, specific plans have been developed for these groups, but care should be taken to ensure that these plans are locally integrated and that sectoral and global issues are included. In this respect, emphasis should be placed on the integration of benefits provided by these services with programmes on employment, training, housing, habitat, etc.
Spain's progress towards fulfilment of the Copenhagen commitments concerning the international context has been measured mainly with reference to development assistance towards poorer countries. Since social movements in 1995 demanded 0.7%, year after year society has reiterated its demand for enforcement of this goal as a demonstration of Spanish people's solidarity. This response to Copenhagen shows the two sides of the struggle against poverty: on one hand the demands of society, on the other, the apathy of the government. The question is: is eradication of poverty a priority for Spanish foreign policy? The conclusion we have reached is not optimistic. In spite of promises, we do not see any clear progress.
Spanish development assistance policy received an important push in 1998. The International Development Cooperation Law, for which NGOs and other sectors have long advocated, was passed after almost ten months of formalities. The new law, positively valued by nearly all social and political sectors, introduces interesting possibilities for improving the quality of Spanish cooperation, such as improvements in planning and assessment, the fulfilment of international commitments and unity in assistance management. High public awareness of the law and the consequent need for consensus, however, led to an excessively ambiguous text, leaving the government with the power to introduce -or not to introduce- the necessary changes.
In spite of the above, the fact remains that the Spanish government has systematically failed to fulfil the concrete goals for quantitative and qualitative assistance established in Copenhagen. Spain continues to be one of the donor countries with the lowest quality of assistance, as may be seen in the attached graph:
*Least Developed Countries
Figures show that for Spanish assistance, eradication of poverty is not a priority. In 1996, the percentage of bilateral ODA aimed at Basic Social Services (BSS) was 9%, less than half of that committed, and our government -together with the government of the United States- gave least assistance to the less developed countries (0.02% of GDP).4
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be neglected. The traditional links between our country and Latin America and North Africa, in addition to the weight of commercial interests in many of the government assistance programmes, have meant that assistance to Africa is scant and poor.5
In the field of quantitative commitments, the situation is not much better: Spanish assistance has been stagnant since 1991, with slight variations around 0.25% of GNP. In spite of the mass 1995 social mobilisation and repeated promises by the government and political parties, significant progress in this field is limited.
Despite its being the tenth world economy, Spain has so far maintained a passive attitude to the poor countries' foreign debt problem. Spain has limited itself to negotiating credits and cancelling debts at the rate set by others within multilateral financial institutions. The time has come to demand from the Spanish government a firmer attitude towards this problem, especially in those cases where its creditor position is decisive, such as in the negotiation of HIPC conditions for Nicaragua. The first steps have been taken in initiatives for investment or environmental debt swapping. The challenge is now to promote debt swapping for social development.
The financial crisis triggered in the last few months has led the Spanish minister of economics to propose an assistance fund within the IMF to alleviate the consequences of the crisis in Latin American countries. This proposal -aimed at protecting Spanish interests in Latin America- shows that when there is political will, solutions exist.
Copenhagen +5 should oblige the Spanish government to strengthen its policies and budgets for the struggle against poverty. Existing policies and budgets have not led to enforcement of the commitments signed in Copenhagen. CARITAS and INTERMON have prepared an exhaustive study on Spain's degree of commitment, to be submitted to the 1999 Preparatory Committee.
Spanish CARITAS is the major NGO in the struggle against poverty in the country. Its scope of work covers all fields of struggle against social exclusion. Regarding Social Watch report, we have collaborated closely with the department of studies, whose responsible is Víctor Renes. This department publishes the Foessa Report, the most prestigious study on the situation of poverty in Spain.
INTERMON is an independent non-profit foundation, working since 1956 on the eradication of poverty in the South.
1 Pablo Martín for CARITAS Española and Ignacio Senillosa for INTERMON.
2 All data in this section are taken from Las condiciones de vida de la población pobre en España. Fundación FOESSA, Madrid, 1998.
3 Report on «Poverty and exclusion in Spain,» by the Economic and Social Council, Madrid, 1996; Simposio sobre Políticas contra la exclusión, CARITAS Española, Madrid, 1997.
4 All data in this section are taken from La Realidad de la Ayuda 98/99, INTERMON, Madrid, 1998.
5 Assistance to sub-Saharan African was only 14% of overall assistance spending over the last five years. Only a quarter of this was for programmes and projects.
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Mar 25, 2013 | Fukushima Accident Updates | 0 comments
PM Shinzo Abe visited Namie and Tomioka towns inside the government-mandated “no-go zone”. It was his second visit to Fukushima, but the first to bear witness to the conditions with evacuated communities. His first visit was to the F. Daiichi power station. During his visit, Abe said that a limited access to Namie will begin April 1 to allow refugees to make short visits to their homes and/or businesses. Tomioka town restrictions were eased on today. At both visits, Abe emphasized the decommissioning of F. Daiichi and decontamination of the exclusion areas is unlike anything Japan has ever done. He added that his government will do more to make recovery happen than his predecessors. Portions of both towns lie inside the 20km mandatory evacuation zone, and parts outside in the voluntary evacuation zone. The voluntary zone is where people were asked to leave due to radiation fears and given full mandatory-evacuation privileges. During his visit, Abe responded to nuke restart questions, saying, “Reconstruction will be hard without an inexpensive and stable source of power,” while vowing to dispel “harmful rumors” concerning the condition of the Fukushima Daiichi station. (Japan Today; Jiji Press; Kyodo News)
The restrictions on Tomioka Town refugees were relaxed today. 70% of the town’s radiation levels have dropped below 50 millisieverts per year, the mandatory evacuation standard. The portion of the area over 50 mSv will continue to exclude all visitations, affecting about 4,500 people, is now designated “Return Forbidden”. The central part of the town, with about 10,000 evacuees, is between 20 and 50 mSv, low enough to allow periodic public visitation, is now called “Residence forbidden”. The rest is below 20 mSv, now entitled “Preparation for Evacuation Cancellation”, and could allow the 1,500 residents to go home, but the local government will restrict full repopulation until 2016. It is hoped that all residents will be home by the end of 2017. Tomioka is the southernmost of the 11 exclusion zone communities and is host to the undamaged, currently-idled Fukushima Daiini power station. It is the eighth community to have the exclusion restrictions eased. Tomioka Mayor Katsuya Endo said, “Finally, we can start rebuilding the city’s infrastructure.” (Japan Times; Mainichi Shimbun, Japan Today)
On Sunday the Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second largest newspaper, said the F. Daiichi accident has not ended. They believe last week’s brief spent fuel pool power outage proves the accident in on-going, “The incident drove home the reality that even two years after the March 2011 disaster, the accident is still not over. Anxiety will continue until all fuel is removed. This is to be expected in a nuclear disaster.” Further, everyone was lucky Tepco re-energized SFP cooling systems before there were more meltdowns and hydrogen explosions, even though both are actually impossible for SFPs. In addition, contrary to all other news outlets and the photos posted by Tepco, the Asahi says “Although the cause of the blackout has yet to be established, the possibility has arisen that a small animal, such as a rat, short-circuited a switchboard.” Then, the Asahi takes a contradictory linguistic turn by saying, “We must learn lessons from the incident so that we can deal calmly with future emergencies.” First the Asahi creates a fearsome fantasy scenario, and then tells everyone we should learn from this in order to remain calm. That’s a contradiction. How long will it take for their readers to realize they are being misled by the newspaper?
The disposal of tsunami debris outside of Fukushima Prefecture has reached the half-way point. The 3/11/11 tsunami left behind 16 million tons of debris and 10 million tons of sand and sediment in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures. At the end of February, 8.35 million tons of the debris had been disposed of, mostly through land burial. A little over 600,000 tons of the rubble is combustible, but less than 20% has been incinerated. In addition, 2.3 million tons of the washed-ashore sediments have been removed, but that accounts for only 22% of the total. While it took nearly two years of activity to handle 45% of the debris, 5% was disposed of in February alone. Thus, it seems the new Tokyo government has significantly improved the tsunami clean-up effort in Iwate and Miyagi. However, less than a million tons of debris has been removed from the Fukushima Prefecture coastline, which is only 20% of the total estimate of ~5 million tons. Fear of radioactive contamination has ham-strung the effort in Fukushima. The Environment Ministry says they no longer feel debris disposal will be complete by the target date of March 2014. (NHK World; Jiji Press)
An antinuke rally was held in Fukushima City on Saturday. Organizers say that about 7,000 attended, many from outside the prefecture. The speakers called for total abolition of nuclear energy in Fukushima Prefecture. The presenters were all prefectural residents who are now refugees. They feel the rest of Japan is forgetting their plight and vow to keep memory of the nuclear accident in the public mind. One 18-year-old student told the crowd that the sight of radiation monitors all over the prefecture is a constant reminder of their pain and suffering. (Mainichi Shimbun)
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Weavers Series
Peasant War Series
The Krieg Cycle (War Cycle)
Death Series
Kollwitz's Activism
Often seen as universal images of women, war, and suffering, the works of Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) offer powerful testimony not only concerning the ravages of the two World Wars on her own life, but about the socio-political realities of Germany’s role in this history.
Written accounts of history are limited in what they can disclose of people’s motivations. Kollwitz’s diary, used in the exhibition as a context and lens for viewing her artwork, offers rich insights into her internal struggles, not only as a German female artist and social activist during the two World Wars, but also as the mother of two sons, one of whom was killed on the battlefield. The personal circumstances of her life and work offer an incisive perspective on the contradictions and perplexities of wartime experience.
Drawn from the Museum’s collections of prints with loans from private and public collections, the exhibition locates Kollwitz’s works in their political, historical, and cultural context. Women and mothers are a particular focus, featuring prominently in Kollwitz’s work as heroic rebel rousers and activists, as breadwinners and protective guardians of children, and, in her later work, as victims or mourners of the dead. The exhibition also presents her works in broader terms, from Weimar politics to the Nazi propaganda machine and various social programs enacted to embrace “women’s issues.”
Kollwitz strove to find the humanity within the brutal events that unfolded from one war to the next. She turned to her art not only as an outlet to express and reflect upon her personal anger and loss, but also to answer to the call to make a difference in broader political terms and to seek some way to resist the cycle of destruction. This is her story....
Image: Lotte Jacobi. American, born Germany, 1896–1990. Printed by Carlos Richardson. Portfolio I; Kathe Kollwitz. 1931 negative; 1978 print. Gelatin silver print. Purchased. Image courtesy University of New Hampshire.
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Spokane River History Tour
Four or five years ago, my friend Deb Abrahamson asked if I would represent her during official state or local meetings, in the case that she could not appear herself. I agreed, but she never called on me again, until yesterday.
Deb was scheduled to speak during the Spokane River History Tour, sponsored by the local Sierra Club and the Center for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP). A personal matter prevented her from making the presentation, so she asked me to appear in her stead. With less than an hour notice, I got myself ready and gave an impromptu speech to a group of about twenty five people. As much as possible, I tried to remain faithful to her topic and address the relationship of the Spokane Tribe to our rivers.
A variety of local experts addressed other aspects of the river's history, including Jack Nisbet, Bill Youngs, and Rachael Paschal Osborn.
In the photograph above, Larry Cebula (left) introduces Bill Youngs (right). (Larry Cebula is the author of "Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850.")
Local historian and author Jack Nisbet also addressed the group. I recently had the opportunity to meet Jack when he dug brown camas near Spangle, WA with a student group from Wellpinit Middle School.
Bill Youngs is a local historian and history professor at Eastern Washington University. During the Spokane River History Tour, he addressed two main topics. First he spoke about the founding of the city of Spokane by James Glover. Second, he spoke of the 1974 World's Fair that transformed the heart of the city.
A portion of Bill Youngs' comments bear repeating. He wrote:
During the spring of 1873... James Glover - the founder of Spokane - was traveling through the Inland Northwest looking for a place to establish a town and make a fortune.
After journeying from Lewiston by horseback for several days through the lightly settled Inland Northwest he came to Spokane Falls. Glover knew at once that this was the place to build a town. He knew that a waterfall was the ideal source of power to grind grain and mill timber.
Glover also recognized that the falls were a thing of beauty. Later in life he remembered sitting beside the river on a rock during his first morning in Spokane. "I was enchanted," he wrote, "- overwhelmed - with the beauty and grandeur of everything I saw. It lay just as nature had made it, with nothing to mar its virgin glory."
A century later, stumbling upon the falls, he might have "held that thought" and proposed that the falls be set aside as a National Park. (One of the early visitors to Yellowstone, by the way, thought that Spokane Falls and its environs were even more beautiful than the nation's first national park.)
But James Glover grew up in the age of robber barons, industrial tycoons, and city-builders. Setting aside his realization of the beauty of the falls, he saw dollar signs rather than natural beauty, and said of the setting, "I determined that I would possess it."
I've taken this quote from a website promoting the restoration of Spokane Falls, but these words are almost identical to the ones Bill Youngs told us as we overlooked the Spokane River. Personally, I had never heard this story before. Many times I have myself sat captivated by the beauty of Spokane Falls, and I can hardly conceive that anyone could think to possess such a magnificent, living thing. James Glover not only came to possess the falls, but nearly destroyed them beneath the urban development he instigated.
Thankfully, Bill Youngs did not conclude the story with only an account of Glover's personal ambition or tales of environmental destruction. He also recounted the story of urban renewal brought about by the World's Fair (Expo '74).
Youngs wrote the book "The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74 : Transforming an American Environment." The book recounts the history of the river and the fair. Up to that point, Spokane was the smallest city to ever host a world's fair, and arguably, Spokane's fair created a more lasting benefit to the local community than other fairs.
The site of the fair was once a scene of urban decay. The river was completely choked by concrete and steel, railroad trestles and industrial buildings. The city of Spokane used the fair as an opportunity to restore the heart of the river. The old buildings were demolished and replaced with a beautiful 100 acre park: Riverfront Park.
As an aside, I was only three years old during Expo '74, but I still remember opening day of the fair. I remember looking up into the sky and seeing millions of helium balloons mingled with hot air balloons.
The events of the day were filmed by a man named Easy; a video will eventually be released on Community-Minded Television. Easy and I first met last year when I gave a local history presentation at Drumheller Springs.
Speed Fitzhugh represented Avista during the tour. He spoke about a recent policy change that will allow water to flow over the falls twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Previously, Spokane Falls would run completely dry during the summer months as all the water was diverted for electric power.
The Sierra Club was instrumental in negotiating an agreement with Avista to allow Spokane Falls to flow during the summer. Rachael Paschal Osborn addressed the group during the history tour and spoke of the Sierra Club's efforts.
The group concluded the Spokane River History Tour near the site of the World's Fair. The former American Pavilion is visible in the background (left), as well as the old Clock Tower and the Imax Theater.
Labels: Environmentalism, History, Spokane, Spokane River, Spokane Tribe
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US Supreme Court Center > Volume 318 > LARGENT V. TEXAS, 318 U. S. 418 (1943) > Full Text
LARGENT V. TEXAS, 318 U. S. 418 (1943)
Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418 (1943)
Largent v. Texas
Decided March 8, 1943
APPEAL FROM THE COUNTY COURT OF LAMAR COUNTY, TEXAS
1. Since the decision of the county court in this case was not reviewable, on the record made in that court, by any higher court of the State, and since the decision sustained a municipal ordinance against a claim of its invalidity under the Federal Constitution, this Court has jurisdiction on appeal under Jud.Code § 257(a). P. 318 U. S. 421.
2. A municipal ordinance which, as construed and applied, forbids the distribution of religious publications except upon a permit the issuance of which is in the discretion of a municipal officer held an abridgment of religion, speech, and press guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 318 U. S. 422.
It is unnecessary to determine whether the distribution of the publications in question constituted sales or the acceptance of contributions.
Appeal from a conviction and sentence for violation of a municipal ordinance.
MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal brings here for review the conviction of appellant for violation of Ordinance No. 612 of the City of Paris, Texas, which makes it unlawful for any person to solicit orders or to sell books, wares, or merchandise within the residence portion of Paris without first filing an application and obtaining a permit. The ordinance goes on to provide that
"if, after investigation, the Mayor deems it proper or advisable, he may issue a written permit to said person for the purpose of soliciting, selling, canvassing, or census taking within the residence portion of the city, which permit shall state on its face that it has been issued after a thorough investigation. [Footnote 1]"
A complaint in the Corporation Court of Paris charged Mrs. Largent, the appellant, with violating this ordinance by unlawfully offering books for sale without making application for a permit. She was convicted, and appealed to the County Court of Lamar County, Texas, where a trial de novo was had. [Footnote 2] There, a motion was filed to quash the
complaint because the ordinance violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and, at the conclusion of the evidence, there was filed a motion on the same grounds for finding of not guilty and the discharge of the appellant from custody. Both were overruled.
Appellant's evidence shows that she carries a card of ordination from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, an organization incorporated for the purpose of preaching the Gospel of God's Kingdom. The Society is an organization for Jehovah's Witnesses, an evangelical group, founded upon and drawing inspiration from the tenets of Christianity. The Witnesses spread their teachings under the direction of the Society by distributing the books and pamphlets obtained from the Society by house-to-house visits. They believe that they have a covenant with Jehovah to enlighten the people as t o the truths accepted by the Witnesses by putting into their hands, for study, various religious publications with titles such as Children, Hope, Consolation, Kingdom News, Deliverance, Government, and Enemies.
Mrs. Largent offered some of these books to those upon whom she called for a contribution of not to exceed 25 cents for a bound book and several magazines or tracts. If the contribution was not made, the appellant, in accordance with the custom of the Witnesses, would frequently leave a book and tracts without receiving any money. Appellant was making such distributions when arrested. She had not filed an application for, or received, a permit under the ordinance.
The Witnesses look upon their work as Christian and charitable. To them, it is not selling books or papers, but accepting contributions to further the work in which they are engaged. The prosecuting officer contended that the offer of the publications and the acceptance of the
money was a solicitation or sale of books, wares, or merchandise. At the conclusion of the hearing, which was without a jury, the judge found appellant guilty of violating the ordinance of the City of Paris, and fined her one hundred dollars.
The appeal was brought here under § 237(a) of the Judicial Code, which provides for review of a final judgment of the highest court of a state in which a decision could be had. By our order of December 21, 1942, we requested counsel to discuss whether this judgment could be fully reviewed on this record by a higher state court by habeas corpus or other proceeding. Under the statutes of Texas, no appeal lies from the judgment of the County Court imposing a fine of this amount. Vernon's Texas Stat. 1936, Article 53 (Code of Criminal Procedure); [Footnote 3] Ex parte Largent, 162 S.W.2d 419, 421, and cases cited. The appellant, under Texas practice, apparently could test by habeas corpus the constitutionality on its face of the ordinance under which she was convicted, but may not use that writ to test the constitutionality of the ordinance as applied to the act of distributing religious literature. Cf. Ex parte Largent, supra. Since there is, by Texas law or practice, no method which has been called to our attention for reviewing the conviction of appellant on the record made in the county court, we are of the opinion the appeal is properly here under § 237(a) of the Judicial Code. The proceeding in the county court was a distinct suit. It disposed of the charge. The possibility that the appellant might obtain release by a subsequent and distinct
proceeding, and one not in the nature of a review of the pending charge, in the same or a different court of the State does not affect the finality of the existing judgment or the fact that this judgment was obtained in the highest state court available to the appellant. Cf. Bandini Co. v. Superior Court, 284 U. S. 8, 294 U. S. 14; Bryant v. Zimmerman, 278 U. S. 63, 278 U. S. 70.
Upon the merits, this appeal is governed by recent decisions of this Court involving ordinances which leave the granting or withholding of permits for the distribution of religious publications in the discretion of municipal officers. [Footnote 4] It is unnecessary to determine whether the distributions of the publications in question are sales or contributions. The mayor issues a permit only if, after thorough investigation, he "deems it proper or advisable." Dissemination of ideas depends upon the approval of the distributor by the official. This is administrative censorship in an extreme form. It abridges the freedom of religion, of the press, and of speech guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. [Footnote 5]
MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
The applicable section of the ordinance reads as follows:
"Section 1: From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to solicit orders for books, wares, merchandise, or any household article of any description whatsoever within the residence portion of the City of Paris, or to sell books, wares, merchandise, or any household article of any description whatsoever within the residence district of the City of Paris, or to canvass, take census without first filing an application in writing with the Mayor and obtaining a permit, which said application shall state the character of the goods, wares, or merchandise intended to be sold or the nature of the canvass to be made, or the census to be taken, and by what authority. The application shall also state the name of the party desiring the permit, his permanent street address and number while in the city, and if, after investigation, the Mayor deems it proper or advisable, he may issue a written permit to said person for the purpose of soliciting, selling, canvassing, or census taking within the residence portion of the city, which permit shall state on its face that it has been issued after a thorough investigation."
Vernon's Texas Stat. 1936, Art. 876 (Code of Criminal Procedure), provides:
"Appeals from a corporation court shall be heard by the county court except in cases where the county court has no jurisdiction, in which counties, such appeals shall be heard by the proper court. In such appeals, the trial shall be de novo. Said appeals shall be governed by the rules of practice and procedure for appeals from justice courts to the county court, so far as applicable."
"Court of Criminal Appeals -- The Court of Criminal Appeals shall have appellate jurisdiction coextensive with the limits of the State in all criminal cases. This article shall not be so construed as to embrace any case which has been appealed from any inferior court to the county court or county court at law in which the fine imposed by the county court or county court at law shall not exceed one hundred dollars."
Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U. S. 444, 447, 451; Schneider v. State, 308 U. S. 147, 163; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U. S. 296, 302.
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U. S. 568, 315 U. S. 570-571; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U. S. 296, 310 U. S. 303; Gitlow v. New York, 268 U. S. 652.
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Jihadists and Wife-Swapping
Well, we seem to have a theme going here on Talisman: last week I wrote about Sadrists and Sex Orgies, and this week we have a captured jihadist allegedly spilling the beans about the practice of wife-swapping among insurgents. Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq) website carried a story from Karbala on Sunday (Arabic text) where the chief of police of Karbala, Maj. Gen. Muhammad 'Abul-Walid' [Muhammad Zaidan al-Qureishi, former commander of the Wolf Brigade], claims that his forces had arrested a commander of the Tawhid wel-Jihad (the old name for Zarqawi’s outfit) cell by the name of Hussein Abdullah al-Khalidi, who had confessed to 35 instances of violence ranging from car bombs to abductions in the Baghdad area. Khalidi was arrested in the northern part of Karbala Province, which contains several Sunni towns and villages.
The story carries details of specific crimes that Khalidi had confessed to, and how much he was compensated per crime; for example, the beheading of three female employees of the Ministry of Education in Baya’a (south-western Baghdad) and discarding their bodies in the Radhwaniya desert earned him 200 U.S. dollars.
According to the media spokesman of the Karbala police, Rahman Mishawi, Khalidi also confessed that the head of his group, a man by the name of Mahdi Talib, had issued a fatwa “allowing wife-swapping to strengthen the bonds [between the insurgents]”.
Khalidi is also alleged to have given his own wife to the head of the group, and received the deputy commander’s wife in her stead.
So the Sunni jihadists would like to peg Shi'a Sadrists as sex-orgy perverts, while the Shi'a-led police label Sunni jihadists as deviant swingers. When the Kurds arrested one of their own, Sheikh Zana, for being jihadist terrorist in the summer of 2005, they made sure to label him a sodomist. Do you see a pattern here?
The Washington Post had an interesting story recently (January 20) on temporary marriages, something I wrote about in the post on the Sadrists. [See comments section for full text of the WaPo story]
posted by Nibras Kazimi نبراس الكاظمي at 11:30 AM
Temporary 'Enjoyment Marriages' In Vogue Again With Some Iraqis
By Nancy Trejos
Saturday, January 20, 2007; A01
BAGHDAD -- Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him.
Ali wanted someone to take care of her. Rubae wanted a companion.
They met one afternoon in May at the house he shares with his wife, in the room where he accepts visitors seeking his religious counsel. He had a proposal. Would Ali be his temporary wife? He would pay her 5,000 Iraqi dinars upfront -- about $4 -- in addition to her monthly expenses. About twice a week over the next eight months, he would summon her to a house he would rent.
The negotiations took an hour and ended with an unwritten agreement, the couple recalled. Thus began their "mutaa," or enjoyment marriage, a temporary union believed by Shiite Muslims to be sanctioned by Islamic law.
The Shiite practice began 1,400 years ago, in what is now Iraq and other parts of the region, as a way to provide for war widows. Banned by President Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led government, it has regained popularity since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq brought the majority Shiites to power, said clerics, women's rights activists and mutaa spouses.
"During Saddam's time, there was no religious freedom," said Faris al-Shareef, a sheik who lives in the mainly Shiite city of Hilla.
Opponents of mutaa, most of them Sunni Arabs, say it is less about religious freedom and more about economic exploitation. Thousands of men are dying in the sectarian violence that has followed the invasion, leaving behind widows who must fend for themselves. Many young men are out of work and prefer temporary over permanent wives who require long-term financial commitments. In a mutaa arrangement, the woman is entitled to payment only for the duration of the marriage.
"It's a cover for prostitution," said Um Akram, a women's rights activist in Baghdad. "Some women, because they don't want to be prostitutes, they think that this is legal because it's got some kind of religious cover. But it is wrong, and they're still prostitutes from the society's point of view." Um Akram, like the mutaa spouses interviewed, asked that only parts of her name be published.
Many intellectuals consider ancient traditions such as these an obstacle to Iraq's effort to become a more modern, democratic society. In recent years, extremist religious groups have gained more power in Iraq.
"These steps are taking the whole country backwards and are definitely hurdles to the advancement of the country," said Hamdia Ahmed, a former member of parliament and a women's rights activist in Baghdad. "The only solution is to separate Islam from politics."
Shiite clerics and others who practice mutaa say such marriages are keeping young women from having unwed sex and widowed or divorced women from resorting to prostitution to make money.
They say a mutaa marriage is not much different from a traditional marriage in which the husband pays the wife's family a dowry and provides for her financially.
"It was designed as a humanitarian help for women," said Mahdi al-Shog, a Shiite cleric.
According to Shiite religious law, a mutaa relationship can last for a few minutes or several years. A man can have an unlimited number of mutaa wives and a permanent wife at the same time. A woman can have only one husband at a time, permanent or temporary. No written contract or official ceremony is required in a mutaa. When the time limit ends, the man and woman go their separate ways with none of the messiness of a regular divorce.
Although the temporary arrangements are becoming more common, they are still controversial, and people usually conduct them secretly.
Ali had a normal marriage once. It lasted only three months because the couple did not get along. Her chances for another permanent marriage, she said, were slim. Men often prefer virgins over widows and divorced women, she said.
She welcomed Rubae's proposal because he was a well-known sheik in her neighborhood. Her family was fond of him. "He was a good guy, and he was a religious man," she said.
Rubae had been in 15 mutaa marriages before. A year ago he entered into a permanent marriage with a woman who had been his mutaa wife for a day. When she became pregnant eight months ago, she suggested he take a temporary wife but asked him not to tell her if he did. She does not know about his involvement with Ali.
"As a pregnant woman, she cannot give me my needs," Rubae said. "She treats me real good and she wants me to be happy."
He chose Ali partly because her blond hair, light brown eyes and petite figure had always attracted him. "When she puts makeup on, it destroys her beauty," he said.
He also liked that she was religiously devout, and he said he wanted to keep her from a relationship outside of marriage.
Ali didn't think of him in a romantic way at first. "After we got married, I started loving him," she said.
The money he gave her helped. Her father owns a bakery but money has always been tight, so much so that she had to end her education after elementary school. But money wasn't her only reason for entering the enjoyment marriage. "I have needs just like any other woman," she said.
Both Shiite and Sunni Muslims allow men to have more than one permanent wife, but they disagree over mutaa.
Most Shiites believe that the prophet Muhammad encouraged the practice as a way to give widows an income. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, has sanctioned it and offers advice on his Web site.
Um Ahmed, a 28-year-old woman from Najaf, lost her husband in 2005 when he was caught in the crossfire of a fight between two Shiite militias.
Soon after his death, she had her first mutaa relationship, with a man who was in a permanent marriage. He paid her 50,000 Iraqi dinars upfront -- or $38 -- and gave her money whenever she needed it during their six-month relationship.
She said she needed it often. She is a tailor and the only one in her family of 10 who works.
"When a human being needs money, the need will make a person do anything," she said. "It's better than doing the wrong things. This is religiously accepted."
Many Sunnis believe that the practice is outdated and ripe for abuse. They also see it as more evidence of Iranian influence on Iraqi life. Mutaa is widespread in Iran's Shiite theocratic state.
"It is a big insult to women," said Ibtsam Z. Alsha, a Sunni lawyer and the head of the organization Women for the Common Good of Women.
Women's rights activists also bemoan what they say is an increase in mutaa on college campuses. Some female students do it for money. Others do it for love when their parents forbid them to marry a man from another sect.
Amani, a 22-year-old Baghdad University engineering student, said she is a Sunni but agreed to enter into a mutaa relationship with her Shiite boyfriend because her parents disapproved of him. "I hated my family because they did not allow this marriage," she said. "I did this to spite my family."
Still, she has not told them about the relationship. "If they find out, it will be my end," she said.
A woman cannot terminate a temporary marriage before it expires unless the man agrees, said four sheiks interviewed for this article.
Once the marriage is over, she has to wait at least two menstrual cycles before she can have another relationship so that paternity can be easily determined if she becomes pregnant, they said.
Most mutaa contracts stipulate that no children be produced. If a woman were to become pregnant anyway, Islamic law would require the man to support the child, the sheiks said. But the clerics disagreed over how much power they have to impose that rule.
Rubae said the man who refuses his child would be whipped or even killed. "We as the sheiks should be sure this thing will stay legitimate," he said.
Shareef, the sheik from Hilla, said some men take advantage of their rights under religious law but refuse to accept their responsibility when a child is born. In some of those cases, he said, a sharia court, using Islamic law, is not as effective as a secular court in enforcing the rules.
"I am supporting the idea of the government regulating mutaa marriages, just like the permanent marriages, so these man cannot run away," he said. "Otherwise the women are losing their rights."
Um Akram, the women's rights activist in Baghdad, said more women are asking her organization for help in getting national identification cards for children born of mutaa relationships. Parents must present a marriage certificate to obtain the identification cards, which are required by schools and employers.
Um Akram said some single women have given up their children for adoption to married couples who can use their marriage certificates to register them.
"The men just hit and run, and they don't want to have a family," she said. "The children are paying the price."
Ali and Rubae agreed not to have children. They simply wanted to enjoy each other.
On the days he could see her, he gave her flowers, perfume, clothing and a watch. They had meals together. Sometimes he could spend the whole day with her. Other times, just five or six hours.
Ali said she cried when the marriage ended early last week. "It's just like a permanent marriage," she said. "When he leaves, I become sad."
Her sorrow did not last long. Rubae said Jan. 12 that he had decided to marry her again. This time, he said, he would marry her for a year, enough time for his wife to fully recover from childbirth.
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Video & Text: Secretary Clinton's Remarks at Reception for the Opening of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo
Remarks at Reception for the Opening of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo
Ben Franklin Room
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, thank you very much, Minister Xie. I think that you are well-named for all of the thanks that you provided us. But of course, we owe you and your Chinese colleagues, both here in Washington and in Beijing and Shanghai a great thanks as well.
This is an extraordinary day to celebrate the opening of the Shanghai Expo and to share it with so many who it is literally true to say without whom this would not have been possible. I echo Ambassador Bagley’s thanks of an incredible effort to pull this together, to get the word out, to enlist the support, to raise the money, and to actually build the Pavilion.
I well remember visiting the site of the Pavilion last November in a very heavy rainstorm. It was still under construction. But I was told that rain meant good fortune, and good fortune clearly smiled on us that day and will not only today, but through the rest of the time that the Pavilion is open at the Expo. (Applause.)
We expect that this will be the largest event, some say, in human history. It will certainly be very, very big. And it will be a great attraction, not only for tens of millions of people from within China itself, but from around the world.
I vowed last year that I would personally build the Pavilion if I had to so we could be part of that Expo. Thankfully I did not, because all of you worked together to make this a great success. And I would like to thank every single person here at the State Department who was involved in this monumental effort.
Certainly, Ambassador Bagley, her excellent deputy, Kris Balderston, the entire team who understand the power of partnerships and this was a multi-layered partnership. It was a partnership between China and the United States; between the United States Government and many of our great companies and corporations. It was certainly a partnership with our Embassy and our Consulate. So this was a multi-leveled partnership and it was a partnership that would not have been successful without some key players.
I want to thank Under Secretary Pat Kennedy, who has been a champion of this project from day one and whose responsibilities include running all of our worldwide facilities.
I want to thank Kurt Campbell and everyone at EAP who has worked day by day to strengthen and expand our relationship with China to make it that positive, cooperative, comprehensive relationship that President Obama and I are committed to. I want to thank our ECA colleagues, who provided critical assistance at every stage. I want to thank Ambassador Huntsman in Beijing and Consul General BeaCamp in Shanghai and I particularly want to thank Commissioner José Villarreal and the entire USA Expo team, some of whom you can see on the screen.
But I owe our greatest thanks to our sponsors. With the financial and-in kind contributions that you have come forward with, we have more than 50 cosponsors who have donated resources, expertise for the last year to get us ready to open this pavilion. And I think that we’re going to showcase a lot of what is best about America and particularly our young people who are serving as student ambassadors to help engage the millions of visitors expected to come to our pavilion during the next six months. Some of our Student Ambassadors are there with Commissioner Villarreal to celebrate today, and they’re doing a great job already.
I was speaking to State Counselor Dai Bingguo yesterday morning about many matters, but the first thing he had to tell me was that he had accompanied President Hu Jintao to our pavilion and had met some of the young people who are representing us there. The USA Pavilion is a unique opportunity to engage visitors. World fairs and expos have always been a place where the future is previewed. And that is indeed what is happening at this Shanghai Expo. So again, many, many thanks to all of you.
And now, let me ask our Commissioner General to the 2010 World Expo you see there on the screen who has done such a wonderful job making sure that the Pavilion got built, got staffed, got into shape to be able to open. And I knew that when I asked José to do this, I had someone who would be tireless in his efforts. And thank you so much, José and we’re going to ask you to give us a report from our pavilion.
COMMISSIONER VILLARREAL: Thank you, Madam Secretary. Ni hao.
PARTICIPANTS: Ni hao.
COMMISSIONER VILLARREAL: We are thrilled to be joining you from Shanghai. I don’t have to tell you how important this day is for China and the Chinese people as they celebrate the opening of World Expo. As you know, yesterday, we were privileged to receive President Hu Jintao at our pavilion. When I mentioned to President Hu and to Vice Premier Wang Qishan that you were hosting an event in Washington, D.C., contemporaneously with the Expo opening ceremonies, they expressed great appreciation. And in fact, while they were in our first area of – the welcoming area where we have this large sponsor wall with the names of all of the corporate sponsors, Vice Premier Wang Qishan motioned to the president to look at the wall. And the president made a point of mentioning how important all of these corporations are to China and so those of you who are sponsors should be very proud of that.
Madam Secretary, I’m joined here by U.S. Consulate and Pavilion staff and some of our student ambassadors. The student ambassadors performed their first official ambassadorial duties yesterday by helping me welcome President Hu, and I must say they performed marvelously. Today, we received the president of Armenia and a delegation from Hunan. Tomorrow, it is the vice president of Columbia and the secretary of tourism of Mexico. We will also receive tomorrow a delegation of U.S. mayors from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Madam Secretary, your team here in Shanghai, including all of the student ambassadors, are committed to using all of our creativity and energy to fully leverage this very unique public diplomacy opportunity. My deputy commissioner general, Tom Cooney, who is the chief public affairs officer at the consulate, in describing this opportunity has said that there will be more Chinese visiting our pavilion in just six months than the entire China mission will see in more than 20 years.
Madam Secretary, you will be pleased to know that my Chinese is now perfect. (Laughter.) Unfortunately, it is limited to about 10 words. My favorite phrase, however, is (in Chinese), meaning “Welcome, and enjoy this show.” I look forward to saying that to you when you visit in a few weeks and to all of you who will be coming to Shanghai for World Expo. On behalf of all of us here in Shanghai, thank you for including us in this celebration.
We now have a special guest joining us live from the Expo opening ceremonies. I think we have Ambassador Jon Huntsman.
AMBASSADOR HUNTSMAN: Jose, I am here. And all I can say is that your Chinese seems to be getting better with each passing week, my friend. Thank you for your excellent work. We appreciate it so very much.
To Secretary Clinton and all of our friends there, I’m coming to you live from the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai. We’ve just had one of the most extraordinary fireworks displays and opening ceremonies I think you could ever imagine, and all you have to do is think back to the opening of the Beijing Olympics, and it was about on that same scale.
Let me just say all of the thanks have been made, appropriately so. And all I want to do is to say that eight months ago when I started this most remarkable job, there wasn’t a strong sense that we would get to the finish line. And there was one person who really did push things along in a way that brought all of the pieces together, generated the enthusiasm, got (inaudible) raised and ultimately brought us to where we are today, and that is you, Secretary Clinton. And I just want to thank you because this is such a huge boost for the bilateral relationship.
We’re moving in a very helpful direction. It was so nice to hear from DCM (inaudible), and I want to thank him and all of his colleagues as well. We’re working through a lot of very important bilateral issues, and the fact that we can all take a moment and gather here under the banner of the Expo is just a remarkable thing.
Tomorrow morning, we will have the great opportunity, along with Jose and Consul General Bea Camp, of opening our doors to the people of China. And what is unique about this is we will be building, I think, a very lasting and durable bridge across the Pacific. We’ll have millions of young people who will be streaming through our pavilion, and many of them for the first time exposed to who we are in the United States. They will be able to better understand and better appreciate some of our finest traditions, and we’re looking forward to greeting them and to playing host to them over the next six months. And I can tell you, when all is said and done, when all 70 million or so people have been through the Expo and a good number of them exposed to the U.S. Pavilion, I think our bilateral relationship will be reaching a high point for the year. And it makes me, as the United States representative here, extremely proud.
So thank you, Secretary Clinton. Thank you, Jose. Thanks to one and all: our sponsors, our volunteers, people who have worked so tirelessly the last many, many months. It’s a thrill to be here in China right now and to see this relationship come to life in large part because of your work. Thank you all so very much. (Applause.)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you so much, Ambassador. And thank you for the extraordinary job you’re doing representing the United States in China.
Well, we heard from the Ambassador. We heard from the Commissioner. And then starting tomorrow, we’re going to hear from the millions of visitors who come to the Pavilion. And I hope that many of you in this room get a chance to visit in the next six months. I will be going to the Pavilion when I go to China for the second of our strategic and economic dialogues, and I just really believe that the people-to-people connections that we are trying to promote are the base of a long-lasting relationship.
So thanks to everyone who has been part of what is an extraordinary effort. And I hope that you know how grateful we are here at the State Department that you played a role in enabling this remarkable effort to reach fruition. This is an exciting time and I hope all of you in Shanghai will enjoy every minute of it. I guess it’s about 10:30 at night there, and I thank you for being part of our ceremony here today. And I’m looking forward to seeing all of you when I get to Shanghai. Thank you very, very much. (Applause.)
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SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON: Daily Appointments Schedule for April 30, 2010
Daily Appointments Schedule for April 30, 2010
SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON
10:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton celebrates the Opening of the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo at a Reception Hosted by the Office for Global Partnership Initiatives, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Secretary Clinton holds a Bilateral Meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al Sabah, at the Department of State.
(JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APPROXIMATELY 11:05 A.M.)
1:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton holds a Bilateral Meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, at the Department of State.
(CAMERA SPRAY PRECEDING BILATERAL MEETING)
2:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Afghan Presidential Advisor Ashraf Ghani, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton officiates at the 152nd Foreign Service Officer Orientation Class Swearing-In Ceremony, at the Department of State.
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Video & Text: Secretary Clinton's Remarks At the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner
Remarks At the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner
Grand Hyatt Hotel
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all. Well, it is wonderful to be back here at the American Jewish Committee and I thank David for that introduction. What he was really trying to say was that it was very dull in Chappaqua before we came to town. (Laughter.) David is an extraordinary leader. He inspires your confidence and your trust and your affection, and I thank him for his decades of service to this important work.
I also want to thank Richard Sideman, Bob Elman, all the leaders and staff and members who make the American Jewish Committee a force for peace and progress here at home and around the world. And I am delighted – (applause) – yes, give yourselves a round of applause. (Applause.)
I am delighted to be here with three of my colleagues and three of my friends. Many of you know one or more of them, but it is a pleasure to be appearing before you with Minister Verhagen from the Netherlands, someone whom I have worked closely with over the last 15 months; Miguel Angel Moratinos, the very experienced foreign minister of Spain and someone who is just absolutely tireless in his efforts on behalf of his country and now as the holder of the presidency of the European Union as well; and my longtime friend Ehud Barak, who has had nearly as many incarnations in public service as I have. (Laughter and applause.) Ehud and I had a wonderful meeting the other day here in Washington and covered a lot of ground. And as friends do, much was said and much didn’t need to be said. So I’m delighted that he is here with us as well.
This organization for more than a century has been a voice for the aspirations of the Jewish people for a secure and democratic homeland. We saw the pictures flashing before us on the screen – the faces of those who have made Israel their home and those who have made America our home. You have fought for the core values that make this country great –equality and religious freedom, civil rights and women’s rights, a freer, fairer nation in which every child has the opportunity to live up to his or her God-given potential.
So let me first thank you, thank all of you, for everything you do on behalf of the United States of America and our ideals and values. Because at the core, our relationship with Israel is premised on those values. (Applause.)
There are so many ways that the American Jewish Committee has advanced and spoken to the enduring bond between the United States and Israel. AJC recognizes that we are two nations woven together with our stories, our stories of struggle and triumph, of hope and disappointment. We are beacons for pilgrims and people yearning to be free. We are lands built by immigrants and exiles, given life by democratic principles, and sustained by the service and sacrifice of generations of patriots. We have seen our cities and our citizens targeted by terrorists. And Americans and Israelis alike have met these threats with unyielding resolve.
For all of our similarities, though, we know that Israel faces unique challenges. A nation forced to defend itself at every turn, living under existential threat for decades. We Americans may never fully understand the implications of this history on the daily lives of Israelis – the worry that a mother feels watching a child board a school bus or a child watching a parent go off to work. But we know deep in our souls that we have an unshakable bond and we will always stand not just with the Government of Israel but with the people of Israel. (Applause.)
Since our first day in office, the Obama Administration has made the pursuit of peace and secure and recognized borders for Israel a priority because that is, we believe, the best way to safeguard Israel’s long-term future as a democratic Jewish state. (Applause.) As President Obama has said, a strong and secure Israel – and an Israel at peace with its neighbors – is critical not only to the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, but vital to our own strategic interests.
That is why the United States is fighting against anti-Semitism in international institutions – our special envoy for anti-Semitism is traveling the world as we speak, raising the issue at the highest levels of countries from one end of the world to the next. It is why we led the boycott of the Durban Conference. (Applause.) It is why we repeatedly and vigorously voted against and spoke out against the Goldstone Report. (Applause.) And it is why we have worked to ensure Israel’s qualitative military edge, providing nearly $3 billion in annual military assistance. When I became Secretary of State, I asked my longtime defense and foreign policy advisor from my years in the Senate, Andrew Shapiro, to personally manage our defense consultations with Israel. And today, I am proud to say our partnership is broader, deeper, and more intense than ever before. (Applause.)
So our commitment to, and our belief in and our interest in, a strong and secure Israel is also why the President and I asked Senator George Mitchell to serve as our Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. He is working toward the goal of restarting good-faith negotiations between the parties and moving toward an outcome of two states, living side by side in peace and security, with a comprehensive regional peace that brings an end to the conflict between Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon, and normal relations between Israel and all the Arab states. (Applause.)
President Obama noted recently that there has been some of what he called “noise and distortion” about this Administration’s approach in the Middle East. Over the past month, we have attempted to remove any ambiguity. The President and this Administration have repeatedly reaffirmed our commitment to Israel’s security in word and in deed.
And last month at AIPAC’s national conference, I spoke about the challenge that continuing conflict poses to Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state. How dynamics of ideology, technology, and demography make the status quo unsustainable for the long term and make the pursuit of peace a necessity. And two weeks ago at the Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, I highlighted the urgency of the struggle between those in the region, especially in the Palestinian territories, who seek peace and progress and those who seek to perpetuate conflict.
Well, tonight I want to focus on the regional threats to Israel’s security and the imperative of reaching a comprehensive regional peace that will help defuse those threats. Because without a comprehensive regional peace, the Middle East will never unlock its full potential, and Israel will never be truly secure. Pursuing peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and Israel and its neighbors can be a mutually reinforcing process, and today it is more essential than ever to make progress on all tracks.
Israel is confronting some of the toughest challenges in her history, in a region where too many still reject Israel’s right to exist.
Israelis have always guarded their borders vigilantly. But because of the ever-evolving technology of war, Israeli families now face dangers from far beyond their borders. Hamas and Hezbollah continue to trumpet the false and intolerable claim that a Palestinian state can somehow be achieved someday through violence. They have stockpiled tens of thousands of increasingly sophisticated rockets in Gaza and southern Lebanon – rockets they aim at Israeli homes and civilians. Now Hamas has circulated a hateful video mocking the family of Gilad Shalit. It is cruel and it is an outrage. And in the face of this inhumanity, we say again, as we have many times before: Gilad Shalit must be released immediately and returned to his family. (Applause.)
We have spoken out forcefully about the grave dangers of Syria's transfer of weapons to Hezbollah. We condemn this in the strongest possible terms and have expressed our concerns directly to the Syrian Government. Transferring weapons to these terrorists – especially longer-range missiles – would pose a serious threat to the security of Israel. It would have a profoundly destabilizing effect on the region. And it would absolutely violate UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which bans the unauthorized importation of any weapons into Lebanon.
We do not accept such provocative and destabilizing behavior – nor should the international community. President Assad is making decisions that could mean war or peace for the region. We know he's hearing from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. It is crucial that he also hear directly from us, so that the potential consequences of his actions are clear. That’s why we are sending an ambassador back to Syria. There should be no mistake, either in Damascus or anywhere else: The United States is not reengaging with Syria as a reward or a concession. Engagement is a tool that can give us added leverage and insight, and a greater ability to convey strong and unmistakably clear messages aimed at Syria’s leadership. (Applause.)
Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, also continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism against many. The United States has worked with the international community to present the leaders in Tehran with a clear choice: Uphold your international obligations and reap the benefits of normal relations, or face increased isolation and painful consequences. At every turn, Iran has met our outstretched hand with a clenched fist. But our engagement has helped build a growing global consensus on the need to pressure Iran’s leaders to change course. We are now working with our partners at the United Nations to craft tough new sanctions. The United States is committed to pursuing this diplomatic path. But we will not compromise our commitment to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. (Applause.)
So these threats to Israel’s security are real, they are growing, and they must be addressed. And we are working closely with our Israeli partners to do so.
The United States continues to support the development of Israeli air and missile defense systems, including the Arrow Weapon System for long-range ballistic missile threats and David’s Sling for short-range ballistic missiles. We first deployed Patriots to Israel during the Gulf War. And today we are working with Israel to upgrade its Patriots. We have also deployed an advanced radar system to provide early warning of incoming missiles. The Obama Administration is committed to ensuring that Israel has all of the tools it needs to protect and defend itself.
I have spoken with families whose homes are threatened by rockets. People who live according to the wail of bomb alerts and sirens. I have met with the victims of terrorism. In their hospital rooms I’ve held their hands, I’ve listened to the doctors describe the shrapnel lodged in a leg, an arm, or a head. Guaranteeing Israel’s security is more than a policy position for me; it is a personal commitment. (Applause.)
I know you share this commitment. You feel it at your core. And all of us who are dedicated to Israel’s future must recognize that a comprehensive regional peace that isolates the terrorists, ends the conflicts with Israel’s neighbors, brings normal relations with all the Arab states is far better than any missile shield or defensive battery.
Regional peace must begin with the recognition by every party that the United States will always stand behind Israel’s security and, as President Obama put it recently, “no wedge will be driven between us. Now, we will have our differences, but when we do, we will work to resolve them as close allies.” (Applause.) Israel’s right to exist, and to defend itself, is not negotiable. (Applause.) And no lasting peace will be possible unless that fact is accepted.
But similarly, Palestinians must have a state of their own. They must be able to travel, conduct business, govern themselves, and enjoy the dignity of a sovereign people. (Applause.) There can be no equivocating on this either.
And the only way to achieve a two-state solution is through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. So we will do everything we can to support such negotiations. We are literally working around the clock to move forward with proximity talks, which we hope then will set the stage for a resumption of direct negotiations on all permanent status issues as soon as possible.
We believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can agree to an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the ‘67 lines, with agreed swaps, and Israel’s goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israel’s security requirements. (Applause.)
The United States recognizes that Jerusalem is a deeply, profoundly, important issue for Israelis and Palestinians, for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. And we believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can agree on an outcome that realizes the aspirations of both parties for Jerusalem and safeguards its status for people around the world.
Now, simultaneously moving toward a broader regional peace will help set the conditions for that outcome. As I’ve said, these are mutually reinforcing tracks.
But this will not be easy – and I recognize the frustration after years of false starts and failed hopes. But peace is possible. Think back. In 1978, after years of conflict, Egypt and Israel put away their guns and they made a peace that has stood the test of time. And in 1994, I watched as King Hussein of Jordan and Prime Minister Rabin of Israel signed a treaty in the desert that effectively ended decades of war.
These were clear-eyed, realistic, hard-headed leaders who recognized that war would not serve their nations’ long-term interests and brought their people along. As Yitzhak Rabin said on that blistering hot afternoon, “Leaders should clear the path, should show the way, but the road itself must be paved by both peoples.” The peace they made that day has held. As has the peace of Sadat and Begin. Israel, Egypt, and Jordan are all better off – and the goal of a comprehensive peace more likely as a result.
For the Arab states, pursuing peace with Israel is the best way to help achieve the goal of an independent Palestinian state. For everyone who proclaims their support of the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, who cares more about the results than the rhetoric, there is no other path.
Around the world, people who have never been to Israel and never met a Palestinian are waiting for an end to the conflict in the Middle East. When I traveled the world as a First Lady, in a time of hope for the peace process, it was rare to hear people in places far from the region even mention the issue. But now, I have to tell you, wherever I go, it invariably is the first, second, or third concern on every agenda. And in every country, my answer is the same: Become part of the solution. Support the peacemakers and condemn the rejectionists. Invest with those who seek to build credible institutions and find common ground. Close your doors to those who traffic in violence and hate. All of us who care about the future have a responsibility to help shape it. (Applause.)
Because as Yitzhak Rabin said, ultimately, the leaders and the people of the region must provide the vision for peace and the will to realize it. The Arab Peace Initiative offers such a vision, a vision of a better future for all of the people of the Middle East. It rests on the bargain that peace between the Israelis and Palestinians will bring recognition and normalization from the Arab states. It is time to advance this proposal with actions, not just words.
We do not expect the Arab states to move forward in a vacuum. Israel must do its part by respecting the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, stopping settlement activity, addressing the humanitarian needs in Gaza, and supporting the institution-building efforts of the Palestinian Authority.
And Palestinians must continue their efforts to take responsibility and accountability for security in the West Bank. They must be vigilant in their work to stop incitement and prevent violence and terror. And they must press forward with the institutional and economic reforms under President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad’s leadership, which we support.
And both sides should refrain from unilateral statements and actions that could undermine trust or prejudge – or appear to prejudge – the outcome of negotiations.
So we will continue to emphasize the responsibilities of Israelis and Palestinians, who must ultimately themselves negotiate a two-state solution. But there are also clear expectations of the Arab states. They have an interest in a stable and secure region. And they should take steps that show Israelis, Palestinians, and their own people that peace is possible and there will be tangible benefits if it is achieved.
First, all states must stop supplying weapons to terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. (Applause.) Every rocket smuggled into southern Lebanon or Gaza sets back the cause of peace.
Second, the Arab states can and should continue to provide President Abbas with the support he needs to negotiate in good faith with Israel.
Third, they could do more to support the Palestinian Authority budget and its two-year development plan. The long-term success of President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad’s efforts to build the institutions of a future Palestinian state depend on a larger, steadier, and more predictable source of financial support from the international community. The United States has done our part – (applause). We have become the Palestinian Authority’s largest bilateral donor, and Europe also has stepped up to help. Arab states need to share a greater portion of these responsibilities. (Applause.) The two-year plan to build a Palestinian state that provides security, good governance, and economic opportunities is an essential investment in the future and a necessary foundation for peace and security.
Fourth, as negotiations proceed between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and mutual confidence increases, Arab states should reach out to the Israeli public, demonstrating that Israel’s isolation in the region is ending, and all states should resume multilateral discussions on critical regional issues. We would hope to see such concrete steps like the opening or reopening of commercial trade offices and interest sections, overflight rights, postal routes, and more people-to-people exchanges that build trust at the grassroots level. All the people of the region need concrete evidence of the benefits that peace will bring.
Because there are benefits. One durable multilateral partnership that grew out of the Oslo years is the Middle East Desalination Research Center. It brings together Arab states, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel to develop practical solutions to regional water challenges. Together, they are exploring new, greener production methods, including solar desalination, and working to reduce costs so more people across the region have access to fresh water. The United States and a number of our international partners are proud that we helped launch this project, and we appreciate the partnership of the American Jewish Committee in this effort. (Applause.) I understand that the director and deputy director of the Center are both here with us tonight. This project is an example of the shared dividends that cooperation can yield. It is proof that Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs can put aside differences and work together.
Nearly a year ago in Cairo, President Obama called for a new spirit of partnership in the region and beyond, with broader engagement on education, economic development, health, science and technology. This week in Washington, the Administration hosted entrepreneurs, investors, civil society leaders and academics from more than 50 nations for a summit geared toward building those new partnerships.
Peace, both between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and her neighbors, will take us one step closer to fulfilling that vision. It will open so many new avenues of cooperation, from conserving scarce natural resources to promoting broad-based and sustainable economic development to preventing the looming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. There are so many common challenges and common interests that the people of this region share.
And perhaps most of all, the people deserve an end to the culture of fear and hostility that has dominated their lives for decades. Israelis deserve to live in a secure and democratic Jewish state. Palestinians deserve a state to call their own, with dignity and opportunity. A two-state solution coupled with a regional peace promises a future of prosperity. The status quo promises only more violence and failed aspirations.
The Obama Administration will continue making this case forcefully and frequently. We know we cannot and will not impose a solution. It is up to the parties themselves. (Applause.) They must negotiate, compromise, and ultimately resolve this conflict. (Applause.) That is the only path that leads to security and prosperity. But the United States is committed to being an active partner for peace every step of the way.
The American Jewish Committee has been such a partner for so many years, and I thank you for that. And I want you to know that we will be with you, those Americans and Israelis who believe in this future that I have described. And may God bless you, may God bless Israel, and may God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
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Photos: Hillary Clinton Before American Jewish Committee Speech Tonight
I do not have any text yet, or even pictures of her speaking. But she was introduced by her Dutch counterpart, Foreign Minister Verhagen and her Spanish counterpart, Foreign Minister Moratinos, along with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. I thought I would share these pictures because if you begin with the earliest post of the Dorothy Height Funeral and end here I do not believe I have ever seen anybody hug and be hugged and kiss and be kissed so much in one day.
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Dorothy Height Funeral Photos
Most of these were not taken during the service which was not photographed, apparently. That is Maya Angelou in the wheelchair beside the casket. The white-haired guy kissing Hillary is her HUGE FAN Orrin Hatch who tried single-handedly to nominate her to SCOTUS.
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Video: Secretary Clinton's Remarks With Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski **UPDATED**Photos**
I fully expected to find that State.gov had posted a video of Secretary Clinton's remarks last night at the memorial for Dorothy Height, but there is none there. I did find this from her bilateral with Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski. She is beautiful, glowing, brilliant, and kind. She is sought after by leaders the world over which explains her exhausting travel schedule since she feels the duty to GO and talk with them for us.
So, having cooled off about the news, I am not going to give Time Magazine a link or traffic for having ignored in their "Most Influential" issue our Secretary of State, the most influential woman on this planet. Oh, except to ask her to write the blurb for Nancy Pelosi whom they DID list. Hillary Clinton was characteristically gracious and honored the request. I find that request from Time rather crass, since many of us voted for our SOS in that poll. I also find it misleading to call it a poll since the woman who made the picks was on The Today Show this morning and explained how she picked the 100. If I say any more I will say too much.
*zips mouth/duct tapes fingers/clicks to post*
Remarks With Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski
Remarks With Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski After Their Meeting
Treaty Room
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am very pleased to welcome someone who has become a friend and is a very valued colleague to the State Department. Foreign Minister Sikorski is a very eloquent advocate for the interests and values not only of Poland and not only of Europe, but more generally of universal values, and in particular the value of democracy.
Poland has been in the thoughts and prayers of all Americans in the wake of such a tragedy that took the lives of the president, the first lady, and many distinguished citizens. And I know how deeply President Obama regretted not being able to attend the funeral. And I would like once again to offer my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to all the people of Poland. Poland’s sorrow is great – we saw the Polish Embassy here in Washington covered with flowers and candles left in remembrance – and I was honored to represent our government and our country in going to the Embassy and meeting with the ambassador and expressing directly our deep sorrow. But the Polish people have responded with resilience and determination once again, in a history that has often called on them to do so, and we express not only our sympathy but our admiration.
Next week, Poland will celebrate the 219th anniversary of its first constitution – the first in Europe, actually. And that is yet another opportunity to honor our shared democratic values and aspirations, our common commitment to freedom, human rights and the rule of law, and to reaffirm our faith in Poland’s very bright future.
The United States is proud to call Poland one of our closest friends and allies. As a member of NATO, our commitment to Poland’s security is absolute and rock solid.
We deeply appreciate Poland’s contributions to the NATO mission in Afghanistan and we mourn with Poland the sacrifice of its soldiers and salute their service. We particularly welcome the recent decision to deploy 600 more Polish troops to serve side by side with U.S. forces in the effort to combat violent extremism and support the people of Afghanistan as they build a more peaceful and prosperous future.
Today, the minister and I confirmed that we are renewing our Strategic Dialogue. Through this forum, we will collaborate on important issues such as political and economic stability in Poland’s eastern neighborhood, NATO’s strategic concept, missile defense, economic and investment opportunities, and energy security.
The relationship that we have is already very deep and broad, but we believe we can achieve additional concrete progress. And today was just the beginning. Our Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Assistant Secretary Phil Gordon, and the Polish Under Secretary of State will combine to drive this process forward together.
So let me again thank the Minister for this visit, for his friendship, and for our partnership.
FOREIGN MINISTER SIKORSKI: Thank you, Hillary. And I would like to thank you personally, the President of the United States, and the American people for the many expressions of condolences and of support in this testing time. Poland responded emotionally when you had your tragedy on 9/11 and we felt that you felt our pain when we lost so many good people two weeks ago. But as you say, Polish democracy is strong, our constitution has stood the test, and Poland remains a predictable and solid member of NATO, the European Union, and Community of Democracies.
I am delighted that we’ve re-launched the Strategic Dialogue between our countries. We have recently signed and ratified the Status of Forces Agreement, which means that we can proceed on the practical implementation of the political declaration that binds us together, and on the newly proposed MD agreement.
I am delighted that in addition to the strong security relationship between Poland and the United States, we will be working together on promoting democracy worldwide. And I am delighted that you have accepted my invitation to come to Poland both on a bilateral basis and as a member of the distinguished group of ministers from leading democracies who will meet in Krakow from the 2nd to the 4th of July of this year to re-launch the Community of Democracies, something that was set up 10 years ago by our predecessors, Madeleine Albright and Bronisław Geremek. In those days, it was fashionable to talk about the end of history, because it seemed like democratic capitalism was the only game in town. Well, we feel that our commitment to democratic free market now needs to be reconfirmed, because there are, unfortunately, attractive alternatives. And that’s why we are convening the meeting of the Community of Democracies, and I’m very glad that you will be there.
And thirdly, we have had a meeting at the political level of our people working on issues to do with energy, both nuclear energy and prospecting for gas and for other forms of energy. This could be a vital Polish-American project and I’d like to confirm, on behalf of the Polish Government, that we support American companies that are exploring in Poland. And we hope that if they strike it lucky, that this will enhance Poland’s, Europe’s energy security and forge new investment links between Poland and the United States.
I was also very glad to be able to meet General Jim Jones yesterday and this morning, Secretary of Defense Gates. And we’re grateful for his confirmation that the United States will materially appreciate our participation in the Afghan mission by supplying to us additional 24 mine resistance – mine-resistant vehicles, which of course will help to protect the lives of Polish soldiers. We are there as part of the NATO mission. We’ve gone in together and we will also leave Afghanistan together.
MR. CROWLEY: We have time for one question on each side. We’ll start with Courtney Kube from NBC.
QUESTION: Thank you. Madam Secretary, if I could just ask you, earlier this week, the Mexican Government issued a travel warning, warning its citizens against traveling to the U.S. because of the new Arizona immigration legislation. What’s your reaction to the travel warning? Have you had any direct talks with any of your Mexican officials on this? Have they expressed concern? And then – and has this hurt the overall U.S. and Mexico relationship?
And then if I could ask a quick one on Iran since we only have one question? (Laughter.) President Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to travel to New York next week. Are you concerned at all that his presence at the conference will distract from the overall message or take away from your goals there?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, first, let me say that we are always in consultation on a broad range of matters with our Mexican counterparts. We are looking forward to President Calderon’s visit in just about three weeks here to Washington, a state visit that will mean a great deal not only to this Administration, but to the millions of Mexican Americans who enrich the culture, the economy, and the future of the United States.
There are a number of issues to discuss. It’s not a surprise that the Mexican Government has registered its very strong concern about the legislation passed across their border in Arizona, but so has President Obama and others. So we will be working to understand and try to mitigate the concerns on that and other issues with the Mexicans. We are deeply committed to supporting President Calderon in his courageous fight against the drug trafficking, crime, and gangs that have stalked Mexico increasingly along the border that we share. So there’s a lot to discuss and it will be a long agenda and a very comprehensive meeting when he arrives.
With respect to Iran, the purpose of the Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, which opens Monday at the United Nations, is to recommit nations to the principal pillars of the NPT regime – disarmament, nonproliferation, and the peaceful use of civilian nuclear energy. So the United States comes to this conference having demonstrated with our recent treaty signing between President Obama and Medvedev our commitment to further disarmament. We are also committed to nonproliferation, an issue that was at the core of the recent Nuclear Security Summit here in Washington. And we are discussing with many countries, including Poland, how to acquire and safeguard and utilize civilian nuclear energy.
That is the purpose of our going to New York. I don’t know what the purpose that Iran sees because their record of violations of the nonproliferation obligations that they assumed as a signatory to the NPT is absolutely indisputable. They have been subjected to critical reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency in recent months, laying out a very clear set of concerns and questions that the international community has about the program that they have pursued, including covert facilities like the one disclosed last fall at Qom. They are consistently violating United Nations security resolutions about their nuclear program.
So if President Ahmadinejad wants to come and announce that Iran will abide by their nonproliferation requirements under the NPT, that would be very good news indeed, and we would welcome that. But if he believes that by coming he can somehow divert attention from this very important global effort or cause confusion that might possibly throw into doubt what Iran has been up to, about which I don’t think there is any room for doubt, then I don’t believe he will have a particularly receptive audience.
We have seen in the last months growing awareness in the international community of nations that the path Iran is on poses a threat. And there is unanimity in our efforts to try to dissuade Iran. We are in the midst, as you know, of discussions with our partners at the United Nations on sanctions that could change the calculus of the Iranian leadership as to their pursuit of nuclear weapon development.
So we wait and see what he has to say. But the mission of those of us going to New York to review, revise, and reinvigorate the NPT regime is very clear. If that’s not his mission, then it won’t be a particularly useful or productive trip on his part.
MODERATOR: (Off-mike.)
QUESTION: Thank you very much. Madam Secretary, some experts and diplomats say that President Barack Obama turns his back on Europe and that European Union actually loses ground in Washington. What can be the reason for such comments that there is, you know, pressing – that there is no pressing issue going on between the European Union and the United States that it’s settling, or rather that being friendly with Europe doesn’t play well in American domestic politics? Thank you.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I have to just reject the premise of the question from the experts and the diplomats that you refer to, because I don’t think there’s any basis to it. The President has made very clear not only his personal but this Administration’s commitment to our relationship with Europe and our bilateral relationships with countries such as Poland.
In the first year of his Administration, he visited Europe several times. As you know, he had a number of meetings with European leaders and representatives in both bilateral and multilateral settings. He made his groundbreaking speech about nuclear nonproliferation and moving toward a world, eventually, of zero nuclear weapons in Prague, came back with Medvedev to sign that treaty. We have a very vigorous effort underway with the EU on energy independence – you heard Minister Sikorski reference that – because we believe that it’s in Europe’s interest, that we believe are also in the United States’ and the transatlantic alliance’s interest for Europe to develop greater energy security. We are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our NATO allies in Afghanistan. There’s a very long list.
And I think that when the President had dinner in Prague with the heads of state or government of, I think, 11 or 12 Central and Eastern European nations, it was another reaffirmation of our strong ties with Europe, our commitment to Europe’s security, and our very clear sense that the United States and Europe have to stand together in this community of democracies on behalf of shared values.
So having been involved in American politics for a very long time, I think I am on extremely safe ground in saying to you that there is absolutely no constituency in our country to lessen our relationship with Europe, that in fact there’s a great deal of pride that is felt by Americans who trace their ancestry back to Europe in the strong and unshakable bond of friendship and partnership that exists.
Here is their Joint Statement.
Joint Statement on the U.S. and Poland Bilateral Strategic Dialogue
Office of the Spokesman
The following is the text of a joint statement by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski on the occasion of the re-launch of our bilateral Strategic Dialogue.
Begin text:
Today the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Poland have agreed to re-launch our bilateral Strategic Dialogue, a forum for consultation and cooperation on global and regional issues of mutual interest to both our countries.
Poland and the United States are bound together by common values, rooted in the shared pursuit of individual freedom, democracy and human rights. Today we held wide-ranging discussions on issues of import to both our countries. We discussed ways in which the United States might cooperate with and support the European Union’s Eastern Partnership Initiative; our approaches to NATO’s evolving new Strategic Concept and the future development of Alliance missile defense capabilities, and acknowledged the importance of our common mission in Afghanistan.
We underlined the importance of the 10th anniversary of the Community of Democracies, marked this July by a conference in Krakow, Poland, which the Secretary will attend. In parallel with this meeting, top U.S. and Polish officials held productive discussions on energy security and science and technology cooperation, areas that will feature prominently in future sessions of the Strategic Dialogue. We agreed to continue high-level discussions on energy security. We look forward to continued consultations within the framework of the Strategic Dialogue.
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I cannot get enough of this picture!
8:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton calls Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.
10:00 a.m. Secretary Clinton attends the Funeral for Dr. Dorothy Height, at the Washington National Cathedral.
1:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton holds a Bilateral Meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, at the Department of State.
(JOINT PRESS AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APPROXIMATELY 2:05 P.M.)
3:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton attends a Meeting, at the White House.
(MEDIA TO BE DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
4:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with President Obama, at the White House.
6:00 p.m. Secretary Clinton hosts the Annual Reception for Donors to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, at the Department of State.
7:15 p.m. Secretary Clinton delivers Remarks at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Photo: Hillary Clinton at Dorothy Height Memorial
I think you will agree that this deserves a post of its own. When I find more, and especially if a video becomes available I will post separately, but I simply HAD to share this NOW! Totally Keatsian moment. She deserves an ode. How gorgeous is she? Comment in ode please, if you can.
AP Photo 6 hours ago Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a "Community Celebration of Life" memorial for civil rights matriarch Dorothy Height at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Washington, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Her funeral will be held Thursday at Washington National Cathedral. Height died April 20 at the age of 98.
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Remains of Hillary Clinton's Busy, Busy Day (Almost)
Every time I had a free few minutes, today, I posted what was popping up in the press releases, and the Secretary had had a very busy day already by the time I went to class. Well, I came home a little while ago to find these few items that she was doing while I was teaching, but these are not yet the end of her day since, while I was driving home, she was at her final event of the long day (and evening): The Dorothy Height Memorial. I have just this one photo from that and must share it immediately.
Here are a few events and an update on tomorrow.
Remarks With Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Canahuati Before Their Meeting
SECRETARY CLINTON: I want to welcome the foreign minister of Honduras here today. He’s been in Washington holding a series of meetings with a number of officials both from our government and others as well. And I’m looking forward to my conversation with him.
As I have said on numerous occasions, I think that the steps that President Lobo and his government have taken deserve our support, and we want to work with the government and the people of Honduras to get them back fully on the path of democracy, the rule of law, good governance. I had a long conversation a few weeks ago with President Lobo about his plans to try to improve the standard of living and the quality of life of the Honduran people, to deal with the drug trafficking and the crime that stalks all of Central America.
So, Minister, I appreciate your coming so that we can have an in-depth conversation about these and other issues.
FOREIGN MINISTER CANAHUATI: Thank you.
SECRETARY CLINTON: If you would like to say anything, you’re welcome to.
FOREIGN MINISTER CANAHUATI: Well, it’s a great honor to be here with you. Our relationship with the U.S. have been (inaudible) on values and respond to the needs of the people. I think this is not just an approach where we want to review our relationship as governments, but really evaluate what we’re doing for our people.
Democracy has to do with opportunities, with strong institutions, with respect of human rights. And in this moment, our president has shown his commitment on the political side to move forward with initiatives like the Truth Commission, appointing a minister of human rights, which will be his advisor in terms of making sure that this issue, which is a state issue, is being managed the right way.
And the main, important thing for him is how to respond to the needs of the people. He believes that we have to change our economy in terms of making it more inclusive. We cannot have strong democracies when people are not being – that don’t have the increase of – the spaces to have increase of opportunity and increase of income.
So those are the challenges that we have as a country, and no doubt, we’re here to combine or to share these principles with Madam Secretary and see how we can work together. We cannot improvise anymore. This is not a matter of what’s happening with the government, with the people who are governing the countries, but with the people that are suffering because of the lack of decisions and because of the lack of consciousness, that there is people suffering because we’re more in control or we’re more aware about the decision we have to make in the political level, but in terms of the decision we have to make to respond to the needs of the people.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you, sir.
FOREIGN MINISTER CANAHUATI: Thank you, Madam.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you all very much.
This has no video component.
Remarks to Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Staff Involved in Iran
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, first, this is really just a way of saying thank you. Thank you for the work you’re doing. It is such important work. We are incredibly grateful to you. And I am very convinced that it is vital to our national security and our foreign policy.
When we don’t have an embassy, we don’t have an ambassador, where normal diplomatic channels don’t exist for us, we do really rely on Washington and field staff to inform our policies, to try to dispel myths, but also to confirm concerns and information that can be of importance to us as we go forward.
As you well know, the Obama Administration and our country remain committed to broader engagement in the region. We made very specific offers to the Iranians, including outreach by the President himself directly to the Iranians. And unfortunately, we didn’t get much of a positive response, and that was a disappointment and it was discouraging because we wanted to try to give the leaders in Tehran a clear choice to uphold their international obligations, enjoy the benefits, therefore, of normal relations with the United States, or face increasing isolation and the consequences.
But at every turn, unfortunately, the Iranians have rejected our overtures and remain to this day in a rejectionist mindset. But the fact that we have reached out, often based on information and insights that you have brought our way, has given us much more credibility in our dealings internationally, and therefore, the ability to build an international consensus on the need to apply pressure to Iran’s leaders to change course.
As you know, we’re working very hard in the United Nations right now with the members of the Security Council and particularly the P-5+1 to develop a resolution that would help really put that international pressure into action. We’re not targeting the people of Iran, but we are trying to focus on changing the calculation on the part of the leaders as to what is in their interests.
Now, our concern with Iran extends beyond our focus on their nuclear program. As you know, it also encompasses their grave human rights violations. And over the last year, as you have reported to us, so many Iranians have been subjected to arbitrary punishments, detention, brutalization by their own government. And we will continue speaking out about those abuses. When I leave here, I will be going to meet with the mothers of the three hikers who remain in prison. They’ve been given no notice of charges against them. They are, by every shred of evidence we have, three young people who were hiking in the Kurdish north of Iraq on a break from their studies and their work, and allegedly, crossed the border and were arrested.
So we are going to do all we can to try to get them released on humanitarian grounds. I know that when the international media turns to other stories, you remain focused on getting us the information we need to try to chart the best course forward with respect to Iran.
And we really need your continuing advice and your guidance. All of us understand the challenges of your jobs, and we really, really appreciate it.
Finally, (well not really, there will be more) there is this update about tomorrow.
Secretary Clinton to Deliver Remarks to the American Jewish Committee on April 29
Secretary Clinton will deliver remarks on the need to reach a comprehensive regional peace in the Middle East at the American Jewish Committee’s annual gala on April 29 at 7:20 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The Secretary’s speech will be her third in a series reaffirming the commitment of the United States to Israel’s security and making the case for peace. At AIPAC’s national conference on March 22, she spoke about the challenge that continuing conflict poses to Israel’s future, and how dynamics of ideology, technology and demography make the status quo unsustainable and the pursuit of peace a necessity. At the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace on April 15, she highlighted the urgency of the struggle between those in the region, especially in the Palestinian territories, who seek peace and progress and those who seek to perpetuate conflict.
Secretary Clinton will be introduced by American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen will also participate in the event.
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Secretary Clinton's Remarks With Tunisian Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane Before Their Meeting
Remarks With Tunisian Foreign Minister Kamel Morjane Before Their Meeting
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am pleased to welcome to the State Department Tunisia’s foreign minister. Minister Morjane is an experienced diplomat. He has a great deal of knowledge about the relationship between our two countries and the work and the role that Tunisia is playing not only in the region but more broadly. So we have a lot to talk about, and I am looking forward to our conversation.
FOREIGN MINISTER MORJANE: Thank you, Madam. Thank you, thank you. I must say that I am honored and pleased to be here, especially to meet with Her Excellency Mrs. Clinton. I think we all know the good relations which exist between our two countries for a long time. Some people are saying it go back to two centuries.
SECRETARY CLINTON: That’s right.
FOREIGN MINISTER MORJANE: And this is mainly for me a mission in order to see how we can reinforce this relation in all fields and in all domains, because we want this relation to be a strategic partnership between our two nations. I’m very pleased, Madam, and thank you for the invitation.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. My pleasure, Minister. Thank you all very much.
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Video: Secretary Clinton's Breakfast With Women Entrepreneurs
Remarks at Breakfast With Women Entrepreneurs Attending the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship
Melanne Verveer
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
AMBASSADOR VERVEER: Thank you all. It is now my distinct pleasure to welcome someone who truly understands the power of entrepreneurship, and particularly the potential of women-run small and medium-sized businesses to drive economic growth. She knows that when women progress, countries progress. In her travels around the world, she has gone out of her way to meet with women who are advancing their societies and growing their countries’ economies. She recognizes both the potential of women’s economic leadership and the obstacles that still stand in their paths.
And that is why she has been a champion of women’s access to credit, to markets, to communications technology, to training and mentoring and so much more, and has brought her considerable leadership here to projects at the State Department, many of them public-private partnerships, like MEPI’s programs to grow women’s business leadership in the MENA region; like the State Department FORTUNE Vital Voices Mentoring Program; like Pathways to Prosperity and other initiatives to tap women’s potential for trade, from the African Growth Opportunity Act to APEC. And yesterday, she launched the Partners for a New Beginning that taps into America’s private sector expertise to support our outreach to Muslim communities around the world. I’m sure you felt the depth of her commitment yesterday in her closing speech at the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit.
So please welcome the U.S. Secretary of State, a champion for social and economic entrepreneurs everywhere, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Applause.)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Well, it is such a pleasure to welcome you to the State Department, to have this opportunity to celebrate the contributions of women entrepreneurs around the world. The women in this room are proof that – if anyone still needed proof – that women are doers and achievers and thinkers and innovators, leaders, and problem-solvers. And we need each and every one of you to lend your entrepreneurial skill and energy to meeting the global challenges of this new century.
As I said yesterday, President Obama is committed to promoting entrepreneurship to help seed conditions for broader and deeper economic progress. And this week’s summit has focused on our efforts in Muslim majority countries. I know and you know that women are essential to this effort. There isn’t any way we can increase peace, prosperity, stability, and security throughout the world unless women are full partners – full partners in the home and the family, full partners in the community and the country and the world.
I believe so strongly that talent is universal, but opportunity is not. And what we’re doing is trying to pry open those doors of opportunity for more people to walk through – more people in Muslim majority countries and more women, specifically. Because the fact is that women still have a harder time accessing loans and equity capital investments. Women are still saddled with unfair and untrue assumptions that they are less capable of starting and running businesses. And these obstacles exist in the United States and they exist in every country in the world.
But we are determined to change that. Making women a focus of our foreign policy agenda here at the State Department comes naturally to me, but it’s not only the right thing to do; it is also the smart thing as well. Because as Melanne said, we believe that the evidence is overwhelming. We cannot expect countries to increase their economic standing in a sustainable way. We cannot expect there to be greater foundations built for security, democracy, opportunity, unless women are at the table.
Many of you are aware of and have participated in our partnerships, supporting the Middle East and North Africa Businesswomen’s Network. That has already helped 2,500 entrepreneurs and business and professional women in 12 countries develop their skills and talents not only in the business world, but beyond. Some women have even gone from business into politics and government, and we see that as all part of the same continuum. And it’s been a model of how public-private partnerships can tap into a reservoir of untapped potential, and that by creating networks of support, we can build locally driven and locally supported organizations that do bring about change. Now, MENA BWN has been so successful that it will launch in June as an independent, regional NGO. And just last week, Exxon Mobil agreed to make a $1.5 million, two-year investment supporting that effort. (Applause.)
And so this morning, I’m pleased to outline several new avenues we are pursuing to expand opportunities so more women can turn their entrepreneurial dreams and innovations into successful businesses that generate income for themselves and their families, create jobs, expand markets, and fuel progress in their communities.
I will never forget being in Nepal – and I was there with Melanne, who has been my partner throughout this last 18 years in all that we have done – and we were at a market display of women’s crafts. And there was a woman whose artistry in her fabric and tapestry was just so remarkable. And we began a conversation through an interpreter, as so many of these are, and I complimented her and she told me that she had been in purdah until relatively recently – had never left her home, had never been permitted when she had married, to go outside.
But then, her husband was injured and could no longer go out to work, and the family was in desperate straits. They lived, as was the tradition, with the husband’s family and the mother-in-law played the major role in the house. And they saw their income disappearing, they saw the food on their table becoming scarcer to feed the children in this extended family. And finally, this young woman I was speaking with got up the courage to say to her husband and to her mother-in-law, “Maybe I could sell what I make.” And finally, she was given permission to go out and do so. As a result of her talent and her skill, she now employed two other weavers and she now is sending her children to school and they had added onto their home. And so I said, “So what does your husband and your mother-in-law think now?” She said, “They think it’s good.” (Laughter.) (Applause.)
So here’s what we want to do that we hope will be good. First, through a program called Tech Women, we will enhance the technological capacity of women in seven Muslim majority countries, promising entrepreneurs in the tech field will be paired with American mentors and given four to six weeks of training in American tech centers such as Silicon Valley. (Applause.)
Second, we are working with Japan, the chair of APEC this year, to organize an APEC women’s entrepreneurship summit this fall in Japan, focusing on policy, human resources and financing issues. The aim is to galvanize the Asia-Pacific region to unleash the potential of women entrepreneurs and business leaders, and we’re very pleased that the 1,000 – the 10,000 Women’s Initiative, sponsored by Goldman Sachs, has agreed to be a sponsor of the summit. And we thank you so much for that. (Applause.)
Third, today we are launching the Secretary’s – that’s me – the Secretary’s – (laughter) –International Fund for Women and Girls. This public-private partnership will provide high-impact grants to NGOs working to advance the economic, social, and political progress of women. The women’s fund will bring together the resources and expertise of both the public and the private sectors to invest in effective and innovative solutions for issues like economic empowerment, climate change, combating violence against women, and improved access to education and healthcare. We know that everywhere in the world, on the ground, are groups of people who are taking these issues on. We want to be your partners and we want to help you learn what worked somewhere else.
I will never forget being in Managua, Nicaragua and there was a little television set in the corner of this market, and I was talking to women who were part of a microcredit organization. All they wanted to talk to me about was my visit to India, to the Self-Employed Women’s Association, which they had seen on their TV in Nicaragua, and they wanted to know what that was like.
A few months later, I was in Cape Town, South Africa with a group of women who were originally squatters and then became builders of their own communities, scraping together the money to buy the land, then to get the construction material, and they, too, wanted to know about the women that I had met elsewhere and what they could learn from them. We want not to reinvent the wheel every single time. If you’re facing obstacles, we want to help you overcome them. (Applause.)
And finally, I’m delighted to announce the creation of the Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Through this effort, we hope to build on pioneering approaches to empowering women politically, economically, and socially around the world. This award will be funded by the Rockefeller Foundation – we’re going to hear about it in a minute – and it reflects the State Department’s increased emphasis on public-private partnerships as a way to address cross-cutting global challenges, particularly those affecting women and girls.
Now, we hope to receive entries that describe how specific innovations have improved the lives of women and girls and proposals for how they can be scaled up and applied more broadly. These entries will be reviewed by an eminent panel of jurors, chaired by Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women Issues Melanne Verveer, and Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin. The panel will recommend the first two recipients of the award in 2010, both of whom will receive up to a $500,000 grant to fund their programs. (Applause.)
And there are so many ideas that can fit into this, ideas – I remember being in Senegal and going out into the country to see a new kind of well that made it possible for women to get water in their own village instead of having to walk for hours. We’re working on a cook stove project so that we can provide safe and effective cook stoves for women so they don’t have to travel for miles to get trees and branches and look for scrub to light their stoves to feed their families. We’re looking for ways to end domestic violence by making it clear that it is a crime, ways to partner to end FGM, which is a health hazard to women, especially young girls, but then later in their reproductive years.
We have so many ideas that are not just, well, have a woman run for office or have a woman run a business, but change the conditions in which women live, change the attitude about sending girls to school, provide a fund so that girls have access to clean restrooms, so that they continue to go to school at the end of primary school when it becomes more difficult for them to do so if there is no safe, clean restroom. There’s so many ways that we can empower women. So we want to unleash the entrepreneurial creative imagination of all of you to help us.
Now, it is a privilege to have Dr. Judith Rodin here with me to launch this project. Judith is a friend, an inspiration, and a leader in many fields. For many years, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she is leading the Rockefeller Foundation into new ways of finding innovative solutions to global problems. The foundation has always been at the forefront of efforts to combat disease, reduce poverty, improve housing, promote agricultural reform – they even spawned the so-called Green Revolution. Well, today, under Judith’s leadership, the foundation continues to pioneer new innovations for the challenges of our time.
And Judith, thank you so much for being our partner in this really important project. (Applause.)
MS. RODIN: Thank you so much, Secretary Clinton. Let me start by just saying how delighted the Rockefeller Foundation is to provide funding for this wonderful new award, the Secretary’s Innovation Award for Women and Girls’ Empowerment. And thank you, Secretary Clinton, Ambassador Verveer, for your long-term, longstanding leadership and, I must say, perseverance in keeping this issue at the forefront of public awareness.
I’d like to emphasize from our perspective why this and why now. Why is this particular approach so important, and why is now the right time to pursue it? The short answer is that in the experience of our colleagues at the Rockefeller Foundation, identifying innovation, scaling that innovation, and applying it to seemingly intractable problems, has been shown time and time again now to be hugely effective. And this approach is urgently needed with the focus on women’s empowerment because the gains we have made in this context – and you are all representatives of those gains – are not enough.
We all know the facts. Women still do two-thirds of the work in the world but only earn five percent of the income. They harvest 90 percent of the world’s food, yet they own only one percent of the world’s land. And women are three times as likely as men to work in informal economies. And therefore abuse and sex trafficking, and the absence of legal rights and protections for women are still unacceptably commonplace in so many places around the world. We must do more and we must do more with greater urgency to empower women. And we believe that a focus on scalable innovation can and will make a difference.
The Rockefeller Foundation is intently focused on leveraging and scaling local innovation to ensure that globalization’s benefits are more widely shared and that its burdens are more easily weathered to encourage more equitable growth and to strengthen resilience to risk. Now, leveraging innovation doesn’t only mean devising a great idea from the top down and pushing it down. In our experience, and I know in the experience of so many of you, scalable solutions are often found when we seek innovations where they occur, on the ground in local contexts.
Let me share one of my favorite examples of this approach to problem solving. Positive Deviance, one of our grantees, seeks out and identifies behaviors that enable outliers, or what they call positive deviants, to succeed where others have failed. Then they encourage the widespread adoption of these same behaviors. In Southeast Asia, for example, researchers at Positive Deviance visited a very impoverished Vietnamese village and they noticed that just a few children in this scattering of very poor families were in exceptionally good health. Upon closer examination, they discovered that in those households, the mothers didn’t wash away the shrimp and crabs found in the rice paddies before they cooked the rice. So they were adding, maybe unintentionally, protein to an otherwise carbohydrate diet. This technique, once unearthed, was promoted in one village and then spread to thousands. This is a small, user-driven innovation that really made an enormous difference on regional public health.
So we are looking for, encouraging, and scaling many types of innovations in a number of different contexts around the globe, and with great success in changing conditions that were previously thought to be intractable. That’s why we are so thrilled to be partnering with Secretary Clinton and the State Department to create this new mechanism to seek out and scale local innovations that are working. We’re going to identify and spread what’s working, bringing more attention and, as you heard, we hope a lot more money than we have been before. So these half a million dollar awards, which will go to two people, organizations, ideas that can be taken to scale a year, we think will call increasing attention and give increasing resources.
Many of these will, obviously, come from women. Women the world over, because of the challenges they confront, are instinctual innovators and they are energetic entrepreneurs. You know that; you are here in this room. Their drive and their ideas must be recognized and realized, but we must give you the resources to do this and take it to scale. I am confident that by the end of this year, when we announce our first two, and then in subsequent years we will be developing a cohort of ideas that go to scale and we will start to see a ripple across the world of innovation that promotes resilience, that advances opportunities for women and that empower women to shape their own future and the future of humanity.
We are very fortunate. We will add a few members to the jury, but we are already fortunate to be able to have helping us to make these awards Anne Mulcahy, Paul Farmer, Muhammad Yunus, Sheryl Sandberg, Cherie Blair, Beth Brooke, and Noeleen Heyzer. So we have a wonderful beginning panel and we intend to find all of the great ideas. We are so excited about this award and our partnership and about the hopeful future we can empower women around the world to build with our commitment and support, but most of all, most importantly, with their own ideas and their own innovation.
So thank you, Secretary Clinton, for being our partner. We really look forward to this exciting launch. Thank you. (Applause.)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, this project which we are so excited about is just one example of the ideas and the programs that we’ve announced over the last two days of the Entrepreneurship Summit. It’s what happens when we create networks and partnerships, when we share best practices and lessons learned, where we match the talents of people, particularly women, around the world with the opportunities that they can then seize for themselves.
So when you leave here today, I hope you will carry with you a renewed sense of possibility and a commitment to use your skill and energy to contribute to the growth and progress of your families, your communities, and your countries. Because I think – this is a biased statement, but (laughter) – I really believe that, together as women, we can and will help create a stronger, more stable, more secure, more prosperous, more peaceful world for ourselves and our children. Thank you all very much. (Applause.)
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Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Winter 2008-09
Averting a Crisis or Causing One?
Non Talbot Wels
In early December of 2008, the California State legislature passed a measure that would attempt to decrease the level of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Tied together with, and following California’s “landmark” Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the measure calls for a 15% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (1990 levels).
Among the codes outlined in the regulation are weatherization incentives to encourage people to insulate homes and upgrade to more energy efficient windows, along with new heating and cooling systems. It also includes a cap-and-trade program in which the state would set the amount of allowable greenhouse gas emissions for companies and utilities.
Supporters of this law argue that increased levels of greenhouse gases will lead to global warming, smog, reduced water supplies, floods, hurricanes, and various other environmental problems. Mary Nichols, head of California’s State Air Resources Board says that, by instituting this new regulation, “we are putting California on the right track to transform our economy in a way that is good for our environment, for our health, for our future.”
But will these environmental regulations really be as wonderful as their supporters claim? Before we all jump on the bandwagon, it is worth considering the impact that these measures will have on those living in California. Energy prices will certainly be higher, raising the cost of heating, cooling and electricity for both homes and businesses. The price of gasoline will go up due to the tighter transportation and fuel standards. The cost of construction will increase because of the new building codes prescribed under the regulation. And, entirely apart from these direct and obvious increases to the cost of living, Californians should expect everything from shoes to ships to sealing wax to increase in price. After all, every product requires energy to be produced. This would be tremendously destructive to California’s economy and its citizens’ standard of living.
Beyond its economic impact, this measure will interfere with the personal choices and freedoms that Californians—indeed, all Americans—enjoy on a daily basis. For example, because of the added energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, the impact of the regulation extends even into our restrooms—regulating the amount of water used for a shower or bath. It penetrates the walls of our homes, dictating whether or not insulation is needed. It peeks into our windows and prescribes the appropriate type of glass. In all kinds of ways, this law invades the private domain of Californians’ lives, telling them what they can and cannot do. Considering the enormous scale of this impingement on our personal freedom, it behooves us all to be certain that greenhouse gas emissions are in fact lethal, and that the evidence supporting government intervention is concrete and valid.
As far as supporters like Ms. Nichols see it, induced and compounded by our increasingly self-destructive, greedy and indulgent ways of living, we are heading down a dangerous path, and can only be saved by such regulations. But are we certain this view is correct? A 231-page report released in November of last year by a panel of over 650 reputable scientists disputes the claim that global warming is man-made. One of the dissenting scientists, Dr. Joanne Simpson (an atmospheric scientist) says: “The main basis of the claim that man’s release of greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate models. We all know the frailty of models concerning the air-surface system.” One of these models was the highly touted “hockey stick” model, which was used by the IPCC to argue that the 20th century was unusually warm. That has since been debunked as “beset with methodological errors,” as stated in Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate. Some scientists have even suggested that rising CO2 levels could actually result in lower temperatures (see “Greenhouse gases and greenhouse effect” recently published in the prestigious Environmental Geology.) And there are countless other examples of highly regarded scientists disputing the various claims of environmentalists. Clearly, the science of climate change is nowhere near settled.
Despite this uncertainty, one is constantly confronted with environmental doom mongering. Reminiscent of the ice age environmentalists were predicting in the 1970s that never was, environmental groups now insist on passing off global warming judgment-day conjecture as though it were fact. To those of us interested in looking before we leap, this whole mess in California would seem rather laughable were the consequences not so severe. Yet when our economic well-being and individual rights hang in the balance, the farce ceases to be humorous.
California’s greenhouse gas emissions measure tramples our inalienable rights and should be vigorously opposed by all freedom loving Americans. It has been enacted at the urging of environmentalists on the basis of undecided evidence, in order to avert a phenomenon that science is only just beginning to grasp. Such laws should be repealed immediately and should stay off the books unless there is a very compelling reason (based on objective evidence) to do otherwise.
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Abkhazia Tourism
Abkhazians (original name-Apsua) are ancient, indigenous population of the region, who lived here from III century BC.
In VI. BC large Hellenic fortresses Dioskuriada, Gienos, Pitiunt, which had close economic ties with Greece were founded here.
Abkhazia adopted Christianity in IV. BC. The most important center of Christianity was town of Pitiunt. Abkhazia was a part of almost all existing empires. The Abkhazian Kingdom was formed in VIII century. The statehood of Abkhazia is over 1200 years.
"Apsuara" is the whole principle of Abkaz people civilization. “Apsuara” is the historical form of the manifestation of national identity and self-assertion of the Abkhazians. It is an unwritten code of the traditional knowledge and values, which seized ideas and principles of local people.
Tales and legends of Abkhaz people express ancient ideas of world creation and the role of Gods. The Abkhazian Nart saga tells the life and exploits of hundred brothers` heroes- Narts and their mother Satanei-Guacha.
The Abkhazians as state forming ethnicity - are living on the territiry of modern Abkhazia for over 2500 years. The vast majority of Abkhazians are Christians, Muslims live together with them peacefully. A small part of the population preaches traditional Abkhaz religion. There is also Catholics. There are more than 25 nationalities coexist peacefully in Abkhazia.
The state language is Abkhazian. Russian is the language of state and other agencies and widely used or intercultural communication.
"Piece of heaven on earth" - so we call our country, which is situated on a unique place - in the subtropical zone, between the Great Caucasus Range and warm Black Sea.
The nature of Abkhazia is magnificent and diverse. Harmonious combination of the sea views, mountain cliffs, waterfalls, rivers, clear lakes, alpine meadows and relict forests, picturesque gorges, mysterious caves make the beauty of Abkhazia.
A stretch of only fifty kilometers wide between the shoreline and the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range encompasses all existing climactic zones, from rainforest to perennial snow and glaciers.
Nearly all of Abkhazia's territory is covered by tall mountain ranges. Greater Caucasus mountain range on Abkhazia's northwestern border, near the source of Auadhara River, rises 2500 meters above sea level, while on Abkhazia's eastern border, the altitude of the mountain ranges reaches 3500-4000 meters. The highest point in Abkhazia is Mount Dombai-Ulgen, reaching 4048 meters above sea level. Other impressive mountains in Abkhazia are Gvandra (3984 m), Ertsog (3909 m), Psysh (3790 m), Ptysh (3465 m), Agepsta (3256 m), and Khimsa (3032 m).
Abkhazia's part of the Black Sea coast is famous for its wide pebble and sand beaches and pure sea water. The coastline starches for 210 km. The composition of sea water is rich and diverse, containing approximately 60 various mineral salts, although the Black Sea water is half salty than Mediterranean. The Black Sea is home of approximately 250 species of seaweed, 180 species of fish, more than 200 species of crustaceans, several species of jellyfish, shrimps, crabs, and three dolphin species, a list that doesn't begin to sum up all of its animal and plant life.
There are approximately 120 rivers, 186 mountain lakes, and 170 mineral springs in Abkhazia. Despite its small size, all of the Abkhazia’s rivers, from source to mouth, together with their basins, are completely contained within the country. Exception is only two border rivers.
Rivers’ water is unusually bright and clear, what gives it spectacular beauty.
Snows melt partially, filling Abkhazia's river beds with many streams of the purest water.
The main electric energy producer in the country is The Ingur Hydroelectric Power Station which supplies all Abkhazia.
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1801 Son of Gates & Ruth Miller Miller, William Henry (I3313)
1802 Son of Jabez & Anna Green, age 1 yr 2 mos Green, Jabez (I3297)
1803 Son of M & E. Fuller, Charles Henry (I2411)
1804 Soon after the death of their children, [Joseph] sold his property in Amboy and located in Camden, purchasing the residence No. 157 Main street, in which he passed away. Stark, Deacon Joseph (I4148)
1805 Special Notice:
Having purchased the interest of Mr. Stedman, I will sell goods at Astonishingly Low prices for the next 30 days. My terms are strictly cash. Call and get prices and satisfy that I mean all I say. -- G.R. Hale Hale, George R. (I1352)
1806 Sponsors: Maretta Gardner and Charles Kathern. H.V. Gardener, Priest. Sherman, Lulu Bell (I467)
1807 Sponsors: Maretta Gardner and Charles Kathern. H.V. Gardener, Priest. Sherman, Charles Kathern (I468)
1808 SSN #093-05-7028 Tufts, Charles Leonard (I1664)
1809 Started a grist mill with his father, James Carroll which he conducted until his father's death in 1885, when he retired from active business. Carroll, Nehemiah A. (I2243)
1810 Stationed at Dodge City Air base. Morenus, Arthur Watson (I1456)
1811 Stationed in Coblenz, Germany. Senecal, Francis Alden (I1643)
1812 Stevens, William Jay, was born at Cleveland, Oswego county, June 12, 1840, son of Samuel H. and Susan K. (Wood) Stevens. The father was born in New England and died in Oneida county at the age of sixty-five years. The mother was born in England, but died in Oswego county, at the age of fifty-three years. They were the parents of twelve children, all deceased except William Jay. The grandfather. William B., was born in New England and died in Oswego county. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The father was a farmer, merchant, speculator, and captain in the artillery. Willian Jay was educated in Oneida county, and first taught school there. He studied law in Camden and Rome. He was made station agent for the R. W. &. O. R. R. at Sandy Creek Station, in January, 1863, where he continued for thirty years. He was freight and passenger agent, telegraph operator, express agent, yard master, etc., and until the consolidation, he also represented the Syracuse and Northern Railroad. In 1870 he opened a coal yard, which he has since
continued, and later adding agricultural implements, etc. He has held the offices of village trustee, village president, and was a member of the Board of Education for twelve years. July 9, 1863, he married Lydia, daughter of John H. and Clara (Stansel) Casler. The children were Maud, born September 18, 1868, who lives at home; and Etta, born July 27, 1864, and died September 29, 1865. Maud is a graduate of
the Sandy Creek High School. Mr. Stevens is a Mason, Knight Templar, 32d degree, and Mystic Shrine. Stevens, William Jay (I2878)
1813 Stinger-Senical - At the Catholic Church, Cleveland, on Christmas day, by Rev. J.B. Green, John Stinger and Miss Emma Senical, both of Cleveland. Family F449
1814 Stone has been drawn for the foundation of a new home for Gene Morenus. Morenus, Eugene (I2707)
1815 Studied law with D.L. Wilder and H.C. Landgraf before passing the bar in Rochester in 1879, at which time he began his own practice. Gallagher, James L. (I68)
1816 Sunday last was the 50th anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Marble, which was commemorated by those of the family who are home and a few friends. Mr. Marble was 73 years old last May, and Mrs. Marble 70 last February. Family F74
1817 Surviving are a son, Frank of Brewerton; a sister, Janette Dunnigan of Cleveland; and two grandchildren. Dunnigan, Florence Gazelle (I2722)
1818 Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Nuccio; three sons, David, Joseph and Salvatore, all of Cleveland; a daughter, Margaret Jolly of Cleveland; two brothers, Cornelius and Jack Flagler, both of Palm Bay, Fla.; two sisters, Louise deCarlo of Palm Bay, Fla. and Mae Lokar of Detroit; 14 grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and several nieces and nephews. Desjardins, Wilfred David (I4061)
1819 Survivors: His wife, the former Edna Dillenbeck; three daughters, Barbara Myers of Oneida, Dorothy Hall of California and Patricia Ottaway of North Syracuse; a son, Thomas of Verona; seven grandchildren. Myers, Stanley (I2716)
1820 T.D. Bly and Miss Carrie Landgraff have been engaged to teach our school another term. Landgraff, Caroline (I98)
1821 T.D. Bly and Miss Carrie Landgraff have been engaged to teach our school another term. Bly, Tracy D. (I1297)
1822 Tablets of the Missing Beebe, James H. (I2371)
1823 Taken from the diary of Mary Cramp:
"June 1837, Monday 5th. We were married by the Rev. Mr. McCarty at eight o'clock in the evening. Visitors present, Dr. and Mrs. Van Schaick, Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs, Miss Robertson, Miss Broadhead, Mrs. Andrew McCarty (Isaacs Isaacs groomsman) Mr. Casy, Mr. Perham, Mrs. Neil Major Cochran." Family F14
1824 Tallman, Tracy - At the house of B. Tracy, Dec. 24th, by the Rev. W.S. Titus, Daniel G. Tallman to Miss Etta Tracy, both of this place. Family F306
1825 Tasker, the iron man, was surprised and delighted by the arrival of a bouncing female cherub last Saturday. About 89 young ladies and young members of the opposite sex have already called to inspect the little beauty and Ed's cider. Tasker, Flavella (I1339)
1826 Terpenny boosts of the finest field of wheat along the Lake shore. Terpenny, David Duane (I345)
1827 The 1 Lake Street residence was the same house Thomas and Sarah Audis Cole had built, and after it was later lived in by the Dwyers. Cottet, Laurence D. (I133)
1828 The 1 Lake Street residence was the same house Thomas and Sarah Audis Cole had built, and after it was later lived in by the Dwyers. Morse, Esther M. (I140)
1829 The 10th anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morenus, last Saturday eve., was the occasion of a delightful surprise to them by their numerous friends. The gifts of tinware were numerous, and the event throughout was a decidedly enjoyable one to all. - Mr. and Mrs. M. desire to thank all who kindly remembered them with their presence as well as presents. Family F303
1830 The 1875 census indicates place of birth as being Herkimer County, yet the U.S. International Marriage records lists Eliza's place of birth as being in TN. Dillard, Elizabeth Portin (I702)
1831 The 1875 census indicates that the brick Birmingham house is valued at $2,000. Birmingham, Rev. Patrick Joseph (I339)
1832 The 1880 census has Lizzie's last name as Hastings, but there is no known connection at this point to indicate her husband's name. Redick, Lizzie (I528)
1833 The 1880 census indicates Eliza's birth place as being New York. Dillard, Elizabeth Portin (I702)
1834 The 1899 census indicated Adam was a glass worker although it doesn't indicate exactly where he was working. Leonard, Adam (I167)
1835 The 1905 passport application describes the description of Frank as "5'9.75", high and broad forehead, blue eyes, straight nose, straight mouth with full lips, short and dimpled chin, brownish grey hair, medium complexion and oval face." Soule, Frank Channing (I20)
1836 The 1910 census indicates that the house is currently being rented. App, George C. (I2)
1837 The 1912 marriage certificate indicates Bert's position as being "attendant at hospital". Watson, Bert Elam (I2909)
1838 The adjourned case of landlord Knights against Honicky Best, on a judge's order, came up again yesterday afternoon, before Referee Gallagher. On this occasion Best secured Attorney Landgraff as counsel. A lengthy examination took place, highly entertaining to the crowd, but considerably exasperating to counselor Wilder, who declares that he will have Honicky's 'carcass in jail'. It was again adjourned, until April 8th. Best, William H. (I1404)
1839 The arrival of an 8lb. female at Gene Morenus's, Monday afternoon has already cost our famous architect #3 for treats up at the factory store. Morenus, Eugenie Maria (I1464)
1840 The billiard proprietor does a flourishing business nights; four tables would scarcely supply the present demand. Morenus, Charles W. (I1200)
1841 The bride wore blue lace with silver accessories and carried sweetheart roses. Family F761
1842 The canal boat "Eva Belle," built by L.P. Marsden, was launched Saturday, and left here laden with lumber for Syracuse. She was manned by an able crew, including John Cody, captain; W>R. Wells and "Toot" Andrus, assistants. Marsden, Linus Parker (I3014)
1843 The co-partnership heretofore existing under the name of Duncan & Son is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Irvine Duncan will continue the business at the old place. All persons indebted to Duncan & Son are requested to call and settle by cash or note within thirty days with either S.P. or I. Duncan. --- Dated, Sept. 20th, 1877, S.P. Duncan, I. Duncan. Duncan, Seth P. (I440)
1844 The co-partnership heretofore existing under the name of Duncan & Son is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Irvine Duncan will continue the business at the old place. All persons indebted to Duncan & Son are requested to call and settle by cash or note within thirty days with either S.P. or I. Duncan. --- Dated, Sept. 20th, 1877, S.P. Duncan, I. Duncan. Duncan, Irvine (I52)
1845 The cobbling trade appeared to be booming yesterday, from the appearance of Silas Drum's establishment. During his absence at Oneida, about fifty pair of old boots and shoes were strung up on his door and windows, and many took occasion to walk up there and view the unusual sight. Drum, Silas (I723)
1846 The community mourns the loss of one of its best citizens in the death of Joseph Stark, who passed peacefully into rest Saturday evening at about 6 o'clock at his home on Main Street, death being due to a general breaking down of his system. He had been in poor health for over a year, although he continued to carry on his business affairs until May 12, since which time he had been confined to this home. Stark, Deacon Joseph (I4148)
1847 The couple were married by Methodist pastor, Rev. A.F. Permock. Family F452
1848 The death of Tommy Lane, Wednesday evening, removes from this place another of its oldest settlers. For a quarter of a century he had made Cleveland his home, living a life of usefulness and honor. Naturally rugged and possessed of remarkable strength and endurance, through troubled with lameness caused by an injury received in the English naval service, in his younger days he could and did do the work of two men: and in his declining years, under natural infirmities, labored hard and faithfully and uncomplainingly, day after day, up to within a short time of his death. Though not endowed with great intellectual gifts, his judgement was eagerly sought in many and various matters of importance, and in numerous instances has he rendered service, and such of it gratuitously. His many fine qualities endeared him to the whole community; and no deeper regret could be expressed for the most elevated and favored of our citizens than is manifested over the departure of this humble and worthy representative of honest toil. Lane, Thomas (I791)
1849 The father was born in New England and died in Oneida county at the age of sixty-five years. The mother was born in England, but died in Oswego county, at the age of fifty-three years. They were the parents of twelve children, all deceased except William Jay. Family F742
1850 The first business in Cleveland was the Eagle Tannery built in 1834 and owned by James Burke. William Foster was an Englishman who located in Cleveland and was a bookkeeper in the new tannery. Foster purchased the tannery upon the death of Mr. Burke and was succeeded by his son, William H. Foster.
He also carried on a store, along with Forris Farmer. The tannery was located just east of the NYS dock and Rt. 49.
The tannery provided much needed employment for the residents enhancing early growth and development. Foster, William H. (I41)
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My Hero Academia THE MOVIE's 2 Original Characters Revealed
The staff of the My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: The Two Heroes film has revealed two new characters that will appear in the film.
These two characters are Melissa played by Mirai Shida (The Wind Rises, 14-year-old Mother) and Devitt played by Katsuhisa Namase (Yatterman, Gamera 3: Iris Kakusei). Melissa is a quirkless girl whom Deku meets on I Island, while Devitt is her father and All Might's friend in his younger days. He's also a scientist who makes hero support items, and Melissa is working hard to follow in his footsteps.
The film will take place overseas on a giant manmade floating moveable city called I Island. As for its timeline, it takes place after the Final Exam Arc and during "another summer" during the Forest Training Arc. Lastly, the film will also feature All-Might's younger days.
Series creator Kohei Horikoshi is credited with the original work, character designs, and as chief supervisor. In addition, the staff of the TV anime series will return to work on the project as well and that includes director Kenji Nagasaki, scriptwriter Yousuke Kuroda, character designer Yoshihiko Umakoshi, and composer Yuuki Hayashi with studio BONES animating the project. The film is set for an August 3rd release with Toho distributing the film in Japanese theatres.
[Source: Anime News Network]
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"I take care of other people to an extreme - " -Sharon Stone
I'M NOT THERE: DVD
The stories of six central characters (plus a young Dylan), all of whom embody and are inspired by the life and work of Bob Dylan, play out separately, and, in different ways, intersect. For more than four decades, fans all over the world have searched for the man behind the myth and the music. During his restless career, Dylan produced over 40 albums and sold over 90 million copies but stayed notoriously private. Each day some 20,000 songs of his are downloaded legally around the world.
Review by Howie Green:
For the casual fan of the occasional Bob Dylan tune, Todd Haynes' new movie I'm Not There will be an incomprehensible and unwatchable mishmash. But, for those of us who are life-long rabid fans of dear Bob, the movie is a wholly original, off-the-wall, witty and genius bit of filmmaking. But it's too long. Clocking in at well over two hours in length, the film could easily lose half an hour without harming it in any way.
The premise is that the movie is a biography of Dylan inspired by the music and many public personas that Dylan had created in his long and varied career. The film presents different phases of Dylan's life. In each, he is played by a different actor - each called by a different name, none of them Bob Dylan:
�The Young Romantic Boy Dylan (1959-61, played by Marcus Carl Franklin)
�The Prophet Dylan (1962-64, Christian Bale)
�The Enigma Dylan (1965, Ben Whishaw)
�The Innovator Dylan (1966, Cate Blanchett)
�The Restless Lover Dylan (1964-73, Heath Ledger)
�The Spiritualist Dylan (1979-81, Bale again),
�The Lone Gun Dylan (1976 - current, Richard Gere), or "Billy" (a nod to one of Dylan's few acting roles, in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
Without a predictable narrative storyline, the movie cuts back and forth between these characters and, due to it's extreme length, often loses it's way and confuses just exactly who we're watching and at what point in time. For anyone familiar with the ins and outs of Dylan's career, the film includes all the high points and some of the low ones as metaphors and allegories. Director Haynes is too perverse to present anything directly, so Dylan's film roles, album cover images and the many performer masks he wore on stage are all integrated into the film as background, foreground and set pieces. The movie is often spellbinding and visually inventive and Cate Blanchett is simply mind-boggling as Jude. Most of the soundtrack of Dylan songs are performed by the actors and other contributing artists with actual recordings of Dylan singing his songs woven throughout the movie (though the two-disc soundtrack is nearly all covers).
This film is unique because it's the first where Dylan has given his permission for his likeness and music to be used, unlike in the recent Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl, with the Dylan role played beautifully by Hayden Christiansen, but Dylan's name is never used because he reportedly was unhappy about how he would be portrayed. So if you are a fan of dear Bob's then this film is highly recommended, with the warning that it is one or two vignettes too long. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy this enchanting vision by Todd Haynes, one of the most creative and imaginative filmmakers working today.
Special features include deleted scenes with optional commentary, music videos, blooper reel, A Conversation with Todd Haynes, Making of the Soundtrack and The Making of the film.
I'M NOT THERE: DVD (M)
(USA/Germany, 2007)
CAST: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks
PRODUCER: John Goldwyn, Jeff Rosen, John Sloss, James D. Stern, Christine Vachon
SCRIPT: Todd Haynes
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Edward Lachman
EDITOR: Jay Rabinowitz
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Judy Becker
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Icon
AUSTRALIAN RELEASE: December 26, 2007
SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted scenes with optional commentary, 'Subteranean Homesick Blues' music videos, blooper reel, A Conversation with Todd Haynes, Making of the Soundtrack, The Making of I'M NOT THERE
DVD DISTRIBUTOR: Icon
DVD RELEASE: May 28, 2008
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Uxbridge Mechanics Institute and Library
by Alan McGillivray
The Mechanics Institutes were organized to provide a library, educational classes and weekly lectures for “middle classes, working men and intelligent mechanics”. The first such institute in Upper Canada (Ontario) was set up in York (Toronto) in 1851 by Joseph Bates. In the next couple of decades, these institutes became numerous in the province and provided a chance for a broader life for tradesman and labourers until near the end of the 1800s. The officers were chosen from the community, and were usually business or professional men.
In Uxbridge, the founding meeting of the Mechanics Institute (M.I.) was held on January 7, 1859, in the Temperance Hall, a frame building, located at the north-east corner of Albert and Spruce Streets. Joseph Gould chaired this first meeting. On a motion by Rev. William Leland, seconded by Joseph Dickie, the new organization was named “The Uxbridge Mechanics Institute and Library Association”.
The first officers were: Joseph Gould, President, M.P. for the riding of Ontario, local miller, merchant and entrepreneur: Rev. William Leland, Vice-President, Minister of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Quaker Hill; Dr. John Nation, Vice-President, medical doctor; Joseph Dickie, Secretary, appraiser, conveyancer, commissioner, and Clerk of the Division court; John P. Plank, Treasurer, proprietor of Plank’s Hotel; David Walks, wagon maker; William Hamilton, merchant; William Smith, Reeve; Anson Todd Button, lumberman; James Galloway, farmer, Scott township; J.W.C. Brown, conveyancer; and Anthony Thompson, builder.
Henry Duncan Hetherington was hired as the first librarian for the M.I. He and his wife, Jessie Johnston Todd, arrived from Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland, where their first child was born in 1856. He operated an Apothecaries Hall, selling drugs, chemicals and wallpaper, near the present Music Hall site on Main Street. Andrew Smith was appointed assistant librarian. He was the son of Uxbridge’s first successful merchant John Smith.
Membership in the Institute was to be a dollar per year for ordinary members and four dollars for corporate members. Females were to be considered as ordinary members. The library was to be open every Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 9:00. Fixed time periods for book loans were written on the front fly leaf. Members living more than one mile from the library were allowed double time to read a book. The fine for overdue books was five cents per week. A blank book was provided in which members were encouraged to suggest new purchases.
The M.I. and Library flourished until October of 1862 when Mr. Hetherington died suddenly, two weeks after his youngest son was born. His grave here is not marked. Mrs. Hetherington took her four sons back to Scotland where she died in 1877.
Following Mr. Hetherington’s death, a committee was appointed to take stock of the books, and they were moved to Mr. Dickie’s office, which was on the hill on the south side of Brock Street. At the annual meeting on Jan. 9, 1863, Joseph Dickie was mentioned as both secretary and librarian. At a meeting held on April 10, they decided to pay the balance of the librarian’s salary to Mrs. Hetherington. About this time, the M.I. and Library ceased to operate. There is no record of further meetings being held until the early 1870s.
In December of 1872, a meeting was called to begin steps to reopen the Institute and make additions to the library. This revival of the Institute was under the leadership of Dr. Joseph Bascom and Mr. W. Dale of the high school. A year earlier, the railway had been built into Uxbridge, things were booming, and Uxbridge had just reached village status. J.W.Caldwell Brown, lawyer, Dennis Jennings, public school teacher, and Dr. Bascom were directed to seek new members. On Christmas Eve, Dr. Bascom presented twelve names of new corporate members and thirty two names of ordinary members.
An annual meeting was held in the high school in January of 1873. Joseph Gould was elected president and James Walks was hired as librarian. However, he and his father, David Walks, were in the process of settling in Uxbridge Twp. (Leal area) of North Dakota. It has not been determined who followed him as librarian.
At the annual meeting in 1874, George Wheeler was elected president. He was a local miller, a former county warden, and was later elected reeve and M.P. The Institute managed to rent space for the library and hall above Week’s Drug Store (now The Tiger’s Eye). A.D. Weeks was the librarian in 1875 and was succeeded by Dennis Jennings, a public school teacher, in 1876.
The M.I. moved at least a couple of times during these years. In 1878, the rooms were above the Robert A. Douglas Bakery which was the next store on the west side of Week’s Drug Store. They must have returned to Mr. Week’s building for in September of 1880, he gave notice that he needed the rooms being occupied by the M.I.
There were offers of two other rooms, one from Mr. Crosby for $125 per year and one for $150 per year in a new brick double store which Mr. McGuire was erecting. In February, an agreement was reached with Mr. McGuire. The M.I. rented the new building at a cost of $325 per year for 5 years. This building was on the south side of Brock Street about where Pro Hardware and Homan’s Shoes’ are located. The M.I. sublet the west store and living quarters to Mr. William B. Russell, the librarian, for $150 per year. Mr. Russell, a local carriage painter, was to pay half the cost of lighting and heating.
By 1880, the Institute had received $3,000 in government grants since reopening. The membership was 174 and there were 2,323 volumes in the library – up from 143 in the original library. An article written early in 1881 said that the Uxbridge Institute was excelled by few others.
The Minister of Education at the time gave the Uxbridge Institute a very good report, which was a credit to those who headed the organization. At the same time, the minister felt generally that the government was giving too much financial assistance to the M.I.’s. It made members careless, apathetic and unwilling to work. He said there was a great demand for novels which excited unfavourable comment from those opposed to this class of reading. Too many novels showed evidence of depraved literary tastes.
By fall of 1881, arrangements were being made for the move to the new site and a grand opening was planned for December 6. The charge for admission was to be 25 cents and ladies were to provide refreshments. The facilities in the new building included a public hall, library, smoking room, reading room, club room, and a residence for the librarian, Mr. Russell. Memberships were one dollar as before. Use of the library, reading room and amusement room was two dollars per year. A family ticket for four dollars would allow family members over fourteen years of age to use the facilities. It was decided that the public would be allowed free use of the reading room on a trial basis.
By 1882, the reading room was open every day and evening, and the library contained 3,000 books. By May 1883, the library contained nearly 4,000 books. The Institute continued to be very active, but they soon got behind with the rent, and the printing of catalogues added to the deficit. Lectures had been a key part of the services offered by the M.I. in Uxbridge during its early history. Night classes, which started being offered in 1873, were still well attended, but lectures and entertainments drew fewer numbers.
By October of 1884, Mr. McGuire was making some changes in his building, and Mr. Russell was going to have to pay more rent. An agreement was made with the council for use of the Market Hall, lighted and warmed, for all Institute meetings, lectures, concerts and entertainments, provided that they did not interfere with regular business. The Market Hall was located at the north-east corner of Brock and Toronto Streets. The Institute continued to use the Market Hall until it moved into the new Joseph Gould Institute late in 1887.
In April of 1886, Joseph Gould announced that he would build for the town a new Mechanic’s Institute building on some land which he owned at the corner of Pond and Toronto Streets. Pond Street ran south where Davie Pharmacy is located. At a council meeting held on April 13, 1886, there was a motion that thanks be tendered to Mr. Gould for his generous proposal in the matter of erecting this building for the use of the town’s people; together with the assurance of the council that they would assist him as far as possible in his laudable purpose by granting him the necessary facilities for erecting the same on the site proposed by him; and that the clerk forward a copy of the resolution to him.
Joseph Gould intended to supervise the construction, but that was not to be for he died on June 29, 1886. However, he had already “seen and approved of his architects plans”. The name of the architect is still a mystery but it is likely that John T. Stokes of Sharon designed this building. Mr. Stokes, who was still very active in the 1880s, had planned Joseph Gould’s Toronto Street home which was built in the late 1850s and the mansion House Hotel built in the early 1870s. He also had the ability to design the stone foundations for this building which sits on the slope of a hill. These walls have not cracked in over 100 years, even with gravel trucks rolling by.
Mr. Gould directed in his will that his executors (sons Isaac, Charles and Joseph E. Gould) complete the Institute project according to plans and pay the costs out of his personal estate. He also directed them to make a gift of the building to the Corporation of the Town of Uxbridge. Joseph Stopps was contracted to do the masonry work, and W. Walker to do the woodwork. The bricks were made from clay taken from the Gould farm on Mill Street and the lumber was cut at James Leask’s saw mill at Leaksdale. In July of 1886, Isaac Gould M.P. came to the M.I. meeting with a copy of his father’s will and there was a discussion about the feasibility of going ahead with construction that year. It was decided that they should wait until the spring of 1887.
The M.I. continued to meet, and in January of 1887 a committee was appointed to arrange for a series of entertainments. It was also decided to try to raise money by direct appeal to people with a subscription list. By April, the librarian, Mr. Russell, was working hard to bring in subscriptions. In November, George Long was paid for building a wall along the side of the new M.I. The second floor of the new building had quarters for the librarian and Mr. Russell was hired for another year.
The official opening took place on December 9, 1887. The main address was given by the Hon. George W. Ross, Minister of Education who said that the building was the first donation of its kind in the province, and the library was the best in the province for the size of the town. The new building cost $4,200 and now contained over 5,000 books. The clock for the library tower was bought from the Seth Thomas Clock Co., Thomaston, Conn. and was bought through Phillip Taylor of Whitby at a cost of $315. The original wooden mechanism can be seen in the library and is wound by a large crank.
In 1890, Sarah D. (Hughes) Willis and George Willis took charge of the library. By May of 1893, the directors, who expressed their appreciation for Mrs. Willis, thought she should be paid something and a committee was appointed to talk to the council about this. Mrs. Willis was officially appointed librarian in June of 1893. In May of 1895, it was moved that the name of the Institute be changed to “Uxbridge Public Library” as required by a new act.
In July of 1896, the council gave a grant to the library to build a balcony and there was a discussion about the installation of electric lights but the board felt that they were too expensive at that time. In January of 1898 Dr. May, Superintendent of Public libraries addressed a public meeting on the growth of Mechanic’s Institutes and Public and Free Libraries. The Uxbridge Library was ranked 20th in the province, cities included. A motion was passed to make Uxbridge a Free Library and to appoint a Board of Management. I.J. Gould was chairman of the new board and Mr. Nutting secretary. The librarian was directed to open the library on the free system on March 1, 1898 – and in July, the decision was made to install electric lights.
By 1904, the reading room was receiving 4 daily papers, 15 weeklies and 14 magazines. In 1907, 946 people borrowed books. When Mrs. Sarah Willis the librarian died on July 28, 1907, Mrs. R.F. Willis filled in until May of 1908 when Marshall L. Nutting the secretary-treasurer became librarian. Mr. Nutting died on April, 1911 and Mrs. Nutting, his wife, carried on as librarian.
In 1912, a statue presented to the board by Dr. Nation was repainted. This was a Grecian statue of a girl carved by the late Walter Nation from one piece of a tree, including a wreath of flowers worn on the arm. It can still be seen in the library today. In July of 1913, the library received some renovations and the goddess “Minerva” was removed from her place by the entrance.
In August of 1920, J.E. Littlejohn took over as librarian from Mrs. Nutting. Dr. Joseph Bascom died in July of 1929 and left $2,000 to the library. The money was to be invested and the interest used to buy books and magazines. In the spring of 1931, a request from the John Peel chapter of the I.O.D.E. for permission to place a war memorial on the library lawn was granted. Mrs. Gilfillan became librarian at the beginning of 1939 and was succeeded by Mrs. A.W. (Pearle) St. John in August, 1942.
In May of 1951, a bequest from the estate of Rosetta Alberta Harrison left $200 to be used for a separate children’s department. By the end of October 1952, work was completed making the former reference room into a children’s library. An archway joined it to the book room. The reference library was moved to the east wall of the reading room. By February of 1959, the 100th anniversary of the founding meeting, the library contained 8,779 books and there were 875 borrowers. The circulation was 16,743 and total assets were $36,654.
Mrs. Agnes Arbuckle became librarian in September of 1963. The library became a member of the Central Ontario Regional Library Service (CORL) in 1966. This provided for interlibrary loans, including books, and other print materials, film, cassettes, large print books and talking books.
In the spring of 1967, plans were made to turn the reading room into a children’s library and use the area housing the children’s books as a reading room. This new children’s room, a Kinsmen project, was opened in the basement of the library in January 1972. Two cisterns were removed from the south corners of the basement, a steel beam was added for support, and the fireplace moved to the north wall. The west basement wall was pyramidal being 6 feet thick at the bottom and sloping towards the ceiling. A window was built in one area of the new wall so part of this original wall can be seen.
On November 8, 1972 a plaque to mark the centennial of Uxbridge as a village was unveiled on the west, outside wall of the Library. Mrs. Margaret O’Regan was hired as librarian in September of 1974. In 1981, the Uxbridge Public Library was declared an historic building. Exterior renovations took place in 1985. The bricks were cleaned, wooden shingles put on the roof, and the paint restored to its original colour by Colonial Restoration of Newmarket.
In 1986, work commenced on an addition to the library, which more than doubled the usable library space. This beautiful building was planned to blend architecturally with the existing library but to provide patrons with an up to date service in comfortable modern surroundings. This addition was completed in 1987, which marks the centennial of the Joseph Gould Institute building.
The library underwent interior renovations during the summer of 2014 and is now open for new and old patrons to visit and explore.
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President says that there is a programme to face the drought
Monday, 04 August 2014 - 9:41
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that although the Government cannot control the drought, there is a clear progarmme for facing it and providing relief to people affected by it.
The President said so while addressing several conferences representing women organized under the theme “ Rata Rakina Nil Pavura” yesterday.
On this occasion the President said that the Government was now in the process of bringing about also the economic victory to the people.
The President also said that the current Government had done a huge amount of development work on behalf of women in a manner that no Government had done up to now.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the IDF for allowing Israelis to enjoy Passover observances “peacefully.” (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Views » June 4, 2018
It’s Time to Put Israel on Trial
The court of public opinion isn’t enough. Israel’s leaders should face charges in The Hague.
B’Tselem, a human rights group, said, “Israel … has made Gaza a huge prison, yet forbids the prisoners even to protest against this, on pain of death.”
In December 1948, the New York Times published a letter by 27 American Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, warning of “the dangers to Israel” posed by the far-right Freedom Party (Herut). The letter described how the party’s militia had killed “most of the inhabitants—240 men, women and children” of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, except for a few that were kept “alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.” The signatories denounced Herut leader Menachem Begin and urged “all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.”
In 1973, Herut merged with other parties to form Likud, the party now chaired by current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who governs in coalition with other right-wing parties, has proven every bit as violent as the Herut thugs of yesteryear.
This year, from March 30 to May 15, tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated at the barbed wire fence that surrounds Gaza to protest the Israeli blockade, the moving of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and their confinement to the crowded and immiserated Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded by massacring a total of 112 demonstrators (including 13 children). On March 31, after snipers killed 15 protesters, the IDF bragged in a tweet: “Everything was accurate and measured, and we know where every bullet landed.” Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the IDF soldiers “deserve a medal.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the IDF for allowing Israelis to enjoy Passover observances “peacefully.”
Not everyone in Israel was at peace. B’Tselem, a human rights group, said, “Israel … has made Gaza a huge prison, yet forbids the prisoners even to protest against this, on pain of death.”
Noting that “lethal force is banned by international law except to meet an imminent threat to life,” Human Rights Watch called for a formal investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which was created by the United Nations in 2002 (but runs independently from it).
Since 2015, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has been conducting a “preliminary examination” of the 2014 Gaza War, which killed 2,251 Palestinians (including 1,462 civilians) and 73 Israelis (including 6 civilians). On April 8, she warned that “any new alleged crime committed in the context of the situation in Palestine may be subjected to my office’s scrutiny.”
On May 18, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to set up a commission of inquiry to examine Israel’s use of force, 29 to 2 (the United States and Australia) with 14 abstentions (including Britain, Germany and Japan). Because the United States has veto power on the Security Council, any recommendation is unlikely to move forward.
As the Likudniks see it, the only thing Israel has done wrong in Gaza is lose the public relations war. Speaking at a briefing for the Jewish Federations of North America, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said, “The ‘winning picture’ overwhelmingly, by a knockout, unfortunately, have been the graphics from the Palestinian side. The amount of casualties has done us a tremendous disservice, unfortunately, and it has been very difficult to tell our story.”
That wouldn’t surprise Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Seymour Melman and the others who signed that letter to the New York Times 70 years ago. The authors were prophetic: “It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.”
That future is now.
It’s time for ICC Chief Prosecutor Bensouda to move the proceedings from the court of public opinion, where Israel’s leaders are currently being tried, to a more proper venue: The Hague.
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no, this shht is far from true and it's merely dishonest agitprop.
Posted by fuster on 2018-07-23 04:10:39
Perhaps but 100% true.
Posted by yannix on 2018-07-22 17:07:08
Boycott ALL Israeli goods, services and institutions until Israeli racism, terrorism, colonialism, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and apartheid are ended and the human rights of the Palestinian refugees are honored.
Posted by Wesley Stubbs Sandel on 2018-06-16 10:32:25
This great quote at the end sums it all up so well: “It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real
character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to
do in the future.” The israelis are the true terrorists then and now....
Posted by YoungAmerican on 2018-06-14 17:03:10
Great bit of journalism Joel...thanks for keeping it real! BOYCOTT DIVEST SANCTION
I can see from some of the comments I've read that, U.S. and Israeli propaganda is quite effective. Do Americans even know where the people of Gaza came from? It is unquestionably the world's largest outdoor prison and Israel controls everything that goes into Gaza or out of it. As the docs with Docs without borders will tell you, many die due to a lack of normal supplies we take for granted here like sterile medical supplies.
Try this on. Had the state of Rhode Island became the state of Israel in 1948 as a result of UN actions, and it's citizens were forcibly removed to say, Providence and a few counties outside it, with Israel deciding what comes into that port or any and all checkpoints otherwise, just how do you think those folks would have reacted and how would they react today? After all, it's not like a Palestinian can vote in an Israeli election and were Rhode Island Israel, it's citizens couldn't vote in any election other than the ones involving former U.S. citizens. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while and see how that fits.
Posted by William Johnson on 2018-06-09 10:16:42
Hamas and all the other Palestinian resistance organizations are the moral equivalent to the French Resistance and the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Israel is the only state in the world that meets every one of the criteria in the legal definition of apartheid, including a miscegenation law and state-supported, violent anti-miscegenation organizations.
Israel has been engaged in the mass murder of Palestinian children for decades, having murdered more than 2000 Palestinian children in the last fifteen years alone, most killed by Israelis soldiers with sniper rifles.
Israel is in direct and continual violation of dozens of international laws, including over 600,000 Jews from everywhere except Palestine living in state-built, Jews-only illegal settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Israel has been in violation of the UN charter it signed in 1948 since 1948 when it conducted it's first ethnic cleansing campaign, forcing 750,000 defenseless, Christian and Muslim Palestinian fathers, mothers and children from their homes at gunpoint, massacring entire villages, raping women, throwing bombs into occupied Palestinian homes, executing anyone who couldn't or wouldn't flee and then systematically destroying over 400 Palestinian towns and villages.
There are over five million registered Christian and Muslim Palestinian refugees from Israeli racist terror and ethnic cleansing campaigns.
When is Hamas going to be taken to the Hague? They've spent the last 11 years (of their 4-year elected term) killing off their political opponents and civilians who protest against them. Hamas uses children to dig their tunnels and about 165 have already died that way. Hamas launches rockets and mortars over the border into Israel (often from schools and mosques) and then runs away, leaving civilians to bear the brunt of retaliation.
I am not condoning the shooting of unarmed protesters. But I have one question: What would the U.S. do if 40,000 Mexicans (some with rifles) massed at a border fence in Texas, threw rocks, burned tires, launched firebombs, and cut through the fence?
Posted by sharonsj on 2018-06-06 15:53:50
Yeah! Bringing kids to the area of action is so strategic but morally wrong. Knowing that the IDF will react and walking towards that threat is so dumb but will evoke opinions. In my view, the only emotion is just that - dumb!
In the Mid Eastern values, the Grandpa's Turkey (see From Beirut to Jerusalem) is very relevant.
Posted by Bin Tualan on 2018-06-05 22:22:08
Let's start with USA ( for CUBA, Mexico, Nicaragua, etc) , then the United Kingdom (India, South Africa, Malaya, China, etc) , Belgium (Congo) , Turkey (Armenians, etc), etc.
I guess little Bhutan would be left ot be the sole arbiter?
How is what we saw at the Israeli border peaceful protest. Throw fire bombs and bring IDEs at me and I'd respond the same. Gaza was getting better before the Palestinians in Gaza elected a terrorist group as their government. Even Egypt closed their border and blew up the terrorist tunnels. You socialist believe it is always everyone elses fault. Fact is it is Hamas fault. Their charter calls for the complete destruction if Israel and you believe they could have open borders....PLEASE.
Posted by Mattbr1234 on 2018-06-05 16:04:13
Joseph Bleifuss has written a rather loosely reasoned little bunch of glop here and it's somewhat noisome
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The Perennial Philosophy Series
The Universal Spirit of Islam: Keys for Interfaith Understanding
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What is "Christian Spirit"?
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Primordiality
Noble Faces, Strong Voices: Exploring "The Spirit of Indian Women"
What bridges exist between Christianity and Islam?
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Spirituality
Interview with Frithjof Schuon - on Art
Through the interplay of Burckhardt’s text and carefully selected illustrations, this book becomes a work of art in itself. It invites the reader to “taste and see” the glories of the artistic and spiritual heritage of Christianity, a legacy which has had an inestimable impact upon all Western thought and culture.
Introduction What is sacred Christian art? Illuminated Manuscripts in Christian Art What are the foundations of Christian art? Sacred buildings The Sanctuary The Sacred Image The Function of the Icon The Decadence of Christian Art The Renewal of Christian Art
The Foundations of Christian Art: Illustrated takes the reader on a pilgrimage through the history of Christian art, focusing especially upon its architecture, iconography, illumination, and the arts and crafts guilds, but always returning to the fundamental genius of Christianity, which gave meaning to the art.
“Titus Burckhardt is an exponent of the permanent, the timeless; a domain which makes the use of the word ‘historian’ redundant in a modern context. Burckhardt has done more than any other single author in the past 50, if not 100, years to recover the essential principles of the purpose of the arts—that is, if you accept the premise that the arts are more than mere hedonism and ‘individual expression’...Due to his intrinsically spiritual nature, Burckhardt has revealed insight after insight into Christian symbolism and craft practice.”
—Keith Critchlow
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HECimpact | Insights from research at HEC Lausanne
Economy & Society, Leadership & Behavior
Managing the expectations trade-off: Why flexible agreements often prove counter-productive
31 October 2016 HEC Lausanne
» Lire en français: French
A common criticism of economics is that economic theory often fails to predict real world events, spectacularly so in some cases. More recently, however, a more empirical approach to economics has emerged that combines economic theory, psychology, and laboratory experimentation, in order to better understand decision making in real life situations.
Christian Zehnder, professor of organizational decision making at HEC Lausanne is part of this new tradition. He spoke to Steve Coomber about his work on contracts conducted alongside Nobel Prize winning economist Oliver Hart and celebrated behavioral economist and neuroeconomist Ernst Fehr. It is work that provides important insights into how we should frame the many agreements that govern working life and organizational behavior.
Christian Zehnder is a professor of Organizational Behavior. His work focuses on behavioral economics, a line of research that combines insights from economics and psychology.
Before we move onto your contracts work – your research involves laboratory experimentation, and this is something relatively new in economics.
Experimental economics began to produce a lot of results that were at odds with the predictions of the standard economic mode
For a long time people thought experiments weren’t possible in economics. If you wanted to understand economic behavior you had to do it in the “real world”, with natural decision making in natural environments, which was difficult. But in the 1980s a new approach emerged; putting people into laboratory settings, where we can completely control the environment and where the theory makes a clear and testable prediction. Theories were tested in the lab, but also developed and adapted from the observed deviations from the expected behavior. Experimental economics began to produce a lot of results that were at odds with the predictions of the standard economic model which assumes that people are completely rational and selfish.
Contracts play a very important role in economic thinking. Have these results, showing that people are not necessarily completely rational, also affected the way that economists think about contracts?
The implicit assumption in traditional microeconomic models is that contracts are complete. For every possible situation that can arise there’s something in the contract that describes what people are supposed to do. However, this is not what we see in reality. As soon as the situation becomes complex, contracts are typically very incomplete. Just think about the typical employment contract. The contract provides a framework, but the details need to be determined on the spot. The reason is that people cannot perfectly foresee the future and it would be immensely costly to write down how all the possible events that one can imagine should be dealt with. The insight that contracts are typically incomplete has triggered a whole new strand of literature in economics.
How did you meet Oliver Hart and why did you start collaborating with each other?
Ernst Fehr and I convinced Oliver Hart that it might be a good idea to put his theory to the test and check whether it is a good description of how people really behave
This was essentially a chance encounter. I believe it was in 2006 when Oliver came to Zurich and gave a talk on a new research project of his. I was a postdoc at the University of Zurich at this time and I was fascinated by his presentation. During the talk he suggested that economists should start taking into account the possibility that contracts may not only define rights and obligations, but may also have important psychological effects. I was quite surprised by these statements, because I had always thought of Oliver Hart as a rather traditional economist. I was eager to talk to him after the presentation and so we ended up having dinner together with Ernst Fehr. It was during this dinner that Ernst and I convinced Oliver that it might be a good idea to put his theory to the test and check whether it is a good description of how people really behave.
So how should we think about contracts in the light of your work? What are these psychological effects that you mentioned?
The basic idea is that when you contract about something you’re going to do in the future, the nature of that contract, the way it’s written, determines what you expect to get – it creates a sense of entitlement. As the contract proceeds, events may occur that are unanticipated and people negotiate until they reach an outcome. If that actual outcome is different to the expected outcome, especially if someone gets less than they expected, the assumption is that people feel aggrieved and are unhappy about the outcome. As a response they have a desire to retaliate and take it out on their trading partner. This leads to counterproductive behavior, conflicts and inefficiency.
You said that the form of the contract is important. How does a contract need to be written to reduce these problems?
The problem with flexibility is that each trading party may hope for a completely different outcome
According to the theory and our findings from the experiment, the central issue is the flexibility of the contract. From a standard economic point of view, flexible contracts are attractive, because they allow for a lot of possible outcomes. This may be very helpful in situations where you don’t know much about the future. Whatever happens, there’s enough flexibility in the contract to respond to events and adjust the terms in a way that improves the outcome. However, the problem with flexibility is that each trading party may hope for a completely different outcome. If people have a tendency to be a bit self-serving, everybody will hope for an outcome which is particularly good for themselves. In most cases, this implies that not everyone’s expectations can be met so that at least someone is always going to be unhappy with the outcome.
One possible way of avoiding this problem is to write a very rigid contract
One possible way of avoiding this problem is to write a very rigid contract, pinning down as many aspects as possible from the outset. The advantage of such a contract is that everybody knows exactly what to expect and expectations are therefore likely to be aligned. This will reduce conflicts and counterproductive behaviors, because nobody is going to be particularly unhappy about the outcome. They got what they expected. However, the downside of such a contract is that if unanticipated events occur there is no flexibility to modify the contract and the parties risk ending up with a sub-optimal outcome that could have been avoided in a more flexible arrangement.
So the crucial thing here seems to be the trade-off between flexible and rigid contracts, in terms of less or more retaliation and associated costs, and less or more flexibility. And in the lab you tested to see if this trade-off exists as predicted?
We constructed an experiment with buyers and sellers, who could choose a flexible contract or rigid contract. We observe that rigid contract had problems in some situations because the initial contact terms did not fit the evolving situation, but at the same time we also observed that rigid contracts created much less counterproductive behaviors than the more flexible contracts.
After publication of your first paper, there were a couple of points in particular that were picked up on, and which you addressed in a more recent paper.
Managing expectations through communication helps a bit, but not very much
One thing people said in response to the first paper’s findings was that having a rigid contract wasn’t the only way to avoid counterproductive behavior arising from unmet expectations. In reality, expectations could be managed between trading partners through communication. When we tested this we found that managing expectations through communication helps a bit, but not very much. However, in the meantime other people have worked on this question as well and found more positive effects from communication. We are now working on a new project that will hopefully help us to better understand what exactly is the role of communication in such contracting situations.
Another point raised was that we didn’t allow for renegotiation in the case of the rigid contract, whereas in reality you can change the agreement. So rigid contracts don’t really exist in that sense and in real life would lead to more counterproductive behaviors. But even when we allowed for renegotiation, rigid contracts still helped.
In everyday working life, organizations and individuals adopt policies and practices that are governed to a lesser or greater extent by rules. Effectively these are agreements (many unwritten) between parties, which while not having the force of law, are similar to contracts in intent. And these agreements range on a continuum from very flexible to very rigid. Is the reference point theory, the trade-offs etc. equally applicable to these types of agreement. Are we all making and encountering the flexibility / rigidity trade-off constantly in organizational life?
Yes, I think you can fully apply the theory to agreements as well. In fact, in Oliver Hart and John Moore’s original paper on this topic, they refer to the contracts as “agreements to agree”, because they look at a situation in which the trading parties can always decide to walk away if they do not want to trade. The assumption of voluntary trade is not essential, but it shows that the theory also directly refers to the type of agreements that you mention.
Given your findings, what would be the main messages for practitioners?
We often see quite rigid contracts even in quite uncertain environments
For a start, our findings go against the prediction of standard economic theory, which says maximum flexibility is typically best in situations with a lot of uncertainty about the future. However, in reality we often see quite rigid contracts even in quite uncertain environments. Our findings help to understand why this is the case.
Sometimes it may make sense to have very rigid rules – Flexibility may lead to even bigger problems
Sometimes it may make sense to have very rigid rules, even if these rules sometimes lead to bad outcomes that could have been avoided with more flexibility. The reason is that flexibility may lead to even bigger problems, especially if there is the potential for very costly counterproductive behavior.
Take a simple, real life example. In a department with seven or eight professors and some 35 assistants I implemented a rule about assigning speakers to seminars that is, on the face of it, inefficient. Every professor can pick one speaker per semester. This might not seem to make much sense on examination. There may be semesters where someone might want two speakers, whereas another person might not need any – so more flexibility would allow more efficient seminar speaker arrangements.
However, the rule is there for a reason; with a lot of flexibility, comes a lot of conflict, endless discussions that are very costly, people with unmet expectations. So instead we decided to live with an apparently inefficient rigid agreement, in order to avoid all the long discussions we had before.
So think about the trade-off. If you have an agreement that causes (or potentially causes) a lot of conflict – consider what you would lose if you were to make the agreement more rigid and lay down some simple rules to avoid all the conflicts. If the loss from lack of flexibility is minimal, you should change.
Fehr E., Hart O. & Zehnder C. (2015). How do informal agreements and revision shape contractual reference points?. Journal of the European Economic Association, 13(1), 1-28.
Fehr E., Hart O. & Zehnder C. (2011). Contracts as reference points – Experimental evidence. American Economic Review, 101(2), 493-525.
Fehr E., Hart O. & Zehnder C. (2009). Contracts, Reference Points, and Competition – Behavioral Effects of the Fundamental Transformation. Journal of the European Economic Association, 7(2-3), 561-572.
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Study Suggests Cancers May Go Away on Their Own
Posted on November 24, 2008 by Bradford S. Weeks, MD | 0 Comments
By GINA KOLATA
Published: November 24, 2008 New York Times
Cancer researchers have known for years that it was possible in rare cases for some cancers to go away on their own. There were occasional instances of melanomas and kidney cancers that just vanished. And neuroblastoma, a very rare childhood tumor, can go away without treatment.
But these were mostly seen as oddities ”” an unusual pediatric cancer that might not bear on common cancers of adults, a smattering of case reports of spontaneous cures. And since almost every cancer that is detected is treated, it seemed impossible even to ask what would happen if cancers were left alone.
Now, though, researchers say they have found a situation in Norway that has let them ask that question about breast cancer. And their new study, to be published Tuesday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, suggests that even invasive cancers may sometimes go away without treatment and in larger numbers than anyone ever believed.
At the moment, the finding has no practical applications because no one knows whether a detected cancer will disappear or continue to spread or kill.
And some experts remain unconvinced.
“Their simplification of a complicated issue is both overreaching and alarming,” said Robert A. Smith, director of breast cancer screening at the American Cancer Society.
But others, including Robert M. Kaplan, the chairman of the department of health services at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, are persuaded by the analysis. The implications are potentially enormous, Dr. Kaplan said.
If the results are replicated, he said, it could eventually be possible for some women to opt for so-called watchful waiting, monitoring a tumor in their breast to see whether it grows. “People have never thought that way about breast cancer,” he added.
Dr. Kaplan and his colleague, Dr. Franz Porzsolt, an oncologist at the University of Ulm, said in an editorial that accompanied the study, “If the spontaneous remission hypothesis is credible, it should cause a major re-evaluation in the approach to breast cancer research and treatment.”
The study was conducted by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a researcher at the VA Outcomes Group in White River Junction, Vt., and Dartmouth Medical School; Dr. Per-Henrik Zahl of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health; and Dr. Jan Maehlen of Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo. It compared two groups of women ages 50 to 64 in two consecutive six-year periods.
One group of 109,784 women was followed from 1992 to 1997. Mammography screening in Norway was initiated in 1996. In 1996 and 1997, all were offered mammograms, and nearly every woman accepted.
The second group of 119,472 women was followed from 1996 to 2001. All were offered regular mammograms, and nearly all accepted.
It might be expected that the two groups would have roughly the same number of breast cancers, either detected at the end or found along the way. Instead, the researchers report, the women who had regular routine screenings had 22 percent more cancers. For every 100,000 women who were screened regularly, 1,909 were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over six years, compared with 1,564 women who did not have regular screening.
There are other explanations, but researchers say that they are less likely than the conclusion that the tumors disappeared.
The most likely explanation, Dr. Welch said, is that “there are some women who had cancer at one point and who later don’t have that cancer.”
The finding does not mean that mammograms caused breast cancer. Nor does it bear on whether women should continue to have mammograms, since so little is known about the progress of most cancers.
Mammograms save lives, Dr. Smith said. Even though they can have a downside ”” most notably the risk that a woman might have a biopsy to check on an abnormality that turns out not to be cancer ”” “the balance of benefits and harms is still considerably in favor of screening for breast cancer,” he said.
But Dr. Suzanne W. Fletcher, an emerita professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical School, said that it was also important for women and doctors to understand the entire picture of cancer screening. The new finding, she said, was “part of the picture.”
“The issue is the unintended consequences that can come with our screening,” Dr. Fletcher said, meaning biopsies for lumps that were not cancers or, it now appears, sometimes treating a cancer that might not have needed treatment. “In general we tend to underplay them.”
Dr. Welch said the cancers in question had broken through the milk ducts, where most breast cancers begin, and invaded the breast. Such cancers are not microscopic, often are palpable, and are bigger and look more ominous than those confined to milk ducts, so-called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, Dr. Welch said. Doctors surgically remove invasive cancers and, depending on the circumstances, may also treat women with radiation, chemotherapy or both.
The study’s design was not perfect, but researchers say the ideal study is not feasible. It would entail screening women, randomly assigning them to have their screen-detected cancers treated or not, and following them to see how many untreated cancers went away on their own.
But, they said, they were astonished by the results.
“I think everybody is surprised by this finding,” Dr. Kaplan said. He and Dr. Porzsolt spent a weekend reading and re-reading the paper.
“Our initial reaction was, ”˜This is pretty weird,’ ” Dr. Kaplan said. “But the more we looked at it, the more we were persuaded.”
Dr. Barnett Kramer, director of the Office of Disease Prevention at the National Institutes of Health, had a similar reaction. “People who are familiar with the broad range of behaviors of a variety of cancers know spontaneous regression is possible,” he said. “But what is shocking is that it can occur so frequently.”
Although the researchers cannot completely rule out other explanations, Dr. Kramer said, “they do a good job of showing they are not highly likely.”
A leading alternative explanation for the results is that the women having regular scans used hormone therapy for menopause and the other women did not. But the researchers calculated that hormone use could account for no more than 3 percent of the effect.
Maybe mammography was more sensitive in the second six-year period, able to pick up more tumors. But, the authors report, mammography’s sensitivity did not appear to have changed.
Or perhaps the screened women had a higher cancer risk to begin with. But, the investigators say, the groups were remarkably similar in their risk factors.
Dr. Smith, however, said the study was flawed and the interpretation incorrect. Among other things, he said, one round of screening in the first group of women would never find all the cancers that regular screening had found in the second group. The reason, he said, is that mammography is not perfect, and cancers that are missed on one round of screening will be detected on another.
But Dr. Welch said that he and his colleagues considered that possibility, too. And, he said, their analysis found subsequent mammograms could not make up the difference.
Dr. Kaplan is already thinking of how to replicate the result. One possibility, he said, is to do the same sort of study in Mexico, where mammography screening is now being introduced.
Donald A. Berry, chairman of the department of biostatistics at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said the study increased his worries about screenings that find cancers earlier and earlier. Unless there is some understanding of the natural history of the cancers that are found ”” which are dangerous and which are not ”” the result can easily be more treatment of cancers that would not cause harm if left untreated, he said.
“There may be some benefit to very early detection, but the costs will be huge ”” and I don’t mean monetary costs,” Dr. Berry said. “It’s possible that we all have cells that are cancerous and that grow a bit before being dumped by the body. ”˜Hell bent for leather’ early detection research will lead to finding some of them. What will be the consequence? Prophylactic removal of organs in the masses? It’s really scary.”
But Dr. Laura Esserman, professor of surgery and radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, sees a real opportunity to figure out why some cancers go away.
“I am a breast cancer surgeon; I run a breast cancer program,” she said. “I treat women every day, and I promise you it’s a problem. Every time you tell a person they have cancer, their whole life runs before their eyes.
“What if I could say, ”˜It’s not a real cancer, it will go away, don’t worry about it,’ ” she added. “That’s such a different message. Imagine how you would feel.”
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Ford's Forgotten Eulogy
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we too wonder how many millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent transporting this guys corpse around the country. ford was never even an elected president.
Ford Eulogy Should Tell Of
The East Timor Massacre
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Judith Moriarty
The nation will be subjected to six days of watching a corpse being dragged around the country! I would like to know who gave one sob for the hundreds of thousands slaughtered in East Timor. Bet Ford won't be remembered for this 'accomplishment'!!
Here we go again, making a famous personage (President Ford) into some larger than life American hero His minister sobbed, "He and Betty are the folks Heaven was made for"others lauded his 'healing of the nation', 'a gentle, kind man of great integrity'. Blah blah blah. Now that he's dead he has the 'courage' to leave a written note about the being against the Iraq (invasion) war.
For the next week, (much like the Reagan debacle) we'll see his body dragged all over the nation and moved from pillar to post in Washington such is the pageantry that surrounds our favorite occupation in this country death.
What's missing in all these poignant tales is that Ford gave us Cheney and Rumsfeld (on his White House staff) and appointed Bush the first, as head of the CIA. Also missing in the sappy news stories; was this kind, gentle, healer's visit to Indonesia, with Kissinger in 1975. This visit (unreported in U.S. press) by Ford and Kissinger gave the green light to demonic President Suharto of Indonesia to invade East Timor; which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of East Timor landless peasants (pictures much too sickening to show). This was the worst massacre of the 20th century. The sin of these lowly peasants, as in any land invaded, is the wealth they possessed in their resources of oil, nickel, gold, and cooper.
American and European consortium's divided up the nickel reserves. America, France and Japan got the forests. The big prize, East Timor's gold (largest in world) and its copper went to American giant (Kissinger on its board of directors) Freeport McMoran. These mines are now guarded by Indonesian troops. America supplied the weapons that slaughtered the multitudes of peasants; through both Republican and Democratic regimes in the U.S.Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Bush, and yes the 'healer' Ford, all contributed multi millions in arms/planes/helicopters ----
I don't suppose they'll be any reading of the 'new evidence' of President Suharto's meeting with Ford and Kissinger in 1975 (day before slaughter began). Since there has been zero (maybe a few lines) of this horrific massacre over the years it's not surprising that few will care today too bad, because this greed is repeating itself in Iraq (greater region) for the love of oil this time..National Security Archive scan down until you see China & East Asia - Ford's real EULOGY:
50 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said
Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman
50. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." -at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002
49. "We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." -Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001
48. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
47. "We both use Colgate toothpaste." -after a reporter asked what he had in common with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Camp David, Md., Feb. 23, 2001
46. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a - you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." -Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
45. "I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003
44. "I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." -as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
43. "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport." -Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
42. "The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself." -Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003
41. "I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn strong. I mean, the people see a better future." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004
40. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." -discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, as quoted by Robertson
39. "I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." -presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
38. "Haven't we already given money to rich people? Why are we going to do it again?" -to economic advisers discussing a second round of tax cuts, as quoted by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2002
37. "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." -Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002
36. "After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week - we will have an all-volunteer army!" -Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004
35. "Do you have blacks, too?" -to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
34. "This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating." -as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
33. "I got to know Ken Lay when he was head of the - what they call the Governor's Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor's Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken." -attempting to distance himself from his biggest political patron, Enron Chairman Ken Lay, whom he nicknamed "Kenny Boy," Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2002
32. "It is white." -after being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 2001
31. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." -at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001
30. "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." -Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
29. "I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army." -during a Dec. 2002 Oval Office meeting with Rep. Tom Lantos, as reported by the New York Times
28. "You forgot Poland." -to Sen. John Kerry during the first presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention Poland's contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla., Sept. 30, 2004
27. "I'm the master of low expectations." -aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
26. "I'm also not very analytical. You know I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things." -aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
25. "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right." -Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
24. "We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates." -Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2001
23. "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
22. "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet.I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't - you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one." -President George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004
21. "The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway." -explaining why high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004
20. "My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire." -radio address, Feb. 24, 2001
19. "You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, 'Would you ever have a deficit?' I said, 'I can't imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession.' Never did I dream we'd get the trifecta." -Houston, Texas, June 14, 2002 (There is no evidence Bush ever made any such statement, despite recounting the trifecta line repeatedly in 2002. A search by the Washington Post revealed that the three caveats were brought up before the 2000 campaign - by Al Gore.)
18. "See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." -Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003
17. "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." -State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false
16. "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard." -repeating the phrases "hard work," "working hard," "hard choices," and other "hard"-based verbiage 22 times in his first debate with Sen. John Kerry
15. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
14. "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
13. "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." -summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001
12. "I try to go for longer runs, but it's tough around here at the White House on the outdoor track. It's sad that I can't run longer. It's one of the saddest things about the presidency." -interview with "Runners World," Aug. 2002
11. "Can we win? I don't think you can win it." -after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004
10. "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." -Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
9. "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." -to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
8. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." -speaking underneath a "Mission Accomplished" banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003
7. "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." -Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003
6. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" -President George W. Bush, as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004
5. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
4. "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." -Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
3. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." -Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
2. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
1. "My answer is bring them on." -on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman
3rd circuit affirms gold-weems appeal
GOLD, WEEMS, BRUSER, SUES & RUNDELL
TOMMIE MACK GRANGER
Date Filed: 07/07/2006
Trial Court: Rapides
Ninth Judicial District Court
Trial Court Number: 205,470
Trial Judge: Hon. Harry Fred Randow
Opinion Rendered on: 12/29/06 - Majority Opinion Rendered
The Opinion was Published
The Opinion - Affirmed
Opinion Panel:
Hon. Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux - Writing
Hon. J. David Painter
Hon. James T. Genovese
in a ruling that reinforces the notion that louisiana's legal system is dominated and controlled by a few powerful lawyers and law firms the third circuit court of appeals not unexpectantly has sided with alexandria's gold-weems law firm in the appeal of dr. tommie mack granger.
gold-weems originally sued dr. granger for $80,000.00 [eur 60,630] for services which dr. granger disputed. dr. granger claimed bill padding and demanded a jury trial. gold-weems then promptly reduced their demand to $49,999 [eur 37,893] in order to avoid a jury trial probably because they knew that a panel of regular people would not go along with their scheme ~ but a bunch of judges would.
"judge" randow even went to far as to close the courtroom to the public during the trial and even ruled that the local media the alexandria daily town talk couldnt even publish news of the trial or even consult with their own attorney about his "order."
meanwhile, at least 16 people over at the middleton victims website which have alleged the same thing by gold-weems as dr. granger "that they experienced grossly excessive billing and inadequate or incomplete representation in their divorce proceedings." cant even get any relief by way of an investigation from chuck plattsmier and the so called louisiana attorney disciplinary board.
the third circuit appeals court even had the gall to fine dr. granger an extra $4,000 [eur 3,031] to pay for gold-weems appeal costs. louisiana's legal system what a joke.
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familar names we have lost this year 2006
as the new year approaches, please take a moment to remember some of the familiar names we have lost this year. click the link to view the find a grave 2006 necrology.
What is a necrology? A necrology is a listing of people who have died during a specific time period. Find A Grave necrologies let you browse the names and faces of notable people who have died during a selected year, all the way back to 1900.
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2006 first west nile death
deductbox.com founder john copes dies
arkansas lt governor win rockefeller dies
elvis pal charlie hodges
judicial activist sherman skolnick dies at chicago
2005 necrology
"bong hits 4 jesus"
talk about making a federal case out of something...heres a silly lawsuit that should have never been filed much less made its way all the way to the united states supreme court. it seems that there are busy body school teachers and administrators everywhere. in 2002 the olympic torch was passing through juneau, alaska on its way to the winter games, located that year at salt lake city, utah. apparantly this was big news in juneau it was being televised and everything. so, a juneau douglas high school senior joseph frederick got the bright idea to make a fourteen foot [4.2meters] long banner proclaiming "bong hits 4 jesus" which at the time was a popular catchphrase, in hopes of being seen on television. however, when mr. fredericks principal deborah morse, (whom we must assume is one of those barney fife-esque do-gooder types} instead of letting mr. frederick go ahead and make an ass of himself on local television decided to walk over and crumple his banner and suspended him from school for ten days.
QUESTIONS PRESENTED
1. Whether the First Amendment allows public schools to prohibit students from displaying messages promoting the use of illegal substances at school-sponsored, faculty supervised events.
2. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from established principles of qualified immunity in holding that a public high school principal was liable in a damages lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when, pursuant to the school district’s policy against displaying messages promoting illegal substances, she disciplined a student for displaying a large banner with a slang marijuana reference at a school-sponsored, faculty supervised event.
Court Takes 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' Case
high times top 10 marijuana strains for 2006
louisiana pot farmers beware
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**flash** richard lee mcnair breaks previous escape record
according to a grandforksherald.com story that was at this url (that page has since been taken down) excerpt here richard lee mcnair's last prison escape lasted from monday 19 october 1992 until monday 05 july 1993 -- a period of 259 days. richard lee mcnair's current escape started on wednesday 05 april 2006 and as of today's date mcnair has broken his old record by one day...and counting...
oopsie no 2 ball cops capture then release escaped federal prisoner
**flash** richard lee mcnair video no 2 on google video
search this blog * richard lee mcnair
edited 11:27 pm cst thursday 21 december 2006
big changes at cenlamar blog
CenLamar, an interactive weblog on life in Central Louisiana, has moved. Earlier today, blog operator Lamar White, Jr. announced major changes to CenLamar, including an expanded nightlife and music section, free classified advertising, and a team of new blog contributors. The site, formerly located at www.cenlamar.blogspot.com, has moved to www.cenlamar.wordpress.com.
White created CenLamar in March 2006. Since then, the site has received over 100,000 hits and has generated over 8,000 user-contributed comments.
During Alexandria's recent mayoral election, CenLamar became a resource for citizens interested in the issues. "It took off in unexpected ways," White said. "The notion of instant publication meant that the blog became the most up-to-date news source (covering the mayor's race)."
CenLamar also featured a popular and somewhat controversial discussion about Bolton High School. "The blog received 1,000 comments in a week about Bolton, and I think, in some small way, it may have inspired some changes."
The new features, White believes, will allow even more community involvement.
"Free classified advertising is already enjoyed by people in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, through services like Craig's List. This will enable Central Louisianans to have a free marketplace to advertise jobs and merchandise," said White.
The nightlife section, White says, was created in response to the needs of local event promoters and club owners. "I can't take all the credit," he said. "They wanted a one-stop-shop to freely advertise upcoming events, and frankly, there wasn't a place for Alexandrians to find out what's going on in Alexandria's emerging music scene." The nightlife section will be updated by a group of local businesspeople and events promoters.
White also plans to open the blog up to a team of writers and contributors. "Eventually, I hope this will lead to the creation of a real, independent press in Central Louisiana, and that can't happen unless there are a variety of voices," he says.
The new site was launched on Dec 20, 2006. Its first article is an interview with John Schneider, the new owner of the Hotel Bentley.
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cenlamar takes new step from kalb.com
cenlamar blog interviews one of hotel bentleys new owners
local blogger named to mayor-elect transition team
tiffanys of pawn shops
bring back bringhurst
a question & answer session with candidates for alexandria city councilman at large
live blogging the mayoral forum
new cenla blogger lamar white jr
h.res 1106 impeach bush, cheney & rice
outgoing congresswoman cynthia mckinney, in one of her last official acts, filed h.res 1106 to start the impeachment process against president bush, vice president dick cheney, and sec'y of state condoleeza rice. please contact your congressman and senators and demand that h.res 1106 (currently assigned to the house judiciary committee) move forward in the house of representatives. thanks.
the conservative cajun links to this post see meal and a message
we are living under an occupation government
yesterday evening, the washington post published the following story about how president bush plans to increase the troop levels in iraq. meanwhile editor & publisher posted the results of a cnn poll in which its revealed that only eleven percent (11%) of the people support sending more troops. there is something extremely wrong when only ten or eleven percent of the people dictate to the majority the policy of this country.
"a tale of 1001 nights"
gustave clarence rodolphe boulanger 1873
Bush to Expand Size of Military
Tuesday, December 19, 2006; 4:18 PM
President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the armed forces to near the breaking point.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Bush said he has instructed newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to report back to him with a plan to increase ground forces. The president gave no estimates about how many troops may be added but indicated that he agreed with suggestions in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill that the current military is stretched too thin to cope with the demands placed on it.
"I'm inclined to believe that we do need to increase our troops -- the Army, the Marines," Bush said in the Oval Office session. "And I talked about this to Secretary Gates and he is going to spend some time talking to the folks in the building, come back with a recommendation to me about how to proceed forward on this idea."
The president's decision comes at a time when he is rethinking his strategy in Iraq and considering, among other options, a short-term surge in troop levels to try to secure violence-torn Baghdad. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are resisting the idea during internal debates in part out of the conviction that it will further strain already-pressed forces.
A substantial military expansion will take years and would not be meaningful in the near term in Iraq. But it would begin to address the growing alarm among commanders about the state of the armed forces. Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, warned Congress last week that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations. Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell, a retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday that "the active Army is about broken."
The Army has already temporarily increased its size from 482,000 active-duty soldiers in 2001 to 507,000 today and soon to 512,000. But the Army wants to make that 30,000-soldier increase permanent and then grow an additional 7,000 soldiers or more per year. The Army estimates that every 10,000 additional soldiers will cost about $1.2 billion a year.
The incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee spoke out forcefully today for increasing the size of the Army and Marines, noting that their leaders describe the services as "stretched and strained." "We're going to have to pay attention to this," Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) told reporters. Saying the two services are "bleeding," he added, "I think we have to apply the tourniquet and strengthen the forces. I think that will be a major part of our work."
In describing his decision today, Bush tied it to the broader struggle against Islamic extremists around the world rather than Iraq specifically. "It is an accurate reflection that this ideological war we're in is going to last for a while and that we're going to need a military that's capable of being able to sustain our efforts and to help us achieve peace," he said.
Asked about Powell's assessment, Bush chose a different term. "I haven't heard the word 'broken,' " he said, "but I've heard the word, 'stressed.' . . . We need to reset our military. There's no question the military has been used a lot. And the fundamental question is, will Republicans and Democrats be able to work with the administration to assure our military and the American people that we will position our military so that it is ready and able to stay engaged in a long war?"
Bush said he has not yet made a decision about a new strategy for Iraq and would wait for Gates to make a trip to Iraq to assess the situation for himself. "I need to talk to him when he gets back," the president said. "I've got more consultations to do with the national security team, which will be consulting with other folks. And I'm going to take my time to make sure that the policy, when it comes out, the American people will see that we . . . have got a new way forward."
Among the options under review by the White House is sending 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq for six to eight months. The idea has the support of important figures such as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and has been pushed by some inside the White House, but the Joint Chiefs have balked because they believe advocates have not adequately defined the mission and are pushing it mainly because of limited alternatives, according to U.S. officials.
The chiefs have warned that a short-term surge could lead to more attacks by al-Qaeda, provide more targets for Sunni insurgents and fuel the jihadist appeal for more foreign fighters to flock to Iraq to attack U.S. troops, according to the officials, who described the review on condition of anonymity because it is not complete.
Bush would not discuss such ideas in detail but said "all options are viable." He said he also wanted the American and Iraqi people to know that he would press the Iraqis to do more to secure their own country. "We expect the Iraqi people to continue making hard choices and doing hard work necessary to succeed," he said, "and our job is to help them do so."
eustace mullins on the federal reserve system
"its just a goddamned piece of paper"
democracy v constitutional republic
kevin tillman writes about his brother pat tillman
america land of the willingly ignorant
la congressional delegation favors extending iraqnam
dubya's curriculum vitae
franklin graham: full of crap
cenlamar interviews new hotel bentley owner
hotel bentley photo courtesy alex-retro
cenlamar blog has an interview with one of the new hotel bentley owners. click the link to read more.
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alexandria town talk prints pro-zionist views as slanted news
talk about a slanted news story. on saturday 16 december 2006 the town talk printed a so called news story by tom bonnette captioned "Rabbi: Iranian president should be taken seriously." this "news" article is mostly b.s. because the reporter doesnt even bother to try and give any alternative views whatsoever.
for instance, mr. bonnette, naturally, doesnt pass up the opportunity to mention that david duke attended "the holocaust - global vision" however, mr. bonnette fails to mention that it was also attended by a delegation of rabbi's and torah scholars from neturei karta including rabbi yisroel dovid weiss, rabbi yisroel feldman and r. aharon cohen and that all three gave speeches to the holocaust conference.
one can only conclude that the town talk isnt interested or capable of fairness and truth in its reporting because by printing this propaganda under the guise of news it is promoting the myth that all jews are zionists when this simply isnt the case.
the fact is, is that the alexandria daily town talk practices a form of anti-semitism when it gives voice only to zionism which is an atheistic, nationalistic movement totally opposed to biblical (torah) judaism. further evidence that the town talk is a zionist tool is by their continued printing of patently false "your mail" letters as chronicled by the cenlamar blog here and here.
the "news" story by tom bonnette ends with a quote from the talmud which is interesting because the talmud also calls mary the mother of jesus a whore and claims that jesus christ himself is a heretic and is in hell boiling in a cauldron of "hot semen". Gittin 57a
dont be deceived the "enemy" isnt some muslim goat herders in palestine. the enemy is according to rabbi's and torah scholars -- world zionism.
rabbi yisroel dovid weiss attends "the holocaust - global vision" in iran
rabbi yisroel dovid weiss on fox news
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railroaded federal style: usa v jeremy brown
illegal aliens have more rights than american citizens
in this opinion isued last week by the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit we learn that its perfectly acceptable to stop and pat down american citizens based on a police officers "experience" however, this doesnt apply to illegals.
on friday, 04 june 2004 a couple of rent-a-cops (actually moonlighting baton rouge police officers brett busbin and thompson) observed jeremy brown and a friend sitting in a car in the parking lot of the spanish arms apartment complex in baton rouge, louisiana [map] [satellite] after a few minutes the rent-a-cops approached supposedly to tell them that the apartment complex has a "no loitering" policy and upon their approach they noticed that mr. brown and friend "started going up under the [car] seats." so based on this flimsy excuse brown and friend were searched and marijuana and a gun were found.
Brown, who had a prior felony record, was indicted for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of marijuana. Brown moved to suppress evidence of the gun and marijuana, alleging that the officers lacked reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot when they conducted the pat-down and that the subsequent car and residence search were thus not justified. The district court (judge james j. brady - b. 1944, bill clinton appointee) granted Brown’s motion, finding that Brown’s slouching in his seat and apparent hiding or retrieving of something were insufficient facts to establish reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
C. The border patrol cases are inapplicable
In granting Brown’s motion to suppress, the district court relied on a series of border patrol cases in which we have held that ducking or slouching behavior of the occupants of a car was insufficient, in itself, to create a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot.
In each of the cases relied upon by the district court, we found that, under the factors set forth in United States v. Brigoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 884-85, 95 S. Ct. 2574, 2582 (1975), for determining whether a roving patrol stop is justified, the mere slouching or “hunkering down” of auto occupants did not warrant a stop. Orona-Sanchez, 648 F.2d at 1042; Pena-Cantu, 639 F.2d at 1229-30; Pacheco, 617 F.2d 86-87.
The test set forth in Brigoni-Ponce does not apply in non-border patrol cases because the slouching down of an occupant of a vehicle does not have the same import outside the border context.
advocate snip:
U.S. District Judge James Brady threw out the evidence in January, deciding that while it was OK for detectives to approach the men with the intent of advising them of the apartment complex’s loitering policy, they crossed the line during the search.
The judge cited five rulings by the 5th Circuit that found “slumping,” “slouching,” “ducking,” “sitting low” or “scrambling” to avoid detection does not justify a search.
But 5th Circuit Judges Thomas Reavley, Carl Stewart and Edith Brown Clement write that those decisions apply to border patrol cases only. click here to read more from the advocate.
about the only thing the fifth circuit did right in this case was prohibiting it from being cited:
*Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R.47.5.4.
but then again there is no need to make this opinion a precedent now is there since the judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys know exactly how the fifth circuit will rule in the future in similar cases.
judge thomas morrow reavley - b. 1921; jimmy carter appointee; judge carl e. stewart - b. 1950; bill clinton appointee; judge edith "joy" brown clement - b. 1948; george w. bush appointee.
illegal immigrant games
rail roaded louisiana style: state of louisiana v leslie otto ordodi
s u n d a y m a t i n e e
1 hr 38 min 40 sec
if this video doesnt work click here and/or here to search for it on google video.
eustace mullins is a protege of ezra pound, who was, according to mr. mullins and we have no reason to doubt him, the dominant intellectual of the twentieth century. four of pound's proteges have been given the nobel prize for literature after pound edited their work. the first one was t.s. eliot. pound first edited eliot's poem "the wasteland" in paris in 1920 and "the wasteland" went on to become the most famous poem of the 20th century. next was ernest hemingway. ezra pound made hemingways prose very crisp; according to mr. mullins, hemingway's stellar background was as a hack writer for a newspaper in saskatchewan, canada called the moose jaw times herald. next was william butler yeats whos stuffy victorian poetry horrified pound. pound got him out of that and into modern poetry. pounds fourth protege was james joyce who wrote "ulysses" which pound edited and that book went on to become the most famous book of the twentieth century.
pound never won the nobel prize because (again, according to mr. mullins) he never cultivated the establishment. in the 1930s and '40s to get anywhere you really had to be an outspoken, active pro communist. "so of course he (pound) was totally ignored by everybody except the public. the public liked his work."
when mr. mullins met ezra pound he sent mullins to the library of congress to find out what he could about the federal reserve system. mr. mullins says that he really has a knack for research and that he found out the entire history of the federal reserve system which he says is "the greatest swindle ever known in history." click here to start the video at the point where mr. mullins starts to explain the federal reserve system or click the link to watch the video in full. eustace mullins book "secrets of the federal reserve" is also available to read by clicking here.
If you prefer to buy a copy of the Secrets of Federal Reserve,
don't buy one of the used copies for $90 from Amazon;
instead, send $43 (that price includes shipping) to:
Eustace Mullins
126 Madison Place
Staunton VA 24401
**updated** in this 16 december 2006 audio interview with daryl bradford smith, eustace mullins exposes david duke. "david always does what hes told to." "david is always a front man for somebody. he's working for somebody whenever he makes his appearance and he gets tremendous press coverage all over the world...i've told people for years you cannot trust anybody who gets on national television because they own them and thats the only way they can get on national television." "he's [david duke] like an elvis presley i heard one talk he gave there in new orleans and he had the old ladies weeping, you know, because you never heard such schmaltz in your life... i never heard anything like it, it was an incredible performance... he's totally insincere there is never any sincerity only a fool would ever be taken in by him because hes totally transparent in what he does" .mp3 here
funkytonkrecords.com links here
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eustace mullins 'the world order' a study in the hegemony of parasitism.pdf
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hb79 charlie dewitt & rapides sheriff race
state representative charlie dewitt is rumored to be running for sheriff of rapides parish next year (2007) due to being term limited out of the legislature. we have heard this rumor from several different non blog sources. so, representative dewitt files hb79 to up the supplemental pay of certain law enforcement officers and deputy sheriffs only problem is that his bill didnt even make it out of the state house appropriations committee. will the failure of this bill hurt or help rep. dewitt's chances of running for sheriff?
click the link to view this bill directly from the state legislature website www.legis.state.la.us
digest link
several blogs are following the rapides parish sheriff race:
tod-race sheriff race blog
steel magnolias sheriff race 2007 blog
charlie789's thoughts from rapides blog
god save us the louisiana legislature is in session!
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rabbi yisroel dovid weiss attends the holocaust global vision in iran
neturei karta * jews united against zionism
iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad greets rabbi yisroel dovid weiss
click the link to find the audio file of rabbi yisroel dovid weiss speech to "the holocaust - global vision"
city of alexandria releases coughlin-saunders atty letter
a few days ago the city of alexandria released the following letter to the alexandria daily town talk and you may follow the links to download from the town talk's website your own copy. according to the town talk the coughlin-saunders performing arts center, (more information here via alex-retro) opened over two years ago and was built for $8,200,000 [6.2m eur] with public (taxpayers) and private money and immediately the roof began leaking in heavy rainstorms. the city of alexandria (taxpayers) continues to pay for maintenance and for lighting. the city of alexandria taxpayers have also paid for two studies to find out why the building leaks.
the city administration, city attorney and newly elected mayor jacques roy refuse to release the most recent leak study done by quick and associates citing the louisiana public records law and [mayor] roy said those "with interests adverse" to the city protecting taxpayer money must be prevented from seeing the report now.
however, with the cities release of the below letter that voids that argument because this letter is a summary of what is contained in the report.
click here to download .pdf page 1 from the town talk
the town talk
city, construction company to hash out leak dispute
the town talk's jacques roy transparency test
jack booted thuggery at the alexandria mall
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Bush, Putin Certify Moscow Treaty
G-8 Summit Opens
Bush-Putin Certify Moscow Treaty
Links: | CNN |
June 1 (Day 152, Wall): President Bush met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for 45 minutes in St. Petersburg, Russia. The two issued a strong statement to North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program and urged Iran to comply in full with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The two leaders also signed papers certifying that both countries have formally ratified the Treaty of Moscow to reduce nuclear arsenals on both sides by two-thirds. Both the US Senate and the Russian parliament have ratified the treaty.
G-8 Summit Opens in Evian, France
Links: | CNN | AP | BBC News |
The annual summit of the Group of 8 (G-8) richest industrialized nations opened in Evian, France on the Swiss border near Geneva. Host French President Jacques Chirac also invited leaders of 11 developing countries to the conference. They included India, Egypt, Mexico, and several African nations. At the summit, President Bush met with President Chirac, who had previously opposed the Iraq War.
{Prayer Needs}
1. President Bush is in a crisis, if not immediate danger. He has attended the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg and is on his way down to Egypt. He will face the suffering of the year, 2003, on June 3rd.
2. The US-led government of Iraq needs God's authority and blessing. There will be no freedom in Iraq without missionaries. Evangelism is the number one need in Iraq.
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Two tornadoes and two waterspouts were reported in the USA. The tornadoes occurred during the night and the waterspouts occurred this afternoon. The first tornado was in Wood, North Carolina at 36 N., for Ai, and 78 W., for sexual abuse. The second was 9 miles south southeast of Harrison, Nebraska at 42 N., for Baal, the bear, and Russia, and 103 W., for the Justice of the Holy Spirit. The two waterspouts this afternoon were in the Florida Keys 1 mile north of No Name, Key and 1 mile south of Big Coppitt Key. Both were at 24 N., for Satan's strategic attack on Israel, and 81 W. There were at least 40 hail and 26 wind damage reports in the USA. The severe weather over the eastern USA was associated with the image of the eagle yesterday. The severe weather in yesterday's report was divided into two groups, one in the east and the other in the central US. This was the sign of a witness.
The image of a staff was in the Atlantic off the east coast of the USA, and a weather elephant was over the central US. An elephant represents a demon Commander, such as Baal. A staff is a sign of security for deliverance of a Shepherd's sheep (Psalm 23:4). The staff of Moses and Aaron was used to call forth the plagues of Egypt to deliver Israel.
The first tornado was in Wood, North Carolina at 36 N., for Ai, and 78 W., for sexual abuse. The second was near Harrison, Nebraska at 42 N., for Baal, the bear, and Russia, and 103 W., for the Justice of the Holy Spirit in 2003. The tornadoes heralded President Bush's certification of the Moscow Treaty for the reduction of nuclear arms. North Carolina represents the military. Russia is under the power of Baal, and Nebraska, in the region of the Merarites, is associated with Fire Testing. The severe weather was divided into two groups, which was the sign of a witness. The two leaders of the US and Russia at the signing of the peace treaty was the sign of a witness. The US was, in effect, making an agreement with the Cosmic System and relying on Baal for protection. The agreement was signed in St. Petersburg during the 300th Anniversary celebration. The number, 300, stands for decisive Judgment.
The two waterspouts in the Florida Keys represented a strategic failure. The waterspouts were at 24 N., for Satan's strategic attack on Israel. The waterspouts represented the Moscow Treaty because Florida is responsible for air and sea defense. Missiles come through the air. The waterspouts also represented the evil Road Map for peace, which President Bush is trying to impose on Israel in defiance of the Abrahamic Covenant.
The Group of 8 (G-8) Summit was an international conference under the power of Satan. God does not back worldly friendships (James 4:4). The G-8 Summit is in France, which is in the same location in Europe as Israel in Asia. Bush plans to leave the G-8 Summit tomorrow to go down to Egypt.
On the weather map was a staff off the east coast. A staff represents the security and deliverance of the Lord, who is the Shepherd of the Church. He is also the Shepherd of true Israel, which only consists of believers. A weather elephant stretched from North Dakota to Texas. This represented the function of the federal judiciary in President Bush's certification of the Moscow Treaty. President Bush is from Texas, and North Dakota is in the region of Dan, for the federal judiciary.
This was June 1st, for unity. The members of the G-8 Summit were trying to get along with President Bush in unity after the earlier split over the Iraq War. And it was Day 152, for a wall, which represents the security of a nation.
Bible Doctrine
This is Bible Doctrine. The tornadoes in North Carolina and Nebraska heralded President Bush's certification of the Moscow Treaty, which will bring cursing upon the USA because it is an agreement with Baal. The waterspouts in the Florida Keys pointed to the Moscow Treaty as well as the Road Map for peace, both of which are Satanic attacks upon the Sovereign Design of God.
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Stepping Out For Slaven fundraiser planned in memory of 23-year-old
View the article on Vindy.com: vindy.com/stepping-out-for-slaven
By EMMALEE C. TORISK
Adrienne Mowry won’t soon forget the kindness that Justin Slaven routinely extended toward everyone he encountered, especially those with physical disabilities.
“Even though he was disabled himself, he always wanted to help others,” said Mowry, who knew Justin through her work with the Purple Cat, a day program for adults with special needs. “He was the nicest person, and he certainly made you smile.”
In the almost five years that Justin attended the Purple Cat, which he became part of shortly after graduating from Struthers High School in 2009, he was a favorite client of those who worked there.
His death hit them hard.
The 23-year-old was found dead of a gunshot wound in the basement of his Seventh Street residence March 20, while his mother, 44-year-old Leslie Slaven, was wounded and unconscious. She died less than a week later. Police called the tragedy an apparent murder-suicide.
Mowry said she immediately felt compelled to turn something so devastating into a positive.
With that goal in mind, she and the Purple Cat began to organize the Stepping Out For Slaven fundraiser — a 5K run, 1-mile walk and kids race — that will take place June 29 to benefit Robert Slaven, Justin’s father. The money raised will then be used for any bills or expenses Robert is facing.
Some proceeds also will go toward the special-needs program at Struthers High School, supporting its efforts and funding student scholarships.
“He loved his community,” said Mowry, referring to Justin. “I’m hoping for everybody to come together, and show how much they love Justin and support his dad in any way they can.”
The event will begin at 9 a.m., with the route consisting of the streets surrounding Struthers High School, 111 Euclid Ave. Parking will be available that day in the gravel lot across from the high-school stadium and in the parking lot of St. Nicholas Great Hall, as well as on surrounding streets.
The registration cost for the 5K run (age 12 and up) is $15, while the all-ages 1-mile walk is $15, and the kids race (age 12 and under) is $10. The deadline to register is June 23. To register online, visit www.bigpurplecat.com/justin.
Jimmy Sutman, owner and founder of the Purple Cat, said he and his co-workers were “so impressed” by the Struthers community’s rallying around the Slaven family in the aftermath of the tragedy. An online fundraiser started by a former neighbor raised $5,800 in a matter of days to help pay for funeral expenses, for example, and a candlelight vigil at the high school was attended by more than 100 family members, friends, former teachers and community members.
“We wanted to take a leadership role in getting Struthers together again,” said Sutman of the Purple Cat, which is sponsoring the event. “Now that Justin and his mom are gone, we want to take care of [Robert] as much as possible.”
Sutman added that he’s hoping for a strong turnout for the event in memory of Justin, a client he’ll always remember as “effervescent and full of life and super-kind to everybody.”
Donations are being accepted under the “Stepping Out For Slaven” account at the Struthers Federal Credit Union and at Huntington Bank locations. They also can be mailed to the Purple Cat, Attn: Adrienne Mowry, at 4738 McCartney Road, Lowellville, OH 44436.
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World Heritage in Argentine Land
From 1981 Argentina boasts sites that were recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage. These national parks, refuges rock art, colonial ruins and shelters with a unique biodiversity. The route runs north to south and also adds The Tango of Buenos Aires.
In Argentina there are eight natural and cultural areas of unique features that were declared by UNESCO as World Heritage. Each has a particular charm, and together forms a tourist itinerary recommended for foreign tourists visiting the country for the first time.
The proposal includes everything from cultural, archaeological and historical tours, to the most extreme adventure for those seeking a holiday full of challenges. The track runs through almost all the national territory and calls the discovery of rainforests, national parks, large ice scenarios, colonial ruins, traces of ancient dinosaurs and multicolored hills.
The first of the sites that received World Heritage recognition was the Los Glaciares National Park in the province of Santa Cruz, in 1981. And the most recent is the Tango, registered in 2009 in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Over three decades received mention many other tourist attractions in the provinces of Chubut, Córdoba, Misiones, San Juan, Jujuy and La Rioja.
The complete list of sites recognized by Unesco in Argentina are the following ones:
Misiones Jesuíticas Guaraníes
Parque Nacional Iguazú
Península Valdés
Cueva de las Manos en Río Pinturas
Estancias Jesuíticas de Córdoba
Ischigualasto y Talampaya
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