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Worship & Prayer
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Past Services at First Lutheran Church
"God's Work, Our Hands As We Keep Christ First"
A Brief History of The First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio
The congregation of First Lutheran, Bellefontaine, Ohio, was founded in the home of John Horn, just north of the city of Bellefontaine. Prior to that time Lutherans in the area had worshiped in homes under the direction of missionary pastors.
The Rev. James B. Hoffman, a son-in-law of the Horn family served as the first pastor. The second pastor, the Rev. J. G. Harris, was also a son-in-law of the Horns. He served for two years and resigned on account of “low remuneration.” The congregation was again served by missionary pastors and for another year by Pastor Hoffman, their first pastor.
On March 25, 1848, Dr. Ezra Keller, founder and president of Wittenberg College, in Springfield, reorganized the congregation. The church was then served by a seminary student and by several interim pastors, and was vacant from time to time.
On April 20, 1851, the congregation reorganized a second time under the leadership of the Rev. John P. Brickley, of the Wittenberg Synod. It was during Pastor Brickley’s tenure and because of his encouraging leadership; the congregation acquired property and erected their first building. There were 28 members at the time of the 1851 reorganization. The earliest records of the council date from this time. The first building erected was a one story structure on the corner of Detroit and Sandusky Streets.
In 1881, the first church building was razed and the site leveled to erect the current church building. The original building consisted of two assembly areas, one for worship wand one for Sunday school. The main entry was in the base of the steeple facing Detroit Street. During construction the 1,800 pound bell was hung in the steeple.
In 1914, the building underwent major remodeling that included interior and exterior changes. The steeple was deemed “unsafe” and was removed. Portions of the exterior were bricked and the window designs were changed to permit the installation of stained glass windows. It was at this time that the “Come Unto Me” window over the altar was installed and the three symbols of the Holy Trinity were painted around the window.
In 1952, the congregation purchased land for parking and expansion. The expansion dream was realized in 1957 with the dedication of the Youth Building which housed classrooms, a fellowship hall and church offices.
The series of physical changes continued in 1989 when the congregation engaged in a renovation that saw the removal of the wall between the two parts of the Worship area, a new entry on the west side of the building and the enclosure of the courtyard.
Beyond the physical building of the parish, First Lutheran has had many significant milestones in service to the Logan County community. In 1962, Pastor Jerry Schmalenberger established a preaching point at Indian Lake in Russells Point. It was under the direction of Pastor Robert Secrist that the congregation of Galilee Lutheran Church at Russells Point was organized and chartered in 1967.
In 1964, the Lutheran Community Services was established to assist the needy and underprivileged in the area. Most of the leadership, funding and workers came from First Lutheran. The LCS has occupied several different locations, expanded its services from clothing and food to a whole host of Christian ministries, including a community kitchen (Our Daily Bread), a Thrift Store, and numerous direct assistance programs and community support operations.
It is impossible to summarize in a few words all the information that is the history of First Lutheran. In 2015, the congregation celebrated 175 years of service to God and the community.
208 West Sandusky Avenue, Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311 † Office (937) 592-7699 † Dial-A-Prayer (937) 593-3531
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15A of the Sexual Offences Act (9802/19)
June 18, 2019 Incident and Crime Statistics
1. Please tell me the number of recorded offences under s.15A of the Sexual Offences Act (Home Office recording code 71/17) recorded from (and including) October 1, 2018, until (and including) April 2, 2019.
2. Where possible I would like to know the age and gender of the victim, broken down into age groups: 11 and under, 12-15, 16 and over.
3. Please tell me the age and gender of the youngest victim.
4. Please tell me all the forms of communication (eg. text message, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Kik etc.) that have been recorded as having been used in connection with recorded offences under s.15A of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 from (and including) October 1, 2018, until (and including) April 2, 2019, and the number of times each method was recorded.
5. Please tell me how many times a cyber flag was attached to the recorded crime for these dates.
I suggest a table as follows:
Total number of offences Number of female victims Number of male victims Age and gender of the youngest victim Method of communication used Number of times each method was used Number of times a cyber flag was attached to a crime
11 and under 11 and under
16 and over 16 and over
If any part of the request proves too time-consuming, I would prefer for you to:
(a) Just answer 1, 2, 3 and 4; or
(b) Just answer 1, 2 and 3; or
(c) Just answer question 1
Please be advised that the information that you have requested is not available in a readily retrievable format in relation to the number of times each method was recorded (part of Question 4) and information in relation to cyber flags (Question 5) as we do not have a central recording category which records this information. Therefore we have provided Question 1/ 2/ 3 and part of 4 as you suggested alternative options within your request.
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Canon Launches New Flagship XF705 Professional Camcorder Featuring 4K Video Recording at 60P/4:2:2/10-Bit. New Professional Camcorder Produces HDR Video to On-Board SD Cards
by Mark Shapiro, Editor in Chief
Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, today announced the new flagship model for the Company’s XF-series professional camcorders, the XF705. The camcorder features 4K (3840 x 2160) video shooting enabling users to record high-image quality at 60p/4:2:2/10-bit/HDR1 video to on-board SD cards. Ideal for broadcast and video production applications in addition to capturing video content at events and concerts, the 4K camcorder meets the needs of users who require high-quality video capture and more efficient video production workflows.
“The ability to capture high-quality video on-the-go in a compact and lightweight form factor is extremely valuable to videographers of all skill levels,” said Kazuto Ogawa, president and chief operating officer, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “This camcorder was designed to help professionals take their productions to the next level with 4K video recording and a wide-range of advanced features.”
The XF705 features an L-Series 15x optical zoom lens (35 mm film equivalent: 25.5 mm–382.5 mm), 1.0-inch CMOS sensor and a Dual DIGIC DV 6 image-processor providing greater image quality and performance. In addition, users can easily choose between two HDR formats—Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), ideal for such scenarios as broadcasting and live video transmission and Perceptual Quantization (PQ), which is well-suited during web transmission and film production. The camcorder features Canon’s newly developed XF-HEVC video format that enables users to record HDR video to SD cards while delivering a high compression ratio. It also allows HDR (internal SD card) and SDR (external recorder) simultaneous recording. Delivering smaller file sizes allows for more efficient workflows across various stages of the production process, from shooting to editing.
When shooting 4K video, focusing precision is vital, the XF705, featuring Canon’s revolutionary Dual Pixel CMOS AF2 enables users to maintain smooth autofocus operation through enhanced touch-panel operations. The XF705 meets a wide range of professional demands, with Canon Log 3, 12G-SDI, Built-in Wi-Fi, 4-channel audio, 3 density ND filter and 5 axis image stabilization for its 15x optical zoom lens. It is also compatible with the current leading non-linear editing software, as well as Canon XF Utility, a software that supports the new XF-HEVC video format, as well as XF-AVC and XF-MPEG, and is used for import, playing back and managing video data as well as cropping still-image data.
The Canon XF705 professional camcorder is scheduled to be available in December 2018 with a suggested retail price of $6,999.00*. Additional CA-CP200 L power adapters are available for purchase as well with a suggested retail price of $285.00*. For more information, please visit usa.canon.com.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $36 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2017† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2018. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based service and support for all of the products it distributes in the United States. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. In 2014, the Canon Americas Headquarters secured LEED® Gold certification, a recognition for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of high-performance green buildings. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA. For media inquiries, please contact pr@cusa.canon.com.
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Data Structures Technical Interview Questions
What are Data Structures?
A Data Structure is a specific way of organizing and storing data in a computer. The data must be structured in such a way so that it can be used efficiently. This included being easily stored, accessed and retrieved. Usually the data structure is designed in such a way to organize the data to suit a specific purpose.
The general data structure types include the array, the file, the record, the table, the tree, and so on.
What is the purpose of Data Structures?
Data structures are primarily used as a form of storing and organizing data. The most common types of data structures include the array, the file, the record, the table, the tree, etc. They are utilized by data management systems to store, organize and easily retrieve data.
Hence, it can be said that the primary purpose of data structures is so that the data can effectively be collected, stored, and utilized for use in various algorithms.
Differentiate file structure from storage structure
The primary difference between file structures and storage structures is the memory area that is accessed in each.
A storage structure is the representation of a particular data structure in the memory of a computer, whereas a file structure is a storage structure representation in auxiliary memory.
When is a binary search best applied?
Binary search is a type of algorithm. It is best applied to search in a list in which the elements are already in order or sorted.
The binary search algorithm starts searching the list from the middle. If the middle value is not the correct one, then it will go on to search the top or the bottom half in a similar manner, i.e. it will then divide the top or the bottom part into halves and start searching from its middle. It will continue to do this until the searched for value is found.
Which data structures are used for BFS and DFS of a graph?
Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are two different way of searching through data structures. BFS and DFS are algorithms that are primarily used for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures. DFS uses stack to search through the data structures, whereas BFS uses queue.
BFS is fairly simple to use as it doesn't need any data structures. It typically starts at the tree root or some arbitrary node of a graph, which is referred to as a 'search key'. It then explores the neighbor nodes first, before moving to the next level neighbors.
DFS is closely related to preorder traversal of a tree, which means that it first searches each node before its children. It starts searching at the tree root or some arbitrary node of a graph and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking and trying another route.
Can doubly linked list be implemented using a single pointer variable in every node?
Yes, a doubly linked list can be implemented using a single pointer variable in every node. This type of list is called a XOR Linked List or Memory Efficient. This is because it is called bitwise XOR operation to save space for one address. In the XOR linked list, instead of storing actual memory addresses, every node stores the XOR of addresses of previous and next nodes.
What is LIFO?
LIFO stands for Last In and First Out. Basically, this means that the last data or information to be added is the only one that can be accessed. As the name suggest, the last thing to be inputted or added, is the first thing to be accessed. Hence, in order to access the first piece of data, all the other data to be stored after must first be accessed and extracted, until the first one can be reached.
What is FIFO?
FIFO stands for First In and First Out. Basically, here the first piece of data to be stored is the first one to be accessed. Hence, it can be said that the data is accessed in the order that it was stored. Think of FIFO as a line, where the first person to get in the line is the first person to get service, the second person in line gets service second, and so on and so forth.
What is a queue?
A queue is a type of data structure. Here, the first element in the structure is the only one that can be accessed. A Queue follows FIFO, which stands for First In and First Out. Basically, this means that in a queue when new data is added to the structure, it is put in line or order behind the last data. When it comes time to access the data, the first data to be filed or stored, is the first one to be accessed; then the second one, then the third one, until eventually the last one to be stored.
Compare this to people standing in a queue for something, such as ice-cream. Now, when the ice-cream seller stands selling the ice-cream, they will sell it to the person who was first in line. If they start selling to anybody, all of the people will rush to the front and there will no order. So, the first person to get in line is the first person to be served.
In queue, only two operations are allowed enqueue and dequeue. Enqueue means to insert an item into the back of the queue, dequeue means removing the front item.
What is a stack?
A stack is a type of data structure. Here, only the top element in the structure can be accessed. Stack follows LIFO, which stands for Last In First Out. Basically, what this means is that in the stack, as new data keeps getting added to the structure, the previous data keeps getting pushed out and cannot be accessed. Only the last data to be added can be accessed.
Compare this to a stack of plates. Each plate is stacked on top of each other. However, when it comes to removing the plate, either to use or to wash, the first plate to be taken would be from the top of the pile. If one removes a plate from the middle or the bottom, they risk toppling the entire pile. Hence, the last plate to be put on the stack, is the first one to be removed.
In the pushdown stacks, only two operations are allowed: push the item into the stack, and pop the item out of the stack. Push adds an item to the top of the stack, and pop removes the item from the top.
What is the difference between Stack and Queue data structure?
The primary difference between Stack and Queue data structure is that Stack is LIFO (Last In First Out), while Queue is a FIFO (First In First Out). Due to this, the manner in which each of these operate and the manner in which they handle data differs.
Type of data structure
Follows Last In First Out (LIFO) order
Follows First In First Out (FIFO) order
Objects are inserted and removed at the same end.
Objects are inserted and removed from different ends.
The last inserted object is first to be accessed and extracted
The first object to be inserted is the first to be accessed and extracted.
Only one pointer is used. It points to the top of the stack.
Two different pointers are used. One for the front end and the other at the rear end.
Stack operations are called push and pop.
Queue operations are called enqueue and dequeue.
Are visualized as vertical collections
Are visualized as horizontal collections
What is a Linked List?
As its name suggests, a Linked List is a list of linked data elements. Technically speaking, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements, called nodes. In this list, each node points to another node by means of a pointer. It can also be said that it is a data structure consisting of a group of nodes which together represent a sequence, i.e. from one to another. In a linked list, each node is composed of data and a reference or link to the next node in the sequence.
Linked lists are among the simplest and most common data structures. They are primarily used to implement several other common abstract data types, including lists, stacks, queues, associative arrays, and S-expressions. In addition to these, they can also be used to implement other data structures directly without using a list as the basis of implementation.
What are the different types of Linked Lists?
A linked list is a linear data structure where each element is a separate object. Technically speaking, a linked list is a linear collection of data elements, called nodes. In this list, each node points to another node by means of a pointer, and together form a sequence.
There are three types of Linked Lists:
Singly Linked List: Every node stores, addresses or references to the next node in list and the last node has next address or referenced as NULL. For example: 1->2->3->4->NULL
Doubly Linked List: There are two references associated with each node. One of the references points to the next node and one to the previous node. For example: NULL<-1<->2<->3->NULL
Circular Linked List: All nodes are connected to form a circle. There is no NULL at the end. The pointer of last node points back to the first. A circular linked list can be a singly circular linked list or doubly circular linked list. For example: 1->2->3->1.
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Support the People of Gaza: An Analysis by Solidarity Halifax
Situation in Gaza
Ever since more than 700,000 Palestinians were forced off their land in the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, the Palestinian people have been bravely resisting Israeli colonialism. Many of the Palestinian refugees live in sprawling camps in the Gaza Strip, keeping the keys to their old homes in the hope that one day they will exercise their right to return. 1.2 million of the 1.8 Palestinians living in Gaza, the most densely populated area of the planet, are refugees.
Following years of resistance in the Second Intifada, the state of Israel withdrew its illegal settlements from the Gaza Strip in 2005. However, the occupation remained: Israel still maintains a security perimeter inside the Gazan border that blocks farmers from the best farmland, maintains a naval blockade, controls the airspace and population registry, and along with Egypt tightly controls the flow of goods and people in the Strip, earning it the nickname of “the world's largest open-air prison.”. For the Palestinian's refusal to quietly disappear, Israel is enacting collective punishment on the people of Gaza.
Sine July 8th, Israel has been brutally bombing the people of Gaza. To date, more than 1500 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the recent attack. Most media has refused to report the truth as to what is happening in the Middle East and has instead focused on the actions of Hamas. The real crime here is Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people and the continued illegal occupation of Palestine. Israeli forces have knowingly fired rockets at children playing soccer on the beach, the al-Wafa hospital, Gaza's only power plant, and even United Nations shelters. On July 19th nineteen People were killed when the Jabiliya Elementary Girl's School, which the United Nations Relief and Works Agency had been using as a bomb shelter, was shelled by Israeli tanks- despite seventeen warnings from the UNRWA to the Israeli Defence Forces. On August 3rd, Israeli Defence Forces again shelled a UN shelter in Rafah, killing 10 Palestinians. War crimes are being committed on a daily basis by the Israeli military and urgent international solidarity is needed to hold Israel to account.
Response of the ruling class in Canada
The response from the ruling class, the 1%, in Canada has been predictable. The ruling Conservatives and opposition Liberals, big business and corporate media have publicly supported Israeli war crimes against the people of Palestine. This includes horrific silence and lies around the Israeli bombing of the United Nations school. This is not surprising. The ruling class in Canada, like the ruling class in the United States and Europe, has continued their imperialist and colonial policies in the Middle East. The occupation of Palestine is part of a broader strategy to secure Western interests in the Middle East, including access to oil and markets. Capitalist imperialism will stop of nothing short of the total elimination of the Palestinian people in its quest for ever growing profits.
Much like was done in Canada to the indigenous population, the Palestinians are systematically forced into smaller areas of land to accommodate the expansion of settler villages. A full 59% of the West Bank is under exclusive Israeli control, and any movement through the remainder of the non-continuous Palestinian territory is disrupted by 522 security checkpoints. Such limits do not apply to Israeli settlers, who travel between the 130 illegal settlements on Israeli-only roads. Meanwhile, the Israeli government is near completion of a 700 km-long separation wall (longer than the border) to contain the Palestinians and annex West Bank land. As Canadians that know the tragic history of colonialism in North America, we are obligated to act to prevent history from repeating itself.
Response of the NDP
Solidarity Halifax is disappointed in NDP Members of Parliament in the Halifax Regional Municipality, and across the country, for their lack of comment and action against the Israeli invasion of Gaza. As proclaimed progressive and left-wing political party, the NDP is supposed to stand for international human rights, justice and against war. To date, the Conservative government has been Israel's biggest cheerleader and the Liberal party has been singing backup in their uncritical support for Israel. The New Democrats have called for a ceasefire and expressed concern at Palestinian casualties. However, they have stopped short of naming, let alone condemning, Israeli aggression. This is not adequate.
When Israeli tanks shelled the UN shelter in Gaza, the UNRWA and even United States condemned Israel's actions. Stephen Harper, however, has lied to the Canadian people and repeated the Israeli line that Hamas bombed the shelter. The NDP Official Opposition must condemn Israel’s warmongering in forceful terms. The Conservative government’s support for these policies must be equally condemned.
The NDP membership has been frustrated by the party's silence towards Israeli aggression. NDP members have dissented against this silence, including a one-day occupation of Foreign Affairs Critic Paul Dewar's office and a statement from the New Democratic Youth of Canada.
Solidarity Halifax, along with other groups including Independent Jewish Voices, Canadians Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace, and Students Against Israeli Apartheid, agrees that the NDP must do more, and so has organized a picket at Megan Leslie’s office. Megan Leslie is the NDP Member of Parliament for Halifax and deputy leader of the federal NDP. We call on the NDP to:
Issue a statement specifically condemning Israeli aggression against civilians by shelling UN shelters at Jabiliya and Rafah.
Condemn Stephen Harper for lying to Canadians in order to cover for Israeli crimes in the shelling of the Jabiliya UN shelter.
Sign and promote NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice's petition calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
Electoral politics cannot bring about deep change
As Solidarity Halifax has noted in the past, electoral politics can never bring about deep change in society. Change must come from below, from the working classes and oppressed peoples of Canada and around the world mobilizing in defence of our rights, lives and livelihoods. This does not however make electoral politics unimportant. Electoral politics must be viewed as a tactic, a means to an end, not and end in and of itself.
Years ago, in response to Apartheid in South Africa, it took mobilizations and support from people around the world to help bring down a racist regime and force our politicians to take action. The ruling class of Canada, the United States and Britain continued to support Apartheid South Africa for decades and opposed the African National Congress under the revolutionary leadership of Nelson Mandela, often calling him a terrorist. Trade unions, student unions, women’s organizations, anti-racist and immigrant groups organized to demonstrate the people of the world were opposed to Apartheid. This international support helped people on the ground in South Africa fight back against Apartheid. That is our challenge today when faced with what Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (among many others) have called Israeli Apartheid.
In international solidarity work, it is our goal to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and to support the calls from Palestinian civil society. We must bring international attention to the plight of the Palestinians. We must challenge false narratives, such as the notion that Israel is somehow defending itself from territory it occupies, or the naive liberal idea that all sides are equally to blame. Political parties are a sensible target for solidarity activists because they have access to a significant public platform and what they do with it makes the difference for Palestinians. To have power and not use it is as much a political act as using it.
Stephen Harper's Conservatives and Justin Trudeau's Liberals must be challenged for their shameful, uncritical support for Israel's latest war and, since the Conservatives form the government, warrant much attention from Palestine solidarity campaigning. However, calling attention to the NDP's silence on Palestine is important as well. Some New Democrats, even those that support the Palestinian cause, believe that efforts to move the party's position on Palestine is inappropriate. However, recent events suggest otherwise. We do not believe it is a coincidence that the first reference by Paul Dewar of any Israeli aggression happened a day after his office was occupied: grassroots pressure works and must be maintained. Further, when no parliamentarians are using their considerable public profile to speak up for Gazans, activists should target those most likely to be swayed: in this case, the Official Opposition. The more often condemnation of Israel's bombing of UN schools is in the news, the better. If grassroots action is required to make the NDP use their platform to carry these messages, then action shall be taken.
Israel’s continued occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the economic blockade, are crimes against humanity. Solidarity Halifax calls on all progressive forces in Canada to act in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in occupied Palestine and to commit to a just peace in the Middle East.
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Elections are a tactic?
Submitted by Antoni Wysocki on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 13:28.
"Electoral politics must be viewed as a tactic, a means to an end, not and end in and of itself."
Blowing stuff up is a tactic -- one that Nelson Mandela favored (it's what got him imprisoned on Robben Island). Turning yourself into a human torch is a tactic—it's what kick-started the Arab Spring. As suggested by sex activist Annie Sprinkle, giving complimentary blow jobs to politicians, whose projection onto society of their own libidinal frustration and repression causes them to act repressively, is a tactic. Praying; sending out positive karmic energy; offering libations or burnt offerings to the gods—all these are tactics.
[For the rest of this post, see: "Choose Your Tactics Well"]
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Pride & Progress
By Rosemary Gemmell
Historical fiction | eBook
Rosemary Gemmell
Miss Emily Morton is content with her village life as a teacher in the north east of England in the 1870s, until the new railway arrives along with the handsome Scottish station master, Arthur Muir. Emily detests the railways, while it is Arthur's passion. Each is challenged by the other but will pride allow for progress?
Rosemary Gemmell is a published historical and contemporary novelist for adults and also writes for the Middle Grade age group. Her short stories, articles and occasional poems have been published in UK magazines, in the US, and online. She has a Masters in literature and history and is a member of the Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and the Scottish Associations of Writers.
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Newsletter English March/April 2018
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1. Scientific highlight - Publication of the article “The spin evolution of fast-rotating, magnetized super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs in the aftermath of white dwarf mergers” on ApJ, 25 April 2018
2. In memory of Stephen Hawking, 8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018
3. Professor Ruffini in Singapore for the “Conference on Particles and Cosmology”, 5 – 9 March 2018
4. Lecture at Tirana University in Albania by Prof. Remo Ruffini on the occasion of the signature of collaboration agreement between Tirana University and ICRANet, 23 March 2018
5. Special seminar of Prof. Ruffini in Stanford, U.S.A., 26 March 2018
6. UNOOSA / Holy See Seminar “Exploration and Development of Space Opportunities and Issues in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals”, Castel Gandolfo, Rome, 27 – 28 March 2018
7. Conference of Prof. Ruffini at Nuovo Circolo degli Scacchi, Rome, 11 April 2018
8. The Third Zeldovich Meeting, Minsk, 23 – 27 April 2018
9. The XV Marcel Grossmann Meeting
10. Recent publications
1. Scientific highlight - Publication of the article "The spin evolution of fast-rotating, magnetized super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs in the aftermath of white dwarf mergers" on ApJ, 25 April 2018
The article "The spin evolution of fast-rotating, magnetized super-chandrasekhar white dwarfs in the aftermath of white dwarf mergers" by L. Becerra, J. A. Rueda, P. Lorén-Aguilar and E. Garcìa - Berro has been published on April 25 2018 in the Astrophysical Journal.
The paper deals with the evolution of the remnant of the merger of two white dwarfs – a hot topic in astrophysics. The post-merger evolution of a super-Chandrasekhar magnetized white dwarf is computed taking into account all the relevant physical processes. These include magnetic torques acting on the star, accretion from the Keplerian disk, the threading of the magnetic field lines through the disk, and the thermal evolution of the white dwarf core.
The main finding is that the central remnant can reach the conditions suitable to develop a thermonuclear explosion before other instabilities (such as the inverse beta-decay instability or the secular axisymmetric instability) are reached, which would instead lead to gravitational collapse of the magnetized remnant.
During this long process our friend and colleague, Enrique García-Berro, one of the coauthors of the article, has sadly passed away after a tragic accident in Spain: this is why this work is dedicated to his memory.
2. In memory of Stephen Hawking, 8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018
Professor Stephen Hawking has died on March 14, 2018, at the age of 76. The iconic physicist was one of the greatest scientific minds in the history of the world, and worked to peer into the most mysterious parts of the universe.
Born in Oxford on 8 January 1942, he attended Oxford University before moving onto Cambridge. From 1979 to 2009, he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge – a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton, and became, later, director of research in the university's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Hawking shot to international fame after the 1988 publication of A Brief History of Time, one of the most complex books ever to achieve mass appeal.
"My goal is simple," Hawking once said. "It is complete understanding of the universe: why it is as it is, and why it exists at all." He spent much of his career trying to find a way to reconcile Einstein's theory with quantum physics, and produce a "Theory of Everything". His work ranged from the origins of the universe itself, through the possibility of time travel to the mysteries of space's all-consuming black holes.
His most famous theoretical breakthrough was the idea that black holes are not really black, but can produce thermal radiation and potentially "evaporate". Scientists refer to such potential emanations as "Hawking radiation".
Professor Ruffini, Director of ICRANet, was a close friend of him, since their university studies. They joined numerous research activities and publications, and Professor Ruffini was also invited by Prof. Hawking to have dinner together in his apartment in Cambridge, last year at the presence of the Crafoord Price Roy Kerr.
Professor Hawking had also a Public Lecture in the last Marcel Grossmann edition (MG14), held in Rome from 12 to18 July 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyIRqhY8iA&feature=youtu.be).
To see and read all the interviews Professor Ruffini released after Stephen Hawking death, click here.
On March 4 - 10, 2018, Prof. Ruffini, Director of ICRANet, visited Singapore and joined the "Conference on Particles and Cosmology", held at the Nanyang Executive Centre (Nanyang Technological University NTU), from 5 to 9 March.
In the framework of this conference, Professor Ruffini was invited to give an important talk on "Gamma Ray Bursts in fundamental physics and Cosmology".
Details about the event can be found here.
On the 23 March 2018, ICRANet signed a cooperation agreement with the Tirana University – Albania. The document was signed by Dr Mynyr Koni, Rector of the University, and Prof. Ruffini, Director of ICRANet and will be valid for 5 years, starting from the date of its signature. The main joint activities to be developed under the framework of this agreement include: the promotion of theoretical and observational activities within the field of Relativistic Astrophysics; the institutional exchange of faculty members, researchers, post-doctorat fellows and students; the promotion of technological developments; the development of Data Centers for Astrophysical data in all wavebands; the organisation of seminars, conferences, workshops, training and research courses, and the development of inter-institutional research areas associated to local graduate programs; and joint publications.
During his visit to Albania Professor Ruffini was accompanied by Professor Mimoza Hafizi, a close collaborator of ICRANet from the University of Tirana.
After the Ceremony of Signature, Professor Ruffini gave an important talk "On the observation of the formation of a Black hole in a Gamma Ray burst ten billion years in our past light cone" in front of the university and faculty management, a group of students from the same institution, numerous academics as well as representatives of the government. To celebrate this special event, Professor Ruffini gave an interview at the Albanian Radio and Television TVSH (Radio Televizioni Shqiptar) in the morning emission "Good Morning Albania" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx94mQhYS7I&feature=youtu.be), and a second interview at News24 Television (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWI3538SD2U). The Director of ICRANet reaffirmed his gratitude and satisfaction for visiting Albania and signing the collaboration agreement with one of its best Universities after almost 20 years of collaboration, mostly thank to the work of Professor Mimoza Hafizi. He also expressed his sincere hope that Albania will join the broader family of ICRANet member States and Institutions.
More video and photos: here.
The link to the agreement: here.
From 24 to 26 March 2018, Professor Remo Ruffini, Director of ICRANet, flew to the United State, since he was invited to give an important seminar in Stanford University on the 26 of March.
With this seminar, titled "The moment of Formation of a Black Hole in Gamma Ray Bursts", Professor Ruffini analyzed the fundamental role of LAT Observations by the FERMI satellite, in identifying the birth of a Black Hole (BH) in Binary Driven Hipernovae (BdHNe) and short-GRBs, leading to the measurement of the mass and spin off of the BH.
6. UNOOSA / Holy See Seminar "Exploration and Development of Space Opportunities and Issues in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals", Castel Gandolfo, Rome, 27 - 28 March 2018
In preparation for UNISPACE+50, the first United Nations Global Space Summit of the 21st Century, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, an exceptional seminar was held in Castel Gandolfo and Specola Vaticana on 27- 28 March 2018. The joint UNOOSA / Holy See Seminar on "Exploration and Development of Space Opportunities and Issues in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals", was aimed to progress together with representatives of the Holy See and selected experts from different fields towards the United Nations Global Space Summit in June 2018.
In this framework, Professor Ruffini was a keynote speaker in the session devoted to "Space as a Tool for Diplomacy and Peace", and presented to the audience his experience in international cooperation in space activities and in particular he insisted on the importance of open data access to everyone.
On the second day, all speakers of the seminar took part in the General Audience of Pope Francis and the Baciamano Special, an opportunity to individually greet the Pope.
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Professor Ruffini, Director of ICRANet, delivered an important talk at Nuovo Circolo degli Scacchi in Rome, titled "The Mass-Energy Formula of Black Holes" in memory of his friend Stephen Hawking, with whom he joined numerous research activities and publications. Professor Ruffini also became an active member of Circolo degli Scacchi, and will join the group at least until the end of the summer.
Fig. 1. Opening ceremony. From left to right: profs. Fortov, Kilin, Ruffini and Vereshchagin.
On April 23-27, 2018 an international conference "The Third Zeldovich meeting" was held at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk, Belarus. The conference was jointly organized by ICRANet and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The meeting was sponsored by these two organizations and by Central European Initiative (CEI).
The opening address was given by the Deputy Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Academician Sergei Kilin and by Director of ICRANet Prof. Remo Ruffini. About 80 participants, nationals of Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Colombia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine and other countries took part in the meeting. The conference covered many topics including cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, general relativity, elementary particle and nuclear physics, detonations and explosions. This celebration was the third international conference in Minsk dedicated to Ya. B. Zeldovich. The previous meetings were held on 20-23 of April 2009 and was organized jointly by ICRANet and Belarusian State University celebrating also the 2009 Year of Astronomy, and on March 11-14, 2014 celebrating 100th anniversary of Ya. B. Zeldovich.
Fig. 2. Lecture of Prof. Vladimir Fortov.
Important scientific developments were discussed at the conference. In particular, the concept of induced gravitational collapse leading to cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts was presented in details. The role of dark energy in cosmological structure formation on different scales was extensively discussed. The conference has created a stimulating environment for further scientific exchange and contacts between scientists in the West, those coming from the great Russian school of Zeldovich, and local scientist from Belarus.
During the meeting agreement was reached between ICRANet and the Editorial Board of the journal Astronomy Reports to publish proceedings of the conference as regular papers. It is expected that this conference series in Minsk celebrating Ya.B. Zeldovich will continue.
Fig. 3. Group photo of participants of the Third Zeldovich meeting.
During the meeting important meetings took place, in particular the discussion between the delegation from ICRANet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus about the adhesion of Belarus to ICRANet, see http://mfa.gov.by/en/press/news_mfa/fd4a7f5e32424fda.html. Also a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The website of the meeting: http://www.icranet.org/zeldovich3, it contains relevant information, including scientific program, social program, international and local organizing committees, official conference photos, poster, abstract booklet, participants list, information about proceedings and other information.
Information about the conference has been posted on various websites, including:
http://www.cei.int/content/%E2%80%8Bthird-zeldovich-meeting-held-minsk
https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2017/09/29/the-third-zeldovich-meeting/
http://nasb.gov.by/rus/news/3394/
http://ifan.basnet.by/?p=1403
https://gazetaby.com/cont/art.php?&sn_nid=137961
https://minsknews.by/uchenik-akademika-zeldovicha/
https://www.sb.by/articles/uchenik-akademika-zeldovicha.html
http://www.belta.by/society/view/issledovateli-iz-11-stran-primut-uchastie-v-nauchnom-simpoziume-po-fizike-v-minske-299541-2018/
http://www.belta.by/society/view/mezhdunarodnoe-nauchnoe-sotrudnichestvo-v-oblasti-reljativistskoj-astrofiziki-obsudili-v-mid-300022-2018/
Marcel Grossmann Awards 2015
On-line registration for the 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, to be held from 1 to 7 July 2018 at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, is open.
The deadline for oral communications and poster presentations has been extended up to 30 of May 2018.
The preliminary plenary program can be found at: http://www.icra.it/mg/mg15/plenary_program.htm
The current preliminary list of parallel sessions and related chairpersons can be found at: http://www.icra.it/mg/mg15/parallel_sessions.htm http://www.icra.it/mg/mg15/par_sessions_chairs_details.htm
Conference website: http://www.icra.it/mg/mg15/
Preliminary list of the Individual Awards:
Lyman Page
(Princeton University) Rashid Sunyaev
(Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) Shing-Tung Yau
(Princeton University)
Belinski, V. A., Vereshchagin, G. V., "On the cosmological gravitational waves and cosmological distances", published in Physics Letters B, Volume 778 on 10 March 2018.
We show that solitonic cosmological gravitational waves propagated through the Friedmann universe and generated by the inhomogeneities of the gravitational field near the Big Bang can be responsible for increase of cosmological distances.
Link: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018PhLB..778..332B
Christian Cherubini, Simonetta Filippi, Alessandro Loppini, Rahim Moradi, Remo Ruffini, Yu Wang, and She-Sheng Xue, "Perfect relativistic magnetohydrodynamics around black holes in horizon penetrating coordinates", published on Physical Review D 97, 064038 on 28 March 2018.
Plasma accreting processes on black holes represent a central problem for relativistic astrophysics. In this context, here we specifically revisit the classical Ruffini-Wilson work developed for analytically modeling via geodesic equations the accretion of perfect magnetized plasma on a rotating Kerr black hole. Introducing the horizon penetrating coordinates found by Doran 25 years later, we revisit the entire approach studying Maxwell invariants, electric and magnetic fields, volumetric charge density and electromagnetic total energy. We finally discuss the physical implications of this analysis.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.064038
L. Becerra, J. A. Rueda, P. Lorén-Aguilar, and E. García-Berro, "The Spin Evolution of Fast-rotating, Magnetized Super-Chandrasekhar White Dwarfs in the Aftermath of White Dwarf Mergers", published on The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 857, Number 2, on 25 April 2018.
The evolution of the remnant of the merger of two white dwarfs is still an open problem. Furthermore, few studies have addressed the case in which the remnant is a magnetic white dwarf with a mass larger than the Chandrasekhar limiting mass. Angular momentum losses might bring the remnant of the merger to the physical conditions suitable for developing a thermonuclear explosion. Alternatively, the remnant may be prone to gravitational or rotational instabilities, depending on the initial conditions reached after the coalescence. Dipole magnetic braking is one of the mechanisms that can drive such losses of angular momentum. However, the timescale on which these losses occur depend on several parameters, like the strength of the magnetic field. In addition, the coalescence leaves a surrounding Keplerian disk that can be accreted by the newly formed white dwarf. Here we compute the post-merger evolution of a super-Chandrasekhar magnetized white dwarf taking into account all the relevant physical processes. These include magnetic torques acting on the star, accretion from the Keplerian disk, the threading of the magnetic field lines through the disk, as well as the thermal evolution of the white dwarf core. We find that the central remnant can reach the conditions suitable to develop a thermonuclear explosion before other instabilities (such as the inverse beta-decay instability or the secular axisymmetric instability) are reached, which would instead lead to gravitational collapse of the magnetized remnant.
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aabc12/meta
R. Ruffini, J. Rodriguez, M. Muccino, J. A. Rueda, Y. Aimuratov, U. Barres de Almeida, L. Becerra, C. L. Bianco, C. Cherubini, S. Filippi, D. Gizzi, M. Kovacevic, R. Moradi, F. G. Oliveira, G. B. Pisani, Y. Wang, “On the rate and on the gravitational wave emission of short and long GRBs”, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, on April 6, 2018.
On the ground of the large number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected with cosmological redshift, we classified GRBs in seven subclasses, all with binary progenitors originating gravitational waves (GWs). Each binary is composed by combinations of carbon-oxygen cores (CO core), neutron stars (NSs), black holes (BHs) and white dwarfs (WDs). The long bursts, traditionally assumed to originate from a BH with an ultra-relativistic jetted emission, not emitting GWs, have been subclassified as (I) X-ray flashes (XRFs), (II) binary-driven hypernovae (BdHNe), and (III) BH-supernovae (BH-SNe). They are framed within the induced gravitational collapse (IGC) paradigm with progenitor a CO core-NS/BH binary. The supernova (SN) explosion of the CO core triggers an accretion process onto the NS/BH. If the accretion does not lead the NS to its critical mass, an XRF occurs, while when the BH is present or formed by accretion, a BdHN occurs. When the binaries are not disrupted, XRFs lead to NS-NS and BdHNe lead to NS-BH. The short bursts, originating in NS-NS, are subclassified as (IV) short gamma-ray flashes (S-GRFs) and (V) short GRBs (S-GRBs), the latter when a BH is formed. There are (VI) ultra-short GRBs (U-GRBs) and (VII) gamma-ray flashes (GRFs), respectively formed in NS-BH and NS-WD. We use the occurrence rate and GW emission of these subclasses to assess their detectability by Advanced LIGO-Virgo, eLISA, and resonant bars. We discuss the consequences of our results in view of the announcement of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration of the source GW 170817 as being originated by a NS-NS.
ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03545
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Facing the world, typographically
Archive for the ‘society’ Category
On Dec. 1 & 2, Stanford University hosted “Face/Interface,” a small conference on “Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Western World.” The conference was held in conjunction with an exhibition at Stanford’s Green Library: “Facing the World: Type Design in Global Perspective.” The exhibition, organized by Becky Fischbach, runs until March 24. (Go see it!)
The organizer of Face/Interface was Thomas S. Mullaney, an associate professor of Chinese history at Stanford who has spoken at ATypI and who wrote the canonical book on the history of the Chinese typewriter. Tom is an indefatigable organizer and a generous host, with a clear idea of what is required to make an event like this a success (and a ruthless way with a stopwatch, if speakers run over).
The roster of scheduled speakers was impressive. I knew this would be a notable event, but, as everyone seemed to agree, it turned out to be even better than we had been expecting. There was not a single talk that I was willing to miss, even first thing in the morning, and the interplay among them, dealing with varying languages and technologies and cultures, wove a rich tapestry of ideas. Which is exactly what a scholarly conference ought to do.
Not surprisingly, there were a number of references to an earlier typographic event at Stanford: the famous 1983 ATypI Working Seminar, “The Computer and the Hand in Type Design,” which was recently written about in an article about by Ferdinand Ulrich in Eye magazine. That 1983 seminar had been organized by Chuck Bigelow, who at the time was an associate professor of typography at Stanford (the only person ever to hold such a position there – so far). And Bigelow was one of the closing speakers this year, thus tying together these events 33 years apart. (Donald Knuth, also a key figure of the 1983 seminar, dropped by on Friday for a while, though he had no official involvement in this year’s event.) I wouldn’t be surprised if Face/Interface didn’t figure as prominently in future typographic memory as the 1983 gathering has over the last three decades. It felt like a pivotal moment.
Highlights for me included Thomas Huot-Marchand on the contemporary successor to the Imprimerie nationale; Bruce Rosenblum’s highly personal account of “Early Attempts to Photocompose Non-Latin Scripts”; Liron Lavi Turkenich‘s visual tour through trilingual signage in Israel; Lara Captan’s tour-de-force performance, “Facing the Vacuum: Creating Bridges between Arabic Script and Type“; Gerry Leonidas on Adobe’s treatment of Greek typefaces; and the other two closing talks (mine was sandwiched between them), by Chuck Bigelow and John Hudson. Other notable memories include Tom Milo projecting his ground-breaking live-text Qur’an technology on a wall-sized screen in the Stanford maps collection, upstairs from the exhibition reception, and a lively conversation with Chuck Bigelow over breakfast on the last day.
For those speakers who didn’t have to rush off on Sunday, there was an informal brunch and tour of the Letterform Archive in San Francisco, where Rob Saunders showed off his collection and ended up selling off some of his duplicates to eager collectors such as myself.
[Images, top to bottom:] Chuck Bigelow, John Hudson, & John D. Berry after the closing presentations (photo by Chen-Lieh Huang); Chuck Bigelow at the podium; Sumner Stone, asking a question from the audience; John D. Berry at the podium (photo by Eileen Gunn); Becky Fischbach & Fiona Ross outside the hotel in Palo Alto; Rob Saunders’s hands showing off the original Depero bolted book at the Letterform Archive.]
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More writing
I have just added a couple of complete essays to the rather minimalist “Writing” page on this site, and links to several others.
That page has so far consisted of short, and I hope intriguing, excerpts from various longer pieces of my writing. Now I’ve added links to almost all of the originals, making this a sort of landing page or entry point to these essays.
I’ve added the introduction to Contemporary newspaper design (2004), where I attempted to look at the development of newspaper typography over several technological and economic revolutions, and “The Business of Type”, my account of the origins, development, and demise of U&lc, which was the introduction to U&lc: influencing typography & design (2005). Both of these were books that I edited for Mark Batty Publisher; both of them are now out of print. I think those essays are worth making available again.
I’ve added some more links, too. Check ’em out.
[Update, April 15, 2016:] I’ve now added the missing piece, the preface to Language Culture Type. It is a less substantive piece than the others, but still worth having intact.
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Traveling & listening & talking: Typo Day
“I can’t believe this is your first time,” said the young Indian woman with whom I was sharing the auto-rickshaw.
“It is, though,” I replied, calmly clutching a handhold as the three-wheeled vehicle careered through the traffic of northern Mumbai.
I hadn’t even encountered yet the full roar of the city, but Indian traffic was proving to be everything I had expected it to be. Chaotic, crowded, incredibly varied, and resoundingly effective at getting everyone around, despite the lack of any perceivable patterns. Drivers seemed to navigate by echo-location, honking fairly constantly to let other drivers know that they were approaching; and they might approach from pretty much any direction, or any side. Lanes, although clearly marked, were completely ignored, and each participant in the mêlée of Mumbai road traffic claimed possession of every inch of available space, whether occupied or not. Private cars predominated, but alongside them you’d find gaily decorated trucks, flitting motorbikes, daredevil pedestrians, and of course swarms of putt-putting auto-rickshaws, all punctuated with occasional feral dogs and meandering cattle.
I was in Mumbai for only a few days, invited as a keynote speaker at Typography Day 2015, an annual event that moves around among various Indian universities. This year it was being held at its original home, IIT Bombay, or the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The large, leafy campus lies on the northern fringe of Mumbai, abutting the shore of Powai Lake and at the southern tip of the vast hilly Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The university has about 8,000 students in a variety of faculties, clustered throughout the campus; many of the central buildings are aligned along a covered open-air walkway known as the Infinite Corridor. Although the campus feels considerably less crowded than the heart of Mumbai, and it suffers much less from the ever-present air pollution, proximity to the national park requires signs like one I saw near the lake warning that a panther had been spotted in the vicinity. “Well,” as one local put it to me, “we’re encroaching on their territory, so why wouldn’t they came into ours?”
Typo Day was put on by the Industrial Design Center, the design school at IIT, and the talks were presented in the IDC’s large, modern auditorium. Outside the auditorium was a large common area where people could mingle during the breaks for the aptly named “tea and networking,” and just outside the building, a display of typographic posters was hung in the open air and a sculptural assemblage of 3D Indian letters climbed one of the twisting trees.
The displays, like the subjects of talks and workshops, were not only multilingual but multi-script. India is a land of many languages and many writing systems; Hindi is simply the largest, and the dominant one in northern India, but the only common language that educated Indians have throughout the country is English. Although most of the various Indian writing systems are somehow related to Devanagari, the complex script developed for ancient Sanskrit and used today for Hindi and several other North Indian languages, the relationship is tenuous enough that only scholars can really spot the similarities. As one Hindi-speaking designer from Mumbai put it, “If I go to Bangalore, I can only admire the writing there as shapes; I cannot read it.” Several of the talks at Typo Day dealt with the fine points of Devanagari type designs and manuscript traditions; others dealt with different writing systems, including one talk by a woman from Sri Lanka, Sumanthri Samarawickrama, about the lack of vocabulary to describe the letterforms of written Sinhala.
But it wasn’t just fine points and details. There was exuberant creativity on display, and the other keynote speaker, Itu Chaudhuri, gave an inspiring and well-illustrated talk about how a love of letters “will enrich your life.” He then proceeded to demonstrate how it had enriched his.
I was treated extremely well by the organizers of Typo Day, Prof. Ravi Poobaiah and his wife, Dr. Ajanta Sen. Not only did they fly me to Mumbai, have students meet me at the airport when my flight arrived in the middle of a hot March night, and put me up in the comfortable Guest House at IIT, but on the day after the end of the conference they arranged a car and driver for me to explore Mumbai (and its traffic), and the next night they had me staying at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, which is every bit as luxurious as it sounds. We had met there for dinner the night before, but, as Ravi explained, there wasn’t a room available that night, so they drove me back to IIT, with Ajanta giving me a running commentary on the history of the heart of the city and which buildings she had grown up in.
At the conference, I found myself being naturally adopted into the circle of gray-haired elders of Indian design, though I also met quite a few younger designers and students. Although I often missed the jokes, sometimes from lack of context, sometimes from not catching the accents, I enjoyed the company of these men and women with their shared history of typography and graphic design in India. (Accents varied. There was one brilliant, impassioned speaker that I had a very hard time understanding; when I mentioned this to someone else, he said, “Oh, yes, he has a strong Marathi accent. He sounds the same when he speaks Hindi.” What he was saying was so forceful that I regretted missing some of it through my own incomprehension.) I felt as though I had only scratched the surface of the typographic culture of the country.
I barely scratched the surface of Mumbai, too. I spent one afternoon walking around the streets near the Gateway of India, the monumental stone arch that once welcomed incoming ships of the British Empire during the Raj. (The Yacht Club was right across the street from the public park in front of the Gateway.) Although I clearly stood out as a foreigner, the only hassles I had on the streets were the expected attempts to sell me something; most of the time, people just ignored me and went about their way, as they ignored most of the teeming crowds around them. I visited a couple of museums, of which the oddest and thus most fascinating was the Mumbai City Museum, with its collections of objects and artifacts and models and dioramas depicting the city’s history. In one room was a current exhibit about the cultural and economic connections through history of the two sides of the Arabian Sea.
I also dropped in to the vast Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum, to see the relatively small permanent exhibit on “Pre and Proto History,” the pre-Hindu Indus Valley civilization of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Most of the objects, however, were reproductions; the originals were in Delhi.
Impressions of Mumbai:
Very, very hot. No surprise there! I adopted a slow amble as I walked through the streets, in accord with the way most people seemed to be moving, just sort of easing through the humidity with a minimum of effort and disturbance.
Huge contrasts of affluence and poverty. Also no surprise, frankly; I knew I would encounter this, and I was neither shocked nor numbed by the inescapable poverty. I saw some of the upper levels of Indian society, but the top and the bottom mingle on the same streets. I did not try venturing into any slums, such as Dharavi, where Slumdog Millionaire was filmed; nor did I go to see colorful fisherfolk on the quay at Sassoon Dock. For that matter, I did not go see a Bollywood movie while I was in the town that makes them. I just looked and listened wherever I was, and experienced the city that I was presented with, in all its ordinary glory.
Traffic. But you already know about that. It was wild and wooly, yet I never saw an accident of any kind.
Urban texture. It seemed as though everything I saw in Mumbai was either crumbling away or in the midst of being built. When I mentioned this to Ajanta Sen, she said yes, that’s exactly the way it is. Many big cities give this impression, but Mumbai had it in spades.
Military bands. This wasn’t something I expected, but while I was staying at the Royal Bombay Yacht Club, the park across the street was closed off, with a police cordon all around the Gateway of India. It turned out that there was a huge celebration going on there during those couple of days: a big stage in front of the arch, with performances by military bands and orchestras from around the country. The music was loud; and it was eclectic, a blend of Bollywood show tunes and folk performances and military band music, accompanied by light shows. I never did quite figure out what the point was. One effect that it had was purely personal: I had hoped to catch the boat to Elephanta Island on my next-to-last day in Mumbai, to see the Hindu temple and its famous carvings, but because the quay was temporarily blocked off, the boats weren’t running.
One of the typographers I saw at the conference was Aurobind Patel, a type designer and design consultant whom I had met before, a friend of Roger Black’s. He made my last day in India memorable by inviting me to his weekend house, in a fishing village north of Mumbai, to spend a relaxing day out of the city; his driver would then drive me to the airport for my flight to Amsterdam, which didn’t leave until 2:45 a.m. So I got to see a little bit of what lies outside the city, and how the city is encroaching on the countryside year by year; and I got to walk on the beach by the shore and watch the sunset over the Arabian Sea. Aurobind’s house, which was newly built to replace a crumbling older house inherited by his wife, was in the process of being repainted and having the pool’s foundation reinforced. During the painting, the wall-size sliding-glass doors on the seaward side were covered by huge segments of Bollywood movie posters, their painted sides turned in; this gave the interiors a bizarre and dramatic look. But while I was there, that very afternoon, the workmen finished the painting of the exterior, and as I was taking a much-needed nap they removed the posters from the windows. So when I awoke I could look out through the glass directly to the sea. That was quite some transformation.
I have now seen a very tiny piece of India, and met a wonderful and eclectic range of Indian designers and typographers. Perhaps this will be just the first of many visits to the subcontinent.
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ATypI Hong Kong: personal context
In less than two weeks, I’ll be in Hong Kong, for this year’s ATypI conference, which is being put on with the cooperation of the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This will be the first time ATypI has ever held its conference in Asia; it will also be my first visit to Hong Kong, or indeed to any part of China.
I studied Chinese history while I was an undergraduate at Stanford – when actually visiting China was virtually impossible for a United States citizen, although Hong Kong was then still a British colony and easily accessible. At the time (circa 1970), Stanford’s History department had what amounted to an unofficial mini-department of Chinese history, with several excellent professors, most of whom I took courses from. (The one professor I didn’t take a course from, Mark Mancall, gave a guest lecture for one of the other’s classes, entitled “The Complete History of Relations Between the Russian Empire and the Ch’ing Dynasty, in 45 Minutes – with Flourishes.” The bit I remember most clearly was Mancall’s description of how nervous the Ch’ing court was when they realized that the curious foreigners who had been nosing about China’s western frontiers in Central Asia, and the ones who had been nibbling at her northeastern frontiers in Manchuria, came from the same place; and how relieved the Chinese were when they finally realized just how far away Moscow really was.) Although I have never put that knowledge to practical use, I have a pretty good awareness of the outlines of Chinese history, including the tumultuous 19th century. In college, I read Arthur Waley’s The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes, which is essential background to understanding the founding of Hong Kong. Much more recently, I gained new perspective on the maritime history of southern China when I read Tonio Andrade’s Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West, as well as the East Asian parts of 1493, by Charles C. Mann. These are all fascinating and highly readable antidotes to the simpleminded tales that we’re sometimes told in lieu of real history.
The theme of this ATypI conference is “墨 [mò] – between black & white,” which refers directly to the marks of ink on paper as well as alluding to contrast, balance, art, and intellectual pursuits. Naturally, there will be a strong emphasis on the typography of eastern Asia, along with all the usual range of subjects for talks, demonstrations, workshops, and exhibits. There’s still time to register and attend; and this year we’ve adjusted the schedule so that the bulk of the main conference falls on the weekend, to adapt to the common practice in both China and Japan and make it easier for interested typographers and designers from those countries to attend. I’m looking forward not only to visiting Hong Kong but to seeing the impact of Chinese and European typographies upon each other, in the distinctly human form of this professional conference. The conversations in the corridors – the heart of any conference – should be fascinating.
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Ernest Callenbach
Ernest Callenbach died the other day, at the ripe old age of 83. (Doesn’t actually seem that ripe when I’ve got friends in their 90s, but it’s at least a respectable total.) Callenbach was the author of the seminal 1975 book Ecotopia, which certainly had an effect on my thinking and my experience of the ’70s.
Ecotopia wasn’t very good as a novel; I remember thinking at the time that it felt like an account by a college freshman of his discovery of a life wider and more exciting than the one he’d grown up in. (It reminded me of “encounter groups” that I experienced when I was a college freshman myself in the late ’60s.) But it carries you along, keeping you interested enough in the characters to enjoy the story, while mostly presenting the society of Ecotopia that he had envisioned and invented. That vision of a radically environmentally sustainable society was what got people excited in the later 1970s.
Not long after I moved to Seattle, I signed up for a class at the Experimental College, a sort of officially unofficial adjunct to the University of Washington, on the concepts of Ecotopia. In that class I met a lot of people who were involved in trying to create a sustainable counterculture and asking themselves serious questions about how to really live in a place in modern North America. It tied in with ideas that I’d been reading and thinking about through writers such as Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder, and with currents of thought that were rife in the Pacific Northwest at that time. The concept of “Ecotopia” was very satisfying: it was a country comprising Washington, Oregon, and Northern California that had supposedly seceded from the United States and set up an ecologically based society with very little communication with the rest of the US. The precept of the novel is that an American reporter is finally able to penetrate Ecotopia and make a journey of discovery there. The story is told as entries in his diary.
Ecotopia is a utopian novel; so is Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, which came out shortly before Ecotopia. Although they are miles apart in literary quality, I remember intending to write a comparative review of the two books, because they took different, perhaps complementary, approaches to creating a fictional utopia. Le Guin’s Annares was a world of scarcity; Ecotopia, by contrast, was a world of abundance (the rich economy and ecology of northern California and the Pacific Northwest). Comparing the utopias, if not the novels, would have been enlightening.
After taking that Experimental College class in Ecotopia, I was so moved by the energy and the excitement among such a bunch of creative people that I and two other students from the class decided to continue it by teaching it ourselves the next quarter; and when we had done that, a couple of our own students did the same, taking the class and its community to a third quarter. (I don’t think it went farther than that.) There was a ferment at that time in environmental and “alternative” lifestyles and ideas on the West Coast, and the connections made through that class fueled a lot of creative activity in Seattle and environs for several years to come. We certainly didn’t create any utopias, but the study formed some of our perspectives and assumptions about the land we lived in and how we intended to go forward in our lives. Much of it later fell by the wayside, but some of it has persisted.
I only met Ernest Callenbach once, when he came through Seattle and visited our class to see what he had wrought. He seemed an unassuming man, who had simply had some good ideas at the right time and succeeded in expressing them in a way that people responded to. Before he wrote Ecotopia, he was better known as a film critic and the editor of Film Quarterly magazine. I remember his telling us that what had led him to writing Ecotopia was living in Berkeley and simply asking himself questions about where the waste went to. When he followed its route (intellectually, I assume, not literally), he realized that he was discovering a whole way of looking at the world.
You might think that Ernest Callenbach and Ecotopia don’t have much to do with design, which is the ostensible subject of this blog. But in the larger sense that we live in a designed world and ought to get better at it, this is very much at the heart of design.
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TypeCon surges ahead
TypeCon 2011 – the first one run by SOTA on an all-volunteer basis – seemed to be a successful conference, and it was held in a fascinating city: New Orleans. The single-track program was well designed to engender conversation; in fact, individual presentations seemed to be speaking back and forth to each other, even when they had not be planned with that in mind. A lot of that conversation was about web fonts, design for the screen, and new forms of publishing. That’s what I spoke about myself, in a rambling talk full of questions and explorations (“all questions; no answers!”) about the problems and possibilities of designing books for a digital age. You won’t be surprised to hear that I embraced flexible design and adaptive layout as the best way to design any extended text for a variety of screens.
Everyone enjoyed New Orleans – the food, the music, the culture – though some attendees weren’t prepared for the binary contrast between the hot, steamy outdoors and the brutal air-conditioning in the hotel and in the bars and restaurants. The hotel was in the heart of the French Quarter, however, right on Bourbon Street; a fun place to be, but definitely also a tourist bubble. Bourbon Street seemed the least changed of any part of the city that I saw, since my one previous visit back in 1988 (also for a conference, also in the summer). I’m sure this is not only because the Quarter is on high ground and Katrina’s flood waters mostly didn’t reach that far.
I couldn’t, of course, make it to everything on the program; and as I didn’t arrive until Thursday afternoon, I wasn’t there for the pre-conference Education Forum or workshops. Presentations that stood out for me were Bill Berkson’s provocative “Great Readability Scandal”; Amelia Hugill-Fontenel’s well-crafted and artfully delivered “Artifacts All Around,” about some of the typographic curiosities in the Cary Collection at RIT; Otmar Hoefer’s affectionate tour of the collection of the Klingspor-Museum in Offenbach; Veronika Burian and José Scaglione on their joint type-making venture; and the “three guys in hats” (Scott Boms, Brian Warren, and Luke Dorny) on how designers use web fonts. Particularly notable was the presentation by three guys from the Cherokee Nation, about designing type for the Cherokee syllabary; this was a real-world application of type design that really matters. (“Every font that’s made makes your culture stronger.”) I also liked the tail end of Nick Sherman’s talk, filling in at the last minute for the absent David Berlow, though I missed much of Nick’s talk because I was too busy preparing for my own, which was up next. It was also fun hearing Matthew Carter, John Downer, and Akira Kobayashi do an onstage type crit of each other’s well-known typeface designs.
The heart of the event is always just meeting and talking with people, often at the evening social gatherings. Sometimes they were just a late-night party overlooking Bourbon Street, or an expedition to go “type busking” in Jackson Square in the hot summer night. TypeCon traditionally concludes with a special Sunday-evening event, after the close of the official programming; usually it’s something type-related, such as the visits to printing museums in Boston and Los Angeles, but this time it was pure tourist indulgence: a ride on the riverboat Natchez up and down the river, with music and drinks and commentary as we viewed the city and its environs from the middle of the Mississippi. The ship was by no means ours alone; we were just one among many groups aboard. But despite the cliché’d nature of the voyage, it proved to be a relaxing and enjoyable way to end a conference, and also to get a better sense of just where we were.
I got an even better idea on Tuesday, before catching an evening flight back to Seattle, when my friend Nevenah Smith, an artist who has lived in New Orleans for more than ten years, gave me a whirlwind tour of the city’s neighborhoods. It was great to get away from the Quarter and see something more down home. Even seeing parts of the devastated Lower Ninth Ward or the flooded-out sections near Lake Pontchartrain was a welcome reality check – and encouraging, when Nevenah pointed out to me the new houses being built there by volunteers for returning locals, and the people hanging out on their front porches the way they always used to. New Orleans has been devastated, especially the poorer neighborhoods, and its people treated shabbily. There’s no reason to expect that it won’t happen again; but there’s a resilience among those who’ve stayed or come back. I had prepared for this visit by watching Spike Lee’s powerful documentary When the Levees Broke and by reading Ned Sublette’s excellent book The World That Made New Orleans; I was trying to finish Ned’s more recent Year Before the Flood before I left for TypeCon, but I’m still reading it now at home. All of these gave me a little bit of insight into the context of the city I was visiting. (Even after the fact, I would recommend them to anyone who was in New Orleans for TypeCon.)
No venue was announced for next year’s TypeCon. Perhaps you’d like to put it on.
[Photos, top to bottom: what really goes on at a type conference (hint, hint); Ed Benguiat can’t escape his own typefaces; TypeCon attendees on the Natchez riverboat.]
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Back to the Futura
A couple of weeks ago, we drove down to Portland to see a play that promised to mix science fiction and typography. How could I resist a that combination? (“Are you sure you didn’t write this play?” asked a skeptical friend of mine when I told him about it.)
The play is Futura, written by Jordan Harrison, and directed in this performance by Kip Fagan at the Portland Center Stage. (I say “this performance” because the play was having a sort of parallax début: it opened simultaneously in Portland and Los Angeles, after being workshopped in 2009 at the JAW Playwrights’ Festival in Portland.)
The opening act is a lecture on typography – and a good one. In the best science-fiction tradition, you realize, as the lecture goes on, that there’s more to the context that you thought. When the lecturer whips out a genuine piece of paper, it is clearly meant to be a shock to her students. This is a world where physical books have been superseded, and banned, replaced by an agreed-upon digital library that keeps changing, and has no grounding in solid fact. The lecturer drops acerbic references to her late husband, who seems to have been murdered, apparently by the forces of imposed order.
The first act ends [spoiler here!] when the lecturer is suddenly kidnapped, blindfolded and hustled offstage.
The trouble with Futura is that it breaks down after that. The four actors seem good; it’s the writing that lets them down. The arguments between two of the main characters in the second act are true to life, the kind of half-thought-through emotional arguments that people really make. But the play itself doesn’t rise above them, or go any deeper. The logic falls apart at the slightest touch. The metaphor, reminiscent of Fahrenheit 451 and 1984, doesn’t really offer any more insight than a sort of worried extrapolation of Google’s attempt to digitize the world’s books.
The stage sets were wonderful. (I wonder what they were like in the LA performance.) I’m not at all sorry that I went to see this play; I’m just disappointed that it wasn’t better than it was. There’s a lot to be said about books, printing, digital literature, and society; but this play didn’t go beyond its own characters’ blinkered arguments.
Still: “Futura”? How could any typographer resist?
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As I have followed the news about the earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan, naturally my thoughts have turned to the many people we met in both the typographic and science-fiction communities when Eileen and I visited Japan in 2007. Our closest Japanese friends, we found out quickly, were all right, as was everyone in their circle of friends. I certainly hope that all of the wonderful, generous people that I met in the Tokyo Type Directors Club, in the Japan Typography Association, at Idea magazine, and from other parts of the Japanese typographic community are safe and sound; and that all of their families and friends are, as well.
[Photo by Taro Yamamoto, 2007.]
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Imperial identity system unearthed
(Lyons, France; 1 April 2010) – Researchers from the Institut internationale de l’identité romaine reported on Thursday that they had discovered fragments of what might be the first graphic-design manual in history. According to Jean-Claude Garamond-Jannon, head of the research team that excavated the find, it appears to be part of a manual for the presentation of the visual identity of the Roman Empire, dating from the early 2nd century A.D., during the reign of the emperor Trajan.
Although the unit system used is unclear, it appears that the Roman design administration had a thoroughly worked-out system for the measurement of inscriptional letters, which allowed them to cut inscriptions in matching lettering styles and in consistent sizes throughout the extremely widespread area under Roman rule.
“It was part of a visual identity that shouted ‘Rome!’,” said the Institut’s vice-director, Robespierre Danton, waving his arms enthusiastically at the partially excavated site. “They projected their power and their brand through a coordinated system of graphics that was instantly recognizable anywhere in the Mediterranean world.” The manual’s threadbare pages, according to Danton, specify exactly how the visual system should be implemented, with hints (barely legible) of extreme penalties for misuse of the empire’s intellectual property.
Although the fragments are in a poor state of preservation, one intriguing supplementary find has excited the interest of Dr. Giambattista Farben, a color researcher with the Institut. “This broken tablet, made of baked and polished tufa,” he says, “was found in close proximity to the manual itself. The tablet shows traces of a pattern of varying colors in lead-based paint, and scratches that may be notations to identify the different colors.” Dr. Farben was cautious, but he said that one theory of the colored tablet was that it constituted a color chart for painters who would turn the Romans’ marble walls into a panoply of colors. “It could be the earliest Pantone matching system,” admitted Dr. Farben.
Scholars from the University of Northern California dispute the primacy of the Roman identity system. Professor Chien Su-ma of UNC says that he has spent more than twenty years cataloging a collection of inscribed tortoise shells found under a pile of Han-dynasty tax receipts at Dunhuang, on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, in China’s Gansu province. “The Han Dynasty had a clearly defined visual identity,” claims Prof. Chien, “and I believe these fragments, which were preserved at a major entrepot and outpost of empire, are a key to the system in its earliest form. They certainly predate this Western find by at least a century.”
[Photo: Detail of the lettering at the base of Trajan’s column, in Rome.]
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Font Aid for Haiti
Font Aid IV is a project to raise money to help the recovery efforts in Haiti after this month’s devastating earthquake. SOTA (Society of Typographic Aficionados), which is a US-based nonprofit, is acting as organizer. The way it works is much like the three previous Font Aid efforts: type designers contribute one character each to a special font, which is then sold to benefit the needy cause. This time, the special font will consist entirely of ampersands; ostensibly this is because of the theme “Coming Together,” though I’m sure it can’t hurt that ampersands are fun to draw and easy to find a use for. All proceeds from sales of the font will go to Doctors Without Borders.
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The Saturday Stories of Jonathan Aquino
Since The World Began
We are told that everything happens for a reason. Even a falling leaf from a tree in the next field has a reason. Suffering can make a man stronger or bitter, it depends upon him. His character is his destiny. All of us have a reason for being. Sages of all ages have contemplated our true identities and the existence of God. Some questions that probe into the deepest recesses of our psyche: Who am I, we ask ourselves. To the philosophers and poets, we are the sun, the stars, the earth, the wind, the wind. We are everything yet we are nothing. We are the father, the son, the lover, the friend. We are everyone yet we are no one. Are we the sparks from an infinite light? Creations of a Supreme Being with our own freewill? Or are like puppets manipulated by strings, like mortals of Greek myth? Do we have freewill? Is a man the real captain of his soul, the real master of his fate, as it were? To write this piece in a solitary act of freewill. A conscious, deliberate decision. A random act plucked from a number of possible alternatives. To stay home and write or not, or go instead, say, to watch the last full show of a James Bond movie. And to choose, by virtue of a freewill, is the real essence of freedom. Or is it really? What is fate? That is the second scenario. The present act is the consummation of a prophecy already written in the stars? Destined to be, from the moment of birth? A sigh from a silent oracle? The words of a mute prophet? Michelangelo’s Sistine photo courtesy of EasyArt.com
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The Development of The Filipino Essay In English
This story originally appeared in Philippine Panorama
One of the positive developments in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War is the official adoption of English as medium of instruction in the public schools. After the hostilities, Filipino and American educators got together and agreed that a common language is essential in unifying a nation divided by a plethora of dialects. Jose P. Laurel, in his classic The Glorification Of A Common Inheritance, pointed out that although a national tongue alone does not constitute racial identity, “Unity of language is unquestionably a binding force of utmost importance.”
Salvador P. Lopez, in The Future Of Filipino Literature In English, wrote: “We shall have more contact with the rest of the world. During this period we shall negotiate for trade, for security, for a neighborly living with the rest of mankind. At the same time, we shall be expressed more fully to the currents of universal culture. And as we continue to absorb th…
14 Leadership Lessons From The Late Great President Manuel L. Quezon
President Manuel L. Quezon is one of the most significant and fascinating world leaders in the 20th century. The lessons from his brilliant life are both timely and timeless.
1) Love your country. On the way home after lobbying for the Tydings-McDuffie Law in the U.S., Quezon taught the Ile de France ship orchestra how to play the Philippine national anthem – by tapping the piano with one finger while legendary pianist Jan Paderewski watched in amazement.
Manuel L. Quezon is a patriot of the first order: “Rightly conceived, felt and practiced, nationalism is a tremendous force for good. It strengthens and solidifies a nation. Community interest is made active. It preserves the best traditions of the past and adds zest to the ambition of enlarging the inheritance of the people.”
But there is no such thing as unconditional love of country: “Let us look at ourselves stripped of the veil and trappings with which in our vanity we cover ourselves.”
2) Lead by example. Although his health wa…
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A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: NOBBY'S HOBBIES
Nobby's Hobbies. Nobby was a boy who tried all kinds of hobbies but always messed things up and upset his Dad. Here is the complete list of the hobbies that he had a go at: woodworking, conjuring (“Wizard” hobby), collecting stamps, photography, plumbing, pottery, voice throwing, knitting, calendar making, football (actually getting his football off the rooftop), puppets on a string, archaeology, dressing-up (disguising), winter sport of tobogganing, toy yacht building, making scrapbooks, making plastic models, making toy dogs, fishing, animal tracking, bird watching, keeping fit, making Easter eggs, making money by tape-recording bird sounds, camping, kite-flying, brass rubbing, jigsaws, mechanics, roller-skating, collecting wild flowers, acting, watching tadpoles turn into frogs, catapulting, playing badminton, paper tearing. Phew…
The strip was drawn by the excellent Frank McDiarmid and ran from 7th November, 1970 until 17th July, 1971 (issue Nos. 23 – 59). It missed just one date during the period (1st May, 1971 (No. 48)). The episode in COR!! issue of 24th April, 1971 (No. 47) was illustrated by Les Barton.
From COR!! issue dated 12th December, 1970 (No. 28)
From COR!! issue dated 29th May, 1971 (No. 52)
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A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: SWOPPER STAN
Swopper Stan was a strip about a kid who swopped everything for anything with all kinds of humorous consequences. It ran from 12th September, 1970 until 14th April, 1973 (Issues 15 – 150) and didn’t miss a single week during the period. The regular illustrator was Mike Lacey.
From COR!! issue dated 14th Novemner, 1970 (No. 24)
From COR!! issue dated 30th December, 1972 (No. 135 - Christmas edition).
Stan does some swopping with other COR!! characters - Micky Madd, Tricky Dicky,
Chalky and Jasper the Grasper
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A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: TEACHER'S PET
Teacher’s Pet was a long-running series in COR!! about an annoying school-girl named Patsy and her never-ending attempts to get into her teacher’s (Miss’) good books. Patsy’s efforts usually backfired and infuriated the teacher, besides she often suffered at the hands of her classmates for being a sneak. Miss’ real name was Miss Fortune and according to the piece of information shared in the Postbag section by the Editor, she’d been trying to change it ever since Patsy joined her class. The strip enjoyed full-colour treatment and often occupied the prime slot on the back of the paper, especially in the early months. It didn’t miss a single week and made 3 front cover appearances in COR!! issues dated 15th December 1973, 9th February 1974 and 11th May, 1974 (Nos. 185, 193 and 206). The artist was Norman Mansbridge but there was also another illustrator who stepped in quite frequently. I don’t know the name but he also drew Boney in Knockout and Whizzer and Chips.
Episode drawn by Norman Mansbridge from COR!! issue dated 12th December, 1970 (No. 28)
Episode by another artist from COR!! issue dated 23rd February, 1974 (No. 195)
This post covers the last feature that appeared in the first issue of COR!! The total number of different strips over the relatively short lifetime of COR!! came to sixty, not counting reader participation features, “guest star” appearances, “cor-medy choice” features and a few series that only appeared in COR!! annuals and specials that I hope to cover in due course. Teacher’s Pet was No. 27 so less than half of the strips have been covered so far.
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A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: MIKE'S MAGIC MOULD
Mike's Magic Mould was another extremely short-lived feature about a little lad Mike and his lump of magic modelling mould that could change its shape and size. In part 2 of the article A Line in Chuckles in the Summer 1986 edition of GOLDEN FUN Terry Bave recalled that the idea was conceived by his wife Sheila but had never been taken beyond a simple sketch until Bob Paynter invited the Baves to create the necessary characters for COR!! They submitted the first scripts but having by then committed themselves to taking two other weekly strips in COR!! they reluctantly handed Mike’s Magic Mould over to another artist. I wonder who that artist was?
From COR!! issue dated 20th June, 1970 (No. 3)
Mike's Magic Mould started in the first issue of COR!! and mustered only 12 episodes. It bowed out on 26th September, 1970 (No. 17), having missed the following dates: 25th July 1970, 1st and 22nd August 1970, 5th and 19th September, 1970 (Nos. 8, 9, 12, 14, 16).
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Labels: Cor, Mike's Magic Mould, Terry Bave
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: STOWAWAY STEVE
Stowaway Steve was a very short-lived series about a boy who always stowed himself away in different places and objects. In all likelihood the editors didn’t think much of the series and stowed it away for good after just eleven episodes. The feature occupied 2/3 of one page (the remaining 1/3 was allocated to Kids’ Problem Column). The last episode appeared on 12th September, 1970 (No. 15). Stowaway Steve missed the following weeks: 8th, 15th and 29th August and 5th September, 1970 (Nos. 10, 11, 13 and 14). It was illustrated by several artists including Mike Lacey and Norman Mansbridge.
From COR!! issue dated 1st August, 1970 (No. 9)
Labels: Cor, Mike Lacey, Norman Mansbridge, Stowaway Steve
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: DOGSBODIES ACADEMY
Dogsbodies Academy was a very short series and the only one in COR!! illustrated by Angel Nadal. The feature was about a school for dogs where Mr. Bull-Dog the teacher suffered all kinds of disasters as he tried to give young puppies some useful lessons. Some of the suffering came at the hands of the naughty pupils. A traditional classroom humor strip, except that here it was animals rather than school kids. The series lasted until 14th October, 1970 (issue No. 21) and missed a few weeks towards the end of its modest run – it did not appear on 5th September 1970, 3rd and 10th October 1970 (issue Nos. 14, 18 and 19).
From COR!! dated 15th August, 1970 (No. 11)
Labels: Angel Nadal, Cor, Dogsbodies Academy
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: JEANIE AND HER GENIE
Jeanie and her Genie began in a remote Oriental town where a sweat-shop genie-packer ran out of lamps for packing genies, so he put one in a torch. An English sailor buoght the torch in a souvenir shop and sent it to his niece Jeannie in England as her birthday present. The Genie could be summoned by turning the torch on. He granted Jeanie all sorts of wishes. Being very clumsy, the Genie often found himself in different awkward situations. The short series illustrated by an artist whom I can’t identify lasted from the first issue of COR!! until 31st October, 1970 (issue No. 22).
From COR!! dated 11th July, 1970 (No. 6)
Labels: Cor, Jeanie and her Genie
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: LITTLE GEYSER
Little Geyser was a story about a kid-geyser and his quest for home. The lovable Little Geyser jumped out of hot springs in New Zealand and landed in the radiator of a tourist car. Separated from his home and Pa Geyser, he set to travel the World. He spent a few episodes on a luxury liner hoping it will take him home to New Zealand but ended up in England instead. There the poor Little Geyser spent some time with a dim English family who thought he was a fountain. Feeling sad and lonely, he tried to find another geyser that he could talk to. Later in the run he forgot all about New Zealand and concentrated on a search for a body of water to call home or simply chill – a pond, a canal, a stream, a sink full of water, a bucket, a soda pop dispenser, a washing machine, anything went. Needless to say his weekly experiments put him in all kinds of humorous situations.
The feature ran from the first issue until 21st August, 1971 (issue 64) and missed a few weeks towards the end of its run (it did not appear on 19th September 1970, 15th May 1971, 29th May 1971, 19th June – 3rd July 1971, 17th July 1971, 31st July 1971 and 14th August 1971 (issue Nos. 16, 50, 52, 55-57, 59, 61 and 63)). Does anyone recognize the artist?
Labels: Cor, Little Geyser
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: BARNEY'S BRAINBOX
Barney’s Brain Box was a series about an absent-minded boy Barney Biggs who was able to concentrate on only one thing at a time. The problem with Barney was that he frequently fell into a state of dopiness. As a result, Barney’s fantasies and daydreams pushed reality to the back of his mind making him forget all about his errands and commitments. COR!! readers could see what went on inside Barney’s head. Barney’s “brainwaves” were portrayed as little creatures (brain-bods) inside his brain box. The conflicting nature of the brainwaves inevitably resulted in battles and humorous clashes between reality “brain-bods” and fantasy “brain bods” as the former struggled to win Barney’s attention back from the latter. To make things even more complicated, the setting kept alternating between reality and Barney’s brain box as goings-on in the real World altered the course of events in Barney’s head. Luckily for Barney, reality “brain-bods” usually prevailed, and just in time for him to avoid trouble
From COR!! dated June 20th, 1970 (No. 3)
The feature only lasted for 31 weeks from the first issue until the first issue of 1971 in which Barney made a New Year resolution to think of only one thing a time and thus put an end to his problems.
The concept of Barney’s Brain Box was similar to that of a number of older UK strips such as The Nervs, Georgie’s Germs, Numskulls, maybe even Buster’s Daydreams, but it was a scrumptious feature nonetheless. The short-lived series occupied two pages (except in the issues dated 11th July 1970, 15th August 1970 and 3rd October 1970 (Nos. 5, 11 and 18) where it was 1 and ½ pages long). It was illustrated by several artists such as Mike Lacey and Tony Goffe, but the majority of the episodes were by the unconfirmed illustrator who drew Football Madd and some other strips in COR!!, Peter Davidson perhaps?
From COR!! dated 8th August, 1970 (No. 10)
Labels: Barney's Brain Box, Cor, Mike Lacey
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: FREDDIE FANG THE WEREWOLF CUB
Freddie Fang the Werewolf Cub - he does a bad deed every day. Another nice series in COR!! from the hand of IPC’s prolific artist Reg Parlett. Obeying the orders of his evil Werewolf Scoutmaster, Freddie Fang has to play foul and do a bad deed every day but always fails because his attempts keep resulting in good deeds or backfiring on himself or the Scoutmaster. Later in the run Freddie Fang became a willing accomplice and perpetrator of bad deeds, very eager to earn his bad conduct badge.
Both Freddie's parents were normal human beings, nothing was said about when and how he became a werewolf and there was no apparent reason why the editors wanted him to be one. The only explanation I can think of is that it was because of the Scoutmaster: it would have been strange for a normal scoutmaster to act as the instigator of Freddie’s evil deeds. He had to be made something sinister so IPC scriptwriters decided to portray both main characters as werewolves.
The series ran for 112 weeks from the first issue until 22nd July, 1972 (No. 112).
From COR!! issue dated 29th August, 1970 (No. 13)
From COR!! issue dated 28th November, 1970 (No. 26)
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Labels: Cor, Freddie Fang the Werewolf Cub, Reg Parlett
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: SPOILSPORT
Spoilsport was about an evil-minded fellow who never played the game. Nobody’s gonna have any fun while he’s around: he derives his pleasure from spoiling things, sports and games for other people but always suffers in the end. It was illustrated by Graham Allen who contributed quite a few strips during COR’s!! 4-year run. Spoilsport continued from the first issue until 22nd July, 1972 (No. 112) with a few gaps towards the end of its run. It missed the following dates: 26th February, 1972 – 25th March, 1972 (Nos. 92 – 95), 8th and 15th April, 1972 (Nos. 97 and 98), 20th and 27th May, 1972 (Nos. 103 and 104) and 8th July, 1972 (No. 110).
From COR!! issue dated 25th July, 1970 (No. 8)
From COR!! issue dated 7th November, 1970 (No. 23)
Labels: Cor, Graham Allen, Spoilsport
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: ANDY'S ANTS
Andy’s Ants belonged to the elite club of COR!! strips that started in the first issue and lasted throughout the entire 4-year run of the paper. It told weekly adventures of a boy named Andy and the army of ants whom he befriended and could converse with.
The first episode in COR!! No. 1
The feature was created and illustrated by Terry Bave who shared his memories about the strip in part 2 the article A Line in Chuckles in the Summer 1986 edition of Golden FUN. Originally the Baves conceived the idea for Whizzer and Chips but it wasn’t developed properly. It involved a boy character with a collection of weird insect pets and was code-named Ivan’s Insects. The idea had been sparked off by the fact that one of Baves’ young “fans” collected all kinds of creepy crawlies. After some thought they altered the basic idea and came up with Andy’s Ants which involved a lad with an army of pet ants. The Baves wrote the initial script, Terry Bave then roughed-out an introduction page and submitted it to Bob Paynter for consideration. The editor liked the idea very much and gave Terry Bave the go-ahead for the artwork. The feature was approved for the new comic with IPC script writers supplying the weekly scripts. Andy’s Ants proved very popular with COR!! readers. The illustrator reminisced that the feature was a great fun to draw, especially when the script called for a large number of ants to appear. I remember reading somewhere that Bob Paynter was particularly fond of large numbers of ants and often told art assistants to add more of them to the original artwork.
From COR!! issue dated 26th August, 1972 (No. 117)
The strip was a black-and white one-pager but starting from issue 143 quite a few of the episodes were in full colour. Andy’s Ants also made 4 front cover colour appearances on 14th July 1973, 29th September 1973, 2nd February 1974 and 6th April 1974 (issue Nos. 163, 174, 192 and 201).
The strip was revived as a new series Adam and his Ants in WOW! comic in the early 80s.
From COR!! dated 23rd March, 1974 (No. 199)
Labels: Andy's Ants, Cor, Terry Bave
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: WALLY AND OLLY
Wally and Olly. The series was about the World’s brainiest owl Olly and the World’s dimmest mouse Wally. The cunning Olly plotted all kinds of violent schemes involving explosives, chemical substances, sharp cutlery, mallets, trap holes, catapults, you name it, so as to eat the silly mouse. The schemes always backfired on the wicked owl. A lot like Tom and Jerry stuff, only here the mouse was an ignorant nitwit. It was another short-lived feature that started in the first issue and was dropped by the end of the first year: the last episode appeared on 17th October, 1970 (issue No. 20).
First episode from COR!! issue No. 1
I don’t know who the illustrator was but it looks like it was the work of one of those artists to whom historians of British comics usually refer as ‘European’. This has always puzzled me a bit, because when I was in school my Geography teacher taught us that Britain was also part of Europe…
Labels: Cor, Wally and Olly
A LOOK AT COR!! STRIPS: KID CHAMELEON, PART FOUR (FINAL)
Kid Chameleon and the Mystery of the Old Gondola (5 weeks from 1st January, 1972 until 29th January, 1972, issue Nos. 83 – 87)
Walking the streets of Venice, Kid Chameleon sees a sack thrown into the canal out of the window and it turns out there’s a human being inside. Kid rescues a skinny boy by the name of Pietro Spogetti and finds out that the fat man who has just tried to get rid of him was the boy's uncle Mario. Kid Chameleon teaches Mario a lesson by kicking him down the stairs. Kid thinks he has done a good deed, but the boy tells him he has only made things much worse: the uncle is very powerful because he owns many gondolas and makes much money. The boy only has one gondola left to him by his father and he works very hard to make a living. Mario has tried to buy the boy out because he wanted to have all gondolas but Pietro refused, so now Mario beats and bullies him every day. Now that Kid has beaten Mario, he has made things much worse for poor Pietro. At that very moment the two boys are confronted by Mario’s friends who threaten to beat them up. Kid Camouflages himself and defeats the thugs but amidst the commotion, Mario tows Pietro’s gondola away:
From COR!! issue dated 15th January, 1972 (No. 85)
Kid dives into the canal and goes after Mario in order to force him tell the truth why he wants the old gondola so badly. Mario disappears in the traffic of the Grand Canal but Kid finds him again with the help of his lizard friends. Mario has brought the gondola to the edge of a lagoon on the outskirts of the city and started breaking it up with his axe. Having smashed the prow of Pietro’s gondola, Mario retrieves some precious paper but Kid grabs it from his hand. The paper has drawings of a gondola that can make man a fortune. Pietro can now develop his Dad’s gondola while Mario pays for his crimes in a prison cell. Kid’s quest continues.
Kid Chameleon Enters for the European Cross-Country Race (6 weeks from 5th February, 1972 until 11th March, 1972, issue Nos. 88 – 93)
Kid reaches the Italian city of Pisa. He witnesses some posh English youngsters pester a poor artist. Kid intercedes for the poor old fellow and the bullies begin ridiculing him. The artist tells him they are English schoolboys entered for the European cross-country race and the big one is Clive Smythe, British Schools’ Champion, the favourite in the race. The bullies have more fun at Kid’s expense when they persuade him to hold the leaning tower of Pisa so it doesn’t fall. Kid becomes really furious for being made a fool. At first it looks as if the snobbish Clive is going to have the upper hand thanks to his judo skills, but Kid plays his own game and Clive ends up in a fountain. The bullies chase Kid but they are not fast enough. Frank Carter, the sports’ master in charge of the four British boys, is fascinated because Kid has just outrun his best athletes:
From COR!! issue dated 12th February, 1972 (No. 89)
Carter offers to enter Kid for the European Cross-country race. Kid agrees because he sees it as a chance to beat Clive, but Clive’s plan is to put Kid out of the race. On the day of the race Clive spills some drawing pins on the track. Kid injures his bare feet and goes through a lot of pain and trouble before he finally wins the race with the help of his lizard friends.
Kid Chameleon Brings the Murderer to Justice (5 weeks from March 18th, 1972 until 15th April, 1972, issue Nos. 94 – 98)
Kid crosses the border from Italy into Switzerland. He slips down the slope and crashes into the bottom of a fat school-teacher who is out on a nature ramble with her pupils. The lady smacks him on the head with a newspaper for hitting her and calling her fat. Kid can’t believe his eyes because the newspaper has a photograph of the man he is after. Kid asks the teacher to read the report and learns that the man on the photo is an Englishman and well-known international thief called Matthew Blain. He is now trapped by the police on the upper slopes of a mountain known as the White Tower. Kid arrives at the foot of the mountain and discovers it is all sealed-off by the police. Using his talents, Kid slips past the cordon and reaches the upper slopes. After a lot of shooting and a mountain slide Kid attacks Blain and renders him powerless. The boy demands to know the truth about his parents’ death and Blain tells the story:
Final episode of Kid Chameleon in COR!! issue dated 15th April, 1972 (No. 98)
And that was the end of the tale about Kid Chameleon (a.k.a. Gavin Webb as we now know).
Kid Chameleon’s adventures weren’t limited to COR!! weeklies. Two short stories also appeared in the annuals – 1972 COR!! annual and an obscure BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR BOYS 1972.
The scene of the 6-pager in COR!! 1972 annual is set in East Africa. Kid Chameleon saves Jill Carter and her Dad’s money from the wicked crooks Trent and the Carnival Strongman Samson who are plotting to escape with the takings of the carnival. The episode was illustrated by a different artist but I can’t identify who. Here's a sample page:
The episode in the BIRTHDAY BOOK FOR BOYS 1972 was 8 pages long. Kid Chameleon is in a small East African town where he foils the plans of Baxter and his accomplice Basher who have disguised themselves as artists to rob the local bank. Illustrated by Ian Kennedy. Here are the last two pages of the short story:
Labels: Cor, Joe Colquhoun, Kid Chameleon
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Hierarchical Path: Seven Years War (Main Page) >> Armies >> Prisoners of war
Prisoners were usually kept for short periods of time, until traded or ransomed by the compatriots of said prisoners. To facilitate this, treaties called "cartels" were signed between the opposing sides, with the cartels specifying a barter price for any particular soldier, be it in kind or cash. There were several cartels during the Seven Years' War:
between Prussia with the Holy Roman Empire (1757)
between France and Prussia (1759)
between Great Britain and France (February 6, 1759), which was made in the convention of Sluys.
Rates varied, but a field marshal was swapped for another field marshal, or an equivalent number of private soldiers (e.g 3000), or officers and NCO's. If there was any imbalance in number of men, or none were to be found on one side, the amount was made up in cash. this could range from ~8 shillings for a private to ~2,500 pounds for a field marshal, or about 15,000 gulden.
However, until such a swap was carried out, the officers were housed in private houses or were free to wander round on parole. If things got ugly, as happened to Prussian general Fouqué while under Austrian captivity, the prisoners would be forced to reside in an isolated castle. Privates on the other hand, were either forced to join the captor's army (as many a Saxon's case in 1756), or housed in the casemates of castles, under some of the worst conditions, till exchanged.
This was at least the theory. In practice, the arrangements, especially between Prussia and Austria, broke down, meaning that prisoners could expect to be held until the end of the war. This was in part due to the shear disparity in prisoners held by the Austrians, versus those held by the Prussians, with the Prussians having taken far more prisoners.
Küstrin Breakout
As a result of the terrible conditions many prisons had, as well as the breakdown of the cartels between Prussia and Austria, some prisoners began to plan and attempt escapes from their captivity. The most famous attempt took place in June 1762, in Küstrin.
Küstrin had imprisoned within its walls 5,000 Austrian prisoners, 1,000 of whom were Croats, who had been captured at the Battle of Prague in 1757, and had been waiting to be exchanged till then. They were housed in the casemates of the local fort, with little food and no bedding, and were forced to take up work rebuilding the town in the aftermath of its bombardment by the Russians in 1758, in order to obtain the money to buy sufficient food. The garrison, approcimately 550 men in number, were stretched thin manning the defenses, guarding the prisoners, and maintaining order. In addition, many were invalids and militia men, when made the job all the more difficult.
Seeing this as an opportunity, the Croats planned an escape: they would seize the ammunition and cannon, loot the town, and break out to link up with an Austrian Army near Kottbus. The other prisoners did not take part, though they were hoping to take advantage of any potential success in the plan. The plan was kept secret from the Prussians in spite of it being common knowledge among the prisoners, preserving the element of surprise.
at about 5 AM, the Croats began their attempt at a breakout: they overpowered the detachment sent to guard them, seizing their weapons and chasing the guards away. they then split up into three detachments: one would spike or seize the guns on the walls; another would obtain ammunition from the magazines, and the last would seize the gates of the town to keep them open.
However, the magazine could not be broken into, and the garrison had been alerted. Accordingly, a Lieutenant Thiele took a group of 30 men out, and collecting more men along the way, sallied to a part of the wall not held by the Croats. There they took an advantageous position, and were able to keep the Croats from breaking out altogether, though at the cost of Thiele's life. In the meantime, the garrison chaplain managed to convince three Austrian priests to talk down the Croats, telling them that the chances of linking up with the Austrian army were minimal, with Prussian and by now, Russian detachments roaming the countryside. The Croats promptly surrendered.
ON hearing of the news of the attempted breakout, Frederick II had five of the ringleaders executed, with one in ten of the others (drawn by lot) being caned with 100 blows. the remaining prisoners (Croat or not), were made to watch.
Duffy, Christopher, Military Experience in the Age of Reason, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York City, NY , 1987
Anonymous, An attempted breakout by Austrian prisoners of war from Küstrin, http://syw2.tripod.com/kustrinpow.html, 2007. Accessed 17/2/2012
User:Ibrahim90 for the initial version of this article
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Ask the US Embassy
Clearing Customs
HOPE partners with police to provide opportunities for unattached youth
PARTICIPANTS in the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme will be interning with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to gain life skills, proper work ethic and discipline.
National coordinator of the programme, Col Martin Rickman said that discussions have been held with Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson and his management team to have this undertaking facilitated in all police divisions.
“Each division may have 14 to 20 (police) stations and the idea is to feed the young people into those stations,” he indicated.
He said he is also looking to “build this out with our other essential services such as the Jamaica Fire Brigade and the Department of Correctional Services”.
Col Rickman was speaking after the launch of the HOPE Programme Police Partnership for the St Andrew North Division at Constant Spring Police Station in St Andrew on Monday.
The partnership will enable unattached youth from across the division to be meaningfully engaged as a means of reducing gang and criminal involvement.
The first cohort of 16 interns will be placed at police stations for one year, where they will be engaged in the digitisation of records and as customer service representatives.
Col Rickman urged the police personnel and civilian staff at the stations where the young people will serve “to get involved with the youngsters (and) guide them towards bigger and brighter things”.
“We hope that they will become employable not only because of their attitude but also because of their skills and work ethic and that they will be much better off where they will be in life later on,” he said.
To the interns, Col Rickman described the opportunity before them as a “golden ticket”, which they must utilise well by “listening to the guidance that is going to be provided, being diligent in the duties that will be assigned, being punctual and being reliable.
“All the stakeholders want you to do well. You must show that you are grateful for what you are being given [as] this will take you to your successful future, whatever that may be,” he added.
Head of the St Andrew North Police Division Superintendent Glenford Miller said that the partnership represents a “ray of hope” for the division and will be used to reach young people and steer them away from criminal activity.
“We will try as best as possible to recruit the interns at the end of the programme for them to become police officers...this is a stepping stone and something for you to build on,” he said.
Miller urged the interns to pass on the message of HOPE and encourage their peers to get involved in the programme.
Launched by Prime Minister Andrew Holness in May 2017, the HOPE Programme provides educational and job opportunities for young people.
The initiative is targeted at persons aged 18 to 24 who are not employed or enrolled in a school or programme of training.
The police are seeking to use the initiative, in conjunction with its already established programmes such as 'Pon di Corna' and the Proactive Violence Interruption Strategy, to increase engagement with the youth.
Early Stimulation Programme helping little ones
I don't want to sit and beg
It's on!
It's now Godfrey Dyer Boulevard
This Day in History - July 15
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Melissa Kramer's Cincinnati
The Best of Cincinnati History
The Cathedral Basilica in Covington
The Albee Theater
Ohio Mechanics Institute and Emery Theater
The Crosley Building
The American Can Factory
Inclines and Streetcars
Men of Steel
Parks plan aims to revitalize old incline sites
Streetcars are nothing new in Cincinnati
Lissa’s Book
The long strange trip of Clifton Magazine
Green products flourish in Over-the-Rhine
Caroline Williams’ Cincinnati
Media and Lissa
Lissa on WVXU
A Bookish Inclination
Melissa Kramer always asked ‘why?’
In Loving Memory of Lissa
“Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati” celebrates the remarkable life and talent of Cincinnati journalist and historian Melissa Lee McNabb Kramer. Lissa, a lifelong resident of the Cincinnati area, was a 2010 graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the author of The Inclines of Cincinnati, a history of the city’s hillside rail system of the 1800s and early 1900s.
Lissa in the spring of 2008.
Lissa loved to explore the history of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, and her passion was historical architecture of all kinds, from ornate cathedrals to industrial buildings to transportation infrastructure like the inclines. Understanding history was important to Lissa because, as she once told an interviewer, “You have to know where you have come from, to know what path you should take.”
Lissa’s professional ambition was to work in the publishing industry in New York. She also had a longtime interest in advocating for the rights of nursing home patients. This came about from her experience as a patient in the late-1990s related to her lifelong battle with arthritis. Most important of all, Lissa was a loving mother and a loving daughter.
Lissa was born in Covington, Ky., on June 19, 1969. She passed away on Sept. 24, 2010, at age 41, the victim of an act of domestic violence. She began her college career at UC in 1988, studying architectural engineering technology, but her studies were interrupted in 1991 by motherhood and health issues. Lissa said her classes in architectural history, drawing and construction methods deepened her love of 19th and 20th century architecture. She returned to UC about 15 years later, this time to study journalism, and had completed all requirements for her bachelor’s degree by the time of her death. She was awarded her degree posthumously in December 2010.
Lissa created the original “Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati” website to promote her book, which came out in March 2009. In the winter of 2010, she expanded the site as a project for a journalism class. The site included several articles about historic landmarks in Cincinnati and Covington, such as the Cathedral Basilica, Albee Theater and Crosley Building, among others. A few months after her death, the website expired and it disappeared from the Internet. However, a close friend copied the site’s content before it disappeared and has resurrected “Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati” as an online memorial.
This new version of “Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati” includes the original articles about local historic landmarks (see the category “Historic Landmarks”) and the original biographical sketch that Lissa wrote in early 2010 (see “About Lissa”).
New content includes several unpublished journalistic articles that Lissa wrote for her classes. Hard copies of these articles were discovered in her research files several months after her death. “Men of Steel” is a fascinating, colorful account of life on the inclines. Lissa’s notes indicate that she wanted to do further research about this subject, expand the article to 6,000 words and publish it in a major magazine. Another article published here discusses plans to revitalize the park areas where the inclines were once located, and a third story reflects on the days when streetcars served the city (see these articles in the category “Inclines and Streetcars”).
Lissa’s article on Clifton Magazine, a former UC student publication that began in the turbulent 1970s, also is posted here. The article, which arose from an internship in 2008 in which Lissa researched and indexed Clifton content, was first published on the UC website (see the Clifton article and others in the category “Local Interest”).
Other new content includes an audio file of her July 2009 interview with Cincinnati public radio station WVXU about The Inclines of Cincinnati, an article from a University of Cincinnati publication about her book and a Cincinnati Enquirer story published shortly after her death (see the category “Media and Lissa”).
This site also includes the introduction from The Inclines of Cincinnati (see the category “Lissa’s Book”).
The articles in Lissa’s original website did not have accompanying photographs, and she did not take the photos that appear in this site. The photos, all of which are original except for the historical images of the Mount Adams Incline, Bellevue House and Albee Theater, were taken by a close friend to accent Lissa’s articles. The photos of Lissa were taken in 2008 and 2009 by Kim Burdett and Melissa Norris of UC for articles in UC publications.
Thank you for visiting “Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati” and celebrating Lissa’s life. As you read her articles and listen to her voice, you will appreciate her talent and passion. On campus, Lissa sometimes projected the image of a soft-spoken, shy young woman. In reality, she was tenacious, strong and courageous. Those qualities helped her overcome many difficult medical and personal challenges throughout her life. Lissa’s life was a triumph of the human spirit, and a powerful lesson can be learned from the dignified and courageous way she lived.
Perhaps the best way to remember Lissa and to honor her brilliant legacy is to allow her remarkable life to inspire all of us to follow our hearts, to never give up and – just as she did in the final chapter of her life – to walk on a dream.
One Response to In Loving Memory of Lissa
I found this site while doing research on the history of OMI for one of the programs at UC. What a wonderful web site and tribute to Lissa. My education at in the Architectural Engineering Technology program at UC preceded Lissa by just a few years but I did not have the privilege of meeting her. She sounds like she was a wonderful person and created a great legacy in her writing. I look forward to reading more of her work.
Melissa Kramer’s Cincinnati
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I ate out last night, at an Indian restaurant in the Odyssey Pavilion in Belfast. Peter, an old school chum whose 50th birthday was imminent, met me in the foyer. We meet for a meal perhaps three times a year.
The pavilion itself seemed fairly quiet, although there was something "big" on in the Arena, adjacent to the Pavilion. We were shown to a table immediately. I had my usual, unadventurous onion bhajis, chicken Tikka Masala, pilau rice; and we shared Peshwari nan bread.
One topic which Peter brought up in the conversation was the state of Northern Ireland's roads. They are, of course, utterly deplorable - and that is putting it mildly. We used to joke disparagingly about the state of the Irish Republic's roads, before they joined the European Union. Now, the opposite is the case, one has to admit.
The "Roads Service" - as they call themselves - no: I call them the roads disservice. The roads disservice management is totally culpable for a culture of neglect over several decades; and it is simply not good enough for them to blame the NI Office ministers or anyone else. The roads disservice management remain culturally incapable of getting to grips with the disgraceful state of our roads.
The roads disservice has acquiesced in "turning a blind eye" to the damage done to our roads by utility companies, which do not reinstate any trenches, man-hole covers or anything in a proper fashion. Consequently, we have thousands of sunken trenches, poor quality workmanship and pot-holes which the roads disservice is ultimately responsible for. It is their responsibility to see that a satisfactory job is done; that their inspectors return after, say, six months or, if necessary, eighteen months to ensure that the repairs are good.
I shall name a mere two roads in Belfast or, at least, sections of them: Holywood Road and Ravenhill Road. The Holywood Road has some nasty sunken trenches causing uneven surfaces close to St Mark's Church and the junction of Palmerston Road. The roads disservice always claim that these roads are inspected regularly, which is spurious. The damage has been there for months and nothing has been done about it.
The Roads Service has a responsibility to bring utility companies to account. It is not good enough for the roads disservice to shift the responsibility to whichever company originally dug up a road. The roads disservice must surely have powers to enforce utility companies to repair damage incurred and, if necessary, re-surface a whole section of carriageway.
Labels: At Home , Rants And Gripes , The Belmont Pronouncements
I spoke on the blower this morning to Clarke and Dawe, the men's clothiers, about made-to-measure suits; including the cloth and, mainly the price. Seemingly the rough figure is currently £595, presumably for a two-piece suit.
Then I rang David Young, a bespoke tailor - possibly the only bespoke tailor on the island of Ireland. Mr Young is quietly spoken, unassuming, and sounds a good, all-round egg to me. We chatted at length about types of cloth; cloth weight; the merits of two or three piece suits; Holland & Sherry; and the number of fittings (normally one).
Mr Young has fitting sessions in Dublin for clients there; though he willingly offered to come to Belfast. His fee is currently €1,000 for a two-piece suit; and €1,400 for a suit and waist-coat. That equates to about £868 for a bespoke suit using Savile Row cloths, like Holland & Sherry.
I read a testimonial from one satisfied customer:-
"I was in Ireland a couple of months ago and happened into Mr. Young's shop on Francis Street in Galway. Mr. Young, a kind and unassuming gentleman, informed that he was born and raised in Dublin, but moved to London as a young man where he trained under Peter Moore on Savile Row in the 70s. Years later, he returned to Ireland and set up shop in Galway - his wife's hometown. He seemed surprised at my interest in bespoke clothing. Apparently, there is not big market for bespoke tailoring in Ireland, notwithstanding the economic boom there over the past decade or so. Most of people in his shop were rummaging through racks of ready-made suits and sweaters. His clientele is a small, but loyal group, comprised of lawyers and bankers in the Galway area. He seemed to have no idea there is wide interest outside of Ireland for bespoke tailoring.
He showed me some of his work in progress, which consisted of hand-cut cloth; hand-sewn canvases; soft, lightly-padded shoulders; and hand-sewn buttonholes with beautiful horn buttons. The style appeared to be classic Savile Row, mildly structured with high armholes and nipped waist. He told me that all the work was performed by him personally on the premises, from the cutting of the cloth to the finishing of the garment.
I was shocked to say the least when he told me his price for a hand-made bespoke garment - 1,000 Euro for a suit; 700 Euro for a jacket. That is about half of what I paid to one of the least expensive Savile Row tailors, and about a fourth of what one can expect to pay in most tailoring houses in London.
Based on our long conversation, I commissioned him to make me a jacket out of Donegal tweed. He was reluctant to do it without a fitting (I was returning home in a couple of days) but agreed to do it after I assured him he could make any adjustments on my next visit to Ireland. At 700 Euro, I figured I didn't have much to lose. After I finally selected a cloth from the book, Mr. Young's cloth merchant in London told him he ran out of it. Apparently Magee - the company that holds the monopoly on most of the handwoven tweed market in Donegal - won't sell cloth directly to tailors. Magee, however, does sell cloth to individual customers at a few of its approved retailers, so Mr. Young ordered the cloth through one such retailer in town. In fact he and I walked across town to the shop to confirm it could get the cloth for us.
Back at Mr. Young's shop, he took detailed measurements and told me the jacket would be finished and mailed to me in a couple of weeks. Based on my experiences with London tailors and shirtmakers, I didn't believe it would be finished in two weeks - especially since it would take him a week to get the cloth. But sure enough a couple of weeks later it arrived at my home in Washington.
What is most remarkable to me about the jacket is the fit. It is by far my best fitting jacket, and Mr. Young did it without a fitting. No other tailor has made me such a well-fitting jacket - even after multiple fittings. It's very light for a tweed jacket, and it's beautifully finished. After paying extra for the specially ordered fabric and postage, the final cost was 850 Euros, which was still about half what I last paid for a jacket with shoulders that make me look like a linebacker made by a traveling London tailor.
So if you're ever in Ireland, stop by his shop. He is a very interesting fellow, and he may even teach you how to speak some Irish.
Also, Mr. Young said he would travel here if three or four people in a given place were interested. Again, he seemed surprised to hear there was a demand for bespoke around the globe. I sparked his curiosity when I told him that many of the tailoring houses in London make trips to the U.S. and elsewhere throughout the year. He's kind of insulated there on the west coast of Ireland. I think he would be absolutely shocked by the discussions on this forum. However, while he and I communicated through email a couple of times through his daughter, I don't think he is very computer savvy."
Mr young initially put me off waist-coats, saying that they were not as fashionable these days; nevertheless, a waist-coat can be somewhat distinctive, on the other hand.
If Mr Young were coming up to Belfast, would any readers be interested in having a bespoke suit made? That's my idea, incidentally, not his. It is just a thought. He's going to contact me in about three weeks' time.
Can you guess who this is? Sorry to disappoint you: it is not young Timothy William, Viscount Sydenham! Try again...
Malcolm Lennox sent me this.
Labels: Brackenber House
The old boys' annual dinner takes place at the usual venue this year. I have to admit that, since I left Brackenber, I have never attended one dinner; nor am I proud of the fact. There are, however, mitigating circumstances: namely, a degree of diffidence on Timothy Belmont's part.
If any fellow old boys happen to be perusing this post, I wonder if they might enlighten me as to the format of the dinner? Do most old boys attend alone? Or in a group? Is one assured of convivial company? Is there a bar? Is wine included with the meal?
If I could be reassured, I might just make an appearance!
Labels: At Home , Brackenber House
I was in Tesco's today, buying a few staples, viz. bread and milk; and spotted some plonk, a 2006 Cabernet Merlot from south Australia, 13.5% proof. It was reduced from nine pounds something to £4.99.
That's hardly surprising. They must have had difficulty shifting it. It's like ruddy vinegar. I shan't be buying it again.
We plopped a saccharin tablet into each glass and that has made it more palatable, at least.
Labels: At Home , Food And Drink , Rants And Gripes
The National Trust has refreshed its image and brand. This has manifested itself on their new website; documents; magazine; handbook; cards and car stickers. They plan to introduce the new "brand" to clothing and vehicle livery, too.
The National Trust's management expects that this new image will make the Trust "more approachable and engaging".
The most significant changes include the loss of the word "The" from the National Trust to reduce "the feeling of formality"; a bolder use of the oak leaf; and the use of "a much wider palette of colours" for the logo.
What utter rot. How much did this exercise cost? My loyal readers can rest assured that I shan't be travelling down that progressive, egalitarian road of those at GHQ in The National Trust.
Omitting the definite article? "Let's go to National Trust property today"; or "National Trust method is best"; "I'm a supporter of National Trust." Quite preposterous.
Rest assured that Timothy Belmont will be maintaining the original and best, at his reactionary best; including continuation of the definite article and the green colour.
Long live the National Trust.
Labels: At Home , Reactionary , The National Trust
I was over at the Balmoral Road end of Belfast today, a part of town I enjoy visiting occasionally; and, since I've been getting "withdrawal symptoms" about Fulton's splendid Hawthorne self-service restaurant, there was no stopping me.
En route, I browsed at a few of the German car showrooms, viz. Mini, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. I do admire the little Mercedes SLK; in fact I sat in one and, while the seating position is fine for me, being a kind of sports-car, it is "low"; so it would be unfair to expect the Dowager to clamber in to such a model. I've only had the baby two-seater for eight months anyway. Car showrooms just fascinate me, though.
I lunched at Fulton's self-service restaurant, called the Hawthorne. The fodder was sumptuous, home-made-style and tip-top as usual. I devoured the chicken and mushroom tart, accompanied by a side salad and coleslaw. Their creamy mustard dressing is ethereal, by the way: always remember to pour it over the salad. My only disappointment was that I could not order a pudding, owing to the generous size thereof. Never mind.
There is a Marks and Spencer food store near by, so I dashed in and treated the household to the following:-
Two packets of their most excellent fruit pastilles, made with real fruit juice (9%)
Two sticky toffee puddings: all butter sponge with dates drenched in a Muscovado toffee sauce (42%)
Strawberry & clotted cream cheesecake
Half-fat West Country créme fraîche
Labels: At Home , Food And Drink , Food Heroes
By 1960, and possibly owing to larger numbers of pupils, the location of the school photograph had moved to Brackenber's grounds. Notice the increase in the number of teachers, too.
The boy in the top row, five from the right, is pulling a face!
Once again, many thanks to Malcolm Lennox for sending me this image. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Here is a tale of two dukes who both sat, consecutively, in the House of Commons; then the House of Lords.
Between 1955 and 1964, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Grosvenor, DSO, TD, JP, DL, MP, was the Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone. In 1967, Colonel Grosvenor succeeded to the dukedom of Westminster.
In 1964, Colonel Grosvenor was succeeded as Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone by James (Marquess of) Hamilton, MP. Lord Hamilton remained as MP for the constituency until 1970; and subsequently succeeded to the dukedom of Abercorn in 1979.
The Comment Moderation device has fulfilled its primary purpose. I received two comments from Eva, Prince William's infatuated Romanian admirer, during the night; and, subsequently, the device has enabled me to intercept the messages and delete them. Sorry Eva! Should you wish to make contact with HRH, kindly contact him through Clarence House; not through the good offices of Timothy Belmont.
I have been in communication with Simon Cundey of Henry Poole, the tailors. Even if I were serious about acquiring a Savile Row suit, it would be a trifle impractical, in a logistical sense. Nevertheless, he did suggest a first fitting over two full days, with prior notice. The price has not been discussed. I said I'd contact them the next time I visit the metropolis, which could be next year. I lament the days when I could nip over to Savile Row from the Lords and fly back and forward as often as necessary (and if you believe that, you'll believe anything!).
Undoubtedly there is a considerable difference between bespoke and made-to-measure suits: whereas bespoke suits are made, cut and sown completely by hand in the premises over several fittings, with individual requirements and details like buttons and linings discussed with the tailor; made-to-measure would be much more elementary, with measurements noted and then sent off to a factory somewhere for assembly. That's the basic difference; and it's reflected in the price!
Labels: At Home , Humour
I have discovered a most interesting article by Caroline Davies, about the logistical arrangements leading up to the annual Order of the Garter ceremony at Windsor Castle in 2006:-
"The robes are hanging from rails in dust-proof bags, each meticulously labelled. Boxes are stacking up along the walls and marked with different names - Sir John Major, Sir Timothy Colman, The Baroness Thatcher.
Behind the barred door of the strong room, heavy gold and enamel collars are being taken out of their blue-cushioned cases and given a brisk going over with a cloth.
"Who's got the Duke of Wellington's hat?" a voice yells. "Ah, this one's Princess Alexandra's. Stuffed with netting so it sits perfectly," volunteers another.
This is the scene at the offices of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood in whose capable and experienced hands hangs the success of Garter Day, a celebration of the world's oldest order of chivalry. And the pa ce is frantic.
Today will be a special day for the Queen. With her birthday announcement that the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex would be made Royal Knights, it will be the first time all four of her children join the annual Garter procession, an ostentatious display of ostrich plumes, glittering insignia and velvet mantles at Windsor Castle.
Founded by Edward III in 1348, and said to be based on the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table, it is the world's most ancient and exclusive club.
Aside from the Sovereign and Prince of Wales, there can be only 24 Knights Companion (or Ladies, who were excluded by Henry VII in 1488 and only reinstated with the admission of Queen Alexandra in 1901) at any one time.
There are, in addition, Royal Knights from the Royal Family, including the Lady the Princess Royal, and Stranger Knights, mainly from European royal families but also, in a post-war act of reconciliation, the Emperor of Japan.
It is the greatest honour the Sovereign can bestow - though it is also a matter of dead men's shoes for the Knights Companion. For the others, membership is somewhat dictated by limited "hardware".
The blue velvet mantles - originally meant to reflect the Middle Ages' idea of heaven - each has a red vestigial hood and is adorned with the Garter heraldic shield. They cost about £4,500 and each new member has the choice of buying a new one or wearing an older one.
Both the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex have opted for new for today's ceremony, and they will foot the bill. Others, such as the Duke of Abercorn who wears his great-grandfather's, prefer family robes. They are usually worn only once a year, and spend the other 364 days locked away in a special climate-controlled room in Cambridge.
In the days leading to the Garter procession, they are delivered to the Central C hancery at St James's Palace where staff match them to their owner's other insignia.
The collars are a different matter. Each comprise 30 troy ounces of gold knots alternating with enamelled red roses of St George, the order's patron saint, and are adorned with a hanging three-dimensional figure of him slaying the dragon. They are few in number and would cost at least £12,000 to replace.
Most date from the 1930s, but the oldest, worn by the Duke of Abercorn, dates from the 1750s. For insurance purposes the knights prefer to leave them locked in the chancery's strongroom, taken out only for Garter Day, or designated "Collar Days" when they must be worn at ceremonial occasions on feast days and special royal anniversaries, though never after sunset.
Each knight, or lady, also receives the glittering Garter Star and a blue riband bearing a smaller badge called the Lesser George - most of which they keep at home.
The most incomprehensible piece of kit, however, is the garter itself, in dark blue for the knights and pale blue with a buckle for the ladies. The order's motto, Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on him who thinks evil of it), is spelled out in gold lettering.
In keeping with ancient tradition, it will be tied around the left calf of both the duke and earl during their investiture in front of the other knights and ladies in the Throne Room at Windsor Castle.
The Queen used to do this herself, but two pages now perform the ritual for her.
Then the garter is taken off straight away and is rarely used again.
Ladies of the order wear theirs at state functions on the left arm, but whether the knights bother under their trousers is open to speculation.
While statute prevents any adornment of the collar, the garters themselves can be set with jewels. "The Queen Mother's was diamonds upon diamonds upon diamonds," recalls one member of the Central Chancery staff.
All insignia and robes must be personally handed back to the Queen on death, a ritual performed by an heir in a private audience. Their banner, which hangs in St George's Chapel, the spiritual home of the order, will then be removed.
No one really knows the reason why the garter was chosen as the order's emblem.
Modern scholars have cast doubt on the tradition that it was inspired by a garter dropped by Joan, Countess of Salisbury, at a ball in Calais which Edward III retrieved and bound to his own leg.
It seems more likely to represent a strap used to attach a sword, as seen on knights on 14th century brasses.
Today it is purely ceremonial, the highlight of the day being the procession before crowds down to St George's Chapel for the installation service.
By early this morning the robes, hats and insignia will have been married up, brushed, packed up and taken on their journey to Windsor. At the end of the day they will be brought back, and locked up for another year."
Labels: Heritage , Royalty
There are ambitious plans afoot to reinstate the Lagan Navigation, a canal which linked the city of Belfast with Lough Neagh. A number of authorities have a shared vision to restore the canal already.
Feasibility studies have been undertaken and Belfast City Council is keen to press ahead with the project, subject to funding. Click on the map to enlarge it.
Other interested parties include the Inland Waterways Association and the Lagan Canal Trust.
The original navigation ran from Stranmillis in Belfast to Lisburn; Culcavey; Moira; Aghalee; and through to Lough Neagh. The canal passed through 27 Locks. Built in the 18th century, it was one of the most successful commercial navigations in Ireland. The development of road and rail led to the demise of the Lagan Canal and its abandonment in the 1950s.
About eight miles of the line of the navigation (between Lisburn and Moira), was lost in the 1960s when the Northern Ireland M1 motorway was built. However, a study by consultants has shown that re-instating the navigation would be feasible by making more use of the river Lagan itself. Restoration of the navigation is strongly supported by Lisburn City Council, which rebuilt Lock Twelve as the central feature of its civic office development in 2000. There are also plans to build a new Lock One at the weir in Stranmillis, Belfast.
I am slightly unclear as to how they will re-construct the canal where the motorway section is; and it does sound as if it will be costly. Despite this, I'm enthusiastic about the prospect of our canals in Ulster being revived.
I must write a few words about the memorial service for Lady Mairi Bury, while everything is still fresh in my mind.
I thought it was very well done indeed. St Mark's Church in Newtownards was full. The first thing to catch my eye, as I entered the church, was the Londonderry coat-of-arms above the porch. The Londonderry family were patrons of St Mark's, to the extent that they had owned the land; provided the land for its erection; paid a substantial amount of funds towards its construction; and, what is now the Baptistry in the South Aisle was formerly the Londonderry private pew.
The Service was excellent, I thought. The Rev Canon Kenneth Smyth, and his assistant whose name escapes me, gave an interesting sermon about the Londonderry family's connection with Newtownards and St Mark's; and his assistant told us a bit about Lady Mairi's life and interests, including philately and flying.
Lady Mairi's son-in-law, Mr Peter Lauritzen, then walked up to the pulpit and provided us with a splendid eulogy; very well done indeed.
I was seated in the middle of the nave, a few rows behind the Family. I chatted at length to the tall, thinnish chap beside me and I'm afraid I didn't catch his name; for we shared an interest in heritage and old churches. I said hello to Dr Anthony Malcolmson, who was sitting just along from me; and he reminded me that his Brackenber school-days were c. 1958!
I noticed a few people there, viz. the Duke of Abercorn; Lord Rathcavan; Lady Dufferin; and, of course, members of the Londonderry family circle of whom I really only recognized Robin Birley, one of Lady Annabel's sons.
Labels: Society
Players in the Ulster Orchestra are permitted to wear anything they like, as long as it is black. Even Bandanna-man!
Now I know why the BBC Invitation Concert, at the Ulster Hall in Belfast last night, began at 7pm: It was a live production on BBC Radio 3. It was publicized in Radio Times as Performance On 3.
I sat in my usual seat upstairs. The Hall was almost full. Being live, a presenter called Petroc Trelawny appeared a few minutes before seven; introduced himself; gave a brief summary of the performance; and prompted the audience to begin applauding.
The conductor was Takuo Yuasa; the soprano, Elizabeth Watts.
The music was Walk to the Paradise Garden, by Delius; Tchaikovsky's Symphony Number 1 in G Minor; and Elizabeth Watts, the soprano soloist, sang Berlioz's Nuits d'été.
I had some difficulty in stifling my coughs and only just managed to wait until appropriate intervals to clear my throat!
Labels: Concerts
I've been sneezing and wheezing for a good part of the week with a nasty cold, so whether I will attend the memorial service for Lady Mairi Bury tomorrow is questionable. I gather the Service will be at St Mark's parish church in Newtownards, County Down, at noon.
The Daily Telegraph has written an obituary of Lady Mairi here; and I have already expressed my condolences in other articles.
If any readers do attend the Service, please feel free to leave a message.
Labels: At Home , Society , Ulster Nobility: An Occasional Series
I have just purchased a packet of Gillette Mach 3 cartridges, 12-pack. They are currently available online at Boots. I was in Town briefly this morning and, having popped in to their Donegall Place store, the 12-pack was unavailable there.
However, they can be ordered and paid for online; then you designate a branch for collection, which is convenient enough.
Twelve cartridges cost £11.99, equivalent to £1 per blade which seems good value.
Labels: At Home , Shopping
The trouble with public limited companies is that so many - or the majority - of the shares belong to huge pension funds and others of that ilk. Private individuals often exert tenuous influence.
The Cadbury family, whose faith was founded on the Quaker religion, is firmly against the takeover of their old company by the American conglomerate, Kraft Foods.
Janie Cadbury, the widow of Peter "the Cad" Cadbury, has instructed Coutt's, her bankers, to reject the offer on her behalf, saying, "it has got nothing to do with money. I simpl y could not vote for an American company to takeover Cadbury, no matter the price."
Cadbury's hold a royal warrant.
I simply wish Cadbury's to remain British; pure and simple.
Labels: At Home , The Belmont Pronouncements
Molly's Yard, a compact establishment with a good measure of charm at the end of Botanic Avenue in Belfast, has a brand new website. I've eaten here several times within the last year; and, though disappointed by the severely constricted menu on December 31st, I remain undeterred. I look forward to revisiting them shortly. Here is their new website.
Labels: At Home , Food And Drink
The Earl of Oxford, making a bow to Queen Elizabeth I, happened to let out a fart, about which he was so ashamed that he went into exile for seven years.
On his return, the Queen welcomed him home with the words, "My lord, we have forgot the fart."
John Aubrey in Brief Lives (c. 1693)
Labels: Anecdotes , Humour
I have just learned that, in honour of HRH''s personal service to The Queen, The Countess of Wessex is to be appointed to the Royal Victorian Order.
I am unclear, as yet, whether HRH is to become a Dame Grand Cross (GCVO) or Dame Commander (DCVO) of the Order.
The illustration above shows the breast star of the GCVO.
Addendum: HRH is appointed GCVO.
Labels: Royalty
Field-Marshal Montgomery was the foremost publicist of his age and, by no conceivable stretch of the imagination, short on ambition.
Winston Churchill said to King George VI: "I'm worried about Monty; I think he's after my job". And the King exclaimed: "Thank God. I thought he was after mine!"
Labels: Anecdotes
Without being in receipt of one penny of commission whatsoever, I thought I'd like to advice readers that a splendid Caribbean villa on the island of Mustique is available to rent.
It belongs to that fully paid-up member of the Labour Party and champion of socialist ideals, the Right Honourable Shaun Woodward, MP, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; whose official residence is, of course, Hillsborough Castle.
The Mustique villa can be hired for £27,000 per week.
But clearly business has been good for Woodward, whose wealth comes from his Sainsbury heiress wife Camilla, and now the price has shot up by £11,600 per week.
Details of the rental hike come just days after it was revealed that Woodward and his wife have acquired their seventh home, a sumptuous Alpine ski chalet.
The Woodwards' global property portfolio includes a family home in Cirencester, which has replaced their old Oxford town-house, a £1.35 million flat by the Thames in London, a £7 million villa in The Hamptons on New York's Long Island, a holiday home in the south of France, and the bijoux terrace house in his St Helens constituency.
Labels: At Home , Society
I have unearthed an old letter I received from the Ely Lodge Estate in County Fermanagh 33 years ago. It is dated February 8th, 1977; hence my interest in country houses from an early age.
Click on the image to enlarge it.
The letter is from the Estate Office at Ely Farms on the estate. Charles Plunket was the Agent at the time.
It explains that the 5th Duke of Westminster inherited the family seat at Eaton Hall in 1967; and still retained Ely Lodge as his private home; that the 5th Duke retired to Ely in 1977 and his son, Lord Grosvenor (now the 6th and present Duke) was living at Eaton Hall.
In 1977, the Ely Estate amounted to 1,000 acres in County Fermanagh and 1,500 acres in County Tyrone.
Labels: At Home , Country Houses , County Fermanagh Landowners
For the Attention of the Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury:-
"There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: Spend less than you earn".
Paul Clitheroe
Labels: Wise Sayings
Resumption of the NT Volunteer activities begins again this month, when we will be visiting Ballyquintin Point a few times in order to do a spot of hedge-laying and tree-planting.
We shall also be revisiting Anne's Point, which is opposite Mount Stewart. There is a willow tunnel there which we'll be repairing; as well as a wattle bird screen.
There has been a slight "lull" in volunteer activities during December and the New Year; so it will be good to resume work again.
There was a lifer on the flight this afternoon; and he bagged Seat 1c, too, which seemed to have more leg-room. I noticed none other than Lord Maginnis.
It's two fifty-four. I've got through the ordeal of security at Gatwick; and I thought I'd remembered to remove everything from my luggage and my person. The toiletries and the Dell Mini 9 were declared. The coinage and belt were also removed.
I did omit to remove a pair of items, though: The metal shirt-sleeve bands! The penalty, yet again, was a thorough "going-over", and removal of the shoes.
Oh well, no harm done. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I have a BT Openzone connection here in the airport.
Remember the Wolseley motor car? I do, though they'd been absorbed into the British Leyland leviathan by that time, which became the fate of many marques at the time, including Rover, Jaguar, Daimler, Triumph, MG and more.
A good friend of my father invariably drove Wolseleys; they had become a smart version of the Austin 1800/2200 by the seventies. The little, illuminated Wolseley badge on the grille amused me.
I ate at the Wolseley restaurant last night, named after the aforementioned car because there used to be a showroom at the premises. The Wolseley is quite far up Piccadilly, near the Ritz hotel.
I followed my usual practice, telling them that I hadn't booked; and, without further ado, I was shown to a table in the middle of the restaurant where I could view all.
It's a busy place, though service was prompt. They provided me with a newspaper.
I ordered the seasonal game "fully garnished"; and a side order of mashed potato. It was Scottish venison. I love venison, especially when it's nicely cooked: the meat tonight was quite rare; lean, tender and delicious.
For pudding I had the blackberry and apple crumble with custard. I washed the meal down with a glass of their own red wine.
Price-wise, this place is on a par with the Ivy. The customary cover and service charges are added to the bill.
Labels: Food And Drink , Travel
It must be about ten years since I last paid St Paul's Cathedral a visit. The entrance fee has increased to £12.50, though it was reduced to £9 yesterday, due to the inclement weather. St Paul's is one of those historic buildings that fill one with awe: Look around and Wren's masterpiece is there for all to admire.
Whilst the crypt of St Paul's lacks the architectural magnificence of the nave and dome, it compensates for this by its historical import. Here we have the tombs and monuments to illustrious personages, many of whom were Admirals of the Fleet and Field Marshals; the two most noteworthy, perhaps, being those of the great Duke of Wellington and Admiral Lord Nelson. Many of our military figures rest here; there are memorials to Lord Alanbrooke and Lord Montgomery, for instance.
The Crypt is vast: The shop is here, as is the cafeteria and the restaurant. The Crypt also contains the Chapel of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; and the banners of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Prince Philip hang here. I think the Order was founded in 1917, so the Chapel is relatively recent.
I chatted to a member of the clergy on duty below the dome. We talked about Northern Ireland and he asked me if Belfast was worth a visit. I replied tactfully that every place was worth a visit at least once! I told him that I listened to Canon Lucy Winkett on Thought For The Day, BBC Radio Four; and he exclaimed: "can you get Radio Four over there?" Had I been impertinent I could have added " Indeed, and we have electricity and cold running water too!" It was an innocuous enough comment, though.
Earlier in the day, I wandered in to Turnbull and Asser's shop in Jermyn Street for a "browse". There was a sale on, though they don't seem to publicize it much. I stepped downstairs, where there were literally dozens of ties on the sale.
Over at the end where my shirt sizes were, I noticed a classic, plain, light blue button-cuff shirt; and, slightly impulsively, bought it. Their button cuffs all have the distinctive three buttons. I told the assistant that I'd been a customer of theirs since the early 80s; and that I still owned a double-cuff silk shirt, along with three other shirts, from Turnbull's. Now I have four, plus two ties and a handkerchief.
Long may they last.
Labels: Heritage , Shopping , Travel
I ventured out to Leicester Square yesterday evening, the aim being to seek out a much-lauded and hailed restaurant called The Ivy. Armed with my map I found it quite easily: It is just off Charing Cross Road, down Litchfield Street. The Ivy is literally opposite St Martin's Theatre, where The Mouse Trap still plays.
The Time was four-fifty; the Ivy didn't open till five-thirty; so I re-traced my footsteps on to Charing Cross Road and encountered a small bar called The Porcupine, where I had a small restorative.
At five twenty-five, I drank up and made straight for the Ivy. The staff at this restaurant are exceptionally courteous, which softens the obligatory 12.5% service charge and £2 "cover" charge. I advised them that I hadn't booked; she inquired if I had a theatre booked (no); showed me to a table; offered to relieve me of my very heavy British Warm overcoat and hat; handed me a plastic card for the cloakroom on departure; and even brought me a newspaper, since I was on my own.
They have plenty of staff wafting about, keeping an eye on patrons attentively. I was brought a basket of fresh, crusty bread and a dish of flavourful butter.
I ordered the slow-cooked Cornish lamb shoulder with roasted winter vegetables; and also had a side dish of honey-baked parsnips with thyme. The lamb was delicious; it was absolutely tender, with little fat at all. Slow-cooked indeed and succulent; a generous portion, too. The couple beside me had just arrived, and the chap liked the look of my lamb so much that he ordered it himself! I had made a wise choice.
I washed it down with a glass of Chardonnay wine.
I had sticky toffee pudding for dessert, accompanied by a little jug of pouring cream.
The experience was all quite civilized. I'd certainly return.
I'm seated in my London hotel room, with my diminutive Dell Mini 9 on my lap, tapping away happily. The hotel has free wi-fi and I'm using their own connection. It's ruddy marvellous, because my little netbook has all my settings, bookmarks, favourites and passwords.
The Mini 9 was possibly my best purchase in 2009. I find it quite indispensible.
I got into trouble at Belfast City Airport, because I'd packed the Mini 9 in my hand luggage and should have "declared" it to them! That cost me a thorough "going over". I nonchalantly read the Daily Telegraph while the security girl swabbed all sides of it, from top to bottom, and whatever else they do. I'm sure she enjoyed it.That's the computer, by the way, not me!
Labels: Humour , Travel
The Bank Buildings was built in 1900 by W H Lynn. It is still one of Belfast's finest late Victorian edifices, constructed with such materials as red sandstone, polished granite floors and pilasters. The front faces Castle Place; and its name refers to Cunningham's Bank, 1767, which stood on this site.
A former palace of the Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore stood on this site too; and a branch of the Northern Bank later. Three buildings are known to have occupied this prime location in Belfast.
Moving on to Callender Street: the building where Alden's in the City now stands was once a tobacco factory! Murray's tobacco factory was here in 1888 and it was connected to 21 Arthur Street.
Last published on December 4th, 2008.
Labels: At Home , Heritage
I've never been a "fan" of the late musician-cum-entertainer, Ian Dury; though I have enjoyed one or two of his hits. So, having read a generally favourable review of Sex, Drugs And Rock And Roll, a so-called "biopic" about his life, I decided to go and watch it.
I found it strangely fascinating. Dury was a remarkably strong character, given his physical handicap with polio, thus necessitating having to wear a leg caliper. His father seemed to be self-made and wealthy, since we saw him driving a white Rolls-Royce or Bentley Silver Cloud. And Young Dury was taught to look after and fend for himself, especially given his disability. Dury hated being thought of - or treated as - a "cripple".
All in all, I was glad I went to view it. Catch it if you can.
Labels: Cinema
His Grace the Duke of Wellington has just become a very proud great-grandfather, to infant Arthur Darcy Wellesley, Viscount Wellesley.
The Duke's son and heir is Arthur, Marquess of Douro.
Lord and Lady Douro's eldest son is Arthur, Earl of Mornington.
How can I put this - phrase this - in a nice way? Sir Richard Wallace, 1st and last baronet, was the natural offspring of the 4th Marquess of Hertford. Despite Sir Richard's elevation to the ranks of the gentry with a baronetcy, his status as Lord Hertford's illegitimate son probably remained a stigma to him throughout his life, given Victorian rectitude.
Sir Richard inherited an absolute fortune, unimaginable to many nowadays, let alone in 1871.
He inherited his father's estates in County Antrim, around Lisburn, for instance, making him one of the largest landowners in the Province, with 58,365 acres.
Next week, I intend to visit the Wallace Collection, at his former London home, Hertford House in Manchester Square. I've never been there before: Have any readers visited the Collection?
I've been receiving literally dozens of comments from a follower in Romania, purporting to call herself Eva; and she is obviously infatuated with Prince William, judging by how eager she is to make contact with HRH.
My readers and followers would be unaware of these innumerable nuisance messages.
As a consequence of this, and with reluctance, I am applying Comment Moderation with immediate effect in order to rectify matters.
Regular readers: Please be assured that this action will not effect your contributions and messages; and I still welcome comments!
It is gratifying, for once, to see that the High Court in Belfast has effectively overturned a planners' shameful decision to permit the demolition of an old Victorian building in Queen Street, Belfast.
I commented about this about three months ago.
The building's finest feature is a carved stone door-case, the archway being supported on red granite colonettes with grape and acanthus capitals. The keystone boasts an Elizabethan gentleman's head, sporting a long beard, ruff and hat; flanked by shields, oak-leaves, roses and acorns; with bosses of thistles and shamrocks.
The Honourable Mr Justice Treacy was told on Friday that the application to quash the planning permission decisions was no longer being resisted.
There is a new portrait of Princes William and Harry on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. TRH are seen wearing the uniforms of the Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals).
Clarence House has issued more details here.
The painting was commissioned by the Gallery and the artist was Nicky Philipps.
Prince William wears the breast star and sash of the Order of the Garter.
Labels: At Home , Royalty
I've treated myself to many things down the years; and, in some ways, wonder whether I ought to have "invested" in a bespoke suit from a Savile Row tailor decades ago. How much do they cost nowadays? £3,000? I must admit I've refrained from such expenditure on a suit, despite my size and figure remaining constant since adulthood.
I suppose there would be logistical - or practical - issues as well: several fittings, necessitating flights to the metropolis.
Are there any decent tailors left in Belfast or Northern Ireland? There used to be an old tailor tucked away in an entry off Ann Street; but he is long gone. I think his name was Peter McAllister or something like that. He made me an Oxford grey suit about 25 years ago and it is still going strong.
Back to that question about Savile Row: would you pay £3,000 for a suit?
I must have been mad to venture up to the old school last night, what with the treacherous conditions. Still, I had sent them an email inquiring if the swimming-pool was operating; and they replied in the affirmative.
I motored up the windy drive carefully, parked the car and stepped out in the Brashers into the relative warmth of the sports complex.
I could possibly perform this routine with my eyes closed; I've been doing it for thirty years!
The changing-room was empty. No surprise there. One of the sixth-form attendants was on duty at the pool, so all augured well.
Shock, horror, surprise! The water was quite warm and temperate, so I jumped in, equipped with the trusty goggles and nose-clip; and began the age-old swim of sixty lengths.
I had the 25-metre pool to myself, apart from the headmaster and his young family arriving at about 45 lengths into my swim. Then a nice, hot shower. Done!
Country Life has informed us that the Lady Lloyd-Webber is to succeed HRH The Princess Royal as President of the Pony Club. Madeleine Lloyd-Webber is an accomplished equestrian rider herself.
For the benefit of readers and followers outside Northern Ireland, this is the current scene in Belfast.
The Big Freeze continues...
I motored up to the Sports Club this evening, in the expectation that the swimming-pool would, at least, be open.
Yet again, they have let down the loyal membership with a printed notice on the door stating that the pool is closed due to a "broken cover". No notification to members; no indication as to when we can expect the pool to re-open. No adequate communication.
It doesn't really surprise me; though it is still deplorable. Little wonder numbers are dwindling. Those who supervise the pool appear to be indifferent towards the Sports Club. Were a member of staff at a private health club to treat members in such a manner, they'd have been dismissed within a week or two. Not twenty years.
I'll simply continue to exercise at the private health club I belong to, though I'll miss the swimming.
Labels: At Home , Rants And Gripes
The Sports Club re-opens this evening, so I am ever hopeful that the swimming-pool will be warm enough for the customary sixty lengths. It's a fortnight since I last swam. The pool wasn't particularly warm last term; so much so that one lady stopped coming for the remainder of the term. Little wonder that membership figures remain stagnant!
Apart from the exercise, it's also an opportunity for an invigorating shower.
One article caught my eye in the papers yesterday: the 20 pence a day lozenge that, it has been claimed, is designed to ward off all cold and flu bugs.
Seemingly the lozenge would be taken once a day before breakfast and would cost a mere 20p per day. Scientists hope to have it for sale within two years. It is called Veldona.
Here is the main article.
I do wish that the House of Fraser would buy back Harrod's. They owned the store from 1959 till 1985, when it was bought by the Fayed brothers for £615 million. I care not whether it is taken back in a hostile manner or otherwise, because Fayed would doubtless be resistant to its sale.
Harrod's is a national institution and tourist attraction. The great store proudly used to hold four royal warrants, till about 2002 when Fayed withdrew them himself, thereby pre-empting senior members of the Royal Family.
I insist I am not being xenophobic; I simply disapprove strongly of Fayed's attitude and behaviour towards the Royal Family. I know the man has resented being unsuccessful in his attempt to acquire British Citizenship. That is different matter; one decided upon by the Government.
The House of Fraser was injudicious to sell Harrod's in the first place, to my mind.
Labels: At Home , Rants And Gripes , Reactionary , The Belmont Pronouncements
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Caledon Estate Fête
Shortly after breakfast this morning I got my stuff together, started the two-seater, and drove to the Earl of Caledon's splendid estate in County Tyrone.
My first stop, however, was in the village of Caledon itself, a place of considerable character and charm.
Successive Earls have stamped their mark on the village.
There is a water fountain dedicated to the 4th Earl, KP, on the main street.
I stopped opposite a little café called Café Rose, where I had a beaker of tea.
Afterwards I took a stroll along the village. The Caledon Arms Hotel is, sadly, closed down.
Alexander House, Main Street
It's a pity that such a pretty village cannot sustain a good inn or guest-house.
The main entrance to Caledon Estate is just outside the village, through a very grand entrance gate and lodges. It is unmistakable, especially since there are gleaming, gilded earl's coronets attached to the railings.
The drive must easily be a mile in length.
Caledon Park is one of the finest private estates in Northern Ireland, undoubtedly.
The garden fête today was in aid of the local parish church.
Caledon crest outside the portico porch
I arrived early. However, when I departed in the afternoon, there were hundreds of cars parked in fields within the 3,000 acre estate.
The atmosphere was most agreeable. Lord and Lady Caledon were outside the house in the grounds.
I chatted briefly with Lady Caledon about an item for sale, viz. a pair of black and gold mini skis, presumably for children, which were emblazoned with the Bentley Motors motif.
The Lord-Lieutenant's official flag flew from the Castle's flag-pole.
Prospect from the garden front
At about twelve forty-five I was taken on a guided walk of the arboretum, yew-tree garden, stables and the grounds within the immediate vicinity of the Castle.
There were lots of displays on the lawns outside the Castle, including stalls in marquees, military displays, and police dog-handler demonstrations.
Of course there was no shortage of nosh, either. I could not resist the hog-roast stall.
For a fiver, you received a generous helping of roasted hog, baby roast potatoes, apple sauce, and stuffing.
Former head gardener's cottage
The fête was officially opened by Captain Dame Mary Peters CH DBE RNR, erstwhile Lord-Lieutenant of Belfast (obviously acquainted with Lord Caledon, KCVO, Lord-Lieutenant of County Armagh).
I left at about three-thirty.
Labels: Country Houses , County Tyrone Landowners
Glenarm Castle Tour
GLENARM CASTLE IS THE ANCESTRAL SEAT OF THE EARLS OF ANTRIM
I was in my element during the weekend: Barons Court, County Tyrone, on Saturday; and Glenarm Castle, County Antrim, yesterday.
Viscount and Viscountess Dunluce (Lord Dunluce is heir to the earldom) have done a splendid job of restoring and rejuvenating their lovely home beside the historic village of Glenarm.
Glenarm Castle estate remains sizeable, comprising about 1,300 acres.
Antrim arms
I arrived in Glenarm at about eleven forty-five, just in time for the first guided tour of the Castle.
George, the butler, and Elaine, the housekeeper, were on hand to guide us through the principal rooms.
East elevation
The present Castle seems to date from 1756, although there have been many additions and alterations since then.
Out tour began in the hall, which rises two storeys.
There are a number of family portraits here, including one of Louisa, wife of the 5th Earl and niece of the 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister from 1830-34.
A fine serving-table, dating from 1750, stands below the portrait of Anne, Countess of Antrim in her own right.
The splendidly ethereal ceiling was painted by Angela (née Sykes), Countess of Antrim (1911-84).
Garden front
OUR NEXT stop was the drawing-room.
The late Angela, Lady Antrim, painted scenes from La Fontaine's Fables round the ceiling in the 1950s.
Many ancestral portraits hang here, and four 18th century landscape paintings of the family's two castles, Dunluce and Glenarm.
A number of personal family photographs stand on the grand piano.
THE DINING-ROOM is spacious and elegant, containing two full-length portraits of the 5th and 6th Earls.
Randal, 6th Earl and 2nd Marquess of Antrim, KB, (1749-91), wears the robes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
The dining-table was laid for six today, though can be considerably enlarged, I gather, to accommodate twelve.
Crockery is monogrammed with the Antrim cipher.
We were apprised that the open fire is seldom lit here because its draught is somewhat less than satisfactory.
THE BLUE ROOM was originally the billiards-room.
There are quite a few equine paintings on the wall, drawn for the 5th Earl, a passionate horseman who kept a stud in the estate.
The 5th Earl is said to have been an avid gambler (hardly surprising given his fondness for the Turf) who squandered much of his money.
Like Barons Court in County Tyrone, Glenarm Castle flourishes today thanks to Lord and Lady Dunluce's love and passion for this historic, ancestral, family home; its magnificent gardens; the wooden Obelisk hand-crafted by Corin Giles; the beautiful cascade and fountains; the herb garden; and the yew circle.
THE BARBICAN gate lodge, available to rent, is built into the estate wall at the end of an old stone bridge spanning the river Glenarm.
It was commissioned in 1823 by Edmund Phelps, the second husband of Anne, Countess of Antrim (in her own right), who inherited the estate when her father, the 6th Earl, died without male issue.
The architect William Vitruvius Morrison built it using local, coursed, rubble basalt and red ashlar sandstone dressings.
This gate lodge has a narrow turret staircase which leads onto a roof terrace overlooking the surrounding countryside.
BEFORE I conclude this article, I wish to mention the Castle tea-room.
I lunched here yesterday and enjoyed a hearty bowl of home-made sweet potato and parsnip soup, with a fresh bread roll and butter.
It was delicious. I complimented the staff and accordingly bade them Farewell.
Labels: Country Houses , County Antrim Landowners
Barons Court Tour
Our tour of Barons Court House began in the front hall, where Lord Anthony Hamilton, the Duke of Abercorn's brother, greeted us.
The House dates as far back as 1790 and has adapted itself admirably throughout many generations of the family.
When you enter this large hall, the splendid ceiling catches the eye with its elaborate Italian plasterwork.
It was used by the 4th Duke and Duchess, the present Duke's parents, as a living-room.
This hall has six doors leading from it into other reception rooms.
There is an exquisite portrait of Emma Hamilton (no relation) by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
THENCE we moved in to the rotunda with its glorious coffered ceiling.
I gather that this was once a music-room; though today it is used for formal dinners or even meetings.
Yesterday there were four sizeable portfolios of drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer laid on the table.
THE LONG GALLERY is about thirty yards in length.
It faces what is now the garden front of the House; however this was originally the entrance to Barons Court.
This is a bright and spacious room.
Its considerable size makes it ideal for family celebrations, parties and even christenings.
This room contains fine furnishings and paintings, including a commode with the cipher of Marie Antionette.
THE BROWN LIBRARY, leading from the long gallery, is a family room which makes skilful use of subdued and quiet red and brown colours.
OUR next part of the tour took us to the lofty and spacious staircase hall.
It's not hard to miss the massive painting by Jordaens, quite aptly entitled Soldiers Carousing (!).
I've been told that this room can be used for shooting parties and children's parties.
An antique pianola sits directly under the staircase.
THE last room we visited was what is today known as the Family Room.
It used to be the large dining-room, though, with the sage advice of the celebrated interior designer, David Hicks, the room has been "compartmentalised" into different areas and dark green free-standing units.
At one end there is a kitchen; while there is a space at the other end with drinks cabinet and CD player and so on.
BARONS COURT remains essentially a family home and it is delightful that the Duke and Duchess open its doors occasionally for everyone to enjoy and admire.
New KCVO
Star, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales has been appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) by Her Majesty The Queen.
Labels: Honours
Golden Finial
A finial at Belmont GHQ receives its annual gilding.
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By Col. Kevin Olson
WINTHROP, Mass. (Sept. 20, 2017) – Settled in 1630, Winthrop is one of the oldest communities in the United States. Service members of all branches of the military from this seaside town just north of Boston have fought on behalf of their state and nation since the Revolutionary War. On Saturday, Sept. 16th, Maj. Gen. Jon Jensen, the commanding general of the Minnesota-based 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, participated in a ceremony that honored one of Winthrop’s own: Pvt. 1st Class Andrew Biggio.
Like so many young men of his era, 19-year old Winthrop native Andrew Giovanni Biggio raised his hand to volunteer for service in 1944. He was assigned to B Company, 135th Infantry Regiment of the 34th Infantry Division. An infantryman, Biggio fought valiantly with the Red Bulls, liberating the Italian towns of Viterbo, Cecina and Liverno. His heroic actions in combat earned Pvt. 1st Class Biggio a Bronze Star Medal.
Since the Italian peninsula was essential to the success of Nazi Germany’s military efforts, the Nazi regime fortified various west-to-east “lines” across the country as they retreated north. Constructed substantially by slave labor, one of the most impervious was the “Gothic Line,” stretching throughout the northern part of the Apennine Mountains. The “Gothic Line” consisted of more than 2,000 well-fortified machine gun nests, bunkers and observation posts.
In the allied attempt to break the “Gothic Line,” soldiers of the 34th Infantry Division’s 135th Regiment charged up impossibly steep terrain to force the Nazi retreat. It was during this effort that Biggio was killed on Sept. 17, 1944, on Hill 599.
According to Massachusetts State Senator Joseph Boncore, a Winthrop native who represents the area in the state legislature, “In Winthrop, a town of about 17,000 people, there were more than 60 fatalities in World War II.” He continued, “It is not uncommon to see intersections or squares dedicated to local heroes, but we rarely take the time to honor those great Americans, and Winthrop is grateful we are doing so today.”
Pvt. 1st Class Biggio’s namesake, and great-nephew, Andrew Biggio coordinated the event. Andrew, a former U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran in the current-day era of Afghanistan and Iraq, former Veteran Service Officer, member of Post 6 of the Italian American Veterans Association and current Boston City Police officer, was the catalyst for the rededication. “He was eager to fight and serve his country. He was sent to North Africa and Italy.” Great-nephew Andrew Biggio continued, “I’ve read all his letters he sent home. One letter in July said he never wanted to see combat again.”
Saturday’s gathering of Winthrop’s veteran community, town leaders, family members and elected officials commemorated the re-dedication of an official marker at the intersection of Main and Hermon Streets.
Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker reflected during his remarks to the more than 200 people in attendance that citizens should seek out the true meaning and history of those who gave the last full measure for their state and nation.
Maj. Gen. Jensen highlighted the spirit of Red Bull soldiers during his address, citing the centennial of the 34th Inf. Div. and its connection to other divisions founded in 1917, like the Massachusetts-based 26th “Yankee” Infantry. “The 34th Division, while initially comprised of soldiers from Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas, expanded to become a division that represented citizens from throughout the nation,” Jensen reflected. “Private First Class Biggio, and the entire Biggio family, exemplify the sacrifice that was necessary to liberate Italy during the world’s most violent conflict. Private First Class Andrew Biggio honors us all with his sacrifice.”
As part of the ceremony, 93-year old Army Pvt. 1st Class Rocco Telese of East Boston, Mass., was awarded a Purple Heart Medal for injuries sustained in the Italian Campaign. Mr. Telese fought with the 85th Division, an adjacent unit of the 34th Inf. Div. during the northward advance in Italy.
The ceremony culminated with Maj. Gen. Jensen, John Biggio, the brother of the late Pvt. 1st Class Andrew Biggio, and other members of the Biggio family unveiling the new sign officially dedicating the square. “This dedication event has been an important event for the community,” said great nephew Andrew Biggio. “Our family has felt his loss for decades, and this memorial sign will hopefully inspire current and future residents of Winthrop to reflect on the true cost of armed conflict. As an American, I am inspired everyday by what my great uncle and ‘The Greatest Generation’ accomplished.”
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Large delegations coming to town may get the cash registers whirring, but more cities want a lasting legacy by using association and academic ambassadors. Steve Cray reports
Ambassadors, advocates, envoys… there are many words and phrases used to describe people who champion causes ranging from organisations to countries, but there is only one valid definition when it comes to the meetings industry, according to the influential International Congress and Convention Association.
It is “a person of knowledge and stature, influential in their field, who can act as a representative of a destination and is prepared to work with local meetings professionals to secure conference business for that destination”, ICCA states in its guidebook Congress Ambassador Programmes.
And an ambassador programme, it continues, is “a planned set of activities, tools and support services designed by local meetings professionals to assist ambassadors to attract meetings to a city or country, and to assist those ambassadors to create a legacy benefit for the destination and/or the local hosts of the meetings”.
ICCA, which has nearly 1,000 members in 90 countries, says the primary rationale for convention bureaus and centres to set up ambassador programmes is to try to wield influence in the competitive bidding process for association meetings that rotate between countries.
Ambassador programmes tend to be more economical than alternative methods of campaigning and costs, which are “usually far less than the more ‘glamorous’ elements in a destination’s marketing programme, such as overseas trade shows and sales missions”, according to ICCA.
To attract conferences to their cities, convention bureaus are seeking business leaders, senior medical practitioners, scientists, academic leaders, political and social leaders, and influencers when bidding to be chosen as a host city.
Efforts are likely to be in vain if those chosen are simply aloof high fliers or ivory-tower academics. Knowledge ambassadors have to be natural communicators, internationalists and passionate about the destination in which they work. They will have leadership skills and are influential figures or recognised experts, groundbreaking researchers and rising stars.
Most ambassador programmes have been set up in the past decade or so, ICCA says, although Québec City Convention Centre Ambassadors’ Club has just celebrated its 21st year, with its 225 ambassadors facilitating around 170 international or North American events at the Québec City Convention Centre and other venues in the city, resulting in about US$117 million in economic benefits.
Melbourne, an ICCA member, has just celebrated the 11th anniversary of its Club Melbourne programme with the induction of 13 new ambassadors and the appointment of its first Fellow, RMIT University associate professor Sarah Spencer, a renowned neuroscientist. Club Melbourne, driven by Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) with the support of and collaboration from Melbourne Convention Bureau and the Victorian State Government, now has 120 ambassadors.
Suzana Bishop, Club Melbourne senior manager, says the ambassadors have been collectively involved in securing more than 117 international conventions for MCEC since the programme’s inception, worth in excess of A$658 million (US$502 million) to the State of Victoria. They secured 15 international conferences at MCEC in 2015/6 and helped win 15 bids for future events.
“Club Melbourne continues to grow from strength to strength and, to this day, remains one of the world’s most influential ambassador programmes,” Bishop says.
The Advocates Partnership, operated by Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) has only been running for six years, but was the result of earlier close co-operation with potential representatives, says BCEC director of sales Alison Gardiner.
“We have been working in partnership with our top scientists, researchers, academics, business leaders and innovators for many years and formalised those relationships six years ago with the establishment of the BCEC Convention Advocates Partnership,” Gardiner says.
“The partnership programme to date has resulted in securing 71 advocate-assisted bid wins for Brisbane generating A$90 million (US$68.5 million) in economic benefit for the city.”
Professor Ian Frazer, who gave the world its first cervical cancer vaccine, is among BCEC’s advocates. “The contribution is beyond financial, creating legacies into the future, sharing a wealth of world-leading knowledge and expertise,” says Gardiner.
Singapore Exhibition and Convention Bureau (SECB) also started its Conference Ambassador Programme in 2006 and it now has 50 members appointed for a two-year renewable term.
Jeannie Lim, executive director, SECB conventions, meetings and incentive travel, says the “collaborative efforts of passionate local champions” have resulted in many successful congresses and meetings in Singapore, and also helped secure two prominent meetings that will be staged for the first time in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
“Professor Lee Yuan Kun, president of the International Union of Microbiological Societies, worked with us to secure the bid for IUMS Congresses 2017 – a rotating congress that was slated to be hosted in Europe rather than Asia; and Professor Perry Shum, Singapore section chair of the Optical Society of America, won the bid for the Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2017,” she says.
Professors Lee and Shum were conferred Singapore Tourism Awards’ “Best Business Event” champions in 2014 and 2013 respectively in recognition of their previous efforts.
Malaysia appoints “warriors” to represent it for association congresses, as Malaysia Convention and Exhibition Bureau general manager Ho Yoke Ping explains.
“MyCEB’s conference ambassador programme is known as Kesatria Malaysia Programme (or Kesatria in short). Kesatria means ‘knight’ or ‘warrior’ in Malay. Our ambassadors are most often presidents or past presidents of national associations or industry leaders who have chaired or will be hosting international conventions in Malaysia.
“We launched our Kesatria Programme in 2012, and to date MyCEB has appointed 41 ambassadors from key economic sectors identified in our Economic Transformation Plan, such as science and medical, oil and gas, IT and electronics, research and innovation, and finance,” Ho says.
An example of its success is the recent announcement by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions that Malaysia is to host the 84th IFLA World Library and Information Congress in 2018. The bid was led by the Librarians’ Association of Malaysia with support from the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia, National Library of Malaysia, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) and MyCEB.
MyCEB has been actively promoting its Kesatria Programme, with KLCC launching a contest at its 10th annual association seminar in March 2015 to give professional development grants to three young local association executives to attend the 55th ICCA Congress in Kuching, Sarawak, from November 12-16.
“KLCC believes direct exposure to industry experts and stakeholders will help equip the recipients with the tools to become Malaysian ambassadors for their associations and the country,” says KLCC general manager Alan Pryor.
Neurologist credits Club Melbourne
Club Melbourne’s first Fellow, Sarah Spencer (right), says she hasn’t “really experienced Australian science without the Club Melbourne ambassador programme in place” and is sure many of the more than 119 major conferences hosted by the city would not have taken place without it.
“The programme highlights Australian, and Victorian, science internationally,” Dr Spencer says. “I have worked overseas and I know that it’s a big commitment for those in the northern hemisphere to visit Australia when there are so many great networking opportunities on their doorstep. The work of the ambassadors ensures that Victoria stays at the forefront of the world’s view of where cutting edge science is coming from.”
The A$10,000 fellowship she has been awarded will enable Dr Spencer to attend the world’s foremost neuroscience conference – Neuroscience 2016 – in San Diego, November 12-16, where she will present her latest research findings and co-chair a mini-symposium.
“This fellowship gives me the opportunity to showcase my work internationally and start collaborative work with a very successful colleague, assistant professor Ruth Barrientos, in the US,” she says.
Professor Barrientos is an authority on the neurobiology of ageing and has access to experimental subject matter not available in Australia. “So the fellowship is incredibly important,” says Dr Spencer. “It will also allow me to network with the fantastic group of ambassadors currently in the programme, an opportunity I’m tremendously excited about.”
Hepatitis breakthrough
The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver was held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre and provided the platform for the groundbreaking announcement that the world was on the verge of a breakthrough for a form of hepatitis.
Alison Gardiner, BCEC director of sales, says Darrell Crawford (top), who made the 2014 announcement, is a convention advocate and the conference was advocate assisted. The event, she says, showed “that conferences can make a difference and be life changing."
Bidding for the conference started in 2008 and the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and BCEC won the bid the following year.
Professor Crawford opened his welcome speech by announcing that hepatology was on the threshold of a cure for Hepatitis C, the most common reason behind liver transplants.
Professor Crawford, who heads the University of Queensland’s School of Medicine in Brisbane, is currently involved in a research project with the University of Queensland and the Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation at Greenslopes Private Hospital, which, he says, together with other studies are delivering results of up to 95 per cent cure rates for Hepatitis C.
The Asia Pacific region is at the epicentre of liver disease, both in numbers of affected individuals and in the quality of research, with the region now emerging as a global contributor to liver research.
The ‘kesatria’ factor
A major congress hosted by the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre scored a double first for Asia, says Ho Yoke Ping, general manager business events, Malaysia Convention and Exhibition Bureau.
The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) had not held its conference in the region before and Teo Chee Hai (left), the “Malaysian Kesatria” (ambassador), was appointed the association’s international president, the first time an Asian had held the position.
The bid for the 25th FIG congress 2014 was led by Teo, who had been an active member of FIG since 1999 and had held several posts prior to the bid before standing for the post
of international president.
Ho says the FIG congress was awarded to Malaysia because of its strong local committee. It was the first time the congress had been held in Asia since its inception in 1878.
The meeting, themed Engaging the Challenges, Enhancing the Relevance, was attended by 2,500 delegates from 100 countries, including international surveyors, academics and representatives of international and governmental bodies.
Ho says the congress delivered an economic benefit of around US$6.8 million and provided education opportunities for local surveyors as well as a platform for surveying and land professionals to network and debate.
Main value of ambassadors in conference bids
• Contest a higher volume of bids
• Win a higher proportion of them
• Reduce “no-hoper” bids and wasted marketing spend
• Build political support for the activities of meetings professionals
• Improve the professionalism of the events which the destination hosts
• Create PR opportunities
• Contribute towards civic pride in a destination
Source: ICCA
Bid protocols
Although the main reason convention bureaus make use of ambassadors is to secure association business, the advocates’ role is not as simple as that, the International Congress and Convention Association spells out in its guidebook Congress Ambassador Programmes.
ICCA sums up their changing role under eight headings.
• Research – Ambassadors can be a valuable source of knowledge about new events and new opportunities to bid for existing regular events.
• Identification of bid process and key decision-making criteria – Frequently the ambassador will have an insider’s knowledge (for example, political influences; personal views of key decision-makers).
• Decision to bid – This is where a motivated ambassador is invaluable. Local support, or willingness to bid and to host, is usually an absolutely critical element in the decision-making process.
• Support of bid process – Teamwork between the ambassador and meetings professionals throughout the often lengthy bidding process is very important.
• Celebration of bid success – Ambassadors need to be recognised for success, not just to maintain their ongoing individual commitment, but also for the general health of the programme.
• Event marketing – The ambassador can be used as the “face” of marketing efforts.
• Hosting the event – This is another great opportunity to both recognise the success of the ambassador and to recruit a new generation.
• Post-event – Once a major event is successfully staged, the ambassador can join the ranks of “elder statesmen”… with all kinds of PR and marketing opportunities.
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10 Things Vitamin Makers Won’t Say
From an article, titled "10 things vitamin makers won’t say" by Elizabeth O'Brien posted on the on-line Market Watch from the Wall Street Journal. She says "we peel back the label to see what nutrition-in-a-bottle is really worth":
1. “We overwhelm you with choices.”
There are more than 54,000 dietary supplements on the market, sold under 1,000 different brands, according to consumer groups. Indeed, the Food and Drug Administration defines a supplement broadly, as an ingestible product containing a “dietary ingredient,” which may include vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, glandulars and metabolites. And the industry is growing. Sales hit more than $30 billion in 2011, according to a report released last month by the Government Accountability Office, up from about $25 billion in 2009.
Faced with so many choices, how can consumers find a safe product? Heather Mangieri, a registered dietitian in Pittsburgh and a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a trade group representing food and nutrition professionals, gives her clients tips on navigating this fragmented market. Look for supplement makers that have scientific advisory boards listed on their websites, she says.
Another good sign is a gold “USP Verified” stamp on the label, showing the product has the approval of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, an organization that tests supplement quality. (The absence of a USP mark doesn’t necessarily mean the product isn’t up to snuff, she notes, since some companies may choose not to pay for the verification process.)
When in doubt, call the manufacturer. It’s a red flag if you can’t reach a human being who can answer questions, experts say, and an even bigger one if there’s no contact information on the packaging.
MyAchingKnees comment: I think a USP certification, or lack thereof is telling. If a manufacturer has a superior quality product then prove it, not just claim it.
2. “Medications can’t be sold without FDA approval, but our products can.”
The FDA regulates supplements, but differently than prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Manufacturers of the latter must prove safety and efficacy before new products reach the market. By contrast, manufacturers generally do not need FDA approval before producing or selling dietary supplements, as long as the ingredients they’re using were marketed in a dietary supplement in the U.S. before the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 was passed. Manufacturers using “new dietary ingredients” not marketed before that law passed must notify (but not necessarily get approval from) the FDA before selling the product, and must submit materials showing the ingredient is “reasonably expected to be safe” — according to the manufacturer’s own assessment.
The FDA oversees supplements after they hit the market, and the government requires manufacturers to report all serious adverse events like a heart attack or stroke associated with the use of their supplements. Consumers can search the FDA website for warning letters it has sent to supplement makers in violation of its regulations, but there’s no searchable database for adverse event reports.
Critics say FDA regulation falls short: “Consumers are playing roulette with their health because we don’t have adequate regulation of dietary supplements,” says Chuck Bell, programs director at Consumers Union, the consumer group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine. “The state of FDA regulation is illustrative of how safe the industry is,” counters Steve Mister, president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a dietary supplement trade group. “We do see the FDA flex its muscle where there is a problem.” FDA spokeswoman Tamara Ward says that the FDA regulates these products according to the 1994 law, which dictates that manufacturers are responsible for marketing a safe product. While the FDA does not review most supplements for safety or effectiveness prior to marketing, she says, “if a safety issue arises, the FDA can investigate and take the necessary steps to have the product removed from the market.” Indeed, earlier this month, the FDA issued warnings about DMAA, a substance commonly used in weight-loss and muscle-building supplements, saying the agency has received 86 reports of illness and death associated with supplements containing DMAA; the FDA says it is using all tools at the agency’s disposal to ensure that supplements containing DMAA are removed from the marketplace.
3. “Good luck judging a supplement by its label.”
Federal law requires supplement ingredients to be listed on the supplements’ packaging in descending order of predominance by weight. Yet for competitive reasons, the FDA doesn’t require manufacturers to list the exact amounts of ingredients in a “proprietary blend” in the “Supplement Facts” box on the label. The words “blend” and “formula” can also be used by manufacturers to fudge the exact amounts of expensive ingredients like chondroitin, a component of cartilage that’s used in joint supplements, says Dr. Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, an independent supplement testing firm. His recommendation: When reading labels, focus on the ingredient you want, and make sure it’s listed alone as a discrete ingredient in the list of ingredients, not followed by the word “blend” or “formula.”
The most common quality breach that ConsumerLab.com finds when testing supplements is products that list more of an ingredient than they actually contain. For example, a supplement’s facts box might say that a pill contains 100 milligrams of a given nutrient when it really has 20, Cooperman says. The second most common breach is the reverse: supplements that list less than they actually contain of a given ingredient. This type of mislabeling happens even in mainstream products, he says. Mister, of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, says this type of mislabeling isn’t prevalent.
While labels are supposed to accurately reflect the amount of a given nutrient in a supplement, the FDA doesn’t commonly pursue these types of infractions, says Bell, of Consumers Union; it’s more common to see the FDA go after claims that a supplement helps cure or prevent diseases, he notes.
MyAchingKnees coment: It is true that the consumer cannot judge what is in food grade supplements, that is supplements manufactured under food grade standards, by their label. So let the consumer beware. ConsumerLab is a good place to start for research. I do not take anything that is not manufactured under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for pharmaceuticals, nor anything does not meet United States Pharmacopeia (USP) standards and specifications for potency, uniformity, and disintegration.
4. “The health benefits are debatable.”
On packaging, the FDA allows supplement manufacturers to make so-called structure-function claims, which describe how a nutrient is intended to affect the structure or function of the human body. One example: “Curbs appetite to help with weight loss.” Manufacturers cannot, however, claim that their product cures, treats or prevents disease, as with a statement like “Aids weight loss to treat obesity.” However, in a 2012 analysis of 127 supplements by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, 20% of dietary supplements did make such claims. The FDA responded to the report by saying the agency would consider whether to seek explicit authority to review substantiation for structure-function claims beyond what the law currently allows.
While the FDA’s guidelines require that manufacturers have “competent and reliable scientific evidence” to show their claims are truthful, Dr. Margery Gass, a gynecologist and executive director of the North American Menopause Society, says most supplement claims don’t have the same science behind them that drugs do. For instance, she says, reputable studies are large scale and double-blind, meaning that neither the subjects nor the researchers know who is getting the supplement and who is getting a placebo. These types of studies are rare in the supplement industry, according to the Inspector General report. Furthermore, many supplements don’t even have human studies to support their evidence, says Bell.
Mister says this criticism misses the point: Supplements cannot be tested exactly like drugs. New drugs are “something no one has ever had in their body before,” whereas researchers can’t test the immune-boosting effects of vitamin C on a control group of individuals who have no vitamin C in their systems. “You cannot do the kinds of randomized clinical trails for vitamins that you can do for drugs,” Mister says. Even so, he notes, “Our industry doesn’t think for a minute that we can do without scientific rigor.”
MyAchingKnees comment: Of course the FDA will never allow any health benefit claims by supplements. Nutritional medicine, the idea that nutrition is your first line of defense in combatting degenerative disease, would cut into the Medical communities and Drug companies control and profit. Not all of this is done for greed. Some medical professionals sincerely believe that medications are the first and main effort.
5. “No pill is a substitute for a healthy diet.”
A sensible approach to supplements looks something like this, says Mangieri, the registered dietitian: You start with a healthy, balanced diet, then work with a doctor or dietitian to fill in any missing nutrients, if necessary, with supplements. “I’m always pushing, ‘food first,’” she says. Most people can and should get their daily dietary requirements from food alone, she says, although it can take some effort. One exception is her weight-loss clients on a diet of 1,600 calories or less — it can be tough for them to get all the nutrients they need through food, so she often recommends they take a multivitamin.
Indeed, vitamins and minerals alone can’t replicate the effects of a balanced diet, says Dr. Gary Deng, attending physician at the Integrative Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The best diets have “a little of this and a little of that,” and the combination of all the nutrients is more effective than those in isolation, he says, noting that studies have tried and failed to replicate the same positive impact with supplements alone.
MyAchingKnees comment: I absolutely agree that people need to eat good, whole foods and minimize the bad high glycemic foods. But who among us can do that each and every day? It is true that supplements cannot replace a balanced, low glycemic diet, but is it equally true that it is near impossible to get all your required daily nutrients from foods - hence the need to supplement.
6. “You may need a magnifying glass to read our disclaimers and warnings.”
On supplement packaging, each structure-function claim must be accompanied by a disclaimer saying that the claim hasn’t been evaluated by the FDA (and again that the product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease). Good luck finding these, though: Disclaimers are often in tiny font on the bottom of the bottle or package. Mister says that rather than a deliberate obfuscation, this usually represents manufacturers’ attempt to create an attractive, uncluttered label.
You have to look even harder to find certain other warnings. The law requires that supplements be safe for “normal conditions of use,” and many manufacturers interpret that to mean they should warn consumers if their product isn’t for everyone, Mister says. For example, many glucosamine supplements are made with the shells of shrimp, crab and lobster, so people with shellfish allergies are advised to avoid them. Yet some manufacturers aren’t so clear with their warnings, if they offer them at all, Bell says. He once found a warning on the opposite side of an iron supplement label — the side that faces the bottle — saying that the product shouldn’t be taken within two hours of oral tetracycline antibiotics, since it interferes with their absorption. “There’s a limited amount of real estate on the label,” Mister says, noting that such peel-back labels are perfectly legal.
7. “There’s no magic weight-loss pill.”
Clients at Mangieri’s dietitian practice fill out a form at their first visit that asks them what supplements they’ve taken. The list of weight loss products that she’s seen on those forms is long, she says. “People are desperate,” she says. “It’s a shame that so much money goes into products that don’t work.” Of course, not all weight-loss supplements are the same and some may be more or less helpful than others. And while weight-loss supplement makers often recommend that their product be taken as part of a larger program of diet and exercise, some in the industry doubt the necessity of taking pills. “What will cause the weight loss is the diet and exercise,” not the supplement, Mangieri says.
Mister says certain weight loss supplements, alongside diet and exercise, can make a difference. Some bulk fiber products can contribute to a feeling of satiety, he says, and cause people to eat less, while other supplements might boost a person’s metabolism a bit.
MyAchingKnees comment: Another truism, that there is no magic weight loss pill. Most diets fail because they starve the dieter of vital and necessary nutrients. A slow steady road of low glycemic foods and quality nutritional supplements, ensuring you provide your body with the required daily nutrients, is a positive and assured method to weight loss.
8. “ ‘Natural’ isn’t the same as ‘safe.’
”Arsenic, poisonous mushrooms, tobacco: Plenty of products found in nature can be dangerous. Some of the most prominent supplements to come under scrutiny in the past decade contained ephedra, an Asian herb that raises blood pressure and stresses the heart. The supplements were marketed for weight-loss and athletic performance, but after several reports of deaths and other bad health outcomes among ephedra users, the FDA found they presented an unreasonable risk of illness and injury and banned them in 2004.
Even vitamins and minerals may be harmful in excess, recent studies have suggested. Often, people think that if they take more than the recommended dose, they’ll reap even more benefits, says Dr. Gass of the North American Menopause Society. That’s not the case. A study last year out of the University of Copenhagen, for instance, found that there might be such a thing as too much vitamin D. Researchers studied blood samples from nearly 250,000 Danes and found higher mortality rates in those with low levels of vitamin D — and those with high levels of vitamin D. While the research isn’t conclusive, it does argue against overdoing it. A simple blood test can reveal a person’s vitamin D levels and show whether supplements might be needed, experts say. Research has also suggested that excess calcium can lead to an increased risk of heart disease and death.
MyAchingKnees comment: Read what I italicized above. Does that make sense to you? Higher mortality rates for people who had both low levels of Vitamin D and high levels of Vitamin D? The problem with testing single nutrients is multi-fold.....nutrients are designed to work together, synergistically, to provide your cells with all the nutrients necessary for optimal cellular health and a functioning immune system. When tests on people are conducted they cannot possible account for the varying health conditions of the participants nor can they monitor what they do 24 hours a day.
9. “Enhanced effectiveness may be due to pharmaceuticals.”
It’s illegal to try to pass off prescription drugs as dietary supplements, but that hasn’t stopped some manufacturers from trying. Some examples: Supplements to enhance male sexual performance have been found to contain sildenafil citrate, an active component of Viagra, while weight loss supplements have been found to be tainted with the prescription drug sibutramine, an ingredient found in an FDA-approved drug that was removed from the market in 2010 because it caused heart problems and stroke. In most cases, this contamination is deliberate, experts say, and the FDA has been active in trying to prevent this practice.
Mainstream manufacturers don’t spike their products with prescription drugs, Mister says. To avoid potential problems, he says, “don’t buy from an Internet company you’ve never heard of, that only has a P.O. box.”
MyAchingKnees comment: Non-essential or even harmful substances in supplements, some of which can cause positive or false positive results in banned substances testing, is what keeps Athletic associations, like the U.S. Olympic Committee, from accepting or recommending nutritional supplements except for those manufactured under GMP for pharamceuticals with guaranteed potency and purity.
10. “Your doctor needs to know what you’re taking.”
While patients often tell their doctors what prescription drugs they’re taking, they often neglect to mention the supplements. This is a mistake, experts say. Many herbal supplements interact with prescription drugs people are taking. For example, St. John’s wort, a supplement that has been shown to be effective in cases of mild depression, should not be taken alongside prescription antidepressants, says Dr. Reid Blackwelder, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a practicing doctor in Kingsport, Tenn. Blackwelder sometimes recommends the herb to patients in lieu of drugs, along with exercise and other nonmedical therapies. Other herbal products can lessen the effectiveness of chemotherapy or radiation in cancer patients, says Barrie Cassileth, chief of the integrative medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: “They can create serious problems for people already very sick.”
MyAchingKnees comment: I agree, tell your Doctors, however be prepared for comments like, "Those supplements may make your prescriptions medications less effective", or, " Well, go ahead and take those supplements even thought they probably won't do any good." Really? Okay Doc, I'll just stick to what I'm doing, it's working for me.
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South Beach Diet Doctor Warns About ‘Stealth Disease’
An article on Gluten by CNBC posted on Off the Cuff. There are an increasing amount of people who are now questioning if their diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome or other non-specific bowel disorders or pain are really an sensitivity to Gluten.
“It can really mimic almost any other disease, which is why it's often been so difficult to diagnose,” said Arthur Agatston, MD, cardiologist and the creator of the “The South Beach Diet.” He was referring to something he calls “the stealth disease” – sensitivity to gluten, a condition which he claims many of us don’t even know we have.
“We've just seen so many dramatic cases of patients who were undiagnosed for years and years,” he said. “Unfortunately, physicians are clueless when it comes to gluten. It's because a lot of the information is new.”
Gluten is the major protein found in wheat, barley and rye. Nearly ubiquitous, it’s sometimes added to lipstick, toothpaste, soy sauce, even some medicines. But if you’re sensitive to it, gluten can cause stomach pains, headaches, skin rashes, fatigue or depression, according to Agatston. It can lead to or exacerbate chronic illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia, he writes, in his new book “The South Beach Diet Gluten Solution.” In it, he makes a distinction between “gluten sensitivity” and celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder which affects the small intestine, and which is hereditary.
Agatston’s focus on gluten came about by accident, an outcome of how the "South Beach Diet" affected his patients. His original diet book was published in 2003, and there are more than 23 million copies of “The South Beach Diet” and its companion books in print. It was eventually published in 34 countries. “The first phase of our South Beach diet was intentionally grain-free to prevent swings in blood sugar. It was unintentionally gluten-free. I had no idea what gluten was when we wrote the book,” he said. “People lost weight. They improved their blood chemistries. We expected that. What we didn't expect was cures of psoriasis, of fibromyalgia, of several types of arthritis. And we kept seeing these really miraculous remissions of disease. I eventually realized that it was the gluten-free part, not just the grain-free, of the first phase of the diet.”
Not everyone is sensitive to gluten, Agatston said, and the first step is to find out if you are. “For most of my patients when they avoid gluten, they're avoiding all the processed carbohydrates, the fast foods. They make the diet a lifestyle because they may not be worried about not having a heart attack in 20 years, but they know if they cheat, they're going to have stomach pains and their skin's going to break out in a few days.”
“What's happened the last 20, 30 years is the way we process and prepare food is different than it used to be. We have a lot more processed food which concentrates gluten, and then we're not breaking it down. It's toxic and plays havoc with our system.” At the same time, he said “it feels like we're addicted to starch, and in many ways we are. But you can break that by going on our principles, which is the good fats, the good carbs, lean sources of protein, plenty of fiber.” He advocates “strategic snacking” in order to prevent a drop in blood sugar and to stave off cravings. His favorite snacks include almonds, mozzarella sticks, and cold cuts.
Agatston claims that gluten sensitivity, coupled with the over-prescription of antibiotics, can be particularly harmful to children. “These kids with the asthma, the ear infections, the allergies—my friends did not have them when I grew up,” he said. “A lot of them do better when you take them off gluten.”
Agatston still practices medicine. He pioneered the “Agatston Score,” a method of screening for signs of heart disease. Another predictor for increased heart risk, he said, is your body shape. Those of us who are apple-shaped, who pack weight around our stomachs, are more susceptible than our pear-shaped brethren. “If you're an apple, you really have to be worried,” he said.
How much should you control your own diet? We asked Agatston about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s failed proposal to ban super-sized sugary drinks. “I tend to be a libertarian. I think there's too much government intervention,” he said, “I agree we shouldn't be having gallon sodas. I think most of our resources should go into education rather than regulation.”
He sometimes cheats on his own diet. “I’m an admitted chocoholic,” he said. And there’s the occasional occupational hazard: “If it's a cocktail party with people I don't know well, often they'll be self-conscious about what they're eating. And I always feel obligated to have something really bad so they don't feel so bad. That's one of my excuses to cheat,” he laughed.
He has strong views on the state of healthcare in the U.S. “Doctors do extra tests to protect themselves. They’re reimbursed for about five minutes of face time, then they want to get rid of the liability so they send the patient to a sub-specialist. And they sometimes churn and burn because they're trying to pay their own overhead.”
“The amount of regulation now is just overwhelming. Doctors can't stand it. They're going out of business all the time,” he said. “ I had my own practice as a cardiac prevention practice, which I still do today. I spend time with patients. I did the tests I wanted to do. I lost a lot of money every year. Fortunately I had an outside income so I could practice good medicine. I don't know how you can practice good medicine today on the basis of current regulations and current insurance,” he said. Agatston advocates a voucher system for patients who can’t afford to pay, patients spending more time with their primary care physician, and automated consultations with specialists on the Internet.
Still, Agatston said he doesn’t intend to retire anytime soon. “I love to play golf. I love to play tennis,” he said, “but if I'm not working on something new, breaking new ground, I'm just not nearly as happy.”
To unwind, he watches TV. “I watch quite a bit of news. So I sometimes am screaming at the TV, and for me that's relaxation,” he said. “It doesn't get my heart rate up too much.”
Labels: Arthur Agatston MD, bowel disorders, gluten solution, sensitivity to gluten, south beach diet
Resveratrol: A Potent Anti-Oxidant
A reader sent me the below that she received from a friend.
"Do you know about Resveratrol from Red Grapes and their ability to be a cancer fighting agent? Natural News says that red grapes produce Resveratrol, but they only develop the Resveratrol when they are infected with a fungus, so grapes that are treated with anti-fungus chemicals produce much less resveratrol than their organic counter-parts."
I did not know about the red grape production of resveratrol being dependent upon a fungal infection. The flip side of organic fruits and vegetables, and another reason to go organic, is that they will also have less toxins like the anti-fungal spray. Always beware of the daily load of toxins we are bombarded with, or unknowlingly subject ourselves to.
It is true that Reseveratrol is thought to be a potent cancer fighting agent. More and more Doctors and Nutritionalists are believing that Resveratrol not only protects cells from the damaging effects of cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy, but can enhance effectiveness of these treatments.
I whole heartedly believe in Resveratrol, as well as Grape See Extract, taking 30mg of Resveratrol and 490 mg of Grape Seed Extract from a pharmacuetical grade source every day, as my belief is that the first line of defense against degenerative disease, including cancers, is optimum cellular health.
Quality red wines also contain Resveratrol, although you would have to drink quite a bit to get what you can in a quality supplement. I guess this can be an excuse to get tipsy each day.
Labels: cellular health, Grape Seed Extract, Healthy Lifestyle, Potent Anti-Oxidants, Resveratrol, toxins on fruits
Too Much Salt Can Kill You
I was brought up to know that using too much salt is bad for you but often found myself using quite a bit of it. I think I'm going re-think my habitable after reading this article titled "Salt Can Be Fatal, says Study", by Elise Solé, on the Shine Staff, posted on Healthy Living on Yahoo!
A pinch of salt can perk up your morning omelet—but that innocent shaker is responsible for 2.3 million deaths around the world and 85,000 deaths per year in the United States, says a study released Thursday from Harvard's School of Public Health.
One in ten people die from heart attack, stroke, or other type of cardiovascular disease as a result of eating too much sodium, according to lead study author Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard University.
Despite the fact that the World Health Organization recommends limiting sodium to less than 2,000 milligrams a day and the American Heart Association recommends 1,500 mg per day, the global national average for the U.S. is 4,000 mg of sodium," Mozaffarian told Shine. For perspective: One teaspoon of salt has 2,325 mg of sodium.
Researchers analyzed 247 national surveys of sodium intake in 66 countries between 1990 and 2010, then looked at studies that measured how high amounts of sodium affect blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke. They also obtained the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease from the Global Burden of Disease study.
"Out of all the countries, the United States ranked 19th out of 30 of the largest countries for the most salt consumption relating to cardiovascular death," says Mozaffarian. "When people think of limiting salt, foods like potatoes chips and French fries come to mind but those mainly contain salt on the surface," he says. "Salt isn't just used for taste; it's also used as a preservative in packaged foods like bread and canned foods such as soup which Americans eat a lot of."
Salt is a hard habit to shake, for a few reasons: For starters, along with sweet, sour, bitter, and savory, salt is one of the five basic tastes. Just like some people have a sweet tooth, others crave salt often. Second, a salty tooth may be biologically-determined. Some studies suggest that babies whose mothers suffer from morning sickness have above-average salt appetites because vomiting decreases sodium levels in her body and in the fetus. And other research suggests that stress or anxiety can make us reach for the salt and eventually, just like anything else, adding salt to our meals becomes habitual.
Unsurprisingly, the Salt Institute's vice president of science and research Morton Satin says: "This misleading study did not measure any actual cardiovascular deaths related to salt intake, since, by the authors' own admission, no country anywhere in the world consumes the low levels of salt they recommend...The Salt Institute does not consider this misleading modeling exercise helpful in furthering our knowledge of the role of salt on our health. On the contrary, it is disingenuous and disrespectful of consumers."
If you do want to cut down on your sodium intake, try these tips:
Avoid balsamic vinegar: On salad choose red-wine vinegar instead of its more popular counterpart balsamic, Carly Feigan, a New York City based Clinical Nutritionist told Shine. "Red wine vinegar already contains salt so it will quell your cravings," she says. "Balsamic has a high sugar content and triggers sugar cravings which may have you reaching for more high-sodium packaged foods."
Spice up your meals: The capsaicin in hot sauce will give your eggs or pizza a fiery kick causing skin tingles, flushed skin, and the release of feel-good hormones (called endorphins) and could possibly extinguish the need for extra salt. Feigan's pick: Frank's hot sauces which have the lowest sodium per teaspoon.
Eat a clean diet: Whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and beans contain natural sodium which should satisfy your bodies' natural cravings so you won't reach for the shaker as often.
Labels: Cardiovascular disease, health risk, Healthy Lifestyle, heart disease, sodium risks, stroke liked to excessive salt, too much salt
Sugar Laden Ddrinks Kill 25,000 Each Year?
I have a sister-in-law who drinks 12 or more regular Pepsi's a day. No kidding. This article off the web is for her:
In a study that's sure to shake up the soda ban debate, Harvard researchers have linked the sugary drinks to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, 25,000 in the United States alone.
"We know that sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to obesity, and that a large number of deaths are caused by obesity-related diseases. But until now, nobody had really put these pieces together," said Gitanjali Singh, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study presented today at the American Heart Association's annual meeting in New Orleans.
Singh and colleagues spent five years putting the pieces together. Using data from national health surveys around the world, the team tied sugar-sweetened beverages to 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 44,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and 6,000 deaths from cancer in 2010.
The study adds to mounting evidence that sugar-sweetened beverages, loaded with calories that carry little nutritional value, are a public health hazard.
"I think our findings should really impel policymakers to make effective policies to reduce sugary beverage consumption since it causes a significant number of deaths," said Singh, adding that she thinks "cause" is an appropriate word despite the limitations of the association study.
The American Beverage Association criticized the study, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, calling it "more about sensationalism than science."
"It does not show that consuming sugar-sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer - the real causes of death among the studied subjects," the industry group said in a statement. "The researchers make a huge leap when they take beverage intake calculations from around the globe and allege that those beverages are the cause of deaths which the authors themselves acknowledge are due to chronic disease."
The study comes one week after a judge blocked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on supersized sodas, and one day after Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill preventing municipalities from setting limits on soda and salt content.
"It is simply not the role of government to micro-regulate citizens' dietary decisions," Bryant said in a statement. "The responsibility for one's personal health depends on individual choices about a proper diet and appropriate exercise."
But some experts say evidence-based policies could curb soda consumption and save lives. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, senior author of the new study, said he now plans to study the effects of sugary drink regulation and taxation on health and health care costs.
"I think that's the kind of information that policymakers need," said Mozaffarian, who is an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health.
In the meantime, Americans can take steps on their own to cut sugary drinks and shed pounds.
"It may not be easy at first, but your body will thank you," said ABC News' chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser. "Study after study links intake of sugary drinks to poor health effects."
"It is quite frightening to see the rise in chronic diseases as people around the world consume more and more sugary drinks," Besser added. "It reminds me of the way lung cancer is on the rise around the world as more and more people smoke cigarettes."
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Labels: 000 die each year from sugar drinks, 25, Diabetes, health risks, heart disease, obesity
This came to me across FaceBook and thought it worthy enough to share,.......
It was approximately 8.30 a.m. on a busy morning when an elderly gentleman in his eighties arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9.00 a.m.
I took his vital signs and had him take a seat. I knew it would take more than an hour before someone would to able to attend to him. I saw him check his watch anxiously for the time and decided to evaluate his wound since I was not busy with another patient.
On examination, the wound was well healed. Hence, I talked to one of the doctors to get the supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
We began to engage in a conversation while I was taking care of his wound. I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment later as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no and said that he needed to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his wife.
I inquired about her health. He told me that she had been in the nursing home for a while as she was a victim of Alzheimer's disease. I probed further and asked if she would be upset if he was slightly late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was and she had not been able to recognize him since five years ago.
I asked him in surprise, "And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?"
He smiled as he patted my hand and said, "She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is."
I had to hold back my tears as he left. I had goose bumps on my arm, and I thought, "That is the kind of love I want in my life."
True love is neither physical nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
Labels: Alzheimer's disease, elderly couple, man cares for wife with Alzheimer's, true love
Water Replacing Soda Pop?
From an article titled America's new love: Water by Candice Choi of the Associated Press.
NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country's heart.
As New York City grapples with the legality of a ban on the sale of large cups of soda and other sugary drinks at some businesses, one thing is clear: soda's run as the nation's beverage of choice has fizzled.
In its place? A favorite for much of history: Plain old H2O.
For more than two decades, soda was the No. 1 drink in the U.S. with per capita consumption peaking in 1998 at 54 gallons a year, according industry tracker Beverage Digest. Americans drank just 42 gallons a year of water at the time.
But over the years, as soda increasingly came under fire for fueling the nation's rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot.
Americans now drink an average of 44 gallons of soda a year, a 17 percent drop from the peak in 1998. Over the same time, the average amount of water people drink has increased 38 percent to about 58 gallons a year. Bottled water has led that growth, with consumption nearly doubling to 21 gallons a year.
Stephen Ngo, a civil defense attorney, quit drinking soda a year ago when he started running triathlons, and wanted a healthier way to quench his thirst.
Ngo, 34, has a Brita filter for tap water and also keeps his pantry stocked with cases of bottled water.
"It might just be the placebo effect or marketing, but it tastes crisper," said Ngo, who lives in Miami.
The trend reflects Americans' ever-changing tastes; it wasn't too far back in history that tap water was the top drink.
But in the 1980s, carbonated soft drinks overtook tap as the most popular drink, with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo putting their marketing muscle behind their colas with celebrity endorsements from the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and comedian Bill Cosby.
Americans kept drinking more of the carbonated, sugary drink for about a decade. Then, soda's magic started to fade: Everyone from doctors to health advocates to government officials were blaming soft drinks for making people fat. Consumption started declining after hitting a high in the late 1990s.
At the same time, people started turning to bottled water as an alternative. Its popularity was helped by the emergence of single-serve bottles that were easy to carry around.
Until then, bottled water had mainly been sold in "big jugs and coolers" for people who didn't trust their water supply, said John Sicher, publisher of Beverage Digest.
The new soft drink-like packaging helped fast-track bottled water's growth past milk and beer. In fact, the amount of bottled water Americans drink has risen nearly every year for more than two decades, while the estimates of how much tap water people drink has fluctuated up and down during that time. When taken together, water finally overtook soda in 2008, according to Beverage Digest. (It's difficult to track how much tap water people drink and how much is used for other things like washing dishes, so experts estimate consumption.)
Analysts expect water to hold onto to its top spot for years to come. But whether people will drink from the tap or a bottle is uncertain.
Based on current trajectories, Michael Bellas, the CEO of the industry tracker Beverage Marketing Corp., predicts that bottled water alone could overtake soda within the next decade. That's not counting enhanced and flavored waters, which are growing quickly but remain a small part of the bottled water industry.
Currently, people drink 21 gallons of bottled water a year. That compares with 37 gallons of other water, which includes tap, sparkling, flavored and enhanced waters such as Coca-Cola's vitaminwater.
But there are numerous factors that could tilt the scales in favor of tap water.
Because of concerns that plastic bottles create too much waste, experts say bottled water could be hit by a public backlash similar to the one that has whipsawed the soda industry with pushes for bans and taxes.
New York City was preparing for a ban on cups of sugary drinks that are larger than 16 ounces starting on Tuesday. But on Monday — a day before the ban was to begin — a judge invalidated the regulation. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who originally proposed the ban, vowed to appeal the judge's ruling.
Bottled water already is starting to face similar opposition. The town of Concord, Mass. earlier this year banned the sale of water bottles that are less than a liter. And the University of Vermont became the first public university to ban the sale of bottled water.
Meanwhile, other cities are waging campaigns to promote tap water. New York City, which touts the high quality of its tap water, offers portable fountains at events around the city.
"Good old marketing has convinced people that they should spend a lot of money on bottled water," says Salome Freud, chief of New York City's distribution water quality operations.
Although companies such as Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. would rather have people buy bottled waters, they're even more invested in getting people to drink more soda again.
That's because soda and other drinks that the companies make, such as sports drinks and juices, are more profitable than bottled water. With bottled water, people tend to buy whatever is cheapest. That's a habit that forces companies to keep prices relatively low, which eats into profits.
It's why companies are investing so heavily in developing nations such as China and India, where the appetite for soda continues to grow.
In the U.S., annual soda sales are more than five times as big as bottled water at $75.7 billion a year, according to Beverage Digest. In terms of volume, soda is only twice as big as bottled water.
At Coca-Cola, the No. 1 soda maker, three-quarters of its volume in gallons comes from soft drinks, compared with 8 percent for its bottled waters including Dasani. PepsiCo, the No. 2 soda maker, gets 64 percent of its volume from soft drinks and only 7 percent from its Aquafina bottled water.
It's why Coca-Cola, which holds 13 percent of the bottled water market compared with PepsiCo's 10 percent, doesn't seem to think bottled water will ever overtake soda. In an emailed statement, the Atlanta-based company noted that soft drinks remain a far larger category than bottled water and that it sees "upside" for sodas over the next several years.
However, the company added that it saw "great potential" for bottled water. Like its competitors, Coca-Cola said it's focusing on growing its portfolio of bottled waters profitably by offering brands such as Smartwater and its flavored vitaminwater, which fetch higher prices.
In the meantime, the chairman and former CEO of Nestle Waters North America, Kim Jeffery, is waiting for bottled water's moment in the spotlight. Nestle, the Swiss company that makes Poland Spring, Nestle Pure Life, Deer Park and other brands, has nearly half of the share of the bottled water market.
At a beverage industry conference late last year, Jeffery noted that bottled water is "the elephant in the room."
And given the growing warnings over drinking too many calories — including from juice, milk and other sugary drinks — Jeffery said he's confident that water will continue to grow in popularity.
"For thousands of years, water was beverage of choice for human beings," he said. "Now we're reverting back to that."
Labels: Healthy Lifestyle, healthy water, water as opposed to soft drinks, water vs soda pop
A Couple Concerned About Their Health
I have been talking to a couple, slightly younger than me, but becoming more and more interested in their health as they have several relatives and friends afflicted with cancer, diabetes, menopause, arthritis and other degenerative diseases. I helped them understand the need for a low glycemic diet, a physically active life, taking quality supplements and avoiding toxins where they can.
The couple asked me how I knew so much (in their minds) about health and nutrition and I replied that each individual has to be responsible for their own health - they have to be students of health and life. That their Doctor(s) are advisors, not decision makers for this couple's health. They asked for a list of reading material, so I sent them some pdf files on health studies and gave them a two lists of books to read. This is the second list, reading for their stated issues and concerns.
Labels: Arthritis, Degenerative disease, Diabetes, Healthy Lifestyle, menopause, nutrition, recommended health reading
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RADCLIFF (Radcliffe)
Joshua, and Jane Richardson, June 23, 1818.
RADCLIFFE (Radcliff)
Alexander C., and Judith Haskell of Newburyport, int. Oct. 26, 1841.
Hannah P., of Amesbury, and Amos Tozier, int. Feb. 21, 1834.
Charles C., and Hannah Goodwin, both of Newtown, NH, Apr. 12, 1843.
Nathaniel, and Betsey Powers of Charlestown, int. Sept. 5, 1789.
Elizabeth N., and William Page, int. May 19, 1844.
Elizabeth M., Mrs., and Abijah Kelly, int. Jan. 26, 1845.
Elizabeth M., Mrs., and Osborn Bachelder, int. Nov. 16, 1845.
Elizabeth M., wid., a. 38 y., d. Simeon and Elizabeth Jenks, and John Huse, a. 42 y., morocco dresser, s. John and Elizabeth, Apr. 2, 1846.*
Leonard, and Sarah A. Goodwin of Dover, NH, int. Apr. 4, 1847.
RANDALL (Rondall)
John P., and Anna Cummings of Andover, int. Oct. 24, 1840.
Mary, wid., a. 48 y., d. William and Mary Tappan, and Rufus K. Knowles, a. 45 y., shoe manufacturer, s. Jonathan and Sally, Oct. 17, 1845.*
RANDLETT (Ranlett)
Nancy Jane, and John A. Chase of East Kingston, int. Aug. 25, 1821.
RANLETT (Randlett)
Charles [of Augusta. int.], and Abigail Low, June 9, 1803. CR1*
RATFORD
Abraham, resident in Haverhill, and Elizabeth Middleton, Mar. 19, 1770. CR1
RAWLINGS (Rollins)
Sarah, of Salem, NH, and James Stewart, Nov. 23, 1769. CR1
RAY (Rea)
William, and Abigail Atwoood, Feb. 17, 1793.*
REA (Ray)
William, Capt., of Lempster, NH, and Mrs. Anna Merrill, Feb. 7, 1833.*
READ (Reed)
Sophia, of Merrimack, NH, and James M. [Madison. int.] Canney, Feb. 14, 1841.*
Daniel, of Tolland [CT. CR3], and Hannah Haynes, Jan. 2, 1751-2.
Nathaniel, of Tolland, and Sarah Haynes, May 6, 1755.
Sally, and Samuel Emerson, Feb. 8, 1784.*
Betsey, and David How, 2d m., Dec. 9, 1787.*
Hepsibah, of Bakerstown, and Jonathan Emerson, int. Feb. 23, 1793.
REED (Read)
Moses, and Jane Morse, Dec. 17, 1833.*
Harriet, and Frederick A. Brown, Dec. 3, 1837.*
William, of Antwerp, NY, and Sophia B. Ladd, May 14, 1842.*
Sarah J., of Lowell, and Caleb Sargent, int. May 7, 1848.
REMICH (Remick)
David [of Charlestown. CR4], and [Mrs. CR4] Susanna Whittier, Mar. 25, 1755.
Ruth, and James Simson of Bradford, Apr. 22, 1786.*
David [jr. int.], and Lydia Austin of Salem, NH [May 2, 1789. int.]*
REMICK (Remich)
Susanna, and Thomas Archibald of Salisbury, Apr. 27, 1785.*
Harriet E.C., of Lowell, and Gates T. Embury of Plaistow, NH, May 11, 1845.
Susan, and Alfred Farnham, Dec. 1, 1836.*
Rebecca D., of Bradford, a. 21 y., d. Richard and Mary A., and Robert R. Palmer of Bradford, a. 22 y., shoemaker, s. John and Sarah, Sept. 13, 1848.
REUNE
Sarah, and Robert Corgill, Jan. 18, 1719-20.
Willard, and Emeline Spofford, both of Georgetown, June 26, 1838.
Nathan, of Boston, and Mary E. [Eliza. int.] Pearson, Oct. 22, 1840.*
Benjamin, and Mary Staples, Mar. 2, 1722-3.
Benjamine, and Abigail Bradley, Dec. 29, 1726.
Benjamine, jr., of Plaistow, NH, and Susanna Eaton, Oct. 20, 1757.
Sarah, of Plaistow, and Josiah Emerson, Feb. 2, 1762.
Caleb, of Atkinson, and Martha Moody, Jan. 24, 1790.*
John F., and Maria M. Sargent, both of Lynnfield, Mar. 5, 1847.
RICHARDSON (Richenson, Richeson)
Phebe, of Bradford, and Samuel Page [Jan. 24, 1750. Bradford Rds.]
James [Thomas. CR4], of Methuen, and, wid. Easther Ford, Feb. 14, 1750-51.
William, of Hampstead, and Mrs. Prudence Mors, Oct. 24, 1771. CR4
Daniel, of Bradford, and Rebekah Nichols, June 3, 1779. CR2
Moses, of Hampstead [NH. CR3], and Ruth Pecker, Dec. 25, 1787.*
Edmund, of Methuen, and Betsey Gile, Dec. 15, 1796.*
Abigail, and Moses Harriman, May 20, 1813.*
Jane, and Joshua Radcliff, June 23, 1818.
John, and Patty Parker of Bradford, int. Oct. 14, 1826.
Sarah Ann, and Ivory Chadborn, Apr. 29, 1827.*
Eliza C., and John S. Libby of Candia, NH, Dec. 24, 1836.*
Dorcas C., of Chester, NH, and Richard H. Rowell, int. Mar. 23, 1845.
William P., of Wilmington, and Julia Ann Godkin, int. Mar. 30, 1845.
Frances S., of Reading, and Henry F. Pasho, jr., int. May 3, 1846.
Mary C., of Bradford, a. 18 y., d. Cornelius and Susan, and Franklin Burrill of Bradford, a. 24 y., shoemaker, s. Samuel and Mary, Mar. 25, 1849.
RICHESON (Richardson)
Mary, of Methuen, and Samuel Hutchins, jr. [Dec. 13, 1739. Methuen Rds.]
Hephzibah, of Bradford, and Moses Davis [Apr. 24, 1740. Bradford Rds.]
Bridgett, and Joseph O'Sillaway [Selaway. dup.], Apr. 6, 1748.
RICKER
Esther, of Rochester, and Luther Gile, int. May 1, 1830.
William, and Eliza P. Harriman, both of Bradford, Nov. 6, 1836.
Thomas P., a. 19 y., shoemaker, s. Luther and Louisa, and Mary E. Wentworth, a. 15 y., d. Daniel and Mary, Sept. 11, 1848.*
RIDEOUT
Abraham, and Jemima Davis, Mar. ––, 1714.
Mary, and John Bailey, Jan. 24, 1739-40.
Rowland, and Judith Bedell, Dec. 13, 1739.
James, and Elizabeth D. Hayford of New Market, NH, int. May 20, 1837.
Thomas D., and Betsy Chase, int. Oct. 2, 1840.
Thomas D., and Sarah E. Sargent of Newburyport, int. Sept. 12, 1847.
John, and Mary Linch, int. June 12, 1849.
James, and Mirriam Clements [May 21, 1765. CR1]
Lydia, and David Winn, Sept. 10, 1795.*
Sarah [of Haverhill, NH. int.], and [Lt. int.] James H. Le Bosquet, June 30, 1829. PR25*
Maria L., and Currier F. Bayley, both of Boston, July 14, 1831.
ROAFE
Abigail, of Newbury, and Thomas Follingsby, June 19, 1694. CTR
ROBBENSON (Robinson)
Elizabeth, and Reuben Currier, Nov. 2, 1729.
John, of Westmoreland [NH. CR1], and Elisabeth Haseltine, June 12, 1783.*
Sophronia, and Moses G. Jaques, int. Apr. 8, 1826.
Charles, and Abigail Brickett, June 7, 1831.*
Hannah S., and Joseph Easterbrooks, jr., Dec. 11, 1831.*
Leverett, and Susan Moreland, Dec. 25, 1832.*
Clarissa C., and Cornelius G. Baker, both of Georgetown, Oct. 29, 1840.
Huldah A., of Wilton, ME, and Alonzo C. Saunders, int. Apr. 14, 1841.
Abby R., of Amesbury, and Amos E. Short of West Newbury, June 4, 1843.
Martha Jane, of Amesbury, a. 20 y., d. James and Mary, and Dean Morse of Amesbury, a. 26 y. shoemaker, s. Amos and Lucretia, Apr. 5, 1846.
ROBERDS (Roberts)
David, and Mary Dow, Mar. 24, 1718-19.
Abigail, wid., and William Johnson, Jan. 31, 1720-21.
Patience, and Stephen Herriman, Dec. 25, 1723.
Mary, and Moses Stevens, Apr. 23, 1724.
Mary, wid., and Nathaniel Marble, Nov. 5, 1724.
Jonathan, and Abiah Belknapp, Apr. 6, 1731.
Mehetabell, and Daniel Ladd, jr., Sept. 20, 1733.
Mary, and Moses Belknap, June 24, 1735.
Abigail, and Caleb Currier, Nov. 12, 1736.
Ann, and William Bailey, Nov. 31, 1739.
Rachel, and John Green, Sept. 1, 1741.
Sarah, and James Graves, Sept. 1, 1741.
Abiah, Mrs., and Edward Flint, 3d m., Nov. 3, 1747.
ROBERTS (Roberds)
Ephraim, and Dorothie Hendrick, Aug. 28, 1684.
Ephraim, jr., and Hannah Smith, Feb. 7, 1714-15.
Oliver H., and Julia Ann Ayer, Oct. 20, 1831.*
Stephen, and Nancy G. Griffin of Bradford, Aug. 20, 1837.*
Joshua, of Lowell, and Ann F. Brickett, int. July 24, 1841.
Ann H., and Nathaniel S. Sawyer, Aug. 26, 1841.*
Martha J., and Nathaniel Bailey, jr., int. Aug. 25, 1844.
Priscilla, a. 19 y., d. James, and Granville B. Austin, a. 25 y., shoemaker, s. Thaddeus, Dec. 11, 1844.*
John, a. 21 y., farmer, s. James, and Sarah J. Wood, a. 21 y., d. Solomon, Feb. 27, 1845.*
Levi B., and Ann J. Young, int. May 3, 1846.
Susan, of Salem, NH, a. 23 y., d. Temple and Rebecca, and James A. Bryant of Salem, NH, a 24 y., mechanic, s. Andrew, June 17, 1846.
Sophia D., of Charlestown, and Ira F. Twombly, int. Oct. 21, 1849.
Charles, and Maria Bradley, Mar. 31, 1831.*
Charles, and Abigail B. Sargent of Plaistow, NH, int. Nov. 12, 1842.
Charles, and Lucy H. Drew of Plymouth, int. Jan. 2, 1844.
ROBIE
John, and Ann Corlis, Nov. 1, 1677.
Deliverance [of Hampton. CTR], and Nathaniel Haseltine, Dec. 28, 1680 [Dec. 8. CTR]
ROBINSON (Robbenson, Robbinson, Robenson)
Mary, wid., and John Cathran of Londondery, June 18, 1731.
James, resident in Haverhill, and Mrs. Abigial Tompson, June 17, 1751.
John, and Dinah McCarrigan, residents in Haverhill, Nov. 9, 1753.
Joseph, and Susanna Noyes, June 8, 1788.*
Naomi, and Reuben Currier, July 8, 1798.*
John, of Chester, NH, and Nancy Carleton, int. Oct. 30, 1813.
Sarah, of Rochester, NH, and David Barter, int. June 15, 1822.
Ebenezer, Elder, of Greenwich, and Eliza Wales of South Brimfield, May 26, 1825.
Nancy [Mrs. CR1], and Ephraim Corliss, Feb. 21, 1826.*
Albert, and Phebe Webster [Bailey. int.], May 6, 1829.*
Levi H., and Mary Ann Morse, July 11, 1833.*
Edwin L., and Rhoda S. Whittier, Oct. 22, 1833.*
Jonathan H., and Electa Caldwell of Plaistow, NH, Sept. 20, 1836.*
Edwin, and Catharine Osborn of Danvers, int. Aug. 18, 1844.
Isaac L., a. 33 y., hatter, and Sarah A. Adams, a. 33 y., both of Methuen, May 8, 1845.
Joseph C., of Stratham, NH, a. 25 y., farmer, s. David and Nancy, and Abigail S. Crosby, wid., d. John and Abigail Crosby, June 5, 1848.*
Caroline F., of Brentwood, NH, a. 25 y., d. Ephraim and Betsey, and Simeon P. Dean of Lawrence, a. 23 y., carpenter, s. John and Rachel, June 25, 1849.
ROFF (Rolfe)
Betsy [Ralph. int.], and Samuel Frink, Dec. 14, 1785.*
ROGERS (Rodgers)
Iccabod, and Sarah Currier, Jan. 13, 1689-90.
William, and Hannah Cross, ––– ––, 1782.
Edith, and Ebenezer Clements, Jan. 18, 1793.*
Elizabeth, of Amesbury, and Henry Williams, int. May 21, 1807.
Mary, and Amos S. Perley, Dec. 3, 1829.*
Tristram G., of Georgetown, a. 20 y., shoemaker, s. David and Esther, and Nancy T. Dow of Georgetown, a. 21 y., d. Daniel and Betsy, Dec. 25, 1845.
ROLF (Rolfe)
Ezra, and Abigaill Bond, Mar. 2, 1675-6.
Benjamin, and Mrs. Mehetabel Atwater, Mar. 12, 1693-4.
ROLFE (Roff, Rolf)
William, and Levina Harriman of Plaistow, May 15, 1770. CR2
ROLLINGS (Rollins)
Ruth, and Daniel Virgin, int. Nov. 4, 1826.
Sally, and John Foot of Newtown, int. Feb. 28, 1829.
ROLLINS (Rawlings, Rollings)
Daniel, and Mary Emerson, Aug. 4, 1769. CR1
John, and Betsey Johnson, June 22, 1797.*
Ruth J., and Isaac Sargent, Dec. 25, 1802.*
Nancy, and Daniel Silaway of Newbury, int. May 12, 1814.
James N., and Sarah W. Pettingell, Oct. 25, 1818.*
Harriet, and Daniel Black of Londonderry, Mar. 29, 1826.*
John T., and Sarah T. Page of Newburyport, int. Oct. 27, 1827.
Jonathan B., and Caroline B. Lufkin, Feb. 28, 1828.*
Martha Jane, of Stratham, NH, and Jeremiah B. Eaton, int. May 24, 1833.
Marrion E., and Francis A. Monark, "both of City Salem," Oct. 30, 1838.
Catherine W., and Jeremiah M. Holt, Nov. 7, 1839.
Sarah W., Mrs., and Moses E. French of Bradford, int. Oct. 3, 1847.
RONDALL (Randall)
Lucinda, and William Foster, int. Sept. 2, 1843.
Timothy P., Rev., of Seabrook, NH, and Eliza Keely, Nov. 9, 1829.*
William, and Ellen M. Barker of Methuen, int. Oct. 26, 1839.
Hanah, wid., and Robert Swan, 2d m., Apr. 1, 1690.
Lidia, and James Ford, Dec. 26, 1699.
Isaac, of Sudbury, Canada, and Abigail Black, Apr. 6, 1790.*
Abigail, Mrs., and James Morey, b. at Deer Island, Dec. 15, 1794.*
Moses, and Abigail Goodridge, Jan. 11, 1829.*
Mary A[nn. int.], a. 19 y., d. Thomas and Mary A., and Rufus L. Osgood, a. 19 y., shoemaker, s. James and Sarah, June 16, 1846.*
Sarah Jane, of Newburyport, and Leo Philip McCanney, int. Oct. 1, 1842.
ROW (Rowe)
Jacob, and Mrs. Mehetabel Middleton, May 17, 1769. CR4
ROWE (Row)
Hannah, of Milton, and Moses Webster, int. Sept. 13, 1828.
Nathan, and Maria Murry, May 24, 1836.*
Charles, of Franklin, NH, and Mrs. Mary Ann Currier, int. Oct. 29, 1837.
Elizabeth P., and Isaac Bradley, Nov. 5, 1843.*
Samuel C., and Dorathy Ann Wadleigh of Kingston, NH, int. May 4, 1845.
Dorathy, wid., a. 35 y., d. Richard and Dolly Dearborn, and Daniel Heath, widr., a. 43 y., stable keeper, s. James and Sarah, Feb. 22, 1848.*
Benjamin F., a. 21 y., shoemaker, s. Joseph and Betsey, and Mary Scribner, a. 22 y., d. William and Betsey, May 15, 1848.*
ROWEL (Rowell)
Josiah, of Methuen, and Hannah Davis, May 1, 1740.
Patience, and Phillip Haseltine, Dec. 8, 1768.
Polly, and David Currier, Nov. 30, 1794.*
Phebe, of Salem, NH, and Samuel Marble, int. Mar. 31, 1798.
ROWELL (Rowel)
Leonard F., and Sarah L. Kimball, Dec. 13, 1829.*
Joseph, Esq., of Waterville, VT, and Mrs. Susan McFarland, May 28, 1834.*
Hannah, of East Kingston, NH, and Joseph Fitts, int. Sept. 13, 1834.
Laura A., of Hooksett, NH, and Jacob Fowle, int. May 8, 1835.
Sally S., and Ensign S. Hunkins, Sept. 10, 1839.*
Daniel, and Harriet Burrill, int. Sept. 10, 1842.
Mary A., of Lowell, and Moses W. Sargent, int. Mar. 4, 1843.
Hiram, and Sarah G. Edwards of Ipswich, Nov. 1, 1843.*
Josiah, and Mary A. Jennings, int. Feb. 27, 1845.
Richard H., and Dorcas C. Richardson of Chester, NH, int. Mar. 23, 1845.
Hannah, of Amesbury, a. 35 y., and Elisha Tucker, widr., of Amesbury, a. 40 y., shoemaker, s. Elisha and Mehetable, Apr. 3, 1845.
RUGG
Ralph, Dr., and Harriet L. Osgood of Andover, int. Aug. 10, 1836.
RUGGLES
John, jr., of Brighton, and Mary Louisa Gardner, Nov. 30, 1842.*
RUNELS (Runnels)
Thomas, and Lucy Lapham of Bradford [Aug. 4, 1792. int.]*
Ebenezer, and Hannah Lane of Newburyport, int. Aug. 27, 1808.
Louisa, and Richard H. West of Bradford, Sept. 26, 1824.*
RUNNELS (Runels)
Ebenezer, and Abigail Sallis of Beverly [July 6, 1747. Beverly Rds.]
Samuel, of Boxford, and Hannah Emerson, Nov. 19, 1747.
Ebenezer, 2d m., and Hannah Smith [June 24, 1766. CR4]
Benjamin, and Hepzibah Ayer, Dec. 1, 1767. CR1
Abigail, and Benjamin Hagget of Bradford, June 30, 1785.*
Betsy, and Peter E. Smith, int. July 5, 1817.
John, and Ann Page, Dec. 21, 1817.*
Moses C., and Eliza B. Perry of Bradford, int. Aug. 20, 1825.
John, 2d m., and [Mrs. int.] Elizabeth Wilson, Feb. 1, 1827.*
Mary, and Simon Parsons of Newbury, int. Nov. 8, 1828.
Lucy Ann, a. 24 y., d. John and Ann, and Joseph E. Smith, a. 22 y., laborer, s. Jonathan and Mary, Apr. 27, 1846.*
John S., a. 21 y. joiner, s. William S. and Sally Soley, and Abby H. Gage, a. 19 y., d. John S.S. and Sally, Nov. 5, 1846.
Eliza A., a. 22 y., d. Moses and Eliza, and Daniel H. Pierce of Georgetown, a. 26 y., shoemaker, s. Hiram and Abigail, Aug. 13, 1847.*
Louisa, of Hamilton, and William Meady, int. Jan. 19, 1822.
Dean, and Mary M. Haynes, both of Methuen, Apr. 8, 1834.
RUSSEL (Russell)
Jacob, and Elizabeth Moses, May 30, 1734.
Hannah, and Abiel Foster, 2d m., Nov. 26, 1741.
Mary, Mrs., and Samuel Appleton, June 15, 1743.
Edward, and Mary Page of Haverhill District, Nov. 24, 1749.
Hannah, and Jonathan Duston, jr., Oct. 15, 1777.
John, and Mary Bradley [Jan. 8, 1794. CR1]*
James, and Lydia Cogswell, Nov. 19, 1826.*
Sally, and Henry S. Bartlett, June 20, 1829.*
RUSSELL (Russel)
John, and Mrs. Joanna Ayer, Feb. 28, 1750-51.
Hannah, and Bartholomew Pecker, July 7, 1757.
Susanna, and Nathaniel Hasseltine, Nov. 10, 1768. CR1
Susanna, wid., and Capt. Daniel Johnson, Sept. 21, 1779.
Joseph, of Newbury, and Hannah Adams, Oct. 19, 1797.
Sally, of Bradford, and Moses Gale, jr. [Nov. 6, 1802. int.]*
Samuel, and Mary E. Kimball, Dec. 5, 1833.*
Mary C. [E. dup.], Mrs., and Maj. [Col. int.] Samuel Johnson, 3d m., Oct. 4, 1839.*
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MADELEINE STUCHBERY
HOME NOTES FROM THE ROAD SONIC LANDSCAPES
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NOTES FROM THE ROADSONIC LANDSCAPES
MADELEINE is a journalist, broadcaster, and writer based in Melbourne Australia.
She is a journalist for The Weekly Times. In the past she has worked as a journalist for the Moonee Valley Leader, The South Gippsland Sentinel Times, Gippsland the Lifestyle magazine, Yarra Valley and Ranges magazine, and Gippsland Country Life magazine. Her articles, short stories, and illustrations have appeared in various publications including Lip Magazine, The Reveries Periodical, and Hearth Magazine. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Madeleine is a volunteer broadcaster with Triple R in Melbourne, where she produces and presents radio documentaries. In the past she has been a volunteer producer and presenter for SYN radio. In 2017 she was selected as a participant of the Ladies Who Listen mentoring program, which works to pair women working within the radio industry in a mentorship. The same year, Madeleine successfully undertook sound and audio training through the Melbourne Arts Centre's Operator program. In 2016 Madeleine received funding from the Community Radio Network to produce a 10 part radio documentary. Madeleine has been a contributor to the radio program and podcast All The Best.
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Top Trump Economic Adviser Heaps Praise On Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Hats Off To Ms. AOC’
It’s not often that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) receives praise from inside the White House of President Donald Trump. But it happened on Thursday.
Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said the freshman lawmaker had “nailed” her line of questioning to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during a House hearing earlier this week.
Ocasio-Cortez asked Powell about the Phillips curve, an economic model that says inflation is supposed to rise as unemployment drops. CNBC reported that the concept was used by the Fed to guide policy.
However, in recent years, low unemployment hasn’t led to rising inflation. Ocasio-Cortez put Powell on the spot about the issue, and he admitted that the link “was broken at least 20 years ago” and the relationship between the two had “become weaker and weaker and weaker.”
Kudlow applauded Ocasio-Cortez for her queries.
“I got to give her high marks for that,” Kudlow told Fox News. “She got that out of the chairman.”
He added that the White House agreed:
“By the way, that’s been my position. That’s been the president’s position: Strong growth doesn’t cause higher inflation and interest rates. It looks like the Fed is going to cut their rates.”
The agreement likely ends there; the point of Ocasio-Cortez’s questions was to say that if the Phillips curve was wrong about unemployment driving inflation, other assumptions about inflation might also be wrong.
“Do you think that could have implications in terms of policymaking?” she asked Powell. “That there is perhaps room for increased tolerance of policies that have historically been thought to drive inflation?”
Her specific example was increasing the minimum wage, something Kudlow has called “a terrible idea.”
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ARIAN PEARSON
Arian Pearson is acoustic guitarist and songwriter of East Journey and worked with Timmy Djawa Burarrwanga at Bawaka and Lirrwi Tourism. He is now a sound engineer and co- ordinator for the Mulka Project in Yirrkala. With East Journey band members he has established the East Journey Aboriginal Corporation, that mentors young Yolngu musicians and uses music to promote ideas such as education, employment and health. He is a descendant of Mandawuy Yunupingu, singer songwriter of Yothu Yindi and was mentored and inspired by Yunupingu who was also the principal of their school. East Journey is a fusion of mainstream rock and traditional song cycles and instruments. Their 2012 debut album Guwak in April 2012 which won five nominations at the National Indigenous Museum Awards.
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Issue Date: January, 1974
Guest Editor: Robin Skelton
Buy Issue 29: Print Edition
Issue #29 opens with Robin Skelton’s intriguing commentary suggesting that the world of stamp collecting has parallels to the study of world literature in that it “enables people to explore and understand something of the culture and history of other countries.” It is perhaps fitting, then, that the issue begins with three poems by the distinguished Pablo Neruda, recipient of both the International Peace Prize (1950) and Nobel Prize for Literature (1971).
Next, a moving memoir by the late Peter Russell explores the time he spent visiting with Ezra Pound from 1965-1972 in Venice, thus offering a glimpse into the final years of one of the world’s most controversial writers. The precise, spare nature of the language in Pound’s work draws heavily from classic Chinese and Japanese poetry. What follows is a selection of poems in translation by Chinese poets from the Tang (618-907), Yuan (1271-1368), and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties. Readers will delight in luxuriant imagery, profound insights, and the surprisingly timeless quality of works by such greats as Li Ho, Po Chi-I, and Yang Wan-Li. Their collective wisdom is the world’s inheritance.
Also worthy of note is David R. Clark’s provocative essay, “Stretching and Yawning with Yeats and Pound” in which he analyses the meaning of two seemingly simple words in Yeats’ “Three Things” and invites readers to indulge in an exercise extolling the power of language.
Finally, “Twelve Drawings” by the late, great Canadian portrait artist Myfanwy Pavelic provide an exquisite visual and cultural interlude. Best known for her portraits of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Katherine Hepburn, and Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the drawings here convey the intimacy and spirit that typify Pavelic’s vast body of work. Her 1968 oil, titled Mopsy, graces the cover of this issue.
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Final Fantasy Name Generator
Thank you for choosing our Final Fantasy name generator! Before we go any further, we thought you might want to learn some facts about this game. We do not doubt that you already know plenty about the narrative and characters of this game, but do you know anything about the development of these game series? Finally Fantasy, which is currently listed among the world’s bestselling video game franchises, was established by Hironobu Sakaguchi from Japan. As for the day, the company concentrates on sci-fi and fantasy role playing games, but it also makes considerable investments in motion pictures, anime series, printed media and merchandising. The first game from Final Fantasy series reached the stores in 1987. As it experienced a considerable commercial success and received rather positive critical reviews, the Final Fantasy II, III and etc. followed.
Having this said we can return to our main topic and start talking about this Final Fantasy name generator in particular. As you already know, in this role playing game you get the chance to choose your character and its name. You might also be aware of the fact that most gamers are not quite thankful for the later of these “chances”. It’s not that they are “ungrateful” and do not appreciate the freedom, it’s just that coming up with the name that would not only suit your character, but also fit into the atmosphere of particular game setting is a pretty difficult task (and annoying one). But the good news is… (imagine the drums playing) Now that you have found this Final Fantasy name generator this task will take only few minutes! You will be suggested with variety of powerful, melodic and original names. Thus there will be only one job left for you: you will have to make the final choice.
As this system is able to generate thousands of different names, we were worried that you might get lost among variety of options… But we have found the way to prevent this problem. Below in this window you will find two separate sections: “Final Fantasy Names Generated” and “Favorite Names”. The first of them will contain all the options that have been generated up to that point. Choose the ones you like most and click on each of them. As soon as you do as we say, the names will be added to your favorites list. This way you won’t have to memorize anything and it will be easier to make comparisons. Have fun using this Final Fantasy name generator!
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Why Ontario County?
Ontario County contains two cities, eight villages and 16 towns, all of which contribute to the high quality of life and the many different types of lifestyles available in the county.
Beautiful and historic, Canandaigua is a safe, lakeside community that is a regional leader in culture, commerce, governance, education and healthcare.
Located in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, Geneva is "sensational by nature," filled with majestic lake views and in the middle of the exhilarating Finger Lakes wine country.
Village of Bloomfield
Town of Canadice
Town of Canandaigua
Village of Clifton Springs
Town of East Bloomfield
Town of Farmington
Town of Geneva
Town of Gorham
Town of Hopewell
Village of Manchester
Town of Naples
Village of Naples
Town of Phelps
Village of Phelps
Town of Richmond
Village of Rushville
Town of Seneca
Village of Shortsville
Town of South Bristol
Town of Victor
Village of Victor
Town of West Bloomfield
Bloomfield is a picturesque New England–style community on Routes 5 & 20 with beautiful old churches, monuments, century-old trees and a village green.
Bristol is committed to preserving and encouraging a clean, naturally beautiful, rural environment with carefully planned growth and increased recreational opportunities, while promoting the preservation of agricultural lands.
Situated within the Bristol Hills, the town of Canadice features breathtaking views of Honeoye Lake from the historic Harriet Hollister Spencer State Park.
The town of Canandaigua is home to the third largest of the 11 Finger Lakes. Canandaigua Lake is an essential part of the town’s identity and serves as a source for tourism, recreation and romance.
The village of Clifton Springs is a peaceful hamlet, treasured by individuals seeking rest and recuperation. This village is historically recognized for its cleansing waters, which were mainly used for health restoration. Presently, the Clifton Springs Hospital & Clinic has devoted an entire wing to this treatment.
A small, rural community with deep agricultural heritage, East Bloomfield is the birthplace of the Northern Spy apple and home to a wide array of merchants.
Farmington is primarily a farming community with small, growing businesses adding to the town. With picturesque town parks and a mixture of suburban and country living, Farmington offers an exceptional quality of life to residents and visitors alike.
Located by the crystal clear waters of Seneca Lake, the town of Geneva is the gateway to the renowned Seneca Wine Trail. While cherishing its agricultural roots, this community has grown with commercial and tourist development.
The town of Gorham is located in the center of the Finger Lakes, providing residents with astounding views of Canandaigua Lake and the surrounding farming community.
Incorporated in 1822, Hopewell covers approximately 36 square miles and strives to be the premiere community in Ontario County and the Greater Finger Lakes region, providing a high quality of life to its residents and an attractive location for appropriate economic development.
Comprised with several charming villages, the town of Manchester is the only municipality in Ontario County that touches the Erie Canal and is located near Hill Cumorah, the site of the renowned annual Mormon pageant.
Manchester has an active downtown area with a variety of merchants and plenty of small-town charm.
Naples is known as the grape pie capital of the world, and it embraces its distinctive geographic location, fertile land and bountiful harvest. It’s the home of the annual grape festival, which celebrates the areas grape harvest, talented artisans, winemakers and local and regional music and cuisine.
The village of Naples is an eclectic community filled with a variety of artistic talent, and notable wineries and picturesque lakes. Naples is also home to the annual grape festival.
Modern-day Phelps offers scenic beauty with its tree-lined streets and picturesque architecture, as well as Flint Creek and Canandaigua Outlet running through the village. Phelps’ merchants, business enterprises, churches and other organizations enhance the economic, cultural and social lifestyles of its citizens. Phelps is also the home of the Sauerkraut Festival, held each year on the first weekend of August.
The village of Phelps, centrally located to Syracuse and Rochester, is the Sauerkraut capital of the world. With picturesque Flint Creek and Canandaigua Outlet running through the village, Phelps continues to preserve its pleasant farming community atmosphere.
The town of Richmond is a small, peaceful community, filled with lakeside dwellings and breathtaking sunsets. It features bountiful wildlife and an amazing view of Honeoye Lake from Honeoye State Park. View PowerPoint about re-locating your business to the Town of Richmond
Located between Canandaigua and Seneca Lakes, the village of Rushville is the center of a small, rural farming community.
Established in 1789, the town was settled by farmers looking for a better life and rich, rolling farmland. Today the main industry remains agriculture, with a strong focus on Holstein dairy herds, corn, cabbage, beans, oats and wheat.
Shortsville is a busy, happy village with many fine homes and tree-lined streets. Its population of just over 1,500 enjoys the advantage of a fine central school system and a local telephone company, both shared by the other member of the “Twin Cities,” the village of Manchester. Among its many other assets are a well-equipped and capable volunteer fire department and ambulance team, effective police protection, a modern post office and village hall, a newly remodeled bank, a weekly newspaper, a railroad freight service, two churches and several social and civic organizations.
With four high ridges running north and south and rising 500 feet to well over 1,000 feet above the intervening valleys, the town of South Bristol is primarily an agricultural and forested area with some residential communities.
The town of Victor is located on the foothills of the Finger Lakes. Victor takes pride in its small-town charm and urban amenities.
The Town Board and Village Board are committed to the ongoing process of revitalization of the downtown business district and preserving Victor’s small-town charm.
The town of West Bloomfield, “The Western Gateway to Ontario County,” is located on the northwestern edge of Ontario County along Routes 5 & 20. West Bloomfield borders Livingston and Monroe counties.
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The Holy Spirit in the Consecration of Virgins
In the Catholic Church there are two kinds of blessings for consecrated life: Constitutive and Invocative . [Read This and This]
1] In the Consecration of virgins- according to the intention of the Church, once the virgin has made her propositum or resolution, it is by the very words of the Prayer of consecration prayed by the bishop, that the virgin’s body is constituted as sacred [for God] and set apart for the Service of the Church.
This is according to the theology of liturgy in the early Church.
2] Religious men and women are consecrated by the act of ‘professing’ vows at the hands of the legitimate religious superior with all other canonical requirements like formation, etc., being in place. The prayer of blessing or consecration in a religious profession which can be prayed by a priest- is intended by the Church to be an Invocative blessing.
This is according to the theology of St Thomas Aquinas around the 13th century.
The Epiklesis of the prayer in the rite of Profession of religious mentions:
Send the fire of your Holy Spirit into the heart of this, your daughter, to keep alive within her the holy desire He has given her……………….
The Epiklesis of the prayer in the rite of Consecration of virgins mentions the Gift of the Holy Spirit [as in the sacrament of Confirmation ]
Through the gift of your Spirit, Lord,
give them modesty with right judgment,
kindness with true wisdom,
gentleness with strength of character,
freedom with the grace of chastity.
Give them the warmth of love,
to love you above all others.
Make their lives deserve our praise,
without seeking to be praised.
May they give you glory by holiness of action and purity of heart.
May they love you and fear you;
may they love you and serve you.
I liked the explanation given in this link regarding the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit :
St. Thomas Aquinas says that four of these gifts (wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and counsel) direct the intellect, while the other three gifts (fortitude, piety, and fear of the Lord) direct the will toward God.
In some respects, the gifts are similar to the virtues, but a key distinction is that the virtues operate under the impetus of human reason (prompted by grace), whereas the gifts operate under the impetus of the Holy Spirit; the former can be used when one wishes, but the latter operate only when the Holy Spirit wishes. In the case of Fortitude, the gift has, in Latin and English, the same name as a virtue, which it is related to but from which it must be distinguished.
In Summa Theologica II.II, Thomas Aquinas asserts the following correspondences between the seven Capital Virtues and the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit:[11]
The gift of wisdom corresponds to the virtue of charity.
The gifts of understanding and knowledge correspond to the virtue of faith.
The gift of counsel (right judgment) corresponds to the virtue of prudence.
The gift of fortitude corresponds to the virtue of courage.
The gift of fear of the Lord corresponds to the virtue of hope.
The gift of Reverence corresponds to the virtue of justice.
To the virtue of temperance, no Gift is directly assigned; but the gift of fear can be taken as such, since fear drives somebody to restrict himself from forbidden pleasures.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church :
III. THE EFFECTS OF CONFIRMATION
1302 It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost.
1303 From this fact, Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:
- it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, "Abba! Father!";117 [According to Canon law 604 --this is parallel to the consecration of the virgin to God ]
- it unites us more firmly to Christ; [ this is parallel to the mystical espousal of the virgin to Jesus Christ ].
- it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us; [this is parallel to the dedication of the virgin to the service of the Church ].
- it renders our bond with the Church more perfect;118
- it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross:119
Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts.120
The parallels between the Sacraments of initiation, especially the Sacrament of Confirmation and the Consecration of virgins which is a Constitutive Sacramental, indicate that the vocation is rooted in the sacraments of Initiation and deepens Sacramental grace. Thus the consecrated virgin becomes an eschatological image of the Church’s Love for Christ, inspiring and animating the vocation to holiness, of every baptized person in the Church.
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Paleoclimate Research at OSU
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Earth’s climate system has changed dramatically in the past. Reconstruction from the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000 years ago) illustrates the large ice sheets (more than 3 km thick) that covered North America and Northern Europe at that time and the corresponding temperatures changes. Reconstructions of past changes in climate and biogeochemical cycles are important in understanding how the climate system works and how its components (atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere)interact with each other.
They also may hold the key to better predict future climate. Since measurements with reliable instruments are available only for the last 150 years, indirect methods are used to infer prior variations. Temperatures of the ocean surface, for example, are reconstructed using fossils of marine microorganisms found in sea floor sediments. Concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are measured in bubbles of air trapped in ancient ice. Needles are used to crush ice for the extraction of air in bubbles. Isotopic measurements of cave deposits reveal changes in precipitation. Glacial deposits on land such as moraines and erratic bolders can be dated to reconstruct the extent of past glaciers.
Combining these observations with model simulations allows testing hypotheses about forcing mechanisms of and interactions within the climate system. Paleoclimate research is a major strength at OSU, combining the efforts of several faculty in the newly formed College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Current research focuses on Pliocene to Holocene problems, and includes studies of the terrestrial glacial geologic record, paleoceanography from the marine sediment record, speleothems, ice cores, and state of the art paleoclimate modeling. Modern laboratories for isotopic work, trace element analysis, ice core gases, cosmogenic nuclide dating, and computing are maintained for student and faculty research.
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:: About :: Our Churches
Saint Mary Magdalene's Church on Cambridge Avenue, sits on the site of the original Anglican church in Ashhurst established in the 1880s.
The original extension was shifted to Bunnythorpe, and then later to a Maori Marae near Rata. St Mary Magdalene's as it is now was built and consecrated in April 1900.
There are two very early photographs of this church and other old photographs will be here soon, also, there is a list of names, dates and photographs of all the previous vicars that have served in this Parish.
St Mary Magdalene's is an all wooden construction and it was given a major addition between 1994 and 1997. A new ramp to provide easier access for older folk and people with disabilities. The porch area provides a gathering space and a sheltered area for arriving wedding parties. The main hall was recently modified and now has a uni-sex paraplegic toilet.
In 2010 the church was replaced with long-run colour-steel iron, replaced the spouting and repaired the steeple.
In early 2012, the building committee presented to Vestry and the membership, three other projects for their approval.
Our new heating system, an LPG powered heat pump, ducting warm air under the floors and heating through vents placed throughout the church and vestry, has been installed. Wonderful warm, efficient heat!
Added to that, we have replaced the carpet throughout the church, vestry and entry areas. The old one was literally worn out. New chairs rather than pews have been installed - individual / stackable / comfortable.
Our new sound system with more capacity, options and functions that will support us for the future has finished our capital works projects. Lovely, powerful sound that 'fills the house' and allows our harder of hearing members to hear and participate in the services.
We are also beginning to explore options for expanding or rebuilding our main hall some time in the future. Planning for bigger auditorium space, a more functional and better kitchen, better facilities, purpose designed and built meeting rooms and a new, functional office for the parish staff. It is certainly deficient as it stands, more so as we become more involved with our community. This will be a huge project and likely quite expensive requiring fundraising in house and from the community.
Our main hall is used regularly - a general purpose hall, a coffee and meeting room and Parish Office. The Ladies Study Group uses it on Wednesday mornings.
Local community groups and the Palmerston North City Council often use our hall for their local and community meetings and it is available to the Public for community and private events.
To request the use of our hall, first contact our office - if that is unsuccessful, fill in our web form and the office staff will act on it.Use of a basic sound system for use in the hall may be available on request.
The smaller hall is used as a storage area only.
May 2015. Maroon chair backs and seats changed due to defective fabric that was fading away to nothing. to a Fawn colour.
St. Mary Magdalene's is also available and is often used as a wedding venue. Click here for more information if you are planning a wedding.
For a brief history of our parish, click here
Our 22 niche Columbarium was constructed in 2006. A columbarium is a resting place for ashes. It is only available to members of the parish. Parish Members need to visit the Documents page in the Members Section of the website for more information.
You will find us at 67 Cambridge Avenue, Ashhurst. The dairy is opposite us! Come and see us - we would love to see you and be able to serve you and worship our Lord with you.
Situated at the northern end of the beautiful Pohangina Valley, shaded by silver beech trees and overlooking farmland and the river valley, St Bartholomew's is a picture of serenity and beauty.
Click here for a large image of St. Bartholomew's and the Ruahine Ranges from the western or Mt. Richards side of the Pohangina Valley.
A small church built in 1926, it was extended in the 1980s to have an area for the kids and a kitchenette - and a toilet! Funds for this were raised locally, and were boosted with a gift from a trust.
St. Bartholomew's has beautiful natural wood interior, of totara and possibly rimu. There are old and original historical photographsand documents on the walls, including the consecration service.
There will soon be a list of names and photographs of all the previous vicars that have served in this Parish.
St. Bartholomew's is also available as a smaller group wedding venue. Please click here for more information.
Komako has a Columbarium designed, financed and constructed in the church grounds by local labour. This was built for the ashes of the Komako Chu
rch people. It predates the Ashhurst columbarium by many years.
Parish Members need to visit the Documents page in the Membership Section of the website for more information.
For a brief history of our parish, click here.
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Liberals With 24 Point Lead Today
July 6, 2016 @ 3:15 PM | Filed under: National
Conservatives tumble; NDP would lose party status
In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1429 Canadian voters, the Liberals would attract almost twice as many votes as the Conservatives if an election were held today, with a total of more than half the vote (52%) to just more than a quarter for the Conservatives (28%). The NDP would achieve a tenth of the vote (11%), and very few would vote Green (3%), Bloc Quebecois (5%) or for any other party (1%).
This is in contrast to last month, when the Liberal tally was slightly lower (June 8 - 49%) and the Conservative vote was higher (32%). The NDP vote has stayed stable (June 8 - 10%).
The Liberals are dominant nationally, with a majority vote in every region except Alberta. In Atlantic Canada, they lead (55%), the Conservatives are second (29%) and the NDP doesn’t place (11%). In Quebec, Liberals own half the vote (52%), to about a fifth for the Bloc (18%) and about half that for the Conservatives (13%) and the NDP 10%). In Ontario, The Liberals have half the vote (53%), the Conservatives a third (33%) and the NDP a tenth (11%). In the prairies, significantly, the Liberals have more than half the vote (55%) to a third for the Conservatives (32%) and about a tenth for the NDP (12%) in their birthplace. In Alberta, it is the Conservatives who get the majority of votes (55%), while more than a third go to the Liberals (36%). The NDP do not compete here (4%). In BC, the Liberals’ lead is the largest (58%) compared to the Conservatives (23%), while the NDP do better than elsewhere (15%).
More than a tenth of those who voted Conservative in the recent election would vote Liberal if another were held today (13%) and as many as 4-in-10 2015 New Democrats would vote Liberal (41%). Virtually all 2015 Liberals will vote the same way again (90%).
Liberals would take more than 80% of seats in a “hypermajority”
If these results are projected up to seats in the House of Commons, the Liberals would take more than 80% (278 seats) to just 55 for the Conservatives and as few as 5 for the NDP. No other party, including, for the first time since we have polled, the Green Party, would seat a member. Of course, with 5 seats, the NDP would cease to be an official party.
Trudeau’s popularity up sharply, Ambrose, Mulcair down
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has the approval of more than 6-in-10 voters (62%), and this is up sharply since last moth (June 8 - 57%). His net favourabilty rating (approve minus disapprove) has increased sharply from a stellar +24 to a stratospheric +33. Trudeau has almost universal approval from Liberals (95%).
Rona Ambrose has the approval of 3-in-10 (31%), down slightly from last month (June 8 - 34%), but her net score has remained stable at a barely favourable +7. Ambrose has the approval of 6-in-10 Conservative voters (58%).
Tom Mulcair has seen his approval slide as well (from 34% in June to 31% now), and his net score is a negative -5. He has the approval of about 6-in-10 of his party’s voters (61%).
One half see Trudeau as best PM, second is “none of these”
The leading choice for best Prime Minister is the incumbent, Justin Trudeau (49%) with half the vote. The next largest proportion of voters selects “none of these” (19%). Rona Ambrose attracts about one tenth of the vote (13%) as does Tom Mulcair (9%). While 4-in-10 New Democrats see Mulcair as the best PM (44%) as many as 3-in-10 see Justin Trudeau in this role (28%).
“The Liberals apparently can’t set a foot wrong, and they’re enjoying stratospheric levels of support usually seen only in the days immediately following a landslide election. But here in Canada, the landslide is going on and on and on" said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.
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Yecla News - October 2012
Welcome to European teachers participating in an environmental awareness project (25/10/2012)
belong to schools in France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Greece and the IES "Castillo-Puche" of Yecla, acting as coordinator
PSOE: "No debt claims Murcia but is squeezed to advancing the IBI yeclanos" (25/10/2012)
Education doubles the money for municipal grants for books and school supplies (25/10/2012)
This year will award 416 scholarships of $ 100 each, between students of nursery, primary and secondary
580 Yecla farmers will benefit from a new reservoir that will store reclaimed water from the treatment plant for use in irrigation (23/10/2012)
The reservoir will have a capacity of 400,000 cubic meters and will benefit communities of Santiago Pozo and Hoya's Mollidar -Portichuelo
The construction of the dam for irrigation to clarify how the sewage waters of Yecla (23/10/2012)
Yecla Mayor and the Minister of Agriculture, have laid the first stone for the construction of a reservoir of 400 thousand cubic meters allow two irrigation communities use treated water Treatment Station
The infrastructure, export and diversification of the local economy focused on meeting between entrepreneurs and the mayor of Yecla (23/10/2012)
Beams to support the slab Bioclimatic Building (23/10/2012)
yeclanos Socialists again ask for explanations from government team on the sinking of the floor of the building which has led to the placement of beams not included in the project
October 19: International Day Against Breast Cancer (19/10/2012)
Yecla already has the distinction "City of Science and Innovation" (18/10/2012)
The Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness important budget earmarked to support innovation projects promoted by local councils that have been recognized with this award
PSOE: "The award for the" City of Science and Innovation "is no merit in the government team" (18/10/2012)
UPyD Yecla described as "floral meetings" the meetings held with PP and PSOE local entrepreneurs (18/10/2012)
Juan Antonio Sánchez said that while Yecla "sinks", local leaders of the two major parties "decide to meet with employers "
PSOE: "Our proposal leads Reindustrialisation Plan for Yecla and need unity of all" (17/10/2012)
The Mayor of Yecla analyzes the economic situation with industry and local entrepreneurs (16/10/2012)
The Mayor takes the distinction "City of Science and Innovation" (16/10/2012)
Requena Alberto González Tovar and will meet in Yecla with social entrepreneurs and to promote a Strategic Plan Reindustrialisation (16/10/2012)
Juan Miguel Rodríguez Benedito be appointed, posthumously, Favorite Son of Yecla (15/10/2012)
On Sunday October 21 in the Theater "Secure Shell"
"Elerni @: new formula formative AREMA-CETEM" (11/10/2012)
UPyD urges the Autonomous Region to seek a solution to the closure of emergency Granfort (10/10/2012)
Rafael Sanchez has shown their support and solidarity to the 200 workers affected by the closure of one of the most important companies in Spain upholstered furniture
New awareness campaign on separate collection and recycling of waste (09/10/2012)
IU-Greens says Grandfort closing is "a huge blow" to the productive of Yecla (09/10/2012)
The mayor describes as "very negative for Yecla" closure announcement Granfort (09/10/2012)
The PSOE qualifies as "severe blow to their industry Yecla and" the process of closing Granfort (08/10/2012)
Yecla, township entrepreneur (08/10/2012)
Yecla Mayor and the Minister for Universities and Research Company, have signed a collaboration agreement for the development of local actions to promote entrepreneurship, business creation and business development
PSOE: "We support the Popular Party's motion Yecla strategic plan" (08/10/2012)
World Day of Palliative Care 2012 (08/10/2012)
Yeclanos Socialists considered a 'good news' that the 2013 budget considering the continuation of the A-33 (04/10/2012)
The Department of Social Policy get funding for repairs Center IMAS Day (03/10/2012)
The Fairground landslides recorded its walls by the effect of rain and lack of cement (03/10/2012)
IU-Greens seeks clarification on the collapse of a retaining wall of the "Third Institute" of Yecla (01/10/2012)
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Yecla News - February 2013
The Department of Health will resume control of dogs in public (27/02/2013)
Presented draft municipal budget (26/02/2013)
The Mayor considers these assumptions "in line with the current situation, responsible and austere, retaining the services provided to yeclanos.'s The best budget we can have in the circumstances we are facing."
Violence in schools (25/02/2013)
Professor Rubio Lara, University of Murcia has given a talk at the IES Castillo Puche criminal aspects of violence in schools organized by the permanent site of the University of Murcia in Yecla
The national leader of Socialist Youth in Yecla asks Reindustrialisation Plan to combat unemployment in our city (25/02/2013)
Press release from the Department of Police and Traffic 2/22/2013 (22/02/2013)
Press release from the Mayor of Yecla 22.02.2013 (22/02/2013)
In the press releases issued from the PSOE reclamándome an explanation of the extension of contracts with the company Gestkal, Mayor of Yecla, Mark Ortuño, wish to state the following
PSOE: "New case of alleged favoritism to a company in the city of Yecla" (22/02/2013)
The PSOE Ortuño Marcos insists that explains the award to a firm finger near a PP councilor of Alicante (21/02/2013)
Results of the program SEVIRA Local Police (20/02/2013)
The Surveillance Service in Rural Areas, has served to prevent burglaries in rural places or within three years of existence
The PSOE asks Marcos Soto Ortuño give explanations "to authorize with his signature finger pointing to a company of Alicante" (20/02/2013)
Conducting sports courses to tender will immediately (20/02/2013)
Sports Councilman acknowledges that it has taken longer than desirable preparing the necessary specifications, while deciding not to waive these courses involving more than 2,000 users
PSOE: "In the city of Yecla are awarding contracts finger and the same company" (19/02/2013)
The Socialist Party of Yecla advocates a more social Europe, more democratic and more just to give answers to the problems of citizens (18/02/2013)
The New Urbanism Plan of Yecla walks to his initial approval in full (18/02/2013)
subsequently publicly exposed for two months to examine and present possible arguments before final approval
Language and cultural exchange with Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (15/02/2013)
Municipal Corporation makes a reception yeclanos and French students who perform in cultural and linguistic exchange
The Mayor of Yecla valued as "great news for the city" the imminent arrival of the high speed at the county (13/02/2013)
Ortuño Marcos attended a meeting of mayors of the region near the new station Villena, who prepare a set strategic actions to harness the advent of high speed
The Socialist Party of Yecla expresses its commitment and support to the construction of the railway station in Villena (12/02/2013)
The Socialist Party of Yecla met with the Platform for Unemployed (07/02/2013)
Local Police without motorcycles or vehicles suitable for monitoring SISPOL? (07/02/2013)
PSOE: "The industrial sector of Yecla is left to die" (05/02/2013)
Agriculture incorporates a new security system in the raft of wastewater use Yecla (03/02/2013)
The work will be completed before the summer and will have a useful capacity exceeding 400,000 m3
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SAP Center memorial planned for officer Michael Johnson - SFBay
San Jose police have announced plans for a memorial service for fallen Officer Michael Johnson, who was shot and killed by a suspect Tuesday night.
The memorial for Johnson, a 14-year veteran of the department, is set for Thursday at 11 a.m. at the SAP Center, 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose.
The 38-year-old Johnson was shot by 57-year-old Scott Dunham when officers responded to a 911 call at about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday to 2600 Senter Road in East San Jose. The caller said Dunham had access to guns and was distraught and intoxicated.
Dunham allegedly fired a rifle from the balcony of his home, killing Johnson. Another officer killed Dunham in an exchange of bullets.
Gov. Jerry Brown had flags at the Capitol flown at half-staff Wednesday to honor Johnson and flags at all county buildings in Santa Clara County will be at half-staff until April. Police officers from around the nation are planning to attend the memorial service, according to the San Jose Police Officers Association.
Johnson is the 12th fallen San Jose police officer since the city established the department in 1849.
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Bias Alert: CNN Anchor Compares Trump To Hitler
In the same week that President Trump nailed members of the press for their aggressive bias and rampant fake news, a CNN anchor confirmed that reality when in a speech she likened Trump very explicitly to Hitler.
That occurred simultaneously as her boss was bidding on two pictures of Barack Obama for his wall.
Unbiased? Not so much.
Here’s more from Daily Caller…
In the weeks after Donald Trump won the election, CNN chief Jeff Zucker watched as one of his employees compared the new president to Adolf Hitler.
At a White House press conference Thursday, Trump declared that he was changing his moniker for the network from “fake news” to “very fake news.”
There’s been a ton of well-publicized drama between the two camps. The White House has threatened to throw Jim Acosta out of the briefing room. Jake Tapper has bashed Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway for lying on air. And his Sunday show recently declined an offer by the White House to have her come on.
You may think Trump is too harsh on CNN.
But take a look at how the network treated Trump back in November.
Less than a week after Trump won the election, a cadre of CNN employees made their way to the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington to attend the 2016 International Center for Journalists awards dinner.
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer was the emcee of the November 14, 2016 event. Zucker, CNN’s Worldwide president, was also there — sitting near the front of the ballroom — where he had the pleasure of witnessing two of his employees receive awards.
First up was Clarissa Ward, a war correspondent for the network, who gave a gracious speech about how journalists “have to listen to voices we don’t want to hear.”
Carmen Aristegui, on the other hand — whose popular show airs on CNN Espanol — compared Trump to Adolf Hitler.
The Mirror requested a comment from Zucker as well as a CNN publicist. Neither answered our questions.
In a speech that, at times, stunned the audience into silence, the Mexican journalist began by saying “[t]he triumph of Donald Trump has left us shaken. We are all still in a state of shock.”
Here’s the video:
Chris Wallace Grills Priebus on Trump: ‘You Don’t Get to Tell Us What to Do’
Donald Trump took the fight to the media last week and called a spade a spade, and now the liberal press is going nuts attempting to stand their ground.
Even Fox News is pushing back.
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus went head to head with Chris Wallace, and it wasn’t pretty.
Here’s more from Breitbart…
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox New Sunday,” host Chris Wallace got into a long and heated exchange with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus over President Donald Trump‘s tweet labeling the press an “enemy” of the American people.
After several minutes of back and forth arguing over the media’s coverage of the Trump administration, Wallace said, “You don’t get to tell us what to do Reince. You don’t get to tell us what to do any more than Barack Obama did. Barack Obama whined about Fox News all the time, but I got to say, he never said we were an enemy of the people.”
Later in the segment, Priebus said, “I don’t know why you are going bananas.”
Pope Francis: ‘Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist’
The global leftist media seized on another sharp proclamation by Pope Francis this week and twisted his words to play him as the icon of progressivism.
In his address to a gathering of leaders, his statement in proper context meant that all religions of the world have extremists who distort their religion’s tenets to support terror.
But the liberal media once again politicized what was never intended as political.
In an impassioned address Friday, Pope Francis denied the existence of Islamic terrorism, while simultaneously asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.”
“Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” Francis said in his speech to a world meeting of populist movements.
What he apparently meant is that not all Christians are terrorists and not all Muslims are terrorists—a fact evident to all—yet his words also seemed to suggest that no specifically Islamic form of terrorism exists in the world, an assertion that stands in stark contradiction to established fact.
“No people is criminal or drug-trafficking or violent,” Francis said, while also suggesting—as he has on other occasions—that terrorism is primarily a result of economic inequalities rather than religious beliefs. “The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence yet, without equal opportunities, the different forms of aggression and conflict will find a fertile terrain for growth and will eventually explode.”
The Pope also reiterated his conviction that all religions promote peace and that the danger of violent radicalization exists equally in all religions.
“There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia,” he said.
Ouch: Trump Slams ‘Dishonest’ Press for ‘Tremendous Disservice’ to the Nation
The double-standards with which the mainstream media has heaped criticism upon the Trump administration in the first 30 days is so over the top we can’t cover it all.
And now Trump has had enough of it.
In a rare press conference today, President Trump opened up with a direct attack on the members of the media in the pool. It got nasty real quick.
Thursday at a press conference to announce his pick of Alexander Acosta for the vacant Secretary of Labor post, President Donald Trump ripped the “dishonest” press and suggested they intentionally being an obstacle to his effort to take the “entrenched power structure.”
Partial transcript as follows:
I’m here today to update the American people on the incredible progress that has been made in the last four weeks since my inauguration. We have made incredible progress. I don’t think there’s ever been a president elected who in this short period of time has done what we have done. A new Rasmussen poll in fact, the people – much of the media doesn’t get it. They actually get it but they don’t write it. A new Rasmussen poll just came out a very short while ago and it has our approval rating at 55 percent and going up. The stock market has hit record numbers as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world, which to me means something much different than it used to. It used to mean oh, that’s good. Now it means that’s good for jobs – very different. Plants and factories starting to move back into the United States and
The stock market has hit record numbers as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world, which to me means something much different than it used to. It used to mean oh, that’s good. Now it means that’s good for jobs – very different. Plants and factories are starting to move back into the United States and bigly Ford, General Motors, so many. I make this presentation directly to the American people with the media present, which is an honor to have you. This morning because many of our nation’s reporters and folks will not tell you the truth, and will not treat the wonderful people of our country with the respect that they deserve. And I hope going forward we can be a little bit, a little bit different and get along better if that’s possible. Maybe it’s not, and that’s OK too. Much of the media in Washington, D.C. and New York and Los Angeles, in particular, speaks not for the people but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system. The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice. We have to talk about it, to find out what’s going on because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. I ran for president to represent the citizens of our country. I am here to change the broken system, so it serves their families and their communities well. I am talking and really am taking
This morning because many of our nations reporters and folks will not tell you the truth, and will not treat the wonderful people of our country with the respect that they deserve. And I hope going forward we can be a little bit, a little bit different and get along better if that’s possible. Maybe it’s not, and that’s OK too. Much of the media in Washington, D.C. and New York and Los Angeles, in particular, speaks not for the people but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system.
The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice. We have to talk about it, to find out what’s going on because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. I ran for president to represent the citizens of our country. I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families and their communities well. I am talking and really am taking
The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, tremendous disservice. We have to talk about it, to find out what’s going on because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. I ran for president to represent the citizens of our country. I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families and their communities well. I am talking and really am taking
I am taking and really am taking on this very entrenched power structure and we’re talking about the power structure. We’re talking about its entrenchment. As a result, the media is going through what they have to go through to oftentimes distort. Not all the the time and some of the media is fantastic. I think I have to say – they’re honest and fantastic. Much of it is not – the distortion, you’ll be able to ask me questions about. But, we’re not going to let it happen because I’m here again to take my message straight to the people.
Not all the the time and some of the media is fantastic. I think I have to say – they’re honest and fantastic. Much of it is not – the distortion, you’ll be able to ask me questions about. But, we’re not going to let it happen because I’m here again to take my message straight to the people.
De Niro on Trump: ‘Of Course I Want to Punch Him in the Face’
Liberals gonna lib. That’s the reality, no matter how good an actor they might be. And super liberal Robert De Niro is not exception.
He’s so mad at Donald Trump for being such a big meanie that he’s ready to punch him in the face. More empty words.
Here’s more from Newsmax:
Actor Robert De Niro repeated his desire to punch President Donald Trump in the face in an Friday appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
“He’s so blatantly stupid,” De Niro said of Trump in a “Get Out the Vote” video before the election. “He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. He’s a con, a bullsh — artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. … He’s an idiot. Colin Powell said it best: He’s a national disaster. He’s an embarrassment to this country.
“He talks about he likes to punch people in the face. We’ll I’d like to punch him in the face.”
Poll: Americans Favor Suspending Immigration From Terror Regions
The liberal mainstream media has spent the last few days fomenting hysteria over President Trump’s order to stop refugees from terrorist-sponsoring nations. But now the polls are blowing up in their faces.
American voters support 48-42 percent “suspending immigration from ‘terror prone’ regions” — even if it means turns turning away refugees from those areas, a Quinnipiac University poll revealed.
Here are the poll highlights:
48 percent of voters approve of suspending immigration from terror prone areas, including 72 percent of Republicans and 24 percent of Democrats.
53 percent of voters support requiring immigrants from Muslim countries to register with the federal government, including 75 percent of Republicans and 34 percent of Democrats.
59 percent of voters believe illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the U.S. and eventually apply for U.S. citizenship, including 38 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats.
The poll was conducted Jan. 5-9 — before President Donald Trump signed his executive order on refugees.
Tucker Carlson Nearly Doubles Megyn Kelly’s Ratings
A couple weeks after the furor over Megyn Kelly’s mega-million deal with NBC, Fox News scrambled to replace her with the unlikely figure of Tucker Carlson. But now he’s a hit and has smashed Kelly’s ratings in the prime time spot. And it’s pretty clear how he’s done it.
Here’s more from the Hill:
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson is nearly doubling the ratings of his predecessor, Megyn Kelly, when compared to the same time period last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” is up 95 percent in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet most compared with the same period in 2016, when “The Kelly File” occupied the 9 p.m. ET time slot.
Carlson has averaged 775,000 viewers per night in the category, while Kelly averaged 398,000 during the same time period, Jan. 11–22.
Carlson took over the 9 p.m. slot on Jan. 9, shortly after Kelly announced she would be leaving for a daytime program on NBC.
Fox had reportedly offered Kelly $100 million over four years to stay with the network last fall. The former corporate attorney-turned-broadcast journalist said spending more time with her three young children in the afternoon and evening was ultimately more important. She reportedly took less money to go to NBC, where she won’t be hosting a show every weekday night as she had at Fox.
Video: Ashley Judd Headlines Obscene Women’s March With Vulgar Speech
The celebrity left continued its anti-Trump insanity this weekend at the U.S. Capitol with a star-studded line-up of looney Hollywood gliterati removing any doubt whether they’d officially lost their minds.
And then uber lefty Ashley Judd took the stage and left jaws dropping with vulgarity that would make Bill Maher blush. Warning: graphic language.
Here’s more from Redstate:
Ashley Judd crashed Michael Moore’s rant attacking new Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos, at the Women’s March to recite a poem, and well it wasn’t a good look. Not that Moore didn’t need to be interrupted, he was after all bashing a woman at the Women’s March. Maybe that’s what inspired Ashley Judd’s electric performance. Judd started her one woman descent into madness, with a quick mention of a student who apparently wrote the words she interpreted. It’s something to see. Judd flips from period blood to “p*ssies are for pleasure” in one manic paragraph, while calling others vulgar. So you’re warned.
In addition to the “p*ssy” comments, Ashley Judd drops into a questionable accent. And by questionable, I mean she sounds like she is imitating a southern black grandma, and dare I say, she sounds a little racist in her delivery? Or it would deemed racist if done at an event that wasn’t a Hillary Clinton rally for grief. Reminder, then private citizen Donald Trump said “p*ssy” once in his infamous taped discussion with Billy Bush, the one that played on a loop prior to the election. This screed by Judd was yanked from both CNN and MSNBC before she finished.
Warning: Explicit Language and rampant stupidity. Watch the whole wild thing now.
GQ Mag on Obama: One of the Greatest Presidents Ever
The liberal fixation with Barack Obama borders on the delusional despite the failure of virtually everything he did in eight years at the White House.
Now GQ Magazine predicts he’ll go down as one of the greatest presidents ever. Unbelievable.
In what I can only describe as fanfiction that borders on the erotic, Jim Nelson of GQ Magazine, a self-proclaimed Clinton guy, decides that Barack Obama will be “inducted into the league of great presidents” because of how well he did as president.
I cannot even begin to describe just how little substance there is to the piece except to say that it is remarkable similar to Obama’s presidency in that regard.
The column is a mix of historical references, only one of which – comparing Donald Trump to Herbert Hoover – actually fits. The evidence used to describe Obama as a candidate for one of the greatest presidents ever is… not “non-existent” so much as it is “non-relevant.”
What makes Obama great? Well, for one thing, the fact that he was charismatic:
Barack Obama will long be revered because he’s charismatic, presided over an economic revival, and changed and elevated the view of the presidency. He’s simply bigger than Bill.
Elevated the view of the presidency? Sure, for roughly half the country. The other half, he repeatedly spoke down to, dismissed, and ultimately completely overlooked as a direct threat to his own party.
The article has also decided that Obama was the “adult in the room” when the national mood was so sour and divisive…
Obama has a few other edges in the long haul of history, beyond specific hurrah moments like Obamacare, rescuing the economy, and making America way more bi-curious. Being the first black president of course secures a certain legacy. But what now feels distinctly possible is that, just as Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed, over time he may be judged less for the color of his skin than for the content of his character. That character came across every time haters or Trumpers or birthers tried to pull him down into the mud or question his American-ness. He just flew above it all. And, luckily, he took most of us with him. He was the Leader not only of our country but of our mood and disposition, which is harder to rule. At a time when we became more polarized, our discourse pettier and more poisoned, Obama always came across as the Adult in the Room, the one we wanted to be and follow.
…which is incredibly hilarious given that his first response to critique from Republicans was “I won” followed by a victory dance and flipping the bird to Republicans in Washington. He steadfastly referred to Republicans and conservatives as “the enemy,” dismissed them as people who bitterly cling to their guns and bibles, insulted and mocked Fox News and other conservative media, and decided to lecture the American public on numerous occasions when he didn’t get his way.
Victory: Trump Presser Sparks Infighting Among Liberal Media
After Donald Trump’s press conference yesterday in which he assailed the liberal media for publishing unsubstantiated claims and scurrilous charges against him, the liberal media are now arguing over who has the most legitimate story and who’s just ‘fake news’.
It’s descending into a circle firing squad.
Here’s more from Breitbart:
CNN has released a statement trying to distance their reports from BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unverifiable memos about president-elect Donald Trump.
Midday Tuesday, CNN tweeted a full statement from their Twitter account saying,
CNN’s decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than BuzzFeed’s decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using BuzzFeed’s decision to deflect from CNN’s reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organisations.
The statement continues,
We are fully confident in our reporting. It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects, informing the people of the inner workings of their government; in this case, briefing materials prepared for President Obama and President-elect Trump last week. We made it clear that we were not publishing any of the details of the 35-page document because we have not corroborated the report’s allegations.
The statement then poses a direct challenge to the transition team of President-elect Trump,
Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.
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Pitt Gets $11 Million from NIH to Lead Center of Excellence in National Big Data Research Consortium
The new Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery which will be part of an elite national team addressing the challenges of Big Data in biomedicine.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh an $11 million, 4-year grant to lead a Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, an initiative that will help scientists capitalize more fully on large amounts of available data and to make data science a more prominent component of biomedical research. McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Ivet Bahar, Ph.D. (pictured), Distinguished Professor and JK Vries Chair, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Pitt School of Medicine, is a co-director of the new Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery which will be part of an elite national team addressing the challenges of Big Data in biomedicine.
“As part of a national consortium, this Center of Excellence will put Pitt on the map as a home of Big Data science,” said Arthur S. Levine, M.D., senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the School of Medicine. “Our strengths in this field have stimulated collaborations with leading institutions, including Harvard and Stanford, and now we will be able to further develop such partnerships in many more meaningful ways.”
Much of science focuses on understanding the “why” or “how” in nature, and now the challenge is to find these answers within terabytes and petabytes of data, or what is now known as “Big Data,” said Gregory Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Pitt School of Medicine and co-director of the new Center.
“Individual biomedical researchers now have the technology to generate an enormous quantity and diversity of data. Adequately analyzing these data to discover new biomedical knowledge remains a major challenge, however,” Dr. Cooper said. “Our goal is to make it much easier for researchers to analyze big data to discover causal relationships in biomedicine.”
According to center co-director Jeremy Berg, Ph.D., associate senior vice chancellor for science strategy and planning in the health sciences and director of Pitt’s Institute for Personalized Medicine, researchers now have access to a tremendous amount of information from electronic health records, digital images, and molecular analyses of genes, proteins, and metabolites.
“The good news is that we have so much data. But the bad news is that we have so much data,” Dr. Berg said. “Our challenge is to find strategies that enable us to sort through all this collected information efficiently and effectively to find meaningful relationships that lead us to new insights in health and disease.”
A collaboration of researchers at Pitt, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and Yale University, the new Center will develop and disseminate tools that can find causal links in very large and complex biomedical data. Faculty in CMU’s Department of Philosophy, led by Clark Glymour, Ph.D., Alumni University Professor and founding chair, are key partners in this data science effort; and Nicholas Nystrom, Ph.D., director of strategic applications at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will work to optimize these tools for a high-performance computing environment.
The Center includes a team that will develop and implement causal modeling and discovery algorithms, or processes, to support the data analyses of three separate investigative groups, each focusing on a distinct biomedical problem whose answer lies in a sea of data: cell signals that drive the development of cancer, the molecular basis of lung disease susceptibility and severity, and the functional connections within the human brain (the “connectome”).
Each project will act as a test bed for the development, rigorous testing, and refinement of analytic tools. When successful, these algorithms and software likely can be applied to other biomedical research questions. The Center will provide free, open-source software that scientists all over the world can use with their own datasets to uncover causal biomedical relationships. Their feedback will further enhance the algorithms and software.
“The Center also will be a training ground for the next generation of data scientists who will advance and accelerate the development and broader use of Big Data science models and methods,” said Dr. Bahar. “We will create new educational materials as well as workshops and online tutorials to facilitate the use of causal modeling and discovery algorithms by the broader scientific community and to enable efficient translation of knowledge between basic biological and applied biomedical sciences.”
Other collaborators include the California Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, University of Crete, and the University of North Carolina.
“Data creation in today’s research is exponentially more rapid than anything we anticipated even a decade ago,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. “Mammoth data sets are emerging at an accelerated pace in today’s biomedical research and these funds will help us overcome the obstacles to maximizing their utility. The potential of these data, when used effectively, is quite astounding.”
Illustration: McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences Media Relations News Release (10/09/14)
Carnegie Mellon University News Release (10/09/14)
National Institutes of Health: FY14 Awards
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (10/09/14)
Pittsburgh Business Times (10/09/14)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (10/09/14)
Bio: Dr. Ivet Bahar
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The Seychelles Business Financial Authority (SBFA) has acted as a money channeling agency since its creation though it was created to encourage the growth of small enterprises. It was meant to provide concessionary loans to small businesses registered with SENPA. It did not do only that.
What it did was to grant loans to many people who never needed the loans in the first place. One very senior member of the National Assembly with big business did in fact benefit from a loan from the authority in 2013 and had not bothered to pay until the urgent question to be asked in reference to SBFA came to his attention. He paid up immediately.
There are also several suspicious accounts that have been written off which points directly to relatives of members of staff as well as persons closely related to the ruling party but worse of all is the CEO’S attitude towards staff. Not only did she position cameras in several offices to keep staff under constant surveillance, it is alleged she also incorporated listening devices to listen in to staff conversations. The proposed investigations into the affairs of SBFA should ensure that better control mechanisms are implemented in the future.
Seychelles Citizen Watch
BIG STORM; Seychelles has a $2.2 million property in New York!
Storms that swirled through North Castle, a town in Westchester county New York, hit a home under construction and collapsed last week. According to a local newspaper that is part of the USA today network, the property is owned by the nation of Seychelles. Land records show that the property was purchased by Seychelles in 2016 for more than $2.2 million.
North White Plains firefighters had responded to 1503 Old Orchard Street to make sure no one was inside the damaged house, which was being built on a 7.92-acre parcel. Strong winds may have hit the building and caused part of the roof to collapse, said Sara Carter, a representative of the U.S. Consul General for the Republic of Seychelles, which owns the property, according to North Castle town records. No one was hurt, she said.
More drama was to follow when Police officers responding to the building collapse on the Seychelles owned property found stolen goods; a caterpillar backhoe that was stolen from the town of Ossining. The caterpillar was reported stolen from Ossining on the morning of July 30. Officials with the Seychelles Consulate did not reply to emails seeking comment from the local newspaper.
Does the Seychelles really own the property or is someone using the good name of Seychelles to hide from paying taxes?
Source:https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/north-castle/2018/08/03/seychelles-home-north-castle-collapses/898065002/
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/ossining/2018/08/07/stolen-ossining-backhoe-found-seychelles-consulate-site/925017002/
BIG STORM; Seychelles has a $2.2 million property ...
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Mozilla is matching all donations to the Tor Project.
Firefox parent Mozilla is returning to back the Tor Project, its long-time ally, after it committed to matching all donations made to fund Tor, the open source initiative to improve online privacy which has just started its annual end of year funding drive.
Tor announced Mozilla’s support today, extending the pair’s partnership which last year helped Tor raise over $400,000 from a similar campaign last year. That is a small seed round for a tech startup, but it represents an important source of income for Tor, which began soliciting ‘crowdfunded’ donations in 2015 in a bid to offset its reliance on government grants.
The company’s latest publicly available accounts cover 2015 when Tor received a record $3.3 million in donations. That’s up from $2.5 million in 2014 and it represented Tor’s highest year of income to date, but state-related grants accounted for 86 percent of the figure. That was an improvement on previous years, but Tor Research Director and President Roger Dingledine admitted that the organization has “more work to do” to change that ratio.
Tor hasn’t made its latest (2016) financials available as of yet, but the past year has seen the organization make big leaps in its product offerings, which are still best known for being used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden . Tor launched its first official mobile browser for Android in September and the same month it released Tor Browser 8.0, its most usable browser yet which is based on Firefox’s 2017 Quantum structure. It is also worked closely with Mozilla to bring Tor into Firefox itself as it has already done with Brave, a browser firm led by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich.
Beyond the browser and the Tor network itself, which is designed to minimize the potential for network surveillance, the organization also develops a range of other projects. Around two million people are estimated to use Tor, according to data from the organization.
“The Tor Project has a bold mission: to take a stand against invasive and restrictive online practices and bring privacy and freedom to internet users around the world. But we can’t do it alone,” Sarah Stevenson, who is fundraising director at the Tor Foundation, wrote in a blog post.
“Countries like Egypt and Venezuela have tightened restrictions on free expression and accessing the open web; companies like Google and Amazon are mishandling people’s data and growing the surveillance economy; and some nations are even shutting off the internet completely to quell possible dissidence,” she added.
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Last updated on April 5, 2017 By Social Career Builder
Robert Litzinger
Robert Litzinger is a sales and marketing professional with former experience as a technician in the United States Air Force.
Work and business have always been a major part of life for Robert Litzinger. When he was just a kid of twelve years old, he began developing his entrepreneurial spirit, working as much as he could and developing his own business strategies for landscaping and other handy work. He spent as much time as he could working throughout high school finding his passions and learning all about the business world.
After high school, Robert Litzinger went on to join the United States Air Force where he served from 1991 to 1995. During his time with the Air Force he gained a long list of valuable skills throughout his training and work experience.
Along with attending the Community College of the Air Force for two years, Robert Litzinger also completed Total Quality Management (TQM) Training and TQM Teams and Tools Training. Additionally, he became forklift and crane certified and was also trained in the use of Simpson, Bonding, Fluke, and Liquid Flow meters.
His roles and responsibilities in the United States Air Force included:
341st Missile Squadron Tool Crib Supply Specialist
ICBM Nuclear System Technician
Electromechanical Maintenance Technician
Upon completing his service in the Air Force, Robert Litzinger began to focus his attention on a career in sales and marketing. He started out working for ProCraft Carstar as a Marketing Director where he successfully delivered personalized services to a wide range of clients. He then went on to work with Ford Motor Company as an Assistant Fleet Manager where he always maintained a very high personal customer service score.
No matter what is professional role, Robert Litzinger has always been passionate about working with and making connections with people. He has even taken on this concept as an active volunteer in his community, serving others and adding a positive impact on the world wherever possible.
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The Best Sites Online for Music Streaming
Online music streaming and can be a quick and efficient method for getting your music out there for listeners to enjoy. Many speculate that streaming is the future of music consumption. Statistics already show a rising number of streaming site subscribers while digital downloads, album and single alike, are declining fast. There are a growing number of great streaming sites out there to choose from on the web. Lets take a look at a few!
Grooveshark
Grooveshark is an overall great music streaming site. You can search for almost any song and create a playlist, just as on an iPod, with the same playback options. Its only fault is that sometimes the site will freeze and your playlist is lost.
Spotify is one of the best known music streaming sites out there. It has a catalog of over 20 million songs available for listening. Besides creating a playlist or listening to one album, you can also use Spotify’s radio option. This feature will choose music related to the original artists you were listening to and create a unique playlist for you. You can subscribe to their premium plan to get an ad-free version as well as higher quality tracks.
This music streaming site takes the personal playlist to a whole new level. You can choose a song and then Pandora will create a custom radio station of similar music. It works really well the recommendations for music selections are usually good choices based on the song you picked. With their premium service you can get rid of the ads and download a desktop app.
Google Play is another great option for music streaming. You can choose from over 20 million songs to listen to. This streaming service is great when it comes to mobile listening options so you are not restricted to listening to music from your desktop.
Mixcloud has a bit of different collection of music than the other music streaming services mentioned. They have a large collection of DJ mixes, podcasts and longer audio format recordings. It is great for listening to background music for long periods of time.
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It was not hard to foresee the domino effect which followed the horrific attacks in Paris last month. Just by scrolling through social media or reading the first political responses, one could see that the downward spiral of terror, war and death was about to accelerate. The rhetoric of war and evil was employed straight away by Western leaders; Islamophobic statements and hasty associations of the attacks with Syrian refugees dominated the media landscape. Far-right groups throughout Europe were probably rubbing their hands together.
Soon after the attacks Francois Hollande vowed to lead a pitiless war and President Obama affirmed that the US would stand together with France and do whatever it takes to fight against terrorism and extremism. Meanwhile, the Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, said that the Netherlands is at war with Isis, and David Cameron expressed his conviction that Britain should expand its air strikes in Syria.
France, Britain and the US were already engaged in carrying out attacks against ISIS. So why are the leaders now ramping up the rhetoric of war in their statements? What is the purpose behind this? Their selection of words aims to influence public opinion and persuade people that acts of war are now inevitable, necessary and urgent in order to protect our safety. The leaders also want to give the impression that attacks against ISIS have a legal basis.
Soon after the Paris attacks, France, along with US forces, expanded military action against ISIS, carrying out massive air strikes in Raqqa, Syria – one of the most important Isis strongholds. France invoked Article 47/2 of the EU Treaty, an article on common security and defence which states that all Member States are obliged to assist another Member State if it has been the victim of armed aggression, using all available means in their power. On Wednesday 2 December, the majority of the British Parliament voted in favour of carrying out air strikes against Isis in Syria, joining the efforts of France, the US and Russia. Two days later, German MPs voted to join the military campaign against Isis by sending air, land and naval support. It is sad to see that the EU is actually at war.
At this point, it is important to understand that the collective decision to respond to the threat of ISIS by military means, coupled with the failure to adopt a clear and comprehensive strategy for addressing the most compelling aspects of the problem, is likely to have drastic consequences.
Recent history (and logic, for that matter) can teach us that war is definitely not the answer. It is unwise to treat ISIS as the root of the evil of terrorism, because it simply is not. Ideas and especially ideologies do not exist autonomously; they are by-products of the reality in which people exist. Imperialist intervention along with corrupt regimes and climate change are the roots of the evil – the factors that created, fed and nurtured sectarian ideologies and ultimately ISIS. It is of vital importance to take past events into consideration and avoid denying responsibility when attempting to find a solution to dealing with ISIS. War has been a major cause of the problem, so why do we even consider war as a solution now? Moreover, is it ever possible to destroy an ideology with air strikes and weapons? Especially when this ideology has already spread widely outside the area being targeted?
So what are the likely consequences of an intensified “war on terror”? Bombing and killing members of ISIS will probably contribute to the empowerment of their ideology inside and outside the Middle East. A strategy that involves killing people and destroying houses and infrastructure in regions which have already been devastated is likely to reinforce people’s perception of the ugly face of the West and turn dead ISIS members into martyrs or heroes who risked their lives and fought against the cruel invaders. Indeed it is likely to facilitate ISIS’s recruitment of new members. Finally, in the unlikely event of ISIS being destroyed, this war would inevitably lead to the birth of new extremist groups.
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Gottinger, P. Beyond the Hysteria of Vangeance: to defeat ISIS, End the ‘war on terror’, Counter Punch. Available from: http://bit.ly/1NZSoJL [17 November 2015]
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Donald J. Trump continued an inaugural tradition after he was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. With his wife, Melania Trump, at his side, he stepped out of their limousine and took a brief stroll along Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday to wave at crowds during the inaugural parade. The walk has been an informal custom since 1977, when President Jimmy Carter became the first to set out by foot for more than a mile on the route to the White House. “Once somebody does something innovative, it becomes a tradition,” Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, said during a telephone interview. “There is a desire to show that they are a people’s president, and in that moment of a ceremony, when so many people are gathered to watch, they want the people to feel they are going to be part of it.” The decision whether to walk during the parade is apparently left to the new president, presumably with input from the Secret Service and other advisers.
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S&P Global assigns Uzbekistan ‘BB-’ long-term and ‘B’ short-term ratings with stable outlook
The agency said that Uzbekistan has embarked on a rapid process of economic modernization and integration with the rest of the world, utilizing its strong net external and fiscal asset positions in the process.
“We expect both positions to weaken through to 2022, but remain relatively strong in a global context. During the same period, we forecast continued progress with institutional and economic reforms, which should ultimately strengthen governance and expand the production capacity of the economy. We are affirming our ‘BB-’ long-term and ‘B’ short-term issuer credit ratings with a stable outlook,” the agency noted.
“The stable outlook reflects our expectation that, over the next year, Uzbekistan’s fiscal and external positions will remain strong but decline slightly, due to current account deficits and government borrowing,” S&P Global added.
“We could raise the ratings if Uzbekistan’s increased integration with the global economy and government reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) result in increased growth potential and resiliency for the economy. We could also raise the ratings if monetary policy effectiveness were to improve, for example through a decline in dollarization of the economy. Further diversification of the government’s revenue base or the composition of the economy’s exports would also be supportive of the ratings,” the agency said in a statement.
“We could lower the ratings if Uzbekistan’s integration with the world economy were to result in a significant deterioration in the fiscal and external balance sheets. This could be due to imports remaining elevated and current account deficits continuing to be funded by debt-creating flows and asset drawdowns. We could also lower the ratings if we observed increasing weakness in key SOEs, leading to growing contingent liabilities for the government,” S&P Global underlined.
“Our ratings on Uzbekistan are supported by the external creditor position of the economy and the government’s low debt burden. These strengths predominately arise from the government’s net asset position, which stems from the policy of transferring some revenue from commodity sales to the Uzbekistan Fund for Reconstruction and Development (UFRD),” the agency said.
“Our ratings are constrained by Uzbekistan’s low economic wealth, as measured by GDP per capita. In our view, future policy responses may be difficult to predict, given the highly centralized decision-making process and the relatively undeveloped accountability and checks and balances between institutions. Our ratings are also constrained by low monetary policy flexibility,” it noted.
Institutional and economic profile: Broad-based policy reforms have improved institutions and opened up the economy, but from a low base.
The authorities began a process of economic reforms in 2017 aimed at modernizing the economy, but challenges--such as SOE sector reforms and increasing foreign direct investment--remain. Progress with institutional reforms is also continuing but we expect decision-making to remain centralized despite improvements to governance.
GDP per capita remains low, at an estimated $1,800 in 2019, but we expect real GDP growth to remain relatively strong, averaging just over 5% over our forecast period to 2022, S&P Global stated.
“The government of Uzbekistan has initiated a series of broad-based policy reforms, including attempts to increase the independence of the judiciary, remove some restrictions on free expression, and increase the government’s accountability to its citizens. Changes have also included the implementation of an anti-corruption law, an increase in transparency regarding economic data, and the liberalization of trade and the foreign exchange regimes. Relationships with neighbors have also greatly improved, shown by increased co-operation in border demarcation with Kyrgyzstan and improvements in transportation links with Kazakhstan and Tajikistan,” the agency underlined.
“Notwithstanding the positive trend in strengthening institutions, in our view, Uzbekistan is starting from a low base. We believe that decision-making will remain highly centralized in the hands of the president, making future policy responses more difficult to predict. We observe that checks and balances between institutions remain weak. In addition, uncertainty over any future succession remains, despite the relatively smooth transfer of power to President Mirziyoyev,” S&P Global said.
“Further reforms began recently in the SOE, minerals, and utilities sectors, notably with the creation of the Ministry of Energy, which will have regulatory purview over the oil, gas, and electricity sectors. We believe reforms in the SOE sector could coincide with reforms in the banking sector, given their interconnected nature. At the beginning of 2019, the simplified tax system went into effect and in December 2018 the government issued local currency treasury bonds for fiscal purposes and to develop the nascent domestic financial markets,” S&P Global added.
“Over our forecast period through 2022, we expect real GDP growth to average just over 5%, supported by growth in the services, manufacturing, and natural resources sectors. The construction sector is a small but growing part of GDP. The economy has been government-led for many years, and is still dependent on SOEs, which contribute a large share of GDP,” S&P Global stated.
“Nevertheless, successful reforms of the SOE sectors, including modernizing their operations and bringing them to cost recovery levels, could lead to increased growth potential for Uzbekistan. The country has a significant endowment of natural resources, including large reserves of diverse commodities, the export of which has supported past current account surpluses. Globally, the country is one of the top 20 producers of natural gas, gold, copper, and uranium,” it said.
“Attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) is a priority for the government. Currently, FDI inflows are low and concentrated in the extractive industries, particularly natural gas. If government reforms attract more FDI, this would reduce the debt-financing of the current account balance and help to preserve the government’s large external asset position,” S&P Global underlined.
“In 2018, credit to the economy expanded by about 50%, well above nominal GDP growth. Although we expect elevated credit growth due to the pent-up investment needs of the economy, sustained high credit growth can result in asset bubbles and less conservative bank lending practices. Such outcomes could weaken our long-term assessment of the economy,” the agency said.
“Uzbekistan’s population is young, with almost 90% at or below working age, which presents an opportunity for labor supply-led growth. However, it will remain a challenge for job growth to match demand. Despite steady growth, GDP per capita remains low, at about $1,800 at year-end 2019, but is higher when measured on a purchasing-power-parity basis,” S&P Global added.
S&P Global expects the current account to remain in deficit, averaging about 6% of GDP over the forecast period, to meet the consumption and investment demands of the more outward-facing economy.
The government’s debt burden will remain low despite ongoing fiscal deficits, averaging about 3.5% of GDP over the forecast period.
“High dollarization, which may only decrease as confidence in the domestic currency increases, continues to hamper monetary policy effectiveness. We do not expect single-digit inflation within our forecast horizon through to 2022,” S&P Global said.
“The current account opened up more than anticipated in 2018, with a deficit of about 7% of GDP. This was the result of increased capital goods imports and wider statistical coverage of previously informal sectors of the economy. We expect the current account balance to average a deficit of about 6% over our forecast period to fulfill the economy’s need for the capital goods and high technology goods required to modernize. Additionally, consumer goods imports should remain elevated, given the increased ease of trade,” the agency underlined.
“Better trade relations with neighbors should boost Uzbekistan’s exports, especially agricultural goods. However, exports remain heavily dependent on commodities, with gold, other metals, and natural gas making up approximately 50%. Remittances and income from abroad are an important component of Uzbekistan’s current account, given the large number of Uzbeks working abroad, particularly in Russia,” the agency added.
S&P Global expects sustained current account deficits to mean liquid external assets exceed external debt by about 6% of current account payments on average over the forecast period, compared with 28% in 2017.
“In our view, the economy’s external balance sheet will remain strong. We estimate our measure of external liquidity (gross external financing needs to current account receipts, plus usable reserves) to be relatively modest at 97%, because of the long-dated nature of the economy’s external debt and high level of reserves,” S&P Global added.
“We include in our estimate of the central bank’s reserve assets its significant holdings of monetary gold. The central bank is the sole purchaser of gold mined in Uzbekistan. It purchases the gold with local currency then sells dollars in the local market to offset the increase in reserves from the gold. We do not include UFRD assets in the central bank’s reserve assets but instead consider them government external assets, because we view them as fiscal reserves,” the agency said.
“We expect the government’s fiscal balance to remain in a deficit of about 2% of GDP over the forecast period. We anticipate the government will increase social spending on areas such as education and health care, but we also expect an increase in capital expenditure, given the economy’s infrastructure needs. Currently, wages make up the largest component of expenditure, at over 50%. The government implemented tax reforms in 2019. The reforms simplified the tax code and lowered some tax rates. Although this may help expand the tax base and increase collection rates, we believe initially it could lead to weaker revenue,” S&P Global underlined.
“We estimate the general government sector will be in a net debt position by year-end 2020. Government assets, used for both domestic fiscal and external purposes declined in 2018. We estimate government assets will average about 18% of GDP over our forecast period. The government’s assets are mostly kept in the UFRD. Founded in 2006, and initially funded with capital injections from the government, the UFRD has received revenue from gold, copper, and gas sales above certain cut-off prices. We include only the external portion of UFRD assets in our estimate of the government’s net asset position because we view the domestic portion--which consists of loans to SOEs and capital injections to banks--as largely illiquid,” the statement reads.
“The government issued a $1 billion eurobond in February 2019 and issued its first local currency treasury bonds since 2012 in December 2018. We estimate general government debt at $13.6 billion (22% of GDP) at year-end 2019. Besides the eurobond, most debt is split roughly equally between official bilateral and multilateral creditors. General government debt is almost all external and denominated in foreign currency, making it susceptible to exchange rate movements. In our estimate of general government debt, we include external debt of SOEs guaranteed by the government, due to the closeness of the government to the SOEs and the ongoing support for the SOEs from the government. General government debt service is low, due to its concessional nature. We estimate interest payments at 1% of revenue on average over our forecast period,” it underlined.
“In addition to the SOE’s external debt that we include in our definition of general government debt, the government also guarantees about $4.5 billion (11.5% of GDP) of foreign-currency-denominated but domestically-held debt of SOEs. These loans are from the UFRD and we consider this government expenditure. As reforms on SOEs begin, if it becomes apparent that sizable government financial support will be necessary, we could reconsider our assessment of contingent liabilities,” S&P Global said.
“One of the most significant economic reforms that Uzbekistan has made was the liberalization of the exchange rate regime in September 2017 from a crawling peg, over-valued in comparison with the black market rate, to a managed float. Although we believe the central bank initially intervened heavily in the foreign exchange market, it now only intervenes intermittently to smooth volatility. The relatively short track record of the float constrains our assessment of monetary flexibility, as does our perception of the potential for political interference in the central bank’s decision-making. Our assessment of monetary policy is also constrained by high inflation and the high dollarization of the economy, which limits the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission mechanisms. Positively, the central bank is moving toward inflation targeting, but we expect this transition will take a few years,” the agency said.
“We expect inflation to remain above 10% for our forecast period and to average 15% over 2019. Despite the effects of the September 2017 currency devaluation having mostly worked through the economy, inflation should remain high. More open trade policies have allowed domestic prices to move toward regional and international prices, putting inflationary pressure on domestic goods. Growth in public sector wages and the liberalization of regulated prices should also add to inflationary pressure over the forecast period. We note that in September 2018, in response to these inflationary pressures, the central bank raised its refinancing rate to 16%. We expect monetary policy to remain tight,” the agency concluded.
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The Price Of Kings: Shimon Peres
Joanna Natasegara
Richard Symons
Helena Bonham Carter (narrator)
“A melancholic portrait about a man’s dream and its shattering.” – Jerusalem International Film Festival 2012
“I don’t sleep at night… what we call experience, the younger generation calls a chain of mistakes.” Shimon Peres, Israeli President.
Shimon Peres: the last of the founders of Israel, architect of their nuclear programme, twice Prime Minister and current President… now the subject of a groundbreaking documentary that reveals the human sacrifice required of political leadership. “We discovered a heavily conflicted man, almost the embodiment of the state he was instrumental in building” say UK filmmakers Joanna Natasegara and Richard Symons. Narrated by actor Helena Bonham Carter, CBE, the viewer is granted unprecedented access to Peres and his inner circle – including Peres’ granddaughter and former Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei – as he discloses the challenges of establishing peace, maintaining family life under a constant threat of assassination and building a nation.
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The Canadian Report
A weekly summary of news from the syndicated newspaper/web column, The Canadian Report, by Jim Fox.
Greetings to thousands of readers the past month from the United States and Canada, as well as the United Kingdom, Russia, India, Germany, France, Japan and Latvia.
Interest rate hikes make living costs more for most Canadians
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By Jim Fox
Canadians are paying more for variable rate mortgages and lines of credit as the central bank raised its key interest rates over free trade concerns.
The Bank of Canada upped the rate by 0.25 percent to 1.5 percent, the fourth increase in a year as the economy heats up with strong employment gains.
Canada’s major banks followed by increasing their prime-lending rates one quarter of a point to 3.7 percent.
Bank Governor Stephen Poloz said the increase was prompted by “the various uncertainties we face” with trade tensions the biggest issue for the country.
As for U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, there could be difficulties for some industries and workers but “the effect of these measures on Canadian growth and inflation is expected to be modest,” he said.
Toronto will boost its night shift of front-line police officers by 200 through the summer in an effort to reduce gun violence.
Police Chief Mark Saunders said officers will be sent to areas needing them by “strategic deployment.”
As well, Mayor John Tory said there will be additional community programs to help at-risk youth.
This year there have been 26 deaths and 79 people injured, up from 16 and 70 in 2017.
The $3-million cost for added officers will be covered by the Ontario government with additional assistance from the federal and city governments.
News in brief:
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Stock markets are mixed, with the Toronto exchange index up at 16,561 points while the TSX Venture index is lower at 725 points.
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Miss Somebody: We speak with Ania Mucha
Ania Mucha has acted in numerous films, including Panna Nikt, Młode Wilki, and the series Matki, żony i kochanki. She also had an Englishspeaking role in Steven Spielberg' s acclaimed Schindler' s List. She spoke to Monika Jaworska about her life, her films and how the English language influences her career.
M.J.: How did you start acting?
A. Mucha: In 1989 a friend heard about a casting for Andrzej Wajda' s film Korczak. I went with him to give him support. While I was waiting, a woman came up to me and said," Why don' t you take part in the casting, too?" That' s how it all started. A week later I had a phonecall and I' d got the part.
Schindler' s List is the most famous film you have acted in. How did it go?
I liked Steven Spielberg, and the film definitely helped my English. I had to pass a short exam and there was an English teacher who taught me to say some sentences. After we finished filming, we went to London to record the sound. I said only one or two sentences in the movie, but I had contact with Spielberg and had to understand what he said. I learned a lot there. I also met Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and other members of the cast. I had the opportunity to get familiar with new techniques and new technology. Compared to Polish movies there were never problems with money, and it was marvellous not being limited to such a constraint.
What do you think made Młode Wilki so popular?
I think because such a movie hadn' t been made in Poland before. The characters in the film were something new and different. Suddenly they become idols for women, and role models for guys. The actors were all young and independent - fresh from the street. That' s why the film gained so much recognition. The second part, Młode Wilki 1/2, was even more popular than the first, which seems amazing.
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Home Torah Parsha Other Side Of The Bench: No Noise Is Good News
Other Side Of The Bench: No Noise Is Good News
There is news and there is noise. There are newsmakers and there are noisemakers. There are contrary opinions amongst individuals and groups, and then there are people who just want to be contrary.
In our weekly Torah reading the last few weeks, we have been introduced to two individuals, Pinchas and Korach. In introducing Pinchas to us, the Torah traces his genealogy all the way back to the high priest, none other than Moshe Rabbeinu’s brother, Aharon HaKohen.
One would expect, therefore, that, in a similar fashion, in introducing Korach to us the Torah would list his genealogy all the way back to his most illustrious relative, our forefather Yaakov. But the Torah does not, and we are left to wonder why.
Why does the Torah tell us that Pinchas descends from the righteous Aharon HaKohen, which is an obvious effort to elevate Pinchas, but does not seek to elevate Korach in a similar fashion by tracing his lineage all the way back to his most holy relative, our forefather Yaakov?
By tracing Pinchas’s lineage to the saintly Aharon, the Torah is giving us insight into Pinchas’s motivation. Just as Aharon was the ambassador and emissary of peace, so was Pinchas. Even when Pinchas engaged in a questionable activity of warfare and revenge, the Torah was telling us that his motives were as pure as those of his grandfather Aharon.
Aharon was a newsmaker, not a noisemaker, and that was true of Pinchas as well.
Korach was different. He found fault in everything and in everyone. His attacks were not principled; they were motivated by jealousy. Had the Torah traced his genealogy all the way back to his great-great-grandfather Yaakov, one might conclude that Korach’s actions in challenging the authority and legitimacy of the ruling power of Moshe and Aharon were pure like all of the actions of his ancestor Yaakov. By stopping the genealogical tracing short of Yaakov, the Torah was exposing that Korach’s motives were not pure. Korach was the ultimate noisemaker, not a newsmaker. Korach was the originator of fake news.
If President Trump would discover the cure for cancer through research on mice, the headline on most news outlets would be that the president is a mouse-killer. When one objects to everything, he stands for nothing. The incessant attack and spin and selective reporting by the left, leftists, and liberal supporters and leaders have rendered them noisemakers rather than newsmakers. The news services have rendered themselves unwatchable and therefore irrelevant. One has to hope that the average American can sense the difference between policy and jealousy, between news and noise, between a Korach and a Pinchas.
Yet the country is almost evenly divided. It is frightening to reckon that almost half the country opts for noise over news, which renders our job of supporting newsmakers and exposing such noisemakers so much more of an imperative.
Iran’s economy has been brought to its knees and the worst deal of the century has been scrapped. North Korea hasn’t fired off a missile in months, and Russia and the United States have proven a singular commitment to Israel’s security on the northern front. Check the history books for the last time that has happened.
Black unemployment is at its lowest rate ever and the stock market is booming. The United States has rid itself of terrible trade deals that created an economic imbalance. The list goes on, and any serious person can complete it.
And yet the media reporting is dominated by reports of election meddling (probably true) and of Trump colluding with the Russians which, after two years, has not been proven and will probably never be proven. The media reports and the news are not news at all. It is noise that aims to deafen the voter to the truth.
In such an environment, where noise is left to fester in place of news, startup politicians with zero experience and even less knowledge get elected. This is true for the very liberals that are creating the noise in the first place. Democrats like Joe Crowley are losing to absolute know-nothings in their own primaries. “Just keep moving left” is their own mantra — and they are losing their own jobs.
There is a lot of work to be done by the right to get their house in order. All is not well with the conservatives. But the left is teetering on destroying civility and accuracy in the political debate and, in the process, placing its own positions in jeopardy.
It is difficult to break old alliances, but those of you out there who still believe that liberal American politics is still good for our country, for Jews in our country, and for the state of Israel should spend just one news cycle listening to the rhetoric from the old guard of the Democratic Party which is being pushed to the left by the new-age new wave of upstarts in the Democratic Party. It is frightening. It is noise. It is loud noise devoid of any real news. It is taking a page from the story of Korach, who was the ultimate rabble-rouser.
It is not too early to sound the alarm; it is not too early to expose the hypocrisy and bias of the left. It is not too early — in fact, it is getting late — to expose the utter lack of knowledge of world affairs of some of the upstarts who now hold positions of power in the Democrat party.
Our future as Americans, as Jewish Americans, and as lovers and defenders of Israel, hangs in the balance.
It is time to embrace news and reject noise.
David Seidemann is a partner with the law firm of Seidemann and Mermelstein and serves as a professor of business law at Touro College. He can be reached at 718-692-1013 or ds@lawofficesm.com.
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Home Judaism/Spirituality The Darchei Torah January 11 Honorees
The Darchei Torah January 11 Honorees
Yoav Taub
By Benzion Kaplan
Mr. and Mrs. Yoav Taub, Guests of Honor. Yoav and Shari Taub, devoted parents and supporters of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, have a long and rich history of askanus in the Far Rockaway/Lawrence community.
In 2000, Yoav was a founding member of what is now the yeshiva’s board of directors. The formation of the board came at a critical time in the yeshiva’s history. Student enrollment was growing at an unprecedented pace and the need for a new, larger building was first coming into focus. Yoav and his colleagues, a cohesive group of young fathers, rose to the challenge and helped set the yeshiva on the course that it is on today.
Shari was born into a family of pioneers in communal leadership. Her parents, Dovid and Krunchie Friedman, were among the earliest supporters and lay-leaders of Yeshiva Darchei Torah in the early 1970s, back when it was a fledgling institution, and remain involved today. Her brothers, Shaya and Tzvi, are proud alumni, and her sister, Chava Lowy, heads Plum, the yeshiva’s upscale thrift store, so Yeshiva Darchei Torah is very much a family affair. In addition, her maternal grandfather, Louis Newman, a’h, was one of the first frum Jews to move with his family to Far Rockaway, where he left his imprint on numerous community institutions, from the White Shul to Torah Academy for Girls (TAG)–both of which he served with distinction as president.
Yoav, son of Shlomo, a’h, and, ybl’c, Chani Taub, was raised in Kew Gardens Hills, and is an alumnus of Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe, Ner Israel, and Mir Yerushalayim. He holds an MBA from New York University and has been in the diamond business for the last 18 years.
Shortly after their marriage, the Taubs settled in Lawrence, and they were eventually followed by Yoav’s brothers, J.J. and Moshe, as well as his sister, Avigayil Stoll. The extended Taub family soon made its mark on the Five Towns, with its energetic support of Torah causes and communal mosdos.
Yoav and Shari daven and are highly active at Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid in Lawrence, which they describe as “a very central part of our lives,” with Yoav serving as gabbai and maintaining his daily morning and evening learning sedarim there. “Whatever good we have accomplished has been through the shul,” he says.
The Taubs are very proud of their sons: Volvi, an alumnus, and Avigdor, a current talmid; both were talmidim of Yeshiva Darchei Torah since early elementary school. “The way my sons have progressed in their learning has amazed me,” Yoav relates. “They’ve far surpassed me already.” After hearing one of his sons give a chaburah last year at the yeshiva, Yoav said he was floored. He is gratified that each one of his siblings also has children learning at Yeshiva Darchei Torah and gaining from its unique brand of chinuch.
Yoav lauds the extraordinary beinadaml’chaveiro exhibited by the yeshiva’s talmidim. “To see how the boys relate to each other, without bickering, with a certain maturity–it’s very impressive.” He attributes the yeshiva’s success to its hanhalah and to the warm and personal environment that they have created. “To have such a large yeshiva that has 2,000 students yet is so warm is a dichotomy–yet it exists so perfectly. That fosters great talmidim.”
Mr. and Mrs. Eytan Feldman, Parents of the Year. Eytan and Aliza Feldman of Woodmere are the proud parents of Akiva, a third-grader at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and four daughters. Eytan is a managing director and partner at Old City Investment Partners. Aliza is an occupational therapist and focuses on early intervention for children under the age of three, and she is also a supervisor of other therapists.
Eytan Feldman
In October 2013, Eytan agreed to serve on the executive board of the Yeshiva and has quickly assumed an active role in addressing its fiscal health and assessing its current and future capital and operational needs. He is also a committed member of the board of the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns, where he davens and learns daily.
Eytan has always felt a sense of achrayus to the Klal, which he attributes to two primary role models. The first is his father, Norman Feldman, who together with his mother, Nedra, instilled this sense of responsibility in their son. His father was in charge of the eiruv of the Oceanside community, where they lived. Many a Friday afternoon saw the elder Mr. Feldman fixing downed portions of the eiruv–usually with Eytan in tow. Around thirty years ago, his father ran the annual bazaar of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, and it became a Feldman family affair, from preparing the cotton candy to other aspects of the fundraising event. These examples instilled in Eytan that it is not only important to be involved in klal functions, but to take an active leadership role as well.
In addition, during the three years that Eytan spent learning at Ner Israel in Baltimore, he developed a close relationship with its legendary president, Rabbi Herman (Naftoli) Neuberger, zt’l. “That’s what he was all about: achrayus for the Jewish people,” Eytan recalls. “He was a real leader. Watching him, I developed a greater sense of the importance of being involved and showing your support for Torah institutions.” While at Ner Israel, Eytan learned under Rav Zvi Berkowitz, shlita, with whom he remains close until today. He also studied in kollel at Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah-Grodno in Kew Gardens, and earned a MBA in finance from Fordham University.
Aliza is involved in chesed every day, having chosen a career of working with special-needs children. She is a well-respected clinician, both by the families she works with and her peers. She has instilled this value into her own children as well. One of Eytan and Aliza’s daughters, Michal, is a volunteer at Ohel Bais Ezra. Aliza attributes her love and passion for helping others improve their lives to her mother, Shaindy Schumsky, who as a respected psychotherapist has devoted her life to helping others, and who infused this value into her from an early age with her involvement in kiruv and other community causes.
Eytan Feldman is effusive in describing his family’s experience at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. “Akiva loves Darchei. He loves everything about it. He loves his rebbeim, he loves his teachers, he loves his friends, he loves being there. There’s nothing about school that he doesn’t like. And I can attest that his friends from the neighborhood feel the same way. I can’t imagine a more ideal situation.”
Serving on the executive board, Eytan reflects on what he has gleaned from his inside vantage point. “Rabbi Bender is well-known for his leadership. But one thing that you see when watching him is the love that he exudes. For a person who’s been in this position for over 30 years you would think that at some point it would become routine. On the contrary, you can see that the concern and care that he puts in has truly not abated. I am amazed at the scope of the yeshiva and how he is able to accomplish so much.”
The other honorees are Mr. and Mrs. Yumi Kleinbart, Hakoras Hatov Award; Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe Lubart, Harbotzas Torah Award; Mr. and Mrs. Yossi Preiserowicz, Alumnus of the Year; and the Mesivta Chaim Shlomo Class of 2000, in celebration of 15 years of accomplishment.
For more information about the dinner, please call 718-868-2300, ext. 237, e-mail dinner@darchei.org or visit www.darchei.org/dinner.
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Valerie’s House Announces Opioid Grief Support Group for Children
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New support group to meet growing number of community losses through overdose
FORT MYERS, Fla.–-Valerie’s House, Inc., a Southwest Florida nonprofit helping grieving children work through the loss of a loved one, announces a new support group for children and families who have had a family member die due to the growing opioid crisis in Southwest Florida. The Opioid Family Grief Support Group will run 12 sessions long, held every other Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., starting April 29, at Valerie’s House located at 1762 Fowler Street in Fort Myers, Florida.
Guest speakers representing the Lee County Sheriff’s Office as well as those in the addiction treatment field will participate. In addition, a national speaker who has had a loved one die from a drug overdose will meet with the children. Area social workers will lead the sessions while volunteer ‘buddies” will assist where needed and provide care and compassion to the Valerie’s House children.
“The greatest fear for these families is that their children will also be drawn to drugs, either by way of coping or because they are curious as to what they witnessed when their loved one was addicted,” said Angela Melvin, CEO and founder of Valerie’s House. “The curriculum we use for this group will discuss those fears and work with children and their caregivers so they don’t follow in the footsteps of their deceased loved one.”
The Valerie’s House Opioid Grief Support Group is open to anyone in the community who is raising a child after the loss of a loved one due to drug abuse. The group is one of several different support groups Valerie’s House offers to help children grieving.
Families interested in participating in the Opioid Grief Support Group or if you wish to volunteer, please contact Laura Romig, Director of Care and Compassion, at (239) 841-9186 or laura@valerieshouseswfl.org.
ABOUT VALERIE’S HOUSE
Since 2015, Valerie’s House has provided grief services to over 300 children and their families from Lee, Collier, Charlotte and Sarasota counties at its Fort Myers and Naples locations. As the first program of its kind in Southwest Florida focusing only on children, Valerie’s House provides a safe, comfortable place for children to bond, grieve and heal following death of a close family member. The organization’s vision is that no child will grieve alone. Valerie’s House is a United Way Partner Agency and is fully supported through generous donations from the community. For more information, visit www.valerieshouseswfl.org.
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The French massacred a bunch of people in Paris in 1961
May 30, 2013 September 2, 2013 Anya
The French massacred a bunch of people in Paris in 1961, and everyone forgot because they covered it up
“The Paris massacre of 1961 was a massacre in Paris on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French police attacked a demonstration of some 30,000 pro-FLN Algerians. Two months before, FLN had decided to increase the bombing in France and to resume the campaign against the pro-France Algerians and the rival Algerian nationalist organization called MNA in France. After 37 years of denial, the French government acknowledged 40 deaths in 1998, although there are estimates of over 200.
The 17 October 1961 massacre appears to have been intentional, as has been demonstrated by historian Jean-Luc Einaudi, who won a trial against Maurice Papon in 1999 — the latter was convicted in 1998 on charges of crimes against humanity for his role under the Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II. Official documentation and eyewitnesses within the Paris police department indeed suggest that the massacre was directed by Maurice Papon. Police records show that Papon called for officers in one station to be ‘subversive’ in quelling the demonstrations, and assured them protection from prosecution if they participated. Many demonstrators died when they were violently herded by police into the River Seine, with some thrown from bridges after being beaten unconscious. Other demonstrators were killed within the courtyard of the Paris police headquarters after being arrested and delivered there in police buses. Officers who participated in the courtyard killings took the precaution of removing identification numbers from their uniforms, while senior officers ignored pleas by other policemen who were shocked when witnessing the brutality. Silence about the events within the police headquarters was further enforced by threats of reprisals from participating officers.
Forty years later, Bertrand Delanoë, member of the Socialist Party (PS) and Mayor of Paris, put a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on the Saint-Michel bridge on 17 October 2001. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear, but estimates range from 70 to 200 people. In the absence of official estimates, the placard which commemorates the massacre stated: “”In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961″”. On 18 February 2007 (the day after Papon’s death), calls were made for a Paris Métro station under construction in Gennevilliers to be named “”17 Octobre 1961″” in commemoration of the massacre.”
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TDATS #128: Sweet Home Birmingham, Alabama
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128: Sweet Home Birmingham, Alabama [Vintage Birmingham Alabama] by Rich Aftersabbath
Many thanks to Garagehangover.com
We all know Birmingham UK was a hotbed for hard rock and heavy metal, with the likes of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, so the obvious question (to me at least hehe) is, what about Birmingham, Alabama, USA? As a bit of fun, this has unearthed some cool records and here's the best selection I could come up with!
Alabama, along with all the south-east states, is deeply involved in the history of Southern rock and American rock. Although the city of Birmingham itself didn't throw up any internationally-famous bands, it had a thriving music scene. Formative bands in the '50s and '60s were garage bands like The Ramrods and The Vikings. Two are included here with a pair of great covers by The Outer Mongolian Herd and The Distortions. Also included are names like Hardrock Gunter, Jerry Yester and Vic Upshaw, who were born in Birmingham but had further-reaching careers; Vic made singles in France for instance.
01. Crimson Tide - Turning Back (1978)
from album 'Crimson Tide'
02. Sam Lay - Maggie's Farm (1968)
from album 'Sam Lay in Bluesland'
03. Hardrock Gunter - I'll Give 'Em Rhythm (1955)
04. The Outer Mongolian Herd - Hey Joe (1968)
from comp 'Psychedelic States - Alabama Vol. 2'
05. Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Snowblind (1969)
'from album Farewell Aldebaran'
06. Vic Upshaw - Popcorn Crazy (1969)
from EP "Dance the Popcorn"
07. Smith Perkins Smith - Save Me (1972)
from album 'Smith Perkins Smith'
08. The Distortions - Smokestack Lightning (1966)
09. Backwater - Pair O' Dice (1976)
from album 'Backwater'
10. Hotel - City Lights (1979)
from album 'Hotel'
Crimson Tide self-titled LP 1978
We kick off with a killer track from Crimson Tide. Although their 1978 self-titled debut had a couple of harder cuts on it, and "Turning Back" is one of those, their second LP, "Reckless Love", is the most consistent. The kingpin of the outfit was guitarist Wayne Perkins (wiki), who started out as a session player in his teens, and in '60s Birmingham bands like The Vikings. After working in the famous Muscle Shoals scene, and a stint working in the UK in Smith Perkins & Smith, who made a record in 1972, he wound-up back home in The Alabama Power Band (originally started by his brother Dale, who was the drummer). They had changed name to "Crimson Tide" by the time of signing with Capitol.
The playing is impeccable through-out with nice slide guitar, but the band didn't last long after their second record. Wayne's session career continued as before, he made his first solo record in '95 and throughout his career has played for everyone from Don Nix to Bob Marley.
It's not too easy finding the whereabouts of the remaining guys, but keys-man Richard "Wolfie" Wolf is a Los Angeles-based music producer, remixer and composer, with numerous film, television credits too.
Alabama Record Collectors Association - "Wayne Perkins, through the help of drummer Jasper Guarino, became a session guitarist at a studio in Muscle Shoals owned by Quin Ivy at $100 a week. He later formed a band, Smith, Perkins and Smith for a very short time. He then was a member of several different bands, including the Gap Band. Wayne was even considered at one time to join the Rolling Stones, but was decided against because he wasn’t British, but did play on one of their albums in 1974.
Crimson Tide - Wayne Perkins center
One day Wayne Perkins went to hear his brother Dale's band, Alabama Power. "They had a great band and no songs," he says. "They had the vehicle and I had the gasoline. I had the connections in Hollywood after all these years." Perkins says that lawyers for the Alabama Power Company were not pleased with the band's name, so the group changed it to Crimson Tide. "I much preferred the name Alabama Power to Crimson Tide because that's sacrilege, to me. Crimson Tide is a great name but [the University of Alabama] was already using it." Crimson Tide released two albums on Capitol Records, the self-titled Crimson Tide in 1978 which provided the single “Love Stop,” and Reckless Love in 1979 and a single of the same name, the latter produced by Donald "Duck" Dunn, bassist for Booker T. and the MGs, with the MGs' Steve Cropper contributing guitar parts.
Crimson Tide became the house band at the Crossroads Club in Roebuck for a couple of years in the late '70s, where well-known acts such as Yes, Joe Cocker, or Rick Derringer, if they had performed elsewhere in town that day, often showed up to sit in. "That's one thing about the Crossroads Club. You never knew who would show up," Perkins says. Crimson Tide split up in 1979. Perkins later released a pair of solo CDs, Mendo Hotel in 1995 and Ramblin' Heart in 2005, as well as having his songs included on soundtracks for several films and TV shows. The members of the band were: Dale Perkins, Wayne Perkins, Greg Straub, Bobby Delander and J.J. Jackson. By the second album, Richard Fox, who played keyboards on both albums, was an official member."
Sam Lay
"Sam Lay in Bluesland" LP 1968
Sam Lay (born March 20, 1935, Birmingham, Alabama) is a drummer and vocalist, who has been performing since the 1950s. His drumming can be heard on over 40 recordings for the Chess Records label and 1968's "Sam Lay in Bluesland" was his first solo LP. His career began in 1957, as the drummer for the Original Thunderbirds. In the early 1960s, he began recording and performing with prominent blues musicians such as Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Eddie Taylor, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells, Bo Diddley, Magic Sam, Jimmy Rogers, Earl Hooker, and Muddy Waters
In the mid 1960s he joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and recorded and toured extensively with them. Lay also recorded with Bob Dylan, most notably on the Highway 61 Revisited album. He drummed on the "Highway 61" track, so I guess he's more than qualified to do the great cover of "Maggie's Farm" included here! Sam was featured in 'History of the Blues', produced by Martin Scorsese, and was inducted into the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Hardrock Gunter
Now to what is by far the earliest track I have ever included in these collections. Sidney Louie Gunter Jr. (b.27 February 1925), known as Hardrock Gunter, was a guitarist and performer who was there right at the formative stages of rock and roll and rockabilly at the turn of the '50s. His first teenage group was the Hoot Owl Ramblers. In 1939 he joined Happy Wilson's Golden River Boys and acquired his nickname "Hardrock" when a van trunk lid fell on him before a show and he never flinched. After wartime service he returned to work with the group, before leaving to become their agent and starting to appear on local TV.
As a popular local personality, he signed to Birmingham's Bama label. He recorded his own song "Birmingham Bounce" in early 1950 (youtube), the Golden River Boys being renamed the Pebbles on the record. A regional hit which produced over 20 cover versions, the most successful being by Red Foley, who reached no.1 with it on the Billboard country chart, and no.14 on the pop chart. Gunter's original version has become regarded as a contender for the first rock and roll record. It predates "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (who were actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm) by a year. Gunter followed up with "Gonna Dance All Night", one of the first records to feature the actual words "rock'n'roll". Gunter signed to Decca, and his 1951 duet with Roberta Lee, "Sixty Minute Man," was one of the first country records to cross over to R&B audiences.
In 1953 he began working at a radio station, and also remade "Gonna Dance All Night" and recorded "Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby", both of which were issued by Sun Records and became regional hits. In 1958 he was one of the first musicians to use both echo and overdub on his recording of "Boppin' to Grandfather's Clock", released under the name Sidney Jo Lewis. He continued to record with limited success, and in the 1960s left the music business. He retired to Rio Rancho, New Mexico. In 1995 he began to perform again at festivals in England, Germany and the United States. He died aged 88 in 2013.
The Outer Mongolian Herd
This is a Birmingham band band I found by checking out 'Psychedelic States - Alabama Vol. 2' from Gear Fab Records (link). It's a great version of Hey Joe, but they certainly put their own garage twist on it. Here's what's written about it: "Hey Joe, The Outer Mongolian Herd (Bill Roberts), Third Story Music, BMI, 2:09 - Released on the Daisy (4847) label in Jan 1968 and b/w "I Wan't To Love You (Scared)". A mystery crew that recorded for a Birmingham-based label, these guys laid down one of the finer versions of "Hey Joe", a garage band staple that never sounds tired or dated." [Mike Markesich]
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester
Farewell Aldebaran LP front
This great track is here because Jerry Yester was Birmingham-born. Judy Henske & Jerry met while working in the West Coast folk scene in the early 1960s, Henske as an uncategorizable solo singer recording folk, blues, jazz and comedy, Yester as a member of the Modern Folk Quartet. They married in 1963. A few years later Henske's career was faltering as a result of ill-advised forays into cabaret while Yester had produced albums by Tim Buckley and The Association, and replaced Zal Yanovsky in The Lovin' Spoonful.
Judy Henske
The pair, with their new-born daughter, moved to Los Angeles in 1968. Henske shared a manager, Herb Cohen, with Frank Zappa, who suggested to her that she should put music to some of the verse she was writing. Yester, at this point, was working with Yanovsky on the latter's first solo album, and experimenting with new electronic and other sound effects. The couple combined to put together the Farewell Aldebaran LP, drawing on a varied selection of their musician friends, and it was issued on Zappa and Cohen's new label.
Farewell Aldebaran LP back
In the UK, the album was broadcast by John Peel who played Three Ravens on more than one occasion on Radio One. Henske and Yester went on to form a more conventional band, Rosebud, before they went their separate ways at the start of the 1970s. The album was reissued on CD by bootleg label Radioactive Records in 2005 (link).
Vic Upshaw
Vic Upshaw - Dance The Popcorn
Time for a funny novelty single which grooves and funks along in an addictive way. It seems that Vic was a dancer first before a musician, and his handful of records were related to dance moves and instruction. It would seem he was attempting to plug a dance called 'the popcorn' with this single! The most information I have found so far is unfortunately from his obituary. An American choreographer who brought modern jazz styles to France in the mid-1960's, he died on Nov. 5 1990. He was 50 years old. A spokeswoman for a dance society with which he worked said he died of a stomach disorder. Born in Birmingham, AL in 1940, Mr. Upshaw played minor roles in the 1958 film version of "South Pacific" and in the Judy Garland version of "A Star Is Born" before moving to France in 1964.
Mr. Upshaw designed dance routines for the Lido cabaret. His own dance group, the Vic Upshaw Six, was a staple for years on French television variety shows. He taught steps to some of France's best-known show-business personalities, including Catherine Deneuve, Sylvie Vartan, Pierre Mondy and Jean-Claude Brialy.
Smith Perkins Smith
As previously mentioned with Crimson Tide, the "Perkins" part of this trio was Wayne Perkins from Birmingham. The "Smiths" are American brothers Steve and Tim Smith. Steve Smith had played on southern soul tracks recorded by the likes of Sam & Dave, the Staples Singers and Wilson Pickett at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Birmingham, Alabama. Arthur Alexander and Ben Atkins (the first white singer signed to Stax) had recorded songs written by the Smith brothers.
The album is mellow country rock affair, mostly acoustic, but there's a couple of electric tracks and "Save Me" is my pick here. Indeed, it was tapped for a single by Island. Smith Perkins Smith started a second album while residing in the UK, which wasn't released. Wayne Perkins had other distractions, including being asked by Island to add rock guitar to a reggae band they were trying to break. His solos on Concrete Jungle and Stir It Up helped Catch a Fire do just that for Bob Marley.
Steve Smith was asked to produce Robert Palmer's solo debut. They'd met at Leicester University when Smith Perkins Smith supported Vinegar Joe - in which Palmer shared vocals with Elkie Brooks - but the production offer came out of the blue. His masterstroke of matching Palmer with Lowell George and the Meters for Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, the album that out-funked Little Feat, confirmed his talents behind the mixing desk. Tim Smith too went into production and arranging, working with Lynyrd Skynyrd among others.
The Distortions
The Distortions - picture found at Garagehangover.com
Here's another track I have 'borrowed' from 'Psychedelic States - Alabama Vol. 2' (Gear Fab Records - link). Here's what it has to say - "Smokestack Lightning - The Distortions. (C. Burnett), ARC Music, BMI. Released on the SEA (102) label in April 1966 and b/w "Hot Cha". The band came from Birmingham and along with the Rockin' Rebellions, The Distortions were the city's top teen crowd-pleasers.
Their first three singles were issued on the SEA label. "Smokestack Lightning" was also issued on the Malcolm Z. Dirge label in August 1966 as the b-side to "Behind My Wall", an original tune and the band's biggest seller in Montgomery and Birmingham. This prompted several record label scouts to present signing offers to the group, with the Mercury label winning out. Mercury placed "Behind My Wall" on their Smash label subsidiary a couple of months later. The Distortions continued to perform well into the late sixties, releasing singles on Malcolm Z. Dirge and the Casino label from New Orleans in 1967 and Capitol in 1968, but all pale in the throes of "Smokestack Lightning". [Mike Markesich]
There's an account of The Distortions over at Garagehangover.com (here) which shows the band's changed appearance and outlook into the early seventies, including a couple of '70s tracks showing a decidedly more slick, funky approach.
Nearing the end, here's a change in tack with some live jazz rock. Backwater made two private press records. This track is taken from the 1976 self-titled debut, which has one side of studio tracks and another side from a live performance. I have selected "Pair O' Dice" from the live side. Jazz rock is not something i'll use to often on this blog but in this case a cool riff is a cool riff what ever the style! The quartet formed in 1975, playing clubs and working as session musicians in Birmingham. According to their surprisingly inclusive wiki page (link), the record sold quite well locally and saw them get support slots for the likes of B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, and Emmylou Harris (Harris hailing from Birmingham herself). Backwater released two records on their own amusingly-named label "Bongwater Records", the second is called "North Of The Mason-Dixon And The Heart Of Dixie" and also includes live/studio material.
To close this volume we have a late-'70s AOR band called Hotel. Looking for similar from the Birmingham area, I found only one more band of this ilk, called Telluride, but they are way too soft for TDATS. Much of Hotel's music was very slick and commercial also, but the self-titled first of their two records has a good rocker on it called "City Lights". According to guitarist Tommy Carlton's website (link), he started out in sixties garage band The Swingin' Lampliters, and according to Hotel singer/pianist Marc Phillips' website (link), the band lasted from 1973 to 1982.
Labels: Backwater, Crimson Tide, Hardrock Gunter, Hotel, Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, Sam Lay, Smith Perkins Smith, The Distortions, The Outer Mongolian Herd, Vic Upshaw
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Quebec City harpist mixes music and yoga for a Celtic performance – CBC.ca
Harpist and yogi Johanne McInnis says her instrument and mindfulness go hand-in-hand and are therapeutic.
A Quebec City harpist plans to meld music and yoga for a therapeutic local performance in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.
The yogi and lifelong musician plans to follow her Celtic concert with a guided meditation, which she hopes will leave people feeling “refreshed, renewed and hopeful.”
Johanne McInnis uses the harp as a form of therapy, and envisions her concerts as healing for both the body and soul.
“People seem to be attracted to the Celtic world and the Celtic repertoire,” McInnis said. “That music is so old but so fresh at the same time. It brings out the history within us.”
After completing an undergraduate degree 25 years ago in music, focusing on piano and guitar, McInnis got a teaching degree.
That’s when she discovered the harp.
Johanne McInnis started playing the harp 25 years ago and plays in a jazz trio. She performs in Celtic pubs, spas and at the Chateau Frontenac. (Spencer Van Dyk/CBC)
McInnis, along with her partner at the time, went to Mount Desert Island off the coast of Maine to unwind after a stressful year of teaching, and discovered a place that made harps.
“I spent most of my time during vacation there, and [my partner] too started to build harps, and I started to play them instead of going to the beach every day,” McInnis said.
“The harp is one of the oldest instruments in the world, so people have no choice but to slow down when they hear it.”
The pair moved to Nova Scotia, where they lived for 15 years, and McInnis spent a lot of time with Celtic musicians and learning the repertoire in Irish pubs.
“Ireland, the joy of the music … the music can bring serenity but also it can be extremely happy,” McInnis said. “It takes a lot of velocity to play Celtic pieces.”
A mid-life introduction to yoga
After years of playing the harp daily, by the time McInnis was in her mid-40s, she was looking for a way to ease the tension in her back — a pedal harp weighs about 36 kilograms.
She discovered yoga was not only a good remedy for her back pain, but it also boosted her mental clarity.
That’s when she had a bold idea: to play the harp in yoga classes.
“All I had on my mind was to play the harp on the beach and have a yoga teacher do her seance of yoga,” she said.
So McInnis started the Harp and Yoga Festival on a beach in Nova Scotia, which will be in its third year this summer.
“When you see the impact it has on peoples’ lives in a stressful world, it makes me feel really happy to see that I’m helping people to reconnect with themselves through the music they hear,” she said.
McInnis is now back in Quebec City, practising hours every day in a small studio on the fourth floor of the Faculty of Music at Université Laval, and studying with the Quebec symphony harpist.
She also plays in spas and, for two years, she plucked the strings every Friday night at the renowned Chateau Frontenac.
Bringing music and meditation together
The musician will bring music and meditation together again this weekend at her Quebec City performance, where her concert will be followed by a yoga session.
McInnis says she will focus on the themes of transformation and the seasons of life.
For instance, she says her song After the rain, beautiful weather — which she adapted from an existing Celtic piece called The Swan — evokes the calm after a thunderous storm.
“I love the instrument because it resonates with me,” she said. “It is an extension of who I am; I have found my purpose in life.”
Johanne McInnis is performing at St. Michael’s Anglican Church in Quebec City on March 16 at 7:30 p.m.
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Solid growth for Dunelm
Homeware retailer Dunelm has seen revenues surge up towards the £300m mark during its second quarter, helped largely by online sales.
The Leicester-headquartered company has seen revenues increase 13.6% to £297.5m in the 13 weeks to 30 December 2017.
This rise brings half-year revenue to £545.4m, an increase of 18.4%.
During the second quarter, the company also saw the opening of five new stores, bringing its total to 169.
The firm’s chairman Andy Harrison said: "After a good first quarter, it is pleasing to see our sales momentum maintained with total sales growth, and like-for-like sales growth, of 13.6% and 3.4% respectively in the second quarter.
"This performance is driving our continued market share gains. We are now up to 169 superstores having successfully opened five in the quarter.
"Continuing rapid like-for-like online growth, of 36.8% in the first half, coupled with passing the first anniversary of the Worldstores acquisition, has helped our online sales grow to 16% of total sales in the first half (18.5% including Reserve and Collect).
“We are well on the way to becoming a genuine multi-channel retailer.
"Margins in our core Dunelm business have been maintained in the first half, although there has been a sales mix impact on margins from the Worldstores acquisition and the higher participation of seasonal and end of season products.
"Overall, we remain on track, with good sales growth and market share gains, offset by margin mix.
"We are well positioned to deliver good full-year profit growth, after a small reduction in the first half, largely due to the consolidation of Worldstores losses."
However, gross margins, due to increased promotional activity and a quicker turnaround of product lines, have dropped 1.8%.
George Salmon, Equity Analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown: “Dunelm’s top-line growth of 18% is eye-catching.
“However, this has been boosted by the continued roll-out of new stores and extra discounting.
“Having more items on sale has got the punters flocking in, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that by dropping prices the group is taking a hit on profit margins.”
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“The acquisition of Worldstores gives the group greater online exposure, an area it’s clearly looking to leverage.
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Clemson vs Syracuse NCAA Preview
No. 2 Clemson will hit the road to Syracuse as the Tigers seem to continue to return to the third consecutive national championship appearance. Will the orange stand on their way? Let's find out.
Clemson: It was a great season to defend the national heroes, who made some decisive victories in their individual games in Louisville (47-21) and in Virginia Tech (31-17). What that means for Syracuse in the short week, however, is anyone's guess. "Kelly Bryant, who seized the weekend forest game, was injured all week and was ready to release him," said Coach Dabo Sweeney. And the crime of tigers must get it.
Game time: Friday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. ET
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Live stream: The game can be watched online using WatchESPN.
Syracuse: Although ' cuz did not achieve the success that he hoped to achieve early in the second season of the Dino Babers season, he has seen his crimes rise since his arrival. Orange is ranked 72 in the CBS Sports 130 race, and has experienced difficulty in Loso (35-26) and in Nick (33-25). It also comes from the 27-24 win on Pittsburgh last week.
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Outer space has always seemed like a pleasing alternative to the relentless shitstorm of planet Earth. As a result, rock ’n’ roll has regularly ventured into the stratosphere, often with mind-bending results. In 2019, only one band can guarantee you a safe and sensational intergalactic trip, with songs that will make your head vibrate like Woody Allen’s Orgasmatron. Meet Giuda: Italy’s premier exponents of insanely infectious, glam-tinged and gritty rock ’n’ roll. Formed in 2007, these lysergic power-pop warriors have a decade of active service under their utility belts and a brand new album, E.V.A. (Extravehicular Activity), which seals the band’s hard-earned triumph in the face of tragedy.
“Before Giuda, our singer Tenda and I had a band called Taxi, which was strongly influenced by the ’77 Punk scene,” explains guitarist Lorenzo. “In a tragic accident In 2007 we lost our drummer Francesco. The loss felt so significant, we decided to call it a day as Taxi. Towards the end of the year, we found our energies were starting to renew. We wanted to play again. At the time we had just discovered something that was completely new to our ears. The relatively unknown sound of ‘junkshop glam’ had entered our world. These new sounds had the same impact on me that punk music had, many years before. A strong influence from this music crept into our songwriting and our approach to the recording process. Consequently, a new project was born, the fruits of which became Giuda’s first album, Racey Roller. The album was an unexpected minor success, and because of that, from that day on, music has become our full-time job.”
Every last track on E.V.A. will lodge itself in your skull like some kind of miniaturised robot invader. Giuda are a band with proud and persistent roots in the glory days of garage rock and proto-metal, when bands wrote fistfuls of anthems before breakfast.
From fiery opener Overdrive and the throbbing spacebound strut of Interplanetary Craft through to You’ve Got The Power’s hazy AC/DC-isms and the scorched earth funky new wave of Cosmic Love and Ravers Rock, Giuda’s fourth full-length album is an outright celebration of balls-out, hook-drenched and wilfully eccentric abandon. Welcome shades of everything from Cheap Trick and Big Star through to Devo and the Ramones collide with some irresistible psychedelic embellishments and subtle bursts of sonic strangeness. Simultaneously old school and as fresh and modern as can be, E.V.A. is simply the greatest rock’n’roll record you haven’t heard yet.
“Giuda is a modern band with its roots firmly planted in two musically revolutionary decades, the ‘60s and the ‘70s,” says Lorenzo. “We’re not an analogue nerds, not anymore at least! During our years in recording studios, we’ve gained considerable experience and now we understand how important it is to get the best you can from everything you have at your disposal. The end justifies the means! We can’t afford to record an album at Abbey Road, so we have to make the most of is available to us. New technologies and recording techniques, used in the right way, can really help. I think
our new LP perfectly reflects the essence of this band. It hopefully sounds fresh and new even though we did employ some good old fashioned techniques like ‘vinyl cutting’, done straight from tape!”
With new reasons to flee the planet oozing from our screens every day, Giuda’s joyful hymns to interplanetary escape provide the perfect antidote. These are no red-eyed space cadets: instead, this is rock ‘n’ roll with a real sense of purpose and a clear and singular vision. Read between the lines, and it’s not hard to work out how Lorenzo and his bandmates feel about the state of the world.
“The title E.V.A. stands for ‘extra-vehicular activity’ in relation to astronauts in space and the album artwork hopefully reflects the song topics and the lyrical content,” the guitarist notes. “When it comes to the theme of outer space and journeying into other dimensions, it’s not just an aesthetic thing with us. It’s also about what’s happening currently both in Italy and around the world. Everyone seems to be in fear of being invaded by other cultures.”
When space travel finally becomes available to the likes of us, you can bet that Giuda will be making plans to ditch this dump and find some aliens with a taste for rock ‘n’ roll. But until then, these resolute guardians of the cosmic riff are one glorious reason to stick around on poor old planet Earth and see what happens next.
“What’s next for Giuda?” says Lorenzo. “We conquer space!”
Dom Lawson, January 2019
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Swift Wins 4 Medals at World Masters Championships
Swift’s six member team represented both Swift and the Bahamas well at the World Masters Championships. The World Championships highlight both the club and country at the worlds’ largest meet. The Swift swimmers were Percy Knowles competing in the 80-84 age group, Andy Knowles competing in the 55-59 age group, Bruce Knowles also competing in the 55-59 age group. Nancy Knowles competing also competing in the 55-59 age group. Lisa Knowles competed in the 50-54 age group, and Allie McPhail competing in the 40-44 age group.
Here are a few facts about the meet.
Montreal, Canada, hosted the 15th edition and last stand-alone FINA World Masters Championships from July 27 to August 10, 2014 exactly 20 years after successfully organising the event for the first time.
A total 7’794 competitors, representing 101 countries, gathered in Montreal. More than 6’000 swimmers hit the pool at the Parc Jean-Drapeau Aquatic Complex, on Ste-Helene Island while another 1’370 took to the open water race in the rowing basin located on Notre-Dame Island. The championships counted 950 water polo players, 487 synchro swimmers and 230 divers.
Participants from the host federation came in great numbers (3’550), but also those from USA, France, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Great Britain, Spain, Venezuela, Switzerland and Argentina. A few from the Bahamas, Nigeria, Greece, Singapore, Senegal, Fiji, Tunisia, Bolivia and Moldova also made the trip, making the World Masters a true universal experience.
The swimming competition kicked off on August 3 and offered 20 events, including 4x50m mixed medley and freestyle events; a 3km race took place in open water on August 10; water polo games were held from July 27 to August 2; divers competed on the 1m, 3m and 10m boards starting August 5 and the synchronised swimming events were held from July 28 to August 2 with Solo, Duet, Team and Free Combination.
Since 1990, Masters athletes aged 25 to more than 90 years old come and share their life passion for Aquatics, competing in one of FINA’s five aquatic disciplines – swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming – while promoting fitness, fun and friendship.
The Swift team won 4 medals in Percy Knowles taking a 10th place medal in the 100 breaststroke in 2:18 secs, and 200 breaststroke in 2:56 secs, and Andy Knowles taking a 6th place medal in the 400 IM in 5:46 secs,and the 400 Free in 4:53 secs. There were mostly personal best swims over the entry times going into the meet. The week started off on Sunday, August 3rd with Andy swimming the 800 free in 10:21 for an 11th place finish, and Allie also swimming the 800 free in 13:01 in her first World Championship Swim Meet. The second day saw Percy swimming the 100 free in an improved time of 1:52 seconds, followed by Andy in the 100 free in 1:02.8, and then Percy and Bruce in the 100 breast with improved times of 2:18.8 and 1:26.9 respectively. The third day, Tuesday, August 5th saw Andy in the 400 IM, followed by Andy and Allie in the 200 free in 2:19 and 2:57 respectively. Bruce and Nancy finished the day off with more personal bests in the 50 fly in 33 and 43 seconds respectively. The fourth day was active with Lisa, Nancy, and Percy starting the day off with the 50 free in 37, 38, and 52 seconds respectively. On Friday, August 8th, the sixth day, Percy started things off with the 200 breast in 4:56, followed by Nancy, who finished the day with the 200 fly in 4:07, both swims were big improvements. Saturday, the 7th and final day at the pool saw the swimming start off with Bruce and Lisa swimming the 50 back in 37 and 47 respectively. The day finished with Andy and Nancy swimming the 400 free in 4:53 and 6:49 respectively. Sunday, August 10th was open water swimming with the 3 K open water race. Andy finished with a 7th in his age group in 43.02 and Nancy finished 35th in 1:03.0. During the meet Percy, Andy, and Bruce were interviewed on TV, to be later shown on the FINA web sight . Andy and Bruce were the first swimmers to represent the Bahamas at the Olympic Games in Montreal some 38 years ago in 1976, and Percy, their father, was the coach. Here it was, some 38 years later, that the three were back again competing in swimming.
Swift continues to set the standard in Masters swimming.
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Dagsboro restaurant grows into La Bamba
Sometimes you have to meet your customers where they are. A good example might be La Bamba – a Mexican restaurant in the heart of Dagsboro that has recently gotten a facelift and changed its name. When asked why she made the change, from Rincón Jarocho to La Bamba, owner and cook Lorena Mora said it was simply because La Bamba is easier for Americans to remember and pronounce.
Coastal Point • Monica Scott
Lorena Mora, owner and cook at La Bamba in Dagsboro, offers up a meal of the restaurant’s Carne Asada, with salsa and chips.
She explained that “rincón” is the Spanish word for a small place or a nook, and “jarocho” is a term for people from Veracruz, Mexico, where Mora and her mother, and co-owner Irene Cordoba, are from. Hence the old name, Rincón Jarocho, which Mora pronounces with an authentic rolling of the R’s that only a native speaker can manage. But, she added with a laugh, La Bamba will do.
The name isn’t the only thing that’s new about the Dagsboro eatery. In the past few weeks, La Bamba got its liquor license, and they will now be offering daily drink specials. That marks a further shift from the business’ roots as a combined restaurant and grocery store, the latter of which was eschewed in the past year in favor of an expanded restaurant business.
With a new name and the new bar, there was just one more thing for Mora and her partners to add – especially with a name that, for most, conjures up a rock-and-roll classic: live music. On July 2, from 7 to 10 p.m., La Bamba will feature the acoustic music of Isabel Umanzor – a local favorite who has played at The Parkway in Bethany Beach, Aqua Sol in Bear and most recently at DiFebo’s Bistro on the Green at Bear Trap Dunes in Ocean View.
La Bamba’s menu features such dishes as empanadas, Tostada de Ceviche, Carne Asada and fajitas, to name just a few. Mora said they have a great Guacamole Veracruz that is very popular. And customers, she said, have called their nacho chips the “best in the world.” They also offer vegetarian entrees and a kids’ menu, as well as homemade flan and other dessert favorites, such as fried ice cream, and strawberries and cream (frescas con crema).
“It’s good food!” exclaimed Brian Banks, who was eating lunch at La Bamba this week with his wife, Rhonda. “And reasonable prices. The enchiladas are excellent,” he added before Rhonda put in that her fried ice cream – which she was trying for the first time at La Bamba – was “really good.”
Mora said that now that they have the liquor license, they plan on offering drink specials throughout the week. On Mondays it will be domestic beer for $2; Tuesdays, $2.50 pina coladas; Wednesdays, $2.50 imported beers; Thursdays, $1.99 margaritas; and on Fridays, they plan on having Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m., with drink specials.
Mora, who has been in the United States for 12 years, and her mother both worked in a chicken plant before opening the restaurant in 2005. After coming to Delaware for a better life and better pay, they got the notion that working for themselves might just be the ticket.
“My mom motivated me,” explained Mora, adding that her mother had always cooked and taught her how to cook, and had operated a small store in Mexico. “She was taking care of my children and cooking and working, and I was working and cooking, and she said, ‘You are cooking and I’m cooking – [How about a] restaurant!’”
They have turned their dream of “a taste of Mexico” into what La Bamba is today.
La Bamba offers lunch and dinner year-round. Right now, hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., which will taper back to 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the fall and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the winter. On Sundays they are open from noon to 8 p.m. For more information, call (302) 732-9106 or visit them at 407 Main Street in Dagsboro.
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European foreign fighters (IS), Iraq, Kurdistan, Islamic State (ISIS), Middle East, Syria, Women's rights
European women find appeal in Syrian jihad
6 June 2014 Brenda Stoter Boscolo Leave a comment
Publication; Al Monitor
AMSTERDAM — Khadija (not her real name) enjoyed a quiet life in the Netherlands, the country she grew up in. She had a place to stay and the opportunity to study. However, over the last couple of years, she found it more difficult as a devout Muslim and felt increasing hostility.
She came across images of black al-Qaeda flags in Syria on the Internet, and she found out that several Dutch Muslims had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). They were talking about Sharia, creating an Islamic state and fighting against the Syrian regime, aspects that appealed to her.
In the fall of 2013, her best friend told her that she was planning to join her husband, a jihadist fighter, in Syria. Khadija, who had always wanted to focus on her religion more, became convinced that she should come along. By the end of 2013, the two friends took a flight to Turkey. Contacts there smuggled them across the border into Syria and they were taken to a place near Aleppo. There, they were welcomed by other European women whose husbands were ISIS fighters.
“I always wanted to live under Sharia. In Europe, this will never happen. Besides, my Muslim brothers and sisters over there need help,” Khadija, 24, told Al-Monitor over the phone.
“According to the Quran, Syria is a blessed land, and jihad is obligatory for all Muslims,” she said.
The London-based International Center for the Study of Radicalization estimated in an April report that up to 2,800 Westerners have gone to Syria to fight, mainly from Europe. Intelligence and security services in Europe say that most of them are affiliated with ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, the official al-Qaeda branch in Syria.
“Jihad” attracts women as well as men. Sara, 18, from the Netherlands described how she went to Syria to “follow God’s rules” and to “help the people.” Like Khadija, Sara pointed out that she was not coerced in her decision.
“Muslims do not want to be humiliated in a kuffar [infidel] country where our rights are being violated. I left my country with a big smile, and I don’t care that the [Dutch] government doesn’t want me back,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
Sara radicalized after she became friends with Salafist Muslims in the Netherlands. She began to cover herself with an Islamic face veil. That resulted in insults on the streets, even from Muslims, many of whom consider the full black veil an extremist form of Islam.
Montasser AlDe’emeh, a researcher studying jihadist fighters at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven in Belgium, believes there are various reasons why European women join radical Islamist groups. The rise of right-wing parties — often anti-Muslim — in Europe is one factor, as is the women’s difficult childhood.
“These girls feel there is no place for them in society, as they are being rejected by everyone, including Muslims. By contacting Muslims who feel the same way, they try to fulfill needs such as love, recognition and sisterhood,” he told Al-Monitor.
AlDe’emeh, a Palestinian Muslim, said that creating a caliphate by connecting all the Islamic countries is the ultimate goal of European jihadists who join ISIS.
“The fighters believe that the fall of the Ottoman Empire led to dictatorial regimes in the Muslim world. They do not believe in the colonial borders that were determined by the British and the French,” he said.
According to Khadija, most European jihadist women went to Syria with their husbands. Others get married on the spot, just like Sara, who recently married a Belgian fighter called Brian de Mulder.
A week after she arrived, Khadija was introduced to a Tunisian ISIS fighter. “A religious man with green eyes, I really liked him,” she said. After she agreed, a local sheikh performed the marriage.
European female jihadists in Syria describe a sober, domestic life, in which their duties of jihad play a key role. The main task of the female jihadist is supporting her husband, who fights, and being a good Muslim. This is part of the “inner or greater jihad,” which is much needed in Syria, because, according to these extremists, the West does not care about the war-torn country. Fighting is considered to be part of the “outer or smaller jihad.”
“I baked cookies, cooked for my husband, chatted with women and played with my pets. I had five fish, two birds and four cats,” Khadija said, smiling nostalgically, adding that she did not have contact with the locals, except for one Syrian woman, while in Syria.
ISIS, which has spread across Raqqa, northern Aleppo and some of the border areas, attracts young jihadists from all over the world. The European fighters in Syria form a tight community. On social media, male fighters share updates about attacks that their comrades have carried out, pictures of fallen jihadists and videos about their missions. As for the female jihadists, Quran verses are being shared and pictures of meals and snacks — next to that a Kalashnikov — appear on Facebook. Western countries are often being criticized and fighters who die as martyrs are hardly being mourned, because it is believed they go straight to heaven.
A European jihadist from Raqqa said she “pities Muslims who still live in a kuffar country.”
“Here we feel that Allah is with us. Brothers and sisters are happy. Allah’s flag is waving in every street. So sweet,” she wrote on Facebook.
But local Raqqa residents bemoan ISIS’ occupation of their city and the imposition of strict Islamic rules. Women are forced to wear a niqab and smoking is prohibited. Not a day goes by without an execution, crucifixion or torture. According to a local activist, the numbers of foreign jihadists are still increasing.
“Fighters from the United States, Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Norway, the Arab world. Believe me, I have seen them all, living in big houses and hotels. Of course, they have plenty of food,” Ammar Mohammed (not his real name) told Al-Monitor via Skype.
ISIS is not only involved in a battle with the Syrian regime, but also with their rival Jabhat al-Nusra. On May 27, a car bomb exploded in front of a hotel in Raqqa where the children and wives of foreign fighters live. ISIS said dozens of women, children and fighters were wounded and accusations were directed at Jabhat al-Nusra.
In Europe, there are growing concerns that European radicals will parlay their experiences in Syria into terrorism back home. These fears were realized when it became clear that the French national suspected of having shot dead three people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels last month spent most of 2013 fighting with radical Islamist groups in Syria.
Khadija also returned to the Netherlands after a two-month stay in Syria. Her husband brought her to the border himself after she told him she missed her family. She now lives in Amsterdam again, but her radical sentiments remain strong.
“I would like to go back to Syria soon,” she concluded. “If I die over there, I die on God’s path.”
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Mar 5 Movie Review : Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
There is something very Snakes on a Plane-y to a movie title like Brawl in Cell Block 99. I sure had oddly specific expectations for it. Something along the lines of Slayer's immortal video for their song Repentless, but lasting for two hours instead of four minutes. Brawl in Cell Block 99 is alluringly named, but it doesn't really really deliver what its title promises. I mean, it features a shitload of violence and fatalism like self-respecting noir would, but it's eerily light on the brawling part. It's not necessarily a bad movie either, just somewhat of a curve ball?
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is the story of Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn), a garage employee turned drug runner during an economic downturn, who gets locked up for 7 years when a deal goes awry. Thomas is threatened from inside the prison walls and contracted to kill an inmate that isn't even housed in the same prison as him, otherwise he's going to have the limbs of his unborn baby mailed to him one-by-one. So, Bradley does what he needs to do for his child to survive: he picks fight over fight until he's brought to the mythical Cell Block 99 in order to duke it out with that convict he needs to assassinate.
So, there's not much of a brawl to Brawl in Cell Block 99. There are short and extreme bursts of violence, but otherwise prison authorities exert a pretty tight control on what's going on inside the walls of their institution. But the charm of Brawl in Cell Block 99 lies in how these brusts of violence are depicted. There's something very exploitation-ish abut it.
Whether Bradley is someone's face across the concrete with his foot or destroying a car with his bare hands like in Street Fighter 2 *, there's a blissful lack of concern for realism by writer and director S. Craig Zahler. He doesn't give a fuck what his movie will end up looking like, for as long as the violence is guts-churning and spectacular. There's not enough of that sort of commitment in today's cinema. Sometimes, violence and realism get in the way of each other, but not in this movie. Oh no, sir. There's not an ounce of realism here and it serves Brawl in Cell Block 99 quite well.
That said Brawl in Cell Block 99 doesn't have the strongest screenplay. It's obviously inspired by classic noir and if you've watched a couple movies in this genre, I have no doubt you'll figure out how it ends about halfway into it. It gets a little misery porn-ish too at some point, despite the silliness of the situation. But once again, I don't think S. Craig Zahler gave a fuck. I can't tell you how liberating that clarity of purpose is.
I wouldn't call Brawl in Cell Block 99 a style over substance movie, but narrative development clearly takes backseat to violent confrontations. Call it a violence over substance movie, I guess? Taken out out of narrative context, Brawl in Cell Block 99 offers countless memorable movie moments that stand on their own: Vince Vaughn going Street Fighter 2 on his girlfriend's car, the elaborate shootout scene that lands his character in prison, the drag-across-the-concrete scene, the pain belt, etc. These will stay with you long after your viewing of Brawl in Cell Block 99 and will end up being more important than the movie itself.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is not a movie to be conventionally enjoyed. It doesn't have a visceral narrative you can relate to (unless you've been a prison agitator) or even a character to root for. It doesn't amount to more than the sum of its parts, but it does have memorable parts that will haunt you for a long time after you're done watching it. I've enjoyed it myself. It didn't live up to the lofty expectations the raving reviews on the internet created for me, but it offered many scenes that will be difficult to forget. Honestly, it's worth watching just to see Vince Vaughn punch out a car and calmly walking back inside how house to have a discussion with Jennifer Carpenter.
* Yes, it happens and it's one of the greatest things I've ever seen in a movie.
Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, S. Craig Zahler, exploitation, noir
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Politics Not Budget At Heart Of Republican Stategy
Progressive groups in Wisconsin are taking their case against Governor Scott Walker (R) to the people. Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America (DFA) are sponsoring a new ad that features the voices of public workers who would be affected by Walker's plan to make unions pay more for benefits and strip them of collective bargaining rights. The ad directs viewers to go to WarOnWorkingFamilies.com where they can join an e-mail list and contribute money to the campaign.
The Republican Governors Association (RGA) has also announced an ad of their own supporting Walker. Greg Sargent at The Washington Post argues that the RGA "badly distorts" the history of the standoff in Wisconsin by not acknowledging that the unions have already agreed to pay more for their benefits.
"The unions have already agreed to the benefit concessions Walker has asked for, as long as he doesn't roll back their bargaining rights," said Sargent. "Walker has refused. The sticking point has nothing to do with benefits.
Video is from PCCC, uploaded to YouTube March 1, 2011.
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Over 900 Ebooks On Sale!
July 25, 2011 October 25, 2011 meandmykindle Discount Sales
Better hurry. Amazon’s announced a big sale on ebooks — but it ends Wednesday. “Now through July 27, more than 900 Kindle books are on sale,” they explain on a special web page, “for $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, and $3.99.”
They’re calling the promotion “The Big Deal,” and it’s a nice way to highlight the wide selection of e-books that are now available in Amazon’s Kindle store. Besides fiction, I see celebrity biographies, plus books about cooking, fitness and parenting — and everything from Christian fiction to a satirical e-book called “Stuff Christians Like.” Even if the special prices aren’t available in your country, it’s still a nice way to imagine new things you could be reading on your Kindle. I browsed through the list today, and found some books that I didn’t even know existed!
One of the most-popular ebooks on sale today is “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” — which is billed as an “expanded edition” of Jane Austen’s classic 19th-century romance novel. (“85 percent of the original text has been preserved but fused with ‘ultraviolent zombie mayhem,'” explains the book’s description on Amazon.) “This parody shows that Austen’s novel has remained so powerful over time that even the undead can’t spoil it,” reads another review. But it turns out it’s just one of several strange literary mash-ups that are now available at a reduced in price.
There’s also “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls” — which is billed as a prequel by a new author — as well as his follow-up effort, “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After”. Through Wednesday each ebook is available for just 99 cents — and you can also purchase a similar ebook titled “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.” Someone’s even attempted a similar re-working of a famous short story by Franz Kafka — The Metamorphosis — by changing its plot so the protagonist turns not into an insect, but a cat. Its title? The Meowmorphosis. (And apparently there’s even a zombie ebook for children, titled “That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale”…)
I’m not the only one who’s excited about the sale. “Just got my Kindle a few days ago, so the timing is perfect…” read one comment on Facebook. In fact, when Amazon announced the special prices, 538 different people indicated that they liked the deal (by pressing Facebook’s “Like” icon) — and another 101 left comments. “At $0.99, it is a perfect opportunity to try new authors,” read another comment, which added “I have found several new authors to read…”
It looks like there’s price discounts on nearly a thousand ebooks. (The best-seller list ends at #972…) But some of the ebooks are just enhanced editions where the text is already available elsewhere as a free e-book. For example, one of the special deals touts the classic Zane Grey western — “Riders of the Purple Sage” — for just $2.99, though the work is now in the public domain, and you can already find a free edition elsewhere in the Kindle store. There’s also an audio/video-enhanced version of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin for $1.99 — though if you’re looking for just the text, a free edition is also available.
I was surprised to find another ebook available for free — an indie biography (with a lot of pictures) called The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years by Les Krantz and Robert Rodriguez. But that just goes to show how much fun I had browsing through all of the sale-priced ebooks today. I discovered that even Roger Ebert, the famous film critic, has a funny ebook available at a special sales price, called “Your Movie Sucks” — a collection of his sharpest reviews, now available for just $1.99. And for $1.99, you can also read “Day of the Triffids” – the classic science fiction novel-turned movie that was immortalized forever in the opening song of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
There’s also two food-related books seemed interesting. One was “The I Love Trader Joe’s Cookbook: More than 150 Delicious Recipes Using Only Foods from the World’s Greatest Grocery Store” — specially-priced at just $2.99. And for ketchup lovers, there’s even “H. J. Heinz: A Biography” for only $3.99.
So what other interesting ebooks are on sale today in Amazon’s Kindle Store?
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland ($2.99)
Kindle 3 For Dummies ($3.99)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu ($2.99)
The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson (99 cents)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey ($5.99)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ($5.99)
Old Yeller – $1.99
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary ($3.99)
Bermuda Shorts by James Patterson – $4.99
Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs – $3.79
Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition ($2.99)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ($3.99)
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Fright Night, for real.
You may have noticed a newish trend within the horror community, the DIY attitude that has always prevailed has evolved. All those kids who grew up watching great horror films - now they're making documentaries about them. Whether it's a 7 hour Nightmare on Elm Street retrospective, or getting all the Return of the Living Dead gang back together, the new thing is exploring these films in every minute details, putting it on film and selling it to like-minded enthusiasts. It's kind of like Christmas,
My favourite horror film, probably my favourite film of the 80s, is Fright Night. Imagine my excitement when it was announced that the franchise would be getting this in depth treatment, and imagine me wetting myself when my copy came through the post.
You're So Cool Brewster: The Story of Fright Night is a 3 and a bit look into every aspect of Fright Night, from casting to soundtrack to effects and all the near death experiences along the way. With talking heads from director Tom Holland and most of the cast and crew, it's a real fucking treat. Spending the majority of its run time on the original Fright Night film (it is after all, what we're really here for), no stone is left unturned. It addresses the queer speculation, and what the heck Billy was ANYWAY, along with just generally being a real feel good experience. I gotta say, I was kind of nervous about this documentary, because I also bought Leviathan, the Hellraiser 1 and 2 documentary, and found it WAY too in depth (I am just a little baby who can't watch anything over 80 min in length), but I needn't have worried because the running time just BREEZED by in YSCB. You can grab your copy here.
Fright Night, in case you've never seen it, explores a suburbia that is rotten in the middle. Actual dreamboat Charlie Brewster spends his time watching horror films and trying to bone down with his girlfriend, a serene existence where all that matters is making sure your GPA doesn't slip. That is until Jerry Dandrige, also a dreamboat, moves in next door. There's something up with Jerry, a nocturnal, fruit guzzling lothario, who happens to be a vampire. Or is he? Charlie recruits a band of misfits to find just that out, and the results aren't pretty.
The concept is almost Hitchcockian, a Rear Window tale updated for a new audience. It's a simple concept but the film offers so much more. You know when you just watch a film and it's just got so much heart, like everyone working on it truly believed this was the best thing they could be doing, and they had the creative freedom to have their choices heard and it all comes together in this wonderful frenzied energy and emotional punch? That's Fright Night, It's not just a horror, it's not just a comedy, it's a tale of several sexual awakenings, an exploration of vampire lore and one man's redemption after Hollywood turns their back on him. Everyone in the film is FIGHTING for something, nothing is black and white, everything is murky and covered in a smoke screen (quite literally, stop vaping on set, just kidding).
What I really took away from watching the documentary was the way in depth segment on the practical effects. A little known fact about me is that I seriously considered sinking my savings into going to practical effect school and learning to do this shit and fuck about with chemicals and latex (it was never meant to be, I was born a few years too late for this to be a stable job) so this was super fascinating to me. I know a lot of other people also look at effects and think 'how did they DO that?', well don't worry because all your questions will be answered, I assure you.
The documentary also covers Fright Night II extensively, which is great news because Fright Night II is an underrated classic. Did you know that it was directed by the guy who did Halloween III: Season of the Witch? BECAUSE I DIDN'T. Everything makes sense now.
Fright Night II follows Charlie Brewster and Peter Vincent now that Charlie is in college, and via several years of therapy, believes his encounter with the vampires was just a figment of his and Peter's imagination. Until Jerry's SISTER shows up to turn the world upside down again.
FNII is a much schlockier film than the original, but as sequels go (and y'all know how much I love sequels) it's probably one of the best I've seen. I mean, come on, it's got a rollerblading, new romantic vampire in it.
It's nice to watch the documentary and no one's got a bad word to say about the sequel, I really appreciate that because you know, even if it's not the original, people have worked really hard to make it, and I can always appreciate that with any sequel that's got it's heart in the right place. Especially when they're as charming as Fright Night II.
We even get a brief glimpse of the remake, which I actually think is an acceptable update. I mean, it's not a patch on the original, but with Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots in the leads it can't help but be a little bit charming.
The only thing missing is Fright Night 2: New Blood, but I think that's a fine omission because 1) it's fucking SHIT and 2) I'm 100% sure this was never intended to be a Fright Night movie but the studio tacked the name on the front to try and sell more copies once they saw how SHIT IT WAS.
If you've got some pennies to spare, it's well worth chucking them at this documentary, it's bursting with facts and secrets that I didn't know and I think even the most hardcore Fright Night fan would find something new that they hadn't thought about before.
The makers are currently in the works with Robodoc which is obviously the best news ever for me, because Robocop is my most treasured, favourite film of all time!
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POISON IDEA Taking Hiatus To Address 'Health Issues' And 'Personal Matters'
Upon returning from its successful European tour which lasted several weeks, long-running Portland, Oregon-based American hardcore punk outfit POISON IDEA has announced that it will be taking a hiatus for an undetermined amount of time to "address some health issues and personal matters." As a result, all previously announced POISON IDEA have been canceled. Additional details on the band's future plans will be revealed at a later date.
POISON IDEA's latest album, "Confuse & Conquer", came out this past April via Southern Lord Recordings. The band's first CD since 2006's "Latest Will And Testament" was recorded by Joel Grind (TOXIC HOLOCAUST) and mastered by Brad Boatright (FROM ASHES RISE).
POISON IDEA currently includes Eric "The Vegetable" Olsen, back on lead guitar. He was the first real lead guitarist in the band and the second player after Pig Champion, and he played on the 1987's "War All The Time" LP and 1988-released "Filthkick" EP. The band also welcomed the return of Chris "Spider" Carey on bass, who played on "Latest Will And Testament", the last recording before Pig passed. The lineup is rounded out with Brandon Bentley also joining on guitar, Nathan "Skinny" Richardson on drums, and as always, founding vocalist Jerry A. Lang handles the hot-blooded vocal delivery.
Formed in 1980, POISON IDEA became a household name in the hardcore/punk scenes early in their career, and are known as one of the most notoriously in-your-face acts in the American musical underworld, with an enraged, high-energy live set even more rambunctious than the massive roster of singles, EPs, full-length studio and live releases and more, across a realm of labels, including Pusmort, Alchemy, American Leather, Bitzcore, Tim/Kerr, Taang!, Farewell, TKO, Southern Lord, Candlelight, and their own Fatal Erection. They've been an incredibly influential act to major performers, including NIRVANA, PANTERA, NAPALM DEATH, MACHINE HEAD, EYEHATEGOD, EMPEROR, TURBONEGRO and an endless number of others.
Photo credit: Jason Charles
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BILL WARD On BLACK SABBATH: 'I Would Be Very Open-Minded To Any Ideas About Playing Together In The Future'
Here Are New Photos Of VINNIE PAUL's And DIMEBAG's Gravesite
GEOFF TATE Says QUEENSRŸCHE Drummer SCOTT ROCKENFIELD Is 'In A Really Dark Place': 'I Hope He Gets Some Help'
SUM 41 Frontman On DONALD TRUMP: 'He's Not My Kind Of Guy'
SEBASTIAN BACH On His Continued Estrangement From SKID ROW: 'It Hurts That We're Not Together'
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Lonmin's Marikana Operations
EDM number 1850 in 2017-19, proposed by Roger Godsiff on 15/11/2018.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, Death and International politics and government.
That this House expresses concern at the continuing lack of justice for victims and survivors of the Marikana Massacre in South Africa in August 2012 and at the involvement of Lonmin, a London-based and listed company, in that massacre; urges the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to call on the Government of the Republic of South Africa to release the miners who are in prison as a result of the Massacre, to review the Farlam Commission and prosecute those responsible for the Massacre, and to compel Lonmin to fulfill its obligations under its Social and Labour Plan; further calls on the UK Government to ask Lonmin to publish in full the results of the audit of its Marikana operations by its primary customer BASF, and to enter into a social covenant with specific timeframes with the entire mining community, to include an apology to the South African nation and to the families of the mineworkers murdered, injured or arrested, reparations to the affected parties, including all dependents of the deceased mineworkers and the injured and arrested workers who survived the massacre, taking public responsibility for the environmental destruction at Marikana, and ensuring that people in the communities around the mine have sufficient water, proper sanitation and electricity; and calls on the Government to insist that when Lonmin is sold, any new owners must continue to fulfil this social covenant and that this is reflected in the purchase contract.
This motion has been signed by a total of 6 MPs.
Roger Godsiff 15/11/2018 Birmingham, Hall Green Labour Proposed
David Lammy 21/11/2018 Tottenham Labour Seconded
Jim Cunningham 22/11/2018 Coventry South Labour Seconded
Lloyd Russell-Moyle 26/11/2018 Brighton, Kemptown Labour/Co-operative Seconded
Ruth George 26/11/2018 High Peak Labour Seconded
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2018 PGA Championship: Brooks Koepka Gets Ahead of Tiger Woods to Win His Third Career Major
2018 PGA Championship., Brooks Koepka, Tiger Woods
It’s certainly not easy to get ahead of Tiger Woods when he’s in his full action. But the American native did it. Brooks Koepka won his second major of 2018 and his third in 14 months at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis. Leading with two shots, the US Open champion shot a four-under 66 to win by two on 16 under par. Koepka is the first golfer since Jordan Spieth in 2015 to win two majors in one year.
The fans were rooting for their all-time favourite, Tiger Woods, as he pushed for a first major since 2008, falling short despite a final-day 64. In posting his lowest three consecutive rounds at a major (66-66-64) and lowest weekend score at a major (10-under 130) — as in ever — the 14-time major champion would finish second, his best showing at a major since his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship in 2009.
With his 264, Koepka set the record for the lowest 72-hole score in a PGA Championship. David Toms had the record with his 265 in 2001. Koepka who just won the PGA and U.S. Open in the same season, is the only other four men to do that are Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen.
Source: PGA
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Inside the civil rights movement for people with disabilities Special
By Kelly Jadon Apr 20, 2015 in Health
One in six children in the United States will have a developmental delay or disability. Developmental disabilities begin during the developmental period of life, either prior to birth or during infancy.
The disabilities affect everyday living and most often continue throughout life because they impair the physical body, learning, language and/or one’s behavior.
Developmental Disabilities include: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Cerebral Palsy, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Intellectual Disability, Kernicterus, Muscular Dystrophy, Prader-Willi syndrome, Spina Bifida, Tourette syndrome, intellectual disability, hearing loss, or a vision impairment.
From 1800 until 1950, many of the children born with developmental disabilities were placed in state institutions to live out their lives. Mental disabilities were known as “feeble-mindedness.” (“Parallels in Time: A History of Developmental Disabilities,” Minn Gov.) The wealthy however, kept their children with disabilities at home.
In January 1934, Germany began forced sterilizations of those with developmental disabilities, which later segued into euthanasia of the disabled. Before the rise of Hitler though, “the United States led the world in forced sterilizations (30,000 people in 29 states between 1907 and 1939).” These individuals were either in prison or institutions. “Advocates of sterilization policies in both Germany and the United States were influenced by eugenics. This sociobiological theory took Charles Darwin’s principle of natural selection and applied it to society. Eugenicists believed the human race could be improved by controlled breeding.” (“Nazi Euthanasia Program: Persecution of the Mentally & Physically Disabled,” Jewish Virtual Library)
In 1946, conscientious objectors of World War II established the National Mental Health Foundation in the United States. These 3,000 men had served in state mental institutions instead of going to war. Finding “horrific conditions,” these men continued to object. Their foundation publicized institutional abuse and began the move toward bringing people with mental disabilities out of state institutions. (“Conscientious objectors, media exposes, and institutional reform brought change for many,” Access Press, May 10, 2010)
After World War II, many countries, including the United States stopped the forced sterilization of patients (eugenics) because the practice was viewed as being associated with the former Nazi regime.( War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. Black, Edwin, 2003)
On September 2, 2014, a glass monument was publicly placed on display in Berlin, remembering nearly 300,000 victims with mental and physical disabilities put to death by the Nazi regime. (BBC) This was a full 80 years after the beginning of the German eugenics program in 1934.
As the men who spoke up for the rights of the institutionalized during World War II, today’s parents of children with disabilities are the objectors. As ongoing advocates, they are preparing their children for life outside of institutions and life without parents.
The United States sits today at the tipping point of a grass roots civil rights movement for children with developmental disabilities. These are an entire generation of children, now grown, who are entering society for the remainder of their lives. David Morstad, M.Ed., Executive Director of the Bethesda Institute wrote in 2012, “Based on percentages of the population, about 4.6 million to 7.7 million people are affected, although the actual number may very well be higher. The mere fact that people with disabilities are both hard to find and hard to count is itself evidence of the ongoing need for advocacy in the field.” (“How Prevalent Are Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United States?” Bethesda Institute)
Melody and Dannie Hearn
Kelly Jadon
Melody Hearn, the mother of an adopted son with Down syndrome, is a champion for disability rights and education. She is the chairperson of Family Care Council, Area 15, covering the Treasure Coast of South Florida. Mrs. Hearn states that the beginning of independency for a child with a disability begins with early intervention. No longer are these children to be placed out of sight and out of mind, instead they are to be given help from the very first.
Melody and her husband, Dannie Hearn, waited and prayed seven years for a child. One day, their church pastor phoned, asking if they were yet interested in adopting a child. He had just received a phone call from an older mother-to-be who was unwed and wished to place her child in a good Christian home. Not long afterward, Melody stood in the delivery room, watching her son Matthew being born into the world. Immediately doctors saw that the baby was in distress and he was transported to a nearby city hospital to receive neonatal care, genetic testing confirming Down syndrome, and direction toward early intervention.
From infancy on, Matthew received many types of therapies which included speech and oral motor exercises as well as physical and occupational therapy. These helps increased his ability to thrive.
Melody Hearn has found necessary the need to document her son’s needs. With documentation as evidence, she has been able to advocate for Medicaid waiver monies as needed. Without this funding, her son and others like him, would not receive services which help them remain active in the community.
Melody Hearn states, “Studies have found that with early intervention, increasing care, and medications, those with Down syndrome can do what their peers do: go to school with inclusion (best practices), but this is not yet the norm in local schools. Students with disabilities must also be allowed to participate in school plays, sports, clubs, scouts, etc… These children can ride bikes, play the piano, and keep their parents active.”
Because of advocacy, babies with Down syndrome, like Matthew Hearn, are no longer being placed in institutions, but are being adopted. The National Down Syndrome Adoption Network places children with families for adoption in the United States.
Matthew has become Melody’s life. At age 15, the young man also is a champion sportsman with Special Olympics. He desires to go to college and wishes to be a construction worker.
In Florida where the Hearns reside, the University of Central Florida will launch a program for students with disabilities to continue their education in the fall of 2015.
Mrs. Hearn urges parents and society not to “believe the myths.” Children with disabilities grow up to become adults who can work in the community.
People with Down Syndrome and other developmental disabilities are living longer, thanks to medications and increased training. 25 percent of those with Down Syndrome though will develop early onset Alzheimer’s in their 40s. One in 42 boys will be diagnosed with autism in the United States. Researchers in 1995 believed the worldwide rate to be one in 500 children. Those children are 20 years old today. They will require continuing care as they outlive their parents. What will happen to them?
Florida’s advocates and people with disabilities are looking to a sunny future.
Outside of Jacksonville in northern Florida, an employability community for citizens with disabilities is in the works. The Arc Village will include independent housing and group homes located near businesses which will provide work. On the outskirts of the community will be retirement homes for the parents.
Noah’s Landing is another planned community between Tampa and Orlando.
Outside Melbourne, in Brevard County, Florida, Promise is preparing a residential community for special needs adults. They were recently awarded $15.8 million from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation.
Osprey Village is being planned for people with autism and their aging parents in Naples, Florida.
Indian River County, on Florida’s Atlantic seaboard has closed a former teenage boys’ correctional institution. Bigger Dreams Inc. has plans to remake the campus into a community for adults with special needs.
Though Melody and Dannie Hearn are not alone in the adoption and rearing of a child with Down syndrome, they are unusual. Because of their son’s presence, they have continued on in a life of faith, “praying a whole lot more,” Dannie adds.
Melody Hearn has become a State of Florida leader in advocating for the civil rights of children with developmental disabilities. As a State of Florida, Governor-appointed chairperson for Family Care Council, Melody Hearn travels, hosts, and educates other parents of children with disabilities. She also helps others make their own stories known. In government meetings, Melody advocates for individuals with disabilities—to improve their quality of life. Advocacy in her district on the Treasure Coast (Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee and Indian River counties) is yet young but has been steadily growing during the last 15 years.
Project Search is a high school transition program that provides on the job training and experience to students with disabilities. Melody Hearn says, “A few years ago, strong advocates brought Project Search to the Treasure Coast in Martin County. We have been advocating for St. Lucie County to do the same.” Project Search has limited availability, but for those who participate, their opportunity for employment is significantly increased.
In July 2014, Florida’s Employment First Initiative went into effect. Issued by Governor Rick Scott, he “reaffirmed his commitment to employment as ‘the most direct and cost-effective means in helping an individual achieve independence and self-fulfillment, which should be the primary objective of public assistance programs wherever possible.’”
Mrs. Hearn adds, “We need more to fill the needs of young people with Intellectual Disabilities if we are going to meet the Governor’s Employ Me First Initiative.”
Melody Hearn believes there is much more to be accomplished and this is only the beginning of a grass roots civil rights movement.
New national government rulings to come in line with (AHCA) Agency for Health Care Administration will mandate over the next five years full inclusion in for people with disabilities in the community and that they not be segregated or forced into institutional settings.
Mrs. Hearn’s, closing words, “The walls are coming down.”
How we treat others, especially citizens with disabilities, who are often our children, is a reflection of what we are. It takes courage to stand up and speak out as Melody Hearn does. The grass roots movement of advocacy is changing the destiny of many in the United States; whether they are children or adults, those with disabilities are loved, wanted and finally viewed as a most necessary part of society.
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Remembering forgotten wars as fallen soldiers return
Thirty-three bodies returned to Australia last Thursday in the country's largest repatriation of dead servicemen and their dependents, including six children.
They were greeted by a guard of honour as the coffins were led to the hangar.
All of the dead were connected with Australia's involvement in overseas conflicts which have been archived and, in some cases, forgotten altogether.
In the politics of Australia's short historical memory, a few wars stand out: the baptismal conflict of the First World War with its bloody symbolism, and the exterminating rages of the Second World War which saw a foreign power reach, though not occupy, Australian shores.
Few Australians (and this says as much about school curricula as it does about general discussion on the subject) would know about the at times covert role played by Australian servicemen in the Malaysian-Indonesian conflict between 1962 and 1966; or the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960).
Most focus on the stained, estranging Vietnam conflict, one deemed ignoble by even some family members of the fallen personnel.
Returning the fallen has been a contentious matter. Only in 1966 was a policy introduced that formally asserted that servicemen killed in foreign theatres (in that case, Vietnam) would be brought back to Australia for burial. Those who perished prior to that date, such as Warrant Officer Kevin Conway, Australia's first combat casualty in Vietnam, were left.
The choice left for families was grim: cough up 500 pounds to have the remains transported back to Australia, the equivalent of half-a-year's salary, or see the bodies buried in the Terendak Military Cemetery in Malaysia. (Singapore's Kranji Cemetery also supplied a resting place.)
"The repatriation offers a chance to reconsider Australia's varied role in foreign conflicts. These have not all been undertaken in the spirit of cold, logical sobriety."
In some cases, the issue has been politicised, with dead soldiers discarded for being the immoral instruments of disputed foreign policy. This is particularly the case in Vietnam.
The return of these servicemen and dependents should constitute far more than a battle over remains. The press have tended to see it in such procedural terms, a dispute over flawed paperwork, bureaucracy and battling the establishment. The Daily Telegraph focused specifically on Vietnam with the headline 'Australian Vietnam War dead finally return home'.
Veterans Affairs Minister Dan Tehan similarly focused on the sore of Vietnam, with the repatriation giving Australians 'a chance as a nation to stop, pause and reflect on the service and sacrifice that our Vietnam veterans made on behalf of our nation'. Such descriptions ignore the extensive role Australian soldiers have played as agents of broader political machinations, often being victims of egregious calculations.
The repatriation should go beyond Tehan's commemorative remit, offering a chance to reconsider Australia's expansive, and varied role in foreign conflicts. These have not all been undertaken in the spirit of cold, logical sobriety, hatched in the strategic boardroom. Men, and in some cases families, were sent to fight foreign conflicts fed by the ideology of each age. If it wasn't the sanctity of White British Empire raging against German Kaiserism, it was the anti-Communist, and more specifically anti-Asian Communist, cause that mattered.
In some cases, Australians performed the euphemistic clean-up roles, mopping up resistance or patrolling tense borders in undeclared conflicts. Three of the returned Australian personnel died in Malaysia having performed their duties guarding the Thai-Malaysian border from Communist incursions during the Malayan Emergency.
Even now, the ideological glasses remain firmly set, with justifications that the deployment was necessary to prevent Malaysia from falling into Communist hands. That conveniently skips over the initial motivations for the mainly Chinese-inspired communist uprising led by the mercurial Chin Peng: to eliminate British colonial influence and assert greater control over the rival Malays, who tended to occupy government positions.
It is also worth remembering that some caution in rushing Australian personnel into action could be shown. Canberra proved a reluctant supplier of Australian soldiers to the Konfrontasi conflict between Indonesia and Malaysia, refusing initial requests by the British and Malaysian authorities between 1963 and 1964 to send troops to Borneo. On January 1965, Australia relented in sending a battalion.
Today, the United States remains the ideological high priest of Australian foreign policy, encouraging Canberra to be willing to part with soldiers when Washington's interests demand it. Such a policy is naturally sold as being in Australia's best interest, and risks bringing the country into future conflict with such trading powers as China. As always, it is the soldierly class, along with family and the civilians encountering them, who suffer as a consequence. The tactician and policy maker, however capable, stand immune.
Dr Binoy Kampmark is a former Commonwealth Scholar who lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.
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Assange: Arresting the fourth estate
Topic tags: Binoy Kampmark, returned soldiers
Australian politicians have been to do the bidding of the US when it comes to involvement in foreign wars. The Government of the day should not make such decisions unilaterally, without even a parliamentary debate. Sadly we have lost too many lives by rushing into wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as had the terrible aftermath of so many returned soldiers with post-traumatic stress. If we can have a referendum on same sex marriage, I suggest we have a referendum on any proposed war involvement next time. Our political leaders have made some disastrous and deadly decisions in the past.
Grant Allen | 06 June 2016
By the time of the Malayan Emergency in 1948, communists had murdered and enslaved tens of millions of people and promised more of the same. True to form, tens of millions more were murdered by China’s Cultural Revolution, the Khmer Rouge, Mugabe, etc. Typical of the delusional justification for such barbarity, was the Khmer Rouge’s Khieu Samphan. At his trial for genocide he stated, “I never wanted anything other than social justice for my country.” Well some people didn’t buy this mendacity and fought against it. Lee Kuan Yew wrote that the Vietnam War, “bought time for the rest of Southeast Asia. In 1965, when the US military moved massively into South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines faced internal threats from armed communist insurgents…Had there been no intervention, the will of these countries to resist them would have melted and Southeast Asia would have most likely gone communist. The prosperous emerging market economies of ASEAN were nurtured during the Vietnam War years.” It was only in the 1980s, after China and Vietnam ditched their disastrous communist-inspired centralized economies and embraced a market economy, that they too began to prosper economically.
Ross Howard | 07 June 2016
All of the wars mentioned were fought for very good reasons and in our national interest. We were almost always on the side of right. Iraq is the new and I believe almost unique exception. What is most interesting is the new importance given to the physical dead body; this is something that has profoundly changed over the last 30 years as religious and spiritual consciousness around death has decline. The same change is reflected in the almost complete absence of traditional post-mortem examinations in our hospitals and the difficulty in getting even post-operative human tissue for research. The body has taken in a secular sacredness.
Eugene | 07 June 2016
What a complex set of questions is generated when a government ponders what to do about our fallen warriors in foreign lands. The submitted comments so far illustrate that there are no easy solutions. There has been much academic and therapeutic research carried out on how men and women cope with the death of a loved one in the normal course of the human cycle of birth, growth, aging and death. But when the death is the result of military action a plethora of personal, social, political and moral is generated. But the situation has become more complicated ever since the media coverage of the Vietnam War gave rise to the question should a democratic government ever pursue military policies that run counter to public opinion.
Uncle Pat | 07 June 2016
Because the Stalinist brand of socialism committed many crimes against humanity, this does not justify Australia being involved in wars instigated by the US Military Industrial Complex or actions to undermine democracy in many countries around the world to increase the wealth of US corporations, steal resources from other nations or further US global power. We must remember the US use of mass bombings, napalm, Agent Orange and murder squads caused a lot of terror and brutality as well. In the case of Pol Pot, it was other factions of the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese Government that cooperated together to rid Cambodia of Pol Pot and his faction that committed so much brutality. It would be far better for Australia to be an independent, non-aligned nation that worked for peace, fairness in international relations, human rights, social justice and care for the environment than to just let our governments be subservient to the US and, as a result with Israel and Indonesia, two nations that have committed their share of terror in their regions of the world. It is understandable that families want the remains of their loved ones to be returned to Australia.
Andrew (Andy) Alcock | 10 June 2016
Legal grey area hinders Aboriginal repatriation
Kate Galloway
Until the 1940s, bodies of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were sent to museum, scientific, and private collections around the world. The remains of more than 1000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians continue to be held overseas in collections. Indigenous Australians have worked tirelessly towards repatriation, and there has been some success in recent decades. Unfortunately, the remains tend to fall into a grey area of Australian law.
Elder abuse thrives on silence
We all know elderly people who are healthy, active, and blessed with loving families. But the image represents only part of the reality of old age. Many elderly people are ill, have lost their partners, live alone with little connection to their families, suffer from incipient dementia, and are dependent on others for the daily business of living. If they appear at all in the media, it is usually in bad news stories. They are seen as people different from us. A significant minority of older people, too, suffer from abuse.
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Home INTERVISTE The Third Part of the Fatima Secret
The Third Part of the Fatima Secret
An interview with Kevin Symonds*, Author of On the Third Part of the Secret of Fátima, published by “En Route Books and Media”, 2017
by Dr. Michela Ferri
Why did you write this book and why are you interested in this topic of the history of the Catholic Church? Why and when did you become interested in this topic?
I wrote this book for a few reasons. Above all, I have a very strong interest in the Madonna. This interest is rooted in devotion to Our Lady that was instilled in me during my conversion twenty years ago. Secondly, the work for the book began in an indirect fashion during the research for another book “Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael.” Fátima is a part of this book and work that I did for it became the foundation for my latest book. I was very excited to be able to go more deeply into the story of Fátima as these apparitions have always been dear to me. Thirdly, and finally, the publication of a new biography on Sister Lúcia provided fresh insights into the history of Fátima. I believed this information to be very important as it helped to address some ongoing controversies surrounding Fátima and the famous third part of its secret.
Were there specific aspects of this topic that you found to be difficult during your research?
Yes, there were some very difficult aspects. The most difficult was following the controversies. Over the course of decades, various controversies and accusations of conspiracy arose over the third part of the secret. Understanding the arguments and following them back to their sources was not an easy task, and there were times where I had to rest. Closely attached to this fact was locating the sources themselves. Regretfully, I was not able to find everything, but enough materials were located with the help of very kind people. Finally, there is the fact of the research in languages other than English. Thankfully, I enjoy some capacity with foreign languages and have a network of people upon whom I rely for assistance. Together, we have done some truly groundbreaking work with this book and I am indebted to everyone who helped me, especially the nephew of Fr. Agustín Fuentes (discussed in chapter five).
Could you explain the structure of your book?
The book is divided into thirteen chapters, and this was a deliberate act on my part. The number thirteen is closely associated with Fátima as it is on the 13th of each month that the Madonna appeared to the three visionaries (except in August, 1917). Also, Sister Lúcia died on February 13th, 2005. Finally, it was thirteen years from the apparitions’ end to their approval (1917-1930). The first chapter is a history of Fátima and its secret with a special emphasis upon the third part. The chapter establishes the foundation for the remaining twelve chapters which examine specific aspects of the history of the third part of the secret. There is an epilogue at the end of the chapters wherein I summarize the general observations. Then there are appendices, some of which are important documents that have not been available to an English-speaking audience. A few of my own articles on Fátima are included in the appendices.
Could you explain the connection between Fátima and Pope John Paul II?
The connection between Fátima and Pope Saint John Paul II largely surrounds the failed assassination attempt on the Pontiff’s life on 13 May, 1981. That day was the 64th anniversary of the first apparition of the Madonna. The would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, shot and wounded the Pope. During his convalescence in the Gemelli Clinic, the Holy Father requested that the third part of the secret (among other documents) be brought to him. Seeing that the text showed a vision of a Pope being attacked, John Paul II associated his own experience with the vision. In the tradition of literature, it is said that prior to the assassination attempt, John Paul II’s devotion to the Madonna was rooted in Polish culture and tradition. In other words, he was not very familiar with Fátima. Having been shot and then reading the prophecy of the third part of the secret compelled the Holy Father to take a keen interest in Fátima. Thereafter, he saw his pontificate as intimately united with Our Lady of Fátima and sought to fulfill her request for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart, first in 1982 and then in 1984. He was also in communication with Sister Lúcia, who, together with the Holy Father, decided in 1982 not to release the text of the third part of the secret. That revelation came between May and June of 2000 with the belief that the specific prophecies of Fátima had been fulfilled. In 2005, both Sister Lúcia and John Paul II died within weeks of each other—the latter having died on 2 April, which was the First Saturday of the month and the Vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday. It is also a little-appreciated fact that the cane used by John Paul II towards the end of his life was given to him by Sister Lúcia.
One hundred years after the events in Fatima sees the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta taking place today (Saturday the 13th of May). Do you believe their canonization presents a new message for the Catholic world?
The canonization of Francisco and Jacinta Marto does not present a new message for the Catholic world, though it does permit us to rethink some theological concepts. Above all, the canonization reiterates or reinforces the perennial message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men, no matter their age. It has been believed that young people could only be canonized if they had died as martyrs. Francisco and Jacinta died natural deaths. There is no guarantee that because someone sees Jesus or Mary, as did Francisco and Jacinta, that they are going to be saints. In the history of the Church, one can find examples of people who did not always live exemplary lives after experiencing extraordinary graces. People are still capable of not corresponding with the grace of God, as the contemporary world readily demonstrates. Francisco and Jacinta were overcome with the love of God and the Madonna so much so that the greatest of sacrifices was as nothing to them, so long as it meant loving God more and saving souls. This is a message in and of itself to the world—that the gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone and the life of virtue can be practiced to a heroic degree even by the littlest among us. In this day and age, when a veritable cesspool of sin exists, Francisco and Jacinta stand up amid the ruins of society and point us to God and Our Lady.
What is the sense, the message, of the miracle of Fátima?
I believe that it was Cardinal Cerejeira, the Patriarch of Lisbon, who once described the “miracle” of Fátima in terms of the conversion of the people and the country of Portugal. It went from Socialist revolution to honoring God almost overnight. This is the miracle of Fátima, and it stands as a living reminder to us today of what happens when we return to God and do penance. Recently, I attended the 24th International Mariological Congress in Fátima. I prayed and meditated on both the events of the Congress and the call of the Madonna in Fátima. During the course of my meditation, the famous phrase of the secret “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith shall always be preserved” came to mind. As I experienced Portuguese culture through its people, I began to see more depth to this phrase. The people preserved much of its “Catholic identity,” especially in the language. This came apparent to me when I was working on Portuguese texts for my book. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI warned the Portuguese against the ravages of secularism and to be prophets to our world. It is my prayer that Fátima continues to point the Portuguese (and others) towards God. The message is simple: conversion. The Immaculate Heart of the Madonna is held out to us as a pathway that will lead us to God.
*Kevin Symonds was born and raised in Massachusetts. He attended Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio where he obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Theology with a background in the classical languages. He has worked with the Church’s theology of private revelation since 2002 and has published Internet and magazine articles. He is also the author of Refractions of Light: 201 Answers on Apparitions, Visions and the Catholic Church (En Route Books and Media, 2015) and Pope Leo XIII and the Prayer to St. Michael (Preserving Christian Publications, 2015). He lives in Michigan.
For more information or to arrange an interview with Kevin, contact him at:
spirituskevin@gmail.com
or visit him on his web site: www.kevinsymonds.com.
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More Art Upstairs
Screening, New Port Theater, Corona Del Mar, CA
On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Fieldstead and Company sponsored a special screening of the documentary film More Art Upstairs at the New Port Theater in Corona del Mar, CA. The film, produced and directed by Jody Hassett Sanchez, calls into question the role of art in our lives, explores the conversations that are elicited as a result of the contemplation of art and denotes the varying reactions of community members to the development of art spaces in their midst; all amid the backdrop of ArtPrize, a vast, independently organized international art competition which takes place for 19 days each fall in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Featuring working artists Judith Braun, Nick Kline, Marissa Voytenko, Leah Smith, Michael Townsend, Kevin Buist, Michael Rakowitz, writer and journalist Robin Cembalist, curator Sarah Urist Green, curator Lisa Freiman, curator Justine Ludwig and curator Dan Cameron.
From the production’s website: “For three weeks in September, beer-fueled debates in the bars of one Michigan town aren’t about sports and politics but art. Hundreds of thousands of people come to Grand Rapids to engage with blue-chip artists in ways that rarely happen at Art Basel or other established art events, unless you’re a major collector or critic.
More Art Upstairs follows four accomplished artists as they compete at ArtPrize, a populist experiment that’s challenging the art world’s hierarchy by giving the public the power to decide which art will win almost half the $500,000 in prize money.
What attracts our artists is the chance to win this public vote, but also to gain exposure to some of the country’s top art critics, who dash into town to select which art will win the rest of the prize money. Local bistros, bars and abandoned buildings showcase the work – more than 1500 creations – and our artists are compelled to be outgoing. They stand next to their art all day, talking to people who are often experiencing contemporary art for the first time.
With unmatched access to artists, organizers, jurors and visitors, our film captures the entire wild ride of this competition. The result – a thoughtful yet exuberant experience about this curious confluence of paintings, populism and the notion that art can express something important about what it means to be human.
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A Philosophy of Tramping — Asceticism
‘IT is a gentle art; know how to tramp and you know how to live. ... Tramping brings one to reality. [...] It is a mistake to take to the wilderness clad in new plus fours, sports jacket, West-End tie, jewelled tie pin, or in gaiters, or carrying a silver-topped cane. One should not carry visiting cards, but try and forget the three-storied house, remembering Diogenes and his tub.’
Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping
Some of the questions that still elude me about tramping are: when did the tramp first emerge in history? what prompted one to become a tramp? and, if tramps always existed, how has their vocation and relationship to the rest of society changed over time? I intend in this essay to review some of my earlier writings on the origins of asceticism in Western culture—and the Cynic project in particular. I need to better understand, what it is that provokes certain individuals to disassociate themselves from the rest of society's pursuit of money and possessions, as the means to secure success and happiness. The questions that I will address at the end of this post are: 1/ why did Cynicism fail and Christianity succeed? And, 2/ what might have been the legacy for we moderns, of dumping a philosophy of naturalism in favour of a belief in the supernatural? I do not apologise for returning again to the ancient Cynics; it is the raison d'être of this blog to rescue this ancient philosophy from obscurity and misrepresentation. But important to setting out the foundations of a philosophy of tramping, is the need to explore the thesis that, the denigration of cynicism in our post-Christian world may have provided the moral vacuum that today's tramp inhabits—a search for the real in a stressful world of exasperating illusions.
However much we moderns appreciate the convenience of owning a car, a washing machine or a computer, to some degree we are also aware of the potential of such possessions to enslave us. When considering the cost of their purchase, maintenance, insurance (to relieve the anxiety against them getting lost, damaged or stolen), constant upgrading and replacement, and the additional stress of remembering ever more complex passwords to make things work at all, or, accessing unhelpful helplines 'manned' by robots; the burden of owning stuff—apart from those wealthy enough to employ servants to do the worrying for them—increases exponentially in proportion to the paraphernalia and services we employ to manage our lives. Who has not at some point envied the freedom of the tramp and contemplated how their lives might be happier, or at least less stressful, if they just walked away from their job, home, possessions and responsibilities—only to panic at the thought of what they might be giving up, or overwhelmed with guilt at the very thought of such an irresponsible act of selfishness.
And yet, for at least 2,500 years, there have been those who perfectly well understood the folly of seeking to achieve happiness through accumulating money and possessions. One of the principal tenets of Buddhism: if one desires nothing, one lacks nothing, was absorbed into Western thinking by the ancient Greek Cynics only 100 or so years after Buddhism took root in the East. Trade links certainly existed between the Mediterranean and India during the hundred or so years before Cynicism formally emerged. And according to Indian records, the Buddha died in 483 B.C., only 79 years before Diogenes the Cynic was reportedly born in 404 B.C. Further exchanges must have taken place between Greek and Indian sages during the campaigns of Alexander. The Cynics in turn influenced the asceticism of the early Jesus movements (before, that is, the beliefs of Jesus became corrupted by Paul's version of Christianity). The principals of these ancient sects are continued today by those with the courage and independence of spirit to turn their backs on the consumer world that the rest of us find ourselves addicted to—paradoxically, consumerism is now fully embraced and promoted as a virtue by many modern Christians.
Yet, as discussed in the Introduction, unlike the more accepting ancient Mediterranean cultures, the choice to tramp since Christian times (unless in a monastic role) came at the cost of being outcast and outlawed by the rest of society. The reasoning behind any philosophy of tramping must, therefore, consider the history of asceticism as one of its fundamental determinants. This post will now look more closely at the reasoning underlying ancient Greek and Christian asceticism to provide a context for the work that is to follow.
Ancient Greek Asceticism
Most of the Hellenistic philosophies acknowledged, to some degree, the limitations of indulging our desirers as a path to happiness. Even the Hedonist Aristippus, founder of the Cyreniac school, had to acknowledge that extreme self-indulgence could only be acquired at the cost of pain. He recommended that in order to minimise the pain that may accompany pleasure, we should also work at mastering our desires. One of Hedonism’s later followers, Hegesias, became so sceptical of attaining contentment through positive enjoyment that he adopted a philosophy of pessimism, declaring happiness to be unattainable. The Epicureans held that sensual impulses and a rich enjoyment of life was permitted so long as one avoided a dependence on such things. The goal of happiness was to be achieved by balancing the most pleasure with the least pain. This did not necessarily equate to self-indulgence, as pleasure could be achieved as much by altruistic actions as it could by selfish ones—in fact more so. It was the degree to which pain (physical pain and mental anguish) could be removed that was the Epicurean’s main criterion of happiness. Furthermore, happiness itself could not be increased exponentially. A lavish banquet, for instance, would not provide a greater degree of pleasure than a crust of bread and a drink of water, if the measure of happiness is the degree to which thirst or hunger is vanquished. The Stoics took from Cynicism their belief that external things should be eliminated from human life, but, as with Pauline Christianity, this included human passion. In marked contrast to the Cynics, Hedonists and Epicureans, the Stoics claimed that the elimination of passion promised a new basis for political virtue, supporting an ideal which would lead to a just and humane society.
According to the first century Latin writer and Epicurean, Lucretius, the road to happiness is often an elusive one. In seeking fame and fortune—a need which, he tells us, is impelled by a desire for security and contentment in life—the opposite fate is in fact often achieved. The resulting, and more lasting pain (including the pain of guilt, envy, regret, etc.) nullify and circumvent any happiness which may have been achieved. The Cynics were one step ahead of this Epicurean logic, for in attempting to avoid pain and disillusionment, they spent their life training for and subjecting themselves to the worst kind of pain and hardship as an insurance against being cast down. An example of Cynic training (askesis) can be found in reports of Diogenes begging alms of a statue in order to get practice at being refused, and Peregrinus practising Cynic indifference by appearing in public with half his head shaved, his face covered in mud, and an erect penis. A more practical outcome of the Cynic art, is illustrated by Diogenes smashing a cup he carried for water after witnessing a youth drinking from his cupped hands. Living an ascetic life style then, removed the possibility of destitution because the Cynics had already cast themselves down out of a positive choice of lifestyle.
In marked contrast to Stoics and Christians, Cynics did not abstain from sexual pleasure; which was entirely consistent with their belief in modelling the behaviour of lower animals as the most natural way to live. It is reported that Diogenes' lifestyle was inspired by watching a mouse running about: not looking for a place to lie down in, not afraid of the dark, not seeking any of the things which we consider to be dainties. As a further example of learning from animals, Diogenes’ choice of a large earthenware wine vat as a mobile home is said to have been inspired by his observation of a snail. It was this simple lifestyle, deliberately adopted to contrast with civic society’s obsession with luxury and complexity, that distinguished the Cynics and brought them into ridicule. The Cynic regarded all human appetites as equal in nature. To explain his habit of masturbating in public, Diogenes is reported to have said, “I only wish I could be rid of hunger by rubbing my belly.” What emerges as a result of examining these (albeit anecdotal) references, is a clear link between even the basest of a Cynics’ public behaviour and their philosophical and ethical convictions.
Like early Christianity, Cynicism offered freedom from unhealthy preoccupations with the material world, but unlike Christianity, it offered immediate peace on earth for the individual rather than the deferred gratification of a reward in heaven. The Cynics did not believe in gods or the notion of an afterlife; an important consideration when it comes to addressing the two questions I posed at the beginning of this post. In the aphoristic style of the chreia (a Cynic invention adopted later by pre-Pauline Christians), when asked if he believed in the gods, Diogenes replied, “How can I help believing in them, when I see a god-forsaken wretch like you?” It was a Cynic slogan that one could lose material possessions, yet wisdom and knowledge could never be taken away. But it would be a mistake to view the Cynics’ life as an easy option. Far from wishing to avoid work and responsibility, most Cynics fully embraced their responsibilities. Many in fact gave away considerable fortunes in order to pursue asceticism as a positive lifestyle. Furthermore, by disseminating their philosophy free to all comers, they arguably contributed far more to society than those who simply chose to sell their wisdom within the exclusivity of schools of learning.
Cynic Influences on Christianity
At the time that Christianity was emerging during the first century A.D., ascetic Jewish and early Christian sects would have had every opportunity to be influenced by Cynics. The main trade route between the Mediterranean coastal town of Ptolemais and Gadara (birthplace of Cynics Menippus, Meleager and Oenomaus) near the south-eastern end of the Sea of Galilee, passed just 8 miles north of Nazareth. The earliest comparison between Christians and Cynics comes from the second century anti-Christian writer Celsus, who made disparaging comments about Christians’ Cynic-like behaviour of preaching to the rabble in the market place rather than engaging in what he considered intelligent debate. This view was challenged by Origen some 60 years later when he commended the practice of bringing philosophy to the mass of uneducated people, and Christian and Cynic street preachers may well have shared the same audiences. Cynicism has been described as the philosophy of the proletariat and also a philosophy of the individual; important when considering it's relevance to tramping. Both sects also shared literary and dialogic genres, such as the chreia mentioned earlier, the diatribe (credited as a prototype of the Christian sermon) and the symposium (or banquet dialogue, as exampled by the Last Supper).
But to return to asceticism, for both the Cynics and the early Christians, the lifestyle of the ascetic was central to their practical philosophy, in which personal hardship and suffering provided the key to the elimination of physical and mental discomfort. The early Christian ascetic culture of poverty provided instructions not to worry about what one eats, to discard home and family ties, to eschew normal standards of cleanliness, and to treasure ourselves rather than our possessions. ‘Go sell all your possessions and give them to the poor,’ it says in Mark (10.21). And also from Mark (10:25), ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’ Compare also, the truism in 1 Timothy (6.10) that, ‘the love of money is the root of all evils’, with that attributed to Diogenes the Cynic in the writings of his namesake, Diogenes Laertius (6:50), ‘the love of money is the mother-city of all evils.’ How then does one reconcile the image of fat bishops in their cathedral palaces clad in purple robes and gold chains, with Jesus the ascetic sage entreating his followers to abandon money, possessions and a roof over their head for a life of hardship and prayer.
If suffering is an inevitable part of life, by embracing a culture of poverty in the manner in which they lived, both Cynics and early Christians sought to cheat suffering by making a virtue of it. Their asceticism was the key to a practical philosophy, in which personal hardship and suffering provided the key to happiness. The early Christians trained to endure the harshest circumstances including pain, hunger and the insults of others; and the degree of asceticism described in the parallel references in Matthew, Mark and Luke appears even more severe than that of the Cynics. In addition to only wearing a single tunic and taking no gold, silver or copper in their wallets, the disciples are instructed to wear no sandals and carry no staff. By the time the Desert Fathers made their appearance, four centuries later, we get into Christian asceticism of an entirely different order, such as the holy man who is reported to have lived for thirty years on bread and muddy water, and another who survived in an old well on five dried figs a day. But, as will be discussed later, such practices were based on the fear of hell and damnation, not the Cynic goal of celebrating life, here on earth, with the least pain.
Any similarity then between Cynics and Christians, ended when Paul hijacked the early Christian movement and turned Jesus—ascetic sage and one of many Jewish rebels of the time—into a prophet, thundering apocalyptic warnings of doom and destruction. The preposterous narrative tale of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus as a supernatural being, a God himself, was first recorded for others to add to and embellish over the succeeding decades and centuries. No one has better captured Paul's corruption of Jesus' original philosophy, than the modern cynic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his penultimate work, The Anti-Christ. Although covered in more detail in an earlier post, 'Nietzsche: Anti-Christ, not anti Jesus', it is worth noting here, just in what way Nietzsche considered that Pauline Christianity had blighted the world for the last 2,000 years—and his surprise also, that in all that time we had not bothered to invent for ourselves a single new god! The paradox is, that if Jesus were to show up in one of our city centre streets today, the perversion that is the modern Christian state would simply regard him as any other down-and-out, an object of fear and suspicion, and either jail him for vagrancy or have him committed for a psychiatric assessment.
Nietzsche understood that the real tragedy of Christianity, was not its corruption by Saint Paul, but that the rise of Christianity itself heralded a long dark period in the history of Western civilisation, one that laid waste to the richness and diversity that was the classical culture of Greek and Roman civilisation. ‘One has but to read Lucretius to know what Epicurus made war upon’. And what Epicurus made war upon, was ‘the corruption of souls by means of the concepts of guilt, punishment and immortality’. For Nietzsche, before Paul appeared, Epicurus had triumphed. Every respectable intellect in Rome was Epicurean. The Hellenistic philosophies promised not eternal life, as did Christianity, but the eternal recurrence of life, a future that was promised and made sacred in the past. True life was collective survival through reproduction and the mysteries of sexuality. The authentic, deep meaning in all ancient piety for the Greeks was the ultimate revered symbol of sexuality. Everything associated with pregnancy, birth, and the act of reproduction, awoke the highest and most festive feelings. ‘It was Christianity, on the basis of its ressentiment against life, that first made something unclean out of sexuality: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life.’ And it is Saint Paul again who must take the credit for originating the notion of fornication as unclean in his first epistle to the Thessalonians, the earliest of the New Testament texts:
‘For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity; that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God; that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you. For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.’
To return to Christian asceticism in it's most extreme and unhealthy form, it is necessary to contrast Paul's brand of asceticism with that of the Cynics in order to address some of the questions I posed earlier. One legacy of Pauline Christianity was the strict celibacy and mistrust of women (or rather mistrust of men's own desires for women) carried forward into the monastic life of the Middle Ages. Unlike the Cynics, these devout holy men felt that they could no longer practice in cities, seeking out instead the solitude of remote places. The Desert Fathers were the first hermit monks from whom collectives of monks, or monasteries, would start developing across Europe. The third century A.D. found many of these holy men (and some celibate holy women) living in remote parts of the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria. A fuller description of the lives and practices of the Desert Fathers can be found on my post, 'Christian Asceticism and the Demonisation of Woman', from which the following first hand description by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria from 325-373, is taken as an example. He tells how Anthony, credited as the 'father' of dessert monasticism, was daily set on by the demons to dissuade him from his holy mission. The devil himself warns the monk, “how difficult it is to attain the goal of virtue and the very hard work involved in achieving it”. In Anthony’s case, the devil would nightly appear to him in his small cell in the form of a beautiful woman, ‘omitting no detail that might provoke lascivious thoughts, but Anthony called to the mind the fiery punishment of hell and the torment inflicted by worms: in this way he resisted the onslaught of lust.’
That goddess worship in Ancient Greece and Rome, and the celebration of everything connected with fertility and the mysteries of reproduction, would be replaced in a couple of centuries by fear and loathing of women on such a scale, was an unparalleled triumph of marketing by Paul, that continues to the present day. And to illustrate just how determined and savage were Paul's successors in their mission of demonising women, I provide two further examples. The first of these comes from the early Christian writer Tertullian (circa 160 – 225 A.D.):
‘Do you not realize that Eve is you? The curse God pronounced on your sex weighs still on the world. Guilty, you must bear its hardships. You are the devil’s gateway, you desecrated the fatal tree, you first betrayed the law of God, you who softened up with your cajoling words the man against whom the devil could not prevail by force. The image of God, the man Adam, you broke him, it was child's play to you. You deserved death, and it was the son of God who had to die.’
Poor Adam! Of course, he had no chance against such devilish cunning. The lust and desire of man is born out of the womb, contaminated by the evil that is woman. ‘Woman is the cause of the Fall, the wicked temptress, the accomplice of Satan, and destroyer of mankind.’ For the sins of Eve, woman is condemned to the pangs of childbirth and the curse of menstruation. And yet, in case man still finds himself too weak to to resist her charms, Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople from 347–407 A.D., provides some additional words of deterrent:
‘The whole of her bodily beauty is nothing less that the phlegm, blood, bile, rheum, and the fluid of digested food . . . If you consider what is stored up behind those lovely eyes, the angle of the nose, the mouth and cheeks you will agree that the well-proportioned body is merely a whitened sepulchre.’
Saint Augustine (354–430 A.D.) completed the causal chain between the sinfulness of sex, the virgin birth, and the good of virginity. The final irony of Christianity’s demonisation of women, was to create a female icon to which no ‘real’ woman could aspire. By means of the immaculate conception, Mary was able to give birth to the infant Christ, free from the contamination of sexual desire, and thus, break the chain of ‘original sin’ which the temptress Eve had effected in the Garden of Eden. The rest of woman kind were left to languish in the shadow of her glory. This hatred of women reached its grizzly climax in the witch hunts that started in 1454 (before the start of the Reformation) and ended in 1782 when the last witch was ‘officially’ executed in Poland. No other culture or civilisation in history had ever set out to systematically torture and murder (in the millions by some accounts) its own women in such a way.
The virtue of the Desert Fathers was not the virtue sought either by Jesus or the Cynics, whose asceticism was aimed at living a simple life free from unnatural, not natural, desires. In the case of Jesus, there is no evidence that unnatural desires included fornication. If Diogenes preferred masturbation as a way to relieve his sexual appetites, it was because he was in control of when and where to attend to his needs, other Cynics, such as Crates, appear to have had a very active sex life indeed. Not so with these holy men, whose asceticism seems to have been dominated by the need to resist carnal temptations at all costs and avoid eternal damnation. Only one real opportunity has presented itself in the last 2,000 years for a rejection of Christianity and return to glories of the ancient world, but the Renaissance collapsed because alongside the reawakening of the love of life, developed a hedonistic excess of life. Neither did the Enlightenment and the advance of scientific discovery deliver on promises for a better world; quite the contrary. Science has been responsible for as many catastrophes as it has successes, whether military, medical or ecological.
And so, in answer to one of the questions I posed earlier, it would seem that human beings themselves are the problem. The majority of us would seem to prefer chasing illusions than dealing with the reality of the natural world around us: continually staring skyward for meaning, as did Icarus, rather than at what exists right under our noses. A possible reason that Cynicism did not flourish may be that in addition to it's harsh lifestyle, it reinforced our human limitations, flaws and failures. Essentially, we are an arrogant animal, who rather needs to believe in our virtues, omnipotence and indestructibility, whether the Christian promise of a reward in heaven, or scientists' obsession with understanding, categorising and controlling the natural world. All the while, we humans—through our misguided belief that the world can be shaped to our will—continue to create the very chaos and disorder that we seek to control. That the two candidates for the impending US presidential election in 2012, facing some of the biggest challenges in the world today, both refer to their belief in God as one of their primary credentials for election, should be proof enough that modern politics in the US is bankrupt.
That over 50% of Americans—the most powerful and fanatically Christian society in the West—oppose universal healthcare in their country because they object to contributing towards a more equal and caring society, is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with the capitalist project—and it would seem, the basest example of the perversion of Christianity. The arrogance and, at the same time, vulnerability of this nation—decaying as it is from the inside out—is it's child-like belief that it represents a model of democracy and assumes a self-appointed role as guardian of the planet. The tragedy is, that what could have been a paragon of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in the modern world, a virtual Noah's Ark of the strongest and most resourceful representatives of humans from across the globe, degenerated into Christian mediocrity and a nation divided by greed and selfishness. The tramp scares of the depression eras in America, in which thousands of disenfranchised citizens rejected main stream society and took to tramping as an alternative life style, may yet return to haunt America in an entirely unpredictable form, and on an even more unprecedented scale.
What will it take to convince humankind, that religion, science and capitalism have all failed to deliver on promises of a better world, while the rich and powerful—depending as they do on the existence of an underclass to maintain their advantage—cling desperately to their privileged life styles? The answer is, of course, that human nature is human nature, and has not changed for millennia. We do not carry forward wisdom from one generation to the next, because wisdom dies with each passing generation. The most abused of all adages, that we learn from our mistakes, is the greatest myth of all. For all the posturing and handwringing, greed will always prevail, and the best of belief-systems will always be corrupted to serve selfish and powerful interests. As for the silent majority, they will continue to believe the illusions that priests and politicians peddle—because not to, is an altogether depressing alternative. Cynicism failed for precisely this reason. And Christianity continues to flourish because it offers 'hope'—even if, as Nietzsche observed, it delivers nothing.
But Cynicism cannot, and does not, claim to provide and alternative 'system'. All it can do is hold up a mirror to human arrogance and pretension, inviting us to see the naked truth behind grand deceptions—a truth that most of us would prefer to remain blind and deaf to. Neither is asceticism, of itself, the answer. That we should all live an aesthetic, tramping lifestyle, or go off and live in a barrel like Diogenes, is not an option. That some of us though, cannot, or refuse to, any longer tolerate the stress and disenchantment of mainstream society, and choose instead an ascetic lifestyle, is perfectly understandable. It is certainly preferable to allowing the stress of modern life to pathologise us, leaving us at the mercy of psychiatrists and therapists; those guardians of normal human behaviour.
In understanding the need to tramp, a reevaluation of the philosophy of Cynicism, and the Cynics brand of asceticism, is a useful starting place—to reconnect with the natural rather than the supernatural world. If nothing else, Cynicism represents a personal strategy for surviving in a hostile world. That is, those periods in history, like our current crisis, when society becomes morally bankrupt, and social and political vacuums leave ordinary people feeling alienated and abandoned. Although I intend to explore many other reasons why people may resort to tramping in future posts, this response to a feeling of abandonment; provoking a search for a simpler more meaningful life, must be at the core of the tramp's determination; and behind whose ragged appearance may well lurk a superior intellect.
I gave the first words, and I leave the last words, to tramp essayist and novelist Stephen Graham, this time from A Tramps Sketches. As though to illustrate just how little we progress civilisation, Graham's comments on 'commercialism', published exactly 100 years ago, could easily have been written yesterday:
‘The question remains, "Who is the tramp?" ... He is necessarily a masked figure; he wears the disguise of one who has escaped, and also of one who is a conspirator. ... He is the walking hermit, the world-forsaker, but he is above all things a rebel and a prophet, and he stands in very distinct relation to the life of his time.
The great fact of the human world to-day is the tremendous commercial machine which is grinding out at a marvellous acceleration the smaller and meaner sort of man, the middle class, the average man, "the damned, compact, liberal majority," to use the words of Ibsen ... But over and against the commercial machine stand the rebels, the defiers of it, those who wish to limit its power, to redeem some of the slaves ... Commercialism is at present the great enemy of the individual man.’
Labels: Anti-Christ, asceticism, Christianity, Desert Fathers, Diogenes the Cynic, Epicureanism, Hedonism, masturbation, Nietzsche, Peregrines, Renaissance, Satan, Stephen Graham, Stoicism
Incredibly thought provoking piece. Love the site/blog, btw.
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Career Spotlight: Peter J. D'Adamo, ND
Patty Bates-Ballard
Originally published as an alumni profile by the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges.
From his father, renowned naturopath Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo inherited the notion that people of different blood types do better on certain diets. Years of validating and synthesizing the science behind the idea culminated in the 1996 award-winning book Eat Right 4 Your Type. The bestseller was followed by a series of books on the connections between blood type and many of our nation’s most serious health problems, including diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Then in 2007, Dr. D’Adamo published The GenoType Diet, offering a therapeutic series of diets for six different genotypes. Building on blood type, the book explores the concept of epigenetics - the way in which our genes respond to our environment and create differences that we then pass along to our children. Recently, Dr. D’Adamo has developed a software program that generates a personalized, unique diet for each of his patients. He has also opened a personalized nutrition store in Connecticut.
The validation of an idea
AANMC: What was it like growing up under the influence of your father, James D’Adamo, who began the research on blood types as they relate to diet? Did you grow up eating for your type?
PD: Naturopathic principles were part of the way I was brought up; we managed to treat illnesses fairly naturally. Growing up in Brooklyn, I’d say we ate more healthfully than average. At that time, about the only thing that was certain in my dad’s work was that A’s did better on a plant-based diet. Dad is type A, and he’s a vegetarian. I am also an A, and I’ve maintained a sort of quasi-vegetarian diet most of my life.
AANMC: How is your relationship with your dad today? You are both authors and experts. Is there a little professional competition between the two of you?
PD: Not really. What you see with me and my dad is a classic example of what happens when a profession changes. My dad’s work was empirical and practiced in tremendous isolation. Most naturopaths of his generation came from a naturopathic/chiropractic bent - they were really both, and the naturopathic aspect was mostly an enhancement of the chiropractic. The second generation, initiated by naturopathic doctors like Pizzorno and Mitchell, was much more focused on pure biochemistry and pharmacology and the idea that this type of medicine could be validated through scientific methods.
The blood type diet theory was big enough that it really required the work of two lives. It needed a pure, traditional naturopath to even conceive of looking at things that way. I think the blood type diet was an astounding leap of consciousness that really had to come from the mind of a naturopath, because we spend so much time trying to find the discrete differences between people. Then the theory required a second generation to call it into question and see if it was verifiable, and that process opened up yet another series of opportunities. To this day, that’s what I enjoy most - finding cyclical, scientific references to the ideas found in traditional sources, and giving a different type of imprimatur to what those guys (naturopaths of earlier generations) were doing.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles that support all the contentions I’ve ever made in my books. And I’ve made it all available online. On my Eat Right 4 Your Type Web site, people have reported a 75 to 81 percent success rate for the blood type diet over the years - and that’s across the board. A type A on a vegetarian diet reports about the same amount of success as a type O on a low carb diet.
AANMC: Did you have the idea for your research when you attended naturopathic medical school?
PD: When I was at Bastyr, my father had written a book called One Man’s Food, which contained his observations. People in my profession would ask, “Why isn’t it referenced?” But my father is the kind of person who goes ahead and types 5,000 people’s blood and observes who does well on what diet. That’s his research. Up to that point, what I had been taught about blood transfusions and other aspects of blood typing didn’t give me any information that supported my father’s ideas about how people should eat. To this day, I understand how some people can be incredulous of the theory; given what I was taught in school about blood groups, I was incredulous as well.
But I did have one teacher, Dr. Ed Madison, who said “I wish your father had made mention of the reference between blood types and ulcers, since that would have pointed to digestive tract differences.” I said, “Well, there we go. Let me go pull up everything I can find that looks at illnesses and blood type. And if my father’s right, the type A’s should have illnesses associated with eating meat, because he said they shouldn’t consume that.” It was no surprise when I found that a lot of health problems associated with excessive animal protein consumption, like heart disease, cancer and vascular disorders, were much more common in type A’s. On the other hand, one of the things I discovered in the early ‘80s was that type O’s didn’t do so well on carbohydrates, which indirectly validated the Atkins and Zone diets. And it turned out to be more than that. A lot of the grains and beans have properties called agglutinins or lectins. About half of these foods have some specificity for one blood type or another. So by the mid-80s, I was looking at the immunological effects of foods on people that could be predicted by knowing the components of the food and their actions on the molecules that determine blood type. It’s as simple as A is to B as B is to C.
AANMC: Would you say that food is one of the primary medicines available to humans?
PD: Food is great because it lets people amortize problems over time, problems that no doctor can fix. For example, a patient comes in and tells me he’s got a migraine. I give him feverfew, and hopefully the migraine goes away - end of story. But has it really made a change in his life? Have I done anything to address where that person is coming from? Where they are going? That’s the aspect of epigenetics that’s so exciting! By looking at a person’s past, you can synthesize that information and come up with an approximation of what’s going to happen in the future. It’s like if a cannonball lands at my feet. I don’t know much about it, other than the fact that it nearly killed me. But if I study the cannonball, the wind direction and some other things, I can predict where that cannonball came from with reasonable certainty. Gene expression follows the same pattern. The genetics that we typically focus on in medicine are rapidly becoming irrelevant. We look at gene mutations, but people don’t change that way. People respond to their environments by changing the expression of their genes, not by altering the genes themselves. For instance, if you ever smoked a cigarette as a teenager, it was a very unpleasant experience initially. But if your friends keep encouraging you and you keep smoking, it gradually turns into a pleasurable pastime and finally an addiction. What’s changed? You’ve turned on genes in your liver that help you detoxify nicotine. That’s a classic example of a gene expression alteration based on an environmental challenge.
AANMC: How does it feel to be a vegetarian recommending a meat-based diet to many of your patients?
PD: When I studied at Bastyr, almost everybody on the faculty supported vegetarianism. The first course of action was typically to put a patient on a vegetarian diet, and if that didn’t work maybe test for allergies and try a rotation diet. In my experience, most of these patients didn’t become much healthier. Even through my first seven years of practice, I was trying to figure out the offending food. Then one day, a patient cancelled and I was daydreaming, and it suddenly hit me: I was devoting all my inquisitive energy to finding out what I should eliminate from people’s diets, but I should have been devoting my energy to determining what they should consume! After that, identifying the super foods, the “beneficials,” became the holy grail for me. If you just relax and realize that there’s no such thing as a good or bad diet, then you can design a diet specific to that person, and he or she becomes a lot healthier.
For example, a dietician would say that a high-protein diet takes the calcium off your bones. The theory is that protein increases acidity, and the body buffers acidity with calcium, which often comes from bones. However, type O’s possess an enzyme that is activated when protein is consumed, allowing the body to absorb calcium. So for at least for 44 percent of the population, the theory that a high-protein diet equals loss of calcium is incorrect. A type O’s ability to split cholesterol is also activated by eating protein. When you put a type O on the O diet, his immunity parameters change in ways not normally associated with diet alteration – the thyroid, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis are all affected.
Now if you eat red meat and you’re a type A, you don’t have the enzyme that enhances calcium absorption or the ability to split cholesterol effectively. On the other hand, a type A’s body is custom made for soy protein. This group of people is prone to cancer, and the cancers often look like the blood type. If you’ve got a cancer that looks like you, that’s a bad thing. But the proteins in soy are wonderful in their ability to identify things that are mimicking type A blood. That’s something you never hear discussed - the fact that these proteins are able to alert a person’s immune system to elements that are attempting to take advantage of a similarity between them and the person’s blood type.
AANMC: Will you share a story about how your practice of naturopathic medicine has helped one of your patients?
PD: I could tell you thousands. A patient who also helped me with my Web site suffered from a disease called Pemphigus. It’s an autoimmune disease of the mucus membranes in your skin. It causes blisters, it’s messy, and then you die. He was the head of a vegetarian society and a three-time national vegetarian trivia contest winner. He was getting sicker and sicker, and all his vegetarian friends were telling him he wasn’t being a good enough vegetarian. At one point he read my book, and he said “I don’t like the idea, but I just refuse to die for the cause.” He changed his diet to include meat and put his Pemphigus into remission. Years later, he told me that his gluteal muscles, which had been destroyed by all the steroids he had taken, had come back too. You guessed it - he was type O! That’s the power of being flexible in your food choices!
And sometimes, even when you fail you succeed. One of my dearest patients passed away from breast cancer after 11 years. During her illness, her oncologist would roll his eyes when she would come to me for treatments. But then at the end, he said, “If it wasn’t for the other guy, this would have happened years ago.”
I tell students it’s simple. You’ve got a person on one side of the river, and you’ve got to get him to the other side. If he gets there, you win. You try one thing, and if that doesn’t work, you try something else. A type A with cancer is going to be difficult. In a type A person, cancer tends to be a bit more aggressive and more inclined to metastasize. When dealing with type A breast cancer patients who want alternative treatment, I’ve taken a lot of different approaches. I’ve said, “You’ve got to go back and get some conventional treatment first.” I’ve sent patients back to their oncologists and said, “I think you should do a more aggressive chemotherapy protocol.” And to some patients, who’ve wanted to avoid chemotherapy, I’ve said “OK, I can go along with that.” It’s paradoxical, but the key is to have a full 360 degree mindset in approaching each individual patient. Back to top
AANMC: What are some of your newest endeavors?
PD: We have a professional association, Institute for Human Individuality (IFHI), and we put on a biannual conference to certify professionals in nutrigenomic medicine. We’ve done it with Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine (SCNM) for the last couple of years, and this year we did it at the University of Bridgeport (UB), just ten miles from my office.
In August 2009, I will start a personalized medicine clinic rotation shift at the UB Naturopathic Medical Clinic. It’s a combination of the work I’ve done with the GenoType Diet and other areas of blood type. My students will be learning about the different inventories I use to assess the epigenotypes of the patients. And then, in combination with blood group information, we will insert the data into software that I’ve written. The results are unique, one-of-a-kind diets. So I will be teaching students to move nutrition to the forefront of their practices. You’d be surprised how few naturopaths are actively involved in using nutrition in this way.
I use the term “intergenerational medicine.” In your body, 70 percent of the genes have little volume controls, and they’re constantly affected by your environment. If you twiddle them one way, you get diabetes. If you twiddle them another, you get Alzheimer’s. The amazing thing is that the settings on the genes are as inheritable as the genes themselves. And the setting on a given gene is influenced by prenatal state, prenatal nutrition, family history, first few years of life and diet. The UB Clinic serves a lot of low income patients, so it’ll be great to get this information into the hands of people without a lot of money.
I also have a big interest in bioinformatics, and I write a lot of software. The professional version of the SWAMI GenoType software was released in June 2009. I’m trying to get younger naturopaths comfortable with using these tools to answer questions - not just by using other people’s software, but by using computer language itself.
And we’ve just opened a personalized nutrition store. It’s an anomaly. We make supplements based on some of my work, so we offer seven multivitamins and six different minerals for the various genotypes and blood types. We have a dilemma that is very much like that of the Apple computer. We can’t find a context for ourselves in a conventional health food store. So we took a page from Apple’s book, and we did it on our own.
AANMC: How do you do all that and see patients too?
PD: I start my day at about 4 AM. I’m like a buzz saw for about four hours, and that’s usually when I do all the high-level, research-oriented stuff. Then I shower, eat breakfast and go into to the clinic for about five hours. At the clinic, I use a different type of intelligence that mostly relies on what I already know. It’s almost like there are two sides of me. The early part tries to see what’s invisible, while the midday part just tries to see what’s visible. Then the third part of my day is spent with my family and getting things in order as needed. I go to bed fairly early. I’m one of those people who jumps out of bed with a solution to a problem. So I think that even when I’m sleeping, I’m working.
AANCM: Not everyone practicing naturopathic medicine will be a bestselling author. What is your message to someone considering becoming an ND?
PD: My father thought I should have been a medical doctor, because he had been harassed his whole life. But I thought, “If everybody did that, there wouldn’t be a naturopathic profession.” I am so glad I didn’t go that route, because if you are a medical doctor, you are incredibly hamstrung on what you can do. The naturopathic degree has given me more freedom. It’s a license to get out of my mind, to think any thought possible. To me, that constitutes being a doctor.
I got a tremendous amount from Bastyr; my life now would be impossible without that training. I learned how to chase down a concept, how to navigate scientific literature and how to perform my own versions of meta-analysis. Doctors like Bland, Bastyr, Pizzorno and Mitchell inspired me with the confidence that I had the right to do that as much as anyone else.
But I don’t recommend naturopathy for everybody. If you’re not averse to trying harder in response to futility, if you’re not uncomfortable with failure, and you know that it accompanies any first effort, then this is a good profession for you. But there’s no heroic component here. The Greeks had Asclepius, the god of healing, and Hygeia, the goddess of education and wellness. Masculine and feminine. Asclepius is the surgeon who pulls off the mask and says, “I think I saved his life,” whereas Hygeia states, “This is how you stay healthy, and this is how you learn.” If you identify with Hygeia, then naturopathy is for you. If you want to be Asclepius, then you probably should be a medical doctor.
To be a naturopath, you have to be an autodidact. You have to realize that the education will give you the ability to go and search for knowledge you want to use. If you view the education as the end point, I think you’ll be very sad, because there’s going to be a disconnect. Many of the things you learn in school are useful, but in the real world you have to be flexible. And you have to be very true to your intent, because you spend so much time by yourself.
Part of the art is being an effective small business person. It’s not very artistic, but there is expression there. You can’t be a doctor if you can’t pay an electric bill. The great thing is that there’s no right or wrong. The best solution is to have a profession with a multitude of experts. And the only way to become an expert is to spend a lot of time dealing with the awkward stage that comes from forcing yourself to learn things. That fact leaves me with hope.
Synthesizing the contrasts
In some ways, Peter J. D’Adamo is a study in contrasts. He’s a vegetarian naturopath who recommends eating meat to a number of his patients. He’s written both ballet music and computer software. A clinical researcher, he respects the ethereal nature of naturopathic medicine. He’s a physician whose idea of health care reform is to let the system collapse and replace it with one that educates people to be their own doctors. His sharp wit belies the utter seriousness with which he approaches his work. But at a deeper level, Dr. D’Adamo is really a synthesist. He sees the disparate elements of a puzzle and envisions how they make a whole. While he understands that his theories about inheritance, genes and individualized diet as medicine may be beyond the comfort levels of many naturopaths today, he expects that in another ten years, the profession will welcome his particular means of validating the age-old idea that the body can heal itself naturally.
Author Patty Bates-Ballard is a mother, freelance writer and owner of WordSmooth. Patty's articles have appeared on the Environmental News Network and in Environmental Design + Construction magazine. She has guest lectured at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Sherman's Austin College and El Centro College in Dallas. She works from her home in Dallas, Texas, where she raises her sons, Kory and Kaden.
AMPK is an energy-burning molecule in the human body that helps maintain and control sugar modulation that is used to drive cell metabolism. To keep this gene in a healthy state, Dr. Peter D'Adamo, author of Eat Right 4 Your Type, formulated El Dorado.
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Medical Care At Last, At a Price
March 6, 2009 / By Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD – Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it.
“Why would I want to go to government-run hospitals where there is no care, no functioning instruments, long lines, and in the end the same doctor who treats you there can treat you at a private hospital,” says Mohammed Abbas, 35, an employee at Iraq’s Ministry of Oil.
Abbas, speaking at the private Saint Raphael Hospital in the Karrada area of Baghdad, wanted treatment on time, and was prepared to pay for it. Like him, many are coughing up money for private treatment. When they have money, that is, in an economy with more than 50 percent unemployment.
For medical care, many scramble to find money somehow. “It is a catastrophe at the government-run hospitals,” says Hayder Abud, 30, at the private hospital for a check-up. “When you finally get a doctor to see you there, they are so rushed and sleep deprived, you can’t be sure you are getting proper treatment.”
Most treatment at government hospitals is free. Getting an x-ray at a private hospital may cost 40 dollars. But at a private hospital the job can get done on time.
“Iraq’s Ministry of Health is struggling,” said Khaled, administrative manager at the Saint Raphael Hospital, requesting that his last name not be used. “We have had problems with the Ministry of Health because they are angry at us for treating so many more people nowadays.”
The state medical system is on its knees. It was one of the best in the region before the U.N.-backed economic sanctions for more than 12 years, followed by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation.
Government hospitals are short of doctors. A small increase in pay over the last three years has lured some doctors back, but what they pay cannot match income in the private sector.
On average, a general practitioner in a government hospital earns about 300 dollars a month; a private hospital pays twice or three times that much. More and more doctors are shifting away from government hospitals.
“I and my family were unable to live on the pay I earned at a government hospital,” says Dr. Kubayir Abbas, 34, an anaesthetist. “So I decided to come over to the private sector instead, and now it is much better.”
Dr. Shakir Mahmood Al-Robaei, another anaesthetist, said “it’s better for us to work here than in the public sector. We earn more money, it is safer, and we don’t have to worry about having the right equipment and supplies. When I worked in the public sector, we were short of everything most of the time.”
And so government hospitals continue to run short of doctors, while some private hospitals have a surplus. What has improved since 2007 is that violence against doctors, and even against patients who attend certain hospitals, has dropped notably.
Government hospitals also lack basic supplies such as gauze, rubber gloves, clean needles, surgical instruments and drugs for anaesthesia. Non-medical basics such as clean bedding, disinfectants and air-conditioning are often lacking, even in the largest medical complex in the country, the Baghdad Medical City. Iraqis have for years had to buy their own medicines and even oxygen supplies on the expensive black market.
Corruption within the Ministry of Health, and the near total lack of reconstruction that was promised by the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority in the first year of the occupation have left Iraq’s healthcare system depleted of resources.
A report ‘Rehabilitation Under Fire’ released last year by the health organisation Medcat said Iraq has only around 9,000 doctors, after most fled the country. That gives a ratio of six doctors for every 10,000 people. The ratio in Britain is 23 to 10,000.
Given the crisis in government medical care, the business of private hospitals is booming. Raphael hospital, which currently has 35 beds and sees on average over 1,000 patients a day, will soon expand to 90 beds and increase its staff.
Dr. Rhamis Mukhtar, the only surgeon for morbid obesity in Iraq, has been working at this private hospital since 2000, while also working at a state hospital. “I’m thinking of moving here full time,” he said. “There are much better supplies, services, and overall care for the patient. This centre is the best for laproscopic surgery in the country.”
For complicated emergency cases, government hospitals are still the best, Dr. Mukhtar said. They have special equipment most smaller private hospitals lack. It has to get very bad for someone before they can hope to get the best out of a government hospital. (END/2009)
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KING HENRY VI
His life and reign
King Henry and Education
St. Nicholas’s Day 1421
The English Coronation
King Henry and the Nobility
The King’s great illness
The French Coronation
The King’s death
The King’s Tomb Part I
The King’s Tomb Part II
The King’s Marriage part I
The King’s Marriage part II
A Chronicle of King Henry VI
The Henry VI Society
The Royal Coat-of-Arms
The King’s residences
The Coinage of Henry VI
Richard II, Henry IV, and the Yorkist Claim
The Kings’ Screen in York Minster
King Henry was to be the only English sovereign to be crowned both King of England and King of France. Indeed, it was the urgent requests of his uncle John, Duke of Bedford, to have the boy king brought over to France to be crowned there, that persuaded the Council to have Henry crowned first at Westminster just shy of his eighth birthday. Great preparations were made for the only journey Henry was ever to make across to his French kingdom. He would be accomplanied by an impressive court and entourage, since it was hoped by Bedford that the King's presence and his coronation might whip up loyalty and enthusiasm amongst his French subjects. This had become ever more urgent after Joan of Arc had succeeded in having the Dauphin crowned as Charles VII in the coronation church of Rheims in July of 1429. Troops were raised not only for the King's escort and protection, but also as reinforcements for the English already serving in France. Ships and crews were recruited for the royal crossing to Calais.
Henry crossed from Dover to Calais on St. George's Day, 23 April 1430, with a fleet of forty-seven ships, most of which sailed in fact from Sandwich. His expedition consisted of 1,200 lances and 3,500 archers, and he was accompanied by Cardinal Beaufort, the dukes of York and Norfolk, Warwick and six other earls, eleven barons, and the bishops of Bath and Wells, Ely, and Rochester. His personal entourage numbered some 300, including his physician John Somerset, five additional surgeons and 182 household servants. He landed about 10 o'clock in the morning and rode firstly to the church of St. Nicholas (his birthday saint) to hear Mass and give thanks for a safe crossing. However, the surrounding French countryside was anything but safe, and Henry and his court were kept in the security of Calais for the ensuing three months.
Rheims was, of course, out of the question, and Bedford planned to have his nephew crowned in the cathedral in Paris instead. While still in Calais, the news arrived of the capture of Joan of Arc, which gave English morale a great boost. The King finally left Calais on 17 July and made a cautious twelve days' progress along the coast and up the river Seine to Rouen, which he entered on 29th July. He was to remain there for the next year and a half, until Bedford deemed Paris and the surrounding countryside sufficiently secure to move the precious person of the young king up to the city for his coronation. While at Rouen, Joan of Arc was tried and executed there. Henry was not party to this judicial vengence, and indeed he never set eyes on the Maid of Orléans. He undoubtedly accepted that she was a witch and a relapsed heretic as he was told by his advisors, including French clerics. The capture of Louviers in late October decided Bedford that the route to Paris was now safe, and King Henry appears to have departed Rouen with Warwick and his court around 20 November. Whether his entire household accompanied him or whether some remained behind in Rouen is uncertain. He reached the abbey of St. Denis to the north of the city on 30 November, where he rested for two days. His formal entry into Paris was planned for the First Sunday of Advent on 2 December.
Henry entered Paris by the St. Denis gate at nine on the Sunday morning, dressed in a gown of cloth of gold and mounted on a fine white horse. He was escorted by the city dignitaries in their scarlet robes with blue hoods, and he was proceeded by 25 heralds and 25 trumpeters, as well as by Cardinal Beaufort and the Duke of Bedford. The procession included the bishop of Norwich, the young duke of York (now 20 years old), the earls of Warwick, Salisbury and Stafford, French bishops including those of Paris, Beauvais, Thérouanne, Noyon and Evreux, as well as various French nobles. Philip Duke of Burgundy was not among them. Already in secret negotiations with Charles VII, he diplomatically avoided presenting himself to Henry throughout his extended stay in France. Henry passed an array of tableaux, pageants and miracle plays as was usual at such royal processions. He greeted his grandmother Queen Isabeau at the window of the Hotel St. Pol by removing his hood and bowing. He was taken to the Hotel des Tournelles, which Bedford had vacated for his use, where he rested and dined. In the afternoon he paid a courtesy visit to his grandmother in St. Pol. They met as strangers, and one wonders whether Henry had been coached in appropriate French phrases, because he does not appear to have been at all fluent in that language at such an early age. The next morning he moved out of the city to Vincennes, a strong castle, but one of unhappy associations being where his father had died nine years before. He did not return to Paris until the day before his coronation.
He returned to the royal palace on the Ile de la Cité, from where he walked on Sunday morning, 16 December 1431, the short distance to the cathedral of Notre Dame. The royal canopy of blue and golden fleur-de-lis, under which he had ridden on his formal entry, was again held above him by representatives of the guilds of Paris. A raised platform with steps painted in blue with gold fleur-de-lis had been constructed in the cathedral, but the coronation was not to make the favourable impression on the French, which Bedford had intended. Firstly, Cardinal Beaufort not only celebrated the Mass, but performed the actual coronation. The bishop of Paris, whose cathedral it was, was relegated to an subsidiary role. Henry was anointed and crowned, sitting on an improvised throne on the platform, while a second crown was held before him to signify his English title. To add to the discontent, officers of the household had taken the silver-gilt flagon belonging to the cathedral chapter, in which Henry had made the offering of wine for the Mass. The canons retrieved it only after a costly law suit before the King and Council. The banquet also caused criticism. People had been admitted to the great hall of the palace to admire the scene, while the coronation was in progress. There had been theft of food from the tables as well as of more valuable items, and the guards had failed to clear the hall, so that many guests had difficulty in finding a seat at the banquet. Henry sat at a large marble table between the cardinal and the bishop of Beauvais, with English and French lords on either side. The food at the royal table was undoubtedly excellent, but the food for the lesser orders received much harsh criticism, some of the meats having been cooked four days before! The following day there was a small jousting tournament held at St, Pol, but the Parisians complained that there had been neither an amnesty for prisoners nor a remission of dues and taxes. No royal largesse. Paris had presented the King with a gold chain and a jewel studded collar, but had received little in return. (Bedford had given his nephew a ruby ring on the day of the coronation.)
(Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Français 83, fol. 205.)
On 21 December Henry attended a session of the Paris parlement together with Bedford and the cardinal. After Mass in the great hall of the palace, the chamber du parlement, the members swore allegiance to Henry as King of France. Henry surprisingly acknowledged their fealty in English, leaving Warwick to express his thanks in French. All in all, it had not been very well managed.
On 27 December Henry returned to the abbey of St. Denis, from where he moved down river back to Rouen in the New Year. After a short stay in Rouen, he journeyed north again to Calais and then departed safely for Dover on Saturday, 9th February 1432.
(For a detailed treatment of the King's sojourn in France see Anne Curry's article "The 'Coronation Expedition' and Henry VI's Court in France, 1430-1432" Pp. 29-52 in The Lancastrian Court ed. Jenny Stratford, Harlaxton Medieval Studies Vol. XIII)
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Eleanor Crow grew up in Cornwall, Suffolk and Gloucestershire. She has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art: Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art, and an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins. After over a decade of designing book covers for Random House Vintage and Faber & Faber, she returned to oil painting in 2014. She works from her studio in East London, exhibiting and working to commission. She has lectured at a number of art colleges in the UK and in the Czech Republic, in drawing, illustration and book cover design.
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition
2018 The London Eye II, The Millinery Works, London
2018 Standing a Little Outside Life, Morley Gallery, London
2017 RSA Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2016 Lynn Painter-Stainers Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2014 Open Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
1993 Scottish Artists & Artist Craftsmen National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
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From the moment he enters a room, it becomes clear that Jay Allen is here to tell his story. The tattoo-clad singer/songwriter has his heart inked on his sleeve, so to speak, and sings with conviction onstage that stems from the lessons his parents taught him and the music he heard around the house. Knowing the stage was the only place he wanted to be, and so Jay packed his bags and moved to Nashville. Working day and night, Jay has achieved major milestones in the course of the past few years: he's signed a publishing and development deal with Sony/ATV publishing, enlisted management team Edge Artist Management and released a five-song EP, which produced his first hit single Sounds Good To Me dubbed a Highway Find on SiriusXM's The Highway. The budding musician continued to perform and write, honing his craft with the likes of ACM-nominated songwriter Phil Barton and Lindsay Rimes, both credited as co-writers on his debut single. Born and raised in rural Iowa, Jay discovered his love of performing one Sunday amidst the congregation of his church, Jay initially attempted singing harmonies with the ladies, much to the chagrin of his pastor. Proving his chops, he was invited to sing solo the following Sunday and thus, a passion was born: "There's nothing like being on the stage. When the lights come up and the band starts playing and I get behind that mic , I'm alive. To spending every day writing, then see your songs come to life on a record, then see people laughing and dancing along, it's heaven on earth."
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Some quick thoughts on Tokyo Zombie (東京ゾンビ) (2005)
Fujio (Tadanobu Asano) and Mitsuo (Show Aikawa) are two half-wits obsessed with Jujutsu who work in the shadow of an enormous man-made toxic garbage mountain dubbed the "Black Fuji". The undead eventually rise up from the ashen dirt and overtake Tokyo with the oblivious pair embarking on a journey to escape to Russia and survive by their limited sparring ability.
Sakichi Sato's Tokyo Zombie is one of those rare instances in which a cinematic sitdown leaves you entirely cold, but strangely reluctant to lay the blame on the movie itself. After its early millennial renaissance, the Far East horror scene quickly dwindled by the time this particular film debuted in Japan. I can even recall first hearing about Tokyo Zombie and being surprised to hear of a new Japanese horror film aside from Kurosawa's ultimately so-so The Loft. Unsure what exactly caused this dim in popularity, but Japanese audiences aren't immune to burnout, as evident in the Sadako mania to sweep the country after the release of Hideo Nakata's Ringu. So by the mid-point of the last decade, J-horror was stumbling on its feet and I remain leery of this on-going wave of over-the-top gore.
Interestingly, this faithful adaption of Yusaku Hanakuma's manga could be viewed as an open rejection of the staleness that became the country's genre endeavors by that point. The zombie aspect is pushed so far into the background that it proves an unsatisfying device employed for drama in what's essentially a standard buddy comedy. Instead, the focus rests on the progression of the almost father-and-son relationship between Fujio and Mitsuo. This will most likely alienate those coming for the undead. If the painfully quirky leads don't click, you'll probably not want to stick with Tokyo Zombie to its conclusion.
The bulk of the comedy is no relief being a very Japanese style of subtle Laurel & Hardy slapstick. Unlike the superior Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Braindead (Dead Alive) (1992), the zombie wrapping paper isn't an integral component to the comedy. Sato offers a brand of quick-witted character interplay, presumably playing better to those fluent in the native language, than to those sifting for humor in subtitles. Again, this will most likely alienate those coming for the laughs being neither here-or-there as a comedy or horror film.
Tokyo Zombie is on an island by itself where both of its key elements cancel each other out. Maybe that's the point? A screen interpretation that probably plays best with those who are already fans of the manga. Sato, who played "Charlie Brown" in Kill Bill Vol. 1, should be praised for translating the source to film so well considering the budget. Asano and Aikawa hold their own as the eccentric duo anchoring the overly zany proceedings. The inclusion of the country's enduring subtext of mankind's doings and sloth being its own end, think Godzilla, is also a nice touch. Still, if you're looking for zombie mayhem, a laugh riot, or even really a combination--look elsewhere.
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Allegiant announces new Savannah/Hilton Head routes
Posted by Kim Ciuffreda on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019 at 10:46am.
Coming off a record year, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport is preparing to welcome even more passengers with the announcement Tuesday of four new Allegiant Air nonstop routes from Allentown, Pa.; Grand Rapids, Mich,; Niagara Falls, N.Y.; and Portsmouth, N.H.
To accompany the announcement, Allegiant said it is offering fares on three of the routes as low as $49 each way.
“We’re excited to announce yet another expansion in Savannah,” said Drew Wells, Allegiant’s vice president of planning and revenue.
“We’re sure folks in Allentown, Grand Rapids, Niagara Falls and Portsmouth will be thrilled to take advantage of these convenient, ultra-low-cost, nonstop flights to enjoy the historic charm of Savannah and the sunny shores of Hilton Head.”
The new seasonal routes to Savannah/Hilton Head include:
• Grand Rapids via Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR), beginning June 7 with fares as low as $49 each way.
• Niagara Falls via Niagara Falls International Airport (IAG), beginning June 7 with fares as low as $49 each way.
• Allentown via Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE), beginning June 8 with fares as low as $49 each way.
• Portsmouth via Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (PSM), beginning June 8 with fares as low as $59 each way.
“Allegiant continues to be a great partner to the airport and the region. We’re happy to see the momentum of Allegiant’s success continue,” said Greg Kelly, executive director of the Savannah Airport Commission.
“It affords several new opportunities for travelers from the new destinations to visit and enjoy the hospitality of the Savannah and Hilton Head Island region.”
The nonstop routes will operate twice-weekly and are expected to bring nearly 6,500 passengers to the area annually. Flight days, times and the lowest fares can be found only at Allegiant.com.
“We are very pleased with the success that Allegiant has achieved at SAV,” said Steve Green, chairman of the Savannah Airport Commission.
“The airport has seen significant growth since Allegiant’s return to this market. The addition of four new cities will bring even more travelers to our region and we look forward to continued growth and success of this airline at SAV.”
Allegiant said it offers a unique option to Savannah-bound travelers with low base airfare and savings on rental cars and hotels.
By Katie Nussbaum
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The confusing, and frightening, introduction of "Automatic Elevators" in Phoenix
I've been on elevators a lot in my life. I used to work in downtown Phoenix, and I knew how to operate them - you pushed a button (either up or down), waited for the elevator doors to open, got out of the way of people getting off, got in and pushed a button for the floor that you wanted. To me, nothing could have been simpler.
I've never been in an elevator that was operated by a person. I've seen them in movies, and read about them, but that's all. But if you lived in Phoenix before the 1940s, that all you would have seen, and all your parents would have seen, going back to the invention of elevators at the turn of the century. A person would stand inside of the elevator, you would tell them what floor you wanted, and they would operate it. But all of that changed when elevators were automated. And it must have been confusing, and frightening for a lot of people.
I'm not kidding here. When the elevators in the Professional Building were equipped to be operated automatically (with no person in them), it was quite a shock to the people who worked in the building. In addition to pamphlets being printed up, there was a presentation that Valley Bank employees could go see, including a movie showing how it was done. And like any new technology, there were people who resisted it, and couldn't understand why something as dangerous and complex as operating an elevator should be trusted to a little button. What if something went wrong? You would be trapped in a box suspended hundreds of feet in the air. Trust a little button? Really?
I always think of this when I teach a new technology. What seems simple after you've gotten used to it doesn't look the same to people who are seeing it for the first time. When I worked for Bank One, I helped introduce people to an "automated teller machine" (ATM) both professionally and personally, because I thought that they were pretty cool. In Los Angeles, in the '80s, I sought out gas stations that had "Pay at the Pump", because once I saw how fast and convenient it was, I had no interest standing around talking to people - I treated gas stations as "pit stops".
Technology is technology to me, whether it's computers, or "new fangled push-button elevators". And human nature has never changed - some people resist, some people catch on eventually, and some people are early adopters.
Image at the top of this post: elevator doors in the Professional Building in the 1940s, Central Avenue and Monroe, Phoenix, Arizona. I'd like to believe that I would have been one of the brave people who walked into them, and pushed a button!
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The earliest extant systematic account of yoga and a bridge from the earlier Vedic uses of the term is found in the Hindu Katha Upanisad (Ku), a scripture dating from about the third century BCE[…] [I]t describes the hierarchy of mind-body constituents—the senses, mind, intellect, etc.—that comprise the foundational categories of Sāmkhya philosophy, whose metaphysical system grounds the yoga of the Yogasutras, Bhagavad Gita, and other texts and schools (Ku3.10–11; 6.7–8).[101]
Modern yoga is a physical activity consisting largely of asanas, often connected by flowing sequences called vinyasas, sometimes accompanied by the breathing exercises of pranayama, and usually ending with a period of relaxation or meditation. It is often known simply as yoga,[211] despite the existence of multiple older traditions of yoga within Hinduism where asanas played little or no part, some dating back to the Yoga Sutras, and despite the fact that in no tradition was the practice of asanas central.[212]
Just as there was a shift from viewing disease as a state to thinking of it as a process, the same shift happened in definitions of health. Again, the WHO played a leading role when it fostered the development of the health promotion movement in the 1980s. This brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in dynamic terms of resiliency, in other words, as "a resource for living". 1984 WHO revised the definition of health defined it as "the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living; it is a positive concept, emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities".[10] Thus, health referred to the ability to maintain homeostasis and recover from insults. Mental, intellectual, emotional and social health referred to a person's ability to handle stress, to acquire skills, to maintain relationships, all of which form resources for resiliency and independent living.[9] This opens up many possibilities for health to be taught, strengthened and learned.
The Yoga Sutras are also influenced by the Sramana traditions of Buddhism and Jainism, and may represent a further Brahmanical attempt to adopt yoga from the Sramana traditions.[129] As noted by Larson, there are numerous parallels in the concepts in ancient Samkhya, Yoga and Abhidharma Buddhist schools of thought, particularly from 2nd century BCE to 1st century AD.[139] Patanjali's Yoga Sutras is a synthesis of these three traditions. From Samkhya, the Yoga Sutras adopt the "reflective discernment" (adhyavasaya) of prakrti and purusa (dualism), its metaphysical rationalism, as well its three epistemic methods of gaining reliable knowledge.[139] From Abhidharma Buddhism's idea of nirodhasamadhi, suggests Larson, Yoga Sutras adopt the pursuit of altered state of awareness, but unlike Buddhism's concept of no self nor soul, Yoga is physicalist and realist like Samkhya in believing that each individual has a self and soul.[139] The third concept Yoga Sutras synthesize into its philosophy is the ancient ascetic traditions of meditation and introspection, as well as the yoga ideas from middle Upanishads such as Katha, Shvetashvatara and Maitri.[139]
Tantra is a range of esoteric traditions that began to arise in India no later than the 5th century CE.[180][note 17] George Samuel states, "Tantra" is a contested term, but may be considered as a school whose practices appeared in mostly complete form in Buddhist and Hindu texts by about 10th century CE.[182] Tantric texts include yogic techniques, as well as complex rituals, the use of mantras, devotion towards particular deities and various other practices. Tantric yoga developed complex visualizations which included meditation on the body as a microcosm of the cosmos. They included also the use of mantras, pranayama, and the manipulation of the subtle body, including its nadis and cakras. One of the most popular models of the Hindu tantric body is that of the Kubjikamata tantra (10th century), in which six power centers or cakras of the subtle body as seen as six forms of the goddess Kubjika and her consort. This tantra also contains a teaching on the goddess Kundalini, which resides at the base of the spine and through certain visualization exercises may be made to rise up through the central channel to the crown of the head where she is united with Siva. These teachings on cakras and Kundalini would become central to later forms of Indian Yoga.[183]
Śaradatilaka of Lakshmanadesikendra, a Shakta Tantra work 11th century CE "Yogic experts state that yoga is the oneness of the individual soul (jiva) with the atman. Others understand it to be the ascertainment of Siva and the soul as non-different. The scholars of the Agamas say that it is a Knowledge which is of the nature of Siva’s Power. Other scholars say it is the knowledge of the primordial soul." (SaTil 25.1–3b)[35]
The Yoga Yajnavalkya is a classical treatise on yoga attributed to the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. It takes the form of a dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Gargi, a renowned philosopher.[162] The text contains 12 chapters and its origin has been traced to the period between the second century BCE and fourth century CE.[163] Many yoga texts like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads have borrowed verses from or make frequent references to the Yoga Yajnavalkya.[164] The Yoga Yajnavalkya discusses eight yoga Asanas – Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura,[165] numerous breathing exercises for body cleansing,[166] and meditation.[167]
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Virtual gastric band uses hypnosis to make the brain think the stomach is smaller than it really is and hence lower the amount of food ingested. This brings as a consequence weight reduction. This method is complemented with psychological treatment for anxiety management and with hypnopedia. Research has been conducted into the use of hypnosis as a weight management alternative.[16][17][18][19] In 1996 a study found that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was more effective for weight reduction if reinforced with hypnosis.[17] Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT, a mindfulness approach to weight loss, has also in the last few years been demonstrating its usefulness.[20]
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An influential text which teaches yoga from an Advaita perspective of nondualistic idealism is the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha.[260] This work uses numerous short stories and anecdotes to illustrate its main ideas. It teaches seven stages or bhumis of yogic practice. It was a major reference for medieval Advaita Vedanta yoga scholars and before the 12th century, it was one of the most popular texts on Hindu yoga.[261]
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Similarly, Brahma sutras – the foundational text of the Vedanta school of Hinduism, discusses yoga in its sutra 2.1.3, 2.1.223 and others.[121] Brahma sutras are estimated to have been complete in the surviving form sometime between 450 BCE to 200 CE,[122][123] and its sutras assert that yoga is a means to gain "subtlety of body" and other powers.[121] The Nyaya sutras – the foundational text of the Nyaya school, variously estimated to have been composed between the 6th-century BCE and 2nd-century CE,[124][125] discusses yoga in sutras 4.2.38–50. This ancient text of the Nyaya school includes a discussion of yogic ethics, dhyana (meditation), samadhi, and among other things remarks that debate and philosophy is a form of yoga.[126][127][128]
The hymns in Book 2 of the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, another late first millennium BCE text, states a procedure in which the body is held in upright posture, the breath is restrained and mind is meditatively focussed, preferably inside a cave or a place that is simple, plain, of silence or gently flowing water, with no noises nor harsh winds.[102][103][100]
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Meaning Behind the Concept of Religion
Many scholars have embarked in the challenge of defining religion. One of them was Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who wrote the book The Meaning and the End of Religion in 1962. Ward (2008) summarises the key points of this author in his book A Case for Religion. The main argument of Cantwell Smith is that the word religion should disappear as in its current form of meaning, the divinity is almost excluded reducing the concept to a set of doctrines that convert religion in a matter of having the correct beliefs about the supernatural (Ward,2008).
Ward (2008) explores Cantwell Smith ideas, emphasising that he is not saying that religion does not exist, but that he is against the current form of its understanding. He seems to expect that people eventually drop the word religion and accept their practices as part of their cultural identity involving their history. He says that this could be separated from the individual experience of faith and the experience of a transcendent reality
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Keith Ward agrees and disagrees with Cantwell Smith in several aspects. He agrees with his ideas about rejecting the concept of religion as a fixed and exclusive set of doctrines, rather, religion should be regarded as a complex, fluid, dynamic and culturally influenced relationship of the individuals of a group with the transcendent reality (Ward, 2008).
Ward (2008) seems to find the essence of Cantwell Smith argument when stating that religion should be regarded as the relationship between people and the transcendent reality and not be confounded with the cultural traditions. However, he disagrees that religion should be denuded from the cultural expressions of the different faiths. He argues that religion should be defined as “set of beliefs and practices that attempt to relate human thought, experience, and practice to the alleged referent to [the transcendent reality]”.
Ward also clarifies that the concept of religion should not nullify the different faiths or that people should drop their beliefs, instead he invites to place individual faiths in a wider net where differences and similarities can be observed. He goes on, citing Smart (1998), defending that religion presents seven main dimensions: myth and narrative, doctrine, ritual, ethics, social institution, experience, and the material dimension (art, buildings etc). This concept helps both believers and non-believers to be able to study and compare religions. Ward (2008) emphasises that the common denominator of all religions is the presence of the supernatural or the transcendent reality, which Cantwell Smith identity as what should be the essence of religion.
Ward notes that religion exists and can be delimited by certain characteristics. It is pervasive and found in many cultures, it involves the belief of the supernatural world and of the possibility to relate to it by means of rituals and practices. Having this framework in mind make our awareness of religion as a human practice which objective is to look for a transcendent reality that gives meaning to our existence.
On the other hand, it is an accepted truth that religion has been present in human societies since prehistoric times. It is, therefore, an area of humanities that have attracted scholars from different fields to its study, trying to find an explanation for its existence and its implications for human development. Humanities and other fields of knowledge use different perspectives for the analysis of a matter, so, for example, religion can be studied from a psychological, sociological, philosophical or an anthropological perspective, to name a few. David Hume (1711-1776), a Scottish philosopher and Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) a Scottish anthropologist were two scholars that explored religion as a human response to the chaotic experience of life.
As noted in the case of religion (2014)by Keith Ward, both Hume and Frazer take narratives from several cultures where the relationship between humans and God or gods is accounted, to demonstrate that irrationality is a characteristic of religious thought. Hume argued that humans perceived the forces of nature as expressions of supernatural beings that communicated with them. Polytheism is, therefore, for this philosopher, an early attempt to make sense of different aspects of nature that produced fear and anxiety. On the other hand, Frazer identified an earlier stage where humans attempted to control nature using magic as if the different natural entities could obey to the will of men by means of actions and spells. Both authors coincide in that primitive men understood that nature had its own will, which made them find ways to communicate with it to accomplish their objectives, such as appealing to rituals offered to the gods. Their analyses also point to the fact that humanity is in an inexorable progress to reach rationality and morality, this is to reach to a point where science will be the only tool needed to explain the world around us without the need to resort to the supernatural.
As Keith (2014) mentions and as expressed by Frazer, events in the 20th century contradicted the idea of this linear journey to the human perfection through rational and empirical science, moreover religion did not disappear in the modern times as predicted by them. Science keeps advancing to amazing boundaries, but the understanding of the physical world and human civilizations points to the same questions that primitive men asked, where all of this comes from and what is the meaning of all. The response keeps elusive. As noted by Alister McGrath (2017) in his book The great mystery, scientists have tried to explain our nature in reductionist ways. Humans are only a compound of neurons and molecules, or our DNA has all the information we need to understand our past and future, or our sexual and death drives in interplay with social rules explain our destiny are some of the proposals. McGrath (2017) and Ward (2014) point that humans are meaning-seeking creatures and that we need to be understood as complex creatures that can not be fully explained by any single perspective. Religion can be an object of study, but it is also a perspective to understand human nature.
Our relationship with the divinity has marked human history. Both Ward (2014) and McGrath (2017) present religious narratives as a source of explanation for that elusive answer that makes humans search for meaning. This quest is so important that atheists find similar narratives in, for example, political ideologies and philosophy. Just as Hume and Frazer did, in their idea of a progressive stage like advancement for our not so rational specie. They found meaning in our ability to relate to the world using our senses and our rational mind to find peace and order in the world (Ward, 2014). However, why so many people choose a religion is another question. Ward (2014) does not leave out the possibility that God is real. He takes the arguments of Hume, based on the possibility to organise our lives because of experience. We can not know the future but by experience, we know that every morning the sun rises over the horizon, so we can plan for tomorrow. So, Ward points to the possibility that by experience men know that God exists. It is a blind spot in Hume’s argument against the existence of divinity (UNISA, 2015).
While Ward (2014) criticizes Hume and Frazer positions as value-laden, where religion is just a mechanism to reduce fear and anxiety against what it was not understood by underdeveloped minds, McGrath (2017) points that any human thought cannot be independent of our subjective world, not even science. It is a human limitation. Ward (2014), also argues that Hume and Frazer focus in the irrational traditions of religion where violent acts such as human sacrifices are committed, without regarding the more benign expressions of love and joy also present in many religions. Ward (2014) posts the question whether the more aggressive expressions of religion can be a degradation of an original more benign one, after all our subjective minds will also tint our relationship with God, following McGrath argument.
In conclusion, in the views of Hume and Frazer, religion is a sign of primitive minds of men who need to advance to reach full potential in the realm of science. God does not exist, and it is a mechanism to explain what the rational mind has not grasped yet. Religion will disappear once humanity reaches a modern stage where science is the only tool to explain the world. Ward (2014) opposes such views based on reality as religion has not vanished despite the enormous discoveries by science. Science did not offer a tool to find peace, morality and meaning and humans keep seeking fundamental answers. God is independent of science and is experienced by many people as real, and it is relevant in the lives of humans. Humans cannot be reduced to just bearers of a rational mind. As McGrath puts it, the dialogue between science and religions must continue to keep fanning our quest for meaning and truth.
McGrath, A. (2017). The Great Mystery. Science, God and the Quest for Meaning. Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. London.
Ward, Keith (2014). The Case for Religion. London: Oneworld Publications.
University of South Africa (2015). Comparative Religious Studies: Introduction to Theory of Religion. UNISA. Pretoria.
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Samsung sold over 1 million units of Galaxy S10 5G in South Korea: Report
Samsung has reportedly sold over 1 million units of the 5G variant of its latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S10 in its native country of South Korea. The company achieved this landmark within 80 days of its launch in the country, news agency Yonhap reported.
The 5G variant of Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone was launched in South Korea on April 5 and according to the report, the sales of the device touched 1 million over the past weekend, that is barely 80 days since its launch in the Asian country.
As per the report, the Korean technology giant sold around 15,000 units of the 5G variant of Galaxy S10 on an average per day.
One of the key triggers which led to this feat was that the telecom operators in South Korea provided huge subsidies to their customers, the report said quoting an official at SK Telecom.
LG, one of Samsung’s key rival in its home country has also launched its own 5G smartphone, the LG V50 ThinQ which has sold over 280,000 units since its launch on May 10. However, in comparison to Samsung, the sales have been lower.
Apart from South Korea, Samsung has also launched the 5G variant of the latest flagship in other key markets wherever the 5G infrastructure is up and running. The device is available in the US, UK and Australia. It is also expected to launch in Germany, Spain and Italy later this summer, according to a separate report by Sammobile.
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Summa Cum Laude Benjamin Alves talks about 'Adarna', acting, gay roles & uncle Piolo Pascual
Adarna may have had highs and lows on its flight for ratings but for lead cast Benjamin Alves, viewership is only one of the criteria to measure a show's success. The actors and the crew's efforts to ensure a quality TV series is also an important factor, says the 24-year old celebrity.
Adarna is on its final week and the series will air its 80th and final episode on March 7, 2014. As of the latest NUTam (National Urban TV Ratings) posted by AGB Nielsen on March 2 with respondents answering the survey for February 25, Adarna is among the ten biggest TV shows, ranking at 5th in daytime and primetime programs with 18.90%. Though 'Honesto' leads that time slot's race with 27.80%, the fantaserye is GMA 7's highest-rated show.
Ratings and performances
When asked about what the cast did to boost the show's ratings leading to its finale week, Alves shared that they tried to remain consistent with their performances. "As an actor, you can only do so much. Unless if you want to be controversial. Basta you should be OK when you're acting is OK," Benjamin divulged during the Adarna bloggers conference in House of Lasagna in Centris last Thursday, February 27. He, however, mentioned that there will be a lot of fight scenes leading to the show's climax and those are something the audience should look forward to.
With Benjamin in Adarna are Kylie Padilla, Geoff Eigenmann and Mikael Daez. Jean Garcia, Jestoni Alarcon, Chynna Ortaleza, Maureen Larrazabal, Dante Rivero, Michelle Madrigal, Saab Magalona and Ryza Cenon are part of the regular supporting cast with Kris Bernal, Solenn Heussaff, Katrina Halili and Alessandra de Rossi as the recurring actors. Adarna is Benjamin's third Kapuso TV series after "Coffee Prince" and the afternoon soap "Unforgettable" also with Kylie Padilla and Mark Herras.
The Piolo Pascual and Summa Cum Laude Association
Benjamin rose to fame via a reality search in 2006 when he was still introduced to the public as Vince Saldana. Six years after, he was launched as a Kapuso talent in Party Pilipinas. Although he was groomed to have his own heartthrob image, Alves was often associated to his uncle Piolo Pascual.
Just like other interviews, Benjamin is proud of Piolo but he declined to have that association as his only ticket to stardom. "I never advertised that. I auditioned for my contract with GMA. I won't deny that it helps a little and you can't get away from it. I am proud of my uncle." He also praised Piolo for the latter's excellent performance in Star Cinema's "Starting Over Again".
Aside from the showbiz blood, Benjamin is easily lured in by showbiz because of his love for literature. A graduate of BA in English with Literature Emphasis at the University of Guam, he expresses appreciation for poetry and old English Literature. Benjamin completed his course with a grade point average of 3.98 from a possible perfect grade of 4.00. "I love to explore more in acting but at the end of the day if I feel that it's not for me, I would also love to write," he shared.
On gay roles and love teams
Moving forward to his showbiz career, Benjamin won't mind if he will be given more kontrabida roles. "Being kontrabida is fun. It is not fun if you play something close to who you are in real life. With the kontrabida roles, you can explore more." When asked if he can play a gay role in the same intensity as what Dennis Trillo and Tom Rodriguez did in "My Husband's Lover", Benjamin didn't show hesitation. "The challenge with gay roles is you don't have the experience to get tips from. But as long as you listen, you can learn. Gay roles are also very interesting."
In "Sana Dati", Benjamin's 2013 Cinemalaya entry, one of his wishes of being an actor came true when he was paired with Lovie Poe. However, Benjamin wants to be in a love team which shall be carried out to all of his projects. Aside from Lovie Poe, he mentioned Heart Evangelista, Jennylyn Mercado and Marian Rivera as his choices for leading ladies.
Here's a portion of our interview with Benjamin Alves during the Adarna Bloggers Conference
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The Great Schism – 1054
The Great Schism was the formal break of communion between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Various disputes of theological nature contributed in this 1054 Schism and Latin churches were closed in Constantinople as a response to the closure of Greek churches in Southern Italy. The Great Schism remains one of the most significant events in the history of Christianity and went on to have a huge impact on subsequent developments in Europe.
Great Schism History
The history of disputes between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church had begun much earlier than 1054. Various theological disputes of importance included the source of the Holy Ghost, use of leavened or unleavened bread for Eucharist, and the dispute over the jurisdiction of the Pope. The closing down of churches on both sides began in 1053 and the formal schism occurred in the following year.
Pope Leo IX – The Great Schism of 1054
1054 Schism Definition
The definition of 1054 Schism is mainly the formal breaking up of relations between the two main branches of Christian church over disputes of theological nature. Theological disputes had remained throughout the earlier centuries as well but the Great Schism of 1054 became the final breaking point. On the Western side Pope Leo IX and on the Eastern side Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other in 1054 and completed the schism.
The Great Western Schism of 1054
The Great Western Schism occurred in the period between 1378 and 1417 when multiple Popes claimed their authority on the Church. Initially, there were two rival Popes but later three Popes, each with his own Sacred College of Cardinals, claimed his authority on the Church. Originally the Pope was Urban VI who offended the Cardinals with his strict attitude and the Cardinals elected Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII. Subsequently, a third Pope Alexander V was elected by council in Pisa. Eventually the Great Western Schism ended when the authority of Martin V was finally accepted in 1417.
There were two great schisms in medieval times, one in 1054 and one in 1378
The great schism was one of the most significant events in the history of Christianity
The great schism of 1054 was theological in nature and not political like the 1378 schism
The great schism of 1054 was a dispute and break up between East and and Western churches
The great schism led to the closure of Latin churches in Constantinople
The great schism of 1054 led to the closing of Greek Orthodox Churches in southern Italy
How The Great Schism of 1054 affected Europe
One of the most important effects of the Great Schism in Europe was the call for reform in the Church by many political and theological thinkers. For instance, one of the most important political reformers was Marsiglio of Padua who wrote a book called “Defender of Peace” and gave rise to the concept of separation between the Church and the State. Theological reformers, on the other hand, criticised the lavish lifestyles of the Church leaders and stressed on theological reforms.
Pope Michael I of the Great Schism 1054 image
Effects on the Church of The 1054 Great Schism
For a considerable time after the Great Schism of 1054, relations between East and West remained normal and it was only the Churches on both sides who had severed the relations. The direct effects of the 1054 Schism were that calls for theological reforms began to emerge from various reformers. Many of these reformers were excommunicated and their followers burnt at the stake.
Conclusion of the 1054 Great Western Schism
The Great Schism of 1054 was the splitting point between Western Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Schism itself was the culmination of centuries of theological disputes between these two branches of Christianity. The disputes had existed since the initial centuries of Christianity but it was in the 1054 Schism that leaders of the two churches excommunicated each other.
Theological disputes amongst the eastern and western Roman Catholic Churches had previously existed
The breaking point of the differences in theological views between the churches came in 1054
One of the criticisms of theological reformers was the lavish lifestyles led by some of the Church hierarchy
Many of the theological reformers who tried to change things for the better were excommunicated
Some of the followers of the theological reformers within the Church were burned at the stake
We hope that you enjoyed reading this article on the great schism of 1054 and found the information interesting and informative, if you’d like to learn about the great schism of 1378 please follow the links on this page to that article or why not have a look at our other medieval religion articles by following the links at the bottom of this page and looking at our medieval life category.
This image shows the Eastern and Western Churches territory during the Great Schism of 1054
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Rafael Capurro on Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body
"Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body (Opinion no. 20): European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies" Plenary address by Professor Rafael Capurro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
This video was taken of Professor Rafael Capurro delivering his plenary address at the IEEE Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) held at the University of Wollongong 7-10 June 2010. Professor Capurro's talk was titled "Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body (Opinion no. 20): European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies." Among other honours, Professor Capurro is the Director of the Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute Information Ethics (STI-IE) and the Editor in Chief of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE). The theme of the conference was "The Social Implications of Emerging Technologies" and given Professor Capurro's involvement in the first major ethical study on ICT implants which was funded by the European Commission, Associate Professor Katina Michael who was the program chair of the conference found it necessary to ensure there was a talk by the eminent professor. Professor Capurro gave a stirring opening talk on the fundamental issues related to ethics and ICT implants.
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MTV Movie & TV Awards 2019: Winners and highlights
Hosted by Zachary Levi, the MTV Movie & TV Awards took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, U.S., on June 15, 2019. The 28th edition of the award show was broadcast on June 17. Here is a look at all the winners and some memorable moments.
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Protecting Monroe
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Monroe police officer follows in father’s footsteps
Story by Danielle Portteus
Photos by Tom Hawley
Aaron Oetjens set out to be a police officer even though his dad said otherwise.
“He told me not to become a cop,” the younger officer said.
He went into law enforcement anyway.
The 32-year-old St. Mary Catholic Central grad grew up with law enforcement. His father, Robert Oetjens, worked for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. His mom, Kathy, is a retired Monroe Public Schools teacher.
After serving in the Army, Oetjens knew he wanted to follow his father into a career in law enforcement
“I like solving problems,” he explains. “I grew up with it.”
Before entering the military, Detective Oetjens attended Monroe County Community College. He then joined the Army, serving a year as a cavalry scout.
After serving in the Army, he attended Eastern Michigan University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice administration.
After a few years on the road, he went into the vice unit before being promoted to the detective bureau in April.
He said his style is a hands-on approach.
“When I get a case, I talk to the victim first and keep them involved throughout the process,” Oetjens said. “I think it is important to have a victim-centered approach.”
This summer, Oetjens completed training to join the Monroe County Special Response Team.
“I like it because it fits easily with my military background,” he said.
Monroe Police Chief Charles McCormick IV said Oetjens is “highly intelligent and motivated.”
“Detective Oetjens is a professional officer who possesses the firmness and compassion needed to address the challenges of public safety,” the chief said. “(He) is a trusted and valued leader among his peers. Detective Oetjens has the passion and commitment to continue this leadership through future challenges and opportunities that will face public safety and our community.”
Capt. J.D. Wall called Oetjens a “different level” guy.
“I was one of his training officers and I was impressed with him,” Wall said. “He is a straight-laced kid with combat experience who comes from a great family. He’s an all-around good guy.” Wall said Oetjens is a good fit for the detective’s bureau because has a “toughness” to solve cases.
“I can trust he is doing the right things,” Wall said.
But, policing is a team effort, too.
“Aaron is able to grow as an officer because he has a great team behind him,” Wall said.
Community policing also puts him in contact with people he knows.
“There have been many times that I have been able to help friends, family members or former classmates when they were the victim of a crime or needed assistance,” Oetjens said.
Though he could have taken his talents elsewhere, Oetjens said he wanted to stay in Monroe because of his family and the community.
“I feel that I have a strong bond with the people in Monroe and like the small town atmosphere where many of the people in the community know one another,” he said. “I also take pride in protecting the community that I grew up in.”
–Monroe News Photo by TOM HAWLEY Monroe Police Department officer (now detective) Aaron Oetjens and Sgt. Derek Lindsay arrest a parol violator who was caring crack and an open beer while out on vice patrol in the City of Monroe on Fourth and Half St.
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Our Work and Why We Do It: Forbes Library Writer in Residence Series
WHAT: Writer in Residence Reading Series #3 -In the Offing
WHEN: Wednesday, Feburary 20, 2019 7:00 PM
WHERE: Coolidge Museum, Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton MA
The series features writers of prose, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir, and beneath these broad categories, constellations of subgenres and forms. The series is interested in exploring how writing relates to work, to a sense of a collective project that seeks to respond to the political and social forms that produce it. The series hopes to affirm the role of creative written work as a measure of response to the exigencies that shape our world.
Kelly Link is the author of Get in Trouble, Magic for Beginners, and Stranger Things Happen. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press, and has taught at several colleges and universities. She received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2018. Link currently lives in Northampton.
Abbey Mei Otis is the author of the story collection Alien Virus Love Disaster, nominated for the 2019 Philip K. Dick Award. This will the first reading from the book in the Northeast!
Jordy Rosenberg is the author of the novel Confessions of the Fox, named a New York Times Editor's Choice selection, shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and recognized by The New Yorker, the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, LitHub, Electric Literature and the Feminist Press as one of the Best Books of 2018. Jordy is a professor of 18th-century Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Critical Theory at UMass Amherst.
Art Middleton, the Forbes Library Writer in Residence, has been calling this reading In The Offing, an attempt to name a theme he feels captures the character these writers share. While diverse in formally adventurous ways, each carves a unique path toward futures portended in the murk and bright of the present or dredge different possibilities for histories buried in the past. They contain, in the richness of their visions and the lyricism of their articulations, a spirit that echoes Ernst Bloch in his demand for utopia: “that is why we go, why we cut new metaphysically constitutive paths, summon what is not, build into the blue, build ourselves into the blue, and there seek the true, the real, where the merely factual disappears…”
WHAT: Writer in Residence Reading Series #4
WHEN: Wednesday, March 20, 2018 7:00 PM
WHERE: Coolidge Museum Forbes Library, 20 West St, Northampton MA
Our Work and Why We Do It is the Forbes Library’s new Writer in Residence reading series, which debuted October 2018. This series is interested in exploring the ways in which the written word may create and sustain social worlds through inquiry, practice, experimentation, story and lyric. The dynamic of the public library, open and variegated in its uses, is the ideal space for these questions, as it can so directly reflect the desires of a community that contributes to it’s thriving, operating as an archive of those needs. Regardless of genre, this series believes in the potential for deliberation that writing may produce, a space within the information saturated world we share where we might consider possibilities and deeper questions just beyond what we know.
The series features writers of prose, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir, and beneath these broad categories, constellations of subgenres and forms. The series is motivated by an interest in understanding how writing relates to work, to a sense of a collective project that seeks to respond to the political and social forms that produce it. Against dithering, the series hopes to affirm the role of creative written work as a measure of response to the exigencies that shape our world.
Art Middleton is a writer, educator, and parent interested in exploring the experience of work, time, care, and community, themes that have shown up in his zines, fiction, prose, performance, and curation. His work has been published and performed in many independent presses and spaces, most recently a collaboration with poet Nicole Trigg in the zine Macaroni Necklace out of Oakland, CA. In 2011, he organized the Magic Child Repository, a gallery exhibit celebrating small press and handmade book culture in Providence, RI. Informed by his experience as a nursing/personal assistant, adjunct professor, and food service employee (a wide but not entirely tangential resume), his fiction draws from the mundane and the everyday to ask questions about how individuals orient themselves in history and place. He currently works as a writing instructor and English lecturer with a focus on utopian longing in politics and literature.
You can read a June 2018 Daily Hampshire Gazette article, “Forbes Library’s new Writer in Residence took a winding path back home,” about Art here.
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Posted by The Jacksonville Observer • March 7, 2010 • Printer-friendly
SANTA CRUZ, Chile - Samuel Castro, a security guard at Bisquertt Winery's 1,400-acre vineyard here in the Colchagua Valley, arrived at his job at 7 a.m. last Saturday and couldn't believe what he saw.
"The road was turned into a red torrent; the wine was streaming down the irrigation ditch," he remembered.
Five days after the massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake that hit Chile, the more than 300-foot-long dirt road that leads to Bisquertt's main cellar was still soaked, had a dark-purple color and emanated a smell of putrid wine.
Several storage tanks cracked, dozens of barrels burst and hundreds of bottles shattered, releasing about 20,000 liters of red wine, said Jaime Araya, a manager at Bisquertt.
Similar devastations struck most of the wineries in this valley and many more along the central-south region of Chile, which is home to 70 percent of the wine production in this country and which the quake hit hardest.
The nation's largest wine growers association, Vinos de Chile, estimates that 12.5 percent of current production was destroyed, putting losses at $250 million.
Chile is the world's ninth-largest producer of wine, according to the International Organization of Vine and Wine, with exports reaching $1.3 billion in 2009 or about 70 percent of total production. The United States was the second-biggest market for Chilean wines after Europe, importing some $250 million worth.
René Merino, president of Vinos de Chile, said at a news conference that local and foreign shipments will return to normal soon.
Patricio Middleton, managing director and partner of Montgras Winery here in the Colchagua Valley, is not so optimistic.
"This will be the end for many growers," he said, pointing out that many winemakers were already squeezed by a weakened dollar and that some might not have had earthquake insurance.
The quake severely damaged the facilities at Montgras, a premium wine producer focused on foreign markets. Middleton estimated that 30,000 liters of wine have been lost because of the quake, while pointing to the rubble of barrels in Montgras' main cellar.
He predicted that Montgras will need to invest $5 million to repair all the damage and make up for the losses. In 2009, the company's export revenue was $22 million.
People in Santa Cruz, the largest city in the Colchagua Valley with just over 30,000 residents, are likely to be hit especially hard by the heavy damage in wineries. Winemakers provide employment to almost 20 percent of the city's population, said Fermin Gutierrez, municipal secretary at the mayor's office. Now the situation is uncertain.
The quake hit just a few days before the start of the harvest. In fact, tomorrow was supposed to be the opening ceremony of a three-day-long wine harvest celebration in Santa Cruz, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. The coronation of the wine harvest queen is the main summer-end event in this city. All activities were canceled.
Just as in some parts of California, wine in this Chilean region is part of local culture and pride. Residents' lives revolve around it. In fact, Santa Cruz's main bakery, Panificadora Santa Cruz, has its own wine cellar and, besides bread and cakes, sells bottled wine to the public.
Although this rural region has an unemployment rate of 10 percent and needs jobs to help finance the reconstruction of shattered homes, the most immediate needs of many people here are finding new places to live; repairing severely damaged buildings, streets and utility services; and grieving the loss of loved ones.
Ureta Winery, near the small town of Peralillo, already is feeling the labor squeeze. A big sign on the paved and severely cracked country road that runs through this valley is offering urgent work for day laborers. Ureta needs to immediately harvest ripe vines that were flooded by the wine that streamed out of its broken vats after the quake.
Only nine workers recently showed up, much fewer than the 30 people the company needed.
Potential shortages in Chilean supply have put some U.S. importers on alert. Greg Livengood, president of Californian wine broker Ciatti Co., said that U.S. importers are not looking yet to fill up a potential lack of Chilean supplies.
Australia, which also produces so-called New World wines, would be a natural competitor for Chile, but has had a lower crop volume this year.
"For now, buyers are betting on a Chilean recovery," he said. "The feeling is that we will ride out the storm with Chile."
Middleton, from Montgras, said that Chileans know how to overcome adversity.
"The best way for people to overcome grief is to get back on their feet and work hard," he said, noting that he was having an "End of Earthquake Barbeque" for his workers later in the day.
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